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MEN OF AMERICA

A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF CONTEMPORARIES

EDITED BY

JOHN W. LEONARD

L. R. HAMERSLY & COMPANY
ONE WEST THIRTY-FOURTH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
1908

Copyright, 1907, by
L. R. HAMERSLY & COMPANY,
New York.

PREFACE
In these days of the ascendency of the personal note in literature
and journalism, it can scarcely be deemed necessary to apologize for
a new work of reference relating to the life stories of contemporary
Americans. The demand for such information is constant and the
field is wide.
This is a great country, but its interests are closely knit. Its sec
tions are bound together, not only by an intimate community of interests,
but by close personal touch. While local interests claim attention in
the various localities, it is only to a parochial degree. In the main
the questions of greatest interest in practical, political, scientific or
intellectual lines are common alike to the man of San Francisco,
New Orleans, Minneapolis, New York, and all other cities and towns.
We are all interested in the same things and to a large extent in the
same people.
Men of America is a biographical dictionary of contemporaries in
which are gathered, in one convenient volume, the personal facts that
may be sought without impertinence and published with propriety, in
relation to those men who best represent the various phases of our
National activity and progress. It is the first attempt to give in a single
handy volume, in dictionary form and without mystifying abbreviations,
biographic life stories of the men who lead in American thought and
action, and who direct the affairs, the industries and the intellectual
progress of this great homogeneous people.
In the task of selecting from ninety millions of citizens about as
many hundreds to be in fair measure representative of the whole, it is
inevitable that the choice will not be without errors, both of omission
and inclusion. Even the choice of one hundred from the illustrious
dead to fill a projected Hall of Fame has not proceeded with perfect
unanimity among the electors. However judiciously the nine or ten
thousand may have been chosen, the fact that there are others among
the ninety millions must still be apparent.

Although this is true, it is believed that the selection in Men of
America includes nearly all the living American men of the highest degree
of prominence, and that in the entire list there will be found few as to
whose selection there is any serious cause for criticism.
In this volume are contained a large proportion of sketches of men
not to be found in other compilations of current biography, and of those
who are so included it will almost invariably be found that Men of
America has later, better and fuller data in regard to them than can
be procured from any other publication.
Men of America fills a place as a reference book of current biog
raphy of those men who are now at the front, and whose achievements
belong to this generation. Statesmen, jurists, capitalists, captains of
industry, leading lawyers and physicians, the Army and Navy, the
higher clergy, the heads of our universities and colleges, journalists,
librarians, scientists, artists, litterateurs, actors, inventors, engineers,
architects, and others who lead in the American interests and activities
of the present day are all represented, in due proportion, in this volume.
This is an entirely new publication, and its contents have been
freshly prepared and brought up to date. Every effort has been put
forth to make the matter in the volume accurate and dependable, and
the volume is therefore presented with the strongest confidence as to its
reliability for reference purposes. The sketches have been made,
as nearly as the data was procurable, to give the entire life history of
each subject, and present, besides the details of his birth, education,
marital status and professional career, such side-lights as are represent
ed by his political and religious views, his society connections, and the
names and ages of his children in the cases of those who have been
fortunate enough to make such contributions to posterity. This list
ing of the children is a new feature in a National dictionary of biography,
and it is one which adds greatly to the value of the biographic records
of the volume.
Suggestions as to the book, and particularly as to any names
which should have been, but are not, included, will be gladly received
by the publishers.

MEN OF AMERICA

ABBE, Cleveland:
Meteorologist; born in the City of New
York, December 3, 1838; son of George
Waldo Abbe and Charlotte (Colgate) Abbe;
educated at the College of the City of New
York, 1851-57, A.B., 1857, A.M., i860, Uni
versity of Michigan, 1858-59 (LL.D., 1886),
Harvard University, 1860-64, B.S., as of
1864. Received Glasgow University (Kel
vin Jubilee) LL.D., 1896. In i860 he be
came assistant to Dr. B. A. Gould, of the
United States Coast Survey, in computing
longitudes, star catalogues, etc., and so con
tinued until 1864. He enlisted as private in
the Union Army several times in 1862, but
was rejected on account of near-sighted
ness; was assistant at the Imperial Central
Astronomical Observatory, Poulkova, near
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1864-66; assistant
at the United States Naval Observatory,
1867-68; and director of the Cincinnati
Observatory, 1868-73, where he established
a system of daily weather maps of the
United States, with a forecast of the
weather for Cincinnati. The success and
demonstrated value of this initial experi
ment and his advocacy of a more extended
service contributed to the adoption of the
general weather service by the Federal
Government, and since 1871 he has been
professor of meteorology, first in the United
States Signal Service, and since 1891 in the
Weather Bureau of the United States De
partment of Agriculture. He was United
States Weather Bureau delegate to the In
ternational Electric Conference at Phila
delphia, in 1876; to the Forestry Congress,
at Cincinnati, in 1881 ; to the International
Conference on Time and Longitude at
Washington, 1884, and to the International

Conference on Meteorology at Munich,
1891. In politics Dr. Abbe is a Republican,
but a free trader; and while a member of
the Baptist denomination he is very liberal
in his religious views. He has been pro
fessor of meteorology in the George Wash
ington (formerly Columbian) University,
since 1885 ; lecturer on meteorology in the
Johns Hopkins University since 1896, and
founder of the Abbe Meteorological Library
of the latter institution. His writings bear
principally on .technical meteorology and
are generally published in the Monthly
Weather Review, of which he is the editor
under the general supervision of the chief
of the Weather Bureau and the secretary of
agriculture. Dr. Abbe served in expedi
tions to observe the total eclipse of the sun
to Sioux Falls, Iowa, in 1869; to Pike's
Peak, Colorado, in 1878; to Cape Ledo
Loanda, Africa, in 1889, and to Newberry,
South Carolina, in 1900. He is a member
of the National Academy of Science; the
Washington Academy of Science ; the New
York Academy of Science; fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; member of the American
Academy of Science, Boston; American
Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; Philo
sophical Society of Washington, the Daven
port Academy of Science, Iowa ; the Meteor
ological Societies of London, Paris, Berlin
and Vienna; the Astronomical Societies of
America, England and Germany ; the Math
ematical and Physical Societies of Ameri
ca and Germany. He is a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Abbe married, at
Cincinnati, May 10, 1870, Frances Martha
Neal, and by that marriage has three child
ren: Cleveland, Jr. (born March, 1872),

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Truman (born November, 1873), and Wil
liam (born June, 1877). Address: 2017 I
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
ABBEY, Edwin Austin:
Artist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April
1, 1852. He was educated at the Academy
of Fine Arts, of Phila.; is an honorary
M.A. of Yale and LL.D. of the University
of Pennsylvania; honorary associate of the
Royal Society of British Architects, and
fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of
London. In 1871 he was engaged by Har
per Brothers, and in 1878 went for them to
England, where he now resides. His first
picture, A May Day Morning, was exhibited
at the Royal Academy in 1890. Among his
notable pictures are : Fiametta's Song, Rich
ard III. and Lady Anna, and Hamlet. In
1899 he published illustrated editions of
Herrick's poems, She Stoops to Conquer,
Old Song, Comedies of Shakespeare,
O, Mistress Mine; Who is Silvia? and
in the same year, with Alfred Parsons, an
English artist, he illustrated Quiet Life.
In 1900 he also published illustrated edi
tions of The Trial of Queen Katherine,
The Penance of Eleanor, Duchess of Glou
cester; The Crusaders, 1901, and Columbus
in the New World, 1906. In 1901 he paint
ed the official picture of the coronation
scene, and also The Crusaders Sighting
Jerusalem, which was exhibited at the
Royal Academy. In 1895 he painted the
frieze, The Quest of the Holy Grail, for
the Boston Public Library. He is a member
of various art societies, among which are
the National Academy of Design, Royal
Academy of England, Royal Bavarian
Academy, American Water Color Society,
Society of Mural Painters, New York; an
associate of the Royal Water Colour So
ciety, London; Societe National des Beaux
Arts, Paris ; Chevalier Legion d' Honneur,
France, and President of the Royal Bir
mingham Society of Artists ;, he is also a
Reform, Arts, Beefsteak, of London. Mr.
Abbey married in 1890, Mary Gertrude
Mead, of. New York. Address : Morgan
Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England,

and Chelsea Lodge, Tite Street, London, S.
W., England.
ABBOT, Charles Greeley:
Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysi-
cal Observatory since March 1, 1907: born
at Wilton, Hillsboro County, New Hamp
shire, May 31, 1872; son of Harris Abbot
and Caroline (Greeley) Abbot. He was
prepared at Wilton High School and Phil
lips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts;
and he was graduated from the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology with the de
gree of B.S. in 1894 and M.S. in 1895.'
Immediately following his graduation he
became an assistant in the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory until 1896, then
was an aid, acting in charge, until 1906;
acting director in 1906, and in 1907 until
his promotion to director. He is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, of the American As
tronomical and Astrophysical Society, and
of the Washington Philosophical Society.
Especially distinguished for researches on
the infra-red solar spectrum, the sensitive
galvanometer, and osmotic pressure, and
writer of numerous papers on solar physics.
Address : 36 Q Street, Washington, D. C.
ABBOT, Edwin Hale:
Retired lawyer and railway official; born
in Beverly, Massachusetts, January 26,
1834; son of Joseph Hale Abbot and Fran
ces Ellingwood (Larcom) Abbot. He was
graduated from Harvard College as A.B.
in 1851, A.M. and LL.B. in 1861, spent
a year as tutor in college, and engaged in
the practice of law in Boston from 1862
and from 1876 also had an office in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, becoming general solic
itor for and director of the Wisconsin Cen
tral Railroad in 1873, vice-president and
trustee in 1878. He was active trustee and
operated the road for the bondholders from
1878 to 1889, and from 1890 was president
and treasurer of that company and its con
trolled lines until he retired from active
business in 1899. He was also for some
years director in the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, the Northern Pacific
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3

and 1893. Mr. Abbot has been an exten
sive contributor to the literature of the
law and to reviews, and lecturer in Harvard
College, the Universities of Wisconsin and
California, etc. He married at Portland,
Maine, September 19, 1866, Martha T.
Abbot. Residence: 1 Follen Street, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. Office address : 14
Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ABBOT, Henry L..:
Brigadier-general United States Army
retired; born at Beverly, Massachusetts,
August 13, 1831 ; son of Joseph Hale Abbot
and Fanny Ellingwood (Larcom) Abbot.
He was educated in the Boston Public
Latin School and the United States Mili
tary Academy, and received the degree of
LL.D. from Harvard University in 1886.
After his graduation from West Point in
1854, he was employed on the Pacific Rail
road surveys until 1857; then on survey of
the Mississippi till June 1861. He was
slightly wounded at First Bull Run; served
as engineer on the staff of General Mc
Clellan in the Peninsular Campaign, and on
General Bank's staff in his expedition to
New Orleans. He was appointed colonel
of the first Connecticut artillery in Jan
uary 1863 ; commanded the Siege Artillery
Brigade, serving the siege train of both
armies under General Grant till the end
of the war, accompanying General Terry
as his chief of artillery at the taking of Fort
Fisher. He received five regular and two
volunteer brevets for gallant services, the
highest being major general. After the
war he organized the Engineer School of
Application and designed experimentally the
system of mines for coast defense, both at
Willets Point. He was sent twice to Eu
rope on Government service; was long a
member and later president of the perma
nent Board of Engineers, and division engi
neer of the North East Division, and served
as a member of many Government Boards.
He retired from active service in 1895, hav
ing held all grades in the Corps of Engi
neers from brevet second lieutenant to
colonel inclusive, and is now brigadier gen
eral United States Army, retired. He has
been professor of hydraulic engineering, at

George Washington University, since 1905,
in post-graduate courses. He is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences, in
1872; American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, 1862, American Academy of
Arts arid Sciences, Boston; Louisiana Ac
ademy of Sciences ; Corresponding mem
ber of the Imperial Royal Geological In
stitute of Austria, 1862; member of the
National Geographic Society; the Loyal
Legion (New York Commandery), and the
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of
Connecticut, representing Captain Nathan
Hale. He was chairman of the Jury of
Higher Awards at the Atlanta Exposition
of 1895 ; president of the Board of Con
sulting Engineers of Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Ship Canal, 1895 and 1896; member
of the Forestry Commission, of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences, 1896 and 1897;
member of Comite Technique, Compagnie
Nouvelle du Canal de Panama from 1897
to 1900, and subsequently its consulting en
gineer to the date of its transfer of prop
erty. He was a member of the Board of
Consulting Engineers appointed by the
President to prepare a plan for the Pan
ama Canal in 1905 and 1906. He married
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2, 1856,
Mary Susan Everett, and they have had
four children : Frederic Vaughan, born
March 4, 1858; Marion Stanley, born Jan
uary 19, 1864; Elinor Everett, born Octo
ber 10, 1867, and Henry Ellingwood, born
February 23, 1871, died July 25, 1881. Ad
dress : 23 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts. ABBOT, WiUiam I.:
President of the Iron City Trust Com
pany of Pittsburgh; born in Columbus,
Ohio, April 29, 1852. He was educated in
the common schools and in academies, and
in 1871 he entered the employ of Andrew
Carnegie as a clerk. His diligent attention
to business secured him the esteem of his
employer, in whose service he rose until he
became superintendent of the works, and
in 1889 became chairman of the firm of
Carnegie, Phipps and Company. He re
tired from the Carnegie interests in 1892,
and devoted several years to rest and recre-

MEN OF AMERICA.

ation. He afterward took the presidency of
the Iron City Trust Company which he still
holds, also becoming a director of the Pitts
burgh National Bank of Commerce, the Lin
coin Foundry Company and the Duquesne
Manufacturing Company. He is also a di
rector of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Com
merce, a member of the Art Society of
Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania In
stitution for the Blind and many social and
charitable organizations. Address : 20O
Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania.
ABBOTT, Charles Conrad:
Physician, naturalist, archaeologist; born
at Trenton, New Jersey, June 4, 1843; son
of Timothy and Susan (Conrad) Abbott.
He was graduated from the medical depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania as
M.D. in 1865, having, previous to registra
tion there, studied in Trenton Academy and
under private tutors. In 1863 he became . a
private in Company A of the New Jersey
National Guard, which was stationed in
Central Pennsylvania before, during, and
for a short time subsequent to Lee's in
vasion of that State. He has never prac
ticed his profession. For a brief period
previous to 1872, he was engaged as a
manufacturing chemist; since that time he
has devoted himself wholly to scientific
pursuits. As an assistant (in the field) of
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology; Cambridge, Massachusetts, he
discovered irrefutable evidences of the one
time presence of man in Delaware Valley
early in, if not previous to, the Glacial
period, and we owe to him, also, many dis
coveries in local zoology. He has devoted
much time to literary pursuits, having, up
to the present time, written twenty-three
books, principally on archaeological and'
biological subjects, of which the following
are among the most important : The Stone
Age in New Jersey, A Naturalist's Ram
bles About Home, Travels in a Treetop,
The Birds About Us, Notes of the
Night, The Freedom of the Fields,
Archaeological Explorations in the Valley
of the Delaware, Rambles of an Idler,
and Archaeologia Nova Caesarea. He
is a fellow in the Royal Society of Anti
quaries of the North, Copenhagen, and a

member of the American Philosophical So
ciety, Philadelphia, the New York Acad-
demy of Sciences, the Boston Society of
Natural History, etc. He is identified with
the Republican party. Dr. Abbott was mar
ried at Princeton, New Jersey, February,
13, 1867, to Julia Boggs Olden, and has
three children : Maria Olden, Richard Mau-
leverer, and Julia Boggs. Address : Three
Beeches, Trenton, New Jersey.
ABBOTT, Edward:
Clergyman; born at Farmington, Frank
lin County, Maine, July 15, 1841 ; fourth son
of Jacob Abbott and Harriet (Vaughan)
Abbott. He was graduated from New York
University as A.B. in i860 (class poet and
editor of The Eucleian), and studied
theology .at Andover Theological Semin
ary. He was four years pastor of the
Pilgrim Congregational Church at Cam
bridge, which he founded, and was an edi
tor of The Congregationalist from 1869 to
1878, and the editor of the Literary World
from 1877 to 1888 and from 1895 to 1903.
He was ordained to the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879 and
has ever since then been rector of Saint
James' Church at Cambridge, Massachu
setts. He was elected missionary bishop
of Japan in 1889, but declined the honor.
He received the degree of D.D. from New
York University in 1890. Dr. Abbott has
been for many years an extensive contribu
tor to weekly periodicals and to leading
magazines and has also had several of his
sermons published. He wrote the memoir
of Jacob Abbott, in Memorial Edition of
Young Christian. He is also author of the
following volumes: The Baby's Things, a
Story in Verse ; Conversations of Jesus ; A
Paragraph History of the United States;
A Paragraph History of the American Rev
olution; Revolutionary Times; The Long
Look Series, of juvenile books, and Phil
lips Brooks. Dr. Abbott married first in
1865, Clara E. Davis, and second in 1883,
Katharine Kelly. Address: 11 Dana Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ABBOTT, Frederick Wallace:
Physician, medico-legal specialist, educa
tor ; born in Dover, New Hampshire, March

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5, 1861 ; son of Sylvester and Elizabeth
Graves (Wortman) Abbott. He was grad
uated from the University of America, as
A.B. in 1883; and having studied medicine
two years at Bowdoin College, attended
the Eclectic Medical College of Maine,
where he received the M.D. in 1886. While
pursuing his academic and professional
studies, he taught school four years. The
A.M. was conferred, by Taylor University,
in 189 1 ; the Ph.D. by the, National Normal
University, in 1901 ; and the LL.D. ; by
Potomac University in 1905. On May 5,
1886, he located in Taunton, Massachusetts,
where has ever since resided and practiced.
His specialty is legal medicine. In 1892,
he was lecturer on physiology and hygiene
in Merrimack County Academy. He has
been associate editor of The Massachu
setts Medical Journal since 1894, and of
The American Medical Journal since 1906.
He is an active member of the Massachu
setts Eclectic Society of the Boston Dis
trict; Eclectic Medical Society; of the New
England Eclectic Medical Association; of
the Massachusetts Surgical and Gyneco
logical Society; of the National Eclectic
Medical Association; of the New York
Specific Medication Club; of the Ameri
can Eclectic Materia Medica Association,
and of the American Anti-Tuberculosis
League; an honorary member of the Eclec
tic Medical Societies of Vermont, Maine,
Connecticut, New Jersey and Tennessee;
a censor of the Eclectic Medical College of
the City of New York, and a member of,
and examiner for, many secret fraternities.
He was married in Boston, Massachuetts,
September 2, 1886, to Sylvina Apphia
Emery. Address : Taunton, Massachusetts.
ABBOTT, George Birch:
Lawyer; born in Brookfield, Orange
County, Vermont, September 27, 1850; son
of Benjamin Franklin and Diancy (Picker
ing) Abbott. He was graduated from the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1868;
from Williams College as A.B. in 1872 and
later as A.M., and was graduated from
the Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1874.
He was admitted to the bar in 1874, and en
gaged in practice, .was public administrator

of Kings County, New York, from 1881 to
1889 and surrogate of Kings County, from
1889 to 1901. In 1906 he was elected judge
of the Supreme Court of the State of New
York, and in 1907 received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from Williams College.
Mr. Abbott is a Democrat in politics,
and an Episcopalian in his religious be
lief. He is a member of the Society
of Colonial Wars, the Long Island His
torical Society, the New England So
ciety, of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Bar As
sociation, Sigma Phi fraternity and the
Brooklyn and Hamilton Clubs of Brooklyn.
He married in Brooklyn, New York, No
vember 20, 1878, Eva Topping Reeve, and
they have two children, Marie Louise, born
in 1884, and George Abbott, born in 1889.
Address : 96 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
ABBOTT, Gordon:
Capitalist. President of the Old Colony
Trust Company at Boston, Massachusetts.
ABBOTT, James:
Publisher (with The Century Company) ;
born in New York City, October 2, 1861 ;
son of Robert and Eliza (Nightingale)
Abbott. He was educated at Mount Wash
ington Collegiate Institute and at New York
University, graduating with the degree of
A.B. and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1883.
Mr. Abbott is a Republican and was for
merly active in politics ; and he is a Presby
terian in his religious belief. He is treas
urer of the General Alumni Society, of
New York University; governor and ex-
president of Yonkers Choral Society, and
a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity,
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the
Psi Upsilon Club of New York. He mar
ried, in New York City, March 1, 1887,
Jesse E. Niver, and they have two chil
dren, Stanley Niver Abbott and Grace
Abbott. Address : 33 East Seventeenth
Street, New York City.
ABBOTT, Lyman:
Clergyman, author, editor of The Out
look; born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
December 18, 1835; son of Jacob Abbott
and Harriet (Vaughan) Abbott. He was

MEN OF AMERICA.

graduated from New York University in
1853, and in after years received the de
grees of D.D. and LL.D. from New York
University; D.D. from Harvard, and LL.D.
from Western Reserve University. He was
ordained to the Congregational ministry in
i860, was pastor at Terre Haute, Indiana,
from i860 to 1865, of the New England
Church in New York City from 1865 to
1869 and succeeded Henry Ward Beecher
as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
from May, 1888, until he resigned in No
vember, 1898. He was secretary of the
American Union Commission (Freed-
man's) from 1865 to 1868. He edited the
"Literary Record" of Harper's Magazine,
was associate editor of the Christian Union,
with Henry Ward Beecher, and is now
editor-in-chief of The Outlook. He is a
member of the New York Bar Association,
the New York State Historical Association,
Indian Rights Association, American For
estry Association, Ramabai Association,
New York Association for the Blind, Asso
ciation for Improving the Condition of the
Poor, National Conference of Charities
and Correction, Aldine Association, New
York University Alumni, American Peace
Society, Maine Society, The Religious Edu
cation Association, The Armstrong Associa
tion, New York Child Labor Committee,
National Child Labor Committee, the
American Board of Commissoners for For
eign Missions, American Institute of Sac
red Literature, New York State Confer
ence of Religion, Universal Peace Union,
and National Civil Service Reform League.
Dr. Abbott believes the problem of political
economy is to seek a more equitable distri
bution of wealth rather than to promote a
larger accumulation of wealth; and that
social reform calls for a recognition of part
nership relations between labor and capital
and the extension of the industrial func
tion of government; and holds that the
principles and the spirit of Jesus Christ
applied to social problems would furnish
their solution. Dr. Abbott is author of
Jesus of Nazareth, Old Testament Shadows
of New Testament Truth, A Layman's
Story (all out of print) ; How to Study
the Bible, Illustrated Commentary on the

New Testament, 1875, (Barnes) ; Dictionary
of Religious Knowledge (with late T. J.
Conant), 1876 (Harper) ; A Study in Hu
man Nature, 1885 (Eaton & Mains) ; In
Aid of Faith, 1891 (Dutton) ; Life of
Christ, 1894; Evolution of Christianity,
1896 (Houghton, Mifflin) ; The Theology of
an Evolutionist, 1897 (same) ; Christianity
and Social Problems, 1897 (same) ; Life
and Letters, of Paul, 1898 (same) ; The Life
That Really Is, 1899; Problems of Life,
1900 (Dodd, Mead) ; Life and Literature
of the Ancient Hebrews, 1900 (Houghton,
Mifflin) ; The Rights of Man, 1901 (same) ;
Henry Ward Beecher, 1903 (same) ; The
Other Room, 1904 (Macmillan) ; The Great
Companion, 1904 and 1905 (Macmillan) ;
Christian Ministry, 1905 (Crowell) ; Per
sonality of God, 1905 (Crowell) ; Industrial
Problems, 1905 (Jacobs) ; Christ's Secret
of Happiness, 1907 (Crowell). Dr. Abbott
is a member of the National Arts and Union
League Clubs of New York and the Saint
Botolph Club of Boston. He married in Bos
ton, October 14, 1857, Abby F. Hamlin,
daughter of Hannibal Hamlin (vice-presi
dent of the United States from 1861 to
1865) and they have five children :
Lawrence F. (born in 1859), Harriet F.
(born October 15, i860), Herbert V. (born
January 3, 1865), Ernst H. (born April
18, 1870), Theodore J. (born July 20, 1872)
and Beatrice V (born February 15, 1878).
Address : The Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave
nue, New York City.
ABBOTT, Nathan:
Professor of law in Columbia Univers
ity; born at Norridgewock, Maine, July 11,
1854, son of Abiel Abbott and Sarah S.
Abbott. Consecutively professor of law at
the University of Michigan, in the Law
School of Northwestern University, and
at Leland Stanford University, before tak
ing his present position as professor of law
in Columbia University. Address : Col
umbia College Law School, New York
City.
ABELE, Ludwig Hermann:
Physician and surgeon; born in Kon-
stanz, Germany, July 6, 1865, son of Lud-
wig A. (Oberzollinspector) and Marie A.

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(Schaller) Abele. He entered the Uni
versity of Freiberg, after receiving a liberal
preparatory education, and was graduated
from that institution as M.D. in 1891. Hav
ing chosen the medical profession he de
cided to make the diseases of the eye and
ear his special studies, and soon after his
graduation from the University he was
made an assistant in the Royal University
Eye and Ear Clinic at Munich, where he
remained one year. His next service was
as first assistant at the Royal University
Eye Clinic at Konigsberg, where he re
mained for three years, the latter half of
that period as "Oberarzt" of that institu
tion. He also served a period in the Ger
man army as stabsarzt (captain surgeon).
He came to the United States in 1901 and
took up his residence in Chicago, 111., where
he at once entered upon the active practice
of his professipn, and where he has at
tained a prominent position as a specialist.
He is professor of ophthalmology in the
Post-Graduate Medical School, oculist to
St. Joseph's Hospital, and secretary of the
German Medical Society, is a member of
the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, the
American Medical Association, and the
Chicago Medical Society. Dr. Abele is a
member of the Catholic Church. He mar
ried, February 4, 1901, in Berlin, Germany,
Antonio G. Nuraberg. Residence, 85 Evans-
ton Avenue, Chicago; office address: 209
State Street, Chicago.
ABELL,, John Taylor:
Transportation and coal; born in Rock-
port, Ohio, December 29, 1867; son of
Mark Abell and Elizabeth (Taylor) Abell.
He was educated in public schools in Ohio.
Since 1888 he has been engaged in various
lines of business in New York, including
building, general contracting, and transpor
tation, and he is now general manager of
the Curtis-Blaisdell Company. Mr. Abell
is a member of the Masonic order, the
Ohio Society, and Camp Fire Club of
America. Director in Mammoth Gold Min
ing Co., of Yuma, Nevada; secretary and
treasurer of Rosario Mining and Smelting
Company. His favorite recreations are
hunting and driving. Mr. Abell has been

twice married, first October 5, 1892, to
Margaret Wells, and second, September
15, 1897, to Lillian Wells, and he has three
children : Margaret, born in 1895 ; Eliza
beth, born in 1904, and Catherine, born in
1905. Address: 218 West Fifty-ninth
Street, New York City.
ABERCROMBIE, David T.:
Manufacturer, merchant; born in Balti
more, Maryland ; June 6, 1867 ; son of John
Abercrombie and Elizabeth Sarah (Daniel)
Abercrombie. He was educated in public
schools of Baltimore City College, and by
private instruction. Mr. Abercrombie was
engaged as a civil engineer and typographer
until 1892, then became a manufacturer and
merchant, and is now president of the
Abercrombie & Fitch Company, outfitters
for sportsmen. He was explorer and chief
of survey, of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, in the coal and timber lands of
West Virginia. He is a member of the
Board of Trade, of Newark, New Jersey,
and the Board of Health Commission. He
is a Republican in politics. Mr. Aber
crombie is a member of the American Mu
seum of Natural History, the New York
Botanical Society, and the New York Zo
ological Society. His favorite recreations
are exploring, fishing, hunting and camping.
He is a member of the League of American
Sportsmen, the Sportsman's Association of
America, the Greenwood Lake Boat and
Country, Brooklyn Yacht, Camp Fire, Pines
Riviere Fish and Game Clubs, and the
Anglo-American Fish and Game Clubs. Mr.
Abercrombie married at Baltimore, Mary
land, April 25, 1896, Lucy Abbott Cate, and
they have three children : Elizabeth, born
in 1897, Lucy, born in 1899 and David, born
in 1901. Address : 57 Reade Street, New
York City.
ABNET, John Butledge:
Lawyer; born in Edgefield County, South
Carolina; 1850; son of James M. and
Martha (Livingston) Abney. He was grad
uated from Woffard College, South Caro
lina, as A.B. in 1870, later as A.M., and
finished his education at Bonn University,
Germany. He was engaged in the prac
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since then before the Federal and State
Courts in New York. He was State solici
tor in South Carolina, before removing to
New York in 1883; was on the staff of
Governor Wade Hampton of South Caro
lina, and delegate from South Carolina to
the National Democratic Convention in
Cincinnati, 1880, and a member of the
committee to notify, its candidate of his
nomination. He is a Democrat in politics
and an Episcopalian in religious affiliation.
He is a member of the Association of the
bar of the City of New York. He is presi
dent of the Board of Trustees of New York
Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital.
He is a member of the Sons of the Revo
lution, the Southern Society of which he
was formerly president, the Leicestershire
Archaeological Society of England, Vir
ginia Historical Society, South Carolina
Historical Society, and the Metropolitan,
Church, National, Democratic and Shinne-
cock Hills Golf Clubs. He married at
Washington, D. C, November 21, 1896,
Mary Lloyd Pendleton, daughter of the
late George H. Pendleton, at one time
United States senator from Ohio and
United States minister to Germany. Resi
dence: 19 East Eighty-sixth Street, and
Garden City, New York. Address 27 Wil
liam Street, New York City.
ABRAHAM, Abraham:
Merchant; born in New York City,
March 9, 1843 ; son of Judah Abraham. He
began as a clerk in a dry goods house in
1857; later in his father's wholesale dry
goods store ; and became a member of
Wechsler & Abraham, Brooklyn, in 1865 ;
now the firm of Abraham & Straus. He is
a director of the Kings County Trust Com
pany; and a member of the New York
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Abraham is
president of the Temple Israel and the
Jewish Hospital, a director of the Brooklyn
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, and a trustee of the Baron de
Hirsch Fund. He is a member of the
Brooklyn Club, the Union League Club of
Brooklyn, and the Harmonie Club of New
York City. He has a summer home in the

Thousand Islands. Address: 800 St. Mark's
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
ABRAMS, LeRoy:
Botanist; born at Sheffield, Franklin
County, Iowa, October I, 1874; son of
James DeWitt and Almina B. (Shoudy)
Abrams. He was graduated from Leland
Stanford Junior University as A.B. in 1899
and A.M. in 1902. He was acting profes
sor of botany in the State University of
Idaho in 1899 and 1900; assistant in botany
from 1900 to 1902 and instructor in botany
from 1902 to 1904 in Stanford University;
fellow in botany at Columbia University in
1904 and 1905, and he has been assistant
curator of plants in the United States Na
tional Museum from 1905 (now absent on
leave) and assistant professor of botany
from 1906 at Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity. He is also botanical expert to
Luther Burbank in preparation of his life
work. He was elected in 1902 a member
of the honorary scientific society of Sigma
Xi, is a member of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, the
National Geographic Society, Washington
Botanical Society, Washington Biological
Society, the Torrey Botanical Club. He is
Author of : The Flora of Los Angeles and
Vicinity, a botanical manual describing all
the native plants of that region, and he has
in preparation a work on the Phytogeo-
graphy of Southern California, and he is
also author of several papers in systematic
botany and plant distribution. Address :
Stanford University, California.
ACHESON, Edward Goodrich:
Inventor, manufacturer; born at Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1856 ; son of
William Acheson and Sarah D. (Ruple)
Acheson. He was educated in the public
school and in 1871 to 1872, at the Belle-
fonte Academy, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
He was assistant to Thomas Edison, from
1880 to 1883, and he is the inventor of car
borundum, Egyptinized clay, Acheson
graphite, and siloxcon, a direct reduction
of industry. He is president of the Inter
national Acheson Graphite Company, The
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director and consulting engineer of the
Carborundum Company. Mr. Acheson is a
Republican in politics and in religion is a
Presbyterian. He received the Grand Prize
from the Exposition Universalle, Paris,
France, in 1900, and the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, at St. Louis, in 1904. He
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and member
of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the Franklin Institute of Phila
delphia, the Society of Arts of London,
England, and the American Electro-Chem
ical Society, the Chamber of Commerce of
New York City, and the Buffalo Club of
Buffalo, and the Niagara Club of Niagara
Falls. Mr. Acheson married in Brooklyn,
New York, Margaret Maber, and they have
five boys and four girls. Residence : Graph-
ilia, Lundys Lane, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Business address : Niagara Falls, New
York. ACHESON, Ernest Francis:
Congressman and editor; born in Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1855 ;
son of Alexander Wilson Acheson and Jane
(Wishart) Acheson. He was educated at
Washington and Jefferson College, grad
uating as A.B. in 1875, and he was ad
mitted to the bar of Pennsylvania in 1877.
In 1879 he became editor of the Observer,
of Washington, Pennsylvania, with which
he has ever since been connected. Mr.
Acheson has always been an active Repub
lican, and was for ten years a member of
the State Republican Committee of Penn
sylvania. He was a delegate to the National
Republican Convention at Chicago in 1884
,and at Saint Louis in 1896. He was elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1894, and
has been reelected biennially since, and is
now serving in the Sixtieth Congress. He
was elected president of the Pennsylvania
Editorial Association in January, 1893, and
recording secretary of the National Edi
torial Association in June, l893._ He mar
ried at Washington, Pennsylvania, Novem
ber 22, 1882, Janine B. Stewart. Address:
Washington, Pennsylvania.
ACKER, Charles Ernest:
Manufacturer and inventor; born at

Bourbon, Indiana, March 19, 1868; son of
William James Acker, who was a manu
facturer at that place. The family came
originally from Holland and settled in New
Amsterdam. Mr. Acker was educated at
Wabash College and Cornell University,
from which he was graduated as Ph.B. in
1888. Mr. Acker began his business career
in electrical engineering work in Chicago,
at which he continued from' 1888 to 1893.
Since then he has been busily engaged in the
field of chemistry and electro-chemistry.
He developed the first electrolytic process
for the manufacture of caustic soda by elec
trolysis of molten salt, known as the Acker
process ; and the Elliott-Cresson gold medal
of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
and several other medals were conferred
upon him for his invention. He built the
works of the Acker Process Company, at
Niagara Falls, which utilizes 4,000 elec
trical horse-power; orginated processes for
tetrachloride of tin, carbon tetrachloride,
etc., which are also in use at Niagara
Falls ; and was the first to manufacture
carbon tetrachloride in America. He has
been granted about 45 United States and
foreign patents for inventions relating to
chemical and electro-chemical industries.
Mr. Acker is a director of the Niagara
Falls Trust Company and The Tin Prod
ucts Company of New York. He was for
merly an officer of the Northwestern Alum
ni Association of Cornell University at
Chicago, and later of the Cornell Alumni
Association of Buffalo. He is a director of
the American Electrochemical Society;' a
member of the Society of Arts (London),
of the Faraday Society (London), of the
Society of Chemical Industry (London),
of the American Electrochemical Society,
of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, and the American Chemical So
ciety. He is president of the Niagara Falls
Country Club and a member of various
other clubs and societies. Mr. Acker mar
ried, in 1892, Alice Reynolds, daughter of
William R. Beal, of New York, and they
have four children. Address : Niagara
Falls, New York.
AD AIRE, Alexander:
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MEN OF AMERICA.

Exchange; born in Philadelphia, May 7,
1834. Engaged in the building business in
which he became prominent, and is largely
concerned in the lumber trade. He has
been connected with the Lumber Exchange
since its organization, has been several
times a director in it, and is now its presi
dent. He is well known for his work in
the service of the public, and when the rail
road systems of Pennsylvania were being
mapped out he was made chairman of the
Railroad Committee, in which capacity he
did very efficient service. He has also
been very active in connection with the
Philadelphia public schools, having been a
member of the Board of Education for over
twenty years. He has served as chairman
of the important committees on Revision
of Studies and Night Schools, and as a
member of other committees, and in 1893
established the first night sewing school in
the mill districts, which has proved a very
important addition to the night school sys
tem. Address : 1414 East Palmer Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
ADAM, James N.:
Mayor of Buffalo, New York; born in
Peebles, Scotland, March 1, 1842; son of
Rev. Thomas Adam and Isabella (Borth-
wick) Adam. He was educated in the
Edinburgh Parochial Schools until 1854,
when he was apprenticed to the dry goods
business with Thomas Cooper and Com
pany, of Edinburgh, and in that employ he
rose from bundle-boy to clerk, remaining
with that house ten years. He was then in
business for himself in Edinburgh for seven
years. In 1872, upon the advice of his
brother, the late Robert Borthwick Adam,
who had already established himself in the
dry goods business in Buffalo, he came to
the United States and started a store in
New Haven, Connecticut, but in 1881 he
closed out his business there and founded
at Buffalo the firm of J. N. Adam and Com
pany, which in a few years became the lead
ing department store of Buffalo, which he
conducted with great success until 1906,
when he retired from business. Mr. Adam
is a Democrat, and in 1895 he was elected
to the City Council of Buffalo. In 1905 he

was elected Mayor of Buffalo, and he is now
serving in that capacity. He introduced
valuable reforms, reformed the police de
partment and put all of the departments
on a business basis, giving the city a
thorough business administration. He is a
member of the Fine Arts Academy, the
Buffalo Historical Society, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the Buffalo and Saturn
Clubs, and he is also a member of the
Advisory Board of the Children's Hospital.
He married, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in
1872, Margaret L. Paterson (now de
ceased). Address: 60 Oakland Place, Buf
falo, New York.
ADAMS, Alva:
Merchant and ex-governor of Colorado;
born in Iowa County, Wisconsin, May 14,
1850; son of a Kentuckian, who was a
farmer. He attended the common country
schools; went to Greeley, Colorado in 1871,
and first engaged in hauling ties, but from
that developed into a successful merchant,
first at Pueblo, and afterward at Colorado
Springs. He was a member of the First
State Legislature of Colorado in 1876, was
elected governor of Colorado as a Demo
crat in 1886 and 1896, serving two two-
year terms, was again the Democratic can
didate for governor in 1904 and was de
clared elected; but in the troubles which
followed in the hostile Legislature he re
signed, and the lieutenant-governor became
governor. He has been president of the
Pueblo Savings Bank since 1891. Address :
Pueblo, Colorado.
ADAMS, Arthur Lincoln:
Consulting hydraulic engineer; born near
Greensburg, Indiana, September 15, 1864;
son of Jacob Clendemie Adams and Nancy
(Hamilton) Adams. He was graduated
from Greensburg High School in 1882;
from Kansas State University as B.S. in
1886, with membership in the Sigma Xi
honor society. From 1886 to 1890 he was
engaged on railroad construction in Ne
braska, Oregon and Washington, and from
1890 to 1896 in the design and construc
tion of various water works for municipali
ties, irrigation and other hydraulic pro
jects in the Western States; since 1896 he
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draulic engineer, as chief engineer of large
undertakings and municipal water-supplies,
and as manager of water works properties
in the Western States. He is a member
and director of the American Society of
Civil Engineers ; member of the Franklin
Institute of Philadelphia, Technological So
ciety of the Pacific Coast, the American
Academy of Political and Social Science
and the National Geographical Society. He
is a trustee of the First Presbyterian
Church and of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Oakland, California. Pres
ident of the San Francisco Association of
Members of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. His favorite recreations are
fishing, mountain climbing, hunting and au-
tomobiling. In 1897 he was awarded the
Thomas Fitch Rowland-prize of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers. He is
author of numerous professional papers and
discussions contributed to the Transactions
of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers to the Technical Press. He is a
Republican in politics and a Presbyterian
in religion. He married at Topeka, Kan
sas, December 19, 1889, Mary Young Gen-
inell, and they have four children: Robert
C, born in 1891 ; Gertrude, born in 1894 ;
Pauline, born in 1896, and Arthur C, born
in 1899. Residence: 650 Oakland Avenue,
Oakland. Business address : 1014 Broad
way, Oakland, California.
ADAMS, Charles:
Physician; born in Northamptonshire,
England, May 29, 1847; son of John and
Elizabeth (Clarke) Adams. He received
his early education at Wellingborough,
England, and at ten years of age came with
his parents to the United States, they locat
ing in Milwaukee, Wis., where he continued
his studies. In 1861 the family removed to
Chicago, 111., where young Adams became
a bookkeeper to his father in the Jive-
stock business, remaining in this position
until 1869. He then became a student in
the Hahnemann Medical College until 1872,
spending a year in that institution as house
surgeon. He went to London in the latter
year, where he continued his studies for
a year. Returning to Chicago he engaged

in the general practice of medicine until
1896, since which date his practice has been
confined exclusively to surgery. He re
ceived the degree of M.D., ad eundem
gradum, from Rush Medical College in
1898. He was professor of surgical path
ology at the Hahnemann Medical College,
Chicago, in 1873-75; from 1875 to 1874 pro
fessor of principles and practice of surgery
Chicago Homeopathic College. He was also
consulting surgeon to the Chicago Nursery
and Half-Orphan Asylum and the Evans-
ton and St. Joseph's Hospitals. He is a
member of the Association of Military Sur
geons of the United States, the Illinois
Medical Society, the American Medical
Association, the Chicago Surgical Society
and the Chicago Academy of Sciences. He
is also a fellow of the Royal Microscopical
Society of London. He was for nearly
fifteen years surgeon-major of the First
Illinois Infantry and was major and brig
ade surgeon of United States Volunteers
in 1898, later lieutenant colonel and assist
ant surgeon general, Illinois National
Guard, and at present is surgeon to the
First Infantry, Illinois National Guard. He
is a member of the Chicago Literary, On-
wentsia and Saddle and Cycle clubs. His
first marriage was in 1875 to Mary, daugh
ter of Thomas S. Curtis, of Wellings-
borough, England. She died in 1888, leav
ing one son, Cuthbert C. Dr. Adams mar
ried again in 1889, his second wife being
Mrs. Elizabeth (Mitchell) Gaylord, daugh
ter of W. H. Mitchell, vice-president of
the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. Resi
dence : 15 Walton Place, Chicago. Office
address : 100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
ADAMS. Charles Darwin:
Professor of Greek; born at Keene, New
Hampshire, October 21, 1856; son of Daniel
Emerson Adams and Ellen Frances (Kings
bury) Adams. He was educated at Law
rence Academy, Groten, Massachusetts;
graduated at Dartmouth College, as A.B. in
1877, and studied at the University of Kiel,
Germany, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in
1901. He was instructor, Cushing Acad
emy from 1881 to 1884, professor of Greek
at Drury College, 1884 to 1893, and since

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1893 has been professor of Greek at Dart
mouth College. Address : Hanover, New
Hampshire. ADAMS, Charles Francis:
Historical writer and publicist; born
in Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 1835 ; son
of Charles Francis Adams, diplomat. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1858;
served in the Union Army through Civil
War from first lieutenant to lieutenant-
colonel of Massachusetts Cavalry and was
brevetted as a brigadier-general. He was
appointed a member of the board of
railway commissioners of Massachusetts
in 1869; declined reappointment in
1870. Became president of the Union Pa
cific Railway, in 1884; resigned, 1890. Be
came president of the Massachusetts His
torical Society in 1895. Mr. Adams is
author of: Chapters on Erie and Other
Essays ; Railroads, their Origin and Prob
lems ; Notes on Railway Accidents ; Mas
sachusetts, Its Historians and Its History;
Three Episodes of Massachusetts History;
Life of Charles Francis Adams; Richard
Henry Dana, a Biography; Lee at Appo
mattox, and other papers ; Three Phi Beta
Kappa Addresses, etc. Mr. Adams re
ceived from Harvard the degree of LL.D.
in 1895. He married November 8, 1865,
Mary Ogden. Address : 23 Court Street,
Boston, Mass.
ADAMS, Charles Frederick:
Entomologist; born at Atherton, Mis
souri, April 4, 1877; son of W. C. Adams
and Sarah Jane (Herd) Adams, both of
whom came from old Virginia families.
The paternal family were Virginians before
the Revolution, and his father served as a
captain in the Confederate Army. After a
careful preparatory education he entered
the University of Missouri, from which he
was graduated with the highest honors of
hie class as B.Agr. in 1897. He was grad
uated from the University of Kansas as
M.D. in 1902 and A.M. in 1903, and held the
Snow research scholarship at the Univer
sity of Kansas from 1902 to 1904, and was a
member of several of Dr. F. H. Snow's
entomological expeditions to the Gulf of

Mexico and the Southwestern United
States. During his eleven years of col
lege training he carried on work in agri
culture, the natural sciences, arts and
philosophy. He was assistant entomol
ogist of Missouri in 1897, professor of
histology and bacteriology in the Kansas
City Dental College, from 1900 to 1904, as
sistant in zoology at the University of Chi
cago in 1904 and 1905, and professor of
entomology in the University of Arkansas
since 1905. He is a member of the Associa
tion of Economic Entomologists, the Ento
mological Society of America, the Metro-
logical Society, the Honorary Scientific
Society Sigma Xi, and the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is an authority on insect tax
onomy, insect histology and cytology and in
sect binomics, having published numerous
papers, and he is one of the revisors of
Williston's Manual of North American
Diptera. He has an international reputa
tion in his specialty of dipterology, having
correspondents all over the world, and he is
much interested in the relation of insects to
disease, both from the entomological and the
medical standpoints. Address : Fayette-
ville, Arkansas.
ADAMS, Charles Josiah :
Clergyman, author; born at New Lisbon,
Ohio, October 31, 1850; son of Reverend
Josiah Adams and Sarah A. (Ford)
Adams. He was graduated from Mount
Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and A.B. in
1871 ; studied at Yale in 1873, and Boston
University, in 1874. He was ordained priest
in the Episcopal Church in 1875, was canon
of St. John's Cathedral, Denver, Colorado,
from 1882 to 1885; dean of Wichita, Kan
sas, 1885 to 1888; rector of St. Luke's
Church, Chicago, 1888 to 1891 ; rector of the
Church of the Holy Spirit, ' Rondout-on-
Hudson, New York, 1891 to 1896, and since
May 1, 1896, he has been rector of St.
Luke's Church, Rossville, Staten Island,
New York. He received the degree of
D.D. from Mount Union College. He was
the organizer and is the manager and lec
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Psychology. He is author of Where is My
Dog? The Matterhom Head and Other
Poems; How Baldy Won the County Seat,
etc. He was formerly chaplain of the New
York Press Club. Dr. Adams married,
March 22, 1876, Jennie E. Holloway, and
has a son, Edwin Charles Adams. Resi
dence : Rossville, Staten Island, New York.
Address : 29 Lafayette Place, New York
City.ADAMS, Cyrus Hall:
Retired merchant; born at Kerr's Creek,
Rockbridge County, Virginia, February 21,
1849; son of Hugh and Amanda (McCor-
mick) Adams. His mother was a daughtei
of Robert McCormick of Virginia. The
family having removed to Chicago, young
Adams received his education in the public
schools of that city and at the old Uni
versity of Chicago. He entered the employ
of Cyrus H. McCormick & Co., the manu
facturers of the famous reaping machines.
in 1867, becoming in 1871 a member of the
Reorganized firm of McCormick, Adams &
Co. In 1883 he became the head of the
firm of Cyrus H. Adams & Co., which posi
tion he held until 1889, when he retired on
account of ill health. During the period
from 1871 to 1889 he was a member of the
Arbitration Committee, a member of the
Appeals Committee and a director of the
Chicago Board of Trade. He was also a
director of the National Bank of America.
Among the positions of trust he has held
are those of trustee of the McCormick Theo
logical Seminary, member of the Board of
Governors of the Presbyterian Hospital,
and governing member of the Art Insti
tute of Chicago. He is an Independent
Democrat in politics and a member of the
Presbyterian Church. He is a member of
the Union League, Chicago Athletic, On-
wentsia and Saddle and Cycle Clubs. He
married in Chicago, September 26, 1878.
Emma J., daughter of Lyman Blair, and has
one son, Cyrus H. Adams, Jr. Address:
155 Rush Street, Chicago, 111.
ADAMS, Edward Dean:
Banker;- born in Boston, Massachusetts,
April 9, 1846; son of Adirondam Judson
and Harriet Lincoln (Norton) Adams. He

was graduated from Norwich University,
Northfield, Vermont, as B.S., in 1864, and
subsequently received the degrees of M.S.
and LL.D. from the same institution. He
began his business career as bookkeeper,
1866-70, and became, from 1870 to 1878, a
member of the banking firm of Richardson,
Hill & Co., Boston ; was a member of the
banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Com
pany, New York City, 1878 to 1893, and
has been the American representative of the
Deutsche . Bank of Berlin since 1893. He
is a director in a large number of Indus
trial, financial and railway corporations, in
cluding the Bullock Electric and Manufac
turing Company, president; the Cataract
Construction Company, president ; the Allis-
Chalmers Company, chairman of the Exe
cutive Committee; the Cataract Power and
Conduit Company, of Buffalo, member of
the Executive Committee; the Central and
South American Telegraph Company ;
Niagara Development Company, Niagara
Junction Railway Company, Niagara Falls
Power Company ; Allis-Chalmers-Bullock,
Limited, of Montreal; the American Cotton
Oil Company ; East Jersey Water Company ;
Guatemala Railway Company ; New Jersey
General Security Company ; and the Tona-
wanda Cataract Power Company. Mr.
Adams is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian in his religious affiliation, be
ing a vestryman and treasurer of St. George's
Episcopal Church of Rumson Hills, N. J.,
and a member of St. Thomas' Episcopal
Church of New York. Mr. Adams is also
a member of various scientific, artistic,, pat
riotic and other societies, and an officer in
several of these, the list including the
American Numismatic Society (member of
Council and chairman of Medal Commit
tee) ; American Scenic and Historic Pre
servative Society (trustee) ; Chamber of
Commerce of the State of New York ;
Germanistic Society of America (vice-presi
dent) ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, trustee
and chairman of the Finance Committee;
Monmouth County Historical Association,
(vice-president) ; Mosquito Extermination
Fund of Monmouth County (treasurer) ;
Norwich University ; Military College of
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Rumson Association (treasurer) ; president
of the Rumson Improvement Company
(water company) ; trustee and vice-presi
dent of the Institute of Musical Art of the
City of New York ; member of the American
Anthropological Association ; American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
American Ethnological Society; life fellow
American Fine Arts Society; member
American Forestry Association; American
Geographical Society (life fellow) ; patron
in perpetuity of the American Museum of
Natural History; fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers ; member of the
Association for the Protection of the Ad-
irondacks; the Civil Service Reform Asso
ciation ; the Horticultural Society of New
York ; Municipal Art Society of New York ;
National Academy of Design (fellow in per
petuity) ; National Association of Credit
men; National Geographic Society; Nat
ional Horse Show Association; National
Sculpture "Society; National Society of
Mural Painters; New England Society;
New York Academy of Science ; New York
Society of Archaeology, New York Botan
ical Garden; New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society; New York Historical
Society; New York Zoological Society;
Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fur Medail-
lenkunst; Societe des Aims de la Medaille
Francaise ; Society of Sons of the Revolu
tion ; Society of Iconophiles. He is also
a life member of the City Club of New
York, and a member of the Adirondack
League; Adirondack Mountain Reserve
Club, Church Club; the City Midday; En
gineers Faculty of Columbia University;
Grolier ; Lawyers, and Metropolitan Clubs ;
the Monmouth Corinthian Yacht Club;
Players ; Riding ; Rumson ; Polo ; Seabright
Lawn Tennis and Cricket; Seabright Beach
Club, trustee; a director of the Seabright
Golf Club; a member of the Technology
Club of New York (class of 1869) ; the
Tuxedo; the Twenty-seventh Assembly
District Republican an'd the Union League
Clubs, of New York City, and the Caxton
and Chicago Clubs of Chicago. Mr.
Adams married, in 1872, Frances Amelia
Gutterson, and they have one daughter,

Ruth. Residence : 445 Madison Avenue.
Office: 71 Broadway, New York City.
ADAMS, Edward LeGrand:
Consul-general; born at Clarence, Erie
County, New York, January 3, 1851 ; son of
Benjamin T. and Janet (Gibson) Adams.
He was educated at the Clarence Academy
at his native place, the State Normal School
at Brockport, New York, and at the Uni
versity of Rochester. He engaged in news
paper work on the editorial staff of the
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle for
seven years, and then, from 1880 to 1883,
was an oil producer at Bradford, Penn
sylvania. He was editor of the Elmira
Daily Advertiser from 1883 to 1898. Mr.
Adams has always taken an active interest
in political affairs as a Republican, and
when in editorial work was known as one
of the ablest editorial exponents of Repub
lican doctrine in the State of New York,
and was an assistant in the literary bureau
at the National Republican headquarters at
New York in the campaigns of 1896 and
1900. He has filled various important of
ficial positions, having been deputy collector
of United States Internal Revenue for the
Twenty-eighth New York District from
1890 to 1894, and was a member of the
New York State Tax Commission from
1895 to 1898. In June, 1902, he was ap
pointed secretary of the American Legation
and consul-general at Stockholm, Sweden,
was charge d'affaires for four months in
1902- 1903, and he is now consul-general
of the United States at Stockholm. Mr.
Adams married at Elmira, in' 1879, Kate L.
Atwater, daughter of Dwight Atwater. Ad
dress: American Consulate-General, Stock
holm, Sweden.
ADAMS, Elbridge L.:
Lawyer ; born at Canandaigua, New York,
September 16, 1866; son of Hon. William
H. Adams, judge of the Supreme Court of
New York, and of Charlotte (Lapham)
Adams. He was graduated from Williams
College as B.A. in 1887 and received the
degree of MA. from his alma mater in
1904- He was admitted to the bar in 1889,
and engaged in general practice at Roches
ter, New York. He was a member and

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chairman of the Municipal Civil Service
Commission of Rochester for eight years.
Mr. Adams is president and director of
the Manufacturers' Commercial Company,
of New York City, the Rochester Folding
Box Company, and' the Fidelity Contract
Company, and is a director of the Union
Trust Company, of Rochester. He is a
Republican in politics and an Episcopalian
in religious affiliation. Mr. Adams is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York and of the City,
Saint Anthony, and City Lunch Clubs of
New York City. He is also a member of
Genesee Valley and Country Clubs of
Rochester, New York, and of the Red
Jacket Club of Canandaigua, New York. He
married at Williamstown, Massachusetts,
October 9, 1900, Julia L. Hubbell, and they
have three children : Emily, born in 1891 ;
William Hamilton, born in 1894, and El-
bridge II, born in 1898. Residence: 55
West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.
Business address : 299 Broadway, New
York City and 1005 Wilder Building,
Rochester, New York.
ADAMS, Elmer Bragg:
United States circuit judge; born at Pom-
fret, Vermont, October 27, 1842; son of
Jarvis Adams and Eunice (Mitchell)
Adams. After a thorough preparatory edu
cation he entered Yale College, from which
he was graduated as B.A. in the class of
1865. He went to Georgia soon after his
graduation as the representative of the
American Union Commission, and there in
augurated at Atlanta and Milledgeville a
system of free schools for white children,
and he returned to Vermont in 1866. He
began the study of law in Vermont, and
afterward attended Harvard Law School
and in 1868 he was admitted to the Vermont
Bar. He removed to Saint Louis, Missouri,
in the same year and established in a gene
ral law .practice until elected judge of the
State circuit court for a term of six years.
At the end of his term in 1885 he declined
reelection and resumed practice in which
he continued until appointed by President
Cleveland in r895 United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri

in which office he served until May, 1905,
when he was nominated by President
Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate as
United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth
Judicial Circuit, in which office he is still
serving. Judge Adams is a special lec
turer on the law of successions and wills
in the University of Missouri, from which
institution he received the degree of LL.D.
in 1898. Received the same degree from
Washington University in 1907. He is a
member of the Sons of the Revolution and
of the New England Society of St. Louis,
and also of the Commercial, St. Louis, and
Country Clubs of St. Louis. Residence: 25
Westmoreland Place, St. Louis. Official
address : Custom House Building, St. Louis,
Missouri.ADAMS, George Bethune:
Judge of the United States District
Court ; born in Philadelphia, April 3, 1845 ;
son of Andrew W. Adams and Mary A.
Adams. He was educated in public and
private schools in Philadelphia. He served
in the Civil War from May to August, 1861,
and again during Lee's invasion of Penn
sylvania in 1863, and in the Quartermaster's
Department of the regular army, from 1864
to 1871. He was admitted to the Pennsyl
vania Bar in 1878; removed to New York
City in 1883, and practiced law, chiefly in
admiralty cases, until he was appointed by
President McKinley to be district judge
for the Southern District of New York, in
August, 1901. He was reappointed by
President Roosevelt and confirmed in De
cember, 1901, and since then has continued
in that office. Judge Adams is a Republican
in his political views. He is a member of
the Bar Association of the City of New
York, and of the Union League and Ardsley
Clubs of New York City. He married,
July 12, 1904, Helen J. Balfour. Address:
27- West One Hundred and Tenth Street,
New York City.
ADAMS, George Everett:
Lawyer ; born at Keene, New Hampshire,
June, 1840, son of Benjamin Franklin and
Louise (Ruth) Adams. He removed with
his family to Chicago in 1853, was prepared
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and was graduated from Harvard Univer
sity with the degree of B.A. in i860, then,
taking the law course at Harvard whence
he was graduated as LL.B. in 1865. Re
turning to Chicago, he was admitted to the
bar and began to practice in his profession,
in which he still continues. Mr. Adams is
a Republican in politics and as such was
elected to the Illinois State Senate, in 1880,
continuing from 1881 until 1883 when he
resigned to take the seat in Congress to
which he had been elected. Here he served
four terms, being member of the Forty-
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first
Congresses. He married at Chicago, 1871,
Adele Foster ; children : Isabel F. and Mar
garet. He was formerly one of the over
seers of Harvard College, is a trustee of
the Newberry Library and of the Field
Columbian Museum and a member of the
Chicago, Union League, University, On-
wentsia and Harvard Clubs. Residence :
530 Belden Avenue. Address: 611 The
Temple, Chicago, 111.
ADAMS, Henry Carter:
Political economist, statistician and edu
cator; born at Davenport, Iowa, 185 1; son
of Ephraim Adams and Elizabeth S. A.
(Douglass) Adams. He prepared for col
lege in Denmark Academy and then en
tered Iowa College, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in the class of 1874.
He afterward took post-graduate work at
Johns Hopkins University from which he
received the degree of Ph.D. in 1878, after
which he continued his special studies in
Heidelberg, Berlin and Paris. Iowa Col
lege conferred upon him the degree of
LL.D. in 1898, and the University of Wis
consin conferred the same in 1903. He was
a lecturer on economic subjects at Cor
nell University, the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and the University of Michigan
from 1880 to 1887, and since 1887 he has
filled his present chair as piofessor of polit
ical economy and finance in the University
of Michigan. Dr. Adams was statistician
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
from 1887 to 1906, and is now expert in
charge of statistics and accounts, in the
employ of the commission and engaged in

formulating a system of standard accounts
for railways of the United States. He was
director of the Division of Transportation
for the Eleventh Census. He has written
extensively upon his special subjects, and
is author of various books including Out
line of Lectures on Political Economy, 1881
(second edition, 1886) j The State in Rela
tion to Industrial Action, 1887; Taxation
in the United States from 1787 to 1816,
1884; Public Debts, 1887; The Science of
Finance, . (both books translated into Japa
nese) 1888; Statistics of Railways from
1888 to 1906; Economics and Jurisprud
ence, 1897. He is author of Commercial
Valuation of Railways which appeared as
Bulletin 21 of the Census in 1904, and was
joint editor of the Digest of Senate Com
mittee Hearings on Regulation of Railway
Rates, 1905. Dr. Adams married, in 1890,
Bertha H. Wright, of Port Huron, Mich.
Address : Ann Arbor, Michigan.
ADAMS, Henry Sherman :
Editor; born at Wethersfield, Connecti
cut, August 1, 1864; eldest son of Thomas
Griswold Adams and Lucy Stillman (Dick
inson) Adams. Both the Adams and Dick
inson families have been identified contin
uously with Wethersfield, Connecticut, for
more than two hundred and fifty years. He
is also a descendant of the old Welles, Wol-
cott, Griswold, Robbins, Goodrich and Nott
families of the same town. He was edu
cated in the public and private schools in
Wethersfield, and in the Hartford Public
High School, class of 1882. He was en
gaged in business in Wall Street from 1882
until 1891, then until 1896 in the beet sugar
business in Nebraska. Since 1897 he has
been managing editor of the Brooklyn Life,
and director of the Brooklyn Life Publish
ing Company. He has traveled extensively
in the United States, Canada, Bermuda,
Europe and North Africa in the past
twenty-two years, and climbed Mounts
Lefroy and Stephen in the Canadian Rock
ies in 1903. He is an Independent in poli
tics, and a Congregationalist in his relig
ious affiliation. His favorite recreations are
walking, ^ swimming and gardening. Mr.
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League, ahd of the Crescent Athletic Club
of Brooklyn. Address: 152 Montague
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
ADAMS, John Coleman :
Clergyman; born at Maiden, Massachu
setts, October 25, 1849; son of John Green-
leaf Adams and Mary Hall (Barrett)
Adams. After a careful preparatory educa
tion he entered Tufts College in Massa
chusetts from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1870, and from which he afterward
received the degrees of B.D. in 1872 and
A.M. (for work done) in 1884, and the
honorary degree of S.T.D. in 1888. He
was ordained in the ministry of the Uni-
versalist Church in 1872 and has held pastor
ates in leading churches of that denomina
tion in Newton and Lynn, Massachusetts,
Chicago, Illinois, Brooklyn, New York,
and Hartford, Connecticut. He holds an
influential position in the Universalist
Church, and is a trustee of Tufts College
and of the Universalist General Conven
tion. Dr. Adams also has secured for
himself a worthy place in literature by his
volumes : The Leisure of God, 1895 ; The
Fatherhood of God, 1888; Christian Types
of Heroism, 1890; Nature Studies in Berk
shire, 1899; Life of William Hamilton
Gibson, 1901 ; An Honorable Youth, 1906,
and Short .Stqdies in The Larger Faith,
1907, and also by numerous contributions
to magazines and newspapers. Dr. Adams'
favorite recreations are yachting, bicycling,
gardening and tramping. He is a member
of the Authors Club of New York and of
the University Club of Hartford, Connecti
cut. Dr. Adams married at Newtonville,
Massachusetts, in 1883, Miriam P. Hovey,
and they have three children: Katharine
John Alden and Justine de Peyster. Ad
dress : 83 Sigourney Street, Hartford, Con
necticut. ADAMS, John Quincy:
Secretary of the Betsy Ross Flag House
Association; born at Lancaster, New
Hampshire, October 26, 1848 ; son of Har
vey and Nancy Dustin (Rowell) Adams.
He was educated at Lancaster Academy.
Mr. Adams was a leader in the work of
saving to the nation The Old Flag House,

the home of Betsy Ross; being one of the
three founders of the American Flag House
and Betsy Ross Memorial Association, its
secretary and vice-chairman, acting on
transfer, etc. The association attained a
membership of 1,046,270. In politics Mr.
Adams is a Democrat, and was the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the Four
teenth District, New York City, in 1896.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr. Adams received a Medal of
Honor presented by the Flag House Chap
ter of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution of Philadelphia, consisting of thir
teen ladies, lineal descendants of Betsy
Ross. Mr. Adams was colonel of the Lafa
yette Auxiliary, in the Spanish-American
War; is a charter member of the Sons of
the American Revolution ; and a founder,
first presiding officer and first secretary-
general of the Founders and Patriots of
America. He has been a public lecturer in
the New York City public schools Lecture
Course for four years on the subjects of
American History and Patriotism. Mr.
Adams married in New York City, Octo
ber "26, 1870, Marie Adele Negrin, and
they have two children : Florence L. and
Frances A. Adams. Residence: 153 West
One Hundred and Seventeenth Street,
New York City. Address: Old Flag
House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ADAMS, Maxwell:
Professor of chemistry; born at St.
George, .West Virginia, February 28, 1869;
son of Daniel C. Adams, and Dorcas (Bon-
nifield) Adams. He was graduated from
the State Normal School at Fairmont, West
Virginia- in 1888; was a student at the
University of West Virginia at Morgan-
town in 1890 and 1891 ; then went to Stan
ford University, in California, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1895 and A.M.
in 1896; he took post-graduate studies at
the University of Chicago, receiving the
Ph.D. degree in 1904. He was principal of
the public schools at Mayfield, California,
in 1894 and 1895; lecture assistant at Stan
ford University, California, in 1895 and
1897; instructor in chemistry at Stanford
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and 1897 ; head of .the department of physi
cal science in the California State Normal
School at Chico, from 1891 to 1900 ; instruct
or in chemistry in the extension department
of the University of Chicago in 1900 and
1901 ; professor of chemistry and acting vice-
president of the California State Normal
School at Chicago, 1901 to 1906; and pro
fessor of chemistry in the University of
Nevada from 1906. As a chemist, Dr.
Adams has made special researches in the
salts of tin with organic bases, hydroxyl-
amin, the molecular weight of lactimiad
and halides of tin. He has written on The
Action of Hydroxylamin on Copper Sul
phate, and has in preparation Products of
Steam and Destructive Distillation of Cal
ifornia Pines. Dr. Adams is independent
politically arid has not adhered to party
lines in voting. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a mem
ber of the American Chemical Society, the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and the California Science
Teachers' Association. He was president
of the Board of Trustees of the First Meth
odist Church at Chico, California, from
1904 to 1906, and president of the Chico
Choral Society from 1905 to 1907. He is
also a member of the Independent Order
of Foresters. His favorite recreations are
tennis and mountaineering. Dr. Adams
was a charter member and first president
of the Chemists' Club of Stanford Univer
sity; vice-president of the Graduate Club
of Stanford University in 1896 and 1907;
consulting chemist of the Butte County
Railroad in 1901 and 1902, and has been
consulting chemist o.f the Diamond Match
Company, since 1903. Dr. Adams married
at Palo Alto, California, July 27, 1898, Eli
zabeth Quinn, and they have two children :
Lyndel, born in 1902, and Gregory Ran
dolph, born' in 1905. Residence: 617 Ral
ston Street, Reno, Nevada. Office address :
Chemical Laboratory, University of Nevada,
Reno, Nevada.
ADAMS, Milton Butler:
Officer Corps of Engineers, United States
Army; born at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania,
A.pril 11, 1845; son of Samuel P. Adams

and Ellen (Barker) Adam.;. He was edu
cated at the Calvin Moor Seminary Sa
lem, Ohio, and at the Unitea states- Mili
tary Academy, West Point, New York, in
which he was an honor man in the class
of 1865. He has been an officer of the
Corps of Engineers, United States Arirw
continuously since June, 1865; being com
missioned first lieutenant of engineers, June
23, 1865; captain, January 6, 1870; major,
July 3, 1883; lieutenant colonel, July 5,
1898, and colonel in the Corps of Engineers,
April 23, 1904. Colonel Adams is a mem
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion and of the Sons of the American
Revolution. His political affiliations are
with the Republican party, and he is an
Episcopalian in his religious view. His
favorite out-door recreations are boating,
fishing, and horseback riding. Residence :
154 Washington Street, Grand Rapids. Of
fice address : United States Engineer Of
fice, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins:
Journalist and author; born at Dunkirk,
New York, January 26, 1871 ; son of Myron
and Hester Rose (Hopkins) Adams: He
received his education at the Rochester
Free Academy, from which he was grad
uated in 1887 and at Hamilton College,
graduating as A.B. in 1891.1 He was a re
porter and special writer on the New York
Sun from 1891 to 1900; managing editor of
McClure's Syndicate, 1900 to 1902; adver
tising manager for McClure, Phillips & Co.,
publishers, from 1902 to 1904;- on the edi
torial staff of McClure's Magazine in 1904
and _ 1905 ; general magazine writer on
public health, and other topics, in 1905 and
1906. He was author of the Great Ameri
can Fraud series (patent medicines), in
Collier's Weekly, published in collected
form by the American Medical Association ;
joint author, with Stewart Edward White,
of The Mystery (fiction) published by Mc
Clure, Phillips & Company, in 1907, and is
author of short stories in McClure's, Col
lier's, etc., and contributor to the editorial
pages of Collier's Weekly. He has spoken
and read papers before medical and sani
tary organizations on public health topics.

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Mr. Adams is a trustee of Hamilton Col
lege, Clinton, New York, and in political
views is a moderate Socialist. Mr. Adams
is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi frater
nity and of the Alpha Delta Phi, Players,
and Owasco Country Clubs. He married at
Charleston, West Virginia, October 19,
1898, Elizabeth Ruffner Noyes and they have
two children; Hester Hopkins Adams,
born in 1900, and Katherine Noyes Adams,
born in 1902. Address : 32 Chedell Place,
Auburn, N. Y., and Ensenore, N. Y. (sum
mer home).
ADAMS, Thomas Brooks:
Banker and broker; born in Santiago de
Cuba, October 24, 1852; son of William
Newton Adams and Carmen (de Miche-
lena) Adams. He was educated at the
Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, New
York, and began his business career as a
clerk with Moses Taylor & Company from
1868 to 1872. He was with Brooks & Com
pany, from 1872 to 1878, then partner in
W. S. Lawson & Company, until 1881, in
Adams, Kellogg & Mason, from 1881 to
1884; a member of the New York Stock
Exchange, from 1879 to 1884; then in cattle
business at Cheyenne, Wyoming, until 1891,
New York treasurer of the Consolidated
Kansas City Smelting and Refining Com
pany, from 1891 to 1897; acting treasurer
of the American Smelting and Refining
Company, from 1898 to 1901, and a partner
in Henderson, Lindley & Company, bank
ers and brokers, from 1901. He is secre
tary, treasurer and director of the Ameri
can Oil Engine Company. Mr. Adams was
a member of the Wyoming Legislature, two
terms, lieutenant of the twenty-third Regi
ment of the National Guard of the State
of New York from 1868 to 1878; lieutenant
of Company B, National Guard, State of
Wyoming, from 1886 to 1888. He is an in
dependent in politics, and an Episcopalian
in religious belief. He is a trustee of the
Public Library of Summit, New Jersey,
and director of the Summit Board of
Trade; a vestryman of Calvary Episcopal
Church at Summit, New Jersey, and mem
ber of the City Club of New York City,
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, the Highland

Club of Summit, New Jersey, and the Canoe
Brook Country Club. Mr. Adams married
at Brooklyn, New York, December 3, 1879,
Annie Corlies, and they have three "sons,
Newton, born in 1892, Stuart, born in 1893,
and Corlies, born in 1891. Residence: Sum
mit, New Jersey. Address : 100 Broadway,
New York City.
ADAMS, Washington Irving Lincoln:
Author and president of business corpora
tions; born in New York City, February
22, 1865 ; son of Washington Irving Adams
and Marion L. (Briggs) Adams. He was
educated in the Montclair public schools,
graduating from the high school in 1883.
He is president of Styles & Cash, stationers
and printers ; the Montclair Trust Com
pany (Montclair, New Jersey) ; the Photo
graphic Times Publishing Association ; vice-
president of The Goodwin Film and Cam
era Company and director of Dexter Folder
Company; and treasurer of the Montclair
Holding Company. Mr. Adams is a life
member of the American Institute; honor
ary member of the Montclair Camera Club
and member of the LaFayette Lodge, No.
64 of Masons. He is ex-governor of the
New Jersey Society of the Founders and
Patriots of America; a member of the
Sons of American Revolution; the Society
of Colonial Wars; the Huguenot Society;
Society of War of 1812. He is a trus
tee of the First Congregational Society
(Dr. Bradford's), Montclair, New Jersey;
a director of the Montclair Civic Associa
tion, the Aldine Association of New York.
He is a member of the Salmagundi Club
of New York. His favorite recreations
are amateur farming in New Hampshire
and horseback riding. He is author of:
The Amateur Photographer; Sunlight and
Shadow ; In Nature's Image ; Woodland
and Meadow. He married in 1889, Grace
Wilson, and they have five children : Wil
son Irving, Marian Elizabeth, Briggs, Kil-
burn, Carolyn Styles, and W. I. Lincoln.
Junior. Residence: Montclair, N. J. (win
ter) ; Hilltop Farms, Littleton, N. H.
(summer). Address: 135 West 14th Street,
New York City.

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ADAMS, William Forbes:
Bishop of Easton, Maryland; born in
Ireland, January 2, 1833 ; came to the
United States in 1841. He was educated
at various academies, and he received from
the University of the South, Sewanee, Ten
nessee, the degree of D.C.L. in 1874. He
took orders as deacon in 1859, and was or
dained priest by Bishop Green, in i860. In
the latter year he became rector of St.
Paul's Church, Woodville, Mass., and of St.
Peter's Church, New Orleans, La., in 1866.
The following year he was called to the pas
torate of St. Paul's Church in the same
city, holding this until 1875, when he be
came Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona.
He was consecrated by Bishops Green, L.
B. B. Wilmer and Beckwith. After a year
in this diocese, he was called to take charge
of the Holy Trinity Church, Vicksburg,
Miss. After eleven years he was elected
Bishop of Easton, Maryland. He is author
of Occasional Sermons and Missionary
Reports. Address : Easton, Maryland.
ADAM SON. Charles:
Lawyer and manufacturer ; born in Phila
delphia, March 17, 1859 ; educated in P'er-
nambuco, Brazil, Honolulu, Hawaii, and
Melbourne, Australia, his father, Thomas
Adamson, being engaged in consular duty
at these cities. After entering the Univer
sity of Melbourne in 1876, he returned to
Philadelphia and studied mining engineering
in the University of Pennsylvania till 1880,
and law till 1882, also studying in the office
of Hon. Wayne Mac Veagh. He practiced
law in Philadelphia from 1882 to 1890, at
the same time engaging in manufacturing
and building enterprises, and. serving as a
member of the Common Council from 1889
to 1890. In 1890 he went to the South and
organized the Cedartown Land Improve
ment Company at Cedartown, Ga., and in
1896 he organized the Cedartown Cotton
Company to make fine hosiery yarns, and
also organized, in 1898, the Southern Ex
tension Cotton Mill Company, and in 1899
the Paragon Mills, in each of which he was
president or manager. He consolidated
these three companies, aggregating 25,000
spindles, in 1899, becoming vice-president of

.the corporation. He has also organized the
Cedartown Warehouse Company, and is
president of the Southern Association of
Hosiery Yarn Spinners, and a member of
the Philadelphia Art Club and the Cherokee
Club of Cedartown. He has taken a promi
nent part in Georgia politics, was active on
the stump in the Presidential Campaign of
1892, and a delegate to the Republican Na
tional Conventions of 1896 and 1904. Ad
dress : Cedartown, Georgia.
ADAMSON, William Charles:
Congressman; born at Bowdon, Georgia,
August 13, 1854. He spent his youth, alter
nately in working on the farm and in haul
ing goods and cotton between Atlanta and
Bowdon; took the collegiate course at
Bowdon College, graduating with the de
gree of A.B. in 1874, the degree of A.M.
being conferred a few years later by the
same institution. He read law in the office
of Hon. Sampson W. Harris ; was admitted
to the bar October, 1876, and has lived at
Carrollton, Georgia, ever since, practicing
law in the circuit. and supreme courts of
the State and the Federal courts. He was
judge of the city court of Carrollton from
1885 to 1889, and was attorney for the
city of Carrollton for a number of years ;
was a presidential elector in 1892 ; was elec
ted to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress in 1906, and is now serving. He was
representative from the Georgia Annual
Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church, to the General Conference at Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, in '1880, at Atlantic
City in 1900, and at Washington, D. C. in
1904. He was elected by the General Con
ference at- Atlantic City in 1900 as one of
the representatives of that Church to the
Ecufnenical Council, at London, but did
not attend. He was one of the commission
ers of Methodist Protestant Church to con
fer with commissions from other
churches with a view to organic union.
Address : Carrollton, Georgia.
ADE, George:
Journalist and playwright; born at Pent-
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graduated from Purdue University in 1887
and began in newspaper work in Lafayette,
Indiana, from 1887 to 1890, thence going
to Chicago, where he was on the staff. of
the Chicago Record from 1890 to 1900. Since
1900 his attention has been chiefly devoted
to work as author and playwright, in both
of which fields his success has been very
great. The list of his books includes : Artie,
Pink Marsh, Doc. Horse, Fables in Slang,
More Fables in Slang, The Girl Proposi
tion, People You Know, Breaking Into So
ciety, True Bills, In Babel, In Pastures
New, and The Slim Princess. His plays
are : The Sultan of Sulu, Peggy from Paris,
The County Chairman, The Sho-Gun, The
College Widow, Just Out of College, Marse
Covington, Arti, and Father and the Boys.
Address : Hazelden Farm, Brook, Indiana.
ADEE, Alvey Augustus:
^Second assistant secretary of State; born
at Astoria, New York, November 27, 1842;
son of Augustus A. Adee, fleet surgeon in
the United States Navy. He was privately
educated. He entered the diplomatic- ser
vice as secretary of legation at Madrid,
September 9, 1870, and was at different
times charge d'affairs there. He was trans-
fered from Madrid to the Department of
State as a clerk in July 1877; became chief
of the Diplomatic Bureau July 11, 1878;
third assistant secretary of State July 18,
1882, arid second assistant secretary of
State since August 3, 1886. He was secre
tary of State ad interim in September, 1898,
and acting secretary of State for a time
during the Chinese troubles of 1900. Resi
dence : 1019 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Wash
ington. Office address : Department of
State, Washington, D. C.
ADEE, George A.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, in 1847;
son of George Townsend Adee and Ellen
Louise (Henry) Adee. He was prepared
for college at the Harrington Preparatory
School, Westchester, New York, and was
graduated from Yale University as B.A. in
1867, and MA. in 1870, and from Columbia
College Law School as LL.B. in 1870. He
was admitted to the New York bar in 1870,
and has since been chiefly engaged with

estate work and realty interests, trustee's
and administrator's duties. He is a Repub
lican in politics and an Episcopalian in re
ligious affiliation. He devoted considerable
time for many years to Yale affairs and
athletic and other interests there, was presi
dent of the Yale Alumni Association of
New York in 1897 and 1898, and is a mem
ber of the Scrool and Key Club, the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Yale
University Crew. He is also a member
of the New York Historical Society; the
Yale; University; Country (Westchester);
Down Town Association; New York
Yacht, and Larchmont Yacht Clubs of New
York, and also of the Graduates Club of
New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Adee mar
ried, at Stonington, Connecticut, in 1871,
Adelaide Palmer Stanton, and of that
union there have been born four children ;
Ellen Louise, George Townsend, Charles
Stanton (died in 1901) and Juliet Stanton.
Address : Westchester, New York City.
ADEE, Philip Henry:
Lawyer; born in Westchester, New York,
August 19, 185 1. He was educated at Har
rington's School, and afterward was enter
ed at Yale, where he was graduated as B.A.
(Scroll a.nd Key) in 1873, and he was grad
uated from Columbia Law School, as LL.B.
in 1876 and admitted to the bar in the
same year. He is vestryman and clerk of
St. Peter's Church, Westchester. Mr. Adee
is a member of the Hamonassett Fishing
Association ; the American Museum of Nat
ural Histqry, and the Union, Racquet, Law
yers, University, New York Yacht, and
Larchmont Yacht Clubs of New York City.
He is vice-president of the Country Club
of Westchester and a member of the Tri
ton Fish and Game Club of Canada. ResX
dence : Westchester, New York. Business
address : 45 Pine Street, New York City.
ADELSBERGER, Louis:
Physician; born at Waterloo, Illinois,
February 17, 1862; son of William L. Ad-
elsberger and Cecelia (Raine) Adelsberger.
He was graduated from the Waterloo
High School in 1880, and from the St.
Louis Medical College, now the medical
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St. Louis, Missouri, as M.D. in 1884. He
was an interne of the City Hospital at St.
Louis in 1884 and 1885; resided in New
York City, 1886 to 1890; and visited med
ical schools of London, England in 1890;
since then he has been engaged in the gen
eral practice of medicine at Waterloo, Illi
nois. H is a member and president of the
Illinois State Board of Health from 1897
to 1901 ; has been secretary of the Mon
roe County Auxiliary Board of the Illi
nois State Board of Public Charities since
1901 ; and was a delegate to the Interna
tional Medical Congress at Moscow, Rus
sia, in 1897. He is a member of the Amer
ican Medical Association, the Illinois State
Medical Society and of the Medical Socie
ty of City Hospital Alumni at St. Louis;
secretary of the Monroe County Medical
Society, as well as of various fraternal so
cieties. He is a Republican in politics and
a Catholic in his religious views. Dr. Ad-
elsberger married at] Waterloo, Illinois, No
vember 9, 1891, Adelie B. Hardy (now de
ceased), and was again married, July 3,
1894, to Louise M. Pinkel. He has two
children : Ruth, aged fourteen, and Brans-
ford L., aged twelve. Address : Waterloo,
Monroe County, Illinois.
ADLER, Cyrus:
Archaeologist; born at Van Buren, Ar
kansas, September 13, 1863; son of Samuel
Adler and Sarah (Sulzberger) Adler. Af
ter a careful preparatory education he en
tered the University of Pennsylvania, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1883 and
received the A.M. degree in 1886. He was
scholar, fellow, instructor and associate in
Semitic languages of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity from 1884 to 1893 receiving the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1887. He is assistant
secretary and librarian of the Smithsonian
Institution; curator of the Collection of
Historic Archaeology and Historic Relig
ions in the United States National Mu
seum. He was representative of the Chi
cago Exposition to oriental countries from
1890 to 1892, and represented the United
States at the conference on an Internationl
Catalogue of Scientific Literature at Lon
don in 1898, and is now a member of its

executive committee. He is president of the
American Jewish Historical Society; mem
ber of the American Philosophical Society;
the Archaeological Institute of America;
Washington Academy of Sciences ; Ameri
can Oriental Society, and others. He is
author of numerous papers on oriental,
philological and archaeological subjects, and
American Jewish History; one of the edi
tors of the Jewish Encyclopaedia; editor of
the Jewish Year Book and of the Jefferson
Bible. He was joint author with Allan
Ramsay of, Told in the Coffee House, a
collection of Turkish tales, 1898, and is
author of Jews in the Diplomatic Corres
pondence of the United States, etc. He is
a member of the Cosmos Club of Washing
ton, D. C. ; the University Club of Balti
more; the University Club of Philadelphia,
and the National Arts Club of New York
City. Dr. Adler married Racie Frieden-
wald. Address : The Mendota, Washing
ton, D. C.
ADLER, Felix:
Educator, lecturer; born at Alzey, Ger
many, August 13, 1851; son of Samuel and
'Henrietta (Frankfurter) Adler. He re
ceived his preparatory education at the Col
umbia Grammar School of New York City,
was graduated from Columbia College as
A.B. with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1870,
and at the University of Heidelberg as Ph.-
D., in 1873. He was professor of Semitic
languages and literature at Cornell Uni
versity from 1873 to 1876 ; has been profes
sor of social and political ethics at Colum
bia University since 1902, and he founded
in 1876, and has since been leader of the
Society for Ethical Culture. He was /a
member of the Tenement House Commis
sion in 1886; member of the Committee of
Fifteen, 1898, and member of the Committee
of Fifty on the Drink Question. He is an
Independent in politics, and has been direc
tor and a trustee of the Ethical Culture
School, since 1880, and trustee of the Tene
ment House Building Company, since 1883.
He founded the Ethical Society in Berlin,
Germany, in 1891 ; founded the United Re
lief Works, and first introduced trained
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the head of the Cooperative Colonization
Society from 1878 to 1885. He is author
of, Creed and Deed; The Moral Instruc
tion of Children; Life and Destiny; Mar
riage and Divorce, and Religion of Duty.
Dr. Adler is a member of the City, Author's
and Century Clubs of New York. He mar
ried in Brooklyn, New York, May 24, 1880,
Helen Goldmark, and they have five child
ren. Address : 33 Central Park West, New
York City.
ADNEY, Edwin Tappan:
Artist, author; born at Athens, Ohio,
July 13, 1868; son of Col. William H. G.
Adney, of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry.
He was educated at the University of New
York and one year at the University of
North Carolina. He studied at the Art
Students' League of New York, under
Francis C. Jones and William Sartain in
1885 and 1886. After a trapping, hunting
and sketching expedition to Canadian for
ests, he established a studio in New York
City, contributing drawings and articles to
Harper's Young People and St. Nicholas
Magazine, upon birds, animals and other
outdoor topics; then, for a time, was in
side artist in the Art Department of Har
per & Brothers. He went to Alaska and
the Klondike region where he remained
from October, 1897, to April 1899, as a
special artist and correspondent of Har
per's Weekly and the London Chronicle,
studied mining and social conditions, spend
ing a part of the winter as the only white
man with a band of Indians hunting moose
at the head of the Klondike River. On his
return to New York City, he wrote a com
prehensive account of the discovery of gold
in the Klondike. He was correspondent and
artist of Collier's Weekly at Nome, Alaska,
and was selected as a writer on Resources
for the so-called Trans- Alaska Siberian
Railway, 1905 and 1906. He illustrated
Frank M. Chapman's Birds of Eastern
North America; wrote the Millicete Indian
Natural History for the Transactions of
the Linnaeah Society. He was one of the
first lot of associate members of the Ameri
can Ornithologists' Union, and lecturer for
the American Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Animals. He is a member of
the Haliburton Society of Kings College,
Nova Scotia, and the Arctic Club of New
York City, and was one of the founders
and treasurer from 1904 to 1906, of the ex
plorers' Club of New York. He married
September 12, 1899, Minnie Bell, daughter
of Francis Peabody Sharp, of Woodstock,
New Brunswick, and they have one son,
Francis Glenn. Address : Ohio Society, The
Waldorf-Astoria, New York City.
ADSIT, Charles C:
Stock and bond broker; born in Chicago,
Illinois, July 14, 1855 ; son of James M. and
Arville S. Adsit. Mr. Adsit's father was
the pioneer banker of Chicago. The son
received his primary education in the pub
lic schools of Chicago, and after a course
at the old Chicago University entered Cor
nell, from which institution he was grad
uated with honors. He began his business
career in Chicago with the Merchants' Loan
and Trust Company, in 1877, afterward be
coming receiving teller of the Commercial
National Bank. His next service was with
the Northwestern National Bank of Chicago
as paying teller, where he remained until
1877, when he went into business on his
own account as a denier 'in stocks and
bonds and investment securities. He is a
member of the Chicago Stock Exchange,
of which he has been a director for several
years and of which he was president in 1897
and 1898. He is also a member of the
New York Stock Exchange. He is a mem
ber of the Union Club of Chicago. He was
married in 1890 to Mary B. Ashley, of Louis
ville, Kentucky, and has a son and daughter,
Charles C. and Elizabeth. Office: 224 La
Salle Street. Residence: 45 Belleviie
Place, Chicago, Illinois.
AGAR, John Girard:
Lawyer; born in New Orleans, Louisiana,
June 3, 1856; son of William Agar and
Theresa (Price) Agar. He was graduated
from the preparatory and collegiate depart
ments of Georgetown University, at Wash
ington, D. G, as A.B. in 1876, A.M. in 1888,,
and Ph.D. in 1889; was two years student
in the Roman Catholic University at Ken
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Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1880. He
was admitted to the bar in 1880, and was
assistant United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, in 1881
and 1882. He was chairman of the Cam
paign Committee of the People's Municipal
League, in 1891. He served as lieutenant-
commander and paymaster, also as judge
advocate on the staff of tne captain of the
Naval Militia of New York. He was a
member of the Board of Education of New
York City, from 1896 to 1898, and became
vice-president of the National Civic Fed
eration in 1905. He is a member of the
Southern Society of New York ; the Union,
University, Metropolitan, Lawyers, National
Arts, and Reform Clubs of New York City,
and was president of the latter in 1905
and 1906. He is also a member of the City
Sewanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New York
Yacht, Turf and Field, Catholic, and Rid
ing Clubs of New York City, and the Met
ropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. Mr.
Agar married in New York City, February
18, 1892, Agnes Louise Macdonough. Resi
dence : Fair Oaks, Premium Point, New
Rochelle, New York. Address : 31 Nassau
Street, New York City.
AGASSIZ, Alexander:
Naturalist; born in Neuchatel, Switzer
land, December 17, 1835 ; son of Professor
Louis Agassiz. He came to the United
States in 1846, and was graduated from
Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1855,
and from the Lawrence Scientific School
of the same institution as B.S. in 1857 and
1862. He was an assistant on the United
States Coast Survey in 1859, and superin
tendent of the Calumet and Hecla Copper
Mines on Lake Superior from 1866 to 1869.
He surveyed Lake Titicaca, Peru, in 1875,
and was afterward curator and director,
and is now director emeritus. of the Mu
seum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard
University. He was assistant on the United
States Fish Commission in 1891 ; assisted
Sir Wyville Thompson in the examination
and classification of the collections of The
Challenger expedition ; took part in three
dredging expeditions of the steamer Blake,
of the United States Coast Survey, from

1877 to 1880; the explorations of the coral
reef of the Hawaiian Islands in 1899 ; the
Great Barrier Reef of Australia in 1898;
expedition in the steamers Croydon and
Yaralla in the Fiji Islands in- 1897; deep
sea explorations of the Panamic Region
on the Albatross to the tropical Pacific in
1900; the Eastern Pacific in 1904 and 1905;
explorations of the Florida Reef in 1876,
1882 and 1896 ; of the Bahamas in 1893 ; the
Bermudas in 1894 ; Cuba, Jamaica and other
West Indian Islands, 1876 and 1896. He
received the degrees of LL.D. from Har
vard in 1885, and from Saint Andrew's Uni
versity, Edinburgh, in 1901, and the honor
ary degree of S.D. from the University of
Cambridge in 1887, and from the University
of Bologna in 1888. He is president of
the National Academy of Sciences at Wash
ington; foreign member of the Royal So
cieties of London and Edinburgh; foreign
associate of the Institut de France, Paris;
officier de la Legion d'Honneur; knight of
the Prussian Order of Merit; foreign and
corresponding member of the Academies at
Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Copenhagen,
Munich and Rome and all the leading zo
ological societies. Mr. Agassiz was joint
author (with Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz,
his father's wife) of Seaside Studies in Nat
ural History, 1865, and he is also author of
Marine Animals in Massachusetts Bay,
1871 ; Revision of the Echini, 1872 to 1874 ;
Echini of The Challenger, 1883; Steamer
Blake's Reports, 1888, and many reports on
the expeditions before enumerated and
numerous memoirs on coral reefs, acalephs.
worms, fishes, etc. Address : Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
AGNUS, Felix:
Editor and publisher of the Baltimore
American; born in Lyons, France, July 4,
1839. He received a collegiate education
in France, and spent four years in travel
around the world; served in the war of
Napoleon III. with Austria; came to the
Unitad States in i860, and became a mem
ber of the Fifth New York Zouaves in
1861 ; was promoted second lieutenant for
bravery in saving the life of General Jud
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guished himself in the Peninsular cam
paign, and afterward in Louisiana; was
wounded at Gaines' Mills and at the siege
of Port Hudson; he afterward was pro
moted to major and colonel, serving under
Sheridan; was brevetted brigadier-general
of Volunteers and honorably mustered out
August 22, 1865. He became connected
soon after the war with the Baltimore
American as business manager, and for
years has been the editor and publisher of
that old-established journal. He married
December 13, 1864, Miss Fulton, of Balti-
.more. Address : The Baltimore American,
Baltimore, Maryland.
AHRENS, George H.:
Producer of petroleum; born in New
York City, in September 1844; son of
George Henry and Sarah A. (Waterbury)
Ahrens. He was' educated in the public
schools of New York City. Since 1870 he
has been engaged in oil business, now ope
rating wells in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
West Virginia. Mr. Ahrens married in
1866, Phebe Marsh Ryuo, and they have one
daughter, Abbie Marsh Ahrens, born in
1885. Address : Jamestown, New York.
AIKEN, William Martin:
Architect; born in Charleston, South
Carolina, April 1, 1855; son of Joseph Dan
iel and Ellen Daniel (Martin) Aiken. He
was educated at Charleston, South . Caro
lina, in private schools, at the University
of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, from
1872 to 1874, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, from 1877 to 1879. Taught at
the high school, Charleston, South Caro
lina; University of the South, Sewanee,
Tennessee, in 1874; the Art Academy at
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1893 to 1895, and Col
umbia University at New York City,_ in
1899. He was in the office of H. H. Rich
ardson, Boston, from 1880 to 1882, and with
William R. Emerson in Boston from 1882
to 1884. He practiced architecture in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, from 1886 to 1895; super
vising architect of the Treasury Depart
ment, Washington, D. C, 1895 to 1897,
under appointment from the Hon. John G.
Carlisle; consulting architect, Borough of
Manhattan, New York, in 1901 and 1902,

appointed by Hon. Jacob A. Cantor, and
is now practicing architecture in New York
City. He traveled extensively in the United
States in 1876 and 1895 ; visited Canada in
1876, 1885 and 1896; Cuba and Mexico in
1900, and Europe in 1888 and 1889, 1897
and 1905. While supervising architect of
the Treasury Department, he designed the
United States mints at Philadelphia and at
Denver; the Government Buildings at the
Atlanta Exposition in 1895; the Nashville
Exposition in 1897; the Omaha Exposition
in 1898; also numerous buildings for post
offices, court houses, and custom houses.
While consulting architect for the Borough
of Manhattan, he remodeled the interior
of New York City Hall and New York
County Court House. Since then his most
notable works are the Roper (City) Hos
pital, Charleston, South Carolina; the
Twenty-third Street Public Baths (A. W.
Brunner, associated), in the City of New
York. He is a Democrat in politics and an
Episcopalian in religious affiliation. He be
came an associate in 1886, and has been a
fellow since 1889, of the American Insti
tute of Architects, and has been a member
of the New York Chapter of the same since
1901. He has been a member since 1904,
and secretary from 1905 to 1907 of the
Architectural League of New York. He
has been an honorary member of the Wash
ington Sketch Club, since 1897; member of
the Southern Society since 1901 ; associate
member of the Confederate Veteran Camp
of New York from 1902; Ohio Society from
1905. He is advisory architect to the Board
of Trustees at the University of the South,
and was a member of the Committee to re
vise the building laws of Cincinnati in 1887 ;
assistant superintendent of the Building
Department, Borough of Manhattan in
1901 ; associated with the late Bruce Price
in New York City, 1897 to 1901. He was
a collaborator on Russell Sturgis' Diction
ary of Architecture. His favorite recrea
tions are travel and his library of profes
sional works. Mr. Aiken is a member of
the Century Association of New York.
Residence : 499 Fifth Avenue. Address :
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AIKEN, Wyatt:
Congressman and farmer; born in Abbe
ville County, South Carolina, Decem'bler
14, 1863; son of D. Wyatt Aiken (member
of Congress) and Virginia Caroline Aiken.
He was reared on a farm in Abbeville
County (in that section now embraced in
Greenwood County ; received a common
school education at Cokesbury, South Car
olina, and at Washington, D. C. ; while
there with his father, Hon. D. Wyatt
Aiken, who was representative from the
Third South Carolina District for ten
years. While at Washington he acquired the
art of writing shorthand, and in January,
1884, was appointed an official court sten
ographer in South Carolina, and held the
position for nineteen years. ' He had been a
farmer all his life, and takes a keen in
terest in everything pertaining to agricul
ture. During the war with Spain he was
a soldier in Company A (Abbeville Vol
unteers), First South Carolina Regiment
of Infantry. He never held a political of
fice before his election to Congress, but
has been a delegate to several Democratic
State conventions. He was elected from
the Third South Carolina District to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, in 1902, and re
elected in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses, and is now serv
ing in the latter. He married at Abbe
ville, South Carolina, April 27, 1892, Mary
Barnwell. Address : Abbeville, South Caro
lina.
AIKENS, Andrew Jackson:
Editor; born at Barnard, Vermont, Octo
ber 31, 1830; son of Warren Aikens and
Lydia Aikens. He was educated in private
schools and early became connected with
newspaper work. In 1854 he became city
editor and in 1857 general manager of The
Evening Wisconsin and has ever since been
connected in the same way with that jour
nal, which is the leading evening newspaper
of Milwaukee, and has for many years
been one of the proprietors of the paper.
The firm of Cramer, Aikenc & Cramer, pub
lishing that paper, originated and intro
duced in 1864 the system of printing for
country papers what are nov.' known under

the name of "patent insides," by means of
which many places which could not other
wise support a local journal have been sup
plied with home newspapers. Mr. Aikens
has maintained for his papers a favorite
place with the people of Milwaukee. Adr
dress : The Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.ALXSWORTH, Fred Cray ton:
Major-general of the United States
Army; born at Woodstock, Vermont, Sep
tember 11, 1852. He was educated in the
schools of Vermont, and afterward entered
the Medical Department of the University.
of New York from which he was graduated
as M.D. in 1874. He was appointed from
Vermont as first lieutenant and assistant
surgeon of United States Army, November
10, 1874, promoted to major and surgeon,
February 27, 1891 ; colonel and chief of the
Record and Pension Office, May 27, 1892, to
brigadier-general and chief of the Record
and Pension Office, March 2, 1899, and
major-general and the military secretary of
the army, April 23, 1904. He devised and
introduced the index-record card system
and upwards of 50,000,000 index record
cards have been prepared and placed on
file. He has by his excellent work in this
department effected a valuable saving, by
making the full record of every soldier im
mediately available, and it is estimated that
the Government makes a permanent saving
of not less than half a million dollars by
having adopted the system. Address : War
Department, Washington.
AITKEN, Robert Grant:
Astronomer; born in Jackson, California,
December 31, 1864; son of Robert Aitken
and Wilhelmina (Depinau) Aitken. He
was graduated from Williams College as
A.B. in 1887 and A.M. in 1892 . and. re
ceived the degree of ScD. from the Univer
sity of the Pacific, 1903. He was instruc
tor in mathematics at Livermore College,
California, from 1888 to 1891 ; professor of
mathematics and astronomy at the Univer
sity of the Pacific from 1891 to 1895 ; assis
tant astronomer at Lick Observatory from
1895 to 1907, and became astronomer at
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lished numerous articles in American and
German Astronomical journals, relating to
comets, satellites, double stars, etc., and he
has discovered 1600 new double stars. He
represented Lick Observatory at the Con
gress of Arts and Sciences at Saint Louis
in September, 1904. He has been editor of
the Publications of the Astronomical So
ciety of the Pacific since 1897. He is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; Astronomical
and Astrophysical Society of America; As
tronomical Society of the Pacific ; American
Geographical Society, and is honorary mem
ber of the Mexican Astronomical Society,
etc. He received the Lalande Medal of the
French Academy of Sciences in 1906 for
double star discoveries. He has been pub
lic school trustee since 1897. Dr. Aitken
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and
Sigma Xi societies. His favorite recrea
tions are tennis, golf, fishing. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Congregationalist
in religion. He married at Oakland, Cali
fornia, June 19, 1888, Jessie L. Thomas,
and they have four children : Wilhelmine
E., born in 1889; Robert T., born in 1890;
Malcolm D., born in 1895, and C. Douglas,
born in 1898. Address : Lick Observatory,
Mount Hamilton, California.
AITKEN, William Benford:
Lawyer and bank president ; born in New
York City in 1867; son of William B.
Aitken, and Catherine (Beekman) Aitken.
After a careful preparatory education he
entered Columbia University, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1888, as A.M.
in 1889 and as Ph.D. in 1890. He engaged
in the practice of law, and is now president
of The Bronx Savings Bank and of the
Aitken Construction Company of New
York. He is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York; the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; the So
ciety of Colonial Wars; Sons of Revolu
tion; the New York Genealogical and Bio
graphical Society, and the New York
Athletic Club. Mr. Aitken was married,
first to Nora Colfax, and after her death
to Nora Coote, and he has a daughter
Edith Aitken, born in 1898, and a son,

Beekman Aitken, born in 1905. Address :
312 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York
City.
AKED, Charles Frederic:
Clergyman; born at Nottingham, Eng
land, August 27, 1864; son of Charles Aked
of Nottingham. He was educated in Mr.
J. Lee's Commercial School, the Midland
Baptist College and Nottingham College
at Nottingham, and later received the de
gree of D.D. He was articled to a firm
of auctioneers at Nottingham and was after
ward auctioneer to the Sheriff of Derby
shire until he entered Midland College. He
began his ministry as pastor of a Baptist
Church at_Syston in Leiscestershire, Eng
land, in 1886, and afterward was at St.
Helen's and Earlestown from 1888 to 1890,
in which year he became minister of Pem
broke Chapel, one of the leading Baptist
Churches of Liverpool, England, remain
ing there until called to the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church of New York City, upon
which pastorate he entered in March, 1907.
He has made frequent trips to the United
States, preaching and lecturing, since 1893.
In England he attained a position of much
distinction in his denomination. and in public
affairs. He was vice-president of the United
Kingdom Alliance, one of the founders of
the Passive Resistance League, and War
den-elect of the Midland Baptist College.
He has been an extensive contributor to
the literature of sociology and religion, be
ing author of : Changing Creeds and Social
Struggles; The Courage of the Coward;
numerous pamphlets on ' theological and
social subjects, and also of a weekly issue of
sermons in pamphlet form. His favorite
recreation is cycling and he has made many
great European tours on the wheel, in
France, Germany, Italy, Austria, etc., and
he is also fond of horse-riding. He is a
member of the Reform Club of Liverpool,
England. Dr. Aked married in 1886, Annie,
daughter of James Hithersay, of Ilkeston,
Derbyshire, England. Residence : Central
Park View, 2 West Eighty-sixth Street,
New York City.. Address : The Fifth Ave
nue Baptist Church, 6 West Forty-sixth
Street, New York- City.

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AKELEY, Healy Cady:
Lumberman; born in Stowe, Vermont,
March 16, 1836. He went to Michigan
with his parents, lived on a farm and after
a public school education studied and prac
ticed law until 1863 when he enlisted as a
private in the Second Michigan Cavalry in
which he served until he was mustered out
in 1865, as regimental adjutant; was ap
pointed in 1866 collector of customs of the
district of Michigan, serving until 1881.
He was twice mayor of Grand Haven,
Michigan, and was also interested in lum
ber and other industries there until his re
moval in 1887 to Minneapolis where he
has since been largely engaged in the man
ufacture of lumber, and is now presi
dent of the H. C. Akeley Lumber Com
pany, and director in other corporations.
Address: Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis.
A HERMAN, Alfred:
Forest engineer; born at Cartersville,
Georgia, July 3, 1876 ; son of Amos T. and
Martha (Galloway) Akerman. He was
educated at the University of Georgia
(Franklin College) ; the University of Ber
lin; the University of Tubingen, and Yale
University, and has taken the degrees of
A.B. and M.F. For a time he was identi
fied with Yale University as instructor in
forestry, and subsequently was successively
State forester of Connecticut and State for
ester of Massachusetts. He is now pro
fessor of forest engineering in the Univer
sity of Georgia. He is a member of the
Society of American Foresters, and of the
Century Club, Washington. In politics he
is affiliated with the Democratic party, and
he is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He was married at New Haven, Connecti
cut, October 15, 1902, to Adeline S. Brown,
and has three daughters : Catherine (born
in 1903), Ruth (born in 1905), and Elfreda
(born in 1907). Address: Athens, Georgia.
ALBERS, Homer:
Lawyer; born at Warsaw, Hancock
County, Illinois, February 28, 1863 ; son of
Claus Albers and Rebecca (Knoop) Al-
bers. He was graduated from Central
Wesleyan College with the degree A.B. in
1882, and from Boston University Law
School as LL.B. in 1884, and has since

been engaged in the practice of law in
Boston. He was appointed a justice of the
Superior Court of Massachusetts, in 1903,
but declined the office. For several years
past ' he has been, and still is, a lecturer
in the Boston University Law School, and
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy. He is a director and a member of
the Executive Committee of the Coast
wise Transportation Company, and is a di
rector of the Trinity Copper Company. He
was a member of the Massachusetts State
Ballot Law Commission, from 1899 to 1904.
He is a Republican in politics and a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
and he is a member of the University Club,
the Boston Art Club, and the Brae Burn
Country Club. He married, at Fredonia,
New York, June 26, 1889, Minnie B. Mar
tin. Residence : 84 High Street, Brook-
line, Massachusetts. Office address : 199
Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ALBERTSON, John Augustus:
Manufacturer of metal goods ; born near
Roslyn, Long Island; son of Richard and
Phebe W. (Prior) Albertson. He was edu
cated in the schools of Jamaica, Long Is
land. He has traveled extensively in this
country and Europe. Mr. Albertson is a
director of the Nassau County Bank, and
the Hempstead Harbor Bank. He is a mem
ber of the Board of Education of West-
bury. He is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Albertson married at Westbury, Long Is
land, 1888, Mary W. Willis, and they have
two children, Ethel M. Albertson and Aug
ustus Raymond Albertson. Address : West-
bury, Long Island; New York.
ALBRO, Addis:
Clergyman, educator, lecturer; born in
Middleburgh, Schoharie County, New York,
February 18, 1855; son of William Bliss
Albro and Ann Elizabeth (Wood) Albro.
He was educated at Fort Edward (New
York) Collegiate Institute; Lawrence Uni
versity (1880); B.S. and M.S. (1882);
Union University as LL.B. in 1886. He
pursued several post-graduate courses of
study and he received the degree of D.D.
from Grant University. He taught in the
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eral years and in institutions of higher
grade in Indiana and Rhode Island. He
was a college president and professor from
1879 to 1886; pastor of the First Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Moline, Illinois,
and First Methodist Episcopal Church,
Utica, New York, from 1887 to 1893. He
was an honorary and corresponding mem
ber of the World's Congress Auxiliary
of the World's Columbian Exposition
of 1893. He was field secretary of the
New York State Sabbath Association from
1894 to 1898, and he has been general sec
retary of the American Reform Associa
tion since 1898. Dr. Albro was chaplain of
the Senate of New York in 1893, and chap
lain of the Michigan Military Academy
from 1901 to 1903, He is editor of the
Reform Magazine, and author of: History
of Our Country's Flag; Genealogy of the
Albro Family; and Our Editorial Staff of
United Editors' Encyclopedia. He was
a delegate to the National Republican Con
ventions of 1880 and 1900. He is a Mason,
Scottish Rite, thirty-third degree, and a
Knight Templar; a member of the Baron
ial Order of Runnemede; the Society of
Colonial Wars ; Sons of the American Rev
olution; Founders and Patriots of Ameri
ca; Mayflower Descendants; Descendants
of Colonial Governors; and a member of
the Michigan Club of Detroit. He married
at Schoharie, New York, February, 19,
1878, Mary Alice Scribner (born April 6,
1859, and died August 12, 1905). Of that
union there were five children : Addis Bliss
Albro, of New York City, born March 22,
1879; Iva Dell Albro, born April 20, 1881
(died May 24, 1883) ; Ames Scribner Albro,
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, born October
7, 1882; Ruth Albro, born April 26, 1888,
and Ward Sloan Albro, born September
27, 1889. Address: Detroit, Michigan, and
Claremont, California.
ALDEN, Henry Mills:
Editor, author; born at Mount Tabor,
near Danby, Vermont, November 11, 1836;
son of Ira and Elizabeth Packard (Moore)
Alden. His early education was obtained
in the schools of Hoosick Falls, New York,
after which he entered Williams College,

from which he was graduated with the de
gree of A.B. in 1857, and also received the
degrees of A.M. in i860 and L.H.D. in
1890, and LL.D. in 1907. He was also grad
uated from the Andover Theological Semi
nary in i860, but never took orders. Mr.
Alden was a Lowell Institute lecturer, from
1863 to 1864, on the subject of The Struc
ture of Paganism. He became editor of,
Harper's Weekly from 1863 to 1869, and
has been editor of Harper's Magazine since
1869. Mr. Alden is author of : God and His
World, 1890; A Study of Death, 1895,
and Harper's Pictorial History of the Great
Rebellion (with A. H. Guernsey). Mr.
Alden is a member of the Authors' Club of
New York. He has been twice married,
first in 1861 to Susan Frye Foster, of North
Andover, Mass., by which marriage he has
three daughters, and second in 1900 to Ada
Foster Murray of Norfolk, Virginia. Ad
dress : Care Harper & Brothers, Franklin
Square, New York City.
ALDEN, John Ferris:
Civil engineer, manufacturer; born in
Cohoes, New York, March 19, 1852. He
was graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, at Troy, New York, in 1873. He
is a member of the Alden Kindred of
America, being eighth in direct descent
from John Alden of the Mayflower. He
was principal assistant engineer in the build
ing of railroad bridges over the Hudson
River at Albany, for New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company, 1872 to
1874; principal assistant engineer of Leigh-
ton Bridge and Iron Works from 1874 to
1878, and chief engineer and member of
the company, from 1878 to 1880. He leased
the works with M. Lassig, of Chicago, as
Alden & Lassig, and also erected .and ope
rated bridge works at Chicago, as Lassig
& Alden, from 1880 to 1885 and was sole
proprietor of the Rochester Bridge & Iron
Works at Rochester, New York, from 1885
until he sold it to the American Bridge^
Company in 1901. He has been connected
with the building of many miles of iron and
steel bridge work for our leading railroads.
Mr. Alden is a member of the Rensselaer
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ciety of Civil Engineers, the Rochester
Chamber -of Commerce. He is a director
of the Trader's National Bank, and the
Genesee Valley Trust Company, and presi
dent of the Rochester Securities Company.
He married in June, 1885, Mary E. Bogue,
of Brooklyn, New York. Address : Roch
ester, New York.
ALDEN, William Clinton:
Geologist; born at Mitchell, Iowa, Sep
tember 27, 1871 ; son of Rev. Benjamin D.
Alden and Lydia Martin (Waterman) Al
den. He was educated in the high school
at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and at Cornell
College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, graduating
as A.B. in 1893. He was a graduate stud
ent in geology at the University of Chicago
from 1895 to 1897, a fellow in geology at
the same institution in 1897 and 1898, re
ceiving the degrees of A.M. in 1898 and
Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in 1903. He
was assistant principal of the high school
at Parker, South Dakota, from 1893 to
1894, and principal of schools at Center-
ville, South Dakota, from 1894 to 1895,
special field assistant on the United States
Geological Survey from 1897 to 1901, and
assistant geologist since 1901. He has been
docent in geology at the University of
Chicago since 1903. Dr. Alden is a member
of the Iowa Academy of Science and of the
Geological Society of Washington, the Phi
Beta Kappa Society (Beta of Illinois). He
has followed a special line of scientific in
vestigation in the glacial geology of North
America. He has published numerous
papers on Glacial Geology in the reports
of the United States Geological Survey. Dr.
Alden is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in his religious affiliation. He
married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December
27, 1898, Bess Mae Hollabaugh, and they
have two children : John Herbert Alden,
born in 1889, and Leland Milton, born in
1903. Residence: 4 R Street, Washington,
D. C. Office address : United States Geo
logical Survey, Washington, D. C.
ALDEN, William Livingston:
Author and diplomat; born in Williams-
town, Massachusetts, October 9, 1837. He
was graduated from Jefferson College in

Pennsylvania in 1858. Was admitted to
the New York Bar in i860, and practiced
until 1865, when he engaged in journalism
as editorial writer, and was for twenty
years attached to the editorial staff of the
New York World, the New York Times,
and the Graphic. He was appointed by
President Cleveland in 1885, United States
consul-general at Rome and served as such
until 1889, then became editorial writer on
the Paris Herald from 1890 to 1893, and
since then has been resident in London. He
is author of Domestic Explosives, 1877;
Canoe and Flying Proa, 1878; Shooting
Stars, 1878; Life of Christopher Columbus,
1881; Moral Pirates, 1881 ; Cruise of the
Ghost, 1882; Cruise of the Canoe Club,
1883 ; Adventures of Jimmy Brown, 1885 ;
New Robinson Crusoe, 1888 ; Loss of the
Swansea, 1889; Trying to Find Europe,
1890; A Lost Soul, 1892; Told by the Col
onel, 1893; Among the Freaks, 1896; The
Mystery of Elias G. Roebuck, 1896; His
Daughter, 1897; Van Wagener's Ways,
1898; Drewitt's Dream, 1901; Cat Tales,
1905. His favorite recreations are cycl
ing, golf, photography. He is a member of
the Authors' Club. Mr. Alden received
from the King, the decoration of Knight
of the Crown of Italy, in 1890. He mar
ried in 1865, Agnes M. McClure. Address :
61 Cloudesdale Road, London, S. W., Eng
land. ALDERMAN, Edwin Anderson :
President of the University of Virginia;
born in Wilmington, North Carolina, May
15, 1861; son of James Alderman and
Susan J. Alderman. He was graduated
from the University of North Carolina as
Ph.B. in 1882; was superintendent of
the Goldsboro city schools from 1884 to
1887, and was assistant State superintendent
of North Carolina from 1889 to 1892; pro
fessor of English in the State Normal Col
lege in 1892, and in the same year professor
of pedagogy in the University of North
Carolina, of which he became president
in 1896. He was president of the Tu-
lane University of Louisiana from
April, 1900, until he was called in 1904 to
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ginia. He received in 1898 the degrees of
D.C.L. from the University of the South
and of LL.D. from Tulane University of
Louisiana, and has also received the LL.D.
degree from the Johns Hopkins University
in 1902. Dr. Alderman is a member of the
Southern Education Board, and is regarded
as one of the leading authorities on peda
gogical questions. He is author of : A
School History of North Carolina; and of
a volume of biography of William Hooper,
signer of the Declaration of Independence;
and he is well known as a speaker and
lecturer on professional and historical sub
jects. Address: Charlottesville, Virginia.
ALDEESOX, Victor Clifton
President of the Colorado School of
Mines, Golden, Colorado; born at Ply
mouth, Massachusetts, June 4, 1863; son of
Andrew P. and Sarah P. (Sears) Alder-
son. He was educated at Harvard Uni
versity, received the degree A.B., summa
cum laude in 1885; he received the degree
ScD. from Beloit College in 1903, and the
ScD. from the American Institute of Tech
nology in 1903. He was engaged in teach
ing at the Englewood High School
from 1887 to 1893; he was professor
of mathematics at the .American In
stitute of Technology for six years,
and dean in the same institution for
four years, he was appointed to his present
position in 1903. He spent two years in
European travel, studying the relation be
tween industrial prosperity and technical
education. He is a fellow of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, a member of the. Society for the
promotion of English Education, a
member of the National Geographical So
ciety, a member of the Delta Upsilon fra
ternity, a member of the Society of May
flower Descendants, and of the Denver and
University Clubs of Denver. He is a
writer and speaker on educational subjects,
chiefly the need of technical education for
industrial supremacy. He married at Chi
cago, July 28, 1904, Nellie P. Bryant and
they have one daughter. Residence:
Golden, Colorado.

ALDERTON, Henry Arnold:
Physician and surgeon; born in New
York City, December 28, 1863; son of
Henry Alderton and Mary Amelia (Gib-
bins) Alderton. He was educated at the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and at the
Medical Department of Columbia Univer
sity (College of Physicians and Surgeons),
graduating as M.D., in 1885; and he took
a post-graduate course at the University of
Berlin in 1890 and 1891. After his medical
graduation he was interne of St. Joseph's
Hospital, Paterson, N. J. ; then was in- gen
eral practice in Brooklyn until 1890. Since'
1891 he has been in special practice in
Brooklyn as surgeon of the ear, nose and
throat. He is aural surgeon to the Brook
lyn Eye and Ear Hospital, the Kings
County Hospital, and the Bushwick Hos
pital ; surgeon to the Ear, Nose and Throat
Department of Nassau Hospital ; visiting
aural surgeon to the Kingston Avenue Hos
pital for Contagious Diseases, Brooklyn;
consulting surgeon to the Ear, Nose and
Throat Department of St. Joseph's Hospi
tal, Far Rockaway, and chief of the aural
clinic of Long Island Medical College. He
is a member of the American Medical As
sociation; the American Otological Society;
the New York Otological Society; the
Kings County Medical Society; the Amer
ican Laryngological, Rhinological and Oto
logical Society, and is a fellow of the Long
Island Medical Society. Address : 142
Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York.
ALDRICH, Edgar:
Jurist; born at Pittsburg, New Hamp
shire, in 1848. He was educated at Cole-
brook Academy, and was graduated from
the University of Michigan as LL.B. in
1868. He was admitted to the New Hamp
shire Bar in August, 1868, practiced law at
Colebrook, New Hampshire, until 1881,
and then at Littleton, New Hampshire, un
til 1891. He was solicitor of Coos County,
New Hampshire, from 1872 to 1874, and
from 1876 to 1879, and he was a member
and speaker of the New Hampshire Legis
lature in 1885. In 1891 he was appointed
to his present position as United States
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Judge Aldrich was a member of the New
Hampshire Constitutional Convention in
1902. He received the degrees of A.M. in
1891 and LL.D. in 1901 from Dartmouth
College, and the degree of LL.D. from
Michigan University in 1907. He married
in 1872, Louise M. Remick. Address : Lit
tleton, New Hampshire.
ALDRICH, Nelson Wilmarth:
United States Senator; born at Foster,
Rhode Island, November 6, 1841. He re
ceived an academic education, and is en
gaged in mercantile pursuits. He has been
an active Republican from his first vote;
was president of the Providence Common
Council from 1871 to 1873; was a member
of the Rhode Island Legislature in 1875
and 1876, and its speaker in 1876. He was
elected a member of Congress in 1878, and
reelected in 1880, but resigned from the
Forty-seventh Congress, having been elec
ted October 5, 1881, as United States Sen
ator from Rhode Island. He was reelected
in 1888, in 1892, in 1898 and 1905, and his
present term will expire March 3, 191 1. He
is chairman of Committee on Finance, and
Republican leader in Senate. Address :
Providence, Rhode Island.
ALDRICH, Samuel Nelson:
Born in Upton, Massachusetts, February
3, 1839; son of Slyvanus Bucklin and Lucy
Jane (Stoddard) Aldrich. He was educated
in the Worcester and Southington, Conn.,
academies, and at Brown University. After
graduation he taught school for a while in
Upton, Holliston, and Worcester, and then
began the study of law with Isaac Davis
and E- B. Stoddard, of Worcester, finish
ing in the Harvard Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in 1863, and opened his
first office in Marlborough. In 1874 he
moved his business to Boston, retaining
his residence in Marlborough, however, liv
ing in the city during the winter months.
In Marlborough he was for nine years a
member of the school committee, and four
years chairman of the board of selectmen;
he has been a director of the People's Nat
ional Bank; president of the Marlborough
Board of Trade, and president of the old
Framingham & Lowell Railroad ; and he is

now president of the Central Massachu
setts Railroad. He was a member of the
State senate of Massachusetts in 1879 and
1880, serving the first term on the Commit
tees on Taxation (chairman), on consti
tutional amendments, and on bills in the
third reading; and second term on the com
mittee on the judiciary; and in 1883 he was
a member of the House, serving again on
the committee on the judiciary. In 1880
he was the Democratic candidate for Con
gress in the old Seventh District. In
March, 1887, he was appointed by President
Cleveland assistant treasurer of the United
States in Boston, which position he re
signed January 15, 1891, when he was suc
ceeded by M. P. Kennard, appointed by
President Harrison. On December 15, 1890
he was elected president of the State Nat
ional Bank of Boston, in which position he
continues. Mr. Aldrich was married in 1865,
at Upton, to Miss Mary J., daughter of
J. T. Macfarland. They have one son,
Harry M. Aldrich. Residence : 28 Newbury
Street, Boston. Office address : 50 Con
gress Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ALEXANDER, De Alva Stanwood:
Congressman, lawyer; born at Richmond,
Maine, July 17, 1846; son of Stanwood
Alexander and Priscilla (Brown) Alex
ander. He entered the Union Army at
the age of fifteen, serving for three years
as a private soldier from 1862 to 1865.
He was prepared for college at Edward
Little Institute, Auburn, Maine, and was
graduated from Bowdoin College as A.
B. in 1870, and A.M. in 1873, and received
from the same college the honorary de
gree of LL.D. -He located at Indianapolis.
Indiana, where he engaged in law practice
as a partner of Hon. Stanton J. Peelle,
now chief justice of the Court of Claims
at Washington, District Columbia. He was
a delegate to the National Republican Con
vention in 1872; secretary of the Indiana
Republican State Committee from 1874 to
1878; and he was appointed in 1881, fifth
auditor of the Treasury, and while in
Washington was for one term Commander
of the Department of the Potomac of the
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to Buffalo and became law partner of his
college classate, Hon. James A. Roberts,
formerly comptroller of the State of New
York. He was appointed United States
attorney for the Northern District of New
York, serving from 1889 to 1903. He was
elected as a member of the Fifty-fifth Con
gress from the Thirty-third New York
District in 1896 and was reelected from
that district in 1898 and 1900, and in 1902,
1904 and 1906 from the Thirty-sixth New
York District and is now serving in the
Sixtieth Congress. He is a Republican in
politics, and a Presbyterian in religion,
and is a member of the Delta Kappa Ep-
silon fraternity, and overseer of Bowdoin
College. He is author of Political History
of the State of New York (two volumes).
Mr. Alexander is a member of the Buffalo
University, and Liberal Clubs of Buffalo.
Mr. Alexander has been twice married:
.first, September 21, 1871, to Alice Colby,
and second, December 28, 1892, to Annie
L. Bliss. Address: 31 North Street, Buf
falo, New York.
ALEXANDER, James Waddel:
Former president of the Equitable As
surance Society of the United States ; bom
in Princeton, New Jersey, July 19, 1839;
son of Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, pas
tor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, of New York City. He was grad
uated from Princeton, as A.B. in i860, and
later as A.M.; was admitted to the New
York Bar, in 1862, and practiced law until
1866. After that he was in the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the United States,
becoming president on the death of Henry
B. Hyde, and so continuing until his resig
nation in 1905. He is a trustee of Prince
ton University; and was formerly president
of the Society of the Virginians. He is
author of, Princeton, Old and New, 1898.
Mr. Alexander is a member of the Cen
tury Association, and a member and was
president eight years of the University Club
of New York City, and a member and was
president for six years of the Princeton
Club of New York City. He married at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, November 24, 1862,

Elizabeth Beasley Williamson. Address : 4
East 64th Street, New York City.
ALEXANDER, John White:
Artist; san of John and Fanny (Smith)
Alexander; born October 7, 1856, in Alle
gheny City, Pennsylvania. He received his
art education at the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts, Munich; and he received the
degree of A.M. from Princeton University
in 1892. In 1897 he received a gold medal
from the Academy of Fine Arts in Phila
delphia, and from the Paris Exposition in
1900; also in 1901 from the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo. He is Chevalier of
the Legion d'Honneur, Societaire of the
Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, is a
National Academician of the National
Academy of Design, elected in 1902; mem
ber of the Society of American Artists, Fine
Arts Federation of New York; Fine Arts
Society of New York; Architectural
League ; Society of Mural Painters ; Nat
ional Institute of Arts and Letters; Societe
Nouvelle of Paris; International Society
of London; honorary member of the So
ciety of Austrian Painters, and honorary
member of the Secession of Munich. He
received a medal from the Munich Royal
Academy of Fine Arts, a gold medal from
the Paris Exposition of 1900; gold medal
from the Pan-American Exhibition, Buf
falo, 1901 ; the Temple Gold Medal and
Gold Medal of Honor of the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts ; first Carnegie prize
of the Society of American Artists ; first
prize of the Corcoran Gallery Exhibition at
Washington, and the Lippincott Prize of the
Philadelphia Academy. The names of his
paintings in public museums follow: The
Pet of Basil, Museum of Fine Arts, Bos
ton; A Quiet Hour, Pennsylvania Acad
emy; Portrait of Fritz Thaulow, Wilstach
Collection; Portrait of Rodin, Cincinnati
Museum; Woman in Grey, Luxembourg
Gallery, Paris ; The Mirror, St. Petersburg
Gallery; The Black Cat, Odessa Gallery;
series of decorations illustrating the Evo
lution of the Book, Library of Congress,
Washington ; Portrait of Governor Norton,
City Hall, Albany. He is also represented
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at New York, Princeton University, Har
vard University, Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh and in many private collections ; also
Portrait of Walt Whitman in the Metropol
itan Museum of Art in New York City and
Portrait of President Loubet, at the Elysee
Palace, Paris. Mr. Alexander married, No
vember 2, 1887, Elizabeth Alexander. Resi
dence: 116 East Sixty-fifth Street. Studio:
123 East Sixty-third Street, New York
City.
ALEXANDER, Lawrence D. :
Stockbroker; born in Meade County,
Kentucky; son of Junius B. Alexander and
Lucy Fitzhugh (Dade) Alexander. He was
educated at Washington University, St.
Louis, and at Jefferson College, Pennsyl
vania, as A.B. from -1864. He has been en
gaged in the banking- and Stock Exchange
business from 1866. He is an Independent
in politics, and a Presbyterian in his re
ligious affiliation. He is a member of the
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity; the Sons of
the Revolution; the Century Association;
the Players' Club of New York; The Ken-
tuckians ; The Virginians, and the Country
Club of New Canaan, Connecticut. Mr.
Alexander married, in New York City,
June 12, 1866, Orline St. John, and they
have three children : St. John, Orline Lucy
and Lawrence D. Alexander, Jr. Residence:
222 West Twenty-third Street, New York
City. Office address : 20 Broad Street, New
York City.
ALEXANDER, Samuel:
Surgeon; born in New York City, April
2, 1858; son of Henry M. Alexander and
Susan Mary (Brown) Alexander. He was
graduated from Princeton University as
A.B. in 1879, and A.M. in 1882, and from
Bellevue Hospital Medical College as M.D.
in 1882. He served as house physician to
Bellevue Hospital, 1882 to 1883 ; studied at
London, Leipzig and Vienna in 1883; was
appointed attending surgeon at Bellevue
Hospital in 1888; professor of surgery of
the genito-urinary system at Bellevue Hos
pital Medical College in 1889, and profes
sor of clinical surgery in the department of
Genito-Urinary Diseases at Cornell Uni
versity Medical College from 1900. He is

a fellow of the American Medical Associa
tion, the New York Academy of Medicine,
the American Association of Genito-Urin
ary Surgeons, and the Society of Alumni
of Bellevue Hospital. He is also a mem
ber of the University and Princeton Clubs
of New York City. Address: 68 West
Fifty-^fth Street, New York City.
ALEXANDER, William DeWitt:
.Ethnologist; born in Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, April 2, 1833; son of William
Patterson Alexander, of Paris, Kentucky,
and Mary Ann (McKinney) Alexander. He
was educated at the Punahou School until
1849, and in November of that year sailed
for New Bedford, Massachusetts, via Cape
Horn. He made his home for several
years with Rev. W. R. DeWitt, D.D.,' at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania/, and entered Yale
College in the fall of 1850. He lost the
second year by sickness in Kentucky, but
was graduated from Yale College as B. A.
and salutatorian in 1855, and received from
Yale the degrees of ^I.A. in 1858, and of
LL.D. in 1903. He taught for' a year in
Beloit College, Wisconsin, and after that
in an academy in Vincennes, Indiana, and
he returned to the Hawaiian Islands in
1858, via Panama. He was professor of
Greek in Oahu College from 1858 to 1864,
and its president from 1864 to 187 1, and
has been a trustee of that same institution
since 1875. He was surveyor-general of
the Hawaiian Islands from 1871 to, 1900,
and since 1901 has been an assistant in the
United States Coast and Geodetic. Survey.
In 1878 he accompanied his brother on a
trip through Europe, Palestine and Egypt.
He went to Washington as a commissioner
from the Kingdom of Hawaii as a commis
sioner to the International Meridian Con
ference in 1884, and again for the Republic
of Hawaii in 1893 and 1894. He is presi
dent of the Honolulu Public Library, and
he is a strong advocate of the Tarrens
system of land registration. He was a
member of the Hawaiian Privy Council
from 1884 to 1893, and of the Board of
Education of Honolulu from 1887 to 1905,
and he was decorated with the Order of
Kalakaua in 1884. He is distinguished for
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languages and ethnology of Polynesia, and
particularly of the Hawaiin Islands, and
the folk-lore and ancient polity of that re
gion. In politics he is an anti-saloon Re
publican, and he is a Presbyterian in re
ligious belief and a member of the Board of
the Hawaiian Evangelical Assocition. Dr.
Alexander is a member of the Social Science
Association; the Polynesian Society; the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific; the
Royal Geographical Society of London;
Washington Academy of Sciences, and the
Hawaiian Historical Society, and of the
Honolulu University Club. He married at
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, July 16,
i860, Abigail Charlotte Baldwin, and by
that marriage there are four children : Wil
liam Douglas, born in 1861 ; Arthur Cham
bers, born in 1864; Mary Charlotte, born in
1873, and Agnes, born in 1876. Address :
1508 Punahou Street, Honolulu, T. H.
ALGER, Philip R.:
Professor of mathematics, with rank of
captain United States Navy. He was born
in Massachusetts ; appointed at large, to
the United Sattes Navy and entered the
- service November, 1890. He is now sta
tioned at the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Maryland. He is editor of
the Naval Proceedings Institute Magazine.
He is married and has five children. Ad
dress : United States Naval Academy, Ann
apolis, Md.
ALGER, William E. :
Consular officer ; appointed consular agent
at Puerto Cortes, January 9, 1891; pro
moted to Consul March 31, 1902; appointed
Consul at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Novem
ber 10, 1904. Address: Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras. ALLEN, Addison:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 28, 1865 ; son of John Hull Allen and
Mary (Hill) Allen. He is a lineal descend
ant of General Ethan Allen, Lord Cad-
wallader Blayney and of the Right Hon.
Joseph Addison. He was educated at Leon
ard Academy, from 1872 to 1875; at the
Essex County Grammar School, New Jer
sey, fronTi875 to 1879; at the New York
School of Languages, from 1879 to 1884 ; at

Amherst College from 1884 to 1887, and
Columbia University from 1887 to 1890,
graduating with the M.A., LL.B. (cum
laude) and Ph.D. degrees. He was admitted
to the New York Bar, May 16, 1889. He
traveled through every country of Europe
and Western Asia, from 1889 to 1891, and
since 1891 has been practicing law. He is a
Republican in politics and has spoken on
stump in every presidential and most- mun
icipal campaigns since 1884. He is an
Episcopalian in his religious views. Mr.
Allen is a member of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science;
the Columbia College Alumni Association,
and Dwight Alumni Association; the So
ciety of Sons of American Revolution.
He is a contributor to The Educator; The
Sag Harbor Express and other magazines
and periodicals, and also has contributed
various articles on European Travel, and
lectured for the New York Board of Edu
cation and others on the countries of Eu
rope. He is a member of the Alpha Delta
Phi; University, and Quill Clubs of New
York City. Mr. Allen married June 26,
1901, Sarah Edith Kutz, of Reading, Penn
sylvania. Residence : 300 Central Park,
West. Address: 111 Broadway, New York
City.ALLEN, Amos Lawrence:
Lawyer and member of Congress; born
at Waterboro, York County, Maine, March
17, 1837. He received his early education
in the common schools, entered Whites-
town Seminary, at Whitestown, New York,
in 1853, and from there entered the Sopho
more class of Bowdoin College, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in i860. He
studied law at Alfred, Maine, and after
ward attended the Law School of Colum
bian (now George Washington) University.
He was admitted to the bar at York County
Maine, in 1866; was a clerk in the United
States Teasury Department, three years;
clerk of the courts of York County, Maine,
from 1870 to 1883 ; clerk of the judiciary
committee of the United States House of
Representatives, in 1883 to 1884; special
examiner of the pension bureau in 1884 and
1885; member of the Maine legislature,
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ber of the committee on resolutions of the
Republican National Convention at St.
Louis, 1896; private secretary to Speaker
Thomas B. Reed, 1893 to 1896. In 1899
he was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, and he has been
elected biennially since and is now serving
in the Sixtieth Congress. He is a Repub
lican. Home : Alfred, Maine.
ALLEN, Andrew Aniel:
Vice-president and general manager of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway;
born at Monmouth, Warren County, Illi
nois, in 1855. He was educated in the com
mon schools and entered railway services
in 1869 as a telegraph messenger with the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad,
with which he was consecutively assistant
operator, operator and clerk until 1872.
He then became ticket agent and operator,
assistant train dispatcher and train dis
patcher, Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rail
way from 1872 to 1880; city ticket agent
at Chicago and train master at Peoria, of
the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway
from 1880 to 1882; division superintendent,
general superintendent, assistant to general
manager and assjstant general manager, of
the Wisconsin Central Railway from 1882
to 1889 ; general manager of the Chicago
and Northern Pacific and Chicago and Cal
umet Terminal Railroads 1889 to 1892;
superintendent of construction of the Ev
erett and Monte Christo Railroad from
1892 to 1893, and since 1893 with the Miss
ouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company,
as general superintendent, assistant general
manager and vice-president and general
manager. Address : St. Louis, Missouri.
ALLEN, Andrew Hussey:
Lawyer and author; born in New York
City, December 6, 1855 ; son of Julian Allen
and Mary A. (Hussey) Allen. He was
educated at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., and at Harvard College, graduating
with the degree of A.B., and at the Law
School of Columbia College, New York.
Mr. Allen was admitted to the bar in
North Carolina, in 1888, and has filled
various non-political positions in the pub

lic service. He was chief of the Bureau
of Rolls and Library of the Department of
State of the United States for thirteen
years; a member of the United States
Board on Geographic Names for eleven
years; and was chairman, secretary, and
member of the Executive Committee of that
board at different times. He inaugurated
and edited the Bulletin of the Bureau of
Rolls and Library; edited the Documentary
History of the Constitution of the United
States in five .volumes ; and is author of:
The Diplomatic Relations between the
United States and Hawaii ; Recognition of
Foreign Governments by the Government
of the United States; and, Historical Arch
ives of the Department of State of the
United States. Mr. Allen has contributed
verse, etc., to magazines; was a member of
the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune
for some months, and resigned from public
service December 2, 1905. Mr. Allen is
a Republican in politics and an Episco
palian in his religious affiliation. He is a
member of the American Historical Asso
ciation, the Society of Authors, and other
associations. He was treasurer and one
of the organizers of the Harvard Club
of Washington, D. C, 'and was a member
of the Metropolitan Club and Washing
ton Golf Club of the same city, but re
signed. He has been a member of the
University Club of Washington, D. C,
since its organization. Mr. Allen is now
engaged in literary work. Address (mail) :
Care of the Second National Bank of
New York City, New York City.
ALLEN, Charles Dexter:
Author ; born at Windsor Locks, Connec
ticut, in May, 1865; son of B. Rowland
Allen and Annie. Pierson (Dexter) Allen.
He was educated in private, common and
high schools of Hartford, Connecticut. He
was engaged for twenty years as a banker
and ten years as writer, editorial critic,
etc. He is a member of the American Li
brary Association; the American Biblio
graphical Society, and the Ex-Libris So
ciety of London. Mr. Allen is a Republican
in politics. His favorite recreations are
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American Book Plates (New York and
London, 1894), and several other books on
book plates, and he is a contributor to mag
azines, papers, encyclopaedias, etc. Mr.
Allen was a member of . the International
Jury of Awards of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition in 1904 (Department of Books,
Bindings, etc.). He is a member of the
Authors', Grolier and National Arts Clubs
of New York City; the Marine and Field
Club of Brooklyn; the Odd Volumes Club
of Boston, and the Defob Club of Chicago.
Mr. Allen married at Hartford, Connecti
cut, in 1890,- Frances Louise Clark, and
• they have two children : Sylvia and Bar
bara. Address: 1144 Eighty-third Street,
Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York.
ALLEN, Charles Herbert:
Banker; born in Lowell, Massachusetts,
April 15, 1848; son of Otis and Louise
(Bixby) Allen. He was graduated from
Amherst College in 1869, the degree of
A.M. being later conferred upon him, and
in 1900 he received the degree of LL.D.
from his alma mater. Mr. Allen's early
business life was spent as a lumber mer
chant at Lowell, and while so engaged was
elected a member of the Massachusetts
General Court, 1881 to 1882 ; member of the
Massachusetts State Senate, 1883 ; was
elected member of Congress, 1884, and ser
ved two terms, holding important place on
the committees on Indian Affairs and Post
Offices. He was the Republican candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts in 1891,
but defeated by a small majority by Gov
ernor Russell. He succeeded Theodore
Roosevelt as' assistant secretary of the
Navy, 1898, and served during the exacting
period of the war with Spain; was, in
1900, made first Civil Governor of Porto
Rico under American authority, and or
ganized the new government, and for these
services was offered by President McKin-
ley the choice of several diplomatic appoint
ments, but preferred to return to private
life. Since 1902 he has been president of
the Appleton National Bank at Lowell, and
since February 1904, vice-president and di
rector of the Morton Trust Company, in
New York City. He is also director of the

National Bank of Commerce, and the
American Surety Company, and vice-presi
dent and director of the Washington Life
Insurance Company. He is a trustee of
Amherst College of Amherst, Massachu
setts, and of Smith College, at Northamp
ton, Massachusetts. He is a member of the
Union Club, of Boston, the Metropolitan
Club of Washington; the Yorick and Ves
per Clubs of Lowell, Massachusetts, and
the Metropolitan and University Clubs of
New York. Mr. Allen married, Novem
ber 10, 1870, Harriet Coleman Dean, and
by that union has two daughters. Resi
dence: no East Thirty-fifth Street, New
York. Office address : 38 Nassau Street,
New York.
AlMN, Charles Julius:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in Buffalo, New York, January 31,
1840; son of Charles H. and Melissa (Kis-
sam) Allen. He attended various schools
and was clerk in a bank and in a commis
sion house prior to being appointed, July 1,
i860, the United States Military Academy,
from New York State, graduating from the
Academy, June n, 1864. General Allen
began his military career in the New York
State Uniformed Militia (afterward etyled
National Guard), in which he served from
1856 to i860, and on graduation from West
Point, was appointed first lieutenant of the
Corps of Engineers, June 13, 1864, becoming
captain, March 7, 1867; major, January 10,
1883; promoted lieutenant-colonel, Feb
ruary 5, 1897; brigadier-general United
States Army, January 22, 1904, and retired
from active service January 23, 1904, at
own request, after forty years of contin
uous service. He was brevetted captain,
August 24, 1864, for highly meritorius ser
vices , in the sieges of Forts Gaines and
Morgan, Alabama; and brevetted major.
March 26, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
services during the campaign against city of
Mobile and its defences. He served in Civil
War, 1864 to 1866, in the Military Division
of West Mississippi, and in Department of
Louisiana; engaged in the siege and cap
ture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama ;
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Mississippi, in reconnaissances and pre
paratory operations for the Mobile cam
paign of March and April 1865; was act
ing chief engineer of the 16th Army Corps
at the Siege of Spanish Fort and recon
naissances in the' vicinity of Fort Blakely,
Alabama, and in erecting heavy batteries
against Forts Huger and Tracy, in Mobile
Bay, and also during the march of the
Corps to Montgomery, Ala. He was in
charge of the defences' of Mobile, and from
June 1 to August 5, 1865, was chief engi
neer of the Army of Observation on the
Rio Grande, in Texas. He was thrice com
mended in official reports by superiors in
the field, including his corps and division
commanders. He drilled and instructed
part of the Missouri Provisional Militia or
ganized by citizens of St. Louis, in 1877,
and from 1866 until retirement was con
tinuously engaged on construction of for
tifications, on works for improvement of
rivers and harbors, and construction of
bridges, piers, dikes, dams, river locks,
reservoirs, and on boards of engineer offi
cers on important works,- and he was chair
man of the Board of Engineer Officers and
of Architects to recommend plans for the
proposed Memorial -Bridge- across the Po
tomac River. During, the Spanish-Ameri
can War of 1898 he was in charge of the
defences of Washington, D. C. Since re
tirement he has been engaged as a civil
engineer at Washington. General Allen is
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States ; the
Military Service Institution, and the As
sociation of Graduates of the Military Ac
ademy of West Point and he is an associate
member of the United States Cavalry As
sociation, etc. General Allen married at
Rock Island, 111., January 20, 1869, Eliza
beth Wallbridge Cleveland, of Des Moines,
Iowa, and of this union they have four
children : Philip Cleveland (born December
20, 1869) ; George Wall Wallbridge (born
December 23, 1871) ; Charles Kissam (born
December 3, 1876), and Grace Elizabeth
(born September 16, 1886). Address: 1753
P Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

ALLEN, Chauncey Lnomls:
Electric railway manager and engineer;
born in Syracuse, N. Y., January 16, 1870;
son of George Richmond Allen and Mary
(Brown) Allen. He was educated at Al
fred and Syracuse Universities, and later
received from Alfred University the honor
ary degree of M.S. He began his pro
fessional career with the Norfolk "and West
ern Railroad from February, 1890, to Feb
ruary 15, 1892, and in general engineering
practice from February, 1892, to April, 1895 ;
engineer and manager of the electric railway
properties in Syracuse from April, 1895, to
January 1, 1900; manager of the Interurban
Line, Lorain, Ohio, from January I, 1900, to
July 1, 1901. Since July 1, 1901, he has
been engineer and manager of the Utica
and Mohawk Valley Railway Company, the
Oneida Railway Company, and the Rome
City Street Railway Company. During
1906 and 1907 the West Shore Railroad
between the City Line of Utica and the
Lity Line of Syracuse was equipped with
electricity, the Oneida Railway Company
having obtained a lease for the use of this
portion of the West Shore Railroad. The
work of equipping this West Shore elec
trically was executed under Mr. Allen's
direction. On December 1, 1906, he was
elected a vice-president of the Utica and
Mohawk Valley Railway Company, the
Oneida Railway Company, and the Rome
City Street Railway Company, and in ad
dition vice-president and general manager
of the Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway
Company. Mr. Allen is a Republican in
politics, and a Presbyterian in his religious
affiliation, and is a member of the Masonic
order. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers; an associate
member of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, and a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is a
member of the Fort Schuyler Club of
Utica, the Transportation Club of New
York City, and the Engineers' Club of New
York City. Mr. Allen married in Syra
cuse, New York, October 11, 1894; Flor
ence R. Worcester, and they have one son :
Alfred George Allen. Address: Utica,
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ALLEN, E Livingston:
Clergyman; born in Paterson, New Jer
sey, July 16, 1846; son of Henry R. Allen
and Eleanor (Livingsworth) Allen. He
was educated at Rutgers College and Drew
Theological Seminary at Madison, New
Jersey, and he later received the honorary
degree of AM. from Taylor University and
of D.D. from Franklin College. He served
in the Civil War as sergeant of the Thir
teenth New Jersey Volunteers, and after
the war was a printer, reporter and editor.
He has been for the last thirty-one years
in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is now pastor at Buchanan,
New York. He was chaplain of the New
York State Senate in 1886 and 1887; chap
lain of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Department of New York, in 1885; chap
lain of the Veteran Association of the Thir
teenth New Jersey Volunteers, and com
mander of the New York Conference War
Veterans' Association. He is an honorary
member of the Officers' Association of the
One Hundred and Fiftieth New York
Volunteers and of the One Hundred and
Forty-third New York Volunteers Vet
erans' Association. In politics Dr. Allen is
an Independent Republican. He is a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic;
Neppechan Lodge, No. 436, F. & A. M.,
Yonkers, New York; R. ¦ • W. • ; ¦, Past
Grand Chaplain; Royal Arch and Knight-
Templar ; also thirty-second degree ; he is an
Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a
Past Worthy Grand Templar of the Inde
pendent Order of Good Templars. Dr.
Allen's favorite recreation is trout fishing.
He married at Paterson, New Jersey, Aug
ust 11, 1866, Maggie E. Post, and of that
union there have been four children: T.
May (now deceased), who married H. C.
Tillson; Edward G, born in 1876; Living
ston C, born in 1879, and Grayce C, born
in 1883, who married C. D. Dykeman. Ad
dress: Buchanan, New York. Summer
residence: "Kamp Kumfurt," Willow, Ul
ster County, New York.
ALLEN, Edwin West:
Chemist and editor; born at Amherst,
Massachusetts, October 28, 1864; son of

L. H. Allen and Mary M. (Bullard)
Allen. He was graduated from Massachu
setts Agricultural College as B. S. in 1885,
and was assistant chemist of the Massachu
setts Experimental Station from 1885 to
1888, with post-graduate work; and was
a student at the University of Gottingen
from 1888 to 1890, receiving the degree of
Ph.D., in 1890. Dr. Allen entered the
United States Deartment of Agriculture
soon after the establishment of the Fed
eral System of experiment stations, as as
sistant in the Office of Experiment Stations
and assistant editor of Experiment Station
Record; and since 1894 has been editor of
that journal and assistant director of the
office, in charge of the inspection of the ex
periment stations. He has traveled in Eu
rope and throughout the United States
studying the experiment stations and their
organization and work. He is a member
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, the American Chem
ical Society, the Society for the Promo
tion of Agricultural Science, etc. He has
written quite extensively on agricultural
research, the organization of the experiment
stations, the development of agricultural
education, etc., He is a member of the
Cosmos Club of Washington. Dr. Allen
married at Amherst, Massachusetts, April
2, 1891, Estelle Standish Perkins, and they
have a daughter Dorothy Helen Allen,
born in 1895. Residence : 1923 Biltmore
Street, Washington, D. C. Office address :
United States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
ALLEN, Frederick Hobbes:
Lawyer; born in Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands; son of Hon. Elisha Hunt Allen,
M.C. (also chief justice of the Hawaiian
Islands and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States), and Mary Harrod
(Hobbes) Allen. He was graduated from
Harvard College as A.B. in 1880 and as
A.M.. and LL.B. in 1883. He studied law
in the office of Holmes & Adams; was ad
mitted to the bar in 1884 and became
managing- clerk of ' Miller, Peckham &
Dixon, and later practiced alone. In 1894
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on the death of the senior partner in 1900,
formed the firm of Allen & Cammann. He
was secretary of the Hawaiian Legation in
1882, and charge d'affaires of the Ha
waiian Legation in 1883, but resigned. He
has been corporation counsel and also
president of the village of Pelham Manor.
Mr. Allen is chairman of the Democratic
County Committee of Westchester County,
New York. He married in New York City,
in 1892, Adele Livingston Stevens, and they
have six children : Frederic Stevens Allen,
Mary Dorothy Adele Allen, Barbara
Frances Gallatin Allen, Joan Livingston
Allen, and Priscilla Alden Sampson Allen.
Address : Bolton Priory, Pelham Manor,
New York.
ALLEN, Frederick Innes:
United States Commissioner of patents ;
born in Auburn, New York, January 19,
1859; son of William A. Allen. He was
educated at the Auburn High School and
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts, and from there entered the Shef
field Scientific School of Yale University,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of B.S. in 1879, receiving the class
prize in mineralogy, on graduation. He
graduated, studied law and was admitted
to the bar in 1882, and practiced patent law
at Auburn until March, 1901, when he was
appointed to his present office as United
States Commissioner of Patents. He is
lecturer on patent law in George Washing
ton University, and he represented the
United States at Congress of the Interna
tional Association for the Protection of In
dustrial Property at Berlin, and at Berne,
Switzerland in 1904. He married at Au
burn, New York, June 3, 1884, Cornelia
Margaret, daughter of General William H.
Seward. Residence: Auburn, New York.
Office address: Patent Office, Washington.
ALLEN, Henry Tureman:
Chief of Philippine Constabulary ; born at
Sharpsburg, Bath County, Kentucky, April
13, 1859; son of Sanford Allen and Susan
(Shumate) Allen. He was prepared at
Peekskill Military Academy and George
town College, Kentucky, and was gradu
ated from the United States Military Acad
emy in 1882; and he received from George

town College, Kentucky, the degree of
A.M. in 1898. He was appointed second
lieutenant of the Second United States
Cavalry, June 13, 1882; first lieutenant,
June 22, 1889, and captain in the Sixth
Cavalry, November 10, 1898. He was en
gaged in the Exploration of Alaska in 1885
and 1886. In the Spanish-American War
he became major and assistant adjutant
general of volunteers, June 3, 1898, and
was honorably discharged June 13, 1899;
he was commissioned major of the Forty-
third United States Infantry Volunteers,
August 17, 1899; lieutenant-colonel, May
31, 1901 and honorably discharged June 30,
1901, serving in the Philippines. He was
governor of the Island of Leyte, in the
Philippines, from April to July, 1901, and
in July, 1901, engaged as chief in the or
ganization of the Philippines Constabulary,
and by Act of Congress, approved January
30, 1903, he was appointed, January 31,
1903, chief of the Philippines Constabu
lary, with the rank of brigadier-general.
He is author of: a Report on the Recon-
naisance'of Copper, Tanana and Koyukuk
Rivers, published in 1886; and a work on
The Military System of Sweden, published
in 1895. He is a member of the American
Geographical Society, the Army and Navy,
Metropolitan, and University Clubs of New
York City, and the Metropolitan and
Army and Navy Clubs of Washington, D.
C. General Allen married in Chicago,
July 12, 1887, Dora Johnston. Address:
Headquarters of the Philippine Constabu
lary, Manila, Philippine Islands.
ALLEN, Henry Crosby:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in
Paterson, New Jersey, May 13, 1872; son
of Samuel Coit Morgan Allen and Jose
phine Amelia (Crosby) Allen. He at
tended public and private schools in Pater
son, New Jersey, was graduated from Saint
Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island,
in 1889; from Yale, with the degree of
B.A. in 1893, and from the New York Law-
School as LL.B. in 1895, since which year
he has been engaged in the practice of law
at Paterson, New Jersey. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and in 1904 was elected
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is normally Democratic) to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, in which he served from 1905 to
1907. He is a Baptist in his religious affilia
tion. He is a member of the Phelps Guards
of Paterson; of the Hamilton, North Jer
sey and Lincoln Clubs of Paterson, and of
the Army and Navy Club of Washington,
D. C. Residence : Little Falls, New Jer
sey. Office address : United Bank Build
ing, Paterson, New Jersey.
A I.LEN, James Lane:
Author; born near Lexington, Kentucky,
in 1849 ; the youngest child of Richard Allen
and Henry (Foster) Allen. His education
was acquired in Transylvania University,
where he received the degrees of A.B. and
A.M. The death of his father when he
was twenty-one placed the support of his
mother and sister in his hands, and he
taught in public schools and was later a
private tutor, and afterward taught Latin
and higher English in Bethany College,
West Virginia, for two years, and since
then has been engaged in literature. His
published volumes include : Flute and Vio
lin and Other Kentucky Tales and Ro
mances; The Blue Grass Regions of Ken
tucky, and Other Kentucky Articles'; John
Gray, a Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time ;
A Kentucky Cardinal; A Summer in Ar-
cady; The Choir Invisible; The Increasing
Purpose; Aftermath: Second Part of A
Kentucky Cardinal; The Mettle of the
Pasture. The Choir Invisible was drama
tized in 1899. Mr. Allen's books are very
popular in England as well as in the
United States. He spends much of his
time in Washington, D. C. Address : Care
of Macmillan and Company, publishers,
New York City.
ALLEN, Joel Asaph:
Naturalist; born in Springfield, Massa
chusetts, July 19, 1838; son of Joel Allen
and Harriet (Trumbull) Allen. He was
educated at Wilbraham Academy and Law
rence Scientific School, Harvard, from 1862
to 1867, specializing in zoology under Agas-,
siz, and was Humboldt scholar of the
same in 1871 ; and later he received the de
gree of Ph.D. from Indiana University.
He was assistant to Professor Agassiz on

the scientific expedition to Brazil in 1865 ;
made scientific researches in Florida in
1869 and was chief of the scientific staff
of the Government Expedition, on the
Northern Pacific Railroad Survey in 1873.
He was special collaborator of the United
States Geological Survey Expedition to the
Rocky Mountain Region, under Hayden,
from 1878 to 1883. He was assistant in
ornithology in the Museum of Compara-,
tive Zoology at Harvard from 1871 to 1885,
and has been curator of mammaology and
ornithology in the American Museum of
Natural History, in New York City, since
1885. Dr. Allen was editor of the Bulle
tin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club from
1876 to 1883 and editor of The Auk,
ornithological quarterly, from 1888 to 1906,
and the Bulletins and Memoirs of the
American Museum of Natural History
since 1887. He has written a large number
of monographs, reviews and contributions
relating to mammalogy and ornithology,
more especially on geographical zoology,
North American Rodentia and Pinnipedia,
the mammals of Patagonia, the mammals
and birds of Northeastern Siberia and of
Colombia, and on the genus Didelphys. Dr.
Allen is a fellow of the American Ornith
ologists' Union, and was its president from
1883 to 1891 ; has been a member of the
National Academy of Sciences since 1876;
is an honorary member of the British Or
nithologists' Union, and a foreign member
of the Zoological Society of London; is a
member of the American Society of Natur
alists, the American Geographical Associ
ation and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, the New York Academy of Sci
ences, of which he was vice-president in
1891 ; the Linnaen Society of Natural His
tory of New York, of which he was presi
dent from 1890 to 1897, and of the^ Wash
ington Academy of Sciences. Dr. Allen
was awarded the Walker Grand Prize of
the Boston Society of Natural History in
1903. He married first at Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, October 6, 1874, Mary Manning
Cleveland (who died April 17, 1879), by
whom he has a son, Cleveland Allen, born
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wall-on-Hudson, New York, April 27, 1886,
Susie Augusta Taft. Address: American
Museum of Natural History, New York
City.
ALLEN, Lyman Whitney:
Clergyman and author; born in St.
Louis, Missouri, November 19, 1854; son of
George Otis Allen and Julia Olds (Whit
ney) Allen. He was educated at Wash
ington University in St. Louis, from which
he was graduated as A.B. and afterward
received the A.M. degree. He took post
graduate studies at Princeton and a theo
logical course in the Princeton Theological
Seminary, and later received the degree of
D.D. from Wooster University. He en
tered the ministry of the Presbyterian
Church in 1880, and since 1889 has been
pastor of the South Park Presbyterian
Church at Newark, N. J. Dr. Allen is a
clergyman of distinction in his denomina
tion, and he is a -director of the Presby
terian Board of Home Missions, New York.
He has also made for himself a worthy
place in literature as author of: Abraham
Lincoln, the New York Herald's $1,000
prize poem (1895), also of the well known
poems: The Coming of His Feet; San
Gabriel, and other miscellaneous verse.
He is a member of the Society of American
Authors, New York ; of the Princeton Club
of New York, and the Wednesday Club of
Newark ; a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, and chaplain of Nova
Caesarea Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Dr. Allen has been
twice married ; first in St. Louis, September
5, 1880, to Myra Irwin, and second at New
ark, N. J., September 5, 1904, to Phebe L.
LeMassena. Residence : 41 Spruce Street,
Newark, N. J.
ALLEN, Philip Loring:
Editor; born in Madison, Wisconsin,
May 25, 1878; son of William Francis
Allen and Margaret (Andrews) Allen.
He was graduated as B.L. from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1899. He served
on the New York Evening Post in various
capacities from 1899 to 1903, and in the
Washington Bureau of that paper and the
Boston Transcript in 1903 and 1904; and

he has been editorial writer of the New
York Evening Post since 1904, and also
secretary and treasurer of the New York
Evening Post Company. Mr. Allen is a
contributor to magazines on political and
economic subjects, and also of occasional
fiction and light verses. He is author of
America's Awakening, published in 1906
by the Fleming H. Revell Company. He is
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and the City
Club of New York City. He married,
October 10, 1906, Feme Ryan of Reeds-
burg, Wisconsin. Address : 206 Broad
way, New York City.
ALLEN, Robert McDowell:
Lawyer; born at Edinburg, Missouri,
October 29, 1878, son of the Reverend Nel
son McDowell Allen and Caroline Jose
phine (Pelly) Allen. He was graduated
from Kentucky State College with the de
gree of A.B. in 1900, and taking up the
study of law was admitted to the bar of
Kentucky the following year. At the time
of his graduation he was appointed to a
position in the pure food \nspection work
of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment
Station and was later made the head of
the Division of State Food Inspection of the
Station, advisory member of the Kentucky
State Board of Health. Has been secretary
and a member of the Executive Committee
of the Association of State and National
Food and Dairy Departments since 1901,
and as such represented the Association in
its fight for national pure food legislation.
He was secretary of the International Pure
Food Congress of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, and is a member of the Gov
erning Board and Executive Committee of
the People's Lobby. He has written, num
erous reports and addresses on food control
work. Address : Lexington, Ky.
ALLEN, Thomas:
Artist; born at St. Louis, Missouri, Oc
tober 19, 1849.. He received his. early edu
cation in the common schools of St. Louis,
and afterward attended Washington Uni
versity at St. Louis, then went to the Royal
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studied three years in France. He has at
tained distinction as a painter of land
scapes and animal pictures, exhibiting at the
National Academy of Design in New York
in 1877. He has resided in Boston since
1880. He exhibited at the Paris Salons in
1882, 1887 and 1889. He has been a mem
ber of the Society of American Artists,
since 1880, and associate of the National
Academy since 1884 ; is president of - the
Paint and Clay Club and the Boston Society
Water Color Painters ; vice-president of the
Copley Society of Boston ; chairman of the
council of School of Drawing and Painting
at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He
received medals from the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo and at Boston,
was judge of awards at the
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in
1893, and chairman of the International
Jury of Awards at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis in 1904; also chair
man of the Department Jury of Fine Arts
at St. Louis in 1904. Mr. Allen is a mem
ber of the Union, St. Botolph and Art
Clubs of Boston; the Country Club of
Brookline, Massachusetts and the Oakley
Club of Watertown, Mass. Mr. Allen
has been twice married, first in 1880 to
Eleanor G. Whitney, a daughter of Profes
sor J. D. Whitney, of Harvard University,
and second, in 1884, to Alice Ranney, a
daughter of the Hon. A. A. Ranney of Bos
ton. Address : '212 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts.
ALLEN, Thomas, III.:
Lawyer; born at St. Louis, Missouri,
September 8, 1877; son of George W. and
Lydia J. (McMillan) Allen; great-great-
grandson of Parson (Thomas) Allen, of
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the "fighting par
son" of the Revolution, and grandson of
Thomas Allen of Pittsfield and St. Louis,
member of Congress and builder of the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Rail
road. He is also a descendant of George
Walton, of Georgia, signer of the Declar
ation of Independence. Mr. Allen was edu
cated at the Belmont- School, Belmont,
Massachusetts. 1890-1894; at Yale Univer
sity, A.B., 1898 and New York Law School,

LL.B., 1900. He was employed as clerk in
the law office of Perkins & Jackson, 1900-
ipoi ; and was managing clerk of the law
office of Hatch, Debevoise & Colby, 1901-
1902 ; practiced alone, from 1902 to 1903 and
formed present firm of Robinson, Allen &
Hoy in June, 1905. In addition to his law
practice he is secretary of the Aetna Self-
Heating Food Company; vice-president and
director Avis Cordage Company, and presi
dent and director The Hardie Company.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York. He
is a Democrat in politics, and was a mem
ber of the Missouri delegation, as alter
nate, at the National Democratic Conven
tion held in Chicago in 1896. Mr. Allen
has enjoyed the broadening advantages of
extensive travel; and traveled through Eu
rope in the summers of 1890 to 1898, spend
ing three years studying foreign languages.
In 1899 he took 'an extensive exploiting trip
through Northern Canada, and in 1905 and
1906 made an extended trip through the
West Indies, Northern South America and
Mexico. His recreations are those of for
est and stream, the exploring of unfre
quented regions, the hunting of big game,
and canoeing and he was the fourider and
is president and director of the Hathley
Canoe Club. He is also a member of the
Pennsylvania Society of New York and of
the Manhattan Club. Address: 46 East
Twenty-first Street, New York City.
ALLEN, Victor M, :
Publisher; born at Petersburg, Rensse
laer County, New York, July 14, 1870; son
of Amos H. Allen and Emily J. (Maxon)
Allen. He was educated at Hoosick Falls
High School, and Columbia College, in
New York City. He is engaged in the pub
lishing business with the Macmillan Com
pany, publishers. He was elected Sheriff
of Rensselaer County, New York, in 1903,
on the Republican ticket, and he is a direc
tor of the Republican Club of Rensselaer
County, at Troy, New York. Mr. Allen is
a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight
Templar and Shriner; a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and of the Rensselaer County Society of the
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the Elks and East Side Clubs of Troy,
New York, and the Hoosac Club of Hoos-
ick Falls, New York. Mr. Allen married at
Hoosick Falls, New York, October 3, 1894,
Blanche R. Perry, and they have two child
ren: Percival M. Allen, born in 1895, and
Mary E. Allen, born in 1900. Address:
Petersburg, Rensselaer County, New York.
ALLEN, William:
Lawyer; born at Claremont, Surry Coun
ty, Virginia; son of William Allen and
Frances Augusta (Jessup) Allen. He was
graduated from Georgetown College at
Washington, D. C, as A.B. in 1875, and
from the University of Virginia as B.L. in
1877. He practiced as attorney in Rich
mond, Virginia, in the firm of Peyton and
Allen, until 1890; and has been in practice
as an attorney in New York City from
1892. He is referee in bankruptcy for the
Southern District of New York. He is a
Democrat in National affairs, and inde
pendent in State, city and county matters.
He is a Catholic in religion. Mr. Allen
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York; of the Virgin
ians; the University .Club, and the South
ern Society of New York. He married
Mary Houston Anderson.' Address: 51
East Sixty-fifth Street, New York City.
ALLEN, William Frederick:
Editor and civil engineer ; born at Bor-
dentown, New Jersey, October 9, 1846; son
of Colonel Joseph Warner Allen and Sarah
Burns (Norcross) Allen. He was educated
at the Model School, at Bordentown, New
Jersey, and the Protestant Episcopal Acad
emy in Philadelphia, and in 1906 the de
gree of Master of Science was conferred
upon him by Princeton University. He
served as first lieutenant of New Jersey
Militia from 1861 to 1864. Mr. Allen en
gaged in practice as -a civil engineer, was
rodman and assistant engineer of the Cam
den and Amboy Railroad from 1862 to
1868; resident engineer of the West Jer
sey Railroad from 1868 to 1872 ; assistant
editor, 1872 and 1873, and since 1873 editor
of the Official Railway Guide and manager
and director of the National Railway Pub
lication Company. Since 1875 he has been

secretary of the General Time Conven
tion and its successor, the American Rail
way Association. In April, 1883, he pro
posed the detailed system of Standard Time
now in use, and was appointed to secure its
adoption by the General Time Convention,
which result followed on November 18,
1883 ; and was a delegate of The American
Railway Association to the. International
Railway Congresses, London, 1895; Paris,
1900, and Washington, 1905. He was secre
tary of the American Section and associate
secretary-general of the International Rail
way Congress in 1905, and delegate of the
U. S. Government to the International
Meridian Conference at Washington, 1884,
and to the International Railway Congress
at Paris, in 1900. Besides his distinguished
services in planning and securing the adop
tion of the present system of Standard
Time in North America in 1883, he has
rendered valuable service in securing uni
formity in rules for the operation of Ameri
can railways. He was a member of the
Board of Assessment and afterward of the
Board of Trustees of the Village of South
Orange, New Jersey, and he founded and
laid out the plan of the town of Wenonah,
Gloucester County, New Jersey. He is a
trustee of the South Orange Free Library;
secretary-treasurer of the American Rail
way Association ; secretary and treasurer
of the Bureau for the Safe Transportation
of Explosives ; director and manager of the
National Railway Publication Company;
vice-president and chairman of the Board
of the Railway Equipment and Publication
Company; treasurer of the American Rail
way Supply Company; president of the
Knickerbocker Guide Company; president
of the Manhattan Fire Alarm Company;
vice-president of the New York Transfer
Company, and president of the Meadow
Land Society of South Orange. He is a
Republican in politics and a " member of
the Episcopal Church. .He was decorated
by the Belgian Government as a chevalier
of the Order of Leopold, and is an honor
ary member of the Royal and Imperial
Geographic Society of Vienna, Austria, and
a member of the American Society of Civil
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Advancement of Science; American Metro-
logical Society; American Geographical So
ciety; National Geographic Society ; Ameri
can .Economic Association; the Navy
League; the, New Jersey Historical So
ciety ; American Statistical Association ;
American Forestry Association; American
Academy of, Political and Social Science;
Washington Academy of Science ; is past
master of the American Railway Guild;
' member of the Municipal Art Society ; New
England Society of Orange, New Jersey;
Pennsylvania Society of New York; is a
Companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion; and a member of the Ma
sonic Order. Mr. Allen is also a member
of the Lawyers', Transportation, Engi
neers', Underwriters' and New York Rail
road Clubs ; the Union League Club of Chi
cago and the South Orange Field Club. Mr.
Allen married, at Salem, New Jersey, April
20, 1871, Caroline Perry Yorke, and by that
union has four sons : Yorke (born Feb
ruary 27, 1873) ! Frederick Warner (born
June 1, 1874) ; Eugene Yorke (born April
22, 1878), and John Sinnickson (born
March 29, 1881). Residence: 180 Scotland
Road, South Orange, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 24 Park Place, New York City.
ALLEN, William Harvey:
Social worker, secretary of the Bureau
of Municipal Research; born at Le Roy,
Minnesota, February 9, 1874; son of John
D. Allen and Joanna (Corbett) Allen. He
was graduated from the University of Chi
cago as B.A. in 1897; was a graduate stud
ent of the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin
and Pennsylvania, and received the degree
of Ph.D. He was an instructor of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; secretary of the
New Jersey State Charities Aid Associa
tion; editor of the New Jersey Review of
Charities and Corrections; editor (Read
ers' Den) of Charities ;'general agent of the
New York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor ; secretary of the
National Municipal League Committee on
Instruction in Municipal Government; in
structor in New York School of Philan
thropy; instructor in the Correspondence
Study Department of the University of Chi

cago; secretary of the Committee on Hos
pital Needs and Hospital Finances of New
York City; secretary of the Committee on
Physical Welfare of School Children of
New York City, and contributor to maga
zines on social topics; author: Efficient
Democracy.. He is a member of the Amer
ican Academy of Political and Social Sci
ences; the American Sociological Associa
tion; American Economic Association; and
National Municipal League; chairman of
the Committee on Promotion of Health of
the National Conference of Charities and
Correction; member of the Chi Psi fra
ternity, and vice-president of the Crippled
Children's Driving Fund of New York
City. He is a member of the Faculty
Council of the School of Philanthropy.
Mr. Allen is a member of the City and
National Arts Clubs of New York. He
married, Octobelr 28, 1903, Isabel Dan-
gaix and they have two sons : William
Dangaix, and S. N. Patten Allen. Address :
32 East Twenty-third Street, New York
City. ALLERTON, Samuel Waters:
Capitalist; born at Amenia Union,. Dutch
ess County, New York, May 26, 1828, and is
of Pilgrim and Revolutionary ancestry. He
was brought up on a farm, and although his
business activities have been largely in the
city as well as in the country he has always
been a farmer. Like most country boys of
the first half of the nineteenth century, he
worked on the farm in the summer months
and attended the district school in winter.
He began stock raising on his own account
at 18, and at 21, having made about five
thousand dollars at the business he went
to Piatt County in Central Illinois, and
bought a stock farm upon which he pursued
with increased success the business of stock
raising, and although, because of other and
larger interests he has resided in Chicago
since 1856, he has always been identified
with farming and farm property, now being
the owner of more than forty thousand
acres of farms in Illinois, Iowa and Ohio.
His early experiences and successes as a
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him to take an active interest in the im
provement of live-stock markets and term
inal facilities. He early acquired a con
siderable interest in the Union Stock Yards
at Chicago, and took the lead in establishing
stock-yards of modern aesign and equip
ment at East St. Louis, Illinois (opposite
St. Louis), at Omaha, and at Pittsburgh,
and retains large interests in all of these
yards. He was formerly president of the
Allerton Packing Co., of Chicago and East
St. Louis, and is now president of the
Allerton-Clarke Co. and of the Arcade File
Works and vice-president of the Art Marble
Co. He is one of the oldest members in
length of service on the Board Of Directors
of the First National Bank of Chicago,
and' also a director of the First Trust and
Savings Bank and of the National Safe De
posit Co. ; the Chicago City Railway Co. ;
North Waukegan Harbor and Dock Co.,
and the Weaver Coal and Coke Co. He was
one of the most active members of the
Board of Directors of the World's Colum
bian Exposition of 1893, and has been a
generous supporter of all movements for
the enhancement of the material' prosperity
of the western metropolis. A Republican
from the organization of the party, he was
nominated for Mayor of Chicago in 1893,
but was defeated by the elder Carter H.
Harrison. He is a member of the Illinois
Society of the Sons of the American Revo
lution, and of the Society of Mayflower
Descendants, and of the Chicago, Calumet,
Union League, Chicago Golf, Marquette
and other Clubs of Chicago. Mr. Allerton
was first married at Peoria, 111., to Paduella
W. Thompson, and after she died in 1880,
he married, in 1881, her sister, Agness C.
Thompson, and he has two children :
Robert H. and Katie R. Allerton. Resi
dence : 1936 Prairie Avenue. Office address :
First National Bank Building, Chicago.
ALLING, Arthur Nathaniel:
Physician; born in New Haven, Connecti
cut, July 1, 1862; son of George and Mary
(Alverson) Ailing. He was graduated from
Yale University with the degree of A.B. in
r886, and, taking, up the study of medi
cine at the College of Physicians and Sur

geons, New York City, received the de
gree of M.D. m- 1891. He thence re
turned to practice his profession in New
Haven, Conn., making a specialty of the
diseases of eye and ear, and with the ex
ception of five years when he was assistant
surgeon in the New York Ophthalmic and
Aural Hospital,, has since remained there.
At present, besides his personal practice,
he is professor of ophthamology at Yale
and head of eye clinic of the New Haven
Dispensary, and ophthalmologist to the
New Haven Hospital. He is fellow of
New York Academy of Medicine, member
of the American Ophthalmic Society, New
York Ophthalmologic^ Society, and City,
County and State Medical Societies, and
of various other medical associations. Dr.
Ailing is author of Diseases of . the Eye.
He was married at Providence, Rhode Is
land, October 27, 1887, to Francella Walker,
Address: 188 York Street, New Haven,
Connecticut.ALLINSON, Francis Greenleaf:
Philologist and educator; born at Bur
lington, New Jersey, Dec. 16, 1856; son of
William J. Allinson and Rebecca ' W.
(Hinchman) Allinson. After preparatory
training he entered Haverford College,
Pennsylvania, from which he was gradu
ated as B.A. in 1876, and received the de
gree of MA. by examination in 1880; he
also entered Harvard, and was graduated
therefrom as B.A. in 1877; was fellow
at Johns Hopkins University from 1877 to
1880, receiving the Ph.D. degree on exam
ination in 1880, and he received the degree
of MA. honoris causa, from Williams Col
lege in 1895. Dr. Allinson was assistant
professor of Greek and Latin at Haver
ford College from 1880 to 1882; head mas
ter of classics at the University School at
Baltimore from 1882 to 1891 ; assistant pro
fessor of Greek and Latin at Williams Col
lege from 1892 to 1895, and since 1895 has
been a member of the faculty of Brown
University, as associate professor of Greek
until 1898, and since then as professor of
classical philology. Dr. Allinson has been
.1 contributor to the American Journal of
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ings of the American Philological Associ
ation, and to the Studies in. Honor of Basil
L. Gildersleeve. He is author of: Greek
Prose Composition, published in 1895; a
Translation from Bacchylides, in the Cen
tury Magazine for April, 1898 ; Lucianea, in
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,
1901 ; and Selections from Lucian, 1905.
He is a trustee of Providence Public Li
brary, a member of the University Club,
Providence, of Phi Beta Kappa, of Johns
Hopkins University and of the American
Philological Association. Dr. Allinson mar
ried, first, at Baltimore, September 10, 1885,
Mary Irwin Carey, and second, at Hancock
Point, Maine, August 22, 1905, Annie
Crosby Emery; he has a daughter: Su-
sanne Carey Allinson, born in 1887. Ad
dress : 163 George Street, Providence,
Rhode Island.
ALUS, Edward Phelps, Jr.:
Morphologist ; born in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, September 14, 185 1 ; son of Edward
Phelps Allis and Margaret Maria (Wat
son) Allis. He was educated in the pub
lic and private schools of Milwaukee and
Janesville, Wisconsin; the Delaware Liter
ary Institute of Franklin, New York, from
which he received the degree of CE. in
1866-, was a special student at Antioch Col
lege, Antioch, Ohio, in 1867 and 1868, and
he was a graduate student at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology from 1868
to 1871. In 1871, immediately after leav
ing the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, he entered the employ of Edward
P. Allis & Company, at Milwaukee, and
remained in the employ of that company
until 1889, when his father, the head of
that company, died. He then left active
business to take up research studies,' but
was elected vice-president of The Edward
P. Allis Company, and still holds that po
sition. In 1890 he went abroad and has
lived there almost continuously ever since,
his home being in Menton, France, where
he owns property known as the Palais de
Carnoles, a former residence of the
Princes of Monaco. He established the
Lake Laboratory in Milwaukee in 1885,
maintaining it there for seven years, and

then transferring it to Menton, where it
is known as the Allis Research Laboratory
and is under his direction. He is a co-editor
of The Journal of Morphology, and has
made extensive researches in vertebrate
morphology, and especially in the anatomy
and development of the head of fishes. In
1898 he was awarded the Prix Lallemand
by the Institut de France, Paris, France,
with the title of Laureat de 1' Institut. He
received the degree of LL.D. from the
University of Wisconsin in 1903; received
from the French Government the decor
ation of the Palmes Academiques, with the
title of Officer d' Academie, in 1905, and
the decoration of the Legion d' honneur,
with the title of chevalier, in 1907. Dr.
Allis is a fellow of the Royal Zoological
Society of London, the Linnean Society
of London, the New York Academy of
Sciences, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Society of
Arts of London, the Royal Microscopical
Society of London, Royal Meteorological
Society of London, and of the Anatomical
Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and a
member of the American Association of
Anatomists, American Society of Natur
alists, and the Boston Society of Natural
History. He is a Republican in politics,
and a Unitarian in religious belief. He is
a widower, his wife having died in 1905,
and he has two children : Maud Allis, born
in 1899, and William Phelps Allis, born
in 1902. Address : Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, and Palais de Carnoles, Menton, Alpes
Maritines, France.
ALLISON, John Phifer:
Merchant; born at Concord, Cabarrus
County, North Carolina, August 22, 1848;
son of Robert Washington Allison and
Sarah Ann (Phifer) Allison. His paternal
ancestry goes back to the Grahams, a fam
ily of high standing and influence in the
Old North State before and during the
Revolution, and in the maternal line his
family tree includes Hon. Matthew Locke,
member of the Provincial Congress at Hills
borough in 1775 and of the Congress at
Halifax in 1776, member of the North Caro
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United States Congress for six years, and
Martin Phifer, member of the Legislature
before and after the Revolution, and Mar
tin Phifer, Jr., colonel in the Patriot
Army in the War of Independence. Mr.
Allison was educated in the Concord High
School, Bingham's Military School and the
Mercantile College at Baltimore, from which
he was graduated in 1867. In 1869 he be
gan his mercantile career, taking charge
of the large business in general merchandise
which his father had conducted for more
than forty years, and which he continued
for thirty years more, when the business
passed into tha management of a corpora
tion, in which he retains a large interest.
Mr. Allison has shown his ability as a
sound financier, and this has led to his con
nection with a number of important enter
prises. He is president of the Cabarrus
Land, Lumber and Mining Company; presi
dent for eight years of the Concord Build
ing and Loan Association, director from
1893 to 1897 and on the Finance Committee
from 1893 to 1897, and on the Finance
Committee of the North Carolina Railroad
Company from 1893 to 1899. He is also a
director of the Concord National Bank ;
the Gibson Cotton Mill Company; the
White-Morrison-Howe Company and. the
Brown Manufacturing Company. He has
also taken his share of the civic responsi
bilities of his community. He served for two
years as chairman of the County Commis-
soners, and two years as State Senator.
He has devoted much attention to the or
ganization of the Southern Cotton Growers'
Protective Association, of jvhich he was
four years secretary and treasurer. He is
president of the New South Club of Con
cord, North Carolina. Mr. Allison married,
October 5, 1880, Annie Erwin Craige,
youngest daughter of the Hon. Burton
Craige, of Salisbury, North Carolina. Mrs.
Allison is a prominent leader of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, a member of the
North Carolina Society of the Colonial
Dames of America, and also of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution. Address :
Concord, N. C.
ALLISON, Robert:
Manufacturer; born December 25, 1827,

in Middleton, Teesdale, Durham County,
England. He came to this country with his
father's family in 1830, and he received his
education in the public schools of Schuylkill
County. In his seventeenth year he ens
tered the machine shops of Haywood &
Snyder, Pottsville, Pa., to learn the trade of
machinest. After learning the trade and
serving two years as journeyman, he ac
cepted the foremanship. in the shop of Mr.
Wintersteen, Port Carbon, Pa., in which
capacity he served for Mr. Wintersteen and
others until 1862, when he and Mr. F. B.
Bannan, of Pottsville, entered into partner
ship and began business at the Franklin
Iron Works, at Port Carbon; in 1878 he
purchased Mr. Bannan's interest and was
sole proprietor of the Franklin Iron Works
until 1901, when he sold out the business.
During Mr.. Allison's regime the Franklin
Iron Works attained a world-wide, reputa
tion, and machinery made at these works
has been shipped to all parts of the United
States, and to Australia, New Zealand,
South America, and Europe. Politically,
Mr. Allison has always been a supporter of
the - Republican party ; he has frequently
been a delegate to the Republican County
and State Conventions. Has been twice
married ; his first wife ' was Catharine
Thornberg, of Pottsville, Pa., by whom he
had a family of twelve children — four sons
and eight daughters. After the death of his
first wife he married Mrs. Mary M. Stocker,
of Philadelphia. Address : Port Carbon,
Pennsylvania.ALLISON, William Boyd:
United States Senator; born at Perry,
Lake County, Ohio, March 2, 1829, and lived
his boyhood on a farm. He was educated
in the neighborhood schools, at Allegheny
College in Pennsylvania and the Western
Reserve College of Ohio, and on leaving
college he studied law, practicing in Ohio
until 1857, then removing to Dubuque, Iowa,
where he engaged in practice. He was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention which nominated President Lin
coln in i860, and in the following year he
was appointed a member of the staff of
Governor Kirkwood of Iowa, and aided in -
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vice at the beginning of the Civil War.
He was elected in 1862, a member of the
Thirty-eighth Congress, and reelected in
1864, 1866 and 1868 to the Thirty-ninth,
Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serv
ing until 1871. He was elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Senator James
Harlan, for the term beginning March 4,
1873, and was reelected in 1878, 1884,1890, j
1896 and 1902, and his present term of ser- [
vice will expire March 3, 1909. Senator
Allison has several times been among the
leading candidates in the vote for presi
dent in National Republican Conventions,
and has been one of the Republican States
men most prominent in legislation during
his term, now the longest in continuous
service in the history of the Senate of the
Nation. Address : Dubuque, Iowa.
ALLPORT, Frank:
Physician and surgeon; born at Water-
town, New York, February 22, 1856. He
received his education at the Chicago Uni
versity and at Racine (Wis.) College, when
completing his academic studies, he took up
that of medicine at the Chicago Medical
College where he received the degree of
M.D. in 1876. This he followed by two
years of post-graduate work at Heidel
berg, Germany, after which he returned to
the United States and in 1878 began to
practice at Sycamore, 111. In 1883, he re
moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where he be
gan to practice in his specialty, diseases of
the eye and ear, in which he is widely
known. He was also professor of ophthal
mology and otology at the Minneapolis
State University, and surgeon of diseases
of the eye and ear at numerous hospitals
and institutions. He went in 1898, to Chi
cago, and was called to the chair of pro
fessor of ophthalmology and otology in
Northwestern University Woman's Medical
School, which he held until that school
went out of existence. He was also pro
fessor of ophthalmology in the Chicago
Polyclinic, from which he resigned some
years ago. He is now professor of otology
and clinical professor of ophthalmology1
and otology in the Northwestern Univer
sity Medical School. He is also surgeon of
diseases of the eye and ear at St. Luke's

Hospital and Wesley Hospital, and various
other institutions. He is, besides, consult
ing eye and ear surgeon for the Board of
Education of Chicago. Dr. Allport is one
of the best known and most successful
specialists in the United States. He was
married at Sycamore, 111., to Kate A. Ell-
wood. Residence : 2108 Prairie Avenue.
Address : Chicago Savings Bank Building,
Chicago, 111.
ALM¥, Francis:
Merchant; born in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, November 28, 1858; son of
Charles Almy and Mary A. (Cummings)
Almy. After a' careful preparatory edu
cation he entered Harvard College from
which he was graduated as A.B. (magna
cum laude) in 1879; and he was class
secretary from 1879 to 1904; and he re
ceived from Harvard the A.M. de
gree, in course, in 1880. He was
nine years, from 1880 to 1888, with
the Lake Anchor Line; and ten
years, from 1888 to 1898, in the firm of
W. H. Glenny Sons & Company, of Buf
falo, crockery and silver ; three years, from
1899 to 1902 purchasing agent of the Pan-
American Exposition; and two years, 1902
to 1904, with the Buffalo Pitts Company,
agricultural machinery. Since 1905 he has
been co-partner with T. M. Osborne, Au
burn, New York, in the Diamond Shading
Film Company of Buffalo. He was secre
tary of the Harvard Club of Western New
York from 1887 to 1900; chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Liberal Club
of Buffalo, from its organization in 1891 to
1903: a director of the Society for Beau
tifying Buffalo from its organization in
1901, and treasurer of the Consumer's
League. He is a member of the Saturn
Club of Buffalo, of which he was registrar
and a director from its organization in
1885 to 1889, and he is a member of the
University Club of Buffalo. He has a
country place at Jericho, North Evans,
New York. Address : 427 Delaware Ave
nue, Buffalo, New York.
ALMY, Frank Fayette:
Professor of physics ; born at Little
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son of Horace Manchester Almy and Ab-
bie Colburn (Grinnell) Almy. He was
graduated from the. University of Nebras
ka with the degree of B.S. in 1890, was
a graduate student of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity from 1890 to 1893, (University
scholar in 1891 and 1892), and a graduate
student of the University of Chicago in
1899 and again in 1901 and 1902 ; and
since 1893 he has been professor of phy-
since 1893 he has been professor of phys
ics in Iowa College. He is a fellow of
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and of the Ameri
can Physical Society. He has made varied
original researches in physics and has
written articles on Some Properties of
Coherers; Pressure Shift of Lines in the
Spectrum of Iron, and a Simple Demon
stration of Doppler Effect and Sound. He
is a Liberal Republican in politics and a
Congregationalist in religious belief. He
married at Ashland, Nebraska, September,
1892, Eva L. McReynolds, and they have
three children: Winifred, born in 1895,
Frank Atwood, born in 1900, and
Donald Grinnell, born in 1903. Address :
436 East Street, Grinnell, Iowa.
ALPERS, William Charles:
Pharmacist ; born in Hanover, Germany,
July 7, 1851. He was educated at Hanover
Polytechnic Institute, and the University
of Gottingen, in Germany, and at the New
York University, receiving the degree of
, ScD. in chemistry. He has been engaged
as a pharmacist in New York City from
1893, and is now president of The Alpers
Pharmacy and president of the Alpers
Chemical Company. He was instructor of
mathematics and languages at St. Mat
thew's Academy from 1873 to 1879, then
director of Merck's Chemical and Bacteri
ological laboratories. He took a botanical
excursion through the United States in
1894, and was a member of the Board of
Pharmacy of New Jersey from 1890 to
1894. He is a member of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, New York
Pharmaceutical Association, New Jersey
Pharmaceutical Association, the Society of
Chemical Industry, the American Chemis

try Association, the Torrey Botanical
Club, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the German Lie-
derkranz, Manhattan Chess Club, German
Scientific Association, Royal Arcanum and
Ancient Order of United Workmen; and
he is a trustee of the New York College
of Pharmacy. He is author of The Phar
macist at Work (Lippincott) 1895, and
The Medicinal 'Plants of Sta ten Island
(Lippincott) 1896. He has been a con
tributor to nearly all the pharmaceutical
journals of the United States. He mar
ried, in New York City, Bertha Guden
(now deceased), and of that union there
are six children: William H., Emily, Clara,
Helen, Anna, and Otto. Address : 66 West
Fifty-sixth Street, New York City.
ALSCHULER, Samuel:
Lawyer; born at Chicago, Illinois, No
vember 20, 1859; son of Jacob and Caro
line Alschuler. In his early boyhood he
removed to Aurora, 111., with his family
where he received his education and
where he studied law in a law office. At
the age of twenty-two he was admitted to
the bar of Illinois, practicing since then
at Chicago, while still residing at Aurora
Mr. Alschuler is identified with the Dem
ocratic party in politics, and was Democra
tic candidate for Congress from the
Eighth Congressional District of Illinois,
in 1892, but defeated, the district being
hopelessly Republican. He was elected a
member of the State Assembly of Illinois
in 1896 and reelected in 1898, becoming
one of the leaders in the House, and he
was nominated as the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Illinois in 1900, but
failed of election. In 1893 he was made
one of the State commissioners of claims,
holding the position for three years. He
is now a member of the law firm of Kraus,
Alschuler & Holden, and is recognized as
one of the leaders of the Chicago bar, dis
tinguished alike for his legal knowledge
and his forensic ability. As a campaigner
he has few peers in the Western Democ
racy. Residence : Aurora, 111. Address :
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ALSGOOD, J. Fred:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
April 26, 1883; son of John M. Alsgopd
and Caroline G. (Harris) Alsgood. He
was graduated from Public School No. 9,
Brooklyn, in 1897; from Erasmus Hall
High School, 1901, and was a student of
New York Law School from 1902 to 1904.
He was admitted to the bar in 1904, and
since then has been in the general practice
of law, specializing in surrogate's practice,
having conducted many important trials in
that line of work. He is a Democrat in
polities and a Lutheran in religion. He is
president of the Laicos Bowling Club;
treasurer of the Verein Christlicher Bes-
trebungen of the German Evangelical
Church of Brooklyn, New York, and a
member of the Knickerbocker Field Club;
and is a member of the Washington Club
of the Tenth Assembly District of Brook
lyn. His favorite recreations are driving
and tennis. Residence: 113 Park Place,
Brooklyn, New York. Address : 231 Broad
way, New York City.
ALWOOD, William Bradford:
Oenologist; born at Delta, Fulton Coun
ty, Ohio, August 11, 1859; son of David
William Alwood and Ann Eliza (Brailey)
Alwood. He was educated in the country
schools in Fulton County, Ohio, and the
high school of Delta, Ohio, and afterward
attended the Ohio State University at Col
umbus from 1882 to 1884, taught in public
schools in Ohio in 1879 and 1881, and was
superintendent of the Ohio Agricultural Ex
periment Station from 1882 to 1886, and at
tended Columbian (now George Washing
ton) University at Washington in 1887 and
1888, and later studied at the Royal Prus
sian Laboratories for Plant Physiology at
Geisenheim, Germany. He was an assis
tant entomologist in the United States De
partment of Agriculture from 1886 to 1888 ;
vice-director, entomologist and botanist
from 1888 to 1891, and horticulturalist, en
tomologist and mycologist from 1892 to
1904, in the Virginia Agricultural Experi
ment Station, and professor of Horticul
ture, .entomology and mycology at the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute from 1891 to

1904. In 1900 he was appointed special
agent to study oenology in Europe for the
Division of Chemistry in the United States
Department of Agriculture, and was ap
pointed in 1904, special agent in charge of
the investigations in oenological technology
in the Bureau of Chemistry of the United
States Department of Agriculture, and in
1907 was made chief of the Oenological
Laboratory in that bureau, in which posi
tion he continues. He received a silver
medal and diploma from the National Ag
ricultural Society of France, a gold medal
and diploma and a commemorative medal
from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
Saint Louis in 1904, in which he was a
member of the International Jury of
Awards. He is a member of the Perma
nent International Commission on Viticul
ture ; a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; fellow of
the Royal Horticultural Society and a mem
ber of the American Pomological Society;
the Washington Biological Society and the
Washington Entomological Society. He
has made extensive researches in horticul
ture, and especially in reference to alcoholic
ferments and mal-fermentations, and has
written important papers on the biology of
alcoholic ferments and the economic dispos
al of unmerchantable fruits. Professor Al
wood is an Independent in politics and a
Presbyterian in religious affiliation. He
married at Columbus, Ohio, March 4, 1884,
Seffie S. Gantz, and they have three sons
and three daughters. Address : Stone-
henge, Charlottesville, Virginia.
AMBERG, William A.:
Manufacturer; born at Albstadt, near
Hanau, Bavaria, July 6, 1847; son of John
A. and Margaret (Hoeffler) Amberg. When
he was five years of age his parents came
to Amerioa and settled in Mineral • Point,
Wisconsin, where he received his educa
tion in the public schools and at Sinsinawa
Mound College. After leaving school he
entered a dry goods store as a clerk, where
he remained until January 2, 1865, when he
removed to Chicago and became the book
keeper of Culver, Page & Hoyne, stationers,
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was one of the founders of the firm of
Cameron, Amberg & Co., stationers and
printers, of Chicago, remaining with the
firm until 1890. In 1868 he had invented a
system of flat letter filing, now in universal
use, and also several other useful devices in
the same line. His interests in this direc
tion grew to such proportions that in 1872
he established a branch house in New York
City and one in London in 1875. He found
ed the town of Amberg, Wisconsin, in
1887, by establishing extensive granite
works at that point, and later the town of
.Athelstane, Wisconsin. He is president of
the Amberg File and Index Company;
the Amberg Granite Company; and also
of the Loretto Iron Company of Chicago,
and a director in several corporations be
sides. . He was married September 7, 1869,
to Sarah Agnes Ward, of Chicago, and his
living children are: John Ward, Mary,
Agnes and Genevieve. Residence: 449
North State Street, Chicago, Illinois. Of
fice address: 438 Fulton Street.
AMES, Adelbert:
Brigadier-general and ex-governor; born
in Rockland, Knox County, Maine, Octo
ber 31, 1835. He was educated in the schools
there until appointed to the United States
Military Academy at West Point, from
which he was graduated in the class of
1861. Upon his graduation he was assigned
to the Fifth Regiment of United States Ar
tillery, and was promoted through the inter
mediate grades to brigadier-general volun
teers and brevetted major-general volun
teers. He was mustered out of the volun
teer service in April, 1866, and commissioned
in July, 1866, lieutenant-colonel of the
Twenty-fourth United States Infantry. He
was appointed provisional governor of
Mississippi, July 15, 1868, under the recon
struction acts was elected United States
Senator in 1870 and elected Governor of
Mississippi in 1873, resigned in 1876, when
he removed to New York. Later he re
moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he
became identified with important interests.
He was appointed brigadier-general of
United States Volunteers, June 20, 1898,
serving during war with Spain. Governor

Ames married at Boston, July 21, 1870,
Blanche, daughter of the later General
Benjamin E. Butler. Address: Lowell,
Massachusetts.
AMES, Butler:
Congressman, soldier and engineer; born
in Lowell, Massachusetts, August 22, 1871;
son of Major General Adelbert Ames and
Blanche (Butler) Ames, and grandson* of
Major General Benjamin F. Butler. He
was educated in the Lowell schools, arid at
Phillips Exeter Academy in the class of
1890, and he was graduated from the United
States Military Academy at West Point in
1894. He resigned from the United States
Army after appointment to the Eleventh
United States Infantry for the purpose of
returning to Massachusetts to take a post
graduate course at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, graduating in 1896
as a mechanical and electrical engineer. He
has since been agent of the Wamesit Power
Company of Lowell. He joined Light Bat
tery A, of the Massachusetts Volunteer
Militia, as sergeant, at its reorganization in
1895, acted as its* instructor and was pro
moted to first lieutenant in 1896. He re
signed from Miliatia at outbreak of Span
ish War, and was made lieutenant and ad
jutant of the Sixth Massachusetts Volun
teers at Camp Alger, near Washington.
He was appointed as acting engineer of the
Second Army Corps, under General Gra
ham, in addition to his duties as adjutant,
and went from Charlestown to Cuba and
Porto Rico, under General Miles. He was
at the landing at Guanica and the skirmish
at Yauco Road in July, was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel of his regiment in Au
gust and was civil administrator of Arecibo
district of Porto Rico until November 1898.
He served as a member of common council
of Lowell in 1896, and as a member of the
Massachusetts State Legislature for three
years from 1897 to 1899, and in that body
was chairman of committee on street rail
ways. He was elected as a Republican in
1902 from the Fifth Massachusetts Dis
trict to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and re
elected in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-ninth
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expiring in 1909. Address : Lowell, Mas
sachusetts. AMES, Charles Bismark:
Lawyer; born at Macon, Mississippi, Au
gust 1, 1870, son of Charles Bingle and
Sarah Jane (Longstreet) Ames. He was
graduated from the Emory and Henry Col
lege with the -degree of B.S. in 1890, and
entering in turn the Vanderbilt and the Mis
sissippi Universities for the purpose of
studying law, received the degree of LL.B..
in 1892. He took his examinations and was
admitted to the bar of Mississippi the same
year commencing to practice in his native
city a year later. After six years of work
here, however, he left to settle at Oklahoma
City, O. T., where he has resided and prac
ticed ever since. The specialty of Mr.
Ames is corporation law and he is counsel
for the St. Louis and San Francisco Rail
road in Oklahoma. He was besides a mem
ber of several corporations, being president
of the. Union Trust Company and the Okla
homa Gas & Electric Company, and a di
rector of the Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.,
the Muscogee Gas and Electric Co., and the
American National Bank. He was married
in 1894, at Macon, Mississippi, to Eliza
beth P. Allen. Address : Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.
AMES, Charles Gordon:
Unitarian clergyman; born at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, October 3, 1828; adopted
son of Thomas Ames and Lucy Ames of
Canterbury, New Hampshire. He was ed
ucated in the public schools and from 1847
to 1849 attended Geauga Seminary, Ohio.
In 1849 he was ordained in the ministry of
the Free Baptist Church, but having ex
perienced a change in his religious con
victions, he transferred his activities to the
Unitarian ministry, in which he was en
gaged as minister of churches in Bloom-
ington, Illinois, Albany, New York, and in
California, and became pastor of the
Uiurch of the Disciples in Boston in 1889.
He -was editor of the Minnesota Republi
can from 1855 to 1857, and of the Christian
Register of Boston from 1877 to 1880. He
is author of several books and published
sermons and of contributions to magazines

in verse and prose. Address : 12 Chest
nut Street, Boston.
AMES, Edward Scribner:
Clergyman; born in Eau Claire, Wiscon
sin, April 21, 1870; son of Lucius Ames and
Adeline (Scribner) Ames. He was grad
uated from Drake University, Des Moines,
Iowa, as A.B. in 1889, from Yale Univer
sity as D.B. in 1892, and received from the
University of Chicago the Ph.D. degree in
1895. He- was teacher in the Disciples Di
vinity House and in the Department of
Philosophy, the University of Chicago,
from 1895 to 1897 ; professor of philosophy
and pedagogy at Butler College, Indian
apolis, from 1897 to 1900; instructor in
philosophy at the University of Chicago
since 1900, and he has been minister of the
Hyde Park Church of the Disciples of
Christ at Chicago, since 1900. Dr. Ames
is one of the most prominent of the young
er ministers of his denomination, the Dis
ciples of Christ. He is an Independent
Republican in politics. His favorite recrea
tion is tennis. Dr. Ames is a member of
the City and Quadrangle Clubs of Chicago.
He married at De Soto, Iowa, in 1893,
Mabel Van Meter, Ames, and they have
three children : Van Meter, born in 1898 ;
Damaris, born in 1901, and Adelaide, born
in 1905. Residence : 5520 Madison Ave
nue, Chicago. Office address : University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
AMES, Frank Darwin:
Real Estate; born at Hazleton, Pennsyl
vania, September 22, 1868; son of Caleb
Tyler Ames and Carrie English (Shaw)
Ames; he was graduated from the High
School of City of New York. He was em
ployed by the present firm of Ames & Com
pany when eighteen years old, when his
father was the owner of that business ,
was admitted, in the firm at the age of
twenty-one and became the head of the
business in 1900, upon the death of his
father. He is a director and member of
the executive committee of the United Con
tractors' Corporation; president and direc
tor of the Inter-City Realty Company, and
the Terminal Realty Company, and a gover
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He is a Republican in politics and a Pres
byterian in religion. His favorite recrea
tions are golf and automobiling, and he
is a member of the New York Athletic and
Terra- Marine Clubs. Address : 26 West
Thirty-first Street, New York City.
AMIDON, Charles Fremont:
Jurist; born at Clymer^ Chautauqua
County, New York, August 17, 1856. After
his graduation from Hamilton College in
1882, he went to Fargo, Dakota, • where he
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1886. He practiced law at Fargo until
1896, was one of the members of the Code
Commission of North Dakota in 1893, and
was appointed August 31, 1896 to his pres
ent position as judge of the United States
Court for the District of North Dakota.
Address : Fargo, North Dakota.
AMORY, John J.:
President and manager of the manufac
turing corporation; born in Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin, in 1856 ; son of John Amory of
New York City and Jane (Smith) Amory,
of Goshen, New York. He was educated
at Riverview Military Academy at Pough-
keepsie, New York, where he was captain
and adjutant of a battalion. He was en
gaged as a miner at Tombstone, Arizona,
from 1878 to 1880, agent of the Pacific Ex
press Company at Texarkana, Texas, in
1881 and 1882, a hotel proprietor at Bill
ings, Montana in 1883 and 1884, secretary
and treasurer of the Armstrong Manufac
turing Company at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
in 1885 and 1886, and from 1886 to the
present time has been first secretary and
treasurer of the Gas Engine and Power
Company, and is now president of the Gas
Engine and Power Company and Charles
L. Seabury & Company, Consolidated, at
Morris Heights, New York City. He is
president of the National Association of
Engine and Boat Manufacturers, and trus
tee of the Motor Boat Club of America.
He is a Republican in politics and in relig
ious views is an Episcopalian, and he is a
vestryman of St. James' Church at Ford-
ham, New York. Mr. Amory is a member
of the Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers ; the National Civic Fed

eration, and the New York Larchmont
Yacht, Columbia Yacht, New York Ath
letic, Fordham, and Transportation Clubs
of New York City. He married at Pough-
keepsie, New York, Mary Shepard Hull, a
graduate of Vassar College in the class of
1880; and they have three children: John
Hull Amory, Eugene H. Amory, and
Clement Gould Amory. Address : Morris
Heights, New York City.
AMORY, Robert:
Retired physician; born in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, May 3, 1842. He was graduat
ed from Harvard -University with the dc
gree of A.M. in 1863, and continuing his
studies at .the Harvard Medical School,
took the degree of M.D. after a course
of three years. In his studies and re
searches Dr. Amory has given special at
tention to physiology and the physiologic
al action of medicines and has written ant
taught much on these subjects. In 1869
he became lecturer at the Medical School
of Harvard University on the physiological
action of drugs, and some years later was
called to the chair of physiology at Bow-
doin College. He translated as a text-book
Kuss Physiology and is author of
several treatises on the action of certain
drugs and a volume on Poisons in
Wharton and Stille's series of Medical
Jurisprudence. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and
various other local and national medical
associations. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Dr. Amory is a director of the Bar
Harbor Water Company, the Ipswich
Mills, the Mount Desert Transit Company
of Bar Harbor, Maine (of which he is
secretary and clerk). He is a vestryman
of Trinity Church in the City of Boston,
president and trustee of the Vincent Me
morial Hospital, director of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Boston,
governor and treasurer of the Mount De
sert Reading Room, and president of -the
Kebo Valley Club, both at Bar Harbor.
and a member of the Summer Residents'
Association of Bar Harbor, director and
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pany. He is also a member of the Somerset
Club, the Country Club of Brookline,
the Eastern Yacht Club and the Boston
Athletic Club. Dr. Amory married in
Boston, May 8, 1864, Marianne Apple-
ton Lawrence, by whom he has a
daughter, Alice Amory. He again mar
ried in September, 1884, Katharine
Leighton Crehore, and they have four
1885, Mary Copley Amory, born in 1888,
Katharine L. Amory, Jr., born in 1891, and
Margaret, Sullivan Amory, born in 1897.
Address : 279 Beacon Street, Boston
(winter), and The Eyrie, Bar Harbor,
Maine (summer).
AMWEG, Frederick James:
Chief engineer and manager of the
American-Hawaiian Engineering and Con
struction Company: son of John M. Am-
weg and Margaret H. (Fenn) Amweg; his
ancestors were of old Revolutionary stock,
for he is the great grandson of Theophilus
Fenn, an officer in the American forces un
der General Wolf during the Canadian
campaign, and at the storming and capture
of Quebec; and is also a lineal descendant
of Theodore Sedgwick, an American Fed
eralist, politician and jurist, who served in
the Revolutionary War, and was a delegate
to the Continental Congress from Massa
chusetts from 1788 to 1796; United States
Senator, 1796 to 1799; a member of Con
gress, 1799 to 1801, and Judge of Massa
chusetts Supreme Court .from 1802 to
1813. He is a nephew of General John
Sedgwick, who lost his life at Spottsylvania
Court House during the Civil War, and his
father, John M. Amweg, was captain of
Company I, I22d Pennsylvania Volunteers.
He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;
was graduated from the High School at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in June, 1873, and
went to Philadelphia to study civil engineer
ing and architecture, and was employed in
the engineering department of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, also by the City of Phila
delphia, -to< design and take charge of the
erection of a cantilever bridge over the
Schuylkill River, on line of Market Street,
from 1889 to 1898. He conducted an engi
neering and contracting business, during

which time he had charge of many impor
tant structures of both a public and private
nature ; was chief, engineer of the City Ave
nue bridge, and chief engineer in charge of
the erection of the New Radford bridge
at Radford, Virginia. In 1899 he was
called to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, as
chief engineer to take charge of the build
ing and installing of an electric railroad at
that place. At its completion, in 1902, he
accepted the position of chief engineer and
manager of the American-Hawaiian En
gineering and Construction Company, Lim
ited, having offices in Honolulu and San
Francisco, which position he now holds. He
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion; Sons of the American Rev
olution; Corinthian Lodge of Masons, No.
368, of Pennsylvania, Oriental Chapter, 183,
Pennsylvania ; Honolulu Commandery, No.
1, Knights Templar, Honolulu, Hawaii;
Aloha Temple, Mystic Shrine; Honolulu
Leahi Chapter No. 2, Order of the Eastern
Star, Honolulu Hawaii ; Philadelphi Lodge
of Perfection (14th degree) ; De Joinville
Council (16th degree) ; Kilwinning Chap
ter, Rose Croix (18th degree) ; Honolulu
Lodge No. 616 B. P. O. Elks, Honolulu,
Hawaii; Improved Order of Red Men,
Miantonomah Tribe, Tribe No. 9, San
Francisco, California; American Society of
Civil' Engineers, and American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Is also
an officer on the Governor's staff of Cali
fornia, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Address: 333 Turk Street, San Francisco,
California.
ANDERSON, Albert Barnes:
Judge of the United States District Court
] for the District of Indiana since December
18, 1902; born at Zionsville, Boone County,
Indiana, February 10, 1857; son of Phil
ander Anderson and Emma A. (Dugan)
Anderson. He was graduated from Wa-
ibash College as A.B-. in 1879 and afterward
as A.M., studied law and was admitted to
the bar at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where
he was elected for two terms as prosecuting
attorney of Montgomery County, Indiana.
He married at Crawfordsville, Indiana, No
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dence : 1325 North Penn Street, Indian
apolis. Office : Federal Building, Indian
apolis, Indiana.
ANDERSON, Charles Palmerston:
Bishop of Chicago ; born at Kemptville,
Ontario, Canada, son of Henry Anderson
and Maria "(Sexton) Anderson. He was
educated at Trinity College School at Port
Hope, Ontario, and Trinity College, Tor
onto, and he received the degree of D.D.
from Trinity College, Toronto, in 1900, and
of S.T.D. from the Western Theological
Seminary at Chicago. He was ordered
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1887,
and the following year was ordained to the
priesthood by the Bishop of Ontario. He
was rector of the church at Beachburgh,
Ontario, 1887-1891, and rector of Grace
Church, Oak Park, Illinois, 1891-1900. In
the latter year he became Bishop-Coadjutor
of Chicago, Illinois, and was consecrated
by Bishops McLaren, Gillespie, Seymour,
Vincent, Nicholson, Grafton, White, Edsall,
Morrison and Williams. He became Bis
hop of Chicago upon the death of Bishop
McLaren in 1905. Bishop Anderson was
married at Belleville, Ontario, in 1889, to
Janet Glass, and they have five children.
He is author of: Confirmation, 1898, and
The Christian Ministry, in 1902. Address:
1612 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
ANDERSON, David M.:
Paper manufacturer; born at Harrison,
Westchester County, New York, October
9, 1855; son of David and Caroline Minott
(Mitchell) Anderson. He was educated at
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and engaged
in business pursuits, now being one of the
leading paper manufacturers of the country.
He is president of Taggarts Paper Com
pany; general manager of the Saint Regis
Paper Company; a director of the Agri
cultural Insurance Company, at Watertown,
New York; the Hungerford-Holbrook
Company, and the Watertown National
Bank, and is trustee of the Jefferson County
Savings Bank. He is a Republican in poli
tics* and an Episcopalian in religion, and he
is a trustee of the Watertown City Hospital
and the Jefferson County Institute. His
favorite recreations are yachting, automo- .

biling and driving. He is a member of the
Black River Valley Club; the Crescent
Yacht Club and the Jefferson County Golf
Club, and is also a member of the New
York Yacht Club. He married, at Hacken-:
sack, New Jersey, December 3, 1882, Ida
M. Lydecker, and they have a daughter,
Elizabeth, born in 1885. Address: Water-
town, New York.
ANDERSON, Edwin Hatfield:
Librarian; born at Zionsville, Indiana,
September 27, 1861 ; son of Philander An
derson and Emma A. (Duzan) Anderson.
He was graduated from Wabash College as
A.B. in 1883, later receiving the degree of
A.M., and he spent a year at New York
State Library School, Albany, New York,
in 1890 and 1891. He was cataloguer one
year at the Newberry Library, Chicago,
Illinois; was librarian of the Carnegie
Free Library, at Braddock, Pennsylvania,
three years; and he organized and was
the first librarian of the Carnegie Library,
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1895 until
he resigned in December, 1904. He was
engaged in zinc and lead mining at Carth
age, Missouri, during 1905 ; and since Janu
ary 1, 1906, has been director of the New
York State Library, and director of the
New York State Library School. He was
president of the Keystone State Library
Association in 1901 and 1902; was member
of the Public Records Commission of Penn
sylvania, and of the Historical Archives
Commission of Pennsylvania, in 1903 and
1904; and was first vice-president of the
American Library Association in 1899 and
1900 and in 1906 and 1907. Mr. Anderson
married at Glencoe, Illinois, December 22,
1891, Frances R. Plummer. Address: New
New York State Library, Albany, New
York. ANDERSON, George B. :
Consular official. He was appointed sec
retary of the Legation at Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, June 29, 1893, from which post he
retired September 21, 1894. He was ap
pointed consul at Antequa, British West
Indies, June 27, 1896; appointed consul at
Grenoble, France, October 2, 1897; ap
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i, 1900; appointed consul at Guadeloupe,
French West Indies, June 26, 1903, and
was again appointed consul at Antequa,
West Indies, March 10, 1905: Address:
Antiqua, West Indies.
ANDERSON, George Bradley:
Dry goods merchant; born at Canan
daigua,' New York, April 18, 1841 ; son of
James Anderson and Maria A. (Seney)
Anderson. He was educated at Canandaigua
Free School and at Rushville, New York.
He was a dry goods salesman for Charles
D. Castle, Rushville, New York, 1855 to
i860. He was cashier and bookkeeper for
John C. Draper of Canandaigua, New
York, from 1861 to 1863; buyer and as
sistant manager for G. H. Seelye from 1863
to 1886 ; partner Squiers, Anderson & Com
pany from 1866 to 1871, and since 1871 he
has been in business for himself as sole
proprietor. He has been conducting a dry
goods and carpet business at Canandaigua
for forty consecutive years, and has built
the present store in 1900. Mr. Anderson
is a Republican in politics and a Congre-
gationalist , in religious belief; and he is a
trustee of . the Congregational Church of
Canandaigua and of the Canandaigua Cem
etery Association. Mr. Anderson married
at. Seneca Falls, New York, May 15, 1872,
Lottie A. Leland, and they have three
children : Fred L. Anderson, Charles W.
Anderson and : George Elmer Anderson.
Address : Canandaigua, New York.
ANDERSON, George E.:
Consular official. He was appointed
consul-general at Hangchow, China, April
6, 1904 ; consul at Amoy, China, February 4,
1905, and consul-general at Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, since February, 13, 1906. Address :
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America.
ANDERSON, George S.:
Colonel United States Army; born in
New Jersey, September 30, 1849. He was
appointed cadet at the United States Mili
tary Academy, July 1, 1867 ; was gradu
ated in 1871 and commissioned second lieu
tenant, Sixth Cavalry, June 12, 1871 ; first
lieutenant, September 20, 1874 ; captain,
March 20, 1885 ; major. Seventh Cavalry,

November 10, 1898 ; lieutenant-colonel, Sep
tember 17, 1901, and colonel, Eighth Cav
alry, April 18, 1903. Address: Governor's
Island, New York.
ANDERSON, Thomas Davis:
Clergyman; born in Roxbury, now part
of Boston, Massachusetts, February, 26,
1853; son of Thomas D. Anderson and
Lucy Ann (Spence) Anderson. He was
educated in the public schools of New York
City, and at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, from which he was gradu
ated in the class of 1870. He then en
tered Brown University, at Providence,
Rhode Island, from which he was gradu
ated as A.B. in 1874, and was graduated
from the Newton Theological Institution,
at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in 1877.
He was ordained to the Baptist ministry
at. Portland, Maine, November 22, 1877,
and was pastor of the First Baptist Church,
of Portland, Maine, from 1877 to 1882;
of the Seventh Baptist Church, of Balti
more, Maryland, from 1882 to 1887; of the
Central Baptist Church, of Providence,
Rhode Island, from 1887 to 1902, and since
1902 has been pastor of the Emmanuel Bap
tist Church, at Albany, New York. He.
received the degree of D.D. from Brown
University in 1894. Dr. Anderson has
traveled across the continent, in Europe,
and also in Egypt, Palestine and the Le
vant. He has attained a place of marked
prominence in the Baptist denomination,
and was president of the Rhode Island
Baptist Convention from 1895 until he left
that State in 1902. He has been a mem- '
ber of the Board of Fellows and secretary
of the corporation of Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island, since 1890; trus
tee of the Newton Theological Institution
at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, since
1897, and a trustee of the Rochester Theo
logical Seminary of Rochester, New York,
since 1903. He was also a member of the
Board of Overseers of Columbian (now
George Washington) University, at Wash
ington, D. C, from 1883 to 1889. Dr. An
derson is author of a Memorial of E. G.
Robinson, D.D., President of Brown Uni
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sermons and articles in religious periodicals.
He is a member of the Alpha Phi Delta
fraternity and of the Island Golf Club.
Dr. Anderson has been twice married, first
at Providence, Rhode Island, November 27,
1877, to Fanny M. Cross, and second, at
Providence, Rhode Island, December 13,
1893, to Mrs. Jane A. Hartwell, and he has
two sons : Clifford -S. Anderson, lawyer, at
Worcester, Massachusetts (born in 1878),
and Francis M. Anderson, born in 1885.
Address : 379 State Street, Albany, New
York.
ANDERSON, William A.:
Attorney-general of Virginia; born in1
Botetourt County, Virginia; son of Judge
Francis T. Anderson and Mary Ann (Al
exander)- Anderson. He was educated at
Washington College- (now the Washington
and Lee University), and the University of
Virginia, of which he is a graduate in law.
He served in the Confederate Army in
Company I, Fourth Virginia Infantry, in
the Stonewall Brigade, in which service
he was wounded and disabled for life. He
served in the Virginia House of Delegates
for four years and in the Virginia Senate
for four years, and was a special adjunct
commissioner from the United States Gov
ernment to the Paris Exposition of 1878.
He was a member of the Virginia Constitu
tional Convention in 1901 and 1902, and was
elected in 1901 and reelected in 1905 to
the office of attorney-general of Virginia,
in which he is now serving. He was pres
ident of the Virginia State Bar Associa
tion in 1900, and member of the American
Bar Association. Mr. Anderson is a Dem
ocrat in politics and an Episcopalian in his
religious affiliation. He is a trustee of
the Washington and Lee University, and
of Stuart Hall, at Staunton, Virginia. He
was a delegate from the Virginia State Bar
Association to the Universal Congress of
Lawyers and Jurists, held at St. Louis in
f894- He married at Lexington, Virginia,
Miss Maza Blair, and they have five chil
dren: Ruth Floyd, Anna Aylett (married
C. S. McNulty), W. D. Alexander, Ju
dith Nicoll and Ellen Graham. Residence :

Official address :

Lexington, Virginia.
Richmond, Virginia.
ANDERSON, Winslow:
Physician and surgeon ; born ' at Mid-
dleboro, Massachusetts, i860; son of An
ders Anderson and Johannah Anderson.
After-taking an academic course he became
a medical student student at the University
of California, graduating in 1884 with the
degree of M.D. In 1891 he became mem
ber of the Royal College of Physicians, and
of the Royal College of Surgeons at Lon
don, England, becoming in that year also
licentiate of the Apothecaries Society at the
same city. He has been surgeon at St
Winifred's Hospital, San Francisco, since
rgoo, was a member of the California State
Board of Health from 1893 to 1897, and
from 1900 to 1004. He has been president
and professor of gynaecology and abdominal
surgery at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, San Francisco, from 1896; and
editor of the Pacific Medical Journal from
1890. He was surgeon-g meral of the Nation
al Guard of California from 1900 to 1904;
member of the Board of Medical Exam
iners of California, from 1892 to 1893 ; sur
geon-in-chief of the Sierra Railroad since
1904, and gynaecologist and abdominal sur
geon at the City and County Hospital
since 1905. He became a member of the
General Medical Council of Great Britain
in 1896; a fellow of the Therapeutical So
ciety, London, 1904; is ex-secretary and a
member of the California State Sanitary
Association, and a member of the Ameri
can Medical Association, San Francisco
County Medical Society, San Francisco
Clinical Society, San Francisco Gynaecol
ogical Society, California State Medical
Society, Association of Military Surgeons,
American Association for the advance
ment of Science, and ex-president and
member of the American Medical Editors'
Association. He is also a member of the
National Geographical Society, the Western
Surgical and Gynaecological Association,
American Forestry Association; was a
member of the medical staff of the Twenty-
ninth Triennial Conclave of Knights Temp
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Water Committee for California, at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition held at St.
Louis, 1904. Dr. Anderson is author of
Mineral Springs and Health Resorts of
California; and is also author of articles on
Diseases of the Lungs, written for the
Twentieth Century Practice of Medicine,
and of Notes of Travel, in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle in 1890, 1891 and 1892, etc.
Dr. Anderson lived in England from 1890
to 1892, and made a tour around the world
in 1892. Dr. Anderson married, in March,
1890, B. Lillian Collins. Residence : 1914
Pacific Avenue. Address : 1065 Sutter
Street, San Francisco, California.
ANDERTON, Ralph L., Jr.:
Stock and bond transfer agent; born
in New York City, January 31, 1846; son
of Ralph L. Anderton and Sarah (Knapp)
Anderton. He was educated at the Wood
stock Collegiate Academy, New York. He
is a director of the Broadway and Seventh
Avenue RailroacT Company, the Thirty-
fourth Street Crosstown Railway Company,
Central Park, North and East River Rail
road Company, Forty-second Street and
Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company,
Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
Company, the Twenty-third Street Railway
Company, Kingsbridge Railway Company,
Metropolitan Street Railway Company,
Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and
St Nicholas Avenue Railway Company.
During 1895 and 1896, vice-president and
acting president of the Georgia Central
Railroad and Banking Company, control
ling the Ocean Steamship Company. Mr.
Anderton married in New York City, No
vember 11, 1873, Susie Philbin. Address:
Englewood, New Jersey.
ANDREW, Henry Hersey:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
April 29, 1858; son of Governor John Al
bion Andrew, the famous War Governor of
Massachusetts, and Eliza T. (Hersey) An
drew. He was a student at the Lawrence
Scientific School of Harvard in 1880, a
Law School of the University of Georgia
in 1889, and a student in Germany and Italy
from 1872 to 1875. He spent a year and a
half in Japan and the East in 1884 and 1885

and later made a trip around the world.
He founded the West Virginia News at
Ronceverte, West Virginia, in 1898, and
was Republican nominee for State Senate
from the Eighth West Virginia District in
1898. He organized the Monroe Light In
fantry, named later the Andrew Guard,
West Virginia Militia in 1889, and was
commissioned captain; organized the Sec
ond Regiment of West Virginia Militia,
the same year, and was commissioned colo
nel of the regiment. He is now engaged in
the law practice in West Virginia. Mr.
Andrew is a Republican in politics and
Episcopalian in religion; vestryman in All
Saints' Church, Union, West Virginia. He
is a member of the Washington Conti
nental Guard of New York, the Society of
Founders and Patriots of New York, So
ciety of Colonial Wars of Massa
chusetts, Sons of the American Revo:
lution of Massachusetts. He is also a
member of the Somerset Club of Boston,
the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.
C, and the Army and Navy Club of New '
York City. Mr. Andrew married, January
16, 1891, Mary Raymond Garrettson, de
scended from John Garrett, one of the
earliest settlers of Maryand, [letters son
added later], and Colonel Nathaniel Lit
tleton, of Maryland, son of Lord Littleton.
Granddaughter of Hon. Freeborn Garrett
son, of Rhinebeck-on-Hudson, New York.
They have three children : Beatrice, Mar
garet Forrester, and John Albion Andrew.
Address : Union, West Virginia, and (in
winter months) 507 West End Avenue,
New York City.
ANDREWS, Alexander Boyd:
Railway official; born in Franklin Coun
ty, North Carolina, July 23, 1841 ; son of
William J. Andrews. He entered the Con
federate States Army in June, 1861, and was
second lieutenant in the First North Caro
lina Cavalry ; and he was wounded at Jack's
Shop, Virginia, in September, 1863. He
began his railway career with the Blue
Ridge Railroad in 1859. After the close of
the war, he leased, equipped and operated
a railway ferry at Gaston, North Carolina,
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intendent of the Raleigh and Gaston and
Raleigh and Augusta Railroads until No
vember, 1875, then superintendent until 1883
of the North Carolina Division of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad. In 1881
he was elected president of the Western
North Carolina Railroad, which he com
pleted. He was also superintendent of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad from
1878 to 1880. From 1883 to 1886 he was
assistant to the president of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad ; was third vice-presi
dent from 1886 to 1889, second vice-presi
dent from 1889 to 1894, and from July,
1892 to July, 1894, also general agent of the
receivers of the same road. He became
second vice-president June 30, 1894, and
October 1, 1895, became first vice-presi
dent of the Southern Railway in which posi
tion he continues ; and he is also first vice-
president of the Mobile and Ohio and Ala
bama Great Southern Railroads. Address :
Raleigh, North Carolina.
ANDREWS, Champe Seabury:
Lawyer; born at Yazoo City, Mississippi,
May 13, 1875; son of Colonel Garnett and
Rosalie Champe (Beirne) Andrews. His
father, who was a distinguished member
of the Mississippi bar, was author of An
drews' Mississippi Digest, and his grand
father, Judge Garnett Andrews, was a jus
tice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
His maternal great-grandfather, Andrew
O'Beirne, of Virginia, represented the
Greenbrier District for many years in the
United States Congress. Mr. Andrews was
graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, with the degree of Bachelor of
Science, in 1894. After a careful study of
the law he was admitted to the bar, enter
ing the practice with his father under the
fifm name of Andrews & Andrews, jat
Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1899 he settled in
the practice of law in New York City, now
being a member of the law firm of
Sturcke & Andrews. He has contributed
frequently to the Forum, the Cosmopolitan,
the Journal of the American Medical As
sociation, the Medical News, New York
Times, and other newspapers and maga
zines, chiefly on legal topics and foreign

travel, but more particularly on the law re
lating to physicians and surgeons, the un
lawful practice of medicine, the dangers
of quackery and other topics related to the
public health. While still residing in the
South, Mr. Andrews was actively identified
with military service, having been certified
to the War Department as first honor mili
tary student of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute in 1894-; and he was captain of the
Third Tennessee Infantry, United States
Volunteers, 1898-99, and was recommended
for a commission in the Regular Army, but
declined. He is president and director of
the A. B. Andrews Company; director of
the Estate of Garnett Andrews, the Konnv
sula Realty Co. (secretary and treasurer),
Jack's (secretary and treasurer), and iden
tified with other business interests. Mr.
Andrews has traveled extensively in Eu
rope, to which Continent he has ma.de an
nual visits for the past seven years,- and
he has also made a visit to Japan and
China. He is a Democrat in his political
affiliations, being chairman of the Twenty-
seventh Assembly District. He is a mem
ber, and from 1902 to 1904 served as Ex
alted Ruler, of the New York Lodge of
the Benovolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and he is a governor of the Elks
National Home at Bedford City, Virginia.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Medical
Jurisprudence Society, and a member of the
Bar Association of the City of New York;
a member of the Peekskill Lincoln Society,
the Metropolitan. Museum of Art, the Mu
nicipal Art Society, the Naval and Military
Order of the Spanish War (member of
Council) of the Spanish War Veterans
(past commander New York State De
partment), and of the Sons of the Revolu
tion ; associate member of the United Con
federate Veterans, the Tennessee Society
(vice-president), the Georgia Society and
the Auburn Alumni Association in New
York, and a member of the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Association (past president). He
is counsel to the Medical Society of the
County of New York, and has held that
position for eight years. He first sug
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of the Public Health Defense League, and
is chairman of its Board of Directors. He
is secretary of the Committee of One Hun
dred on National 'Health, appointed by the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. He is also a member
of the Army and Navy Club of New York.
Residence: Hotel Royalton, 44 West For
ty-fourth Street. Address : 37 Liberty
Street, New York City.
ANDREWS, Charles Lee:
Stock broker; born in Baltimore, Mary
land, October 28, 1858; son of Richard
Snowden Andrews, and Mary C. (Lee)
Andrews. He was graduated from the Un
iversity of Pennsylvania, with the degree
of MA. in 1881. Mr. Andrews moved to
New York City from Baltimore in 1884,
and has been a member of the New York
Stock Exchange since 1887, and he is
now a member of the firm of De Coppet
& Doremus. He enlisted in the First Bat
talion of New York Naval Militia in 1892,
and rose to the rank of lieutenant, resign
ing in 1903. He was appointed ensign in
the United States Navy in April, 1898,
and served during the Spanish-American
War on board the United States Ship
Yankee, receiving an honorable discharge
in September, 1898, when the hostilities
were over. Mr. Andrews is a member of
the Southern Society of New York, the
Maryland Society of New York, the Mili
tary Order of Foreign Wars, the Naval
and Military Order of the Spanish-Ameri
can War, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, and the Union, Army and Navy,
and Manhasset Bay Yacht Clubs. Mr. An
drews married in Brooklyn, New York, in
1893, Edith Walden, and they have three
children, Richard Snowden Andrews, born
in 1894, and Charles Lee Andrews, Junior,
and Caroline A. W. Andrews, twins, born
in 1897. Address: 42 .Broadway, New
York City.
ANDREWS, Clement Walker:
Librarian ; born at , Salem, Massachu
setts, January 13, 1858; son of Joseph An
drews and Judith (Walker), Andrews. He
was graduated from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1879, with honors in chemistry; and

A.M. in 1880. He was instructor in chem
istry at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology from 1883 to 1895, and
was librarian of that institution from
1889 to 1895, and since 1895 has been
librarian of The John Crerar Library,
at Chicago. Mr. Andrews was sec
retary of the Society of Arts, of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
editor of the Technology Quarterly from
1893 to 1895. He is a member of the Gerr
man Chemical Society, the Society of
Chemical Industry, American Chemical So
ciety, American Library Association, Illi
nois State Library Association and others,
and was a trustee of the Ramabai Associa
tion about five years. He is a councillor
for the terms from 1898 to 1908, and pres
ident for 1906-7 of the American Library
Association. He is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, the Pi Eta Society
and the Chicago Literary Club. His favor
ite recreations are golf and bridge whist.
He is Independent in politics and a Uni
tarian Coihgregationalist in religious affili
ation and has been a trustee of Unity
Church, Chicago, for three years. He, is
a member of the University Club and
Union Club of Chicago and the Onwentsia
Club at Lake Forest, Illinois. Residence :
Union Club, Chicago. Office address : The
John Crerar Library, Chicago, Illinois.
ANDREWS, Constant A.:
Banker ; born in New York City, in 1844 ;
son of Loring Andrews and Blandina B.
Andrews. He was educated in the Columbia
College Grammar School and at Dussel-
dorf, Germany, and took the medical course
at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
He served as a volunteer medical assist
ant in War of the Rebellion. During his
early business life he was a partner of
Loring Andrews & Son, leather merchants
of The Swamp, and later became senior
member of the banking firm of Constant
A. Andrews & Comany. He was the. or
ganizer, and from incorporation was presi
dent of the United States Savings Bank for
seventeen years, but has for some time been
practically retired from active social and
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family. He was formerly a member of
Company H, Seventh Regiment; was first
treasurer of tbe Reform Club, and was for
many years treasurer of the New York
City Mission and Tract Society and of
Charity Organization Society. He is a
life member of the Museum of Natural
History and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Andrews is a Presbyterian in religious
affiliation. He is a life member of the
City and National Arts Clubs, a member of
the Ardsley, New York Athletic Clubs,
and also an honorary member of the Man-
hasset Bay Yacht Club. Mr. Andrews
married Blanche Landgraf Vance, widow
of Louis S. J. Brewster, and they have a
daughter, Mrs. Constance B. Jones. Ad
dress: 737 Madison Avenue, New York
City. ANDREWS, Edward Gayer:
Methodist Episcopal bishop; born at
New Hartford, Oneida County, New York,
August 7, 1825; son of George and Polly
(Walker) Andrews. He was educated at
Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, New York,
and at Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Connecticut, from which he was graduated
as A.B. in 1847, and in 1848 he entered the
Oneida Annual Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, in which he served
as pastor until 1854. He was a teacher and
president of the Cazenovia Seminary from
1854 to 1864, pastor in the New York
East Conference from 1864 to 1872, and
in the latter year was elected a bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He re
sided at Des Moines, Iowa, from 1872 to
1880, at Washington, D. C, from 1880 to
1888, and at New York City since 1888.
He visited the missions of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Europe and India in
1876' and 1877, in Mexico in 1881, in Japan,
Korea and China in 1889 and 1890. He
was a fraternal delegate to the British and
Irish Methodist Conferences in 1894. He
is a trustee in many church and ben
evolent organizations. He married at Che
shire, Connecticut, August 7, 1851, Susan
Matthews Hotchkiss, and they have five
children: Eva, Winifred A. (Mrs. H. C.
M. In graham), Mrs. Helen A. Nixon, Ed-,

ward H., and Grace. Address: 150 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
ANDREWS, Elisha Benjamin:
President chancellor of the University oi
Nebraska; born at Hinsdale, New Hamp
shire, January 10, 1844; son of Erastus
Andrews. He was graduated from Brown
University as A.B. in 1870, and received
the degree of A.M. and D.D. in 1900; D.D.
from Colby University in 1884 and LL.D.
from the University of Nebraska in 1884,
and from Chicago University in 1901. He
was in the United States Military service
from 1861 to 1864, becoming second lieu
tenant. He was principal of Connecticut
Literary r Institution at Suffield, Connecti
cut, from 1870 to 1872, was graduated from
Newton Theological Institution in 1874, and
ordained a Baptist minister in 1874. He
was pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Beverly, Massachusetts in 1874 and 1875;
president of Denison University from 1875
to 1879; professor homiletics and pastoral
theology at Newton Theological Institution
from 1879 to 1882; student of history and
economics at Berlin and Munich in 1882
and 1883 ; professor of history, Brown Uni
versity from 1882 to 1888; president and
professor of moral and intellectual phil
osophy at Brown University from 1889 to
1898 and trustee of that institution from
1901 to 1904. He was superintendent of
schools of Chicago Illinois, from 1898 to
1900, and has been chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska since 1900. Dr. An
drews was a United States commissioner
to the International Monetary Conference
at Brussels in 1892. He is a member of
the American Economic Association; the
New England Historic Genealogical So
ciety and the Rhode Island Historical So
ciety. He is author of: Brief Institutes of
Constitutional History, English and Ameri
can, 1886; Brief Institutes of General His
tory, 1887 ; Institutes, 1889; The Duty of
a Public Spirit, 1892; Eternal Woods and
Other Sermons, 1894; Wealth and Moral
Law, 1894; An Honest Dollar with seven
other essays on bimettalism, 1894; History
of the United States, two volumes, en
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of -the Last Quarter Century in the United
States, 1896; new enlarged edition with
title of History of the United States in
Our Own Time, 1903; besides numerous
addresses and articles in reviews. He is edi
tor of : History, Prophecy and Gospel, 1891 ;
Gospel, 1891 ; Gospel from Two Testa
ments, 1893, and translator of Dfoysen's
Outlines of the Principles of History, 1893 ;
Paulsen's The Problem of Cosmology,
translated and abridged, 1903. Address :
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
ANDREWS, J, Charles:
Gas company official; born at Darby,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, October
27, 1873; son of J. Charles and Elizabeth
(Bunting) Andrews. He was educated at
the Darby Friends' School, the Friends'
Central School of Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, and Swarthmore College. He began
his business career in the Southwark
Foundry and Machine Company, at Phil
adelphia, was connected with the United
States Leather Comany, in New York City,
the United Gas Improvement Company, the
Philadelphia, the Denver Gas and Electric
Company of Denver, Colorado, and he is
now with Henry L. Doherty & Company.
He is secretary, treasurer and director of
the Gas Securties Company, and of the
Eglinton, Hammond and Andrews ; vice-
president, treasurer and director of the Leb
anon Gas and Fuel Company, and secretary
and treasurer of the Combustion Utilities
Company. Mr._ Andrews is a member of the
American Gas Light Association, the Ohio
Gas Light Association, the Western Gas
Association. In religion he is a member
of the Society of Friends. Mr. Andrews'
favorite recreations are automobiling and
tennis. He is a member of the Phi Kappa
Psi fraternity and of the University Club
of Philadelphia; and of the Marine and
Field Club of New York. Address : 60
Wall Street, New York City.
ANDREWS, J. Sherlock:
Lawyer; born in Rochester, New York,
October 5, 1846; son of Samuel George
and Lois A. (Whitney) Andrews. He was
graduated from the University of Roches
ter as A.B. in 1868. He was admitted to

the bar in 1870 and was engaged in the
practice of law at Rochester until 1900,
when he retired. Mr. Andrews is a mem
ber of the New York Zoological Society,
the Archaeological Institute of America,
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of
the Revolution, and the St. Anthony, the
Calumet and University Clubs. Address :
in St. Paul Street, Rochester, New York.
ANDREWS, Launcelot Winchester:
Scientist; born in London, Ontario, Can
ada, June 13, 1856; son of Alfred A. An
drews and Louisa Andrews. He was grad
uated from the Sheffield Scientific School
of Yale University as Ph.D. in 1875, and
became teacher of physics in the Spring
field (Massachusetts) High School in 1876,
later entering the University of Gottingen,
from which he was graduated with tbe de
grees of A.M. and Ph.D. in 1882 with spec
ial honors. He was professor of chem
istry at the Iowa State Agricultural College
at Ames in 1884 and 1885, and at the State
University at Iowa City from 1885 to 1904 ;
since 1904 he has been with the Mallinck--
rodt Chemical Works, of Saint Louis,
Missouri, of which he is chief chemist. He
is a member of London Chemical Society;
Deutscher Chemischer Gesellschaft ; Ameri
can Chemical Society, and the Saint Louis
Academy of Sciences, and is an honorary
member of the Iowa Section of the Ameri
can Chemical Society and of the Davenport
Academy of Sciences, and of the Contem
porary Club of Davenport. Dr. Andrews
is author of numerous contributions to
chemical literature describing new analyti
cal methods, and comprising also papers
on organic and physico-chemical subjects.
He has visited the islands of the Hawaiian
Group, making a study of the volcanoes of
Mauna Loa and Kilauea, etc. His favorite
recreation is navigation, including sailing
and boating of all kinds. In politics Dr.
Andrews is an independent Democrat, and
he is an Episcopalian in his religious affilia
tion. He is an' honorary member of the
Contemporary Club of Davenport, Iowa.
Dr. Andrews married, at Bonn, Germany,
in 1883, Anna Ritter Lane. Residence: 3731
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address: Care of the Mallinckrodt Chem
ical Works, Saint Louis, Missouri.
ANDREWS, Lor r in:
Lawyer; born in Staten Island, New
York, July 29, 1870; son of William and
Adele M. (Oscanyan) Andrews. He was
graduated at New York University with the
degree of B.S. in 1891, and taking up the
study of law at the same University, re
ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1893. He was
admitted to the bar of New York in the
same year, practicing law in this locality
until 1899. He has always been identified
with the Republican party in politics, being
in 1898 delegate of the Kings County Re
publican Convention. In 1899 he removed
to the Hawaiian Islands, settling in Hono
lulu, being in the same year admitted to
practice before the' Hawaiian bar and to
that of the United States Supreme Court in
1904. Mr. Andrews has been very active
in politics at Honolulu, being member of
various political committees. He was made
attorney-general of Hawaii in 1903, con
tinuing in this office since that date. He
was married to Estelle Linwood. Address :
Honolulu, T. H.
ANDREWS, William Loring:
Merchant, author, born in New York
City, September 9, 1837 ; son of Loring An
drews and Caroline C. (Delmater) An
drews. He was educated in private schools
and engaged in business in New York
until 1877, when he retired from active
business. Yale University conferred upon
Mr. Andrews the honorary degree of MA.
in 1893. He is a trustee of the Bank for
Savings, a director of the Continental
Insurance Company and was formerly for
eleven years one of the managers of the
House of Refuge, on Randall's Island. Mr.
Andrews is a trustee, a member of the exe
cutive committee and honorary librarian of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; is a mem
ber of the council of New York University ;
honorary member of the Eleventh Army
Corps Association; a member of the Na
tional Academy of Design; the New York
Historical Society ; the American Geograph
ical Society; the New York Chamber of
Commerce. He was founder and president

of the Society of Iconophiles- of New York.
Mr. Andrews is author of a number of
books, among them : New Amsterdam, New
Orange, New' York; Old Booksellers of
New York; Fragments, of American His
tory; Prospectus of Colleges in Cambridge;
Sexto Decemos et Infra ; A Trio of French
Engravers; Portraiture of the American
Revolutionary War; James Lyne's Survey;
Gossip About Book Collecting; Paul Re
vere and his Engraving; Castle Garden;
Bibliopegy in the United States; Treatise
of Fysshinge Wyth an Angle; from. the
Book of St. Albans; Historical Sketch of
the Continental Fire Insurance Company
of the City of New York; New. York as
Washington Knew it After the Revolution ;
An English XVIII Century Sportsman;
Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books.
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Century
Association, was one of the founders, the
second president and still a member and
one of the council of the Grolier Club ; is a
member of the Union League Club and alsp
of the Savile Club of London. Mr. An
drews married in New York City, October
17, i860, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Theo1
dore Crane. Address : 16 East Thirty-eighth
Street, New York City, and The Pep-
peridges, West Islip, Long Island, New
York. ANDRUS, John Emory:
Congressman, manufacturer; born at
Pleasantville, Westchester County, New
York, February 16, 1841; son of LoyalB.
Andrus and Ann (Palmer) Andrus. He
was educated at the Charlottesville Semi
nary at Charlottesville, New York, and at
Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Con
necticut, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1862. He taught school in New
Jersey four years ; engaged as a manufac
turer of medicinal preparations', and is
president of the Palisade Manufacturing
Company ; treasurer of the Arlington Chem
ical Company; president of the New York
Pharmacal Association and .a. trustee of the
New York Life Insurance Company. ,He
was elected mayor of Yonker-s, in 1903-, and
to the . Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, from
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elected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress in
which he is now. serving. Mr. Andrus is
a Republican in politics and a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is
a trustee of Wesleyan University. He mar
ried at Yonkers, New York, June 23, 1869,
Julia M. Dyckman. Address : Yonkers,
New York.
ANGELL, Frank Stanleigh:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, 1870; son of
Albert H. Angell and Florence (DeWolfe)
Angell. He was graduated from the Col
lege of the City of New York as B.S. and
from Columbia as A.M. in 1891, and af
terward entered the New York Law School
from which he was graduated as LL.B.
cum laude. He studied law in the office
of Tracy, Boardman & Piatt, and was ad
mitted, to the bar in 1892. He was
assistant corporation counsel of Brook
lyn from 1894 to 1897, and assis
tant district attorney of Kings County in
1899. Mr. Angell is a Republican in poli
tics and was a member of the Kings Coun
ty Republican General Committee for sev
eral years. He is a member of the Tenth
Assembly District Republican Club. He
served with Troop C, of the New York
Volunteer Cavalry in Porto Rico in 1898
at Coamo, Aibonito and at Asamonte Pass.
Mr. Angell is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York and of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Mr. An
gell married at Kingsbridge, New York,
Marion Alexander Blair. Address : 5 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
ANGELL, George Thorndike:
Founder and president since 1889 of the
American Humane Education Society ; born
at Southbridge, Massachusetts, June 5,
1823; son of Rev. George Angell, a Bap
tist clergyman, who died when his boy
was but three years old. Mr. Angell's
mother, who was a daughter of Paul
Thorndike, of Tewkesbury, supported her
self and her son by teaching school. When
a lad of fourteen he went to Boston where
he worked for nearly three years in a dry
goods store, and was then sent to an acad
emy at Meriden, New Hampshire, to be
fitted for college. He entered Brown Uni

versity in 1842, but finding the expenses
there too heavy for his means, he left
Providence at the end 'of his freshman
year, and went to Dartmouth College, at
Hanover, New Hampshire, whence he was
graduated as A.B. in 1846. He taught
school for three years in Boston, and pur
sued legal studies in the offices of Judge
Richard Fletcher and Charles G. Loring
and at the Harvard law School. He was
admitted to the bar in 1851, and entered
the office of Samuel E. Sewall, with whom
he subsequently formed a partnership
which continued for fourteen years. He
early became interested in the cause of
animals, and later his attention was drawn
to the need of organization for their pro
tection by the beginning of Henry Bergh's
work in New York; and by several cases
which had come under his own observation,
and early in 1868 he led actively in the
formation of the Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of
which he has been president ever since.
At that time he was engaged in a large
and lucrative law practice, but he substan
tially abandoned his profession and de
voted his energies and the greater part
of his time to his philanthropic work. He
wrote the Act of Incorporation of the so
ciety, its constitution and by-laws, and the
State laws under which its prosecutions
have been made; and he started the first
paper of its kind in the world, Our Dumb
Animals, and caused two hundred thou
sand copies of its first number to be
printed, and has edited and published it
ever since. He later went abroad and ad
vanced the cause in Great Britain, address
ing the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals and urging them
to start a paper similar to Our Dumb Ani
mals, which they subsequently -did. In 1870
he attended, as the only delegate from
America, the World's International Con
gress of Societies for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, at Zurich. On his
return he visited Chicago and took a lead
ing part in the formation of the Illinois
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instituted many reforms. In 1889 he ob
tained from the Massachusetts Legislature
the incorporation of the American Humane
Society, first of its kind in the world, with
whose aid he has caused to be established
more than seventy thousand Bands of
Mercy all over this country and elsewhere,
with between two and three million mem
bers, and in addition to a multitude of
other humane publications he has carried
the circulation of the one book, Black
Beauty, up to more than three million cop
ies. As a director of the American Social
Science Association he carried on a vigor
ous warfare against the sale of poisonous
and dangerously adulterated foods, and he
has been a life member and officer of vari
ous other charitable organizations, and now
in his eighty-fifth year is as actively as
ever engaged in his humane work. In
1872 Mr. Angell married Eliza A. Martin,
of Nahant, Massachusetts. Address : 19
Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ANGELL, James Burrill:
President of the University of Michigan ;
born at Scituate, Rhode Island, January 7,
1829; son of Andrew Aldrich Angell and
Amy (Aldrich) Angell. He was gradu
ated from Brown University at Providence,
Rhode Island, as A.B., with Phi Beta
Kappa honors, in 1849, following his grad
uation with travel and study in Europe.
He was professor of modern languages in
Brown University from 1853 to i860, editor
of the Providence Journal, Providence,
Rhode Island, from i860 to 1866, president
of the University of Vermont from 1866
to 1871, president of the University of
Michigan since 1871. He has received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Brown University, Columbia University,
Rutgers College, Princeton University,
Yale University, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, the University of Wisconsin,
Harvard University, University of Ver
mont, and Michigan Agricultural Col
lege. President Angell in addition
to his services to education has also
taken an important part in American
diplomacy, having served as envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the

United States to China in 1880 and 1881,
and to the Ottoman Empire in 1897 and
1898. He was a member of the Interna
tional Commission of the United States
and Great Britain on Fisheries Questions in
1887 and 1888, and chairman of the In
ternational Commission of the United
States and Canada on Deep Waterways ir
1895 and 1896. He is a regent of the
Smithsonian Institution, a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the American Philosophical Society, Ameri
can Antiquarian Association, American
Historical Association, and American So
ciety of International Law. Dr. Angell is
a Republican in politics and a Congrega-
tionalist in his religious affiliation. He
married in Providence, Rhode Island, No
vember 26, 1855, Sarah Swope Caswell,
daughter of Alexis Caswell, D.D., LL.D.,
for many years president of Brown Uni
versity. They have three children : Alexis
Caswell Angell, born in 1857, a prominent
lawyer in Detroit, Michigan ; Lois Thomp
son Angell, born in 1863, now wife of An
drew C. McLaughlin, A.M., now head pro
fessor of American history in the Univers:
ity of Chicago; and James Rowland An
gell, A.M., born in 1869, and now head
professor of psychology in the University
of Chicago : Address : Ann Arbor, Michi
gan. ANGELL, James Rowland:
Professor of psychology; born in Bur
lington, Vermont, May, 8, 1869, son of
James Burrill Angell, LL.D., president of
the University of Michigan since 1871, and
Sarah Swope (Caswell) Angell, daughter
of Alexis Caswell, D.D., LL.D., for some
years president of Brown University. He
was graduated from the University of
Michigan with the degree of A.B. in 1890
and A.M. in 1891. He took post-graduate
work at Harvard, receiving the degree of
A.M. in 1892, and at the Universities of
Berlin and Halle in 1893. He was instruc
tor in philosophy at the University of
Minnesota in 1894, and since 1895 has been
of the faculty of the University of Chica
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- associate professor from 1901 to 1904, and
professor and head of the. Department of
Psychology in the University of Chicago
since 1904. He was lecturer on psychology
in the University of California in 1903, and
in Wellesley College in 1904. He is a
member of the American Psychological
Association, and became a member of .its
council in 1903, and president of the asso
ciation in 1906, and he was the chairman
of its Western branch in 1902 and 1903 ;
and he is also a member and former vice-
president of the Western Philosophical As
sociation, and a member of the Scientific
Society of the Sigma Xi : He has made
extensive researches in experimental psy
chology, and has contributed extensively to
the literature of psychology and particu
larly in reference to the psychology of at
tention, the organic accompaniments of
conscious processes, auditory localization,
reaction-time, the effect of partial tones on
the localization of sound, dermal space-per
ception and functional psychology. He is
a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, and of the Quadrangle Club of
the University of Chicago. Professor An
gell married in Des Moines, Iowa, Decem
ber 18, 1894, Marion Isabel Watrous, and
they have two children, James Watrous
Angell, born May 20, 1898, and Marion
Watrous Caswell Angell, born May 29,
1903. Address : University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
AND3AL, Lee S.:
Lawyer; born at Benson, Hamilton
County, New York, in 185 1 ; son of Samuel
L. Anibal and Emeline (Brownell) Anibal,
and grandson of Judge Cyrus H. Brownell.
He was educated in the schools of Buffalo,
New York, and Nor.thville, New York, and
at Fort Plain Seminary. He was admitted
to the New York Bar in 1879; and later to
practice in United States courts, and en
gaged in practice at Northville, New York.
Mr. Anibal is a Thirty-second degree Ma
son and has held offices in the var
ious. Masonic bodies. He is identified with
various local financial and educational in
stitutions. Mr. Anibal married November
28, 1890, Laura C. Billington, daughter of

Thomas M. and Abbie P. Billington, of
Amsterdam, New York. Address: North
ville Bank Buidling, Northville, New York.
ANIBAL, Robert P.:
Jurist; born at Benson, New York, Feb
ruary 22, 1845; son of Samuel I. Anibal
and Emeline (Brownell) Anibal. He was
educated at Fort Edward Collegiate Insti
tute and was engaged in teaching until ad
mitted to the bar in 1871. He was county
judge and surrogate of Fulton County,
New York, from 1872 to 1877; practiced
law at Northville, New York, from 1872
to 1886 and at Johnstown since 1886.
Judge Anibal married, April 24, 1872,
Frances E. VanArnam. Address : Johns
town, New York.
ANKENY, Levy:
United States senator and banker; born
near St. Joseph, Missouri, August 1, 1844.
In the year 1850 with his parents, he cross
ed the plains to Oregon, where he attend
ed the public schools of Portland. He
afterward, with his father, Captain Ankeny,
engaged in the transportation business to
and from the mines. He was agent for the
Wells-Fargo Company, and later engaged
in the mercantile business at Lewiston,
Idaho. He was the first mayor of Lewis-
ton, the Government having deeded to him.
as trustee, the public land on which that
town was located. Later he moved to
Walla Walla, Washington, and engaged in
the banking business, being president of
seven banks in Washington and Oregon.
He was for one term a member of the
Walla Walla common counsel, but has held /
no other public office. He was chairman
of the Washington State delegation to the
Republican National Convention at Phila
delphia in 1900; was appointed a member
of the Pan-American Exposition Commis
sion from Washington by the late Gover
nor Rogers, and was made its chairman.
He became a candidate for the United
States Senate in 1895, but was defeated,
and was again defeated in 1899. He was
selected as the member of the Republican
National Committee from the State of
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ton, January 29, 1903, to succeed George
Turne, Democrat, and took his seat, March
5, 1903, for the term expiring March 3,
1909. He married October 2, 1867, Jennie
Nesmith, daughter of the late Senator
James W. Nesmith, of Oregon. Address:
Walla Walla, Washington,
ANSTICE, Henry:
Clergyman j born in New York City, Oc
tober 7, 1841; son of Henry and Mary
(Saltonstall) Anstice. He was graduated
with honors from Williams College in 1862,
and in 1875 received the degree of D.D.
from the University of Rochester, New
York. He was ordered deason and or
dained priest in the Episcopal ministry by
Bishop Horatio Potter in 1865, was in
charge of Saint Barnabas' Church, at Irv-
ington-on-Hudson, New York, in 1865 and
1866; was rector of Saint Luke's Church,
Rochester, New York, from 1866 to 1897,
and of Saint Matthias' Church at Phila
delphia from 1897 to 1903 ; and he is now
secretary of the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a
member of the Board of Missions; trustee
of the American Church Building Fund
Commission; director and financial secre
tary of the Clergyman's Retiring Fund So
ciety; overseer of the Philadelphia Divin
ity School, and trustee of the Clifton
Springs Sanitarium. Dr. Anstice married
at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, May
30, 1866, Flora Fenner. Address: 281
Fourth Avenue, New York City.
ANTHONY, Brayman William:
President of Adrian College; born at
Leray, New York, February 16, 1854, son of
George W. Anthony and Mary Lucinda
(Locke) Anthony. He was graduated from
Adrian College at Adrian, Michigan as Ph.
B. in 1880, and he received the degree of
D. D. from Kansas City University, 1901.
He was ordained to ministry in the Meth
odist Protestant Church, September 1880;
was pastor of North Wolcott charge from
1877 to 1878 and from 1880 to 1882, South
Valley, 1882 to 1885; Paine's Hollow from
1885 to 1888; Paris, Illinois, 1888 to 1890;
Springdale, Pa., 1890 to 1893 ; Castle Shan
non, 1893 to 1904. He was recording secre

tary of the Board of Ministerial Education
of the Methodist Protestant Church, from
1896 to 1900 ; member of the board of Home
Missions of the Methodist Protestant
Church, since 1900, and president of Adrian
College since March 31, 1904. He was a
member of the Tri-Church Council of Day
ton, Ohio, in 1906, and at Chicago in 1907.
Dr. Anthony has been a trustee of the Kan
sas City University, Kansas City, .Kansas,
since 1903. He married at Red Creek, New
York, August 12, 1879, Frances DeLameter,
and they have two children, Lida C. Pfaff,
born in 1882, and Ruth V, born in 1894.
Address : Adrian, Michigan.
ANTHONY, Daniel Bead, Jr.:
Newspaper publisher; born at Leaven
worth, Kansas, August 22, 1870; son of
Daniel Read Anthony and Annie (Os
borne) Anthony. He was educated in the
Leavenworth public schools, the Michigan
Military Academy and the University of
Michigan, graduating as LL.B. He is
editor of the Leavenworth Daily Times.
He is a director of the Leavenworth Na
tional Bank. Mr. Anthony has traveled
in Europe, Mexico and Cuba. He was
Mayor of Leavenworth from 1903 to 1905.
He was elected in 1906 from the First
Kansas District to the Sixtieth Congress
expiring March 3, 1909. He is a Republi
can in politics. He is a member of the
Phi Delta Phi and Delta Tau Delta fra
ternities. His favorite recreations are
hunting and fishing. He is a member of
the Leavenworth, Elks, Kansas City Clubs.
Address: North Broadway, Leavenworth,
Kansas.
ANTHONY, Gardner Chace:
Dean of the Engineering, School of Tufts
College; born in Providence, Rhode Island,
April 24, 1856; son. of David Chace An
thony and Sarah Clark (Carpenter) Anthony.
He was educated in the English and Class
ical School at Providence, Rhode Island,
at Brown University and at Tufts College,
and received from the latter the honorary
degree of A.M. in 1890 and of ScD, in
1905. He became connected with the Harris-
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from 1881 to 1884, and the Brown and
Sharpe Manufacturing Company in 1885.
In the latter year he became director of the
Mechanical, Department of the Rhode Is
land School of Design; was founder and
director of the Rhode Island Technical
Drawing School in 1887; dean of the
Bromfield-Pearson School of Tufts Col
lege and professor of technical drawing in
same in 1893, and since 1898 dean of the
Department of Engineering in Tufts Col
lege. Mr. Anthony is a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and of the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education. He is author of
the Technical Drawing Series, published by
D. C. Heath and Company of Boston. He
married in Boston, Massachusetts, June 25,
1879, Susan A. Pearson, and they have a
son, Charles P. Anthony, born in 1880.
Residence : 14 Professors Row. Busine'ss
address : Tufts College, Massachusetts.
ANTISDALE, Louis Martin:
Editor; born at Marion, Wayne County,
New York, October 27, 1869; son of Phil
ander and Elizabeth (Lyke) Antisdale.
After a careful preparatory education he
entered the University of Rochester, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
A.B. in 1893. He began his newspaper
career with the Rochester Herald while he
was in the University, as a reporter from
1891 to 1893 ; was deputy collector of inter
nal revenue at Rochester in 1893 and 1894.
He was manager of the Rochester Herald
from 1894 to 1897, and since 1898 he has
been its editor and. part proprietor of that
paper. Address: The Herald, Rochester,
New York.
APPLETON, Daniel:
Publisher ; born in New York City ; son of
John A. Appleton and grandson of Daniel
Appleton, founder of D. Appleton & Com
pany. He was educated in New York City
and at Carlsruhe, Germany, and entered
¦ Harvard, but did not continue the course,
leaving in 1871 to enter business. He was
a clerk in the publishing house of D. Ap
pleton & Company until 1879, and since
then 'has been member of the firm; and he
is now vice-president of the company. He

entered the Boston Cadet Corps in 1867,
enlisted October 31, 1871 as a private in
Company F of the Seventh Regiment, Na
tional Guard of New York; was promoted
captain in January, 1879, and elected colo
nel of the regiment July 18, 1889, since
which date he has continued at its head.
Colonel Appleton is a member of the Cen
tury Association and of the Union, New
York Yacht, New York Athletic, Army
and Navy, Fencers and Larchmont Yacht
Clubs. Residence: Hotel Astor. Business
address : 436 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.APPLETON, Francis Randall:
Merchant; born in New York, August 5,
1854 ; son of Daniel Fuller and Julia (Ran
dall) Appleton. He was educated at An-
thon Grammar School, at Phillips Andover
Academy, at Harvard College, graduating
as A.B. in 1875 and Columbia College,
graduating with the degree of LL.B. in
1877. He practiced law in New York untii
1883, and in 1884 became a member of the
firm of Robbins & Appleton, general agents
of the Waltham -Watch Company of Wal-
tham, Massachusetts. He is a director of
The National Park Bank, the Mount Morris
Bank and the Manhattan Trust Company,
and is vice-president and director of the
Waltham Watch Company, of Waltham,
Massachusetts. For thirteen years he was
a staff officer of the First Brigade of the
National Guard of the State of New York
Louis Fitzgerald, commanding. He is a
Republican in politics, and an Episcopalian
in religion. He is a trustee of the General
Memorial Hospital in New York, and a
member of the Board of Overseers of Har
vard College. He is also on the Board of
Management of several clubs. Mr. Apple-
ton married at Lenox, Massachusetts, Oc
tober 7, 1884, Fanny Lanier, and they have
five children. Residence : 26 East Thirty-
seventh Street, New York City, and Ips
wich, Massachusetts. Business address: 21
Maiden Lane, New York City.
APPLETON, James Waldingfleld:
Born in New York City, June 4, 1867 ;
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private schools in New York and graduat
ed from Harvard with the degree of A.B.
in 1888. He is a member of the firm of
Robins & Appleton and director of the
Waltham Watch Company. Mr. Appleton
is a Republican in politics and a Protestant
Episcopalian in religion. He is a member
and secretary of the Knickerbocker Club,
and a member of the Meadow Brook,
Racquet and Tennis, University, Harvard
and Down Town Clubs of New York,
and the Somerset and Myopia Clubs of
Boston. Residence: 44 East Thirty-fifth
Street. Address: 21 Maiden Lane, New
York City.
APPLETON, R. Ross:
Banker ; born at Industry, Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, in 1853. He was educated
in public schools and Commercial College
of Pittsburg. At an early age he entered
'a mercantile establishment in New Brigh
ton, Pennsylvania; later was employed as
an accountant in the auditor's office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania ; was auditor and accountant with
the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing
Company in North Carolina, and was
transferred to Brooklyn in 1878, where he
represented the Wheeler and Wilson Man
ufacturing Company as general manager.
He represented his district several years
in the Republican State Committee, and
was a delegate to the National Convention
of his party. He was appointed a receiver
of taxes and assessments in Brooklyn by
Mayor Schieren, and later re-appointed by
Mayor Wurster, which position he occu
pied until the consolidation of the greater
city. He was one of the organizers of the
Brooklyn Public Library and its first sec
retary, and he succeeded himself as di
rector of the Public Library, having been
appointed by Mayors Van Wyck and
McClellan. He was appointed trustee of
the Carnegie Library Fund, amounting to
$1,600,000, for the erection of Carnegie
Branch Libraries in the City of Brooklyn.
He was civil service commissioner during
Mayor McClellan's first term and was re
appointed by Mayor McClellan during his
second term. Mr. Appleton is president

of the Fourteenth Street Bank, director of
the Metropolitan Safe Deposit Company,
director of the Northern New Jersey Trust
Company, and director of the People's
Surety Company. He is a member of the
Executive Committee of the Civil Service
Reform Association, a member of the
Hamilton Club, the Rembrandt Art Club,
Brooklyn League and other civic bodies
for the improvement of municipal condi
tions; a life member of the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences, a member of
Commonwealth Lodge of Masons, and of
Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar.
Address: Fourteenth Street and Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
ARCHBALD, Robert Wodrow:
United States district judge; born at
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, Sept. 10, 1848,
son of James Archbald and Augusta T.
(Frothingham) Archbald, daughter of.
Major Thomas Frothingham, of the Con
tinental Army. He removed to Scranton,
Pennsylvania, in 1857, attended the public
schools there and the Flushing Institute,
Flushing, Long Island, after which he
entered Yale College, where he was grad
uated in 1871 with the degree of A.B.
For two years following his graduation, he
read law in the office of Hand & Post, of
Scranton, Pa., and was admitted to the
bar of Pennsylvania September 23, 1873.
After practicing law at Scranton for a
number of years, he was nominated by the
Republican party for additional law judge
of the forty-fifth district of Pennsylvania,
and was elected November 4, 1884, taking
office on January 5, 1885. He became pres
ident judge August 1, 1888, and was re
elected in November, 1894, for a second
term of ten years. On April I, 1901, he
was appointed by President McKinley
United States district judge for the newly-
formed Middle District of Pennsylvania.
He is a Republican in politics and has
been frequently mentioned for judge of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and was
an active candidate for the same in 1893
and 1899. He is a member of the Pres
byterian Church. Among the various so
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drews Society of Philadelphia, the Scroll
and Key Society of Yale and the Psi Upsi
lon fraternity, and while in college he was
a member of the College Glee Club and the
Wooden Spoon Committee. Judge Arch
bald was married at Oxford, New York,
January 21, 1875, to Elizabeth Baldwin Can
non, only daughter of- the late Benjamin
Cannon, and has three children : Robert
Wodrow Archbald, Jr., born January 10,
1876; Anna Archbald, born August 22,
1878, and Hugh Archbald, born October 30,
1880. Residence:. 236 Monroe Avenue,
Scranton. Address: Post Office Building,
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
ARCHBOLD, John Dustim
Vice-president of the Standard Oil Com
pany; born at Leesburg, Highland County,
Ohio, July 26, 1848. He was educated in
the schools of Ohio and in 1864 he went
to the Pennsylvania oil regions, remaining
there until 1875, and becoming president
of the Acme Oil Company. In 1875 he
became a resident of Syracuse, New York,
and he has been a director since 1875 and
is now vice-president of the Standard
Oil Company. Mr. Archbold is president
of the board of trustees of Syracuse Uni
versity, and a director of the Post-Gradu-
ate Hospital arid Training School. He is
a member of the Ohio Society, the Ameri
can Geographical Society, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the American Museum of
Natural History, and of the Union League,
Racquet and Tennis, Knollwood Golf, New
York Yacht, and Larchmont Clubs. Mr.
Archbold married Annie M. Mills. Resi
dence: Tarrytown-on-Hudson. Office ad
dress : 26 Broadway, New York City.
ARCHIBALD, Andrew Webster:
Clergyman and author ; born at New
Kingston, New York, April 10, 185 1 ; son
of Robert Archibald and Betsy (Hamil
ton) Archibald. He was graduated at the
head of the class from Union College as
A.B. in 1872, taking the first medal for
oratory, and a prize for literary excel
lence, and being elected to the Phi Beta
Kappa. He was graduated from the Div
inity School of Yale University as B.D. in
1876. and took a special year at the Andover

Theological Seminary in 1887 and 1888.
He received the degree of D.D. from Union
College in 1891. He was ordained in the
Congregational ministry and was pastor in
Iowa for fifteen years, principally of the
First Church of Ottumwa, Iowa, and of the
Edwards Church of Davenport, Iowa. He
was president of the Iowa Congregational
Home Missionary Society; Iowa Examiner
of the Chicago Theological Seminary and
trustee of Iowa College. He filled two pas
torates in Massachusetts of churches with
a membership of seven hundred, viz. : First
Church of Hyde Park in suburban Boston,
and the Porter Church of Brockton, Massa
chusetts. He organized the Second Church
of Ottumwa, Iowa, and the Congregational
Church at Cliftondale, a suburb of Boston.
He was moderator of the Boston minis
ter's Meeting; director of the Massachu
setts Christian Endeavor Union, Massachu
setts delegate-at-large to the Congregational
National Council. Dr. Archibald is author
of: The Bible Verified, which has gone to
its fourth edition, besides being translated
into Spanish and Japanese ; and is author
of: The Trend of The Centuries. He has
traveled extensively in Europe and the
Orient, and also in California and the West.
Dr. Archibald is a Republican in politics.
He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa society
and the Boston Congregational Club. Dr.
Archibald married in New Haven, Con
necticut, May 18, 1876, Julia Agnes War
ren, and he has three sons : Warren, born
May 25, 1877; Kenneth, born February 25,
1880, and Cecil, born September 27, 1881.
Address : 644 State Street, New Haveii,
Connecticut. ARMOUR, Jonathan Ogden :
Merchant, capitalist; born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, November 11, 1863; son of the
late Philip Danforth Armour and Malvina
Belle (Ogden) Armour. After a careful
preparatory education he entered Yale, but
left before completing the course because
of the desire of his father that he should
join him in business and relieve him of part
of the executive burden. With that view
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been engaged in the business of Armour
and Company, succeeding to the presidency
of that company upon the death of his
father in 1901. He is also president and
director of the Armour Car Lines; the
Armour Grain Company; the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railway; the Conti
nental National Bank of Chicago; the
Northwestern National Insurance Company
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the National
Packing Company; Omaha Packing Com
pany, and other corporations. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago, Commercial and Calu
met Clubs, of Chicago. Mr. Armour mar
ried, at New York, Lolita Sheldon, and
they have one daughter, Lolita. Residence :
3724 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office:
Home Insurance Building, Chicago, Illi
nois. ARMSBY, Henry Prentiss:
Director of the Institute of Animal Nu
trition of The Pennsylvania State College
from 1907; born at Northbridge, Massa
chusetts, September 21, 1853 ; son of Lewis
Armsby and Mary A. Armsby. He was
educated at Worcester Polytechnic Insti
tute, graduating with the degree of B.S.
in 1871 ; Yale, graduating with the degree of
Ph.B. in 1874, and did post-graduate work
at Leipzig, in 1876, and at Yale, receiving
the degree of Ph.D. in 1879; also receiving
from the University of Wisconsin the hon
orary degree of LL.D. in 1904. He was
assistant in chemistry in Worcester Poly
technic Institute from 1871 to 1872; teacher
of natural science, High School, Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, 1874 to 1875 ; assistant in
chemistry in Rutgers College, 1876 to 1877 ;
chemist of the Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment Station, from 1877 to 1881,
vice-president of Connecticut Agricultural
College, from r88i to 1883; professor of
agricultural chemistry in the University of
Wisconsin and associate director of the Ex
periment Station, 1883-1887. Director of
The Pennsylvania State College Agricul
tural Experiment Station from 1887 to 1907,
and dean of the School of Agriculture, The
Pennsylvania State College, from 1890 to
1902. He was chairman of the Committee
on Cooperative - Experiment Station Ex
hibits at the World's Columbian ^Exposition,

1893 ; Paris Exposition, in 1900 ; also a
member of the Committee on Dairy Tests
at the World's Columbian Exposition in
1893; and he has been expert in animal nu
trition, United States Department of Agri
culture since 1898. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and member of the American
Chemical Society; American Physiological
Society; American Society of Biological
Chemists; Society for the Promotion of
Agricultural Science (of which he was
president from 1905 to. 1907), and of the
Association of American Agricultural Col
leges and Experiment Stations (of which
he was president from 1898 to 1899). He
is author of: Manual of Cattle Feeding,
1880; Principles of Animal Nutrition, 1903;
also of various scientific papers on the util
ization of the potential energy of the food
of domestic animals. Mr. Armsby mar
ried, October 15, 1878, Lucy A. Harding.
Address : State College, Centre County,
Pennsylvania.
ARMSTRONG, Andrew Campbell:
University professor; born in New York
City, August 22, i860; son of Andrew C.
Armstrong and Isabella J. (Sinclair) Arm
strong. He was prepared at the Friends
Seminary, New York City, was graduated
from Princeton College as B.A. in 1881 ;
fellow in mental science in 1881-1882; M.A.
in 1884; graduated from Princeton Theo
logical Seminary in 1885, and studied at the
University of Berlin in 1885-1886; and h<
received the degree of M.A. (ad eundem
gradum) from Wesleyan University in 1894,
and the honorary degree of Ph.D. from
Princeton College in 1896. He was asso
ciate professor of ecclesiastical history at
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886-
1887; associate editor of the New Prince
ton Review, in 1887-1888; instructor in his
tory at Princeton College in 1887-1888, and
since 1888 has been professor of philosophy
at Wesleyan University. He has been lec
turer at Hartford Theological Seminary,
1902; and at Columbia University, New
York, 1904; cooperating editor of the Psy
chological Review since 1904, and he was
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the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis in 1904. Professor Armstrong has
made various European trips, in particular
as a student in Germany in 1885-1886, and
on sabbatical leave in England (at Oxford
and Cambridge) and France in 1899-1900.
In politics he is an Independent Republican,
and in religion a Congregationalist. He is
a member of the American Psychological
Association, and the American Philosophi
cal Association (member of the Executive
Committee in 1901 and 1902) ; and is a
member of the Ivy Club at Princeton Col
lege. He is author of an English trans
lation of Falckenberg's History of Modern
Philosophy, 1893 (Holt & Company) ; con
tributions to Falckenberg's Geschichte der
neueren Philosophie, editions three and five,
from 1898 to 1905; also author of contri
butions to Baldwin's Dictionary of Phil
osophy and Psychology, 1901 to 1902 (Mac
millan & Company) ; and of Transitional
Eras in Thought, 1904 (Macmillan & Com
pany), and various papers in reviews, mag
azines, etc. Dr. Armstrong is a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University,
1889. He married at Princeton, New Jer
sey, September 6, 1888, Maoel Chester Mur
ray ; and of that union there have been
born three sons : James Syng Armstrong;
born in 1894; Sinclair Wallace Armstrong,
born in 1897, and A. C Armstrong, third,
born in 1890 and died in 1891. Address :
Middletown, Connecticut.
ARMSTRONG, Collin:
Editor and publisher ; born in Fayctte-
ville, New York, June 11, 1853; son of
Ethan Armstrong and Miriam (Collin)
Armstrong. He was graduated from Am
herst College as A.B. in. 1877. He was a
reporter on the New York World from
March 19, 1876, to June 28, 1878; financial
editor of the New York Sun from June
28, 1878, to October I, 1902, and since then
has been editor of the Wall Street Sum
mary. He is treasurer of the New York
News Bureau Association ; president of the
Hamilton Press; is treasurer of Albert
Frank & Company, and since 1904 has been
vice-president of the Alpha Delta Phi fra
ternity, and is vice-president of the Alpha

Delta Phi Club. He married at Neenah,
Wisconsin, Elizabeth Hale. Address : 25
Broad Street, New York City.
ARMSTRONG, David Mai t land:
Artist; born at Newburg, New York, in
1836. He was graduated from Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1858; be
came a lawyer, but abandoned it for art,
opening a studio in New York, and later
studying in Paris and Italy. He was four
years American consul-general at Rome, and
in the Paris Exposition of 1878 was director
of the American Art Department, and re
ceived from the French Government the
decoration of the Legion d' Honneur. He
is an associate of the National Academy of
Design; a member of the Society of Amer
ican Artists, and of the Architectural
League. Address : 61 Washington Square
South, New York City.
ARMSTRONG, James:
Lawyer; born in the Town of Candor,
Tioga County, New York, July 4, 1834;
son of Henry and Elizabeth (Cady) Arm
strong. He was prepared at Owego Ac
ademy, was graduated from Hobart Col
lege as A.B. (with first honor) in 1856,
and subsequently received from' that insti
tution the degrees of A.M., in 1871, and
LL.D. in 1906. He was admitted to the
New York Bar, Elmira, New York, in May,
1858; practiced law at Davenport, Iowa,
from 1858 to 1873; was collector of Inter
nal revenue for the Second District of
Iowa, from 1866 to 1869; and removed to
New York City in 1873 to take charge of
the law and collection business of H. B.
Claflin & Company. While in charge of the
business, traveled extensively in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico, and in 1876
he entered the' general practice of law in
New York City. He is now senior mem
ber of the firm of Armstrong, Brown and
Boland. He acted as counsel of the re
ceiver of Poughkeepsie Bridge Railroad,
from 1892, to 1897, and has been counsel
of the ¦ Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Company in New York, from 1892, and of
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company. He is, counsel and director of
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Company; director of the Hartford and
Connecticut Railroad Company, Dutchess
County Railroad Company, and counsel of
the Central New England Railroad Com-
pan. Mr. Arrnstrong is president of the
Investor's Mortgage .Company. He is in
politics an independent Democrat, and in
religion an Episcopalian, and has been sen
ior warden of All Saints' Church of Bay-
side, Long Island, since the foundation of
the parish in 1893. He is a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; the Metropol
itan Museum of Art; the Museum of Nat
ural History, and the Lawyers' Club of
New York City. Mr. Armstrong has been
twice married; first at Catskill, New York,
March 23, 1859, to Mary E. Baker, and
second, July 14, 1893, to Elizabeth Douglass,
and he has one daughter living, Mrs.
James Gregory. Address : 74 East Fifty-fifth
Street, New York City.
ARMSTRONG, Samuel Treat:
Physician; born at St. Louis, Missouri,
November 2, 1859; son of David Hartley
and Laura (Milligan) Armstrong. He was
educated in public and private schools and
by a private tutor at St. Louis, at the St.
Louis University from which he received
the degree of Ph. B. in 1879, and the St.
Louis Medical College (Medical Depart
ment of Washington University), from
which he was graduated, M.D. in 1879; and
in 1886 the degree of Ph.D. was conferred
upon him by St. Louis University. Dr.
Armstrong served as assistant physician of
the St. Louis City and Female Hospitals,
from 1879 to 1880, and then entered the
United States Marine Hospital Service,
serving at New Orleans, La., Key West,
Fla., Memphis, Tenn., New York City,
Cleveland, Ohio, then was ' in the United
States Army at United States Army Gen
eral Hospital, Key West, Fla. ; was chief
sanitary inspector of the Fourth Corps,
chief surgeon, Department of Puerto Prin
cipe, Cuba, of -District of Negros, Depart
ment Visayas, and of the Third District,
in Southern Luzon, Philippine Islands. He
was commissioned as assistant surgeon
United States Marine Hospital Service,
February, 1881 ; promoted to passed assis

tant surgeon, United States Marine Hospi
tal Service, March, 1884; resigned commis
sion, July 1890; then was major and brig
ade surgeon, United States Volunteers,
1898 and resigned, June 30, .1901, coming
to New York City and engaging in practice.
He has" attained distinction in his profes
sion and especially as a hygienest and sani
tarian. He is an honorary member of the
Memphis (Tenn.) and New Rochelle (New
York) Medical Societies; member of the
New York Academy of Medicine ; the New
York Historical Society; the New York
Geographical Society; New York Academy
of Sciences ; the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; the American Museum of Natural
History; New York Botanical Society;
British Medical Association; Societe Fran-
caise d'Hygiene, etc. He is_ a companion of
the Naval and Military Order of the Span
ish-American War, and of the Order of
Fofeign Wars. Dr. Armstrong is Inde
pendent in politics and Episcopalian in re
ligious affiliation, and he is a member of
the Army and Navy Club of New York.
Dr. Armstrong married at New Orleans,
December 6, 1882, Alice, daughter of J. H.
Cobin, and by that union there are four
children : Laura J., Clariette P., Donald and
Francis T. Address: 144 East Thirty-
seventh Street, New York City.
ARMSTRONG, Theodore:
Manufacturer; born in New York City.
in 1844. He enlisted in the Volunteer Army
in 1861 and served in the ranks till 1864.
After leaving the army he became an audit
ing clerk in the Internal Revenue Office in
Philadelphia, and in the autumn of 1865
entered the service of the Pennsylvania
Salt Manufacturing Company; in 1866 he
was made chief accountant at the company's
factory, at Natrona, Pa., where he spent
seven years mastering the details of the
chemical processes employed. He was ap
pointed auditor to the company in 1873
and transferred to Philadelphia, and here
his thorough knowledge of the business.
proved so successful that he was soon
elected secretary; then in succession treas
urer, vice-president and president. The lat
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has succeeded in remarkably systematizing
the company's operations and modernizing
its methods. He is a member of the Union
League, the Manufacturers' Club, the His
torical Society, Society of Chemical In
dustry, the Franklin Institute, and various
other associations of the Quaker City. Ad
dress : 1312 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. ARNOLD, Bion Joseph:
Electrical engineer and inventor; barn at
Cazenovia, Michigan, August 14, 1861 ; son
of Joseph Arnold and Geraldine (Reynolds)
Arnold. He was educated at the High
School, at Ashland, Nebraska, the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and Hillsdale College,
Hillsdale, Michigan, graduating as B.S. in
1884, A.M. in 1887, and M.Ph. in 1889. He
took post-graduate work at Cornell Uni
versity in 1889 and in 1897 received the
degree of E.E. from the University of Ne
braska. In June, 1907, the Armour Insti
tute of Chicago conferred upon him the
honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Mr.
Arnold early took to mechanics ; he made
a bicycle (the first in Nebraska), when
fourteen years old, and a practical light
iocomotive at eighteen ; was a draughts
man for the Edward P. Allis Company, at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later chief de
signer for Iowa Iron Works. He was con
sulting engineer with the General Electric
Company at Chicago, from 1889 to 1893, and
since then engaged in independent practice
as consulting electrical engineer. He de
signed and built the power plant, and was
consulting engineer for the Intramural
Railway which operated at the World's
Columbian Exposition, consulting engineer
at the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
Railway, the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad and Chicago Board of
Trade; member of the Commission which
devised plans for the electrical operation of
the New York Central trains in and out of
New York City; consulting engineer of the
City of Chicago on Traction matters; con
sulting engineer to the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad on their elec
trification plans. He invented the direct-
connected power station system, using mag

netic clutches, storage battery improve
ments, a magnetic clutch, and new devices
and systems for electric traction. Mr.
Arnold was one of the early pioneers and
the strongest advocate of the single-phase -
electrical railway system, one type of which
is used by the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad. He spends every alter
nate week in New York City. He is a
past president of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers and of the Western
Society of Engineers. Was vice-president
and. chairman of the Executive Committee
of the International Electrical Congress of
St. Louis in 1904, and represented the A.
I. E. E. at the Paris International Elec
trical Congress in 1900. He is president
of the Arnold Company, and a director
of the Elgin & Belvidere Electric Rail
way Company. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Mr. Arnold is a trustee of Hillsdale
College, Michigan.' His recreations are
automobiling and traveling. He is a mem
ber of the Union League, City, Engineers,
and South Shore Country Clubs of Chi
cago, and the Transportation and Engineers
Clubs of New York City. Mr. Arnold mar
ried at Reading, Michigan, February 14,
1886, Carrie Estelle Berry, who died Feb
ruary I, 1907, leaving him three children :
Maude Lucille, born in 1887, Stanley Ber
ry, born in 1889, and Robert Melville, born
in 1900. Address : 181 La Salle Street,
Chicago; 314 Madison Avenue, New York
City.ARNOLD, Juleau H. :
Consular official; appointed student inter
preter in China, July 18, 1902 ; appointed also
vice and deputy consul at Dalny, February
4, 1904; deputy consul-general at Shanghai
July 13, 1904; vice and deputy consul at
Fuchan, March 7, 1906 ; assigned to duty in
the Consulate-General at Shanghai ; May 5,
1906, and appointed consul at Tamsui, June
22, 1906. Address : Tamsui, Formosa;
Japan. ARNSTEIN, Albert:
Lawyer; born in New York City, July
26, 1856; son of Ephraim and Katherine
(Popper) Arnstein. He was graduated
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1872, and from Packards' Business College
in 1874, and studied law at the Saint Louis
Law School, at Saint Louis, Missouri,
graduating in 1878 with the degree of
LL.B. The same year he was admitted to
the bar of Missouri, practicing in St.
Louis. He was elected as a Democrat in
1890 to the City Council of St. Louis, fill
ing the office from 1891 to 1895. He was
also for two years (from 1902 to 1904)
chairman of the Merchants' and Manufac
turers' License Revision Board. He is a
director of the Westinghouse Automatic
Air and Steam Coupler Company. Mr.
Arnstein is active in philanthropic work
and is a member of several societies for
the betterment of the conditions of the
lower classes. He is president of the
United Jewish Educational and Charitable
Associations. He is a member of the Ethi
cal Society, and of the Columbian, Nor
mandie Gold' and Contemporary Clubs of
Saint Louis. He was married at New
York City in 1884, to Clarissa Rosenheim,
and they have three children : Herbert,
Natalie and Frederick. Residence: 4410
Westminster Place. Address : 421 Olive
Street, Saint Louis, Missouri.
ARTHUR. Chester A.-.
Capitalist.; born in New York, July 25,
1864; son of Chester A. and Ellen Lewis
(Herndon) Arthur. He was educated at
Princeton University where he received the
degree of B.A. He is a member of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity of Columbia Uni
versity. He belongs to the Union, the
Brook, and the Racquet and Tennis
Clubs of New York, to the Travel
ers' Club of Paris, and to the El
Paso Country Club of Colorado Springs.
He is a Republican in politics and
an Episcopalian in religion. He mar
ried at Vvey, Switzerland, May 8, 1900,
Myra Townsend Fithian, and they have
one son, Chester A. Arthur 3d. Residence :
Edge Plain, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
ARTHUR, Daniel Houston:
Physician; born in Ashland, Ohio, Sep
tember 26, 1861 ; son of Thomas L Arthur
and Judith (Liggett) Arthur. He was
graduated from Wittenberg College,

Springfield, Ohio, as A.B. in 1883, and
A.M. in 1892, and from the New York
Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospi
tal, as M.D. in 1887. Dr. Arthur was for
eleven years assistant at the Middletown
State Homoeopathic Hospital and is now
physician superintendent of the Gowanda
State Homoeopathic Hospital. He is a
member of the Erie County Homoeopathic
Medical Society, New York State Homoeo
pathic Medical Society, Western New York
Homoeopathic Medical Society, American-
Medico Psyscopathic Association, Medico-
Legal Society. Dr. Arthur is a member
of the Masonic Order, the Phi Kappa Psi
college fraternity, and the University and
Ellicott Clubs of Buffalo. Dr. Arthur
married, at Monticello, New York, in 1892,
Virginia R. Beebe, and they have two
daughters : Fanchon, born in 1893 and
Madeline, born in 1895. Address : State
Hospital, Gowanda, Erie County, New
York. AR TING STALL, Samuel George:
Civil engineer; born in Manchester, Eng
land, November 25, 1845; son of John and
Ellen (Hall) Artingstall. He received his
education in the public schools of Man
chester, and engaged in the study and
practice of civil engineering in " that city
six years before coming to America, in
1869. He' settled in Chicago, Illinois, and
met with considerable success in the line of
his profession. He entered the employ of
the City of Chicago in 1869 in the engi
neering department and was city engineer
from 1886 to 1888 and again from 1893 to
1895. Later he was made chief engineer
of the Sanitary Board. He is a member
of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the Western Society of Engineers,
the American Water Works Association,
an associate member of the Institute of
Civil Engineers of Great Britain. He has
no fixed political affiliations. He is a
Mason and a member of Cleveland Lodge
and Washington Chapter of Chicago. He
married, in Chicago, on November 1, 1874,
Susan Archer, and his living children are
Mrs. John Hanson, William, Grace, Sadie,
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Lillian, in addition to five children de
ceased. Office : Postal Telegraph Building ;
residence: 13 South Hamilton Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
ASAY, Wrilliam Cooper:
Lawyer; born June 28, 1857; son of Ed
ward G. and Emma O. Asay. He re
ceived his early education in the public
schools of Chicago, and took his prepara
tory course at the Lake Forest Academy.
Entering Yale College, he was graduated
with the degree of A.B. in 1880. He stud
ied law in the office of his father and was
admitted to the Chicago bar in 1881. He
was the leading counsel in the celebrated
Story case, in which he won distinction,
and has been identified with many other
important litigations. He is an extensive
traveler, having visited all the important
sections of his own country and many of
the foreign countries. He was for several
years an active member of the Illinois Na
tional Guard, and was city attorney of
Chicago from December, 1892, until May,
1893. In the latter month he was appointed
city prosecuting attorney, in which he
served until May, 1905. Residence: 2572
Wayne Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Office :
79 Dearborn Street.
ASHBROOK, Joseph:
Insurance manager of the Provident Life
and Trust Company of Philadelphia, Pa. ;
born in Philadelphia, August 4; 1840, and
at the age of fifteen entered the office of
a firm of stock-brokers. During the Civil
War he enlisted in the One Hundred and
Eighteenth Pennsylvania Regiment and
served throughout the conflict; shortly
after entering the service in 1862 he was
severely wounded, and soon thereafter re
ceived a commission. He was brevetted
major -for gallant services in the Wilder
ness campaign; and subsequently served as
ordnance, officer of the staff of General
Griffin, commanding the First Division,
Fifth Army Corps. He was detailed to re
ceive the arms and ammunition surrend
ered by the Army of Northern Virginia at
Appomattox Court House in. April, 1865;
and soon after, the close of the war he be
came superintendent of agencies for the

Provident Life and Trust Company, and
was appointed manager of its insurance de
partment in 1881. Address : 3614 Baring
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ASHCRAFT, Edwin M.:
Lawyer; born in Virginia, August 27,
1848; son of James M. and Clarissa (Swi-
ger) Ashcraft. He received his education
in the public schools of Virginia and Illi
nois. He entered upon the study of law
soon after leaving school and was admitted
to the bar on January 1, 1873; he was
soon actively engaged in a general practice
and is now the senior member of the firm
of Ashcraft & Ashcraft. He is a member
and ex-president of the Chicago Bar Asso
ciation, and also a member of the Illinois
State Bar Association, and of the Hamilton
and Union League Clubs of, Chicago. He
married at Belleville, Illinois, March 16,
1875, Florence R. Moore, and has four
children : Raymond M., Edwin M., Jr.,
Florence V, and Alan E. Residence : 6046
Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Of
fice address : The Temple, Chicago, Illinois.
ASHHURST, John:
Librarian; born in Philadelphia, Decem
ber 31, 1865, being the third in succession
of his name. He was prepared for college
at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia,
and entered the class of 1887, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. He was connect
ed with a number of college organiza
tions, and was a member of the cast of the
Acharnians of Aristophanes, and of the
editorial staff of the University Magazine.
Leaving the University during his' senior
year, he entered the service of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railway Company;
in 1891 joined the construction depart
ment of the Western Maryland Railroad,
and afterward entered the works of the
Maryland Steel Company. His work as a
librarian began in 1895 in connection with
the West Philadelphia branch of the Free
Library of Philadelphia. In 1901 he was
elected librarian of the Mercantile Library
of Philadelphia, and quickly did much to
wards restoring this moribund institution
to public favor. In 1904 he was elected
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Philadelphia. He is a member of the
American Library Association, Keystone
State Library Association, Pennsylvania
Library Club (president from 1904 to
1905), Philobiblon Club (secretary since
1898), Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
and University Club of Philadelphia. Un
married, is a Republican. Address : 2000
De Lancey Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-

ASHHURST, Richard Lewis:
Lawyer, postmaster; eldest son of John
Ashhurst and Harriett (Eyre) Ashhurst
and grandson of Manuel Eyre, all of Phila
delphia. He was born at Naples, Italy,
where his parents were sojourning, Feb
ruary 5, 1838. He was graduated with the
highest honors from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1856, delivering the Greek
salutatory oration; studied law with Hon.
W. M. Meredith, and was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar in June, 1859, and has been
engaged in the practice of law in that city
since that time (except during his service
in the United States Volunteers during the
Civil War). He entered the Army of the
Union as Adjutant of the One Hundred and
Fiftieth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun
teers, August 11, 1862, and served in the
Army of the Potomac until his honorable
discharge for wounds received at Gettys
burg, September 5, 1863 ; was brevetted cap
tain for meretorious services at Chancel
lorsville and major of United State Volun
teers for distinguished gallantry at Gettys
burg. He is the author of a Biography of
William Morris Meredith; Contemporary
Evidences of Shakespeare's Identity, and
other pamphlets and articles on Shakes
pearean and military subjects. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa ; the Ameri
can Philosophical Society; Pennsylvania
Historical Society; Loyal Legion; Sons of
the Revolution ; Pennsylvania Bar Associa
tion; he is vice-dean of the Shakespeare
Society of Philadelphia and vice-president
of the Philadelphia Law Association. He
has always been a Republican in politics.
Mr. Ashhurst was appointed, in February,
1906, by President Roosevelt, postmaster
pf Philadelphia, entering upon his duties as

such March 1, 1906. He married, May 3°*
1861, Sarah, daughter of Professor John
Fries Frazer of the University of Pennsyl
vania. Residence, 321 South Eleventh
Street; Office, 225 South Sixth Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ASHLEY, Clarence Degrand:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts^.
July 4, 1851 ; son of Ossiah D. Ashley and
Harriett A. (Nash) Ashley. He was grad
uated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas
sachusetts, in 1869, from Yale University as
A.B,, in 1873, and studied at the University
of Berlin (Prussia) in 1875 and 1876 and at
Columbia University, in the Law School,
and was graduated as LL.B. in 1880, and
received from New York University the de
gree of LL.M. in 1895, and J.D..in 1903,
and the degree of LL.D. from Miami Uni
versity in 1898. He was admitted to the
New York Bar in "1880 and has been in
active practice since. He is now senior
member of the law firm of Kenneson, Em-
ley and Rubino. Mr. Ashley was professor
of law at the Metropolis Law School from
1891 to 1895, and has been professor at
the New York University, since 1895. He
was vice-dean of the law faculty in 1895
and 1896, and has been dean of the Law
Faculty, since 1896, in New York Univer
sity, and non-resident lecturer of law in
Bryn Mawr College, since 1899. He is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater
nity, the Wolf's Head of Yale, the Bar As
sociation of the City of New York, and the
University, Century, and Yale Clubs of
New York. Mr. Ashley married in Geneva, ,
Switzerland, August 12, 1880, Isabella
Heyward Ripley, and they have two daugh
ters, Edith Heyward, born January 26, 1882,
and Mabel Pierce, born December 26, 1887.
Address : 32 Waverly Place, New York
City. ASHMORE, Sidney Gillespie:
Educator; born in London, in 1852; son
of Sidney and Maria Ellsworth (Phelps)
Ashmore. He came to New York at the
age of six years, and was a student from
1863 to 1868 in the schools of Charles d'
Urban Morris ; a fellow of Oriel College,
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Hopkins University. After that he entered
Columbia University, graduating as B.A. in
1872, and M.A., in 1875. He was instruc
tor in Latin and Greek at Lehigh Univer
sity from 1873 to 1876; instructor in Latin,
at Columbia University from 1876 to 1881,
and professor of Latin at Union Univer
sity, since 1881. He spent nearly a year in
Italy and Greece, in 1895 and 1896; has
traveled in Germany, and studied at the
University of Bonn; he has been
much in England also. He is an indepen
dent Republican in politics, and an Epis
copalian in his religious affiliations. He is
a member of the American Philological As
sociation; the Archaeological Institute of
America; the Classical Association of Eng
land; the New York Latin Club; the Class
ical Association of the Middle States and
Maryland; Phi Beta Kappa Society and
Delta Phi fraternity. Mr. Ashmore is
author of several college text books
and writings on classical subjects, and
he received the honorary degree of
L.H.D. from Hobart College in 1887.
He is a member of the Mohawk and
Schenectady Golf Clubs. Mr. Ashmore
married Fanny Hart Vail, daughter of
Samuel M. Vail of Troy, New York, and
they have two children, Sidney Beckwith,
born in 1898, and Betty Howard, born in
1903. Address : Schenectady, N. Y.
ASHTON, Amos Turner:
Clergyman; born in Providence, Rhode
Island, in 1849; son of Job and Abby
Stacy (Turner) Ashton. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Providence,
Rhode Island, and in Brown University,
graduating as A.B. in 1872, and A.M. in
1875, and he was graduated from the Gen
eral Theological Seminary in New York in
1875. Mr. Ashton was ordered deacon
and ordained priest in 1875, by Bishop Ho
ratio Potter, was rector of St. Thomas'
Church, Amenia, New York, from 1875 to
1878, Trinity Church, Haverstraw, New
York, from 1878 to 1891, and at
the same time in charge of St. Luke's
Church, Haverstraw, New York, St. John's,
New City, and Spring Valley, New York;
and since 1891 he has been rector of St.

James' Church, Hyde Park, New York,
and since 1902 archdeacon of Duchess.
Brown University conferred upon him the
degree of D.D. in 1903. He is a member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and
the Brown University Club of New York
City. Dr. Ashton married, in 1875, Ame
lia Huntington Sill, daughter of Rev. Fred
erick and Margaret (Cocks) Sill, and
they have four children: Margaret Abby,
Leonora Sill, Mortimer Stacy and Freder
ick Turner. Address : Hyde Park, New
York.
ASPINWALL, J. Lawrence:
Architect; born in the City of New
York, June 3, 1854; son of James Scott
and Margaret (, Maxwell) Aspinwall, his
mother benig a native of Dumgries, Scot
land. He was educated at Dewight's Day
School, and afterward at the Lyons School,
and at the school of Prof. Collain, in New
York City. Mr. Aspinwall entered the
office of James Renwick, architect, in 1875,
and in 1880 became a member of the firm
of Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, which
later changed to its present style of Renwick,
Aspinwall & Tucker. During his connection
with the firm, he has been identified with •
the planning and designing of many pri
vate houses both in the city and country,
and public buildings, a few of the more
notable of these structures being those of
the second Stock Exchange, the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, and that of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; a large
number of hospitals (Scarlet Fever and
Department Hospitals, New York City,
Stony Wold Sanitarium, Adirondack Cot
tage Sanitarium, New York Infirmary for
Women and Children), office buildings,
apartment houses, etc. He was also asso
ciated with James Renwick in working out
much of the detail of St. Patrick's Cathe
dral and the stone spire of Grace Church
at Broadway and 10th Street. He was one
of the original members of Troop A., now
Squadron A, of the New York State
Guard. Mr. Aspinwall has traveled ex
tensively in; this country and abroad, and
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many, France, Holland, Belgium, England
and Scotland. He is an Episcopalian by
religious affiliation, and treasurer of the
St. Luke's Association of Grace Church
in New York City. He is a member of
the General Society and the New York
Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects, and of Architectural League of
New York City, and a trustee of the New
York Infirmary for Women and Children.
He is also a member of the Union, Engi
neers' and Atlantic Yacht Clubs of New
York. Mr. Aspinwall married, in 1891,
Mary Morris Carnochan (died April 22,
1892), daughter of Dr. John Murry Carno
chan, of New York. Address: 320 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
ASPINWALL, William Billings:
Educator; born at Loudonville, Albany
County, New York, November 13, 1874;
son of William Frothingham and Sarah
M. (Sterry) Aspinwall. He was gradu
ated from Albany Academy in 1892, and
from Harvard University as A.B. in 1896,
from New York State Normal College, as
Pd.B. in 1900 and as Pd.M. in 1901,
from the University of Paris (France) as
Pd.B. in 1900. He was assistant principal
and professor of Latin and Greek at Union
Female College, Eufala, Alabama, in 1899,
assistant principal and supervisor of
teaching in the State Normal High School
at Albany, New York, in 1900; principal
and supervisor of teaching, in the State
Normal High School at Albany, N. Y., in
1904 ; assistant to president and professor of
mathematics, in the State Normal -College,
at Albany, New York, from 1906. He is a
contributor to educational journals, a mem
ber of various teachers' and educational as
sociations, the Delta Upsilon fraternity
(Harvard Chapter), and the Albany Club
of Delta Upsilon. Address : Loudonville,
Albany County, New York.
ASTOR, John Jacob:
Capitalist, soldier and inventor; born at
Ferncliff, Rhinebeck, N. Y., July 13, 1864;
son of William and Caroline (Schermer-
horn) Astor; grandson of William B. and
great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, the
founder of the family in America. Colonel

Astor was educated at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H., and Harvard University.
Colonel Astor's time is chiefly occupied in
the management of his vast inherited estate
and its improvement, under which has been
included the building of some 'of the finest
hotel structures in the metropolis. He com
pleted that part of the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel known as the Astoria in 1897; com
pleted the Hotel St. Regis, in 1905, and the
Hotel Knickerbocker, in 1906. He has,
however, made incursions in the domain of
literature and was author of : A Journey in
Other Worlds; published in 1894. He was
appointed colonel on Governor Morton's
staff, and commissioned inspector-general
with rank of lieutenant-colonel, United
States Volunteers, May 15, , 1898, and he
gave a complete and fully equipped bat
tery of artillery to the Government of the
United States on the breaking out of the
war with Spain. He served in Southern
camps and in Cuba, including the battle,
siege and surrender of Santiago de Cuba,
and was detailed by Major-General W. R.
Shafter to deliver the official terms of cap
itulation to the Secretary of War and was
mustered out of volunteer service, Novem
ber 1, 1898. Colonel Astor is the inventor
of a pneumatic machine to remove worn-out
material from the roads before the new
stone is laid down, which received a first
prize at the World's Columbian Exposition
in 1893; and is also inventor of a practical
turbine engine, and other mechanical de
vices. He is a director of the Astor Trust
Company; the Illinois Central Railroad
Company; the Mercantile Trust Company;
the Morton Trust Company; National Park
Bank; Niagara Falls Power Company;
Plaza Bank and Western Union Telegraph
Company. He is a member of the Board
of Managers of the Delaware and Hudson
Company; is trustee of the New York Life
Insurance and Trust Company; the Title
Guarantee and Trust Company. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce; the
New York Botanical Gardens, the
New York Zoological Society; the Society
of Colonial Wars; and the Military Order
of Foreign Wars. Colonel Astor's recrea
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tennis. He is a member of the Metropoli
tan, Knickerbocker, Union, Authors', Brook
and Tuxedo Clubs ; the Automobile Club of
America, the City, City Midday, N. Y.
Yacht, Riding, Racquet and Tennis, Delta
Phi, Down Town, Country, Turf and. Field,
and Army and Navy Clubs of New York
City ; The Cocoa Tree Club of London, and
the Travelers' Club of Paris and London.
Colonel Astor married, at Philadelphia,
February 17, 1891, Ava L. Willing, and by
that union has two children, William Vin
cent Astor, born November 15, 1891, and
Ava Alice Muriel Astor (born July 7,
1902). Residence: Ferncliff, Rhinebeck,
N. Y., and 840 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City.
Address : (secretary's office) : 23 West
Twenty-sixth Street, N. Y. City.
ATCHISON, Hugh Dowling:
Clergyman; born at Belvidere, Boone
County, Illinois, November 15, 1864; son
of Rev. William Dowling Atchison and
Jennie (Cook) Atchison. He was prepared
for college in the high schools of Sterl
ing and Princeton, Illinois; entered North
western University and was graduated in
1890 as A.B. with the Adelphic Prize, Po
litical Economy prize and Phi Beta Kappa
honors, and was graduated from Garrett
Biblical Institute with the degree of B.D.
He entered the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1890 ; was pastor . at
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Normal
Park, Chicago, from 1890 to 1893 ; of Fow
ler Church, Chicago, in 1893 and 1894, at
Wilmette, Illinois, from 1894 to 1899;
Grace Church, Portland, Oregon, in 1899
and 1900, and since 1900 he has been a
member of the Upper Iowa Conference,
and pastor of St. Luke's Methodist Epis
copal Church, at Dubuque, Iowa. The de
gree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred
upon Mr. Atchison simultaneously by Cor
nell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and Upper
Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, in June,
1905! Dr. Atchison is a member of the
Adelphic Society of Northwestern Uni
versity and the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
He married at Detroit, Michigan, June 14,
1893, Julia Molitor, and they have three
children: Helen, born July 20, 1895; Ed

ward William, born October 31, 1897, and
Mary, born December 11, 1906. Address:
1 141 Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa.
ATCHISON, Wilbur Flsk:
Clergyman; born at Savanna, Carroll
County, Illinois, April 9, 1858; son of Rev.
William Dowling Atchison and Hanna Jane
(Cook) Atchinson. He was prepared for
college at the Jennings Seminary, Aurora,
Illinois, and was graduated from North
western University with the degree of A.B.
in 1884 and A.M. in 1887, and from the Gar
rett Biblical Institute as B.D. in 1888. At
Northwestern he took the Adelphic and
Deering prizes, and was editor-in-chief of
The Northwestern. In 1888 he entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in the Rock River Conference, and has
since been in the pastorate, serving various ,
churches in Chicago, Aurora and Joliet in
that conference. He has also been identified
with various organizations for civic and
social reform, and was general secretary
of the National Christian Citizenship League
from 1896 to 1900, and has been educational
secretary of the Forward Movement from
1906. Mr. Atchison has traveled in Mexico
and Cuba, as well as in the United States.
He is independent in politics, and is a mem
ber of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and of
the Ridge Country Club of Chicago. He
married at Albion, Michigan, June 7, 1893,
Rena A. Michaels, formerly dean of women
at Northwestern University and author of
In Potiphar's House and other works, and
for several years president of the Chicago
Vegetarian Society. Address : 1746 West
One Hundred and Third Street, Chicago,
Illinois.ATKINS, Edwin F.:
Merchant. He is president and director
of the Aetna Mills, the Boston Wharf
Company, the Trinidad Sugar Company
and the Soledad Sugar Company, and
director of the American Trust Company,
the Boston Merchants' Association, Eliot
National Bank, The Guarantee Company,
of North America, and the West End
Street Railway Company. Address : 131
State Street, Room 424, Boston, Massachu
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ATKINS, Thomas Astley:
Lawyer; born at Tompkinsville, Rich
mond County, New York, April 8, 1839;
son of Dudley Atkins and Ann Maria
(Bowman) Atkins. He was prepared by
tutors, and graduated from Harvard Uni
versity as LL.B. in i860. He is a practicing
lawyer in New York City, and was former
ly judge of Manor Hall Court (now City
Court), at Yonkers, New York. He has
lived and traveled much abroad. In poli
tics Mr. Atkins has been a Republican from
the Fremont campaign ; and has been a
member of Republican associations for
forty-five years, including the Lincoln cam
paign, local delegate to State and National
conventions and always forward in civic
matters. He has declined office always, save
judicial appointments. Mr. Atkins was a
'member of the Engineer Corps, formerly
the Seventy-second New York State Militia,
which corps was disbanded during the Re
bellion by the United States Government.
He is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, and a regis
tered member of the bar of the State of
New York. He is a member of the Harvard
Law School Association, and the New
York State Historical Society; first vice-
president of the Yonkers Historical Asso
ciation ; charter member of the Palisade
Boat Club, Yonkers, for forty-six years, and
honorary director of St. John's Riverside
Hospital, Yonkers; Union League Club,
New York City. He is an Episcopalian
in his religious views. He formerly took
active part in athletics, but now finds his
favorite recreation in historical matters.
He is author of the book: Yonkers in the
Rebellion ; also of monographs : Adriaen
Van der Donck; The Manor of Phillips-
'lurg; State of Dutch and Indian Affairs
Prior to 1644, etc. Mr. Atkins married
October 25, i860, Julia Fenton Rockwell,
and they have two children : Astley At
kins, born August 11, 1861, and Kate At
kins, born January 10, 1869. Residence: 15
Belmont Terrace, Yonkers, New York.
Address: 73 Nassau Street, New York
City. ATKINSON, George Francis:
Botanist and educator; born at Raisin-

ville, Monroe County, Michigan, January
26, 1854; son of Joseph and Josephine
(Fish) Atkinson. He was educated at
Olivet College, Michigan, and at Cornell
University, as Ph.B., with Phi Beta Kappa
honors in 1885, and Sigma .Xi (scientific
society), in 1888. He was assistant pro
fessor in 1885 and 1886, associate professor
from 1886 to 1888, general zoology, Uni
versity of North Carolina; professor of
botany and zoology and botanist of the
Experiment Station, at the University of
South Carolina, in 1888 and 1889; profes
sor of biology and biologist of the Experi
ment Station of Alabama, Polytechnic In
stitute and Alabama Agricultural and Me
chanical College, from 1889 to 1892; assist
ant professor of botany in 1892, and asso
ciate professor from 1893 to 1896 in Cornell
University. He traveled in England, Swe
den, and Continental Europe, in 1903, and
1905. Mr. Atkinson is an Independent in
political matters, though generally Repub
lican. He is a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
a member of the Botanical Society of
America, the Society for Plant Morphol
ogy and Physiology, the Mycologicai So
ciety of America, Torrey Botanical Club,
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Sigma
Xi Society. He received a gold medal
from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
His favorite recreations are outdoor life
in forest and field, and developing a private
wild garden of three acres. He is author
of: Biology of Ferns; Elementary Botany;
College Text Book of Botany; Lessons in
Botany; First Lessons in Plant Life;
Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc; Studies
of American Fungi, and he is a contribu
tor of numerous papers on botanical sub
jects in leading journals of America, Eng
land and Germany; especially on morphol
ogy, evolution, physiology, mycology, algae,
pteridophtes, and on trap-door -spiders,
nematodes, etc. He is a member of the
Town and Gown Club of Tthaca, New
York. Professor Atkinson married, at
Durham, North Carolina, in 1887, Lizzie
Kerr, and they have two children, Francis
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Packard Atkinson, born in 1892. Address :
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
ATKINSON, George Wesley:
Jurist and ex-governor; born in Charles
ton, West Virginia, June 29, 1845. After
a careful preparatory education he en
tered Ohio Wesleyan University from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1870,
afterward taking post-graduate studies for
which he received the degree of Ph.D. in
course from Mount Union College, at Al
liance, Ohio. He was graduated from
Howard University as LL.B., and engaged
in the practice of law. He became prom
inent at the bar and also in politics as a
Republican, and' was successively elected
member of the Legislature of West Vir
ginia, member of the Charleston Board of
Education, county superintendent of pub
lic schools, and he was postmaster of
Charleston, West Virginia, for six years,
United States internal revenue agent for
four years, United States marshal of West
Virginia for four years, member of the
Fifty-first Congress from 1889 to 1891,
governor of West Virginia from 1897 to
1901, United States attorney for the South
ern District of West Virginia from 1901
to 1905, and in 1905 he was appointed
judge of the United States Court of Claims
at Washington, D. C, in which office he is
now serving. Judge Atkinson is prom
inent in the Masonic Order, in which he
was Grand Master in 1876 and 1877, and
has been secretary of the Grand Lodge of
West Virginia since 1885. He has been
twice married. He has received the de
grees of LL.D. from the University of
Nashville, Ohio Wesleyan University, and
the U. S. Grant University, and the degree
of D.C.L. from the University of West Vir
ginia. He is author of: History of Kan
awha; The West Virginia Pulpit; The A
BC of the Tariff; Dont, or Negative Chips
from Blocks of Living Truths; Revenue
Digest; Prominent Men of West Virginia;
After the Moonshiners ; Psychology Simpli
fied, and a volume of Public Addresses.
Residence: Charleston, West Virginia, Ad
dress: 1600 13th Street, N. W., Washing
ton, D. C.

ATKINSON, Henry Morrell:
Capitalist; born at Brookline, Massachu
setts, November 13, 1862. After a careful
preparatory education he went to Harvard
College, where he was a member of the
class of 1884. In 1886 he removed to At
lanta, Georgia, of which he has ever since
been a citizen, and .was in the cotton busi
ness there until 1889, when he established
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
and has been connected with it ever since,
now being president of the company. He
is also interested in other corporations and
particularly in railways as officer and direc
tor and is chairman of the Board of Direc
tors of the Georgia Railway and Electric
Company. Mr. Atkinson married, at At
lanta, in 1888, May Peters, a daughter of
Colonel Richard Peters. Address : 202
Empire Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
ATKINSON, William Bittle:
Physician ; born in Haverford Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, June 21,
1832; son of Isaac Sleeper Atkinson and
Mary R. (Bittle) Atkinson. His father
was the grandson of William At
kinson and Elizabeth Curtis of
Burlington, New Jersey. He was educated
in the public schools of Philadelphia, re
ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1850 from
the Central High School and A.M. in 185S ;
and was graduated M.D. at Jefferson Medi
cal College in 1853. He was formerly
secretary and president of the Northern
Medical Association and also of the Phila
delphia County • Medical Society ; perman
ent secretary of the State Medical Society
of Pennsylvania for over thirty years and
permanent secretary of the American
Medical Association from 1864 to 1899.
He lectured on obstetrics in 1857 and as
sistant professor of diseases of women, and
held the first clinics on this breach in the
Pennsylvania Medical College located in
Philadelphia. He entered the United
States Army as surgeon in 1864, and serv
ed till near the close of the Civil War.
He lectured on diseases of children in the
Jefferson Medical College in the auxiliary
faculty for several years, and was after
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diseases of children in the Medico-Chirur-
gical College of Philadelphia for several
years, retired and was made honorary pro
fessor of the same. He edited the Medical
and Surgical Reporter, and afterward, at
the request of the late Professor S. D.
Cross, edited the department^ of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Women and Children of
the North American Medico-Chirurgical
Review. Dr. Atkinson is author of Hints
in the Obstetric Procedure and of The
Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
He edited The Physicians and Surgeons
of the United States and is author of many
articles in medical journals, etc. He Was
awarded a bronze medal and diploma by
the Paris Exposition in 1900, for contri
butions to sanitary science. Dr. Atkinson
is a member of the Northern Medical As
sociation of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia
County Medical Society, The State Medi
cal Society of Pennsylvania, and the Am
erican Medical Association, and an honor
ary member of the Delaware State Medi
cal Society, the California State Medical
Society, and the Medico-Chirurgical So
ciety of Bologna, Italy. He is married.
Address : 864 East Chelton Avenue, Ger
mantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ATKINSON, William Patterson:
Educator; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, February 5, 1869; son of William
B. Atkinson, M.D., and Jennie R. (Pat
terson) Atkinson. He was fitted at the
William .Penn Charter School in Phila
delphia and graduated from Princeton as
A.B. in 1889 and A.M. in 1892, and he
took a post-graduate course in English at
Princeton in 1892 and 1893. Mr. Atkinson
was instructor in English, mathematics and
Latin at Irving Institute, Tarrytown, New
York, from September, 1889, to June, 1891,
literary editor of the Sunnyside Press,
Tarrytown, New York, from November,
1889 to November, 1892 ; instructor in Eng
lish, mathematics and Latin at the National
Preparatory Academy, Highland Falls;
New York, from September, 1891, to June,
1892 ; secretary of the Princeton Alumni
Committee from July, 1892, to July, 1893.
He was head of the English department at

St. John's Military School, Manlius, New
York, from September, 1893, to June, 1897;
tactical officer of the same from Septem-
ter, 1895, to May, 1896, and assistant com
mandant from May, 1896, to June, 1897.
He was editor of Chapters, Manlius, New
York, from April, 1896, to June, 1897. He
was instructor in mathematics, history and
Latin at Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City,
from September, 1897, to February, 1899,
and has been head of the English depart
ment at the High School, Jersey City,
since February, 1899. Mr. Atkinson edited
an edition of George Eliot's Silas Marner,
published by Allyn & Bacon, Boston, in
1898. He is a member, and since Decem-~
ber, 1906, has been vice-president, of the
High School Teachers' Association of New
Jersey; is member and secretary of its
Board of Governors from December, 1897,
to date (except one year), of the University
Club of Hudson County, New Jersey, and
a member of the University Glee Club of
New York City. He is a Republican in
politics and a Presbyterian in his religious
views. Mr. Atkinson married, in Jersey
City, New Jersey, January 2, 1894, Helen
Turnure Underhill, and they have two
children : Cedric, born in 1897, and Kenneth,
born in 1907. Residence : 15 Upper Moun
tain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. Of
fice address : High School, Jersey City, New
Jersey. ATTWOOD, William Rix:
Clergyman; born at London, England,
i860; son of William and Julia Attwood-
He was educated at the Winchester and
Western Colleges, England. In 1892 he was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church,
and the following year, was ordained priest
by Bishop W. A. Leonard, D.D. He was
rector of St. Paul's Church, Bellevue, Ohio,
from 1892 to 1895, and has been rector of
All Saints' Church, Cleveland, Ohio, since
1895, also priest in charge of St. Peter's,
Clifton Park, Cleveland. He is author of:
Through Five Countries ; Christ as a
Teacher, and Current Schools of Thought,
and numerous essays, sermons, stories, and
ballads. He is editor of : Church Life, the
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also examining chaplain to the Bishop of
Ohio, and Canon of Cleveland Cathedral.
He is literary editor and proprietor of: The
Church School Hymnal, and publisher of
the Illustrated Catechism, an epitome of
Church teaching for Episcopal schools.
Address : 1708 Mentor Avenue, Cleveland,
Ohio.
ATWATER, Wilbur Olin:
Physiological chemist; born at Johns-
burg, Warren County, New York, May 3,
1844; eldest son of Rev. William W At
water. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University at Middletown, Connecticut, as
A.B. in 1865 ; from Yale University as
Ph.D. in 1869, and studied at the Univers
ities of Leipzig and Berlin from 1869 to
1871. He also received the degree of LL.D.
from the University of Vermont in 1904.
He was professor of chemistry in the Un
iversity of Tennessee, at Knoxville, from
1871 to 1873; professor of chemistry at
the Maine State College, at Orono, Maine,
in 1873, and since 1873 has been professor
of chemistry at Wesleyan University at
Middletown, Connecticut. He was the
first director of the Connecticut Agricultur
al Experiment Station, the first of the kind
in the U. S., 1875 to 1877, and was a direc
tor of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment
Station from 1888 to 1902. In 1888 he
founded and until 1891 was director, of the
Office of Experiment Stations in the
United States Department . of Agriculture;
was special agent of that department from
1891 to 1905; and in charge of the Nu
trition Investigations provided for by Con
gress in connection with -that Department,
from 1894 to 1905. His published papers
are very numerous, most of them treating
of the chemical and other scientific investi
gations carried out by himself and under
his direction. Those with the Atwater-
Rosa respiration calorimeter have demon
strated that the law of conservation of en
ergy obtains in the living oganism, and
have thrown much light upon the transfor
mation of energy in the living body. _ His
writings have appeared in chemical jour
nals and transactions of learned societies
and government publications both in this

country and in Europe. He is a member of
various scientific societies in the United
States and Europe; foreign member of
the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture,
and corresponding member of the Russian
Imperial Military Academy of Medicine;
associate member Societe Chimique de
Paris ; member of the Deutsche chemische
Gesellschaft ; associate member of the So
ciete d' Hygiene alimentaire et de 1' Ali
mentation rationelle de l'Homme; corres
ponding member Societe Royale des Sci
ences Medicales et Naturelles, de Brux-
elles, etc. His favorite recreations are
hunting and fishing. Dr. Atwater married
in 1874, Marcia Woodard, and they have
one son and one daughter. Address : Mid
dletown, Connecticut.
ATWELL, William P. :
Consular official ; appointed consular agent
at Schiedam, May 14, 1883, and retired
from that office in July, 1885. He was ap
pointed commercial agent at Roubaix, June
27, 1890, and retired in June, 1893 ; reap
pointed commercial agent at Roubaix, May
28, 1897; promoted to consul May 31, 1899;
appointed consul at Ghent, June 22, 1906.
Address : Ghent, Belgium.
ATWILL, Edward Robert:
Bishop of Kansas City; born at Red
Hook, New York, February 18, 1840; son
of Edward R. Atwill and Margaret Atwill.
He was graduated from the academic
course at Columbia College in 1862 and at
the General Theological Seminary, New
York City, in 1864, and he received from
the University of Vermont the degree of
D.D. in 1882. He was ordered deacon of
the Episcopal Church in 1864 and a year
later was ordained priest by Bishop Ho
ratio Potter. He was consecutively assist
ant of St. Luke's Church, Williamsburgh,
Long Island, assistant at St. Paul's Church,
Burlington, Vermont, and its rector from
1867 to 1882, and rector of Trinity Church,
Toledo, Ohio, from 1882 to 1890. .He be
came Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri, in
1890, and was consecrated by Bishops Tut-
tle, McLaren, Seymour, Knickerbacker and
W. A. Leonard. He is author of A Tract
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sermons. Bishop Atwill married Mary
Whiting. Address: 1709 East Thirty-sec
ond Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
AUCHINCLOSS, John Winthrop:
Merchant. He was graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni
versity as Ph.B. in 1873. He has been
engaged in business in New York City
since 1873, and is now a member of the
firm of Auchincloss Brothers, merchants.
He is a trustee of the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, and a director of the Illi
nois Central Railroad Company, the Belle
vue and Southern Illinois Railroad Com
pany, the National Safe Deposit Company,
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail
road Company. He is a member of the
Mendelssohn Glee Club, the Yale Alumni
Association, and the New York Yacht and
Century Clubs of New York. Mr. Auchin
closs married Joanna H. Russell, and they
have four children : Elizabeth, Joseph H.,
Joanna R., and Caroline. Residence: 27
West Fifty-third Street. Address: 32 Wil
liam Street, New York City.
AUDENRIED, Charles Young:
Jurist ; born in - Philadelphia, December
9, 1863 ; son of John T. Audenried, a suc
cessful merchant and coal mine operator.
He was educated at Rugby Academy and
University of Pennsylvania, graduating
from the Department of Arts in 1883 and
the Law School in 1886, when he was ad
mitted to the bar. He served as secre
tary and treasurer of the Macungie Iron
Company from 1887 till it dissolved in
1896. He represented the Eighth Ward of
Philadelphia in the Common Council from
1891 to 1894, and in the Select Council
from 1894 to 1896, when he resigned to
accept an appointment as Judge in the
Common Pleas Court No. 4 of Philadel
phia, and in 1897 he was elected for the
full term of ten years. Judge Audenried
is a member of Lawyers' Club of New
York, and one of the vice-provosts of the
Law Academy of Philadelphia. Address :
6331 Lancaster Avenue; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. AUGER, Edward Victor:
Disinfecting Corps, Second Division,

Department of Health, Borough of Brook
lyn; born in Cambridgeport, Massachu
setts, October 25, 1869 ; son of Edward D.
Auger and Catherine Leslie (Innes)
Auger. He was educated in the Boston
public schools from 1875 to 1887, at Bos
ton Preparatory School, 1887 to 1888, grad
uated from Mills Training School, Belle
vue Hospital, New York City, in 1897. He
removed from Massachusetts to New York
City, in 1892, in the theatrical profession,
from 1892 to 1894; practiced professional
nursing until 1898, and registered at the
Kings County Medical Society. He enlisted
in the Thirteenth Regiment of the National
Guard, April 26, 1898, and honorably dis
charged, May 16, 1898, on disbandment of
the regiment at Camp Black, Hempstead,
Long Island. He enlisted in the United
States Army Hospital Corps, May 16,
1898, and served during the campaign, war
with Spain, at Washington, D. C, Port
Tampa, Florida, Key West, Florida, Mon-
tauk Point, Long Island, and Fort Monroe,
Virginia, and was honorably discharged as
hospital steward. He was, some years be
fore that, a member of Company F, Fifth
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and of
Company A, First Battalion Naval Brigade,
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and was
honorably discharged on his removal from
the State, December 9, 1893. He was ap
pointed February 14, 1902, to present posi
tion in Second Division, Department of
Health, Borough of Brooklyn. He is a
member of the Alumni of Bellevue Training
School; National Corps Army and Navy
Union, of the tJnited States of America;
of the War Veterans and Sons Associa
tion of the United States of America, the
American Flag Association, New York City ;
Brooklyn Council, Royal Arcanum, No. 72,
Long Island Conclave No. 948 Heptasophs,
and William H. Hubbell, Camp No. 4, U.
S. W. V., and General George A. Custer
Garrison, No. 2, Army and Navy Union of
the United States. He was elected quar
termaster in 1902, and adjutant of Garrison
2, Army and Navy Union, from 1902 to
1905, and was elected National Junior Vice-
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of the United States of America, September
22, 1905; and he was chairman of the Fi
nance Committee until July, 1907, also mem
ber of the Washington Monument Commit
tee. He married, in Brooklyn, New York,
October 4,. 1899, Rose Lillian Houlson, of
Rochester, New York. Address : 562 Park
Place, Brooklyn, New York.
AUGUR, George Jacob:
Physician ; born at West Haven, Con
necticut ; October 1, 1853 ; son of Abraham
and Ellen (Morris) Augur. He was grad
uated from Hopkins Grammar School, New
Haven, Connecticut, in 1876; entered Yale
Academic Department, and Yale Medical
College, and was graduated as M.D. in
1879. In 1881 he was appointed resident
physician and surgeon at the State Hospi
tal in New Haven, and in 1894 he resigned
from the Alameda County, California, Allo
pathic Medical Society, and adopted the
practice of Homeopathy. He was made a
member of the Alameda County Homeo
pathic Medical Society, and later served as
president and vice-president of that society.
He was attending physician of the Faboila
Hospital at Oakland, California, from 1882
to 1898, and in 1905 was elected to active
membership in the International Habne-
mannian Association, and he is non-resident
member of the California State Homeo
pathic Association. Dr. Augur has traveled
in the United States and also through
Japan. He is a Republican in politics and
an Episcopalian in religion. His favorite
recreations are those of an aquatic nature.
Dr. Augur is a member of the University
Club of Honolulu. He married in Oak
land, California, June 16, 1892, Ruth Bar-
stow Dyer, and they have a son, Morris
Curtis Augur, born March 1, 1894. Resi
dence: 435 Beretania Avenue, Honolulu.
Office address : 431 Beretania Avenue, Hon
olulu, T. H.
AULLS. Samuel D.:
Lawyer; born in Wheeler, Steuben
County, New York, April 9, 1875; son of
Thomas Aulls and Ellen (Williams) Aulls.
He was graduated from Dundee Preparatory
School, Dundee, New York, in 1893, and
took post-graduate courses there and at the

Lowville Academy, and two years at Al
bany Law School. He taught school in
Steuben and Yates counties from 1893 to
1895, studied law in offices of Hon. Amasa
J. Parker, at Albany, and Judge Smith, of
Elmira, and was admitted to the bar in
1898. He became clerk and later partner
with Judge Smith. He is a member of the
Chemung County Bar Association. He
served on Colonel Diven's staff, Sons of
Veterans, in 1897, and is now counsellor for
New York Division. Mr. Aulls is a Re
publican and took an active part in the
campaigns of 1896 and subsequent cam
paigns. He is author of: Aull's Quizzer on
the Code. Mr. Aulls is a member of Ivy
Lodge of Masons, Elmira, New York, of
Cashmere Grotto No. 11, of General A. S.
Diven Camp, Sons of Veterans, and of Em
pire State Society of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution, No. 1278. Address : 214
East Water Street, Elmira, New York.
AUS, Gunvald:
Consulting engineer; born in Haugostmd,
Norway, June 1, 1861 ; son of Gabriel Aus
and Sophie (Schfoeder) Aus. He was
graduated from the Technical School, at
Bergen, Norway, as C. E. in 1882. He was
draughtsman and assistant engineer in
various offices from 1883 to 1888, was con
struction engineer of the Phoenix Bridge
Company, from 1888 to 1894; chief eno-in-
eer of the United States Treasury Depart
ment, Washington, D. C, from 1894 to
1900, and since then has been practicing as
consulting engineer in New York City.
Since 1900 he has been consulting engineer
of the United States Custom House at New
York City, the Essex County Court House,
Newark, N. J., also for post office and cus
tom house buildings, at Cleveland, Ohio,
and Providence, Rhode Island, the West
Street Building, New York City, the
Scheuer Building, Newark, New Jersey, and
many other large and important structures.
He is president of the Berkely Realty Com
pany. Mr. Aus is a member of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers, and asso
ciate member of the Brooklyn Chapter of
the American Institute of Architects ; and
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of Masons in Brooklyn. Mr. Aus married,
in 1890, Elizabeth Lange, only daughter of
Jacob Lange, a member of the Norwegian
Cabinet, and they have a daughter, Tekla
Aus, born in 1891. Residence : 186 Brook
lyn Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Ad
dress : n East Twenty-fourth Street, New
York City.
AUSTEN, Peter Townsend:
Chemist; born at Clifton, Staten Island,
New York, September 10, 1852; son of
John H. and Elizabeth A. (Townsend)
Austen. He was educated at a private
and at the Columbia School of Mines, tak
ing the degree of Ph.B. in the chemical
course in 1872, and winning the Torry
prize for the best qualitative analysis work.
After that he was for three years under
Professor A. W. Hofmann at the Univer
sity of Berlin, and studied at other Euro
pean schools, taking his Ph.D. degree from
the University of Zurich. He was instruc
tor in chemistry at Dartmouth College in
1876; professor of chemistry at Rutgers
College in 1877; the New Jersey State
Scientific School and at the Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute in 1893. He is now prac
ticing as consulting chemist and expert;.
has given expert testimony in many notable
cases, and is retained by numerous large
manufacturing interests. Dr. Austen has
been chemist to the Richmond County
(New York/ Board of Health, the Newark
Aqueduct Board, Jersey City Board of Pub
lic Works, New Brunswick (New Jersey)
Board of Health, Newark (New Jersey)
Board of Health, the New Jersey State
Board of Agriculture, and the New Jersey
State chemist. He has been the presiding
officer of the New York section of the
American Chemical Society; a member of
the English, French, German and Russian
Chemical Societies; member of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, the New Jersey State Sanitary
Association, the Society of Chemical Indus
try; president of the Electro-Chemical So
ciety, the American Society for Testing
Materials, the Alumni Association of
Schools of Science of Columbia University ;
the Manufacturers' Association of Kings

and Queens Counties, New York, and has
been chemical expert of the Brooklyn De
partment of City Works; general manager
of the Ledoux Chemical Laboratory; civil
service examiner in chemistry to the City
of Brooklyn ; and president of the Chemical
Department of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences ; member of the Interna
tional Jury of Awards of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition (St. Louis). He as
sisted Professor C. F. Chandler in the Am
erican Chemist, at Columbia College, and
has written many articles for the technical
press, and is author of Kurtze Einleitung
zu den Nitro-Verbindungen (Leipzig, 1876).
He translated and revised Pinner's Organic ~
Chemistry (New York, 1893) ; and is also
author of: Notes for Chemical Students
(1897) ; and, with Dr. C. F. -Langworthy,
of The Occurrence of Aluminum in Vege
table Products (1904)- Dr. Austen mar
ried on Staten Island, December 25, 1878,
Ellen Middleton Monroe, and they have
three children : William Munroe, born in
1883; Elizabeth Patty, born in 1885; and
Oswald Townsend, born in 1886. Residence :
204 West Eighty-sixth Street. Office: 89
Pine Street, New York City.
AUSTIN, Bernard Nelson:
General railway passenger agent; born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9, 1856;
son of Robert N. and Sarah (Ford) Austin.
He received his primary education in the
public schools of Milwaukee, which was
supplemented by a four years' course at the
Royal Military Academy of Berlin, Ger
many. Returning to Milwaukee, he con
tinued his studies at the High School and
at the Milwaukee Academy. He began his
railway career as a clerk in the office of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway Company, where he remained from
1874 to 1880. He was then made general
office clerk in the auditing department of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
He was passenger and ticket agent at Min
neapolis, Minnesota, from 1884 to 1888 and
assistant general passenger agent at St.
Paul, Minnesota, from 1888 to 1897. In
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a position which he still retains. He is
chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Central Passenger Association. He is
a Republican in politics and a member of
the Episcopal Church. Clubs : Chicago Ath
letic and Union League. Mr. Austin mar
ried in Milwaukee in November, 1880,
Clara A. Whitcomb, and has three children ;
Lester W., Juliet, and Louise. Residence:
4833 Lake Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Of
fice address : 135 Adams Street.
AUSTIN, Eugene K.
Colonel in the National Guard of New
York; born in 1872; son of Stephen F.
Austin (who was a member of the New
York Stock Exchange in 1865; also of the
Century Club, and was named after his
uncle, General Stephen F. Austin, of Aus
tin, Texas, (who was one of the founders
and heroes of the Republic of Texas), and
of Cecilia (Kelly) Austin; and he is a
great-grandson of Elijah Austin, who ser
ved at the Battle of Lexington, and also
of Luke Kip, merchant of New York City
prior to the Revolution, whose homestead
was the site of the old New York Hotel at
Broadway and Washington Place. He was
educated in the schools of New York City,
chose the banking profession at the age of
seventeen, entering the firm of Eugene
Kelly & Company, as an office boy, and be
coming cashier in 1893; and he went into
business for himself, in investment securi
ties,' in 1895. Hejoined the National Guard
in 1892, in Company B of the Seventh
Regiment ; became corporal of the First
Signal Corps in 1894; and sergeant in 1895;
in command of the signal detail during
Brooklyn car1 riots. He became first lieu
tenant and adjutant of -the Eighth Regi-
. ment, in 1896 ; captain and regimental ad
jutant in 1896; and was detailed by Gov
ernor Black, at the beginning of the Span
ish-American War, to organize the 108th
Regiment, which latter ' consisted of over
800 men. He was major of the 108th Regi
ment, and afterward colonel in 1898 until
the end of the war, when the regiment was
mustered out of State- service. He was de
tailed by Major-General Roe, from the
supernumerary list, to the staff of the pro

visional regiment of Westchester County,
serving at the Croton Riots in 1900. Col
onel Austin is a member of the Army and
Navy Club, the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Sons of the Revolution, the St. Nicholas
Society, the Veterans' Association, the First
Signal Corps" (of which he was first presi
dent), and of the Society of Exempt Mem
bers of the Second Company of the Seventh
Regiment of the National Guard of New
York. Colonel Austin married in 1897,
Mabel Grant Hatch, daughter of Honorable
Roswell D. Hatch, who was fire commis
sioner of New York City during the admin
istration of Mayor Havemeyer, and was
secretary of the Committee of Seventy to
suppress the Tweed Ring.- Address: 13
William Street, New York City.
AUSTIN, Harry Sprong:
Lawyer; born at Sharon Springs, Scho
harie County, New York, September 16,
1881 ; son of Henry Austin and Laura Ellen
(Sprong) Austin. He was graduated from
Central Bridge Union School, in Schoharie
County in 1896, from Holy "Cross College,
as A.B. in 1901, and from New York Uni
versity, as LL.B. in 1904. He was professor
of English and French at La Salette Col
lege, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1901 and
1902, was admitted to the bar of the first
department in 1904; and is now trial coun
sel of the law department of the Travelers'
Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecti
cut. He is a member of the John F. Curry
Association in the Seventeenth Assemby
District ; a Democrat in politics and a Cath
olic in religion. He is a charter member
of the Theta Sigma fraternity, Hartford
High School Chapter; of Delta Chi frater
nity, the New York University Chapter, and
of St. Francis Xavier Alumni Sodality. His
favorite recreations are yachting and
cricket. Mr. Austin is a member of the
Catholic, and Holy Cross College Clubs of
New York City, and is secretary of the latr ,
ter. Residence: 335 West 57th Street. Ad
dress : 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.
AUSTIN, Henry:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
December 21, 1858; son Of William and
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Harvard Law School in 1879 and was ad
mitted to the bar of Massachusetts in 1880.
He has been a commissioner of insolvency
for six years, and is an associate justice
of the West Roxbury district of the. Boston
Municipal court. Mr. Austin has made a
specialty of the study of laws involving
the rural districts of New England and is
author of various publications on his re
searches, among them being: American
Farm and Game Laws; Liquor Law in
New England, etc. Address: 84 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
AUSTIN, Henry Warren:
Banker; born in Oak Park, Cook Coun
ty, Illinois, 1864; son of Henry Warren
Austin, who was a member of the Twenty-
seventh General Assembly of Illinois, and
of Martha Sophia (Voorhees) Austin. He
was graduated from the Oak Park and Chi
cago High Schools and from Williams
College as B.A. in 1888. He began his
business career as a clerk for H. W. Aus
tin & Company, in the hardware business
from 1881 to" 1888; then was bookkeeper
for the C. T. Boal Stove Company until
1890, when upon his father's death, he
became the manager of the large real es
tate interests left by the latter. He was
one of the organizers, 1892, and first pres
ident of the Oak Park State Bank; and is
now president and director of its succes
sor, the Oak Park Trust and Savings
Bank. He is vice-president and treasurer
of the Mackie-Lovej oy Manufacturing
Company and secretary of the Niles Manu
facturing Company. He is a Republican in
politics ; has been president of the school
board of theTown of Cicero, and treasurer
of the Village of Oak Park. He was elected
to the Illinois House of Representatives in
1902, and reelected in 1904 and 1906. He is
a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fratern
ity; president of the Williams College
Alumni Association of Chicago, and is a
member of the Oak Park Club. Resi
dence : 217 Lake Street, Oak Park, llinois.
Office address : 172 Washington Street, Chi
cago,' Illinois.
AUTHIER, Joseph M.:
Consular' official; appointed commercial

agent at St. Hyacinthe, May 13, 1898; pro
moted to consul June 22, 1906: Address:
St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.
AVES, Henry Damorel :
Episcopal Bishop of Mexico; born in
Huron County, Ohio, July 10, 1853; son
of Frederick W. and Frances E. (Damor
el) Aves. He~ received his education at
Kenyon College, graduating with the de
gree of Ph. B. in 1878, and taking the de
gree of B.D. in 1883. He also received the
degree of D.D. from his Alma Mater in
1904 and an honorary LL.D. from Ruther
ford College, North Carolina, in 1901. He
took orders as a deacon of the Episcopal
Church in 1883, and was ordained priest
the following year by Bishop Bedell. He
was connected with St. Paul's Parish, Mt.
Vernon, O., 1883 to 1885, first as deacon,
then officiating as priest. In 1885 he went
to Cleveland, Ohio, as priest at St. John's
Church, and after seven years was called
to the rectorship of Christ's Church, Hous
ton, Texas. He remained here until 1904
when he was elected Bishop of Mexico.
He was consecrated by Bishops Garett,
Brown, Brooke, Rowe, Johnson and Mills-
paugh. He married Mary Gertrude Smith,
at Kenton, Ohio, September 11, 1883. Ad
dress, Torreon, Mexico.
AVIS, John Boyd:
Lawyer; born in Deerfield, Cumberland
County, New Jersey, July 11, 1875; son of
John H. Avis and Sarah (Barker) Avis.
He attended the public schools of Deer-
field until December 1, 1890, when he
began the study of law in the office of
John S. Mitchell, at Bridgeton. He con
tinued his studies until February, 1894,
when a change of residence made it nec
essary to relinquish them, and for the next .
three years he was engaged in mercantile
pursuits in Philadelphia and Long Branch.
In December, 1897, he entered the law of
fice of Hon. David O. Watkins, and in
February, 1808, he was admitted to the
bar as an attorney; and three years later
he became a counselor. In March, 1900,
Mr. Avis formed a copartnership under the
firm name of Watkins & Avis, which con
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now practicing alone in Woodbury, New
Jersey. He is also a director of the Con
stitution Company of Woodbury. Mr. Avis
has always been a zealous Republican, and
for several years has been prominently
identified with the Young Men's Republican
Club of Woodbury. He is a Mason, and
member of various fraternal orders, and of
the Woodbury Country Club, and also of
other organizations. He served four years
as a member of the New Jersey Assem
bly, and in 1904 and 1905 was speaker.
In 1905 he was elected to the New Jersey
Senate and is the youngest member of that
body. He was city solicitor of Woodbury
for two terms of three years each, and is
solicitor for the Board of Chosen Free
holders of Gloucester County, and of sev
eral townships and boroughs in that coun
try. Senator Avis is a Presbyterian, and a
trustee of the Presbyterian Church of
Woodbury. He married at Asbury Park,
New Jersey, September 27, 1907, Minnie
G. Anderson. Residence : 48 Newton Ave
nue, Woodbury. Office address : 138 South
Broad Street, Woodbury,. New Jersey.
A VRAM, Mols H.:
Consulting mechanical engineer; born in
Buzeu, Roumania, September 21, 1880; son
of Herban Avram and Ray Avram. He
was educated in the schools of Roumania
from 1887 to 1898, including the Hasdeu
Lyceum of Buzeu, afterward coming to this
country and studying in the College and
School of Engineering of New York Uni
versity from 1899 to 1904, and receiving the
degrees of B.S. and M.E. in 1904. He is
engaged in engineering practice in the
Avram-Leet Engineering Company. He de
signed all the automatic brick machinery of
the Avram-Leet Engineering Company;
the cigarette cork-tipping and boxing ma
chine and other a'utomatic machines. He
was founder of the International Associa
tion to Promote Science, Literature and
Art in 1905, and he is lecturer of the elec
tric engineering and assistant professor of
the Engineering Department of New York
University. Professor Avram married in
New York City, September 6, 1906, Ernis-
tine Kaunitx, of Tampa, Florida. Address :

New York University, University Heights,
New York.
AXTELL, Decatur:
Railway official; born at Elyria, Ohio,
February 8, 1848; son of Almon Axtell
and Sophronia (Boynton) Axtell. He was
educated in Illinois College, and from
March 16, 1864, has been in railway service,
serving in engineering capacities on vari
ous roads. He became general manager
of the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad in
July, 1880, and vice-president and general
manager of the same road in April, 1882.
He was receiver and manager of the Rich
mond and Allegheny Railroad from 1883 to
1889; became second vice-president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in May,
1889, and since February, 1900, has been
vice-president of the same road. He was
also president of the Toledo and Ohio
Central Railroad and vice-president of the
Kanawha and Michigan Railway from 1889
to 1903, and since 1903 has been chair
man of the Boards of Directors of those
two roads. Address : Richmond, Virginia.
AYER, Edward, Everett:
Capitalist and bibliophile; born at Har
vard, in McHenry County, Illinois, No
vember 16, 1841, the son of Elbridge Gerry
and Mary (Titcomb) Ayer. As a young
man, after leaving the public schools, he
became interested in the lumber business.
and especially in that branch of it con
nected with supplying the demands of rail
ways for cross-ties, and in that line built
tip, in the firm of Ayer & Lord, now the
Ayer. & Lord Tie Cornpany, one of the
most extensive tie contracting enterprises
in the country. He is still a director in
that company, president of the Texas Tie
and Lumber Preserving Company and of
the Tonty Lumber Company, and owns
large interests in lumber enterprises and
timber lands in the South and Southwest.
In addition to business interests Mr. Ayer
has taken a deep interest in books, libra
ries and historical research, and in all en
deavors to add to the cultural and intel
lectual resources of Chicago* . From its
inception in 1893 until 1898 he was presi
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Columbian Museum; and he is also a
director of the Newberry Library, the Chi
cago Art Institute, and the Chicago Histor
ical Society. He is especially interested in
American literature and history, and his
library, which ranks as one of the best and
most valuable in private hands in this
country, is especially rich in its collection
of Americana. Mr. Ayer married, Sep
tember 7, 1865, Emma Augusta Burbank, by
whom he has one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
Burbank Johnson. He has a beautiful
country mansion, The Oaks, at Lake Gen
eva, Wisconsin, and a town residence at I
Bank Street, Chicago. He is a member of
the Chicago, Commercial, Caxton, Sad
dle and Cycle, and Riverside Clubs. Ad
dress : Railway Exchange Building, Chi
cago. ,
AYER, Francis Way land:
¦ Advertising agent; born in Lee, Berk
shire County, Massachusetts, 1848. He was
educated in the schools of Western New
York. Mr. Ayer started in the advertising
business in 1869 at Philadelphia in asso
ciation with his father, under the firm name
of N. W. Ayer & Son, and upon the death
of his father in 1873, Mr. Ayer became
head of the firm, which, under his man
agement, soon became — and has since re
mained — the leading advertising agency in
the world, the yearly aggregate of their
payments to publishers now exceeding four
million dollars. Mr. Ayer, in addition to
conducting this large advertising business,
is president of the Merchants' National
Bank, one of the largest among the" Phil
adelphia national banks. He is also senior
partner of the firm of Ayer & McKinney,
who have a large stock farm in New York
State. Mr. Ayer finds time to act as su
perintendent of the Sunday-school connect
ed with the North Baptist Church in Cam
den, New Jersey, and is, in addition, a di
rector in large banking and commercial in
stitutions. Residence : Camden, New Jer
sey. Office address : 300 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
AYER, Frederick Fanning:
, Lawyer; born in Lowell, Massachusetts,
September 12, 1851 ; son of James Cook

Ayer and Josephine Mellen (Southwick)
Ayer. His grandfather was Royal South
wick, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and his
grandmother was a sister of late H. B.
Claflin. He was graduated from Harvard
College as A.B. in 1873, arid studied at
Harvard Law School. He was; admitted
to the Massachusetts bar in 1875, and since
his father's death in 1878, has managed the
great properties of the Ayer estate. He
presented the Ayer Memorial Library,
costing $40,000, to the town of Ayer,
Massachusetts. Mr. Ayer is a director of
the Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway and
Iron Company, the Portage Lake and River
Improvement Company , the Lowell and
Andover Railroad, and J. C. Ayer Com
pany, and he is a large stockholder in the
New York Tribune Association, the Tremont
and Suffolk Mills, and other corporations.
Mr. Ayer is a member of the Union
League, Metropolitan, Riding and Down
Town Clubs of New York. Residence: 5
West Fifty-seventh Street. Address : Mills
Building, New York City.
AYERS, Winfield:
Surgeon ; born at Oakham, Worcester
County, Massachusetts, 1864; son of Moses
O. Ayres and Hannah I. (Farnham)
Ayres. He was educated in Phillips An
dover Academy, the Massachusetts Agri
cultural College, receiving the degree of
B.Sc, and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col
lege, graduating as M.D. in 1893, and since
then he has been engaged in practice in
New York City. Dr. Ayers is adjunct
professor of genito-urinary diseases in
New York Post-Graduate Medical School,
and was formerly demonstrator of anatomy
and instructor in genito-urinary diseases
at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He
is president of the New York Branch of
the American Association of Urology; a
member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, the New York State Medical As
sociation, the Eastern Medical Association,
The Medical Association of Greater New
York,, and other medical societies. Dr.
Ayers' favorite recreation is yachting and
he has a residence at Sound Beach, Con
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uates' Club of New York. Dr. Ayers mar
ried in Npw York City in 1896, Lucie L.
Prudhomme. Address : 616 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
ATJIE, Louis Henry:
Consul-general; born in New York City,
May 29, 1855; son of Dr. Henry Ayme
(surgeon in the United States Army) and
Elizabeth. Geraldine (Fitzgerald) Ayme.
He received a careful preparatory education
and then entered Columbia College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1871,
following with two terms at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University. He was scientific assistant
with the United States Transit of Venue
Expedition, New Zealand Station, in 1874.
He was appointed United States consul at
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, in 1880, and
served there until 1884, and he then be
came connected as a special ethnologist,
.with research work for the Smithsonian
Institution from 1884 to 1886. Returning
to the United States he became a member
of the editorial staff of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean in 1886, remaining until appointed,
in 1891, foreign press editor for the
World's Columbian Exposition. Upon the
fulfilment of his duties there he became
attached in 1893 to the staff of the Chi
cago Tribune until 1897, including in his
service that of secret war correspondent
from Cuba. Mr. Ayme has been a Repub
lican ever since his first vote, and has
taken an active part in presidential cam
paigns as a speaker in New York in, 1888,
Chicago in 1892, and in Minnesota in 1896.
He was appointed by President McKinley
January 6, 1898, United States Consul at
Guadaloupe, West Indies, where he served
until June, 1903, when he was transferred
to Para, Brazil, where he served until ap
pointed in - 1906 consul-general of the
United States at Lisbon, Portugal, where
he is now serving. He was serving at
Guadaloupe when the Martinique disaster
occurred, and he was the first °" the spot,
going as special representative of the
United States Government and special rep
resentative of the Associated .Press, arriv
ing May 11, I902. He cabled a full ac:

count of the disaster forty-eight hours
ahead of all newspapers, and remained at
Martinique for a month. Mr. Ayme served
as second lieutenant of Company D, Ninth
Regiment - of the National Guard of the
State of New York in 1879. He is a mem
ber of the American Archeological Socie
ty, the American Antiquarian Society, and
various historical societies, a member of
the Sons of Veterans, and a member by
inheritance of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. He
was associate editor of Elliott's Magazine
at Chicago in 1896, a contributor of scien
tific and sociological articles to various
magazines, and since 1882 a contributor,
and more recently, associate editor of Notes
and Queries. He is author of Notes on
Mitla, a valuable contribution to American
archeology. Mr. Ayme married at Chicago,
February 19, 1890, Mary Stuart. Address :
American Consulate-General, Lisbon, Portu
gal.AYRES, Brown:
President of the University of Tennes
see ; born in Memphis, Tennessee, May 25,
1856; son of Samuel W. Ayres and Eliza
beth (Cook) Ayres. He attended private
schools, took the engineering course in
Washington and Lee University, and then
went to the Stevens Institute of Technology,
at Hoboken, New Jersey, from which he
was graduated as B.S. in 1878. He was a
fellow in Johns Hopkins University in 1879
and 1880, and in the latter year joined the
faculty of the University of Tennessee as
professor of physics, holding that chair for
twenty-four years, and also being dean of
the College of Technology from 1894 to
1900, and dean of the Academic College and
vice-chairman of the faculty from 1900 to
1904. He went for a short time in 1904 as
acting president of the Tulane University
of Louisiana, and later in the same year
became president of the University of Ten
nessee. He received degrees of Ph.D.
from Stevens Institute in 1888; LL.D. from
the Washington and Lee University in 1904,
and from South Carolina College in 1905.
He was a member of the Electric Jury of
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the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, and the
Nashville Exposition in 1897. He is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
the Society for the Promotion of Engineer
ing Education, and the American Physical
Society. Dr. Ayres married at Lexington,
Virginia, July 5, 1888, Katie A. Anderson.
Address : Knoxville, Tennessee.

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BAACKES, Frank:
Vice-president, general sales agent and
director of the American Steel and Wire
Company of New Jersey; born in Ger
many in March, 1863; son of Godfrey
Baackes and Franziska Baackes. He was
educated in the schools of Germany, and
was for. about a year in the wire nail mills
at Oberbilk-Dusseldorf until 1879, when he
joined his brother Michael Baackes at the
H. P. Nail Company's mills at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he worked in the various de
partments for two years, then was super
intendent of the plant for three years. He
went to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in
1884, and erected there a wire nail plant
for the Hartman Steel Company, then
after experiments invented, in 1885, the
Standard Wire Nail, which attained great
favor. He became general manager of the
. Salem Wire Nail Company, of Salem,
Ohio, which he organized in July, 1885, and
conducted it with great success. It was
absorbed in April, 1898, in the Organiza
tion of the American Steel and Wire Com
pany of Illinois, and he was its general man
ager, and when that was merged in the
American Steel and Wire Company
of New Jersey he became general super
intendent of the latter and later advanced
to his present position as vice-president,
general sales agent and director of that
company. He is also director of the Amer
ican Mining Company, and the Columbia
Wire Company. He is a member of the
Chicago Athletic, Union League, South
Shore Country, Midday, Auto," and Ger-
mania Clubs of Chicago. He married

Mamie E. Lutz, and they have three sons :
Godfrey D., Frank, and Karl. Address:
1234 Commercial National Bank Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
BABB, Washington Irving:
Lawyer; born in Des Moines County,
Iowa, October 2, 1844; son of Miles and
Mary (Moyer) Babb. He was educated at
the Wesleyan University of Iowa, and in
1863 enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Cavalry,
while a student, and' at the close of the
Civil War he returned to the University,
graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1866
and receiving that of A.M. three years
later. The honorary degree of LL.D. was
conferred upon him in 1898. Taking up
the study of law after his graduation, he
took the State examination and was ad
mitted to the bar of Iowa in 1868, where
he practiced until 1906, wheri he removed
to Aurora, Illinois. Mr. Babb is affiliated
with the Democratic party and was elected
by it to the Iowa House of Representa
tives in 1884 for a term of two years. In
1891 he became district judge of his district.
holding the office for four years. He ac
cepted the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Iowa in 1895. He was unsuc
cessful, however, and when the following
year he was the Democratic candidate in the
State legislature for United States Senator,
they failed to give him a majority. He has
been a Gold Democrat and a supporter of
sound money ever since free silver has
been agitated, being chairman of the Sound
Money Democratic Convention in Iowa in
1896. In 1898 he was made a regent of the
State University of Iowa, which office he
held until 1906, when he removed to Illi
nois, accepting the position of general
counsel for several large manufacturing
corporations in that State. Mr. Babb was
married October 9, 1873, to Alice Bird, of
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. They have three
children : Max W., Miles T. and Alice. He
is a member of the Union League Club
of Chicago. Residence: 255 West Park
Avenue, Aurora, Illinois. Office address :
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BABCOCK, Charles Almauzo:
Superintendent of schools and author;
born at Petersburgh, New York, son of
Zacheous Reynolds Babcock and Laura
(Maxon) Babcock, arid he is of Revolu
tionary and colonial ancestry on both sides.
He was educated at Hamilton College, re
ceiving the degrees of A.M., LL.B., and
Ph.D. He was formerly professor of nat
ural science in the Norrnal School at Fre-
donia, New York, and for years has been
superintendent of. schools at Oil City,
Pennsylvania. He was the originator of
Bird Day in the public schools, an observ
ance which is sanctioned by the United
States Government and aided by circulars
sent out of the United States Department
of Agriculture, and which has also been
made a law in many states. He is author
of: Bird Day and How to Prepare for
It ; and he is the originator of a method of
.individual instruction with class unit work,
to develop the individual touch in teaching.
Mr. Babcock is a member of the National
Educational Association, the British As
tronomical Association and the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, and is a commissioner of the Carneg
ie Library. He is a member of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Pennsylvania
Educational Association, and the Browning
Club of Oil City, Pennsylvania. He has
traveled extensively in England, Scotland,
Germany, France, Switzerland and Holland,
and he' studied at schools in Bavaria with
the permission of the minister of education
of that country. He is an Independent in
politics, and a Presbyterian in religion.
His favorite recreations are chess, fly fish
ing and gardening.- He married at Adams,
New York, in 1874, Emma Frances
Whitcomb, and they have two children:
Bertrand Whitcomb and Paul Whitcomb.
Address: no East Bissell Avenue, Oil
City, Pennsylvania.
BABCOCK, Eugene Jeffrey:
Clergyman; born at Painted Post, Steu
ben County, New York, April 2, 1850; son
of Buel Hunt Babcock and Crissey Jane
(Decker) Babcock. He was educated at

Cheshire Academy, Connecticut, Burling
ton College, New Jersey, Hobart College
and Union College, being graduated from
the latter as B.A. in 1876, and was graduated
from the General Theological Seminary in
New York City as S.T.B. in 1879. He
was Founders' Day orator at Burlington
College in 1872; declined the honor of
"commencement speaker" in choice of ten
from class, at Union College in 1876; was
a member of the varsity crew, bow oar,
Union at Saratoga in 1876, and declined
appointment as "essay speaker" at the
commencement of the General Theological
Seminary in 1879. He was ordered deacon
in the ministry of the Episcopal Church in
1879, and ordained priest in 1880, in Mich
igan. He was in charge of parishes at
Grand Rapids and Whitehall and was the
first archdeacon of the Diocese of Western
Michigan; he also served parishes at Can
andaigua, Youngstown and Lockport, New
York, and at Council Bluffs, Iowa; and is
now vicar of Christ Church, Lockport,
New York. He is an Independent Demo
crat in politics. He is a member of the
Alumni Association of the General Theo
logical Seminary, the Economic League of
Lockport, New York; Chi Phi fraternity
(Hobart) ; also of Masonic bodies, lodge,
chapter and Knights Templar. His favor
ite recreations are baseball games and ang
ling. Mr. Babcock married at Geneva,
New York, October 7, 1880, Anna Rebecca
Wilson, and they have a daughter, Marjorie
Belle (now Mrs. Darrison). Address: 258
Vine Street, Lockport, New York.
BABCOCK, George Washington:
Clergyman; born at Cape May, New Jer
sey, August n, 1862; son of Nathaniel C.
and Martha P. (Champion) Babcock.
After studying in the Pennington Semin
ary, Pennington, New Jersey, he took a
four-year course in Dickinson College,
from which he was graduated in 1888, sub
sequently receiving the degrees of A.B.
from the University of Pennsylvania, and
A.M. and Ph.D. from McKendree Uni
versity. Since entering upon his duties as
a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, he has
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MEN OF AMERICA.

delphia, and now fills the pulpit of St.
Stephen's Methodist Episcopal Church in
Germantown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Babcock
has toured through Europe and traveled in
the United States and Canada. He was
married at Bridgeton, New Jersey, July
.8, 1890, to Lydia R. Hubbs, and has one
child, Helen Osborn, aged six. Address :
5213 Germantown Avenue, Germantown,
Pennsylvania.
BABCOCK, Herbert N.:
Lawyer; born at Caton,(New York, Aug
ust 4, 1870; son of Henry L. Babcock and
Charlotte (Pinney) Babcock. He was ed
ucated in the public schools and an acad
emy at Elmira, New York. He was ad
mitted to the bar, 1894, to the United
States District Court, in 1899, and to the
United States Circuit Court, in 1899. He
was acting city judge of Elmira for two
terms; assistant district attorney for six
years; United States commissioner for four
.years; also a member of the firm of
Compton, Hurlbut & Babcock. Mr. Bab
cock is a Republican in politics. He was
chairman of the Republican County Con
vention in 1903, and county committeeman
for six years; he is chairman of the Re
publican Congressional Committee for the
Thirty-third Congressional District of New
York, and is a civil service examiner, for
the State of New York. He. is a member
of the Park Congregational Church of El
mira, and of the Educational Committee
of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Elmira. *He is also a member of the
Masonic Order, lodge and chapter, and of
the Order of Modern Woodmen of Ameri
ca. He is a member of the Commercial
Law League itrf America.' His recreations
include general athletics; Mr. Babcock
married at Elmira, New York, September
20, 1894, Maude Comstock and they have
two children: Harold C, born in 1897, and
Norman H., born in 1893.' Address: 309-
311 Realty Building, Elmira, New York..
BABCOCK, Isaac H. :
Banker, manufacturer; born at Rerissel-
aerville, Albany County, New York, Sep
tember ' 20, 1830 ; son of Jep'tha W. Bab

cock and Mary (Hoag) Babcock. He was
educated at the Lockport Union School
and the Wilson Collegiate Institute. He
has been for thirty years connected with
the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank,
and its president about ten years ; * for
twenty-five years with the American Dis
trict Steam Company, heating from cen
tral stations, and its president .seven years.
He is a Republican in politics, was super-,
visor of. the Town of Lockport in 1867 and
1868; a member of the General Assembly
of New York in 1872 and 1873, and a
member of the Insurance Investigating
Committee in 1872, and chairman of the
-special investigation committee to investi
gate charges against the Erie Railroad . in
1873. Mr. Babcock . is a director of the
Economy Steam Heating and Electric Com
pany, and the International Power and
Transmission Company. He spends Febru
ary and March in Florida annually. Mr.
Babcock married at Lockport, New York,
January 15, 1861, Sarah L. Newhall, and
they have had three children : Mary. E.,
born in 1866; Henry J., born in 1868, and s
Frederick N, now deceased. Address :
Lockport, New York.
BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks:
Manufacturer and ex-Congressman; born
at Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont,
March 6, 1850. He removed with his par
ents- in 1855, to Iowa, in which State he
resided until 1881, when he moved to Ne-
cedah, Wisconsin, where he has since . re
sided. He was for many years engaged
there in the manufacture of lumber, and he
has long been active in political affairs as
one of the leaders of the Republican party
in his State and the Nation'. He was
elected a member of the Wisconsin Assem
bly in 1888, and reelected in 1890. In 1892
he was elected to, the Fifty-third Congress
from the Third Congressional District of
Wisconsin, and biennially elected there
after up to and including the Fifty-ninth
Congress. He was also the - Republican
nominee for- the Sixtieth Congress from
that district in. 1906, but failed of election.
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1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1904; was
a delegate at large to the National Repub
lican Convention in 1904, and was appoint
ed in 1905 to the National Republican Com
mittee, to succeed the late Henry C. Payne,
He was a member of the Ways and Means
Committee in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses.
Mr. Babcock married at Lyons, Iowa, in
1867, Mary A. Finch. Address: Necedah,
Wisconsin.
BABCOCK, Kendrick Charles:
President of the University of Arizona,
and professor of history; born at South
Brookfield, New York, September 8, 1864;
son of Gideon Perry and Lydia (Macom-
ber) Babcock. He received his prelimin
ary education in the Brookfield High
School, and was graduated from the Uni
versity of Minnesota in 1899, with the de
gree of B.L. In 1890 he joined the faculty
'of his alma mater as instructor in history
and English, but resigned at the end of
four years to take up further study, and re
ceived from Harvard University the de
grees of A.M., in 1895, and Ph.D., in 1896.
For a period of seven years thereafter he
was connected with the University of Cali
fornia, for the first two years as instructor
in history and political science, and for
the remainder of the time as assistant
professor of American history. During his
residence in Berkeley, California, he was
for three years president and a director of
the University of California Students' Co
operative Association, and for five years a
director of the San Francisco Settlement
Association. Since 1903 he has resided in
Tucson, Arizona, where he is president of
the University of Arizona, and professor
of history and political economy. He is a
trustee of the Carnegie Public Library of
Tucson, and a member of the American
Historical Society, the Minnesota Histori
cal Society, the Arizona Historical Socie
ty, the Delta Tau Delta fraternity (of
which he was president during the years
1893 to 1899), and the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. ' He is the author of The Rise of
American Nationality, which appeared in
Harper's Magazine in 1906, and is a con

tributor ¦ to the Atlantic Monthly, the
Forum, and the American Historical Re
view. He is fond of out-door sports, and
during his leisure hours plays tennis. In
politics he is an Independent Republican,
and he is a member of the Congregational
Church. Address : Tucson, Arizona.
BABCOCK, Robert Hall:
Physician ; born at Watertown, New
York, July 26, 185 1; son of Robert S.
Babcock of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and
Emily Hall Babcock. After a careful pre
paratory education he entered Chicago Med
ical College, from which he was graduated
with the degree of M.D. in 1878, studied at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York Medical Department of Col
umbia University in 1879, and the follow
ing year went to Germany for three years
of post-graduate study. With this excel
lent equipment he returned to the United
States and in 1883 he engaged in the practice '
of medicine in Chicago. In 1891 he was ap
pointed to the chairs of clinical medicine
and diseases of the chest at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago (med
ical department of the University of Illi
nois) and held that professorship until 1906.
He was one of those who were active in
founding the Post-graduate Medical School
of Chicago, and held a chair in that institu
tion for several years ; and is consulting phy
sician to the Cook County Hospital; the
Mary Thompson Hospital; Hospital of St.
Anthony de Padau and of the Marion Sims
Sanitarium. He is a fellow and was form
erly president of the American Climatolog-
ical Association, fellow of the Association
of American Physicians, corresponding
member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society
of Edinburgh and of the International Tu
berculosis Institute. He is a member of the
American Medical Association; the Illinois
State Medical Society; Chicago Medical So
ciety; the Congress of Physicians and Sur
geons ; National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis ;. the Miss
issippi Valley Medical Association, and is an
honorary member of the Colorado . State
Medical Society. .Dr. Babcock is especially
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nection with diseases of the heart and lungs,
and is the author of two valuable works on
these subjects: Diseases of the Heart and
Arterial System, 1903, and Diseases of the
Lungs, 1907, and he has also been a frequent
and valued contributor to leading medical
publications. Dr. Babcock married at Mont
clair, New Jersey, June 12, 1879, Lizzie
C. Weston, of New York City, and they
have two children : Eleanor Clinton Bab
cock and Robert Weston Babcock. Ad
dress : 92 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BABCOCK, Stephen Eldredge:
Civil, hydraulic, sanitary and mechanical
engineer; born in Troy, New York; son of
Edward Babcock and Armina (Eldredge)
Babcock. He is a descendant of James
Babcock, who came to America in 1623. He
was prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, and graduated from Rensse
laer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New. York,
as CE. in 1874. He was engaged in prac
tice for thirty-five years ; was at Syracuse,
where he was expert hydraulic engineer for
the Syracuse Water Company, in the con
demnation of their plant, and principal hy
draulic expert for mill owners in the Syra-
cuse-Skaneateles Lake Supply Condemna
tion ; was located for sixteen years at Little
Falls, New York, and since 1902 has been
located at Utica, New York, where he is
chief engineer of the Mohawk River Im
provement. He was engineer of the Little
Falls Water Works, and built and ran the
plant for twelve years ; and was city engi
neer of Little Falls for four years. He has
Served as engineer expert for the Supreme
Court, and under special appointment as
canal engineering expert before the Court
of Claims at Buffalo ; also for various towns,
corporations and individuals. He designed
and built the Amsterdam Water Works (in
cluding the Glenwild Storage Reservoir of
1,200,000 gallons capacity), the Ticonderoga
and Fort Edward Water Works, the stor
age reservoir for the Glens Falls Water
Works, etc. ; was contractor's engineer for
the St. Gabriel Lock Lachine Canal, at
Montreal, Canada, and designed and built
the Glens Falls sewer system, twenty-eight
miles, etc. Mr. Babcock is a member of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
the American Water Works Association;
the New England Water Works Associa
tion; the Permanent International Associa
tion of Navigation Congresses ; the Frank
lin Institute, Philadelphia, and National
Geographic Society of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Babcock is a Royal Arch Mason and
Knight Templar. He married Zettie Der
rick. Residence : 131 Oneida Street. Ad
dress : 54-56 Hann Building, Utica, New
York.
BABCOCK, William Henry:
Lawyer and solicitor of patents; born in
Saint Louis, Missouri, January I, 1849; son
of Welles J. Babcock and Catharine
(Smith) Babcock. He was educated in
divers private schools of New York and
Washington, D. C, and the Preparatory De
partment and Law School of Columbian
(now George Washington) University. He
was three years in the Patent Office Ex-.
amining Corps at Washington and since
then for about thirty-one years he has been
in practice as a lawyer and solicitor of pat
ents. Mr. Babcock was formerly an exten
sive contributor of stories, verse and articles
to magazines and periodicals, and he is
author of several volumes, including: The
Tower of Wye; Kent Fort Mano; Cian of
the Chariots; Cypress Beach; Lord. Stir
ling's Strand; The Two Lost Centuries of
Britain; Lays from Over Sea; The Bride
of the Tiger; An Invention of the Enemy,
etc. Mr. Babcock is a Broad Church Epis
copalian in his religious views, and Demo
cratic in his political leanings, though as a
resident in the District of Columbia' he has
no vote. He has twice married, first in
June, 1874, to Anne Johns Earle, and sec
ond, August 18, 1897, to Mrs: Gertrude Lee
Mahood, of Richmond, Virginia, and he has
nine children. Residence: Rock Haven,
Ridge Road, near Georgetown, D. C. Office
address : 604 F Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.
BABSON, Thomas M.:
Born in Wiscassett, Maine, May 28, 1847.
He received his early education in the
schools of Maine and the Highland Military
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1863 and finished his training in the Chaun-
cey Hall School. He studied law in the
Harvard Law School, receiving his degree
in 1868 and was admitted to the bar in
1869, when he began at once the practice
of law. In 1876 he was elected representa
tive in the State Legislature from Ward 16.
In April, 1879 - he received from Mayor
Prince the appointment of fourth assistant
city solicitor under John P. Healy. He
was appointed second assistant solicitor in
1881 and first assistant in 1885, which posi
tion he held until 1891, when he was ap
pointed corporation counsel of the City of
Boston by Mayor Mathews. In 1895 the
law department of the City of Boston was
put under the point charge of the Corpora
tion Counsel and the city solicitor and he
was appointed city solicitor by Mayor Cur
tis, serving in that office until July, 1904,
when the office of city solicitor was abol
ished. He was then appointed corporation
counsel of the City of Boston which office
he still holds, having been in the Boston
Law Department over twenty-eight years,
twelve as an assistant and sixteen as the
head or one of the heads of it. Address :
Corporation Counsel's Office, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
BACH, Robert Bach:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
July 15, 1851 ; son of John C. Bach and
Elizabeth (Nostrand) Bach. He was ed
ucated in the College of the City of New
York, and the New York University Law
School. Mr. Bach has been engaged in
general law practice since 1874 in New
York City and Brooklyn. H ehas visited
every city or town of importance in the
United States and very many in Old Mex
ico. He is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian in religion, and his favorite
recreations are reading and driving. He
married in New York City, March 3, 1874,
Isadora M. Cooper, and they have two
daughters: Isadora T. (wife of James B.
Greason), and Roberta E. (wife of James
Wyatt). Address: 601 Ocean Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.

EABSON, William Arthur:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York, in
son of Arthur C. Babson and Har
riet E. (Rea) Babson. He was educated
at the Bordentdwn Military Institute and
at Princeton University, graduating with
the degree of B.S. in 1901, and from the
New York Law School as LL.B. in 1903.
He held a position on the faculty of the
Lawrenceville (New Jersey) School in
1901-1902, as a master and traveled ex
tensively in Europe and throughout the
wilder portions of Canada. In the sum
mer of 1902 he made a journey across
Newfoundland as a correspondent for For
est and Stream. He has written numerous
articles for sporting magazines on fishing
and hunting, and the habits of wild ani
mals. He spent the summer of 1902, ex
ploring and mapping out the sources and
upper waters of the Gander River in New
foundland. Mr. Babson has written num
erous scientific papers on natural history,
and a book, The Birds of Princeton and
Vicinity. He is a mefnber of the firm of
Bond & Babson, lawyers; vice-president
and director of the American Incorporation
Company; director of the American Stand
ard Manufacturing Company ; secretary and
trustee of the Keystone Holy Terror Gold
Mining Company; director of the New
York Die Company, and United States and
Santo Domingo Knitting Company. He is
a member of the American Ornithologists'
Union, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Prince
ton and Anglers' Clubs of New York City.
Residence: South Orange, New Jersey.
Business address : 32 Broadway, New
York City.
BACHE, Jules S.:
Banker ; born in New York City, Novem
ber 9, 1861 ; son of Semon Bache and Eliza
beth (Van Praag) Bache. He was edu
cated at Charlier Institute, New York City.
He is now senior partner of J. S. Bache
& Company, bankers; chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of New Amsterdam
Casualty Cornpany; director of the Inter
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the Anniston City Land Company, the
Standard Cordage Company, and Milliken
Brothers (Incorporated) ; president of
Cosmopolitan Fire Insurance Company.
He is a member of the Board of Mana
gers, the New York Coffee Exchange, and
of the New York, Lambs', Lawyers', Sub
urban Riding and Driving and Automobile
Clubs of New York City. He married in
New York City, May 23, 1891, Florence
R. Scheftel, and they have two children:
Hazel Joy Bache, born in 1893, and Kath-
ryn King Bache, born' in 1898. Address:
8 East Sixty-seventh Street, New York
City, and 38 Avenue Marceau, Paris.
BACHE, Rene:
Magazine and newspaper writer; born in
Philadelphia; son of R. Meade Bache. He
was educated at Harvard and Yale Col
leges, but' was not graduated. Since 1889
he has been engaged in journalism in Phil
adelphia and Washington, and as a fre
quent contributor to the leading maga
zines. Address: 1823 Q Street, Washing
ton, D. C.
BACHMAN, Max:
Sculptor; born in Brunswick, Germany,
February 27, 1862. His father was John
Hermann Bachman, author of various sci
entific and industrial works. Max Bach
man received his education at the indus
trial school, Berlin, and at the Royal
Academy of the same city, under Profes
sor Wolff. As he was versatile, many
things attracted him — music, painting, let
ters, and the stage, and his success as an
amateur actor had almost decided his call
ing, when he was obliged to enter the
German Army. He removed to the United
States in 1885 and his talents gave him
a brilliant introduction to art circles in
Boston, Philadelphia and New York. His
versatility afforded him the ability to con
ceive and perpetuate an idea in the plastic
medium which is the most common expo
nent of his art. His work as a cartoonist
marked a departure in the art of the cari
caturist. Mr. Bachman began a new work
in harmony with the thought of the times
— making great cartoons in clay. Some
of his more important works are the four

figures which support the cornice of the
World Building in New York, and his
panels in the State Normal Art School of
Massachusetts — twenty or more figures
being of heroic size. In 1905, he married
Eleanor May Brown, a sculptor of ability,
who had been a pupil of his for three
years, and whose Bacchante, exhibited at
the Boston Art Club- in 1895, -received
favorable comment. Mr. Bachman" in the
same year exhibited a bust of Cupid at
the exhibition of the Architectural League
in New York. Address : Boston, Massa
chusetts.
BACKUS, Charles H.:
Banker; born at Chaplin, Connecticut,
June 9, 1856. He spent his early Jife on a
farm and attended school until he was
eighteen, then attended college at Pough-
keepsie, New York, where he graduated.
He taught school in 1880, when he re
moved to Illinois and worked in a bank in
Marengo until 1882. He then went to
Hampshire in Kane County, Illinois, to es
tablish the Kane County Bank, now the
State Bank of Hampshire, of which he is
president. He is a Mason and a member
of the Odd Fellows, Woodmen, Knights of
the Globe, and the Elks. He has held
various minor offices and was elected to
the House of Representatives of Illinois in
1900, 1902, and again in 1906, and is still
serving. Mr. Backus has always been a
Republican in his political views, and
among the leaders of the party in his sec
tion of the State. Address: Hampshire,
Kane County, Illinois.
BACKUS, Henry Clinton:
Lawyer; born in Utica, New York, May
31, 1848; son of Charles Chapman Backus
and Harriet Newell (Baldwin) Backus.
He was prepared for college at Phillips
Exeter Academy, and was graduated from
Harvard College as A.B. in 1871 and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1873.
He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and
since then has been engaged in practice in
New York City. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Backus is a member of the
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New York, the New York State Bar Asso
ciation, New York Alumni Association of
Phillips Exeter Academy, Dwight Alumni
Association, Society of Medical Jurispru
dence, and American Society of Interna
tional Law, at Washington; D. C. ; patron
of the Colonial Society of America; mem
ber of the American Numismatic Society,
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science, Biographical Society of Amer
ica; fellow of the American "Geographical
Society and of .the Alumni Association of
Columbia University Law School. He
is an honorary member of the Blue
Pencil Club, of the State of New
York, and of the Railway Conduct
or's Club of North America; asso
ciate member of the University Glee Club
of New York City, and a member of the
Republican and Harvard Clubs of New
York City. Mr. Backus married in 1890,
Hattie T. Davis, and of that union- there
have been born two children ; Harriet Edna
Backus (now deceased), and Clinton Davis
Backus. Residence: 489 West Twenty-
second Street. Office address : 45 Broad
way, New York City.
BACKUS, James Bayard:
Lawyer ; born at Schenectady, New York,
September 20, 1853; son of Rev. Dr. J.
Trumbull Backus (moderator of the Re
union General Assembly of the Presbyter
ian Church at Philadelphia in 1870) and
Anne (Walworth) Backus, daughter of the
Hon. Reuben Hyde Walworth, last of the
New York State chancellors. He was grad
uated from Union College as B.A. in 1874.
Mr. Backus was chairman of the Commit
tee on Enrollment of the. Committee of
Fifty-three, which organized the Republi
cans of the County of New York in 1897
and 1898. This movement forced the nom
ination of Theodore Roosevelt for Gov
ernor of New York State, as Senator
Piatt was obliged to select some candidate
for Governor acceptable to the Independ
ents, represented by this organization. Mr.
Backus is a Republican in politics, a mem
ber of the American Geographical Society,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, and was one of the

seven original organizers of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants. Mr. Backus mar
ried in 1877, Cornelia N. Price, and they
have a daughter, Elizabeth Chester Back
us, who is now the wife of Walter Toucey
Peck. Residence: 171 West Seventy-third
Street. Office: 141 Broadway, New York
City.
BACKUS, Truman Jay:
Educator ; born at Locke, Cayuga County,
New York, February 11, 1842; son of Rev.
J. Spicer Backus and Mercy (Williams)
Backus. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Rochester as A.B. in 1864, and
A.M. in 1867. He has been principal of
the Packer Collegiate Institute at Brooklyn,
New York, since 1883. He received the
degree of LL.D. from the University of
Rochester in 1883. He was a member of
the Civil Service Commission of Brooklyn
under Mayors Schieren and Wurster, and
president of the Board of Managers of the
Long Island State Hospital, under appoint
ment of Governor Levi P. Morton. He
is president of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association of Brooklyn, and secre
tary of the Brooklyn Public Library Cor
poration. His favorite recreation is farm
ing. He is a member of the Century and
Alpha Delta Phi Clubs of New York City,
and the Hamilton and University Clubs of
Brooklyn. Dr. Backus has been twice mar
ried; first at Syracuse, New York, in 1867,
to Sarah C. Glass, and second at Syracuse,
New York, in 1883, to Helen Hiscock, and
they have four children : Raymond B.
Backus, Bertha Backus Brown, Grosvenor
H. Backus, and Alexander Hamilton
Backus. Address : Packer Collegiate Insti
tute, Brooklyn, New York.
BACON, Alexander Samuel:
Lawyer; born in Jackson, Michigan, No
vember 20, 1853.; son of John A. and Har
riet (Smith) Bacon. He was graduated
from the United States Military Academy
in 1876 (was first captain in the Corps of
Cadets and was graduated in the Stars).
He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and
has a wide practice extending to London,
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rector and vice-president of the Webster
Piano Company, the Lima Oil Company,
Reservation Oil Company, and the New
York and Osage Oil Copany; and is treas
urer of the American Sabbath Union. He
served in the Army as lieutenant in the
First United States Artillery, later as cap
tain of Company A, in the Twenty-third
Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York; also as major and lieu
tenant-colonel in the Twenty-third Regi
ment, and colonel of the Second Provision
al Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York. He was an assembly
man in the New York Legislature in 1887.
He is a member of the Knickerbocker,
Field, Quill, and Winter's Night Clubs.
He married September 1, 1886, at Denver,
Colorado, 'Harriet Whetelsey Schroter, and
they have two children : Carl and Marie
A. Residence: 101 Rugby Road,- Brook
lyn, New York. Address : 37 Liberty
Street, New York City.
BACON, Arthur Avery:
Professor of physics at Hobart Col
lege; born at Laconia, New Hampshire,
October 26, 1875; son of Rev. William F.
Bacon and Mary W. (Beal) Bacon. He
was graduated from Dartmouth College
as A.B. in 1897 and A.M. in 1901. He be
came tutor in physics at Oberlin College
from 1897 to 1898, graduate student and as
sistant in physics at Dartmouth College
from 1898 to 1900; instructor in mathe
matics at Dartmouth in 1900 and 1901 ;
mathematical master of the Volkmann
School at Boston, from 1901 to 1903, and
professor of physics at Hobart College
from 1903 ; also secretary and registrar of
Hobart College from 1907. He is a Repub
lican in politics and a Presbyterian in relig
ion. Professor Bacon is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the American Physical Society,
Societe Francaise de Physique, and the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Phi Beta
Kappa Society. Professor Bacon married
at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1902, Edith
M. Jones, and they had a daughter, Mar
guerite Hobart Bacon, born in 1905, but

now deceased, also Mary Frances, born~ in
1907. Address: 488 Main Street, Geneva,
New York.
BACON, Augustus Octavius:
United States Senator; born in Bryan
County, Georgia, October 20, 1839. He re
ceived a high school education in Liberty
and Troup counties and was graduated at
the University of Georgia, in the literary
and classical department in 1859, and in
the law department in i860. He entered
the Confederate Army at the beginning of
the war and served during the campaigns
of i860 and 1862 as adjutant' of the Ninth
Georgia Regiment in the Army of North
ern Virginia, and subsequently there, too,
was commissioned captain in the Provision
al Army of the Confederate States and
assigned to general staff duty. At the
close of the war he resumed the study of
law and he began practice in 1866 at
Macon, from which date until his election
to the Senate he actively continued in
practice both in the State and Federal
Courts. He was frequently a member of
State Democratic Conventions, was presi
dent of the State Democratic Convention
in 1880, and was a delegate from the State
at large to the Democratic convention in
Chicago in 1884. In 1868 he was elected
presidential elector on the Seymour and
Blair ticket, and on the Democratic ticket
in 1871 was elected to the Georgia House
of Representatives, of which body he served
as a member for fourteen years. In this
time, during two years he was speaker pro
tempore and during eight years he was the
speaker of the Georgia House of Represen
tatives. He was several times a candi
date for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Georgia, and in the Demo
cratic State Convention of 1883, he came
within one vote of a nomination for Gov
ernor, when the nomination was equiva
lent to an election. He is, and for many
years has been, a trustee of the University
of Georgia. He was elected to the United
States Senate in November, 1894; reelected
in 1900 and 1907; his present term expiring
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BACON, Benjamin Wisner:
Professor in Yale University; born in
Litchfield, Connecticut, January 15, i860;
son of Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon and
Susan Bacon. He was graduated from
Yale as B.A. in 1881, B.D. in 1884, and
M.A. in 1890, and received the degrees of
D.D. from Western Reserve University in
1892, Litt. D. from Syracuse University
in 1894, and LL.D. from Illinois College in
1905. He • was ordained in the ministry
of the Congregational Church in 1884, and
was pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Old Lyme, Connecticut, until
1889, then at Oswego, New York, until
called to his present chair of New Testa
ment Criticism and Exegesis in 1896. Dr.
Bacon has been an extensive contributor
to critical and exegetical literature, trans
lated into English Wildeboer's Kanon
des Ouden Verbonds ; contributed to
Haupt's Sacred Literature of the Old
Testament and to various periodicals and
reviews, and he is the author of: The
Genesis of Genesis; The Triple Tradition
of the Exodus ; Introduction to the New
Testament; The Sermon on the Mount,
and The Story of St. Paul. Dr. Bacon
married at Norwich, Connecticut, May 27,
1884, Eliza Buckingham Aiken; and they
have two children: Dorothy Buckingham,
born in 1886, and Benjarnin Selden, born in
1888. Address: 244 Edwards Street, New
Haven, Connecticut.
BACON, Charles W.:
Lawyer; born at Natick, Massachusetts,
March 4, 1856; son of John W. Bacon
and Amelia A. (Jeffers) Bacon. He was
prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
New Hampshire, from which he was grad
uated in 1875, and then entered Harvard
University, from which he was graduated
as A.B. in 1879. Mr. Bacon has been en
gaged in the practice of law from 1881,
and he was assistant United States attor
ney for the Southern District of New
York from April 1, 1905 to January 31,
1906. He is a member of the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence of New York City,
of the Papyrus Club of Boston, Massa

chusetts, and of the Harvard and Republi
can Clubs of New York City. Mr. Bacon
married at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
May 28, 1888, Rena E. Mattis, and they
have two sons John W. Bacon, born in
1892, and Ross M. Bacon, born in 1894.
Residence: 460 East Fourth Street, Mount
Vernon, New York. Address: 11 Broad
way, New York City.
BACON, Edgar Mayhew:
Author; born in Nassau, New Provi
dence, Bahamas, June 5, 1855; son of John
R. Bacon and Jennie M. (Lockhart)
Bacon. His father was United States con
sul at Nassau at the time of his birth. He
came to New York with his parents in
infancy, was educated at private schools
in Tarrytown, New York. Mr. Bacon,
after leaving school worked in a book
store at Albany, New York. He adopted
art as a profession; contributed to period
icals and then took' up editorial work. .He
became managing editor of several weekly
publications in New York. He visited the
West Indies in 1888 and 1889, and again
in 1890. He is author of : The New Ja
maica, 1891 ; The Pocket Piece, 1892 ;
Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hol
low, 1897; The Hudson River from Ocean
to Source, 1902; Narragansett Bay, 1904;
Nation Builders, 1906; Henry Hudson,
1907; also historical chapters in Winston's
Story of America, and other works, vari
ous booklets, pamphlets, etc. Mr. Bacon is
an Independent in politics and a member
of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in
America. He is a member of the American
Historical Association, American Forestry
Association, National Geographic Society,
and Tarrytown Horticulture Society; and
his favorite recreations are painting and
horticulture. Mr. Bacon is a member of
the Quill Club of New York City. He
married at Hopeworth, Bristol, Rhode Isl
and, November 7, 1903, Anna H. Beard,
of Lakewood,- New Jersey. Address : Tar
rytown, New York.
BACON, Edward Pay son:
Merchant; born in the town of Read
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1834; son of Joseph Franklin Bacon and
Matilda (Cowles) Bacon. He was edu
cated in a public school at Geneva, New
York, and an academy at Brockport, New
York, until 1851, when he entered 'railway
service, in which he continued until i86£,
when he began his present business as a
grain commission merchant at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where he is still at the head
of the firm of E. P. Bacon & Company
in that business. He has long been one of
the leaders in the grain trade" at Milwau
kee and one of the most influential mem
bers of the Milwaukee Chamber of Com
merce, of which he was president from
1891 to 1893. He is also a member of the
Chicago Board of Trade, the Merchants'
Exchange of St. Louis and the Minneapo
lis Chamber of Commerce. He was ap
pointed Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Interstate Commerce Law
Convention at St. Louis in 1900, and re
appointed to the same position in 1904 and
1905; and he is a member of the National
Board of Trade, the National Business
League and other organizations for the
promotion of business interests. It was
through the influence and the persistent
efforts of the committee above mentioned
that the effective amendment of the In
terstate Commerce Law, approved June 29,
1906, was secured. Residence: 544 Mar
shall Street, Milwaukee. Mr. Bacon mar
ried at Pelham Manor, N. Y., February
14, 1895, Ella Dey Baird. Address : Cham
ber of Commerce, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
BACON, Edward Rathborn:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 22, 1846. He was educated at
Phillips Exeter Academy, and admitted to
the New York bar at Buffalo, New York,
in November, 1869. He was counsel for
various railroad companies for eighteen
years; became vice-president of the Cin
cinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad
in 1881 ; president from 1890. to 1902, and
has been vice-president since 1902 of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway. He
was one of the reorganizers of, and is
now a director of, the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. He is also director of the Knick

erbocker Apartment Company, the Farm
ers' Loan & Trust Company, and Consoli
dated Coal Company. Mr. Bacon is a mem
ber of the Union, Manhattan, Metropoli
tan, City, Midday, Tuxedo, Racquet and
Tennis, Down Town and New York Yacht
Clubs. Residence: 247 Fifth Avenue, New
York City. Office address : 2 Wall Street,
New York City.
BACON, Robert:
Assistant Secretary of State. He was
graduated from Harvard College with the
degree of A.B. in 1880 (classmate of Pres
ident Roosevelt). He was engaged in
banking and became a member of the firm
of J. P: Morgan & Company, of New
York, and was director in various large
corporations. He was appointed assistant
secretary of State of the United States,
October 1, 1905, and is now serving. He
was an overseer of Harvard from 1889 to
1901, and was again appointed a member
of the Board of Overseers in 1902, and is
now serving. He is a member of the
Racquet, Tuxedo, Riding, Lawyers' and
Union Clubs of New York, and of the
New England Society of New York. Mr.
Bacon married Martha Cowdin. Resi
dence: 1333 Sixteenth Street, Washington.
Official address: Department of State,
Washington, D. C..
BACON, Selden:
Lawyer; born in New Haven, Connecti
cut, September 28, 1861 ; son of Leonard
Woolsey Bacon (D.D) and Susan Bacon.
He was educated at Yale College and at
Carleton College, Minnesota, graduating
thence as A.B. in 1882 and A.M. in 1885,
and from the University of Wisconsin as
LL.B. in 1884. He was admitted to the
bar in Minnesota in 1884; practiced law in
Minneapolis until 1894, and since then in
New York City. He was professor of
civil procedure in the Law School of the
University of Minnesota from 1889 to 1894.
He is author of Equity Pleading and Pro
cedure. Mr. Bacon is a member of the
American Geographical Society, and the
Archaeological Institute of America. He
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ber 24, 1894, Sally Blair Fairchild, who died
in 1902, and, second, at Stamford, Con
necticut, July 5, 1903, Josephine Dodge
Daskam, the distinguished author; and he
has four children: Frances Fairchild
Bacon, Lee Fairchild Bacon, Anne Bacon
and Deborah Bacon. Residence: Briar-
cliff, Westchester County, New York. Ad
dress: 60 Wall Street, New York City.
BACON, Walter M.:
He is president and director of the
American 0T0I and Machine Company;
vice-president and director of the Can
adian American Music Company, Lim
ited, of Toronto, Canada; director of the
Investors' Real Estate Association of Bos
ton; treasurer and director of the White
Smith Music Publishing Company, and
treasurer and director of The Adam Gei-
bel Music Company of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : 62 Stanhope Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
BACON, William Post Hawes:
Piano manufacturer; born in New York
Uty, March 14, 1864; son of Francis Ba
con and Anna (Hawes) Bacon. He was
graduated from New York University as
A.B. and was commencement orator, and
elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in
1880. He has been engaged in manufact
uring pianos since 1886 and is now
president of the Francis Bacon Piano
Company, and a director of the Heppe
Piano Company, and the Auto-Manual
Action company. He is an ex-member of
Company H of the Seventh Regiment of
the National Guard of the State of New
York, and served in the Brooklyn Trolley
Strike in 1895, and the Croton Dam Strike
in 1900. ue was treasurer of the Village
of Bronxville from 1904 to 1900, and has
been a trustee of that village in 1906. He
is a Republican in politics and a member
of the Reformed (Dutch) Church. Is
a member of the Phi Upsilon fraternity,
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Sons of
the Revolution and the Mayflower Society.
He married in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
January 17, 1901, Caroline Harriet Mes
senger. Residence: Bronxville, West-;

Chester County, New York. Business Ad
dress: 138th Street and Walton .-venue
New York City.
BADE, William Frederic:
Professor of Semitic literature and lan
guages; born at Carver, Minnesota, Janu
ary 22, 1871; son of William Bade and
Anna (Voigt) Bade. He was educated under
a private tutor in Latin and German pub--
lic schools, until 1888, when he entered
Moravian College, graduating as A.B. in
1892, and from the Moravian Theological
Seminary, as B.D. in 1894, the Divinity
School of Yale University, as B.D. in 1895,
having studied Arabic there for a yeat.
He took post-graduate work at Moravian
College and Lehigh University from 1896
to 1898, receiving the degree of Ph. - D.
on the thesis, The Babylonian Deluge Le
gends, then took special studies at the
University of Berlin, Germany, in 1905.
He was assistant professor of Greek and
German at Moravian College from 1896
to 1898; professor of Hebrew and Old
Testament Introduction at the Moravian
Theological Seminary from 1898 to 1902;
and has been professor of Old Testament
literature and languages at the Pacific The
ological Seminary (affiliated with the Uni
versity of California) since 1902. He was
editor of The Moravian, official organ of
the American Moravian denomination in
1899 and 1900; member of the Faculty of
Pennsylvania Chautauqua, as director of
the Department of Biology, from 1900 to
1902; director in 1901 and 1902 of the
Teachers' Nature Study Club at Reading,
Pennsylvania, director of Religious In
struction at the Southern California Chau
tauqua in 1907, and dean of the Federate
Summer School of Theology, at Berk
eley, California, in 1907. He has traveled
through Canada, and the mountain region
of • the United States during mountain
climbing expeditions and also in the Alps,
and has traveled all over Europe. . He is
an Indepentent Republican in politics, and
a member of the Congregational Church.
He is a member of the Society for Biblical
Literature and. Exegesis, and the American
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the Western Branch of the American
Folk-lore Society, member of the Cooper
Ornithological Club, the American Forestry
Association, Sullivant Moss Chapter, the
Fern Society, the Religious Education
Association, and the Pearson Club (scien
tific). He is a director of the Sierra Club,
and literary editor of the Sierra Club Bul
letin. He has made numerous contribu
tions to magazines and periodicals on
mountain climbing and outdoor life, as
well as on educational and archaeological
subjects, and is a contributor to the Edit
ors' and Authors' Encyclopaedia. Mr.
Bade is a member of the Faculty Club of
Berkeley, • the University Club of San
Francisco, the Berkeley Club, the Home
Club, and the Outlook Club. He married
at Berkeley, California, September 26, 1906,
Evelyn Marianne Ratcliff, B.S., University
of California. Residence: 2616 College
Avenue, Berkeley, California. Address:
2223 Atherton Street, Berkeley, California.
BADGER, Charles Johnston:
Captain of the United States Navy;
born August 6, 1853. Appointed at
large to Naval Academy, June, 1869. Grad
uated Midshipman, May, 1873. Commis
sioned Ensign, July, 1874. Commissioned
Master, November, 1879. Commissioned
Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883.
Commissioned Lieutenant, January, 1886;
September, 1873, to July, 1875, U. S. S.
Narragansett, survey of Gulf of California ;
October, 1875, to December, 1875, Navy
Yard, Washington; January, 1876, to July,
1876, U. S. torpedo-steamer Alarm; Sep
tember, 1876, to November, 1879, Asiatic
Station, serving on board Ashuelot, Alert,
Monocacy and Monongahela; December,
1879, to April, 1880, special duty, Bureau
of Navigation; April, 1880, to August, 1881,
Coast Survey steamers Endeavor and A.
D. Bache; September, 1881, to September,
1882, U. S. S. Yantic, North Atlantic Sta
tion ; October, 1882, to January, 1884, Navy
Yard, Boston; January, 1884, to March,
1884, Fish Commission steamer, Fish
Hawk ; April, 1884, to November, 1884, Ex
ecutive of the U. S. S. Alert, of the Greely
Relief Expedition of that year. For parti

cipation in this expedition, received, by
name, with the other officers and men from
Maryland, the thanks of that State as ten
dered in joint resolutions of the Senate
and House of Delegates, assembled at An
napolis; November, 1884, to April, 1885,
ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington;
April and May, 1885, attached to the U. S.
S. Tennessee, while serving with the ex
peditionary force sent to the Isthmus of
Panama; October, 1885, to May, 1889, U.
S. S. Brooklyn, Asiatic Station; August,
1889, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washing
ton, to November, 1892; U. S. S. Dolphin,
November 16, 1892, to October, 1895; Navy
Yard, Washington, October 12, 1895, to
July, 1897; Naval War College, July, 1897,
to August, 1897 ; U. S. S. Cincinnati, Aug
ust 28, 1897, to 1899; Inspector Equipment,
Kentucky, February 20, 1899. Promoted
to Lieutenant-Commander, March 3, 1899;
Alabama, until 1902; promoted to comman
der, June 18, 1902; special duty, 1903 and
1904; commanding Chicago, 1905 and 1906.
July, 1907; promoted to captain, July 1,
1907. Ordered in July, 1907 as superin
tendent of the Naval Academy. Address:
Annapolis, Maryland.
BAEHR, Max J.:
Consular official. He was appointed con
sul at Kehl, July 21, 1898, and was ap
pointed consul at Santos, October 26, 1899,
but did not serve. He was appointed con
sul at Madgeburg, March 13, 1900, and has
been consul at Cienfuegos since June 6,
1902. Address: Cienfuegos, Cuba.
BAENSCH, EmU:
Lawyer; born at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
June 12, 1857; son of August and Gesine
Baensch. He was educated at the Univers
ity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and,
returning to his home town and taking up
the study of law, was admitted to the bar
of Wisconsin in 1882. Mr. Baensch is
identified with the Republican party and
has been elected by it to various offices in
the State. In 1882 he became justice of
the peace ; in 1884, city clerk of Manitowoc,
and in 1888, he was elected county judge,
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the nomination of his party, in 1893, for
lieutenant-governor, to which office he was
elected for a term of two years and re
elected in 1895. Besides his law practice,
Mr. Baensch is editor and publisher of
the Manitowoc Post. He was married in
1882 to Ida Koehler. Address : Manitowoc,
Wisconsin.
BAER, George F. :
President of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad; born in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, near the Village of Lavans-
ville, September 26, 1842; of German an
cestry; son of Solomon Baer and Anna
Baer. He was educated at Somerset Acad
emy and at the Franklin and Marshall
College. At the age of thirteen he en
tered the office of the Somerset Democrat,
where he remained for two years, and
•afterward was engaged as employee and
later bookkeeper for the Ashtola Lumber
Mills, near Johnstown, Pennsylvania;
joined the Union Army at the battle of
Bull Run; participated in all the engage
ments up to- and including Chancellors
ville, when he was the adjutant-general of
the Second Brigade. Resuming his legal
studies, he was admitted to the bar in
1864. In 1868 he removed to Reading,
Pennsylvania, and became an active prac
titioner at the Berks County bar; and in
1870 counsel for the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, in which capacity he had
charge of much important litigation. He
was elected a director of the Reading Com
pany in the '8o's, but resigned under the
McLeod administration. He became prom
inent, in connection with Mr. J. P. Mor
gan, in the reorganization of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railroad, 1893; and
was elected president of the Reading Com
pany, and of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, in 1901. He is a Republican in
politics and a member of the German Re
formed Church. Mr. Baer is a member,
and was formerly president "of the Pennsyl
vania German Society; is a member of the
Reading Park Commission, and took an
active part in the establishment of the
Reading Public Library. He is interested
in literature and in historical research, and

is the author of various papers on the early
history of the Pennsylvania Germans. Ad
dress 1718 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
BAER, William Jacob:
Artist; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January
29, i860; studied at Royal Academy, Mu
nich, Bavaria, from 1880 to 1884, receiving
four first-class medals. He removed to
New York City in 1884 and was engaged
in painting and teaching from 1884 to 1892.
Since then he has been a specialist in min
iature painting, receiving the first honors
at the exposition at Paris, in 1900; the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in
1901 ; and the Charleston Exposition in
1902 ; was a member of the German Jury of
Awards at St. Louis in 1904; also repre
senting the American Department, by
courtesy in advising awards for minia
tures. Mr. Baer is president of the Ameri
can Society of Miniature Painters. His
chief works in addition to portraits are: In
Arcadia, The Golden Hour, Aurora," Daph
ne, Nymph, Madonna With Auburn Hair,
Halcyon Days, and Primavera. Residence:
East Orange, New Jersey. Address : Sher
wood Studio, 58 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City.
BAGBY, Albert Morris:
Musician, writer; born at Rushville,
Schuyler County, Illinois, April 29, 1859 ; son
of Judge John Courts Bagby and Mary
Agnes (Scripps) Bagby. He was- educated
in American schools and also several years
in Berlin and Weimar (Germany), under
Xavier Scharwenka, Oscar Raif, Henrich
Urban and Franz Liszt, in music. Mr. Bagby
is author of Miss Traunmerei, a story of
Liszt and his historical musical coterie in
Weimar; Mammy Rosie, and also numer
ous sketches for the Century, and St. Nich
olas magazines, and the daily press. Mr. ¦
Bagby is a member of the Calumet, and
National Arts Clubs. Address: Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, New York City.
BAGLEY, William Chandler:
Educator, psychologist ; born in Detroit,
Michigan, March 15, 1874. He was gradu
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as B.S. in 1895, and from the University of
Wisconsin, Wisconsin, as M.S. in 1898,
and received from Cornell the degree of
Ph.D. in 1900. He was teacher in Michi
gan public schools, from 1895 to 1897; as
sistant in psychology at Cornell University
in 1900 and 1901 ; principal of public
schools at St. Louis in 1901 and 1902;
vice-president and director of training in
the Montana State Normal College from
1902 to 1906, and superintendent of train
ing department at the Oswego (New
York) State Normal School, from 1906.
He is a member of the National Education
al Association, the Western Philosophic
Association, the National Society for Scien
tific Study of Education, and the Religious
Education Association. Dr. Bagley is
author of: The Education Process, 1905;
Classroom Management, 1907. He is ad
vising editor of the School Review, Chi
cago, and associate editor of the Journal
of Pedagogy. Address : Oswego, New
York.
BAILEY, DeWitt:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Jan
uary 3, 1873; son of Charles H. Bailey and
Mary E. (Peterkin) Bailey. He was edu
cated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
and at Columbia University and Law
School, with the degree of A.B., A.M., and
LL.B. He was admitted to the bar in
1894, and is now of the law firm of Bailey
& Sullivan. He is a director of the De
velopment Company of Cuba;- director and
secretary of the Fiske Fruit Company, the
Courtin & Golden Company, the Redonda
Company, and' the Silveira Sugar Com
pany. Mr. Bailey is a Presbyterian in re
ligious views and a trustee of the
Young Men's Christian Association of
Brooklyn, and of the East District
Homoeopathic Dispensary. He is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
-fraternity, the Sigma Psi fraternity,
the Municipal Club of Brooklyn, Brooklyn
League, and the Crescent Athletic, Univer
sity and Hanover Clubs of Brooklyn. Mr.
Bailey married, April 12, 1899, Martha E.
Darlington (now deceased). Address: 102
Wilson Street, Brooklyn, New York.

BAILEY, Edgar Henry Summerneld:
Chemist and educator; born at Middle-
field, Connecticut, September 17, 1848. He
was graduated from Yale College with the
degree of Ph.B. in 1873; was a student at
the University of Strassburg, Germany, in
1881, received the degree of Ph.D. from the
Illinois Wesleyan University in 1883, and
did post-graduate work at the University
of Leipzig in 1895. He was instructor and
chemist at Yale in 1873 and 1874, and at
Lehigh University from 1874 to 1883; and
has been professor of chemistry in the
University of Kansas since 1883, and di
rector of the chemical laboratory there
since 1900. Mr. Bailey is chemist to
the Kansas State Board of Health
and the State Board of Agriculture;
lecturer at the Kansas City University
Medical College; fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science, and member of the Amer
ican Chemical Society; chairman of its
Kansas City section. He is an honor
ary member of the American Institute of
Homoeopathy, and the Kansas Academy of
Science, of which he is past president and
secretary. He has made researches relat
ing to the delicacy of special senses; to
mineral and potable waters ; the mineral re
sources of Kansas ; and also in toxicology
and in applications of the ion theory. He
has written papers on The Action of Pre
servatives, and is author (with H. P.
Cady) of Introduction to Qualitative An
alysis. He is. also author of : Sanitary and
Applied Chemistry, and of Mineral Waters
of Kansas (in Volume VII. of the State
Geological Survey). Professor Bailey
married, in 1876, Aravesta Trumbauer.
Address : 1329 Ohio Street, Lawrence, Kan
sas.
BAILEY, Edward:
Banker and iron manufacturer; born in
Harisburg, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1861;
son of Charles L. Bailey, and Emma H.
(Doll) Bailey. He was prepared in Phil
lips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,.
and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University at Ph.B. in the
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Harrisburg National Bank, the Harrisburg
Trust Company and the Harrisburg Trac
tion Company. He is a Republican in poli
tics and Presbyterian in religion. He is a
trustee of the Pennsylvania State Asylum,
a member, of the American Institute oi
Mining Engineers, and of the University
Club of New York City, and the University
and Art Clubs of Philadelphia. He mar
ried at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October
2, 1889, Elizabeth H. Reily, and they have
three children, aged fourteen, eleven, and
eight respectively. Residence : 1517 North
Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Office address : Harrisburg National Bank,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
BAILEY, Frank Harvey:
Commander United States Navy; born at
Elk Creek, Pennsylvania, June, 1851 ; son of
James and Sarah A. (Hurd) Bailey. He
was appointed from New York as a cadet
engineer and graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1875. He was
commissioned assistant engineer, July 1,
1877, passed assistant engineer, October 7,
1884, chief engineer, June 1896, lieutenant
commander, March 3, 1899, and commander
August 24, 1904. He cruised in Asiatic
waters from 1876 to 1878; in European
waters on U. S. S. Trenton, 1880-81 ; and
in South Pacific, 1882-85, on the Iroquois;
in' North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and
Brazilian waters, 1889-91; in the Philip
pines during the whole of the Spanish-
American War as chief engineer of the U.
S. Steamer Raleigh, and he was fleet engi
neer of the European Squadron, 1903-04;
was detailed for three years as an in
structor in marine engineering at Cornell
University and was chief assistant to the
chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
in working out designs of the machinery
for our naval ships, 1892-96 and 1899-1902.
He was advanced three numbers for "emi
nent and conspicuous conduct in battle"
as a result of service during the Spanish
War in the Philippines. He is a member
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and of the National
Geographic Society. His home is at Go
wanda, New York. Commander Bailey

was married at Dayton, New York, in De
cember, 1881, to Anna J. Markham, and
they have four children : Clara, born in
1888; James, born in 1890; Fred, born in
1892, and Sarah, born in 1896. Address :
Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.
BAILEY, Henry Turner:
Editor of The School Arts Book ; born at
North Scituate, Massachusetts, December
9, 1865 ; son of Charles Edward and Eu-
dora (Turner) Bailey. He was educated in
the public schools and Scituate High
School, graduating as valedictorian in the
class of 1882, then entering the Massachu
setts Normal Art School from which he
was graduated in 1887, and he studied
abroad in 1898. He was teacher of draw
ing in the Evening School of Boston in
1884 and 1885 ; supervisor of drawing at
Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1886 and 1887;
agent of the Massachusetts Board of Edu
cation, for the promotion of Industrial
Drawing from 1887 to 1903, and editor of
The School Art Book since 1903. Mr. Bai
ley is editor to The Davis Press at Worces
ter, Massachusetts, and a partner in The
Bayfield Shop at North Scituate, Massa
chusetts. In 1898 Mr. Bailey visited Egypt,
Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium,
France and British Isles, and in 1903 and
1907 traveled in France and England. Mr.
Bailey has delivered lectures in twenty-five
States and in Canada. He has been mod
erator of the Town Meeting of Scituate
since 1895 with but two exceptions. He is
an Independent Republican in politics and
a Baptist in religious connection, and is
a trustee of the First Baptist Church of
North Scituate. He is a member of the
Council of Supervisors of Manual Arts ;
the Society of American Authors; the
American Civic Association, and the Cop
ley Society of Boston, and honorary mem
ber of the Royal German Art Teachers' As
sociation. He received a medal from the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1903 for his course of instruction in
drawing for Massachusetts. He is a mem
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ton. He was an official representative of
the United States to the Congress of Pub
lic Art at Brussels, in 1898. Mr. Bailey
is author of: First Year in Drawing, 1894;
The Blackboard in Sunday School, 1899;
School Sanitation and Decoration (with
Professor Severance Burrage), 1899; Great
Painters' Gospel, 19065 The City of Refuge,
1902; Official Reports, State Board of Ed
ucation, Massachusetts, 1882-1903; Special
Reports on History of Art Instruction in
Massachusetts; Manual Training in Mas
sachusetts, etc., also : Home Culture Mono
graphs, 1904 and 1905. He married at
North Scituate, Massachusetts, 1889, Jos
ephine Litchfield, and they have five chil
dren :- Elisabeth, Lawrence, Theodore, Mar
garet, and Gilbert. Address : North Scit
uate, Massachusetts.
BAILEY, Hollis Russell:
Lawyer; born in North Andover, Mas
sachusetts, February 24, 1852, in the old
-Governor Bradstreet house, once the home
of Anne Bradstreet, the first female poet of
America; son of Otis Bailey and Lucinda
Alden (Loring) Bailey, natives respectively
of Andover and Duxbury, Massachusetts.
He fitted, for college at Phillips (Andover)
Academy, graduated from Harvard with the
degree of A.B. in 1877, and from the Har
vard Law School with the degree of LL.B.
in 1878, taking the degree of A.M. in 1879.
He also studied law with Hyde, Dickin
son & Howe, and was admitted to the bar
in Boston in February, 1880; has been
in general practice in Boston since 1880,
and during a part of one year he was priv
ate secretary to Chief Justice Gray. He has
been a member since 1900, and chairman
since 1903 of the Board of Bar Examiners,
and he was chairman for one year of the
Cambridge Non-Partisan Municipal Party.
Mr. Bailey is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society (Harvard Chap
ter) ; of the Cambridge and Colonial
Clubs of Cambridge; of the Bostonian
Society, and of the Free Trade League.
He is a Democrat in politics and in
his religious views he is a Unitarian.
Mr. Bailey married, February 12, 1885,
Mary Persis, daughter of ex-Govern

or Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, New
Hampshire. Residence: 4 Buckingham
Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Office
address : 19 Congress Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
BAILEY, John M. :
Jurist; born at Dillsburg, York County,
Pennsylvania, July 11, 1839. He was edu
cated in the public schools and Tuscarora
Academy, and in i860 began the study of
law in the office of Scott & Brown, Hunt
ingdon, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to
the bar of Huntingdon County in 1862.
Soon after he began practice he associated
himself with his former preceptors under
the firrn name of Scott, Brown & Bailey.
This continued until 1869, when Mr. Scott
was elected United States Senator, the firm
name then becoming Brown & Bailey, and
in 1882, it was changed to Brown, Bailey
& Brown, a son of Mr. Brown entering it.
The firm enjoyed a large and profitable
practice, and Mr. Bailey was called upon to
perform various public duties. As a mem
ber of the Constitutional Convention of
1872 and 1873, he served on the Commit
tees on Revenue, Taxation, and Finance,
Commissions, Offices, Oaths of Office, and
Incompatibilities of Office. In 1895 he was
elected judge of the Forty-ninth Judicial
District, to succeed Judge A. O. Furst.
Address : Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
BAILEY, John M. :
Lawyer; born at Bethlehem, N. Y., Aug.
24, 1838; son of Henry and Hannah
(Mosher) Bailey. He was educated at the
Hudson River Institute at Claverack, New
York; and at Union College, graduating in
the class of 1861, with' the degree of A.B..
and being a. member and valedictorian of
the Philomathean Society. After leaving
college he studied law and has since been
actively engaged in his profession, practic
ing in all courts. Mr. Bailey has been a
prominent and active figure in the Republican
politics of the State.. He was assistant
district attorney of Albany County from
1865 to 1868; United States collector of in
ternal revenue for the Fourteenth Dis
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trict attorney of Albany County from 1874
to 1877; member of the Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses from Albany Coun
ty from 1878 to 1881; United States con
sul at Hamburg, Germany from 1881 to
1885; delegate to the Republican National
Convention, 1888; surveyor of customs of
the Port of Albany from 1889 to 1894.
Mr. Bailey served in the Civil War as ad
jutant of the One Hundred and Seventy-
seventh New York Volunteers, in the De
partment of the Gulf and participated in
the battles of Amite River and Poncha-
toula, and at the siege of Port Hudson.
Mr. Bailey is a director of the First Na
tional Bank of Albany. He is a member of
the Reformed (Dutch) Church of America,
and is also a member of the New York
State Bar Association, the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States
(New York Comimandery), and of the
Fort Orange Club of Albany. Mr. Bailey
was married at Rochester, New York, in
1864, to Dell L. Hooker, by whom he has
a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Bailey Jewett, and
a son, Judson Hooker Bailey. His first
wife died, and in 1904 Mr. Bailey married
Fannie Mitchell Harding, of Hopeside, Va.,
by whom he has a daughter, Louisa Hard
ing Bailey. Address : 93 State Street, Al
bany, New York.
BAILEY, Joseph Weldon:
United States Senator; born in Copiah
County, Mississippi, October 6, 1863. He
was admitted to the bar in 1883; served
as a district elector on the Cleveland and
Hendricks ticket in 1884; removed to Texas
in 1885 and located at Gainesville, where
he has ever since resided. He served as
an elector for the State at large on the
Democratic ticket in 1888; was elected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and
on the organization of the Fifty-fifth
Congress, March 15, 1897; was the
Democratic nominee for Speaker of the
House of Representatives. He was chosen
United States Senator January 23, 1901, to
succeed Senator Horace Chilton, and took
his seat March 5 of that year; and was
elected January 23, 1907, for the term ex

piring March 3, 1913. He is a Democrat
in politics. Address : Gainesville, Texas. '
BAILEY, Leon Orlando:
Lawyer; born on a farm near Wells-
boro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, June 21,
1857; son of John W. and Margaret
(Lewis) Bailey. He was entered as a stu
dent in the classical course at Cornell Uni
versity in the class of 1880, but left at the
end of the sophomore year, then entering
the Indiana Law School, from which he
was graduated in 1881, with the degree of
LL.B. He began the practice of law at
Indianapolis in 1881 ; has been admitted to
all the courts of Indiana and New York,
and all the Federal courts, including the
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr.
Bailey removed to New York City perma
nently in 1902, and has since practiced
there; and he has made a specialty of
corporation law. He is a Democrat in pol
itics, and was a member of the Indiana
State Senate from Indianapolis for four
years ; was the chief assistant attorney-gen
eral of Indiana for four years; assistant
United States attorney two years, and des
ignated by President Cleveland as United
States attorney for the district of Indiana
at the close of the latter's first term. He
was also corporation counsel of the City of
Indianapolis for one term, and Democratic
nominee for Congrees from the Indianapo
lis district in 1898. He is now general
counsel and director of the American Fi
nance and Securities Company; counsel
for the New Jersey Steel Company, and
counsel and director of the Guanajuato
Reduction and Mines Company, with plant
at Guanajuato, Mexico. Mr. Bailey is a
member of the Indiana State Bar As
sociation, Indianapolis Bar Association,
and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Mr. Bailey is also a Mason; a mem
ber of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and of the Dem
ocratic and Lawyers' Clubs of New York,
Mr. Bailey has been twice married, first at
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1877, to Ros
amond Paty Coggeshall, who died Septem-
ter 16, 1892, and second, at Martha's Vine
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to -Gertrude May Stein. From the latter
union there have been born three children :
Elliott Gordon Bailey (born January 31,
1904), and twin daughters, Caroline and
Margaret, born December 18, 1905. Resi
dence : Bronxville, Westchester County,
New York. Office address : 5 Nassau
Street, New York City.
BAILEY, Liberty Hyde:
Educator, author, editor, lecturer; born
at South Haven, Michigan, March 15, 1858;
son of L. H. Bailey and Sarah (Harrison)
Bailey. He was graduated with the de
gree of B.S. and later of M.S. from Mich
igan Agricultural College, and received the
LL.D. degree from the University of Wis
consin. -He was for a time professor of
horticulture and landscape gardening at the
Michigan Agricultural College from 1884
to 1888; professor of horticulture at Cor
nell University from 1888 to 1903, and has
been director of the New York State Col
lege of Agriculture at Cornell University
from 1903. He is a lecturer on education
al, scientific and social topics. Dr. Bailey
is editor of the Cyclopedia of American
Horticulture (four volumes), Cyclopedia of
American Agriculture (four volumes), the
Rural Science Series ; was first editor of
the Country Life in America; was former
ly, editor of American Garden, and he is
author of: Survival of the Unlike; Evolu
tion of Our Native Fruits ; Elementary
Textbook of Botany ; Lessons With Plants ;
First Lessons With Plants ; Principles of
Agriculture; Principles of Fruit-Growing ;
Principles of Vegetable-Gardening; Out
look to Nature; The Nature-Study Idea.
and other books; also author of the Gar
den-Craft Series, comprising: Horticultur
ist's Rule-Book ; Nursery-Book ; Plant-
Breeding ; Forcing-Book ; Garden- Making ;
Pruning-Book ; Practical Garden-Book; Dr.
Bailey is an Independent in politics ; a fel
low of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences ; and a member of the American
Philosophical Society. He married, June
6, 1883, Annette Smith, and he has" two
children : Sarah May Bailey, born in 1887,
and Ethel Zoe Bailey, born in 1889. Ad
dress : Ithaca, New York.

BAILEY, William Whitman:
Pr6fessor of botany; born at. West
Point, New York, February 22, 1843; son
of Professor Jacob Whitman Bailey and
Maria (Slaughter) Bailey. On July 27,
1852, he was on the steamer Henry Clay
when it was burned at Yonkers, New York,
on which he lost his mother and sister,
and from which he was himself saved as
by miracle. He was educated in the School
for Officer's Children at West Point, Uni
versity Grammar School, Providence, Rhode
Island; Brown University, graduating in
1864, and later taking the Ph.B. and A.M.
degrees, and took a special course in
Harvard University Summer School, and
received the honorary degree of LL.D. from
the University of New Brunswick in 1900.
He served as a private in the Tenth Regi
ment of Rhode Island Volunteers for
three months in 1862. He was botanist in
1867 and 1868 of the United States Geo
logical Exploration of the Fortieth Paral
lel, under Clarence King; was after
ward instructor in botany until 1877, and
since 1877 has been professor of botany in
Brown University, becoming emeritus pro
fessor in 1906. He was secretary of the
Board of Visitors to the United States
Military Academy at West Point in 1896,
and delegate to the Centennial of the
same in 1902; was a delegate to the
Centennial of the University of New Bruns
wick in 1900; was a director and as
sistant librarian of the Providence Athen
aeum; is a member, and in 1902 and 1903
was president, of the Rhode Island Horti
cultural Society; has been president of the
Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa,
and of the Rhode Island Chapter of Sigma
Xi; is a fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, and
of the Boston and Newport Societies of Nat
ural History ; and a member of the Psi Up
silon fraternity, the Sons of the Revolution
(New York Chapter), Society of American
Wars (District of Columbia Commandery),
the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment of Rhode Island (now~ retired), and
life member of the Psi Upsilon Club of
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tanical Collector's Handbook; Among
Rhode Island Wild Flowers; New England
Wild Flowers; Botanical Note-Book; Bot
anizing, and numerous articles in prose
and verse. His favorite recreation is bot
anizing. He is a Republican in politics.
Professor Bailey married at Providence,
Rhode Island, March 16, 1881, Eliza Ran
dall Simmons, and they have two children :
Whitman, born April 2, 1883, and Margaret
Emerson, born October 12, 1885. Resi
dence : 6 Cushing Street. Office Address :
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Is
land. BAILY, Joshua L. :
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, June
27, 1826; son of Joshua Baily, Jr., and Eliza
beth (Lloyd) Baily. He was educated at
the Friends Select School in Philadelphia
and at Westtown Boarding School in Penn
sylvania. He entered the dry goods busi
ness at the age of 16 and is now senior
member of Joshua L. Baily & Company,
of Philadelphia and New York. He is pres
ident of the Philadelphia Society for the
Employment and Instruction of the Poor;
of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, and
of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. He is
also vice-president of the American Peace
Society, the National Temperance Society
and the American Tract Society. He is a
member of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania; the National Geographic Society;
the American Academy of Political and So
cial Sciences ; an original member of the
committee of one hundred organized in
1879, and was a member of the Relief Com
mission during the* Spanish-American
War, and is a trustee and director of many
charitable and other institutions. He is
also a member of the Contemporary Club,
the Merion Cricket Club and the City Club.
Mr. Baily married in 1856, Theodate,
daughter of John D. Lang, of Vassalboro,
Maine, and they have five sons, four of
whom are partners with him in his busi
ness. Residence: "Langwood," Ardmore,
Pennsylvania. Office address : 32 South
Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

BAINBRIDGE, William Seaman:
Physician and surgeon; born in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, February 17, 1870;
son of William Folwell and Lucy Elizabeth
(Seaman) Bainbridge. He was educated
at the Mohegan Lake School at Peeks-
kill, New York, and he received the de
gree- of A.M. from Shurtleff College, and
M.S. from Washington and Jefferson;
was graduated from the College of Phys
icians and -Surgeons of New York (Med
ical Department of Columbia University)
with the degree of M.D. in 1896. In June,
1907, the Western University of Pennsyl
vania conferred upon him the degree of
tive service; was formerly for years
in the house staff of the Presbyterian Hos
pital of New York City, and later was
physician of the Sloane Maternity Hospital.
He was a graduate student of Columbia
University, for one winter, in bacteriology,
and has been abroad six times, several
times professionally, and twice to study.
In all he has spent about four years abroad,
part of the time in China, Japan and India.
He was quiz-master at College of Phys
icians and Surgeons from 1894 to 1896,
and he volunteered as surgeon in the Span
ish-American War, but did not see any ac
tive service. He was formerly for years
adjunct professor of gynaecology at the
New York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital; and is now surgeon and
gynaecologist to the New York Skin and
Cancer Hospital ; attending surgeon to the
New York City Children's Hospitals and
Schools ; is adjunct professor of surgery,
New York Polyclinic Medical School and
Hospital; consulting gynaecologist to St.
Andrew's Convalescent Hospital and St.
Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, Long Island, and
consulting surgeon to the New York Home
for Dependent Crippled Children; asso
ciate surgeon Woman's Hospital. Dr.
Bainbridge, when a student, was graduated
as senior captain from the Mohegan Lake
School ; served one year in Cadet Com
pany of the Thirteenth Regiment, Nation
al Guard of the State of New York, years
ago; and is now surgeon-general, with
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Brigade of America. He is a member of
the Delta Upsilon fraternity, of the Amer
ican Medical Association, of the New York
Academy of Medicine, New York State
Medical Society, Greater New York Medi
cal Association, Alumni Societies of the
Presbyterian Hospital and Sloane Materni
ty Hospital, etc.; and was honorary presi
dent of the Heidelberg Congress on Can
cer, held in September, 1907. He has been
an extensive contributor to medical and
and scientific literature, and is author of :
Our Unseen Foes, a work on bacteriology;
and The Growing Years (both based on
lectures delivered at Chautauqua, and pop-
ulo-scientific in character) ; also of a Com-
pend of Operative Gynaecology, published
by the Grafton Press, New York City, and
many scientific papers. Dr. Bainbridge is
a bachelor, and a member of the Quill
and Students' Club. Address : (summer)
Hotel Athenaeum, Chautauqua, New York;
(winter) 34 Gramercy Park, New York
City.
BALK, Joseph Hershey:
Professor of psychology, University of
Colorado; born at Hall, Pennsylvania, in
1875; son of Daniel and Anna (Hershey)
Bair. He studied at Lafayette College, and
later at the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated in 1899 with the
degree of A.B. He also received the ad
vanced degrees of A.M., in 1900, from the
University of Michigan, and Ph.D., in 1903,
from Columbia University. In 1901 he
took up work as a research fellow in the
Carnegie Institute, in which he continued
until 1902, when he went to Columbia
University as assistant professor of An
thropology. Since 1903 he has resided in
Boulder, Colorado, where he is professor of
psychology in Colorado University, and is
also prominently connected with a num
ber of mining and other enterprises. He
is treasurer and director of the Midas Min
ing & Milling Company, and the Highland
Mary Mining Company; president and di
rector of the New York (Pennsylvania)
Shale Brick Company ; vice-president and
director of the Boulder Pressed Brick
Company, and director of the Dia

mond Bar Dredging Company, and
the Idaho Mining Company. In 1902
he was elected to membership in
the Columbia Chapter of the Sigma Xi
fraternity, and in the same year became a
fellow in the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is also a
member of the American Psychological As
sociation, the Western Association of Col
lege Teachers of Education, the Colorado
Scientific Society, the Boulder Commercial
Association, and the Boulder Club. Dr.
Bair married at Jersey Shore, Pennsylva
nia, July, 1904, Elizaeth B. Hill, and has
one son, Frederick, born in 1905. Address :
Boulder, Colorado.
BAZRD, Henry Carey:
Publisher and bookseller ; born at
Bridesburg, Pennsylvania (Frankford Ar
senal), September 10, 1825; son of Captain
Thomas James (of the Third Regiment of
United States Artillery) and Eliza Cath
arine (Carey) Baird, daughter of Mathew
Carey. He was educated at the private
schools of Anthony Bolmar, West Chester,
and Hon. Charles W. Pitman, Pottsville,
Pennsylvania. He was the pioneer publish
er of industrial books in America, and
has traveled in Europe extensively between
1847 and 1899. He is a writer on econom
ic questions, and lecturer, and has been
a pamphleteer for half a century; at his
own cost. Mr. Baird has served as an ex
pert witness before Committees of the
House of Representatives on Currency, and
on Ways and Means, and also before the
Monetary Commission of 1876. He was
Greenback candidate for Mayor of Phila
delphia, and was nominated by Greenback
Convention for State Treasurer of Penn
sylvania, but declined. He is head of the
firm of Henry Carey Baird & Company,
oublishers. He presented to the United
States Military Academy at West Point
(where his father graduated in 1814),
three-quarter and life sized portraits of
General George G. Meade, General Charles
F. Smith, and General Henry J. Hunt, and
received a vote of thanks from the fac
ulty of the Academy on the presentation
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has been a Whig, Republican and
Greenbacker; and is now a Municipal
Reformer; and has always been a
Protectionist. He is an Episcopalian
in religious belief. Mr. Baird is an
honorary member of the Manufacturers'
Club of Philadelphia, a member of the
Pennsylvania Forestry Association. His
favorite recreations are economic study
and pamphleteering; and he is widely
known as a student of history and biog
raphy, and especially of American military
and naval history. Mr. Baird married at
Philadelphia, September 26, 1850, Elizabeth
Davis, daughter of John Penington (she
died, 1901), and they have had one daugh
ter : Helena Lawrence Gardiner. Address :
810 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
BAIRD, Julian William:
Professor of chemistry; born in Battle
Creek, Michigan, February 14, 1859; son of
Abram Henry Baird and Sarah Elizabeth
(Wagoner) Baird. He was educated in
the public schools of Jackson, Michigan,
and the University of Michigan from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1882, and as
M.A. and Ph.C. in 1883. He then attended
Harvard University Medical School from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1890-7.
Dr. Baird was assistant in quantitative
chemical analysis in the University of Mich
igan, in 1882 .and 1883, instructor in quali
tative chemical analysis and in assaying in
Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Penn
sylvania, from 1883 to 1886, and has been
professor of analytical and organic chem
istry, since 1886, at the Massachusetts Col
lege of Pharmacy, at Boston, of which in
stitution he has also been dean since 1897.
He is a member of the American Chemical
Society ; American Pharmaceutical Associa
tion; American Medical Association;
the Society of Chemical Industry
(London) ;' Massachusetts Medical Society,
and Boston Society of Medical Science;
and he is honorary member of the Massa
chusetts State Pharmaceutical Association.
Dr. Baird is a Republican in politics. He
married at Laconia, New Hampshire, Octo
ber 25, 1897, Hattie Bell Ellinwood, and

they have a daughter, Evelyn, born in 1900.
Residence: 102 St. Botolph Street, Boston.
Business address : Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy, Boston, Massachusetts.
BAIRD, Lyman:
Real estate dealer; born in Cheshire
County, New Hampshire, December 20,
1829; son of Stephen Baird. He was edu
cated in the Lancasterian school and at
private schools in New Haven, Connecti
cut. He was engaged for a time in busi
ness at New Haven, but removed to Chi
cago, Illinois, in 1857, and entered the real
estate and brokerage business, in which he
was eminently successful and in which he
has remained ever since. In 1883, when the
firm was Baird & Bradley, Messrs. Wyllys
W. Baird and Geo. L. Warner became as
sociated with him in the business, which
has since 1893 been conducted under the
style of Baird & Warner, Lyman Baird be
ing the senior and consulting partner. He
is a Republican. He is a member of the
Chicago Real Estate Board and was its
president in 1885. Is a member of the Con-
gregationalist Church. He was married at
New Haven, Connecticut, in 1858, to Eliza
beth M. Warner. His children are : Wyl
lys Warner, Lucius Olmsted, Maximilian,
and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Jno. A. Rogers.
Residence: 307 North Clark Street, Chica
go. Address : 90 La Salle Street, Chicago,
Illinois.
BAIRD, William Raimond:
Lawyer and patent specialist; born in
Philadelphia, April 24, 1858 ; son of William
J. Baird and Mary Emma (Cornish)
Baird. He was educated at the Central
High School in Philadelphia and at the
High School at Orange, New Jersey, Stev
ens Institute of Technology, whence he was
graduated as M.E. in 1878, and he1, after
ward entered Columbia College Law School
and School of Political Science, from
which he was graduated as LL.B. in 1882.
Mr. Baird is a director in many corpora
tions. He is a Republican in politics and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is a member of the American Chemical
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and the Societe Mineralogique de France ;
also a member of the Beta Theta Pi, and
Phi Delta Phi fraternities and has been edi
tor of Beta Theta Pi since 1894, and he is
author of: American College Fraternities,
and Principles of American Law. He mar
ried in 1886, Jennie G. Mansfield and they
have one son, Raimond Duy Baird, born in
1888. Address: 63 West Eighty-third
Street, New York City.
BAKER, A. George:
Physician; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, February 2, 1847; son of the late
Dr. Jacob Baker and Mary Catherine
(Piatt) Baker. He attended the public
schools, was graduated from the Western
University as A.B. in 1879, and entered
the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel
phia, from which he was graduated as M.
D. in 1887. He speaks all the modern
languages of Europe, also Arabic and Chi
nese, and is physician of the Chinese Medi
cal Dispensary in Philadelphia. He is a
Republican in politics. He was acting sur
geon of the Pennsylvania Naval Reserves
in the Spanish-American War, and is presi
dent of the Cooper Literary Institute of
Philadelphia. Mr. Baker is author of: The
History of the Germans in America, 1891 ;
History of the Knights of St. John of
Malta; German American Christianity and
the Protestant Episcopal Church; The
Phoneudoscope and its Practical Applica
tion (medical), 1898. Dr. Baker married,
in 1882, Rebecca A. Comly, daughter of the
late Allen Comly. Address : 404 West
Susquehanna Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
BAKER, Alfred B. :
Clergyman ; born at Matawan, New Jer
sey, August 11, 1836; son of Elihu Baker
and Joanna (Butler) Baker. Mr. Baker
was graduated from Princeton University
with the degree of B.A. and award of the
Philosophical Oration in 1861, receiving
from that University the degree of M.A. in
1864 and D.D. in 1891. He was ordained
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1864 and
ordained priest the following year by Bish
op Odenheimer. During the years of 1864

to 1866 was assistant minister at Christ
Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey, be
coming in the latter year rector of Trinity
Church at Princeton, New Jersey, where
he has since officiated. Since 1888 Dr.
Baker has been dean of the Convocation of
New Brunswick ; since 1890 president of its
standing committee and since 1904 a mem
ber of the Court of Review of, the Second
Judicial District of the Protestant Episco
pal Church in the United States. Dr.
Baker married at New Brunswick, New
Jersey, April 22, 1867, Emilia J. Stubbs,
and they have had two sons, Alfred Stubbs
Baker, now deceased, and William Osborn
Baker, now rector of Trinity Church,
Haverhill, Massachusetts. Address : Prince
ton, New Jersey.
BAKER, Alfred L, :
Banker and broker ; born in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, April 30, 1859; son of Addison
Baker and Maria (Mudge) Baker. He was
educated at the Lynn High School, Lynn,
Massachusetts, and was admitted to the
bar of Essex County, Massachusetts, at
Lynn, in 1881, removed to Chicago in 1886,
and practiced law under the firm name of
Baker & Greeley -until he went into stocks
and bonds in 1896; and he purchased in
October, 1896, a membership in the New
York Stock Exchange, of which he is
still a mefnber. He is a director of the Chi
cago & Calumet Canal & Dock Co. Mr.
Baker was president of the "Chicago Stock
Exchange for three years, from 1898 to
1900, and is still" a director of that body,
and was president of the Merchants' Club
of Chicago in 1905. He was president for
five years of the Onwentsia Club, and is
president of the Board of Trustees of Lake
Forest University, and governor of the
Society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Baker
married at Chicago, Illinois, June 6, 1894,
Mary Corwith, and they have two children :
Isabelle, born in 1897, and Mary Landon,
born in 1901. Residence : Lake Forest, Illi
nois. Office address? 209 La Salle Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
BAKER, Arthur Latham:
Educator and mathematician; born in
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G. Baker and Mary A. (Latham) Baker.
He was graduated from the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, as
CE. in 1875, and received the degree of
Ph.D. from Lafayette College in 1889. He
was adjutant professor of engineering at
Lafayette College from 1873 to 1880; prac
ticed as attorney at law at Scranton, Penn
sylvania, from 1880 to 1889; became prin
cipal of the high school at Scranton, Penn
sylvania in 1882, was professor of math
ematics at Stevens High School, Hoboken
New Jersey, in 1889 and 1890; professor
of mathematics at the University of Roch
ester from 1891 to 1901, and has been head
of the Department of Mathematics in the
Manual Training High School at Brooklyn,
New York, since 1901. He served in
the National Guard of Pennsylvania
from 1880 to 1887; member of the State
Rifle Team to Creedmore, etc., for five
years. He is a Republican in politics and
a Presbyterian in religious connection;
is a fellow' of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and of
the Rochester Academy of Science, and was
its secretary from 1885 to 1890. He is a
member of the American Mathematical So
ciety, the Rensselaer Society of Engineers,
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His
favorite recreations are water-color paint
ing and ornithology. Dr. Baker is author
of: Pennsylvania Supreme Court De
cision Digest, 1886 and 1887; Baker's Week
ly Digest of Pennsylvania Court Decisions,
published in 1887 and 1888; Graphic Al
gebra ; Elliptic Functions ; Solid Geometry ;
Conic Sections; Art of Geometry, and art
icles in current pedagogic journals. Dr.
Baker married at Palisades, New York.
Bessie Coit Boswell Hand, daughter of
Rev. Aaron H. Hand, and they have one
daughter, Dorothy. Address: Manual
Training High School,. Brooklyn, New
York.
BAKER, Charles Adkins:
Lawyer; born at Easthampton, Hamp
shire County, Massachusetts, May 6, 1878;
son of George Hall Baker and Nellie (Ad
kins) Baker. He was prepared for college
at the Horace Mann High School and en

tered Columbia University, from which he
was graduated as A.B. with honors in eco
nomics and social science in 1899, and A.M.
and LL.B. in 1902. He was admitted to the
bar in 1902, and has since been practicing
in New York City as counsel to corpora
tions and in international claims. He was
president of the Columbia, McKinley and
Roosevelt. Club, and secretary of the Citi
zens' Union, Twenty-first Assembly Dis
trict of New York. Mr. Baker is director
and counsel for the Harlem Contracting
Company ; vice-president and counsel of the
Pacific City Terminal and Contracting Com
pany, and counsel of the Candelaria Gold
and Silver Mining Company; treasurer of
the Compania Minera de la Candelaria y
Durango. He is a Republican in politics,
a Mason, and a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society,-the Delta Upsilon fraternity,
the Deutscher Verein der Columbia Uni-
versitat, The Haresfoot, The Philolexian
Society, and various alumni associations.
Address : 294 Manhattan Avenue, New
York City.
BAKER, Charles Hinckley:
Civil engineer and capitalist ; born in
Chicago, Illinois, November 30, 1864.
After a preparatory education in the public
schools he entered Cornell University, from
which he was graduated as CE. in June,
1886. He was resident engineer of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway,
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way, the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way, and the Seattle, Lake Shore and
Eastern Railway, until 1890, and was then
engaged in private practice at Seattle,
Washington, as a civil engineer and con
tractor from 1890 to 1895, and in that con
nection built the Third Street and Suburb
an Railway in that city. Mr. Baker
was appointed in 1895, receiver of the
Merchants' National Bank of Seattle. His
greatest Work was the organization, financ
ing and building of the Snoqualine Falls
Power Company, which he completed with
a plant for the electrical transmission of
ten thousand horse-power, thirty miles to
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and became the first president of that com
pany, and later president of the Seattle
Cataract Company and the Tacoma Catar
act Company. He is also vice-president of
the Alabama Interstate Power Company
and the American Cyanamid Company.
Mr. Baker is a Democrat in politics, and
was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention of 1896, but disagreeing with
the coinage plank of the platform of that
convention, he returned to Seattle and in
augurated the Gold Democratic movement
in the State of Washington. Mr. Baker
married, June 13, 1888, Gladys France.
Address : 100 Broadway, New York City.
BAKER, Charles Whiting:
Editor, civil engineer; born at Johnson,
Lamoille County, Vermont, January 17,
1865; son of Thomas Jefferson Baker and
Mattie (Whiting) Baker. He was edu
cated at the Vermont State Normal School
and the University of Vermont, from which
he was graduated as CE. in 1886. He was
a draughtsman at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, in 1886 and 1887,
and has been on the editorial staff since
1887, and chief editor since 1895, of the
Engineering News, New York City, and is
vice-president and a director of the Engi
neering News Publishing Company. He is
a Congregationalist in religious affiliation ;
a member of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, the American Economic
Association, and the Phi Delta Theta fra
ternity. He is author of Monopolies and
the People (Putnam). He married, June
4, 1890, Rebekah Wheeler, of Burlington,
Vermont, and they have two sons : Jef
ferson Wheeler Baker, born in 1891, and
Charles Whiting, Junior, born in 1895.
Residence : Fern Hill, 20 South Mountain
Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. Address :
220 Broadway, New York City.
BAKER, Fisher A.:
Lawyer; born at Dedham, Massachusetts,
February 8, 1837; son of John Baker and
Patty (Ellis) Baker. He was graduated
from Dartmouth College as A.B. in 1859
and studied at Albany Law School. He
served three years in the Civil War in the

Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, and
in the Fifth Corps of the Army of the
Potomac. He was admitted to the bar
in i860, and has been practicing in New
York City from 1865. He is a trustee of
the Bankers' Safe Deposit Company, and
a director of the British-American Insur
ance Company of New York CSty, the
First National Bank of the City of New
York, and the New Jersey Central Securi
ty Company. He is a Republican in poli
tics and a Unitarian in religious affiliation.
He is a trustee of the Hackleu School at
Tarrytown, New York; a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, and the Unitarian Club of ,
New York. He married, May 25, 1869,
Catharine W. Fisher. Residence: Yon
kers, New York. Address : 2 Wall Street,
New York City.
BAKER, Frank:
Jurist; born at Melmore, Ohio, May 11,
1840; son of Richard and Fanny (Wheel
er) Baker. He received his education at
the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which
institution of learning he was graduated
in 1861, with the degree of A.B. He im
mediately entered the Albany (New York)
Law School, from which he was gradu
ated with the degree of LL.B. in 1863.
Soon after his graduation he enlisted as a
private in the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volun
teers, and served until the end of the Civil
War. Upon being mustered out of the
service he engaged in the practice of law
at Chicago, Illinois, until 1887, when he
was made judge of the Circuit Court of
Cook County. Since 1904 he has been
judge of the Appellate Court of the First
District of Illinois. His political affiliations
are Democratic. He is a member of U. S.
Grant Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
Sons of the American Revolution, and So
ciety of the Colonial Wars. He was mar
ried in London, Ohio, on November': 10,
1870, to Eliza Warner. His children are:
Ethel (now Mrs. E. L. Andrews), and
Nora (now Mrs. S. M. Kochersperger) .
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BAKER, Frank Collins:
Zoologist; born in Warren, Rhode Is
land, December 14, 1867. After leaving
the public schools he was at Brown Uni
versity in 1888 and 1889, was Jesup scholar
at- the Academy of Natural Sciences at
Philadelphia in 1889 and 1890, was in
charge of the Invertebrate Department of
Ward's Natural Science Establishment at
Rochester, New York, in 1891 and 1892,
curator of zoology in the Field Columbian
Museum, Chicago, in 1894, and since 1894
has been curator of the Chicago Academy
of Sciences. He is a member of the Ameri
can Association of Museums; the Natural
ist's Society of the Central States ; the
Illinois Audubon Society, of which he has
been vice-president from 1896; the Chi
cago Academy of Sciences, of which he
was secretary from 1894 to 1896, and he
is a fellow of the Rochester Academy of
Sciences, and was its secretary in 1891 and
1892. He has written extensively on mol-
lusca and on museum administration. Resi
dence: 1738 York Place, Chicago. Office
address : Chicago Academy of Sciences,
Lincoln Park, Chicago.
BAKER, Frank M.:
Railroad commissioner; born in Owego,
Tioga County, New York, in 1846; son of
John D: ' Baker. He was graduated from
Owego Academy, and afterward worked at
the carpenter trade. He became a clerk in
the Erie Railroad freight office at Owego,
New York, in 1864, becoming chief clerk,
and was station agent of the Southern Cen
tral (now Lehigh Valley) Railroad, at
Owego, from .1872 to 1882 ; superintendent
of the Addison and Pennsylvania Railroad
from 1882 to 1886; freight and passenger
agent, same road, from 1886 to 1896, and
also general superintendent of Gaines Coal
Company from 1886 to 1896, and agent for
the receiver of the Bradford, Eldred and
Cuba Railroad from 1894 to 1895. He con
structed and was general manager of the
Darien & Western Railroad of Georgia in
1894 and 1895. He has been established in
the hardware business at Owego, since 1894,
as senior of the firm of Frank M- Baker
& Son,, and he has been" a member of the

New York Railroad Commission since De
cember 18, 1896. Mr. Baker is president
of the Champion Wagon Company^ vice-
president of Tioga National Bank, and
treasurer of the Glenmary Sanitarium. He
is a Republican in politics. He served as a
member of the Commission from New
York to the Cotton States Exposition of
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895; was trustee of
Village of Owego from 1873 to 1880, and
was one term president; school commis
sioner of Owego, three years; and chief
of the Fire Department of Owego in 1881.
He was active in securing the organiza
tion of the New York State Firemen's As
sociation, was its secretary from 1874 to
1881, and president in 1884 and 1885. He is
an honorary life member of the Belgium
Federation of Firemen ; the Great Britain
Federation of Firemen ; French Federation
of Firemen and Italian Federation of Fire
men. Address : Owego, New York.
BAKER, Franklin Thomas:
Educator; born in Hagerstown, Mary
land, September 12, 1864; son of John
Henry Baker and Julia (McCoy) Baker.
He was graduated from the high school at
Hagerstown, Maryland, then entered Dick
inson College from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1885. He afterward re
ceived the degree <-' * M both from Dick
inson College and Columbia University.
He was a teacher in the Dickinson Prepar
atory School from 1887 to 1892; instruc
tor in Teachers' College, from 1892 to 1893 ;
and has been professor of English in Teach
ers' College, Columbia University since
1893. He was a lecturer at the Brooklyn
Institute from 1898 to 1906. Mr. Baker has
contributed numerous papers to educational
periodicals. He edited De. Quincey's Re
volt of the Tartars' (Sibley & Company) ;
Browning's Shorter Poems (Macmillan) ;
Macaulay's Poems (Macmillan) ; Tenny
son's Princess (Appleton) ; The De Cover-
ley Papers (Appleton), Mrs. Gaskell's,
Cranford (Longmans), and he is joint
author of : The Teaching of English (Long
mans) and the Language Reader Series
(Macmillan). Professor Baker is a mem
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married in Brooklyn, New York^ Septem
ber 15, 1896, Emilie A. Kip, and they have
three children : Lawrence Kip Baker, born
February 16, 1900 ; Dorothy, born November
27, 1901, and Frances, born April 16, 1906.
Address : Park Hill, Yonkers, New York.
BAKER, George Comstock:
Lawyer; born at Comstock, Washington
County, New York, April 29, 1868; son of
Isaac V. Baker, Jr., and Laura D. (Clark)
Baker. He was educated at Union Col
lege and graduated from Albany Law
School, as LL.B. and from Cornell Law
School as LL.M. He was admitted to the
New York Bar, was in charge of the Land
Department in the Attorney-General's of
fice at Albany from 1893 to 1898; deputy
attorney-general of New York from 1898
to 1902. He was district manager and resi
dent counsel of the Fidelity and Casualty
Company of New York, from 1903 to 1907,
and engaged in private practice from 1907.
He is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in religion. He is a member and
Past Master of Lodge No. 5, F & A. M.,
a member of Lodge Quotuor Coronati,
London, the Lodge of Research, at Leices
ter, England, and the New York Masonic
Historical Society. He has been editor of
the Masonic Northern New Yorker from
1907.- He is also a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity; the Society of Colonial
Wars ; the Sons of the Revolution, and of
the Society of the War of 1812 (ex-presi
dent of the New York Society). His fav
orite recreation is country life generally.
He is a member of the Fort Orange and
Press Clubs of Albany, New York. He
married at Albany, New York, April 18,
1895, Mary Van Wormer. Address : Com
stock, New York.
BAKER, George Fales:
Physician ; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, on July 14, 1863 ; being the only son
of the late Alfred G. and Henrietta R. F
Baker of that city; he received his pre
paratory education at the Classical Insti
tute of Rev. Dr. Faires and attended the
University of Pennsylvania for eight years,
from which he received his degrees of B.S.

and M.D. He is a member of the Society
of Mayflower Descendants ; the Sons of the
Revolution ; the Society of the War of 1812 ;
the Colonial Society, and the Military Or
der of the Founders and Patriots of Ameri
ca. After practicing his profession for
some years, he devoted some time to travel.
He is a director in a number of financial
institutions, interesting himself also in
charitable and religious works as manager
and trustee. He is a Republican in politics,
and for a number of years has been Presi
dent of the American Academy of Music.
On December 31, 1900, he married Lillie
Ingham, youngest daughter of the late Wil
liam Walker of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
The country home of Dr. Baker is at "Old
Oaks, Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Address :
1818 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.BAKER, George Fisher:
Banker; born in Troy, New York, March
27, 1840. He is .president of the First Na
tional Bank; a director of the Astor Na
tional Bank, the Long Island Water -Sup
ply Company, and the New York and Long
Branch Railroad Company; vice-president
and director in Bankers' Safe Deposit Co.,
and director in various railroad and finan
cial corporations. He is a member of the
Metropolitan, Lawyers', New York Yacht,
Tuxedo and Riding Clubs, and of the Music
Art Society. Residence : 258 Madison Ave
nue. Office address : 2 Wall Street, New
York City.
BAKER, Henry Brooks:
Physician, surgeon and statistician ; born at
Brattleboro, Vermont, December 29, 1837;
son of Ezra and Deborah Krowlton (Bige
low) Baker. He received his general edu
cation in common schools in Vermont, Mas
sachusetts and Michigan. He began the
study of medicine at the University of
Michigan in 1861, but, the Civil War hav
ing broken out, he left college after a year's
work and enlisted in the Federal Army as
private in the Twentieth Regiment of Mich
igan Volunteer Infantry. After a time he
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the war. Following this he went to
New York City for further work in
medicine, and after a year's study at the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, grad
uated with the degree of M.D. He received
the honorary degree of A.M. from the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1891. He spent
several years in medical practice at various
places in Michigan and in 1870 he was ap
pointed head of the Bureau of Vital Statis
tics of that State, holding that office for
six years. In 1873 he was appointed secre
tary of the Michigan State Board of
Health, and served the State in that ca
pacity until . the early part of 1905. Dr.
Baker compiled the United States Census of
Michigan in 1870 in a volume entitled:
Statistics of Michigan, 1870; and he is
author of many articles, reports and papers
bearing on his work. From 1899 to 1904
he was a lecturer on public sanitation at
the University of Michigan. He is mem
ber of the American Public Health Associa
tion; the Michigan Academy of Science,
of both of which organizations he has been
president, and other national and state
scientific organizations. Has been a fellow
of the Royal Meteorological Society of Lon
don, England, and was an associate mem
ber of the French Society of Hygiene. He
is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Temp
lar, and a member of the Utility and Inter
est Club, Lansing, Michigan. He attends
the Congregational Church. He married at
Lansing, Michigan, September 9, 1867, Fan
nie H. Howard, and they have four child
ren; Howard B. Baker, M.D., of Detroit,
born September 11, 1872; Henry B, Baker,
Jr., born April 11, 1879; Burton Adams
Baker, electrical engineer of Ames, Colo
rado, born August 17, 1882,' and Helen
Frances Baker, born November 17, 1890.
Address: (summer), Holland, Michigan,
R. F. D., 12; (winter): 281 Warren Ave
nue, West Detroit, Michigan.
BAKER, Herman H.:
Lawyer; born at Richfield, Otsego Coun
ty, New York; son of Norman R. Baker
and Abbie Jane (Eason) Baker. He was
educated in a county district school at
Richfield Springs High School, and Colum

bia College, graduating with the degree of
LL.D. in 1892. He was appointed assistant
district attorney of Kings County in 1879,
and is now engaged in general practice. He
is also a director of the Brooklyn Union
Coal Company. He is a Republican in poli
tics and a Universalist in religion. Mr.
Baker is a member of the Brooklyn Bar
Association. He riiarried June 1, 1898,
Gena Wilson, and they have a son, Norman
Richfield, who was born in 1901. Address :
New City, Rockland County, New York.
BAKER, Ira Osborn:
Professor of civil engineering; born at
Linton, Green County, Indiana, September
23, 1853. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Illinois in 1874 in civil engi
neering, and received from that university
the degree of Doctor of Engineering in
1903. He has been professor of engineer
ing in the University of Illinois from 1882.
He is author. of : Treatise on Masonry Con
struction ; Treatise on Roads and Pave
ments ; Engineer's Surveying Instruments ;
Leveling, Spirit, Trigonometric and Baro
metric, and numerous papers in engineer
ing publications. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers* the
American Soc'ety for Testing Materials ;
the Western Society of Engineers, and the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering
Education. He married at Philo, Illinois,
August 15, 1877, Emma Burr, and they
have four children : Horatio W. Baker,
Imo E. Baker, Cecil F. Baker and I. Web
ster Baker. Address: 702 W. University ..
Avenue, Champaign, Illinois.
BAKER, James Hutchins:
President of the University of Colorado;
born at Harmony, Somerset County, Maine,
October 13, 1848 ; son of Wesley Baker and
Lucy (Hutchins) Baker. He was educated
at Bates - College, Lewiston, Maine, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1873, and
he received from Bates College the degree
of LL.D. in 1892. He was principal of the
Yarmouth High School, Yarmouth, Maine,
from 1873 to 1875 ; principal of the Denner
High School from 1875 to 1892, ,and has
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rado since 1892. He was president of the
National Council of Education in 1892;
president of the National Association of
State Universities in 1907, and was a member
of the National Committee of Ten, on
Secondary Education. He has made seve
ral trips to England, France, Germany and
Italy. Dr. Baker is a Congregationalist in
his religious connection. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and a member of the Colo
rado Scientific Society and of the Univer
sity Club of Denver. His favorite recrea
tion is mountain climbing. He is author
of: Elementary Psychology; Education and
Life, and American Problems. He married
at Denver, Colorado, June 20, 1882, Jennie
V. Hilton, and they have two children :
Helen H. Baker, born in 1884, and Hilton
V. Baker, born in 1890. Address : Boulder,
Colorado.
BAKER, James Thompson:
President of Frank Hughes College;
born at Wallaceton, Kentucky, July 2, 1874 ;
son of James A. Baker and Elizabeth
(Wallace) Baker. He was graduated from
Berea College, as B.L. in 1897, Mount
Hope College as Ph.B. in 1898, took post
graduate work and Ph.M. from Berea Col
lege in 1901 and post-graduate work in
Chicago. He was vice-president of Mount
Hope College, in 1898, superintendent of
schools at Milroy, Pennsylvania from 1898
to 1901, principal of the City High School
at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 1901 and
1902; principal of the City High School
at Temple, Texas, from 1902 to 1905,
president of the Arkansas Cumberland
College at Clarksville, Arkansas, in 1905
and 1906, and president of the Frank
Hughes College at Clifton, Tennessee, since
1906. He has also engaged extensively in
institute and normal work in Pennsylvan
ia, Ohio, Texas and Tennesses. He is a
Republican in politics and an ordained
minister of the Presbyterian Church. He
is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
His favorite recreation is tennis, and he
was formerly enthusiastic in basketball
and football. He married at Beardstown,
Illinois, December 16, 1897, Carrie Wilson,

and they have a daughter, Helen Baker,
born March 6, 1902. Address : Clifton,
Tennessee.
BAKER, Lewis C:
Clergyman; born at Matawan, New Jersey,
1831 ; son of Elihu Baker. He was grad
uated at Princeton University with the
degree of B.A. in 1854, taking that of A.M.
in 1857. He became pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Camden, New Jer
sey, in i860, resigning in 1883. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1894 and was ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Whitaker a year later. He was as
sistant at the Church of the Atonement,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1894-95, and as
sisted at Christ Church Chapel, 1895-1898.
Since 1901 he has been chaplain of Christ
Church Hospital, Philadelphia. He is
author of: Mystery of Creation and of
Man; Fire of God's Anger, 1883, and was
editor of: Words of Reconciliation, for
seven years, 1885-1892. Address : Christ
Church Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
BAKER, Newton Diehl:
Lawyer; born at Martinsburg, West Vir
ginia, December 3, 1871 ; son of Dr. New
ton Diehl Baker and Mary Baker. He
was graduated from the academic depart
ment of Johns Hopkins University
with the degree of A.B. in 1892,
and, taking up the. study of the law at
the Washington and Lee University, was
graduated with the degree of LL.B, two
years .later. In that year he was admitted
to practice before the bar of his native
State, and after two years' practice became
for two years private secretary to Postmas
ter-General William L. Wilson. Follow
ing this and two years of later legal prac
tice in West Virginia, he removed to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he has since re
sided. In 1902 he was appointed first as
sistant director of law of the city and a
year later director of law in full. In 1903
he was elected city solicitor for a term pf
two years, and was reelected, 1905. Mr.
Baker is a member of Phi Gamma Delta
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various other legal associations. He mar
ried, in 1903, Elizabeth Wells Leopold, of
Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Address: City
Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.
BAKER, Orlando H.:
Consular officer; appointed consul at Co
penhagen, September 29, and retired from
that office, January 25, 1894. He was ap
pointed consul at Sydney, New South
Wales, June 16, 1900, and is now serving.
Address : Sydney, New South Wales, Aus
tralia.
BAKER, Ray Stannard:
Writer, editor; born in Lansing, Michi
gan, April 17, 1870; son of Joseph Stan
nard Baker and Alice (Potter) Baker. He
was educated at the Michigan Agricultural
College from which he was graduated as
B.S. in 1889; and he took a partial liter
ary and law course at the University of
Michigan. He was formerly associate edi
tor of McClure's Magazine, and is now as
sociate editor of The American Magazine.
He is a director of Phillips Publishing
Company. Mr. Baker is author of: Boys'
Book of Inventions, 1899; Our New Pros
perity, 1900 ; Seen in Germany, 1901 ; Sec
ond Boys' Book of Inventions, 1903; also
numerous series of magazine articles and
stories. He is a member of, the City Club
and Players' Club of New York. Mr.
Baker married at Lansing, Michigan, Jan
uary 2, 1896, Jessie I. Beal, daughter of
Dr. W. J. Beal, and they have four chil
dren; Alice Beal Baker, born in 1897;
James Stannard Baker, born in 1899;
Roger D. Baker, born in 1902, and Rachel
Moore Baker, born in 1906. Address : Care
of Phillips Publishing Company, 341 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
BAKER, Robert
Public official; born in Bury Saint Ed
monds, Suffolk, England, in 1862. He was
educated in the public schools. Mr. Baker
has long been active as a single-tax advo
cate; was secretary of the Albany Single
Tax Club in 1888, and president of the
Brooklyn Single Tax Club in 1890. He
was secretary of the Brooklyn. Ballot Re

form League, secretary of the New York
Tax Reform Association, four years, and
of the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club, six
years, conducting campaign for home rule
in taxation. He was secretary of the Na
tional Committee of the Single Tax League
of the United States, for six years. He
was organizer and chairman of the Exec
utive Committee of the Citizens' Union of
Brooklyn in 1893; candidate for Assembly
in 1894, and spoke for Bryan and Sewall
in 1896. He was in charge of nominating
petitions for Henry George for Mayor in
1897; stumped New York State for Bryan
and Stevenson in 1900; organized and was
secretary of the Citizens' Union of Brook
lyn in 1901. He also organized the Radi
cal Democracy of Brooklyn in 1902, and
was elected to Congress . in 1902, serving
in the Fifty-eighth Congress (its only Sin
gle Tax Democrat) from 1903 to 1905. He
was secretary of the Department of Docks
and Ferries of New York City in 1906, and
he was Democratic candidate for Congress
in 1906, but defeated. Mr. Baker married,
in October, 1887, Gertrude O. Zoller. Ad
dress : 544 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, New
York.
BAKER, Smith:
Physician; born at Marcy, Oneida Coun
ty, New York,' September 25, 1850; son of
Augustus Baker and Fanny (Olin) Baker.
He was prepared at Whitestown Semin
ary, and was graduated from the Univers
ity of Michigan (medical department) as
M.D. in 1871. He has been engaged in
the practice of medicine from 1871, in
Utica, New York, from 1886. Dr. Baker is
widely known as a neurologist and psy
chiatrist, and was lecturer on The Causes
of III Health, at Colgate University in 1884
and 1892. He is a member of the Ameri
can Neurological Association, the American
Medical Association, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, the
New York State Medical Society, the Uti
ca Medical Library Association. Dr. Baker
is an Independent in politics and a Uni
tarian in religion; and he is a member of
the Fort Schuyler Club, of Utica. Dr.
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vember 9, 1872, Alice W. Wylie. Address :
296 Rutger Street, Utica, New York.
BAKER, Thomas O.:
Public school principal; born at New
Paris, Preble County, Ohio, December 31,
1859; son of Thomas Baker and Margaret
Baker. He was graduated from the Na
tional Normal University of Ohio as A.B.
in 1886, and he received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1896, and from New York Uni
versity, with the degree of Ph.D. in 1896.
He was superintendent of schools at Du-
rango, Colorado, from 1888 to 1894; princi
pal of Yonkers High School from 1895 to
1901, and has been principal of Public
School No. 128, Brooklyn, New York, from
1901. He is ex-president of the West
chester County Teachers' Association, the
Society of Doctors of Pedagogy, and the
New York Educational Council. He is a
Mason, Knight Templar and member of
Mecca Temple, Mystic Shrine ; and is past
commander of Yonkers Commandery of
Knights Templars. He is a member of the
Ohio Society, of New York. His favorite
recreations are rowing and the Nautilus
Boat Club. He married at Knoxville,
Tennessee, in 1887, Carlotta Washburn.
Address : 1941 Eighty-third Street, Brook
lyn, New York.
BAKER, William A.:
Physician ; born in -Bloomingburgh, Sulli
van County, New York, December 22, 1858 ;
son of James I. Baker, M.D., and Mary A.
(Mills) Baker. He was educated in
Brooklyn Public School 26, and entered
Cornell University from which he was grad
uated as B.S. in 1880; and he w&s grad
uated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University as M.D.
in 1885. He has been engaged in the gene
ral practice of medicine from 1885, and
has been health officer of the Town of Is-
lip, Suffolk County, New York, contin
uously since 1890. He is an Independent
Republican and a Presbyterian in religion.
Dr. Baker is a member of the Suffolk Coun
ty Medical Society; the New York State
Medical Society, and the Associated Phy
sicians of Long Island. He married at New

York City, April 19, 1890, Mary E. Balmire,
Address: Islip, New York.
BALDWIN, Daniel Pratt:
Lawyer and banker; born in Madison
County, New York, March 22, 1887; son
of H. Baldwin and Harriet (Pratt) Bald
win. He was graduated from Colgate Uni
versity as A.B. in 1856, and as LL.B. from
Columbia College, New York, in i860. He
received the degree of LL.D. from Wabash
College in 1872, from Colgate University
in 1872, and from Hamilton College in 1900,
and of Litt. D. from Wabash College in
1903, and L.H.D. from Syracuse Univers
ity. He engaged in practice of law in
the Circuit Court of Indiana in i860, was
judge in 1870, and attorney-general of In
diana in 1880. He founded a prize in or
atory at Wabash College in 1872; a Greek
prize at Colgate University in 1872, and an
entrance prize at Hamilton College in 1900.
He has been a trustee of the Wabash Col
lege for the past thirty years, and is a
trustee of Colgate University, New York.
Mr. Baldwin is author of: A Lawyer's
Readings in the Evidences of Christianity;
How States Grow ; Manners ; Personality ;
The Wastes of Life; Christ's Credentials;
Christ's Limitations ; The Seeing Eye ; and
very many magazine and newspaper arti
cles. He is p. Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in religion. Mr. Baldwin
married in June, 1863, India Smith, now de
ceased. Address : Logansport, Indjana.
BALDWIN, Francis Everett:
Manufacturer, lawyer ; born at Otego, Ot
sego County, New York, August 30, 1856;
son of John J. Baldwin and Sally M.
(Beardslee) Baldwin. He was educated in
the common school and academy at One-
onta, New York, and afterward studied law.
He practiced law at Elmira with a brother,
twenty years, in the firm of Baldwin &
Baldwin, and since July, 1902, has been in
charge of the Thatcher Manufacturing
Company, of which he is now president and
actively engaged in manufacturing. Mr.
Baldwin is a Prohibitionist and was chair
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to 1893. He has been a member of the
Prohibition National Executive Committee
since 1886, and was a candidate for gover
nor of New York on the Prohibition ticket
in 1894. He is president of the National
Total Abstinence League. He is a Meth
odist Episcopalian in religion. Mr.
Baldwin is a member of the National Arts
Club of New York City; the Masonic and
Kenaweola Clubs of Elmira, New York,
and the Potsdarii Club of Potsdam, New
York. Mr. Baldwin married at Elmira,
New York, May 7, 1882, Anna E. Grandin,
and they have two daughters : Lena Grandin
Baldwin, born in 1883; and Ethel Baldwin,
born in 1889. Residence : 670 Euclid AveT
nue. Address : 108 State Street, Elmira,
New York.
BALDWIN, George Frederick:
Banker and broker (retired) ; born at
Boston, Massachusetts, October 27, 1853;
son of George Dexter and Sarah Maria
(Childs) Baldwin. He was educated in
the public schools of Boston, being grad
uated from the Boston High School in July,
1870. Soon after his graduation he en
tered the employ of his father's firm, Bald
win, Botume & Company, as a clerk, be
coming a partner in 1874. He was later
- associated with his father alone, under the
firm name of George D. Baldwin & Com
pany, in the packing business at the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois. The firm,
after his father's death, became Baldwin,
Wrenn & Farnum, and the business was
changed to that of banking and a commis
sion business in stocks and grain. The
firm later became Baldwin, Farnum & Com
pany, and was finally changed to Baldwin,
Guanay & Company, which latter was large
ly concerned in the formation of several
large combinations, notably that of the
American Steel and Wire Company. ¦ Mr.
Baldwin retired from active business in
June, 1899. He is a Republican and a Con-
gregationalist and a member of the Calu
met and Chicago Athletic Clubs of Chicago,
the Algonquin Club of Boston, and the
New York Club- of New York City. He
was married in Boston, Massachusetts, on
February 25, 1879, to Mary Scott. They

had one son, George Scott Baldwin, who
died during his attendance at Harvard Col
lege in 1903. Address : 2937 Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
BALDWIN, George Van Nest:
Lawyer; born at New York City, Jan
uary 23, 1838; son of Rev. Eli Baldwin,
D.D., and Phebe (Van Nest) Baldwin. He
was graduated from Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, as A.B. and A.M.,
with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1856, and
from Columbia College Law School as
LL.B. in i860. Mr. Baldwin has been con
tinuously engaged in the practice of law
from i860. He is a trustee of the New
York Society Library, and vice-president
and trustee of the Northern Dispensary.
He is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York; the New
York State Bar Association ; the Ameri
can Numismatic Society; New York Botan
ical Garden; New York Historical Society,
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a
member and manager of the St. Nicholas
Society, and a member of the University,
Century, Union, Down Town, and Delta
Phi Clubs of New York City. Address:
32 Nassau Street, New York City.
BALDWIN, James Fairchild:
Surgeon; born at Orangeville, Wyoming
County, New York, February 12, 1850; son
of Cyrus H. arid Mary P. (Fairchild)
Baldwin. He was graduated from Oberlin
College with the degrees of A.B. in 1870,
and received that of A.M. in 1876. After
his graduation from Oberlin, he took up
the study of medicine in Philadelphia, at
the Jefferson Medical College, from which
he was graduated as M.D. with honors in
1874. The following year he was appoint
ed to the chair of physiology and anatomy
at the Columbus. (Ohio) Medical Collgge,
which he filled for seven years. He was
professor of physiology and anatomy in
Columbus Medical College from 1878 to
1882, and in 1892 he was called to the
chair of operative gynaecology at the Ohio
Medical University; and after serving in
this capacity until 1900, became chief sur
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position he continues to hold. He has
written many papers and articles on the
result of his work in operative gynaecolo
gy and surgery. He is also author of a
volume on Operative Gynaecology. He is
a member of the Columbus Academy of
Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society,
the American Medical Association, and the
American Association of Obstetricians, and
Gynaecologists. He is a Republican in
politics and a' Congregationalist in his re
ligious views. He is an Odd Fellow, a
Mason, and a member of the Columbus
Country Club. Dr. Baldwin has been twice
married, first at Wellington, Ohio, in 1874,
to Fidelia Finch, by whom he has four
children: Austin Guy, born in 1875; Fred-
erika Hull, born in 1876; Hugh Alleri, born
in 1880, and Helen Fairchild, born in 1885.
Dr. Baldwin was again married at Colum
bus, Ohio, in 1889, to Ida Strickler, and of
that union there are two daughters : Alice,
born in 1890, and Josephine, born in 1894.
Residence : 405 East Town Street, Colum
bus. Address : Grant Hospital, Columbus,
Ohio.
BALDWIN, James Mark:
Psychologist; born in Columbia, South
Carolina, January 12, 1861 ; son of Hon.
Cyrus H. Baldwin, United States Sub-
treasurer, and of Lydia Eunice Ford of
Connecticut, and he is descended from the
Baldwins of the County of Bucks, England.
He was educated at Princeton, receiving
the degrees of A.B. in 1884, A.M. in 1887,
and Ph.D. in 1889; he studied at the
Universities of Leipzig and Berlin in 1884
and 1885; he received from the Uni
versity of Oxford the degree of ScD. in
1900, this being the first honorary degree in
science ever given by that University; and
he received the degree of LL.D. from Glas
gow University in 1900, and from the Uni
versity of South Carolina in 1905. He was
fellow and instructor in Princeton Univer
sity from 1885 to 1887; professor of phil
osophy in Lake Forest University from 1887
to 1890; professor of logic and metaphysics
in Toronto University, Canada, from 1890
to 1903, Stuart professor of psychology in
Princeton University from 1893 to 1903,

and professor .of psychology and philosophy
at John Hopkins University since 1903. He
was vice-president of the International
Psychological Congress, London, in 1892;
at Munich in 1896; honorary president of
the Congress of Criminal Anthropology at
Geneva, 1896; judge of award at the Col
umbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893; presi
dent of the American Psychological Asso
ciation in 1897; member of the American
Philosophical Society; American Society of
Naturalists; London Aristotelian Society;
president' of the Southern Society of Phil
osophy and Psychology since 1904 ; Paris In
stitute of Sociology; awarded the gold
medal of the Royal Academy of Science of
Denmark in 1897. He is author of: Hand
book of Psychology, two volumes, 1890-3;
Elements of Psychology, 1892; Mental De
velopment in the Child and the Race, 1897;
Social and Ethical Interpretations, 1902;
Story of the -Mind, 1898 ; Development and
Evolution, 1902; Fragments of Philosophy
and Science, 1902; Thought and Things or
Genetic Logic, 1906, (Vol. I.) He translated :
Ribot's German Psychology of Today; has
been editor of: The Psychological Review
since 1894; was editor for Philosophy of
Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of
the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psycho
logy, 1901 to 1906; the Library of Histori
cal Psychology since 1903, and Princeton
Contributions to Psychology since l897-'03.
His books have been translated into
several foreign languages. His favor
ite recreations are golf, horseback rid
ing and duck shooting. Professor Bald
win married in 1888, Helen Hayes, daughter
of William Henry Green, D.D, LL.D.,
president of Princeton Theological Semi
nary, and they have two daughters, known
to readers of their father's books as H and
E. Address : Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland.
BALDWIN, Jared Grover, Jr. :
Lawyer; born in New York City, June
2, 1864; son of Jared Grover Baldwin and
Susan (Theal) Baldwin. He was edu
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graduated as A.B. with Phi Beta Kappa
honors in 1885, and later received the
A.M. degree"; also LL.B. from the Law
School of that college. He is a member of
the firm of McCarty & Baldwin, lawyers.
Mr. Baldwin is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
the Sons of the Revolution, the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, and the Metropolitan,
Union League and Columbia University
Clubs of New York City. Residence : 8
East Forty-first Street. Address: 33 Wall
Street, New York City.
BALDWIN, Jesse A.:
Lawyer; born in Greenwood, Illinois,
August 9, 1854; son of Sebrean C. T. and
Lavina (Stevens) Baldwin. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Greenwood,
Illinois, and Genca Junction, Wisconsin,
until 1870, when he entered the University
of Illinois, where he remained for two
years. After leaving college, he taught
school for five years, studying law in the
meantime under the direction of Hon. T.
D. Murphy, at Woodstock, Illinois. He
was admitted to the bar in 1877, and in the
same year was appointed United States
District Attorney, holding the position until
1884. He resigned in that year and began
private practice, finally forming the firm
of Jesse A. and Henry R. Baldwin, which
still continues. In June, 1903, he received
from the Republicans the unsolicited nom
ination for Circuit Judge of Cook County,
and was defeated by a very narrow mar
gin. He has been town attorney, president
of the board of education, trustee of the
Oak Park Library Institute, the University
of Chicago, and of Rush Medical College.
He is a member of the American, the Illi
nois State, and the Chicago City Bar Asso
ciations. He is a Baptist in religion. He is
a member of the Union League, Hamil
ton, City, Chicago, and Quadrangle Clubs.
He married at Greeriwood, Illinois, Janu
ary 29, 1879, Fanny M. Benton, and has
three children living : Theodore W., Nor
man L., and William Storrs. Address : 341
Pleasant Street, Oak Park, Illinois.

BALDWIN, Joseph Clark, Jr.:
Merchant; born, in New York City, Ap
ril 23, 1871 ; son of Joseph C. Clark and
Emma Jane (Mood) Baldwin. . He was
educated at St. Paul's. School, Concord,
New Hampshire, and studied three years in
Europe. He is vice-president, treasurer
and director of the American Dyewood
Company ; president and director . of the
Compagnie Haitienne and General Colors
Company; director of the New York Tan
ning Extract Company and director of the
Argentine Quebracho Company.' 'He serv
ed four years in Squadron A, New York
City. He is a Republican in politics and
an Episcopalian in religion. He is com
missioner of the New York State Board
of Charities, Ninth Judicial District: His
favorite recreation is farming. He is
member of the Down Town Association,
Brook and Union League Clubs of New
York, the Metropolitan Club of Washing
ton, the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia,
the Union Club of Boston and the Knoll-
wood Country Club of White Plains. Mr.
Baldwin married .at Mamaroneck, New
York, April 15, 1896, Fanny aylor, and they
have seven children: Joseph C. Baldwin,
3rd, Fanny Taylor Baldwin, Cynthia Brad
ley jjaidwin, Alexander Taylor Baldwin,
Phyllis Baldwin, Priscilla Baldwin and
Peter Badwin. Residence: Mt. Kisco,
Westchester County, New York. Office
address : 84 William Street, New York
City.
BALDWIN, Leroy Wilbur:
Banker ; born in Rutland, Vermont, Octo
ber 31, 1865; son of Warner H. Baldwin
and Mary Olive (Hatch) Baldwin. He
was educated in the Rutland High School
and private schools. He began his business
career in 1880, and he is now president and
director of the Empire Trust Company, and
the Rutland & Woodstock Company, and is
a director of the Hamilton Bank, Chelsea
Exchange Bank, Provident Savings Life
Assurance Society, American , Automatic
Weighing Machine Company, Limited, of
England ; the Rutland Railway, Light and
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pany of Brooklyn, The American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, Hall Signal Com
pany, New Jersey and Staten Island Junc
tion Railroad, and Tubular Despatch Com
pany. He is a member of the Lawyers',
Turf and Field, and Metropolitan Clubs of
New York City, and the Automobile Club
of America. Mr. Baldwin married in New
York City, in 1890, Ettie Lucile Field. Resi
dence: 8 East Seventieth Street. Office ad
dress : 42 Broadway, New York City.
BALDWIN, Roger S.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 26, 1873; son of Simeon Baldwin
and Mary S. (Marvin) Baldwin. He was
graduated from Yale University as A.B. in
1895s and LL.B. in 1897, and from the
New York University as M.L. in 1900.
Mr. Baldwin has been engaged in practice
in New York City, and is now a member
of the law firm of Baldwin & White. He is a
dirctor of the Union Typewriter Com
pany, the Commercial Newspaper Company,
R. Hudnut's Pharmacy, the Forty-two
Broadway Company, the Standard Mort
gage Company. He was formerly a member
of Squadron A, National Guard of the
State of New York. He is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and
the University, Ardsley, Yale and Lawyers'
Clubs of New York. He married at Wood
stock, Vermont, August 23, 1904, Mary
Catharine Vail. Residence, 322 West Sev
enty-fifth Street. Address : 27 Pine Street,
New York City.
BALDWIN, Simeon Eben:
Chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Errors of Connecticut; born in New Haven,
Connecticut, February 5, 1840; son of Hon.
Roger Sherman Baldwin, LL.D., governor
of Connecticut and United States Senator,
and grandson of Hon. Simeon Baldwin,
judge of the Supreme Court of Errors.
He was educated in Hopkins Grammar
School of New Haven, at Yale College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1861, and at Yale and Harvard Law
Schools, and he received the degree of A.
M. from Yale and in 1891, the degree of

LL.D. from Harvard University. He en
gaged in the practice of law in New Haven,
and was a member of State Commissions
to revise the Education Laws, 1872, and
General Statutes in 1873 and 1874, the
Civil Procedure Laws, in 1878 and 1879,
Taxation in 1885 and 1887. He was
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut from 1893 to 1907, be
coming chief justice of that court in 1907.
He has been professor of Constitutional and
private international law in Yale University
since 1872. He was president of the New
Haven Colony Historical Society, from 1884
to 1896; of the American Bar Association
in 1890 ; of the American Social Science As
sociation from 1897 to 1899 ; of the Connec
ticut Archaeological Society, from 1899 to
1901 ; of the International Law Association
of London from 1899 to 1901 ; of the Asso
ciation of American Law Schools in 1902
and 1903 ; of the American Historical Asso
ciation in 1905, etc. He is a member of the
American Antiquarian Society, and of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters and
corresponding member of the Massachu
setts Historical Society. He is author of
Baldwin's Connecticut Digest; Modern Po
litical Institutions; Baldwin's Illustrative
Cases on Railroad Law; American Rail
road Law; The American Judiciary; and
co-author of: Two Centuries' Growth of
American Law. He is a member of the
Yale Club of New York City and the Grad
uates Club of New Haven. Judge Bald
win married, in 1865, Susan Winchester, of
Boston. Address : 44 Wall Street, New
Haven, Connecticut.
BALDWIN, Stephen Charles:
Lawyer; born in Foo Chow, China, May
21, 1864; son of Rev. Stephen Livingston
Baldwin and Esther E. (Jerman) Baldwin.
He was educated in the Boston Latin School
and at the Centenary Collegiate Institute
at Hackettstown, New Jersey, and with a -
private tutor abroad. He prepared for the
bar in the office of David Dudley Field,
whom he assisted in. preparation of the
Civil Code, and he has been, constantly en
gaged during entire professional, career as a
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is a Mason and a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. He is also
a member of The Republican Club and the
City Club of New York City; the Brook
lyn, Crescent, Nassau Country, Shelter
Island, Yacht and Manhansett ManoT
Country Clubs. He passes the entire sum
mer at his country place, Hilo Farm, on
Shelter Island. Mr. Baldwin married in
New York City, September 22, 1892, Edith
Hervey Finch, and they have two daugh
ters : Faith, born in 1894, and Esther, born
in 1901. Address : 190 Montague Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
BALDWIN, William Delavan:
Manufacturer, capitalist; born at Auburn,
New York, September 5, 1856; son of
Lovewell H. Baldwin ( and Sarah Jane
(Munson). He was educated in the public
schools of Auburn, New York, and at the
age of fifteen he entered the employ of D.
M. Osborne & Co., manufacturers of agri
cultural machinery at Auburn, N. Y., and
he had charge of the European branch of
their business from 1878 to 1882. He then
became stockholder and treasurer of the
Otis Elevator Company, of which he is now
president. He is also a director of the First
National Bank of Yonkers, N. Y., and of
the Battery Park National Bank. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce,
and the American Geographical Society;
the Union League, Lawyers', Engineers',
New York Athletic, Racquet and Tennis,
and National Arts Clubs and the Adiron
dack League. Mr. Baldwin married at
New York, in 1881, Helen R. Sullivan, and
they have four sons and one daughter:
Martin S. (graduated from Yale college in
the class of 1905) ; Delevan M. (member of
the Yale class of 1909) ; Louise Runyon
and Roland. Residence: 14 West 68th
Street. Address : 17 Battery Place, New
York City.
BALL, A. Brayton:
Physician; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 10, 1840; son of Alonzo Spofford and
Eliza Watson (Morton) Ball. He was grad
uated as A.B. from Yale in i860, and from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,

New York City, as M.D. in 1863. Dr.
Ball was a member of the house staff of
New York Hospital from 1863 to 1865, and
a lecturer of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, from 1870 to 1876. He was at
tending physician of the Saint Luke's Hos
pital, from 1881 to 1897, at Bellevue Hos
pital from 1885 to 1888, of New York Hos
pital from 1888 to 1905, and at General
Memorial Hospital from 1887. He is eme
ritus professor of clinical medicine in Col
umbia University and member of the New
York Academy of Medicine, of the County
Medical Society, and honorary member of
the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Ball is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in religion. Dr. Ball is a
member of the University Club and the
Century Association of New York City.
He married at Kingsbridge, New York, in
1866, Helen Springer Stone, and they have
three children : Mary Louisa, Frank Penn
ington, and Harry. Address : 42 West
Thirty-sixth Street, TsTew York City.
BALL, David C:
Cotton dealer; born in Saint Louis, Miss
ouri, August 22, 1857; son of Spencer J.
V Ball and Maria Louise (Spears) Ball,
his father being a native of Virginia and
his mother of Kentucky. He was educated
in the public and high schools of Saint
Louis. He was a clerk in the Saint Louis
Mercantile Library from- 1875 to 1878, trav
eled in 1879 and 1880, and has been in the
cotton commission business in Saint 'Louis
since 1880. He was director of the Saint
Louis Merchants' Exchange several years,
and also of Saint Louis Cotton Exchange,
of which he was president in 1894 and 1895.
He organized and established in 1895, what
became known as the Round Bale of Cot
ton movement, and was its president until
it became the American Cotton Company
of New York of which he became general
manager and executive. He moved to
New York City in 1898 ; retired from active
control of the business in 1901. He be
came interested with other bondholders in
1903, in reorganization of the Mohican
Springs property, and is now president and
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Company of Saint Louis, and of The Mo
hican Springs of New York. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Unitarian in re
ligion. He is a member of the Washington
University Association of Saint Louis, and
Saint Louis Academy of Science. He was
a director of the Saint Louis Young Men's
Christian Association, from 1880 to 1900,
and director of the Saint Louis Museum
of Fine Arts and of the Saint Louis Mer
cantile Library for several years. He is a
member of the Southern Society of New
York; the Association for Protection of
the Adirondacks; the Municipal Art So
ciety, _etc. His favorite recreations are
books and music. He has a camp on Rac-
quette Lake in the Adirondacks. Mr. Ball
is . a member of the Lotos Club of New
York. He married at Saint Louis, Jan
uary 27, 1892, Nellie Boeck, and they have
a son, David Spencer, born October 18,
1892. Residence : 412 West End Avenue.
Address : Park Row Building, New York
City.BALL, James Moores:
Physician; born at West Union, Iowa,
September 4, 1862; son of Dr. James
Moores, Sr., and Martha (Glover) Ball.
He studied medicine at the Iowa State Uni
versity, Iowa City, Iowa, graduating with
the degree of M.D. in 1884 and taking fur
ther work in New York City and abroad.
Dr. Ball has made a specialty of diseases
of the eye, to which he now gives his en
tire trine and on which topic he holds the
chair at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons in St. Louis, Missouri; having been
appointed in 1894. He has also, been ocu
list to Jefferson Hospital, to the City Hos
pital, and to the Convent of the
Good Shepherd in the same city. He
is a member of the American Medi
cal Association and of numerous other
American professional societies. He
has published a number of articles on his
specialty, and is the author of: Ball's Mod
ern Opthalmology (1904). He was for two
years editor of the Annals of Opthalmolo
gy. Residence, 4374 Washington Boule
vard. Address : 4500 OJive Street, St.
Louis, Missouri.

BALL, Josiah Warren:
Dentist; born in Holden, Massachusetts,
June 28, 1841. In i860 he entered the
army and served in two cavalry regiments.
For his bravery he was promoted to a
lieutenancy. He remained in the service
until 1865, when he was honorably' dis
charged. Returning home, he studied den
tistry under Dr. Torntellott, after which
he went to Alabama, and was associated
with his brother, Dr. S. Ball, for three
years. He then came to Boston and grad
uated from the Boston Dental College in
1870, being a member of the first class to
complete a course in that institution. His
practice in Boston has become very ex
tended and high class. He is a member of
the Massachusetts and New England Dental
Societies. Dr. Ball was first married to
Elizabeth B. Farrington, of Roxbury. She
died some years ago. For his second wife
he married Edna E. Smith, of St. John,
N. B. Address : Boston, Massachusetts.
BALL, LeRoy D., Jr.:
Lawyer; born at Tallahassee, Florida,
December 17, 1875; son of LeRoy D. Ball
and Ella (Lane) Ball. He was graduated
from Yale as LL.B. in 1895. He moved
to New York City in 1895 and was admitted
to the bar of New York in 1897. He was
assistant corporation counsel of the City of
New York in 1903 and 1904, and is now
engaged in private practice. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Presbyterian in
religion. Is a member of the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence and of the Yale
and West Side Republican Clubs of New
York. Address : 290 Broadway, New York
City.
BALL, Thomas:
Painter, sculptor; born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, June 3, 18 19; son of Thom
as Ball and Elisabeth Wyer (Hall) Ball.
He was educated in a public school at
Boston, Massachusetts, and he received the
honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth
College in i860. He was sculptor of the
equestrian statue of Washington in Bos
ton ; the Washington Monument in Meth-
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Webster and many other, and various ideal
works. He is also an amateur musician.
He resided for many years in Florence,
Italy. He became an honorary fellow of
the National Sculpture Society in 1896, and
is a member of the Handel and Haydn So
ciety, the Harvard Musical Society, and
Society of American Authors of New York
City. Mr. Ball is author of My Three-
Score Years and Ten, an autobiography,
and also various poems. Mr. Ball is an
Episcopalian in religion. He married in
Boston, Massachusetts, in 1854, Ellen
Louisa Wild, and they have a daughter,
Eliza Chickering, wife of William Couper.
Residence: 105 Upper Montclair Avenue,
Montclair, New Jersey. Address : Studio,
205 East Seventeenth Street, New York
City.
BALLANTINE, William Gay:
Former president of Oberlin College;
born in Washington, D. C, December 7,
1848; son of Rev. Elisha Ballantine, LL.D.
He was graduated from Marietta College,
Ohio, as A.B. in 1868, and from the Union
Theological Seminary in New York in
1872; and he took post-graduate work at
the University of Leipzig in 1872 and 1873.
He was a member of the American Pales
tine Exploring Expedition in 1873; pro
fessor of chemistry and natural science at
Ripon College in 1874 and 1876; assistant
professor of Greek in the University of In
diana in 1876 and 1878. From 1878 to 1881
he was professor of Greek and Hebrew in
Oberlin Theological Seminary, and was pro
fessor of Old Testament languages and
literature from 1881 to 1891; and president
of Oberlin College from 1891 to 1896,. when
he resigned and went to Greece to study.
He received the degree of D.D. from Mar
ietta College in 1885, and of LL.D. from
the Western Reserve University in 1891.
He was editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra
from 1884 to 1891. He is author of a work
on Inductive Logic, and of various books
on New Testament themes published by
the Young Men's Christian Association.
Address: Springfield, Massachusetts.

BALLARD, Addison:
Retired lumber merchant; born in War
ren County, Ohio, November 30, 1823. He
is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Lewis)
Ballard, and was reared on a farm with
very few opportunities for obtaining an
education, his entire schooling being limi
ted to a few months. He remained in the
farm until his eighteenth year, when he re
moved to La Porte, Indiana, working his
way there as the driver of an emigrant
wagon. In La Porte he began to learn the
carpenter's trade and started in business
as a contractor before he had attained his
majority. He returned to his home in Ohio
for a short time, and in the spring of 1843
he set out for Chicago. The winter had
been an unusually severe one the journey
was attended with many hardships. It was
a period of great depression and employ
ment was very difficult to obtain. After
many fruitless efforts he finally returned to
La Porte, where he remained until the fall
of 1849, when he contracted the gold fever
and worked his way to California. Here
he met with considerable success, but in
1853 returned to Illinois, where he was
employed and afterward engaged ' for him
self in the lumber business, until he retired
with a competence in 1888. He built on
Clark Street the first flat building ever
erected in Chicago, and made his residence
in its fourth story. His next home was at
the corner of Monroe Street and Wabash
Avenue. He is a member of the Society
of Friends and an elder in the First Presby
terian Church. He was married in Chi
cago, March 7, 1861, to Catherine Miller,
and has one child, Mrs. William Darby, Jr.
Address: 241 East Fifty-third Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
BALLARD, George Grey:
Clergyman; born at Downpatrick, Ire
land, July 7, 1842 ; son of Rev. Thomas Bal
lard and Ann (Woods) Ballard, daughter
of Capt. John Woods of the Enniskillen
Dragoons, and niece of Col. George Grey,
slain in scaling the walls of Badajos in 1812,
and cousin of Sir George Grey, Bart:, late
governor of Cape Colony and New Zea
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lege, Dublin, Ireland, as B.A., 1877. He
was ordered deacon in 1876, by the Bishop
of Derry, Ireland, and ordained priest in
1877, by the Archbishop of Armagh. He
was incumbent of Annaghmore, Ireland,
from 1876 to 1878, in the Church of Ire
land; rector of Trinity Church, St. Thomas,
Ontario, from 1878 to 1885, and of the Pro-
Cathedral, London, Ontario, in 1885 and
1886, in the Church of England, and
assistant rector and rector in Saint
John's Episcopal Church, at Buffalo,
New York, from 1886 to 1906. He is
also examining chaplain to the bishop
of Western New York, and lecturer in
DeLancey Divinity School of the Dio
cese of Western New York. Mr. Ballard
married first in Dublin, Ireland, August 6,
1867, Mary Parsons, and second, at Toron
to, Canada, September 24, 1879, Caroline
Boomer, and he has five children : Anna
Woods, William Robert, Eva Charlotte,
George Grey, Jr., and Chesmer. Address :
Trinity Rectory, Fredonia, New York.
BALLENGER, William Lincoln.
Physician; born at Economy, Indiana,
April 26, 1861 ; son of William Ballenger
and Lydia Ann (Starbuck) Ballenger. He
received his general education in the
schools of Economy, Indiana, and at Earl-
ham College, and was graduated from Bel
levue Hospital Medical College as M.D. in
1886. He practiced medicine at Richmond,
Indiana, seven years, then removed to
Evanston, Illinois, where he practiced for
two years as a general practitioner, and
then, having meanwhile made special pre
paration in diseases of the ear, nose and
throat, he gave up his general practice in
1895 for work only in these branches with
office in Chicago. In 1903 after serving
for eight years in associated, positions, he
was made professor of otology, rhinology
and laryngology in the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons at Chicago (medical
department of the University of Illinois).
Dr. Ballenger is a prominent member and
was secretary in 1901 and 1902 and presi
dent in 1903 and 1904 of the American Ac
ademy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryn-
gology, member and was president in 1904

and 1905 of the Chicago Laryngological and
Otological Society; member and was vice-
president in 1904 and 1905 of the Chicago
Medical Society and member of the Ameri
can Laryngological Association ; Ameri
can Rhinological, Laryngological and Oto
logical Association; International Congress
of Otology ; American Medical Association ;
Illinois State Medical Society; Chicago
Academy of Medicine, and others. He has
written many papers and articles for do
mestic and foreign journals on his work, as
well as two text books on the Ear, Nose
and Throat, which have had an extensive
circulation. Dr. Ballenger is a member of
the Phi Rho Sigma, and Alpha Omega
Alpha fraternities, and the Chicago Ath
letic and Winnetka Clubs. He was mar
ried in 1886 at Richmond, Indiana, to Ada
Poarch, and they have a daughter, Joanna,
born in 1905. Residence: Hubbard Woods,
Illinois. Address : 103 State Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
BALLIN, Hugo:
Artist; born in New York City, March,
1879; son of Julius and Tillie (Rothschild)
Ballin. He commenced the study of art
at the Art Students' League in New York
City, later continuing his studies in Italy.
He won a scholarship of the Art. Students'
League, and a prize of the Shaw Prize
Fund in 1905. He also received the
Clarke Prize, in 1906, and the second
Hallgarten Prize in 1907, from the Nation
al Academy of Design; and in 1906 re
ceived the President's Medal from the
Architectural League of New York. Mr.
Ballin has traveled extensively, and was
a non-commissioned officer of Squadron A
of the Cadet Corps of the New York Na
tional Guard until 1900. He is a member
of the Art Students' League, of the Mural
Decorators, of the National Art Club of
Rome, Italy, and an associate mem
ber of the National Academy of
Design, and member of the Architectural
League of New York. Residence: 73 East
Ninety-first Street. Address: 146 West
Fifty-fifth -Street, New York City.

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BALLINGER, Richard Achilles:
Commissioner of the General Land Of
fice; born at Bbonesboro, Iowa, July 9,
1858; son of Richard H. Ballinger and
Mary E. (Norton) Ballinger. He was
graduated from Williams College in 1884
with the degree of A.B., and taking up the
study of law at Chicago, was admitted to
the bar of the State of Illinois in 1886.
In 1890 he was made United States Court
Commissioner at Port Townsend, Wash
ington, and in 1894 was elected judge of
the Superior Court of Jefferson County.
Mr. Ballinger is a Republican, and was
elected- in 1904 as Mayor of Seattle for a
term of two years; and he was appointed
by President Roosevelt, March 4, 1907, to
his present office as Commissioner of the
General Land Office of the United States.
In private practice he is senior member of
Ballinger, Roland, Battle & Tennant, at-
torneys-at-law. He is a member of Phi
Delta Phi, Zeta Phi and other associations,
as well as a member of the Loyal Legion.
Mr. Ballinger is author of numerous
legal works, among them being: Bal
linger On Community Property; and Bal-
linger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of
Washington. He was married October 26,
1886, to Julia A. Bradley, of Lee, Massa
chusetts, and they have two children : Ed
ward B., born in 1889, and Richard T.,
born in 1899. Residence : 1733 Thirty-ninth
ing, Seattle, Washington, and the General
Land Office, Washington, D. C.
BAMFORD, William Brokaw:
Architectural and structural engineer;
born in Trenton, New Jersey; son of
Charles Y. Bamford and Catharine J. (Ex-
ton) Bamford. He was graduated from the
State Model School at Trenton, New Jer
sey, and from Princeton University as CE.
in 1900. He has been engaged in practice
as architectural and structural engineer
from 1896. In 1900 and 1901 he traveled
through England, France and Italy, making
a special study of engineering and archi
tectural works, and since 1902 has been
general manager for Eidlitz & McKenzie,
architects. He is a director of the New
Century Contracting Company. He served

as corporal in the First United States Vol
unteer Engineers during the Spanish-Amer
ican War, with the army in Porto Rico.
He is associate member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. His favorite
recreations are riding, shooting and yacht
ing. He is a member of Bayside Yacht,
and Fellowcraft Clubs. Address: 1123
Broadway, New York City.
BANCROFT, Edgar Addison:
Lawyer ; born at Galesburg, Illinois,
November 20, 1857; son of Addison N.
and Catherine (Blair) Bancroft. He was
graduated in 1878 with the degree of A.B.
from Knox College at Galesburg, and from
the law department of Columbia University
as LL.B., in 1880. He was admitted to
the bar of Illinois in 1880 and began to
practice law at Galesburg. In 1892 Mr. Ban
croft gave up the general practice of law
and, becoming counsel for Illinois of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road Company, held that position for three
years. This was followed by eleven years
as general counsel, and at the same time
vice-president, of the Chicago and Western
Indiana Railroad Company, and The Belt
Railway Company. In 1904 he severed his
connection with these, and became a mem
ber of the law firm of Scott, Bancroft, Lord
& Stephens, with which he is still con
nected. In 1888 Mr. Bancroft was presi-
dentialdector of the Republican party and
voted for Benjamin Harrison. He is author
of several works on social problems. He
was married in New York City, April 18,
1896, to Margaret Healy. Residence : 64
Cedar Street, Chicago. Address : 184 La
Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BANCROFT, Frederic:
Historian; born in Galesburg, Illinois,
October 36, i860. He was graduated from
Amherst as A.B. in 1882, and he received
the degrees of Ph. D. from Columbia, in
1883, and LL.D. from Knox College in
1901. He studied law and political science
at Columbia; studied history, political
economy, and diplomacy at Gottingen, Ber
lin, Freiburg (Baden), and at Ecole des
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the political history of the Civil War and
reconstruction, at Amherst in 1888, and
was chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Li
brary of the Department of State from
1888 to 1892. He has also lectured on
diplomatic and political history at Colum
bia, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago Universi
ties, and has contributed to most of the
leading reviews and magazines. He was
a delegate to the Paris Congress of His
torians in 1900, lectured before the Lowell
Institute at Boston, in 1902 and 1903, on
Life in the Confederacy, and made several
trips through the Southern States for his
torical purposes. He is author of: The
Negro in Politics; Life of William H.
Seward; History of the Southern Confed
eracy. His favorite recreation is walking
and he has traveled extensively on a bicy
cle in France. He is a member of the Met
ropolitan Club of Washington, D. C, and
the Reform Club of New York City. Ad
dress : 1700 H Street, Washington, D. C.
BANCROFT, Milton Herbert:
Artist; born at Newton, Massachusetts,
January 1, 1867; son of William H. Ban
croft and Martha (Varney) Bancroft. He
was educated in the public schools of New
ton, Massachusetts, and at the Massachu
setts State normal Art School, from 1883
to 1886, and afterward studied at Pennsyl
vania Academy of Fine Arts, and from
1894 to 1899, in the Academie Julien, Paris,
arid in the ateliers of Delacluse and Cola-
rossi. He was professor of technical stud
ies at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania,
from 1886 to 1892; superintendent of
schopls and instructor at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts from 1892 to 1894.
He is a member of the Architectural
League °f New York; was an exhibitor at
the Societe des Artists Francais, also at
the exhibitions of New York City, Boston
and Philadelphia. He is a member of the
Salamagundi Club of New York City, and
the Sketch Club of Philadelphia. Mr. Ban
croft; married at Sandy Spring, Maryland,
Margaret Corlies Moore, and they have
three children: John, Anna and. Thomas.
Address: 145 West Fifty-fifth Street, New
York City.

BANGS, Frederick Augustus:
Lawyer; born in Lacon, Marshall Coun
ty, Illinois, April 3, 1865 ; son of Hon. Mark
and Harriett Cornelia (Pomeroy) Bangs;
he was educated in the public schools of
Lacon until 1875, when he removed with his
parents to Chicago, and his subsequent edu
cation was obtained in the public schools of
that city. Upon leaving school he entered
Union College of Law, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.D. in 1886.
He was admitted to the Illinois bar im
mediately in 1886 and practiced with his
father under the firm of Bangs & Bangs,
which was later changed to Bangs,- Wood
& Bangs. He has been president of the
West Chicago Board of Park Commission
ers, by appointment of Gov. Yates, since
1901. He was also a colonel on the staff
of Gov. Yates. He is Republican. He is
a member of the Masonic Order, the Loyal
League, and the Royal Arcanum. He is
also a member of the Chicago,- Athletic and
Hamilton Clubs, being an ex-president pf
the latter. He was married October 5,
1893, to Ruth Tileston, of Evansville, In
diana, and has one daughter, Ruth. Ad
dress : 800 West Monroe Street, Chicago,
Illinois.
BANGS, Hal Crumpton:
Lawyer; born at Chatsworth. Illinois, Oc
tober 8, 1879 ; son of Edward A. Bangs and
Ann M. (Crumpton) Bangs. He was grad
uated from Northwestern University as
A.B., and from Yale University as LL.B.,
magna cum laude in 1903. Mr. Bangs is
engaged in practice as a lawyer in the firm
of Moran, IV^ayer & Meyer. He is a di
rector of the United States Industrial
Alcohol Company. Mr. Bangs is a Re
publican in politics and an Episcopalian in
religion. He is a member of the Phi Kappa
Psi, and Theta Nu Epsilon college frater
nities; Phi Delta Phi Legal fraternity, and
Corbey Court (Yale Law School). He
married at Cynthiana, Kentucky, July 23,
1903, Martha Porter Anderson. Resi
dence: Sheridan Road, Glencoe, Illinois.
Office address : American Trust Building,
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BANGS, John Kendrick :
Author; born in Yonkers, New York,
May 27, 1862 ; son of Francis N. Bangs and
Amelia Frances (Bull) Bangs. He was
graduated from the Columbia College as
Ph.B. in 1883 and studied one year at the
Columbia Law School in 1883 and 1884.
He was associate editor of Life from 1884
to 1888; editor The Drawer, in Harper's
Magazine in 1888 and 1889, and of Literary
Notes in the same magazine in 1898 and
1899; was editor of Literature in 1889 and
of Harper's Weekly from 1898 to 1900, and
editor of the Metropolitan Magazine in
1903. He was Democratic candidate for
mayor of Yonkers, 1894, and vice-president
of the Yonkers Board of Education in 1896
and 1897. He was president of the Halstead
School at Yonkers, a trustee of the Yonr
kers Library, and a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity. Mr. Bangs is author
of: Coffee and Repartee; A House Boat
on the Styx; R. Holmes & Company; A
Rebellious Heroine; Mr. Bonapart of Cor
sica ; The Jimmieboy Books ; Lady Teazle
(a comic opera) ; The Man from Now —
a Musical Fantasy (with Vincent Bryan),
and many other works. He is a member of
the Lambs', the Pilgrims', the Century Asso
ciation, and the Lotos Club of New York
City and the St. Botolph Club of Boston.
Mr. Bangs, has been twice married, first on
March 3, 1886, to Agries Lawson Hyde, and
second, April 27, 1904, to Mary Blakeney
Gray. By his first marriage Mr. Bangs
has three sons : John Kendrick Bangs,
Jr., born in 1888; Howard Russell
Bangs, born in 1892, and Francis Hyde
Bangs, born in 1893. Address : Ogunquit,
Maine.
BANKER, Howard James:
Professor of biology; born at Schaghti-
coke, New York, April . 19, 1866 ; son of
Amos Bryan Banker and Frances A. (Well
ing) Banker. He was graduated from
Syracuse University as A.B. in 1892, and
received from Columbia University the de
gree of A.M. in 1900 and Ph.D. in 1906.
He was instructor in science in Troy Con
ference Academy, Poultney, Vermont,
from 1892 to 1895 ; pastor of Proctor Union

Church, Proctor, Vermont, from 1895 to
1898; instructor in mathematics at Wil-
liamsport Dickinson Seminary, Williams-
port, Pennsylvania, from 1900 to 1901 ; in
charge of the Department of Biology at the
Southwestern State Normal School at Cali
fornia, Pennsylvania, from 1901 to 1904, and
professor of biology at De Pauw Univer
sity, Greencastle, Indiana, since 1904. Dr.
Banker is a fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science; a
member of the Torrey Botanical Club and a
charter member of the Botanical Society of
America. He is a member of the Delta
Upsilon fraternity, of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of Syracuse University, and the So
ciety of Sigma Xi of Columbia University.
Dr. Banker is a botanist and has published
researches in the Hydnaceae and Fungi.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He married at Clifton Park, New
York, August 28, 1894, Mary E. Wright
(B.S. of Syracuse University, 1892). Ad
dress : Greencastle, Indiana.
BANKHEAD, John Hoi lis:
United States Senator; born in Moscow,
(then in Marion, but now in Lamar Coun
ty), Alabama, September 13, 1842; son of
James Greer Bankhead and Susan (Hollis)
Bankhead, both of whom were natives of
South Carolina. He is self-educated, and
from boyhood was engaged as a farmer.
He served for four years in the Confeder
ate Army, as lieutenant and captain, and
was wounded three times. He represented
Marion County in the General Assembly
of Alabama in the sessions of 1865, 1866
and 1867, and was a member of the State
Senate in 1876 and 1877, and of the House
of Representatives of Alabama in 1880 and
1881. He was warden of the Alabama
Penitentiary from 1881 to 1885. He was
elected in 1886 to the Fiftieth" Congress,
and was biennially elected ever since up
to and including November, 1904, when
he was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress
from the' Sixth Alabama District,. For the
Sixtieth Congress in 1900 he was defeated
by Richmond P. Hobson, but having been
nominated by the Democratic primary, he
was appointed in June, 1907, by Governor

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Comer, as United States Senator to suc
ceed the late John T. Morgan. Sena
tor Bankhead is prominent in the Ma
sonic Order, and was Grand Master of the
Alabama Grand Lodge in 1880 and 1881.
He is a member of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South. He married at Mont
gomery, Alabama, November 13, 1866, Tal-
lulah J. Brockman, daughter of James
Brockman, of the Greenville District, South
Carolina. Address : Fayette, Alabama.
BANKSON, Lloyd:
Naval constructor, United States Navy;
born in Philadelphia, November 15, 1857;
son of John Palmer Bankson and Anne
Catharine (Ash) Bankson. He was grad
uated from the University of Pennsylvania
(College Department) as B.Sc. in 1877;
was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy as cadet-engineer in 1881,
and from the Ecole d'Application du Genie
Maritime, France, with the degree of In-
genieur, in 1890. He made a two years'
cruise as a cadet on Men-of-War in Euro
pean and South American Waters, served
as cadet-engineer from 1881 to 1883, assis
tant engineer from 1883 to 1889, assistant
naval constructor from 1889 to 1896, and
since June 30, 1896, has been naval con
structor. He was assistant engineer in the
Philadelphia Water Department from 1883
to 1886, with Major William Ludlow of
the Corps of Engineers of the United
States Army. He is a member of the In
stitution of Naval Architects of England;
the Association Technique Maritime of
France; Society of Naval Architects of the
United States. His \ favorite recreation is
golf. He is an Episcopalian. He is a mem
ber of the University Club of Philadelphia.
Residence: 421 1 Chester Avenue, Philadel
phia. Add/ess: League Island Navy Yard,
Pennsylvania.
BANNARD, Otto T.:
President of the New York Trust Com
pany; born in Brooklyn, New York, April
28, 1854; son of John W. Bannard and
Eliza Landon (Stone) Bannard. He was
graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1876, and
from Columbia as LL.B. in 1878. He is

president of the New Yorjc Trust Com
pany; is a director o'f the Niagara Fire In
surance Company, the Securities Company,
the Dolphin Jute Mills, and the Herring-
Hall-Marvin Safe Company. He is vice-
president of the Charity Organization So
ciety ; trustee of the United Charities Build
ing, and treasurer and trustee of the Provi
dent Loan Society (philanthropical pawn
shop). He is Republican in politics and was
a commissioner of the Board of Education
of New York City under Mayor Strong. Mr.
Bannard is a member and ex-secretary of
the University Club; ex-president of the
Yale Club; member of the Union, Century,
Republican and City Midday Clubs. Ad
dress : 26 Broad Street, New York City.
BANNING, Archibald Tanner:
Physician and surgeon; born in New
York City, May 15, 1854; son of Edmond
Prior Banning and Lydia Humiston (Peck)
Banning. He was educated in a public
school and in various academies, and stud
ied medicine at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, and at the Cin
cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery,
where he was graduated as M.D. in 1873.
He has practiced medicine in New York
City, Kingston, New York; Washington,
D. C. ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and
Cleveland, Ohio, and for the past twenty
years in Mount Vernon, New York. He
was police surgeon of the City of Mount
Vernon in 1892; health officer in 1893 and
1894; coroner of Westchester County from
1894 to 1903, and again health officer since
1903. He is a member, and was president
in 1901, of the Medical Society of the Coun
ty of Westchester, Medical Association of
the City of Mount Vernon and environs,
and a member of the New York State
Medical Society, American Medical Asso
ciation, Society of Medical Jurisprudence.
He is a founder, and on the medical staff
of the Mount Vernon Hospital. Dr. Ban
ning is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in religion. He is a Scottish
Rite Mason and Knight Templar, and a
member of the City Club of Mount Ver
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Fish and Game Club of the Province of
Quebec, Canada. Dr. Banning married at
Mount Vernon, New York, in 1879, Jes
sie Theodore Lockwood, of New York
City, and they have ten children : William
Elizabeth, Archibald, Laura, Benjamin,
George, Lydia, Jessie, Theodore and John.
Address : 242 South Fourth Avenue, Mount
Vernon, New York.
BANNING, Ephraim:
Lawyer ; born in McDonough County,
Illinois, July 21, 1849; son of Ephraim
and Louisa Caroline (Walker) Banning.
The family moved to Kansas in 1855, and
later to Missouri, where he worked on a
farm and attended school, and he later at
tended Brookfield (Missouri) Academy.
He began the study of law in the office of
the Hon. Samuel P. Huston, of Brookfield,
Missouri. Removing to Chicago in 1871
he continued his studies in the office of
Rosenthal & Pence, and was admitted to
the Illinois bar in June, 1872. He was en
gaged in general practice for ten years,
and since then has been a specialist in the
practice of patent law. He is a Republi
can, and was a Presidential Elector in
1896, and a delegate to the Republican Na
tional Convention in 1900. He was chair
man of the Committee on Organization of
the Congress on Patents and Trademarks
held at Chicago in 1893. He was a mem
ber of the State Board of Charities from
1897 to 1901 ; was chairman of the com
mittee of the Chicago Bar Association which
secured the passage of the Illinois Juve
nile Court law in 1899. He is a member
of the American, Illinois State, and Chicago
Bar Associations and an elder in the Pres
byterian Church. He is a member of the
Union League Club. Mr. Banning has been
twice married, his first wife being Lucretia
T. Lindsley, to whom he was united, Octo
ber 22,' 1878, and who died February 5,
1887, leaving three sons : Pierson W., Wal
ker, and Ephraim. Mr. Banning's second
marriage was to Emilie B. Jenne, on Sep
tember 5, 1889. Address: 685 Washington
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.

BANNISTER, Amos:
Clergyman ; born at Manchester, England,
1859; son of Amos and Catherine Bannis
ter. He was graduated from the General
Theological Seminary, New York City, as
B.D. in 1882. In the same year he was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
by Bishop H. Potter, and in 1883 was or
dained priest by Bishop Spalding. He
was assistant of All Saints' Church, New
York City, from 1882 to 1883, becoming
in the latter year missionary at Rawlins,
Wyoming. Here he remained until 1886
when he was called to St. Thomas' Church,
Alamosa, Colorado, where he occupied a
similar office for six years. In 1892 he was
called to Christ's Church, Denver, Colora
do, and a year later was" offered the rector-
ate of St. Mary's Church, Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania, Diocese of Pittsburgh, where
he has since officiated. While in the West
he was chaplain of the Seventh Regiment
of the United States Infantry, stationed at
Fort Steele, Wyoming, 1883 to 1885; was
grand chaplain of Wyoming Masons, F. &
A. M., 1884 to 1885. He also founded in
1884 a mission at Saratogo, Wyoming, and
established another at La Jara, Colorado,
in 1889. He was connected with St, Ste
phen's Church at Monte Vista, Colorado,
1886 to 1892, and was a member of the
Standing Committee, Diocese of Pittsburgh,
from 1895 to 1907 (present time), and sec
retary from 1898 to 1906, also president of
the same since 1906. He is author of A
History of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He is a
Republican in politics. He is a member
of the Pittsburgh Clerical Union, and a
member of the Beaver Valley Country Club,
He married at Rawlins, Wyoming, No
vember 30, 1885, Elizabeth Rench Booth,
and they have four children : Pearson, born
in 1886; Amos Harold, born in 1890; Wil
liam Booth, born in 1892, and Cortlandt,
born in 1899. Address: The Rectory, 7
Church Street, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
BANNISTER, Henry Marty n:
Physician ; born at Cazenovia, New York,
July 25, 1844; son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ban
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received . his academic education at the
Northwestern University. In 1865 and
1866 he was on the Western Union Tele
graph Expedition to Alaska, and on his
return in 1867 gave testimony as to the
value of the country to the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, then consider
ing the treaty of annexation. He was em
ployed on the Geological Survey of Illi
nois during 1867 and 1868, and on the
Geological Survey of the Territories in
1872; was at the Smithsonian Institution
most of the time from 1869 to 1873, and re
ceived his medical degree from the Nation
al Medical College, Washington, D. C, in
1871. He has been connected in an edi
torial capacity with various medical jour
nals, and from 1874 to 1881 was co-editor
with Dr. G. S. Jewell, of the Journal of
Nervous and Mental Diseases, which
they had established. Dr. Bannister is
member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, and other medical organizations.
He wrote, in collaboration with Dr. D. R.
Brower, A Practical Manual of Insanity,
and is author of various articles in medi
cal and other journals. He was married
at Chicago, Illinois, June 14, 1887, to Delia
C. Ladd. Residence : 828 Judson Avenue,
Evanston, Illinois.
BANNON, Henry Towne:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Scioto
County, near Portsmouth, Ohio, June 5,
1867; son of James W. Bannon and Mary
E. (Smith) Bannon. He attended the
Portsmouth schools, and in 1885 and 1886
attended the Ohio State University, He
entered the University of Michigan in
1886, and was graduated therefrom as A.B.
in 1889. He was admitted to the Ohio
bar in 1891, and was prosecuting attorney
of Scioto County from 1897 to 1902. He
is a Republican in politics, and in 1904 he
was elected from the Tenth Ohio District
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected
in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress, expiring
March 3, 1909. He is a director of the
First National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mr. Bannon married at Portsmouth, Ohio,
May 25, 1893, Jessie Damarin. Address:
Portsmouth, Ohio.

BANTA, J. Edward:
Superintendent of schools ; born at Cor-
bettsville, New York, 1855 ; son of. Jacob
Banta and Arminda (Perry) Banta. He
was educated in the public schools of
Conklin, New York, the Binghamton Cen
tral High School and Amherst College, and
was graduated from the latter as A.B., with
Phi Beta Kappa honors and first prize
Hardy debate and Hyde prize speaker, in
1880, and received the degree of A.M. in
1883. He was principal of the high school
and superintendent of schools of Rockville,
Connecticut, from 1880 to 1888; principal
of Hiawatha Academy, Hiawatha, . Kansas.
from 1888 to 1892; head of the Latin and
Greek department of Cortland Normal -
School from 1892 to 1900 ; principal of high
school, Binghamton, New York, from 1900
to 1905; and superintendent of schools of
Binghamton, New York, since 1905. He is
Independent in politics and a Congregation-
alist in religion. He is a member of the
American Historical Society, Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa Socie
ty; trustee of the Binghamton Public Li
brary; member of the National Geographic
Society; councilor of the American Insti
tute of Civics, and a member of the Bing
hamton Club. His favorite recreations are
baseball, football, tennis and walking. He-
married at Rockville, Connecticut, July 17,
1890, Clara Anna Hyde, and they have
three children: Mildred Hyde, born in
1892; Kenneth Whittemore, born in 1893,
and Henry Hyde, born in 1895. Address :
City Hall, Binghamton, New York. ,
BANTA, Theodore M.:
Life Insurance; born in New York City,
November 23, 1834 ; son of Albert Zabriskie
Banta and Sarah Ann (Sayre) Banta. He
was educated at the College of the City
of New York. He engaged in actuarial
work with the New York Life Insurance
Company, in 1858, and has been cashier
of the company since 1864. He was a mu
nicipal civil service commissioner of New
York City in 1902 and 1903. He is a
member of the New York, Long Island,
New Jersey and Virginia Historical Socie
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graphical Society, the Holland Society, the
Saint Nicholas Society, Huguenot Society,
Society of Founders arid Patriots of Amer
ica, Society of Colonial Wars, the New
England Society, the Colonial Order, and
the Municipal Art Society. He is author
of Genealogies of the Sayre and Banta
Families. ' Mr. Banta is a member of the
National Arts, and Arkwright Clubs. He
married in New York City, February 17,
1862, Cornelia Crane, and they have two
daughters : Mary and Effie M. Address :
144 St. James Place, Brooklyn, New York.
BARBER, Amzi Lorenzo:
Contractor; born at Saxton's River, Ver
mont, June 22, 1843. He removed with
his family to Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio,
in 1852; to East Cleveland in 1856 and
later to Austinburg, Ashtabula County,
Ohio. He was graduated from the Cleve
land High School, from Oberlin College as
B.A. in 1867 and later A.M., and from Col
umbian (now George Washington) Uni
versity at Washington, D. C, as LL.B. in
1876. He was principal of the preparatory
department in 1868, and later professor of
natural philosophy in Howard University,
Washington, D. C, and in the real estate
business in 1872, and since 1883 has been
president of the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company. Since 1888 he has been president
of the Trinidad Asphalt Company; in 1887
he negotiated "the concession with Great
Britain for Pitch Lake of Trinidad for
forty-two years. Mr. Barber is a trustee
of the Oberlin College; director of the
Washington Loan & Trust Company, etc.
He is a fellow of the American Society of
Civil Engineers; member of the Engineers'
Club, the American Geographical Society,
Ohio Society, and of the Manhattan, New
York Athletic, New York Yacht, and Sea-
wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Clubs. Mr.
Barber has been twice married; first at
Geneva, Ohio, in 1868, to Celia N. Brad
ley, and second, at Harrisburg, Pennsylva
nia, in 187T. to Julia Louis Langdon. Ad
dress : 7 Fast Forty-second Street, New
York City.

BARBER, Donn:
- Architect ; born at Washington, District
Columma, October 19, 1871 ; son of Charles
Gibbs and Georgiana (Williams) Barber;
and he is a descendant of Thomas Barber,
who came to America, 1634, and settled in
Windsor, Connecticut, and is grandson of
Hiram Barber, a distinguished physician
of OSsinning, New York. He was educat
ed at* the Callison School, New York and
at the Holbrook Military Academy at
Briarcliff, New York, and at Yale Uni
versity, graduating with the degree of Ph.
B. in 1893. He took a special course in
architecture at Columbia University, 189.?
to 1894, studied at the Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris, 1895 to 1898, and at the con
clusion of his course in 1898, received a
diploma from the French Government, be
ing the ninth American to achieve this dis
tinction, and he was also awarded nine
government medals for meritorious work
in design. After receiving his diploma he
traveled extensively in Europe, then re
turned to New York City and was employ
ed in the offices of Lord & Hewlett, of
Cass Gilbert and of Carrere & Hastings,
until 1900; and since then has been in
practice for himself. Among his more im
portant structures are the National Park
Bank Building and Lotos Club in New
York, the Connecticut State Library
and Supreme Court Building and
Travelers' Insurance Building at Hart
ford, Connecticut, the White Plains
Hospital, White Plains, New York, the
Chattanooga Terminal Station Building at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Central Presby
terian Church, Summit, New Jersey, "Con-
yers Manor," the estate of E. C. Converse,
near Greenwich, Connecticut; the Estate of
E. S. Reynal, at White Plains, New York;
the model farm of Richard Delafield, and
residence of W. B. Dinsmore, at Tuxedo
Park, New York, and other residences
and mercantile buildings. Started in
1899, to help young men working in
architects' offices by conducting an atelier
for instruction in design, and this develop
ed into the present Atelier Donn Barber,
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curriculum of the Beaux Arts Society of
Architects, students from the atelier have
won many of the Traveling scholarship
competitions, notably the Paris Prize of the
Beaux Arts Society, the Rotch Traveling
scholarship of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, the Columbia and McKim
scholarships and many prizes, and during
the last three years fourteen students from
this atelier have been sent to Paris-, and
are now studying at Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He has been a lecturer on architecture
before colleges and societies in the United
States and France. He is at present Presi
dent of the Board of trustees of the Free
School District of the Town of Harrison;
member of the Societe des Architectes,
Diplomes par le Gouvernement at Paris ;
and vice-president of the American group
of this society; member of the American
Institute of Architects, the Architectural
League of New York, and the Society of
Beaux-Arts Architects and the National
Sculpture Society, and a member of the
Union, Players', University, City and Ama
teur Comedy Clubs and American Yacht
Club and Apawamis Club of Rye, West
chester County Hunt Club and Knollwood
County Club. Mr. Barber was married
by Bishop Dudley of Kentucky, at Christ
Church Cathedral, Louisville, Kentucky, No
vember 22, 1899, to Elsie, daughter of Dr.
Lunsford P. Yandell and Dr. Lunsford
Pitts and Elizabeth (Elliston) Yandell,
sister of Enid Yandell, the sculptor. By
that union he has three daughters ; Eliza
beth, born July 1, 1902, Louise, born De
cember 23, 1903, and Elsie, born February
13. I9°7- Country residence : Dinsbrook,
Rye; New York. Residence : 125 East
Seventy- fourth Street. Address : 24 East
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
BARBER, Edwin At Lee:
Director of the Pennsylvania Museum
and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia ;
born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 13,
1851 ; son of William Edwin and Anna E.
(Townsend) Barber. He received his early
education in the public and private
schools of Westchester. Pennsylvania, grad
uated from Williston Seminary, at East

Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1869; entered
Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania,
in 1869, and remained three years and from
there afterward received the degrees of
A.M. and Ph. D. He was naturalist on
the United States Geological and Geo-
giaphical Survey of the Territories in 1874
and 1875 ; engaged in business' pursuits,
from 1878 to 1901, and since 1901 has been
curator and secretary of the Pennsylvania
Museum and School of Industrial Art, and
was made director of the Museum in 1907.
He is an advanced student of ceramics,
archaeology and botany. He was associate
editor of The Antiquarian from 1879 to
1884, and is author of about 200 illustrated
articles in various magazines, and the fol
lowing booKS : Pottery and Porcelain of
the United States (two editions) ; Anglo-
American Pottery (two editions) ; Ameri
can Glassware, Old and New; Tulip Ware
of the Pennsylvania-German Potters;
Marks of American Potters ; Salt Glazed
Stoneware; Tin Enameled Pottery; Arti
ficial Soft Paste Porcelain; Lead Glazed
Pottery; etc. He is a member of the
American Pmlosophical Society, the Phila
delphia Numismatic and Antiquarian So
ciety, the Philadelphia Academy of Natur
al Sciences, corresponding member of the
Wisconsin Historical Society and the Vir
ginia Historical Society, Sociedad Mexi-
cana de Historia Natural, Societe d' An
thropologic de Paris, etc. - Mr. Barber is
a member of the Pennsylvania Society of
the Sons of the Revolution, and the Sigma
Chi fraternity, and is a Mason. He is an
Independent Republican and was chairman
of the Civil Service Examining Board of
the Philadelphia Postoffice frorn 1879
to 1885, and he is a Presbyterian in re
ligion. He is a member of the University
Club of Philadelphia. He married at Phil
adelphia, in 1880, Nellie Louise, daughter
of Major William H. Parker, of the United
States Marine Corps, and they have one
daughter, Louise AtLee Barber. Resi
dence: 236 East Biddle Street, West Ches
ter. Address : Pennsylvania Museum, Me
morial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia,
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BARBER, Hiram:
Lawyer ; born in Queensbury, Warren
County, New York, March 24, 1835; son of
Hiram Barber and Salome (Seeley) Bar
ber. The family moved to Wisconsin in
1846 and after completing his course in the
public schools, he spent three years in the
University of Wisconsin, and then took the
course at Albany Law School. He was ad
mitted to the Wisconsin State bar in 1856
and entered upon a general practice at Ju
neau, Wisconsin, as a partner of the Hon.
Charles Billinghurst. He was later en
gaged at Watertown, Wisconsin, as part
ner of Colonel Charles R. Gill, former at
torney-general of Wisconsin. Mr. Barber
removed to Chicago in 1866, and associ
ated with the late Edmund Jussen as Jus-
sen & Barber until 1869; then with Fran
cis Lackrier, as Barber & Lackner, until
1878. He was a member of Congress in
1879 and 1881, and receiver of the Land
Office at Mitchell, Dakota, from 1881 to
1885. He was in partnership with Theodore
Brentano at Chicago from 1885 until the
latter was elevated to the Superior Court
bench, and since then he has practiced
alone. He has been master in chancery of
the' Superior Court of Cook County since
1891. He is a member of the Masonic
O'rder and a Knight Templar. Mr. Bar
ber married in 1857, Louisa, daughter of
General James McEwen, of Chester, Wis
consin; his children are: Helen (Mrs. H.
L. Kadish), Florence (Mrs. D. C. Ever-
ift), Sherman and Cameron. Address:
Maywood, Cook County, Illinois.
BARBER, Ohio Columbus:
" Capitalist ; born at ' Middlebury, Ohio,
April 20, : 1841 ; son of George Barber and
Eliza ( Smith > Barber. He was educated
in the common schools of Akron, Ohio;
became associated with his father's match
manufacturing business in 1856; was ad
mitted as a partner in 186 1, and became
head of the firm at the death of his father.
He Organized, in 1881, the Diamond Match
Company, which .was a consolidation of
several leading match manufacturing com
panies, of which ' he was vice-president
from 1881 to. 1888 and has been president 1

since 1888. He founded in 1891, Barberton
(near Akron) Ohio, now a town of more
than 6,000 population. He is also president
of the Sterling Company (boilers) ; chair
man of the board of directors of the West
ern Cereal Company; vice-president of the
General Fire Extinguisher Company, and a
director in various other business corpor
ations. He is a member of the Union
League Club of New York City, and the
Chicago Club of Chicago. He married-
at Akron, Ohio, October 10, 1866, Laura
L. Brown, who is now deceased. Resi
dence: Akron, Ohio. Address: 27 William
Street, New York City.
BARBOUR, Clarence Augustus:
Clergyman; born in Hartford, Connecti
cut, April 21, 1867; son of Hon. Heman
Humphrey Barbour and Myra (Barker)
Barbour. He was graduated from the
Northeast Grammar School, of Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1880, the Hartford Public
High School "in 1884, from Brown' Univer
sity as B.A. in 1888, and from the Roches
ter Theological Seminary in 1891. He re
ceived the degree of D.D. from the Univer
sity of Rochester in 1901. He has been
pastor of the Lake Avenue Baptist Church
of Rochester, New York, since his gradua
tion from Rochester Theological Seminary
in 1891. He traveled extensively in Egypt,
Palestine and Europe in 1900, and again in
Europe in 1904. He was vice-president of
the Rochester Good Government Club
from 1894 to 1902. He is an Independent
in politics; is a. member of various minis
terial associations; the Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon fraternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. He has been a trustee of Roches
ter Theological Seminary since 1893, and
vice-chairman of the board since 1904. He
was president of the New York State
Christian Endeavor Union in 1896. He
is a Mason of the thirty-third' degree,
and was grand chaplain of the-, Grand
Lodge of the State of New York from 1905-
to 1907. He is also' 'a member of the
Rochester Masonic Club. Dr. Barbour
married in Providence, Rhode Island, July
28, 1891, Florgnce. I. Newell, and they have
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Myra Seymour and Harold Robinson. Ad
dress : 151 Saratoga Avenue, Rochester,
New York.
BARBOUR, John B., Jr.:
Vice-president of the Pittsburgh Stock
Exchange; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, April 16, 1862. He attended the pub
lic schools of the city, and was graduated
from the high school in 1880. After taking
a course in stenography, he entered the of
fice of a broker, where he remained until
January, 1890, when he was made manager
of a large brokerage firm. He was one
Qf the organizers of the Pittsburgh Stock
Exchange, being its first secretary and
treasurer, he also served one year as vice-
president and then served six years as
treasurer and is now serving his third
term as vice-president of that body. He is
a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree
Mason. and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
In politics he is a Republican and is treas
urer of the City Republican Executive Com
mittee and president of, his District Asso
ciation. He is a member of the Duquesne,
Monongahela, Country and Americus Clubs
of Pittsburgh. Address : Times Building,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BARBOUR, Ralph Henry:
Author; born at Cambridge, Massachus
etts, November 13, 1870'; son of James
Henry Barbour and Elizabeth M. (Morgan)
Barbour. He was educated in Waltham
(Massachusetts) New Church School, and
at Highland Military Academy, Worcester,
Massachusetts. He is author of: Phyllis in
Bohemia (with L. H. Bickford) ; The Half
Back; For the Honor of the School; Cap
tain of the Crew; Behind the Line; The
Land of Joy; Weatherby's Inning; On
Your Mark ; The Arrival of Jimpson ; The
Book of School and College Sports ; Kitty
of the Roses; An Orchard Princess; Four
in Camp; Four Afoot; The Crimson
Sweater ; A Maid in Arcady. Mr. Barbour
-is a member of the Colonial Club of Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. He married in Den
ver, Colorado, in 1885, Mabel Latshaw
King. Address : Appleton Court, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. Summer address :
East Gloucester, Massachusetts.

BARCHFELD, Andrew Jackson:
Physician, congressman; born in Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1863; son of
Henry Barchfeld and Mary (Neuenhagen)
Barchfeld. He was educated in the pub
lic schools and Pittsburgh Central High
School, from which he was graduated in
1881, then attended Jefferson Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia, whence he was gradu
ated at M.D. in 1884, and since then has
been engaged in the practice of medicine in
Pittsburgh. He is prominent in his pro
fession, is a member of the Pittsburgh
South Side Medical Society, the Allegheny
County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania
State Medical Society, and the American
Medical Association. He is president of the
Board of Directors of the South Side Hos
pital at Pittsburgh, and a member of its
staff. He was city physician of Pittsburgh
for several years. Dr. Barchfeld is a Re
publican in politics, and has long been
prominent in politics in Pittsburgh. He was
elected a school director in 1885, was a
member of the Common Council of Pitts
burgh in 1886 and 1887, was a delegate to
the Republican State Conventions of 1886,
1894 and 1901, and was for many years a
member of the Republican. State Commit
tee of Pennsylvania. He was nominated
for Congress in 1902, but after a hard-
fought battle was defeated by a narrow
margin by a combination of Democrats and
dissatisfied Republicans. He was again
nominated in 1904, and was elected from
the Thirty-second Pennsylvania District to
the Fifty-ninth Congress and in 1906 was
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, expiring
March 3, 1909. He was a delegate to the
Peace Congress at Brussels in 1905. "He
married in May, 1885, Anna Peiffer. Ad
dress : 106 Eighteenth Street, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
BARDEEN, Charles William:
Educator, author; born at Groton, Mas
sachusetts, August 28, 1847. He was pre
pared at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mas
sachusetts, and was graduated from Yale
as B.A. in 1869. He enlisted in the First
Massachusetts Volunteers, in July, 1862,
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May 25, 1864. He was in charge of the
High School at Meriden, Connecticut, . in
1868; of Weston (Connecticut) Boarding
School in 1869, and vice-president of. the
State Normal School of Connecticut in
1870; and became school superintendent at
Whitehall, New York, pin 1872. He. has
been editor of the School Bulletin from
1874; was director of the National Educa
tional Association, from 1891 to 1895; pres
ident of the Educational Press Association
from 1890 to 1896. He is a fellow of the
American Geographical Society; member
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, American Social
Science Asociation. He is author of:
Manual of School Law, 1875; Roderick
Hume, 1875; The Song Budget, 1878;
Some Facts About Our Public School Sys
tem, 1878; Educational Journalism, 1881 ;
Verbal Pitfalls, Outlines of Sentence Mak
ing, 1884; Teaching as a Business for
Men, 1885; A System of Rhetoric, 1884;
The Teacher's Commercial Value, 1885;
Physiology, 1884; Organization and Sys
tem vs. Originality, 1880; The Taxpayer
and the Township System, 1891 ; The Song
Century, 1888; The Little Old Man, or the
School for Illiberal Mothers, 1893; History
of Educational Journalism in New York,
1883 ; Teaching as a Business, 1897 ; Some
Problems of City School Management,
1899; Educational Journalism, An Inven
tory, 1899; Continuous Contracts for
Teachers, 1900J Dictionary of Educational
Biography, 1901 ; A Manual of Civics, 1902 ;
Fifty-five Years Old, and- Other Stories,
1904; The Woman Trustee, 1904; The
False Entry, 1905; The Cloak Room Thief,
1906. He was president of the Syracuse
Typothetae in 1906. Mr. Bardeen is a
member of the Syracuse Yale Club. He
married in New Haven, Connecticut, "in
1868, Ellen Palmer Dickerman." Address :
406 South Franklin Street, Syracuse, New
York.
BARDEL, William:
Consular official. Appointed commercial
agent at Bamberg, December 15, 1900, and
promoted vice and deputy consul, December
jj, 1000/ Address: Bamberg, Germany.

BARGEB, Samuel F.:
Lawyer, capitalist; born in New York,
October 19, 1832. He was admitted to the
New York bar, and engaged in practice in
New York City, becoming counsel for many
of the largest corporations. He is now a
director of the New York Central and Hud
son River Railroad Company, the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway Company, Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Company, Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany, New York and Harlem Railroad
Company, Detroit and Chicago Railroad
Company, the Canada Southern Railway
Company, the West Shore Railroad Com
pany, and other corporations. Mr. Barger,
whp is a widower, has three children :
Edna H. Barger,- Milton S. Barger, and
Maud (Mrs. Barger Wallach). Residence:
192 Madison Avenue. Office address : 45
Broadway, New York City.
BARKER, Albert Smith:
Rear admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Massachusetts, March 31,
1843; son of Josiah Barker. He was ap
pointed to the Naval Academy October 25,
1859, remained there until 186-1, then be
came attached to the steam frigate "Mis
sissippi" in the West Gulf Blockading
Squadron in 1861 and 1863. He partici
pated in the bombardment and passage of
Forts Jackson and Saint Philip and Chal-
mette batteries, and in the capture of New
Orleans in 1862, in the attack" on and at
tempted passage of Port Hudson, March 14,
1863, where the "Mississippi" was de
stroyed* and he afterward joined the
"Monongahela'' and took part in the siege
of Port Hudson, in the fight below Don-
aldsonville and guerilla fighting generally
until the river was clear. He was promoted
to ensign February 22, 1862, lieutenant Feb
ruary 22, 1864, lieutenant-commander July
25, 1866, commander March 28, 1877, cap
tain May 5, 1892, and rear admiral October
10, 1899: He served in the varied duties
of a naval officer on sea and land. While
on the "Powhatan" in 1866 he witnessed
the bombardment of the batteries at Callas
by the Spanish fleet under Admiral Nunez.
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to 1886 and ran a line of deep-sea soundings
around the world, making casts at inter
vals of about 100 miles. He reached the
Straits of Sunda six days after the great
eruption of Krakatoa, when the accompany
ing tidal wave swept into the sea the large
town of Anjer and all settlements in the
vicinity, and he rendered such assistance
as was possible to the Dutch authorities.
At outbreak of the Spanish-American War
he was a member of the War Board. In
May, 1898, he commanded the cruiser New
ark, taking part in bombardment of batter
ies at Santiago de Cuba. On August 6,
1898, he was transferred to the command
of the battleship Oregon. He commanded
a special service squadron to the Pacific
in 1898-9, with the Oregon as flagship,
reaching Manila in March, 1899. He re
lieved Admiral Dewey as commander-in-
chief of the Asiatic Squadron on May 20,
retaining command until the arrival of
Rear Admiral Watson. He was command
ant Norfolk Navy Yard, 1899-1900, and
commandant New York Navy Yard, 1900-
1903. : He was commander-in-chief, North
Atlantic fleet from April 1, 1903 to March
31, 1905, when he retired for age. He
married, in 1894, Mrs. Ellen Blackmar
Maxwell. Address: 1716 N Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
BARKER, Lewcllyn Franklin:
Physician ; born at Norwich, Ontario,
Canada, September 16, 1867; son of James
F. and Sarah Jane (Taylor) Barker. He
studied medicine at the University of
Toronto, where he was graduated in 1890
with the degree, of M.B. He took further
courses of study at Leipzig in 1895 and at
Munich and Berlin in 1905. Following his
graduation at the University he became for
a short time resident physician in the
Toronto General Hospital, after which he
went to Baltimore where he was appointed
assistant in Johns Hopkins Hospital. After
a year in this position, he became fellow in
pathology at Johns Hopkins University, be
coming in 1894 associate in anatomy and at
the same time assistant resident pathologist
at the Hospital. Three years later he was
appointed associate professor of anatomy,

and in 1899 associate professor of pathol
ogy. In 1900 he resigned from Johns Hop
kins to accept the Chair of Anatomy at the
Rush Medical College in the University of
Chicago, but after five years in this position
he returned to Johns Hopkins .where he be
came, professor of medicine and took
charge of the Hosp'ital. He is author of
various books and articles, among the
forms of which are "The Nervous System
and Its Constituent Neurones; Laboratory
Manual of Human Anatomy, etc. Dr.
Barker was married in October, 1903, to
Lilian H. Halsey of New York City. Ad
dress : Johns Hopkins University, Balti
more, Md.
BARKER, Theodore Gaillard:
Lawyer, retired; born at Charleston,
South Carolina, August 24, 1832; son of
Samuel Gaillard and Ellen (Milliken) Bar
ker. He was graduated in 1849 at South
Carolina College and taking up the study of
law at Charleston after his graduation,
was admitted to the bar in South Carolina
in 1853. At the outbreak of the Civil War,
he left his practice and joined, as adjutant,
Pettigrew's Rifles, a regiment belonging to
the South Carolina Volunteers. With this
regiment he remained until May, 1861, par
ticipating in the siege of Fort Sumter and
:n other operations in the vicinity. He was
then appointed adjutant to the Hampton Le
gion, serving with it under Colonel Wade
Hampton through the first battle of Bull
Run, where the Confederate army, under
General Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston,
defeated the Federal forces under Briga
dier-General McDowell, and until August,
1862. In 1862 he became adjutant-general,
with rank of captain, of General Wade
Hampton's Cavalry brigade, Army of North
ern Virginia, later becoming assistant adju
tant and inspector-general of Hampton's
Cavalry Division with rank of major. At
the end of the war in 1865 he was dis
charged from the Southern Army, went
back to the practice of the law and formed
a copartnership with Charles H. Simonton,
the firm being Simonton & Barker until
August, 1886, when Mr. Simonton was ap
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1866 he was elected to the South Carolina
House of Representatives. In 1888 Mr.
Barker was a delegate from South Carolina
for the State at Large to the National
Democratic Convention and in 189S to the
Constitutional Convention of South Caro-
ina. In 1891 Mr. Barker gave up the
practice of the law and for a short time re
tired to his rice plantations, of which he is
a large owner. In 1893 he resumed the
practice of law. He was married October
12, 1875, to Louisa Preston King, daughter
of Judge Mitchell King, of Charleston, S.
C, and of Flat Rock, N. C. Address:
Charleston, S. C.
BARKER, Wharton:
Financier, economist, publisher; born in
Philadelphia, May 1, 1846; son of Abraham
and Sarah (Wharton) Barker. His ances
tors came to Massachusetts in 1632, and his
Wharton ancestors (all English Quakers)
to Pennsylvania in 1682. His paternal
grandfather, Jacob Barker, was a cousin of
Benjamin Franklin, the mothers of both
being Folgers, descendants of Peter Folger,
first interpreter between the English and
Indians in Massachusetts, and Jacob Barker
was an ardent supporter of the War Party
in 1812, and taker of the $10,000,000 loan of
1814, which enabled the United' States to
continue the war against Great Britain to
success. His maternal grandfather, Charles
Wharton, was one of the few Pennsylvania
Quakers to support the American Revolu
tion. He was educated at Short's Latin
School, and at the University of Pennsyl
vania from which he was graduated as A.B.
in 1886, and A:M. in 1869. He was founder
of the Investment Company of Philadelphia
($4,000,000), and the Finance County of
Pennsylvania, was special financial agent of
Imperial Russian Government, in 1878 and
1879 and frequently since. He served as
lieutenant of the Third Regiment of United
States Colored Troops, in 1863. He was
never a holder of public office, but was the
principal advocate, prior to the conventions,
of the nominations of the Presidency of
Generals Garfield and Harrison. He was a
prominent leader in the Independent move

ments in Pennsylvania in 1881, 1882 and
1890, and presidential candidate of the Peo
ple's Party in 1900. He was the proposer,
in 1879, of the American Commercial Union
of all American Nations, with a common
tariff against European and Asiatic Nations,
and fair distribution of customs receipts
among Nations within the Union, and a
constant writer on this subject. He is an
advocate of National money and an oppo
nent of bank money, and advocate of the
Nationalization of the railroads, direct tax
ation, income tax, the public ownership of
enterprises which in their nature must be
come monopolies, and American Commer
cial Union of all American Nations, with
free trade on the American Continent and
tariff protection in all against European
and Asiatic competition and the restoration
of the Philippines to the Filipinos by the
joint guarantee of European, Asiatic and
American Nations. In 1869 he founded the
Penn Monthly, and in 1880 merged it with
The American, a weekly paper which he
still edits. Mr. Barker is a world-wide
traveler. He has been a trustee of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania since 1880. He re
ceived the order of St. Stanislaus, in 1879,
at St. Petersburg, conferred by Emperor
Alexander II. He was chairman of the
Commission for Building the State Asylum
for the Chronic Insane at Wernersville.
Mr. Barker is a member of the American
Philosophical Society, the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science, the
Franklin ' Institute and the Historical So
ciety of Pennsylvania. Mr. Barker was the
proposer, one of the founders and first pres
ident and is still a member of the Penn
Club, is a member of the Union League,
Manufacturers and Art Clubs of Philadel
phia. _He married in Philadelphia, October
16, 1867, Margaret Corliss Baker, and he
has three sons : Samuel Haydock Barker,
born February 20, 1872; Rodman Barker,
born November 3, 1873, and Folger Barker,
born November 6, 1876, all being graduates
of the University of Pennsylvania. Ad
dress : 608 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania..

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MEN OF AMERICA.

BARLOW, Feter Townsend:
City magistrate; born in New York City,
June 21, 1857. He was graduated from
Harvard College in 1879 and from Colum
bia Law School in 1881, and engaged in
the practice of law until appointed city
magistrate. He is a member of the So
ciety of Colonial Wars and of the Uni
versity, Union, Metropolitan, Harvard,
American Yacht, Down Town and Apa-
wamis Clubs. He married, May 6, 1886,
Virginia Louise Matthews. Residence: 55
East Twenty-first Street, New York City;
summer: Elmslea, Harrison, Westchester
County. Address : 1 1 William Street, New
York City.
BARNARD, Charles:
Writer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
February 13, 1838; son of Rev. Charles F.
Barnard and Sarah (Holmes) Barnard. He
is practically self-educated by extensive
travel and study. He is a contributor to
leading magazines on technical educational
and scientific subjects; wrote many chil
dren's stories and a large number of books
upon many subjects. He is contributing
editor to the Century Dictionary on tools
and machines. He is author of : The Coun
ty Fair (play) ; Tools and Machines ; The
Door in the Book ; The Tone Masters ; The
Soprano; Ten-Rod Farm; Light (in colla
boration with late Prof. Meyer). Con
tributing editor. Woman's Home Compan
ion upon new housekeeping, tools, ma
chines, methods and appliances of all kinds.
Maintains at residence a housekeeping lab
oratory for experimental research, testing
of new cooking, heating and other domestic
appliances, etc. He is a Republican, and
voted for Lincoln, McKinley and Roose
velt. He is a member of the American
Dramatists' Club at New York City. He
married, May 17, 1881, Mary E. Knight.
Address : Cedar Gate, Darten, Connecti
cut.BARNABD, Edward Chester:
Topographical engineer; 'born in New
York City, November 13, 1863; son of
Owen Howard Barnard and Anne Eliza
(Lenny) Barnard. He was educated in pri

vate and public schools,- College of the City
of New York and the School of Mines of
Columbia College, New York, from which
he received the degree of E.M. in the
class of 1884. He was appointed assistant
topographer of the United States Geological
Survey, after leaving college in 1884, and
was made topographer in 1886. He mapped
portions of Virginia and West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and New York.
Went West in 1894 for the United States
Geological Survey and mapped areas in
Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Cali
fornia. He went to Alaska in 1898 and
1900, and mapped areas in the Forty Mile
and Nome Districts for the United States
Geological Survey; was chief topographer
of the United States and Canada Boundary
Survey from 1903 to 1906; located the In
ternational Boundary Line between the
United States and Canada, west of the
summit of the Rocky Mountains, and is
now geographer in charge of the Rocky
Mountain Division of Topography of the
United States Geological Survey. He has
traveled much over the United States,
twice to Alaska, down the Yukon and to
Nome, also once in Europe. He is a
Republican in politics. Mr. Barnard is a
member of the National Geographic Socie
ty, the Geological Society of Washington,
D. C, the American Institute of Civil En
gineers, Washington Society of Engineers,
the American Forestry Association, and
the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.
He married at St. Paul, Minnesota, March
31, 1904, Virginia Townsend Grover, now
deceased. Address United States Geologi
cal Survey, Washington, D. C.
BARNARD, Job:
Jurist; born in Porter County, Indiana,
June 8, 1844; son of William and Sally
(Williams). Barnard. He was educated at
the district school at the V. ivl. & F. Col
lege and at the Michigan University; from
the latter institution, he received the de
gree of LL.B. in 1867, and the honorary
degree of LL.D. in 1907. After gradu
ation, he engaged in the practice of "law;
October 1, 1899, he was appointed by Presi
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Court of the District of Columbia. He is
president of the Audubon Society, District
of Columbia; a member and deputy gov
ernor of the Colonial Wars Society; presi
dent of the Board of Trustees of Howard
University; vice-president of the General
Convention of the New Church in the
United States. He is a member of the
Cosmos, the University, and the Columbia
Golf Clubs. He was first sergeant Com
pany K, Seventy-third Indiana, war, 1861-
1865, and a member of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland and
of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic. He. married, at Berrien Springs,
Michigan, September 25, 1867, Florence A.
Putnam and they have three sons. He is
a Republican in politics and belongs to the
Swedenborgian or New Church. Resi
dence: 1306 Rhode Island Avenue, Wash
ington, D. C. Address : United States Court
House, Washington, D. C.
BARNES, Albert Crane:
Jurist; born at Addison, Vermont, June
28, 1853; son of Asahel and Ellen S.
(Crane) Barnes. He was educated in the
public schools of Addison and Bellman
Academy, New Haven, Vermont. He was
graduated from the University of Vermont
with the degree of A.B. in 1876, and com
pleted a course of law studies at the Al
bany (New York) Law School in l$77, re
ceiving the degree of LL.B. He was ad
mitted to the New York State bar in 1877,
and after further studies at Keeseville and
Plattsburgh, New York, went, in . 1879, to
Washington, D. C, where he took the civil
service examination and entered the em
ploy of the Government in the- General
Land Office. There he was engaged for
four years in writing decisions upon con
tested mining' claims and contested land
claims within the railroad grants. In 1883
he went to North Dakota, where he was
appointed by the Governor as one of the
corhmissioners to organize Bottineau Coun
ty, of which in 1884 he was elected dis
trict attorney. In 1885 he removed, to Chi
cago, Illinois, and engaged in general prac
tice of the law. For several years he was
associated in his practice with S. M. Mil

lard, Esq. In 1896 he received the appoint
ment of Assistant State's Attorney of Cook
County, under States' Attorney Deneen,
and was his assistant from 1900 to 1904
when Mr. Deneen was elected Governor;
and he was elected Judge of the Superior
Court of Cook County for the term which
will expire in 1910. He is a Republican
and a member of the Hamilton, Homewood
Golf and Union League Clubs of Chicago.
He married in Chicago in May, 1895, Jessie
Welles Griswold. Residence, 204 East Fif
tieth Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BARNES, Charles Reid:
Professor of plant physiology in the Uni
versity of Chicago; born at Madison, In
diana, September 7, 1858; son of Charles
Barnes and Sarah (Reid) Barnes. He was
educated in private and public schools, at
Madison, Indiana, receiving second honor
in his high school class; at Hanover Col
lege, Hanover, Indiana, with first honor
and the degree of A.B. in 1877; A.M. in
1880, and Ph.D. in 1886; and he. was en
gaged in private research at Harvard in
1885 and 1886 and in 1892. He was teach
er in Town School at Hanover, Indiana,
in 1877 and 1878; at Utica, Indiana, in
1878 and 1879; instructor in -natural sci
ence at Lafayette (Indiana) High School
in 1879 and 1880; instructor in natural
history at Purdue University from 1880 to
1882; professor of natural history in same
from 1882 to 1885 ; professor of botany and
geology at same from 1885 to 1887, and
professor of botany at the University of
Wisconsin from 1887 to 1898; .and he has
been professor of plant physiology in the
University of Chicago since 1898. He is
a member and fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
was general secretary of the same in 1895
and 1896; was vice-president of Section G
(botany) in same in 1899; secretary of
the Botanical Society of America from 1894
to 1899; and president of same in 1902, and
is a life member of that Society and also
of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. He
has been editor of the Botanical Gazette
since 1883. He traveled in Europe in 1902
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pendent in politics and a Presbyterian in
his religious affiliations; and he is a mem
ber of the Beta Theta Pi college frater-
ity. His favorite recreations are tennis,
billiards and fishing. Professor Barnes is
a member of the Quadrangle Club of Chi
cago. He married at Lafayette, Indiana,
December 25, 1882, Mary King Ward, and
of that union there have been born two
childreri: Edward Ward, who died in 1886,
and Charles Lyle, born in 1887. Residence :
306 East Fifty-sixth Street, Chicago. Of
fice address : University of Chicago, Chi
cago, Illinois.
BARNES, Henry Burr:
Publisher; born in New York City, De
cember 14, 1845 ; son of Alfred S. Barnes
and Harriet Elizabeth (Burr) Barnes. He
was educated in the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute, at Williston Seminary, of East-
hampton, Massachusetts, and Yale Col
lege as A.B. in 1866 and later as
M.A. He is president of A. S. Barnes &
Company, publishers, the Barnes Carriage
Company and the Barnes Real Estate As
sociation; vice-president of the Central
Real Estate Association ; director and mem
ber of the Finance Committee of the Am
erican Book Company. He was editor of
the International Review, from 1878 to
1880, and president of the Stationers'
Board of Trade, from 1886 to 1888. He is
an Independent Republican in politics and
a Presbyterian in religion. Mr. Barnes is
vice-president of the Manhattan Eye and
Ear Hospital; treasurer of the Gould Me
morial Home at Rome, Italy; a member of
the Sons of the" Revolution, the Century
Association, and the University, Metropoli
tan, Riding, Aldine and Shinnecock Golf
Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, June 16, 1869, Hannah Elizabeth
Dixon, and they have six children Mrs.
William B. Potts, Henry B. Barnes, Jr.,
Mrs. Marshall J. Dodge, Sarah P. Court-
landt Barnes, and Thomas S. Barnes. Ad
dress : 11 West Forty-ninth Street, New
York City.
BARNES, John Sanford:
Lawyer, banker; born at United
States Military Academy, West Point, May

12, 1836; son of General James Barnes
and Charlotte Adams (Sanford) Barnes.
He was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1854, and 'served in the
navy during the Civil War. He was sail
ing master of the United States Steamship
Wabash; commanding the United States
Steamships Dawn, Hale, Paul Jones, Lena-
pee and Bat; and was fleet captain of the
North Atlantic Squadron and commanding
the United States Steamship Marblehead.
He was later head of the Department of
Ethics, at the Naval Academy, and re
signed September, 1867; served on United
States Steamships Preble, Savannah, San
Jacinto, Saratoga, Arctic, on survey route
for first Atlantic cable; and United States
Steamship Jamestown as midshipman,
sailing master and lieutenant. He was ad
mitted to the bar, and practiced law in Al
bany and New York City. He was 3
member of the firm of J. S. Ken
nedy & Company; president of the Inter
national Railroad Company of Texas, the
St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, and other
companies. He is a companion of the Mil
itary Order of the Loyal Legion, and mem
ber of the Naval Association; manager of
the House of Refuge, Randall's Island;
member of Board of Governors of the New
York Zoological Society, the New Eng
land Society, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Museum of Natural History, New
York Aquarium, New York Botanical Gar
dens, and Union, University, Metropoli
tan, Knickerbocker, Racquet and Tennis,
Down Town Association, South Side and
Lenox Clubs, and president of the latter.
He married, September 12, 1862, Susan
Bainbridge Hayes, and they have five chil
dren: James, Edith (Mrs. Warren Stur-
ges), J. Sanford, Jr., Charlotte A., and
Cornelia Rogers. Address : 10 East Sev
enty-ninth Street, New York City.
BARNES, William Henry:
Railway official; son of Henry, of Marl
borough, Massachusetts, and Marilla
(Weldon) Barnes of New Britain, Con
necticut; born July 12, 1829, at Phila
delphia. He was educated at private
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on surveys and construction Of the West
ern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and from 1856 to 1863 he was assistant su
perintendent, secretary and comptroller of
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railway. He was in the service of the
Union Railroad and Transportation Com
pany and Empire Transportation Company
¦ from 1863 to 1871 ; and in 1871 he was di
rector and treasurer of the " Pennsylvania
Company. He was receiver of the Alle
gheny Valley Railroad Company from 1884
to 1892, and then he became president of
the company under its reorganization as
the Allegheny Valley Railway Company.
He has also been president of the Western
New York and Pennsylvania Railway, New
York and Pennsylvania Railway Company,
since January 14, 1901 ; and is a director
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylva
nia Company, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
Chicago and St. Louis Railway, and
allied corporations.' Mr. Barnes mar
ried at Allegheny City, Pennsylva
nia, October 27, 1857, Eva Hamp
ton. Residence : 1727 Spruce Street ; sum
mer: Devon, Pennsylvania. Office: 256
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
BARNES, William, Jr.:
Publisher; born at Albany, New York,
November 17, 1866; son of William Barnes
and Emily Peck (Weed) Barnes. He was
educated at Albany Academy and at Har
vard, graduating as A.B. in 1888. He is
proprietor of the Albany Evening Journal;
United States Surveyor of Customs of Al
bany, New York; a member of the Re
publican State Committee since 1892, and
chairman of its- executive committee from
1898. Mr. Barnes married at Cincinnati,
Ohio, June 12, 1888, Grace Davis, and they
have two children : Thurlow Weed, second,
born in 1889, and Landon, born in 1894.
Address : Albany, New York.
BARNES, William, Sr.:
Lawyer; born in Pompey, Onondaga
County, New York, May 26, 1824; son of
Orson and Eliza (Phelps) Barnes, and he
is seventh in descent from Thomas Barnes,

who settled near Hartford, Connecticut,
about 1630; was one of its original pro
prietors; and was a soldier in the Pequot
War. The family can be traced in England
to William Barneis, A. D., 1203. Mr. Barnes
was educated in the common and select
schools and at the Manlius Academy at
Manlius, New York. He was admitted to
the bar July, 1846, and was long a member
of the law firm of Hammond, King &
Barnes, of Albany, New York. He was
appointed special counsel of the Banking
Department of the State of New York;
Special Commissioner to examine the con
dition of several insurance companies of
New York City, 1855, and first superin
tendent of insurance of the State of New
York, from i860 to 1870. After that he
became counsel for many insurance com
panies and special counsel for the City of
New York in the Astor and other taxa
tion cases; and for the vacation of as-
sessriients in 1873, and for several follow
ing years. He is author of a prize essay
or monograph on The Settlement and
Early History of Albany, N. Y., and six
teen volumes of New York State Insur
ance Reports, and the New York State
Life Insurance Valuation Tables, and of
numerous articles in the daily press. Mr.
Barnes was appointed by President Grant
one of the United States Official Delegates
to the Eighth International Statistical
Congress at St. Petersburg, in 1872, and
was presented with a diamond ring with
the imperial monogram, as a souvenir of
services at this Congress, by Czar Alexan
der IL, and appointed a member of the
permanent commission. Mr. Barnes be
came a member of the Liberty party in
1843; spoke for Birney,in 1844; supported
Martin Van Buren for President in 1848;
and was one of the leading organizers of
the first Republican State Convention at
Saratoga Springs in 1854. He organized
the New York State Kansas Aid Society,
and two National Kansas Conventions a(
Cleveland and Buffalo in 1856; and he, in
connection with his father's deputy super
intendent of schools, organized and
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cuse, the first teachers' Institute ever
held in New York State, 1843 and 1844;
and was one of the chief organiz
ers of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of
the Republican party, held in September,
1904, at Saratoga Springs, New York; pre
pared the article on the Early History of
the Republican Party at the Fremont Semi-
Centennial at Philadelphia in June, 1906;
and a member of the Peace Congress held
at Boston, in October, 1904, and at New
York City, April, 1907. Mr. Barnes has
been an honorary fellow of the Royal Sta
tistical Society of London, since 1872; is a
member of the Albany Institute, the Amer
ican Geographical Society, the National
Geographic Society, and the Law Institute
of New York, the American Society of In
ternational Law. At the January, 1907,
meeting of the society at Washington, he
earnestly advocated the • immunity of pri
vate property (not contraband) at sea in
marine warfare, and the application of the
Drago doctrine to the collection of all in
ternational contractual debts. He was one
of the founders and first president of the.
Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New
York ; is a member of the New York State
Bar Association, and a member and one
of the founders of the Fort Orange Club
of Albany, New York. Mr. Barnes mar
ried, July 10, 1849, Emily P. Weed, a
daughter of Thurlow Weed, and by that
union has five children, all living: Mrs.
Catherine Weed Barnes Ward, of London,
England; Thurlow Weed Barnes, of New
York City; Mrs. George C. HoUister, of
Rochester ; Mrs. Rufus Hildreth Thayer, of
Washington, and William Barnes, Jr., of
Albany, New York. Mrs. Barnes died in
February 1889, and Mr. Barnes was again
married, June 1, 1891, to Mrs. Lizzie Bal-
mer Williams, widow of Samuel Williams,
San Francisco. Address: The O'Conor-
Barnes Homestead, On-the-Cliff, Nan
tucket Island, Massachusetts.
BARNETT, George:
Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Marine Corps
Appointed from Wisconsin. Graduated
from Naval Academy, and transferred to
Marine Corps as Second Lieutenant, 1883.

Commissioned First Lieutenant, September
1, 1890. Commissioned Captain, August
11, 1898. Commissioned Major, March 3,
1901. November 20, 1897, ordered to U. S.
S. San Francisco; reported on board at
Smyrna, December 12; as fleet marine offi
cer European fleet. March 27, at Graves-
end, England, transferred to the Am-
azonas, afterwards the New Orleans ; came.
home on board New Orleans, as Watch
Officer; rejoined San Francisco, in New
York, April 14; April 17, ordered- to the
New Orleans ; as Marine Officer and served
on her throughout the war — first in Flying
Squadron at Hampton Roads, then in
Sampson's Squadron on north coast of
Cuba, and then on south coast at Santiago,
under Schley and Sampson; took part in
bombardments, May 28, June 6, 14, 15,
and at Daikari during landing of Army;
blockaded San Juan and Porto Rico, July
17, to August 14 ; entered San Juan and pre
sent during transfer. Promoted to Captain
to take rank from August 11, 1898; joined
U. S. S. Chicago, December 1, 1898, and
served on board until April 16, 1901, as
fleet marine officer South Atlantic fleet, de
tached and ordered home. Examined for
promotion and promoted Major to date
from March 3, 1901; granted leave one
month; Fleet marine officer Asiatic Fleet,
from 1903 to 1904; commanded Marine
Brigade in Philippines, November, 1904,
to April, 1905; promoted to lieutenant-
colonel February 28, 1905; command Ma
rine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington,
from July, 1905. Address: Care of the
Navy Department.
BABNETT, II j man L.:
Lawyer; born in the town of Sinna,
District of Suwalk, Russia, May 17, 1877;
sou of Michael and Leah (Benjamin) Bar-
nett. He was educated in the public
schools of Sheffield, England, until 1887,
when he emigrated to New York City,
then in the public schools of New York
City, graduating from the East Side Even
ing High School in 1894, and from the
Law School of New York University as
LL.B. in 1899. He has practiced law in
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tate and commercial law. He is active in
the Zionist Movement, which has for its
object the establishment of a legally as
sured home for the Jewish people in Pal
estine; has been a delegate for several
Zionists of the Federation of American
Zionists, from 1900 to 1901, and in 1903
and 1904. He is an Independent Democrat.
Mr. Barnett is a member of the Royal
Arcanum and the Order of Brith Abraham.
He married in New York City, December
4, 1900, Sarah E. Pitluck, and they have
three children: Rosalie J., born September
17, 1901; Annette E., born February 15,
1903, and Milton B., born September, 1905.
Residence: 1665 Forty-third Street, Brook
lyn, New York. Address : 132 Nassau
Street, New York City.
BARNEY, Charles Tracy:
Banker; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Janu
ary 27, 1851 ; son of A. H. B. Barry.' He
was graduated from Williams College as
A.B. in 1870, and has ever since been en
gaged in banking in New York City. He
is president of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company, the Knickerbocker Safe Deposit
Company, and New York Loan and Im
provement Company. He is a member of
the Century Association, the Metropolitan,
Union, University, Grolier, City, New York
Yacht, and other clubs of New York City.
Residence: 101 East Thirty-eighth Street.
Address: 71 Broadway, New York City.
BARNHABT, Arthur Middleton:
Type founder; born in Hartfield, Chau
tauqua County, New York, February 17,
1844; son of Peter and Sarah (Herrick)
Barnhart. He received his education in
the public schools of Chautauqua County.
In association with his three brothers he
was in early life engaged in the publication
of four papers in the State of Iowa, ex
tending over the period from 1865 to 1873.
Among these was the Iowa State Leader, at
Des Moines. He removed to Chicago in
1868, and with his brothers engaged in the
advertising agency business. In 1869, with
his brothers, Warren, Geo. W., Alson E.
and Chas. E. Spindler, he established^ a
type foundry, which was subsequently in

corporated under the name of Barnhart
Brothers & Spindler, and which has become
widely known throughout the world, and
of which he is president. He is also
president of the Great Western Type Foun
dry Company of Kansas City, Missouri,
and Great Western 'Building Company
of the same city; a director of the
Barnhart Type Foundry of New York
City, the Minnesota Type Foundry
Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota, the
Great Western Type Foundry Company of
Omaha, Nebraska; the St. Louis Printers'
Supply Company of St. Louis, Missouri :
the Southern Printers' Supply Company of
Washington, D. C, and the Pacific Printers'
Supply Company of Seattle, Washington.
He is a member of the Board of Govern
ors of the Chicago Art Institute, and a
member of the Municipal Art League; is
on the advisory board of the Civic Feder
ation, and a member of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science.
His club membership embraces the Union
League, Athletic, Iroquois, City, Kenwood
Country, South Shore Country, Homewood,
Glen View. Mr. Barnhart has been twice
married; first in 1869, to Angie B. Stein,
who died in 1895, and second, at Chicago,
in 1900, to Stella I. La Zelle. He has one
son living, Arthur Middleton, Jr. Ad
dress : 183-187 Monroe Street. Residence :
4455 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
BARNUM, William H.:
Jurist; born in Onondaga County, New
York, February 15, 1840; son of Charles
and Harriet (Rogers) Barnum. While he
was still very young his parents removed
to Belleville, Illinois, where he received his
early education in private schools. He at
tended the State Normal School at Ypsi-
lanti, Michigan, and was a student at the
University of Michigan until his junior
year. Later, by action of the faculty and
board of regents he was enrolled among
the graduates and presented with an hon
orary degree. He studied law in the office
of the Hon. George Trumbull, of Belle
ville, Illinois, and was admitted to the Illi
nois State bar in 1862. He began his prac
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until 1867, in which year he removed to
Chicago. There he was associated with
Lawrence J. J. Nissen from 1867 to 1876;
and thereafter he was a "member of the
firm of Harding, Nissen & Barnum for
two years, and later with Cornelius Van
Schaack. In 1879 >he was elected Judge
of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and
held the office until 1884, when he re
signed. Judge Barnum is still in active
practice, but without associates. He is a
member of the Union League and Iroquois
Clubs.
BARR, Edward:
Iron merchant; born in Lancaster Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, June 29, 184S ; son of John
Barr and Barbara (Kinport) Barr.- He
was educated at St. James School and
Lancaster High School. He has been en
gaged as an iron merchant since 1875." He
is also president and director of the In
dian Kettles Park Association; president
of the Fidelity Audit Corporation, and of
the Columbia Life Assurance Society. He
was treasurer of ¦ the New York and
Brooklyn Bridge from 1895 to 1898.
He served in Company B, First Penn
sylvania Reserves, First Corps, in the
Army of the Potomac, in 1862 and 1863,
and was for a while at brigade headquar
ters; and he was engaged in the battle of
Fredericksburg. He is now colonel and
aide-de-camp on the staff of the grand
commander, the Grand Army of the Re
public. He is a Republican and an Epis
copalian. Mr. Barr is a member of the So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac, and the
Chamber of Commerce, the Pennsylvania
Society, the George Washington Post,
Grand Army Republic; trustee of the
Brooklyn City Dispensary; treasurer of the
Hospital Saturday and Sunday Associa
tion, of Brooklyn, and treasurer of Saint
Ann's Church, Brooklyn. He is a mem
ber of the Church Club of the Diocese of
Long Island and the Hamilton Club of
Brooklyn. He married in London, Octo
ber 5, 1872, Julia Louisa Weld, and they
have four children: Josephine Elise Weld,
Julia Kimport, Mary Godfrey and Elise
Adeline Rush. Country seat: Indian Ket

tles Park, Lake George. Residence: 109
State Street, Brooklyn. Address: 55
Broadway, New Yo.rk City.
BARR, Frank:
Railway official. He began railway ser
vice March I, 1869 as freight and ticket
clerk and telegraph operator of the Wor
cester and Nashua Railroad at Nashua,
New Hampshire, and became general agent
of the same road from 1873 to 1892. He
was appointed November 1, 1892, superin
tendent of the Worcester, Nashua and
Portland Division of the Boston-and Maine
Railroad at Nashua; Dec. 1, 1896, general
manager, and since July 16, 1903, has been
third vice-president and general manager
of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Adj
dress : Union Station, Boston, Massachu
setts.
BARR, Thomas Francis:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in West Cambridge (now Arlington),
Massachusetts, November 18, 1837; son of
Thomas and Jean Barr. He was educated
in Lowell, Massachusetts, studied law, was
admitted to Massachusetts bar in October,
1859. Appointed major and judge advocate
of volunteers, February 26, 1865, transfered
to regular army February 25, 1867, pro
moted lieutenant-colonel and deputy judge
advocate-general July 5, 1884, promoted
colonel and assistant judge advocate-gener
al August 3, 1885, appointed judge advocate
general May 21, 1901, with rank of brig
adier-general, retired from active service,
May 22, 1901. While serving as judge ad
vocate he won 'great distinction as an able
and fair-minded lawyer. He was Commis
sioner of the United States military prison,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1873 to
1894; he was also military secretary to the
Secretaries of War, Ramsey, Lincoln, Endi-
cott and Proctor. He married in Lyme,
New Hampshire; September 9, 1863, Julia
Maria Minot Chase. Address: Lyme, Nev
Hampshire. BARRELL, Flnley:
Broker in stocks and grain. Born in Chi
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James and Susan (Finley) Barrell. He
was educated at the public schools and
Allen's Academy, Chicago. He began his
business career as a clerk in the office of
Norton & Worthington, remaining with
this firm until 1890, when he entered into
business on his own account with the firm
of Russell & Barrell, dealers in grain,
which was succeeded in 1892 by J. F.
Barrell & Co., in which he had no partner.
In 1894 James Barrell was admitted to the
firm and the name was changed to Finley
Barrell & Co. On April 10, 1899, Stewart
E. Barrell was admitted and the business
made to include stocks, bonds, cotton and
coffee. David A. Noyes became a member
of the firm in 1903, and Frederick R. Bab
cock in 1906. January 1, 1907, James Bar
rell, Stewart E. Barrell and David A.
Noyes withdrew, the present partners being
Finley Barrell and Frederick R. Babcock,
retaining the firm name of .Finley Barrell
& Co. The house is now represented on
the New York Stock Exchange, New York
Cotton Exchange, New York Coffee Ex
change, New York Produce Exchange,
Philadelphia Commercial Exchange, Chi
cago Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of
Trade, Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce,
Kansas City Board of Trade, St. Louis
Merchants' Exchange, Winnipeg Grain Ex
change, and the Milwaukee Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Barrell is a Republican
and a member of the Episcopal Church.
He is a member of the Chicago, Union
League, Calumet, South Shore, Onwentsia
and Chicago Golf Clubs. He was married
in Chicago, December 9, 1890, to Grace
M. Witbeck, and has one son: John Wit-
beck. Residence: 2109 Calumet Avenue.
Office: Monadnock Block, Chicago, Illi
nois.
BARRETT, James Timothy:
General contractor ; born in Ireland, Feb
ruary 10, 1870; son of Timothy Barrett
and Julia (Sheehan) Barrett. He was ed
ucated in the Firmount National School
at Donoughmore, County Cork, Ireland.
Barrett came to America in 1891,
he has for several years been

Mr:and

successfully engaged in the contracting

business. He is a member of the An
cient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic
Order of Foresters, Knights of Columbus,
Order of Alhambra, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks, United Irish League
of America, Citizens' Trades Association
of Cambridge, and other fraternal and pa
triotic organizations. Mr. Barrett traveled in
Europe, principally in Great Britain and
Ireland in 1900, in which year a series of
letters was published in the Cambridge
Times, giving a description of his travels
and the social and political conditions of
Europe. These letters were published in
book form in 1902. He visited Europe
again in 1905, traveling principally in Ire
land. Mr. Barrett has always taken a
deep interest in municipal and public af
fairs. He was . a member of the Cam
bridge Common Council in 1898 and 1900,
and of the Cambridge Board of Al
dermen in 1901, 1902 and 1903; and
he was a member of the Massachusetts
Legislature in 1905 and 1906. He is a Dem
ocrat in politics and a Roman Catholic in
religion. Mr. Barrett married at Jamaica
Plain, Boston, April 24, 1905, Mary Ellen
Brady, and they have two children: Mary
Margaret, born in 1906, and James Timo
thy, Jr., born in 1907. Address : Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
BARRETT, John:
Diplomat; born at Grafton,' Vermont,
November 28, 1*866; son of Charles Bar
rett and Caroline (Sanford) Barrett.
After graduation from the Worcester Aca
demy at Worcester, Massachusetts, he went
to Nashville, Tennessee, and attended Van-
derbilt University, but finished his college
work in Dartmouth College, where he was
graduated as A.B. in 1889. Mr. Barrett be
came a teacher in Hopkins Academy at
Oakland, California, and soon afterward
became assistant editor of The Statistician,
a financial and industrial publication of San
Francisco. He was afterward editorially
connected with newspapers in San Francis
co, Tacoma, Seattle and Portland, Oregon,
and while associate editor of The Telegram
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ister to Siam, where he secured the settle
ment by arbitration of. claims amounting
to three million dollars and settled import
ant questions of extraterritoriality. He re
mained in that post until 1898, and in addi-
tin to the duties of the mission to Siam
had charge of special diplomatic and
commercial investigations in that coun
try, Japan, Korea, Siberia and India.
He was a war correspondent in the
Philippines in 1898 and 1899, and
American plenipotentiary to the Inter
national Conference of American Republics
at Mexico in 1901 and 1902. He was com
missioner-general of foreign affairs for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1902 and
1903, American minister to the Argentine
Republic in 1903 and 1904, American min
ister to Panama in 1904 and 1905; Ameri
can minister to Columbia from 1905 to
1906; is now director of the International
Bureau of American Republics. He is
author of: Admiral George Dewey, 1899,
and is also a contributor to magazines on
Oriental and Latin American subjects.
He is a member of the University and
Lotos Clubs of New York, and the Uni
versity Club of San Francisco. Address :
Pan American Bureau, Washington, D. C.
I) Alt RON, John Conner:
Physician; born in Woodbridge, New
Jersey, November 2, 1837. He was edu
cated at Burlington College, and at Yale
University, class of 1858; "and was gradu
ated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York City, as M.D. in
1861. Dr. Barron served as surgeon of the
Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers in 1861 ;
was surgeon of the Seventh Regiment from
1863 to 1871, and surgeon-general of the
First Division of the National Guard of
the State of New York. He is president
of the Gila Farm Company, and of the
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal
Companies. He is a fellow of the Ameri
can Geographical Society and member of
the National Geographic Society, the Amer
ican Forestry Association, the Grand
Army of the Republic, and the New York
Historical Society. He was formerly vice-

commodore of the Atlantic and Hudson
River Ice Yacht Clubs, and rear-commo
dore of the New York Yacht and Seawan-
haka-Corinthian Yacht Clubs. He is now
a member of the Union, Union League,
and Carrituck Shooting Clubs. Dr. Barron
married, in 1869, Harriet William, of San
Francisco, California. Residence: 37 Madi
son Avenue, New York City. Address:
35 Broadway, New York City.
BARROWS, Morton:
Lawyer; born at Reading, Massachu
setts, June 14, 1856; son of the Reverend
Dr. William Barrows and Elizabeth
(Adams) Barrows. He was graduated at
Harvard University with the degree of A.B.
in 1880, after which he studied law in the
office of Harrison, Hines & Miller, at In
dianapolis, and, spending a year in the law
department of Boston University, gradu
ated in 1883 with the degree of LL.B. In
that year he was admitted to the bar of
Massachusetts ; but, removing to the West,
he settled at St. Paul, Minnesota, and was
¦admitted to the bar of that State. In 1904
he was appointed lecturer in the law of
torts at the St. Paul College of Law. He
is a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, and other legal associations, and-
author of Barrows on Negligence. In 1885
he was married at St. Paul to Ada C.
Noble. Residence: 912 Lincoln Avenue.
Address : Globe Building, St. Paul, Minne
sota.
BARROWS, William N.:
Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, June 2,
1848; son of Arad Barrows and Ellen
(Baily) Barrows. He was graduated at
Central High School of Philadelphia and
by private tutors. He is vice-president of
the New Jersey and Hudson River Rail
way and Ferry Company, the Highland
Improvement Company, the Northern New
Jersey Land Company; is president of the
New York Harbor Real Estate Company,
the Hudson River Traction Company; and
secretary and treasurer of the Rockland
Railroad Company. He is a Republican in
politics. His favorite recreations are read
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after his farm near old Plymouth, Massa
chusetts. Mr. Barrows married in Phila
delphia in 1878, Elizabeth Jeannette Way,
and they have three children : Eleanor,
born in 1879; Reba, born in 1880, and
Thomas, born in 1897. Address : 100 Morn-
ingside Avenue, New York City.
BARRY, Edward Buttevant:
Captain, United States Navy; was born
in Varick Place, in New York City, Octo
ber 20, 1849; son of Garrett Robert and
Sarah Agnes (Glover) Barry. He was ed
ucated at the Lespinasse School in Clinton
Place, and at St. Francis Xavier's College,
and was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in June, 1869. He took
three practice cruises while cadet, on the
Macedonian and Savannah, and after grad
uation a special cruise on the Sabine, 1869
to 1870; was promoted to ensign, 1870, and
to master, 1872; commissioned lieutenant,
1875; lieutenant commander, March, 1897;
commander, March, 1900, and captain,
March 31, 1905. He served on many du
ties and stations as a naval officer; aboard
the Wachusett, European Station, and
then at Key West during, the Virginius
trouble with Spain, 1873-4; aboard the
Alaska from 1878 to 1880; he wit
nessed the Chilian torpedo-boat attack on
the Peruvian man-of-war Union, at- Cal-
lao, and two of the bombardments of Cal-
lao, and also the blowing up of the
Chilian Steamer Loa; Cincinnati, 1897
to February, 1899; on South Atlantic Sta
tion until war with Spain became immi
nent; then at Key West, from March, 1898,
to February, 1899. In the Spanish-Ameri
can War he was participating in the block
ade of Havana, the attack on Matanzas;
scouting off Cajie Antonio when the Span
ish fleet was reported at Curacoa ; Bahama
Channel and in the blockade of San Juan,
Porto Rico, July, 1898. He had two in
terviews with Governor-General Macias at
the time the armistice was proclaimed,
and endeavored to secure the surrender
of San Juan; convoyed the Maria Theresa
to the eastern end of Cuba; the Cin
cinnati was in Havana when the United
States flag was hoisted there, January 1,

1899. He afterwards served on the receiv
ing-ship Franklin, and the gunnery train
ing-ship Amphitrite, and commanded the
Collier Marcellus, January-May, 1900. He
commanded the gun-boat Vicksburg, Aug
ust, 1900, and took her, to the Asiatic Sta
tion, November 1900, serving there until
1903, the Vicksburg forming the naval part
of the expedition, under Brigadier-General
Funston, resulting in the capture of Emilio
Aguinaldo. In conjunction with Brigadier-
General Kobbe, he occupied for the first
time, the islands of Palawan (Paragua),
Kulion and Cuyo; and later, on the Samar
Station served in connection with Brig
adier-General Smith during part of the
insurrection. He was ordered by the
Department, ten days too late, by cable
from Samar, to winter in New Chwang
(China), but succeeded in getting there.
2,000 miles against the N. E. monsoon.
JHe was attached to the Navy Yard, New
York, April, 1903, as aide to the command
ant; was a member of the Labor Board
and Board of Inspection, October, 1904;
and since January 1, 1906, has commanded
the battleship Kentucky. He is a member
of the Order of Foreign Wars (Pennsyl
vania Commandery), the Naval Order of
the United States (New York Command
ery), and of the University and Army and
Navy Clubs of New York. Captain Barry
married, April 7, 1875, Mary Wycliff Clitz, '
and has one daughter living, Mary Agnes
(now Mrs. L. A. Waters). Address:
Care Navy Department, Washington, D. C
BARRY, John:
Shipping merchant ; born in Ireland, Jan
uary 1, 1850; son of John and Johanna
(Furlong) Barry. His parents emigrated
to Kingston, Canada, where he received
his education in the public schools. He
was thrown upon his own resources at an
early age, and in 1872 he was engaged in
the tug business on Lake Michigan. A
few years later he established the Inde
pendent Tug Line of Chicago, of which he
was made president and chief engineer. In
1899 this line was absorbed by the trust
and Mr. Barry embarked in a general
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at present he is president and general man
ager of the Barry Brothers Transportation
Company, operating first-class passenger
and freight steamers between Chicago and
Racine and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is
also president and general manager of the
Barry Brothers Dock Company. He is
a Democrat in politics and a member of
the Catholic Church. He was married at
Muskegon, Michigan, October 16, 1873, to
Rose Blake, and his children are: Rupert
J., Russell T., Charles E., Rodney, Emmett,
Lucy and Violet. Address : 389 Ontario
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BARRY, Llewellyn:
Lawyer; born in Paris, France, January
25, 1862; son of Llewellyn F. Barry and
Annie (Harrison) Barry. He was grad
uated from the University of Pennsylvania,
class of '84, as B.S. and won a large num
ber of prizes in collegiate athletic contests,
and was on the university crew and foot
ball team. He was admitted to the bar in
1887. He was fourth sergeant of the First
Troop of the Philadelphia City Cavalry. Mr.
Barry is a Republican in politics. He is a
member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, and the
Rittenhouse, Philadelphia Country, Radnor
Hunt, and Huntington Valley Clubs of
Philadelphia, and Union and University
Clubs of New York City, and Mt. Desert
¦ Reading Rooms, and the Kebo Valley Clubs
of Bar Harbor. Residence. 221 South
Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress: 181 1 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
BARRY, Richard:
Journalist, novelist; born in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, September 10, 1881 ; son of
George A. Barry and Harriett (Hayes)
Barry. He was educated at the grammar
school of Eau Claire, Wisconsin: He was
correpondent at the Pan-American Expo
sition at Buffalo in 1901 for the Baltimore
Sun, Milwaukee Sentinel and Chicago Rec
ord-Herald; reporter on Buffalo Enquirer;
dramatic editor Los Angeles (California)
Times; editor The Ojai, Nordhoff, Cali
fornia; editorial writer on San Francisco
Bulletin ; in February, 1904, went to Russo-

Japanese War as free lance and accompa-
ned Third Japanese army, attached to the
personal staff of General Nogi throughout
the War. Contributed articles on the in
vestment and capture of Port Arthur to the
leading reviews, magazines and newspapers
of the civilized world. He made a tour of
the world for Collier's Weekly in 1905 and
1906, visiting Japan, China, the Philippines,
Borneo, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Italy, Russia,
Germany and England, and is member of
the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine.
He is author of: The Assassination of
President McKiriley; Port Arthur— A Mas
ter Heroism (description of the celebrated
siege) ; Sandy from the Sierras, a novel
of San Francisco life, and The Events Man,
an account of the adventures of the dis
patch boat, Fawan, in the Russo-Japanese
War. He is a member of the Players' Club
of New York. Address : Monrovia, Cali
fornia.
B1KKV, Thomas Henry:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in New York City, .October 13, 1855 ;
son of David and Margaret (Dimond)
Barry. He was graduated from the pub
lic schools into the College of the City
of New York, 1872, and in~ 1873 was ap
pointed a cadet at the United States Mil
itary Academy, after competitive examin
ation, by Honorable Robert B: Roosevelt;
and was graduated therefrom in 1877. He
was appointed second lieutenant of the Sev
enth Cavalry, June 14, 1877; served in Da
kota and Montana until August 31, 1880,
when he was transferred to First Infantry;
served in Texas, 1880-82; was appointed
quartermaster, First Infantry, and pro
moted first lieutenant, March 11, 1882; cap
tain, February 25, 1891 ; served in Arizona,
1882-86 ; South Dakota, 1890-91, taking part
in campaigns against - Apaches in Arizona
and Sioux in South Dakota. He was on
duty in the office of Hon. Daniel S. La-
mont, Secretary of War, 1893-97; appointed
major and assistant adjutant-general, Jan
uary, 29, 1897, and assigned to the Depart
ment of the Columbia until the outbreak of
the Spanish-American War, when he was
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pine forces; was appointed lieutenant-colo
nel and assistant adjutant-general United
States Volunteers, and adjutant-general of
the Eighth Army Corps, June 22, 1898;
lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-
general, United States Army, January '10,
1900; brigadier-general of volunteers, June
10, 1900, to June 30, 1901 ; colonel and as
sistant adjutant-general, July 15, 1902;
brigadier-general, United States Army,
August 18, 1903. Served as adjutant-gen
eral of the Philippine Army, May, 1898, to
February, 1900; with China Relief Expe
dition, as brigadier-general, United States
Volunteers, August, 1900; chief of staff,
Philippine forces, November, 1900, until
July 20, 1901; commanding the Department
of the Gulf, with headquarters at Atlanta,
Georgia, 1903-1905; observer with Russian
Army during Russo-Japanese War, to De
cember, 1905 ; assistant chief of staff,
United States Army, and president, Army
War -College, December, 1905,' to Febru
ary, 1907, when assigned to command the
Army of Cuban Pacification. Attended
grand manoeuvers, German Army, Septem
ber, 1906. General Barry married at Wash
ington, D. C, January 23, 1884, Ellen Bes-
tor. Address : Havana, Cuba.
BARTH, Charles George: •
Stock broker; born in Ohio, August 19,
1840; son of John M. Barth and Elizabeth
(Helbig) Barth. He was educated in the
public schools of New York and Michigan.
Mr. Barth was a general merchant at St.
Joseph, Michigan, from 1865 to 1868, a
grain, flour and provision commission mer
chant in the Chicago Board of Trade from
1868 to 1891. He has been a member of the
Board of Trade for thirty-three years, and
a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange
since 1883. He organized- and was a direc
tor and cashier of the Lemont State Bank,
of Lemont, Illinois, from 1891 to 1897. He
is now president and director of the Ameri
can Angora Goat and Live Stock Company ;
director and treasurer of the Chicago, Ho
bart and Valparaiso Electric Railway, and
a director of the National Oil Company,
the Western Construction Company, the
Colorado, Oklahoma and Chickasha Rail

way Company aud the Lamont Electrical
Light and Power Company. He served on
the staff of General D. A. Russell, Pierson,
Sickles and Chamberlain as aide and Com
missary of Subsistence with rank of cap
tain and major by brevet, during the Civil
War in the Army of the Potomac and par
ticipated in all the battles from and includ
ing Antietam until the surrender at Appo
mattox. He is a Republican in politics
and a Congregationalist in his religious af
filiation. Major Barth has served as a
school trustee. He is a member of the
Western Society of the Army of the Po
tomac and of the Military Order of the
Loy^l Legion of the United States. He mar
ried at Saint Joseph, Michigan, in June,
1864, Emma F. Swart wont, and they have
two children : Harty Arlington Barth and
Nellie Ristori Barth. Residence : 369 Oak
Street, Chicago. Office address: 153 La
Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BARTHOLDT, Richard:
Congressman, editor; born in Schleiz,
Thuringia, Germany, November 2, 1853.
He came. to this country while a mere boy,
going to St. Louis in the early '70's ; and
afterwards went East and was connected
with several New York . and Brooklyn
newspapers. He returned to St. Louis and
took charge of the Tribune, a daily Re
publican newspaper. In 1889 he was
elected a member of the School Board of
St. Louis, and to the presidency of the
Board in 1891. In 1891 he was president of
the Conference of German- American So
cieties, held in Washington, D. C. Mr. Bart-
holdt is Republican in politics. In 1892
he was elected to Congress from the Tenth
Missouri district. He was reelected in
1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1904, and
1906. He was chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
and the second member on the Committee
on Labor. He presided over the Interna
tional Parliamentary Congress in 1904, and
it was through his influence that Congress
was held in the United States. He is one
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country. Address : 3319 South Ninth
Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
BARTLEMAN, Richard M, :
Consular official; appointed secretary of
the Legation of Caracas, June 14, 1890;
consul at Antigua, November 14, 1895; con
sul at Malago, June 11, 1896; retired
April, 1898. He was reappointed consul
at Malaga, June 27, 1899; appointed consul
at Geneva, May 8, 1900; consul at Valen
cia, October 21, 1900, to take effect Janu
ary 1, 1901; consul at Cadiz, February 12,
1903; consul at Seville, May 7, 1904; and
consul-general at large, May 14, 1906, to
take effect July 1, 1906, in which position
he is now serving. Address Department
of State, Washington, D. C.
BARTLETT, Adolphus Clay:
Merchant; born at Stratford, New York,
June 22, 1844; son of Aaron and Delia
(Dibell) Bartlett. He was educated in the
public schools of Stratford, finishing his
studies at the Dansville Academy. He
went to Chicago, Illinois, at the age of
nineteen and entered the employ of Tuttle,
Hibbard & Company, hardware dealers.
Through his industry and attention to
business he was given an interest in the
profits of the concern at- the end of his
third year's service; and in six years from
the date of his entry into the establish
ment he was made a general partner. In
1882, when the business was incorporated,
under the style of Hibbard, Spencer, Bart
lett & Co., he was -made secretary and
later vice-president. On January 1, 1904,
after the death of Mr. Hibbard, October
10, 1903, Mr. Bartlett became president of
the organization, and the house has
now become one of the largest in the
hardware trade in the United States. Mr.
Bartlett has been a member of the Chi
cago Board of Education; ex-president and
a charter member of the Commercial Club,
and director since 1873 of the Chicago Re
lief and Aid Society; trustee of Beloit
College and of the University of Chicago ;
also of the Chicago Art -Institute. Other
positions of trust which he has held are
president of the Home for the Friendless ;

director of the Orphan Asylum; vice-presi-.
dent of the Old Peoples' Home. He is in
the directorates of the Chicago Athenaeum,
the First National Bank of Chicago, the
Northern Trust Company, the Elgin Watch
Company, the Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company, and he is an ex-
director of the Chicago and Alton Rail
road Company. He is a member of the
Chicago, Commercial, Union League and
City Clubs. He married August 27, 1867,
Mary H. Pitkin, who died December 19,
1890, leaving three children: Maie Bartlett
Heard, Frederic Clay and Florence Dibell.
He again married, June 13, 1893, at Tole
do, Ohio, Abbey L., daughter of Bailey
H. Hitchcock. They have one daughter,
Eleanor Collamore. Address : 2720 Prairie
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
BARTLETT, Charles L.:
Manufacturer and selling agent; born at
Fishkill, New York, November 13,-1853;
son of David Ely Bartlett and Fannie
Pomeroy (Hinsdale) Bartlett. He was
graduated from Yale College as B.A. in
1876. He is now manager of the Proc
tor & Gamble Distributing Company; pres
ident of the Orangeine Chemical Com
pany, and a director of the Hamilton Na
tional Bank, all of Chicago, Illinois. Mr.
Bartlett is a member of the Scroll and
Key Society of Yale. His favorite recre
ations are golf, fishing, farming and auto
mobiling. He is a Republican in politics
and a Congregationalist in his religious af
filiation. He is a member of the Com
mercial, University, Chicago and Saddle
and Cycle Clubs of Chicago, and of the
Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest, Illinois.
Mr. Bartlett married at Utica, New York,
June 7, 1881, Clara Crouse, and they have
had two children: Karl Jay Bartlett, born
November 28, 1885, and died January 21,
1891 ; and Valentine C. Bartlett, born Feb
ruary 18, 1892. Residence: Winnetka, Illi
nois. Address : 15 Michigan Avenue, Chica
go, Illinois.
BARTLETT, Charles Lafayette:
Lawyer and congressman; born at Mon-
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1853. He removed in 1875 from Monticello
to Macon, Georgia, where he has ever
since resided. He was educated in schools
at Monticello, Georgia, at the University of
Georgia, graduating as A.B. in 1870, and
studied law in the University of Virginia.
He was admitted to the bar in August,
1872; was appointed solicitor general (pros
ecuting attorney) for the Macon Judicial
Court, January 31, 1877, and served in that
capacity until January 31, 1881. He was
elected to the House of Representatives of
Georgia in 1882 and 1883 and in 1884 and
1885, and to the State Senate in 1888 and
1889. He was elected judge of the Super
ior Court of the Macon Circuit, January
1, 1893, and resigned that office May 1, 1894.
He became the Democratic nominee for
Congress in 1894, and was elected to the
Fifty-fourth Congress and he has been re
elected biennially since and is now serving
in the Sixtieth Congress, which will ex
pire March 3, 1909. Address : Macon,
Georgia.
BARTLETT, Edward Theodore:
Jurist; born Skaneateles, New York,
June 14, 1841 ; son of an eminent physi
cian and surgeon; descended from Norman-
French ancestry (Bartelot), and ancestor
emigrated from England to New Hampshire
in early Colonial days; great-grandson of
Josiah Bartlett, signer of Declaration of
Independence, and of the Articles of Con
federation, and first governor and chief
justice of New Hampshire. He received
a classical education, studied law at Skan
eateles, New York ; was admitted to the
bar in October, 1862; practiced until 1868
in Onondaga County, New York, removed
to New York City in 1868, and continued
in practice until 1894. He was a Republi
can nominee for justice of the Supreme
Court in 1891, defeated but was nomina
ted in 1893, and elected associate judge of
the Court of Appeals of New York, for a
term of fourteen years from January 1,
1894, and is now serving. He has been a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, since 1870, and was
formerly a member of its Committee on
Administrations and Executive Committee

and he is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the New York Law
Institute, the New England Society and
the Union League and Republican Clubs of
New York City. Address : Union League
Club, New York City.
BARTLETT, Edwin Julius:
Professor of chemistry in Dartmouth Col
lege; born at Hudson, Ohio, February 16,
1851 ; son of Samuel Colcord Bartlett and
Mary Bacon (Learned) Bartlett. He was
educated at the Brown School, Chicago,
graduated in 1865 ; at Chicago High School,
one year ; at Lake Forest Academy, Lake
Forest, Illinois, graduated in 1868; and
Dartmouth College, graduating as A.B. in
1872 and later as A.M. He graduated from
Rush Medical College, Chicago, as M.D. in
1879. Dr. Bartlett taught at the Monson
Academy, Massachusetts, in 1872 and 1873 ;
was principal of the Glencoe, 111., high
school in 1874 and 1875, and at Lake Forest
Academy and University from 1876 to 1878.
He was associate professor of chemistry at
Dartmouth College from 1879 to 1883, and
has been professor of chemistry since 1883.
He is a member of the Dartmouth Scientific
Association ; the American Chemical So
ciety; fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and an
honorary member of the New Hampshire
Medical Society. He is a director of Mary
Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. Dr. Bart
lett traveled in 1873 and 1874 in Europe
and in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, 1900.
He is moderator of the Hanover Town
Meeting for the term from 1906 to 1908.
Dr. Bartlett is an Independent Republican
in politics and a Congregationalist in re
ligious connection. He is a member of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity- and the Phi Beta
Kappa Society. His favorite recreations are
golf and whist, and he is a member of the
Hanover Country Club. Dr. Bartlett mar
ried at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 8, 1879,
Caroline Elizabeth Rice and they have four
children : Harriette Louise, born July 29,
1880; Edwin. Rice, born May 12, 1883;
Samuel Colcord, born November 27, 1886,
and John Foster, born November 17, 1889.
Residence : 8 West Wheelock Street, Han-

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over. Office address : Chemical Laboratory,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamp
shire.BARTLETT, Eugene M.:
Lawyer; born in Warsaw, Wyoming
County, New York, in 1855; son of Myran
E. Bartlett and Cordelia (McFarland)
Bartlett. He was educated in Warsaw Union
School, Genesee Academy and Cornell Uni
versity. He is engaged in the general
practice of law; was formerly district at
torney of Wyoming County, and has prac
ticed law in Buffalo since 1896. He is now
a member of the firm of Bartlett, Putnam
& Chamberlain, of Buffalo, New York. He
is also a director of the Daniel Gilmour
Door Company, Buffalo. He has traveled
extensively in the United States and Eu
rope and in 1899 with Mrs. Bartlett, went
to Alaska, through the White Pass over
into the Yukon Country. He is a Repub
lican in politics. Mr. Bartlett is a Royal
Arch Mason and a Knight Templar, a
member of the New York State Bar As
sociation, the Erie County Bar Associa
tion, the Loungers' Club of Buffalo, the
Buffalo Historical Association, the Empire
State Chapter of the Sons of the American
Revolution and the Buffalo, Park and Ba-
tavia Clubs. He married at Hornell, New
York, February 18, 1895, Grace M. Sheldon,
and they have a daughter, Margaret Shel
don Bartlett. Address: 195 Bryant Street,
Buffalo, New York.
BARTLETT, Franklin:
Lawyer; born in Worcester County, Mas
sachusetts. He was educated in the Brook
lyn Polytechnic School; he graduated from
the Harvard College as A.B. in 1869 and
Ph.D. and A.M. in 1878, and from the
Columbia Law School in 1873. He was also
a student in Oxford University, England.
He has practiced law in New York City
from 1873, was formerly a member of Con
gress and colonel of the National Guard of
New York. He is a director of the Sun
Printing and Publishing Association. He
is a member of the Military Order of For
eign Wars ; the Sons of the Revolution ;
the New England Historical Society; the

New York Historical Society; the Society
of Colonial Wars; Naval and Military So
ciety of the Spanish- American War; the
Royal Historical Society; the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, and the University,
Union, Manhattan, Knickerbocker, Players,
Harvard, Democratic, Coney Island Jockey,
Turf and Field, The Brook, City, Midday,
and Country Clubs of New York, and the
Metropolitan Club, of Washington, D. C.
He married Bertha Post, and he has a son,
William O. Bartlett. Residence: 26 West
Twentieth Street. Address: 11 Pine Street,
Street, New York City.
BARTLETT, John P. :
Lawyer; born in Canton, Connecticut,
June 4, 1858; son of John N. Bartlett and
Ellen Root (Strong) Bartlett. He was
graduated from the New Britain (Con
necticut) High School, from Yale Univers
ity (Sheffield Scientific School) in 1878,
and from Yale Law School in ' 1881. He
was admitted to the Connecticut bar in
1881, and was corporation counsel of New
Britain, Connecticut. His practice, for the
last fifteen or more years has been con
fined to patents, trade-marks and copyrights.
He removed to New York in 1897, and is
now a member of the firm of Bartlett,
Brownell & Mitchell, and is a member of
the United States Supreme Court Bar and
sundry United States circuit courts. He is
a Republican in politics and a Congregation-
alist in religion. He is a member of the'
American Bar Association, the Bar Asso
ciation of the City of New York, the New
England Society, and the Empire State
Society of the Sons of the American Revo
lution, and the University and Yale Clubs
of New York City. He married at New
Britain, Connecticut, Eleanor Pauline Fitch,
of Lexington, Kentucky, and he has two
children : Margaret, born in 1890, and Elea
nor, born in 1893. Residence : 120 West
Fifty-seventh Street. Address : 41 Park
Row, New York City.
BARTLETT, John R.:
Organizer of corporations ; born in
Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 17, 1839.
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the moving spirit in the creation and re
organization of many large corporations.
An illustration of his peculiar creative abil
ity may be found in his conception and
creation of the great water system now
supplying Newark, Jersey City, Paterson,
Passaic, the Oranges and other towns in
New Jersey with pure water, which in spite
of strenuous opposition was brought to a
successful completion in the year 1890.
He reorganized and rehabilitated the
manufacturing and commercial business of
The American Cotton Oil Company, in this
country and Europe. This company em
braced thirty-five separate corporations, lo
cated in seventeen States of the Union,
with a capital of $33,000,000. On the suc
cessful completion of this work, Mr. Bart
lett was elected to the chairmanship of
the Nicaragua Canal Company. The re
organization of this company was a compli
cated problem, but the plan formulated by
Mr: Bartlett fulfilled the requirements of
the " situation. . Perhaps the most remark
able of his works, was the consolidation
in England of the British -Oil & Cake Mills,
Limited, which company embraced twen
ty-eight mills and twelve refineries, en
gaged in manufacturing and refining cotton
seed and linseed, oil and cake, throughout
Great .Britain. This enterprise was organ
ized on a cash basis, and is unique from
the fact that it is the only large industrial
combination in Great Britain or Europe or
ganized- by an American. Mr. Bartlett has
treriiendous energy, is a hard worker, and
is exceptionally careful and painstaking in
all his work. He was managing direc
tor of the Society for Establishing Useful
Manufactures, organized by Alexander
Hamilton in 1772. He is vice-president
arid , treasurer of -the Macopin Railroad ;
treasurer of the West Milford Water- Stor
age Company and the Montclair Water
Company ; vice-president of the New Jersey
General Security Company, comptroller
of the East Jersey Water Company; di
rector of the Passaic Water Company, and
the Acquachanorik Water Company; pres
ident of the Drawbaugh Telephone & Tel
egraph Company. The American Cotton

Oil Company, The American Cotton Oil
Company, of Ohio; The National Cotton
Oil Company, Union Oil Company (of
Rhode Island), The N. K. Fairbank Com
pany of Chicago, and Nicaragua Canal
Company; director of the W. J. Wilcox
Lard and Refining Company; president
of the Union Oil Company of New
Orleans, and of the Bay State Gas
Company of Boston; director of the
Siemens & Halske Electric Company,.
Chicago; the Pennsylvania Iron Works
Co., and the Maritime Canal Company,
and president of the Reade-Duane Cold
Storage Company. Since Mr. Bart-
lett's return from Europe he has been en
gaged, among other things, in the organiza
tion of the Reade-Duane Cold Storage
Company, to erect a large cold storage
plant on the plot of ground bounded by
Reade, Duane, West and Washington
Streets, New York, to be the most modern
and best equipped plant in the country, in
the heart of the produce district of New
York City. Mr. Bartlett is a Republican
in politics and an Episcopalian by religious
affiliation. He is a member of the New
England Society and of the Union League
and Lawyers'' Clubs of New York- City.
Address : 2 Wall Street, New York City.
BARTLEY, Elias Hudson:
Physician and chemist; born in Bartley,
New Jersey, December 6, 1849; son of
Samuel Potter Bartley and Anna (Ewalt.)
Bartley. He was educated in the high
school of Princeton, Illinois, at Cornell Un
iversity, graduating as B.S. in 1873; Long
Island College Hospital, graduating with
the degree of M.D. in 1879, and he re
ceived the honorary degree of Ph.G. from
the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy in 1896.
He was instructor in sciences in Princeton
(Illinois) High School in 1873 and 1874;
instructor in chemistry, at Cornell Uni
versity in 1874 and 1875 ; professor of chem
istry in the Swarthmore College from 1875
to 1878: chief chemist of the Department
of He? Mi of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1888;
president of the Board of Pharmacy of
Kings Courity from 1893 to 1898; dean and
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Brooklyn College of Pharmacy from 1892
to 1902, and he has been professor of chem
istry and toxicology since 1886, and profes
sor of pediatrics since 1902 in the Long
Island College Hospital. He was inspector
of the State Board of Health from 1885 to
1888, and consulting chemist of the De
partment of Health of Brooklyn in 1897
and 1898. Dr. Bartley is attending physic
ian to the Sheltering Arms Nursery ; pedia
trist and a. director of the Bushwick Hospi
tal; consulting pediatrist to the Bushwick
and East Brooklyn Dispensary and Hospi
tal. He is an Independent in politics, and a
Presbyterian in religion. He was president
in 1906 of the Associated Physicians of
of Long Island; is a member of the Med
ical Society of the County of Kings, the
American Pharmaceutical Association, and
the American Chemical Society, and the
American Medical Association. He is auth
or of: Medical and Pharmaceutical Chem
istry (six editions), and of the Clinical
Chemistry (three editions). He is a mem
ber of the University Club of Brooklyn,
New York. Dr. Bartley married in Brook
lyn, November 5, 1888, Mary Frances Har-
loe, and they have two children : Samuel
Potter, born in 1890, and Mildred Titus,
born in 1892. Address: 65 S. Portland
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
BABTON, Enos M, :
President of the Western Electric Com
pany ; born at Larraine, New York. Decem
ber 2, .1842; son of Sidney William and
Fanny (Bliss) Barton. He was educated
at the public and private schools of Lor
raine, and attended a course at the Univer
sity of Rochester, New York. His entry
into a business life was as a telegraph mes
senger boy, and his rise was rapid. In
1869 he transferred his activities to Chi
cago, where in 1872, he became secretary
of the Western Electric Company in 1872 ;
later he became vice-president, and since
1887 has been president of the company.
He is also a director of the Merchants'
Loan and Trust Company; and is a trustee
of the University of Chicago and an asso
ciate member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers. He is a Republican

in politics and is a member of the Chicago,
Union League, Commercial and Quad
rangle Clubs of Chicago and the Hinsdale
Club of Hinsdale, Illinois. He has been
twice married. His first wife was Kather-
j ine S. Richardson, to whom he was united
j at Rochester in 1869, and who died leav-
j ing three children : Alvin L. ; Clara M.,
; and Katherine. His second marriage was
to Mary C. Rust, of Chicago, in 1899, and
i they have two children : Malcolm S. and
Evan M. He has a summer residence at
Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois. Ad-
lress : 4920 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois.
BARTON, George De Forest:
Real estate; born in New York, March
I 23, 1841 ; son of William Barton and Eliza
[ Phillips (Wittemore) Barton. He was edu
cated in the private schools of New York
i City and S. Williamstown, Massachusetts.
He was appointed paymaster in the United
States Navy, June 5, 1861, and served in
the United States Ships Monticello, Sassa-
cus, St.< Louis, Supply, Swatara, and Ports
mouth. On the Monticello was prespnt at
the bombardment and capture of Forts Hat-
j teras and Clark at Hatteras Inlet, N. G,
: August, 1861, the first naval success in the
War of the Rebellion. In the Sassacus was
aide and signal officer to Commander' Fran
cis A. Roe, U. S. Navy, in the celebrated
encounter between the Sassacus and the
Confederate iron-clad, Albemarle, in Albe
marle Sound, May, 1864, when Commander
Roe hurled at top speed the light, wooden
Sassacus on the iron-clad, Albemarle, dis
abling and driving the latter back to her
port at Plymouth, N. C, where she was
afterward torpedoed and destroyed by
Lieutenant Cushing. In 1866 was in the
Swatara in the Mediterranean Squadron,
and chased to Alexandria, Egypt, and cap
tured there, John H. Surratt, the friend of
John Wilkes Booth and one of the Lincoln
conspirators, and brought him to Wash
ington; D. C, in February, 1867. Resigned
from the Navy and in 1871 engaged in the
real estate business in New York City,
with his cousin, William Lawrence Whitte-
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Whittemore. He was treasurer of the Real
Estate Exchange in 1893 and 1894, and pres
ident in 1895 and 1896. He is a Republi
can in politics and an Episcopalian in relig
ious adherence. He is a companion, and
treasurer-in-chief, of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion ; a companion of the Mili
tary Order Foreign Wars ; vice-commander
of the Naval Order; member of the Sons
of fhe Revolution; the Society of 1812;
vice-president Nineteenth Army Corps;
member of the Army and Navy and Union
League Clubs of New York City. Mr.
Barton married at Garrisons-on-Hudson,
December 28, 1876, Anna Dudley Ward,
only daughter of the late Colonel Thomas
William Ward, U. S. Volunteers. Address :
122 West Seventy- fourth Street, New York
City. BARTON, Samuel Marx:
Professor of mathematics; born at Win
chester, Virginia, May 9, 1859; son of
Joseph M. Barton and Mary Neill Barton.
He was graduated from the University
of Virginia as A.B. in 1883, and Ph.D. in
1885, and was a fellow by courtesy of Johns
Hopkins University in 1893 and 1894. He
was professor of mathematics at Emory and
Henry College from 1885 to 1893 ; profes
sor of mathematics and civil engineering
at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechan
ical College in 1894 and 1.895, and since
1895 has been professor of mathematics and
acting professor of civil engineering in the
University of the South. He is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and a member of
the American Mathematical Society; the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering
Education and the Circolo Mathematico di
Palermo. Dr. Barton married at Winches
ter, Virginia, December 28, 1897, Mary M.
Tidball, and they have two children, Mary
Neill, born in 1899, and Helen Thurston,
born in 1900; Address : Sewanee, Tenn
essee. BARUS, Carl:
Professor of physics ; born in Cincinniti,
Ohio, February 19, 1856 ; son of Carl Barus
and Sophia (Mollman) Barus. He was

educated in the schools of Cincinnati, and
received the Ray Mathematical medal from
Woodward High School. He attended the
School of Science of Columbia University,
New York from 1874 to 1876, and the Uni
versity of Wiirzburg in Bavaria, Germany,
from 1876 to 1880, and received the Ph.
D. degree. He was assistant to Prof.
Kohlrausch, Wiirzburg, in 1879 and # 1880,
was a physicist on the United States Geo
logical Survey from 1880 to 1892, and pro
fessor of meteorology of the United States
Weather Bureau in 1892 and 1893, and
physicist of the Smithsonian Institute from
1893 to 1895, since then he has been Hazard
professor of physics at Brown University,
and dean of the Graduate Department since
1903. He served in 1895 as a member of
the committee appointed by Congress to de
termine the electrical standards of the Gov
ernment, and was speaker for American
physics at the World's Congress at St.
Louis in 1904. He has been a fellow from
1890 and was vice-president and chairman
of the Section of Physics in 1897 of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. He is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Science, corresponding
member of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, honorary member
of the Royal Institution of Great Britain;
fellow of the American Academy (Massa
chusetts) since 1890, and its Rumford med
allist in 1900; member of the Washington
Academy of Science, councillor (1901) and
president in 1904 and 1905 of the American
Physical Society, member from 1902 of the
Advisory Committee of the Carnegie In
stitution, member of the American Philo
sophical Society and of the French Physical
Society of Paris. In 1907 he received the
degree of LL.D. from Brown University.
Dr. Barus has" since 1879 been a regular
contributor to the standard magazines of
physical research throughout the world, and
his original investigations are embodied in
about two hundred and forty original art
icles, and numerous books on physical sub
jects. He is an Independent in politics and
a Lutheran in religion. , He is a member of
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Island. Dr. Barus married in Boston, in
January, 1887, Annie Gertrude Howes, and
they have two children : Maxwell Barus,
born in 1890, and Deborah Howes Barus,
born in 1893. Residence : 30 Elmgrove
Avenue, Providence. Office address ; Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island.
BASCOM, Robert O.:
Lawyer; born at Orwell, Vermont, Nov
ember 18, 1855; son of Samuel H. and
Elizabeth (Clark) Bascom. He was grad
uated from Fort Edward Collegiate In
stitute in 1876. He was admitted to the
bar, in 1885, and has practiced law ever
since. He was appointed district attorney
of Washington County, New York, by
Governor Frank W. Higgins, January 12,
1905, and was elected in fall of 1905 for
a full term. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Mr. Bascom is secretary of the New
York State Historical Association, presi
dent of the Adirondack Chapter of the
Sons of the American Revolution; is a
member of the Vermont Historical So
ciety, National Geographical Society, New
York Genealogical and Biographical So
ciety, New York State Bar Association.
Fort Edward Lodge, F. and A.M., and of
the Fort Edward Club. He married at
Larrabee's Point, Vermont, December 20,
1882, Mary Larrabee Piatt and they have
three children : Wyman S., born in 1886,
Robert Piatt, born in 1887, and Frederick
George, born in 1896. Address : Fort Ed
ward, Washington County, New York.
BASHFORD, James Whitford:
¦Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; born at Fayette, Wisconsin, May
25, 1840; son of Rev. Samuel Bashford
¦and of Mary Ann (M'Kee) Bashford. He
graduated in the classical course from the
University of Wisconsin as A.B. in 1873;
the theological course at Boston Univer
sity as'S.T.B. in 1876 and from the School
of Oratory of Boston University in 1878,
and from the course in all sciences of Bos
ton University as Ph.D. in 1881. He was
pastor of Methodist Episcopal churches in
Boston, Massachusetts, Newton, Massa
chusetts, Portland, Maine, and Buffalo,

New York, from 1878 to 1889; president of
the Ohio Wesleyan University from 1889 to
1904, and was elected bishop of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church at the General Con-.
vention held in Los Angeles in 1904. He
visited Europe in 1881 ; again, and espec
ially the German Universities, in 1887;
Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, etc., in 1896
and 1897. He received the degree of D.D.
pro honore, from Northwestern University
in 1890, and LL.D. from Wesleyan Univer
sity, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1903.
Bishop Bashford is author of: Outlines of
the Science of Religion, for class use, and
Wesley and Goethe. He now has over
sight of the churches in China. Bishop
Bashford married in 1878, Jane M. Field,
daughter of Hon. W. W. Field, of Madison,
Wisconsin. Address : Shanghai, China.
BASKERYILLE, Charles:
Professor of chemistry, in the College of
the City of New York; born in Noxubee
County, Mississippi, June 18, 1870; son of
Charles and Augusta Louisa '(Johnston)
Baskerville. He was educated in the Uni
versity of Mississippi, in 1886 and 1887;
the University of Virginia, from 1888 to
1890; from Vanderbilt University in 1890;
the University of Berlin in 1893, and he re
ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of North Carolina. He was instruc
tor from 1891.40 1894; assistant professor
from 1894 to 1900; professor of chemistry
and director of the chemical laboratory from
1900 to 1904, in the University of North
Carolina, and since 1904 has been profes
sor of chemistry in the College of the City
of New York. He is a member of the
American Chemical Society; the American
Electrochemical Society; the Society of
Chemical Industry; the Deutsche Chem-
ische Gesellschaft ; a fellow of .the London
Chemical Society; the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science (vice-
president of the Section C in 1902 and
19,03) ; the New York, Washington and
North Carolina Academy of Sciences; the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, etc. He
has made important contributions to know
ledge in inorganic chemistry, discovered the
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researches in radium and other radio-active
substance.s. He is author of: School Chem
istry and key to same, 1898; Radium and
its application to Medicine, 1905. Con
tributor to technical and educational
publications. He is an Independent
Democrat, and an Episcopalian. Dr.
Baskerville is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon,. the Southern
Society, North Carolina Society, the Vir
ginians, Verein Alter Deutsche Studenten
Verein Deutsche Chemiker, the Century
Association and the Graduates, Chemists,
the City College Clubs of New York, Eco
nomics Club, Church Club, Kane Lodge,
A- F. & A. M. Professor Baskerville mar
ried at Raleigh, North Carolina,
April 24, 1895, Mary Boylan Snow,
and they have two children: Charles
5th, born in 1896, and Elizabeth McCulloch
born in 1901. Address : College City of
New York, New York City.
BASKETT, James Newton :_
Author, scientist, historian; born in
Nicholas County, Kentucky, November 1,
1849; son of William Baskett and Nancy
E. (Maffitt) Baskett. He was graduated
from the Missouri State University as B.
PH. in 1872 and M.A. in 1893. He was in
early life a civil engineer. Later, ill health
drove him to the wilds and he became a
naturalist. He* wrote: The Story of .the
Birds ; The Story of the Fishes ; The Story
of the Reptiles and Amphibians, and the
novels: At You-All's House; As the Light
Led; Sweet-Briar and Thistledown, etc.
He has long been a student of the routes
of the early Spanish explorers of the
Southwest, and has added new material
to those of Cabeza de Vaca, Cornado
and De Sota. He was the first to
determine the northern limit of the
route of the first and to fix the point
of the death of the latter definitely
at the mouth of Red River beyond ques
tion, and to determine the point of Coron-
ado's Southern limit and the site of his
crossing the Arkansas River in Kansas.
He is< and- has been a member of various
Biological, Scientific and Historical So

cieties, and has lectured in sundry scientific
and historical subjects before such. He
has never had any political or military am
bition, and his religious proclivities are very
liberal. He is of Colonial Virginia stock
and a Democrat and lover of common peo
ple, without prejudice or political outlook.
He has been associated with the American
Ornithologists' Union, Washington Biologi
cal Society, International Geographical As
sociation, American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Texas Historical
Society, Missouri Historical Society, etc.
He married at Troy, Missouri, February
17, 1874, Jeannie Gordon Morrison and
they have two sons : Cecil Morrison Bas
kett, born in 1879, and Howard Gordon
Baskett, born in 1882. Address : Mexico,
Missouri.
BASS, Robert Perkins:
Expert in forestry; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, September 1, 1873; son of Perkins
Bass and Claren (Foster) Bass'. He was
graduated from Harvard College as A.B. in
1896 and studied in the Harvard Graduate
School one year and in the Harvard Law
School one year. He was a member of the
New Hampshire Legislature from, I9°5 to
1906 and was again elected for the term
from 1907 to 1909. He was appointed a
New Hampshire Forest Commissioner in
September, 1906. Residence: Peterboro,
New Hampshire.
BASSETT, John Spencer:
Professor of history; born at Tar-
borough, North Carolina, September 10,
1867; son of Richard Baxter Bassett and
Mary J. Wilson. He was graduated from
Trinity College, North Carolina, as A.B.
in 1888, and from Johns Hopkins University
as Ph.D. in 1894. He was a teacher in the
public school at Durham, North Carolina,
from 1888 to 1890;. was headmaster of the
high school in connection with Trinity Col
lege, North Carolina, in 1890 and 1891 ; stu
dent in history and- economics at Johns Hop
kins University from 1891 to 1894; and fel
low in history at Johns Hopkins University
in 1893 and 1894. He founded the South At
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Una, in 1902, and continued its- editor till
1905. He was professor of history at Trin
ity College, North Carolina, from 1893 to
1906, and since then has been professor of
history at Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts. He is author of: Constitu
tional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slav
ery and Servitude in North Carolina ; Anti-
Slavery Leaders of North Carolina ; Slavery
in the State of North Carolina; The Reg
ulators of North Carolina; The Federalist
System, 1789 to 1801 ; edited the new edi
tion of the writings of Colonel William
Byrd of Westover, and wrote various other
articles and short papers. He is a member of
the American Historical Association, and
was many years president of the Trinity j
College Historical Society. He married at
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 10,
1892, Jessie Llewellyn and they have a son j
and a daughter. Residence : Northampton, •¦
Massachusetts. Office address : North- ;
ampton, Massachusetts.
BATEMAN, James Rice:
Manufacturer; born in New York City,
June 26, 1867; son of Benjamin Bateman
and Louisa H. (Smith) Bateman. He was
educated^ in private schools. He is dir
ector of the Colonial Roofing Company
and vice-president of the Acme Roofing-
Company. He is a Democrat in politics
and an Episcopalian in religion. He is
member of the St. David's Society, and
the Masonic order and the Economic Club
of New York City. Mr. Bateman married
at Evart, Michigan, M. Emma Ardis. Ad-
•dress: 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
BATES, Arthur Laban:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in Mead-
ville, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1859; son of
the late Samuel P.' Bates, LL.D. and S.
Josephine Bates. He was graduated from
Allegheny College as A.B. in the class of
1880, and received the degree of M.A. in
1883). He was admitted to the bar in 1882,
and has practiced his profession continuous
ly ever since. He was elected in 1889 and
reelected in 1890, 1892 and 1894 city solici
tor of Meadville, Pennsylvania. He has
served on the Republican State Committee.

He was elected from the Twenty-fifth Penn
sylvania District in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh
Congress, beginning March 4, 1901, and has
been reelected biennially since; and he is
now serving in the Sixtieth Congress, ex
piring March 3, 1909. Address: Meadville,
Pennsylvania.
BATES, Charles Austin:
Writer on business and. finance ; born at
Indianapolis, Indiana, April 18, 1866; son
of Cnaries A. H. Bates and Margaret
Holmes (Ernsperger) Bates. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Indianapolis.
He is president of the Security National
Bank and of the Knickerbocker Syndicate,
of New York City, and vice-president of
the Colorado-Yule Marble Company, of
Marble City, Colorado, and is also a mem
ber of the Columbia Yacht, and New York
Athletic Clubs. Mr. Bates married in Chi
cago, September 11, 1890, Belle Brandeji-
burg, and they have two children: Marga
ret, born September 18, 1891, and Bennet,
born March 12, 1900. .Summer residence:
Camp Cabates (Fourth Lake), Old Forge,
New York. Address : 109 Riverside Drive,
New York City.
BATES, David Homer:
Telegrapher and manufacturer; born at
Steubenville, Ohio, July 3, 1843; son of
Francis and Catharine (Reynolds) Bates.
Educated in the public schools of Steuben
ville, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Entered telegraph service in 1859, under
Andrew Carnegie, then superintendent of
the Pittsburgh Division, Pennsylvania
Railroad, was ordered by him to
Washington, in April, 1861, and served in
the War Department Telegraph office,
manager and cipher operator during the
Civil War. Was for twenty-five years in
service of Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, as manager, superintendent, assistant
general manager and vice-president, and
with competing telegraph companies (At
lantic and Pacific, American Union, Balti
more & Ohio) in various executive posi
tions. Is now director and vice-president of
the Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co.;
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Machine Company. Author of: Lincoln in
the Telegraph Office, published by the Cen
tury Company. Republican in politics and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the Ohio Society of New York, and of the
. U. S. Military Telegraph Corps. Married
in Philadelphia, May 15, 1867, Sallie J. R.
Kenney. They have a son, David Homer
Bates, Jr, born in 1869, and they have had
two daughters who are now deceased. Ad
dress : 658 Broadway, New York City.
BATES, John Grenville:
Member of the New York Stock Ex
change; born in New York City, August
20, 1880; son of Alfred W. Bates and
Cephise C. (Towar) Bates. He was grad
uated from the Blake School of New York
City, 1899, and completed three years of
work at Columbia University with the class
of 1903. He entered a brokerage office in
the fall of 1903, and on January 1, 1904,
became assistant cashier for W. B. Franklin
& Company, and December 1, 1904, pur
chased a seat on the New York Stock Ex
change, becoming board member of that
firm January 1, 1905. He is a Republican
and an Episcopalian, and is a member of
the Alpha Delta Phi, and Phi Delta Phi
fraternities. He is devoted to outdoor
sports, including golf, tennis, boating, rid
ing and driving; extremely fond of dogs,
owning a very valuable kennel and Irish ter
riers, and has been instrumental in giving
the annual dog show of the Cedarhurst
Kennel Club, being the best dbg show ever
held in this State outside of New York
City. He is a member of the Columbia,
Rockaway Hunting, and Morris Cotintiy
Golf Clubs. He married in New York
City, April 23, 1904, Anita T. Boulton, and
they have a son: John Grenville Bates,
Jr., bo.rn December 22, 1905. Address :
Cedarhurst, Long Island, New York.
BATES, John Lewis:
Governor of Massachusetts, lawyer, mem
ber of firm of Bates, Nay & Abbott; born
at North Easton, Massachusetts, September
18, 1859; son of Rev. Lewis Benton Bates
and Louisa D. (Field ) Bates. He was pre
pared in the Boston Latin School; gradu

ated from Boston University in 1882 with
the degree of A.B. ; taught school one year
and then taking up the study of law at the
Law School, received the degree of LL.B.
in 1885, and in that year he was admitted
to the bar of Massachusetts where he has
since practiced. Mr. Bates is identified .
with the Republican party and has been
elected by it to various public offices. In
1S91 and 1892 he was a member of the
common council of the city of Boston, and
in 1893 was elected to the lower house of
the Massachusetts Legislature and was re
elected for five other successive terms, serv
ing as speaker of the house during his
three last sessions. In 1889 he was elected
Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts and
was twice reelected, until 1902, when he
was nominated 'and elected Governor, and
he was reelected the following year. Mr.
Bates is a director of the United States
Trust Company, the Columbia Trust Com
pany, and the Chelsea Trust Company;
trustee. of the Wildey Savings Bank; direc
tor of the Faneuil Hall National Bank, and
trustee of the Enterprise Cooperative Bank,
and is president of the Board of Trustees
of Boston University. He has always
been a Republican in politics and is a
Methodist in religious views. He . is a
thirty-third degree Mason, and an Odd Fel
low ; a member of the Beta Theta Pi fra
ternity, and of the University and Boston
City Clubs. He was married at James
town, New York, July 12, 1887, to Clara
Elizabeth Smith and they have • two chil
dren; John Howard born in 1893, and
Dorothy, born in 1895. Residence : 1 Mon
mouth Square, Boston. Office address :
73 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BATES, John Mallery:
Clergyman; born at Wallingford, Con
necticut, January 3, 1846; son of Levi
Whitecomh Bates and Ruth Ann (Bailey)
Bates. He was graduated as salutatorian
froln the Episcopal Academy of Connecti
cut in 1868, and from Trinity College.
Hartford, Connecticut, with the degree of
B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1872,
and M.A. in 1875, and from Berkeley Di
vinity School as B.D. in 1876. He was or-

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dained deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1876, and ordained to the priesthood the
following year by Bishop John Williams.
He was connected with Saint Peter's
Church, Plymouth, Connecticut, ¦ from 1876
to 1877, in which latter year he took the
double charge of St. James' Church, West
Hartford, and Grace at Newington, Con
necticut, officiating here until 1881. Fol
lowing this, he was for two years rector
of St. Mark's Church, Waterville, Maine.
In 1883 he became chaplain and headmaster
of Bethany College, Topeka, Kansas, and
rector of Emmanuel Church, Monmouth, re
maining since that time in the West. He
resigned this position in 1886 to become rec
tor of the Church of Our Saviour, North
Platte, Nebraska. A year later he be
came head of a church school for boys, Om
aha, and in charge of St. Paul's (new),
Omaha; a year later became general
missionary of the Northern Counties in
Western Nebraska with headquarters in
Valentine, handling over twenty-five sta
tions for thirteen years. In 1891, he took
charge of Holy Trinity, Callaway, and four
other stations, and since 1903 he has been
rector of Grace Church at Red Cloud, Ne
braska, and supervisor of ten mission sta
tions. He is author of numerous articles
on botany and ornithology; was president
of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union in
1892; and is a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science.
He has discovered about forty species of
fungi new to science. He is a Republican
in politics. He married at Hartford, Con
necticut, October 10, 1876, Sarah M. Gla
zier (M. A. Vassar), .and they have four
children: Luke M. Bates, born October 18,
ii.77; George W. Bates, born April 13,
1879; Sarah Louise Bates born March 23,
1884, and Carlos G. Bates, born October 14,
1885. Address: Red Cloud, Nebraska.
BATES, Lindon Wallace:
Contractor; was born at Marshfield, Ver
mont, November 19, 1858; son of William
Wallace and Marie (Cole) Bates. He was
educated at the Chicago High School, and
at Yale University, technical course, finish
ing in 1879. Mr. Bates is the descendant

in direct line from the Puritan Bates, who
came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony
in 1633. He went west as assistant en
gineer on the Northern Pacific; Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company, and Ore
gon Pacific Railways. He was afterwards,
engaged as contractor on various works
on the Pacific Coast, specializing in dredg
ing contracts, and he designed improve
ments in hydraulic dredges, with which hj
has executed many great engineering enter
prises. He built the great dredge Beta, for
the United States Government; large hy
draulic dredges for the Russian Govern
ment; the sea-going dredges Hercules,
Samson and Archer for Queensland, Aus
tralia, and the Lindon Bates for Calcutta.
He prepared reports and projects for the
improverrient adopted for the port of Ant
werp, 1896 to 1902; executed a series of
work on the Suez Canal in behalf of its
enlargement; was retained by the Russian
Government to design improvements for
the ports and channels of the Black Sea;
the sea of Azov; the rivers Dnieper, Volga
and Bug, and the Canal Marie; also by the
Queensland government to project and dir
ect harbor works at Brisbane, and six
other Colony ports. He prepared projects
also, (many since executed) at the re- -
quest of the South Australian Government
for Adelaide, for four other harbors and
rivers, and for extension of railroad sys
tem. He designed a system of regulation
for the Hugli in behalf of the Calcutta
Port Board; and was also one of the en
gineers on the International scheme for the
improvement of the port of Shanghai,
China. Mr. Bates is now contractor in the
work of raising the grade of Galveston
City and Island, and another company, of
which he is president has contracts aggre
gating some twenty-five miles of. the New
York barge canal from the Hudson River
to Lake Erie and Black Rock harbor at
Buffalo, N. Y. He submitted to the United
States Government, March 9, 1905, a plan
for the construction of the Panama Canal,
of which several salient features appear in
the plan finally adopted. Mr. Bates was
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by the French Government in 1900 for dis
tinguished services to science, and has two
other Government decorations. He is a
member of the Western Society of Engi
neers, Chicago ; a life associate of the Insti
tute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain,
and of the British Institution of Naval
Architects; a member of- the Ingenieures
Civils de France ; Societe Beige, etc. ; of
the Yale, the Republican ; Lawyers' and
Union League Clubs, New York City; the
Automobile Club of France ; and the White
hall and Primrose Clubs of London. Mr.
Bates married at Chicago in 1881, Joseph
ine White, and has two sons : Lindon W.
Bates, Jr., born July 17, 1883, who is now
associated with him in contracting, and
Lindell T. Bates, born in 1890. Residence :
14 East 60th .Street, New i'ork. Address:
71 ¦ Broadway, New York City.
BATES, T. To war:
Banker ; born in Jersey City, New Jer
sey, February 10; 1874; son of Alfred W.
Bates and Cephise C. (Towar) Bates. He
was graduated from Berkeley School, of
New York City, and Columbia University,
in 1895. He started in business with the
dry goods commission house of Faulkner,
Page & Company, New York City, of which
his father had been one of. the firm for
¦ about twenty years; after some years in
the dry goods business he came down to
Wall Street, and January 1, 1905, with
Henry W. and William B. Shoemaker
(sons of Henry F. Shoemaker), started
the banking house of Shoemaker & Bates.
He is a member of the New York Stock
Exchange. He entered the New York State
National Guard as a member of Squadron
A, April 1. 1895, and received a full and
honorable discharge from the same, April
1, 1905. He is a Republican in politics ;
an Episcopalian in religion, and a member
of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He has
been associated for several years, with fel
low members of Squadron A, in running a
road coath from the Hotel Savoy, New
York City, to Van Cortlandt Park. Mr.
Bates is a member of the Columbia Uni
versity, and Morris County Golf Clubs,
and the New York Stock Exchange Lunch

Club. He married in New York City, No
vembcr 21, 1904, Bertha Scheier, and they
have a daughter, Bertha Cephise Bates.
Address : 24 Broad Street, New York
City.BATES, William Wallace:
Shipbuilder and architect; born in Nova
Scotia, February 15, 1827; son of Stephen
Bates and Elisabeth Bates. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Calais, Maine,
after 1839, and self-educated after 1844;
he also attended lectures on anatomy, phys
iology and other sciences. He ¦ began in
1839 to learn shipbuilding with his father,
and modelled and drafted vessels at eigh
teen years of age. He built the schooner
Challenge at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1851,
the first clipper on the lakes ; soon he built
so many fast vessels, that that city was
called the Clipper City. He began writing
for the press in 185 1 on vessel building,
etc., and was co-editor and co-proprietor of
The Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal,
City of New York, from 1854 to 1858. In
1859 he returned to Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
and built steamboats and propellers until
1861, when he with a company joined the
Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, enlisted for
extra duty, and served as captain with it
until that regiment was mustered out in
camp in 1862, then joined the Nineteenth
Wisconsin Infantry, raised a company and
and was its captain in Virginia, at Bethel,
Yorktown, Norfolk and Portsmouth. He
was taken sick with fever in a hospital and
was obliged to resign in September, 1862.
He returned to shipbuilding at Manitowoc,
and then went to Chicago to manage the
dry dock, repairing and shipbuilding affairs
of the Mechanics' Dry Dock Company, and
there built many tugs, yachts and schoon
ers. He was a partner in the firm of Doo-
little, Bates & Co., and that of Wm. W.
Bates & Co., He rebuilt his dock and ship
yard after their destruction in the great fire
of 1871. In 1875 and 1876 he prepared Rules
for Building Lake Vessels, for -Under
writers. He went to Oregon in 1881 and
built a dry dock in Portland, health fail
ing he • returned to Chicago via San Fran
cisco, and wrote special articles on the

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Shipping Question for the San Francisco
Chronicle in 1884. He was vessel inspector
for underwriters in Chicago, and afterward
went to New York, where he had charge
of the preparation of drawings for a work
on marine and naval architecture by Will
iam H. Webb, distinguished shipbuilder and
owner, in 1886; was manager of the Inland
Lloyds at Buffalo, New York, for lake
underwriters, from 1887 to 1889. He was
United States Commissioner of Navigation
from 1889 to 1892, and prepared several
bills for shipping legislation, and aided the
Merchant Marine Committee in reporting
the Farquhar Bounty Bill, which failed to
pass. He resigned because of illness in
1892. He has written extensively on the
shipping question, including his book,
American Marine, 1892, and American Nav
igation, 1902; and has been an active ad
vocate of a return to the early American
shipping policy, the protection of shipping
by regulation of commerce, as opposed to
ship subsidy; he organized The Shipping
Society of America to better carry on cam
paigns on behalf of these views, and is
now at the head of that movement as
president. Mr. Bates was a member of the
Twenty-first Ward Republican Club in
New York City in 1857 and 1858, and is
still a Republican, but independent, and
has voted for Democrats where bad Re
publicans were nominated. He is a member
of The Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, of New York; is a com
rade of the Grand Army of the Republic;
is a thirty-second degree Mason and
Knight Templar, and an Odd Fellow. He
married at Saratoga, New York, in 1855,
Marie Cole, of Marshfield, Vermont, and
they have a son, Lindon Wallace Bates,
who is one of the most distinguished Amer
ican engineers, and a daughter, Mary E.
Bates, M.D., of Denver, Colorado, who is
now president of the Humane Society
there. Address : 38 West Second Avenue,
Denver, Colorado.
BATMAN, Ira C. :
Lawyer ; born in Lawrence County, In
diana, January 20, 1862 ; son of Henry H.
Batman and Catharine J. (Bailey) Bat

man. He was graduated from Indiana
University in 1885, and has been a prac
ticing attorney at Bloomington, Indiana,
for many years. He has served as city at
torney of Bloomington for thirteen years.
He represented Brown and Monroe Coun
ties in the Sixty-Fourth General Assembly
of Indiana. He is a Republican and a mem
ber of the Christian Church. Address :
Bloomington, Indiana.
BATTEN, George:
Advertising ; born in Gloucester County,
N. J., June 19, 1854; son of Thomas Gas-
kill and Emmeline (Zane) Batten. He
was educated at The Misses Butler's Pri
vate School at Swedesboro, New Jersey.
He is president of the. George Batten Com
pany. He was a member of the Company C
of the First Regiment of the National Guard
of Pennsylvania,, enlisted in 1877, discharg
ed in 1880; and served in the Pittsburgh
riots. He is a member and trustee of the
Trinity Episcopal Church, Mount Pocono,
Pennsylvania. His favorite recreation is
hunting. He is a member of the National
Arts, Sphinx, Montclair Golf and Mont
clair Gun Clubs. Mr. Batten was married
first at Camden, New Jersey, December 17,
1879, to Carrie H. Morgan, who died Decem
ber 31, 1884, leaving two sons, Rollin M.
and Joseph. He married second, at Had-
donfield, New Jersey, January 27, 1887,
Lillie L. Shivers, daughter of Dr. B. H.
Shivers, and they have three children:
Isabella, Emmeline, George, Jr. Residence:
Montclair, New Jersey. Address: 11 East
Twenty-fourth Street, New York City,
BATTEN, Loring Woart:
Clergyman; born in Gloucester County,
New Jersey, November 17, 1859; son of
Thomas G. Batten and Emeline (Zane)
Batten. He was graduated from Harvard
as A.B. in 1885, from the Philadelphia Di
vinity School in 1887, and he received from
the University of Pennsylvania the degree
of Ph.D. in 1893, and S.T.D. (causa hon
oris) from Hobart College in 1903. He
was ordered deacon in the Episcopal Church
in 1886, and priest in 1887. He was in
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in the Philadelphia Divinity School from
1888 to 1899; and has been rector of Saint
Mark's Church, New York City, from 1899.
He is acting 'professor of Old Testament
literature and interpretation in the Gen
eral Theological Seminary; a member of
the Society of Biblical Literature and Exe
gesis ; of the American Oriental Society ; of
the Oriental Club of New York; and Orien
tal Club of Philadelphia. He is trustee of
Saint Luke's Home, and manager- ¦ of the
Church Temperance Society. Dr. Batten
is author of: The Old Testament from the
Modern Point of View, 1899 ; The Hebrew
Prophet, 1905. He was contributor to
Hasting's Bible Dictionary and to various
publications. He is a member of the Cen
tury Association and Harvard Club. Dr.
Batten married at Woodbury, New Jersey,
March 18, 1886, Clara B. Ware, and they
have three children: Loring W., Jr., now
a midshipman in the United States Naval
Academy ; Richard W., Clare W. Address :
232 East Eleventh Street, New York City.
BATTEN, Samuel Zane:
Clergyman; born at Swedesboro, New
Jersey, August 10, 1859; son of George Bat
ten and Sarah P. (Zane) Batten. He was
educated at the Philadelphia Public Schools
then entered Bucknell University, graduat
ing as A.B. in 1885, A.M. in 1888, and re
ceiving the degree of D.D. from Bucknell
in 1905, and he studied theology at the
Crozer Theological Seminary. He was
forrrierly temperance editor of the Nation
al Baptist and has held pastorates at Tioga,
Pennsylvania, Brookville, Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, New York City, Morristown,
New Jersey and Lincoln, Nebraska. ' He
was president of the Baptist Young Peop
le's Uriion of Pennsylvania, now president
of the Nebraska Baptist Education Society
and president of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon
League. He is an Independent in politics.
He is a member of the American Socio
logical Society, and the Religious Educa
tion Association. He 'is a member of the
Nebraska Prison Association, the Lincoln
Charity Organization, the Juvenile Court,
the Nebraska Baptist State Convention,

and The Brotherhood of the Kingdom
(and is one of the founders). Dr. Batten
is author of: The New Citizenship, the
$600 prize book of the American Sunday
School Union, and is also frequent con
tributor to reviews and magazines, and a
popular lecturer. He married at Lewis-
burg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1886, Wini
fred Mcrriman, and they have eight chil
dren. Address : 1332 K Street, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
BATTERMAN, Henry:
Merchant and banker; born in Brooklyn,
New York, November 5, 1849; son of John
F. Batterman and Sophie Baterman (both
born in Hanover, Germany). He was edu
cated in the public schools and at the mer
cantile college. He is president of the H.
Batterman, Incorporated, Broadway Bank
of Brooklyn, is a trustee of the Brooklyn
Savings Bank, director of the Realty As
sociates and trustee of the Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences, the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, the Brooklyn League,
Brooklyn Hospital and E. Brooklyn and
Bushwick Dispensary. He is a member of
the Hamilton and Hanover Clubs of Brook
lyn, and City Club of New York City. He
married Sarah E. Batterman and they have
two children : Henry L., Adelaide B. (now .
Mrs. Nichols). Address: 21 Clinton Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
BATTERSON, James Goodwin:
Insurance official and granite contractor;
born in Hartford Connecticut, August 36,
1858; son of James G. and Eunice (Good
win) Batterson. He was educated in
Cheshire Military Academy and Williams
College. . He is resident director in New
York 'of the Travelers' Insurance Com
pany; president and director of the Hart
ford Investment Corporation, of the New
England Granite Works, the Iron Tire
Pneumatic Wheel Company, and director of
the Batterson & Eisele Corporation; presi
dent and director Rutherford Wheel Co. ;
director American Combustion Co. ; gene
ral manager in New York of Travelers'
Indemnity Co. He is a trustee of the
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of the New York Athletic, and Delta Psi
Clubs of New York City, the Country Club
of Lakewood, the Fox Hills Golf, New
Haven Country, Ekwanok Country and At
lantic City Country Clubs; New York Zo
ological Society. Address: 31 Nassau Street,
New York City.
BAUER, Louis Agricola:
Director Department of Terrestrial Mag
netism in the Carnegie Institute' of Wash
ington; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January
26, 1865; sou of Ludwig Bauer and Wil-
helmina (Buehler) Bauer. He was edu
cated in Cincinnati public school, and the
University of Cincinnati, graduating as
CE. in 1888; and he received from that
University the degree of M.S. in 1894, and
Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in
1895. He was computer of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey from
1887 to 1892; docent in mathematics and
physics at the University of Chicago, in
1895; instructor in geophysics there in
1896; was assistant professor of mathema
tics and mathematical physics, at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati from 1897 to 1899;
chief of the Division Terrestrial Magnetism
and inspector of magnetic work, with the
United States Coast Survey from 1899 to
.1906; is a director of the Department of
Terrestrial Magnetism in the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington, in 1904. He was
also chief of Division of Terrestrial Mag
netism of the Maryland Geological .Survey
from 1896 to 1899; astronomer and mag-
netician of the West Boundary Survey of
Maryland in 1897, and has been lecturer on
terrestrial magnetism at Johns Hopkins
University since 1899. He is editor of
Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric
Electricity. He was a member if the In
ternational Meteorological Conference in
1898, and a member of the Permanent
Committee; also member of the Committee
Terrestrial Magnetism of the International
Association of Academies, since 1904; is a
fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American
Physical Society, the American Astronomi
cal and Astrophysical Society, National
Geographic Society, Association of Ameri

can Geographers, the Washington Acad
emy of Sciences, Washington Philosoph
ical Society, Sociedad Cientifica Antonia
Alzate of Mexico, International Con
gress of Arts and Sciences; corresponding
member of the Ronigliche Gesellschaft der
Wissenschaftern zu Gottingen since 1906.
He is a Unitarian in religion. -Member -of
Sigma Chi fraternity and the Cosmos Club
of Washington. Residence : 101 The On
tario, Washington, D. C. Address : De
partment of Terrestrial Magnetism, The
Ontario, Washington, D. C.
BAUERBERG, Paul John:
Physician; born in the City of Krasnoy
arsk, Siberia, Russia,- 1872; son of John
and Fannie (Ballbinder) Bauerberg. He
was graduated from the Imperial Russian
Gymnasium of Krasnoyarsk, ._ Siberia ; took
a three years' course in the Imperial Uni
versity of Tomsk, Siberia, and a two years'
course in, and graduated from, the New
York University Medical College as M.D.
in 1898. He was expelled from the Rus
sian University for revolutionary tenden
cies in 1895. He traveled through Russia .
and Germany, through the following year,
and after arrival in New York, joined the
New York University, and after graduating
there settled in Yonkers, New York. He
was a radical revolutionist while in Russia.
and since his arrival in the United States,
has been a Socialist, being a member of
the Socialist party since its inception, and
the first charter member in New York City
of that organization. He occupied differ
ent positions in it, such as St^te delegate
to State Committee and delegate to con
ventions in 1902, 1903, 1904. He is a mem
ber of the Westchester County Medical
Society, also various fraternal organiza
tions and clubs. Dr. Bauerberg married in
Brooklyn, New York, in 1896, Dr. Anna B,
Jacobson (O.D.S.), and they have two
children: Leda Katharine, born in 1897, and
Iris Vesta, born in 1906. Address : 57 Ash-
burton Avenue, Yonkers, New York.
BAUGH, Daniel:
Manufacturer; born in Chester County,
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educated at private seminaries. His fami
ly, for several generations, has been enT
gaged in the tanning business or connected
with the leather industry, but in 1853 his
father decided to turn his attention to the
manufacture of artificial fertilizers by
chemical and other means, converting the
power and machinery of the old works to
use in the new. In 1855 he associated with
him his sons Daniel and Edwin, under the
firm title of Baugh & Sons, and the man
ufacture of super-phosphate was begun and
diligently developed. In i860 the plant was
removed to Philadelphia, and the Dela
ware River Chemical Works established,
new lines of manufacturing being added
till the business became one of great im
portance. In 1862, during the Civil War,
Mr. Baugh, being a private in the ranks of
the Gray Reserves, went with his regiment
to the defense of the State when it was
menaced by General Lee's Army, the regi
ment crossing into Maryland about the
time of the battle of South Mountain, but
not coming into action; in 1888 his father
and brother having died, Mr. Baugh became
president of the Baugh & Sons Company,
incorporated the year before, and he is still
at its head. He was for years president of
the Sanitarium Association, and is a mem
ber of numerous clubs and other organiza
tions of Philadelphia. Address: 1610 Lo
cust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BAUM, Henry Mason:
Clergyman and author; born at East
Schuyler, Herkimer County, New York,
February 24, 1848; son of Chester Baum
and Barbara Ann (Franklin) Baum. After
completing his preliminary education he
studied law, but soon turned his attention
to theology, and in 1871 was admitted to
the deaconate in the Protestant Episcopal
Church by Bishop Coxe and two years
later was ordained priest by Bishop Ran
dall. He was in charge, of St. Peter's
Church, East Bloomfield, and St. Paul's
Church, Allen's Hill, New York, in 1871
and 1872, and St. Matthew's Church,
Laramie City, Wyoming, from 1872 to
1874, rector of St. Paul's Church, Pauls-
boro, New Jersey, in 1875, St. Andrew's

Church, Lambertville, New Jersey in 1876,
and Trinity Church, Easton, Pennsylvania,
from 1877 to 1879, and then studied canon
law in the Sorbonne at Paris. Dr. Baum
is the author of: Rights and Duties of
Rectors, Church Wardens and Vestrymen
in the American Church, 1889. He was
editor of the Church Review from 1880
to 1892. He received the degree of D.
CL. from King's College University, Cana
da, in 1889. From 1892 to 1898 he lectur
ed in the chief cities of the United States
and Canada on history, and specially the
discoveries confirming the Bible. In 1901
he founded the Records of the Past Ex
ploration Society and became its president
and editor and remained at the head of
the Society until 1905. In 1902 and 1904
he made extended expeditions to the South
west and other parts of the United States
to secure data for national legislation for
the preservation and protection of its anti
quities, and on his return from the South
west he induced the Secretary of the In
terior to appoint custodians for some of
the more important pre-historic ruins of
that region, pending legislation on the
subject. As the result of his efforts a bill
was passed by the Fifty-ninth Congress
for their preservation, in June, 1906. On
June 30, 1906, Dr. Baum founded the Na
tional Photographic Library of Washing
ton, District Columbia, of which he is the
president. He began laying the founda
tion for such a national institution in 1893.
Address: Washington, D. C.
BAUM ANN, Gnstav:
Hotel proprietor ; born in Saint Gall,
Switzerland, in 1853; son of J. G. Bau-
mann and A. B. Baumann. He lived in
Saint Gall until 1871 and at Neuchatel from
1871 to 1875, in London from 1875 to 1881,
and came to the United States in 1881.
He became connected with Kinsley's, then
the leading restaurant at Chicago, in which
he* was partner and manager until he re
moved to New York City, where he is "
now of H. M. Kinsley & Baumann, pro
prietor of the Holland House. In religious
affiliation he is a Presbyterian; and he is
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Yacht and Fairfield County Golf Clubs.
Address : Holland House, Fifth Avenue
and Thirtieth Streets, New York City.
BAUMGARTEN, Gustav:
Physician; born in Clausthal, Germany,
June i, 1837; son of Dr. F. Ernst Baum-
garten and Louise (Beckmann) Baumgar-
ten. He was educated in the gymnasium of
Clausthal and Northeim in Germany, then
came to the United States and settled in
Saint Louis, Missouri, where he attended
the English and Classical High School. He
entered the Saint Louis Medical College
from which he was graduated as M.D. in
1856, then took three years post-graduate
study in the Universities and hospitals
of Gottingen, Berlin, Prag and Vienna,
returning in 1859 to Saint Louis, where
he has ever since been in continuous
practice, except for the Civil War
period, during which he served as assis
tant surgeon and past assistant surgeon in
the United States Navy. He was editor
of the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical
Journal from 1867 to 1871, held the chair«of
histology in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Saint Louis from 1868 to 1871,
and since 1873 has been a professor in the
Saint Louis Medical College (Medical De
partment of Washington University), where
he now holds the chair of the practice of
medicine. He is a member of the staff of
Saint Luke's Hospital. He is a member
and was president in 1899 OI the As
sociation of American Physicians ; is a
member of the American Medical Associa
tion; the Saint Louis Medical Society; the
Verein Deutsche Aertzte of Saint Louis,
and the Saint Louis Academy of Science.
Dr. Baumgarten married at Saint Louis, in
1865, Aminda Hillegeist, and they have
three children : Dr. Walter Baumgarten,
Alma and Kari. Residence : 4171 Washing
ton Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri.
BAUMGARTEN, Paul:
Merchant ; born in Hamburg, Germany,
March 6, 1865; son of Paul and Louise
Baumgarten. He was educated in the
schools of Husum, Schleswig. He came to
the United States in his twentieth year, a

poor boy,- and started in a business career
with the grocery house of E. C. Hazard &
Company in 1884. He entered the firm of
Samuel Crooks & Company in 1900, and in
1903, he started firm of Baumgarten, Rust-
man & Company, coffee merchants. He is
a director of the Aetna National Bank. In
politics he is an Independent with Demo
cratic leanings. He finds his chief recrea
tion in literature, and especially in phil
osophy. Mr. Baumgarten is a member of
the Economic Club. He married in 1890,
Christina Borger, who died in 1900, and he
has a daughter, Louise Baumgarten, born
in 1894. Address : 174 West Ninety-fifth
Street, New York City.
BAXTER, Irvintr Franklin:
Lawyer; born at Liverpool, Onondaga
County, New York, January n, 1863; son
of George and Amie C. (Sitts) Baxter.
After studying law at Syracuse, New York,
he was admitted to practice law in the
courts of that state, ne removed to Omaha,
Nebraska, in 1887, and began his legal
practice there. Mr. Baxter soon showed
himself to be an able lawyer and he
was given various public offices and has
been before the public eye continually. In
1892 he was made attorney for the Omaha
Board of Education, and was elected the
following year by the Republican party of
which he is a member, county judge of
Douglas County, Nebraska, and served three
terms, in all six years. This was followed
by five years as judge of the fourth judicial
district of Nebraska. In 1904 he resigned
the judgeship and became United States
attorney for Nebraska, which office he held
for two years, having prosecuted land
frauds and various other kinds of corrup
tion. He has since been a member of the
firm of Baxter and Van Dusen, attorneys.
On September 26, 1888, he married at
Liverpool, New York, Mary C. Gleason.
Residence: The Madison. Address: New
York Life Building, Omaha, Nebraska.
BAYLISS, Alfred:
State Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion; Republican, was born in Gloucester
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his elementary school training in the public
schools of Hillsdale, Michigan, and was
graduated from Hillsdale College in 1870.
Previous to 1870 he had taught three terms
in country schools and served two years
in the Federal army, as private and cor
poral in the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry.
Since leaving college he has almost con
tinuously been engaged in public school
work. He was elected State Superintend
ent November, 1898, and reelected Novem
ber, 1902, retiring December 1, 1906 to as
sume the duties of principal of the Western
Illinois State Normal School, at Macomb.
Address: Macomb, Illinois.
BAYNE, Samuel G.:
Banker; born at Ulster, Ireland, 1844;
son of Peter and Margaret Bayne. He
was educated at the Royal Academy School
and Queen's College at Belfast, Ireland.
He began his business life in the office
of Sir James Hamilton, Belfast and later
became a linen manufacturer in Belfast.
He came to United States in 1869, and
went to the oil regions in Pennsylvania in
1870, drilling 400 wells there. He made
a tour of the world in 1874 and 1875. Mr.
Bayne organized First National Bank of
Bradford, Pennsylvania, becoming its presi
dent; subsequently organized National
banks in Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, Min
nesota and Ohio; he organized the Sea
board National Bank, New York, in 1883
and is now its president. He is treasurer
of Produce Exchange Deposit Vaults,
president of the Atlas Improvement Com
pany, Riverside Drive Property Associa
tion. He- is author of: Pith of Astron
omy, 1896; On an Irish Jaunting Car
Through Donegal and Connemara, 1902.
He is member of New York Athletic Club.
Mr. Bayne married in New York City,
October 1874, Emily Kelsey. Residence:
(winter) Riverside Drive and One Hund
red and Eighth Street, New York City;
(summer) White Plains, New York. Ad
dress: 18 Broadway, New York City.
BEACH, Charles Fisk, Jr.:
Lawyer; born at Paris, Kentucky, Feb
ruary 4, 1854 ; only son of the Rev. Charles

Fisk Beach and Harriette Adelia Lock-
wood Beach. He was graduated from
Centre College, Kentucky, in 1877 with the
degree of A.B., later receiving that of A.M.
Going thence to study law at Columbia Uni
versity he was graduated with the degree of
LL.B. in 1881. In the same year he was ad
mitted to the bar of New York State and
began to practice in New York City, mak
ing his specialty the law of corporations
and soon becoming connected with various
of these. He was general counsel for the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Co.,
New York, Susquehanna & Western Rail
road Co., Holland Irust Co., etc., etc., etc.
After fifteen years of practice in Wall
Street, Mr. Beach went to Europe in 1896,
practicing first in London (1896-1899) and
since then in Paris. In 1904, in connection
with his private practice, he was appointed
lecturer on Anglo-American law at the
University of Paris. He is a member of
various international and professional or
ganizations in Europe and America. Mr.
Beach has written extensively on the special
tfranches of law in which he has been en
gaged, and is author of various legal works,
among which are: Railways (1890); Pri
vate Corporations (1891) ; Modern Equity
Jurisprudence (1902) ; Public Corpora
tions (1893) ; Injunctions (1895) ; Contrib
utory Negligence (several editions) ; Con
tracts (1897), etc Address: 31 boulevard
Haussmann, Paris.
BEACH, Edward Stevens:
Lawyer ; born at New Britain, Connect
icut, May 19, 1857; son of David Hubbard
and Orinda Janette (Ticknor) Beach.
His boyhood was spent in Litchfield, Con
necticut. He was graduated from Phillips
Academy, Andover, and was the class or
ator, and while there founded The Phil-
lipian; he graduated from Trinity College
with the degree of B.A. in 1883 and was
class orator, and took the Jackson philo
sophical prize, and was gold medalist in
College oratorical ¦ competition. He was
office manager of the general agents' of
fice, Worcester, Massachusetts, of the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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of Hartford Daily Courant in 1882- 1883;
and was tutor in Greek and English, St.
Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts,
in 1884. He has been engaged since 1886
in Federal courts as specialist in trial of
patents, trade-mark and copyright infrin
gement suits, and was engaged in patent
practice in Boston, from 1885 to 1905. Mr.
Beach is also director in several manu
facturing companies. He traveled in Eng
land and on Europe and Continent in pro
fessional work in 1904 and 1905. He is
author of: Beach's Digest of Patent De
cisions; also of a monograph on Abraham
Lincoln (privately printed). He is an In
dependent in politics and an Episcopalian
in religion. Mr. Beach is a member of the
New England Genealogical Society, Col
umbian Lodge, St. Andrew's Royal Arch
Chapter, Boston Council, and St. Barnard
Commandery, Boston. He is president of
the New York Alumni Association of
Trinity College. His favorite recreations
are golf and fishing. He is member of
the Brookline Country,- St. Botolph, New
Algonquin, Laurel Brook (of which he is
founder) and Puritan Clubs of Boston,
St. Nicholas Club of New York City,
St. Andrews Golf Club of Chauncey, New
York, and Seapuit Golf of Osterville, Mas
sachusetts and also other golf clubs. Mr.
Beach married twice; first Katherine G.
(now deceased), daughter of Governor
Richard D. Hubbard, of Hartford, Con
necticut, and second, Mally Appleton Pea-
body, daughter of Captain Enoch W. Pea-
body, late of New York. Address : 60
Wall Street, New York City.
BEACH, Frederick Converse:
Editor and patent attorney; born in
New York City, March 27, 1848; son of
Alfred Ely and Harriet E. (Holbrook)
Beach. He was graduated from Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale University as Ph.
B. in 1868. He was patent solicitor at
Washington, D.C. in 1868 and 1869; was
afterward engaged as assistant superintend
ent in construction of the Beach pneumatic
tunnel under Broadway, and was a manu
facturer of electrical instruments until 1877,
when he entered the office of Scientific

American, of which he later became and
still is, one of the editors; also editor-in-
chief of Encyclopaedia Americana. He
was actively identified as an amateur in
photography from 1864. He is secretary
and treasurer of the Munn & Company,
patent attorneys and publishers of Scien
tific American; treasurer of the Union
Waxed and Parchment Paper Company;
president and treasurer American Photo
graphic Publishing Company. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Congregationalist
in religion. He is vice-president of the
Stratford Library, Stratford, Connecticut.
His favorite recreations are boating and
photography. He is a member of the Na
tional Arts and Camera Clubs of New
York. Mr. Beach married, at Stratford,
Connecticut, June 16, 1875, Margaret Allen
Gilbert, and they have two children:
Stanley Y., born in 1877, and Ethel Hol
brook, born in 1886. Address : 361 Broad
way, New York City.
BEACH, Henry Harris Aubrey:
Physician and surgeon; born at Middle-
town, Connecticut, December 18, 1843; son
of Elijah Beach and Lucy Smith (Riley)
Beach. He was educated in the Cam
bridge public schools. During the Civil
War he enlisted in, the regular army and
served two years in the hospital corps until
the close of hostilities, becoming then sur
gical house officer of the Massachusetts
General Hospital. At the same time he
took up the study of medicine at Harvard
University and graduated with the degree
of M.D. in 1868. Besides his private prac
tice, Dr. Beach was appointed in 1868 as
sistant demonstrator of anatomy at Har
vard University and demonstrator and
member of the Harvard Faculty in 1879,
and in 1899 he became instructor in clini
cal surgery, holding this position until
1900, when he became lecturer on the same
subject. For thirty-five years he has served
at the Massachusetts General Hospital, first
for one year, as house surgeon, then con
secutively for six years as surgeon to out
patients ; twenty-eight years as visiting sur
geon, and from 1907 as consulting surgeon.
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surgery and the results of his work are
embodied in various articles and medical
papers. He was president of the Boylston
Medical Society of Harvard University
for 1873 and 1874; is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Massa
chusetts Medical Society, Boston Society
for Medical Sciences, Boston Society for
Medical Improvement, Biological Society
of Washington, American Association for
the Advancement of Science and is honor
ary member with medal of the first class of
the Academia Fisico-Chimica Italiano of
Palermo, Italy. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and an Episcopalian in religion. He
has been twice married, first, June 7, 1871,
to Alice C. Mandell, of New Bedford, Mas
sachusetts, who died July 30, 1880, and sec
ond, December 2, 1885, to Amy Marcy Che
ney, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Beach
has attained great distinction as a musical
composer. Address : 28 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
BEACH, Henry M. :
Publisher; born at Boonton, New Jersey,
January 8, 1867; son of Walter G. Beach
and Caroline Elizabeth (Magie) Beach.
He was educated in local schools and by
private instruction. He traveled extensive
ly through United States, Cuba and Mexi
co. For many years he was associat
ed with the large advertising agency of J.
Walter Thompson Company, developing
some of the largest advertisers in the coun
try, then with Harper & Brothers, publish
ers, then purchased a large interest in the
Stuyvesant Company, publishers of Town
and Country, of which he is secretary and
director. He is treasurer and director of
The American Queen Publishing Company,
vice-president and director of the Game
Protection Company, and treasurer and
director of the Beach Sanitarium of Sus
quehanna, Pennsylvania. His favorite re
creations are hunting and fishing. . He is
member of the Sphinx Club of New York
City.The Ocracoke Club, North Carolina,
and the Hamilton Club of Paterson, New
Jersey. Mr. Beach married at Paterson,
New Jersey, June 24, 1896, Ann Elizabeth

Muzzy, and they have one daughter, Mar
garet Louise, born in 1901. Address : 36
East Twenty-third Street, New York City.
BEACH, Rex Ellingwood:
Author; born at Atwood, Michigan, Sep
tember I, 1877; son of Henry Walter
Beach and Eva (Canfield) Beach. He was
educated at Rollins College, Winter Park,
Florida, the Chicago Cpllege of Law, and
Kent College of Law at Chicago, Illinois.
He is author of: Pardners, and The Spoil
ers. He also dramatized The Spoilers, and
has written -various articles and stories for
American and English magazines and period
icals. He is a member of the Chicago
Athletic Association, the Press ¦ Club of
Chicago, and the Players and The Lambs,;
of New York City. Address : Care of The
Press Club, Chicago, Illinois.
BEACH, William D. :
Major, United States Army; born in
New York City, June 18, 1856; son of
Joshua M. Beach and Sarah Elizabeth
(Ford) Beach. He was educated in the
College of the -City of New York and the
United States Military Academy, from
which he was graduated, June 13, 1879. He
was commissioned second lieutenant of the
Third Cavalry, June 13, 1879; first lieuten
ant, November 17, 1883; captain, August
16, 1892, and major, June 9, 1902. He
served at forts and posts in Wyoming and
Arizona -tmtil 1884; at the United States
Military Academy, as instructor in draw
ing, from 1884 to 1888; instructor in cav
alry tactics from 1885 to 1888; at forts in
Texas, Kansas and Virginia, ana in the
Philippines in 1899 and 1900; at San Fran
cisco in 1901 and 1902; at Washington (on
the general staff) from 1903 to 1906, and
at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, since Aug
ust 16, 1906. He took part in the Colorado
Ute Exposition in 1878, and North Park
Exposition in 1880; was scouting in Ari
zona and on the Mexican border in 1882
and 1883; the Garza Exposition in 1892;
the Spanish-American War, Santiago Cam
paign, in 1898, serving in the battles of
Las Guasimas and San Juan Ridge; in the
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and Cuban Intervention in 1906. Major
Beach is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Society of For
eign Wars, the Society of the Army of
Santiago de Cuba, the Order of the Cara-
bao, and the Army and Navy Club of
Washington, D. C. He married at Chilli-
cothe, Missouri, April 27, 1882, Katharine
C. Bullens. Address : Fort Ethan Allen,
Vermont.BEACH, William Harrison:
Educator and author; born at Seneca
Falls, New York, October 8, 1835 ; son of
Elam and Hannah (Edwards) Beach.
He was graduated from Hamilton College
as A.B. in i860, and received the degree
of A.M. in 1865. He was principal of the
high school at Dubuque, Iowa, from 1867
to 1875; principal of the high school at
Beloit, Wisconsin, from 1875 to 1884, and
superintendent of schools at Madison, Wis
consin, from 1884 until 1891, when he was
made head of the department of history
and civics in the high school at Milwau
kee, Wisconsin. He retired from educa
tional work in 1906. He was president
of the Wisconsin State Teachers' Associa
tion in 1880, and he has been an active
member of the National Educational As
sociation and of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science. He
is a member of the Wisconsin Historical
Society and of the American Historical
Association, the Grand Army of. the Re
public, the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He
served in the Civil War from 1861 to
1865 in the First New York (Lincoln)
Cavalry and was first lieutenant and ad
jutant, and is author of the history of the
regiment. He is editor of a volume of
War Papers of the Wisconsin Command-
ery of the Loyal Legion, and author of
many educational and historical papers and
public addresses. He is proprietor of a
fruit and garden farm and a lecturer at
farmers' institutes. Mr. Beach is a Re
publican in politics and an elder in the
Presbyterian Church. He married at Can-
oga, New York, December 26, 1867, Sarah

M. Peterson. Address : - Seneca Falls,
New York.
BEAL, Foster E. L.':
Biologist; born at South Gorton (now
Ayer) Massachusetts, January 9, 1840; son
of Jacob Foster Beal and Sarah Jane
(Day) Beal. He was graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology as
B.S. in civil engineering in 1871. He prac
ticed as civil engineer in Maine, Massa
chusetts, and in Nebraska from graduation
until 1876. He was professor of civil en
gineering at the Agricultural College of
Iowa from 1876 to 1883; acting professor
of zoology and comparative anatomy in the
same institution from 1879 to 1883 ; was
engaged as a farmer from 1884 to 1891, and
from 1892 has been biologist in charge of
economic ornithology in the United States
Department of Agriculture (Bureau of Bio
logical Survey). Fie married at Court-
land, New York, January 9, 1877, Mary
Louise Barnes, and they have one son, Ken
neth Foster Beal, born March 14, 1880.
Residence : Berwyn, Maryland. Office ad
dress : Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. C.
BEAL, Junius Emery:
Regent of the University of Michigan;
born at Port Huron, Michigan, February
23, i860, of New England parentage, his
grandfather Field, great-grandfather and
great-great-grandfather, having been Yale
graduates. His mother' died when he was
eleven months old and he was adopted by
his uncle Rice A. Beal. He received his
education at the Ann Arbor high school
and University of Michigan, graduating as
A.B. in 1882. During vacation, he worked
in his father's printing office at the case
and in the press room, getting familiar
with the mechanical part of the business,
and on graduation he assumed the editor
ship of the Ann Arbor Courier. When
R. A. Beal died in 1883 he took up the
work and carried on book publishing in
connection with the newspaper for twenty
years, when he sold out. The Dr. Chase
Recipe Book published by him had a sale
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Mr. Beal has been a member of the Ann
Arbor School Board for twenty years, and
was president of the Michigan Press Asso
ciation in 1893. He has traveled exten
sively through Europe, including Rus
sia, and about the Caribbean Sea.
He is a member of various Masonic
orders and a director of several boards.
Mr. Beal has always been an active Repub
lican, a presidential elector in 1888; presi
dent of the Michigan League of Republican
clubs, in 1889 and 1890, and was elected
to the Legislature in 1904, by 711 majority,
the largest the first district had ever given.
In April, 1907, he was elected Regent of
the University of Michigan by over 105,-
000 majority. He is married and has two
children, a boy and a girl. Address Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
BEAL, Thaddeus Reynolds:
Engineer and operator of gas and electric
properties; born in New York City, June
28, 1870; son of William R. and Eleanor
L. (Bell) Beal. He was' educated in St.
Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island,
and College City of New York. He was sup
erintendent of Central Union Gas Company,
New York City, director of the Newburgh
Light, Heat and Power Company, general
manager of the Poughkeepsie Light, Heat
and Power Company, secretary and treas
urer of the Equitable Gas Company of
New Jersey, and director of the Hudson
Counties Gas and Electric Company, part
owner and operator of several other gas
and electric properties. He has traveled
around the world through Europe and in
Mexico. He served ten years in New
York Naval Militia with honorable dis
charge as lieutenant and served in United
States Navy as lieutenant during war with
Spain ; holds Long Service decoration from
New York State. Mr. Beal is a Republi
can in politics and an Episcopalian in re
ligion. He is a member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers' American
Gas Institute, Society of Gas Lighting,
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is a
member of the Salmagundi Club. Address :

1 West One Hundred and Twenty-first
Street, New York City.
BEAL, Thomas Prince:
Banker. He. is president and director of
the second National Bank, a trustee of the
Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and
others, and a director of the Bigelow
Carpet Company, and Clinton Wire Cloth
Company, and the Hamilton Woolen Com
pany. Address : 101 Sears Building, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
BEALE, Truxton:
Diplomat, author; born in San Francisco,
California, March 6, 1856; son of Edward
F. and Mary Edwards Beale. After a
careful preparatory education he entered
the Pennsylvania Military College at Ches
ter, Pa., and on his graduation in 1874, en
tered the Law School of Columbia Univer
sity, in New York, graduating with the de
gree of LL.B. in 1878. He engaged in law
practice and made a special study of in
ternational questions, and was appointed by
President Harrison envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Persia, and from the legation at
Teheran was transferred to the post of
American minister to Greece. After his
service at Athens he became an extensive
traveler in the Orient, and particularly in
Siberia, Chinese Turkestan and other parts
of Central Asia. Mr. Beale is now de
voting his attention to the management of
large estates in California. He is a writer
in leading reviews and magazines of arti
cles on Oriental and international subjects,
and is a member of the Asiatic Society.
Mr. Beale has been twice married, first to
Harriet Blaine, daughter of the late James
G. Blaine, and second, at New York City,
April 23, 1903, to Marie Oge, of San Rafael,
California, a granddaughter of the late
Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the Su
preme Court of the United States. Ad
dress : 222 Sansome Street, San Francisco,
California.
BEALL, Jack:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Ellis
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Richard Beall and Adelaide (Pierce) Beall.
Both were Kentuckians and were among
the early settlers of Texas. He was reared
upon a farm and attended the old-fashioned
country schools; taught school in 1884 and
1885; in 1886 entered the literary depart
ment of the University of Texas and in
1889 the law department, graduating there
from in 1890, and has since been engaged
for three years; and in the Texas Senate
for four years. Mr. Beall received the
Democratic nomination in 1902 and was
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and
in 1904 and 1906 was reelected to the Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, and is now
serving, in the latter. He married, in 1898,
Patricia Martin. Address : Waxahachie,
Texas. SEALS, John D.:
Lawyer; born in Herkimer County, New
York, December 8, 1868; son of Oliver B.
and Emma (Champion) Beals. He was
educated in New York City, graduated
from the law department of the University
of the City of New York as LL.B. in
1889. He has been engaged in the practice
of law in New York from 1889; specialty
in real estate and corporation law. He is
president of the Washington Heights Tax
payers' Association, largest association as
to value of property represented, with but
one exception, in City of New York. He
is senior member of the law firm of Beals
& Nicholson; director and member of the
executive committee, Bank of Washington
Heights; and an officer and director of
numerous other corporations. He is mem
ber of the Dutch Reformed Church; and
of the Suburban Riding and Driving and
New York Riding Clubs. Mr. Beals mar
ried, April 11, 1893, Mary H. Nicholson
and they have three children: John D.,
Jr., Donald Marcy and Helen. Address :
333 West Eighty-fourth Street, New York
City.
BEAN, Tarleton Hoffman:
Fish culturist and zoologist ; born at Bain
bridge, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1846; son
of George Bean and Mary (Smith) Bean.
He was graduated from the State Normal

School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, in -
1866, later entering the medical department
of Columbian (now George Washington)
University, from which he was graduated
as M.D. in 1876, and he received the degree
of M.S. from Indiana University in 1883.
He was editor of proceedings and bulletins
of the United States National Museum
from 1878 to 1886, and curator of fishes
there from 1880 to 1895, also editing the
reports and bulletins of the United •
States Fish Commission from 1889 to
1892, and he was assistant in charge
of the Division of Fish Culture of the
United States Fish Commission from
1892 to 1895. He was director of the New
York Aquarium from 1895 to 1898, and
acting curator of fishes in the American
Museum of Natural History in i897-'98.
was chief of the departments of Fish, Game
and Forestry at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition from 1902 to 1905, and is now
State fish culturist of the State of New
York. He represented the United States
Fish Commission at the expositions in Chi
cago, i893f Atlanta, 1895, and the U. S.
Commissioner General at Paris, in 1900, and
in recognition of his distinction as an ich
thyologist and fish culturist he received
from France in 1901 the decoration of
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, from
Germany in 1905 that of Knight of the Red
Eagle, and from Japan in 1905 the Order
of the Rising Sun. Mr. Bean is author of:
The Fisheries ai Pennsylvania; The Fishes
of New York; The Salmon and Salmon
Fisheries; The Fishes of Long Island, and
many other books ; he was joint author,
with George Brown Goode, of Oceanic Ich
thyology, and collaborated on The White
World. Mr. Bean is a member of the Am
erican Fisheries Society, the Biological So
ciety of Washington, the Danish Fisheries
Society, and the American Forestry Asso
ciation. He married at Washington, D. C,
January 1, 1878,- Laurette H. Van Hook.
Address : 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
City.BEARD, Augustus Field:
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Norwalk, Connecticut; son of Algernon
Edwin and Mary Esther (Mallory) Beard.
He was graduated from Yale, as A.B. in
1857, and A.M. in i860; received the hon
orary degree of D.D. from Syracilse Uni
versity in 1870. He was pastor of the
Central Congregational Church, Bath,
Maine, for seven years, Plymouth Church
(Congregational) Syracuse, New York,
for fourteen years, American Church, 1
Paris, France, for three years. He has
been secretary since 1886, of the American
Missionary Association, New York, and is
now secretary and editor of the same.
Dr. Beard was member of the corporation
Yale University, several years and is now
trustee of the Fisk University, Nashville,
Tennessee, Tougaloo University, Mississip
pi, and Talladega College, Alabama; also
is a trustee of Howard University, Wash
ington, D.C, and of Piedmont College,
Georgia. He has written numerous maga
zine articles and pamphlets on educational
topics and also,, while resident in France,
upon its religious conditions, which had ex
tensive circulation. Dr. Beard married at
Portland, Maine, 1861, Eliza Payson God-
dard, who died in 1863; second, at Lewis-
ton, Maine, 1865, Annie Deming Barker,
They have five daughters. Address : Cor
ner Twenty-second Street and Fourth
Avenue, New York City.
BEARD, Daniel Carter ("Dan Beard") :
Illustrator, author, editor; born at Cin
cinnati, Ohio, June 21, 1850; son of James
H. (N. A., distinguished artist) and Mary
Caroline (Carter) Beard. He was educat
ed in public schools, Cincinnati, Worrail's
Academy, Covington, Kentucky, Art Stud
ents' League, New York City; educated
as civil engineer, and graduated second
in class, and studied art under Beckwith
and" Sartain. He began his professional
career in Earshaw's and R. C. Phillip's
offices, surveyors and civil engineers, later
in Cincinnati City Civil Engineer's office
and with Sanborn Map & Publishing Com
pany, New York City, for latter made de
tailed maps of most of the cities, towns
and villages east of Mississippi River. He
made sketches for amusement, A. W.

Drake, of the Century Magazine, bought
some sketches and thus started himself
as professional illustrator. He illustrated
Mark Twain's Yankee in King Arthur's
• Court, W. Ernest Crosby's Captain Jenks'
Hero, John Jacob Astor's and many other
books ; and has done work for Life, Scrib-
ner's, Harper's and the Cosmopolitan. He
was formerly editor of Recreation, and
contributor (in charge of a department),
in Outing and Woman's Home Compan
ion and Circle; is associate editor of The
Arena. He was seven years instructor in
illustrating Woman's School of Applied
Design. Mr. Beard is author of: Moon
light and Six Feet of Romance; The Mys
tery of the Blue Goose; The American
Boys' Handy Book; The Jack of all
Trades; Out-Door Handy Book; Field and
Forest Handy Book; Dan Beard's Book of
Animals (in press). He served several
years on the Board of Education (elected
to second term without opposition) ; was
vice-president of the Art Students' League ;
founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone;
president of the Flushing Single-Tax Club.
He entered in the campaign for Henry
George and made cart-tail speeches (was
intimate friend of Henry George). He is
an Abe Lincoln Republican and Jefferson-
ian Democrat and Swedenborgian in
religion. He is member of the Academy
of Science, Ornithologists' Union, Biolog
ical Society, Linnean Society, Zoological
Society, Scientific Alliance; fellow of
Society of Illustrators (succeeded Charles
Dana Gibson as president of latter). His
favorite recreations are traveling in the
Northwestern Wilderness, fishing and
sketching wild animals, camping and wood
life; has a permanent camp in Pike County,
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Al-
dine, Players', The Camp Fire (member
of the Board of Governors), Canadian
Camp, Pipe and Pewter,- Forest Lake and
Manhattan Single-tax Clubs. Mr. Beard
married at Newton, Long Island, August
15, 1894, Beatrice Alice Jackson, and they
have two children, Barbara, born in 1903,
and Daniel Bartlett, born in 1907. Ad
dress: 87 Bowne Avenue, Flushing, Long
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BEARD, James Carter:
Artist, author; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
June 6, 1837; son of James Henry Beard
and Mary Caroline (Carter) Beard. He
was educated at Miami University, Ox
ford, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar and
began the practice of law, but abandoned
it to become an artist. His specialty is as
illustrator for books, magazines, etc., mak
ing leading features of pictures of animals.
He is author of: Curious Homes and Their
Tenants. He married at Terre Haute, In
diana, in 1864, Martha J. Bray, and they
have two children : James H., and Alice.
Address : 200 Solington Avenue, Natchez,
Mississippi.
BEARDSLEE, Clark Smith :
Professor of biblical homiletics ; born in
Coventry, New York, February 1, 1850 ; son
of Samuel A. Beardslee and Lois D.
(Smith) Beardslee. He was graduated
from Amherst College as B.A. in 1876, and
later M.A. and from Hartford Theological
Seminary as B.D. in 1879. He was in
structor in Hebrew at Hartford Theological
Seminary in 1879 and 1880. He served as
pastor of Congregational churches at Le
Mars, Iowa, Prescott, Arizona, and West
Springfield, . Massachusetts. He returned
to Hartford Theological Seminary as asso
ciate professor from 1888 to 1892, and since
1892 he has been professor of biblical dog
matics and ethics there from 1892 to 1907,
then taking his present chair as professor
of biblical homiletics in Hartford Theolog
ical Seminary. Dr. Beardslee has traveled
in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Bahama
Islands and the western United States He
is a Republican in politics. He married at
Torrington, Connecticut, .December 13,
1882, Emma Gillette Alvord, and they have
eight children: Raymond A., born in 1883;
Claude G, born in 1888; Lyndon S., born
in 1890 ; Ruth, born in 1891 ; Sidney A.,
born in 1894; Helen, born in 1895; Martin
B., born in 1897, and Clark S., Jr., born in
1898. Residence: Windsor, Connecticut.
Office address : Hartford Theological Semi-
ary, Hartford, Connecticut."

BEARDSLEY, Samuel A.:
Lawyer; born in Utica, New York, De
cember 1, 1856; son of Arthur. M. and
Louise ( Howland (Adams) Beardsley.
Educated at Utica public schools. Willis-
ton Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts,
Hamilton College Law School. He was
admitted to the bar in 1879, and engaged
in practice; special city judge of Utica,
1886 to 1888; city judge of Utica, from
1888 to 1892; chairman State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, 1892-1896; prac
ticed law in Utica from 1879 to 1897; as
a member of the firm of Beardsley, Bur-
dick and Beardsley, and later Beardsley
and Beardsley; in 1898 opened office in
New York City, firm of Beardsley and
Hemmens, counsel for the New York
Edison Company and constituent com
panies. Director of the New York Edison
Company, the United States Electric Light
and Power Company, Utica City National
Bank, Utica Gas and Electric Company;
president of the Consolidated Telegraph
and Electrical Subway Company, , New
York City, secretary and treasurer of the
Harway Improvement Company. Demo
crat in politics, member and secretary of
the Democratic State Committee from 1889
to 1892 from the Twenty-fifth Congress
ional District. An Episcopalian, member
of the New York Bar Association, Oneida
County Bar Association, Utica Chamber of
Commerce, Utica Lodge, F. and A.M.,
Manhattan and Democratic Club of New
York City, Fort Schuyler, Sadaquada Golf
of Utica, Maidstone of East Hamp
ton, Long Island, Oakland Golf of Long
Island. Married, September 14, 1881, to
Elizabeth Ann Hopper. Three children:
Thomas Hopper, Louise Adams, Samuel ¦
Jr. Address: 54 Wall Street, New York
City.
BE ATT Y, Robert Chetwood:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May
18, 1872; son of John Cuming Beatty and
Hetty (Bull) Beatty. He was graduated
from Columbia Uriiversity Schools of Law
and Political Science, as LL.B. in 1894 and
LL.M. in 1895, and was on Jionor list in
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sistant to corporation counsel, New York
City in 1897; special counsel to city, in
charge of grade damage claims, from 1898
to 1903 ; member of the bar of courts of
New York State, United States Supreme
Court and other Federal courts, and a
Master in Chancery of the United States
Circuit Court for the Southern District of
New York. He is member of the law firm
of Beatty & Burlingame (with Frederic
Anson Burlingame). He is member of
the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, Society of Colonial Wars,
Sons of Revolution, Zeta Psi fraternity,
Phi Delta Phi (legal fraternity), Alumni
Association Columbia University, also of
Columbia Law School. He is member of
the Lawyers' and Phi Delta Phi Clubs.
Mr. Beatty married in New York City,
January 30, 1901, Jean Burlingame, and
they have two daughters, Anne Burlin
game Beatty, born in 1902, and Hetty Bur
lingame Beatty, born in 1906. Address :
43 Cedar Street, New York City.
BEAUPRE, Arthur M. :
Lawyer and diplomat; born at Oswego,
Illinois, July 29, 1853. After receiving an
education in the public schools of Oswego,
he removed in 1874 to Aurora, Illinois,
where he studied law, and he was admitted
to practice by the Supreme Court of Illi
nois. He practiced law at Aurora, and in
1886 he was elected to the office of county
clerk of Kane County, Illinois. He was
appointed by President McKinley to the
office of consul-general and secretary of
the legation at Guatemala, in October, 1897,
was transferred to Columbia in the same
capacity in October, 1899, was appointed
United States minister to Colombia, in
February, 1903, and served there during
the pendency of the Panama Canal Treaty
in the Colombian Congress, and in March,
1904, he was appointed by President Roose
velt, envoy extraordinary to the Argentine
Republic, in which office he is now serving.
Mr. Beaupre married, in De Kalb, Illinois,
October 20, 1880, Mary F. Marsh, daughter
of Hon. C. W. Marsh. Residence: Aur
ora, Illinois. Official address: United

States Legation, Buenos Ayres, Argentine
Republic.
BECK, James M.:
Lawyer, born in Philadelphia, July 9,
1861. He was educated in the Philadelph-
ian schools, and the Moravian College in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, graduated with
the degree of A.B. in 1880, received the
degree of LL.D. from Muhlenberg College
in 1892, and from Moravian College in
1894. He was admitted to the bar at Phil
adelphia in 1884, was a partner with Wil
liam F. Harrity from 1885 to 1898; assist
ant United States attorney of the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892
and from 1896 to 1900; and assistant at
torney-general from 1900 to 1903. He has
been prosecutor of many important crim
inal cases in the State and Federal Courts.
As master, appointed by the United States
Court, he sold in April, 1902, the Phila
delphia Record for three million dollars,
the highest price ever obtained for an
American newspaper at public sale. In
1902 he entered the law firm of Sherman
and Stirling of New York City, removing
there, but remains also senior member of
the firm of Beck & Robinson of Philadel
phia. Mr. Beck has delivered many notable
orations on patriotic and other important
occasions. He is a member of the New
England Society of Philadelphia and also
a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia
and the Metropolitan and Lotos Club of
New York City. Mr. Beck married Lilla,
daughter of James Mitchell of Philadel
phia. Address : 44 Wall Street, New York
City.
BECKER, George Ferdinand:
Geologist; born in New York City, Janu
ary 5, 1847; son of Alexander Christian
and Sarah Cary (Tuckerman) Becker. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1868, from Heidelberg as Ph.D. in 1869,
from the Royal School of Mines, Berlin,
in 1871. He was constructing engineer of
the Joliet Iron and Steel Company in 1872
and 1873; instructor of mining and metall
urgy in the University of California, from
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charge of the United States Geological
Survey since 1879 (now in charge of the
Division of Chemical and Physical Re
search). He was also a special agent of
the Tenth Census from 1879 to 1883. He
made an examination of gold and diamond
mines in South Africa in 1896; was a geol
ogist with the army in the Philippines in
1898 and 1899, and is now in charge of the
geophysical researches under the Carnegie
Institution of Washington. He is a mem
ber of the National Academy of Science,
the American Philosophical Society; a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a member of the
Geological Society of America, the Ameri
can Institute of Mining Engineers, and the
Washington Academy of Sciences; an hon
orary member of the Geological Society of
South Africa, and of the Transvaal Cham
ber of Mines. He received a military medal
from the State of Montana for services in
the Philippines. Dr. Becker is author of:
Atomic Weight Determinations, 1880; Geo
logy of the Comstock Lode, 1882 ; Statistics
and Technology of the Precious Metals,
1885 ; Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits
of the Pacific Slope, 1888 ; also monographs
on gold fields of the Southern Appalachians,
Alaska, and South Africa ; Geology of the
Philippine Islands, 1901 ; Experiments on
Slaty Cleavage, 1904; also various memoirs
on technical subjects, notably in geophysics.
Clubs: Metropolitan and Chevy Chase of
Washington. Mr. Becker married at
Washington, D. C, ' February n, 1902,
Florence Serpell Deakins. Address : United
States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
BECKHAM, J. Crepps Wickliffe:
Governor of Kentucky ; born near Bards-
town, Kentucky, August 5, 1869; son of
William N. and Julia (Wickliffe) Beck
ham. He received his preparatory educa
tion at Bardstown Academy and the Cen
tral University of Kentucky, from which he
received the degree of LL.D. He was ap
pointed principal of the Bardstown High
School in 1888 and taught school for three
years. In 1893 he commenced the prac
tice of law, the same year being elected
member of the Kentucky House of Repre

sentatives and serving in the session of
1894. He was twice reelected and was elec
ted speaker of the House in 1898. In 1899
he was elected lieutenant-governor, becom
ing governor at Governor Goebel's death,
February 3, 1900. He was elected that year
over John W. Yerkes to. fill the rest of his
term, ending December 8, 1903. He was re
elected governor in 1903, over M. B. Bel
knap, to serve a full term ending December
10, 1907. On November 6. 1906, he was
nominated in a state primary by the Demo
cratic party as candidate for United States
Senator from Kentucky over James B. Mc-
Creary, the incumbent, the election to be
held in the General Assembly in January,
J908. Governor Beckham is a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He is chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Kentucky
State College and various other institu
tions, and is a member of the college fra
ternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is a
Mason, a Knight Templar, and an Elk,
and a member of the Ancient Order of
United Woodmen. He married at Owens-
boro, Kentucky, November 21, 1900, Jean
Raphael Fuqua, and has two children : Elea
nor R., born in 1902, and J. Crepps Wick
liffe, Jr., born in 1907. Residence: Execu
tive Mansion. Address: Executive Office,
Frankfort, Kentucky.
BECKWITH, Isbon Thaddeus:
Clergyman, theologian; born at Old
Lyme, Connecticut, in 1843 ; son of William
Beckwith and Caroline (Champion) Beck
with. He was graduated from Yale as A.-
B. in 1868, and Ph.D. in 1872, took grad
uate work at Leipzig and Gottingen from
1872 to 1874, and received the degree of D.
D. from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1898.
He was instructor on Greek at the Univer
sity of Tennessee from 1868 to 1870; at
Yale from 1870 to 1872, and from 1874 to
1879; professor of Greek at Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, from 1879 to 1898; profes
sor of New Testament Interpretation in
the General Theological Seminary in New
York City, from 1898 to 1906, and from 1907
lecturer in Biblical studies at Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, Connecticut. He was
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in 1876, in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. Dr. Beckwith is a member of the
Biblical and Exegetical Society, the Ameri
can Philological Society, and the American
Archeological Society. Address : Hartford,
Connecticut.
BECKWITH, J. Carroll:
Artist; born at Hannibal, Missouri, Sep
tember 23, 1852; son of Charles Henry and
Martha Melissa (Owen) Beckwith. He
commenced studying art in Chicago in 1869
and in 1871 came to New York City, study
ing at the National Academy of Design
for two years. Thence he went to Paris,
France, where he entered the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, later becoming the pupil of
the famous French artist, Carolus Duran,
for five years. In 1878 he established him
self as a portrait painter in New York City.
He has been instructor in the schools of
the Art Students' League of New York City
for eighteen years, at the Cooper Institute,
and in the schools of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, New York City. He is presi
dent of the National Free Art League;
vice-president of the Fine Arts Commis
sion of the City of New York ; treasurer of
the Society of American Artists, and secre
tary of the National Academy of Design.
Mr. Beckwith is one of the best American
artists and portrait painters of the day and
is well known both in the United States
and abroad. He has been an exhibitor.
in all the important art exhibitions of the
past twenty years. He represents the prin
ciples of conservative art as opposed to im
pressionism. A draughtsman of large cul
ture, believing in thorough education in the
classic traditions of art, he has been very
active in all questions pertaining to his
profession. He has lived many years in
Europe and has traveled . extensively
through France, Germany, Italy, England,
Spain, Egypt and Greece. He is indepen
dent in politics and a member of the Epis
copal Church. He is a National Academi
cian; a member of the corporation of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art; of the
American Water Color Society and other
art societies, and also of the Century As
sociation, and the Lotos Club, New York,

Fencer's (president), Calumet (honorary
life member), and other clubs of New
York. He was married in New York City
June 1, 1887, to Bertha Hall. Residence :
8 East Fifty-eighth Street. Address: 58
'West Fifty-second Street, New York City.
Country address : Onteora Club, Tanners-
ville, New York.
BEDE, J. Adam:
Congressman and journalist; born on a
farm in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1856; his
father being a Welchman by birth, and his
mother of New England stock and Scotch
extraction. He was educated in the public
schools of Ohio ; taught school, learned the
printer's trade and engaged in newspaper
work as a profession. He has lived in most
of the Western and Southern States and did
reportorial work in Washington. He sup
ported Grover Cleveland in 1888 and 1892,
and was appointed United States marshal
for the district of Minnesota in 1894. He
served through the great railroad strikes of
that year and resigned. He returned to
the Republican party in the financial issue
in 1894, campaigning in several states that
year, and in 1898 and 1900. He decided to
go to Congress as a Republican and was
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses. Has lectured extensively on
political and patriotic subjects under lead
ing bureaus. Address : Pine City, Minne
sota.BEDFORD, Edward Thomas:
Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, New York,
February 19, 1849 ; son of Frederick Thomas
Bedford and Mary Ann Elizabeth (Pace)
Bedford. He was educated in the ' public
schools and at Maplegrove Academy, West-
port, Connecticut. He is president and di
rector of the New York Glucose Company,
the Bedford Petroleum Company of Paris,
France, the Colonial Oil Company of New
Jersey, and the Self-Winding Clock Com
pany; is vice-president and director of the
State Safe Deposit Vaults; trustee of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company; di
rector and member of the executive com
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Atlantic Refining Company, the Thompson-
Starrett Company, and the Manufacturers'
Trust Company. He is a member of the
Riding and Driving and Parkway Driving
Clubs of Brooklyn, and of the Bridgeport
Yacht, Black Rock Harbor, and Hokanum
Golf Clubs of Connecticut. Mr. Bedford
married at Bronxville, New York, Decem
ber, 1871, Mary Ann Dingee, and they have
five children : Charles E., Frederick R.,
Mary E., Emily H., and Gracia M. Resi
dence : 181 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn. Ad
dress : 26 Broadway, New York City.
BEECHER, Willis J.:
Clergyman and professor in Auburn
Theological Seminary; born at Hampden,
Ohio, April 29, 1838; son of John Wyllys
Beecher and Achsa (Judson) Beecher. He
was educated in academies at Augusta and
Vernon, New York, at Hamilton College,
graduating as B.A. and Valedictorian in
1858, M.A. in 1861 and D.D. in 1875. He
was graduated from Auburn Theological
Seminary in 1864 and received from Prince
ton University the degree of D.D. in 1896.
He was teacher in Whitestown Seminary
from 1858 to 1861 ; ordained by Presbytery
in 1864; minister at Ovid, New York, from
1863 to 1865; professor of moral science
and belles lettres at Knox College, Illi
nois, from 1865 to 1869; pastor of the First
Church of Christ at Galesburg, Illinois,
from 1869 to 1871, and from 1871 has been
professor of the Hebrew language and lit
erature in Auburn Theological Seminary.
He delivered the Stone Lectures at Prince
ton Seminary in 1902. Dr. Beecher is a
member of the Society of Biblical Litera
ture and Exegesis and was its treasurer
from 1884 to 1893, and president in 1904;
also member of the American Oriental
Society, American Institute of Sacred Lit
erature, American Bible League, and of
the Assembly's Committtee on Revision of
the Confession of Faith from 1890 to 1892.
He is a trustee and from 1905 has
been president of the Seymour Library
Association of Auburn ; president from 1903
of the Cayuga County Historical Society;
trustee and president of the Clifton Springs
(New York) Sanitarium. He is author of:

Farmer Tompkins and His Bibles, 1874;
The Prophets and the Promise, 1905; The
Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Future
Life, 1906; Dated Events in the Old Testa
ment, 1907; several volumes and pamphlets
of Syllabi and of local history and bio
graphy.; also Sunday School lessons for
many years in the Sunday School Times,
and some hundred of articles in Cyclope
dias, Bible Dictionaries, Teachers' Bibles
and other books of reference and in re
views, journals of societies, magazines and
other periodicals, and in pamphlets. He is
an Independent in politics. He is a member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the
Owasco Country Club and the City Club of
Auburn. He married at Ovid, New York,
June 14, 1865, Sara Maria Bolter, and they
have had two daughters, Martha, who died
in 1872, and Elizabeth. Address : 183 Gen
esee Street, Auburn, New York.
BEEKMAN, Charles Keller:
Lawyer; born Milburn, New Jersey,
1868; son of William B. and Alice Beek-,
man. He was graduated from Columbia
University as A.B. in 1889, LL.B.' in 1892.
He was admitted to the New York bar
in 1891, is now member of the firm of
Philbin, Beekman & Menkin. He is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, Delta Psi fratern
ity; also belongs to the Manhattan, Union,
University, Racquet and Tennis and St.
Anthony Clubs. Residence : 55 Fifth Ave
nue. Address : 52 William Street, New
York City.
BEERS, Henry Augustin:
Educator; born at Buffalo, New York,
July 2, 1847; son of George Webster and
Elizabeth Victoria (Clerc) Beers. He
was graduated at Yale College with the
degree of A.B. in 1869, later receiving that
of A.M. Following his graduation, he went
to New York City, and. was admitted
to the bar in 1870. For a year he prac
ticed law, but in 187 1 he returned to Yale
as tutor in English, subsequently becoming
assistant professor arid, in 1880, professor
of English literature, which chair he con
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Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the
Skull and Bones. In politics he is identi
fied with the Democratic party. He is
author of numerous books on English and
American literature, among them being:
From Chaucer to Tennyson, 1890; A Hist
ory of English Romanticism in the Eigh
teenth Century, 1899, and A History of
English Romanticism in the Nineteenth
Century, 1901, also of several volumes of
fiction, essays and verse, including: The
Thankless Muse, 1885; A Suburban Pas
toral, 1894; The Ways of Yale, 1895; and
Points at Issue, 1904; besides a life of N.
P. Willis, 1885. He was married at Cov
ington, Kentucky, July 7, 1873, to Mary
Heaton, and they have eight children.
Residence : 65 York Square. Address :
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
BEHREND, Bernard Arthur:
Electrical engineer; born in Pomerania,
Germany, May 9, 1875 ; son of Royal Coun
selor M. Behrend. He was educated by
private tutor, and at the University and
Polytechnic Institute of Berlin, graduating
in 1894; came to the United States and
has since then been engaged in electrical
engineering practice with specialization in
the design of large dynamos of high .volt
age for several manufacturers, and espe
cially for the Bullock Electric Manufactur
ing Company, which he is now serving as
chief engineer. He is also non-resident
lecturer on electrical engineering to several
universities, and is consulting electrical en
gineer to the Allis Chalmers Company and
affiliated corporations; Bullock Electric
Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati,
Ohio. He is a member of the Institute -of
Civil Engineers, Germany, of the Electrical
Engineers of Switzerland, and the Ameri
can Institute of Electrical Engineers ; and is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is in
ventor of numerous electrical devices, and
received a gold- medal from the Louisiana
Purchase. Exposition at St Louis, in 1904.
He is author of : The Induction Motor— Its
Theory and Design, 1900 (French transla
tion, igoi), (German translation, 1902) ; The

Debt of Electrical Engineering to C. E. L.
Brown, 1901 ; Engineering Education, 1907,
and is contributor of about thirty mono
graphs to leading American and European
journals, and transactions on engineering
subjects and on the theory of alternating
currents, motors and generators, and other
scientific subjects. He is a member of The
Engineers' Club of New York. Residence :
Norwood, Ohio. Office : The Bullock Elec
tric Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati,
Ohio.BEIDLER, Jacob Atlee:
Coal operator and ex-congressman; born
near Valley Forge, in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, November 2, 1852; son of
Israel Beidler. He was educated in the
district schools and at Locke's Academy at
Norristown, Pennsylvania. Since 1873 he
has been engaged as a coal operator. He
is a Republican in politics, and in 1900 he
was, elected from the Twentieth District of
Ohio to -the Fifty-seventh Congress. He
was reelected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
in 1902 and to the Fifty-ninth Congress in
1904, serving until March, 1907. He mar
ried, September 14, 1876, Hannah W.
Rhoades. ' Residence : Willoughby, Ohio.
Office address : Cleveland, Ohio.
BEITLER, Abraham M.:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, July 8,
1853. He was educated in the public
schools and graduated from the Central
High School of Philadelphia in July, 1870.
He studied law with C. Stuart Patterson
and was admitted to the bar in January,
1875. In 1877, he was appointed assistant
city solicitor, and in 1891 director of the
Department of Public Safety, under Mayor
Stuart. In February, 1896, he became
judge of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1,
He resigned from the bench in February,
1907, and is now a member of the law firm
of Dickson, Beitler & McCouch. He is a
member of the Board of Managers of the
Associated Alumni of Central High School,
is ex-president of the Five-o'clock Club,
and member of the Pennsylvania Society
of: Sons of the Revolution, and president
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Fund Association. ' Address : 1615 Poplar
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BELASCO, David:
Manager, playwright; born in San Fran
cisco, California, July 25, 1859; son of
Humphrey and Rena (Martin) Belasco,
both natives of England. He received his
early education under Catholic priests at
Vancouver, British Columbia, and was
graduated from Lincoln College, California,
in 1875, He early showed a predilection
for the stage; was stage manager of the
Baldwin Theatre, in San Francisco in 1878,
and later stage manager of the Grand Op
era House and Metropolitan Theatre, at
San Francisco. During this time he was
also engaged in dramatizing novels, adapt
ing foreign plays and doing original work.
He went East in 1880, and took charge of
the production of Mallory Brothers at the
Madison Square Theatre. He joined forces
with Charles Frohman in 1887, and later
was manager for Mrs. Carter in his
own version of Berton & Simon's Zaza,
and has been manager and proprietor
of the Belasco Theatre from 1902. He is
author of the plays : May Blossom ; La
Belle Russe; Valerie; Hearts of Oak;
Heart of Maryland; Lord Chumley; The
Highest Bidder; Zaza; Naughty Anthony;
Madame Butterfly; Madame Du Barry;
The Girl of the Golden West; and co
author of: The Darling of the Gods;
Sweet Kitty Bellairs; Adrea; The Charity
Ball; The Wife; Men and Women; and
The Girl I Left Behind Me; and in the
winter of 1906 and 1907 he produced The
Rose of the Rancho, in which he brought
out Miss Frances Starr and made a notable
success. Address: Belasco Theatre, New
York City.
BELDING, Alvah N.:
Silk manufacturer; born at Ashfield,
Mass., March 27, 1838; son of Hiram and
Mary (Wilson) Belding; and he was edu
cated in the public schools of Massachu
setts. Mr. Belding was one of the found
ers of the firm of Belding Brothers, and
is now vice-president and secretary and
manager of the manufacturing part of the

business of Belding Brothers & Company.
He is also president of the Belding Land
and Improvement Company; vice-president
of the Belding Savings Bank, and director
of the Spencer Electric Light and Power
Company, and the Belding Gas Company,
all of Belding, Michigan; director of the
James I. Regan Company of Rockville,
American Mills Company, the Rockville
National Bank, and People's Savings Bank,
all of Rockville, Connecticut; member of
and director of the Belding, Paul Com
pany, Limited, Montreal, Canada, and di
rector of the Carison-Currier Company,
San Francisco, California. Mr. Belding is
a member of the New York Club of New
York. He married at Shelburne Falls, Mas
sachusetts, January 6, 1870, Lizzie S. Mer
rick, by whom he has a daughter, Florence
M., and a son, Fred N. Belding. Address :
Rockville, Connecticut.
BELDING, Milo Merrick:
Merchant; born at Ashfield, Massachu
setts, April 3, 1833;- son of Hiram and
Mary (Wilson) Belding. He was educated
at Shelburne Falls Academy in Massachu
setts. He began as a boy to sell sewing
silks on a small scale, and afterward en
gaged in other commercial lines. In 1863
with brothers, he established a silk house
in Chicago, and in 1864 one in New York.
From this has grown Belding Brothers &
Company, with great plants at Belding,
Michigan, and Rockville, Connecticut, of
which he is president He is also
president of the Commonwealth Fire In
surance Company, and director of the In
ternational Salt. Company, Broadway Trust
Company, International Pulp Company,
Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Company.
Belding, Paul & Company, Montreal; the
Retsof Refining Company, and many others.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Beld
ing is a member of the Chamber of Com
merce of New York, the American Geo
graphical Society, Sons of the Revolution,
and Society of Founders and Patriots of
America, and the New York Club. He
married, April 1, 1856, Emily C. Leonard,
of Ashfield, Massachusetts, and they have
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April 14, 1865. Residence: 10 West Sev
enty-second Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 528 Broadway, New York City.
BELL, Charles James:
Banker ; born in Dublin, Ireland, April
12, 1858; son of David Charles Bell and
Ellen A. Bell. He was prepared in private
schools and finished his educational work
at Wesleyan College in Dublin., He came
to the United States and for years has
been engaged in the banking business at
Washington, D. G, where he is now at the
head of the bank of Bell & Company, and
president of the American Security and
Trust Company. Mr. Bell is a Republican
in politics. He is a member of the Na
tional Committee for the Promotion of the
University of the United States, the Na
tional Committee to change the date of the
Presidential Inauguration, the National
Geographic Society, the Geographical So
ciety of Washington, and he is president of
the National Society of Fine Arts. Mr.
Bell is a member of the Metropolitan, Cos
mos, and Chevy Chase Clubs, of Washing-
toning^ D. C. He married Grace B. Hub
bard, daughter of the late Hon. Guidon
G. Hubbard, of Washington. Residence :
1327 Connecticut Avenue. Office address :
1406 G Street, Washington, D. C.
HELL. Clark:
Lawyer; born at Whitesville, Jefferson
County, New York, March 12, 1832; son of
Philander F. and Sylvia (Jones) Bell; edu
cated at Franklin Academy, LL.D., Taylor
University, Indiana; Rutherford College,
North Carolina. Admitted to bar, Roch
ester, New York, 1853; practiced at Ham-
mondsport, New York, 1853-61 ; Bath, New
York, 1861-64; in New York City, since
1864; attorney Union Pacific Railway, 1864,
and drew the act and had charge of the
legislation which passed Congress to aid its
construction; attorney for Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. President Medico-
Legal Society, thirteen terms; founder In
ternational Congress on Tuberculosis (hon
orary president, St. Louis, 1904; treasurer
and secretary Council of Congress, New
York City, 1906; honorary member of

many State and foreign societies, delegate
United States to International Medical
Congress, Paris, 1900, and Lisbon, 1906.
Editor and publisher, since 1883, of Medico-
Legal Journal. Editor of Medico-Legal
Papers (three volumes) ; Bulletin American
Congress on Tuberculosis (four volumes) ;
Proceedings Medico-Legal Congress of 1889
and 1895. Author: Bell's Medico-Legal
Studies (eleven volumes) ; Spiritism, Tele
pathy and Hypnotism; History of the Su
preme Court of. the States and Provinces
of North America (New York and fifteen
other States), two volumes; also various
other publications. Clubs : Union League,
Press. Married September 8, 1857, Helene
S. Taylor. Residence : 170 W. Seventy-fifth
Street. Address : 39 Broadway, New York
City.
BELL, Gordon Knox:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 19, 1871 ; son of Edward Rogers
and Eliza N. (Soutter) Bell. He was
educated in Groton School, Harvard, grad
uating with the degree of A.B. and with
the magna cum laude honors in 1893, LL.B.,
in 1896. He was admitted to the New
York bar in 1897. He is a Republican in
politics, and is now member of the Dis
trict and City Committees in Twenty-
ninth Assembly District. He is a member
of the New York Bar Association, member
of the Board of Managers of the Ameri
can Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. He is a member of the Saint
Nicholas Society and Phi Beta Kappa
Alumni. Mr. Bell is a member of the
Union, University and Harvard Clubs. He
married at South Salem, New York, May
11, 1899, Marian Mason' Crafts; and they
have one son, Gordon Knox Bell, Jr., born
in 1902. Address: 22 William Street,
New York City.
BELL, Hill McClelland:
President of Drake University; born in
Ohio in i860; son of J. H. Bell and Elmy
A. (Cooper) Bell. His parents moved to
Iowa in 1865, and his life has since been
spent wholly in that State, except a period
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coin, Nebraska. His early education was
secured in an Iowa country school. Later
he attended Hazel Dell Academy, a sec
ondary school at Newton; and Western
Normal College at Shenandoah, Iowa. He
attended Drake University, as a student-
teacher, and from it received the degree
of A.B. in 1890, A.M. in 1899, and in
1905, the honorary degree of LL.D. was
conferred by Simpson College. At the
age of eighteen, he engaged in teaching
country schools, and soon after was elect
ed to the principalship of the village schools
of Linnville, Iowa. He became superin
tendent of schools at Kellogg, Iowa in
1885 ; teacher of mathematics in the Nor
mal College of Drake University from
1888 to 1890, and from 1890 to 1894 he
taught English in Highland Park College.
From 1894 to 1897 he was teacher in Lin
coln Normal College, at Lincoln, Nebraska,
serving as president of that institution dur
ing the last two years. He returned to
Drake University as dean of the Normal
College, from 1897 until 1900; vice-chan
cellor of Drake University in 1900 and
1901, and dean of the College of Liberal
Arts from 1901 to 1903 and for the year
1903 he was acting chancellor of the Uni
versity, and in 1903 he was chosen president
of the university, a position which he still
holds. President Bell has taken an active
interest in all things educational. He is
a member of the Board of Trustees of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching; a member of the Iowa Com
mittee of Selection for the Rhodes Schol
arship, and during the past year has been
president of the college section of the
State Teachers' Association. He has at
different times filled various important po
tions in the educational world, and is the
author of some popular, text-books in Eng
lish. He married at Kellogg, Iowa, Sep
tember 2, 1886, Edith L. Orebaugh, and
they have five children: Hugh, born in
1891 ; Ruth, born in 1895; Ralph, born in
1900; Craig, born in 1901, and Ross, born
in 1903. Residence: 1091 Twenty-sixth
Street, Des Moines. Office address : Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa.

BELL, James Franklin:
Major-general of the United States
Army ; born' in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Jan
uary 9, 1856; son of John Wilson Bell and
Sarah Margaret Venable (Allen) Bell.
After completing the courses in the local
schools of his birthplace he was appointed
to the United States Military Academy,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1878. He was commissioned second
lieutenant in June, 1878, and served against
Indians on the plains in the Seventh Regi
ment of United States Cavalry from 1878
to 1894. He captured a band of half-breed
Cree Indians near Fort Buford, South Da
kota, 1883; was iri the Sioux campaign at
Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in 1891 ; was
adjutant of the regiment and secretary of
the Cavalry and Light Artillery School,
from 1891 to 1894; aide to General J. W.
Forsyth, serving in California, Arizona,
and in the State of Washington, and served
in the Spanish-American campaign in the
Philippine Islands, and in the Philippine In
surrection. He was promoted captain in
the United States Army, March, 1899; ap
pointed colonel of volunteers, July 5, 1899.
He organized the Thirty-sixth Infantry of
United States Volunteers in the Philip
pine Islands in July, 1899; commanding
the regiment to December, 1899, and was
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
for most distinguished gallantry in action,
September 9, 1899, near Porac, Luzon, Phil
ippine Islands, while in advance of his reg
iment charging seven insurgents with his
pistol and "compelling the surrender of the
captain and two privates, under a hot and
close fire from the remaining insurgents
concealed in a bamboo thicket. He was
appointed brigadier-general of volunteers,
December 5, 1899 ; commanding the Fourth
Brigade of the Second Division of the
Eighth Army Corps, and of the Third Dis
trict of the Department of Northern Luzon
to July, 1900. He was provost marshal-
general of the city of Manila, Philippine
Islands, to February, 1901 ; was appointed
brigadier-general of the United States
Army in February, 1901 ; commanded the
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ern Luzon to November, 1901, and the
Third Brigade of the Department of South
ern Luzon to December, 1902. He returned
to the United States in 1903, and then be
came commandant of the Infantry and Cav
alry School and Staff College at Fort Leav
enworth, Kansas. He was promoted ma
jor-general of the United States Army, Jan
uary 3, 1907, and is now serving as chief
of the General Staff. Address : Room 224.
War Department, Washington.
BELL, James Montgomery:
Brigadier-general United States Army;
born at Williams, Pennsylvania, October 1,
1837; son of William B. Bell. He was
graduated from the Wittenberg College,
Springfield, Ohio as A.B., and later A.M.
He served as first lieutenant of the Eigh
ty-sixth Ohio Infantry in 1861 ; was cap
tain of the Independent Troop of Pennsyl
vania Cavalry from June to August, 1863,
and of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry
from October 8, 1863 to July 14, 1865. He
was appointed in the Regular Army as
second lieutenant of the Thirteenth United
States Cavalry, June 28, 1866; first lieu
tenant, April 2, 1867; captain, June 25,
1876; major of First United States Caval
ry, May 25, 1890; lieutenant-colonel of
Eighteenth United States Cavalry, Janu
ary 10, 1900; colonel of Eighth Infantry,
July 5, 1899; brigadier-general of the
United States Volunteers from 1900
to 1901 ; • brigadier-general of the
United States Army, September 17, 1901,
and resigned the position October 1, 1901.
He was brevetted first lieutenant and cap
tain, for gallant and meritorious service
during the Battle of the Wilderness, Vir
ginia; made major for the same at Ream's
Station, Virginia, and lieutenant for sarhe
against Indians, at Canon Creek, Montana,
September 30, 1877. He has served on
the frontier from 1866 to 1891, taking part
in several. Indian wars, and was three
times wounded. He also served through
the Spanish-American War, and was in
the Philippine Islands from October 26,
1899, to April, 1901. He commanded Bell's
Expeditionary Brigade to the Caramines
Provinces, South Luzon, February, 1900;

commanded the Third District Depart
ment of Southern Luzon from March,
1900, to March, 1901 ; and was military
governor of the Third District Depart
ment of Southern Luzon, from April, 1900,'
to March, 1901. He married at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, March 2, 1872, Emily M.
Hones. Address : 1428 Euclid Place,
Washington, D. C
BELL, James S.:
Merchant miller ; born in Philadelphia,
June 30, 1847; son of Samuel Bell and
Elizabeth (Faust) Bell. He was educated
in the public schools of Philadelphia and
the Philadelphia Central High School until
1863, when he began business life as a
clerk, continuing until 1868, when on at
taining his majority he became a partner
in the firm of Samuel Bell & Sons* in
which connection he continued for twenty
years. In 1888 he became a partner in
the firm of Washburn, Martin & Company,
and the following year . became president
of the Washburn-Crosby Company, the
great flour milling corporation of Minne
apolis, and has continued at the head of
that company ever since. He is also pres
ident of the Royal Milling Company, vice-
president of the St. Anthony Elevator
Company, the St. Anthony and Dakota Ele
vator Company and the Barnum Grain Com
pany, and is a director of the Northwestern
National Bank of Minneapolis. Mr. Bell
is a Republican in his political views. He
is a member of the Union League Club of
Philadelphia and the Minneapolis Club of
Minneapolis. Mr. Bell married at Phila
delphia, January 8, 1873, Sallie Montgom
ery Ford. Residence'. 2215 Park Avenue,
Minneapolis. Office address : The Wash
burn-Crosby Company, Minneapolis, Minne
sota.
BELLAMY, John D.:.
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in
Wilmington, North Carolina, March 24,
1854 ; son of Dr. John D. Bellamy and Eliza
M. (Harriss) Bellamy. He was graduated
from Davidson College, North Carolina,
as A.B. in 1873, studied German and mod
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ginia in 1874 and graduated from that Uni
versity as B.L. in 1875. He has served
as county attorney of Brunswick County,
city attorney of Wilmington, North Caro
lina, local counsel of the Seaboard Air
Line, and the Southern Railway; attorney
of the Atlantic National Bank, counsel for
the Western Union Telegraph Company, the
Southern Bell Telephone Company, the
Wilmington Homestead and Loan Associa
tion, the North Carolina Home Building
Association, and other corporations. He
is a prominent Democrat, and was a mem
ber of the State Senate of North Carolina
in 1891 and 1892, and a member of the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses
from 1899 to 1903. Mr. Bellamy is a Pres
byterian in his religious views. He is a
member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity,
has been grand master of Odd Fellows,
and is a Knight of Pythias, and. a member
of the Cape Fear Club. Mr. Bellamy has a
very large admiralty practice in the United
States courts, has also a general law and
equity practice in all the state and federal
courts. He is author of: Sketches His
torical; Life of Major-General Robert
Howe, and Life of General Alexander Lil-
Iington. He married at Townesville, North
Carolina, December 6, 1876, Emma May
Hargrove, and they have five children : Mrs.
J. W. Williams, nee Eliza M. Bellamy,
born in 1877; W. M. Bellamy, lawyer, born
in 1884 ; Emmett H. Bellamy, born in 1891 ;
Mary H. Bellamy, born in 1896, and Mar
garet G. Bellamy, born in 1900. Residence:
602 Market Street, Wilmington. Office ad
dress : 416 Southern Building, Wilmington,
North Carolina.
BELLAMY, Russell:
Surgeon and physician; born in Wil
mington, North Carolina, February 12,
1871 ; son of Dr. William James Harriss
Bellamy, captain of scouts, C. S. Army, and
Mary Williams (Russell) Bellamy. His
father, grandfather, and great-grand-.
• father were all physicians. The Bel
lamy family settled in the Carolinas in
the latter part of the seventeenth century.
His maternal great-grandfather was General
William Russell, who married a daughter

of Patrick Henry. He was two years at the
University of North Carolina, from 1887
to 1889, then at the North Carolina Pre
paratory Medical School in 1889 and 1890,
receiving the first prize, and was gradu
ated from the University of New York as
M.D. (honor -man) in 1892; received first
prize North Carolina State Medical Board,
1891. He was interne at Bellevue Hospital,
New York City, from 1892 to 1894; at the
General Hospital, Vienna, and Berne, Swit
zerland, with Professor Theodor Kocher,
surgical clinic, in 1895 and 1896; and has
been engaged in practice in New York
City from graduation. He was instructor
in New York University Medical Depart
ment from 1895 to 1898; in Cornell Univer
sity Medical Department from 1896 to 1906 ;
assistant in. clinical diagnosis to the late
Professor A. L. Loomis, also attending
physician Bellevue Hospital Dispensary;
assistant surgical clinic to the House of
Relief with Professor L. A. Stimson; as
sistant to Professor John A. Wyeth's Clinic
(surgery) at the New York Polyclinic Hos
pital. Dr. Bellamy was the originator and
organizer of the Manhattan Maternity Hos
pital and Emergency Surgical Tent Sta
tions for Out Lying City Parks. He has
also practiced seven summers at Newport,
R. I. He served for eleven years and
was captain and assistant surgeon of Squad
ron A, New York Cavalry. He acted with
this command as special escort to President
Theodore Roosevelt on his inauguration,
March 4, 1905, and previous as Governor
of New York State in 1899, and as
Vice-President in 1901. He spent one
year in the Rocky Mountain region,
from Manitoba to Mexico, and is a
big game sportsman and explorer, and is ¦
author of several scientific, climatological
and magazine articles. Dr. Bellamy is a
member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, the Cornell University Club
and the Deutsche Studenten. He mar
ried, April 20,. 1898, Constance Tren-
holm, a daughter of the late Hon.
William L. Trenholm (comptroller of
the Currency of the United States, an
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granddaughter of the late George Alfred
Trenholm, who was secretary of the Treas
ury of the Confederate States of America.
Address : 20 West Thirtieth Street, New
York City.
BELLAMY, William James Harriss:
Physician and surgeon; born in Wilming
ton, North Carolina, September 16, 1844;
son of Dr. John Dillard Bellamy and Mary
(Russell) Bellamy, and is the son and
grandson of physicians, and is descended
from a long line of Colonial ancestors, the
family having settled in Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1685, and many of his an
cestors served in the Revolutionary and
Mexican Wars. He was educated in a
preparatory military academy, entered the
University of North Carolina, but volun
teered in the Confederate States Army with
his class, becoming part of the Eighteenth
North Carolina Infantry (termed "the
Bloody Eighteenth North Carolina'' by
General Robert E. Lee in an order after
the Seven Days' Battle Around Richmond,
ordering this regiment to be held in re
serve, it having had nine hundred killed
and wounded out of its membership of
eleven hundred). He was in the battles of
Hanover Court House, Gaines Mill, and
Malvern Hill, and after serving two years
in the infantry and having been tendered
and declined an offer of General Branch
of an appointment as captain and aide-de
camp, he became a captain of scouts in
- eastern North Carolina serving until the
close of the Civil War. He then went to
the Medical Department of the University
of New York, from which he was gradu
ated as M.D. with honors, winning the
Roosa prize, in 1868. He has ever since
practiced medicine at Wilmington, North
Carolina; was a member of the first State
Board of Medical Examiners of North
Carolina from 1885 to 1890, and is chief
State examiner for many fraternal societies
and life insurance companies. Dr. Bellamy
is a member of the local, State and national
medical societies, and of the Chi Psi fra
ternity. He finds recreation from his pro
fessional labors in horticulture, farming,
riding and fishing. He is a Democrat in
politics, and a Presbyterian in religious

views. Dr. Bellamy married in Wilming
ton, North Carolina, in November, 1869,
Mary, daughter of Daniel Lindsay Russell,
and of that union there are six children :
Dr. Russell Bellamy, who is engaged in
the practice of medicine in New York
City, John, William, Lilla, Grist, Mary
Jennings, and Alice M. Bellamy. Address :
209 Orange Avenue, Wilmington, North
Carolina.BELMONT, August:
Banter; born in New York City, Febru
ary 18, 1853 5 son of the late August Belmont
and of Caroline Slidell (Perry) Belmont.
He was educated at. the Rectory School at
Hampton, Connecticut; Phillips Exeter
Academy, and Harvard University, being
graduated as A.B. in 1874. In 1875 he
entered his father's banking house and is
now head of the firm of August Belmont
& Company, bankers, which, in addition
to its own large interests, is the accredited
representative of the Rothschilds in Amer
ica. He is also chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Interborough-Metropolitan
Company, and the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company; director of the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad; director
National Park Bank, Manhattan Trust
Company, and many other corporations.
He is president and director of the Na
tional Civic Federation. Mr. Belmont is
a Democrat in politics. He is president of
the American Kennel Club; chairman of
the Jockey Club, and is actively identified
with turf interests in New York State. He
is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker,
Manhattan, Country Clubs, the New York
Athletic Club, of which he was formerly
president. He married in 1881, Bessie H.
Morgan, who died in 1898. Residence
(country) : Hempstead, Long Island;
(city) ; 44 East Thirty-fourth Street, New
York City. Office address : 23 Nassau Street,
New York City.
BELMONT, Oliver Hazard Perry:
Legislator, financier; born in New York
City, November 12, 1858; son of the late
August Belmont. He was graduated from
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tember 30, 1876, subsequently serving in the
navy and resigning in 1876. He was form
erly a member of the August Belmont &
Company, bankers, and is now a director of
the Night and Day Bank. He was a mem
ber of the National Democratic Convention
of 1901, and served in Congress from 1901
to 1903, from the Thirteenth New York
District. He is a member of the Brook,
Racquet and Tennis, New York Athletic.
Union, Knickerbocker, Manhattan,' Metro
politan, Lawyers', Meadow Brook, Lambs',
New York Yacht, Turf and Field, University
and New York Clubs of New York, and the
Metropolitan Club of Washington. He mar
ried in New York City, in 1896, Mrs. Alva
(Smith) Vanderbilt. Residence: 677 Fifth
Avenue, Address : 1 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
BELMONT, Perry:
Lawyer, capitalist; born in New York
City, December 28, 185 1; eldest son of the
late August Belmont, financier, and of Caro
line Slidell (Perry) Belmont. He was grad
uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1872, tak
ing special honors in history and political
economy, and following with a course in
civil law at the University of Berlin, then
went to the Columbia Law School, grad
uating as LL.B. in 1876. He was admitted
to the bar in 1876 and engaged as counsel
for important corporate interests, and prac
ticed until 1881. Becoming active in politi
cal matters he was elected in 1880 as a
Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress
from the First New York District, and was
reelected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth Congresses, serving until 1887,
and as chairman of the Committee on For
eign Affairs during the Forty-ninth and
Fiftieth Congresses. He was appointed
United States Minister to Spain in 1887,
serving until 1889. During the Spanish-
American War he volunteered for service
and was appointed inspector general with
the rank of major. Mr. Belmont is a di
rector in several corporations and a member
of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
He is also a member of the Metropolitan,
Knickerbocker, University, New York
Yacht, Army and Navy, Jockey, Turf and

Field, Coaching, National Democratic,
Manhattan and Union Clubs of New
York. Mr. Belmont married, in 1899, Jes
sie Robbins. Address: 580 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
BELZNER, Theodore:
Civil engineer and city surveyor; bom
in New York City, February 4, 1879; son
of Julius Christian and Elizabeth (Heim)
Belzner. He graduated from the public
schools in 1893; student of the Cooper
Union Scientific School, 1896-97; Interna
tional Correspondence School, since 1897
(bridge engineering course, etc). He was
appointed city surveyor, City of New York,
October 12, 1897, by Mayor Strong; now
inspector of steel, Blackwell's Island
Bridge (No. 4) (cantilever), Department
of Bridges, City of New York. Began
engineering profession under T. G. Smith,
civil engineer, architect and builder, 1893-
98; assistant in detailing about 2000 or
3000 buildings, which were condemned by
the City of New York for park sites and
extensions, street improvements, school
sites; etc, made personally about 200 or
300 separate reports regarding conditions
of buildings; superintendent of building
construction, on engineering work, private
and public surveys, etc; topographical
draughtsman, Topographical Bureau, De
partment of Public Improvement, City of
New York ; assistant to John F. O'Rourke,
contracting engineer, City Island Bridge,
in charge masonry plans and subaqueous
construction. Engineer inspector tunnel
construction, West Virginia Short Line
Railroad; United States inspector, dike re
pairing, Manasquan Inlet, Manasquan, New
Jersey; architect's superintendent, with
Oscar Lowinson, architect and engineer,
connected as general assistant in the ex
amination of the Rothchild Building, cor
ner Fulton and Jay Streets, Brooklyn
(which was on the verge of collapse) ; in
spector of construction work at the He
brew Infant Asylum; general assistant in
the construction of the factory and twenty
buildings at Perth Amboy, New Jersey;
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Sea, Long Island, and on general alteration
work. United States inspector, Lock and
Dam Construction, Lock No. 4, Warrior
River, Alabama, January, 1901, to April,
1907; inspector of masonry assigned to
steel construction. New York Rapid Tran
sit Railroad Commission, in charge con
struction of large part of beam tunnel from
City Hall to Thirty-third Street, including
stations, etc.; detailed on methods of drill
ing and blasting at Murray Hill tunnel, in
charge of sand-blast cleaning of structural
steel, Forty-second Street, and East River,
Manhattan Valley Viaduct (seven-eighths
mile long), including an arch one hundred
and sixty-eight feet, six inches in diam
eter; East Side Viaduct (over- three and
a half miles long) ; also elevated stations,
and reinforced concrete inspection shed at
West Farms, New York; West Side Via
duct (one and a half miles long) ; Harlem
Ship Canal bridge, at Kingsbridge, New
York City (double deck swing bridge)
(center-bearing type), including two ap
proaches; West Side Viaduct Extension
north of Harlem Ship Canal Bridge to
Spuyten Duyvil Creek Bridge, Two Hun
dred and Thirtieth Street and Broadway;
and in charge of part of steel plate girder
grillages for Van Cortlandt Park Extension
of West Side Viaduct (above viaducts all
three tracks) ; also connected with the
moving of the old and new spans. and draw
bridges at Kingsbridge, New York. Since
April, 1907, inspector of steel and steel
construction, Blackwell's Island Bridge;
in charge of construction, Manhattan an
chor arm, and east cantilever arm. He
served as a private in the New York Sig
nal Corps, National Guard, State of New
York. He is a Lutheran in his religious
affiliations. He is a junior member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
(elected October 5, 1897). Mr. Belzner's
recreations are' athletics of all sorts. Resi
dence: 614 West One Hundred and Thir
ty-fifth Street, New York City. Address:
56- Sutton Place, New York City.
BENDER, Harry Hamilton:
Fiscal supervisor of the State charities,
New York State; bom at Albany, New

York, June 9, 1862; son of Ephraim H.
Bender and Sarah (Whitney) Bender.
He was graduated from Albany Academy,
in 1879. He was in book and stationery
business, Albany, from 1881 to 1887; in
real estate business, Albany, from 1887 to
1896; now he is president of the Bender
Hygienic Laboratory, Albany, director of
the Albany County Bank, the Union Trust
Company, the Commerce Insurance Com
pany, Albany Home Telephone Company
and Albany director of the United States
Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Balti
more, Maryland. He was deputy county
treasurer, Albany County, January 1, 1897
to February I, 1899; superintendent of
public buildings, New York State, Feb
ruary 1, 1899, to June 9, 1902; fiscal super
visor State charities, since June 9, 1902,
term expiring June 9, 1907. He is a Re
publican in politics and an Episcopalian in
religion. He is member of the Philip Liv
ingston Chapter, Sons of Revolution, (Al
bany, New York), member of the Albany
Society in New York. He is member of
the Fort Orange, Albany, Albany Country
and Capital City Clubs of Albany and Re
publican Club of New York City. Mr.
Bender married at Utica, New York, Sep
tember 10, 1884, Mae L. Everts and they
have one son, Kenneth E., born in 1887.
Address: 129 South Lake Avenue, Al
bany, New York.
BENEDICT, A. L.:
Physician; born at Buffalo, New York,
[865; son of iiathan Gregory, Jr., Benedict
and Gracia Skinner (Smith) Benedict. He
was graduated from the University of
Michigan as A.B., from the University of
Buffalo as M.D., from the University of
Pennsylvania as M.D. and the Ohio Wes
leyan University conferred the degree of
A.M. He was appointed to the United
States ...iarine- Hospital Service in 1890,
but did not serve ; he held various teaching
positions in professional schools, including
professorship in physiology in Dental De
partment, University of Buffalo, from 1896
to 1901 ; superintendent of Ethnology at
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Associate editor Medical and Surgical Re
porter, and editor of the American Thera
pist of New York. Dr. Benedict has been
a vice-president of the Medical Academy
of Medicine, councillor of the American
Gastro-enterologic Association; is a mem
ber of the American Medical Association
(gold medal in medicine), Medical Society
of the State of New York (twice prize
essayist) ; member of the Historical So
ciety, Society of Natural Sciences, Buf
falo, Delta Upsilon fraternity (president of
Michigan Chapter and Western New York
Alumni Association). His favorite rec
reation is American archeology. He is
a member of the University and Yacht
Clubs. Address : Roanoke Hotel, 156 West
Chippewa Street, Buffalo, New York.
BENEDICT, Eiias Cornelius:
Banker and stock-broker; born at Som-
ers, Westchester County, New York, Jan
uary 24, 1834. He was educated in the
schools of New York until 1850, when he
became a clerk in a stock-broker's office.
He embarked in business for himself in
1857 and has continued ever since. He
originated the Gold Exchange Bank, which
grew out of gold speculation during and
after the Civil War, and in recent years
his specialty has been the handling of gas
stocks. He is president of the Commercial
Acetylene Company, the Marine Engine
and Machinery Company, and he is a di
rector of the United States Rubber Com
pany and the Columbia Trust Company. His
favorite recreations are hunting and yacht
ing. Mr. Benedict is a member of the
Players', the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
and New York Yacht Clubs. He married
Sarah Hart. Residence: 10 West Fifty-
first Street. Office address : 80 Broadway,
New York City.
BENEDICT, Francis Gano:
Chemist and educator; born in Milwau
kee, October 3, 1870; son of Washington
Gano Benedict and Harriet Emily (Barrett)
Benedict. He was graduated from Harvard
as A.B. in 1893, and A.M. in 1894, and from
Heidelberg University as Ph.D. in 1895. He
was instructor in chemistry at the Massa

chusetts College of Pharmacy from 1892
to 1894, after that he was with the Wes
leyan University at Middletown, Connecti
cut, as instructor and associate professor
of chemistry from 1896 to 1905, and profes
sor from 1905 until 1907. He was chemist
of Storrs Experiment Station from 1896
to 1900, physiological chemist of the nutri
tion investigations of United States Depart
ment of Agriculture from 1895 to 1907, and
is now director of the nutrition laboratory
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
He is a member of the American Chemical
Society, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft,
American Physiological Society and Society
for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
He is author of : Elementary Organic Anal
ysis, 1900, and of: Chemical Lecture Ex
periments, 1901. He married at Brewer,
Maine, July 28, 1897, Cornelia Golay. Ad
dress : Nutrition Laboratory, Vila Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
BENEDICT, James Sackett:
American consul ; born at Aurelius, Cayuga
County, New York, March 5, 1856; son of
Newton and Asenath (Chapin) Benedict.
He was educated in the public schools and
private school, Washington, D. C. He was
draftsman and clerk, for four years in
architect's office, Washington, D. C; re
ceived temporary appointment in the En
gineer's Office, War Department; was
American "consular agent at Stratford, On
tario, from 1879 to 1887; American com
mercial agent at Moncton, New Bruns
wick, from 1887 to 1897; transferred to
commercial agency at Campbellton, New
Brunswick, January 25, 1897; on reorgani
zation of consular service by act of Con
gress, April 5, 1906, the commercial agen
cy was abolished and he was appointed
American consul at Campbellton aforesaid.
In April, 1907, he was promoted as Ameri
can consul at St. John's, Newfoundland.
He is an Episcopalian in religion. He is a
Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, char
ter and life member of the Ontario Grand
Lodge of the Royal Arcanum. His favor
ite recreations are billiards, hunting and
fishing. He is an honorary member of the
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clubs. Mr. Benedict married at Wash
ington, D. C, 1879, Cora Blanche Chase,
and they have two children : Sallie Ase-
nath, now Mrs. Alfred F. Tomlins; and
May Chase, graduate nurse, City Hospital
of Auburn, New York. Address: Ameri
can Consul, St. John's, Newfoundland.
BENEDICT, Robert Dewey:
Lawyer; born at Burlington, Vermont,
October 3, 1828; son of George Wyllys and
Eliza (Dewey) Benedict. He was gradu
ated from the University of Vermont in
1848 as B.A., and received also the de
grees of A.M. and LL.D. Mr. Benedict
was admitted to the bar in New York
City in 1851. He is a Republican in poli
tics. He is author of Reports of Cases
Argued and Determined in the District
Courts of the United States Within the
Second Circuit (ten volumes) ; and of var
ious pamphlets; and he was editor of Ben
edict's Admiralty, third edition. He is a
member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the
Order of Settlers and Defenders of Amer
ica (first vice-president), the Long Island
Flistorical Society, and of the Hamilton
and Congregational Clubs of Brooklyn.
Mr. Benedict married at Winooski Falls,
Vermont, in 1854, Frances A. Weaver.
Residence: 363 Adelphia Street, Brooklyn.
RENHAM, William Monroe:
Attorney-at-la\v ; born in Auburn, New
York, April 8, 1866. He was educated in
the public schools of New Brighton, Penn
sylvania. He was graduated from Geneva
College as B.A. in 1887, being awarded the
General Excellency Prize of $25 for best
grade of any student in college during that
year, and he was graduated from the Law
Department of Columbia University, New
York City, in 1892, as LL.B., cum laude,
and was awarded the first prize of $250
for the greatest knowledge and highest at
tainments in his law studies. He was ad
mitted to practice in New York, December
7, 1891, having served a clerkship in the
law office of Carter, Hughes & Kellogg,
while attending Columbia. He became a
member of the Allegheny County Bar in

September, 1892, and has since been ad
mitted to practice in all the State Courts
and the United States Circuit and District
Courts for Western Pennsylvania. Mr.
Benham is a prominent Mason, being Wor
shipful Master of Fort Pitt Lodge, and a
member of the Pennsylvania Consistory
which gives him the thirty-second degree in
Masonry. He is a member of the Pitts
burgh Lodge of Elks, and was elected Es
teemed Loyal Knight in 1904, Esteemed
Leading Knight in 1905, Exalted Ruler in
1906, and reelected Exalted Ruler in 1907.
He is a member of the. Knights of the
Ancient Essenic Order and was Supreme
Senator of the Supreme Lodge, the high
est office in the country, during 1901. He
is a member of the Allegheny County Bar
Association; the University Club and the
Order of the Eastern Star. In 1904 he was
chairman of the committee that organized
the Colonial Republican Club, and was for
merly its vice-president; was elected presi
dent of the club for the year of 1907, and
is also a member of its board of trustees.
In politics he is an ardent Republican, and
was a member of the Twentieth Ward Re
publican Association and the Republican
City Executive Committee for several years
and was elected first vice-chairman of the
Republican City Executive Committee in
1904 and 1905. Being a fluent public speaker,
he is called upon to deliver addresses of
various kinds. Address : Bakewell Build
ing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BENJAMIN, Charles Henry:
Professor of mechanical engineering;
born at Patten, Maine, August 29, 1856;
son of Samuel E. Benjamin and Ellen M.
(Fairfield) Benjamin. He was graduated
from the University of Maine as M.E. in
1880. He was instructor from 1880 to 1883
and professor 1883 to 1886, of mechanical
engineering in the University of Maine,
mechanical engineer of the McKay Heeling
Machine Association from 1886 to 1889;
1889 to 1907, professor of mechanical en
gineering at the Case School of Applied
Science, and in 1907 was appointed Dean
of the Engineering Schools of Purdue Uni
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for smoke inspection of the city of
Cleveland, from 1900 to 1902. He is
president and director of the Cleveland
Engineering Company (consulting engin
eers). He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the So
ciety for the Promotion of Engineering
Education, the Civil Engineers' Club of the
City of Cleveland. He is a Unitarian in
religious views, and is trustee and pres
ident of the Church of the Unity at Cleve
land. He is a member of the Society of
Sigma Xi, and of the Tau Beta Pi
fraternity. He- is author of: Mod
ern American Machine Tools, published
in London, and of a work on Ma
chine Design. His favorite recreation
is water color sketching. Mr. Benja
min is a Republican in politics. He
is a member and past president of the
Philosophical Club of Cleveland and of the
Unitarian Club of Cleveland. He married
at Oakland, Maine, August 17, 1879, Cora
Louise Benson, and they have two chil
dren: Marion, born in 1881, and Barbara,
born in 1890. Residence : La Fayette, In
diana. Office address : Purdue University,
La Fayette, Indiana.
BENJAMIN, Marcus:
Editor, U. S. National Museum; born in
San Francisco, California, January 17, 1857 ;
son of Edmund Burke and Sarah (Mit
chell) Benjamin. His father was a mer
chant of high reputation in San Francis
co and later in New York City. He
was educated at the College of the City
of New York and at Columbia University,
graduating in the chemical course with the
degree of Ph. B. in 1878. After four years
of business experience he became, in 1882,
editor of the American Pharmacist, and
later of its successor, the Weekly Drug
News; chemist in U. S. Laboratory in Ap
praiser's Store, 1883; sanitary engineer,
New York City Board of Health, 1885;
lecturer on chemistry, New York Woman's
Medical College, 1886; wrote articles on
Mineral Paints in Mineral Resources of the
United States, 1882-5 ; contributor to Ap
pleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1883 to 1902;

on editorial staffs Cyclopedia of American
Biography, 1886-8; Standard Dictionary,
1891-4; Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia,
1895; Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1896;
American Educator, 1897; International
Year Book, 1899-1902; New International
Encyclopedia, 1900-3; editor, Appleton's
Dictionary of New York, 1890; Handbook
of Winter Resorts, 1890-96; Handbook of
Summer Resorts, 1891-97; General Guide
of the United States, 1891-1902, and Cana
dian Guide Book, i895-'98; also revised
edition of Picturesque America, 1894; May
Time— a collection of poems, 1899; Some
Noted Paintings by Artists of To-Day, and
Washington During War Time, 1902 ; trans
lator of Bertholet's Explosive Materials,
1883. Since 1896, editor of Proceedings,
Bulletins, and Annual Reports, U. S. Na
tional Museum. Contributor to Scientific
American, Popular Scientific Monthly, The
Chautauquan, and other popular magazines.
Author of Braddock's Rock, a Study in
Local History, 1899; Memoir of Rear Ad
miral Francis Asbury Roe, 1903; A Mem
orial of John Henry Boner, 1905; John
Bidwell, Pioneer, A Sketch of His
Career, 1906; etc. Member of Jury of
Awards, World's Columbian Exposition,
1893 ; Tennessee Centennial, 1897 ;- Trans-
Mississippi, 1898 ; Pan-American, 1901 ;
South Carolina Interstate, 1902, and Louis
iana Purchase Expositions, 1904; U. S.
Assay Commission, 1896, .1899, 1904 and
1906. Was secretary of' the Section of
Technical Chemistry, International Con
gress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, 1904 ;
life fellow, London Chemical Society, and
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science (vice-president, 1899;
local secretary, Washington Meeting, 1903) ;
member of the American Chemical Society,
Society Chemical Industry, National Geo
graphic Society, Sigma Xi, etc. President
of the Society of the War of 1812 in
the District of Columbia (vice-president-
general of the General Society) ; secretary
of the Society of the Sons of thd Revolution
in the District of Columbia, and governor
of the Society of Colonial Wars in the
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of the Ladies' Hermitage Association and
of the Wachovia Historical Society of
North Carolina. He has received honor
ary degrees of A.M. from Lafayette Col
lege, 1889; Ph.D. from the University of
Nashville, 1889, and ScD. from the West
ern University of Pennsylvania, 1904. Mem
ber of the Authors Club, New York City,
and Cosmos Club, Washington. On June
16, 1892, he married Carolyn Gilbert, daugh
ter of J. Loring Gilbert, of New York City.
Address: 1703 Q Street, N. W. Office:
U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.
BENJAMIN, Park:
Patent lawyer, author ; born in New York
City, May 11, 1849; son of Park Benjamin
(poet) and of Mary (Western) Benjamin.
He was graduated from Trinity School,
New York City, in 1862, and from the
United States Naval Academy in 1867. He
made several cruises; was with Admiral
Farragut, European station, 1868; promoted
to ensign, 1868, and resigned in 1869. He
was graduated from Albany Law School
as LL.B., 1870, was admitted to the bar
same year and received the degree of Ph.D.
from Union College in 1877. He was as
sociate editor of the Scientific American
from 1872 to 1878, and is a scientific ex
pert and counsel in patent matters. He was
editor-in-chief of Appleton's Cyclopedia of
Applied Mechanics, from 1878 to 1891. He
is associate member of the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers ; foreign
member of the British Chartered Institute
of Patent Agents, and member of the
American Institute of Mechanical Engi
neers, American Institute of Electrical En
gineers. He is author of numerous books
and magazine contributions. He was the
first to advocate a United States Naval Re
serve. He collected, with" R. M. Thomp
son and E. J. Berwind, a valuable library
of rare works relating to electricity and
presented it to the United States Naval
Academy. He has been counsel to leading
inventors and corporations in various pro
ceeding and litigations. He is president of
the Naval Architects' Association of New
York; a member of the University Club of
New York City, and the Metropolitan Club

of Washington, D. C. He married at Yon
kers, New York, in 1891, Ida E. Crane.
Residence : 270 West Seventy-third Street
(winter) ; The Barnacle, West Hampton.
Beach, Long Island (summer). Office ad
dress : 203 Broadway, New York City.
BENNET, William S.
Author ; born in Denver, Colorado, Feb
ruary 3, 1870; son of Hiram P. and Clara
(Ames) Bennet. He was educated in the
Denver public schools, one year at the
National Law School, Washington, D. C,
in 1890 and 1891, then read law in his
father's office, and was admitted to the bar
by Supreme Court of Colorado on exami
nation. He is the author of the romance :
Thyra, 1901, and the historical novel : For
the White Christ, 1905. He was city secre
tary of Port Arthur, Texas,, in 1898 and
1899, issue clerk of Fort Belknap Agency,
Montana, part of 1895, and surveyor for
Board of Public Works of Denver from
1900 to 1905 inclusive. He is a Socialist and
agnostic. He married at Denver, Colorado,
June 14, 1893, Susie A. Housley, and they
have a son, Harold Housley Bennet, born
in 1896. Address : 5084 Tennyson Street,
Denver, Colorado.
BENNET, William B.:
Lawyer and congressman; born at Port
Jervis, Orange County, New York, Novem
ber 9, 1870; son of James Bennet and
Alice Leonora (Stiles) Bennet. He was
graduated from Port Jarvis Academy in
1889 and from the Albany Law School in
1889, and from the Albany Law School as
LL.B. with honors in 1892. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the State of New
York, May 12, 1892, and has also been ad
mitted to practice in the circuit court of
the United States. Mr. Bennet had a
brief experience in the newspaper business
on the staff of the Port Jervis Gazette, but
has practiced law continuously since his
admission to the bar. He has been official
reporter of the Orange County Board of
Supervisors, 1892 and 1893; removed to
New York City in 1899. Was a member
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State in 1901 and 1902 and justice of the
Municipal Court of the City of New York,
1903. He was elected from the Seven
teenth Congressional District of New
York to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904,
and was reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth
Congress, expiring March 3, 1901. He is
a Republican in politics and an elder in the
Fourth Presbyterian Church of New York
City. He is a member of the New York
State Bar Association, the Medico-Legal
Society, the Delta Chi fraternity, and the
Republican Club of the City of New York.
He married, June 30, 1896, Gertrude Wits-
chief, and they have four children : Augus
tus W., Sarah A., Mary Florence and
Edna Grace. Office address : 60 Wall
Street, New York City.
BENNETTr Charles Edwin:
Profesor of Latin at Cornell University;
born in Providence, Rhode Island, April
6, 1858 ; son of James L. Bennett and Lucia
(Dyer) Bennett. He was graduated from
Brown University as A.B. in 1878; was a
graduate student of Harvard University in
1881 and 1882, and student at Leipzig, Ber
lin and Heidelberg from 1882 to 1884, and
he received the degree of Litt. D., from
Brown University in 1904. He was princi
pal of the public school at Milton, Flori
da in 1878 and 1879; classical master at
Sing Sing, New York, from 1879 to 1881 ;
head of the preparatory department at the
University of Nebraska, from 1884 to 1889 ;
professor of Latin at the University of
Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891 ; professor of
classical philology at Brown University in
1891 and 1892, and professor of Latin at
Cornell University, from 1892. He edited
numerous .Greek and Latin texts and is
author of : Bennett's Latin Grammar, 1895 ;
and Appendix, 1895 ; Latin Composition,
1896; The Foundations of Latin, 1898;
Criticism of Some Recent Subjunctive
Theories, 1898; The Quantitative Reading
of Latin Poetry, 1899; The Teaching of
Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools,
1900; Sounds and Inflections of the Cy
prian Dialect, 1888 ; Latin Lessons, 1901 ;
Preparatory Latin Writer, 1905; Latin
Language, 1906. Editor of Cornell Studies

in Classical Philology. He is a member
of the American Philological Association,
the Delta Upsilon fraternity, Phi Beta
Kappa Society and the City Club of New
York. He is a Democrat in politics and
an Episcopalian in his religious views. He
married at Lincoln, Nebraska, June 29,
1886, Margaret Gale Hitchcock, and they
have four children: Margaret, born in
1887 ; Lawrence, born in 1888 ; Harold, born
in 1891 ; and Helen, born in 1894. Ad
dress : Ithaca, New York.
BENNETT, Charles Goodwin:
Secretary of the United States Senate:
born, and has always resided, in the old
Bennett homestead in Brooklyn, New York.
He was admitted to the bar, and graduated
as LL.B. from the University of New York,
He is chairman of the Broadway branch
of the Mechanics' Bank, and trustee of the
Kings County Savings Institution. Un
successful candidate in the Fifth New
York Congressional District for the
Fifty-third Congress; elected to the
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses
from 1895 to 1899, serving on the Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
Unsuccessful candidate for the Fifty-
sixth Congress, and elected secretary
of the Senate of the United States,
January 29, 1900. Address : United States
Senate, Washington, D. C.
BENNETT, James Gordon:
Journalist; born in New York City, May
10, 1841 ; son of James Gordon and Hen
rietta Agnes (Crean) Bennett; educated by
orivate tutors ; unmarried. Carefully
trained in journalism, and on death of
father, 1873, succeeded to proprietorship
and management of the Herald, which has
ever since continued. Fitted out, at per
sonal expense, the Jeannette Polar Explor
ing Expedition ; sent Henry M. Stanley to
Africa to find Livingston; for a time con
ducted a London edition, and for years
has conducted, and still conducts a Paris
edition; inaugurated in England the plan
of publishing storm warnings telegraphed
from the United States. Joined John W.
Mackey, in 1883, in the organization of the
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entirely new cable between America and
Europe (the Mackey-Bennett cables),
greatly increasing the volume and reducing
the cost of transatlantic communication be
tween the Old and the New Worlds. Rec
reation: Yachting; won an international
yacht race from Sandy Hook to the Need
les, Isle of Wright, against two competi
tors, with his schooner yacht the Hen
rietta, 1866, and sailed a similar race, . 1870,
from Queenstown to New York Harbor,
but was beaten by the English yacht Cam
bria. Resides the greater part of the time
in Paris. Address : 120 Champs Elysees,
Paris, France, or New York Herald, New
York City.
BENNETT, John W.:
Physician; born at Eldora, Cape May
County, New Jersey, January 15, 1864; son
of Robert W. and Ashoah A. Bennett.
After a thorough preparatory educatiqn he
entered the Medico-Chirurgical College of
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated,
with the degree of M.D. in 1887. He es
tablished himself in the practice of medi
cine at Long Branch, which he has con
tinued ever since. He was formerly a
commissioner of Long Branch, coroner of
Monmouth County, New Jersey, has been
president of the Long Branch Board of
Health for the past six years, and a mem
ber of the State Board of Medical Ex
aminers of New Jersey for the past seven
years (and chairman of its Law Com
mittee). He is present secretary of the
State Board of Medical Examiners, and
is city physician of Long Branch. Dr.
•Bennett is a member of the American
Medical Association, of the New Jersey
State Medical Society (and associate mem
ber for Monmouth County, of its Com
mittee on Law) of the. Monmouth Medical
Society and of the Long Branch Medical
Society. Politically Dr. B3nnett is a
prominent and active Republican, and has
been chairman of the Monmouth County
Republican Executive Committee for the
past seven years. He is a member and
steward of the Simpson Memorial Metho
dist Episcopal Church of Long Branch.
He is a prominent member and past-grand

chief ranger of the Foresters of America,
and is a member and medical examiner of
the Royal Arcanum, the Loyal Association,
and the Improved Order of Heptasophs,
and is medical examiner for all the leading
old line life Insurance companies. Dr.
Bennett has been twice married;, first in
1888 to Isabelle Green and second, in 1899
to Mary Riddle. Address : 238 Broadway,
Long Branch, New Jersey.
BENNETT, Joseph Bentley:
Lawyer and congressman; born on a
farm in Greenup County, - Kentucky, April
21, 1859; son of Benjamin Franklin Ben
nett and Sarah Ann (Snodgrass) Bennett.
He was educated in the common schools
of Greenup County and at the Greenup
Academy. He taught for a short time in
the common schools of Greenup County
while studying law, and he was admitted to
the bar August 30, 1878, since then prac
ticing law at Greenup, Kentucky. He was
nominated by the Republicans for county
attorney of Greenup County in 1882 and in
1886, each time being defeated by a small
majority. He was elected in 1894 and re
elected in 1897 for two three-year terms
as county Judge of Greenup County, and
again for a four-year term in 1901. While
holding that office he received the Repub
lican nomination for circuit judge of the
Nineteenth Kentucky District and was de
feated by 88 majority. He was elected
from the Ninth Kentucky District in 1904
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and re
elected in 1966 to the Sixtieth Congress,
expiring March 3, 1909. He was elected
in 1900 and reelected in 1904, and is still
serving, as a member of the Republican
State Central Committee of Kentucky from
the Ninth District. He is a member of the
Christian Church, and a prominent Mason,
Knight Templar and Shriner. He mar
ried at Greenup, Kentucky, August 30,
1883, Annie Louise Mytinger. Address :
Greenup, Kentucky.
BENOLIEL, Sol D.:
Electro-chemical engineer; born in New
York City, June 1, 1874; son of David J.
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was graduated from public schools in New
York City, in 1888, from College of the
City of New York, as B.S. in 1893, Colum
bia University School of Mines as E.E. in
1896, and from the Columbia School of
Pure Science, with the degree of A.M. in
1896." He was practicing engineer, in New
York City in 1896 and 1897 ; was teacher in
Adelphi College in electricity and chem
istry, from 1897 to 1901 ; lectured under
auspices of the New York and Brooklyn
Board of Education in New York and
Brooklyn from 1899 to 1901, and Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences, in 1900 and
1901 ; 1901 to 1906 was general manager
and electro-chemist of Roberts Chemical
Company, Niagara Falls, New York, where
he perfected a new process for the produc
tion of caustic potash and chemically pure
muriatic acid by means of the electric cur
rent; rebuilt company's entire plant after
their fire on September 14, 1905. He re
signed from Roberts Chemical Company,
October, 1896, to become general manager
ternational Chemical Company of Camden,
of the International Chemical Company
of Camden, New Jersey. He is a mem
ber of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, American Electro-Chemical So
ciety, Alumni Association of the School
of Applied Science, Columbia University.
member of F. and A. M., and the Nation
al Geographic Society. Mr. Benoliel mar
ried in New York City June 1, 1897, The-
rese L. Lindeman, and they have three
children : David Jacques born in 1900 ;
Louis Osmond, born in 1904, and Jean Sa
lome, born in 1905. Address : 4443 Chest
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BENSEL, John A.:
Civil engineer; born at New York City,
1863 ; son of Brownlee and Mary Maclay
(Hogg) Bensel. He was graduated from
the Stevens Institute of Technology, Ho-
boken, New Jersey, with the degree of
M.E. in 1884, and since then has been en
gaged in engineering practice. He was
engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; consulting engineer for the City
of Philadelphia, and for the Girard Estate,
in improvements along the Delaware River

in Philadelphia; was engineer-in-chief of
the Department of Docks, and dock com
missioner of New York City. He is a
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the Institute of Civil Engineers
of Great Britain, the Chamber of Com
merce of New York City, and the Univers
ity, Union, Engineers', City, Midday, and
Somerset Country Clubs. Mr. Bensel mar
ried, in 1896, Ella Louise Day, and they
have three children: Louise Day, John A.,
Jr., and Evelyn Adelaide. Address: Marie
Antoinette Hotel, Sixty-seventh Street and
Broadway, New York City.
BENSEL, Walter:
Physician; born in New York City, Jan
uary 22, 1869; son of Brownlee Bensel and
Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel. He was
educated in private schools in New York
City, graduated from College of Physic
ians and Surgeons, New York City as M.
D. in 1890 with honors and a prize. He
entered Bellevue Hospital, as an interne,
immediately after graduating; he served
one and one half years as junior assistant,
senior assistant and house surgeon; served
three months in Sloane Maternity Hospital
and assistant surgeon to Vanderbilt Clinic
for five years ; was clinical assistant, in
structor and lecturer on surgery, New York
Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital,
for five years; was in private practice,
since graduation in 1890. He was appoint
ed medical inspector, Department of Health,
New York City, in 1892; and he served
through various grades until 1903, when
he was appointed assistant sanitary super
intendent of the department On July-.
1907, he became sanitary superintendent of
the City of New York and on July 8, 1907,
he was appointed street cleaning com
missioner by Mayor McClellan. He is a
Unitarian in religion. Dr. Bensel is mem
ber of the New York County Medical So
ciety, New York State Medical Society,
American Medical Association, West End
Medical Society, Society of Alumni of
Bellevue Hospital, Alumni Society of
Sloane Maternity Hospital, Alumni Assoc
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New York, Physicians' Mutual Aid Assoc
iation, Saint Andrews' Society, and the
New York Athletic Club. Dr. Bensel mar
ried at Newport, Rhode Island, June 19,
1894, Alice Cooper, grandniece of James
Fenimore Cooper, the author; and they
have one daughter, Mary Cooper, born in
1895. Country home on Great South Bay,
Amityville, Long Island. Address : 135
West Eighty-seventh Street, New York
City.
BENSON, R. Dale:
President of the Pennsylvania Fire In
surance Company of Philadelphia; born in
Philadelphia, December 6, 1841. At the
outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in a
Pennsylvania Regiment, and was mustered
out as brevet major of volunteers in July,
1865. He served as colonel of the First
Regiment of Infantry, National Guard of
Pennsylvania during the Pittsburgh riots
in 1877. For many years Colonel Benson
identified himself with fire underwriting
and was previously engaged in mercantile
business as an importer and jobber of teas
in connection with the China trade. He
was elected vice-president of the Pennsyl
vania Fire Insurance Company, in 1881, and
in 1890 -became its president. He is a mem
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Address: 1120 Spruce Street, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
BENTLEY, Edward M.:
Lawyer, engineer; born at Ellenville,
New York, July 31, 1858; son of Edward
W. and Emily (Humphrey) Bentley. He
was graduated from Williston Seminary
in 1876, from Yale in 1880. In 1884 he
built the first commercial electric railway
in America, at Cleveland, Ohio, in con
nection with Bentley-Knight Electric Rail
way Company, which also built several
others of the first successful electric rail
ways in this country; the Cleveland road
was a conduit, or "underground trolley"
road, and the roads of this type in New
York and Washington were built under the
Bentley-Knight patents. Mr. Bentley was
manager of the Department of patents and
Inventions of the General Electric Com

pany from 1889 to 1894; he then began
practice as a mechanical and electrical ex
pert in patent cases, acting in many in-
portant suits for General Electric Company,
the United States Steel Corporation, Bell
Telephone Company, and other companies ;
in 1906 he became member of the law firm
of Betts, Sheffield, Bentley & Betts. He
is member of the American Association of
Electrical Engineers, and of the Century,
Lawyers', Yale and Rockaway Hunt Clubs.
Mr. Bentley married at Washington,
D.C, in 1888, Mary Merrill, and they have
one son, Edward S. born in 1893. Ad
dress: 120 Broadway, New York City.
BENTLEY, William BurdeUe:
Educator; born at Maple Valley, New
York, August 8, 1866; son of William H.
and Elisabeth (Cummings) Bentley. He.
was prepared for college at Phillips' Acad
emy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1882-85, and
entering Harvard College that latter year,
was . graduated in 1889 with the degree of
A.B. (summa cum laude), and highest
honors in chemistry. A year later he re-
received the degree of A.M., and that of
Ph.D. in 1898. Upon graduation in 1889,
he was appointed assistant in chemistry in
Harvard College, remaining until 1891 when
he accepted the position of adjunct profes so r
of chemistry and physics in Arkansas Uni
versity. In 1894 he became associate pro
fessor, resigning six years later to accept
the chair of chemistry in Ohio University,
which latter position he continues to
hold. During the summer of 1890, he
was assistant chemist in the United
States Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode
Island. He was secretary and treasurer of
the Fayetteville Telephone Company from
1895 to 1899. In politics he is independent,
and he is a member of the Unitarian
Church. Professor Bentley is fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science ; member of the Society of
Chemical Industry, and honorary fellow of
the Society of Biological Chemistry, of
London, England. He is also an Athens
Commandery Knight Templar. .He was
married at Cambridge, Massachusetts, De
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has two sons : William Prescott, born in
1894; and Harold Jackson, born in 1897.
Address : 42 Morris Avenue, Athens, Ohio.
BENTON, Charles William:
Professor of modern languages; born in
Tolland, Connecticut, in 1852; son of Wil
liam Austin Benton and Loanzo (Goulding)
Benton. He was educated at the National
College, Beirut, Syria, and Yale College,
graduating as B.A. in 1874 and later as
M.A. He graduated from Union Theo
logical Seminary, New York City, B.D. and
received the honorary degree of Litt.D.
from the Western University of Pennsyl
vania. He has been professor of modern
languages in the University of Minnesota
since 1880. He has traveled extensively in
Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Germany, Switzer
land, Spain, France, England and Scotland.
He edited a college text book of Modern
Plays, and has written magazine articles on
French and Italian literature. Professor
Benton is a Republican in politics and a
member of the Congregational Church.
He married at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in
1899, Elma C. Hixson, and they have two
sons, 'William Burnet Benton, born in 1900,
and Daniel H. Benton, born in 1902. Resi
dence: 516 Ninth Avenue, S. E., Minne
apolis. Address : University of Minne
sota, Minnesota.
BENTON, Guy Potter:
President of Miami University; bora in
Kenton, Ohio, May 26, 1865 ; son of Daniel
Webster Benton and Harriet Maria (Whar
ton) Benton. He was educated in Baker
University and Ohio Wesleyan University
receiving from the latter the degrees of
A.M. and D.D., and from Baker University
the degrees of A.B., A.M., and D.D., and
from Upper Iowa University the degree of
LL.D. He was superintendent of city
schools at Fort Scott, Kansas, from 1890 to
T895, assistant state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, Kansas, in 1895 and 1896,
was professor. of history at Baker Univer
sity from 1896 to 1899, member of the
Kansas. State Bo,ai-d of Education in 1899,
president of Upper Iowa University from
1899 to 1902, and since 1902 president of

Miami University. He was president of the
South Eastern Kansas Teachers' Associa
tion in 1892, secretary from 1903 to 1905,
and president in 1905 and 1906 of the Ohio
Conference of College Deans and Presi
dents, and president of the Ohio College
Association in 1903 and 1904. He is ' a
Republican in politics and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a mem
ber of the American Historical Association ;
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and the
Columbia Club of Columbus, Ohio. He
married at Arcadia, Kansas, September 4,
1889, Dolla Konantz, and they have two
daughters : Helen, born in 1892, and Paul
ine, born in 1898. Address : Oxford, Ohio.
BERARD, Eugene Michel:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
July 27, 1855; son of Joseph Eugene Ber
ard and Mary Roche (Grim) Berard. He
was educated at home and in public, and
private schools and was graduated from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1876.
Since then he has been engaged in the prac
tice of law and he is now a partner in the
law firm of Hoppin and Berard and is di
rector and treasurer of the Eastern Ken
tucky Coal Lands Corporation. He is a
member of the American Academy of Poli
tical and Social Science ; the American Eco
nomic Association; National Geographic
Society, and an associate member of the
National Child Labor Committee, and
councilor of the American Civic Associa
tion. He is a Radical in politics and a
Catholic in religion. He is a member of the
Hackensack Golf Club. Residence: Pros
pect Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey. Of
fice address: 55 Liberty Street, New York
City.
BERESFORD, Alexander Morrison:
Lawyer; born in Jefferson County, Ohio,
January 5, 1858; son of Bateman L. Beres-
ford and Sarah (Crab) Beresford. He was
graduated from Iowa State College at
Ames, Iowa, as B.S. in 1881, then studied
law in an office in Vinton, Iowa, where he
was admitted to the bar in 1883. Mr.
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with C. T. Simpson, the firm being Beres
ford & Simpson; he removed to Boulder,
Colorado, in September, 1906, and the firm
continues business under the same firm
name at both points, C. T. Simpson con
tinuing in charge of the Orleans, Nebraska,
office. Mt. Beresford was county attor
ney of Harlan County, Nebraska, one term,
in 1901 and 1902; city clerk and member
of the city council of Orleans, Nebraska,
several terms, and for eight years was a
member of the Board of education of Or
leans, Nebraska. He is a Republican in
politics and a Presbyterian in religion. He
is a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America, and a charter member of Or
leans Lodge, Ancient Order of United
Woodmen of Orleans, Nebraska. He mar
ried at Vinton, Iowa, December 8, 1887,
Charlotte Frances Treat, and they have
eight children: Robert Morrison, born in
1889; Frances Elizabeth, born in 1890;
Lester Treat, born in 1892; Paul Con
verse, born in 1894; Howard Chester, born
in 1896; Kenneth Edwin, born in 1898;
Theodore Alexander, born in 1905, and
Stuart Richard, born in 1907. Residence:
1064 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, Colorado.
Office address: Sternberg .building, Boul
der, Colorado.
BERG, Charles I.:
Architect; born in Philadelphia in 1856.
He was educated in Philadelphia schools
and studied architecture in Ecole des Beaux
Arts, at Paris. He has practiced as an
architect since 1880 in New York City. He
was with Edward H. Clark, as Berg and
Clark, until 1896, and since then has been
practicing alone. He erected the Ambu
lance Station and Vaccine Laboratory for
the Health Department of New York City ;
the Gillender Building at Wall and Nassau
Streets; the Windsor Arcade; the Hotel
Touraine, and numerous private houses and
commercial buildings. He was formerly a
member of the Board of Examiners for Un
safe Buildings of the City of New York.
He is secretary of The Gramercy Com
pany and is a member and was ten years
secretary of the Architectural League of
New York ; is a ..fellow of the American

Institute of Architects, and was three years
secretary of New York Chapter, and its
delegate to National Convention of Archi
tects from 1901 to 1907. He is a member
of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects;
president of the Camera Club and a mem
ber "of the Knollwood Country Club. He
married in New York City in 1886, Ada
Van Beil, and they have a son, Hunter Van
Beil Berg, born in 1888. Address : Windsor
Arcade, New York City.
BERGER, Edward William:
Zoologist, entomologist ; born in Middle-
burg, Ohio, November 29, 1869; son of
Karl Gottlob Berger and Christiane Paul
ine (Gellrich) Berger, both of the province
of Silesia, Prussia. He was educated at
German Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, re
ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1891, and
taking that of Ph.B. at Baldwin University
also at Berea, in 1894. He received the
degree of Ph. D. from the Johns Hopkins
University in 1899, having twice held a
scholarship at this institution. In the same
year he accepted the chair of science at
Baldwin University, resigning in 1901 to
accept a similar position in the Lincoln
High School of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1902
he gave up teaching and devoted several
years to private study and investigation.
During his university career he made pri
vate investigations at Hampton Roads
(Va.), Jamaica (W. I.), Woods Hole
(Mass.), and thereafter at Beaufort (N.
C.) and the Lake Laboratory of the Ohio
State University at Cedar Point, Ohio.
Since 1906 he has been entomologist in the
University of the State of Florida and at
the Experiment Station. He is a member
of the Ohio State Academy of Science, the
National Geographical Society, and the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; he is member also of the Sig
ma Xi, Omega Chapter, Ohio State Uni
versity, Columbus, Ohio. In politics he is
an Independent Democrat. Among his
scientific articles he has written are:
Physiology and Histology of Cubomedusae,
1900; Habits and Distribution of the Pseu-
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Cunea; Aleyrodes Citri, etc. He married
at Cleveland, Ohio, June 25, 1903, Emily
Agnes Mueller. Residence: Gainesville,
Florida. Address : Berea, Ohio.
BERGH, Robert S. 8.:
Consular official; appointed American
consul at Gotherburg, January 21, 1898;
consul at Mainz since March 30, 1907. Ad
dress : Mainz, Germany.
BERGHOLZ, Leo Allen:
Consular-official; born in Burlington,
Vermont, in 1857. He attended the public
schools from 1872 to 1876; then studied at
the gymnasium at Hildesheim, Germany,
and at the Wesleyan University at Middle-
town, Connecticut, from 1878 to 1882, leav
ing one month before graduation, to ac
cept the position of private secretary to the
late John Russell Young, then United
States Minister to China. He remained
at the legation at Pekin from 1882 to 1887,
with the exception of two and a half years,
when he was vice-consul in charge of the
consulate at Chin-Kiang, and, at the same
time, acting consul for Japan. He return
ed to the United States in 1887, and from
1888 to 1896 he held various positions,
such as secretary of a railroad company,
an electric company, deputy sheriff and
agent of the Colorado Humane Society at
Cripple Creek, Colorado. He was appoint
ed consul to Erzerum,- Aprjl 25, 1896, and
to Prescott, Canada, in 1903, and later he
was promoted to consul-general at Beirut,
Syria. Address : American Consulate-
General, Beirut, Syria.
BERKLEY, Henry J.:
Physician; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
July 17, i860; son of Edris Berkley and
Virginia (Endes) Berkley. He was ed
ucated at the University of Maryland, the
University of Vienna, graduating as M.D.
from the University of Maryland in 1881
and receiving from it the honorary de
gree of ScD. in 1907. He has been en
gaged in the practice of medicine in Balti
more - after his return from Europe in
1888. He is professor of psychiatry at
Johns Hopkins University, is a member of

the Association of American Physicians
and Surgeons and of the Medico-Psycho
logical Association and the Johns Hopkins
Club. He is a member of the Episcopal
Church. He married in Baltimore, Mary
land, July 13, 1886, Ella Linthicum, and
they have a daughter, Margaret H. S.
Berkley. Address :' 1305 Park Avenue,
Baltimore Maryland.
BERKEY. Charles P.:
Instructor in geology, Columbia Univer
sity; born in Goshen, Indiana, March 25,
1867; son of Peter and Lydia (Stutsman)
Berkey. He was educated in the schools
of Indiana arid Minnesota, graduating from
the University of Minnesota with the de
grees of B.S. in 1892, M.S. in 1893, and
Ph.D. in 1897. Since his graduation he- has
been connected with the instruction staff of
geological departments in the University of
Minnesota and Columbia University, and
with the State geological surveys of Min
nesota, Wisconsin and New York. He has
spent the summer vacations of several years
in personal study of, or professional work
in many of the leading mining regions of
the United States ; is one of the consulting
geologists for the Board of Water Supply
of New York City; now occupied in study
of the geologic structure of the Highlands
of the Hudson for New York State Sur
vey, in addition to teaching in Columbia
University. He is author of numerous
papers on geologic subjects. Mr. Berkey
is an Independent in politics and a Meth
odist in religion. He is a fellow of the
Geological Society of America, the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science; member of the New York Acad
emy of Science, Minnesota Academy of
Sciences, National Geographic Society, Phi
Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity, and Officers Club of Columbia
University. Mr. Berkey married at Farm-
ington, Minnesota, September 4, 1894,
Minnie M. Best and they have two chil
dren: Paul Ainsworth, born in 1895, and
Virginia Dale, born in 1904. Address:
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BERLINER, Emile:
Inventor ; born in Hanover, Germany, May
20, 1851 ; son of Samuel Berliner and Sally
(Friedman) Berliner. He was graduated
from the Samson School at Wolfenbuttel
in 1864, and came to the United States in
1870. Became a close and assiduous stu
dent of physics, and in 1877 invented the
loose contact telephone transmitter or mi
crophone; discovered that a loose contact
will act as a telephone receiver in April,
1877, and was the first to use an induction
coil in connection with transmitters, pat
enting this feature in January, 1878; also
made other inventions in telephony. ¦ He
invented, in 1887, the Gramophone, which
is the first talking machine which utilizes
a groove of even depth and varying di
rection, and in which the record groove
not only vibrates but also propels the sty
lus across the record; it is known here as
the Victor Talking Machine. For this in
vention Mr. Berliner received the John
Scott Legacy medal of the Franklin Insti
tute of Philadelphia, He was founder and
secretary (1900) of the Society for Pre
vention of Sickness, having for its aim the
improvement of the milk supply in Wash
ington, D. C. He proposed, planned and
was a member of the Washington. Milk
Congress of 1907. Mr. Berliner married,
at Washington, D. C, October 26, 1881,
Cora Adler. Address: 1458 Columbia
Road, Washington, D. C.
BERLINER, Solomon:
Consular official; appointed American
consul at Teneriffe, March 4, 1898; retired
April 21, 1898; reappointed, July 18, .1899.
Address: Teneriffe, Canary Islands.
BERRY, Edward Sidney:
Lawyer; born at Titusville, Pennsylvan
ia, December 3, 1866; son of Gurden Sill
and Elizabeth Sheffield (Chase) Berry.
He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1891, LL.B. in 1894. ;He was admitted
to the bar in 1894 and practiced in Bos
ton until 1903, since then in New York
City. He is attorney of Aetna Life Inr
surance Company, in Greater New York
and vicinity. While he was practicing in

Boston he was secretary for five years,
from 1898 to 1903, of the Library Hall As
sociation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one
of the original good government associa
tions in this country. He is a Democrat
in politics and a Congregationalist in re
ligion. Mr. Berry is a member of the Har
vard Club and the Graduates' Club. Ad
dress: 46 Cedar Street, New York City.
BERRY, Robert Mallory:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy; born
in Henry County, Kentucky, January 28,
1846; son of Edmond T. Berry and S. F.
Berry. He was graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1866. He was
promoted ensign in April, 1868 ;¦ master,
March 26, 1869 ; lieutenant, March 26, 1870 ;
lieutenant-commander, February, • 1886;
captain, February 11, 1901 ; and rear admi
ral, June 26, 1906. In these ranks he has
served in all the various duties of a naval
! officer. He was commander of the United
States steamship Castine from 1896 to 1899,
of the Naval Home from 1899 to 1901 ;
was in command of the Dixie in 1901 ; was
commandant of the Navy Yard at Charles
ton, South Carolina, and the Sixth Naval
District, from September, 1904, to May,
1905, and commandant of the Navy Yard at
Pensacola, Florida, in 1905 and 1906 ; com
mandant of the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Vir
ginia, and of the Fifth Naval District,
from July 7, 1906. He married at Detroit,
Michigan, in 1895, Mary A. Brady. Ad
dress: Navy Department* Washington, D.C.
BERRY, William James Conrtnald:
Lawyer, librarian; born in Jersey City,
New Jersey, May 28, 1847. He graduated
from the Englishtown Academy, English-
town, New Jersey, as well as from the Co
lumbia College Law School in 1876. He
entered the employ of a prominent law
publishing house in New York City, and in
1870, when the New York Bar Association
was organized, he became its first librarian
and held the position for over twenty-seven
years. He served as an officer in the
Eighth New York Infantry, and is now a
captain in the Old Guard. Address : 32
Nassau Street, New York City.

208BERWTND, Edward J. :
Financier ; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, June 17, 1848. He was graduated
from, the United States Naval Academy in
1869; appointed ensign, July 4, 1870; mas
ter, March 24, 1872; and retired, May 14,
1875; title changed to lieutenant (junior
grade), March 3, 1883. He is president of
the Berwind-White Coal Mining Com
pany, and the International Coal Company,
the Havana Coal Company, Ocean Coal
Company, and the Wilmore Coal Company ;
is a member of the Board of Managers of
the Girard Trust Company (Philadelphia) ;
trustee of the Fifth Avenue Trust Com
pany; vice-president and director of the
New York and Porto Rico Steamship Com
pany; director of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company, the Cuba
Company, International Mercantile Marine
Company, the Interborough-Metropolitan
Company, the Morton Trust Company, Na
tional Bank of Commerce, Newport Trust
Company, New River and Pocahontas Con
solidated Coal Company, Republic Iron and
Steel Company, and various banking, rail
road and mining corporations. He is a
member of the United States Naval Acad
emy Alumni Association, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, American Geographical
Society, American Museum of Natural His
tory, and the Union, University, Riding,
Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Racquet
and Tennis, Army and Navy, and Turf and
Field Clubs of New York City; the Phil
adelphia Club of Philadelphia, the Metro
politan Club of Washington, D. C, and the
Union Club of Boston. He married Her-
minie Torrey. Residence: 2 East Sixty-
fourth Street. Address : 1 Broadway, New
York City.
BESSEY, Charles Edwin :
Botanist; born at Milton, Wayne Coun
ty, Ohio, May 21, 1845; son of Adnah and
Margaret (Ellenberger) Bessey. He was
educated in the public schools, and at the
Seville and Canaan Academies of Ohio ;
then entered the Michigan Agricultural
College, graduating with the degree of
B.Sc. in 1869, and M.Sc. in 1872. He stud
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versity, and received the degrees of Ph.D.
and LL.D. from the University of Iowa,
and Iowa College. In 1870 he became pro
fessor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural
College, filling this position for fourteen
years, until appointed to head of the same
department at the University of Nebraska
in 1884. While at Iowa Agricultural Col
lege, he was acting president during the
year 1882, and from 1888 to 1891 was act
ing chancellor of the University of Ne
braska, again occupying this position during
1899 and 1900, and in 1907. He has been
dean of the Industrial College of the Uni
versity of Nebraska from 1884 to 1888, and
again since 1895. From 1888 to 1891 he
was dean of the College of Literature, Sci
ence, and Arts, at the University of Ne
braska. He is trustee of Doane College,
Nebraska; is a life member of the Botani
cal Society of America (president in 1896
and 1897) ; fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science
I (vice-president in 1893, 1902 and 1907) ;
'member of the National Educational Asso
ciation (vice-president in 1896), the Amer
ican Microscopical Society (president in
1902), the American Forestry Association,
etc. He is also a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa and the Sigma Xi societies, and of
the Schoolmasters' Club. He spends his
leisure hours in mountain tramping and
botanizing, and has traveled for observa
tion and study, throughout the principal
countries of Europe, the Steppes, Trans
caucasia, etc. In politics he is an independ
ent Republican ; and he is a member of the
Congregational Church. He married at
West Tisbury, Massachusetts, December
25> 1873, Lucy Atheam, and they have
three sons : Edward Athearn, born in 1875 ;
Ernst Athearn, born in 1877, and Carl Ath
earn, born in 1879. Residence: 1507 R
Street. Address: The University of Ne
braska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
BEST, Lyman Austin:
Educator. Principal of Grammar School
No. 108, Brooklyn, New York; born at
Hornell, New York, August 20, 1862; son
of Henry D. and Alice M. MacMeckin
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University, as B.Sc, in 1888 (mathematical
scholarship, four years, mid-course honors
in mathematics, special distinction in mathe
matics on graduation) ; was elected to re
ceive Sigma Xi key. He was a mathemati
cal teacher at Hornell High School, from
1881 to 1884, Cascadilla School, Ithaca, one
year, Boys' High School, Brooklyn, 1888
and 1889; principal of Grammar School No.
13, of Brooklyn, from 1889 to 1902; Gram
mar School No. 108, Brooklyn, from 1902
to present date. As president of various
teachers' organizations, Mr. Best has been
instrumental in securing legislation in in
terest of teachers of New York City and
country at large; has made a record espe
cially iri securing humane laws for the re
tirement of public' school teachers for dis
ability and after long service. Member and
secretary of the Board of Retirement, of
the Department of Education, New York
City, 1905 to 1910. Mason of the thirty-
second degree.- He is past master of the
Anglo-Saxon Lodge, F. and A. M. ; was
president of the Brooklyn Teachers' Asso
ciation, from 1903 to 1907, during which
time the Association increased in member
ship from 3,048 to 4,613. President of the
Interborough Council of Teachers, New
York City, from 1904 to 1907; secretary of
the New York State Teachers' Associa
tion, 1904 to 1907 ; secretary • of
the Department of Entomology, Brooklyn
Institute, several years. Lecturer on scien
tific subjects before the Brooklyn Institute
and other educational institutions. Mr.
Best's favorite recreations are entomology
and photography. He is a member of the
University, Montauk, Aurora Grata, and
Schoolmasters' Clubs. He married at Hor
nell, New York, 1887, Alice Cone, and they
have one daughter, Gladys Cone, born in
1890. Address: 748 Carroll Street, Brook
lyn, New York.
BETTS, George Whitefleld:
Manufacturer; born at Norwalk, Con
necticut, September 2%, 1841 ; son of George
Washington and, Julia (Miner) Betts; he
is a descendant on paternal side of Thomas
Betts, who came from England to Guilford,

Connecticut, in 1639, and from Richard
Smith the Patentee of Smithtown, Long
Island, and on the mother side of Captain
Thomas Miner, who came to America with
the elder Winthrop, in 1630, and settled
in New London, Connecticut in 1646. He
was educated in Old Ward School 35, and
College of the City of New York, of the
class of 1861. He is a manufacturer of
paints, brushes and artists' materials; di
rector of the F. W. Devoe & Co., Raynolds
Company of New York, which is supposed
to be the oldest commercial house in Unit
ed States, having been established in 1754
by William Post. He is also vice-presi
dent of the Englewood (New Jersey) Sew
erage Company. He enlisted in the Twen
ty-third New York Infantry in 1863, serv
ing with it in Pennsylvania and Maryland
campaign, in 1864, which ended in battle
of Gettysburg and defeat of the Confed
erates; regiment afterwards ordered to
Brooklyn to protect the city from the
riots; later he served term of seven years
in the Seventh Regiment, National Guard
of the State of New York. He is a con
servative Republican in politics and a lib
eral Episcopalian in religion, and is a
warden of St. Paul's Church at Engle
wood, New Jersey. He is life member,
since 1857, of the New York Historical
Society; member of the New York Numis
matic and Archaeological Society, Seventh
Regiment Veteran Association. His favor
ite recreations are studying of tariff and
genealogical researches. He is a member
of the Englewood Club (charter member).
Mr. Betts married April 23, 1869, Mar
garet Eliza Dominick, a granddaughter of
General Daniel Delavan of Revolutionary
fame, and they have three children:
George Whitefleld, Jr., Hobart Dominick,
Margaret Delavan. Residence : Engle
wood, New Jersey. Address : 101 Fulton
Street, New York City.
BETTS, Samuel Rossiter:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 5, 1854; grandson of late Hon.
Samuel R. Betts, United States Judge, etc.,
son of George Frederic Betts and Ellen
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Yale College as A.B. in 1875 and from
Columbia College as LL.B. in 1877. He
is senior member of the law firm of Betts,
Sheffield, Bentley & Betts; specialty patent
law. He is director in various corpora
tions. United States Commissioner for
Southern District of New York. Mr.
Betts is member of the New York Bar
Association. He is a Republican in poli
tics. He is trustee of the New York In
stitution for Instruction of the Deaf and
Dumb; member of the American Museum
of Natural History (life member), Metro
politan Museum of Art, Loyal Legion, New
York Zoological Society (life member),
Society of Colonial Wars (life member),
Sons of Revolution (life member), So
ciety of War of 1812. He is member of
the Union, Century, University, Yale,
Players', and Lawyers' Clubs. Residence:
102 Madison Avenue. Address: 120
Broadway, New York City.
BEUGLER, Edwin James:
Civil engineer; born at Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, February 28, 1869; son of
James M. and Catharine E. (McCollum)
Beugler. He was graduated from the Wil
liamsport High School with second honor
in 1888 and was a student at Lowell Insti
tute (Boston), from 1897 to 1899. He was
with the Bloomsburg & Sullivan Railroad
in Pennsylvania, on railroad operation and
engineering, from 1883 to 1890 was assist
ant engineer of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad, on railroad construction and
maintenance, from .1890 to 1893, and assist
ant engineer of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad; on railroad construc
tion, from 1893 to 1902, including the four-
tracking of the New York Division, the
drawbridge at Norwalk River, Back Bay
Station, Boston, the extension of the Prov
idence Division to South Station, and the
rolling lift draw at Fort Point Channel.
He was resident engineer of the Boston
Terminal Company, in charge of mainten
ance and engineering departments, from
1902 to 1905, and since 1905 has been civil
engineer of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr &
Company, on general engineering projects.

He is an Independent in politics, and a
Presbyterian in religion. He is a member
of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the Canadian Society of Civil Engi
neers, and the Boston Society of Civil En
gineers. His favorite recreations are trav
el and fishing. Mr. Beugler married at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 21,
1891, Helen E. White, and they have three
children: Dorothy, born in 1893, Helen,
born in 1895, and Isabel born in 1900.
Residence: 440 Richmond Avenue, South
Orange, New Jersey. Address: 10 Bridge
Street, New York City.
BEUTELSPACHER, Gustave:
Consular official; appointed commercial
agent of the United States at Moroton,
December 27, 1897; promoted to consul,
June 22, 1906. Address : Moroton, New
Brunswick.
BEVAN, Arthur Dean:
Physician arid surgeon; born in Chicago,
Illinois in 1861 ; son of Thomas and Sarah
(Ramsey) Bevan. After taking a year's
work at the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University, he became, in 1879, a med
ical student at Rush Medical College (now
the medical department of the University
of Chicago), graduating in 1883 with the
degree of M.D. In that year he was ap
pointed surgeon in the United States Ma
rine Hospital service in Oregon, remain
ing there for four years, holding also in the
last year the chair of anatomy at the medi
cal department of the University of Ore
gon, at Portland. In 1887 he was offered
a similar position at the University of Chi
cago, and, leaving the United States ser
vice, returned to Chicago. Two years
later he became professor of surgical anat
omy and at the same time associate pro
fessor of surgery, in Rush Medical Col
lege, where, in 1902, he was made professor
of surgery. He is president of and sur
geon at the Presbyterian Hospital of Chi
cago, and a prominent member of various
medical associations, being president of the
Chicago Medical Society in 1899; fellow
of the American Surgical Society since
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the University, Chicago Athletic, Glen
View and Chicago Golf Clubs of Chicago.
He married at Akron, Ohio, February,
1896, Anna L. Barber. Residence : 2917
Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BEVERIDGE, Albert J.:
United States Senator; born on a farm
in Highland County, Ohio. October 6,
1862. His father and brothers were sol
diers in the Union Army. He was gradu
ated at De Pauw University, Greencastle,
Indiana, as B.A. in 1885; was admitted to
the bar in 1886, and has since then devoted
himself to his profession. He has been an
active Republican from the time he be
came a voter, and he was elected to the
Senate of the United States by the Sixty-
first General Assembly of Indiana, January
17, 1899, for the term beginning March 4th
following, and was reelected in 1905, for
the term of service, expiring March 3,
191 1. He is author of: The Russian Ad-'
vance; The Young Man and the World;
The Bible as Good Reading, and has fre
quently contributed to the magazines. He
married at Greencastle, Indiana, Novem
ber 24, 1887, Katherine Maude Langsdale,
who died June 19, 1900. Address : Indian
apolis, Indiana.
BEVERIDGE, John Lourie:
Lawyer; born at Ureenwich, New York,
July 6, 1824; son of George and Ann
(Hoy) Beveridge. He received his educa
tion in the district school of Greenwich,
New York, in Granville (Illinois) Acad
emy, and the years 1843 to 1845, at Rock
River Seminary, Illinois, having removed
with his family to Somonunk, De Kalb
County, Illinois, in 1842., In the fall of
1845 he went to Tennessee and taught
school in Wilson, Overton, and Jackson
Counties. Having prepared himself in the
law, he was admitted to the bar of Ten
nessee and began to practice in Sycamore.
De Kalb County, Illinois. In 1854 he re
moved to Chicago where he continued to
practice law until the Civil War took him
away from his profession. September 18,
1861, having recruited Company F, of

the Eighth Cavalry Regiment of Illinois
Volunteers, he was elected major, serving
in the Army of the Potomac and command
ing his regiment at Gettysburg. He re
cruited and organized the Seventeenth Illi
nois Cavalry Regiment and was commis
sioned its colonel January 28, 1864. He
served with it in the Department of Mis
souri and was mustered out February 6,
1866, having been brevetted brigadier-gener
al April 7, 1865, for gallant conduct during
the War. In November, 1866, he was
elected by the Republican Party, Sheriff
of Cook County, Illinois, and in 1870 was
elected State Senator. The following year
he was elected to Congress, as congress-
man-at-large for Illinois, and in 1872 was
elected lieutenant-governor . of Illinois.
Upon the election of Gov. J. Oglesberg to
the United States Senate, he became gov
ernor of Illinois, January 21, 1873. He is
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On January 20, 1848, Mr. Beveridge was
married at Chicago, Illinois, to Helen M.
Judson. They have two children: Alia
May Beveridge Raymond (born February
20, 1849) and Philo Judson Beveridge .
(born December 1, 1850) . Address : Hol
lywood, California.
BD3BINS, Arthur Barneveld:
Geologist; born in Hanover, Michigan,
August 6, i860; son of James Orsemus
Bibbins and Louisa (Storm) Bibbins. He
was graduated at Albion College with the
degree of Ph. B. in 1887, having been for
a time before his graduation assistant in
chemistry and biology, and before entering
college, superintendent of schools of Han
over Township, Jackson County, Michigan.
For two years following his graduation he
studied at Johns Hopkins University. In
1892 he became the first curator of
the Woman's College of Baltimore,
and organized the department of geol
ogy and mineralogy there. He later or
ganized and directed the courses for
teachers and still continues these lines of
work. He has done much toward the de
velopment of our knowledge of the strati
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mac group of the Atlantic coast. He is
a member of the Maryland Geological Sur
vey and of the United States Geological
Survey; fellow of the Geological Society
of America, and of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science;
member of the Geological Society of Wash
ington, the National Geographic Society,
and the Association of American Museums.
He is author of numerous geologic papers
and maps. His recreation is chiefly sail
ing. He is a Republican in politics, and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He married at Baltimore, Mary
land, in 1903, Ruthella Bernard Mory.
Residence : The Somerset, 2600 Maryland
Avenue. Address : The Woman's College
of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.
BICKHAM, Warren Stone:
Surgeon; born at Shreveport, Louisiana,
August 23, 1861 ; son of Dr. Charles Jasper
and Annie Augusta (Gray) Bickham. He
received his preparatory education in the
academies of the .University of the South
(Sewanee, Tennessee), and the University
of Louisiana, until 1882 ; he graduated from
the Medical Department at Tulane Univer
sity of Louisiana, Phar.M., M.D., 1886;
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Co
lumbia University), M.D., 1887; received his
post-graduate study at the New York Poly
technic, and in London. He practiced as sur
geon at New Orleans ; was interne and later
visiting surgeon, of the Charity Hospital,
in New Orleans ; located in New York
City, in practice of surgery. He was in
structor of surgery, Post-graduate Medical
School and Hospital; assistant instructor,
operative surgery, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York City; instructor of
surgery, New York Polyclinic. He was
visiting surgeon of the Northwestern Dis
pensary, and is now surgeon of the Man
hattan State Hospital. He is author of a
text-book on Operative Surgery, and num
erous contributions to medical journals on
surgical topics. Dr. Bickham is an Epis
copalian in his religious connections. He
is a fellow of the New York Academy of
Medicine ; member of the New York Coun

ty Medical Society, New York County
Medical Association, New York State Medi
cal Association, American Medical Asso
ciation, Association of Greater New York,
College of Physicians and Surgeons Alum
ni. He is a member of the Union League,
and the New York Athletic Clubs. He mar
ried at London, 1895, Flora Sabina Bran
don. Address : 448 Madison Avenue, New
York City.
BICKFORD, Ersklne F. :
Manufacturer. He has been for forty
years engaged in the manufacture of rub
ber boots and shoes. Is -a director of the
Boston Rubber Shoe Company, and has
up to recently been manufacturing agent
of said company. He is also president
of the Maiden Industrial Aid Society, di
rector of the Associated Charities of Mai
den, trustee of the Maiden Hospital, and
trustee of the Maiden Savings Bank. Ad
dress : Maiden, Massachusetts.
BICKMORE, Albert H.:
Securities; born in Martinsville, Maine,
1869; son of William H. and Margaret A.
(Martin) Bickmore; graduated Colby Uni
versity, A. B., 1893. Senior member
of the firm of A. H. Bickmore &
Company, investment securities. Direct
or National Light, Heat & Power
Company, Atlantic Shore Line Railway,
Union Securities Company (president), At
lantic Construction Company, Southern
Maine Steamship Company, Taylorville
Gas and Electric Company, Pana Gas and
Electric Company, Marshall Gas and
Electric Company, Lexington Gas and
Electric Company, City Gas and Elec
tric Company, of Paris, Jerseyville Illu
minating Company, Charleston Illuminating
Company, Hoosick Falls Illuminating Com
pany, Bennington Electric Company,
Springfield Coal Mining Company. Repub
lican. Member Delta Upsilon fraternity;
Phi Beta Kappa. Recreation: Yachting.
Clubs : St. Nicholas, City, Graduates', Law
yers', Indian Harbor Yacht. Married,
Camden, Maine, October 2, 1901, Myrtle L.
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Street. Address: 30 Pine Street, New
York City.
BICKMORE, Albert Smith:
Naturalist and educator, professor emer
itus of the Department of Public Instruc
tion, American Museum of Natural His
tory in New York City ; born in St. George,
Maine, March 1, 1839; son of John and
Jane (Seavey) Bickmore. He was grad
uated from Dartmouth College in i860;
studied with Professor Louis Agassiz from
i860 to 1864 and graduated as B.S. from
the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard
University. He received the degree of Ph.
D. from Hamilton College in 1869, and
from Dartmouth College in 1896, and LL.D.
from Colgate University in 1905. His
father, who was a sea captain and ship
builder, took him to Bordeaux, France, at
the age of eight and this voyage inspired
him with love for a life of travel and the
study of nature. When .pursuing his studies
under Professor Agassiz, he became as
sistant in the Museum at Cambridge and
went to Bermuda to collect for that insti
tution in 1862.. He served in the Forty-
fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, from Oc
tober 22, 1862, to June 18, 1863, most of
that time in North Carolina. He traveled
in the Malay Archipelago, and Cochin,
China, through the interior of China and in
Japan, and came back by the Amoor River
and over Siberia to Moscow, St. Peters
burg, Berlin, London arid New York. This
trip lasted from January, 1865, to December,
1868, three years, less twenty days, and the
distance traveled was 44,000 miles. He be
came professor of natural history at Madi
son (now Colgate) University in 1868. He
aided the American Museum of Natural
History in procuring its charter in April,
1869, and was the first superintendent of the
Museum from 1869 to 1884; he was pro
fessor in charge of the Department of Pub
lic Instruction of the Museum from 1884
to 1904, and is now Professor Emeritus.
He traveled at his own expense gathering
data and photographic illustrations for his
lectures as far as the Hawaiian Islands
and through all the countries between the

North Cape, the Straits of Gibraltar and
the first cataract of the Nile, averaging from
1895 to 1904, 12,000 miles a year. He has
delivered at the museum under the aus
pices of the State superintendent of public
instruction, to teachers of the free public
schools, and on holidays to all citizens, 418
illustrated lectures, with an average at
tendance of 900, upon 213 different sub
jects relating to geography and natural his
tory. A selection of these lectures has been
repeated in the cities and in each village of
5,000 or more in population, throughout
the State of New York. He is the author
of: Travels in the East Indian Archipelago,
and prepared descriptions of his various
journeys for the Annual Reports of the
State Department of Education from 1884
to 1904. He. is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
the Society of Naturalists, the Geological
Society of America, the American Geo
graphical Society, and the New York Acad
emy of Sciences, and life-fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society of London. He
is a trustee of the American Museum of
Natural History, Colgate University, Vassar
College, and the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church. Mr. Bickmore married in New
York City, December 16, 1873, Charlotte
A. Bruce. Address : American Museum of
Natural History, Seventy-seventh Street
and Central Park West, New York City.
BICKNELL, George Augustus:
Rear-Admiral. Was born on the
estate of Jesse Richards, his maternal
grandfather, at Batsto, Burlington County,
New Jersey, May 15, 1846; son of George
A. Bicknell and Elizabeth Haskins Richards
Bicknell. He received his early education
in private schools in Indiana, was appointed
acting midshipman from Indiana, December
2, 1861 ; served as first ' lieutenant in the
United States volunteer infantry dur
ing the Morgan Raid, until the regi
ment was mustered out; graduated
United States Naval Academy, 1866;
served in the Iroquois, U. S. Atlantic
fleet, 1867-1870; was at the opening of the
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in landing party repelling attack of Prince
Hizen at Kobe; was second in command
of the marines of two ships on outpost
duty protecting Yokohama, about ten days,
the fleet being absent. Promoted to en
sign, April, 1868; to master, March, 1869;
to lieutenant, March 21, 1870; naval
academy instructor, 1870 and 1871 ; in the
Worcester, flagship of North Atlantic
Station, 1872-1875; torpedo station and
hydrographic office, 1875; in the Omaha,
South Pacific Station, 1875; in the flag
ship Richmond, South Atlantic Station,
1876; navigator of the Wachusett, South
Atlantic Station, 1879, going up the Miss
issippi one hundred miles above Vicksburg;
navigator of the Marion, 1880-1882; cruised
from Montevideo to Heard's Island, about
seven thousand miles, seeking and rescu
ing about thirty survivors of the ship
wrecked bark, Trinity; inspector of ma
terial for the Advisory Board, and for
several bureaus, at Chester Rolling Mills
and other steel works; at Roach's Ship
building Works, for the Dolphin, Atlantic,
Boston and Chicago, then building there,
1883-1886. Promoted to lieutenant com
mander, 1866; executive officer, Essex,
Asiatic Station, 1886-1889; assistant in
equipment, navy yard, New York, May,
1889 to May, 1891 ; executive officer, U. S.
receiving ship Franklin, January to Decem
ber, 1892; executive officer, U. S. S.
Atlanta, December, 1892, to July, 1893 ;
executive officer, U. S. R. S; Franklin,
1893-1894; commanding the Fern, 1894-
1896; captain of the yard, naval station,
Port Royal, S. C, February 1, 1896; at
tending torpedo station and war college,
1896. Promoted to commander, 1896. In
spector of Fourteenth Lighthouse District,
Cincinnati, O., from August, 1897, to April
14, 1898; detached from lighthouse district,
April 14, 1898, ordered to command the
steamer Niagara, commissioned that vessel
at New York, April 16, 1898, arrived at
Key West in May, coaled vessels of Samp
son's Squadron, while on their way to the
bombardment of San Juan; took station
during the bombardment off Point Salinas,
to guard against the approach of gunboats

from the westward; towed monitor Terror
to Key West, arriving there May 19, hav
ing delivered nearly all of cargo of this
collier at sea under way; took the Niagara
to Norfolk navy yard and left her May 30,
to command Saturn; cruised in Saturn in
Porto Rican and Cuban waters until Sep
tember, 1898, returned to Norfolk; com
manded the Monocacy at Shanghai, China,
December 25, 1898; cruised to Han Kow
and river ports, taking the Hon. E. H.
Conger and suite to visit the two Viceroys
of the river provinces; detached from the
Monocacy and ordered home, May 30, 1900;
reported at Mare Island, June 30, 1900; de
tached from navy yard, July 5, to home;
to War College, July 20; to Norfolk navy
yard, October 4; inspector of ordnance, navy
yard, Norfolk, Va., till July, 1902. Pro
moted to captain in April, 1901. Com
mandant, naval station, Key West, Fla., '
and commandant of the Seventh Naval
District, from August, 1902, until August,
1904. October 17, 1904, commanding the
flagship Texas, United States Coast Squad
ron, under the flags of Rear-Admirals J. H.
Sands and F. W. Dickens, until June 21,
1906; during this cruise, the summer
manoeuvers of the coast squadron, ' then
consisting of about sixteen vessels, demon
strated the incompleteness of the shore de
fenses of Chesapeake Bay; commandant of
U. S. Navy Yard and Station, Pensacola,
Florida, and also of the Eighth Naval Dis
trict, July 1, 1906, to February 12, 1907.
Promoted to rear admiral, February 8,
1907; commandant of the First Naval Dis
trict and commandant of the U. S. Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., from February
18, 1907. Bicknell is Democratic in his
political views ; a member of the Episcopal
Church ; the United .States Naval Institute ;
the Army and Navy Club of Washington
and New York. He married in New Al
bany, Indiana, May 22, 1878, Annie Sloan,
daughter of John Sloan, M.D., and they
have had one son, who died in infancy.- Ad
dress : 604 East Main Street, New Albany,
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BICKNELL, Thomas Williams:
Author, teacher and publisher; born at
Barrington, Rhode Island, September 6,
1834; son of Allin Bicknell and Harriet
Byron (Kinnicut) Bicknell. After a pre
paratory education in Thetford Academy,
and one year in Brown University, he en
tered Brown University where he was
graduated as A.M. in i860 ; he received the
honorary A.M. degree from Amherst in
1880, and LL.D. from Drury College and
Straight University in 1882. He was
elected to the Rhode Island Legislature in
1859, serving in that body during his last
year in college ; was .teacher and principal
of schools in Rhode Island from i860 to
1869; and was commissioner of schools of
Rhode Island from 1869 to 1875, securing
during his term in that office many valuable
reforms; was commissioner from Rhode
Island to the International Exposition at
Vienna in 1873; founded the New England
Journal "of Education in 1875 and became
its editor and a year later its owner and
publisher. He established the Primary
Teacher in 1876, Good Times in 1878, Edu
cation, a tri-monthly in 1880, and was edi
tor of- the Rhode Island Schoolmaster for
nearly ten years ; and was founder and is
editor of The Leader, an educational maga
zine. He was president of the Rhode Is
land Institute of Instruction in 1867;
founded in 1880, and was president from
1880 to 1884 of the National Council of
Education, and is an ex-president of the
National Educational Association (1884),
and the International Sunday School Asso
ciation (1884). Dr. Bicknell was a mem
ber of the lower house of Massachusetts
legislature from 1888 to 1890. He was
founder and is secretary of the Municipal
League of Providence, is a member of the
American Historical Association, the Rhode
Island Historical Society, the Sons of the
American Revolution, and Society of
Founders and Patriots of America, and is
president of the Bicknell Family Associa
tion. Dr. Bicknell, besides his annual re
ports as Rhode Island School Commissioner
' is author of a memoir of William Lord
Noyes, 1868; Annals of Barrington, Rhode

Island, 1870; The Bicknells (four volumes),
1880 to 1888; John Myles and Religious
Toleration in Massachusetts, 1892; History
of Barrington, 1898; Barrington in the
Revolution, 1898. Dr. Bicknell married
September, i860, Amelia D. Blanding, who
died in August, 1896. Residence: 254
Pleasant Street, Providence. Office ad
dress : 49 Westminster Street, Providence,
Rhode Island.
BIDDLE, A. J. Drexel:
Author, explorer and lecturer; born in
Philadelphia, October 1, 1874; son of Ed
ward and Emily (Drexel) Biddle. He
lived in Madeira Islands, studying condi
tions there; returned to the United States
in 1891, joined the staff of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger and two years later he sev
ered his connection with the Ledger, and
contributed to magazines and humorous
journals. He revived the Philadelphia Sun
day Graphic in 1895, and became its editor,
and he was at the head of the publishing
house of. Drexel Biddle, in New York,
Philadelphia, and San Francisco, from 1897
to 1904. He is author of the following
books: A Dual Role, 1894; All Round Ath
letics, 1894; An Allegory and Three Es
says, 1894; The Froggy Fairy Book, 1896;
The Second Froggy Fairy Book, 1897;
Shantytown Sketches, 1898; Word for
Word and Letter for Letter, 1898; The
Flowers of Life, 1898; The Madeira Is
lands, two volumes, 1900; The Land of the
Wine, two volumes, 1901. His favorite
recreations are automobiling and boxing.
He has contested successfully in several
amateur boxing tournaments; boxed ex
hibition bouts with many of the leading
professional pugilists; encountered Robert
Fitzsimmons, ex-champiort heavy-weight
pugilist of the world, for three rounds at
the Pen and Pencil Club, Philadelphia, in
1894; and established the Gentlemen's Box
ing Association of Philadelphia, 1899. He
is a fellow of the Royal Geographical So
ciety of England, and a member of the
Philadelphia and Rittenhouse Clubs of
Philadelphia. He married in 1895, Cordelia-
Rundell Bradley, of Pittsburgh, and they
have two sons and a daughter. Address ;

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2104 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. BIDDLE, Clement:
Medical inspector with rank of com
mander in the United States Navy; born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 11,
1854; son of John Barclay Biddle, M.D.,
and Caroline (Phillips) Biddle; descended
from the William Biddle, a conspicuous
member of the Society of Friends who had
suffered imprisonment for his religious be
liefs and practices in London, who came to
the Delaware River about 1681, holding by
purchase a tract of land of 43,000 acres, ob
tained in part in 1676 and settling at Mt.
Hope, New Jersey, now the village of Kin-
kora, on the river and above Philadelphia.
and who later became a member of the Gen
eral Assembly, and the Council of the Pro
prietors of West Jersey, etc., etc. ; from
Colonel Clement Biddle, the Quaker soldier
of the Revolution and signer of the anti-
importation act; from John Barclay, mayor
of Philadelphia in 1791 ; from Clement Cor
nell Biddle, who served as an officer in the
United States Navy in 1798-1801, captain
of the Pennsylvania Light Infantry in the
War of 1812, and from Lieutenant Governor
Cornell of the Colony of Rhode Island,
about 1650; educated at private schools in
Philadelphia and in part at the University
of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia
as M.D. in 1878, taking the Chemical Prize
at graduation. He entered the Medical
Corps of the United States Navy in June
1878 as assistant surgeon, was promoted
passed assistant surgeon in 1882, and sur
geon in 189S, and medical inspector in June
1907; served as medical officer of various
ships and stations, the most important be
ing chief surgeon of the Admiral Walker
Nicaraguan Canal Survey in 1897 and 1898 ;
in the Spanish-American War as Medical
Officer of the United States Steamer Texas,
being present at the bombardment of the
Socapa battery at the entrance to Santiago
harbor, July 2, and on July 3, 1898, partici
pated in the battle of Santiago de Cuba. He
witnessed the destruction of the two Span

ish torpedo boats and four cruisers in this
action by the United States fleet, ending
with the surrender and partial scuttling of
the Cristobal Colon. He received the bronze
medal, U. S. Naval Campaign, in the West
Indies, 1898. He was appointed fleet sur
geon of the Asiatic Fleet on the flagship
Wisconsin, 1904 and in 1905, fleet surgeon
Pacific Squadron aboard the flagship Chi
cago, 1906. He has made two voyages
around the world, was three years in the
Rio de La Plata, on the southeast Coast of
South America, eight years in China, Japan
and Philippine waters, and has made sev
eral voyages through the West Indies and
on the Pacific Coast from Mexico to British
Columbia. Dr. Biddle is a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a mem
ber of the National Geographic Society
of Washington, D. C. ; the Delta Psi fra
ternity, Delta Chapter, University of Penn
sylvania; th^ Rittenhouse Club of Philadel
phia; Philadelphia Country Club; Univer
sity Barge Club of Philadelphia; Naval
Academy Club of Annapolis, Maryland;
Army and Navy Club, of Manila, Philip
pine Islands, and the New York Yacht
Club. He edited Biddle's Materia Medica
and Therapeutics from the eighth to the
thirteenth editions, inclusive. Address : Care
of Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
BDJDLE, Craig: .
Jurist; born in Philadelphia, January 10,
1823; son of Nicholas Biddle, notable as
the president of the Bank of the United
States from 1823 till its failure in 1841. He
was graduated from Princeton College in
1841. He was admitted to the Philadelphia
bar in 1844 and was elected to the Pennsyl
vania Legislature in 1849, serving one term
in the House. On the outbreak of the Civil
War in 1861 he became a major on the staff
of General Robert Patterson, and saw serv
ice in the Shenandoah Valley; he was af
terward appointed on Governor Curtin's
staff, and was detailed to organize new regi
ments. In 1863, when General Lee invaded
Pennsylvania, Mr. Biddle went to the front
as a private in a militia regiment for State
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for learning and ability, and built up a large
and lucrative practice, which continued till
1845, when he was appointed a Judge of
the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia.
In November of that year he was elected
by the Republicans to this position by a
large majority. The Republicans and
Democrats united in nominating and elect
ing him in 1885, and he received a practical
ly unanimous third election in 1895. He
is now presiding judge of the Common
Pleas Courts, in which bench he has sat
for thirty years. Judge Biddle has been
much interested in agriculture, and has
served as president of the Philadelphia
Agricultural Society; he has also been vice-
president of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania. Address : 2033 Pine Street, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
BIDDLE, Henry Chalmers:
Chemist and educator; born in Kirk-
wood, Illinois, October 4, 1869; son of
Jonathan Biddle and Mary Jane (Bruce)
Biddle. He was graduated A.B. from Mori-
mouth College in 1891, from McCormick
Theological Seminary, Chicago in 1896,
and as Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the
University of Chicago in 1900. He was in
structor in chemistry and physics in 1891
and 1892 and professor of chemistry in 1892
and 1893 at Monmouth College, was fel
low in the University of Chicago from 1898
to 1900, professor of chemistry at Mary-
ville College, Tennessee, in 1899 and 1900,
assistant in general chemistry in the Uni
versity of Chicago in 1900 and 1901 ; then
instructor in chemistry from 1901 to 1906,
and since 1906 assistant professor of chem
istry in the University of California. Con
tributor to a number of chemical journals
and author of The Vegetable Alkaloids
(translation and revision of Les Alcaloides
Vegetaux, by Prof. Ami Pictit). Since
1904, in addition to his university duties,
he has been actively engaged in religious
work, supplying a Presbyterian congrega
tion as minister. Dr. Biddle is a member
of the Society of Sigma Xi, the
American Chemical Society, and Deutsche
Chemische Gesellschaft and the Fac

ulty Club of . the University of Cali
fornia. He married at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, December 29, 1896, Mar
garet McCready Wishart, and they
have four children : Carl Jonathan, born
in' 1898; William Wishart, born in 1900;
Sarah Florence, born in 1903, and Mary
Gertrude, born in 1906. Address : Univer
sity of California, Berkeley, California.
BIDDLE, William Baxter:
Railroad official; born in Beloit, Rock
County, Wisconsin, November 12, 1856;
son of Charles Hadow Biddle and Alice
(Coffman) Biddle. He was educated in
the Beloit public schools and high school.
He began railway service in 1878 as freight
brakeman with the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, afterward becoming sta
tion agent with the same road until 1882,
then until 1886 chief clerk in the general
freight office of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad, becoming assistant .general freight
agent in 1886 and 1887, and division. freight
and passenger agent in 1887 . and 1888 on
the same road. He was - assistant general
freight agent from 1888 to 1890; assistant
freight traffic manager from 1890 to 1894,
and freight traffic manager until March 1,
1905. On the latter date he became third
vice-president of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railway and since February 1,
1906, he has also been third viceTpresident
of the St. Louis and San Francisco, the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and the . Ev-
ansville and Terre Haute railroads. He is
a Republican in politics and a Baptist in
his religious affiliation. He is a director of
the Chicago Commercial Association, and
is a member of the Union League Club of
Chicago, the Chicago Athletic Association,
the Kenwood Club, Kenwood Country
Club, Midday Club, and Midlothian Coun
try Club of Chicago, and the Mercantile
Club of St. Louis. He married at Beloit,
Wisconsin, November 23, 1880, Ella Frost;
and they have three sons : Robert C, born
in 1884; Wheedon F, born in 1887, and
Walter, born in 1892. Residence: 4135
Drexel Block, Chicago. Office address : 816
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BIDDLE, William Phillips:
Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Marine
Corps ; born in and appointed from Penn
sylvania. He was commissioned as sec
ond lieutenant, United States Marine
Corps in June, 1875; was promoted first
lieutenant in 1884; captain in 1894; major
in 1899, and lieutenant-colonel March 3,
1903. He has served on the varied duties
and stations ashore and afloat, of an of
ficer of marines. In August, 1877, during
the railroad riots, he was with a battalion
of marines in Washington, Baltimore, Mar-
tinsburg, West Virginia and Fort McHen
ry, which opened up the traffic on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In June,
1890, he made a forced march with a de
tachment of marines and sailors from Che
mulpo to Seoul, Corea, to protect our Le
gation. He commanded the marines on the
Olympia during the battle of Manila Bay,
May 1, 1898, and in May and June, 1898,
was holding the Cavite Navy Yard with a
detachment of marines, and on the Olym
pia, blockading Manila till its bombard
ment and fall in August. In 1899 and
1900, he was in charge of the recruiting
district of Pennsylvania and West
ern New Jersey, and in. August, 1900,
he commanded the First Regiment of Ma
rines of the China Relief Expedition, dur
ing the march from Tientsin to Pekin, for
the relief of the Legations. He command
ed the marines in the battle of Yang-tsum,
August 6, and in the fighting on the walls
around Pekin, August 15, when the Chi
nese were finally driven from the Sacred
City by the American forces. Address :
League Island, Pennsylvania.
BID WELL. Daniel D.:
Journalist; born in East Hartford, Con
necticut; son of Charles M. Bidwell and
Emma W. (Brewer) Bidwell. He was ed
ucated in the East Hartford grammar
schools, the Hartford high school and Yale
College, graduating as A.B. in 1886. He
has been engaged on newspapers in Jack
sonville, Florida, New York City and
Hartford, Connecticut, since 1886. He was
a member of the Connecticut General As
sembly in 1905 and 1907; representative of

the town of East Hartford. He is pay
clerk of the Naval Battalion in the Con
necticut National Guard. Mr. Bidwell is
a member of the Yale Alumni Association
of Hartford; a director of the Raymond
Library at East Hartford, Connecticut He
is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and
a member of the University Club of Haft-
ford. He was co-laborator with Herbert
Ward in publishing Five Years with the
Congo Cannibals, and is a contributor to
several magazines. He married at Brook
lyn, New York, April 19, 1891, Edith M.
Ross, and they have two children: Pauline
B., born in 1893, and Joseph, born in 1902.
Residence : East Hartford, Connecticut.
Office address: The Hartford Times,
Hartford, Connecticut
BIEN, Morris:
Lawyer and civil engineer; born in New
York City, April 17, 1859; son of Joseph
Bien and Theresa (Leipoldt) Bien. He
was educated in the public schools of San
Francisco, California; was graduated from
the University of California as Ph.B. in
1879; from George Washington University,
Washington, D. C, as LL.B., in 1895, and
from the National University, Wash
ington, D. C, as LL.M., in 1896. He
was in charge of topographic surveys in
various States in the East and West in
the United States Geological Survey from
1879 to 1893; was engaged in special irri
gation surveys for the United States Geo
logical Survey from 1888 to 1893; in the
General Land Office at Washington, D. C,
from 1893 to 1902 in charge of irrigation
and the Railroad Right of Way Section;
and in the United States Reclamation Serv
ice since 1902, as supervising engineer in
charge of land and legal matters. He has
been frequently in charge of the Wash
ington Office of the United States Recla
mation Service as acting director. In the
General Land Office he prepared many re
ports on Irrigation and Right Of Way mat
ters, and drafted much legislation on these
subjects which was passed by Congress and
is now in force. In 1904 he prepared the
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of North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma
and New Mexico, and has been adopted
in part in several other States. He is a
member of the National Geographic Society
of Washington, D. C, and the University
Club. He married at Hillsboro, Ohio,
March 25, 1886, Lilla V. Hart, and they
have two children: Van Tuyl Hart Bien,
born in 1887, and Corabel Bien, born in
1889. Residence: 1130 Lamont Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C. Office address :
United States Reclamation Service, Wash
ington, D. C,
RIERBAUM, Christopher Henry:
Consulting engineer; born in Iowa, 1864;
son of J. Christopher and Florence M.
Bierbaum. He was graduated from Cor
nell University as M.E. in 1891. Was for
four years instructor of Mechanical En
gineering at Cornell University; traveled
in Europe in 1894, studying systems of
technical education.' He has been engaged
since 1898 as consulting engineer ; perfect
ed and patented several mechanical and
metallurgical processes ; now president of
the American Antimony ¦ Company ; vice-
president of the Lumen Bearing Company;
president of the Robson Smelting Com
pany ; and president of the Molyneux Mail
ing Machines Company. He is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, member of the Verein Deutsch-
er Ingenieure, American Electro-chemical
Society and other scientific organizations.
His favorite recreation is rifle and revolver
shooting. He is a member of the Uni
versity Club of Buffalo. Address: Pru
dential Building, Buffalo, New York.
BIERBOWER, Austin:
Lawyer and author; born at Shelly's Is
land, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; son
of Casper and Lydia (Herman) Bierbower.
He was graduated from Dickinson College
with the degree of A.B., later receiving that
of A-M., and the honorary degree of LL.D.
was conferred upon him by Iowa Wesley
an University in 1902. After graduating
from Dickinson College he was appointed
professor of Latin and Greek at Iowa Wes

leyan University, holding this position three
years, and spending two years in graduate
work at the University of Berlin, Germany.
In the meantime, taking up the study of
law, he was admitted to the bar of Balti
more in 1874 and subsequently practiced
over twenty years in Chicago. He was
attorney for Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., in
his famous heresy trial ; and among his
important cases tested the High License
law of Illinois in the Supreme Court. He
has participated as a speaker in several
political campaigns. He was for some time
European correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune and the Cincinnati Times Star,
and an editorial writer of the Chicago Daily
News. Among the writings for which he
is known, besides various articles in the
magazines, are the following books : The
Morals of Christ; The Socialism of
Christ; The Virtues and their Reasons;
From Monkey to Man; How to Succeed;
Ethics for Schools ; The Training of Lov
ers ; Thoughts for the Rich, etc. Resi
dence : 1810 Michigan Avenue. Address :
87 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BIGELOW, Dana Williams:
Clergyman ; born at Waterville, Oneida
County, New York, November 27, 1843;
son of Horace and Julia Ann (Porter)
Bigelow. He was graduated from Hamil
ton College in 1865, and received from
that college the degree of D.D. in 1906;
and was graduated from Auburn Theo
logical Seminary in 1868. He was pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville,
New York, for four years; the Congrega
tional Church at Pitcher, New York for
five years ; and has been pastor of the Me
morial Presbyterian Church of Utica, New
York, since 1877. He has traveled in Eu
rope, Brazil, Japan, China and the Philip
pines. He is a Republican in politics. He
was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Utica
for twenty-five years and moderator of
Synod of New York in 1904. He is honor
ary member of Bacon Post, the Grand Army
of the Republic, at Utica, secretary of the
Utica Humane Society, treasurer of the
Oneida County Bible Society, trustee of the.
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the Autumn Theological Seminary and li
brarian of the Oneida Historical Society.
Dr. Bigelow married in Auburn, New York,
June 24, 1868, Katharine Huntington, and
they have four children living : Mrs. Rodg-
ers (wife of Rev. Dr. James B. Rodgers),
Harriet Williams Bigelow, Ph.D., Ruth T.
Bigelow, and M. Huntington Bigelow. Ad
dress: 98 State Street, Utica, New York.
BIGELOW, Frank Barna:
Librarian; born at Amherst, Massachu
setts, February 7, 1869; son of Orvis Fur-
man and Mary Helen (Pingry) Bigelow.
He was graduated from Amherst College
as A.B. in 1891. He was assistant libra
rian of Columbia University, from 1892 to
1896, and has been librarian of the New
York Society Library from 1895. He
was president " of the New York
Library Club, from 1902 to 1903; and
is a life member of the American Library
Association. Address : New York Society
Library, 109 University Place, New York
City. BIGELOW, Frank Hagar:
Clergyman, astronomer, meteorologist ;
born at Concord, Massachusetts, August 28,
1851 ; son of Francis Edwin and Ann
(Hagar) Bigelow. He received his pre
paratory education at the Boston Latin
School, going thence to Harvard Univer
sity where he graduated with the degree
of A.B. .taking later that of A.M. Follow
ing this he began the study of theology at
the Epis'copal Theological School, Cam
bridge, receiving the degree of B.D. at
graduation. The degree of L.H.D. was con
ferred upon him by George Washington
University in 1898. In 1881 he became
rector of St. Paul's Church, Natick, Massa
chusetts, holding this rectorate for one
year. He then gave his entire time to
science, in which he had been already en
gaged, but ten years later in 1892, became
assistant minister of St. John's Church,
Washington, D. C. and has since filled that
office. From 1873 to 1876 he was assistant
astronomer at the Argentine National Ob
servatory, Cordoba, and again from 1881
to 1883. He was assistant at the United

States Naval Observatory, from 1876 to
1877, and at the Nautical Almanac Office,
from 1889 to 1891. Also, he has been a
teacher in various branches of science and
mathematics in which he has specialized.
He was professor of mathematics at Ra
cine College, Wisconsin, from 1884 to 1889,
and since 1891 he has been professor of
meteorology in the United States Weather
Bureau, and since 1894 professor of astro
physics in the George Washington Univer
sity. Dr. Bigelow has been a member of
the International Cloud Commission, the
Commission on .Solar Physics, and chair
man of the Conference Board on Evapora
tion. He went on the United States Eclipse
Expeditions to West Africa in 1889,
to South Carolina in 1900, and to Spain
in 1905. He has also traveled in South
America, Europe and the United States.
He is a member of the Washington Philo
sophical Society (President 1898), the So
ciety for Philosophical Inquiry, the Wash
ington Academy of Science, the Deutsche
Meteorologische Gesellschaft, the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the National Geographical Society,
etc. He is also member of the Sons of the
Revolution, and the Cosmos Club, Wash
ington. He is author of more than one
hundred papers and monographs in solar
physics, terrestrial magnetism and meteor
ology. On October 6, 1881, he was mar
ried at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Mary
Ellen Spalding, and they have had one
daughter, Marion, who died in 1884. Resi
dence: 1625 Massachusetts Avenue. Ad
dress: United States Weather Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
BIGELOW, John:
Lawyer, author and publicist; born at
Maiden, Ulster County, New York, Novem
ber 25, 1817. He was graduated from Union
College as A.B. in the class of 1835. He
received the LL.D. degree from his alma
mater in 1886, from Racine College in 1886,
and from the University of the City of New
York in 1889. He was admitted to the
New York Bar, 1839. He was appointed
by Governor Silas Wright one of the in
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tors were made elective .by the new con
stitution of 1846; was editor of the New
York Evening Post from 1849 to 1861. He
was appointed by President Lincoln United
States Consul to Paris, 1861, and to suc
ceed William L. Dayton as United States
minister to France, in 1864-1867; secretary
of state of New York, 1875-1876; under
the administration of Governor Tilden,
having before : that been chairman of the
Canal Investigating Committee appointed
by Governor Tilden. By Governor Tilden's
will Mr. Bigelow was appointed one of, the
executors and trustees of his estate. He is
president of the Tilden Trust; president
of the Board of Trustees of The New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden
Foundations; was the first president of the
New York Law School; he is trustee of
the New York Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and ex-officio member of the Art Com
mission of the City of New York ; and an
honorary member of the New York Cham
ber of Commerce. Mr. Bigelow, while a
man of affairs in the largest sense, has also
made for himself an enduring place in
American literature. He is the author of:
Jamaica in 1850, of The Effect of Sixteen
Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony, 1852 ;
Life of Fremont, 1856; Les Etats-Unis d'
Amerique en 1863 (Paris) ; The Wit and
Wisdom of the Haytiens, 1876; Mono
graph on Molinos the Quietist, 1882;
France and the Confederate Navy, 1888;
Writings and Speeches of Samuel T. Til
den (two volumes), 1885; Life of William
Cullen Bryant, 1890; Life of Samuel J.
Tilden (two volumes), 1875; Life of Frank
lin (three volumes) ; and is editor of com
plete works of Franklin (ten volumes). He
also wrote : The Mystery of Sleep, 1897 ;
which has already reached a third edition
and has also been translated and published
in the French, German and Russian lan
guages; The Supreme Court and the Elect
oral Commission — An Open Letter to the
Honorable Joseph H. Choate, 1903; Lest
we Forget — Gladstone, Morley and the
Confederate Loan of 1863, a Rectification ;
The Useful Life a Crown to the Simple
Life, 1905 ; Some Recollections of Edouard
Laboulaye; Our Ex-Presidents, What Shall

We Do For Them, What Shall They Do
for Us? 1906; The Propium, or What of
Man is Not his Own. He was one of the
early members and is president of the Cen
tury Association. Mr. Bigelow married, in
1850, Jennie Poultney, of Baltimore, and
has six children : two sons, Major John
Bigelow and Poultney Bigelow and four
daughters: Miss Grace Bigelow, Mrs.
Charles E. Tracy, Mrs. Butler K. Harding,
and Honorable Mrs. Lionel Guest. Ad
dress : 21 Gramercy Park, New York City,
or Highland Falls on Hudson.
BIGELOW, John, Jr.:
Major, United States Army (retired) ;
born in New York City, May 12, 1854; son
of John Bigelow and Jane Tunis (Poult
ney) Bigelow. He was educated at Paris
and Bonn, from 1861 to 1867, at Highland
Falls, New York, and Providence, Rhode
Island, from 1867' to 1870, at the Berlin
Gewerbeschule and University and Frei
berg Mining Academy from 1870 to 1873,
then " entered the United States Military
Academy from which he was graduated in
1877. He served as second lieutenant, first
lieutenant and captain of the Tenth United
States Cavalry and major of the Ninth
United States Cavalry. He was instructor
of modern languages at the United States
Military Academy from 1880 to 1884, partic
ipated in the campaign against the Apache
chief Geronimo in 1885 and 1886, was ad
jutant general of the District of Columbia
Militia from 1887 to 1889, professor of
Military Science and Tactics at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology from 1894
to 1898. He participated in campaign of
Santiago in 1898, was collector of customs
at the Port of Sagua la Grande, Cuba, in
January 1899, and superintendent of Yose-
mite National Park in the summer of 1904.
He retired from active service in October,
1904. Since 1905 he has been professor of
French and head of the Department of
Modern Languages at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is a Demo
crat in politics and a Swedenborgian in his
religious connection. He is a member of
the Military Historical Society of Massa- '
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ciation, the Military Service Institution of
the United States and the Technology Club
of Boston. He is author of "Mars la Sour
and Gravelotte; Principles of Strategy; and
Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign.
He married in Baltimore, Maryland, April
28, 1883, Mary Dallam, and they have two
children : Braxton Bigelow, born in 1887, and
Jane Poultney Bigelow, born in 1889. Resi
dence : 62 Mount Vernon Street, Boston,
Office address : Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston, Massachusetts.
BIGELOW, Maurice Alpheus:
Professor , of biology ; born at Milford
Center, Ohio, December 8, 1872; son oi
Alpheus Russel Bigelow and Hattie (Pathe-
more) Bigelow. He was graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University as B.S. in 1894,
from Northwestern University as M.S. in
1896, and Harvard University as Ph.D. in
190T. He was instructor in biology at Ohio
Wesleyan University in 1894 and 1895, fel
low assistant and later instructor in zoology
at Northwestern University from 1895 to
1898; instructor from 1898 to 1903, and
from 1903 to 1907, adjunct professor of
biology, 1907 professor, at Teachers Col
lege of Columbia University. He is a
fellow of the New York Academy of
Sciences and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; a mem
ber of. the American Society of Zoologists,
and the American Society of Naturalists.
Dr. Bigelow is author of: The Teaching of
Zoology in the Secondary School, 1904;
and The Development of Lepas; and also
contributions on biological subjects and is
editor of The Nature-Study Review. He
married in Chicago in 1900, Anna Neiglick.
Address : Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity, New York City.
BIGELOW, Melville Madison:
Dean of Boston University Law School ;
born at Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Mich
igan, August 2, 1846 ;' oldest son of Rev.
William E. Bigelow and Daphne F. Bige
low. He was graduated from the Univer
sity of Michigan receiving the degree of
A.B. in 1866, and LL.B. in 1868, and A.M.
in 1871 ; and studied at Harvard University,

receiving the degrees of Ph.D. and A.M.
from Harvard after examination in 1879;
and also receiving . the degree of LL.D.
from Northwestern University in 1896. He
is professor of law and dean of the Law
School, of Boston University; also lawyer
and author. He is a member of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society,' The Harvard
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and othej-
learned societies. Fie is author of: The
Law of Estoppel, which has gone through
five editions; Leading Cases in the Law of
Torts; The Law of Torts (seven Ameri
can and two English editions) ; Placita An-
glo-Normanica; History of English Pro
cedure; The Law of Fraud on the Civil
Side; Law of Bills, Notes and Cheques
(two editions), and The Law of Wills.
He is also author of two chapters
(VI and VII) in the seventh volume of
the Cambridge Modern History. Professor
Bigelow married in 1898, Alice Bradford,
daughter of Dr. George S. and Jane G.
Woodman. Residence : 200 Brattle Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Office address :
Boston University Law School, Ashburton
Place, Boston, Masachusetts.
BIGELOW, Poultney:
Journalist; born in New York City, Sep
tember 10, 1855 ; son of John Bigelow and
Jane Tunis (Poultney) Bigelow. He was
graduated from Norwich (Connecticut)
Academy in 1873, and from Yale as B.A.
in 1879, and then attended the Columbia
Law School, and later received the hon
orary degree of M.A. from Yale. He was
admitted to the New York bar in 1882.
Mr. Bigelow is author of : The German
Emperor and His Eastern Neighbors (Ger
man translation); Down the Danube, from
the Black Forest to the Black Sea; The
Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; History of
the German Struggle for Liberty (1806 to
1848), four volumes, 1895 to 1905; White
Man's Africa, 1897; Children of the
Nations, 1900. He has visited the princi
pal tropical colonies in search of in
formation on colonial administration.
In 1905 he was appointed lecturer on Na
tional Expansion' by the Law School
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resignation was requested because of
an article on Panama which offended the
administration of President Roosevelt. He
was correspondent of the London Times
in the Spanish- American War; has lec
tured at the principal universities on colon
ial administration and modern history, and
conducts a farm. He is honorary mem
ber of the Royal United Service Institu
tion, and of the Royal Artillery Institu
tion (life) ; and a member of the Royal
Geographical Society, the Authors Club,
and Ethological Society and Royal Cor
inthian Yacht Club of London, the New
York Historical Society, American Histori
cal Society, American Geographical Socie
ty, the Century Association, Authors Club,
and honorary member New York Canoe
Club of New York, and the Imperial
Yacht Club of Kiel, Germany. Address:
Malden-on-Hudson, New York.
BIGELOW, Robert Payne:
Zoologist and librarian; born at Bald-
winsville, New York, in 1863; son of Otis
Bigelow and Margaret (Payne) Bigelow.
He was graduated from Harvard as S.B.
in 1887 and from Johns Hopkins University
as Ph.D. in 1892, and was Adam T.
Brice fellow at Johns Hopkins from
1891 to 1893. He was editor of the
American Naturalist in 1897 and 1898.
Has published various papers on zo
ological subjects. He is instructor in
biology, librarian, and editor of the
Technology Quarterly, at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology. He is a
member of the American Society of Natur
alists, the American Society of Zoologists,
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and a member of
the Saint Botolph Club and Commonwealth
Country Club of Boston. Residence: 3
Spruce Street, Boston. Office address:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, Massachusetts.
BIGELOW, Willard Dell:
Chemist; born at Gardner, Kansas, May
. 31, 1866 ; son of William I. Bigelow and
Jennie (Lytle) Bigelow. He was graduated
from Amherst College in 1889, and went

to Oregon, where he was professor of
chemistry in the Oregon State College for
a year, then instructor in chemistry in the
high schools of Washington, D. C, for a
year; and in July 1, 1891, he became chem
ist in the United States Department of
Agriculture in which position he has ever
since continued, now being chief of the
Division of Foods in that Department. He
was professor of chemistry in the National
University at Washington from 1893 to
1898. 'Pro'fessor Bigelow married at Col
lege Park, Maryland, April 9, 1896, Nancy
M. Nesbit Address: Department of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C.
BIGGS, Hermann Michael:
Physician; born at Trumansburgh, New
York, September 28, 1859; son of Joseph
Hunt and Melessa I. (Pratt) Biggs. He
was educated in the public schools; at Ith
aca Academy; at Cornell University, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1882,
and Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
graduating as M.D. in 1883, followed by
post-graduate study at the Universities of
Berlin and Greifswald, Germany. Dr.
Biggs has been -engaged in medical practice
in New York since his graduation, and he
has been a member of the faculty of the
University and Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, since 1886, first as professor of
pathological anatomy, until 1892, then pro
fessor of therapeutics and clinical medicine
until 1898, and since then adjunct profes
sor of medicine. He was director of the
Carnegie Laboratory, 1885-1893; patholo
gist and director of the Bacteriological
Laboratories of the Health Department of
New York City, 1892-1900; general medi
cal officer of the Health Department of
New York .City, 1900. He is visiting phys
ician of Bellevue Hospital, St. Vincent's
Hospital, the Willard Parker and Riverside
Hospitals; a member of the Board of Di
rectors of the Rockefeller Institute of Med
ical Research ; honorary fellow of the San
itary Institute of Great Britain; and was
president of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis,
1905-1906, and 1906-1907. ' He is a fellow
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member of the New York County, New
York State and American Medical Asso
ciations, the New York Pathological Socie
ty, New York Clinical Society, " Practition
ers' Society, American Climatological So
ciety, the British Medical Association, the
British Institute of Public Health, and the
International Tuberculosis Bureau. He is
also a member of the University and Cen
tury Clubs and the Automobile Club of
America. Dr. Biggs, married at Hornells-
ville, Steuben County, New York, August
18, 1898, Frances M. Richardson, and they
have a daughter, Katharine E. Biggs, born
in May, 1899, and a son, William Richard
son Biggs, born in September, 1901. Ad
dress: 113 West Fifty-seventh Street, New
York City.
BIGGS, James Crarfford:
Jurist; born at Oxford, North Carolina,
August 29, 1872; son of Captain William
Biggs and Elizabeth (Cooper) Biggs. He
was graduated from the University of
North Carolina as Ph.B. in 1893. He was
licensed to practice law in 1894; was mayor
of Oxford in 1897 and 1898; associate, pro
fessor of law at the University of North
Carolina in 1898 to 1900, and member of
the Legislature from Durham County,
from 1905 to 1907. State reporter of
the Supreme Court from 1905 to 1907,
and in November, 1906, he was elected
judge of the Superior Court for the
Ninth Judicial District of North Car
olina, in which office he is now serv
ing. Judge Biggs was secretary and
treasurer of the' North Carolina State Bar
Association from 1899 to 1906; and he was
member of the General Council from 1900
to 1906 and vice-president from North
Carolina in 1906 and 1907 of the American
Bar Association. In politics he is a Dem
ocrat. Judge Biggs is a member of the
Zeta Psi fraternity, the Masons, Odd Fel
lows and Elks. He married at Durham,
North Carolina, February 7, 1906, Marjorie
Jordan. Address: Durham, North Caro
lina.
BIGHAM, John Glasgow:
Physician and surgeon; born at Millers-
burg, Ohio, April 22, 1835; son of John

Bigham and Eliza (Glasgow) Bigham. He
was educated at the Vermilion Institute,
Hayesville, Ohio, the University of Michi
gan, and the University of the City of New
York, graduating as M.D. in i860. He
has been engaged in the general practice
of medicine and surgery from i860; his
specialty being surgery. He was a member
of the Holmes County Military Committee
in 1862, organized to suppress local insur
rection, agairist the draft, etc. He was ap
pointed assistant-surgeon of the Sixty-
third Ohio Infantrv Regiment and also of
the Third Ohio, Cavalry, but was not must
ered under either. He was acting assistant-
surgeon, United States Infantry, the Fif
teenth, Sixteenth, and Nineteenth Infantry
from July, 1863, continuously, until Decem
ber, 1864. He was commissioned surgeon
with rank of major, of the Sixty-eighth
Ohio Infantry, December 7, 1864, and was
mustered out with the regiment, July 17,
1865. Dr. Bigham voted for Fremont, and
has voted for all Republican candidates
since. He is a United Presbyterian in his
religious views. He is a member of the
Holmes County and Ohio State Medical
Societies, the Grand Army of the Republic
and the military order of the Loya!,Legion.
His only sister, Maria Irvine Bigham (he
had no brothers), was married to Rev.
David Elliott Campbell and went with him
as missionaries of the Presbyterian
Church, to India, in 1850. Together with
their children, Frances and William, they
were slain by the Sepoys at Cawnpore, in
June, 1857. Dr. Bigham married at Mil-
lersburg, Ohio, December 31, 1868, Mrs.
Nancy M. Lockhart, and they. had a son,
Jay Glasgow Bigham (now deceased). Ad
dress:. Millersburg, Ohio.
BILLINGS, Cornelius K. G.:
Capitalist; born in Saratoga Springs,
New York, September 17, 1862; son of Al
bert M. Billings and Augusta S. (Farns-
worth) Billings. He removed to Chicago
with his parents in 1864, and was educated
in. the public schools of Chicago and at Ra
cine College, graduating as A.B. in 1879.
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Light and Coke Company of Chicago, of
which his father was president, in 1879,
and he has been president of that company
since the death of his father in 1887. He is
also ¦ president and director of the Kings
County Lighting Company; director of the
Union Carbide Company, the Home Na
tional Bank and the Home Savings Bank
of Chicago. He was a director of the
World's Columbian Exposition from 1892
to 1904, and was West Park commissioner
of Chicago in 1889. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Billings is a member of the
Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, Seawan-
haka-Corinthian Yacht, New York Yacht,
Turf and Field, and the Down Town Clubs
of New York City, and of the Chicago
and Union League Clubs of Chicago. He
married in 1885, Blanche, daughter of An
drew MacLeish, of Chicago. Residence :
921 Madison Avenue. Address : 170 East
Seventy-fifth Street, New York City.
BILLINGS, Frank:
Physician, educator; born at Highland,
Iowa County, Wisconsin, in 1854; son of
Henry M. and Ann (Bray) Billings. He
studied medicine at Northwestern Universi
ty, graduating in 1881 with the degree of
M.D), and receiving the honorary degree of
M.S. in 1890. He has since his gradua
tion practiced in Chicago, and is connected
with various hospitals and institutions. He
has been physician of the Presbyterian Hos
pital since 1898, and of St. Luke's since
1892. He is also consulting physician to
Cook County Hospital, Children's Memorial
Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, and the
Provident Hospital. He was teacher of
anatomy, of physical diagnosis, and of the
practice of medicine in the Northwestern
University School of Medicine from 1882
until 1898. In 1898 he was appointed to the
chair of medicine in Rush Medical Col
lege (now the Medical School of the Uni
versity of Chicago), arid in 1900 became
dean of the Medical School. He is a prom
inent member and was president in 1902-
1903 of the American Medical Association,
arid member and ex-president of the As
sociation of American Physicians, and the
Chicago Medical Society; also a member

of the Illinois State Medical Society and
various other local professional organiza
tions. He edited Diseases of the Digestive
System (1906). Dr. Billings married at
Washington,' D. C, May 26, 1887, Dane
Ford Brawley, by whom he has a daughter,
Margaret, born in Chicago, August 8, 1888.
Residence : 35 Twenty-second Street, Chi
cago. Office address: 100 State Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
BILLINGS, Frank Seaver:
Pathologist; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, January 15, 1845; son of George and
Lucy Elizabeth (Parker) Billings. After
graduating at the Royal Veterinary School,
Berlin, Germany, in 1880, he returned to
the United States to rest and again went
to Germany where he spent five years in
further medical study, under Virchow and
others. An honorary M.D. was conferred
upon him in 1888 by the Medico-Chirurgical
College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pre
vious to studying medicine, Dr. Billings had
been connected with stock farming, from
which he gained the desire to become a
pathologist and bacteriologist. As such he
is widely known and his findings in regard
to the relation of diseases in animals to
public health, have done much to prevent the
spread of them. In 1885 he became pathol
ogist to the New York Polyclinic School
of Medicine and in 1886 he established the
Pathological Institute of the University of
Nebraska. He was one of the first in this
country to recognize the value of anti
toxin inoculation for hydrophobia and to
use it, for in 1885 he took some boys from
Newark, New Jersey, who had been at
tacked by dogs, to Pasteur, in Paris, to be
treated. In 1893 he retired from profes
sional life because of ill-health. He is
author of numerous articles on pathology
and bacteriology in medical journals and
also several larger works, among which are :
The Relation of Animal Diseases to Pub
lic Health, 1884, and How Shall the Rich
Escape, 1884. He married at Boston, Mas
sachusetts, November 6, 1873, Harriet M.
Roulstone. Address : Sharon, Massachu
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BILLINGS, Frederick Murray:
Manufacturer; born in London, England,
June i, 1855 ; son of David and Eliza (Mur
ray) Billings. He was educated at private
schools in Weymouth and London. He
came to the United States in 1891 to study
at the New Church Seminary at Cambridge,
Massachusetts; remained there two years
and then entered the employ of the Warren
Chemical and Manufacturing Company, of
New York City, of which he is now secre
tary, treasurer and director. He was ac
tive in Liberal politics in London, and for
many years honorary secretary of the
Hackney Liberal Association. He believes
in the gold standard and a moderate tariff;
was treasurer of the Maplewood (New
Jersey) Improvement Association in 1901
and 1902. Mr. Billings is a member of the
New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgian) ;
a director of the American Swedenborg
Printing and Publishing Society, the New
York Association of New Church, and the
New-Church Evidence Society of London,
of which he was honorary secretary from
1879 to 1891. He married in Boston in
1894, E. M. Warren, daughter of Rev. S.
M. Warren, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and
they have three children : John B., born in
1895 ; Harold W., born in 1897, and George
L., born in 1906. Residence: 2233 Andrews
Avenue (Bronx), New York City. Ad
dress : 17 Battery Place, New York City.
BILLINGS, John Shaw:
Librarian ; physician ; born in Switzerland
County, Indiana, April 12, 1838; son of
James and Abbie (Shaw) Billings. He
was graduated from Miami University,
Ohio, as A.B., 1857; received the degree of
A.M. from the same college, i860, and was
graduated from the Medical College of
Ohio, as M.D., i860. He afterward re
ceived the degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, in 1884; from Har
vard University, 1886; M.D. from the Uni
versity of Munich, 1889; D.C.L. from Ox
ford University, 1889; was made a member
of the Royal College of Physicians, of Ire
land, and Royal College of Surgeons, of
Ireland, in 1892; M.D., Dublin, in 1892,
and Budapest in 1896; LL.D., Yale, in

1901, and LL.D., Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, 1902. He was resident physician of the
Commercial Hospital at Cincinnati, .Ohio,
1859-60; demonstrator of anatomy of the
Medical College of Ohio 1860-61. He was
appointed acting assistant surgeon United
States Army, November, 1861 ; promoted
assistant surgeon April 16, 1862; brevetted
lieutenant-colonel United States Army,
March 13, 1865; captain and assistant sur
geon, United States Army, July 28, 1866;
major and surgeon, December 2, 1876;
lieutenant-colonel and deputy surgeon-gen
eral,' United States Army, June 16, 1894;
and retired from active service, at his own
request, 1895. He was in charge of hos
pitals at Washington, D. C, and West
Philadelphia, 1861-63; served with the
Army of the Potomac, 1863, and was with
the Fifth Corps at the battles of Chancel
lorsville and Gettysburg; was on hospital
duty, David's Island and Bedloe's Island,
New York, October, 1863, to February,
1864; acted as board of enrollment, and
then was medical inspector, Army of the
Potomac, until December, 1864; then in
Surgeon-General's office, Washington, ill
charge of the organization of Veteran Re
serve Corps, until 1875, and of the Library
of the Surgeon-General's office until De
cember 28, 1883; after which he served as
curator of the Army Medical Museum and
Library from 1885 to 1895. He was engaged
in the reorganization of the United States
Marine Hospital Service, 1870; had charge
of the Division of Vital Statistics, eleventh
census; was medical adviser to board of
trustees of Johns Hopkins University and
Hospital, Baltimore; vice-president of the
National Board of Health, 1879-82; profes
sor of hygiene in the University of Penn
sylvania, 1891-96; and since 1896, director
of the New York Public Library, Astor,
Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Dr. Bill
ings is a member of the Academy of Nat
ural Sciences, Philadelphia, the Philosophi
cal Society, of Washington (ex-president),
the American Medical Association, Ameri
can Social Science Association, American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
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also of the Congress of American Phys
icians and Surgeons (ex-president), Amer
ican Academy of Political and Social
Science, International Statistical Insti
tute and Committee of Fifty to In
vestigate the Liquor Problem. He
was president of the New York Li
brary Club, 1899-1900, and again in 1906-
1907; president of the American Library
Association, 1901-1902; director Carnegie
Institution, and chairman since 1903. Dr.
Billings has distinguished himself as a
writer on medical, hygienic and bibliograph
ical subjects, including, among his works:
A Bibliography of Cholera, 1875; Medical
Libraries in the United States, 1876; In
troduction to. a Treatise on Hygiene and
Public Health; Principles of Ventilation
and Heating, 1884, second edition, 1893;
Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United
States, 1885; Index Catalog of the Library
of the Surgeon-General's Office of the
United States Army, Washington, D. C,
1880-1894; also various professional re
ports and papers. Address : 425 Lafayette
Street, New York C;ty.
BILLCPS, Richard A.:
Lawyer; born at Jefferson, Mississippi,
April 24, 1878; son of Dr. William and
Irene M. , (Kimbrough) Billups. He was
graduated from the law department of Cum
berland University in 1899 with the degree
of LL.B., and commenced to practice in
Mountain View, Oklahoma Territory, later
removing to Cordell. As a prominent mem
ber of the Democratic party, he was elected
Probate Judge in 1900. This office he has
since held, by successive reflections, and is
now serving his fourth term. He was chosen
secretary of the State Democratic Commit
tee in 1902; elected to the Democratic Na
tional Committee in 1904, and has been re--
cently nominated State Senator from the
sixth district. He is a director in the City
National Bank; vice-president of the Cor
dell Gin & Milling Company, and is. a mem
ber of the P. K. A. Fraternity, the Knights
of Pythias, the Elks, and the Woodmen of
the World. He is a member of the Baptist
Church. He married at Duck Hill, Missis
sippi, March 30, 1902, Beatrice Tyler, and

they have two children: Richard Lee, born
in 1904, and Beatrice Virginia, born in 1906.
Address : Cordell, Oklahoma Territory.
BINGHAM, Edward Franklin:
Jurist; born in West Concord, Vermont,
August 13, 1828. He was educated in Ver
mont and at Marietta College, Ohio. He
was admitted to the bar by the Ohio Su
preme Court in May, 1850, and from 1850
to 1861, he practiced law at McArthur,
Ohio, and at Columbus, Ohio, from 1861
to. 1873. Judge Bingham was prosecuting
attorney of Vinton County, Ohio, from
1850 to 1855, solicitor of Columbus, Ohio,
from 1867 to 1871. He was a member of
the Ohio Legislature from 1856 to 1857,
and judge of the common pleas and district
courts of the Fifth Judicial District of
Ohio from 1873 to 1877. He was defeated
as Democratic candidate for the Supreme
bench of Ohio in 1881 and from 1887 to
1904 he was chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia. Judge
Bingham married first, November 21, 1850,
Susannah F. Gunning, who died August 2,
1886, and second August 8, 1888, Melinda
Caperton Patton. Address : 1907 H Street,
Washington, D. C.
BLNGHAM, Henry Harrison:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1841.
He was graduated from Jefferson College
in 1862, receiving the degrees of A.B. and
A.M., and also the degree of LL.D. from
Washington and Jefferson College. He
studied law, entered the Union Army as a
lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fortieth
Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was wounded at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863, at Spott-
sylvania, Virginia, in 1864, and at Farm-
ville, Virginia, in 1865. He was mustered
out of service in July, 1866, having been
brevetted for distinguished gallantry as
major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brig
adier-general, and he received the Medal
of Honor for special gallantry at the Battle
of the Wilderness. He was appointed post
master at Philadelphia in March, 1867, and
resigned December, 1872, to accept the
clerkship of the Courts of Oyer and Ter
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Philadelphia, having been elected by the
people. He was reelected clerk of the
courts in 1875; was a dtlegate-at-large to
the Republican National Convention at
Philadelphia in 1872, also delegate from the
First Congressional District to the Republi
can National Convention at Cincinnati in
1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 1888, at Minne
apolis in 1892, Saint Louis in 1896, at Phila
delphia, 1900, and at Chicago, 1904. He
was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress
from the First Pennsylvania District in
1878, beginning his service March 4, 1879,
and has been in continuous service by bi
ennial elections since, and is now serving in
the Sixtieth Congress, expiring March 3,
1909. Address: 315 South Twelfth Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BINGHAM, Joel Foote:
Clergyman, educator and author; born at
Andover, Connecticut, October n, 1827;
son of Cyrus Bingham and Abigail Lord
(Foote) Bingham. He was graduated from
Yale College, where he was Greek orator at
the Junior Exhibition in 1851, B.A., and
valedictorian in 1852, receiving the M.A.
degree in 1855, D.D. from Western Reserve
University in 1869, and Litt.D. from Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1898.
From 1852 to 1858 he was head master of
a classical school in the Bible House, New
York City. In 1861 he declined an elec
tion to the professorship of sacred rhetoric
in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
Chicago, Illinois. His published works
have been many. His great work, written
in Italian, Gemme della Letteratura Ital-
iana, was published in Florence in 1904,
and contemporaneously in London. Other
publications have been sermons, books,
articles and poems in magazines, and ex
tended translations from the Italian and
German. He spent many years of study
and writing in Europe especially in
Germany and Italy, and was for ten
years lecturer on Italian literature in Trin
ity College, Hartford. He was ordained to
the ministry of the Episcopal Church ; was
a pastor in Buffalo, New York, six years ;
in Augusta, Maine, three years (when
speaker Blaine and Senator Morril were

parishioners) ; in Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, three years, and in Waterbury, New
London and New Haven, Connecticut, six
years. He gave two courses of public lec
tures in various cities of New Eng
land, from 1887 to 1889, the first course be
ing: Select Literature, Melody and Myth,,
and the second course entitled: Historic
Cameos. He married at Hartford, . Con
necticut, July 14, 1857, Susan Grew, and
they have two sons: General Theodore Al
fred, Commissioner of police of New York
City, born May 14, 1858, and Howard Henry
Charles, born December 5, 1862. Address :
Hartford, Connecticut.
BINGHAM, Theodore Alfred:
Commissioner of police of New York
City; born at Andover, Tolland County,
Connecticut, May 14, 1858; son of Joel
Foote Bingham and Susan (Grew) Bing
ham. He spent three years at Yale, in
class of 1876, and received from that col
lege the degree of M.A. in 1896; and he
was graduated from the United States Mil
itary Academy in 1879. He was promoted
to second lieutenant of engineers, in June,
1879 ; first lieutenant in June, 1881 ; captain
in July, 1889, and major of the Engineer
Corps in July, 1898. He was military at
tache of the United States Embassy at Ber
lin from 1889 to 1892, and at Rome from
1892 to 1894 ; military aide to the President
of the United States, with rank of colonel,
from 1897 to 1903 ; was promoted brigadier-
general in the United States Army, July
11, 1904; but was retired for disability in
line of duty, July 12, 1904. He has served
as police commissioner of New York City,
from January I, 1906. He is an Episco
palian in religious affiliation, and a Royal
Arch Mason. General Bingham is a Com
mander of the Legion of Honor of France;
a member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
and the Sons of the American Revolution,
and of the Metropolitan Club of Washing
ton, D. C. He married in Saint Louis,
Missouri, December 15, 1881, Lucille Ruth-
erfurd, and they have a son, Rtrtherfurd,
born August 30, 1884. Address: 300 Mul
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BINNEY, Charles Chauncey:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, October
20, 1855; son of Horace Binney, Jr., and
Eliza Frances (Johnson) Binney. He was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1878,
studied law in the office of William Henry
Rawle in Philadelphia; also at the Law
School of the University of Pennsylvania,
and was admitted to the bar. He was as
sistant attorney in the Department of Jus
tice of the United States from 1893 to 1897 ;
and from September, 1897, was special
attorney for the same department until
November, 1901. He is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars, His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the
American Forestry Association, the Penn
sylvania Forestry Association, the Univer
sity and City Clubs of Philadelphia and the
Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. He is
author of: Restrictions Upon Local and
Special Legislation in State Constitutions,
1894; Life of Horace Binney, 1903; and a
contributor to legal periodicals. Mr. Bin
ney has been twice married; first at Engle
wood, New Jersey, June 4, 1885, to Sarah
Cook Dawes, who died December 28, 1900,
and second, at Providence, Rhode Island,
November 29, 1904, to Isabella Nichols.
Residence: St. Martin's, Chestnut Hill. Ad
dress : 703 North American Building, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
BINNEY, Harold:
Lawyer; born in New York City, 1867;
son of Amos (of Boston) and Elizabeth
N. (Talbot) Binney. He was educated in
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston, Columbia Law School, Washing
ton, D. C. He was assistant examiner of
patents at Washington, from 1887 to 1890,
practicing in New York since 1890; mem
ber of the firm of Binney, Brickenstein &
Ogden, patent lawyers. He is a member
of the Players,' Calumet, Engineers', Strol
lers', New York Yacht, Chemists' and
Lawyers' Clubs. Mr. Binney married, 1895,
Gertrude A. Miles and they have two
daughters : Constance, born in 1897 and
Frederika, born in 1892. Address: 2
Rector Street, New York City.

BINNS, Charles Fergus:
Professor of ceramic technology; born in
Worcester, England, October 4, 1857; son
of Richard William Binns and Elizabeth
Frances (Ferrar) Binns. He was edu
cated at Worcester Cathedral, Kings
School, where he was Kings Scholar, in a
private chemical laboratory at Birmingham,
England, and at the School of Design at
Worcester, England. He was with the Royal
Porcelain Works, at Worcester, England,
from 1872 to 1897, and superintendent suc
cessively of the Chemical Laboratory, the
Department of Painting, the London sales
depot, and the Department of Clay Work
ing and manufacture. He was at Trenton,
New Jersey, from 1898 to 1900, as princi
pal of the Technical School of Science and
Art, and since 1900 has been director of
the New York State School of Clay Work
ing and Ceramics at Alfred, New York.
He received the honorary degree of M.S.
from Alfred University in 1901, and has lec
tured on ceramic art before many schools
and societies. He was also superintendent
of the Ceramic Art Company of Trenton,
New Jersey, in 1899. He is author of numer
ous books and papers on ceramics and was
secretary of the jury on ceramics at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He
is a Republican in politics and an Episco
palian in religion. He is a member of the
American Ceramic Society and was its vice-
president in 1900 and president in 1901.
Mr. Binns married at Lambeg, Ireland,
June 7, 1882, Mary Howard Ferrar, and
they have five children : Mary Elizabeth,
born in 1883; William Hugh Ferrar, born
Annie Howard, born in 1886;

Dorothy Nevill, born in 1887, and Norah
Winifred, born in 1889. Address: Alfred,
New York.
BIOREN, John S.:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, January 29, 1863; son of John Bio-
ren and Anna J. (Mauil) Bioren. He was
educated in private schools and the Cen
tral High School of Philadelphia. Mr.
Bioren is senior member of Bioren and
Company, bankers, of Philadelphia. He is
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pany, the Cape May (New Jersey) Illum
inating Company, and the Fidelity Share
holders' Company, and is a director in the
American Gas Company, The National Gas,
Electric Light and Power Company, The
American Railways Company, the Easton
Consolidated Electric (Street railway)
Company, and the Merchants' Trust Com
pany. He is a governor of the Philadel
phia Stock Exchange. He has twice trav
eled through southern and western Europe.
He served in councils of Riverton, New
Jersey for a period of seven years, having
been elected by good majorities over op
ponents representing the dominant local
party. His own political views are Demo
cratic. He has been connected at various
times as director, manager or governor
with nearly all of the local institutions of
Riverton, New Jersey. His favorite recre
ations are cricket, golf, tennis, rowing and
horseback riding. He is a member of the
City Club of Philadelphia, and of the
Riverton Country Club. Residence:
Riverton, New Jersey. Office' address:
322 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
BIRCH, David R. :
Consular official; appointed American
consul at Malaga,' August 29, 1904; ap
pointed consul at Genoa, April 29, 1907.
Address : Genoa, Italy.
BIRD, Harlan Page:
Lumberman and banker; born in Brad
ford County, Pennsylvania, in 1842 ; of New
England parents. He was educated in the
common schools and afterward. engaged in
land surveying and bookkeeping, which
took him to Brooklyn, New York, and
thence to the lumber woods of Marinette
County, Wisconsin. He volunteered in
1861, and served four years in the Civil
War, two of which was as a staff officer
at division and corps headquarters, and he
was wounded in the Vicksburg rifle pits.
After the war he engaged in lumbering
and mercantile pursuits, in which he has
since continued ; and he is also president of
the Wausaukee State Bank. He was elected
State Senator in 1902, as a Republican, and

is still serving. Address: Wausaukee, Wis
consin.
BIRD, Robert Montgomery:
Educator; born at Petersburg, Virginia,
June 13, 1867; son of Henry Van LieuvenT
eigh and Margaret (Randolph) Bird. He
received his preparatory education in the
public schools of his native town and, en
tering later Hampden-Sidney College, was
graduated with the degrees of B.A. and
B.S. Folio wirig this, he studied at Johns
Hopkins University, receiving from it the
degree of Ph.D. Prior to his going to
college, however, he was employed for
six years in a railroad office, and had
spent four more years in commercial enter
prises. After graduating he gave up all
plans for business and accepted the chair
of mathematics and Natural Science at
Frederick (Maryland) College, in 1898. In
1900 he was appointed assistant in chem
istry in Johns Hopkins University, and the
following year became acting professor of
chemistry in the Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanical College. In 1902 he went to
the University of Missouri, being, during
the years 1902-3 and 1906-7, acting profes
sor of agricultural chemistry there. He
resigned in 1907 to accept the chair of col
legiate professor of chemistry at the Uni
versity of Virginia, and director of the
undergraduate laboratory. Professor Bird
is a member of the Episcopal Church. He
is a member of the American Chemical
Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Society of
Chemical Industry, and the Society of
Sigma Xi. He is fond of various outdoor
sports. He married at Mt. Washington,
Maryland, June 11, 1902, Caroline Reid,
and has one daughter: Caroline Page. Ad
dress : University of Virginia, Charlottes
ville, Virginia.
BIRDSALL, George W.:
Engineer; born in New York City, 1836;
educated College of New York, 1853; as
sistant engineer Department of Public
Works, 1871-79; chief engineer, 1879-98;
chief engineer Department of Water Supply,
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Residence:
56 W. Thirty-eighth Street. Address: 21
Park Row, New York City.
BIRDSEYE, Clarence F. :
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
June 6, 1854; son of Lucien Birdseye, for
merly judge' of the New York SupTreme
Court, and Catherine M. (Baker) Birds-
eye. He was fitted for college at the
Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic In
stitute; was graduated from Amherst Col
lege as B.A. in 1874, and M.A. in 1877;
and graduated as LL.B. from Columbia
Law School in 1877. He has been engaged
in the practice of law in New York City
since his graduation from college. In 1879
he commenced the compilation of the Re
vised Statutes, Codes and General Laws of
New York State, of which there had been
no other complete revision since 1830; and
in connection with this work prepared
other books, some of which were subse
quently published in whole or in part. He
is author of Birdseye's Revised Statutes,
Codes and General Laws of the State of
New York (three editions, 1889, 1896, and
1901 ; supplements 1897, 1905) ; Chrono
logical Table, of the Statutes of the State
of New York, 1887 (supplement, 1894) ;
Greater New York Charter, 1897; Ab
bott's Clerk's and Conveyancer's Assistant,
1899; Analytical Index of the New York
Code of Civil Procedure, 1900, etc. He
also wrote Greek Letter Fraternities as
an Educational Influence, in The Outlook,
July 28, 1906. He has been much inter
ested in educational matters, especially in
the restoration of individualism in college
education, and the Greek Letter Fraterni
ties in connection therewith. In 1907 he
published, through the Macmillan Com
pany : Individual Training in Our Colleges.
In this work the colleges have been for
the first time comprehensively treated from
the standpoint of the student rather than
from that of the faculty or institution. Mr.
Birdseye has called attention to the need
of regulating and influencing that portion
of the college student's time not spent in
the lecture, or class room, and has writ

ten extensively in that connection. Fie is
a Republican in politics. He was a mem
ber of Company A of the Twenty-third
Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York from 1877 to 1883.
He is a Congregationalist in religious af
filiation. He is a member of the Chi Psi
fraternity and president of the Alpha Chi
Corporation of Chi Psi, Amherst, Mas
sachusetts, and a member of the Chi Psi
Club of New York City. He married at
Tolland, Connecticut, March 27, 1878, Ada
J. Underwood, and they have eight chil
dren: Miria, Kellogg, Henry U., Kath
arine, Clarence, Roger Williams, Elizabeth,
and Margaret H. Address : 42 Broadway,
New York City.
BIRGE, Edward Asahel:
Zoologist, educator; born at Troy, New
York, September 7, 1851 ; son of Edward
White Birge and Ann (Stevens) Birge.
He received his preparatory education at
Troy High School and entering Williams
College, was graduated in 1873 with the
degree of A.B., receiving that of A.M.
three years later. The honorary degree of
LL.D. was conferred upon him by his
alma mater in 1903. He studied zoology
at the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University, and received the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1878. The Western Uni
versity of Pennsylvania conferred on him
the honorary degree of ScD. in 1897. He
spent the year 1880-81 in study at Leipzig
under Professors Gaule and Ludwig. In
1875 he became instructor of natural his
tory at the University of Wisconsin, and
in 1879 became professor and head of the
department of zoology in that university.
Since 1891 he has been dean of the College
of Letters and Science, and was acting
president of the university from 1900 to
1903. Besides his connection with this in
stitution he has been commissioner of Fish
eries of the State of Wisconsin since 1895 ;
director of the Wisconsin Geological and
Natural History Survey since 1897; and
Forestry Commissioner since 1905. He has
been a director of the Madison Free Li
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Board of Directors since 1893. In 1904 he
was a member of the International Jury
of Awards at the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position. In his active life, Dr. Birge has
found time to be connected with various
associations, professional and other. He
is fellow of the Ariierican Association for
the Advancement of Science; member of
the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts,
and Letters (president, 1890-91), of the
American Microscopical Society (president,
1902-03), of the American Society of Na
turalists the American Society of Zoolo
gists, the Washington Academy of Sci
ences, the American Fisheries Society
(president, 1906-07), and the National Geo
graphic Society. He is also member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Senator,
1904-10. He is a member of the Congrega
tional Church. Dr. Birge married at Troy,
New York, July 15, 1880, Anna W. Grant,
and they have two children : Edward G,
born in 1881, and Anna G, born in 1883.
Residence : 744 Langdon Street, Madison,
Wisconsin. Address : University of Wis
consin, Madison, Wisconsin.
BIRNEY, Arthur Alexis:
Lawyer; born in Paris, France, May 28,
1852; son of William Birney and Catherine
(Hoffman) Birney He studied law at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, graduating in 1873 with the degree
of LL.B.. He was admitted in 1873 to the
bar of Washington, D. C, and there began
to practice in partnership with his father.
In 1875 he was appointed assistant United
States District Attorney, but resigned two
years later to accept the appointment of
assistant corporation counsel, of the City
of Washington. In 1893 he was appointed
by President Cleveland United States attor
ney for the District of Columbia, and held
that office for four years, during which
time he prosecuted many notable cases. He
is now in private practice at Washington,
as senior member of the firm of Birney &
Woodward. In 1878 he was appointed to a
professorship in the Law Department of
Howard University, and continues to hold
that position. He is a director of the Co
lumbian Marble Quarrying Company, the

National City Dairy Company, and the
American Realty Company. He is a Trus
tee of the National Homoepathic Hospital
Association; past master of Pentalpha
Lodge of Masons, and a member of the
University Club of Washington, D. G. He
married, November 3, 1875, Helen Conway,
of Baltimore, Maryland. Residence: 1516
Twenty-second Street. Address: 602
Eleventh Street, Washington, D. C.
BISBEE, Horatio:
Lawyer; born at Canton, Maine, May 1,
1839; son of Horatio Bisbee and Sarah
(White) Bisbee. He received his academic
education at Tufts College, where he was
graduated in 1863 with the degree of A.B.,
the degree of A.M. being conferred upon
him in 1872. He left college and enlisted
in Company E of the Fifth Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry, April 17, 1861, for the
month's service, and then joined a com
pany of the Ninth Maine Regiment and his
gallantry won him rapid promotion through
the ranks of captain, lieutenant-colonel and
colonel in the Ninth Maine Regiment of
Volunteer Infantry, with which he was dis
charged in 1863. He then took up the
study of law and was in 1869 admitted to
the bar at Chicago, Illinois, and commenced
practicing at Jacksonville, Florida, which
he had adopted for his home in 1865. In
1869 he was appointed United States disr
trict attorney for the Northern District of
Florida, and held the position for four
years, declining a reappointment; and he
was attorney-general of Florida for a short
time in 1872. In 1876 he was elected by the
Republican party, with which he is iden
tified, to a seat in Congress and was re
elected for three successive terms, being
member of the Forty-fifth, Firty-sixth,
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.
He was senior partner of the law firm of
Bisbee & Rinehart, from 1890 to 1897, and
since then of Bisbee & Bedell. He is a
member of the New York Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
and of the Seminole Club of Jacksonville,
Florida. He married at Fernandina, Flori
da, April 5, 1863, Florida Dolan, and of
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Eldon, Ada and Ralph; and married a sec
ond time, June iiy 1891, Lottie R. Beasley,
of New York City. Address : 318 West
Beaver Street, " Jacksonville, Florida.
BISHOP, Irving Prescott:
Geologist; born at Burlington Flats,
New York, November 18, 1849; son of
John and Esther (Marcy) Bishop. He
was educated at the New Berlin (New
Yprk) Academy and Cornell University,
and he received the degree of M.S., from
Alfred University in 1902. He was prin
cipal of the New Berlin. (New York)
Academy, in 1875 and 1876, of Perry (New
York) Union School, from 1878 to 1885,
the Chatham (New York) Free Academy,
from 1885 to 1888, at the same time he
was teacher of science at the Round Lake
Summer Schools in 1886 and 1887. He
was principal of the Teachers' Retreat,
Silver Lake Assembly in 1891 and 1892;
teacher of science at Erie, (Pennsylvania)
Summer School in 1893, and has been in
charge of science work in the State In
stitute, Chautauqua, New York, since 1896,
and professor of Physics at the Chautauqua
Summer Schools from 1904 to 1906. Since
1888, he has been the teacher of science of
the State Normal School in Buffalo. His
principal researches have been in strati
graphy and economic geology, especially as
regards western New York. He is author
of: Salt Fields of Western New York;
Geology of Erie County, New York ; Pet
roleum and Natural Gas in Western New
York ; Red Book of Niagara ; Methods and
Outlines for Teaching Physiology; Eco
nomic Geology of Western New York. He
has also contributed , to New York State
Geological Map. On his travels abroad he
visited Great Britain, Scandinavia, Russia,
Germany and France, in 1900. In politics
he is a Republican. Mr. Bishop is a fellow
of the Geological Society of America, and
an active member of the New. York State
Science Teachers' Association and was its
president in 1903. His chief recreations
are fishing and gardening. He is a mem
ber of the University Club of Buffalo.
Mr. Bishop married, at New Berlin, New

York, November 24, 1875, Julia W. Allen,
and they have two children: Roy Allen,
born June 16, 1877, Elizabeth Louise, born
November 17, 1879. Address: 109 Nor
wood Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
BISHOP, Louis Faugeres:
Physician; born in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, March 14, 1864; son of James and
Mary F. (Ellis) Bishop. He was educated
in St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp
shire, and was graduated from the Rut
gers College as A.B. in 1885, and A.M. in
1889, and from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons . (Columbia University) in
1889. He was resident physician of St.
Luke's Hospital, from 1889 to 1892; was
eight years secretary of the New York
Academy of Medicine, and part of that
time chairman of the section on Practice of
Medicine. He is now professor of dis
eases of the heart and circulation, Ford
ham University, Medical department; and
visiting physician to the Lincoln Hos
pital; in 1904 he established the Laboratory
of Clinical Observation, for cooperative
study of disease by general practitioners;
chiefly occupied in general family and con
sulting practice in New York City, and in
summer at York Harbor, Maine. He is
author of: Heart Disease and Blood Pres
sure (E. B. Treat); also numerous papers
on the circulation, diagnosis and clinical
pathology. He is a specialist in disorders
of the heart and circulation. He is trustee
of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, and
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, American Academy of Medicine, News
York Academy of Medicine, Pathological
Society, Neurological Society, Society of
Alumni St. Luke's and Sloan Maternity
Hospitals, Delta Phi, New York Historical
Society. He is a Mason. His favorite
recreations are golf, automobiling and
travel. He is a member of the Calumet,
Columbia University, Chemists' Clubs, and
Automobile Club of America. Dr. Bishop
married in New York City, 1899, Charlotte
Dater, and they have one son: Louis F,
Jr., born in 1901. Address: 54 West Fif
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BISHOP, Seth Scott:
Physician and surgeon; born at Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, February 7, 1852; son of
Lyman and Maria (Probart) Bishop. He
attended Pooler Institute, and Beloit Col
lege, where he took a three-year course.
For a time he was identified with the Fond
du Lac Daily Commonwealth, but after
wards took up the study of medi
cine, and after completing two courses
in the medical' department of the Uni-
iversity of the City of New York,
and studying with Dr. S. S. Bowers,
he was graduated from the medical
school of Northwestern University as
M.D. in 1876. Subsequently he practiced in
Fond du Lac; since 1879 he has resided in
Chicago, where he has won for himself an
extensive reputation as a specialist and has
made a number of contributions to medical
science. Several instruments of his inven
tion have assisted greatly in operative sur
gery. In 1881 he was elected to the medical
staff of the South Side Free Dispensary ; he
was also surgeon to the Illinois Charitable
Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Post-Graduate
and Illinois Hospitals ; consulting surgeon
to the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home,
the Mary Thompson Hospital, the Silver
Cross Hospital, and the School for Nervous
and Delicate Children, and is now a profes
sor of diseases of the nose, throat and ear
in the Illinois Medical College, and the
Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital. He is author of: The Ear and
Its Diseases, and Diseases of the Nose,
Throat and Ear, and Their Accessory Cav
ities. He is editor of the Illinois Medical
Bulletin; is on the editorial staff of The
Laryngoscope, and is a contributor to various
periodicals. Dr. Bishop is a member of the
Internatiorial Medical Congress, the Pan-
American Medical Congress, the American
Medical Association, the State Medical So
cieties of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illi
nois, the Chicago Pathological Society, the
Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and
the United States Hay Fever Association.
He is a thirty-second degree mason and
a Templar and a Mystic Shriner. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He married at

Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 1885, Jessie
Button, and they have two daughters: Jes
sie Elizabeth, born in 1886, and Mable,
born in 1888. Residence : 719 West Adams
Street, Chicago. Office address: 103 State
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BISHOP, William H. :
Consular official; appointed consul at
Genoa, February 5, 1903; appointed De
cember 13, 1904, consul at Palermo, where
he is now serving. Address : Palermo,
Italy.
BISHOP, William Samuel :
Clergyman and educator; born at North
ampton, Massachusetts, August 26, 1865;
son of the Rev. Dr. George Sayles Bishop
and Hannah More (Williston) Bishop. He
was educated at the Rutgers College Gram
mar School and at Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating from
the latter in 1887, with the degree of A.B.,
and receiving that of A.M. in 1891. He
studied further at the New Brunswick,
Princeton, and General Theological Sem
inaries, in which latter he completed his
theological studies, receiving in 1894 the
degree of B.D. The degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by the same seminary
in 1905, on examination; being the second
degree so conferred in the history of the
institution. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in June, 1891, by Bishop
Spalding, and in December of 1901, was
ordained priest by the same bishop, both
at St. John's Cathedral, Denver, Colorado.
Following his ordination to the ministry in
1891 he took charge of St. Barnabas'
Church in Denver, Colorado, and after a
year took charge of the Episcopal Church
in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where he
remained until 1894. That year he became
a curate in St. John's Chapel, Trinity Par
ish, New York City, and officiated there
until 1902; resigned to accept the chair of
systematic divinity and mental philosophy
in the University of the South, Sewanee,
During the absence of the resident profes
sor of dogmatic theology, he was appointed
lecturer of the General Theological Semin
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term of 1908. The Rev. Dr. Bishop has
made seven trips abroad, spending one win
ter in study at Oxford University, England.
He has traveled also in the West Indies
and Central America. In politics he is
identified with the Republican party. He
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society
and Delta Phi fraternity. He is fond of
tennis, riding and walking. Dr. Bishop
has published various theological articles
in the Church" Eclectic, The Churchman,
and The Living Church; also articles of a
philosophical and literary character in the
Sewanee Review. Address : University of
the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
BISPHAM, David S.:
Musician; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, January 5, 1857; son of William D.
Bispham and Jane (Scull) Bispham. He
was educated at Haverford (Pennsylva
nia) College, in the class of 1876. He
began his musical career as an amateur;
studied for the opera stage, and made his
first appearance as a professional as the
"Due de Logueville," in "The Basoche," by
Messager, at the Royal English Opera
in London, in November, 1891. Since
then he has been singing the prin
cipal baritone roles in German, French
and Italian with the Royal Opera Company,
Covent Garden, London, and the Metro
politan Opera Company in New York
City. He entered into theatrical man
agement in London, in November, 1906,
producing and singing the title role in the
romantic opera, "The Vicar of Wake
field," the - music by Liza Lehmann.
Mr. Bispham's Recitals of Classical Songs
are famous throughout the- musical world.
He is a member of the Bath Club of Lon
don, the Century Association, Players',
Lambs' and Lotos Clubs of New York
City, and the University Club of Phila
delphia. Address : Carnegie HalL~ New York.
BISPHAM. Harrison Augustus:
Lieutenant-commander, United States
Navy ; born in Philadelphia, ' Pennsylvania,
February 10, 1865 ; son of Samuel Augustus
Bispham and Cornelia (Koons) Bispham.
He. was educated in the private schools of
Philadelphia, of which William Fensmith
was principal, and in the United States Na

val Academy, from which he was gradu
ated in the class of 1885. He has been pro
moted through the intermediate grades to
lieutenant commander, receiving his pres
ent commission September 30, 1904, and is
now executive officer of the United States
steamer Pennsylvania. He married first
June 30, 1893, Barbara Carr Graff, and sec
ond, Augusta R. Woodward at Hong Kong,
China, December 11, 1902, and by his first
marriage he has two children: Barbara
Carr, born in 1894, and Edward Koons,
born in 1896. Address : Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
BISSELL, George Edwin:
Sculptor; born at New Preston, Con
necticut, February 16, 1839; son of Hiram
and Isabella (Jones) Bissell. He was ed
ucated in district schools, the Northville
Academy, and the famous school known
as "The Gunnery,'' at Washington, Con
necticut, where he prepared for Yale, pay
ing his tuition by teaching school and
"boarding round" in the nearby district of
Church Hill but the firing on Sumter
broke up his college and other plans for
life, and as an abolitionist, he felt it his'
duty to take an active part in the struggle
which followed, and enlisted as a private
in Company A in the Twenty-third Regi
ment of Connecticut Volunteers. He was
taken prisoner at Brashear City, Louisiana,
paroled, and on the expiration of term of
service in 1863, was appointed assistant
paymaster in the Navy, and attached to the
U.S.S. Mary Sanford of the South At
lantic Squadron, where he remained until
the close of the Civil War. He was a
clerk in a store in Waterbury, Connecticut,
before the war, and after its termination,
with his father and brother engaged in the
monumental business at Poughkeepsie,
New York, where he began his career as
a sculptor, modeling and cutting in marble
his first statue, a fireman, for Poughkeep
sie. Tn 1875 and 1876 he traveled in Eu
rope, studying art in Florence, Rome and
Paris; and had a studio in the latter city
for about six years at different periods be
tween 1883 and 1896, . and in Florence in
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dios he was occupied on commissions for
the United States and Europe. Among his
more prominent public works ate Sold
ier's monuments and portrait statues; arid
exposition Sculpture at the Buffalo arid St.
Louis Expositions; at the latter, groups of
"Music" and "Science" and at the former
a statue of "Hospitality;" was one of the
contributing sculptures to the Naval Arch
in Madison Square, New York City, giving
to this work the Navy Group. Of his
Soldiers' Monuments the one in Water-
bury, Connecticut, is the most important.
In Colchester, Salisbury and Winsted, Con
necticut, are other similar monuments, by
Mr. Bissell, for all of which he was archi
tect and sculptor. Following are some of
his portrait statues : Colonel Chatfield, Wa-
terbury, Connecticut; Chancellor James
Kent, Congressional Library, Washington,
D. C. ; Chancellor John Watts, Colonel
Abraham de Peyster, President Arthur,
and Lycurgus, New York City. Archi
tect and sculpture of monuments and sta
tues of Lincoln and Lee; at Edinburgh,
Scotland, the bronze relief of the Parting
of Burns and Highland Mary, at the home
of Burns ; and at Clermont, Iowa, statues
of Lincoln, Farragut and General
Sherman. While in Florence, Mr.
Bissell made the Elton Memorial Vase
for Waterbury, Connecticut, and a
marble bust and bronze statuette now in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York City. Received honorable mention
at the Paris Exposition, 1900, and
a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition,
1904. He is a member of the National
Arts Club, the National Sculpture and
Municipal Art Societies of New York, arid
is actively identified with the movement
for decoration of public schools, inaugurat
ed by the latter society. He has contri
buted articles to magazines and press on
sociological and art subjects. Mr. Bissell
married August 16, 1865, Mary E. Welton,
of Waterbury, Connecticut, and has three
children living : Prof. Geo. W., dean of the
mechanical engineering department, Agri
cultural College, Lansing, Michigan; Percy
R., mechanical draughtsman and inventor,

and has two sons who died in childhood.
Address: Mount Vernon, New York.
BIXBY, James Thompson:
Clergyman ; born at fiarre, Massachusetts;
July 30, 1843 ; son of Clark Smith and
Elizabeth (Clark) Bixby. He was educat
ed at the Cambridge (Massachusetts) High
School, and at Harvard University; he re
ceived the degree of A.B., at Harvard Col
lege in 1864; and in 1870 the degree of B.
D., at the Harvard Divinity School. He
studied at Universities of Jena and Leipzig
from 1883 to 1885, receiving the degree of
Ph.D. from the latter. He was settled as
pastor in the Unitarian Church, Water-
town, Massachusetts from 1870 to 1874; in
the Unitarian Church, Belfast, Maine, from
1875 to 1879; he was professor of religious
philosophy, Meadville (Pennsylvania)
Theological School, from 1879 to 1883;
lecturer at Lowell Institute in 1877 and
1883 ; pastor of the Unitarian Church, Yonk
ers, New York, from 1887 to 1904. He
was member of the Board of Managers,
Society of American Authors for many
years. He is author of: Religion and
Science as Allies, 1895; The Ethics of
Evolution, 1900; The New World and the
New Thought, 1902. He is member of the
Liberal Ministers' Association and Au
thors, National Arts, Playgoers' and An
thropological Clubs. Dr. Bixby married,
September 1, 1870, Emma Amy J. Gibson
of Boston, who died at Forest Glen, Mary
land, March 20, 1902, and he has one
daughter, Irma; on February 24, 1906, he
was married a second time, to Claa Web
ster Parker, of Yonkers, New York. Ad
dress : 150 Woodsworth Avenue, Yonkers,
New York.
BIXBY, William Herbert:
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Corps of Engi
neers of the United States Army; born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 27,
1849; son of Clark Smith Bixby and Eliza
beth (Clark) Bixby. He was educated in
the Brookline and Cambridge, Massachu
setts, public schools, the Massachusetts In
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to 1873, and the French National School
of Bridges and Highways at Paris from
1879 to 1881. He was assistant professor
of Military and Civil Engineering in the
United States Military Academy from 1875
to 1879, lectured on Coast Defenses in the
United States Naval War College in 1887,
and has served all grades of the Corps of
Engineers of the United States Army from
second lieutenant to lieutenant-colonel,
from 1873 to da,te. He was on special
duty examining iron fortifications in Eu
rope in 1881 and 1882, was adjutant of the
Battalion of Engineers of the United States
Army in 1882 and 1883, and was in charge
of the United States river and harbor im
provements in Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina from 1884 to 1891, Connecti
cut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts from
1891 to 1895, in the Ohio River from 1897
to 1901, on the Ship Channel on the Great
Lakes from 1902 to 1904, and in Illinois and
Indiana from 1905 to 1907; and division
engineer in Northwestern United States,
1905-7. He was a member of the
Army Board on Long Span Suspen
sion Bridges in 1894, and of the Army
Board on Portland and slag Cements in
1899. He was United States Lighthouse
Engineer from 1895 to 1901, and United
States lighthouse inspector in 1898 and 1899.
He .has been chief engineer of the Depart
ments of the Lakes, Dakota and Missouri,
of the United States Army since 1907. He
is a Unitarian in religion. He has traveled
in England, France, Belgium, Holland and
Germany on United States Army duty ; and
in the same countries and Switzerland and
Italy for pleasure, and was sent by the
United States War Department to witness
the manoeuvers of the French Army in
1880, and to inspect buildings at Charleston,
South Carolina after the earthquake in
1887. Fie is a Chevalier of the Legion d'
Honneur of France ; member of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Brit
ish Association of Civil Engineers and the
French Society of Civil Engineers, the
United States Naval Institute, United
States Military Institution, National Geo
graphic Society, Washington Academy of

Sciences, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, British As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
American Society for the Promotion, of
Engineering Education, American Eco
nomic Association, American Academy of
Political and Social Science, and the In
ternational Congress of Navigation. He is
also a member of the Chicago Club, the Chi
cago Athletic Club and the New York Uni
versity Club. He married at Washington,
D. C, December 27, 1893, Lidey H. Rog
ers. Address: 508 Federal Building, Chi
cago, Illinois.
BJERREGAARD, Carl Henry Andrew:
Librarian, author, lecturer; born in Fred-
ericia, Denmark, May 24, 1845; son of
Janus Bagge Friis Bjerregaard, Ph.D., etc.,
who was president of the Fredericia College.
He was educated in Fredericia College and
University of Copenhagen from which he
was graduated in 1863; was volunteer scout
in the Prusso-Danish War in 1863 and
1864, and graduated as officer from the
Royal Military Academy, in Denmark, in
1867. He served as lieutenant in Danish
Army 'and was later of the Danish legation
to Russian Court. He came to America for
political reasons; was teacher and lecturer
from 1873 to 1879, since 1879 has been li
brarian at the Astor Library, now Astor
Branch of the New York Public Library,
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. He
is an extensive writer and lecturer on
Oriental subjects and mysticism, was a col
laborator on the Standard Dictionary, The
New International Encyclopaedia, the En
cyclopedia Americana, and the Jewish En
cyclopedia, is a contributor to magazines,
and lecturer. He has been associate editor
of Mind (New York City), from January
1, 1905, and is author of Mysticism and
Nature Worship, two volumes; A Sufi In-.
terpretation of Omar Khayyam and Fitz
gerald ; and is now engaged on History and
Doctrine of Mysticism and Oceultism. Mr.
Bjerregaard married, in 1868, Matilda J.
Thompson. Address : Astor Library, New
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BLACK, Charles C:
Lawyer; born at Mount Holly, Burling
ton County, New Jersey, July 29, 1858 ; son
of John and Mary Anna Black. After a
thorough preparatory education Mr. Black
entered Princeton University, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in the class of
1878, and later received the degree of A.
M. from the same university, and he
studied law at the University of Michigan.
He was admitted to the bar and established
his prominence as a practitioner is widely
known for his contributions to the litera
ture of the law, and he is author of: Law
and Practice in Accident Cases, and of:
New Jersey Law of Taxation. Mr. Black
is a Democrat in his political faith. He was
Democratic nominee for Governor of New
Jersey in 1904, and he is a member of the
Board of Equilization of Taxes of New
Jersey, for the term expiring in 1908; was
appointed by Governor Stokes, March 30,
1905. He is a member of the University
of Michigan and Princeton Clubs of New
York City, and of the University Club of
Hudson County, New Jersey. He is author
of : The New Jersey Law of Taxation (two
editions) ; and Law and Practice in Acci
dent Cases (two editions). He married, at
Flushing, Long Island, February 12, 1890,
Alice Greenleaf Hazen. Residence: 80
Gifford Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey.
BLACK, Ebenezer Charlton:
Professor of English literature; born at
Liddesdale, Scotland, June 18, - 1861 ; son
of Reverend John Black and Mary (Beat-
tie) Black. He was educated at Edinburgh
University from 1875 to 1882, and received
the degree of LL.D. from Glasgow Uni
versity in 1902. He was lecturer on Eng
lish literature at Harvard University in
1892 and 1893; director of the language
and literature department of the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music from 1893 to
1907, and lecturer on English literature in
Emerson College of Oratory from 1903 to
1907; and in 1900 took his present chai'r
as professor of English literature in Boston
University. He is author of: Early Songs
and Lyrics ; and editor of the New Hudson
Shakespeare. He is Episcopalian in re

ligion. Dr. Black is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club of Boston, and the Symposium in
Edinburgh. He married in Edinburgh,
Scotland, July 26, 1893, Agnes Knox, and
they have three children : Margaret Charl
ton, born in 1895; John Gavin, born in
1901, and Knox Charlton, born in 1905,
Residence: 50 Kirkland Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Office address : Boston Uni
versity, Boston, Massachusetts.
BLACK, Harry St. Francis:
President of the United States Realty
and Improvement Company; born in Co-
bourg, Ontario, Canada, August 27, 1863;
son of Major Thomas Black, of the British
Army, and Elizabeth (Wickens) Black. He
was educated in the common schools at
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. He began his
business career in his brother's general
store; joined the' surveying party that ex
plored the Northwest to the Pacific coast;
traveled for a Chicago woolen house on
the Pacific coast from 1882 to 1892; en
gaged in the banking business in the State
of Washington; and entered the George
A. Fuller Company as vice-president in
1896. He was projector of the enlarged
corporation of the same name ($20,000,0.00
capital), of which he was president, is
now director, and since its consolidation
with the United States Realty and Im
provement (capital $66,000,000) has been
president of the latter. He is also a di
rector of the George A. Fuller Company of
Illinois, the Battery Park National Bank,
Alliance Realty Company, Broad Exchange
Company, New York Hippodrome, the Col
onial Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago,
is vice-president of the National Fire-
proofing Company and the Plaza Operating
Company, and a director in various real
estate and mining companies. He is a
Democrat in politics. He is a member of
the Metropolitan, Manhattan, City, Midday,
Lawyers', Larchmont Yacht, National Dem
ocratic and Turf and Field Clubs of New
York City, the Chicago Club of Chicago,
and the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh. He
married in 1895, Allon Mae, daughter of
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idences: (country) Westchester County;
(town) 667 Madison Avenue. Address: in
Broadway, New York City.
BLACK, John Charles:
President of the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission; born at Lexington, Miss
issippi, January 27, 1839; son of Rev. John
Black, D.D., and Josephine (Culbertson)
Black. He removed with his mother, in
boyhood, to Danville, Illinois, and was edu
cated in the common schools of that place,
arid afterward at Wabash College, Craw
fordsville, Illinois. When the Civil War
broke out he was one of the first to enlist,
joining the Montgomery Guards on April
14, 1861, as a private, for three months'
service ; this company becoming Company I
of the Eleventh Indiana Zouaves; at the
expiration of this enlistment he went to
Danville, Illinois, and recruited a company
for the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteers,
of which regiment he became major, and
took part, with his regiment, in thirteen
battles and two great sieges. He was pro
moted lieutenant-colonel June 9, 1862, and
colonel, February 1, 1863, serving until Au
gust 15, 1865, and being brevetted brigadier-
general of United States Volunteers for
gallantry in action at the storming of the
Blakely batteries. After the war ended he
studied law, and was admitted to the bar
in 1867, engaging in the practice of law at
Danville, Vermillion County, Illinois, arid
attaining a position of distinction in his
profession. He was prominent in the poli
tics of Illinois as a Democrat, but
as he lived in an overwhelmingly
Republican district, his candidacy for
Congress in 1876, 1880 and 1884, on
the Democratic ticket, did not result
in his election, although he had, in
each instance, a substantial lead over his
colleagues on the ticket He was the
Democratic candidate for lieutenant-govern
or of Illinois in 1872, and the caucus nom
inee for the Democrats in the Illinois Leg
islature for United States Senator in 1879;
and one of the first acts of the Democratic
Administration which was inaugurated
March 4, 1885, was the appointment of
General Black to be United States Commis

sioner of Pensions, which office he held
until the close of that administration in
1889. He was elected in November, 1892,
as a Democratic candidate from the State
at Large, to the Fifty-third Congress, but
resigned his seat December 12, 1894, to be
come United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois, which office
he administered, 1895-99. He was nomin
ated for Governor of Illinois by the Na
tional (Gold-Standard) Democracy, but de
clined the nomination ; he returned to pri
vate practice, 1899 to 1903, and was ap
pointed, December, 1903, United States
Civil Service Commissioner, and elected
president of the board, still holding that
office. General Black was married at Urba-
na, Champaign County, Illinois County, Illi
nois, September 28, 1867, to Miss Adaline
L. Griggs. He received the honorary de
gree of M.A. from Wabash College, and
that of LL.D. from Knox College, Gales
burg, Illinois. He is a companion and past
commander of the Military Order ¦ of the
Loyal Legion; was department commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic for Il
linois, 1902-3, and commander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic of the
United States, 1903-04. Address: 1717 S
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
BLACK, John Clark:
Banker, capitalist; born at Middlebury,
Addison County, Vermont, July 3, 1837;
son of Daniel and Jean (Lawrence) Black.
He received his education in the public
schools of Vermont. At nineteen years of
age he removed to Chicago, where he was
employed as a bookkeeper and cashier for
the firm of Ross & Ramber, dry goods mer
chants, and later with Armour & Company,
with whom he remained until 1881, when
he entered into business on his own ac
count. In 1883 he was one of-thev organiz
ers and incorporators of the"Chicago Con
tinental Bank, of which- he has been the
president for many years. He is also presi
dent and a director of the Northwestern
Safe and Trust Company, a member of the ,
Western Board of Control of the Audit
Company of New York, trustee of the Prus
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tin, Germany; trustee of the Art Institute
of Chicago and of the Armour Mission. He
is a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade. He is a member of the Chicago,
Union League, Bankers', Saddle and Cycle
and Union Clubs. He was married in
New York City, September 25, 1875, to
Elenor Clarke. Residence: 9 Walton Place,
Chicago. Office address : 218 La Salle
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BLACK ALL, Clarence Howard:
Architect; born in New York City,
February 3, 1857; son of Christopher R.
Blackall and Eliza (Davis) Blackall. He
was educated in the public schools of Chi
cago from 1863 to 1873, graduated as B.S.
from University of Illinois in 1877 and
M.A. in 1881, from University of Illinois,
department of architecture. He studied arch
itecture in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,
and in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris,
from 1878 to 1880 and parts of 1884 and
1885. He studied in the office of Peabody
and Stearns, architects, from 1880 to 1883,
and from 1887 to 1889. He started in busi
ness as an architect in Boston in 1889.
Among buildings designed by him are in
cluded the Tremont Temple, Colonial Thea
tre and Office Building, Bowdoin Square
Theatre, United States Trust Company,
Temple Israel, Winthrop building and
commercial buildings for Harvard College
in Boston; the Peabody Building, Post Of
fice Building, Registry of Deeds and Pro
bate Court at' Salem, the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument, Syracuse, New York;
College Dormitory and Savings Bank,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Auditorium
of the University of Illinois. He was asso-
' dated with other architects, in the Dear
born School for the City of Boston, and
the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. He has
acted as consulting architect in connection
with the New Amsterdam Theatre and the
New American Theatre in New York, the
Nixon Theatre in Pittsburg, and the Iro
quois Theatre in Chicago. He has served
as a member of the Commission on Revision
of Building Laws for the City of Boston,
as chairman of the Commission for the Re
vision of Building Laws for the City of

Cambridge, and as a member of the Board
of Advisory Architects for the Elevated
Railway. He has been a contributor
to architectural journals since 1878,
and editorial writer to The Brick-
builder. He contributed to the Dic
tionary of Architecture and Building,
by Russell Sturgis, the articles on Academy
Architecture; Belgium Architecture; Span
ish and Portuguese Architecture, etc., and
wrote a similar series of articles for the
Dictionary of Architecture published by
Scribners under the editorship of W. P. P.
Longfellow. He is author of works on
Builders' Hardware, American Theatres,
and has in preparation: A History of
American Architecture. Mr. Blackall is a
member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, the
Boston Society of Architects, is a fellow of
the American Institute of Architects, secre
tary of the Cambridge Municipal Art So
ciety, was one of the organizers and first
secretary of the Architectural League of
New York, one of the organizers and first
president of the Boston Architectural Club
and has been secretary of the Rotch Trav
eling Scholarship for fifteen years past. His
favorite recreations are music and garden
ing. He is a member of the City Club of
New York, City Club of Boston, and the
Real Estate Exchange, Boston. Residence:
16 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, Massachu
setts. Office address : 20 Beacon Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
BLACKBURN, Joseph Clay Styles:
Lawyer; ex-United States senator; born
in Woodford County, Kentucky, October
1, 1838. He was graduated in 1857, from
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, from
which he afterward received the degree
of LL.D. He was admitted to the bar in
1859 and went to Chicago, where he
practiced law until the Civil War broke
out, when he returned to the South, and
served through the war in the Confederate
Army. After the war he embarked in the
practice of law in Kentucky. He has long
been active in politics as a Democrat, and
was a member of the House of Represen
tatives of the Kentucky Legislature from
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of the Forty- fourth Congre.-s iii 1874, and
was biennially elected, serving until 1885,
when he was elected United States Senat
or. He was reelected in 1891, serving un
til 1897, and in 1901 was again elected
United States Senator for the term which
expired in March, 1901. Address: Ver
sailles, Kentucky.
BLACKLOCK, Henry:
Clergyman; born in England, son of
George Blacklock and Ellen (Sawyer)
Blacklock. He is a lineal descendant of
Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579), the
founder of the Royal Exchange, London;
and on his paternal grandmother's side,
he is a cousin of the Duke of Buc-
cleuch and, through his mother, a cousin
of Viscount Milner, of African fame. He
was educated in Saint Paul's College,
Burgh, College of Saint Augustine, Can
terbury, and at Oxford University, where
he won a mathematical scholarship in 1886,
a Greek Scholarship in 1889, and was He
brew prizeman for the year 1891. He was
rector of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Wellington, Ontario, in 1891 ; was curate
of Saint Thomas' Church, Belleville, On
tario, from 1894 to 1905, and of St. Luke's
Kingston, Ontario, in 1896, and was at
Oxford University in 1897 and 1898. He
was curate of St. Johns, Yonkers, in 1898,
but in September was called to be rector
of St. Mary's Church, Charleroi, Pennsyl
vania, which he accepted and where he
did a great work of thoroughly organiz
ing and building up this new and import
ant field. In September, 1900, he became
rector of Grace Church, Mohawk, and
while recuperating from the strain of over
worn in Charleroi, built up the parish from
thirty-three families to eighty-four and
also built the most beautiful rectory, pur
chased a house for Parish Hall, and made
other important improvements. With the
return of health he accepted, in May, 1905,
the curacy of St. Peter's Church, Brook
lyn, New York. He is a member of the
National Arts Club of New York City,
Mohawk Valley Lodge of Masons, and
Mohawk Chapter Order of the Eastern
Star, and the Herkimer County Historical

Society. His recreations are mountain
climbing, walking tours and art works and
books. Address: 347 State Street, Brook
lyn, New York.
BLAIR, Charles il.:
Lawyer; born in Zanesville, Ohio, July
5, 185 1 ; son of John A. Blair, a Virginian
by birth and a distinguished lawyer of
Ohio, and of Theresa (Van Voorhies)
Blair. He was educated in the public
schools of Zanesville, at Kenyon College,
and graduated from Cornell University,
from which he graduated with honor (com
mencement oration), as A.B. in 1872, and
A.M. iii 1876. He was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1873. He was in the railroad
business at Ithaca from 1873 to 1875 as di
rector, secretary and assistant to president
of the Geneva and Ithaca and Ithaca and
Athens Railroads, now the Lehigh Valley.
He was admitted to the New York bar in
1876, and practiced at Ithaca until 1882;
since 1882 in New York City. He was presi
dent of the Ithaca Calendar Clock Com
pany from 1892 to 1900, and has been presi
dent of the Hanover Land and Dock Com
pany since 1905. He was captain in the
New York National Guard in 1875 and
1876, assistant adjutant general of the
Twenty-eighth Brigade in 1877; colonel and
engineer of the Seventh Division of the
New York National Guard from 1878 to
1885. He was the Republican candidate
for Congress from the Twelfth District of
New York City in 1890. Colonel Blair is a
member of the Masonic fraternity of high
-rank; the Psi Upsilon fraternity; the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art; and Municipal
Art Society, and one of the founders of the
Ohio Society of New York. He is a mem
ber of the Executive Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of
Richmond, and chairman of the Park Com
mission of the Borough of Richmond. He
is author of the National Railway Act, a
proposed amendment of the Interstate Com
merce Law, and of a Report on the Pro
posed Park System for the Borough of
Richmond, New York City, 1902.. At var
ious times he has been a member of the
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Phelps, Blair, Phelps and Lyman, Blair,
Price and Lyman, and now of Blair, Lyman
and Blair. He has been attorney and coun
sel in a number of noted cases; in the case
of Drawbaugh against Bell, which involved
the telephone patents; counsel for Brown,
Howard & Company, builders of the New
York Aqueduct; the Cornell accounting
case, and others of great importance; and
he is trustee for several large estates. He
has been an ardent Republican and taken
an active part in Union League Club af
fairs, serving on several committees and
last year, 1906, as chairman of the Com
mittee on Admissions. He is a member
of the Union League, Republican, Cornell,
and University Clubs. He married at
Ithaca, New York, December 11, 1873,
Emma P. Cornell, and they have three
children : Ezra C Blair, Charles H. Blair,
Jr., and John Hamilton Blair. Residences :
Rockingham, 56th Street and Broadway,
New York, and Llenroc, Ithaca, New York.
Address : 35 Wall Street, New York City.
BLAIR, Chauncey J. :
Banker; born in Michigan City, Indiana,
April 6, 1845 ; he is the eldest son of
Chauncey B. and Caroline O. (De Graff)
Blair; was educated in private schools in
Chicago. Upon the completion of his edu
cation in 1879, he entered the Merchants'
National Bank, an institution founded by
his father, as a clerk, and successively oc
cupied various positions until, in 1888, he
succeeded his father as president of the
bank. In 1903 the bank was consolidated with
the Corn Exchange National Bank, and he
was made vice-president. He is also president
of the Kennicott Water Softener Company
and a director of tlie South Side Elevated
Railroad Company. He is a member of the
Chicago Board of Trade and vice-presi
dent of the Chicago Home for the Friend
less. His club membership includes the
Chicago, Union League, Athletic, Washing
ton Park, Bankers', Edgewater Casino,
Caxton, Homewood, Onwentsia, Quadrangle
and Saddle and Cycle. He is a Republican
in politics. Mr. Blair was married in Chi
cago on October 26, 1882, to Mary A. I.
Mitchell, and his children are: Italia Mit

chell, Chauncey B., Mildred- M., and Wil
liam M. Address: 4830 Drexel Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois.
BLAIR, Clinton Ledyard:
Banker; born in Belvidere, New Jersey,
July 16, 1867; son of DeWitt Clinton and
Mary Ann (Kimball) Blair. He was grad
uated from Princeton University with the
degree of A.B. in 1890 ; and after leaving
college became connected with the house
of Blair & Company, bankers, of New York
City. He is a director of various large cor
porations, including the Belvidere National
Bank, the Commercial Trust Company of
New Jersey, the Green Bay and Western
Railroad ; Kewaunee, Green Bay and West
ern Railroad; Lackawanna Steel Company;
National Bank of Commerce; Northwestern
Elevated Railroad of Chicago; Ontario,
Carbondale and Scranton Railway Com
pany ; St. Louis and Hannibal Railway ; Se
curities Company; Sussex Railroad; is
president of the Sussex Realty Company,
and director of the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company, and the Warren Rail
road Company. He is a member of the
Board of Managers of the Post-Graduate
Hospital; is a member of the American
Geographical Society; the Sons of the Rev
olution. Mr. Blair has membership in sev
eral of the most important clubs, includ
ing the Metropolitan, Union and University
Clubs, the Country Club of Westchester,
the New York Yacht Club, City Midday
Club, Jekyl Island Club, Morris County
Golf Club, Racquet and Tennis Club,
Princeton Club, Somerset Hills Country
Club (of which he is president), The Pil
grims Club, Coaching Club of New York,
the New York Farmers' Club and the Whip-
pany River Club. Mr. Blair married Oc
tober 1, 1891, Florence Osborn Jennings,
and by that union there are four daughters :
Marjory Bruce, Florence Ledyard, Edith
Dodd and Marie Louise. Residence: Pea-
pack, Somerset County, New Jersey. Ad
dress: 24 Broad Street, New York City.
BLAIR, Frank Preston:
Lawyer; born in St. Louis, Missouri, in
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Preston Blair, a distinguished officer of
the United States Army, United States
Senator from Missouri, and1 Democratic
nominee for the Vice-Presidency with Sey
mour and Apolline (Alexander) Blair.
He entered the Military "Academy at
West Point and was graduated from that
institution in 1877. He served in the army
at various posts for several years, grad
uating in law from Columbia Law School
while stationed at Fort Hamilton and in
medicine at the University of Missouri,
while stationed at Columbia, Missouri. In
1881 he resigned from the army and was
admitted to the St. Louis bar, but shortly
afterward, in 1891, removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he has been engaged in act
ive practice to the present time. He has
been a lecturer on medical jurisprudence in
Rush Medical College for some time. He
is a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, the Selden Society of England, and
of the University Club. He married In
Columbia, Missouri, in 1882, Florence Price
and has one daughter. Address : 36 Cedar
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BLAIR. Henry Augustus:
Banker, financier; born in Michigan City,
Indiana, July, 1852 ; son of Chauncey Buck
ley and Caroline O. (De Graff) Blair; he
received his education at Williston Semi
nary, East Hampton, Massachusetts. He
left school in 1871 and entered the Mer
chants' National Bank of Chicago, of which
his father was founder and president, even
tually becoming vice-president. He retired
from the bank upon its consolidation with
the Corn Exchange National Bank in 1963.
He subsequently became a director and re
ceiver of the North Chicago Street Rail
way Company; he is also in the direc
torates of the Calumet and Chicago Canal
and Dock Company, the Elgin National
Watch Company, the West Division Rail
way Company, and the Chicago Edison
Company. He is politically affiliated with
the Republican party. His club member
ships embrace the Chicago Union League
(director), Washington Park, Chicago Ath
letic, Midlothian, Chicago Golf, Caxton,
Saddle and Cycle, and the Onwentsia. He

was married in Chicago on February 19,
1878, to Grace E. Pearce, and has two chil
dren, Natalie and Anita. Address : 2735
Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; summer
residence, Jefferson, New Hampshire.
BLAIR, Watson Franklin:
Financier, capitalist; born in Michigan
City, Indiana, January 29, 1854; son of
Chauncey B. and Caroline O. (De Graff)
Blair; was educated at the Williston Sem
inary, East Hampton, Massachusetts. He
began his career as a member of the pork
and beef packing concern of Culbertson,
Blair & Company, remaining in that busi
ness until 1877, when he entered the grain
trade and became a member of the grain
commission house of Blair & Company, and
a member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
In this field he was eminently successful, and
he retired from active business in 1890. He
was for a number of years a director in the
Merchants' National Bank, an institution
which had been founded by his father, and
which after an exceptionally successful and
honorable career of forty years was consoli
dated with the Chicago Corn Exchange
National in 1902, distributing on that occa
sion one hundred thousand dollars as a
gratuity among its employees. Mr. Blair
is a director in the reorganized bank. He
is a member of Chicago, Chicago Golf,
Saddle and Cycle, and Chicago Athletic
Clubs. He was married in Chicago in 1.881,
to Alice Keep, and has two sons: Watson
and Wilcott. Address : 164 Rush Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
BLAIR, William Allen:
Banker, lawyer, etc.; born at High Point,
North Carolina, June 4, i860; son of S. I.
Blair and Abigail (Hunt) Blair, and des-
cendent on both sides from old Pennsyl
vania Quaker families. He was graduated
from Haverford College, Pennsylvania, as
A.B. in 1881, and from Harvard University
in 1882, then took graduate work at the
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
He received the A.M. degree from Trinity
College, North Carolina, in 1889, and
later received an honorary LLJD. He
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olina' as superintendent of State Normal
Schools, was lecturer on pedagogy at
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1886,
and was State Commissioner of North
Carolina to the Paris Exposition in 1889,
and in the same year made investigations
into the various school systems of Euro
pean countries. He was also for several
years owner and editor of The School
Teacher, an educational magazine. He was
president from 1890 to 1896, and since
then has been vice-president and manager
of the People's National Bank of Winston,
North Carolina. He is also president of
the Pilot Bank and Trust Company, vice-
president of the Winston- Salem Street Rail
way and Electric Light Company, chair
man of the Finance Committee of the Se
curity Life and Annuity Company, and a
director of various financial and manufac
turing corporations. He is a Sound Money
Democrat and has been vice-president of
the Sound Money League for North Caro
lina since 1896. He is a member of the
Society of Friends. Was president of
the North Carolina Bankers' Association
in 1898, and was a member of the United
States Assay Commission. He has contri
buted upon financial and educational topics
to various journals and is author of: Banks
of Issue, 1898; Currency Legislation, 1899,
and: Historic Banks and Bankers of North
Carolina, 1901, and he contributed the His
tory of Banking in North Carolina, to J. J.
Knox's History of Banking, 1899. Mr.
Blair is president of the State Board of
Public Charities of North Carolina; treas
urer of the Conference for Education in
the South; president of the Wachovia His
torical Society, and a member of the South
ern Historical Society, the American In
stitute of Civics, the National Geographic
Society, the Southern Literary Society,
Shakespearian Society, Audubon Socie
ty, Art Collectors' Club, the Reform
Club of New York, and the Twin-
City Club of Winston-Salem. Mr. Blair
married, at Winston-Salem, North Caro
lina, November 20, 1895, Mary E. Fries,
daughter of John W. Fries, and they have
three children: Margaret, born in 1896;
Marian, born in 1900, and John Fries Blair,

born in 1904. Address : Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
BLAKE, Clarence John:
Physician; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, February 23, 1843; son of John H.
and Sarah Anna (Howe) Blake. He stud
ied medicine at Harvard University, grad
uating from the medical School in 1865 with
the degree of M.D., and from the Medi
cal Department of the University of Vienna
Austria, in 1867. After some years in grad
uate study abroad at Vienna, Austria, and
Munich, Bavaria, Dr. Blake returned to
the United States, and, settling in his home
city, began to practice his profession. He
has specialized in diseases of the ear and
particularly in practical research work, in
cluding telephony. In 1871 he was con
nected with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Infirmary as aural surgeon and in the same
year was appointed instructor in otology
at the medical school of Harvard Univer
sity, becoming professor in 1890. From
1879 to 1882 he was editor of the Ameri
can Journal of Otology. He is a member
(and former president) of the American
Otological Society, and of various medical
and scientific societies. He is author, in
collaboration with Dr. Henry Ottridge Reik,
of: Operative Otology, published in 1906,
and of numerous papers on acoustics and
otology. Address : 226 Marlborough Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
BLAKE, Francis:
Inventor of the Blake Transmitter; born
at Needham, Massachusetts, December 25.
1850; son of Francis Blake and Caroline
(Trumbull) Blake. He was educated in
public schools and the Brookline, Massa
chusetts, high school, and received the hon
orary degree of A.M. from Harvard in
1902. He served on the United States Coast
Survey for thirteen years, and then re
signed; during the last two or three years
he was engaged in field work and its reduc
tion to determine differences of longitude
between the observatories at Greenwich,
Paris, Cambridge and Washington. He de
voted his leisure to experimental physics,
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mitter, which has played an important part
in the development of telephony throughout
the world. He has since patented many
other electrical devices. He is a director
of the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company; a fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and
the. American Academy of Arts and
Sciences; a member of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers ; the Arch
eological Institute of America; the Ameri
can Folk-lore Society; American Forestry
Association; National Geographic Society,
and a member of the corporation of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the Boston Society of
Civil Engineers, and the American Anti
quarian Society, and a trustee of the Mas
sachusetts ^General Hospital, and the Bos
ton Museum of Fine Arts, etc. He married,
June 24, 1873, Elizabeth L, daughter of
Charles T. Hubbard, of Weston. Address :
Keewaydin, Weston (Auburndale P. O.),
Massachusetts.
BLAKE, Henry W. :
Technical journalist; born in New Hav
en, Connecticut; son of Henry T. Blake
and Elizabeth C (Kingsley) Blake, and
grandson of Eli Whitney Blake, LL.D.,
(inventor), and Professor James L. Kings-
ley, LL.D. (latinist). He was educated at
the Hopkins Grammar School, New Hav
en ; was graduated from Yale as Ph.B.' in
1886, and took a special course in electric
al engineering at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology. After leaving- that
institution, he became associated with the
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Com
pany in constructing electrical railways,
and after the consolidation of that com
pany with the Edison General Electric
Company, he remained with the latter
company. While engaged in this work he
prepared and delivered two courses of
lectures on electric railways at the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology. Since
1894 he has been editor-in-chief of the
Street Railway Journal, and he is a dir
ector of the McGraw Publishing Company.
He is a Republican in politics, and a Pres
byterian in religion, He is a member of

the New York Railroad Club, the New
England Street Railway Club, an associate
member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, the American Street
and Interurban Railway Association, and
the Union Internationals de Tramways et
de Chemins de Fer dTnteret Local. He is
a member of the Lawyers' Club and En
gineers' Club of New York City, and the
Englewood Club of Englewood, New Jer
sey. He married in New York City, June
1, 1891, Ida Jewett, and they have two
sons: Henry Kingsley, born in 1894, and
James Pierrepont, born in 1896, and one
daughter, Adelaide, born in 1907. Resi
dence: Englewood, New Jersey. Ad
dress: 114 Liberty Street, New York
City.
BLAKE, James Henry:
Lecturer, zoological artist; born in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, July 8, 1845; son of
James Henry and Louisa Maria (Russell)
Blake. He was educated in the public
schools of Provincetown and the Lawrence
Scientific School of Harvard University.
He entered business in early life with his
stepfather, the Hon. N. E. Atwood, and
continued till 1869 when he studied for
four years in the Scientific school of Har
vard University, after which he became
assistant to Professor Louis Agassiz and
curator in the department of conchology,
at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
at Cambridge. He was with Professor
Louis Agassiz on his last expedition in the
steamer Hassler; later he became connected
with the United States Fish Commission,
the United States Geological Survey and
Geological Survey of the State of Mis
sissippi. He has lectured in various cities
and towns in the United States and illus
trated many books on natural history. He
was at one time Councilman of the Boston
Society of Natural History of which he
has been a member for thirty-seven years.
He is president of the Cambridge Art
Circle, and member of the National Geo
graphic Society, the Pilgrim Memorial As
sociation, the Harvard Natural History
Society, the Boston Society of Natural
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and the Massachusetts Society of the Cin
cinnati. His work has taken Mr. Blake to
many parts of the world on collecting trips,
and on dredging expeditions in the Al-
lantic and Pacific Oceans. In 1865 he was
first lieutenant in the Massachusetts Mili
tia. He is a member of the Harvard
Travelers' Club. In politics he is a Repub
lican and he is associated with the Con
gregational Church. He. married at Pro-
vincetown, Massachusetts, July 20, 1871,
Lucinda Smith Critchett, and has two sons :
Ralph Julian, born in Cambridge in 1884,
and Allen Hanson, M.D., born in Cam
bridge, 1881. Address: 18 Prentiss Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BLAKE, Joseph Augustus:
Physician ; born in San Francisco, Cali
fornia, August 31, 1864; son of William P.
Blake and Charlotte (Hayes) Blake. He
was graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1885,
and Ph.B. in 1886, and from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University as M.D. in 1889. He was form
erly attending surgeon to St. Luke's and
Harlem Hospitals, now of the Roosevelt
Hospital. He was assistant demonstrator of
anatomy from 1891 to 1906, instructor in
surgery from 1900 to 1903 and since 1903
professor of surgefy in the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons of Columbia Univer
sity. He is a member of the American
Medical Association-; the Association of
American Anatomists ; the American Sur
gical Association; the American Society of
Clinical Surgery ; the New York Academy
of Medicine ; fellow of the New York Ac
ademy of Sciences.; member of the New
York County and State Medical Societies,
and the New York Surgical Society and
of the Yale, University and Riding Clubs
of New York City. He married in 1890,
Catharine Ketchum, and they have two
sons : Joseph A., Jr., and Francis H., 2d.
Address : 601 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
BLAKE, William Payne:
Lawyer; born in Dorchester, Massachu
setts, July 23, 1846; son of Edward Blake
and Mary M. J. (Dehon) Blake. He was

educated at the private schools of Mr.
Sullivan and Mr. Dixwell, and in the Pub
lic Latin School, and afterwards at Har
vard, graduating in 1866, and holding the
rank of the ' fourth scholar in the class.
Subsequently he studied law in the Har
vard Law School and with Hutchins and
Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in
September, 1869. He has the degrees of
A.B., A.M., and LL.B. from Harvard, and
is a member of the Bar Association. He
practiced with his father until the latter's
death in 1873, then continued the office and
business. Of recent years he has devoted
himself principally to the law of wills and
trusts, and the care of trust property. In
addtion to his large private trusts, he is
the treasurer of the Trustees of Donations
to the Protestant Episcopal Church, since
1869, and is a Vestryman of Trinity Church
and an officer of various other organiza
tions, business, charitable and religious. He
has always been much interested in music,
as an amateur. He sang for thirteen years
in the Apollo Club, and for twenty years
was secretary of the Harvard Musical As
sociation. He is now one of the trustees
of the Paderewski Fund, the Cecilia Fund,
and the New England Conservatory of
Music. He is a member of the Somerset,
Tennis and Racquet, Tavern, St. Botolph,
and Exchange Clubs, the Boston Athletic
Association, and the Harvard Club of New
York. He was one of the charter mem
bers of the Tavern Club and for fifteen
years chairman of the Executive Commit
tee. He is a Republican in politics. Ad
dress : 27 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.BLAKE, William Phipps:
Geologist, mineralogist; born in New
York Ctiy, June I, 1826; son of Elihu
Blake and Adeline N. (Mix) Blake. He
was educated in the schools in New York
and at Yale (Sheffield Scientific School)
graduating as Ph.B. in 1852. He has re
ceived the honorary degrees of M.A. from
Dartmouth and ScD. from the University
of Pennsylvania. He was geologist and
mineralogist for the United States Pacific
Railway exploration and surveys, 1853 ; edi
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Geology from 1856 to i860; was en
gaged in the exploration of the Comstock
Lodge of Nevada in i860; was mining en
gineer to the Japanese Government in
1862 ; made explorations in China and Alas
ka in 1863, and was professor of geology
and mining at the College of California in
1864. He organized the School of Agri
culture and the College of Mechanic Arts
for the College of California and was pro
fessor of geology and mining from 1895 to
1904, and since 1905 has been professor of
geology- emeritus of the University of Ari
zona. He has been connected officially with
the great international expositions from 1853
to 1904. Received the decoration of chev
alier of the Legion of Honor in 1878. He is
author of numerous papers and articles
on scientific and professional topics. Mr.
Blake is a member of the American Phil
osophical Society; Territorial Geologist
Arizona; fellow of the Geological Society
of London; a corresponding member of the
Geological Society of Edinburgh; fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and a member of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers.
He married at South Berwick, Maine, De
cember 25, 1855 ; Charlotte Haven Lord
Haves, and they have three sons living:
Francis H., Joseph A., and Theodore Whit
ney. Address : Mill Rock, New Flaven,
Connecticut, and (winter) Tucson, Arizona.
BLANCHARD, Charles A.:
President of Wheaton College; born in
Galesburg, Illinois, November 8, 1848; son
of Jonathan Blanchard, Jr., and Mary
Avery (Bent) Blanchard. He was edu
cated in the Galesburg public schools, the
Wheaton public schools, Wheaton Academy
and Wheaton College, from which he was
graduated and received the degree of A.B.
and A.M. He was a student of Chicago
Theological Seminary, but did not grad
uate; then he received the degree of D.D.
from Monmouth College, Illinois. Dr.
Blanchard has been a teacher since he was
fifteen years of age. He spent the years
from 1870 to 1872 in the lecture field, cov
ering the States from the Missouri to the
Atlantic, and from the Ohio River to Can

ada. In the fall of 1872 he went to Whea
ton Academy as principal; taught ten
years in the Academy and College and was
in 1882 elected president of Wheaton Col
lege, which office he has filled ever since.
He is an ordained minister of the Congre
gational Church, and a frequent and effec
tive preacher. President Blanchard is also
president of the National Christian Asso
ciation, and the Sabbath Association of Illi
nois ; is a director of the Boys' Club of
Chicago, the Anti-Cigarette League of Chi
cago and the Chicago Tract Society. He
has been thoroughly over our country from
ocean to ocean, and has been abroad twice,
the first time in Great Britain and the sec
ond time in Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Greece
and Italy. He has been a Prohibitionist
since 1884. President Blanchard is a mem
ber of the State and National Teachers'
Association, and of the Fox River Congre
gational Club. He married in 1873, Ella
Milligan, who died in 1884; in 1886, he
married Jeannie Carothers, who died in
February, 1890; and he again married at
St. Louis, Missouri, February 19, 1896, Dr.
Frances B. Carothers; and he has seven
children: Mary Belle, Julia Warden, Rach
el Geraldine, Clara Levancia, Jane Caroline
Mildred, Nora, Paul Carothers. Resi
dence: 523 Howard Street, Wheaton. Of
fice address : Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Illinois.
BLANCHARD, James Armstrong:
Jurist; born at Henderson, Jefferson
County, New York, August 16, 1845 ; son
of Philip and Catharine (Drummond)
Blanchard. His early education was re
ceived in the public schools, whence he
went to the preparatory school of Ripon
College, at Ripon, Wisconsin, and from
there into Ripon College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1871. He then
entered the Law School of Columbia Uni
versity, from which he was graduated as
LL.B. in 1873. He was engaged in the
practice of law in New York City until ap
pointed by Governor Roosevelt as judge of
General Sessions, serving one year. In
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tice of the Supreme Court of the State of
New York, by Governor Roosevelt, and
elected, November,- 1901, to the same office
for the term expiring December 31, 1915.
Justice Blanchard is a veteran of the Civil
War, having enlisted in 1864, and served
one year in Company I, of the Second Wis
consin Cavalry. He is a Republican in pol
itics and an Episcopalian by religious affili
ation. He is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, Lafay
ette Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
the Union League Club and Republican
Club of New York City, and a trustee of
St. John's Guild; made LL.D. in 1902.
Justice Blanchard married in 1881, Sallie
Medbery.-and they have one son, Medbery
Blanchard, born in 1883. Residence : 11
East Ninety-second Street. Address :
County Court House, New York City.
BLANCHARD, Newton Crain:
Governor of Louisiana; born in Rapides
Parish, Louisiana, January 29, 1849; son
of Carey H. Blanchard and Frances Amelia
(Crain) Blanchard. He was educated in
Louisiana State University and in the Tu-
lane University of Louisiana, Law Depart
ment, from which he was graduated as
LL.B. in 1870. After graduation he prac
ticed law at Shreveport, Louisiana. Gov
ernor Blanchard was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1879; was a
representative in Congress from the Fourth
District of Louisiana for seven consecutive
terms from 1880 to 1893; was United
States Senator from Louisiana from 1893
to 1897; was a justice of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana from 1897 to 1904, re
signing from the bench when elected Gov
ernor of Louisiana in 1904, for the term
expiring in 1908. He is a Democrat in
politics and an Episcopalian in religion.
Governor Blanchard married at Shreveport,
Louisiana, December 16, 1873, Mary Emily
Barrit ; and they have two children : James
Ashton Blanchard, born in 1875, and Ethel
Blanchard (now Mrs. Leon R. Smith).
Residence : Shreveport, Louisiana. Official
.address : Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

BLANCHET, Clement Theophilus :
Clergyman; born at Madawaska, Maine,
April 28, 1845; son of Alexis and Marie
ucated at Saint Saviour's College, Sainte
Leocade (Oulette) Blanchet He was ed-
Anna, Illinois; Immanuel Hall, Chicago,
Illinois; Nashotah (Wisconsin) Theologi
cal Seminary, graduating as B.D. in 1873.
He was missionary of Episcopal Church in
Japan, from 1873 to 1883; he organized
and taught in St. Paul's College, St. Mar
garet's School for Girls, and Trinity Divin
ity School in connection with the Japanese
Mission of Episcopal Church. After ten
years service he returned to America, visit
ing principal places in China, India, Egypt,
the European Continent, and Great Brit
ain. He was in charge of the Church of
St. Sacrament, Bolton-on-Lake George,
from 1885 to 1895; rector of St. Mark's
Church, Philmont, New' York, since 1895.
He is an' Episcopalian in religion and
Liberal Republican in politics. He is life
member of the Asiatic Society of Japan;
member of Standing Committee and ex
amining chaplain, from 1878 to 1883, in
Japan Mission. He is a member of the
New York' Clericus, Hudson University
Club; past deputy grand master, Columbia
District, Odd Fellows, and past chaplain,
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the State
of New York; past president Washington
Legion, Number 403, and past chaplain of
the National Protective Legions. He is
author of : Papers on the Japanese People ;
Some Characteristics of the Chinese; Bud
dhism in Japan; The Oojects of Educa
tional Work in Foreign Missions; Trans
lation of Catechism on Confirmation into
Japanese; Translation of Vocabulary
of Moral Biblical and Ecclesiastical
Terms into Japanese with Chinese Equiv
alents; The Observance of the Lord's
Day; Souvenir Sketch of Church Saint
Sacrament, Bolton-on-Lake George. His
favorite recreations are croquet, tennis,
vocal music. Rev. Blanchet married, Yo
kohama, Japan, by Rt. Rev. C. M. Wil
liams, D.D., bishop of Yeddo, April 2, 1877,
Annie Van Ness ¦ Maltby of New York
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Van Ness, Jr., born Tokio, Japan, March
13, 1878, Augusta Louise (now Mrs. John
T. Maylott, of Baltimore), born Tokio, Ja
pan, October 19, 1879, and- Marie Elizabeth
Hall, born Apponaug, Rhode Island, June
28, 1885. Address: Philmont, Columbia
County, New York.
BLANKINSHIP, Joseph William:
Professor of botany; born at Glasgow,
Illinois, February 23, 1862; son of Hiram
Blankinship and Amanda H. (Goodin)
Blankinship. He was graduated from
Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, as
A.B., and valedictorian, 1889; Harvard Un
iversity as A.B., with honors in natural
history, in 1894; A.M. in 1896, and Ph.D.
in 1898. He was assistant in botany at
Harvard from 1894 to 1898; professor of
botany at Montana Agricultural College, at
Bozeman, Montana, from 1898 to 1905; and
botanist of the Montana Agricultural Ex
periment Station, from 1905. He was ex
pert in Smelter Damage to Vegetation in
1896 and 1897 for the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company, at Anaconda, Montana.
In politics Professor Blankinship classes
himself as a Roosevelt-Democrat. He is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, of the
Association Internationale des Botanistes,
and of the Engelmann Botanical Club, and
he is a Masonic Knight Templar and mem
ber of the Mystic Shrine. Address : Boze
man, Montana.
BLATCHFORD, Eliphalet Wickes:
Retired manufacturer ; born at Stillwater,
Saratoga County, New York, May 31, 1826 ;
son of Rev. John Blatchford, D.D., and
Frances (Wickes) Blatchford. The family
went West iri his boyhood, and he at
tended the district schools, afterward going
to Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Illinois,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
the class of 1845, and he is now one of the
oldest alumni of that college, which con
ferred upon him the degree of LL.D.
Leaving college, Mr. Blatchford engaged
in business pursuits. He embarked in busi
ness on his own account at St. Louis from
1850 to 1854, and in 1854 established the

business in the manufacture of lead pipe
still conducted under the style E W.
Blatchford & Co., of which he is presi
dent. Mr. Blatchford has always been act
ive in religious and philanthropic work;
was treasurer of the Northwestern Branch
of the United States Sanitary Commission
during the Civil War. He is one of the
most prominent laymen of the Congrega-*
tional Church; a corporate member and
former vice-president of the American
Board of Commisioners for Foreign Mis:
sions, and for more than thirty years presi
dent of the Chicago Theological Seminary;
president of the board of trustees of the
Newberry Library of Chicago, and a trus
tee of the John Crerar Library of Chicago.
He is a member of the University Club of
Chicago, and the Chicago Literary Club.
He married in Chicago, October 7, 1858,
Mary Emily Williams. Address : 375 La
Salle Avenue, Chicago.
BLESSING, James Henry:
Manufacturer; born in Guilderland, Al
bany County, New York, September 14,
1837; son of Frederick I. Blessing and Lu-
cinda (Smith) Blessing. He was educated
in select schools at Albany until eleven
years old, when, owing to his father's
death, he had to go to work, and after that
he was self-taught. He was an apprentice
to the machinist trade from 1852 to 1857;
worked at the trade and has since taken
out many patents connected with steam
machinery. He was the first inventor of
the return steam trap and the steam loop,
bringing great economies in the operation
of steam plants ; and is president of the
Albany Steam Trap Company, organized
June 5, 1875. He served in the Board of
Supervisors, of Albany County, New York,
in 1894 and 1895, and was president of the
board in 1895; and mayor from 1900 to
1902, being the first Republican elected
Mayor of Albany in twenty-three years.
He served in the United States Navy in
the Civil War, from 1861 to 1864. He is
a member of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, the Society of Engi
neers of Eastern New York, and the Al
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ried first, at Albany, New York, Septem
ber 15, 1857, Martha Hutson, and by her
had two children : Martha, born in i860,
and Lucinda, who- died in childhood. He
married second, at Pittsfield, Massachu
setts, in October, 1870, Mary Gilson. Ad
dress : Albany, New York.
• BLETHEN, Alden J.:
Editor and publisher; born at Knox,
Waldo County , Maine, December 27th,
1849; son of Alden Blethen and Abbie
(Lamson) Blethen. He was graduated
from Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Col
lege, in 1868, and received the degree of
A.M. from Bowdoin College in 1872. After
graduation he engaged in educational work
as lessee and principal of the Abbott Fam
ily School at Farmington, Maine, from
1869 to 1873, meanwhile studying law and
being admitted to the bar, practicing at
Portland, Maine, until 1880. He became
actively identified with journalism in 1880
as manager of The Kansas City Journal,
and four years later became half owner and
editor and manager of The Minne
apolis Tribune and the Minneapolis
Journal. In 1888 he sold his interest in
these papers, but in the summer of 1889
he repurchased The Minneapolis Tribune.
In the following November occurred the
disastrous fire which destroyed The Trib
une Building with a net loss of one hun
dred thousand dollars. He built the new
Tribune Building in 1890, at a cost of one
hundred thousand dollars, but lost all in the
panic of 1893 to 1895. He. started anew in
newspaper life in 1896 at Seattle, Wash
ington, where he established The Daily
Times, of which he is still the editor and
publisher, and which his efforts and abil
ities have placed in the front rank of
Northwestern journalism. Mr. Blethen
married at Farmington, Maine, March 12th,
1869, Rose A. Hunter. Address: Seattle,
Washington.
BLISS, Cornelius Newton:
Dry goods commission merchant; born
at Fall River, Massachusetts, January 26,
1833; son of Asabel Newton Bliss (of
Rehoboth, Massachusetts) and Irene Bor

den (Luther) Bliss (of Fall River, Mas
sachusetts). He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and at the Academy at Fall
River, Massachusetts, and the high school
of New Orleans, Louisiana. He com
menced business life in New Orleans ; later
removed to Boston, and thence to New
York in 1866. He is a member of the firm
of Bliss, Fabyan & Company, dry goods
commission merchants of Boston, New
York City and Chicago. He is a director
of the Fourth National Bank, the Home
Insurance Company; a trustee of the Cen
tral Trust Company; also a director in
various manufacturing companies in Mas
sachusetts. He was secretary of the Inter
ior in President McKinley's first adminis
tration, from March 4, 1897 to February
20, 1899, and was treasurer of the Repub
lican National Committee in 1892, 1900 and
1904. He is a Congregationalist, and presi
dent of the trustees of Broadway Taber
nacle, New York City; and is governor of
the Society of New York Hospital. Mr.
Bliss is president of the Union League
Club of New York City, and a member of
the Metropolitan, Century, and Republican
Clubs of New York City, the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, D. C, and the Jekyl
Island Club of Georgia. He married in
Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 1859,
Elizabeth Mary Plummer; and they have
two children : C. N. Bliss, Jr., and Lizzie
Plummer Bliss. Residence: 198 Madison
Avenue. Address: 117 Duane Street, New
York City.
BLISS, Don Alfonso:
Lawyer; born at Artesia, Mississippi, De
cember 14, 1854. He was graduated from
Kings College, Bristol, Tennessee, with the
degree of A.B. in 1873 and attended the
Law School of the University of Texas in
1885. He entered the practice of law at
Sherman, Texas, in 1886. In 1887 he be
came a member of the firm of Brown,
Gunter and Bliss, in 1888 a member of the
firm of Brown and Bliss. In 1893, T. J.
Brown was appointed justice of the Su
preme Court of Texas, and Don A. Bliss
was appointed Judge of the Fifteenth Ju
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practice of law in 1901, and now practices
at San Antonio,Texas. He is a Democrat
in politics and a Universalist in religious
belief. Judge Bliss is a member of the
M'asonic order. He married in Collin
County, Texas, in April, 1874, Myra Maud
Hampton, and they have seven children :
Leila, Hadassah, Wade, Herberta, Natalie,
Glendower, Peggie. Residence : 240 Wood-
lawn Avenue, San Antonio. Office ad
dress : Gallagher Building, San Antonio,
Texas.
BLISS, Tasker Howard:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born at Lewisburg, Union County, Penn
sylvania, December 31, 1853; son of Rev.
George Ripley Bliss, D.D., LL.D., and
Mary A-. Bliss. He was educated in Buck
nell University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania,
until his sophomore year, leaving upon
being appointed in 1871 a cadet at the
United States Military Academy, from
which he was graduated in 1875. He was
commisioned lieutenant in the First United
States Artillery Regiment, June 16, 1875;
promoted first lieutenant, July 1, 1880; cap
tain, December 20, 1892; major and com
missary of subsistence, April 30, 1898; lieu
tenant-colonel and chief commissary of sub
sistence of volunteers, May 9, 1898; brig
adier-general of volunteers, April 26, 1901 ;
honorably discharged from volunteers, June
20, 1901; commissioned brigadier -general
United States Army, July 21, 1902. He
was graduated with honor from the United
States Artillery School in 1884, and was
adjutant there for a year; and he was pro
fessor of military science in the United
States Naval War College from 1885 to
1888. He was military attache to the
American Legation at Madrid in 1897 and
1898, leaving that post with Minister Wood
ford on the declaration of war with Spain,
April 21, 1898. He served through the
Porto Rican Campaign of 1898, and after
ward in Cuba as a member of the board
to select camp sites for the United States
troops; and he was collector of customs
for the port of Havana and chief of the
Cuban customs service from December,
1898, to May 20, 1902; and he was appoint

ed special envoy to negotiate the treaty of
reciprocity between Cuba and the United
States in November, 1902. In 1905, General
Bliss became president of the Army War
College; and he is now commander of the
Department of Mindanas, Philippine Is
lands. He married at Rosemont, Pennsyl
vania, May 24, 1882, Eleanora E. Anderson.
Address : Manila, Philippine Islands.
BLISS, Walter Phelps:
Capitalist; born in New York City,
March 10, 1870; son of George Bliss and
Augusta H. (Smith) Bliss. He was grad
uated from Yale as A.B. in 1892, and after
ward attended the New York Law School.
He is a director of the Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Chicago and Saint Louis Railway
Company, the Manhattan Trust Company,
Quincy Mining Company (of which he
is vice-president), the Gauley Mountain
Coal Company, the Loop Creek Colliery
Company, Candelaria Mining Company, Cor-
ralitos Company, Herzog Telephone Sys
tems Company, and the Commercial Union
Assurance Company, Limited, of London.
He is trustee of The Caledonian Insurance
Company of Scotland, the Union Trust
Company and the Consolidated Gas Com
pany of New York. Mr. Bliss is a mem
ber of the Union, Riding, and Racquet and
Tennis Clubs of New York City. He mar
ried in Detroit, Michigan, April 29, 1897,
Katharine Baldwin. Residence : Bernards-
ville, New Jersey. Address : 71 Broadway,
New York City.
BLISS, William:
President of the Boston and Albany Rail
road; born in Springfield, Massachusetts,
December 11,-1834. He began his railroad
activities in October, 1865, as assistant to
the president of the Western Railroad of
Massachusetts. In the following year he
took the position of general freight agent
of the same railroad, which he held until
he went, in 1872, to the Boston and Albany
Railroad as general manager, from which
he advanced in July, 1880, to his present po
sition as president. He is also one of the
directors of the New York Central and
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Exeter Street, Boston. Office address : 332
South Station, Boston, Massachusetts.
BLISS, William Henry:
Lawyer; born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio,
October 27, 1844; son of Philemon Bliss
and Martha W. Bliss. He was educated in
the public schools. He was admitted to the
bar in 1871, assistant United States attor
ney from 1872 to 1876, and United States
attorney from 1876 to 1887, at St. Louis,
Missouri. He was afterward vice-presi
dent and general solicitor of the St. Paul
and Duluth Railroad Company, and asso
ciate counsel of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company, at St. Paul, Minnesota,
and has been practicing at New York City
from 1893. He is a member of the Asso
ciation Bar of the City of New York; the
Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Munici
pal Art Society; the American Geograph
ical Society ; Society of Bibliophiles ; the
Ohio Society, and the Union League, Met
ropolitan, Grolier, Players', Down Town,
of New York City; the Metropolitan Club
of Washington; the St. Botolph Club of
Boston. Mr. Bliss married first at St. Louis,
April 6, 1874, Annie Louise Woods, and
second at New York City, April 14, 1894,
son, Robert Woods, second secretary of the
American Embassy of St. Petersburg, and
one daughter, Annie Louise, wife of Charles
Warren, of Boston. Address : 6 East Sixty-
fifth Street, New York City.
BLOCK, Williard T.:
Capitalist; born at Columbia, Pennsyl
vania, January 6, 1853; son of A. Barnard
Block and Barbara A. (Brobst) Block; he
was educated in the Columbia High School
and Washington Institute, of Columbia,
Pennsylvania. He began his business ca
reer in 1867 by entering the service of the
Philadelphia and Reading Company in an
humble position, and he advanced steadily
until in 1878 he was transferred to the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad at the
solicitation of» John B. Carson, general
manager, remaining as auditor until 1882,
when he entered the employ of R. T. Wil
son & Company, of New York City, who
were constructing the Wisconsin, Iowa and
Nebraska Railroad in Iowa, now part of

the Chicago Great Western Railroad in
part; and he was successively auditor,
treasurer, traffic manager, and superintend
ent from 1882 to 1887 of that road and the
Des Moines and Kansas City Railroad.
In 1890 he bought under foreclosure sale,
the Fort Madison and Northwestern Rail
road. He organized a new company and
personally, as president, supervised the con
struction of seventy-five miles of the road.
He was active in the promotion of many
other enterprises, among them the Grant
Locomotive Works, the Siemens and Hal-
ske Electric Company, the Grand Land As
sociation, all of which he was secretary
and treasurer; and the United Telephone,
Telegraph and Electric Company," of which
he was the president until it was trans
ferred to the Eastern syndicate in 1902.
He was president of the Chicago and
Southwestern Railway, part of the Chicago
Terminal Company, and as such negotiated
the purchase of several large acreage prop
erties, among them the Sturges farm of
three hundred and eighty acres, for five
hundred and seventy thousand dollars; the
Hetty Green tract, six hundred and fifty-
one acres, for over one million dollars, and
numerous other small tracts. He controls
a large acreage of copper lands in upper
Michigan, adjoining the mines owned by
the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.
He was colonel on the staff of Governor
Larrabee, of Iowa, from 1885 to 1889. He
is a Republican and a member of the
Episcopal Church. He is a member of the
Chicago Real Estate Board, American His
torical Society, National Geographic So
ciety, the Illinois Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, and of the Union
League, and South Shore Country Clubs.
He was married in 1880 to Anna E. Scott,
daughter of William P. Scott of Iowa, and
niece of Colonel Thomas A. Scott, former
ly president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. Residence: 321 1 Michigan Ave
nue, Chicago. Office address : 100 Wash
ington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BLODGETT, John Taggard:
Jurist; born at Belmont, Massachusetts,
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gett and Anna Maria (Taggard) Blodgett.
After graduation at Watertown High
School, Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1875,
and Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mas
sachusetts, in 1876, he entered Brown Uni
versity from which he was graduated as
A.B. with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1880,
and received the degree of A.M. in 1883.
He studied law and was admitted to the
State bar at Providence, Rhode Island, in
1883; to the bar of the United States Cir
cuit Court in 1885, and the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in 1895, practic
ing at the Providence bar until elected in
1900 to his present office as associate jus
tice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Is
land. He was appointed United States
commissioner for the District of Rhode Is
land in 1890 ; chief United States supervisor
of elections for the District of Rhode Is
land in 1892; member and chairman of the
Board of Canvassers and Registration in
Providence from 1895 to 1900; member of
the General Assembly of Rhode Island
from 1898 to 1900, and chairman of the
commission to readjust the ward lines in
Providence in 1900; and president of the
Jamestown Centennial Exposition Commis
sion of Rhode Island in 1906 and 1907.
Mr. Justice Blodgett is a member of the
Rhode Island Historical Society, the Rhode
Island Society of Colonial Wars, the So
ciety of Sons of the American Revolution,
the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, and the
University, Hope, and Agawam Hunt Clubs
of Providence. He has been twice mar
ried; first at Providence, Rhode Island,
March 28, 1883, to Amelia Wilson Torrey,
since deceased; and second, at Richmond,
Virginia, August 15, 19°°, to Amy de Lacy
Bemiss. Residence: 145 Lloyd Avenue,
Providence. Official address: Supreme
Court Building, Providence, Rhode Island.
BLOOMINGDALE, Emanuel Watson:
Merchant; born at Rome, New York,
November 25, 1852; son of Benjamin
Bloomingdale and Hannah (Weil) Bloom-
ingdale. He was graduated from Columbia
College Law School as LL.B. in 1877. He
practiced law until 1883; then conducted a
large department store until 1905. He has

acted as receiver of many corporations and
firms; as director, and member, of the In
surance Committee of the Equitable Life
Insurance Society of the United States, and
director of the Phenix National Bank. He
was a Republican presidential elector in
1900 for McKinley and Roosevelt; In
terstate Bridge Commissioner; a member
of Hudson Ter-Centenary Committee, the
Committee of Seventy, 1894, and treasurer
of Election Laws Improvement Association.
He is a member of the Columbia College
Alumni Association; trustee of the McKin
ley National Memorial; member of the
board of managers and of the executive
committee of the House of Refuge of New
York City; honorary president of the Re
tail Dry Goods Association, and a member
of the Lotos and Republican Clubs of New
York. Mr. Bloomingdale married in New
York City, January 3, 1887, Adele Bern-
heimer, and he has one daughter, Marion
H. Bloomingdale. Residence: 42 West
Sixty-ninth Street. Address: 115 Broad
way, New York City.
BLOUNT, Fernand Moreno:
Architect; born in Pensacola, Florida,
July 1, 1882; son of W. A. Blount and
Cora M. (Moreno) Blount. He was edu
cated at St. Paul's School, Garden City,
Long Island, New York, was head boy of
the school for two years in 1898 and 1899,
was at Yale in the class of 1904, and after
ward at Harvard, and graduated at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology as
B.S. in 1905. He formed a partnership in
1907 under the firm name of Ausfeld and
Blount, with F. Ausfeld. He is the lead
ing architect of West Florida and one of
prominence in the South. He has traveled
extensively in the United States and Cuba.
He is a Democrat in politics, and a Cath
olic in religion. He is a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity (Yale Chap
ter), the Concordia, Country Club, the
Young Men's Christian Association, and
the Boat. Club. Residence: Bayshore, Pen
sacola, Florida. Office address: 717 Blount
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BLUE, Victor:
Lieutenant-Commander, United States
Navy, appointed from South Carolina.
Naval Cadet, May 17, 1883; assistant en
gineer, July 1, 1889; ensign, December 12,
1892; lieutenant (junior grade), Decem
ber 5, 1897; lieutenant, March 3, 1899;
Pensacola, 1889 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1892 ;
Bennington, 1893; Naval Academy, 1896;
Kentuck}', 1898; inspection duty, Bureau of
Equipment, 191 to 1903 ; inspection duty
(Bureau of Ordnance) since 1905. Pro
moted lieutenant-commander June 28, 1905,
promoted for gallantry and action advanced
in his grade for distinguished gallantry
in war with Spain. Address : Care Navy
Department, Washington, D. C.
BLUM, Isaac:
Merchant and financier; born in Strass-
burg, France, March 5, 1849. He came to
this country when about seventeen years
of age and settled in Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, where in a short time he was en
gaged in business with his brother as Isaac
Blum and Brother. During the Centennial
year, Mr. Blum removed to Philadelphia
and engaged in the manufacture of wo
men's cloaks and suits, and in a short time
he had built up a successful and extensive
business. Ill health compelled Mr. Blum
to retire from active connection with the
business in 1892, but the business was con
tinued by two of his brothers under the
title Blum and Brothers. Mr. Blum after
the restoration of his health, became inter
ested in street railways, one of which was
the Hestonville Railway Company, a cor
poration which he financed in forty-eight
hours by raising $1,125,000 so that the
electric system of propulsion could be insti
tuted. He was elected president of the
company in 1895. He was also president
of the Fairmont and Haddington Railway
Company. He was one of the organizers
of the Market Street National Bank. He is
president of the Blum Importing Company,
of New York, and besides being president
of the Bank of Commerce, is identified with
many other enterprises of importance in
Philadelphia. Address: 1913 Wallace
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ¦

BLUNT, Stanhope IS.:
Colonel, United States Army; born in
Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1850;
son of Charles E. Blunt and Penelope B.
(English) Blunt. He was graduated from
the high school at Oswego, New York, in
1868, and from the United States Military
Academy, in 1872. After graduation at the
Military Academy he served as sec
ond and first lieutenant in the Thir
teenth Infantry, and on explorations
and surveys west of the one hun
dredth meridian in Utah, Wyoming,
Colorado, and New Mexico. He was trans
ferred to the Ordnance Department, No
vember 1, 1874, and promoted through var
ious grades to colonel in the Ordnance De
partment, June 25, 1906, He has served at
Frankford Arsenal, Springfield Armory,
Watervliet Arsenal; and since March, 1897,
has been in command of the Rock Island
Arsenal at Rock Island, Illinois. He was
at the Military Academy from 1876 to 1880
as instructor in mathematics and also ord
nance and the science of gunnery. He was
chief ordnance officer of the Department of
Dakota from 1880 to 1884, and at the head
quarters of the Army, Washington, D. C,
from 1884 to 1889, as inspector of ; small
arms practice and as colonel and aide-de
camp on the staff of General P. H. Sheri
dan. He is author of: Rifle and Carbine
Firing, adopted 1885, for the use of the
Army and National Guard, and of Small
Arms Firing Regulations, 1889; and is also
author of various articles in encyclopedias,
and other papers upon small arms and
their use. Colonel Blunt is a member of
the University Club of New York City, the
Metropolitan, and Army and Navy Clubs
of Washington, D. C; the Troy Club of
Troy, New York, and various clubs in Dav
enport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois. He
married at Clinton, New. York, November
18, 1873, Fanny Smyth, and they have three
daughters: Katharine Blunt, Evelyn Beth-
une Blunt, Frances Smyth Biunt. Address :
Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois.
BLYTHE, Joseph William:
Lawyer; born at Cranbury, New Jersey,
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and Ellen Henrietta (Green) Blythe. He
was educated at Lawrenceville School,
Princeton College and Hanover College,
Ind., receiving the honorary degrees A.B.
and A.M. from the former and that of
LL.D. from the latter. The degree of
LL.D. was also conferred upon him by
Bethany College, Kansas. After taking
legal studies, he was admitted to the bar of
Iowa in 1876 and has since practiced in that
state. He is general counsel for the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Com
pany. He is a prominent member of the
Republican party. He was married in 1877
to Margaret E. Gear, of Burlington, Iowa.
Address : Burlington, Iowa.
BOARD, Joseph:
Merchant born at Chester, New York,
November 9, 1842 son of Peter Seeley
and Madeline ,C. (Conklin) Board, grand
son of General Charles Board of Board-
ville, New Jersey, and great-grandson of
Captain Joseph Board of the Revolutionary
Army. He was graduated from the Am
herst College as A.B., with Phi Beta Kap
pa honors in 1867. He has been a mer
chant, selling coal, feed and lumber since
January 1, 1868 and is a member of the
firm of Board & Bryan. He is director of
the Watertown Water, Light and Power
Company of Watertown, South Dakota;
director and secretary of the Chester (New
York) Telephone Company and director of
the Chester National Bank, (and is sec
retary of the board). Since 1868 he has
acted as executor of administrator of over
twenty different estates of deceased per
sons. He was excise commissioner of the
Town of Chester, New York in 1876;
member of the Board of Supervisors of
Orange County, New York, from 1878 to
1880, and 1883 and 1884 ; candidate for
member of • assembly 1884, but defeated;
and member over twenty years and presi
dent five years of the Board of Education
of Chester Village; clerk of Village of
Chester, from 1892 and 1894. He was
superintendent of construction Chester
Waterworks in 1892 and 1893, trustee of
the Chester Village one year,- and he is
trustee of Chester Free Library of Chester,

New York. He made summer tours of
Pacific Coast, in 1869, Texas, Mexico, New
Mexico and Wyoming in 1883, British
Isles and Continent of Europe in 1887,
Arkansas and Missouri in 1904, Dakotas
and Minnesota in 1905; also frequent
summer journeys through New England.
He is a Republican in politics and a Pres
byterian in religion (Liberal School). He
is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
Society, Amherst College, Delta Kappa Ep
silon Club of New York City. Mr. Board
married twice, first, June 1, 1868, Joseph
ine Bradbury Curry and second, October
2, 1870, Hannah A. Curry (both of Tilton,
New Hampshire), and they have three
children: Joseph Orton, born in 1873,
Anna Tebetts, born in 1880 and Josephine
Clough, born in 1885. Address : Chester,
Orange County, New York.
BOARDMAN, Samuel Ward:
Clergyman; born at Pittsford, Rutland
County, Vermont, August 31, 1830; son of
Samuel W. Boardman and Ann (Gilbert)
Boardman. He was graduated from Mid-
dlebury College, Vermont, as A.B. with
Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1851, and re
ceived from that college the degrees of A.
M. in 1854 and LL.D. in 1890. He was
graduated from Andover Theological Semi
nary in 1855, and received the degrees of
A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1859 and
of D.D. from Hamilton College in 1870.
He was pastor at Norwich, Vermont, from
1857 to 1859, then became professor of
Rhetoric and English literature at his alma
mater; and returned to the pastorate in
1862, serving consecutively with the Second
Presbyterian Church of Auburn, New York,
the Congregational Church at Sterling, Illi
nois, and- the Presbyterian Church of Stan
hope, New Jersey, until 1889, when he was
called to the presidency of Maryville Col
lege, at Maryville, Tennessee, filling that
office until 1901, when he became professor
emeritus. Dr. Boardman has served as
moderator of ' the Presbyterian Synods of
Onondaga (New York) and of Tennessee.
He married, in 1857, Jane Elizabeth Haskell,
who died in 1859, and afterward married
Sarah Elizabeth Greene, daughter of Rev.

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David Greene, secretary of the A. B. C. F.
M., and of Mrs. Mary Evarts Greene. He
has written on International Arbitration;
The Bible in Colleges; Theistic Realism;
Eminent Americans, etc., etc. Address :
Bloomfield, New Jersey.
BOAS, Emil Leopold:
Director and manager of Hamburg-
American Line; born at Goerlitz, Ger
many, November 15, 1854; son of
Louis and Minna Boas. He was edu
cated at the Royal Frederick William
Gymnasium, Breslau, and the Sophia
Gymnasium, at Berlin, graduating in
1872. He became connected with the
Hamburg-American Line in 1873, and in the
same year came to the United States; and
since. 1892 has been general manager of the
Hamburg-American Line; and he is presi
dent of the Atlas Line Steamship Com
pany. Mr. Boas has been active and promi
nent in all efforts to improve the water
transportation facilities of New York; was
on the Committee for the Extension of the
Pier-head Line; on the Committee before
Congress to secure an appropriation for
the new channel to the sea (Ambrose Chan
nel) ; and is treasurer and chairman of
the Finance Committee of the Greater New
York Canal Association and active in ob
taining the improvement of the Erie Canal.
Mr. Boas was also a member of the Com
mittee of One Hundred to meet Prince
Henry of Prussia at New York City, in
1902. He is author of a book of much in
terest entitled Seemacht (Sea Power), pub
lished in 1897. Mr. Boas has received from
the Emperor of Germany the decoration of
Knight of the Order of the Royal Prus
sian Crown and also the Order of the Red
Eagle; was decorated by the Emperor of
Austria, officer of the Order of Ffancis
Joseph ; by the King of Italy, Chevalier of
the Order of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus ;
by the King of Sweden and Norway
knight (first class) of the Order of St.
Olaf; by the Sultan of Turkey, commander
of the Order of Osmanieh, and commander
of the Order of Medjidie.; by the King
of Greece, officer of the Order of the Re
deemer; by the President of Venezuela.

commander of the Order of Bolivar. He
is treasurer of the Germanistic Society of
America; member of the Board of New
York Civic Federation; member of the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New
\ork, the Board of Trade and Transporta
tion (one of managing directors), the New
\ork Produce Exchange, Maritime Asso
ciation, German Society and various charit
able societies. Mr. Boas is a member of
various technical and scientific societies, in
cluding the Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers; is a fellow cf the
American Geographical Society; a member
of the National Geographic Society; the
American Statistical Society; American
Ethnological Society; American Academy
of Political and Social Science, American
Association for the Advancement of
Science; New York Academy of Sciences;
the New York Zoological Society; the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art; American Mu
seum of Natural History, Japan So
ciety, the American Scenic and Historic
Preservation Society. He is also a mem
ber of the New York Yacht, New York
Athletic, Fairfield Country, Lotos and
National Arts Clubs ; the Deutscher Verein,
the Lawyers' and Unitarian Clubs, the
Liederkranz Traffic Club and the St.
Maurice Fish and Game Clubs, besides var
ious other organizations. Mr. Boas mar
ried at New York, March 20, 1888, Harriet
B. Sternfeld, and they have one son, Her
bert Allan. Residences : (city) 128 West
Seventy- fourth Street; (country) Bonnie-
crest, Greenwich, Connecticut. Address:
37 Broadway, New York City.
BOBB, Dwight St. John:
Lawyer; born at Dakota, Illinois, July
19, 1876; son of Daniel Bingman and Ar-
minda (St. John) Bobb. He was gradu
ated from Northwestern University in 1899
with the degree of A.B. and, taking post
graduate work at Harvard University, -re
ceived the degree of A.M. the following
year. He continued his work in the Har
vard Law School, and in 1903 graduated in
law with the degree of LL.B. He was ad
mitted to the bar of Massachusetts in that
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his profession, making, instead, a thor
ough study of the law of public service
corporations. The following year he re
moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he has
since practiced, his specialty being corpor
ation law. Since 1904, also, he has been
lecturer on public service corporations in
Northwestern University Law School, and
since 1906, lecturer on municipal corpora
tions in the John Marshall Law School.
He is a member of the Chicago Bar Asso
ciation, the Phi Beta Kappa and the Alpha
Kappa Phi (honorary), and also of the
City Club of Chicago (chairman of the
Committee on Gas and Electricity), the
Harvard Club of Chicago, the Evanston
Club and University Club of Evanston
(secretary). In politics he is a Republi
can, and is a member of the -Methodist
Church. Residence : University Club of
Evanston, Evanston, Illinois. Address : 107
Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BOBBS, William C:
Publisher. He entered the employ of the
old firm of Bowen, Merrill and Company,
of Indianapolis, and served with the house
many years, becoming manager and later
being admitted to partnership. For many
years the firm were principally law book
publishers and had a successful business in
that line, occasionally issuing works of a
more general character. Mr. Bobbs in
duced the firm to . enter more largely into
general literature and in a- few years made
the house a strong competitor of the large
Eastern publishers, and they have been
especially successful as publishers of James
Whitcomb Riley's volumes of verse and
the novels of many of the most popular au
thors who have been introduced to the
American public, including constantly
among their books some of the best sellers
of each recurring season. On the reorgani
zation of the firm a few years ago Mr.
Bobbs became its head under the present
name of Bobbs, Merrill & Company. One
of his successful enterprises was the launch
ing of The Reader ' Magazine, which has at
tained much popularity, Address: Indi
anapolis, Incljan;i-.

BODINE, Donaldson:
College professor; born at Richboro,
Pennsylvania, December 13, 1866; son of
George DeWitt Bodine and Jeannie (Don
aldson) Bodine. After a preparatory edu
cation in Ovid Union Academy, he en
tered Cornell University, from which he
was graduated as Ph.B. in 1887, and elected
to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was
a fellow in science in the same institution
from 1893 to 1895, and received election to
Sigma Xi, and the degree of ScD. in 1895.
He was principal of the Gouverneur (New
York) Academy from 1889 to 1893; super
intendent of schools of Gouverneur from
1889 to 1893, and since 1893 has been pro
fessor of geology and zoology in Wabash
College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where
he is now also dean of the faculty. Pro
fessor Bodine is a Republican in politics,
and a Presbyterian in religious affiliation.
He has traveled in the greater portion of
the United States, part of Canada, and a
large part of the British Isles and Europe.
His favorite recreations are boating, fish
ing and photography. Dr. Bodine is as
sistant secretary and editor of the Pro
ceedings, of the Indiana Academy of Sci
ences; is a fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science ;
member of the American Microscopical So
ciety; secretary of the Beta Chapter of In
diana, Phi Beta Kappa; chairman of the
Book Committee of the Crawfordsville Pub
lic Library ; and a member of the Quill and
Dagger (graduate club of Cornell Alum
ni), the Ouiatenon (men's literary club),
and the Commercial Club of Crawfords
ville. Residence: 4 Mills Place, Craw
fordsville. Office address : South Hall, Wa- ¦
bash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
BODINE, Samuel Taylor:
Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, August
23, 1854 ; son of Samuel Tucker Bodine and
Louisa Wylie Millikin. He was educated at
the Germantown Academy and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1873,
with the degree of B.A. and received in
1876 the degree of M.A. In June 1873, he
became shipping clerk for the Royersford
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Pennsylvania, and held this position until
January, 1875, then with the Cohensey Glass
Company, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, until
July 1, 1876, when he left to accept a re
sponsible position with Peter Wright Sons,
where he remained until June 1, 1882. Upon
the organization in June 1882, of the United
States Gas Improvement Company, he was
elected secretary and treasurer; and on De
cember 1, 1888, he was promoted to the
position of general of that company, and
on February 26, .1892, to the position of
second vice-president. He is connected with
many corporations, being a director and sec
ond vice-president of the Welsbach Light
Company and Welsbach Commercial Com
pany; a trustee of the Pennsylvania Mutual
Life Insurance Company; a director of the
Charlestown, S. C, Mining and Manufac
turing Company; a director of the Ameri
can Society for the Extension of Univer
sity Teaching, and a trustee of the estate
of William G. Warden. He is a member of
the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity; the Rit-
tenhouse and University Clubs of Philadel
phia; University Club of New York, Ger
mantown Cricket Club; Merion Cricket
Club and Essex County Club of Man
chester, Massachusetts. Mr. Bodine mar
ried, November 15, 1833, Eleanor Gray
Warden. Address : 222 Rittenhouse Square,
Philadelphia,' Pennsylvania.
BOGART, Ernest Ludlow:
Educator; born at Yonkers, New York,
March 16, 1870 ; son of Richard Walker and
' Mary (De Angelis) Bogart. He was grad
uated from Princeton University in 1890
with the degree of A.B., receiving that of
A.M. in 1896. He studied at the University
Of Berlin, 1894-5, and at the University of
Halle in 1897, where he received the de
gree of Ph.D. at the end of his year's
work. The following year he returned to
the United States, studying at Columbia
University, 1897-8. In the latter year he
was appointed professor of economics and
social science at Indiana University, re
taining that position until 1900, when he
resigned to accept the chair of economics
and sociology at Oberlin College, holding
that until 1905. Since that time he has

been assistant professor of the same at
Princeton University. He has traveled ex
tensively throughout Europe and the Eu
ropean Continent. In politics he is inde
pendent, and he is a member of the Pres
byterian Church. He is a member of the
American Economic Association, the Nas
sau Club of Princeton, and the Princeton
Golf Club. He is author of: The Housing
of the Working People in Yonkers (The
Macmillan Company, 1898) ; and Economic
History of the United States (Longmans
1907). He is also contributor to American,
French and German economic journals. He
was married at Terre Haute, Indiana, Sep
tember 15, 1900, to Stella Marshall, and
has one daughter, Eleanor, aged two. Ad
dress : Princeton, New Jersey.
BOGART, John:
Consulting engineer;, born at Albany,
New York, February 8, 1S37; son of John
Henry and Eliza (Hermans) Bogart. The
family was among the earliest settlers of
Albany, New York, first making a home
there in 1641. Mr. Bogart was graduated
from Albany Academy and from Rutgers
College, receiving the degree of M.A. in
1853. He was engaged as engineer with
the New York Central Railroad; also on
enlargement of the Erie Canal for the State
of New York; was assistant engineer on
construction of Central Park, at New York-
City; and from December, 1861, to July,
1866, was in the engineer service with the
United States Army, stationed at Fort
Monroe, and in charge of construction of
the fort at Rip Raps, Virginia; and was
also in service at other points. He was
engineer in charge of construction, in 1886,
and became chief engineer of the Park
Commission of Brooklyn, in 1870; and was
chief engineer, Department of Public
Parks, New York City, from 1872 to 1877.
Since 1877, Mr. Bogart has been engineer
for many important enterprises, among
which were municipal works at New Or
leans, Chicago, Nashville, Keene, and Balt
imore. He designed the parks of Albany,
New York, the public State Grounds at
Nashville, the west side parks of Chicago,
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sey; was constructing engineer of the
Washington Bridge, at New York City;
consulting engineer of the Niagara Falls
Power Company, the St. Lawrence Power
Company, the Cascade (British Colum
bia) Power Company, the Atlanta Electric
and Water Power Company, the Chattanoo
ga Power Company, Knoxville Power Com
pany, the Verde (Arizona) Power and Ir
rigation, the Susquehanna Power Company,
Harbor Works in Venezuela ; also for
the Rapid Transit Commission, New
York; New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, the New York, Westches
ter and Boston Railway, and the State
Board of Health of New York. He was
deputy State engineer, 1886-1888; State en
gineer of the State of New York, 1888-1892,
and was for some time treasurer, also secre
tary and editor of publications of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Author, Engineering Feats (Scribner's),
and Papers and Discussions. He has been
consulting, advisory or expert" engineer for
many railways, and in various cases before
the courts ; member of various boards ; was
a delegate of the Government to the Con
gress of Navigation, Germany, 1902; Italy,
1905 and is member representing the United
States on Permanent International Com
mission of Navigation Congresses. He is
also a lieutenant-colonel and chief engineer
of the National Guard of New York.. Mr.
Bogart is a member of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, the Institution of
Civil Engineers of London, the Holland So
ciety of New York, and the St. Nicholas So
ciety, and is also a member of the Century,
University, Engineers, Delta Phi and Down
Town Clubs of New. York. Mr. Bogart
married at West Chester, Pennsylvania,
November 2, 1870, Emma Cherington Jef-
feris. Residence : ¦ 30 Central Park South,
New York City. Office address: 16 Ex
change Place, New York City ; or 29 Great
George Street, London, England. .
BOGERT, Walter Lawrence:
Musician; born in Flushing, New York,
December 7, 1864; son of Henry A. and
Mary Bowne (Lawrence) Bogert. He was
educated in the Flushing Institute from

1878 to 1884; Columbia College, A.B. in
1888; Columbia College School of Political
Science, A.M. in 1889; Columbia Law
School, from 1888 to 1890; National Con
servatory of Music, from 1894 to 1898
(harmony, counterpoint, canon, orchestra
tion, under Max Spicker) ; studied singing
with P. A. Rivarde, George Henschel and
W. N. Burritt, and violin with Edward
Mollenhauer. He was admitted to the
New York bar in 1890; practiced law in
New York City, from 1890 to 1894. He be
came instructor of harmony at the National
Conservatory, from 1898 to 1901 ; lecturer
on music for New York City Board of
Education, since 1900; appointed lecturer
on music for the University Extension So
ciety, 1904; conductor of Millbrook Choral
Society, of Millbrook, New York, since
1902; of Flushing Choral Society, since
1905. Musical director at the Pan Ameri
can Conference of Bishops, Protestant
Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C, 1903,
and at open-air services (attended by over
30,000 people), held in honor of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Washington, 1904.
He is independent in politics. He was ap
pointed by Mayor Van Wyck, trustee of
the Queens Borough Library, 1900 to 1005;
reappointed by Mayor McClellan, 1906;
since 1901, member of the Committee of
Three in charge of erection of Carnegie
Libraries in Borough of Queens. Member
of the Delta Phi fraternity. His favorite
recreations are reading, athletic sports and
gardening. He is a member of the Nation
al Arts, and Flushing Country Clubs. Mem
ber of Programme Committee of MacDow-
ell Association of New York City, and
member of National Association of Teach
ers of' Singing. Address : 72 Lawrence
Street, Flushing, New York.
BOGGS, Carroll Curtis:
Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois;
born in Fairfield, Illinois, October 19, 1843;
son of Richard L. Boggs and Sarah A.
(Wright) Boggs. He was educated at the
University of Michigan, and has since de
voted his life to the law. He has held the
offices of State's attorney, and county j.udge
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judge from 1885 to 1897, and by assignment
served six years on the appellate bench for
the Third Appellate District. He was
elected from the First Supreme Court Dis
trict, judge of the Supreme Court in 1897,
and presided as chief justice for the term
beginning June, 1900. In the contest for
United States Senator from Illinois in 1907,
Judge Boggs was the nominee of the Dem
ocratic party and received the votes of all
the Democratic senators and representatives
in the Legislature of Illinois. Address :
Fairfield, Illinois.
BOGGS, George Towar:
Railroad official; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, February 19, 1861 ; son of Charles
Towar Boggs and Virginia Ann (Clark)
Boggs. He was educated in the Chicago
public schools. Mr. Boggs has been with
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way Company and associated companies
since September 15, 1880, and is now as
sistant secretary and assistant treasurer of
that company, secretary of the Chicago and
Alton Railway Company, and other roads of
the Rock Island System, and vice-president,
assistant secretary and treasurer of the Chi
cago, Rock " Island and Pacific Railroad
Company, and a director, vice-president,
secretary and treasurer of the Rock Island
Company, and is a director of several other
railroad companies, the American Can Com
pany, the Consolidated Indiana Coal Com
pany, and he Rock Island Coal Company,
and the Rock Island Improvement Com
pany, and is. assistant secretary and assist
ant treasurer of the three companies last
named. Mr. Boggs is a Republican in poli
tics, and he is a member of all Masonic
bodies. He married in Chicago, June 7,
1881, Grace L. Tobin, and they have four
children. Residence : East Orange, New
Jersey. Office address: 115 Broadway,
New York City.
BOGLE, Walter Scott:
Merchant, dealer in coal; born at jJover,
New Hampshire, April 3, 1852; son of
Daniel and Mary (Boyd) Bogle. When
but nine years of age he removed with his
parents to Chicago, Illinois, where he re-

ceived his education, being graduated from
the Chicago High School in 1868. He
began his business career with his father,
who had established himself as a coal mer
chant, and here he -learned the details of
a business which fitted him for the exercise
of his natural ability in a larger field. In
time he became the manager of the Dela
ware and Hudson Canal Company, and
later was made president of the Crescent
Coal and Mining Company; and afterward
organized and is now president of the W.
S. Bogle Coal and Mining Company. He
is a director of the Fort Dearborn National
Bank, and was a member of the West
Park Board of Chicago, for three years.
His political affiliations are with the Dem
ocratic party. He is a member of the Ma
sonic order, and a member of Apollo
Commandery, of Knights Templar. He is
a member of the Union League Club of
Chicago, the Iroquois Club, of which he was
president one year and vice-president five
years; the Illionis, and the Chicago Yacht
Clubs, and Manhattan Club of New York.
Mr. Bogle married in Chicago, in March
1872, Delia E. Stearns, and they have three
children. Residence, 1449 Sheridan Road,
Chicago. Office address : 303 Dearborn
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BOLAND, William A.:
Financier; born at Grass Lake, Michigan,
January 1, 1848; son of William H. and
Mary (Woodward) Boland. His ancestors
came from Scotland about 1736, and settled
in Sharon, Connecticut. His father took
up land in Michigan in 1835 and he was
educated in the public schools of that
State. For several years he was engaged
as a manufacturer of shoes, under the firm
name of Boland & Spinney, at Lynn, Mas
sachusetts. He withdrew from the manu
facturing business in 1888 and was one of
the first to finance and construct electric
railways. Some important systems re
quiring large capital, both city and interurb-
an, have passed through his hands, includ
ing the Nassau System of Brooklyn, and
others. He is president and director of
several Western interurban roads and for
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connections in Europe, where he represent
ed large American interests. Mr. Boland
is a member of the Union League, and
other clubs of New York. He has erected
a fine residence, known as Grey Tower,
on the site of the old log cabin
where his father settled, in 1835, at Grass
Lake, Michigan, where he and his family
spend part of the summer months; and he
has a residence at Yonkers, New York.
Office address: 31 Nassau Street, New York
City.
BOLDT, George C:
Hotel proprietor and capitalist. He is
president and director of the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel Company, the Waldorf-Astoria
Segar Company, and the Waldorf Impor
tation Company; vice-president and direct
or of the Apollinaris Agency Company,
and trustee of Cornell University. He is
president of the Bellevue-Stratford hotels,
Philadelphia; director of the Common
wealth Trust Company of New York, and
Lincoln Trust Company, and the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation. He
is a member of the American Fine Arts
Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and of the Suburban Riding and Driving
Club of New York City. Address: 6 West
Thirty-fourth- Street, New York City.
BOLDT. Hermann J.:
Physician, gynecologist ; born near Berlin,
Germany, June 24, 1856; son of Hermann
(prominent agriculturist) and Amalie
Boldt ; came with parents to the United
States in childhood; he was educated by
private tutors and in public grammar and
high schools; studied and practiced phar
macy until he saved means for medical ed
ucation; graduated from the Medical
School, University of New York, M.D.,
1879. Served as assistant to Professor Pal-
len, of the University of New York, 1879;
engaged in practice, 1879 ; since 1891 ex
clusively in gynecological practice. In
ventor of numerous gynecological instru
ments, and operating table for abdominal
surgery, for which he received medal at
Paris Exposition, 1900, etc. Contributor to
medical press, and author of various pro

fessional monographs. Professor of gyne
cology, New York Post-Graduate School
and Hospital; gynecologist, German Poli-
klinik and St. Mark's Hospital; consult
ing gynecologist Beth-Israel Hospital, St.
Vincent's Hospital. Ex-president of the
New York Obstetrical Society ; ex-president
of the German Medical Society; member,
American Gynecological Society, Interna
tional Gynecological Society, British Gyne
cological Society, Southern Surgical and
Gynecological Society, New York Patho
logical Society, New York Academy of
Medicine (ex-president Gynecological Sec
tion). He married in 1891, Hedwig Kru-
ger, daughter of a publisher of Berlin. Ad
dress : 39 East Sixty-first Street, New York
City.
BOILER, Alfred Fancoast:
Civil engineer; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, February 23, 1840; son of
Henry John Boiler and Anna M. (Pan-
coast) Boiler. He was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, as A.M. in
1858, and from the Renssalaer Polytechnic
Institute at Troy, New York, as CE. in
1861. He has been in continuous practice
of his profession since 1861, and has- been
engaged on important engineering works
in various parts of the country, as assis
tant, chief, consulting, or contracting engi
neer. He is now of the firm of Boiler &
Hodge, consulting engineers. Mr. Boiler is
author of: Practical Treatise on the Con
struction of Iron Highway Bridges, 1877 ;
and a contributor to society transactions
and technical journals. He is a member of
the Institution of Civil Engineers (Lon
don), and the American Society of Civil
Engineers. He is an Independent Repub
lican in politics. He is a member of the
Century Association, New York, Pennsyl
vania Society of New York, and the
Republican Club of East Orange, New Jer
sey. He married in Philadelphia, in 1864,
Katherine Newbold, and they have five
children : Margaretta, William N, Alfred
P., Jr., Richard Emlen and Mary Newbold.
Residence: 35 Prospect Street, East
Orange, New Jersey. Address : 1 Nassau
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BOLLEY, Henry L.:
Professor of botany and plant patho
logist; born at Manchester, Indiana, Feb
ruary i, 1865; son of John Bolley and
Mary Bolley. He was prepared in the
public schools of Dearborn County, India
na, and of Saint Clair County, Michigan,
was graduated from Purdue University,
Lafayette, Indiana, as B.S. in 1888, and
M.S. in 1889, and took special work in
the University of Wisconsin. He was as
sistant in biology at -Purdue University and
assistant botanist of the Indiana Experi
ment Station in 1889, and since 1890 he
has been professor of botany and zoology
in the North Dakota Agricultural College
and botanist and plant pathologist of the
North Dako':a Agricultural Experiment
Station. Professor Bolley is a fellow of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, also of the Society
for the Protection of Agriculture, and a
member of the American Breeders'
Association. He is a thirty-second de
gree Mason, and a noble of the An
cient Order of the Mystic Shrine.
The chief contributions of Professor Bol
ley to. agricultural science have been the
discovery of the parasite cause of potato-
scab, and the present modes of prevention
of the same, the discovery of the formalde
hyde treatment of cereal grains for the
prevention of smuts, etc., the discovery of
the present effective method of spraying to
eradicate mustard and other noxious
weeds in cereal grain fields; the discovery
of the cause of flaxsick soil and modes of
prevention, including the idea of procuring
immune strains by special methods of
breeding. His chief work has been
breeding plants for resistance to- disease.
He traveled in Holland, Belgium and Rus
sia one year, investigating diseases of and
culture of the flax crop. Professor Bolley
married at Janesville, Wisconsin, Septem
ber 23, 1896, Frances B. Sheldon. Ad
dress : Agricultural College, North Da
kota.
BOLTON, Benjamin Meade:
Physician, bacteriologist; born in Rich
mond, Virginia, April 7, 1857; son of Dr.

James Bolton and Anna Maria (Harrison)
Bolton. He received his academic educa
tion at the Charlottesville Institute, Char
lottesville, Va., where he was graduated in
1875, and, entering the University of Vir
ginia as a medical student, was graduated
four years later with the degree of M.D.
This he followed by a year of work at
South Carolina College and four years in
medical study abroad at the Universities
of Heidelberg, Gottingen and Berlin. In
1886 he returned from Europe and became
assistant in bacteriology at Johns Hopkins
University and filled the position for two
years, after which he was for one year pro
fessor of hygiene and bacteriology at
South Carolina College and for three years
head of the department of bacteriology at
the Hoagland Laboratory at Brooklyn, New
York. He returned to Johns Hopkins as
associate in bacteriology in 1892 and after
three years went to Philadelphia to take
charge of the laboratory of the Board of
Health. In 1896 he became professor of
pathology at the University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri, where he remained
for one year. Since 1897 he has been con
nected with the bureau of Animal Industry
as an expert in experimental therapeutics.
Dr. Bolton is widely known for his work in
bacteriology, upon which he has written
numerous articles. He is a member of the
Association of American Physicians. He
was married, first in 1886, to Johanna
Henriette Louise Liebau, of Brunswick, Ger
many, and, second, in 1898, to Lactitia Todd,
of Columbia, Mo. Residence: 2462 Wis
consin Avenue. Address : Bureau of Ani
mal Industry, Washington, D. C.
BOLTON, Charles Knowles:
Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum ; born
in Cleveland, Ohio, November 14, 1867,
the son of Charles Edward Bolton, A.M.,
md Sarah (Knowles) Bolton, the author.
He was graduated as A.B. from Har
vard College in 1890. He was librarian
of the Brookline, Massachusetts, Public
Library from 1894 to 1897, and since 1898
has been librarian of the Boston Athen
aeum. Mr. Bolton is an honorary
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Phi Beta Kappa; chairman of the Vis
iting Committee to the" Library of the Mu
seum of Fine Arts, Boston; a member of
the Bunker Hill Monument Association,
the Massachusetts Historical Society, and
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and
a corresponding member of the Maine His
torical Society. He is a Republican in poli
tics and an Episcopalian in religion, and is
chairman of the School Committee in Shir
ley, Massachusetts. He is author of the Pri
vate Soldier under Washington, etc., and
editor of the Letters of Hugh, Earl Percy
1774 to 1776, etc. He is a member of the
Boston City Club. Mr. Bolton married in
Boston, June 23, 1897, Ethel Stanwood, a
well-known writer of local history, and
they have two sons : Stanwood Knowles
Bolton, born in 1898, and Geoffrey Boltbn,
born in 1901. Residence : Pound Hill
Place, Shirley, Massachusetts. Office ad
dress : 10 1-2 Beacon Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.BOLZA, Oskar:
Professor of mathematics .at the Univer
sity of Chicago; born at Bergzabern, Ger
many, May 12, 1857; son of Moritz Bolza
and Luise (Koenig) Bolza. Fie was grad
uated from the Gymnasium at Freiburg in
Baden' in 1875 ; attended the University of
Berlin, Heidelberg, Gottingen, Strassburg,
and received the degree of Ph.D. from Got
tingen In 1886. He was reader in mathe
matics at Johns Hopkins University in
1888 and 1889; associate in mathematics at
Clark University from 1889 to 1892; asso
ciate professor of mathematics, at the Uni
versity of Chicago in 1893 and 1894 and has
been professor of mathematics there since
1894. Dr. Bolza is a member of The Ameri
can Mathematical Society and the Deutsche
Mathematiker Vereinigung. He married
at Freiburg in Baden in 1898, Anna Neckel.
Residence: 5810 Woodlawn Avenue, Chi
cago. Address : University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
BONAPARTE, Charles Joseph:
Attorney-general of the United States,
was born at Baltimore, Maryland, June 9,
1851; descendant of the most historically

interesting of our international marriages,
that of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the
first Napoleon, to Miss Patterson, of Balti
more, and possessed in considerable degree
the physical characteristics and tempera
ment appropriate to that line of ancestry, his
career, has yet been one that, in the third
generation, has revealed a devotion to the
best ideals of American citizenship and a
sterling quality of American statesmanship.
Graduating from Harvard in the class of
1871, and from Harvard Law School in
1874, he engaged in the practice of law in
Baltimore, and built up for himself a high
standing in the legal profession of Balti
more and the country at large, as the, result
of a close study of legal and forensic prin
ciples and a thoroughly judicial and analyti
cal mind. He became the legal representa
tive and in many cases the trustee of large
property interests in Maryland, and counsel
for important organizations and enterprises.
While, in National affairs, the political affil
iations of Mr. Bonaparte have always been
with the Republican party, his political en
deavors have been chiefly along lines re
moved from narrow partisanship. He early
became a strong believer in and advocate
of civil service reform in Nation, State and
municipality. In his home city, chief com
mercial center of the border region between
North and South, partisanship was intensi
fied, and the only hope of rescue of the city
from the worst evils of strongly partisan
government, came from the fact that there
existed a certain body of citizens, contain
ing members of both the leading parties,
ready as all times to sink partisan differ
ences and unite their efforts for the good
of the city. Of this body Mr. Bonaparte
became the recognized leader and while it
has not been large enough to make the gov
ernment of Baltimore an ideal one, it has
held a sufficiently strong influence over
nominations and elections to prevent par
tisan gangsters, from doing their worst. In
the State, as well as in the city, Mr. Bona
parte was the recognized leader of the
forces of reform in administration, and in
the Civil Service Reform movement he ex
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ognized by his election as chairman of the
.Council of the National Civil Service Re
form League, which office he held .. until he
entered the President's Cabinet in 1905.
He was one of the organizers and is now
president of the National Municipal League,
an organization devoted to the improvement
of urban conditions, and is a member of
the Executive Committee of the National
Civic Federation. In 1904 he was elected
a presidential elector from Maryland on
the Republican ticket, the Democrats elect
ing the other seven electors to which the
State of Maryland was entitled. In 1902
he was appointed by President Roosevelt
a member of the Board of Indian Commis
sioners and made a close study of the re-
• lations of the Government with the In
dians; and at the close of his service in
1904, made a valuable and exhaustive in
quiry into the details of registration for
the purpose of protecting the Indians in
the proprietorship of the lands allotted to
them severally. He was one of the dis
interested persons to whom were referred
the conflicting charges and statement in
reference to the administration of certain
details in the Post Office Department in
1904, and as the result of his Investiga
tion and report, the salutary steps taken
toward the purification of the postal ser
vice were inauguated and successfully car
ried out. At the earnest solicitation of
President Roosevelt, Mr. Bonaparte en
tered the Cabinet, July 1, 1905, as Secre
tary of the Navy, filling its duties with
marked ability and public approbation, and
in the reorganization of the Cabinet in the
beginning of 1907, took his present position
as Attorney General of the United States,
bringing to it the training of a lifetime in
legal affairs, and taking general charge of
litigations vitally affecting the relations of
the Government with numerous questions
of a novel and important character. Mr.
Bonaparte was an overseer of Harvard
from 1891 to 1903. He is one of the fore
most Catholic laymen of the country; is a
trustee of the Catholic University of Ameri
ca, and connected with the management of
other Catholic institutions. In 1903 he was
awarded the Laetare Medal of the Univer

sity of Notre Dame, one of which is an
nually awarded to the most useful Catholic
layman. He is a speaker of ability, whose
oratorical powers are called for on many
and varied occasions, and many of these
addresses on civil service and other themes,
have been of much value in the practical ad
vancement of the causes advocated. Mr.
Bonaparte married, September I, 1875, Ellen
Channing Day, of Newport, Rhode Island,
and besides his residence in Baltimore has a
country home at Bella Vista, Maryland.
Address: Washington, D. C.
BOND, Charles H.:
President and general manager of Waitt
and Bond, Incorporated; born at Sangus,
Massachusetts; son of C. M. Bond and
Mary (Amerige) Bond. He was educated
at Saugus public schools and at Spear and
Sawyers Commercial College, Boston. He
went into the cigar business at the age of
seenteen, and afterwards became an equal
partner of the firm of Waitt and Bond,
which was incorporated in 1902, and there
became president and general manager of
that corporation. He is also largely inter
ested in real estate, both in Boston and at
Washington, D. C. He is president of the
Mutual Helpers flower work, and was on
the standing committee of the Second Uni
tarian Church for years. He was one of
the original members of the Saugus Water
Board; was president of the Cliftondale
Library Association, and gave them the
books and was trustee of the Saugus Li
brary. Mr. Bond is a member of the
Sons of Colonial Wars, and is a Knight
Templar Mason. His favorite recreation
is automobiling. He is a member of the
Boston Art Club; and is on its Board of
Management. He is a Republican in politics
and a Unitarian in his religious belief. Resi
dence : 128 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos
ton. Office address : 67 Endicott Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
BOND, Paul Stanley:
Officer of the Corps of Engineers, United
States Army; born in New York City, Ap
ril 18, 1879; son of Joseph W. and Jane
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schools in New York City and San Fran
cisco, California, in private schools, Con-
necticutT New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and Virginia; he graduated from
the University of Nevada, School of Mines,
in 1898; and is a distinguished graduate,
from the United States Military Academy,
West Point (1900). He was commissioned
second lieutenant of United States Artil
lery, June 13, 1900, first lieutenant in the
Corps of Engineers, United States Army,
June 29, 1901, captain in the Corps of En
gineers, August 27, 1907. He has been en
gaged in surveys, river and harbor and
lighthouse construction, and other public
works of the United States (as engineer)
in District of Columbia, Louisiana, Texas,
New York, Ohio and Kentucky. His trav
els include nearly all of United States and
Canada. Captain Bond married in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, July 9, 1902, Marie Doughty,
daughter of Judge Charles Evans, and they
have one daughter, Sarah Doughty Bond,
born September 24, 1903. Address : War
Department, Washington, D. C.
BONNAR, John Duncan:
Physician and surgeon; born near Toron
to, Ontario, May 7, 1852; son of James
Turnball Bonnar and Mary (Kennedy)
Bonnar. He was educated at the College
of Technology and at Trinity Medical Col
lege of which he was a fellow, and he re
ceived two honor certificates and a silver
medal m 1878, and silver medal and also
M.D. ; C.M. of Trinity University, Toronto,
1882. He' also received from Toronto
University, a silver medal, and the
Starr gold medai, and the degree of M.B.
and sixteen - first class honor certificates.
While practicing near Toronto from 1878
to 1880 he was surgeon to the Credit Val
ley Railway. He moved thence to Buffalo,
N. Y., where he has pursued a general
medical and surgical practice. He lec
tured on surgery and chemistry in the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, which at
one time exhibited in Buffalo. He has
taken an active part in promoting the Erie
Barge Canal project, the preservation of
the natural beauty of Niagara Falls, and
opposing the scheme of removing Forts

Porter and Niagara and merging of both in
a new military encampment at Sturgeon
Point on the South Shore of Lake Erie,
and the efforts of himself and his associates
were approved by Secretary of War Taft.
In 1896 Dr. Bonnar visited the city of Mex
ico, and in 1900 went on an exploring tour
into Alaska, beyond Yukon, and gave sev
eral lectures while on this tour. He is a
Republican in politics and a Presby
terian in religion, and is a trustee of
Central . Presbyterian Church of Buffalo,
member of Presbyterian Union. Dr. Bon
nar is a member of the Erie County Medi
cal Society; the New York State Medical
Society; the American Medical Associa
tion, Buffalo Historical Society, the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and
the Buffalo Academy of Medicine. Dr.
Bonnar wrote : Normal Principles of Edu
cation, which was made the leading article
in American Education in May, 1904, and
has in preparation a book entitled: James
Turnbull or Pioneer Life in Canada. He
presented a paper on Medical Ethics within
and without, the Medical profession, at the
Buffalo Academy of Medicine, in 1906; re
presented the Central Council of Buffalo
Business Men of the State Commerce Con
vention, at Utica, in October, 1899, and read
a paper on Erie Canal Enlargement. He
married at Kendall, New York, June 25,
1885, Caroline Estella Harris, and they have
four children: Benjamin Harris, born in
1888; M. Clarine, born in 1890; H. Otis,
born in 1893 ; Sybil Lyell, born in 1897.
Address : 144 Jewett Avenue, Buffalo, New
York.
BONYNGE, Robert W.:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in New
York City, September 8, 1863; son of Rob
ert Bonynge and Susan Bonynge. He was
graduated as A.B. from the College of the
City of New York in 1882, and later re
ceived A.M. degree from that college, and
he was graduated as LL.B. from Columbia
College Law School in 1885. He was ad
mitted to the New York bar iri 1885 ; he re
moved to Denver in 1888, and has
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member of the firm of Bonynge & Ritter.
He is a Republican in politics; was a mem
ber of the Colorado State Legislature in
1893 and 1894; was elected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress from the First District of
Colorado in 1902, and was elected in 1904
and 1906 -to the Fifty-ninth' and Sixtieth
Congresses, in which latter he is now serv
ing. He is an Episcopalian in his religious
affiliation. He is a Mason, Knight Tem
plar and member of Royal El Jebel Shrine,
an Elk, and a member of the Woodmen
of the World. He is a member of the
Denver Club, the University Club of Den
ver, Republican Club of New York, and
Republican Club of Denver. He married
in New York City, January 20, 1886, Mary
Alida Riblet. Residence: Hotel Metro-
pole, Denver, Colorado. Office address :
Equitable Building, Denver, Colorado.
BOONE, Richard Gause:
Editor of Education ; born at Spiceland,
Indiana, September 9, 1849; son of Driver
and Elizabeth (Cooper) Boone. He was
graduated from the DePauw University,
Greencastle, Indiana, as A.M. in 1884, and
from the University of Ohio as Ph.D. in
1889. He was superintendent of schools
in Frankfort, Indiana, from 1876 to 1886;
professor pedagogy in Indiana University
from 1886 to 1893 ; president of the Mich
igan Normal College from 1893 to 1899,
and superintendent of schools of Cincin
nati, Ohio, from 1899 to 1903. He has
been editor of Education since 1901. He
is author of: History of Education in In
diana; History of Education in the United
States, The Science of Education-. He is a
Republican in politics, and his religious
affiliation is with the Society of Friends.
Dr. Boone is a member of the National
Educational Association, the National
Council of Education, and the National
Geographical Society. He married at Dan
ville, Indiana, in 1874, Mary E. Stanley.
Address: Yonkers, New York.
BOORAEM, John Francis:
Engineer; born in Jersey City, New
Jersey, 1869; son of John Van Vorst and
Elizabeth (Wreaks) Booraem; he is of

Dutch-American ancestry, seven genera
tions. He was educated at the Deguhees
Institute (German School) of Brooklyn,
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; gradu
ated from the Sibley College, Cornell Uni
versity, M.E., E.E., 1891. He started
to work with Henry R. Worthington Com
pany as apprentice, during summer vaca
tion as student; three years with the en
gineering department, and assistant super
intendent of the Havemeyer and Elder
plant of American Sugar Refining Com
pany, Brooklyn; with American Enameled
Brick and Tile Company since 1894, as
secretary, treasurer and engineer; built
plant in 1894; present plant has tenfold
original capacity. He is a veteran of the
cavalry organization, Squadron A, Nation
al Guard of the State of New York, is
a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, member of the Chi
Chapter, Psi Upsilon fraternity. Mr. Boor-
aem's favorite recreations are horseback
riding, sailing, automobiling. He married
in New York City, November 15, 1899,
Alice A. Robert, daughter of Swiss vice-
consul, and they have three children:
Dorothy Eveline, and Marguerite Robert
and Cornelia Van. Vorst. Residence: 251
Shore Road, Greenwich, Connecticut. Ad
dress : 1 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
BOORAEM, John Van Vorst:
Consulting engineer ; born in Jersey City,
New Jersey, October 30, 1838; son of
Henry Augustus and Cornelia ( Van Vorst)
Booraem. He was graduated from Mount
Pleasant Academy, Sing Sing, New York,
in 1854; spent one year at Toulon, France,
two years at Hamburg, Germany, studying
languages and mathematics, and was grad
uated from the Polytechnic School at Carl-
sruhe, Baden, as M.E., in 1859. He was
helper, draftsman and head-draftsman at
McLeod's South Brooklyn Works, follow
ing general machinery and building and
erecting machinery for United States Gov
ernment vessels, etc. The war and the
tariff destroyed the business of marine en
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ed. He then became draftsman, chief en
gineer and superintendent of the Demo-
Castro & Donner Sugar Refining Company
in 1872; and. later served in the same cap
acities with Havemeyer & Elder as well,
and was consulting engineer to the Board
of the American Sugar Refining Company,
Brooklyn,. New York, from 1882 to 1898.
He published in 1906 a monograph entitled :
Internal Energy, a method proposed for
the Calculation of Energy stored within
Matter. He is vice-president of the Am
erican Enameled Brick and Tile Company,
and member of- the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, American Chemical
. Society and others. Mr. Booraem married
November 7, 1867, Elizabeth Wreaks, and
they have two children: John Francis
(Mechanical engineer from Cornell) and
Alfred " Wreaks (lawyer, graduated from
Columbia). Address: 204 Lincoln Place,
Brooklyn, New 'York.
BOOTH, Charles Edwin:
Manufacturer; born at Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, July 24, 1849; son of Alfred
and Fanny Woodbury (Abel) Booth. He
was educated in public schools of Spring
field, and Lowell, Massachusetts, and by
private tutors. He is president of the
Seaboard Refrigeration Company. He
visited Australia and New Zealand in a
trip around the world in 1901. Mr. Booth
is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in religion. He is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars, Historic-
Genealogical Society of Boston, Connecti
cut' ^Historical Society, Hartford, Long
Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, the
Economic Club and the American Numis
matic Society of New York City. He is
a member of the National Arts Club.
Address : National Arts Club, New York
City.
BOOTH, William Vernon:
President of the A. Booth Company,
packers and canners; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, December 22, 1856; son of A. Booth.
He was educated in the public schools of
Chicago, supplemented by a collegiate
course. Soon after leaving college, he en

tered the business concern of his father,
who was the founder and promoter of what
has now come to be the -largest enterprise
of its kind in the world, and which is
being ably managed by his son and suc
cessor. The business embraces great pack
ing houses at Baltimore, Maryland; salmon
canneries at Astoria, Oregon; steamship
lines, great can factories, fishing fleets, cold
storage warehouses, etc., giving employ
ment in its various branches of industry to
upward of five thousand men. Mr. Booth
is a member of the Chicago, Chicago,
Yacht, Onwentsia, Chicago Athletic, and
Saddle and Cycle Clubs. He married, in
1886, Helen, daughter of John T. and Mary
Lester. Residence: 31 Bellevue Place, Chi
cago. Office address : 143 Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
BOOTHBY, Frederic Eleazer:
Railroad official ; born at Norway, Maine,
December 3, 1845; son of Levi Thompson
Boothby, and Sophia Packard (Brett)
Boothby. He was educated in the high
school and academy at Waterville, Maine.
He began railroad service in 1864 as a boy
with the Maine Central Railroad, with
which he has ever since continued; and
is now general passenger and ticket agent
of the Maine Central Railroad, the Port
land, Mount Desert and Machlas Steam
boat Company, the Washington County
Railway and the Somerset Railway. He is
a director of the Portland and Ogdenburg
Railroad, the Union Safe Deposit and Trust
Company of Portland, Maine, and the- New
England Railway Publishing Company. He
has traveled in almost every part of the
United States, Canada and Mexico. He
served as a member of the military staff
of Governors Joseph R. 'Rodwell, Sebastian
S. Marble, and Edwin C. Burleigh, of
Maine, retiring as commissary general with
the rank of colonel. He was president of
the Portland Board of Trade from 1897 to
1901, and mayor of the City of Portland,
Maine, from 1901 to 1903 inclusive. He is
a Republican in politics and was chairman
of the Maine delegation of the National
Republic Convention of 1904. He is an
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phen's Church, at Portland, Maine.' He is
a member of the Maine Historical Socie
ty, and a trustee of the Coburn Classical
Institute, of Waterville, Maine; trustee and
treasurer of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirm
ary ; treasurer of the Portland Prison Com
mittee, and treasurer of the State of Maine
Branch of the National American Red
Cross ; chairman of the executive committee
of the railroad branch of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Portland, Maine,
and director of the Maine Society for Pro
tection of Cruelty to Animals. He is vice-
president of the Maine Society of Sons of
the American Revolution; captain of the
Maine Society of Mayflower Descendants,
and a member of the Cumberland Club,
Portland Athletic Club and Lincoln Club
of Portland, Maine. Colonel Boothby mar
ried at Waterville, Maine, October 25, 1871,
Adelaide Endora Smith. Residence: Fal
mouth Hotel, Portland, Maine. Office ad
dress : 238 St. John Street, Portland,
Maine.
BOPE, Henry P.:
Vice-president and general manager of the
Carnegie Steel Company; born at Lancas
ter, Fairfield County, Ohio, September 19,
1858; son of Philip Bope and Eliza A.
Bope. He was educated in the public
schools of Lancaster and finished his stud
ies privately. He began business life as a
clerk in the State agency of A. S. Barnes
& Company, at Columbus, Ohio, later stud
ied shorthand and became an expert re
porter. Fie reported the Ohio Legislature
sessions of 1878 and 1879, and after the
sesion of 1879 retired from public life and
returned to his sales agency, going to Chi
cago as a representative of his old firm,
A. S. Barnes & Company. Shortly after
ward he removed to Pittsburg and began
his long continuous connection with the
Carnegie interests. Mr. Bope's advance
was rapid; he was successively with Carne
gie Brothers & Company, Carnegie, Phipps
& Company, the Carnegie Steel Company,
Limited, and the National Steel Company.
His work was in the sales department, and
he was moved to a leading position when
the United States Steel Corporation became

an accomplished fact ; in April, 1900, he was
assistant general sales agent, and in the
following year he was made first vice-
president, and he is now first vice-president
and general sales manages of the Carnegie
Steel Company, the National Steel Com
pany. Mr. Bope has been actively iden
tified with the Boys' Brigade, organization
in military form to interest boys in the
church, of which there are now branches
in Protestant churches all over the United
States ; and he is now colonel of the Third
Regiment of the Boys' Brigade of America.
Mr. Bope married at Columbus, Ohio, April
15, 1880, Katharine Spencer, of Columbus,
Ohio. Address: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BORDEN, William Cline:
Surgeon United States Army; born in
Watertown, New York, May 19, 1858; son
of Daniel Borden and Mary Louisa (Cline)
Borden. He was educated in the Hunger-
ford Collegiate Institute at Adams, New
York, and graduated as M.D. from the
Medical Department of George Washing
ton University, Washington, D. C. He was
commissioned first lieutenant and assis
tant surgeon of the United States Army,
captain in 1889; major and brigade sur
geon of Volunteers in 1898, and major and
surgeon in the United States Army in 1901.
He commanded the Army General Hospital
at Key West, Florida, was afterward trans
ferred to the command of the Army Gen
eral Hospital, at Washington, D. C. during
the Spanish-American War, remaining in
command until 1907 when he was transferred
to the Philippines for duty. From 1899 to
1907, he was professor of military surgery
at the Army Medical School and professor
of surgical pathology in Georgetown Uni
versity School of Medicine. He is author
of: Use of the X-Ray in Spanish Ameri
can War, published by joint resolution of
Congress; of Military Surgery, prize essay
of the Association of Military Surgery of
the United States and of many papers and
monographs on surgical and military sub
jects. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the Medical and Sur
gical Society of the District of Colum
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Columbia, the Association of Military Sur
geons of the United States, the Sons of
the American Revolution, of New York, and
the Crescent Yacht Club of Watertown,
New York. He married at Fulton, New
York, in 1883, Jennie E. Adams, and they
have two children : Daniel Le Ray Borden
and William Ayres Borden. Address :
Care of the Surgeon General of the United
States Army, Washington, D. C.
BORDEWICH, Henry:
Consular official; appointed consul at
Christiania, July 2, 1897; promoted con
sul-general, May 9, 1900. Address : Chris
tiania, Norway.
BORLE, Beauvean:
Banker and broker; born in Philadelphia,
May 9, 1846. He was graduated from the
College Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1865 and entered the bank
ing and brokerage firm of his father, the
firm name becoming C. and H. Borie. As
senior partner of this firm he has long been
a leading element in the financial interests
of Philadelphia. Mr. Borie has been for
many years an active member of the Phila
delphia Stock Exchange and has served
on important committees, has been several
times its. vice-president, and was made presi
dent of the Exchange in October, 1900. He
is a director of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company, the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, the American Dredging Company, and
the Pennsylvania Company, and the Penn
sylvania Company for Insurance on Lives ;
vice-president of the Philadelphia Ware
house Company, and a member of the Real
Estate Trust Company. He is a member
of 'the Union League, the Art Club, and
the Philadelphia Club. Address : 1035
Spruce Street, Philadelphia.
BORING, William Alciphron:
Architect ; born in Carlinville, Illinois.
September 9, 1859 ; son of John Melvin and
Mary Adeline (Bailey) Boring. He was
educated at the University of Illinois, 1881
to 1883 : Columbia University, New York
City, 1886 to 1887; Ecole des Beaux Arts,
Paris, France, 1887 to 1890. He has de

signed public buildings in various cities in
the United States and Cuba, among others,
United States Immigrant Station for the
Treasury Department, Ellis Island. He
has traveled in the United States, Mexico,
Cuba, England, France, Holland, Belgium,
Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Ireland. He
is a member of the firm of Boring & Til
ton, architects; also practicing alone. Re
ceived gold medal, Paris Exposition, 1900;
silver medal, Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition; bronze medal, Pan American Ex
position, Buffalo. Member and vice-presi
dent, American Institute Architects (and
New York Chapter), Society Beaux Arts,
Architects, Society Columbia University
Architects, Architectural League of New
York; Knight Templar; trustee and incor
porator American Academy in Rome. Has
often been office holder in the professional
societies and clubs. He is a member of the
Century Association and Columbia Uni
versity Club of New York City, and the
Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. He
married in St. Paul, Minnesota, October
23> 1895, Florence Kimball, and they have
two children: Ruth, born in 1897, and
Louise, born in 1899. Address : 172 East
Seventy-first Street, -New York City.
BOSTON, Charles Anderson:
Lawyer; born at Baltimore, Maryland,
August 31, 1863; son of John E. H. Bos
ton and Cecilia (Guyton) Boston. Fie was
educated at private and public schools in
Baltimore, the Baltimore City College, and
Johns Hopkins University and was grad
uated from University of Maryland as
LL.B. in 1886. He is a member of the
bar of Maryland and New -York, and of
the Supreme Court of United States, and
several Federal circuits and districts, and
a member of the firm of Flornblower, Mil
ler & Potter, lawyers. He is author of:
Articles on Medical Laws and Privileged
Communications, and associate author of
the forthcoming article on The Law of
Insanity, in Witthaus and Becker's Medical
Jurisprudence. He is director and vice-
president of the Chicago and Oak Park
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leans Lighting Company, and the Talla
hassee Southeastern Railway Company. He
is a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, New York Law Institute,
New England Society of Orange, New
Jersey, Johns Hopkins Alumni, New York
Alumni of Johns Hopkins University, New
York Society of Medical Jurisprudence,
National Geographic Society, and the Eco
nomic Club of New York. He is an In
dependent Democrat in politics. Mr. Bos
ton married at West Orange, New Jersey,
September 29, 1900, Ethel Lyon and they
have two children : Katharine, born in
1903, and Lyon, born in 1904. Residence:
584 West End Avenue, New York City.
Address: 24 Broad Street, New York
City.'
BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore:
Librarian; born at Litchfield, Connecti
cut, March 8, i860; son of Dr. David El
more and Adelaide (McKinley) Bostwick.
He is the eighth in direct descent from
Arthur Bostock, or Bostwick (of the Bos-
tocks of Bostock Manor, near Chester, Eng
land), who came to America in 1640. He
was educated at Litchfield Institute and at
Yale University, being graduated as B.A. in
the class of 1881, was the first incumbent
of the Silliman fellowship in ' physical
science, from 1882 to 1884, receiving the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1883; and he was sub
stitute instructor and proctor at Yale, from
1883 to 1884. After leaving Yale, he was
instructor in the high school at Montclair,
New Jersey, until 1886, then was engaged
in literary work in New York City, until
1895. He was chief librarian of the New
York Free Circulating Library, 1895 to
1899, librarian of the Brooklyn Public Li
brary, 1899 to 1901, and since 1901 has been
chief of the circulating department of New
York Public Library, including charge of
all branch libraries, now numbering thirty-
right. He was on the staff of Appleton's
Cvclorj3e'1i-> of American Biography, from
tS«6 to tR88: assistant editor of the Forum
1890 to 1892: associate editor and office ex
pert in phvsics of the Standard Dictionary,
1892 to 1895. He was joint author (with

John D. Champlin) of the Young Folks'
Cyclopaedia of Games and Sports; science
editor Literary Digest since 1894; also a
contributor to periodicals on scientific and
literary topics. Dr. Bostwick was president
of the New York (City) Library Club,
1897-1899 ; president of the New York State
Library Association ; member of the council
of the American Library Association, 1904-
1906; chairman of its Committee on Li
brary Training in 1902, and of its Com
mittee on book-buying, 1904 to 1907, and
was elected president of the association in
1907. He has been a member of the advis
ory committee of the Public Education •
Association and of the Library Council
of the New York State University,
from 1904, fellow of the American Li
brary -Institute since 1906; delegate to
the Copyright Conference in 1905 and
1906, and is also a director of the
People's University Extension Society.
He is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian. He is a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and of
the Authors' and Delta Kappa Epsilon
Clubs of New York, and the Dra
matic Club of Montclair, New Jersey. Dr.
Bostwick married, June 23, 1885, Lucy
Sawyer. Residence: in South Fullerton
Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. Address:
209 West Twenty-third Street, New York
City.
BOSWORTH, Edward Increase:
Theologian; born at Dundee, Illinois,
fanuray 10, 1861 ; son of Frank S. and
Sarah (Hunt) Bosworth. He received his
preparatory education at Elgin (Illinois)
Academy, and, entering Oberlin College
in 1879, studied there for two years.
Thence he continued his academic studies
at Yale University, graduating in 1883 with
the degree of A.B. This was followed
by three years of study at the Oberl'n
Theological Seminary, where he received
the degree of D.B. in 1886. He also took
a-raduate work at the University of Leipzig
during the year 1890 and 1891, and at
Athens in 1891 and 1892. The degree
A.M. was conferred upon him by Oberlin
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ministry of the Congregational Church in
1886, becoming in that year pastor of the
church at Mount Vernon, Ohio. A year
later he became professor of English Bible
at Oberlin Theological Seminary and held
that position until 1890. In 1891 he was
given the chair of New Testament lan
guage and literature, which he has since
filled, and since 1903 he has been dean of
the seminary. Dr. Bosworth has traveled
through Europe several times, as well as
in Egypt, Palestine, Japan, China and
Korea. He Is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society. In politics he is affiliated
with the Republican party. Besides vari
ous magazine articles, he is author of:
Studies in the Acts and Epistles; Studies
in the Teaching of Jesus and His Apos
tles; and Studies in the Life of Jesus
Christ Mr. Bosworth married at Elgin,
Illinois, October 1, 1891, Bertha McClure,
and they have three children : Lawrence
McClure, born in 1893 ; Edward Franklin,
born in 1894, and Richard Wilder, born in
1901. Address : Oberlin, Ohio.
BOSWORTH, Edwin Mahlon:
Mining and mechanical engineer; born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 8,
1880; son of Giles B. and Melzena A.
(Reed) Bosworth. After receiving a
grammar and high school education, he en
tered Shady Side Academy, where he was
graduated in 1899. He then took four
years of mining engineering at Cornell
University, and three years of mechanical
engineering. After graduating, he was for
a time mining engineer with H. C. Frick
Coke Company, and in 1903 was assistant
engineer of construction with Jones and
Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburgh.
From 1903 to 1905 he was engaged in spe
cial work, in the latter year being elected
vice-president and treasurer of the Amsler
Engineering Company of Pittsburgh. Be
sides filling these positions, he is secretary
and director of the Manufacturers' Fuel and
Light Company, and of the Southern Real
Estate Security Company, all of Pitts
burgh. He is member, also, of the Pitts
burgh Board of Trade. He is member of
the Presbyterian Church, and in politics is

affiliated with the Republican party; he
belongs to the Chi Psi and Delta Phi Delta
college fraternities. Mr. Bosworth mar
ried at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, April 17,
1906, Helen M. Richey. Residence : 5820
Baum Street. Address : 1000-1003 Diamond
Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BOSWORTH, William Welles:
Architect; born at Marietta, Ohio, in
1869; son of Daniel Perkins Bosworth, Jr.,
and Clara (Van Zandt) Bosworth. He re
ceived the degree of M.A. from the Mar
ietta College, and studied at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts, in Paris, France. He was
Resident Architect at the Pan American Ex
position, is an associate of the American In
stitute of Architects, and Corresponding
secretary of the Society ¦ of Beaux Arts
Architects, and a companion of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion. He is
vice-president of the Jerome Verde
Copper Company. Mr. Bosworth is a
member of the Century Association and
the Players' Club of New York City.
He married at All Souls' Church,
New York City, May, 1904, Elizabeth,
daughter of Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton,
of New York City. He practices as an
architect in his own name and also in part
nership with Jarvis Hunt of Chicago. Ad
dress : Night and Day Bank Building, 527
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
BOTKIN, Theodosius:
Consular official; appointed consul at
Port Louis, June 10, 1905 ; appointed consul
at Campbellton, March 30, 1907. Address :
Campbellton, New Brunswick.
BOTSFORD, Elmer Francis:
Lawyer ; born in Burke, Franklin County,
New York; son of Henry Botsford- and
Jennie (Bromley) Botsford. He was edu
cated at Franklin Academy, Malone, New
York, and Dartmouth College, graduating
as A.B. in 1886, later receiving the A.M.
degree. He was admitted to the bar in
1899. He was corporation counsel of the
city of Plattsburg, for several years; was
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1905, and alderman in 1906. He made seven
trips to Alaska and the Klondike, from
1898 to 1905, as attorney for Joseph Ladue,
the founder of Dawson City. Mr. Bots
ford is a director of the First National
Bank of Plattsbur'g, the Plattsburg and
Floral Park Realty Company, the Rosedale
Terrace Company of Brooklyn, New York;
is president and director of the Valley
Stream Realty Company, Long Island, and
director of the Depew Realty Company of
New York. He is a Democrat in politics
and a Presbyterian in religion. He is
president and trustee of the Plattsburg
Public Library Association; trustee of the
Plattsburg Academy; a member of the
New York Dartmouth Alumni Association.
He is a Mason, Knight Templar and Shrin
er. Mr. Botsford is a member of the
American Automobile Association, the
Macdonough Social and Commercial, and
Plattsburg Rod and Gun Clubs of Platts
burg, New York, and the New York Ath
letic, Dartmouth College, and Psi Upsilon
Clubs of New York City. He married at
Plattsburg, New York, June 29, 1892,
Katharine L., daughter of Emory M. and
Mary B. Lyon, son of Benedict Lyon.
Address : 40 Broad Street, Plattsburg, New
York.BOUDEMA*, Dallas:
Lawyer; bora at Valley Township, Mon-
. tour County, Pennsylvania, January 20,
1846; son of William and Margaret C.
(Caldwell) Boudeman. He was educated
at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan,
taking courses in the scientific department
and graduating in 1870 with the degree of
B.S., receiving that of M.S. in 1872. After
his graduation from college, he settled at
Kalamazoo, Michigan, there studying law
in the office of Severens & Burrows, and
was . admitted to practice before the bar
of Michigan in 1872. Mr. Boudeman has
made a specialty of corporation law and in
it has been very successful, being con
nected with various railroads and other
concerns as counsel. He has been since
1903 the Michigan attorney for the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Raiway Com
pany, and is counsel (also director) of the

City National Bank, the Kalamazoo Trust
Company, American Playing Card Com
pany, the General Gas Light Company, etc.
He has also been since 1901 non-resident
lecturer on law in the University of Mich
igan. In 1903 he was a candidate for
nomination by the Republican party, of
which he is a member, for justice of the
Supreme Court of Michigan. He attended
the Universal Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, as
delegate from Michigan ; and is a member
of various legal organizations. On Novem
ber 15, 1871, he was married to "Mary J.
Oernst, of Mendon, Michigan. Address:
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
BOUGHTON, Willis:
Teacher, writer, lecturer; born at Victor,
New York, April 17, 1854; son of Myron
and Jane M. (Farnam) Boughton. He was
graduated with the degree of A.B. front
the University of Michigan, from Dickin
son College as A.M., and from Ohio Uni
versity as Ph.D. ; he received the Higher
Diploma from Teachers' College, Columbia
University. . He was teacher in Cincinnati
schools; professor of English at Ohio Uni
versity; lecturer in English at University
of Pennsylvania; and is now teacher of
English at Erasmus Hall - High School,
New York City System. He also conduce
ted the work in Rhetoric and English Lit
erature at Adelphi College, Brooklyn, dur
ing the summer session of 1907. He is
author of: History of Ancient Peoples;
Mythology in Art; Chronicles of Erasmus
Hall Academy, and also writer for The
Arena, Journal of Pedagogy, and The
Magazine of American History. He is joint
author of History- of Civilization, and has
been joint editor of Journal of Pedagogy.
He is editor of: Irving's Life of Goldsmith;
Tennyson's Idylls of the King; and lec
turer on English literature; courses before
teachers' institutes and under the auspices
of the Brooklyn Teachers' Association,
Adelphi College anu New York City
Board of Education. He traveled in Eng
land in 1905, and (summer of 1906) in Italy,
Switzerland, etc. He is member of the
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married at Detroit, July 8, 1884, Martha
E. Arnold, and they have two children :
Willis A., born in 1885, and Paul Ninde,
born in 1896. Address : 227 East Seven
teenth Street, Brooklyn, New York.
BOURNE. Edward Gaylord:
Professor of history in Yale University;
born at Strikersville, New York, June 24,
i860; son of James Russell Bourne and
Isabella Graham Staples Bourne. He was
educated at the Norwich Free Academy,
from 1875 to 1879 ; Yale College, from 1879
to 1883 ; receiving the degree of B.A. ;
and at the Yale Graduate School from
1883 to 1888, where he received the degree
of Ph.D. in 1892. He was instructor in
history and lecturer in political science at
Yale, from 1886 to 1888; instructor in his
tory at Adelbert College from 1888 to 1890 ;
professor of history at the same, from 1890
to 1895, and since 1895 has been professor
of history at Yale. He has been chair
man of the Historical Manuscripts Com
mission of the American Historical Asso
ciation; is a corresponding member of the
Massachusetts Historical Society and a
member of the American Antiquarian So
ciety, and has been president of the New
England History Teachers' Association. He
is a member of El Casino Espafiol, Hava
na, Cuba, and of the Graduates' Club of
New Haven. His favorite recreation is
bicycling. Mr. Bourne is an Independent
in politics and a member of the Congrega
tional Church. He is author of: The His
tory of the Surplus Revenue of 1837, 1885 ;
Essays in Historical Criticism, including
the Legend of Marcus Whitman, 1901 ; His
torical Introduction to The Philippine Is
lands, 1903, reprinted separately in 1907;
Spain in America, 1904 (translated
into Spanish in Havana, Cuba, 1906) ; and
he is editor of: Wooley's, A Two- Years'
Journal, in New York, 1902; Fournier's
Napoleon I., 1903; Roscher's Spanish Co
lonial System, 1904; The Chase Papers.
1903; the Narratives of Columbus and
Cabot in Original Narratives of American
History, 1906; the Voyages of Champlain,
which was translated by Annie Nettleton

Bourne in 1906, and is editor and trans
lator of the Narratives of De Soto, 1904;
and co-editor of the Yale Review. Mr.
Bourne married at Stockbridge, Massa
chusetts, July 17, 1895, Annie Thomson
Nettleton, and they have five children :
William Nettleton, born in 1896; James
Russell, born in 1897; Edward Walter,
born in 1899; Henry Thomson, born in
1900, and Grace Elizabeth, born in 1902.
Residence : 73 Mansfield Street, New
Haven, Connecticut.
BOURNE, Frederick Gilbert:
Capitalist and manufacturer. He was
formerly president and is now director of
the Singer Manufacturing Company; also
trustee of the New York Phonograph
Company; director of the Liberty .National
Bank, the Knickerbocker Trust, Commerc
ial Trust Company of New Jersey, Albany
Trust Company, Manhattan Company, New
York and Long Branch- Railroad Company,
Aeolian, Weber Piano and Pianola Com
pany, Babcock and Wilcox Company, Bab
cock and Wilcox, Limited (London), City
and Suburban Homes Company,- Atlas Ce
ment Company, Diehl Manufacturing Com
pany, etc. He is a member of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, the Metro
politan Museum of Art, and the New Eng
land Society of New York, and of the
Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, Law
yers', New York Athletic, Automobile,
Jekyl Island, New York Yacht, Seawan-
haka-Corinthian Yacht, South Sidt Sports
man's, Lakewood Golf, Westwood Golf,.
Robin's Island, and Penaquit Corinthian
Yacht Clubs. He married in 1875, Emma
Keeler, and they have five children : May,
Marion, Florence, Marjorie, George G.
Residence: Oakdale, Long Island. Ad
dress : 149 Broadway, New York City.
BOUTELL, Henry Sherman:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, March 14, 1856; son of
Louis Henry Boutell and Anna (Greene)
Boutell. He removed to Chicago in 1863 ;
was graduated from Northwestern Univer
sity, Evanston, Illinois, in 1874;
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A.B. in 1876; and received the de
gree of A.M. from Harvard (constitutional
history and international law) in 1877, and
the degree of LL.D. from Northwestern
University in 1904. He is. a trustee of the
Northwestern University. He was admit
ted to the bar of Illinois in 1879, and to
that of the Supreme Court of the United
States in 1885, and has since practiced in
Chicago. He is a Republican in politics;
was elected a member of the Illinois gen
eral assembly in 1884, and was one of the
"103" who elected General Logan to the
United States Senate. He was elected to
the Fifty-fifth Congress from the Sixth Illi
nois District in 1897 to fill the unexpired
term of Edward Dean Cooke; was re
elected from that district in 1898 and 1900,
and after reappointment was reelected from
the Ninth Illinois District in 1902, 1904
and 1906, and is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress; in which he is a member of the
Committee on Ways and Means. Mr.
Boutell is a trustee of the Northwestern
University; has been president of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society; Northwestern Uni
versity; twice president of the Illinois So
ciety of Sons of the American Revolution ;
twice president of the Harvard Club of
Chicago, and twice president of the Uni
versity Club of Chicago. Mr. Boutell mar
ried in Providence, Rhode Island, Decem
ber 29,- 1880, Euphemia Lucia Gates, and
they have three children. Residence : Vir
ginia Hotel, Chicago. Office address : 205
La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
BOUVE, Walter L.:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
October 28, 1849; son of Thomas T. Bouve
and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouve. He
studied civil engineering at the Massachu
setts Institute -of Technology and upon
completing his course, followed that pro
fession for- eight years. He then took up
the study of law at the Harvard University
Law School, and was graduated in 1879
with the degree of A.B. The following
year he was admitted to the bar of Mas
sachusetts and has since practiced in Bos
ton. He was special justice in the Second
District Court of Plymouth during 1885

to 1896, and representative to the General
Court, 1896 to 1897. In the latter year
he was elected to the Massachusetts Sen
ate, serving two terms, 1898, 1899. Dur
ing the Spanish War, he was adjutant-
general of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd
Division of the 1st Army Corps, and he is
captain of Company K, Fifth Massachusetts
Infantry. He is identified with the Re
publican party in politics, and is chairman
of the town (Hingham) and district com
mittees. During their existance, he was
treasurer of the Rockland Hotel Company
and Nantasket Beach Hotel Company. He
was also president of the Compressed Fibre
Company, until it was merged into a larg
er corporation. He is a member of the
Boston Bar Association, the Plymouth Bar
Association, and the Wompatuck Club.
He was married at Hingham, Massachu
setts, September 26, 1885, to Charlotte B.
Harden. They have seven children:
Walter L., Jr., Kelah, Constance, Milicent,
Rosalie, Lincoln, and Robert Warren.
Residence: Hingham, Massachusetts. Ad
dress: 113 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
BOCVIER, John Vernon, Jr.:
Lawyer; born at Torresdale, Pennsylva
nia, August 12, 1865, son of John Vernon
Bouvier and Caroline Maslin (Ewing)
Bouvier. Received his early education in
France and in England, and was gradu
ated from Columbia University, as A.B. in
1886, with Phi Beta Kappa honor and
winner of the. Chanler Historical Essay.
Later received his A.M. in the School of
Political Science, and was graduated from
the School of Law as LL.B. in 1888. He
was admitted to the bar in 1888, and is now
senior member of the firm of Bouvier and
Dugro. Counsel for the Travelers' Insurance
Company, the Interurban and Interborough
Street Railway and Subway Systems, the
Hartford Life Insurance Company, occa
sionally for the Aetna Life Insurance Com
pany, and trial counsel generally for num
erous law firms. Traveled throughout Eu
rope and the Far West. Formerly president
of the Nutley Public Schools, and is now
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A Democrat and a Catholic. He is a mem
ber of the Bar .Association of the City of
New York, the Bar Association of the
State of New York, the Society of Medical
Jurisprudence, the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the
Union, University, and Columbia University
Clubs of New York City. He married in
New York City, April 16, 1890, Maude F.
Sergeant, and has five children: John Ver
non III, William Sergeant, Edith Ewing,
Maude, Repellin, and Michelle Caroline.
.Residence: Nutley, New Jersey. Address:
141 Broadway, New York City.
BOVAIRD, David, Jr.:
Physician; born at Coultersville, Penn
sylvania, September 28, 1867; son of David
and Mary A. (McClenahan) Bovaird. He
was graduated from Princeton University,
receiving the degree of A.B. in 1889, and
from Columbia University as M.D. in 1892.
He engaged in general practice of medi
cine from 1892; is visiting physician, Sea
side Hospital of St. John's Guild; as
sociate visiting physician, Presbyterian
Hospital. He is a member of the Patho
logical Society, County Medical Society,
Academy of Medicine, National Associa
tion for the Prevention of Tuberculosis,
and American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; American Medical As
sociation and American Pediatric Society.
He is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in religion. He is a member
of the Princeton, Club. Dr. Bovaird mar
ried at Montreal, Canada, December 27,
1898, Louise Larken, daughter of Major
W. H. Larken of Woodbridge, Suffolk,
England, and they have two children:
Cecily Jean, born in 1900, and George
Crary,. born in 1901. Address: 126 West
Fifty-eighth Street, New York City.
BOWDEN, Henry Mountlort:
Clergyman; born in Walden, Orange
County, New Yprk, February 3, 1861 ; son
of John A. Bowden and Mathilda J.
(Beattfe) Bowden. He was educated in
the public schools at St. Andrews, New
York and of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale

Divinity School, graduating as B.D. in
1886. He was ordained over the Congre
gational Church at Putney, Vermont, June
30, 1886, and his subsequent pastorates have
been at Portland, Connecticut; Braddock,
Pennsylvania ; Middlefield, Massachusetts ;
and South Egremont, Massachusetts. He
was scribe of the Pennsylvania Association
of Congregational Ministers and Churches
from 1893 to 1898, president in 1898, scribe
of the Berkshire North Association from
1899 to 1903, and of the Berkshire South
Association since 1905. He is an Inde
pendent in politics. Mr. Bowden is a
member of the Berkshire Congregational
Club of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He mar
ried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31,
1884, Mary Isabel Campbell, and they have
a daughter Mabel J. C, born in November
1885. Address : South Egremont, Massa
chusetts. BOWDITCH, Charles Pickering:
Trustee, archaeologist; born in Boston,
September 30, 1842 ; son of Jonathan Inger-
soll Bowditch (A.M. LL.D., Harvard) and
Lucy Orne (Nichols) Bowditch. He was
prepared in private schools, and was grad
uated from Harvard University, receiving
the degree of A.B. in 1863, and later A.
M. He served as second lieutenant, first
lieutenant and captain in the Fifth' Massa
chusetts Volunteer Infantry May 1, 1863,
to February, 1864, and captain in the Fifth
Massachusetts Cavalry from February to
August, 1864. Mr. Bowditch was a director
of the American Bell Telephone Company
and the American Telephone arid Telegraph
Company for many years, and was vice-
president of the American Bell Telephone
Company from 1883 to 1886. He is a
director and trustee in many of the most
important corporations of New England,
including the Massachusetts Cotton Mills,
the Pepperell Manufacturing Company,
Saco Water Power Company, the Salmon
Falls Manufacturing Company, the Mas
sachusetts Mills in' Georgia.. Massachusetts
Hospital Life Insurance Company. He
is also greatly interested in archaeo
logical research, is a member of the faculty
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and Ethnology of Harvard University, and
has devoted much personal attention to
archeological research, the results of which
he has given in various pamphlets es
pecially devoted to the archeology of
the Central American nations. He is a
member pf the American Anthropological
Association, vice-president of the Archeo
logical Institute of America, fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, member of the International
Society of Americanists, of the Societe des
Americanistes de Paris, the Department
of Archeology of the University of Penn
sylvania, the American Geographical Soc
iety, fellow and the treasurer of American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is
also interested in historical matters, and
has written on the History of the Trustees
of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, and
the Pickering Genealogy. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Flistoncal Society,
the American Antiquarian Society, the
Bostonian Society, Colonial Society of
Massachusetts and the New England His
toric-Genealogical Society. He is a member
of the Travelers', Economic, Harvard
Union, Union and Country Clubs of Bos
ton, and of the Harvard Club of New
York City. He married at Lenox, Massa
chusetts, June 7, 1866, Cornelia Livingston
Rockwell, and they have four children:
Cornelia, Lucy Rockwell, Katharine Put
nam and Ingersoll. Residence: Jamaica
Plain, Massachusetts. Office Address : 28
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BOWEN, Clarence Winthrop:
Publisher; born in Brooklyn, May 22,
1852; son of Henry Chandler Bowen. He
was graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1873,
as Ph. D. in 1882. He became associated
with The Independent in 1874, and suc
ceeded his father, as its publisher in 1896.
In 1889 he was secretary of the committee
of arrangements for the centennial an
niversary of Washington's Inauguration in
New York City. Mr. Bowen is author of
Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, 1882;
Woodstock, an Historical Sketch, 1886;
Memorial Volume of Centennial of Wash
ington's Inauguration, 1892. He is a

member of the Metropolitan, Union
League, Down Town, and Riding Clubs
of New York City. Address: 5 East
Sixty-third Street, New York City.
BOWEN, Herbert Wolcott:
Diplomat and author; born in Brooklyn,
New York, February 29, 1856; son of
Henry Chandler Bowen, founder of the
Independent. He received his preparatory
education in Paris and Berlin. . He was
graduated from Yale in 1878. He studied
law at Columbia University, and was ad
mitted to the bar. He was .appointed
United States consul in 1890, and consul
general in 1894 at Barcelona, Spain;
American minister to Persia in 1899; and
minister to Venezuela from 1901 to 1905.
He was counsel for Venezuela and the
United States at The Hague in 1903. Mr.
Bowen is author of Verses, Boston, (1884);
In Divers' Tones, 1890; Losing Ground;
International Law, New York, 1896. Ad
dress : Woodstock, Connecticut.
BOWEN, John Wesley Edward :
President of the Gammon Theological
Seminary; born in New Orleans, Louisiana,
December 5, 1855, son of Edward Bowen
and Rose (Waters) Bowen. He 'was grad
uated from the University of New Or
leans; as A.B., and A.M., in 1878 from
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts,
as S.T.B. in 1885; the School of All Sci
ence at Boston, Massachusetts in 1887, as
Ph. D. and the D.D. was conferred upon
him by Gammon Theological Seminary in
1893. He was professor - at Walden Uni
versity, Nashville, Tennessee, from 1878
to 1882, in Morgan College, Baltimore,
Maryland, from 1888 to 1892, at Howard
University, Washington, District Columbia,
in 1892; was professor of Historical theol
ogy in Gammon Theological Seminary from
1893 to 1896, and is now president of the
Gammon Theological Seminary at Atlanta,
Georgia. He was field secretary of the
Missionary Society in 1893; and is general
secretary of the Stewart. Missionary
Foundation for Africa. Dr. Bowen has
traveled throughout the United States,
, Canada and Mexico. He is a member of
j the National Academy, the American So
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Twelve; is a- trustee of the Young Men's
Christian Association and Carrie Steel
Orphans' Home at Atlanta, and a member
of the Atlanta Monday Club. He married
at Newark, New Jersey, September 24,
1886, Ariel Q. Hidges and later to Irene
Smallwood, ,and he has four children : J.
W. A. Bowen, Jr., Irene Theodoria; Esther
Juanita and Portia Bowen. Address :
Campus ; Magnolia Cottage, Gammon
Iheological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia.
BOWER, George Rosensiiriin:
Manufacturing chemist ; born in German-
town, Philadelphia, August I, 1866; son of
Henry Bower and Lycretia K. (Elliott)
Bower. He was graduated at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania in 1885 with the degree
of A.B., after which he became connected
with various chemical concerns. In 1885
he became clerk of Henry Bower & Son,
and after two years became secretary and
treasurer of the Ammonia Company of
Philadelphia. In 1896 he was elected to
similar offices in the Kalion Chemical Com
pany, and in 1902 president of the Balti
more Chrome Works Company. In 1906, the
last named three companies were consoli
dated into the Henry Bower Chemical Man
ufacturing Company, of which he has since
been president. In politics he is a member
of the Republican party, and in religion is
affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He is a vestryman of All Saints'
Church, Lower Dublin, at Torresdale. Mr.
Bower is a member of the Historical So
ciety of Pennsylvania, the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science, and
of the Alumni of the University of Penn
sylvania, the Phi Beta Kappa Psi fraterni
ty, and the Athletic Association of the
University of Pennsylvania. He spends his
vacations in hunting and boating, and is a
member of the Philadelphia Gun, Markham,
Rittenhouse Clubs, and Union League of
Philadelphia; the Maryland Club of Balti
more; the Boston Club of Boston, and the
Down Town Association of New York.
Mr. Bower married at Philadelphia, Janu
ary 10, 1893, Agnes Lee Fuller, and they
have two sons : George, born in 1893, and
Henry, born in 1896. Residence : Torres-

dale, Philadelphia. Address : Gray's Ferry
Road and Twenty-njnth Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
BOWER MAN, George Franklin:
Librarian; born in Farmington, New
York, September 8, 1868; son of Jarvis R.
Bowerman and Anna M. Ewer. He entered
the University of Rochester, New York,
in 1888, and received the degree of A.B.
in 1892; he entered the New York State
Library School at Albany in 1893, grad
uating with the degree of B.L.S., in 1895.
Mr. Bowerman was reference librarian at
Reynolds Library, Rochester, from 1895
to 1896; served in the reference depart
ment of the New York State Library from
1897 to 1898 ; and was on the editorial staff
of the New York Tribune from 1898 to
1900; and on the editorial staff of the New
International Encyclopedia from 1900 to
1901. He resumed library work as librarian
of the Wilmington (Delaware) Institute
Free Library from 1901 to 1904, and has
been librarian of the Public Library of the
District of Columbia since 1904. He is a
member of the American Library Associa
tion, and was its treasurer in 1906-07; a
member and president of the District of
Columbia Library Association; was presi
dent of the library department of the Re
ligious Education Association in 1905 ; a
member of the Delaware State Library
Commission from 1901 to 1904; and is now
a member of the National Geographic So
ciety, and of the Cosmos Club. He has
contributed extensively to The Library
Journal, Public Libraries and to newspa
pers. Mr. Bowerman married at Albany in
1901, Sarah N. Graham. Residence: The
Ontario, Washington, D. C. Office ad
dress : Public Library, Washington, D. C.
BOWERS, Eaton Jackson:
Lawyer and Congressman; born at Can
ton, Madison County, Mississippi, June 17,
1865; he was educated in local schools
and at the Military Institute at Pass
Christian, Mississippi. He' was admitted
to the bar at Canton, Mississippi, at the
age of seventeen, and afterward engaged
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in politics. He was a presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket from the
Sixth District of Mississippi in 1888, and
from the State at large in 1892, was elected
to the State Senate of Mississippi in 1896,
and in 1900 to the House of Representa
tives of Mississippi from Hancock County.
He was a delegate to the Democratic Na
tional Convention at Kansas City in 1900
and was a member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee from 1886 to 1900.
He -was elected from the Sixth Mississippi
to the Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902, and
reelected in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses ; and is now
serving in the latter. He married Sep
tember 3, 1888, Lula G. Posey. Address:
Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi.
BOWERS, Edward Augustus:
Lawyer; born at Hartford, Connecticut,
August 2, 1857 ; - son of Caleb Bailey and
Fanny M. (Cutter) Bowers and is of old
colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. He
was graduated from the academic course
of Yale University with the degree of A.
B. in 1879 and remaining there as a law
student for two years, longer, received the
degree of LL.B. at the end of that time.
In 1882 he removed to Groton, Dakota,
then still a territory, and began to practice
his profession, while giving attention to
other pursuits. In 1884 he was elected
city judge of Groton, occupying the office
for two years, becoming in 1887 Inspector
of the Public Land Service acting directly
in the West for Mr. Lamar, Secretary of
the Interior and having a general super
vision of legal questions arising in the
administration of the Public Lands;. In
1889 he removed to Washington, District
Columbia, where he established himself
in practice. In 1893 he was appointed as
sistant commissioner in the General Land
Office at Washington, becoming in 1895
assistant comptroller of the United States
Treasury. After three years he returned
to Connecticut, and has since practiced at
New Haven, at the same time lecturing
at the University of Yale on forest law
and administration, in which he is an
authority. He is a member of the Ameri

can Forestry Association and the American
Geographical Society and of various clubs
of Washington, New York City and New
Haven. Residence : 209 Crown Street.
Address : 410 Exchange Building, New
Haven, Connecticut.
BOWER SOCK, Justin DeWitt:-
Manufacturer, banker and ex-congress
man; born in Columbiana County, Ohio,
September 19, 1842. He was educated in
the common schools; and moved from
Iowa City to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1877.
He built the dam across the Kansas River
and entered upon the business of manu
facturing and banking. Mr. Bowersock is
a Republican in politics, and he was twice
elected mayor of Lawrence, and served
in the Kansas house of Representatives
in 1887 and the State Senate in 1895.
He was elected in 1898 from the Second
Kansas District to the Fifty-sixth Congress,
and in 1900, 1902 and 1904 to the Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, but in 1906 he declined to be
a candidate for election in . the Sixtieth
Congress. Mr. Bowersock married in 1866,
Mary Gower of Iowa City, Iowa, and they
have two sons and four daughters. Ad
dress : Lawrence, Kansas.
BOWES, Watson Wallis:
Manufacturer; born at Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia, August 1, 186 1 ; son of James C.
and Jane (Crosskill) Bowes. He received
a common school education in the schools
of Dartmouth, and early became, clerk in.
the Bank of Nova Scotia at Halifax.
From this he was promoted to accountant
and teller in the same bank at their agency
at Chatham, New Brunswick, where he
remained for several years. He then be
came superintendent of Bradstreet's Mer
cantile Agency for Colorado at Denver
and about 1900 became connected with the
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company,
of New York, of which he is now assistant
treasurer and business .manager of the
manufactory at Newton, Upper Falls, Mas
sachusetts. He has traveled through Nova
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is a member of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen. In politics Mr. Bowes
is connected with the Republican party,
and is a member of the Unitarian Church.
He was one of the promoters and for
two years treasurer' of the Unitarian
Club of Needham, Massachusetts, and has
been closely identified with the First Parish
Unitarian Church in the same locality for
many years, being for some time secretary
of the parish committee. He has also
served on various town committees. Mr.
Bowes married in Brooklyn, New York,
May 21, 1884, Sarah C. Thompson and
they have one daughter, S. Gertrude
Bowes, born in September, 1885. Resi
dence: Needham, Massachusetts. Ad
dress : Newton Upper Falls, Massachu
setts.BOWIE, Sydney Johnston:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in
Talladega, Alabama, July 26, 1865 ; son of
Andrew W. Bowie and Nannie M. Bowie.
He attended school until sixteen years of
age, and was graduated from the law de
partment of the University of Alabama in
1885. He was admitted to the bar in
July, 1885, first practicing in Talladega,
and removing in 1899 to Anniston, Ala
bama, and has since been continuously en
gaged in the practice of his profession.
He was city clerk of Talladega in 1885 and
1886, and alderman in 1891. He was for
six years a member of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee of Talladega
County from 1896 to 1899. In 1898, as a
member of the Legislative Committee, Com
mercial Club of Alabama, he assisted in
, the preparation and passage through the
Legislature of a bill to provide for hold
ing a Constitutional Convention in that
State, and was made chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee having in
charge the ratification of the new constitu
tion, in Calhoun County, in 1901. He was
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1902,
and reelected in 1902 and 1904 to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses.
Mr. Bowie married at Ocala, Florida, April
29, 1891, Annie Foster Etheridge. Address :
Anniston, Alabama.

BOWLER, Robert Pendleton:
Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Janu
ary 25, 187 1 ; son of George Pendleton
Bowler and May (Williamson) Bowler.
He was educated at Saint Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire, graduating from
Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1893
and LL.B. cum laude in 1896. He was ad
mitted to the New York bar in 1897, and
practiced law for three years in the office
of Bowers & Sands, He was attached to
United States Legation in Madrid, as spe
cial assistant to attorney-general of United
States, on resumption of diplomatic rela
tions after Spanish War, serving two years
there. He is a director of the Keokee
Coal and Coke Company, president and
director of the Guantanamo Exploration
Company. Mr. Bowler is a member of the
Union, University, Knickerbocker Clubs of
New York City and Metropolitan Club of
Washington, D. C. Address: 2 Rector
Street, New York City.
BOWLES, Pinckney Dowhie:
Jurist and soldier, born at Edgefield,
South Carolina, July 7, 1835; son of Isaac
Bowles and Emily (Holloway) Bowles.
After being prepared privately he attend
ed the University of Virginia, taking aca
demic and law courses there, and afterward
studying in South Carolina. He located in
the practice of law at Sparta, Alabama, in
1859, but since 1866 has practiced in Ever
green, Alabama. In i860 he became lieu
tenant of the Conecuh Guards, a company
of State troops and in April, 1861, its
captain. The company went into the serv
ice of the Confederacy, and he was pro
moted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel
in 1862, and serving with distinction was
commissioned brigadier-general in the Con
federate States Army, April 2, 1865.
General Bowles is a Democrat in politics.
He was States' prosecuting attorney for
ten years, was appointed postmaster of
Evergreen, Alabama, by President Cleve
land in 1887, and was probate judge of
Conecuh County, Alabama, from 1887 to
1898. He married at Sparta, Alabama, in
1863, Alice Irene Stearns. Address :
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Editor; born in Springfield, Massachus
etts, October 15, 1851; son of Samuel
Bowles, 3d, editor of the Springfield Re
publican. He was educated in public and
private schools in Springfield and spent
two years in study and travel in Europe,
and afterward took a special course of two
years at Yale, and later he received from
Amherst College the honorary degree of
AM. He entered the service of the
Springfield Republican as an editorial as
sistant in 1873, and two years later became
the business manager of that paper, of
which he has been, since 1878 the publisher
and editor-in-chief, the third of his name
and family to hold that position. Mr.
Bowles married, at Concord, Massachusetts,
June 12, 1884, Elizabeth, daughter of Eben-
ezer Rockwood Hoar. They have two
sons : Samuel, born July 31, 1885 ; and
Sherman Hoar, born April 24, 1890. Ad
dress : Springfield, Massachusetts.
BOWTVIAN, Edward Morris:
Musician ; born at Barnard, Vermont,
July 18, 1848; son of Joseph and Asenath
(Burroughs) Bowman. He is a descend-
dant of Nathaniel Bowman, one of the
founders and proprietors of Watertown,
Massachusetts, who emigrated from Eng
land with John Winthrop in 1630, and (on
the maternal side) from Richard Warren
and Sarah Tilley, Mayflower Pilgrims. He
was graduated from St. Lawrence Univer
sity at Canton, New York, and afterward
hecame a pupil in pianoforte playing of Dr.
William Mason of New York City and of
Franz Bendel of Berlin. He studied organ
under John P. Morgan of New York City
and of Eduard Rohde and August Haupt
of Berlin, and Edouard Batiste and Alex
ander Guilmant at Paris, and Sir Frederick
Bridge of London; studied theory of music
with Carl Friederich Weitzmann of Berlin,
Sir George A. Macfarren and Dr. E. H.
Turpin of London and John P. Morgan
of New York City. He was organist of
Old Trinity Church, New York City, 1866-
1867; teacher and conductor at St. Louis,
Missouri, 1867 to 1887, where he was organ

ist and director of music of the Union
Methodist Episcopal Church, Second Pres
byterian Church, and Second Baptist
Church; of Peddie Memorial Church
(Newark, New Jersey), 1887 to 1894, where
he founded, on new and original lines, The
Cecilian Choir. He was the founder in
1895 and director of the Baptist Tem
ple Choir and Temple Orchestra of 200
members, of Brooklyn, until May 1, 1906;
since then has been organist and music
director of Calvary Baptist Church (Dr.
MacArthur's) in New York City, where
he founded on a similar plaii a vested quar
tet and chorus of 140 voices. He has
also been engaged as teacher and conductor
in New York City, since 1887. He is a
member of the Royal College of Organists,
London ; member and co-founder of ' the
American Guild of Organists; founder and
fellow (president eight terms) of the
American College of .Musicians; president
(five terms) of the Music Teachers' Na
tional Association; professor and director
of music at Vassar College, 1891-1895;
member of the Executive Board of the
Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Associa
tion; member Executive Board of the De
partment of Music, Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences ; member of the Board
of Governors of Squirrel Island Village
Corporation, and president of the Virgil
Practice Clavier Manufacturing Company
of New Yolk City. He is author of Bow
man's Weitzmann's Manual of Harmony
and Counterpoint, 1876, and is a frequent
contributor to musical journals. Residence:
281 Sterling Place, Brooklyn; (summer)
Squirrel Island, Coast of Maine. Studio,
Steinway Hall, New York City.
BOWMAN, John Brady:
Professor of pedagogy; born on a farm
near Robertsville, Ohio, October 5, 1865;
son of Jonathan^ Bowman and Eliza Jane
(Kelley) Bowman. He was educated at
Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, grad
uating from the Commercial Department
with the degree of B.C.S., in 1887, the
Normal Department In 1891 ; and the class
ical curriculum, with the degree of A.B.
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fessor of Latin and mathematics in Volant
College from 1892 to 1896, was president
Mount Hope College from 1896 to 1898;
professor of mathematics at North Eastern
Ohio Normal College in 1898 and 1899;
president of North Eastern Ohio Normal
College from 1889 to 1902; professor
of pedagogy and principal of the
Normal Department of Mount Union Col
lege since 1902. He is a member of the
Ohio State Teacher's Association, the Na
tional Educational Association, the National
Geographical Society, and stockholder and
vice-president of the Alliance Chautauqua
Association. He is author of a number of
Normal Outlines. He is a member of the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Ohio Alpha
Nu chapter. He is a Republican in politics ;
ana a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr. Bowman is an active church
worker, was president for one year of the
New Castle (Pennsylvania) District of the
Epworth League, superintendent of the
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School at
Volant, Pennsylvania, for two years; of
Rogers Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
one year, and of Union Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Sunday School Alliance, Ohio,
for five years. He married first at Roberts-
ville, Ohio, in 1892, Hattie May Wert, by
whom he has a son, Everett Blaine,
uorn in 1895, and again married at New
Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1901, to Nellie
Mae Whitney, by whom he has a son,
Donald Whitney, born in 1907. Address :
605 West State Street, Alliance, Ohio.
BOWNE, Samuel W.:
Manufacturer, chemist; born at Mont
gomery, New York, January 3, 1842; son
of Cyrus H. Bowne and Hester (Wood)
Bowne. He was educated at Montgomery
Academy, aqd he commenced business in
1874 in the manufacture of Scott's Emul
sion, which he made a great success. He
is now of the firm of Scott and Bowne,
chemists, is president and director of the
Cold Process Company of New York,
director of the Aetna National Bank, the
Independent Milk Product Company, R. H.
Carter & Company, and the Baldwin Steel
Company of Charlestown, West Virginia.

He is a Republican in politics and a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Bowne is president of the Board of
Trustees of the Drew Theological Semin
ary, and a trustee of the Syracuse Uni
versity, the Wesleyan University of Water-
town, Connecticut, and of the New York
City Church Extension and Missionary So
ciety. He is a member of the Union
League, Republican, Knollwood City and
New York Athletic Clubs. Residence: 35
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
Office address: 411 Pearl Street, New
York.BOYCE, James:
Clergyman ; born at Gaston County,
North Carolina, January 25, i860; son of
Rev. E. E. and Rachel McElwee Boyce.
He was graduated as A.B. from Erskine
College, Due West, South Carolina in 1878.
He was pastor at Louisville, Kentucky
from 1882 to 1896, and at Huntersville,
North Carolina, from 1897 to 1899, and
since 1899 has been president of Due West
Female College at Due West, South Caro
line, and his . incumbency has covered a
period of marked and substantial growth
in the college. He is a Prohibitionist in
politics and a member of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church. He was
for years a trustee of Erskine College. He
is a member of the Executive Committee of
the Presbyterian Alliance. He is a trustee
and since 1890 has been principal clerk
of the Associate Reformed Presby
terian Synod. He is a member of
the Joint Committee of Nine Denomi
nations to prepare a metrical-version of
the Psalms. Mr. Boyce's favorite rec
reations are shooting and nature study.
He married at Millersburg, Kentucky,
October 17, 1883, Jennie I. Thomp
son, and they have four children : Bessie
born in 1885, Jessie born in 1887, Mary
born in 1892 and Rachael born 1894. Ad
dress : Due West, South Carolina; during
summer, Montreat, North Carolina.
BOYCE, William D.:
Publisher; born in Allegheny County,
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and Margaret J. Boyce. He was reared on
a farm and received his early education in
the public schools of his native county and
taking a course at the University of Woos-
ter, Ohio. He removed to Chicago in
1881, and became an advertising solicitor
for a monthly magazine. He was engaged
in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a time as can
vasser for an industrial history, following
this with a newspaper venture in Dakota
and an entry into politics.. In 1884 he
organized a bureau of correspondents em
bracing twelve hundred newspapers, which
he represented at the New Orleans Cotton
Exposition in that year. Returning to Chi
cago, he organized a Patent Inside pub
lishing house, for which he secured a large
patronage, and was equally successful with
a similar enterprise which he started in
Winfield, Kansas. In cooperation with
two Eastern newspaper men he established
the Chicago Blade, but took no active
part in its management until its languishing
condition caused his associates to turn the
publication over to him for a nominal sum.
He soon afterward sold out his patent out
side business and devoted his entire atten
tion to building up the Blade, which proved
a great success. Later he purchased the
Chicago Ledger, which he also placed in a
prosperous condition and afterward estab
lished Boyce's Monthly Magazine, now the
Woman's World, and other publications,
all of which are published by W. D. Boyce
& Company, of which he is the president
and director. He is also president and
director of the W. D. Boyce Paper Mills
Company and of the Marseilles Land and
Water Power Company. He is the owner
of a large office building at 112 Dearborn
Street, Chicago. He is a Republican in
politics and a member of the Union League,
Chicago and Chicago Athletic Clubs of
Chicago. Mr. Boyce married in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, in 1883, Mary Jane Beacon,
and they have three children, Ben, Happy
and Sydney. Address: 112 Dearborn'
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BOYCE, William Henry:
Jurist; born in Sussex County, Delaware,
November 28, 1855; son of James H.

Boyce and Sarah J. (Otwell) Boyce. He
was educated in the schools of his native
county; was principal of public schools at
Laurel, Delaware, from 1875 to 1880, and
one year principal of the high school at
Oxford, Maryland, but resigned to accept
the office of Recorder of Deeds. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar and en
gaged in the general practice of law at
Georgetown, Delaware. He became active
in the politics of his state, and he was
chairman of the Democratic County Com
mittee of Sussex County from 1893 until
his resignation in 1897. He was president
of the board of education and of the town
commissioners at Georgetown, Delaware;
was recorder of deeds of Sussex County,
1881-1886, and was attorney for the Levy
Court of Sussex County 1896 to 1897. He
was a delegate from Delaware to the Na
tional Democratic Convention at Chicago
in 1896. He was secretary of the State
of Delaware under Governor Ebe W.
Tunnell but resigned in 1897 to accept
the office as associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Delaware, in which
position he has served ever since.
Judge Boyce married October 25, 1882,
Emma E. Valliant, of Talbot County,
Maryland and they have living one child.
James Insley. Address : Georgetown,
Delaware.
BOYD, David Knickerbocker:
Architect; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, January 5, 1872; son of David Boyd,
Jr., and Alida Visscher (Knickerbacker)
Boyd. He was educated at the Spring
Garden Institute, the Friends' Central
School, the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Rugby Academy, the University
of Pennsylvania, and St. Austins, Staten
Island. He has long been ecgaged in the
practice of architecture in Philadelphia,
and was formerly partner in the firm of
Boyd and Boyd, architects, which dissolv
ed In 1897. He was expert for the State
in first Harrisburg Capitol injunction case,
and he has served on juries and commit
tees for competitions and exhibitions in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and other
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cisms of architectural exhibitions and of
miscellaneous articles in magazines. He is
an independent voter. Mr. Boyd" is an
Episcopalian in religious belief. He is a
member of, and is now vice-president of
the Philadelphia Chapter American Insti
tute of Architects, member of the American
Institute of Architects; non-resident
member of the Architectural League of
New York, and member of the Public Art
League, the Architectural League of Amer
ica, the Sons of the. Revolution, the
Netherlands Society, and the Browning
Society. His favorite recreations are ten
nis, golf, ten-pins, football and out-door
life. He is a member of, and was for three
yeafs treasurer, and two years president,
of the T. Square Club, and is a member
of the Art Club, the Nameless Club, St.
David's Golf Club, and the Merion Cricket
Club of Philadelphia. He married at
Wayne, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1896,
Elizabeth Hornli Miffin, and they have
two daughters : Barbara Miffin Boyd and
Lysbeth Knickerbocker Boyd. Residence :
217 Aberdeen Avenue, Wayne, Pennsylva
nia. Office address : Harrison Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BOYD, George Washington:
General passenger agent of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, born in Indianapolis, In
diana, August 1, 1849. He was educated at
the high school there, and in October,
1863, entered the freight office of the
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indi
anapolis Railroad, where he served as
clerk and chief clerk. In June, 1872, he
was appointed cashier of the Passenger
Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at the general office in Philadelphia, and
in 1874 he was promoted to the chief clerk
ship of the department. In 1882 he became
the first incumbent of the newly-created
office of assistant general passenger agent.
He discharged the duties of this office with
conspicuous ability and success until May,
1903, when he was made general passenger
agent. His work in favor of abolishing
illegal ticket selling by scalpers, and his
efforts toward developing the personally
conducted system of travel' under the direct

supervision of railroad companies are uni
versally acknowledged. Residence: 125 S.
Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia. Office
address : 401 Broad Street Station, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
BOYD, Jackson:
Lawyer;, born March 28, 1862; son of
William F. Boyd, who was a native of
Mason County, Kentucky, and Catharine
(Eller) Boyd of Rowan County, North
Carolina. The early death' of his -father
drove the youth to a trade and deprived
him of the usual opportunities for educa
tion, yet he has educated himself along
most catholic lines and by years of care
ful reading, has thoroughly fitted himself
for the legal profession and political .serv
ice. Mr. Boyd represented Putnam County
in the Indiana House of Representatives
during the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth
sessions of the General Assembly. Al
though he had never held public office be
fore, he has been active in Democratic
politics since 1888, his services being in
demand by the Democracy throughout the
State in the campaign of 1900. ¦ Since 1900
Mr. Boyd has been engaged in literature
as a vocation, and will publish a philosoph
ical book in 1908. Address : Greencastle,
Indiana. BOYD, James Harrington:
• Attorney and counsellor and mathemati
cian ; born at Keen, Ohio, December 7, 1862 ;
son of James Boyd, and Mary (Ross) Boyd.
He was graduated from Princeton as A.B.
in 1886; A.M. in 1888; and ScD. in 1892;
and was mathematical fellow in 1886 and
1887; student at University of Gottingen,
Germany, in 1890 and 1891 and 1892 and
1893, at the Law School of Harvard
University in 1902 and 1903. He was
professor of mathematics at Moldester
College from 1887 to 1892; tutor
in the University of Chicago from 1893
to 1895, and instructor there from 1895
to 1902. He was treasurer of the Quad
rangle Club at the University of Chicago
in 1900 and 1901, president of the Lincoln
House, and the University of Chicago from
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Ohio, where he is now engaged in the
practice of law. He was a student . two
and a half years at Gottingen, Germany,
and has traveled extensively throughout
Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium,
France and England and throughout the
United States and Canada. Delegate from
the Ohio Bar. Association to the Ameri
can Bar Association and International Bar
Association at Portland, Maine, August,
1907. He is_ a Cleveland Democrat and
a Presbyterian. Dr. Boyd is a member of
the Ohio State Bar Association, the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, and is a contributor
to legal journals and the daily press.
He has written extensively also on math
ematical subjects. His favorite recreations
are -hunting in the mountains, travel and
golf. He married in Portland, Maine,
March 25, 1896, Susan Adams, and they
have three children : Helen, born in 1897,
Mary, born in 1900, and James Harrington,
Jr., born in 1902. Residence : 2509 Frank
lin Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. Office address :
218 Gardner Street, Toledo, Ohio.
BOYD, Robert M., Jr.:
Lawyer; born in Montclair, New Jersey,
May 5, 1863 ; son of Robert M. Boyd and
Kate B. (Crane) Boyd. He was graduated
from Yale College as A.B. in 1884; from
Columbia Law School as LL.B., in 1886;
from Columbia School of Political Science
as M.A. Mr. Boyd is a member of the
bar in New York and New Jersey; in
practice of law in both States. Fie is a
member of the House Assembly of New
Jersey from 1901 to 1903; leader of major
ity in the house, session of 1903 ; is presi
dent of the Board of Trustees, Montclair
Free Public Library; director and counsel
of the Montclair "Trust Company, the
Bloomfield Trust Company; director of the
Montclair Club, incorporated. Mr. Boyd
is a Republican in politics, and a Congre-
gationalist in religion. He is a member
of the Phi Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon fra
ternities ; member of the New York Bar
Association of New York City, the Law
yers' Club of Essex County, New Jersey.
His favorite recreation is tennis. He mar

ried in New London, Connecticut, October
26, 1898, Edith Bancroft. Address: 203
Broadway, New York City.
BOYD, Bomaine:
Lawyer; born in Selma, Alabama, in
1873; son of William G. and Sarah (Tar-
ver) Boyd. He entered the United States
Naval Academy in 1889, but left before
graduation, taking up the study of law at
the University of Alabama, where he re
ceived the degree of LL.B. In 1902 he
became city attorney of Ensley, Alabama,
and by reelection holds this office until
1908. He served with the United States
Volunteer Infantry In the War with Spain,
as captain of Company M of the First
Alabama Regiment. He is a Democrat in
politics and is a member of the Episcopal
Church. He is a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity and the Southern Club
of Birmingham. Address : Ensley, Ala
bama.
BOYESEN, Algenon:
Author; born in New York City, Octob
er 13, 1881; son of Hjalmar Hjorth, the
State Norwegian poet and novelist and
professor of Germanic literature, and
Columbia University, and Elizabeth
(Keen) Boyesen. He was educated in
Columbia University in the class of 1904,
but did not complete course, and while
there he played end on the 'Varsity Foot
ball team. He was managing editor of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, in 1902 and
1903 ; contributed numerous short stories,
poems, etc., to periodicals. His first story
was published in Lippincott's Monthly in
1902. He is author of A Passion in A
Suburb (play in one act), produced at
the Berkeley Lyceum New YorK City in
March 1904. He was an invalid in 1905
and 1906 and operated upon for appendici
tis unsuccessfully in September, 1905, but
successfully by Dr. W. T. Bull in May,
1906. He has contracts for several plays,
etc. He is a member of the Alpha Psi
fraternity. H is member of the Strollers'
Club of New York City. He married at
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1903, Adelaide Mott Barcley. He lived
half of each year in Paris and Rome. Ad
dress-: The Willows, Westbury, Long
Island, New York.
BOYLE, John J.:
Sculptor; born in New York City, Janu
ary 12, 1851 ; son of Samuel Boyle and
Catherine (McAuley) Boyle. He was ed
ucated in public and private schools; learn
ed the trade of stone carver, and was a
student of drawing at the Franklin Insti
tute (Philadelphia) in 1873 and 1874. He
was also a student of anatomy and dissect
ing under Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelph
ia; studied at the Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, in 1875 and 1876, and at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, from
1877 to 1880. He has been professionally
engaged as a sculptor since 1876. His
first big work was the Indian Group, in
Lincoln Park, Chicago, in 1884. He lived
in Europe from 1884 to 1887; executed a
group, The Stone Age, for which he
received honorary mention at the Paris
Salon, 1886, and which was placed in Fair
mont Park, Philadelphia, 1887. Among his
other prominent works are the Bacon and
Plato statues in the rotunda Congressional
Library, Washington, the Benjamin
Franklin, in front of the Philadelphia Post-
office, a replica of the same erected in
Paris, April 1906, under auspices of French
Government; besides numerous busts, me
dallions, etc. He has received medals from
the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, the
World's Columbian Exposition, at Chicago,
in 1893; the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo in 1901. He was appointed memb
er of the Art Commission of Greater New
York, January 1, 1906. He is a member
of the National Sculpture Society, and
eight years of Executive Council, the
Architectural League, of New York, the
T-Square Club of Philadelphia, and the
National .nrts Club of New York City.
He married in Philadelphia in 1882, Eliza
beth Carrol, Address: 251 West Fifty-
first Street, New York City.
' BOYNTON, C. T.:
Merchant and manufacturer; born at
West Stockbridge Massachusetts, in 1858;

son of Charles Sumner Boynton and Eliza
beth Boynton. He is director of the Bank
ers' National Bank, Calumet Insurance
Company, Central Trust Company, Dear
born Company, the Federal Furnace Com
pany, Independent Railway Supply Com
pany, North Shore Gas Company, Pick-
ands, Brown & Company, Zenith Furnace
Company, Dyche Drug Company, Buck
and Rayner Company. Address : 217 La
Salle Street, Chicago.
BRACE, Theodore:
Jurist; born in Allegheny County, Mary
land, June 10, 1835. Received a common
school education; was admitted to the bar
in 1856; and moved to Missouri in 1857.
He served in the Confederate Army as
colonel of the Third Missouri Cavalry ; was
elected to the State Senate of Missouri
in 1874 to fill a vacancy; was elected
probate judge of Monroe- County in 1878
and resigned when elected Judge of the
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit in 1880. He was
elected Judge of the Supreme Court in
1886, and reelected in 1896, and was chief
justice of that court in 1895 and 1896. In
1905 he again became chief justice, and is
still serving in that capacity. He is past
grand master of Masons of Missouri.
Judge Brace married in 1858, Rodna C.
Penn. Residence: Paris, Missouri. Of
ficial address : Jefferson City, Missouri.
BRACKEN, Henry Martyn: ,
Physician; born at Noblestown, Penn
sylvania, February 27, 1854; son of Dr.
William C. Bracken and Electa Alvord)
Bracken. After taking an academic course
at Eldersridge Academy (Eldersridge,
Pennsylvania) he became a medical student
at Columbia University, New York City,
graduating in 1877 with the degree of
M.D. Soon afterward he went to Edin
burgh, where in 1879 he received the quali
fication of Licentiate of the Royal College
of Surgeons. He returned to the United
States in 1882, and began the practice of
general medicine at Thompson, Conn. In
December of 1885 he moved to Minnea
polis, Minnesota, where he continued in the
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was in 1887 appointed to the chair of
materia medica and therapeutics at the
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. In
1895 he was appointed a member, and in
1897 Secretary and Executive Officer of
the Minnesota State Board of Health,
which position he still holds. Dr. Bracken
is a prominent member of various medical
associations, among them being American
Medical Association; The American Public
Health Association ; The National Associa
tion for the Study and Prevention of Tu
berculosis, etc. He has written various
papers and reports on his work and is
author of the volume Infection and Dis
infection which has had a wide circulation.
He was married at Rockaway, New Jersey,
February 13, 1884, to Emily M. L. Robin
son. Residence : 1010 Fourth Street, South
South East, Minneapolis. Address : Cap
itol Building, St. Paul, Minnesota.
BRACKETT, Elliott Gray:
Physician; born in Newton, Massachu
setts, April 6, i860. He was educated in the
public schools of Newton and graduated
from Harvard as M.D in 1886. After one
and a half years at the City Hospital he
was interne in the Boston Lying-in-Hos
pital" one term. He is now surgeon to the
Orthopedic Department of the Massachu
setts General Hospital. He is a member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the
American Orthopedic Association. Address :
Boston, Massachusetts.
BRACKETT. John Ely:
Physician; born in Rochester, Indiana,
December 31, 1846; son of Dr. Lyman S.
Brackett, physician, and Eliza Ann (Ran-
nells) Brackett. After a preparatory edu
cation in schools in Washington, D. C., and
Norwalk, Connecticut, he entered the med
ical department of Columbian (now George
Washington) University, from which he
was graduated as M.D. in 1870. After a
year's practice in Rochester, Indiana, Dr.
Brackett went to Europe for further study
of his profession in the schools and hos
pitals of Munich, Vienna, Paris, and Lon
don, and in 1872 and 1873 visited Italy,
Switzerland, and other countries. In 1874

he returned to the United States, and has
since practiced his profession at Washing
ton, D. C. Dr. Brackett again visited Europe
in 1894, with his son, as a traveler. While a
student at Columbian he served as assist
ant at the Almshouse Hospital at Washing
ton. He was house physician at Providence
Hospital, Washington, from 1874 to 1877;
physician to the poor in 1875 and 1876;
member of the Board of Examiners for
Pensions from 1894 to 1896, and has been
professor of medicine in Howard Univer
sity since 1890. Dr.- Brackett was acting
assistant surgeon in the United States
Army; serving on the United States Army
hospital ship Missouri from August 15,
1898, to April 15, 1899, visiting Porto Rico
and Cuba and he was a member of the
District of Columbia Militia, with the rank
of captain (surgeon), from 1880 to 1882.
He is a member of the Medical Association
of the District of Columbia, and the Medi
cal Society of the District of Columbia;
and also of the Sons of the American Rev
olution. Dr. Brackett married in Washing
ton, D. C, November 21, 1878, Jeanie Deans
Foster, of Fairfax County, Virginia, and
they had a son, who died at Stanford Uni
versity, May 10, 1903. Address: 1310
Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C.
BRACKETT, John Quincy Adams:
Lawyer and ex -governor; born at Brad
ford, New Hampshire, June 8, 1842; son of
Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett
He received his academic education at Har
vard University, graduating with honors
in 1865 and receiving the degree of A.B.
Entering thence the law department of
Harvard, he took the three years' law
course, receiving on graduation in 1868 the
degree of LL.B. He was admitted in 1868
to the bar of Massachusetts and has been
in practice in Boston from that time to
the present. In 1872 he was elected by
the Republican party of which he is a
member, to the common council of Boston,
holding that office for four successive
terms and being president of it the last
year. Upon the expiration of his fourth
term in the council he was elected in 1876
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legislature, and with the exception of two
years a member continuously until 1887,
having been elected speaker of the House
of the last two years. Upon the expira
tion of the term ending 1887, Mr. Brackett
took his oath of office as lieutenant-gover
nor with Oliver Ames as governor,
and was twice reelected. In 1889 he
was elected governor of Massachusetts and
served till 1891. Mr. Brackett is very in
fluential in tne political affairs of the state.
He was delegate at large to "the National
Republican Convention of 1892, and presi
dential elector at large, in 1896 and 1900.
He is a prominent club member, being con
nected with the Boston Art, Middlesex,
Boston and other clubs. He married, June
20, 1878, Angie M. Peck, of Arlington,
Mass. Residence: Arlington, Massachu
setts. Address : 7 Congress Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
BRADFORD, Amory H. :
Clergyman and author; born at Granby,
New York, April 14, 1846; son of Ben
jamin F. Bradford and Mary A. (Howe)
Bradford. He was educated at Penn Yan
Academy, and at Hamilton College, grad
uating as A.B. in 1867 and at Andover
Theological Seminary graduating in 1870,
and he took post-graduate studies at Ox-
tord University, England. He has been
pastor of the First Congregational Church
of Montclair, New Jersey, from September
26, 1870. He has been president of
the American Institute of Christian
Philosophy, editor of Christian Thought,
editor of Review of the Churches, and
associate editor of The Outlook. He
has served as moderator of the
National Council of Congregational
Churches and is president of The American
Missionary Association; and he is a mem
ber of the American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions. Dr. Bradford
has traveled in nearly all parts of- the
world, in the discharge of official duties or
for pleasure. He is author of Spirit and
Life, 1888; Old Wine; New Bottles, 1892;
The Pilgrim in Old England, 1893; Here
dity and Christian Problems, 1895; The
Growing Revelation, " 1897; The Sistine

Madonna, 1897; The Holy Family, 1899;
The Art of Living Alone, 1899; The Re
turn to Christ, 1900; The Age of Faith,
1900; Spiritual Lessons from the Brown
ings, 1900; Messages of the Masters, 1902;
The Ascent of the Soul, 1902 ; The Inward
Light, 1905, and has also edited many
books and published many pamphlets. He
is a Republican in politics, and is a mem
ber of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, the Con-,
gregational Club of New York, and the
Montclair and Outlook Clubs of Mont
clair, New Jersey. He married in Little
Falls, New York, September 22, 1870, Julia
L. M. Stevens, and they have four chil
dren : Stella S. Bradford, Cornelia Brad
ford, Clara L. Bradford and Arthur Howe
Bradford. Address: 11 Plymouth Street,
Montclair, New Jersey.
BRADFORD, Edward Anthony:
Lawyer and editor; born in New York
City, November 5, 1851 ; son of George
Partridge Bradford, and Angelina Statiral
(Oakes) Bradford. He was graduated as
valedictorian from Williston Seminary in
1869, and as B.A. and commencement
speaker, with first prize in English com
position, at Yale in 1873; and graduated
from New York University as LL.B. in
1875. He has been connected with the
New York Times from 1870, was Ameri
can correspondent of the Standard of Lon
don, England, from 1881 to 1906, and is
now editorial writer on financial, economic,
and industrial topics for the New York
Times; and an occasional contributor to
other publications. His earlier work on
the Times was as reporter and legislative
correspondent at Albany, and in the latter
assignment he was associated with ex-
Congressman Howard Carroll and Ashley
W. Cole, recently state railroad commis
sioner. He performed particularly- notable
work in Albany at the time of Gov. Til-
den's fight against the Canal Ring. Resi
dence : 175 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn,
New York. Office address : The New
York Times, New York City.
BRADFORD, Edward G.:
United States judge;, born at Wilming
ton, Delaware, March 12, 1848; son of

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Hon. Edward G. Bradford and Mary
Alicia (Heyward) Bradford. He received
his preparatory education at the Delaware
Military Academy, and then entered Yale,
from which he was graduatea with the
degree of B.A. in 1868. He studied' law
and was admitted to the bar, May 9, 1870,
practicing at Wilmington, Delaware, until
appointed May 11, 1897, as United States
district judge for the District of Delaware.
Judge Bradford married at Wilmington,
Delaware, September 18, 1872, Eleuthera
P. du Pont. Address : Wilmington, Dela
ware. BRADFORD, Gamaliel:
Retired banker; born in Boston, January
15, 1831 ; son of Gamaliel Bradford and
Sophia Rice Bradford. He is the fifth of
his name and is descendant in the eighth
generation from William Bradford, govern
or of Plymouth Colony. He was graduat
es from Harvard as A.B. in the Class of
1849. He was ' a member of the banking
firm of Blake Brothers and Company, Bos
ton, from 1858 to 1868, and since the latter
year has been retired from active business,
devoting his attention largely to historical
and economic researches. Is author of a
two-volume work, The Lesson of Popular
Government, published by Macmillan in
1898, as well as various monographs and
contributions to reviews, etc. He is a
member of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, the Massachusetts Society of the
Cincinnati, the Massachusetts Society of
Mayflower Descendants (of which he was
the first governor). He is an Independent
in politics. Mr. Bradford married, at New-
buryport, Massachusetts, October 30, 1861,
Clara Crowninshield Kinsman who died in
1866, leaving children : Gamaliel Bradford,
Jr., and Charles K. Bradford who died in
1876. Address: 502 Beacon Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
BRADFORD, Gamaliel, Jr.:
Author; born in Boston, October 9, 1863;
son of Gamaliel Bradford and Clara (Kins
man) Bradford. He attended the public
schools of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and
was tutored privately for Harvard and

entered the class of 1886. After a few
months he was obliged to leave on account
of ill-health, and was therefore, not grad
uated. He has never engaged in any busi
ness or profession, and having some in
dependent means has devoted himself to
literature. He has published numerous
magazine articles and the volumes, Types
of American Character, 1895 ; A Pageant of
Life (Poems), 1904; The Private Tutor
(novel;, 1904; Between Two Masters
(novel), 1906. Mr. Bradford has spent
nearly two years at different times in the
parts of Europe more commonly visited.
He is a Democrat in politics. Mr. Brad
ford married at Wellesley, Massachusetts,
October -30, 1886, Helen Hubbard Ford,
and they have two children, Gamaliel
Bradford, 3d, born in 1888, and Sarah Rice
Bradford, born in 1892. Address: Well
esley Hills, Massachusetts.
BRADFORD, Gamaliel:
Rear- Admiral ; born in Maine; ap
pointed to United States Naval Acade
my, November 28, 1861. While at the
Naval Academy, served in the ships: John
Adams, Macedonian, Marion, America,
Marblehead, and Winnipeg. Graduated
June, 1865, number three, in a class of
fifty-four; Swatara, West Indian Squadron,
1865-6; watch officer and engineer. Pro
moted to ensign, December 1, 1866 ; Rhode
Island (flagship), North Atlantic Station,
1866, watch officer; Iroquois, Asiatic
Station, 1867-9; watch officer and navi
gator. Promoted to master, March 12,
1868. Promoted to lieutenant, March 26,
1869; Delaware (flagship), Asiatic Station,
1869-70, watch officer; Torpedo Station,
Newport, Rhode Island, 1872-3, under in
struction and instructor; Wabash (flag
ship), European Station, 1873, navigator;
Franklin (flagship), Eurpean Station,
1874-5, watch officer and navigator; in
structor in torpedo warfare, Torpedo Sta
tion, Newport, Rhode Island, 1875-6; Al
liance, European Station, 1877-80, execu
tive officer. Promoted to lieutenant-com
mander, November 30, 1878; instructor in
torpedo warfare, Torpedo Station, New
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ship), Asiatic Station, 1883-5, executive of
ficer; on special duty at Newport, Rhode
Island, 1885-7, preparing new Navy Regu
lations and organizing a Naval Electrical
Department; served as the first Naval In
spector of Electric Lighting; served as a
member of many technical Naval Boards;
detailed as assistant to the chief of Bureau
of Navigation, Navy Department, Novem
ber 1, 1887. Promoted to commander,
March 26, 1889; commanded the Benning
ton, 1891-3; served in the North Atlantic,
South Atlantic and European Squadrons ;
participated in the Columbus Celebrations
in Spain and Italy, 1892; in the naval re
view in the United States in 1893; served
as a member of the Board of Inspection
and Survey, 1893-6; served as a member
of many other technical boards. Com
manded the Montgomery, 1896-7, North
Atlantic Station; appointed Chief of Bu
reau of Equipment, Navy Department, with
the relative rank of commodore, Septem
ber 7, 1897; resigned commission as chief
of Bureau, April 21, '1898, and requested
service afloat, resignation not accepted;
served as chief of Bureau of Equipment
during Spanish War; served as a member
of the Naval Construction Board, while
chief of Bureau; appointed by President
William McKinley, Naval Attache of the
Paris Peace Commission, September, 1898.
Promoted to captain, March 3, 1899; ap
pointed a member of the General Board
on \Var Plans, Admiral George Dewey,
U. S. N., president, July, 1901. Reap
pointed chief of Bureau of Equipment by
President Theodore Roosevelt, December
27, 1901 ; resigned commission as chief of
Bureau, October 20, 1903, and requested
sea duty; ordered to command the battle
ship Illinois; detached from the command
of the Illinois, November 7, 1904, and or
dered to command the Atlantic training
squadron; promoted to rear-admiral No
vember 23, 1904, and ordered as command
er-in-chief of the Atlantic Training Squad
ron ; detached as commander-in-chief of the
Atlantic Training Squadron, April 1, 1905,
and ordered to command the Third Squad
ron of the Atlantic Fleet ; retired upon

reaching the age of sixty-two years, in ac
cordance with law, July 22, 1906; hauled
down flag as commander of the Third
Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, July 28,
1906.
BRADLEE, Henry G.:
Electrical engineer. He is president and
director of the Minneapolis General Elec
tric Company, the Jacksonville Electric
Light Company, and the Houghton County
Electric Light Company; vice-president and
director of the Jacksonville Electric Com
pany and the Houghton County Street
Railway Company. He is also second vice-
president of the Tampa Electric Company,
and director of the Blue Hill Street Rail
way Company, The Cape Breton Electric
Company, Limited; the Columbia Improve
ment Company, the Columbus Electric
Company, the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Brockton, Massachusetts ; the
Electric Light and Power Company of
Abington and Rockland, the Houston Elec
tric Company, the Key West Electric Com
pany, the Main Street Railroad Company,
the Pensacola Electric Company, the St.
Croix Falls Improvement Company of Min
nesota, the St. Croix Falls Improvement
Company of Wisconsin, and the Stone and
Webster Engineering Corporation. Ad
dress : 84 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.BRADLEY, Joseph Harley:
Manufacturer; born in Racine, Wiscon
sin, September 30, 1844; son of David and
Cynthia (Abbott) Bradley. He was ed
ucated in the Chicago public schools, and
became a member of the firm of Jones,
Ellinwood and Bradley, dealers in farming
implements and seeds, in 1865. In 1868 he
became the head of the firm of Bradley and
Banks, jobbers in farming implements, and
in 1872 was made secretary of the Furst
and Bradley Manufacturing Company, be
coming president in 1882, and since 1889
he has been president, succeeding his
father. The company has large works at
Bradley, Kankakee County, Illinois. He is
also president of Bradley, Clark and Com
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Company, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and of
Bradley, Anderson and Company, Kansas
City, Missouri. He is a director of the
Northern Trust Company. He takes a de
cided interest in matters of philanthrophy,
and is one of the directors of the Chicago
Relief and Aid Society, and was president
of the Citizens' Association in 1891. He is
a member of the Chicago Club, University
Club, Commercial (of which he was presi
dent in 1904), the Illinois Club of which
he was president from 1883 to 1885, and
the Union League Club of Chicago. He
married in 1872, Martha Peugeot of Brook
lyn, New York, and has four daughters.
Address : 24 Ritchie Court, Chicago, Illi
nois. BRADLEY, Thomas W. :
Member of Congress, and retired manu
facturer; born in April 6, 1844. He served
in the Union Army as private to captain
in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth New
York Volunteers. He was aide-de-camp to
Major-General Mott, Third Division, Se
cond Army Corps, and was awarded a Con
gressional medal of honor for gallantry
at Chancellorsville. He was brevetted
major of the United States Volunteers for
meritorious service during the campaign
terminating at Appomattox; was seriously
wounded at Gettysburg, again wounded at
the Wilderness, and again before Peters
burg. He was elected a member of the
General Assembly of New York, in 1876,
and was chairman of the Committee on
military affairs, and assistant inspector-
general of the National Guard. He was a
delegate to National Republican conven
tions, in 1892, 1896, and 1900, voting at
each convention for William McKinley.
He was elected as a Republican from the
Twentieth District of New York in 1902
to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelect
ed in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses, and is now serving
in the latter. He is a member of the
Chattanooga and Gettysburg Battlefields
Commission; is a companion of the first
class in the military order of the Loyal
Legion, and a member of the City Club
of Newburgh, New York, and the Army

.ind Navy Club of New York City. Ad
dress : Walden, New York.
BRADLEY, William H.:
Consular official; appointed consul at
Nice, July 1, 1889, he was appointed con
sul at Copenhagen,- August 13, 1892, but
declined, and he retired as consul at Nice,
December 1, 1893. He was appointed con
sul at Tunstall, July 17, 1879, consul at
Manchester June 26, 1903, and consul
general June 1, 1905. He was reappointed
consul June 22, 1906. Address : Man
chester, England.
BRADSTREET, George Flint:
Capitalist; born at Bradford, Massachu
setts, April 3, 1854; son of Justin Edward
and Almira (Ellis) Bradstreet. He was ed
ucated in the common and high schools, but
at the age of fifteen left school to enter the
packing house business with his father at
Haverhill, Mass. In 1885 he went to New
York City to assume the general manage
ment of a series of branch houses of the
G H: Hammond Company, of Chicago, and,
purchasing a large interest in these, or
ganized the corporation of Wheeler, Brad
street Company, at the same time contin
uing the management of the Hammond
Company consignors. In 1895 owing to
home interests, he disposed of the New
York business and with headquarters at
Boston, he was general Eastern superin
tendent for Armour & Company of Chi
cago, with forty-four branch houses and
consignees through New England under his
charge. After three years, broken down in
health on account of excessive activity, he
resigned from this position and spent his
time in looking after only his own real
estate and personal interests. In 1899 the
George F. Bradstreet Company was organ
ized, Mr. Bradstreet becoming president
and treasurer. This company do a bank
ing business, buying and selling stocks and
bonds arid also act as transfer agent for
corporations. About the same time he be
came connected with this company he ac
cepted the directorship and became secre
tary-treasurer of the New England Gold
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ing a successful business. He later became
treasurer and director, and is now also
secretary of the Aztec Gold and Copper
Mining Company, operating in Colorado.
He also organized the New Era Machinery
Company, becoming its president and as
sistant treasurer and general manager, and
is director of the Ellis Manufacturing
Company and of several other corporations.
He is a member of a number of Masonic
bodies, among them being Mt. Vernon
Lodge of F. and A. M., of Maiden, Mass.,
The Royal Arch Chapter of Maiden, Mel
rose Council of Maiden, Beauseant Com-
mandery of Knights Templar of Maiden, the
Aleppo Templar A. A. of the Mystic
Shrine, of Boston, the Order of the Eastern
Star (past patron). He is also Supreme
Lieutenant-Governor of the United Order
of Pilgrim Fathers and a member of the
Bostonia Society. He is president of the
Metaphysical Club and a member of the
Congregational, and Art Collectors' Club
of Boston. He was married at Bradford,
Mass., December 23, 1874, to Julia Gertrude
Kimball and has three daughters, Augusta
Warren, Mary Ella, Elsie Belle. Resi
dence: Fellsway East, Maiden, Mass.
Business address : 624-627 Kimball Bldg.,
18 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.
BRADWELL, James Bolesworth:
Lawyer ; born in Loughborough, England,
April 16, 1828; son of Thomas Bradwell
and Elizabeth (Gutridge) Bradwell. When
he was sixteen months old his family left
England for America, the voyage taking
forty-four days. They remained at Utica,
New York, a few years, and then removed
to Jacksonville, Illinois, early in 1833. The
next year they again moved, going to Chi
cago and soon after settled on a farm at
what is now Wheeling, on the Desplaines
River, near Chicago, occupying a log cabin
which was the first building in that village.
His first education was secured in an old
log school house and later he went to Wil
son's Academy, Chicago, and later was at
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, leaving
in his sophomore year. He worked his way
through the years at college and afterward

until his admission to the bar as a journey
man in various trades, and he was second
lieutenant in the Illinois Militia in 1848. He
married, May 18, 1852, Myra Colby, and a
few months afterward they went to Mem
phis, Tennessee, where they taught school
during one winter. He was admitted to
the Tennessee bar September 30, 1854, and
to the Illinois bar January 3, 1855. He
was county judge of Cook County, Illinois
(of which Chicago is the county-seat), for
eight years and a member of the House of
Representatives of Illinois for four years.
He introduced into the Legislature the bill
which is now the law making women eligi
ble to all school offices. He was an ardent
Abolitionist, and helped many a runaway
slave on his road to liberty. His wife, Mrs.
Myra Bradwell, was a lawyer and the
founder and until her death editor of the
Chicago Legal News. Their son, Thomas
Bradwell, is a lawyer, as . is also their
daughter, Bessie Bradwell Helmer, and she
is now editor of the Chicago Legal News,
and her husband, Frank A.' Helmer, is also
a lawyer. Judge Bradwell has always been a
strong advocate of equal suffrage, and pre
sided at Cleveland, at the organization of
the American Woman's Suffrage Associa
tion, was president of the Chicago Press
Club, and of the Chicago Rifle Club. He is
a member of the American Bar Association,
was president of the Chicago Bar Associa
tion and of the Illinois State Bar Associa
tion ; was one of the organizers of the Chi
cago Soldiers' Home and is now its presi
dent; was chairman of the Arms and
Trophy department of the Northwestern
Sanitary Commission and Soldiers' Home
Fair in 1865, and one of the founders of
the Union League Club of Chicago, presi
dent of _the board of directors the first
year and the first man to sign the roll of
membership. He was president of the Chi
cago Photographic Society and was chair
man of the Photographic Congress Auxil
iary' of the World's Columbian Exposition.
He is a Republican in politics and a Spirit
ualist in religion. Judge Bradwell has taken
the thirty-third and last degree in Masonry,
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Council with its Grand East in Boston, and
also an honorary member of the Ancient
Ebor Preceptory at York, England. His
favorite recreation is rifle shooting. Resi
dence: 1428 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Office address: no and 112 Clark Street,
Chicago.
BRADY, Anthony Nicholas:
Capitalist; born in Lille, France, August
22, 1843. He came to the United States
with his parents in childhood, and attend
ed school until thirteen years old. He
opened a tea store in j-i.jany, New York,
in 1864, and afterward added other stores
unin he has practical control of large gran
ite quarries, and became largely interested
in gas and electric lighting corporations
in Albany, Troy, Chicago, -,ew York, and
other cities, and in traction lines in Al
bany, Troy, New York City, and elsewhere.
He is one of the organizers of the Metro
politan Traction Company of New York,
which put in operation the Columbus Ave
nue and Lexington Avenue a.._ Broadway
Systems. It was about this time that he
made his first impression in Wall Street as
an organizer. The Providence, Rhode
Island, street railway were in the market,
and they were brought, almost as a matter
of course to Mr. Brady and Mr. Olcott.
Three days after the proposition has been
submitted Mr. Brady returned to New
\ork from ari inspection of the property
and advised his associates to go into the
deal. The contract, involving an expendit
ure of thirteen million dollars, was ex
ecuted in less than ten days, and under the
able management that was immediately in
stituted proved an immensely profitable in
vestment. About ten years ago he became
active in the work of reorganizing what
is now known as the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, and is now chairman of
the Board of Directors, and he has been
the moving spirit in Washington, Phila
delphia and other large cities in these lines
of enterprise. He is a director of many
financial institutions and vice-president of
the People's Gas Light and Coke Company.
Politically, Mr. Brady has always been
identified with the Democratic Party,

though he has now followed its financial
policy as announced in some of its recent
national platforms. He was a friend and in
timate associate of Daniel Manning, William
C. Whitney, Roswell P. Flower and many
other men distinguished in finance and
politics. He is a member of the Down
Town, New York Athletic, and Manhattan
Clubs of New York. He married Marcia
A. Myer, and they have three children,
Nicholas F. Brady, who was graduated
from Yale in 1899, James C. Brady and
Mabel Brady. Residence: 411 State
Street, Albany, New York; (summer)
Ocean Crest, West End, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 54 Wall Street, New York City.
BRADY, Cyrus Townsend:
Clergyman, author; born at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, December 20, 1861 ; son of
Jasper Ewing and Harriet Cora (Town-
send) Brady. He was graduated at the
U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1883,
but did not enter the Naval service, taking
up work on various railroads, instead, and
studying for the ministry. He studied theo
logy under Bishop Worthington, of Ne
braska. The degree of LL.D. was confer
red upon him by St. John's College, Ann
apolis, jn 1902. He was ordered deacon of
the Episcopal Church in 1889, becoming a
priest in 1890. Until 1895 he occupied sev
eral missionary stations and rectorates in
Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado, and was
also archdeacon of Kansas. In that year
he was made archdeacon of Pennsylvania,
which position he filled for four years, until
his appointment to St. Paul's Church, Over-
brook, Pa. Here he officiated until 1902,
resigning his pastorate to give his time en
tirely to literary work. He resided in
Brooklyn, New York, until early in 1906,
when he was called td the rectorate of
Trinity Church, Toledo, O., and went West
to accept that pulpit, which he still oc
cupies. During the Spanish War, Dr. Brady
was chaplain of the First Regiment of
Pennsylvania Infantry, and is member of
the Order of the Spanish War. He is also
member of the Sons of the Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars, Society of For
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Political and Social Science; of the Na
tional Arts Club of New York, and the
Toledo Club. He has traveled extensively
throughout the United States and Canada.
In politics he is a Democrat. Dr. Brady
is the author of a number of novels, his
torical and contemporary, and of juvenile
books of historical interest, as well as of
several authoritative histories of the pio
neer' days. He is a frequent contributor to
the magazines. He is author of: For Love
of Country, 1898; American Fights and
Fighters, Simes, 1900; Commodore Paul
Jones, 1901 ; When Blades are Out and
Love's Afield, 1901 ; Stephen Decatur, 1902 ;
The Southerners, 1903 ; . Indian Fights and
Fighters, 1904 ; The Conquest of the South
west, 1905; The True Andrew Jackson,
1906, etc. He was married, first, to Sidney
Guthrie (deceased), and, second, to Mary
Barrett. He has six children : Cyrus
Townsend, Jr. (20); Elizabeth (19); Sid
ney (16) ; Margaret (14) ; Katherine (12) ;
Barrett (7). Residence: 2256 Collingwood
Avenue, Toledo, Ohio.
BRADY, Jasper Ewing:
Financier; born at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, September 12, 1866; son of Jasper
Ewing Brady and H. Cora (Townsend)
Brady. He was a student for three years
in the Kansas State Agricultural College
at Manhattan, Kansas, and was graduated
from the United States Infantry and
cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas in 1895. He began life as a tele
graph operator working in various capac
ities all over the country. He enlisted in
the Navy in 1000, served eight months and
was honorably discharged. He enlisted' in
the United States Army in 1887, and serv
ed as an enlisted man two years, and after
that as a commissioned officer until 1899,
.resigning «.;> captain. He saw much service
and had a distinguished record. He was
commissioned as lieutenant-colonel of the
'1 wenty-third Regiment of the New York
National Guard by Governor Theodore
Roosevelt. In 1899 he entered the in
surance work as manager and superintend
ent of several large companies, and in 1906
was established in . fi'nancial business in

Chicago, handling stocks, bonds and invest
ment securities. He is president and dir
ector of the Jasper E. Brady Company
(incorporated), and a director of the Kan
sas Union Traction Company. He is a Re
publican in politics. His travels have ex
tended to all parts of the world. Mr.
Brady is a Mason, Knight of Pythias
and a member of the Chicago Yacht and
Press Clubs of Chicago, and the Mercantile
Club of St. Louis. He is author of : Tales
of the Telegraph, and On Secret Service,
and many miscellaneous writings for vari
ous newspapers and magazines and is es
pecially prominent in writing military re
views. He married in Chicago, January 31,
1906, Lillian Flower Miller. Residence:
647 Grove Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 122 Monroe Street, Chicago, Il
linois.
BRADY, John J.:
Jurist; elected in November, 1906, judge
of the Supreme Court of New York for
the First District, for the term expiring De
cember 31, 1920. He is a Democrat in
politics. Address : 2395 Valentine Avenue,
New York City.
BRAIN ARD, David Legge:
Lieutenant-colonel, United States Army;
born at Norway, Herkimer County, New
York, December 21, 1856. Afer attending
the State Normal School at Cortland, New
York, he entered the United States Army
as a private, September 18, 1876, and later
was promoted to corporal and sergeant,
and participated in the Sioux, Bannock
and Nez Perce Indian campaigns, 1877 to
1878. He was wounded in the face and
right hand in the fight with hostile Sioux
Indians at Little Muddy Creek, Montana,
May 7, 1877; and was detailed for duty,
with the Howgate Arctic Exploring Ex
pedition, in 1880. In 1881 he joined the
Lady Franklin Bay Arctic Expedition,
under Lieutenant (now General) A. W.
Greely, serving with it three years; was
associated with the late Lieutenant Lock-
wood in the exploration of the interior of
Grinnell Land and the northwest coast of
Greenland ; and -on May 13, 1882, reached
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by any nation, namely, latitude 83° 24'
30" N. He was one of the seven survivors
rescued at Cape Sabine by Lieutenant
Commander (now Rear Admiral) W. S.
Schley, United States Navy, in June, 1884.
Upon his return to the United States he
was transferred as sergeant to the Signal
Service; later commissioned second lieu
tenant, Second United States Cavalry "for
distinguished and meritorious services in
connection with the Arctic Expedition,
1881-1884". He was promoted first lieu
tenant, August, 1893; captain Subsistence
Department, October, 1896; and in De
cember, 1897, was detailed for duty on the
Alaska Relief Expedition for the destitute
miners at Dawson City; promoted to lieu
tenant-colonel Subsistence Department,
United States' Volunteers, May, 1898;
ordered to the Philippine Islands as chief
commissary of the military forces, serving
on the staffs of Major-General Merritt and
Major-General Otis ; promoted colonel and
chief commissary of United States Volun
teers, November, 1898; promoted major,
Subsistence Department, U. S. Army, Feb
ruary, 1900; promoted lieutenant-colonel,
Army, August 28, 1905. Lieutenant-Colo
nel Brainard is a fellow of the American
Geographical Society; member of the Na
tional Geographical Society, the Arctic
Club, the Explorers' Club, the New York
Club, New York Athletic Club and Army
and Navy Club, etc. He was awarded the
Back Grant of the Royal Geographical
Society for 1885, "for special services in
connection with his work of exploration in
the Arctic Regions." Address : Care of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.
BRALEY, Henry King:
Jurist; born at Rochester, Massachusetts,
March 17, 1850 ; son of Samuel Tripp Braley
and Mary A. (King) Braley. He was ed
ucated in the public schools and at Roch
ester Academy in his native place, and
afterward at Pierce Academy at Middle-
boro, Massachusetts, and he received the
honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth
College in 1902. He was admitted to the
Plymouth County bar in 1873, and practic
ed law at Fall River, Massachusetts, until

1891. He was elected city solicitor of Fall
River in 1874 and mayor in 1882 and 1883,
was appointed examiner for the bar of
Bristol County in 1890 by the Supreme
Judicial Court, and in 1891 became as
sociate justice of the Superior Court of
.Massachusetts by appointment of Governor
Kussell, holding that office until 1902, when
he was appointed by Governor Crane to
his present office as associate justice of
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu
setts. Judge Braley is a Democrat in his
political views, and a Unitarian in his
religious affiliation. He is a member of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science, of the University and Union
Clubs of Boston and the Quequechan Club
of ¦ Fall River.. Judge Braley married at
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, April 26, 1875,
Caroline Ward Leach. Address: Fall
River, Massachusetts.
BRANCH, James R. :
Secretary of the American Bankers' As
sociation; born at Petersburg, Virginia,
December 14, 1863; son of Colonel James
R. and Martha Louise (Patteson) Branch.
He removed to Richmond, Virginia, with
his parents in 1864, and was educated in
the schools of General Robert Ransom,
and John P. McGuire and Colonel Gordon
McCabe and afterward at Colonel Thomas
Carter's Pampatike Academy and Richmond
College. He began his business career
with the Merchant's National Bank, of
Richmond in 1881 and continued until
1885, then was engaged in the stock-
raising business until 1890, then returned
to the Merchants' National Bank, taking
charge of their out-of-town business which
increased largely under his management.
He was appointed by President Grover
Cleveland as national bank examiner in
1895, and has been secretary of the
American Bankers' Association since
1895. He was a member of the City
Council of Richmond, Virginia, in 1895.
He served from private to lieutenant-
colonel in the First Regiment of
Virginia Cavalry and was major of the
Seventh United States Volunteer Infantry,
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can War. Colonel Branch is director and
president of the Branchland Coal Com
pany. He is a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution, the United
Spanish War Veterans, the Sigma Chi
fraternity, the Elks, the Odd Fellows,
the Southern Society of New York and
Virginians. His chief recreations are
athletics, fishing and hunting. He is
a member of the New York Athletic, Man
hattan, Chess, and Prospect Gun Clubs.
Colonel Branch married, at Richmond,
Virginia, October 28, 1885, Mary Lillian
Hubball, and they have one daughter, Mary
Cook Branch, born in 1888. Address :
Hanover Bank Building, New York City.
BRAND, Charles John:
Botanist and plant physiologist; born in
Lac-qui-Parle County, Minnesota, October
24, 1879. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Minnesota in 1902, was assistant
curator of botany in the Field Columbian
Museum in Chicago from 1902 to 1904, when
he was appointed assistant physiologist in
the United States Department of Agricul
ture. He is now in charge of life history in
vestigations of alfalfa and clover, carrying
on alfalfa investigations in California,
Oregon, Utah, Montana, the Dakotas,
Arizona, Texas, New York, Vermont,
Maryland and Kentucky, and in the Cana
dian provinces of Ontario and Saskatche
wan, and clover investigations not only
in the present clover belt, but also in Ore
gon, Washington, the Dakotas and Nebras
ka. It is the object of these investigations
to study the life history of alfalfa and red
clover with reference to their heat, moisture,
aeration, nutrition, pollination and cultural
requirements, with a view to the discovery
of ' drought-resistant varieties suitable for
the semi-arid regions of 'the west, hardy
varieties for the colder sections of the
country, and a general adaptation of var
ieties of seed for the different sections for
the larger cultivation of these crops. He
is a fellow of the Minnesota Botanical
Society, and a member of the Botanical So
ciety of Washington. Residence : The Bed
ford, Washington. Official address: De
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

BRAND, Horace L.:
Mechanical engineer; born in Chicago,
Illinois, October 6, 1868;" son of Michael
and Philippine (Darmstdetter) Brand. He
was educated first in public schools and
spent two years under private tutors prior
to entering the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1886. From this he was
graduated in 1891, having received the de-
gees of .Bachelor of Science and Mechanic
al Engineer. Mr. Brand did not follow
an engineeing career, however, but even .
while at the institute engaged in success
ful business enterprises. During his vaca
tion time in 1888 he purchased a retail
butcher store and upon opening of college
two and a half months later sold it at a
profit. Upon finishing college in 1891, he
entered the Chicago Iron Works as .drafts
man but the failure of the company brought
an end to this connection in a year's time.
In 1892 he became owner of a table fac
tory in Chicago, but this he sold in 1894.
For about a year he was engaged in real
estate operations. During 1896 and 1897
he, with several others, built a modern
malt house, which was sold during 1897
to the American Malting Company. After
the death of his father in 1897, the large
orchards and vineyards at Brandsville,
Howell County, came under his control,
and until 1900 he was president and man
ager of this enterprise. In the spring of
that year he turned this over to his young
er brother in order to operate a rectifying
plant, opening a fruit preserving factory
and engaging in the sale of wines and liq
uors, the products of the Brandsville prop
erties. In this business he Is still engaged,
and at the present time he is president,
treasurer and general manager of the
Brand Brothers Company, secretary of the
Brandsville Fruit Farm Company, vice-
president of Brand Brewing Company, and
treasurer of. the Illinois Publishing Com
pany, publishers of the Illinois Staats Zei-
tung and the Chicago Freie Presse. He is
a member of the Executive Committee of
the United Societies for Local Self-Gov-
ernment, a semi-political organization of
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German Historical Society, and the North
western Alumni Association of his alma
mater, and is a Mason. While at college,
he was a charter member of the Phi Beta
Epsilon fraternity and the president of the
Engineering Society of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is a Demo
crat (Gold Wing) in politics and is a
member of the German Lutheran Church.
His chief recreations are automobiling,
horseback riding, golf and bowling. He is
a member of the Germania, Illinois, Ath
letic, Exmoor Country, and Chicago Auto
mobile Clubs and of the Schweitzer Singers
Society. He married in Chicago, in July.
1897, Louise M. Keller, and by this union
there were two children : Erna Louise,
born in 1900, and Alma Philippine (deceas
ed). Address: Brand Brewing Company,
Chicago, Illinois.
BRANDEGEE, Frank Bosworth:
United States Senator ; born in New Lon
don, Connecticut, July 8, 1864; son of
Augustus Brandegee and Nancy Christina
(Bosworth) Brandegee. He was gradua
ted from Yale as B.A. in 1885, studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1888. He
has since then continued in the practice of
law at New London, Connecticut, where
he is now a member of the law firm of
Brandegee, Noyes and Brennan. He was
a representative in the General Assembly
of Connecticut in 1888, and for ten years
was' corporation counsel of the City of
New London. He was a delegate to the Re
publican National Conventions "of 1888,
1892, 1900 and 1904. He was speaker of
the Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1899, and in 1902 he was elected from
the Third Connecticut District as a repre
sentative to the second session of the Fifty-
seventh Congress to fill a vacancy, and was
reelected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses. On May 9, 1905, he was
elected to the United States Senate to fill
the unexpired term of the late Orville H.
Piatt, expiring March 3, 1909. Senator
Brandegee is a member of the University
Club of New York, the Metropolitan Club
of Washington, D. C, Hartford Club of
Hartford, Union League Club of New

Haven and Thames Club of New London,
Connecticut. Address: New London, Con
necticut.BRANDEIS, Louis Dembitz:
Lawyer; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
November 13, 1856; son of Adolph Bran-
deis and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis.
After a preparatory education in private
and public schools, he studied at the An-
nen Realschule at Dresden, Germany, from
1873 to 1875. Returning to the United
States in 1875, he became a law student
at Harvard University where he was grad
uated in 1877, with the degree of LL.B
and took a post-graduate course (honor
ary). The degree of A.M. was conferred
upon him by Harvard in 1891, and he was
in 1895 made honorary member of the
Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa.
From 1876 to 1879 he practiced law in
St. Louis, and in 1879 formed a partner
ship with Samuel D. Warren and practic
ing in Boston, Massachusetts, under the
-rm name of Warren and Brandeis. In
1897 the firm Brandeis, Dunbaf and Nut
ter was formed, which has a large practice
in Boston. Mr. Brandeis is a Democrat
in politics. He is a member of the Union,
Boston City and Exchange Clubs of Bos
ton, the Harvard and City Clubs of New
-ork, the Norfolk Country Club and the
Dedham Polo Club. He was married at
New York City, March 23, 1891, to Alice
Goldmark and they have two daughters,
Susan and Elizabeth Brandeis. Residence:
6 Otis Place, Boston. Office address: 161
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BRANNON, Henry:
Jurist; born at Winchester, Virginia,
xiovember 26, 1837; son of Robert Bran-
non and Catherine Brannon. He was
reared on the farm, and after a careful
preparatory education entered the Univers
ity of Virginia, from which he was grad
uated in 1857. He then engaged in the
study of law and was admitted to the bar,
practicing in West Virginia until 1881. He
was prosecuting attorney of Lewis County
from i860 to 1864, member of the West
Virginia Legislature in 1870 and 1871 and
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Court. Since 1888 he has held his present
office as judge of the Supreme Court of
West Virginia, his present term expiring
in 1912. Judge Brannon is a Republican in
politics. He is author of a Treatise on
Rights and Privileges Under the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. He married at" Weston,
1858, Hetta J. Arnold. Address : Weston,
Lewis County, West Virginia.
BRANTLEY, William Gordon:
Lawyer and congressman; born at Black-
shear, Pierce County, Georgia, September
18, i860. He was educated in the common
schools at his native place, and was two
years at the University of Georgia. He
read law with ex-Congressman John C.
Nicholls, and was admitted to the bar in
October, 1861, practicing at Blackshear un
til 1889, when he removed to Brunswick,
Georgia. He represented Pierce County
in the Georgia House of Representatives in
1884 and 1885, represented the Third Sena
torial District in the Georgia Senate in
1886 and 1887, and was elected solicitor-gen
eral (prosecuting attorney) of Brunswick
Circuit in 1888 for a term of four years, and
we reelected in 1892. In 1896 he was elec
ted from the Eleventh Georgia District to
the Fifty-fifth Congress, and has since been
biennially elected, and is now serving in the
Sixtieth Congress, expiring March 3, 1909.
He is a Democrat in politics. Address :
Brunswick, Georgia.
BRASTOW, Lewis Orsmond:
Professor in Yale University; born in
Brewer, Maine, March 23, 1834; son of
Deodat Brastow and Eliza (Blake) Bras-
tow. He fitted for college under private
tutors ; was graduated from Bowdoin Col
lege in 1857, and from Bangor Theological
Seminary in i860. He received the degree
of D.D. from Bowdoin College, and A.M.
from Yale University. He was pastor of
the South Congregational Church at St.
Johnbury, Vermont, from 1861 to 1873:
and of the First Congregational Church of
Burlington, Vermont, from 1873 to, 1884.
He was professor of Practical Theology
in Yale Divinity School from 1885 to 1907;

and is now professor errieritus in Yale
University. Dr. Brastow was Chaplain of
the Twelfth Regiment of Vermont Volun
teer Infantry in 1862 and 1863, and a
member of the Vermont Constitutional
Convention in 1870. He is an Independent
in politics. He traveled in Europe and
Palestine, Egypt, and Greece in 1867.
Author of two volumes on subjects belong
ing to the department of practical theology
and of many articles in theological and edu
cational magazines. He married at Paines-
yille, Ohio, May 15, 1872, Martha Brewster
Ladd, and they have three children : Lewis
Ladd, born in 1874, Edward Thayer, born
in 1876, and George Brewster, born in 1882,
Residence : 146 Cottage Street, New
Haven, Connecticut. Office address : Yale
Station, New Haven, Connecticut.
BRATTON, Theodore Du Bose:
Bishop of Mississippi; born at Winns-
boro, South Carolina, * November 11, 1862,
son of John and Elizabeth Porcher (Du
Bose) Bratton. He was educated at the
University of the South, graduating from
the theological course in 1887 and receiving
the degree of B.D. in 1889. He received
the degree of D.D. from his Alma Mater
in 1901. He took orders as deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1887 and was ordain
ed priest in 1888 by Bishop Capers. Prior
to entering the ministry, he was missionary
at York, Lancaster and Chester, South
Carolina, becoming in 1888, rector of the
Church of the Advent. Spartensburg, North
Carolina. After eleven years af activity,
he became rector of St. Mary's School at
Raleigh, North Carolina, continuing until
['903 when he became Bishop of Missis
sippi. He was consecrated by Bishops
Dudley, Weed, Nelson, Gailor, Johnston
and Beckwith. On July 17, 1888, he was
married at Tallahassee, Florida, to Lucy
Beverly Randolph, now deceased. In Aug
ust, 1906, lie was married to Mrs. Ivy
Perrin Goss, of Abbeville, S. C. He is
author of The Ministry of the Laity;
Christian Education; The Church's Duty.
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BRAWLEY, William H.:
United States judge; born at Chester,
South Carolina, May 13, 1841 ; son of H.
C. Brawley and Harriet R. (Foote) Braw-
ley. After a careful preparatory education
he entered South Carolina College and was
graduated therefrom in i860, with the de
gree of A.B., and that college conferred
upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1905.
He studied law after the war between the
States and engaged in practice at Chester,
South Carolina, practicing there until . his
removal to Charleston in 1874. He became
prominent in the political activities of the
State as a Democrat, was solicitor of the
Sixth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina
from 1868 to 1874, was a member of the
South Carolina Legislature from 1880 to
1890, and in 1890 was elected to the Fifty-
second Congress. He was reelected to the
Fifty-third Congress in 1892, serving until
appointed by President Cleveland in
February, 1894, as United States judge
for the District of South Carolina. He
Is a Democrat in politics and an
Episcopalian - in religious views. He
is a member of the University Club
of New York, the . Metropolitan Club
of Washington, District Columbia, tne
Columbia Club of Columbia, South Caro
lina and all the clubs of Charleston, South
Carolina. Address : Charleston, South
Carolina.
BRAXTON, Allen Caperton:
Lawyer; born at Union, Monroe County,
West Virginia, February 6, 1862; son of
Dr. Tomlin Braxton and Mary (Caperton)
Braxton. After receiving a preparatory
education at a private academy, he studied
law in lawyers office and at University of
Virginia and, passing the required examina
tions, was admitted to the bar of Virginia
in 1883, and began to practice at Staunton,
Virginia. He was for several years Com
monwealth's attorney and city attorney of
his home city. During the year 1901-1902,
he was delegate to the Constitutional Con
vention of Virginia, when the Constitution
of that State was revised, and served as
chairman of the Committee on Corpora
tions and as a member of several others.

Mr. Braxton is an authority on corpora
tions, writing several articles on the sub
ject and formulating the powers and lay
ing the foundation of the Virginia Corpora
tion Commission for the purpose of regu
lating and controlling railways and all
other public service corporations. He was
a delegate at large for Virginia to the
National Democratic Convention at St.
Louis in 1904; and is President of the
State Bar Association of Virginia and of
the Business Men's Club of Richmond,
Virginia. Address : Richmond, Virginia.
BRAZER, Clarence Wilson:
Architect; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, March 13, 1880; son of Christopher
Brazer and Julia Wilson (Stackhouse)
Brazer. He was educated at Asbury
Park (New Jersey) High School, the
Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, four years
in various Philadelphia offices and four
years in the office of Cass Gilbert and the
Society of Beaux Arts Architects Ateliers,
in New York City. He has been engaged in
practice as an architect in New York City
since 1902, and has traveled and studied
extensively in Europe. Mr.- Brazer is a
member of the T-Square Club of Phila
delphia, and of the Architectural League
of New York City. He married in Phila
delphia April 25, 1905, Mary Ella Menden-
hall. Address: 1 133 Broadway, New York
City.BRAY, John P.:
American consul-general; born in Hen
derson, Sibley County, Minnesota, on
February 14, 1859. His parents migrated
from the State of New York in the year
1855. He received a high school educa
tion and graduated from the Commercial
Department of the St. Cloud College. He
went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, in
1876, and was one of the pioneers of the
Red River Valley. He engaged in the
mercantile business, but was made the first
county auditor of Grand Forks County.
He served in this position for three terms
(six .years). When the State was taken
into the Union he was elected its first
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Before the expiration of his term he was
appointed postmaster at Grand Forks by
President Harrison. In addition to these
positions Mr. Bray was chairman of the
commission appointed by the Legislature
to apportion and divide the public assets
between the States of North and South
Dakota. He was appointed by President
McKinley on June 30, 1897, consul-general
at Melbourne, and re-appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1902. Address : Mel
bourne, Australia.
BRECKENRIDGE, Ralph W.:
Lawyer; born at Carlisle, Ohio, March
14, i860; son of Charles F. Breckenridge
and Mary Jane (Foster) Breckenridge.
He is of ojd New England stock, his an
cestor, James Breckenridge, having played
a prominent part in founding the State of
Vermont. His paternal grandmother was
a Morton, having descended from Stephen
Hopkins, who came over in the Mayflower,
and from George Morton, who came over
in the Ann. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Northern Iowa, whither his
father removed at the close of the Civil
War. He began the study of law at Cres-
co, Iowa ; was admitted to .the bar in 1881,
and located in Omaha that year. He was
first associated with William R. Morris,
now deceased, under the firm name of
Morris & Breckenridge. For more than
twenty years he has been associated with
Mr. Charles J. Greene, and is now a mem
ber of the law firm of Greene, Breckenridge
& Matters. Mr. Breckenridge is a promi
nent member of the Nebraska State Bar As
sociation and was its president in the year
1905 ; he is also a member of the Executive
Committee of the American Bar Associa
tion, and has been chairman of its stand
ing Committee on Insurance since that
committee was created. In 1904 he was a
delegate from Nebraska to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St.
Louis, Missouri. He has made a special
study of the legal problems related to In
surance, upon which he has lectured at
Yale, at the University of Nebraska, and at
various other places. He is a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution, and

of the Connecticut ¦ Society of Mayflower
Descendants. He married, September 19,
1888, Harriet A. Allen, of Burlington, Ver
mont, and has three chi'dren : Almyra
Morton, born" in 1889 ; Warren Al'en, born
in 1893, and Katherine, born in 1900. Res
idence : 1310 South Thirtieth Avenue,
Omaha. Address: 711 New York Building,
Omaha, Nebraska.
BRECKINRIDGE, Joseph Cabell:
Major-general United States Army, re
tired; born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jan
uary 14, 1842; son of Rev. Robert Jeffer
son Breckinridge, D.D. He removed with
his parents to Lexington, Kentucky, in his
boyhood, attended Centre College, Ken
tucky and the University of Virginia, but
left in 1861 to join the Union Army, in
which he served on the staffs of Generals
Nelson and Thomas. He was appointed
second lieutenant in the Second United
States Artillery, April 14, 1862, for gallantry
at Mill Springs, Kentucky, and he com
manded Light Battery F, of the Second Ar
tillery, at Atlanta. He was promoted first
lieutenant August 1, 1862, was graduated
from the United States Artillery . School in
1871 ; commissioned captain June 17, 1874,
major and acting inspector-general January
19, 1881, lieutenant colonel and inspector
general February 5, 1885, colonel and in
spector-general September 22, 1885, and
brigadier-general and inspector-general,
January 30, 1889. He was commissioned
major-general of volunteers, May 4, 1898,
and served in the Santiago campaign, and
his horse was shot under him July 2, 1898.
He commanded a separate army of forty-
four thousand men at Chicamauga, Georgia,
in August, 1898. He was honorably dis
charged from the volunteer service Novem
ber 30, 1898, was promoted major-general
in the United States Army, April 11, 1903,
and retired April 12, 1903, at his own re
quest after forty years' service as a com
missioned officer. Major GeneraJ Breckin
ridge is president general of the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revo
lution; vice-president of the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland, and of the
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vice-commander general of the Society of
American Wars. He is a companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States; a member of the Military
Order of Foreign Wars ; the Naval and
Military Order of the Spanish-American
War, and the Society of the Army of San
tiago de Cuba. He married at Lexington,
Kentucky, July 20, 1868, Louise Ludlow
Dudley. Residence : The Portner, Wash
ington, D. C. Permanent address:' War
Department, Washington, D. C.
BREEN, William P:
Lawyer; born at Terre Haute, Indiana,
February 13, 1859; son of James and Mar
garet (Dunne) Breen. After a preparatory
education in the schools of Fort Wayne,
where his parents had removed in 1865, he
entered the University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana, where, taking'
the academic course, he was grad
uated in 1877 with the degree of
A.B., taking that of A.M. two years
later. The degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by his Alma Mater in 1902. After
his graduation in 1877 he took up the
study of law and was admitted to the bar
of Indiana in 1879 and established himself
in practice in his home city. He is now
senior member of the law firm of Breen
and Morris, of Fort Wayne. Mr. Breen
is president of the People's Trust & Sav
ings Company. In 1904 he was sent as
delegate to the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists held at Saint Louis. He
is a prominent member of the American
Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar
Association. He was married at Fort
Wayne, May 24, 1884, to Odelia Phillips.
Address : Fort Wayne, Indiana.
BRENNAN, James Francis:
Lawyer; born at Peterborough, New
Hampshire, March 31, 1853 ; son of Hubert
Brennan and 'Mary (Mahoney) Brennan.
He was educated in the Academy at Peter
borough, New Hampshire, and graduated
and received the degree of Bachelor of
Law at the University of Maryland, Balti
more, Maryland. He engaged successfully
in the practice of law and has had charge

of very many important law suits. He is
one of three Trustees of the New Hamp
shire State Library, and a member of the
State Board of Charities and Correction.
He has held several town offices and he
is president of several of the corporations
of Peterborough, New Hampshire. He Is
a Democrat in politics and a Catholic in
religion. Address : Peterborough, New
Hampshire.
BRENT, Charles Henry:
Bishop of the Philippine Islands ; born at
New Castle, Ontario, April 9, 1862; son of
Rev. Canon Henry and Sophia Frances
(Cummings) Brent. He studied at Trinity
College, Toronto, graduating with the de
gree of B.A. in 1884 and receiving that of
M.A. in 1889 and D.D. in 1901. He was or
dered deacon in the Church of England in
1886, and ordained to the priesthood the
following year by Bishop Sweatham of
Toronto. He became assistant at St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, Buffalo, New York, in
1887 and of St. John the Evangelist, Boston,
Massachusetts, the following year. He was
associate rector of St. Stephen's Church,
Boston, 1891 to 1901, in which latter year
he became rector of the same church. He
was elected Bishop of the Philippine Is
lands and consecrated bishop in 1901. He
was on the editorial staff of The Church
man (New York) from 1897 to 1900.
Bishop Brent is author of : With God in the
World ; the Consolations of the Cross ; The
Splendor of the Human Body; Adventure
for God; Liberty and Other Sermons
(Longmans) ; With God in Prayer
(Jacobs). He was Paddock lecturer at the
General Theological Seminary, New York,
in 1904, and William Belden Noble lectur
er at Harvard University in 1907. He was
a member of the Philippine Commission in
1903 and 1904. Address : 253 Calle Noza-
leda, Manila, P. I.
BRETT, George Piatt:
President of the Macmillan Company;
born in London, England, in 1858; son of
George E. Brett and Elizabeth (Piatt)
Brett. He was educated in schools in Lon
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York. He became connected in 1879 with
The Macmillan Company of which he is
now president, and is also a director of the
Macmillan Publishing Company, of Canada.
He is a director of the American Publish
ers' Association. Mr. Brett is an occas
ional contributor to magazines, chiefly on
professional topics. He is a member of the
New York Chamber of Commerce ; the
American Geographical Society; the Ameri
can Institute Archeology; the American
Association for the Advancement • of
Science, and is also a member of the Cen
tury Association, and the Players', Grolier,
New York Athletic, National Arts, and
National Democratic Clubs of New York
City, and the National Club of London,
England. He married in New York City,
in 1891, Marie Louise Tostevin. Residence :
267 West End Avenue, New York. Ad
dress : 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
BREVOORT, James Renwick:
Artist; born in Westchester County,
New York, July 20, 1832. He was educated
in New York City and* in Europe, sketch
ing in Great Britain, Holland and Italy.
His specialty is landscape. He was elected
an associate in 1861, and was during three
years professor of perspective there. He
is a member of the Holland Society, and
the Century Association of New York City.
Address : 390 North Broadway, Yonkers,
New York City.
BREWER, David Josiah:
Associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court; born in Smyrna, Asia
Minor, June 20, 1837; son of Rev. Josiah
Brewer and Emilie A. (Field) Brewer,
sister of David Dudley, Cyrus W., and Jus
tice Stephen J. Field. His father was an
early missionary to Turkey. He was grad
uated from Yale College in 1856 and from
the Albany Law School in 1858, and he es
tablished himself in his profession at Leav
enworth, Kansas, in 18^9, where he resided
until he removed to , Washington to enter
upon his present duties. In 1861 he was
appointed United States commissioner and
during 1863 and 1864 was judge of the
probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth

County, Kansas. From January, 1865, to
January, 1869, he was Judge of the District
Court, in 1869, and in 1870 was county at
torney for Leavenworth, and in 1870 he was
elected a justice of the Supreme Court of
his State, and reelected in 1876 and 1882.
In 1884 he was appointed judge of the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the
Eighth District, and he was appointed to
his present position as associate justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States to
succeed Judge Stanley Matthews, deceased,
in December, 1889, and was commissioned
December 18, 1880. He was president of the
Venezuela Boundary Commission, appointed
by President Cleveland ; a member of the
Arbitration Tribunal to settle the boundary
dispute between British Guiana and Vene
zuela. He was orator at the bi-centennial
of Yale University in 1901, and president of
the International Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists of St. Louis in 1904. He has re
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Iowa Col
lege, Washburn College, Yale University,
State University of Wisconsin, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut, the
University of Vermont and Bowdoin Col
lege. Justice Brewer is author of : The Pew
to the Pulpit, 1897; The Twentieth Century
from Another View Point, 1899; American
Citizenship, 1902. He married at Burling
ton, Vermont, October 3, 1861, Louisa R.
Landon, who died April 3, 1898. He mar
ried again at Burlington, Vermont, June
5, 1901, Emma Miner Mott of Washington,
D. C. Address : 1923 Sixteenth Street,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
BREWER, Leigh Richmond:
Bishop of Montana; born at Berkshire,
Vermont, January 20, 1839. He graduated
from the academic course of Hobart Col
lege, receiving the degree of B.A. in 1866,
of M.A. in 1869, and of S.T.D. and D.D. in
1881. He studied also at the General Theo
logical Seminary in New York City.. He
was ordered deacon in the Episcopal Church
in 1866 by Bishoo H. Potter, and ordained
nriest the following year by Bishop Coxe.
Upon entering the ministry he became cur
ate of Grace Church, Carthage, New York,
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New York. He was consecrated bishop in
1880 by Bishops Huntington, Tuttle, Bissell,
B. H. Paddock and Morris, and became
Bishop of Montana. He was married in
1866 to Henrietta W. Foote. He is author
of various addresses, appeals and reports.
Address : Helena, Montana.
BREWSTER, William:
Manufacturer of carriages and autos;
born in New York City, June 2, 1866; son
of Henry Brewster and Charlotte (Draper)
Brewster. He was educated at St. John's
School, at Sing Sing, New York. He
started in business with Brewster & Com
pany, October 1, 1883; studied designing in
Paris in 1885, and visited the principal
carriage concerns of Europe in 1886. He
was admitted to the firm of Brewster &
Company, July I, 1888, and has been its
president since its incorporation, January
1, 1903. He is also a director of the North
ern Insurance Company of New York.
Mr. Brewster is an Independent in politics.
He is a life member of the Museum of
Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (not a life member), and a member
of the Union League, City, National Arts,
the Barnard, and the Suburban Riding and
Driving Clubs of New York City. He
married in New York City, September 1,
1888, Marie Munger, and they have a
daughter, Barbara Brewster, born Septem
ber 5, 1893. Address : Broadway and For
ty-seventh Street, New York City.
BRICE, Philip Howard:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, May 31,
1872; son of Philip Howard and Jane
(Mercer) Brice. Educated at the Protes
tant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia
and at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he received the law degree of LL.B.
in 1897. He is now practicing law in that
city and is a member of the board of
managers of the Philadelphia City Insti
tute (Free) Library. Member of the Penn
sylvania Historical Society, the General
Alumni Society of the University of Penn
sylvania and the Law Alumni of the same
University; he is also a member of the
Delta Psi fraternity, the Society of Colo

nial Wars, Sons of the Revolution and So
ciety of the War of 1812, member of the
Rittenhouse and Saint Anthony Club of
Philadelphia, and the St. Anthony Club of
New York. He was married at Philadel
phia, April 24, 1901, to Sarah Pepper Leon
ard. Residence: Chestnut Hill. Address:
801 Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
BRICHER, Alfred Thompson:
Artist; born at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, in 1837; son of William and Eliza
beth (Muir) Bricher. He was educated
at the Newbury High School and at the
Putnam Free School, Newburyport, Mas
sachusetts. In his professional studies,
however, Mr. Bricher is self-taught. He
started out in life as clerk in the dry goods
business, and after a number of years went
to Boston, in i860, and there commenced
painting. In 1868 he removed to New
York City. He was made a member of the
American Water Color Society in 1872,
and in 1878 was elected an associate mem
ber of the National Academy of Design.
He is fond of books and music, which are
largely his recreations. He was married
in New York City, in 1881, to Alice L.
Robinson. By this union there were four
children: Florence (aged 23), Daisy (aged
22), Arthur (aged 20), Dorothy, (aged
6). Residence: New Dorp, Staten Island.
Address : 32 Union Square, New York
City.
BRICK, Abraham Lincoln:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Saint
Joseph County, Indiana, May 27, i860.
He was educated in the common schools
and was graduated from the high school at
South Bend, Indiana. He afterward at
tended Cornell University, Yale Univers
ity and the University of Michigan, and
was graduated from the latter as LL.B.
in 1883. Since then he has been continu
ously engaged in the practice of law at
South Bend, Indiana. He was elected pros
ecutor for the counties of Saint Joseph and
Laporte, Indiana, in 1886. He is a Republi
can in politics; was a member of the Re
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diana in 1890, and was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention at Saint
Louis in 1896. He was elected from the
Thirteenth Indiana District to the Fifty-
sixth Congress in 1898, and has since been
biennially elected, and is now serving in
the Sixtieth Congress, which expires March
3, 1909. Address : South Bend, Indiana.
BRICKWOOD, Albert W., Jr.:
Consular official ; appointed vice- and dep
uty-consul at Nogales, July 17, 1905 ; ap
pointed consul at Puerto Cortes, August
17, 1906. Address: "Puerto Cortes, Hon
duras.
BRIDGES, Robert:
Editor and author ; born at Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania, July 13, 1858; son of John
and Mary Bridges ; he was gradu
ated from Princeton in the class of 1879
as A.B., and was given A.M. in 1882. He
was connected with the Rochester Dem
ocrat and Chronicle in 1880 and 1881,
and with the New York Evening Post
from 1881 to 1887. He has been as
sistant editor of Scribner's Magazine
since 1887. He was also literary critic
of Life, over the signature Droch
from 1883 to 1900. He is author of : Over
head in Arcady, 1894; Suppressed Chap
ters, 1895 ; and Bramble Brae (collected
poems), 1902. He edited The Roosevelt
Book, 1904, and is a contributor of prose
and verse to various periodicals. Mr.
Bridges is an Independent in politics. He
is a member of the St. Andrew's Society
of New York, the University Club, Cen
tury Association, and the Princeton and
Aldine Clubs of New York, and the Ivy
Club of Princeton. Residence: 19 West
Thirty-first Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 153 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
BRIGGS, Asa Gilbert:
Lawyer ; born at Arcadia, Wisconsin, De
cember 20, 1862; son of Isaac Austin and
Elizabeth (Briggs) Briggs. After prepar
ing for college in the public schools of his
native town, he matriculated at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, at Madison, Wisconsin,
graduating from it in 1885 with the degree

of A.B. .He continued his work here, how
ever, as a law student, receiving the degree
of LL.B. two years later. He was imme
diately admitted to the bar of Minnesota,
to which State he had removed, practicing
in the city of Saint Paul. After fourteen
years, however, his ability having attracted
the officers of the Great Western Railway
Company, he was appointed in 1901, gener
al solicitor of the company in the city of
Saint Paul, which position he holds to
the present time. He is a member of the
Phi Delta Theta college fraternity and of
various clubs of Saint Paul. He is also
a Mason and a member of the American
Bar Association, and the State Bar Asso
ciation of Minnesota, professional societies,
and in politics is identified with the Repub
lican party. He was married at Saint
Paul, October 21, 1891, to Jessica Pierce.
Address : Saint Paul, Minnesota.
BRIGHAM, Albert Perry:
Geologist; born at Perry, New York,
June 12, 1855; son of Horace Ames Brig-
ham and Julia (Perry) Brigham. He was
graduated from Colgate University, as A.B.
in 1879 (Phi Beta Kappa), from the Di
vinity School of that institution in 1882,
and from Harvard University Graduate
School as A.M. in 1892. He was clergy
man at Stillwater and Utica, New York,
from 1882 to 1891 ; and has been professor
of geology in Colgate University from 1892.
He is also curator of the museum of Col
gate University; and was instructor in geol
ogy at Harvard University in the summer
session of 1900; professor of geology at
Cornell University in the summer sessions
of 1901 to 1904; and professor of physical
geography of the University of Wisconsin
in the summer session of 1906. Professor
Brigham is a fellow of the Geological So
ciety of America, and of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
secretary and treasurer of the Association
of American Geographers ; a member of the
National Geographic Society; associate edi
tor of the Bulletin of the American Geo
graphical Society, and was president in 1905
of the New York State Science Teachers'
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physical geography for the College En
trance Examination Board from 1902 to
1898; and is an assistant geologist of the
New York State Geological Survey. Mr.
Brigham is a contributor of papers in many
scientific journals and various magazines.
He is author of Text Book of Geology;
Introduction to Physical Geography (co
author), arid Students' Laboratory Manual
of Physical Geography (all published by
Appleton) ; and Geographic Influences in
American History, and From Trail to Rail
way Through the Appalachians (Ginn).
He married at Amsterdam, New York, June
27, 1882, Flora Winegar, and they have had
two children : Charles Winegar, who died
.in 1899, and Elizabeth. Address : Hamilton,
New York.
BRINKERHOFF, Roeliff:
Banker ; born at Owasco, Cayuga County,
New York, June 28, 1828. He was edu
cated in academies at Auburn and Homer,
New York, and afterward engaged in teach
ing, beginning at the age of sixteen. He
was a tutor at The Hermitage, the home
of General Jackson in Tennessee, for
three years, and in 1849 went to Mans
field, Ohio, where he studied law with Judge
Jacob Brinkerhoff, a relative, and was ad
mitted to the bar. He practiced law in
Mansfield, and was also from 1855 to 1859
editor and proprietor of the Mansfield Her
ald. At the beginning of the war he be
came first lieutenant and quartermaster of
the Sixty-fourth Regiment of Ohio Volun
teer infantry, and served five years, attaining
the rank of colonel in the Quartermaster's
Department, and brevet brigadier-general
of United States Volunteers for mere-
torius services during the war. He re
turned to his law practice until he became
in 1878 cashier of the Mansfield Savings
Bank of which he is now president. Gen
eral Brinkerhoff has taken high rank as a
philanthropist and penologist, is a promi
nent member of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction and was its presi
dent in 1880, was president of the Ameri
can delegation to and vice-president of the
International Prison Congress at Paris in
1895, and was formerly vice-president and

succeeded General R. B. Hayes as president
of the American National Prison Congress.
He is also chairman of the Ohio Board of
State Charities of which he has been a
member for the past thirty years. He
is also president of the Ohio Archeo
logical and Historical Society which he or
ganized in 1875. General Brinkerhoff has
been influentially associated with the great
men and events of his time and he collected
an account of his experiences in a volume
entitled : Recollections of a Lifetime, which
was published in 1900- by the Robert Clarke
Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and
he is also author of a book on:
The Volunteer Quartermaster. He married
Mary Bentley, granddaughter of General
Robert Bentley, of Ohio. Address : Mans
field, Ohio.
BRISTOL, Charles Lawrence: .
Zoologist; born at Ballston Spa, New
York, September 29, 1859; son of Law
rence W. Bristol and Caroline (Hawkins)
Bristol. He was educated in the public
schools of Ballston Spa, graduated from
New York University as B.S. iii 1883, as
M.S. in 1888, was a fellow of Clark Uni
versity in 1891, and a fellow of the Univer
sity of Chicago, in 1892 and 1893, receiv
ing the degree of Ph.D. in 1895. He was
instructor of the Riverview Academy at
Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1884 to
1888; professor of zoology, at the Univer
sity of South Dakota from 1888 to 1891,
and has been professor of biology in New
York University, since 1894. Dr. Bristol
has been director of the annual zoological
expeditions of the New York University to
Bermuda since 1897, and associate director
of the Bermuda Biological Station for Re
search since 1904. He has made zo
ological examinations of the coral reefs
of Bermuda and has succeeded in the trans
porting tropical marine animals alive to the
New York Aquarium. Dr. Bristol is a
member of the American Society of Nat
uralists ; the American Society of Zoolog
ists ; a fellow of the New York Academy
of Sciences, and the New York Zoological
Society. He is a writer on metamerism in
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and other contributions to zoology. Dr.
Bristol is a member of the Psi Upsilon fra
ternity. He married at Elmira, New York,
in January, 1900, Ellen Gallup, and they
have two children: Lawrence and Eliza
beth. Address : New York University,
University Heights, New York City.
BRISTOL, John Bunyan:
Artist; born at Hillsdale, New York,
March 14, 1826. His early art education
was self-acquired. Originally he was en
gaged in portrait work, but for many
years he has been a landscape painter. He
has been a member of. the National Acad
emy of Design from 1875. He is a member
ofthe Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Artists' Fund Society, and a regular exhi
bitor at the annual exhibitions of National
Academy of Design. He received a medal
from the Centennial Exposition of 1876,
and honorable mention from the Paris Ex
position in 1900. He is a member of the
Century Association of New York. Ad
dress : 120 East Twenty-third Street, New
York City.
BRISTOL, Mark Lambert:
Lieutenant Commander, United States
Navj'. Appointed from New Jersey. Nav
al Cadet, May 19, 1883 ; Ensign, July 1,
1889; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 14,
1897; Lieutenant, March 3, 1899; C. S. S.
McArthur; 1889; Petrel, 1889-94; U. S. S.
St. Mary's, 1895 ; Texas, 1896-9 ; Navy Yard,
Vv ashington, 1899-1901 ; Massachusetts,
1901 ; Kearsage, 1901 to 1903 ; Navy Yard,
Washington, 1903 to 1905; Gunnery
Officer N. A. Fleet, 1905 to 1907; execu
tive officer flagship Connecticut, from Au
gust, 1907; promoted lieutenant-commander
March 31, 1905. Address : Care Navy De
partment, -Washington, D. C.
BRITTAIN, Joseph I. :
Consular officer; appointed consul at
Mantes, October 15, 1897, consul at Kehl,
June 6, 1902, consul at Prague since March
30, 1907. Address : Prague, Austria.
BRITTON, Nathaniel Lord:
Director of the New York Botanical Gar
den; born at New Dorp, Staten Island,

New York, January 15, 1859. He worked
on the Vanderbilt farm in bayhood, and
was educated at the Staten Island Acad
emy, and afterward at the Columbia School
of Mines, from which he was graduated
as Engineer of Mines in 1879, afterward
receiving from Columbia University the de
grees of Ph.D. in 1881 and the honorary
degree of ScD. in 1904. He became con
nected with Columbia University as assis
tant in geology from 1879 to 1887; instruc
tor in botany, from 1887 to 1890, adjunct
professor of botany, 1890-1891 ; professor
of botany, 1891-1896, and has since been
emeritus professor of botany in Columbia
University. He was appointed, in 1896,
director-in-chief of the New York Botanical
Garden, in which position he still continues.
He was botanist and assistant geologist of
the New Jersey Geological Survey, 1880-
1890; field assistant of the United States
Geological Survey in 1892, and adviser in
botany to the Carnegie Institution in 1902.
Dr. Britton has been an extensive contrib
utor to the scientific press on North and
South American flora and is the author of
monographs on: The Flora of New Jersey;
Illustrated Flora of the Northern United
States and Canada; Manual of the Flora
of the Northern States and Canada; North
American- West Indian' Flora. He was edi
tor of the Bulletin of Torrey Botanical
Club, 1888-1898. He is a . member of the
Botanical Society of North Arrierica, and
was its president in 1898 and 1899; is a
fellow and was vice-president in 1896 of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; a member of the New
York Horticultural Society and was chair
man of its Council, 1901 to 1907; member
of the Torrey Botanical Club, New York
Academy Sciences, and was its president
in 1906 and 1907, and is also a member
of the New York Microscopical Society
and other scientific societies. Dr. • Britton
married, August 27, 1885, Elizabeth Ger
trude Knight. Mrs. Britton is herself a
scientist, distinguished for her researches
in bryology. Residence : 2965 Decatur Ave
nue, New York. Address : Bronx Park,
New York City.

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BROBSTON, Edwin:
Real estate dealer; bora at Madison,
Georgia, November 17, 1863; son of Edwin
L. Brobston and Hattie (Thomas) Brobs-
ton. His grandfather, Wm. Brobston, was
a noted Presbyterian preacher in Illinois,
who died at the age of ninety in 1885, at
Chicago. He was educated in the common
schools of Morgan County, Georgia. He
was owner and editor of the Madisonlan
in 1887, and editor and manager of the
first morning daily at Brunswick, Georgia,
from 1888 to 1900. He engaged in general
real estate development, operating through
the South, and made numerous industrial
speeches at Southern Pines, North Carolina ;
Huntsville, Alabama; Chattanooga, Ten
nessee. He served on numerous industrial
commissions and made National notoriety
by passing a ship subsidy resolution at the
Maritime Congress at Brunswick, Georgia,
in 1903. He was president of the board of
education of Glynn County and Brunswick,
Georgia, for several years, and reorganized
the schools. He is now head of the firm
of Brobston & Company, real estate; is
president of the Jacksonville Development
Company; vice-president of the Murray
Hill Land Company, and the Tampa Bay
Land Company, and. is director in about a
dozen corporations, mostly land companies.
He has been a member of several Demo
cratic State, conventions in Georgia, serving
on the platform committee, and active in
good government. He moved to Florida in
1904, and is chairman of the emigration com
mittee of the board of trade of Jackson
ville, Florida. He is a Democrat in poli
tics, and a Baptist in religion. He is a
member of the Reform Club, and the
Georgia Society of New York City;
the Phoenix Club, of Brunswick, Georgia;
and the Seminole, Yacht, and Country
Clubs of Jacksonville, Florida. He is an
honorary member of the Florida Press As
sociation. He married at Brunswick,
Georgia, April, 1890, Priscilla Littlefield,
and they have five children; Stanley, born
in 1893 ; Priscilla, born in 1895 ; Margaret,
born in 1898; Edwin, born in 1901, and

Albert, born in 1903. Address: 216 West
Forsythe Street, Jacksonville, Florida.
BROCK, Sidney Gorham:
Lawyer, author; born in Cleveland, Ohio,
April 10, 1837; son of Eleazer Abbey and
Margarreta Maria Brock. After a prepar
atory education in the schools of Cleve
land, he entered Allegheny College, Mead
ville, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1859 with
the degree of A.B., and receiving the de
grees of A.M. in 1862, and Ph.D. in 1868.
He was admitted to the bar at Cleveland,
Ohio, in June, 1861 ; was adjutant and
captain of Company D, Sixty-seventh Ohio
Infantry, from 1861 to 1865. After the
war he removed to Macon, Missouri,
where he has since been engaged in the
profession. He was city attorney of Macon,
Missouri, in 1870, and again in 1895 and
1896. In 1886 he was elected by the Re
publican party, of which he is a member,
mayor of Macon, and held that office for
three years. He was candidate for presi
dential elector on the Republican ticket in
1884, and Republican candidate for Con
gress from the First District of Missouri
in 1888. In 1889 he was appointed by
President Harrison chief of the Bureau
of Statistics in the United States Treasury
Department, and served until June, 1893.
The work of Mr. Brock has given him a
wide knowledge of facts concerning the
United States and its outlying possessions.
He is a member of the National Geographic
Society of Washington, D. C, the Ameri
can Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence, Philadelphia; Phi Kappa fraternity
(Allegheny College), the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion (Missouri Command-
ery), and the Grand Army of the Republic.
He is author of: The Commerce of the
Great Lakes.; History of the Hawaiian Is
lands ; Resources and Commerce of the Pa
cific Slope States and Territories; Com
merce With South America; Progress of
the United States for One Hundred Years
from 1790 to 1890. He married at Mead
ville, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1861,
Louisa O. Williams, and they have two
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Benjamin B. Brock, born in 1874. Ad
dress : Macon, Missouri.
BROCKETT, Edward Judson:
Merchant, author; born at Essex, Con
necticut, March 7, 1833; son of Rev. Pier-
pont and Sarah (Sage) Brockett. He was
educated in the public schools and at the
Bacon Academy at Colchester, Connecti
cut. Soon after leaving school Mr. Brock
ett engaged in book publishing, and issued
several notable works, also had charge of
the publication of Benson J. Lossing's
History of the United States, and Eminent
Americans. In later life he engaged in
mercantile and financial pursuits, and
is now vice-president and treasurer
of Battelle & Renwick; vice-president
and director of the Croton Chemi
cal Company; treasurer of the National
Sulphur Company, and is trustee of sev
eral large estates. Mr. Brockett is a
prominent Baptist ' layman, being chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Ameri
can Baptist Home Mission Society; presi
dent of the New Jersey Baptist Mission
ary Convention, and president of the Board
of. Trustees of the North Orange Baptist
Church, and is active in the denomina-
- tional work of the Baptist Church in the
Northern States. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Brockett is a member of the
Connecticut Historical Society, and one of
his chief recreations is the- collection of his
torical documents, autographs, engravings,
etc. He is author of: The Descendants of
John Brockett, one of the Founders of the
New Haven Colony, and is also a frequent
contributor to the religious press. Mr.
Brockett married at Brooklyn, New York,
October 7, 1862, Mary Frances Gault, and
they have three children living: Frances
E., Edith A., and Helen F. Residence:
East Orange, New Jersey. Address : 163
Front Street, New York City.
BROCKWAY, Howard:
Composer, pianist; born in Brooklyn,
November 22, 1870; son of Leverett E.
and Clara (Kingsley) Brockway. He was
educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic In
stitute; studied music with H. and C.

Kortheuer, Brooklyn, and O. B. Boise and
H. Barth, Berlin. Mr. Brockway gave
concert of his own works with Berlin Phil
harmonic Orchestra, at Berlin, -February
1895 ; since October, 1903, member of facul
ty Peabody Conservatory, Peabody Insti
tute, Baltimore, Maryland. He is a com
poser of Sylvan Suite, first produced by
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1901; also
Symphony for Grand Orchestra, produced
by Dr. Karl Muck and the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra in Boston, in April 5th
and 6th, 1907 (chamber music), choral
music, songs, pianoforte music, etc. He
married, first at Lakewood, New Jersey,
February 1896, Anabel Boise (died in
1 901) ; and they had one daughter: Syl
via, (born in Berlin, Germany, September,
1897;) married second in Washington, D.
C, April, 1906, Katharine Engs Bradford,
daughter of Rear-Admiral R. B. Bradford,
U. S. N. Address : Peabody Institute,
Baltimore, Maryland.
BRODEL, Max:
Artist (medical illustrator) ; born at
Leipzig, Germany, June 8, 1870; son of
Louis and Henrietta (Franzel) Brodel.
He studied at the Leipzig Academy of
Arts, and at the University of Leipzig.
While in the latter city he associated with
various medical men among them being
Carl Ludwig, physiologist, and William
Brauine, anatomist, whose works he illus
trated. In 1894 he came to the United
States and settling in Baltimore, became
associated with Dr. Howard A. Kelly,
whose various publications he has since il
lustrated. He has, besides, illustrated
many publications of Johns Hopkins Medi
cal School. He is one of the best known
anatomical artists, doing fine technical
work of the greatest exactitude. He is
professor of art as applied to medicine in
Johns Hopkins University, and is also
giving instructions to artists and to medi
cal students and graduates. Professor
Brodel has served in the German Army,
having been a member of the Ninth Com
pany, Second Grenadier Regiment, Number
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He became naturalized in the United States
in 1904. Mr. Brodel has crossed the At
lantic a number of times and has also
traveled in the United States. In politics
he belongs to the Republican party and
he is a member of the Lutheran Church.
Fie is member of the Association of Ameri
can Anatomists. He spends much of his
leisure time in music, chess, and gardening.
He was married, at Sandusky, Ohio, Dec.
31, 1902, to Ruth Marian Huntington, and
has two daughters, Elizabeth Huntington
(aged 4), and Ruth Warner (aged 2>4).
Residence: 707 North Carrolton Avenue.
Address : Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti
more, Md.
BRODLE, Henry G.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Minneapolis General Electric Com
pany, the Jacksonville Electric Light Com
pany, and the Houghton County Electric
Light Company; vice-president and director
of the Jacksonville Electric Company and
the Houghton County Street Railway Com
pany. He is also second vice-president of
the Tampa Electric Company, and director
of the Blue Hill Street Railway Company,
The Cape Breton Electric Company, Lim
ited; the Columbia Improvement Company,
the Columbia Electric Company, the Edi
son Electric Illuminating Company of
Brockton, Massachusetts, the Electric Light
and Power Company of Abington and
Rockland, the Houston Electric Company,
the Key West Electric Company, the Main
Street Electric Company, the Pensacola
Electric Company, the St. Croix Falls Im
provement Company of Minnesota, the St.
Croix Falls Improvement Company of Wis
consin, and the Stone and Welster En
gineering Corporation. Address : 84 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BROKAW, Isaac Vail:
Merchant; born at New Brunswick, New
Jersey, in 1835 ; son of Hugueiut descent.
.He began his business career with Wilson
G. Hunt & Company, cloth importers, and
later joined in the organization of the
firm of Brokaw Brothers, clothing, which
has long been a leading one in that busi

ness, and is now its president. He was
founder of the Bethany Mission. Mr. Bro
kaw is a Republican in politics and a mem
ber of the Union League Club of New
York City. He married Elvira Gould.
Residence : 1 East Seventy-ninth Street.
Address : 64 Cooper Square, New York
City.
BRONSON, Samuel L,:
Jurist; born in Waterbury, Connecticut,
in 1834; son of Dr. Henry B. Bronson. He
received his preparatory education in the
schools of Waterbury and New Haven,
Connecticut, and then entered Yale College,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of B.A. in 1855. He was admitted to
the bar of Connecticut in 1857, practiced at
Seymour, Connecticut, until i860, then re
moved to New Haven. He was a member
of the Connecticut Legislature from Sey
mour in 1859, recorder of the City of New
Haven from 1866 to 1869, member of the
Connecticut Legislature from New Haven
in 1869, 1876 and 1877; was the first judge
of the New Haven County Court of Com
mon Pleas for a year and declined re
election because of ill health. Later he
resumed practice, was corporation counsel
of New Haven from 1873 to 1878, and then ¦
retired from practice in order to manage
the family estates to the ownership of which
he succeeded on the death of his father,
Dr. Bronson, in 1893. He is a Democrat in
politics and was the nominee of his party
for governor of Connecticut in 1900. Ad
dress : 58 Dwight Street, New Haven, Con
necticut.BROOKE, Francis Key:
Bishop of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory; born at Gambier, Ohio, November 2,
1852; son of Rev. John T. and Louisa
(Hunter) Brooke. He studied at Kenyon
College, graduating B.A. in 1874, and re
ceiving the degree of M.A. in 1881. He re
ceived the degre of S.T.D. from Kansas
Theological School in 1893. He took orders
as deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1875
and two years later was ordained priest by
Bishop Jaggar. He was rector of Grace
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Christ Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1877-
1880; of 'St. James' Church, Piqua, Ohio,
1880 to 1884 ; Grace ¦ Church, Sandusky,
Ohio, from 1884 to 1886. In 1886 he was
called to the rectorship of St. Peter's
Church, St. Louis, Missouri, where he re
mained until 1888; and from 1888 until
1893, he was rector of Trinity Church,
Atchison, Kansas. He became Bishop of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, being
consecrated in 1893, by Bishops Tuttle,
Pierce, Spaulding, Jaggar, Thomas, Ken
drick, Graves and Atwill. Bishop Brooke
was married in 1881 to Mildred P.. Bald
win. He is author of various addresses,
missionary reports and appeals. Address :
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
BROOKE, George, Jr.:
Iron and steel manufacturer; born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; son of George
and Mary Baldwin (Irwin) Brooke. He
studied at private schools and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, graduating with
the degree of Ph.B. He thence entered
the employ of the Brooke Iron Company,
and, after going through the rolling mill
departments, entered the office, becoming
secretary of the company, and later a di
rector. Mr. Brooke gives his attention to
the numerous Brooke interests, besides the
secretaryship of the Iron company. He is
president and director of the Birdsboro
Electric Company, director of the Pennsyl
vania Trust Company, and the Keystone
Wagon Company, both of Reading; acting
vice-president of the First National Bank
of Reading; vice-president of the First Na
tional Bank of Birdsboro; secretary of the
E. and G. Brooke Land Company, and
treasurer of the Birdsboro Water Com
pany. He has been councilman for the
Borough of Birdsboro for the past twelve
years, now serving his fifth term, and lieu
tenant-colonel on the staff of the governor
of Pennsylvania. He has made extensive
travels throughout Europe and the United
States. Mr. Brooke is identified with the
Republican party, and he is a member of
the Episcopal Church. He is a member of
the Sons of the Revolution, of the Colonial
Wars, and of the Philadelphia, Ritten

house, Racquet, Philadelphia Country, and
Berkshire Country Clubs. He is fond of all
out-door sports. Residence : Birdsboro and
Philadelphia. Address : Birdsboro, Penn
sylvania.
BROOKE, John Butter:
Major-general United States Army, re
tired; born in Philadelphia, July 21, 1838.
In April 1861, he enlisted in the Fourth
Pennsylvania Infantry, and was promoted
until he became brigadier-general of Vol
unteers, May 12, 1864. On August 1, 1864,
he was made brevet major-general, and was
commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the
Thirty-seventh United States Infantry July
28, 1866. He was transferred to the Third
Infantry, March 15, 1869, and March 20,
1870, was made colonel of the Thirteenth
Infantry; was again transferred to the
Third Infantry, June 14, 1879, and was
commissioned brigadier-general April 6,
1888. He commanded the Departments of
the Platte, Dakota and the Missouri, and on
May 22, 1897, was made major-general. In
April 1898, he was sent to command troops
at Chickamauga Park, and in July 1898, was
ordered to Porto Rico, as head of the Mili
tary Com'mission, becoming governor-gen
eral of Porto Rico. In December, 1898,
he was appointed governor general of Cuba,
and commanded the Division of Cuba; and
May, 1900, he was placed in command of
the Department of the East. He was re
tired July 21, 1902. Major-General Brooke
is a companion of the Pennsylvania Cotn-
mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Address : Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
BROOKS, Franklin E.:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born at
Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachu
setts, November 19, i860; son of E. T.
Brooks and Anna E. Brooks. He was grad
uated from Brown University with the de
gree of A.B. in 1883, and received the de
gree of A.M. from the same institution in
1886. He taught for several years after
his graduation, ending as an instructor in
the Boston Latin School. He studied law in
an office in Boston and attended the Law
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1888. He was admitted to the bar of Suf
folk County, Massachusetts, in 1888, and
practiced law in Boston until 1891 when,
because of failing health, he removed to
Colorado. He resumed the practice of law
in 1892 and is now a member of the law
firm of Lunt, Brooks and Willcox of Colo
rado Springs. He is a Republican in poli
tics and he was elected from the State of
Colorado at large in 1902 to the Fifty-
eighth Congress, and was reelected in 1904
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, his second
term expiring in March, 1907. Mr. Brooks
is a member of the University Club of
Washington, the University Club of Boston,
the University and Denver Clubs of Denver,
and the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs.
He married at Leicester, Massachusetts,
June 3, 1891, Sarah Brainerd Coolidge. Ad
dress : Colorado Springs, Colorado.
BROOKS, Raymond Cummings:
Clergyman; born at Tabor, Iowa, Sep
tember 26, 1869; son of the Rev. William
M. Brooks, D.D., and Adelia S. (Jones)
Brooks. He was graduated from Tabor
College with the degree of A.B. in. 1891 ; he
took a post-graduate course at Oberlin,
i89i-'92; he received the degree of B.D.
from the Yale Divinity School in 1895, and
that of D.D. from Tabor College in 1907.
He was instructor in ethics and philosophy
at Tabor College in i895-'96; he was pas
tor of the First Congregational Church, Eu
gene, Oregon, 1896-1900; pastor of the
Pilgrim Congregational Church, Oakland,
California, 1900-1901 ; and in the pastoral
care of Mills College from 1901 to the pres
ent time. He is a trustee of Mills Col
lege, Oakland, and a director of the Con
gregational Home Missionary Society for
California. His favorite recreations are
tennis and mountain climbing. He mar
ried at Colorado Springs, June 18, 1896,
Sylvia Mabel Drake. Residence: 1121
Eighth Avenue, Oakland, California.
BROOKS, William Myron:
Clergyman; born at Laporte, Ohio,
March 5, 1835; son of Samuel Brooks and
Sophia (Johnson) Brooks. He was grad
uated from Oberlin College as A.B. in 1857,

and received the degrees of A.M. in 1861,
and D.D. in 1893 from Oberlin. He was
principal of the Tabor Literary Institute
from 1857 to 1866, and superintendent
of schools of Fremont County, Iowa,
from 1861 to 1865, and president of Tabor
College from 1866 to 1896. He was a mem
ber of the Iowa Legislature from 1876 to
1878 and Republican presidential elector in
1876. He was president of the Tabor and
Northern Railway from 1890 to 1899, presi
dent of the Iowa State Teachers' Associa
tion in 1868; was twice moderator of the
Iowa State Congregational Association, and
was trustee of .the Congregational National
Council from 1895 to 1898. He is a Re
publican in politics. He married at Tabor,
Iowa, January 17, i860, Adelia Sophia
Jones, and they have eight children : Edith,
born June 3, 1862; Gilbert E., born Jan
uary 17, 1864; Eugene W., born May 1,
1866; Helen A., born March 9, 1868; Ray
mond C, born September 26, 1870; Anna
P., bora June 20, 1874; Adelia S., born
March 4, 1876, and Edwin H., born Feb
ruary 1, 1882. Address: 450 West Palm
Avenue, Redlands, California.
BROOKS, WiUiam Penn: »
Agriculturist; born at Norwell, Mas
sachusetts, November 19, 1851 ; son of
Nathaniel and Rebecca P. (Cushing)
Brooks. After attending common schools
and academies in Massachusetts, he took
a course in the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, from which he was graduated in
1875, with the degree of B.S. He has also
studied at the University of Halle, Ger
many (Friedrichs Universitat) , where he
took the degree of Ph.D. in 1897. From
1870 to 1872 he taught in mixed and gram
mar schools. In 1877 he accepted a pro
fessorship in agriculture in the Imperial
College of Agriculture, Japan, which posi
tion he held until 1889, acting as president
of the college, ad interim, for four years.
Since 1889 he has been professor of agri
culture in the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, and has been president of this
college, ad interim, at two different peri
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he has been Director of the Massachusetts
Agricultural Experiment Station. His
travels include Japan, Belgium, Germany,
Austria, Holland, England, and much of
the United States. His favorite recrea
tions are fishing, horseback riding, garden
ing -and bee-keeping. He is a member of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the Massachusetts' Forest
ry Association, and the Phi Kappa Phi
and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternities, and has
received from the Emperor of Japan the
decoration of the Fourth Order of the
Rising Sun. He married at Revere, Mas
sachusetts, March 29, 1882, Eva B. Hall,
and they have two children: Rachel Ban
croft, born in 1894 and Sumner Cushing,
born in 1888. Address : Amherst, Massa
chusetts. *
BROOKS, William Robert:
Astronomer; born at Maidstone, Eng
land, June 11, 1844; son of the Rev. Will
iam and Caroline (Wickings) Brooks. He
was educated in English and American pub
lic and private schools, and has reoeived
the degrees of A.M. (honorary) from Ho
bart, and "ScD. from Hamilton. From his
boyhood he has been interested in the
study of astronomy. At the age of four
teen he made his first telescope, and three
years later delivered an illustrated lecture
in his father's church. In 1874 he founded
the Red House Observatory, at Phelps,
New York, and remained there as director
until 1888, up to which time he' constructed
all his own telescopes, grinding and pol
ishing the lenses and mounting them. To
him belongs the distinction of discovering
twenty-five comets (which number has not
been equalled by any other living astron
omer), thirteen of which he found with
telescopes of his own making. Since 1888
he has resided at Geneva, New York,
where he is the director of the Smith Ob
servatory, and professor of astronomy at
Hobart College. He has lectured for many
years on astronomy and other scientific
subjects, his engagements taking him
throughout the eastern portion of the

United States. In politics he is a Republic
an. He is fond of sailing and fishing, and
his travels, in addition to portions of this
country, include England and Australia.
He has been the recipient of nine medals
from the Pacific Astronomical Society, ten
Warner gold prizes, the Lalande medal
from the Paris Academy of Sciences, the
special gold medal from the International
Jury of the St. Louis Columbian Exposi
tion, and a gold medal and diploma from
the Astronomical Society of Mexico, the
latter having been awarded to him for the
discovery of twenty-five comets. He is a
fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society,
and a member of the British Astronomical
Association; a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. Fie married at Edwardsburg, Mich
igan, October 15, 1868, Mary E. Smith,
and they have one daughter, Anna Caro
line, born in 1878. Address : Smith Ob
servatory, Geneva, New York.
BROUSSARD, Robert F.:
Lawyer and congressman; bora on the
Marie Louise plantation, near New Iberia,
Louisiana, August 17, 1864, the Broussard
family being of French descent, long set
tled in southwest Louisiana and southeast
Texas, and prominent in farming, stock-rais
ing and mercantile interests. After prepa
ration in private schools- and three years
at Georgetown University he entered the
Law School of Tulane University of Louis
iana, at New Orleans, as LL.B. in 1889.
Since then he has been engaged in prac
tice at New Iberia, Louisiana. He took a
prominent part in the movement for the
destruction of the Louisiana Lottery, and
was elected by the Anti-Lottery Democrats
to the office of district attorney of the
Nineteenth Judicial District of Louisiana,
and was reelected for a second term. He
was elected in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Con
gress, and has since been biennially elect
ed; and he is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress expiring 1909. He is a Democrat
in politics and a Catholic in religion. Ad
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BROWARD, Napoleon Bonaparte:
Governor of Florida; born on a farm in
Duval County, Florida, April 19, 1857; son
of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward and Mary
Dorcas (Parsons) Broward. He was left
an orphan at twelve years of age; attended
a country school and at the age of fourteen
went to work in a log camp for an uncle.
He afterward worked as a farm hand, as
an employee of steamboats, a seaman on
sailing vessels, etc., then became a bar pilot
on Saint Johns River in Florida, and later
engaged in the steamboat business. Since
1902 he has been engaged in the towing and
wrecking business at Jacksonville, Key West
and Tampa, Florida. He has always been
an active Democrat, and in 1887 he was
appointed and in 1889 elected sheriff of
Duval County, Florida, which office he con
tinued to hold, by successive reflections un
til 1900. He was elected a member of the
Florida Legislature from Duval County in
1900, was a member of the State Board of
Health of Florida from 1900 to 1904, and in
1904 was elected Governor of Florida for
the term expiring January, 1909. Resi
dence: Jacksonville, Florida. Official ad
dress : Tallahassee, Florida.
BROWN, Arthur Erwin:
Naturalist; born in Pennsylvania, Au
gust 14, 1850; son of Samuel Corbin Brown
and Achsah Erwin (Kennedy) Brown. He
was educated chiefly abroad; and received
the honorary degree of ScD. from the Uni
versity <)f Pennsylvania in 1907. He is
vice-president and curator of the Acad
emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia;
secretary of the Zoological Society of Phila
delphia ; and manager of the Wistar Insti
tute of Anatomy. He is corresponding mem
ber of the Zoological Society of London,
and an honorary member of the New York
Zoological Society, and other zoological so
cieties ; member of the American Philo
sophical Society, and fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is also a member of the Phila
delphia Club. Residence: 1208 Locust
Street, Philadelphia. Office address : Zo
ological Gardens, Philadelphia.

BROWN, Arthur Newton:
Librarian; born in Terre Haute, Ind
iana, 1857; son of Robert Russell and El
vira (Jenks) Brown. His parents went in
1861 to Springfield, Massachusetts, where
he was educated in the public schools. From
1876 to 1878 he was in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston. In
1878, he was made assistant librarian of .
the Springfield City Library, where he had
previously done work. In January, 1883,
he went to take a position in the auditor's
office of the Mexican Central Railroad in
Mexico. Later he left that post to become
Spanish translator for Mexican Financier,
a trade journal published in English and
Spanish in Mexico City, but on account of
serious illness, he returned to the United
States in August, 1884. In February, 1885,
Mr. Brown became executive assistant to
the Chief librarian of Columbia College
Library, New York. He became a life
member in 1885 of the American Library
Association. In October, 1885, he was elec
ted assistant manager of the Library Bureau
at Boston. Subsequently, he was appointed
librarian of the United States Naval Acad
emy, in August, 1886, and in September,
1896, was made professor of English, in
the same institution^ and in October, 1900,
he again became Librarian of the Naval
Academy, retaining the title of Professor
of English. Mr. Brown married at Boston,
Massachusetts, June 29, 1898, Annie L. D.
Currier, daughter of Augustus N. Currier,
of Worcester, Massachusetts. Address:
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland.
BROWN, Bolton Colt:
Artist; born in Dresden, New York, No
vember 27, 1864; son of Edmund Wood
ward' Brown and Martha Day (Colt)
Brown. He was graduated from Syracuse
University as Bachelor of Painting in 1885,
and Master of Painting, 1888; he was sen
ior instructor in freehand drawing at Cor
nell from 1885 to 1888; made * European
trips in the summer of 1887 and 1888, 1889.
He was a director of the Parkdale Govern
ment Art School in Toronto, Canada,
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ment Art School in 1890; teacher of art at 1
Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, from 1890 1
to 1891, and instructor of drawing and |
painting in 1891 ; and associate professor
in 1893 and 1895; and professor from 1895
to 1901, at Stanford University, California.
He was at the head of the art work there
during these ten years, 1891 to 1901, and
later director and designor of art indus
tries at Byrdcliffe, Ulster County, New
York, but has discontinued teaching to give
his entire time to painting. His favorite
recreation is mountaineering, and he is -a
member of the Sierra. Club, and was
formerly a member of the American Alpine
Club. He has contributed many illus
trated articles to the Sierra Club Bulletin.
His paintings have been exhibited in the
Academies of New York, Philadelphia, and
the Art Institute of Chicago. He at one
time dealt in Japanese prints, and lectured
on Japanese art. Mr. Brown married at
Palo Alto, California, June 10, 1896, Lucy
Fletcher, and they have three children:
Eleanor, born in 1897; Marian, born in
1900, and Robert, born in 1901. Residence
and country ' studio : Woodstock, Ulster
County, New York. Address (studio) : 51
West Tenth Street, New York City.
BROWN, Calvin Luther:
Jurist; born at Goshen, Sullivan County,
New Hampshire, April 26, 1854; son of
John H. Brown and Orrisa Maxfield
Brown. He was educated in the public
schools, and studied law in offices, and was
admitted to the bar of Minnesota in 1876.
He located in the practice of law at Mor
ris, Minnesota, where he remained until
he was elected in November, 1898, one of
the judges of the Supreme Court of Minn
esota. Judge Brown married, at Willmar,
Minnesota, September 1, 1879, Annette
Mario w; children: Olive (deceased), Alice
A., Montreville J., Edna and Margaret.
Residence: Moris, Minnesota. Office ad
dress: Saint Paul, Minnesota.
BROWN, Calvin S. :
Professor of Romance languages ; born in
Obion County, -Tennessee, February 13,
1866; son of Calvin S. Brown and Marga

ret (Martin) Brown, and a descendant ol
Virginia stock. He was graduated from
high school in Obion County, Tennessee;
from Vanderbilt University; studied at the
University of Paris, France, and the Uni
versity of Leipzig, Germany; and he re
ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of Colorado. He has held chairs in
Vanderbilt University, the University of
Missouri, the University of Colorado, and
the University of Mississipi; and he has
been professor of Romance languages in the
University of Mississippi since 1905. He
has traveled extensively in the United
States, England, France, Spain, Portugal,
Madeira, the Azores, Italy, Greece, Asia,
Russia, Germany, Holland, Belgium and
Canada. He is an Independent Democrat
in politics. He is a member of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Modern Language Association
of America, and the Phi Beta Kappa Socie
ty. His favorite recreations are geologiz
ing, botanizing and collecting. He is edi
tor of: the Later English Drama, and of
Tennyson's Poems. He married at West
Point, Georgia, in 1905, Maud Morrow, of
Georgia, formerly professor of Greek and
Latin in the Agnes Scott College at At
lanta, Georgia, and they have a daughter,
Edith Brown, born in 1906. Residence and
postoffice: University, Mississippi. Express
address : Oxford, Mississippi.
BROWN, Charles Arthur:
Sanitary engineer; born May 17, 1866;
son of James M. Brown, and Minnie (Bog-
gess) Brown. He was educated in the
public schools of Quincy, Illinois, and two
years at Chaddock College, and spent six
years in study in a prjvate laboratory,
owned by himself, before beginning the
practice of chemistry and bacteriology.
March 12, 1896 he took charge of "the ex
perimental filter plant of O. H. Jewell Fil
ter Company, for the famous Louisville
experiments. He established the world's
record on mechanical filters at Lorain, Ohio,
in 1897 ; served three years as expert chem
ist and bacteriologist with the Wefugo
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, and became
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Ohio, in 1903, and rebuilt the filtration
construction of the first municipal water
plant. He designed and supervised the
softening plant in the United States at
Oberlin, Ohio, in 1903, and the plant proved
very succesful and is still in operation
without change. Other and larger cities
have copied this plant : Columbus, Ohio ;
New Orleans, Louisiana; McKeesport,
Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown introduced the
use of sulphate of iron as a coagulant at
Lorain, Ohio, in 1903, and made its use
practical for other cities ; and he has in
vented the method of using sulphates of
iron, copper and caustic lime for steriliz
ing public water supplies, and took out a
patent on the method. Mr. Brown was
appointed sanitary engineer to the Ameri
can Steel and Wire Company in June, 1904.
He has taken numerous patents in connec
tion with chemical methods, apparatus and
mechanical devices for municipal filters;
has conducted numerous and important
tests of municipal and commercial filters
and worked out the problem of purifying
Chicago River water so as to render it
safe for domestic use. The plant for this
purpose which is now under way will cost
one million dollars. Mr. Brown is a mem
ber of the Consulting Chemical Engineering
Company of Chicago. He is a member of
the American Association of Water Works,
the New England Association of Water
Works, the American Chemical Society,
and Ohio Engineering Society. He is a
Republican in politics and a Cbngregation-
alist in his religious affiliation. He married
at Lorain, Ohio, July 16, 1901, Lillian E.
Tillack. Residence: 218 Washington
Street, Lorain, Ohio. Office address : Amer
ican Steel and Wire Company, Chicago, Il
linois.
BROWN.Charles E.:
Archaeologist; bora in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, October 24, 1872; son of Theodore
D. and Elizabeth (Kuhlmann) Brown. He
was educated in the common and high
schools, taking special studies in prepara
tion for scientific work. From 1891 to
1898 he followed civil engineering as a pro
fession, and for six years thereafter was

connected with the Milwaukee Museum as
scientific assistant. In 1904 the United
States Philippine Commission appointed
him member of the scientific staff of the
Philippine Exposition at the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition. There he served as as
sistant chief in the catalogue department,
assistant chief of the ethnology exhibit, and
chief of the fish and game building; and
for distinguished services was awarded a
medal by the Commission in 1905. For
some years he served as a non-commissioned
officer in Battery A of the Wisconsin Na
tional Guard. He has been curator of the
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters (Madison, Wisconsin), since 1902,
and was one of the incorporators of the
Wisconsin Archaeological Society, organ
ized for the purpose of encouraging the
study and preservation of Wisconsin antiq
uities, and has served as its secretary and
curator since 1903. He has been vice-presi
dent of the Wisconsin Mycological Society
since 1903, was director of the Wisconsin
Natural History Society during the year
1903 to 1904, an honorary member of the
Missouri Historical Society, in 1905, and is
a member of various other scientific so
cieties. He is editor of the Wisconsin Arch
aeologist, and author of many papers and
articles on American Archaeology. He is
a member of the Episcopal Church. He
married at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 25,
1899, Bertha Rose Stredy, and they have
two children: Theodore T. and Lorraine C.
Address: 1214 Chestnut Street, Milwaukee,'
Wisconsin.
BROWN, Charles Francis:
Lawyer; born at Newburgh, New York,
September 12, 1844 ; son of John W. and
Eliza (Reeve) Brown. His preparatory ed
ucation was received at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, from which he
was graduated in 1862; then entered Yale
College, from which he was graduated as-
B.A. in 1866; and in 1896 he received the
degree of LL.D. from his alma mater.
He was admitted to the bar in May, 1868,
and practiced law at Newburgh, New
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until 1882. He served as district attorney
of Orange County, from 1874 to 1877, and
as county judge of Orange County from
1878 to 1882. He was elected in 1882 a
justice of the Supreme Court of the State
of New York and served until 1896. He
was assigned by Governor Hill in 1889 to
the Court of Appeals, serving as such from
1889 to 1892, and served as presiding judge
of the General Term of the Supreme Court,
1893-1895, by assignment - of Governor
Flower and was appointed by Governor
Morton, 1896, as presiding judge of the
Appellate Division, Second Department.
He was renominated at the close of the
term, but declined to be a candidate for re
election. Judge Brown was general counsel
of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany, from 1897 to 1901, and since then
has been engaged in general practice in
New York City. He was a delegate to
the • National Democratic Convention
at Baltimore in 1872 ; was secretary
of the Democratic State Committee
of New York in 1874, and from
1880 to 1882. He is an Independent
Democrat in politics and a Presbyterian
in religious affiliation. He is a member
of the New York State Bar Association,
the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the New York Natural History Mu
seum, the Associated Charities of New
burgh, New York, and the Zoological So
ciety of New York City. His recreations
are driving, horseback riding, automobiling.
Judge Brown is a member of the University
and Yale Clubs, the Century Association,
the Down Town Association, and the New
York Riding Club. He married at New
burgh, New York, June 27, 1876, Miss
Harriet E. Shaffer, and by that union there
are two daughters : Florence Eighme (now
Mrs. E. J. Jova), and Nanna Higginson
(now Mrs. Dudley S. Harde). Address:
60 Wall Street, New York City.
BROWN, Charles H.:
Lawyer; born at West Winfield, New
York, July 20, 1858; son of Hiram Clark
Brown and Alice Ann (Stuart) Brown.
He was educated at West Winfield Acad

emy from 1870 to 1875, and at Hungerford
Collegiate Institute, Adams, New York,
from 1875 to 1877. He was admitted to the
bar in 1880; district attorney of Allegany
County, New York, from 1889 to 1897; as
sistant United States attorney of the North
ern District of New York, 1897 to 1899;
United States attorney of the same dis
trict, from 1899 to 1900; United States at
torney of the Western District, New York,
from 1900 to 1906. In 1906 he was elected
justice of the Supreme Court of the State
of New York, for fourteen years. He is a
Republican in politics, and an Episcopalian
in religion. He is a Mason and a member
of the Buffalo and Ellicott Clubs of Buff
alo, New York. Judge Brown married at
Adams, New York, November 16, 1881,
Alice C. Smith, and they have three chil
dren ; Charles H., Jr., born in 1883 ; Harold
Stuart, born in 1886; Dorothy Alice, born
in 1898. Address : Belmont, Allegany
County, New York.
BROWN, Charles R,:
Banker, broker; born at Simcoe, Ontario,
August 3, 1869;. son of Mark and Jane
Irving) Brown. At the age of twenty,
he was secretary and treasurer of the Nor
folk Insurance Company; in 1892 began
real estate and banking operations through
out Northwest; in September, 1898, located
in New York in brokerage business, buy
ing and selling large properties. He organ
ized in 1892, the Oppenheimer Institute
of which he is vice-president. He is also
vice-president of the Ramage Securities
Company. Mr. Brown is a Republican in
politics. He is a trustee of the First
Methodist Episcopalian Church of Yonkers,
New York, and is a member of the Drug
Trade Club of New York City. He mar
ried Mary Leone Clark, daughter of Wil-
lia Clark, journalist, and they have three
children : Charles, born in 1892, Mary,
born in 1897 and John, born in 1899.
Residence : 72 Locust Hill Avenue, Yon
kers, New York. Address : 170 Broadway,
New York City.
BROWN, Daniel Russell:
Thirty-ninth governor of Rhode Island
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County, Connecticut, March 28, 1848; son
of Arba Harrison and Harriet M. Dart
Brown. He is descended from a fine line
of ancestry, which made an honorable and
conspicuous record in colonial history.
Three of his ancestors were among the
Mayflower Pilgrims, and he is eligible,
therefore, to membership in The Sons of
Colonial Wars and the Mayflower Society.
His youth was spent on his father's farm
and his early education was obtained in
the Bolton district schools. Subsequently
he prosecuted .his studies as the academy
at Manchester,, and still later at Hartford.
Having completed the course of study, he
entered at once on a business career, be
ginning as a clerk in a hardware store at
Rockville, Connecticut. Two years after
ward he became head salesman in the lead
ing hardware establishment at Hartford.
In January, 1870, he took charge of the
mill supply store owned by Cyrus White
in Providence, Rhode Island. Within three
months he formed a partnership with Wil
liam Butler & Son, the style becoming
Butler, Brown & Co., and in 1877 the firm
of Brown Bros. & Co., as it then became,
was the largest establishment - of the
kind in the United States. In 1893
the company was incorporated as
the Brown Bros. Co. While giving
close attention to his large and constantly
increasing business interests he found time
to take an active . and intelligent part in
political affairs. A staunch Republican, he
became a foremost member of the party in
the city and State. In 1880 he was elected
to the common council of the city of Prov
idence, serving in that body four years. In
1885 he was nominated by the Republicans
as mayor of Providence, but declined the
honor. In 1888 he was one of the presi
dential electors of the State, and in 1892
was nominated and elected governor of
Rhode Island, receiving 27,461 votes, and
John W. Davis, Democrat, 25433. The
total vote was 54,679, the largest ever cast
in the State. In 1893 he again was a
candidate. David S. Baker, Jr., was the
nominee of the Democrats, and Henry B.
Metcalf, of the Prohibitionists. The votes

for the respective candidates were: 22,015,
21,830, and 3,265, and there being no choice
by the people, the choice devolved upon the
General Assembly. At the opening of .the
May session of the General Assembly the
Democrats, having a majority in the House
of Representatives, proceeded to unseat
two Republicans, their purpose being to
secure control of the grand committee and
thus be able to elect their candidate for
governor. A .resolution was then passed
inviting the Senate to join the House in
grand committee to count the ballots and
declare the result. Recognizing the revo
lutionary and illegal scheme of the Demo
crats, the Senate refused to go into grand
committee, and passed a resolution of ad
journment until January, 1894. The House
declined to concur and laid the resolution
on the table. The Senate then formally
informed Governor Brown that a differ
ence existed between the two branches of
the" General Assembly as to the date of
adjournment. Governor Brown met the
issue fairly and courageously. Exercising
his prerogative under the constitution he
adjourned the assembly until the following
January. The Democrats denounced his
action as unwarranted and illegal and con
tinued to hold rump sessions of the House
until the Assembly convened again. This
was in January, 1894, and then by every
possible trick they endeavored to entrap
the governor, but failed. He knew the
course he should pursue and never devi
ated from it. The result was that the
palpable Democratic scheme to steal the
State offices was defeated and the danger
that threatened orderly government under
the constitution was averted. The Demo
crats appealed to the Supreme Court, but
that body sustained Governor Brown, as
did the people of the State in a signal
manner at the election in the following
April. The vote was the largest ever cast
in Rhode Island. Governor Brown polled
29,179 votes and David S. Baker, Jr., Dem
ocrat, 22,924, the former's plurality being
6,255. It was largely due to Governor
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plurality was adopted. He also favored
biennial elections and exercised a potent
influence in securing the passage of the
free text-book law, measures for the im
provement of highways, the anti-pool sell
ing law, the medical practitioners' law, the
laws regulating the business of surety com
panies and building and loan associations,
the factory inspection law, and the revi
sion of the statutes. During his three
years' administration Governor Brown was
especially interested in the State militia,
and to his wisdom and good judgment
was in a great measure due the high stand
ard in discipline and efficiency it then at
tained. Having displayed such remarkable
ability and tact in dealing with public af
fairs in his own State, it was not at all
surprising that his worth should be recog
nized beyond its borders or that this recog
nition should come in the form of making
him New England's candidate for the vice-
presidency before the Republican National
Convention in 1896. His defeat for the
nomination was due mainly to the per
sistent support given by a number of his
delegates to Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of
Maine for the presidency. Governor
Brown is a member of the Beneficent Con
gregational Church in Providence; of the
Young Men's Christian Association, and of
over thirty other benevolent, literary and
social organizations. He was married at
Providence, October 14, 1874, to Isabel,
daughter of Milton and Mary (Guild)
Barrows. They have three children : Mil
ton Barrows, Isabel Russell and Hope
Caroline. Address : Providence, Rhode
Island.
BROWN, Edward Osgood:
Jurist; born at Salem, Massachusetts,
August 5, 1847; son of Edward and Eliza
(Dalton) Brown. After a careful prepara
tory education he entered Brown Univer
sity, from which, he was graduated as A.
B. in the class of 1867, and then, returning
to Salem, became a student in the law offices
there, and afterward in Dane School at
Harvard University. He was admitted to
the bar in 1870, became assistant clerk to

the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in
1870-1871, and began practice in the firm of
Peckham and Brown at Chicago in 1872,
continuing practice until his elevation to the
bench. Judge Brown is classed politically
as a Radical Democrat, and has for years
been known throughout the country as one
of the leaders in the Single-tax movement,
and one of the most cogent advocates of
that and related reforms. He was an un
successful canditdate for the bench of the
Superior Court of Cook County in 1893;
was counsel for the Lincoln Park Com
missioners from 1894 to 1897, and in 1903
was elected for a term of six years to his
present position as one of the judges of the
Circuit Court for Cook County, Illinois. He
was designated by the Supreme Court of
Illinios, in 1904, as one of the judges of the
Appellate Court for the First (Chicago)
District. Judge Brown is author of num
erous legal and economic papers and
other contributions to the periodical press.
He is a member of the Iroquois, Univer
sity, City, Illinois Athletic, and Chicago Lit
erary Clubs of Chicago, and of the Reform
Club of New York. He married at Chicago,
June 25, 1884, Helen Gertrude Eagle. Resi
dence : 400 North State Street. Office ad
dress : Ashland Block, Chicago, Illinois.
BROWN, Ernest William:
Professor of mathematics ; born in Hull,
Yorkshire, England, November 20, 1866;
oldest son of the late William Brown, and
of Emma (Martin) Brown. He was edu
cated at the Rev. J. D. Bell's School, at
Totterige Park, Hertfordshire, England, and
at Hull and East Riding College, and at
Christ's College, Cambridge, England, as
scholar in 1884. He was fellow from 1889
to 1895, and he received the degree of
B.A. in 1887 and that of ScD. in 1896. He
was professor of mathematics at Haverford
College, Pennsylvania, from 1891 to -1907,
and since 1907 has been professor of math
ematics in Yale University. He is author
of : Treatise on the Lunar Theory, New
Theory of the Motion of the Moon ; and edi
tor of the transactions of .the American
Mathematical Society, 1900 to 1907; also
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theory and on Celestial Mechanics during
past sixteen years, chiefly in Memoirs and
Proceedings of Royal Astronomical So
ciety, London Mathematical Society, Ameri
can Journal of Mathematics and American
Mathematical Society; articles and lectures
on popular subjects. He is a fellow of the
Royal Society and a member of the Royal
Astronomical Society, and was awarded the
gold medal of the Royal Astronomical So
ciety in 1907 and won the Adams Prize at
Cambridge in 1907. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Society ; the Amer
ican Mathematical Society, etc. He has
frequently visited Switzerland, has traveled
in Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany,
and other European countries and visited
South Africa in 1905. His favorite recrea
tions are rowing, music, 'chess, climbing, and
golf. He is a member of the Graduates
Club of New Haven, Connecticut. Address :
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
BROWN, Henry Billings:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, retired; born at
South Lee, Massachusetts, March 2, 1836;
son of Billings Brown and Mary (Tyler)
Brown. He was graduated from Yale
College as B.A. in 1856; then studied law
in an office and attended the law schools
of Yale and Harvard. He went to De
troit and engaged in practice; was deputy
United States marshal for the Eastern
District of Michigan from 1861 to 1863 ;
assistant United States attorney for the
same district from 1863 to 1868; then
was appointed and served for a few
months as judge of the Circuit Court
for Wayne County, Michigan, in 1868.
He then practiced law in Detroit un
til 1875, when he was appointed by
President Grant, judge of the United
States District Court for the East
ern District of Michigan, which office he
held until appointed in 1891, an associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, in which office he served until 1906,
when he retired. The degree of LL.D. was
conferred upon Judge Brown by the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1887, and by Yale
in 1891. He compiled Brown's Admiralty

Reports. Justice Brown is lecturer upon
-Admiralty law in the University of Michi
gan and in Georgetown University. He is
a member of the Cosmos and Chevy Chase
Clubs of Washington, the Society of the
Cincinriati, and the Society of Mayflower
Descendants. He married first, at Detroit,
Michigan, in 1864, Caroline Pitts, who died
in 1901. He married again, June 25, 1904,
Josephine E. Tyler. Address 1720 Six
teenth Street, Washington, D. C.
BROWN, James W.:
Steel manufacturer and ex-congressman;
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 14,
1844; son of William R. Brown and Mar
garet K. (McGonnegle) Brown; arid he has
been a resident of Allegheny County, Penn
sylvania all his life. He was educated in
the common and private schools of Alle
gheny County. In 1876 he engaged in the
steel manufacturing business in Pittsburgh,
in which he has ever since continued. He
is a Republican in politics, and in 1902 was
nominated on a Fusion ticket from the
Thirty-second Pennsylvania District, to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, in which he served
from 1903 to 1905. He is a member of
the Engineers' Club of New York, the
Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C,
and the Pittsburgh, Duquesne and Union
Clubs of Pittsburgh. He married at Pitts
burgh, October 7, 1867, Clara Palmer
Howe, daughter of Hon. Thomas W.
Howe, deceased. Residence: Woodland
Road, East End, Pittsburgh. Office ad
dress : Keystone Bank Building, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
BROWN, J. Eldred:
Clergyman ; born in Newport, Rhode Is
land, January 4, 1861 ; son of James Boone
Brown and Mary Anna (Handy) Brown.
He was graduated from Rogers High
School, Newport, Rhode Island, in 1879,
and as salutatorian and essayist, with the
B.A. degree from Trinity College in 1883,
and M.A. in 1886, and the Berkeley Divin
ity School, Middletown, Connecticut, in
1886. He was ordained deacon by Bish
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op John F. Spaldiing at Colorado,
December 18, 1886. He was principal of
Jarvis Hall, Denver, Colorado in 1886 and
1887; curate in All Saints' Church, at
Providence, Rhode Island, August to No
vember, 1887; rector of the Church of the
Reconciliation, at Webster, Massachusetts,
November 1887 to August 1896, and since
that date rector of Trinity Church, Nor
wich, Connecticut. Mr. Brown was a
member of the Board of Education of Cen
tral School District of Norwich, Connecti
cut, from 1897 to 1902; has been president
of the Clericus of the New London Arch
deaconry since 1897, and has been a trustee
and general manager of The Eliza Hunting
ton Meriiorial Home, Norwich, Connecticut,
since 1897. He is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and of the Psi Upsilon
fraternity. He is author of the Half Cen
tury of Parish Life, a historical sermon,
published in 1900. He married at Middle-
town, Connecticut, June 22, 1887, Char
lotte M., daughter of Judge William T.
Elmer, and they have three children : Kath
arine Elmer, born in 1888 ; Thomas Gilbert,
born in 1890, and Dorothy, born in 1893.
Address : 28 Otis Street, Norwich, Con
necticut.BROWN, John A.:
Lawyer; bom at Tannersville, Greene
County, New York, June 21, 1876; son of
James Brown and Catharine (Goggin)
Brown. He was educated by a private
tutor, and at the Chicago High School.
He studied at the Kent College of Law
in Chicago, graduating as LL.B. in 1898,
and took a post-graduate course at the Ill
inois College of Law, from which he re
ceived the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M. in
1899. He was admitted to the bar in De
cember, 1898, and has been engaged in gener
al practice in the State and Federal courts.
He handled the Tug Trust case, the Quo
tation cases, involving the property rights
of the boards of trade in quotations; the
Marks murder case, and Frawley murder
case, and many minor cases. He has been
associated with Jacob J. Kern, formerly
city attorney of Chicago, and later States
attorney of Cook County, Illinois, since his

admission to the bar, the firm now being
Kern & Brown. He is secretary, treas
urer and director of the Barry Brothers
Dock Company ; secretary and director of
the Henricis Incorporated; president and
director of the Cleveland Schaffer Com
pany; director of the Continental Film Ex
change, and of the Shotwell Manufacturing
Company of Chicago. He is Democratic in
politics, though he has never held a public
office. Mr. Brown is a member of the
Illinois State Bar Association, and the Chi
cago Bar Association; trustee of the Illi
nois College of Law, and director of the
University Extension Law School. He is
a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fra
ternity, and president of its alumni asso
ciation; is past regent of the Illinois Coun
cil of the Royal Arcanum; sitting past re
gent of Aar Council, Royal Arcanum;
member of the Banner Lodge 219, Knights
of Pythias ; and he is a member of the
Press Club of Chicago. Residence: 403
East Ontario Street, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 79 South Clark Street, Chicago, Illi
nois.BROWN, John Crosby:
Banker ; born in New York City, May 22,
1838 ; son of James Brown and Elisha Maria
(Coe) Brown. He was graduated from
Columbia College as A.B. in 1859. He be
came connected with the banking house of
Brown Brothers and Company, in 1859, and
is now a senior member. He was former
ly a member of the Board of Education of
the City of New York. He is a member
of the Chamber of Commerce of the State
of New York, and treasurer of its charity
funds ; a director of the Liverpool and Lon
don and Globe Insurance Company, and the
Toledo, St. Louis and Western- Railroad
Company; trustee of the Bank for Savings
and the United States Trust Company;
president of the Newburg, Dutchess and
Connecticut Railroad Company; director of
the Clove Branch Railroad. He is trustee
of the Columbia College, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Union Theological
Seminary, and director of the Presbyterian
Hospital. Mr. Brown is a member of the
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Clubs, and the Down Town Association of
New York City, and the Essex County
Country Club. Mr. Brown married in New
York City, November 9, 1864, Mary E,
Adams. Residence: 36 East Thirty-seventh
Street. Address : 59 Wall Street, New York
City.
BROWN, John Howard:
Author, editor and biographical writer,
born in Rhinebeck, New York, November
8, 1840; the eldest son of William How
ard and Elizabeth (Conklin) Brown;
grandson of John and Lydia (Lasher)
Brown and of Jacob and Catherine (Pawl
ing) Conklin; great-grandson of Major
John and Maria (Van Duser) Pawling,
and descended from pioneer settlers of the
Hudson River Valley, who came from the
Lower Palatinate on the Rhine and estab
lished settlements at Rhinebeck, Staatsburg,
and Pawling Patents in Dutchess County,
and plantations in Ulster County, New
York. The Conklins were of English de
scent and early settlers of Long Island
and of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys
in the State of New York. He attended
the Rhinebeck Academy, Fort Edward In
stitute, and Eastman College and worked
on a farm and taught district school.
He entered active business life as a clerk
in a law office in New York City, and then
as bookkeeper in a commercial house in
that city. He represented a New York
firm of brokers in Washington, D.C, from
1864 to 1866; was a real estate agent in
Augusta, Georgia, from 1869 to 1871, and
in 1872 removed to New York City and
engaged in the subscription book business,
as manager of the United States Publishing
Company; the subscription department of
the Frank 'Leslie Publishing House; and of
the American News Company and subse
quently as a publisher of subscription books.
He was associated with Rev. Charles F.
Deems in publishing The Christian Age,
and in selling . Deems' Jesus, republishing
the work as Who Was Jesus? While with
Frank Leslie he was instrumental in
founding Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly,
the first low-priced illustrated monthly

magazine in America, followed by Frank
Leslie's Sunday Magazine, of which Dr.
Deems was editor. He also originated
Frank Leslie's Souvenir of the Centennial
Exposition, and after Mr. Leslie's death he
planned and published The Soldier in Our
Civil War, a quarto in two volumes which
is reputed to have been sold to the extent
of 150,000 copies. He was the first man
aging editor of the National Cyclopedia of
American Biography from 1890 to 1895;. of
Lambs' Biographical Dictionary of the
United States, seven volumes, from 1897
to 1903; Men of Mark in Massachusetts;
Lamb's Cotton Industries of the United
States, etc. He is the author of : American
Naval Heroes (1899), and he contributed
historical and biographical articles to cur
rent magazines and newspapers. He was
married twice; first, in 1866, to Cordelia,
daughter of William and Elizabeth Surfleet,
of Lincolnshire, England; and their daugh
ter, Cordelia Elizabeth Brown, married the
Rev. Charles H. Webb, rector of the
Church of the Redeemer, Astoria,- New
York. His first, wife died in 1867 and he
was married in 1872, to Jeannie Ham
ilton, daughter of James C. and La-
vanchia (Fitch) Derby), at Aiken, South
Carolina, and their children are: Alice
Derby, William Howard, Derby, Marjorie,
Mildred, and John Hamilton Brown. They
have resided in Newtonville Massachu
setts since 1897, where Mr. Brown has de
voted himself entirely to biographical writ
ing. Address : Newtonville, Massachu
setts.
BROWN, John Pinkney:
Editor and civil engineer; born at Rising
Sun, Indiana, January 19, 1842; son of
Elbridge Gerry Brown, who was a de
scendant of General Brown, of the Massa
chusetts Militia during the Revolutionary
War, and Adaline (Style) Brown. He
was educated in the schools of Indiana,
and for a brief period at Hanover College,
Hanover, Indiana. He served as a mem
ber of the Sixteenth Indiana Regiment in
1861 to 1865, and was with the United
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1863, and with the General Logan's Division
in Mississippi River Service in 1864 and
1865. Mr. Brown was engaged as a civil
engineer in the survey of the Pacific Rail
way east from California in 1866, the sur
vey of the State line between California
and Nevada in 1866, and on various rail
way engineering projects. He was also
engaged on the survey of the Crow Indian
Reservation boundary in 1890. He has
made forestry studies in the field, in the
Rocky Mountains, and all portions of North
America. He originated the plan for ex
tensive tree planting by railroads for tim
ber purposes, and twenty-five million trees
have been planted as the result of his ef
forts in that direction. He is secretary and
treasurer of the International Society of
Arboriculture, and he has traveled over three
hundred thousand miles in North and Cen
tral America in the study of forests. Mr.
Brown established, in 1902, the magazine
Arboriculture, devoted to economic forestry,
as an advocate of Governmental, State,
corporation and individual tree planting
for the benefit of the future Nation and the
present generation, and he is author of:
Practical Arboriculture, a book covering
the problems of railway engineers, manu
facturers, lumbermen and farmers in rela
tion to tree planting and particularly the re
forestation of denuded areas. He has
been the leader in advocacy of the plant
ing of the American tree Catalpa speciosa,
a rapid maturing and valuable economic
tree, formerly almost unknown but now
through his advocacy growing by the mill
ions .in this and many foreign countries.
He is an honorary member of many for
eign societies of arboriculture and forestry.
He is an Independent Republican in poli
tics, and is a Royal Arch Mason. He mar
ried at Baldwin, Kansas, March 18, 1868,
Mary Ellen Stephens, and they have ten
children living, three sons, married, and
seven daughters. Address : Connersville,
Fayette County, Indiana.
BROWN, Joseph Gill:
Banker ; born in Raleigh, North Carolina,
November 5, 1854; son of Henry Jerome
Brown and Lydia (Lane) Brown. He was

educated in private schools in Raleigh, and
at Trinity College, North Carolina, leaving
about the middle of his sophomore year to
engage in business. He served successively
as collector, teller and cashier, and since
1894 he has been president of the Citizens'
National Bank of Raleigh, North Carolina;
and he is widely known as one of the ablest
bankers and financiers of the South. He is
vice-president of the Atlantic Fire Insur
ance Company, and president of the Jef
ferson Standard Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Brown has represented his State in
the principal bankers' organizations of the
country, having served a term as vice-
president for North Carolina, and three
terms as a member of the executive coun
cil of the American Bankers' Association;
and he was president of the State Bankers'
Association of North Carolina in 1899 and
1900. He is a Democrat in politics; has
been treasurer of the city of Raleigh for
twenty-five years ; was president of the
Board of Charities of the city of Raleigh
in 1905 and 1906; president of the Raleigh
Clearing House Association and the Cham
ber of Commerce. Mr. Brown is a prom
inent layman of the Methodist Episcopal.
Church South; was a member of the Gen
eral Conferences of the Church in 1898,
1902 and 1906; is a member of the Ep-
worth League, General Board of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, and was ap
pointed by the College of Bishops as a
delegate to the Ecumenical Conference of
Methodism in London in 1902. Mr. Brown
is trustee and treasurer of the Methodist
Orphanage, and a trustee of Trinity Col
lege, of North Carolina. Mr. Brown mar
ried in Raleigh, North Carolina, Novem
ber 10, 1881, Alice Burkhead, and they
have four children: Josephine Lane,
Robert Anderson, Bessie, Francis Burk
head. Residence : 105 South Dawson Street,
Raleigh. Office address : 239 Fayetteville
Street, Raleigh, North Carolina.
BROWN, Julius L,:
Lawyer; bora at Canton, Cherokee Counr
ty, Georgia, May 31, 1848; son of Joseph
Emerson Brown (twentv-fourth Governor
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antl chief justice of Georgia), and Eliza
beth Brown. His early studies were under
private instruction, but in 1864, a boy of
sixteen, he entered the Confederate Army
and was in active service until the close of
the war. He then resumed his studies, en
tered, on examination, the junior class of
the University of Georgia, where he was a
junior and senior orator, and was gradu
ate^ with the class of 1868. He then took
up the study of law, was admitted to the
bar in September, 1869, and was graduated
LL.B., cum laude, from Harvard Law
School, in 1870. He began practice in At
lanta as assistant to J. D. Pope, United
States District Attorney for Georgia, until
1872, when he became general counsel for
the original lessees of the Western & At
lantic Railroad, which connection he contin
ued for over twenty years. He suggested
the East Tennessee Railroad through
Georgia, and secured the passage of its
charter (which he drew) through the Leg
islature, in spite of a strong opposition
backed by the Central of Georgia Rail
road. He organized and was for a long
time president of the Georgia Mining,
Manufacturing and Investment Company,
miners of coal and manufacturers of pig
iron, and chartered the Metropolitan Street
Railroad Company, building two street
railroads. He has had charge of much
important litigation in Georgia, having been
especially prominent in settling the laws
pertaining to railroad and telegraph lines
in that State, and he is now master in
chancery of the United States Circuit
Court of Georgia. He has traveled ex
tensively in his own country, Europe, Can
ada, Mexico, and South America; is an art
connoisseur and an antiquarian collector,
and has been active in promoting social
organizations and State associations. He
was president of the Mystic Company,
whose great annual displays were closed
with balls which were widely famous ; had
a leading place in the management of the
North Georgia Fair Association, and was
president of the Young Men's Library As
sociation. He married, November 3, 1871,
Miss Fannie G., daughter of Tomlinson
Fort, M.D., who was a member of Con

gress. In the Masonic order Mr. Brown
is especially distinguished, having attained
the thirty-second degree and served as
Grand Commander of the Grand Command-
ery of Knights Templar; Grand Master of
the Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masters, and vice-president of the Grand
High Priesthood of Georgia. Residence:
187 Washington Street. Office address:
Temple Court Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
BROWN, Moreau Roberts:
Physician; born in Galveston, Texas,
July 26, 1853; son of James Moreau
and Rebecca Ashton (Stoddart) Brown.
He was educated in the private schools of
his native place and at Chester Academy,
Chester, Pennsylvania. He received his
medical education at the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, and in the medical
department of the University of Louis
ville, Kentucky, where he was graduated as
M.D. in 1876. He also took post-graduate
courses in Austria and Germany, then re
turned to Galveston, Texas, where he built
up an extensive practice and was house
physician of the Galveston City Hospital,
county physician of Galveston County, quar
antine physician and city physician of
Galveston. He removed to Chicago, Illi
nois in 1886, where he became a specialist
in the treatment of diseases of throat, ear
and nose. For many years he was pro
fessor of laryngology, rhinology and otolo
gy in the Chicago College, of Physicians
and Surgeons, resigning that position in
order to lessen the amount of work, in
1902; is professor of laryngology and rhi
nology in the Chicago Polyclinic, and'med-
ical director of the National Union. He is
a fellow of the American Laryngological
Society; member of the Chicago Medical
Society, the State Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, the Medico-
Legal Society, the Chicago Laryngological
and the Medical Examiners' Societies. He
is a member of the Physicians' Club of Chi
cago. Dr. Brown has been twice married,
his son, James Moreau Brown, being by
his first marriage. His second marriage
was to Louise Grevemberg, at Jeanerette,
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one daughter, Rebecca Alice. Office: 34
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Res
idence: Winnetka, Illinois.
BROWN, Orvllle Harry:
Physician; born at Sabetha, Kansas, July
18, 1875; son of Edward Mathew and
Sarah Catharine (Hull) Brown. He re
ceived his academic education at the Uni
versity of Kansas, graduating with the de
gree of A.B. . This was followed by study
in medicine and science at the University
of Chicago and the St. Louis University;
he received the degree of M.D. at St. Louis
University while occupying the position of
assistant professor of pharmacology at
that institution, and that of Ph.D. was con
ferred upon him by the University of Chi
cago. Dr. Brown is physician-in-chief of
the Missouri State Sanatorium for Incipi
ent Tuberculosis, and ex-associate medical
director of the Mount St. Rose Hospital
for Consumptives. He is a member of the
American Medical Association and other
professional societies, and also of the Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity and the Alpha Kappa
(medical) Society. He is connected with
the honor societies Sigma Xi and Alpha
Omega Alpha. He has traveled abroad,
where has has taken post-graduate studies
and made medical researches. Dr. Brown
is the author of numerous articles resulting
from his work on physiological, pharmaco
logical and medical subjects. Address: Mt.
Vernon, Missouri.
BROWN, Rollo Walter:
Professor of rhetoric in Wabash Col
lege; born at Crooksville,. Ohio, March
15, 1880; son of Alexander Brown and
Roselba (Search) Brown. He attended
the Ohio Northern University from 1899
to 1903; Received the degree of Litt B.,
and A.M., and was at Harvard University
from 1903 to 1905, receiving the A.M. de
gree. Immediately after he left the Harvard
Graduate School he was elected to an in-
structorship in Wabash College. At the
end of that year, from 1905 to 1906, he
was elected to a full professorship at a full
professor's salary at the age of twenty-
six, thus coming to his position very early
in life. Professor Brown is Republicari In

politics and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is a member of the
Ouiatenon, a literary club of Crawfords
ville, Indiana. Address : 704 West Pike
Street, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
BROWN, Roscoe, C. E.
Editor; bora in Scottsville, New York,
August 23, 1867; son of the late D. D. S.
Brown, who was for some time proprietor
of The Rochester Democrat, now The
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and
vice-president of the Rochester and State
line, now the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burgh Railroad. He attended the public
school of his native town and was gradu
ated from the University of Rochester in
1889. That institution conferred upon him
the degree of M.A. in 1904. Immediately
after graduation from college he joined the
city staff of The New York Tribune, and
became assistant day editor in 1893. He
was an editorial writer for that journal,
devoting himself especially to political, con
stitutional and sociological questions from
1895 tp 1906, and iii 1906 he became its
managing editor. He was appointed State
civil, service commissioner by Governor
Higgins on January 19, 1905, to succeed
Cuthbert W. Pound, who resigned to be
come the Governor's counsel. Mr. Brown
was a member, of the Executive Committee
of the New York Civil Service Reform As
sociation, and he is a director of the Peo
ple's University Extension Society. He be
longs to the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha
Delta Phi fraternities, and is a member
of the Union League and Alpha Delta Phi
and City Clubs of New York, and the
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Address :
New York Tribune, New York City.
BROWN, Samuel Augustine:
Physician; born at North Cove, North
Carolina, . June 25, 1848; son of John Sea^
well Brown and Rebecca (Burnett) Brown.
He was educated in the common schools
and at Marion High School, Marion) North
Carolina; Jefferson Medical College, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, graduated, 1871, as
M.D. He entered the Navy as assistant
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passed assistant surgeon three years later,
and served at the Naval Hospital at Nor
folk, Virginia; on the United States sloop
of war Marion, the United States Steam
ship Powhatan, and the United States
Steamship Kansas, at the Naval Hospital,
Philadelphia; United States Receiving Ship,
Independence, United States Flagship Pen
sacola, and Naval Hospital at Pensacola,
Florida, was on 'leave when he resigned,
October, 1884. He is now president of the
Seventh District Medical Society; first
vice-president of the South Dakota
State Medical Society ; was first pres
ident and is now treasurer of the
Sioux Valley Medical Association; is
surgeon of the Illinois Central Rail
road and South Dakota Central Rail
road; and medical referee of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York;
and is director of the Sioux Falls National
Bank. He was formerly superintendent of
health of Minnehaha County, South Dako
ta, and formerly health officer of the City
of Sioux Falls. He is Democratic in poli
tics, and an Episcopalian in religious be
lief; member of the board of trustees of
the Chapter Missionary Jurisdiction of
South Dakota; member of Committee of
Advice of the same; senior warden of Cal
vary Cathedral, and physician to All Saints'
School. Dr. Brown is a prominet Mason
of the thirty-second degree; senior grand
warden and committee on correspondence
of the Grand Lodge of South Dakota;
grand representative of the Grand Chapter
of California ; Knight Templar, and a mem
ber of the Mystic Shrine. Dr. Brown has
been twice married; first at Portland,
Maine, September 7, 1875, to Clara K.
Cross ; and second, at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, September 21, 1896, to Susan M.
Ward. Residence : 424 West Thirteenth
Street, Sioux Falls. Address : Tenth
Street, corner Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota.
BROWN, Waldron Post:
Banker; born in New York City; son of
James M. Brown and Julia E. Brown, and
he was graduated from Columbia College
as A.B. in 1864. He is a member of the

firm of Brown Brothers and Company,
bankers; trustee of the Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company, and member of the
New York Stock Exchange, and the Cham
ber of Commerce. He is also a member of
the New York Botanical Gardens, the
Down Town Association, and the Metro
politan and Riding Clubs of New York. He
married at New York City, in 1870, Isabella
M. Wright, and they have two children:
Nannie W., and Ellen G. Residence: 32
East Thirty-fifth Street. Address : 59 Wall
Street, New York City.
BROWN, William Adams:
Clergyman and theologian; born in New
York City, December 29, 1865 ; son of John
Crosby Brown and Mary E. (Adams)
Brown. He was educated in St. Paul's
School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at
Yale College, from the latter of which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1886, and re
ceived the degree of A.M. in 1888, and
Ph.D. in 1901. He was graduated from the
Union Theological Seminary in 1890, and
he spent the years 1890 to 1892 in study at
Berlin as a fellow of the Union Theological
Seminary. The honorary degree of D.D.
was conferred upon him by Union Col
lege in 1902, and by Yale University in
1907. He has taught theology in the Union
Theological Seminary from 1892, and since
1898 has been Roosevelt professor of sys
tematic theology in that institution. He
is a member of the Society of Biblical Ex
egesis, the American Geographical Asso
ciation, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Ameri
can Philosophical Association. He is a
patron of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; a director of the Yale Alumni Fund;
a member of the Governing Board of the
Union Settlement of New York City, and
of the Executive Committee of the Gren-
fell Association. He is independent in pol
itics and a Presbyterian in his ecclesiastical
connection. He is author of: Musical In
struments and Their Homes, 1888 ; The Es
sence Christianity, 1902; Christian Theol
ogy in Outline, 1907 ; as well as of the arti
cles, Salvation, Millennium,' etc., in Hast
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merous contributions to reviews and mag
azines on theological and historical sub
jects. He is a member of the American
Editorial Board of the Flibbert Journal.
Dr. Brown is a member of the Century
Association, the University, Yale, American
Alpine, Apawamis Golf and West Side
Tennis Clubs. He married at St. Paul,
Minnesota, in 1892, Helen Gilman Noyes,
and they have three sons : John Crosby
Brown, 2d, born December 22, 1892; Wil-
lam Adams Brown, Jr., born November 14,
1894, and Winthrop Gilman Brown, born
July 12, 1907. Dr. Brown has a summer
home, The Tree Tops, at Seal Harbor,
Maine, where he is president of the Har
bor Cliffs Tennis Club, and a trustee of
the Congregational Church. Residence: 114
East Thirtieth Street. Address: 706 Park
Avenue, New York City.
BROWN, William H.:
Engineer; who, since June 1, 1881, has
been chief engineer of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, retired on February 28,
1900. During the years he has been with
the company he has been instrumental in
bringing the system up to the high stand
ard it has reached. He has not only made
a name for the railroad, but he has es
tablished a reputation for himself which is
possessed by few railroad civil engineers.
This retirement was not on account of
ill health or the inability to continue ar
work, but was ,accord:ng to the rules ot the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which
compel an officer and employee who shall
have attained the age of seventy years to
be relieved from the service. The Pennsyl
vania Railroad when Mr. Brown entered
its service, was nothing more than two
long stretches of rails. Since has been
at the head of the engineering department
it has greatly developed, and from a tor
tuous line is is now as straight as a road
can be built which runs through such a
country as it does. He has seen many
changes in the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany since he began his railroad career
with it. In keeping with the developing
of the line his ideas have also broadened
out until he is known the world, over as

one of the greatest railroad engineers of
the country. There are scattered all over
the system monuments to his achievements.
With the end of this year the Pennsylva
nia Railroad will be practically a four-
track road from Jersey City to Pittsburg.
This result was not accomplished without
considerable planning on the part of Mr.
Brown, who has rarely proved amiss in his
conclusions. Shortly before the war he
took up engineering in Philadelphia. He
became connected with the Survey Depart
ment of Philadelphia and gave the stakes
for the first passenger railway in this city,
and when the survey was made it attracted
considerable interest. Mr. Brown was
under Strickland Kneass, who was then
chief engineer of the Survey Department'
He remained with him until he became as
sociated with Thomas Scott, who had become
Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Scott
was very well acquainted with Mr. Kneass
and had asked him to send a surveyor to
serve under him. He desired to have plans
and surveys made of the country on the
south side of the Potomac so that he could
build a railroad to carry supplies to the
Union Army. At that time the heavy
commissary wagons had badly cut up the
roads so that it was almost impossible to
get the supplies through on time. Mr.
Kneass recommended Mr. Brown and he
was accordingly sent to Mr. Scott. This,
it is believed, was the turning point in
Mr. Brown's life, for he gained the good
will of Mr. Scott, who quickly saw there
was a great future in store for the young
engineer, and a year afterwards he began
his life work with the Pennsylvania sys
tem. Among some of the achievements of
Mr. Brown while working for the army
were the building of the bridge over the
Hedgesman River, in order to relieve Sie-
gel's Corps, and a long trestle over the
Rappahannock River, constructed in four
days, to enable General Pope's army to be
supplied promptly with munitions of war
and rations. In 1862 Mr. Brown was taken
ill with typhoid fever and was sent home.
After he recovered he remained with the
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to the Pan Handle Railroad as assistant
engineer, the line then being finished be
tween Pittsburg and Steubenville. He re
mained as assistant* engineer of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Rail
way until 1863, when he was promoted to
principal assistant engineer. In 1864 he
came to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany on special service on the Pittsburg
and Philadelphia divisions. On January
1, 1865, Mr. Brown was made roadmaster
of the Pan Handle Railroad at Coshocton,
and a month later promoted to engineer
of the Oil Creek Railroad, under Frank
Thomson, who was then general superin
tendent. In June of the sarne year he be
came principal assistant engineer of the Phil
adelphia & Erie division, and on September
1, 1867, was made engineer of the same
division. On March 1, 1869, he was trans
ferred to Altoona to build the new yards
and car shops, which are now the largest
railroads shops in the world. In January,
1870, he was promoted to the position of
resident engineer of the Middle Division
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with head
quarters at Altoona. This position he held
until March, 1871, when he became super
intendent and chief engineer of the Sun-
bury & Lewiston Railroad. In August
of the following year he was made super
intendent and engineer of the Bedford Di
vision. On August 1, 1874, he - was pro
moted to the position of engineer of main
tenance of way, with headquarters at Phil
adelphia, and on June 1, 1881, he became
chief engineer of the company. Address :
Pennsylvania Railroad, Broad Street Sta
tion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BROWN, William Montgomery:
Bishop of the Episcopal Church) Diocese
of Arkansas ; born near Orrville, Wayne
County, Ohio, November 6, 1855. He stud
ied at Kenyon University and received the
degree of D.D. from Kenyon and the Uni
versity Of the South. He was ordered dea
con in 1883 and was ordained to the priest
hood by Bishop Bedell the following year.
Iri 1886 he became rector of Grace Church,
Galion, Ohio, and organized seven mis
sions in his district. He remained in this

pastorate until 1891, when he became Gen
eral Missionary and Archdeacon of the
Diocese of Ohio. He was consecrated
Bishop-Coadjutor of Arkansas in 1898, be
coming Bishop of Arkansas in 1899. He is
author of the following: The Protestant
Episcopal Church Defended against Five
Unjust Allegations, 1889; The Church for
American, 1896; The Crucial Race Ques
tion, 1907; and he has also published
numerous sermons and addresses. Bishop
Brown married, at Cleveland, Ohio, April
9, 1885, Ella Scranton Bradford. Address:
November 1st to June 1st, 1222 Scott Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas ; June 1st to No
vember 1st, Galion, Ohio.
BROWN, W. Robinson:
Manufacturer of paper pulp; born at
Portland, Maine, January 17, 1875; son of
William W. and Emily H. (Jenkins)
Brown. He was educated at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and at
Williams College, receiving from the lat
ter institution the degree of A.B. in 1897.
In 1901 while in charge of the Berlin Mil!
Company's mill at Berlin, New Hampshire,
he obtained for it the present world's
record of 221,319 board feet in eleven hours
for one band saw. In 1905, he was the
first to prove the practical efficiency of the
steam log hauler for hauling logs in the
place of horses. He is a director in the
Berlin Mills Company, Portland, Maine,
and also the manager of the Woods Depart
ment of the same company; he is a director
in the Quebec and St. Maurice Industrial
Company, Quebec, Province of Quebec.
He is a member of the Kappa Alpha fra
ternity. He is president of the Brown
Memorial Library, Cliriton, Maine. He has
traveled extensively in Alaska and Europe.
He is a Republican in politics and a Con-
gregationalist in religion. Residence, Ber
lin, New Hampshire. Address : Berlin,
New Hampshire.
BROWNE, Arthur Wesley:
Chemist, educator; born in Brooklyn,
New York, November 24, 1877; son of
Henry Bewley Browne and Kate Matilda
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Brooklyn Boys' Fligh School in 1895, from
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con
necticut, as B.S. (summa cum laude) in
1900, and M.S. in 1901, and from Cornell
as Ph. D. in 1903. He was assistant chem
ist in the assay and metallurgical labora
tory of the S. S. White Dental manufac
turing Company from 1895 to 1897; a
graduate scholarship in chemistry at Cor
riell during the year 1901 to 1902; was
instructor in chemistry from 1903 to 1906
and since 1906 has been assistant professor
of inorganic and analytical chemistry at
Cornell. He is a Republican in politics
and a Methodist Episcopalian in religion.
He is a member of the American Chemical
Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Sigma Xi and
Phi Beta Kappa Societies, and the Alpha
Delta- Phi, Omega Upsilon Phi and Gamma
Alpha fraternities. His favorite recreation
is music. He is a member of the Town
and Gown Club of Ithaca, New York. Mr.
Browne married, at Middletown, Connecti
cut, February 20, 1904, Helen Elizabeth
Westgate, and they have one son, Arthur
Westgate Browne, born January 13, 1906.
Address: 957 East State Street, Ithaca,
New York.
BROWNE, Charles Francis:
Landscape painter; born at Natick, Mas
sachusetts, May 21, 1859; son of George
Warren and Emeline (Wetherbee) Browne.
After attending the public schools in his
native state and the Art schools at Boston
and Philadelphia, he studied under Gerome
at Paris. From 1879 to 1883, he was de
signer for the Forbeshill Manufacturing
Company — this was previous to the begin
ning of his artistic career. He made two
trips to Europe, in 1887 and in 1903. He
also traveled extensively in the Rocky
Mountains in 1905, and spent one year in
Scotland, painting. He is professor of Art
at Beloit College, Wisconsin and Instruct
or and Lecturer in painting at the Art In
stitute of Chicago. He belongs to the So
ciety of Western Artists, the Chicago So
ciety of Artists, the Chicago Water Color
Club, the Natural Geographical Society,

and the Little Room, Chicago. He is a
trustee of Sharon Church, Chicago and a
member of the City Club, Chicago. His
pictures were exhibited in the Exposition
at Paris in 1889, at the Water Color Ex
hibitions at Buffalo and Omaha in 1903,
at Paris in 1900, and at current exhibitions
in the United States since 1890. He has
pictures in the Roger Williams Park Mu
seum, Providence, Rhode Island, in the
Union League Club, Chicago Museum, and
in the Municipal Gallery, Chicago. In poli
tics he is an Independent with a leaning
to Socialism; in religion he belongs to the
New Church (Swedenborgian). His chief
recreations are outdoor painting and trav
eling. He married at Chicago, May 21,
1898, Turbie Taft, and they have one son,
Charles Francis Browne, Jr. Residence :
5719 Madison Avenue. Address : The Art
Institute of Chicago. Studio: 1020 Fine
Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois.
BROWNE, George Israel:
Clergyman; born at Brooklyn, Connecti
cut, March 19, 1866; son of George Browne
and Katharine Toucey (Camp) Browne.
He was graduated from Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut, as B.A. in 1888, and
M.A. in 1895, and from Berkeley Divinity
School, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1891.
He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church by Right Reverend John Williams,
Bishop of Connecticut, June 3, 1891, and
curate of St. John's Parish, Stamford, Con
necticut, from 1891 to 1894, was ordained
priest, May 25, 1892, in St. John's Parish,
Stamford, by Bishop Williams and became
rector of Trinity Church, Branford, Con
necticut, from 1894 to 1898, rector of St.
John's Parish, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania,
1898-1906. He served as registrar of the
Diocese of Harrisburg in 1906 and 1907,
and is a member of the Standing Committee
of that diocese. . In political views he is a
Republican with Socialist leanings. He is
a member of the Dauphin County Historical
Society, the Connecticut Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and. the
Society of the Order of Jamestown, 1607,
the Alpha Chi Chapter of Delta Kappa
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degree Mason and Knight Templar. Mr.
Browne is also a member of the Literary
Club of Pennsylvania State College, and is
president of the Col. Daniel Putnam As
sociation, which is its headquarters at
Brooklyn, Connecticut, where General
Israel Putnam is buried. He married at
Stamford, Connecticut, June 20, 1894, Mary
Freeborn Davenport, and they have four
children : George Davenport Browne, born
in 1895 ; Anna P. Malbone Browne, born
in 1900; Mary Freeborn Browne, born in
'902; and Israel Putnam Browne, born in
1904. Now rector of St. Paul's Church,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Address : Sixth
and Forster Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsyl
vania.
BROWNE, Jefferson Beale:
Lawyer; born at Key West, Florida,
June 6, 1861; son of Joseph Beverly
Browne and Mary Nieves (Ximenez)
Browne. He received his education in the
private and public schools in the vicinity of
his home and in Virginia, also studying
at home for some time under a tutor.
Later he became a law student at the
University of Iowa, graduating in 1880
with the degree of LB. In the same year
he was admitted to the bar of Florida,
beginning to practice in his home town.
In the fall of the year, however, he was
elected by the Democratic party, city at
torney of Key West, an office which com
menced an active and successful career.
After five years as city attorney, he was
appointed in 1886 by President Grover
Cleveland, postmaster of Key West, hold
ing this position until 1890 when he was
elected to the -Florida State Senate for
a term of four years. The first two years
he held the office of president of the sen
ate to which he had been elected, being
at the same time, of virtue of that office,
lieutenant-governor of Florida. At the ex
piration of his term of office in the Senate
he was appointed by President Cleveland
collector of customs for the port of Key
West, which office he held until 1897. He
was chairman of the _ Florida Railroad
Commission from 1903 to 1907. Mr.
Browne is prominent in Democratic poli

tics. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention of 1888 and since
1904 has been the member of the Demo
cratic National Committee from Florida.
He married, June 19, 1889, Frances Wil
liams Atkinson, of Nevada, Missouri. Ad
dress: Key West, Florida.
BROWNING, Philip Embury:
Educator ; born at Rhinebeck, New York,
September 9, 1866; son of William Garret-
son and Susanna Rebecca (Webb) Brown
ing. He was educated first at Yale Uni
versity, graduating in 1889 with the degree
of A.B., and, taking graduate work, re
ceived from the same university the degree
of Ph.D. in 1892. He also studied in
Munich, Germany, 1893-94. After his
graduation in 1899, he was appointed as
sistant in chemistry at Yale University.
Upon his return from Europe in 1894, he
accepted the position of instructor in
chemistry in the same university, becoming
assistant professor in 1898. He was mem
ber of the New Flaven City Council, 1900-
1902, and member of the . New Haven
Board of Park Commissioners, 1901-1902.
In politics he is identified with the Repub
lican party, and he is a member of the
Congregational Church. He is fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, member of the American
Chemical Society, the Connecticut Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the Society of the
Sigma Xi; he is also member of the
Graduates Club of New Haven. He is
author of about thirty articles on analytic
al chemistry, published for the most part
in the American Journal of Science; also
of: An Introduction to the Rarer Ele
ments, (1903). He was married at New
Haven, Connecticut, December 12, 1899, to
Elizabeth S. Bradley. Residence: 23
Edgehill Road. Address: Kent Chemical
Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut.
BROWNLOW, Walter Preston:
Journalist and congressman; born at
Abingdon, Virginia. He attended the com
mon school for three years, but because of
the death of his father he earned his sup
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prenticeship at the tinner's trade, and as a
locomotive engineer, working at these trades
for several years. He entered the news
paper business as a reporter for the Knox
ville Whig and Chronicle (edited by his
uncle, the late Hon. William G. Brownlow,
United States Senator), in 1876. -In the
same year he purchased the Herald and
Tribune, a Republican newspaper published
at Jonesboro, of which he has since been
the editor and proprietor. He was a dele
gate from his district to the Republican
National Conventions of 1880 and 1896, and
a delegate from the State at large to the
National Convention of 1884. In 1880 he
was chairman of the campaign committee of
his district, and in 1882 was elected a mem
ber of the Republican State Committee and
served as such for eight years, for two
of which he was its chairman. He was ap
pointed postmaster at Jonesboro in March
1881, and resigned in December to ac
cept the doorkeepership of the House of
Representatives of the Forty-seventh Con
gress. In 1884, 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1906,
he was elected by the delegations from his
State to the National Conventions as Ten
nessee's member of the Republican National
Committee, and was unanimously elected
chairman of the Republican State Executive
Committee by the members of that body for
1898 and 1899. He was elected by Con
gress as a member of the Board of Mana
gers for the National Soldier's Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In 1902 he
was chos.en at the primary election of the
First Congressional District of Tennessee
as the nominee for Congress without oppo
sition, and was elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected in
1906 to the Sixtieth Congress, in which he
is now serving as a Republican. Address :
Jonesboro, Tennessee.
BRUCE, Andrew Alexander:
Lawyer ; born 'at Nunda Drug, Madras
Presidency, India, April 15, 1866; son of
Edward Archibald and Anne Young (Mc-
Master) Bruce; his parents died while he
was a child and he was sent to England
to be educated. He entered Bath College
in 1879 and there took a course of three

years. At the age of fifteen, he came, alone,
to the United States, and after working
at various employments, entered the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. From here, he was
graduated in 1890 with the degree of A.B.,
and entering the law department, received
the degree of LL.B. two years later. Up
on his graduation from the law school, he
was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin. He
was for one year chief clerk of the Law
Department of the Wisconsin Central R.
R. and in 1893, was appointed counsel for
the Board of Factory Inspectors of Illi
nois, with which . he was connected two
years. During these years and later on, in
Wisconsin, he took a prominent part in
the enactment and enforcement of the Anti-
Sweatshop and Child Labor Laws of the
two States. In 1898, Mr. Bruce became a
professor of law at the University of Wis
consin and in 1904, he became dean of the
College of Law of the University of North
Dakota, which position he now continues
to hold. He has also, since 1905, been
president of the North Dakota State Board
of Bar Examiners. He is a member of
the Executive Council of the American Bar
Association and serves on its committees
on Comparative Law and Classification of
the Law. In 1904 he was a delegate from
the American Bar Association to the St.
Louis Universal Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists. He was married, June 29, 1899,
to Elizabeth Bacon Pickett, of River For
est, Illinois. Address : Grand Forks,
North Dakota.
BRUCE, Dwight H.:
Postmaster and business man; born at
Lenox, Madison County, New York, June
21, 1834; son of General Benjamin F. and
Eliza Ann (Hall) Bruce. Fie was educated
at common school and graduated from the
Jordan Academy. Fie diversified career in
business and sixteen years in proprietary
journalism in Syracuse; he was postmaster
of Syracuse, New York from. 1872 to 1877,
and again since 1897, and still in place.
All life he has been active in Republican
politics. He has filled several civic offices,
and was for thirty-five years member of
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York, retiring as brigadier-general. Mr.
Bruce is author of: Memorial History of
Syracuse; Onondaga County's Centennial
(two volumes) ; The Empire State in Three
Centuries (three volumes) ; also contri
butor to magazines. He is a member of
several clubs and fraternities, and has
served as trustee of various business, char
itable and public institutions. He married
in Canastota, New York, October 13, 1859,
Emilie Northrup, and they have three
children : Mrs. Frederick D. White, Lola,
and Jessica. Address : Syracuse, New
York.
BRUCE, Matthew Linn:
Jurist; born at Mercersburg, Pennsyl
vania, October I, i860; son of Reverend
James Bruce, D.D., and Mary (Linn)
Bruce. He received his preparatory educa
tion at the Andes Academy, Andes, New
York, and then entered Rutgers College,
from which he graduated as valedictorian
of his class, with the degree of A.B., in
1884 and A.M. in 1887. After graduation
he was engaged as an instructor in Seymour
Institute at Pine Plains, New York, from
1884 to 1887, and at the Albany Boy's Ac
ademy from 1887 to 1888. He then studied
law in the office of Casius M. Shaw, of
Andes, New York ; and was admitted to the
bar in September, 1889. He removed to
New York City in 1890 and was engaged as
managing clerk in the office of Hector M.
Hitchings from 1890 to 1892, then practiced
law until he was appointed, December, 1906,
a Justice of the Supreme Court, for the
First Judicial District of New York. Judge
Bruce has always been an active Republican,
and has been a campaign speaker in every
National and State campaign since 1888. He
was president of the Republican County
Committee of New York, in 1903, and con
ducted the campaign of Mayor Low for re
election. He was elected lieutenant-gov
ernor of New York, in 1904, and renomi
nated in 1906, but failed of reelection, and
was then appointed to the bench by the late
Governor Higgins. Judge Bruce js a promi
nent layman of the Presbyterian' Church,
and was a commissioner to the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church at Buf

falo, in 1904. He is a member of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
fork and of the St Andrew's Society.
Judge Bruce is also a member and vice-
president of the Republican Club of New
York, and a member of the West Side Re
publican Club. He married, in 1894, Mrs.
Lillian (Ballantine) Knapp, daughter of the
late Duncan Ballantine, of Andes, New
York, and of this union there are three
children. Residence: 523 West One Hun
dred and Fiftieth Street. Address: 18
Wall Street, New York City.
BRUERE, Henry:
Director of 'the Bureau of Municipal Re
search; born at Saint Charles, Missouri,
January 15, 1882; son of John E. Bruere,
M.D. and Cornelia (Schoenich) Bruere.
He was educated at Cornell University and
the University of Chicago, graduating as
Ph. B. in 1901, and attended Harvard Law
School in 1901 and 1902. Mr. Bruere has
been actively connected with social work
in the Boys Club at Dennison House, Bos
ton in 1901 and 1902, the Highland Union,
Men's Club, Boston, 1902 and 1903, and he
was welfare manager at the McCormick
Works of the International Harvester
Company, Chicago, Illinois, from 1903 to
1905. He made an investigation of Trade
and Industrial Schools in the United States
in 1903, was secretary of the Bureau of
City Betterment, at New York (Municipal
Investigations) in 1906 and 1907, and be
came director of the Bureau of Municipal
Research, New York City, in 1907. He is
a member of the City Club of Chicago,
Illinois, and the National Arts Club of
New York City. He married at Joliet, Illi
nois, August 4, 1904, Jane Munroe. Ad
dress: Bureau of Municipal Research, 32
East Twenty-third Street, New York City.
BRUES, Charles Thomas:
Zoologist; born at Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, June 20, 1879; son of Charles T.
Brues and Ada (Mossie) Brues. He was
graduated from the University of Texas as
B.S. in 1901 and as M.S. in 1902, and was
LTniversity fellow in zoology at Columbia
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tor of invertebrate zoology at the Milwau
kee Public Museum and secretary of the
Wisconsin Natural History Society. He is
editor of the Bulletin of the Wisconsin
Natural History Society, and is author of
forty-one scientific contributions on insects,
published in various American and German
journals. He is member of the Wisconsin
Natural History Society, the New York
Entomological Society, the Washington En
tomological Society the Entomological So
ciety of America, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Association
of Economic Entomologists, Wisconsin
Academy of Arts and Sciences; and he is
member of the Society, of Sigma Xi (Co
lumbia Chapter). Mr. Brues married at
Austin, Texas, June 16, 1904, Beirne Bar
rett, and they have one son : Austin Moore
Brues, born in 1906. Residence: 585 Dow
ner Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ad
dress: Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis
consin.
BRUMBAUGH, Martin Grove:
President of Juniata College, Hunting
don, Pennsylvania, and professor of peda
gogy of the University of Pennsylvania;
born in Huntingdon County, April 14, 1862 ;
son of George B. and Martha P. Brum
baugh. He was educated in Juniata Col
lege, Millersville State Normal School,
Harvard University, and University of
Pennsylvania, receiving the degrees of
A.M., Ph.D., and LL.D. He has been
president of Juniata College since 1894,
and professor of pedagogy, the University
of Pennsylvania, 1899 to 1906; was first
United States Commissioner of Education
for Porto Rico, from 1900 and 1902,- and
superintendent of schools, Philadelphia,
since 1906. He is a member of the Val
ley Forge Park Commission; editor of the
Lippincott's Educational Series; Glimpses
of Longfellow (Corson) ; History of Porto
Rico; and is author with J. S. Walton, of:
Stories of Pennsylvania; with Anne H.
Hall, of The Standard Primer; and author
of: History of the Brethren; Lectures on
Ruth; and The Standard Readers. Ad
dress: City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylva-

BRUMM, Charles -N. :
Lawyer and congressman; born at Potts
ville, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1838; son of
George R. Brumm and Salome (Gernholt)
Brumm. He received a common school
education, with the exception of one year
at Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania; served an apprenticeship at
the trade of watchmaker; studied two
years ; left his studies and enlisted as a
private under the first call of President
Lincoln for three months' men, and was
elected first lieutenant of Company L, Fifth
Pennsylvania Volunteers. After the ex
piration of his term, he reenlisted, Sep
tember 15, 1861, for three years, and was
elected first lieutenant of Company K, Sev
enty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, No
vember 18, 1861. He was detailed on the
staff of General Barton, as assistant quar
termaster and aide-de-camp, which position
he held under Generals Barton and Pen-
nypacker until the expiration of his term
of service. He resumed the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1871, and
has since practiced the profession of law
at Schuylkill County. He was elected to
Congress in 1878 to represent the Thir
teenth District of Pennsylvania, but was
counted out by 192 votes. During the ad
ministration of President Harrison he was
appointed deputy attorney-general, but de
clined to accept the appointment. He was
elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-fourth Con
gresses, and reelected to the FJfty-fifth
Congress as a Republican. He was also
elected to serve the unexpired term of Hon.
George R. Patterson, deceased, in the Fifty-
ninth Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, in which he is now serving. Be
sides his career in Congress he has been
very successful in his profession, having,
in the midst of a large practice, tried up
ward of thirty homicide cases, and only one
of his clients was executed. During the great
anthracite coal strike he was selected by
District No. 9 of the United Mine Work
ers of America as their counsel to appear
before the Strike Commission, appointed by
President Roosevelt, and took a very prom
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body. Mr. Brumm married, April 6, 1872,
Virginia James, of Minersville, Pennsylva
nia. Address : Minersville, Pennsylvania.
BRUNDAGE, Albert Harrison:
Physician, toxicologist, etc; born at Can
dor, New York, March 3, 1862; son of Dr.
Amos H. Brundage, a successful physician,
and United States Veteran-Cavalry Sur
geon, and Sarah Mervina (Dimmick, Dy-
moke) Brundage; and grandson of Par-
menas Brundage. He was educated at
public schools of Candor and Cohoes,
New York, and Montclair and Newark,
New Jersey, and at the New York
University Medical College, from which
he was graduated as M.D. in 1885. He
took post-graduate work at the Long Island
College Hospital, 1890 and 1891, at the New
York University Medical College, 1891 and
1892; was graduated from the Brooklyn
College of Pharmacy, as Ph.G, 1892, and
also received from it the degree of Doctor
of Pharmacy in 1897. He received the
degree of A.M. from the University of
Nashville in 1898; and of M.S. from the
Science Department of the Rhode Island
College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences,
in 1905. After his graduation in medicine,
Dr. Brundage was for more than fifteen
years uninterruptedly engaged in practice
at Brooklyn, New York. He was president
in 1903, and board examiner in toxicology
and posology from 1898 to 1905, of the
Board of Pharmacy of the State of New
York and member of and examiner in same,
in the Board of Pharmacy of the City of
New York. He was professor of toxicology
and physiology at the Rhode Island College
of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences from 1903
to 1907. He was also for some time a teach
er in the university at Nashville, Tennessee,
and a public lecturer in toxicology for the
Board of Education of the City of New
York; professor of toxicology, physiology
and hygiene, Brooklyn College of Phar
macy, 1898 to 1904, and for some years
past toxicologist to Bushwick Hospital, etc.
He removed in 1906 to Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, where he Is professor of toxicology in
Marquette University, in the departments

of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, and
lecturer on Special Medical Diagnosis in
Medicine. At the time of the Johns
town (Pennsylvania) flood, Dr. Brundage
was on his way to New York, moving back
from the South where he had lost his health
through a fire which occurred there. His'
train was caught in the Johnstown flood,
and he barely escaped with his life. His
money, including the proceeds of the sale
of his household effects, his books, several
diplomas, jewelry and other valuable per
sonal property were in trunks on the ill-
fated Day Express and were all lost. He
therefore finally arrived in New York in
poor health and practically penniless. In
1897 Dr. Brundage was a commissioner rep
resenting Brooklyn at the Tennessee Cen
tennial Exposition at Nashville. He was
the founder and first president of the
Brooklyn Medical Society; was one of the
founders and is ex-president of the Brook-
Ivn College of Pharmacy; ex-president of
fhe Kings County Pharmaceutical Society;
honorary life member of the New York
State Pharmaceutical Association; honorary
member of the Brooklyn Medical Society;
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, the American Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation, the American Microscopical So
ciety, the American Anthropological Asso
ciation, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Geo
graphical Society, the American National
Red Cross, the State. County, and City
Medical Societies of Wisconsin, The Asso
ciated Physicians of Long Island, New
York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association,
corresponding member of the Kings County
(New York) Medical Society, etc., and he
is an honorary member of the Phi Chi fra
ternity, University of California. He is
author of: Practical Points in Physiology
(2 editions) ; Manual of Toxicology (5
editions) ; and is also a contributor to pro
fessional journals on medical and pharma
ceutical subjects. Dr. Brundage married,
September 26, 1888, Sarah Alice, daughter
of Reverend Kilburn Holt, of Amherst,
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M., and a son, Albert E. Address: 2404
State Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
BRUNDIDGE, Stephen, Jr.:
Lawyer and congressman; born in White
County, Arkansas, January 1, 1857. He
was educated in the private schools of
White County; studied law at Searcy, Ar
kansas, with the firm of Coody and McRae,
and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He
has since resided in Searcy, where he has
been engaged in the practice of law. In
September, 1886, he was elected prosecuting
attorney for the First Judicial District of
Arkansas, and he was reelected in 1888
without opposition. Since 1890 he has serv
ed as member of the Democratic State
Central Committee of Arkansas. In 1896
he was elected from the Sixth Arkansas
District to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and has
been reelected biennially since, the district
now being the Second District of Arkansas,
from which is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress, expiring March 31, 19O7. Ad
dress : Searcy, Arkansas.
B RUNNER, Arnold William:
Architect; born at New York City, Sep
tember 25, 1857; son of William and Isa
bella (Solomon) Brunner. He was grad
uated in the special course in architecture
from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology in 1879 and then entered the office
of George B. Post. After extended travel
in Europe, he commenced practice in archi
tecture with Thomas Tryon, under the firm
name of Brunner & Tryon, in 1885, Mr.
Tryon withdrawing from firm in 1899 and
Mr. Brunner has since practiced alone. He
was architect of the Cleveland (Ohio)
postoffice, custom house and court house,
the Mount Sinai Hospital Buildings, the
School of Mines of Columbia University,
New York, and many other public and pri
vate buildings in New York City; design
ed the pavilions in William H. Seward
Park, Thomas Jeffersbn Park, the Public
Baths, etc. He was appointed by Governor
Nash,. of Ohio, one of the three supervising
architects to prepare group plans^ of public
buildings and, grounds for the City of
Cleveland; and was appointed a member of

the Board of Education of New York in
1902. In 1907 was appointed by Mayor Mc
Clellan a member of the Arts Commission
of the City of New York. Mr. Brunner
is a member of the Architectural
League of New York, and was elect
ed its president in 1903 and 1904,
and was vice-president of its New York
chapter in 1901 and 1902 ; and he is a fellow
of the American Institute of Architects and
a member of the National Sculpture So
ciety, vice-president 1906. Mr. Brunner is
the author of works on Interior Decoration,
and Cottages; was a contributor to Russell
Sturgis' Dictionary of Architecture, and has
written and published numerous profes
sional papers. He is a member of the Cen
tury and Players' Clubs of New York City,
the Cosmos Club of Washington and the
Union Club of Cleveland. Residence: 1748
Broadway, New York. Address : 33 Union
Square, West, New York City.
BRUNOT, Hilary:
Consular official. He was appointed con
sul at St. Etienne, June 23, 1897, and ap
pointed consul at Jeres de la Frontera, No
vember 1, 1906. Address : Jeres de la
Frontera, Spain.
BRUSH, George de Forest:
Figure painter; bora at Shelbyville, Ten
nessee, September 28,-1855; son of Alfred
Clark Brush and Nancy (Douglas) Brush.
He received his art education at the Na
tional Academy of Design, New York and
the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under
Gerome. Mr.- Brush received the first Hall-
garten prize of the National Academy of
Design, in 1888, a medal from the World's
Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893,
the Temple Gold Medal of the Pennsyl
vania Academy of Fine Arts in 1897, and
gold medals from the Paris Exposition in
1900, the Pan American Exposition at Buf
falo in 1901 and the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at Saint Louis in 1904. Mr.
Brush was elected an associate in 1902 and
an academician in 1906 of the National
Academy of Design. He married in New
York City, Mary Taylor Whelpley, and
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Tribbie, Georgia, Mary, Jane and Thea.
Home address: Dublin, New Hampshire.
Present address : Villa Ampheux, No. I
Via Foranata degli Uberti, Florence, Italy.
BRUSH, George Jarvis:
Mineralogist ; borri in Brooklyn, New
York, December 15, 1831 ; in 1835 removed
with parents to . Danbury, Connecticut, re
turning in 1841. He was educated in
schools of these cities and Western Con
necticut until 1846, when he entered busi
ness in New York City; severe illness in
1848 decided him to become a farmer; he
went to Yale for six months' course in
agriculture ; remained two years studying
chemistry and mineralogy; was assistant to
Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr., at Uni
versity of Louisville, in 1851, and traveled
in Europe with Professor Silliman, Sr., in
185 1, and received the degrees of Ph.B. in
1852, and A.M. in 1857, from Yale, and
LL.D. from Harvard in 1886. He was
assistant in chemistry in the University of
Virginia, in 1852 ,and 1853; post-graduate
studies at University of Munich, in 1853
and 1854 ; at Royal Saxon School of Mines,
in 1854 and 1855, and Government School
of Mines, London, in 1855 and 1856.
He was professor of metallurgy from 1855
to 1871, professor of mineralogy from
1864 to 1898 at Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale, and has been emeritus pro
fessor since 1898. Mr. Brush was di
rector from 1872 to 1899, of the Sheffield
Scientific School. Fie is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences from 1868;
fellow of the American Association of Sci
ence (was president in 1881), American
Society of Naturalists, American Academy
of Sciences, American Philosophical So
ciety, Connecticut Academy of Sciences,
New York Academy of Science, Foreign
member of the London Geological Society;
corresponding member of the Edinburgh
Geological Society, St. Petersburg Imperial
Mineralogical Society; Bavarian Royal Ac
ademy of Sciences. He is author of : Manual
of Determinative Mineralogy; and also
many memoirs and articles chiefly on chemi
cal composition of American minerals. Mr.

Brush married Harriet Silliman Trumbull.
Address : 14 Trumbull Street, New Haven,
Connecticut.
BRYAN, Charles Page:
Diplomat; born in Chicago, Illinois, Oc
tober 2, 1856; son' of Thomas Barbour
Bryan (vice-president of the Worlds' Col
umbian Exposition), and of Jane Byrd
(Page) Bryan. He is of an old Virginia
family and received his education at the
University of Virginia, afterward entering
the Law College of. Columbian (now
George Washington) University of Wash
ington, from which he was graduated with
the degree of LL.B. in 1878. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1878, and in 1879 re
moved to Colorado, where he remained
until 1883, becoming a member of the
House of Representatives of that State,
and a colonel on the staff of Governor
Eaton, of Colorado. He has been a resident
of Elmhurst, Du Page County, Illinois
(sixteen miles west of Chicago), since
1863, and was engaged in. law practice in
Chicago. He was for four consecutive
terms a member of the lower house of the
General Assembly of Illinois ; and was colo
nel on the staffs of Governors Oglesby,
Fifer and Altgeld of that State; and is an
active and influential member of the Republi
can party of Illinois. In 1897 he was ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of. the United States to
China, but was transferred to Brazil in
J898, remaining there until September,
1902, when he was transferred to Switzer
land, continuing until January, 1903, when
he was appointed to his present post as
envoy extraordinary ,and minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Portugal.
Address : Department of State, Washing
ton, D. C.
BRYAN, Henry B.:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, October 30, 1862; son of Charles
Henry and Mary Eliza (Reading) Bryan.
He was educated first at the Episcopal
Academy of Philadelphia, later taking up
his studies at the University of Pennsyl
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Philadelphia Divinity School, and at St.
Stephen's College, Annandale, New York,
where he was graduated with the degree
of B.D. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church by Bishop Stevens, June
il, 1885, and was ordained to the priest
hood, June 11, 1887, by Bishop
Whitehead. In 1889 he became cu
rate of Saint Peter's Church, German-
town, Pennsylvania, 'a year later being
called to the rectorate of Christ's Church
at Eddington, Pennsylvania, where he of
ficiated until 1893. He then resigned to
accept a call to the Church of the Resur
rection, at Richmond Hill. Here he re
mained until 1895, and since that time he
has been canon of the Cathedral at Gar
den City, Long Island, and archdeacon of
Queens and Nassau counties, since 1899.
Canon Bryant spent three months with
the army at Camp Wicoff, on its return
from Cuba, in 1898, as volunteer chaplain
and head of the Church Tent. During the
summer of 1905 and 1906, he traveled
through England. He is vice-president of
the House of St. Giles, the Cripple, of
' Brooklyn, and is member of the University
of Pennsylvania Club of New York. He
was married, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
October 10, 1887, to Jeanette Young, and
by this union there are three children:
Henry B., born in 1889, Wilhelmina Doro
thy, born in 1892, and Jeannette, born in
1894. Address: The Cathedral Close,
Garden City, Long Island, New York.
BRYAN, Lewis Randolph:
Lawyer; born on Oyster Creek, Brazoria
County, Texas, October 2, 1858; son of
Moses Austin and Cora (Lewis) Bryan.
After a preliminary education in the schools
of Texas, he entered Baylor University,
then at Independence, now at Waco, Texas,
graduating from the academic course with
the degree of A.B. in 1877. After his
graduation he remained there as a law
student, taking the degree of LL.B. three
years later. He was admitted to the bar
of Texas, March, 1880, and practiced at
Brenham and Velano until January, 1901,
when he settled at Houston, and has since
practiced there. In 1902 Mr. Bryan was.

president of the Texas Bar Association.
On October 15, 1891, he was married to
Martha J. Shepard, of Brenham, Texas.
Residence : 2017 Fannin Street. Address :
Commercial Bank Building, Houston,
Texas. BRYAN, William Jennings:
Editor, lecturer, political leader; born at
Salem, Illinois, March 19, i860; son of
Judge Silas Lillard Bryan and Mariah
Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan. The Bryan
family, of Irish extraction, were citizens of
Virginia for at least three generations,
and Mr. Bryan's father, Silas L. Bry
an, was born near Sperryville, Vir
ginia. The Jennings family was origi
nally English, the first known American an
cestor being Israel Jennings, who moved
with his family to Walnut Hill, Marion
County, Illinois, where his granddaughter
Mariah Elizabeth Jennings, was born. Mr.
Bryan was educated in the high school, Sa
lem, Illinois, at Whipple Academy, prepara
tory department of Illinois College at Jack
sonville, Illinois, and in Jacksonville Col
lege where he was graduated as A.B. and
valedictorian in 1881. and from which he
received later the degrees of. A.M. and
LL.D. He also took a law course in the
Union College of Law, Chicago. He prac
ticed law at Jacksonville, Illinois, from 1883
to 1887, and afterward at Lincoln, Nebras
ka. He was elected in November, 1890,
to the Fifty-second Congress, and was re
elected to the Fifty-third Congress in 1892,
serving until 1895. He received the Demo
cratic votes in the Nebraska Legislature
for United States Senator in 1893 and was
nominated in the Democratic State Con
vention for United States senator in 1894,
but was defeated in the Legislature by Sen
ator John M. Thurston. He was editor of
the Omaha World-Herald from 1894 to
T896. He was a delegate from Nebraska
to the National Democratic Convention
in Chicago in 1896 and made a
speech on the platform which is one of the
most noted in the annals of American ora
tory. He was nominated for president of
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after a most strenuous and bitterly fought
campaign was defeated for President by
William McKinley who received 271 elect
oral votes against 176 for Mr. Bryan. In
1897 and 1898 Mr. Bryan lectured on bimet-
alism, and in opposition to trusts and im
perialism. He raised the Third Regiment
of Nebraska Volunteers for the war with
Spain, and was its colonel. In 1900 he
was again nominated by the Democratic
Party for President in the Kansas City
Convention, there being no opposition,
and also by the Populist and Silver
Republican parties, and received in the
electoral college 156 votes against 292
for William McKinley. After the election
he established at Lincoln, Nebraska, The
Commoner, a political weekly, which he
still conducts. In 1904 Mr. Bryan was at
the head of the Nebraska delegation to the
Democratic National Convention at Saint
Louis, and fought valiantly against the re
actionary tendency of the platform-makers
of that convention. He took an active part
as a speaker in the subsequent campaign.
Mr. Bryan has attained great prominence
as an orator, not only in political campaigns
but also as a lecturer in lyceum and Chau
tauqua courses. His lectures are of a re
ligious character, and those entitled: The
Value of an Ideal, and The Prince of
Peace, have attained wide celebrity. In the
years 1905 and 1906, Mr. Bryan and his
wife went on a world tour, and during
that period he met many of the most dis
tinguished of the world's statesmen, and
took an important and influential part in'
the meeting of the Interparliamentary
Union in London in 1906. On his return
he was given a reception which crowded
the Madison Square Garden in New York
City, and at which he made an address
which raised widespread discussion ; and by
the ovations at this reception and others
which followed, Mr. Bryan's continued
leadership of the Democratic Party was
clearly indicated. Mr. Bryan is author of:
The First Battle, 1897; The Old World
and Its Ways, and Letters to a Chinese
Official, 1907; and many articles in maga
zines and newspapers. He married at Per

ry, Illinois, October 1, 1884, Mary' Eliza
beth Baird, and they have three children:
Ruth, born in 1885; William J., Jr., born
in 1887, and Grace D., born in 1891. Ad
dress : Lincoln, Nebraska.
BRYANT, Percy:
Physician; born at Charles City, Iowa,
April 19, 1862; son of Nathaniel Cushing
Bryant, of the United States Navy, and
Mary Eliza (Southall) Bryant. He was
educated in the high school at Cedar
Falls, Iowa, and Columbia College, New
York City, graduating as M.D. in 1887.
He received his first degree in medicine at
the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College
in 1883. He was appointed interne to Cook
County Hospital in the June following, and
served twentytwo months. He was am
bulance surgeon to Chambers Street Hos
pital, New York City, in 1886. He was as
sistant physician at Ward's Island Insane
Asylum, New York City, in 1888 and 1889;
assistant physician at Buffalo State Hospital
from 1889 to 1894, and was promoted to
first assistant in 1895. He was promoted to
medical superintendent of Manhattan State
Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City,
in 1897, and resigned in 1901 on account of
ill health. He entered into practice in
Brooklyn, but ill health obliged him to re
tire. He purchased the Bowdoin estate at
Rahway, New Jersey, in 1906. Dr. Bryant
served as assistant surgeon of the Seventy-
fourth Regiment of New York National
Guard from 1893 to 1898. He is Demo
cratic in politics and an Episcopalian in re
ligion. He is a member of the New York
State Medical Association and the Ameri
can Medico Psychological Association; a
life member of the Society of Colonial
Wars, and the Society of Mayflower De
scendants; a Companion, by inheritance, of
the Military Order of Loyal Legion; and
a member of the Saturn and Liberal Clubs
of Buffalo. He mar.ried in New York City,
February 21, 1900, Josephine Myrick Webb,
and they have two sons : Nathaniel, born
December 26, 1900, and Cushing, born June
15, 1902. Residence: Woodbridge, New
Jersey. Address: Bowdoin Park, Rahway,
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BRYANT, William Sohier:
Physician; bora at Boston, Massachu
setts, May 15, 1861 ; son of Henry Bryant,
distinguished physician and naturalist, who
served in the Union Army as brigade sur
geon in 1861, and Elisabeth Brimmer (So
hier) Bryant, of the senior branch of So
hier de Vermandois, the surviving branch
of the ancient Counts of Vermandois, the
surviving branch from Emperor Charle
magne. Her family passed through the
Island of Jersey from Cambrai to Boston.
The Bryant family passed through Norman
dy, Devonshire, and Barbados to Bos
ton; descended from Rollo through God
frey de Brion, Count of Eu and Brion.
He received his preparatory education
at St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, and from tutors. He was
graduated from Harvard College as A.
B. in 1884, and from Harvard Medical
School as M.D. in 1888, in which year he
also received the A.M. degree for anatom
ical discoveries from Harvard University.
Dr. Bryant has been engaged in the prac
tice of medicine from 1888, and is now
practicing as a specialist in diseases of the
ear, nose and throat. He was formerly
aural surgeon at the Boston Dispensary;
assistant in anatomy and otology at the
Harvard Medical School, and assistant
aural surgeon to the Massachusetts Char
itable Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boylston
Medical Society. He was a member of the
Boston Society of the Medical Sciences
and of the International Congress of
Arts and Sciences in 1904; the Seventh
International Otological Congress, the
Fourth Pan American Medical Congress,
and the Fifteenth International Medical
Congress, the Sixth and Seventh Con
gresses of the American Physicians and
Surgeons. He served in the Massachusetts
National Guard from 1883 to 1898, and also
in the Spanish-American War as assistant
surgeon of the First Massachusetts Regi
ment of Heavy Artillery, United States Vol
unteers, and was soon afterward commis
sioned by the President as major and bri
gade surgeon of Volunteers. He served
with Major-General Fitzhugh Lee in the

Seventh Army Corps until May, 1899; then
served two years as surgeon of Battery A,
Massachusetts National Guard. He re
moved to New York and engaged in prac
tice; is now consulting otologist of the
Manhattan State Hospital; assistant sur
geon to the Aural Department of the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary; physician in
class of nose, throat and ear diseases at the
Presbyterian Hospital; adjunct professor
in the Department of Diseases of the Ear
of the New York Post-Graduate Medical
School and Hospital. He is a member of
the American Otological Society, the New
York Academy of Medicine; secretary of
the Section on Laryngology and Otology
of the American Medical Association;
member of the Medical Societies of the
County and State of New York, the New
York Otological Society, the Association of
Military Surgeons of United States, Amer
ican Larynological, Rhinological and Oto
logical Society, the American Academy of
Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, Mas
sachusetts Medical Society, American So
ciety of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis,
American Public Health Association, Bos
ton Medical Library Association, Boston
Society for Medical Improvement, Har
vard Medical Alumni Association, Harvard
Medical Society of New York, Medical As
sociation of the Greater City of New York,
Association for the Promotion of Hygiene
and Salubrity in Dwellings, East Side
Physicians' Association, American Thera
peutic Society, Boston Society of Natural
History, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the National
Geographic Society. Dr. Bryant is a Mug
wump in politics and an Episcopalian in re
ligious affiliation. He is a member; of the
Society of Spanish War Veterans, the So
ciety of Foreign Wars, the Naval and Mil
itary Order of the Spanish-American War,
Society of the' Seventh Army Corps ; is a
veteran member of the First Corps Cadets,
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and is
also a member of Zeta Psi and Delta Kap
pa Epsilon fraternities, and of the Porcel-
lian Club and the Harvard Club of New
York. Dr. Bryant is the author of seventy-
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otological. He married at Orange, New
Jersey, in 1887, Martha Lyman Cox, and
they have six children : Mary Cleveland
Bryant, born in 1888; Elisabeth Sohier,
born in 1890; Alice de Vermandois, born in
1893 ; Julia Cox, born in 1893 ; Gladys de
Brion, born in 1894, and William Sohier,
Jr., born in 1896. Address : 57 West Fifty-
third Street, New York City.
BRYCE, Lloyd:
Editor, author; born in Flushing, Long
Island, New York, September 20, 1851 ;
son of Major Joseph Smith Bryce, of the
United States Army, and Elizabeth (Ste
phens) Bryce. He was graduated from Ox
ford' University, England, as B.A. and M.A.
Mr. Bryce was editor and owner of the
North American Review from 1889 to 1896.
He is author of : Paradise Friends in
Exile; The Romance of an Alter Ego; A
Dream of Conquest; Lady Blanche's Salon;
The Literary Duet; After Christianity — ¦
What? and also of essays, etc, contributed
to reviews. He was for a time paymaster-
general of the State of New York. He was
elected from the Seventh District of New
York City, to the Fiftieth Congress, serv
ing from 1887 to 1889. He is a Democrat
in politics and an Episcopalian in religion.
Mr. Bryce is a member of the Century.
Association, and the Knickerbocker, Union,
Authors, Metropolitan, Meadowbrook, and
Tuxedo Clubs of New York City. He mar
ried at New York City, Edith, daughter of
Mayor Cooper, of New York City, and
they have three children : Clare, Cornelia,
and Peter Cooper. Address : Roslyn, Nas
sau County, Long Island, New York.
BUCHANAN, Charles Jay:
Lawyer; born in New Berlin, New York,
December 27, 1843. He was educated at the
public schools and the United States Mili
tary Academy, and he served during the
Civil War in the First Regiment of United
States Sharpshooters as a private, non
commissioned officer, and first lieutenant;
and as adjutant of the regiment.
' Mr. Buchanan has been practicing law in
Albany, New York, since January, 1874;
and is now a member of the law firm of

Buchanan, Lawyer and Whalen. He is also
a director of the Union Trust Company,
trustee and secretary of the National
Savings Bank of Albany, New York.
He is a Republican in politics, and
a member of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Buchanan is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and
of the Buchanan and St. Andrew's socie
ties; the secretary and a trustee of the
Albany Law School; a trustee of the Al
bany Academy for Girls, and" the Young
Men's Association of Albany, New York.
He is also a member of the Fort Orange,
University, and Army and- Navy Clubs, and
is active in various corporate interests. Ad
dress : 79 Chapel Street, Albany, New York.
BUCHANAN, Henry C:
Librarian, editor; born in FaUs Town
ship, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March
7, 1851 ; son of William and Abigail (Foss)
Buchanan. He was educated in the public
schools and at Trenton Academy, Trenton,
New Jersey, and after that was engaged
in the newspaper business as editor -until
February 1, 1899, when he was appointed
to his present position as State Librarian
of New- Jersey. Mr. Buchanan is a Re
publican in his political views. He married,
October 4, 1876, Mary E. Griswold, of
Hartford, Connecticut. Address: New Jer
sey State Library, Trenton, New Jersey.
BUCHANAN, John Alexander:
Jurist; born in Smith County, Virginia,
October 7, 1843 ; son of James A. and Mary
G. Buchanan. He was educated in the
schools of Virginia until the Civil War,
when he entered the Army of the Confed
erate States, serving as a private in the
famous Stonewall Brigade until taken
prisoner at Gettysburg,- July 3, 1863, and
he remained in prison until February, 1865.
Upon his release he returned to Virginia,
studied law and was admitted to the bar.
He located in practice at Abingdon, Vir
ginia, and so continued until elected to the
bench. He was active in political affairs
as a Democrat; was a member of the
House of Delegates of Virginia, from 1885
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Fifty-first, and reelected in 1890 to the
Fifty-second Congress froir the Ninth Dis
trict of Virginia. In 1904 he was elected
to his present position as associate justice
of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir
ginia. Address : Emory, Virginia.
BUCHANAN, James Isaac:
Banker ; born in Hamilton, Ontario, Au
gust 3, 1853; son of the late Hon. Isaac
Buchanan, who was president of the Execu
tive Council and a prominent Canadian
Government official, and of the late Agnes
(Jarvie) Buchanan. He was educated in
Miss Mclfwraith's private school, Hamil
ton, Ontario, and at Dr. Tassie's Collegiate
Institute, of Gait, Ontario. He began his
business training in 1868 in a wholesale
dry-goods house, and in 1870 he visited
South Africa, and afterwards in 1871 re
turned to Canada to the same business in
which he received his early training. In
January, 1877, he became a junior clerk in
the Oil City Trust Company, at Oil City,
Pennsylvania, and from that became private
secretary and business manager to the late
Capt J. J. Vandergrift, who was a large
oil operator, founder United Pipe Lines,
Imperial Refinery, Pennsylvania Tube
vv orks, Oil City Boiler Works,, Apollo Iron
& Steel Company, the town of Vandergrift,
Pennsylvania, and identified with large fi
nancial interests. On Capt. Vandergrift's
death he was made by his will one of the
trustees of his estate. He became vice-
president of the Pittsburgh Trust Com
pany, later succeeding in 1904 to the presi
dency of the last named corporation. He
has been a director of several corporations
in Pennsylvania and is now president of the
Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer
Company and Terminal Trust Company;
secretary and treasurer of the Keystone
Commercial Company; and he is a director
of the Washington Oil Company; "Unity
Oil Co. ; Taylorstown Natural Gas Co.,
The Natural Gas Co. of West Virginia,
and of the Keystone National Bank of
Pittsburgh ; and senior partner of J. I. Buch
anan & Co., bankers; investment securities
and managers of properties. Mr. Buchanan
is chairman of the Orchestra Committee of

the Pittsburgh Art Society and in that ca
pacity has rendered valuable service in the
promotion of higher standard of musical
taste in Pittsburgh. He is also president
of the Athalia Daly Home for Working
Girls. He is a prominent layman of the
Presbyterian Church, and elder of the East
Liberty Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh
and a former president of the Presbyterian
Union of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. He
is a past president of the Academy of
Science and Art of Pittsburgh; a member
of the Botanical Society of Western Penn
sylvania and a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science ; the American Geographical So
ciety and the National Geographic So
ciety, and a life member of St. Andrew's
Society of New York and St. Andrew's So
ciety of Pennsylvania. He is a prominent
member of the Masonic order and since
1890 an active member of the Supreme
Council of the Scottish Rite, thirty-third
degree, and deputy for Pennsylvania since
1897; and also a member of the Duquesne,
University, Cornell, Country and Oakmont
Country Clubs, all o_f Pittsburgh, and the
Thousand Islands Yacht Club and Chippe
wa. Yacht Club; the Bostonais Association
of Quebec, and the Caledon Mountain Trout
Club of Ontario. Mr. Buchanan married
at Pittsburgh, July 11, 1901, Eliza Mac-
farlane, daughter of Isaiah Graham Mac-
farlane and Margaret (McDowell) Mac-
farlane, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ad
dress : 6108 Walnut Street, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
BUCHANAN, John Lee:
President of the University of Arkansas
since 1894; born in Smythe County, Vir
ginia, June 19, 1831. He is the second son
of Patrick C. Buchanan, and Margaret
Graham, daughter of Major Samuel Gra
ham. He was educated at Emory and
Henry College, Virginia, «mere he received
the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. He was
professor in Emory and Henry Colleges
from 1856 to 1878; professor of Latin in
Vanderbilt University, 1878-79; president
of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
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cipal of the Martha Washington
College from 1882 to 1886; State
superintendent of Public Instruction of Vir
ginia, from 1886 to 1890; and professor of
Latin in the Randolph-Macon College from
1890 to 1894, when he became president of
the University of Arkansas. He is the
author of the Educational Reports of Vir
ginia, from 1886 to 1890. His favorite
recreations are hunting, fishing and chess.
President Buchanan is a member of 'the
American Institute of Civics, and the
Southern Educational Association. He
married, in 1859, Frances Elizabeth Wiley,
daughter of Dr. E. E. Wiley. Address :
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
BUCHANAN, Leonard B.:
Electrical engineer; born at Woburn,
Massachusetts, 1873 ; son of George and
Olive J. (Lowell) Buchanan. He is vice-
president and director of the Chase-Shaw-
mut Company and General Electro Chemi
cal Company; treasurer and director of the
Fort Hill Chemical Company, Cell Drier
Machine Company, and Eibel Process
Company, and director of the Rhode Is
land Fiber Spool Company. Address : 84
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BUCHANAN, Roberdeau:
Mathematical astronomer; born in Phila
delphia, November 22, 1839; son of Pay
Director McKean Buchanan of the United
States Navy, and F. Selina (Roberdeau)
Buchanan. He was educated in the public
schools of Charlestown in Boston, Massa
chusetts, at the Lawrence Scientific School
of Harvard University, "graduating as B.S.
in the class of 1861. Mr. Buchanan en
gaged in practice as a civil engineer. ' He
became connected with the Nautical Al
manac in 1879, and he is now mathematical
astronomer in the Nautical Almanac Office,
at the United States Naval Observatory.
Mr. Buchanan finds his favorite recrea
tions in botany, chemistry, genealogy and
family history. He is author of various
technical and biographical works, includ
ing: Mathematical Theory of Eclipses;
Projection of the Sphere, and Introduc
tion to the Differential Calculus by means of

Finite Differences; also genealogies of the
Roberdeau, Shippen and McKean families.
He is a contributor to the Astronomical
Journal. He married in Washington, D. C,
September 12, 1888, Lyza M. Peters. Ad
dress : 2015 Q Street, Washington, D. C.
BUCHANAN, William Insco:
Was born on a farm near Covington,
Miami County, Ohio, September 10, 1853.
His early life was passed on farms in Ohio
and Indiana, and in attending the common
schools. In 1874 he was appointed an en
grossing clerk in the House of Represen
tatives of Indiana, in which position he re
mained for a year. In 1876 he removed
to Piqua, Ohio, and from there in 1882,
to Sioux City, Iowa. It was while he was
a resident of the latter place that his
genius for oganization attracted attention,
as he took a prominent place in organizing
and managing the first four corn palaces
at Sioux City, a series of novel autumn ex
hibitions which became famous throughout
the country and were of great benefit to
Sioux City and to Iowa by advertising the
agricultural greatness of that region. He
was appointed in 1890 as the Democratic
member from Iowa of the National Com
mission charged with carrying out the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago.
In the organization and success of that
great exposition he bore an important and
responsible part becoming chief of the
three departments, Agriculture, Live
Stock and Forestry. In 1894 he was ap
pointed by President Cleveland envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
the Argentine Republic, which post he re
signed in 1900. While so engaged "he
was designated in 1898 by the Congresses
of both Argentina and Chile as the de
ciding member of the Joint Commission
created to settle the boundary between the
two countries north of Latitude 23°, and
as such fixed the existing boundary be
tween the two countries. He was director-
general of the Pan American Exposition
at Buffalo, 1899-1901. He was appointed a
delegate from the United States to the
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1901-1902. He was appointed by President
Roosevelt in 1902 as the first United States
Minister to the newly organized Republic
of Panama. He was appointed a delegate
and chairman of the United States delega
tion to the Third International Confer
ence of American States held at Rio de
Janeiro; Brazil, July to September, 1906.
He was appointed a member of- the United
States Delegation to the Second Interna
tional Peace Conference at the Hague held
in 1907. Address : Buffalo, New York.
BUCK, Albert Henry:
Physician; born in New York City,
October 20, 1842; son of Dr. Gurdon Buck
and Henrietta E. (Wolff) Buck. He was
graduated from Yale as A,B. in 1864, and
from the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of Columbia University as M.D. in
1867. He was aural surgeon at the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1871
to 1883, and professor of otology at Col
umbia University, from 1887 to 1904. He
is consulting aural surgeon to the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a
member of the American Otological So
ciety, and honorary member of the New
York Otological Society. He is author of:
A Treatise on Diseases of the Ear;
and editor of the following works :
Strieker's Histology (translation), one
volume; Ziemssen's Cyclopaedia of Med
icine (translation), seventeen volumes;
Hygiene and Public Health, two vol
umes; Reference Handbook of the
Medical Sciences, eight volumes, (two
editions) ; and (in conjunction with Dr.
Joseph D. Bryant) American Practice of
Surgery, eight volumes. Dr. Buck mar
ried at New Haven, Connecticut, Laura,
daughter of Reverend John S. C. Abbott.
Address: "The Wyoming," corner Fifty-
fifth Street and Seventh Avenue, New York
City.
BUCK, Charles W.:
Lawyer; born at Vicksburg, Mississippi,
March 17, 1849 ; son of John W. and Mary
Belle (Sutton) Buck. He was educated
principally at Georgetown College, George
town, Kentucky, graduating there with the
degree of A.B. He subsequently graduated

in the law school of the Kentucky Univer
sity, at Lexington. In 1871 he was admitted
to the bar of Mississippi, practicing at
Vicksburg, for three years, after which he
removed to Louisville, Kentucky. Some
years later he went to Woodford County,
Kentucky, and in 1880 was elected one of
County magistrates for a term of four years.
At the expiration of this term in 1885 Mr.
Buck was appointed by President Cleveland,
United States minister to Peru upon tes
timonials which seemed to' evidence especial
fitness for the post. Mr. Buck had been
a prominent Democrat, and during the
time when the Carpetbaggers overran the
Southern States and threatened all law and
order, he was one of the first to organize
the fight against them, and finally had the
satisfaction of seeing Mississippi, his na
tive state, rid -of them. But in 1896 he
severed his connection with the Democratic
party, not only refusing to support William
Jennings Bryan and the silver platform,
but throwing his influence to the Repub
lican ticket in the campaigns of 1900 and
1904, and bringing many votes to that party
by his ' speeches throughout the State of
Kentucky. He was author of: Under the
Sun in 1902, and various articles in cur
rent literature. He was married at Louis
ville, Kentucky, March 17, 1875, to . Eliza
beth Crow Bullitt, daughter of Dr. H. M.
Bullitt. He has two children, the elder
Mrs. Dr. Vernon Robins, of Louisville,, and
Charles L. N. Buck, a prominent young
journalist of the same place. Residence:
34 Saint James Court. Business address :
Kentucky Title Building, Louisville, Ken
tucky.
BUCK, Dudley:
Composer, organist; born at Hartford,
Connecticut, March 10, 1839; studied at
Trinity College, Hartford and later at the
Leipzig Conservatory of Music under
Hauptmann, Richter, Rietz, Meschelles and
Plaidy, being a classmate there of Sir
Arthur Sullivan. He also studied under
Schneider at Dresden, and in 1861 and 1862
at Paris. Mr. Buck was for three years
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Garden Concerts at New York City, on in
vitation of Theodore Thomas, in 1875 ; and
he composed the cantata sung at the open
ing of the Centennial Exhibition at Phila
delphia, which was executed by 800 voices
and 150 instruments, conducted by Theo
dore Thomas. He was organist of the
Church of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, a di
rector of the Apollo Club twenty-five years
and retired from all but theoretical work
and composition in 1902. He is author of
numerous compositions in various forms,
but for the greater part vocal, and both
sacred and secular, many of these composi
tions having taken high rank among the
best of American musical productions.
Among the more prominent of his composi
tions are: The Legend of Don Munio,
1874; Marmion, 1880; The Golden Legend
(for the Cincinnati May Festival, winning
the $1,000 prize) ; the music to Edmund
C. Steadman's Poems; Light of Asia (larg
est work) published and first performed in
London, 1886-87. Mr. Buck is also author
of A Dictionary of Musical Terms ; and
of The Influence of the Organ in History,
1882. Address: G. Schirmer & Co., 35
Union Square, New York City.
BUCK, George Machan:
Lawyer, author; born at Skaneateles,
New York, son of Minerson and Hannah
M. (Pierce) Buck. After receiving a com
mon school education, he took up the study
of law at Battle Creek, Michigan. He
joined the Union Army to fight in the
Civil War in 1862, enlisting as private in the
Twentieth Regiment of Michigan Volunteer
Infantry. At the close of the war he
returned to his home, resumed the
study of the law -and was admitted
to the bar of the State of Michigan
in 1865. He was three times elected
court commissioner of Kalamazoo
County and in 1871 was elected county
prosecuting attorney by the Republican
party. After an activity of four years, he
became in 1877 probate judge of the same
county and this office he filled for eight
years. In 1882 he was elected to the Board
of Education of Kalamazoo City, serving
until 1888. In 1887 he was elected circuit

judge of the Ninth Circuit District of
Michigan, performing the duties of that
office for twelve years, and has been con
nected with the Senate of the United
States as clerk of a Senate Committee,
giving part of his time to literary work.
He was six years on the Board of Trustees
of Albion College, Michigan. Mr. Buck is
author of numerous articles, and is author
also of several literary works, among them
being the novel Through Stress and Storm.
He married, April 14, 1859, Anne Brad
ford of his home. City. Residence :• Kala
mazoo, Michigan. Address: -216 A. Street
S. E., Washington, District Columbia.
BICKHAM, James:
Journalist, author; born at Burlington,.
Vermont, November 25, 1858; son of Mat
thew H. and Elizabeth (Wright) Buck-
ham. He was graduated at the University
of Vermont with the degree of A.B., later
taking that of A.M. He has also had
special courses in English and religious
journalism at Johns Hopkins University,
and at Andover Seminary. In 1882 he be
came associate editor of the Burlington
(Vermont) Free Press, retaining this posi
tion until 1888. Four years later he be
came connected with'the Youth's Companion
and after seven years resigned to do edi
torial work for Zion's Herald. Since that
date, 1899, he has been associated with the
latter in this capacity. Mr. Buckham is a
member of the Congregational Church, and
is Independent in politics. He is fond of
shooting. and fishing, and of nature study.
He is a member of the Boston Authors
Club, and is author of various books, espe
cially of poetry. Among these are: The
Heart of Life (poems, 1897) ; Where Town
and Country Meet; A Wayside Altar
(poems); The Heritage off Life; and
Afield with the Seasons. He was married
at Hyde Park, Vermont, August 28, 1895,
to Mary Brigham, and has had two chil
dren: Barbara (deceased), and Waldo
(seven years). Address: 66 Goss Avenue,
Melrose, Massachusetts.
BUCKINGHAM, Ebenezer:
Capitalist; born in Zanesville, Ohio,
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Eunice (Hale) Buckingham. He received
his early education in the public schools
of Zanesville and was graduated from
Yale College in 1848. Soon after his
graduation he removed to Chicago, Illinois,
and after various employments engaged in
the grain and storage business in 1866,
in which he remained until 189 1. He was
president of the Traders' Insurance Com
pany from 1883 to 1902, and was president
of the Northwestern National Bank from
August, 1890, until its consolidation with
the Corn Exchange National Bank and
the American National Bank, September
15, 1900. He has been a member of the
directorates of the South Side Elevated
Railroad and of several other large cor
porations. He is a member of the Union
League Club of Chicago. Mr. Buckingham
married Lucy Sturges. Address : 2036
Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
BUCKLEY, Ernest Robertson:
Director of the Missouri Bureau of Geol
ogy and Mines; born in Milbury, Massa
chusetts, September 3, 1872 ; son of Thomas
M. Buckley and Grace (Robertson) Buck
ley. He was graduated from the Universi
ty of Wisconsin as B.S. in 1895 and Ph.D.
in .1898. He served four years in the Wis
consin National Guards and two years in
the University of Wisconsin Regiment, in
charge of small arms firing ; and was alder
man of the city of Madison, Wisconsin. He
is. a life member of the Geological Society
of America; the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Ameri
can Mining Congress, and is a member of
the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Wash
ington Academy of Science, Arts and Let
ters; Wisconsin Clay Workers' Asso
ciation, the Wisconsin Natural History
Society, and the American Society for Test
ing Materials. He is author of: Building
and Ornamental Stones of Wisconsin, 1898;
Clays and Clay Industries in Wisconsin,
1900; Highway Construction in Wisconsin,
1902; Quarrying Industry of Missouri,
1904; Public Roads in Missouri. He is a
member of Masonic lodges and of the Mer
cantile Club of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr.

Buckley married at Milwaukee, August'25,
1903, Grace Emeline Magdeburg. Address :
Rolla, Missouri.
BUCKLEY, John L. :
Lawyer; born in Jasper County, Missis
sippi, September 22, 1863, on his father's
farm where he labored till seventeen years
of age ; son of Joseph E. Buckley and Mary
I. (Rodgers) Buckley. He was graduated
from the University of Mississippi at Ox
ford, as B.S. the class of 1885, and was
anniversarian of the Herman Society there,
one of the most coveted honors within the
gift of the University; and he was gradu
ated from the Cumberland University at
Lebanon, Tennessee, as LL.B.. in the class
of 1888. He has been engaged in the prac
tice of law from 1888, commands a lucra
tive practice, and has been employed in
some very important litigations. He was the
first attorney to settle the law in Mississippi
whether a blind man could ride in a train
without an attendant. He was attorney for
the Stonewall Cotton mills in the famous
revenue suit for back taxes by Wirt Adams,
State Revenue Agent; came out victorious
before the Board of Supervisors of Clarke
County, Circuit and Chancery Courts and
the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He is
now attorney for the Bank of Enterprise,
the Stonewall Cotton Mills, the Brookpark
Lumber Company, and the Enterprise Lum
ber Company, and is a director of the Bank
of Enterprise. Mr. Buckley was several
years chairman and is now a member of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
Clarke County, Mississippi, and has been a
member of the State Democratic and the
Fifth Congressional District Democratic
Executive Committees. He is a Baptist in
his religious views, is past grand master of
Odd Fellows of Mississippi, and the repre
sentative of the Mississippi Odd Fellows
at Baltimore in 1903 and San Francisco in
1904. He is also a Knight of Pythias and
was a representative in the Grand Lodge
in 1907; and a Knight of Honor in the
Grand Lodge in 1906. He is also a Mason
and a member of the Junior Order of Am-
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prise, Mississippi, November 21, 1888, Lida
Brannon, and they have three children:
Mamie, born in 1891, John T., born in 1892
and Walton W., born in 1899. He is a
stockholder of the Stonewall Cotton Mills,
owns several hundred acres of farming and
timbered lands in Clarke, Jasper and Lau
derdale Counties, Mississippi. He is a
Democrat and takes an active Interest in
politics. Address : Enterprise, Mississippi.
BUCKLIN, James W.:
Lawyer, pioneer and political economist;
born at Big Rock, Kane County, Illinois,
November 13, 1856; son of George Bucklin
and Anethusa (Winch) Bucklin, both de
scendants of Revolutionary soldiers. After
a public school education, he was at Whea
ton College, at Wheaton, Illinois, for two
years, then studied law at the University
of Michigan, graduating as LL.B. in 1877.
He was admitted to the bar of Colorado in
1877, and practiced at Denver, from 1877
to 1880, at Gunnison City in 1880 and 1881,
and then at Grand Junction, a city then just
being founded, by Mr. Bucklin and others.
He soon became well known for his ability
which soon brought him much popularity
from his fellow townsmen, and in 1884 he
was elected to the Colorado Legislature,
representing the counties of Mesa, Delta,
Montrose, Gunnison, and Pitkin, and car
ried them all and the following year was
unanimously elected mayor of the City of
Grand Junction. In 1890 he was elected to
the office of city attorney, and again in 1891,
serving for two terms of two years. In 1894
he became county attorney of Mesa County,
holding the office until 1895, when Mesa
County again sent him to the State Legis
lature. In 1898 he became State Senator
for his district, comprising Mesa, Delta and
Gunnison Counties carrying them all by a
two-thirds majority and remaining for one
term in the upper house. Mr. Bucklin is
a prominent advocate of the Single Tax,
and was sent by the State of Colorado to
Australia, as chairman " of a special com
mission to study the subject in that coun
try. The result of his investigation was
an amendment in favor of Home Rule in

Taxation to the Colorado Constitution, in
troduced by him, and his report was pub
lished in the Congressional Record and 300,-
000 copies distributed. Mr. Bucklin is at
torney for the Mesa County, Valley and
Grand Junction Building and Loan Asso
ciations, and the Pyramid Mining and Mill
ing Company. He is president of the Mesa
County Bar Association, past master of
Mesa Lodge of Masons and a Knight
Templar. He was married January 1,
1895, at Fruita, Colorado, to Mary Lapham,
and they have two sons : James W. Buck
lin, Jr., born May 8,' 1898, and Louis L.
Bucklin, born March 24, 1902. Address:
Grand Junction, Colorado.
BUCKNER. Simon Bolivar
Soldier; born in Kentucky in 1823. He
was appointed from Kentucky to the Unit
ed States Military Academy, from which
he was graduated in the Class of 1844.
He was professor of ethics in the United
States Military Academy in 1845 and 1846.
He served in the Mexican War from 1846
to 1848, was wounded at the battle of
Churubusco, and promoted to Captain. He
returned in 1848 to West Point as assist
ant instructor of military tactics until 1850;
was appointed captain in Subsistence De
partment in 1852 and resigned from the
United States Army in 1855. At the be
ginning of the war between the States he en
tered the Confederate States Army, of which
he became one of the most distinguished
lieutenant-generals. He was elected gov
ernor of Kentucky in November, 1886, serv
ing a four-year term from 1887 to 1891, and
in 1896 he was the candidate nominated by
the Indianapolis Convention of National
Democrats (gold standard) for vice-presi
dent of the United States, on the ticket
with General John M. Palmer of Illinois -for
president Address : Munfordville, Ken
tucky. BUDD, Ogden D.:
Broker ; born in New York, City, July
9, 1861; son of Bern L. (M.D.) and Cath
erine Fowler (Gallaudet) Budd. He was
graduated from College of the City of New
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ary mention for general scholarship. He
was clerk by competitive examination in
New York Custom House from 1881 to
1883 ; h> mercantile business, from 1883 to
1885; joined Consolidated Stock and Pe
troleum Exchange, in 1885, and since then
engaged in commission business on that
exchange. He was elected 1900, and re
elected in 1902 and 1904, member of the
Board of Governors, and in June, 1906,
was elected president of the Consolidated
Stock and Petroleum Exchange of New
York and reelected as president May 13,
1907, without opposition, and now serving
as such; formed partnership Kenneth M.
Jackson, June 1906, forming firm of Ogden
D. Budd & Company. Mr. Budd is a
Democrat in politics (gold standard) and
an Episcopalian in religion. He is a mem
ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni
Association; member of the Associate
Alumni College City of New York. Mr.
Budd married in New York City, May 4,
1886, Grace A. Jackson, and they have four
children: Bern, born in 1887, Annie Mc-
Coun Noble, born in 1889, Ogden D., Jr.,
bora in 1893, and Thomas Gallaudet, born
in 1899. Address : 44 Broad Street, New
York City.
BUELL, Lewin Frank:
Clergyman ; born in Killingworth, Con
necticut, September 21, 1873; son of J.
Sherman Buell and Frances J. (Hull)
Buell. He was graduated from Yale as B.
A. in 1885, from Yale Divinity School as
B.D. in 1888, and received from Syracuse
University the degree of D.D. in 1903.
He was pastor of the Congregational
Church of Smyrna, New York, from 1888
to 1892, was the first pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Mount Vernon,
New York, from 1892 to 1898, pastor of
the Good Will Congregational Church of
Syracuse, New York, from 1898 to 1904;
supplied the First Congregational Church of
South Norwalk, Connecticut in 1904 and
1905, and was installed in December, 1905,
pastor of the Woodford Congregational
Church of Portland, Maine, where he is
now serving. Mr. Buell is an Independent

Republican in politics. He married at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 30, 1888,
Helen M. Westervelt, and they have two
children : Ralph L. and Gertrude H. Buell.
Address: 36 Beacon Street, Woodford
Station, Portland, Maine.
BUELL, Marcus D. :
Educator, clergyman ; born at Wayland,
New York, January 1, 1851; son of the
Rev. Enoch George and Maria (Brown-
son) Buell. He was graduated from the
New York University with the degree of
A.B. in 1872, and subsequently took the
degrees of A.M. and D.D. at the same in
stitution. He was graduated from Boston
University with the degree of 6.T.B. in
1875, and in 1879 was ordained to the
Christian ministry. Since 1885 he has been
professor in the department of New Testa
ment Greek and Exegesis in the Boston
University School of Theology, and during
the years of 1889 to 1904 was dean of the
theological faculty. His travels include ten
visits to Europe and the Levant. He is' a
member of the Society of Biblical Litera
ture and Exegesis, and the Harvard Bibli
cal Club. In politics he is a Republican.
He married at Wellington, Ohio, December
31, 1875, Edith Viola Houghton. Resi
dence : Friendenfels, Newburyport, Massa
chusetts. Office address : 72 Mount Vernon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
BUIST, George Lamb:
Lawyer ; born at Charleston, South Caro
lina, September 4, 1838; son of George
and Mary Edwards (Jones) Buist After
a preparatory education in the schools of
his native city he entered Charleston Col
lege, but did not graduate, taking up in
stead, the study of the law. He passed
his bar examinations in i860, and was ad
mitted to practice in the courts of South
Carolina. In 1861, however, he enlisted in
the Confederate Army, as lieutenant in a
battery of artillery which took part in the
siege of Fort Sumter. Fie saw much fight
ing throughout the Civil War as officer in
various batteries, being discharged at the
disbanding of the Confederate forces in
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tered private life again, and began to prac
tice law at Charleston. In 1877 he was
elected member of the lower house of the
South Carolina legislature and in 1882 was
sent to the State senate, occupying the seat
for sixteen years. Mr. Buist is prominent
in School affairs and has been for some
time member of the Charleston Board of
Education. He was elected Chairman of
the Board in February, 1907. He is also
a trustee of Charleston College. In 1862
he was married at Charleston, to Martha
Allston White. Address: 30 Broad Street,
Charleston, South Carolina.
BULKELEY, Morgan -Gardner:
United States Senator; born at East
Haddam, Connecticut, December 26, 1837.
He was educated in the district schools of
his native town and Hartford, where his
father removed in 1846, and at the Hart
ford Public High School. In 1889 he re
ceived from Yale University the honorary
degree of M.A. In 1852 he commenced
a business life" in Brooklyn, New York,
and as clerk and partner continued until
1872. During this, period for a number of
years he was a member of the Republican
General Committee of Kings County. In
1862 he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment
of the National Guard of the State of
New York, and served at Baltimore and
Suffolk, Virginia, under the command of
Brigadier-General Max Weber. He re
turned to Hartford in 1872, and at once be
came actively interested in its business and
politics. He organized and was the first
president of the United States Bank, and
in 1879 was chosen president of the Aetna
Life Insurance Company, organized by his
father, the Hon. Eliphalet A. Bulkley, who
was the first Republican speaker, in 1857,
of the Connecticut House of Representa
tives. Mr. Bulkeley was chosen councilman,
alderman, and for four terms, from 1880
to 1888, mayor of the City of Hartford.
In 1888 he was unanimously nominated as
Republican candidate for governor, and
occupied that office from 1889 until 1893.
He was a delegate to the Republican Na
tional Conventions of 1888 and 1896; and
was nominated by the Republican caucus,

January 11, 1905, as the candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed Hon. J.
R. Hawley, and was elected to the United
States Senate, and took his seat March 4,
1905. His term will expire March 3, 1911.
Address: Hartford, Connecticut
BULL, Charles Stedman:
Physician; born in New York City; son
of. Henry King Bull and Eliza A. (Lud
low) Bull. He attended Professor Elie
Charlier's French School; was graduated
from Columbia University as A.B. in 1864,
A.M. in 1867, and M.D. in 1868; attended
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Col
umbia, three years, and was at Universi
ties of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Heidel
berg. He has been ophthalmic surgeon to
the City Hospital and New York Dispen
sary, and now is attending surgeon to New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary and consult
ing ophthalmic surgeon to the Presbyterian
Hospital, and to St. Mary's Hospital for
Children. He is a Republican in politics
and a Protestant Episcopalian in religion.
Fie is a member of the American Ophthal-
mological Society, New York Ophthalmo-
logical Society, American Medical Associa
tion, New York State Medical Association,
New York Academy of Medicine and Prac
titioners' Society; director of the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a
member of the Sons of the Revolution, So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Huguenot Society
of America and the Century Association
and University Club. Dr. Bull married at
Waterbury, Connecticut, June 10, 1882,
Mary E. Kingsbury, and they have three
children: F. Kingsbury Bull, Ludlow Se-
guine Bull and Dorothy Bull. Address:
47 West Thirty-sixth Street, New York
City.
BULL, William Lanman:
Capitalist and broker; born in New
York City, August 23, 1844. He was ed
ucated in the University of the City of
New York. Mr. Bull is chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Cen
tral Railway, is a director of the Northern
Pacific Railway Company, the Baltimore -
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Louisville, Evansville and Saint , Louis
Railway, New York, Susquehanna and
Western and other large railroad and min
ing corporations. He is a trustee of the
Metropolitan Trust Company, and is a mem
ber of the firm of Edward Sweet and
Company, brokers. Mr. Bull is a member
of the New York Stock Exchange and was
its president from 1888 to 1890. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, the
New England Society, the American Fine
Arts Society, the Mayflower Society, the
Dunlap Society, the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and of the New York Yacht, Metro
politan, Grolier, University, Union, Players',
CenUury, Alpha Delta Phi, Riding, Re
publican, Ardsley, Church and City Mid
day Clubs of New York. He is a Re
publican in politics and an Episcopalian in
his religious affiliations. Residence : 805
Fifth Avenue. Address : 38 Broad Street,
New York City.
BULL, William Tillinghast:
Physician; born in Newport, Rhode
Island, May 18, 1849. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1869. He was visiting
surgeon of the Chambers Street Hospital
from 1876 to 1888, St. Luke's Hospital
from 1880 to 1883 and consulting surgeon
since- 1883; and has been visiting surgeon
of the New York Hospital since 1883;
consulting surgeon at the Hospital for-
Ruptured and Crippled ; and the New York
State Emigrant Hospital. He was demon
strator of anatomy at Columbia from 1879
to 1880;" and has been professor of the
practice of surgery at the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni
versity since 1889. He is author of various
articles in medical journals. Dr. Bull is a
member of the Century ' Association and
the University, Grolier and Racquet Clubs
of New York City. He married Mrs. Mary
Nevins Blaine. Address: 40 West Seven
ty-first Street, New York City.
BCLLARD, George E. : "
Banker; born at Boston, March 4, 1839;
son of Francis Bullard and Harriet D.
Bullard. He is agent and attorney for

Brown Brothers & Company, New York,
and Brown, Shipley & Company, London.
He is also trustee of the Elio Five Cents
Savings Bank; director of the American
Woolen Company of New Jersey, Arling
ton Mills and Wood Worsted Mills. Ad
dress : 60 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.
BULLEN, Percy Sutherland:
American Correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph; born at Hastings, Sus
sex, 1867; third son of the late Captain
Charles Bullen, of the Royal Navy, and
grandson of Admiral Sir Charles Bullen,
G.C.B., who was in command of H.M.S.
Britannia at the Battle of Trafalgar. He
has traveled largely in Europe and Moroc
co; has represented leading American pa
pers in Paris, Berlin and Rome; and was
special staff correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph in the Boer War in 1900. He
is a fellow of the Institute of Journalists
of London, and a member of the London
Press 'Club. Address: 116 Nassau Street,
New York City.
BUMPUS, Hermon Carey:
Director of Museum; born in Buckficld,
Maine, May 5, 1862; son of Laurin A. and
Abbie Ann (Eaton) Bumpus. He was ed
ucated at the Dorchester High School,
Dorchester, Massachusetts, at Brown Uni
versity, where he was graduated as Ph!
B. with the Phi Beta Kappa honors, and
was chairman of the class Day Committee
in 1884, and he received the degrees of
Ph. D. at Clark University in 1891 ; hon
orary D.Sc, Tufts College in 1905, and
D.Sc, from Brown in 1905. He was pro
fessor of biology in the Olivet College
from 1886 to 1889, fellow in animal mor
phology at Clark University, in 1889 and
1890; assistant and later associate professor
of zoology, and subsequently professor of
comparative anatomy, at Brown University
from 1890 to 1901 ; assistant director of the
Marine Biological Laboratory from 1893
to 1895; director of the Biological Labor
atory of the United States Fish Commis
sion Station, at Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
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dent and curator of the Department of
Invertebrate Zoology in the American
Museum of Natural History, in 1901, and
director of the same from 1902. Dr.
Bumpus is author of: A Laboratory
Course in Invertebrate Zoology and also
of articles on biological subjects. He is
a corporate .member of the Boston So
ciety of Natural History, and the Ameri
can Fisheries Society, a charter member
of the Brown Chapter of the Society of the
Sigma Xi; member of the American
Society of Naturalists, the Rhode Is
land Medical Society (honorary), non
resident member of the Washington
Academy of Sciences; a fellow of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science; associate member
of the American Ornithologists' Union,
member of the American Society of Zool
ogists, the National Geographic Society,
the American Museum of Natural His
tory (patron), the Faculty of Pure
Science of Columbia University, the
Linnaean Society of New York, the
New York Academy of .Sciences (fel
low), New York Zoological Society,
New York Botanical Garden, and
of Trustees of the Marine Biological Lab
oratory; member of the corporation of
Rhode Island School of Design; vice-
president of the Audubon Society of the
State of New York; an incorporator, and
a director from 1905 of the National As-'
sociation of Audubon Societies for the Pro
tection of Wild Birds and Animals and
a member of the Board of Fellows of
Brown University from 1905. He was one
of the commissioners of inland fisheries of
Rhode Island from 1897 to 1901 ; is presi
dent of the International Fishery Congress
to be held in Washington in 1908, and was
president of the American Association
of Museums, 1906. He is a member
of the Board of Management of the
Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences at Cold
Spring Harbor, of the International
Congress of Americanists held at New
York in 1902, of the Seventh Inter
national Zoological Congress (Boston

Meeting) 1907, the Peace Society of the
City of New York, National Society for
the Promotion of Industrial Education, of
the Board of Managers of the American
Bison Society, of the Local Advisory Com
mittee of the International Peace Congress,
1907, American Forestry Association, and
he is an honorary alumnus of Middlebury
College at Middlebury, Vermont. Dr.
Bumpus is a member of the Century As
sociation of New York; member of the
Board of Governors of the Brown Uni
versity Club in New York, and member of
the University Club of Providence, Rhode
Island. Address : American Museum of
Natural History, Seventy-seventh Street
and Eighth Avenue, New York City.
BUMSTEAD, Horace:
Clergyman and college president; born in
Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1841 ;
son of Josiah Freeman Bumstead and
Lucy Douglas (Willis) Bumstead. He was
educated in the public schools of Boston;
was graduated from the Boston Latin
School in 1859, and from Yale College as
B.A. in 1863. He was also graduated
from Seidner Theological Seminary in
1870, and studied at the University of Tu
bingen, Germany, in 1870 and 1871. He
received the degree of D.D. from New
York University in 1881. He served as
major in the Forty-third Regiment of
United States Colored Troops from April,
1864, to December, 1865, serving in Vir
ginia (siege of Richmond and Petersburg)
and in Texas. He was pastor of the Sec
ond Congregational Church, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, from 1872 to 1875. He was pro
fessor in Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Georgia, from 1875 to 1897, and was presi
dent of the same Institution from 1888 to
1907. He resigned the presidency, to take
effect September 1, 1907. Dr. Bumstead
traveled in England, France, Germany,
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and
Holland, in 1870 and 1871, and in England,
France and Italy in 1905 and 1906. He is
an Independent Republican in politics, and
a Congregationalist in religion. Dr. Bum
stead is a member of the American Acad
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tee of Atlanta University, and a member
of the Military Order of Loyal Legion of
the United States. His favorite recrea
tions are bicycling, swimming, and moun
tain climbing. He married at North Con
way, New York, January 9, 1872, Anna
Maria Hoit, and they have . had five chil
dren: Arthur, born in 1873; Albert Hoit,
born in 1873; Ralph Willis, born in 1881;
Richard (deceased), and Dorothy, born in
1887. Address: 91 St. Paul Street, Brook-
line, Massachusetts.
BUMSTEAD, Henry Andrews:
Physicist; born in Pekin, Illinois, March
12, 1870; son of Samuel J. Bumstead, M.D.
and Sarah E. (Seiwell) Bumstead. He
was graduated from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity as A.B. in 1891, and from Yale
University as Ph. D. in 1897. Mr. -Bum
stead was instructor in Physics in Yale
University from 1893 to 1900, assistant
professor of physics from 1900 to 1906,
and was professor of Physics from 1906
in Yale College. He is a member of the
American Physical Society and of the Grad
uates' Club of New Haven, Conn. Profes
sor Bumstead married at Decatur, Illinois,
August 18, 1896, Luetta Ullrich, and tliey
have two children : John Henry Bumstead
born in 1897, and Eleanor Bumstead born
in 19&2. Residence : 45 Edgehill Road,
New Haven. Business address : Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut.
BUNKER, Fred T.:
Real Estate dealer; born in Illinois,
September 8, 1859; son of Dr. Joseph
Bunker and Emeline (Bogardus) Bunker.
He is a direct descendant on the paternal
side of Martha and James Bunker of
Bunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, and on
his mother's side a direct descendant of
Anna Kajan Bogardus, who owned what
is now New York City. He was educated
in the public schools of Belvidere, Illinois.
Mr. Bunker traveled for the Bartlett Hard
ware Company, wholesale hardware and
manufacturers on the western job route, for
four years prior to 1880, then read law for
four years, and since 1884 has been iii the
real estate business in Chicago. Mr. Bunk

er is a director of the Alaska Cold Storage
Company, the Laundry Advertisement
Company and the National Land and
Lumber Company. He is a Republican in
politics and a Baptist in religious views.
He is a member of the Lincoln
Club of Chicago. He married at Terre
Haute, Indiana, January 4, 1882, Ella
Azbill, and they have a daughter, Bertha
E. Bunker, born December 20, 1885. Resi
dence: 108 South California Avenue.
Business address: 1144-79 Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
BUNN, Charles Wilson:
Lawyer; born at Galesville, Wisconsin,
May 21, 1855; son of the Hon. Romanzo
Bunn former United States district judge
and Sarah (Purdy) Bunn. He was grad
uated from the Scientific course of the
University of Wisconsin in 1874 with the
degree of B.S. He also graduated at the
Law School of the University of Wisconsin
and commenced practice in LaCrosse, Wis
consin in 1876. In the latter city he prac
ticed until 1885 when he removed to Saint
Paul, Minnesota, where he still resides.
In 1896 Mr. Bunn was appointed general
counsel oif the Northern Railway Com
pany, and continues to act in that capacity
to the present day. He is a member of the
University Club of New York, Chicago
Club of Chicago, and Minnesota Club of
Saint Paul. He was married August 9,
1877, to Mary Anderson, of La Crosse.
Residence : 549 Portland Avenue. Ad
dress : Northern Pacific Railway Building,
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
BURBANK, Luther:
Naturalist, originator of new fruits and
flowers; born in Lancaster, Massachusetts,
March 7, 1849; son of Samuel Walten and
Olive (Ross) Burbank. He spent his boy
hood on a farm and was educated in the
Lancaster Academy. He has always been
devoted to the study of nature, especially
plant life. In 1875 he moved to Santa
Rosa, California, where he conducts Bur-
bank's Experimental Farms. He is the or
iginator of the Burbank potato ; the Gold
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America and Climax - plums ; the Giant,
Splendor, Sugar, and Stoneless prunes; a
new fruit, the Plumcot; Peachblow, Bur
bank and Santa Rosa Roses ; gigantic
forms of amaryllis, tigridias ; the Shasta
daisy; Giant and fragrant callas; and
various new apples, peaches, nuts, berries
and other valuable trees, flowers, fruits,
grasses, grains and vegetables. He is a
fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and of the
American Pomological Society; an honor
ary member of the American Breeders' As
sociation; Pacific Coast Nurseryman's As
sociation ; the California Academy of Sci
ences; the California State Floral Society,
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science,
and the California State Board of Trade ;
also an honorary member of the Bohemian
Club, the University Club of San Francisco,
the Sigma Xi Society, the Wood
men of America, the California Promotion
Committee and numerous other clubs and
societies. He is special lecturer on evolu
tion at Leland Stanford University. Ad
dress : Santa Rosa, California.
BURCH, Edward P.:
Consulting Engineer; born at Meno-
monie, Wisconsin, August, 1870; son of
Newell Burch and Susan (Parris) Burch.
He was educated in the Menomonie High
School and at the University of Minne
sota, receiving two degrees in Electrical
Engineering. Mr. Burch was chief elect-
ricial engineer for the Twin City Rapid
Transit Company, who owns and operates
the street railway system of Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Stillwater, Minnetonka, etc., from
1892 to 1900, and has been a consulting
engineer in Minneapolis since .1900. He is
also a lecturer in the University of Min
nesota. Mr. Burch is president of an En
gineering Alumni Association of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, president of the En
gineers' Club of Minneapolis, local sec
retary of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, and member of the Am
erican Institute of Electrical Engineers.
He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity, the Masonic order and several
engineering societies, and the Improvement

Association and Commercial Club of Min
neapolis. He married in " Minneapolis, in
1896, Harriet Jackson and they have a
daughter, Harriet Imogen, borii in 1899.
Residence: 1729 James Avenue South,
Minneapolis. Office address: 1210 Guar
anty Building,- Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BURCHELL, George W.:
Vice-President of the Queen Insurance
Company of America; born in Brooklyn,
New York, May 31, 1850. In 1864 he en
tered the office of Niagara Fire Insurance
Company as clerk and continued there un
til 1869, was in mercantile business for
two years, then with the Phoenix Insurance
Company of Brooklyn, from 1871 to 1881,
being special agent in the Eastern and
Middle States during the last eight years.
In 1881 he went into service of Queen
Insurance Company of Liverpool, travel
ing for it as general agent in Middle
States until 1889, when he became deputy
manager of the United States branch;
when the Queen Insurance Company of
America was organized under the laws of
State of New York to take business of
Liverpool Company, he was appointed sec
retary; he' was elected vice-president in
April, 1900. Mr. Burchell is president of
the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
and vice-president of the New York Board
Fire Underwriters, from May, 1906; presi
dent and director Underwriters' Salvage
Company of New York, from July, 1906.
Address: 84 William Street, New York
City.
BURFORD, John Henry:
Jurist; born near Judson, Parke County,
Indiana, February 29, 1852; son of James
Burford and Sarah Ann (Reddish) Bur-
ford. He began his education in the public
schools of Indiana, afterward attending the
Collegiate Institute of Waveland, Indiana,
and the Indiana State University Law
School, from which he was graduated, with
the degree of LL.B. in 1874. He was ad
mitted to the Indiana Bar in 1873, and
engaged in the general practice of law
in that State. He was elected in 1880 pros
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Circuit of Indiana, and was Republican
nominee for State Senator in 1884. He
was a member of the Republican State
Central Committee of Indiana during the
Harrison campaign of 1888. In 1890 he
settled in Oklahoma and at once took work
as a leader and a lawyer, becoming probate
judge of Beaver County, Oklahoma, in 1890.
He was appointed by President Harrison
register of the United States Land Office
at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1890 serv
ing until 1893. He was appointed assoc
iate justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory Oklahoma serving from 1893 to
1897, and in 1898 he was appointed by
President McKinley, chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Oklahoma, in which
position he still continues. Judge Burford
is a Republican in politics: He has been
editor- of the Oklahoma Territory Supreme
Court Reports since 1896, and has pub
lished volumes v and xvii. Judge Burford
is a member of the American Geographical
Society, and is a prominent member of the
Masonic fraternity. His favorite recrea
tions are shooting, fishing and camping.
He married at Indianapolis, Indiana, Feb
ruary 14, 1876, Mary Anna Cheek, and
they have a son, Frank B. Burford, A.B.
LL.B., lawyer of Tulsa, Indian Territory.
Address : 712 East Springer Avenue,
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
BURGESS, Albert Franklin:
Entomologist;' born at Rockland, Mas
sachusetts, ' October 2, 1873; son of Emory
Burgess and Mary (Lewis) Burgess. He
was graduated from the Massachusetts
Agricultural College as B.S. in 1895 and
M.S. in 1897. Mr. Burgess was assistant
entomologist to the Massachusetts Board
of Agriculture from 1895 to 1899, assistant
in Entomology at the University of Illinois
from 1899 to 1900, assistant inspector of
Nurseries and Orchards of Ohio from 1900
to 1902, chief inspector of nurseries and
orchards of Ohio from 1902 to 1907, and
he was agent of the Gypsy Moth Depart
ment at Boston, Massachusetts, from March
1, 1907 to September I, 1907. since Septem
ber 1, 1907, he has been assistant entomol
ogist in the Bureau of Entomology, at

Washington, District Columbia. Mr. Bur
gess is secretary of the American Asso
ciation of Economic Entomologists and
president of the Association of Official
Horticultural Inspectors, and is a member
of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He
married at Castalia, Ohio, June 20, 1904,
Mary E. Dwight, and they have a son,
Emory Dwight Burgess, bora June 26, 1907.
Address : Bureau of Entomology, Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
BURGESS, (Frank), Gelett:
Author and grotesque draughtsman;
born in Boston, Massachusetts, January
30, 1866; son of Thomas H. Burgess and
Caroline (Brooks) Burgess. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology as B.S. in 1887. He be
came a civil engineer on the Southern
Pacific Railroad in California from 1887
to 1890; instructor in topographical draw
ing in the University of California from
1891 to 1894, and designer till 1896, when
he took up literary work as a profession,
illustrating most of his writings. He was
editor of The Lark. from 1895 to 1897, and
assistant editor of the Wave in 1896 and
1897; became associate editor of Ridg-
way's in 1906, and he is a contributor to
to various American and English period
icals. He is author of Vivette, 1897; The
Lively City o'Ligg, 1899; Goops, and How
to Be Them, 1900; A Gage of Youth, and
The Burgess Nonsense Book, 1901 ; The
Romance of the Commonplace, 1902; More
Goops, 1903 ; The Reign of Queen Isyl
(with Will Irwin), 1903; The Picaroons
(with same), 1904; The Rubaiyat of Omar
Cayenne, 1904; Goop Tales, 1904; A Little
Sister of Destiny, 1905; The White Cat,
The Maxims of Methuselah; The Heart
Line; and The Romantic Mood, 1907. He
is a member of the players' Club of New
York, and the Bohemian Club of San
Francisco. Address : 1285 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
BURGESS, Frederick:
Bishop of Long Island; bora in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, October 6, 1853, son
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gess. Fie was graduated from Brown Uni
versity, as B.A., in 1873, then attended one
year in Oxford University, England. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church by the Bishop of New Flampshire,
in 1876, and ordained priest by the late
Bishop Clark in 1877. He began his min
istry as deacon in charge of St Mark's
Mission at Mendham, New Jersey, in
1877, and a year later became rector of
Grace Church, Amherst, Massachusetts,
where he remained five years; he was call
ed to Christ Church, Pomfret, Connecticut,
in 1883, and was rector there until 1889,
then became rector of the Church of St.
Asaph, Bala, Pennsylvania, until 1896, of
Christ Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1896 to
1898, and of Grace Church, Brooklyn, 1898
to 1902. He was elected November 21,
1901, and consecrated January 15, 1902, by
Bishop Potter, Doane, and Davies as
Bishop of Long Island. He is President
of the Church Charity Foundation, the
Diocesan Missions of Long Island, the
Cathedral of the Incarnation, of the Trus
tees of Clergymen's Retiring Fund; and
is trustee of the Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society. He is a member of
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He re
ceived the degree of D.D. from Brown
University in 1898. Bishop Burgess is a
member of the Hamilton, Twentieth Cen
tury and Garden City Clubs. He married
at Mendham, New Jersey, September 13,
1881, Caroline G. Bartow, and by that
union there are four sons : Julian Howard
(born in 1883), Edgar Barlow (bora in
1887), George (born in 1889), and Fred
erick, Jr. (born in 1891). Residence:
Sea House, Garden City, Long Island,
New York. Office : Diocesan House, 170
Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New York.
BURGESS, Oscar Otis:
Physician and surgeon; born at Evans,
Erie County, New York, October 16, 1831;
son of Otis Burgess and Rebecca Sexton
(Jobes) Burgess. He was educated in the
common schools of Erie County and Buf
falo, and in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at New York (now the medical
department of Columbia University). He

practiced medicine over six years in New
York then four years in Rochester, New
York, and since then in San Francisco, for
more than forty years. He was attending
physician of New York Dispensary; city
physician of the City of Rochester, Con
sulting Surgeon of the California Women's
Hospital, also of the Children's Hospital,
tie Lying-in Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital,
and St. Mary's Hospital. He was also a
member of the California State Board of
Health, the San Francisco Microscopical
Society, and the Geographical Society of
the Pacific. Dr. Burgess has been twice
abroad, his travels extending from Nor
way and Sweden to the First Cataract of
the Nile. He was formerly a Democrat
but is now a Republican in politics. He is
an Episcopalian in his religious affiliation
and a Mason of the thirty-second degree.
He married in New York City, March 18,
1863, Amy Powell. Address : 1482 Page
Street, San Francisco, California.
BURKE, Charles H.:
Banker and broker; born at Hamburg,
Germany, November 10, 1863; son of the
late David H. Burke, and Matilde F.
(Henschel) Burke. He was educated at
Dr. Callisen's School in New York City,
the high schools of Wandsbeck and Ham
burg, Germany, the Friedericianum, Davos,
Switzerland, and the Bonzon Institute,
Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr.. Burke began
his business career in the employ of Woer-
ishoffer & Company, in 1881, and became
their assistant cashier in 1885. He was
appointed vice and deputy consul of the
United States at Hamburg, Germany,
August, 1885 and resigned from the United
States Consular Service in July 1897. He
became manager for Woerishoffer & Com
pany in 1897, and became a member of
the firm in May, 1902, continuing until the
firm dissolved in May, 1904, owing to the
death of a partner. On July 1, 1904 he
established the firm of Degener & Burke,
members of the New York Stock Exchange
in which he continues. He is a director
of the British Columbia Copper Company,
a trustee of the village of South Orange,
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Estate. Mr. Burke is a Republican in
politics and a Unitarian in his religious
affiliations. He is a member and secretary
of the South Orange (New Jersey) Tree
Commission, of the New England Society
of Orange, New Jersey, of the Stock Ex
change Luncheon Club. Mr. Burke's
principal recreations are golf and fishing.
He is a member of the Essex County Club
of Orange, New Jersey, and of the South
Orange Field Club. Mr. Bui.ce married
at Hamburg, Germany, in 1888, Luisa
Rosenberg, and by that union there are
three children: Edgar (born in 1890),
Tilita (born in 1892), and Alicita (born in
1904. Residence : 361 Vose Avenue, South
Orange, New Jersey. Address : 20 Broad
Street, New York City.
BURKE, James Frances:
Lawyer and, congressman ; born in Pet
roleum Center, Venango County, Pennsyl
vania, October 21, 1867, son of Richard J.
Burke and Anna (Arnold) Burke. He was
educated in the public sclwols, and in
1892, was graduated from the law depart
ment of the University of Michigan with
the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to
the bar in the Supreme Court of Michigan,
in the Superior and Supreme Courts of
Pennsylvania, and in the United States
courts and he has practiced law in Pitts
burgh Since 1903. He was "for a time
secretary of the Republican National Com
mittee in 1892, being the youngest man
who ever held that office. He was elected
in 1904 from the Thirty-first Pennsylvania
District to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and
was reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con
gress, in which he is now -serving. He is
a member of the leading clubs and com
mercial organizations of Pittsburgh. He
married in Detroit, Michigan, April 15,
1895, Josephine Burch Scott. Address:
Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BURKET, Harlan Fessenden:
Lawyer ; born at Findlay, Ohio, May 15,
i860 ; son of Jacob F. and Pamy D. (Wal
ters) Burket, and is of -old colonial stock.
He received his preparatory education in
the schools of his native city and at Oberlin

Academy, and entering Oberlin College in
1878, was graduated four years later with
the class of 1882. He received the degree
of Ph.B. in 1890 and A.M. in 1891. After
his graduation from college, he took up
the study of law in his father's law of
fice at Findlay, . where he was admitted to
the bar in 1887, and has since practiced.
In 1891 he was elected prosecuting attorney
of Hancock County, serving for a term
of three years. He is president of the
American National Bank of Findlay. Mr.
Burkett is very prominent in his profes
sion, and is a member of various national
and local, legal organizations. Among
these are the American Bar Association,
the Ohio State Bar Association, etc. He
is also a member of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution. In 1904 he was a delegate
to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists at St. Louis. He is a staunch Re
publican and was for two years vice-pres
ident of the Ohio Republican League. He
married at Findlay, January 16, 1895, Au
gusta Dukes. Address : Findlay, Ohio.
BURKETT, Charles Williams:
Director Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege Experiment Station; born at Thorn-
ville, Perry County, Ohio, January 3, 1873;
son of Joseph W. Burkett- and Anne
(Clinginger) Burkett. He was graduated
from the Ohio State University as B. Sc.
in 1895 and as M. Sc. in 1898. He was
assistant in agriculture at Ohio State. Uni
versity from 1895 to 1898; professor of
agriculture at New Hampshire Agricultur
al College, and Agriculturist of the New
Hampshire Experiment Station from 1898
to 1901 ; professor of agriculture at the
North Carolina Agricultural College and
agriculturist at the North Carolina Experi
ment Station from 1901 to 1906, and since
September 1, 1906, director of the Kansas
State Agricultural College , Experiment
Station. Fie received the degree of Ph.
D. from Lima College in 1900. Dr. Burk
ett was formerly editor of the Agricultural
Student, Agricultural Education (maga
zine), The Progressive Farmer, and for
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and has contributed extensively to the
literature of Agricultural Science. He
went abroad in 1907, traveling in Europe
investigating the sources of seed wheat
adapted to the State of Kansas. Dr. Burk
ett was formerly editor of The Agricul
tural Student, Agricultural Education
(magazine), The Progressive Farmer, and
for several years agricultural editor of The
Ohio State Journal at Columbus, Ohio, and
has contributed extensively to the literature
of Agricultural Science. He went abroad in
1907, traveling in Europe investigating the
sources of seed-wheat adapted to the State
of Kansas. Dr. Burkett married at Col
umbus, Ohio, December 27, I90y, Laura An
na Weisman, and they have two children :
Dorothy and Charles. Residence: Corner
of Houston and Fourth Streets, Manhattan,
Kansas. Business address : Kansas State
Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas.
BURKETT, Elmer Jacob:
United States Senator; born in Mills
County, Iowa, December 1, 1867; son of
H. W. Burkett. He attended the public
school and afterward Tabor College, at
Tabor, Iowa, from which he was graduated
in 1890. Upon his graduation he was
elected principal of schools at Leigh, Ne
braska, which position he held two years,
when he entered the State University of
Nebraska for a law course graduating from
there with the degrees of LL.B. in 1893 and
LL.M. in 1895. He was admitted to the
bar at Lincoln, June, 1893, and has prac
ticed law there ever since. He was also
elected trustee of Tabor College in 1895,
and was elected a member of the State
Legislature in 1896; and a Representative
in 1898, 1900, 1902, and in 1904 to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, resigning after the
latter election to succeed Hon. C. H. Die
trich in the United States Senate, taking
his seat March 6, 1905. His term of office
will expire March 3, 191 1. Senator Burk
ett married, September 1, 1891, Fanny F.
Wright, of Glenwood, Iowa. Residence :
1544 B Street, Lincoln. Office: 1026 O
Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. »

BURLEIGH, Edwin C. :
Ex-Governor of Maine, and Congress
man; born at Linneus, Aroostook County,
Maine, November 2/", 1843. He was edu
cated in the common schools and the Houl-
ton Academy. He taught school and was
land surveyor and served in the office of
the State adjutant-general. He is now
publisher of the Kennebec Journal, Daily
and Weekly. From 1876 to 1878 he was
state land agent, was State Treasurer from
1885 to 1888, and governor from 1889 to
1892. ' He was elected in 1897 from the
Third Maine district to the Fifty-fifth Con
gress in place of Seth L. Milliken, de
ceased, reelected in 1908, and has since
been biennially reelected and is now serv
ing in the Sixtieth Congress. Address:
Augusta, Maine.
BURLEY, Clarence Augustus:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Octo
ber 10, 1849 ; son of Augustus H. and
Anna Maria (Force) Burley. His father
was one of the earliest merchants in the
City of Chicago. The son received his
early education in the public and private
schools of his native city, which was sup
plemented by a four years' course at the
Miles Military School at Brattleboro, Ver
mont, and a partial course at Amherst
College. He took a full course at the
Union College of Law, graduating with the
degree of LL.B. in 1876. He was admit
ted to the bar in the same year and has
been in active practice in Chicago ever
since, from 1897 to the present time in as
sociation with William H. McSiirely. He
is a director in the Merchants' Loan and
Trust Company, and also in the Corpora
tion Burley & Tywell Company, the con
cern founded by his uncle. He is a Re
publican and a member of the Unitarian
Church. He is a member of the Chicago,
University, Union League, City, Union, and
Chicago Literary Clubs. He married in
Waukeegan, Illinois, November 11, 1880.
to Avis H. Blodgett, and he has two chil
dren : Ruth Monell and Avis. Address :
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BURLINGAME, Edward Livermore:
Editor; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
May 30, 1848, son of Anson Bunlingame,
diplomat, for some years minister to China.
He entered Harvard College but left to go
to China as private secretary to his father
and he traveled in China and Japan. In
1867 he left for Heidelberg, Germany,
where after two years study he obtained
the Ph. D. degree. He later studied in
Berlin and in 1901 received honorary A.M.
at Harvard. He traveled in Europe in 1868
and 1870. He has served on the editorial
staff of the New York Tribune and from
1872 to 1876 was associated in revision of
Appleton's American Cyclopedia. He has
contributed to" magazines and reviews. He
associated with Charles Scribner and Sons
in 1879 and since 1886 has been editor of
Scribner's Magazine. He has translated
and edited The Art Life and Theories of
Richard Wagner (1875). Has edited Cur
rent Discussion; a collection from the
Chief English Essays on Questions of the
Time, 1878, etc. He is a member of the
Century and Harvard Clubs of New York
City. He married Ella. F. Badger. Ad
dress : 47 East Eighty-third Street, New
York City.
BURNETT, Daniel Frederick:
Lawyer; born at Newark, New Jersey,
September 20, 1879; son of William -B.
and Katharine D. Burnett. After a careful
preparatory education in the Newark High
School he entered Rutger's College, gradu
ating with the degree of B.S. from the
class of 1901, and In 1904 he received
the degree of M.S. from the same college.
After his graduation from Rutgers he en
tered the New York University Law
School, graduating with the degree of
LL.B. in 1904, and receiving the post-grad
uate degree of J.D. in 1905. Mr. Burnett,
since his admission to the bar of New
Jersey and of the United States Courts has
been actively engaged in the general prac
tice of law at Newark, New Jersey. He
is a Republican in politics, and is secretary
of the State Tuberculosis Commission of
New Jersey. He is a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity, the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society, of Hope Lodge of Masons, the

Board of Trade of Newark, and the Law
yers' Club of Essex County. Mr. Burnett
married at Newark, New Jersey, Septem
ber 20, 1905, Ida Elizabeth Ball. Resi
dence: 206 Amherst Street, East Orange,
New Jersey. Office address : 164 Market
Street, Newark, New Jersey.
BURNETT, John T.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Joseph Burnett Company and dir
ector of the Federal Trust Company, the.
Wonderland Company and the People's
National Bank of Marlboro. He is also
trustee of the North End Savings Bank,
and is a member of the Wachusett Moun
tain State Reservation Commission. Ad
dress 101 Milk Street, Boston, Massachus
etts.
BURNHAM, Henry Eben:
United States Senator; bora in Dun-
barton, New Hampshire, November 8,
1844; son of Henry L. Burnham and Maria
A. Burnham. He fitted for college at
Kimball Union Academy, and was graduat
ed from Dartmouth College in 1865. He
studied law in the office of Minot and
Mugridge, at Concord, and in the offices
of E. S. Cutter and Judge Lewis W. Clark,
in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was
admitted to the bar in April, 1868, and
since that time has practiced in Manchest
er. He was judge of probate for Hillsboro
County, was a member of the Constitu
tional Convention of 1889, and has served
as Ballot Law Commissioner. In 1888 he
was chairman of the Republican State Con
vention to nominate delegates to the Na
tional Convention and has always been a
Republican in politics. He was elected to
the United States Senate to succeed Hon.
W.. E. Chandler for the term beginning
March 4, 1901, and was reelected in 1907
the term of service expiring March 3, 1913,
Senator Burnham married, October 22,
1874, Elizabeth H. Patterson of Manchester
and they have three daughters : Gertrude
B. Baker, Alice P. Carpenter and Edith
D. Burnham. Address : Manchester, New
Hampshire.

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BURNHAM, William Henry:
Profesor of pedagogy in Clark Universi
ty; born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire,
December 3, 1855 ; son of Samuel Burnham
and Hannah Dane (Burnham) Burnham.
He was graduated from Harvard as
A.B., in 1882. He was in instruct
or in Wittenberg College for a year
after his Harvard graduation, and for
two years in the State Normal School
at Potsdam, New York, then took
post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins
University, where he received the Ph.D.
degree in 1888, and where he re
mained as instructor in 1888 and 1889.
Since 1890 he has been at Clark Universi
ty, first as a docent in pedagogy, and after
ward as assistant professor and professor
of pedagogy. He has written extensively
on pedagogical and psychological subjects,
and especially on school hygiene. Address :
Clark University, Worcester, Massachu
setts.BURPEE, Charles Wins low
Editor; born in Rockville, Connecticut,
November 3, 1859; son of Thomas F. Bur
pee and Adeline M. (Harwood) Burpee.
H was graduated from Yale in 1883 receiv
ing the degree of A.B. He was city editor
of the Waterbury (Connecticut) American
from 1883 to 1891. Assistant editor of the
Bridgeport (Connecticut) Standard from
1891 to 1895; State editor of the Hartford
Courant from 1895 to 1900 and managing
editor from 1900 to 1904. Since 1904 he
has been editor of the publishing depart
ment of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and he
has been a contributor to various period
icals and local histories. He has held five
commissions in three different infantry
regiments of the Connecticut National
Guard and retired with the rank of cap
tain. He is secretary of the Hartford
Municipal Art Society. Captain Burpee is
a Republican and is a Congregationalist
in denominational connection. He mar
ried at Bridgeport (Connecticut), Miss
Bertha Stiles, Novembei 5, 1885, and they
have one son : Stiles Burpee, bora in 1903.
Residence : 19 Forest Street, Hartford,

Office address : 49 Pearl Street, Hartford,
Connecticut.
BURPEE, Lucien Francis:
Lawyer; born in Rockville, Connecticut,
October 12, 1855; son of Colonel Thomas
Francis Burpee and Adeline M. (Har
wood) Burpee. After a preparatory educa
tion in the schools of Rockville, he enter
ed the academic department of Yale' Uni
versity, graduating in 1879 with the de
gree of A.B. During the course, he was
Junior Exhibition Speaker, Townsend
Prize Speaker Literary Editor, and member
of the Skull and Bones, and a Phi Beta
Kappa man. The following two years he
devoted to the study -of law in the law
schools of Yaie and Hamilton College,
graduating with the degree of LL.B. from
the latter college in 1881. In the same
year he was admitted to the bar of Con
necticut, and settling at Waterbury has
since practiced there. His marked ability
was immediately recognized for two years
later he was elected prosecuting attorney
of that city, holding that office for seven
years. In 1890 he was appointed corpora
tion counsel of the city, filling this posi
tion until his election to the bench of the
City Court, six years later. He is still in
that office, his term expiring in 1909. In
1905 the position of judge of the Water
bury District Court was offered to him,
but declined. Judge Burpee is a veteran
of the Spanish-American. War, having
tendered his regiment, the Second Infantry
of the National Guards of Connecticut,
which he commanded, and had recruited
to the maximum strength on April 25,
1898. When it appeared that this regiment
would probably see no active service in
the field, Colonel Burpee obtained leave of
absence from it, and was appointed lieu
tenant-colonel and judge advocate of Vol
unteers, and was assigned for duty to the
staff first of General Miles, then of General
James H. Wilson, upon which he served
with distinction in Porto Rico. He is a
member of the Loyal Legion, the Spanish
War Veterans, Society of Foreign Wars,
Waterbury Club, Union League, Graduates'
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Address: 3 North Main Street, Water
bury, Connecticut.
BURR, Charles Walts:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Nov
ember 16, 1861 ; son of Dellaplaine R. Burr
and Hannah (Walts) Burr. He was ed
ucated at the Episcopal Academy of Phila
delphia and he received the degree of B.S.
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1883, and M.D. from the same institution
in 1886. He was elected neurologist to the
Philadelphia Hospital in 1896 and was at
one time president of the Philadelphia
Neurological Society and of the Patho
logical Society of Philadelphia. He has
been professor of mental diseases in the
University of Pennsylvania since 1901 and
was president of the American Neurologic
al Association in 1907. Professor Burr
has written a great deal on medical sub
jects especially on neurology. Address:
1327 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.BURR, Chauncey Rea:
Physician and surgeon; born in Port
land, Maine, October 16, 1862; son of
Charles Hartwell Burr, M.D. of Portland,
Maine, and Sarah Alba Rea, daughter of
Albus Rea, M.D., of Portland, Maine. He
was educated in the public schools of Port
land, and at Dartmouth College for one
year, was graduated at Yale as Ph.B.. and
commencement speaker in 1884 and he was
graduated as M.D. from Harvard in 1888,
with honorable mention. He was interne
pupil at the Rotunda Hospital at Dublin,
Ireland, in 1888, clinical clerk of the Soho
Square Hospital for Women in London in
1889, physician at the Boston Dispensary
in 1892, assistant physician to out-patients
at Boston City Hospital, in 1893, and is
now physician to the clinic for diseases of
the stomach and intestines at the Maine
Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Burr has
traveled in Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Germany, Holland, the Philippines, the
West Indies, Guam, the Sandwich Islands,
and Canada. He was assistant surgeon of
the United States Navy in 1898, junior
medical officer of the United States Ship

Monterey at the Battle of Manila, August
13, 1898, medical officer of the United
States Ship Brutus, the United States Ship
Nero, and the Puget Sound Naval Station,
and junior medical officer of the United
States Training Ship Monongahela; and he
resigned in 1902. He was appointed honor
ary vice-consul of Spain for the State of
Maine in 1905. He is a fellow of the Mas
sachusetts Medical Society, member of the
Maine Medical Association, American Medi
cal Association and Portland Medical Club,
and was president of the latter in 1906. He
is also a member of the Chi Phi fraternity
and of the Church Club 6f the Diocese of
Maine, of which he was president from 1905
to 1907. Dr. Burr is a frequent contributor
to medical journals, is author of a book on
personal damages entitled : The Worth of
a Man; and an article by him, on The
Chinese Boycott, was presented to the
United States Senate by Senator Eugene
Hale of Maine and ordered to be printed
as a public document, May 18, 1906. He is
one of Committee to Enroll Surgeons and
Nurses for the American Red Cross for
the City of Portland. He married in New
York City, July 25, 1888, Frances Brewer-
ton, daughter of Major-General James B.
Ricketts of the United States Army, and
they have three children : Frances Doro
thy Rea, Gladys. Violet Livingston, and
Julia Marguerite Ricketts. Address : 130
Park Street, Portland, Maine.
BURR, George Lincoln:
Historian, librarian; born at Oramel,
New York, January 30, 1857; son of Wil
liam Josiah and Jane Charlotte (Lincoln)
Burr. He was graduated from Cornell Uni
versity as A.B. in 1881 ; University of
Leipzig, Sorbonne and Ecole des Chartes,
Paris, University of Zurich, from 1884 to
1886 and in 1888, and received the degree
of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin
in 1904, Litt.D. from the Western Reserve
University in 1905. He has been librarian
of the White Library, Cornell University,
since 1878; president's secretary and in
structor in history Cornell, 1881 to 1884,
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sociate professor, 1890-92; professor of his
tory since 1892. He was historical expert
to President Cleveland's Commission on
the Venezuelan Boundary, in 1896 and 1897.
He is a member of the American Library
Association, American Historical Associa
tion, American Bibliographical Society and
the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Mr. Burr
has been an editor of the American His
torical Review since 1905, and is at present
editor of the Century Historical Series.
Address : Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York.
BURR, William Hubert:
Civil engineer; born in Watertown,
Connecticut,- July 14, 1851. He was educat
ed at the Watertown Academy and the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy,
New York, graduating as CE. in 1872.
He was in subordinate positions in the
building of wrought iron. bridges and the
water works at Newark, New Jersey, from
1872 to 1875. He was a member of the
faculty of the Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute from 1875 to 1884, as professor of
rational and technical mechanics, while also
practicing civil engineering. He was assist
ant to the chief engineer of the Phoenix
Bridge Company in 1884, and later be
came its general manager. Mr. Burr be
came vice-president of Sooysmith & Co.
in 1891, and was professor of engineering
at Harvard from 1892 to 1893. Since 1893
he has been professor of civil engineering
at Columbia University. In 1894 he was ap
pointed by President Cleveland member of
a Board of Engineers to investigate the
crossing of the Hudson River at New
York City with a one-span bridge ;
he was also one of the sub-committee of the
Committee of Seventy for considering the
improvement of the city water front. Mr.
Burr was a member of the expert commit
tee on plans and estimates for rapid tran
sit; also a member of the Board of Con
sulting Engineers to the Dock Department
from 1895 to 1898; consulting engineer to
the Department of Public Parks in 1896,
and was in charge of building the Harlem

Kiver driveway. He was appointed bv
President Cleveland on the board to locate
a deep water harbor on the Southern
California coast in 1896. From 1896 to
1905 he was consulting engineer of the
Department of Bridges in New York City.
Mr. Burr was appointed by President Mc
Kinley in 1899 a member of the first Isth
mian Canal Commission and in . 1904 by
President Roosevelt a member of the sec
ond Isthmian Canal Commission. In 1902
and 1903 he was chairman of the commis
sion on Additional Water Supply for New
York City; was a member of the Board
of Consulting Engineers of the Isthmian
Canal Commission in 1905; and since 1905
has been consulting engineer of the Board
of Water Supply of New Xork and expert
engineer to the Aqueduct Commission,
New York City. He is a trustee of the
Cathedral of St. john the Divine; member
of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the Institution of Civil Engineers of
Great Britain and the National Geographic
Society. He is author of: Stresses in
Bridges and Roof Trusses, 1881 ; The Elas
ticity and Resistance of Materials, 1883;
Ancient and Modern Engineering and the
Isthmian Canal, 1902, and of numerous con
tributions to engineering and scientific so
cieties. Address : 151 West Seventy-fourth
Street, New York City.
BURRAGE, Walter Lincoln:
Physician; born in Boston, October 21,
i860. He was educated in the public
school of this city and in Mr. Noble's pri
vate school. He received the degree of
A.B. from Harvard in 1883, and the de
grees of A.M. and M.D. in 1888 from the
Harvard Medical School. On the comple
tion of his service as house-officer at the
Boston City Hospital he went to New
York, where he remained a year and a
half, and he graduated from the Woman's
Hospital there, February 1, 1890. Then he
returned to Boston, where he has since
remained in the practice of his profession.
He was gynaecologist to out-patients and
visiting gynaecologist to the Carney and
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a member of the American Gynaecological
Society, Obstetrical Society of Boston, and
is chairman of the House Committee of
the Boston Medical Library. He is also
a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, of the Warren Club, and of the
Alumni Association of Women's Hospital.
Address: 282 Newbury Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
BURROUGHS, John-
Author ; bora at Roxbury, New York,
April 3, 1837; son of Chauncey A. Bur
roughs and Amy (Kelly) Burroughs. He
was educated in the Roxbury District
School, at Cooperstown (New York) Sem
inary and the Heading Literary Institute
at Ashland, New York. Mr. Burroughs
was a school teacher from 1854 to 1863 ;
a treasury clerk and bank examiner from
1864 to 1885; a fruit farmer from 1885
to 1902; and has been a writer for maga
zines since the age of twenty-three. He
took trips to England and France in 1871
and 1882; was a companion to President
Roosevelt in a trip to Yellowstone Park
in 1893, and was a member of the Harri-
man Expedition to Alaska in 1899. Mr.
Burroughs is an Independent in politics,
and holds to no denominational faith. His
favorite recreations are those of a saunterer
and fisherman. He is author of: Wake
Robin ; Signs and Seasons ; Pepacton ; Riv-
erly; Birds and Poets; Winter Sunshine;
Locusts and Wild Honey; Fresh Fields;
Indoor Studies; Whitman, a Study; The
Light of Day; Squirrels and Other Fur
Bearers; Literary Values; Far and Near;
Ways of Nature; and Bird and Bough
(collected poems). He married, September
13, 1857, Ursula North, and they have
one son, Julian, born in 1879. Address :
.West Park, Ulster County, New York.
BURROWS, Julius C:
United States Senator; born in North
East. Erie County, Pennsylvania, January
9, 1837. He acquired a common school
and academical education, and at the age
of seventeen years taught school and read

law. In 1859 he came to Michigan, taught
school a year and engaged in the practice
of law at Kalamazoo. During the war
he served as captain in the Seventeenth
Michigan Infantry, from 1862 to 1864,
when he returned to Kalamazoo and re
sumed the practice of law. In politics he
has always been a strong advocate of the
principles of the Republican party, and very
active in campaigns. He was elected in
1872 as a Republican representative to the
Forty-third Congress; in 1878 to the For
ty-sixth Congress ; and was reelected in
1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; in
1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress, and re
elected in 1886, 1888, 1890, 1892 and 1894,
serving in the lower house until Janu
ary 23, 1895. On the convening of the
Michigan Legislature in January, 1895,
Mr. Burrows was chosen United States
Senator to succeed John Patton, Jr., for
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Stockbridge. On the convening of the
Legislature of 1899 to 1900, Senator Bur
rows was chosen by the unanimous vote
of the Republican members of the legis
lature to succeed himself in the United
States Senate for the term of six years,
from 1899 to 1905; and in 1905 was chosen
by the unanimous vote of the legislature
for another term, expiring March 4, 191 1.
Address: Kalamazoo, Michigan.
BURT, Andrew Sheridan:
Brigadier-General of the United States
Army, retired; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
November 21, 1839; son of Andrew Gano
Burt and Annie (Thompson) Burt. He
was prepared in private schools and en
tered Yale College in the class of 1861,
but left before graduating to enter West
Point. The Civil War opened, and he en
listed in the Sixth Ohio Vounteers. He
served in all grades from private in the
Sixth Ohio Infantry to brigadier-general
of. the United States Army. He served in
four wars, was once wounded, and twice
brevetted for gallantry in battle. He pre
vented one Indian outbreak, and com
manded in several Indian fights, and was
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Chief-Little-Man Who Fights the Sioux a
hleap. He was retired as brigadier-gen
eral, April 15, 1902, at his own request,
after forty years' service as a commis
sioned officer. His favorite recreations
are reading, whist, and bridge. General
Burt claims to be the oldest baseball fan,
and still goes to the game. He married
in Cincinnati, Ohio, September, 1862, Eliz
abeth Johnston Reynolds, and they have
three children: Andrew Gano, born in
1863; Edith, born in 1867, and Reynolds,
bora in 1874. Address: The Portner,
Washington, D. C.
BURTON, Charles G.:
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic; born in Ohio in 1846. He
enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 at the
age of fifteen years, saw much hard ser
vice, and after the war studied law. He
practiced his profession in three States
and finally settled at Nevada, Missouri, be
came successively circuit attorney, judge
and congressman", and is now collector of
internal revenue for his district. He is a
prominent Republican and has been dele
gate to the National Convention. He has
been commander of the Department of Mis
souri and chairman of the National Pen
sions Committee of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and was elected commander-in-
chief at the National Encampment at Sara
toga in 1907. Address : Nevada, Mis
souri.
BURTON, Ernest De Witt:
Theologian; born in Granville, Ohio,
February 4, 1856; son of Rev. Nathan
Smith Burton, D.D., and Sarah J. (Fair
field) Burton. He was educated in Deni-
son University, Granville, Ohio, graduat
ing from there in 1876, and receiving the
degree of B.A. ; also in the Rochester
Theological Seminary from 1879 to 1882;
the University of Leipzig in 1887, and the
University of Berlin in 1894. He was a
teacher in public and private schools from
1876 to 1879; was instructor in Rochester

Theological Seminary from 1882 to 1883.
and associate professor from 1883 to 1886.
He was associate professor of New Testa
ment interpretation in the Newton Theologi
cal Institution from 1883 to 1886, and pro
fessor from 1886 to 1892; and from 1892
has been professor of New Testament inter
pretation ;and head of the New Testament
department at the University of Chica
go. He was associate editor of the
Biblical World from 1892 to 1906, and
has been its editor-in-chief since 1906. He
has been editor (with others) of the
American Journal of Theology since 1897.
He is author of numerous theological
works and is a member of the Quadrangle
Club of Chicago. He married Frances
Mary Townson, in 1883, and they have one
daughter. Address : University of Chi
cago, Chicago, Illinois.

BURTON, Hiram Rodney:
Physician and congressman; born in
Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, Novem
ber 13, 1841 ; son of Joshua S. Burton and
Ruth Hunn (Rodney) Burton. He was
educated in the local schools of Lewes,
Delaware, and then taught for two years
in the schools of Sussex County, Delaware.
He was engaged in the dry goods business
at Washington, D. C, from 1861 to 1865,
then entered the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania, whence he was
graduated as M.D. in 1868. He was
appointed deputy collector of customs
in 1877; was acting assistant surgeon in
the United States Marine Hospital Service,
stationed at Lewes, from 1890 to 1893, and
was nominated for State senator from the
Fifth District of Sussex County in 1898.
He was elected from the State of Dela
ware at large, in 1904, to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and reelected in 1906 to the Six
tieth Congress, in which he is now serving!
He was a delegate to the National Republi
can Convention of 1896 and 1900. He mar
ried in 1877, Margaret V. Rawlins, who
died in 1897, and has one daughter. Ad
dress : Lewes, Delaware.

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BURTON, Lewis William:
Bishop of Lexington; born in Cleveland,
Ohio, November 9, 1852; son of Reverend
Lewis Burton and Jane (Wallace) Burton.
He was graduated from Kenyon College
in 1873 with the degree of A.B., being
valedictorian" and. first honor man of his
class; and was graduated from the Phila
delphia Divinity School in 1877. He re
ceived the degrees of A.M. in 1886
and D.D. in 1896 from his Alma Mater,
as well as D.D. from the Universi
ty of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee,
•in 1896. He was made a deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1877, becoming as
sistant of All Saints' Church, Cleveland,
.Ohio, and the following year he was or
dained priest by Bishop Bedell, and as
rector continued to officiate at All Saints'
Church until 1880. He became assistant
in St. Mark's Church, Cleveland, Ohio, in
1881, and rector in 1882. In 1884, he was
called to the rectorship of St. John's
Church, Richmond, Virginia, remaining'
until 1893, when he became rector of St.
Andrew's Church, Louisville, Kentucky.
He was elected, December 5, 1895, and on
January 30, 1896, he was consecrated Bish
op of the Diocese of Lexington (which
embraces the eastern half of the State of
Kentucky), by Bishops Dudley, Peterkin,
W. A. Leonard, Randolph, Vincent, White
and Nelson. He is author of : The Name
of the Church, 1903 ; The Necessity to the
Minister of a Personal Spiritual Life,'
1904; Annals of Henrico Parish, in J. S.
Moore's Virginian, 1894, He traveled
abroad in 1880, and again in 1897, attend
ing the Lambeth Conference in London In
the latter year. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society (Kenyon Chap
ter) ; a trustee of Kenyon College, and of
the University of the South; is president
of the Board of Directors of Margaret
Hall, a diocesan school for girls at Ver
sailles, Kentucky; and is the 'Episcopal
head of Saint John's - Academy at Corbin,
Kentucky, and of the Bishop Dudley. Col
legiate Institute at Beatty ville, Kentucky.
Bishop Burton is a member of the Society
of Colonial Wars. He married at Decatur,
Georgia, January 15, 1883, Georgie Hendree !

Ball, and they had three children: a son,
Lewis James Hendree Burton (now de
ceased) ; and two daughters : Sarah Louise
Burton, and Cornelia Paine Wallace Bur
ton, both living. Address: 436 West
Sixth Street, Lexington, Kentucky.
BURTON, Theodore E.:
Lawyer and Congressman ; born at Jef
ferson, Ohio, December 20, 1851. He stud
ied at Grand River Institute, Austinburg,
Ohio, at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, and
at Oberlin College, graduating from the
latter institution in 1872, and later he
received the degree of LL.D. from Dart
mouth College. He began the practice
of law in 1875. He is author of:
Financial Crises and Periods of Com
mercial Depression; and Life of John
Sherman. He is now chairman of
the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of
House of Representatives. Mr. Burton
was defeated for reelection in 1890, but
was elected in 1894, and reelected in 1896,
1898, 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1906 and is
now serving in the Sixtieth Congress. He
is a member of the Union and Rowfant
Clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Metro
politan and University Clubs of Washing
ton, D. C. Residence: The Rochambeau,
Washington, D. C. Address : 709 Society
for Savings, Cleveland, Ohio.
BURTON-OPITZ, RusseU:
Physician and physiologist; born in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana, October 25, 1875. He was
graduated from the University of Chicago
as M.D. (Rush Medical College) in 1895;
as S.B. in 1898; S.M. in 1902 and Ph.D.
in 1905. He was a graduate student at the
University of Vienna in 1898; was volun
teer assistant in 1898 and 1899, and assist
ant docent in physiology from 1899 to
1901 in the University of Breslaii; investi
gator at the Marine Biological Station at
Naples in 1901 ; assistant in physiology at
Harvard University in 1901 and 1902; and
since 1902 at Columbia University as assist
ant demonstrator of physiology, instructor
in physiology and adjunct professor of
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has traveled extensively in Europe and
Africa. He is a member of the American
Physiological Society, the Deutsche Physi-
ologische Gesellschaft, Society for Experi
mental Biology and Medicine, the Harvey
Society, the American Society of Biologi
cal Chemists, Society of American Natur
alists, and American Chemical Society; and
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is co-editor
of the Biochemische Centralblatt, Biophysi-
kalische Centralblatt, Hygienische Central
blatt and a frequent contributor to scien
tific journals. Mr. Burton-Opitz is a Re
publican in politics and a Protestant in re
ligion. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason; a member of the Sigma Chi, Theta
Nu Epsilon, and Nu Sigma Nu fraterni
ties, and the Sigma Xi Society. Residence :
Palisade, New Jersey. Office address : 437
West .Fifty-ninth Street, New York City.
BUSBEE, Charles Manly:
Lawyer; born at Raleigh, North Caro
lina, October 23, 1845 ; son of Perrin and
Anne (Taylor) Busbee. After a prepara
tory education in the schools of his native
city, he entered Hampden-Sidney (Vir
ginia) College, and after a year's study he
left to enlist as a private in the Confed
erate Army. He was soon promoted to
the rank of sergeant-major for his bravery
and gallant conduct in various battles. He
was taken prisoner by the Federals at
the battle of Spottsylvania Court House,
May 12, 1864, and sent under guard to
Fort Delaware, Morris Island, later re
moved to Fort Pulaski, from which he
was released at the close of hostilities.
Then taking up the study of law at Ra
leigh, he was admitted to the bar of North
Carolina in 1867, and has since practiced
in that State; and is now with the law
firm of Busbee & Busbee. He is a di
rector of the Raleigh Banking and Trust
Company, the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad. Company, Wake Water Com
pany, and the Lillington Naval Store Com
pany. He was also a director of the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Asylum. In 1894 he was
made postmaster of the city of Raleigh,
and in 1904 he was elected president of the

Bar Association of the State of North
Carolina. In 1874 he was elected by the
Democratic party to the State Senate of
North Carolina for a term of two years,
and in 1885 to the State House of Repre
sentatives. He is a Democrat in politics,
and is a member of the Protestant Episco
pal Church. He was Grand Sire of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows from
1891 to 1892. Mr. Busbee is a member of
the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He has
been twice married; first, July 30, 1868,
to Lydia L. Littlejohn, of Oxford, North
Carolina, second, January 21, 1891, to Flor:
ence E. Cooper, of Louisville, Kentucky.
Residence: 104 West Hargett Street. Ad
dress: 303 Fayetteville- Street, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
BUSBEE, Fabius Haywood:
Lawyer; born at Raleigh, North Caro
lina, March 4, 1848; son of Perrin and
Anne (Taylor) Busbee. He received his
early education in the private school of
J. M. Lovejoy at Raleigh, later entering
the University of North' Carolina, at Chapel^
Hill, graduating in 1868. His education
was interrupted for a time during the
Civil War, and- the boy anxious to
enlist in the Southern Army, joined
the Confederate troops as a private,
but was soon elected lieutenant in
the Seventy-first _ North Carolina Volun
teers in 1865, serving but for a few
months. After his graduation from the
University "in 1868, he spent a year read
ing law at Raleigh, and was admitted in
1869 to the bar of North Carolina, since
practicing in his native city. He graduated
from Lovejoy's Academy; the University
of North Carolina in 1868, receiving the
degree of A.B., and in 1883 that of A.M.
Also at Trinity College (Connecticut) in
1871, receiving the degree of A.M., and
College of New Jersey (Princeton) in
1871. He is a Gold Democrat in politics.
During the National presidential elections
of 1876 and 1880, he was presidential elec
tor for the Democratic party, being elector-
at-large in 1880. In 1885 he was appointed
by President Grover Cleveland, United
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such for four years, Mr. Busbee has
been a delegate to various National Dem
ocratic conventions, serving on the Com
mittee of Resolutions ; and was in 1904 a
member of the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists, held at Saint Louis. He
has also been for many years trustee of
the University of North Carolina. He is
a well-known member of the bar, practic
ing in partnership with his son, Philip H.
Busbee, and is a member of various local
and National legal associations, among
them being the American Bar Association,
the North Carolina Bar Association, and
others ; ex-president of the Capitol Club
of Raleigh. He is prominent in the Ma
sonic order, having been Grand Master,
and is vice-president of the North Carolina
Society of the Sons of the Revolution and
other historical organizations. He was
married in 1870, to Annie McKesson, of
Morganton, North Carolina, and in 1877,
to Sally H. Smith, of Scotland Neck,
North Carolina. Address : 217 ' Fayette-
ville Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. Res
idence: 204 North Person Street, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
BUSBY, Leonard Allen:
Lawyer; born in Jewett, Harrison Coun
ty, Ohio, May 22, 1869; son of Sheridan
and Margaret . (Quigley) Busby. He at
tended the public schools of Jewett until
he was sixteen years of age, when he be
came a teacher, teaching in the public
schools of Harrison County four years.
He entered the Ohio Wesleyan University
in 1890, and was graduated with the de
gree of A.B. four years later. He at
tended the Northwestern University Law
School, 1894-95, graduating with the degree
of LL.B. He was admitted to the Illinois
State bar the same year, and entered the
office of Lyman & Jackson as law clerk.
Upon the resignation of David B. Lyman,
December, 1898, to become president of
the Chicago Title and Trust Company, the
son, David B„ Jr., and Mr. Busby were
admitted to the firm, under the style of
Jackson, Busby & Lyman. After the death
of Mr. Jackson, in 1901, Mr. Lyman, Sr.,
resigned his position with the trust com

pany and reentered the firm, which has
since continued as Lyman, Busby & Lyman.
Mr. Busby is sole executor and trustee of
the Huntington W. Jackson estate, and a
trustee of the John W. Crerar Library,
succeeding Huntington W. Jackson in the
board. Fie is treasurer and a member of
the Board of Managers of the Chicago
Bar Association, and a member of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He is a Dem
ocrat, supporting the policies of Mr. Cleve
land. He is a member of the Chicago, the
Chicago Literary and La Grange Clubs.
Address : 6042 Woodlawn Avenue, Chica
go, Illinois. *
BUSH, John Standish Foster:
Physician; born in Burlington, Vermont,
June 4, 1850; son of Solon W. Bush and
Theoda (Foster) Bush. He obtained his
early education in the schools of Burling
ton, and the Roxbury Latin School, his
parents having moved to Boston when he
was fourteen years old. He took a special
course in chemistry in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; a course in na
tural sciences at Cornell University; and
was graduated as M.D. from the Harvard
Medical School in 1874. In 1873 he was
appointed house surgeon in the Mas
sachusetts General Hospital. For many
years he was surgeon to the Boston
Dispensary; and he is now physician to
the Children's Mission, and one of its di
rectors. He is a member of the Massa
chusetts Medical Society, and one of the
Councilors of the society. Dr. Bush is act
ively interested in fraternal organizations,
being a member of the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Massachusetts, and of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar for
Massachusetts and Rhode Island,' and has
the thirty-third degree of the Scottish
Rite. He is a member of many leading
clubs of Boston. Dr. Bush married June
4, 1875, Josephine M. Mason, and they
have two children : Ella A. and Theoda
F. Bush. Address : Boston, Massachu
setts.
BUSH-BROWN, Henry Kirke:
Sculptor; born in Ogdensburg, New
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and Caroline (Udall) Bush. He was edu
cated in the schools of Newburgh, New
York; and he studied art with Henry
Kirk Brown, and 'in Paris with Antoine
Mercie! Among his more notable works
are : the Indian Buffalo Hunt, exhibited
at the World's Columbian Exposition at
Chicago, in 1893 ; and equestrian statues
of General G. G. Meade and General John
F. Reynolds, erected on the battlefield of
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; the Civil War
Memorial, at the Union League, Philadel
phia; the Statue of Justinian, in the Ap
pellate Court House at New York City; of
Horace Mann, at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, St. Louis, 1904'; of Truth, for
the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo,
in 1901 ; and an equestrian statue of Gen
eral Anthony Wayne for Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, now under construction. Mr.
Bush-Brown has traveled extensively in.
England, France, Italy, and Germany for
professional study. He is a trustee of the
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,
and a member of the Hudson-Fulton Cel-:
ebration Commission. He is a member of
the National Sculpture Society, the Archi
tectural League of New York City, the,
Municipal Art Society, the Mayflower So
ciety, and the Empire State Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and of
the National Arts Club of New York. He
was married, April 7, 1886, to Margaret
W. Lesley, of Philadelphia, and they have
four children: Lydia (born in 1887), Har
old (born in 1888), Malcolm (born in
1891), and James (born in 1892). Ad
dress : Newburgh, New York.
BUSSE, Fred A,:
Mayor of Chicago ; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, May 3, 1866. He was educated in
the public schools of Chicago, and began
his business career as a clerk with his fa
ther, who was engaged in the hardware
business. From the store he graduated
into the coal business, and finally became
secretary and treasurer of the Northwest
ern Coal Company. Later he organized
and became president of the Busse-Rey-
nolds Coal Company, and is now president
of the Busse Coal Company. He has al

ways been active in politics, his affiliations
being with the Republican party. He was
town clerk of North Chicago for one
term; was in the sheriff's office for four
years, ^nd following that was chief clerk
in the North Town Collector's office. He
was a member of the House of Representa
tives in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Gen
eral Assemblies, elected in 1894 and 1896;
State senator from the Twenty-first Sena
torial District of Chicago in 1898, and in
1892 was elected State treasurer of Illi
nois for the term expiring in 1906. He
was appointed postmaster of Chicago by
President Roosevelt in 1906, but resigned
to accept the mayoralty, to which office he
was elected in April, 1907, for the term of
four years. He is a member of the Re
publican State Committee from the Ninth
District, and a mefnber ot the Cook Coun
ty Central Republican Committee. He. is
a member of the German Mannerchor and
of the Masonic order, in which he has the
thirty-second degree, and is also a mem
ber of the Hamilton, Marquette, and Chi
cago Athletic Clubs. Address : 504 North
Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BUTLER, Charles Henry:
Lawyer; born in New York City, June
18, 1859; son of William Allen and Mary
(Marshall) Butler. He was at Princeton
College in the class of 1881, but did not
graduate. In 1882 he was admitted to the
New York State bar, where he practiced
for many years, acting as attorney in many
important cases. In 1898 he was attached
as legal expert to the United States dele
gation in the Anglo-American-Canadian
Commission. In 1902 he gave up the act
ive practice of law, and was appointed re
porter of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the International Law As
sociation, and the Bar Association of New
York City and State, and recording sec
retary of the American Society of Inter
national Law. In 1907 he was attached to
the United States Delegation to the Sec
ond Hague Conference. Mr. Butler has
written on subjects of international law
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imd semi-legal nature, among these being:
Our Relations With Spain, 1898; Our
Treaty With Spain, 1899; Freedom of Pri
vate Property on the Sea, 1899; and
Treaty Making Power of the United
States, 1902. He was also joint author
with Mr. Justice Brewer, of a work on
International Law. Mr. Butler is a mem
ber of the New York Yacht and Lawyers'
Clubs, of New York, and the Metropolitan.
Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wash
ington, D. C. He married in 1882, Marcia
Flagg, of Yonkers, New York. Residence:
1535 I Street, Washington, D. C; and
Yonkers, New York. Address: Supreme
Court, Washington, D. C.
BUTLER, Fred Mason:
Lawyer; born at Jamaica, Vermont, May
28, 1854; son of Aaron Mason and Eme
line (Muzzy) Butler. He was educated
in the public schools of Vermont and at
the Leland and Gray Seminary at Town-
shend, where he was graduated in 1874.
He then took up the study of law at Ja
maica, Vermont, being admitted to the bar
in 1877. He has practiced in the city of
Rutland ever since; first in partnership
with Hon. Lyman W. Reddington, and
after 1885, with Hon. Thos. W. Moloney,
under the firm name of Butler & Moloney,
which partnership still exists. He was
from 1888 to 1894 first judge of the Rut
land City Court. Mr. Butler is one of
the most prominent members, of the Ver
mont bar, and has handled many notable
cases. He is also general counsel for the
Rutland Railway, Light and Power Com
pany, and the Baxter National Bank, being
also on its board of directors. He is a
member and president of the Vermont Bar
Association. On November 24, 1875, he
was married at Dummerton, Vermont, to
Lillian H. Holton. Address : Rutland, Ver
mont.
BUTLER, Glentworth Reeve:
Physician; born at Philadelphia, Decem
ber 31, 1855; son of J. Glentworth and
Evelyn (Reeve) Butler. He was educated
in the private school of Professor David
son, of Brooklyn, and at Hamilton Col
lege, graduating as A.B. in 1877, and then

entering the Long Island College Hospital
at Brooklyn, from which he was gradu
ated as M.D. in 1880. He received from
Hamilton College the degree of A.M., in
1880, and of ScD., in 1901. Since 1880
Dr. Butler has been engaged in the prac
tice of medicine at Brooklyn. He was
house officer of the Long Island College
Hospital from 1880 to 1881, and assistant
physician of St. Mary's General Hospital
from 1882 to 1891. He has been continu
ously connected with the Methodist Epis
copal Hospital from 1885, having been as
sistant physician until 1891 ; chief of its
Second Medical Division from 1891 to
1906, and physician-in-chief from 1906. He
has also been attending physician at the
Brooklyn Hospital from 1902. Dr. Butler
was formerly lecturer on emergencies and
home nursing at the Pratt Institute of
Brooklyn, and was examining surgeon for
United States Pensions from 1889 to 1893.
He has been a trustee of Packer Institute,
Brooklyn, from 1905, and a director of the
Williamsburg Hospital from 1905. He is
a life fellow of the Society of Science,
Letters and Art of London; a fellow of
the American Academy of Medicine, the
American Climatological Society, and the
New York Academy of Medicine; is a
member of the Medical Society of the
State of New York; and president (in
1907) of the Medical Society of the Coun
ty of Kings. Dr. Butler is author of:
Emergency Notes, 1889; and Diagnostics
of Internal Medicine, 1901 ; and he was a
contributor to the Encyclopedia Americana
and to Buck's Reference Handbook of the
Medical Sciences, 1903. He is a Republi
can in politics and a Presbyterian in his
religious affiliation; and he is a member
of the Barnard Club, the Hamilton Club,
and the University Club of Brooklyn. Dr.
Butler married at Brooklyn, New York,
January 3, 1884, Antoinette Willson, and
they have one daughter, Antoinette Reeve
Butler. Address : 229 Gates Avenue.
Brooklyn, New York.
BUTLER, James Joseph:
Lawyer and capitalist; born in St. Louis,
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Butler, and Ellen (O'Neill) Butler. He
was educated at St. Louis University,
where he was graduated as B.S., and at the
Law School of Washington University.
He was admitted to the bar at St. Louis,
June 2, 1884, and has since been engaged
in the practice of law in St. Louis. He
has also taken a leading part in politics
in St. Louis as a Democrat. He served
a term on the St. Louis Board of Educa
tion, and was city attorney of St. Louis
from 1886 to 1894. He was elected in
1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress, but was
unseated by a party vote, was reelected to
the same Congress and again unseated by
a party vote after a bitter contest, arid he
was elected in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth
Congress and served until March 3, 1905.
He was a delegate to the National Demo
cratic Convention at St. Louis in 1904. Mr.
Butler is president of the Empire Circuit
Company of Theatres, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, the National Copper Mining Com
pany, of St. Louis, Missouri, and the Ajax
Copper Mining Company of St. Louis,
Missouri. He is a Roman Catholic in re
ligion, a member of the Knights of Pyth
ias, the Elks, and the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. He married in St. Louis, Missouri,
August 11, 1896, Rose Mary Lancaster,
and they have a son, Edward Lancaster,
born in 1897. Residence: 371 1 West Pine
Boulevard, St. Louis. Office address :
Temple Building, St. Louis, Missouri.
BUTLER, Julius Wales:
Merchant; born in Essex, Chittenden
County, Vermont, May 7, 1828; son of
Zebediah and Ester (Morris) Butler. His
father was an extensive paper manufactur
er. Young Butler received his prelimin
ary education in the public schools of his
native place, which was supplemented by
an academic course. He was at the age
of thirteen apprenticed to a harness and
trunk maker at Hinesburg, Vermont, the
terms of his indenture being that he was
to remain until he had reached his ma
jority, at the remuneration of thirty dol
lars a year, with three months schooling
each year. At eighteen he had become an
expert at his trade, and a trunk and a set

of harness which were entirely construct
ed by him, each received the first prize at
the State fair. At twenty years of age, in
consideration of his having rendered ex
ceptional services to his employers he was
given a year of his time, and removed to
Illinois, locating in Chicago. The journey
occupied four weeks, which was consid
ered a quick trip for the period. His
brother, who had preceded him several
years earlier, was the proprietor of a paper
mill and general store at Saint Charles.
Illinois, and thither he proceeded soon
after his arrival in Chicago, and found
employment. He clerked in his brother's
store for six years, and then became a
partner in a paper warehouse in Chicago,
under the firm name of Butler & Hunt,
which handled the output of the Saint
Charles Mill. In 1862 the firm was
changed to Laflin, Butler & Company, and
to J. W. Butler & Company in 1869. It
was incorporated as the J. W. Butler
Paper Company in 1872, and Mr. Butler
was made its president. He is also presi
dent of the Standard Paper Company of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a director of
the Royal Trust Company Bank. He is a
member and an officer of the Union Park
Congregational Church and a member of
the Union League Club. He married at
Bellows Falls, Vermont, May, 1858, Julia
A. Osgood, and they have two children
living: Frank Osgood and Julius Fred.
Residence: Hinsdale, Illinois. Office ad
dress : 218 Monroe Street, Chicago, Illi
nois.
BUTLER, Marion:
Lawyer ; born in Sampson County, North
Carolina, May 20, 1863. He was educated
at the University of North Carolina, grad
uating in 1885 with the degree of A.B-
He then took up the study of law, at the
University, but the death of his father in
terrupted his course and he was obliged to
return to his home. From 1885 to 1887
he was principal of Salem High School,
where he was prepared for college; super
intending at the same time the manage
ment of his father's farm and naval stores
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Caucasian, and advocated the establishment
of a Railroad Commission and generally
the cause of the Farmers' Alliance. In
1890 he was elected State senator, was
made chairman of a Joint Committee on
Railroad Commission, and was the author
of the law governing corporations enact
ed by that Legislature. In 1891 he was
elected president of the State Farmers'
Alliance and later president of the Nation
al organization. In 1892 he organized the
People's Party in his State and campaign
ed the State as a Weaver elector-at-large.
In 1895 he was elected to the United
States Senate. In the meanwhile, however.,
he again took up the study of law and was
admitted to practice before the bar of the
State of North Carolina in 1899 and in
the United States Supreme Court in 1902,
practicing both at Raleigh, North Carolina,
and at Washington. He is now the senior
member of the law firm of Benter and
Vale, which has a lucrative practice.
While a member of the United States
Senate he championed the Free Rural De
livery and became the father of the present
popular and growing system. In 1891 he
was made trustee of the University of
North Carolina. He married, August 31,
1893, Florence Faison, of North Carolina,
and they have five children. Address :
Raleigh, North Carolina, and Washington,
D.C.
BUTLER, Mounce Gore:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in Jackr
son County, Tennessee, May 11, 1849. He
received an academic education and at
tended the law department of Cumberland
University, at Lebanon, Tennessee. He is
a practicing lawyer, and married. He was
elected attorney-general for the Fifth Ju
dicial Circuit of Tennessee in 1894, served
one term of eight years, and declined the
offer for reelection. He was elected in
1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the
Fourth Tennessee District, serving from
. 1905 to 1907. Mr. Butler is a Democrat
in politics. Address : Gainesboro, Tennes
see.

BUTLER, Nicholas Murray!
President of Columbia University; born
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, April 2, 1862;
son of Henry L. Butler and Mary J.
(Murray) Butler. He was prepared for
college in the high school of Paterson, New
Jersey; was graduated from High School,
Columbia University, as A.B, in 1882;
A.M. in 1883; Ph.D. in 1884; and received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from Syra
cuse University in 1898, Tulane University
in 1901, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, in
1902 ; the University of Chicago, 1903 ;
St. Andrew's University, Manchester
University, in 1905 ; Cambridge University
in 1907; Litt.D. from the University of
Oxford in 1905 ; and was made of-
ficier de la Legion d'Honneur of
France in 1906. He has been a mem
ber of. the faculty of Columbia Uni
versity since 1889; as adjunct profes
sor, from 1889 to 1890; dean of the fac
ulty of philosophy, and professor of phil
osophy and education from 1890 to 1901 ;
and since January, 1902, as president of
Columbia University (including also the
presidency of Barnard College, the Teach
ers' College and the College of Pharmacy).
Dr. Butler was a member of the State
Board of Education of New Jersey from
1887 to 1895 ; special commissioner from
New Jersey to the Paris Exposition in
1889; president of the Paterson (New Jer
sey) Board of Education in 1892 and 1893,
and chairman of the Administrative Board
of the International Congress of Arts and
Sciences of the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition in 1904. He is a trustee of the
Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of
Teaching, trustee of the National Educa
tional Association, and was its president
in 1895; governor of the Society of the
Lying-in Hospital; director of the New
York Botanical Garden; trustee of Colum
bia University Press Club, and of the
American Academy in Rome. He is a
member of the American Philosophical
Association, and the American Psychologi
cal Association; life member of the Na
tional Red Cross, the American Historical
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Society; chairman of the College Entrance
Examination Board; president of the Ger-
manistic Society, the University Settlement
Society, and member of the. American
Copyright League. He is a Republican in
politics, and an Episcopalian in his re
ligious affiliations. He edited: Scribner's
Great Educators' Series ; Macmillan's
Teachers' Professional Library; Mono
graphs of Education in the United States
(forming part of the United States Edu
cational Exhibit to Paris) ; editor of the
Educational Review; Columbia Contribu
tions to Philosophy and Education,
from 1898 to 1902 ; and one of the
editors of the Internationale Pedagogische
Bibliothek. He is author of: The Mean
ing of Education. President Butler is a
member of the Century Association and of
the Metropolitan, University, City, Church,
Barnard, Columbia University, Ardsley,
Garden City Golf, and Psi Upsilon Clubs
of New York City. He married at Ber
gen Point, New Jersey, February 8, 1887,
Susannah Edwards Schuyler (who died
January 10, 1903), and he has a daughter,
Sarah Schuyler Butler, born July 1, 1895.
He married in New York, March 5, 1907,
Kate La Montague. Address : Columbia
University, New York City.
BUTLER, Thomas S, :
Congresman, lawyer; born in Uwchland,
Chester County, Pennsylvania, . November
4, 1855. He received a common school
and academic education and afterward
studied law, engaging in the practice of
his profession at West Chester, Pennsyl
vania. He was elected and served several
years as judge of the Fifteenth Judicial
District of Pennsylvania. In 1896 he was
elected from the Sixth Pennsylvania Dis
trict to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and was
reelected in 1898 and 1900. In 1902 he
was elected from the new Seventh Penn
sylvania District, and was reelected in 1904
anu 1906, and is now serving in the Six
tieth Congress. Address : West Chester,
Pennsylvania.
BUTLER, William Allen, Jr.:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, June
14, 1853; son of the late William Allen

Butler, distinguished lawyer and author,
and Mary R. (Marshall) Butler. He was
educated at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts; graduated from Princeton
as A.B. in 1876; and from Columbia Law
School, as LL.B., in 1878. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the State of New
York in the same year, and has since
then been engaged in practice in New
York City, now being a member of the
law firm of Wallace, Butler & Brown, suc
cessors to Butler, Notman & Mynderse.
He is a director of the Employers' Liability
Assurance Corporation of London, and the
Hanover Fire Insurance Company, Frank
lin Trust Company, Brunswick Site Com
pany, and Century Building Company. Mr.
Butler is «i member of the American
Bar Association, the New York State
Bar Association, and the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York. He
is treasurer of the Church Extension Com
mittee, of the Presbytery of New York;
a member of the American Fine Arts So
ciety, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the American Museum of Natural His
tory. He is president of the Lawyers'
Club of New York, and a member of the
University, Princeton, Shinnecock Hills'
Golf, and Meadow Clubs. Mr. Butler
married at Yonkers, New York, October
1, 1884, Louise T. Collins. Residence: 30
East Seventy-second Street. Address: 54
Wall Street, New York.
BUTZ, George Charles:
Educator; born in New Castle, Pennsyl
vania, February 1, 1863; son of Paul and
Margaret (Wiegand) Butz. After taking
a course in the high school of New Castle,
Pennsylvania, he entered the Pennsylvania
State College, where he took the degrees of
B.S. and M.S., and was graduated as vale
dictorian of his class. Since 1887 he has
been professor of horticulture in the Penn
sylvania State College, and horticulturist
of the Agricultural Fxperiment Station.
During the past eighteen years he has lec
tured annually at the Farmer's Institute in
Pennsylvania, and was commissioned by the
State of Pennsylvania as nursery inspector,
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years. He became president of the first
Town Council of the Borough of State
College, in 1896, and is treasurer of the
Nittany Real Estate Company. He is the
author of numerous bulletins on horticul
tural topics prepared for publication by
the Agricultural Experiment Station and
the Agricultural Department of the State of
Pennsylvania. He is an elder in the Pres-
¦byterian Church, and is affiliated with the
Democratic party. His travels include a
year in California and the West. In addi
tion to membership in the Society of Ameri
can Florists, the Pennsylvania State Horti
cultural Association, the Phi Gamma Delta,
Phi. Kappa Phi (honor) and Alpha Zeta
(agricultural) fraternities, .he is a thirty-
second degree Mason, a Knight Templar,
and has been admitted to the Order of the
Mystic Shrine. He married at State Col
lege, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1892, Emma
Robison, and they have two children : Ger
ald Robison, born in 1894, and Charles
Arthur, born in 1897. Address : State Col
lege, Pennsylvania.
BYERS, Noah Ebersole:
President of Goshen College; born at
Sterling, Illinois, July 26, 1873; son of
John J. Byers and Esther (Ebersole)
Byers. He received his preliminary edu
cation in the Sterling High School, and
was graduated from Northwestern Uni
versity with the degree of B.S. Subse
quently he took graduate work in the Uni
versity of Chicago and Harvard, receiving
the degree of A.M., and winning the Aus
tin scholarship at the latter university.
For two years after completing his studies,
he taught in a public school in his native
county, and in 1898 identified himself with
the Elkhart Institute as principal, but re
signed in 1903 to become president of
Goshen College. He is a member of the
executive committee of the Intercollegiate
Peace Association, and a director of the
Mennonite Board of Education. A Men-
nonite by faith, he is not identified with
any political party. He was married at
Sterling, Illinois, July 6, 1898, to Emma
Dora Lefevre, and has two children : Rob
ert Lefevre (born in 1905), and Cecil

Floyd (bora in 1901). Address: 1221
South Eighth Street, Goshen, Indiana.
BYFORD, Henry Turman:
Gynecological surgeon; born in Evans-
ville, Indiana, November 12, 1853; son of
William Heath Byford and Mary
Anne (Holland) Byford. He was edu
cated in the high' school of Berlin, Ger
many, the old University of Chicago, Wil
liston Seminary, and' at Northwestern Uni
versity Medical School (Chicago Medical
College), graduating as M.D. in 1873. Dr.
Byford is professor of gynecology and
clinical gynecology at the University of
Illinois Medical School, professor oi
gynecology in the Post-Graduate Medical
School; surgeon to the Woman's Hospital
of Chicago, and Mary Thompson Hospital,
and consulting gynaecologist to the Mich
ael Reese, Provident and Lying-in Hos
pitals. Dr. Byford is a member of the
American Gynaecological Society, of the
International Congress of Gynaecology, the
Southern Surgical and Gynaecological As
sociation, Western Surgical Association,
Chicago Gynecological Society, American
Medical Association, Illinois State Medi
cal Association, Chicago Medical Society,
Chicago Medico-Legal Society, American
Academy of Medicine, Chicago Academy of
Medicine ; and is a fellow of the Royal
Academy of Medicine of England. He is
a director in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Illinois) ; a member of the Nu
Sigma Nu fraternity, and the University,
Chicago Athletic, and Physicians' Club of
Chicago. Author of: a Manual of Gyne
cology; co-author of: Byford's Practice of
Gynecology; collaborator of: Keating &
Coe's Gynecology ; of American Text-Book
of Gynecology ; and of Kelly & Noble's
Text-Book of Gynecology. Author of
numerous monographs on gynecological
subjects. His favorite recreations are ten
nis, sketching in 'water colors, and the
study of literature. He speaks German,
French. Spanish, and Italian fluently, and
has traveled in nearly all European coun
tries, taking numerous pedestrian tours
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odist in religious belief. Dr. Byford mar-'
ried at Chicago, November 8, 1881, Lucy
Larned, and they have two sons : Heath
Turman Byford, born in 1886, and William
Holland Byford, born in 1891. Residence ;
4636 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago. Address :
100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
BYRD, Adam Monroe:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Sum
ter County, Alabama, July 6, 1859. He
moved when he was eight years old to
Neshoba County, Mississippi; was educated
in the common schools and in the Cooper
Institute at Daleville, Mississippi, then
went to the law department of Cumber
land University, at Lebanon, Tennessee,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1884. He began the practice of law in
Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1884. He
is prominent in politics as a Democrat;
served as superintendent of education of
Neshoba County in 1887 and 1888; was
elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1889,
1890 and 1892, and to the Mississippi
House of Representatives in 1895. In 1896
he was appointed by Governor A. J. Mc-
Laurin prosecuting attorney for the Tenth
Judicial District of Mississippi ; and in
1897 was appointed by the same governor
to the office of chancellor of the Sixth
Chancery District of Mississippi. He was
reappointed by Governor Longino in 1901
but resigned his position as chancellor in
1902, and was elected from the Fifth Con
gressional District of Mississippi to the
Fifty-eighth Congress. He was re
elected in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses, in the latter of
which he is now serving. Address : Phila
delphia, Mississippi.
BYRUM, Enoch Edwin:
Clergyman, editor and author ; born in
Randolph County, Indiana, October 13,
1861 ; son of Byrum and Lucinda (Fields)
Byrum. He was graduated in 1886, from
the School of Elocution and Oratory at
Valparaiso, Indiana, following which he
took a course of Sunday School work at
Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio.
After leaving Otterbein University in

r887, he became business mnager of
the Gospel Trumpet Company, later
becoming president of the latter company,
and editor-in-chief of its four weekly
papers. In 1892 he was ordained to the
ministry of the Church of God, and went
as missionary to foreign lands. Mr. By
rum has traveled throughout the United
States and Canada. In 1904 he took a
trip around the world, including a tour in
Palestine, Egypt and India, and during his
travels he made a specialty of examining
the ancient manuscripts of the Bible. He
is trustee of the Institution and Home for
the Aged at Anderson, Indiana, and direct
or of contributions for famine sufferers
and charitable missionary work in foreign
lands. He is author of a number of re
ligious works, among them being: Divine
Healing of Soul and Body, 1892; The
Secret of Salvation, 1896; The Prayer of
Faith, 1899; The Great Physician, 1900;
Ordinances of the Bible, 1904; also of sev
eral books for boys, and Travels and Ex
periences in Other Lands, 1905. He was
married at Grand Junction, Michigan, June
29, 1889, and by this union there are six
children: -Ethel E., Birdie Ruth, E. Arlo,
Mabel Grace, Bernice M., and Nilah Vir
ginia. Residence : Union Avenue. Ad
dress: 201 East Ninth Street, Anderson,
Indiana.

CABLE, Benjamin Strckney:
Lawyer; born at Rock Island, Illinois,
September 24, 1872; son of R. R. Cable
and Josephine (Stickney) Cable. He at
tended the public schools of Rock Island,
and was also instructed at a private school
in Chicago. After, a preparatory course
at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire, he entered Yale University.
and was graduated as B.A., in 1895. He
took his law course at the Columbia Law
School, graduating as LL.B. in 1898. He
entered the office of Lowden, Estabrook &
Davis of Chicago, upon his graduation,
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then entered the law department of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Company, and since January 1, 1904, has
been the attorney of the company for the
State of Illinois. . He is a member of the
Chicago, University, Saddle and Cycle and
Chicago Golf Clubs of Chicago, and the
University Club of New York City. Ad
dress : 1495 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Il
linois.CABLE, George Washington:
Author; born in New Orleans, Louis
iana, October 12, 1844; son of George W.
Cable, a Virginian, and Rebecca Boardman
of Ind:ana. He was educated in the New
Orleans public schools ; he received the
honorary degrees of A.M. and Litt.D.
from Yale and of Litt D., from Washing
ton and Lee University and Bowdoin Col
lege. At the age of fourteen he was re
quired, by the death of. his father, to as
sist in the support of the family, and he
went Into commercial employment. At
nineteen (in 1863) he entered the Con
federate Army in General Wirt Adams'
Brigade of the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry,
where he served until the close of the Civil
War in 1865. He returned to New Or
leans, reentered counting-room employment,
and, with the exception of one summer
spent with a State surveying party, and
one season's wbrk on the reportorial staff
of the New Orleans Picayune, remained
in it continuously for fourteen years, serv
ing as accountant and cashier of a firm of
cotton factors, and for eight years of the
same time acting as secretary of the
Finance Committee of the New Or
leans Cotton Exchange. He was writ
ing in the meantime, and in 1879
formally entered upon a literary career.
In 1884 he removed to New England. Mr.
Cable is author of: Old Creole Days,
1879;- the Grandissimes, 1880 ; Madame Del-
phine, 1881; The Creoles of Louisiana,
1883; Dr. Sevier, 1884; The Silent South,
1884; Bonaventure, 1888; The Negro
Question, 1888; Strange True Stories of
Louisiana, 1888; John March, 1894; Strong
Hearts, 1899; the Cavalier, 1901, and By-
low Hill, 1902. His favorite recreation

is gardening and his chief interest out
side of his profession the supervision
of the Home-Culture Clubs, a people's
college founded by him in 1887, de
signed to promote more cordial relations
between divergent ranks of society. Mr.
Cable has been twice married : first in
New Orleans, December 7, 1869, to Louise
Stuart Bartlett, who died February 26,
1904, by whom he has a son and six
daughters ; and second in Philadelphia,
November 24, 1906, to Eva C. Stevenson,
of Lexington, Kentucky. Address : Tar-
ryawhile, Northampton, Massachusetts.
CABLE, Hobart M.:
Manufacturer of pianos and organs;
born in Walton, Delaware County, New
York, March 3, 1841 ; son of Silas arid
Mary (Goodrich) Cable. He received his
education in the public schools of Delaware
County and at the Franklin Literary Insti
tute, Franklin, New York. He began
teaching district schools in his native coun
ty when he was but sixteen years . of age
and was elected school commissioner of the
county when he was in his twenty-second
year, retaining that position for three years.
He then obtained employment with A. S.
Barnes & Company, publishers of school
books, of New York City, and remained
with the concern for fifteen years. He
resided in Hyde Park, a suburb of Boston,
Massachusetts, for twenty years, and was
a member of its School Board, and its
Public Library Board, and was a select
man. He was elected to the Massachusetts
State Legislature, for four successive
years, serving on several important com
mittees. In 1889 he removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he began the manufacture
of pianos and organs, becoming one of the
founders of the Hobart M. Cable Com
pany, in association with Herman D. Cable,
his brother. Upon the death of his broth
er in 1900, he became president of the
company. The factories are at La Porte,
Indiana, and Freeport, Illinois, and they
employ over six hundred persons. Mr.
Cable is a thirty-second degree Mason. He
married in Walton, New York, in 1869,
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dren: Mrs. Martha Augusta Morenus,
Hobart M. Jr., and Mrs. Marie Ells Man
ning. Address : 4947 Lake Avenue, Chi
cago, Illinois.
CADWAXADER, John Lambert:
Lawyer; born in Trenton, New Jersey,
November 17, 1837. He was graduated
Princeton in 1856, receiving the degree of
A.B. and from Harvard Law School as
LL.B. in 1863, and he received the degree
of LL.D. from Princeton in 1899. Since
1863 he has practiced law in New York
City and is now a member of the law
firm of Strong and Cadwalader. He was
assistant secretary of State of the United
States (under Hamilton Fish) from 1874
to 1876. He is a trustee of the New York
Life Insurance and Trust Company, the
New York Public Library, the Metropol
itan Museum of Art and the New York
Zoological Society. Mr. Cadwalader is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, the Society of the
Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, the
American Fine Arts Society and the Am
erican Museum of Natural Flistory. He
is also a member of the Union League,
Union, Century, Grolier, Lawyers', Univer
sity, Princeton, Knickerbocker, Metropol
itan, New York Yacht, City, Midday, Down
Town, Delta Phi, City and Riding Clubs
of New York City. Residence : 12 East
Thirty-Fifth Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 40 Wall Street, New York City.
CADY, J. Cleveland:
Architect; born in Providence, Rhode
Island ; son of Josiah and Lydia Cady. He
was educated in the academies of Con
necticut and at Trinity College, Hartford,
where he received the degree of A.M.
in 1880 and LL.D. in 1905. He has been
practicing as an architect since 1870, and is
now a member of the firm of Cady and
Lee, architects for many large colleges,
hospitals, museums, churches, and other
buildings in New York and other cities.
Among them are the Metropolitan Opera
House, the Museum of Natural History
and fifteen buildings for Yale College.- He
is also a frequent writer for the Outlook

and Homiletic Review of New York City.
Mr. Cady is an Independent in politics
and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He is a director of the New York City
Mission and a governor of the Presby
terian Hospital, and also president of the -
National Federation of Churches and the
New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He
is a member of the Architectural League,
American Institute of Architects and of
the Religious Education Association. He
is also a member of the Aldine and Quill
Clubs. Mr. Cady married in Orange, New
Jersey, in 1881, Emma M. Bulkeley. Resi
dence : 315 West Eighty-nirith Street,
New York City. Address : 6 West Twen
ty-second Street, New York City.
CADY, Philander Kinney:
Clergyman, theologian. He was graduat
ed from Woodward College in 1843 receiv
ing the degree of A.B. and from the
General Theological Seminary at New
York in 1847. He also received the degree
of M.A. from Trinity College, Hartford,
and of S.T.D. from Columbia University
in 1878 and D.D. from the General Theo
logical Seminary in 1895. He was ordered
deacon in 1850 by Bishop Whittingham
and priest in 185 1 by Bishop De Lancey,
in the Episcopal ministry. He was rector
of Trinity Church, West Troy, New York,
from 1851 to 1857, of Grace Church, New
ark, New Jersey, from 1857 to 1866, of
Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York,
from 1866 to 1876, St. James' Church, Hyde
Park, New York, from 1876 to 1889, and
in 1889 became professor of evidences of
revealed religion at the General Theologic
al Seminary in New York City. Mr. Cady
was sub-dean from 1897 to 1903, acting
dean from 1902 to 1903 and retired from
active work in the seminary in 1903. Ad
dress : Ridgefield, Connecticut.
CAESAR, Henry A.:
Banker and commission merchant; born
in Brooklyn, New York, May 15, 1856;
son of Paul W. Caesar and Johanna M.
Heineken Caesar. He was educated in
Europe. He established the house of H.
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a director of the Germania Life Insurance
Company.. Mr. Caesar has traveled all
over Europe and the United States. He is
a Republican in politics and a member of
the Episcopal Church. His favorite re
creation is big game hunting. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, Union League,
New York Athletic, German, and Mer
chants' Clubs of New York City. He mar
ried first, in 1886, Mathilde M. Muller,
and second in 1894 to Laura F. Unger, and
has three sons : Paul N., born in 1889 ;
Harry I., born in 1891, and Charles U.
Caesar, born in 1897. Address : 19 West
Seventy-sixth Street, New York City.
CAHTLL, John H. :
Lawyer; born in Delanco, New Jersey,
July 22, 1859. He was graduated from
New York University Law School in 1885.
He is a director and agent of the Chesa
peake and Potomac Telephone Company,
the New England Telephone and Tele
graph Company, the Delaware and At
lantic Telegraph and Telephone Company,
the Southwestern Telegraph and Tele
phone Company; is first vice-president, sec
retary and director- of the Empire City
Subway Company, Limited, director of the
Louisiana Capital Company, second vice-
president, secretary and director of the
New York Telephone Company, and vice-
president, secretary and director of the
North Western Telephone and Telegraph
Company, director American District Tele
graph Company and the Holmes Electric
Protective Company. He is a member of
the State and City Bar Associations and
the New York' University Alumni Asso
ciation, the American-Irish Historical So
ciety, the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick,
and the National Art Theatre Society.
Mr. Cahill is also a member of the Demo
cratic and Catholic Clubs of New York
City. Address : 15 Dey Street, New York
City.
CAHOON, James Blake:
Consulting engineer; bora in Lyndon,
Caledonia County, Vermont, December 22,
1856; son of George W. Cahoon and of
Charlotte (Deming) Cahoon, daughter of

James Blake Cahoon of Portland, Maine.
He is a lineal descendant of Daniel Cahoon,
of Providence, Rhode Island, one of the
original grantees of the town of Lyndon,
Vermont, and also of Eleazer Wheelock,
founder of Dartmouth College, and of
Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island.
He was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in i87p, and the Torpedo
School at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1885.
He served from 1879 to 1881 on the Unit
ed States Steamer Vandalia, North At
lantic Station, and from 188 1 to 1884 on
the United States Steamer Brooklyn, on
the South Atlantic Station, taking part in
the Transit of Venus Expedition to Pata
gonia, and in the Madagascar Expedition
of 1883. He was placed on the retired list in
June 1889, on account of injury incurred
in line of duty, with rank of ensign. He
vfas with the Thomson-Houston Company
and General Electric Company as engineer
of the Railroad Department and manager
of the Expert Departrnent from 1889 to
1895, and from 1895 to 1899 he was gen
eral manager of the electric light, water
and railroad companies at Elmira, New
York. Since then he has been consulting
engineer for banking houses and syndi
cates in New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Chicago. He is vice-president, chief
engineer and director of the Eldenbel Con
struction Company, a director of the Al
bany and Schoharie Valley Railroad and
Lake Superior Southern Railroad. He
organized the .Torpedo Company at Lynn,
and joined the Massachusetts Naval Brig
ade as lieutenant and ordnance officer, re
signing after one year's service because of
removal from the State, and he served in
the Spanish-American War. Mr. Cahoon
is a Republican in politics and a member
of the Presbyterian Church, and he is
deacon and trustee of the North Avenue
Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle. He
is . a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers, the Nation
al Geographic Society, the Military Order
of Foreign Wars, the Sons of the Ameri
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and is past president of the National Elec
tric Light Association. He is also a mem
ber of the Transportation Club of New
York City, and the Republican Club of
New Rochelle. He married, December 9,
1884, Mary Billows Perkins, at Portland,
Maine, and they have three children :
Ethel Bellows, born in 1887, John Warren
Perkins, born in 1889 and Katharine George,
born in 1902. Residence : 43 Elm Street,
New Rochelle, New York. Office address :
42 Broadway, New York City.
C ALDER, Alexander Stirling:
Sculptor; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, January 11, 1870; son of Alexander
Milne Calder and Margaret (Stirling)
Calder. He. was educated in the Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Phil
adelphia, and at the Academie Julian,
under Chapu and Ecole des Beaux Arts,
under Falguiere in Paris. He received
honorable mention from the Pan Amer
ican Exposition at Buffalo in 1901 ; a
gold medal from the Art Club of Phil
adelphia in 1893; a silver medal from the
World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904, and the
special Walter Lippincott prize at the One
Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy, 1905, Mr. Calder
was instructor in modeling at the Pennsyl
vania Museum in Philadelphia from 1899
to 1904, and has been curator of sculpture
at the Pennsylvania Museum since 1906. He
was a member of the Advisory Commit
tee on Arts of Philadelphia for the
World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904. He has
traveled extensively in France, Italy, Eng
land and the United States. Mr. Calder is
a member of the National Sculpture So
ciety of New York; an associate of the
National Academy of Design; and a mem
ber of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania
Academy in Philadelphia, and of the Art
Club of Philadelphia. He has works in
several prominent collections, including the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the
grounds of the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington, D. C, the Academy of Music,
Fairmont Park, and Franklin Inn Club at
Philadelphia, the Harleigh Cemetery at
Camden, New Jersey, and the Art Palace

at St. Louis, Missouri. He married, Feb
ruary 22, 1895, Nanette Lederer, and they
have two children: Margaret Calder, born
iri 1896, and Alexander Calder, third, born
in 1899. Residence: 534 South Euclid
Avenue, Pasadena, California. Studios: 625
South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, and 337 South Broad Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
CALDER, William M.:
Builder and congressman; born in
Brooklyn, New York, March 3, 1869. He
was educated in the public schools of
Brooklyn and _ at the Cooper Institute of
New York City. He is engaged as a
builder in Brooklyn, where he has built
more than one thousand houses. He was
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904,
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress in
1906, from the Sixth New York District.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Cal
der married in 1893, Catherine E. Harloe,
of Poughkeepsie, New York. Residence:
551 First Street. Office address: 91 Wind
sor Place, Brooklyn, New York.
CALDERHEAD, William. Alexander:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Perry
County, Ohio, September 26, 1844. He
was educated in the common schools and
by his father, Rev. E. B. Calderhead, a
minister of the United Presbyterian
Church. He spent the winter of 1861 and
1862 in the preparatory department of
Franklin College at New Athens, Ohio, and
enlisted in August, 1862, as a private in
Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-
sixth Ohio Infantry. He was transferred
to Company D, Ninth Veteran Reserves,
for disability incurred in the service, and
discharged June 27, 1865. He spent two
years recovering health, then one session
at school ; and he went to Kansas in the
fall of 1868 and engaged in farming. In
1872 he settled on a homestead near New
ton, Harvey County, Kansas ; taught school
one year in Newton; read law in the of
fice of Hon. J. W. Ady, and was admitted
to the bar in 1873. He went to Atchison,
Kansas, in 1875, and spent four years
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schools during the winters. He settled in
Marysville, Kansas, in November, 1879, and
engaged in the general practice of law.
He was' elected county attorney in the fall
of 1888, and served two years, and was for
several years clerk of the board of educa
tion of Marysville. In 1894 he was elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress, and in 1898
to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and has since
been biennially reelected, and is now serv
ing in the Sixtieth Congress from the
Fifth Kansas District. Address: Marys
ville, Kansas.
CALDWELL, Henry Clay:
Jurist; born at Caldwell's Run, Marshall
County, West Virginia, September 4, 1832;
son of. Van and Susan Moffet Caldwell.
The family removed in 1837 to Iowa, and it
was in the common schools of that State
that he received his education. He studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1852,
and in 1856 he was elected prosecuting at
torney of Van Buren County, Iowa, serv
ing until 1858. He was elected to the Iowa
Legislature and served in that body from
1859 to 1861 ; and was chairman of its
Committee on Judiciary. He entered the
Third Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
in 1861, serving in it as major, lieutenant-
colonel, and colonel until 1864, when he re
signed to accept from President Lincoln
appointment' as United States judge for the
Eastern District of Arkansas, so serving
until 1890, when he was appointed judge
of the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Eighth Judicial Circuit in which
position he served until his resignation in
June, 1906. Judge Caldwell has been a Re
publican from the original organization of
the party. He married at Keosauqua,
Iowa, in 1854, Harriet Benton, and they
have three children: Van, Margaret and
Cornelia. Address; 2195 West Twenty-
fourth Street, Los Angeles, California.
CALDWELL, James Henry:
Banker and manufacturer; born in Mo
bile, Alabama, March 21, 1865; son- of Ed
ward Holland and Caroline A. (Shields)
Caldwell. He was educated in the schools
of Salisbury, Maryland, and New York

City, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute, Troy,- New York, where he received
the degree of B.S. in 1886. He is presi
dent and director of the Troy Trust Com
pany'; vice-president,, general manager and
director of. the Ludlow Valve Manufactur
ing Company; president and director of the
Hudson Valley Railway Company; trustee
of Troy Savings Bank; director of the
National State. Bank of Troy, and the
Troy and Greenbush Railway Company;
president and director of the Trojan Brake
Shoe and Foundry Company; director Tro
jan Laundry Company, and Tim and Com
pany (Incorporated) ; president and di
rector of the Rensselaer Hotel Company,
of Troy, New York, and Rensselaer Land
and Improvement Company; vice-president
and director of the Kilbourne Manufactur
ing Company; director of the Troy Fire-
proofing Company, the Fidelity and Com
mercial Company, of Portland, Maine, and
the American Securities Company, of Bos
ton. Mr. Caldwell is an Episcopalian in
religious affiliation. He is a member of
the Delta Phi fraternity; president arid
trustee of the Troy Public Library; presi
dent and trustee of the Samaritan Hospi
tal and trustee of the- Day Home and the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy,
New York. He is a member of the Troy
Club, and of the Engineers', and University
Clubs of New York City.. He married at
Troy, New York, May 3, 1887, Margery
J. Christie, and ' they have three children :
Margery, born in 1889; John C, born in
1894, and Carolyn, born in 1900. Address:
55 First Street, Troy, New York.
CALDWELL, John C:
Consular official; appointed consul at
Valparaiso, April 19, 1869. He acted as
charge d'affaires ad interim to Chili from
August 1, 1870 to December 2, 1870; on
January 8, 1874. he was appointed minister
resident to Uruguay and Paraguay. He
was appointed charge d'affaires to Uru
guay and Paraguay, August 15, 1876, and
retired in May, 1881. On July 2, 1897, he
was appointed to his present post as consul
at San Jose, Costa Rica. Address: San
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CALDWELL, Otis William:
Professor of botany, University of Chi
cago ; born in Lebanon, Indiana, Decem
ber 16, 1869; son of Theodore R. Caldwell
and Isabelle (Brenton) Caldwell. He was
graduated as B.S. from Franklin College
in 1894, and as Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago in 1898. He taught in the dis
trict, graded and high schools of Indiana;
was professor of botany in the Eastern
Illinois State Normal School from 1899 to
1907, and took his present chair as pro
fessor of botany in the University of Chi
cago in 1907. Dr. Caldwell is author of
magazine articles and books on botanical
subjects. He has visited Germany to study
School Gardens, and Cuba in the study of
Cycads. He is a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity. Dr. Caldwell married at
Portland, Indiana, August 25, 1897, Cora
Burke and they have a daughter, Esther,
bora in 1901. Residence : 5400 Jefferson
Avenue, Chicago. Office address : Uni
versity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
CALHOUN, John Caldwell:
Financier; born in Marengo County, Al
abama, July 9, 1843 ; son of Colonel An
drew Pickens Calhoun (son of John C.
Calhoun, the distinguished statesman and
vice-president of the United States), and
Margaret Maria (Green) Calhoun (daugh
ter of General Duff Green). He was edu
cated at Thalien Academy, in Pickens Coun
ty, South Carolina, and the South Carolina
College, leaving in his sophomore year with
the college cadets to join the Confederate
Army at the time of the battle of Fort
Sumter. He served, through the Civil War
with the College Cadets ; later was color
sergeant of the Hampton Legion of Caval
ry; captain of Company C, Fourth Regi
ment of South Carolina Cavalry, and led
the charge at Trevilion Station. After the
war he was a planter in Alabama, Missis
sippi, and Arkansas, but of late years has
been a resident of New York City, with ex
tensive financial interests. He is president
of the Baltimore Coal Mining and Rail
way Company, the Calhoun Land Com
pany, and the Florence Plant Company; is
vice-president and chairman of the Finance

Committee of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company, of Georgia; a director
of the Richmond and West Point Terminal
Railroad Company, the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad Company, and the Georgia
Central Railroad Company. He was ap
pointed delegate-at-large from Arkansas to
the Cotton Exposition at Louisville, in
1883, and to the New Orleans Cotton Ex
position of 1884, by Governor James H.
Berry; and was vice-president in 1884 of
the Washington Convention which memor
ialized Congress with reference to the im
provement of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries. Colonel Calhoun was special
ambassador of the Sons of the American
Revolution to France, in 1897, commemor
ating the One Hundred and Nineteenth
Anniversary of the Treaty of Alliance be
tween France and the original thirteen
States. He presided over the first meeting
which organized the New York Southern
Society, November 9, 1886, and was its
vice-president, 1887-88, and its president,
1889. He attended the meeting at the or
ganization of the Sons of the American
revolution, February 10, 1890, and was
elected its vice-president He was presi
dent of the Levee Board of the State of
Arkansas, and took an active interest in
obtaining appropriations from Congress
and building up the levees. He is a life
member of the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society; vice-president of the
South Carolinians; a member of the Clar-
iosophic Literary Society of South Caro
lina College, and of the Tilden, Lawyers',
Manhattan and Pilgrims' Clubs of New
York City; Gate City Club of Atlanta,
Georgia, and. The Pilgrims' of London.
Colonel Calhoun married, December 8,
1870, Linnie Adams, of Lexington, Ken
tucky, a niece of Richard M. Johnston,
vice-president of the United States ; and
they have four children : James Edward
Calhoun, born May 1,^1878; David Adams
Calhoun, born June 14, 1881 ; Julia J. Cal
houn, born June 14, 1884, and John C. Cal
houn, Jr., born April 26, 1887. Residence:
617 West End Avenue. Address : 27 Wil
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CALHOUN, Patrick:
Lawyer; born at Fort Hill, Pendleton
District, South Carolina, March 21, 1856;
son of Andrew Pickens and Margaret
(Green) Calhoun; and grandson of John
C. Calhoun, vice-president of the United
States. He moved to Dalton, Georgia, in
1871, and was educated in private schools.
He was admitted to the Georgia bar in
1875, and the Missouri bar in 1876; prac
ticed at Atlanta, Georgia, from 1878 to
1894; chiefly in corporation and railroad
law, and became especially prominent in the
consolidation of railway and traction in
terests, notably the Central Railroad of
Georgia, the Richmond and Danville Rail
way, and the Richmond and West Point
Terminal Railway and Warehouse Com
pany, for all of which he was counsel from
1889 to 1892. Since then he has devoted
his attention chiefly to the consolidation
and development of street railways, taking
an active part in the consolidation of the
street railway systems in Pittsburgh, St.
Louis, Baltimore and San Francisco. He
is a director of the Philadelphia Company,
and the United Railways of Pittsburgh;
is president of the United Railroads of
San Francisco, the United Railways In
vestment Company, and Calhoun Mills;
and is owner of Euclid Heights, Cleveland,
Ohio, and director of the Euclid Heights
- Realty Company, and largely interested
in reaF estate in South Carolina, Georgia
and Texas. Mr. Calhoun married in
Charleston, South Carolina, November 4,
1885, Sarah Williams. Residence: Charles
ton, South Carolina. Address: 30 Broad
Street, New York City.
CALKINS, Gary Nathan:
Educator, biologist; born at Valparaiso,
Indiana 18,. 1869; son of John W. Calkins.
He was educated at Chicago Manual Train
ing School and graduated from the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology as S.B.
in 1890, and from Columbia as Ph.D. in
1897. ' He was assistant biologist of the
Massachusetts Boat d of Health ; was lec
turer in biology at the Massachusetts In-
stitue of Technology frorii 1890 to 1893 ;

and was biologist ' on the expedition to
Alaska, in 1897. He is consulting biologist
of the New York State Cancer Laboratory;
was professor of invertebrate zoology of
Columbia University irom 1903 to 1906,
and is now professo of protozoology of
Columbia University. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and the New York Acad
emy of Science; is a member of the Amer
ican Society of Naturalists, the American
Morphological Society, and the American
Statistical Society. He is author of: The
Protozoa (Volume VI. of the Columbia
University Biological Series) ; and a con
tributor to current journals. Mr. Calkins
married at Cambridge, Massachusetts, June
28, 1894, Anne Marshall, daughter of
Chauncey Smith. Address: 1 West Eighty-
first Street, -New York City.
CALL, Edward P.:
Publisher. He was private secretary to
the late R. M. Pulsifer, publisher of the
Boston Herald, for seven years, and ad
vertising manager of the same paper. He
was assistant advertising manager for the
Royal Bak.ng Powder Company from 1887
to 1893; advertising manager of the Phil
adelphia Press, from 1893 to 1897; publish
er of the Evening Post from 1897 to 1902;
and is now publisher of the New York
Commercial. He was chairman of the
Publishers' Association from 1897 to 1903.
Mr. Call is a member of the Chamber of
Comtherce and the New England Society;
and is a member of the Hardware, Apa-
wamis, Horseshoe, Harbor, New York
Press, and other clubs. Address : Larch
mont Manor, New York.
CALL, Wilkinson:
Lawyer and ex-senator ; bora at Russell-
ville, Logan County, Kentucky, January 9,
1834. He removed to Florida in boyhood
and was privately educated. He entered
the Confederate Army in 1861, and became
adjutant-general of the Army. He was
elected United States senator by the Flor
ida Legislature of 1865, but was not per
mitted to take his seat. Mr. Call became
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ida; was a presidential elector for the State
at large in 1872 and 1876; became the
Florida member of the Democratic Nation
al Executive Committee in 1876, and was a
delegate to the National Democratic Con
vention of that year. He . was elected
United States senator from Florida in 1879,
and reelected in 1885 and 1891, serving in
the Senate for eighteen years, from 1879
to 1897. Address : Jacksonville, Florida.
CALLAHAN, James Morton:
Educator; author; born at Bedford, In
diana, 1869; son of Martin I. Callahan and
Sophia Oregon (Tannehill) Callahan. He
was graduated from Indiana University as
A.B. in 1894 and A.M. in 1895, and from
Johns Hopkins University as Ph.D. in
1897; fellow in 1896 and John Marshall
Prize in 1900. He was instructor of Johns
Hopkins, University from 1895 to 1897 ; act
ing professor of American history and con
stitutional law at Hamilton College in 1897
and 1898, and lecturer at Johns Hopkins
University from 1898 to 1901. He made
extensive researches in archives at Wash
ington, London and elsewhere while pre
paring his various publications on Ameri
can diplomatic history. He is head of the
department of history and political science
at West Virginia University. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a Methodist in
religion. He is a member of several
learned societies, including the American
Historical Association, American Political
Science Association and Phi Beta Kappa.
He married at Vinita, Indian Territory,
September 4, 1907, Maud Louise Fulcher,
who had been assistant in American history
at West Virginia University. Address :
Morgantown, West Virginia.
CALLAWAY, Llewellyn Link:
Lawyer; born in Tuscola, Illinois, De
cember 15, 1868; son of James Edmund
Callaway and Mary E. (Link) Callaway.
He was educated in the common schools
in Virginia City and Helena, Montana.
the Hamilton School at Philadelphia, from
which he was graduated in f886, the Uni
versity of Michigan (Literary Department)
in 1886 and 1887, and he was graduated

from the Law Department of that Uni
versity, in 1891 as LL.B. He was admitted
to the bar in Michigan in May, 1891, and
in Montana the following August. He
tried and won his first case in the Supreme
Court in January, 1892. He was busily
engaged in practice until appointed to the
Supreme Court in March 1903. He is a
Republican in politics, was elected county
attorney of Madison County, Montana, in
1894, and 1896, mayor of Virginia City
three terms, was appointed Supreme Court
Commissioner by the Supreme Court 111
March, 1903, his opinions being in volumes
28 to 31, of the Montana Reports, and he
was elected judge of the Fifth Judicial
District of Montana in November, 1904.
He is chairman of the Masonic Home
Committee of the Grand Lodge of Masons
of Montana, is past master of Virginia
City Lodge No. 1, and past grand master of
Masons of Montana; past exalted ruler
of Oro Plata Lodge No. 390, of Virginia City,
Montana, and past president of the State
Association of Montana, of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. He is also
a member of the Lambs' Club of Helena,
Montana, the Beaverhead Club of Dillon,
Montana, and Madison Club of Virginia
City, Montana. He married at White Sul
phur Springs, Virginia, December 12, 1894,
Ellen N. Badger, and they have three chil
dren : Miriam, bora in 1896, James L., ¦
born in 1899, and Frances, born in 1902.
Address : Virginia City, Montana.
CAMERON, Frederick W\:
Lawyer; born at Albany, New York,
June I, 1859; son of Truman D and
Elizabeth (Flagler) Cameron. He was ed
ucated at the Albany Boys' Academy, and
at Union College, graduating as A.B. in
1881, and received the degree of A.M., in
course, and from the Albany Law School
as LL.B. in 1882. Mr. Cameron was ad
mitted to the bar in 1882 and has made
patent law a specialty. He has conducted
suits for infringement of patents and trade
marks in Canada and England, as well as
in the United States, and has gained
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success in that branch of the law. He is
a director of the National Exchange Bank
of Albany, New York. Mr. Cameron has
been a United States Commissioner since
.1892. In politics he is a Democrat, and in
1901, while in Europe, he was nominated
by the Democracy for the office of surro
gate of Albany County, and although he
did not return until after the election, he
ran at the head of the ticket. Mr: Camer
on is a Presbyterian and a trustee of the
First^ Presbyterian Church of Albany. He
is a member of the Albany County Bar
Association, the New York State Bar As
sociation, the American Bar Association,
the Patent Bar Asociation of Washington,
D. C; a trustee of the Albany Chamber of
Commerce; a member of the Historical
and Art Society of Albany, and Temple
Lodge (Masonic). He is a trustee, re
spectively, of Union College, of the Homoe
opathic Hospital, and the Fairview Home
for Friendless Children; and is treasurer
of the Albany City Missions. His favor
ite recreation is horseback riding. He is
a member of the Fort Orange, Albany
Country, Jefferson and Burns Clubs of Al
bany, New York, and the University Club
of New York City. Mr. Cameron mar
ried at Newark, New Jersey, April 2, 1891,
Jeannie, the youngest daughter of the Hon.
Amos Dean, LL.D., and by that union
there are three children: Jeanne Elizabeth
Cameron, born in 1893; Josephine Dean
Cameron, born in 1895, and Fredericka
Cameron, , born in 1898. Address: 34 Elk
Street, Albany, New York.
CAMP, Walter:
Author and manufacturer ;. born at New
Britain, Connecticut, April 7, 1859; son of
Leverett Lee Camp and Ellen (Cornwell)
Camp. He was prepared at Hopkins
Grammar School at New Haven, and grad
uated from Yale University as B.A. in
1880. He is president, treasurer, and gen
eral manager of the New Haven Clock
Company; member of the Yale Univers
ity Council'; director of the Peck Broth
ers Company; trustee of Hopkins Gram
mar School, and treasurer of the Board of
Trustees; treasurer of the Yale Financial

Union and treasurer of Yale Field. He
was a Chamber of Commerce delegate to the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum. Mr.
Camp has always taken a great interest in
athletic sports and has attained a national
reputation in the management of the ath
letics at Yale. He is author of American
Football (Harper Brothers), and of the
Book of College Sports (Century Com
pany). He is joint author (with Deland)
of Football (Houghton, Mifflin Com
pany) ; (with Brooks) of Drives and Puts
(L. C. Page and Company), and (with
Welch) of Yale: the Campus and Class
Room (L. C. Page and Company). He is
sports editor of various periodicals and a
contributor to the Century, Harper's, Col
lier's, and St. Nicholas magazines. Resi
dence : 58 Everitt Street, New Haven,
Address : 133 Hamilton Street, New
Haven, Connecticut.
CAMPAU, Daniel J.:
Lawyer and turfman ; - born in Detroit,
Michigan, August 20, 1852. He was edu
cated at Saint John's College, Fordham,
New York, and afterward studied law. He
was appointed collector of customs at De
troit by President Cleveland in 1886 and
held that office until 1890. He has al
ways been a .Democrat in politics and is
now the Michigan member of the Demo
cratic National Committee. He is owner
of the Chicago Horseman, devoted to
breeding and turf news, and is one of the
most prominent of those connected with
the trotting turf. Office address : 22 Cam-
pau Building, Detroit, Michigan.
CAMPBELL, Archibald M. :
Physician and surgeon; born in Eng
land, October 27, 1843; son of John and
Rachel (Frampton) Campbell. He was
graduated from Columbia College with the
degree of A.B. in 1865 and A.M. in 1868;
and he studied medicine at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New York
City, and was graduated as M.D. in 1873.
He has been actively engaged in the prac
tice of medicine and surgery since 1873.
Dr. Campbell was elected president of the
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ization, April I, 1903, and is still serving;
also president of the Mount Vernon Safe
Deposit Company, and trustee of the East-
chester Savings Bank. He is president of
the Medical Board of Mount Vernon Hos
pital, and consulting physician and
surgeon of the same; also consult
ing physician to the Home for In
curables, in New York City; and at
tending physician for many years of the
New York Infant Asylum. He has served
as president of the Board of Health of the
City of Mount Vernon since 1903, and he
is a Republican in politics. Dr. Campbell
is a prominent layman of the Episcopal
Church, and for the past twenty-three
years has been warden of Trinity Church
of Mount Vernon. He is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Medi
cal Society of the State of New York, the
Medical Society of the County of West
chester, and the Mount Vernon Medical
Society, Jenkins Medical Society, Academy
of Medicine, Society of Medical Jurispru
dence, the Medical and Surgical Society,
and the Psi Upsilon fraternity. His favor
ite recreation is golf; and he is a member
of the Siwanoy Country Club. Dr. Camp
bell has been twice married ; first at New
York City, in 1873, to Mary L. Cuthell,
and second at Mount Vernon, New York,
in 1880, to Emma A. Cuthell. By the
latter union there are two sons : Murray
Campbell, born in 1881, and Archibald
Brush Campbell, born in 1891. Address :
36 First Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York.
CAMPBELL, Donald Francis:
Professor of mathematics ; born in Nova
Scotia, September 26, 1867; son of George
Campbell and Ellen Esther (Gunn) Camp
bell. He was graduated from Dalhousie
College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, as B.A. in
1890, and from Harvard University as B.A.
in 1894, M.A. in 1895, and Ph.D. in 1898.
Dr. Campbell is professor of mathematics
in the Armour Institute of Technology at
Chicago. He is author of: Elements of
the Differential and Integral Calculus ; of
a Short Course on Differential Equations;
arid of several mathematical articles. Pro
fessor Campbell is a member of the Ameri

can Mathematical Society. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Presbyterian in re
ligion. His favorite recreations are golf,
tennis, and billiards. He is a member of
the University Club of Chicago, and of the
Faculty Club of the Armour Institute of
Technology. He married at Danielson,
Connecticut, March 28, 1906, Lou Rena
Bates, and they have a son, Donald Fran
cis Campbell, Jr. Residence: 1 134 Oak
Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Office address:
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Ulionis.
CAMPBELL, James A. G.:
Banker; born at Chester, Pennsylvania,
February 19, 1858; son of James Camp
bell, the pioneer textile manufacturer of
that city.- He was educated in the public
schools in Chester, and in 1879 entered
the banking house of Elliott Sons and
Company, in Philadelphia. Since 1899 he
has been president of the Delaware Coun
ty Trust, Safe Deposit and Title Insurance
Company of Chester, Pennsylvania. In
1893 he organized the Clearing House for
the banks of the city of Chester. In 1883
he was elected first lieutenant of Com
pany B, of the Sixth Regiment of the Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania. He was on
the staff of Brigadier-General George R.
Snowden, with the rank of captain, in 1887;
served during the Homestead riots in 1892 ;
became division inspector, with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, in 1898, and resigned
to become adjutant of the Second Battalion
of the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of sec
ond lieutenant, in 1898, serving in the
Spanish-American War. He is a mem
ber of the Lawton Camp, Spanish-Ameri
can War Veterans, and of the Penn Club.
Colonel Campbell married Elizabeth Hub-
ley, daughter of Rev. Philip H. Mowry,
D.D. Address : Chester, Pennsylvania.
CAMPBELL, John:
Jurist; born in Monroe County, Indiana,
September 13, 1853 ; son of James M, and
Nancy Campbell. After a careful prepar
atory education he entered the State Uni
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uated as A.B. in 1877, and as LL.B. in
1879, later receiving the A.M. degree. He
located in the practice of law at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, where he was engaged
at the bar for nine years, during which
time he was city attorney three years and
county attorney one year. He became act
ive in politics as a Republican and became
a member of the General Assembly of
Colorado in 1885, and of the Senate in
1887. He was elected judge of the District
Court in 1888, serving from 1889 to 1895,
and since 1895 has been an associate justice,
and for six years chief justice, of the Su
preme Court of Colorado, his present term
expiring in 1913. Judge Campbell has been
ever since 1881 a trustee of Colorado
College, at Colorado Springs, and is dean
of the Law School of the University of
Colorado, at Boulder ; and president of The
Miss Wolcott School, at Denver. He is
a member of the El Paso Club of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, and of the University
arid Country Clubs of Denver. He mar
ried at Iowa City, Iowa, June 28, 1881,
Harriet J. Parker. Address : 1401 Gilpin
Street, Denver, Colorado.
CAMPBELL, John Allyn:
Owner of timber lands; born in Buffalo,
New York, October 4, 1854; son of John
A. B. Campbell and Damaris (Bartholo
mew) Campbell. He was educated in the
schools of Buffalo, New York. He engaged
in business first as secretary of the Buffalo
and Jamestown Railroad (now the South-.
western branch of the Erie Railroad), then
as ' a grain shipper and merchant -on the
Buffalo Board of Trade; anu at that place
built the floating elevator Buffalo, and the
large grain elevator there called The Fron
tier, with a capacity of two million bushels,
and was a large owner in the same. He
now resides in Chicago and is largely in
terested in, and owner of oil wells in Kan
sas and Indian Teritory, also a large owner
of timber and timber lands in Alabama,
Mississippi, and Florida, and in upper Mich
igan. He edited and published numerous
large biographical works (steel plate se
ries) at different times in Chicago. Mr.
Campbell is now an officer and director in

several different companies and corpora
tions. He has traveled everywhere in the
United States, traveling over half of his
time, and has- made trips to Europe. He
is a -Republican in politics. Mr. Campbell
is a member of the New Illinois Athletic
Club of Chicago. Fie married at Buffalo,
New York, March 14, 1878, Eva J. Rat-
cliffe, and they have a daughter, Corinne
E. Campbell. Address : Auditorium Annex,
Chicago, Illinois.
CAMPBELL, Josiah A. P.:
. Jurist; born in Lancaster District, South
Carolina, March 2, 1830. He was educated
at Camden Academy, and at Davidson
College, in North Carolina, and was
licensed to practice law June 12, 1847, and
began practice at Kosciusko, Mississippi,
when eighteen years of age. He was
elected to the Legislature at the age
of twenty-one years, and was sub
sequently elected speaker of the House
of Representatives of Mississippi in
1859. He was one of the seven del
egates from Mississippi to the conven
tion which organized the Confederate
States of America, and he' served in the
Army of the Confederate States from 1862
to 1865 as captain, lieutenant-colonel of
infantry and colonel of cavalry. After the
war he reentered the practice of law, and
he was elected for two terms as judge of
the Circuit Court. In 1876 he was ap
pointed to the Supreme Court bench, upon
which he served twelve years as associate
justice and six years as chief justice, retir
ing in 1894. Since then he has confined his
practice to cases before the Supreme Court.
He was appointed a member of the Mis
sissippi Code Commission, in 1870, and in
1880 he prepared the Mississippi Code,
which is still almost wholly in force. In
1870 he was elected professor of law in the
University of Mississippi, and. declined the
place. He was made an LL.D. by the Uni
versity. He has appeared as counsel in
the Supreme Court when he was not on
the bench, in a large number of most im
portant cases before the court in the last
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Kosciusko, May 23, 1850, Eugenia E.
Nash. They had eight children, one of
whom died. Address: Jackson, Missis
sippi.
CAMPBELL, Lemuel Russell:
Lawyer; born at Lebanon, Tennessee, son
of William Bowen Campbell and Frances
(Owen) Campbell. He was graduated from
the Cumberland University, Lebanon, Ten
nessee, as A.B., from Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee, as A.B., and A.M., and
from Columbia University, New York City,
as LL.B. He has been engaged in the prac
tice of law at Nashville, Tennessee, since
1886. He is a Democrat in politics and a
Methodist in religion. Mr. Campbell is a
trustee of the Tennessee School for the
Blind at Nashville. He is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity (Vander
bilt). He married at Nashville, in October,
1903, Jolumie Marshall, and they have three
sons : William Bowen Campbell, born in
1894; Matthew McClung Campbell, born in
1897, and Francis Russell Campbell, born
in 1899. Address : Nashville, Tennessee.
CAMPBELL, Palmer:
Business manager; born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, December 25, 1856; son of Wil
liam Patrick Campbell and Caroline Eliza
beth (Beers) Campbell. He was educated
in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Liverpool,
England. He was with John Sinclair and
Company from 1870 to 1876, and since 1876
has been with the Hoboken Land and Im
provement Company, of which he is now
director, treasurer and general manager.
He is also director of the New York and
Hoboken Ferry Company, president of the
Campbell Stores, treasurer and general
manager of the ¦ Hoboken Railroad Ware
house and Steamship Connecting Company;
secretary of the Tietjen and Lang Dry Dock
Company. He is president of the Board of
Trade of Hoboken, New Jersey, and secre
tary of the First National Bank of Hobo
ken and the Hoboken Trust Company. Mr.,
Campbell has made many trips across the
Atlantic. He was a member of Troop I
(Essex Troop), in the National Guard of
New Jersey. He is a Democrat in politics.

Mr. Campbell was president of the Hoboken
Board of Health from 1891 to 1898, and is
now commissioner of parks, Hudson Coun
ty, New Jersey. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church and a vestryman of Trin
ity Church in Hoboken. Mr. Campbell
is a member of the Elks, Royal Arcanum
and Masonic orders. His favorite recrea
tions are tennis and golf. He is a member
of the German and Columbia Clubs of
Hoboken, and the Somerset Hills Club of
Bernardsville, New Jersey. Mr. Campbell
married in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, Jan
uary 22, 1882, Jeannette Eno, and they have
one child, Eno Campbell. Address : 531
River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey.
CAMPBELL, Thomas M.:
Governor of Texas. He was elected in
November, 1906, being the regular nominee
of the Democratic party of his. State. Ad
dress: Austin, Texas.
CAMPBELL, William Francis:
Physician and surgeon; born in Brook
lyn, New York, November 7, 1865; son of
Alexander and Catharine Amelia (Bennett)
Campbell. He was graduated from the New
York University in 1887, receiving the de
gree of A.B, and from the Long Island
College Hospital as M.D. in 1892. He has
been engaged in the practice of surgery
since graduation. He is professor of ana
tomy at Long Island College Hospital; sur
geon to the Swedish Methodist-Epis
copal and Bushwick Hospitals, and
consulting surgeon to Jamaica Hospi
tal. He served as first lieutenant and
assistant surgeon of the Second Signal
Corps, National Guard of the State of New
York, for five years, and resigned in 1901.
He is a Republican in politics and is a
member of the Congregational Church. Dr.
Campbell is president of the Kings County
Medical Society and a member of the Sur
gical Society, Pathological Society, Long
Island Medical Society, New York Acad
emy of Medicine, the Brooklyn Medical
Society, the Brooklyn Medical Club, and
the Society of Ex-Internes of Methodist
Hospital. He is also a member of the As
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sociated Physicians of Greater New York,
the Physicians Mutual Aid Society, Ameri
can Medical Association, the Medical So
ciety of the State of New York, and the
•American Association of Anatomists. Fie
is past master of the Montauk Lodge of
Masons in Brooklyn. He is also a mem
ber of the Crescent Athletic, University,
the Brooklyn, and Delta Upsilon Clubs.
Address : 394 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York.
CAMPBELL, William Wallace:
Astronomer; born in Hancock County,
Ohio, April 11, 1862; son of Robert Wilson
Campbell and Harriett (Welsh) Campbell.
He was educated at Fostoria (Ohio) High
School, and was graduated from the Univer
sity of Michigan in 1886, with the degree
of B.S. and received honorary degrees from
that university of M.S. in 1899, and D.Sc.
in 1905; and from the University of Wis
consin of LL.D: in 1902. He was profes
sor of mathematics in the University of
Colorado from 1886 to 1888, instructor in
astronomy in the University of Michigan
from 1888 to 1891, became an astronomer at
Lick Observatory in 1891, and has been its
director since 1901. He was in charge of
the Lick Observatory Eclipse Expeditions
to India in 1898, to Georgia in 1900, and to
Spain in 1905. Mr. Campbell has traveled
in India, Egypt, and Europe except Turkey,
Austria and Scandinavia. He is a Foreign
Associate of the Royal Astronomical So
ciety, and a member of the National Acad
emy of Sciences, and many other learned
societies, and the honorary society of Sigma
Xi. His favorite recreations are golf and
carpentry. He received the Lalande prize
and gold medal from the Paris Academy of
Sciences; a gold medal from Royal Astro
nomical Society, London; and the Draper
Gold Medal from the National Academy
of Science. He married at Grand Rapids,
December 28, 1892, Elizabeth Ballard
Thompson, and they have three sons : Wal
lace, born in 1895; Douglas, born in 1896,
and Kenneth, bora in 1899. Address: Mt.
Hamilton,,, California.

CAMPBELL, William Wildman:
Lawyer and ex-congressman ; born on .1
farm at Rochester, Vermont, April 2, 1853 ;
son of John W. Campbell and Philinda
(Hubbard) Campbell. He was educated at
Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vermont, and at
Tufts College, Massachusetts. After" leav
ing college he studied law, was admitted
to the bar in 1878, and was prosecuting at
torney of Henry County, Ohio, from 1894
to 1897. He is president of the Northern
Traction Company of Ohio. He is a Re
publican in politics and was elected in
1904 from the Fifth Ohio District to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, in which he served
from 1905 to 1907. He is a Universalist
in his religious views. Mr. Campbell mar
ried at Napoleon, Ohio, November 20, 1898,
Laura A. Harrison. Address : Napoleon,
Ohio.
CANDLER, Ezekiel Samuel, Jr.:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Bell-
ville, Hamilton County, Florida, January
18, 1862; oldest son of Ezekiel Samuel
Candler, Sr., and Julia Bevil Candler, who
are natives of Georgia. He is a direct de
scendant of William Candler, who was a
colonel in the Army of the American Rev
olution, and ancestor of the Candler fami
ly of Georgia, who have been prominently
identified with the history of that State
from the days of the Revolution up to and
including the present. When he was eight
years old he removed with his parents to
Tishomingo County, Mississippi ; was ed
ucated in the Male Academy, at Iuka, Mis
sissippi, and attended the law department
of the University of Mississippi for the
term of 1880 and 1881. On June 30, 1881,
he graduated in law," . when a little over
nineteen years old, and having previously
had his disabilities of minority removed
by the chancery court, so as to enable him
to practice his profession, he at once com
menced the practice of law with his- father
at Iuka, under the firm name of Candler
& Candler, which partnership still exists,
with offices at Iuka and Corinth, Missis
sippi. He was chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of Tishomingo
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old, and he removed from Iuka to Corinth,
January I, 1887. He was nominated by
the Democratic State Convention in 1888
by acclamation, when twenty-six years old,
for presidential elector for the First Con
gressional District, and was elected by the
largest majority received by any district
presidential elector at that election in the
State, and voted for Cleveland and Thur-
nian. He was for ten years a member of
the Democratic Executive Committee of
Alcorn County; is a member of the Bap
tist Church, and was from 1896 to 1905
the moderator of the Tishomingo Baptist
Association, and several times represented
that association in the Southern Baptist
Convention, which is the largest religious
organization in that denomination. In No
vember, 1900, he was elected from the
First Mississippi District to the Fifty-sev
enth Congress, was reelected in 1902, 1904,
and 1906, and is now serving in the Six
tieth Congress. He married, April 26, 1883..
Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood, daughter of
Thomas B. Hazlewood, of Towncreek,
Lawrence County, Alabama, and they have
three children : Julia Bevill Candler, Susan
Hazlewood Candler and Lucy Alice Cand
ler. Address : Corinth, Mississippi.
CANDLER, Flamen Ball:
Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, De
cember 16, 1838; son of Samuel Marsden
Candler arid Elizabeth Cecilia (Ball) Cand
ler. He was educated in the New York
College, and he was admitted to the New
York bar in May, i860, and has practiced
law in New York City ever since. He has
occupied his present offices forty-two years.
He was partner with Edgar S. Van Winkle
for seventeen years,' and now with Colo
nel William Jay and his oldest son, Robert
W. Candler, forming the firm of Jay &
Candler. Mr. Candler and Colonel Jay
have been partners since 1868 — the long
est law partnership in New York City. He
is a Republican in politics and has been
president of the Ward Association of the
First, Seventh and Twentieth Wards of
Brooklyn.' He was first president of the
Department of Law in the Brooklyn In
stitute' of Arts and Sciences, holding the

position several terms. He is a member
of the (Dutch) Reformed Church in Amer
ica. Mr. Ball is a member of the Board
of Council of the Long Island Historical
Society, of the Ohio Society, of which he
has been vice-president; one of the govern
ors and chairman of the executive com
mittee; and is also a member of the Sons
of the Revolution. His favorite recreation
is traveling. Mr. Candler is a member
of the Union League, Down Town, and
Tuxedo Clubs of New York City, and the
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. He married
in Brooklyn, New York, .October 18, 1865,
M. Lillian Welch, and they have three
children: Robert W., born in 1869; Dun
can, born in 1874, and Mrs. Edith C. Steb-
bins, born in 1877. Address: 48 Wall
Street, New York City.
CANDLER, John Slaughter:
Jurist; born at Villa Rica, Carroll Coun
ty, Georgia, October 22, 1861 ; son of Sam
uel Charles and Martha (Beall) Candler.
He entered Emory College, at Oxford,
Georgia, in 1877, and was graduated in
the class of 1880, with the degree of A.B.,
and received the degree of AM. in 1883.
He was admitted to the Georgia bar in
1882, and engaged in successful practice;
was solicitor general of Georgia from 1887
to 1896; judge of the Superior Court from
1896 until 1902, in which year he was
elected to his present office as associate
justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
He served on the military staff of Govern
or Alexander H. Stephens as aide-de-camp,
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; was
military judge-advocate general of Georgia
from 1886 to 1893; colonel of the Fifth
Infantry Regiment of Georgia State Troops
from 1893 to -1898, and colonel of. the
Third Regiment of Georgia Infantry,
United States Volunteers, in the Spanish-
American War in 1898 and 1899. Judge
Candler is a member of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity and of the Sons of the Revolu
tion. He married first, at Jacksonville,
Florida, January 16, 1884 Lula Gamier
(now deceased), and has a son, Asa War
ren Candler, and a daughter, Allie Gamier
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ried, second, Florida George Anderson, of
Marietta, Georgia. Residence: Edgewood,
Georgia. Official address : The Capitol, At
lanta, Georgia.
CANDLER, Warren A.:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South; born at Villa. Rica, Car
roll County, Georgia, August 23, 1857; son
of Samuel Charles and Martha (Beall)
Candler. He was graduated from Emory
College, at Oxford, Georgia, in 1875, and
later received the degrees of D.D. and
LL.D. He was licensed to preach, May
!5, 1875, and entered the North Georgia
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South in December, 1875, and he
continued in the pastorate until July, 1886,
when he became assistant editor of the
Christian Advocate, at Nashville, Tennes
see, the official organ of the Methodist
Episcopal Church -South, thus serving until
1888, when he was elected" to the presi
dency of Emory College. In May, 1898,
he was elected by the General Conference
and consecrated Bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Bishop Candler,
besides his Episcopal and educational la
bors, has contributed extensively to re
ligious literature, and is author of: His
tory of Sunday Schools, 1880 ; Georgia's
Educational Work, 1893 ; Christus Auctor,
1899 ; High Living and High Lives, 1901 ;
Great Revivals and the Great Republic,
1905. Bishop Candler married at La
Grange, Georgia, November 21, 1877, Net
tie Curtright, and they have three children :
Annie Florence, John Curtright, and Sam
uel Charles. Address : 630 Edgewood Ave
nue, Atlanta, Georgia.
CANFIELD, George Folger:
Lawyer and professor of law ; born in
New York City, August 21, 1854; son of
Albert Warren and Elizabeth I. H. (Bage)
Canfield., He was graduated from Phillips
Exeter Academy in 1871, and from Har
vard College, as A.B. in 1875; and he
spent two years at a German university;
and afterward graduated from the Har
vard Law School as LL.B. in 1880. He
was admitted to the bar in 1880, and is

now a member of the law firm of Wilmer
& Canfield. He is chairman of the Board
of Directors and general counsel of the
Bradstreet Company, and a director of the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad
Company, and the Building and Sanitary
Inspection Company. He is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the New York State Bar As
sociation, the American Bar Associa
tion, the Law Institute, Civil Service
Reform Association, and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. He is also a member of
the Board of Managers and vice-president
of the State Charities Aid Association.
He is a member of the University, Har
vard, City, Down Town Association, and
Highland Country Clubs. He married
first at Peekskill, New York, 1884, Sarah
Kittredge, who died in 1897; and second,
in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1904,
Frances M... Marshall, and he -has two
children : George Dana, born January 5,
1887, and Maynard Marshall, born Octo
ber 7, 1905. Address : 49 Wall Street, New
York City.
CANFLELD, Iivin S.:
Lawyer; born at Tyrone, Schuyler Coun
ty, New York, May 12, 1863. In 1871 he
removed with his parents to Michigan, lo
cating at Lyons and moving two years
later to a farm in Hamlin township, Eaton
County. His education was obtained in
the district school, and Eaton Rapids High
School, from which he was graduated in
1885 ; and he afterward took a course
in the Detroit Business University. He
taught school winters and read law at
intervals in the office of John M. Corbin,
at Eaton Rapids. In 1886 he removed to
Alpena, Michigan, where he was engaged
as assistant teacher in the Alpena High
School for four years. He was admitted
to the bar in 1888 and since 1890 has prac
ticed law at that place. Mr. Canfield is
married, and has held the office of county
school examiner four years ; city attorney
of Alpena, eight years, and was chairman
of the Republican County Committee of
Alpena County, Michigan, from 1900 to
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and was elected from Alpena County to the
Michigan Legislature for the sessions of
1905 and 1906. Address : Alpena, Michi
gan.
CANFIELD, James Hulme:
Librarian of Columbia University; bora
at Delaware, Ohio, March 18, 1847; son
of Eli Hawley and Martha Crafts
(Hulme) Canfield. He was prepared for
college at the Brooklyn Polytechnic; then
attended Williams College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1868. He re
ceived from his alma mater the degrees of
A.M. in 1877, and LL.D. in 1893; and
Litt D. from the University of Oxford,
England, in 1902. He was engaged in
railway construction from 1868 to 1871,
then practiced law at St. Joseph, Michigan,
until 1877; was then professor of American
history and civics at the State University
of Kansas until 1891. He was chancellor
of .the State University of Nebraska four
years ; president of the State University of
Ohio four years ; and has been librarian
of Columbia University from 1899. He
was superintendent of public instruction of
St. Joseph, Michigan, for three years, and
one of the circuit court commission
ers of Michigan for four years. In
politics he is an Independent Republi
can, and in religious affiliation an
Episcopalian. He is a member of and
officer in the National Educational Associa
tion, the American Library Association, the
New York (State) Library Association,
New York (City) Library Club, Twenty-
first District Independent Club, the Society
of Colonial Wars, the Vermont Historical
Society, the Columbus (Ohio) Engineering
Club, and the Italian Immigrant Society.
Dr. Canfield is a trustee of All Souls'
Church, the Sisterhood of the Good Shep
herd, the New York Training School for
Deaconesses, the Seabury Society, and the
Episcopal Church Congress. He is author
of : Taxation, 1883 ; History of Kansas, 1884 ;
Local Government in Kansas, 1889; The
College Student and His Problems, 1902 ;
and a frequent contributor to magazines,
etc., upon various topics. His principal
recreations are driving and walking. He

is a member of the Century Association,
and of the Authors and Quill Clubs. Dr.
Canfield married at Clear Lake, Iowa, June
24, 1873, Flavia A. Camp, and ,they have
two children: James Albert, born in 1874
and Dorothea Frances, born in 1879. Ad
dress : Columbia University, New York
City.
CANN, J. Ferris:
Lawyer; born at Savannah, Georgia, De
cember 11, 1868; son of James Ferris Cann
and Anna Sophia Turner. He was edur
cated in public schools of Savannah, boys'
high school, Georgia Military Academy,
and in law in the University of Virginia.
He was admitted to the bar in
January, 1889. He formed a partner
ship with his brother, George . T. Cann
in 1900, which continued until Janu
ary, 1904; formed partnership with
David C. Barrow, . November, 1905,
under firm name of Cann & Barrow ; ad
mitted Francis P. Mclntire to the firm in
November, 1906, under the firm name of
Cann, Barrow & Mclntire. He is president
and attorney of the Realty Improvement
and Trust Company, Georgia Investment
Company, Kalola Company, Twelfth Street
Land Company, South Atlantic Investment
Company, Georgia Realty Company, secre
tary and attorney of the Conservative In
vestment Company; director and attorney
of the Merchants' National Bank; director
of the Chamber of Commerce Real Estate
Owners' Association. He has traveled ex
tensively in. Cuba, Mexico, Europe, Canada
and through this country. Mr. Cann was
a member of the Senate of Georgia in 1900
and 1901, of the House of Representatives
in 1902, 1903 and 1904 ; Depot Commissioner
of Georgia in 1901 and he served in the
State Militia from 1888, and the Spanish-
American War as captain of Company K,
Second Georgia Volunteer Infantry; judge
advocate and provost marshal ; and is now
on the roll of retired officers of Georgia.
Fie is a Democrat in politics, and an Epis
copalian in religion. Mr. Cann is a mem
ber of the Savannah Bar Association,
Georgia Bar Association, and American
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of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fel
lows, Eagles, - Hoo Hoos, Elks, Knights
of Khorassan, and colonel Uniform Rank
of Knights of Pythias. He is also a
member of the Oglethorpe Club of Savan
nah, Yacht Club (ex-commodore), Capitol
City Club of Atlanta, the Piedmont Driv
ing Club of Atlanta and the Savannah
Golf Club. Residence: 114 Gaston Street
West. Address : 16 Bryan Street East, Sa
vannah, Georgia.
CANNON, Duncan B. :
Street railway official; born in Baltimore,
Maryland, July 19, 1844; son of John
Bouchelle and Matilda J. (Mitchell) Can
non. , He was educated in the Monumental
Academy at Baltimore, Maryland. He was
secretary of the Board of Control and
Review, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1866 and
1867; colonel and aide-de-camp to Govern
or Oden Bowie of Maryland, from 1869
to 1873 ! secretary of the Board of Con
trol and Review of Baltimore, Maryland,
again in 1876; secretary and treasurer of
the Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flat-
bush Railroad Company, Brooklyn, in 1885 ;
also the Brooklyn City and Newtown Rail
road Company, Brooklyn, since 1886. He
has been secretary, treasurer and director
of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail
road Company, Brooklyn, since 1897; of
the DeKalb Avenue and North Beach
"Railroad Company since 1897; and also a
director of the- Coal River Lumber and
Coal Company, and the Olcott Coal and
Iron Company; and treasurer and director
of the Orinoco Steamship Company. Mr.
Cannon is a Democrat in National, and an
Independent in local politics; and in re
ligion is a member of the Episcopal
Church. He is a member of the South
ern Society of New York, the Maryland
Society of New York, the Delaware So
ciety, and the Confederate Veteran Camp
of New York. Mr. Cannon is also
a member of the New York Re
form and '¦ the New York Athle|ti!c
Clubs. He married in New York City,
June 25, 1881, Mrs. Mary E. Olcott, daugh
ter of Rev. Richard N. Morgan, D.D., rec
tor of Trinity Parish, New Rochelle, New

York. Residence : 19 Central Park West,
New York City. Office address : DeKalb and
Franklin Avenues, Brooklyn, New York.
CANNON, Henry White:
Banker; born at Delhi, Delaware Coun
ty, New York, September 27, 1850; son of
George B. Cannon. He was educated in
private schools at Delhi and the Delaware
Literary Institute ; and began his business ca
reer in the First National Bank of Delhi,
in which he became teller before he was
twenty years of age. Shortly afterward,
in 1870, he went to the Second National
Bank of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the
following year, at the age of twenty-one
years, organized the Lumberman's Nation
al Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, of which
he was cashier and active manager for
thirteen years, carrying the bank safely
and successfully through the disastrous
panic of 1873. While at Stillwater he
became secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce and treasurer and general manager
of the gas and water companies of that
city. When the public debt was funded,
Mr. Cannon became active in buying and
exchanging Government bonds for Minne
sota banks, and also negotiated loans for
the city of Saint Paul. He was appointed
by President Arthur comptroller of the
Currency to succeed Hon. John J. Knox,
in 1884, and was asked to continue in of
fice by President Cleveland, but he re
signed early in 1886 and removed to New
York, where he became vice-president of
the National Bank of the Republic. In
November, 1886, he became president of
the Chase National Bank, of which he is
still at the head as president of the Board
of Directors. He was a member of the
International Monetary Commission at
Brussels in 1892; and a member of the
Assay Commission during the administra
tion of President Harrison; and was a
member of the Aqueduct Commission of
New York during the administration of
Mayor Hugh J. Grant, He is a director
of the Great Northern, Lake Erie and
Western, Fort Wayne, and Cincinnati and
Louisville railways; president of the Pa
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. Manhattan Trust Company, United States
Guarantee Company, and Guarantee Com
pany of North America. He is a mem
ber of the Sons of the Revolution, and the
Union League, Century, Players', Metropol
itan, Tuxedo, New York Yacht, Republi
can, and National Arts Clubs of New
York. Mr. Cannon married Jenny O. Cur
tis, and they have two sons : Henry White
Cannon, Jr., and George C. Cannon. Res
idence : 288 Madison Avenue. Office ad
dress : 83 Cedar Street, New York City.
CANNON, John Franklin:
Clergyman; born in Cabarrus County,
North Carolina, January 3, 1851 ; son of
John Maxwell Cannon and Eliza D. Can
non. He attended Davidson College, North
Carolina, from 1867 to 1869, receiving the
A.B. and A.M. degrees ; the University of
Virginia in 1869 and 1870, and the Union
Theological Seminary of Virginia, from
1870 to 1873. He was pastor of Leesburg,
Virginia, from 1873 to 1881 ; of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, from 1881 to 1888, and has been
pastor of Grand Avenue Presbyterian
Church, St. Louis, Missouri, since 1888.
He was moderator of the General Assem
bly of the Presbyterian Church of the United
States at Richmond, Virginia, in 1899. He
received the D.D. degree from the South
western Presbyterian University in 1880.
Dr. Cannon married at Clarksville, Ten
nessee, February 24, 1880, Mary H. Lupton,
and they have three children : Julia, John
F, Jr., and Mary Lupton. Address : 3540
Pine Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
CANNON, Joseph G.:
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives ; born at Guilford, North Carolina,
May 7, 1836, of mingled Scotch and New
England Quaker ancestry. When a boy
his parents removed to Illinois, where he
was reared on a farm, and he procured his
education in country schools, and after
ward studied law. He was admitted to the
Illinois bar, and engaged in practice at
Danville; and at the age of twenty- four
. was elected State's attorney of Vermillion
County, Illinois, in which office he served
for the seven years from 1861 to 1868.

In November, 1872, he was elected from
the Twelfth Illinois District to the Forty-
third Congress and has been biennially
elected, from that district, now the Eigh
teenth, with the exception of the period of
the Fifty-second Congress, and is now
serving in the Sixtieth Congress.' He has
been one of the prominent figures in Con
gress from his first term, and for many
terms was chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations, where his vigilance secured
him the popular soubriquet of Watch-Dog
of the Treasury. At the beginning of the
Fifty-eighth Congress he was chosen
speaker of the House, in which responsible
post he has since been retained. Mr. Can
non has been from his youth one of the
ablest campaigners of the Republican party,
and he was permanent chairman of the
National Republican Convention of 1904.
Address : Danville, Illinois.
CANTOR, Jacob Aaron:
Lawyer; born in New York City, De
cember 6, 1854; son of Henry and Hannah
Cantor. He was educated in the public
and high schools of New York City; stud
ied law in offices and the University Law
School, and was graduated from the lat
ter with the degree of LL.B. in 1875. He
was admitted to the bar in 1876, and since
then has been in continuous practice of the
law in New York City. He was elected to
the General Assembly from the Twenty-
first District of New York City in 1884,
1885, and 1886, and State senator from
1887 to 1898. He was chosen unanimously
by his associates as Democratic leader in
the State Senate in 1888, and continued as
such until his retirement from the senate
in 1898. Mr. Cantor was president of the
Senate and acting lieutenant-governor from
1893 to 1894; and chairhian of the Commit
tee on Finances ; and he received votes for
governor in the Democratic State Con
vention at Saratoga in 1902. Since Janu
ary 1, 1904, he has been chairman of the
Committee of Highways and Parks of New
York City Improvement Commission, ap
pointed by the mayor of New York City.
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and served from 1902 to 1904, declining a
renomination. Mr. Cantor is a member of
the Manhattan, Lotos, Lawyers, Harmony,
National Democratic and National Arts
Clubs, and the American Scenic and His
toric Preservation Society, and Lieder-
krantz-Freundschaft Society and Wa Wa
Yanda Fishing Club. He married, Sep
tember 25, 1897, Lydia Greenebaum, and
they have three children: Margaret, Ruth
and John Andrew. Residence: 9 West
Seventieth Street, New York City. Ad
dress: 25 Broad Street, New York City.
CAPEN, Samuel Billings:
Merchant; born in Boston, December 12,
1842; son of Samuel C. Capen and Ann
(Billings) Capen. He was educated in the
Boston public schools, and the English
High School of Boston, and he has the
degree of A.M., received from Dartmouth
College, and of LL.D. received from Ober
lin and Middlebury Colleges.. Since his
graduation from the English High School
in 1858 he has been in the carpet business,
and he is now treasurer of the Torrey,
Bright & Capen Company, carpets. He
was a member of the Boston School Com
mittee from 1889 to 1892, and its president
in 1892; and was president of the Boston
Municipal League from 1894 to 1899. He
is a Republican in politics and a Congre-
gationalist in religious affiliation, and is
one of the foremost laymen of his denom
ination. He is president of the Amer
ican Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions, president of the Board of
Trustees of Wellesley College; is govern
or-general of the Society of Mayflower De
scendants ; vice-president of the Congre
gational Sunday School and Publication
Society; vice-president cf the American
Congregational , Association, and a trustee
of the United Society of Christian En
deavor. Mr. Capen married in Boston, De
cember 8, 1869, Helen M. Warren, and they
have a son: Edward Warren Capen, born
in 1870, and a daughter, Mary Warren
Capen, horn in 1874. Residence: 38 Green-
ough Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Massachu
setts. Business address: 350 Washington
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

CAPERS, Ellison:
Bishop of South Carolina; born in
Charleston, South Carolina, October 14,
1837; son of William Capers and Susan
Capers. He received his preparatory edu
cation at the high school in Charleston, and
was graduated from the Military Academy
of South Carolina in 1857. The degree of
D.D. was conferred upon him by the Uni
versity of South Carolina in 1888, and by
the University of the South, Sewanee, Ten
nessee, in 1893. He took orders as deacon
of the Episcopal Church in 1867, and was
ordained to the priesthood the following
year by Bishop Thomas F. Davis. He was
rector"of Christ's Church, Greenville, S. C,
for twenty years, and one year rector of
St. Paul's Church at Selma, Alabama. In
December, 1887, he was called to be rector
of Trinity Church, Columbia, S. C, which
he filled until 1893, when he became bishop ¦
coadjutor, and later bishop of South Car
olina. He was consecrated by Bishops
Lyman, Watson, Weed and Jackson. Be
fore entering the ministry he served in the
Civil War as lieutenant-colonel and colo
nel of the Twenty-fourth South Carolina
Volunteers, rising to the rank of brig
adier-general. Immediately after the war
he was elected secretary of State of South
Carolina. Bishop Capers is author of nu
merous sermons, addresses and pastorals,
and also a large contributor to the volume
of The Confederate Military History, which
treats of the South Carolina Troops. Ad
dress : Columbia, South Carolina.
CAPERS, John G. :
Lawyer; born at Anderson, South Caro
lina, April 17, 1866; son of Ellison Capers
and Charlotte Rebecca (Palmer) Capers.
His father is now the Episcopal bishop of
South Carolina. At the age of sixteen he
entered the South Carolina Military Acad
emy at Charleston, where he studied for
four years. He was admitted to the bar
in 1888. In 1896, upon the nomination of
Bryan, he joined the Republican party, al
though previous to that time he had been
a Democrat. Since that time he has been
prominent in the Republican party, cam
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He was a delegate-at-large to the Nation
al Republican Convention held in Chicago
in 1904, and is now the member of the
Republican National Committee for South
Carolina. He was United States District
Attorney for South Carolina from May,
1901, to February, 1906. He is now prac
ticing law at his old home, Greenville,
South Carolina, and also has law offices
in the city of Washington, D. C. Address :
Greenville, South Carolina.
CAPPS, Edward:
Professor of classics; born at Jackson
ville, Illinois, December 31, 1866; son of
Stephen R. Capps and Rhoda S. (Tomlin)
Capps. He was graduated from Illinois
College at Jacksonville as A.B. in 1887;
received the Ph.D. degree from Yale Uni
versity in 1901 ; studied in the American
School at Athens, Greece, in 1893 -and 1894,
and at Halle University, Germany, in 1894
and .1895. He was instructor in Illinois
College in 1887 and 1888, and in Yale
-College in 1889 and 1890, was a tutor in
Yale College from 1890 to 1892, then went
to the University of Chicago, where he was
assistant professor of Greek from 1892 to
1895, associate professor of Greek from
1895 to 1900, and professor of Greek from
1900 to 1907, taking his present chair as
professor of classics in Princeton Univer
sity in 1907. Dr. Capps was president of
the Classical Association of the Middle
West and South in 1900 and 1901. He
was managing editor of Classical Philo
logy from 1905 to 1907, and editor in chief
of the Decennial Publications of the Uni
versity of Chicago from 1902 to 1907. He
is author of Homer to Theocritus, and
numerous articles contributed to the Amer
ican Journal of Philology, the American
Journal of Archaeology, Classical Philol
ogy, and the Transactions of the American
Philological Association. Dr. Capps has
traveled extensively in Europe. He Is a
Republican in politics and a Methodist in
his religious views, and he is a member
of the Quadrangle Club of Chicago. Dr.
Capps married at Jacksonville, Illinois,
July 20, 1892, Grace C. Alexander, and
they have three children : Priscilla, born
in 1900, Edward, born in 1902, and Alex

ander, born in 1904. Address- Princeton,
New Jersey.
CAPRON, Adin Ballon:
Merchant, miller and congressman; born
in Mendon, Massachusetts, January 9, 1841 ;
son of Carlile W. Capron and Abby
(Bates) Capron. He was educated at
Woonsocket High School and Westbrook
Seminary, near Portland, Maine. He en
listed as sergeant in the Second Rhode
Island Infantry, in May, 1861 ; was pro
moted to sergeant-major, July 11, 1861;
commissioned lieutenant, September, 1861,
and ordered on detached service in the
Signal Corps, in December, 1861. He
served in the Signal Corps until the close
of the war, having been commissioned first
lieutenant in the -Signal Corps, United
States Army, March 3, 1863, and receiving
promotion to the rank .of captain and
major by brevet. Since the war he has
been in business pursuits and is now en
gaged in milling and dealing in grain. He
was elected representative to the General
Assembly of Rhode Island in 1887,
and reelected in 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891,
and 1892 ; and he was speaker of the House
in 1891 and J892. He was Republican
candidate for Congress in 1892, and was
elected in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress
from the Second Rhode Island District,
since which he has been biennially elected
and is now serving in the Sixtieth Con
gress. Address : Stillwater, Providence
County, Rhode Island.
CARHART, Henry Smith:
Professor of physics; born at Coeymans,
New York, March 27, 1844; son of Daniel
S. Carhart and Margaret Carhart He
was graduated from Wesleyan University
at Middletown, Connecticut, as A.B. in
1869, studied at the Yale, Harvard and
the University of Berlin, and received the
LL.D. degree from Wesleyan in 1893. He
became professor of physics and chemistry
at Northwestern University, from 1872 to
1886, and since 1886 has been professor
of physics at the University of Michigan.
He was a member of the International
Jury of Awards at the Paris Electrical
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of Judges in the Department of Electricity
at the World's Columbian Exposition in
1893, member of the Jury of Award at
the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo in
1901 ; and an official delegate of the United
States and vice-president of the Saint
Louis International Electrical Congress in
1904. In 1905 he went with the British
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, as an invited guest, to South Africa,
traveled in the interior as far as Victoria
Falls on the Zambesi, and sailed around
the continent. Returning from South
Africa, he attended in Berlin, by invita
tion, the Preliminary Conference on Elec
trical Units and Standards. He was one of
two delegates by appointment by the De
partment of State to represent the
United States at the formal Conterence
called to meet in London in October,. 1906,
which was postponed until October, 1907.
Professor Carhart is a fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science, a member of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers, of the Amer
ican Electrochemical Society (of which
he is ex-president), and the American
'Physical Society, and foreign member of
the Institution of Electrical Engineers of
Great Britain. He is author of various
works on electricity and physics. Dr. Car
hart married, in 1876, Ellen M. ' Soule.
Address: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
CARLAND, John Emmett:
Jurist; bora in Oswego County, New
York, December 11, 1853; son of Captain
John Carland, of the United States Army.
After a preliminary education in the schools
of Cdrunna, Michigan, he studied law, was
admitted to the bar in 1875, and engaged in
the general practice of the law in the Ter
ritory of Dakota. He became active in pol
itics and the Statehood movement, and in
May, 1885, he was appointed by President
Cleveland to the office of United States
attorney for Dakota Territory, which he
held until appointed, by the same Presi
dent, in March, 1888, associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Dakota Territory.
He was elected a member of the Con
stitutional Convention of North Dakota

in 1889, and was chairman of the Judiciary
Committee of that body, and in that ca
pacity had much to do with the framing of
the present Constitution of the State. He
resumed the practice of law in South Da
kota after the organization of that State,
until his appointment by President Cleve
land, August 31, 1896, to his present office
of United States district judge of the Dis
trict of South Dakota. Judge Carland
married at Bismarck, Dakota, September
29, 1884, Albertine Knaack. Address :
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
CARLETON, Henry Guy:
Author, inventor; born at Fort Union,
New Mexico, June 21, 1856, son of General
James H. and Sophia Garland (Wolfe)
Carleton. He was educated at Santa
Clara College, California, and became a
special writer on the San Francisco Chron
icle in 1872. He was commissioned second
lieutenant of the 8th United States Cavalry,
October 21, 1873, and served in the cam
paign against Kiowas, Arapahoes and Chey-
ennes, on the j^lano Estacado, as an acting
engineer officer with Major William Red
wood Price of the 8th Cavalry, cooperat
ing with Colonel (afterwards General)
Nelson A. Miles ; and in scouts against
Cortina's marauders, on the lower Rio
Grande, Texas, in 1875. He resigned Aug
ust 1, 1876, and became an editorial writer
on the New Orleans Times from 1877 to
1879. He also served as adjutant of the
First Louisiana Infantry, and as adjutant
of the Louisiana Field Artillery, unseating
the Republican Governor, January 8, 1877.
He was correspondent of the New York
Times during the yellow fever epidemic of
1878; and won the prize offered to all
Southern poets for an expression of grat
itude to the North for the aid rendered
in that epidemic. He was officiating second
to Major H. J. Hearsey in the duel with
E. A. Burke, the State Treasurer, in 1879;
was a special writer on the Chicago Trib
une, 1880-81 ; wrote the tragedy Memnon
and sold it to John McCullough, 1881 ;
was a special writer on the New York
Times, in 1882 ; literary editor of Life,
1883-84, and a special writer of the New
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Thompson Street Poker Club, and these
plays : Victor Durand (performed at the
Wallack's Theatre, December 1884 to
March 1885) ; The Lion's Mouth (Freder
ick Warde) ; The Pemberton's (J. M.
Hill) ; Ye Earlie Trouble (Boston Muse
um) ; Princess of Erie (Boston Museum) ;
A Gilded Fool (N. C. Goodwin) ; Butter
flies (C. Froiiman) ; Ambition (Goodwin) ;
That Impudent Young Couple (C. Froh-
man) ; Colinette (Charles Frohman) ;
Never Again, adaptation (C. Frohman) ;
Ladies First, adaptation (C. Frohman) ;
Girl from Maxim's, adaptation (C. Froh
man). He was inventor of the Telebaro-
graph, for measuring the percentage of
fire or choke-damp in various parts of the
coal mine from the superintendent's office
(presented to the public through the Scien
tific American, 1887) ; he is also inventor
and patentee of the electric control of the
locks (21 patents), the automatic 2-magnet
repeater, the solenoid arc light lamp,
the instantaneous and non-variable
thermostatic fire alarm, the keyless elec
tric alarm lock for the front door; the
discoverer (1901) of neural control by
suprarenal principle, curing almost instant
ly functional neuralgia and neuritis, in
cluding sciatica, by an external application
of two minims of ointment containing
from one to one thousand parts of the
active suprarenal principle (presented to
humanity, after due verification of his
claims by physicians of record, by publica
tion in American Medicine, Philadelphia,
February and October, 1906). He was
president of the Carleton Electric Company,
(Incorporated), 1900-02; vice-president of
the Carleton-Chase Electric Company,
1902-03. Fie has been an honorary mem
ber of the Telegraphers' Union of New
York, since 1887, and was a member of the
Committee of 200 on the Centennial of
Washington's Inauguration of 1889. Mr.
Carleton is a member of the Society of
Colonial Wars, of Virginia, and Society
of Mayflower Descendants of Massachu
setts, and of the New York Yacht Club.
Address: 41 West Forty-fourth Street,
New York.

CARLETON, Mark Alfred:
Cerealist, United States Department of
Agriculture ; born at Jerusalem, Ohio, March
7, 1866; son of Lewis D. Carleton and
Lydia Jane (Mann) Carleton. He was
graduated from the Kansas State Agricul
tural College .as B.Sc. in 1887 and M.Sc.
in 1893. He was professor of natural
history at Garfield University from 1889 to
1891 ; assistant botanist of the Kansas
Agricultural Experiment Station from 1892
to 1894, and has been cerealist in the
United States Department of Agriculture
since 1894. He was agricultural explorer
for the United States Department of Ag
riculture in 1898 and 1900 in Eastern Eu
rope and Siberia, was in charge of the
Government Grain Exhibit at the Paris
Exposition in 1900 ; was on the Interna- -
tional Jury of Awards of the Paris Ex
position of 1900; and at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in 1904. Professor
Carleton established the Durum Wheat
industry in this country, now valued at
thirty-five million dollars annually. In
politics he is a Republican, usually; and
in religion is a member of the Disciples
of Christ. He is a fellow of the Ameri-^
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Botanical Society of America,
American Breeders' Association, Wash
ington Botanical Society, Washington Bio
logical Society, National Geographic So
ciety, and he is Chevalier du Merite Agri-
cole de France. Professor - Carleton is a
member of lodge, chapter and council of
the Masonic order and a Knight Templar.
He married at Perkins, Oklahoma, De
cember 29, 1897, Amanda Elizabeth Faught,
and they have two children : Roderick
Lewis, born in 1902, and Rose, bom in
1904. Address : United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
CARLISLE, John Griffin:
Lawyer, ex-secretary of the Treasury;
born in Campbell County, Kentucky, Sep
tember 5, 1835. He received a common
school education, and studied law with J.
W. Stevenson and W. B. Kinkhead. He
taught school for a time at Covington,
Kentucky, before being admitted to the
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Kentucky House of Representatives and
one term as State Senator. He was a
i i i member of the Democratic National Con
vention in i860; lieutenant-governor of
Kentucky from 1871 to 1875; presidential
elector in 1876; member of the United
States House of Representatives from 1877
to 1890, and a member of the Committee
on Ways and Means; was speaker of the
House of Representatives from 1883 to
1889, and United States senator, succeeding
James Beck from 1890 to 1893. He was
secretary of the Treasury of the United
States in the cabinet of President Cleve
land from 1893 to 1897, and engaged in
the practice of law in New York City
from 1897 to 1907, when he removed to
Washington. He is a Democrat in poli
tics. Mr. Carlisle is a member of the
Southern Society of New York and the
Manhattan Club of New York City. He
married Mary Jane Goodson, who died
August 4, 1905, and has two sons, William
K., and Logan. Address : 1426 K. Street,
Washington, D. C.
CARMACK, Edward Ward:
United States Senator; born near Cas-
talian Springs, Sumner County, Tennes
see, November 5, 1858. He received an
academic education; studied law and be
gan practicing at Columbia, Tennessee.
He was elected to the Legislature as a
Democrat in 1884 and in 1886 joined the
editorial staff of the Nashville American.
In 1888 he founded the Nashville Demo
crat, and afterwards became editor-in-
chief of the Nashville American, when the
Democrat was merged into that paper. In
1892 he became editor of the Memphis
Commercial. He was a delegate for the
State of Tennessee at large to the Demo
cratic National Convention in 1896. Mr.
Carmack was elected in 1896 to the Fifty-
fifth Congress, and reelected in 1898 to the
Fifty-sixth Congress from the Tenth Ten
nessee District, and was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Thomas
B. Turley, who declined to stand for re
election, and took his seat March 4, 1901.
He was reelected to the Senate in Janu
ary, 1907, for a second term, expiring

March 3, 1913. Senator Carmack married
in April, 1890, Elizabeth Cobey Dunning-
ton, of Columbia, Tennessee. Address :
Memphis, Tennessee.
CARM ALT, William Henry:
Physician; born at Friendsville, Penn
sylvania, August 3, 1836; son of Caleb and
Sarah (Price) Carmalt After attending
boarding schools in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Virginia, he was graduated in
1861 from the medical college of Columbia
University, and commenced to practice his
profession in New York. In 1869 he went
to Germany for further study, returning
in 1874. Two years later he moved to
New Haven, and in 1881 became professor
of surgery in Yale University. He was
also connected with the New Haven Hos
pital and the' clinic of the New Haven
Dispensary. He is president of the Ameri
can Surgical Association; secretary of the
Congress of American Physicians and
Surgeons, and a member of several
other clubs and medical organizations. In
1881 the honorary degree of A.M. was
conferred upon him by Yale University.
Dr. Carmalt was married December 8,
1863, at Stratford, Connecticut, to Laura
Woolsey Johnson. Address : 87 Elm
Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
CARNEGIE, Andrew:
Manufacturer and philanthropist; born
in Dunfermline, Scotland, November 25,
1835. He came to the United States in
1845 arid attended school a few years in
Pittsburgh, and in after life received the
degree of LL.D. from the University of
Glasgow in 1905, and from the University
of Pennsylvania, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh
in 1906. As a boy he attended a small
stationary engine, but soon became a tele
graph messenger for the Atlantic and
Ohio Telegraph Company, and later oper
ator and clerk in the office of the super
intendent and manager of the telegraph
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Pittsburgh. While there he made acquaint
ance of Mr. Woodruff, the inventor of the
sleeping car, and joined with him in the
enterprise, which proved successful. He
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Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad;
was successful in a venture at Oil Creek,
and in the founding of a rolling-mill,
from which grew his immense control
of iron and steel industries ; the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works; the Pittsburgh
Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Fur
naces, Union Iron Mills, Key
stone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel
Works, Frick Coke Company, Scotia Ore
. Mines, etc., all now merged in the United
States Steel Corporation, of the bonds of
which he is the largest owner. Mr. Car
negie has made many magnificient dona
tions to towns and institutions. He found
ed the Pittsburgh Institute ; has given over
forty million dollars for fifteen hundred
libraries, and large sums for other phil
anthropic works ; these include ten million
dollars to the Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh, five million dollars to New York
for the establishment of branch libraries,
ten million dollars to the Carnegie Insti
tution at Washington, ten million dollars
to Scotch universities, five million dollars
to the fund for employees of the Carnegie
Steel Company, and in all he has given
nearly one hundred million dollars. He
was elected lord rector of the University
of St. Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1902. Mr.
Carnegie has more recently been especially
active in movements for the promotion of
peace among the nations and furnished
funds for the building of a home for the
Permanent Court of Arbitration at the
Hague. He received from the French
Government the decoration of Commander
of the Legion d'Honneur. He is au
thor of: An American Four-in-Hand in
Britain; Round the World; Fifty Years'
March of the Republic; also various arti
cles on the labor question. He is a mem
ber of the Union League, Authors, En
gineers', Lotos and other clubs. Mr. Car
negie married in New York City, in 1887,
Louise Whitfield, and they have a daugh
ter. Address : 2 East Ninety-first Street,
New York City.
CARLSON, Anton Julius:
Professor of physiology, University of
Chicago ; born in Sweden, January 29, 1875 ;

son of Carl Jacobson Carlson and Hedwig
(Anderson) Carlson. He was graduated
from Augustana College as A.B. in 1898
and A.M. in 1899, and from Stanford Uni
versity as Ph.D. in 1902. He was assist
ant in physiology at Stanford University;
research assistant of the Carnegie Institu
tion, and assistant professor of physiology
at the University of Chicago. He is author
of: the Physiology of the Heart; Physiol
ogy of the Salivary Secretion. He is a
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; member of the
American Physiological Society, 'the So
ciety for Experimental Biology and Medi
cine, and of the Quadrangle Club of Chi
cago. Dr. Carlson married at Rock Is
land, Illinois, September 26, 1905, Esther
N. Sheagren and they have one son, Robert
Benard, born in 1906. Address : University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
CARPENTER, Augustus Alvord:
Merchant and capitalist; born in Frank
lin County, New York, June 8, 1825; son
of Alanson Carpenter and Gulia Elma
(Nichols) Carpenter. He received a prac
tical education in the public schools of
Western New York, but at an early period
in his life determined to become self-sup
porting, and left the paternal roof to seek
his fortune as best he might. When the
gold fever broke out in 1849 he obtained
means to make the voyage to California
by way of the Isthmus, and, in company
with his brother, was engaged for several
years in the new Eldorado in mining and
trading. His ventures met with consider
able success, and in 1855 he returned to
the East with sufficient capital to engage
on a moderate scale in the dry goods and
lumber business in Monroe County, Wis
consin. In i860 he organized the lumber
firm of Kirby,- Carpenter & Co., the mem
bers being Abner Kirby of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; S. M. Stephenson, Menominee,
Michigan, and W. O. Carpenter of Chicago.
The concern has been incorporated for
some time, as the Kirby-Carpenter Com
pany, and Mr. Carpenter has been its presi
dent. He is on the directorate of the
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Banks of Chicago, and was formerly presi
dent of the Lumberman's National Bank
of Menominee, Michigan, for several years,
and also president of the Lumberman's
Mining Company of Iron Mountain, Michi
gan. He was for a time president of the
Citizens' Association of Chicago. He is a
member of the Chicago, Commercial and
Union Clubs, having been president of the
later. He married, in 1863, Elizabeth
Kempton of New Bedford, Massachusetts,
and has two children : Augustus A., Jr., and
Anne, wife of John E. Newell. Address :
83 Cass Street, Chicago, Illinois.
CARPENTER, Ford Ashman:
Local forecaster of the United States
Weather Bureau; born in Chicago, Illinois,
March 25, 1868; son of Lebbaeus Ross Car
penter and Charlotte Baldwin (Eaton)
Carpenter. He was educated in the Chi
cago public schools, Hayes High School,
and Dilworth Academy. He served as as
sistant observer in the Signal Corps of
the United States Army at Portland, Ore
gon, from 1888 to 1890, and at San Fran
cisco in 1891, and was observer of the
United States Weather Bureau at Carson
City, Nevada, from 1892 to 1896, and at
San Diego, California, since 1896. He was
director of the Nevada State Weather
Service from 1892 to 1896; assistant at
the Carson Astronomical Observatory in
1895, and has been lecturer on meteorol
ogy at the San Diego State Normal School
since 1901. He was a member of the In
ternational Congress of Arts and Sciences
at St. Louis in 1904, and Pacific delegate
to the Eighth International Geographical
Congress at Washington in 1904. _Mr.
Carpenter is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence and the National Geographic Society,
the San Diego Marine Biological As
sociation, president of the San Diego Pho
tographic Society, and has been a director of
the San Diego Society of Natural History
since 1896. He was executive officer of
the Nordhoff Exploring Expedition to
Lower California, Mexico, in 1903. He
has also been a director of the San Diego
Chamber of Commerce since 1904. and its

treasurer from 1907. He is a Republican
in politics, and in religion is a member
of the Protestant Episcopal Church; and
he is a trustee of the Trinity Corporation
and a vestryman of St. Paul's Parish, San
Diego. His favorite recreations are photog
raphy and athletics. Mr. Carpenter is a
member of the Cuyamaca Club, the Scholia
Club and the San Diego Rowing Club. He
married at Carson City, Nevada, July 12,
1894, Edith Luella Atherton. Residence:
3655 Second Street, San Diego. Address :
United States Weather Bureau Office, San
Diego, California.
CARPENTER, Frederick B.:
Insurance official; born April 21, 1862;
son of George O. Carpenter and Maria
J. (Emerson) Carpanter. He was edu
cated in the Boston public schools. He
has been engaged in insurance since leav
ing school, and is now vice-president of the
British American Insurance Company of
New York, director of the Carpenter-
Morton Company and the Commonwealth
Trust Company, trustee of the Hamilton
Association and the Home Savings Bank,
and member of the Investment Committee
of the latter; trustee of the New England
Real Estate Trust and vice-president and
director of the Wakefield National Bank.
He served for eighteen years in the Mas
sachusetts Volunteer Militia in various
positions, retiring in June, 1907, while
brigadier-general and commissary-general
of Massachusetts. He is a Republican in
politics. General Carpenter is a member
of the Country, Eastern Yacht, Algonquin,
Puritan and Boston Art Clubs, the Boston
Athletic Association, and the Exchange
Club of Boston. He married Miss Alice
Beebe. Residence: 495 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston. Address: 71 Kilby
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
CARPENTER, James Hopkins:
Counsellor-at-law ; born in Woodbury,
New Jersey, November, 1849; son of Hon.
Thomas Preston Carpenter and Rebecca
(Hopkins) Carpenter. He entered the
University of Pennsylvania, collegiate de
partment, in 1865, and was graduated as

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A.B. in June, 1869, and as A.M. in 1872.
He is vestryman and secretary of St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, at Camden,
New Jersey. Mr. Carpenter is a member
of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania
and also of the Camden County Country
Club, and the Church Club of the Diocese
of New Jersey. Address: 36 North Sec
ond Street, Camden, New Jersey.
CARPENTER, Louis H.:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army; born at Glassboro, New Jersey,
February 11, 1839; son of Edward Car
penter. He was graduated from the Phil
adelphia High School; studied at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania three years, and
then enlisted in the Sixth United States
Cavalry, November 1, 1861. He was com
missioned second lieutenant, July 27, 1862;
served in the Army of the Potomac and
was aide-de-camp to General Sheridan,
and colonel of volunteers in 1865. After
the close of the war, he became captain
of the Tenth United States ¦ Cavalry, serv
ing on the frontier and taking part in
Indian campaigns, was several times bre
vetted and received the Congressional Medal
of Honor for distinguished conduct dur
ing the Indian campaigns in Kansas and
Colorado in 1868. He became colonel of
the Fifth Cavalry, June 1897, and briga
dier-general of volunteers, May 4, 1899.
He served in the Spanish-American War,
was military governor of the Department
of Puerto Principe, Cuba, and was mus
tered out of volunteers, June 12, 1899. He
was commissioned brigadier-general of the
United States Army, October 18, 1899, and
retired October 19, 1899, at his own re
quest, after over thirty years' service as a
commissioned officer. He is a member of
the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel
phia. ' He is a companion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, a member of
the Order of Foreign Wars, and a member
of the Medal of Honor Legion, and the
Sons of the Revolution. He is also a
member of the Rittenhouse and Union
League Clubs of Philadelphia, and the

Army and Navy Club of Washington, D.
C. Address: 2318 De Lancey Place,
Washington, D. C.
CARPENTER, Oliver P.:
Lawyer; born in the town of Plattekill,
near Clintondale, Ulster County, New
York, December 7, 1840; son of Robert
and Susan G. (Young) Carpenter. He
was educated in the public schools in Ul
ster County, New York, and the Nine Part
ners Boarding School, at Washington,
Dutchess County, New York. He served
in the Civil War as first lieutenant, cap
tain and brevet major, in the Second New
York (Harris Light) Cavalry, in General
Custer's Division, Sheridan's command,
and commanded the advance guard at Ap
pomattox Station at the time of the sur
render. After the war he practiced law
at Highland, and since 1872 at Kingston,
New York. He was the former law part
ner of ex-Surrogate and ex-Senator Charles
A. Fowler, of ex-Congressman David
M. De Witt, and of Hon. Augustus H.
Van Buren. He was district attorney of
Ulster County from 1872 to 1874, surro
gate of Ulster County from 1887 to 1892;
and recorder of the City of Kingston from
1900 to 1905. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Mr. Carpenter is a member and for
mer trustee of the St. James Methodist
Episcopal Church; past commander of
Pratt Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and a
Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar.
His favorite recreation is fishing. He is a
member of the Republican Club. Mr. Car
penter married in Highland, Ulster County,
New York, September 22, 1866, Ethelind
Du Bois, and their children are: Eva,
(wife of Charles A. Worthington, of Hart
ford, Connecticut), Oliver P. Jr., (lawyer
of New York Citv), Fred and Robert,
(Kingston Post Office), George S. (San
Francisco, California), and Ethel (Kings
ton, New York). Address: Kingston, New
York.CARPENTER, Philip:
Lawyer; born at Bath, New Hampshire,
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ter and Julia R. (Goodall) Carpenter. Al
onzo P. Carpenter, the father, was justice
of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
for many years, and for the last few years
before his death in 1898 was chief justice.
Mr. Carpenter was prepared at St. Johns-
bury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
and was graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege with the class of 1877, with the de
gree of A.B., and was class ..istorian.
Following his graduation he studied law,
and was admitted to the New Hamp
shire bar in September 2, 1880, and prac
ticed at Lancaster, New Hampshire for
.five years, then removing to New York
City, where he has practiced law ever
since, attaining distinction at the metro
politan bar. He was judge advocate gen
eral of New Hampshire in 1885 and 1886,
and assistant .district attorney of New
iorK County in 1897. Mr. Carpenter is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, the New York
State Bar Association, the Society of Medi
cal Jurisprudence and the Law Institute,
and is also a member of the New rtamp-
shire Historical Society, the Dartmouth
Association in New York, the New Hamp
shire Society of New York, and the Delta
Kappa Epsilon Association of New York,
He is a Republican in politics. He is a
member of the Union League, Republican,
West Side Republican, Hardware, National
Arts and the Dartmouth Clubs of New
York City. Mr. Carpenter married at
West Winsted, Connecticut, September 3,
1880, Fanny Hallock Rouse. Residence:
265 West End Avenue, New xork City.
Office address: in Broadway, New York
City. CARPENTER, William L.:
Jurist; born at Orion, Oakland County,
Michigan. November 9, l854! 's°n OI
Charles K. Carpenter and Jennette (Cor
yell) Carpenter. His early education was
received in the schools of Oakland County,
and he afterward entered the Agricultural
College of Michigan, from which he was
graduated • as B.S. in the class of 1875. He
followed with the law course at the Univer
sity of Michigan, graduating as LL.B. in

1878. In the same year he was admitted
to the bar of the State of Michigan, and
engaged in general law practice at Detroit
until elected in 1894, judge of the Wayne
Circuit Court," at Detroit. He served in
that capacity until November, 1902, when
he was elected to his present office as one
of the associate justices of the Supreme
Court of the State of Michigan, his service
beginning the same month. Judge Car
penter has also been, since July, 1902,
president of the Detroit College of Law.
He is a Republican in politics and a Con-
gregationalist in church membership. He
is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fra
ternity, and of the Detroit Club. Judge
Carpenter married in Detroit, Michigan,
October 15, 1885, Elizabeth C. Ferguson
and they have a daughter Lela, born in
1888, and a son, Rolla, born in 1892.
Residence: 311 Seymour Street, Lansing.
Official address : State Capitol, Lansing,
Michigan.
CARR, Clark E.:
Lawyer ; born in Boston Corners, Erie
Co., New York, May 20, 1836 ; son of Clark
M. and Delia Ann (Torrey) Carr. He went
to school at Springfield, not far from his
native town, then studied at Knox College,
Galesburg, Illinois. He then took up the
study of law in a law office, and was
afterwards graduated from the Albany
Law School at Albany, New York. When
the Civil War began, he became colonel on
Governor Yates' staff. He practiced1 law
for many years at Galesburg, but is now
retired from practice. He is a strong
member of the Republican party and has
been exceedingly active, having spoken in
nearly every Northern State, in every pol
itical campaign for a period of fifty-one
years back. He has been a delegate to
two National Conventions, was postmaster
at Galesburg, Illinois, for twenty-four
years, and was United States minister to
Denmark from 1889 to 1893. He is the
author of: The Illini, and also of Lincoln
at Gettysburg. Mr. Carr was married at
Mt. Carroll, Illinois, December 31, 1873, to
Grace Mills. Address: Galesburg, II-

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CARRERE, John Merven:
Architect ; born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
November 8, 1858, of American parents.
Fie was educated in Europe, graduating
from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, at Paris,
in 1882. He is in partnership with Thom
as Hastings, forming the firm of Carrere
and Hastings. He has designed many im
portant buildings, including the New York
Public Library, the new National Academy
of Designs, also the Alcazar and Ponce de
Leon Hotels at St. Augustine, Florida.
Mr. Carrere is a member of the New York
Chapter of the American Institute of Arch
itects and has been twice president, and is
also a founder and twice president of the
Beaux Arts Society of New York City, a
delegate to Fine Arts Federation and a
member of the Architectural League of
New York. He is a member of the Cen
tury; Players', Apawamis Golf, City and
Richmond County Country Clubs. Mr.
Carrere married, in 1886, Marion Dell, and
they have two children: Anna M., and
Marion Dell Carrere. Residence: 101
East Sixty-fifth Street, New York City.
Address : 225 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
CARRINGTON, William T.:
President of the State Normal School
of Missouri; born on a farm in Callaway
County, Missouri, January 23, 1854. He
attended the district school and Sugar
Grove Academy until he was seventeen ;
then began teaching district school, and he
alternately taught and attended school un
til he completed his college work at West
minster College, and the normal course of
the Normal College at Kirksville, Missouri,
where he was graduated in 1876; and dur
ing vacation he helped his father raise
and harvest his crops. From 1876 for
seven years he was successively in charge
of the schools at Piedmont, Oak Ridge and
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and was school
commissioner of Cape Girardeau County
in 1881. He became chief clerk to State
Superintendent Coleman in January, 1883,
and served in that capacity until June, 1887,
when he resigned to take charge of the
Springfield High School. While with

Superintendent . Coleman. Mr. Carrington
founded and published the Missouri School
Journal, in which he still retains an in
terest. He remained in charge of the
Springfield High School until 1898, with
the exception of the two years 1893 and
1894, when he was superintendent of the
public schools at Mexico, Missouri. He
was elected State superintendent of public
schools in 1898 and reelected in 1902. He
retired from the office of State superin
tendent in January, 1907, and took the
presidency of the State Normal School
at Springfield, Missouri. This position was
selected by him from among three import- .
ant ones that were offered at the time, as
it offered a larger field of usefulness than
the others. He was president of the Mis
souri State Teachers' Association in 1888
and director in the National Educational
Association for five years, and is now a
member of the Committee of the latter on
Industrial Education for Pupils in Rural
Communities. Address : Springfield, . Mis
souri. CARROLL, Howard:
Journalist, author; born in Albany, New
York, in 1854. He was educated in the
public schools of New York City, Han
over, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland.
He was connected with the New York
Times for many years as reporter and
special correspondent; then went into busi
ness, and is now vice-president of the
Starin Transportation Company, and presi
dent of the Sicilian Asphalt Paving Com
pany. He served as chief of artillery of
the State of New York from 1895 to 1898,
and inspector-general of the New York
troops in the Spanish-American War. He
is a Republican in politics and was a can
didate for Congress from the State at
large; and he has been a delegate three
times to National Republican Conventions.
Mr. Carroll is author of: A Mississippi
Incident; Twelve Americans, Their Lives
and Times; The American Countess (play),
etc. He is a member of the New York
Athletic, Lotos," New York Yacht, Army
and Navy, and Knollwood Golf Clubs of
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and they have three children: Arthur,
Caramai, and Lauren. Residence: 9 West
Thirty-eighth Street. Address : 41 Park
Row, New York City.
CARROLL, John F.:
Banker. Mr. Carroll was clerk of the
Grand Jury of New York City in 1879;
clerk of the Seventh District Civil Court;
clerk of the Court of Special Sessions ;
and clerk of Court of Oyer Terminer and
General Sessions from 1891 to 1898, and
then resigned. He was Tammany leader
in the old Twentieth Assembly District,
sachem' and member of the Executive
Committee at Tammany Hall. He is now
a director of the Adirondack Trust Com
pany at Saratoga Springs, New York, vice-
president of the Fourteenth Street Bank,
director of the Twelfth Ward Bank, the
Nineteenth Ward Bank and the Quincy
Gas Company, Quincy, Illinois. Residence :
Savoy Hotel, New York City. Address:
Fourteenth Street Bank, New York City.
CARROLL, John Joseph:
Catholic clergyman; bora at Ennlscrone,
County Sligo, Ireland, June 24, 1856; son
of Francis J. Carroll and Mary (Howley)
Carroll. He came to America with his
parents in infancy, was graduated from
St. Michael's College at Toronto, Canada,
in June, 1876, and from St. Joseph's Pro
vincial Theological Seminary, Troy, New
York, December 18, 1880. He became as
sistant in the Cathedral of the Holy Name
in Chicago until 1887 until he was appoint
ed rector of St. Thomas Parish, Chicago,
where he has successfully ministered ever
since. Father Carroll has made a deep
study of Gaelic language and literature,
and has attained wide distinction as a
Gaelic writer and scholar. He was elect
ed historian of the Gaelic League at the
Convention held in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1898, and he was elected at the Con
vention in Philadelphia in 1901, National
librarian of the Gaelic League in America.
Father Carroll is author of: Notes on the
Aryan Tongue ; Tale of the Wanderings of
the Red Lance (in Gaelic and English) ;
The Prechristian History of Ireland (two i

volumes, Gaelic and English) : and twenty
sermons in Gaelic. Address : 5478 Kim-
bark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CARROLL, Phillip:
American consul; born in New York
City, 1854; son of B. J. and M. B. (Mur
phy) Carroll. He was educated in the
public schools of New York City and at
Georgetown University, Washington, D.
C, where he received the degree of M.D.
in 1879. He served in the United States
Army over three years; and he has trav
eled extensively in Europe and Africa, in
cluding Egypt, Tunis, etc., and also in
South America, Mexico, the Dominion of
Canada and Cuba. In 1871 he was ap
pointed clerk in the Department of State;
he became consular agent at Port Rowan
in 1879; commercial agent at Port Stan
ley and St. Thomas In 1881 ; consul at
Palermo, Italy, In 1884; at Newcastle-on-
Tyne In 1890; at Demarara in 1891, and
retired in 1893. He was appointed
vice and deputy-consul-general at Mon
terey, Mexico, in 1898 ; . in charge the
major portion of time of the service at
Monterey. He was appointed by President
McKinley to open and establish the con
sulate-general at Monterey in 1898, the
office up to that time having been a consu
lar agency. In 1903 he was commercial
agent at Aguascalientes, Mexico; later at
Greenville, Province of Quebec, Canada, and
since July. 1, 1906, he has been the Ameri
can consul at Manzanillo, Mexico. He is
a Republican in politics. Address : Ameri
can Consulate, Manzanillo, Mexico.
CARROLL, Royal Phelps:
Yachtsman; born in New York City,
October 29, 1862; son of Governor John
Lee Carroll and Anita (Phelps) Carroll.
He was graduated from Harvard College,
in 1885, receiving the degree of A.B. In
1894 his yacht Navahoe participated in the
important European regattas, and in the
race for the Brenton Reef Cup defeated
the celebrated Britannia, owned by the
Prince of Wales. Mr. Carroll is a mem
ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,
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Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Larch
mont, Yacht, and Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht Clubs, the Automobile Club of Amer
ica, the Turf and Field, Ardsley and Porce-
lian Clubs of New York City; the Metro
politan Club of Washington, D. C, and the
Eastern Yacht Club of Boston. He mar
ried in 1891, Marion, daughter of Eugene
Langdon, of New York City, and they
have one daughter, Dorothea. Residence:
41 East Forty-ninth Street, New York City.
Summer residence : Newport, Rhode Is
land. CARRUTH, Charles Robinson:
Lawyer; born in Berlin, Wisconsin,
January 3, 1861 ; son of Uri Carruth and
Lucy A. (Robinson) CarrUth. He was
educated in the grammar school at Clinton,
New York, and at Hamilton College, grad
uating as LL.B. in 1882. He was admitted
to the bar in 1882, and is now of the law
firm of C. R. and C. U. Carruth, in as
sociation with the firm of J. W. and C. J.
McDermott. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the New York
State Bar Association, and the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York. He
is a Democrat, and has always been active
in politics, and he has been a delegate and
officer of many State and other political
conventions. In religion he is a Presby
terian. Mr. Carruth is a prominent Mason
and Knight Templar, and a member of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the
executive commiteee of the Society of the
Sons of Oneida in New York City. His
favorite recreations are golf and other out
door sports. Mr. Carruth has member
ship in the Manhattan, Shenandoah, Har
lem and Democratic Clubs of New York
City and has been president of the latter.
Mr. Carruth married at Clinton, New York,
December 31, 1885, Mary Louise Palmer,
and they have five children : Charles R.,
Jr., born in 1887, Harrison P., born in
1889, Frederic C, born in 1897, Alice M.,
born in 1900, and Catherine M., born in
1902. Residence: 29 Bank Street, New
York City. Office address : 2 Rector
Street, New York City.

CARSE, David Bradley :
Consulting engineer; born at Jefferson-
ville, Indiana, December I, 1862; son of
Thomas Carse and Matilda (Bradley)
Carse. He was educated at Chicago Public
schools, and the University of Illinois. He
was resident engineer on the construction
of the Sixty-eighth Street Water Supply
Tunnel of Chieago in 1883 ; resident engi
neer of the Construction Works of the
United States Rolling Stock Company,
Hegewisch, Illinois, in 1884 and 1885 ; presi
dent of the Black Diamond Coal Mining
Company, of Denver, Colorado, in 1886, of
the Racine Cement and Pipe Company of
Racine, Wisconsin, from 1888 to 1894, of
the Carse Brothers Company, Chicago, from
1897 to 1903, and member of the Advisory
Committee of the United States Steel Cor
poration from 1902 to 1907. He is presi
dent and director of Carse Brothers Com
pany of Chicago and of David B. Carse and
Company, of New York; director of the
Central Foundry Company. Mr. Carse is
a Presbyterian in religion. He is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, American Electro-Chemical So
ciety, the Royal Arcanum, and the Presby
terian Union, also of the New York Yacht
Club and the Chicago Athletic Association.
Mr. Carse married at Cleveland, October 4,
1899, Marguerite Switzer, and they have
four children : David, Robert, Eleanor, Ma
tilda. Residence: 215 Palisade Avenue,
Yonkers, New York. Address : 12 Broad
way, New York City.
CARSE, John Bradley:
Member of the Advisory Committee of
the United States Steel Corporation; born
in Jeffersonville, Indiana, September 10,
1865; son of Thomas Carse and Matilda
(Bradley) Carse. He was graduated from
Williams College in 1886, receiving the de
gree of A.B. During the years 1895 and
1896 he was located in England. He is a
Presbyterian in his religious affiliation.
Mr. Carse is a member of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; and is
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Chicago Yacht; and St. Andrew's Golf
Clubs. He married in Chicago, Anna R.
Williams, and they have one son: Donald,
born in 1900. Residence: Riverdale-on-
Hrdson, New York City: Address: 71
Broadway, New York City.
CARSON, Hampton, Lawrence:
Attorney-general of Pennsylania; born
in Philadelphia, February 21, 1852; son of
Dr. Joseph Carson, long professor of ma
teria medica In the University of Pennsyl
vania. He was graduated as A.B. in 1871,
and as A.M. and LL.B. in 1874, from the
University of Pennsylvania; and he re
ceived the 'degree of LL.D. from Lafayette
College in 1898. He was admitted to
the bar of Philadelphia in 1874, and soon
took a prominent place at the bar. He
has argued cases in every branch of the
United States Courts, and in the Supreme
Courts of Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and other States. He was prom
inently connected with the trials of various
bank cases in the Federal Courts, one of
which was the first of its kind to reach the
Supreme Court of the United States, and
has become a leading case; and he was the
leading counsel in a case in the Supreme
Court of the United States, which involved
the rights of the Indian tribes in Okla
homa, known as the Lone Wolf Case. He
was the special representative of the Amer
ican Bar Association at the gathering of
the English and French bars at Montreal,
and was invited to speak before the bench
and bar of England in London, at the ban
quet to Labori, who defended Dreyfus and
Zola. He was appointed attorney-general
of Pennsylvania by Governor Pennypacker,
January 20, 1903, and is still serving in that
office. He Is author of: Law of Criminal
Conspiracies ; A History of the Celebration
of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the
Promulgation of the Constitution of the
United States ; History of the Supreme
Court of the United States ; and is now en
gaged in writing the history of the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania, and a life
of Lord Mansfield. For many years he
was a professor of the law of contracts
and sales in the law department of the

University of Pennsylvania. He is a mem
ber of the Philadelphia Law Association,
the American Philosophical Society, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution. Residence : 1033 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia. Office address: 315
Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
CARSON, Howard Adams:
Chief engineer of the Boston Transit
Commission; born in Westfield, Massachu
setts, in 1842; son of Daniel Barron Car
son and Mary (Pope) Carson. In 1869
he was graduated from the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, in the civil
engineering course, with the degree of
B.S. In 1870 he was appointed assistant
engineer for a coal mining and iron man
ufacturing company in western Pennsyl
vania; in 1871, assistant engineer on the
construction of the Providence Water
Works, and in 1873 was placed in charge
of the construction of the Providence sew
ers. In the winter of 1877 and 1878 he was
in Europe studying various sewerage, sys
tems, and in 1878 he was appointed principal
superintendent of construction on the Bos-
'ton Main Drainage. From 1884 he has
been in general practice as a civil and con
sulting engineer. In 1887 he made the
design for the North Metropolitan and
Charles River Valley sewerage systems for
the State of Massachusetts, and in 1899
he was appointed chief engineer of the
Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, having
charge of constructing those sewerage sys
tems. In August, 1894, he was appointed
chief engineer of the Boston Transit Com
mission, and had charge of constructing
the Boston Subway and the East Boston
Tunnel under Boston Harbor, and is now
in charge of constructing the Washington
Street Tunnel. He has been consulted
concerning various works, and is now con
sulting-engineer on the Detroit River Rail
road Tunnel. He was president of
the Alumni Association of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology for four
years, and is now a trustee of that insti
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ton Society of Civil Engineers; and he re
ceived from Harvard University in 1906
the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
His published writings have been mainly
reports on engineering subjects, including
somewhat extensive annual reports as chief
engineer of the two above-mentioned com
missions. Addrss : Office of the Boston
Transit Commission, Boston, Massaschu-
setts.
CARTER, Ernest Trow:
Musical director and composer; born in
Orange, New Jersey, September 3, 1866;
son of Aaron Carter and Sarah Swift
(Trow) Carter. He was educated in
Princeton University, where he was gradu
ated in 1888 as A.B. with the Philosophi
cal Oration, and at Columbia University,
receiving in 1889 the degree of M.A. in
the School of Political Science, and study
ing from 1888 to 1891 in the Law School;
and he was engaged in musical studies in
Berlin, Germany, from 1894 to 1898. Mr.
Carter was admitted to the Bar of New
York State In 1891, and was a member of
the law firm of Fisher and Carter with
William P. Fisher from 1892 to 1894. He
was lecturer on music, organist and choir
master of Princeton University from 1899
to 1901. Mr. Carter is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, and the Musical Mutual Protective
Union of New York; vice-president of the
Manuscript Society of New York; mem
ber of the Adirondack League, of which
he was seven years trustee, and is trustee
of the Association for the Protection of
the Adirondacks, being a devotee to for
estry and woods life. He is a member of
the American Forestry Association, the
American Scenic and Historic Preserva
tion Society, and Brown's Tract Guides'
Association; and has membership in the
University, Princeton, and National Arts
Clubs of New York City, and the Nassau
and Ivy Clubs of Princeton, New Jersey.
He is a member and district captain of the
Citizens' Union of New York City; is an
Independent Democrat in politics, and a
Presbyterian in religious faith. He mar
ried in New York City, September 29,

1891, Laura Hoe, and they have three
children: Laura Hoe, born in 1899; Roger
Ernest, born in 1901 ; and Elizabeth Wood-
bridge, born in 1906. Residence: 150 West
Fifty-eighth Street, New York City.
Office address : 55 West Thirty-third
Street, New York City.
CARTER, Franklin:
President of the Clarke School for the
Deaf; born in Waterbury, Connecticut,
September 20, 1837 ; son of Preserve W.
Carter, manufacturer, and Ruth (Holmes)
Carter. He was prepared at Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Massachusetts, and was
afterward a student at Yale, Williams Col
lege, arid Berlin University, receiving the
degrees of A.B. in 1862, Ph.D. in 1877, and
LL.D. in' 1904 from Williams College, and
of LL.D. from the Union University, 1881,
Yale, 1901, and South Carolina Col
lege In 1905. He was professor of
Latin in Williams College from 1865
to 1872; professor of German in Yale
University from 1872 to 1881, and pres
ident of Williams College from 1881
to 1901 ; and he has been president of
the Clarke School for the Deaf since
1896. He was a member of the Massa
chusetts State Board of Education from
1897 to 1901. He edited an edition of
Goethe's Iphigenie, 1877; and is author of
a Life of Mark Hopkins, 1892 ; also various
addresses and magazine articles. Dr. Car
ter is a corporate member of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis
sions; a trustee of Phillips Academy, An
dover, Massachusetts, -and of the Massachu
setts Public Reservations; is president of
the Massachusetts Home Missionary So
ciety, and of the Modern Language Asso
ciation of America. He is a Republican in
politics, and was a presidential elector
from the First District of Massachusetts
in 1896. He Is a member of the University
Club of New York, and the Colonial So
ciety of Massachusetts. He married in
1863, Sarah L., daughter of Charles D.
Kingsley, of Waterbury, Connecticut, and
they have three sons and one daughter.
Address : Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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CARTER, George Roberts:
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii;
born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, De
cember 28, 1866; son of H. A. P. Carter
and S. A. (Judd) Carter. He was gradu
ated from Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts in 1885, and from the Shef
field Scientific School of Yale, in the civil
engineering course, in 1888. He was a
member of the 'varsity football team and
crew while at Yale. He was a member
of the Hawaiian Senate from 1901 to 1903,
and in 1902 visited Washington at the
President's request. He was secretary of
the Territory of Hawaii from February to
November, 1903, and since November 23,
1903, has been governor of that Territory.
He is a Republican in politics. He mar
ried in Rochester, New York, April 19,
1892, Helen Strong. Address : Honululu,
Territory of Hawaii.
CARTER, James:
Consular official; appointed consul at
Swas, September 6, 1906, appointed consul
at Tamatave, November 1, 1906. Address :
Tamatave, Samoa.
CARTER, Leslie:
Lawyer; born in Galena, Illinois, August
28, 1851 ; son of James Carter and Helen
(Leslie) Carter. His primary education
was received for the most part in private
schools, which was followed by a regular
course at Yale College, graduating as A.B.
in 1873. His legal studies were pursued
at the Columbia Law School and the
Northwestern University Law School.
Before entering upon regular practice he
pursued his studies in the office of E. B.
McCagg, after which he formed a partner
ship with Edwin Walker, which continued
until 1855, since which time he has con
tinued his practice without an associate.
He was a director of the Chicago Chamber
of Commerce in 1881, vice-president in
1882, and president from 1883 to 1887. He
was elected a director of the Chicago
Dock Company in 1884, and was its presi
dent from 1887 to 1895. He was elected a
director and vice-president of the Calumet
and Chicago Canal and Dock Company

in 1893, and has been its president
since 1895. In 1895 he was elected sec
retary of the bondholders' protective com
mittee of the South Side Elevated Rail
road Company, and has been president of
that company since 1897. He is also presi
dent of the Rochelle and Southern Rail
road Company. Mr. Carter is a Republi
can in politics. He is president of St.
Luke's Hospital and a member of the Psi
Upsilon and Wolf's Head (Yale) college
fraternities, and of the Chicago, Union,
Commercial, Onwentsia and Merchants'
Clubs of Chicago. Address : 135 Adams
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
CARTER, Orrin N. :
Lawyer; born in Jefferson County, New
York, January 2, 1854; son of Benajah and
Isabel (Cole) Carter. He was hut ten
years of age when his parents removed
to DuPage County, Illinois, where he com
pleted his early education in the public
schools. His father not having the means
to pay for a collegiate course, he worked
his way through Wheaton College, grad
uating in 1877. From this college he re
ceived the degree of LL.D. in 1899. He
began the study of law in Chicago im
mediately after his graduation under the
direction of Judge Murray F. Tuley and
Gen. Isaac N. Stiles, supporting himself
in the meantime by teaching public schools
in Grundy County. He was superintendent
of schools of that county two years, and in
1882 began the practice of law at Morris,
Illinois, and he was prosecuting attorney
of Grundy County from 1882 to 1888. He
removed to Chicago in j888 and engaged
in general practice. He was attorney for
the Sanitary District of Chicago from 1892
to 1894. In the latter year he was elected
county judge of Cook County, to which
position he was reelected in 1898 and 1902,
and in 1906 he was elected a justice of the
Supreme Court of Illinois. His affiliations
are with the Republican party. He is a
member of the Warren Avenue Congrega
tional Church. Judge Carter is a member
of the Union League, Menoken, Congrega
tional, Hamilton and Lincoln Clubs of Chi
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August i, 1881, Nettie I. Stevens, and they
have two children : Allan J. and Ruth- G.
Address : ' 1331 West Monroe Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
CARTER, Samuel T., Jr.:
Lawyer; born at Yonkers, New York,
August 28, 1866; son of Samuel T. and
Alantha P. (Pratt) Carter. He was grad
uated from Princeton as A.B. in 1886, and
later A.M. ; Columbia Law School, as LL.
B., in 1888. He was admitted to the bar,
in 1888, and ever since In practice of law
in New York City; and was associate coun
sel of the investigation of the Surrogate
Court, New York City, in 1901. Mr. Carter
is the author of the Transfer Tax Law.
He is a member of the Bar Association
of New York. He is an Independent
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in his religious belief. He is president of
the Musurgla Society; trustee of Berk
shire Industrial Farm, Union Settlement,
American Christian Hospital of Ceserea,
and general counsel of the National Assoc
iation of Audibon Societies. His favorite
recreations are tennis and golf. He is a
member of the Princeton and Richmond
Hill Golf Clubs. Mr. Carter married at
Morristown, New Jersey, October 21, 1897,
Anna Washington Burnham, and they have
three children : Gladys B., Burnham, Sam
uel T., 3d. Residence: 586 West End
Avenue. Address: 18 Wall Street, New
York City.
CARTER, Thomas Henry:
United States senator; born in Scioto
County, Ohio, October 30, 1854. He re
ceived a common school education in Illi
nois, and was afterward engaged in farm
ing, railroading, and school-teaching for
a number of years. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar, and in 1882 he
moved from Burlington, Iowa, to Helena,
Montana. He was elected in 1888 delegate
from the Territory of Montana to the
Fifty-first Congress, and upon the admis
sion of the State was elected its first repre
sentative in Congress. He was commis
sioner of the General Land Office from
March, 1891, to July, 1892, when he was

elected chairman of the Republican Nation
al Committee.. He was a delegate from
Montana to the National Republican Con
ventions of 1896, 1900 and 1904. In Jan
uary, 1895, he was elected to the United
States Senate by the Legislature of Mon
tana for the term beginning March 4,
1895, and ending March 3, 1903. He was
appointed by President McKinley a mem
ber of the Board of Commissioners of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and at the
first meeting of that body was chosen pres
ident He was again elected to the United
States Senate, January 15, 1905, to succeed
Hon. Paris Gibson, Democrat, and took
his seat March 4, following. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1911. Ad
dress : Helena, Montana.
CARTER, William H. :
Brigadier-general United States Army;
born in Nashville, Tennessee, and ap
pointed from New York as a cadet at the
Military Academy, July 1, 1868. He was
commissioned second lieutenant, June 13,
1873; first lieutenant, April 14, 1879; cap
tain, November 20, 1889; major, January
29, 1897; lieutenant-colonel, May 18, 1898;
colonel, April 15, 1902, and brigadier-gen
eral, July 15, 1902. He holds the Con
gressional Medal of Honor, which was
awarded him for distinguished bravery in
action against the Apache Indians at Cibi-
cu Creek, Arizona, on August 30, 1881.
He is author of: Horses, Saddles and Bri
dles ; An Historical Sketch of the Sixth
United States Cavalry; From Yorktown
to Santiago; and, Old Army Sketches.
Address: care of the War Department,
Washington, D. C.
CARTER, Zina B. :
Merchant; born in a humble log cabin
in Jefferson County, New York, October
23, 1846; son of Benajah Carter and Isabel
(Cole) Carter and brother of Orrin N.
Carter, justice oi the Supreme Court of
Illinois. He worked on his father's farm,
attending school at intervals until he was
eighteen years of age, when he removed
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for several years and attended Wheaton
College. Having accumulated some means,
he removed to Chicago and established the
business now known as Zina R. Carter &
Brother. He was active in municipal af
fairs, became an alderman, and in 1899 was
the Republican candidate for mayor. He
was made a member of the Board of Trus
tees of the Sanitary District of Chicago in
1895, and in 1903 became president of the
board. He has been a member of the Chi
cago Board of Trade since 1872 and was
president of the board in 1898. Address:
1441 Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CART WRIGHT, James Henry:
Judge of the Supreme Court of Illi
nois; born at Maquoketa, Iowa, December
1, 1842; son of Barton Hall Cartwrlght.
He received his education at Mount Mor
ris Seminary, Mount Morris, Illinois, and
the University of Michigan, where he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1867. He served as
a volunteer during the Civil War and was
mustered out with the rank of captain.
After the war he practiced law at Oregon,
Ogle County, Illinois, until he was elected
judge of the circuit court in 1888. He was
reelected in 1891 and was assigned to the
appellate bench for the Second Appellate
District. He was elected judge of the Su
preme Court in 1895, and reelected in 1897,
and again in 1906 for a term ending in 1915,
from the Sixth Supreme Court District of
Illinois. Address: Oregon, Illinois.
CARY, Charles Preston:
State superintendent of public instruction
of Wisconsin ; born at Marshall, Ohio, Jan
uary 28, 1856; son of William Henry Cary
and Eve Cary. His mother was of Ger
man descent, and his father was directly
related to the English political economist,
Henry Carey. Until he was seventeen
years of age he worked on his father's
farm in summer and attended the district
school in winter. At seventeen he began
to teach district school in winter and con
tinued working on the farm in summer.
In 1877 he entered the Ohio Central Nor
mal School, from which he was graduated
in 1879. After this he taught for seven

years as principal of graded schools in
Ohio and Kansas, and served during most
of this period as county examiner of
teachers and instructor in teachers' insti
tutes. In 1886 he was elected county su
perintendent and high school principal at
Fairbury, Nebraska, which position he re
signed in 1893 to become instructor in
pedagogy and principal of the training de
partment of the Milwaukee State Normal
School, which he resigned in 1901 to be
come superintendent of the Wisconsin
School for the Deaf, at Delavan, Wiscon
sin. He resigned from that position in
1902 to accept the Republican nomination
for the office of State superintendent of
public instruction, to which he was elected
in 1902 and reelected in 1905 as a non
partisan candidate for four years. He holds
life certificates to teach in the schools of
Nebraska and Wisconsin, and is a graduate
of the University of Chicago, class of
1898. He is an active member of the Na
tional Educational Association; a member
of the National Society for the Scientific
Study of Education, and has devoted his
life to the study of all the sciences and
arts that bear upon the problems of educa
tion. Address: The Capitol, Madison,
Wisconsin.
CARY, George:
Architect ; born in Buffalo, New York, in
1859; son of Walter Cary, M.D., and Julia
(Love) Cary. He was graduated from
Columbia University, where he received the
degree of Ph.B. in 1885, and from Har
vard University, where he received the
degree of B.S. in 1891 ; and was also a
student at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in
Paris for three years. He has practiced
architecture at Buffalo since 1889. He was
a member of the Board of Architects for
the Pan American Exposition ; architect of
the Buffalo General Hospital, the Universi
ty of Buffalo ; the Dental College, the Grat-
wick Research Laboratory, the New York
State Building (now the Buffalo Historical
Society Building), the Pierce and Auto
mobile Buildings and the Administration
Building, and architect of the Buffalo Im
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houses in Washington, D. C. ; Omaha, Ne
braska; Port Carling and Muskoka, Cana
da, as well as in Buffalo and vicinity. He
is an extensive traveler. Mr. Cary is a
director of the Bank of Genesee, Batavia,
New York; member of the Buffalo Cham
ber of Commerce, and a member of its
Committee on Municipal Improvement.
Mr. Cary is also a member of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects, the Beaux Arts
Society, the Society of National Sciences,
the Buffalo Historical Society, the Socie
ty of the Columbia University Architects,
Buffalo Society of Artists, the Columbia
Architectural Society; is a director of the
Fine Arts Academy, the Albright Art Gal
lery, and the Society for Beautifying Buf
falo. Mr. Cary is a member of the Uni
versity Club of New York City, and the
Genesee Valley Hunt, Buffalo Park, Buf
falo Country, and University Clubs of Buf
falo. Address : 184 Delaware Avenue, Buf
falo, New York.
CASE, Carl Delos:
Clergyman; born in Plainview, Minne
sota, 1868; son 'of Douglas R. Case and
Mary Adelaide (Owen) Case. He was
graduated from Colgate University as A.
B. in 1891 ; and was afterward at the Uni
versity of Chicago as fellow in theology,
and was graduated as B.D. in 1898 and Ph.
D. in 1899. He was pastor; of the First
Baptist Church, South Bend, Indiana, from
1896 to 1900, of Terre Haute, Indiana, from
1900 to 1902, and of Montclair, New Jer
sey from 1902 to 1904, and has been pastor
of the Hanson Place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn, since 1904. He is a Republican
in politics. Dr. Case is a member of the
Executive Boards of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society, the Baptist State
Convention of New York, the New York
State Christian Endeavor Union, the Bapt
ist Ministers' Home Society and the Bapt
ist Congress. He is a. member of the So
ciety of Mayflower- Descendants, the Sons
of the American Revolution, the Masonic
order, the Independent Order of Foresters,
the Royal Arcanum and the Delta Upsilon
fraternity. Dr. Case married at Glen Ellyn,
Illinois, April 9, 1896, Ellen Mae Jenkins,

and they have two daughters: Dorothy,
born in 1898, and Katharine, born in 1902.
Address: Hanson Place Baptist Church,
corner South Portland*-Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York.
CASE, Charles Hosmer:
Retired insurance underwriter; born in
Coventry, Vermont, September 8, 1829;
son of the Rev. Lyman Case and Phebe
(HoUister) Case. He was educated in the
public schools and at Bakersfield Academy,
from which he was graduated in 185 1, and
the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon
him by Wheaton College in 1901. He re
moved to the West in 1852 and taught in
a private academy at Warsaw, Illinois, for
several years and was for five years sup
erintendent of public schools at that place.
He began his insurance work in 1862 as
adjuster and special agent for the Home
Insurance Company of New York and the
Insurance Company of North America, of
Philadelphia. In 1867 he removed to Chi
cago and became the head of a local fire
insurance company in connection with his
other work. In 1871 he was made manager
for the Northwestern States of the Royal
Insurance Company of England, in which
position he continued until he retired with
a competency. During his connection with
the Royal Company he superintended the
erection of its building in Chicago from
1883 to 1885, at a cost of over one million
dollars. He was elected an alderman on
the Republican ticket in 1875, serving two
years. Mr. Case has won some dis
tinction as a student of electricity, bacteriol
ogy, psychology and archeology. He is a
member, deacon and trustee, of the First
Congregational Church of Chicago and
was superintendent of Its Sunday school
for thirteen years. He has been a member
of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions since 1875, and a
trustee of the Wheaton College since 1890.
He was president of the Board of Direct
ors of the Washingtonian Home Associa
tion for twenty-five years, and for several
years was president of the Newsboys' Home
and a director of the Chicago Relief So
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Irving Literary Society for thirty years,
and of the Gnosis, a literary society, for
seven years. He has been a member of the
Union League Club since its organization.
He married, March 25, 1852, Laura P.,
daughter of Andrew Farnworth, of Bakers-
field, Vermont. Address : 201 Ashland
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
CASEY, Edward Fearce:
Architect; born in Portland, Maine, June
18, 1864; son of Brigadier-General Thomas
Lincoln Casey and Emma (Weir) Casey.
He was educated at the Emerson Institute
at Washington, and graduated from the
School of Mines of Columbia University,
where he received the degree of CE. in
1886, and that of architect In 1888. He
studied also at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
in Paris. He was supervising architect of
the Congressional Library Building, at
Washington, from 1892 to 1897; was one
of the six equal prize winners in the New
York City Hall competition in 1893; also,
in conjunction with Professor Burr in 1900,
won the first prize for a design ' for a
bridge over the Potomac River, Washing
ton; and, in conjunction with H. M. Shra-
dy, won first prize for a design for the
Grant Monument at Washington. Mr.
Casey is a member of the New York Chap
ter of the American Institute of Architects,
the Beaux Arts Society, the Architectural
League, the Natural Sculpture Society,
Fine Arts Federation, and Sons of the
American Revolution; also a member of
the Century and University Clubs of New
York City. Residence: 55 West Thirty-
third Street, New York. Office address:
1 Nassau Street, New York City.
CASEY, Thomas L.:
Lieutenant-Colonel, Corps of Engineers,
United States Army; born at West
Point, New York, February 19, 1857;
son of Brigadier-General Thomas Lin
coln Casey and Emma (Weir) Ca
sey. He was educated at the Shef
field Scientific School of Yale Uni
versity in the class of 1877 (non-gradu
ate), and was graduated from the United
States Military Academy in 1879. Since

graduation he has been engaged in the
professional work of the Corps of Engi
neers 91 the United States Army. From
1882 to 1883 he was with the United
States Transit of Venus Expedition to
South Africa; also a member of the Greer
County Commission in 1886, and of the
Mississippi River Commission from 1902
to 1906; and he was in charge of the forti
fication work and submarine mine defense
of Hampton Roads during the war with
Spain. He is author of numerous .papers,
chiefly on biological subjects. Colonel Ca
sey is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; a mem
ber of the New York Academy of Science,
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci
ence, the American Society of Naturalists,
the Biological Society of Washington, the
Societe Entomologique de France, the
American Geographical Society, and others ;
he is a member of the University Club
of New York City, and the Cosmos, Met
ropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wash
ington, D. C. Colonel Casey married in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1898,
Laura Welsh. Address: 1149 K Street,
Northwest, Washington, D. C.
CASSATT, Edward B.:
Captain in the United States Army; born
in Pennsylvania, August 23, 1869; son of
the late Alexander Johnston Cassatt, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
Lois (Buchanan) Cassatt. He was ap
pointed cadet at the United States Mili
tary Academy, June 15, 1889; promoted
second lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry,
June 12, 1893; transferred to the Fourth
Cavalry, August 5, 1893; became first lieu
tenant, March 2, 1899, and captain of the
Thirteenth Cavalry, February 2, 1901. He
is a member of the Country, Rittenhouse
and Acorn Clubs of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : Fort Meyer, Virginia.
CASSEL, Henry Burd:
Merchant and congressman; born in
Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
October 19, 1855 ; son of Abram Neff Cas-
sel and Mary J. Cassel. After passing
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finished his education at the Columbia
Classical Institute. He engaged in business
pursuits and is now senior member of the
firm of A. N. Cassel & Son, lumber deal
ers, and is also associated as director or
stockholder in various other companies.
Fie has always been a staunch Republican,
and became interested in politics at an
early age. His first public office was as
a member of the county committee in 1881 ;
he became chairman of the county com
mittee in 1893 ; was sent as a delegate to
the National Republican Convention held
in St. Louis in 1896, and in 1898 was nom
inated and elected to the lower house of
the State Legislature, where his father
had served fifty-nine years before, and re
elected in 1900. He was elected from the
old Tenth District of Pennsylvania, No
vember 5, 1901, to the Fifty-seventh Con
gress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Marriott Brosius; and in
1902, 1904 and 1906 was reelected from
the new Ninth District of Pennsylvania,
which he now represents in the Sixtieth
Congress. Address : Marietta, Pennsylva
nia.CASSELBERRY, William Evans:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, September 6, 1858; son ot Jacob
Rush and Ellen Lane (Evans) Casselberry.
He was educated at the Fremont Seminary,
Norristown, Pennsylvania, and at the Lin
coln public school, being graduated from
the latter in 1875. He attended the Aux
iliary Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1875 and 1876 and its
medical department, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in 1879. He was interne
at the Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia,
from 1879 to 1881. In 1882 he took spec
ial courses at Vienna and the London
Throat Hospital, and since 1883 he has
been engaged at Chicago, Illinois, as a spec
ialist in lung, throat, and nasal diseases.
He was professor of therapeutics in the
Northwestern University Medical School
from 1883 to 1894, and has been professor
of laryngology and rhinology there since
1894. He is laryngologist to St. Luke's
and Wesley Hospitals of Chicago, a

member of the Chicago Academy of
Science, ex-president of the American
Laryngological Association and the Chicago
Laryngological Association, member of the
American Climatological Association, Am
erican Medical Association, and the Illin
ois State and Chicago Medical Societies.
He is a Republican in politics, and a mem
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Dr. Casselberry is a member of the On-
wentsia, University and Physicians' Clubs
of Chicago. He married in Chicago, June
23, 1891, Lillian Hibbard, and they have
three children : Hibbard, Catharine and
William Evans, Jr. Address: 34 Washing
ton, Street, Chicago, Illinois.
CASSIDY, David Demarest:
Retired banker; born in the town of
Florida, Montgomery County, New York,
April 6, 1827; son of Christopher Cassidy
and Catharine (Wernple) Cassidy. He
was educated in district schools and the
Poughkeepsie Collegiate School. He' be
gan business life at the age of seventeen
years and for four years was a clerk in a
dry goods store at Amsterdam, New York.
In 1849 he entered the Farmers' Bank of
Amsterdam (now the Farmers' National
Bank) as a clerk, and afterward became
successively bookkeeper, teller, assistant
cashier and director until 1859, when he
became cashier of the bank with full ex
ecutive charge of the business, so continu
ing until 1889, when he retired. Since his
retirement Mr. Cassidy has given his at
tention to the improvement of his real es
tate in -Amsterdam, of which he is a large
owner. He is trustee of the Amsterdam
Academy, and has been a director and
treasurer of the Chuctanunda Gas Light
Company since 1878. He is a member of
the Amsterdam Board of Trade, and is
a trustee of the Montgomery "County His
torical Society. In politics Mr. Cassidy is
a Republican and in religious affiliation a
Presbyterian. He is a member of the Fort
Johnson Club of Amsterdam, New York.
Mr. Cassidy married, April 17, 1866, Cath
arine M. Efner, second daughter of Peter
H. Clute, of Rochester, New York, and
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uary 12, 1869, and David D., Jr., born
October 23 1871. Address: Amsterdam,
New York.

CASSODAY. John B.: -
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Wiscon
sin; born in Herkimer County, New
York, July 7, 1830, removing with his wid
owed mother to Tioga County, Pennsyl
vania, three years later. His early studies
were pursued in the common schools, at the
academies In Wellsboro and Knoxville,
Pennsylvania, and two years at the Alfred
Academy, where he graduated'. After spend
ing one year at the Michigan University, he
attended the Albany Law School, afterward
reading in a law office in Wellsboro, Penn
sylvania. In July, 1857, he settled in
Janesville, Wisconsin, and continued ac
tively in practice until called to the
supreme bench. He was a mem
ber of the assembly in 1865, and again
in 1877, when, he was elected speaker of
that body. He was a delegate to the na
tional convention at Baltimore which nomi
nated Lincoln in 1864, and was chairman
of the Wisconsin delegation to the National
Convention at Chicago which nominated
Garfield in 1880, November n, 1880, he was
appointed by Governor William E. Smith
an associate justice of the Supreme Court,
a vacancy having been caused by the pro
motion of Associate Justice Cole to the
chief justiceship to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Chief Justice Edward G.
Ryan. He was elected associate justice in
April, 1881, reelected in April, 1889, and
again in 1899, and from 1885 to 1899 was a
professor in the College of Law of the
University of Wisconsin, lecturing on the
subject of Constitutional Law. He is the
author of Cassoday on Wills, a law text
book published in 1893. In July, 1895, upon
the death of Justice Orton, by virtue of his
seniority in service, he became chief jus
tice, and has continued as such ever since.
Judge Cassoday received the LL.D. degree
from Beloit College, 1881 ; and from the
University of Wisconsin, 1905. Address :
Madison, Wisconsin.

CASTLE, Henry Anson:
Lawyer and journalist ; born in Quincy,
Illinois, August 22, 1841 ; son of Timothy
Hunt Castle and Julia Boyd, who were
both natives of Vermont. He was grad
uated from McKendree College, Illinois, as
A.B. in 1862, with the degree of A.M. later.
He practiced law in Quincy, Illinois, from
1865 to 1867, and in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
to 1876, was editor and proprietor of the
St. Paul Daily Dispatch from 1876 to 1885.
He afterwards engaged in developing St.
Paul surburban property, and in official
positions. He was a member of the Minne
sota Legislature in 1873; and was adjutant-
general of Minnesota in 1875 and 1876. He
was State oil inspector of Minnesota from
1883 to 1887; was president of the Board
of Trustees of the Minnesota Soldiers'
Home from 1887 to 1889; was postmaster
of St. Paul from 1892 to 1896, and auditor
for the Post-office Department, Washing
ton, D. C, from 1897 to 1904. He has
traveled extensively in forty States and in
Canada and Mexico. Mr. Castle was pri
vate and sergeant-major of the Seventy-
third Illinois Volunteers in 1862 and 1863;
captain of Company A, of the One Hun
dred and Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteers
in 1864; and was wounded at the battle of
Murfreesboro. He was commander of the
Department of Minnesota, Grand Army of
the Republic, from 1872 to 1875 -; comman
der of the Minnesota Loyal Legion In 1894
and 1895; and was secretary or chairman
of the Republican State Central Committee
of Minnesota, from 1876 to 1886. He is a
Republican in politics and a Presbyterian in
religion. Mr. Castle is author of a book
of War Sketches, entitled : The Army Mule
and Other Stories; and has been a contri
butor on postal matters to the North Amer
ican Review, McClure's Magazine, Harper's
Weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, etc.;
orator of many Fourth of July and Decor
ation Day celebrations and in every political
campaign since 1864. He is a member of
the Minnesota Historical Society, and the
National Geographic Society of Washing
ton, D. C. Fie was president of the St.
Paul Chamber of Commerce in 1886; presi-

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dent of the St. Paul Library Association
in 1874; president of the Minnesota Edi
torial Association, from 1885 to 1887; and
he is a member of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution; the Society of the Army
of Tennessee; the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of
the Republic. His favorite recreations are
fishing, boating and driving. He is a
member of the Minnesota, and Commercial
Clubs of St. Paul, Minnesota. He married
at Quincy, Illinois, April 18, 1865, Margaret
Jaquess, and they have five children:
Charles W., Captain in the United States
Army; Helen, Mary, Margaret and Anne.
Address : 589 Summit Avenue, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
CASTLE, Wilmot:
Manufacturer of sterilizers, bacteriologi
cal apparatus and sheet metal specialties;
born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, February
7, 1855 ; son of Rev. John Harvard Castle,
D.D. and Marie Antoinette (Arnold)
Castle. He was educated at Courtland
Saunders' Military Academy and F. W.
Hastings' Military Academy in Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania. He lived in Philadel
phia until he was eighteen years old, and
then moved to Toronto, Canada, with his
parents in 1872. Mr. Castle was engaged
in a Canadian bank for ten years; then
leaving to manufacture sheet metal goods
in Rochester, New York, under the name
of Wilmot Castle & Company, from 1883
to 1903. The business was then incorpor
ated as the Wilmot Castle Company, of
which he is president and treasurer. He is
a Republican in politics, and a member of
the Baptist Church. Mr. Castle is a trus
tee of the Rochester Chamber of Com
merce; treasurer of the Baptist Home of
Monroe County; a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association; a trustee of
the Park Avenue Baptist Church ; trustee
of the Mechanics'. Savings Bank, and pres
ident of the Men's Club. His favorite rec
reation is yachting. He is a member of
the Rochester Yacht Club, Rochester Au
tomobile Club and the Rochester Athletic
Club. He married, September 15, 1885,
Mary W. Quinby, and they have three
children: Harvard DeHart Castle, born

in 1887; Wilmot Vail Castle, born in
1889, and John Harvard Castle, born in
1894. Residence: 456 Oxford Street,
Rochester. Office address : 610 to 616 St.
Paul Street, Rochester, New York.
CASTLEMAN, John Breckinridge:
Soldier; born in Fayette County, Ken
tucky, June 30, 1841; son of David Cas-
tleman and Virginia (Harrison) Castle-
man. He was attending the Transylvania
University, when, at the age of nineteen
years, he entered the Confederate Army
at the beginning of the war as a trooper
of Morgan's Cavalry, serving until October,
1864, and becoming major of Morgan's
old regiment. He commanded the expe
dition which, in 1864, went to release Con
federate prisoners confined in Illinois and
Indiana, and while so engaged he was cap
tured, and was placed |in solitary con
finement for nine months, and released on
parole, in July, 1865, to leave the United
States, never to return. The parole was
revoked by President Johnson. He stud
ied in Europe ; was graduated from the
law department of the University of Louis
ville in 1868, and engaged in the practice
of law in Louisville, later becoming iden
tified with insurance interests as manager
for the Royal Insurance Company of Liv
erpool, from 1869 to 1902, when he retired.
Governor Knott appointed him adjutant-
general of Kentucky in 1883, and he has
been commanding officer of the Louisville
Legion since 1891. He organized and en
listed the First Kentucky Volunteer In
fantry in 1898, and served as its ¦ com
mander in the Porto Rkan Campaign. He
was commissioned brigadier-general of
United States Volunteers, and he declined
the commission of brigadier-general in the
United States Army offered him by Presi
dent McKinley. He commanded the Ken
tucky Militia during the troubles follow
ing the assassination of Governor Goebel.
He has taken great interest in politics as
a Democrat; was chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee from 1890
to 1892 ; and delegate to the National
Democratic Conventions of 1888 to 1892.
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Board of Park Commissioners since 1891.
Address : Louisville, Kentucky.
CATHCART, Wallace Hugh :
Bookseller; born at Elyria, Ohio, April
2, 1865; son of S. H. Cathcart and Sarah
(Chamberlain) Cathcart. He graduated
from Denison University in 1890. Mr.
Cathcart is the secretary and general man
ager of the Burrows Bros., Company. He
is a Republican in politics and a Baptist
in religion, and is a member of the Amer
ican Historical Association, the American
Bibliographical Society, English Biblio
graphical Society, English Ex Libris So
ciety, a trustee of Denison University,
president of the Western Reserve Histor
ical Society and member of the Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity. Mr. Cathcart mar
ried at Cleveland, Ohio, August 8, 1893,
¦ Florence L. Holmes, and they have two
children : Genevieve, born in 1895 and
Evelyn, born in 1898. Residence : 2190
East Eighty-fifth Street. Address: 133
Euclid Avenue, .Cleveland, Ohio.
CATHERWOOD, Robert:
Lawyer; born in Hoopeston, Illinois,
August 7, 1875; son of Allen T. Cather-
wood and Cornelia (Hartwell) Cather-
wood. He was prepared at the high
' schools of Hoopeston and Rossville, Illi
nois, and was graduated from Northwest
ern University as B.S. in 1896, and LL.B.
in 1899. Since his graduation' in law
he has practiced in Chicago, and he is a
member of the firm' of Parkinson & Cath-
erwood, who make a specialty of patent
and trade-mark cases. Mr. Catherwood
was a trustee of the Alliance Franchise of
Chicago from 1901 to 1904, and he is vice-
president and director of the Chicago Civil
Service Association, and secretary of the
International Arbitration Society. He is
an Independent Republican in politics, and
an Episcopalian in religions Mr. Cather
wood is a member of the Patent Law As
sociation of Chicago, the American Eco
nomic Association, the Citizens' Associa
tion of Chicago, and the National Civil
Service Association. He is a member of
the Delta Upsilon and the Delta Chi (law)
fraternities, and was on the executive

council of Delta Upsilon from 1899 to 1901,
and president of the Delta Chi Alumni
Chapter in 1902. Mr. Catherwood is a
member of the University, South Shore
Country, Chicago Athletic, Chicago Liter
ary, Hamilton and Twentieth Century
Clubs of Chicago and the City Club of
New York City. He married in Chicago,
June 4, 1902, Lucy Cotton Morris. Resi
dence: 4442 Grand Boulevard, Chicago.
Office address : 1021 Marquette Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
CATLLN,, Henry W. :
Banker and lawyer; born in Chester-
town, Maryland, February 26, 1874; son of
Dr. Joseph A. Catlin and Ida V. (Wha-
land) Catlin. He was educated at Wash
ington College, Chestertown, Maryland,
and took a special law course in the Uni
versity of Virginia. He was admitted to
the Maryland bar July 17,- 1895, and after
practicing law in Chestertown for three
years he removed to New York City, since
then he has been engaged in corpor
ation work, organizing and financing new
industries. He is president and treasurer
of the H. W. Catlin Company, bankers;
secretary of the Oaxaca Smelting and Re
fining • Company ; president of the Vich-
achi Mining Company, Oaxaca Securities
Company; vice-president of the Fresno
Belvoir Mining Company; secretary of
the Oaxaca Milling Company; vice-
president of the Credit Minero de
Oaxaca of Mexico, and vice-president
of the San Juan Railroad of Oaxaca
of Mexico. He is an Episcopalian
in his religious affiliation and mem
ber of St. Stephen's Church, New
York City. He married in New
York City, May 1, 1904, lima M. Pratt.
Residence, Hotel Imperial, New York City.
Office address : Lincoln Trust Building,
208 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
CATOR, George:
President of the American Bonding
Company; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
May 10, 1856; son of Benjamin F. Cator
and Sallie (McNamara) Cator. He was edu
cated in private schools from 1865 to 1872,
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ness pursuits. In 1878 he became a mem
ber of the jobbing house of Armstrong,
Cator & Company, millinery, notions, etc.,
in which he continued until 1892, when he
retired from mercantile business. He at
tended lectures at Johns Hopkins Univers
ity from 1896 to 1902, and graduated as
A.B. in 1901 and Ph.D. in 1902. Mr. Cator
is president of the American Bonding
Company, and is a director in the National
Exchange Bank, the Continental Trust Com
pany, the Mount Vernon-Woodbury
Cotton Duck Company of Baltimore, and
the J. Stevens Turner Company of New
York City. He is president of the Johns
Hopkins Club and is a member and gov
ernor of the Maryland Club of Baltimore.
Residence : 803 Saint Paul Street, Balti
more. Office address : Equitable Building,
Baltimore, Maryland.
CATTELL, Henry Ware:
Physician, and medical editor; born in
Harrisburg, October 7, 1862; son of Rev.
W. C. Cattell and Elizabeth (McKeen) Cat-
tell. He was graduated from Lafayette Col
lege in 1883, and from the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania as
M.D. in 1887. He was .editor of Interna
tional Medical Magazine from 1894 to 1897 ;
International Clinics from 1900 to 1903 ;
translator of Zuyler's Special Pathology;
and is author of Post-Mortem Pathology.
He is now editor of Medical Notes and
Queries and of Lippincott's Medical Dic
tionary. Mr. Cattell was demonstrator of
morbid anatomy at the University of Penn
sylvania from 1892 to 1897; senior cor
oner's physician of Philadelphia from 1896
to 1899 and has appeared as an expert in
many murder trials. He was director of
the Ayer Clinical Laboratory from 1899 to
1901, and is pathologist to the Presbyterian
Hospital; the Philadelphia Hospital and
many others. He has traveled extensively
abroad and has written many articles for
the medical press. Address : 3709 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CATTELL, James McKeen:
Psychologist, editor, educator ; born at
Easton, Pennsylvania, May 25, i860 ; son of
Rev. William C. Cattell (D.D., LL.D.,

president of Lafayette College, 1863-83),
and Elizabeth (McKeen) Cattell. He was
graduated from Lafayette College as A.B.
in 1880, and received from it the degree of
A.M. in 1883, and of LL.D., in 1907. He
was a student at Gottingen, Leipzig, and
Geneva, 1880-1882; a fellow of Johns
Hopkins University, 1882-83, and stu
dent and assistant at the University of
Leipzig, 1883-86, receiving the degree of
Ph.D. in 1886. He was lecturer at the
University of Pennsylvania, and Bryn
Mawr Colleges, 1887; the University of
Cambridge, England, in 1888; professor of
psychology at the University of Pennsyl
vania, 1888-91 ; and has been professor of
psychology at Columbia University since
1896. He was co-editor of The Psychol
ogical Review, 1893-1904; has been editor
of Science since 1894, and of The Popular
Science Monthly since 1900. He edited
American Men of Science in 1906. He is
a member of the National Academy of Sci
ences; a fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, and
was vice-president in 1898 ; of the American
Psychological Association (president,
1895), American Philosophical Association,
American Physiological Society; fellow of
the American Ethnological Society; mem
ber of the American Philosophical Society; '
fellow of the New York Academy of Sci-'
ences (president, 1902 and 1903), and of
the Londdn Aristotelian Society. Dr. Cat
tell is an extensive contributor to psychol
ogy, of researches relating to the measure
ment of psychological and mental process
es, individual differences, etc. Address:
Garrison-on-Hudson, New York.
CAUGHY, Charles M. :
Consular official; appointed clerk in the
Department of State, February 1, 1889, and
retired May 2, 1892. He was appointed
consul at Messina, Italy, September 29,
1893, and transferred as consul at Malaga,
Spain, in April, 1907. Address: Malaga,
Spain.
CAVIN, Ernest Dillard:
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the degree of B.Ph. from Baylor Univer-
' sity, he was admitted to the bar in 1883,
was elected county attorney of Galveston
County, and reelected in 1888. In June,
1891, Mr. Cavin was appointed recorder
of the City of Galveston, and . he was ap
pointed judge of the Criminal District
Court for Harris and Galveston counties,
by Governor Hogg in 1892. Judge Cavin
is a Democrat in politics. Address : Gal
veston, Texas.
CHACE, Alfred Bruce:
Lawyer; born at Hillsdale, New York,
March 2, 1868; son of A. Frank B. Chace,
lawyer, and Mary Z. (Bruce) Chace. He
was graduated from Williston Seminary in
1887, from Phillip's Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, in 1888, and from Yale Uni-
versty, receiving the degree of A.B. in
1892. He was prosecuting official in the
Van Wormer case which resulted in the
convicton and subsequent execution of the
three defendants, who were charged with
the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hall-
enbeck, on Christmas Eve, 1901. He has
been a member of the law firm of A. Frank
B. Chace & Sons since 1900. He lectured
on legal topics at the Florida Chautauqua
in 1901. He was elected district attorney
of the County of Columbia in 1901 and re
elected in 1904. Mr. Chace is a Republic
an in politics and is a -member of the
Dutch Reformed Church. He is a member
of the New York State Bar Association;
president of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Hudson, member of the
Beta Theta Pi fraternity (Yale Chapter)
and he is a Mason, Knight Templar and a
member of Cyprus Temple of the Mystic
Shrine at Albany, New York. He was a
representative to the Supreme Camp of
Knights of Maccabees in 1904 and 1907,
and is secretary of the Columbia Country
Club and a member of the Hudson Club.
Mr. Chace married at Hudson, New York,
June 24," 1903, Marguerite B. Bender, and
they had one child, who died in infancy.
Residence: Rossman Avenue, Hudson.
Address: 546 Warren Street, Hudson,
New York.

CHAD WICK, Charles Noyes:
Manufacturer; born in Old Lyme, Con
necticut, January 18, 1849; son of Daniel
Chadwick (late United States attorney of
the District of Connecticut) and Ellen
(Noyes) Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick traces
his descent in the paternal line from
Charles Chadwick, of Watertown, Massa
chusetts,, member of the Colonial Legisla
ture, 1657-59, and through the maternal line
from Rev. James Noyes, of Choulderton,
Wiltshire, England, through his son, Rev.
Moses Noye, the first pastor of the church
in Lyme, Connecticut, 1666, and one of the
ministers interested in founding Yale Col
lege; and also from Elder William Brew
ster, of the Mayflower; and his ancestry is
joined in every line of descent with his
toric New England families. He was edu
cated at Yale College, from which he was
graduated as B.A. in 1870, and in Ger
many; and he received from Yale the hon
orary degree of M.A., in 1897, in recog
nition of his educational work in the in
troduction and establishment of the kin
dergarten. Mr. Chadwick is the president
and a director of the C. N. Chadwick Com
pany, manufacturers. He is a charter
member and director of the Manufacturers'
Association of New York; president of the
Board of Trustees of the Froebel Acad
emy, and trustee of the Brooklyn Free
Kindergarten Society of Brooklyn; was
member of the Board of Education of
Brooklyn, from 1896 to 1899; a director of
the Brooklyn Public Library, from 1897 to
1898; chairman of the Brooklyn Commit
tee of Fifty, on bridges, tunnel, etc. ; chair
man of the delegation of the Manufac
turers' Association of New York to the
Indianapolis Monetary Conference, in 1897
and in 1898; delegate to the convention of
the Citizens' Industrial Association of
America at Chicago, 1903, and Indianapo
lis, 1904; and on June 9, 1905, was ap
pointed a commissioner .of the Board of
Water Supply of New York City. He is
a member of the Sons of Revolution, the
Society of Colonial Wars, New England
Society of Brooklyn, Alpha Delta Phi fra
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Chamber of Commerce of New York, and
the City Club of New York City. Mr.
Chadwick married, at Brooklyn, New
York, June 25, 1873, Alice A. Caruth, and
of this union there are five children:
Charles Chadwick (graduate of Yale,
1897), Alice Esther Chadwick (graduate of
Packer Institute, 1899), George Brewster
Chadwick (graduate of Yale, 1903), Ellen
Noyes Chadwick, and Mary Meeke Chad
wick. Residence : 692 Willoughby Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.
CHADWICK, French Ensor:
Rear admiral United States Navy, re
tired; born at Morganstown, (now West)
Virginia, February 29, 1844; son of Daniel
Clark Chadwick and Margaret Eliza
(Evans) Chadwick. He was appointed
from Virginia to the United States Naval
Academy September 28, 1861, and remain
ed there until November, 1864, when he
was attached to the Susquehanna, flagship
of a squadron on special service, and in
1865 and 1866, of the Brazil Squadron.
He was promoted to master, December
1, 1866; commissioned lieutenant March
12, 1868; lieutenant commander. Decem
ber, 18, 1868; commander, December, 1884;
captain, November 7, 1897; rear-admi
ral, October 11, 1903, and retired by
operation of law, February 28, 1906. Ad
miral Chadwick has filled the duties of a
naval officer in many stations. He was a
naval attache to the American Legation
at London from 1882 to 1889, served on
several boards, and was chief of the Bureau
of Equipment with the rank of commodore
from July, 1893 to November, 1897. He
commanded the United States armored
cruiser New York, flagship of the North
Atlantic Squadron, from December, 1897,
to December, 1899, and was chief of staff
to Admiral Sampson during the Spanish-
American War. He took part in all the
important actions in Cuban waters during
that War and was advanced five numbers
in his grade for eminent and conspicuous
conduct in battle. He was president of the
Naval War College from 1900 to 1903,
and commanded the South Atlantic Squad
ron from 1904 until his retirement He is

author of two volumes: Temperament,
Disease and Health; and An Unsolved'
Problem. He married at Utica, New York,
November 20, 1878, Cornelia J. Miller,
Address: Newport, Rhode Island.
CHAFFEE, Adna Romanza:
Lieutenant-General of the United States
Army, retired; born at Orwell, Ashta
bula County, Ohio, April 14, 1842. He
was educated in the public schools. He
enlisted July 22, 1861, as a private in the
Sixth Regiment of the United States Cav
alry, and was promoted to sergeant and
first sergeant of Company K of that regi
ment. He was commissioned second lieu
tenant of the Sixth Cavalry, March 13,
1863; promoted first lieutenant, February
22, 1865; captain, October 12, 1867; major
of the Ninth Cavalry, July 7, 1888; lieu
tenant-colonel Third Cavalry, June 1897,
and colonel of the Eighth Cavalry, May 8,
1899. He was several times brevetted : as first
lieutenant, July 3, 1863, for gallantry at
Gettysburg; captain, March 31, 1865, for
gallantry at Dinwiddie Court House, Vir
ginia; major, March 7, 1868, for gallantry
in the engagement with Comanche Indians
on Paint Tree Creek, Texas; lieutenant-
colonel, February 27, 1890, for gallantry in
action against Indians in Texas and Ariz
ona. He was appointed brigadier-general
of United States Volunteers, May 4,
1898, and commanded the Third. Brigade
of the Second Division of the Fifth Army
Corps, serving in the Santiago campaign
from June to August, 1898. He command
ed the Second Division of the Fifth Corps
in August and September, 1898; was pro
moted major-general of United States Vol
unteers, July 8, 1898; commander of the
First Division of the Fourth Corps in
November and December 1898, and was
chief of staff of the Division of Cuba from
December 1898 to May 1900. He was hon
orably discharged as major-general, April
13, 1899, but was again appointed brigadier-
general of United States Volunteers, April
13. 1899, and was assigned to the com
mand of the United States forces for the
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Peking, June 24, 1900. He arrived at Pe
king, China, August 14, 1900, and was pro
moted major-general of the United States
Army, February 5, 1901. He was assigned
to command the Division of the Philippines
and appointed military governor, July 4,
1901, and was relieved September 30, 1902,
and assigned to command the Department
of the East, tie was detailed to the Gen
eral Staff Corps, October 2, 1903, and as
signed to duty as assistant to the chief of
staff at Washington. He was promoted
lieutenant-general of the United States
Army, and appointed chief of staff, Janu
ary 9, 1904, serving in that capacity until
April 14, 1906, when he was retired from
active service by operation of law. Gen
eral Chaffee married at Junction City, Kan
sas, March 31, 1875, Annie Frances Rock
well. Address: 2316 South Figueroa
Street, Los Angeles, California.
CHAFIN,. Eugene W.:
Lawyer and lecturer; born at East Troy,
Wisconsin, November 1, 1852; son of
Samuel E. Chafin and Betsy (Polland)
Chafin. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin with the degree of
LL.B. in 1875. He practiced law at Wau
kesha, Wisconsin, for twenty-five years.
Mr. Chafin removed to Chicago in 1901 to
become superintendent of the Washington-
ian Home, serving as such for three years,
and he is now a Chautauqua lecturer. He
has served as police justice and as member
of the school and library board. He is a
Prohibitionist in politics, and was a can
didate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898,
and for attorney-general of Illinois in 1904.
Mr. Chafin is. a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He was grand chief
templar of the Wisconsin Good Templars
for four years and of Illinois Good Temp
lars one year, and he is an Odd Fellow and
Forester. He married at Waukesha, Wis
consin, November 24, 1881, Carrie A. Hun-
kins, and they have a daughter, Desdemona
Chafin, borri in 1893. Address: 326 East
wood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

CHALKER, Newton:
Retired lawyer; born on a farm at
Southington, Ohio,- September . 12, 1842;
son of James Chalker and Eliza Jane
(Hyde) Chalker. He was educated in a
county district school at Southington, Ohio,
the Western Reserve Seminary at West
Farmington, Ohio, and at Allegheny Col
lege, Meadville, Pennsylvania, graduating
as A.B. in 1866, and later as A.M. with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later Mas
ter of Arts. He worked on the farm until
twenty years of age; he was enlisted as a
private in Company B of the Eighty-sev
enth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry
in June, 1862, remaining in the service until
the end of the term of enlistment. He was
in the three days' battle at Harper's Ferry,
West Virginia; was captured by General
Stonewall Jackson's command and paroled
September 15, 1862. He taught country
district schools for six winter terms; was
principal of Dixon Seminary, at Dixon,
Illinois, in 1866 and 1867, and principal of
public schools at Darlington, Wisconsin, in
1867 and 1868. He practiced law in Cam
eron, Missouri, from 1869 to 1874, and at
Akron, Ohio, from 1874 to 1894; and also
bought and sold real estate. He is a direc
tor of the Peoples' Saving Bank of Akron,
Ohio. He retired from the practice of
law in January, 1894, and has since devoted
his attention to his private affairs, and to
travel. In 1906 and 1907 he founded the
Chalker (High School at Southington,
Ohio, and at a cost of twenty thousand
dollars, erected a high school building con
taining also a library and public auditori
um and donated it to his native township
at Southington. He is a member of the
Bar Association of Summit County, Ohio,
and for several years was a trustee of the
Western Reserve Seminary, at Akron,
Ohio. He is a Mason, and is commander
of Buckley Post, at Akron, .Ohio, of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He has
traveled extensively over the United States,
Canada and Mexico, and twice around the
world, visiting many places in Europe,
Asia, and Africa. He is a Republican in
politics. Residence : Southington, Ohio.
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CHALMERS William James:
Manufacturer; born in Chicago, Illinois,
July 10, 1852; son of Thomas and Janet
(Telfer) Chalmers. He received his edu
cation at the public and high schools of
Chicago. Soon after leaving school he
was apprenticed to the Eagle Works Man
ufacturing Company, his fathe;- being at
the time general superintendent of the con
cern. He became a skilled mechanic, and
in 1872, in association with his father, he
became a member of the firm of Fraser &
Chalmers. The concern had a compara
tively small beginning, employing but fifty
men, but its proportions grew rapidly until
it eventually became the largest manufac
tory of mining machinery in the world,
shipping its products to all points where
the mining industry is carried on. A branch
of the establishment was established at
Erith, near London, England, in 1891, the
business having been incorporated in 1889
with William J. Chalmers as vice-presi
dent and treasurer. He became president
in 1891. In 1900 the corporation was con
solidated with the AHis Engine Works at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the new organ
ization is known the world ever as- the
Allis-Chalmers Company, and Mr. Chalm
ers was made vice-president of the new
company. He is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Chalmers has been a member of the
Chicago Board of Education, a director of
the World's Columbian Exposition, the
Chicago Athenaeum and the Commercial
National Bank of Chicago. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago, Union League, Chicago
Athletic, Washington Park, and the Illinois
Clubs and is an ex-president of the latter.
He is also a member of the Engineers'
Club of New York City. He married
in Chicago in 1878, Joan Pinkerton, daugh
ter of Allen Pinkerton, and has two chil
dren, Joan and Thomas Stuart. Address :
188 Lincoln Park Boulevard, Chicago, Il
linois.
CHAMBERLAIN, Eugene Tyler:
United States commissioner of naviga
tion; born in Albany, New York, Sept.
28, T856; son of General Frank Chamber

lain and Celia Deborah (Tyler) Chamber
lain. He received his preparatory educa
tion at Albany Academy, finishing in 1874
and going thence to Harvard University.
Here he was graduated from the academic
course in 1878 with the degree of A.B.,
with honors in metaphysics. After his
graduation he took the position of instruct
or in Albany Academy for a year, follow
ing which he was engaged in a grain and
elevator business for two years. He then
became associate editor of the Albany
Evening Journal and was for a number of
years legislative correspondent of the As
sociated Press. He has also been political
correspondent of various New York,
Washington, Philadelphia, and Chicago
newspapers, and editor of • Albany Argus.
In December, 1893, he was appointed
United States Commissioner of Navigation
at Washington, the office he now holds.
In politics Commissioner Chamberlain is
Independent, and he belongs to the Roman
Catholic Church. He is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion and of
the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C.
He is an occasional contributor to Ameri
can and foreign publications on subjects -
relating to merchant shipping and seamen.
He was married at Washington, D. C,
April 17, 1900, to Mary Lee Barnette, (died
August 29, 1904). Residence: The Bach
elor, 1737 H Street, N. W., Washing
ton, D. C. Address: Bureau of Naviga
tion, Department of Commerce and Labor,
Washington, D. C.
CHAMBERLAIN, George A.: .
Consular official. Fie was appointed dep
uty consul-general at Rio Janeiro, April 29,
1904; appointed vice and deputy consul-
general, June 24, 1904, and retired Decem
ber, 1904. He was appointed consul at
Pernambuco, June 22, 1906. Address:
Peruambuco, Brazil.
CHAMBERLAIN, George Earle:
Governor of Oregon ; born in Mississip
pi, near Natchez, January 1, 1854; son of
Charles Thompson Chamberlain and Pame-
lia A. (Arthur) Chamberlain. He received
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University of Virginia, where he was grad
uated from both the classical and law de
partments of that institution in 1876. Fol
lowing his graduation he removed to Ore
gon in December, 1876, where he engaged
in the successful practice of law. He also
became prominent in politics as a Demo
crat; was elected to the House of Repre
sentatives of the Oregon Legislature in
1880, and district attorney of the Th'rd
Judicial District of Oregon, for a two-
year term, in 1884. He was appointed in
May, 1891, and elected in 1892, to the of
fice of attorney general of Oregon, which
he filled until January, 1895, and was elect
ed to a four-year term as district attorney
of the Fourth Judicial District of Oregon,
in June, 1900. He 'resigned that office,
however, upon his election in 1902 to the
office of governor of Oregon, and in 1906
he was reelected, and is now filling his
second term, expiring in January, 191 1.
Governor Chamberlain married in Natchez,
Mississippi, May 21, 1879, Sarah Newman
Welch. Address : Portland, Oregon.
CHAMBERLAIN, John Loomis:
Colonel and inspector-general, United
States Army, -born in South Livonia, New
York, January 20, 1858; son of Jabez
Lewis Chamberlain and Charity (Hart)
Chamberlain. He was educated in the dis
trict schools until 1871, then at the State
Normal School at Geneseo, New York,
until 1876, when he entered the United
States Military Academy, graduating in
1880. He was also graduated from the
Artillery School and the School of Sub
marine Mines, at Willet's Point. He was
appointed second lieutenant of the First
Artillery June 12, 1880; first lieutenant,
August 14, 1887; captain, March 2, 1889;
major and inspector-general, November 10,
1900; lieutenant-colonel and inspector-gen
eral, March 1, 1901, and colonel and in
spector-general, November 14, 1904. He
was engaged on regimental duty from 1880
until August, 1884; was instructor of the
department of chemistry, at the' United
States Military Academy, from August,
1884 to August,. 1888; at the Artillery
School until July, 1890; was on ordnance

duty, Navy Yard, Washington, until April,
1892; chief ordnance officer of the Depart
ment of the Missouri until August, 1893,
and on regimental duty until January, 1895.
He was military instructor at the Peekskill
Military Academy until August, 1896, then
on regimental duty until July, 1897. He was
then appointed military attache to the
American Legation at Vienna; became ad
jutant on the Siege Artillery Train and
chief ordnance office and adjutant-general
of the First Division of the Seventh Army
Corps in 1898; major of United States
Volunteers from July 18, 1898, to April
12, 1890, when he was honorably dis
charged from volunteer service. He was
adjutant of the First Artillery from 1899
to 1900; inspector-general of the Depart
ment of California, from 1901 to, 1902, and
inspector-general of the Philippine Divi
sion from 1903 to 1904. He served in
China and Japan in February and March,
1905; and since April 28, 1905, has been
on duty in the office of the inspector-gen
eral of the United States Army. He is a
member of the Metropolitan and the Army
and Navy Clubs of Washington, D. C.
Colonel Chamberlain married at Narragan-
sett Pier, Rhode Island, September 9, 1896,
Carolyn Marrow. Their children are:
John Loomis, Junior, born May 28, 1903,
and Carolyn, born April 14, 1906. Ad
dress: Care War Department, Washing
ton, D. C.
CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence:
Ex-governor of Maine; born at Brewer,
Maine, September 8, 1828; son of Joshua
Chamberlain and Sarah Dupee (Brastow)
Chamberlain. He was educated at Bow
doin College, receiving the degree of A.B.
in 1852, A.M. in 1855, and LL.D. in 1869;
was graduated from Bancroft Theolog
ical Seminary in 1855 and received the
LL.D. degree from Pennsylvania Col
lege, in 1866. He became professor of
rhetoric and oratory at Bowdoiu College
in 1856. He entered the Union Army as
lieutenant-colonel of the Twentieth Maine
Infantry, became its colonel in 1863, took
part in the battle of Gettysburg, and was
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for bravery there, and, on the battlefield
of Petersburg, Virginia, was promoted
brigadier-general by General Grant. He
commanded the parade on the surrender
of General Robert E. Lee, and was com
mander of the First Division of the Fifth
Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Dur
ing the War he was wounded three times,
once almost fatally, and he received the
brevet of major-general in 1865 for dis
tinguished gallantry in action. He was
elected governor of Maine, serving from
1866 to 1871, and major-general of Maine
charged with the protection of peace and
order in the absence of civil government
in 1879 and 1880. From 1871 to 1882 he
was president of Bowdoin College. He
was United States' Commissioner of Edu
cation to the Paris Exposition in 1900.
He has been department commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Maine,
and is a companion of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion and the Society of the
Army of the Potomac. He is author of
several books on historical and philosoph
ical subjects. Residence : Brunswick, Maine,
Office address : Portland, Maine.
CHAMBERLAIN, Leander Trowbridge:
Clergyman; born in West Brookfield,
Massachusetts, September 26, 1837; son of
Eli and Achsah (Forbes) Chamberlain.
He was educated at the Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and at Yale,
where he received the degree of B.A. with
Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1863. He was
graduated from the Andover Theological
Seminary in 1869; and received from the
University of Vermont the degree of D.D.
in 1879. He served in the United States
Navy as assistant paymaster and afterward
as naval storekeeper and judge advocate
of the South Pacific Squadron, from 1863
to 1867. He was pastor of the New Eng
land Congregational Church oi Chicago
from 1869 to 1876; the Broadway Congre
gational Church at Norwich, Connecticut,
from 1876 to 1883; and of the Classon
Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Brooklyn,
from 1883 to 1890, when he resigned. He
was superintendent of relief, after the
great Chicago fire in 1871, and is now

president of the Evangelical Alliance for
the United States; secretary and treas
urer of the American and Foreign Chris
tian Union; chairman and director of the
Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial
Institute; vice-chairman of the Immigra
tion Department of the National Civic
Federation; patron of the Gem Collection
in the National Museum at Washington;
patron and honorary curator of eocene
mollusca, in the Academy of Natural Sci
ences at Philadelphia; honorary associate
of the Smithsonian Institution, and director
of the American India Relief Associa
tion. Dr. Chamberlain is the author of:
A Short History of the English Bible; Co
lonial Policy of the United States; The
State, Its Origin, Nature and Functions;
The Evolutionary Philosophy; Patriotism
and the Moral Law; Government Not
Founded In Force ; The Suffrage and Major
ity Rule, arid The True Doctrine of Pray
er. He is a member of the Civil Service Re
form Association, the American Geograph
ical Association, the New York Academy
of Science, The Torrey Botanical Club, the
Audubon Society, the New York Histori
cal Society, and the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. He is also a member of the Century,
Authors, Yale, Quill, and Sigma Chi Clubs.
Dr. Chamberlain married in Philadelphia
in 1890, Francis Lea, who died in 1894.
Address: 222 West Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
CHAMBERLAIN, Paul MeUen:
Mechanical engineer ; born at Three
Oaks, Michigan, February 28, 1865; son of
Henry Chamberlain and Rebecc'a (Van
Devanter) Chamberlain. He received his
preparatory education at Cushing Academy,
Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and Olivet
College, Michigan, from 1882 to 1885, and
was graduated from Michigan Agricultural
College as B.S. in 1888 and from Cornell
University as M.E. in 1890. He was
draftsman for the Brown Hoist Company
at Cleveland, engineer for the Frick Com
pany, at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and
engineer for the Hercules Iron Works,
Aurora, Illinois. He was assistant profes
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gan Agricultural College, professor of me
chanical engineering at Lewis Institute, Chi
cago, and consulting engineer at Los An
geles, California, and is now chief engineer
of the Underfeed Stoker Company of Amer
ica, at' Chicago. He was engaged in inves
tigating the present state of mechanical en
gineering in Europe in 1894 and 1895, visit
ing Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
Austria, and Holland. He is a contribu
tor to various technical journals on engi
neering subjects. Mr. Chamberlain is a
member of the American Society of Me-
canical Engineers, American Society for the
Advancement of Science, Tau Beta Pi (hon
orary), Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the
Society of Colonial Wars, and is also a
member of the Jonathan Club of Los An
geles, California. Mr. Chamberlain married
at Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1891, Olivia
Langdon Woodward and they have four
children : Rebecca V, born in 1892 ; Wheel-
ock, born in 1895 ; Olivia, born in 1898, and
Julia, born in 1900. Residence : 1917 Diver-
sey Boulevard, Chicago. Address : 837 Mar
quette Building, Chicago, Illinois.
CHAMBERLAIN, William Isaac:
Professor of logic; born at Madras,
India, October 10, 1862 ; son of Jacob Cham
berlain and Charlotte (Birge) Chamberlain.
He was educated at Rutgers College from
1878 to 1882, receiving the degree of B.A.
in 1882, MA. in 1886, and B.D. in 1899;
and also Ph.D. in 1899 from Columbian
University. He was a missionary of the
Arcot Mission, India, from 1887 to 1905;
principal of the Voorhees College, a^ Vel-
lore, India, from 1900 to 1905; and has
been professor of logic and mental philos
ophy at Rutgers College since 1906. Mr.
Chamberlain traveled in Europe in 1887
and 1891, in India in 1889, and in China,
Japan, and Malay States In 1905. He was
mayor of Vellore, India, from 1901 to 1904.
He is a member of the Reformed Church.
He was awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind Medal
of India in' 1904; was a fellow of the
University pf Madras, India, from 1900
to 1906, and has been a trustee of the
Carnegie Public Library at New Bruns

wick, New Jersey, since 1907. He married
at New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 18,
1891, Mary Eleanor Anable, and they have
one daughter: Alma Birge, born in 1897.
Residence: 40 Union Street, New Bruns
wick, New Jersey. Address : Rutgers Col
lege, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
CHAMBERS, Julius:
Journalist, author; born at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, November 21, 1850. He was pre
pared for college at Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, where he was a fellow-student
with Senator Joseph B. Foraker and Vice-
president C. W. Fairbanks ; and was grad
uated from Cornell University (Phi Beta
Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon) in the
class of 1870. He entered the service of
the New York Tribune the day after leav
ing the university, and joined the staff of
of the New York Herald in February,
1873 ; and he was city editor of the latter
in 1876 and 1877. He took a course at
the Columbia Law School, and was sent
to Philadelphia as Herald correspondent,
where he read law under United States
Attorney-general Brewster. He" fitted out
an expedition to the headwaters of the
Mississippi in 1872, and on June 4, 1872,
he discovered Elk Lake, Minnesota, now
recognized as the source of the great river.
He served on the New York Herald over
fifteen years, in the London, Paris, Ha
vana, Madrid, and Washington offices; was
called to New York City to become man
aging editor in October, 1886, and during
this period (in 1887) started The Paris
edition of The Herald. He was managing
editor of the New York World from 1889
to 1891, and since then has been engaged in
literature and travel. He is author of:
A Mad World; On a Margin, a Wall
Street Story; Lovers Four and Maiden's
Five; Missing, a Romance of the Sargas
so Sea; The Rascal Club; and The Destiny
of Doris. He edited an edition of Bal
zac; is author of .a farce produced in New
York in 1903, and of a comedy produced in
New York in 1904, and has published over
a hundred and fifty short stories and num
erous travel books. Mr. Chambers is a
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ciety, and a thirty-second degree Mason;
and he is non-resident lecturer on journal
ism at Cornell University. He is a mem
ber of the Authors and Lotos Clubs of
New York City. Address: 558 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City.
CHAMBERS, Porter F.:
Physician; born in Russell County, Ala
bama; son of William H. Chambers
and Anne L (Flewellen) Chambers. He
was graduated from Emory College, Ox
ford, Georgia, as A.B. in 1873, and from
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New
York City, as M.D., in 1876. He has been
engaged in the practice of medicine in
New York City from 1876. Dr. Chambers
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He is professor of clinical gynecology in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
(medical department* of Columbia Univer
sity). He is a member of the Academy of
Medicine, the County Pathological Society,
the Obstetrical and British Gynecological
Societies ; also the Society of 'the Alumni
of the Presbyterian, and Women's Hos
pitals. He is consulting surgeon to the
French Hospital, and surgeon to the Wo
men's Flospital. Dr. Chambers is a mem
ber of the Southern Society in New York
City, the Century Association, the Riding
Club of New York City, and the Meadow
Golf and Southhampton Clubs of Long
Island. Fie married in New York City in
1893, Alice, daughter of William H. Ely,
and niece of Ex-Mayor Smith Ely; and
they have three children: William Ely
Chambers, born in 1895; Ambrose Ely
Chambers, born in 1899, and Alice Ely
Chambers, born in 1900. Address : 47 West
Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
CHANCELLOR, William Estabrook:
Superintendent of schools, and author;
bora in Dayton, Ohio, September 26, 1867;
son of David W. Chancellor and Harriet
(Estabrook) Chancellor.- He was gradu
ated from Amherst College as A.B. in 1889,
and M.A. in 1895, from Long Island Medi
cal School in 1892, from Harvard Law
School in 1895, and from the School of
Pedagogy of New York University in 1904.

He was superintendent ot schools at Bloom-
field, New Jersey, from 1897 to 1904; of
Paterson, New Jersey, from 1904 to 1906;
and since then he lias been superintendent
of schools of the District of Columbia. He
was lecturer at New York University in
1905 and 1906, and has been lecturer at
George Washington University since 1906;
Johns Hopkins University since 1907, and
the University of Chicago since 1907, on
Education. Dr. Chancellor traveled through
Europe one year, and he has lectured in
nearly every State and Territory of the
United States. He is a Democrat in poli
tics, and a Presbyterian in religious be
lief. He is author of: A Theory of Edu
cation ; Our Schools, Their Administration
and Supervision; and ten works on math
ematics, four works in American history/
and various other text-books. He is a
member of the American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, the American
Historical Association, the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
etc.; and a member of the Masonic order,
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. Dr. Chancellor is
also a member of the Cosmos Club and
the Federal Schoolmen's Club of Washing
ton, the Quadrangle Club of Chicago, and
the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York.
He married at Brooklyn, New York,
December 14, 1892, Louise Beecher, and
they have four daughters : Marie, born in
1894; Susan Beecher, born in 1897, Cath
erine Beecher, born in 1900, and Isabel
Beecher, born in 1902. Residence: 1319
Fairmont Street, Washington. Office ad-.
dress ': Franklin School Building, Washing
ton, D. C. '
CHANDLER, Albert Brown:
President of the Postal-Telegraph Cable
Company; bora in West Randolph, Ver
mont, August 29, 1840. He is of the Amer
ican family of Chandlers, which had its or
igin in three brothers who settled in Rox
bury, Massachusetts, in 1637, and is also a
descendant of John Winthrop, first govern
or of Massachusetts, through his daughter,
Mary Winthrop. He was educated in the
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spending his vacation learning the print
ing art and working as a compositor, and
also learning telegraphy and working as a
messenger in the local telegraph office. He
was manager of the Western Union Tele
graph office at Bellaire, Ohio, from 1858
to 1859; was in the office of the superin
tendent of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Railroad in 1859 for three months, then be
came agent for the same road at Man
chester, Pennsylvania, until 1863. In 1863
he was cipher operator in the War De
partment, and in October of the same year,
distributing clerk for General Eckert, super
intendent of telegraph of the Depart
ment of the Potomac, until 1866. He was
chief clerk in the office of superintendent
of the Eastern Division in 1886, and was
also placed in charge of transatlantic cable
traffic, and later, in addition, was made
.superintendent of the Sixth District of the
Eastern Division until January, 1875, when
he became assistant general manager of the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, in
which he became successively secretary,
trustee, treasurer and vice-president, and
in 1879 president until the absorption of
that company by the Western Union Tele
graph Company in 1882. He was also
president of the Fuller Electric Company,
one of the first companies engaged in the
arc system of electric lighting, in October,
1881. He was employed in December, 1884,
at instance of John W. Mackay, as counsel
by the Postal Telegraph and Cable Com
pany, and appointed receiver of the same
company in 1885 by the Supreme Court
of New York. Through his efforts the
company was reorganized and he became
its president and manager; also general
manager of the United Lines Telegraph
Company, and director, vice-president and
member of the executive committee of the
Commercial Cable Company, and of the
Pacific Postal Telegraph Company; and di
rector and later president of the Commer
cial Telegraph Company. With several
chief officials of the Western Union Tele
graph Company, he effected in 1887 ar
rangements for the discontinuance of the
previously existing destructive competition.
FTc is now president of the New England

Telegraph Company; vice-president of the
Commercial Cable Company, the Postal
Telegraph and Cable Company, the Otis
Elevator Company, and the National Sure
ty Company. Mr. Chandler married at
West Randolph, Vermont, October 11,
1864, Marilla Eunice Stedman. Residence:
389 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn. Address :
253 Broadway, New York City.
CHANDLER, Frank Randolph:
Retired banker and merchant ; born in
Putney, Windham County, Vermont, Oc
tober 2, 1840; son of Peyton Randolph
Chandler and Levinah (Knight) Chandler.
After the usual course at the public schools
he attended Saxton's River Academy, Ver
mont, in 1853; Ward Seminary, Westmin
ster, Vermont, 1855 ; Fort Edward (New
York) Institute, 1856; Claverack (New
York) Institute, 1857, and Williston Sem
inary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, 1858.
He entered the Bank of Bellows Falls,
Vermont, as a clerk in 1858, removed to
Chicago in i860; and became a clerk in the
insurance office of S. H. Price. In 1861 he
was employed in J. Y. Scammon's Marine
Banking Company, and in 1862 was made
assistant manager of E. I. Tinkham's Clear
ing House for Illinois Bank Currency. He
was paying teller for Solomon Sturges &
Son's Bank In 1863, treasurer of the Chica
go Dock Company in 1865 ; assistant cashier
of the Third National Bank of Chicago in
1866, and agent of the Red River Iron
Manufacturing Company in 1867. In 1869
he became a member of the firm of Chand
ler, Pomeroy & Noyes, grain commis
sion merchants, the firm being changed to
Chandler, Pomeroy & Company upon the
retirement of E. H. Noyes in 1871. In
1873, with Peyton R. Chandler, he formed
the firm of Chandler & Company, real es
tate and loan .agents of Hetty H. R. Green,
and of New England savings banks. He
was president of the Chandler Mortgage
Company Bank from 1897 to 1902, when he
sold his interest to Knott, Chandler &
Company and retired from active business.
He 'was president of the Cottage Grove
Manufacturing Company; and at different
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of Trade, the Chicago Real Estate Board
and of the Chicago Stock Exchange. He
was a member of the Chicago Historical
Society, the Chicago Art Institute, Field
Columbian Museum, Citizens' Association,
and the Union League and Union Clubs of
Chicago. He is a Republican and an Epis
copalian. He married in Chicago, Febru
ary 4, 1868, Anna Sophia Buckingham, and
has living a son, Buckingham Chandler, of
the firm of Knott, Chandler & Company;
and a daughter, at school at Farmington,
Connecticut. Address : 182 Rush Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
CHANDLER, Lloyd Horwitz:
Lieutenant-Commander United States
» Navy ; born in Washington, D. C, August
17, 1869; third son of William E. Chandler,
late secretary of the Navy and United
States senator from New Hampshire. He
was appointed from New Hampshire to
the United States Naval Academy, enter
ing in September, 1884, and being gradu
ated in June, 1888. He served as a naval
cadet on board the United States steamer
Boston, was commissioned ensign, July 1,
1890; promoted to lieutenant, junior grade,
in April, 1898, to lieutenant March 3, 1899,
and to lieutenant-commander July 1, 1905.
In February, 1898, he became secretary to
Commodore John A. Howell, and served
with him on the Northern Patrol Squadron
and the Havana blockade during the
Spanish-American War. In April, 1899,
he went to duty aboard the torpedo-boat
Mackenzie, first as executive and later as
commanding officer; put the Scorpion in
commission as executive officer in August,
1899, and in the following October went
to the Bureau of Ordnance, assuming
charge of the torpedo and mine work of
that bureau. He assumed command of the
torpedo-boat Bailey in July, 1901, and, later
was assigned to command of the task of
transfer of a fleet of torpedo-boats from
the Atlantic to the Philippines, which he
successfully accomplished. He returned to
the Bureau of Ordnance January 21, 1905,
and since June, 1906, has been attached
to the U. S. S. Connecticut. He married,
Agatha Buford Edson, only daughter of

the late Major Theodore Edson of the
Ordnance Corps of the United States
Army, and they have a son, Theodore
Edson Chandler, born in December, 1894.
Address : Care Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C.
CHANDLER, Parker C:
Lawyer; born in Boston, December 7,
1848; son of Peleg W. Chandler and Mar
tha (Cleveland) Chandler. He fitted for
college at the Boston Latin School, and
graduated from Williams College in 1872,
and from the Harvard Law School in 1894.
He read law with his father, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1875. He has been
engaged successfully, almost exclusively
with corporation practice, having been
counsel for electrical companies, for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, attorney in
the suit of Cyrus W. Field vs. the New^
England Railroad, and also in the famous
seven-year case of the American Bell Tele
phone Company vs. Drawbaugh Telephone
Company. In politics he is a Republican.
He was the originator of the Bristow Re
form movement which first vigorously ad
vocated the civil service reform idea. He
was secretary for Senator John Sherman
in the latter's campaign for the nomination
to the presidency in 1880, and was also in
charge of the Citizens' Reform movement
in Boston during the Butler campaigns. He
made the original draft of the modern
Massachusetts registration laws. He has
never aspired to any office. Mr. Chandler's
family have been connected with Boston
journalism for the last fifty years, during
the Civil War being owners of the Adverr
tiser, and he has devoted much time and
attention to literary work. Mr. Chandler
is a member of the Union and Papyrus
Clubs in Boston and the University and
Transportation Clubs in New York City.
Address : Boston, Massachusetts.
CHANDLER, William Dwight:
Newspaper publisher ; born at Concord,
New Hampshire, February 3, 1863 ;. son of
William Eaton Chandler and Kate (Gil
more) Chandler. He attended' St. Paul's
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cashier of the First National Bank, Wi
nona, Minnesota, until 1892; and since
then has been publisher of the Concord
Evening Monitor (daily) and of the Inde
pendent Statesman (weekly). Mr. Carter
is treasurer and director of the Monitor
and. Statesman Company; chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire
State Library; a Mason to and including
the Knights Templar degrees, and a mem
ber of the Mystic Shrine. Subsequent to
leaving school in 1881, he spent eighteen
months in Europe to complete his educa
tion. His favorite recreations are hunt
ing and fishing. In politics, he is a Re
publican, and in religion, an Episcopalian.
He married at Winona, Minnesota, Feb
ruary 9, 1885, Lilian Porter, and they have
four children: Clark Porter, born in 1886;
William Dwight, Jr., born in 1890; Horton
Lloyd, born in 1898, and Katherine, born
in 1902. Residence: 39 South Spring
Street, Concord. Address: South Main
Street, Concord, New Hampshire.
CHANDLER, William Eaton:
Lawyer; born in Concord, New Hamp
shire, December 28, 1835; son of Nathan
S. and Mary Ann Chandler. He was grad
uated from the law school of Harvard Uni
versity with the degree of LL.B., and in
1855 was admitted to the bar, and com
menced to practice in Concord. He served
during the years 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1881
as a member of the New Hampshire House
of Representatives, and as speaker in 1863
and 1864. In 1865 he was appointed judge-
advocate-general in the Navy Department.
In the same year he became assistant secre
tary of the Treasury, and in President
Arthur's administration he was Secretary
of the Navy from 1882 to 1885. In 1887
he was elected to the United States
Senate, and was a member of the Fiftieth
to the Fifty-sixth Congresses. He is now
the president of the Spanish Treaty Claims
Commission. Address : Concord, New
Hampshire.
CHANEY, John Crawford:
Lawyer and congressman ; born near New
Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, Febru

ary 1, 1853. He removed in 1854, with his
parents, to Lafayette Township in Allen
County, Indiana, where he received a com
mon school education, and at seventeen
years of age he entered Ascension Semin
ary, Sullivan County, Indiana, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1874, with
the honors of his class ; and he was later
graduated from the Terre Haute Com
mercial College, with the degree of Master
of Accounts. In 1875 he engaged as a
teacher and established and conducted the
Farmersburg graded school for three years,
and for two years thereafter was prin
cipal of the Worthington, Indiana, public
schools, establishing the high school at that
place. In June, 1882, he was graduated as
LL.B. from the law school of Cincinnati
University. He was admitted to the bar
in 1882 and practiced law at Sullivan up
to July, 1889, when he was appointed by
President Ffarrison one of the attorney-
general's assistants in the Department of
Justice, and was charged with the defense
of suits brought against the .United States
in the United States Court of Claims and
in the Supreme Court, which position he
filled until August, 1893, when he resigned.
He resumed the practice of law in the
State courts of Indiana, and in the courts
of the District of Columbia and the United
States courts, maintaining, for several years
a law office in Washington, D. C, as well
as at Sullivan. Prior to 1887 he was the
organizer for the Republican party in Sul
livan County; was chairman of the Lincoln
League for the Second Indiana District,
and member of the State Central Commit
tee from the Second District, and in 1888,
was presidential elector on the Harrison
ticket for the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict, which then included Sullivan County.
He was elected in 1904 from the Second
Congressional District to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and reelected in 1906 to the
Sixtieth Congress. Mr. Chaney was one
of the Congressional party which visited'
the Panama Canal operations in March,
1907, and gave it as his opinion that the
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require yet about eight years time for its
completion, and the expenditure of about
three hundred and fifty million dollars. Mr.
Chaney organized the Citizens' Trust Com
pany of Sullivan, and became its first presi
dent. He is Presbyterian in religious af
filiation ; is a member of the State Bar As
sociation of Indiana; is a Mason, Odd Fel
low and Elk, and a member of the Colum
bia and Marion Clubs of Indianapolis. He
married at Sullivan, Indiana, December
26, 1876, Ella M. Saucerman," and has a
son, Dirrelle Erskine Chaney, born in 1877,
and a daughter, Zoe Ethel, born in 1886,
who is now married to Lee F. Bays. Ad
dress : Sullivan, Indiana.
CHANLER, Louis Stuyvesant;
Lawyer, lieutenant-governor of New
York; born in Newport, Rhode Island,
September 24, 1869; son of Hon. John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Ward
Chanler, daughter of Samuel Ward, Jr.,
and Margaret, daughter of William B.
Astor. He was educated at the Columbia
Law School and Cambridge University,
England. He was admitted to the bar in 1891,
was counsel in the defense of Carlyle Har
ris and Roland B. Molineaux, on trial for
murder, and in other prominent cases. He
was Democratic and Independence League
nominee for lieutenant-governor of New
York in igo6 and was elected. He is a
member of the Board of Managers of the
Hudson River State Hospital and the
House of Refuge, Randall's Island; and
a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York. Mr. Chanler is
also a member of the St. Nicholas, Knick
erbocker, Racquet and Tennis, Rockaway
Hunting, Lawyers', Manhattan and Church
Clubs. He married Alice Chamberlain.
Residence: 14 East Seventy-fifth Street,
New York. Address : 346 Broadway, New
York City.
CHANLER, William Astor:
Explorer, author and ex-congressman;
born in Newport, Rhode Island, June 11,
1867; grandson of William B. Astor. He
was graduated from Harvard in 1887. Mr.
Chanler spent the year of 1892 exploring

in Africa and made a second expedition to
Africa from 1892 to 1894. For these ser
vices he was made honorary member of
the Royal Geographical Society of Vienna
and of the British Royal Geographical So
ciety. In 1896 he became a member of
Tammany Hall and in 1897 was elected to
the State Legislature. At the outbreak of
the Spanish-American War he equipped a
regiment, which being refused by Governor
Black, he left, going to Tampa, Florida.
He was soon after appointed by President
McKinley assistant adjutant on General
Wheeler's staff. At the close of the war in
1898 he was elected to Congress from the
Fourteenth District of New York, serving
from 1899 to 1901. Mr-. Chanler is a mem
ber of the American Geographical Society.
and the St. Nicholas Society. He is author
of: Through Jungle and Deserts, and
Travels in Eastern Africa. He is a mem
ber of the Union, Knickerbocker, Players',
Lambs, Turf and Field, New York Yacht
and The Brook Clubs. Address : Roke-
ley, Barrytown, New York.
CHANLER, Winthrop:
Capitalist; born in New York City; son
of Hon. John Winthrop Chanler, member
of Congress, and Mjrgaret Astdr Chanler,
daughter of Samuel Ward, Jr. He is
treasurer and director of the Roanoke
Rapids Power Company, and president and
director of the United Industrial Com
pany. Mr. Chanler is a member of the
Union, Knickerbocker, City, Tuxedo, The
Brook, Racquet and Players' Clubs of
New York City, and the Metropolitan Club
of Washington, D.C. He married Mar
garet, daughter of John Terry. Residence:
11 West Thirty-seventh Street, New York
City. Address : 120 Broadway, New York
City.
CHANNING, Edward:
Professor of history at Harvard Uni
versity; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
1856; son of William Ellery Channing
and Ellen (Fuller) Channing. He was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1878,
and Ph.D. and A.M. in 1880. He is author
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1865; Students' History of the United
States; Town and County Government in
North America; Narrative and Critical
History of America, (with Justin Winsor)
and The Planting of a Nation in the New
World. Mr. Channing married Alice
Thacher, and they have two daughters.
Address : Cambridge, Massachusetts.
CHAN 11 TE, Octave:
Civil engineer; born in Paris, France,
February 18, 1832; son of Joseph Chanute
and Eliza (De Bonnaire) Chanute. Fie
was educated in New York City private
schools and by tutors. He was engaged
as a railroad engineer from 1850 to 1884,
and has been in practice as a consulting
engineer since 1884. He built important
bridges across the Missouri and Mississippi
Rivers; reported on rapid transit for New
York City; reported on wood preservation
and has written papers on various engi
neering subjects. He has been president of
the Chicago Tie Preserving Company since
1894. Mr. Chanute has made several visits
to Europe. He is a Republican in politics
and an Episcopalian in religion. He has
been president of the American Society of
Civil Engineers and of the Western So
ciety of Civil Engineers; an honorary
member of the Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers, and of the British Institute of
Civil Engineers; a member of the Societe
des Ingenieures Civils de France, and was
vice-president in 1886 of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science.
He received the honorary degree of D.E.
from the University of Illinois. His favor
ite recreation is aerial navigation. Mr.
Chanute is a member of the Century Asso
ciation of New York City. He married
at Peoria, Illinois, March 12, 1857, Annie
James, and they have six children. Ad
dress : 61 Cedar Street, Chicago, Illinois.
CHAPIN, Henry Edgerton:
Educator, biologist ; born at Wilbraham,
Massachusetts, May 9, 1859 ; son of Samuel
W. Chapin and Maria M. (Damon) Chapin.
He was graduated from the Boston Uni
versity, as B.Sc. and the Massachusetts Ag
ricultural College, as B.Sc. in. 1881 ; was

graduate student at Johns Hopkins Univer
sity in 1886 and 1887;. received the degree
of M.Sc. in 1893, from Michigan Agricul
tural College. He was teacher and editor
from 1881 to 1886, teacher of the Natural
Sciences, Pennsylvania State Normal
School, Bloomsburg, ' Pennsylvania, from
1888 to 1890; teacher of biology in the
Springfield (Massachusetts) High School
in 1890 and 1891 ; professor of biology
and geology at the Ohio University
(Athens), from 1891 to 1900; and he
was in charge of the Department of
Biology, summer school, New York Uni
versity, in 1900 ; teacher of biology and lec
turer, New York City; president of the
Department of Botany in Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences, and member of
the Council. He is joint author of Element
ary Zoology and Laboratory Guide; and
author of monographs and scientific arti
cles. He was captain of Company B, 17th
Regiment, of the Ohio National Guard, in
1892 and 1893. He is a member of the
American Society of Naturalists, honorary
fellow of the Society of Biological Chem
istry, London; charter member of the Ohio
State Academy of Sciences, and also mem
ber of the University Club of Brooklyn.
He married at Athens, Ohio, June 29, 1893,
Eudora M. Hoffman, and they have two
daughters : Corinne, born in 1898, and Ruth,
S. E., born in 1900. Address : 49 Lefferts
Avenue, Richmond Hill, Long Island, New
York.CHAPIN, Simeon Brooks:
Banker and broker; born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, May 31, 1865 ; son of Emory
D. and Marietta (Armour) Chapin. He
received his education at the Eighteenth
Street public school in Milwaukee and at
the Harvard School, Chicago, Illinois.
He moved to Chicago in 1879, and began
his business life as a messenger boy in the
banking house of the Armour Brothers at
Kansas City, Missouri, in 1881 ; returned
to Chicago and from 1882 was employed by
the firm of Armour & Co., until the latter
part of 1891. Since 1892, as the head of
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been engaged in Chicago as a banker and
broker in stocks, bonds and grain, and
since 1901 he has lived in New York City,
where he also maintains an office. He is
a Republican and a member of the Con
gregational Church. . He is a member of
the Chicago, Calumet, Union League and
Chicago Athletic Clubs of Chicago, and
the Mid-Day and Metropolitan Clubs of
New York City. He married in Chicago,
October 5, 1892, Elizabeth E. Mattocks,
and he has three children: Marietta L,
Elizabeth M., and Simeon Brooks, Jr.
Residence: 930 Fifth Avenue, New York
City. Offices : The Rookery, Chicago, Il
linois, and 10 Wall Street, New York
City.
CHAPMAN, Carlton T. :
Artist; born New London, Ohio. Pupil
of the Art Students' League and National
Academy of Design, New York City, and
the Academie Julien, Paris. He is an asso
ciate of the National Academy of Design,
and a member of the Society of American
Artists and the American Water Color
Society. He was awarded a silver
medal at Boston in 1893 and medals from
the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893,
the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, the Pan-
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901
and the Charleston Exposition in 1902.
Mr. Chapman was war correspondent and
artist for Harper's Weekly, during the
Spanish-American War in 1898. He was a
member of the International Jury of
Awards at St. Louis in 1904. He is a
member of the Ohio Society of New York,
the Century Association of New York,
New York Athletic Club. Address: 58
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
CHAPMAN, Frank Michler:
Ornithologist; born at Englewood, New
Jersey, June 12, 1864. He received an
academic education, and he has been as
sociate curator of the Department of Or
nithology and Mammalogy in the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History since 1887.
He was president of the Linnaean Society
of New York City in 1897. He is honor
ary member of the New York Zoological

Society and a fellow of the New York
Academy of Sciences. He was elected vice-
president in 1905 of the American Ornith
ologists' Union; foreign member of the
British Ornithologists' Union. He is a
member of the Society of Colonial Wars
and of the Century Association. Mr.
Chapman is author of: Handbook of
Birds of Eastern North America, 1895;.
Bird-Life, a Guide to the Study of Our
Common Birds, 1897; Bird Studies With
a Camera, 1900 ; Color Key to North Amer
ican Birds, 1903; Economic Value of Birds'
to the State, 1903; the Warblers of North
America, 1907; and also numerous papers
on birds ¦ and mammals. He is editor of
Bird-Lore, and associate editor of The
Auk. Mr. Chapman married, in 1898, Fan
nie Bates Embury, and they have one son,
Frank M. Chapman, Jr. Residence: En
glewood, New Jersey. Address: Ameri
can Museum of Natural History, New
York City.
CHAPMAN, Henry Cadwalader:
Physician; Philadelphia, born May 17,
1845. In 1863 he was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania as A.B. and also
as M.D. from the Medical Department of
the same University, in 1867. For three
years he studied in Europe, and since 1870
he has been in practice in Philadelphia. He
has lectured on anatomy and physiology at
the University of Pennsylvania and at the
Jefferson Medical College, and in 1877 be
came lecturer on physiology of the nervous
system; is physician arid curator at the
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. He is
author of: Evolution of Life; History of
the Discovery of the Circulation of the
Blood; Medical Jurisprudence and Toxi
cology. Address: 2047 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CHAPMAN, J. Wilbur:
Clergyman, evangelist ; born at Richmond,
Indiana, June 17, 1859; son of A. H. and
Lorinda Chapman. He was educated in the
schools of Richmorid, Indiana, and Oberlin,
Ohio, and at the Lake Forest University,
graduating from there as A.B. In 1879, and
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and he received the degree of D.D. from
Wooster University, Ohio. Fie was ordained
in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church
and was pastor at Albany, New York, Phil
adelphia, Pa., and at the Fourth Presby
terian Church of New York City ; and since
1903 has been executive secretary of the
Committee on Evangelistic Work of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church. In that capacity he has conducted
evangelistic services in all the chief cities
of the country, and has added largely to the
membership of the Presbyterian and other
Evangelical churches. He is the originator
of what is known as the simultaneous plan
of evangelistic meetings. Dr. Chapman has
been an extensive contributor to the relig
ious press, and is author of several books
including : Received Ye the Holy Ghost ;
And Peter; Kadesh Barnea; The Lost
Crown; The Secret of a Happy Day; The
Surrendered Life; Spiritual Life in the
Sunday School ; From Life to Life ; Present
Day Parables; Life of D L. Moody;
Present Day Evangelism; and Judas, and
Fishing for Men. Dr. Chapman is also
the director of the Winona Assembly
Bible Conference, which holds its annual
sessions at Winona Lake. It is one of ,the
largest assemblies of its kind in the world.
Dr. Chapman married in 1882, Irene E.
Steddom, and after her death, married, at
Albany, New York, in 1888, Agnes Pruyn
Strain, who died, June 25, 1907. Address :
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and
Winona Lake, Indiana.
CHAPMAN, Pleasant Thomas:
Lawyer and congressman ; born on a farm
in Johnson County, Illinois, October 8, 1854.
He attended the public schools until he was
seventeen years of age, when he went to
McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois,
graduating therefrom as A.B. in 1876. He
was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon,
Illinois, in June, 1878, and has since prac
ticed at Vienna, Illinois. He is also active
ly engaged in the banking business and
farming. He was elected superintendent of
public schools in Johnson County in 1877,
and ¦ served five years ; was elected county
judge in 1882, and reelected in 1886; was

elected State senator from the Fifty-first
Senatorial District in 1890; and reelected
in 1894 and in 1898. He was elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress from
the Twenty-fourth District of Illinois in
1904, and in 1906 was elected from the
same district to the Sixtieth Congress.
Judge Chapman is married and has three
children. Address : Vienna, Illinois.
CHAPPELL, Edwin B. :
Sunday school editor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South; born in Tennes
see, December 27, 1853 ; son of W. B.
Chappell and Elizabeth (Whitaker) Chap-
pell. He was prepared for college at Webb's
Training School, was graduated from Van
derbilt University as A.B., with Phi Beta
Kappa honors, and received the degree of
D.D. from Central College, Fayette, Mis
souri. He has been pastor of Methodist
churches in La Grange, San Antonio and
Austin, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, and
Nashville, Tennessee; was elected Sun
day school editor and chairman of the
Sunday School Board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, by the General
Conference, at Birmingham, Alabama, in
May, 1906. Dr. Chappell is a Scottish Rite
Mason of the thirty-second degree, and a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
He married in Missouri, June 17, 1880,
Jennie D. Headlee, and they have four child
ren : F. W. Chappell, born in 1881 ; Ethel,
born In 1885 ; Helen, born in 1890 and Ed
win Chappell, born in 1891. Address :
Nashville, Tennessee.
CHARLES, Fred Lemar:
Biologist and writer on nature study;
born at Aurora, Illinois, November 15, 1872 ;
son of George B. Charles and Lizzie (Wild)
Charles. He was educated at Austin High
School, Austin, Illinois, at Northwestern
University, where he was graduated as B.
S. in 1894 (Phi Beta Kappa) ; and he was
fellow in zoology at Northwestern Univer
sity, receiving the degree of M.S. in 1895;
was a fellow at the University of Chi
cago in 1897 and 1898, and a student at
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1893, 1894 and 1897. He was instructor in
biology at Lake View High School, Chicago,
from 1895 to 1897 and in 1898 and 1899;
and has been professor of biology in the
Northern Illinois State Normal School at
De Kalb, Illinois, since 1899, and head of
the Science Department of the Illinois
State Normal School since 1903. He is a
contributor to various educational publi
cations, and is author of: How to Read a
Pebble (Nature Study Guide) ; Sunshine
and Zephyrs (verse), and various scien
tific leaflets for teachers. He traveled in
the Bahama Islands in 1903, and in
Southern Mexico in 1907, and the Yellow
stone Park in 1902. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Methodist in
religion. He is a member of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Association of Central States
Science and Mathematics Teachers, the
Botanists of the Central States, National
Educational Association, and American
Forestry Association. He is a member of
the Tau Kappa Phi, and Beta Theta Pi
fraternities, the Phi Beta Kappa society,
and the Royal Arcanum ; and also of the
Young Men's Christian Association. His
favorite recreations are athletics and camp
ing. He is also a member of the Univer
sity Club of Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Charles
married at Bristol, Illinois, March 15, 1904,
Elsie V. Davis, and they have one child,
Marion Valentine Charles, born in 1906.
Residence : 226 College Avenue, De Kalb,
Illinois. Address : Northern Illinois State
Normal School, De Kalb, Illinois.
CHARLTON, George James:
Railroad passenger and ticket agent ; born
in Hamilton, Ontario, September 9, i860;
son of James Charlton and Mary Charlton.
He was educated in the public and private
schools of Hamilton. He entered the ser
vice of the Chicago and Alton Railroad in
1875 as a messenger boy and has been in
the employment of that road and its suc
cessor, the Chicago and Alton Railway, con
tinuously since. Entering the general pas
senger department of the company, he was
advanced through various grades until he

became assistant general passenger agent,
at Chicago, May 14, 1885-, and since Jan
uary 1, 1900, has been general passenger
and ticket agent of the company. He is a
member of the Chicago Athletic, Washing
ton Park, Union League, Chicago Yacht,
and Colonial Clubs, of Chicago; of the
Kansas City Club of Kansas City, Missouri,
and of the Athletic Club of St. Louis, Mis
souri. He married at Oak Park, Illinois,
in 1883, Elizabeth Hilton, and they have
four children, Katherine, Dorothea, Elvira,
and George James, Jr. Residence: 229
North Scoville Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois.
Office address : Railway Exchange Building,
Chicago.CHARLTON, James:
Railway official. He began his railway
experience in the employ of the Newcastle
and Carlisle Railway, at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, England, in 1847, as a junior clerk
in the freight department, advancing to
chief clerk and cashier, and serving there
until 1857, when he went to Canada and en
tered the service of the Great Western
Railway of Canada as assistant to the chief
clerk of the audit office, in charge of sta
tistics and freight accounts; and later he
became chief clerk, auditor and general
agent. On March 22, 1870, he became gen
eral passenger and ticket agent of the North
Missouri Railroad and July 13, 1871, he be
came general passenger and ticket agent
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, in
which service he continued until January,
1, 1900. Since October, 1900, Mr. Charl
ton has held his present position as chair
man of the Transcontinental Passenger As
sociation. Office address : Railway Ex
change Building, Chicago.
CHASE, Arthnr H.:
Lawyer ; born at Concord, New Hamp
shire, February 16, 1864; son of William
M. and Ellen S. (Abbott) Chase. He was
graduated from the Concord High School
in 1882, and entered Dartmouth College,
from which he received the degrees of A.B.
in 1886, and A.M. for post-graduate work.
He then studied law in the Boston Uni
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aminations in 1890. Since 1895 he has
filled the office of State Librarian of New
Hampshire. In 1904 he was sent as a dele
gate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers
and Jurists, held at St. Louis. Mr. Chase
married in Boston, September 17, 1888,
Alice M. Fisk. Address : Concord, New
Hampshire.CHASE, Emory Albert:
Jurist ; born at Hensonville, Greene
County, New York, August 31, 1854; son
of Albert and Laura O. ' (Woodworth)
Chase. He was educated at Hensonville
Village School, and at Fort Edward Col
legiate Institute, Fort Edward, New York.
He then studied law and was admitted to
the bar May 6, 1880, and engaged in the
practice of law at Catskill,. New York,
until 1896. Judge Chase is a Republican In
politics,, and was elected supervisor of the
Town of Catskill, New York, in 1880;
and was a member of the Board of Educa
tion of Catskill from 1882 to 1896, the
last five years being president of the board.
In November, 1896, he was elected as jus
tice of the Supreme Court for the Third
Judicial District, and January 8, 1900, was
designated an associate justice of the Ap
pellate Division, Third Department. On
December 31, 1905 he was designated as
an associate judge of the Court of Ap
peals, under the Constitutional Amendment
of 1889. Judge Chase is president of the
Greene County Bar Association, first vice-
president of the Catskill Savings Bank;
director of the Tanners' National Bank and
presiderit of the Catskill Rural Cemetery
Association. He is a Presbyterian in his
religious affiliation. He is a member of
the Rip Van Winkle Club of Catskill, New
York, and the Fort Orange Club of Albany.
New York. Judge Chase married at
Prattsville, , Greene County, New York,
June 30, 1885, Mary E. Churchill, and they
have two children: Jessie Churchill Chase,
born January 13, 1887, and Albert Wood-
worth Chase, born April 30, 1890. Ad
dress: 25 Prospect Avenue, Catskill, New
York:

CHASE, Frederick Lincoln:
Astronomer; born at Boulder, Colorado,
June 28, a865; son of George Franklin
Chase and Augusta Ann (Staples) Chase.
Pie was graduated from the University of
Colorado as A.B. in 1886, and from Yale
University as Ph.D. in 1891. Dr. Chase
has been astronomer at Yale Observatory
since 1891, and instructor at the Shef
field Scientific School of Yale University
from 1894 to 1907. He is author of vari
ous astronomical papers published in the
Transactions of the Astronomical Observa
tory of Yale University. He is a Republi
can in politics and a Congregationalist in
religion. Dr. Chase is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science and a member of the Astron
omical and Astrophysical Society of Amer
ica, the Connecticut Academy, the Sigma
Xi Society, the Delta Tau Delta fraterni
ty, the New Haven Lawn Club, and Grad
uates' Club of New Haven. Address : Yale
Observatory, New Haven, Connecticut.
CHASE, George:
Jurist; born in Portland, Maine, De
cember 29, 1849 ; son of David T. . Chase
and Martha E. Chase. He was graduated
from Yale College' as A.B. in -1870, being
valedictorian of the class and receiving the
appointment to Phi Beta Kappa; and was
graduated from the Columbia Law School
in 1873 as LL.B. He was assistant profes
sor of municipal law from 1875 to 1878 ;
professor of criminal law and torts, and
procedure, from 1878 to 1891, at Columbia
University; and since 1891 he has been
deari of the New York Law School. He is
a member of the American Bar Association,
the New York State Bar Association, the
Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the American Geographical So
ciety, the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, the American Social
Science Association, the Delta Kappa Ep
silon fraternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. Mr. Chase is the author of Chase's
Cases on Torts; and of The Students'
Blackstone; he is also editor of Stephen's
Digest of the Law of Evidence, and Chase's"
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a member of the University, Lawyers',
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Yale Clubs. Mr.
Chase married in Boston, November 25,
1884, Eva R. Hawley. Residence: 309
West Seventy-fourth Street, New York
City. Office address : 35 Nassau Street,
New York City.
CHASE, George Colby:
President of Bates College; born at
Unity, Maine, March 15, 1844; son of Jos
eph Chase and Jane (Dyer) Chase. He
was graduated from Bates College in 1868
as A.B. ; was a student at Cobb Divinity
School in 1870 and 1871 ; a graduate stu
dent at Harvard in 1871 and 1872, and he
received the degree of D.D. from Colby
College in 1895 and of LL.D. from Colora
do University in 1895, from the -University
of New Brunswick in 1900, and from Bow
doin College in 1902. He was teacher of
Greek and Latin in the New Hampton
Literary Institution from 1868 to 1870, and
was professor of rhetoric and English lit
erature from 1872 to 1894; and since 1894
has been president and professor of psy
chology and logic of Bates College, at Lew-
iston, Maine. President Bates is a Re-:
publican in politics and a Free Baptist in
his religious views. He is a member of
the Modern Language Association of Amer
ica, the Religious Education Association,
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and numerous edu
cational associations. Dr. Bates married
at Norway, Maine, June 12, 1872, Emma
Francetta Millett, and they have five chil
dren : George Millett, born in 1873 ; Emma
Vivian (wife of Carl E. Milliken), born
in 1876; Muriel Esther, born in 1878; Eliz
abeth Dyer, born in 1880, and Caroline
Wood, born in 1886. Residence: 6 Frye
Street, Lewiston. Office address : Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine.
CHASE, Lewis Nathaniel:
Educator, writer ; born at Sidney, Maine,
June 27, 1873; Son of Ethan Allen Chase
and Augusta (Field) Chase. He was edu
cated in public and private schools of
Rochester, New York, University of
Rochester, Leland Stanford, Harvard,
Grenoble and Columbia University, as A.B.

in 1895, A.M. in 1898, and Ph.D. in 1903.
He' became assistant in literature Columbia
University, in 1899 and 1900, assistant in
Comparative Literature, 1900 and 1901,
tutor in Comparative Literature in 1901
and 1902, public lecturer on literary sub
jects, New York and vicinity, in 1903; in
structor in English, Indiana University, in
1903 and 1904; assistant professor of Eng
lish, Indiana University from 1904 to 1907;
professor of English, University of Louis
ville, since 1907. He traveled extensively in
Holland, Germany, France, summer of
1898; France and England, summer of
1900. Actor with Creston Clarke Company
in Shakespearean and other legitimate roles
from 1895 to 1896; author of English
Heroic Play (Macmillan) 1903; editor of
Emerson's Compensation (University Press
of Sewanee, Tennessee), 1906, and is a con
tributor to newspapers and magazines. He
is a member of the alumni and Ph.D. asso
ciations of Columbia University, Psi Upsi
lon. He is an amateur violinist, pupil of the
late Henri Appy, amateur lawn tennis
player with brother, M. A. Chase, champion
of Southern California in 1892 and 1893,
and is a member of the Columbia Univer
sity Club of New York. He married Pearl
Rowell Mikesell of New York. Address:
University of Louisville, Louisville, Ken
tucky.
CHASE, Walter H.:
Physician and surgeon ; born at Lexing
ton, Greene County, New York, December
18, 1842; son of Charles P. and Ruth D.
(Baldwin) Chase. He was graduated from
Bowdoin College, Maine as M.D. He is
engaged in special practice of medicine,
in surgery and gynecology in Brooklyn; is
member of the American Association of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Am
erican Medical Association, Medical So
ciety of the State of New York, Kings
County Medical Society (president),
Brooklyn Gynecologic Society (president),
Brooklyn Medical Society, Associate Phy
sicians of Long Island; honorary member
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Hospital ; consulting gynaecologist of Long
Island -College Hospital and Nassau Hos
pital, and attending surgeon of Bethany
Deaconesses Hospital. He served in the
One Hundred and. Second Regiment,
National Guard of the State of New
York in the Union Army in 1864.
He is a Republican in politics and
a Presbyterian in religion ; a member
of the Bowdoin Alumni Association,
Greene County Society and American Med
ical Association. Dr. Chase married at
Jewett, Greene County, New York, Feb
ruary 8, 1866, Sarah H. Coe, and they
have five children : Dr. Carroll A. Law
rence, Herbert, Ruth E. and Marian R.
Address : 936 St. Mark's Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York.
CHASE, William Martin:
Jurist; born at Canaan, Grafton County,
New Hampshire, December 28, 1837; son
of Horace Chase and Abigail (Martin)
Chase. • After a thorough preparatory
training in ;the local school he entered
Dartmouth College, from which he was
graduated with the degree of B.S. in 1858.
He was elected an honorary member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, connected with
Dartmouth College, in 1883. After teach
ing for a time in Henniker Academy in
New Hampshire, he took up the study of
law, and in August, 1862, was admitted to
the bar of Merrimack County, New Hamp
shire, practicing law at Concord, New
Hampshire, until appointed, April 1, 1891,
judge of the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire, in which office he has contin
ued ever since. Judge Chase is a Demo
crat, He was clerk of the New Hampshire
Senate in 1871. He was chairman of the
commission appointed to revise and codify
the laws of the State of New Hampshire,
upon the report of which commission the
Public Statutes of New Hampshire were
enacted into law at the January session of
the New Hampshire Legislature in 1891.
Judge Chase is a trustee of Dartmouth
College, his alma mater, which in 1879
conferred upon him the degree of A.M.,
and in 1898, the degree of LL.D. He mar
ried at Conpord, New Hampshire, March

18, 1863, Ellen S. Abbott, and they have
a son, Arthur H. Chase, State Librarian
of New Hampshire. Address : Concord,
New Hampshire.
CHASE, William Sheaf e:
Clergyman; born at Amboy, Lee County,
Illinois, January n, 1858; son of Newton
Simpson and Harriet (Peckham) Chase.
He was educated in the public schools and
high school at Providence, Rhode Island,
and was graduated from Brown University
as A.B. in 1881, and , received the degree
of A.M. in 1884 from the same university ;
and in 1885 he was graduated with the
B.D. degree from the Episcopal Theological
School, in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Chase
was principal of the high school at Bris
tol, Rhode Island, from 1881 to 1883, and
became assistant minister of Emanuel
Church, Newbury Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts, in 1885. He was rector of St.
James' Church, Woonsocket, Rhode Is
land, from 1885 to 1902 honorary canon
of Garden City Cathedral, and chaplain of
St. Paul's School, Garden City, New York,
from 1902 to 1905; and rector of Christ
Church, Brooklyn, since 1905. He is a
Phi Beta Kappa man and a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity and was editor-
in-chief of the Delta Upsilon Quinquennial
Catalogue in 1884. Mr. Chase has trav
eled extensively in Europe. He is director
of the Society for the Prevention of Grime
of New York City ; president of the Brook
lyn Clerical League; vice-president of the
Brooklyn Juvenile Probation Association,
and president of the Union Social Service
Committee; and a member of the Hanover
Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Chase married at
Bristol, Rhode Island, January 11, 1887,
Susan Gladding Collins, who died Decem
ber 21, 1897, leaving one son, Newton
Gladding. Address : 481 Bedford Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.
CHASSAIGNAC, Charles Louis:
Physician; born at New Orleans, Louis
iana, January 25, 1862 ; son of Eugene and
Elvire Chassaignac. He was graduated
from the Central High School of his na
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tered as a medical student in the University
of Louisiana, receiving the degree of M.
D. in 1883. His life has been very active,
and he has accomplished much, in ' addi
tion to his regular practice, along the, lines
of" his chosen profession, and has been
president at various times of all the medi
cal societies of his city and state. Since
1897 he has been president of the New
Orleans Polyclinic, and professor of gen
ito-urinary diseases in the same institution
since 1889. He was appointed visiting sur
geon in the Charity Hospital in 1884, and
has been editor of the New Orleans Medi
cal and Surgical Journal since 1896. He
was instrumental in founding, and is the
president of the New Orleans Sanitarium
and Training School for Nurses. He is a
trustee of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital of New Orleans. He has special
ized in, and now confines his practice to
the treatment of, genito-urinary and rectal
diseases. We owe to him the translation
of a valuable work on Yellow Fever, by
Touatre. Dr. Chassaignac was married
first in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 7,
1899, to Jennie Morris, and second, on
October 10, 1906, to Mathilde Labry. Of
fice: 211 Camp Street, New Orleans,
Louisiana.CHATARD, Francis Silas Marean:
Catholic bishop of Vincennes ; bora in
Baltimore, Maryland, December 13, 1834;
son of Ferdinand E. Chatard and Eliza
Anna (Marean) Chatard. He was gradu
ated from Mount Saint Mary's College at
Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1853, with the
degree of A.B., then took the medical
course at the University of Maryland, from
which he was graduated, with the degree
of M.D., in 1856. After his graduation
there he decided to enter the church, and
became a student at the Urban College of
Propaganda in Rome," Italy, November
1857, in which he took the degree of D.D.
in 1863. He became vice-rector and later
rector of the American College at Rome,
which office he administered until 1878,
when he was appointed and consecrated
bishop of the diocese of Vincennes, in the

State of Indiana, establishing his episcopal
residence at Indianapolis,, to which city the
See was transferred later. He has con
tributed extensively to religious literature,
and is the author of: Christian Truths;
Occasional Essays, and also of various
pastorals and addresses. Address: 1437
North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, In
diana.
CHATBI7RN, George Richard:
Civil engineer and university professor;
born near Magnolia, Harrison County,
Iowa, December 24, 1863 ; son of Jonas W.
Chatburn and Mary (Burton) Chatburn.
He received his early education in the com
mon and high schools of Harlan, Iowa, was
graduated as B.C.E. from Iowa State Col
lege in 1884, and received the AM. de
gree from Nebraska University in 1897.
Mr. Chatburn was principal of the high
school at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, from 1885
to 1889; superintendent of schools of Hum
boldt, Nebraska, from 1889 to 1891, and of
Wymore, Nebraska, from 1891 to 1894; in
structor and later assistant professor of
civil engineering in the University of Ne
braska from 1894 to 1905 and since 1904,
has been associate and is now professor of
applied mechanics and machine design in
the same university. He owned a flouring
mill, the Harlan Mills, at Harlan, Iowa,
from 1885 till 1902. Besides his university
work, he practices civil engineering during
summer vacations and to a limited extent
at other times, his specialty being roads and
pavements and inspection and testing ma
terials of construction. Professor Chatburn
is a Republican In politics. He is a mem
ber of the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education, the Nebraska So
ciety of Engineers, Nebraska Academy of
Sciences and the Sigma Xi honorary so
ciety; is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight
Templar and a member of the Sigma Tau
fraternity, and the Nebraska School Mas
ters' Club. Mr. Chatburn married at
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 21, 1889, Anna
Murphy, and they haye two children:
Mary Frances, born in 1891, and George
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2850 P. Street, Lincoln. Office address:
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,
CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, Hobart Chatfleld:
Author; born in Chicago, March 24,
1865 ; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and
Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early
and preparatory education was received at
Trinity School, Tivoli, New York, and in
European schools, he then entered Cornell
University, from which he was graduated
with the degree of B.S., in 1886. In 1888
in Chicago, he established America, a
weekly political review, which he conduct
ed until 1890, then went abroad, and was
special correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News. He was consul of Spain at Chicago
during the period of the World's Columb
ian Exposition, and a member of the Span
ish Commission to that World's Fair. Mr.
Chatfield-Taylor has contributed to all the
principal magazines, and is author of:
With Edged Tools; An American Peeress;
Two Women and a Fool ; The Land of the
Castanet; The Vice of Fools; the Idle
Born ; The Crimson Wing ; Moliere, a bio
graphy, etc. Besides contributing articles
upon the French, classic drama, to the
rriagazines, he has lectured upon Moliere
and the French drama of the Seventeenth
Century at the University of Chicago, Cor
nell, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. A
fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,
(England) he has for his services to liter
ature, received the following decorations :
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, and
Officier de l'lnstruction Publique (France)
Chevalier of the Order of St. James, for
Literary, Scientific and. Artistic merit,
(Portugal) and Officer of the Order of
the Bust of the Liberator, (Venezuela),
while for his services to Spain, during the
Columbian Exposition, he was made a
Cheyalier of the Royal Order of Isabella
the Catholic. He is a member, of the New
Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati
through his descent from Lieutenant John
Eames of the Fifth Regiment of Conti
nental Foot, and of the Illinois Society of
Colonial Wars. He is a member of the
Chicago, University and Onwentsia Clubs

of Chicago, and has been president of the
latter, and he is also a member of the
Union Club of New York City, and the
Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor married at Chicago,
June 19, 1890, Rose, daughter of the late
Charles B. Farwell, United States senator
from Illinois, and they have three children :
Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence:
Lake Forest, Illinois. Address : 100
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
CHATTERTON, Fenimore:
Lawyer; born in Oswego, New York,
July 21, i860; son of Rev. German H.
Chatterton and Anna (Mazuzan) Chatter-
ton. He studied in the high school and
Columbia Preparatory Department, Wash:
ington, D. C, and the Law Department,
University of Michigan, where he took the
degree of LL.B. in 1892. He promoted
and built the Wyoming State Railway from
Casper to Landor, one hundred and fifty
miles, the Saratoga and Encampment Rail
way from Walcott to Encampment, fifty
miles, and Is building an irrigation sys
tem to reclaim three hundred and fifty
thousand acres of land in Shohone Re
servation and bringing in settlers. He has
operated several mines in Grand Encamp
ment Mining District and financed several
large irrigation companies. He is a Re
publican in politics, served as County
Treasurer Of Carbon County, Wyoming,
one term, was probate judge of that coun
ty one term, State senator four years,
prosecuting attorney two terms, secretary
of State one term, and governor of Wyom
ing from 1903 to 1905. He is a director
of the First National Bank of Rawlings,
Wyoming. He has stumped the State of
Wyoming for the Republican party in
every campaign since 1888. In religious
affiliation he is an Episcopalian. In Ma- '
sonry he is a past grand master, past grand
commander of Knights Templar, past
grand potentate of the Shrine and is now
Master o* Kadosh ,of Scottish Rite Masons.
Governor Chatterton married at Des
Moines, Iowa, October 15, 1900, Stella
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Eleanor, born in 1902, and Constance, born
in 1904. Address : Riverton, Wyoming.
CHAUNCEY, Ellhu:
Mr. Chauncey was born at Philadelphia,
August 17, 1840; son of Nathaniel and
Elizabeth (Salisbury). Chauncey. After
careful preparatory training he entered the
Class of 1861 at Harvard, graduating with
the class with the degree of A.B. and later
receiving the A.M. degree from the Uni
versity. Mr. Chauncey has devoted his at
tention largely to the enterprises and char
itable institutions of the Episcopal Church
of which he is one of the most prominent
and active laymen. He is a vestryman of
Trinity Church, New York, and a trustee
of the House of Mercy, trustee and
secretary of the General Clergy Relief
Fund, trustee and treasurer of the General
Theological Seminary and treasurer and
director of the Clergymen's Retiring Fund
Society, trustee of the New York Protest
ant Episcopal Public School, the Protestant
Episcopal Society for Promoting Religion
and Learning in the State of New York,
a member of the Board of Missions of the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.
He is also a member of the New York
Historical Society, the New York Zoologi
cal Society, American Geographical So
ciety, National Geographic Society, the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, and the University,
Century, Grolier, Harvard and Church
Clubs of New York. Mr. Chauncey mar
ried at New York City, November 14, 1871,
Mary J. Potter, and they have one daugh
ter, Nathalie E. Chauncey, born in 1888.
Address: 11 West Thirty-eighth Street,
New York City.
CHATJVENET, Regis:
Mining engineer; bom in Philadelphia,
October 7, 1842; son of William Chauvenet
and Catharine (Hemple) Chauvenet. After
a careful preparatory education he entered
Washington University at Saint Louis, Mis
souri, from which he was graduated with
the degree of A.B. in 1862 and A. M. in
1864, and attended the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard University, from which
he was graduated as B.S. in 1867. After

occupying several technical positions, he es
tablished in practice as an analytical chem
ist at Saint Louis in 1871, attaining much
distinction in his profession. He received
from Washington University the honorary
degree of LL.D. in 1900. He was for sev
eral years chemist to the Missouri Geo
logical Survey, and was gas inspector of the
City of Saint Louis from 1872 to 1875. In
1883 he became president and professor of
chemistry and metallurgy at the Colorado
School of Mines, in which position he con
tinued until 1902, when he resigned to de
vote his attention exclusively to his practice
as a mining engineer. Mr. Chauvenet mar
ried at Denver, Colorado, December 20,
1887, Virginia Mellon. Residence: 1756
Grant Avenue, Denver. Office address:
937 Equitable Building, Denver, Colorado.
CHEESMAN, Timothy Mat I ark:
Physician; born in New York City, Jan
uary 29, 1853; son of Timothy Matlack
Cheesman, M.D., and Maria Louisa (Smith)
Cheesman. He was educated at private
schools in New York City, Columbia Uni
versity, graduating as AB. in. 1874 and A.
M. in 1877, and from the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons, New York, as M.D.
in 1878, following which he studied in the
University of Wiirzburg and in Vienna. He
was interne at Bellevue Hospital from 1877
to 1879, surgeon in the Throat Department
of the New York Dispensary and the Eye
and Ear Department of Demilt Dispensary
in 1888 and surgeon to the Out-patient De
partment of the New York Hospital from
1882 to 1884. He was formerly surgeon to
the Colored Home and Hospital and St.
Andrew's Convalescent Hospital, and dem
onstrator of anatomy at Woman's Medical
College, New York. He was assistant in
bacteriology from 1888 to 1893, and Instruc
tor in bacteriology from 1893 to 1899 in
Columbia University. Dr. Cheesman. is a
director of the New York County National
Bank. He is a veteran of the Seventh Regi
ment of the National Guard of the State
of New York, and trustee of the public
school at Philipstown, New _ York. He is
a Republican and an Episcopalian. Dr»
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sociation of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University, the New
York Academy of Medicine, the Society of
American Bacteriologists, Association of
American Pathologists and Bacteriologists,
the Pathological Society of New York,
the New York Academy of Science, and
the New York County and State Medical
Societies. He is a, trustee of Columbia Uni
versity, the New York Society Library, and
the New York Protestant Episcopal Public
School (Trinity School). He is a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati in New
Jersey, the Delta Phi fraternity, is past
master of Holland Lodge No. 8, F. & A. M.,
and is a thirty-third degree Mason, and re
presentative of the Grand Orient of Bel
gium, near the Grand Lodge of New York.
Dr. Cheesman is a member of the Saint
Nicholas Society, and of the Union, Uni
versity, and Columbia University Clubs of
-New York. He married in New York City,
November 6, 1884, Clara Livingston, and
they have four children: Clara Livingston,
Sara Arden, Kate and Francis Livingston.
Address : Garrisons-on-Hudson, New York.
CHENEY, Charles Edward:
Bishop of the Synod of Chicago, of the
Reformed Episcopal Church; born at Can
andaigua, New York, February 12, 1836;
son of Dr. E. Warren Cheney and Altie
Wheeler (Chipman) Cheney. He prepared
for college under private tuition, entering
Hobart College, Geneva, New York, as a
sophomore in 1854, and graduating in 1857,
then entered the Virginia Theological
Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, November 21, 1858, and became
He was ordained deacon of the Episcopal
Church), November 21, 1858, and became
assistant minister of St. Luke's Church at
Rochester, N. Y., remaining until August
14, 1859, when he became minister-in-charge
of St. Paul's Church at Havana, New York,
officiating there until March n, i860. In
i860 he accepted a call to the rectorate of
Christ's Church, Chicago, 111.,, and has been
in that office to the present time, a total of
forty-seven years. He was given the de
gree of D.D. by Iowa College, at Grinnell,
Iowa, in 1871. During the years from

1869 to 1873 he was involved in ecclesiasti
cal difficulties growing out of doctrinal
views concerning baptism. He joined
Bishop George David Cummins, D.D., in
the organization of the Reformed Epis
copal Church, December 2, 1873. On
December 14, 1873, he was conse
crated bishop of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, with jurisdiction over the churches
in the Northwest, subsequently becoming
bishop of the Synod of Chicago. He has
visited Europe on four occasions, traveling
through most of the countries on the con
tinent and in Great Britain. In politics he
is identified with the Republican party.
Bishop Cheney is a member of the Ameri
can Historical Association, the Chicago
Historical Society, the American Geograph
ical Society, the Illinois Society of Sons of
the American Revolution, the Illinois So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants; he is also
a member of the Chicago Literary and the
Chicago University Clubs. His chief re
creation is equestrianism. Bishop Cheney
has written: Sermons, published in Chi
cago in 1880, and is also author of: What
Do Reformed Episcopalians Believe? (Phil
adelphia, 1888) ; The Enlistment of the
Christian Soldier (Chicago, 1892) ; A King
of France Unnamed in History (Chicago,
1902) ; The Second Norman Conquest of
England (Chicago, 1907). He was married
at Chicago, Illinois, April 25, i860, to Clara
Emma Griswold. Address : 2409 Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CHENEY, Charles H.:
Consular official. He was appointed con
sul at Matanzas, January 6, 1892, and re
tired in June, 1894. He was appointed con
sul at La Paz, Mexico, February 4, 1898,
and transferred to consul at Curagao, Feb
ruary 2, 1899. Address : Curasao, West
Indies.CHENEY, James William:
Librarian of the War Department since
the autumn of 1897; born in Newburyport,
Massachusetts, January 22, 1849. He was
graduated from Dartmouth College as A.
B. in 1870, received the degree of A.M. in
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seventeen years. He has been engaged
as a church organist and choir master
since 1864, now serving in that two-fold
capacity at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church (Rock Creek Parish) Washington.
He is one of the pioneers of the Esperanto
movement in the National capital and is
Number 46 in the American Esperanto As
sociation. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason. Mr. Cheney married, July 19, 1887,
Margaret Kline Staver, and they have three
children : James W. Cheney, Jr., born in
1888; Frank Shaw Cheney, born in 1890,
and Edith Cheney, born in 1892. Address :
816 Taylor Street, Petworth, Washington,
D. C.
CHENEY, John Vance:
Librarian, poet and litterateur; born at
Groveland, New York, December 29, 1848;
son of Simeon Pease Cheney and Chris
tiana (Vance) Cheney. His early educa
tion was received' in schools in Vermont,
and he afterward attended Temple Hill
Academy at Geneseo, New York, from
which he was graduated at the age of sev
enteen years. He engaged for a time in
teaching, and was for a year assistant in
the Temple Hill Academy at Geneseo;
studied law for three years at Wood
stock, Vermont, and for a year at Haver
hill, Massachusetts, and was admitted to
the bar of Massachusetts in 1875, then,
after practicing law for a year in New
York, went to California in 1876. In 1887
he became librarian of the Free Public
Library of San Francisco; in 1894 he ac
cepted his present position as librarian of
the Newberry Library at Chicago. Mr.
Cheney has been a contributor, chiefly in
verse, to many of the leading magazines;
edited Wood-Notes Wild, by Simeon Pease
Cheney; the Caxton Club's edition of
Derby's Phoenixiana; and the Caxton Club
Scrap Book. He is author of the volumes :
The Old Doctor (fiction); Thistle-Drift
(poems) ; Wood Blooms (poems) ; The
Golden Guess (essays) ; That Dome in
Air (essays) ; Queen Helen (poems) ; Out,
of the Silence (poems); Lyrics; Poems.
Mr. Cheney married first, in 1876, Abbey
Perkins; second, in 1903, Mrs. Sara (Bar

ker) Chamberlin, of Chicago. Residence : 425
La Salle Avenue, Chicago. Office address:
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.
CHENOWITH, Alexander Crawford:
Civil engineer and contractor; born in
Baltimore, Maryland, June 5, 1849; son of
Rev. George Davenport Chenoweth and
Frances Ann- Crawford Chenoweth. He
was graduated from Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1868, with the
degree of A.M.; then studied engineering.
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Trtiy,
New York. He was engineer on Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, in 1871 ; assistant engineer
on the Brunswick and Western Railroad in
Georgia in 1873 ; assistant engineer of pub
lie works at Washington, D. C, in 1874
and 1875; was engaged in mining work in
the United States of Colombia, in 1882;
consulting engineer to General Mariano y
Prado, President of Peru, in 1884. He
prepared the foundation of the Statue of
Liberty on Bedloe's Island in 1889; was
resident engineer in charge of the Croton
Aqueduct in 1889 ; and since 1895 has been
in a general engineering and contracting
business. He was awarded- the John Scott
bronze medal by the city of Philadelphia in
1889 for improvements relating to placing
electrical conductors underground; also the
Edward Longstreth silver medal by the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 1890,
for improvement in constructing concrete
drainage conduits. He received an award
for plans to reclaim land under water in
Newark, New Jersey, by the Board of
Water and Street Commissioners, after pub
lic competition. He is the inventor- of
the Chenoweth reinforced concrete railroad
sleepers, and Chenoweth reinforced con
crete piles for foundation construction.
Mr. Chenoweth has devoted much time to
archaeological investigation in North and
South America, and made a collection of
Indian remains which be discovered on
Manhattan Island, the only one now in ex
istence and now in the possession of the
Museum of Natural History. Mr. Cheno
weth is a member of the Zeta Psi fraterni
ty, the New York Chamber of Commerce,
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the War of 1812; is a veteran of the Sev
enth Regiment of the National Guard of
New York, and a member of the Acad
emy of Sciences. He married, April 19,
1896, Catherine Richardson Woo.d. Ad
dress : 66 Madison Avenue, New York City.
CHESHIRE, Fleming D.:
Consular official. He was appointed act
ing interpreter to the consulate at Foo-
chow in September, 1877; appointed vice-
consul at Foochow, August 7, 1878; and in
charge of consulate at Foochow from No
vember 20, 1878, to June 8, 1879. He was
in charge of the consulate at Canton from
October 18; 1879, to April 19, 1880; and
was appointed interpreter to the consulate-
general at Shanghai June 19, 1880; ap
pointed also vice consul-general at Shang
hai, March 22, 1882. He was in charge of
the consulate-general at Shanghai from
August 24, 1882, to May 10, 1883, and from
December 15, 1883, to July, 1884. He was
appointed acting interpreter to the lega
tion at Peking, August, 1884; appointed in
terpreter to the legation at Peking, Sep
tember 2, 1884; appointed Chinese Secre
tary to the legation at Peking, May 16,
igoo, to take effect July 1, 1900. He re
signed February 21, 1901, and served as
Chinese secretary to the special plenipo
tentiary "of the United States from April to
September, 1901. He was appointed con
sul-general at Mukden, January 22, 1904,
and appointed consul-general at large, May
24, 1906, to take effect July 1, 1906. Ad
dress : Care of Department of State, Wash
ington, D. C.
CHESHIRE, Joseph Blount:
Bishop of North Carolina; born at Tar-
boro, North Carolina, March 27, 1850; son
of Joseph Blount and Elizabeth Toole
(Parker) Cheshire. He studied at Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, gradu
ating with the degree of B.A. in 1869, and
receiving that of M.A. in 1872. He
received the degree of D.D. from the
University of North Carolina in 1890, and
from the University of the South in 1894.
He practiqed law from 1872 until 1878, in
which latter year he was ordered deacon

of the "Episcopal Church by Bishop Atkin
son, and two years later was ordained
priest by Bishop Lyman. He became rec
tor of the Chapel of the Cross, at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, soon after being or
dered deacon, and held this office until he
was called to the rectorate of St. Peter's
Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1881,
where he remained for twelve years. In
1893 he became bishop-coadjutor of North
Carolina, and a short time later bishop of
the same diocese. He was consecrated
bishop by Bishops Lyman, Watson and
Capers. Bishop Cheshire has been trustee
of the University of the South since 1885.
He is author of: Early Conventions of the
Church in North Carolina, 1882 ; Fragments
of the North Carolina Church History.
1886; The Church in the Province of
North Carolina; Decay and Revival; Par
son Miller and Whitehaven Church, 1890.
He has written also numerous addresses
and sermons. Address: Raleigh, North
Carolina.
CHESNTJT, Victor King:
Chemist ; born at Nevada City, California,
June 28, 1867 ; son of John A. Chesnut and
Henrietta S. (King) -Chesnut. He was
graduated as - B.S. from the University of
California In 1890, and took post-graduate
work at the University of Chicago and at
George Washington University. He was
assistant and instructor in the University
of California 1890 to 1893, was a student in
chemistry at the University of Chicago in
1893 and 1894; assistant in charge of Pois
onous Plant Investigations in the United
States Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington, D. C, from 1894 to 1904 ; collabor
ator of the United States Department of
Agriculture from 1904 to 1906; was profes
sor of chemistry and geology at the Montana
College of Agriculture and Mechanical
Arts and chemist of the Montana Experi
mental Station from 1904 to 1907, and he
was appointed assistant chemist of the Drug
Laboratory at the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, July 1, 1907. He is a
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in religious affiliation. He is author of
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Mr. Chesnut is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
the American Chemical Society, Washing
ton Academy of Sciences, -National Geo
graphic Society, and the Cosmos Club of
Washington. His favorite recreations are
mountaineering and photography. He mar
ried at Berkeley, California, July 18, 1899,
Olive Branch Spohr, and they have four
children : George S., born in 1900 ; Alma
E., born in 1902; Frank T., born in 1904,
and Gertrude, born in 1906. Address : Bu
reau of Chemistry, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
CHESSROWN, Archibald de Voiney:
Physician; born on a farm in Washing
ton County, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1844;
son of John Chessrown and Mary Jane
(Young) Chessrown. He was educated in
the Normal Department of Washington
County normal schools, where he was
graduated as A.B., and later at Mononga-
hela Academy and at Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in 1870. Since gradua
tion, Dr. Chessrown has been practicing
medicine in Pittsburgh. He has been physi
cian to Allegheny County prison since 1887,
on the medical staff, as consultant, of the
Passavant Hospital, and is medical exam
iner for the Mutual Benefit, Penn Mutual,
New England Mutual, Aetna Life and Wash
ington Life Insurance Companies. He is a
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in religious belief. Dr. Chessrown is a
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, the Mississippi Valley Medical So
ciety, Pennsylvania State Medical Associa
tion, Allegheny County Medical Associa
tion, Pittsburgh Obstetrical Society, and the
Pittsburgh Board of Trade. He married in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1870,
Sarah Jane Phillips, and they have three
children: John Phillips, born in 1872;
Ollie Alene, born in 1875, and Florence
Edna, born in 1880. Address : 5443 Fifth
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CHESTER, Alden:
Jurist; born at Westford, Otsego County,
September 4, 1848; son of Alden and" Susan

G. (Draper) Chester, and is a descendant
of Elder William Brewster, one of the
Mayflower pilgrims. He was educated in the
district school, at the Westford Literary In
stitute and at the Columbia Law School,
graduating as LL.B. in 1871. He was ad
mitted to the bar, in 1871 ; practiced in part
nership with his cousin, Andrew S. Draper
(now commissioner of education of the
State of New York) for sixteen years,, and
after that continued to practice alone. He
was deputy clerk of the New York Assem
bly, 1874, 1876; assistant United States At
torney of the Northern District of New
York, 1882 to 1885 ; president of the Board
of Public Instruction, Albany, 1884; assis
tant corporation counsel of the City of Al
bany, 1894 to 1895; and was appointed by
Governor Morton member of the Commis
sion to prepare a uniform charter for cities
of the second class, from which he resigned,
November, 1895, upon his election to his
present office as justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York for the
Third Judicial District, for the term ex
piring December 31, 1909. He was desig
nated by Governor Odell, November, 1902,
to serve five years in the Appellate Division,
Third Department of New York, in which
he is now serving. He is president of the
Albany Academy for Girls; vice-president
and trustee of the Albany Medical, College,
Graceland Cemetery and the Albany Ex
change Savings Bank, and a governor of
Union University. Judge Chester is a
special lecturer on the Federal judicial sys
tem at the Albany Law School of Union
University. He is a Republican in politics.
Judge Chester married, October 5, 1871,
Lina, daughter of Ezra R. Thurber, of East
Worcester, N. Y., and they have one daugh
ter, Amy, now wife of Charles Van Mer
rick, architect. Address : County Building,
Albany, New York.
CHESTER, Frank Dyer:
Consul-general; born at Newton Lower
Falls, Massachusetts, December 2, 1869 ; son
of Charles Edward Chester and Miranda
(Burgess) Chester. He received his pre
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which he graduated, receiving the Franklin
medal, in 1886. He then entered Harvard,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of A.B. in 1891 and A.M. in 1892,
afterward taking special studies in Arabic
language and literature and receiving the
degree of Ph.D. in 1894. He was instructor
in Semitic languages at Harvard from 1893
to 1895, studied as Rogers fellow of Har
vard University, at Damascus, Syria, in 1895
and 1896, and at the University of Budapest,
Hungary, in 1896 and 1897. He was ap
pointed by President Cleveland in Decem
ber, 1896, United States Consul at Buda
pest, took office under McKinley. on March
11, 1897, and in May, 1904, was pro
moted by President Roosevelt to his
present rank as consul-general of the
United States at Budapest. Dr. Chester is
a member of the American Oriental Society,
and a contributor to its Proceedings and
Journal, and, was a member of the Inter
national Conference of Orientalists at Gen
eva, Switzerland, in 1892, and at Paris in
1894. He is a Republican in politics and a
Unitarian in his religious belief. He has a
thorough knowledge of the Hungarian lan
guage, reading, writing, and speaking it
fluently; has also studied Croatian, and has
long been conversant with French, German
and Italian. He made special studies in
public law while in Hungary and has done
special work in immigration reports. The
American export to Hungary has greatly
increased since he encouraged the opening
of permanent direct steamship service from
New York City to Fiume.' Dr. Chester is
an honorary member of the National Casino
of Budapest (the most select, in which all
consular corps are, ex-officio, enrolled by
recommendation), and was recommended
by the Prince Geza Odescalchi of Budapest.
He is a member of the American Oriental
Society. Residence : Hotel Bristol, Boston,
Massachusetts. Official address : American
Consulate-General, Budapest, Hungary.
CHETWOOD, John:
Lawyer ; born at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
April 28, 1859: son of Rev. Hobart and
Annie P. (Parks) Chetwood. He received
his preliminary education at Saint Paul's

School, Concord, New Hampshire. He was
graduated from Princeton University in
1882 and later received the degree of A.M.
from that institution. He then studied law
in Columbia University and took the degree
of LL.B. in 1884. He went to San Fran
cisco in 1885, and practiced law there, de
voting some attention to magazine writing.
Mr. Chetwood is also author of: Immigra
tion Fallacies ; Our Search for the Missing
Millions; and the pamphlet entitled: Man
ila, or Monroe Doctrine? He is a member
of the Good Government Club, and con
nected with the charitable organizations of
San Francisco. Address: 3644 Twenty-
fourth Street, San Francisco, California.
CHEW, Beverly:
Banker; born in Geneva,, New York,
March 5, 1850; son of Alexander Lafay
ette Chew and Sarah Augusta (Prouty)
Chew. He was educated at the Peekskill
Military Academy, and was graduated from
Hobart College. Mr. Chew is the second
vice-president of the Metropolitan Trust
Company. He is a member of the Colonial
Order, the Society of Colonial Wars, the
Sons of the Revolution, Veteran Artillery
Corps, Military Society of the War of 1812,
The Pilgrims, Sigma Phi fraternity,
and Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is
owner of a notable private library;
also chancellor of the Colonial Order,
and secretary of the New York So
ciety Library. He is a member of the
Grolier Club, of which he was president
for four years; of The Players', the Uni
versity and Church Clubs, and the Cen
tury Association. Mr. Chew married in
1872, Clarissa Taintor Pierson, of Ionia.
Michigan, who died in 1889. Residence:
47 West Forty-third Street, New York
City. Address : 49 Wall Street, New York
City.
CHEW, John Marshall:
Clergyman; born at Houston, Texas,
May 17, 1862; son of John Calhoun and
Zilphia Guthrie (Fuller) Chew; his father
having been for one third of a century, before
his recent retirement, very prominent in the
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Mr. Chew is, in his paternal ancestry, a
Jamestown descendant, his forefathers, from
1616, having held high position in the gov
ernment of the Colony of Virginia, and
later of Maryland. On his mother's side
he is a Mayflower descendant from Ed
ward Fuller, physician of the Pilgrim
Fathers. He was educated at the Holly
Springs (Mississippi) School, at the gram
mar school on Thirtieth Street in New
York City, and at the College of the City
of New York; was graduated from Colum
bia University, as A.B. in 1883, and from
the General Theological Seminary at New
York City in 1886. He was ordained dea
con, 1886, and ordained priest in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church in 1887, by Bishop
H. C. Potter, in New York City. He was
assistant minister of Holy Trinity Church,
1886 to 1887, and at the Church of the As
cension, 1887 to 1890. He was rector of
Trinity Church, Fishkill, and founder of
the Church of the Resurrection, Hopewell,
in 1890-91, and then became the first rec
tor on the organization of the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Newburgh, New York,
where he has remained since 1891. Mr.
Chew is author of: Why Am I a Church
man?; The Christian Stewardship of
Wealth; also numerous lectures, poems and
sermons. He attracted attention and com
ment of the press of the country, by a ser
mon on the death of Robert Ingersoll ; and
again by a series of resolutions on the
subject of Dishonest Finance, in the Dio
cesan Convention of New York, in 1905.
He was chairman of the joint com
mission of the five dioceses of New
York, and has served on other important
committees of New York Diocese. Mr.
Chew is secretary of the Law and Order
League of Eastern New York; president
of the Newburgh Anti-Saloon League, and
the Newburgh Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children ;„ and is a trustee
of the Historical Society of Newburgh. Bay
and the Highlands. Address: 33 Dubois
Street, Newburgh, New York.
CHILDRESS, John Whitsitt:
Lawyer; born at Murffeesboro, Tennes
see, April 20, 1845; son of John Whitsitt

Childress and Sarah (Williams) Chil
dress. He was educated in the common
schools of Murfreesboro, and had just en
tered the University of Nashville in Aug
ust, 1861, and left in October to enter the
Confederate Army in which he served four
years, surrendering May I, 1865, at High
Point, North Carolina, with the rank of
captain. He was admitted to the bar of
Tennessee in 1870, and practiced law until
January 1, 1896, when he was appointed
one of the circuit judges of ¦ the State,
presiding at Nashville, the capital of the
State, and the county seat of Davidson
County, and since appointed has been
twice elected by the peopie to the same
position, his present terrii expiring in 1910.
Judge Childress is a Democrat in politics
and a Presbyterian In religion. He spent
eighteen months in travel over Europe and
the East in 1867 and- 1868. He was for
eight years chairman of the Democratic
State Executive Committee of Tennessee.
He is a Mason and a member of the Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity. He married at
Columbus, Mississippi, December 13, 1870,
Mary Adair Lyon, and they have three
children : Adair Lyon, born in 1873 ; John
W., Jr., born in 1879, and Arent, born in
1881. Residence: 1505 MaGavock Street,
Nashville, Office address: Salhman Build
ing, Nashville, Tennessee.
CHILDS, Daniel Brewer:
Lawyer; born at Syracuse, New York,
May 5, 1843; son of Noadiah Moody and
Martha (Brewer) Childs. His father
was president of the Syracuse Salt Com
pany; president of the Board of Educa
tion, and a grandson of Captain Increase
Childs, who was a soldier in the French
and English War, and a captain in the
Revolution; and his mother was a May
flower descendant from John Howland.
He was educated at Syracuse High School
and Oberlin College, from which he,
entered Yale College in the junior year,
graduating as B.A. in 1863, and receiving
from Yale the degree of A.M., in 1866 ; and
he was graduated from the Albany Law
School as LL.B. in 1864. He was admitted
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ticed law in New York City; having been
a member" of the firm of Hull & Childs,
from 1868 to 1870, and of Childs & Hull
from 1871 to 1895. He was one of the
projectors of the Law Telegraph and Tel
ephone Company, which first invented and
used the Telephone Exchange system for
electric intercommunication, and was vice-
president and director of the Law Tele
graph Company, 1875 to 1885; and a di
rector of the Manhattan Quotation Tele
graph Companyy, 1874-1875. Mr. Childs
was the attorney for the above-named cor
porations in the telephone arbitrations with
the Metropolitan Company, and also for
the Elevated Railroad in its inception. He
has also served as executor, trustee and
receiver in several large estates. He is
an Independent Democrat in politics, and
an Episcopalian in his religious affiliation.
His principal recreations are golf, books,
' engravings, and music. He was a member
of the Yale, University, Lawyers', Psi Up
silon and Berkshire Golf Clubs. Mr.
Childs married at Great Barrington, Mas
sachusetts, in 1888, Katherlne B. Cass,
daughter of Dr. Jonathan Cass, who was
an army surgeon from 1861 to 1867, and at
one time chief -of-staff of the Large Alex
andria Hospital. By that union there are
four children: Sterling Cass Childs, born
in 1889; Harold Winthrop Childs, born in
1891; Katharine Cass Childs, born in 1895;
and Isabelle Cass Childs, born in 1902.
Residence: 76 East Eighty-first Street.
Address: Drexel Building, 3 Broad Street,
New York City.

CHILDS, Robert A.;
Lawyer; born ' at Mafone, Franklin
County, New York, March 22, 1845 ; son of
the Rev. George and Calista (Cochran)
Childs. His parents removed to Boone
County, Illinois, in 1852, where he attended
the public schools. Upon the breaking out
of the Civil War he enlisted in Company
B, of the Fifteenth Illinois Infantry and
served in the first Missouri campaign under
General Fremont, and was in the engage
ments at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson,
and in the more important battles of Shi
loh and Corinth. He was with General

Grant's army at the siege and capture of
Vicksburg, after which he was transferred
to General Sherman's army, accompanying
it in its memorable "March to the Sea,"
and its subsequent march to and review
in the City of Washington. He was mus
tered out of the service at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas, in September, 1865. Upon
his return to civil life he became a stu
dent at the Belvidere, Illinois, High School,
followed by a course at the Illinois State
Normal School, from which he was gradu
ated in 1870. He was principal of public
schools at Amboy, Lee County, Illinois,
from 1870 to 1873, studying law at the same
time. He was admitted to the bar in 1873,
and from 1873 to 1884 was associated in
general practice with Gen. George W.
Smith at Chicago. He practiced alone un
til 1893, when he formed the law firm of
Childs and Hudson. He is a Republican,
and was a presidential elector in 1884 and
a member of the Fifty-third Congress
from the Eighth Congressional District of
Illinois from 1893 to 1895. He married
in Chicago in 1873, Mary E. Coffeen, and
they have five sons : Lester C, Robert W.,
George W., John S., and Kent Residence:
Hinsdale, Du Page County, Illinois. Ad
dress: Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois,
CHILDS, Thomas Spencer:
Clergyman; born in Springfield, Mas
sachusetts ; son of Joshua Childs and Sus
an (King) Childs. He was graduated
from the New York University as A.B.
and later received the degrees of A.M. and
D.D. He was successively pastor of
churches at Hartford and Norwalk, Con
necticut, and Washington, D. C. He held
professorships at Wooster University, Ohio,
and the Hartford Theological Seminary.
He was the first archdeacon of Wash
ington, from 1894 to 1901, and since 1901
has been rector of the Church of Chevy
Chase, at Washington. He is a member,
and has been chaplain since 1892, of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He is
author of: Justification, 1861 ; The Heri
tage of Peace, 1868; Is Expiation a Fic
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Claims of the Ministry on Young Men
(prize essay), 1885; Address Before the
Women's Synodical. Home Missionary Sy
nod of Baltimore, 1886; Difficulties of the
Bible as Tested by Laws of Evidence,
1888; Address Before the Convocation of
Washington, D. C, 1899; The Voice of
God to the Nation, 1891 ; Christian Unity
and Church Unity, 1902. Dr. Childs is a
charter member of the New York Univer
sity Chapter (Beta of New York) of Phi
Beta Kappa, organized in 1858. He mar
ried, first, Mary E. Porter of Hartford,
Connecticut, and second, Jane Lawrence
Perkins of Boston. Address : Chevy
Chase, Washington, D. C.
CHILTON, Robert S,, Jr.:
Consular official; appointed temporary
clerk in the Department of State, August
7, 1877, and was several times promoted
in the service, up to and including Class
Four. He resigned April 2, 1889, to accept
appointment as private secretary to the
Vice-president, and resigned that position
February 14, 1893, and was appointed chief
clerk of the Department of State, January
9, 1893, to take effect February 15, 1893.
He was appointed confidential clerk to
the second assistant secretary of State,
April 15, 1893; appointed temporary vice-
consul at Erzerum, June 21, 1895; appoint
ed chief of the Consular Bureau, Decem
ber 30, 1895 and resigned January 3, 1902,
to take effect, February 1, 1902. He was
appointed consul at Toronto, March 10,
1905. Address : Toronto, Ontario, Cana
da.
CHISHOLM, Hugh J.:
Capitalist; born at Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Canada, of Scottish parentage in 1847. He
had only a common school education sup
plemented with night studies at the Com
mercial College in Toronto. He began his
business career in the railway news serv-
-ice of the Grand Trunk Railway, advanced
steadily and later became publisher and
dealer- in railway literature at Portland,
Maine, and a manufacturer of paper and
pulp. In the early eighties he became
impressed with the vast unused water

power of the Androscoggin River at Rum-
ford Falls, Maine, and organized the Rum-
ford Falls Power Company. Later he ac
quired the decrepit Rumford Falls and
Buckfield Railroad, which he reorganized
as the Portland and Rumford Falls Rail
way and furnished an outlet for the Rum
ford Falls Paper Company and for the
Otis Falls Pulp Company, lower down on
the Androscoggin River, in both of which
he was largely interested. He has taken
an active interest in the thriving town of
Rumford Falls, building model dwellings
for mill workers, etc. He also took an
active part in the formation of the Inter
national Paper Company, a combination
of about thirty of the leading Eastern
newspaper and pulp mills with a capacity
of over seventeen hundred tons of finish
ed product, daily. Mr. Chisholm has been
president of this concern since 1898 and is
president also of the Portland and Rum- '
ford Falls Railway; Rumford Falls Power
Company, the Rumford Falls Realty Com
pany, the Rumford Falls and Rangeley
Lake Railroad Company. He is also a
trustee of the New York Orthopaedic Dis
pensary and Hospital. He is a member of
the Metropolitan, the New York Yacht,
Ardsley, City, Midday and Riding Clubs
of New York City. He married at Port
land, Maine, in 1872, Henrietta Mason, and
they have a -son, H. J. Chisholm, Jr.,
a member of the Yale Class of 1908.
Residence: 813 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Address: 30 Broad Street, New York
City.
CHOATE, Joseph Hodges:
Lawyer, diplomat; born at Salem, Massa
chusetts, January 24, 1832. He is a des
cendant of one of the oldest New England
families, and has had many relatives and an- '
cestors who have gained distinction in var
ious fields of effort, particularly at the bar.
Mr. Choate entered Harvard at sixteen and
was graduated with the degree of A.B., and
Phi Beta Kappa honor, in 1852. He then
entered the Dane Law School of Harvard,
graduating as LL.B. in 1854. Mr. Choate
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from Amherst in 1887, Harvard in 1888,
Cambridge in 1900, Edinburgh in 1900, Yale
in 1901, St. Andrew's in 1902, and Williams
in 1905, and D.C.L. from the University of
Oxford, in 1902. He was admitted to the
Massachusetts Bar in 1855 and to the New
York Bar in 1856, and since then has been
practicing at New York City. He has been
engaged in many famous cases ; was counsel
for General Fitz- John Porter in his pro
tracted and successful fight for reinstate
ment in his military rank; and counsel in
the Cesnola case; and was one of the Com
mittee of Seventy (and chairman of the
Committee on Elections), which broke up
the Tweed Ring. He has also been the lead
ing counsel in many other important cases
in the courts of New York and the Supreme
Court of the United States. He was presi
dent of the New York Constitutional Con
vention of 1894 ; and was ambassador of the
United States to Great Britain, from 1899
to 1905. In that most important and honor
able of diplomatic positions Mr. Choate
served his. country with marked ability and
sustained the prestige and dignity which
have been given to that embassy by the line
of the most distinguished and scholarly
American statesmen who have represented
this country at the Court of. St. James: In
politics Mr. Choate is a Republican and he
has been active' in National, State and muni
cipal politics, and a leader in movements
for an unbossed judiciary. He was appoint
ed in 1907 as one of the delegates of the
United States to the forthcoming Interna
tional Peace Conference at the Hague. He
is distinguished as an orator and after-
dinner speaker, and his addresses on Abra
ham Lincoln, Admiral Farragut, Rufus
Choate, etc., have been printed. His for
ensic and oratorical gifts have been recog
nized in Great Britain as well as in his own
country, and he was elected an honorary
bencher of the Inner Temple of London,
England, April 10, 1905. Mr. Choate is a
member and ex-president of the American
Bar Association, the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, and the Har
vard Law School Association. He is a
trustee of the American Museum of Nat
ural History, the Metropolitan Museum of

Art ; a governor of New York Hospital ; and
president of the New York State Bar As
sociation ; a member of the American Philo
sophical Society; a member and ex-presi
dent of the Union League Club and of the
Harvard Club, and a member of the Metro
politan, University, New York Athletic,
Down Town, Century, Riding, Alpha Delta
Phi, Barnard and City Clubs of New York.
Mr. Choate married, Oct. 16, 1861, Caroline
Dutcher Sterling, daughter of Frederick A.
Sterling, of Cleveland, Ohio. Residence :
8 East Sixty-third Street Address : 60 Wall
Street, New York City.
CHRISTIAN, Samuel:
Merchant; born in Glasgow, Scotland,
November 25, 1846; son of Alexander
Christian and Jane (Blackie) Christian. He
was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, com
mon schools. He was engaged in general
stationery business in Glasgow, arrived in
Philadelphia, October, 1879, and entered the
service of Pennsylvania Railroad, Office of
Auditor of Freight Receipts, and since 1885
he has been engaged in retail shoe business
in Frankford, Philadelphia. He is a direc
tor of the Frankford' Trust Company,
Frankford, Philadelphia, and president of
The Business Men's and Tax Payers' As
sociation of Frankford. In 1900 he visited
England, Ireland, Scotland and Paris, and in
1906 visited England, Ireland and Scotland.
He was an original member of the Com
mittee of Seventy in Philadelphia favoring
political reform. In 1906 he was elected a
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature for
the Sixteenth Philadelphia District. Mr.
Christian is a Republican in politics (City
and Lincoln) and has been usually identified
with temperance work in local and general
departments, and was candidate for sheriff
for the Prohibition- Party in 1900. He is a
trustee and secretary of the Rehoboth
Methodist Episcopal Church, Frankford, and
member of the Independent Order of Hep-
tasophs. Mr. Christian married in Glas
gow, August, 1870, Jane Montgomery, and
they have five children : Alexander, James
M., Christine M., Jane B., and Helen M.
Address : 4504 Frankford Avenue, Phila
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CHRISTIE, Alexander:
Catholic archbishop of Oregon City ; born
at Highgate Falls, Franklin County, Ver
mont, May 28, 1848 ; son of Adam and Mary
Christie. After a secular education he made
his studies in divinity at the Grand Semi
nary of Montreal, where he was ordained
priest December 22, 1877. He labored as a
priest of the archdiocese of Saint Paul for
twenty-one years, in which he was for thir
teen years pastor at Waseca, Minnesota,
teen years pastor at Waseca, Minnesota, four
years pastor of Ascension Parish, Minnea
polis, and four years pastor of Saint Steph
en's Parish, Minneapolis. He was conse
crated June 29, 1898, bishop of Vancouver
Island, British Columbia, and February 12,
1899, was promoted to the archiepiscopal
see of Oregon City, Oregon. Address :
Portland, Oregon.
CHRISTY, Samuel Benedict:
Professor of mining and metallurgy;
born in San Francisco, California, August
8, 1855; son of James Christy and Eliza
beth (Hubel) Christy. He was graduated
from the University of California as Ph.
B. in 1874, and received the degree of
ScD. from Columbia University in 1902.
He is professor of mining and metallurgy
in the University of California. He was
vice-president of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, in 1891 to 1893, and
from 1907 to 1909, is a member of the
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of
London, and the Society of Mining, Metal
lurgy and Chemistry of South Africa, the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering
Education, and the California Mining As
sociation, He is author of numerous pa
pers on the mining and metallurgy of gold,
silver and quicksilver, and on engineering
education, and he is the inventor of pro
cesses for treating gold ores. Professor
Christy is ah- Independent Republican in
politics and an Episcopalian in religious
affiliation. He is also a member of the Phi
Delta Theta and Sigma Psi fraternities and
of the Faculty Club of Berkeley, Cali
fornia. He married at Berkeley, Californ
ia, February 23, 1880, Sarah Adele Field,
and they have three children: Emila A.,
Stephen F., and Elizabeth. Residence:

2234 Piedmont Way, Berkeley, California.
Office address: University of California,
Berkeley, California.
CHURCH, Augustus B. :
President of Buchtel College; born at
North Norwich, New York, January 11,
1858; son of A. William and Catherine
(Conkling) Church. He- received his pre
paratory education at the Home District
School, at the Sherburne (New York),
Union School, and at tne Clinton Lib
eral Institute, Fort Plain, New York.
Then, entering St. Lawrence Univer
sity, he was graduated with honors in
1886, taking the degree of A.B. The
honorary degree of A.M. was con
ferred upon him by the Buchtel Col
lege in 1899, that of D. D. by the St. Law
rence University in 1901, and LL.D. by
Tufts College in 1905. Two years after his
graduation from St. Lawrence, he was or
dained to the ministry, becoming pastor of
the First Universalist Church at South
Berwick, Maine, for two years and holding
the position of superintendent of schools, of
the same town for a year. In 1880 he re
signed to take the pastorate of the First Uni
versalist Church at North Adams, Mass
achusetts, where he officiated for seven
years, at the same time being a member of
the City School Board. In 1897 he accepted
a call to fill the pulpit of the First Univer
salist Church at Akron, Ohio, and there re
mained until 1901. In that year he ac
cepted the position of acting president of
Buchtel College, and in 1902 was elected
president of that institution, with the ex-
officio office of chairman of the Board of
Trustees. In politics he is identified with the
Republican party, and he is a member of the
Universalist Church. He is a member of
the Society of College Presidents and Deans
of Ohio, of the National Educational Asso
ciation, of the Union Charity Association,
Akron, Ohio (president), and of the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity. In 1894 he traveled on
the continent and in the British Isles. Dr.
Church is fond of farming, boating and
horse-back riding, in which avocations he
spends his summer and leisure hours. He
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tember 5, 1889, to Anne Atwood, and has
four children : Evelyn, aged 13 ; John, aged
12; Harold, aged 10, and Dorothy, aged 7.
Residence: 250 East Buchtel Avenue. Ad
dress: Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.
CHURCH, Benjamin Silliman:
Civil engineer; born at Belvidere, New
York, April 17, 1836. He was graduated
from Dartmouth College with the degree
of Civil Engineer in 1856, and later re
ceived the degree of M.S. He has, since
graduation, been engaged in professional
practice. He has been connected with
some of the most important public works in
New York City; was engaged on the sur
veys of Central Park, the Croton River,
and the reservoir at Central Park. In
i860 he became principal assistant on the
Croton aqueduct, but left that connection to
become captain of engineers, Twelfth New
York Regiment of Volunteers, and was
later engineer on General Yates' staff in
the Civil War and he was colonel of engi
neers in the National Guard of the State
of New York, after the war. He prepared,
in 1875, plans for utilizing the entire Cro
ton watershed, and in 1883 became chief
engineer under the commission having in
hand the construction of the new aque
duct. He retired in 1889 from directing
its construction, but his plans have been
carried out in completion of the works. He
has since been occupied principally in hy
draulic, and mining operations in various
sections of the , country. Colonel Church
is a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a fellow
of the Royal Geographical Society of Eng
land, and also a member of the Century
Association, the Union League Club and
other clubs and societies. Colonel Church
married at New York, in 1875, Mary Van
Wyck, and they have one daughter, An
gelica - Schuyler Church. Residence : 34
Gramercy Park. Address:' 35 Wall
Street, New York City.
CHURCH, Chester W.:
Lawyer; born at Gibson, Illinois, No
vember 1, 1873. He was graduated from
the Morgan Park Academy and the Chi

cago College of Law ; was admitted to the
bar in 1899 and has since been engaged in
an active practice in Chicago. He is a
Mason and a member of the Phi Alpha
Delta law fraternity, and several other
fraternal and political clubs. He was elect
ed to the House of Representatives in the
General Assembly of Illinois in 1900 and
reelected in 1902 and 1904. Mr. Church is
a Republican in politics. Address : 9312
Longwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CHURCH, Irving Porter:
Professor of applied mechanics and hy
draulics at Cornell University; born at
Ansonia, Connecticut, July 22, 1851 ; son of
Samuel P. and Elizabeth H. (Sterling)
Church. He was graduated from Cornell
University as CE. in 1873 and M.C.E. in
1878. He was assistant professor of civil
engineering at Cornell University from
1876 to 1892; associate professor in 1892
and 1893 and has been professor of applied
mechanics and hydraulics in the same since
1893. He is author of : Mechanics of En
gineering; Notes and Examples in Me
chanics; Diagrams of Uniform Motion of
Water in Open Channels; Hydraulic Mo
tors — with Related Subjects. He is a Re
publican in politics and an Episcopalian in
religion. He is member of the Sigma Xi
(1890) ; associate of the American Society
of Civil Engineers (1901) ; member of the
Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell
University and the Delta Epsilon frater
nity. Professor Church married at Niagara
Falls, New York, June 15, 1881, Elizabeth
Porter Holley, who died in 1903. Two
children were born to them: Edith H.,
born in 1886, and Elsie S., born in 1890.
Address : Ithaca, New York.
CHURCH, Jared Charles:
Live stock; born in Barrington, Illinois,
February 17, 1857;- son of Samuel B.
Church and Caroline J. (Comstock)
Church. He was educated in the district
schools of Cook County, Illinois, and at
the Cook County Normal School. He re
moved to Clinton, Wisconsin, when he was
nineteen years of age, and was engaged
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business at that place until 1890, when he
returned to Chicago and carried on a live
stock commission business. In 1895 he or
ganized the Drovers' Commission Com
pany, of which he has since been the pres
ident and general manager. He is the
owner of a dairy farm of four hundred
and seventy acres in Kane County, Illi
nois, and is also an extensive owner of,
and dealer in, real estate in the city of
Chicago. He is a member and director of
the Chicago Live Stock Exchange, and is
president of the National Live Stock Ex
change. His political affiliations are with
the Republican party. He is a member of
the Royal League and of the Englewood
Men's Club. Address : Exchange Building,
Union Stock Yards. Residence : 6636 Har
vard Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CHURCH, Melville:
Lawyer; born at Utica, New York, De
cember 16, 1856; son of Truman Kilborn
and Julia Maria (Benedict) Church. He
was graduated from Saint John's Academy,
Alexandria, Virginia, at the age of fifteen,
and later entered Columbian University,
Washington, as a law student. He took
the degree of LL.B. in 1879, arid also took
the advanced degrees of LL.M. in 1880,
and L.P.M. in 1895, at the same university.
He passed his bar examinations and was
admitted to the bar in 1879, and com
menced to practice in Washington, D. C.
He Is well known as an authority on pat
ent -law, upon which subject he has de
livered lectures before the students of
Columbian University (now George Wash
ington University) since 1895. He is a
member of the American Bar Association.
Address: 1608 Twentieth Street, N. W.
Office: 603 McGill Building, Washington,
D.C.
CHURCH, Samuel Harden:
Author, railway official; born in Cald
well County, Missouri, January 28, 1858;
son of William Church and Emily (Scott)
Church. His family has resided in Pitts
burgh since 1822, and he was educated in
schools and academies there until 1875,
when he entered the service of the Penn

sylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, , in which
he has continued ever since, beginning as
office messenger of the law department,
and later clerk in the same department
until 1879, then stenographer at the gen
eral superintendent's office at Pittsburgh,
1879-80; chief clerk of the general mana
ger's office at Columbus, Ohio, from 1800
to 1884; superintendent of transportation.
from 1884 to 1898, and since 1898 assist
ant secretary of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburgh. He is also vice-pres
ident of the Union Steel Casting Com
pany, and secretary and trustee of the
Carnegie Institute. While a resident of
Columbus, Ohio, he was a colonel on the
staff of Governor Hoadly, and he was pre
sented with a sword by the governor and
his staff for his conduct in handling troops
for the suppression of riots in Cincinnati
in 1884. Colonel Church has taken a
prominent place in literature, and is author
of: Oliver Cromwell, a History, 1894;
John Marmaduke, 1897 ; Pittsburgh (in the
Historic Towns Series), 1899; Beowulf, a
poem, 1901; Corporate History of the
Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh,
thirteen volumes, 1898 to 1906; Penruddock
of the White Lambs, 1903; The Brayton
Episode (play), 1905; also frequent con
tributions to leading magazines. Colonel
Church is a Republican in politics and was
a speaker in the presidential campaigns of
1896, igoo and 1904, in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Indiana. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention of 1904.
He has received the honorary degrees of
Litt D., from the Western University of
Pennsylvania, A.B., from Bethany College,
and A.M. from Yale. He married at
Pittsburgh, March 15, 1898, Bertha Jean
Reinhart, daughter of James McH. Rein-
hart. Office address : Union Station, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
CHURCH, William Conant:
Editor and writer; born in Rochester,
New York, August 11, 1836; son of Rev.
Pharcellus and C. Emily Church. He was
educated in the Boston Latin School. He
has been for the past fifty-three years a
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large interests. During the Civil War he
served as an officer on the staff of Major-
General Silas Casey; and then was brevet
ted lieutenant-colonel. He was publisher
of the New York Sun, leaving it to enter the
military service. He was editor of the
Army and Navy Journal; which he estab
lished in 1863 ; established the Galaxy Mag
azine In 1868 and conducted it until it was
merged in the Atlantic Monthly in 1878.
He was appointed by President Arthur,
as Government inspector for the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Mr. Church has taken an
active part in public affairs in New York
City. He is a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, George Washington Post,
and was one of the earliest members of the
Loyal Legion; is charter member, junior
and senior vice-commander of the New
• York Commandery, and is now member of
the commandery-in-chief of the Legion. He
also took an active part in the establish
ment of the National Rifle Association and
was its president. Mr. Church is the author
of: Life of John Erickson (Scribner, 1890) ;
and Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Putnam's
Sons, 1899). He was one of the founders,
and is a fellow in perpetuity, of the Metro
politan Museum of Art ; and a life member
and director of the Zoological Society. He
is a member of the Century Association,
the Authors, Players', Union League, Bar
nard, Army and Navy, and City Lunch
Clubs in New York; the Army and Navy
Club in Washington, D. C, and the Lauren-
tian Club in Canada. Address : 51 Irving
Place, New York City.
CHURCH, William E.:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
December 7, 1841 ; son of John R. and
Anstiss (Howard) Church. He was edu
cated in New Jersey public schools and at
Williams College, whence he was graduated
as A.B. in 1861. He studied law in Morris-
town, New Jersey, in 1861 and 1862, and
he enlisted in the Eleventh New York Cav
alry in August, 1862, and saw active service
in Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana. He
was appointed assistant adjutant-general of
volunteers, with the rank of captain, March
29, 1865, and was assigned to the First

Brigade of the First Division of the Thir
teenth Army Corps. In May, 1865, he went
with his command to occupy Shreveport,
Louisiana, and to receive the surrender of
Kirby Smith's army. He was post adju
tant of Shreveport until August, and was
afterward on the staff of General Sheridan
until mustered out of the service, October
23, 1865. Immediately after leaving the
service he resumed the study of law at
New York City and was admitted to the
New York Bar, December 7, 1866. He was
engaged in general practice in that city un
til 1872, when he removed to Morristown,
New Jersey, where he remained until 1883,
when he received the appointment of asso
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Dakota, holding that position
until 1887. In 1890 he removed to Chicago,
where he has been in practice since, now as
the senior member of the firm of Church,
McMurdy & Sherman.' He is a Republican.
He married, November 2, 1870, Mary Jones,
and they have five children : Helen, Anstiss,
Rollin, Lloyd and Edward. Address : 100
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Resi
dence : 1040 Judson Avenue, Evanston, Illi-

CHURCHILL, Alfred Vance:
Artist and educator; born in Oberlin,
Ohio, August 14, 1864; son of Professor
C. H. Churchill and Henrietta (Vance)
Churchill. He was a student in Oberlin
College from 1881 to 1887, and received
the degree of A.M., in 1898 ; also a student
in Konigliche Hochschule, Berlin, the Uni
versity of Leipzig and Academie Julien,
Paris, from 1887 to 1889, and the Uni
versity of Paris in 1905 and 1906. He was
director of the Art Department at Iowa
College from 1891 to 1893 ; instructor at the
St. Louis secondary and normal schools
from 1893 to 1897; professor of
fine arts and director of the Nor
mal Art Department at , Teachers'
College, Columbia University from
1897 to 1904 ; lecturer on art interpretation
and criticism at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in 1902 ; and is now professor of art
interpretation and history at Smith Col
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versity Lessons in Fine Arts, and he is
author of: Representative Judgments on
the Principles of Art. Mr. Churchill was
married in Berlin, Germany, in 1890, to
Marie Marschall, and they have one son,
Louis Nelson, born in 1897. Address:
Smith College, Northampton, Massachu
setts. CHURCHILL, William:
Glass manufacturer; born in New Brit
ain, Connecticut, November 3, 1876; son of
Frederick H. Churchill and Annie L.
(Smith) Churchill. He was graduated from
Yale University as A.B. in 1897, and Ph.D.
in 1901, and was a student at Leipzig Uni
versity in Germany in 1901 and 1902. He
was an instructor in Yale College from
1902 to 1904. He has been a member of the
scientific staff of Corning Glass Works, at
Corning, New York, since 1904. He has
made various European trips, largely -in
Germany, with particular reference to the
scientific aspects of the glass industry. He
is Independent in politics. He has taken
out eight United States patents and various
foreign patents relating to signal lenses and
signal glass, and is author of papers pub
lished in the Proceedings of the Railway
Signal Association, and the Philosoplsche
Studien of Leipzig. Dr. Churchill is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, a member of the
Society of Chemical Industry (New York
Section), and a member of the American
Railway Signal Association. He is a mem
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the Yale Club
of New York, the Graduates' Club of New
Haven, Connecticut, and the City Club of
Corning, New York. Address : Care of
Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York.
CHURCHILL, Winston:
Author; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
November 10, 1871 ; son of Edward Spald
ing Churchill and Emma Bell (Blaine)
Churchill. He was educated at Smith
Academy, and at the Naval Acamedy at
Annapolis in the class ¦ of 1894. Mr.
Church is author of: The Celebrity;
Richard Carvel ; The Crisis ; The Crossing ;

Coniston; and numerous magazine articles.
Mr. Churchill is a Republican and served
two terms as a member of the New Hamp
shire Legislature in 1903 and 1905, and was
candidate for governor of New Hampshire
in 1906. He is an Episcopalian in his re
ligious affiliation. He is a member of the
Union Club of New York, the Century As
sociation of New York City, and the Union,
Tennis and Racquet and Tavern Clubs of
Boston, and the University Club of St.
Louis. He married at St. Louis, Missouri,
October 22, 1895, Mabel Harlakenden Hall,
and they have a daughter, Mabel Harlaken
den, born in 1897, and a son, John Dwight
Winston Churchill, born in 1903. He re
sides at Cornish, New Hampshire. Post
office address : Windsor, Vermont.
CHUTE, Horatio Nelson:
Physicist, author; born at Grovesend,
Ontario, December 26, 1847 ; son of Walter
Chute and Catherine (McConnell) Chute.
He was graduated from the University of
Michigan as B.S. in 1872, and M.S. in
1875. He was assistant professor of Latin
at- Woodstock College, Ontario, from 1868
to 1870, and has been instructor in physics
at Ann Arbor (Michigan) High School
since 1873. He is author of: Practical
Physics, 1877; Elements of Physics, 1893; •
Physical Laboratory Manual, 1894; High
School Physics, 1901 ; Teaching Physics,
1905. Mr. Chute' Is a Republicari in poli
tics and a Baptist in his religious views.
He is a member of the Michigan School
masters' Club, Fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
director of the Alumni Association of the
University of Michigan, and is a 'Mason
arid Knight Templar. He married at Lam
beth, Ontario, August 21, 1872, M. Lucretia
Clappison; and they have a daughter, Ger
trude May, born November 15, 1877. Ad
dress : 221 North Ingalls Street, Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
CHYTRAUS, Axel:
Jurist; born in the Province of Werm-
land, Sweden, September 15, 1859; son of
Gustaf E. and Maria (Johnson) Chytraus.
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until he was ten years of age, when his
parents came to the United States and
located in Chicago, Illinois, where he
completed his education in the public
schools of that city. At an early age he
entered the law office of Howe & Russell,
where he subsequently began the study of
law. He was admitted to the Chicago bar
in 1881, and was for two years thereafter
in the office of Francis Lackner. In 1885
he became associated, with George F.
Blanke, as Blanke & Chytraus, the firm
later becoming Blanke, Chytraus & Deneen,
by the admission to its membership of
Charles S. Deneen, formerly State's at
torney and later governor of the State.
Upon the election of Mr. Blanke as judge
of the Superior Court in 1893 the firm be
came Chytraus & Deneen. In 1898 Mr.
Chytraus was made judge of the Superior
Court of Cook County, and he was re
elected in 1904. He is a Republican, and a
member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows
orders and of the Union League Club.
He was married in June, 1892, to Laura,
daughter of Mr. H. A. Haugan, president
of the State Bank of Chicago. Address."
Court House, Chicago. Residence : 1932
Arlington Place, Chicago, Illinois.
CLABAUGH, Harry M.:
Chief justice of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia sirice 1904. Prior
to his appointment to that office he had
been engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D. C. He was a delegate, ap
pointed by the Government, to the Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists,
held at St. Louis in 1904. Residence: 1842
Mintwood Place, Washington. Official ad
dress : United States Court House, Ju
diciary Square, Washington, D.. C.
CLAFLIN, John:
Merchant; born in Brooklyn, July 24,
1850; son of Horace Brigham Claflin and
Agnes Sanger Claflin. He was graduated
from the College of the City of New York
in 1869. He entered the dry goods house
of H. B. Claflin & Company (established
by his father in 1843) as clerk, in October,
1870 became a partner in 1873 and head of

the house" on the death of his father in
1885. He organized the business as a cor
poration, The H. B. Claflin Company, in
June, 1890, and- has been its president.
The house has been from the end of the
Civil War the largest wholesale dry goods
business in New York City. He has trav
eled extensively all over the United States,
Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia,
and made a notable trip in the summer of
1877. Starting from the Peruvian coast of
the Pacific Ocean, at the latitude of ten
degrees south, and with a single white
companion, he crossed the South Ameri
can continent from west to east at its
widest part, reaching the Atlantic at the
mouth of the Amazon. Mr. Claflin is an
Independent Republican and a member
of the Congregational Church; and he is
a member of the Grand Army of the Re
public. He is also a member of the Metro
politan, Tuxedo, Merchants', Jekyl, Morris
County Golf, and Morristown Clubs. Mr.
Claflin married at Monterey, California,
June 27, 1890, Elizabeth Stewart. Resi
dence: 15 Washington Square North, New
York City. Address : 224 Church Street,
New York City.
CLAFP, Eben Pratt:
Physician; born at Rome, Illinois, March
10, 1859. He was prepared for college
at Northwestern Academy, Evanston, Illi
nois, then entered Northwestern University,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1881, and received the A.M. degree in 1884.
He was graduated from Hahnemann Medi
cal College, Chicago, as M.D. in 1882, and
also studied in Europe. He was engaged
in the practice of medicine at Evanston,
Illinois, from his graduation until he re
tired from active practice in 1905. Dr.
Clapp was health commissioner of the city
of Evanston from 1891 to 1897, and was a
member of the staff of Evanston Hospital
from Its beginning until 1905. He was
president of the Northwestern University
Alumni Association in 1898 and 1899, and
he is a member of the Evanston Club. Dr.
Clapp married at Winona, Minnesota, Jan
uary 23, 1889, Mary Elizabeth Norton,
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James Norton Clapp, born January 2, 1892,
and a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Clapp,
born November 9, 1895. Dr. Clapp again
married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
June 26, 1901, Mary B. Norton, of Winona,
Minnesota, by whom he has a son, Mat
thew Norton Clapp, born April 15, 1906.
He has a winter home at Pasadena, Cali
fornia. Address : 1420 Chicago Avenue,
Evanston, Illinois.
CLAPP, Moses Edwin:
United States Senator ; born in Delphi,
Indiana, May 21, 1851. His parents removed
to Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1857, and after
obtaining a common school education he
was graduated from the Wisconsin Law
School in 1873. In 1878 he was elected
county attorney of St. Croix County, Wis
consin, and in 1881 he moved to Fergus
Falls, Minnesota, and resided there until
1891. He was elected attorney-general of
Minnesota in 1887, 1889 and 1891, and re-
moed to St. Paul and made that his perma
nent home in 1891. He was elected to the
United States Senate, January 23, 1901, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, and took
his seat January 28, 1901, and was re
elected in 1905. His term of service will
expire March 3, 19I1. He married in
1874, Hattie Allen, and has three children:
one son and two daughters. Address : 610
Manhattan Block, St. Paul, Minnesota.
CLARK, Aaron Baker:
Clergyman; born at Westport, New
York, January 27, 1855 J son of Aaron Clark
and Harriet Patience Clark. He was edu
cated at the University of Vermont, in class
of 1875, • and at the General Theological
Seminary of New York, from 1884 to 1886.
He was assistant principal of the Vermont
Episcopal Institute from 1874 to 1881, prin
cipal of the Vergennes graded schools, from
1881 to 1883, rector of the Greenwich and
Schuylerville parishes in the Diocese of
Albany, New York, from 1886 to 1888 ; rec
tor of St. Philips, Belmont, Western New
York, in 1888 and 1889. Mr. Clark has been
missionary at the Rosebud Agency, South
Dakota, since May, 1889, conducting ser

vices in Sioux and English at a score of
churches and stations among the Upper
Brule Sioux. From May, 1889, he has been
absorbed in mission work which required
the acquisition of the difficult Sioux (Da
kota) language and the constant use of it
in daily intercourse with a dependent peo
ple accustomed to appeal to -the missionary
for advice in all the affairs of life, and
this among a small population, scattered
over a district as large as Connecticut. As
a lecturer upon Indian school and mission
work, Mr. Clark has traveled in the New
England and the Middle and North At
lantic States. He is now especially promi
nent and still active as a leader in defense
of Indian rights and in demanding fair
treatment for them in all respects, as men
and fellow citizens. He has assisted these
Indians in getting a fairer price for lands
sold and protecting their trust and treaty
funds from unjust diversion. He is a Re
publican in politics. Mr. Clark is a mem
ber of the National Geographic Society,
and of the Sisco Lodge of Masons, New
York. Mr. Clark married at Vergennes,
-Vermont, July 1, 1886, Sarah White Booth,
and they have three children : John Booth,
born in 1887; David W., born in 1889, and
Hobart Hare, born in 1894. Address:
Rosebud, South Dakota.
CLARK, Appleton L. :
Lawyer ; born at Long Island, New York,
August 28, 1865 ; son of Thomas Russell
and Marie E. (LeSure) Clark. He was
graduated from Columbia University with
the degree of A.B. in 1886, and afterward
as LL.B. in 1888. Mr. Clark has been en
gaged in the general practice of law in
New York City since 1888, and is a specialist
in the law relating to the issue of public
securities. He was appointed to the bench
of the Court of Special Sessions of the
City of New York, by Mayor Low, but the
appointment was subsequently held to be
illegal on a contest by the appointee of
Mayor McClellan. Mr. Clark is a Repub
lican in politics and by religious adherence
an Episcopalian. He is a member of the
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York, the St. Nicholas Society and the
Delta Psi fraternity. Mr. Clark married
at Poughkeepsie, New York, December 4,
1895, Grace W. Roosevelt of Hyde Park,
New York, and by this union there are
two sons : Roosevelt LeSure Clark and
Crosby Russell Clark. Residence : Hen
derson Avenue, New Brighton, Staten Is
land. Address: 79 Wall Street, New
York City.
CLARK, Champ:
Lawyer and congressman; bora near
Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Kentucky,
March 7, 1850 ; son of John Hampton Clark
and Aletha Jane (Beauchamp) Clark. He
was educated in the common schools and in
Kentucky University at Lexington, and
graduated from Bethany College, Pennsyl
vania, as A.B. in 1873, and later received
the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from that
college; and he was also graduated from
the Cincinnati Law School as LL.B. In
1873 and 1874 he was president of the first
normal school established in West Virginia.
He entered the Cincinnati Law School and
was graduated; removed to Missouri and
became principal of the high school at
Louisiana. In 1876 he entered the active
practice of law, and was city attorney of
Louisiana, Missouri, and afterwards of
Bowling Green, Missouri. He served as
prosecuting attorney of Pike County. He
was editor of the Riverside Press in 1879
and 1880, then presidential elector and
member of the Missouri Legislature. He
was elected to the Fifty-third Congress in
1892, and to the Fifty-fifth Congress in
1896, and has - since been biennially re
elected from the Ninth Missouri District,
which he now represents in the Sixtieth
Congress. Mr. Clark has also attained
great prominence as a lecturer in lyceum
courses and at Chautauquas. He is a mem
ber of the Christian, or Disciples Church,.
and he is president of the Board of Trus
tees of Park College., He married at Aux
Vasse, Callaway County, Missouri, Decem
ber 14, 1881, Genevieve Bennett, and they
have two living children: Bennett Champ,
born in 1890, and Genevieve, born in 1895 ;
and two children, Lille Champ and Ann

Hamilton, died in infancy. Address : Bowl
ing Green, Missouri.
CLARK, Charles Amory:
Lawyer; born at Sangeiville, Maine, Jan
uary 26, 1841 ; son of William Goding and
Elizabeth White Stevens Clark; and he is
a descendant of Hugh Clark, who settled in
Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1640. He was
educated in the common schools of San-
gerville, at Foxcroft Academy and by home
studies. He began as a school teacher at
the age of 15, in 1856, and taught every fall
and winter until he enlisted, at Foxcroft,
Maine, April 24, 1851, in Company A, Sixth
Maine Infantry. He was the first man to
volunteer from his county and one of the
very first to answer the call of President
Lincoln, and was successively corporal, ser
geant and second lieutenant in the company
in which he enlisted. He became first lieu
tenant and adjutant of the Sixth Maine
Regiment in August, 1862, and served with
it until honorably discharged because of
wounds, in February, 1864. He reentered
the army in April, 1864, being commis
sioned by President Lincoln captain and
assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, ¦
and was brevetted major for gallantry at
Marye's Heights May 3, 1863, and lieuten
ant-colonel for gallantry at Rappahannock
Station, Virginia, November 7, 1863; and
he received • the Congressional Medal of
Honor for bravery at Bank's Ford, Vir
ginia, May 4, 1863. He served in the Army
of the Potomac and the Army of the James,
and resigned in the fall of 1864 by reason
of wounds and bad health. He went to
Iowa in 1866, and practiced law at Webster
City in that State until 1876, and since then
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has practiced in
the Supreme Court of Iowa since 1868, the
Federal Courts of Iowa and several other
States since 1871, and the Supreme Court
of the United States since 1878. He
is a member of the .Grand Army of
the Republic, the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States and
the Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States. Has been commander of the Loyal
Legion ' for Iowa ; and commander of the
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Republic in 1906 and 1907, and judge ad
vocate-general, G. A. R., in 1905 and 1906.
Colonel Clark married, December 19, 1863,
Helen E. Brockway, of his native town of
Sangerville, Maine, and they have six chil
dren : Laura A. (wife of Robert I. Safely) ;
Mary A; Helen L. (wife of Dr. A. B.
Coulter) ;, Florence, (wife of Wm. H. Dut
ton) ; James W., and Atherton B. Ad
dress : Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
CLARK, Charles Dickson:
Jurist; born at Laurel Cove, Van Buren
County, Tennessee, October 7, 1847. He
entered the Confederate Army at sixteen
years of age in September, 1864, and served
on the staff of General Dibrell until the
surrender. After the completion of his.
general education with tne degree of B.A.
in 1871, from Burritt College, in Van
Buren County, he studied law in the law de
partment of Cumberland University at Leb
anon, Tennessee, and was graduated from
that institution as B.L. in 1873, and was ad
mitted to the bar in the following year.
He practiced law at Manchester, Tennes
see, from 1876 to 1883, and after that at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, until appointed by
President Cleveland, January 21, 1895, to
his present office as judge of the United
States Courts for the Eastern and Middle
Districts of Tennessee. Address : Chatta
nooga, Tennessee.
CLARK, Charles Edward:
Rear-Admiral United States Navy, re
tired; born at Bradford, Vermont, Septem
ber 29, 1843. He was at the United States
Naval Academy from i860 to 1863, and he
was promoted to ensign October 1, 1863,
was attached to the sloop Ossipee in the
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, from
1863 to 1865, and participated in the battle
of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and the
bombardment of Fort Morgan, August 23,
1864. His subsequent promotions were to
master, November 10, 1866; lieutenant,
February 21, 1867; lieutenant-commander,
March 12, 1868; commander, November 15,
1881 ; captain, June 21, 1896 ; and rear ad
miral June 16, 1902. He served on various
stations and duties and in January, 1898,

when commanding the Monterey, he was
ordered to command the battleship Oregon
just built at San Francisco. He left San
Francisco in March with the battleship
Oregon, and arrived with her at Key
West, Florida, fourteen thousand miles,
May 26, 1898, in> time to take active part
in the Spanish-American War, and he
commanded her in the battle of Santiago.
This cruise of the- Oregon was unpreced
ented for speed with a battleship, and has
taken a prominent place in naval annals.
From the time of his promotion to rear-
admiral he was governor of the United
States until he retired in 1905. The Uni
versity of Pennsylvania conferred upon
Rear Admiral Clark the degree of LL.D.
in 1905. He married Maria Davis, daugh
ter of W. T. Davis of Greenfield, Massa
chusetts. Address: Montpelier, Vermont.
CLARK, Clarence Don:
United States Senator; bOrn at Sandy
Creek, Oswego County, New York, April
16, 1851. He was educated in the common
schools and at the Iowa State University;
was admitted to the bar in 1874, and taught
and practiced law in the Delaware County,
Iowa, until 1881. In that year he removed
to Evanston, Wyoming, where he has since
resided. He was prosecuting attorney for
Uinta County four years; was a delegate
to the National Republican Conventions of
1888, 1900 and 1904. He was appointed as
sociate justice of the Territory, of Wyo-
ning in 1890, but declined the office. Upon
the admission of Wyoming as a State, he
was elected to the Fifty-first and Fifty-sec
ond Congresses. He was defeated for reelec
tion to the Fifty-third Congress by a fusion
of Democrats and Populists ; was elected,
January 23, 1895, to the United States Sen
ate for the term ending March 3, 1899, to fill
a vacancy caused by the failure of the leg
islature to elect in 1892 and 1893, and was
reelected in 1899 and 1905. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1911. Ad
dress : Evanston, Wyoming.
CLARK, Edgar Erastus:
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February 18, 1856; son of Henry Dean
Clark and Nancy E. (Jones) Clark. He
was educated in Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary at Lima, New York. Mr.
Clark was grand chief conductor of the
Order of Railway Conductors, from 1890
to 1906, member of the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission, in 1902 and 1903, and
was appointed member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in 1906; and he is
' a Republican in politics. He is a member
of the National Civic Federation, the Amer
ican Academy of- Political and Social
Science, the National Child Labor Com
mittee and Institute for Social Service,
and is a member of the Elks, Masons, and
Hoo-Hoos. He is a member of the Cedar
Rapids Commercial and Cedar Rapids Elks'
Clubs of Iowa, and the Army and Navy
Club of Washington, D.C. Mr. Clark mar
ried at Ogden, Utah, September 1, 1880,
Lovenia Jenkins, and they have five chil
dren: Frank, born in 1881, Elizabeth,
born in 1883, Marshall, born in 1885, Flor
ence born in 1887 and Helen, born In
1894. Residence: The Rochambeau. Ad
dress: Interstate Commerce Commission,
Washington, D. C.
CLARK, Francis Edward:
Clergyman, founder of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor; born at Aylmer,
Province of Quebec, Canada, September 12,
1851, of New England parentage. His
father was Charles C. Symmes, who died in
1853, and his: mother, Mrs. Symmes, died
in 1859. He was adopted by an uncle, Rev.
E. W- Clark, who legally adopted him and
took him to Claremont, New Hampshire.
He received his preparatory education at the
Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New
Hampshire, and then entered Dartmouth
College, from which he was graduated in
1873 with. Phi Beta Kappa honors and the
degree of A.B., and from which college he
received the degree of D.D. in 1887. He
studied at Andover Theological Seminary
from 1873 -t° 1876, and then took charge of
a mission at Portland, Maine, was ordained
to the ; ministry of the Congregational
Church, and built up the mission to a pros
perous church known as the Williston Con

gregational Church of Portland. It was
there that, in February, 1881, he founded the
Society of Christian Endeavor, now a
world-wide organization with millions of
members among the young people of the var
ious evangelical churches. In 1883 he became
pastor of Phillips Church, South Boston, in
which he continued until 1887, and since
then has devoted his entire attention to the
Christian Endeavor work, being president
of the United Society of Christian En
deavor, president of the World's Chris
tian Endeavor Union, and editor of The
Christian Endeavor World. Dr. Clark is
author of the Christian Endeavor Manual,
and of various volumes on religious sub
jects, also several volumes relating to his
world-wide travels in the interest of Chris
tian Endeavor work. . Residence : Auburn-
dale, Massachusetts. Office address : Tre-
mont Temple, Boston.
CLARK, Frank:
Congressman, lawyer; bora at Eufaula,
Ala., March 28, i860; son of John Wise
and Mary Emiline (Kells) Clark. He was
educated in the common schools of Alabama
and Georgia. He was admitted to the bar
at Fairburn," Georgia, August 3, 1881, and
has since been engaged in practice of law
in Florida, and he is also a member of the
bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He served three terms in the Flor
ida Legislature; was assistant district at
torney of the Southern District of Florida,
and United States attorney for same dis
trict from 1893 to 1897. He was chairman of
the Democratic State Committee of Florida.
He was elected member of the Fifty-ninth
Congress from the Second Florida District,
in 1904, and reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth
Congress, in which he is now serving. He
Is a Missionary Baptist in his religious af
filiations, and is a Knight of Pythias and
Elk. He married at Bartow, Florida, Oc
tober 8, 1884, Mary Ellen Mayo. Address :
Lake City, Florida.
CLARK, Frederick S. :
Woolen manufacturer; born at Boston,
Massachusetts, October 9, 1850; son of
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Clark. He was educated in the Boston
public schools. On leaving school in 1867
he entered the employment of Rice, Ken
dall & Company, wholesale ' paper mer
chants of Boston, and remained there until
1883. He then became connected with
Talbot-Mills, woolen manufacturers, North
Billerica, Massachusetts ; and has been
treasurer and manager of that company
since 1885. He is a director of the Amer
ican Felt Company of New York City, and
of the American Association of Woolen
and Worsted Manufacturers of New York
City; vice-president of the National Asso
ciation of Wool Manufacturers, Boston, and
a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank of
Boston. He is a Republican in politics and
a Unitarian in religion. Mr. Clark is a
trustee of the Lowell Textile School, of
Lowell, Massachusetts, and the Howe
School of Billerica, Massachusetts, and he
is a Mason and Odd Fellow. His favorite
recreations are golf and riding. He is a
member of the Country Club of Brookline,
Massachusetts; the Oakley Club of Water-
town, Massachusetts, the Vesper Country
Club of Lowell, and Union Club of Bos
ton, Massachusetts. Mr. Clark married at
North Billerica, Massachusetts, June 6,
1883, Isabella White Talbot, and they have
four children : Isabella Hayden, Thomas
Talbot, Frederic S., Jr., and Lincoln. Ad
dress : North Billerica, Massachusetts.
CLARK, Gaylord P.:
Professor of physiology since 1891 and
dean since 1905 of the College of Medicine
at Syracuse University; born at Syracuse,
New York, November 12, 1856; son of
Charles P. Clark and Aurelia Lyons
(Knowlton) Clark. He was graduated
from the Syracuse Classical School in 1873 ;
from Williams College, 1877, with the de
gree of A.B. ; also receiving in 1880 the de
gree of A.M. ; and was graduated from
Syracuse University in 1880 with the degree
of M.D. Professor Clark is a member of
the American Medical Association, the New
York State Medical Society, Onondaga
Medical Society, the Syracuse Academy of
Medicine, the American Academy of Medi
cine, the American Physiological Society,

the American Society of Naturalists, the
American Microscopical Society, the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the
Kappa Alpha, and Nu Sigma Nu fraterni
ties, and the society of the Sigma Xi. He
is also a member of the University Club
of Syracuse. Dr. Clark married at Bald-
winsville, New York, June 16, 1881, Jes
sie H. Suydam. Address : 619" West Gen
esee Street, Syracuse, New York.
CLARK, George Crawford;
Banker; born in St. Louis, August 3,
1845. He was educated in the College of
the City of New York. He is a member of
the firm of Clark, Dodge & Company, and
is interested as director in many large
corporations as well as in the Brearly
School, Limited, and the General Memorial
Hospital. Mr. Clark is a member of the
New York. Stock Exchange, the National
Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, the New England Society,
and the American Museum of Natural His
tory. He is also a member of the Century
Association, and the Union, Racquet and
Tennis, University, Down Town, Riding,
and New York Yacht Clubs. He married
Harriet S. Averell. Residence: 1027 Fifth
Avenue, New York. Address : 51 Wall
Street, New York City.
CLARK, John Marshall:
Merchant and capitalist; born at White
Pigeon, St. Joseph County, Missouri, Aug
ust 1, 1836; son of Robert Clark, Jr., and
Mary E. (Fitch) Clark. He attended the
public schools of his native town and was
graduated as a civil engineer from the Rens
selaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New
York, in 1856. His first employment as an
engineer was on the Iowa Central Rail
road, where he remained until 1859. In that
year he removed to Denver, Colorado,
where he continued his practice as a civil
engineer, and was part owner of the original
town site of Denver. In 1862 he went to
Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the employ of
the Government, to survey public lands in
that Territory. While engaged in this pub
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Confederate general, Sibley, and Mr. Clark,
in order to proteot the archives and prop
erty of the Government from falling into
the hands of Sibley had them conveyed un
der Federal escort to Fort Union. During
the war he was an aide on the staff of
Generals Donaldson and Stough of the
Union Army, and was with the latter at the
battle of Apache Canon. After the termina
tion of the Civil War he returned to Chi
cago and purchased an interest in the firm
of Gray, Marshall & Company, dealers in
leather, the firm being later changed to
Gray, Clark & Company, and now being
Gray, Clark & Eagle. He is a director and
an ex-president of the Chicago Telephone
Company. He was a member of the Chi
cago Common Council from 1869 to 1871,
and was the Republican candidate for mayor
of the city against Carter H. Harrison, Sr.,
in 1881. He was collector of the port of
Chicago, 1890 to 1894, and president of the
first Board of Civil Service Commissioners,
from 1895 to 1897; he also served on the
Chicago Board of Education. Mr. Clark is
a member of the Union League, University,
Literary, Calumet, Commercial and Chicago
• Club?, having been president of the latter
in 1904. He married in 1873, in New York
City, Mary Louisa Qua. Address : 201
Lake Street. Residence : 2000 Prairie Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois.
CLARK, Theodore Minot:
Architect; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, August 20, 184S ; son of Luther Clark
and Seliner Cranch (Minot) Clark. He
was graduated' from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1866. Mr. Clark is engaged in
general practice; and was professor of
building and architecture, and in charge of
the Department of Architecture at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1880 to 1887. He is a director of
the Workingmen's Building Association ;
a fellow of the American Institute of
Architects; member of the Boston Society
of Architects; fellow of the Society of
Arts of London ; and corresponding mem
ber of the International Institute of Pub
lic Art, Brussels, Belgium. He is a mem
ber 'of the Protestant Episcopal Church

Mr. Clark married at Boston, November
n, 1879, Jeannette French and they have
three children: Austin Hobart, born in
1881 ; Rosamond, born in 1883, and Mildred,
born in 1899. Residence: 107 Audubon
Road, Boston. Office address : 15 Beason
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
CLARK, Victor S,:
Writer, economist; born at Portageville,
New York, June 12, 1868; son of Major S.
N. Clark, and Helen E. (Davis) Clark.
He was graduated from the Minnesota
State University as Litt. B. in 1890; was
honorary fellow of the University of Chi
cago, studying at the University of Gottin-
gen and the University of Berne, and re
ceived his Ph.D. degree from Columbia Uni
versity in 1900, being a fellow of that uni
versity in 1897 and 1898. He was president
of the Insular Board of Education and di
rector of Public Instruction of Porto Rico
in 1899 and 1900 ; was engaged in investiga
ting tropical labor conditions for the Unit
ed States Bureau of Labor from 1902 to
1906; and has been collaborator in charge of
the Division of Manufactures, Department
of Economics and Sociology in the Carnegie
Institution of Washington since 1906. He
traveled -in Europe, Porto Rico, Cuba, Ha
waii and the Philippines, also in the British
tropical colonies in the East; Java, and the
German Colonies in the Pacific, and exten
sively in New Zealand and Australia. He
is author of a Teacher's Manual and Latin
text-books, and of The Labor Movement
in Australasia, as well as of numerous
Government Reports on labor conditions.
He is a Republican in politics. Residence:
The Ontario. Address : Carnegie Institu
tion, Washington, D. G.
CLARK, Walter:
Chief justice of North Carolina; born
in Halifax, North Carolina, August 19,
1846; son of Gen. David Clark and Anna
M. (Thorne) Clark. After a preparatory
education he joined the Confederate Army
in spring of 1861, at fourteen years of age
and after over two years' service and reach
ing the rank of first lieutenant and adju
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Regiment, he resigned and entered the Uni
versity of North Carolina, from which he
was graduated June 2, 1864, the next day
again entered the Confederate States Army,
soon became lieutenant-colonel, at the age
of seventeen, being the youngest officer of
that rank in either army during the Civil
War. After the war he took up the
study of law and was admitted to the bar
of North Carolina in 1867. He practiced
law until 1885, when he became judge of
the Superior Court of North Carolina, and
held that office until elected in 1889 one of
the judges of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina. In 1894, he was renominated by
the Democratic, Republican and Populist
parties and unanimously elected by the
people. He has remained on that bench
ever since, and has been chief justice since
January 1, 1903. He has attained high
distinction as a jurist and legal author,
compiled and edited the North Carolina
State Records, in seventeen folio volumes,
Histories of the North Carolina Regi
ments, from 1861 to 1865, in five volumes;
and he edited and annotated a reprinted
edition of sixty-eight volumes of the Re
ports of the Supreme Court of the State
of North Carolina, and is author of several
le^al works. He has also contributed ex
tensively to reviews and magazines, and
he translated, from the original French,
Constant's Memoirs of Napoleon, publish
ed in three volumes in 1895. Judge Clark
married, at Hillsboro, North Carolina, Jan
uary 28, 1874, Susan W. Graham, daughter
of Hon. William A. Graham, who was
governor of North Carolina from 1845 to
1849, secretary of the Navy of the United
States 1850 to 1852, and United States
senator from North Carolina. Children:
David Clark, captain of South Carolina
Volunteers in the Spanish-American War
and president of Jonesboro (North Caro
lina) Cotton Mills; W. A. Graham Clark,
now traveling in Asia as special agent of
the United States' Department of Com
merce and Labor. Walter Clark, Jr., law
yer, Raleigh, North Carolina, and two
younger sons and two daughters. Ad
dress: Raleigh, North Carolina.

CLARK, Walter:
Landscape artist; born in Brooklyn,
New York, March. 9, 1848; son of Daniel
Candee and Helen Maria (Ballard) Clark.
He was educated in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in the class of
1870, and was afterward a student at. the
National Academy of Design, the Art
Students' League and under the late George
Inness, and also a student in sculpture un
der J. S. Hartley. He exhibited at the
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
in 1893, at the Paris Exposition of 1900,
the Pan-American and St. Louis Exposi
tions and was awarded silver medals at
the two latter and received the Inness
gold medal of the National Academy of
Design. He followed sculpture for five
years until 1881, and since then he has
been a landscape artist. He is an associ
ate member of the National Academy of
Design, a member of the Society of Am
erican Artists, the Society of Landscape
Painters, the New York Water Color
Club, the Artists' Fund Society, and the
Century Association of New York City.
He married in New York City in 1876,
Jennie W. Clark, and they have six chil
dren : Walter Lemuel, Morris S., Arthur
F., Eliot Candee, Helen M., and Daniel
Willard. Address: 134 Meadow Lane,
New Rochelle, New York.
CLARK, Walter Haven:
Lawyer; born at Hartford, Connecticut,
January 20, 1872; son of Mahlon N. Clark
and Mary A. (Haven) Clark. Educated
at Yale, received the degree' M.A. in 1896;
attended the Yale Law School and re
ceived the degree LL.B. in 1899. Mr.
Clark was instructor in conomics at Yale
University from 1900 to 1903; member of
the Common Council Board of the City of
Hartford, from 1900 to 1903; president of
the Board from 1902 to 1903; representa
tive from the Town of Hartford in its
State Legislature form 1905 to 1907; and
has been associate judge of the City Police
Court of Hartford since 1903. He is a
member of the firm of Clark and Arnold,
attorneys at law, of Hartford. Judge Clark
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to several other college societies; is a mem
ber Of the Hartford Golf, the Graduate
(New Haven), and the Republican Clubs.
In politics he is a Republican, and in re
ligion a Congregationalist. . He married at
Hartford, June 26, 1902, Julia Ellen Gil
man, and they have one daughter, Eleanor
Mary, born March 6, 1904, Residence :
38 Willard Street, Hartford. Address: 50
State Street, Hartford, Conhecticut
CLARK, William Andrews:
United States Senator, banker and mine
owner; born on a. farm near Connellsville,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, January 8,
1839, He. received a common school edu
cation; moved to Iowa with his father in
1856,' and assisted in farm work for a
short time; taught school, and studied law
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa; worked In the
quartz mines around Central City, Color
ado, in 1862, and went in 1863 to Montana,
where he has since resided. He was State
orator at the Philadelphia Centennial in
1876; was elected grand master of the
Masonic fraternity in 1877; was major of a
battalion that pursued Chief Joseph and
his band in the Nez Perces invasion of
1877; was president of the Constitutional
Convention of the State in 1884, and was
also president of the Second Constitutional
Convention in 1889. He was the candidate
for Congress in 1888, but was defeated
because of a schism in his own party, was
elected to the United States Senate by the
Democratic Legislature in 1890, but was
not seated, owing to the muddle growing
out of the organization of two legislatures
in the State, the Republican senators being
seated. He was the caucus nominee of his
party for the Senate in, 1893, and he as
sisted materially in retaining the State
capital at Helena in a memorable contest
between that city and Anaconda in 1894.
•Senator Clack is extensively engaged in
banking, mining, manufacturing, and var
ious other business enterprises. -In poll-
tics he has always been a consistent and
active Democrat. He was elected United
States Senator, January 28, 1899, to suc
ceed Hon. Lee Mantle, Republican. A

memorial was filed in the Senate asking
that the election of Senator . Clark be in
vestigated, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections ; after
an investigation a resolution was reported
to the effect that the election was void.
This resolution was not "acted upon by the
Senate, as Senator Clark, in a speech on
May 15, 1900, stated that he had sent his
resignation to the governor of Montana
and desired to submit the matter to the
people of his State, and would abide by
their verdict. The acting governor of the
State immediately appointed him to fill the
vacancy created by his resignation but
he did not present himself to be sworn in
under the credentials. In the Democratic
State convention held in Montana in Sep
tember a resolution was unanimously ad
opted demanding his reelection to the
Senate, and a legislative ticket favorable to
his reelection was overwhelmingly elected
in November, and on January 16, 1901,
he was reelected for the term of
six years, which expired March 3,
1907. Senator Clark is a member
of the American Institute of Mechanical
Engineers, the New York Chamber of
Commerce, New York Historical Society,
New York Zoological Society, New York
Botanical Gardens, and the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion. He is also a member
of the Manhattan, New York Yacht, Down
Town, City, Ardsley, and National Arts
Clubs of New York City, the Silver Bow
Club, of Butte, Montana, and the Montana
Club of Helena, Montana. He married
first, in 1869, Kate L. Stauffer, who died
in 1893, and second, May 25^ 1901, Anna
E. La Chapelle. Residence: 175 West
Fifty-eighth Street. Office address: 49
Wall Street, New York City.
CLARK, William Braddock:
President Aetna Insurance Company;
born in Hartford, Connecticut, June 29,
1841; son of Abel Newell Clark, formerly
proprietor of the Hartford Courant, and
Emily I. (Braddock) Clark. He was edu
cated in the public and high schools of
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ed the office of the Phoenix Insurance
Company of Hartford as bookkeeper, and
remained with that company eleven years,
the last four as secretary. He became as
sistant secretary of the Aetna Insurance
Company in 1868, became vice-president of
that company in 1888, and succeeded to the
presidency, November 30, 1892. Pie was
vice-president of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters in 1894 and 1895, and
was elected president of that board in 1896.
Mr. Clark is also a director of the Travel
ers' Insurance Company, the First National
Bank, City Bank, Society for Savings,
Mechanics' Savings Bank, and the Fidelity
Company of Hartford. He is a Republic
an in politics and has served as alderman
and water commissioner in Hartford. He
is a member of the New England Society
in New York, and of the Republican Club
of Hartford. Mr. Clark married, at Hart
ford, Connecticut, May 13, 1863, Caroline
H. Robbins, who died June 29, 1902,
leaving three daughters u Charlotte B.,
Alice R. and Caroline E. Clark. Resi
dence: 268 Farmington Avenue, Hartford,
Connecticut.
CLARKE, Sir Caspar Purdon:
Director of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; born in London in 1846; son of Ed
ward Marmaduke Clarke and Mary Agnes
(Close) Clarke. He was educated at Gaul-
tiers Collegiate School at Sydenham, Eng
land; at Beaucourt's School, Boulogne,
France; and then entered the National Art
Training School at South Kensington, Lon
don, in 1862, becoming medallist in 1864
and receiving the National Medallion in
1865. He was in Her Majesty's Office of
Works, House of Parliament, London, in
1865; in the architects office at the South
Kensington Museum, London, in 1867 ; su
perintendent of art reproductions in Italy.
1869; building Her Majesty's Legation at
Teheran and surveying consular property in
Persia in 1874; collecting art objects for
South Kensington Museum in Greece, Tur
key and Syria in 1876; architect of the In
dian Section and commercial agent to the
Government of India, at the Paris Exposi
tion in 1878; collecting art examples In

Spain, Italy and Germany in 1879 ; rearrang
ing the Indian collections in the South
Kensington Museum in 1892. He was assis
tant director from 1893 to 1896, and direc
tor from 1896 to 1905, of the South, Ken
sington Museurn, and since September I,
1905, has been director of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City. He was
created Knight in 1902; a companion
of the Order of the Indian Empire, 1883;
commander of the Victorian Order in
1905 ; Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur,
1878. He was Royal Commissioner to the
Paris Exposition in 1902 and to the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Sir
Caspar Clarke organized and conducted
evening classes for artisans in Soho, Lam
beth and Clerkenwell, London, in 1876. He
designed and built Cotherstone Church at
Durham, England, in 1876, the Indian Pavil
ion at the Paris' Exposition in 1878, the
Alexander House at Kensington, in 1884,
the Indian City, Colonial and Indian Exhib
its in 1886, the National School of Cookery
in 1887; Lord Brassey's Indian Museum at
London, and the Indian Palace at the Paris
Exposition in 1889 and won the gold medal.
He was the British official delegate at the
Vienna Exposition in 1891. He was ap
pointed by the Austrian Government, editor
of a work on Oriental Carpets. He has
read papers before the British and Foreign
art societies and delivered lectures on art
subjects. He is a fellow of the Royal So1
ciety of Antiquaries, the Royal Society of
British Architects, a member of the Royal
Asiatic Society, the Royal Academy of Mad
rid, Girdler and Mason of the City of Lon
don, and a member of the Royal Societies
Club of London. He married. Frances Su
sannah Collins. Address : Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City.
CLARKE, Charles W.:
Lawyer and federal official ; born in Ver
mont in 1840. He was educated at Hiram
College in Ohio, is a lawyer by profession,
resides 'at Kansas City and is a widower.
He was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of Mississippi, a member of the
Legislature, probate judge, and district
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and, removing to Missouri in 1883, he was
elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Gen
eral Assembly, and subsequently was elect
ed to the State Senate in 1900, and suc
ceeded himself in 1904. Fie served in the
Federal Army during the Civil War in the
Forty-second Ohio Regiment, from 1861 to
1866, with the rank of captain. He was
appointed surveyor of customs for the Port
of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1906 by Pres
ident Roosevelt Address : Kansas City,
Missouri.
CLARKE, E. Arthur Stanley:
Manufacturer and capitalist. Fie was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1884.
He is president and director of the
Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company,
Lackawanna Steel Company, Lackawan
na Iron and Steel Company, Scranton
Mining Company, South Buffalo Railway
Company, Sunday Lake Iron Company,
Tilly Foster Iron Mines, Hobart Iron Com
pany, Franklin Iron Company, Corsica Iron
Company, Brotherton Iron Mining Com
pany, Buffington Water Company, East
Wheatfield Water Company, Ellsworth Coal
Company, Ellsworth Collieries Company,
Lackawanna Steel Company of New Jer
sey, National Bank of Ellsworth; vice-
president and director of Witherbee Sher
man and Company, Cornwall Railroad
Company, Odanah Iron Company; director
of the Bonzano Rail Joint Company, Lake
Erie Company, Negaunee Mine, Ontario
Mining Company, Verona Mining Com
pany. Mr. Clarke is a member of the
Metropolitan, Harvard and Century Clubs.
Residence: 935 West Seventy-second Street.
Address: 2 Rector Street, New York City.
CLARKE, Frank Wiggles worth:
Chemist; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 19, 1847; son of Henry W. Clarke
and Abby M. (Fisher) Clarke. He was
graduated from Harvard as B.S. in 1867;
received the honorary D.Sc. from Victoria
University, and LL.D. from the University
of Aberdeen. He was instructor at Cor
nell University in 1869; professor of chem
istry at Howard University, Washington,
in 1873 and 1874; professor of chemistry

and physics in the University of Cincinnati
from 1874 to 1883, and has been chief chem
ist of the United States Geological Sur
vey and honorary curator of minerals of
the United States National Museum since
1883. He is a member of the Washington
Academy of Sciences; fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; corresponding member of the
British Association, _ Edinburgh Geological
Society, etc. He is past president of the
American Chemical Society, and chairman
of the International Committee on Atomic
Weights; member of the International
Jury of Awards, Paris Exposition in 1900,
and received the decoration of Chevalier of
the Legion d'Honneur. He is honorary
member of the Manchester (England) Lit
erary and Philosophical Society (from
which he received the Wilde medal), and of
The Chemical Society (London) ; mem
ber of the American Philosophical Socie
ty and of the Cosmos Club, of Washing
ton, D. C. Dr. Clarke married at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, September 9, 1874;
Mary P. Olmsted, and they have three
daughters. Residence: 1612 Riggs Place,
Washington, D. C. Address : United States
Geological Survey, Washington, D. C
CLARKE, James P.:
United States Senator; born at Yazoo
City, Mississippi, August 18, 1854; son of
Walter Clarke and Ellen (White) Clarke.
After a preparatory education he entered
the law department of the University, of
Virginia, from which he was graduated in
1878, when he established practice at
Helena, Arkansas. He has been active in
political matters as a representative Demo
crat, served in the Arkansas House of Rep
resentatives in 1886 and 1887, the Arkansas
Senate from 1888 to 1892, serving in 1891
as president of the Senate and ex-officio
lieutenant-governor ; attorney-general of
Arkansas in 1893 and 1894, governor of Ar
kansas from January, 1895, to January,
1897, then, declining reelection removed to
Little Rock and engaged in the practice of
law. He was elected in 1903 to the United
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March, 1909. Senator Clarke was formerly
the Arkansas member of the National Dem
ocratic Committee. He married at Helena;
Arkansas, November 10, 1883, Sallie Moore.
Address : Little Rock, Arkansas.
CLARKE, John Proctor:
Jurist; born in Florence, Italy, of Amer
ican parents, April 23, 1856; son of I. Ed
wards Clarke and May Louise (Proctor)
Clarke. He was graduated from Yale with
the degree of B.A. in 1878. He was ad
mitted to the bar In 1880; was assistant
United States attorney for the Southern
District of New York from July 1, 1881,
to May 1, 1886, and was a member of the
law firm of Hascall, Clarke & Van der
Poel, from May. 1, 1886, to March 1, 1895.
He was assistant corporation counsel in
Mayor Strong's administration from March
1, 1895, to January 1, 1898, was counsel to
Fallow's Committee of the Assembly to
investigate the Surrogate's Court in 1899;
counsel to the Mazet Committee of the As
sembly to investigate the New York City
Government in 1899; and was appointed
by Governor Roosevelt, December, 1900,
justice of the Supreme Court to fill a va
cancy; and elected, November, 1901, for
a full term, and was assigned to the Ap
pellate Division of the Supreme Court, for
the First Department, by Governor Hig-
gins, in October, 1905. Mr. Clarke is a
Republican in politics and is a member of
the Bar Association of the City of New
York. He is also a member of the Union
League, University, Yale, Manhattan,
Larchmont Yacht, Republican, and West
Side Republican Clubs of New York City,
He married at Shrewsbury, New Jersey,
June 25, 1884, Sarah M. Parker, and they
have a son, Robert Parker, born May 28,
1889. Address: l West Eighty-first Street,
New York City.
CLARKE, John Vaughan:
Banker; born in the city of Chicago, Illi
nois, October 15, 1863 ; son of John V. and
Elizabeth (Bertrand) Clarke. Mr. Clarke's
father was the founder of the Merchants'
Association of Chicago, in 1867, which in
- 1869 became the Hibernian Banking Asso

ciation. Young Clarke received his educa
tion in the public schools of Chicago, St
Ignatius College and Barnes's Academy.
He entered the Hibernian Bank in 1880
as a messenger boy, and was promoted
through the various grades of bookkeeper,
teller, cashier, etc., and upon the death of
his father, in 1892, he succeeded him as
president. Soon after he assumed the di
rection of the affairs of the bank there
came a period of great financial depression,
but he successfully guided the bank
through the storm and has since greatly
increased its business! He is a trustee of
the American Surety Company of New
York. He was married at Columbus, Ohio,
in 1889, to Bertha English. Address : Cor
ner Monroe and Clark Streets. ' Residence :
47 Astor Place, Chicago, Illinois.
CLARKE, R. Floyd:
Lawyer ; born at Columbia, South Caro
lina, October 14, 1859; son of Samuel C.
and Caroline B. (Clarkson) Clarke. He
was graduated from the College of the
City of New York with the degree of
A.B. in 1880 and A.M. in 1899, and from
Columbia College Law School, LL.B., cum
laude, with first prize in municipal law.
He was for many years counsel for the
New York and New Jersey Bridge Com
pany, and the George A. Fuller Company.
He was counsel in the Kemp will case, and
is now counsel in the following matters:
for the North River Bridge Company;
for the United States Venezuela Company,
owners of the Crichfield concession in Ven
ezuela, cancelled by Castro and-claim now
pending in the State Department of the
United States; for the McGibney & Roke-
by Company, owners of the sewerage con
tract for the city of Havana under the
Piatt amendment and Governor Wood's
proclamation (which claim is now pending
in the State Department of the United
States) ; for the Mexican claimants to land
in El Chamizal District, El Paso, Texas
(claim now pending between Mexico ana1
the United States). He is a director of
the Uriadilla Valley Railroad Company, and
the Chamizal Title Company. Mr. Clarke
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tion, the American Society of International
Law, the New York State Bar Association,
the Bar Association of the City of New
York, and the Colonial Order of the
Acorn. His favorite recreation is yachting,
and he is owner of the sloops Atala
and Argonaut. Mr. Clarke is author
of: The Science of Law and Law Making,
1898 (Macmillan) ; A Permanent Tribu
nal of International Law — Its' Necessity
and Value. He is a member of the New
York Southern Society, the University,
New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht,
and Atlantic Yacht Clubs, the Lawyers'
Club and the Down Town Association of
New York. Residence: 1748 Broadway.
Address: 37 Wall Street, New York City.
CLARKE, Richard Henry:
Lawyer; horn at Washington, D. G, July
3, 1827; descendant of Robert Clarke, one
of the founders of Maryland, in 1634. He
was graduated from Georgetown College
with the degree of A.B. in 1846, and later
A.M. and LL.D.; also LL.D. from Ford
ham University. He studied law and was
admited to the bar in Washington in 1848;
removed to New York City and resumed the
practice of law in 1864; was engaged with
Charles O'Connor in the Forest divorce
case, the Jumel will case, and the suit of
the Government against Jefferson Davis. He
was formerly president of the New York
Catholic Protectory; member and officer of
several Catholic organizations, and advo
cates civil service reform, temperance, free
dom of worship in public institutions, and
legal reform. He is a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He
wrote sketches of Roman Catholics of Amer
ica, in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American
Biography; and has been a contributor to
Catholic journals. He is author of: Lives
of the Deceased Bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States, 1872
and 1888; Illustrated History of the Cath
olic Church in the United States ; Old and
New Lights on Columbus, 1893; Life of
Pope Leo XIII., 1903. He was frequently
appointed by the higher courts to decide
important law cases as referee. Mr.
Clarke married in 1858, Ada Semmes. Ad-
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dress: 51 Chambers Street, New York
City.
CLARKE, Thomas Benedict:
Art collector and connoisseur; born at
New York City, December 11, 1848; son of
George W. and Mary J. Clarke. He was
educated at the Mount Washington Col
legiate Institute, New York City. Mr.
Clarke has devoted a lifetime to the col
lection of works of art, and in 1899 sold
a collection of works of American artists
for $235,000. He is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Design, and founded
and endowed the Clarke Composition prize
at that institution. He is also a member of
the American Fine Arts Society, the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History, the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cham
ber of Commerce of New York; the Met
ropolitan, the Brook, Manhattan, Union
League, Lambs', New York Yacht, and
New York Athletic Clubs. Mr. Clarke
married at New York City, Fanny E. Mor
ris, and by that union there are two chil
dren: Thomas Benedict, Jr., and Mrs.
Richard Newton, Jr. Residence : 22 East
Thirty-fifth Street. Address : 12 East
Forty-first Street, New York City.
CLARKE, Walter B.:
Lawyer; born in Nobleboro, Maine,
April 4, 1876; son of James Wilson Clarke
and Lenna (Oliver) Clarke. He was grad
uated from Lincoln Academy in 1895 ;
from Bowdoin College as A.B. in 1899, and
from • Harvard Law School as LL.B. in
1903. He was admitted to the Maine Bar
September, 1903, and has practiced law in
Portland since 1903. He formed a partner
ship with Herbert N. Gardner in October,
1906 and the firm is now known as Clarke
and Gardner. Mr. Clarke has been man
ager of the Eastern Maine Branch of the
New York Life Insurance Company from
.1899 to 1900; was assistant secretary of
the Maine Senate from 1899 to 1903; rep-
representative of the Maine Legislature
from 1903 to 1905 ; executive councilor
from 1905 to 1907, and State senator in
1907. He is a member of the Benevolent
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and a Knight of Pythias. Residence: The
Somerset, Portland. Office address: 120
Exchange Street, Portland, Maine.
CLARKSON, James S.: '
Sureyor of Customs of the Port of New
York; born in Indiana, in 1842. He re
moved to Iowa in 1856 and was educated
in the public schools. He became a school
teacher in 1859, and then was in the em
ploy of the Daily State Register at Des
Moines, Iowa, as printer foreman, business
manager, and • editor, from 1862 to 1870 ;
and with his brother, the late Richard P.
Clarkson, purchased the paper in 1870.
He sold his interest in 1891. From 1871 to
1877 he was postmaster at Des Moines,
Iowa, and from 1889 to i8go was first
assistant postmaster-general of the United
States, from which position he resigned in
1890. He is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Clarkson was chairman of the Iowa State
Republican Committee in 1866, and for
years after; a member of the National Re
publican Committee, from 1884 to 1896, and
its chairman from 1890 to 1892. He was
also a member of all the Republican Na
tional Conventions from 1880 to 1896, and
president of the Republican League of the
United States in 1891 and 1892. He or
ganized and was president of the company
which constructed five of the railways into
Des Moines, Iowa; and is president of the
New York and New Jersey Bridge Com
pany, organized to construct a suspension
bridge over the Hudson River at Fifty-ninth
Street with terminals. Mr. Clarkson mar
ried, in 1867, Anna Howell. Residence:
210 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
City. Office address : Custom Flouse, New
York City.
CLAY, Alexander Stephens:
United States senator; born September
25> 1853, on a farm' in Cobb County,
Georgia. He received his primary and
preparatory education in the country
schools and the high school at Palmetto,
Georgia, and was graduated from Hiawas-
see College in 1875; taught school for two
years, and studied law under Judge David
Irwin, of Marietta. Mr. Clay was admitted

to the bar in September, 1877, and has been
engaged actively in the practice of law
ever since. He was elected a member of
the City Council in 1880 and reelected in
1881, and represented Cobb County in the
General Assembly of the State from 1884
to 1887; and in 1886 and 1887 was elected
speaker pro tempore. He was reelected
for 1889 and 1890, and served as speaker
for two years, and in 1892 was elected to
the State Senate, and served as president of
that body for two years. In 1894 he was
elected chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, and conducted the
State campaign between the Democrats and
Populists in that year; was reelected to
the same position in 1896 and still occupies
the place. He was elected to the United
States Senate, to succeed John G. Gordon,
in October, 1896, and took his seat March
4, 1897, and was reelected in 1903 for the
term which will expire March 3, 1909. Ad
dress : Marietta, Georgia.
CLAY, John:
Commission merchant and dealer in live
stock; born at Winfield, Berwick-on-Tweed,
Scotland, April 24, 1851 ; son of John and
Patricia (Thompson) Clay. He was edu
cated at Wellfield Academy, Duns^ Scot
land; St. Andrew's, Scotland, and at the
Edinburgh University. He was employed
on a Scotch farm -from 1867 to 1879, and in
the latter year came to Ameripa, settling in
Canada. There he became manager of the
Canada West Farm Stock Association, at
Bow Park, Brantford, Ontario. In 1882
he removed to Chicago, Illinois, and organ
ized the firm of Clay & Forrest, May 1,
1883, which was succeeded in 1900 by the
banking firm of John Clay & Co. In 1886
he was the principal organizer of the live
stock commission firm of Clay,' Robinson
& Company, which is now one of the larg
est houses of its character in the country,
having branches in Kansas City, Missouri;
South Omaha, Nebraska; Sioux City, Iowa;
South St. Joseph, Missouri; Denver, Col
orado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a
member of the Chicago, Washington Park
and Midlothian Clubs. He married at
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Euphemia Forrest, and has one son, John
Clay, Illinois. Address: the Rookery,
Chicago; Residence: 4030 Lake Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
CLAYTON, Joseph Culbertson:
Lawyer, publicist; born at Smithfield,
"y* irginia, June 16, 1839 ; son of Rev. Thomas
Greer Clayton and Virginia Ann (Bayley)
Clayton. He was educated in a private
school and at Madison College, Pennsyl
vania, and by private tutors, and read law
for three years with John L. Norris, at
Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the
bar of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia, in 1863, to the bar of the
United States Supreme Court in 1866; to
the bar of the State of New York in 1869,
as well as in many United States Circuit and
District Courts. After five years' general
practice, he gave most of his time to prac
tice in the National Courts, making a spec
ialty of patent law. From 1868 to 1888 he
was in charge of the great litigation in favor
of the Driven Well patent and he has ar
gued numerous cases in the United States
Supreme and District courts. He was mus
tered into the United States service as a
private in the National Rifles at Washing
ton, D. C, April 15, 1861, being the first
company in the United States sworn in un
der Lincoln's first call for volunteers. In
1896 he edited the posthumous second vol
ume of Curtis's Constitutional History of
the United States. He generally voted the
Democratic ticket until 1896, but since then
has been a Republican. He is a writer in
the metropolitan press and law magazines;
is a speaker on public questions ; a sup
porter of the McKinley and Roosevelt
policies; and " a campaign speaker in
1896, igoo, and 1904 for Republican
candidates. In religious affiliation he
is an Episcopalian. His principal recre
ations are swimming, walking and rid
ing. During the past ten years, his atten
tion has been largely devoted to the study
of constitutional law and history of the
United States and he is preparing a treatise
in support of the broader Nationality, sub
ordinating the States, strictly, to the pow
ers outside of whatever is national,, inter

national, or interstate in character. Since
November, 1906, he has been editor of the
Department of National and International
Law, of The American Lawyer, of New
York City. His series of articles from De
cember to May, 1907, entitled: The True
Constitution: Suggestions Towards its In
terpretation, have attracted much attention.
At the Peace Congress in New York City,
in April, 1907, he submitted (the first) A
Plan for a Tentative Constitution of the
United Nations. Mr. Clayton .married, at
Springfield, Illinois, December 19, 1876,
Elsie Franklin Rowe, and from that union
there have been born Robert Rowe Clayton
(1878), Conrad Crawford Clayton (1879),
and twin sons (born and died in 1883).
Residence: 679 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York. Address : Tribune Building,
New York City.
CLAYTON, William Henry Harrison:
Jurist. He was engaged in the practice
of law until his appointment in 1901 as
one of the judges of the United States
District Court for the Central District of
Indian Territory, in which he is now serv
ing. Address : South McAlester, Indian
Territory.CLEARWATER, Alphonso Trumpbour:
Jurist, publicist ; born at West Point, New
York, September 11, 1848; son of Isaac
Clearwater and Emily Boudoin (Trump
bour) Clearwater; of Dutch and Huguenot
ancestry. He was educated at the old An-
thon Grammar School in New York City
and at the Kingston (New York) Academy,
and in 1903 received the degree of LL.D.
from Rutgers Colle'ge. He was admitted to
the bar in November, 1871 ; elected district
attorney of Ulster County, New York, in
1877, and reelected in 1880 and 1883. He
declined a nomination for Congress in 1884
and 1886. He has repeatedly been a dele
gate to the Republican National, State, Ju
dicial, Congressional and Senatorial conven
tions. He was elected county judge of
Ulster County in 1889, was reelected in 1895
and in 1898 resigned to accept the appoint
ment, by the Governor, as Justice of the Su
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Alton B. Parker, then elected Chief Jus
tice of the Court of Appeals. He is a trus
tee of Rutgers College; was a delegate of
New York State Bar Association to the
Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jur
ists, held in connection with the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition of 1904, and was ap
pointed a member of the Hudson-Fulton
Celebration Commission in 1906. At the re
quest of David Dudley Field, he prepared
many of the provisions of the Penal Code
and the Code of Criminal Procedure of
New York. Judge Clearwater was ap
pointed commissioner in 1895 to supervise
the translation from Dutch into English of
the Dutch records of Ulster County, (1661-
1684), and completed the work in 1898. He
was one of the founders and first vice-presi
dent for Ulster County of the Holland So
ciety; one of the founders and since its for
mation a vice-president of the Huguenot
Society of America; vice-president of the
old Senate House Association of Kingston;
Ulster Historical Society; trustee of the
Kingston Gity Hospital; member of the St.
Nicholas Society of New York City, of
the Society of the Sons of the Revolution,
the American Bar Association, the New-
York State Bar Association ; honorary mem
ber of the St. Andrew's Society of Charles-,
ton, South Carolina; member of the New
York Historical Society; the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, the
Huguenot Societies of London, of South
Carolina and of New Paltz, the Ex-Libris
Society of London, the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society, the His
torical Society of Newburgh Bay and the
Highlands, and the Minnisink Historical
Society. He is also corresponding member
of the historical societies of various states.
In 1907 he edited an authoritative history
of Ulster County. He has written
many papers and delivered frequent
addresses in America, Holland and
France upon the influence of the Dutch and
Huguenots in the formation of the Ameri
can Republic, and has made a large collec
tion of original and unpublished manuscripts
relative to that subiect. He delivered the
address at the opening of the great Protes
tant Mission at Menilmontant, Paris,

France, in June, 1888, and the response to
the address of welcome to the Holland So
ciety made by the Burgomaster of Rotter
dam, Holland, on the occasion of the visit
of the Holland Society to that country in
1888. Judge Clearwater has been an ex
tensive and valued contributor to historical
literature, being author of : The Influence of
the Dutch and Huguenots in the Formation
of the American Republic; Louis XIV and
the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; The
Huguenot Settlement at New Paltz; in Ul
ster County; Huguenot Medals in the Brit
ish Museum ; Founders of New Amsterdam ;
Dutch Governors of New York; The Jur
ists of Holland ; Dutchmen of Albany and
the Iroquois; Lord North and the
American Colonies; Ulster in the War
of the Revolution; The Adoption of
the First Constitution of New York at
Kingston, 1777 ; The Struggle for the High
lands during the War of the Revolution;
The Inaugural of George Clinton, the First
Constitutional Governor of New York, at
Kingston ; also memorial addresses upon the
life and services of Abraham Lincoln, Gen
eral Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley;
Ulster in the War of the Rebellion; Pro
test Against the Destruction of the City Hall
of New York; Significance of Dutch Local
Names; Antiquity of Free Masonry; The
Trial of Christ from the Standpoint of a
Roman Lawyer of the Time of Tiberius.
Judge Clearwater has also written exten
sively on criminological and legal subjects
and public matter including: Heredity and
Criminal Propensity; Lombroso and the
Danger of Sentimental Criminology; Moral
Accountability of Criminals ; Goethe and the
Sentimentalists. At the request of the
Kingston Literary Club fie prepared and
read before it an address upon Delusions.
The Undervaluation of American Citizen
ship. At the request of the New York
State Bar Association he prepared and read
at its annual meeting in January, 1906, an
address upon The Disregard of Law. He
is a member of the Union League,
Metropolitan and Grolier Clubs of New
York City, one of the founders, a member,
governor, and former president of the
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founders of the Twaakfskill Club. Judge
Clearwater married in 1875, Anna Hough-
taling Farrand, daughter of Colonel Wil
liam D. Farrand, of San Francisco. Ad
dress : 316 Albany Avenue, Kingston, New
York.CLEARY, Peter Joseph Augustine:
. Physician, surgeon ; born on the island
of Malta, November 7, 1839; son of Pat
rick Cleary and Seraphina Laura Cleary.
He was reared and educated in Ireland,
and received his professional education in
Queen's University, Ireland (Galway
branch), and in Dublin hospitals, and was
graduated from the Royal College of Sur
geons (London), England, in i860. Dr.
Cleary came to the United States in August
i860, and practiced his profession in
Brooklyn, New York, until August, 1862,
when in response to a call for surgeons
by the Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton)
he volunteered and was ordered to Wash
ington and placed in charge of the wound
ed from second battle of Bull Run. He
became assistant surgeon of United States
Volunteers, October 4, 1862, and surgeon
of United States Volunteers, April 13,
1863. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel
for faithful and meritorious services,
August 9, 1865, and honorably mustered
out, August' 10, 1865. Most of his war
service was with the Army of the Cum
berland. He was with the first troops
of that Army to enter Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, in 1863, and received the first
wounded from the Battles of Chickamauga
September, 1863, and Mission Ridge, Nov
ember, 1863, in the Crutchfield Hotel,
which he converted into a hospital. He
was appointed in the Regular Army, as
•assistant surgeon, October 9, 1867, was
promoted captain, December 26, 1867;
major, January 30, 1883; lieutenant-colonel,
deputy surgeon-general, November 15,
1897; colonel and assistant surgeon-general
February 4, 1901 ; brigadier-general, Au
gust 6, 1903, and retired August 7,
1903. The larger part of his serv
ice in the Regular Army, was on the
Western frontier. He was chief surgeon
of the Department of Texas in 1896 and

until the Spanish-American War, in which
he served as chief surgeon of the Depart
ment of the Gulf. After the war he was
again chief surgeon of the Department of
Texas, until retired at his own request,
after more than forty years service as a
commissioned officer. General Cleary is a
Catholic in religion. He is a member of
several medical societies, clubs and army
societies. General Cleary married, at
Athens, Tennessee, September 28, 1865,
Sarah M., daughter of Judge Charles F.
Keith, and they have one son, Augustine
Patrick Cleary (born October 19, 1867).
Address: Care Adjutant General, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
CLEAVELAND, Frank Nash:
Lawyer; born at Russell, New York,
March 6, 1855; son of Francis and Harriet
(Ellsworth) Cleaveland. He was educated
at St. Lawrence University, graduating
with the degree of B.A. in 1877, and of
M.A. in 1882. He was admitted to the bar
in 1879, served as deputy county clerk of
St. Lawrence County from- 1883 to 1888,
and since then has been successfully en
gaged in the practice of law at Canton,
New York. He has always taken a great
interest in the welfare of his alma mater,
and he has been a trustee since 1891, and
secretary of the Board of Trustees since
1893, of St. Lawrence University. He is a
member of the State Bar Association, the
Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Beta
Theta Pi . fraternity. Mr. Cleaveland mar
ried at Canton, New York, December 16,
1889, Sara Abbie Kendall, and they have
one daughter, Dorothy Kendall Cleaveland
(born in 1891). Address: Canton, New
York.
CLELAND, McKenzie:
Municipal judge; born at Delhi, New
York, October 8, i860; son of William J.
Cleland and Judith (Wilson) Cleland.
After his graduation from Monmouth Col
lege at Monmouth, Illinois, with the A.M.
degree in 1882, he entered the law depart
ment of Washington University, from which
he was graduated as LL.B. in 1884. In the
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bar, and he afterward engaged in the prac
tice of law in Chicago. On the organiza
tion of the new Municipal Court in Chi
cago in 1906, he was elected justice and as
signed to the Maxwell Street branch. He
has administered the duties of the office on
the basis of the view that it is the purpose
of the law to keep men out of prison, and
with a most extensive use of the probation
and parole system, with remarkable results
in the reformation of offenders. Judge Mc-
Kenzie is prominent in religious work and
particularly in Bible-Class work in Chicago.
He is a member of the United Presbyterian
Church, and the Cook County Sunday
School Association. He organized a Bible
Class of men upon methods that made it
popular, and was made director of adult
work for the Cook County Association,
with the result that thousands of young
men represented in many churches were
organized in Bible Classes, with attractive
inter-class social relations. He presented
the work to the International Sunday
School Association at Toronto in 1905, with
the result that it became an international
movement. He was for six years president
of the Englewood Young Men's Christian
Association of Chicago, and he is a director
of the Bible Teachers' Training School of
New York City. Residence: 6439 Normal
Avenue, Chicago. Office address : Max
well Street Police Station, Chicago.
CLEM, John:
Colonel United States Army; born at
Newark, Ohio, August 13, 1851. He was
in his tenth year when the Civil War
began, and he several times tried to enlist
as a drummer boy, but was rejected be
cause of his extreme youth. He succeeded
in May, 1863, by securing enlistment as
musician in the Twenty-second Michigan
Volunteers, and he took part in the hot
fights and at Shiloh especially distinguish
ed himself, his drum being literally shot
full of holes, and his conduct on that oc
casion has endeared him to the country
and especially its veteran soldiers as The
Drummer Boy of Shiloh. At Chicka
mauga he threw away his drum, and, seiz
ing the musket of a fallen comrade he

entered tne ranks. Being called upon by
a Confederate soldier to surrender, he not
only refused to entertain the summary
proposition, but succeeded in placing his
would-be captor hors de combat He was
mustered out of the service in September,
1864, as lance sergeant of Company C of
the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, and
attended school. President Grant, in 1870,
appointed him to a place in the Artillery
Training School at Fort Monroe, and he
was commissioned second lieutenant in the
Twenty-fourth Infantry. He was promot
ed first lieutenant October 5, 1874; captain
and assistant quartermaster "September 12,
1883; major quartermaster September 22,
1896, lieutenant-colonel and deputy quar
termaster-general, October 26, 1901, colonel
and assistant quartermaster-general since
January 20, 1904. Address : Department
Headquarters, Department of California,
San Francisco, California.
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne:
Author; born in Florida, Missouri, No
vember 30, 1835 ; son of John Marshall and
Jane (Lampton) Clemens. He was edu
cated in the common schools at Hannibal,
Missouri, but has received several honor
ary degrees, including those of M!A. and
L.H.D. from Yale in 1901, LL.D. from the
University of Missouri in 1902, and Litt.D.
from the University of Oxford in 1907.
He began in 1848 as a worker at the print
ing trade, becoming an expert compositor
for several years, and later was a steam
boat pilot. He went in 1861 to Nevada, as
private secretary to his brother,, who had
been appointed Territorial secretary there.
He became city editor of the Virginia City
Enterprise in Nevada, where his gift of
humor first attracted attention. He was
afterward a miner in Calaveras County,
California, made a voyage to Hawaii, and
became a lecturer and writer of fiction
under the nom de plume of Mark Twain.
He published a book, called by the name of
his first story, The Jumping Frog of Cal
averas County, the success of which, to
gether with his humorous lectures, rapidly
extended his fame. He joined an excursion
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mortalized the trip in a book of exquisite
humor under the title of Innocents Abroad ;
was editor of the Buffalo Express from
1869 to 1871, and was connected with the
publishing house of Charles Webster &
Company from 1884 to 1891. The failure
of that house left him without means, and
in debt, and led him to make a lecture
tour around the world from 1895 to 1896,
by means of which he reestablished his
fortune and more than cleared his com
mercial honor. Mr. Clemens is author of:
The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
1867; Innocents Abroad, 1869; Roughing
It, 1872; the Gilded Age (with Charles
Dudley Warner), 1873; Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, 1876; A Tramp Abroad,
1880; The Stolen White Elephant, 1882;
The Prince and the Pauper, 1882; Life
on the Mississippi, 1883; Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, 1885; A Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur's Court, 1889 ; The
American Claimant, 1892; Merry Tales,
1892; The £1,000,000 Bank Note, 1893;
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894;
Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894; Personal
Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896; More
Tramps Abroad, 1897 ; Following the Equa
tor, 1897; The Man that Corrupted Had-
leyburg, 1900; A Double-Barreled Detective
Story, 1902; Christian Science, 1903, and
his Autobiography, now appearing serially
in the North American Review. He is a
member of the Authors and Lotos Clubs
of New York City. Mr. Clemens married
in 1870, Olivia L. Langdon, of Elmira, New
York, who died in 1904, and he has two
daughters : Clara L. and Jean Clemens.
Address : 21 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
CLEMENT, Edward Henry:
Editor; born at Chelsea, Massachusetts,
April 19, 1843 ; son of Cyrus Clement and
Rebecca Fiske (Shortridge) Clement. He
is a descendant of Robert Clement of Cov
entry, England, who came to Massachu
setts in 1843 and was chosen to buy and
survey the territory of Haverhill, which
town he afterward represented in the Gen
eral Court of Massachusetts. Mr. Clement
received his early education in the public
schools of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and

afterward entered Tufts College from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1864;
and he received from that college the de
gree of A.M. and of Litt. D. in 1904.
He began his newspaper career in 1864
as reporter of an army post newspaper
started with the deserted plant of the Sav
annah Daily News, and continued until
1867. He then returned north and worked
on several newspapers,, became chief proof
reader of the Boston Daily Advertiser in
1867, then went to the New York Tribune,
under the editorship of Horace Greeley
with John Russell Young as managing edi
tor, working as reporter, exchange editor,
telegraph editor and night editor. From
that he went to the Daily Advertiser, of
Newark, New Jersey, as managing editor,
and from 1871 to 1874 he was editor and
part proprietor of the Journal of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. In 1875 he was called to
Boston to become assistant editor of The
Transcript, then under the editorship of
William A. Hovey, and upon Mr. Hovey's
retirement in 1881, Mr. Clement was pro
moted to the position of editor-in-chief of
The Boston Transcript, from which he re
tired in 1906, still remaining on the editor
ial staff. He was one of the founders,
and is still a member of the Saint Botolph
Club, of Boston, and of the Massachusetts
Historical Society and is active in the bene
volent organizations of Boston. He mar
ried first at New York City, in 1869, Gert
rude Pound, and by that union there were
three children: John, Robert and Eleanor
F. L. Clement. He again married at Bos
ton In 1898, Josehine Hill Russell, and they
have one child, Joan. Residence: Brook-
line, Massachusetts. Office address: 324
Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
CLEMENT, George Ansel:
Lawyer; born at New York City, Feb
ruary 22, 1851 ; son of William J. and
Ann M. Clement. He was educated at the
Quackenbos Collegiate Institute, New York
City, and the Columbia College Law De
partment, graduating therefrom with the
degree of LL.B., and he studied law in the
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Dunning. He was editor of the Port Jer
vis Gazette about 1873; and returned to
New York City about 1876, where he has
since practiced his profession. He was a
law partner of General Horatio C. King
until the latter's removal to Brooklyn.
Mr. Clement was an officer on the staff
of Colonel William Seward of the Ninth
Regiment, of the National Guard of the
State of New York. He is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the Law Institute of New
York, and the New York State Bar Asso
ciation. Mr. Clement is editor of the An
notated edition of the Code of Civil Pro
cedure of the State of New York, and au
thor of a legal work on Fire Insurance.
Residence: 551 West One Hundred Fifty-
second Street. Address : 3 Broad Street,
New York City.
CLEMENT, Stephen M.:
Banker; born at Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, New York, November 4, 1859;
son of Stephen M. Clement and Sarah E.
(Leonard) Clement. He was prepared f
college at the Buffalo State Normal School.
and then entered Yale University, from
which he was graduated as B.A., in 1882.
After nine months' travel abroad follow
ing graduation he entered the Marine Bank,
April 1, 1883; was elected assistant cash
ier in December, 1883; became cashier
December, 1884, and has been its president
since 1895. He is also first vice-president
of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Com
pany, president and treasurer of the Buf
falo and Susquehanna Steamship Company;
director of the Buffalo Abstract Title
Company, the Ontario Power Company,
the Niagara and Ontario Transmission
Company, the Power City Bank of Niagara
Falls, and International Railway Company
and the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad
Company of Buffalo. He has been chair
man of the Buffalo Clearing House Com
mittee since 1892, and is president of the
Board of Trustees of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Clement is a Re
publican in politics and a Presbyterian in
religious affiliation. He is vice-president of
the Board of Trustees of the Buffalo State

Normal School ; president of the Board of
Trustees of Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation and treasurer of the Buffalo Or
phan Asylum. He is president of the Uni
versity Club of Buffalo, and a member of
the University Club of New York City,
and of the City, Buffalo and Country Clubs
of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Clement
married, at Buffalo, March 27, 1884, Caro
line J. Tripp, and they have five children.
Address: Marine National Bank, Buffalo,
New York.
CLENDENIN, Frank Montrose:
Clergyman; born at Washington, D. C,
September 17, 1853; son of George and
Charlotte Clendenin. He was educated at
Columbian (now George Washington)
University and at Princeton in the class of
1879; studied for the ministry and was or
dained to the priesthood in 1880, by Bishop
Seymour. He was rector of St. George's
Church, Belleville, Illinois, from 1880 to
1883, of Grace Church, Cleveland, Ohio,
from 1883 to 1887, and has been rector of
St. Peter's Church, Westchester Avenue,
New York City, since 1887. He received
the degree of S.T.D. from Nashotah (Wis
consin) Theological Seminary in 1893. Dr.
Clendenin took the leading part in the suc
cessful movement, covering several years
of strenuous contest, for the annexation of
West Chester and Pelham Park' to New
York City. He is author of : Idols by the
Sea and Other Sermons ; The Name of the
Church; and also numerous reviews, arti
cles, addresses and pamphlets. He is a
member of the Authors' Guild and the
Churchmen's Association, and of the City
and New York Clubs of New York City.
Dr. Clendenin married Gabrielle, daughter
of the late Horace Greeley. Address : The
Rectory, We'st Chester, New York City.
CLEVELAND, Frederick Albert:
Technical director of the Bureau of Mu
nicipal Research, New York; born at
Sterling, Illinois, March 17, 1865; son of
William Alexander Cleveland and Mary
Theodocia (Humaston) Cleveland. He
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sity Academy in 1885 and 1886 ; was gradu
ated from De Pauw University as Ph.B. in
1890; studied law from 1889 to 1891; prac
ticed law from 1891 to 1896; was a fellow
in political science in the University of
Chicago in 1897 and 1898; fellow in
economics of the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1899 and 1900, and received the
Ph.D. degree in 1900. Mr. Cleveland is a
member of the bar of the States of Wash
ington and New York. He was instructor
in finance in the University of Pennsylvania
from 1900 to 1903; professor of finance in
the School of Commerce, Accounts and
Finance of New York University, from
1903 to 1907; and has been associated with
Haskins and -Sells, certified public account
ants from 1903. He has been secretary of
the Committees on Municipal Accounts and
Statistics of the National Municipal League
since 1902; chairman of the Committee on
Municipal Finance and Statistics of the
American Economic Association, 1903;
member of the Advisory Committee on
Finance and Taxation appointed by Mayor
McClellan to investigate the finances of
New York, 1905 ; chairman of the Commit
tee on Accounting and Statistics of said
commission ; member of the committee ap
pointed by ^President Tifft to investigate
the methods of the Board of Education of
New York City, 1905 ; member of the com
mittee on Hospital Needs and Hospital Fi
nances of New York City, 1905 ; member of
cofnmittee on Physical Welfare of Children,
New York City, 1906 ; one of the organizers
and first trustee of the Bureau of Munici
pal Research of New York. Mr. Cleveland
is a member of the American Academy of
Political aiid Social Science, the American
Economic Association, American Political
Science Association, American Historical
Association, and the Phi Kappa Psi frater
nity. He is author of: The Growth of
Democracy in the United States, 1898;
Funds and their Uses, 1902; First Lessons
in Finance, 1903 ; The Bank and the Treas
ury, 1905. He was editor of: Business
Education and Accountancy, by Charles
Waldo Haskins ; collaborator on The Eco
nomic History of the United States (Car
negie Institution) ; contributor to the An

nals of The American Academy of Political
Science, the Political Science Quarterly,
Journal of Accountancy; North American
Review, and other journals. He is a mem
ber of the Graduates Club of New York
(director in 1906), and the City Club of
New York (director 1906, 1907), and the
Quadrangle Club of the University of Chi
cago. Mr. Cleveland married in Philadel
phia, July 17, 1902, Jessica England Lind
say (sister of Samuel M. Lindsay), and
they have one son, Lindsay Cleveland, born
in 1905. Residence: 235 West One Hun
dred and Second Street, New York City.
Office address : 32 East Twenty-third
Street, New York City.
CLEVELAND, Grover:
Former President of the United States;
born in Caldwell, New Jersey, March 13,
1837; son of Rev. Richard F Cleveland
and Ann (Neel) Cleveland. He received
an academic education, and Princeton Uni
versity in 1897 gave him the degree of
LL.D. He went to Buffalo, New York, in
1855, and became clerk in a law office. He
was admitted to the bar In 1859 and was
appointed assistant district attorney of Erie
County, New York, serving from 1863 to
1866, and he was sheriff of Erie County
from 1870 to 1873. I" 1873 he resumed
the practice of law and in 1881 was elected
mayor of Buffalo, and by his veto of ex
travagant appropriations, gained a reputa
tion as a reformer, which led to his nom
ination and election in 1882 as Governor
of the State of New York. In 1884 he was
elected as a Democrat to the office of
President of the United States, defeating
James G. Blaine, Republican nominee, by
thirty-seven electoral votes. He was again
Democratic nominee in 1888, but was de
feated by Benjamin Harrison. He then re
turned to the practice of law, locating in
New York City. He was reelected Presi
dent in 1892, serving from .1893 to 1897.
Since then he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Princeton University.
Upon the reorganization of the Equitable
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was appointed one of the trustees of a ma
jority of the stock of the Society, June 10,
1905. Mr. Cleveland's favorite recreations
are fishing and hunting. He is an occas
ional writer of articles on public affairs and
various topics. He married in the White
House, at Washington, June 2, 1886, Fran
ces Folsom. Address: Princeton, New
Jersey.
CLEVELAND, TreadweU, Jr.:
Editor and author; born at Plain-
field, New Jersey, May 18, 1872 ; son
of TreadweU Cleveland and Evelyn
Spalding (Mcintosh) Cleveland. Attended
classes at Harvard University for two
and a half years, was graduated from
Williams College as ,. B.A., in 1897,
and did post-graduate work in philosophy
at Columbia University, New York City;
M.A. in 1898. He was first employed in
the old Division of Forestry of the United
States Department of Agriculture, in 1899
and 1900; was a fellow in psychology,
Clark University, Worcester, Massachu
setts, in 1900 and 1901 ; and was on the edit
orial staff of the New York Evening World
from 1902 to 1905. He has been engaged
on editorial work for the Forest Service of
the United States Department of Agriculture
since 1905. Mr. Cleveland is author of:
A Night with Alessandro (Henry Holt) ;
the Crisis of Democracy (privately print
ed), and numerous magazine and news
paper articles, chiefly upon forestry. He
has traveled to Germany, France and Eng
land twice, and to Italy once. He is a
Socialist (of the Fabian School) in poli
tics. Mr. Cleveland is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and of the order
of the Modern Woodmen. He married at
Washington, D. C, November 1, 1899,
Margaret Teresa Boulger. Address : For
est Service, Washington, D. C.
CLEWS, Henry:
Banker and author, is a native of Staf
fordshire, England, his father an extensive
manufacturer of goods for the American
market. The son received a liberal pre
liminary education, it being the design of

his parents that he should enter the min
istry. Young Clews, however, did hot feel
altogether suited to the vocation selected
for him, so urged that he might be per
mitted to enter upon a field that would
be more in accord with his natural inclina
tions and vigorous energy, and which he
hoped might eventuate in a successful busi
ness, career. In this desire he was not
opposed by his parents, and at the age of
fifteen he was so fortunate as to obtain
the permission of his father to accompany
him on a business trip to this country. , He
was fascinated by the busy scenes which he
encountered in the metropolis of the New
World, and even with his immature mind
he was enabled to perceive the great op
portunities which were presented to the
ambitious young man. Upon his departure
from home it was no part of the father's
plan that he would return without his son.
It did not take the latter long, however,
after a survey of the field, to decide that
he would endeavor to'pursuade his father
to leave him behind. So urgently did he
prefer his request that he finally obtained
his parent's consent. This he not only
gave, but through his business connections
he was enabled to obtain for his son a
position as clerk in the large importing
house of Wilson G. Hunt & Co., where he
immediately applied himself to the acquire
ment of the knowledge in all its details
of the business of the concern. He soon
evinced an aptness and an industry that
brought him to the fayorable notice of his
employers, and he was from time to time
advanced to more responsible positions.
He served the house faithfully and efficient
ly for several years, but finally developed
an ambition to enter the field of finance.
So in 1857, the opportunity came to him
when he was enabled to become a member
of the newly organized banking firm of
Stout, Clews & Mason. The new firm met
with success from the start, on the
retirement of Mr. Stout, he was succeeded
by Mr. Charles F. Livermore, making the
firm Livermore, Clews & Co. The firm
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ous business when the great struggle be
tween the North and the South was be
gun. The financial needs of the Govern
ment at this eventful period were very
great Its credit was at a very low ebb,
and it was with the Utmost difficulty that
it was enabled to meet its current obliga
tions. The outgoing Administration, had
brought discredit upon the Treasury by its
' failure to float an emergency loan, and
this, in connection with the distracted poli
tical condition of the country led to a gen
eral feeling of fear in 'financial circles
that the obligations of the Government
might seriously depreciate. Mr. Clews and
his house were not of those who took this
pessimistic view of affairs. He had the
highest confidence in the ability of the
Government to suppress the rebellion, was
outspoken in his defence of the Union
cause, and was in consequence select
ed by Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary
of the Treasury in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet,
as one of the agents for the sale of the
bonds issued by the Government to meet
the extraordinary expenses of the war.
These bonds were not very favorably re
ceived by the business world, many finan
ciers regarding them as very risky securi
ties ; but Mr. ' Clews, though he knew the
Treasury was empty, had the utmost faith
in the strength and ability of the Govern
ment and the recuperative power of the
North, and not only invested every dollar
of his own in the bonds, but borrowed
largely on the bonds besides. The task he
had undertaken was one of great magni
tude and difficulty, and his exertions in its
successful prosecution have become a mat
ter of national history. Frequently during
the war period his firm subscribed to the
national loan at the rate of from five to
ten millions a day. It need scarcely be
said that his trust in the Government was
well placed, and that his v house benefited
largely by its faith. Secretary Chase- gave
well' deserved credit to Jay Cook and
Henry Clews for the-success in floating his
loans. He was outspoken in saying, "I
could never have succeeded in placing the
5-20 loan without their assistance." After

the war he made banking and brokerage
his business, though he retained his valu
able commission business in Government
bonds. The revival in railroad interests
that followed offered one of the most
valuable fields for investments, and his
house engaged in the negotiation of
railroad bonds in Europe, a line of
business in which it became extens
ively engaged. The present firm, that
of Henry Clews & Co., was form
ed in 1877. Its business has grown until
it is now probably wider and more varied
than that of any other banking house in the
country. There is no man in America
whose opinion in matters of finance is more
highly prized than that of the head of
this great firm. Mr. Clews has always
taken deep interest in American politics,
but merely to the extent of securing good
government, as he persistently declined to
accept an official position. Twice the port
folio of the Treasury Department has been
tendered him, and as often the Republican
nomination for Mayor of New York, but
business interests have in each case' forced
him to decline these proffered honors. He
also declined the post of Collector of the
Port of New York, offered him by Presi
dent Grant, and subsequently conferred up
on General Arthur. Yet he has not hesi
tated to act when reform became imper
ative, and to him is due the credit of
originating and organizing the famous
Committee of Seventy, before whose as
sault the Boss Tweed Ring went down.
His views on public or business affairs
are broad and liberal, his opinions on the
latter topic being admirably expressed in
his book entitled: Twenty-eight Years in
Wall Street, a work of great literary merit
and which has called but highly favorable
comment. He served for many years as
treasurer of the American Geographical
Society and the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, was one of the
founders of the Union League Club, has
long been a, member of the Union Club,
and is connected with many other institu
tions of the city. Throughout his career
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dustry, perseverance, and unyielding integ
rity, and his career and character form a
worthy example to the growing youth of
this- country. Iri 1874, Mr. Clews married
Miss Lucy' Madison Worthington, of Ken
tucky, grandniece of President Madison
and great granddaughter of General An
drew Lewis, next in command in the Re
volutionary War to General George Wash
ington. Address: 15 Broad Street, New
York City, and 630 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
CLIFFORD, Charles Warren:
Lawyer; bora at New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, August 19, 1844; son of John H.
and Sarah Parker (Allen) Clifford. He
was graduated from Harvard University
in 1865, with the degree of A.B., after
which he studied law with Judge Edmund
H. Bennett, of Taunton, and John C.
Dodge, of Boston, He completed his legal
studies at the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the bar in 1868. The
same year, for additional work, the degree
of A.M. was conferred upon him by Har
vard University. Since 1868 he has prac
ticed law in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He has been active in several commis
sions appointed to revise the Massachu
setts laws, and his prominence in his pro
fession is further shown by the fact that
he was sent to The Flague, to take part in
the International Arbitration between the
Unite'd States and Russia. He is connected
with the American Bar Association, as well
as a number of legal and social organiza
tions of Massachusetts. He was married
first at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on
May 5, 1869, to Frances L. Wood, and
second, March 15, 1876, to Wilhelmina H.
Crapo, of New Bedford. Address : New
Bedford, Massachusetts.
CLINCH, Edward Sears:
Lawyer; born in New York City; son of
Frederick and S. Sophia (De Milt)
Clinch. He was educated at the public
schools; was graduated from the College
of the City of New York as B.S., and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. He en
gaged in the practice of law and made a

specialty of the commercial, probate and
real estate branches of law. He was appoint
ed justice of the Supreme Court of the
State of New York for the First Judicial
District in 1906. Judge Clinch has always
been an active Republican. He served as a
member of the Republican County Commit
tee of New York County for fifteen years,
and was elected a presidential elector in
1904. He is a prominent Baptist layman,
vice-president of the New York City Bap
tist Mission Society, and a member of the
Baptist Social Union, the Municipal Art
Society, National Geographic Society, the
Audubon Society, New York Historical
Society, the American Society of Interna
tional Law, American Bar Association, the
New York State Bar Association, and As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, the American Museum of Natural
History. He is also a member of the
Hardware and Quill Clubs, and the Har
lem and Mt. Morris Republican Clubs.
Judge Clinch married at New York City,
September 15, 1869, Cornelia B. Todd. Ad
dress : 133 West One Hundred and Twen
ty-first Street, New York City.
CLINEDINST, Benjamin West:
Artist; born at Woodstock, Virginia, in
1859; son of Barnet M. and Mary Caro
line Clinedinst. He was educated at the
Virginia Military Institute, and, after fin
ishing there, went to Paris, and for sev
eral years studied art at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, and under the famous French
artists, Cabanel and Bonnat Mr. Cline
dinst is one of the best and most suc
cessful artists in the United States, both in
black and white and color work. He has
given considerable time to book and maga
zine illustrations, principally in the works
of Mark Twain, Harriet B. Stowe, George
W. Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Nathan
iel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Bret Harte. He is now engaged'large-
ly in portrait painting, having last year
painted the portraits of several prominent
Americans, among them being President
Roosevelt, General G.-W. Custis Lee, Gen
eral John Clous and others. He was, from
its inception to its close, professor in the
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of Art, and is now director of the Wo
men's School of Applied Design of New
York City, the School of Illustration, and
the 'Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. In
1900 he was awarded the Evans Prize by
the American Water Color Society, and he
received medals at .lhe--Buffalo Exposition
in 1901, and at the Charleston Exposition
in 1902. He is affiliated with the Demo
cratic party in politics, and he is a member
of the Presbyterian Church. He is mem
ber of the National Academy of Design, of
the American Water Color Society, the So
ciety of American Artists, of the Phi Kappa
and various Masonic fraternities ; he is also
a member of the Century and Fencers'
Clubs of New York City. Mr. Clinedinst
spends much of his leisure time in riding
and driving. He was married at Baltimore,
in 1888, to Emily Gertrude Waters, and
has two children: Josephine H., born in
1892, and Wendel W., born in 1895. Resi
dence : Pawling, New York. Address :
7 West Forty-third Street, New York City.
CLINTON, Charles William:
Architect; born at New York City, 1838;
son of Dr. Alexander and Adeline Arden
(Hamilton) Clinton. He is a descendant
of an old New York family, being great-
grandson of Gerieral James Clinton and
grand-nephew of Governor De Witt Clin
ton. He received his education in the
schools of New York City. Mr. Clinton
has been engaged as an architect for many
years and is now senior member of the
firm of Clinton & Russell, architects. He
was architect of the Mutual Life Insurance
Building, of the Seventh Regiment Armory,
the Brown Brothers & Company, Wilkes,
Central Trust, Bank of America, Mechan
ics' Bank, Continental Insurance and
Stokes Buildings, and, in connection with
Mr. Russell, of The Broad-Exchange, Ex
change Court, Wall-Exchange, Atlantic
Mutual, Sixty Wall Street, "Hotel As
tor, Seventy-first Regiment Armory, and
other - important buildings. Mr. Clinton
is a member of the Seventh Regi
ment of the National Guard of the
State of New York; is a member
and has served as vice-president of

the American Institute of Architects.
He is a member of the Chamber of Com
merce, the Architectural League, the Mu
nicipal Arts Society, and of the Tuxedo,
Riding, New York Yacht, and Century
Clubs of New York City. He married
Emily de S. Gorsuch, and of that marriage
were born, three children: "Charles Ken
neth Clinton, born in 1889; Margery Ham
ilton Clinton, and De Witt Clinton, born
December 1, 1893, died 1895. Address :
39. East Fifty-seventh Street, New York
City.
CLINTON, George:
Lawyer ; born at -Buffalo, New York,
September 7, 1846. He received his gen
eral education in the schools of his native
city and then entered the Law School of
Columbia University, from which he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1868. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the State of New York
in 1868, and has since then been continuously
engaged -in the practice of law. He was
member of the Assembly of the State of
New York in 1884, and afterward served
as a park commissioner of the city of Buf
falo, and as chairman of the Board of Trunk
Sewer Commissioners of the city of Buffalo.
He was president of the Merchants' Ex
change of Buffalo in 1893 and was a mem
ber of the commission to investigate the
expenditure- of nine million /dollars' for canal
improvement, in 1898. He is a member of
the International Waterways Commission
(of the United States and Great Britain}
appointed in 1902, and is president of the
Erie County Bar Association. Mr. Clinton
is also a member of the Buffalo Historical
Society, of the Buffalo Society of Natural
Science, of the Permanent International
Association of Navigation Congresses and
of the American Society of International
Law. Address : Buffalo, New York.
CLOTHIER, Isaac H.:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, Novem
ber 5, 1837. He was educated in the Friends'
Schools and 'received the degree of A.M.
conferred by Swarthmore-College, in June,
1903. He was active in the management Of
the firm of Strawbridge and Clothier, from
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ness. Mr. Clother is a director in the
Girard Trust Company, the Keystone Watch
Company, the Seaboard Steel Casting Com
pany, and the Standard Roller Bearing Com
pany, and- is said to be the largest non
resident owner of New York real estate.
He is a Republican in politics; a member
of the Society of Friends; manager of
Swarthmore College, the Merchants' Fund,
and the School of Industrial Art ; trustee of
the Williamson School and of the Free
Library of Philadelphia, etc. His tastes are
distinctly literary and he is a writer of force
and clearness. In 1864 he married Mary C.
Jackson, daughter of William Jackson. Ad
dress : Eighth and Market Streets, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
CLOTHIER, Morris L,:
Merchant. He is a member of the firm
of Strawbridge and Clothier, department
store; is a director of the Girard National
Bank of Philadelphia; a trustee of the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
director of the Seaboard Steel Casting
Company, the Kanawha Valley Traction
Company and the Camden Railway. He is
also a director of the Union League of
Philadelphia. Address: 801 Market St.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CLOUGH-LEIGHTER, Henry:
Composer, organist and editor; born at
Washington, D. C., May 13, 1874; son of
James Henry Leighter and Sarah Kather-
ine (Humphries) Leighter. The agnomen
of Clough was given him at baptism for
perpetuity as a surname in connection
with his father's name of Leighter, for
reasons of peculiar romantic interest in the
matter of family history. He was educat
ed at the Columbian College, Washington,
and also took a musical course in Trinity
University, Toronto, Canada. He has been
an organist since 1888, holding positions
of note in St. Michael and All Angels',
Church of the Incarnation, Epiphany Par
ish and the Jewish Synagogue at Wash
ington, also in Grace Church, Providence,
Rhode Island, and the First Parish Church
of Milton, Massachusetts; and has been
music editor of the Oliver Ditson Publish

ing House, Boston, since 1903. He is au
thor and editor of many and varied musi
cal writings, technical works and literature
pertaining to music. He is a Protestant
Episcopalian in religion; and he is a mem
ber of the American Guild of Organists.
Mr. Clough-Leighter married at Provid
ence, Rhode Island, July 3, 1900, Charlotte
Noble Grant, and they have two children;
Cosnet Clough-Leighter and Hope Clough-
Leighter. Residence: 26 West- Street,
Boston. Address: 150 Tremortt Street,
Boston, Massachusetts. ¦ '
CLOUS, John Walter:
Brigadier-General United States Army,
retired ; born in Germany June 9, 1837. He
was educated in German gymnasia and took
a course in civil law, but in 1855 came to
the United States and followed business
pursuits until February 2, 1857, when he
enlisted as a private of Company K, and
a member of the band of the Ninth In
fantry, serving until November 5, i860; be
came private and corporal of Company K
and later quartermaster's sergeant in the
Sixth Infantry from February 9, 1861, until
December 7, 1862'; when he was commis
sioned second lieutenant , in the Sixth In
fantry. He was twice brevetted for gallant
conduct at Gettysburg, and was promoted
first lieutenant, March 28, 1865, captain in
the Thirty-eighth Infantry, January 22,
1867. He was adjutant-general of the Sec:
ond Military District during the Recon
struction period; and he finished his law
studies and was admitted to the bar of- the
United States Supreme Court. From 1868
to 1886 his service was on the frontier, and
he earned distinction for gallantry in In
dian campaigns. From 1862 to 1886 his
legal knowledge secured him frequent ap
pointment as judge-advocate in important
trials and court-martials, and April 1, 1886,
he was commissioned major- judge-advo
cate; promoted February 12, 1892, lieuten-..
ant-colonel and deputy judge-advocate-gen
eral, colonel-judge-advocate, February 2,
1901, and brigadier-general, judge advocate
general, May 22, 1901, and retired May 24,
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service. He was brigadier-general of Vol
unteers from September 21, 1898, to March
24, i8g9, serving on the staff of Major-
General Merritt; and he was on the staff
of Major-General Miles while in the field
in the Spanish-American War, and after
ward on the staff of Major-General Brooke;
and he was secretary and recorder of the
Commission for the Evacuation of Cuba.
General Clous is a companion of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, member
of the Society of Foreign Wars and the So
ciety of the Spanish-American War, and
he is a member of the Army and Navy
Club of Washington, and of the Century
Association and the Army and Navy Club,
New York City. Address : Century Asso
ciation, New York City.
CLOVER, Richardson:
Naval officer. He was graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1867. He was ap
pointed ensign December 18, 1868; master,
March 21, 1870; lieutenant, March 21,
1871 ; lieutenant-commander, May 19, 1891 ;
commander, September 14, 1897; captain,
April 11, 1902. He has served in various
stations and departments', notably in the
Coast Survey service, in charge of the
survey of southeast Alaska from 1885 to
1886; hydrographer of the Bureau of
Navigation, from 1889 to 1893; chief of the
Office of Naval Intelligence, from 1897 to
1898; and a member of the War and
Strategy Board from March 15 to April 25,
1898.. He commanded the United States
Steamer Bancroft from May 1, 1898, to the
end of the Spanish-American War. He
then returned to the Naval Intelligence Of
fice ; was naval attache in London from
1900 to- 1903, and since December, 1903, has
been commanding the United States Steam
er, Wisconsin on the Asiatic Station. Cap
tain Clover is a member of the National
Geographic Society and of the Metropolitan
Country/and Chevy Chase Clubs at Wash
ington ; and the University and New York
Yacht Clubs at New York City." He mar
ried ,May 19, 1886, Mary Eudora, daugh
ter of the late General John F' Miller, sen
ator from California. Residence-. 1535
New Hampshire Avenue, ?Washingtoh, D. C.

CLOVER, Samuel Travers:
Editor ; born in London, England, August
l3, 1859; son of John James Clover and
Esther Ann (Greager) Clover. He re
ceived a good academic education and came
to the United States; made a trip around
the world in 1880 ; worked on Dakota news
papers for five years and as .a staff corres
pondent of the Chicago Herald reported
the Cheyenne Indian outbreak in 1890, and
the Messiah uprising among the Sioux in
1891. He was present at the final Ghost
Dance led by Sitting Bull and was prob
ably the last white to see that famous chief
alive. He was the only newspaperman who
was with the Vigilantes through the John
son County War in Wyoming in 1892, and
he was witness to many of the exciting
scenes during the last years of the frontier.
In 1894 he became managing editor of the
Chicago Evening Post, and from there he
went to Los Angeles, California, where,
after being editor and general manager of
the Los Angeles Express for four years, he
established the Los Angeles Evening News,
of which he is editor and publisher. Mr.
Clover has written for newspapers and mag
azines many stories and poems of Western
life, and he is author also of several vol
umes, including: -Paul Travers' Adven
tures; Glimpses Across the Sea; From
Rose Reef to Buluwayo; On Special As
signment, etc. Mr. Clover married at Ore
gon, Illinois, April 3, 1884, Mabel Hitt, and
they have five children : Katherine, born in
1885; Margery, born in 1888; Philip, born
in 1893; Paul, born In 1895, and Greager,
born in 1897. Address :,The Evening News,
Los Angeles, California.
CLtTTE, Willard Nelson:
Editor, educator; born at Painted Post,
New York, February 26, 1869; son of
George N. and Ruth A.' (Wright) Clute.
He was educated in the public schools and
at the University of Chicago. He was
editor and founder of The Ornithologist
and Botanist, in 1890; The Fern Bulletin
in 1893, and The American Botanist in
1901. He was publisher of The Bryologist
and Plant World and originally half owner
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Botanical Garden, from 1896 to 1899, and
made a botanical expedition to Jamaica in
1900. Mr. Clute has been head of biology
at the Joliet Township (Illinois) high
school since 1903, and has been president
of Willard N. Clute & Company, Joliet,
Illinois. He was founder and first presi
dent of the American Fern Society, and is
now its secretary; is a member of the Na
tional Geographic Society, and of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. His favorite recreations are
botany, ornithology and entomology. He is
author of: Our Ferns in Their Haunts,
1902; Fern Allies of North America, 1905;
Flora of Upper Susquehanna, 1898; Fern
Collector's Guide, 1903; and also many
short papers, including: Ferns of Upper
Susquehanna, and Making an Herbarium.
Mr. Clute married at Binghamton, New
York, December 22, 1897, Ida Martin, and
they have one daughter, Beulah Katharine,
born in 1900. Address : Joliet, Illinois.
COAN, Titus Munson:
Physician, author and editor; born at
Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, September 27,
1836; son of Titus Coan and Fidelia
(Church) Coan. He was educated at the
Punahou School, Honolulu, the Royal
School of Honolulu, also in Yale College,
Williams College, where he received the
degree of A.B. (1859), and later that of
A.M.; and the New York College of Phys
icians and Surgeons, graduating in 1861
with the degree of M.D. Dr. Coan made
a voyage around Cape Horn in a whaler
in 1856. From 1861 to 1863 he was interne
in Bellevue Island and Army Hospital, and
from 1863 to 1865 was acting assistant
surgeon in the United States Navy in the
West Gulf Squadron under Farragut. He
has made many visits to Europe, and was
.in medical practice in New York City for
many years. Dr. Coan is the author of
technical papers on mineral waters and
health resorts, critical esays and verse. In
1880 he founded and is now director of the
New York Bureau of Literary Revision.
He is also author of: Ounces of Preven
tion; Hawaiian Ethnography; Hawaiian
Climate; French Mineral Springs, etc: He

is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Socie
ty and the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. He is also a member of the Cen
tury, the Authors, and the Neighborhood
Clubs, and the German Liederkranz. Dr.
Coan is a widower and has two sons:
Phillip Munson and Leon Hamilton. Ad
dress: 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
COATES, Crawford:
Architect and ranch owner; born in
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, May
24, 1866; son of H. Crawford Coates and
Sarah T. (Holmes) Coates. He was edu
cated in the William Penn Charter School
at Philadelphia, and in the University of
Philadelphia. He practiced architecture in
Philadelphia, as Crawford Coates, then as
Day and Coates, and later as Dull and
Coates. In 1906 he moved to Coates,
Latah County, Idaho, where he has a
timber ranch of one hundred and sixty
acres. He has traveled in South Africa,
in Ariierica from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Oceans, in South America, the West
Indies, Europe, Canada, and Porto Rico.
He was secretary of the Committee of
Fifty which elected Alexander Crow
Mayor of Philadelphia. He served as first
gunner's mate in the Pennsylvania Naval
Battalion, and as gun corporal of Battery
A in the United otates troops in Porto
Rico. He is a Republican in politics and
a Presbyterian in religion. Mr. Coates has
served as notary public, postmaster and
justice of the peace. He is now superinten
dent of Upper Cram Creek Sunday School,
is a member of the Philomathian Society,
the Zeta Psi fraternity, and "the Philadel
phia Institute of Architects. His favorite
recreations include cricket, baseball, tennis,
golf, football, billiards, pool, bowling, etc.
He is a member of the Belmont Cricket
Club at Philadelphia, the Sketch Club, T-
Square Club, Engineers' Club, Pennsylva
nia Club, and Young Republican Club of
Philadelphia, and the Butterfly Cricket
Club of London, England. He married, at
Philadelphia, June 4, 1904, Laura Louis
Coates, and they have a son, H. Crawford
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dress : Coates, Latah County, Idaho, via
Palouse, Washington, D. C
COATES, Edward Horner:
President of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts; born in November, 1846.
He was graduated from Haverford Col
lege in i860; from 1883 to 1890 he was
chairman of the Committee on Instruction
of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, and in 1883 was chairman of the
Muybridge Commission for Investigation of
Animal. Locomotion at the University of
Pennsylvania. Since 1890 Mr. Coates has
been president of the Pennsylvania Acade
my of Fine Arts. Address: Willing Ter
race, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
COATES, George Morrison:
Physician; born in Germantown, Phil
adelphia, March 24, 1874; son of Joseph
Horner Coates and grandson of George
Morrison Coates. His preparatory educa
tion began at Haverford Grammar School.
He received the degree of A.B. in 1894,
and M.D. in 1897, from the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Coates was appointed
assistant surgeon in the United States
Navy on April 25, 1898, and served during
the Spanish-American War on the United
States Receiving Ship Richmond, at League
Island, and on the United States Cruiser
New Orleans on the Cuban and Porto
Rican coasts,. taking part in numerous bom
bardments', and was honorably discharged
on October 8, 1898. He then served as
resident physician in St. Christopher's Hos
pital for Children (Philadelphia), and in
the Pennsylvania Hospital until 1901, and
since then has been engaged in the
practice of medicine. Dr. Coates was com
missioned first lieutenant and assistant sur
geon in the National Guard of Pennsylva
nia on June 25, 1900, and major and sur
geon, January 12, 1903. He was attached
tothe Second Infantry, National Guard of
Pennsylvania, and Is now holding the po
sitions of associate professor of diseases of
the throat and nose in the Philadelphia
Polyclinic and College for Graduates in
Medicine, laryngologist to the Pennsylvania

Institution for the Instruction of the
Blind; laryngologist to .the Henry Phipps
Institute for the Study, Prevention and
Treatment of Tuberculosis, at Philadelphia ;
is a fellow of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia, fellow of the American
Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological
Society and a member of the Philadelphia
Pathological Society, Pennsylvania State
Medical Society, the American Medical As
sociation, and the H. C. Wood Medical So
ciety. Dr. Coates is a veteran Compan
ion of the Military Order of Foreign
Wars, a life member of the Philadelphia
Zoological Society, a member of the Nation
al Guard Association of Philadelphia, the
Medical Club, Markham Club, University
Barge Club of Philadelphia, and the Uni
versity Club of Philadelphia. Address : 334
South Nineteenth Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
COATES, Henry T.:
Publisher; born in Philadelphia, Septem
ber 29, 1843. He was graduated at Haver
ford College in 1862. In 1866 he entered
into the , publishing business in Philadel
phia as a member of the firm of Porter
& Coates, subsequently changed, on the
withdrawal of Mr. Porter, to Henry T.
Coates & Company. For years the estab
lishment of the firm was one of the lead
ing retail book stores of Philadelphia. In
1905 he retired from business, and now
lives at Berwyn, Pennsylvania. He edited
the Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry, in
1878, and Children's Book of Poetry, in
1879; and wrote A Short Flistory of the
American Trotting and Pacing Horse, in
1901.' Mr. Coates is a member of the
Union League, Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, etc.; and treasurer of the Phila
delphia Zoological Society. He married iri
1874, Estelle B. Lloyd. Address: Berwyn,
Pennsylvania.
COBB, Andrew Jackson:
Supreme Court justice ; born in Athens,
Georgia, April 12, 1857 ; son of Howell
Cobb (governor of Georgia from 1851 to
1853, and afterward. United States senator)
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graduation from the University of Georgia
as A.B. in 1876, and from the law depart
ment of the same institution in 1.877, he
engaged in the practice of law at Athens,
Georgia. He was professor of law in the
University of Georgia from 1884 to 1893;
city attorney of Athens from 1887 to 1891 ;
member for four years and president in
1889 of the Board of Education of Athens ;
was trustee of the University of Georgia
from 1891 to 1893, and dean of the At
lanta Law School from 1893 to 1898. He
became a member of the bench of the Su
preme Court of Georgia in 1896, and has
ever since served in that court as associate
justice, his present term expiring in Janu
ary, 1909. In politics he is a Democrat,
and in religion he is a deacon in the Mis
sionary Baptist Church. Judge Cobb mar
ried, at Griffin, Georgia, March 3, 1880,
Stafkie Campbell, who died February 26,
1901. Residence : Athens, Georgia. Official
address : State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
COBB, George H.:
Lawyer and State Senator; born in the
town of Hounsfield, Jefferson County, 1864.
While a youth he was at his father's farm
near Sacket Harbor, New York, and at an
early age he began teaching in the coun
try schools of his county, and later took a
course and was graduated from the Pots
dam State Normal School in June, 1886.
After serving for two years as the principal
of the graded school at Hammond, New
York, he entered the law offices of the
firm of Lansing & Rogers, which! consisted
of the Hon. Frederick Lansing,- who at one
one time represented Mr. Cobb's senate dis
trict in the State Senate, and Watson M.
Rogers, now a justice of the Supreme
Court; and he was admitted to the bar in
1891. He is now the senior member of the
law firm of Cobb & Cosgrove, and has a
large practice. Shortly after his admission
he received the appointment of deputy
county clerk, which position he held until
the following year when he was elected
city judge of the city of Watertown, serv
ing in this capacity for a term of ' four
years. In the fall of 1898 he was nomin
ated and elected district attorney. Three

years later he was renominated without op
position, and was serving his last year of
the second term in 1904, when he was nom
inated as a Republican and elected to the
State Senate, and he was reelected in 1906.
Mr. Cobb was appointed chairman of the
Senate Committee on Forest, Fish and
Game, in 1907; and is a member Of the
Senate Committee on Judiciary, Railroads,
Privileges and Elections. Address : Water-
town, ' New York.
COBB, Joseph Fettle:
Physician; born in Massachusetts, June
12, 1857; son of Edward W. Cobb and
Elmina (Howard) Cobb. He was educated
in the Waltham (Massachusetts) New
Church School, and at Harvard University,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1879, and was graduated from the Hahne
mann Medical College of Chicago as M.D.
in 1883. Dr. Cobb has practiced medicine
in Chicago since 1883. He is president and
trustee of the Buffalo Rock Tent Villa
Company, the Chicago Society of the
New Jerusalem Church; and was registrar
from 1894 to 1900 of the Hahne
mann Medical College of Chicago as M.D.
he is now senior professor of paediatrics.
He is a Republican in politics; and in re
ligion he is a Swedenborgian, or member
of the Church of the New. Jerusalem. Dr.
Cobb is a member and ex-president of the
American Institute of Homoeopathy; mem
ber of the faculty of the Hahnemann Med
ical College and Hospital since 1888; mem
ber of the Southern Homoeopathic Society,
Illinois Homoeopathic- Me'dical Association,
the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Society
and the Clinical Society of Chicago. He is
past master of Lakeside Lodge (Masonic),
and is a member of the Chicago Athletic
Association, the Kenwood Club,' South
Shore Club of Chicago, and the Unan
imous Club of New York City. Dr. Cobb
married at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Septero-
ber 18, 1882, Edith' H. Persons, and they
have a son : Edward P. Cobb, born in 1883.
Residence: 254 East Forty-seventh S.treet,
Chicago. Office address : 42 Madison
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COBB, William T..
Governor of Maine; elected governor in
1904 and reelected in 1906 ; term expires in
1908. He is a Republican. Residence :
Rockland. Official address : Augusta, Maine.
COBERN, Camden McCormick:
Clergyman and educator; born at Union-
town, Pennsylvania, April 19, .1855; son
of Simon Peter and Mary" Ellen Cobern.
He received his early education in the pub
lic schools and then entered Allegheny
College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, whence
he was graduated as A.B. in 1876,
and A.M. in 1878; and he was
graduated with the degree of S.T.B.
from the Divinity School of Boston
University in 1883. He was or.dained in
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1876 and has held many leading
pastorates, such as Ann Arbor, Michigan
(1891-1896), Trinity Church, Denver, Col
orado, (1896-1901) ; St. James' Church, Chi.-
cago, Illinois (1901-1905). He was a mem
ber of the General Conference, 1896, and of
the Joint Hymnal Commission (1900-1904).
He studied in England and Germany in
1889 and 1890, and has since that time
spent six summers in the British Museum.
He has received the . honorary degrees of
Ph.D. from Grant University, and of D.D.
from Allegheny College. He has been a
member of the Erie, Detroit, Colorado
and Rock River- (Chicago) Annual Confer
ences. In September, 1905, he resigned the
pastorate of the Ravenswood Methodist
Church, Chicago, to accept the Thoburn
chair of English Bible and philosophy of
religion in Allegheny College, Meadville,
Pennsylvania, which position he now oc
cupies. He has earned merited distinction
as a scholar as well as a preacher; has
contributed extensively to the Methodist
Review, and has written extensively on
archaeology and Egyptian exploration, to
the Homiletic Review and other publica
tions. He is also a contributor to Hast
ings Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels
(Edinborough, 1907), and other foreign
publications of distinction. He is author of :
Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern

Discovery, 1892; Critical Commentary on
the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel (Whedon
Series), 1901 ; The Stars and the Book,
1904; Bible Etchings of Immortality, 1905.
Dr. Cobern was sometime local honorary
secretary of the Egyptian and Palestine
Exploration Funds ; is an associate member
of the Biblical Archaeological Society of
London, and life associate of the Victoria
Institute of Great Britain. He married
at Erie, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1883,
Ernestine Craft ; children : Miriam, born
March 9, 1891 ; Ernestine, born August 4,
1893 ; Camden, born December 9, 1895. Ad
dress: 360 North Main Street, Meadville,
Pennsylvania.
COBURN, Edward Bernard:
Physician, ophthalmologist and otologist;
born in Troy, New York, February 6, ,1868 ;
son of Edward S. Coburn and Harriet A.
(Bernard) Coburn. He was graduated
from Union College as A.B. in 1888, and
A.M. in 1891, and from Albany Medical
College as M.D. in 1890; took post-gradu
ate studies in New York City in 1890 and
1891 ; in Paris, Heidelberg, Vienna, Berlin
and London, in 1891 and 1892. He was
clinical assistant in the Vanderbilt Clinic,
College of Physicians and Surgeons; in
structor in the New York Polyclinic; as
sistant surgeon in the New York Ophthal
mic and Aural Institute; clinical assistant
in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital.
He is now attending surgeon in the Cor
nell Medical College Dispensary, and as
sistant surgeon and pathologist in the New
Amsterdam Eye and Ear Hospital. He is
a Republican in politics and a Baptist in re
ligion. Dr. Coburn is a member of the
New York County Medical Society; fel
low of the New York Academy of Medi
cine, and a member of the Society of the
Sigma Xi, and the Sons of the American
Revolution, and of the Beta Theta Pi Club.
Address : 16 East Forty-third Street, New
York City.
COBURN, John:
Lawyer; born at Indianapolis, Indiana,
October 27, 1825 ; son of Henry P. Coburn.
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receiving the degrees of A.B. in 1846 and
A.M. in 1852. In 1898 the degree of LL.
B. was conferred upon him by the same
institution. He studied law in Indianapo
lis, and was admitted to the bar there. In
1850 he was elected as a candidate of the
Republican party to the Indiana House of
Representatives for one term, and in 1859
became judge in the Court of Common
Pleas, serving until 1861, when he joined
the Union Army. He fought in the Army
of the Cumberland, and was colonel of the
Thirty-third Regiment of Indiana Volun
teer Infantry until September, 1864, when,
by reason of his bravery and fidelity
to duty, he was promoted to the
rank of brevet brigadier-general. At
the close of the war he resumed
the practice of his profession. He
was judge of the Circuit Court during the
year 1865-6, and in 1867 was elected to the
United States House of Representatives,
in which he served, by successive reelec-
tions, until 1875. In 1884 he became judge
of the Supreme Court of Montana, which
office he held for two years. Throughout
his entire life he has shown an unflagging
energy in promoting the public welfare, and
for the past fifty-seven years has been act
ive in campaign work, gaining for himself
a wide reputation as an eloquent orator.
He was married at Indianapolis, Indiana,
March 9, .1852, to Caroline A. Test. Ad
dress : 1518 Hendricks Street, Indianapo
lis, Jndiana. Office : 531 Lemcke Building,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
COCHRAN, A. M. J.:
Jurist. He was engaged in the practice
of law in Kentucky until appointed by
President McKinley in 1901 to the office of
judge of the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Kentucky. . He
is a Republican in politics. Address : Mays-
ville, Kentucky.
COCHRAN, Carlos Bingham:
Professor of chemistry; born at Albion,
Michigan, July 1, 1854; son of Isaac C.
Cochran and Julia B. (Bingham) Coch
ran. He- was educated in the Ann Arbor
High School and was graduated from the

University of Michigan as BA. in 1877,
M.A. in 1888, and received the degree of
ScD. from the same institution in 1907.
He was professor of natural sciences at
the State Normal School, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, from 1879 to 1892; professor
of physical sciences there, from 1892 to
1903, and has been professor of chemistry
in the same institution since 1903. Dr.
Cochran has been microscopist and hygi-
enist of the Pennsylvania State Board of
Agriculture since 1884; was chemist to the
Dairy Commissioner of Pennsylvania from
1885 to 1895, and has been chemist to the
Dairy and Food Commission of Pennsylva
nia since 1895. He has also been chemist of
Philadelphia Milk Exchange since 1889; and
a member of the West Chester Board of
Health since 1897. He was a member of
the Board of Judges of the Philadelphia
National Export Exposition held eight or
ten years ago, and has served as a mem
ber of the Committee of Awards of Frank
lin Institute on various occasions, etc. He
is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and a
member of the American Chemical Society,
the Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists, and the Society of Chemical. In
dustry, and Franklin Institute. Dr., Coch
ran is also a member of the West Chester
Country, and Brandywine Boat and Canoe
Clubs. He married in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, in 1885, Sara B. Marshall,
and they have two children: Grace, born
in 1889, and Marshall, born in 1894. Res
idence: 514 South High Street, West
Chester, Pennsylvania. Address: Labora
tory at 28 West Market Street, West
Chester, Pennsylvania.
COCHRANE, Henry Clay:
Brigadier-General United States Marine
Corps; born in Chester, Pennsylvania,
1842; son of James Cochrane and Sarah
J. Gillespie. He was educated in the best
schools of that section and Philadelphia,
and was one of the first to volunteer his
services in the Civil War; was examined
and passed for a lieutenancy in the Marine
Corps, but being urider the' required age
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mirals Goldsborough, Dupont and Farragut,
until 1863, when he was appointed lieuten
ant; took part in the battle of Port Royal,
South Carolina, in his nineteenth birthday,
and during the following forty years served
at the Naval Academy, War College, every
Navy Yard on the Atlantic and , Pacific
Coasts; also in Alaska, Honolulu, Mexico,
Central and South America, the West In
dies, Europe, Africa, China and the Phil
ippines. He ' spent fifteen years at sea,
cruising in ships from the old sailing ves
sel Jamestown to the modern flagship
Philadelphia ; . helped to suppress labor riots
(1877) and arson and pillage abroad, in
Alexandria, Egypt, after the bombardment
of that city by the English in 1882, also
on the Isthmus of Panama, in 1885; was
present at the coronation of Czar Alex
ander III. in Moscow, and decorated with
the Cross of the Legion of Honor by Presi
dent Carnot of France, for services at the
Universal Exposition of 1889, where he
commanded a detachment of United States
marines. During the war with Spain he
was major of the famous Marine Battalion
that held the heights of Guantanamo, Cuba,
and detailed as governor of City of Man
zanillo; sent to China in 1900 when the
foreign legations were besieged in Pekin,
in which remarkable campaign his regiment
lost a captain and over thirty men; order
ed to Manila and organized and command-
ed First Brigade of Marines ; then ap
pointed military governor of the Peninsula
of Cavite. He was promoted to brigadier-
general and retired upon his own applica
tion after forty years' service March 10,
1905. He is a companion of the Pennsyl
vania Commandery of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, and member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Military Or
der of Foreign Wars, Military Order of
the Dragon, and other societies. Brigadier-
general Cochrane married, in 1887, Eliza
beth F., daughter of Captain Edward P.
Lull, United States Navy, then command
ant of the Navy Yard at Pensacola. Per
manent address: Chester, Pennsylvania.
COCKRELL, Francis Marlon:
Lawyer; born on a farm in Johnson

County, Missouri, October I, 1834. He
was graduated from Chapel Hill College
in 1853, with the degree of A.B. He then
went to Warrensburg, where he studied
law and was admitted to the bar. In 1861
he joined the Confederate Army and in
recognition of valuable services rendered
was advanced successively to the rank of
captain, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brig
adier-general. At the close of the war he
resumed his practice, and became promin
ent as a member of various committees
appointed to investigate affairs of State.
As a member of the Democratic party he
was elected to the United States Senate
in 1875, in which he served' by successive
reelectioris, until 1905, when he became a
member of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Residence : Warrensburg, . Mis
souri. Office address: 1518 R Street,
Washington, D. C.
COCKS, William Willets: j,
Farmer and Congressman ; born at West-
bury, Long Island, New York, July 24,
1861; son of Isaac H. and Mary T. (Wil
lets) Cocks. He is a descendant of old
colonial families, his ancestors having set
tled on Long Island in the year 1642. He
was educated at Swarthmore College, and
was a member of the class of 1881. He still
takes an active interest in educational mat
ters, and is one of the trustees of Friends'
Academy, at Locust Valley, Long Island.
By occupation he is a farmer, having a
farm on Long Island. He has always been
identified with the public affairs of his
community, having been elected commis
sioner of highways of the town of North
Hempstead in 1894, and reelected until he
resigned when elected as a Republican to
the office of the State senator in 1900.
Notwithstanding the fact that the district
is normally Democratic by about two thous
and, he was elected by a plurality of three
hundred and twenty-nine; in 1902 was
again a candidate for the State Senate, and
although defeated, ran ahead of "the State
•ticket. In 1903 he was elected member of
the Assembly by a large majority, not
withstanding the fact that the district was
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elected in 1904 from the First District of
New York to he Fifty-ninth Congress, and
was reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con
gress, in which he is now serving. In re
ligion he is a member of the Society of
Friends. Mr. Cocks is also a member of
the Republican Club of New York City
and the Fort Orange Club of Albany, New
York. He married in New York City,
July 24, 1901, Caroline R. Hicks, who died
December 12, 1901. Address : Old West-
bury, Long Island, New York.
CODMAN, Julian:
Lawyer; born at Cotuit, Massachusetts,
September 21, 1870; son of Charles Rus
sell and Lucy L. P. (Sturgis) Codman.
He was graduated with honors from Har
vard University, in 1892, and the following
year 'returned as a law student, coriipleting
his course in 1895. He passed his bar
examinations the same year, and has since
been practicing in Boston, where he has
won for himself a high place among the
members of the Massachusetts bar. He is
identified with the Democratic party, and a
member of several political and social
clubs. He was .married in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, April 29, 1897, to Norah Chad
wick. Address : 270 Clarendon Street,
Boston, Hamilton, Massachusetts, and Of
fice : Journal Building, Boston.
COE, Henry Clarke: .
Surgeon; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb
ruary 1856; son of Erastus Pease Coe and
Mary (Ross) Coe. He was graduated
from Yale University as A.B. in 1878 and
as A.M. in 1881 ; from Harvard Univers
ity (Medical Department)- in 1881, Colum
bia University (Medical Department) 1882,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
(England) 1884, Licentiate of the Royal
College of Physicians (London) 1884. He
has practiced in New York City since 1884,
his specialties being obstetrics and the
diseases of women. Dr. Coe has been on
the editorial staff of several medical jour
nals, has written many papers, mono
graphs, etc., and has been for twenty
years a medical teacher. He is now pro
fessor of gynecology at the University and

Bellevue Hospital Medical College, gyne
cologist to Bellevue and General Memorial
Hospital, consulting gynecologist to the
Woman's, Foundling and Sydenham Hos
pitals, etc. He is an honorary fellow of the
Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, and mem
ber of the American Gynecological
Society, the American Therapeutic So
ciety, the New York State Medical
Society, New York Obstetrical Society,
Clinical Society, Harvard Medical Society,
County Medical Society, Academy of Medi
cine, the Society Of Alumni of Bellevue
Hospital, etc. Dr. Coe is a trustee of the
General Memorial Hospital. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church. He is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa (Yale), Delta Kap
pa Epsilon, Order of Foreign Wars, So
ciety of Colonial Wars, the Mayflower
Society, Society of the War of 1812 and Sons
of the Revolution. His favorite recrea
tions are hunting and fishing. Dr. Coe is,
or was, a member of the University, Yale,
Harvard, New York Athletic, Delta Kap
pa Epsilon, and Columbia -Yacht Clubs
of New York City. He married at New
Haven, September 7, 1882, Sara Werden,
his children being: Fordyce Barker, Henry
C. Coe, Jr., and Arthur. Address: 8
West Seventy-sixth Street, New York
City.
COFFEY, George Nelson:
Scientific expert on soils of the United
States Department of Agriculture; born at
Patterson, North Carolina, January 17,
1875; son of Elijah Coffey and Mary Ann
(Nelson) Coffey. He was graduated from
the University of North Carolina as Ph.B.,
cum laude, in 1900 ; received the represen
tative medal, junior year, for best original
oration, and will receive the degree of
M.S. from George Washington University
at next convocation. Upon his graduation
he entered the Bureau of Soils of the
United States Department of Agriculture.
He wrote reports upon soils of various
areas; was in charge of the Soil Survey
from July, 1904 to 1905; and since then
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States. He has made a special study of
the soils o'f the United States, and has
much detailed knowledge in regard to their
character and distribution, having traveled
all over this country. He is an Independent
Democrat in politics and a Second Advent-
ist in religion; a Mason, and a member of
the Order of the Eastern Star. Residence :
1225 Eleventh Street, Washington. Ad
dress: Bureau of Soils, Washington, D. C.
COFFEY, James Vincent:
Jurist; born in New York City, Decem
ber 14, 1846; son of James. Coffey. He
was educated in schools in New York City
and Bridgeport, Connecticut, until 1857.
He removed to California, and attended
school in Nevada City, California, in 1863.
He studied in law offices in New York,
Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco,
and was admitted to the bar in April,
1869; and he was editor of the San Fran
cisco Examiner for six years, while also
practicing law. He was elected to the State
Assembly in 1875 to 1878, and was chair
man of the San Francisco delegation at
each session ; presided as chairman of the
Democratic County Convention of 1878,
and was its unanimous nominee for the
Constitutional Convention. ' He -was nom
inated for attorney-general of California
in 1879, but declined. He became judge
of the Superior Court of San Francisco
in 1882, and after a year's- service in 1882
and 1883 in the General Civil Department,
he was assigned to the Probate Depart
ment, in which he has since served. His
decisions down to 1888 were published in
a volume, and he has two more volumes
now in preparation. He tried the Blythe
case eleven months continuously and gave
another month to the study of the evidence,
and rendered a decision July 31,-1900, com
prising about one hundred and fifty thous
and words. He was presiding judge of the
Superior Court in r887; was Democratic
nominee for State supreme justice in 1890,
and led his ticket by several thousand
of votes. He was voted for in the Cali
fornia Legislature in 1899 as Democratic
choice for United States senator,, and he

declined a nomination for Congress in the
Fourth California district in September,
1900. He has been president of the State
Historical Society of California, since 1893.
Address : 1601 Scott Street, Hamilton
Square, San Francisco, California.
COFFIN, Charles Albert:
Financier, manufacturer; born in Som
erset County, Maine; son of Albert Cof
fin and Anstrus (Varney) Coffin. He was
graduated from Bloomfield Academy,
Bloomfield, Maine. After leaving school,
Mr. Coffin engaged in manufacturing
business in Massachusetts, and in 1881 was
one of a number who purchased the Thom
son-Houston Electric Company, which
in 1892, together with the Edison
General Electric Company, was merged
in the General Electric Company,
of which he has since been president. He
is a member of the Chambers of Commerce
of Boston and New York, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and is a trustee of Vassar
College. Mr. Coffin is a member of the
Union League, Metropolitan, Pilgrims,
Lawyers',-. National Arts, Westchester
Country of New York City, and other so
cieties and clubs, and of the St. Botolph
and Algonquin Clubs in Boston. He is a
director in many financial institutions and
companies. He married Caroline L. Rus
sell, daughter of Rev. E. Russell, D.D., and
of that union there are three children : Ed
ward R, Jennie M. (Mrs. S. W. Childs),
and Alice S. Residence: 145 West Fifty-
eighth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress : 44 Broad Street, New York City.
COFFIN, Owen Vincent:
Former governor of Connecticut; born
at Union Vale, Dutchess County, New
York, June 20, 1836; son of Alexander
Hamilton and Jane (Vincent) Coffin. He
was educated at schools and academies in
Dutchess County and elsewhere, and in
1853 began his business career as a sales
man for a mercantile house in New York
City. In 1855 he became manufacturers'
agent, and in 1861 was a special partner
in a business firm of New York City.
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ively identified with the work of the
United States Christian Commission as
¦ a member of its New York Committee,
and he was president of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Brooklyn, New
York. He removed to Middletown, Qnv
necticut in 1864, and has ever since been
a citizen of that place. He was secretary,
and treasurer of the Farmers' and Me
chanics' Savings Bank, of Middletown,
Connecticut, from 1864 to 1878, and
since 1884 he has been president of the
Middlesex Fire Assurance Company, and
identified with various manufacturing and
other corporations. He has been a Re
publican from the organization of that
party, was mayor of Middletown, Connecti
cut, in 1872 and 1873, a State Senator
from 1887 to 1891, and in 1894 was elected
governor of Connecticut, serving in that
office from 1895 to 1897. Governor Cof
fin married, at Middletown, Connecticut,
1858, Miss Ellen Elizabeth Coe. Address:
Middletown, Connecticut.
COFFIN, William Anderson:
Painter and art critic ; born at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, January 31, 1855; son of
James Gardiner and Isabel Catherine (An
derson) Coffin. He was graduated from
Yale College as B.A. in 1874; received the
honorary degree of B.F.A. from Yale Uni
versity in 1901, studied art in the United
States from 1874 to 1877, and in Paris un
der M. Leon Bonnat, from 1877 to 1882.
He has had his studio in New York City
since 1882, and is a painter of landscapes
and figure pieces. He was art critic of the
New York Evening Post and The Nation,
from 1886 to 1892 and in 1903 and 1904;
and of the Sun (New York) from 1897
to 1901, and has been a frequent contrib
utor on art topics to the Century Magazine.
Scribner's Magazine, etc. He was man
ager of the Exhibition of Historical Por
traits and Relics at the Washington Cen
tennial Celebration in New York City in
1889; was manager of the first Portrait
Show, Portraits of Women, in New York
City in 1894, and was director of Fine
Arts at the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo in 1901, He painted the picture,

The Rain, in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City and At Break of
Day, in the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
(Albright Gallery). He exhibited at the
Paris Salon from 1879 to 1882, and is a
regular exhibitor at the National Academy
of Design, the Society of American Artists,
etc. He received the Hallgarten prize
from the National Academy of Design in
1886 and the Webb prize from the Society
of American Artists, in 1891. He received
medals from Paris Exposition in 1889,
from the Art Club, Philadelphia (gold)
in 1898, from Charleston Exposition (silv
er) in 1902 and from the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition (silver) at Saint Louis
in 1904. He is an associate member of the
National Academy of Design; member of
the Society of American Artists (was its
secretary from 1887 to 1892), Municipal
Art Society (a founder and vice-president),
and the Architectural League of New
York (vice-president two terms). He is
an Independent Democrat in politics. His
favorite recreation is farming at Pine
Spring Farm, Jennerstown, Somerset
County, Pennsylvania. He is a member of
the Lotos and Fencers' Clubs. Address:
58 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
City and Jennerstown, Pennsylvania.
COHAN, George M.:
Actor, manager, playwright and song
writer; born in Providence, Rhode Island,
July 4, 1878. His father is Jerry J. Cohan,
and his mother Helen E. Cohan, both of
whom are well known on the stage and are
now playing in their son's company. His
sister, Josephine, is also an actress. Mr.
Cohan made his first appearance on the
stage in a play written by his father. Be
fore he was of age he wrote at least one
play which was performed by the Four
Cohans. His first great success was in
"Little Johnny Jones," of which he was the
author of music and words. This musical
comedy was .first produced October 10, 1904,
and was played continuously until April 12,
1906. It made a fortune for its author,
who was also its owner, manager and star.
This was followed by another musical
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Minutes from Broadway, first produced
September 25, 1905. In February, 1906, he
produced George Washington, Jr., at the
Herald Square Theatre, New York. He is
also one of the most successful managers
in the country, Samuel H. Harris being his
partner. Address: New Amsterdam
Theatre Building, New York City.
COHEN, David SoUs:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania in September, 1852; son of Meyer
David and Judith Da Silva (Solis) Cohen.
After completing his course in the public
schools of Philadelphia he went West, and
engaged in business as a wholesale ex
porter and importer in Portland, Oregon.
His interest in the study of law led him
to adopt it as his profession, and he
was admitted to the Oregon bar, and since
1895 has practiced in Portland, where he
is well known as an eminent lawyer and
public-spirited citizen. He has gained
praise in the literary world by his writ
ings, among them being two plays produc
ed by Roland Reed, and a number of de
lightful fairy tales. He is also a frequent
contributor to current periodicals. He
married, at Portland, Oregon, in 1892,
Bertha Kahn. Address : Washington
Building, Portland, Oregon.
COHEN, Solomon Solis:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Sep
tember 1, 1867; son of Myer David Cohen
and Judith Sennah (Solis) Cohen. He
was educated at the Central High School
of Philadelphia, where he received the de
gree of A.B. in 1872 and A.M. in 1877,
and was graduated from Jefferson Medical
College as M.D. in 1883. Dr. Cohen was
professor of clinical medicine in Jefferson
Medical College; physician to Jefferson
Medical College Hospital, the Phladelphia
General Hospital, and the Rush Hospital
for Consumptives, and consulting physician
to the Jewish Hospital. At one time he
was professor of medicine and therapeutics
in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College
for Graduates of Medicine. Dr. Cohen
was recorder of the Association of Ameri
can Physicians; is ex-president of the

Philadelphia County Medical Society; and
is. a fellow of the College of Physicians
and of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is author of
a text book on therapeutics; Therapeutics
of Tuberculosis; Essentials of Diagnosis;
and is editor of System of Physiologic
Therapeutics; and has also attained an
enviable position as a writer of graceful
verse. He is also a member of the Penn
sylvania, Pegasus and Franklin Inn Clubs
of Philadelphia. He married at Philadel
phia, March 24, 1885, Emily Grace Solis,
and they have one daughter and three sons.
Address: 1525 Walnut Street, Philadel
phia. COHN, Morris M.:
Lawyer; born at New Albany, Indiana,
March 14, 1852; son of Mathias A. and
Therese (Koebner) C'ohn. He received a
grammar school education in Cincinnati,
to which city his parents had removed,
after which he took up the study of law,
Hebrew and German under a tutor. At
the age of twenty-one he was admitted to
the bar, and commenced practice. Since
then, with the exception of a few years,
he has resided in Little Rock, Arkansas,
of which he was city attorney for one
term. He was for a time identified with
the Bank of Commerce, as director and
attorney, and he accepted a professor
ship in the University of Arkansas Law
School, which he held for years. He is a
director in the Little Rock Board of Trade,
of which he was formerly president.
Mr. Cohn is well known as the author of
several works on law and history, and as
a contributor to various magazines and
journals. He married, at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, August 19, 1883, Addie M. Otten-
heimer. Address: Little Rock, Arkansas.
COIT, James Mil nor:
Teacher of natural science; born in Har
risburg, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1845; son
of Rev. Joseph Rowland Coit, D.D., and
Jane Harriet (Hurd) Coit. He was edu
cated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, from 1857 to 1861 ; was grad
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York, as A.B. in 1865 (with Phi Beta Kappa
honors), and later received. from Hobart
the M.A. degree in 1868, and the ScD. de
gree in 1905; and the Ph.D. degree from
Dartmouth College in 1883. He was assis
tant auditor of the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Railway at Cleveland, Ohio,
and later manager of the Cleveland Tube
Works at Cleveland, before engaging in edu
cational work as a master in St. Paul's
School, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1876.
In 1894 he became vice-rector of the school
and since 1906 he has been the acting rec
tor. In 1907 Dr. Coit went to Europe, do
ing research work in the University of Cam
bridge, England, arid the University of
Munich, Bavaria. Dr. Coit is an Indepen
dent in politics and an Episcopalian in his
religious adherence. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, a member of the American
Chemical Society, the American Geograph
ical Society, New Hampshire Medical So
ciety, and the American Social Science As
sociation. He is also a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity and the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society; is a Free Mason, and Knight
Templar, and has membership in the So
ciety of the Cincinnati, the Sons of the
Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars,
the University Club of Boston, Alpha Delta
Phi Club of New York, the New Hamp
shire Club of Boston, and the Wonolancet
Club of Concord, New Hampshire. He
married in Cleveland, Ohio, October 10,
1867, Josephine Wheeler. Residence: St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire.
Address : Brown, Shipley and Company, 123
Pall Mall, London, S. W., England.
COLAHAN, John B. Junior:
Lawyer; born in the city of Philadelphia
in 1848, and received rudimentary tuition
at Saunders' Institute and afterward pur
sued his studies at the Philadelphia High
School from which he graduated with dis
tinction in 1866. He then began the study
of law under the able guidance of his
father, a distinguished lawyer. Mr. Cola-
han also attended the Law Department of
the University of Pennsylvania, and was

admitted to the bar in 1869, when he im
mediately _ began the practice of his pro
fession, which has been in every way at
tended with success. He soon acquired so
comprehensive a knowledge of real estate
law that his services became in very gener
al demand for the investigation of titles to
property, and his practice has become one
of the most extensive and lucrative in the
Orphan's Court, the Court of Common
Pleas and the Supreme Court. Mr. Cola-
han has also had large experience as coun
sel in connection with litigation affecting
estates of vast importance, embracing the
celebrated proceedings in court brought by
the heirs of the late Joseph Dugan, General
Robert Patterson, and Francis A. Drexel;
and he was one of the principal factors in
the organization of the Real Estate, Title
and Insurance Company of Philadelphia.
For a number of years he was presi
dent of the Belmont Cricket Club, one of
the best known organizations of its kind
in the United States; is chairman of the
Board of Censors of the Law Association
of Philadelphia, and present vice-presi
dent of the State Bar Association, and a
member of its executive committee, since
its organization with the exception of one
year. He was also vice-president of the
American Bar Association. He was pres
ident of the Twenty-seventh Ward Re
publican Club, was an active member of
the Committee of Fifty in 1895 and chair
man of its Committee on Nominations; is
treasurer of the Philadelphia Fencing and
Sparring Club, one of the oldest athletic
organizations in the United States, and an
officer of the association for over thirty
years ; secretary of the Hamilton Club and
president of the Associated Cricket Clubs
of Philadelphia. Mr. Colahan is a Re
publican. He married, April 14, 1873,
Mary Ophelia Cowton. Address: 4004
Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
COLBY, Francis T. :
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Sep
tember 27, i860 ; son of Andrew J. and
Mary (Wheelan) Colby. He received his
preliminary education in the public schools
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old Chicago University with class honors
in 1880. During his collegiate course he
studied law in the office of Judge James
Goggin, and was admitted to the Chicago
bar in 1881. He is a Republican, but was
nominated by the Workingmen's , Party in
1888 for the office of State's Attorney.
He declined to accept the nomination but
was, nevertheless, retained on the ticket
and received over twelve thousand votes.
He is a member of the Chicago Bar As
sociation, the Chicago Law Institute, and
of the American Bar Association. In 1889
he was appointed inspector of rifle prac
tice of the Hibernian Rifles, with the rank
of captain. ' He was later elected colonel
and in 1893 reelected. He commanded the
Seventh Regiment Illinois National Guard
during the riots of 1894. He was married,
November 27, 1882, to Rose L. Sullivan,
and has four daughters and one son,
Francis T. the younger, living. Address:
163 Randolph Street: Residence: 284
South Campbell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
COLBY, Frank Moore:
Editor, educator; born at Washington,
D. C, February 10, 1865; son of Stoddard
Benham and Ellen Cornelia (Hunt) Colby.
He was educated at Columbian (now
George Washington) University, Wash
ington, D. C, and Columbia College, New
York, as A.B. in 1888, A.M. in 1889. He
was acting professor of history at Amherst
College, 1890 and 1891 ; lecturer in history,
Columbia College, from 1891 to 1895; in
structor of history and economics, New
York University, from 1895 to 1900. He
was editorial writer on the Commercial
Advertiser from 1900 to 1902, on
the editorial staff of Johnson's Uni
versal Cyclopaedia (history and poli
tical science), 1893 to 1895; editor
International Cyclopaedia, 1898, Inter
national Year Book, 1902, and on its re
sumption in 1907, editor of the New, Inter
national Encyclopaedia since 1900, one of
the editors of The Bookman from 1904;
editor of Nelson's Encyclopaedia (Ameri
canized from Harms worth's Cyclopaedia),
1905 to 1907. He is author of: Outlines of

General History, 1900; Imaginary Obliga
tions, 1904, and several subsequent editions ;
contributor to magazines on literary and
dramatic topics. He married at Amherst,
Massachusetts, December 30, 1896, Harriet
Wood Fowler. Address : 372 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City.
COLBY, Henry Francis:
Clergyman;- born in Boston, November
25, 1842; son of Gardner Colby and Mary
Low (Roberts) Colby. He was graduated
from Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island, as A.B. in 1862, and he received the
degrees of A.M. in 1865, and of D.D. in
1882; and he was graduated from Newton
Theological Institution, Massachusetts, in
1867. He was pastof of the First Baptist
Church, of Dayton, Ohio, from 1868 to
1903, and is now retired. He has traveled
extensively in the United States and in
Mexico, and has made four journeys to
Europe and one to the Holy Land and
Egypt. He is a Republican in politics and
a Baptist in his religious, denomination;
and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
and Alpha Delta Phi Societies. He has been
a trustee of Denison University, Ohio, since
1872, and president of the board for many
years. He was president of the American
Baptist Missionary Union from 1895 to
1898. Dr. Colby married in Boston, Mary
Lizzie Chamberlin, and they have six chil
dren. Address: Dayton, Ohio.
COLE, Chester Cicero:
Lawyer; born at Oxford, New York,
June 4, 1824; son of Samuel Cole and
Alice (Pullman) Cole, ne was educated
in Oxford common schools and academy,
at Cambridge- (Massachusetts), was at the
Harvard- Law School for two years, and
was honored with the degree of LL.D.
from Iowa College, in 1871. He began the
practice of law, in Marion, Kentucky, in
1848; was police judge of Marion in 1853
and 1854; removed to Des Moines, Iowa,
in May, 1857; judge of the Supreme Court
of Iowa in 1864, and was its chief justice in
1870, and resigned in 1876. He- organized
in 1865 the Law School at Des Moines,
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Iowa State University in 1868; and was
professor of law in the State University
for ten years. In 1875 he organized the
Iowa College of Law at Des Moines and
in 1881 it became the Law Department of
Drake University; and he was dean and
professor therein for thirty-two years. In
1907 he retired on an allowance by the
Carnegie Institution. Mr. Cole . was edi
tor of the Western Jurist (legal monthly),
from 1866 to 1881, and annotated the Iowa
Reports, twelve volumes. He is a Presby
terian in religion. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, and the Iowa
State Bar Association; was president of
the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home from
1863 to 1866, and is a Mason. Mr. Cole
married at Oxford, New York, June 25,
1848, Amanda Melvina Bennett, and they
have six children: William W., born in
1852; Gertrude A., born in 1854; Mary E.,
born in 1857; Chester C, born in 1859;
Frank B., born in 1861, and Carrie S., born
in 1864. Address : 2900 Cottage Grove Ave
nue, Des Moines, Iowa.
COLE, Cornelius:
Lawyer; born at Lodi, New York, Sep
tember 17, 1822; son of David and Rachel
(Townsend) Cole. He was graduated
from Wesleyan University in 1847, with
the degree of A.B., and for post-graduate
work received that of A.M. in 1847. After
leaving college he went into the offices of
Seward, Blatchford & Morgan, to study
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848.
He went to California to practice, where
he won reputation in his profession, and
also interested himself actively in the Re
publican party and the promotion of the
public welfare. In 1863 he was elected to
the United States House of Representatives
serving throughout the war and during
the reconstruction of the Union. In 1866
he became a member of the United States
Senate and served continuously until 1873.
He was married, January 6, 1853, at San
Francisco, California, to Olive Colegrove.
Address: Colegrove, California. Office:
Los Angeles, California.
COLE, Edward Franklyn:
Retired merchant; born at Brooklyn,

New York, January 4, i860; son of Ed
ward Hall and Catherine Bullard (Chase)
Cole. His early education was received in
the schools of Brooklyn, arid he afterward
entered Columbia University, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1886, and
A.M. in 1887. After graduation Mr. Cole
engaged in mercantile business, and he was
acting treasurer of the Eaton, Cole & Burn
ham Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut,
and New York City, from 1889 to 1906.
He is a member of the Universalist
Church. Mr. Cole has membership in vari
ous societies, including the Long Island
Historical Society, the New York
Historical Society, the New York Zo
ological Society, the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, the National Geographic So
ciety, of Washington, D. C. ; the National
Sculpture Society, the Dunlap Society, the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and Kane
Lodge of Masons. He is also a director
of the New York Board of Trade and
Transportation. His favorite recreation is
the collection of a library. He is a mem
ber of the New York Athletic, Lotos,
Ardsley, Economic, and Columbia Univer
sity Clubs of New York City, the Engle
wood Golf Club of New Jersey, and the
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Cole
married, February 9, 1895, Evelyn J. Elliott
(who died September 3, 1904), and Aug
ust 15, 1906, he married Mary Lee With
ers. Address: Times Building, Forty-sec
ond Street and Broadway, New York City.
COLE, Frank Nelson:
Professor of mathematics ; born in Ash
land, Massachusetts, September 20, 1861;
son of Otis Cole and Frances M. (Pond)
Cole. He was educated at Harvard Uni
versity, graduating in 1882, with the de
gree of A.B., and receiving from the uni
versity that of Ph.D. in 1886. He was lec
turer in mathematics at Harvard from 1885
to 1887, tutor and assistant professor at the
Univer'sity of Michigan, from 1888 to 1895,
and has been professor of mathematics at
Columbia University since 1895. Professor
Cole has been secretary of the American
Mathematical Society since 1895, and editor
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ical Society since 1897. He married, July
26, 1888, Martha M. Streiff. Address:
Columbia University, New York City.
COLE, George C:
Consular official;- appointed consul-gen
eral at Buenos Aires, April 13, 1905; ap
pointed consul at Dawscn, June 22, 1906.
Address : Dawson : Yukon Territory, Can
ada.
COLE, Ralph D.:
Lawyer and Congressman; born in Big-
lickTownship, Hancrfck County, Ohio, No
vember 30, 1873; son of John W. Cole and
Sarah Cole. He attended the common
schools in the country until eighteen years
of age; entered Findley' College, and was
graduated with the degree of Ph.B. in
1896, and in 1898 was graduated from the
classical course in the Northwestern Ohio
Normal. University, at Ada. He is en-
1 gaged in the practice of law; served for
twp years as deputy clerk of Hancock
County, and in 1899 was elected to repre
sent Hancock County in the State Legis
lature, and was reelected in 1901. He was
elected in 1904 from the Eighth Ohio Dis
trict to he Fifty-ninth Congress, and re
elected in 1906 from the same district to
the Sixtieth Congress, in which he is now
serving: He is a Republican in politics.
Address : Findlay, Ohio.
COLEMAN, Leighton: ,
Bishop of the Episcopal Church; born
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1837; son
of Rev. Dr, John and Louisa Margaretta
(Thomas) Coleman. He graduated from
the General Theological Seminary, New
York City, .in 1861, and received the hon
orary degree of M.A: from Trinity College
in 1865, and of LL.D. from Hobart Col
lege in 1888. The degree of S.T.D. was
conferred upon him by Racine College, Ra
cine, Wisconsin, in i875- He was ordered
deacon, in the Year i860 and ordained to
the priesthood by Bishop Alonzo Potter
in 1861. With the exception of a residence
in England between the years 1879 and
1897, he held various pastorates in the
Middle States, having been rector of St.
Luke's Church, Bustleton, Pennsylvania,

1861-1863; of St. John's, Wilmington, Del
aware, 1863-1866; of St. Mark's Church,
Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, 1866-1874; of
Trinity Church, Toledo, Ohio, 1874-1879.
After his return to the United States in
1877, he became rector of the Church of
the Redeemer, at Sayre, Pennsylvania,
1887, officiating until 1888, in which latter
year he was consecrated bishop by Bishops
M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Whitaker, Adams,
Scarborough, Whitehead and Rulison.
Since his consecration he has been Bishop
of Delaware. He is author of: The His
tory of the Lehigh Valley (which ran
through two editions), and The Church of
America (published in 1895, and gone to
a second edition) ; The American Church ¦
(published in 1903), and numerous ad
ditional works. He is a member and officer
in numerous ecclesiastical, civic and social
organizations, including the Masonic bod
ies, the Society of the Cincinnati, the So
ciety of the War of 1812, etc. Bishop
Coleman married at Wilrnington, Dela
ware, in 1861, Frances Elisabeth, daughter
of Alexis Irenee du Pont. Address : Wil
mington, Delaware.
COLEMAN, Thomas Wilkes:
Jurist and banker; born at Eutaw, Ala
bama, March 31, 1834; son of James C.
Coleman and Martha (Anderson) Cole
man. His great-grandfather Charles Cole
man, was a Revolutionary soldier, and his
great-grandparents on his mother's side
were Andersons and Kennedys, both in
the Revolutionary War from South Caro
lina. After a careful preparatory education
he entered Princeton University, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1853.
He afterward studied law and practiced
at Eutaw, Alabama, and was solicitor of
the State of Alabama for fifteen years,
later becoming chancellor and for many
years was a judge of the Supreme Court
of Alabama. While never doubting the
legal right of a State to secede he opposed
the principle of secession, but when his
State seceded, he joined the Confederate
Army, and was wounded at the Battle of
Missionary Ridge. He was- a delegate to
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in 1865 and 1901, being the only member
who served in both conventions, and in
1901 was chairman of the committee ap
pointed to frame the article of the Con
stitution on suffrage and elections, and was
the principal author of the suffrage article,
providing for qualified suffrage. He re
ceived from the convention a resolution
specially thanking him for his services in
framing the new Constitution. He is a
trustee of the University of Alabama and
is chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees; and he has had
the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him
by the University of Alabama. Judge
Coleman is president of the Merchants'
and Farmers' Bank of Eutaw, and is also
largely identified with cotton planting op
erations. He is a Democrat in politics and
a Presbyterian in his religious affiliation.
He married at Sumterville, Sumter County,
Alabama, November 1, i860, Frances G.
Wilson ; and by that union there have
been ten children: Hon. E. W. Coleman,
lawyer, who died at Jasper, Alabama; Mrs.
Julia C. Banks (deceased), Thomas W.
Coleman, Jr., judge of the City Court at
Anniston, Alabama; F. W. Coleman, secre
tary and treasurer of the Mutual Security
Insurance Company of Atlanta, Georgia ;
Chas. H. Coleman, civil engineer; James
•S. Coleman, assistant instructor in the
University and Military School at Mobile,
Alabama, and principal Military Institute at
Selma, Alabama ; John A. Coleman, lawyer,
of Jasper, Alabama, and Ellen Coleman,
Mrs. Mary C. Chandler and Mrs. F. J.
Quarles of Eutaw, Alabama. Address:
Eutaw, Alabama.
COLEMAN, William Emmette:
Orientalist and clerk in the Quarter
master's Department of the United States
Army; born at Shadwell, Virginia, June
19, 1843 ; son of Roderick Sterling Cole
man and Mary Anne M. (Carver) Cole
man. He was educated in the Lancaster-
ian School, Richmond, Virginia. He be
came assistant librarian of the Richmond
(Virginia) Library Association from 1854
to 1857; stage manager and actor of old
man's parts from 1863 to 1867, and from

1870 to 1874. He was chief reconstruction
clerk at the headquarters of the First Mili
tary District at Richmond, Virginia, from
1867 to 1870; clerk in the Quartermas
ter's Department of the United States
Army, since 1874, and chief clerk in the
same from 1883 to 1891. He has drama
tized several novels, notably East Lynne,in
1864. He became opposed to slavery and a
Republican in 1859, the first Republican in
the city of Richmond, Virginia. He was
president of the 'Board of Registration of
Bland County, Virginia (Federal recon
struction) in 1867; a delegate to the Re
publican State Conventions of Virginia, in
1868, 1869, 1870. He was a member of the
State Central Committee of the Republican
party in Virginia in 1869 and 1870. He
compiled and published in 1878 and 1879
two editions of: Index of General Orders
and circulars affecting the Quartermaster's
Department of the United States Army. In
religion he is a scientific spiritualist, work
ing for years by pen and voice to place
Spiritualism on a scientific basis, and in
exposure of the frauds, follies and fana
tics (as he terms them) attached to Spir
itualism and the occult. He was a mem
ber of the Advisory Councils of the
World's Congress of Evolutionists, and the
Psychic Science Congress at the Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, 1893; a member of the
Academy of Science and Art, Leaven
worth, Kansas, from 1878 to 1880; presi
dent for years of the Golden Gate Relig
ious and Philosophical Society, San Fran
cisco, California; vice-president of the Vir
ginia State Women's Rights Association
in 1869; a member of the American Ori
ental Society, the Royal Asiatic Society of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Pali Text
Society, the Egypt Exploration Fund, the
National Geographic Society, the Geograph
ical Society of California; honorary mem
ber of the Society for Psychical Research
of London, England, and of the Brooklyn
(New York) Ethical Association. He is
a member of the California Camera Club
of San Francisco. He has published
many essays on Hinduism, Buddhism,
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es of Orientalism, also treatises and essays
on evolution, Darwinism, spectrum analy
sis, comparative philology, comparative
theology and mytholgy, and has lectured
on these subjects; and his writings on
these subjects have met the approval of the
foremost Orientalists, archaeologists and
scientists. He has also written many arti
cles on Spiritualism and allied subjects,
and on religious liberalism and free thought.
Residence: 3281 Briggs Avenue, Alameda,
California. Office address : Chief Quarter
master's Office, Presidio of San Francis
co, California.
COLER, Bird S.:
President, Borough of Brooklyn ; born in
Champaign,. Illinois, October 9,. 1867; son
of William N. Coler. He was educated at
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and
Phillips Andover Academy. He became
clerk and later partner of the firm of W.
N. Coler & Company, brokers. He was
Democratic candidate for alderman-at-
large in Brooklyn, 1892, but was defeated;
and was elected comptroller of the City of
New York in 1897. He was also Demo
cratic candidate for governor of New
York in 1902, but was defeated and was
elected in November, 1905, as president of
the Borough of Brooklyn. Mr. Coler is a
member of the Bushwick Club of Brook
lyn, the Merchants' Club of Baltimore,
the National Democratic, Grolier, Man
hattan, and the Lotos Clubs of New
York City. Residence. 224 Hancock
Street, Brooklyn. Office address : 34 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
COLES, Jonathan Ackerman:
Physician and art patron; born in New
ark, New Jersey, May 6, 1843; son of
Abraham Coles (M.D.,. A.M., Ph.D.,
LL.D.) and Caroline E. (Ackerman)
Coles. He was graduated from Columbia
College in 1864 with the degree of A.B-,
and A.M. in 1867; from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in 1868, with the
degree of M.D., and received from Hope
College in 1898 the degree of LL.D. He
also studied in the hospitals and universi
ties of Great Britain and the European

Continent in 1877 and 1878, and then en
gaged in practice in Newark and New
York City. Dr. Coles is a contributor to
medical and scientific publications, and is
a member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, the Union County Medical Socie
ty of New Jersey, of which he was presi
dent in 1891, and the New York State
Medical Society. He is a permanent dele
gate and a life fellow of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. He is also a member of
the New York Historical Society, and the
New Jersey Historical Society. Dr. Coles
is an art connoisseur and a patron of art.
For himself and his father's estate he gave
to Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey,
a colossal bronze bust of his father, by J.
Q. A. Ward, with a pedestal made from
stones from the Mount of Olives, Jerusa
lem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, and a seven-
ton base from Plymouth, Massachusetts. He
gave also to Lincoln Park, Newark, the
historical Indian group, in bronze, life'
size, by C. B. Ives ; sent a Barye allegorical
bronze of an eagle and a dead heron to
Admiral Dewey as a memento of the vic
tory of Manila Bay; gave replicas in
bronze, of Houdon's bust from life of
George Washington and Benjamin Frank
lin to the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge in England; gave the painting,
The Good Samaritan, by Daniel Hunting
don and Paul Delaroche, to the State
House at Trenton, New Jersey, and has
given valuable works of art to Columbia,
Yale, Harvard and other universities, and
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr.
Coles owns a ckssical library of beautiful
bindings, and a fine collection of pictures,
including one by J. M. W.,Tumer, Benjamin
West's portrait, painted by himself, and
Bridgeman's famous painting of Pharoah
Pursuing the .Israelites Across the Bed of
the Red Sea. Residence : Deerhurst,
Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Office ad
dresses: -17 West Thirty-ninth Street, New
York City, and 222 Market Street, Newark,
New Jersey.
COLEY, Edward Huntington :
Clergyman; born in New Haven, August,
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Mary Gray (Huntington) Coley. He was
graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1884 and
Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown,
Connecticut. He was ordained deacon in
1887 and priest in 1888 by Bishop Williams.
He was curate of St. John's, Stamford,
Connecticut, in 1887 and 1888; minister in
charge of Christ Church, Savannah, in
1888 and 1889, rector of St. Mary's
Church, South Manchester, Connecticut,
from 1889 to 1893, assistant rector
of St. John's, Stamford, from 1893
to 1897, and has been rector of
Calvary Church, Utica, since 1897. He
was registrar of the diocese of Central New
York from 1897 to 1907, is dean of the Sec
ond Missionary District, Central New York,
and has been secretary of the Standing
Committee of Central New York since
1906. Mr. Coley married at Stamford,
Connecticut, October 29, 1889, Julia Seely
Covell, and they have three children : Mar
jory Covell, born in 1892 ; Elizabeth Hun
tington, born in 1895; and Mary Hunting
ton, bora in 1901. Address : Calvary Church
Rectory, Utica, New York.
COLGROVE, Philip Taylor:
Lawyer; born at Winchester, Indiana,
April 17, 1857; son of Charles H. Colgrove
and Catherine (Van Zile) Colgrove. After
leaving school he studied law and at the
age of twenty-one he was admitted to the
Michigan bar. In 1883 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of Barry County,
Michigan, serving as such for five years,
after which he was for two years a mem
ber of the Michigan Senate. He has since
been prominent in the Republican party,
having occupied for a number of terms, by
successive reelections, the office of city at
torney of Hastings, Michigan. In 1900
he did effective campaigning for the Re
publican National Committee, and in 1892
was chosen presidential elector, casting his
vote for Benjamin Harrison. He is con
nected with several large corporations as
director and is also a member of a number
of societies. He married at Hastings,
Michigan, April 29, 1897, Carrie M. Good
year. Address: Hastings, Michigan.

COLLER, Julius A.:
Lawyer; born at Shakopee, Minnesota,
February 22, 1859; son of George F.'and
Sophia (Tuenamann) Coller. He attend
ed the public schools of Shakopee, Minne
sota, after which he studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1889. In 1881 he
became city clerk of Shakopee, holding the
office for ten years, since which time he
has been actively interested in county and
state politics. He was elected county at
torney of Scott County, Minnesota, in 1891,
which position he held until 1895. In the
latter year he was sent to represent his
district in the Minnesota State Senate, in
which he has since remained, by successive
reelections. He is a director in several
Minnesota banks, and is also secretary and
director of the Shakopee Mortgage, Loan
and Investment Company. In 1904 he went
as a delegate to the Universal Congress of
Lawyers and Jurists, held at St Louis.
He was married at Sioux City, Iowa, Sep
tember 16, 1884, to Ida L. Adams, who
died .in 1903. Address : Shakopee, Minne
sota.
COLLIER, Peter Fenelon:
Publisher; born in Myshall, County Car-
low, Ireland, December 12, 1849; son of
Robert Collier and Katharine (Fenelon)
Collier. He was educated partly in Ire
land, and finished at Mount Saint Mary's
Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. For - many
years past he has been at the head of the
publishing firm of P. F. Collier and Son,
and is founder and owner of Collier's
Weekly. Mr. Collier is a member of the
Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat
rick, the Merchants' and Manufacturers'
Board of Trade, the New York Tax Re
form Association, the Ohio Society of
New York. He is a Republican and a
Roman Catholic. His favorite recreations
are hunting and polo. He is also a mem
ber of the Meadow Brook, Hunting, Rid
ing, Country of Lakewood, Democratic,
Turf and Field, Rumsen Polo, Catholic and
Westchester Polo Clubs, the Automobile
Club of America, and the Rockaway Hunt
ing, Morris Park Motor Racing and The
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Peter's Rectory, Barclay Street, New York
City, July 1873, Katharine, daughter of
Richard Dunne of Park, Ireland. They
have one son, born June 17, 1876. Ad
dress : 29 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
COLLIER, Price:
Secretary of the Outing Publishing Com
pany; born May 25, i860; son of Robert
Land Collier and Mary (Price) Collier. He
was educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and
Leipzig, Germany, was graduated from
Harvard in 1882 and student at the Har
vard Divinity School. He was the Euro
pean editor of the Forum; and he served
through the Spanish-American War as a
naval officer. Mr. Collier is the author of
essays, among them being : Mr. Pickett
Pin and his friends, and America and Am
ericans from a French Point of View; and
is joint author of: A Parish of Two, and
of Driving, in Macmillan's Sportsman's
Library. He is a member of the New
York Zoological Society and also a mem
ber of the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Harvard,
New York Yacht Clubs of New York City,
and the Army and Navy Clubs of Wash
ington, D. C. Mr. Collier married, in
New York City in 1893, Katharine De
lano Robbins. Address: Tuxedo Park,
New York.
COLLIER, William:
Actor; born in 1868. His first appear
ance on the stage was as Dick Deadeye, in
Pinafore. He appeared afterwards in
minor parts in various plays, until finally
he became leading man in Hoyt's company.
In 1901 he- became a star, afterwards join
ing the force of Weber and Fields, in the
New York Music Hall. His latest play is
Caught in the Rajn, of which he is the star.
The play has been very successful. Ad
dress: The Lambs' Club, New York City,
COLLIER, William Miller:
Diplomat, lawyer; born at Lodi, New
York, November 11, 1867; son of Reverend
Isaac H. Collier and Francis (Miller)
Collier. After a careful preparatory edu
cation, he entered Hamilton College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1889,

and A.M. in 1892. He studied for a year
in Columbia Law School and also in of
fices in New York City und Brooklyn.
He was admitted to the New York bar
in 1892, and practiced at Auburn, New
York. He was appointed referee in bank
ruptcy for the Northern District of New
York in 1898, and was appointed by Gov
ernor Roosevelt, January 1899, and re
appointed by Governor Odell, a member of
the State Civil Service Commission, of
which he was elected president in Febru
ary, 1901. He resigned in 1903; and he
was offered, in March 1903, by President
Roosevelt, appointment as solicitor of in
ternal revenue, but declined. Later in the
same month, he was appointed to the posi
tion of special assistant to the attorney-
general of United States, and was assign
ed to act as solicitor of the newly created
Department of Commerce and Labor, and
was appointed solicitor of that department
when the office was permanently created in
1904. On March 6, 1905, he was appointed
to his present post as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary ot the United
States to Spain. He is author of: Col
lier on Bankruptcy, 1898; The Trusts—
What Can We Do. With Them and What
Can They Do, For Us?, 1900; Collier on
Civil Service Law, 1901 ; and he edited the
first twelve volumes of American Bank
ruptcy Reports. He was appointed in
January, 1903, special lecturer on the law
of bankruptcy at the New York Law
School. Mr. Collier is a member of the
New York State Bar Association, the New
York Civil Service Reform Associa
tion, the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and the Chi Psi fraternity, and is also a'
member of the City Club of Auburn, New
York; the Owasco Country, Metropolitan,
and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington,
D. C, and the University and Republican
Clubs of New York City. Mr. Collier
married, at Auburn, New York, September
13, 1893, Frances Beardsley Ross. Ad
dress: American Legation, Madrid, Spain.
COLLIN, Charles A.:
Lawyer; bom in Benton, Yates County,
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.and Maria L. (Park) Collin. He was
graduated from Yale College as A.B. in
1866, and A.M. in 1869. He was teacher of
the Norwich (Connecticut) Free Academy
from 1866 to 1870 ; was a lawyer of Elmira,
New York, from 1870 to 1887 ; legal adviser
for Governors Hill and Flower, from 1887
to 1895; commissioner of Statutory Revis
ion (New York), from 1889 to 1895; coun
sel to revise tax laws, 1893 and 1894; pro
fessor of law in Cornell University Law
School from 1887 to 1895; has been prac
ticing lawyer in New York City since 1895,
and is now of Collin, Wells & Hughes, law
yers. He is a member of the Lawyers',
Midday, Brooklyn, Yale, Cornell Univer
sity and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs. Mr. Collin
married at Norwich, Connecticut, May 23,
1871, Emily Lathrop Ripley, and they have
two children: Dwight Ripley, born in 1874,'
and Grace Lathrop, born in 1876. Address :
5 Nassau Street, New York City.
COLLINS, Ahel Chalkley:
Lawyer and banker. He received a col
legiate education, with the degrees of A.B.
and A.M. He was principal of the academy
at Belvidere, North Carolina, in 1879 arid
1880, and of the high school at Peace
Dale, Rhode Island, in 1880 and 1881. He
was a law student at Great Barrington,
Massachusetts, from 1881 to 1884, was ad
mitted to the bar in 1884 and has been
in practice there as a lawyer since 1884.
Mr. Collins was chairman of the Board of
Selectmen from 1887 to 1889, and a mem
ber of the school committee from 1890 to
1896. He has been a director of the Na
tional Mahaiwe Bank at Great Barrington
and of the Free Library at Great Barring
ton. He is a trustee of the Great Barring
ton Savings Bank and has been a trustee
of the Friends' School from 1900. Mr. Col
lins was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives in . the General
Court of Massachusetts in 1902. He is
author of the History of the Bench and
Bar, in the History of Berkshire County.
Address: Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

COLLINS, Alva N.:
Physician ; born at Lyme, Jefferson Coun
ty, New York, January 5, 1861; son of
Lyman Collins and Sally M. Cotton. He
was educated in the New York State dis
trict schools, at the high school of Elburn,
Illinois, at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, and was graduated from the medi
cal department of that institution as M.D,
in 1885. He was interne at the Work
house and Almshouse Hospital in New
York City in 1886 and 1887, and at Belle
vue Hospital, New York City, in 1887 and ¦
1888. He located in Detroit in 1889, and
has since lived and practiced there. He is
an ex-president of the Detroit Academy of
Medicine, and is now president of the
Wayne County Medical Society, the regular
medical organization of Detroit and vicin
ity. He is a member of the Michigan Med
ical Association, and the American Medical
Association; he is a Republican in poli
tics, and a Congregationalist in his re
ligious views. His favorite recreations are
hunting and fishing. Dr. Collins married
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 13, 1902,
Emily Delavan Stebbins, daughter of Dr.
Dwight and granddaughter of Dr. Nehem-
iah Stebbins, and they have two children:
Russell Stebbins Collins, born March 4,
1894, and Howard Nicholas Collins, born
January 5, 1898. Address: 20 Martin
Place, Detroit, Michigan.
COLLINS, Frederick Irving:
Clergyman; born at Sylvania, Ohio,
April 22, 1861 ; son of Oscar C. Collins
and Lucy (Hubbard) Collins. He was
graduated from the University of Wiscon
sin in 1890 . and from the General Theo
logical Seminary, New York City, in 1894.
He was ordered deacon by Bishop Potter
in 1894 and ordained priest by- Bishop Vin
cent in 1895 in the Episcopal ministry. He
had charge of Trinity Church, Connersville,
Indiana, in 1894 and 1895, of Holy Inno
cents' Church, Evansville, Indiana, from
1895 to 1898, and of Trinity Church, New
port, Rhode Island, in 1898 and 1899.
Since 1899 he has been rector of the
Church of the Messiah at Providence,
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extensively in England, Scotland, France,
Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Hol
land, and extensively in the United States.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Collins
is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fratern
ity and the Odd Fellows Order. He mar
ried, at Evanston, Illinois, September 23,
1890, Frances Towle, and they have a son,
Lyman Irving Collins, born in 1892. Ad
dress : 25 Messer Street, Providence,
Rhode Island.
COLLINS, George Knapp:
Lawyer; born at Spafford, New York,
April 15, 1837 ; son of Dr. John Collins and
Mary Ann (Roundy) Collins. He was
educated in the public schools and graduat
ed from the Syracuse High School. He
served as first lieutenant of Company I,
One-hundred-and-forty-ninth Regiment of
New York Volunteer Infantry, for nearly
two years, 1862-64; and was brevetted cap
tain for meritorious services at the close
of the war. He participated in all the
battles, skirmishes and marphes of his regi
ment in the Army of the Potomac and the
Army of the Cumberland except the battle
of Ringgold, from participation in which
he was incapacitated by wounds. He was
in the battles of Chancellorsville (where
he was wounded), Gettysburg, Wauhatchie,
and Lookout Mountain, and was wounded
in the latter battle, causing his discharge
on April 24, 1864. Captain Collins was ad
mitted to the New York bar in 1866, and
later to the District Court of the United
States, and to the Department of the In
terior; and he is engaged in the active
practice of law in Syracuse, New York.
Captain Collins is a companion of the New
York Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
and a member and past commander of
Root Post, Grand Army Republic, and he
is a member of the Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, and of the
Royal Arcanum (of which he was formerly
grand treasurer). He is greatly interested
in miscroscopal science and is .a member
and ex-president of the Central New York
MicroscopaFSociety, and a member of the
National Microscopal Society, and he is

also a member of the Central New York
Genealogical Society. Captain Collins is
author of:. Memoirs of the One Hundred
and Forty-ninth Regiment, New York Vol
unteer Infantry, Third Brigade, Second
Division, Twelfth and Twentieth Army
Corps; History of the Town of Spafford,
New York, and Genealogical History of
the Collins Family; also a novel, and other
publications. Mr. Collins married, at Syra
cuse, New York, June 9, 1858, Catherine
Sager, and of that union there haye been
born seven children : Daniel Gott Collins
(born April 19, 1859, died January 25,
1861), Katharine Mary Collins (born May
26, 1861), Grace Virginia Collins (born
March 15, 1863), Helen (born May 8,
1865, and now wife of John P. Megrew of
Washington, D. C), Flora Belle (born
February 16, 1869, and now wife of Wil
liam Wolcott Wiard), Clara' Bessie (born
August 31, 1872, and now wife of William
Sumner Teall), and Daisy May (born
December 8, 1875, died February 26, 1879.)
Address : Syracuse, New York.
COLLINS, Howard Dennis:
Physician; born in New York City, July
9, 1868; son of George and Anna (Taft)
Collins. He was graduated from Yale Col
lege as A.B. in 1890, and from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University as M.D. in 1893. He was form
erly interne of the Roosevelt Hospital at
New York City, and is now surgeon to the
City Hospital and surgeon to the J. Hood
Wright Memorial Hospital; and he was
formerly assistant demonstrator of anat
omy in Columbia University. He is a
member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, was ex-member of the Associa
tion of American Anatomists; and is a
member of the Yale Alumni Association
and of the University and Union Clubs. He
is author of a Text-Book on Physiology;
and contributor to the International Text-
Book of Surgery. Dr. Collins married in
New York City in 189S, Helen Gawtry. Ad
dress : 50 West Fifty-fifth Street, New York
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COLLINS, Joseph:
Physician; born at Brookfield, Connecti
cut, September 22, 1866. He was educated
in public schools, Brookfield, Newton Aca
demy and University of Michigan; was
graduated from the medical department of
the University of New York in 1888; and
took post-graduate studies in Frankfort.
He is professor of neurology in the New
York Post-Graduate Medical School, and is
author of: Diseases of the Brain, Diseases
of the Nervous System, Pathology of Ner
vous Diseases; also a monograph on the
Sympathetic Nervous System. He is a
member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, American Neurological Associa
tion, New York Neurological Association,
New England Society, and of the Century,
Charaka, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
and Racquet and Tennis Clubs. Address :
37 West Fifty-fourth Street, New York
City.
COLLINS, Lorin Cone:
Lawyer; born in Windsor, Connecticut,
August 1, 1848; son of Lorin Cone Collins
and Mary (Bemis) Collins. His studies
in the public schools of Windsor were fol
lowed by a business course at Bryant &
Stratton's Business College, St. Paul, Min
nesota. He studied two years at the Wes
leyan University of Ohio, and took a full
four years' course at the Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, receiving
the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He was
admitted to the Chicago bar in 1874 and
has since practiced law there. He is a Re-|
publican and served three sessions as a
member of the General Assembly of Illi-i
nois, and one session, in 1883, as Speaker
of the House. He was elected circuit
judge of Cook County in 1884, but resign
ed in 1893 to resume his practice. He is
a Presbyterian in religion. Judge Collins
is a member of the Chicago, Hamilton,
Washington Park and Chicago Golf Clubs.
He married, at Evanston, Illinois, Sep
tember 17, 1873, Nellie Robb, and they have
three children : Lorin Cone III, Grace and
George Robb. Residence: Virginia Hotel,
Chicago, and Wheaton, Illinois. Address:
100 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. -;

COLLINS, Stephen Willets:
Lawyer; born in Purchase, New York,
October 12, 1862; son of Richard S. and,
Sarah (Willets) Collins. He was educat
ed at Oakwood Seminary, was graduated
from Haverford College as B. S. in 1883;
from Columbia College Law School as
LL.B., cum laude in 1885. He was admit
ted to bar in 1885, and since then has
practiced law in New York City; and
director and counsel of the Bankers' In
vesting Company and The Lowerre Com
pany of which latter he is also secretary
and treasurer. Mr. Collins has traveled
in Europe, Canada and the United States.
He is a life member of the New York
Historical Society; member of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of
New York, and was four years member
of the Town Board of the Town
of Harrison, New York. He is an
Independent Republican, and a Protestant
in religion; and is trustee of Haverford
College, and Oakwood Seminary. His fav
orite recreations are golf, tennis, and horse
back riding. He is a member of the Union
League, Apawamis and Badminton Clubs.
Address : 69 Wall Street, New York City.
COLLYER, Robert:
Clergyman; born in Keighly, Yorkshire,
England, December 8, 1823 ; son of Samuel
Collyer and Harriet (Norman) Collyer.
He was educated at the common schools at
Fewston, Yorkshire, England^ until eight
years old, and afterward spent two winters
at a night school. He was a factory boy
from 1832 to 1838; a blacksmith boy and
man from 1838 to 1859; and a Methodist
local preacher at nothing a year from 1849
to 1859. He was minister of the Unity
Church of Chicago from 1859 to 1879; sole
minister of the Church of the Messiah of
New York City, from 1879 to 1896; and
associate minister with Rev. M. J. Sav
age, from 1896 to 1906; and since 1903 he
has been pastor emeritus. Mr. Collyer was
also in the lecture field for many years,
lecturing . from Maine to California, and
has made seven visits to his old home.
He is author of: Nature and Life; The
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Home Book ; Talks to Young Men ; His
tory of Ilkley in Yorkshire (with Horse-
fall Turner) ; Things Old and New ; Father
Taylor, the Seaman's Chaplain; and Au
gustus Conant, Illinois Preacher and Pio
neer. Mr. Collyer married first in 1845, and
from that union he has one son, Samuel,
born in 1846. He married a second time
at Bradford, Yorkshire, April 11, 1850, Ann
Armitage, and their children are : Emma,
born in 1854; Robert, born in 1862, and
six deceased. Address : 201 West Fifty-
fifth Street, New York City.
COLMAN, Samuel:
Artist; born in Portland, Maine, March
1832; son of Samuel and Pamela' Atkins
(Chandler) Colman. He studied art for
many years in various European cities —
Madrid, Paris, Dresden and London. He
is a landscape painter and works both in
oil and in water colors. His principal
pictures are : Ships of the Western Plains,
• now in the possession of the Union League
Club; Moonrise, Venice; and Spanish
Peaks, in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art; and Mosque of Side Bou
Hac, Tlemcin, Algeria, in the Astor Li
brary. He has traveled extensively through
Europe, Africa, Mexico and California.
Mr. Colman was made an associate mem
ber of the National Academy of Design in
i860, and received to full membership in
1864. He was one of the founders and the
first president of the American Water
Color Society. He is at present engaged
in an investigation of the principles of an
gular magnitude, resulting from polar force
in its relation to Beauty and proportional
form, disclosing the application of these
principles to the study of art, as well as
to architecture. He was ' married first, at
Irvington, New York, in 1862, to Anne L.
Dunham; second at Newport, R. I., in 1903
to Lillie M. Gaffney. Address: 267 Cen
tral Park West, New York City'.
COLT, LeBaron Bradford:
United States circuit judge; born at
Dedham, Massachusetts, June 25, 1846;
son of Christopher Colt and Theodora G.
(DeWolf) Colt. After his graduation from

Yale as B.A. in 1868 and from Columbia
University as LL.B. in 1870, he was ad
mitted to the bar. He practiced law in
Chicago for two years, but after 1875 he
was engaged in the practice of law at
Bristol, Rhode Island, until 1881. He was
elected to the Legislature of Rhode Is
land as a Republican, serving from 1879
to 1881, and in the latter year was appoint
ed to the office of United States judge for
the District of Rhode Island, and so re
mained until promoted Juy 6, 1884, to his
present office as United States circuit
judge for the First Judicial Circuit. Ad
dress : Providence, Rhode Island.
COLT, Samuel Pomeroy:
Lawyer; born at Paterson, New Jersey,
January 10, 1852; ron of Christopher Colt
and Theodore (De Wolf) Colt. He re
ceived his preliminary education in Hart
ford, Connecticut, Bristol, Rhode Island
and New York City. In 1873 he was grad
uated from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, after which he took a course
in the Columbia Law School, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1876. He went to
Rhode Island to engage in practice, where
he became an eminent lawyer, and took an
active interest in State politics. He was a
member of the Rhode Island General As
sembly from 1876 until 1879, when he be
came assistant attorney-general for a term
of two years. He was elected attorney-
general, subsequently, filling this office dur
ing the years 1882 to 1885. He is at the
head of several large corporations, among
which may be mentioned the United States
Rubber Company. Address : Bristol, Rhode
Island; or 49 Westminster Street, Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
COLTON, Arthur WIU is:
Author; born in Washington, Connecti
cut, May 22, 1868; son of Willis S. and
Lucy P. (Gibson) Colton. He was edu
cated in the Gunnery School, Washington,
Connecticut, from 1862 to 1866; was grad
uated from Yale as A.B. in 1890 and Ph.D.
in 1893. He was instructor in English at
Yale University from 1893 to 1895, and has
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New York City from 1906. He is author of :
Bennie Ben Cree, 1900 (Doubleday) ; De
lectable Mountains, 1901 (Scribner) ; De
batable Land, 1901 (Harper) ; Tioba,
1903 (Holt) ; Belted Seas, 1905 (Holt) ;
Cruise of the Violetta, 1906 (Holt) ; and
Harps Hung Up in Babylon, poems, 1907
(Holt). He is a member of the Graduate
Club of New Haven, and of the Yale and
Authors Clubs of New York City. Resi
dence: Washington, Connecticut. Ad
dress : University Club, New York City.
COMER, Braxton Bragg:
Governor of Alabama; born on a planta
tion in Barbour County, Alabama, Novem
ber 7, 1843. He was educated in the Ala
bama State University, served as State
cadet in the Confederate Army in the Civil
War, and afterward went to Emory and
Henry College at Birmingham, Alabama,
graduating in 1869. Became one of the
largest farmers in Alabama, and is inter
ested in large milling and other enterprises ;
in partnership with S. B. Trapp engaged
as a wholesale merchant since 1886. He
became interested as merchant and miller
in railroad rebates, rates and discrimina
tions, and was elected in 1904, president of
the Alabama Railroad Commission. The
railroad rate issue became the most prom
inent in State politics, and he received the
Democratic nomination, and was in No
vember, 1906, elected Governor of Alabama
for the term expiring in January, 181 1.
Residence : Birmingham, Alabama. Official
address : Montgomery, Alabama.
COMBS, Leslie:
Diplomat; born in Little Compton, Rhode
Island, July 31, 1852; son of General Leslie
Combs and Mary Elizabeth (Brownell)
Combs. He was educated in the public
schools and in Transylvania University
through the sophomore year. He has been
engaged since manhood in fine stock rais
ing and tobacco planting, and was also a
rancher in Texas and Indian Territory for
several years. He was pension agent for
Kentucky from 1898 to 1900, resigning in
1900 to become chairman of the Republican
Executive Committee of Kentucky. He

was reappointed pension agent for Ken
tucky from 1900 to 1902, and in November,
1902, was appointed- United States minister
to Guatemala and Honduras. Mr. Combs
married in Woodford County, Kentucky,
October 18, 1878, Mary C, daughter of
Daniel Swigert, of Spring Station, Ken
tucky. Residence: Lexington, Kentucky.
Official address : United States Legation,
Guatemala City, Guatemala.
COMER, Braxton B.:
Governor of Alabama. He was elected
on the regular Democratic ticket in 1906
for the four-year term expiring in Janu
ary, 1911. Address: Montgomery, Ala
bama.COMFORT, Howard:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, April
21, 1850; son of Edward Comfort and Su
san (Edge) Comfort. He was educated in
private schools and at Haverford College.
From 1870 to 1874 he was a member of
the firm of Paxson, Shubert and Company,
and from 1874 to 1898 member of the firm
of Paxson, Comfort and Company, which
was incorporated, and since January 1,
1899 has been The Paxson and Comfort
Company, funeral supplies, of which Mr.
Comfort has been president since April,
1905. Mr. Comfort has made three Euro
pean trips. He was twice a candidate, un
successfully, for the position of member of
the Philadelphia City Councils, and he is
in politics a member of the Reform or
City Party. He is in religion a member
of the Society of Friends. Mr. Comfort
is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society and the Civil Service Reform As
sociation. He has been a manager of Hav
erford College since 1880, and secretary of
the Board of Managers of Haverford
College since 1883; has been a trustee of
Bryn Mawr College since 1893, manager of
the Saving Fund Society of Germantown
and vicinity since 1893, and director of the
National Bank of Germantown. He is
manager of the Friends Asylum for the
Insane and a life member of the Art Club
of Philadelphia. He married at Philadel
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and they have a son: William Wistar
Comfort, born in 1874. Residence: 5339
Knox Street, Germantown, Philadelphia.
Address : 529 and 531 Arch Street, Phila
delphia.
COMPTON, Alfred G.:
Educator; born in London, England,
February 1, 1835; his parents emigrated to
America in March, 1842. He was educated
in the public schools of New York City
and was graduated from the College of the
City of New York in the first graduating
class in July, 1853. He was tutor in that
college, from 1853 to 1869; professor of
physics (mechanics, etc., and mixed mathe
matics), and was acting president of the
college from December 1, 1902, to Septem
ber 1, 1903, between the resignation of
President Alexander S. Webb and the ap
pointment of his successor, John H. Finley.
He is author of: First Lessons in Wood
Working; First Lessons in Metal Work
ing; The Speed Lathe (with J. H. De
Groodt); The Engine Lathe (with J. H.
De Groodt) ; Some Common Errors of
Speech; A Manual of Logarithmic Compu
tation. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers, and the City
College Club. Address : 40 West One Hun
dred and Twenty-sixth Street, New York
City.COMLY, Samuel Pnacoast:
Captain United States Navy; born in
New Jersey ; appointed from New Jersey as
midshipman in the United States Naval
Academy, from which he was graduated and
promoted to ensign in July, 1871. His sub
sequent promotions were to master, August,
1873; lieutenant, April, 1878; lieutenant-
commander, July 3, 1898; commander,
March 3, igoi ; captain, July I, 1905. He
served on the various duties and stations of
a naval officer, and from November, 1895,
until the end of the war with Spain was
on the battleship Indiana, after that on the
receiving ship Richmond until 1900; com
manded the training ship Alliance, and
commanded the battleship Alabama, in the
North Atlantic Squadron until October 1,

1907. Address : Care Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
COMSTOCK, Andrew W.:
Railroad president; born in Port Huron,
Michigan, October 5, 1838; son of Alfred
Comstock and Harriet Jane (Westbrook)
Comstock. He was graduated from the
Michigan Normal School at Ypsilanti.
He commenced working in the lumber
woods for his father in 185 1, when thir
teen years of age, and worked in the
woods in the winters, and on the farm
and mill in the summers until 1864, when
he left home and went to Alpena to take
charge of a large mercantile establishment.
He was very successful, but his partners
sold out in 1866 and in 1867 he started
a mercantile business on his own venture.
In 1868 he bought a lumber mill and com
menced sawing, and in 1871 he started the
Alpena Banking Conipany. He was cashier
for a number of years, then president un
til he sold out, of Comstock Brothers.
His travels have extended all over the
United States, in Cuba and through Eu
rope. He is a Democrat in politics and
has served as mayor, supervisor, and mem
ber of the Board of Education. In re
ligious adherence he is an Episcopalian.
Mr. Comstock is a Mason of the thirty-
second degree, a Knight Templar and
Shriner, and is also a member of the Elks.
Mr. Comstock married, at Detroit, Michi
gan, July 14, 1867, Lillian J. Little of De
troit; and they have two daughters: Caro
line L, bora in 1868, and Anna Winifred,
born in 1871. Residence: 712 Jefferson
Avenue, Detroit. Office address: 45
Campau Building, Detroit, Michigan.
COMSTOCK, Anthony:
Postoffice inspector, and secretary of the
New York Society for the Suppression of
Vice; born in Canaan, Connecticut, March
7, 1844; son of Thomas Anthony Com
stock and Polly Ann (Lockwood) Com
stock. He was educated in the district
school and Wyckoff's Academy at New
Canaan, and for one year in the New Bri
tain, Connecticut, high school. He volun
teered, December, 1863, in the Seventeenth
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General Gilmore in the Third Separate Bri
gade, Department of the South. He was
honorably discharged in 1865 and came in
1867 to New York City, where he worked
consecutively as porter, stock clerk, and
salesman in wholesale dry goods houses
from 1867 to 1873. Mr. Comstock made
his first seven arrests of venders of ob
scene books March 2, 1872, and has been
secretary and chief special agent of the
New York Society for Suppression of Vice
since its incorporation by act of the Leg
islature of New York in 1873. He was ap
pointed special agent, now called inspector,
of the Postoffice Department, March 5,
1873, and has ever since served the Gov
ernment of the United States in that ca
pacity without salary. He has made three
thousand and seventy-four arrests and
seized more than one hundred and ten
tons of obscene literature and other con
traband matter. Mr. Comstock is a Re
publican in politics and a member of the
Central Presbyterian Church of Summit,
New Jersey, and has been prominent in
Young Men's Christian Association work.
He is author of: Frauds Exposed; Gam
bling Outrages; Morals Versus Arts; and
Traps for the Young. His favorite recre
ations are cabinet work with tools, and he
is a philatelist. Mr. Comstock married in
Brooklyn, January 25, 1871, Margaret
Hamilton, and they have a daughter : Adele
R., born in 1884, and one deceased. Resi
dence: 35 Beekman Road, Summit, New
Jersey. Address : 140-142 Nassau Street,
New York City.
COMSTOCK, George Cary:
Astronomer ; born in Madison, Wisconsin,
February 12, 1855; son of Charles Henry
Comstock and Mercy (Bronson) Comstock.
He was graduated from the University of
Michigan as Ph.B. in 1877 and received the
honorary degree of ScD. in 1907, and from
the University of Wisconsin was graduated
as LL.B. in 1883, and the University of Illi
nois conferred upon him the degree of LL.
D. in 1907. He was recorder of the United
States Lake Survey, assistant engineer of
the Improvement of Mississippi River, and
assistant astronomer of the Washburn Ob

servatory. He was admitted to the bar of
Wisconsin and to the United States Courts ;
was professor of mathematics and astron
omy of the Ohio' State University in 1885 ;
professor of astronomy at the University of
Wisconsin; associate director and director
in 1890 of the Washburn Observatory, and
has been director of the Graduate School
of the University of Wisconsin since 1906.
He is a member of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, As-
tronomsche Gesellschaft, of Leipzig, So
ciete Astronomique de France, Sociedad As-
tronomica de Mexico, and has been a mem
ber of the National Academy of Science
since 1899, and secretary of the Astronomic
al and Astrophysical Society of America
from its first, organization. Mr. Comstock
married in Madison, Wisconsin, June 12,
1894, E. Cecile Everett, and they have one
daughter, born in 1896. Address; Ob-
sevatory Hill, Madison, Wisconsin.
CON ANT, Alban Jasper:
Portrait painter and naturalist; born in
Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont, Sep
tember 24, 1821 ; son of Caleb Conant and
Sally Barnes Conant. He was educated at
the Randolph Academy, Vermont, and the
Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, graduat
ing in 1844, the Madison University from
which he was graduated in 1855 with de
gree of A.M. and the Missouri State Uni
versity in 1868. Mr. Conant has painted
portraits of Lincoln, Sherman, several
heads of cabinet departments of the United
States at Washington, D. C, the justices
of the Court of Appeals, the New York
and United States Supreme Courts., and
merchant Princes of Saint Louis for the
Chamber of Commerce. Among his his
torical paintings are the burial of De-
Soto, and Anderson at Sumter, when the
attack began (now at West Point). He
served three months' volunteer service in
Missouri in 1865; was eight years curator
of the State University of Missouri, chair
man of the committee which founded the
School of Mines and Metallurgy under the
Morrill Land Grant of 330,000 acres, and
was its supervisor for three years. Mr.
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cave explorations in the Valley of the
Mississippi River and tributaries arid the
Ozark foothills. He was choir leader and
organist for twenty years, and teacher in
the Sacred Music Department of the Emma
Willard Seminary, Troy, New York. He
is author of: Archeology of the Missis
sippi Valley, which has been translated in
to many European languages ; Footprints
of Vanished Races; Prehistoric Pagan and
Greek Arts ; and Esthetics of the Bible.
Mr. Conant was formerly a Clay Whig
but since then has been a Republican in
politics. He is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence ; the Saint Louis Academy of Science ;
the Anthropological Society of Washing
ton, D. C, 1880; and the Institution Eth-
nographique at. Paris, France. He is also
a member of the Authors Club of New
York City. He married, at Chelsea, Ver
mont, in 1845, Sarah M. Howes, who died
in 1867; and second, in 1869, to Brianna
Constance Bryan, of San Francisco.
Their children are : A. J. Conant, Junior
and Carrie Conant Smith. Address: 51
West Tenth Street', New York City.
CONANT, Charles Arthur:
Financier; born at Winchester, Mas
sachusetts, July 2, 1861 ; son of Charles
E. Conant and'Marion Crawford (Wallace)
Conant. He was graduated from the Win
chester (Massachusetts) High School in
1879. He was engaged in newspaper worK
for about twenty years, beginning at Bos
ton in 1880 and was for ten years Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce. He was a candi
date for the Massachusetts Legislature in
1886; secretary to the postmaster at Bos
ton in 1887, Democratic candidate for Con
gress in the Harvard University District in
1894, and delegate to the Gold Democratic
Convention in 1896. He became associated
with the Executive Committee of the In
dianapolis Monetary Convention in 1897,
and suggested several or the provisions of
the Gold Standard Law of March 14, 1900.
He was appointed by Secretary Root, spe
cial commissioner to the Philippine Islands
in the summer of 1901, for the purpose

of investigating coinage and banking con
ditions there, his report being the basis for
the Philippine Coinage Act of 1903 and
the new coins acquiring the popular name
of "Conants." In February, 1902, he was
elected treasurer of the Morton Trust
Company of New York, resigning at the
close of 1906. " He visited Mexico in
1903 on the invitation of the Mexi
can Government to confer with a commit
tee regarding the reform of the Mexican
Currency. Mr. Conant was appointed by
President Roosevelt a member of the Com
mittee on International Exchange of the
United States, which in the summer of
1903 conferred with European Govern
ments in regard to a reform of the cur
rency systems in China and other Oriental
countries. In 1904 he aided the War De
partment in suggesting a currency measure
for Panama, similar to that of the Phil
ippines. In 1906 he was appointed a mem
ber of the special committee- of the New
York Chamber of Commerce on Reform
of the Currency, whose report was adopted
by the Chamber, November 1, 1906. Mr.
Conant is author of: History of Modern
Banks of Issue with an account of the
Economic Crises of the Present Century,
1896, (Putnam's) ; The United States in
the Orient ; The Nature of the Fxonomic
Problem, 1900 (Houghton, Mifflin) ; Wall
Street and the Country, 1904, (Putnam) ;
The Principles of Money and Banking
(two volumes) 1905, (Harper) ; and the
latter was translated into French by Raph
ael Georges Levy and published in Paris
in 1907. Mr. Conant has a wide acquaint
ance with foreign bankers and economists
and is a frequent contributor to domestic
and foreign publications. He is vice-presi
dent of the Continental Rubber Company,
and director of the Manila Railway and
Credit Clearing House. He is a member
of the Chamber of Commerce of the State
of New York, the American Economic As-~
sociation, the Washington Economic Asso
ciation, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American
Asiatic Association, New York Economic
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League, and the Societe d'Economie Polit
ique of France, and is a member of the
Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C, and
the Lawyers' and Reform Clubs of New
York City. Residence : 14 East Sxitieth
Street. Office, address : 34 Nassau Street,
New York City.
CONANT, Ernest Bancroft:
Lawyer; born at Enfield, New Hamp
shire, May 21, 1870; son of Washington
Irving Conant- and Fanny Ann (Skinner)
Conant. He went to the public schools in
his native town during his boyhood, after
which he studied at Phillips Exeter Acad
emy and Harvard University, graduating
from the former in 1891, and from the
latter, with the degree of AB., in 1895.
He then registered as a law student in
Harvard," completing his course in 1898,
and was admitted to the Massachusetts
bar in the same year. He practiced for
five years in Boston, and in addition to
this work lectured on law at the Young
Men's Christian Association Evening
school. He went West in 1903, and settled
in Chicago, since which time he has de
voted most of his time to teachirig. For
about seven months he held a professorship
in the Illinois College of Law, resigning
at the end of that time to become, in
August, 1903, professor of law and dean of
the Washburn College Law School. Ad
dress : Topeka, Kansas.
CONANT, Ernest Lee:
Lawyer; born at Dudley, Massachusetts,
September 11, 1859; son of Charles R. and
Ann F. (Ross) Conant. He was graduated
from Harvard College as A.B. in 1884, at
tended Johns Hopkins University and
Maryland Law School from 1884 to 1886,
and was graduated from the Harvard Law
School as A.M. and LL.B. in 1889. He
was instructor in English in Harvard Col
lege for two years; instructor in law and
lecturer on international law at Harvard
University, two years and since then has
been engaged in practicing law in New
York City and Havana, Cuba, being a mem
ber of the law firm of Conant & Wright,
specialists in Spanish American law in
both cities. He was counsel to the military

governor of Havana, in 1899, and president
of the Havana Finance Commission for Ex
amining the Financial Condition of Hav
ana in 1899 and 1900. He was a member of
the Havana Charter Commission in 1900
and special prosecuting attorney (fiscal)
in Cuban Post Office fraud cases in 1901.
Mr. Conant married in 1903, Blanche M.
Allison. Address : 32 Liberty -Street, New
York City.
CONANT, Harry A.:
Consular officer. He was appointed con
sul at Naples, March 29, 1880; and re
signed June 26, 1880, and he was appoint
ed consul at Windsor, Ontario, April 18,
1905. Address : Windsor, Ontario, Cana
da.CONARD, Henry Shoemaker:
Professor of botany ; born at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, September 12, 1874; son of
Thomas Pennington Conard and Rebecca
Savery (Baldwin) Conard. He was edu
cated at the Westtown Boarding School, -of
Pennsylvania, and was graduated as head of
the class, in 1892 ; was graduated from Hav
erford College, Pennsylvania, as B.S. in 1894,
with general honors, and A.M. in 1895, and
from the University of Pennsylvania as ,
Ph.D. 1901. He was senior Harrison, fel
low in that institution from 190 1 to 1903,
and Johnston scholar at Johns Hopkins
University from 1905 to 1906. He was
teacher of science at Westtown School,
Pennsylvania, from 1895 to 1899, instruc
tor in botany in the University of Pennsyl
vania, from 1903 to 1905, and has been pro
fessor of botany in Iowa College since
1906. He is author of: Waterlilies: a
Monograph of the Genus Nymphaea; Car
negie Institution of Washington, 1905; and
of the articles : Nymphaea, and Victoria (in
part), in Bailey's Cyclopedia of American
Horticulture (Macmillan) ; on Water Gar
dening in the Garden Magazine, 1906; and
and Quiniault Flora : a distribution of plants
collected iu the Olympic Peninsula of Wash
ington State; and twenty other titles. He
visited leading European herbaria in 1902
and 1903, and visited the Carnegie Labora
tory at Dry Tortugas, Florida, 1905. He
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ber of the Society of Friends. Mr. Conard
is a member of the Botanical Society of
America, the Iowa Academy of Sciences,
and of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
Societies. His favorite recreations are
walking and camping. Mr. Conard mar
ried at Philadelphia, April 13, 1900, (Eliza
beth) Laetitia Moon, Ph.D. (Chicago), and
they have a daughter, Elizabeth Moon Con
ard, born May 2, 1903. Residence : 916
Eighth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa. Address :
Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa.
CONATY, Thomas James:
Catholic bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles; born at Kilnaleck, County Cavan,
Ireland, August 1, 1847; son of Patrick
Conaty and Alice (Lynch) Conaty. He re
moved with his parents to the United
States in 1850, and received his early edu
cation at Taunton, Massachusetts. He at
tended Montreal College from 1863 to 1867,
and was graduated from the College of
the Holy Cross at Worcester, Massachu
setts, in 1869, and from Montreal Theolog
ical School in 1872, and was ordained
priest December 21, 1872. He was assist
ant at St. John's Church, Worcester, from
1873 to 1880, and pastor of the Church of
the Sacred Heart at Worcester, Massachu
setts, for seventeen years, and was selected
by the American Catholic bishops who
were trustees of the Catholic University
at Washington, D. C, as rector of that
University, October 22, 1896, and appointed
to that position November 20, 1896, by
Pope Leo XIII, who conferred upon him,
June 19, 1897, the title of Domestic Prelate.
He was nominated by Pope Leo, July 16,
1901, titular bishop of Samos, and he was
consecrated bishop by Cardinal Gibbons,
at Baltimore, November 24, 1901. He was
appointed to the see of Monterey and
Los Angeles, March 27, 1903, and took
up his Episcopal residence at Los
Angeles, California. He received the
degree of D.D. from Georgetown Univers
ity in 1889, and the degrees of J.U.D. and
D.D. from Laval University, Quebec, in
1896. Bishop Conaty has been active in
the promotion of temperance and educa
tion among the Catholics of America, was

president of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America in 1887 and 1888, and
was one of the originators and organizers
of the Catholic Summer School at Platts-
burgh, New York, and its president from
1893 to 1897, was founder and for four
years editor of the Catholic School and
Home Magazine and is author of Bible
Studies, for college and school use, pub
lished in 1898. Address : Los Angeles,
California.
CONDICT, G, Herbert:
Mechanical and electrical engineer; born
at Newark, New Jersey, March 7, 1862;
son of J. Elliot and Sarah J. Gjndict He
was educated in schools of New York and
Philadelphia, and the University of Penn
sylvania. He entered the employ of the
Central Gas Light Company of San Fran
cisco, 1882, and built and repaired gas
works. He was assistant to Mr. Van De-
poele in electric railway and lighting ex
periments and installing trolley lines at the
New Orleans Exposition and South Bend,
Indiana, 1885 ; general manager of the
Electric Car Company of America,
1886; engineer, of the Electric Stor
age Battery Company, 1895; engineer-
in-chief of the Electric Vehicle Com
pany, 1897; vice-president of the Elec
tro-Dynamic Company, 1903 ; and is now
manager of the Box Electric Drill Com
pany, and consulting mechanical and elec
trical engineer in various enterprises. He
is the inventor of many electrical devices,
including the series-parallel controller, now
universally used in operating electric cars.
He is a Republican in politics, and a Pres
byterian in religious views. He is a mem
ber of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, New York Electrical Society,
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia). His rec
reations are golf and automobiling. He
is also a member of the Engineers' Club,
and Plainfield Country Club. Address:
115 Broadway, New York City.
CONGDON, Henry Martyn:
Architect; born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1834 ; son of Charles Congdon and Anna
E. (Pearce) Congdon. He was educated
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Grammar School and Colufnbia College,
graduating from there in 1854, with the
degree of A.B. Mr. Congdon is a church
architect, and a designer of many important
churches in the United States, and he is
senior partner of the firm of Henry M.
Congdon and son, architects. He was a
member of the Sixth Company Seventh
Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York during the Civil War,
joining as a private and leaving as orderly
sergeant. He is an Episcopalian in his re
ligious adherence. Mr. Congdon is a fel
low and past secretary of the American
Institute of. Architects ; vice-president of the
Department of Architecture of the Brook
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and a
member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He
married in New York City in 1865, Char
lotte Greenleaf, and they have two sons :
Ernest Arnold, born in 1867, and Herbert
Wheaton, born in 1876. Address: 18
Broadway, New York.
CONGDON, Joseph William:
Silk manufacturer; born in New York
City, November 26, 1844; son of George
and Sally Ann Congdon. He was educated
at Public School No. 35, in New York
City, and after leavirig school engaged in
busmess pursuits, taking up in 1886 his
present business as a silk manufacturer
at Paterson, New Jersey, in which he has
most successfully continued ever since,
now being president of the Phoenix Silk
Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.
J., Allentown, Pa., and Pottsville, Pa. He
has also taken a great interest in public
affairs and especially in military matters,
first in New York, where he was a captain
in the Twenty-second Regiment of the
National Guard of the State of New York,
and afterward in New Jersey, where he
became major commanding the Paterson
Light Guard and afterward lieutenant-
colonel commanding the First Battalion of
the National Guard of New Jersey, and
since 1895 he has been inspector-general of
the National Guard of the State of New
Jersey. General Congdon is a Republican
in his political views, but has never held
any civil office except that he served as an

alderman of the City of Paterson from
1879 to 1883, and that of railroad com
missioner of New Jersey to which office
he was recently appointed by Governor
Stokes. He is a prominent member of the
Masonic order, being past grand master of
Masons of the State of New Jersey, past
grand commander of Knights Templar of
New Jersey and a member of the New
Jersey Consistory, thirty-third degree. He
was until recently, and for four years,
president of the Silk Association of Amer
ica at New York City, and is also a
director of the First National Bank of
Paterson, N. J. General Congdon was
marshal of the Central Dry Goods Divis
ion of the Sound Money Parades at New
York City in 1896 and 1900. He is a mem
ber of the Old Guard of New York, the
New Jersey Rifle Club, New Jersey His
torical Society, and the New Jersey Society
of Sons of the American Revolution. Gen
eral Congdon is also a member of the
Union League, Lotos, New York Athletic,
Republican, Army and Navy, and Merchants'
Central Clubs of New York, the Hamilton
Club of Paterson, North Jersey Country
Club, and the Livingston Club of Allen-
town, N. J. He married in 1868, Kate De
Forest Burlock. Address: Hamilton
Club, Paterson, N. J.
CONKLIN, Henry Wells:
Lawyer; born in Berkshire, New York,
September 29, 1855; son of Rev. Oliver P.
Conklin and Samantha A. (Knox) Conklin.
He was graduated from the University of
Rochester as A.B. and valedictorian in
1879. He has been a practicing lawyer in
Rochester, New York, since 1881; and he
was a member of the firm of Cronise &
Conklin, lawyers, from 1885 to 1904. He is
a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian
in religion. Mr. Conklin is a member of
the New York State Bar Association, the
Rochester Bar Association, and Rochester
Historical Society; has been a director of
the Rochester Young Men's Christian As
sociation since 1895, and president of the
same since 1904; and is a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Phi Beta
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golf. He is a member of the Rochester Kent
Club. Mr. Conklin has been married twice,
first at Batavia, New York, November 26,
1885, Anna E. Swezey, who died December
31, 1896, and second at Rochester, New
York, June 29,- 1899, Ella S. Kingsley. He
has one son: Edward Wells Conklin, born
in 1888. Residence: 41 Vick Park A.,
Rochester. Address : 602 Wilder Building,
Rochester, New York.
CONKLIN, Roland Ray:
Banker; born at Urbana, Illinois, Feb
ruary 1, 1858; son of Joseph Okell and
Julia, Louise (Hunt) Conklin. He was
graduated from the University of Illinois,
in 1880; and received from that institution
the degree of Master of Literature in 1890.
Mr. Conklin was engaged in banking busi
ness at Kansas City, Mo., from 1880 to
1892, and was one of the founders of the
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company;
and he has been a resident of New York
City from 1892. In 1894, with S. M. Jar-
vis, he organized the North American
Trust Company, of which he was vice-
president. He was very active in the man
agement of the company which was, in
1898, appointed fiscal agent of the United
States Government in Cuba, and was the
first American institution engaged in bank
ing in that island. Later, by consolidation,
with other trust companies the corporation
became known as the Trust Company of
America. He resigned the vice-presi
dency in 1900, to devote more time to per
sonal investments and other financial un
dertakings. He is one of the founders
and a director of the National Bank of
Cuba; president of the Havana Telephone
Company, and also connected with many
street railways and public utility corpora
tions in the United States and the Cuban
Republic. Mr. Conklin is an extensive
traveler and reader, and member of the
Bibliophile Society, and is also a member
of the Municipal Art Society and of the
Civic, National Arts. St. Nicholas and
Nassau Country Clubs and Automobile
Club of America; also the American Club
of Havana. Mr. Conklin married, at
Paris, France, May 4, 1898, Miss Mary

Macfadden, and by that marriage has a
daughter, Julia Cecilia Conklin (born in
1899), and a son, Roland Hunt Conklin
(born in 1904). His home at Rosemary
Farm, Huntington, Long Island, has been a
residence of the family from 1603, and he
also resides at 524 Fifth Avenue. Address :
111 Broadway, New York City.
CONKLING, Howard:
Lawyer and real estate operator; born
in New York City, 1856; son of Frederick
A. and Eleonora (Ronalds) Conkling. He
was educated in private academies and at
the New York University Law School,
where he was graduated LL.B. in 1890.
He engaged in commercial pursuits, but,
after a few years, abandoned "them to
study law, and was admitted to the bar.
He later removed to Indiana and was ad
mitted to the bar in Indianapolis, but soon
after -returned to New York. Mr. Conk
ling has traveled extensively in European
countries and Mexico. He is author of:
The Game Laws; and Travels in Mexico.
Mr. Conkling is a Republican in politics,
and was a member of the General Assem
bly of New York in 1892, 1893, and 1903.
He was formerly president of the Madison
Square Republican Club, and president of
the Hamilton Republican Club, and was a
candidate for Congress in 1898, but was
defeated by George B. McClellan. He is
a Presbyterian in religious affiliation. Mr.
Conkling is vice-president of the Alliance
Franchise, interested in the propagation of
the French language, and official presenter
of medals for the Alliance. His favorite
recreations are driving and pedestrianism.
He is a member of the Union, Metropoli
tan, and Republican Clubs of New York.
Residence : 157 East Seventieth Street,
New York City. Summer residence :
Luzerne, New York. Office address : 76
William Street, New York City.
CONN, Herbert WiUiam:
Professor of biology; born at Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, January 10, 1859; son of
Rueben R. Conn and Harriet E. (Hard
ing) Conn. He received the degree of
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Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in
1884. He was acting director of Johns
Hopkins Summer School in 1884; instructor
in biology in Wesleyan University from
1884 to 1888; and has been professor of
biology, Wesleyan University, since 1888.
He was also lecturer in biology in Trinity
College from 1886 to 1887; director of the
Cold Spring Harbor Biological Labora
tory, Long Island, from 1889 to 1897; bac
teriologist of Storrs Experiment Station,
Connecticut, from 1892 to 1906; lecturer on
bacteriology at Storrs Agricultural College
from 1901" to 1906; and has been director
of the Connecticut State Bacteriological
Laboratory since 1905. Dr. Conn was
president of the American Society of Bac
teriology in 1902, and is a member of the
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He has pub
lished nearly one hundred and fifty arti
cles and books, mostly scientific. In poli
tics, he is a Republican and in religion a
Methodist. He married at Fitchburg, Mas
sachusetts, August 5, 1885, Julia M. Joel,
and they have two children : Harold J.,
bora May, 1886, and Bertha V, born
March, 1891. Address: Middletown, Con
necticut.
CONNELLY, Henry Clay:
Lawyer; born at Petersburg, Pennsyl
vania, December 22, 1831 ; son of James
Connelly and Maria (Hugus) Connelly.
He was educated at the Somerset (Penn
sylvania) Academy and trained as a print
er in the Somerset Visitor office by General
A. H. Coffroth, editor and publisher. He
was editor of the Beaver (Pennsylvania)
Star from 1852 to 1854 ; editor of the Rock
Island (Illinois) Daily Argus from 1857
to 1859 and has practiced law in Rock
Island, Illinois, since .i860, except for three
years in the army. He was city attorney
from 1869 to 1871 ; and has been attorney
for R. G. Dun and Company since 1867.
He is a member of the law firm of Con
nelly & Connelly, in which his son, Bern
ard D. Connelly is a partner. Mr. Connel
ly was always a Democrat until the first
election of President McKinley, since
which time he has voted the Republican

in which he served as adjutant in the
ticket. He is a veteran of the Civil War, "¦
Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry before the regi
ment was mustered. He was commission
ed lieutenant and captain in Company. L,
and major of the Fourteenth Illinois Cav
alry, and commanded the regiment and
the brigade at times. He was on the Mor
gan raid through Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio, and was personally present at the
capture of Gen. John H. Morgan in Ohio,
was in the East Tennessee campaign under
General Burnside and in most of the en
gagements there, was in the Cherokee
Indian fight, in North Carolina, February
2, 1864; on the Atlantic campaign; with the
rear guard fighting Generals Hood and
Forrest from the Tennessee River to Col
umbia; and in cavalry fights on Duck
River and in the battles of Franklin and
Nashville. He was elected by vote of of
ficers of the Fourteenth as major over
six captains whose commissions were of
prior date to his. He was president of the
Board of Education of Rock Island,
Illinois, for several terms, and presi
dent of the City Library Board for
many years. He was the first commander
of General John Buford Post, No. 243,
Grand Army of the Republic, Illinois De
partment and is president of the Rock Island
County Sons of the American Revolution.
He is the last survivor of the Committee
of Ten representing Rock Island and Mo-
line, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, which
went to Washington in 1861 to secure the
location of the United States Arsenalon
the Island of Rock Island, Illinois, by act
of Congress. Major Connelly is a Presby
terian in his religious affiliation. He is
one of the few surviving individuals who
saw the great chief Black Hawk in his
lifetime. He married, at Rock Island, Il
linois,. May 12, 1857, Adelaide McCall,
daughter, of Clark McCall, of Allegheny
County* New York, and. they have four
children living: Clark H. born in 1858;
Alvin H., born in 1861; Mrs. Mabel
Connelly McGavren, born in 1863, and
Bernard D., born in 1866. Residence:
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address.: 1719}^ Second Avenue, Rock
Island, Illinois.
CONNER, James Perry:
Lawyer and congressman; born in Dela
ware County, Indiana, January 27, 1851.
He attended college at the Upper Iowa
University at Fayette, Iowa, and was grad
uated from the Law Department of the
Iowa State University at Iowa City in
June, 1873. In 1880 he was elected district
attorney of the Thirteenth Judicial District
of Iowa, and held that office for four years.
In 1884 he was elected circuit judge of the
Thirteenth Judicial District of Iowa, and
in 1886 was elected district judge of the
Sixteenth Judicial District of Iowa, having
the support of both the Republican and
Democratic parties. In 1892 Mr. Conner
was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention at Minneapolis and on Septeni-
ber 26, 1900, he was nominated by the
Republican convention of the Tenth Con
gressional District of Iowa for the Fifty-
sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Hon. J. P. Dolliver,
and elected. He was also elected to the
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected in 1906 to
the Sixtieth Congress, in which he is now
serving. Address : Denison, Iowa.
CONNER, Phineas Sanborn:
Physician; born in West Chester, Penn
sylvania, August 23, 1839; son of Phineas
Sanborn Conner and Eliza (Sanborn) Con
ner. He was educated in the Hughes High
School at Cincinnati, Ohio, was graduated
from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire, as A.B., in 1859 and A.M. in
1862, and received the degree of LL.D. in
1884, and he was graduated from Jefferson
Medical College at Philadelphia, as M.D.
in 1861. Dr. Conner has been engaged in
the practice of medicine in Cincinnati since
August 1, 1866. He was acting assistant
surgeon and assistant surgeon of the Unit
ed States Army, and served from Novem
ber, 1861, to October, 1862, in Washington,
D. C, and from November, 1862, to July,
1864, in the Department of the Gulf, served
at Governor's Island, New York Harbor,

from September, 1864, to October, 1865,
and in the Department of North Carolina,
from October 1865, to the date of his re
signation, August 1, 1866. lie was brevet
ted captain and major of the United States
Army, March 13, 1865. He was surgeon of
the Cincinnati Hospital from 1874 to 1895,
and since the latter date has been con
sulting surgeon in the same hospital.
Since 1868 he has been and is now on the
staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital in
Cincinnati. Dr. Conner was a member of
the War Department Investigating Com
mission from September, 1898, to February
1899; medical inspector of the Thirteenth
Army Corps in 1864, acting medical dir
ector of the Department of North Caro
lina, to July, 1866; professor of surgery in
Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Surg
ery in the Sessions of 1866 and 1867; pro
fessor of chemistry, anatomy and surgery
in the Medical College of Ohio, succes
sively, ever since 1867 ; professor .of surgery
at Dartmouth Medical College from 1877
to 1900. He is a Republican in politics and
an Episcopalian. He is a member, of Am
erican Medical Association, the American
Surgical Association and the American
Academy of Medicine and has been presi
dent of each of the two last mentioned
societies, and has been an associate fellow
of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia,
since 1896. He was for one term a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees of the Cin
cinnati Hospital. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society (Dartmouth Chap
ter), Alpha Delta Phi (Dartmouth Chap
ter), Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity
(Cincinnati Chapter), Alpha Kappa medi
cal fraternity (Dartmouth). Dr. Conner
is a member of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legiori. the. Grand Army of
the Republic, the Army of the Poto
mac, the Association of Military Sur
geons of the United States, the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences, American
Public Health Association, the Ohio
Society of Colonial Wars, Ohio Society of,
the Sons of the Revolution, and the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
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December 17, 1873, Julia Elizabeth John
ston, and he has had three children: Edith
J., born December 16, 1876; Phineas San
born; born October 29, 1877, and Helen
Elizabeth, born June 16, 1883. Address :
215 West Ninth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. .
CONNERY, Thomas Bernard Joseph:
Editor, author; born in Ireland in 1835.
He was educated until thirteen years old
in the public schools of New York and
at St. Francis Xavier's College; and there
after at Fordham University, from which
he was graduated in 1853 with highest hon
ors and the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
In 1869 the degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon him, and the degree of
LL.D. in 1902. In 1864 he was graduated
from Columbia College Law School with
the degree of LL.B. Soon after graduat
ing from Fordham, he entered upon jour
nalism as a reporter - on the New York
Herald, with which paper he remained con
nected until 1884, serving successively as
reporter, correspondent, and managing
editor. During the first term of President
Cleveland he was appointed secretary of
the legation to Mexico, and was in charge
of the legation during the controversy with
that country concerning the question of
extra-territorial jurisdiction, occasioned by
the famous Cutting case. The late Sec
retary Bayard complimented Mr. Connery
on his judicious presentation of the matter
to Senor Mariscal, Mexican minister of
Foreign Affairs. Later in life Mr. Con
nery became the editor and proprietor of
New York Truth, and served for three
years as editor of Once-a-Week, now
known as Collier's Weekly. He is author
of: Black Friday; That Noble Mexican;
All the Dog's Fault; My Trip to Mars;
Violet Bland; Character Marks Autorial;
Essays on Literary Women of England.
He has been a member of the- Board of
Education since 1902, and is a member of
the Authors Club. Address 103 West
Fifty-eighth Street, New York City.
CONNOLLY, James Austin:
Lawyer; born in Newark, New Jersey,
March 8, 1843. When a boy of seven, his
parents moved to Ohio, where he was
given an academic education. At the age

of fifteen he became assistant clerk in the
Ohio Senate, which position he held until
J859, when he took up the study of law.
He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1861,
but soon after went to Illinois. Upon the
breaking out of the Civil War, though but
a youth, he was strongly impelled to serve
his country, and in 1862 enlisted as a pri
vate soldier in the Union Army. He rose
to the rank of major, and later, for valiant
service, was given the rank of brevet lieu
tenant-colonel. At the close of the war
he returned to Illinois to practice, where
he became prominent in State politics, serv
ing in the Illinois legislature from 1873 to
1875. He was United States Attorney of
the Southern District of Illinois from 1876
until 1893, with the exception of the years
1885 to 1889. In 1895 he was elected con
gressman from his district, and was a
member of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-
fifth Congresses. Address: Springfield,
Illinois.
CONNOR, George L.:
Railway official; born in Brooklyn, New
York, August 23, 1846. In August, 1868,
he became a clerk in the treasurer's office
of the Narragansett Steamship Company;
became auditor of passenger and freight
receipts in 1873 and 1874, and general pas
senger agent of same company in 1874.
He became general passenger agent of the
Old Colony Steamboat Company (Fall
River Line), from June, 1874, to June,
1894; also general passenger and ticket
agent of the Old Colony Railroad from
1877 to 1893. He has been passenger traf
fic manager of the New York, New Haven,
and Hartford Railroad since July, 1893;
was also passenger traffic manager of
the Providence and Stonington Steamship
Company from 1893 to 1898; and in June,
1898, also became passenger traffic mana
ger of the Old Colony Steamboat Company,
arid since January 1, 1905, has been pas
senger traffic manager of the New England
Navigation Company. Address: New
Haven, Connecticut.
CONNOR, Henry Groves:
Jurist ; born at Wilmington, North Caro
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and Mary C. - (Groves) Connor. He was
educated in the local schools at Wilson,
North Carolina, of which place he has
been a resident from his childhood. He
studied law and was admitted to the North
Carolina bar, practicing at Wilson, North
Carolina, until elected in 1885 as judge of
the Superior Court of North Carolina. He
resigned in 1893 and resumed the prac
tice of law until becoming, January
1, 1903, an associate justice of the Su
preme Court of North Carolina, in which
office he is still serving. Judge Connor
is a Democrat in politics and was a State
senator in 1885, and later a member of the
House of Representatives of North Caro
lina in 1899 and 1901, and speaker of the
house in the session of 1899. He has been
president of Branch Banking Company at
Wilson, North Carolina, and a director, of
the Wilson Cotton Mills. Judge Connor
is an Episcopalian in his religious affili
ation. He married at Wilson, North Caro
lina, Kate Whitfield. Residence: Wilson,
North Carolina. Official address : Raleigh,
North Carolina.
CONNOR, Selden:
United States pension agent; born at
Fairfield,. Maine, January 25, 1839; son of
William Connor and Mary E. (Bryant)
Connor. He received the degree of A.B.
from Tufts College in 1859, and that of
LL.D. in 1877. He was appointed asses
sor of internal revenue, serving from 1869
to 1875; was governor of Maine in 1876,
1877, and 1878, and United States pension
agent from 1882 to 1888. He served as
private and corporal of the First Vermont
Volunteers in 1861; lieutenant-colonel, Sev
enth Maine Volunteers from 1861 to 1864;
colonel of the Ninth Maine Volunteers,
1864; and as brigadier-general of United
States Volunteers, from June, 1864, to
April, 1866. He has been serving his second
appointment as United States pension agent
since 1897. General Connor is a director
in the Union Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany; a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, So
ciety; trustee of the Lithgow Library, at
Augusta, Maine ; president of the Boajrd of

Trustees of the Maine §tate Sanatorium
Association, at Hebron, Maine; a member
of the Society of the Army of the Potomac
(of which he has been president) ; a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic
(has been second vice-commander-in-chief),
and a companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States.
General Connor delivered the oration at
the dedication of monuments on field of
Gettysburg to Maine soldiers, published in
Maine, at Gettysburg. He is a Republican
in politics and a Unitarian in religion. He
married at Washington, D. C, October 20,
1869, Henrietta M. Bailey, and they have
two daughters : Mabel and Rosamond.
Residence : 16 Elm Street, AugUsta. Ad
dress : ' Augusta, Maine.
CONNOR, Washington Everett:
Broker; born in New York City, Decem
ber 15, 1849. He was educated at the Col
lege of the City of New York. He began
as clerk in the banking house of H. C.
Stenson & Company; and he became a
member of the New York Stock Exchange,
October 6, 1871, and then established as
broker for himself. In 1881 he formed a
partnership with the late Jay Gould, the
firm becoming W. E. Connor & Company,
of which George J. Gould also became a
partner in 1886; the firm having charge of
the more important operations of the Gould
interests in Wall Street. Mr. Connor re
tired from the brokerage business, and now
devotes his attention to his own properties
and corporate interests. He is a member
of the American Geographical Society, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ameri
can Society of Natural History; and is a
member of the Union League, Republican,
Lotos, Lawyers', New York Athletic,
American Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, and
National Arts Clubs. Mr. Connor married
Mrs. Louise Mynard Simmons. Residence :
532 Madison Avenue, New York, Office
address : 31 Nassau Street, New York City.
CONRIED, Heinrich : .
Impressario; born in Bielitz, Silesia,
Austria, September 13, 1855; son of Joseph
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from the Oberealschule, Vienna and at the
University of Pennsylvania, from which he
later received the degree of A.M. He has
been engaged in the management of the
theatre and opera companies for years,
and he succeeded Maurice Grau in the
management of the Metropolitan Opera
House and of the Irving Place Theatre,
in which he has ever since continued with
the most conspicuous success that has ever
been attained in Grand Opera in this coun
try. He is a member of the board on
Germanic languages and literatures at Har
vard University and Vassar College. Mr.
Conried has been decorated with the Order
of the Crown from the Emperor of Ger
many; the Imperial Austrian Order o>f
Franz Josef, the Order for Arts and Science
of Belgium, the Order of the Crown of
Italy and the Order of Knighthood from
the Grand Duke of Meiningen. He is a
member of the Progress and Harmonie
Clubs of New York City. Mr. Conried
married in New York City, in 1888, Aug
usta Sperling. Residence : 65 West Seven
ty-first Street. Address : Metropolitan
Opera House, New York City.
CONVERSE, George Albert:
Rear admiral United States Navy; born
at Norwich, Vermont, May 13, 1844; son
of Shubael Converse and Luvia (Morrill)
Converse. He was educated in the public
schools of Norwich, Vermont, until 1858,
then was three years at Norwich University
before being appointed to the United States
Naval Academy, from which he was gradu
ated in 1865. He was promoted ensign De
cember 1, 1866; master March 12, 1868;
lieutenant March 26, 1869; lieutenant-com
mander July, 1878; commander March,
1889; captain March 3, 1899; rear-ad
miral, November 8, 1904. He served in the
various stations and duties of a naval of
ficer; was for some years engaged in tor
pedo service and as instructor at the Tor
pedo Station, and he commanded the U. S.
S. Montgomery, cruiser of the North At
lantis Squadron, from 1897 to 1899. He
was in the Bureau of Navigation from 1899
to 1901 and commanded the battleship Illinois

from September 16, 1901 to October. 13,
1903. He became chief of the Bureau of
Equipment from October, 1903, to March,
1904; chief of the Bureau of Ordnance
March to August, 1904, and August .1, 1904,
he was appointed chief of the Bureau of
Navigation. Rear Admiral- Converse is one
of the most able officers of the navy. He
was retained as chief of the Bureau of Navi
gation after his retirement, May 13, 1906,
for more than a year. While in that Bu
reau he several times served as acting sec
retary of the Navy, and was also a member
of the most important of the Naval Boards.
Address : Care of the Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
CONVERSE, Henry Augustus:
Mathematician and college professor;
born in Louisville, Kentucky, June 3, 1875;
son of Henry Augustus Converse and
Margaret E. ' (Bear) Converse. He was
graduated as A.B. from Hampden-Sidney
College in 1893, and as Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University in 1903. He was an
instructor in mathematics in the - Shenan
doah Valley Academy from 1893 to 1899;
was a student assistant at Johns Hopkins
University in 1902 and 1903, and instructor
in mathematics there in 1903 and 1904, and
in the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute from
1904 to 1906. He became professor of
mathematics in 1906, and dean of the facul
ty in 1907, of the Davis and Elkins Col
lege. Mr. Converse is a Democrat in poli
tics and a member of the Southern Pres
byterian Church. He is a member of the
American Mathematical Society, the Asso
ciated Teachers of Mathematics of the
Middle States and Maryland, the National
Geographic Society, American Forestry As
sociation, and a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma
'fraternity (Hampden-Sidney), and Phi
Beta Kappa Society (Johns Hopkins). His
favorite recreations - are philately, fishing
and camping, and he is interested in the
history of science in general, and of that
of the teaching of mathematics in particu
lar. He is a member of the Johns Hop
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lenic Club of Elkins, West Virginia. Ar-
dress: Davis and Elkins College, Elkins,
West Virginia.
CONVERSE, John H. :
Manufacturer; born, December 2, 1840,
at Burlington, Vermont. He was educat
ed at the University of Vermont and in
1900 he was vice-moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of
the United States. He Is interested in
many charitable and religious concerns, is
trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary,
and since 1893 has been a member of the
American Philosophical Society. Mr. Con
verse is a member of the firm of Burn
ham Williams & Company, proprietor of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Phila
delphia. Address : 500 North Broad Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CONWAY, Moncene Daniel:
Author; born in Middleton, Virginia,
March 17, 1832; son of Walker Peyton
Conway, justice of Stafford County, Vir
ginia, and Margaret Eleanor Daniel Staf
ford, granddaughter of Thomas Stone,
signer of the Declaration of Independence.
He was educated at Dickinson College,
Pennsylvania, graduating in 1849 with the
degree of A.B. ; in 1853 as A.M. and
L.H.D., in 1892; and from Harvard Di
vinity School, in 1854, with the degree of
B.D. He studied law in 1849 and 1850;
was in the Methodist ministry from 1850
to 1852, and a Unitarian minister at Wash
ington, D. C, in 1854. - He was compelled
to leave because of sermons against slav
ery, in 1856; and then became minister of
the First Unitarian Church at Cincinnati,
Ohio, from 1856 to 1861. Mr. Conway
edited The Dial, Cincinnati, and lectured
in the Northern States from 1861 to 1863,
advocating emancipation. He resided at
Boston, Massachusetts, and edited the Bos
ton Commonwealth. In 1864 he visited and
lectured iri England, and was minister of
the South Place Chapel, at Finsbury, Lon
don, from 1864 to 1897. During the
"Franco-Prussian War he was correspond
ent of the New York World, and later on
was on the staff of the London Daily

News and the Pall Mall Gazette, and is a
contributor to English and American mag
azines. Mr. Conway is author of: Tracts
for To-day, 1857; The Rejected Stone,
1861 ; The Golden Flour, 1862 ; Testimonies
Concerning Slavery, 1864; The Earthward
Pilgrimage, 1870; Republican Superstitions,
1872; Idols and Ideals, 1877; Demonology
and Devil Lore, 1878; A Necklace of
Stones, 1880; The Wandering Jew, 1881 ;
Thomas Carlyle, 1881 ; Travels in South
Kensington, 1882; Emerson at Home and
Abroad, 1883; Farewell Discourses, 1884;
Pine and Palm, 1884; Life of Edmund
Randolph, 1888; Life of Nathaniel Haw
thorne, 1890; Prisons of Air, 1891 ; Bar
ons of the Potomac and Rappahannock,
1892; Life of Thomas Paine, 1892; Solo
mon and the Solomonic Literature, 1899;
Thomas Paine et La Revolution dans les
Deux Mondes, Paris, 1900; Autobiography,
1904. His favorite recreations are bil
liards, whist and swimming. He is a mem
ber of the Century Association and Au
thors Club in New York City; Savile,
Omar Khayyam, New Vagabonds and Sav
age Clubs, in London. Mr. Conway mar
ried in 1858, Ellen Davis Dana, now de
ceased, and has two children : Eustace,
born June 9, 1859, and Mildred, now Mrs.
Sawyer. Address : 22 East Tenth Street,
New York City.
COOK, Alfred Newton:
Professor of chemistry; born in Cornell,
Illinois, February 22, 1866. He was grad
uated from Knox College, Galesburg, Illi
nois, as B.S. in 1890; took post-graduate
work in the University of Chicago in 1895,
and at the University of Wisconsin from
1898 to 1900. He was instructor in
science at Amity College, College Springs,
Iowa, from 1892 to 1894; professor
of chemistry and physics in Upper
Iowa University, at Fayette, Iowa, from
1894 to 1898, assistant in chemistry in the
University of Wisconsin from 1898 to 1900,
professor of chemistry in Morningside
College, Sioux City, Iowa, from 1900 to
1904, and in the University of South Da
kota since 1904. He is a member of the
American Chemical Society, the Iowa Acad-

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emy of Sciences, the Sioux City Academy
of Sciences and the Deutsche Chemische
Gesellschaft of Berlin. He was vice-presi
dent of the Iowa State Teachers' Associ
ation in 1903, and editor of the Proceedings
of the Sioux City Academy of Sciences
and Letters in 1904. He has made special
researches in the derivatives, preparation
and properties of phenyl ether, into calcium
of aluminum phenolate. He has also writ
ten papers on Meta-tolyl Ether and Deriva
tives, and The Bromination of Phenyl and
Tolyl Ethers, and has in preparation A
Study of Aluminum Phenolate. Address :
Vermilion, South Dakota.
COOK, Charles Alston:
Jurist ; born at Warrenton, Warren Coun
ty, North Carolina, October 7, 1848; son of
Rev. Charles Marshall Cook and Havana
Lenoir (Alston) Cook. After a careful
preparatory education he attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina from 1886 to 1888,
and thence went to Princeton University,
from which he was graduated in 1870 with
the degree of A.B., later receiving the A.M.
degree from both the University of North
Carolina and Princeton. He studied law in
the office of Hon. William Eaton, at War
renton, N. C, and engaged in practice; was
solicitor of Warren County from 1878 to
1880; Republican nominee for attorney-
general of North Carolina in 1884; State
senator from 1886 to 1888 and from 1894
to 1896, United States attorney for the East
ern District of North Carolina from 1889
to 1893, trustee of the University of North
Carolina from 1889 to 1901, and associate
justice of the Supreme Court of North Car
olina in 1901 and 1902. Judge Cook was act
ive in politics in North Carolina as a Re
publican from the time of leaving college,
and was an officer of the State Guard of
North Carolina in which he served as cap
tain and colonel, and is now a colonel on
the retired list. In 1903 Judge Cook re-
jnoved to Muskogee, Indian Territory,
where he is now engaged in law practice.
He married, October 11, 1871, Marina Will
iams Jones. Address : Muskogee, Indian
Territory.

COOK, George Dillvvyn:
Banker; born in Richmond, Ohio, Feb
ruary 27, 1845; son of Elisha Cook and
Mary Ann (Ladd) Cook. He was educated
at Mount Pleasant (Ohio) College, Earl-
ham College, Richmond, Indiana, and took
a business course at Duff's Commercial Col
lege, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began
his business career in 1868 as a member oi
the firm of Cook Brothers, provision dealers,
then in a dry goods business at Oskaloosa,
Iowa, from 1869 to 1871, and became a part
ner in the financial house of O. M. Ladd
and Company, Ottumwa, Iowa, from 1871
to 1878. He went to Chicago in 1878 and
engaged in handling investment securities.
He assisted the Government of Mexico to
refund its loan of one hundred and ten mil
lion dollars, and his company, in 1899, sold
in the United States two million, five hun
dred thousand dollars of bonds of the State
of Jalisco, Mexico, the first foreign secur
ities ever sold in the United States, and
since that time has bought and sold a great
many million dollars worth of Mexican
Government and State securities. Mr. Cook
also organized the American Steel Wire
Company and the American Bridge Com
pany. Mr. Cook is now a member of the
firm of George D. Cook and Company, i « «
bankers. He is president of the Mexican
Mineral Railroad Company; Turner Fink
Company; Maurice. Realty Company, and
the Thompson Avenue Realty Company,
and is a director of the Mexican
Lead Company. He is a charter mem
ber of the Montjoie Commandery of Knights-
Templar of Chicago and is a member of
the Union League Club of Chicago, the
New York, Lawyers' and Midday Clubs of
New York City, and the Essex County
Country Club of Orange, New Jersey. Mr.
Cook married first at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, June 10, 1873, Dora A. Shaw, who
died July 14, 1882, and second, January 1,
1890, Stella Virginia Sturges and he has
three children: Laura Wever (now Mrs.
Arthur B. Turner, of New York City);
Elizabeth A., and Sturges T». Cook. Resi
dence: 59 Reynolds Terrace, Orange, New
Jersey. Office address: 25 Broad Street,
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COOK, Melville Thurston:
Botanist; born at Coffeen, Illinois,. Sep
tember 20, 1869; son of William Harvey
Cook, M.D., and Elizabeth Frances (Robin
son) Cook. He was educated in De Pauw
University at Greencastle, Indiana, three
years, and at Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity one year, was graduated as A.B. in
1894, and received the degree of A.M. from
DePauw in 1901, and Ph.D. from Ohio
State University in 1904. He was principal
of the high school, at Vandalia, Illinois,
from 1894 to 1895 ; instructor in biology,
De Pauw University, from 1895 to 1897;
professor of biology at De Pauw University
from 1897 to 1904; fellow in the Ohio State
University in 1901 and 1902 ; special lecturer
on embryology at the Central College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis in
1902 and 1903; special lecturer in compara
tive anatomy at the Medical College of In
diana, Indianapolis, in 1903 and 1904; chief
of the Department of Plant Pathology and
Economic Entomology in the Cuban De
partment of Agriculture from 1904 to 1906;
fellow in the New York Botanical Garden
in 1907, and since 1907 plant pathologist
(Adams appointment) in the Delaware Ag
ricultural Experiment Station at Newark,
Delaware. Dr. Cook is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science ; member of the Botanical So
ciety of America, Association of Eco
nomic Entomologists, the Entomological
Society of America, and the Indiana
Academy of Science. He is a mem
ber of the Delta Upsilon undergrad
uate fraternity, Sigma Xi Society, a Knight
of Pythias and Mason. He is a Democrat in
politics and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He married at Rock
Island, Illinois, September 8, 1897, Dora
Reavill, and he has three children : Harvey
Reavill, born August 20, 1901 ; Harold Thur-
ton, born November 15, 1903, and Elizabeth,
born July 20, 1906. Address: Newark,
Delaware. COOK, Orator Fuller:
Bionomist of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture; born in Clyde, New York,
May 28, 1867; son of Orator Fuller Cook

and Eliza (Hookway) Cook. He was
graduated from Syracuse University in
1890 and became instructor in biology in
the same year. He conducted explorations
in Liberia as agent of the New York State
Colonization Society, and afterward became
botanist and bionomist of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. At first he was in
charge of seed and plant introduction and
then was placed in charge of investigations
in tropical agriculture. He has made sev
eral visits to Liberia, and trips, to Porto
Rico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Flor
ida, Texas, etc. Mr. Cook is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and a member of var
ious scientific societies. He is author of
numerous scientific papers on biological
subjects, including evolution, and tropical
botany and agriculture. Mr. Cook mar
ried in Huntington, New York, October 11,
1892, Alice Carter; and they have had four
children : Samuel Carter, Robert Carter,
Elizabeth and Helen Moore. Residence :
Lanham, Maryland. Address : U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
COOK, Richard Yerkes:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, Febru
ary 25, 1845; son of Joel and Mary Paul
(Yerkes) Cook. He is a descendant on his
mother's side in the seventh generation
from. Dr. Thomas Wynne, who was sur
geon of William Penn's Colonizing Expe
dition, and landed in Pennsylvania in 1682,
and afterward became a justice of the first
Supreme Court of the Province of Penn
sylvania and president of the first provin
cial House of Assembly. On the paternal
side . he is descended from Thomas Cook,
who emigrated from England to Massachu
setts in 1638. . Mr. Cook was educated in
the public schools and by private tutors.
After leaving school he engaged in mer
cantile pursuits, and he became an im
porter of English, French and German
goods until 1895, and is now president of
the Guaranty Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Philadelphia; vice-president of
the Pennsylvania Warehousing and Safe
Deposit Company; director of the Lehigh
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Street National Bank, Tradesmen's Na
tional Bank, the Finance Company of Penn
sylvania, South Chester Tube Company,
Real Estate Trust Company, and The A. Col-
burn Company. Mr. Cook is secretary and
treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the
George W. South Memorial Church of the
Advocate, and is president of the Philadel
phia Sterilized Milk, Ice and Coal Socie
ty. In association with George W. Earle,
Junior, Mr. Cook took hold of the Phila
delphia Record and the Chestnut Street
National Bank after the failure and death
of William Singerly, and also became as
signee of the Chestnut . Street Trust and
Saving Fund Company. In this capacity
they published the Philadelphia Record for
five years, making two million dollars for
the creditors, and enabled the bank to pay
its creditors in full with interest, and oth
ers almost the entire amount of their
claims. Mr. Cook is a member of the
Racquet and Down Town Clubs of Philadel
phia. He married at Philadelphia, March
16, 1868, Lavinia Borden, and they have
one son : Gustavus Wynne Cook. Resi
dence : "Wynnemere," Lansdowne, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania. Office address : 316
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
COOK, Samuel A. .
Manufacturer and ex-congressman ; born
in Ontario, Canada, January 28, 1849. He
removed with his parents to Wisconsin in
1855, and was educated in the common
schools of that State. He began work on
the farm in his boyhood and afterward be
came a mill-hand and clerk; then engaged
in mercantile business and later in the
manufacture of paper, now being president
of the S. A. Cook Manufacturing Com
pany, and, president of the Alexandria
Paper Company ; and he is also • exten
sively engaged in farming operations. Mr.
Cook is a Republican in politics and has
borne an important part in the affairs of
his party iri Wisconsin. He was elected
mayor of Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1889, and
was a member of the Wisconsin Legisla
ture in 1890 and 1891 ; was a delegate to
the National Republican Convention at
Minneapolis in 1892, and in 1894 was

elected to Congress from the Sixth Wis
consin District, serving in the Fifty-fourth
Congress and declining a renomination.
He was a candidate for United States sen
ator from the State of Wisconsin in 1898,
and received the second highest number of
votes. Mr. Cook married in 1876, Jennie
Christie, who died September 19, 1895. Ad
dress : Neenah, Wisconsin.
COOK, Walter: '
Architect; born in New York City, July
23, 1846; son of Edward and Catherine
(Ireland) Cook. He was graduated from
Harvard College as A.B. in 1869 and A.M.
in 1872; and later attended the Royal Poly
technic School at Munich and the Ecole
des Beaux Arts at Paris (pupil of E. Vau-
dremer). Mr. Cook has practiced archi
tecture in New York City since 1877; and
is now a member of the firm of Babb.
Cook & Williard, architects. This firm
were architects of the DeVinne Press
building, the residence of Andrew Carnegie
and of many of the branch Public Li
braries, etc., in New York City; the resi
dence of F. B. Pratt, Brooklyn; the New
York Life Insurance Buildings in Mon
treal, Canada; St. Paul, Minneapolis, and
many other structures of importance. He
is past president of the New York Chap
ter of the American Institute of Archi
tects; and has been the architect member
of the Municipal Art Commission since
1905. He was American member of the
International Jury which judged the Phoe
be Hearst competition for the University
of California; also a member of the jury
for competitions for the New York Public
Library, for Washington University, St.
Louis, and for the remodeling of West
Point. Mr. Cook is a fellow of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects, and member
of the Century and Harvard Clubs of New
York City, and associate of the National-
Academy of Design. Residence: 135 East
Thirty-seventh Street. Address: 3 West
Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
COOK, William Wilson:
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and Martha (Wolford). Cook. He was
graduated from the University of Michi
gan in 1880 with the degree of A.B. ; LL.B.
in 1882, and later LL.D. He was admitted
to the bar in 1883, and is now one of the
trustees of the Mackay Companies, and
general counsel for the Postal Telegraph-
Cable Company; Commercial Cable Com
pany; the Commercial-Pacific Cable Com
pany, and the Federal Sugar Refining
Company. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Cook is author of: Cook on Corpor
ations (five editions), and Cook on Stocks
and Stockholders. He is a member of the
Union League and Lawyers' Clubs of New
York City. Residence: 327 West Seventy-
fifth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress: 44 Wall Street, New York City.
COOKE, Elentheros Jay:
Priest of the Protestant Episcopal
Church; born at Sandusky, Ohio, May 24,
1847; son of Pitt Cooke (of the banking
house of . Jay Cooke and Company,
New York), and Mary E. (Towns-
end) Cooke. He was educated at
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, from
which he was graduated as B.A.
in 1869, and he was also graduated from
the Episcopal Theological School, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, as B.D. in 1872. Fie
was ordained deacon by Bishop Eastburn
in 1872, and priest by Bishop Coxe in 1873.
His first charge was as rector of Christ
Church, Cuba, New York, from 1872 to
1876; and subsequently he was rector at
Batavia, New York, in 1876 and 1877; at
Trinity Church, Warsaw, New York, from
1877 to 1882, at All Saints' Church, North-
field, . Minnesota, from 1882. to 1884; rector
of St. John the Evangelist, St. Paul, Min
nesota, from 1884' to 1888 ; of St. John's
Church, Clinton, Iowa, from 1888 to 1892,
and of All Saints' Church, Cleveland, Ohio,
1892 to 1894. He went to Europe for a
year in 1895 ; was assistant of Grace Church,
Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1896, and
rector of St. Stephen's Church at Schuyler-
ville, New York, from 1896 to 1903. He
traveled extensively in California and the
West in 1903. After that he was priest in

charge for eight months of St. John's
Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and
he was called back to St. .Stephen's Church,
Schuylerville, New York, in 1904. He
has also traveled throughout this country,
Canada and Europe. He is an Independent
Republican in politics, and is a Blue Lodge
and Chapter Mason, and Knight Templar,
and a member of the Order of the Mystic
Shrine. He married at Sandusky, Ohio,
June 27, 1871, Maria Wager Gale, of San
dusky, Ohio. Address: St. Stephen's Rec
tory, Schuylerville, New York.
COOKE, Joseph Brown:
Surgeon and author; born in Saratoga
Springs, New York, March 24, 1868; son
of Joseph Gardner Cooke and Phebe Dana
(Brown) Cooke. He obtained his early
education in Saratoga, New York, at the
Franklin School, Washington, D. C, from
1880 to 1882 ; Trinity School, Tivoli-on-
Hudson, from 1882 to 1885; the Phillips
Exeter Academy from 1885 to 1887, and
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Columbia University, graduating in 1890,
with the degree of M.D. He has practiced
medicine and surgery in New York City
since 1890. Dr. Cooke was visiting phys
ician at the Northwestern Dispensary from
1892 to 1894, and at St. Mary's Free Hos
pital for Children from 1892 to 1896. He
has been a lecturer on obstetrics in the
New York City Training School for
Nurses since 1900. Dr. Cooke is adjunct
professor of obstetrics at the New York
Polyclinic Medical School; obstetrician to
the New York Polyclinic Hospital; sur
geon to the New York Maternity Hospital,
and visiting obstetric surgeon to the Mis-
encordia Hospital. He is a fellow of the
New York Obstetrical Society, and the
Medical Society of Greater New York; a
member of the American, New York
State, and New York County Medical As
sociations, the Harlem Medical Association,
the Medico-Surgical Society, the Manhat
tan Clinical Society, and the .Valentine
Mott Society. He is author of: Manual of
Obstetrical Technique (sixth edition), 1901 ;
Nurses' Handbook of Obstetrics (third-edi
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1906; The Mystery of Carney-Croft (fic
tion), 1906; also many contributions to var
ious popular and technical magazines. Dr.
Cooke married in London, England, May
31, 1898, Constance Rachel Cottin, and
their children are: Lucy Elizabeth, born
May 15, 1899; Constance Ursula, born
March 16, 1901; Joseph Cottin, born No
vember 10, 1902, and Charles Harris, born
August 3, 1904. Address: 616 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
COOKE, Lorenzo W.:
Brigadier-General United . States Army ;
born in New York, June 8, 1847; served
through the Civil War, and transferred
second lieutenant of the Third Infantry
September 21, 1866; first lieutenant Sep
tember 17, 1868; was honorably mustered
out January 1, 1871 ; was transferred second
lieutenant Third Infantry October 13, 1871 ;
first lieutenant May 31, 1883; captain No
vember 29, 1892; major Twenty-sixth In
fantry February 2, 1901 ; lieutenant-colonel
January 24, 1904; brigadier-general, re
tired, March 24, 1906. Address: Lemon
Grove, California.
COOLEY, Alford Warriner:
Lawyer ; born at Westchester, New York,
April 9, 1873; son of James Calvin Cooley
and Agnes (Medlicott) Cooley. He went
to private schools until he was fourteen
years of age, when he was sent to St.
Paul's School, at Concord, New Hamp
shire. After completing a four-year course
at this institution, he entered the fresh
man class at Harvard, in 1891, and was
graduated in 1895 with the degree of A.B.
He then took up the study of law at Col
umbia University and was admitted to the
New. York bar in January, 1898. Mr.
Cooley was a member of the New York
Assembly during the sessions of 1900 and
1901, and subsequently became clerk in
the Surrogate's Court of Westchester
County, New York. From 1903 to 1906
he was United States civil service com
missioner, and since November, 1906, he
has been assistant attorney-general of the
United States. He married at Longwood,
Massachusetts, December 1, 1904, Susan

Dexter Dalton. Residence: WestcEester,
New York. Official address : Department
of Justice, Washington, D. C.
COOLEY, James Beth:
Physician and surgeon; born at South
Hartford, Washington County, New York,
June 29, 1845; son of Seth Cooley and
Mary (Ingalsbe) Cooley. He was edu
cated at North Granville Academy, 1858
to 1862; Fort Edward Institute, 1864 to,
1865, and at Williams College, graduating
as A.B. and salutatorian of his class in
1869, and receiving the degree of A.M., in
1872. He entered the Medical Department,
University of Vermont, in 1876, and grad
uated from the Medical Department of the
University of the City of New York as
M.D. in 1877. After leaving Williams Col
lege he engaged in teaching at Fort Ed
ward Institute, 1869 to 1873 ; and was prin
cipal of Glen Falls (New York) Academy,
1873 to 1876. Dr. Cooley entered upon the
practice of medicine at Sandy Hill, New
York, 1877-1880; later practicing at Lu
zerne, New York, 1880-1886, and Glen
Cove, New York, since 1886. He was cor
oner of Warren County, New York, 1883
to 1886; coroner of Queens County, New
York, 1890- 1892; and school commissioner
of Queens County, 1894 to 1900, and of
Nassau County, since 1900. Dr. Cooley is
a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian
in his religious affiliation. He is a mem
ber, secretary and treasurer of the Queens-
Nassau Medical Society, and a member of
the Medical Society of the State of New
York, the Associated Physicians of Long
Island, the Nassau Hospital Association,
and the New York State Association of
School Commissioners and Superintendents.
He is a director and secretary of the Nas
sau Hospital Association; and was man
ager and secretary of the Board of Man
agers of the State Normal and Training
School, at Jamaica, until January, 1906.
when the school was transferred to the
City of New York. Dr. Cooley married
at Willsboro Point, Essex County, New
York, June 20, 1872, M. Reba Clark, and
they have a daughter: Mary Hope Cooley,
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Grenville Cooley, born July 17, 1875. Ad
dress: Glen Cove, Nassau County, New
York.
COOLEY, Le Roy Clark:
Professor of physics; born at Point
Peninsula, New York, October, 1833; son
of James and Sally (Clark) Cooley, and a
direct descendant of Benjamin Cooley and
Sarah Cooley, who settled in Springfield,
Massachusetts, about the year 1636. He
was graduated from the New York State
Normal College in 1855, and from Union
College with degree of A.B. in 1858. He
received the degree of A.M. in 1861 and
of Ph.D. in 1870 from the same institution.
Professor Cooley was teacher of natural
science at the Lockport Union School from
1855 to 1856; professor of mathematics at
Fairfield Seminary from 1858 to i860; pro
fessor of natural science at the New York
State Normal College from 1861 to 1874;
professor of physics and chemistry at Vas
sar College from 1874 to 1895 ; professor of
physics from 1895 to 1907, and became pro
fessor emeritus in 1907. Among his con
tributions to science are the following in
vestigations : The application of electricity
to registering vibrations; the mechanical
action of radiation; the motions of light
bodies iri' air and vacuum; connection ap
plied to the detection of heat. To educa
tional conventions and journals also he has
contributed many addresses and papers.
He has been especially devoted to, the im
provement of science teaching in second
ary schools; was chairman of the Com
mittee of Nine of the New York State
Science Teachers' Association, to in
vestigate the condition of science teaching
in the .schools and to suggest improved
methods from 1897 to 1899, and he is a
member and was president in 1899 of the
Science Teachers' Association, and he is
author of a series of elementary and high
school text-books of physics and chemis
try. He is a member of the Presbyterian
church. Dr. Cooley is a fellow of the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science; a member of the American Phys
ical Society; the National Education As

sociation, the National Geographic Asso
ciation, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He
is also a member of the University Club
and The Club of Poughkeepsie, New York.
He married at Argyle, New York, March
30, 1859, M. Rossabella Flack. Address:
2 Reservoir Square, Poughkeepsie, New
York.COOLIDGE, Sherman:
Clergyman; born at Tongue River, Wyo
ming in 1863; son of Banasda and Ba-ah-
noce, Arapahoe Indians. He was captured
in battle by the Bannocks and Choshones,
the traditional enemies of his tribe, a mile
below Camp Brown, the present site of
the City of Lander, Wyoming. He was
among the captives surrendered to the
army officers of Camp Brown and he and
his two little brothers were obtained from
their mother and were subsequently adopt
ed by the Army officers. He saw, in this
fight, a man killed and scalped in the pres
ence of his shrieking family and his scalp
torn off in several pieces. Under cover of
the night his mother fled back to her tribe.
She never saw her sons again except the
oldest, who returned again as a Christian
missionary fourteen years after. - Dr.
Shapleigh gave him afterward to the large-
hearted wife of Brigadier-General Charles
A. Coolidge, who brought him up and edu
cated him. He attended Shattuck Military
School from 1877 to 1880, at Faribault,
Minnesota, and Seabury Divinity School at
the same place from 1880 to 1884, and was
graduated as B.D., and he took a post
graduate course at Hobart College from
1887 to 1890. He has written articles in
Church periodicals, in the general news
papers and magazines. He has traveled in
the eastern and western parts of the United
States making addresses and delivering
lectures on the Indian Problem from the
native standpoint, and he has made several
Memorial Day addresses. He was ordain
ed to the diacoiirite of the Episcopal
Church by Bishop Whipple in 1884, and
advanced to the priesthood by Bishop
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He was appointed one of the six speakers
of the Missionary Council which met in
Washington, D. G, in 1903, and was also
delegate to the same council from Wyo
ming and Idaho. He is rector of the
Church of the Redeemer at Shoshone
Agency, Wyoming, assistant missionary at
Lander, Fort Washakie, and North Fork,
and minister in charge in two chapels
among the Arapahoes, and St. Luke's Mis
sion, Shosoni, Fremont County, Wyoming,
also Government teacher at the Wind River
Boarding School, Shoshone Agency, Wyo
ming, and issue clerk at the Shoshone Ag
ency, Wyoming. He is a Republican in
politics, is a member of the Delta Sigma
fraternity at Geneva, New York, and of the
Saint Andrew's Brotherhood. He married
at Shoshone Agency, Wyoming, October 8,
1902, Grace D. Wetherbee of New York,
and they have a daughter, Sarah Lucy
Coolidge, born in 1907. Address. Fort
Washakie, Wyoming.
COOLIDGE, Thomas Jefferson:
Manufacturer, diplomat; bora in Boston,
Massachusetts, August 26, 1831; son of
Joseph and Ellen Wayles Collidge. After
a careful preparatory education in Swit
zerland and Germany, he entered Harvard
College, from which he was graduated with
the degree of A.B. in 1850, and which con
ferred upon him, in 1902, the degree of
LL.D. After leaving college he engaged
in business as a member of the firm of
Gardner & Coolidge, East India merchants,
and afterward became largely interested in
cotton mills. He is now president of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, and is
connected as officer or director with many
other large New England mills, banks,
railroads and financial corporations. He
was formerly president of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com
pany, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad
Company. Mr. Coolidge is a Republican
in politics, and was envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to France in 1892 and 1893. He also
served as a member of the High Joint

Commission of Arbitration appointed to
adjust disputes between the United States
and Canada in 1899. He was an overseer
of Harvard College from 1886 to 1897, and
was formerly vice-president of the Massa
chusetts Historical Society. Mr. Coolidge
married in Boston, in 1852, Hetty Sullivan
Appleton, and of that union were born
three daughters all now married and, one
son, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Junior.
Address : 64 Ames Building, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
COOLIDGE, Thomas Jefferson, Jr.:
Banker ; born in Boston, March 16, 1863 ;
son of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge and
Hetty Sullivan (Appleton) Coolidge. He
was graduated from Harvard College with
the degree of A.B. in the class of 1884,
and has ever since been actively identified
with financial enterprises. He established
the Old Colony Trust Company in 1890, and
was its president for some years, and is
now chairman of its Board of Directors.
He is also vice-president and director of
the National Bank of Commerce; director
and voting trustee of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway. He is a director of the
Georgia Railway and Electric Company,
American Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany, Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany, General Electric Conipany, and Bos
ton Elevated Railroad Company. Mr.
Coolidge is a Democrat in his political
views. He is a member of the Somerset
Club of Boston and of ¦ the Metropolitan
and Knickerbocker Clubs of New York.
He married at Brookline, Massachusetts,
September 30, 1891, Clara Amory. Resi
dence : Magnolia, Massachusetts. Office
address : The Old Colony Trust Company,
Boston, Massachusetts.
COOLIDGE, William Henry:
Lawyer; born at Natick, Massachusetts,
February 23, 1859; son of William L. and
Sarah Isabella (Washburn) Coolidge.
After taking a preparatory eourse" in the
Newton High School, he went to Harvard
University, from which he was graduated
in 1881, with the degree of A.B. He sub
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vard Law School, and was admitted to the
Massachusetts bar in 1885. He has since
practiced in Boston, where he has woi
distinction as one of the leading corpora
tion attorneys, having been connected with
many large companies, among which are
.the United States Mining Company, the
United States Smelting Company, the Am
erican Zinc, Lead & Smelting Company,
the Boston and Maine Railroad, etc. He
is identified with the Republican party, but
has not entered actively into politics. He
was married, October 3, 1887, at Bayonne,
New Jersey, to May Humphreys. Ad
dress : Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
Office: 50 Congress Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
COOMBS, Frank L. :
Lawyer; bora at Napa, California, De
cember 27, 1853 ; son of Nathan and Isabel
(Gordon) Coombs. He went to public
schools in his native state, then studied
in the East, at the Boston High School
and later in Washington, D.C, at Columb
ian University, from which he was grad
uated in 1876, with the degree of LL.B.
He returned afterward to his native State,
where he established himself in practice,
and in 1879 was elected district attorney
of Napa County, which office he held for
five years. In 1887 he was elected to the
California House of Representatives, and
by consecutive reelections held his seat un
til 1891. During the last year of his term
he was speaker. He has continued to be
prominent in public affairs, having been ap
pointed United States Minister to Japan,
by President Harrison in 1892. He was
again speaker in the California assembly
in 1897, and the following year was ap
pointed United States district attorney for
Northern California, which office he held
until 1901, when he was elected to repre
sent his district in Congress for one term.
He was married at Boston, Massachusetts,
December 27, 1879, to Belle M. Roper.
Address : Napa, California.
COOMBS, William J.:
Merchant, banker; born at Jordan, On
ondaga County, New York, December 24,

1833 ; son of Charles Coombs, soldier of
the war of 1812, and Mary (Wooleaver)
Coombs. He was educated at Jordan Acad
emy, and upon his graduation, when thirteen
and a half years old, was denied admission
to Union College, on account of insufficient
age. He was engaged in exporting American
manufactured products for forty years, as
member of the firm of Joseph H. Adams and
Coombs, from 1856 to 1870, and of Coombs,
Crosby and Eddy, from 1870 to 1895, these
firms being pioneers in introducing Am
erican manufactured goods abroad. He
was president of the Manufacturers' Trust
Company, 1896 to 1903, and has been chair
man of the Advisory Board of the Title
Guarantee and Trust Company (Manufac
turers' Branch), since 1903, president of the
South Brooklyn Savings Bank since 1904.
Mr. Coombs is a Democrat in politics and
was a member of the Fifty-second, and
Fifty-third Congresses, 1891-95. He was
appointed by President Cleveland Govern
ment director of the Union Pacific Rail
road, with special commission to devise
a plan for collecting the debt of $124,000,-
000 due the Government from the various
Pacific railroads, and he supervised the
collection of the entire amount. He has
been a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute,
since 1888; and is also treasurer of the
Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children. Mr. Coombs finds
his most favored recreation in fishing. He
is a member of the Commonwealth, Re
form and Municipal Art Clubs of New
York City, and the Hamilton Club of
Brooklyn. Mr. Coombs married, in 1856,
Josephine Adams, of Brooklyn, New York,
and they have three children surviving:
William H. Coombs, Jerome W. Coombs
and Mary C. Fox. Residence: 63 South
Portland Avenue. Address : 160 Atlantic
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. -
COON, Daniel Wells:
Manufacturer; born in Gloversville, New
York, June 10, 1843; and educated in the
public schools there. At the age of eight
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ness at Troy, New York, in which John
H. ,Coon, his brother, was partner. After
three years in that business he went West
on account of impaired health and estab
lished a woolen business. Five years later
he returned East and established the collar
and cuff firm of Coon, Reynolds and Com
pany, Philadelphia, soon establishing
branches at New York City and Chicago,
under the name of Coon and Company.
He returned to Troy, New York, in -18S8,,
and by consolidating the business of Coon
and Company with that of George B.
Cluett Brothers and Company, formed the
firm of Cluett, Coon and Company, which
built up the largest business in its line of
shirts, collars and cuffs, in which he con
tinued for ten years. He then proposed
and organized the International Shirt and
Collar Company, of which he has since been
vice-president. Mr. Coon is a director of
the Mount Vernon Trust Company and the
Peerless Shoe Machinery Company. He is
a member of the Aldine Association of
New York, and of the Troy and Lewanoy
Country Clubs, and the Republican Club of
Mount Vernon, New York. Address :
Mount Vernon, New York.
COOPER, Allen Foster:
Lawyer and congressman; born on a
farm in Franklin Township, Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1862. He
was educated in the public school of his
native township, in the State Normal
School at California and Lockhaven, Penn
sylvania, and at Mount Union College,
Ohio. He was graduated from the State
Normal School at California, Pennsylvania,
in the class of 1882, and then taught school
for six years. Deciding upon the pro
fession of law, he entered the Law De
partment of the University of Michigan,
and was graduated from that institution
in the class of 1888. He was admitted to
the Circuit Court of Washtenaw County,
Michigan, and to the Supreme Court of
the State of Michigan before his gradua
tion from the law school. After complet
ing his law course in the University of
Michigan he returned to Fayette County,

Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the
bar of that county December 4, 1888. On
January 1, 1889, he formed a law partner
ship at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, with his
classmate, J. Q. Van Swearingen, which still
exists. Mr. Cooper is a member of the
Bar of the Supreme Court Of Pennsyl
vania ; of the District Circuit Courts of the
United States for the western district of
Pennsylvania, and of the Supreme Court
of the United States. He was elected as
a Republican in 1902 from the Twenty-third
Pennsylvania District to the Fifty-eigth
Congress and reelected in 1904 to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, and in 1906 to the
Sixtieth Congress. Address : Uniontown,
Pennsylvania.
COOPER, Henry Allen:
Lawyer and congressman; born at
Spring Prairie, Walworth County, Wis
consin, September 8, 1850. He was gradu
ated from Northwestern University in 1873
and from the Union College of Law in
Chicago, in 1875. He is by profession a
lawyer and in 1880 was elected district
attorney of Racine County, and was reelected
without opposition in 1882 and 1884. Mr.
Cooper was a member of the Board of
Education of the City of Racine from 1886
to 1887; and was a member of the State
Senate from 1887 to 1889. He was elected
in 1892 from the First Wisconsin District
to the Fifty-third Congress and has since
been biennially reelected, and is now
serving in the Sixtieth Congress. Address:
Racine, Wisconsin.
COOPER, Oscar Henry:
President of Simmons College; born in
Texas, November 22, 1862 ; son of William
H. Cooper, M.D. and Catharine Z. (Ros-
ser). Cooper. He. was educated in Marshall
University, Texas, Yale University, and
the University of Berlin, and has received
the degrees of B.A. and LL.D. He was
principal of the Houston (Texas) High
School, State superintendent of instruction
(Texas), superintendent of Galveston
schools, president of Baylor University
(Waco, Texas), president of Simmons
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have done more than any other man to
raise educational standards in Texas. Mr.
Cooper is a Democrat in politics, and a
Baptist in religion.. He is a member of the
American Social Science Association, hon
orary member of the National Council- of
Education, the Texas Academy of Science,
etc., and he is also a member of the Execu
tive Board of the Texas Conference for
Education, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, and a Knight Templar. His favor
ite recreation is horseback riding. He
married at Marshall, Texas, November 24,
j886, Mary Bryan Stewart, and they have
four children: Oscar H., Jr., Stewart,
Hubert and Mary. Address: Simmons
College, Abilene, Texas.
COOPER, Sam Bronson:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Cald
well County, Kentucky, May 30, 1850; son
of Archibald Hunter Cooper and Elizabeth
(Frazer) Cooper. He removed with his
parents to Texas in 1850, and located at
Woodville, the county seat of Tyler Coun
ty, where his father died in 1853. He was
educated in the local school of Woodville,
and at the age of sixteen he became a
clerk in the country store of his grand
father at that place. While so occupied
he began the study of law, and later stud
ied in the office of Hon. Perry Nicks, a
prominent lawyer of that place, and was
admitted to the bar in the District Court
of Tyler County in 1872 and became " a
member of the law firm of Nicks, Hobby
and Cooper. He was elected County At
torney of Tyler County in 1876, serving
until 1880, in which year he was elected to
the State. Senate of Texas, serving "from
1881 to 1885, and being for one term presi
dent pro tern of that body. He was ap
pointed in 1885, by President Cleveland,
collector of internal revenue for the First
District of Texas, serving until 1889. He
was elected in 1892, and reelected biennially
until 1902, as a member of Congress from
the Second District of Texas, and served
in the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
C'qrigresses, and in 1906 was elected to the

Sixtieth Congress, from the same district,
and is now serving. Mr. Cooper is prom
inent in the councils of the Democratic
Party of Texas, was chairman of the State
Democratic Convention of Texas in 1904,
and was chairman of the Texas delegation
to the National Democratic Convention at
Kansas City in igoo. He resides at Beau
mont, where he is a leader at the bar and
prom-'nently identified with many important
enterprises of that city and of Southeast
Texas generally. He is a Mason, Odd Fel
low, Knight of Pythias and Elk. Mr.
Cooper married at Woodville, Texas,
October 15, 1873, Phebe Young, and they
have four children : Willie C. Cooper, S.
B. Cooper, Junior, Margaret H. Cooper
and Bud S. Cooper. Address: Beaumont,
Texas.COOPER, Theodore:
Consulting engineer; born in Cooper's
Plains, New York, January 12, 1839 ; son of
John Cooper and Elizabeth (Evans)
Cooper. He was graduated from the Rens-
salaer Polytechnic Institute in 1858. He
entered the United States Navy as assis
tant engineer in 1861, with the United States
steamer Chocura, and was at Hampton
Roads at the second appearance of the Con
federate iron-clad, Merrimack, at the siege
of Yorktown, battle of West Point, York
River; at White House, Pamunky River
during the Chickahofniny Campaign; on
the blockade of Forts Caswell and Fisher in
1863; the Texas blockade in 1864 and 1865,
and in June, 1865, was ordered for duty as
assistant professor of steam engineering
and chemistry at the United States Naval
Academy. He was also in charge of the
construction of new buildings and the sea
wall, and in 1868 was ordered to the United
States Steamer Nyack, South Pacific Squad
ron, and again ordered to the United States
Naval Academy in ,1876, and after a short
service was granted a furlough of one year
previous to entering civil life. Mr. Cooper
was with Captain James B. Eads in the con
struction and erection of the St. Louis
arch-bridge over the Mississippi River from
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Delaware Bridge Works from 1875 to 1876;
assistant general manager and superinten
dent of the Keystone Bridge Company in
1876, and after the Ashtabula disaster, he
was employed from 1877 to 1878 in making
a critical examination of bridges over many
principal railroads. Since 1879 Mr. Cooper
has been in practice in New York City as
consulting engineer and has designed num
erous bridges and other Structures for rail
roads, towns, cities, and private concerns,
and he is consulting engineer for many rail
roads in the United States, Mexico, Japan,
etc., the New York Elevated Railroad, the
Rapid Transit Commissions of New York
City and Boston and Washington Bridge,
New York City. He was a member of the
Boards appointed by President Cleveland on
the Hudson -River Bridge and by Mayor
Low on the Manhattan Bridge and is con
sulting engineer for all structural work of
the New York Public Library and for the
Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River
with a span of eighteen hundred feet. Mr.
Cooper is author of : Cooper's Specifications
for the Superstructure of Railroad and
Highway Bridges ; also many papers on en
gineering subjects. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, and
has twice received the Norman Medal. He
is a member of the Loyal Legion, and the
New York Historical Society; a life mem
ber of the Naval Institute, the American
Society of Fine Arts ; the American Mu
seum of Natural History, the New York
Botanical Garden, and an honorary mem
ber of the American Institute of Architects.
He is also a member of the Century Asso
ciation of New York City. Residence : 353
West Fifty-seventh Street. Office address :
45 Broadway, New York City.
COOTER, James Thomas:
College president; born at Monticello,
Missouri, December 2, 1858 ; son of Elbert
Wesley Cooter and Julia (Hamilton) Coot
er. He took a preparatory course at the
Monticello (Missouri) Seminary, a college
course at Wabash Cqllege, Crawfordville,
Indiana, and his theological course at
Princeton Seminary, for two years, and
the McCormick Theological Seminary for

orie year. He was graduated from Wa
bash College in 1884, and from McCor
mick Seminary in 1887. He preached at
Baxter Springs, Kansas, from 1887 to 1890,
and he was ordained by the Neosho Presby
tery, in June 1888. He became president
of the Washington College of Tennessee
in 1891 ; and he received the degree of
A.M. from Wabash College in 1888 and
of D.D. from same institution in 1903.
He secured one hundred thousand dollars
endowment for Washington College in igos
and 1906, and also money for a new col
lege building, and other buildings have
been erected and repaired during the pres
ent administration. Mr. Cooter married at
Terre Haute, Indiana, June 20, 1894, Sarah
M. Gilbert, and they have three children:
Helen Hamilton, William Chauning, and
James Thomas, Jr. Address: Washing
ton College, Tennessee.
COPE, Porter Farquharson:
Author; lecturer; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, June 15, 1869; son of Caleb
Cope, merchant and financier, and great-
nephew of Thomas Pim Cope, founder of
the first American line of trans-Atlantic
packet ships. He was graduated from
H. Y. Lauderbach's Academy, and lec
tured on chemistry there, in 1885; read
law at the University of Pennsylvania and
in the offices of George Tucker Bispham
and Wayne McVeagh, and pursued
special branches in literature, mining,
theoretical and applied science. He pub
lished the Illustrated Weekly in 1886, and
the Weekly Recorder in 1887; was editor
of Leisure Moments in 1887, and editor and
publisher of Society in 1889 and 1890. In
December, 1896, he took an active part in
reestablishing the Second Troop of Phila
delphia City Cavalry ; in 1897, as presi
dent of the Monroe Doctrine Club, he was
engaged in the movement against the rati
fication of the Anglo-American Arbitra
tion Treaty. In 1900 he was secretary of
the Citizens' National Republican Conven
tion Association of Philadelphia. He is
secretary of the Anti- Vaccination League
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member of the Society for Psychical Re
search the Theosophical Society, the
Tennessee. Historical Society, the Colonial,
Historical, and Genealogical societies of
Pennsylvania, and the American Academy
of Political and Social Science. He
married June 14, 1900, Henrietta, daughter
of the late Joshua Bunting, of Philadelphia.
Address: 4806 Chester Avenue, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
COPELAND, Henry Clay:
Banker; born at Middletown Springs,
Vermont, May 23, 1844; son of Lucius
and Minerva (Skinner) Copeland. He was
educated at Union College, Schenectady,
New York. Mr. Copeland was cashier of
the First National Bank of Brandon, Ver
mont, 1870 to 1883, in which year he as
sisted in organizing the Sprague National
Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which he was
cashier until 1885. He founded the
Minnehaha National Bank, Sioux Falls,
Dakota, in 1885 and founded, in 1887, the
Riverside Bank of New York City and
was its cashier from 1887 to 1894 and its
president from 1894 until 1903, retiring in
the latter year. He is a director and
secretary of the Steel Ores Mining Com
pany, and director, treasurer and secretary
of the Acetylene Lamp Company. Mr.
Copeland is actively interested in real
estate iri New York City and at Haworth,
New Jersey. He is a Republican and a
member of the West Side Republican Club
and is also a member of the Union College
Alumni Association. Mr. Copeland married
at Chazy, Clinton County, New York,
October 10, 1866, Julia A. North, who
died in 1890. By that union there are three
children : Mrs. Lucy M. Copeland Addoms
(born September 18, 1870), Henry F. Cope
land, (born December , 29, 1872), and
Frances L. Copeland (born April 14, 1884).
Mr. Copeland married again at New York
City, September 1, 1892, Mrs. Marie Kis-
sam Hinds. Address : 242 West One Flun-
dred and First Street, New York City.
COQXTILLETT, Daniel William:
Entomologist ; born near Woodstock, Illi
nois. January 23.. 1856; son of F. M. L.
Coquillett and Sarah A. (Cokelet) Co-

quillett He was educated in public schools
and studied at home. He inaugurated and
perfected the hydrocyanic acid gas treat
ment for the extermination of destructive
insects on trees, etc. He had charge of
the ladybirds which were introduced into
California from Australia by the United
States Division of Entomology; later these
ladybirds and their progeny freed the trees
and shrubs of the destructive white or
cottony cushion scale. He was assistant
State entomologist of Illinois; field agent
of the United States Division of Ento
mology; assistant entomologist of the
United States Division of Entomology and
custodian of the Diptera of the United States
National Museum. He is author of about
one hundred and forty pamphlets and arti
cles, chiefly technical, the greater number
treating of the classification and descrip
tion of the.Diptera, and has described over
1 100 new species in this order. He is char
ter member of the Washington Academy of
Sciences, and Entomological Society of
America; fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, and
was president of the Entomological Society
of Washington. Address: United States
National Museum, Washington, D. C.
CORBETT, Lee Cleveland:
Horticulturist; born in Watkins, New
York, October 21, 1867. He was graduated
from Cornell as B.S. in 1890, and received
the degree of M.S. in 1896. He was assist
ant horticulturist in Cornell University,
from 1891 to 1893; professor of horticulture
and forestry iri the South Dakota Agricul
tural College from 1893 to 1895, and in
the University of West Virginia from 1895
to 1901 ; and he has been horticulturist of
the United States Department of Agricul
ture since igoi. He received the silver
medal of the Paris Exposition in 1901. He
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; member of
the American Pomological Society, the So
ciety for the Promotion of Horticultural
Science, the Society for the Promotion of
Agricultural Science, and the Washington
Botanical Society. He has made researches
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and in the effect of incandescent gaslight
on plants, and has. written various papers
on the comparative rate of transpiration of
leaves under varying conditions. He was
awarded a bronze medal for transpiration
apparatus at the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position in igoo. Address : Takoma Park,
Washington, D. C.
(OR BIN, Austin:
Banker born in Brooklyn, New York,
April 12, 1873; son of Austin Corbin and
Hannah M. (Wheeler) Corbin. He was
educated at the Cutler and Westminster
Schools, and was graduated from Harvard
in i8g6 as A.B., cum laude. He entered
business on the death of his father in 1896,
as partner in the Corbin Banking Com
pany house; and he is executor of the es
tate of Austin Corbin. Mr. Corbin is
president of the Rockaway Park Improve
ment ; vice-president of the Manhattan
Beach Company; treasurer of the New
England Mortgage Security Company, and
director of the Coal and Iron National
Bank. He is a member of the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Corbin's favorite recreations
are shooting and yachting. He is a mem
ber of the University, Lawyers', Lambs',
Harvard, New York Athletic, and the At
lantic Yacht Clubs of New York City; the
Westchester Country Club and the Somer
set Club of Boston. Residence: 76 Park
Avenue, New York City; Blue Mountain
Farm, Newport, New Hampshire; and
Northport, Long Island. Address: 192
Broadway, New York City.
CORBIN, Calvin Rich:
Wholesale grocer: born in Dudley, Wor
cester County, Massachusetts, February 12,
1832. He was educated in the public
schools of his native place and removed to
Chicago, Illinois, in 1857. In that year he
entered the employ of J. W. Doane, dealer
in teas and coffees, as a clerk, and later
became a partner in the concern. He re
mained in association with Mr. Doane until
1865, from which period until 1898 he was
successively a member of the firms of
Swormsted, Corbin & Co., Ingraham, Cor
bin & May, and Corbin, May & Co. Since

1898 he has been the senior member of the
firm of Corbin, Sons & Co., wholesale
grocers. He has for many years taken an
active part in all movements looking to
a reform in municipal affairs, and is a
member of the Citizen's Association, the
Civic Federation, the Municipal League, etc.
He is a Unitarian and a member of Unity
Church. His club membership is confined
to that of the Union League. He rharried
in 1861, Caroline Elizabeth Fairfield and
has four sons: Franklin N., Calvin Dana,
John, and Lawrence Paul. Residence: 597
Dearborn Avenue, Chicago. Office address :
87 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CORBIN, Henry Clarke:
Lieutenant-general of the United States
Army ; born in Clermont County, Ohio. He
passed his boyhood on the home farm, at
tended the common schools and an acad
emy and pursued legal studies in i860
and 1861. In 1862, at the age of nine
teen, he was commissioned as second lieu
tenant in the Seventy-ninth Regiment of
Ohio Volunteers, and he served with the
Army of the Cumberland until the close
of the war, and passed through all inter
mediate ranks in the volunteer service un
til he became colonel and brevet brigadier-
general of volunteers. After he was mus
tered out of the volunteer service, he en
tered the regular army as second lieutenant
of the Seventeenth United States Infantry
in May, 1866. He was promoted to cap
tain in 1867 and for ten years he served
on the plains and the frontier. In March,
1877, he was detailed for duty at the Ex
ecutive Mansion in Washington, and he
served as secretary of the Sitting Bull Com
mission. He was with President Garfield
at the time he was shot and at his bed
side at Elberon, where he died. He was
appointed in 1880, major and assistant ad
jutant-general and has since served in that
department, being promoted to the grade
of brigadier-general. In recognition of his
services, and the part he took in the war
with Spain, Congress conferred upon him
the rank of major-general, and in 1906 he
was promoted lieutenant-general, and re
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the rank of major-general, during the lat
ter part of his service. He married in
Washington, November 6, 1901, Edith Agnes
Patten. Residence: Massachusetts Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
CORBCSIER, William Henry:
Surgeon, ethnologist; born at New York
City, April 10, 1844; son of William Morri
son and Mahala (Myers) Corbusier. After
completing his general education in the
public and private schools, he entered
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1867.
He served in the field as acting assistant
surgeon, United States Army, during the
Civil War, May 30, 1864, to June 14, 1865;
was acting assistant surgeon, United States
Army, August 19, 1867, to December 16,
1868, and July 17, 1869, to May 30, 1875;
and was surgeon to the Rio Verde Indian
Agency, Arizona, serving from 1873 to 1875.
He was commissioned first lieutenant and
assistant surgeon, United States Army,
August 5, 1876; captain August 5, 1881;
major and surgeon, October 17, 1895;
lieutenant-colonel and deputy surgeon-gen
eral April 26, 1904. He has served at many
frontier posts; was inspector of annuities,
Rio-Verde Indian Agency, Arizona, Feb
ruary, 1874; Pine-Ridge Indian Agency,
Dakota, 1878 to 1880; Fort Washakie,
Wyoming, October, 1880. He served in the
field against hostile Apache tribes at various
times in 1874, 1875 and 1885 ; was acting
medical purveyor of the expedition to the
Philippine Islands, May 17, 1898 to April 30,
1900; chief surgeon, Department of Min

busier is a member of the Empire State
Society , of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Society of the War of 1812
of Pennsylvania, the Society of Colonial
Wars of New York, the National Society
of the Army of the Philippines, the Mili
tary Order of Moro Campaigns, the Ameri
can Flag Association and the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States.
He married at Amite City, Louisiana,
March 22, 1869, Fanny Dunbar, and they
have five children : Claude Romeyn, Flarold
Dunbar, Philip Worthington, Francis Addi
son and William Tremaine. Address :
Vancouver Barracks, Washington, D. C,
CORDES, August W.:
Architect ; bora in Hamburg, Germany,
in 1850. He was educated at the Techni
cal School of Hamburg, combined with
courses in practical work, and modeling.
He continued his studies at the Royal
Academy at Berlin, which were interrupted
by the Franco-Prussian War, in which he
participated, and then resumed his stud
ies at Berlin as a pupil of Gropius and
Schmieden ; and in 1873 he studied under
Theophile Ritter von Hansen at the Vi
enna Royal Academy. Mr. Cordes trav
eled ten months 'through Italy and Sicily
and came to New York in 1880. He then
formed a partnership with Theodore W.
E. De Lemos in 1884 as De Lemos &
Cordes, who were the architects of the
Arion clubhouse, Siegel-Cooper, Adams .and
Macy's department stores ; office buildings
for Speyer & Company and others in New
Y'ork City, and an office building in the

danao, Philippine Islands, 1903-1905 ; chief City of Mexico for the Mutual Life In-

surgeon Department of The Columbia from
1906. He has made a study of the sign
language of the North American Indians,
of the dialects of the Mojave, the Apache-
Yuma and Apache-Moj ave Indians, and
discovered several Winter-Counts — or
Calendars— among the Dakota Indians, He
contributed the results of his labors to the
Annual Reports of>the Bureau of Ethnology,
1879 to 1880, 1882-1883 and 1888-1889 ; the
Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Berlin, 1883 and
1892, and the American Antiquarian, Sep
tember and November, 1886. Dr. Cor-

surance Company of New York. He is a
fellow of the Institute of Architects, and a
member of the Architectural League of
New York. He has recently left the United
States, and is now domiciled in Berlin. Ad
dress : Berlin, Germany.
COREY, William Ellis:
President of the United States Steel
Corporation; born in Pennsylvania in 1866.
He was educated in the public schools, and
after sixteen years of age was in the
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son Steel Works at Pittsburgh, and studied
at home. He was superintendent of the
plate mill at the Edgar Thomson works of
Carnegie Brothers & Company, Pittsburgh,
1887. He invented the Carnegie reforged
armor plate. Mr. Corey succeeded Charles
M. Schwab as president of the Carnegie
Steel. Company, and in 1903 as president
and director of the United States Steel
Corporation, in which position he still con
tinues. He is also director of the Carne
gie Steel Company, the Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern Railway Company, the Federal
Steel Company, the National Tube Com
pany, and Shelby Steel Trust Company,
and the United States Steel Products Ex
port Company. He is a member of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers,
and of the Metropolitan and Ardsley
Clubs. Residence : 2 East. Forty-fifth
Street. Office address: 71 Broadway, New
York City.
CORLISS, Augustus Whittemore:
Retired army officer; born at North
Yarmouth, Maine, March 25, 1837; son of
Robert Elwell Corliss and Asenath (Field)
Corliss. Fie was graduated at North Yar
mouth Academy in 1851. He served, 1861-
63, in Civil War as first and second lieuten
ant, First Rhode Island Company. He was
commissioned major of the Second Rhode
Island Cavalry, June 24, 1862 ; lieutenant-
colonel, January 19, 1863 ; first lieutenant
of the Fifteenth United States Infantry,
July 21, 1865; captain of the Eighth United
States Infantry, May 29, 1873 ; major of
the Seventh United States Infantry, Feb
ruary 4, 1897; lieutenant-colonel of the
Second United States Infantry, February
6, 1899, and colonel of the same, February
2, 1901. He retired March 25, 1901, and
was advanced to the rank of brigadier-
general United States Army (retired),
April 23, 1904. He is a Republican in
politics. General Corliss has traveled in
North and South America, Cuba, the
Philippines, and Japan. He is a member
of the Society of Colonial Wars ; the So
ciety of Sons of the American Revolution ;
Society of the War of 1812; the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United

States ; Society of the Army of Santiago
de Cuba, and Society of Foreign Wars.
General Corliss married at Phoenix, Ari
zona, March 25, 1878, Eliza Crawford Cun
ningham, and they have two children:
Robert Cunningham Corliss, born in 1879,
and " Margaret "Haynes Corliss, born in
1881. Address: 2844 West Twenty-fifth
Avenue, Denver, Colorado.
CORLISS, Guy Carleton Haynes:
Jurist ; born at Poughkeepsie, New York,
July 4, 1858; son of Cyrus K. Corliss and
Clarinda M. C. Corliss. He was educated
in common and high schools, and was
graduated from the latter in 1873. He af
terward studied law, went West and en
gaged in practice at Grand Forks, North
Dakota, until elected, in 1889, chief jus
tice of the Supreme Court of North Da
kota, in which office he served until 1898,
when he returned to the practice of law.
When the North Dakota Law School was
established as the law department of the
University of North Dakota, in 1899, Judge
Corliss was elected its first dean. He is a
contributor to various legal publications.
Judge Corliss is a Republican in his polit
ical views. Address : Grand Forks, North
Dakota.
CORLISS, John Blaise! ell:
Lawyer ; born at Richfort, Vermont, June
7, 1851 ; son of Hezekiah Corliss -and Lydia
(Rounds) Corliss. He was graduated from
the Vermont Methodist University in 1871,
and subsequently registered as a law stu
dent in Columbian University, Washington,
where he took the degree of LL.B. in
1875. He was admitted to the bar the
same year, and commenced to practice in
Detroit, Michigan. In 1881 he was elected
city attorney, which office he held for four
years. He has several times been chosen
by the Republican party to act as a mem
ber of important committees, 'and the dis
tinction of having framed the first com
plete charter of the city of Detroit, still
in use, is his. In 1895 he was elected to the
United States House of Representatives,
and served during the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con
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CORN, Samuel Thompson:
Jurist; born at Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Kentucky, October 8, 1840; son
of Ellis Corn. After a thorough prepara
tory education he entered Princeton Uni
versity, from which he was graduated a's
A.B. iu the class of i860. After leaving
college he studied law, was admitted to the
bar of Illinois and practiced law at Car-
linville, Macoupin County, Illinois, until
1886, when he was appointed by President
Cleveland as one of the justices of the Su
preme Court of the Territory of Wyoming,
which office he retained until Wyoming as
sumed Statehood in 1890. Fie engaged in
the practice of law from 1890 until 1896,
at Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming, and
in the latter year was elected one of the
justices of the Supreme Court of the State
of Wyoming, in which office he served until
1904, and during the last year of his term
he was chief justice of that court. Since
the expiration of his term he has been en
gaged in practice at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Judge Corn is a Democrat in politics. He
married at Carlinsville, Illinois, in 1876,
Emma Blackburn. Address : Cheyenne,
Wyoming. CORNELL, John M. :
Iron manufacturer; president of the J. B.
and J. M. Cornell Company; born in New
York City, August 27, 1846; son of John
Black Cornell. He was educated in Mount
Washington Collegiate Institute. He be
came partner with his father at age of
twenty-one and upon father's death, in 1887,
became, head of the firm of J. B. & J. M.
Cornell. Mr. Cornell married, in 1873,
Sarah Kenn, and they have three children :
Irwin H. Cornell, born in 1881 ; Milton L.
Cornell, born in 1885, and Johri B. Cornell,
born in 1886. Address : Twenty-sixth
Street and Eleventh Avenue, New York
City.
CORNING, Charles Robert:
Jurist; born at Concord, New Hamp
shire, December 20, 1855; son of Robert
Nesmith Corning. He received his pre
paratory education at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and studied law at

Harvard Law School and in offices at Con
cord, New Hampshire, then being admitted
to the New Hampshire bar; and he later
received the degree of A.M. from Dart
mouth College in 1885. Mr. Corning is a
Republican in politics, and has filled various
important elective and appointive offices,
becoming a representative to the General
Court of New Hampshire from 1878 to
1883, and State senator from the Concord
District in 1889. During the Benjamin
Harrison administration, from 1889 to 1893,
he was an assistant attorney in the De
partment of Justice at Washington, D. C,
and after that engaged in the general law
practice at Concord, New Hampshire. He
was appointed by the governor and council
of New Hampshire, June 19, 1899, judge
of probate for the County of Merrimack,
in which office he is now serving. He was
also elected in 1903 mayor of Concord for
the term expiring 1907. Judge Corning
has written many articles and various
monographs on historical and biographical
subjects, and was one of the editors of, and
a contributor to, The History of Concord,.
New Hampshire, and he is corresponding
secretary of the New Hampshire Historical
Society. He is also author of a volume,
Aalesund to Tetuan, published in 1888.
Judge Corning is a bachelor, and is a mem
ber of the University Club of Concord.
Address : Concord, New Hampshire.
CORNING, Edward:
Builder ; born at New York City in 1857 ;
son of Jasper Edward Corning and Anna
Matilda (Parsons) Corning. He was edu
cated at the Hopkins Grammar School at
New Haven, Connecticut, and the Park
Institute at Rye, New York. Mr. Corning
began his business career as an employee
of Abram S. Hewitt, 1878; was an iron
commission merchant, from 1882 to 1894,
and then became contractor for structural
iron work, and- in 1897 he took up build
ing work as a general contractor, now
being president, treasurer and director of
the Edward Corning Company. Mr. Corn
ing is a member of the New York Cham
ber of Commerce, the Royal Arcanum, the
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Yacht Club, Drug and Chemical Club and
Economic Club. He married at New York
City, in 1883, Lilian Eddy, and they have
one son and three daughters. Residence :
147 West Ninety-fourth Street, New York
City. Address : 100 William Street, New
York City.
CORNISH, Leslie Colby:
Lawyer; born at Winslow, Maine, Octo
ber 8, 1854; 'son of Colby Coombs and
Pauline Bailey (Simpson) Cornish. After
studying at the Coburn Classical Institute,
Waterville, Maine, he entered Colby Uni
versity, from which he was graduated in
1875, with the degree of A.B. He subse
quently studied law at Harvard University
and was admitted to the bar in October,
1880. From 1883 to 1893 he was a mem
ber of the firm of Baker, Baker and Corn
ish, and from 1002 to 1907 of the firm of
Cornish and Bassett. He was a member
of the Legislature in 1878; member of the
State Board of Bar Examiners from 1899
to 1907; secretary of the Maine State Bar
Association from 1891 to i8g7 ; and was ap
pointed associate justice of the Supreme
Judicial Court of Maine, March 21, 1907.
He is president of the Augusta Savings
Bank, Lettegers Public Library, and Board
of Trustees of Colby College, from which
institution he, received the honorary degree
of LL.D. in 1904. He married at Boston,
Massachusetts, October 10, 1883, Fannie
Woodman Holmes. Address : Augusta,
Maine.
CORNISH, William D.:
Railway official ; vice-president and direc
tor of the Southern Pacific Company, the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation Company, the
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, the
Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Rail
road Company, the Portland and Asiatic
Steamship Company, the Northern Pacific
Terminal Company of Oregon, the San
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail
road Company, the Spokane Union Depot
Company, and Wells, Fargo and Com
pany. Residence: South Orange, New Jer

sey. Office address: 120 Broadway, New
York City.
CORNW ALLIS, Kinahan:
Lawyer and editor; born at London,
England, December 24, 1839; son of Wil
liam Baxter Kinahan Cornwallis, barrister-
at-law. He was educated at the Collegiate
Institution at Liverpool, England, and at
trinity College, and has studied for three
professions, divinity, medicine and law.
He entered the British Colonial Civil Ser
vice, and was two years in Melbourne,
Australia. He returned to London and re
entered the Government Civil Service and
he later received an appointment in British
Columbia, and on his way there, via Pan
ama, in April, i860, came to New York
City. He had a letter to Harper Brothers
from his friend Charles Reade, and another
to James Gordon Bennett of the New
York Herald. Mr. Bennett said to him,
"'I should think you would be like a fish out
of water in British Columbia, you had
better stay here and I will make you one
of my editors." He accepted, and served
on the editorial staff and as financial editor
of the New York Herald until 1869. He,
in i860, accompanied the first Japanese
embassy, and later the Prince of Wales
while in the United States, as Herald cor
respondent. He purchased and edited the
KnickerbocKer Magazine and the Albion
newspaper. He sold the Knickerbocker
to Prof. Morse of telegraphic fame, and
Charles O'Conor, the lawyer, and in 1886
established the Wall Street Daily Investi
gator, now the Wall Street Daily Investor,
of which he is still proprietor and editor.
He was admitted to the New York bar .in
New York City, May 21, 1863, and has
since practiced in New York City. Mr.
Cornwallis is author of the following
books published in England and America:
Howard Plunkett, (two volumes) ; An
Australian Poem; Pilgrims of Fashion;
British Columbia; Two Journeys to Japan
(two volumes) ; A Panorama of the New
World, (two volumes) ; Wreck and Ruin,
or Modern Society (three volumes) ; My
Life and Adventures, an Autobiography
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ley Performance; Royalty in the New
World, or the Prince of Wales in Ameri
ca; The New El Dorado, or British Col
umbia; Adrift with a Vengeance; Two
Strange Adventurers; A Marvelous Coin
cidence; American Historical Poems; The
Song of America and Columbus ; The War
for the Union, or the Duel between North
and South; The Conquest of Mexico and
Peru; The Gold Room and the New
York Stock Exchange arid Clearing House ;
International Law, a treatise; and The
History of Constructive Contempt of
Court; and has for years been an exten
sive contributor to legal and literary peri
odicals in the United States and England.
Through knowing Charles Reade in Eng
land, he became his agent and published
for him, with some alterations (through
Rudd and Carleton of New York), the
first American edition of The Cloister and
the Hearth, from early proof sheets, mail
ed to him by Mr. Reade before its pub
lication in England. Mr. Cornwallis is a
member of the American Social Science
Association and of the St. George's So
ciety of New York, and the Entertainment
Club of New York, and is an associate
member of the National Institute of Arts
and Letters. He is a Republican and
active in politics, and a member of the
Madison Square Republican Club. Mr.
Cornwallis has been twice married, first
at New York City, to Annie Louise,
daughter of Samuel T. Tisdale, of East
Wareham, Massachusetts, and New York,
and second to Elizabeth, daughter of
Charles Chapman, of Hartford, Connecticut,
and granddaughter of Bishop Brownell of
Connecticut, (both deceased) ; and he has
two sons and a daughter. His two sons
graduated at University College, Oxford
University (England), in 1906, and the
eldest, K. Cornwallis, a famous Oxford ath
lete, is now in the Colonial Civil Service
of the British Government at Khartoum,
in the Soudan, Africa, while the other is
studying art in London. Residence: 16
East Twenty-second Street, New York.
Office address: 95 Nassau Street, New
York City.

CORNWELL, William Caryl:
Banker; born in Lyons, New York, Aug
ust 19, 1851; son of Francis E.- Cornwell
and Catherine L. Cornwell. He entered
the banking house of H. N. Smith and
Company, Buffalo, as messenger and cash
ier, from 1878 to 1893, and in 1893 he
organized, and in 1902 became president
of the City National Bank of Buffalo. He
is a student of finance and has made an
earnest effort to secure improvement in
banking, and currency systems. Mr. Cornr
well has become an authority on financial
subjects, through addresses and publications
during the past ten years. Mr. Cornwell
was one' of the founders of the New York
State Bankers' Association, and its first
president. He has served as vice-president
and member of the Executive Council of
the American Bankers' Association, and was
chairman on the Committee on Education
of that association for five years. Through
the efforts of this committee the Ameri
can Institute of Bank Clerks was organ
ized, of which he became the first presi
dent Fie was appointed delegate to the
Monetary Convention in 1895 ; and a mem
ber of the Executive Committee of the In
dianapolis Monetary Convention in 1898.
He is a dealer in investment securities and
active in the formation of corporate organ
izations. He is now associated with J. S.
Bache & Company, bankers. Mr. Corn-
well is author of: Currency and Banking
Law of Canada, 1894; Sound Money Mon
ographs, 1897; What Is a Bank? which
was published by the American Bankers'
Association, of which 500,000 copies
were distributed or sold; Bonds as a Safe
ty Reserve for Bankers (issued by J, S.
Bache & Company), which covered a care
ful investigation into the subject of bond-
holding by banks. In addition to his inter
est in banking and financial subjects, he is
a student of art and writer on 'art.'sub-
jects. Mr. Cornwell married at Buffalo,
October 9, 1873, Marian W. Loomis, daugh
ter of Dr. H. N. Loomis. Address: J. S.
Bache & Company, 42 Broadway, New
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CORSON, Dighton:
Jurist. He was educated at the Water
ville Academy, Waterville, Maine, and
afterward read law in offices at Bangor,
Maine, where he was admitted to the bar.
He went West to Wisconsin, and was en
gaged in practice for some years at Mil
waukee, and was district attorney for Mil
waukee County for two years and also
served in the Legislature of Wisconsin.
Thence he went to Virginia City, Nevada,
and practiced law, and he was district at
torney of Storey County, Nevada, for five
years during the bonanza period. Sirice
1877 he has been a citizen of Deadwood,
South Dakota, where he was engaged in
the practice of law until 1889. He was a
member of the two Constitutional Conven
tions held in 1885 and 1889, and in the
latter year was elected one of the judges
of the Supreme Court of South Dakota,
in which office he has ever since continued,
and he was for a time Chief Justice of that
Court. Judge Corson is a Republican in
politics. He still has his legal residence
at Deadwood. Official address : Pierre,
South Dakota.
CORSON, Hiram:
Educator; born in Philadelphia, Novem
ber 6, 1828; son of Joseph Dickinson and
Ann Eliza (Hagey) Corson. His early ed
ucation was private, and at the classical
and mathematical school (Treemount Sem
inary) of the Rev. Dr. Aaron, Norristown,
Pennsylvania, and the classical school of
Rev. Dr. Anspach, Barren Hill, Pennsyl
vania, where he distinguished himself by
his mathematical and classical attainments.
He was connected with the library of the
Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, D.
C, from 1850 to 1856, there receiving a
training in bibliography and iri library man
agement under the distinguished librarian,
Professor Charles C. Jewett. He taught
Latin and English literature, in Washing
ton, D. C, 1856 to 1859; was lecturer on
English literature in Philadelphia, 1859 to
1865; .professor of history and moral sci
ence, and vice-president, at Girard College,
1865 and 1866; professor of Anglo-Saxon,

English literature and rhetoric, St. Johns
College, Annapolis, 1866 to 1870; professor
of English literature from 1870 to 1903, and
professor emeritus since 1903, at Cornell
University; appointed lecturer on English
literature at the Johns Hopkins University,
for the winter terms of 1883, 1884, and
1885; pensioned by the Carnegie Founda
tion, June, 1906. He received from Prince
ton the honorary degrees of A.M., 1864, and
Litt. D., 1903, and LL.D., from St. John's
College, 1878. Author: Chaucer's Legende
of Goode Women, edited with introduction
and notes, 1863; An Elocutionary Manual,
1864; a translation of the Satires of Ju
venal, 1868; Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and
Early English, 1871 ; Syllabus of lectures on
the English language and literature, 1873,
and 1876; Jottings on the text of Ham
let (First Folio versus Cambridge edition),
1874; The University of the Future, 1875;
Paper read before the New Shakespeare
Society of London, on the evolution of
Shakespeare's verse as a chronological test,
1877; The Idea of Personality as embodied
in Browning's poetry, 1882 ; An Introduction
to the study of Robert Browning's poetry,
1886 ; An Introduction to the . study of
Shakespeare, 1889; What Does, What
Knows, What Is, 1891 ; A Primer of Eng
lish Verse,, chiefly in its aesthetic and or
ganic character, 1892; The Aims of Liter
ary Study, 1895; The Voice and Spiritual
Education, 1896; Selections from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales, with introductions, notes,
and glossary, 1896 ; An Introduction to the
Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton,
1899; editor of Mrs. Caroline Rollin Cor
son's translation of Pierre Janet's Etat
mental des Hysteriques, 1901. Professor
Corson married, September 13, 1854, Caro
line Rollin (born Paris, France, December
29, 1828, died May 21, 1901), and has one
son, Dr. Eugene Rollin Corson, of Savan
nah, Georgia. Address : Cascadilla Cot
tage, Ithaca, New York.
CORSON, Eugene Rollin:
Physician; born at Washington, D. C,
July 20, 1855; son of Dr. Hiram Corson
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educated at St. John's College, Annapolis,
Maryland, from 1866 to 1871, at Cornell
' ' ' University, Ithaca, New York, from 1871
to 1875, and at the Southern Medical Col-
• - - lege, Atlanta, where he was graduated as
M.D. in 1894. He has practiced medicine
in Savannah, Georgia, since 1879. He has
written many scientific papers, on the
Negro, and on anatomical, surgical, and
X-Ray subjects. Dr. Corson has made
three trips to Europe, Great Britain, Bel
gium, Germany, Austria, .and Italy. He is
a Republican in politics. He is a mem
ber of the Association of American Ana
tomists, the American Electro-Therapeutic
Association, the Medical Association of
Georgia, the Georgia Medical Society, and
the Chatham County Medical Society. Fie
married at New Orleans, Louisiana, Sep
tember 4, 1894, Cora Wirt Baker, and they
have three children : Pauline Rollin Corson,
born in 1897; Eugene Rollin Corson, Jr.,
born in 1901, and Mildred Wirt Corson,
born in 1904. Address : 1 1 Jones Street,
East, Savannah, Georgia.
CORTELYOU, George Bruce:
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States; born in New York City, July 26,
1862. He was graduated from the Hemp
stead Institute, Hempstead, Long Island,
in 1879, from the State Normal School at
Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1882; from the
Law Department of Georgetown Univers
ity as LL.B. in 1895 and from the Columb
ian (now George Washington) University,
as LL.M. in 1896; and he received the de
gree of LL.D. from Georgetown University
in 1903. Mr. Cortelyou engaged as a gen
eral law and verbatim reporter in New
York City, in 1883 ; was principal of pre
paratory schools in New York, from 1885
to 1889. He entered public service in 1889,
and has been private secretary to various
public officials, among them postoffice
inspector in charge at New York City,
surveyor of the. Port of New York and
fourth assistant postmaster-general. He
was appointed in November, 1895, steno
grapher to President Cleveland ; became '
executive clerk, February, 1896; assistant

secretary to President McKinley, July (,
1898; secretary to the President, April 13,
1900. He was reappointed March 15, igoi,
by President McKinley and on September
16, igoi, was reappointed by President
Roosevelt. Mr. Cortelyou was appointed
secretary of the newly established Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor,. February
16, 1903, and confirmed the same day. He
was elected, June 23, 1904, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, and con
ducted the campaign which resulted in the
election of President Roosevelt. He enter
ed the new Cabinet, March 7, 1905, as post
master-general, and on the retiremem of
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw in March, 1907, be
came secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Cor
telyou married in 1888, Lily Morris Hinds,
daughter of Dr. Ephraim Hinds, president
of the Hempstead Institute. Home:
Hempstead, Long Island. Address: Treas
ury Department, Washington, D. C.
CORTHELL, Elmer Lawrence:
Civil engineer; born at South Abington
(now Whitman), Massachusetts, September
30, 1840 ; son of James Lawrence and
Mary (Gurney) Corthell. He was edu
cated at South Abington High School, and
Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire,
from which he was graduated in 1858. He
entered Brown University in 1859, but was
absent from 1861 to 1865, in Civil War;
he returned to Brown in 1865 and was
graduated A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa
honor, in 1867, also receiving from that
university the degree of A.M. in 1868, and
the honorary degree of ScD. in 1894. Mr.
Corthell served in the Union Army in the
Civil War in the First Regiment of Rhode
Island Artillery as private to captain of
Battery D, serving in Virginia and North
Carolina, and was mustered out at the end
of the war in 1865. He then resumed his
studies, and on graduation in 1867, was en
gaged as a civil engineer at Providence.
Rhode Island. He became assistant engi
neer of the Hannibal and Naples Railroad
in Illinois in 1868; division engineer in the
location and construction of the Hannibal
and Central Missouri Railroad in 1869;

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chief assistant engineer in the construction
of the bridge over the Mississippi at Han
nibal, Missouri, 1870-1871 ; chief engineer
of Sny Island Levee, on the east bank of
the Mississippi River, in Illinois, 1871 to
1874. He was chief engineer of construc
tion of the bridge over the Mississippi at
Louisiana, Missouri, for the Chicago and
Alton Railway, in 1873 and 1874. He was
in charge for Captain James B. Eads of the
engineering and construction of jetties at
the mouth of the Mississippi, l875.to 1879;
was associated with Captain Eads in sur
veys for the ship railway of the Isthmus of
Tehtiantepec, 1880-1881 ; and was chief en
gineer in the construction of the New York,
West Shore and Buffalo Railway, and the
New York, Ontario and Western Railway,
and their terminals at New York City,
from 1881 to 1884; was engineer in build
ing steel railway bridges over the Missis
sippi, Missouri, Ohio and other rivers, from
1887 to 1889, and chief engineer of the jet
ties at the mouth of the Brazos River in
Texas, and in the building of the Mer
chants' Bridge over the Mississippi River
at St. Louis ; and consulting engineer of
waterways, railways, etc., until 1894. He
spent some years in Europe, and from 1900
to 1902 was consulting engineer for na
tional public works for the Argentine Gov
ernment. He was appointed in February,
1904, by the governor of New York State,
and was a member of the Advisory Board
of Consulting Engineers to build the barge
canals of the State, to cost over $100,-
000,000; and is also consulting engineer of
the Cape Cod Ship Canal to shorten the
distance between New York and Boston.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of
the Trans- Alaska Siberian Railway; and
chief engineer in charge of the construction
of a modern port at Para, Brazil, at the
mouth of the Amazon, and chief engineer
of the Port of Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil.
Mr. Corthell is a Republican in politics
and a Baptist in his religious affiliation.
Mr. Corthell was chairman of a committee
of the International Engineering Congress
at Chicago, in 1893 ; United States delegate
and vice-president to the International Navi

gation Congress at Brussels in 1898; dele
gate of the Argentine Government to the
International Navigation Congress, at Dus-
seldorf in 1902; United States Govern
ment member of the Permanent Commis
sion of the International Navigation Con
gress. He is a member and ex-vice-presi
dent of the American Society of Civil En
gineers; member and ex-president of the
Western Society of Engineers, Chicago;
member of the Institution of Civil En
gineers of Great Britain, the French
Society of Civil Engineers (of which
he is also a corresponding member),
the Mexican Association of Civil En
gineers, the Boston Society of Civil En
gineers. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence ; member of the American Geographi
cal Society, National Geographic Society;
fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,
London; a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, the Society of the Sigma Xi, the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, the Sons of the
American Revolution, New England Society
in New York, Society of the Army of the
Potomac. Mr. Corthell is author of:
The History of the Mississippi jetties, 1880;
Report of the Brussels Navigation Con
gress, 1898; Maritime Coriimerce, Past,
Present and Future, 1898; Some Ports of
1901 ; Increase in Dimensions of Vessels
the World (Paris Navigation Congress),
(Milan Navigation Congress), 1905; also
articles in Johnson's Cyclopedia and the
Encyclopedia Americana on engineering
subjects, as well as many papers con
tributed to technical magazines and the
proceedings of learned societies. Mr.
Corthell married at Providence, Rhode
Island, in 1870, Emily Theodate Davis, Who
died in 1884, leaving two children: Alice
(now Mrs. Edward S. Dewey, of Guad
alajara, Mexico), and Howard Lawrence
Corthell, civil engineer (bora in 1876).
Mr. Corthell again married, in 1900, Marie
Kuchler, of Berne, Switzerland. Address:
1 Nassau Street, New York City.

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COB WIN, Edward Tanjore:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
July 12, 1834; son of Edward Caldwell
Corwin and Mary Ann (Shuart) Corwin.
He was graduated from the College of the
City of New York as A.B. in 1853 and
A,M-, in 1856, and from New Brunswick
Theological Seminary in 1856; and he re
ceived the degree of D.D. from Rutger's
College, 1872. He was settled over the
Reformed Church of Paramus, New Jer
sey,' from 1857 to 1863; over the Re
formed Church of Millstone, New Jersey,
1863-88; and was rector of Hertzog Theo
logical Hall, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
from 1888 to 1895 ; over Reformed Church
of Greehport (Columbia County), New
York, from 1895 to 1897; agent of General
Synod of the Reformed Church in America
to collect historical data in Holland, relat
ing to the colonial churches, in 1897 and
1898; was editor of Ecclesiastical Records
of the State of New York, six volumes, pub
lished by the Legislature, from 1900 to
1907. He was president of the Gen
eral Synod of the Reformed Church
in America in 1891 ; temporary in
structor in Hebrew and Greek ex
egesis', in New Brunswick Theological
Seminary in 1883 and 1884 and occasionally
from 1889 to 1892. He is author of : Man
ual of Reformed Church in America, first
editioii in 1859 ; and fourth edition in 1902 ;
History of Reformed Church in America,
in American Church History Series, vol
ume VIII; Digest of Constitutional and
Synodical Legislation of Reformed Church
in America in 1906; Corwin Genealogy,
1872, and numerous articles in cyclopedias,
etc. He visited Great Britain, France,
Switzerland, Germany, and Holland in 1887 ;
and was collecting historical documents in
Holland, in 1897 and 1898. He is a Re
publican in politics. He is a charter mem
ber of the American Church History So
ciety and of the American Historical As
sociation. Dr. Corwin married in Geneva,
New York, July 25, 1861, Mary Esther
Kipp, and they have two children : Euph-
emia Kipp, born in 1863, and Rev. Charles

Edward, born in 1868. Address : North
Branch, New Jersey.
CORY, Harry Thomas:
Engineer and executive; born at Mount
Morenci, Indiana, May 27, 1870; son of
Thomas Cory and Carrie (Stoney) Cory.
He was graduated from Purdue University
as B.S., in E.E. in 1887 and B.S. and CE.
in 1889, and from Cornell University as
M.C.E. in 1893 and M.M.E. in 1896. He
was assistant city engineer of L,a Fayette,
Indiana, in 1889; assistant engineer of the
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, from 1890 to
1892; professor of civil engineering of the
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mis
souri, from 1893 to 1900 ; dean of College of
Engineering of University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1900 to 1902 ; made
engineering investigations in Europe in
1898; was in various capacities with the
Mexican Central, Texas & Pacific and
Southern Pacific Railroads, from 1902 to
1905, and has been since 1905 assistant to
president of the associated Harriman lines
in Arizona and Old Mexico, chief among
them being the Arizona and Eastern Rail
road, Arizona and Colorado Railroad, Fer-
rocarril Cananea, Rio Yaqui y Pacifico,
Ferrocarril de Sonora, Maricopa, Phoenix
and Salt River Valley Railroad, Phoenix
and Eastern Railroad, Gila Valley, Globe
and Northern Railway. He has been gen
eral manager and chief engineer of the
California Development Company and la
Sociedad de Riego y Terrenos de la Baja
California since 1906 and in personal charge
of diverting of the Colorado River from
running into the Salton Sea, back to the
Gulf of California. He traveled the United
States, Mexico and Europe. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion an Episco
palian. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, Cornell
Association of Civil. Engineers, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, Cornell
Association of Civil Engineers, Phi Delta
Theta, Theta Nu Epsilon, Knight Templar
and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
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Mr. Cory is a member of the Bohemian
Club of San Francisco, the Jonathan Club
of Los Angeles and the Sutter Club of Sac
ramento, California. Residence: Tucson,
Arizona. Address: Calexico, California;
Mexicali, B. C, Mexico, and Tucson, Ari-

COSGROVE, Henry:
Catholic bishop of Davenport; born at
Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsyl
vania, in 1834; son of John Cosgrove and
Bridget Cosgrove. He removed with his
parents to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1845 and
was educated in parochial schools, after
ward making his literary and divinity stud
ies, and being ordained to the priesthood
in 1857. Fie was appointed, the same year,
assistant pastor of Saint Marguerite's
Church at Davenport, Iowa, and became
pastor of that church in 1862. He was ap
pointed vicar-general of the diocese of
Davenport in 1882, and upon the death of
Bishop McMullen he was appointed . and
consecrated his successor in 1884, and has
since administered both the spiritual and
financial affairs of the diocese having
prospered exceedingly under Bishop Cos-
grove's pastoral care. Address : Daven
port, Iowa.
COTTER, Joseph B.
Catholic Bishop of Winona ; born in
Liverpool, England. He came to the
United States with his parents and set
tled in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he re
ceived his elementary education; going
from there to Saint Vincent's College,
Pennsylvania, and afterward pursuing his
theological studies at Saint John's Uni
versity, Collegeville, Minnesota. He was
ordained priest in 1871, and was pastor of
Saint Thomas' Church, at Winona, Minne
sota, until 1889, when, upon the creation of
the diocese of Winona, he was appointed
and consecrated as its first- bishop, which
office he has ever since administered with
most favorable results in the spiritual and
financial prosperity of the diocese. Bishop
Cotter is also greatly distinguished for his
efficient advocacy of total abstinence from
intoxicants, and served for three terms as

president of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America. Address : Winona,
Minnesota.
COTTON, William VVick:
Lawyer; born at Lyons, Iowa, December
13, 1859; s°n of Aylett R. and Laura Cot
ton. He went to public schools in Phila
delphia, after which he studied at the Penn
sylvania State Normal School and the
Columbia Law School, completing his
course at the latter institution in 1882,
when he received the degree of LL.B.
Since 1888, when he went to Omaha, Neb
raska, as assistant to the general solicitor
of the Union Pacific Railroad , Company,
his work has been largely as counsel for
railroad companies in the West. He mov
ed to Portland, Oregon, in 1889, and since
1896 has been general attorney for the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company.
In 1901 he was chosen by the State Legisla
ture to take up, with Charles B. Bellinger, the
work of preparing a revised edition of the
Oregon laws, which, when completed, was
issued under the title, Bellinger & Cotton's
Annotated Laws of Oregon. He was mar
ried August 29, 1888, at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, to Fannie C. Collingwood. ' Resi
dence: 634 Lovejoy Street. Office: Wor
cester Building, Portland, Oregon.
COUDERT, Frederic Rem?:
Lawyer; born in New York City; son
of the late Frederic Rene Coudert and
Elizabeth (McCredy) Coudert. He was
graduated from Columbia College in 1898.
He is a member of the law firm of Coudert
Brothers and a trustee of the Equitable
Trust Company, the Chesebrough Manu
facturing Company, a director of the Chese
brough Building Company, the McVicker
Realty Trust Company and the Pacific Fire
Insurance Company. Mr. Coudert is a
member of the American Bar Association,
the Association of .the Bar of the City of
New York, and other professional associa
tions. He is also a member of the Man
hattan, University, Lawyers', Fencers' and
New York Athletic Clubs, and the Century
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dert married Alice T. Wilmerding. Resi
dence: 124 East Fifty-sixth Street. Office
address : 71 Broadway, New York City.

COTJDREY, Harry M. :
Insurance underwriter and congressman;
born at Brunswick, Missouri, February 28,
1867. He moved in 1878 to Saint Louis,
where he attended the public schools, grad
uating from the Manual Training School.
Soon after finishing his school education
he entered the fire insurance business and
rose rapidly to the ftont. He is now the
head of the insurance nrm of Harry M.
Coudrey and Company. From 1897 to
1899, Mr. Coudrey was a member of the
Municipal Assembly, where he won com
mendation of the public by his vigorous
opposition to all boodle measures. He was
almost alone in his fight, and declined to
return when his term expired. Mr. Coud
rey has always taken an active interest in
politics and at one time was president of
the Twenty-eighth Ward Republican
League Club. He was elected in 1904 from
the Twelfth Congressional District of Mis
souri, on the Republican ticket to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, but owing to frauds
he was not seated until near the end of the
first session. He was reelected in Novem
ber, 1906, to the Sixtieth Congress. He
has excellent connections in the business
world, being a member of the Merchants'
Exchange, the Business Men's League, and
a director of the Commonwealth Trust
Company. He is vice-president of the
Washington National Bank, president of
the Saint Louis Fire Insurance Agents As
sociation, is director and treasurer of the
Universal Adding Machine Company, and
is president of the National Association of
Casualty and Surety Agents of the United
States. Mr. Coudrey is a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
secretary of the Saint Louis Club, and
a member of the University Club and of
the St. Louis Jockey Club. Address :
Century Building, St. Louis, Missouri.

COULTER, Stanley:
College professor ; born in Ningpo, China,
June 3, 1855. He was graduated from
Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, as
A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. He is dean of the
School of Science and director Biological
Laboratories in Purdue University. Dr.
Coulter is a member of the Indiana
State Board of Forestry. In politics
he is a Republican and in religion
a Presbyterian. He is a member of
the Beta Theta Pi Society; the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science; the Indiana Academy of
Science; the Society of Western Natural
ists, and numerous other scientific and edu
cational societies. His favorite recreation
is golf. He is a member of the Lincoln and
Parlor (literary and political) Clubs. Dr.
Coulter married at Logansport, Indiana,
June, 1879, Lucy E. Post, and they have
one daughter, Mabel Coulter. Residence :
213 South Ninth Street Lafayette. Ad
dress : Purdue University, Lafayette, In
diana. COUNSELMAN, Charles:
Grain dealer; born in Chicago, Illinois,
January 6, 1881 ; son of Charles and Jen
nie Elizabeth (Otis) Counselman. He re
ceived his education in the public schools
of Chicago, at the Harvard School,
Chicago, and the Hill School of Pottstown,
Pennsylvania. He began business as a clerk
in the employ of Counselman & Company,
of Chicago, brokers, in 1900, remaining
with that concern four years. In 1904 he
became vice-president of the Chicago Grain
and Elevator Company, which position he
holds at the present time. The company
was incorporated in 1902, and has a capital
of two hundred thousand dollars. Mr.
Counselman is a Republican and is a mem
ber of the Kenwood, Kenwood Country,
Chicago Athletic, and Midlothian Clubs.
Residence : 5035 Greenwood Avenue, Chi
cago. Address: Merchants' Loan and'
Trust Building, Chicago, Illinois.
COCPER, William:
Sculptor ; born in Norfolk, Virginia, Sep
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phrania M. (Cowling) Couper. He began
art studies at Cooper Institute, New York
City, and later studied in the Royal Acad
emy at Munich, and in the studio of
Thomas Ball, at Florence, Italy. He lived
in Italy from 1875 to 1897; and since the
later date has been professionally engaged
as a sculptor in New York City. He is
a member of the National Sculpture So
ciety, and the Architectural League. Mr.
Couper married at Florence, Italy, 1878,
Eliza Chickering, daughter of Thomas Ball.
Residence: Montclair, New Jersey. Ad
dress: 207 East Seventeenth Street, New
York City.
COURTENAY, William Ashn>»«fl:
Manufacturer; born in Charleston, South
Carolina, February 4, 1831 ; son of Edward
Smith Courtenay and Elizabeth (Wade)
Courtenay. He had little access to edu
cational advantages in his boyhood, and is
chiefly self-taught. In 1850 he became as
sociated with his brother in the bookselling
business in Charleston and continued at
that business until r86o. When the war
broke out he entered the Army of the Con
federate States, in wh<ch he served as an
officer from its origin until the surrender.
After the war he was for twenty years en
gaged in the shipping and commission
business in Charleston, and from 1879 to
1887 he was mayor of Charleston, declin
ing another reelection at the end of his
last term. Under his administration the
city government was thoroughly reorganiz
ed, and the securities of the city, which
had fallen in the market to a discount of
fifty per cent, were brought up to par, the
debt was greatly reduced, fifteen miles of
new pavement was laid, and the social and
physical condition of the city greatly im
proved. He was for years commander of
the Washington Light Infantry of Charles
ton. He has always taken a great inter
est in the monumental enrichment of Char
leston, and it was chiefly through his ef
forts that in 1858, a monument was erect
ed to the memory of Colonel William
Washington of the Revolutionary Army,
and in 188 1 to General Daniel Moigan, to

the Heroes of the Cowpens, to the one
hundred and fourteen of the Washington
Light Infantry, three companies of the war,
who lost their lives in the War between
the States, and in 1886 had erected in Mag
nolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C, a hand
some memorial to General R. S. Ripley
of the Confederate States Army. Capt.
Courtenay has also been long and actively
identified with the promotion of education,
and since 1887 has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Peabody Educa
tional Fund. In 1893 he built a cotton
mill at Newry, South Carolina, where he
is now extensively engaged in the cotton
industry. He married at Charleston, South
Carolina, October 19, 1854, Julia Anna
Francis ; and four sons and two daughters
survive. Address: 1707 Pendleton Street,
Columbia, South Carolina.
COUSINS, Robert J.:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in Cedai
County,. Iowa, in 1859. He was graduated
at Cornell College, Iowa, in 1881, admitted
to the bar in 1882, and has been engaged in
the practice of law since that time. In 1886
he was elected to the Iowa Leg'slature, and
was elected by the House of Representatives
as one of the prosecutors for the Brown ,
impeachment tried before the Senate dur
ing 1887. In 1888 he was elected prosecut
ing attorney and also presidential elector
for the Fifth Congressional District. He
was elected in 1892 from the Fifth Iowa
District to the Fifty-third Congress, and
has since been biennially reelected, and is
now serving in the Sixtieth Congress.
Address : Tipton, Iowa.
COVELL, Arthur John:
Clergyman; horn in Rose, Wayne Coun
ty, New York, December I, 1863; son of
James E. Covell and Hannah E. (Vande-
burgh) Covell. He was educated in the high
school, Jackson, Michigan, was graduated
from the University of Michigan as A.B.
in 1887; attended Chicago Theological Sem
inary from 1887 to 1889 ; was graduated fr( n
Andover Theological Seminary as B.D. in
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A.M. in 1897. He was pastor of the Con
gregational Church, Flint, Michigan, from
1890 to 1893; pastor of the Congregational
Church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1893
to 1896; Williams fellow at Harvard Uni
versity in 1896 to 1897, and has been pas
tor of the North Congregational Church,
Lynn, Massachusetts, since 1898. He made
two trips to Europe, covering Great Bri
tain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzer
land, Italy and France. He is a corporate
member of the Massachusetts Board of
Ministerial Relief, and member of the Cen
tral Council of Lynn Associated Charities,
and a member of the Twentieth Century
Club of Lynn. Mr. Covell married at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, August 6, 1890, Anna
Louise Campbell. Address : 81 Laighton
Street, Lynn, Massachusetts.
COVERT, John Cutler:
Consul, journalist; born at Norwich, Che
nango County, New York, February 11,
1839; son of Jacob Covert and Phebean
(Cutler) Covert He attended public
•schools but procured most of his education
in a printing office and by private study;
and he has specialized in the study of
modern languages, so that, besides English,
he speaks French, German, Italian and
Spanish. He became an expert printer,
but left the case for the editorial office,
becoming editor of the Cleveland Leader.
He also took an active part in Ohio poli
tics as a Republican, and was twice elected
a member of the Ohio Legislature. In
July, 1897, he was appointed by President
McKinley to his present post as consul of
the United States at Lyons, France. Mr.
Covert is a bibliophile and is a member and
former president of the Rowfant Club of
Cleveland, the membership of which in
cludes the most prominent booklovers of
Cleveland and many other cities; and he
was also president of the Cleveland Art
Association. He is also a member of the
principal literary clubs and associations of
Lyons. Besides being aii editorial writer
of ability, Mr. Covert has written various
contribution^ to magazine literature, and
also wrote in 1896, a treatise on the silver
question, which was widely distributed by

the Republican National Committee. His
earlier acquaintance with France was made
in a pedestrian tour which he took during
the Second Empire, an account of which
lie prepared in the form of a lecture which
he delivered in all the principal American
cities. He has also lectured in France,
and has been decorated by the French
government as officer de 1' Academie Fran
chise. Mr. Covert married in Cleveland, in
1870, Amelia Agnes Dutcher. Residence:
72 Rue Vendome, Lyons, France. Consular
office : 18 Place Tolozon, Lyons, France.
COVET, Calvin Edson:
Physician and surgeon; born at Grand
Lodge, Michigan, 1858; son of Calvin J.
Covey, M.D., and Sarah A. (Edson) Covey.
He was educated in the University of
Michigan, the University of the City of
New York; Hahnemann Medical College,
Chicago, and the National Institute of
Pharmacy, and has the degrees of Ph.D.
and M.D- He makes a specialty of ab
dominal and pelvic diseases, and is con
sidered an authority on gall-stones and
liver disease. He has been a professor in
various medical colleges in Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, and Chicago; and is now pro
fessor of diseases of the alimentary tract
in the National Medical University of Chi
cago. Has been president of his district,
then of the State Medical Society, and
later president of the American Associa
tion of Physicians and Surgeons; was for
some time secretary of the United States
Medical Alliance, and has recently been
elected president-general of the Interna
tional Association of Medical and Surgical
Specialists. His favorite study is liver and
stomach trouble, especially gall-stone dis
ease, in which he is a leading authority.
He visited and studied conditions at many
health resorts ; was health officer of two
cities, and has lectured extensively, on
health and economic subjects. He is a.
thirty-second degree Mason and a mem
ber of the Mystic Shrine; an Odd Fello.w,
and a member of the Knights of Pythias;
and was supreme medical director of two
fraternal insurance orders. His favorite
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ing, and he is a member of the American
and Canadian Sportsmans' Associations.
Dr. Covey married in Cincinnati in 1895,
Minnie Orser. Address: 370 East Ohio
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
COVILLE, Frederick Vernon:
Botanist; born in Preston, New York,
March 23, 1867; son of Joseph Addison
Coville and Lydia (More) Coville. He was
graduated from Cornell University as A.B.
in 1887, and was elected to the honorary
societies of Phi Beta -Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Mr. Coville was instructor in botany at
Cornell in 1887 and 1888; assistant botan
ist to the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, D. C, from 1888 to 1893, and
was detailed as botanist of the Death Val
ley Expedition to California in 1890 and
1891 ; and has been botanist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture since 1903. Mr. Co
ville has also been curator of botany of
the United States National Museum since
1893. He has traveled extensively on bo
tanical investigations of the deserts and
other remote portions of the Western
United States, and in Alaska ; . and has
made a special study of the economies of
grazing on public lands. Mr. Coville is a
member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity,
the Washington Academy of Sciences, Bo
tanical Society of America, and many other
societies, 'and of the Cosmos Club of Wash
ington. He secured the foundation by the
Carnegie Institution of the Desert Botani
cal Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. He has
published : Botany of the Death Valley Ex
pedition ; Over Public Grazing Lands ; and
many botanical papers. Mr. Coville mar
ried at Lockport, New York, October 4,
1890, Elizabeth Harwood Boynton, and
they have four children : Stanley, born in
1893; Katharine, born in 1895; Cabot, born
in 1902, and Frederick, born in 1903. Res
idence: 1836 V Street, Washington, D. C.
Office address • Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
COWEN, Benjamin Sprague:
Journalist; born in Bellaire, Ohio, De
cember 25, 1861 ; son of Benjamin Rush
Cowen and Ellen (Thoburn) Cowen. He

was educated in public schools in Ohio and
Washington, D. C, and was graduated from
the Ohio Wesleyan University as B.A. in
1884. He was agent at Detroit, Michigan,
for the Western Associated Press, in charge
of the State of Michigan from 1884 to
1887; editor of the Xenia (Ohio) Torch
light, in 1887 and 1888; agent and cor
respondent of the Associated Press at St.
Paul, Minnesota, for Northwestern States,
from 1888 to 1903 ; city editor in New York
office, the Associated Press in 1903 and 1904
and has been correspondent of The Asso
ciated Press, Cincinnati, since 1904, for
Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indi
ana. He. is a Republican in politics and a
Methodist Episcopalian in religion. He is a
member of the Loyal Legion (Second
Class), Society of Colonial Wars and Sons
of the American Revolution. He is a mem
ber of the Cincinnati Pen and Pencil Club.
Mr. Cowen married at Hanover, Ohio, No
vember 28, 1888, Laura Shipman McGaw,
and they have one daughter, Eleanor.
Residence: 2406 Highland Avenue. Ad
dress : 144 Ingalls Building, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
COWHERD, William Strother:
Lawyer; born in Jackson County, Mis-»
souri, September 1, i860; son of Charles
J. and Emily S. Cowherd. He went to the
public schools of Lee's Summit, Missouri,
whither his parents had moved, after
which he entered the University of Mis
souri. He was graduated in 1881, with the
degree of A.B., and the next year entered
the law department, completing his course
in 1882. He was admitted to the Missouri
bar, and commenced to practice in Kansas
City, where he has become prominent in
his profession, and in influential member
of the Democratic party. He has been as
sistant prosecuting attorney in Jack
son County, first assistant city coun
selor of Kansas City, and in 1892
was elected mayor of Kansas City
for a two-year term. In 1897 he was
elected congressman from his district, and
served by successive reelections until I9<&
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COWIE, Thomas Jeft'erson:
Pay inspector United States Navy; ap
pointed from Iowa as assistant paymaster
June 16, 1880; passed assistant paymaster,
November 19, 1891 ; paymaster September
11, 1895; pay inspector Janaury 5, 1903.
He served on various duties in the Pay
Department of the Navy and since Janu
ary 31, 1905, has been pay officer and gen
eral storekeeper at the Naval Academy.
Pay Inspector Cowie is well known
and highly esteemed in the service as
the father and most efficient advocate
of the new bill now pending in Coif-
gress, asking for a twenty per cent.
increase in pay of the officers of the Navy,
the present pay bill unrevised since the
Civil War, being unquestionably inade
quate under present-day conditions. Ad
dress : United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland.
COWLES, Alfred:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Janu
ary S, 1865 ; son of Aldred and Sarah
Frances (Hutchinson) Cowles. He was
prepared for his collegiate course at Har
vard School, Chicago, and was graduated
from Yale Uriiversity in 1886 with the de
gree of A.B. He ' took the post-graduate
course at Yale, 1886 and 1887, and attended
the Yale Law School, 1887 and 1888, and
then took a two years' course at the North
western College of Law at Chicago. lie
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of Illinois in 1889, and has been in
continuous practice except for the period
from the fall of 1898 until the early part
of 1901, during which period he was em
ployed in the management of the Chicago
Tribune; for most of the time as secre
tary and treasurer of the company. He is
president of the Rialto Company, and a
director of the Tribune Company, the Com
mercial National Bank, the Electric Smelt
ing and Aluminum Company, the American
Radiator Company, and several other cor
porations. He is a Republican and a mem
ber of the Chicago, Calumet, University,
Saddle and Cycle and Onwentsia Clubs.
He was married at South Manchester, Con
necticut, November 28, 1890, to_ Elizabeth

Cheney, now deceased. His children are :
Alfred, III, Knight Cheney, John Cheney,
and Thomas Hooker. Residence : 1805
Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Postal Telegraph Building, Chicago,
Illinois.
COWLES, Alfred Abernetliy:
Capitalist and manufacturer ; born in Tor-
rington, Connecticut; son of George P.
Cowles and Charlotte Abernetliy Cowles,
He was educated at Middletown, Connecti
cut, and in Paris, France. Mr. Cowles is
president of the Ansonia Brass and Copper
Company, the Ansonia Clock Company, the
Birmingham Water Power Company, the
Terra-Ceia Estates, Incorporated, and vice-
president of the American Brass Company,
He is a member of the Union League,
Larchmont Yacht, Lawyers' and Knollwood
County Clubs. Mr. Cowles married Fran
ces A. Bailey. Residence : 249 West Sev
enty-second Street, and Belle Haven, Con
necticut. Office address : 99 John Street,
New York City.
COWLES, Eugene:
Operatic basso ; born at Stanstead, Que
bec, Canada, son of C. W. Cowles, M. D.,
and Hortense B. (Chase) Cowles. He was
graduated from Stanstead College and
from Canada went to Chicago, where he
was employed for a number ' of years in
the First National Bank of Chicago, sing
ing at the same time in churches and con
certs. Fie left the bank to join The Bos-
tonians Opera Company, and was with them
ten years, playing in many roles, the best
known of which is Will Scarlett in Robin
Hood. He has since sung with different
stars and his own company in this country
and abroad. He has composed several
well known songs : Forgotten ; The First
Kiss, etc. Mr. Cowles is a Free Mason
of the thirty-second degree, and a Knight
Templar, and is a member of the Lambs'
Club of New York City. He married in
New Jersey, May 23, 1898, Louise Therise
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COWLES, William Sheffield:
Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy;
born at Farmington, Connecticut; son of
Thomas Cowles and Elizabeth (Sheffield)
Cowles. Fie was appointed to the United
States Naval Academy in July 21, 1863 and
was graduated in 1867. He was promoted
to ensign in 1869 and master in 1870; com
missioned lieutenant in 1871 ; lieutenant
commander 1892; commander, June 5, 1899
and captain November 2, 1902. He served
on the Minnesota in the Mediterranean
Squadron from 1867 to 1868, .the Pensa
cola and Saginaw in the North Pacific
Squadron from 1868 to 1870, the Naval
Observatory at Washington, D. C. in 1870
and the Torpedo Station at Newport,
Rhode Island, in 1871. lie practised
gunnery on the ship, Constellation, in 1872;
was on the Alaska in the Mediterranean and
the West Indies in 1873 ; the Alaska, on the
coast of Africa in 1874 to 1876; the
Tennessee and Monocacy, China Station
from 1877 to 1880; was at the Navy Yard,
at New York from 1881 to 1882; flag
lieutenant of the North Atlantic Squadron
from 1882 to 1884. Fie was then appointed
secretary of the Board of Inspection of mer
chant ships at New York City and during
this detail served three weeks on the
Isthmus of Panama, guarding the transit
across the Isthmus, the property of the
Panama Railroad Company and property
of the American citizens on the isthmus,
from 18S4 to 1886; commanding the
Despatch from 1887 to 1889 and 1890 to
1 901 ; naval aid to the secretary of the Navy
and in charge of the Naval Militia from
1891 to 1892 ; was naval attache of the
United States Embassy in London from
1893 to 1897; commanding the Fern in the
North Atlantic Squadron in 1897 and 1898;
commanding the Topeka in 1898 and 1899;
assistant to the Bureau of Navigation from
1899 to 1903 ; commanding the battleship
Missouri from 1903" to 1904 ; commanding
the Topeka from April, i8g8 to 1899;
assisting from 1899 to 1903 and since
January 23, 1906 chief of the Bureau of
Equipment at Washington, D. C, with the
rank of rear admiral. Address : Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.

COWPERTHWAITE, Allen Corson:
Physician; born at Cape May, New Jer
sey, May 3, 1848; son of Joseph C. and
Deborah Cowperthwaite. He was edu
cated in the public schools and at the Tou
lon Seminary, Toulon, Illinois. He was
graduated from the Hahnemann Medical
College, Philadelphia, in 1869. In 1876 he
received the degree of Ph.D. from the Cen
tral University of Iowa, and from Shurt-
leff College the degree of LL.D., in-
1888. He practiced his profession at
Galva, Illinois, from 1869 to 1873, and at
Nebraska City, Nebraska, from 1873' to
1877. He was dean and professor of ma
teria medica in the Homoeopathic Depart
ment of the State University of Iowa from
1877 to 1892, and dean of the Flomoeopathic
Medical College, University of Michigan,
in 1884-85. Since 1892 he has been in
practice in Chicago. He was professor of
materia medica and therapeutics from 1892
to 1901 ; and since 1901 has been president
of the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Col
lege. He is consulting physician to the
Cook County, Chicago Union, Chicago, Hom
oeopathic and Hahnemann Hospitals; ex-
president of the State Homoeopathic Medi
cal Societies of Iowa, Illinois and Nebras
ka ; ex-president of the American Institute
of Homoeopathy, and a fellow of the So
ciety of Science, Letters and Arts, London,
England. He has written extensively on
| medical subjects, and among his published
works are: Insanity and Its Medico-Legal
! Relations, 1876 ; Materia Medica and The-
, rapeutics, 1881 ; Text-book of Gynaecology,
i 1888; Text-book of the Practice of Medi
cine, 1901. He is a Republican and a mem
ber of the Baptist Church. He married at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, June 2, 1870, Ida E. Irv
ing, arid has two children : Joseph E. and
Elfleda Florence (now Mrs. F. S. Thom
as). Residence: 608 Washington Boule
vard, Chicago. Address : 31 Washington
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
COX, Charles Finney:
Railway officer; born on Staten Island,
New York, January 16, 1846; son of Jacob
Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia (Kenyon)
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lege, Ohio, as A.B. in 1869, and received
from that college the degree of M.A. in
1889. He is now one of its trustees. Mr.
Cox #was engaged in business in Wall
Street from 1867 to 187s, and from 1882
to 1885. He has been officially connected
with the Vanderbilt railroads since 187s.
He Is a director of fifteen of those com
panies, and is now treasurer of all New
York Central lines west of Buffalo, includ
ing the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railway, the Michigan Central Rail
road, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St. Louis (Big Four) Railway, the
New York, Chicago and St. Louis (Nickel
Plate) Railroad, the Lake Erie and West
ern Railroad, the Chicago, Indiana and
Southern Railroad, the Cincinnati North
ern Railroad, the Canada Southern Rail
way, and the Toronto, Hamilton and Buf
falo Railway. He is also president and
trustee of the American Safe Deposit
Company of New York. Mr. Cox finds
his chief recreation. in the study of science
and the collection of books. He has made
researches in microscopical botany and zo
ology. He is president of the Scientific
Alliance of New York; has been treas
urer of the New York Botanical Garden
since 1898, and is one of its board of sci
entific directors. He is a fellow of the
New York Academy of Sciences; a mem
ber of its council, and -was for twelve
years its treasurer; is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and a fellow of the Royal Mi
croscopical Society of London, and corres
ponding -member of the Societe Beige de
Microscopie; is ex-president of the New
York Microscopical Society, and a mem
ber of the Torrey Botanical Club, the New
York Linnaean Society, the American Fine
Arts Society, the Executive Committee and
Council of the Charity Organization So
ciety, and was, until recently, chairman of
its Committee on the Prevention of Tuber
culosis. He has been prominent in Young
Men's Christian Association matters since
1867, being a member of its International
Committee and of its committee on work
for railroad men. Mr. Cox is author of
Protoplasm and Life, 1889. lie is a mem

ber of the Chamber of Commerce, life
member of the New England Society, mem
ber^ of the Century Association and of the
University, Union. League and National
Arts Clubs of New York. Mr. Cox mar
ried at Port Richmond, Staten Island, New
York, April 30, 1878, Flelen Middlebrook
Fake, and they have one daughter, Ruth,
who was born January 18, 1880, and is now
wife of Dr. Edwin Brown Jenks, of Yon
kers, New York. Residence : Bucking
ham Hotel. Address: Grand Central Sta
tion, New York City.
COX, George Clarke:
Clergyman; born in Columbus, Ohio,
May 17, 1865; son of Edward Wesley Cox
and Mary H. (Clarke) Cox. He was
educated in the public schools of Cincin
nati, and at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio,
where he was graduated as B.A. in 1886,
and received the M.A. degree in 1900. He
studied in the Lane Theological Seminary
at Cincinnati, and the General Theological
Seminary and Union Theological Seminary
in New York City. He was assistant at
Holy Trinity Church in Harlem, New
York, from 1888 to 1890, rector of Christ
Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey, from
1890 to 1893, of St. Paul's Church at
Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1893 to
1899; was chaplain of the American Epis
copal Church in Geneva, Switzerland, from
1899 to 1902, and a student, during the
same time, at the University of Geneva.
He was a graduate student at Harvard
University in 1902, and was rector of Cal
vary Church in Cincinnati from 1903 to
1907. He has traveled extensively in
Europe, including Russia and Finland. Mr.
Cox published, June 27, 1906, an Open
Letter to Bishop Boyd Vincent, in which
he protested against the current theology
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, de
clared his full sympathy with Dr. Crapsey,
and suggested reforms in the Prayer Book
and the Church. Information was lodged
against him in October, 1906, but the
Standing Committee refused to present
charges. The bishop then attacked Mr,
Cox in an official statement to the diocese,
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his charge. In the Diocesan Convention in
May, 1907, the matter was pressed, with
the result of success for the Orthodox
Party, and Mr. Cox is now threatened
with a trial for heresy unless he will re
cant or retire from the diocese or the
ministry, each of which he has refused to
do. In October, 1907, he returned to his
philosophical studies at Harvard Univers
ity. He is a member of the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. His favorite recreations are golf,
fishing and mountain climbing. He is a
member of the Harvard and Cosmic Clubs
of Cincinnati. Mr. Cox married at Ridge-
wbod, New Jersey, August 23, 1893, Alice
Maude Chapman. Address : Bromley Court,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
COX, George Howland:
Banker ; born at Fairhaven, Massachu
setts, October 9, 1854; son of James Val
entine Cox and Mercy Nye (Howland)
Cox. He received his education in the pub
lic schools, and also spent one year at the
United. States Military Academy, West Point
(but resigned on account of ill health).
Mr. Cox is vice-president and director of
the Cambridge Trust Company; president
of the Cambridge Park Commission; mem
ber of the State Armory Commission ; di
rector and treasurer of the Cambridge
Homes for Aged People; trustee of the
Cambridge Hospital, of the Cambridge
School for Nurses, and of the Dowse In
stitute, Cambridge; director in the Good
Government League, Cambridge; member
of the Society of Colonial Wars ; member
and ex-president of the Cambridge Board
of Trade; and a member of Amicable
Lodge of Masons, at Cambridge. He be
longs to the Oakley Country Club, Water-
town, and also to the Colonial and the
Cambridge Clubs of Cambridge, being ex-
president of the two latter. In politics, he
is a Republican, and in religion, a Uni
tarian. He married at New Bedford, Sep
tember 25, 1877, Ella P. Whittemore, and
they have one son, George Howland, Jr.
Residence : Riverbank Court, Cambridge.
Address : 1300 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

COX, Henry Joseph:
Meteorologist; born at Newton, Massa
chusetts, April 5, 1863; son of Thomas and
Hannah (Perkins) Cox. He was graduated
from Harvard University as. A.B. in
1884, receiving the honorary degree of A.M.
in 1887 from Norwich University. He
entered the service of the United States
Weather Bureau, August 1, 1884; was pro
moted through various grades steadily, and
was appointed professor of meteorology in
1899, and he has been in charge of the
North Central Forecast District since 1898,
with headquarters in Chicago. He is a di
rector of the Cabrestante Mining and Mill
ing Company, Guanajuato, Mexico. He
visited Europe in the winter of 1906 and
1907, inspecting meteorological observa
tories. In politics he is an Independent Re
publican, and in religion a Roman Catholic.
Fie is a member of the National Geographic
Society, the Geographic Society of Chicago,
and Chicago Academy of Science, and was
elected president of the Geographic Society
of Chicago for 1906-7 and reelected
for 1907-8. His favorite recreations
are baseball and yachting. He is a mem
ber of the University, Union League, Chi
cago Athletic and Chicago Yacht Clubs.
Mr. Cox married in Somerville, Massa
chusetts, September 8, 1887, Mary Cava-
nagh, and they have three children : Henry
Perkins, born in 1889; Arthur Cavanagh,
born in 1892, and Paul Greenwood, born in
1894. . Residence : University Club. Ad
dress : United States Weather Bureau,
Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois.
COX. Kenyon:
'Painter; born in Warren, Ohio, October
27, 1856; son of General Jacob Dolson
Cox and Helen (Finney) Cox, daughter
of President C. G. Finney of Oberlin Col
lege, one of the most distinguished of
American divines and educators. He was
a student at McMicken School of Art, in
Cincinnati, the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts of Philadelphia, and then in
Paris from 1877 to 1882, first with Carolus
Duran and afterward at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts under J. L. Gerome. He was
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Artists in 1882, and was its vice-president
at the time of its consolidation with the
National Academy of Design in 1906. He
received the second Hallgarten Prize of the
National Academy of Design in 1889, and
two bronze medals from the Paris Exposi
tion Universelle in 1889, the Temple silver
medal of the Pennsylvania Academy in
1891, the medal of the World's Columbian
Exposition at Chicago in '1893, and the
gold medal of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position at St. Louis in 1904. He has ex
ecuted mural paintings in the Walker Art
Building at Bowdoin College, the Library
of Congress, the Appellate Court Building
in New York City, the Minnesota State
Capitol, Iowa State Capitol, the Essex
County Court House at Newark, New
Jersey, the Citizens Building at Cleveland,
Ohio, and the Manhattan Hotel in New
York City. He has pictures in the collec
tions of the National Academy of Design,
the Lotos and Players' Clubs, and draw
ings in Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and
elsewhere. Mr. Cox has done much illus
tration work, including The Blessed Dam-
ozel, (Dodd, Mead and Company), 1886.
He has painted landscapes, figure pieces
and portraits. In 1892 he painted the
dome in the Liberal Arts Building, at the
World's Columbian Exposition which was
afterward destroyed by fire. He has been
an instructor in the Art Students' League
of New York since 1884, and is an honor
ary member of the League. Mr. Cox has
written on art subjects in leading period
icals, andf is part author of Modern French
Masters, edited by J. C. Van Dyke (Cen
tury Company), 1896; The Nineteenth
Century (Putnams) 1901 ; and of Note
worthy Paintings in American Private
Collections, 1907, edited by John La Farge
and August F. Jaccaci. He is author of:
Old Masters and New (Fox, Duffield &
Company), 1905; and Mixed Beasts,
rhymes and pictures for children (same
publisher)-, 1904. Mr. Cox is a member
of the National Academy of Design, the
National Society of Mural Painters, the
he has spent most of his years of practice,
Governor A. M. Roberts appointed him
National Institute of Arts and Letters, and

is a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts. He is a member of the
Council of the National Academy of De
sign, and a member of the Lotos Club
of New York City. He married at Bel
mont, Massachusetts, in 1892, Louise How
land King, who is herself an artist of
much distinction and an associate of the
National Academy of Design. They have
three children: Leonard, born in 1894,
Allyn, born in 1896, and Caroline, born
in 1899. Residence: 75 West Fifty-fifth
Street, New York. Address: 145 West
Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
COX, Millard F.:
Lawyer; born near Noblesville, Hamil
ton County, Indiana, February 25, 1856;
son of Aaron and Mary Cox. He received
his preliminary education in the schools of
Noblesville and Trenton, Indiana, after
which he went into a newspaper office,
where he learned the printer's trade. Fie
subsequently taught school for a short
time, and then went to Indianapolis, where
he studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in 1880. He has since been prominently
connected with the courts of Indiana, hav
ing been for a year master commissioner
in the Circuit Court, and for four years as
sistant reporter in the Indiana Supreme
Court. He was elected judge of the Crim
inal Court of Indianapolis in 1890, and
served in this capacity for four years; and
later was nominated judge of the Su
perior Court, but failed of election. In
addition to his other activities, he has
done some literary work, under the nom de
plume of Henry Scott Clark. He married
at Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15, 1892,
Hattie Pressly Weed. Address: 721 Law
Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
COX, Palmer:
Artist and author; born in Granby, Pro
vince of Quebec, Canada, April 28, 1840;
son of Michael Cox and Sarah (Miller)
Cox. He was graduated from the Gran
by Academy. He removed to Springfield,
Massachusetts, in i860 and entered the
car shops of T. W. Wason; then went
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Mr. Cox was a contributor to the Golden
Era, Alta-California, and other Californian
publications. Since 1875 he lias 'been in
New York City, and has written and il
lustrated many hurrforous books. He is
author Of: Squibs of California, or Every
Day Life, illustrated, 1875 ; 'subsequently re
written and published as Comic Yarns, in
1889; Hans Von Peter's Trip to Gotham,
1876; How Columbus Found America,
1877; That Stanley, 1878; The Brownies,
Their Book, 1887; Queer People, 1888;
Queer People With Wings and Strings,
1888 ; Queer People With Paws and Claws,
1888; Another Brownie Book, 1890; The
Brownies at Home, 1893; The Brownies
Around the World, 1894; The Brownies
Through the Union, 1895; The Brownies
Abroad, 1899; The Brownies in Fairyland,
cantata in three acts for children, 189s ;
Palmer Cox's Brownies, spectacular play
in three acts, 1895; The Brownies in the
Philippines, 1903; and also designer of
toys and games, the Brownie Blocks,
Brownie Scroll Puzzle, the Brownie Cal
endar or Year Book, the Brownie Nine
Pins, the Brownie Portrait Gallery, and
others. Mr. Cox is a member of the Ma
sonic order, the National Geographic Socie
ty of Washington, D. C, and the League
of American Wheelmen. He has traveled
extensively in the United States and Eu
rope; is a Republican and a member of
the Episcopal Church. His favorite recre
ations are wheeling and fishing and trav
eling. Address: 134 West Twenty-third
Street, New York City.
COX, William Ruffin:
Cotton planter; born in Halifax County,
North Carolina, in March, 1832; son of
Hon. Thomas Cox. He received his edu
cation at Franklin College, Tennessee,
from which he was graduated as A.B., in
1852 and A.M., in 1853, and in 1853
was graduated from, the Lebanon Law
School, Lebanon, Tennessee, with the
degree of LL.B. He engaged in the prac
tice of law, and in 1861 entered the
Army of the Confederate States, in
which he served with great gallantry
as an officer, attaining the rank of

brigadier-general. After the war he be
came president of the Chatham Coal Field
Railroad in 1866, solicitor for the Fourth
Judicial Dictrict of North Carolina from
1868 to 1874 and judge of the same district
in 1874 and 1875. He was elected to Con
gress in 1880, and reelected in 1882 and
1884, serving in the Forty-seventh, Forty-
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, and
he was secretary of the United States
Senate from 1893 to 1899! General Cox
is prominent in Masonry, and was for four
years Grand Master* of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina. He is an Episcopalian
in his religious affiliation, and in 1883 was
appointed from the Diocese of North Caro
lina as a trustee of the University of the
South at Suwanee, Tennessee. General
Cox has long been active in the politics
of North Carolina as a Democrat, and
he served for years as chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of North
Carolina. He is extensively engaged in
cotton planting operations, and was form
erly president of the North Carolina Ag
ricultural Society. Address : Penelo,
Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
COX, William Van Zandt:
Banker; born in Logan County, Ohio,
near Zanesville, June 12, 1850; son of
Colonel Thomas J. Cox, of the United
States Army, and of Lucy Ann (Van
Zandt) Cox, and nephew of the late Sam
uel Sullivan Cox, for many years a mem
ber of Congress from New York City, and
sometime speaker of the United States
House of Representatives. He was gradu
ated from the Ohio Wesleyan University
with the degree of A.B. in 1874, and after
ward received the degree of A.M. from
that college. He studied law and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1877, but becariie from
1879 to 1902 a member of the administra
tive staff of the United States National
Museum. He was secretary and disbursing
officer of the International Fisheries Expo
sition at London in 1883, and was the rep
resentative of the Smithsonian Institution
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Marietta, Ohio, in 1888; and he was finan
cial officer for the Smithsonian' Institution
.and for the United States National Mu
seum at the World's Columbian Exposi
tion of 1893, the Atlanta Exposition of
1896, Nashville Exposition, 1897, Trans-
Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, 1898,
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, 1901,
and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
St. Louis in 1904. Mr. Cox is now presi
dent of the Second National Bank . of
Washington, ,D- C. ; vice-president of the
Washington Market Company, and a di
rector in various financial institutions of
the District of Columbia. He served as
vice-chairman of the Citizens' Committee
for the reception of Admiral Dewey in
1899, and was secretary of the Congres
sional, Gubernatorial and Citizens' Com
mittees for the celebration of the Centen
nial of the National, Capital in the Dis
trict of Columbia in 1900. He has served
as president of the Board of Trade of
Washington, and vice-chairman of the
Shepherd Memorial Committee ; and he was
a member of the Committees on Presiden
tial Inaugural in 1901 and 1905. Mr. Cox
has written several reports, which have
been published, 'in regard to the various
expositions and celebrations to- which he
has been accredited and monographs and
magazine contributions on various sub
jects collaborated with H. M. Northrup on :
The Life of Samuel S. Cox, published in
1899, and is author of A Memorial of
Matthew Gault Emery, published in 1904.
Mr. Cox married in Washington, D. C,
October 27, 1886, Juliet H. Emery. Ad
dress : Emery Place, Brightwood, District
of Columbia.
COXE, Alfred Conkling:
Jurist; born at Auburn, New York; son
of Rev. S. Hanson Coxe and Eliza Cock
burn (Conkling) Coxe; grandson of Hon.
Alfred Conkling, judge of United States
Court, and a nephew of the late United
States Senator Roscoe .Conkling and of
Right Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, late
bishop of Western New York. He was.
educated at Oxford Academy, Utica Acad
emy and Hamilton College. He was ad

mitted to the bar in 1868, and practiced
law at Utica, New York. He was appoint
ed a manager of the State Hospital at
Utica, 1880; judge of the United States
District Court for the .Northern District
New York, 1882, serving as such until 1903,
when he was appointed to his present posi
tion as judge of the United States Circuit
Court for the Second Circuit. Judge Coxe
has always been a Republican. He is lec
turer on the law of shipping and admir
alty at Cornell University. Columbia Uni
versity conferred upon him, in 1904, the
degree of LL.D. Judge Coxe is a member
of the University Club of New York City
and the Fort Schuyler Club and Yahnttn-
dasis Golf Club of Utica, New York. He
married, at Utica, Mariette A. Doolittle.
Address : Utica, New York.
COXE, Daniel Webster:
Clergyman; born in Nasby, England, De
cember 23, 1843 ; son of Jessie Coxe and
Mary (Hobley) Coxe. He was 'graduated
from Kenyon College, Ohio, as A.B. in
1865 and A-M. in 1868. He was admitted
as attorney and counsellor at law by the
Supreme . Court of Ohio in 1866 ; principal
of Preparatory Department of Lincoln
(now Washburn) College, Topeka, Kansas,
iii 1867. He was ordained deacon in 1868,
and priest in 1870 by Bishop Vail of Kan
sas ; and was rector of St. Paul's, Man
hattan, Kansas, 1868; St. Andrew's, Em
poria, Kansas, 1872; St Andrew's,
Fort, Scott, Kansas, 1873-79; St. Paul's,
Fremont, Ohio, 1.879-85; Trinity, W.
Pittston, Pa., 1885-90; St. Andrew's,
Alden' Station, 1890-07; Church of the Good
Shepherd, 190% He was principal of pub
lic schools, Manhattan, Kansas, in 1872;
deputy from the Diocese of Kans.as to
the General Convention in Boston, in
1877 ; archdeacon of the Scranton Arch-
deacony, Diocese of Central Pennsyl
vania, in 1894, which office he still
holds, and member of the Board of
Missions, for same time. He served in
the first company of Militia to answer the
call of Governor Todd of Ohio, as Squirrel
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charged by order of State Legislature. He
is a Republican in politics. He is a thirty-
second degree Mason and a member of the
Shrine, has held the highest chairs in lodge,
chapter and council, is past grand chaplain
of Grand Lodge and the Grand Chapter;
past grand prelate of Grand Commandery,
past eminent Commander and past grand
high priest, all of Kansas. Rev. Dr. Coxe
was married twice; first at Manhattan,
Kansas, April 2, 1872, Elizabeth Miller;
second at Montrose, Pennsylvania, Febru
ary 10, 1897, Florence M. Lathrop, and
they have three children : George William,
born in 1875; Frederick Miller, born in
1878, and Mary Haynes, born in 1881. Ad
dress : Church of the Good Shepherd,
Milford, Pennsylvania.
COXE, Hanson Cleveland:
American deputy-consul-general at Paris,
France; born in Baltimore, Maryland; son
of A. Cleveland Coxe and Katharine
(Hyde) Coxe. He was graduated at Trin
ity University, Toronto, Canada, and took
special studies at Oxford University, Eng
land. He was a lawyer and journalist for
many years, was on the staff of the Paris
edition of the New York Herald, was
secretary of the naval and military at
taches of the American Embassy, Paris,
and then entered the consular service. Mr.
Coxe is a member of the New York State
Bar Association, the American Bar As
sociation, a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic and was decorated by the
French Government as officer d'Academie
for publications on the French law. He
is author of: Manual of the French Law
(Bentano's) ; Automobile Ragulations, and
is a contributor to Sharp and Alleman's
Lawyers' and Bankers' Directory and var
ious law magazines. Address: American
Consulate-General, Paris, France.
COYNE, Frederick E.:
Merchant; born in East Orange, New
Jersey, in i860. He was educated in the
public schools of New Jersey. At the age
of twenty-three he removed to Chicago.
Illinois, where he has been in active busi
ness since. After a short period spent as

a clerk, he started a bakery, which through
his energetic efforts grew to large pro
portions. He subsequently bought several
restaurants and added to his bakery a
wholesale department, which he still con
ducts. He is a Republican, and has been
active in local, State and National poli
tics. He was collector of internal revenue
at Chicago from 1897 to 1901 and was post
master of that city from 1901 to 1906. He
is a member of the Union League, Chi
cago Athletic, Hamilton, Forty, Lincoln,
Menoken, Marquette and Press Clubs. He
was married at Sycamore, Illinois, October
3, 1888, to Zada B. Dustin, and has two
children : Daniel Dustin and Catharine
Garretson. Address : Marquette Building,
Residence: 5206 Hibbard Avenue, Chi
cago, Illinois.
COTNER, Charles Luther:
Lawyer; born at Long Glade, Virginia,
February 8, 1853; son of Addison Hyde
Coyner and Elizabeth (Brown) Coyner.
He was graduated from Forest Academy
and Wesleyan College, Virginia. Subse
quently he studied law in Washington and
Lee University, and was' admitted to the
Virginia bar in 1877, and he has since
been admitted to the bars of additional
states. He is a member of the Tennessee
State Bar Association. In Texas, where
Architectural League of New York, the
district judge in 1881 ; he became prosecut
ing attorney of Duval County in 1884, was
appointed district attorney by Governor
Ireland in 1886; was also elected probate
iudge in 1898, and elected county judge in
1896. He became a member of the Texas
Press Association in 1879; owned and
edited the Henderson County Journal
(Texas) in 1879, and became owner of
Narrow Gauge newspaper in 1881. He was
the chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee of his county in 1889, and was
a delegate from his county to the Deep
Water Convention at Denver, Colorado, in
1891. In 1891 he was appointed chair
man of the Texas delegation to the World's
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and in
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State Executive Committee of Texas. In
1902- he moved to Memphis, Tennessee,
where he has since practiced. He has
•done a considerable amount of writing for
magazines, and in addition to his Twenty
Years in Texas, is the author of several
other books. He is a member of the
Memphis Bar Association, the Tennessee
State Bar Association, the Texas Bar As
sociation, and the Texas Historical As
sociation. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow,
a Knight of Pythias, and a member of the
Woodmen of the World and the Order of
Redmen. He married at Moscow, Virgin
ia, January 4, 1884, Margaret. Blair. Re
sidence: 509 Mosby Street, Memphis.
Office: 206 Rogers Building, Memphis,
Tennessee. CRABBS, G. D,
Manufacturer. He is president of the
Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, and
of the American Magnesia and Covering
Company, at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsyl
vania. Address : Station R, Cincinnati,
Ohio. CRAFTS, Wilbur Fisk:
Clergyman, author, editor, lecturer and
reformer; born at Fryeburg, Maine, Janu
ary 12, 1850; son of Reverend Frederick
A. Crafts, a Methodist preacher; and he
is of Puritan stock. He was graduated
at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con
necticut, in 1869, wth the degree of A.B.,
and in 1871 with that of A.M. also from
the Boston University School of Theo
logy in 1871, and with the degree of B.D.
and Ph.D. from Marietta College in 1896.
He served as a Methodist minister from
1867 to 1879, a Congregationalist minister
from 1880 to 1883, and has been a Pres
byterian clergyman ever since, being pastor
of prominent churches in Stoneham, Haver
hill and New Bedford, Massachusetts, and
in Dover, New Hampshire, and at Chicago,
Brooklyn and New York. Since 1871 he
has been active in Sunday School work,
and has participated ' in scores of Sunday
school assemblies, Chautauquas and in
countless conventions. He founded the
American Sabbath Union in 1899, and

from that year to 1900 he lectured in
all parts of the United States as
its field secretary. He also founded
the International Reform Bureau in
1895; was chief editor of the Christian
Statesman from 1901 to 1903 ; and the
Twentieth Century Quarterly since 1896.
Mr. Crafts has traveled extensively, twice
in Europe and in Bible lands. He is au
thor of: Through the Eye of the Heart,
1873; Wagons for ye Gate, Trophies of
Song, 1874; Childhood, the Text Book of
the Age, 1875; The Ideal Sunday School,
1876; Fireside Talks on Genesis, Song
Victories, 1877; The Bible and the Sunday
School; The Two Chains, 1878; The Com
ing Man is the Present Child ; Illustrations
of the International Sunday School Les
sons, Symbols and System in Bible Read
ing; Normal Outlines in 1879; Rescue of
Child-Soul, 1880; Normal Half-Hours;
Plain Uses of the Blackboard, 1881 ; Talk
to Boys and Girls about Jesus ; Teachers'
Edition of the Revised Testament; Suc
cessful' Men of To-day, 1883; Must the
Old Testament Go ? ; Talks and Stories of
Heroes and Holidays ; The Sabbath for
Man; Rhetoric Made Racy, 1884; The
Temperance Century, 1885; Reading the
Bible with Relish, 1887; The Civil Sab
bath, 1890; Practical Christian Sociology,
1895 ; Social Progress, 1896 ; Before the
Lost Arts; Protection of Native Races
against Intoxicants and Opium, 1900; The
March of Christ Down the Centuries, 1902 ;
That Boy and Girl of Yours, or, What
Successful Parents and Teachers say of
Child Training; A Cyclopedia of Child
Study, 1905. Dr. Crafts married in 1874,
Sara T. Timanus, a Sunday School writer
and speaker. Address: 206 Pennsylvania
Avenue, S. E., Washington, D. C.
CRAIG, Alfred M.:
Jurist. He was educated in the schools
of Illinois, studied law, and in 1855 was
admitted to .the bar in that State. He prac
ticed at Knoxville, Illinois, from 1855, was
elected county judge of Knox County, Illi
nois, serving from 1861 to 1865, and was
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tional Convention of 1870. Fie practiced
law at Galesburg, Illinois, from 1865 until
elected in 1873, one of tlie Justices of the
Supreme Court of Illinois, and was several
times reelected serving, as associate justice
and part of the time as chief justice of the
Supreme Court . of Illinois until 1902,
a period of twenty-seven years, when
he retired from the bench. Since then he
has devoted his entire attention to the
management of his extensive farming in
terests in Knox County, Illinois. Address :
Galesburg, Illinois.
CRAIG, Oscar John:
Teacher; born in Madison, Indiana, April
18, 1846; son of Miles W. Craig and Mary
S. (Feather) Craig. He was graduated
from Asbury University as A.B. in 1881,
from DePauw University as A.M. in 1884
and from the University of Wooster, as
Ph.D. in 1887. He was superintendent of
city schools, of Sullivan, Indiana, from 1881
to 1883 ; professor of history and political
economy at the Purdue University, Lafay
ette, Indiana, from 1883 td 1895, and has
been president of the University of Mon
tana, at Missoula, since 1895. Mr. Craig
married at Spring Hill, Kansas, August 25,
1875, Narrie E. Gasaway, and they have
three children : Mrs. Mary Craig Wilcox,
born in 1877, William Oscar Craig,, born in
1881, and Vincent S. Craig, born in
1886. Address: Missoula, Montana.
CRAIGHEAD, Erwin:
Editor of the Mobile Register; born in
Nashville, Tennessee, April 4, 1852 ; son of
James B. Craighead and Ellen Kirkman
(Erwin) Craighead. After a preparatory
training he became a student at Racine
College, Racine, Wisconsin, and from there
went to the University of Nashville, Ten
nessee, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1872. He pursued post-graduate
studies at the University of Leipzig, and
was admitted to the bar of Tennessee in
1876, but never practiced law. In 1877 he
made his first entry into journalism, was
music critic and editorial writer on the
New Orleans Times from 1878 to 1880,

and managing editor of the New Orleans
Daily States from 1880 to -1882.
In the latter year he began his connection
with the Mobile Register, which has ever
since continued, beginning as city editor
from 1882 to 1884, managing editor since
1884, and since 1903 also editor and vice-
president of the Mobile Register Company,
Mr. Craighead is a Democrat in politics
and since 1904 has been chairman 'of the
Alabama State Educational Board. He
married, at Nashville, Tennessee, 1876,
Lura Harris. Residence: 400 Congress
Street, Mobile. Office address : Register
Building, Mobile, Alabama.
CRAIN, John Hillier:
Lawyer; born at Franklin, Pennsylvania,
August 17, 1858; son of George F. and
Margaret (Hillier) Crain. When he was
a boy of eleven, his parents moved to the
West and settled in Fort Scott, Kansas,
and there he received his education in
public and private schools. He lived on the
farm for several years, after which he
studied law under the guidance of Colonel
A. A. Harris, for three years, and passed
his bar examinations in 1889. He was
counsel and director of the Citizens' Na
tional Bank, and prominent as a director
in many industrial enterprises. In 1904 he
was sent as a delegate to St. Louis, to at
tend the Universal Congress of Lawyers
and Jurists. He was married at Fort
Scott, Kansas, June 11, 1901, to Rosa
Tracy. Address : Fort Scott, Kansas.
CRAMER, Jesse Grant:
Educator; born at Covington, Kentucky,
August 26, 1869; son of Michael John and
Mary Frances (Grant) Cramer; grandson
of Jesse R. Grant and Hannah (Simpson)
Grant; and nephew of Gen. U. S.
Grant. He studied at the Boston Univers
ity in 1885 and 1886, after which he was
graduated from the University of New
York, as A.B. in 1889, delivering the Latin
Salutatory. He studied law at Columbia
College Law School from 1889 to 1891.
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in 1891 and "1892, and instructor in an
academy at Short Hills, - New Jersey, in
1892 and 1893. Mr. Cramer was appointed
instructor in French and German at Le
high University in 1894, and studied an
cient languages, 1897 to 1899, in the Uni
versity of Leipzig. Address : Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
CRAMP, Charles Henry:
Ship builder ; born iu Philadelphia, May
9, 1828; son of William Cramp, founder
of the greatest ship and engine-building en
terprise in America. He was educated in
the schools of Philadelphia, graduating
from the Central High School of that city.
After leaving school he entered his father's
shipyards, learning the business thorough
ly, and in 1857 he was admitted as a
partner in the firm of William Cramp &
Sons, out of which has grown the present
firm which, beginning its career of preemin
ence by building wooden ships which were
the best of their class, has advanced with
and pioneered the progress of marine arch
itecture, until in their recent productions
are included many of the largest and fin
est battleships afloat, both American and
foreign,' as well as ocean greyhounds of the
most improved construction. For many
years Mr. Charles H. Cramp has been at
the head of this business. Residence: 507
South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Office
address : Beach, corner of Ball Streets,
Philadelphia.
CRAMP, Theodore W.:
Banker ; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylva
nia, October 8, i860; son of Jacoh C.
Cramp and Emma (Metzger) Cramp. He
was educated in the public schools and the
Central High School in Philadelphia. He
was connected with the William Cramp &
Sons, Ship & Engine Building Company
for eighteen years, and has been in the
banking business since August 1, 1900. He
is secretary and treasurer of the Frederick
Gas and Electric Company; a director of
the Easton Gas and Electric Company, and
is senior member of Cramp, Mitchell &
Shober; and is a member of the New
York Stock Exchange. Mr. Cramp has

traveled extensively in this country and
abroad. He is a Republican in politics and
a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church ; and he is a manager of the Ma
ternity Hospital of Philadelphia. Mr. Cramp
is a member of the Rittenhouse, Racquet,
Radnor Hunt, and Bryn Mawr Polo Clubs,
and of the Philadelphia Country Club. Fie
married in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12,
1884, Alice White, and they have a daugh
ter : Frances Alice Cramp, born in 1885.
Residence: 1706 Locust Street. Office ad
dress : 1403 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
CRAMPTON, Henry Edward:
Professor of zoology, Columbia Univers
ity; born at New York City, January 5,
1875 ; son of Henry Edward Crampton,
M.D., and Dorcas M. (Miller) Crampton.
He was educated in the public and private
schools of New York City, the College of
the City of New York and Columbia Col
lege, graduating with the degree of A.B.
in 1893, and he received from Columbia
the degree of Ph. D. in 1899. He was as
sistant in biology in Columbia University,
1893- 1895; instructor in biology at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1895-1896; fellow in zoology, 1896-1897,
lecturer, tutor and instructor from 1897
to 1901 at Columbia University; was ad
junct professor of the faculty of Pure Sci
ence, and of Barnard College, from 1901
to 1904; professor of zoology in the same,
since 1904; was instructor of embryology
at the Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Bio
logical Laboratory, 1895 to 1902; and has
been instructor (in charge) of the Cold
Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory,
since 1903. Dr. Crampton's investigations
have been in the fields of experimental
embryology and experimental evolution, his
contributions appearing in technical journ
als of the United States, England and
Germany. Dr. Crampton is an associate
member of the staff of the Carnegie In
stitution for the Station for Experimental
Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. He
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politics. Dr. Crampton is a fellow of the
New York Academy of Sciences, (of which
he was formerly recording secretary and is
now vice-president) ; fellow of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science and the American Ethnological
Society; is a member of the American So
ciety of Naturalists, the American Society
of Morphologists, the Society for Experi
mental Biology and Medicine, and the So
ciety for Educational Research; and he is
also a member of the Theta Delta Chi fra
ternity, the Society of the Sigma Xi, the
Alumni Association of Columbia Univers
ity, and the Columbia University and Quill
Clubs of New York City. Dr. Crampton
married at New York, October 27, 1896,
Marion Maud Tully, and they have two
children: Helen Marion, born July 8, 1898,
and Henry Edward, Jr., born October 27,
1906. Address : Columbia University, New
York City.
CRANDALL, Floyd Milford:
Physician, editor; born at Belfast,. New
York, May 2, 1858; son of Charles Milford
(M.D.) and Deborah J. (Wood), Crandall.
He numbers among his ancestors Rev.
John Crandall who landed in Boston in
1634, Benjamin Wood, Nicholas Du Puy,
and Cornelius Van Campen, all of whom
emigrated to this country during the
seventeenth century. He was prepared in
Genesee Valley Seminary at Belfast, New
York, was graduated from Geneseo Nor
mal College in 1880, and from the Univers
ity Medical College of New York as M.D.
in 1884. He was interne at Bellevue Hos
pital in 1884 and 1885, attending physician
in Bellevue Dispensary from 1886 to 1889,
and in Northwestern Dispensary in 1889
and 1890, was surgeon to the New York
Skin and Cancer Hospital from 1890 to
1895 ; visiting physician at the Children's
Hospital from 1895 to 1898, at the In
fants' Hospital, from 1895 to 1898, Minturn
Hospital from 1897 to 1899, and has been
consulting physician to the Infants' and
Children's Hospitals since 1898. He was
lecturer on diseases of children from 1889
to 1893, and has been adjunct professor
since 1893 at the New York Polyclinic.

Dr. Crandall was appointed,* in 1907, by
the Regents of the . University, a member
of the State Medical Board of New York.
He was on the editorial staff of the New
York Medical Journal from 1889 to 1893,
managing editor of Galliard's Medical
Journal from 1893 to 1895, and editor of
the Archives of Pediatrics from 1895 to
1901. He is a member of the American
Pediatric Society, the American Medical
Association, the New York State Medical
Society, New York County Medical So
ciety, of which he was president in 1906,
the New York Academy of Medicine, in
which he was president of the Section on
Pediatrics in 1895, the Harvey Medical
Society, and the West End Society, of
which latter he was president in 1895. Dr.
Crandall is author of: How to Keep
Well, 1903, and of about sixty medical
monographs and papers. Address: 113
West Ninety-fifth Street, New York City.
CRANDALL, Lathan Augustus:
Clergyman; born at Plymouth, New
York, in 1850; son' of Rev. J. M. Crandall
and Lucy A. (Sisson) Crandall. He was
graduated from Whitestown Seminary,
New York, preparatory for college. He
then studied at the Pennsylvania State
College and at Hillsdale College, Michi
gan, graduating from the latter as A-B.
in 1873, and afterward receiving from it
the degree of D.D. He was also gradu
ated from the Rochester Theological Sem
inary in 1881. From 1881 to 1884 he. was
pastor at Owego, New York; pastor of
the Twenty-third Street Church of New
York City from 1884 to 1889; the Euclid.
Avenue Church, at Cleveland, Ohio, from
1889 to 1892 ; the Memorial Baptist Church,
of Chicago, Illinois, from 1892 to 1904;
and the Trinity Baptist Church, at Minne
apolis, Minnesota, from 1904. Mr. Crandall
is chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Baptist World Alliance for Ameri
ca, and is the author of Some Facts Con
cerning Christian Science. He rriarried>
December 8, 1892, Nellie L. Hart. Ad
dress: 1915 Colfax Avenue, South, Minne
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CRANIJON, Thomas Philip Franklin:
Railway official. He was educated at
Madison, Wisconsin, and he served in the
Union Army from December, 1861, to July,
1866. He settled in Batavia, Kane County,
Illinois, after the war, and he was elected
clerk of the County Court of Kane County,
and was also a member of the Village
Council of Batavia, Illinois. He entered
the service of the Chicago and North
western Railway, of which he has for years
been the tax commissioner. Mr. Crandon
has long resided at Evanston, Illinois, and
has served as a member of the Council
there and also as a member of the School
Board of School District Number 75 at
Evanston. He received the degree of A.M.
from Northwestern University in 1894, and
he is a member of the Board of Trustees
of that university. Residence: 1414 Forest
Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Office : Chi
cago and Northwestern Railway, Chicago,
Illinois. CRANE, Albert:
Lawyer; born in New York City, De
cember 30, 1842; son of Thomas and Clar
issa Lawrence (Starkey) Crane. His fath
er was of Quincy, Massachusetts, and his
mother of Troy, New Hampshire. The
Thomas Crane Public Library, of Quincy,
Massachusetts, was erected in 1882, as a
memorial of Thomas Crane by his widow
and two surviving sons, Benjamin F. and
Albert, and the latter has pledged himself
to give in 1907, to Tufts College Theo
logical School, as a further memorial of his
father, the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars and also to build in 1907, and ad
dition to the Thomas Crane Public Library
at Quincy, to cost over forty thousand dol
lars. He was graduated from Tufts Col
lege, Massachusetts, as A.B. in 1863; and
from Columbia College Law School, as LL.
B., in 1866; admitted to the New York
Bar in 1866 and has been engaged in prac
tice ever since. He served seven years
from 1863 to 1870, in the Twenty-second
Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York. He was formerly a
director of the Second Avenue (Surface)

Railroad, the Pacific Fire Insurance Com
pany, and the Rutgers Fire Insurance Com
pany. Mr. Crane is a member of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, the New York Historical Society,
the New England Society, the Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut,
and of the Union Club of New York.
He has his residence at Villa Rock-Acre,
Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Crane mar
ried, first, at New York City, in 1884, Ellen
M. Davies, of Fishkill, New York, and
second, at Boston, in 1902, Fanny Starkey.
Address : 35 Wall Street, New York City.
CRANE, Bruce:
Artist ; born in New York City in 1857 ;
son of Solomon Crane and Leah Gillespie
Bruce., He was educated in New York
City and in Paris, France. He is a land
scape painter and his first exhibition of
pictures was at the National Academy of
Design in 1879. He has been a National
Academician since 1902. Mr. Crane is a
member of the -Society of American Artists
and the American Water Color Society. He
was awarded the Webb prize, the bronze
medal of the Paris Exposition in 1900, the
silver medal of the Pan American Exposi
tion in 1901, the silver medal of the Caro
lina Exposition, the gold medal of the Na
tional Academy and the gold medal of the
Louisiana Exposition in 1904. Mr. Crane's
favorite recreations are farming and fish
ing. He is a member of the Artist Fund
Society and of the Lotos and Salmagundi
Clubs of New York City. Address: 14
West Twelfth Street, New York City.
CRANE, Charles Alva:
Clergyman ; born at Quincy, Illinois, Nov
ember 16, 1853; son of Rev. James L
Crane and Elizabeth (Mayo) Crane. He
was educated in the public schools of
Springfield, Illinois, and afterward entered
Garrett Biblical Institute of Northwestern
University, at Evanston, Illinois. In 1878
he entered the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal as a member of the Illinois An
nual Conference, in which he served sever
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Church of Dansville, Illinois, he went to
the First Methodist Church of Colorado
Springs, Colorado and after several years
there was transferred to the New England
Conference. For -.several years past he has
been pastor of the People's Temple at- Bos
ton. Dr. Crane has been an extensive con
tributor of literary criticisms and other
articles to magazines, and is also widely
known as a lecturer on various sub
jects, and especially prominent as an
advocate of temperance and the pro
hibition of the liquor traffic He
received the degree of D.D. from Garrett
Biblical Institute. Dr. Crane married at
Merritt, Illinois, November 24, 1886, Sallie,
daughter of Captain H. W. Hitt. Address :
143 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
CRANE, Elvin Williamson:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
October 20, 1853. He was educated in
Newark, New Jersey, and subsequently
went into' the office of the late Justice
Bradley, where he studied law. He was
admitted to the New Jersey bar and
later also to practice in the United States
Supreme Court. He became prominent in
the Democratic party in 1886, when he was
elected to the New Jersey House of Re
presentatives. In 1898 he received the
nomination, from the Democratic party, for
governor of New Jersey, but failed of elec
tion; and afterward he has held the office
of county attorney of Essex County, New
Jersey. Address : Newark, New Jersey.
CRANE, Louis Burton:
Clergyman; born at Mt. Sterling, Illi
nois, in 1869; son of Frederic D. Crane
and Adelaide (Wells) Crane. He was a
student at Knox College; was graduated
from Princeton University as A.B. and
A.M., and studied divinity in the Prince
ton Theological Seminary, and the Uni
versities of Erlangen, Giessen and Berlin,
Germany. He was three years at the First
Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New
Jersey, and was pastor three years of the
Cavalry Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, New
York. Mr: Crane was professor for three

years in the Chicago Theological Semin
ary, and has been pastor of the Brainerd
Union Presbyterian Church at Easton,
Pennsylvania, since 1906. He is author of:
Teaching of Jesus Concerning the Holy
Spirit, published by the American Tract
Society. Mr. Crane married at Baltimore,
Maryland, October 25, i8g9, Josephine Hop-
kinson Smith, and they have three children :
Louis Burton, Jr., born in 1901; Frederic
Marshall, born in 1903, and Alexander
Crawford, born in 1904. Address : 103
North Fourth ' Street, Easton, Pennsylva-

CRANE, Richard Teller:
Manufacturer; born at Paterson, New
Jersey, in 1832. His early educational op
portunities were meagre, and he is chiefly
self-taught. He went to work early in life,
learned the machinist trade thoroughly at
Paterson, Brooklyn and New York City,
and in 1855 removed to Chicago, where he
established a brass foundry on a small
scale. He was afterward joined by his
brother Charles S. Crane, establishing the
firm of R. T. Crane and Brother. They
began the manufacture of steam heaters in
1858 and two years later built an iron
foundry, afterward adding large buildings
to the plant. The business was incorpor
ated as the Northwestern Manufacturing
Company, afterward changing to the Crane
Brothers Manufacturing Company, and is
now the Crane Company, manufacturers of
pipe, and all kinds of fittings for steam,
gas and water, of which company Mr.
Crane is the president. He is also presi
dent of the Crane Elevator Company,
which he established in 1874, and which is
now one of the largest enterprises in the
country engaged in the manufacture of
freight and passenger elevators. Mr.
Crane has been identified with many large
charities and humanitarian efforts, and he
is also identified with some of the most
important business interests of Chicago and
is a director of the First National Bank.
lie wrote a few years ago a monograph
in relation to the value of a college edu
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which he made what is probably the most
convincing presentation yet made of the
view that the years at college are, as a
rule, detrimental, rather than helpful, to
a business career. He was formerly presi
dent, of the Illinois Club of Chicago. Resi
dence: 2541 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Office address : 10 North Jefferson Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
CRANE, WiUiam H.:
Comedian; was born in Leicester, Mas
sachusetts, April 30, 1845. He was edu
cated in the Boston public schools, and
made his first appearance on the stage in
one of Mrs. Holman's companies, and next
became the comedian in the Alice Oates
company. His first as a star was in con
nection with Stuart Robson. They were
very successful and parted in 1899, since
which time Mr. Crane has devoted himself
exclusively to the production of American
pfays. Address : Players' Club, New
York City. '
CRANE, Winthrop Murray:
United States Senator ; born at Dalton,
Massachusetts, April 23, 1853 ; son of Zenas
Marshall Crane and Louise (Laplin)
Crane. He was educated in the public
schools of Dalton and at Williston Semin
ary, Easthampton, Massachusetts. He is
a paper manufacturer. Senator Crane was
a delegate-at-large to the .Republican Na
tional Conventions of 1892, 1896 and 1904.
and was selected as the Massachusetts
member of the Republican national com
mittee in 1892, 1896 and 1904. He was
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from
1897 to i89g, and governor from igoo to
1902. On October 12, 1904, he was ap
pointed to the Un:ted States Senate and
took his seat December 6. He was elected
by the Legislature, in January, 1905, to
fill out the term which will expire 1907,
and reelected for the term expiring in 1913.
Address: Dalton, Massachusetts.
CRANSTON, Earl:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; born at Athens, Ohio, June 27,
1840; son of Earl Cranston and Jane

(Montgomery) Cranston. After passing
through the public schools he entered Ohio
University at Athens, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1861, later receiving
from that institution the degree of A.M.
in 1866, and of LL.D. in 1897, also receiv
ing the degree of D.D. from Allegheny
College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1882.
He served as a soldier in the Civil War,
first in the Third and Sixtieth Ohio In
fantry Regiments and the Second West
Virginia Cavalry Regiment, in 1861, 1862
and 1864 as first sergeant, first lieutenant,
adjutant and captain. After the war he
entered the ministry of the Methodist Epis
copal Church as a member of the Ohio
Conference in 1867, serving in that and
other conferences as pastor and presiding
elder until 1884, when he was elected one
of the publishing agents of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, having- charge of the
Western Methodist Book Concern. He
was senior publishing agent (Cranston &
Stowe, and Cranston & Curts) from 1884
to 1896. In 1896 he was elected by the
General Conference as one of the bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.. Bish
op Cranston spent two years in Episcopal
visitation of the Methodist Episcopal
churches in China, Japan and Corea from
1898 to 1900, and in 1907 revisited Japan
as one of the commissioners of his church,
for the union of several Methodist bodies
in that country and the organizing of the
Methodist Church of Japan, the Nippon
Methodist Kyokwai, after which service
he made an Episcopal visit to Corea. He
is one of the bishops appointed by his col
leagues to the Commission on Federation
with the Methodist Church, South. He
married at Middleport, Ohio, October, 1861,
Martha Behan. One son, Earl M., United
States District Attorney for Colorado, is
the only one of their children surviving.
Three daughters, living, are the children
from a second marriage. His address is
Washington, District of Columbia.
CRAPO, William Wallace:
Lawyer; born at Dartmouth, Massachu
setts, May 16, 1830; son of Henry H. and .
Mary A.- (Slocum) Crapo. He was gradu-

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ated from Yale University in 1852 with
the degree of A.B., and subsequently stud
ied law at Harvard University, completing
his course in 1854; and he received the
degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1882. He
has practiced in New Bedford since 1855,
where for twelve years he was city solici
tor. He is prominent in the Republican
party, by which he was elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature in 1857, and to
the United States House of Representa
tives in 1875, occupying his seat during the
Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congress. Mr. Crapo has for
many years been at the head of the law
firm of Crapo, Clifford & Prescott; and is
connected with a number of banks. He is
president of the Wamsutta, Potomska and
Acushnet Cotton Mills. He married at
New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 22,
1857, Sarah A. D. Tappan, who died in
1893. Address : New Bedford, Massachu
setts.
CRATER, George Edwin, Jr.:
Lawyer, financier; born in Colorado in
1870; is a member of an old Virginia fam
ily; was educated in private schools;
began his business career at sixteen, and
engaged successfully in business tenter-
prises. He studied the sciences and medi
cine and began the practice of medicine,
but left it to study law. He was admitted
to the bar and is now member of the bar
in the States of New York, California,
Colorado, the District of Columbia, and
the Supreme Court of the United States.
He has organized and been seven times
times president of a National or State
bank, and he has organized over six hun
dred corporations, including railway com
panies, water companies, light, industrial
and mining corporations. He organized- the
first steamship company to operate between
Seattle and Skagway and Dyea, Alaska.
Mr. Crater organized the corporation to
construct a railway in Persia from Teheran
to the Persian Gulf, which organization
completed the greatest railway system the
world has ever known, at a cost of three
hundred million yen, linking the railways

of Europe. with India, etc., and shortening
the belting of the globe by twenty-one
days;- after which he projected the
building of a railway twelve hundred kil
ometers long in Brazil. He has been an
extensive traveler in all parts of the
world. Mr. Crater is a thirty-second de
gree Mason, a Knight Templar, and a
member of the Arabic Order of Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine. While his business ac
tivities are on a gigantic scale, Mr. Cra
ter has still found time to be very active
in charitable work, and he is chairman
of the Advisory Board of the Sunshine
Society. His recreations include shoot
ing, yachting and motoring and aerial navi
gation, being an authority as well as a
pioneer in this fascinating field of adven
ture. He is an expert shot, holding num
bers of field and target trophies. He has a
villa near Paris on Avenue du Pare, Saint
Leu, Seine et Oise, France, and a residence
at Craterdale, Stanhope, Sussex County,
New' Jersey. Address : P. O. Box 2049,
New York.
CRAVATH, Paul Drennan:
Lawyer; born at Berlin Heights, Ohio,
July 14, 1861 ; son of Erastus M. Cra-
vath and Ruthanna (Jackson) Cravath.
He received his preparatory education at
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and
then studied in Europe two years, after
which he entered Oberlin College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1882,
following with the course at the Colum
bia Law School and graduating as LL.B.
in 1886. He was admitted to the bar in
1886, and is now senior partner of the
law firm of Cravath, Henderson & de
Gersdorff. He is also a director of the
Standard Trust Company of New York,
the Standard Safe Deposit Company of
New York, the Equitable Trust Company.
and the Morton Trust Conipany; a trustee
of the American Surety Company and di
rector of the National Bank of Commerce,
He is a Republican in politics, and a mem
ber of the Congregational Church.. Mr.
Cravath is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, the New
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Lawyers', Metropolitan, Down Town,
Union League, University, City, Midday'
and Congregational Clubs of New York.
He married at New York City, November
15, 1893, Agnes Huntington, by whom he
has a daughter: Ve'ra Agnes Huntington
Cravath, born August 28, 1895. Residence :
107 East Thirty-ninth Street. Address :
52 William Street, New York City..
CRAVER, Harrison W. :
Librarian; born in Owaneco, Illinois,
August 10, 1875; son of Harrison E. Cra-
ver and Caroline E. (Weirauch) Craver.
He was educated in the public schools of
Carmi, Illinois, and Terre Haute, Indiana,
and he studied chemistry at Rose Poly
technic Institute, graduating with the de
gree of B.S. in 1895. Mr. Craver was
chemist to KirEpatrick and Company, Lim
ited, Pittsburgh, from 1896 to 1898; to the
Shoenberger Steel Company, Pittsburgh,
from 1898 to 1899 ; metallurgist to the Du-
quesne Reduction Company, Pittsburgh, in
1899 and 1900 ; technology librarian to the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1900 and
1901, and since igo3. He was assistant
superintendent of the Allegheny Steel and
Iron Company, Pittsburgh, in 1902. Mr.
Craver is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the American Library
Association, the Engineers' Society of
Western Pennsylvania, and is secretary of
the Pittsburgh Section of the American
Chemical Society. His special work has
been in establishing work in technology and
useful arts as a branch of public library
service. He organized the work in his li
brary, the first free public library to devote
special attention to the needs of the in
dustrial community. He is a Republican
in politics. Mr. Craver is a member of
' the University and German Clubs of Pitts
burgh. He married in Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, June 17, 1902, Adelaide Nevins
Martin. Residence : 1344 Denniston Ave
nue, East End, Pittsburgh. Office ad
dress: Carnegie Library, Schenley Park,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CRAWFORD, Coe Isaac:
Governor ; born at Volney, Iowa, January

14, 1858; son of Robert and Sarah (Shan
non) Crawford. After receiving his pre
liminary instruction in public schools, and
under tutors, he registered as a law student
in the University of Iowa, and was gradu
ated in 1882. He was admitted to the bar
and practiced for about ten years at Inde
pendence, Iowa. In 1884 he moved to
Pierre, Dakota Territory, where he grew
into prominence both politically and pro
fessionally. In 1886 he became States At
torney of Hughes County, which office he
held for two years, and in 1889 was elected
a member of the Territorial Legislative
Council. The following year he was elected
to the South Dakota Senate, and upon the
expiration of the' term he became Attorney-
General of South Dakota, occupying the
office until 1896. In 1897 he became a resi
dent of Huron, South Dakota, where for
eight years he was attorney for the Chicago
& Northwestern .Railway Company. Since
1901 he has been in partnership, under the
firm name of Crawford & Taylor. In No
vember, 1906, he was elected Governor of
South Dakota, in which office he is now
serving. He is a prominent member of
the American Bar Association and the
South Dakota Bar Association, and in 1904
was chosen a delegate to attend the Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists,
held at St. Louis. He married first, Oc
tober 4, 1884, May Robinson, and second,
at Iowa City, Iowa, November 26, 1896,
Lavina Robinson. Address : Huron, South
Dakota.
CRAWFORD, Francis Marion:
Novelist; born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy,
August 2, 1854; son of Thomas Crawford,
an American sculptor, and Louisa Cutter
(Ward) Crawford. He was educated
at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp
shire and Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng
land. Fie also took post-graduate work
at the University of Heidelberg, Germany,
and at Harvard, and studied Oriental lan
guages while a newspaper correspondent in
the East. He was engaged in journalism
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to 1890. Mr. Crawford holds a professional
masters' certificate from the Association
of American Shipmasters and from the
United States Marine Board. He spends
the greater part of Irs time in Italy. He
is author of: Mr. Isaacs 1882; Doctor
Claudius, 1883; A Roman Singer, 1884;
To Leeward, 1884; An American Politic
ian, 1884; Zoroaster, 1885; A Tale of a
Lonely Parish, 1886; Marzio's Crucifix,
1887, Paul Patoff, 1887; Saracinesca, 1887;
With the Immortals, 1888; Sant' Ilario;
1889; A Cigarette Maker's Romance, 1890;
Khaled, 1891 ; The Witch of Prague, 1891 ;
The Three Fates, 1892; Marion Darche,
1893; Pietro Ghisleri, 1893; The Novel:
What It Is, 1893; Katherine Lauderdale,
1894; Love in Idleness, 1894; The Ralstons,
1894 ; Constantinople, 1895 ; Casa Braccio,
1895 ; Adam Johnstone's Son, 1895 ; Taq-
uisara, 1896; A Rose of Yesterday, 1897;
Corleone, 1897; Ave Roma Immortalis,
1898; Via Crucis, 1899; In the Palace of
the King; The Rulers of the South, 1900;
Marietta, A Maid of Venice, 1901 ; Cecilia,
A Story of Modern Rome, 1902 ; The
Heart of Rome, 1903; Man Overboard,
1903 ; Whoever Shall Offend, 1904 ; Sop
rano,' a Portrait, 1905; Venetian Gleanings
(historical) 1905, and a play, Francesca da
Rimini, which was produced by Sarah
Bernhardt in Paris, 1902. His favorite re
creation is yachting. He is a member of
the Century Association, the Players and
New York Yacht Clubs of New York City.
Mr. Crawford married Elizabeth, daughter
of Major-General Hiram Berden of the
United States Sharpshooters. Residence:
Villa Crawford, Sant' Agnello di Sorrento,
Italy. Address : Care of The Macmillan
Company, New York City.
CRAWFORD, John Forsyth:
Professor of psychology; bora in Da
mascus, Syria, November 16, 1871. He at
tended Union University from 1891 to 1893,
then went to Princeton University, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1895,
and received the degree of A.M. in 1897.
He took post-graduate studies in the Uni
versity of Berlin in 1896, and studied at

the McCormick Theological Seminary from
1897 to 1900. He was demonstrator of ex
perimental psychology at Princeton in 1897,
was pastor of the Baptist Church at
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, from 1900 to 1904,
when he became profe'ssor of psychology and
pedagogy in Grand Island College. In 1907
he became professor of psychology and
pedagogy in Tabor College; and also dean
of that college. He was also professor of
logic in the summer session of the Univers
ity of Nebraska in 1906 and 1907. He is a
member of the National Educational Asso
ciation, the Religious Education Associa
tion, and the National Geographical Socie
ty. Professor Crawford has given spec
ial attention to methods of teaching psy
chology inductively, and also to modern
developments in logic. Address: Tabor,
Iowa.
CRAWFORD, John Jones:
Miner and engineer; born at Newcastle,
Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, February
2, 1846 ; son of J. M. Crawford and Eliza
beth J. Crawford. After careful prepara
tory training he entered the Polytechnic
College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia,
from which he was graduated in 1867, and
then attended the Royal School of Mines
at Freiburg, Saxony, from which he was
graduated in 1870. He became superinten
dent of the Great Basin Mining Company
at White Pine, Nevada, in 1871, and after
that was superintendent of other Nevada
and California mines. In 1890 and 1891
he served as member and secretary of the
Examining Commission of Rivers and
Harbors for California, and since 1891 he
has been owner of a canal and mines in
Calaveras, Amador, Placer and Eldorado
Counties in California, and he is also sec
retary of the Gwin Development Company.
He was State mineralogist of California
from 1893 to 1897, and edited various re
ports and bulletins relating to mines and
minerals in that State. He is a member
of the American Institute of Mining En
gineers. Address : 1209 Spreckels' Build
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CRAWFORD, Leonard Jacob:
Lawyer; born at Newport, Kentucky,
April 29, i860. He was graduated from the
Hughes High School, Cincinnati, in 1880,
after which he took a course in the Cin
cinnati Law College, which he completed
in 1882, and passed his bar examinations the
same year. He has since practiced in his
native city, where he is one of the leading
members of his profession. He is active in
the Republican party, by which he was made
a candidate for • the office of Attorney-
General of Kentucky, in 1891, and for
presidential elector from the State-at-large,
the following year. He was for two years
president of the" Republican State^League
of Kentucky, and is now president of the
National Republican League. He married,
January 16, 1882, Ella'J. Horner. Address:
Newport, Kentucky.
CRAWFORD, William Thomas:
Lawyer; born in Haywood County, North
Carolina, June 1, 1856. He was graduated
from the University of North Carolina with
the degree of LL. B., and was admitted
to the bar. In 1884' he was elected to the
North Carolina House of Representatives,
and he was reelected in 1886. In 1888 he
was chosen presidential elector, casting his
vote for Grover Cleveland. He was elected
to Congress in 1891, in which he served
until 1901, by successive reelections, with
the exception of the years 1895 to 1899.
Address: Waynesville, North Carolina.
CRAWFORD-FROST, William Albert:
Clergyman; born at Owen Sound, On
tario, Canada, October 29, 1863; son of
William Frost and Louisa (Crawford)
Frost. He was educated at Owen Sound
Collegiate Institute and by a private tutor;
was graduated from the University of
Toronto, as B.A. in 1884 with first class
honors, and as M.A. in 1886, and at Wy-
cliffe Theological Seminary, Toronto, as
double prizeman in 1887. He also
took a special course in Baltimore
Medical College. 'He was on the staff
of the Toronto World in 1881 and
1882, the Toronto Globe from 1882 to 1886,
became curate of St. Paul's Church, Char-

lottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1888
and 1889; rector of St. George's, New
Glasgow, Nova Scotia, from 1889 to 1892,
the Church of the Redeemer (Protestant
Episcopal), Merrick, Long Island, from
1892 to 1896, and the Memorial Church
the Holy Comforter, Baltimore, from
1896 to 1903. He was with Dodd, Mead
and Company, publishers, in 1903 and 1904.
He became instructor in chemistry at the
Baltimore Medical College from 1904 to
1906, invented a Thought Recorder, paten
ted May 24, 1904, and also a stateroom
car, patent allowed August, 1907; a port
able dust-box, automatic shoe-polishing
machine, etc. Mr. Crawford-Frost ex
plored the Rainy River country for
the Toronto Globe in 1886. He founded
the Young Men's Liberal Club of To
ronto in 1884 and the Christian Unity
League in London, England, in 1890, and
he became a naturalized American citizen
in 1902. His sermons on social arid semi-
political subjects were frequently publish
ed in Baltimore papers from 1896 to 1903.
He. is author of: Old Dogma in a New
Light, 1896; The Philosophy of Integra
tion, 1906; A New National Anthem, 1907
(published by the Success Music Company,
Chicago). He is a Democrat in his polit
ical views. Mr. Crawford-Frost is a mem
ber of the Society of Arts, England, the
National Geographic Society, Washington,
D. C, the Astronomical section of the
Maryland Academy of Sciences, and the
Transatlantic Society. He married at
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Aug
ust 28, 1889, TJamaris Constance, daughter
of John Ings, and they have two children :
John Ings Crawford-Frost, • born August 1,
1894, and William Arthur Crawford-Frost,
bom November 5, 1899. Address: Shel
don Cottage, 2120 Chelsea Terrace, Wal-
brook, Baltimore, Maryland.
CRAWSHAW, William Henry:
Educator; born in Newburgh, New York,
November 6, 1861 ; son of Charles and Mary
(Lodge) Crawshaw. He was educated in
the public schools of Newburgh and Yon
kers, New York, at Colgate Academy, Ham-

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ilton, New York, from 1880 to 1883, and
was graduated from Colgate University as
A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa honors, in 1887;
and he received the A.M. degree in 1889.
He has been instructor and professor of
English literature at Colgate University
since 1887, and dean of the College Faculty
since 1897; and he was acting president
from 1897 to 1899 and in 1907. He trav
eled in Europe in 1892, again in 1900 and
1901, and in 1904; and was a student at
Oxford University, England, in 1900 and
1901. He also traveled in Italy, Switzer
land, Germany, Belgium and Holland in
1904. In politics he is a Republican and in
religion a Baptist. Prof. Crawshaw is a
member of the Modern Language Associa
tion, and the American Social Science As
sociation, is an associate of the National
Institute of Art and Letters, and a member
of the Beta Theta Pi. He is. author of:
The Interpretation of Literature; the Lit
erary Interpretation of Life; Dryden's
Palamon and Arcite, and The Making of
English Literature. Mr. Crawshaw mar
ried at Poultney, Vermont, December 26,
1888, Jennie Louise BrOughton. Address :
Hamilton, New York.
CREEVEY, Edward A.:
Consular official. He was appointed con
sul at Glauchau, July 9, 1901, became con
sul at Yarmouth, October 14, 1905, and has
been consul at Columbo since March 30,
1907. Address : Columbo, Ceylon, East
Indies.
CREW, William Bin! ord:
Jurist; born at Chester Hill, Morgan
County, Ohio, April 1, 1852 ; son of Fleming
and Sarah (Patterson) Crew. He was
educated at Westtown College and at the
Ohio State and Union Law School, gradu
ating from the latter in 1874. He was ad
mitted to the Ohio Bar in 1874 and engaged
in practice at McConnelsville, Ohio. He
is a Republican in politics, and in 1876 he
was elected prosecuting attorney of Morgan
County, Ohio. He became a member of the
Ohio Legislature in 1889, and was judge of
the Court of Common Pleas for the Eighth
Judicial District from 1891 to 1902. On

July 19, 1902, he was appointed judge of
the Supreme Court of Ohio to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Hon. M. J.
Williams, and at the election held in Nov
ember, 1902, he was elected to the same
position for a full term. Judge Crew
married at Chester Hill, Ohio, May 9, 1876,
Elizabeth Worrall; and they have two
children: Fleming H. Crew of Columbus,
Ohio, and Mrs. Henry R. Gall, of Cleveland,
Ohio. Residence : McConnelsville, Ohio.
Official address: Columbus, Ohio.
CRIDER, Albert Foster:
Geologist; bom at Marion, Kentucky,
January 13, 1873 ; son of' William Bradley
Crider and Martha Jane (Adams) Crider. .
He attended the Kentucky State College
from 1898 to 1903, receiving the degrees of
A. B. and M. S. In July, 1902, he began
work on the United States Geological Sur
vey and worked until September 15, follow
ing. In July, 1903, he began work per
manently on the United States Geological
Survey and during the summer and fall,
worked on the lead and zinc fields of Illinois
and Wisconsin; in 1904 he worked on the
general and economic geology of Miss
issippi, in 1905 on the geology and water
resources of northeastern Arkansas, and
also on the clay deposits of western Tenn- *
essee and Kentucky. In February, 1900, he
was elected to the chair of geology in the
University of Mississippi and in May, 1906,
was elected State geologist of Mississippi,
which position he still holds. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Presbyterian in
religious views. Mr. Crider is a member of
the National Geographic Society, and of the
Pick and Hammer Club of Washington, D.
C. He married at Marion, Kentucky, Nov
ember 15, 1905, Rosa Rhee Ke'vil, and they
have a son, Foster Kevil, born in 1907. Ad
dress : Jackson, Mississippi.
CRILLT, Daniel Francis:
Dealer in real estate: bom in Mercers-
burg, Pennsylvania. October 14. 1838: son
of John D. and Rebecca (Shafer) Crilly-
He was educated in the public schools of
Mercersburg. When he was seventeen
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Wilson, a contractor. A year later he re
moved to Iowa City, Iowa, with Mr. Wil
son, and remained with him until 1858,
when he went to St. Louis and engaged
in business on his own account. In 1861
he removed to Chicago, where for a time
he was in the packing business, but soon
afterward resumed contracting work. Aft
er the great fire in Chicago he built the
Methodist Church block and many other
business blocks. Pie continued in the con
tracting business until 1880, erecting many
notable buildings, the last important one
being that of the Windsor Hotel at Denv
er, Colorado. Since 1880 he has been en
gaged principally in the handling of real
estate, having been identified with many
important transactions in that line. He is
a director of the Metropolitan Trust and
Savings Bank, a member of the Chicago
Real Estate Board and of the South Park
Commission. In politics his affiliations are
with the Republican party. He is a mem
ber of the Congregationalist Church. Mr.
Crilly is a Mason, affiliated with Flome
Lodge, Chicago Chapter, "and Apollo Com-
mandery, having been treasurer of the lat
ter for many years. He is also a member
of Oriental Consistory of the Scottish Rite.
He is a member of the Union League,
Hamilton and Sheridan Clubs. Address :
167 Dearborn Street. Residence : 3820
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
CRITCHELL, Robert S.:
Fire insurance agent and broker; born
in England in 1844. He came to the Unit
ed States while a youth and located in
Rochester, New > York, receiving his edu
cation in the public schools of that city
and Cincinnati. Some time before he
reached his majority he obtained employ
ment in the Cincinnati office of the Home
Insurance Company of New York. Upon
the removal of the company's Western of
fice to St. Louis, in i860, he followed it
there. In 1862 he became connected with'
the Aetna Fire Insurance Company of
Hartford, entering its Western branch at
Cincinnati, in which he remained for over
a vear, when he entered the United States

Navy, .as a junior officer, serving until
the close df the Civil War. After the
close of the war he resumed his con
nection with the Home Insurance Com
pany, becoming special agent for several
Southern and Western States. From 1868
to 1874 he was the special Western agent
of the Phenix Insurance Conipany of
Brooklyn, at Chicago, Illinois, but when the
Phenix opened a Western department Mr.
Critchell resigned and assumed the per
sonal direction of the local insurance
agency of R. S. Critchell & Company, in
Chicago, which he had formerly establish
ed, and which has become a prominent
factor in insurance circles. The agency
was reorganized under the name of Critch
ell, Miller, Whitney & Barbour in 1901.
Mr. Critchell is a member of the Union
League Club. Address : Corner La Salle
and Madison Streets. Residence : Chicago
Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
CROCKER, Augustus Luther:
Real estate dealer; born at Paris, Ox
ford County, Maine, May 4, 1850. After
a careful preparatory education he entered
Bowdoin College, from which he received
the degrees of A.M. in 1873, and of M.E.
in 1875, following with post-graduate study
and travel in European countries until
1877. He was engaged as an engineer in
the construction and management of steel
works until 1880 when he removed to Min
neapolis, where he has since been one of
the most active and successful real estate
operators. He proposed and organized in
1890, the Business Men's Union of Min
neapolis, and was its first secretary, was
president of the Minneapolis Board of
Trade from 1893 to 1897, and in January,
1895, became the first president of the
Northwest Business Federation. He was
also, in 1895, chairman of the executive
committee of the International Deep Wat
erways Association. Address: 2515 Blais-
del Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CROCKER, George:
Capitalist and banker; born in Califor
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founders of the first railroad across .the
Sierras. He has for some years made his
residence in' New York City. He is a
special partner in the firm of Tailer and
Company and director in various corpora
tions. Mr. Crocker is a member of the
Metropolitan, City Midday, New York
Yacht, New York Athletic, Lawyers',
Union League, Tuxedo, The Brook County
and Riding Clubs of New York City and
the Automobile Club of America. Resi
dence: i East Sixty-fourth Street, New
York City. Address: 60 Wall Street,
New York City.
CROCKER, George Glover:
Lawyer and chairman of the Boston
Transit Commission; born in Boston, De
cember 15, 1843 ; son of Uriel Crocker and
Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker. He was
educated at the Boston Public Latin School,
and at Harvard College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1864, and after
ward was graduated from Harvard Law
School, receiving the degrees of A.M. and
LL.B. He was a member of the Massa
chusetts Senate from 1880 to 1883 inclu
sive, being its president in 1883 ; and he
was chairman of the Massachusetts Board
of Railroad Commissioners from 1887 to
1892, and has been chairman of the Boston
Transit Commission since 1894. He is a
Republican in politics. He is author of a
manual, entitled Principles of Procedure
in Deliberative Assemblies; of a Digest of
Rulings of the Presiding .Officers of the
Massachusetts Senate x and House from
1833 ; and of an historical pamphlet, en
titled, From the Stage Coach to the Rail-
, road Train and the Street Car. He is a
member of the American Bar Association,
the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, the Massachusetts Civil
Service Reform Association, and the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. His favorite recre
ations are walking, swimming, riding and
tennis. He is a member of the Thursday
Evening, Union, New Algonquin,. St. Bo-
tolph, Papyrus, New Riding, Country, Oak
ley Country, Union Boat and Cohasset
Golf Clubs. Mr, Crocker married in Bos

ton, June 19, 1875, Annie Bliss Keep,
daughter , of Nathan Cooley and Susan
Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, and they have
five children : George Glover, Jr., born in
1877; Margaret, born in 1878; Courtenay
born in 1881 ; Muriel, born in 1885; and
Lyneham, born in 1889. Residence: 343
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.1 Address:
Old South Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
CROKER, Richard:
Ex-leader of Tammany Hall; born at
Black Rock, Ireland, November 24, 1843.
He came to the United States at the age
of three years, and attended the public
schools of New York City. He was al
derman in New York City from 1868 to
1870, and in 1885; coroner from 1873 to
1876; fire commissioner in 1883, and city
chamberlain from 1889 to 1890. He at
tracted the attention of John Kelly; was
prominent in opposing the Tweed Ring,
and rose to be leader in Tammany Hall;
and in 1897 he caused the election of Rob
ert A. Van Wyck, first mayor of Greater
New York. Mr. Croker is founder of the
Democratic Club, now the National Dem
ocratic Club of New York City, Of which
he is a member. His favorite recreation
is horse racing, and he has a stud of horses
in England, and won the English Derby *"""'"
with his horse Corby in 1907. Residence:
5 East Seventy-fourth Street, New York
City. Address : National Democratic Club,
New York City.
CROMER, George Washington:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born May
13, 1856, in Madison County, Indiana.
His parents removed with him while quite
young into Salem Township, Delaware
County, Indiana. He was educated in the
common schools, in Wittenberg College, at
Springfield, Ohio, and in the : State Uni
versity of Bloomington, Indiana, from
which he was graduated in 1882, with the
degree of A:B. After his graduation he
was for a short time editor of the Muncie
Times, then read and began the practice
of law in 1886. He was elected prosecuting
attorney of the Forty-Sixth Judicial Cir
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1888. He was a member of the State Re
publican 'Committee from the Sixth Con
gressional District of Indiana in 1892 and
1894, and in 1894 was elected mayor of
Muncie. Mr. Cromer was elected in 1898
from the Eighth Indiana District to the
Fifty-sixth Congress, and reelected in 1900,
1902 and 1904 to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses,, his last
term expiring March 3, 1907. Address :
Muricie, Indiana.
CROSBY, Horace:
Civil engineer ; born at Atkinson, Maine,
June 6, 1838; son of William Chase Cros
by and Mary (Wilson) Crosby. He was
educated in the public schools of Bangor,
Maine, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute, . at Troy, New York, graduating in
1862. with degree of C. E. After graduating
he was employed on the United States
Government fortifications on the coast of
Maine, for several years, and then traveled
through the lumbering regions of New
York State and Michigan. Mr. Crosby has
practiced as a civil engineer in New Ro
chelle and vicinity since 1870. For fifteen
years he was a member of the Board of
Education of .New Rochelle, the last two
terms as president. He was president of
the New Rochelle Public Library from
1893 to 1906. For two years he was chief
engineer to the original sewer commission
of New Rochelle and was city engineer of
New Rochelle from 1902 to 1906. Mr.
Crosby is a Republican in his political
views. He has been a member of
the American Society of Civil En
gineers since .1868. His favorite recrea
tion is gardening. He married at New Ro
chelle, New York, DeceinDer 17, 1872, Jen
nie E. Jarvis, and they have four children :
Florence May, Alice June, Mary Ethel, and
William Chase. The eldest son, Norman
Wilson, who was a civil engineer, served in
the Spanish-American War in Cuba, after
his return home in August, 1898, died
from typhoid fever, contracted in the ser
vice, and the Second son, Horace Franklin,
was killed in . the Park Avenue tunnel
wreck. in 1902. Address: 38 Trinity Place,
New Rochelle, New York.

CROSBY, James Ott:
Lawyer; born at Caldwell, New York,
March 22, 1828; son of Nathan and Me-
linda (Bishop) Crosby. After attending
public schools, he was sent to the acade
my at Seneca Falls, and then to the Fre-
donia Academy. Subsequently he took a
position in the office of Fleazar Harmon,
at EUicottville, New York, where he read
law, but went to Fowler's Law School, at
Cherry Valley, New York, to complete
his studies, and was admitted to the bar
at Albany in 1849. Five years later he
moved to Iowa, where he practiced for
forty-six years, retiring in 1900. He is a
member of County, State, American and
International Bar Associations, and in 1904
was chosen a delegate to attend the Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists,
held at St. Louis. He is a member of the
American Political Science Association and
of the American Society of International
Law. Mr. Crosby was president of the
Iowa Electoral College in 1889 and presi
dent of the Iowa Columbian Commission
in 1893, and president of the Iowa State
Bar Association in i89g. Mr. Crosby trav
eled and visited world's fairs in Europe in
1873, i88g and 1900. He married at El-
licottville, New York, April 29, 1851, Caro
line C. Gibbs. Address : Garnavillo, Iowa.
CROSBY, John Schuyler:
Colonel of the United States Army, re
tired; born in Albany County, New York,
September 19, 1839; son of Clarkson Floyd
Crosby and Angelica (Schuyler) Crosby.
He is a great-great-grandson of General
William Floyd, signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and also of Surgeon
Ebenezer Crosby, of General Washington's
Life Guard. He was graduated from the
University of the City of New York, and
after leaving college, made a voyage to
China and crossed the continent of South
America from Valparaiso to Montevideo.
He served in the Civil War, entering as
second lieutenant in the regular Artillery;
served In the Army of the Potomac and
later in the Department of the Gulf, as as
sistant adjutant-general and aide-de-camp
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from 1864 to 1871 served on the staff of
Lieutenant-General Sheridan with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel of the United States
Army. In 1863 he was appointed by Gov
ernor Seymour colonel of the Seventh
New York Heavy Artillery, United States
Volunteers, but contiued to serve on staff
duty. He was brevetted four times for
gallantry during the Civil War, and re
ceived an autograph letter from Abraham
Lincoln, thanking him for carrying dis
patches through the enemy's country to
Admiral Farragut aboard the Hartford, in
the Mississippi River. After the war, he
served in several Indian campaigns with
Generals Sheridan and Custer, as adjutant-
general of those expeditions. He resigned
from the army in 1871, Fie was consul to
Florence, Italy, iii 1876, and received a
decoration from the King of Italy for dis
covering and helping to capture a band
of criminals in Tuscany. He was gov
ernor of Montana from 1882 to 1884;
first assistant postmaster-general of the
United States from 1883 to 1886,
and school commissioner of New York
City from 1889 to 1892. He is a
Republican in politics. Colonel Crosby
was awarded a medal of the first-class for
saving life at sea. He is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Society
of the Army of the Potomac, Sons of the
Revolution, and St. Nicholas Society; and
the Union, Army and Navy, and" New
York Yacht Clubs of New York City, and
the Metropolitan Club of Washington D.
C. Colonel Crosby married at the Van
Rensselaer Manor, June 28, 1863, Harriet
Van Rensselaer, daughter of the last pat-
roon of Albany, New York, and he has
a son, Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, and
a daughter, Angelica Schuyler Crosby.
address: Union Club, New York City.
CROSBY, Stephen Moody:
Banker; born at Salisbury, Massachu
setts, August 14, 1827; son of Nathan and
Rebecca Moody Crosby. After a thor
ough preparatory training he entered Dart
mouth College, from which he was gradu
ated with the degree of A.B. in 1849;

then went to Harvard Law School until
1852. He engaged in general law practice
until the Civil War, in which he served in
the General Staff, U. S. A., reaching the
rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. He was
a member of the lower house of the Gen
eral Court of Massachusetts in 1869, and a
State senator in 1870 and 1871; served as
a State director of the Boston and Albany
Railroad in 1871 and 1872, and was com
missioner of the Hoosac Tunnel in 1874
and 1875. He was treasurer from 1870 to
1883, and from 1883 served as. president of
the Massachusetts Trust Company, retiring
January 1, 1907. He is a member, and in
1891 was vice-commander, of the Military
Order of Loyal Legion of the United
States, and has been president of the Bos
ton Art Club. Colonel Crosby is also sen
ior vice-president of the Boston University
Club, and vice-president of the Boston Uni
tarian Club. He married at Williamsburg,
Massachusetts, Anna, daughter of Lieuten
ant-Governor Hayden, of Massachusetts.
Address : 364 Marlboro Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
CROSS, Anson Kent:
Art educator; born in Lawrence, Massa
chusetts, December 6, 1862; son of George
O. Cross and Abigail A. (Brown) Cross. <
He was educated in the -Massachusetts Nor
mal Art School. Mr. Cross invented a
steam rotary snow plough when fifteen
years of age, and submitted it to railroad
men in the form in which many years
later it came into use in the West, and he
has had issued to him thirteen patents.
He has been a member of the faculty of the
Massachusetts Normal Art School for twen
ty-four years, and has taught in the School
of Drawing and Painting of the Museum
of Fine Arts since 1891. Mr. Cross has
published the most widely used text-books
for art teachers and students, and also the
National Drawing Books for Public School
Use. He received a medal for landscape
painting from the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanics' Association, also .one from the
same institution for artists easels; and he
also received a medal for the same from
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the 'Boston Art Club and the Copley So
ciety. Mr. Cfoss married in Boston, July,
1903, Sarah (Wilkinson) Martin. Resi
dence : 70 Summit Avenue, Winthrop, Mas
sachusetts.- Address : Massachusetts Nor
mal Art School, Boston, Massachusetts.
CROSS, Charles Robert:
Professor of physics ; born in Troy, New
"York, March 29, 1848; son of George Cross
and Lucy Ann (Brown) Cross. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Boston, as S.B. in 1870.
He has remained at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology since graduation, and
is Thayer professor of physics in charge of
the Department and director of the Rogers
Laboratory In 1882, at his instigation, a
course in electrical engineering, leading to
a degree, was instituted at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, the first to
be established in this country and one of the
first in the world, .and he was in charge of
it for twenty years. He has published many
scientific papers on acoustics and electric
ity, chiefly in the proceedings of the Ameri
can Academy. Fie is an Independent in
politics. Dr. Cross is a fellow of the Amer
ican Academy of Arts and Science, and
for some years has been chairman of the
Rumford Committee. He is a member of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, the French
Physical Society, American Physical Society,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
and was president of the Appalachian Moun
tain Club in 1880, and he is a member of the
St. Botolph, Oakley Country and Technol
ogy Clubs. Mr. Cross married in Salis
bury, 'Massachusetts, July 15, 1873, Mariana
Pike, who died June 10, 1890, and they had
two children : Ralph, who died in 1875, and
Charles Robert, Jr., born June 17, 1881.
Residence : 100 Upland Road, Brookline.
Address : Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston, Massachusetts.
CROSS, Joseph:
Jurist Fie was engaged in the practice
of law in Elizabeth, New Jersey, until ap
pointed by President Roosevelt, in 1905,

one of the judges of the United States
Court for the District of New Jersey. Ad
dress ; Elizabeth, New Jersey.
CROSS, Moses Smith:
Clergyman and university professor ; born
at Lightsville, Illinois, April 8, 1854. He
was graduated from Northwestern Univer
sity in 1881 with the degree of A.B. and
from the Theological Seminary of the
same University as B.D. in 1882, A.M. in
1884, and later D.D. He studied in Ger
man universities (Leipzig and Berlin) and
at the National University of Greece
(Athens), from 1884 to 1889. He is a
Methodist Episcopal clergyman. Dr. Cross
was instructor in the 'Theological Semin
ary of Northwestern University from 1882
to 1884, has been professor of Greek, Latin
and Hebrew in the University of the Pa
cific, at San Jose, California, since 1891
and has been acting president of the Uni
versity of the Pacific since 1906. Address :
College Park, San Jose, California.
CROSS, William Morton:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
January 22, 1858; son of Matthias Gerald
Cross and Catherine T. (Morton) Cross.
He was educated in the public schools in
New York City, St. Stephen's College and
the General Theological Seminary. He
served as rector of St. James' Episcopal
Church, Greenville, Mississippi, from 1884
to 1895, and of St. Luke's, Hot Springs,
Arkansas, from 1896 to 1898. He was
chaplain of the First Arkansas Volunteer
Infantry, from May to October, 1898; in
valided the next following years; was rec
tor of St. Luke's, Chickasaw, Indian Ter
ritory, from 1902 to 1905, and has been
rector of St. Paul's, Monterey, Mexico,
since 1905; and president of the Standing
Committee of the Church in Mexico. He
was mustered into service for the Spanish-
American War, May 8, 1898, and served
in hospitals in the camp at Chicamauga
Park; arid was mustered out of the ser
vice October 25, 1898. He is a Republican
in politics, but voted the Democratic ticket
for twenty years and is now a "Mugwump"
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of the Knights Templar and past grand
chancellor of the Knights of Phythias for
Mississippi. His favorite recreation is
hunting. Dr. Cross married in Bolton,
Mississippi, January I, 1884, Daisy M.
Knapp, and they have two children : Belle
McLaurin Cross, now Mrs. William Moore
Robb, born in 1885 ; and Annie Louise
Cross, born in 1891. Residence : Calle
Morelos No. 63, Monterey, Nueva Leon,
Mexico. Address, Bolton, Mississippi.
CROTHERS, George Edward:
Lawyer ; born at Wapello, Iowa, May 27,
1870; son of John Crothers and Margaret
(Fair) Crothers. He was graduated from
San Jose High School, California, and was
graduated from the Leland Stanford, Jun
ior, University, as A.B. in 1895, and as
A.M. in 1896. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar, and engaged in prac
tice at San Francisco, California, where
he is a. member of the firm of Crothers
and Crothers, his brother, T. G. Crothers,
being the senior member of the firm. He
was one of the attorneys for the executors
and trustees of the estate of James G.
Fair, during the protracted litigation over
that estate; represented Mrs. Stanford in
the revision of the Stanford University
Trusts and in reconveyance of the Stan
ford University endowment. He wrote and
directed the movement which secured the
adoption of a Constitutional Amendment
and several laws relative to the security of
the endowment of the University and the
construction of trusts. Mr. Crothers is
president of the Monterey County Water
Works, president of the Enterprise Land
and Investment Company, was a direc
tor of the Pacific Improvement Company
in 1905, and is also a director of the As
sociated Investors' Company. He is an
Independent Republican in politics and a
Methodist in his religious preference. Mr.
Crothers is a member of the American His
torical Society, the Archaelogical Institute
of American, the American Political Science
Society, the Schoolmasters' Club of Cali
fornia, the Seismological Society of Ameri
ca and the American Municipal League.

He is a trustee of the Stanford Kinder
garten Trust, and a trustee, secretary and
assistant treasurer of the Board of Trus
tees of Stanford University. He is a Mason .
and' Knight Templar and a member of the
University Club, the Stanford Alumni Club,
Amaurot Club, and the Commonwealth and
Merchants' Clubs of San Francisco. Resi
dence: 2998 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco,
Office address : 612, 615 Call Building, San
Francisco, California.
CROTHERS, Samuel McChord:
Clergyman ; born at Oswego, Illinois,
June 7, 1857; son of Hon. John M. Croth
ers and Nancy (Foster) Crothers. He re
ceived his early education in the schools
of Springfield, Ohio, and afterward entered
Princeton College, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1874; afterward stud
ied theology at the Union Theological Sem
inary in New York, and he received the
honorary degree of S.T.D. from Harvard
University in 1899, and that of Litt. D.
from Saint Lawrence University, Canton,
New York, in 1904.^ He was ordained in
the ministry of the Unitarian Church, and
entered upon his first pastorate at Eureka,
Nevada; and he was afterward minister at
Santa Barbara, California; Brattleboro,
Vermont, and St. Paul, Minnesota; and
since 1894 has been minister over the First
Parish at Cambridge, Massachusetts ; and
he is also preacher to Harvard University.
Dr. Crothers has also attained distinction in
the literary field as author of: Members of
One Body; Miss Muffet's Christmas Party;
The Gentle Reader; The Understanding
Heart; and various contributions to mag
azines. He married at Santa Barbara,
California, September 9, 1882, Louise M.
Bronson. Address : 20 Oxford Street, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
CROUNSE, William Livingston:
Journalist; bom in Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, July 17, 1861 ; his parents being Lo
renzo L. and Mary'C. Crounse. He at
tended the Gunnery, a famous school at
Washington, Connecticut, as preparatory to
college, and later the Massachusetts Insti
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mitted to 'Harvard, class of 1884, His
father dying, he left college and went into
business, subsequently disposing of his in
terest in the same, and entered the Gov
ernment service at Washington, as disburs
ing officer. He was also engaged iri writ
ing for journals. Leaving the Government
service in 1885, newspaper work occupied
his attention, and in October, 1888, he was
appointed chief correspondent for the New
York World. His particular field was poli
tical news, and he traveled extensively in
the interest of the paper. Among his
works are a volume of letters which orig
inally appeared in the World, in 1889; a
paper on the Chilian Question, in 1892; and
an article on the Behring Sea Controversy,
published in Harper's Weekly, in 1891.
Address : Care of the New York World,
New York.
CROWDER, Enoch H. :
Colonel of the United States Army ; born
in Missouri, April 11, 1859. He was ap
pointed a cadet at the United States Mili
tary Academy, September 1, 1877 ; was com
missioned second lieutenant of the Eighth
Cavalry, June 11, 1886; first lieutenant, July
5i 1886; major (judge advocate), January
24, 1895 ; lieutenant-colonel, May 21, 1901,
and colonel, April 16, 1903. Address : Judge
Advocate of the Department, Havana, Cuba.
CROWELL, John S.:
Publisher; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
January 7, 1850; son of S. B. and Jane
(Graham) Crowell. He was educated in
the public schools of Louisville, and after
ward engaged in business life, and for years
past he has been engaged in the publishing
business in Springfield, Ohio, as president
of the Crowell Publishing Company, pro
prietors of The Woman's Home Compan
ion and Farm and Fireside. He is also
a director of the First National Bank of
Springfield, Ohio, and a director of the
Columbia Life Insurance Company of Cin
cinnati, Ohio; and he has been president
of the Springfield Board of Trade. Mr.
Crowell is a Presbyterian in his religious
views and actively identified wtih many reli
gious, educational and charitable activities.

He is president of the Board of Trustees of
the New City Hospital of Springfield, and is
a trustee of the Western College for
Women, at Oxford, Ohio, and a director
of the Associated Charities of Springfield.
He was formerly president for five
years of the Springfield College and Sem
inary and president of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Springfield, and
the Men's Literary Club. Mr. Crowell
married, at Louisville, Kentucky, Novem
ber 20, 1877, Ella C. Mangold. Address:
Springfield, Ohio.
CROWLEY, Joseph Burns:
Lawyer; born at Coshocton, Ohio, July
19, 1858. He received a common school
education, after which he took up the study
of law and was admitted to the bar in
1883. Since that time he has practiced in
Robinson, Illinois, where he has held, suc
cessively, several important offices. He was
for seven years county judge of Craw
ford County, and in 1893 was placed in
charge of the Alaska Seal Fisheries, as the
United States Special Treasury Agent, in
which capacity he acted for five years. In
1899 he was elected to the United States
Legislature, to which he was reelected to
serve during the two following terms. He
married, December 1, 1889, Alice A. New-
lin. Address: Robinson, Illinois.
CROWNBS-SHIELD, Arent Schuyler:
Rear admiral, United States Navy; born
at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1843: son
of Jacob Crowninshield, of Salem, Massa
chusetts, and Mary Nulla (Schuyler)
Crowninshield, of Belleville, New Jersey.
He received his preparatory education at
the Seneca Falls Academy, and entered the
United States Naval Academy to which he
was appointed by Hon. E. B. Pottle, M. C,
of Naples, New York, in September, i860,
and he was graduated in 1863. He was
promoted ensign, May' 23, 1863; commis
sioned lieutenant, November 10, 1866; lieu
tenant-commander, March 10, 1868; com
mander, March, 1880; captain, July 21,
1894, and rear-admiral, March 16, 1902.
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North Atlantic Blockade Squadron, from
1864 to 1865, and took part in both at
tacks on Fort Fisher; was attached to the
steam sloop Hartford, East Indian Squad
ron, from 1865 to 1868; the steam sloop
Richmond, European Fleet, from 1868 to
1871 ; the Lackawanna, on the Asiatic Sta
tion, from 1873 to 1875; was on ordnance
duty from 1875 to 1878 in New York City
and Washington, and was commander of
the Portsmouth, training ship, from 1878
to 1881. He was appointed lighthouse in
spector from 1882 to 1885; a member of
the Advisory Board in 1885; commanding
the schoolship St. Mary's, from 1887 to
1891; at the New York Navy Yard, from
1891 to 1892; a member of the Board of
Inspectors at the New York Navy Yard,
from 1893 to 1894 ; commanding the United
States receiving ship Richmond, from 1894
to 1895; the United States steamer Maine,
from 1895 to 1897, and chief of Bureau of
Navigation, from 1897 to 1902. During the
war with Spain, in addition to important
work as chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
he was a member of the Strategy or War
Board and in 1901 he was reappointed chief
of the Bureau of Navigation by President
McKinley, for a second term of four years,
but gave up that position in ig02, in order
to fly his flag as an admiral afloat. He
was sent as commander-in-chief of the Eu
ropean Squadron to be present at the cere
monies attending the coronation of King
Edward of England in 1902, and he retired
as rear-admiral in 1903. Rear-admiral
Crowninshield married at Dresden, Ger
many, in 1870, Mary Bradford, of Geneva,
New York, who is a novelist of promin
ence. They have one son; Caspar Schuyl
er, born in 1871, and who is now American
Consul at Naples, Italy. Address: "The
Anchorage," Seal Harbor, Maine.
CROWINSHIELD, Caspar S.:
Consular official ; born at Nice, France,
in 1871 ; son of Rear Admiral Arent
Schuyler Crowninshield, of the United States
Navy, and Mary (Bradford) Crowninshield,
distinguished novelist. He was appointed
commercial agent of the United States at
Castellamare di Stabia, Italy, April 27,

1901, promoted to consul at the' same place,
June 22, 1906, and about a year later was
promoted to his present office as consul
at Naples, Italy. Address : American Con
sulate, Naples, Italy.
CROZER, Samuel Aldrich:
Manufacturer; born in Ashton Town
ship, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, De
cember 25, 1825 ; son of John P. Crozer
and Sallie L. Crozer. He was educated
in country and Philadelphia schools until
he was seventeen, years old, when he enter
ed his father's mills, to which he afterward
succeeded, and successfully prosecuted his
business, now being owner of important
industrial enterprises, coal mines, iron
mines, etc. He has been president of the
Borough Council of Upland, Pennsylvania,
for over twenty years. He is a very prom
inent Baptist layman, and founded. in 1868
and has ever since been president of the
Board of Trustees of the Crozer Theolog
ical Seminary at Upland, Pa., and has also
for many years been president of the Na
tional Baptist Council for Missionary Pur
poses, and is president of the American
Baptist Publication Society and the Penn
sylvania Training School for Feeble Mind
ed Children, and is also on the Board of
Managers of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
at Philadelphia. He presented to the City
of Chester, Pennsylvania, a large tract of
land as a site for a public park and paid
for improving- the same, and has also per
sonally built several Baptist churches in
Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Crozer married, first, in 1854, Abigail
Cheney, of Lowell, Massachusetts, who died
in 1891, by whom he has six children. He
again married, July 3, 1906, Mrs. Joseph
ine Stowers Grier, of Philadelphia. Ad
dresses : Upland, Delaware County, Penn
sylvania, and 1932 Locust Street, Philadel
phia.CROZIER, William:
Brigadier-general United States Army;
born at Carrollton, Ohio, February 19, 1855 ;
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1876, and was assigned to the Fourth Ar
tillery. He served under General Crook
and General Howard in campaigns against
the Sioux and Bannocks until 1879, and
then became instructor of mathematics at
the United States Military Academy until
1884. After a competitive examination in
1881 he entered tlie Ordnance Department,
and he has ever since served as an ordnance
officer. He was promoted captain in 1890.
In association with General Buffiington he
invented the Buffiington-Crozier disappear
ing gun-carriage, now in general use in
American coast-defense works, and he is
also inventor of a wire-wrapped rifle, and
a ten-inch gun. He served as major and
inspector-general of -United States volun
teers in the Spanish-American War from
May 17 "to November 30, 1898: He was
one of the American delegates to Peace
Conference at The Hague in 1899; served
on the staff of General Bates and of Gen
eral Schwan in the campaign in Southern
Luzon of the Philippine Insurrection ; was
chief ordnance officer of the Pekin Relief
Expedition under General Chaffee in 1900;
was promoted brigadier-general and has
been chief of ordnance of the United States
Army since November 22, 1901. Address :
Care of the War Department, Washington,
D. C.
CRUIKSHANK, Barton:
Mechanical engineer; born in Albany,
New York, February 5, 1866; son of James
(LL.D) and C. Rosa (Hough) Cruikshank.
He was educated in the Adelphi College
(Brooklyn) ; took a classical course to the
senior year, and then entered Brooklyn
Polytechnic, from which he was gradu
ated in the mechanical engineering course
in 1886. He"took post-graduate work till
February, 1887, and he received the degree
of M.S. for non-residence work in i8g6, and
the D.Sc. degree from Santa Clara (Cali
fornia) College in 1903 for resident work.
He was engaged as a machinist and tool
maker in 1887 and 1888; was assistant en
gineer of the Boston Heating Company
from 1888 to 1891 ; instructor in graphics
and mathematics at Princeton University
from 1891 and 1892, and superintendent of

the Hammond Typewriter Works in 1892
and 1893. He was head of the Department
of Manual Training of the Brooklyn Man
ual Training High School, and president of
the Clarkson School of Technology, Uni
versity of the State of New York, from
1897 to 1901 ; president of Cogswell Poly
technic College, San Francisco, California,
from 1901 to 1903 ; and is now mechanical
and designing engineer of The Solvay Pro
cess Company, of Syracuse, New York. He
served as private, corporal, and sergeant of
Troop A Cavalry, National Guard of Cali
fornia, from 1901 to 1903 ; organized Troop
D, National Guard of the State of New
York, and was elected its captain April 26,
1904, in which position he is still serving.
He was a member, of the St. Lawrence
County Sidepath Commission in 1900 and
1901. Dr. Cruikshank is a Republican in
politics. • He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Tech
nology Cluhof Syracuse, the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, the American
Society of Stationary Engineers, American
Society for Testing Materials, American
Forestry Association, International Socie
ty for Testing Materials, Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
Sons of the American Revolution (by three
ancestors), Society of Colonial Wars (by
two ancestors), the National Guard Asso
ciation, the American Cavalry Association,
the International Society of Arboriculture,
and the New York State Grange (Patrons
of Husbandry). His favorite recreation is
farming at his two hundred acre farm.
Cedar Cliff. Morristown, New York. While ¦
in California, he was secretary of the Sem-
pervirens Club of California, and was
therefore instrumental in securing to the
State the Big Basin Reserve of'Big Trees.
He married in Brooklyn, New York, De
cember 23. 1891, Edith Louise Du Bois.
Address: The Solvay Process Company,
Syracuse, New York.
CRUIKSHANK, George Marcus:
Editor ; born at Versailles, Woodford
County, Kentucky, March 15, 1852; son of
Marcus H. Cruikshank and Matilda W.
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bama, in boyhood, and was educated in the
schools and academy of that place, after
ward taking up the study of. law and en
gaging in practice at Talladega. He was
appointed principal of the Alabama In
stitution for the Blind in 1875, and served
in that capacity until 1881 ; was superin
tendent of the House of Representatives
Folding Room at Washington in 1891 and
1892, and assistant postmaster of Birming
ham, Alabama, from 1893 to 1897. ¦ Since
1897 he has been editor of the Daily Ledg
er at Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Cruik
shank is also author of The Story of the
Governors of Alabama, and of the Story
of the Chief Justices of Alabama. He is
a Democrat in politics. He married at
Birmingham, Alabama, November 9, 1887,
Mary R. Smith. Residence : 1816 Avenue
J., Birmingham, Alabama. Address : 21 19
Second Avenue, Birmingham, Alabama.
CRCMPACKER, Edgar Dean:
Lawyer and ex-congressman ; born in La-
porte County, Indiana. He was educated
in the common schools and at the Valparai
so Academy. -He was admitted to the bar
in 1876, and has been in the practice of
law at Valparaiso, Indiana, ever since. He
was prosecuting attorney for the Thirty-
first Judicial District of Indiana from 1884
to 1888, and then served as appellate judge
in the State of Indiana, by appointment,
under Governor Hovey, from March, i8gi,
to January 1, 1893. Mr. Crumpacker was
elected in 1896 from the Tenth Indiana
District to the Fifty-fifth Congress and re
elected in 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1906,
and is now serving in the Sixtieth Con
gress. Address : Valparaiso, Indiana.
CRUNDEN, ' Frederick Morgan:
Librarian ; born at Gravesend, Kent,
England, September 1, 1847; son of Ben
jamin Robert and Mary (Morgan) Crun-
den. He has been a resident of Saint
Louis from infancy and he received his
primary and preparatory education in the
public schools there, and the Saint Louis
High School, from which he was graduat
ed in 1865. He won a scholarship at

Washington University and completed the
course in three years, graduating with the
degree of A.B. in 1868, and he received
from that university the degree of A.M.
in 1872 and that of LL.D. in 1905. After
his graduation he engaged in teaching, and
was principal of Jefferson Grammar School
in 1869 and later of Benton Grammar
School until 1872, when he became a pro
fessor in Washington University until ap
pointed in 1877 librarian and secretary of
the Saint Louis Public Library, in which
position he has ever since continued. He
was chairman of the Library Section of the
International Congress of Arts and Sci
ences held in connection with the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in
1904, was president in 1889 and has ever
since been a member of the Council of the
American Library Association, and he was
a vice-president of the International Lib
rary Conference at London in 1897. He
is a member of the executive committee
of the American Library Institute, a mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Saint Louis
Artists' Guild, Saint Louis Academy of
Science, Missouri Historical Society, Am
erican Social Science Association, Ameri
can Economic Association, and American
Civic Association. He has delivered num
erous addresses on sociological and edu
cational topics and is an occasional con
tributor to leading magazines. He is a
Unitarian in his religious views, and is a
member of the University, Contemporary,
Round Table and Noonday Clubs of St.
Louis. Mr. Crunden married in Saint
Louis, 1889, Kate Edmondson. Address:
The Public Library, Saint Louis, Missouri.
CUDAHY, John:
Packer; born at Callan, in County Kil
kenny, Ireland, November 2, 1843; son of
Patrick Cudahy ' and Elizabeth (Shaw)
Cudahy. The family removed to the Unit
ed States in 1849, and settled at Milwau
kee, Wisconsin. There he attended the
public schools until he was fourteen years
old, when he went to work in the packing
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remaining there three years and then in
the employ of John Plankinton and his suc
cessor, the firm of Plankinton and Armour,
until in 1865 he went into business for
himself as a dealer in ornamental and fruit
trees. In 1870 he again became connected
with the packing business and was with
several Milwaukee firms until 1875, when
he became a partner in the firm of Chapin
and Company of Chicago. In 1877 the firm
became Chapin and Cudahy, and after
ward changed to the Cudahy Packing
Company. In 1881 with his brothers,
Michael and Patrick, he established the
firm of Cudahy Brothers, and for years, in
these and other connections, has been one
of the most prominent representatives of
the packing, provision and grain interests of
Chicago. He is a member of the Union
League Club of Chicago. Mr. Cudahy
married, first, at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
in 1873, Mary Nolan, and second at Chi
cago, Margaret F. O'Neil. Residence:
3254 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office
address: 145 Van Buren Street, Chicago,
Illinois.
CUDAHY, Michael:
Packer ; born at Callan, County Kilkenny,
Ireland, December 7,. 1841 ; son of Patrick
Cudahy and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy. The
family emigrated in 1849 and settled in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he was educated
;u the public schools there. He learned the
butcher's trade with his -father, and in 1856
entered the packing house of John Plankin
ton at Milwaukee, remaining there until
i860 when he became connected with • the
packing house of Edward Roddis at Mil
waukee, and afterward for four years was
manager of the packing house of Plankin
ton and Armour at Milwaukee. He was a
partner with Philip D. Armour in the firm
of Armour and Company from 1873 to 1890,
removing to Chicago. In .1881 he joined
his brothers, John and Patrick Cudahy, in
establishing the firm of Cudahy Brothers,
of which he is the senior member, and he is
also president of the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, conducting large packing and provis
ion enterprises at Milwaukee, Omaha, Sioux

City and Los Angeles. Mr. Cudahy is also
president Of the North American Transpor
tation and Trading Company, and a direc
tor of the Bankers' National Bank of Chi
cago. He is a member of the Union
League, Chicago Yacht, Sheridan, Glen
View and Exmoor Clubs. Residence : 3138
Michigan Avenue. Office address : 763 The
Rookery, Chicago, Illinois.
CUDAHY, Patrick:
Packer; born at Callan, County of Kil
kenny, Ireland, March 17, 1849 ; son of Pat
rick Cudahy and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cudahy,
and three months after his birth was
brought to the United States by his par
ents, who settled in Milwaukee. He was
educated in the public schools of Milwau
kee until he was twelve years old, when
he became a delivery boy for a Milwaukee
grocery firm, and two years later he be
came an employee of the packing house of
Edward Roddis and Company. He was af
terward in the employ of two other Mil
waukee packing firms and then of Plank
inton and Armour, and of the latter he
became superintendent in 1874 and a part
ner in' 1876. In 1888, with his brother,
John Cudahy, he bought out the interests
of Mr. Plankinton in the latter firm, which
became Cudahy Brothers, his brother Mich
ael later becoming interested also ; and the
business was in 1893 removed to a new
olant near Milwaukee at a place now named
Cudahy, and the business incorporated as
the Cudahy Brothers Company, now one of
the largest packing enterprises, of which
Mr. Patrick Cudahy is president and gen
eral manager. He is also -identified with
other Milwaukee corporations, including
the Milwaukee Rubber Works Company, of
which he is a member of the Executive
Board, and the Molthoff Machinery Com
pany, of which he is a director, as well
as other enterprises. He is a member of
the Milwaukee, Deutscher, Calumet, and
Milwaukee Country Clubs. Mr. Cudahy
married in Milwaukee, 1877, Annie A. Mad
den. Address : Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CULBERSON, Charles A.:
United States senator; born in Dade-
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10, 1855 ; the eldest son of the late David
B. Culberson, for twenty-two years a mem
ber of the House of Representatives, from
Texas, and Eugenia (Kimball) Culberson,
daughter of the late Dr. Allen Kimball of
Alabama. In 1856 he removed with his
parents from Alabama to Texas and re
sided at Gilmer and Jefferson until 1887,
when he removed to Dallas. He was
graduated from the Virginia Military In
stitute at Lexington in the class of 1874;
and studied law under his father and at
the University of Virginia in 1876 and
1877, under Professors Minor and South-
all ; and was the final orator of the Jeffer
son Literary Society and judge of the stu
dent law court at the University of Vir
ginia in 1877. Mr. Culberson was elected
attorney-general of Texas in 1890 and 1892,
governor of Texas in 1894 and 1896, was a
delegate at large to the Democratic Na
tional Conventions at Chicago in 1896 and
at St. Louis in 1904, and was chairman
of the Texas delegation at both. He was
chosen United States Senator January 25,
1899, with only three opposing votes to
succeed Senator Rogers Q. Mills, and was
unanimously reelected in 1905. His term
of office will expire March 3, 1911. Ad
dress : Dallas, Texas.
CULBRETH, David Marvel Reynolds:
Physician and educator; born at the
Reynolds homestead, Golden Ridge, near
Willow Grove, Kent County, Delaware,
December 4, 1856; son of Robert Baynard
Culbreth and Sarah Gilder Reynolds. His
ancestors were English and Scotch. His
early education was obtained at the neigh
boring public schools and at Felton Sem
inary. He entered the University of Vir
ginia in 1872, and was graduated there
from in 1877, and in 1879 he was graduated
from the Maryland College of Pharmacy,
being the president of the class and the
recipient of three prizes. In 1883 he was
graduated from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Baltimore. Dr. Culbreth
is professor of materia medica, botany and
pharmacognosy in the University of Mary
land. In 1893 . to T895 he published two

editions of Pharmaceutic Botany;, in
1896, 1900, 1903 and 1906, a text-book on
Materia Medica. and Pharmacology and in
1905 the Materia Medica Compend. He is
also author of numerous papers and essays
in technical journals. He is a member of
the Zeta Psi and Nu Sigma Nu fraternit
ies, the American Academy of Medicine,
Maryland Academy of Medicine, etc* He
rharried, April 26, 1894, Lizzie Gardner.
Address : 1307 North Calvert Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.
CULLEN, George Appeton:
Railway official ; born at St. Louis, Mis
souri, April 18, 1867; son of Mathew R.
Cullen and Winona G. Barbour Cullen.
He was educated in the public and high
school. He entered the railroad business
in 1877 as a clerk with the Missouri Pacific
Railroad in St. Louis and has since been
connected with the Wabash Railroad, the
Plant System of Railways, the Western
Passages and Southern Traffic Associa
tions. Mr. Cullen removed to New York
City, July 1, 1906, to ¦ assume his present
position as general passenger agent of the.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road. He is a Republican in politics and
a member of the Presbyterian church. He
is a director in the Olivet House Associa
tion Settlement at Chicago and was an
active worker there until his removal to
New York City. His favorite recreations
are driving, canoeing and rowing. Resi
dence: Orange, New Jersey. Address:
90 West Street, New York City.
CULLOM, Shelby Moore:
United States senator; born in Wayne
County, Kentucky, November 22, 1829; his
father removed to Tazewell County, Illi
nois, the following year. He received an
academic and university education, and
went to Springfield in the Fall of 1853 to
study law and has since resided there. >
Immediately upon receiving license to
practice he was elected city attorney. He
continued to practice law until he took his
seat in the House of Representatives in
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1866, on the Fillmore Ticket ; was elected
a member of the House of Representatives
of the Illinois Legislature in 1856, i860,
1872 and~l874, and was elected speaker in
1861 and 1873. Mr. Cullom was elected a
representative from Illinois in the Thirty-
ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses,
serving from December 4, 1865 to March 3,
1871. He was a delegate to the National
Republican Convention at Philadelphia in
1872, being chairman of the Illinois dele
gation, and placed General Grant in nom
ination. He was a delegate to the Nation
al Republican Convention in 1884, and was
chairman of the Illinois delegation. He
was elected governor of Illinois in 1876
and reelected in 1880, serving from Jan-
.uary 8, 1877, until February 6, 1883, when
he resigned, having been elected to the
United States Senate . to succeed David
Davis, Independent Democrat. . Fie took
his seat December 4, 1883, and was reelect
ed in 1888 and 1894, 1900 and again in
1906. Fie was a member of the commis
sion appointed to prepare a system of laws
for. the Hawaiian Islands. His term of
office will expire March 3, 1913. Resi
dence : Springfield, Illinois. Address :
1413 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington,
D. C.
CULVER, George Bradley:
Banker ; -born at Sandy Hill, Washington
County, New York, January 16, 1836; son
of James and Kezia (Lee) Culver. Fie was
educated in the public schools and the Rev.
Dr. Samuel B. Bostwick's private school at
Sandy Hill, New York; Prof. Fowler's
School at Poughkeepsie, New York, and the
Law Department of the University of Al
bany, New York, graduating as LL.B. in
1856. Mr. Culver enlisted August 24, 1861,
as first lieutenant of Company F, Forty-
third New York Volunteers Infantry and
also served in 1863-1864, in the Pay Depart
ment of the Army. He was admitted to
the bar, in 1856, and engaged in practice.
Sinc-e 1S71 he has been cashier and director
cf the North Granville National Bank. He
was for over twenty years one of the trus
tees of the North Granville Seminary, under

the regents. Mr. Culver is a Republican in
politics and an Episcopalian in religious affi
liation, and was treasurer of All Saints'
Church for years. He is a member of the
New York Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, the Sons of the Revolution, Wash
ington Commandery No. 33, Knights
Templar, Saratoga Springs and Oriental
Temple of Troy, New York, of Arabic
Order of Nobles of the .Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Culver married at Comstock, New
York, December 23, i86g, Lucy Com
stock Baker, daughter of Isaac V. and
Laura D. Comstock Baker, and of that union
there was born one daughter : Laura Baker
Culver, born September 8, 1872, died Octo
ber 17, igoi. Address: North Granville,
Washington County, New York.
CUMMINGS, David Mark:
Capitalist; boj-n in Pekin, Illinois, Febru
ary, 18, 1866; son of Columbus R. and
Sarah M. Cummings. After leaving ¦ the
public schools he pursued his studies at the
Racine (Wisconsin) College,- and at the
Phillips Andover (Massachusetts) Acade
my. He then entered Yale University and
was graduated in 1887. He began his busi
ness career in Chicago in the same year
with the banking house of Watriss, Breese
& Cummings, as the junior member, the
firm being subsequenly changed to Breese
& Cummings. Upon the death of his fa
ther, in 1897, he succeeded to the manage
ment of his many large business enter
prises. In the same year he became a di
rector of the Union National Bank of Chi
cago, and continued as such until its con
solidation with the First National Bank of
Chicago, of which he has since. been a di
rector. He is president and director of the
Pittsburgh Coal and Coke Company; vice-
president and director of the Hammond,
Whiting and East Chicago City Railway
Company, and the South Chicago Furnace
Company; director of the First Trust and
Savings Bank, and of the Morden Frog
and Crossing Works. He is a member
of the University, Chicago, Calumet, Chica
go Athletic and Washington Park Clubs.
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Ruth Dexter, and has two children : Edith
and Dexter. Residence : Lincoln Park
Boulevard, Chicago. Address : First Na
tional Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.
CUMMINGS, Edward:
Clergyman ; born • at Colebrook, Coos
County, New Hampshire, April 20, 1861 ;
son of Edward Norris Cummings and Lu-
cretia Frances (Merrill) Cummings. After
a thorough preparatory training he entered
Harvard College, from which he was gradu
ated as A.B. in 1883 and A.M. in 1885 ; and
he was a student at the Harvard Divinity
School from 1883 to 1885, and afterward in
the Graduate School of Harvard Univers
ity. He was the first incumbent of the Rob
ert Paine Fellowship in Social Science from
1888 to 1891, and studied sociology in Great
Britain, France, Italy and Germany; was a
resident of Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel,
London, in the winter of 1888 and 1889 ;
studied at the Ecole Libre des Sciences
Politiques at Paris and at the University of
Berlin. He was instructor two years, and
. assistant professor seven years, of sociology
at Harvard from 1891 to 1900; and since
October, 1900, has been minister of South
Congregational Church, Boston, being as
sociated with Dr. Edward Everett Hale,
minister emeritus. He is well known as a lec
turer and writer on sociological subjects,
and was one of the editors of the Quarterly
Journal of Economics. He is a director
of Hale House Social Settlement, vice-
president of the Benevolent Fraternity of
Churches, and president of the Massachu
setts Civic League. Mr. Cummings is iden
tified with many benevolent enterprises in
his city and State; is president of the As
sociation for Promoting the Interests of
the Adult Blind, and a director of the In
dustrial Aid Society, the Watch and Ward
Society, and the Boston Associated Chari
ties, and of the Massachusetts Prison As
sociation. He is vice-president of the
Round Table and a member of the Twen
tieth Century Club, the City Club, and .the
New Hampshire Club of Boston. He mar
ried at Roxbury, Massachusetts, June 25,
1891, Rebecca Haswell Clarke, and they
have two children : Edward Estlin and

Elizabeth Frances Cummings. Address:
104 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachu
setts.
CUMMINGS, Homer Stille:
Lawyer; born at Chicago, Illinois, April
30, 1870; son of Uriah and Audie Schuy
ler Cummings. He was graduated from
Yale University in 1891, with the degree
of Ph.B., and the following year regis
tered in the law school of the same uni
versity, from which he was graduated in
1893 with the degree of LL.B. He passed
his bar examinations the same year, and
commenced to practice, in Stamford, Con
necticut, where he has "won for himself a
high place in his profession and was for
three years president of the Board of
Trade. He is actively interested in the
Democratic party, being National Committee
man for Connecticut, and has served on
various political commissions and conven
tions. He was elected mayor of Stam
ford in 1900, and reelected in 1901, and
acted in that capacity until 1902, in which
year he was a candidate for Congress at
large. He was again elected mayor of
Stamford in 1904., He married at Larch
mont, New York, June 27, 1897, Helen W.
Smith. Address: Stamford, Connecticut
CUMMINS, Albert Baird:
Governor and lawyer; born at Car
michael, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1850.
He received his education at the Academy
at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and was ad
mitted to tlie bar of that State. He went
to Iowa and located in practice at Des
Moines. Mr. Cummins was a member of
the Republican National Committee from
1896 to 1900 and in 1901 he was elected
governor of Iowa for the term expiring in
1904. He was renominated in 1903 for the
term ending in 1906, and again in 1906 for
the term expiring 1908. Governor Cum
mins has a great reputation as a cam
paigner, and while he has antagonized a
faction in his own party, he has built up
an enthusiastic and victorious following
among the progressive element of the party
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CUNNINGHAM, Arthur:
Librarian; born in Richmond, Indiana,
February 21, 1865; son of Joseph Arthur
and Sarah Jane (Swaney) Cunningham.
He is a nephew of Mrs. Jane Cunning
ham Croly (Jennie June). After graduat
ing from De Pauw Uhiversity in 1887, he
was instructor in Latin and assistant li
brarian in that institution, and was sub-
seuently appointed librarian and professor
of library science in the Indiana State
Normal School at , Terre Haute, Indiana.
He was one of the founders of the In
diana Library Association, its first vice-
president, its second president, and was
also elected a member of the American Li
brary Association. In 1890 his alma mater
conferred upon him the A.M. degree. He
is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fratern
ity and Tribe of Ben Hur. His first wife,
Eleanor Pierey, died May 9, 1892, and he
subsequently married on March 9, 1894,
Elizabeth Long, a professor of mathematics
in the Indiana State Normal School, who
died July 23, 1904. He has one child :
Eleanor Cunningham, born August 4, 1889.
Address : Terre Haute, Indiana.
CUNNINGHAM, Edwin S.:
Lawyer and American consul; bora in
Sevier County, Tennessee, July 6, 1868;
son of Major Ben Cunningham and Jane
A. (Sheddan) Cunningham. He was -grad
uated from Maryville College, Maryville,
Tennessee, as A.B. in 1889, and from the
University of Michigan as LL.B. in 1893.
He was junior member of the law firm of
Gates & Cunningham, Maryville, Tennes
see, until February, 1898, when he was ap
pointed consul to Aden, Arabia, by Presi
dent McKinley. He was transferred to
Bergen,- Norway, in 1903, and to Durban,
Natal, in 1906, by President Roosevelt;
and is now American consul at Durban.
Mr. Cunningham has traveled exterisively
in the United States, Mexico, and Canada,
Southern and Northern Europe, the United
Kingdom, and parts of Asia- and Africa.
He is a Republican in politics and a Pres
byterian in religion, and he is a member
of the Knights of Pythias. Home: Mary

ville, Tennessee. Address : Durban, Natal,
Africa.
CUNNINGHAM, George A.:
Lawyer; bora near Princeton, Gibson
County, Indiana, April 4, 1855 ; son of Jos
eph and Mary Jane (Arbuthnot) Cunning
ham. After receiving his education in the
public schools of his native county, he
commenced teaching at the age of eighteen.
In 1874 he entered Ashury University,
where he studied for a year, and then
taught for two years more, during which
time he studied law and was admitted to
the Indiana bar in 1877. He commenced to
practice in Evansville, where he has since
been prominent as counsel for the Evans
ville, Suburban & Newburgh Railway, the
First National Bank, and the City National
Bank. He is connected with several legal
organizations, and was chosen a delegate
to attend the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists, held at St. Louis, in 1904.
He married at Evansville, Indiana, Novem
ber 10, 1881, Susan Shaw Garvin, who died
in 1900. Address : Evansville, Indiana.
CUNNINGHAM, John E.
Catholic bishop of Concordia ; born in
the parish of Irremore, County Kerry, Ire
land, in July, 1842; son of John Cunning
ham and Catherine (Fitzgerald) Cunning
ham. He received his preparatory education
in the classical school at Listowel, Ireland,
then came to the United States and enter
ed Saint Benedict's College, at Atchison,
Kansas, from which he was graduated in
i860, and afterward took the theological
course » at Saint Francis' Seminary, Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, from which he receiv
ed the degree of D.D. He was ordained
priest in the cathedral at Leavenworth,
Kansas, August 8, 1865, and was the first
Catholic resident pastor at Fort Scott, Kan
sas, from 1865 to 1868, and transferred to
Saint John's Church, Lawrence, Kansas,
in 1868. He remained pastor there until
1876, building a new church and pastor's
residence. After the devastation from the
drought and grasshoppers, he went all over
the Eastern States securing donations for
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the payment of the debt of Leavenworth
Cathedral. He was pastor of the Church
of the Assumption at Topeka, Kansas,
from 1876 to 1882, building a new church
and securing much Church property for
that parish, became vicar-general of the
diocese of Leavenworth, January 1, 1881,
and rector of Leavenworth Cathedral from
1882 to 1898, and September 21, 1898, he
was consecrated bishop of Concordia, Kan
sas, since then administering the affairs of
that diocese. Address : Concordia, Kansas.
CUNNINGHAM, John L.:
Fire insurance president; born in Hud
son, New York, April 5, 1840 ; son of Jere
miah Cunningham and Bethia (White)
Cunningham. He was educated in the
common and private schools, and the Union
University- Law School at Albany, New
York, graduating in 1861 with the degree
of LL.B. Mr. Cunningham practiced law
at Essex, New York, until he enlisted in
the One Hundred Eighteenth New York
Regiment and went to the front and saw
much active service. He was for some
time provost marshal at Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, and came out of the war as major
and brevet lieutenant-colonel. On his re
turn from the war he was appointed col
lector of internal revenue for the Sixteenth
Congressional District of New York, but
resigned to join the field force of the
Glens Falls Insurance Company, as special
agent. He was elected in 1872 secret
ary of the company and was virtually its
manager. Since the death of President
Little in 1892, Mr. Cunningham has been
president and director of the company. He
is a Republican and an elder of the Pres
byterian Church. He married at Chester-
town, New York, Elizabeth Fowler, now
deceased. He has one daughter, Beth,
now the wife of William A. Brown of
Glens Falls, New York. Address : Glens
Falls, New York.
CUNNINGHAM, Solomon M. :
Lawyer; born ill Baxter County, Arkan
sas, August 1, 1868; son of Abner W. and

Nancy C. (Megee) Cunningham. After
studying in the country schools of -his
native county, he worked for several years
on his father's farm, but improved his leis
ure time by studying law, and in 1893
passed his bar examinations. Upon the
commencement of the Spanish-American
War, he joined the army as a private in
the Rough Riders, and for valiant service
was advanced to the rank of captain. Since
1901 he has resided in Lawton, Oklahoma
Territory, where he is county and district
attorney of Comanche County. He is a
member of the Oklahoma Bar Association,
and in 1904 was sent to St. Louis as a
delegate to the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists. He was married at Bren
ham, Texas, May 19, 1900, to Beulah B.
Burke. Address : Lawton, Oklahoma Ter
ritory.
CUNNINGHAM, Thomas D/:
Banker and coal operator; bom in
Blairsville, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1839;
son of John Cunningham and Rachel (Wal
lace) Cunningham. He was graduated
from Jefferson College with the degree of
A.B. in 1864, and later had conferred on
I him the degree of A.M. After his gradua-
j tion he spent one year in the mercantile
I business in company with three brothers,
and then entered the First National Bank
of Blairsville as clerk. After one year's
service he was made cashier and having
served in that capacity for many years
was made president, which position he still
holds. Fie is treasurer of the Blairsville
Coke Company; vice-president of the Som
erset Mining Company ; treasurer of the
Blairsville Land Improvement Company;
the Conemaugh Building and Loan As
sociation, and the Citizen's Heat, Light
and Power Company. Mr. Cunningham
served as sergeant, second lieutenant and
first lieutenant of Company B, of the
Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun
teers. -During the war of the Rebellion
he was attached to the Army of the Po
tomac, and was discharged from service
November, 1863, on account of a wound
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Gettysburg. He is a member of the Amer
ican Academy of Political and Social
Science; the National Geographic Society
of Washington, District of Columbia; and
the Phi Kappa Chi fraternity; also trustee
of the Blairsville College for Women, and
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, and Grand Army of the
Republic. His favorite recreations are
hunting and trout fishing. Mr. Cunning
ham is a Republican in politics and a
member of the Presbyterian Church. He
married at Blairsville, June 13, 1867, Helen
S. Shepley, and they have six children :
Samuel H., Thomas D., Helen S., Rachel
W., Mary C, and George S. Cunningham.
Residence: Spring Street, Blairsville. Of
fice address : Care First National Bank,
Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
CCPPLES, Samuel:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 13,
1831 ; son of James Cupples and Elizabeth
(Bigham) Cupples. He received his educa
tion in the public schools and at the age
of twelve years began his business career
as a. boy in a grocery store at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He removed in 1846 to Cin
cinnati, Ohio, where he entered the em
ploy of A. O. Tyler, the pioneer manu
facturer of wooden-ware in the West, and
there became thoroughly acquainted with
the wooden-ware business. In 1851 he re
moved to Saint Louis and began as a
manufacturer of wooden-ware on his own
account, as Samuel Cupples & Company,
which within a few years became the larg
est enterprise of its kind in the United
States; and he is now president of the
Samuel Cupples Wooden-Ware Company,
operating the largest business of its kind,
in the world and controlling many subsid
iary companies, president of the Samuel
Cupples Real Estate Company of Saint
Louis, and of the Samuel Cupples Envelope
Company, and he is also interested as dir
ector in other industrial and financial cor
porations. Mr. Cupples is a Methodist in
his religious affiliation. He married in
Saint Louis, in 1854, Amelia Kells, now

deceased, and has one daughter, Mrs. Ame
lia Cupples Scudder. Residence : 3673
Pine Boulevard, Saint Louis. Office ad
dress : Seventh and Spruce Streets, Saint
Louis, Missouri.
CURRAN, Charles Courtney:
Artist; born at Hartford, Kentucky,
February 13, 1861 ; son of Ulysses Thomp
son and Elizabeth (Thompson) Curran.
He was educated in Ohio at the common
schools and high school, being graduated
from the latter. He has received second
and third Halgarten prizes and the Clarke
Prize for the best figure picture from the
National Academy of Design, also honor
able mention, at the Paris Salon, besides
being the recipient of various medals from
the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893,
the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in
189S, the Pan-American Exposition at Buf
falo in 1901, and the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position in St. Louis, 1904. He received
the Carnegie Prize of five hundred dollars
from the Society of American Artists and
the first Corcoran Prize in Washington.
Mr. Curran has served as assistant to the
director of Fine Arts at the Paris Exposi
tion ir; 1900, and as assistant director of
Fine Arts of the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo. He is secretary and treasurer
of the Colonial Studios (stock company)
and has made three trips to Europe. In
politics he is a Republican and he is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. In
1904 he was elected member of the Nation
al Academy of Design, being also a mem
ber of the American Water Color Society,
of the New York Water Color Club
and of the Salmagundi Club. He is a life
member of the Lotos Club and Fencers'
Club of New York City. His chief re
creation is fencing. He was married at
Norwalk, Ohio, in 1888, to Grace Win
throp Wickham, and has had three chil
dren : Louis Wickham, born in 1889, Stan
ley Thompson, born in 1894, and Emily,
born in 1904. Address: 39 West Sixty-
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CURRAN, William Reid:
Lawyer; bora at Paterson, Ohio, Decem
ber 3, 1854 j son of Thomas S. and Margaret
E. (Reid) Curran. He was graduated
from the Chatsworth (Illinois) high school,
after which he studied law and was ad
mitted to the Illinois bar in 1876, and sub
sequently to practice in the United States
District, Circuit and Supreme Courts, en
gaging in legal practice in Pekin, Illinois.
He has been prominent in public offices
in Tazewell County, having served for
eight years as master in chancery, and
for four years as county judge. He is also
president and director of the Pekin Loan
and Homestead Association. He is a
member of the American Bar Association,
and in 1904 was chosen a delegate to attend
the Universal Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists, held at St. Louis. He married at
Tonica, Illinois, December 28, 1876, Mary
C. Burgess. Address : Pekin, Illinois.
CCRREY, Jonathan B.:
Adjuster of marine losses ; bora at York-
town, New York, May 9, 1847; son of
Rev. Benjamin and Susan (Hart) Currey.
He was educated in private schools and at
the Washington County Collegiate Insti
tute and he studied marine law for six
years, with Judge James S. Chew. He has
practiced adjusting marine losses for twen
ty years, and since 1893 he has been presi
dent and trustee .of the Metropolitan Sav
ings Bank of New York City. He is trus
tee of the North River Insurance Com
pany, the Van Norden Trust Company, a
director of the Nineteenth Ward Bank and
the Fifth Avenue 'Estates. Mr. Currey is
a Republican in politics. He is a member
of the Average Adjusters' Association of
United States and was its chairman, 1894
to 1895 ; and is also a trustee of the Met
ropolitan Throat Hospital. Mr. Currey is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Grand Army of the Republic and the
Sons- of the American Revolution and the
Lotos Club of New York. Mr. Currey's
favorite recreation is farming and he has
a country home at Mohegan Lake, New
York. He married at St. Louis, Mo.,

April 17, 1894, Mary S., daughter of Colon
el Henry Clay Moore. Address : 59 Coop
er Square, New York City.
CURRIER, Frank Dunklee:
Lawyer and congressman, born at Can
aan, New Hampshire, October 30, 1853.
He received his educatiori in the common
schools and in the Academy. He studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1874.
Mr. Currier was a member of the New
Hampshire House of Representatives in
1879, was secretary of the Republican State
Committee from 1882 to 1890 and was
clerk of the State Senate from 1883 to
1887. In 1884 he was a delegate to the-
Republican National Convention. He was
president of the State Senate in 1887, and
was naval officer of customs of the port
of Boston, Massachusetts^ from 1890 to
1894. He was speaker of the New Hamp
shire House of Representatives in 1899;
was elected from the Second New Hamp
shire District in 1900 to. the Fifty-seventh
Congress and reelected in 1902, 1904 and
1906, and is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress. Address : Canaan, New Hamp
shire.
CURRY, Samuel Silas:
President of the School of Expression;
born at Chatata, Tennessee, 1847; son of
James Campbell Curry. He was graduated
from Grant University in 1872,' and after
ward studied at Boston University, receiv
ing the degrees of A.M. and B.D. in 1875
and of Ph. D. in 1879. He specialized in
rhetorical and oratorical studies and stud
ied elocution, exression, etc., under more
than forty of the foremost teachers in Eu
rope and America. He was professor of ora
tory at Boston University from 1879 to
1888, has been acting professor of elocution
at Newton Theological Seminary since
1884, and also instructor in elocution at
Harvard College, from 1891 to 1894, Har
vard Divinity School from 1896 to 1902,
the Divinity School at Yale from 1892 to
1902, and he founded and has from the
first been president of the School of Ex
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eral widely circulated volumes on the art
of expression and related themes, including :
The Province of Expression; Lessons in
Vocal Expression ; Imagination and Dram
atic Instinct; Vocal and Literary Inter
pretation of the Bible, etc., and is editor
of: Classics for Vocal Expression. Resi
dence: 5 Riedesel Avenue, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Office address : 19 Pierce
Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
CURTIN, Roland Gideon:
Physician; bora at Bellefonte, Pennsyl
vania, October 29, 1839; son of Dr. Con
stance Curtin and Mary Anne (Kinne)
Curtin. He is a lineal descendant on the
maternal side from Thomas Welles, the
third governor of Connecticut, and also a
descendant of John Humphries, the first
lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts Bay
Colony, Anderson Winthrop and Colonial
Governor Pyncheon, of Springfield, Mass.
He was educated in the Bellefonte public
schools and the Bellefonte Academy, at his
birthplace, and graduated at Williston
Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts,
in 1859, and at the University of Pennsyl
vania, in 1866 • he received the degree of
M.D., and Ph.D. in 1871, and he also re
ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from
Lafayette College in 1883. He was engag
ed in the iron business in Philadelphia in
1859 and i860, and after that served as
United States naval storekeeper for over
three years in the Civil War. After his
graduation in medicine he was resident
physician at the Philadelphia Hospital, 1866
and 1867, visited the hospitals in Great
Britain and on the continent of Europe in
1868, and later in the same year became
connected, as assistant United States geo
logist and surgeon, with the famous ex
ploring expedition and geological survey of
the Rocky "Mountain region known as the
Hayden Survey. He was professor of geo
logy at the Wagner Free Ins'itute of Phil
adelphia from 1871 to 1873, and later pro
fessor of minerology in George's Institute,
Philadelphia. He was assistant physician
to the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity from
1871 to 1882, was chief of the Medical Dis

pensary of the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania for ten years, was lectur
er on physical diagnosis at the University
of Pennsylvania for twenty years, assist
ant to the professor of clinical medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania from
1879 to 1887, . and also ex-president and
historian of the Alumni Society of the
Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, and physician to the Throat
and Chest Department of Howard Hospital
from 1876 to 1882. He was also visiting
physician to the Maternity Hospital of
Philadelphia for seven years, and has been
visiting physician to the Presbyterian Hos
pital since 1887. He was a member of the
medical staff of the Philadelphia General
Hospital (Blockley) for twenty-five years,
and president of its Medical Board from
1890 to 1906, and is now emeritus visiting
physician to the same. He is also consult
ing physician to the Rush Hospital for
Consumptives, St. Timothy's Hospital,
Douglas Hospital, the Jewish Hospital.
He is now a member, and was formerly
president, of the American Climatological
Society, resident of the Philadelphia Medi
cal .Club in 1905 and 1906, member and
was president in 1905 and 1906 of the
Philadelphia County Medical Society, and
physician to the University of Pennsylvan
ia Hospital. He is a member of the Na
tional Association for the Study and Pre
vention of Tuberculosis, and also of the
American Anthropological Society, and the
American Social Service Association. He
is grand president of the Alpha Nu Pi
Omega, medical fraternity, and a member
of the Phi. Gamma Delta fraternity, and is
president of the Phi Gamma Delta Grad
uate Club of Philadelphia. Dr. Curtin is
a member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, and was its delegate to the British
Medical Association at London in 1895, a
member of the Philadelphia County Medi
cal Society, and is a member of the Medi
cal Society of Pennsylvania. He was as
sistant medical director of the Centennial
Exhibition in 1876, a member of the Com
mittee of Arrangements of the Internation
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1876, and was a member of the First, Sec
ond, Third and Fourth Pan-American
Medical Congresses at Washington in 1893,
Mexico in 1896, Cuba in 1902, and Panama
in 1906. Dr. Curtin is a member of the
Episcopal Church and is a manager of the
Midnight Mission of Philadelphia. He is
a member of the Pennsylvania Genealogi
cal Society, the Pennsylvania Historical
Society, Fairmount Park Association and
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil
adelphia. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and a member of Post 2 of the
Grand Ar,my of the Republic; is past com
mander of the Philadelphia Association of
Naval Veterans (from 1861 to 1865), and
a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Dr. Curtin married, at Hartford,
Connecticut, March 21, 1882, Julia Taylor
Robinson, who died March 18, 1905. Of
this union there were two children : Roland
G. Curtin, Jr., who died when one year
old, and Mary Constance Curtin,. born in
1886. Address: 22 South Eighteenth St.,
Philadelphia.
CURTIS, Alfred Allen:
Catholic bishop; born in Somerset Coun
ty, Maryland, July 4, 1831. Fie received
his early education in th<>. schools of Som
erset County, Maryland, and then studied
for the ministry of the Protestant Episco
pal Church. Fie was ordered deacon in
1856 and priest in 1859 and had charge
of St. John's Episcopal Church at Wor
cester, Mass. He resigned from the Pro
testant Episcopal ministry in 1870, and
April 18, 1872, was received into the Rom
an Catholic communion by Bishop John
Henry Newman. He returned to the Unit
ed States, entered the Seminary of Saint
Sulpice at Baltimore, and was ordained
priest of the Catholic Church, December 18,
1874. He was appointed assistant at Balti
more Cathedral and was private secretary
to the Archbishop until consecrated Nov
ember 16, 1886, Bishop of Wilmington,
Delaware. He resigned that bishopric Jan
uary 23, 1896, receiving the titular see of
Echinus, and remained bishop administrat

or of Wilmington, Delaware, until May 2,
1897. He was appointed in 1898, by Car
dinal Gibbons, vicar-general of Baltimore,
in which office he is now serving. Ad
dress : Baltimore, Maryland.
CURTIS, Charles:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in
what is now known as North Topeka,
Shawnee County, Kansas, January 25, i860.
He received his education in the common
schools of the city of Topeka, and studied
law with A. H.' Case at Topeka. He was
admitted to the bar in 1881, and entered
into partnership in 1881 with Mr. Case, re
maining with him until 1884. Mr. Curtis
was elected county attorney of Shawnee
County in 1884 and reelected in 1886. He
was elected to the Fifty-third Congress in
1892, and reelected in 1894 and 1896 from
the Fourth Kansas District. In 1897 Shaw
nee County was taken out of the Fourth
District and placed in the First District.
Mr. Curtis was nominated by the Republi
cans of the First District and elected in
1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, and he
was reelected in igoo, 1902, 1904 and 1906,
and is now serving in the Sixtieth Con
gress. Address : Topeka, Kansas.
CURTIS, Cyrus H. K.:
Publisher; born at Portland, Maine,
June 18, 1850; son of Cyrus L. Curtis and
Salome A. Curtis. He was educated in
public schools in New England, and after
leaving school went to Boston and engag
ed in the newspaper publishing business
and to Philadelphia in 1876, establishing
the Tribune and Farmer, and later he
founded the Ladies' Home Journal, which
has met with the most remarkable success.
attaining a monthly circulation of over one
million copies. He organized the Curtis
Publishing Co., of which he is president, to
carry on that publication and added the
Saturday Evening Post, an old paper which
is the direct continuation of the ' Pennsyl
vania Gazette, founded by Benjamin Frank
lin in 1728. This weekly journal has also
attained great popularity and a large cir
culation all over the United States. Mr.
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March 10, 1875, Louise Knapp, and they
have, a daughter, Mary Louise (wife of
Edward W. Bok) . Residence : Wyncote,
Pennsylvania. Office address : 425 Arch
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CURTIS, Edward:
Physician; born at Providence, Rhode
Island, June 4, 1838; son of George Curtis
and Julia Bowen (Bridgham) Curtis. lie
was graduated from Flarvard College as
A.B. in 1859, A.M. in 1862, and from the
University of Pennsylvania as M.D. in
1864. He resigned from the medical ser
vice of the United States Army in 1870,
and retired from active service as medical
director of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, February 3, 1904. Dr. Curtis is
author of numerous medical papers and
brochures and encyclopaedia articles and of
Months and Moods, a Fifteen Year Cal--
endar 1903 (The Grafton Press) ; and Na
ture and Health, a Popular Treatise on the
Hygiene of the Person and the Home,
1906 (Henry Holt and Company). He is
emeritus professor of materia medica and
therapeutics in Columbia University, is an
honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, member of the American Institute,
and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia. He is a member of the
Lounty and State Medical Societies of
New York, the Roman Medical Society,
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, the Sons of the Revolu
tion, and the Century Association. Dr.
Curtis married at Chester, Pennsylvania,
November 16, 1864, Augusta Lawler Stacey,
and they have five children: Constance,
George DeClyyer, Natalie, Bridgham and
Marian (Mrs. R. B. Whitman). Address:
33 West Sixty-ninth Street, New York
City.
CURTIS, Frederic C:
Physician ; born at Union, South -Caro
lina, October 19, 1843 ; son of Lupton War
ner and Elizabeth (Colton) Curtis. Mr.
Curtis was graduated from Beloit College
as A.B. in 1866, and after a year at the
University of Michigan, entered -the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (medical

department of Columbia College) from
which he was graduated as M.D., in 1870;
and he afterward took post-graduate work
at the University of Vienna. Dr. Curtis
has been engaged in practice as a physician
from 1871. He is a member and was for
seventeen years secretary of the Medical
Society of the State of New York and
president in 1907. Since soon after es
tablishment of the State Department of
Health, he has been connected with it act
ively in its medical and literary work. He
was an editor for several years, at its be
ginning, of the Albany Medical Annals, and
is otherwise an extensive contributor to
current medical literature. He has been
several times in Europe. Dr. Curtis was
health officer of Albany in 1875 and 1876.
He served four months as a private of the
Fortieth Wisconsin Volunteers in 1864 in
the Civil War. Dr. Curtis is professor of
dermatology at Albany Medical College, is
a physician to the Albany and Child's Hos
pitals and a medical expert of the New
York State Department of Health. Dr.
Curtis is a Republican in politics, and he
is an elder of the Second Presbyterian
Church. He is a member of the Medical
Society of the County of Albany, the Am
erican Public Flealth Association, the
Grand Army of the Republic (Post 63),
the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of
Mayflower Descendants, the Albany His
torical and Art Association, and the Nu
Sigma Nu fraternity. He is a trustee
of Albany Academy for Girls and of the
Albany County Savings Bank. Dr. Curtis
married at Albany, New York, June 3,
1884, Charlotte Elizabeth Bancroft. Ad
dress : 17 Washington Avenue, Albany,
New York.
CURTIS, James Breckinridge:
Lawyer; born at Indianapolis, Indiana,
in 1865 ; son of James J. and Margaret
(McCain) Curtis. He graduated from
Butler College (University of Indianapol
is) as A.B. in 1885, and A.M., in 1886.
He made a special study of the law of
corporations ; was corporation counsel of
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disputes and litigation between city and
traction companies, railroad and telephone
companies, was member of the Indiana
House of Representatives, 1885 to 1895;
speaker of the House from 1893 to 1895;
introduced and advocated to passage one
of the earliest bills for a modern city
charter, recognized as a model; advocated
Australian ballot and prison reform laws;
procured first appropriation for In
diana , National Guard, of which he
was member seventeen years, retiring as
colonel ; commanded light battery of ar
tillery, Spanish-American War, serving in
Porto Rico in Miles' Expedition ; and for
twenty years commanded the champion bat
tery artillery, as demonstrated in annual
competitions At the close of the Spanish-
American War he came to New York City,
where he has given special attention to
corporation practice in New York, " and
throughout United States. Mr. Curtis is
a director of the American District Tele
graph Company, Holmes' Electric Protec
tion Company, Telephone Contracting Com
pany. He is a Democrat in politics; is a
member of Delta Tau Delta; president of
the Indiana Society of New York. Clubs :
Riding, Manhattan, Lawyers'. He married
in Morristown, New Jersey, 1890, Jennette
Custer, and they have two children : Brian
and Charles Cutler. Address : 170 Broad
way, New York City.
CURTIS, William Edmond:
Lawyer; born in New York City, June
2, 1855; the eldest son of the late William
Edmond Curtis, chief justice of the Su
perior Court of New York, and Mary A.
(Scovill) Curtis. He was graduated from
Trinity College, Hartford, 1875, received
honorary degree of LL.D., 1902. He was
admitted to the New York bar in 1877, and
began practice as a member of the firm of
Stearns & Curtis. From 1893 to 1897 he
was assistant secretary of the Treasury of
the United States, and during the term was
for several months in England on a special
mission for the Treasury Department.
Since 1897 he has been senior member of
the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost &
Colt. Mr. Curtis is a Democrat and took

an earnest part in -the movement which re
sulted in the Syracuse Convention in 1892;
and was treasurer of the Provisional 'State
Committee. He was aqueduct commission
er of the City of New York under Mayor
Low in 1902,. and a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention in 1904. Mr. Cur
tis is a member of the Episcopal Church.
He is a life trustee of Trinity College; a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York; a fellow of the
American Geographical Society; and a life
member of the New York Historical So
ciety and he is also a member of the Cen
tury Association, the Union, Tuxedo, Down
Town, City, Midday, Manhattan, Univer
sity, Church and City Clubs of New York
City; the Garden City Golf Club, and the
Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C.
Address : 27 West Forty-seventh Street,
New York City.
CURTIS, William Eleroy:
Newspaper correspondent and author;
born in Akron, Ohio, November 5, 1850 ; son
of Rev. Eleroy Curtis, D.D., and Harriet
Eddy (Coe) Curtis. He was educated at
the Western Reserve University, from
which he received the degrees of A.B.,
A.M., and Litt. D., and he received the de
gree of L.H.D. from Amherst College. He
began his newspaper career by work on the
Cleveland Leader from 1867 to 1871, dur
ing college vacations, then on the Erie Dis
patch in 1871 ; the Toledo Commercial in
1872; the Inter-Ocean, Chicago, from May,
1872, to March, 1887; as managing editor
from 1880 to 1884, and Washington corres
pondent and traveling correspondent the
remainder of the time. Since 1887 he has
been with the Chicago Record and its suc
cessor, the Chicago Record-Herald, in
which his letters from Washington and
from all over the world have been a lead
ing ¦ feature for twenty years. Mr. Cur
tis has visited all parts of the world
except Australia and South Africa. He
was minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Mexico and the Republics of Cen
tral arid South America in 1884; special
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commissioner to the Columbus Exposition,
Madrid, in 1892 ; chief of the Latin-Ameri
can , Department, and historical section of
the World's Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago in 1893; executive officer of the First
Pan-American Conference; founder and
first director of the Bureau of American
Republics in 1890, and commissioner to the
Vatican for the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition in 1903. He is a Republican in poli
tics, a Presbyterian in religious affiliation,
and a trustee of the Church of the Cov
enant at Washington. Mr. Curtis is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American
Historical Association and many other
learned societies of Europe and America;
also of the National Geographic Society of
the United States; and he is grand com
mander of the (Spanish) Order of Isabella
the Catholic. He is a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity and the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, of the Union , League and
Alpha Delta Phi Clubs of New York City;
the Cosmos and Gridiron Clubs of Wash
ington, and the Press Club of Chicago.
He is author of a large number of vol
umes of travel, works on political econo
my, biography and novels. Mr. Curtis mar
ried at Erie, Pennsylvania, December 24,
1874, Cora Isabel Kepler, and they have
had three children: George Kepler Curtis,
Eleroy Curtis, and Elsie Evans Curtis.
Residence: 1801 Connecticut Avenue, N.
W., Washington, D. C. Office address:
Home Life Building, Washington, D. C.
CUSHING, Paul (Roland Alex. Wood-Seys) :
Olive-grower and novelist ; born at Stout-
bridge, England, November 5, 1854. He
was educated privately. He went abroad
in 1876, and lived in Canada and the
United States. He engaged in literary
work until 1884; and he was afterward
engaged by publishers as a reader and
reviewer, and contributed to most of the
leading London journals. He is an exten
sive traveler, and is now engaged in olive
growing and literary work in. California.
He is author of: Blacksmith of Voe;
Women With a Secret; Bull i' th' Thorn;
Cut With His Own Diamond; The Shep

herdess of Treva; God's Lad; and other
works. Mr. Cushing's favorite recreations
are golf and shooting. Address: The
Hermitage, Oceanside, San Diego County,
California.
CUTCHEON, Byron M. :
Lawyer, soldier; born at Pembroke, New
Hampshire, May 11, 1836; son of Rev.
James M. Cutcheon and Hannah (Tripp)
Cuteheon. His ancestors (the name being
originally McCutcheon) came from the
north of Ireland, arid settled at or near
Londonderry, New Hampshire, about 1720.
He is a grandson of Frederick McCutch
eon, of Pembroke, New Hampshire, who
served four separate enlistments in the
Continental Army from 1775; and on the
maternal side is grandson of Richard
Tripp, of Epsom, New Hampshire, who
served several enlistments in the same
army under General John Stark. His edu
cation was begun in the district schools
and at Pembroke Academy, and in 1857 he
became principal of the Academy at Birm
ingham, Oakland County, Michigan. He
then entered the. University of Michigan,
and was graduated from that institution
with the A.B. degree in 1861. He became
principal of the Union Seminary at Ypsil-
anti, Michigan, after his graduation in
1861, but resigned in July, 1862, in order
raise a company of the Twentieth Regiment
of Michigan Volunteer Infantry, of which
he became second lieutenant, July 15, 1862.
He was promoted captain July 29, 1862;
major, October 14, 1862; lieutenant-colonel,
November 16, 1863, and colonel, November
21, 1863, all in the Twentieth Michigan
Regiment. He was" brevetted colonel of
United States Volunteers, August 18, 1864,
and brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, and
he was awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor for leading the charge on the
house of Wesley Coffey (commonly. known
as the Coffee House), then occupied as a
block-house by Confederate sharpshooters.
He served in the Twentieth Michigan Reg
iment until December 12, 1864, when he be
came colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regi
ment of Michigan Infantry, and he com
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B. Willcox's First Division of the Ninth
Army Corps, from October 16, 1864, to
March 6, 1865. He took an active part in
the Antietam Campaign in Maryland in
September and October, 1862 ; campaigns in
Kentucky, April and May, 1863; in Missis
sippi, June to August, 1863 ; East Tennes^
see from September, 1863, to March, 1864;
and in the Army of the Potomac through
the Wilderness and Appomatox Campaigns
of 1864 and 1865 ; and he was twice wound
ed in the battle of Spottsylvania, Virginia,
May 10, 1864. After his return from the
war, General Cutcheon was admitted to
the Michigan bar at Ann Arbor in Janu
ary, 1866, and the same year received from
the University of Michigan the degrees of
A.M. and LL.B. He began the practice
of the law at Ionia, Michigan, in August,
1866, and removed to Manistee, Michigan,
in September, 1867. He practiced in the
firm of Bullis & Cutcheon. from 1867 to
1880, and then alone until 1882. General
Cutchen became prominent in the public af
fairs of Michigan as a Republican, and has
held various important public positions.
He was a member of the Board of Control
of Railroads from 1866 to 1883 ; was presi
dent of the Board of Commissioners of the
Michigan Soldiers' Home from 1866 to
1867. He was elected a presidential elector
on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868,
and was secretary of the Michigan Elector
al College in 1869. He was a member of
the Common Council of Manistee, Michi
gan, in 1869 and 1870; city attorney of
Manistee in 1870 and 1871 ; was elected
prosecuting attorney of Manistee County in
1872, serving one term, 1873 and 1874, but
declined reelection ; was regent of the Uni
versity of Michigan from 1876 to 1883, and
postmaster of Manistee city from 1877 to
1883. In 1882 he was elected on the Re
publican ticket to the Forty-eighth Con
gress, and was reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses,
in the latter being chairman of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, and serving
from 1883 to 1891. In 1891 he removed to
Grand Rapids, Michigan, in which city he
has since been engaged in the practice of
law. In 1891 he was appointed by Presi

dent Harrison a member of the Board of
Ordinance and -Fortification of the United
States on which he served until March, 1895.
From 1895 to 1897, inclusive, he was
editorial writer on the Detroit Tribune and
the Detroit Journal. General Cutcheon is
a prominet layman of the Congregational
Church; a member of the Park Congrega
tional Church of Grand Rapids; a corpor
ate member of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and
a member of the Congregational Club of
Western Michigan. _ He is a member and
has been president, orator and poet of the
Alumni Association of the University of
Michigan ; is a member of the Michigan
State Bar Association, the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
the Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States, the Sons of the American Revolu
tion, and the Grand Army of the Republic;.
and he is vice-president of the Scotch-Irish
Society of America. He is also a member
of the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity.
General Cutcheon has written many histor
ical and literary memoirs and addresses, in
cluding: a History of Michigan as a Ter
ritory and State from 1783 to 1865, in two
large volumes, published in 1906. He mar
ried, June 22, 1863, Marie Amie Warner,
of Dexter, Michigan, and there have been
born of that union : Frank Warner, in 1864;
Laura May, in 1866 (died in infancy),
Charles Tripp, in .1867; Max Hartranft, in
1872 ; Frederick Richard, in 1874, and
Marie Louise, in 1880 Address : 74 Paris
Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
CUTHBERT, Lucius Montrose:
Lawyer; born at Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, August 17,- 1856; son of Rev. James
Hazzard and Julia Elizabeth Cuthbert. He
was graduated from Columbia University,
received the degree of M.A. from that uni
versity in 1876, and subsequently studied in
the Columbian Law School, receiving the
degree of LL.B. in 1878. He was admitted
to the bar the same year, and has, since
then, practiced in Denver, Colorado, where
he has attained a high rank professionally.
He was chosen a delegate to attend the
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ists, held at St. Louis, in 1904. In addition
to his membership in the American Bar
Association and the Colorado Bar Associa
tion, he is identified with many of the
social clubs of Denver. He married, Octo
ber 24, 1900, at Denver, Colorado, Gertrude
Hill. Residence : 1350 Logan Avenue. Of
fice: Boston Block, Denver, Colorado.
CUTLER, Condict Walker:
Physician; born at Morristown, New
Jersey, 1859; son of Augustus W. Cutler
and Julia R. (Walker) Cutler. He was
graduated from Rutgers College as B.S. in
1879, and M.S. in 1882; and from the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Colum
bia) as M.D. in 1882, receiving the first
honor and the Harsen prize. He was
formerly professor of dermatology at the
University of Vermont, and attending phy
sician of the New York City Hospital.
. Dr. Cutler is an Independent Democrat,
and a member of the Dutch Reformed
Church. He is a fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine ; member of the New
York County Medical Society, New York
Dermatological Society (ex-president), and
Zeta Psi; trustee of the New York Dis
pensary; member of the Medical Board of
Free Industrial School for Crippled Chil
dren, New York City! He is author of
Differential Medical Diagnosis ; Diagnosis
of Diseases of the Skin; Lectures on Der
matology; Treatment of Typhoid Fever;
Essentials of Physics and Chemistry; etc.
He married in New York City, 1884, Cora
Carpenter, and they have one child, Con
dict Walker, Jr., born in 1889. Address:
616 Madison Avenue, New York City.
CUTLER, Erank Harvey:
Physician; born in Plainfield, Illinois,
1855. He was prepared at Northwestern
University Academy at Evanston, Illinois,
and was graduated from Northwestern Uni
versity as B.S. in the class of 1877. He
taught in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for three
years before studying medicine, then en
tered the Chicago Medical College, from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1882.
He practiced as a physician in Cedar Rapids
until 1889; and since then has been in

practice at Bancroft and Cedar Falls, Iowa.
He is author of a treatise on The New
Antiseptics. Dr. Cutler is treasurer of the
Board of Pension Examiners of Waterloo,
Iowa; local surgeon for the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad and the Rock Island Rail
road, and is a lecturer in electro-thera
peutics in the Medical Department of the
State University at Iowa City. He mar
ried Emma Alma Ross, of Cedar Rapids,
May 28, 1885, and they have two children,
Alma M., born in 1886, and Frank R., born
in 1887. Residence : Cedar Falls, Iowa.
CUTLER, John C:
Governor and merchant; born in Shef
field, England, February 5, 1846; son of
John Cutler and Elizabeth Robinson Cutler.
Fie was educated in private schools in Eng
land. Governor Cutler began business in
Utah, in July, 1877, as agent of the Provo
Woolen Mills and in 1896 incorporated the
business under the firm name of Cutler
Brothers and Company, of which he is
president. He is a director of the Utah
Sugar Company and the Idaho Sugar Com
pany and' a member of the executive com
mittee of the Tremont Sugar Company of
Idaho, and of the Desert National Bank,
Deseret Savings Bank, of Salt Lake City,
the Utah County Light and Power Com
pany, the Provo Woolen Mills Company,
of Sugar City, Idaho, the Townsite Com
pany, the Flome Fire Insurance Company
of Utah, the First National Bank of Mur
ray, Utah, and the People's Co-operative
Institution of Lehi, Utah. He was county
clerk of Salt Lake County from 1884 to
1890, and was elected in 1904 governor of
Utah for the term from 1905 to 1909.
He is a Republican in politics and a mem
ber of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial
Congress. Fie is also a member of "the
Alta and Commercial Clubs, of which he
was vice-president in 1902. Governor Cut
ler is a member of the Church of Latter
Day Saints (Mormon). Mr. Cutler mar
ried at Salt Lake City, April 3, 1871, Sarah
Elizabeth Taylor. Residence: 935 West
Temple Street, Salt Lake City. Office ad
dress : 36 Main Street, Salt Lake City,
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CUTTER, Ephraim : '
Physician, microscopist, inventor; born
at Woburn, Massachusetts, September I,
1832; son of Dr. Benjamin Cutter and
Mary (Whittemore) Cutter. He was grad
uated from Yale as A.B. in 1852, and A.M.
in 1855 ; was graduated as M.D. from Har
vard in 1856 and from the University of
Pennsylvania, in 1857, and he received the
degree of LL.D. from Iowa College in 1887.
Dr. Cutter practiced at Woburn from 1857
to 1875, and at Cambridge and Boston from
1875 to 1881, locating then in New York
City. He is inventor of improved laryngo
logical and gynecological methods and of
instruments in relation to them, as well as
in microscopy and microphotography ; and
he has made over five hundred contributions
to medicine and science. He is author of
the books : Vorsions and Flexions, etc.,
1876; The Clinical Morphologies of the
Blood, Sputum, etc., 1888; Food in Mother
hood, 1889; Fatty Ills and Their Mas
querades (jointly with J. A. Cutter, M.D.),
1898; Food: Its Relation to Health and
Disease (jointly with J. A. Cutter, M.D.),
1907, New York, published by the Gazette
Publishing Company. He is a member of
the Delta Kappa Epsilion fraternity, and
is corresponding and honorary member of
many foreign and American societies. He
is engaged in consulting medical work, as
well as in original studies, especially in
foods. Dr. Cutter married first in 1856, Re
becca Smith Sullivan, who died in 1899, and
of that marriage there are three children
living: Benjamin (professor in the New
England Conservatory of Music) ; Ephraim,
Jr., organist, conductor and vocal culturist
(Boston), and John Ashburton, M.D. Dr.
Cutter married second, in 1901, Mrs. Anna
L. Davidson. Address : West Falmouth,
Massachusetts, or 521 West Seventy-third
Street, New York City.
CUTTER, John Ashburton:
Physician ; born at Woburn, Massachu
setts, June 27, 1863 ; son of Dr. Ephraim
and Rebecca Smith (Sullivan) Cutter. He
.was educated at the Cambridge (Massa-
cusetts) high school, and the Massachu

setts Agricultural College and Boston Uni
versity, graduating from both as B.S. in
1882 ; and studied medicine with his father, .
Ephraim Cutter, M.D., LL.D.,- Albert Van-
der Veer, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., and James
P. Boyd, M.D., M.A., while attending the-
course at the Albany Medical College from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1886.
He has been continuously engaged in the
practice of medicine in New York City since
1886. He was joint author with his father
of : Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades, 1898 ;
Food — Its Relation to Health and Disease,
1907 ; and has also contributed numerous
papers to medical journals. He is a mem
ber of the Medical Society of the Borough
of Bronx, and the Gynaecological Society
of Boston, and for nineteen years a grand
officer Phi Sigma Kappa, incorporated. He
was governor and acting president of the
Graduates Club ; founder of the Massachu
setts Agricultural College Club of New
York, president of the Union University
Club, director of the Pan-Akademikon Pub
lishing Co., University Magazine. Dr. Cut
ter married at Worcester, Massachusetts,
May 28, 1981, Ellen Bigelow Wright, who
died in i8g6. Address : 251 West Seven
ty-third Street, New York City.
CUTTING, Robert Fulton:
President of the Citizens' Union of New-
York City; born in New York City, in
June, 1852 ; son of Fulton Cutting and Jus
tine (Bayard) Cutting. He was gradu
ated from Columbia College in 1871. Mr.
Cutting is director of several large cor
porations ; president of the New York
Trade School, 'and of the Association for
.Improving the Condition of the Poor; also
a director of the City and Suburban Home
Company. He is an Episcopalian and a
member of the Delta Phi, Columbia Uni
versity Alumni Association, the American
Museum of Natural History, and the Amer
ican Economic Association. He has taken
active part in politics as head of the Citi
zens' Union in campaigns from 1903. He
is also a member of the Delta Phi fraterni
ty, the Century Association, and the City,
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married first, in 1875, Natalie C. P.
.Schenck, who died in 1876; and second,
January, 1883, Helen Suydam. He has
six children: Robert Bayard, Helen,,
Elizabeth M., Fulton, C. Suydam, and
Ruth Flunter. Residence: 24 East Sixty-
seventh Street, New York City. Address :
32 Nassau Street, New York City.
CUTTING, William Bayard:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Janu
ary 12, 1850; son of Fulton Cutting and
Elise Justine (Bayard) Cutting. He was
graduated from Columbia College in 1869,
as A.B.* and M.A. in 1871, and LL.B. in
1871. He was admitted to the bar in New
York in 1871. He became president of the
St. Louis, Alton and Terre Flaute Rail
road Company in 1878, and is now trustee
of the United States Trust Company,
a director of the American Exchange Na
tional Bank, the Commercial Union Assur
ance Company, the American Beet Sugar
Company, the City and Suburban Homes
Company and Southern Pacific Railroad.
Mr. Cutting was a civil service com
missioner of New York City under
Mayor William L. Strong; and he is
a Republican, and a member of the Epis
copal Church. He is a director of the
New York Botanical Gardens, the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History, the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, the Zoological
Society; and is a trustee of Columbia Cot
lege. Mr. Cutting is a member of the Cen
tury Association, and the Union, Metropoli
tan, Players', National Arts, South Side,
Tuxedo, University, City, Delta Phi, Gro
lier, Church, and Jekyl Clubs. He mar
ried at the University Place Presbyterian
Church, April 26, 1877, Olivia Peyton Mur
ray. Their children are: William Bayard,
Jr., born June 13, 1878; Justine Bayard,
born September 5, 1879; Bronson Murray,
born June 23, 1888, and Olivia, born, 1892.
Residence : 24 East Seventy-second street.
Address : 24 East Seventy-second Street,
New York City.

DABNEY, Charles William:
President of the University of Cincin
nati ; born at Hampden-Sidney, Virginia,
June 19, 1855 ; son of Robert L. Dabney
professor in Union Seminary and the Uni
versity of Virginia, major in the Confed
erate Army, 1861-63, and General Stone
wall Jackson's chief of staff and biograph
er. He was graduated from Hampden-Sid
ney College as A.B. in 1873, from the Uni
versity of Virginia in 1877; and took the
degree of Ph.D. from the University of
Gottingen in 1880; LL.D., Yale in 1901 and
Johns Flopkins in 1902. Fie was professor
of chemistry in the Emory and Henry Col
lege of Virginia from 1877 to 1888, was
State chemist and director of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station of North Caro
lina at Raleigh from 1880 to 1887, president
of the University of Tennessee from 1887
to 1904, and since 1904 president of .the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. Fie was director of
the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment
Station in 1887, assistant secretary of agri
culture of the United States from 1893 to
1897, chairman of United States Govern
ment exhibits at the Nashville Exposition
in 1887, and the Atlanta Exposition in 1895,
was juror in the department of agronomy
at the Paris Exposition of 1900, director
of the Southern Education Board from
1902 to present, and president of the Sum
mer School of the South from 1902 to 1904.
Dr. Dabney is author of: Reports of North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station,
1880-87 ; on Phosphates, Pyrites, Black Tin
in North Carolina, etc. ; Reports of Tennes
see Station, of University, Tennessee, 1887-
99; The Old College and the New, 1894;
The National University, 1896; A National
Department of Science, 1896; History of
Agricultural Education in America;- Edu
cation and Agriculture, 1899; Condition of
Public Schools in Southern States ; Thomas
Jefferson and Public Education ; Education
al Principles for the South; Man in the
Democracy; Agriculture and Science at
International Congress, St. Louis, 1905, etc.
He is a member of the Cosmos Club of

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Washington, D. C, and of the Queen City
Club of Cincinnati. He married at Lexing
ton, Kentucky, August 24, . 1881, Mary
Brent, and they have two daughters. Ad
dress : The University of Cincinnati, Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
DABO, Leon:
Artist; born at Detroit, Michigan, 1868;
sou of Ignace Scott and Madeline Oberle
Dabo. He was educated at Stanislas Col
lege, and at the Ecole des Arts Decorat-
ifs Paris ; and he also studied in Rome,
Florence and Venice. Among his import
ant works are : The Seashore, in the De
troit Museum of Art, Evening, Rondout,
in the Museum of the Herron Institute,
Indianapolis, Md., Hudson River — Evening,
in the Museum of Randolph — Macon Col
lege, at Lynchburg, Va., The Historical
Friezes in the Flower Memorial Library —
Watertown, N. Y., The Ascension, ceiling
decoration, of the Church of St. John the
Baptist, Brooklyn, N. Y., The Twelve Ap
ostles in St. Mary's Church, Watertown,
N. Y., and numerous other decorative
works in churches and in public and private
buildings. Leon Dabo has had special ex
hibitions of landscape and marine paintings
in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York City,
Boston, Chicago and Indianapolis. His
work has been extensively reviewed in Les
Arts Bibliographiques, Paris, The Interna
tional Studio, London, Brush and Pencil,
Chicago, and numerous other reviews, by
Paul Vallorbe, Sadakichi Hartman, A. von
Eude, Benjamin de Casseres, James Wil
liam Pattison, Bliss Carman, and others.
Leon Dabo has written extensively on the
Art of Painting for various art magazines.
Fie is a member of the National Arts
Club. Mr. Leon Dabo married, at London,
England, in 1889, Jennie Marie Ford, the
eldest daughter of Bernard Ford, Esq., of
Waterford and Stockton-on-Tees. He has
two children, Madeline Helen Dabo (born
in 1890), and Leon Ford Dabo (bom 1892).
Residence (country) New Milford, N. J.
Address: (European) care of Fritz Cur-
litt, Potsdammerstrasse, 113 Berlin. Stu
dio : 25 East Fourteenth Street, New
York City.

DAGGETT, Washington L.:
Merchant; born at New Vineyard, Maine,
May 6, 1835; son of Plamentin Daggett and
Hannah (Snow) Daggett. He was edu
cated in the common and high schools of
his native town and Strong, Maine, and
was graduated from Kent's Hill Seminary
in 1861. He has been a member of the
firm of Daggett Brothers, for forty-one
years. He has traveled in twenty-four
States and Canada, and in Scotland, Eng
land, and France, from Glasgow to Paris.
Mr. Daggett is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and was superintendent
of a Sunday school for thirty-five years;
and president for eighteen years and treas
urer for thirteen years of the Allen Camp-
meeting Association. He was president of
the Franklin County Sunday School Asso
ciation for sixteen years; was a lay dele
gate in the Methodist General Conference
at New York in 1888, and in 1889 was a
delegate from the Maine State Sunday
School Association to the First World's
Sunday School Convention in London.
Mr. Daggett is a Republican in politics and
was a representative in the Maine Legis
lature in 1870, and was later urgently so
licited to become a candidate for the Sen
ate, but declined, although he had to write
a second letter before his declination was
accepted. He married at Strong, Maine,
September 20, 1868, Reliance C. Dickey, of
'Avon. Address: Strong, Maine.
DAHLMAN, James C:
Stockman and mayor of Omaha; born in
Texas, in 1856. He was educated in the
public schools of Texas, learned the details
of driving and managing live stock on the
Texas ranges, and in 1878 he went to Ne
braska, of which State he has since been a
citizen, engaging in the live stock business
at Chadron, Nebraska, and residing there
until about ten years ago, when he removed
to Omaha. He is a Democrat in politics,
was a member of the City Council from
1884 to 1887, and mayor in 1894 and 1895
at Chadron, Nebraska; and was sheriff of
Daws County, Nebraska, for three terms,
from 1888 to 1894. He was a delegate to
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1892 and 1896; was appointed secretary of
the State Board of Transportation in 1897;
was elected chairman of the Nebraska
Democratic State Committee of Nebraska
in 1896, and served four years; and since
190O has been the Nebraska member of the
Democratic National Committee, and a
member of its Executive Committee. He
was also chairman of the Democratic
County Committee, of Douglas County, Ne
braska. At the city election in 1905 he was
elected mayor of the city of Omaha for the
term expiring May 21, 1909. Address : 2901
Hickory Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
DAINGEREIELD, Elliott:
Artist; born at Harper's Ferry, West
Virginia, March 26, 1859; son of John E.
P, Daingerfield and Matilda Bruce Dain-
gerfield. He was educated in the public
schools and academies and by private tutors
at Fayetteville, North Carolina. He studi
ed drawing and painting in New York
City, with a private teacher and at the
Art Students' League. He first exhibited
his works at the National Academy of
Design in 1880 and he studied in Europe
in 1897. He was commissioned to paint
the Lady Chapel of the Church of St.
Mary the Virgin, New York City in 1902,
and was professor of painting and com
position at the Philadelphia School of De
sign and of Blowing Rock, North Caro
lina. Mr. Daingerfield's principal paintings
are the Madonna and Child, property of
Haley Fiske; Child of Mary, for which
he. received a silver medal and The Story
of the Madonna, which was awarded a
"prize in 1902. He received the silver med
al at the Pan American Exposition in 1901,
and the. Clarke prize of the National Aca
demy of Design in 1902. lie is a member
of the Fine Arts Federation, the Municipal
Art Association, the Society of American
Artists, and is a National Academician.
He is also a member of the New York
Vvater Color, Lotos and Lunch Clubs. Mr.
Daingerfield married at Louisville, Kentuc
ky, December 30, 1895, Anna E. Granger,
and they have two children: Majorie Jay,
and Gwendoline. Residence : 202 West
Seventy-fourth Street, New York City.

Address: 145 West Fifty-fifth Street,
New York City.
DALE, Alan (Alfred J. Cohen) :
Dramatic critic; born in Birmingham,
England, May 14, 1861. lie was educated
in King Edward's school at Birmingham,
came to the United States in 1886, and
has ever since been engaged in journalism
in New York City. Fie was dramatic crit
ic of the New York World, Evening
World from 1887 to 1895 and since then
has been dramatic critic of the New York
Journal. Fie is author of: Jonathan's
Home; A Marriage Below Zero; My Foot-
light Husband; An Eerie He and She;
Familiar Chats with Queens of the Stage;
A Moral Busybody; Miss Innocence; Con
science on Ice; A Girl Who Wrote; His
Own Image; Wanted, A Cook. Mr. Cohen
married, in 1886, Carrie Livingston Frost.
Residence: no St. Nicholas Avenue,
Address : New York Journal, New York
City.
DALE, Frank:
Lawyer; born in De Kalb County, Illi
nois, November 26, 1849. He received his
education in the public schools of Leland,
Illinois. He moved to Wichita, Kansas ;
was admitted to the bar in 1876, was for
five' years prosecuting attorney of Wichita
and Sedgwick counties, and subsequently
became registrar in the United States Land
Office, Wichita, in which capacity he serv
ed for four years. Since 1889 he has re
sided at Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he has
been associate jus'tice, and chief justice, of
Oklahoma Territory. Address : Guthrie,
Oklahoma.
DALE, John Thomas:
Lawyer, man of affairs; born at Sand-
bach, England, April 25, 1841 ; son of
Thomas and Jane (Burgess) Dale. He
came to the United States with his parents
when he was but eight years of age. The
Dales located on a farm near Salem, Ken
osha County, Wisconsin, in 1849, and the
son received his education at the public
schools of Salem and at an academy in
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two terms in the public schools of Wis
consin, he removed to Chicago, Illinois, in
^1863, and entered the office of D. C. and
I. J. Nichols as a law student, remaining
for two years. He was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 1865. After a special course
in real estate law at the Union College,
of Law, Chicago, in 1866, he entered into
partnership with Edmund S. Holbrook in
the general practice of law, remaining with
him until 1871, when he became associated
with Sydney Thomas. This firm was dis
solved in 1873, since which time Mr. Dale
has practiced alone, giving the greater
portion of his time to real estate law and
chancery practice, and to the care of his
private interests and investments. In 1891
he was the principal in the organization
of a syndicate which founded a manufact
uring community near the suburbs of Chi
cago known as Chicago Ridge. He has
erected many fine buildings in Chicago, and
was the pioneer in the movement which re
sulted in the building up of South Dear
born Street. He is a Republican, and was
president and trustee of the village of
Winnetka for ten years. He is second
vice-president and director of the Illinois
Humane Society, trustee of Wheaton Col
lege, treasurer and director of the Chicago
Cemetery Association, the owner of Oak
Hill Cemetery, near Chicago. He is a
Congregationalist. He has devoted some
of his leisure hours to writing, two of
his books being What Ben Beverly Saw at
the Great Exhibition, (a record of his ob
servations at the Centennial at Philadel
phia), and The Way to Win, a book de
signed for young people. He is a member
of the Union League Club. Mr. Dale was
married at Steele City, Nebraska, Septem
ber, 30, 1880, to Leila W. Graves, who
died in 1901, leaving four children : Ruth
Geraldine, Jane Constance, Arthur Graves,
and John Theodore. Address : 100 Wash
ington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Residence:
Winnetka, Illinois.
DALE, Richard:
Lawyer. He is president of the Pennsyl
vania branch of the Society of Cincinnati.
He married Annie S. Williamson. Ad

dress: 1215 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

DALE, Theodore Dana:
Manufacturer and railroad official; born
at Newport, Ohio, in 1846; son of Hervey
Smith Dale and Amanda Frances (Dana)
Dale. He was graduated from the Mar
ietta, Ohio College in 1868. He was en
gaged with the Marietta Iron Works from'
1870 to 1875, the Marietta Coal and Iron
Company from 1875 to 1876, was presi
dent of the Argand Refining Company,
from 1876 to 1898, treasurer and manager
of the Marietta Mineral, Marietta, Colum
bus and Northern, and Toledo and Ohio
Central Extension Railroads from 1884 to
1892, and receiver of the same roads from
1898 to 1902. He was president of the
United Terminal Railroad in 1890. Mr.
Dale enlisted in the One Hundred and
Forty-eighth Regiment of Ohio National
Guards in 1864 and served actively in the
field in Virginia until the close of the war.
Fie is president and director of the Mid
land Company, the Glendale Mining Com
pany and the West Cable Mining and Mill
ing Company, and is treasurer and director
of the Montezuma Mining and Smelting
Company. He is a member of the Metro
politan Museum of Arts, the Ohio Society
and the Montclair, New Jersey Club. Mr.
Dale married at Belpre, Ohio, in 1873,
Sophia Byington Dana, and they have one
child, Florence Dwight Residence: 145
Park Street, Montclair, New Jersey. Ad
dress: 32 Park- Place, New York City.
DALE, Thomas Henry:
Merchant and ex-congressman; born at
Daleville, Lackawanna County, Pennsyl
vania. He was educated in the public schools
and at the Wyoming Seminary of Kingston,
Pennsylvania. He is in -the mercantile busi
ness, and was formerly a coal operator. He
was prothonotary of Lackawanna County
nine years, having been elected in 1882,
1885 and 1888; and was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention of 1900.
He enlisted in the Union Army in 1863,
under an emergency call of Governor Cur
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orably discharged. He was elected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress as a Republican, from
the Tenth Pennsylvania District, serving
from 1905 to 1907. He married in San
Francisco, California, August 20, 1870,
Grace Rounds. Address : Scranton, Penn
sylvania.DALLAS, George Mifflin:
United- States circuit judge; born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 7,
1839; son of Trevanion B. Dallas. He re
moved to Philadelphia in his infancy and
was educated in the schools of that city. He
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in August, 1854, and engaged in the prac
tice of law at Philadelphia. He was a
member of the Constitutional Convention
which framed the present Constitution of
the State of Pennsylvania. He was appoint
ed May 17, 1892, judge of the United States
Circuit Court for the Third Circuit, in which
office he is still serving. Judge Dallas is
also professor of the law of torts, evidence
and practice in the Law Department of the
University of Pennsylvania. He received
the degree of LL.D. from Princeton Uni
versity. He married in Philadelphia, Oc
tober 22, 1867, Ellen Markoe Wharton.
Address: 1514 Pine Street, Philadelphia.
DALLAS, Trevanion Barlow:
Manufacturer; born in Washington, D.
C, September n, 1843; son of Alexander
and Mary Byrd (Willis) Dallas. He was
educated in Virginia private schools ; and
in the C'vil War served four years in the
Confederate Army from private to captain
of artillery and participated in the battles
of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga,
Mission Ridge and other engagements of
Bragg's Army until 1865. He was a volun
teer aide in the Prussian Army during the
war between Prussia and Austria in 1866.
Tie was engaged <n the banking business
from 1866 to 1869, in the dry goods business
at Nashville from 1869, and afterwards
embarked in business as a cotton manufact
urer upon a large scale. He is also identi
fied with other important interests in Nash
ville. He is 3 Democrat in politics. He

married, first, Ella Douglas, who died in
1870, and, second, Ida Bonner of Nashville.
Address : Nashville, Tennessee.
DALLIN, Cyrus Edwin:
Sculptor; born in Utah, November 22,
1861 ; son of Thomas Dallin and Jane
(Hamer) Dallin. He was educated in the
public schools of Utah, at the Julian
Academy, Paris, and at the Paris Ecole
des Beaux Arts, Paris. Exhibited at the
Salon, Paris, in 1890, and received honor
able mention; erected the Pioneer monu
ment, Salt Lake City; received a gold
medal and diploma from the World's Fair,
Chicago; received silver medals at Boston
in 1885, at the Paris Exposition in 1900,
and at the Pan American Exposition in
1901 ; received gold medals at American
Art Exhibition, New York, 1888 and at
the St. Louis Exposition, 1904; was the
winner of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monu
ment competition, Syracuse, New York,
1906. Is instructor of sculpture, Massa
chusetts Normal Art School, Boston; a
member of the Society of Arts, London,
England; a trustee of Robbins Library,
Arlington, Massachusetts; a member of
the National Sculpture Society, New York;
of the Architectural League, New York;
of the Boston Society of Architecture;
of the Copley Society, Boston; and of
the St. Botolph Club, Boston. His chief
recreations are atchery and golf. In
politics, he is an Independent and in relig
ion a Unitarian. He married, at Boston,
June, 1891, Vittoria Colonna Murray; they
have three children : Edwin Bertram, aged
14, Arthur Murray, aged 8, and Lawrence,
aged 2. Address : 69 Oakland Avenue,
Arlington Heights, Massachusetts.
DALLINGER, Frederick William:
Lawyer; born at Cambridge, Massachu
setts, October 2, 1871 ; son of William W.
and Elizabeth F. Dallinger. He was gradu
ated from Harvard University in 1893, with
the degree of A.B., and for post-graduate
work the following year took the advanced
degree of A.M. He subsequently took up
the study of law, was graduated from the
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his bar examinations the same .year. :He
had already become prominent in public
life, having been for two terms a member
of the Massachusetts House of Represent
atives in 1894 and 1895. In 1896 he was
elected to the Massachusetts Seriate, in
which he served, by successive reelections
until 1899. He is also well known for his
political writings. Residence : 4 Hancock
Park. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Office:
28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
DALY, Arnold:
Actor ; bora October 4, 1875, in Brook
lyn, New York. His parents, Joseph J. and
Mary Daly, who were born in Ireland and
were intimate friends of the parents of
George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright,
in whose plays Mr. Daly has made his
most notable successes. Mr. Daly made his
first appearance on the stage in a play in
which Fanny Rice was starring, but came
into prominence first in his impersonation
of Chambers in Frank Mayo's production
of Pudd'n Head Wilson, dramatized from
Mark Twain's book of that name. After
that Mr. Daly achieved successes in vari
ous parts and finally on December 9, 1903,
he produced Shaw's Candida, which ran
for more than 150 nights,, and was followed
up by the production of various- other
Shaw plays, all of which have been success
ful. Mr. Daly is a member of the Lambs'
and Players' Clubs. Mr. Daly married on
July 1, 1900, Mary Blythe, a niece of Gen
eral La Grange, of Los Angeles, California,
and they have one child, Blythe Daly, born
in 1902. Address : The Lambs' Club, New
York City.
DALY, Joseph Francis:
Lawyer; born at Plymouth, North Caro
lina, December 3, 1840; son of Dennis
Daly and Elizabeth - T. Daly. He came
to New York City when riirie years of
age and was educated there. He received
the LL.D. degree from St. John's' College
in 1883, and from the Villahova College
in 1902. He was admitted to the- bar in
1862 ; was -judge from - 1870 to 1890 arid
chief justice from 1890 to 1896 In the
Court of Common Pleas of New York

City and from 1896 to 1898 was justice
of the Supreme Court, but since 1898 has
practiced privately. In 1930 he was ap
pointed commissioner from, the United
States to revise, the laws in Porto Rico.
He is a member of the Board of Mana
gers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy
lum, the Advisory Board of St. Vincent
Hospital, and was president of the United
Catholic Charities Association from 1896
to 1897. He is a member of the Board
of Trinity College at Washington,, a mem
ber of the American Geographical Society,
the North Carolina Society, Association of
the Bar qi the City of New York, the
New York Law Institute, the National
Convention of Charities and the Dunlap
bociety. He is a member of the Players',
Lawyers', and Catholic Clubs, of which
latter he was president from 1893 to 1890,
Mr. Daly married twice; fir;st- in 1873,
Emma Robinson Barker, who died in 1886,
the children by this union being. Edward
H., Wilfred A. and Elizabeth ,T.; and he
married second, in 1890, Mary Louise
Smith. Residence: Roanoke, Yonkers,
New York. Address: 54 Wall Street,
New York City.
DALY, William John Barry:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
March 18, i860; son of Daniel Daly and
Margaret (Barry) Daly. He was gradu
ated from St. Francis Xaviers' College,
New York City, in 1881, with the degree
of A.B., and also in St. Joseph's Seminary
at Troy, New York, where he was or
dained priest December 19, 1885. He was
appointed to St. Patrick's Cathedral New
York City, January 6, 1886, remaining
there until January 6, 1903. He was priv
ate secretary to Archbishop Corrigan from
1887 to 1888 and superintendent of paroch
ial schools from 1901 to ' 1902. He was
appointed pastor of the new parish of St.
Malachy"s at 239 West Forty-ninth Street,
New York City, January^, 1903. He was
commissioned as chaplain-captain of the
Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York City, of
the National Guards of New York, Janu
ary 28, 1898, and was mustered with the
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teers May 19, 1898 for the Spanish-Ameri
can War. He served until the regiment
was mustered out to January 31, 1899, and
was with the regiment in Camp Black,
Long Island, Chickamauga Park, Tampa,
Florida, Fernandina, Florida and'at Hunts-
ville, Alabariia, comprising nine months of
service and is still chaplain of the regi
ment. Mr. Daly is a member of the Order
of the. Spanish- American War Veterans.
Address: Care P. H. J. Daly, 939 Presi
dent Street, Brooklyn, New York.
DALZELL, John:
Lawyer and congressman; born in New
York City, April 19, 1845; moved to Pitts
burgh, in 1847. He received his early edu
cation in the common schools and after
ward went to Yale College, from . which
he was graduated as B.A. in the class of
1865. He studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in February, 1867, and has since
practiced his profession in Pittsburgh. In
1886 he was elected to the Fiftieth Con
gress, and has been continued in the House
of Representatives by biennial reelections,
and now represents the Thirtieth Penn
sylvania District in the Sixtieth Congress.
Mr. Dalzell is widely recognized as the
foremost advocate of the protective tariff
and one of the foremost parliamentarians
of the House of Representatives of the
United States. His study of both sub
jects has been incessant, both at home and
abroad ; he has sought every source of in
formation, , has collated and arranged a
larger amount of information than has
probaly any man who has ever served in
Congress, and stands easily ioremost as
an authority on either subject. For years
he has been a member of both the Com
mittee on Rules and the Committee on
Ways and Means, the two chief commit
tees in the House of Representatives. Ad-
• dress: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
DALZELL, Samuel M.:
CoaJ operator; born in Hartstown, Penn
sylvania, December 3, 1850; son of Will
iam Dalzell and Elizabeth C. (Martzall)
Dalzell. He was educated in the common
schools. Mr. Dalzell has long been engaged

in business as a coal operator in the Illi
nois field, and is now general manager and
director of the Spring Valley Coal Com
pany, and president and director of the
Illinois Third Vein Coal Company. He
is also a director of .the Kenwood Trust
and Savings Bank of Chicago, and presi
dent, treasurer and director of the Ladd
Mercantile Company. He was at one time
a member of the Ohio National Guard and
four years a member of the Illinois Labor
Bureau. He is a Republican in politics,
and in religion is a Presbyterian, though
now connected with the Kenwood Evangel
ical Church (Congregational). He is senior
warden of Dalzell Lodge of Masons :
a member of Peoria Consistory of Scottish
Rite Masons, of Peoria, Illinois, and of Me-
dinah Temple, Mystic Shrine of Chicago.
Mr. Dalzell is -a member of the Union
League, Chicago Yacht, and South Shore
Country Clubs of Chicago. He married
at Sharon, Pennsylvania, December 29,
1875, Elnora King, and they have had four
children : Lizzie Elnora, who died in in
fancy; Ada Dalzell, born in 1878; Bessie
Dalzell, and Jared Dalzell. Residence : 4030
Grand Boulevard, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Old Colony Building, 84 Van Buren
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
DAMON, Samuel Mills:'
Banker; born in Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, March 13,' 1845; son of Rev.
Samuel C. Damon and Julia (Mills) Dam
on. He was educated in Honolulu, and
since 1871 has been engaged in the banking
business in that city, now being senior
member of the banking house of Bishop
and Company. He was one of the leaders
in establishing the Republic of Hawaii in
place of the monarchy and was minister
of finance under the Hawaiian Republic
until the annexation of the islands to the
United States. He has received various
foreign decorations, including the Victorian
Jubilee medal from Great Britain, the Or
der of the Golden Treasure of Japan, and
the decoration of Knight of the Order of
Christ from Portugal, and he is a member
of the Societe des Beaux Arts of Paris
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Damon married at Honolulu, September 5,
1872, H. M. Baldwin. Address: Hono
lulu, Territory of Hawaii.
DAMROSCH, Walter Johannes:
Musician; born at Breslau, Germany,
January 30, 1862; son of Leopold Dam-
rosch and Helene (Von Fleimbrug) Dam-
rcsch. He was educated in the New York
City public schools, studied harmony and
composition under his father Dr. Leopold
Damrosch, and under Rischbrieter and
Draeseke in Dresden, in piano under Von
Inten, Boeckelman, Pinner and Hans Von
Bulow. He succeeded his father as con
ductor of the New York Symphony So
ciety; the New York Oratorio Society and
the German Opera at the Metropolitan
Opera House in 1885. In 1894 he founded
a Wagner Opera Company which produc
ed the Nibelungen Triology in the United
States. He was elected conductor of the
New York Philharmonic Society in 1902,
and conductor of the New York Symphony
Orchestra in 1903. Mr. Damrosch is a
Republican in politics. He is composer of:
The Scarlet Letter, an opera in three acts;
Manila Te Deum; Cyrona, an opera in
four acts ; Danny Deever, etc. His favor-'
ite recreation is tennis. He is a member
of the Century Club. Mr. Damrosch mar
ried in Washington, D. C, May 17, 1890,
Margaret Blaine, daughter of Hon. James
G. Blaine, and they have four children :
Alice, born in 1893, Margaret, bora in 1897,
Leopoldine, born in 1900, and Anita, born
in 1905. Address : 146 East Sixty-first
Street, New York City.
DANA, Arnold Guyot:
Journalist; born in New Haven, Connecti
cut, August 29, 1862 ; son of Professor James
Dwight Dana and Henrietta (Silliman)
Dana. He was graduated from Yale as
B.A. in 1883 and took a post-graduate
course in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale
from 1883 to 1886. He was editor for the
Investor's Supplempnt of the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle, from 1887 to 1883;
was with Redmond, Kerr & Company,
bankers and brokers of New York City
from 1893 to 1894, and since 1894 has been

on the editorial staff of Commercial and
Financial Chronicle, in charge of Invest
ment News Department and the Investor's
Supplement (now the Railroad and Indus
trial Section). He is a director and treas
urer of the William B. Dana Company,
publishers and proprietors of Commercial
and Financial Chronicle and other financial
publications. He is an Independent in poli
tics and a Congregationalist in religion.
Mr. Dana is a member of the Scroll and
Key Society of Yale. His favorite recrea
tion is boating. He is a member of the
Twentieth Century Club of Brooklyn and
of the Motor Boat Club of America. Mr.
Dana married in Brooklyn, New York, Oc
tober 24, 1888, Grace Newton, daughter of
A. J. Newton, of Brooklyn and niece of the
late Professor Hubert A. Newton of New
Haven, and they have three children: Hen
rietta Silliman, Katharine Trumbull, born
in 1896, and Albro Newton, born in 1898.
Residence : 140 Columbia Heights, Brook
lyn, New York. Address :' 76 1-2 Pine
Street, New York City.
DANA, Charles Loomis:
Physician; born in Woodstock, Vermont,
March 25, 1852; son of Charles Dana and
Charity S. (Loomis) Dana. He was grad
uated from Dartmouth College as A.B. in -
1872 and later as A.M. ; and from Colum
bia University as M.D. in 1877. He is pro
fessor of diseases of the nervous system in
the Medical Department of Cornell Uni
versity and at Dartmouth Medical College,
and was physician to Bellevue Hospital.
Dr. Dana is president of the American
Neurological Association and the New
York Neurological Society; a fellow of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of .Science, and a corresponding
member of the Societe de Neurologie,
Paris. He is author of: Text-books on
Nervous Diseases and Psychiarty, six vol- '
umes ; also monographs in Hamilton's
Legal Medicine on Traumatic Neuroses;
contributions to journals and monographs
on nervous and mental diseases. He is
founder and president of the Charaka Club;
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of the Revolution, and of the University,
Century, Racquet and Tennis, City, Ards-
ley, and New York Athletic Clubs. He
married Lilian Farlee, now deceased. Ad
dress: 53 West Fifty-third Street, New
York City.
DANA, Francis:
Lawyer; born at Signapore, East India,
March 4, 1866; son of Colonel George H.
and Frances (daughter of Hon. Edmund
Burke) Dana. After studying for eight
years in St. Paul School, Concord, New
Hampshire, he registered as a law student
in Harvard University, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.B. He
was admitted to the bar, and has since
practiced in Newport, New Hampshire,
where he is one of the leading members
of his profession. He is also well known
as an author, and, in addition to several
novels, has written many short stories for
magazine publication. Residence: Burke-
haven, New Hampshire. Office: New
port, New Hampshire.
DANA, Herbert Carlyle:
Clergyman; born in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, September 25, 1864; son of Gilbert
B. Dana and Amelia M. (Jenks) Dana. He
was educated in the public schools of Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and by private tutors,
and was graduated from Nasho.tah House,
Nashotah, Wisconsin, in 1896, receiving the
degree of B.D., in course, in 1898. He was
ordered deacon in 1896 by Bishop Nichol
son in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and ordained
priest in 1897 by Bishop Clark, in Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He was missionary
in charge of the Church of the Ascension,
Auburn, Rhode Island, from 1896 to 1901
and has been rector of St. Mary's Church,
East Providence, Rhode Island, since 1901.
He is the warden of St. Mary's Orphanage
and member of the Board of Trustees, and
is chaplain of the Division of Rhode Is
land Sons of Veterans. Address : 83 War
ren Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Is
land.DANA, John Cotton:
Librarian; born in Woodstock County,
Vermont, August 1.9, 1856; son of Charles

and Charitie Loomis Dana. Fie graduated
from Dartmouth College, A.B., in 1878.
He then studied law, and was admitted to
the New York bar in 1882. He entered
upon his library career in 1889 as librar
ian of the Denver Public Library, in which
position he continued until 1897, when he
became city librarian of Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, remaining there until 1902, when
he became librarian of the Free Public
Library of Newark, New Jersey, in which
position he continues. Mr. Dana has taken
a prominent part in the plans and de
liberations of the American Library As
sociation of which he was president in
1896, and is still one of its members. Ad
dress : Free Public Library, Newark, New
Jersey. DANA, Paul:
Editor; born in New York City, Au
gust 20, 1852; son of Charles Anderson
Dana and Eunice (Macdaniel) Dana. He
received his preliminary education in the
private schools of New York City and was
graduated from Harvard an A.B. in 1874,
and from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
in 1878. He became editor of the New
York Sun on the death of his father, and
retired in 1903. Mr. Dana was for sev
eral years park commissioner of New
York City. He married in New York City,
November 11, 1884, Mary D. Butler Dun
can, and their children are: Janet, Percy,
Anderson, and W. B. D- Address : Glen-
cove, Long Island, New York,
DANA, Richard Henry:
Lawyer; born in Cambridge, Massachus
etts, January. 3, 1851 ; son of Richard
Henry Dana, Jr., and Sarah (Watson)
Dana. He was graduated from Harvard as
A.B. in 1874, and as LL.B. in 1877. Fol
lowing his graduation he was admitted to
the bar and has since practiced law in
Boston. Mr. Dana has been actively iden
tified with the advocacy of measures of
political and social reform, and especially
of civil service reform. He edited the
Civil Service Record, from 1889 to 1892;
organized the Associated Charities of Bos
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form Act, which passed the Legislature of
Massachusetts in 1884, and the first Aus
tralian Ballot Act passed in the United
States, auopted by trie legislature of Mas
sachusetts in 1888. He was president of
the New England Conservatory of Music,
from 1891 to 1898, and of the Boston
Young Men's Christian Association in
1890 and 1091, president of the Cambridge
Civil Service Reform Association from
it97 to 1901 ; of the Massachusetts Civil
Service Reform Association, 1905-6, and is
chairman of the National Civil Service Re
form Council. He is author of: Double
Taxation in Massachusetts, 1895 ; also ad
dresses on reform subjects. Residence :
113 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachu
setts. Office address : 19 Congress Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
DANA, Stephen Winchester:
Clergyman; born at Canaan, New York,
November 17, 1840; son of Rev. John Jay
Dana and Mary A. (Freeman) Dana. He
was educated in the high school of Adams,
Massachusetts, the Claverack Institute at
New York, and at Williams College, Mas
sachusetts, from which he received the de
gree of A.B., in 1861, and he studied theo
logy at the Union Theological Seminary,
New York, from 1863 to 1866. He engag
ed in teaching from 1861 to 1863 as prin
cipal of an academy at Hinsdale, Massa
chusetts; and upon the completion of his
theological course was ordained in the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church by the
4th Presbytery of New York City, be
coming pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Belvidere, New Jersey, from
1866 to 1868, and since the latter year He
has continuously served the Walnut Street
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia as its
pastor. He received the degree of D.D.
from Williams College in 1880. Dr. Dana
is a Republican in politics, a trustee of Lin
coln University, and a director of the
Union Theological Seminary in New York
City. He was president of the New Eng
land Society of Pennsylvania for four
years. Dr. Dana is author of a volume
on Woman, Her Possibilities and Limita
tions, and of various contributions to the

religious and secular press. He married,
first, at Belvidere, New Jersey, October 1,
1868, Rebecca R. Paul, and second at Wil-
uamsport, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1883,
Eleanor H. Crocker; children: five living,
vVm. Jay, Eleanor E., Grace R. Paul,
Henry iurnbull. Address : 3925 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia.
DANFORTH, Loomis L.:
Physician, surgeon; born at Monticello,
Otsego County, New York; son of Hiram
D. Danforth and Mary Jane (Tanner)
Danforth. He was educated in an acad
emy at Utica, N. Y. He was graduated
from the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of Columbia University as M.D. in
1874. He has been engaged in practice as
a homoeopathic physician and surgeon
since 1874. He is professor of obstetrics,
in the New York Homoeopathic Medical
College and Hospital at New York City
since 1886 and is now senior professor and
he is also head of the Maternity Depart
ment of ' Flower Hospital and chief of the
Maternity Staff at Hahnemann Hospital,
New York City. Dr. Danforth is a mem
ber, and was president in 1902, of the
Homoeopathic Medical Society of the
County of New York. He is a Republican
in politics ; is a member of the Brick
Church (Presbyterian) ; and he is a mem
ber of the Union League Club. Dr. Dan
forth married at Willimantic, Conn., in
1874, Emma Augusta Hamlin. Address:
49 West Fifty-second Street, New York
City. DANFORTH, William Clark:
Physician; bom in Chicago, July 30,
1878 ; son of Isaach Danforth and Elizabeth
(Skelton) Danforth. He was educated at
the West Division High School in Chicago,
and at Northwestern University, from which
he was graduated as B.S. in 1900, and also
graduated from Northwestern University
Medical School as M. D., cum laude, in
1903. He engaged in post-graduate medical
study in Vienna and Berlin in 1905 and
1906. Dr. Danforth was interne in the
Cook County Hospital, Chicago, in 1903
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cal surgery in the Northwestern University
Medical School since 1905. He has been
in Europe twice, the second visit extending
over eleven months. Dr. Danforth is a Re
publican in politics. He is a member of the
Chicago Medical. Society, the American
Medical Association and the Illinois State
Medical Society of Delta Upsilon frater
nity, Nri Sigma Nu (medical fraternity)
and Alpha Omega Alpha (honorary medical
society). ; Residence: 905 West Monroe
Street, Cliiqago. Office address .: 70 State
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
DANIEL, John Warwick:
United States senator; born in Lynch
burg, Virginia, September 5, 1842. He was
educated at Lynchburg College and at the
celebrated University School maintained by
Dr. G'essner Harrison in ante-bellum days.
He joined the Army of Northern Vir
ginia upon the breaking out of hostilities,
and served in the Confederate Army during
the entire war, becoming adjutant general
on the staff of General Jubal Early. At
the close of the war in 1865 he went to
the University of Virginia to study law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1866, and
has practiced ever since. He has long-
been a leader at the Virginia bar, and is
author of an authoritative work upon at
tachments under the Code of that State;
and he is a lawyer of national repute and
the author of a valuable text-book on Ne
gotiable Instruments. For nearly forty
years he has been a leader in the Demo
cratic party of his State; was a member of
the House Of Delegates of Virginia for
two terms, from 1869 to 1872, and of the
State Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was
elected residential elector in 1876 and
voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was de
feated for governor of Virginia in 1881,
and in 1884 he was elected to the House
of Representatives of the Forty-ninth Con
gress. He was elected to the United
Statesv Senate in 1887, and has been con
tinued in that body ever since by successive
reelections. His present term will expire
in 191 1. Senator Daniel was a member
of the National Democratic Conventions
of 1880, 1888 and 1896, and was permanent

charman of the latter body. Address:
Lynchburg, Virginia.
DANIELS, Frank:
Actor; born at Day fori, Ohio, in i860.
Since his first appearance iri 1883 he has
taken leading parts in comedies and oper-
ettes. Fie has taken the leading- role in:
A Rag Baby,' Little Puck, The Wizard of
the Nile,! The Idol's '-Eye, The Ameer, Miss
Sirriplicity, The^'Office Boy, Sergeant Brue,
and other , comedies. Address: Rye, New
York. . -^ ¦
DANIELS, George Henry:
Railroad official; born iu Hampshire,
Kane County, Illinois, December 1, 1842.
He was educated in the public schools.
He began in the railway seryice in 1857
as rodriian in the engineers' corps of the
North Missouri Railroad. He filled var
ious positions until "he became freight and
passenger agent for the Chicago and Paci
fic Railroad from 1872 to 1880. He was
general ticket agent of the Wabash, St.
Louis and Pacific Railroad from 1880 to
1882, and commissioner of the Colorado
Railroad Association from 1884 to 1885,
assistant commissioner of the Central Pas
senger Committee from 1886 to 1887, vice-
chairman of the Central Traffic Association
from 1887 to 1889, chairman of the East-
bound Passenger Committee from 1886 to
1889, general passenger agent of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
from 1889 to 1905 and since December 1,
1905 he has been manager of the Advert
ising Department of the New York Cen
tral lines. Address: Grand Central Sta
tion, New York City.
DANIELS, Josephus:
Editor; born at Washington, Beaufort
County, North Carolina, May 18, 1862;, son
of Josephus and Mary Cleves Daniels.
He was educated in the Collegiate Insti
tute at Wilson, North Carolina, and after
ward engaged in newspaper work. He
became State Printer for North Carolina
from 1887 to 1893, when he was appointed
chief clerk of the Department of the In
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years. He is now editor of the News and
Observer, at Raleigh, the leading news
paper of North Carolina, and he is mem
ber of the Executive Committee of the
trustees of the University of North Caro
lina. Mr. Daniels is prominent in the
councils of the Democratic Party in his
State and the Nation, and is the North
Carolina member of the Democratic Na
tional Executive Committee. Mr. Daniels
married, May 18, 1888, Miss Addie
Worth Bagley, and they have four children.
Address : Raleigh, North Carolina.
DANIELS, Milton J. :
Ex-congressman; born at Cobleskill,
Schoharie County, New York* April 18,
1838; son of Hon. John V. Daniels and
Hester Ann (Wheeler) Daniels. He was
educated at Middlebury Academy, Middle
bury, New York. In April 1861, he enter
ed the Union Army and he served until
January, 1866, reaching the rank of major
by brevet. After the war he went to
Minnesota and in 1868 he engaged in bank
ing, removing in 1889 to Riverside, Cali
fornia, of which place he has ever since
been a citizen. Major Daniels is a Repub
lican, voted for Lincoln in 1864, and has
ever since been active in his support of
Republican candidates and policies and
he was a member of the Minnesota Legis
lature from 1882 to 1889. In 1902 he was
elected from the Eighth congressional Dis
trict of California, in which he served
from 1903 to 1905. Fie is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Mr.
Daniels married at Candor, New York,
May, 1869, Jennie E. Booth. Address:
Riverside, California.
DANKER, Albert:
Clergyman. He was graduated from the
Troy University, New York State, in 1862,
and received the degree of M.A. from Ho
bart College in 1865, and that of Ph.D.
from the University of New York in 1874.
He was ordered deacon in 1864 by Bishop
Horatio Potter, and ordained priest in
1866 by Bishop Coxe, in the ministry of
the Episcopal Church. He was assistant at
Trinity Church, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864

and 1865; rector of Christ- Church, at
Jordan, New York, in 1866; oi- St.
Luke's Church, Mechanicville, New York,
from 1867 to 1869; of Christ Church, Cox-
sackie, New York, in 1869 and 1870; Em
manuel Church, Little Falls, New York,
from 1870 to 1880; Grace Church, Water-
town, New York, from 1880 to 1888; vicar
of St. Stephen's Church, Pittsfield, Massa
chusetts, from 1888 to 1890; rector of St,
Ann's Church, Dorchester (Boston) Massa
chusetts, from 1890 to 1894, and rector of
St. Luke's Church, Maiden, Massachusetts,
from 1894 to 1966. Dr. Danker is chaplain
of the Massachusetts Commandery of the
Naval Order of the United States, and is
a member of the Society of 1812. He is
author of a tract, The Apostolic Origin of
the Episcopal Church, and Heroines of
Olden Time, a book of Scripture types of
feminine characters. He married at Cox-
sackie, New York, in 1870, Susan Isabelle
Stoutenburgh, and they have two sons, who
are in the Episcopal ministry in Brooklyn,
New York: Rev. Walton S. Danker and
Rev. Frederick H. Danker. Address: Mai
den, Massachusetts.
DARLING, Charles Hlal:
Lawyer and collector of customs ; born in
Woodstock, Vermont, May 9, 1859; son of
Jason L. Darling and Ellen L. (Paul) Darl
ing. He was educated in Perkins Acad
emy, Woodstock, Vermont, at the Mont-
pelier Seminary at Montpelier, Vermont,
and at Tufts College as A.B. in 1884, and
he received the degree of LL.D. in 1903.
He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and he
is now partner in the firm of Darling and
Mower, attorneys at Burlington, Vermont.
He was judge of the Municipal Court of
Bennington from 1887 to 1901. Judge Dar
ling is a Republican in politics and he re
presented the Town of Bennington in the
Legislature of Vermont from 1896 to 1898
and was a member of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the body. He was assistant secre
tary of the Navy in 1901 to 1905; and was
appointed in 1905 collector of customs for .
the District of Vermont, in which office he
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president in 1899 and 1900 of the Vermont
Bar Association; is a member of the Ver
mont Historical Society and is sole trustee
of the Lucy S. Ruggles Fund for the es
tablishment of a Teachers' Home. Judge
Darling is a prominent member of the col
lege fraternity of Zeta Psi and was presi
dent of the National Association of Zeta
Psi in 1904 and 1905. He is is also a mem
ber of the Masonic order and of the Sons
of the American Revolution. Judge Darl
ing has membership in the Ethan Allen and
Algonquin Clubs of Burlington, Vermont,
and the Bennington Club of Bennington,
Vermont. He married in Bennington, Ver
mont, October 6, 1889, Agnes Christmas
Norton, and they have three children: Mar
garet Norton, born December 18, 1892;
Alice Godfrey, born May 19, 1896, and
Eliabeth Paul, born April 15, 1899. Ad
dress: Burlington, Vermont.
DARLINGTON, Charles Francis:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
November 1, i860; son of Thomas Dar
lington and Hannah A. (Goodliffe) Dar
lington. He was graduated from Princeton
in 1882, and from the Columbian Law
School in 1884. He was admitted to the
bar in 1884. Mr. Darlington is a member of
the Sons of the Revolution, the Huguenot
Society of America, the Society of Colonial
Wars and the St. Nicholas Society. He mar
ried at New York City, January 28, 1903,
Letitia Craig O'Neill, and they have one
son, Charles Francis, Jr., born September
13, 1904. Summer Home : Mt. Kisco, West
chester County, New York. Residence:
143 West Fifty-seventh Street. Office ad
dress: 206 Broadway, New York City.
DARLINGTON, James Henry:
Bishop of Harrisburg; is of an old
Colonial family, and was born at Brooklyn,
New York, June 9, 1856; son of Thomas
and Hannah A. Goodliffe Darlington, and
grandson of Peter Darlington. He enter
ed the University of New York, graduat
ing from the academic course with the
degree of B.A. in 1877, graduating from
Princeton Seminary in 1880, receiving also,
in 1884, the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton

University and D.D. in 1895 from his alma
mater, LL.D. from St. John's College, An
napolis, in 1905 and from Dickinson Col
lege in 1907. He took deacon's orders in
the Episcopal Church in 1882 and was or
dained priest by Bishop Littlejohn in the
same year. During the year 1882-83 he
was assistant in Christ Church, Bedford
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., becoming rector
the following year. He officiated here,
until 1905, when he became Bishop
of Harrisburg, Pa. He was married July
26, 1886, at Garden City, N. Y., to Ella
Louise Beams. He is author of: Verses
for Children, and editor of the Hymnal
of the Church. He was chaplain of the
Forty-seventh Regiment of the National
Guard of the State of New York for eight
years. Bishop Darlington is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of
the Revolution, the Huguenot, St. Nichol
as, National Geographic and other socie
ties. He has published numerous address
es and pamphlets. Address : Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
DARLINGTON, Joseph G.:
Merchant; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. His maternal ancestors were among
the early settlers of the colonies, coming
to America irr 1630, whose descendants
founght in defense of the colonies and
in the War of the Revolution. He was
educated at the Friends' School on Walnut
Street, above Sixth, in, Philadelphia, and
after leaving school he entered the silk
importing house of Dale, Ross and Withers,
at that time the leading silk merchants in
the United States, in which he served for
four years. At the close of his apprentice
ship he entered the dry goods house of
John W. Thomas, where his early training
and fidelity to his duty won the apprecia
tion and respect of his employer, which he
eventually showed by taking him into part
nership. On January 31, 1874, when Mr.
Thomas retired, Mr. Darlington continued
the business under the firm name of Joseph
G. Darlington and Company. The enter
prise has grown to be very large, having
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in Europe. , Mr. Darlington has been a
director, secretary and vice-president of
the Union League of Philadelphia, and for
four consecutive years was the president
of that organization. He is a director of
the Franklin National Bank, trustee .of the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, one
of the Philadelphia directors of the Ameri
can Surety Company of New York, a- here
ditary member of the Connecticut State
Society of the Cincinnati, a member of the
Saint Nicholas Society of New , York, and
a member of many clubs and organizations
in Philadelphia. Address : Haverford.
Pennsylvania. DARLINGTON, Thomas:
Physician; born in Brooklyn, New York,
September 24, 1858; son of Thomas Dar
lington and Hannah A. (Goodliffe) Dar
lington. His education begun in the public
schools of New York and Newark, New
Jersey, was followed by a three years'
scientific and engineering course at the
University of the City of New York, after
his graduation he entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1880.
He engaged in the practice of medicine at
Newark, New Jersey, for two years, hold
ing several hospital appointments. In 1882
he located at Kingsbridge, New York, and
has practiced there until 1904, except for
two years spent in Arizona, where he was
surgeon to several^ mining companies. He
was appointed Commissioner of Health for
the City of New York . in 1904, and was
reappointed for the second term in 1906.
His adriiinistration has been thoroughly
efficient and has demonstrated the wisdom
of the selection of a trained medical man
as head of the Health Department of a
great metropolis like New York, where
the sanitary problems are necessarily very
complex, and their proper, solution of vital
importance. Dr. Darlington has been an
extensive contributor to medical literature.
He is president of the American Climato-
logical Society, a member of the American
Medical Association, the New York State
Medical Society, the New York County
Medical Society, the Medico-Legal Society,

Association of the Alumni of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Harlem Medi
cal Association, New York . Physicians
Mutual Aid Association, MedicaF Society
of the Borough of The Bronx, Medical
Association of Greater New York, Yonkers
Practitioners' Society, Society of Medical
Jurisprudence and Academy of Medicine,
and until his appointment as Health Com
missioner of New York he was visiting
physician to several of the hospitals of the
City and consulting physician to the French
Hospital. He is also member of Arch
deaconry of New York, Chemists' Club,
The Thomas Hunter Association of Gram
mar School No. 35, The Commission on
the Prevention of Tuberculosis of The
Charity Organization of the City of New
York, Sons of the Revolution, Society of
Colonial Wars, New York University Al
umni Association, Kingsbridge Council No.
1083 Royal Arcanum, The Parish Club.
Church Temperance Society, Trustee of
The Bronx Savings Bank, The Hugenot
Society of America, Fordham Club, North
Side Board of Trade, The National As
sociation for the Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis, New. York Athletic Club,
The Seabury Society, Jefferson Tammany
Hall, Director, Crippled Children's Driving
Fund, and the National Geographic Society,
Lotos Club, American Geographical So
ciety and Society of Tropical Medicine.
Address: 48 West Fifty-ninth Street.
New York City.
DASHTELL, William Walles:
Manufacturer of. lubricating oils; born
in Somerset County, Maryland, March 14,
1856; son of John Jay and- Mary Anne
(Wailes) Dashiell. Mr. Dashiell was
graduated from Stevens Institute of Tech
nology at Hoboken, New Jersey, with the
degree of M.E. in 1879. He became as
sistant superintendent engineer of the Red
Star Steamship Company, at Jersey City;
mechanical engineer on the Croton Aque
duct in charge of three miles, under Den
ton and Brochau, and later in charge of
the, shaft at Tarrytown under Brown,
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at Bergen Point, New Jersey. He was
general manager of the Sloss Iron and
Steel Company at Birmingham, Ala., and
expert for a branch of the Standard Oil
Company. He served for a short time as
private in a Maryland military company.
Mr. Dashiell is now president and general
manager of the New York Lubricating Oil
Company; vice-president of the Bayway
Refining Company; chairman of the voting
trust of the Columbia Lubricant Company
and director of the Manhattan Rubber
Manufacturing Company. In his politics
Mr. Dashiell is an Independent Democrat,
and he is an Episcopalian in his religious
affiliation. He is a member of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, and
the Engineers' Club of New York. Mr.
Dashiell married at Hoboken, New Jersey,
in June, 1884, Kittie Townsend Keynton,
and they' have four children: Marie Field
ing Dashiell (born in 1887), William
Allair Dashiell (born in 1889), Katherine
Keynton Dashiell (born in 1890) and John
Jay Dashiell (born in 1892). Residence:
848 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City.
Address: 116 Broad Street, New York
City.
DAUS, R. L.:
Architect ; born in Mexico ; son of Leo
pold Daus and Emmai (Ruben) Daus. He
was educated in Paris,. France; in Berlin,
Germany; and as a pupil in the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, receiving medals for excel
lence of work. He was architect of the
Thirteenth Regiment Armory, the German
Hospital, the Hall of Records at Brooklyn,
and the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, in
New York City. Mr. Daus is a member and
secretary of the commission appointed in
1898 to frame the building laws now gov
erning New York City and was a surveyor
of buildings in Brooklyn from 1899 to 1900.
ne is a member of the Society of Beaux
Arts, Architects; fellow of the American
Institute of Architects and is a member of
the Drug and Chemical, Atlantic Yacht and
Brooklyn Clubs. Mr. Daus married at
Paris, Augustine Louise Perrin, and they
have three children : Henriette, Emma and
v^illiam Thallon. Summer home : Sea Gate,

New York Harbor. Address: 130 Fulton
Street, New York City.
DACSMAN, Ethan Alien:
Lawyer; born near Elkhart, Indiana, Jan
uary 3, 1862. His father Jacob Dausman,
was born in Germany and resided there
until twenty-two years of age, and his
mother, Margaret Snyder, was born at
chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Both parents
died while he was a child. He was admit
ted to practice at the Elkhart County bar
in 1886. In 1900 he was elected to the Sen
ate by the Republicans of Indiana and rep
resented his home county in the House
during the Sixty-fourth session (1905) of
the General Assembly. In 1894 he was chair
man of the Democratic County Central
Committee and was reelected to the same
position in 1896. Being an ardent believer
in the gold standard and an uncompromising
foe of socialistic tendencies, he resigned the
chairmanship after the Chicago Convention,
ind canvassed Northern Indiana for Mc
Kinley and Hobart. He is a student of
"ociology and has contributed important
articles on criminal law. He married, Mary
\. Stauffer, and has three children : Ger
trude, Guy and Inez. Address : Goshen,
Indiana. DAVENPORT, Bennett Franklin:
Medico-legal expert; born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, May 28, 1845; son of
Charles Davenport and Joan Fullerton
(Hagar) Davenport. He prepared for col
lege at the Cambridge High School and
graduated as A.B., at Harvard in 1867, re
ceived his A.M. in 1870 and M.D. in 1871.
He received also M.D. from Columbia Uni
versity in 1871, and studied at the German
universities. He was of the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society at Harvard. He was ten years
chairman of Health Board, five years chair
man of the Water Board, and chairman of
the Park Board of Watertown, a suburb
of Boston. He has been in the contin
uous employ of the State of Massachusetts
for the past twenty-five years as medico
legal expert, was for three years milk in
spector for the City of Boston, and for
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chusetts. Dr. Davenport is a member of
very many of the medical societies of the
city, State and Nation, is a member of the
American Chemical Society, the Chemical
Societies of London, Paris, and Berlin, the
British Society of Public Analysis, Deutsche
Gesellschaft fur Angawandte Chemie and
many others, some thirty in all. He is
president of the Historical Society of
Watertown, also of its chapter of the Sons
of the American Revolution, is a member
of the New England Historic-Genealogical
Society, etc. His favorite recreation is the
study of American local and Constitutional
History, and he has a private library of over
five thousand volumes. He has traveled
over Great Britain, France, Germany, Aus
tria, Italy and other European countries.
He married at Watertown, Massachusetts,
July 23, 1873, Annie E. Coolidge, daughter
of John Coolidge, Jr., and wife, Martha
J. Coolidge, and they have four children :
Grace Coolidge Davenport, who was born
December 28, 1877, graduated as A.B. from
Radcliffe, 1902, and married, 1905, Henry J.
Winslow, A.B., Harvard, 1902, lawyer of
Cambridge and Boston; John C. Davenport,
who was born February 23, 1881, A.B. at
Harvard, 1904. He is an electrical engin
eer at Cincinnati, where he married, in
1906, Florence M. Miller; Anna C. D., born
August 14, 1885, A.B. Radcliffe College,
1906, and Benita C. D., born August 24,
1888, Radcliffe, class of 191 1. Residence:
67 Coolidge Hill Road, Watertown, Massa
chusetts. Office address : 161 Tremont
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
DAVENPORT, Homer Calvin:
Caricaturist and writer ; born at Silverton,
Oregon, March 8, 1868 ; son of Timothy W.
Davenport and Florinda Geer Davenport.
He was educated in the public schools in
Oregon, during early youth, for a short
time. He never attended an art school,
but was successively a jockey, foreman and
circus clown. His first newspaper employ
ment was on the Portland Oregonian and in
1892 he was engaged on the San Francis
co Examiner and Chronicle. He came to
New York City in 1895, to do political car

toons for the New York Journal, his work
causing an attempt to pass an anti-cartoon
bill in the New York Legislature in 1897.
Since 1904 he has been on the staff of the
±v ;w York Evening Mail and Express,
by which his cartoons are syndicated
throughout the United States. Mr. Daveii
port has a farm at Morris Plains, New Jer
sey. In 1897 he took a European trip car
tooning public and political characters, in
cluding Gladstone, rie went to Paris dur
ing the Dreyfus trial to sketch and write,
and in 1906 to the Arabian Desert to im
port pure Arabian mares and stallions,
having obtained special permission -of the
Sultan, and being accompanied by a detach
ment of Turkish soldiers. His favorite
recreations are horseback riding and farm
ing. He has the finest and largest private
collection of pheasants and wild water fowl
in America and is a large importer and
breeder of pure Arabian horses. Mr.
Davenport married at Chicago, Illinois,
September 7, 1893, Daisy B. Moore, of San
Francisco, and they have three children:
Homer Clyde, born in 1896; Mildred, born
in 1899 ; and Gloria Ward, born in 1904.
Residence: Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Address: 203 Broadway, New York City.
DAVENPORT, Timothy:
Lawyer ; born at Wilton, Fairfield County,
Connecticut, February 8, 1854; son of
George A. Davenport and Mary (Sturges)
Davenport. His early education was ac
quired in the schools of his native place,
and he then entered Yale, graduating from
there with the B.A. degree in 1875, and
from the Yale Law School as LL.B. in
1877. Since then he has been continuously
engaged in the practice of law.
He is a member of the New York
State Bar Association, the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, and
the International Law Association. He is
a member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
and of the Yale Club of New York. Mr.
Davenport married at Gloversville, New
York, October 30, 1884, Mary Allen, and
they have two children : Allen S. Daven
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port (born in 1891). Address: 92 Wil
liam Street, New York City.
DAVENPORT, William Bates:
Lawyer; born at New York City, March
10, 1847; son of Julius and Mary (Bates)
Davenport. He was graduated from the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, from Yale
as B.A. in 1867; and he received from
Yale the degree of M.A. in 1887. He was
admitted to the bar in 1871 ; was public
administrator of Kings County, New York,
1889-1904; and he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1894, serving
on the Committees on Cities and Corpora
tions. Mr. Davenport was a member of
the Democratic State Committee in 1895,
the National Democratic Convention of
1884, and in many State and local conven
tions of the party. He retired from prac
tice and from directorship in many cor
porations in 1904 and has traveled exten
sively in all quarters of the globe. He is
a member of the Wolf's Head (senior
society) of Yale, the Sons of the Revolu
tion, the Society of Colonial Wars, the
Order of Settlers and Defenders, and New
York Bar Association. He is a director of
the Yale Alumni Fund, and a member of
the Yale Advisory Council, is president
of the Polhemus Memorial Clinic and
trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, and the Brooklyn Art As
sociation. Mr. Davenport is a Conservative
Democrat in his politics. He is a member
of the University, Manhattan, Yale, Larch
mont and New York Yacht Clubs of New
York City, the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn,
the Cuttyhunk Fishing Club and Maryland
Club of Baltimore. He married in 1874,
Charlotte C. Shepherd. Address: 201
Washington Park, Brooklyn, New York.
DAVEY, Robert Charles:
Lawyer and Congressman; born in New
Orleans, Louisiana, October 22, 1853. He
received his early education in the schools
of his native city; entered St. Vincent's
College, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in
1869, and was graduated in 1871. He was
elected a member of the State Senate of

Louisiana in December, 1879, reelected in
April, 1884, and again elected in April,
1892; and he was president pro tempore of
the Senate during the sessions of 1884 and
1886. He was elected judge of the First
Recorder's Court of New Orleans in No
vember, 1880, reelected in 1882 and 1884,
and served until May, 1888. Mr. Davey
was defeated for mayor of the city of
New Orleans in April, 1888; and was
elected in 1892 to the Fifty-third Con
gress. He positively declined renomin
ation in 1894 for the Fifty-fourth Congress,
but was elected in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth
Congress and has since been biennially re
elected; and he is now serving in the Six
tieth Congress from the Second Louisiana
District. Mr. Davey is a Democrat in pol
itics and has always been active in the
party in his city and State. Address : New
Orleans, Louisiana.
DAVIDSON, Anstruther:
Physician ; born in Scotland, February 19,
i860; son of George Davidson and Ann
(Macadam) Davidson. He was graduated
from Glasgow University, Scotland, with the
degree of CM., and M.B. in 1881 and as
M.D. in 1887. He was appointed house
surgeon at Glasgow Western Infirmary in
1882, house surgeon at the Skin Hospital
in Glasgow in 1882 and he was surgeon of
the Arizona Copper Company from 1889
to 1901. Dr. Davidson is a Democrat in
politics. He is a fellow of the Southern
California Academy of Science, a member
of the Entomological Society, and is past-
president arid now a director of the Acad
emy of Science of Southern California. His
favorite recreations are studies and re
searches in botany and entomology. He is
a member of the University Club of Los
Angeles. Dr. Davidson married in Los
Angeles, California, June, 1897, Alice J.
Merritt, and they have two sons, Ronald
A. Davidson, born in 1900, and Merritt I.
Davidson, born in 1903. Residence: Drum-
holly, Hollywood, California. Office ad
dress : 546 Wilcox Block, Los Angeles, Cal
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DAVIDSON, James H.:
Congressman; was born in Colchester,
Delaware County, New York, June 18,
1858; was educated in the public schools
and at Walton (New York) Academy;
taught school ; studied law ; graduated from
Albany Law School as president of the
class in 1884 and was in the same year
admitted to the bar of New York; sub
sequently moved to Wisconsin and com
menced the practice of law at Princeton
in 1887; in 1888 was elected prosecuting
attorney of Green Lake County; in 1892
removed to Oshkosh and continued the
practice of law; in 1895 was appointed
city attorney; was chairman of the Re
publican Congressiorial committee from 1890
to 1896; was elected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-severith, Fifty-eighth,
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Ad
dress: Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
DAVIDSON, James O.:
Governor of Wisconsin. He was elected
lieutenant-governor in 1904, and in 1905,
upon the resignation of Governor La Fol-
lette, Mr. Davidson succeeded as governor,
and in 1906 was elected on the Republican
ticket for another term, which will expire
in JariUary, 1909. Address : Madison, Wis
consin. DAVIDSON, Silvanns i^iUer:
Merchant; bora at New York City,
January 12, 1849; son of Morris Miller
and Elizabeth Shrimpton (Stratford)
Davidson. He -was educated at the Union
School at Schenectady, N. Y., and the Phil
adelphia Institute of Technology. He was
several years in Japan, and subsequently
visited all European countries and prin
cipal places in South. America. Mr. David
son served in the Civil War in the Thirty-
second Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is
president of the Manhattan Straw Works;
a director of the Clove Branch Railroad
Company ; and a trustee of the Mechanics'
Savings Bank of Fishkill Landing, New
York. Mr. Davidson is a Republican in
politics ' and was a candidate for the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of New York
in 1894. He is an Episcopalian in religious

belief. Mr. Davidson is a member of the
Sons of the Revolution; vice-president of
the Howland Library Association of Mat-
tea wan, New York. His marriage at Yoko
hama, Japan, December 30, 187 1, to An
gelica Malcomb Rian was the first Ameri
can marriage to take place in Japan, and
of that union there are two children: Mrs.
Henry Rutgers Remsen Coles, born in
1872, and Malcolm Hayward, born in 1882.
Address : Fyneview, Fishkill-on-the-Hud-
son, New York:
DAVIDSON, William Mehard:
Superintendent of public schools of
Omaha; born at Jamestown, Mercer Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1863; son of
Thomas Houston Davidson and Anna
(Mehard) Davidson. He received his ear
ly education in the public schools of Kan
sas, then went to the Kansas State Norm
al School at Emporia, Kansas, from which
he was graduated , in 1886, and afterward
received the degree of A.B. from the Kan
sas State University at Lawrence. He
taught in rural schools of Lyon County,
Kansas, from 1882 to 1884, then became city
editor of a newspaper at Emporia, Kansas,
but since 1886 has continuously engaged in
educational work. He was principal of
schools at Atwood, Kansas, for one
year; principal of schools at Topeka,
Kansas, from 1887 to 1892, then sup
erintendent of public schools" at Topeka
until 1904,, when he accepted his present
appointment as superintendent of public
schools at Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. David
son Jjas attained prominence as an institute
worker arid a lecturer on educational sub
jects.. He is author of : A History of the
United States, for school use, and editor
of a series of Classics and School Read
ings. Mr. Davidson is a Republican in
political views and a Presbyterian in his
religious affiliations. He is president of the
National. Educational Association and
treasurer of the Boston meeting in 1903,
and he was president, of the State Teachers'
Association of Kansas in. 1893. He is also
n member of the National Council of
•Education, American Historical Associa
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Study of Education, and of the Commercial
and McKinley Clubs of Omaha. Mr.
Davidson married at Quincy, Illinois, July
n, 1888, Nellie Adams. Residence: 1336
South Thirtieth Avenue, Omaha. Office
address : City Hall, Omaha, Nebraska.
DA VIES. Arthur Ernest:
Professor of philosophy; born in Lon
don, England, March 18, 1867 ; son of James
and Ellenor Davies. He was educated in
King's College School, at Owens College,
Manchester, England, and University Col
lege, London, from 1884 to 1888, at Yale
Divinity School from 1888 to 1891, grad
uating as B.D., and at Yale Graduate School
from 1885 to 1888 taking the degree of Ph.
D. in Philosophy. He was pastor of Lake
Preston and Erwin Congregational
Churches in South Dakota in 1892 and 1893,
and was ordained at Lake Preston, May 29,
1893 to 1895, pastor of the Congregational
Church in Mianus, Connecticut, from 1896
to 1898, pastor of Bur well (Nebras
ka) Congregational Church, 1898 and 1899;
and pastor of Eustis (Nebraska) Congre
gational Church in 1899 and 1900. He was
instructor in philosophy at the Ohio State
University from 1900 to 1906, and assis
tant professor of philosophy in the Ohio
State University from 1906. Dr. Davies has
been an extensive contributor to Self-Cul
ture, the Anglo-American Magazine, Bib-
liotheca Sacra, the Philosophical Review,
Psychological Review, the Journal of Phil
osophy and the International Journal of
Ethics, chiefly on philosophical, religious,
ethical and psychological subjects. He is
an Independent in politics. He is a mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Religious Ed
ucation Association, and the Western Phil
osophical Association. Dr. Davies finds his
favorite recreations in tennis, cycling and
walking. He married in London, England,
December 28, 1892, Emily Adeline Hill, and
they have two -daughters : Dorothy Ellenor,
born in 1898, ami I^rgaret Adeline, born
in 1907. , Address,?; 395 . East Seventeenth
Avenue, .CglufnbuSi Qh»o< •¦¦-..

DAVIES, Frederick Martin:
Banker, broker; born at New York City,
September 12, 1877; son of Julien T. and
Alice (Martin) Davies. He was graduat
ed from Yale University with the degree
of B.A. in 1899; was in the service of the
New York Central & Hudson River Rail
road, for two years after graduation, and,
then entered the banking house of Kountze
Brothers, and he has been engaged in busi
ness on his own account since 1903, and
is now senior member of the firm of
Davies, Thompson & Co. Mr. Davies is
a member of the Union, Knickerbocker,
New York Yacht, and University Clubs'.
He married at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in
April, 1901, Emily O'Neill, and they have
two children : Emily Davies (born in
1903) and Frederick M. Davies, Jr., (born
in 1906). Address: 30 Pine Street, New
York City.
DAVIES, J. Clarence:
Real estate; born at New York City,
November 27, 1867; son of David Davies
and Maria (Phillips) Davies. Educat
ed at school No. 69 and College of the
City of New York. Mr. Davies began in
the real estate business in 1889, making a
specialty of Bronx property, and has
charge of numerous large estates. He has
consummated many large sales and is
frequently employed as expert in many
coriderimation proceedings of property in
the Bronx section, as well as for railroad
and other corporations, and as appraiser for
banks, trust companies, institutions and at
torneys for Bronx properties. He is' presi
dent of the New York State Real Estate
Association, the Association of Bronx Real
Estate Brokers ; was organizer, and member
and chairman of the Real Estate Commit
tee of the North Side Board of Trade; and
he is a director of the Twenty-third Ward
Bank, the Lawyers' . Westchester Title and
Mortgage Company, and several real es
tate corporations ; is trustee of the North
Side Savings Bank, was many years treas
urer and is- now chairman of the Dairy
Committee of the Real Estate Board
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politan Museum of Art, the Horticultural
Society, the Zoological Society, the Aca
demy of Science, and of True Craftsmen
(Masonic) Lodge, and the Knights of Py
thias. Mr. Davies' chief recreations are golf,
billiards, and yachting and automobiling.
He is a member of the City, Reform, Atlan
tic Yacht, Automobile Club of America,
Harmonie, Century, Country, North Jersey
Country, Hollywood Golf, Amateur Bil
liard, Fordham, and other Clubs of New
York City and its vicinity. Mr. Davies
married at New York in October, 1901,
Rosalie Loewi, and they have a son, Val
entine Loewi Davies, bom in 1905. Resi
dence : 14 East Eighty-first Street. Ad
dress (business) : One Hundred and
Forty-ninth Street and Third Avenue and
156 Broadway, New York City.
DAVIES, John Rumsey:
Clergyman; born at Abergavenny, Eng
land, August 9, 1855; son of Thomas Y.
Davies and Hester A. R. Davies. After
thorough preparatory education he entered
Lafayette College, received the junior ora
torical prize in 1880 and was graduated as
A.B. in the class of 1881 ; receiving
from that college the degree of A.M. in
1883 and of D.D. in 1892. He attended
Princeton Theological Seminary from 1881
to 1883, and was ordained to the ministry
of the Presbyterian Church by the Presby
tery of Lackawanna, December 10, 1883.
He was pastor at Avoca, Pennsylvania,
from 1883 to 1887, at Tyrone, Pennsyl
vania, from 1887 to 1893; pastor of the
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in
New York City from 1893 to 1898, and
from the last named year has been pastor
of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church at
Philadelphia. Dr. Davies is a director of
the Princeton Theological Seminary. He
married at Duntnore, Pennsylvania, Decem
ber 12, 1883, Isabella Moffat. Address:
2322 North Broad Street, Philadelphia.
DAVIES, Julien Tappan:
Lawyer; born at New York City, Sep
tember 25, 1845; son of Henry E. and
Rebecca Waldo (Tappan) Davies. He
was educated at Mt. Washington Collegi

ate Institute in New York City, the Wal
nut Hill School of Geneva, New York,
and Charlier Institute in New York City,
and he afterward entered Columbia Col
lege, graduating as B.A. in 1866, and A.M.
in 1869, and the Columbia College Law
School, receiving the degree of LL.B. in
1868. He studied law with Hon. Alexand
er W. Bradford, and was later associated
with his father, Henry E. Davies, as coun
sel of the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Upon the death of his father he succeeded
him as trustee and one of counsel of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and he
was general solicitor for the same com
pany, 1905-06. He has been counsel for
the Manhattan Railway Company since
1884, was receiver of Grant and Ward,
1884-93, and closed up its affairs; assisted
in 1882, in forming the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company, and was its vice-
president for several years. He assisted
in 1871, in forming the Young Men's Muni
cipal Association and was chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Campaign of
Judge Scott for mayor of New York City.
Mr. Davies is a veteran of the Civil War,
having enlisted as private of the Twenty-
second Regiment of the National Guard
of the State of New York, and was mus
tered into the United States Army, in June
1863, and served in the Pennsylvania cam
paign of that year. He is now senior
member of the law firm of Davies, Stone
and Auerbach. He was president of St.
David's Society, 1900-03, is now (and since
1904) president of the Columbia College
alumni Association, has been one of the
vice-presidents of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York. He is
trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York, the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company, the Bond and Mort
gage Guarantee Company, and the St.
George School at. Newport, R. I. He is
a member of the American Bar Association,
the New York State Bar Association, As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York Historical Society, Ameri:
can Geographical Society, the Board of
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Missions Society of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, and of James Monroe Post,
Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Davies'
favorite recreations are riding, fishing,
shooting, music and reading. He is a
member of the University, Metropolitan.
Union League, Republican, Players', Law
yers', Southside Sportsmens', Restigouche
Salmon, Robin's Island, Deal's Island
Shooting, Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, and Columbia Uni
versity Clubs. Mr. Davies married at Al
bany, New York, April 22, 1869, Alice
Martin, and they have four children:
Julien Townsend Davies, Ethel (now Mrs.
Archibald G. Thatcher), Frederick Martin
Davies, and Cornelia Sherman Davies.
Residence: 49 East Fifty-first Street and
Timber Point, Great River, L. I. Address :
32 Nassau Street, New York City.
DAVIES, Richard Theodore:
General coal agent of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company; born at Buffalo,
New York, October 3, 1850; son of Robert
J. Davies and Electa Monroe (Robinson)
Davies. He is a direct descendent in the
fifth generation of Sir Francis Pemberton,
Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench,
1680, who presided at the trial of Lord
Russell for the Rye House Plot, and a
great-grandson of David Robinson, a pris
oner on the Jersey in the Wallabout, Brook
lyn, during the American Revolution. He
was educated in the public schools of Penn
sylvania. For twenty-eight years he has
represented the Lehigh Coal and Naviga
tion Company in New York City, which is
the oldest anthracite coal mining company
in the United States, having been chartered
in 1820, and he is now in charge of its Coal
Sale Department with offices in Philadelphia
and New York City. Mr. Davies is trustee
of the Dry Dock Saving Institution; is
treasurer and secretary of the General So
ciety of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the
City of New York; is second vice-presi
dent of the Empire State Society of the
Sons of. the American Revolution; is treas
urer of the Pennsylvania Society and trus
tee of the American Scenie and Historic
Preservation Society. He is a life mem

ber of the New England Society and a mem
ber of the Union League Club. Mr. Davies
married in October, 1880, Mary P. Grid-
ley, and they have three children: Ernest
P., born in 1882; Edward L, born in 1886,
and Elinor Van Gelder, born in 1893. Ad
dress : 567 West End Avenue, New York
City.DAVIES, William Gilbert:
One of the foremost members of the
New York bar, was born in the City of
New York, March 21, 1842. Mr. Davies,
after a preparatory course in the schools
of New York, entered Trinity College, Hart
ford, Connecticut, and was graduated from
that institution in i860, and received the
degree of LL.D. in 1906. A short time sub
sequent to his graduation he went abroad,
and for several months pursued his stud
ies at the University of Leipsic, Ger
many. During the greater portion of this
period he had applied himself to the study
of law, and upon his return to this country
he entered the law office of Slosson, Hutch
ins & Piatt, where he completed his stud
ies. He was admitted to the bar in 1863,
and, after a partnership of a few years'
duration with Henry H. Anderson, he en
tered the service of one of the leading
insurance companies, where he was for
many years one of its most valued counsel.
This position he resigned a number of
years ago to again enter upon the active
practice of his profession at the bar. Mr.
Davies is an active member of the State
and City Bar Associations, and has always
taken a prominent part in the delibera
tions of these bodies; is a member of the
Lawyers' Club and was formerly special
lecturer on the Law of Life Insurance in
the Law School of the University of the
City of New York. Following the tradi
tions of his ancestors, Mr. Davies is a
member of the Anglican Church, and was
for many years a vestryman of Christ
Church. He took a more than usual in
terest in the welfare of the church, of
which he prepared a historical sketch,
which was published in the Magazine of
American History some years ago. When
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on Seventy-first Street he found the dis
tance from his residence so inconvenient
that he severed his relations with the of
ficial body and connected himself with the
more adjacent parish of St. Bartholomew.
Historical studies have always been an in
teresting subject with him, and he has
been for many years an actice member of
the New York and Virginia Historical So
cieties, of the New York Geographical and
Genealogical Society, and is a correspond
ing member of the New England Historic-
Genealogical Society. He is also a mem
ber of the Union, University, Century,
'tuxedo, Grolier, Manhattan, Metropolitan,
Liederkranz and St. Nicholas Clubs, of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the
Society of Colonial Wars, and the Phi Beta
Kappa Alumni Association. When the safe
ty of the Union was in such imminent
peril in 1863, caused by the advance of
Lee's mighty army into Pennsylvania, Mr.
Davies immediately responded to the call
of the Government for additional troops
and offered his services as a private sold
ier, being asigned to duty with the Twenty-
second Regiment of New York Volunteers.
He remained with the regiment through
out the Gettysburg campaign, thus gaining
the privilege, of which he feels justly
proud, of wearing the bronze button of
the Grand Army of the Republic. In Jan
uary, 1907, Mr. Davies published through
Robert Grier Cooke, Incorporated, a collec
tion of the papers he had Written from time
to time under the title of Papers and Ad
dresses. Mr. Davies married, on December
15, 1870, Lucie Rice, daughter of the Hon.
Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, Massachu
setts, one of the most distinguished citi
zens of that Commonwealth. Address :
Tuxedo Park, New York.
DAVIS, Albert Eggerdon:
Architect ; . born in New York City,
March 2, 1866; son of William Albert Eg-
gerdon Davis and Emily Parker (James)
Davis. He was educated in the New York
City public schools from 1874 to 1880, and
the Cooper Union Evening School Art De
partment. He studied architechture under
Charles I. Berg and did comic illustrating

for periodicals from 1880 to 1887. Since
October 17, 1887, he has been engaged in
the practice of architecture. He was arch
itect of the Henry Lewis Morris Building,
Station R of the New York Postoffice,
Lebanon Hospital, the Training School for
Nurses, St.- Mary's Protestant Episcopal
Chapel, Morris Heights Methodist Episco
pal parsonage, the synagogue of Congrega
tion Hand-in-Hand, and numerous private
dwellings, flats, factories, cottages and sta
bles in the Bronx and Westchester Coun
ty. He is director of the Gates Realty
Company. Mr. Davis is one of the seven
architects selected by the City of New
York to compete for the Soldiers' and
Sailors' Monument. He is a member of-tht
Architectural League. He is a Republican
in politics and served as alderman of the
Second Ward of New Rochelle, one term.
He secured the adoption of tenement house
ordinance, and was a delegate and chairman
of various conventions. Mr. Davis is
founder of the North Side Board of Trade
and has been three times its president. He
is treasurer of the Civic League of the
Bronx, and a member of the Eleventh Dis
trict Committee of the Charity Organiza
tion Society; is chairman of the Bronx
Committee of Municipal Art Societies, and
one of the founders and member of the
Council of the Bronx Society of Arts and -¦-'
Sciences; and -he is a member of the =
Heights Taxpayers' Association, the South:
Bronx Property Owners' Association; arid
the Mott Haven Improvement Association.
He was instrumental in securing the abol
ishment of the Mott Haven Canal nuisance
and the substitution of a street therefor.
Mr. Davis served six years in the Twenty-
second Regiment of Infantry- of the Nation
al Guard of the State of New York from
1885 to 1891, and was corporal in Com
pany I. He is a member of the: Pres
byterian Church. Residence : New Rochelle,"
New York. Address: 494 East One Huri-r
dred and Thirty-eighth Street, New York1;
City.DAVIS, Andrew McFarland: .,, 8i
Antiquarian, author; born hv-Worcest«& 1
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Governor John Davis of Massachusetts,
and Eliza (Bancroft) Davis. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard
University, from which he was graduated
as S.B. in the class of 1854, and in 1893
he received from Harvard the honorary
degree of A.M. He engaged in the study
of law and was admitted to the bar in
Massachusetts and New York, practicing
for some years and then going to Californ
ia, where he became associated with his
brother, Horace Davis, in manufacturing
enterprises. He afterward returned to
Massachusetts -and for several years has
made his home in Cambridge, devoting his
attention to historical and antiquarian re
searches. He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts arid Sciences and a mem
ber of the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety, the American Antiquarian Society,
and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Mr. Davis is author of: Currency and
Banking in the Province of Massachusetts,
Tracts Relating to the Currency of Massa
chusetts Bay, The Confiscation of John
Chandler's Estate, and various articles and
papers on Massachusetts history and an
tiquities. Mr. Davis married at Shirley,
Massachusetts, October 23, 1862, Henrietta
Parker Whitney, and they have four chil
dren: Bancroft Gherardi, Eleanor Whit
ney, Frederick King and Horace Andrew.
Address: 10 Appleton Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.DAVIS, Benjamin Joseph:
Clergyman; born in Haniden, Connecti
cut, October 28, 1864; son of Samuel Davis
and Emily (Mansfield) Davis. He pre
pared for college at Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven, Connecticut, and was
graduated from there in 1882, then en
tered Yale University, graduating in the
class of ¦ 1886, and received a High Oration
appointment and also was named one
of the commencement speakers at gradua
tion. He studied theology at Berkeley Di
vinity School, Middletown, Connecticut,
and was graduated in 1889, then was or
dered deacon in the Episcopal Church. He
was appointed to the charge of St. Luke's

Church at Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1889,
was ordained to the' priesthood, and ac
cepted the position of curate in St. James'
Church, Philadelphia, In 1890 ; accepted the
rectorship of Trinity Church, Easton, Penn
sylvania, in 1892, and there remained until
1903, and has been rector of Trinity
Church, Santa Barbara, California, since
1903. He has traveled in Europe, the
United States and Canada. Mr. Davis is
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Yale Chapter. He married at Clifton,
Staten Island, June 18, 1895,. Anna Town-
send Ripley, and they have one daughter,
Bertha Davis. Address : Trinity Rectory,
Santa Barbara, California.
DAVIS, Boothe Col well:
College president; born in Janelaw, Lew
is County, West Virginia, July 12, 1863 ; son
of Rev. Samuel D. Davis and Elizabeth
(Randolph) Davis. He was educated in the
public schools and studied one year in West
Virginia State Normal School. He taught
four years in the public schools of West
Virginia, and was graduated from Alfred
University in 1890 with the degree of A.B. ;
from the Divinity School Of Yale, in 1893,
with the degree of B.D., and later received
the degrees of Ph.D. and D.D. Dr. Davis
was pastor of the First Seventh Day Bap
tist Church at Alfred, New York, from
1893 to 1895. He is a member of the Col
lege Council, University State of New
York, the National Educational Association,
the Religious Education Association, and
has been president and professor of phil
osophy at Alfred University since Septem
ber, 1895; and president of the New York
State School of Clay Working and Cer
amics. He is also a popular lecturer. Mr.
Davis married at Shiloh, New Jersey, 1893,
Estelle W. Hoffman, and they have three
childreri: S. Stanton H. born in 1891;
Elizabeth R., born in 1893, and Boothe
Cblwell, Jr., born in 1900. Address: Al
fred, New York.
DAVIS, Charles Henry:
, Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
August 28, 1845 ; son of the late rear-ad-

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miral C. H. Davis, one of the most dis
tinguished officers of the Navy and long
superintendent of the Naval Observatory.
He was appointed from Massachusetts as an
acting midshipman in the Navy, November
29, 1861 ; and midshipman, July, 1862,
and was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1864. His subsequent
promotions were to ensign, November 1,
1866; master, December I, 1866; lieutenant,
March 12, 1868; lieutenant-commander,
June 30, 1869; commander, October 30,
1855 ; captain, 1898 ; rear-admiral, August
24, 1904. He served on several vessels and
stations and was at the Naval Observatory
from 1875 to 1877, and from 1877 to 1885
was connected with the several expeditions
for the determination of the differences of
longitude by means of submarine telegraph
cables from Europe to the Atlantic Is
lands and the east coast of South America;
also in India, China, Japan and the Indian
Archipelago; and in Mexico and Central
America, and on the west coast of South
America. He commanded the Saratoga
and afterward the Quinnebaug, from 1886
to 1889; was chief intelligence officer of
the Navy Department from 1889, to Sep
tember, 1892. He afterward commanded
the Montgomery; was a member of the
Board of Inspection and Survey from 1896
to 1897, and was then superintendent of the
Naval Observatory until April, 1898, when
he was placed in command of the auxiliary
cruiser Dixie, attached to the North At
lantic Squadron, through the Spanish-
American War, and in November, 1898, re
turned to the superintendency of the Naval
Observatory; and in 1902 was placed in
command as captain of the battleship Ala
bama, which became his flagship when he
was promoted to rear admiral, and was
placed in command of the Second Squad
ron of the Atlantic Fleet, on which he
continued until his retirement by operation
of law, August 28, 1907. Rear Admiral
Davis is an officer of marked accomplish
ments, with a fluent command of French
and other foreign languages, and for that rea
son has several times been detached "and
sent on important missions abroad. He
served as American Commissioner on the

International Commission of Inquiry on the
Doyger Bank incident, at Paris, 1904-05. He
has published technical works relating to
the effect of temperature, and other causes,
on chronometer rates, and the telegraphic
determination of longtitude; and he is also
author of the Life of Rear-Admiral Davis
(his father), published by Houghton, Mif
flin & Co., in 1899. Address: Care of
Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
DAVIS, Charles Lukens:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army retired; born in New Brighton, Bea- •
ver County, Pennsylvania, February 27,
1839; son of Benjamin Davis and Eliza
beth (Hamill) Davis; grandson of Cap
tain John Davis of the Continental Army,
and great-grandson of John Morton, a sign
er of the Declaration of Independence. He
was educated at the Lawrenceville High
School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and
was engaged as a civil engineer on rail
roads in Northwestern Pennsylvania and
Delaware .prior to the Civil War. He
served as first lieutenant in the Signal
Corps with the First Army Corps at Fred
ericksburg, Virginia, and in pursuit of
General Jackson in the Shenandoah Val
ley in 1862; was chief signal officer of the
Department of Virginia and North Caro
lina in 1862; captain of the Eighty-second
Pennsylvania Volunteers and Signal Corps
in 1863. He served on a board of officers
at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1863, for the
examination of officers for appointment in
the Signal Corps. He joined the Army of
the Potomac in October, 1863, and served
as chief signal officer of that army from
January, 1865, until the close of the war.
He was brevetted major of United States
Volunteers in April, 1865; was appointed
second and first lieutenant in the Tenth
United States Infantry in 1866; was bre
vetted captain and major of the United
States Army in 1867, and commissioned
captain in the Tenth Infantry in 1879;
major of the Eleventh Infantry in 1898;
lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Infantry
in 1899 ; colonel in 1903 ; and he was re
tired at his own request, after forty-one
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1866 to 1893 he served on the Mexican and
Indian frontiers; was on college duty in
North Carolina from 1893 to 1897; was
with the governor of North Carolina or
ganizing and discharging volunteers in 1898
and 1899; collector of customs under the
military government of Porto Rico in 1899
and 1900. He was then in command at
Governor's Island, . New York Harbor, to
April, 1901, when he was ordered to the
Philippine Islands, where he served until
December 1902, with the Eleventh and Fifth
Regiments of United States Infantry.
General Davis is a member of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, the Order
of Foreign Wars, the Society of the War
of 1812, the Sons of the Revolution, and
the Order of the Cincinnati ; and he is a life
member of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania. He married in 1880, Margaretta
Stewart Bowers, of Cooperstown, New
York. Address : 23 Front Street; Schnecta-
dy, New York.
DAVIS, Charles Russell:
Lawyer and congressman; born at Pitts
field, Illinois, September 17, 1849. He re
moved to Lesueur County, Minnesota, in
1853, and was educated in the common
schools of Lesueur County, graduating
from the St. Peter High School in 1865.
For two years thereafter he received pri
vate instruction in the higher branches and
took a business college course in St. Paul
during the winter of 1867 and 1868. He
studied law with Alfred Wallin, the pres
ent chief justice of North Dakota, and was
admitted to the bar, March 6, 1872; and
he has practiced his profession ever since
in Minnesota. He was county attorney of
Nicollet County for ten years, and city
clerk and city attorney of St. Peter for
eighteen years. Mr. Davis was elected to
the House of Representatives of the State
Legislature in 1888, and to the State Sen
ate in 1890. He was captain of -Company
I, Second Regiment, Minnesota National
Guard, for four years. He was elected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902 from
the Third Minnesota District and re
elected in 1904 and 1906 to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses. Fie married in

1874, Emma Haven, of Chicago. Address :
St. Peter, Minnesota.
DAVIS, Edward:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army; born in Kentucky, July 7, 1845.
He was appointed a cadet at the United
States Military Academy, October 20, 1863;
was commissioned second lieutenant of the
Third Artillery, June 17, 1867; and first
lieutenant, April 14, 1876. He was gradu
ated from the Artillery School in 1876;
commissioned captain, September 1, 1896;
major in the Artillery Corps, July 1, 1901 ;
acting adjutant-general, December 3, 1902;
lieutenant-colonel of the Artillery Corps,
January 23, 1904; and brigadier-general,
April 11, 1905; and he was retired April
12', 1905. Address: 1522 Hastings Street,
Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory.
DAVIS, George Russell:
¦ Jurist; born at Huntsville, Logan .Coun
ty, Ohio, December 13, 1861 ; son of James
Davis and Mary Davis. He was educated
in the public schools of Ohio, and in 1880
was graduated from the high school at
Wapakoneta, Ohio. He then engaged in
the study of law until 1883, when he was
admitted to the Ohio bar, practicing law
at Wapakoneta until July, 1897, when he
was appointed by President McKinley as
associate justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona, and he was reappointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, December, 1901, serving
until 1906, when he removed to Los An
geles, California, to resume the practice
of law. Judge Davis has been twice mar
ried, first at Wapakoneta, Ohio, 1880, to
Emma J. Davis, who died July 1, 1889,
and second, at Circleville, Ohio, October
16, 1890, to Katharine H. Scovil. Address :
Los Angeles, California.
DAVIS, Henry Edgar:
Lawyer; born at Washington, D. C,
March 15, 1855. He was graduated from
Princeton University in 1876, with the de
gree of A.B. He subsequently studied at
Columbian University, where he took the
degree of LL.M. in 1879, in which year he
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He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and
has since practiced in Washington, where he
has been prominent in public offices, hav
ing for four years served as assistant at
torney, and for two years as United States
attorney, of the District of Columbia.
Since 1888, when he accepted a professor
ship in Columbian University, his work
has been chiefly of this nature. He is
now professor and lecturer in the Nation
al University, fr,om which he received an
honorary LL.D. in 1898. Address : The
Concord, Washington, D. C.
DAVIS, Henry Gassaway:
Capitalist; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
November 16, 1823 ; son of Caleb Davis
and Louisa (Brown) Davis. He was ed
ucated in country schools. Mr. Davis was
• for a time an overseer on a farm, but was
chiefly engaged in railroading in early life
as brakeman, conductor and agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He later
embarked in merchandizing at Piedmont,
West Virginia, and afterward in coal min
ing in West Virginia and Maryland near
Piedmont; also in banking in Piedmont
and elsewhere in West Virginia, and the
building of the West Virginia Central,
Piedmont and Cumberland, and Coal and
Coke Railways of West Virginia. He is
now president of the Coal and Coke Rail
way, Davis Colliery Company, Davis Trust
Company of West Virginia, Davis National
Bank of Piedmont, West Virginia; Citi
zens' National Bank of Philippi, West Vir
ginia; the Davis Land Company and the
Pochahontas Timber Company; and he is
vice-president of the Elkins National Bank
of Elkins, West Virginia. In addition to
having achieved great success in the busi
ness world, Mr. Divis has had a promin
ent place in the politics and statesmanship
of his State and Nation. He was elected
in 1866 a member of the West Virginia
Legislature, served from 1867 to 1871 as
State senator of West Virginia, and from
1871 to 1883 as United States senator from
West Virginia. He was a delegate to the
First Pan American Conference in 1890,
and was chairman of the United States
delegation to the second Pan American

Conference in 1901 and • 1902 ; was a mem
ber of the West Virginia Tax Commission
in 1901 and was the Democratic candidate
for Vice-President of the United States
in 1904. He has been a delegate-at-large
from West Virginia to all the Democratic
National Conventions since 1872. Senator
Davis is a Presbyterian in his religious
affiliation, and has always taken a deep in
terest in charities and humanitarian efforts
and matters of social betterment and up
lift. He built and helps to support the
Davis Memorial Hospital, and the Davis
Memorial Presbyterian Church, at Elkins,
West Virginia, and the Davis-Childs Shel
ter, at Charleston, West Virginia, and gave
to Piedmont, Henry and Gassaway, West
Virginia, their Davis Free School buildings,
all handsome brick structures. Senator
Davis has long been a prominent member
of the Masonic Order. He still remains
active ^nd' vigorous, and finds his chief
recreation in horseback riding. He is a
member of the Manhattan Club, and the
Maryland Society of New York City, and
the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.
C. He married at Frederick, Maryland,
February 22, 1853, Kate Bantz, and they
have three children: Mrs. S. B. Elkins,
Mrs. Arthur Lee and John T. Davis. Ad
dress : Elkins, West Virginia. Office ad
dress: 1517 H Street, N. W., Washing
ton, D. C.
DAVIS, Herbert E. :
Architect; born in Newark, New Jersey,
November 27, 1870; son of Stephen A.
Davis and Harriet (Lyon) Davis. He was
educated at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and he was engaged in prac
tice as architect from 1897, and is now of
the firm of Davis, McGrath and Shepard,
irchitects. Mr. Davis served in the Span
ish-American War, on the auxiliary cruiser
Yankee. He is a member of the American
Institute of Architects and of its New York
Chapter and of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He
is also a member of the New. York' Athletic
ind Technology Clubs, Mr. Davis married
in New York City, January 10, 1900, Edith
Stewart Mott, and they have two children:
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born in 1906. Address: 1 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
DAVIS, Horace:
Manufacturer;, born in Worcester, Mas
sachusetts, March 16, 1831; son of Gov-"
ernor John Davis of Massachusetts and
Eliza Bancroft Davis. He was graduated
from the class of 1849 at Harvard College
with the degree of A.B., and afterward
studied law, but in 1852 went to San Fran
cisco, California, of which city he has
ever since been a resident. He engaged
extensivly in manufacturing pursuits, and
is now .president .of the Sperry Flour Com
pany. He was a member from California
of the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con
gresses, from 1877 to 1881, and was presi
dent of the University of California. The
University of the Pacific conferred upon
him the degree of LL.D. in 1889. He is
trustee of the Leland: Stanford, Junior,
University, ha<s been president of the Har
vard Alumni Association of California, is
a corresponding member of the Massachu
setts 'Historical Society, president of the
California School of Mechanic Arts, mem
ber of the American Historical Association,
the American Antiquarian Society, the
New England Historic-Genealogical- So
ciety, and the Colonial Society of Massa
chusetts. He is author of essays on Am
erican Constitutions and Shakespeare's Son
nets, and of various papers and articles on
historical and literary subjects. He mar
ried in San Francisco in 1875, Miss Edith
King; and they have a son, Norris K. Davis.
Address: 1800 Broadway, San Francisco,
. California.
DAVIS, James Sherlock:
Merchant, manufacturer; bora at Coole-
ville, Ohio, September 1, 1862; son of
James K. and Helen A. (Austin) Davis.
He was educated in public and private
schools and at the United States Naval
Academy. He resigned from the navy in
- 1883, and became connected with the lum
ber;? firm of Cross, Austin & Company,
which' later became Cross, Austin and Ire
land Lumber Company. He was made vice-
president and manager of the sales office

of the Company in New York City and
since 1904 has been president of the com
pany. He is president of the New York
Lumber Trade Association and has held
such office since 1904; he is a member of
the Manufacturers' Association, the Grand
Street Board of Trade, the Employers'
League of Brooklyn, the Board of Trade
and Transportation of New York City,
and ¦ the Building Trades Employers' As
sociation of New York. Mr. Davis is a
Democrat in politics, and an Episcopalian.
He is a member of the Ohio Society of
New York, a trustee of the Brooklyn Kin
dergarten and High School Association;
a member of the Kings County Democrat
ic Club, the National Democratic Club,
and the Reform Club of New York City
and the Hamilton Club and Crescent Club
of Brooklyn; and he is president of the
Church Club of the Diocese of Long Is
land and has held such office since 1903.
Mr. Davis married at Brooklyn, June 8,
1893, Evelyn Herbert Adair, and they have
two children : Helen L. Davis (born in
1894), and Sherlock Davis (born in 1902).
Address : 1246 Grand Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
DAVIS, Jefferson:
United States senator; born near
Richmond, in Little River County, Arkan
sas, May 6th, 1862; son of Lewis W. and
E. A. Davis. He received his preliminary
education at Russellville, Arkansas, and
then studied law in Vanderbilt University,
in 1884. He was admitted to the bar the
same year, and rapidly rose to prominence.
He has been prosecuting attorney of the
Fifth Judicial District, and attorney-general,
of Arkansas. In 1900 he became governor.
and has the distinction of being the first
governor of Arkansas to be 3 times
elected to the- office. He was elected U. S.
Senator in January, 1907, to succeed Hon.
J. H. Berry. He was married at Russell
ville,- Arkansas. October 22, 1882, to Ina
McKenzie. Address: Little Rock, Arkan
sas. DAVIS, John:
Clergyman ; born in Abbeville, South Car
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and Mary A. (Chiles) Davis. He was edu
cated in letters at the University of the
South, Sewanee, Tennessee, where he was
graduated in 1876 ; and in theology at Nash-
otah Seminary, Wisconsin, in 1879, from
which he received the degree of D.D. in
1897. He was ordained in the ministry of
the Episcopal Church in 1879, and has ever
since continued in it ; and is now serving at
Hannibal, Missouri. Dr. Davis made a tour
around the world from San Francisco to
Tokyo, and from Tokyo to New York, via
Suez, the continent and England. In poli
tics he is Democratic. He was a charter
trustee of the Hannibal (Missouri) Free
Public Library from 1889 to 1893. His fa
vorite recreations are botanizing and pho
tography. He married in Dallas, Texas,
January 11, 1883, Tully Murphy, and they
have one daughter : Eleanor M., born in
1889. Address: 318 North Seventh Street,
Hannibal, Missouri.
DAVIS, John Charles:
Banker; born at Kilbreggan, County
Tipperary, Ireland, March 14, 1852; son
of Henry Charles and Ella Sanger Davis.
He was educated in schools at Westbury
and Salisbury, England, came to the United
States, went to Wyoming and engaged in
banking. He organized the First National
Bank of Rawlins, Wyoming, in 1891 and
was its cashier for eight years. He was
prominent in the politics of Wyoming as
a Republican, was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of Wyoming in
1890, chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners of Carbon County, Wyo
ming, in 1890 and 1891, mayor of Rawlins,
1892, chairman of the Wyoming delegation
to the Republican National Convention at
Saint Louis in 1896, and chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee of
Wyoming in 1898. He was' a candidate
for United States Senator fi;om Wyoming
in 1893 and again in 1899. In 1901 he
moved, to Denver, Colorado, and organized
the Wholesale Drug House of The Davis-
Bridaham Drug Company. He is president
and general manager of J. W. Hugus &
Company's numerous general merchandise
stores situated in Colorado and Wyoming,

He organized and is president of the
Bank of Rifle,. Bank of Palisade, Bank of
Clifton, Bank of Meeker, Bank of Craig,
Bank of Hayden and Bank of Steamboat
Springs, all situated in the State of Color
ado. In January, 1883, he married at
Rawlins, v/yoming, Ella M. Castiday, and
they have four children living. Residence:
828 Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver,. Color
ado. Office address : 1515 Blake Street,
Denver, Colorado.
DAVIS, John Chandler Bancroft:
Jurist; born in Worcester, Massachus
etts, December 29, 1822; son of Hon. John
Davis (governor of Massachusetts in 1834
and 1841) and Elisabeth Bancroft Davis.
He was graduated from Harvard College
as A.B. in the class of 1840, and A.M.
in 1847. He studied law and engaged in
practice until 1849, when he became sec
retary of the United States Legation at
London, continuing until 1853. In 1854 he
engaged in law practice at New York
City, in which he continued until 1869,
and he was also American correspondent
for the London Times from 1854 to 1861.
He was elected a member of the General
Assembly of New York in 1868, serving
in the session of 1869, and in the latter
year he was appointed assistant secretary
of State of the United States, serving
from 1869 to 1871,- and again in 1873 and
1874. In 1871 he was secretary of the
High Joint Commission to negotiate the
Treaty of Washington with Great Britain,
and was United States agent before the
Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration in relation
to the Alabama claims. From 1874 to 1877
he was envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States, to
Germany and from 1878 to 1882 he was
judge of the United States Court of
Claims. From November, 1883 to October
1902, was reporter of the United States
Supreme Court Judge Davis has been an
extensive contributor to the historical lit
erature of the country, in addition to the
numerous volumes of United States Sup
reme Court which he has produced, "and is
author of: The Massachusetts Justice,
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Notes, Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims,
etc. Judge Bancroft married at Highwood,
New Jersey, November 19, 1857, Frederica
Gore King. Address: 1621 H Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C.

DAVIS, John M. K.:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army; born in the District of Columbia,
January 31, 1844. He was appointed a
cadet at the United States Military Acad
emy, September 1, 1863; was commissioned
second lieutenant of the First Artillery,
June 17, 1867; was an honor graduate from
the Artillery School in 1869; commissioned
first lieutenant, December 23, 1871 ; captain,
January 14, 1888; major of the Fifth Ar
tillery, October 16, 1899. He was trans
ferred to the First Artillery, October 28,
1899; commissioned lieutenant-colonel of
the Artillery Corps, August 22, 1901 ; colo
nel, July 28, 1903, and brigadier-general,
May 25, 1907. Address: Chief of Artil
lery, Washington, D .C.
DAVIS, John W.:
Ex-governor of Rhode Island; born at
Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts,
March 7, 1826. On the paternal side he is
a descendant in the seventh generation of
James Davis of Marlborough, Wiltshire,
England, who came to the Massachusetts
Bay Colony in 1680 and was one of the
settlers; and on the maternal side he is
a descendant in the sixth generation from
John Davis who came from London, Eng
land, to Newport, Rhode Island, about
1680. He was reared on the farm and at
tended public schools in Massachusetts and
a private school in - Pawtucket, Rhode Is
land. From 1844 until 1850 he was engag
ed in mason work and civil engineering
in the summer months and teaching school
in winters. From 1850 to 1887 he was
engaged in the' grain business at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, but since 1877 has
been a resident of Pawtucket, and since
1887 he has devoted his attention to the
management of trust estates which are in
his charge. In politics he has always been
a Democrat. He was elected in 1882 and
reelected 1885, a member and president of

the town council of Pawtucket, was elect
ed in 1885 and reelected in 1886 a member
of the State Senate of Rhode Island, and
in 1886 he was appointed by President
Cleveland, United States appraiser of for
eign merchandise for the customs district
of Providence, Rhode Island. He was
elected governor of Rhode Island in 1887,
and again in 1890, has been member of the
State House Commission of Rhode Island
since 1890, and he was elected mayor of
Pawtucket in 1897. Governor Davis dur
ing his gubernatorial terms made a dis
tinguished record for investigating arid re
forming the prison discipline of the State,
securing a constitutional amendment mak
ing uniform qualifications of all citizens for
the elective franchise and also securing the
establishment of the College of Agricul
tural and Mechanic Arts in Rhode Island,
besides effecting needed reforms in the
ballot law of the State. Governor Davis
was a member of the National Democratic
Convention of 1884, 1892 and. 1900. Gov
ernor Davis has been twice married, and he
has two daughters. Address: 724 Pleas
ant Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
DAVIS, Junius:
Lawyer; born in Wilmington, June 17,
1845; son of George and Mary Adelaide
(Polk) Davis. At the age of twelve he
entered the celebrated school at The Oaks,
remained four years and later studied under
the Reverend Mr. Griffith. In 1863 he en
listed as a private in Moore's Battery, which
was company E of the Tenth North Caro
lina Regiment. After the war he returned
to Charlotte and secured a position on a
railroad; in 1865 he settled in Wilmington
as clerk for Weil and Rosenthal. Later he
entered his father's law office and became a
partner, which continued until the latter's
death in 1869. He early became a fine prac
titioner, and in a few years had become the
legal adviser of some of the most important
interests centering at Wilmington. He has
long been the counsel of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway Company, and the attorney
of the Consolidated Railways, Light and
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lucrative, and he has attained a high posi
tion in his profession. His executive abili
ties are of the highest order, and he has
held for some time the position of presi
dent of the Wilmington Railroad and
Bridge Company. He has never sought
political preferment, but has always been
an active and zealous worker for the suc
cess of the Democratic Party, and in the
municipal affairs of his native city. Mr.
Davis is a member of the North Carolina
Society of the Cincinnati and of the North
Carolina Sons of the Revolution. He is
also prominent in all organizations per
taining to the career of a Southern sol
dier. On January 19, 1874, he married
Mary Orme Walker, who died some years
later; he married, second, November 6,
1893, Mary -Walker Cowan, daughter of
Colonel Robert H. Cowan, of Wilmington.
Address: Wilmington, North Carolina.
DAVIS, Minor Meek:
Electrical. engineer; born at North Chat
ham, Massachusetts, March 28, 1858; son
of Samuel and Lucy Ann (Noyes) Davis.
He was educated at the Coffin School, at
Nantucket, Massachusetts, and since leav
ing school has been almost continuously
in the telegraph service, visiting most of
the large cities of the U. S. He is now
traffic manager and associate electrical en
gineer of . the Postal Telegraph-Cable
Company; and he has invented and patent
ed several electrical devices. Mr. Davis is
a member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers ; a charter member and
was a member of the Board of Directors
of the Telegraph Aid Society; was a mem
ber of the Executive Committee of the
Telegraphers' .Mutual Benefit Association;
was one of the organizers and a member
of the Board of Managers of the Electrical
Building Loan and Savings Association.
Mr. Davis is co-author of a work on The
Quadruplex. His principal recreation is
canoeing and he is a member of the Brook
lyn Canoe Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Davis
married at Brooklyn, December 5, .1889,
Minnie B. Smith. Address : 282 Gates
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

DAVIS, Nathan Smith:
Physician; born in Chicago, September
5, 1858; son of Nathan Smith Da^is, a^is-
tinguished physician and Anna Mr (Par
ker) Davis. He was graduated from
Northwestern University as A.B. in 1880
and A.M. in 1883, and from Chicago Medi
cal College as M.D. in 1883; and he did
post-graduate medical study at Heidelberg
and Vienna in 1885. Dr. Davis was ' ap
pointed assistant professor of pathology at
Northwestern University' Medical School
in 1884; became professor of the princi
ples and practice of medicine in 1886; pro
fessor of the principles and practice and
of clinical medicine in 1887, and is now
dean of the medical faculty of Northwest
ern University; physician to Mercy and
Wesley Hospitals ; consulting physician to
the Washingtonian Home and the 'Marion
Sims Hospital. Dr. Davis was vice-presi
dent of the United States Pharmacopoeia
Convention, member of the -Pan American
Medical Congress (councillor of the Section
of Medicine), and the Ninth International
Medical Congress (councillor of the Sec
tion of Pathology). He is a fellow. of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and is a member of the Ameri
can Medical Association, and the "former
secretary of its Medical Section, and chair
man of the Section of Materia Medica and
Therapeutics. He is also a member qf the
Climatological Association, the American
Therapeutical Association, American Acad-'
emy of Medicine, and the Illinois State
Medical Society, in which he was for
merly chairman of the Medical Section;
the Chicago Medical Society, Chicago
Pathological Society, Chicago Neurological
Society, the Medico-Legal Society, Ameri
can Tuberculosis Society, Chicago Tubercu
losis Society, and the Chicago Academy
of Sciences, of which he was formerly re
cording secretary and librarian. Dr. Davis
has traveled extensively in Europe, South
America and the United States. He is a
Methodist ^in his religious affiliation',; is a
trustee of Northwestern University, and
was formerly vice-president of the Young
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Dr. Davis is a member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Nu Sigma Nu and Alpha Omega Alpha
medical fraternities, and he is also a mem
ber of the Onwentsia Club and the Uni
versity Club of Chicago. He married at
Madison, Wisconsin, in June, 1884, Jessie'
Hopkins, and they have three children:
Mathan Smith Davis, Ruth Davis, and
Willam Deering Davis. Residence : 291
East Huron Street, Chicago. Office ad
dress : - 72 East Madison Street, Chicago,
Illinois.
DAVIS, Richard Harding:
Novelist,, war correspondent, playwright ;
born at Philadelphia, 1864; son of the late
L. Clarke Davis, editor of Philadelphia
Public Ledger and of Rebecca (Harding)
Davis, the well-known novelist. He was
educated at the Lehigh and Johns Hopkins
Universities, and on leaving college he be
came a- reporter on the Philadelphia Re
cord, 1887, arid later on the Philadelphia
Press, until 1889, part of the time in Eng
land as correspondent. He wrote special
articles for the New York Evening Sun,
from 1889 to 1890, and also wrote for
magazines. He was offered and accepted
in 1890, the editorial management Harper's
Weekly, but resigned in 1892 in order to
travel. He was present at the coronation
of the Czar Nicholas II. in 1896, reporting
the spectacle for Harper's Magazine. He
was correspondent of the London Times,
in the Graeco-Turkish War, the New York
Herald in the Spanish-American War, and
the South African War, and went for
Collier's Weekly with General Oku in
Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.
He was also a correspondent in the Cuban
Rebellion, in the Revolution of Matos in
Venezuela and of Garcia against Diaz on
tne Rio Grande. He is a member of the
Royal Geographical Society of London, and
the American-Explorer's Club. Mr. Davis
has been one of the most industrious and
successful contributors to American lit
erature during the past two decades and
is author of :'• Van Bibber, and Others;
Gallagher and 'Other Stories; Soldiers of
Fortune; The King's Jackal; The Princess

Aline; Our English Cousins; About Paris;
Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three
Gringos in Venezuela; Cuba in War
Time; In the Fog; Captain Mecklin; A
Year from a Correspondent's Note-Book;
Stories for Boys; The Cuban and Porto
Rican Campaigns ; Cinderella and Other
Stories; Dr. Jameson's Raiders; Exiles;
Fhe Lien and the Unicorn; West from a
Car Window; Episodes in Van Bibber's
Life; With Both Armies in South Africa;
Ranson's Folly; The Bar Sinister; Kitts
and Outfits ; Real Soldiers- of Fortune ; and
he is also author of the plays (farces) :
The Taming of Helen; Ranson's Folly;
The Dictator; The Galloper. Mr. Davis is
a member of The Brook Club of New
York City. He married at Marion, Mas
sachusetts, May 4, i89g, Cecil, daughter of
John Marshall Clark of Chicago. Address :
Cross Roads Farm, Mount Kisco, New
York. DAVIS, Samuel McClellan:
Lawyer; born in Pennsylvania, August 8,
1861 ; son of McLain Davis and Caroline
I. (Mahan) Davis. He was graduated from
Princeton University as A.B. in 1883, and
A.M. in 1886. He was admitted to the bar
at St. Paul, Minnesota, by the Supreme
Court in 1888; admitted to the Circuit
Court of the United States in i8g4; to the
United States District Court in i8g9, and
to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in
1896, and to the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia in 1901. Mr. Davis was elected
district attorney of Orange County, Cali
fornia, November 7, 1906, for four years.
He is author of many articles published in
the magazines and reviews on political, his
torical and economic subjects. He is vice-
president of the Civic Improvement Asso
ciation of Santa Ana, California. He is a
Republican in politics and a Methodist in
religion. Mr. Davis is a member of the
American Historical Association, the Min
neapolis Bar Association, the Minnesota
Historical Society, and the Geographical
Society of Philadelphia, corresponding
member of the Missouri Historical Society,
and honorary member of the Historical So
ciety of Western Pennsylvania. He is a

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member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Santa Ana, California. Mr. Da
vis is a member of the Westminster Club
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and of the Mon
day Club of Santa Ana, California, He
married, September 30, 1896, Mabel Keith,
and they have two children : Samuel Keith
Davis, Laura Maud Davis. Address: 1225
French Street, Santa Ana, California.
DAVIS, Seward:
Lawyer and counsellor in patent causes;
born in Jersey City, New Jersey, January
26, 1870; son of Edmund Tomlinson Davis
and Josephine Learning (Corson) Davis.
He received his preparatory education at
the Hasbrouck Institute from 1879 to 1887,
then entering Yale University, from which
he was graduated as B.A. with special hon
ors in modern languages in 1891, afterward
taking his professional course at the New
York Law School, from which he was
graduated in 1893, receiving the degree of
LL.B. from the University of the State of
New York, and he did post-graduate work
at Amherst Slimmer School in 1890 and 1891.
He studied patent law with Judge Esek
Cowen, and he was admitted to the bar of
New York in 1893. Since then he has been
engaged in practice in New York City,
specializing in the law of patents, and has
been identified with various important pat
ent causes. He was admitted in 1894, and
after, to the United States Circuit Courts
and Courts of Appeals in the Northern,
Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of
New York, and the Eastern and Middle
Districts of Pennsjdvania, and he is now a
member of the firm of Luce and Davis.
He is also a director of the Business As
sociates. Mr. Davis traveled through Eng
land and on the Continent in 1892. He
is a Republican in politics and has several
times served as a delegate to political con
ventions, in town and county, and to the
New Jersey State Convention of 1905.
Since 1902 he has been a member of the
State Board of Voting Machine Commis
sioners appointed by Governor Franklin
Murphy, and he is vice-president and a
member of the Executive Committee of the
Upper Montclair Republican Club. He has

been - a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York since 1894
and of the Essex County (New Jersey)
Yale Alumni Association. He is a Con-
gregationalist in his religious views and a
trustee of the Congregational Church of
Upper Montclair. Mr. Davis is secretary
of the Mountain Society of Montclair, a
member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, the
Yale Club and the Underwriters' Club of
New York City, the University Club of
Hudson County, New Jersey, the Country
Club of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, and
president of the Commonwealth Club. He
was one of the organizers of the Signal
Corps of New Jersey, serving for six years
in that troop, and a member of the New
Jersey State Rifle Association. He mar
ried in 1895, Florence A., daughter of Wil
liam Underwood, of Jersey City, New Jer
sey, and has three children: Edmund Tom
linson, 2d, born in 1896; Florence Under
wood, born in 1898, and Seward, Jr., born
in 1899. Residence : 59 Oakwood Avenue,
Upper Montclair, New Jersey. Business
address : 29 Liberty Street, New York City.
DAVIS, Thomas Edward:
Editor; born at Bedford, Virginia, Sep
tember 25, 1835. He received his prepara
tory education in private schools in Vir
ginia, and then entered the University of
Virginia, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in the class of 1858. Later he read
law and medicine but never entered upon
the practice of either. In May, 1861, he
entered the Army of the Confederate
States as a private in the Second Virginia
Cavalry, and afterward he became adjutant
of the Twenty-first Virginia Cavalry Regi
ment, and afterward was major and assist
ant adjutant-general, C.S.A. He fought in
numerous battles and served until the close
of the war. After that he was for some
years engaged in mining operations in
Montana and afterward went to Texas and
engaged in business pursuits. In 1876 he
founded the Telegram newspaper at Hous
ton, Texas, and in, 1879 he became a mem
ber of the staff of the Picayune at New
Orleans, of which he has been editor since
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Texas, in 1874, Mary Evelyn Moore, well
known as poet and author under the pen-
name of Mollie E. Moore. Address : 406
Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
DAVIS, Vernon Mansfield:
Jurist; born in New York City; son of
Robert Vernon Davis and Mary (Samler)
Davis. He was educated in the public
schools and was graduated from the Col
lege of the City of New York in 1876,
and from Columbia University Law School
in 1879, with the degree of LL.B. He was
instructor in the College of the City of
New York in Greek and mathematics, while
taking his law course and was admitted to
the bar in 1879 and engaged in practice in
New York City. He was appointed assist
ant district attorney of New York: County
and served from 1885 to 1897; district at
torney of New York County in 1897, and
was commissioner of education of New
York City. He was elected in 1902 a jus
tice of the Supreme Court of New York
for the First District, for the term expir
ing December 31, 1916. Judge Davis is a
Democrat and a member of the Episcopal
Church. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York;
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence; the
New York State Bar Association; the
American Bar Association, and the Society
of International Law. He was president
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, from 1899 to 1902. He is a
member of the Church, Metropolitan, Man
hattan and National Democratic Clubs.
Judge Davis married in New York City,
June 17, 1885, Harriet, daughter of Rev
erend Francis Lobdell, D.D. Address : 194
Lenox Avenue, New York City.
DAVIS, William Morris:
Professor of geology; born in Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1850; son
of Edward Morris and Maria (Mott)
Davis, grandson of James and Lucretia
Mott. He was graduated from the Law
rence Scieritific School of Harvard Univer
sity as B.S. in 1869 and M.E. in 1870. He
was assistant in the National Argentine
Observatory, at Cordoba, Argentine, from
1870 to 1873; began teaching geology at

Harvard in 1876, and geography in 1879.
He traveled round the world in 1877 and
1878; became assistant professor in 1885,
professor in 1890, and, since 1899, has been
Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology in
Harvard University. He was corresponding
secretary of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences at Boston from 1901 to ig04,
! was, for a time, assistant geologist of the
I Northern Transcontinental Survey and of
j the United States Geological Survey, physi
ographer to Pumpelly's Carnegie Institution
Expedition to Turkestan in 1903, and for
eign guest of the British Association Ex
cursion to South Africa in 1905. He has
been president of .the Harvard Travelers'
Club since 1902 and was president of the As
sociation of American Geographers in 1905 ;
was vice-president of the Geological Society
of America in 1906 ; is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Amer
ican Philosophical Society, Geological So
ciety of America, and Boston Society of
Natural History, is an honorary member of
the American Geographical Society of New
Geographische Gesellschaft at Vienna, Im
perial Geographical Society of St. Peters
burg, Sociedad Real de Geograpia of Ma
drid; foreign member of the Kongl, Ve-
tensk. Akad., Stockholm, foreign corres
pondent of the Geological Society of v Lon
don, corresponding member of the Chris
tiana Academy of Sciences, the German
Meteorological Society, the Club Alpin
Frangais, the Geologists' Association of Lon
don, Geological Society of Edinburgh, So
ciedad Antonio Alzate of Mexico; New
York Academy of Science, and the Geo
graphical Societies of London, Paris, Mu
nich, Geneva and Philadelphia. Professor
Davis is author of: Elementary Meteorol
ogy ; 1894 ; The Triassic Formation of Con
necticut, in the Eighteenth Annual Report
of the United States Geological Survey;
Physical Geography, 1899; Elementary Phy
sical Geography, 1902, also numerous arti
cles in scientific journals. He married, in
1879. Ellen B. Warner, of Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, and they have three sons. Ad
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DAVIS, William Z.:
Jurist; born at Lordsville, Belmont
County, Ohio, June 10, 1839; son of Dr.
Bushrod W. Davis and Harriet (Hatcher)
Davis. He was educated at schools and
academies in - Ohio, studied law, with an
interruption of services on a three-months'
enlistment in the Fourth Regiment of Ohio
Volunteers in 1861. He was admitted to
the Ohio bar February 5, 1862, and soon
afterward reenlisted, serving in the Ninety-
sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers until
he was honorably discharged because of
physical disabilities received in the service.
In 1864 he located in the practice of law at
Marion, Ohio, in which he continued until
after his election in November, 1899, as
judge of the Supreme Court of the State
of Ohio, in which capacity he has served
since January 10, 1900. He was reelected
in 1905 for term of six years from February
9, 1906. Judge Davis has been a Republic
an from the time he became a voter. He
married at Marion, Ohio, December 3,
1868, Harriet M. Search, who died August
2, 1901, and second, at Columbus, Ohio,
September 9, 1903, Jessie Myer ; children :
Mrs. Griselda Davis Dombaugh and Miss
Helen Louise Davis. Residence : 43 South
Monroe Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Official
address : Supreme Court, Columbus, Ohio.
DAVISON, Charles Stuart:
Lawyer; born in New York City April
14, 1855 ; second son of Edward Francis
Davison and Charlotte Sewall (White)
DavisoH. He was educated in private j
schools and abroad with a tutor. He at
tended Harvard University (class of '75) ;
Columbia University Law School (class
of '77), and the University of Cambridge
(England) and the Inner Temple (Lon
don). He was chairman of the Good
Government Clubs and chairman of the
Parker Independent Clubs. Mr. Davison is
a member of the New York Zoological So
ciety; the American Museum of Natural
History and the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, and is chairman of
the executive committee of the latter. He
is a member of the Century Association and
of the University, City, Harvard, Boone and

Crocket, Down Town and St. Andrews's
Golf Clubs of New York City and the Ste.
Marguerite Salmon Club. Address: 60
Wall Street, New York City.
DAVISON. George Howard:
Stock farmer; born at Brooklyn, New
York, July 16, 1867; 'son of Henry J. and
Ella C. (Howard) Davison. He was
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
school of Yale University as Ph. B., in
1888; from Cornell, as Bachelor of the
Science of Agriculture in 1889, and from
the American Veterinary College as D.V.
S. in 1890. Since then he has devoted
himself to practical and scientific stock
farming. He is president of the American
Shropshire Association, secretary of the
National Association of Exhibitors of Live
Stock; member of the Executive Commit-"
tee of the International Live Stock Ex
position, and formerly vice-president of
the New York State Agricultural Society,
and he is a director of the Bank of Mill
brook. He is in service as 1st lieutenant
of Squadron A of the National Guard of
the State of New York. He is vice-presi
dent of the Beckwith Chandler Co., and a
director in the Cheseborough Building
Company. Mr. Davison is a member of the
Delta Psi fraternity, Union League, Calu
met, St. Anthony and Yale Clubs of New
York City. He married at New York
City, April 28, 1897, Marion M. Chese
borough. Address : Altamont Stock Farm,
Millbrook, New York.
DAWES, Beman Gates:
Gas official and congressman; born at
Marietta, Ohio, January 14, 1870; son of
General Rufus R. Dawes, formerly a mem
ber of Congress, and Mary Beman (Gates)
Dawes. He was educated at Marietta Ac
ademy and College. He is president of the
Lansing Gas Light Company, the Pulaski
Gas Light Company, East Saint Louis Gas
Light Company, Newark Gas Light and
Coke Company and the Ohio River Bridge
and Ferry Company. He was elected in
T904 from the Fifteenth Ohio District to the
Fifty-ninth Congress and in 1906 was re
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he is now serving. He is a Republican in
politics. Address: Marietta, Ohio.
DAWES, Charles Gates:
Banker; born at Marietta, Ohio, August
27, ¦ 1865 ; son of General Rufus R. Dawes
and Mary Beman '(Gates) Dawes. He
was- prepared in the public schools of Mar
ietta and then entered Marietta College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1884;,- afterward entering the Cincinnati
Law School, graduating in 1886 as LL.B.
During his summer vacations from college
and law school he served with civil engin
eering parties, and after graduation became
chief engineer of a railroad which is how
a part of the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail
road until 1887, when he went to Lincoln,
Nebraska, and engaged in the practice of
law there until 1894. Since then he has
been interested in the gas business. Mr.
Dawes has always been a Republican, and
he became particularly active in the move
ment to secure the nomination of Govern
or William McKinley of Ohio, for Presi
dent of the United States. He was given
executive charge of the movement in Illi
nois, which was so successful that the
State Republican Convention held at
Springfield, Illinois, in April, 1896, instruct
ed the delegates chosen to the National
Convention1 to cast their votes . for the
nomination of Mr. McKinley. Mr. Dawes
was selected as a member of the Executive
Committee of the Republican National
Committee in the campaign of 1896, and in
1897 he was appointed by President Mc
Kinley comptroller of the currency of the
United States. He served in that capacity
until 1901, when he resigned. In 1902 he
established the Central Trust Company of
Illinois, of which he has ever since been
president, and he is also a director of the
Manufacturers Bank of Chicago. Mr.
Dawes is author of a volume on: The
Banking System of the United States. Mr.
'Dawes is a member of the Union League,
Chicago, Hamilton, Evanston, Evanston
.County, Glen View, and Evanston Golf
Clubs,. Mr. Dawes married at Cincinnati,
Ohio, June 24, 1889, Cora D. Brymyer,
and of that union there are two children :

Rufus Fearing Dawes and Carolyn Dawes.
Residence: Evanston, Illinois. Office ad
dress: Central Trust Company, Chicago,
Illinois. DAWLEY, F. E.:
Farmer and director of the New York
State Farmers' Institute; born in Onon
daga County, New York, September 10,
1863; son of William Walker Dawley and
Charlotte A, (Lamson) Dawley. He was
educated in the common schools and at
Munro Collegiate Institute at Elbridge,
but an accident resulting in a broken skull
prevented graduation and interrupted the
study of medicine, which he had begun.
He was born and reared on a farm, and
after leaving off the study of medicine be
cause of accident, took up the breeding of
fancy poultry and stock, and built up the
establishment known as Dotshome Farms,
breeding and exhibiting fowls and Jersey
cattle and ponies, and winning the highest
honors in close competition. In 1889 he
began lecturing at Farmers' Institutes,
and was appointed State fertilizer inspect
or; and in 1896, on civil service examina
tion, was appointed under Governor Levi
P. Morton, as director of Farmers' Insti
tutes. The attendance at that time 'was
15,700 in the year, but under Mr. Dawley's
administration it had increased to 137,500
in 1906, and the institutes are steadily
growing in popularity. The DotshOme herd
of Jersey cattle and flocks of wild turkeys
and thoroughbred poultry are known from
one end of the land to the other, and the
large fields of alfalfa there have been vis
ited by thousands. In 1905, Mr. Dawley
built the first iron frame barn in America,
and has done more to introduce alfalfa in
the East than any other man. The repu
tation of the stock for quality and of Mr.
Dawley personally, have built a large busi
ness in the products of the Dotshome
Farms. Mr. Dawley has visited every
State in the Union, Mexico, "Canada, Nova
Scotia and New Foundland in his work. He
is a Republican in politics and attends the
Baptist Church. Mr. Dawley was secretary
of the New York State Farmers' League
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Poultry Society from 1889 to 1894; treas
urer of the State Dairymen's Association
from 1896 to 1902, and he reorganized it in
1896, and made it a success. He has been
a trustee of Cornell University since 1899;
treasurer of the New York State Breed
ers' Association from 1904, and has
been secretary of the American Cheviot
Sheep Society since 1899. He was also
secretary of Central New York Pomona
Grange from 1894 to 1897; master of Syr
acuse Grange in 1891 and 1892, and of Fa
yetteville Grange in 1905 and 1906. His
favorite recreations are trout fishing,
hunting, horseback riding and training ani
mals. He married in Syracuse, New York,
June 16, 1891, Carrie L. Barnes, and they
have three daughters : Marion B., Laura
A., and Helen F. Residence: Dotshome
Farm, Fayetteville, New York. Office ad
dresses : Fayetteville and Albany, New
York. DAWSON, Albert Foster:
Journalist and congressman; born at
Spragueville, Iowa, January 26, 1872. He
was educated in the common schools of
Iowa, supplemented by one year at the
University of Wisconsin; was engaged in
newspaper work at Preston and Clinton;
served several years in the organization of
Congress, and for six years as confiden
tial secretary to Senator William B. Alli
son. He was elected in 1904 to the Fifty-
ninth Congress as a Republican, and was
reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress,
from the Second Iowa District. Address :
Preston, Iowa.
DAWSON, Miles M.:
Lawyer and actuary; born at Viroqua,
Wisconsin, May 13, 1863 ; son of John and
Martha W. (Ady) Dawson. He was edu
cated at Kentucky University and at New
York University Law School. Mr. Dawson
is engaged in general consulting practice
as an insurance lawyer and actuary; was
consulting actuary of New York Legislative
Investigating Committee on Insurance, the
Royal Commission On Insurance in Cana
da, and the Wisconsin Legislative Insur
ance Investigating Committee. He is au
thor of: Practical Lessons in Actuarial

Science; Elements of Life Insurance; As
sessment Life Insurance; The Business of
Life Insurance, and other books. He was
chairman of the Social Reform Club Cotn-
mitee, and vice-chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Committee of Fifty, to
secure the removal of the tracks of the
New York Central Railway from the sur
face of Eleventh Avenue and other streets,
which committees had charge of the agi
tation that brought about the enactment
in 1905 of a law requiring removal. Mr.
Dawson is an Independent in politics. He
is professor of actuarial science at the
School of Commerce, -of New York Uni
versity; a fellow of the Actuarial Society
of America, the Institute of Actuaries of
Great Britain, the Deutscher Verein fur
Versicherungs Wissenschaft of Berlin; is
a member of the Permanent Committee of
the International Congress of Actuaries.
Mr. Dawson, in addition to his actuarial
works, is also author of : Poems of the
New Time, and translator of poems and
stories from the Norwegian, including a
novel: Elsie, A Christmas Story, by Alex
ander Kjelland. He is interested in poli
tical economy, sociology, ethics and psy
chical research. Mr. Dawson's ¦ favorite
recreations are golf, fishing and hunting.
He is a member of the Masonic order,
having the consistory degrees, and he is a
member of the Underwriters, Social Re
form, Independent, and Storm King Golf
Clubs. Mr. Dawson married Grace L. Bur
nett, and they have two sons: Alfred B.
Dawson, born in 1883, and Richard B.
Dawson, born in 1885. Residences: 135
West Ninety-fifth Street, and Cornwall-on-
Hudson. Addresses: 76 William Street,
and 1947 Broadway, New York City.
DAWSON, Thomas Cleland:
Diplomat and lawyer ; born at Hudson,
Wisconsin, July 30, 1865; son of Allen
Dawson and Anna (Cleland) Dawson. He
studied at Hanover College, Indiana, and
Varvard College, receiving from Hanover
College the degree of A.B. in 1886 and A.M.
degree in 1898. He was also graduated from
Cincinnati Law School as LL.B. in 1886. He
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ida, for two years, and was admitted to
the Iowa bar in 1886; practiced law at Des
Moines three' years; was legislative cor
respondent and later city editor of the
Iowa Register at Des Moines, and then
practiced law at Council Bluffs from 1891
to 1897, also being assistant attorney-gen
eral of Iowa from 1891 to 1894. He was
appointed in the consular service as sec
retary of the Legation at Rio de Janeiro,
June 28, 1897. He was appointed minister
resident and consul-general to Santo Do
mingo, April 29, 1904, retaining that mis
sion until he was appointed, January 10,
1907, envoy extraordinary arid minister
plenipotentiary to Colombia. Address : Bo
gota, Colombia.
DAWSON, William Mercer Owens:
Governor of West Virginia; born at
Bloomington, Maryland, within a few hun
dred yards of the Virginia (West Vir
ginia) line, May 21, 1853; son of Francis
Ravenscraft and Leah (Kight) Dawson,
and descendant of John Dawson. His
mother died during his childhood, and he
was taken to what is now West Virginia,
by his father, to live, successively, at Cran
berry (now Terra Alta), Bruceton Mills,
and Ice's Ferry. In 1863 he began to learn
the cooper's trade at Cranberry and sub
sequently attended school there, after
which he worked as a clerk and taught
school in the vicinity. In 1873 he settled
at Kingwood, the county seat of Preston
County, and became editor of The Preston
County Journal, a Republican sheet, for
which he had been a correspondent, as well
at Kingwood, the county seat of Preston
years later Mr. Dawson became the owner
of the Journal. In 1874 he was elected
chairman of the county Republican commit
tee and served by reelection for thirteen
years. He was elected to the State Senate
in 1880, was reelected in 1884, but declined
a third nomination in 1888. As senator he
served on a number of important commit
tees, and was author of a bill to regulate
railroad charges on lines .that were sub
sequently adopted by the Federal Govern
ment in the creation of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. In 1891 Mr. Daw

son became chairman of the Republican
State Committee, and three years later
West Virginia, which had been Democratic
since 1871, was placed in the column of
Republican States. Similar victories fol
lowed in 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1902, and
since 1896 the Republicans have had a ma
jority in both branches of the Legislature.
He served as chairman until 1904, when he
resigned. Mr. Dawson was secretary of
State two terms, 1897-1905. In 1904 he was
elected governor of West Virginia for the
term of four years, expiring in 1909. In
1901, after much contest, the Legislature of
his State enacted the Dawson Corporation
Law, a measure which greatly increased the
revenues of the State from license taxes on
corporations^ Governor Dawson is a mem
ber of the. Presbyterian Church. He mar
ried in 1879, Luda, daughter of John T.
Neff, by whom he had a son : Daniel. She
died in 1894; and in 1899 he married
Maude, daughter of -Jane Brown, by whom
he had a daughter. Address : Charleston,
West Virginia.
DAT, David Talbot:
Petroleum expert; born in East Rock-
port, Ohio, September 10, 1859; son of W.
G. Day and Caroline (Cathcart) Day., He
was graduated from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity as A.B. in 1881, and as Ph.D. in
1883; and he was a demonstrator of chem
istry at the University of Maryland in
1884 and 1885. Dr. Day was an exhibitor
of the Centennial Exhibition in 1876; and
special agent of the United States Geologi
cal Survey from 1883 to 1885. He was in
charge of petroleum exhibits at the World's
Columbian Exposition in 1893; director of
mining at the Cotton States and Interna
tional Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia, in
1896; secretary of the Jury of Awards at the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897;
director of mining, at the Trans-Mississip
pi Exposition in 1898; was in charge of
petroleum, etc., at the Philadelphia Expo
sition in 1899 ; in charge of petroleum, etc.,
at the Paris- Exposition in 1900; in charge
of mining at the Pan American Exposition
in igoi; and honorary chief of the De
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904;
honorary commissioner of mining at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland,
Oregon in 1905, and honorary director of
mines and metallurgy at Jamestown Expo
sition in 1907. Mr. Day was compiler of the
volumes of Mineral Resources of the United
States for twenty-one years, taking cha'rge
of the petroleum investigations of the
United States Geological Survey, August
1, 1907, in which position he is now en
gaged. He is a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, the National
Geographic Society, the Geological Society
of America, the American Chemical Socie
ty, National Statistical Association, and
the Geographical Society of Switzerland;
and is a member of the Engineers' Club
of New York City, and the Cosmos and
University Clubs of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Day married at Mayport, Florida,
March 17, 1886, Elizabeth Eliot Keeler, and
they have two children: Elizabeth C. and
David Eliot. Residence: 2511 Cliffbourne
Place, Washington. Address: United
State Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
DAY, Edward Augustus:
Lawyer; born at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
August 26, 1852; son of William F. Day
and Mary A. (Kellogg) Day. He was ed
ucated in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti
tute, and at Williams College, where he
was graduated at A.B. ; at the Columbia
Law School, from which he was graduated
as LL.B. in 1876. He has practiced law
since November, 1876, in the city of New
ark, New Jersey, and within that time he
has been engaged in many important liti
gations, and he is now of the firm of Ed
ward A. and William T. Day; and he is
also a director of several corporations of
New Jersey. He has traveled in England
and on the continent of Europe. Mr. Day
is an Independent in politics and an Epis
copalian in his religious views. He is a
member of the New Jersey State Bar As
sociation, the Essex County Bar Associa
tion, the Fortnightly Club, the Delta Psi
fraternitv. National Municipal League, Na
tional Civic Federation, and Washington
Association. Mr. Day finds his most fav

ored recreation from professional labors is
fishing and horseback riding. He is also
a member of the University Club of New
York, the Essex Club, Morristowu Club,
Morris County Golf Club, the Field Club,
the Whippany River Club, and the Flat-
brook Valley Club. He married at Stan
ford, Connecticut, October 27, 1881, Eliza
beth Hawley Hoyt, daughter of George A.
Hoyt. Residence: Madison Avenue, Mor-
ristown, New Jersey. Office address: 765
Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey.
DAY, Erastus Sheldon:
Consul, lawyer; born at Colchester, Con
necticut, July 7, 1836; son of Elihu M.
Day and Jane E. (Buell) Day. He was
educated in the district school in the town
of Colchester and at Wilbraham Academy,
Massachusetts, and afterward studied law.
He was admitted to the bar at Colchester
in 1861 and continued in practice until
1867. He also became prominent in the
oolitical affairs of his native State as a
Republican, and was elected a member of
the Connecticut House of Representatives
m 1862, 1864 and 1874; was clerk of the
State Senate of Connecticut in 1863, and
:udge of probate of the District of Col-
-hester for two terms. He was chairman
of the Republican State Committee of Con
necticut from 1886 to 1890 and was a dele
te to the Republican National Conven
tion at Chicago in 1888. In 1897 he was
ippointed by President McKinley as con
sul of the United States at Bradford, Eng-
'and, in which position he has ever since
"ontinued. He is president and director
->f the Colchester Railway and a director
if the Colchester Wheel Company, and is
i trustee of the Bacon Academy. Mr. Day
:s a member of the C'ongreeational Church.
He married, at Colchester. Connecticut Au
gust 29, 1864. Catharine G. Olmsted. Ad-
-Iress : American Consulate, Bradford, Eng-
'and. ^AY, Frank Leslie:
Physician; born at South Attleboro,
Massachusetts, Ausaist 18, 1856: son of
Tames S. Dav and Ann Eliza (Holmes)
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the degree of A.B. in 1885, and A.M. in
1888; from Flarvard University, M.D. in
1889. Was interne at the Boston Lunatic
Hospital in 1888; house surgeon at the Bos
ton City Hospital from 1888 to 1890; is
now visiting physician at the Rhode 'Island
Hospital and consulting physician at St.
Joseph's Hospital. Is a member of the
American Medical Association; of the
American Academy of Medicine; ex-secre
tary of the Rhode Island Medical Society;
ex-president of the Providence Medical
Association; director of the Providence
Dispensary; member of the Harvard Medi
cal School Association; of the Executive
Committee of the Boston City Hospital
Club; of the Alpha Delta Phi Alumni
Association of Rhode Island. Is a member
of the Hope, University, Art, Adawan and
Harvard Clubs of Rhode Island. He finds
his chief recreation in travel and during
many years he has visited various parts of
America and Europe. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion he is affiliated
with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Residence: 72 Waterman Street, Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
DAY, Harry Valette:
Stock broker; born at New York City,
May 11, 1873; son of Henry Mills Day
and Sarah Vallette Day. He was graduat
ed from the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University as Ph.B., in 1895. After
his graduation he engaged in the stock
brokerage business, and he is now a mem
ber of the New York Stock Exchange, and
of the firm of Day & Heaton. Mr. Day
is a member of the Delta Phi fraternity,
and honorary member of Squadron A of the
National* Guard of the State of New York,
and is also a member of the Yale, Univers
ity, Riding, Rockaway Hunting, and Rac
quet and Tennis Clubs, the Country Club
of Westchester, and Turf and Field, Coney
Island Jockey, and Carteret Gun Clubs.
Residence: 6 East Forty-fourth Street.
Address : 6 Wall Street, New York City.
DAY, James Boscoe:
Educator; born in Whitneyville, Wash
ington County, Main? ; son of Thomas Day

(prominent lumberman) and Mary P. (Hill-
man) Day, daughter of Rev. A. P. Hill-
man. He is a descendant of the Day family
of Cape Ann, from which have come the
Days of New England, New York and New
Jersey. He was educated in the Maine
Conference Seminary, at Kent's Hill, Maine,
and at Bowdoin College and received the
degree of D.D. from Wesleyan University
and Dickinson College in 1904, LL.D. from
Northwestern University, and D.C.L. from
Cornell College, Iowa. He entered the
Maine Methodist Episcopal Conference in
1872, and filled pastorates successively at
Bath, Biddeford and Portland, Me.; Nash
ua, N. H. ; Boston, New York City and
Newburgh, N. Y. While he was pastor at
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, New
York City, he was elected, in 1893, Chan
cellor of Syracuse University which now
has faculties numbering 213 and an enroll
ment of over 3,000 students, a library con
taining 80,000 volumes and property and
endowment fund of $4,000,000. He was
elected a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church by the General Conference at Los
Angeles' in 1904, but resigned in order to
continue his work at the University. He is
author of: The Raid on Prosperity. Dr.
Day married, July 14, 1873, Hannah E.,
daughter of Rev. R. R. Richards, of Au
burn, Maine, and they have one daughter,
Mary Emogene. Address : Syracuse, New
York. DAY. Joseph P.:
Real estate broker; auctioneer, agent and
dealer; born in New York City on Sep
tember 22, 1873; son of John W. Day
and Catherine A. (Hayes) Day. He was
educated in the public schools of New York
City and, after completing his school
course, became interested in -real estate.
When twenty-one years of age, he started
in trade for himself, doing an insurance
business in connection with the real estate.
In 1898, he negotiated the heaviest accident
policy ever written, covering insurance
against accidents resulting from the change
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Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue
Railroad. During recent years he has been
specially prominent in the departmerit of
sales of real estate by auction and in that
department is the recognized leader in
New York City; he having been the auc
tioneer in the now famous Ogden Estate
sale, comprising 1,500 lots in the West
Bronx, between High Bridge and Wash
ington Bridge. This was a four-days' sale
and is the largest absolute partition sale
of city real estate of improved lots in the
history of the country. Also, he was the
auctioneer of the Doherty Estate holdings,
which brought $1,913,600, in a single after
noon's sale; comprising property on Broad
way and on Eighth Avenue, Manhattan.
Besides conducting real estate auction
sales, he also sells stocks and bonds at auc
tion and has charge of many important
executor's sales and appraisals and other
matters relating to New York real estate,
in which he is recognized as one of the
foremost experts of values. The Corpora
tion Council, representing the City of New
York, has frequently called him to testify
in reference to appraisals of value of real
estate. Mr. Day is a member of the. Real
Estate Auctioneer's Association of New
York City, the Real Estate Board of Brok
ers of New York City, the Association of
Bronx Real Estate Brokers, the Long
Island Real Estate Exchange and the Real
Estate Brokers Exchange of Newark and
vicinity; and is a director in the New Jer
sey and New York Real Estate Exchange.
He is the treasurer of the Tam
many Society and is a member of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and is also
the vice-president of the Sydenham Hos
pital. Mr. Day is a member of the Man
hattan, the New York Athletic, Democrat
ic and Hardware Clubs of New York City
and the ' Canoe Brook Country Club of
Summit, New Jersey. In New York City,
on June 1st, 1898, he married Paiiline M.
Pope (a granddaughter of the late J. Mon
roe Taylor) and they have four children :
Joseph P. Day, Junior, Bernard N. Day,
Charles Day and Pauline Pope Day. Re
sidence: 34 Gramercy Park, New York
City. Country home : Pleasant Days,

Millburn, New Jersey. Offices: 31 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
DAY, Selden Allen:
Colonel in the United States Army. He
was graduated from the Artillery School
in 1874, and from the Medical College of
the State of South Carolina in 1880. His
military career began when he raised a
company of volunteers in Ohio at the first
call for troops in 1861. Owing to the ex
cess of troops his company could not be
mustered and so was disbanded. Captain
Day then enlisted as a private in Company
C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, June 20, 1861,
and participated in the campa'gn in West
Virginia that year. After the action of
Cross Lanes, August 26, 1861, he was made
corporal. He was for some months in the
hospital at Frederick, Maryland, and upon
recovering his health he was appointed sec
ond lieutenant, Fifth Artillery, and in the
spring of 1864 was ordered to the front.
Colonel Day's record in the war with Spain
was also notably brilliant, and after a long
term of duty in the tropics, Colonel Day
was ordered home and placed in com
mand at Fort Williams, Portland, Maine.
He was made president of Board of Regis
tration and Elections, and military com
missioner in Virginia under the Recon
struction Acts in 1867 arid 1868; and was
also recorder of the Board of Magazine
Guns from 1881 to 1882. He was promoted
captain, Fifth Artillery, in 1866, and com
manded Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island, New
York harbor, from March to June, 1887.
He traveled in Europe in 1888, and the
Orient in 1897. Address: 133 Park Street,
Montclair, New Jersey.
DAY, William Kulus:
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Ravenna, Ohio,
April 17. 1849; son of Judge Luther Day,
of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1866
he entered the academic department of
the University of Michigan, where he was
graduated in 1870; he also spent one year
in the law department of that institution,
In 1872 he was admitted to the Ohio bar
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Stark County, Ohio, where he was
elected judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in 1886. In 1889 he was ap
pointed United States district judge
for the Northern District of Ohio
by President Harrison, which position -he
declined. In April, 1897, he was appointed
assistant secretary of State by President
McKinley, and in April 1898, was made
secretary of State, which position he re
signed to accept the chairmanship of the
commission which negotiated the treaty.;
of peace with Spain at the close of the
Spanish-American War. In February 1899,'
he was appointed United States circuit
judge for the Sixth Judicial by President
McKinley. In February, 1903, he was made
justice of the United States Supreme Court
by President Roosevelt, taking the oath of
office March 2, 1903. Address : 1301 Clifton
Street, Washington, D. C.
DAYTON, Alston Gordon:
United States judge; born at Philippi,
Barbour County, West Virginia, October
18, 1875. He was prepared in the public
schools and then entered the University
of West Virginia, from which he was
graduated in 1878. He engaged in the
practice of law in 1878, was prosecuting
attorney of Upshur County, West Virginia.
to fill an unexpired term, and was after
ward prosecuting attorney of Barbour
County, West Virginia, for four years un
til December 31, 1887. In 1894 he was
elected to Congress as a Republican from
the Second Congressional District of West
Virginia and reelected biennially five times,
serving in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fif
ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and he resigned from the Fif
ty-ninth Congress upon his appointment in
1905 to his present office as United States
judge for the Northern District of West
Virginia. Address: Philippi, West Vir
ginia. DAYTON, Charles Wllloughby:
Jurist ; born in Brooklyn, October 3.
1846; son of Abraham C Dayton author,
and Maria (Tomlinson) Dayton. He is a
descendant, through his mother, of Colonel

Andrew Adams, of the Revolutionary
Army, speaker, Continental Congress from
1879 to" 1880, and chief justice of Connecti
cut. He was educated in the New York
City schools and the College of the City of
New York, but left to study law in an
office, and later in the Columbia Law
School, whence he was graduated in 1868,
with the degree of LL.B. He was ad
mitted, to the bar in 1868. Judge Dayton
is a Democrat in politics and made speeches
for McClellan in 1864. He was a member
of the State Assembly in 1881, and was .
presidential elector and secretary of the
Electoral College of New York in 1884.
He made speeches in favor of Grover
Cleveland in New York and other States
in the campaigns of 1884, 1888, and 1892;
was postmaster of New York City from
1893 to 1897; delegate to the New York
State Constitutional Convention of 1894,
and to the National Democratic Convention
of- 1904. He was elected justice, of the
Supreme Court of New York in 1906. He
founded the Harlem Democratic Club in
1882, and has ever since been a member.
Judge Dayton was trustee and chairman
of the Puritans' Harlem Library, and was
president of the Board of Improvement of
Park Avenue above One Hundred and Sixth
Street, which work was authorized in 1892.
He is a member of the New York State
Bar Association, the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York; one of the
corporators of the Post-Graduate Medical
School, and a member of the Society of
International Law, the American Geograph
ical Association, and the Sons of the Rev
olution. He is also a member of the Man
hattan, Down Town and Players' Clubs of
New York City. Judge Dayton married in
January 29, 1874, Laura, daughter of Dr.
John B. and Rebecca (Sanford) Newman,
of New York. Residence: 13 Mount Mor:
ris Park, New York. Office address:
County Court House, New York City.
DAYTON, James H.:
Rear-admiral United States Navy; born
in Indiana, October 25, 1846. He was ap
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was graduated in 1866, and served in the
Pensacola in the North Pacific from 1867
to 1869. He was promoted to ensign,
April, 1868, and to master, March 26, 1869,
and served on the Miantonomah in 1870.
He was commissioned lieutenant, March 21,
1869; served on the Plymouth in the Eu
ropean Fleet from 1871 to 1873; on the
Worcester, flagship, North Atlantic Fleet,
in 1874; at the Naval Academy from 1875
to 1877; the Quinnebaug, European Station,
from 1878 to 1881 ; on ordnance duty in the
¦ Navy Yard at Washington, in 1882 and
1883, and at the Midvale Steel Works in
1883 and 1884. He was promoted to lieu
tenant-commander in November, 1884, in
which year he was in special service on the
Dolphin, and then went to the Mohican,
Pacific Station, from 1884 to 1887. He was
at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground
from 1888 to 1890, and was placed in com
mand of the Petrel in February, 1893. He
was promoted to commander in January,
1894; was lighthouse inspector from 1894
to 1897 ; commanded the Detroit from June,
1897 to August, 1899; was appointed com
mandant of the Naval Station at San Juan,
October n, i8gg; promoted captain, March
29, 1900, and May 3, 1900 was placed in
command of the Chicago; was captain of
the Naval War College in 1903 and 1904,
and was president of the Board of Inspec
tion and survey from February 15, 1904,
and was on February 27, 1906, ordered to
command the Philippine Squadron of the
Asiatic Fleet. He was promoted to rear-
admiral of the United States Navy, Feb
ruary 28, 1906, and in 1907 became com
mander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet. Ad
dress : Care of the Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
DEADY, Charles:
Physician; born at New York City,
August 27, 1850; son of Silas Oblenis
Deady and Jane Ann (Armstrong) Deady.
He was educated in the schools of New
York City, and was graduated from the
New York Homoeopathic Medical College
and Hospital as M.D. in 1876. He is en
gaged in practice in New York City as an
eye and ear surgeon. He is surgeon of

New York Ophthalmic Hospital; pro
fessor of ophthalmology and otology in the
College of the New York Ophthalmic
Hospital and Dean of the faculty; also
clinical professor of otology in the New
Yofk College and hospital for women. Dr.
Deady is a member and was for ten years
treasurer of the Homoeopathic Medical
Society of the State of New York; a mem
ber of the American Institute of Homoe
opathy, a member and ex-president of the
Homoeopathic Medical Society of New York
County and of the Academy of Pathological
Science and is a trustee of the New York
Ophthalmic Hospital and a member of
the Phi Alpha Gamma fraternity. Dr.
Deady married Corinne Louise Hopper,
and they have a son, Howard Percy Deady,
M.D., and two daughters, Amy Marguerite
Deady and Evelyn Hunter Deady. Ad
dress: 151 West Seventy-third Street, New
York City.
DEAN, Bashford:
Zoologist, archaeologist; born in New
York City, October 28, 1867; graduated
from the College of the City of New York,
as A.B. in 1886, Columbia University, A.
M., 1889, Ph.D., 1890; also special studies
at Munich, Naples, and at Misaki, Japan.
He was tutor of natural history of the
College of the City of New York, from
1886 to 1890; instructor of zoology, Colum
bia University, from 1891 to 1896; adjunct
professor from 1896 to 1903, professor of
vertebrate zoology since 1903. Assistant
New York Fish Commission, from 1886
to 1888; United States Fish Commission
from 1889 to 1892, biologist in 1900 and
1901; special investigator of oyster culture
in England, France, Belgium, Spain, Port
ugal, Italy and Japan; director of the Bio
logical Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor,
1890; member of the Advisory Board,
New York Aquarium, since 1902; honorary
curator of fishes, American Museum of
Natural History; curator arms and armor,
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Member of
American Society of Naturalists, Society of
Zoologists, Palaeontological Society, Asso
ciation of Anatomists; fellow of the New
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ological Society; corresponding member of
the Moscow Society of Naturalists and
member of various foreign societies. He is
author of numerous zoological works, es
pecially relating to the anatomy, embryo
logy and palaeontology of fishes, orthog-
nesis etc. He married, Mary Alice, daugh
ter of I. M. Dyckman of Kingsbridge. Ad
dress : 20 West Eighty-second Street, New
York City.
DEAN, Casper William:
Bridge engineer and contractor; born at
Milan, Erie County^Ohio, August 14, 1844;
son of William Franklin and Mary Jane
(Wheelock) Dean. He was educated at
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in the
class of 1864. Mr. Dean is president of
the Dean-Westbrook Bridge Company and
of the Dean, Schwiers and Sutton Com
pany, and of the C. W. Dean Company.
He is a member of the American Geo
graphical Society, and the Ohio Society. He
married at White Plains, New York, Mar
garet H. Sweeny. Address : 136 Liberty
Street, New York City.
DEAN, Henry Munson :
Physician and surgeon; born in Canaan,
Connecticut, in November, 1836; son of
Henry Dean and Almira (Munson) Dean.
He was educated in the district school at
Canaan, Connecticut, and academies near
there, and was graduated from the College
of Physicians ?nd Surgeons in New York
City, as M.D., in 1861. He began practice
as a physician and surgeon at Canaan, Con
necticut, in 1861 ; was acting assistant sur
geon in the United States Army from 1862
to 1865, and assistant surgeon of the United
States Veteran Volunteers in 1865. Located
in Muscatine, Iowa, in February, 1867. Dr.
Dean is a member of the American Med
ical Association, is ex-president of the Mus
catine County Medical Society, the Eastern
Iowa Central District Medical Society, and
the Iowa and Illinois Central District
Medical Society. He is ex-president of
the Board of United States Examining
Surgeons for pensions for Muscatine
County, Iowa. Dr. Dean is surgeon of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Company, ex-surgeon of the Muscatine
Command of the Grand Army of the Re
public, ex-surgeon of the Muscatine com
mand, and surgeon-general of the Iowa
Command of the Union Veterans' Union.
He is also ex-surgeon-general of the Na
tional Command of the Union Veterans'
Union. He is consulting physician and sur
geon of the Benjamin Hershey Memorial
Hospital, and a member of the Muscatine
County Board of Commissioners of Insan
ity. He is a Republican in politics and a
Congregationalist in religious views. He is
a prominent Mason, past master of the
lodge, ex-high priest of the chapter, ex-
eminent commander of Knights Templar,
and second councillor of thirty-first Scot
tish Rite Masons, and he is a past grand
in the Odd Fellows order. He married in
Philadelphia, in 1866, Emma Johnson, and
they have three sons : Harry Johnson Dean,
M.D., Lee Wallace Dean, M.S., M.D., and
Ray Herbert Dean, M.S., M-D. Residence :
605 West Third Street, Muscatine. Office
address: 122 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine,
Iowa.DEAN, William Blake:
Merchant; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, September 26, 1838; son of William
Dean and Aurelia (Butler) Dean. He
was educated in the academy at West
Chester, Pennsylvania, until 1856, when he
went to Saint Paul, Minnesota, of which
place he has ever since been a citizen and
merchant. He is now at the head of one
of the most prominent hardware firms of
the city, is a director of various banks and
railroads in that city arid the Northwest;
and he was a delegate to the Business
Men's Convention of 1897 from the Saint
Paul Chamber of Commerce and was one
of the members, of the Monetary Com
mission appointed by that convention. Mr.
Dean is an active Republican and has borne
an important part in civic affairs in Saint
Paul, where he has been a member of the
City Water Board, Fire Commission and
Board of Education. He was also appoint
ed by the district judge as a member of
the commission to prepare a new charter
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member of the State Senate of Minnesota
for the four years from 1890 to 1894, and
was a presidential elector on the Blaine
and Logan ticket in 1884. Was trustee in
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York. Mr. Dean married at St. Paul,
Minnesota, i860, Miss Mary C. Nicols.
Address : 353 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul,
Minnesota. DE ANGELIS, Jefferson:
Comedian; born at San Francisco, Cali
fornia, November 30, 1859; son of John
De Angelis and Susan (Loudenslager) De
Angelis. He was educated in the public
schools of San Francisco and New York
City. Mr. De Angelis entered the theatri
cal profession as a child; toured the world
with his own company, from 1880 to 1884,
visiting the Sandwich Islands, Australia,
New Zealand, Tasmania, Malay Archipela
go, China, Japan, Manila, India, Africa,
etc. Since 1886 he has appeared in numer
ous comic operas and is now at the head
of the De Angelis Opera Company. Mr.
De Angelis is a Mason of the thirty-second
degree; a member of the Mystic Shrine,
and of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. His chief recreation is
automobiling. , He is a member of the
Lambs' Club of New York City, and of the
City Club of Yonkers, New York. Mr. De
Angelis married, in India, in 1882, Flor
ence Conliffe, and they have one son. Ad
dress : Sunnyside Drive, Yonkers, New
York.DEARBORN, George S:
President of the American-Hawaiian
Steamship Company; born in Brooklyn,
New York, March 20, 1858. He was edu
cated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti
tute. Mr. Dearborn is senior member of
the firm of Dearborn and Lapham, Steam
ship Agents. He is a member of the Down
Town Association, the Players', . Knoll
wood, Country, Racquet, American Yacht,
and Apawamis Golf Clubs. Residence:
Rye, New York. Address : 6 Bridge
Street, New York City.

DE ABMOND, David Albaugh:
Congressman; born in Blair County,
Pennsylvania, March 18, 1844; was brought
up on a . farm ; educated in the common
schools and at Williamsport Dickinson
Seminary; was State senator, circuit judge,
and Missouri .supreme court commissioner;
was elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Sixth Missouri District. Ad
dress : Butler, Missouri.
DE BELLEVILLE, Frederic:
Actor ; born in Liege, Belgium, his father
being a colonel and his brother a com
mander in the Belgian Army. His great-
uncle, Charles Rogier, was prime minister
of Belgium during the reign of King Leo
pold. He made his first professional ap
pearance in English, in London, where he
appeared for eight years; then twelve
months in Australia. His first appearance
in the United States was in San Francisco
at Baldwin's Theatre. Here A. M. Palmer
saw him play the Dwarf in Nanon and en
gaged him for his Union Square Theatre
Company, in New York. He played at the
Union Square for three seasons, creating
while there many and various roles success
fully — and then followed several years of
starring under different managements. Since
then he has supported Mr. Crane in The
Senator, Rose Coghlan in Diplomacy, Mrs.
Fiske in Divorcons, Tess of the D'Urbe-
villes, Little Italy, Frou Frou and Leah
Kleschna, and Viola Allen in The Eternal
City. He is a member of The -Players' and
Lambs' Clubs. Address: Lambs' Club,
New York City.
DEBEVOISE, George:
Manufacturer of colors and varnishes;
born at New York City, June 30, 1865 ; son
of George W. and Nettie (Harker) De-
bevoise. He was educated in the public
schools of New York City and the College
of the City of New York in the class of
1885. After leaving college he engaged in
business, and he is treasurer, general
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Company. He has been for riiany years
interested in community work and civic
reform in New York City. Mr. Debevoise
is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in religious affiliation, and he is
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, the New York Historical
Society, and the Holland Society, and of
the City and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs, and
his favorite recreations are hunting arid
fishing. Mr. Debevoise married at Orange,
New Jersey, October 4, 1902, Jessie Lord.
Address: 162 East Thirty-eighth Street,
New York City.
DEBEVOISE, Thomas Me El rath:
Lawyer; born at New York City;
son of George W. and Katharine Price
(McElrath) Debevoise. He was edu
cated at Yale University and at the New
York Law School, and was admitted to
the bar and engaged in practice in New
York City, now being a member of the
law firm of Rounds, Hatch, Dillingham &
Debevoise. Mr. Debevoise is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, the Holland Society and the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He is also a
member of the University, Down Town,
Yale, Republican, Alpha Delta Phi, Quill,
Baltusrol Golf, and Canoe Brook Country
Clubs. He is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Debevoise married at New Haven, Con
necticut, December 6, 1898, Anne Farnam
Whitney, and has two children: Eli Whit
ney1 Debevoise and Katherine Price Debe
voise. Address : 62 Cedar Street, New
York City.
DEBQE, William J.
Former United States senator from Ken
tucky; born in Crittenden County, Ken
tucky, in 1849. He received his early edu
cation in schools and " academies in Crit
tenden County and afterward entered the
Medical Department of the University of
Louisville, from which he was graduated
with the degree of M.D. After practic
ing medicine a few years he was com
pelled by failure of his health to aban
don that profession and to engage in the
study of law; was admitted to the bar and

engaged in law practice at Marion, Ken
tucky. Dr. Deboe has always been an
active Republican, was a delegate to the
National Republican Conventions of 1888
and 1896, and for twelve years was a
member of the Republican State Central
Committee of Kentucky. He was a Re
publican candidate in 1892, and a member
of the State Senate of Kentucky from 1893
to 1896. He was elected by the Kentucky
Legislature in 1897, as United States Sen
ator from Kentucky, and served from 1897
to 1903. Address: Marion, Crittenden
County, Kentucky.
DE BOEB, Joseph A rend:
President National Life Insurance Com
pany, born ¦ at Warffum, in the Province
of Groningen, Holland, June 17, 1861 ; son
of John Arend and Anje Peters (Kuiper)
De Boer. He came to the United States
in boyhood, and after a thorough prepara
tory training he entered Dartmouth College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1884, and A.M. in 1887. He engaged in
educational work after his graduation and
was master of the Holderness School for
Boys at Plymouth, New Hampshire in 1884
and 1885, and was principal of the Mont-
pelier Union Grammar School and the
Washington County Grammar School at
Montpelier, Vermont, from ^85 to 1889.
In the 'latter year he was elected actuary
of the National Life Insurance Company
of Montpelier, Vermont, became secretary
and a director of the company in 1897,
second vice-president in 1900, first vice-
president in 1901 and in March, igo2, was
elected to his. present position as president
of the National Life Insurance Company.
He is a. charter member of the Actuarial
Society of America, President of The
Wood Art Gallery of Montpelier, a trustee
of the Washington County Grammar
School, St. Johnsbury Academy, Montpelier
Seminary and secretary of the Vermont
Historical Society. Mr. De Boer married
at Albany, New York, December 23, 1885,
Augusta Charles Featherly- and they have
five children : Ethel Arend, Minnie Arend,
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and Elizabeth Arend. Address : Montpelier,
Vermont. DE CASTRO, Hector:
Consul-General ; born in Constantinople,
Turkey, June 30, 1849. His early education
was procured in the schools of Vienna,
Austria, and he completed his studies in
Paris, France, graduating from the Col
lege de France, there, in 1870. He came to
the United States in 1880, and was natural
ized as an American Citizen in 1885. He was
vice-president of the Commercial Cable Co.
from 1883 to 1890, and secretary of the
Intercontinental Railroad Commission at
Washington from 1890 to 1892. Mr. De
Castro is a Republican in politics, and in
June, 1897, he was appointed by President
McKinley to his present position as Amer
ican consul-general at Rome. He is a
member of the Union League Club of New
York and the Metropolitan Club at Wash
ington. Mr. ^De Castro married in New
York City, February 12, 1889, Grace
Aldrich. Residence : 230 West Forty-
second Street, New York, and 8 Via Vente
Settembre. Address : American Consul
ate-General, 16 Plaza di Bernardo, Rome,
Italy. DECHERT, Henry M.:
Lawyer; born in Reading, Pennsylvania,
March 11, 1832; son of Elijah Dechert and
Mary W. (Porter) Dechert. He was
graduated from Yale in 1850,' and taught
school near Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He
was admitted to the bar in 1854, and has
since practiced in Philadelphia. In 1862
and 1863 he was first lieutenant in the
Twenty-fifth and Fortieth Pennsylvania
Regiments. Mr. Decherd was for 20 years
president, now chairman of Board and Ex
ecutive Committee of the Commonwealth
Title Insurance and Trust Company of
Philadelphia, and of the State Asylum .for
the Chronic Insane, of Pennsylvania. He is
a member of the State Bar Association, the
Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania,
Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of the
Revolution,' and the Naval order; and also
of the University, Art, Lawyers', Pennsyl
vania and Belmont Clubs of Philadelphia.

Mr. Dechert has three children: Henry T.,
a member of the Philadelphia bar, and col
onel commanding the Second Regiment of
the National Guard of Pennsylvania; Ed
ward P., a journalist in Philadelphia, and
Bertha M., wife of Charles H. Gale, a law
yer of Cleveland, Ohio; and four grand
children: Robert, Esther, Margaret and
"Philip. Residence: 3930 Walnut Street.
Office address : 1201 Chestnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
DECHEBT, Henry T.:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, February
2, 1859 ! son of Henry M. Dechert. He was
educated at the University of Pennsylvania,
receiving the degrees of A.B. in 1879, LL.B.
in 1881 and .A.M. in 1882. He was admitted
to the Philadelphia bar in 1881, and to the
bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States in 1889. He has been active in the
National Guard of Pennsylvania. He en
listed in 1884 in the First Troop of Phila
delphia City Cavalry, was commissioned a
lieutenant in the Second Regiment of In
fantry in 1890, major in 1891, lieutenant-
colonel in 1893 and colonel in 1899. Dur
ing the Spanish-American War in 1898 he
served as lieutenant-colonel of the Second
Pennsylvania Infantry during its entire
term of duty; commanding five companies
in the Department of the East. He is a
member of the firm of Melick, Potter and
Dechert, and is a member of the Pennsyl
vania Commandery of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion by inheritance from his
uncle, Brigadier-General Robert P. Dechert.
He is a member of the Committee of Sev
enty engaged in reform work in Philadel
phia politics. Mr. Dechert married in 1895,
Virginia Louise Howard. Address : 32 South
Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DE COPFET, L. Caslmir:
Broker; born in New York City in 1872
He was educated at Luzerne, Switzerland.
He was named after his grandfather, who
was one of the original members of the
New York Stock Exchange, and founded
the house of De Coppet and Company,
bankers and brokers. He is now one of the
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Coppet is a member of the Atlantic Yacht
Club, the Automobile Club of America
and the Calumet Club. He married Mrs.
John W. Greene, born Adele T. Haft.
Residence: 24 East Tenth Street, New
York City. Address 44 Broad Street, New
York City.
DE CORDOVA, Alfred:
Broker; born on the Island of Jamaica,
August 19, 1848 ; descendant of the De Cor
dova who annexed Granada to Spain. He
was educated in the West Indies and in
New York City. He was a broker in pe
troleum, but in 1875 purchased a seat in
the New York Stock Exchange for forty-
five thousand dollars, and in 1894 was elec
ted a governor of the Exchange. He re
tired from active business in 1901 and sold
his Stock Exchange seat in 1906 for ninety-
five thousand dollars, the highest recorded
price. Mr. De Cordova was first commo
dore of the American Steam Yacht Club,
and commanded the first steam yacht race
from Larchmont to New London, in which
the participants were Jay Gould's Atalanta,
Roach's Yosemite and Herreshoff's Stiletto.
He owned a large trotting horse farm in
New Jersey, and was president of Fleet
wood Park during some of the most promi
nent trotting events. He was the only man
that established a carrier pigeon messenger
service between his office and country home.
Mr. De Cordova represented the New York
Stock Exchange at the opening of the new
Chicago Board of Trade. He is a member
of the American Yacht, Lotos, Manhattan
and Larchmont Clubs. Mr. De Cordova
married' in New York City, August 19,
1880, Helene Leon W. Schroeder Lowcree.
Address : 25 Broad Street, New York City.
DEDEBICK, P, K.:
Manufacturer, inventor, and capitalist;
born in Columbia County, New York,
February I, 1838, of Revolutionary ances
try — the grandfathers of both of his par
ents having served in the American Re
volution. He was educated at the Hudson
River Institute and commenced manufact
ure at Albany, New York, in i860, con
tinuing for forty years, during which time

several hundred American and foreign pat
ents were granted him, in various classes,
notably lever and railway horse powers,
brick machines, automatic discharge cars
and tubs, bale bands, and machines for
their manufacture, and baling presses, in
cluding the1 continuous press and bale pat
ents, with which he practically introduced
the art of hay baling over the civilized
world, resulting in the general hay ship
ping trade, now existing. His Albany
plant was gradually enlarged into what is
known as the Dederick Agricultural &
Machine Works, now conducted by P. K.
Dederick's Sons. In 1871 he established
branch works at Montreal, Chicago, and
St. Louis, and in 1876, interested large
works in the principal European countries
in manufacture under his foreign patents,
IN early all hay presses now manufactured
throughout the world are copied from his
machines or patents, and the name and
works are familiar to agriculturists every
where. In 1864 Mr. Dederick married
Miss Marietta Michael, also of Columbia
County, revolutionary ancestry. Mrs. De
derick is active in the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution.
They have three children : Prescott, Ber
tha and Archland. Address : 1 Lodge St.,
Albany, New York.
DEEBLE, Horace Morgan:
Physician; born in Washington, D. C,
July 18, 185 1 ; son of James W. Deeble
and Nicea P. (Fuller) Deeble. He was
graduated from Columbian College, now
known as the George Washington Univer
sity, with the degree of M.D. and has been
in the practice of medicine since March 1,
1880. He was acting assistant surgeon in
the United States Army from 1880 to Sep
tember 30, 1891, and is a member of the
Medical Society of D. C, the Medical
Association of D. C, and the American
Medical Association, is an Odd Fellow,
and a member of the Lawn Tennis and
other athletic clubs. Dr. Deeble is a Re-
oublican in politics and an Episcopalian in
his religious belief. Residence: 1012 Four
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DEEMER, Elias:
Manufacturer, banker and ex-congress
man; born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
January 3, 1838. He was educated in the
common schools, and afterward engaged in
the mercantile business in his native coun
ty and later in Philadelphia, until the war
broke out. In July, 1861, he enlisted as a
private in Conipany E of the One Hundred
and Fourth Pennsylvania . Volunteers, and
served in the Peninsula campaign until the
middle of May following, when he was dis
charged for disabilities resulting from in
juries received while in the line of duty.
In the spring of 1868 he moved to Williams-
port, where he has since continuously re
sided. He was president of the Common
Council there from 1888 to 1890, and he is
engaged in the manufacture of lumber, em
ploying between five hundred and seven
hundred men in his different operations. He
became president of the Williamsport Na
tional Bank in 1894, and has been its presi
dent ever since. Mr. Deemer was elected
from the former Sixteenth District of
Pennsylvania to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses in 1900 and 1902, and
from the new Fifteenth Pennsylvania Dis
trict in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress in
which he served until March, 1907. Mr.
Deemer is a member of the Reno Post,
Grand Army of the Republic in his home
city. Address : Williamsport, Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania.
DEEMEB, Horace Emerson:
Jurist; born at Bourbon, Indiana, Sep
tember 24, 1858; son of John A. Deemer
and Elizabeth Deemer. He was educated
in the public schools and at the University
of Powa, and was graduated from the Law
department of the latter institution as LL.
B. in 1879. Following his graduation he
was admitted to the bar of 'Iowa, and en
gaged in the practice of law until he was
elected to the office of judge of the District
Court for the Fifteenth District of Iowa,
serving from 1887 to 1894 in that office
and then being elected to the bench of the
Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, in
which he has served as judge since 1894,
and of which he was chief justice from

1898-99, 1904-05 LL.D. 1904 Cornell Col
lege and State University of Iowa. He was
a lecturer on law until 1904 and has since
been honorary professor of jurisprudence
in the Law Department of the University
of Iowa. He is author of the chapter on:
Grand Juries in the Cyclopedia of Law
and Procedure, and also of various mono
graphs on legal subjects and syllabi of law
lectures. Judge Deemer is a member of
the American Bar Association and of the
Iowa State Bar Association, and a mem
ber of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, Prairie and Grant
Clubs, Des Moines, Iowa. He married at
Red Oak, Iowa, July 12, 1882, Jeannette
Gibson ; and they have one daughter, Doro
thy. Residence: Red Oak, Montgomery
County, Iowa. Official address : Des Moines,
Iowa.
DEEBE, Charles Henry:
Manufacturer; born at Hancock, Ver
mont, March 28, 1837; son of John Deere
and Demaris (Lamb) Deere. He removed
with his parents, in early infancy, to Illi
nois, and lived at Grand Detour in Lee
County until 1848, and since then he has
been a resident of Moline, in Rock Island
County, Illinois. His father, John Deere,
established the plow works now incorpor
ated as Deere and Company, and Mr.
Charles H. Deere succeeded as the head of
that enterprise, now the largest in the world
in that industry. He is also president of
the Deere and Mansur Company, manufac
turers of cotton and corn planters, and
president of other companies which are the
outgrowth of the two named, including
the John Deere Plow Company at Saint
Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, Dallas,
Indianapolis, Omaha and Portland (Ore
gon), Oklahoma City, the Deere Implement
Company of San Francisco, and Deere and
Webber Company of Minneapolis, as well
as several others. Mr. Deere married at
Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 1862, Mary
Little Dickinson, and they have two child
ren: Anna C, who married W. Dwight
Wiman, and Katherine Mary, who married
Wm. Butterworth. Address: Moline, Illi
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DEERING, William:
Manufacturer, born at Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, April 25, 1826; son' of
James Deering and Eliza (Moore) Deer-
ing. He was educated at the Maine Wes
leyan Seminary, Readfield, Kennebec Coun
ty, Maine, and soon thereafter became con
nected with a small woolen mill, at South
Paris, Maine. He afterward became identi
fied with the wholesale dry goods business,
as the head of the firm of Deering, Milliken
and Company, wholesale and commission
dry goods merchants at Portland, Maine,
and New York City. In 1870 he became
connected with the grain harvester business,
acquiring the business originally established
at Piano, 111., for the manufacture of the
Marsh harvester, and greatly extended it by
new patents and the use of improved manu
facturing methods. The business was re
moved to Chicago in 1880, and conducted in
the name of the Deering Harvester Com
pany, manufacturers of Deering harvesting
machinery, which was recently merged in
the International Harvester Company. He
retired from active business in 1902. Mr.
Deering is a member of the ' Methodist
Episcopal Church, a trustee of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church of. FVanston,
Illinois, and of Northwestern University,
and has served several terms as a member
of the General Conferences of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. Residence: 408
Church Street, Evanston, Illinois. Office
address : 518 Davis Street, Evanston, Illi
nois.. DE FOBEST, Henry Pelouze:
Physician; born in Fulton, New. York,
December 29, 1864; son of John Teller de
Forest and Emeline (Stephens) de Forest.
He was graduated from Cornell University
as Ph.B. in 1884; taught school in Chicago
and Rossville, Illinois, from J884 to 1886,
and then took a graduate course at Cornell
from 1886 to 1887 with degree of M.S. and
with distinction in 1887. He studied medi
cine at Columbian University, Washington,
District of Columbia, from 1887. to 1888;
and at the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, Columbia University, from 1889 and

received the degree of M.D. in 1890. He
first practiced in Brooklyn in 1890; was at
the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at Brook
lyn from 1890 to 1891 ; at the Vienna (Aus
tria) University and Hospital from 1891 to
1892; the University of Jbreiburg, Germany,
in 1892; the Sloane Maternity Hospital of
New York City from 1892 to 1893 ; and the
University of Paris in 1897. He was cap
tain and assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth
Regiment Infantry in the National Guard
of New York, from 1893 to 1898. Fie was
acting assistant surgeon of the Third Di
vision Hospital of the Seventh Army Corps
of the Spanish-American War from 1898 to
1899; major and surgeon of the Thirteenth
Regiment -of Coast Artillery, National
Guard of New York, since 1899; sanitary
inspector of the Department of Health of
New York City from 1894 to 1902 ; and was
medical examiner of the fire and police de
partments of New York City from 1902 to
1903 and has been police surgeon since 1902,
Dr. de Forest is a member of the New
York Academy 'of Medicine, arid the New
York County Medical Society, the Brooklyn
Pathological Society (of which he was
president from 1900 to 1902) ; the New-
York State Medical Society, the Sloane
Alumni, and was its president from 1901 to
1902; and the Methodist Hospital Alumni
of which he was president from 1894 to
1895. He was on the editorial staff of the
Medico- Surgical Bulletin, from 1897 to
1899; and a contributor to the Brooklyn
Medical Journal since 1890; the Annals of
Surgery since 1890; wrote the chapters on
Diseases of the Blood and Ductless Glands,
in Butler's Internal Medicine in 1902; and
has been editor of the Proceedings of the
Sloane Alumni since 1904. He is a. mem
ber of the United States Association of
Military Surgeons. Dr. de Forest was in
structor in obstetrics at the Long Island
College Hospital from 1894 to 1904, and
professor of obstetrics at the New York
Post-Graduate Medical College since 1903.
He married, December 6, 1891, Anna Gil-
mour. Address : 150 West Forty-seventh
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DE FOBEST, Lock wood:
Artist; born in New York in 1850, He
studied art first in Rome with Herman
Corrodi in 1869, and that same spring ac
companied Frederick E. Church to Greece
and made his first studies with him on the
Acropolis at Athens. On his return to New
York he went into the studio of James M.
Hart and continued his study with Mr.
Church in the summer of 1870. He defin
itely decided to take up landscape painting
as a profession in 1871, and exhibited at
the National Academy of Design that same
year. He went abroad again in 1875 and
spent the winter sketching in Egypt, going
in the spring through the Holy Land to
Damascus and to Palmyra in the Syrian
desert, a difficult and dangerous journey.
He spent another month in Greece before
returning to the United States. The au
tumn of 1877 saw him again on his way to
Greece, where he spent the winter trav
eling on foot, visiting all the sites spoken
of in Homer. Greece at that time was in
fested by brigands, a party of Englishmen,
only a few months before, having been cap
tured just outside of Athens, on the way to
Marathon and murdered. He was one
of the artists selected by the jury ,to repre
sent America at the Paris Exposition of
1878. He joined Louis C. Tiffany in in
terior decoration in 1879. In 1880 he
started to India, to study the art and in
dustries of that most interesting country,
then very little known. He started work
shops in Ahmedabad under the management
of the Huthecsing family, one of the most
prominent in the city. , He visited Nepaul,
a country entirely closed to travelers, in
December, at the invitation of the resident,
who had obtained permission from the Ne
paul Government. He returned to Lahore
for the opening of the Museum and the
first Indian exhibition planned by J. Lock-
wood Kipling. At Mr. Kipling's request he
exhibited sketches, and the first of the
wood carving made in Ahmedabad, which
was bought by Mr. (now Sir) C. Purdon
Clarke, for the South Kensington Mu
seum. He took the medal for carving at
the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1888,
and the medal for wood carving and fur

niture at the World's Fair at Chicago, in
1893, He spent the winter of 1892 and
1893 traveling again in India, making ex
tensive collections. The most important
one now forms the Indian jewelry collec
tion in the Field Museum at Chicago, con
sidered by many critics to be as fine as the
one in the. Indian Museum at South Ken
sington. He was elected associate of the
National Academy of Design in 1891, and
an academician in 1898. He was elected a
member of the Century Club in 1879, and
is a member of the Metropolitan Museum,
the New York Artist Fund Society, Artist
Aid Society Society, Architectural League,
Arts and Crafts of Boston, etc. Mr. De
Forest married, in November, 1880, Meta
Kemble, of New York. Address : York
Harbor, Maine.
DE FOBEST, Robert Weeks:
Lawyer; born at New York City, April
25, 1848; son of Henry G. and Julia M.
(Weeks) de Forest. He was graduated
from Yale University as A.B., and as A.M.
1870, and the degree of LL.D. was con
ferred upon him by Yale in 1904. Mr. de
Forest was admitted to the bar in 1871 and
engaged in the practice of law in New York
City. In 1872 he became a member of the
law firm of Weeks, Forester & de Forest,
and later in. that of de Forest Bros., in
which he is associated with his brother,
H. W. de Forest, and his son, Johnston de
Forest. Mr. de Forest became general at
torney of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey in 1874 and has been at the head
of its law department for many years. He
is vice-president and general counsel, as
well as a director of the company. He is
also president of the Hackensack Water
Company, and trustee of The New York
Trust Company and of the Hudson Trust
Company; director of the Niagara Fire In
surance Company and is officially connected
with other business enterprises. In philan
thropic matters, he has been president of
the New York Charity Organization So
ciety since 1883. He was one of the found
ers and first president of the Provident
Loan Society, for philanthropic pawn-
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man of the New York State Tenement
House Commission of 1900 and was ap
pointed first Tenement House Commission
er of the State of New York, which office
he held during 1902 and 1903. He was
president of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction, which met at At
lanta in 1903. He was one of the original
incorporators of the Russell Sage Founda
tion of which he is vice-president. He has
been a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art continuously since 1889 and has been
'secretary of the institution since 1904. Mr.
de Forest is an elder in the Presbyterian
Church and -he is a member of the Uni
versity Club, the Century Association and
other clubs of New York City. Mr. de
Forest married "at New York City, No
vember 12, 1872, Emily Johnston, and they
have four children : Johnston de Forest,
Henry L. de Forest, Ethel de Forest and
Frances Emily, now the wife of W. A. W.
Stewart. Residence: City, 7 Washing
ton Square, North. Country residence:
Cold Spring Harbor. New York office ad
dress: 30 Broad Street, New York.
DE GABMO, Charles:
Professor in Cornell University; born in
Mukwanago, Wisconsin, January 7, 1849 ; son
of Rufus De Garmo and Laura M. (Wil
bur) De Garmo. He was graduated from
Illinois State Normal University at Normal,
Illinois, .in 1873, and from Halle University,
Germany, as Ph.D. in 1886. He was prin
cipal of public schools in Naples, Illinois,
from 1873 to 1876; was assistant training
teacher of the Illinois State Normal Univer
sity from 1876 to 1883; and professor of
modern languages in the same university
from 1886 to 1890. Dr. De Garmo was
professor of psychology of the University
of Illinois in 1890 and 1891 ; president of
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, from
1891 to 1898, and has been professor of the
science and art of education at Cornell
University since 1898. He is author of:
Essentials of Method; Herbart and Her-
bartians; Language Lessons; Interest
and Education, 1902, and Principles of Sec
ondary Education, 1907. He was a private
in Company I of the One Hundred and

Forty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, in 1865 and
1866. He is a Republican in politics. Dr.
De Garmo was president of the National
Herbart Society, from 1893 to 1898; and
chairman of the. National Council of Edu
cation in 1898. His favorite recreations are
golf and sailing. Dr. De Garmo married
at Belvidere, Illinois, 1875, Ida Witbeck,
and they have had three children : Walter
C, born in 1876, Mabel L., born in 1880
(deceased) and Robert Max, born in 1885.
Address : Ithaca, New York.
)E GABMO, William Burton:
Physician, surgeon; born at East Troy,
Wisconsin, April 24, 1849. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Rochester,
New York, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
began, his medical studies in the University
of Michigan in 1870. He was graduated
from the University of the City of New
York, as M.D. in 1875, and since practiced
medicine and surgery in New York City.
Dr. De Garmo is a member of the Ameri
can Medical Association of the New York
County Medical Society; a fellow of the
New York Academy of Medicine, the
Medical Society of the State of New York,
and he is an honorary member of the Vir
ginia State Medical Society, and a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. He is a contributor on
surgical subjects to the leading medical
journals. Dr. De Garmo married at New
York City, February 20, 1873, Elizabeth
Emery Milligan. Address: 616 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
DEGENEB, Bndolph:
Broker; born in New York City, January
17, 1878; son of John F. Degener and
Eleanor (Runpam) Degener He was grad
uated from Berkeley gchool in 1895, and
from Lehigh University in 1899 with the
degree of M.E. He is board member of
Degener and Burke, stock brokers and is a
member of the New York Stock Exchange.
He is also a member of the Delta Phi fra
ternity, the Deutscher Verein, and the
Seventh Regiment of the National Guard
of New York. Mr. Degener's favorite re
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He is a member of the Stock Exchange
Luncheon Club. Mr. Degener married, at
South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November
25, 1902, Caroline Belmont De Saulle, and
they have one daughter, Eleanor Belmont.
Address: 20 Broad Street, New York City.
DE GBOVE, Edward Bitzema:
Lawyer; born at New York City, March
5, 1848; son of Edward W. and Hester
(Strachan) De Grove. He was graduated
from Yale College as A.B. and A.M. in
1869 and from the Law Department of Co
lumbia University as LL.B. in 1871. He
was admitted to the bar of New York in
1871, and he has since then been continu
ously engaged in practice in New York
City, now being senior member of the firm
of De Grove and Riker. He is also a
director of the Public Accountants Asso
ciation; a trustee of the Northeastern Dis
pensary of the Good Samaritan Dispensary.
He is a member of the Psi Upsilon frater
nity, and of the Union League, University,
Yale, Lawyers', Fulton and Riding and
Driving Clubs. Mr. De Grove married at
New York City, October 18, 1882, Hen-
riette C. Waters. Residence: 72 East
Fifty-fifth Street. Address : 38 Park Row,
New York City.
DE HAVEN, John Jefferson:
Jurist; born at St. Joseph, Missouri,
March 12, 1845; son of Jacob De Haven.
He removed with his parents to California
in 1849, and he was educated in ihe com
mon schools of that State, afterward study
ing law and being admitted to the California
bar in 1866. He established in the prac
tice of law at Eureka, California, and was
district attorney of Humboldt County, Cali
fornia, frOm 1867 to 1869; member of the
California Legislature in 1869 and of the
State Senate from 1871 to 1875. He was the
Republican candidate for Congress from
his district in 1882, but was defeated; was
elected judge of the Superior ' Court of
Humboldt County, serving from 1884 to
1889, was elected in 1888 and served from
1889 to 1891 as a member of the Fifty-first
Congress, and was associate justice of the

Supreme Court of California from 1891 to
1895. In 1895 he established ,in the practice
of law at San Francisco, continuing until
appointed by President McKinley, June 8,
1897, judge of the United States Court for
the Northern District of California, in which
office he is still serving. Judge De Haven
married June 24, 1872, Zernah Jane Ball.
Address : United States Appraiser's Build
ing, San Francisco, California.
DE KOVEN, Henry Louis Reginald:
Composer ; born in Middletown, Connecti
cut, April 3, 1859; son of Henry De Koven,
D.D., and Charlotte' (Le Roy). De Koven.
He was graduated from Saint John's Col
lege, Oxford, England, in 1880, with the
degree of B.A. He studied music first at
Stuttgart, Germany, under William Speidl
and afterward studied professionally at the
same place under Dr. Lebert and Professor
Pruchner. Later he took up harmony and
counterpoint with Dr. Huff of Frankfort,
Germany, and singing under Signor Vannu-
cinni, at Florence, Italy; and finally studied
under Richard Genee, the Viennese compo
ser. Mr. De Koven is the composer of:
The Begum ; Don Quixote ; Robin Hood ;
The Fencing Master; Rob ¦ Roy; The
Knickerbocker; The Tzigane; The Manda
rin; The Highwayman; The Three Dra
goons; Papa's Wife; Foxy Quiller; Maid
Marian; R«d Feather; Happy Land; The
Student Kirig; The Little Dutchess, and
many songs including: O Promise Me, and
music for piano and orchestra. He is
founder and conductor of the Washington
Symphony Orchestra, and he has served as
musical critic on various New York publi
cations. Mr. De Koven married May 1,
1884, Anna, daughter of the late United
States Senator Charles B. Farwell, of Illi-
nios, and they have one daughter, Ethel
Le Roy, born May 3, 1885. Residence: 55
East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City.
Address : Knickerbocker Club, New York
City. DELAFIELD, Francis:
Physician, pathologist; born in New York
City, in 1841. He was educated in private
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A.B. in i860, and the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York City as M.D.
in 1862. He also took post-graduate study
at the London and Paris hospitals, and re
ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Yale in 1890 and from Columbia in 1904.
Dr. Delafield was adjunct professor, 1875
to 1881, professor of medicine from 1882
to 1901, and emeritus professor since 1901
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University. He has served as
physician to the Bellevue Hospital, patho
logist and physician to the Roosevelt Hos
pital, and surgeon to the New York Eye
and Ear Infirmary. He is a member of the
New York County Medical Society, the
New York Academy of Medicine, the Path
ological Society, the Association of Ameri
can Physicians, and the St. Nicholas So
ciety. He has contributed much to original
research in pathology. Dr. Delafield is
author of: Studies in Pathological Ana
tomy; Hand-book of Post-Mortem Exami
nation and Morbid Anatomy; also of mon
ograph on Renal Diseases, etc. He is a
member of the Century Association, and the
Riding, City and Yale Clubs of New York.
Dr. Delafield married January 17, 1870,
Katharine Van Rensselaer. Address: 5
West Fiftieth Street, New York- City.
DELAFIELD, John Boss:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May 8,
1874; son of Maturin Livingston and Mary
Coleman (Livingston) Delafield. He was
educated at Princeton University, graduat
ing as A.B., and later received the degree
of A.M. He was also graduated from Har
vard Law School, as LL.B. He was ad
mitted to the New York State bar, in 1899
and has since been engaged in general prac
tice in New York City. He is an Indepen
dent Republican in politics and an Episcopal
ian in his religious affiliation. He is a mem
ber of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, and the University and
Riding Clubs of New York City. Mr. Dela-r
field married at New York City, June 1 14,
1904, Violetta S. White, and they have one
son, John, W. R. Delafield. Address: 17
East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City,
and Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York.

DELAFIELD, Lewis L. :
Lawyer; born in New York City, Janu
ary 30, 1863 ; son of Louis L. Delafield and
Emily (Prime) Delafield. He was educated
at St. Paul's School at Concord, New
Hampshire, at Harvard and the Columbia
Law School, graduating from there in 1884
with the degree of LL.B. He has been for
many years in the active practice of his
profession. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
and has been a member of all and chairman
of many of its standing committees; chair
man of the Executive Committee of the
New York State Bar Association; a mem
ber of the Executive Committee of the
Committee of Seventy in 1894, and secre
tary of the Rapid Transit Board, of New
York City from 1895 to 1899. He was
nominated in 1906 by the lawyers -of the.
City of New York for Justice of the Su
preme Court. Mr. Delafield is a member
of the Episcopal Church and of the Union
and Century Clubs of New York City. He •
married April 25, 1885, Charlotte Hoffman
Wyeth. Their children are: Lewis L.,
Junior, and Charlotte, and Emily Delafield.
Address : 1 Nassau Street, New York City.
DE LA FLETJR, Frederick J.:
Lawyer; born at Carthage, New York,
June, 1870; son of Joseph and Margaret E.
(Van Slyke) De La Fleur. He was edu-.
cated at the Adams (N. Y.) Collegiate In--
stitute, and at Hamilton College, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
A.B. in 1895. He was admitted to the bar
in 1898, and engaged in practice of law. He
has been local examiner of the State Civil
Service Commission since February, 1901,
and commissioner of the United States Dis
trict Court of the Northern District of
New York, since 1902. He is a Republican
in politics and a Congregationalist in his
religious affiliation. He is a member of the
Masonic order, and a member of the Utica
Rifle Association. Mr. De La Fleur mar
ried, at Port Leyden, New York, July,
1896, Augusta M. Williams, and of that
union have been born Alice M. De La Fleur
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Fleur (born in .1902). Address: Utica,
New York.
DELANY, Selden Peabody:
Dean of All Saints' Cathedral, Milwau
kee ; born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, June
24, 1874; son of Edmund Delany and Eve
lyn Selden Delany. He was educated in
the public schools and was graduated from
Beloit College' Academy in 1892; from
Harvard University in 1896, with the de
gree of B.A., and from the Western Theo-
ogical Seminary, at Chicago, in 1899. He
was ordained in the ministry of the Epis
copal Church; assistant at St. John's
Church, at Roxbury, Boston, from 1899 to
1900; vicar of St. Stephen's Church at
Menasha, Wisconsin, from 1900 to 1902;
rector of Grace Church, Appleton, Wiscon
sin, from 1902 to 1907, and he is now dean
of All Saint's Cathedral, at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Mr. Delany is priest of the
Society of the Oblates of Mount Calvary.
. He is a member of the University Club
and the Harvard Club of Milwaukee. He
is an Independent in politics. Residence:
637 Marshall Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
DELEHANTY, Daniel:
Captain in the United States Navy; born
in New York. He was appointed from New
York midshipmen September 25, 1862, and
he was graduated from the United States
¦Military Academy June 6, 1867; was com
missioned as ensign December 18, 1868;
master March 21, 1870; lieutenant March
6, 1872; lieutenant-commander, January 9,
1893; commander, November 22, 1898; and
retired with the rank of captain June 29,
1900. He is governor of Sailor's Snug
Harbor. Address : Sailor's Snug Harbor,
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.
DeLEMOS, Theodore W. E.:
Architect; born in Germany, July 13,
1850; son of Hermann De Lemos and
Maria (Groth) De Lemos. He studied his
profession at the Berlin Royal Academy of
Buildings, and he came to the United
States in 1881. He designed the Eden
Mus'ee Building in connection with the late
Henry Fernbach, and completed the build

ing on the death of the latter in 1883. In
1884 he formed a partnership with A. W.
Cordes, as De Lemos '& Cordes, who were
the architects of the Arion clubhouse, the
Siegel-Cooper department store, Adams de
partment store, and the the Macy depart
ment store, the Speyer and Company bank
building on Pine Street, the New York
County National Bank Building, the office
building for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company in the City of Mexico, and many
other office and public buildings. Mr. De
Lemos is a fellow of the American Insti
tute of Architects; a member of the
American Geographical Society, and of the
Kane Lodge of Masons. He is a member
of the Lutheran Church, of the Arion Club,
and of several sporting clubs. Mr. De
Lemos married in New York City, No
vember 27, 1899. Country Residence: Bay-
shore, Long Island. Address : 63 West Nine
ty-second Street, New York City.
DELLENBAT7GH: Frederick Samuel:
Artist, author and anthropologist; born
at McConneltsville, Ohio, September 13,
1853; son of Samuel Dellenbaugh and
Elizabeth (Smith) Dellenbaugh. He re
ceived his education in the schools of
Buffalo until 1871 and after that studied
in New York City, and Munich, and in
Paris as a pupil of Carolus Duran. He was
an artist and topographer with Powell's
Second expedition to explore Canyons oi
the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1871,
1872 and 1873, and made personal ex
peditions to Utah, Arizona, Colorado,
Nevada, New Mexico and California in
1875 and 1876 and again in 1884 and 1885.
He was in residence at Moki Towns in
Arizona in 1884. He pursued artistic and
ethnographic studies with the Harriman
Expedition of 1899 to Alaska and Siberia,
went on an expedition for Scribner's
Magazine in 1903 to Little Zion Valley,
Southern Utah, took a voyage to the West
Indies, Trinidad and Venezuela in 1906,
and voyage to Iceland, Spitzbergen, and
Norway in 1906. He is author of: A
Singular Case (Blackwoods) 1882; The
True Route of Coronado's March, 1897;
The North Americans of Yesterday, 1901;

MEN OF
The Romance (History of the Colorado
River, 1902 ; Breaking the Wilderness, 1904 ;
A Canyon Voyage, 1907; and contri
buted to Sturgis' Dictionary of Architec
ture in 1901, and has made numerous con
tributions to newspapers, magazines, and
other publications. He has made a special
study of Western United States history,
particularly that of Rio Grande Valley in
New Mexico, and the route of Coronado.
Mr. Dellenbaugh is a Republican in politics.
He is a fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science;
fellow of the American Ethnological
Society, and a member of the American
Anthropological Society, and also of the
Century Association, and the Authors,
Barnard; Explorers' and Arctic Clubs. He
married at EUenville, New York, in 1885,
Harriet Rogers Otis, and they have a son,
Frederick Samuel, Junior. Address: 7
West Forty-third Street, New York City.
DE LIMA, Elias Abinun:
Merchant, banker; born at Curacao,
Dutch West Indies, April 24, 1865; son of
David A. and Sarah (Wolff) de Lima. He
was educated at Dr. Sach's School, New
York City, and was graduated from Cor
nell University as B.Si iri 1886; and from
Columbia Law School, as LL.B. in 1889.
Mr. de Lima was admitted to the New York
bar in 1889 and he is a member of the
mercantile firm of D. A. De Lima & Com
pany; is president of the Battery Park Na
tional Bank and is a director and advisory
counsel of the Corn Exchange Bank
(Staten Island branch). He is a trustee
of the S. R. Smith Infirmary of Staten
Island; is a member of the Municipal Art
Society. Mr. de Lima is a member of the
Cornell, Theta Delta Chi, Graduates', Na
tional Arts and New York Athletic Clubs.
He married at New York City, October 27,
1886, Estela A. de Lima, and they have
four children : Beatrice, Edith, Ernest and
Estela. Address: 58 West Eighty-seventh
Street, New York City.
DEL MAB, Alexander:
Author; born in New York City, August
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videra Del Mar. He was educated at the
New York Polytechnic from which he re
ceived a diploma, and in London under
Sir Arthur Helps and Manuel Del Mar,
joint authors of: The Conquerors of Am
erica, and he also attended the New York
University. He was financial editor of the
Daily American Times in 1854 ; Hunt's Mer
chants' Magazine in i860; the Social Science
Review in 1863, the Financial and Commer
cial Chronicle, in 1865, and the National
Intelligencer at Washington, D. C, in 1869.
He organized and was director of the United
States Bureau of Cqmmerce, Navigation
and Statistics, (now the Department of
Commerce and Labor), from 1865 to 1869,
and was a leader in the municipal reform
movement in Brooklyn, which resulted in
the overthrow of the Ring, in 1871. He
was connected with the movement to re-
monetize silver from 1874. Mr. Del Mar
was editorial manager of the Cambridge
Encyclopaedia in 1900; editor-in-chief of
the American Banker in 1905 and 1906. He
is author of: Gold and Paper Money, 1862;
Essays on Political Economy, 1863; Essays
on the Treasury, 1865 ; Taxation, 1865 ; The
Rate of Interest, 1865; Corporations, 1866;
What is Free Trade, 1867; The Resources,
Productions and Social Conditions of
Egypt, Spain, France, Russia, etc., 1874;
History of the Precious Metals, completed,
1880; History of Money in Ancient States,
1885; Money and Civilization, 1886; The
Beneficial Effects of Metallic Money Dur
ing Seventeenth Century, 1890; History of
Monetary Systems, 1895; History of Money
in Modern States, 1896; History of Money
in America, 1899; The Science of Money,
1899; Barbara Villiers; A History of Mon
etary Crimes, 1899 ; Britain iri the Light of
Modern Archaeological Discoveries, 1900;
Worship of Augustus Caesar, 1900; The
Middle Ages Revisited, 1900; The Venus
de Milo, Its History and Its Art, 1900;
Letters on the Finances, and Impeachment
of the Treasury; History of the Precious
Metals (second edition, on a different plan
from the first), 1903; History of Mary-
andia, 1903 ; History and* Antiquities of the
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Khozares (in preparation). In 1907 Mr.
Del Mar completed his opus magnus, The
Messiah, an historical treatise in forty-four
chapters, the crown and sequel to all of his
previous historical works. The Messiah,
after tracing the early nistory of the Orient,
describes the discovery of the Bisharee gold
mines of Egypt by the Phoenicians (circ.
1000 B. C.) ; the consequent influx of var
ious Oriental tribes into Egypt and Asia
Minor, and their several customs and relig
ions. Especial attention is devoted to the
history of the Messianic cults, which are
traced with a minuteness of dates and de
tails, gathered from calendrical, cyclical,
archaeological, and literary sources, not to
be found in any other work. In brief, it
is a History of the Ancient World, as re
vealed by the latest discoveries of arch
aeology and checked by precise dates ; a lit
erary feat never before attempted. Address :
care of the Cambridge Encyclopedia Com
pany, 54 West Twenty-third Street, New
York City.
DELMAS,* Delphin Mlcheal:
Lawyer; born in France, April 14, 1844;
son of Antoine Delmas and Coralie Del-
mas. While he was a small boy his parents
became part of the colony of French set
tlers who went to Santa Clara County, Cal
ifornia, find there he received his education.
He was graduated as A.B. from the Santa
Clara College in 1862, and from it received
the degree of A.M. in 1863 and Ph.D. in
1903; and in 1865 he was graduated from
the Law School of Yale with the degree of
LL.B. In 1866 he began practice at San
Jose, California, was elected district attor
ney of Santa. Clara County in 1868, and
was the recognized leader of the Santa
Clara bar when, in 1883, he removed his
practice to San Francisco. He has been
leading counsel in many important cases,
civil and criminal, on the Pacific Coast, and
was leading counsel on the trial of Harry
Thaw for the murder of Stanford White in
New York City in 1906, resulting in a dis
agreement of the jury. In politics Mr. Del
mas is a Democrat, and he was delegate-at-
iarge from California to the National Dem

ocratic Convention at St. Louis in 1904.
In religion he is a Catholic. He was a
regent of the University of California in
1885. Mr. Delmas is one of the famous
orators of America, arid has made many
addresses on important public occasions, in
addition to his forensic arguments. A vol
ume of these, under the title : Speeches and
Addresses, was published in San Francisco
in 1901. Mr. Delmas married in San Fran
cisco April 7, 1869, Pauline Hoge. Resi
dence: Casa Delmas, Santa Clara County,
California. Office address : 901 Call Build
ing, San Francisco, California.
DE LONG, Ira Mitchell:
Professor of mathematics; born at Mon
roe, Iowa, January 7, 1855; son of William
De Long and Susan Adaline (Tool) De
Long. He was graduated from Simpson
College, Indianola, Iowa, as B.A. in 1878
and M.A. in 1881. He was professor of
mathematics in the Central- University at
Pella, Iowa, from 1878 to 1886; professor
of Latin in Iowa Wesleyan University, Mt.
Pleasant, from 1886 to 1888; and has been
professor of mathematics at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, since 1888;
president of the Colorado Teacher's Asso
ciation, 1895, secretary of the Colorado'
Chautauqua from 1901 to 1903, president
of the Colorado Schoolmaster's Club in1
1905 and 1906. He is secretary of the
Boulder Building and Loan Association
and a director of the Mercantile Bank and
Trust Company of Boulder, Colorado. He
is a Republican of independent leanings,
was a delegate to the State Republican
Convention of Colorado in 1^92, and chair
man of the Boulder County Silver Republi
can Convention in 1897. He is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal' Church, and was
a delegate to the General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chi
cago in 1900. Mr. De Long is a. member
of the American Mathematical Society; .the
Society of the Sigina Xi, the Colorado
Mathematical Society, and the Colorado
Schoolmaster's Club. He" is a director of
the Colorado Chautauqua^ a memhjr qfethe
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the Governing Board since 1905, and presi
dent of the Board since 1906 of the City
Young Men's Christian Association. He is
a member of Chapter Xi, of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity, and is a master Mason;
and he is a member of the Boulder City
Club. Mr. De Long has a very consider
able library in Latin, mathematics, politics,
biography, history, travel, religion, and psy
chology. He married at Monroe, Iowa,
August 28, 1879, Elizabeth Ann Wright, and
they have two children : Edith Elizabeth,
born October 21, 1880," and Ruth, born
March 23, 1891. Residence: 1341 Broad
way, Boulder. Office address : 2009 Thir
teenth* Street, Boulder, Colorado.
DE LONGPBE, Paul:
Artist and painter ; born at Lyons; France,
April 18, 1885 ; son of Victor De Longpre
and Theresia (Pinchaud) De Longpre. He
was graduated in the public schools of Paris
until he was twelve years of age. He has'
especially distinguished himself as a painter
of flowers and had his first paintings ac
cepted at the Paris Salon in 1876. By a
failure of a large bank in Paris he was
ruined and in 1890 came to New York. He
made his .first exhibition of only flower
paintings at the American Art Galleries in
1896; and has held annual exhibitions ever
since. In 1899 he moved to Los Angeles,
California, and in 1901 built a residence at
Hollywood, Los Angeles County, with three
acres of flower gardens, which is one of
the notable sights visited by tourists. Mr.
De Longpre is a Catholic in his religious
affiliations and a Republican in politics. He
married at Paris, France, March, 1874,
Josephine Estievenard. Address: Holly
wood, Los Angeles County, California.
DE LUCE, Percival:
Artist, painter; born in New York City,
1847; son of Henry De Luce and Jane Ei
(Weller) De Luce. He received. his edu
cation in private schools, New York and
Providence, Rhode Island; his art educa
tion at the Academie Royale des Beaux
Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, and afterward -in
Paris as pupil of LeonBonnat, is associate
of the National Academy of Design ; mem

ber of the Sons of the Revolution, Ameri
can Water Color Society, Artists' Funds
Society, and is a member of the Salmag
undi Club of New York City. He married
Emma A. Budlong of Providence, and they
have one daughter. Address: (Studio)
114 East Twenty-third Street, New York
City. DEMEBS, Pierre Paul:
Consular official; born in Canada August
7, 1876. Graduated from St. Joseph's Col
lege in 1897; graduated from the Boston
University Law School in 1902. Admitted
to' the Boston Bar same year. Elected to
the New Hampshire Legislature in Novem
ber, 1902, and served therein one term. Ap
pointed by President Roosevelt consul at
Port Limon, Costa Rica, March 30, 1903;
promoted to consul at Barranquilla No
vember 25, 1905. Address : Barranquilla,
Colombia.
DE MILLE, William C:
Dramatist; born in Washington, North
Carolina, July 25, 1878; son of Henry C.
DeMille and Matilda B. (Samuel) De
Mille. He was educated at Freiburg, Ger
many, from 1895 to 1896; and was gradu-
uated from Columbia University in 1900
with the degree of A.B. Mr. deMille
is author of: Strongheart; The Genius,
and many others. His favorite recreation
is. tennis. He is a member of the Ameri
can Dramatists, Columbia University, and
the Lambs' Clubs of New York City. He
married at Fort Hamilton, New York,
Anna A. George, daughter of Henry
George, and they have one daughter:
Agnes George. Address : The Lambs, 130
West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.
DEMING, Horace Edward:
Lawyer; born in Palmyra, New York,
March 31, 1850; son of Jeremiah P. H.
Deming and Mary (Colt) Deming. He
was educated at Palmyra Union School,
graduating from there in 1864, and from
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts, in 1865. He was a teacher in 1865
and 1866; took a course at Eastman's Busi
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from Harvard College in 1871. He trav
eled two years in Europe and the Orient;
took post-graduate work in Harvard in
1873 and 1874, and at Harvard Law' School
from 1874 to 1876. He was admitted to the
bar in 1877, and has since been engaged
in active practice. He was one of the
founders in 1880, and was president and
chairman of the executive committee from
1880 to 1882, of the Brooklyn Young Re
publican Club, and was chairman of the
Executive Committee of the National Com
mittee of Republicans and Independents
during the Presidential campaign of
1884. Mr. Deming was special counsel of
the commissioners of accounts in investi
gating the corporation counsel's office in
New York City in 1885. He was one of
the founders and is a member of the ex
ecutive committee of the Commonwealth
Club, which inaugurated- the ballot reform
movement in 1886 and 1887; was one of
the founders and a trustee, of the New
York Reform Club in 1887; chairman of the
general committee of the New York Bal
lot Reform League from 1888 to 1890;
chairman of the executive committee of
the People's Municipal League in 1891 ;
was one of the founders of the National
Municipal League in 1894; was a member
of the special committee of the municipal
reform organizations to draft the proposed
changes in constitution of State relating to
the government of cities, and of the special
committee that drafted the State Civil Ser
vice Reform clause of the New York State
Constitution in 1894; was counsel of the
Senate Committee to investigate adminis
tration of civil service law of the State in
1894; and drafted the bill which was made
the basis of the present law on that sub
ject. He was chairman of the Committee
on Municipal Programme of the National
Municipal League from 1897 to 1899; on
the special committee of New York Bar
Association to report on the proposed new
charter of Greater New York, represent
ing the Bar Association before the govern
or and mayor in opposition to the pro
posed charter in 1897; and was on the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Merchants' As
sociation in the movement which prevented

the City of New York from contracting
for its water supply from private corpor
ations from 1899 to 1900. He was a mem
ber of the Citizens' Committee of Two
Hundred and Fifty to secure the adoption
of revised charter for New York City in
1901. Mr. Deming was the special counsel
for the attorney-general's office in the in
vestigation of district attorney's office in
New York City in 1900. He is joint au
thor of: A -Municipal' Programme. Mr.
Deming was president of the Phillips-An-
dover Alumni. Association of New York
from 1901 to 1905, and of the general
Alumni Association, from 1905 to 1906; is
chairman of the Executive Committee of
the National Municipal League; member of
the Council of the National Civil Service
Reform Association, and a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, the American
Economic Association, the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science, and he
is also a member of the City Club of New
York. He married at Saugerties, New
York, July 17, 1878, Caroline Springsteed.
Residence: 204 West Eighty-sixth Street.
Address: 15 William Street, New York
City.DEMOBEST, William Curtis:
Lawyer ; born at New York City, August
2, 1859; son of W. Jennings and Ellen
Louise (Curtis) Demorest He was educa
ted at the Cheshire School in 1875; the
Columbia Grammar School in 1877 and was
graduated from Columbia College as A.B.
in 1881 and from the Columbia Law School
as LL.B. in 1883. He studied law in the
office of Norwood and Coggeshall, being
especially connected with the title and mort
gage departments, and he abandoned law
practice to assume the management of his
father's large estate, and make a specialty
of real estate. Since the organization of
the Realty Trust in 1890. has been its presi
dent. He is also president of the Cleve
land Baking Powder Company, and secre
tary and treasurer of the State Realty &
Mortgage Company, is general manager
and treasurer of Demorest & Little; di
rector of the Fidelity Trust Co., the Mar
ket and Fulton National Bank, the Royal

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Baking Powder Company, and the Tartar
Chemical Company; trustee of the Irving
Savings Bank, and Hospital Guild. Mr,
Demorest is member of the New Yqrk Ac
ademy of Sciences, the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, the Genea
logical and Biographical Society, the Met
ropolitan Museum of Arts, the American
Museum of Natural History, New York
Zoological Society, St. Nicholas Society,
the Holland Society, Society of Colonial
Wars, the Empire State Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, the Committee of
Allied Real Estate Interests, the Chamber
of Commerce, Association of the bar of the
City of New York, and Psi Upsilon frater
nity. Mr. Demorest is an Episcopalian, and
a member of St. Thomas' Church. His
favorite recreations are hunting and fishing.
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Law
yers', Fulton, Knollwood, and Niantic
Clubs, the Accomack Club of Chesapeake
Bay, and the St. Bernard Hunting and
Fishing of Canada. Mr. Demorest married
at New York City, February 6, 1884,- Alice
Estelle Gilbert ; children : Alice Louise
Demorest (born in 1885), Gilbert Curtis
Demorest (born in 1895), and Charlotte
Katharine (born in 1902). Residence: 68
East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City,
and Hukweem Lodge (Loon Lake, Adiron
dacks). Address: 60 Liberty Street, New
York City.
DENBY, Charles:
Consular official; son of the late Charles
Denby, former United States minister to
China and Martha (Fitch) Denby. He was
appointed second secretary of the Legation
at Peking,. July I, -1885; was appointed first
secretary October 20, 1893 ; and was charge
d' affairs from March 17 to October 27,
1,894, and from May 14 to August 1, 1896.
He resigned in November, 1897, and was
appointed secretary-general of the Provis
ional Government established by the Allied
Powers for the District of Tientsin, July
18, igoo. Mr. Denby was appointed chief
clerk of the Department of State, Novem
ber 16, 1905; and April 15, 1907, was ap
pointed American consul-general at Shang
hai. .Address : Shanghai, China.

DENBY, Edwin H.:
Architect; born in Philadelphia, Febru
ary 9, 1873; son of Dr. Edwin Robinson
Denby and Laura (Hooper) Denby. He
was educated at the Polytechnic at Dres
den, Germany, and is Diplome of the Ecole
des Beaux Arts, in Paris, 1897. He trav
eled through Greece, Turkey, the Holy
Land, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Belguim, Hol
land and Germany, from 1897 to 1899. He
was "decorated by the Sultan of Turkey
with the order of Osmanieh, and received
honorable mention in the Salon of Archi
tecture in 1897 and 1898; and he returned
to America in i8gg. He is a member of the
firrri of Denby & Nute, architects. His sum
mers are spent in Bar Harbor, Maine,
where he has a local office. Mr. Denby is
a Democrat in politics and a member of
the Episcopal Church. He is also a mem
ber of the Beaux Arts Society, of Archi-
tectes, Diplomes par le Gouvemement, the
Municipal Art Society and the Architectur
al League; and is also a member of the
Manhattan Club of New York City. His
favorite recreations are boating, tennis,
boxing and swimming. Address : 333
Fourth Avenue, New York City.
DENEEN, Charles Samuel:
Governor of Illinois; born in Edwards-
ville, Illinois, May 4, 1863; son of Samuel
H. Deneen and Mary F. (Ashley) Deneen.
He was educated in the public schools of
Lebanon, Illinois, and at McKenden Col
lege, graduating from there in 1882. He
taught school for three years, and then
studied law, and was later admitted to the
bar. Mr. Deneen was a member of several
law firms and is now a member of the law
firm of Deneen and Hamill. He was elected
to the Illinois House of Representatives in
1892, .serving one term as attorney for the
sanitary district of Chicago from Decem
ber, 1895 to 1896, and was State's attorney
of Cook County, Illinois, since December,
1876, until elected governor in 1904 for the
term expiring in 1908. Mr. Deneen is a
Republican in politics and has a very strong
personal following, and he is a Methodist
in religion. He married at Mt. Carmel,
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Residence: 532 West Sixty-first Street,
Chicago. Official address : Criminal Court
Building, Chicago and Springfield, Illinois.
DENISON, Charles S.:
Civil Engineer and university professor;
born in Gambier, Ohio, July 12, 1849; son
of Rev. George Denison and Janett B.
(Ralston) Denison; and he is a descendant
iri the eighth generation of Captain George
Denison of Stonington, Connecticut He
was educated in Lockport (New York)
Union School; one year at Norwich Uni
versity, Vermont; was graduated as CE.
from the University of Vermont in 1871,
received the M.S. degree in 1874. The de
gree of Doctor of Science in 1907. Mr.
Denison was assistant engineer of the Mil
waukee and Northern Railroad in 1871 and
1872, and served as United States as
tronomer and surveyor, in boundary line
work, in 1873 and 1874. He was instructor
in engineering in the University of Michi
gan from 1872 to 1881 ; assistant professor
of drawing from 1881-to 1885; professor of
descriptive geometry, stereotomy and draw
ing from 1885 to 1901, and since 1901 has
been professor of stereotomy, mechanism
and drawing in the University of Michigan.
Professor Denison is a member of the
Michigan Engineering Society, the Detroit
Engineering Society, and the_ Society for
the Promotion of Engineering Education.
He is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in religion, and he is senior war
den of St. Andrew's Church at Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and a member of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese of Michigan. He
is a member of the Sigma Phi, and of Theta
Chi of Norwich University (Military Col
lege of Vermont), and honorary member
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. He is
also a member of the Ann Arbor City Club
and the Washtenaw Country Club. Resi
dence : 502 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor,
Michigan. Office address: The University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
DENISON, Edmund Decatur:
City superintendent of schools ; born at
Hanna, Indiana ; son of George S. Denison
and Aurilla (Blackman) Denison. He was

graduated from Northwestern University as
A. B. in 1899. He was high school assist
ant at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, from 1899
to January, 1902 ; principal of the Negaunee
(Michigan) High School from January to
June, 1902; and principal of Ripon (Wis
consin) College Academy in 1902 and 1903.
He engaged in mercantile business at Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, in 1903; became high
school assistant at Lake Geneva, Wiscon
sin, from 1905 to 1907, and has been city
superintendent of schools at Lake Geneva",
Wisconsin, from 1907. He is a member of
the firm of Burton, Denison and Davidson.
Mr. Denison is a Republican in politics and
a Congregationalist in religion. He is a
member of the Classical Association of the
Middle West and South, and of the Na-"
tional Geographical Society; is a Royal
Arch Mason; a member of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity, and of the Modern Wood
men of America. He is also a member of
the Classical Club, the Fortnightly Club, and
the Chautauqua Progressive Club. He mar
ried -at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 22,
1904, Bonnie Eloise Burton. Address:
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
DENISON, John Hopkins:
Clergyman; born at Westfield, Massa
chusetts, October 14, 1870; son of Rev.
John Henry Denison, D.D., and Caroline
(Hopkins) Denison, and grandson of
Mark Hopkins, president of Williams Col
lege. He received his preparatory educa
tion at the Greylock Institute, South Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts, from which he
was graduated in 1886, then entered Will
iams College, and was graduated in 1890
with the degree of A.B., afterward study-
;ng theology at the Andover Theological
Seminary. He was ordained in the min
istry of the Congregational Church in 1893,
becoming assistant pastor of the First Con
gregational Church of Kansas City for one
year, then assistant at the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church in 1894 arid 1895; pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church of Sea and
Land, New York, from 1895 until Febru
ary, 1903, when he entered upon his pres
ent charge as pastor of the Central Con
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ried, December 30, 1902, Pearl L. Under
wood. Address : 8 Newbury Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
DENNIS, Frederic Shepard:
¦ Surgeon; born in Newark, New Jersey,
April 17, 1850; son of Alfred L. and Eliza
A. (Shepard) Dennis. He was educated
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachus
etts, in 1868, and graduated from Yale
College in 1872, and from Bellevue Hos
pital Medical College, 1874, the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, London, 1877, and the
degree of F.R.C.S. was conferred by the
Royal College of Surgeons in 1899. Dr
Dennis is attending surgeon of the Belle
vue and St. Vincent Hospitals; professor
of clinical surgery in Cornell University;
and is a member of the staff of Bellevue
Hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital and the
Montefiore Home in New York City, and
St. Joseph's Hospital at Yonkers, New
York. Dr. Dennis is a member of the
American Surgical Association, the Clin
ical Society of London, New York Acad
emy of Medicine, and the German Con
gress of Surgeons of Berlin. He is also
a member of the Century, University and
Ardsley Clubs. He married, February 5,
1880, Fannie R. Carhart. Address: 542
Madison Avenue, New York City.
DENNIS, James Shepard:
Clergyman and author; born in Newark,
New Jersey, December 15, 1842; son of Al
fred L. Dennis and Eliza (Shepard) Den
nis. He was graduated from Princeton
University in 1863; student of law at Har
vard Law School from 1863 to 1864; was
graduated from Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1867, and received the degree
of D.D. from Princeton University in 1879,
and from the University of Aberdeen in
1906. He was ordained to the Presbyterian
ministry by the Presbytery of Newark in
1868 . He went to Syria as missionary in
the autumn of the same year; and was
principal and professor of theology in the
Seminary of the Syria Mission at Beirut
from 1873 to 1891. He prepared several
theological text-books in the Arabic lan
guage and returned to the United States

in 1891. He resigned as missionary of the
Presbyterian Board in 1892 and since that
date was made honorary member of the
Syria Mission. He was ' student lecturer
on missions at the Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1893 and in 1896, repeating the
latter course by invitation at the Lane,
Allegheny, and Auburn seminaries the
same year; and was special lecturer on
missions at the McCormick Theological
Seminary in Chicago, in 1907. He was
chairman of the Committee on Statistics
and member of the Executive Committee
of Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Mis
sions in New York in 1900. Since 1904 he
has been a member of the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions of New York
City. Mr. Dennis is author of: Foreign
Missions; After a Century; The Message
of Christianity to Other Religions; Chris
tian Missions and Social Progress (three
volumes) ; and Centennial Survey of For
eign Missions. He is a member of the
Society of Mayflower Descendants, the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revo
lution, the Presbyterian Union of New
York, Chi Alpha, Sigma Chi, and the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science. He is a fellow of the Amer
ican Geographical Society and a member
of the Museum of Natural History, and
of the Princeton and Quill Clubs.' He mar
ried in 1872, Mary Elizabeth Pinneo,
daughter of James B. Pinneo, of Newark,
New Jersey. Their only son, Alfred L. P.
Dennis, Ph.D., is professor of Modern Eu
ropean History in the University of Wis
consin. Address: 17 East Thirty-seventh
Street, New York City.
DENNIS, John Hancock:
Retired journalist; born at Concord, Mas
sachusetts, May 28, 1835; son of Samuel
Dennis and Cynthia Dennis. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Concord and
afterward at Boston High School and at
Goodnow's Preparatory Institute until 1852,
when he went to California. He entered
on newspaper work in 1854 as a reporter for
the San Francisco Herald, and in 1862 he
became editor of the Eldorado Times at
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of the General Assembly of California in
i860 and 1861, and in 1863 he removed to
Nevada, becoming interested in mining and
other enterprises, and he was elected and
served consecutively as sheriff, county clerk
and county commissioner of Lander County,
Nevada, and from 1868 to 1873 was editor
of the Reveillo at Austin, Nevada. After
that he was editor of the Sentinel, at Eu
reka, Nevada, from 1873 to 1877, the Times-
Review, at Tuscarora, Nevada, from 1877
to 1881, the Democrat at Salt Lake City,
Utah, in 1882 and 1883, then went to Reno,
Nevada, and was elected State Senator from
Elko County, Nevada, in 1884. In 1886 he
was appointed melter and refiner of the
United States mint at Carson City, in which
position he served until 1889. He became
editor of the Chronicle at Virginia City,
Nevada, in 1893, and of the Nevada State
Journal from 1901 to 1904, when he retired
from the newspaper business. He served as
major on the staff of Governor Bradley of
Nevada from 1871 to 1879, and he com
manded the State troops in the campaign
against the White Pine Indians in 1875.
Major Dennis has been a leader of the
Democratic party in Nevada for the past
forty years, and since 1896 has been the
Nevada member of the National Democratic
Committee.- Address : Reno, Nevada.
DENNIS, Leonidas:
Lawyer; born at Johnsonburgh, New Jer
sey, December 30, i860; son of Lewis Den
nis and Amanda (Davis) Dennis. He was
educated at Blair Hall, N. J., Princeton
University and at Columbia University Law
School, receiving the degrees of A.B., A.
M. and LL.B. He was admitted to the bar
after his graduation from Columbia Univer
sity, and he is a director of the Lawyers'
Surety Company, and counsel for the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Com
pany. He is a Republican in politics and
a Presbyterian in his religious affiliation.
Mr. Dennis married at Kingston, N. Y.,
April 16, 1890, Mary Shafer. Address: 66
Liberty Street, New York City.

DENNIS, William B.:
Mine operator; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
December 8, 1865 ; son of Rev. M. J. Dennis
(Presbyterian clergyman). He was pre
pared for college at the Madison County
Academy at Richmond, Kentucky, then en
tering the Central University at Richmond,
Kentucky, from which he was graduated as
rv.B. in the class of 1884. On leaving col
lege he began newspaper work at Dayton,
Ohio, on the Dayton Daily Journal, and in
1885 became the publisher of The Farmers'
Home at Dayton, continuing until 1890,
when he removed to Port Townsend, Wash
ington, where he became editor and mana
ger of the daily and weekly Port Townsend
Leader, until 1892. Since then he has de
voted his attention to mining interests, was
for some years president and general man
ager of the Eureka Pacific Consolidated
Mining Company, of Idaho, and he is now
president and manager of the Black Butte
Quicksilver Mine at Black Butte, and of the
Federal Loan Gold Mine at Nevada City,
California. Mr. Dennis married in June,
1900, Queen H. Littlefield, daughter of Cap
tain D. M. Littlefield, of Port Townsend,
Washington. Address: Blackbutte, Lane
County, Oregon.
DENNISON, Charles Sumner:
Manufacturer; born in Newtonville,
Massachusetts, June 20, 1858 ; son of Elipha-
let W. and Lydia A. (Beals) Dennison. He
attended the Newton public schools, the
West Newton English and Classical School,
Highland Military Academy, Worcester,
Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. He became a skilled
machinist but did not adopt the business
as a profession as he was made an active
member and treasurer of the Dennison Man
ufacturing Company with extensive manu
factory at South Framingham, Massachu
setts, and offices in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis
and San Francisco. He is a member and
has served as president of the Newton Club
and a member of the Country Club, the
Eastern and the Beverly Yacht Clubs. He
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Newton Hospital in 1886, was made a mem
ber of the board of trustees and is the
founder of the Elizabeth Dennison Ward
for Children. Mr. Dennison was married
to Mary R., daughter of Abram French,
and their children are : Florence, Lydia and
Olivia Bell. Residence: Kirkstall Road,
Newtonville, Massachusetts. Address :
Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
DENNISON, E. Haldeman:
Consular official. He was appointed com
mercial agent at Rimouski, November 7,
1903; and was appointed consul at Bombay,
June 22, 1906. Address : Bombay, India.
DENNISON, Henry Willard:
' Jurist; born at Guildhall, Essex County,
Vermont, May 11, 1846; son of Colonel
John Paine Denison and Mary Shepard
(Cooper) Denison. He received his early
education in the common schools, and after
ward attended the academy at Lancaster,
New Hampshire, and he studied law and
diplomacy at the College of Law of Colum
bian (now George Wshington) University
at Washington, D. C. He engaged in the
practice of law and afterward went to Japan
where, since May 1, 1880 he has been legal
adviser of the Japanese Department of For
eign Affairs.. He represented the Japanese
Government in the drafting of the Treaty
of Peace with Russia, made at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, in 1905. Mr. Denison has
received the Grand Cordon (of the First
Class) of the Imperial Japanese Order of
the Rising Sun, and the Grand Cordon (of
the First Class) of the Order of the Sac
red Treasure of Japan. He is a member
representing Japan, of the Permanent Court
of Arbitration at The Hague, and a member
of the Association de legislation comparee,
of Paris. He is also a member of the Met
ropolitan Club of Washington, D. C, the
United Club, of Yokohama, Japan, and the
Tokyo Club, of Tokyo, Japan. He married
at New York City, January 21, 1873, Helen
Wilder Cross. Address: The Foreign Of
fice, Tokio, Japan.
DENSLOW, William Wallace:
Author, illustrator, and designer of stage
productions; born in Philadelphia, May 5,

1856; son of William Wallace Denslow
and Jane E. (Evans) Denslow. He was
educated in the New York public schools,
the Cooper Institute and the National Acad
emy of Design at New York. He has
worked on most of the principal newspa
pers and magazines. Among his best pic
tures are : What's the Use, and Victory.
Since 1899 he has been devoted prin
cipally to the illustration of books for
children, including : Father Goose — His
Book; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Dot
and Tot of Merryland; Denslow's Mother
Goose; Denslow's Night Before Christmas;
Denslow's One Ring Circus; Denslow's
Humpty-Dumpty ; Denslow's Scarecrow
and Tin Man; Denslow's Picture Books
for Children, in sixteen volumes; and Day
Dreams of Childhood; the last five men
tioned being compiled or written by Mr.
Denslow; also the Pearl and the Pumpkin,
collaborating on the text with Paul West.
He illustrated Billy Bounce, collaborating
on text with Dudley A. Bragdon; The Jew
eled Toad and Drawing Room Animals.
He designed the eccentric costumes for
the play of The Wizard of Oz, and
he riiade designs for the entire stage
production of The Pearl and the
Pumpkin. Mr. Denslow signs his drawings
witha totem, the hippocampus or sea-horse.
Much of Mr. Denslow's time is spent in
Bermuda, where he has built a winter.
home upon an island named after him.
His favorite recreation is yachting. He
is a member of the Press Club of Chicago,
the Columbian Yacht Club of New York
City and the Dingly Club of Hamilton,
Bermuda. He married in New York
City, December 26, 1903, Frances G. Doo-
little. Address: 2403 Broadway, New York
City.
DENSMOBE, Emmet:
Physician; born in Crawford County,
Pennsylvania, May 19, 1837; son of Joel
and Sophia Densmpre. He received his
early education in the public schools of
Crawford County; was two years at Alle
gheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania,
and was graduated from the New York
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1885. In 1862, with his brothers, he devel
oped, on the Tarr farm, on Oil Creek, Pa.,
one of the first successful oil wells; and
the brothers invented and introduced the
first tank cars by which oil was shipped to
the seaboard. He was connected with his
brother James in the development of the
wholes typewriter, later known as Reming
ton typewriter; owned the British patents
for and introduced into London the Rem
ington typewriter, 1871 to 1872; and in
partnership with his brother Amos, begin
ning 1885, developed and introduced the
Densmore typewriter. Dr. Densmore is
principal proprietor of the Garfield Tea cor
poration. He is author of : Natural Food of
Man (booklet), 1890; How Nature Cures,
1890; Consumption and Chronic Diseases,
1899; and: Sex Equality, 1907. Dr. Dens
more married first, at Blooming Valley, Pa.,
in 1855, Elizabeth Heard; second, at Chi
cago,. 111., May 14, 1881, Helen Barnard,
and third at New York City, October 6,
1905, Mabelle Hoff. Residence: Hotel
Astor. Address: 145 Forty-first Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
DENT, Marmaduke Herbert:
Jurist; born near Morgantown, West
Virginia, April 18, 1849. After a careful
preparatory education he entered the Uni
versity of West Virginia, from which he
was graduated, with the degree of A.B. in
1870, and he received from that University
the degree of A.M. in 1872. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar of West Vir
ginia, and engaged in practice until
elected one of the judges of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, in which ca
pacity he served until 1904, when he re
sumed the practice of law. Judge Dent is
a Democrat in politics. He married, October
11, 1876, Mary Jones, daughter of Dr. A.
S. Warder. Address: Grafton, Taylor
County, West Virginia.
DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell:
United States senator; born in Peekskill,
New York, April 23, 1834. He was gradu
ated from Yale College in 1856 and re
ceived the degree of LL.D. in 1887. He

read law with Hon. William Nelson, of
Peekskill, and was admitted to the bar in
1858, beginning the practice of his profes
sion the next year. In 1861 he was
elected to the General Assembly of New
York, and he was reelected in 1862, serving
as chairman of the Committee on Ways
and Means in the latter term. In 1863 he
led the Republican campaign in New York
as candidate for secretary of State, and re
versed the Democratic success of 1862; but
refused a renomination. He was appointed
minister to Japan and was confirmed by
the Senate, hut declined to accept the of
fice. In 1866 he was appointed attorney for
the New York and Harlem Railroad Com
pany; was made general counsel of the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
road Company in 1875, and has since con
tinuously been indentified with that com
pany and with various other railroads
comprising and allied to the Vanderbilt
system. He became president of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
in 1885, but resigned in 1899 to become
chairman of the boards of directors of the
New York Central, the Lake Shore, the
Michigan Central, and the New York, Chi
cago and St. Louis Railroad Companies.
He was appointed in 1867 county clerk of
Westchester County by Governor Fenton
and resigned. In 1870 he was made immi
gration commissioner by the New York
Legislature, but declined to serve; and in
1875 wss appointed, and served, as bound
ary commissioner, fixing the State line with
adjoining States. He was candidate for
lieutenant-governor in 1872 on the Liberal
Republican or Greeley ticket, but acted with
the Republican party the next year, and
has canvassed the State and county for
the party every year since 1872, as he had
every year before 1872, beginning with the
year he graduated from Yale College. He
was elected regent of the State University
and appointed one of the commissioners- to
build the State Capitol. In 1881 he was a
candidate for United States senator to suc
ceed Thomas C. Piatt, who resigned,
and after a protracted and exciting
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votes of a large majority of the
Republican Legislature, he withdrew.
He was tendered the senatorship in 1885,
but his business and professional engage
ments at that time prevented his accepting
it. -He was a candidate for the Presiden
tial nomination at the Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1888; but with
drew from the contest; was a delegate at
large to the National Conventions in 1888,
1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904, presenting the
name of President Harrison for renomina
tion in 1892, and that of Governor Morton
in 1896. Senator Depew has been the orar
tor on three great national and interna
tional occasions — the unveiling of the Sta
tue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the
statue having been purchased by the contri
butions of the people of France and
brought to New York by the members of
the cabinet of the legislature, and of the
Army and Navy of the French Republic;
the centennial celebration of the inaugur
ation of the first President of the United
States, George Washington, and the open
ing of the great World's Fair at Chicago,
in 1892, celebrating the discovery of Amer
ica by Columbus. He was selected by the
legislature to deliver the oration at the
centennial celebration of the formation of
the constitution of the State of New York
at Kingston; at the centennial of the or
ganization of- the legislature of the State
of New York; at the services in the Legis
lature, in memory of General Sherman,
General Husted and Governor Fentori, and
at the memorial services of President Gar
field in New York. He was also selected
as the orator for the unveiling of the sta
tue of Alexander Hamilton in Central
Park, and at the centennial celebration of
the capture of Major Andre at Sleepy Hol
low. Senator Depew was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Edward
Murphy, Junior, in 1899, and reelected in
1905. His term of office will expire March
3, 1911. Senator Depew has been twice
married; first, November 9, 1871, to Elise
Hegeman, who died in 1893, and of that
marriage he has one son born in 1879. He
married, second, December, 1901, May
Palmer. Address : New York City.

DEBBY, George McClellan:
Army officer; born at sea, November 1,
1856; son of Captain George H. Derby,
topographical engineer of the United States
Army, and Mary A. (Coons) Derby. He
was educated in France, Germany and
Switzerland from 1865 to 1871 ; at the (
Washington University, Saint Louis, from
1871 to 1873, and graduated fro'm the United
States Military Academy at West Point at
the head of his class. He was commissioned
second lieutenant June 14, 1878; first lieu
tenant January 2, 1881 ; captain April 7,
1888; major of engineers, July 5, 1889;
lieutenant-colonel and chief engineer of the
volunteer service from 1898 to 1899; chief
engineer of the Fifth Army Corps in the
campaign of Santiago ; assistant to General
John Newton in charge of works at Hell
Gate from 1881 to 1889; instructor of prac
tical military engineering at West Point
from 1889 to 1893; assistant to the engi
neer commissioner of the District of Colum
bia in 1894; in river and harbor work at
New Orleans, Louisiana; from 1894 to
1902; at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1902, and
since 1903 at Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is
a member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and a life member of the Military
Service Institution of the United States.
He is also a member of the Round Table
Club at New Orleans, Louisiana. He mar
ried first at New York City, November 6,
1878, Clara Mateson McGinnis, and second
at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4, 1894,
Bessie Kidder, and he has a son, George
Townsend Derby. Address : United States
Engineer's Office, St. Paul, Minnesota.
DEEBY, J. M.:
Capitalist. Vice-president and director
of Manning, Maxwell and Moore, Incor
porated, The Ashcroft Manufacturing Com
pany, The Hayden and Derby Manufactur
ing Company, The Hancock Inspirator
Company, and The United Injector Com
pany; and is director of the Consolidated
Safety Valve Company, and of the Man
ning, Maxwell and Moore Company, of
New York City. Address: 85 to 89 Lib
erty Street, New York City.

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DERBY, Orvllle Adelbert:
Geologist; born at Kelloggville, New
York, July 23, 1851 ; son of John C. Derby
and Malvina A. (Lindsay) Derby. He
was graduated from Cornell University as
A.B. in 1873, and M.S. in 1874. He was
assistant to the Geological Commission of
Brazil from 1875 to 1878; director of the
Geological and Mining Section of the Na
tional Museum at Rio de Janeiro from
1880 to 1891. He was chief of the Geo
graphical and Geological Survey of the
State ©f Sao Paulo, Brazil, .from 1886 to
1904, and he has been chief of the Geo
logical and Mineralogical Service of Brazil
since 1907. Professor Derby is a member
of the Geological Society of America, the
Geological Society of London (and was
awarded the Balance of the Wallaston
Fund in 1892) ; the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, the American
Geographical Society, and the Institute His-
torico of Rio de Janeiro. Address : 49 Rua
Quitanda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
DEBBY, Bichard H.:
Physician ; was born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, March 12, 1844; son of Elias
Hasket Derby and Eloise Lloyd (Strong)
Derby. He was graduated from Harvard
College as A.B. and A.M., and from Har
vard Medical School as M.D. in 1867. Dr.
Derby has been engaged in practice from
graduation, his practice now being limited
to ophthalmology.. He is surgeon to the
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; is a
member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, the American Ophthalmological
Society, and the New York Ophthalmolog
ical Society; and is a trustee of the New
York Institution for the Blind, and the
State Charities Aid Association. He is a
member of the Century Association, • and
of the University, Harvard and Riding and
Driving Clubs of New York City. Dr.
Derby married in New York City, No
vember 1, 1877, Sarah Coleman Alden, and
they have four children : Anne C, Richard,
Roger. Alden, and James Lloyd. Address :
g West Thirty-fifth Street, New York City.

DE BIDDEB, JOHN H.:
Banker; born at Easton, Washington
County, New York; son of Henry De Rid-
der and Catherine Ann (Schermerhorn)
De Ridder. He was educated at the Willis
ton Seminary, East Hampton, Massachu
setts. He became teller in the Bank of
Old Saratoga, Schuylerville, New York,
in 1864, and was afterward elected cashiei
and continued as such until 1891. From
1891 to 1904 he was cashier of the Citizen's
National Bank of Saratoga. He was one of
the organizers of the New York State
Banker's Association; vice-president in
1893, and subsequently president; and has
been a member of the Board of Education;
supervisor of the town and chairman of
the Board of Supervisors. He is a member
of the Holland Society and of the Re
formed' Church. Mr. De Ridder married at
Huntington, Massachusetts, February 26,
1868, Marie T: Hannum. Their children
are : Mrs. Isabel G. Ames, Mrs. Mary DeR.
Bullard, and John H. De Ridder, Junior.
Address : Saratoga Springs, New York.
DEBN, John:
Mining operator; born near Giessen. in
the Province of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger
many, October 24, 1850; son of John and
Katherine Dern. He studied in the schools
of his native place, and in 1865 he came to
the United States, first locating in La Salle
County, Illinois, and removed to Dodge
County, Nebraska, in 1869, where he en
gaged in farming operations until 1880, and
after' that engaged in the grain and lum
ber trade with yards and elevators at Fre
mont, Scribner, and Hooper, Nebraska. He
was elected a member of the State Senate
of Nebraska in 1888 and in 1890 was
elected county treasurer of Dodge County,
Nebraska, and reelected in 1892. In May,
1894, he became manager of the Mercur
Gold Mining and Milling Company, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, and has ever since
been extensively engaged in mining entr-
prises, actively managing mining oroperties,
and since February, 1902, he has been
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of the large gold mining enterprises of
Utah. He is also extensively engaged in
manufacturing and industrial enterprises
both in Utah and Nebraska. He is a mem
ber of the Alta and Commercial Clubs of
Salt Lake City. Mr. Dern married in Ger
many, in December, 1870, EKazbeth Dern,
and they have two sons and three daugh
ters. Residence: 715 East Brigham Street.
Office address : Dooly Building, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
DE BOSSET, Frederick Ancrum:
Clergyman; born in Wilmington, North
Carolina, April 13, 1856; son of Armand
John De Rosset, M.D., and Eliza Jane
(Lord) De Rosset. He was educated un
der private tuition and at private schools
until 1864 in North Carolina, in London and
Paris," in 1864 and 1865, at the North Caro
lina Military Academy, at Hillsboro, in
1867 and 1868, and the Cape Fear Military
Academy, 1868 to 1872, and was graduated
from the University of the South as M.A.
in 1878; and he was a tutor in Hebrew in
the Theological School of that University
from 1878 to 1881 ; was a student in the
Theological Department of the University
of the South, 1878 and 1879, and in the
General Theological Seminary, New York
City, 1879 to 1882, in which year he was
graduated. He was ordered deacon, January
6, 1880, and ordained priest, June 6, 1882,
of the Protestant Episcopal Church; was
curate of Holy Trinity Church, Harlem,
St. Thomas, New York, St Andrews', Har
lem, and St. George's, New York, in 1880
and 1881, and of Zion Church, Wappingers
Falls, New York, from 1881 to 1883. He
tutored at St. John's School, Manlius, New
York, and was curate at Larchmont, New
York, in 1883, of Calvary Church, New
York in 1883 and T884, St. Mark's Church,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1884 to 1887.
He was rector of Trinity Church, Natchez,
Mississippi, from 1887 to 1892, the Church
of the Redeemer, Cairo, Illinois, from 1892
to 1901, and archdeacon of Cairo; was rec
tor of St. Paul's pro-cathedral and has
been archdeacon of Springfield, Illinois,
since 1901. He is secretary of the Standing

Committee of the Diocese of Springfield,
Illinois, and has been deputy to six General
Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He has been secretary of the com
mission on Ecclesiastical Relations since
1895, and chairman of the committee on
Memorials of Deceased Members of the
General Convention from 1898, and he has
been secretary of the Trustees of Diocese
of Springfield continuously since 1901. He
is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fra
ternity, a Knight Templar and a thirty-sec
ond degree Mason. He has traveled in Eng
land, France, Canada and in most of the
States of the Union from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and over a great part of Mexico.
Mr. De Rosset , married in Sewanee, Ten
nessee, October 10, 1882, Mary Williams
Green, granddaughter of Bishop William
Mercer Green, and they have five children
William Green,' born February 12, 1884, now
of Tampa, Florida; Marie Victoire, now
Mrs. Frank Shaw Clark, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, born July 31, 1885 ; Fanny Bowdoin,
born October 24, 1887; Alice Daves, born
July 21, 1890, and Armand John, born Oc
tober 5, 1892. Address: 312 East Adams
Street, Springfield, Illinois.
DERB, Ezra Z.:
Medical director in the United States
Navy; born in Frederick County, Maryland,
January 12, 1851 ; son of John Derr and
Elizabeth (Lugenbeel) Derr. He was edu
cated in the Washington and Lee University
of Virginia, and was graduated ' as M.D.
from the University of Virginia, and also
from the University of New York. Dr. Deri-
served eighteen months on the medical staff
of the Charity Hospital, New York, and
then entered the Navy as assistant surgeon,
March 3, 1873. He was promoted to sur
geon in 1888, medical inspector in 1900
and medical director in 1906. During the
Civil War in Samoa, in 1888 and 1889,
he rendered surgical assistance to the
wounded. He was attached to the United
States Steamship Nipsic during the great
hurricane at that place which wrecked the
American and German squadrons. He was
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1901 to 1903, and was appointed a delegate
to the Medical Conference which met at
Brussels, Belgium, in 1902. He has cir
cumnavigated the glebe, spent two years in
China and Japan; two years in Europe and
two years in South America and the is
lands of the Pacific. Dr. Derr is author
of a philosophical work entitled Evolution
versus Involution, and of numerous medical
reports and professional papers. Dr. Derr
is a member of the American Medical As
sociation, the Association of Military Sur
geons, the Sons of the American Revolution
and the Netherlands Society of Philadel
phia. He married at New Brunswick, New
Jersey, January 29, 1880, Julia Latham, and
they have a son, John Sebastian Derr, born
in 1872, and a daughter, Norman Derr,
born in 1886. Address : Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
DE SILVER, Caril H.:
Broker, retired; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
January 9, 1846; son of John Ford De
Silver and Lavinia (Murdock) De Silver.
He was educated at the Polytechnic Insti
tute in Brooklyn, New York, and began his
business career in Hong Kong, China. He
remained in the Orient for five years, and
then entered Wall Street in 1869 ; was a
member of the New York Stock Exchange
for twenty-nine years, and retired from ac
tive business in .1900. Mr. De Silver is
president and .trustee of the Brooklyn Eye
and Ear Hospital, the Brooklyn Art As
sociation, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Society ; is second vice-president and trustee
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
and a trustee of the Children's Aid So
ciety of Brooklyn, and he is a director of
the South Brooklyn Savings Institution, the
Nassau National Bank of Brooklyn, and of
Lloyds Plate Glass Company. Fie is a mem
ber of the Flamilton, Crescent Athletic,
Tuxedo, Metropolitan, National Art, Rem
brandt, Apollo, and Dyker Meadow Golf
Clubs. He married in New York City,
June 1, 1871, . Mary Henrietta Block, and
they have one child: Albert De Silver, born
in 1888. Address : 43 Pierrepont Street,
Brooklyn, New York.

DESPABD, Walter Douglas:
Insurance broker; born at New York
City, December 14, 1859; son of Clement
Johnson and Matilda (Pratt) Despard.
He was educated in New York City schools
and in Munich and Bonn, Germany. He is
vice-president of Hagedorn & Company;
treasurer of the Zanzibar Electric Light
Company; trustee of the American Sea
man's Friend Society. He is a member
of the New York Chamber of Commerce,
the Association of Average Adjusters, the
International Law Association, the Metro
politan Museum of Art, American Museum
of Natural History, the New York Zo
ological Society, the New York Botanical
Society, and the National Geographic So
ciety. Mr. Despard is a Republican in
politics. His principal recreations are au
tomobiling, traveling and music. He is a
member of the Down Town Association
and of the New York Club. Mr. Despard
married at Bay Ridge, Long Island, No
vember 1, 1883, Cornelia Corlies White,
and they have three children: Douglas
Cornell Despard, Marie Corlies Despard,
and Estelle Pendleton Despard. Residence:
109 West Seventy-third Street. Address:
6 Hanover Street, New York City.
DEUEL, Joseph M.:
Jurist; born in Deerfield, Oneida County,
New York, April 23, 1846; son of John C.
Deuel and Elmira (Barnard) Deuel. He
was educated in the public schools and
the Whitestown, Utica Seminary. He was
commonwealth attorney of Hampton, Vir
ginia, from 1869 to 1871 ; secretary to Ros-
coe Conkling from 1871 to 1874; assistant
United States Attorney of New York City
from 1874 to 1876; deputy clerk of the
United States Circuit Court and United
States Commissioner from 1876 to 1878;
clerk of the United States Circuit Court
of New York City from 1879 to 1882; police
justice of New York City in 1894; city
magistrate of New York City from 1895 to
1903; and justice of the Court of Special
Sessions in the City of New York, First
Division, in 1904. He is author of: Child
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Deuel married at Utica, November 5, 1874,
Cornelia C. Downer, and they have two
children : Chester M., born in 1885, and
Mary A., born in 1891. Address: 125 West
.Eightieth Street, New York City.
DEVINE, Edward Thomas:
Author, educator, humanitarian; born at
Union, Hardin County, Iowa, May 6, 1867;
son of John Devine and Laura (Hall)
Devine. He was graduated from Albion
Seminary in 1883 from Cornell College,
Iowa, as B.A. in 1887, and M.A. in 1900,
and ' studied at the University of Halle,
Germany, 1890-1891 ; fellow of the Whar
ton School of Finance and Economy of the
University of Pennsylvania, i8gi-i8g5, re
ceiving the degree of Ph.D., and in igo4
he received the degree of LL.D. from Cor
nell College. He taught in public and private
schools in Iowa for five years ; was staff
lecturer in economics of the American So
ciety for the Extension of University
Teaching from i8gi to 1896, and its secre
tary from 1894 to 1896; delivered lectures
at the University of Oxford, England, 1892
and 1894, and also at Edinburgh. He has
been general secretary of the Charity Or
ganization Society of the City of New York
since 1896, taking an active part in many
reform movements, especially in tenement
house reform, the restriction of child
labor, and triovements for the prevention
of tuberculosis. He founded in 1898, and
has since been editor of Charities, a week
ly periodical of local and general philan
thropy, with which four other periodicals,
Lend a Hand, The Charities Review, the
Chicago Commons, and Jewish Charity,
have since been consolidated. Dr. Devine
was until April, 1907, director of the New
York School of Philanthropy, established
by the Charity Organization Society in
1904; became Schiff professor of social
economy at Columbia University, in 1905,
and was special representative of the
American National Red Cross in charge of
relief in San Francisco in 1906. He is
author of: Economics, 1889 (Macmillan);
The Practice of Charity, 1901 (Dodd,
Mead ; second edition, 1904) ; The Princi
ples of Relief, 1904 (Macmillan) ; Efficien

cy and Relief, 1906 (Columbia University
Press, Macmillan). Dr. Devine is a mem
ber of the Council of the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science, of the
Council of the American Economic Asso
ciation, of the Board of Directors of the
National Association for the Study and Pre
vention of Tuberculosis, of the Board of
Trustees of the National Child Labor Com
mittee, and of the Board of Directors of
the Cooperative Social Settlement Society,
the Aldine Club and the Century Associa
tion. He is president of the Section on Hy
gienic, Social, Industrial and Economic As
pects of Tuberculosis, in the International
Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington,
1908. Dr. Devine married, August 15, 1889,
Hattie Evelyn Scovel, and they have a son :
Elmer Thomas, born in 1896, and a daugh
ter, Ruth, born in 1900. Residence : 501
West One Hundred and Thirteenth Street.
Address : 105 East Twenty-second Street,
New York City.
DEVINE, Joseph McMurray:
Ex-Governor of North Dakota; bora in
Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia),
March 15, 1861 ; son of Hugh E. Devine
and Jane (McMurray) Devine; he was the
grandson of John Devine and of William
and Isabel McMurray. After graduating
from the University of West Virginia in
1884, he taught in Dakota, and 'from 1886
to 1896 was superintendent of schools for
La Moure county. He was State educa
tional lecturer, 1890; and was elected lieu
tenant-governor of North Dakota for 1897
and 1898; becoming governor in 1898 after
the death of Governor Frank A. Briggs.
Mr. Devine was also elected lieutenant-
governor for the years 1899 and 1900.
Governor Devine is a Republican in politics.
Address: Minot, North Dakota.
DE VINNE, Theodore Low:
Printer; bora in Stamford, Connecticut,
December 25, 1828 ; son of Daniel De Vinne
and Joanna Augusta (Low) De Vinne, He
was educated in the public schools at Cat-
skills, White Plains and Amenia, New York,
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bia and Yale Universities for proficiency in
printing. He entered the printing office of
the Newburgh (New York) Gazette in
1844, removed to New York City in 1848
and became' connected with the printing
house of Francis Hart. In 1858 he became
junior partner and seven years after the
death of Mr. Hart in 1877 the firm was
changed to Theodore L. De Vinne and Com
pany with his son as junior partner. He is
a leader in the improvement of typography;
prints the St. Nicholas and Century maga
zines, and has printed many editions de luxe
for various publishers. Mr. De Vinne is a
member of the New York Typothetae and
the Aldine Association. He is author of:
Printer's Price List, i86g; Invention of
Printing, 1876; Historic Types, 1884; Chris
topher Plantin, 1888; Plain Printing Types,
1900; Correct Composition, 1901, and Title
Pages, 1902. He is a member of the -Authors
and Century Clubs. Mr. De Vinne married
in New York City, Grace Brockbank, who
died May 7, 1905, and they have one son :
Theodore Brockbank De Vinne. Resi
dence : 300 West Seventy-sixth Street, New
York City. Address : 12 Lafayette Place,
New York City.

DE VELES, Joseph Carlisle:
Physician; born iri New York City, May
26, 1874; son of James and Julia De Vries.
He was educated in the New York City
public schools ; and was graduated as M.
D. from the Medical Department of New
York University in 1895, and was secretary
of his class. After graduation he made
an extended voyage around the world, re
turning and engaging in private practice at
Washington, D. C, in 1899. He was pro
fessor of pathology in the Medical De
partment of the National University at
Washington, D. C, was acting assistant
surgeon in the United States Army, during
the Spanish-American War, and served at
the Leiter United States General Hospital,
at Chickamauga, Ga., and at the U. S. Gen
eral Hospital at Ponce, Porto Rico ; was
assistant surgeon in the United States Navy
1903 to 1905. He was in private practice

at Washington, until 1903, and in New
York City since 1905. He has been captain
and assistant surgeon of the 14th Regiment,
of the National Guard of the State of New
York since February 16, 1906. He is at- .
tending surgeon at St. Bartholomew's
Clinic, New York City, and Columbus Hos
pital, New York City. Dr. De Vries is presi
dent of Carlisle Chemical Company, is sec
retary-treasurer of the New York Society
of Medical Examiners ; secretary of the
Tri-Professional Medical Society. Dr. De
Vries is on the editorial staff of the Inter
national Journal of Surgery, the American
Journal of Surgery, the Medical Examiner
and Practitioner, and the New York State
Journal of Medicine, the Doctor's Factotum
and Notes on New Remedies. He is author
of: Seasickness; The Use of the Pneumatic
Cabinet in Phthisis; Featural Surgery;
Pathology of Typhoid Fever; Diet in
Fevers; Hand and Instrument Disinfec
tion ; also papers on tuberculosis. Dr. De
Vries is a Presbyterian in religious affilia
tion, and is a member of Brick Presbyterian
Church. He is a member of the National Geo
graphic Society, the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States (assistant
secretary and recorder), the Spanish War
Veterans' Association, national secretary of
the Society of the Porto Rican Expedition,
the American Medical Association, the
French Society of Tropical Medicine, Alpha
Mu Pi Omega fraternity; Schuyler County
Medical Society and New York State Med
ical Association, and an honorary member
of the Indian Medical Association of Cal
cutta, India, and Medical Association and
Society of the District of Columbia, and a
member of the Army and Navy Club. His
favorite recreations are baseball, golf, horse
back riding, and aquatic sports. Dr. De Vries
married January 18, 1898, Mabel Cordelia
Wright, and they had two children, one
son, Joseph Carlisle, Jr., born November
28, 1898, wno died March 26, 1899, and one
daughter, Sybilla, born February 3, 1901,
and who died April 6, 1907. Residence: 64
West Fortieth Street, New York. Address:
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DE VRIES, Marion:
United States general appraiser; born at
Woodbridge, California, August 15, 1865;
son of William Henry De Vries and Cor
nelia (Crowe) De. Vries. He was educa
ted in the public schools; and graduated
from the San Joaquin Valley College, as
Ph.B., in 1886. He afterward attended the
Law Department of the University of Mich
igan, from which he was- graduated as
valedictorian of his class, with the degree
" of LL.B. in 1888. He was admitted to the
Michigan bar in 1887, and to the supreme
Court of California, the same year. Fie
commenced practice at Stockton, California,
in 1889, and was admitted to the Supreme
Court of the United States, in January,
1897. He served three years as lieutenant-
colonel and assistant adjutant-general of
the third Brigade of the National Guard of
California ; was assistant district attorney of
San Joaquin County, California, from 1893
to 1897. He was elected and served as a
member of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses from the Second California Dis
trict, from March, 1897, until he resigned,
August 22, 1900 ; and he has been a general
appraiser since August 22, 1900, and presi
dent of the Board of United States General
Appraisers since January 1, igo6. He is a
Democrat, a member of the Masonic order,
and Knights Templar ; of the Odd Fellows,
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and
Turners, and is also a member of the Cali
fornia Society and the Engineers' Club of
New York and of the Yosemite Club, Stock
ton, California; was married, February 23,
1892, to Minerva L. Snead, of California.
Address : United States Appraisers' Build
ing, New York City.
DEW ART, William Herbert:
Clergyman; born in Norwood, Ontario,
Canada, July 19, 1863 ; son of James Hart
ley Dewart, D.D., and Mary (Day) Dewart.
He was graduated from Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio, as A.B. iri 1887, and from
the Episcopal Theological School, Cam
bridge, as B.D. in 1893. He was assistant
rector of Trinity Church, Boston, from
1893 to 1902 and has been rector of Christ

Church, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, since
1903. He is a Democrat in politics, and is
a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fratern
ity and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His
favorite recreations are golf, court tennis
and riding. He is a member of the Boston
Athletic County Association, the Essex
County Club of Manchester-by-the-Sea and
the Wollaston Golf Club. Dr. Dewart mar
ried in Boston, October 4, 1899, Elizabeth
H. Russell, and they have four children:
Hartley, bora in 1900, Russell, born in 1902,
Gordon, born in 1903, and Frances, born in
1905. Residences : (Winter) Brush Hill,
Milton; (summer) Crowhaven, Manchest
er-by-the-Sea. Address : Christ Church,
Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
DEWEES, J. Highley:
Physician ; born at Kennedyville, Mary
land, July 12, 1869; son of Daniel Udree
and Emily Amanda (Raysor) Dewees. He
was graduated from the Kennedyville
grammar school, 1881 ; the Norristown
High School, Norristown, Pennsylvania,
1886; the Philadelphia College of Phar
macy, and Ph.G., in 1891, and from the
Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania as M.D. in 1894. In 1894 he
traveled through England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales, and visited Paris. He attended
the clinics of Annandale and Cheyne in
Edinburgh; practiced in Philadelphia, until
1901, removed to Buffalo, New York, in
1902, and became house surgeon at the New
Emergency Hospital ; and he is now vis
iting surgeon at Mercy Hospital. Mr.
Dewees is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian in religious belief. He is a
member of the Academy of Medicine and of
the Erie County Medical- Society. His
favorite recreations are music and travel.
Address : 186 Park Avenue, Buffalo, New
York. DEWEY, Charles Melville:
Artist; born at Lowville, New York, in
1849 • son of S'las B. Dewey and Jane
(Stoddard) Dewey. He studied in Paris
during winters of 1876 and 1877 in the
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gaged as artist painter ever since. He is
represented by important works in the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the
Corcoran Gallery at Washington, D. C,
the Buffalo Academy; the National Gallery
at Washington, and in many private co-
lections of note. He is a National Academ
ician and a member of the Lotos Club of
New York. Mr. Dewey married in New
York City, May 2, 1887, Julia Henshaw,
Address : 222 West Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
DEWEY, Charles Oliver:
Principal of schools ; born at Freetown,
Cortland County, New York, June 17, 1854;
son of David Wesley and Phoebe Ann (Del
avan) Dewey. He was graduated from the
State Normal School at Cortland, N. Y., in
1877, and from Syracuse University, as A.
B., with Phi Beta Kappa honors and com
mencement speaker in 1885 ; New York
University, Ph.D., in 1890, and Brooklyn
Law School, LL.B., 1904. He has been
principal of schools for twenty-six years,
and he is a member of the New York bar.
He served in the Thirteenth Regiment of
Ffeavy Artillery, of the National Guard of
the State of New York, as private to second
lieutenant. He is also a trustee of the
Guardian Savings Bank of Brooklyn. He
is a Republican in politics and a Methodist
in religious belief. He is a member of
the Brooklyn Principals' Association, the
Principals' Association of New York City,
the New York State Teachers' Association,
(and its president in 1906), the National
Educational Association, the Psi Upsilon
fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Asso
ciation, Sons of the Revolution, and is a
Knight Templar Mason. His favorite re
creations are bowling, fishing, shooting,
climbing mountains, and camping. He is a
member of the Lincoln and University
Clubs of Brooklyn, and the Schoolmasters'
Club of New York City, and was its presi
dent. in 1907. Dr. Dewey married August
12, 1886, Louise Higley, and they have two
children : Mary Agnes Higley Dewey (born
in 1888 and Charles Oliver Dewey, Jr. (born
in 1896. Address: 467 McDonough Street,
Brooklyn, New York.

DEWEY, - rederick L. :
Banker; born at Otego, New York, i860;
son of William A. Dewey. He was gradu
ated from Hamilton College as A.B., and
valedictorian of the class of 1882, and after
ward received the degrees of A.M. and
Ph.D. from his Alma Mater. He is presi
dent of the Citizens' National Bank, a
director of the Northern Wall Paper Com
pany, treasurer. of the Raquette River Pulp
Company, and president of the Potsdam
Building and Loan Association. He is a
Republican in politics and an Episcopalian
in religious affiliation. He is a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Sigma
Phi fraternity and is a member of the Ma
sonic order. He is trustee of the Potsdam
State Normal School, and president of the
Potsdam Public Library. He is also presi
dent of the Potsdam Club of Potsdam,
New York, and a member of the Century
Club of Ogdensburg, New York. Mr.
Dewey married at Potsdam, New York, in
1887, Jesse M. Henry, and they have one
son, Lewis Dayton Dewey. Address:
Potsdam, New York.
DEWEY, George:
Admiral of the United States Navy ; born
in Montpelier, Vermont, December 26, 1837 ;
son of Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey and Mary
(Perrin) Dewey. He was appointed to the
Naval Academy from Vermont September
23, 1854, and was graduated in 1858, being
then attached to the frigate Wabash, in the
Mediterranean Squadron, and in .1861
transferred to the steam sloop Mississippi
of the West Gulf Squadron. He was com
missioned lieutenant April 19, 1861, and
was in Farragut's Squadron which forced
the passage of Forts Saint Philip and Jack
son in April, 1862. He took part in the
attack on Fort St. Philip, and the fights
which followed and resulted in the capture
of New Orleans. In the thick smoke of
the battle of Port Hudson, the steam sloop
Mississippi lost her bearings and ran
ashore under the guns of the land batteries,
and the officers and men took to the boats
after setting the vessel on fire. He served
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in
1864 and 1865, and participated in the two
attacks on Fort Fisher in December, 1864,'
and January, 1865. He was commissioned
lieutenant-commander March 3, 1865 ;
served successively on the steamer Kear
sarge, the frigate Colorado, at the Naval
Academy in 1868 and 1869, commanded the
Narragansett on. special service in 1870 and
1871, and was at the Torpedo Station in
1872. He was commissioned commander
April 13, 1872, commanded the Narragan
sett on the Pacific Survey, from 1872 to
1875, was lighthouse inspector in 1876 and
1877, secretary of the Lighthouse Board
from 1877 to 1882, commanded the Juniata
on the Asiatic Station in 1882 and 1883,
and was promoted captain in September,
1884. He was given command of the Dol
phin in 1884, the Pensacola, flagship of the
European Station from 1885 to 1888, chief
of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruit
ing, with the rank of commodore, from
1889 to 1893, member of the Lighthouse
Board from 1893 to 1895; president of the
Board of Inspection and Survey from 1895
to 1897; promoted to commodore, February
28, 1896. He assumed command of the
Asiatic Station in January, 1898, and the
beginning of hostilities found ,.im in com
mand of the United States naval forces,
consisting of six unarmored ships, at Hong
Kong, China. Acting under orders from
the Department to capture or destroy
enemy's fleet, Dewey proceeded toward
Manila, in the Philippine Islands, where
the Spanish fleet of seven cruisers and sev
eral gunboats were assembled under the
protection of the batteries at Corregidor,
Cavite and Manila proper. Dewey entered
Manila Bay early in the morning of May 1,
attacked and annihilated the enemy's ships,
captured the arsenal at Cavite, destroyed
the fortifications at the mouth of the bay,
and established a blockade of Manila. For
this daring and brilliant action, in which he
lost not a single man, Dewey received the
thanks of Congress. and was commissioned
rear-admiral on May 10, 1898. He was a
member of the Philippines Commission,
1899; detached from command of Asiatic

Station, October, 1899; commissioned ad
miral, March 29, 1900. In 1901 he became
senior member of the General Board, of
which he is now president. Admiral Dewey
married first, October 24, 1867, Susie,
daughter of Governor Ichabod Goodwin of
New Hampshire. She died December 28,
1872, and Admiral Dewey again married in
Washington, D. C, November g, 1899,
Mrs. Mildred (McLean) Hazen. Address:
1747 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W., Wash
ington, D. C.
DEWEY, George Eugene:
Wine maker; born at Fort Wayne, In
diana, December 19, 1843; son of Hiram
Todd Dewey and Susan Loftley Staple-
ford Dewey. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Sandusky, Ohio, and -at the
Ohio Wesleyan University. He started in
business with his father in 1859/ and was
taken into partnership in 1872. The busi
ness was incorporated as H. T. Dewey and
Sons Company, and he was elected vice-
president in 1893, and president in 1900. He
received an appointment as a representative
of Erie County, Ohio, by John W. Mackay,
judge of the court, to serve on the body
guard to Abraham Lincoln in 1863. He
served in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth
Ohio Volunteers, and was appointed first
lieutenant of the first Ohio Militia. He is
a Republican in politics and is a member of
the Congregational Church. Mr. Dewey is
a member of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, and was elected senior vice-commander
of the John A. Dix Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic of the Department
of New York, and afterward commander
for five years; was assistant quartermaster-
general of the New York Department, and
was elected junior vice-department-com
mander and later elected senior vice-depart
ment commander of New York State. Mr.
Dewey is an extensive traveler on the Eu
ropean and American continents and the
islands of the sea. He is a member of the
Flag Association, the Founders and Patriots
of American; the Society of the War of
1812, and the Sons of the Revolution. Mr.
Dewey married in Brooklyn, October 10,
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children are : George F, born in 1879 ;
Ralph C, born in 1882; Julia L, born in
1885, and William H., born in 1886. Resi
dence: 651 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York. Office address : 138 Fulton
Street, New York City.
DEWEY, Henry Sweetser:
Lawyer; born in Hanover, New Hamp
shire, November 9, 1856; son of Major
Israel Otis Dewey and of Susan Augusta
(Sweetser) Dewey, daughter of General
Plenry Sweetser and Susan (West) Sweet
ser. He is a descendant of Thomas Dew
ey of Sandwich, Kent, England, who be
came a freeman of Dorchester, Massa
chusetts, in 1633, and of Seth Sweetser of
Tring, Hertfordshire, England, who settled
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1637.
He received his early education in private
schools at Hanover and at Beaufort, South
Carolina, the High School at Leavenworth,
Kansas, and with tutors at Salt Lake City
until 1874 when he entered Dartmouth. He
was graduated as A.B.-in 1878, and in 1881
received the A.M. degree from that in
stitution, and he was a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi Society while at college.
Soon after graduation he was appointed
paymaster's clerk in the United States
Army, and in that capacity located in 1878,
in Boston, where he has since resided. He
resigned the clerkship in . 1879, became a
student in the Boston University Law
School and at the same time read law in
the office of Hon. Ambrose A. Rauney.
He received the LL.B. degree from Boston
University Law School, 1882, and has since
practiced law in Boston. He has been also
admitted to practice in the Circuit and
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr.
Dewey is a Republican in politics, was a
member of the Republican Ward and City
Committees in Boston from 1884 to 1888.
member of the Boston Common Council in
1885, 1886 and 1887, and served in 1889,
1890 and 1891 as member of the Massa
chusetts House of Representatives from
the Twenty-first Suffolk District. He serv
ed in the State Militia in the First Corps
of Cadets from 1880 to 1889, then became

.judge advocate on the staff of the First
Brigade, with the rank of captain until
January 4, 1900, when he was appointed
judge advocate general on the staff of the
commander-in-chie'f by Governor Crane,
with the rank of colonel, and in May of
the same year was promoted to brigadier-
general, serving until he resigned in Janu
ary, I903. He was appointed a member
in 1891 and chairman in 1895 of the Board
of Bar Examiners for Suffolk County, and
later was chairman of the State Board of
Bar Examiners from its establishment in
1897 until he resigned in March, 1903.
Since February, 1893, he has been a master
in chancery for the County of Suffolk. He
was appointed a special justice of the Muni
cipal Court of the City of Boston in April,
1896, and an associate justice of that court
in May, 1899, serving as such until Decem
ber, 1902, when he resigned and resumed
the practice of law. He was a candidate
in 1905 for the Republican nomination for
Mayor of Boston, and at the primaries re
ceived, according to the official count 9,745
votes to 9,g4i for Louis A. Frothingham.
Judge Dewey went to the polls at the elec
tion as a People's Candidate upon nomina
tion papers, and according to the official
count received 11,608 votes against 36,028
for Louis A. Frothingham and 44,171 for
John F. Fitzgerald, the Democratic can
didate, who was elected, though by a min
ority of all the votes. Judge Dewey is a
member of the Bar Association of the City
of Boston, the American Bar Association,
the International Law Association, the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the
Sons of the Revolution, the Wissenschaft-
lichen Klub in Vienna (honorary), the
University and Athletic Clubs of Boston
and the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New
York City. Residence: 896 Beacon Street,
Boston. Office address : 23 Court Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
->EWEY, MelvU:
Educator and librarian; born in Adams
Centre, New York, December 10, 1851. He
was graduated from Amherst College in
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' 1873 to 1876; and in 1876 he moved to Bos
ton, establishing the American Library As
sociation, the Library Journal Metric Bu
reau, the Spelling Reform Association, and
also the Library Bureau to secure better
library methods, appliances and supplies.
He managed these till May, 1883, when he
was appointed chief librarian of Columbia
College. He was professor of library econ
omy in 1884, and in 1887 he became director
of the Columbia College School of Library
Economy, the establishment of which he
had suggested. He was secretary and treas
urer at the University of the State of New
York in 1889; director of the New York
State Library and Library School ; secre
tary of the Library Association from 1870
to 1890, and again in 1897 and 1898 ; treas
urer from 1879 to 1881, and president from
1890 to 1893. He edited the Library Jour
nal from 1876 to 1881 ; Library Notes, Met
ric Bulletin, Metric Advocate, and the Spell
ing Reform Bulletin. He was director of
the New York State educational exhibit at
the World's Columbian Exposition in Chi
cago in 1893. The value of his peculiar
work has been recognized by universal ex
positions in Paris, in 1878, and 1889; in
Chicago, 1893, and Paris, 1900, where of
nine grand prizes awarded to the United
States one was for an exhibit of methods
of education by means of reading and trav
eling libraries, another for general library
exhibit, both prepared by the New York
State Library, and a third to him in honor
of his distinguished services not only as a
librarian but as an educator whose adminis
tration during the period of reorganization
of the University of New York from 1889
to 1900 produced such marked advance in
both secondary and higher education. A
similar award of a gold medal was made by
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.
He is author of : Library School Rules ;
Simplified Library School Rules and Deci
mal Classification and Relative Index. Ad
dress : 315 Madison Avenue, Albany, New
York. DEWHCBST, William Whit well:
Lawyer; born in Greenland, New Hamp
shire, July 3, 1850; son of George Dew-

hurst and Sarah Emerline (Williams)
Dewhurst He graduated from Phillips
Exeter Academy in the class of 1871 and
entered Harvard College in class of 1875,
but did not graduate. He is editor of Dew-
hurst's Rules of the United States Courts
and author of a History of St. Augustine.
He has been mayaro of St. Augustine ; spe
cial assistant to the attorney-general of the
United States ; and postmaster at St. Augus
tine for three terms. He is a member of
the Advisory Board, Law Department of
Stetson University ; trustee of Flagler Hos
pital and trustee of Buckingham Smith
Benevolent Association; and is also secre
tary of St, Augustine Yacht Club and a
member of the St. Augustine Golf Club.
¦Mr. Dewhurst is a Republican in politics.
He married in Florida, 1878, Fanny Brig
ham. Address: St. Augustine, Florida.
DEWING, Oliver Morse:
Physician; bom at Westminister, Con
necticut, July 18, 1862; son of Andrew
Dewing and Eunice Williams (Cross) Dew
ing. Fie was graduated from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of New York
City as M.D. in 1887. He entered the New
York City Insane Asylum in 1889,^ as as
sistant physician ; was assistant physician of
Kings County Insane Asylum, in 1889, and
medical superintendent of the same in 1893,
and when the institution became a State
hospital he was appointed its medical sup
erintendent. Dr. Dewing was appointed
general superintendent of the Long Island
State Hospital, of Kings Park and Brook
lyn, in May, 1897, and when these were
made separate institutions in 1902, he was
appointed medical superintendent of Kings
Park, remaining there until transferred as
medical superintendent of the Long Island
State Hospital at Brooklyn in 1904. He is
a member of the Kings County Medical
Society, the Brooklyn Neurological Society,
the New York State Medical Society, the
American Medico-Psychological Associa
tion, and of the Masonic order. He is also
a member of the Midwood Club. Address :
Long Island State . Hospital, Brooklyn,
New York.

mo DE WITT, George G.:
Lawyer; born in the town of Callicoon,
Sullivan County, New York, April 9, 1845;
son of George De Witt and Julia (Foster)
De Witt. He was educated at the Columbia
Grammar School, and at Columbia College
from which he received the degree of A.B.
in 1867 and A.M. in 1870, and was graduated
as LL.B. from Columbia Law School in
1869. He was admitted to the New York bar
in 1869, and has ever since practiced law in
1869, and has ever since practiced law in
New York City. Mr. De Witt is a trustee
of the Chemical National Bank, the New
York Life Insurance Company, and the
Real Estate Trust Company. 'He is an
Episcopalian in religious adherence. Mr.
De Witt is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, a trus
tee of Columbia University, and the Roose
velt Flospital; governor of New York Hos
pital, and vice-president of the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children. He is also a member of the
Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Uni
versity, New York Yacht, and South Side
Sportsmen's Clubs. Residence : 39 West
Fifty-first Street,' New York City. Office
address : 88 Nassau Street, New York City.
DEXTEB, Franklin Bowditch:
Librarian; born at Fairhaven, Massachu
setts, September 11, 1842. After a careful
preparatory education he entered Yale Col
lege, from which he was graduated with
the degree of B. A. in 1861. He became
a tutor at Yale from 1864 to 1867; regis
trar of Yale College from 1869 to 1892 and
secretary of the Corporation of Yale Uni
versity from 1869 to 1899. He was pro
fessor of American history in Yale Col
lege from 1877 to 1888, and has been as
sistant librarian of Yale College from 1869
to the present time. Mr. Dexter is dis
tinguished for his researches and writings
concerning the history of Yale, and espe
cially its early history, and is author of the
three-volume work Biographical Sketches of
Graduates of Yale College, with Annals of
the College History from 1701 to 1777, and
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versity, and he edited the Literary . Diary
of Ezra Stiles, a three-volume work, and
has. contributed extensively to historical
journals. He is foreign secretary of the
American Antiquarian Society. Yale Uni
versity conferred upon Mr. Dexter the de
gree of LittD. in 1902. He married in
1880, Theodosia M. Wheeler. Address:
Yale University Library, New Haven, Con
necticut. DEXTEB, Henry:
Retired merchant; born at West Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, March 14, 1813; son
of Jonathan Marsh and Elizabeth (Balch)
Dexter. He was educated in public and
private schools, and prepared for Harvard.
At the age of fourteen, he entered a print
ing office in Boston, serving an apprentice
ship for three years, and for similar time
was second foreman in Harvard University
printing office, where close application
to the work in hand gave him a liberal
education. Mr. Dexter removed to New
York City, in 1836, and was employed by
Grannis, White & Company, and later in
a hardware store conducted by the Whitte-
mores, inventors of the carding machine.
He bought, in 1842, an interest in the firm
of Dexter & Tuttle, books, periodicals and
daily papers, which firm became Henry
Dexter & Company, and later changed to
the style of H. Dexter, Hamilton & Com
pany. He formulated the idea and founded
the consolidation of leading newsdealers,
which developed into the present American
News Company of which he was president
for many years until 1896. He also organ
ized in London, on similar lines, the In
ternational News Company. He is now
retired from active business. He was as
sociated with George P. Putnam, the pub
lisher (who first projected it), as one of
the founders of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, of which he is a member in per
petuity. He built a new home for the
New York Historical Society on Central
Park West, opposite the Museum of Natural
History, at the cost of $350,000, in memory
of his son, Orrando Perry Dexter. Mr.
Dexter was originally a Whig, but during
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politics, and iri his religious views he is an
Episcopalian of the evangelical school. He
is a life fellow of the American Geographi
cal Society; a. patron of the New York
Historical Society; vice-president of the
Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary
Society for Seamen ; trustee of the Mid
night Mission; life director of the Ameri
can Bible Society, the American Tract So
ciety; a member of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
of St. Luke's Hospital Society, the Young
Men's Christian Association, the Children's
Aid Society, Home for Incurables, the
Charity Organization Society of New York,
the Association for Improving the Condi
tion of the Poor, the Home for Aged Mar
ried Couples, etc. He spent eight years in
traveling through Europe, Asia and Africa,
and two years across North America by
way of the West Indies, Mexico, the
United States and Canada. In his ninety-
fourth year he issued a pamphlet entitled
Letters from the Pen of Henry Dexter,
being a collection of letters on public ques
tions, for which he received letters of com-
mendation_ from Prof. Henry Van Dyke of
Princeton University and James Stillman
of the City Bank. Mr. Dexter's favorite
recreations are walking, travel, and read
ing. He married at Southport, Connecti
cut, October n, 1853, Lucretia Marquand
Perry, arid of this union there was born
October 31, 1854, a son, Orrando Perry
Dexter, who was assassinated at Dexter
Lake, in the Adirondacks, September 19,
1903. Address: 42 West Fifty-sixth Street,
New York City.
DEXTEB, Stanley Walker:
Lawyer; born in London, England, Oc
tober 3, 1857; son of Henry Stanley Dex
ter and Annie Breese (Walker) Dexter.
He was graduated from Yale University in
1878 with the degree of B.A. He is senior
member of the firm of Dexter, Osborn and
Fleming; and has been referee in bankrupt
cy since 1898. He is a member of the
Bar Association of the City of New York,
and of the New York State Bar Associa
tion, and of the latter's Committee on Fed
eral Legislation. Mr. Dexter is a director

of the Mutual Trust Company of West
chester County. He is a member of the
Twenty-seventh Assembly District Repub
lican Organization; and he an Episcopalian
in his religious affiliation. Mr. Dexter is
a member of the Sons of the Revolution,
and the St. Nicholas Society; a past-mas
ter of the Holland Lodge of Masons; a
member of the Scroll and Key Society of
Yale, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
(Yale). He is also a member of the
Union, University, Down Town, Yale, and
Church Clubs of New York City, and of
the Mill Neck Fishing Club. Mr. Dexter
married at Benicia, California, September
10, 1884, Gabriella Manigault McAllister,
and their children are: Gabriella M., born
in 1887; Julian Stanley, born in 1897, and
Sidney Breese, born in 1898. Country
residence: Oyster Bay, Long Island. City
residence : 48 West Fifty-fifth Street, New
York City. Office address : 71 Broadway,
New York City.
DEYO, Bobert Emmet:
Lawyer; born near Newburgh, New
York, August 19, 1843; son of Dr. Nathan
iel Deyo and Cornelia Bruyn (Dubois)
Deyo. He was graduated from Princeton
in 1864, and from the Albany Law School
in 1865. He was justice of the peace at
Newburgh, in 1866; removed to New York
City the same year and became a member
of the law firm of Field & Deyo, with
David Dudley Field and Dudley Field as
partners. He was a delegate to the Con
stitutional Convention , in 1894, and was a
member of the Committees on Rules, Edu
cation and Revision of that body. He was
a member of the first Civil Service Com
mission appointed under the Greater New
York Charter ; and a member of the com
mission to inquire into delays and ex
penses in administrations of justice in the
counties of New York and Kings. Mr.
Deyo is at present the senior member of
the firm of Deyo, Duer & Bauerdorf. Mr.
Deyo is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, the Hugue
not Association, and the New York His
torical Society; and he is chairman of the
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member of the Manhattan, Democratic arid
Princeton Clubs. Mr. Deyo married, in
1876, Jane Crawford Denniston. Address :
64 West Seventy-fourth Street, New York
City.
DE YOUNG, Michael Harry:
Newspaper proprietor; born in Saint
Louis, October 1, 1848. His mother whose
maiden name was Morange, was daughter
of a French nobleman. When a boy five
years old, he was taken to California and
was educated in the schools of that State.
He became associated with his brother,
Charles De Young, in 1865, in establishing
The Dramatic Chronicle, a theatrical paper
from which they afterward developed The
San Francisco Chronicle, which, in a few
years, they made the leading daily paper
of the Pacific Coast. Upon his brother's
death in 1880, he became sole proprietor of
the paper, and its editor-in-chief, and has
so continued ever since. Mr. De Young
has long been recognized as one of the
leaders of the Republican Party in his
State and the Nation, and was twice the
California member of the National Re
publican Committee, and for one term its
vice-chairman, and was a delegate at large
to the National Republican Conventions of
1888 and 1892. He has also taken an es
pecially prominent part in the creation and
management of international expositions,
beginning with the Paris Exposition of
1889, to which he was a commissioner from
California. He was commissioner from
California and vice-president of the
World's Columbian National Commission
in 1892 and 1893, and was the originator of
its classification plan ; was president of the
International League of Press Clubs in
1893, was projector, organizer and director-
general of the California Midwinter Ex
position at San Franrisco in 1893 and
1894; organizer of the Mid-winter Fair
Memorial Museum, 1891; commissioner-
general for California at the Omaha Trans-
Mississippi Exposition in 1898, and presi
dent of the United States Commission at
the Paris Exposition in 1900. He is a
member of the Legion d'Honneur -of France,
and has been a director of the Associated

Press since 1882. He is a member of the
Manhattan, Lotos, Press, New York2 Union
League, Commonwealth, Merchants', Olym
pic, and San Francisco County Clubs, and
is president of the Union League Club.
Residence : Meadowlands, San Rafael,
California. Address : 1919 California
Street, San Francisco, California.
DICK, Charles:
United States Senator from Ohio; was
born November 3, 1858, in Akron, Ohio;
educated in public schools ; was store clerk ;
bank bookkeeper and teller; later grain
commission merchant; is a lawyer, being
admitted to the Ohio bar in 1894, and to
practice before the United States Supreme
Court in 1897; served two terms as auditor
of Summit County ; was long major . and
lieutenant-colonel, Eighth Regiment, Ohio
National Guard; served in Cuba in the war
with Spain, being subsequently elected brig
adier-general, and now serving as major-
general, commanding Ohio National Guard;
is president of the Interstate National
Guard Association ; was several years mem
ber and three times chairman of Summit
County Republican Committee; is chairman
of Ohio Republican State Committee, and
has served in that capacity almost contin
uously since 1892; served as secretary Chi
cago Republican National Headquarters in
(896, and as secretary Republican National
Committee, 1897 to 1900; was closely as
sociated with Chairman Hanna in the pre
liminary canvass for McKinley's nomination
and subsequent general campaign in 1896;
was delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1892 and 1896, and delegate-
at-large from Ohio, to the Republican Na
tional Conventions of 1900 and 1904; repre
sented the Nineteenth Ohio District in the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses ; as chairman of
Committee on Militia and member of Com
mittee on Military Affairs, secured enact
ment of what is known as the Dick Mili
tia Law; was elected senator, March 2,
1904, for short and long terms to succeed
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, deceased, receiv
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term of service will expire March 3, 191 1.
Residence: Akron, Ohio.
DICK, Samuel B. :
Capitalist; born in Meadville, Pennsylva
nia, October 26, 1836, of Scotch-Irish de
scent.. He was the third son of General
John Dick, a member of Congress, and
one of the first associate judges of Craw
ford County, Pennsylvania. He attended
the district schools and Allegheny College,
at Meadville, until he went into the bank
ing business with his father. At the com
mencement of the Civil War, he organized
the Meadville Volunteers and became cap
tain of that company which was later
known as Company F of the Ninth Regi
ment, Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. He
participated in the battle of Drainsville,
Virginia, in 1861, and was wounded. In
1862 he was in the seven days' fight before
Richmond, and the second battle of Bull
Run, also at South Mountain and Antie
tam; and in 1863 he was colonel of the
Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment and
marched with them into Western Virginia.
Mr. Dick was engaged in the oil business
in its infancy. He was a presidential elec
tor in 1864 and was elected to Congress in
1878. He became a Mason as far back
as 1857, and has filled every grade of of
ficial position up to that of Grand Master
of the State. He reorganized the bankrupt
Shenango and Allegheny, and the West
Pennsylvania and Shenango Connecting
Railroads, and extended the line finally
to the Carnegie Steel works near Pitts
burgh; and since his retirement from the
Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Rail
road, he has been largely interested in the
Colorado and Northwestern Railroad, and
is president of that company. He is also
-president of the Pennsylvania Mining and
Milling Company, of Colorado ; the Clinton
Mining Company, of Colorado ; the Mead
ville Malleable Iron Works, the Phoenix
Iron Works, and the Meadville Gas Com
pany. Address : Meadville,' Pennsylvania.
DICKEY, Charles Andrews:
Clergyman ; born in Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, December 25, 1838; son of John R.

Dickey and Margaret (De Hass) Dickey.
He received his preparatory education at
Monongahela Academy, Morgantown, Vir
ginia, and afterward entered Washington
College, Pennsylvania, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1858, and A.M. in
1861 ; and he studied theology at the
United Presbyterian Theological Seminary
at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania from 1858
to 1862. He later received the degrees of
D.D. and LL.D. He was ordained to the
ministry of the United Presbyterian Church
in 1862, was pastor of the Fourth United
Presbyterian Church of Allegheny City,
Pennsylvania, from 1862 to 1869; of the
First Presbyterian Church of Saint Louis,
Missouri, from 1869 to 1875 ; Calvary Pres
byterian Church, Philadelphia, from 1875 to
1893, and of Bethany Presbyterian Church
at Philadelphia since 1893. He received the
degree of D.D. at Princeton University in
1872, and of LL.D. at Washington and
Jefferson in 1902. He was moderator of
the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1900
and 1901 ; was representative of the Gen
eral Assembly in the Twentieth Century
Movement in 1901 ; was chairman of the
Revision Committee in 1900-1902; and
chairman of the Presbyterian Committee
in the Inter-Church Conference on Divorce
and Remarriage, 1903. Dr. Dickey has
been since 1883 president of the Presby
terian Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Dickey
is a member of the Union and Re-Union
Committee of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America. Address :
221 1 Saint James Place, Philadelphia.
DICKEY, James Edward:
President of Emory College; bora at
Jeffersonville, Georgia, May 11, 1864; son
of the Rev. James Madison Dickey and
Ann E. (Thomas) Dickey. Dr. Dickey
is of old Southern Colonial stock, his pa
ternal ancestor John Dickey being on the
Council of Safety of Iredel County, North
Carolina, in 1776, and his maternal ances
tor, Benjamin Few, a colonel in the Revol
utionary War. A maternal uncle, William
Few, was a delegate from Georgia to the
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terwards first senator from Georgia. As
a youth James Dickey entered Emory Col
lege in 1887, and, taking '.the academic
course, graduated with the degree of A.B.
in 1891, receiving medals in declamation,
composition and metaphysics, as well as
second honor. The degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by the Kentucky Wes-
lyan College in 1903. After his graduation
he became adjunct professor of mental and
moral science at Emory College, becoming
five years later professor of history and
economics. In 1899 he resigned and was ap
pointed to the pastorate of the Grace Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, of Atlanta,
- Georgia, officiating there until 1902. In
July of that year he returned to Emory
College, to become its president. He is
also trustee of Emory College, and of Wes-
lyan Female College, at Macon, Georgia.
He is president of the Board of Missions
of the North Georgia Conference, and is
a member of Chi Phi fraternity. In poli
tics Dr. Dickey is identified with the Dem
ocratic party. He was married at Quincy,
Florida, September 9, 1891, to Jessie Mun-
roe, and has had six children : Julia, Annie,
Jessie, Claire, Edna (deceased) and James
Edward, Jr. Address : Oxford, Georgia.
DICKERMAN, Charles Heber:
Banker; born at "Harford, Susquehanna
County, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1843;
son of Dr. Clark Dickerman and Sarah
Adelia Dickerman. He was educated in
the public schools of his native village and
at Harford University; taught school for
several years and read law in the office of
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of Bingham
ton, New York, but before qualifying for
admission to the bar he became book
keeper for a large coal company. Some
years later he engaged in the coal commis
sion business at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
and soon after was made general manager
of the Chapman Slate Company, at Chap
man Quarries, Pennsylvania. In 1880 he
removed to Milton, Pennsylvania, of which
place he has ever since been a citizen, and
was elected secretary and treasurer of the
car-building firm of Murray D'ougal &
Company, Limited, car builders at Milton.

He served for many years as director of
the Second- National Bank of Mauch
Chunk; Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley
National Bank, of Bethlehem, Pennsylva
nia, the Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Sunbury Pennsylvania, and
the First National Bank of Milton, Penn
sylvania, and since January, 1897, has been
president of the last named institution.
Mr. Dickerman has long been prominent as
a leader in the Democratic party in his
section of the State; was for three years
chairman of the Democratic County Com
mittee of Northumberland County and in
1902 he was elected on the Democratic
ticket from the Sixteenth District of Penn
sylvania to the Fifty-eighth Congress, serv
ing from 1903 to 1905. He was a delegate
to the Natiorial Democratic Convention at
Chicago in 1892. He is a member of the
Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia, and
the Lawyers' Club of New York. He mar
ried at Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania,
March 10, 1869, Joy Ivy Carter; children:
one son and three daughters. Address:
Milton, Pennsylvania.
DICKEBMAN, William Carter:
Manufacturer; born at Bethlehem, Penn
sylvania, December 12, 1874; son of Hon.
Charles Heber and Joy Ivy (Carter) Dick
erman, of Milton, Pennsylvania. He took
a preparatory course at the William Penn
Charter School at Philadelphia, and his
collegiate course at Lehigh University,
from which he was graduated as M.E. in
1896. He entered the employ of the Mil
ton Car Works, at Milton, Pennsylvania,
in 1897, and on the formation of the Amer
ican Car and Foundry Company, was made
assistant manager for the Milton district,
becoming sales agent from 1900 to 1905 and
since 1905 has been vice-president of the
company Mr. Dickerman enlisted in Com
pany C, of the Twelfth Regiment, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, May 10, 1897, and
was battalion adjutant and first lieutenant
from 1899 to 1901. He is vice-presi
dent of the American Car and Foundry
Company, and director of the First Nation
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chanical Engineers, of the Delta Phi fra
ternity, and of the New York Society of
Colonial Wars. Mr. Dickerman is a Demo
crat in politics. He is a member of the Rail
road, University, City, Engineers', and
Lawyers' Clubs of New York City, and of
the University Club of Philadelphia. Mr.
Dickerman married at Dunchurch, Eng
land, June 19, 1905, Alice Carter, of Phil
adelphia, and they have one child : Wil
liam Carter Dickerman, Jr., born February
2, 1907. Address : 809 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
DICKIE, George William:
Engineer, manufacturer; born at Ar
broath, Scotland, July 17, 1844; son of
William Dickie, shipbuilder. He was edu
cated at Tay Port, Fife, Scotland, and in
i860 he entered the service of the North
British Railroad Company to learn the
engineering business, and completed his
engineering education in his -father's ship
yard. . In 1869 he went from Scotland di
rect to San Francisco, where he became
identified with all the important steamship
work at that port, and also the designing
and construction of the machinery for the
operation of the mines of the Comstock
Lode at Virginia City, and Gold Hill Ne
vada. Upon the establishing of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco in 1883 he
became its manager, and has ever since
continued in that capacity, and has had
special charge of its naval work for the
United States Government, including the
building of some of the finest battleships
and other vessels in the New Navy. Mr.
Dickie has attained great distinction in his
profession; is a member of the Council of
the Society of Naval Architects and Ma
rine Engineers ; life member and former
president of the Technical Society of the
Pacific Coast, and member and former
councilor of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers. He has written num
erous technical papers which have appeared
in the proceedings of these societies, and
is author of a work on: Pumping and
Hoisting Works, published in 1876. Mr.
Dickie married in San Francisco, August
5, 1873, Anna Juck. Residence: San

Mateo, California. Office address : Union
Iron Works, San Francisco, California.
DICKINSON, Charles Courter:
Banker and lawyer; born in Cobleskill,
New York; son of John Dickinson and
Henrietta (Courter) Dickinson. He was
graduated at Cobleskill Academy, being
valedictorian and president of the Alumni
Association; and from Cornell University,
Bachelor of Letters (B.L.), and was com
mencement orator, and received first prize
on graduation from the Cornell Law
School, with the degree of LL.B. He was
admitted to the New York bar, May 10,
1894, at Albany, New York. Mr. Dickin
son is author of several law works, in
cluding: Dickinson's Eminent Domain;
Groesbeck and Dickinson's Banking Laws
of New York; and Dickinson and Cum
mings' General Municipal Laws of New
York. He is president of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity of the United States;
chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Mechanics' and Traders' Bank; organizer,
active vice-president and director of the
Colonial Trust Company, and chairman of
the Organization Committee, and is acting
president and director of the Carnegie
Trust Company. Mr. Dickinson made a
tour around the world in 1898 and i89g.
He is an Independent Democrat in politics
and an Episcopalian in his religious affil
iations. He is a member of the Association
of Mayflower Descendants, and of the Ex
ecutive Council of the Huguenot Society
of the United States; and he is also a
member of the Sons of the Revolution, the
Delta Tau Delta, and Phi Delta Phi fra
ternities, the Chancery Society, Cornell
Alumni Association, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Museum of Natural History, the
Municipal Art Society and the New York
Botanical Garden. He is also a member
of the Manhattan, New York Democratic,
Cornell University, and Lotos Clubs of New
York City. Mr. Dickinson married in New
York City, January 19, 1905, Grace Georg
ette Kidd, and they have one son : Courter,
born October 3, 1905. Address: 853 Fifth
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DICKINSON, Charles Monroe:
Diplomat and journalist; born at Low-
ville, Lewis County, New York, November
15, 1842; son of Richard and Elizabeth
(Rea) Dickinson. He was educated in
the public schools of Lewis County, Low-
ville, Academy, and Fairfield Seminary at
Fairfield, New York. Mr. Dickinson
studied law and was admitted to the bar
at Binghamton, New. York, in November,
1865. He practiced law in Pennsylvania,
Binghamton and New York City, until
1878, when he was compelled by broken
health to abandon the profession. Since
1878 he has been editor and proprietor of
the Binghamton Republican. Mr. Dickin
son was a Republican presidential elector
in 1896, and was appointed consul-general
at Constantinople, in September, 1897,
serving there until 1906, and he was also
diplomatic agent to Bulgaria from 1901 to
1903. He was appointed consul-general-at-
large in May, 1906, and detailed to pre
pare rules and regulations under the Con
sular Reorganization Act of June, 1904.
His connection with the consular and in
spection service since 1897 has given him
opportunities for extensive travel in many
parts of Europe and Asia. Mr. Dickinson
is author of The Dickinson Family, 1884;
The Children and Other Verses, 1889. He
is trustee of the Barlow Industrial School,
Binghamton and is a member of the
Authors Club of New York City. Mr.
Dickinson married at Binghamton, New
York, March 24, 1867, Bessie Virginia
Hotchkiss, and they have two sons :
Charles Hotchkiss Dickinson (born in
1868), and Giles Hotchkiss Dickinson (born
in 1878). Address: Binghamton, New
York.DICKINSON, Marquis Fayette:
Lawyer ; born in Amherst, Massachusetts,
January 16, 1840; son of Marquis F. Dick
inson and Hannah Shepard (Williams)
Dickinson. He graduated from Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in
1858, with second honor, and from Am
herst College as one of three of equal
highest rank, with the degree of A.B. in

1862, and A.M. in 1865, He was assistant
United States Attorney from 1868 to 1871;
His practice is now chiefly in the trial of
cases in court, especially for corporations.
Mr. Dickinson is president of the Nasha-
wannack Manufacturing Company,- the
Whitcomb Envelope Company; is director
of the West End Street Railway Company,
the Metropolitan Steam Ship Company,
and the E. and A. H. Batcheder Company.
He is a member of the Boston School
Committee, was a member of the Boston
Common Council in 1871 and 1872 and
president of that body in 1872. Mr. Dick
inson is a Republican in politics and a
Congregationalist in denominational con
nection. He is a member of the American
Bar Association, the Boston Bar Associa
tion, and the International Law Associa
tion, is a trustee of the Massachusetts
Homoeopathic Hospital, overseer of Am
herst College, trustee of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College and president of the
Board of Trustees of Williston Seminary.
He is a member of the Psi Upsilon fra
ternity of Amherst College, of the Univers
ity, New Algonquin and Art Clubs of Bos
ton and the Brookline Thursday Club. He
married at Easthampton, Massachusetts,
November 23, 1864, Cecilia Risk Williston,
and they have one son living, Charles, who
was born July 17, 1872, and was graduated
from Harvard in 1906. Residence: 79
Carlton Street, Brookline. Office address:
53 State State, Boston, Massachusetts.
DICKINSON, Myron Nelson:
Retired merchant; born at Bolton, near
Lake George, New York, August 14, 1829;
son of John Dickinson, Jr., and Lucy
(Winter) Dickinson. He was educated in
the common district school and the State
Normal College at Albany, New York. He
enlisted July 16, 1862, and was mustered
into State service in Company G, One Hun
dred Eighteenth New York Volunteers,
August 20, 1862; promoted second lieuten
ant, with rank from August 21, 1862; first
lieutenant with rank from November 20,
1862. He served on the defense of Wash
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folk, Virginia, battle of South Anna, Vir
ginia, operations against Petersburgh and
Richmond, 1863; Cold Harbor, Chaffin's
Farm and Second Fair Oaks, 1864 ; assigned
to the command of the Ninety-second New
York Infantry, October 24, 1864. He was
wounded at Second Fair Oaks, October 27,
1864; in Libby Prison, to February 21, 1865,
and resigned April 30, 1865. He was
brevetted captain for gallantry in battle. Af
ter the war he engaged in mercantile pur
suits until 1891, when he retired. Mr. Dick
inson is a Republican in politics, and for
John C. Fremont in 1856 ; and he was school
commissioner of Warren County, New
York, from 1858 to i860; was trustee
and president of the Board of Education
of Warrensburgh High School for ten
years. He has traveled quite extensively in
forty-one States of the United States and
Canada, and has twice visited the Pacific
Coast. Mr. Dickinson is a Presbyterian
in his church relations; and he is a prom
inent Mason, having joined the order, Feb
ruary 2, 1855, and now being a member of
lodge, chapter and consistory, a Knight
Templar, and a member of the Mystic
Shrine. He married at Bolton, New York,
July 1, 1858, Betsey Coolidge, and has a
son: Lester C. Dickinson, born in 1861, and
Grace C. Dickinson Somerville, born in
1870. Address : Warrensburgh, Warren
County, New York.
DICKINSON, Bobert Latov:
Physician; born in Jersey City, New
Jersey, February 21, 1861; son of
Horace and Jeannette (Latov) Dick
inson. He was educated in. Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute and in Switzer
land and Germany, and was graduated
from Long Island College Hospital as M.
D. in 1882. Dr. Dickinson is Gynecologist
to Brooklyn Hospital; obstetrician-in-chief
to the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital, and
Consulting Gynecologist to St. Mary's Hos
pital, Jamaica, Long Island. He is a mem
ber of the American Gynecological Society,
New York Academy of Medicine, Kings
County Medical Society, New York Ob
stetric Society, Brooklyn Gynecological
Society and British Gynecological Society.

He has edited American Text-book of Ob
stetrics, has published many researches.
He is a member of the Hamilton Club.
Dr. Dickinson married in Brooklyn, 1890,
Sarah Truslow. Address: 168 Clinton
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
DICKSON, James Stuart:
Clergyman; born at Honesdale, Wayne
County, Pennsylvania; son of James Reid
Dickson and Caroline L. (Stuart) Dick
son. He was educated in the grammar
and high schools of Philadelphia and by a
private tutor, preparatory to entering the
University of Pennsylvania, from which he
was graduated with the degree of A.B. in
1880, then entering Princeton Theological
beminary, from which he was graduated
with the degree of B.D. in 1883. He re
ceived ordination from the Presbytery of
New Brunswick in October, 1883, and has
ever since been in the active ministry of
the Presbyterian Church;' being installed
pastor of the Dayton Presbyterian Church
in November, 1883, and in June, 1886, pas
tor of the Woodland Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia. Since December 15, 1904,
he has beeri corresponding secretary of the
College Board of the Presbyterian Church.
He is a director of the Princeton Theolog
ical Seminary. He married at Hoboken,
New Jersey, July 26, 1883, Mary Agnes
Campbell, daughter of William P. Camp
bell, formerly of New Orleans ; children :
Reid Stuart, William Campbell, and
Thomas Sinclair. Address : 156 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City.
DICKSON, Leonard Eugene:
Mathematician; bora in Independence,
Iowa, January 22, 1874. Fie received from
the University of Texas in 1893 the de
gree of B.S., was a teaching fellow there
from 1893 to 1894 and received the degree
of A.M. in 1894. He was a fellow of the
University 'of Chicago from 1894 to 1896
and received the degree of Ph.D. in i8g6,
and also student at Leipzig and Paris
from i8g6 to i8g7. Mr. Dickson was
chemist on the Texas Geological Sur
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from 1897 to 1899; associate professor of
mathematics at the University of Texas
from i8gg to 1900 and associate professor
of mathematics at the University of Chi
cago since 1900. He is editor of the Ameri
can Mathematical Monthly and associate
editor of the Transactions of the American
Mathematical Society. He has also been
research assistant at the Carnegie Insti
tution of Washington since 1904. Mr.
Dickson is author of : Linear Groups,
Leipzig, 1901 ; College Algebra, New York,
1902, and Theory of Algebra Equations,
New York, 1903. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, honorary
societies. Address : Box 204, University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
DTEDEEICH, Henry W. :
Consul-general; born in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Nov. 13, 1845; son of Nicholas H. Diede-
rich and Clara M. (Wessler) Diederich.
Fie was educated for the Lutheran minis
try, and was graduated from Concordia
College at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1866,
and afterward from the theological course
in the Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, in
1869, took a post-graduate course in Col
umbian College (now George Washington
University) at Washington, D. C. He be
came pastor of St. John's Evangelical Luth
eran Church in New York, 1870 to 1873 ;
then was professor of the English language
and literature at Concordia College, from
1873 to 1889. President Benjamin Harrison,
who had for years been his personal friend,
appointed him United States Consul to
Leipzig in 1889, but he was recalled after
the change of administration in 1893. In
1897 he was appointed by President Mc
Kinley United States consul to Magdeburg,
Prussia, and promoted January 1, 1900, as
consul to Bremen, Germany, continuing
there until 1906, when he was appointed to
his present position as consul-general of
the United States at Antwerp, Belgium.
Mr. Diederich was married at Washington,
D. C, August 23, 1870, to Margaret Stutz.
Address : American Consulate-General, Ant
werp, Belgium.

DIEFENDOBF, Warren T.:
Insurance manager; born at Sharon
Springs, New York, March 8, i860; son of
Douw B. Diefendorf and Alzina Diefen-
dorf. He was educated at Canajoharie
(N. Y.) high school, and at Fort Plain
Seminary, Fort Plain, New York. He be
gan his business career as 'a clerk in a dry
goods store at Fort Plain, New York, fin
ally becoming partner, and later part owner,
as Cook and Diefendorf. At the age of
twenty-three he organized the Garment
Manufacturing Company, and later retired
from the firm of Cook and Diefendorf. In
1887 he parted with his manufacturing in
terests and entered the insurance field as
special agent of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York. In that capacity
he traveled in several States east of Missis
sippi River, and since 1889 has been mana
ger of the Brooklyn and Long Island agency
of the company. Mr. Diefendorf is a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
is a director of the Borough Bank of
Brooklyn, the Kings County Mortgage
Company, The Country Investing Company
of New York, and the Navahoe Realty
Company of New York. He is a Mason of
the thirty-second degree, a Knight of Py
thias and a member of the Brooklyn
League. He is a member of the Riding
and Driving, Brooklyn and Crescent Ath
letic Clubs of Brooklyn, The Economic
Club of New York, and the Men's Mt.
Vernon, N. Y. Mr. Diefendorf married in
Brooklyn, January 25, 1887, Louisa Ed
wards Slocumb, and they have three child
ren: Mabel S. Diefendorf, Warren Edwin
Diefendorf and Edith Louisa Diefendorf.
Address: 164 Montague Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
DIEHL, Clarence A.:
Coffee merchant; born in Panora, Iowa,
July 9, 1869; son of D. W. and Rebecca
(Anderson) Diehl. He received a high
school education in Iowa; and after that
took a special course in St. Louis, Mis
souri. Mr. Diehl was engaged in news
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Indian agency at Fort Defiance, Arizona.
The following year he returned to Iowa
and he was engaged in the abstract busi
ness for himself, until 1889. He made a
trip to Mexico and Central America in
1898, and after that made four or five
trips to Mexico and Cuba. He became
connected with Mexican enterprises in
1899, and is now interested in Mexican and
Cuban properties, both in mining and real
estate. He is treasurer and a member of
the executive board of the German-Ameri
can Coffee Company. Mr. Diehl is a Re
publican, a Mason of the thirty-second de
gree, and a member of the Arabic Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His princi
pal recreations are golf and big game hunt
ing. Mr. Diehl married at New York City,
May 29, 1905, Angelica L. Macias, great-
granddaughter of the Marquise de Latorre
of Spain, and they have one daughter,
Lucile A. Diehl, born in April, 1906. Resi
dence: The Dorilton, Seventy-first Street
and Broadway. Address: 406 Greenwich
Street, New York City.
BIKE, Norman S.:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
October 22, 1862; son of Camden C. and
Jeannie (Scott) Dike. He was educated
in the Brooklyn Polytechnic School, was
graduated from Brown University as Ph.
B. in 1885 and from Columbia Law School
as LL.B. in 1887. He has been engaged
in the general practice of law since 1887.
He has always taken a deep interest in
politics as an active Republican. He was
elected supervisor of Kings County in
1894; elected president pro tempore of the
Board in 1895; and was active in expelling
John Y. McKane from the Board and
organizing it as Republican. In 189S he
was appointed assistant to the judge ad
vocate general in the National Guard of
the State of New York, with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, by Governor Morton.
He was appointed by Governor Odell as
sheriff of Kings County, for a year, to
fill a vacancy, and was also appointed on
the Board of Managers of the Long Is
land State Hospital for. the Insane by
Governor Higgins; and he was appointed

by Governor Higgins, in 1906, to the
office of county judge of Kings County
in which he is now serving. For seven
years he was president of Brooklyn Hom
oeopathic Hospital; president for two
years of Brown University Alumni of New
York City. His favorite recreations are
athletic exercises. Judge Dike is a mem
ber of the Sons of the Revolution, and of
the University, Brown, Hamilton, Brook
lyn, Riding and Driving, Dyker Meadow
Golf and Casino Crescent Athletic Clubs.
Residence: 194 Columbia Heights, Brook
lyn, New York. Address : 164 Montague
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
DILL, James Brooks:
Lawyer; bom at Spencerport, New York,
July 25, 1854; son of Rev. James H. Dill
and Catharine D. Dill. He was graduated
from Yale in 1876, and from the Law
School of^ the University of New York in
1878. He began the practice of law in New
York City in 1878. Since 1885 he has given
special attention to the subject of corpor
ation law, in which he. has made his repu
tation in New Jersey as well as in New
York. Mr. Dill has been a member of
several State commissions dealing with the
codification of the statutes, and since 1892
he has been regarded as a leader in mould
ing and shaping the corporation laws of
New Jersey. He has been connected with
the organization of important corporations
and the management, as director or coun
sel,, of various corporate interests, indus
trial, financial and railroad. He is also a
member of the New Jersey bar, and his
private law library is extensive. Mr. Dill
is author of: Dill on New Jersey Corpor
ations, a work of recognized authority, and
is author of a number of articles, mainly
on economics and kindred topics, his ad
dress at Harvard 'University on National
Corporations being widely commented upon.
His attitude has been quite independent of
so-called corporate influence, and his ut
terances have been frankly critical of cer
tain corporate tendencies and practices. He
was appointed, July, 1905, one of the judges
of the Court of Errors and Appeals of the
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Orange, New- Jersey. Address : 27 Pine
Street, New York City.
DILLINGHAM, Frank Ayer:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, Decem
ber 31, 1869; son of George Wellington
Dillingham and Flelena Wellington (Ayer)
Dillingham. He was graduated- from Yale
College in 1891 with the degree of A.B.
and from Columbia Law School in 1894
with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted
to the bar in 1894, and since then has been
practicing law in New York City, and he
is now a member of the firm of Rounds,
Hatch, Dillingham and Debevoise. Mr.
Dillingham is a director of the South Porto
Rico "Sugar Company and of the Metallurg
ical Securities Company and the Lake Plac
id Improvement Company, and is director
and treasurer of the Century Mortgage
Company and the Highland Forest Com
pany. He is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Dillingham is a member of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon and Phi Delta Phi fraternities and
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a
member of the Board of Education of the
City of Sufnmit, New Jersey. Mr. Dilling
ham has membership in the Yale Club, and
the Deutsche Verein. He married in New
York City, January 23, 1896, Louise Greg
ory Bulkley, and they have six children :
Louise Bulkley, Winthrop Bulkley, Dorothy
Ayer, Helena Ayer, Hope and Sherburne.
Residence: Summit, Union County, New
Jersey. Office address : 62 Cedar Street,
New York City.
DILLINGHAM, William Paul:
United States Senator; born at Water
bury, Vermont, December 12, 1843. He re
ceived an academic education and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1867. He was State's
Attorney for Washington County for two
terms and commissioner of State taxes for
several years. In 1876 and again in 1884
he was a member of the Vermont House of
Representatives, and he was a State Sena
tor from Washington County in 1878- and
again in 1880. He was afterward elected
governor of Vermont, serving from 1888
to 1890. On October 18, 1900, he was elect

ed United States Senator from Vermont to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Justin S. Morrill and on October 15, 1902,
he was elected to succeed himself. His
term of office will expire March 3, 1909.
Address : Montpelier, Vermont.
DILLON, John Forrest:
Jurist; born in Northampton, New York,
December 25, 1831 ; son of Thomas Dillon
and Rosannah Dillon. He was graduated
from the medical department of the Uni
versity of Iowa, but after six months medi
cal practice he took up the study of law,
and he was admitted to the bar in 1852. He
was State prosecuting attorney from 1852
to 1858; judge of the Seventh Judicial Dis
trict of Iowa from 1858 to 1863 ; judge of the
Supreme Court of Iowa from 1863 to 1869;
and judge of the United States Circuit
Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit from
1867 to 1879. He resigned and then be
came professor of real estate and equity
jurisprudence in Columbia Law School from
1879 until 1882, when he resumed the prac
tice of law. He is author of numerous law
books and of many articles on legal sub
jects. Judge Dillon was a member of the
Third Annual Convention of the Associa
tion for the Codification of the Law of Na
tions (LTnstitut de Droit Internationel).
He is general and consulting counsel to
Interborough Railroad, Texas and Pacific
Railway and the Western Union Telegraph
Companies. Residence: Far Hills, New
Jersey. Address : 195 Broadway, New York
City. DILWOBTH, Henry C:
Manufacturer; born at Port Penn, Dela
ware, September 1, 1850; son of John D.
and Eliza Frances (Gordon) Dilworth.
He is great grandson of Captain John
Dilworth of the Royal British Navy who
was wounded during an engagement be
tween the English Navv and the Contin
ental troops, on the Delaware River. At
that time he was sent ashore, supposedly
to die.- Under a flag of truce, he was taken
to the home of Governor Aldrich, whose
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back to health, and he subsequently mar
ried her. Mr. Henry C. DLworth was edu
cated in the Delaware public schools and
the Delaware City Academy. He came to
New York in the spring of 1868, and was
employed by the firm 6f Gordon and Dil
worth (his uncle and brother respectively).
In the course of time he worked his way to
his present position as vice-president, di
rector and treasurer of the corporation,
which is the successor of the original firm
established in 1847. Mr. Diiworth has
made a study of mechanical and civil en
gineering, and he is an inventor, and has
constructed many novel and useful pieces
of machinery. Fie is the possessor of a
number of American and foreign patents
that are in world-wide use. He has trav
eled all over the United States, Canada,
Mexico, The Windward and Leeward Is
lands and to a small extent in South Am
erica, as well as Europe and the British
Isles. Mr. Dilworth is a Jeffersonian
Democrat, a Presbyterian and a Mason, be
ing a member of Hope Lodge at East
Orange, New Jersey, of Union Chapter of
Orange, New York, No. 19, Knights Temp
lar, of New York Consistory of the Scot
tish Rite, in which he has thirty-second
degree and of Mecca Temple of Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine. His favorite recrea
tions are travel, hunting and fishing. Mr.
Dilworth married Matilda Sherwood of
Monsey, New York. Residence. East
Orange, New Jersey. Address : 565 Green
wich Street, New York City.
DIMMOCK, George:
Zoologist; born in Springfield, Massa
chusetts, May 17, 1852; son of George
Monroe Dimmock and Elizabeth (Learned)
Dimmock. He was graduated from Flar-
vard University as A.B. in 1877 from the
University of Leipzig, as A.M. and Ph.
D. in 1881, and was at the Sorbonne
(University of Paris) as special student
from 1881 to 1882. For a number of
years he has been working on investiga
tions in the early stages of beetles. He
is an Independent in politics. Mr. Dim
mock is a fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science and a

member of the American Society of Na
turalists, the Boston Society of Natural
History, Societe Entomologique de France,
etc. Flis favorite recreation is whist. He
married at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
March 3, 1878, Anna Katharina Hofmann,
and they have one child: Anna (Dim
mock) Nash, born May 14, 1883, in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, and now wife of
Robert Franklin Nash, of Springfield.
Residence: Berkshire Street, Springfield.
Address: Museum of Natural History,
Springfield, Massachusetts.
DIMOND, Thomas:
Manufacturer of iron work for buildings ;
bora in Garrisons, Putnam County, New
York, September 1, 1854; son of William
Dimond and Catharine (Smith) Dimond.
He was educated in the New York public
schools in a night school and at Packard's
Business College, and he also studied with
James Renwick, architect, for three years.
He is proprietor of the Thomas Dimond
Iron Works, is a trustee andwnember of the
Bond and Mortgage Company Bank for
.Savings, and is a director and member of
the Executive Committee of the Mutual
Bank, the Colonial Insurance Company,
and the American Lloyds Insurance Com
pany. He was a member of the Seventh
Regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York from 1876 to 1886; and
is now colonel of that regiment. Colonel
Dimond is a vestryman of All Angels'
(Episcopal) Church. He is president of
the Iron League of New York and New,
Jersey, a trade organiation; and is director
of the Building Trade Association of New
York City, and treasurer of its Strike Com
mittee which for the past year has been
fighting a big iron strike. He is a member
o'f the Museum of Natural History, and the
New York Historical Society and is trustee
of the Architectural Iron Society. He is
a member of the Union League, Metropoli
tan Opera, Church and American Yacht
Clubs (of which latter he is trustee), and
of the New York Athletic, Building Trades,
Apawamis, Golf, Knollwood Golf Clubs, the
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South Carolina, and the Laurentian and
Schewinagi Fishing Clubs of Canada. Col
onel Dimond married, July 10, 1879, Jennie
Kelly, and they have three children : James
Renwick, George Arnold and Florence May.
Residence : 20 West Seventy-third Street,
New York City. Office address : 128 West
Thirty-third Street, New York City.
DINGLEY, Frank Lambert:
Editor; born at Unity, Waldo County,
Maine, February 7, 1840; son of Nelson
Dingley and Jane (Lambert) Dingley. Af
ter a careful preparatory education he en
tered Bowdoin College, from which he was
graduated as A.B., with Phi Beta Kappa
honors, in 1861, and received the degree of
A.M. in 1863. With his brother (the late
Congressman Nelson Dingley, Jr.), he es
tablished the Lewiston Journal at Lewis-
ton, Maine, in 1861, and he is still its editor,
and treasurer of the Lewiston Journal Com
pany. In addition to his editorial work Mr.
Dingley has delivered from time to time,
addresses on current topics, and a series of
addresses on The Newspaper, made be
fore the Greenacre School of Philosophy,
have been published by the Lewiston Jour
nal Company. During the administration of
President Benjamin Harrison, he was ap
pointed a special commissioner to investigate
the subject of foreign immigration, and in
that capacity he went to points of embark
ation of emigrants on the continent of
Europe and in the British Isles, and on the
basis of his report, which was published by
the Department of State, was prepared the
first legislation in restraint of undesirable
immigration that was passed by Congress.
Mr. Dingley has been a staunch Republican
from boyhood, and in religious affiliation is
a Congregationalist. He married at Can
ton, Lewis County, Missouri, October 21,
1863, Lu Mary Greeley. Residence : Au
burn, Maine. Office address : The Journal,
Lewiston, Maine.
DINSMOBE, Charles Allen:
Clergyman ; born in New York City, Au
gust 4, i860 ; son of Dr. Lafayette H. Dins-
more and Mary S. (Ladd) Dinsmore.
After a thorough preparatory education he

entered Dartmouth, from which he was
graduated with the degree of A.B. in
1884. He. afterward attended Yale Divin
ity School, and upon his graduation in
1888 was ordained in the ministry of the
Congregational Church. Prior to his or
dination he was for a time in service with
the United States Engineers engaged upon
the survey of the Mississippi River. He
is now pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Waterbury, Connecticut. Mr.
Dinsmore is widely known as a student of
Dante and he is author of two books : The
Teachings of Dante, -and Aids to the Study
of Dante. He is a member of the Authors
Club of Boston, and of the Dante Society
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He mar
ried at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1889, Annie
Laurie Beattie. Address : Waterbury, Con
necticut. DINSMOBE, Hugh Anderson:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born at
Cava Spring, Benton County, Arkansas,
December 24, 1850 ; son of Alexander Win
chester and Katherine Anderson Dinsmore.
He received his education in private
schools, studied law and was admitted to
the bar of the State of Arkansas in April,
1875, having previously served as clerk of
the Circuit Court of Benton County, Ar
kansas. After his admission to the bar he
engaged in practice at Fayetteville, Arkan
sas, and from 1878 to 1884 he was prose
cuting attorney for the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict of Arkansas. He was elected as presi
dential elector on the Democratic ticket in
1884, and in 1887 was appointed by Presi
dent Cleveland United States minister resi
dent and consul-general in Korea, remain
ing there until 1890. He was a regent of
the Smithsonian Institution at Washington,
from 1889 to 1903. In- 1892 he was elected
on the Democratic ticket to Congress from
the Fifth Congressional District of Arkan
sas and was reelected in 1894, 1896, 1898
and 1900 from that district, and in 1902,
after the reapportionment of Arkansas,
from the Third District of that State, serv
ing in the Fifty-third to Fifty-eighth Con
gresses. Mr. Dinsmore married at Colum
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Grande Fisher, and they have one son,
Hamilton Atwood Dinsmore, born October
3, 1884. Address: Fayetteville, Arkansas.
d'INVILLIEBS, Edward Vincent:
Geologist and mining engineer; born in
Germantown, Philadelphia, August 2, 1857;
son of Camille dTnvilliers and Ann S.
(Maitland) dTnvilliers. He was . educated
in the Broad Street Military Academy and
entered the Sophomore class of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and was graduated
as B.S. with first honor in 1878; and he
was awarded the Junior English prize
equally with Charles P. Henry. Fie was
class president in the senior year and has
ever since so continued. He was assistant
geologist of the Pennsylvania Geological
Survey from 1878 to 1890, and published
reports on Berks, Centre, Juniata, Union,
Mifflin and Synder Counties; the Pitts
burgh Coal Regions ; Iron Ores and Lime
stone of the Great Valley; and a Final
Summary Report on Bituminous Coals,
1890 to 1892. He is a member of the Amer
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, Amer-
icon Philosophical Society, Franklin In
stitute, National Geographic Society; is a
fellow of the Geological Society of Amer
ica, and a member of the National Ad
visory Board on Fuel Tests and Structural
Materials. Mr. dTnvilliers is author of
papers on Cornwall Ore . Mines ; Navassa
Phosphate Deposits ; Southern Coals and
Cokes ; Comparative Cost of Coking in the
Pennsylvania Coal Fields, etc. His pro
fessional specialty is the geology and min
ing of bituminous coal and iron ores. Mr.
d'Invilliers is a member of the University
Club of Philadelphia. Fie married in
Philadelphia, June 6, 1894, Ann E. Mait
land, and they have two daughters, Vir
ginia Maitland, born in 1896, and Anne,
born in 1898. Residence: 6630 McCallum
Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress: 506 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.DISSTON, William:
Manufacturer; bora in Philadelphia, June
24, 1859. He is the fourth son of the late
Henry Disston, of England, who came to

America and in 1840 established the Diss
ton Saw Manufactory. On his father's
side he is descended from John dTsney
who came from Normandy with William
the Conqueror in the eleventh century, and
on his mother's side from a Swedish fam
ily who came to Philadelphia in 1640. He
was educated at the Episcopal Academy
and afterward spent seven years in his
father's manufactory. He is president of
Henry Disston and Sons Saw Works and
of the German American Title and Trust
Company and is a director of the Union
League of Philadelphia. Address : Chest
nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DITSON, Charles Healy:
Publisher of music; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, August 11, 1845; son of
Oliver Ditson and Catherine (Delano) Dit-
son. He was educated in the Boston High
School. His career has been spent in the
business established by his father; and
he is now president of the Oliver Ditson
Company, of Boston, and treasurer of
Charles H. Ditson & Company, of New
York City. Mr. Ditson is a Republican in
politics and a Unitarian in religious belief.
He is a member of the New England So
ciety in New York the -Society of May
flower Descendants ; treasurer of the Oli
ver Ditson Society for the Relief of Needy
Musicians of Boston, and is a member of
the Players' Club of New York City and
the Algonquin Club of Boston. Mr. Dit
son married in New York City, October 7,
1890, Alice M. Tappin. Address : 19 East
Thirty-seventh Street, New York City.
DITTENHOEFEE, A brain Jesse:
Lawyer; born in Charleston, South Caro
lina, March 17, 1836; son of Isaac Ditten
hoefer and Babetta Dittenhoefer. He
moved, when four years old, to New York
City with his parents. He was graduated
from Columbia College with the degree of
A.B., and was at the head of his class in
classics ; and was admitted to the bar in
1857. Mr. Dittenhoefer was appointed by
Governor Fenton of New York; a justice
of the City Court to fill a vacancy, and
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declined. He was. a presidential elector for
Lincoln and Johnson in 1864, and was of
fered an appointment as a United States
district judge for South Carolina, by Presi
dent Lincoln. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1876,
and has also been delegated to other Re
publican conventions. He was chairman of
the German Republican Central Committee
for twelve terms, and counsel for numerous
corporations ; was prominent in numerous
litigations ; and he was counsel for the
brokers and newspaper men who were in
dicted for refusing to answer the United
States Senate Investigating Committee, as
to who gave them the information pub
lished by them in the newspapers, relating
to the sugar scandal. He was counsel for
the directors and captain of the ill-fated
General Slocum and for Rosenthal and
Company, who were prosecuted in the
United States courts in connection with
the Japanese silk-smuggling frauds. He is
an authority on the law of the drama and
stage, and, as counsel for the Metropolitan
Opera House of New York City, he suc
ceeded in defeating the application of the
widow of Richard Wagner for the injunc
tion restraining the production of Parsifal
at that opera house. Mr. Dittenhoefer is
an honorary member of the Actors' Fund.
Office Address : 96 Broadway, New York
City. DIX, Morgan:
Rector of Trinity Parish, New York
City; born in New York City, November
1, 1827; son of General John A. Dix, ex-
governor of New York, and Catharine
(Mofgan) Dix. He was graduated from
Columbia College with the degree of A.B.
in 1848, received from it the degree of
S.T.D. in 1862. He was graduated from
the General Theological Seminary at New
York City in 1852, and received the de
gree of D.D. from Princeton University
in 1896, from the University of Oxford,
England, in 1900, D.C.L. from the Uni
versity of the South, and D.D. from Har
vard University in 1902. He was ordered
deacon by Bishop Chase of New Hamp
shire in 1852, and ordained priest at Phil

adelphia in 1853 by Bishop Alonzo Potter.
He went to Europe and spent more than
a year in travel and study. Dr. Dix be
came connected with Trinity Parish, New
York City in 1855, as assistant minister,
became assistant rector in 1859 and was
elected rector in 1862 and has served as
such ever since. He has been active in
promoting the growth of sisterhoods and
was pastor of the Order of St. Mary's at
its origin and has also taken great interest
in church music and has been very suc
cessful in its improvement. He was a
member of the Choral Society under Dr.
Hodges and took part in the first choral
service ever held in New York. As rector
he has under his immediate direction nine
churches and twenty-six clergymen and
he has been delegate to seven general
conventions, in five of which he was presi
dent of the House of Deputies. Since 1863
he has been president of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese of New York.
Dr. Dix is trustee of Columbia College, of
Sailors Snug Harbor, the Leake and Watts
Orphan Asylum and many others, and is
vice-president of the Protestant Episcopal
Public School of New York City. He is
author of: Commentary on St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans ; Commentary on the
Epistle to the Galatians and Colossians;
Lecture on Pantheism; Lecture on Two
Estates; The Wedded in the Lord and
the Single for the Lord's Sake; Sermons
Doctrinal and Practical ; Memoirs of John
A. Dix; History of Trinity Parish and
many others. Mr. Dix is an ardent col
lector of rare books, manuscripts, etc., and
he has a library which contains many
highly valuable examples of mediaeval lit
erary treasures, together with an extensive
collection of Americana. He is not only
one of the most distinguished and learned
clergymen of his communion but one of the
foremost of Americans, whose opinions
and aid in all worthy movements in citi
zenship as well as in religion are eagerly
sought. Residence: 27 West Twenty-
fifth Street, New York. Address: 187
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DES, William Frederick:
Secretary of the Mutual" Life Insurance
Company of New York; born in Newark,
New Jersey, November 18, 1867; son of
John Edwin Dix and Mary Fisher (Joy)
Dix. He was graduated from Princeton
University with honors in English litera
ture in 1889. Mr. Dix was managing editor
of the Nassau Literary Magazine at Prince
ton. After his graduation he traveled in
Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, India,
Burma, China, and Japan, and on his re
turn he engaged in literary work. He was.
literary editor- of the Churchman in 1894.
In 1900 he became the editor of the Home
Journal, which soon after changed its name
to Town and Country. He resigned that
editorship, May 1, 1906, to become secre
tary of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. He is still, however, a director of
the Stuyvesant Company, who are the pub
lishers of Town and Country. Mr. Dix is
a Republican in politics and a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He is author of:
The Face in the Girandole, a Romance of
Old Furniture; and of The Lost Princess,
a novel. He is a member and registrar
of the Society of Colonial Wars, in the
State of New Jersey; a member of the
Essex Countv Country Club of New Jersey ;
is also president of the Crystal Lake Skat
ing Club of Orange, New Jersey, and a
member of the Authors Club of New York.
Mr. Dix married at East Orange, New Jer
sey, June 2, 1900, Mary Alice Tennille, and
they have two children : One son, Tennille,
born November 21, 1902, and one daughter,
Alison Joy, born November 3, 1905. Resi
dence: 177 Harrison Street, East Orange,
New Jersey. Office address : 32 Nassau
Street, New York City.
DIXON, Arthur:
President of the Arthur Dixon Transfer
Company; born in County Fermanagh, Ire
land, March 27, 1837; son of Arthur Dixon
and Jane (Allen) Dixon. He received his
education in the district and national
schools of his native county, and came to
the United States when he was eighteen
years of age, locating- in Philadelphia. He

remained there until 1858 when he re
moved to Pittsburgh. In 1861 he went to
"Chicago, Illinois, where he became a clerk
in the grocery house of G. G. Cook, but
afterward opened a retail grocery on his
own account. After conducting that busi
ness successfully for two years, he estab
lished a general teaming business, which
he gradually developed into one of the
largest enterprises' of its kind in the coun
try. Upon its incorporation in 1888 he was
made president of the company, a position
which he still retains. During the Civil
War Mr. Dixon was active in raising
troops and liberal in contributing of his
means for their equipment. He is a Re
publican, and has always been active in the
affairs of his party, local, State and na
tional. He was a member of the City
Council from the Second Ward from 1867
until 1891, when he declined a- further
election. He was president of the Council
from 1874 to 1880, and from his watchful
care of the city's expenditures gained the
popular name of the Watch-dog of the
City Treasury. He is a member of the
Twenty-seventh General Assembly, presi
dent of the Irish-Republican Clnb of Chi
cago, president of the National Irish-Re
publican Convention of 1869, was a dele
gate to the National Republican Conven
tion of 1880, and for over twenty years he
has been a member of the city and county
Republican committees. He was director
of the World's Columbian Exposition, and
was for many years a director of the
Metropolitan National Bank. He is now
in the directorates of the Arthur Dixon
Transfer Company (president), the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company, the
Chicago and Grand Rapids Railroad Com
pany, the Dixon Land Association, the
Central Trust Company, the West Pullman
Land Association, and the F. Parmelee
Company. He is a prominent member of
the Methodist Church and a member and
Bible class teacher in the First Methodist
Church of Chicago. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason, and a Knight Templar.
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Clubs of Chicago. He married in Phila
delphia, in 1862, Annie Carson, and his
living children are Arthur, Jr., Clara L.,
George W., Thomas J., Mrs. Kate Dixon-
Martin, L. Grace, and Mrs. Annabel Dixon-
Woodworth. Residence: 313 1 Michigan
Avenue, Chicago. Office address: 29g
Fifth Avenue, Chicago.
DIXON, Joseph M.:
United States Senator; born at Snow
Camp, North Carolina, July 31, 1867. He
attended Earlham College at Richmond, In
diana, and was graduated from Guilford
College, North Carolina, May, i88g. He
was admitted to the bar in December, 1892 ;
and he served as assistant prosecuting at
torney for Missoula County, Montana, from
1893 to 1895. He was elected prosecuting
attorney in 1894 and served until 1897, and
was elected a member' of the Montana
Legislature in 1900. Senator Dixon was a
delegate-at-large from Montana to the Na
tional Republican Convention at Chicago
in 1904. He was elected in 1902 to the
House of Representatives of the Fifty-
eighth Congress, and was reelected in 1904
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and he was
elected United States Senator from Mon
tana for the term ending March 4, 1913,
succeeding Hon. W. A. 'Clark. He mar
ried March, 1896, Carrie M. Worden. Ad
dress : Missoula, Montana.
DIXON, Lewis Seaver:
Physician; bora in New York City,
September 26, 1845; son of Lewis Wheat
on Seaver, who died in 1847, and Susan
(Waters) Dixon, who later married her
cousin Rufus Ellis Dixon, and his surname
was then changed from Seaver to Dixon.
He was educated in Dedham High School,
Massachusetts, and was graduated from
Harvard College as A.B. in 1866, receiv
ing the degree of A.M. in 1870, and
M.D. in 1871. He began practice in Wor
cester in 1871 and removed to Boston in
1882.. Dr. Dixon has visited Europe sev
eral times. He is a Republican in politics.
He is a member of the New England
Ophthamological Society, the American
Opthalmological Society and the Interna

tional Ophthalmological Society. Dr. Dix
on married in Boston, May 20, 1873, Ellen
R. Burrage and they have one son, Roland
Burrage Dixon, born in 1875. Address:
Boston, Massachusetts.
DIXON, Lincoln:
Congressman; born in Vernon, Jennings
County, Indiana, February 9, i860; son of
Samuel M. Dixon and Belinda (Foster)
Dixon. He was educated at the Vernon
Academy and entered the Indiana State
University in 1876, from which institution
he was graduated in 1880 with the degree
of A.B. He began the practice of law at
North Vernon in 1882. He was elected
prosecuting attorney for the Sixth Judicial
Circuit of Indiana in 1884; reelected in
1886, 1888 and 1890, and was a member of
the Democratic State Committee from 1897
until he was nominated for Congress in
1904. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress in 1904 from the Fourth Indiana
District and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress in 1906. . Mr. Dixon married at North
Vernon, October 16, 1884, Kate Storey.
Address : North Vernon, Indiana.
DIXON, Samuel Gibson:
Scientist; born in Philadelphia, March
23, 1851 ; son of Isaac and Ann (Gibson)
Dixon. He received his preparatory school
education at the Mantua Academy, Phila
delphia. He prepared for Harvard, but
instead went abroad to study. Returning
to Philadelphia, he was graduated from
the Mercantile College, and then studied
law, being admitted to the bar in 1887.
He studied medicine and was graduated
from the Medical School of the University
of Pennsylvania in 1886, having been sin
gularly honored by the trustees before
graduation by an appointment to the posi
tion of Assistant Demonstrator of Phy
siology. He went abroad again to study
and was graduated from the Department
of Bacteriology of King's College, London.
He took the course in the State College of
Medicine, London, and afterwards Petten-
kofer in Munich. While in Europe he
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cities. On his return in 1888, he was made
Professor of Hygiene in the Medical School
and Dean of the Auxiliary Department of
Medicine of the University of Pennsylva
nia. He left the University in 1890 to be
come Professor of Bacteriology and Mic
roscopical Technology at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Execut
ive Curator in 1892 and President in 1896,
which last two positions he still holds.
He , served for several years as a member
of the Board of Education of Philadelphia,
and as chairmaii of the Committee on Hy
giene did much to improve the sanitary
conditions of the schools of that city. Dr.
Dixon is vice-president of the Ludwick
Institute, vice-president of the Anti-Tuber
culosis Society, of Pennsylvania, vice-presi
dent of the Zoological Society of Phila
delphia, a member of the Board of Man
agers, of the Grandom Institution, a mem
ber of the Council of the American Philo
sophical Society and of the Historical So
ciety of Pennsylvania, a director of the
Wistar Institute of Anatomy of the Uni-,
versity of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the
College of Physicians, member of the
Philadelphia County Medical Society,
Pennsylvania Medical Society, American
Medical Association, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and in
1893 was made an honorary member of the
Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et
Mathematiques de Cherbourg, and he was
recently elected an honorary member of
the Academy of Physics and Chemistry, of
Palermo, Italy, and awarded the medal of
the first-class for scientific and humanitar
ian merit. Dr. Dixon is one of the found
ers of the Geographical Society of Phila
delphia. His publications cover a large
field in Hygiene and Bacteriology, but he
is best known for his original work in
tuberculosis. On October 19, 1889, he an
nounced through the Medical News of
Philadelphia, his great discovery producing
immunity to tuberculosis in the lower ani
mals, and his fluid extract, used more or
less successfully in the treatment of tub
erculosis. He was appointed Commissioner
of Health of Pennsylvnaia by Governor
Pennypacker, June 6, 1905, and reappointed

for four years by Governor Stuart, March
1, 1907. Offices : Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania,
and 1900 Race Street, Philadelphia. Home
address : Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
DOAN, Fletcher Morris:
Jurist; born at Circleville, Pickaway
County, Ohio, July 21, 1846; son of John
Doan and Maria Doan. He received his
early education in the common schools of
Ohio, and afterward entered Ohio Wesleyan
University, from which he was graduated
as A.B. in 1867 and A.M. in 1872, and he
was graduated from the Albany Law School
at Albany, New York, with the degree of
LL.B. in 1868. He was admitted to the
bar of the Supreme Court of New York in
1868, and to the Supreme Court of Missouri
in 1869, practicing at Bowling Green in the
latter State until 1894, when he went to
Arizona and was admitted to the Supreme
Court of that State, locating in practice at
Florence, Pinal County. He was district
attorney of Pinal County from 1894 to
1896, and on July 8, 1897, was appointed
associate justice of the Supreme Court and
judge of the .Second Judicial District of
Arizona, in which office he is still- serving.
Judge Doan is a Republican in his political
views. He married, at Bowling Green,
Missouri, December 25, 1873, Anna Murray.
Address : Florence, Arizona.
DOANE, Bennie W.:
Instructor in Stanford University; born
in Iowa, in 1871 ; son of E. L. Doane and
Sara (Lewis) Doane. He was graduated
from Stanford University as A.B. in 1896.
He was assistant zoologist of the Wash
ington State College from 1896 to 1899;
assistant professor of zoology and ento
mology at the Washington State College in
1899 .and 1901; superintendent of Fisheries,
Experiment Stations, at Keyport, Washing
ton, from 1901 to 1903; and superintendent
of Puget Sound and Eastern Oyster Com
pany, from 1903 to 1905. He was assistant
in entomology in 1905 and 1906, and has
been instructor in entomology since 1906 at
the Stanford University. In politics he is
a Republican. He is president of the Santa
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member of the Sigma Xi Society. Mr.
Doane married in McMinnville, Oregon,
1898, Nora Cooper, and they have one son,
Donald C. Doane, born in 1906. Address :
527 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto, California.
DOANE, William Croswell:
Bishop of Albany ; born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, March 2, 1832; son of George
Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey,
and Eliza (Greene) Doane. He was gradu
ated at Burlington (New Jersey) College
in 1850 with the degree of A.B. and later
as A.M. and LL.D. He" received the de
gree of D.D. from Columbia, Union,
Hobart, Trinity College (Hartford), and
from the Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford, England and Dublin, Ireland. He
was ordered deacon March, 1853; and or
dained priest 1856; and he served as assist
ant to his father, the rector of St. Mary's
Church; and later became rector of St.
Barnabas' Church at Burlington, New Jer
sey, until 1863. From 1863 to 1868 he was
rector at St. John's, Hartford, Connecticut;
and was at St. Peter's at Albany, New
York, from 1867 to 1869. He was elected
in December, 1868, and consecrated in
February, 1869, bishop of Albany, New
York. He was a member of the Board of
Regents of the University of the State of
New York, and became chancellor from
1903. He has begun and directed the con
struction of All Saints' Cathedral, at Al
bany, New York; founded the Sisterhood
of the Holy Child Jesus, St. Agnes' School
for Girls, and the Child's Hospital at Al
bany. He is author of: Questions on the
Collects, Epistles and Gospels ; Mosaics, or
the Harmony of Collects, Epistle and Gos
pel for the Sundays of the Christian Year;
Life and Writings of the Second Bishop of
New Jersey; and Rhymes from Time to
Time; also numerous addresses, sermons
and pamphlets. He married at Newark,
New Jersey, in 1853, Sarah Catharine Con-
dit. Address : 29 Elk Street, Albany, New
York. DOBBS, Willoughby Barrett:
Lawyer; born at Portsmouth, Virginia,
September 9, 1861 ; son of Rev. C. E. W.

Dobbs, D.D. and Mary Elizabeth (Barrett)
Dobbs. He was educated in the public
schools of Lexington, Kentucky, Warren
College at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and
took the classical course of Bethel College
Russellville, Kentucky, graduating as A.B.
in 1880. Mr. Dobbs, on leaving college,
taught school in Fayette and Warren Coun
ties, Kentucky. He was admitted to the
bar in January, 1883, in the Warren Circuit
Court at Bowling Green, Kentucky; was
editor of the Democrat, Bowling Green,
Kentucky, in 1884; managing editor of the
Daily Times and Daily Gazette in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, from 1885 to 1886; was
proprietor and editor of the Allen Sentinel
it Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, in
1888 and 1889. He practiced law at Scotts-
/ille, Kentucky, in 1887 to 1892. He was a
member of the Central Board of Examiners
)f the United States Civil Service Commis
sion at Washington, D. C, 1892 to- 1895;
:hief examiner of the Police Department,
New York City. Mr. Dobbs is a Demo
crat in politics and was chairman of the
Democratic County Committee of Allen
County, Kentucky, i8gi-g2. In religious
affiliations he is a Baptist He is a charter
member of the Kentuckians ; is regent of
Bronx Council 1416, Royal Arcanum, and
junior warden of Hebron Lodge 813, F. and
A. M. His recreations are music, reading
and games. Mr. Dobbs married June' 7,
1884, Mary Ragland, of Bowling Green,
Kentucky, and by that union there are seven
children : Hugh, born in 1885 ; Paul, born
in 1887; Carol, born in 1889; Mary Ruth,
born in 1892; Willoughby, bofn in 1896;
Theodore Roosevelt, born in 1899; Mar
garet, born in 1901, and Eliza, born in
1903. Residence: East 217th Street, hear
Barnes Avenue, Williamsbridge. Address:
203 Broadway, New York City.
DOBSON, George Frederick:
Editor; born in Liverpool, England,
October 5, 1850; son of Henry E. Dobson
and Ellen (Pinkham) Dobson. He was
educated in the Liverpool Academy, then
came to the United States and engaged
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bany and Washington correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle, and is now managing
editor of that paper. Is president of the
Harway Improvement Company and the
Epoch Realty Company, and is secretary
and director of Dreamland, the Hanover
Theatre Company, and the Metropolitan
Jockey Club, and a director of the Law
rence Realty Company, the Long Beach
Estates and the Laurelton Land Company.
He is a Democrat in politics and an Epis
copalian in his religious adherence. Mr.
Dobson visits Europe every year. He is
a trustee of the Pringle Memorial Home,-
and is a member of the Royal Arcanum,
and the Brooklyn and Crescent Clubs. He
married in New York City, November 10,
1871, Mary Marr, and they have two chil
dren: Evelyn, born in 1874, and George,
born in 1878. Residence: 90 Joralemon
Street, Brooklyn. Office address : Eagle
Office, Brooklyn, New York.
DOCKEBY, Alexander Monroe:
Physician, banker and ex-governor; born
at Gallatin, Daviess County, Missouri,
February 11, 1846; son of vVillis E. Dock
ery and Sarah E. Dockery. He received his
early education in the common schools of
Daviess County, and afterward at Macon
Academy, Macon, " Missouri, following
which he entered the St. Louis Medical
College, from which he was graduated with
the degree of M.D., March 2, 1865 ; and the
University of Missouri later conferred upon
him the degree of LL.D. Then, after at
tending lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medi
cal College, New York, and at Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, he began
the practice of medicine at Chillicothe,
Missouri, continuing for eight years until,
in 1874, he abandoned his medical practice
to join in the organization of the Farmers'
Exchange Bank of Gallatin, Missouri, of
which he was cashier until November, 1882,
when he was elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress from the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Missouri. He was biennially re
elected seven times, serving until the close
of the Fifty-fifth Congress in i89g, making
a continuous service of sixteen years. At
the election in igoo he was elected gover

nor of Missouri, in which office he served
for four years ending January 9, 1905.
Governor Dockery has been a life-long
Democrat, and one of the recognized lead
ers of the party in his state and in Con
gress; and he is a Methodist in his re
ligious affiliation. He was curator of the
University of Missouri from 1872 to 1882,
and is now president of the Gallatin Board
of Education. Governor Dockery is a
prominent Mason, and a director of the
Masonic Home of Missouri; and he is
also a member of the Odd Fellows Order.
He married at Chillicothe, Missouri, April
14, 1869, Mary Elizabeth Bird, and they
have eight children, all of whom are now
deceased. Address : Gallatin, Missouri.
DODD, Amzi:
Jurist, insurance president; born in what
is now a part of the township of Bloom
field, Essex County, New Jersey, March 2,
1823; second son of Dr. Joseph S. Dodd
and Maria Dodd, daughter of Rev. Stephen
Grover. His grandfather was General
John Dodd, and he is a descendant of
Daniel Dodd, a native of England, who
died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1665. He
was prepared for college at Bloomfield
Academy, with such excellent results that
he was enabled to enter Princeton College
in the middle of the sophomore year, in
the spring of 1839, and was graduated with
the degree of A.B. and theliighest honor,
pronouncing the Latin salutatory at com
mencement in September, 1841. He en
gaged in teaching for four years, at the
same time studying law, and received a
license to practice law in New Jersey in
January, 1848, and became associated in
practice with F. T. Frelinghuysen (after
ward secretary of State of the United
States). He was clerk of the Common
Council of Newark, New Jersey, from 1850
to 1853, but resigned because of the in
creased demands of his law practice. He
became active in politics in connection with
the organization of the Republican party in
New Jersey, and he presided over the first
Republican mass-meeting held at Newark
in the summer of 1856, and he was the Re
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Newark district in that year, and was
strongly supported, although the Democra
tic candidate, as expected, was elected. He
took an active part in the public discus
sions in the campaigns of 1856 and i860,
in behalf of Republican principles and candi
dates. He lived in Newark until i860,
and since then has been a resident of
Bloomfield. He was elected to the State
Legislature from that district and served
in the session of 1863, but declined a sec
ond term. In 1863 he was appointed math
ematician of the Mutual Benefit Life Insur
ance Company. In 1871, when the office
of vice-chancellor was created to meet the
demands of the increasing equity business,
he was appointed to the office by Governor
Randolph, on the nomination of Chancellor
Zabriskie, and served until 1875. In 1872
he was appointed one of the special judges
of the Court of Errors and Appeals by
Governor Parker, and reappointed in 1878
by Governor McClellan. He resigned that
office in 1882, and also the vice-chancel
lorship (to which he had been reappointed
in 1881) in order to become president of
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany, in which office he continued until
1902, when he retired. He was appointed
one of the managers of the New Jersey
Soldiers' Home, and served in that capacity
for over thirty years. Judge Dodd mar
ried at Newarl*, New Jersey, in 1852, Jane,
daughter of William Frame. Address :
Bloomfield, New Jersey.
DODD, Frank Howard:
Publisher; born at Bloomfield, New Jer
sey, April 12, 1844; son of M. W. Dodd.
He was educated at Bloomfield Academy
in his native place. Until 1870 he was con
nected with the publishing business of his
father, M. W. Dodd (founded in Brick
Church Chapel, Printing House Square,
1839). He succeeded to his business in
1870, and with Edward S. Mead formed
the firm of Dodd & Mead ; and is now the
active head of Dodd, Mead & Company,
publishers. He established the Bookman,
in 1895 ; the New International Encyclope
dia in 1902, and other important publica
tions. Mr. Dodd is president of the

American Publishers' Association, presi
dent of The Riverside Association, and
trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank.
He is a member of the New York Cham
ber of Commerce, the Century and City
Clubs of New York City, and the National
Club of London. Mr. Dodd married, in
1868, Martha Bliss Parker, and they have
four children : Edward H., Jeauie S., Har
riet P. and Katharine R. Residence: 333
West Seventy-seventh Street. Address:
372 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
DODDBTDGE, William Brown:
Railway official; born at Circleville,
Ohio, October 19, 1848; son of. Nathaniel
Willis Doddridge and Annie E. (Brown)
Doddridge. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Columbus, Ohio, until 1862,
when he began business life as a telegraph
messenger, and in 1866 he became a tele
graph operator with the Pittsburgh, Colum
bus and Cincinnati Railroad for a year,
then was agent from 1867 to 1878, and di
vision superintendent from 1878 to' 1882, of
the Union Pacific Railway. He then be
came general superintendent of the Idaho
Division of the same railway until No
vember 30, 1884; business manager of the
Anaconda Copper Smelting Company from
1884 to 1886; superintendent of the Central
branch of the Union Pacific Railway from
April 1, 1887, to January 1, 1889; and
from June 27, 1887, to January 1, 1889, he
was also superintendent of the Western
Division of the Missouri Pacific Railway
He was general manager of the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Railroad, from Janu
ary 1, 1889, to May 18, 1891 ; and of its suc
cessor, the St. Louis Southwestern Rail
way, from the last named date until May
9, 1893 ; then general manager of the Mis
souri Pacific Railway system until March
1, 1900. In 1901 and 1902 he was vice-pres
ident and general manager of the Tennes
see Central Railroad, and since February,
1902, he has been acting in a private ca
pacity as a railroad expert, serving various
railway companies and financial institutions.
Mr. Doddridge married, in 1870, Frances
L. Barnum. Address: 1409 Troost Ave
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DODGE, Charles Bichards:
Consulting fibre expert; bgrn in Coving
ton County, Mississippi, July 17, 1847; son
of Hon. Jacob Richards Dodge and Frances
Gove (Buxton) Dodge, both natives of
New Hampshire; and he is of the eighth
generation from the original American an
cestors who came from England in 1638.
He was educated in the common schools
and took a special course of two years
in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale
from 1865 to 1867. He became connected
with the United States Department of
Agriculture in 1867, and he was assistant
entomologist and had charge of the Ag
ricultural Museum for ten years. In 1870
he began a special study of fibres. From
1890 to July, 1898, he was in charge of
the office of Fibre Investigations of the
Department of Agriculture, since discon
tinued. He was editor and publisher of
Field and Forest (scientific journal) from
1872 to 1875, and he was special agent in
agriculture of the tenth census. Has pub
lished twenty special reports on fibres and
various fibre industries, including a Dic
tionary of the Fibre Plants of the World.
He has been connected in an official capa
city with ten international expositions, and
was a member of the Jury of Awards at
the Expositions at Paris in 1889, Chicago
in 1893, Atlanta in 1895, Nashville in 1897,
Omaha in 1898, Paris in 1900, Buffalo in
igoi and Saint Louis in 1902; and he was
director of agriculture of the United States
Commission to the Paris Exposition of
1900. In connection with his services in
that capacity received from the French
Government the decorations of Chevalier
du Merite Agricole de France in 1890, and
Chevalier de ,1a Legion d'Honneur de
France in 1901. He made a fibre survey
of Mexico and Yucatan 'in 1902. Mr.
Dodge has contributed extensively to maga
zines, technical and other journals, and
was for some time editor of Outing, and
he was for three years agricultural editor
of the New York Press. He is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and a member of the
Philosophical Society of Washington, the

Washington Entomological Society, the Na
tional Geographical Society, and the Cos
mos Club of Washington. He married.
January 23, 1868, Mira, daughter of Colon
el Josiah Reab, of New Haven, Connecti
cut. Address : Cosmos Club, Washington,
D. C.
DODGE, Charles Wright:
Professor of biology; born at Cape Vin
cent, Jefferson County, New York, January
15, 1863; son of Jasper Newton Dodge and
Charlotte Augusta (Wright) Dodge. He
was graduated from the Detroit High
School in 1882, and from the University of
Michigan as B.S. in Biology, in 1886, and
he received the post-graduate degree of
M.Sc. in 1889. Mr. Dodge was teacher of
botany and zoology in the Detroit High
School from 1886 to 1890; and he was
instructor in biology in the University of
Rochester from 1890 to 1892 and since
then has been professor of biology in the
same institution ; and he has also been
biologist of the Rochester Health Depart
ment since 1894. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Dodge is a fellow of the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science, and of the Society of American
Naturalists. He is an associate of the
Ornithologists Union; a member of the
American Public Health Association, the
National Geographic Society, the New
York State Science Teachers Association,
(of which he was president in 1900), the
Rochester Academy of Science (of which
he was president in 1902 and 1903, and
corresponding secretary from 1892 to 1902),
and the Rochester Academy of Medicine,
and he is an associate member of the
Biological Society of Washington, D. C.
He is also a member of the Delta Upsilon
fraternity, of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
(honorary) and of the Genesee Valley
Club of Rochester. He married at Roch
ester, New York, July 18, 1894, Louise
Wolcott Hooker, and they have two daugh
ters, Charlotte Wright Dodge, born in
1895, and Eleanor' Wolcott Dodge, bora
in 1897. Residence: 330 Oxford Street,
Rochester. Office address: University of
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DODGE, David C:
Railway official; born at Shirley, Middle
sex County, Massachusetts, November 17,
1837; son of Levi Dodge and Susannah A.
Dodge. He was educated at Lawrence
Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, until
February, 1853, when he entered railway
service as chairman of the engineer corps
on the Fox River Valley Railroad in Illi
nois and Wisconsin, and later in the en
gineer corps of the Wisconsin Central Rail
road. He was in the engineering depart
ment of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska
Railroad in 1856 and 1857, and from 1857
to 1864 was general freight and passenger
agent and paymaster of the same road. In
1864 and 1865 he was general agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway at Ne
vada, Iowa, and from 1867 to 1870 was
general agent of the same road at Denver,
Colorado. He was general agent of the
Kansas Pacific Railway at the same city, in
1871 and 1872; then became traffic manager
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway
from 1872 to 1878, and general superin
tendent fiom 1878 to 1880, and general
manager of the same road from 1880 to
1884. He was general manager of the
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway
and its successor the Rio Grande Western
Railway from August, 1886 to July, 1901,
and second vice-president of the same road
from May, i8go, to July, 1901. He was
also vice-president and general manager,
from 1885 to 1887, and afterward second
vice-president of the Mexican National
Railway, and in 1900 and 1901 he was first
vice-president of the Colorado Midland
Railway, retiring from active railway busi
ness in July, 1901. Mr: Dodge married at
New. York City, November 15, 1859, Emily
K Oatman. Address : Denver, Colorado.
DODGE, Grenville Mellen:
Civil engineer; born at Danvers, Massa
chusetts, April 12, 1831; son of Sylvanus
Dodge and Julia M. (Phillips) Dodge. He
was graduated from Norwich University in
1850, with the degrees of C.E., M.A., and
LL.D. He served as civil engineer before
the war, but entered the United States
Army as colonel of the Fourth Iowa In

fantry in May, 1861. He was brigadier-
general and major-general and commanded
regiment, brigade, the Sixteenth Army
Corps, and department and Army of
the Missouri. He took part in the cam
paigns of Grant and Sherman and of Cur
tis in the West. He was chief engineer of
and built the Union Pacific; the Texas Pa
cific; Missouri, Kansas and Texas; Colo
rado and Southern; Fort Worth and Den
ver City Railway, and many others. General
Dodge has been president of several rail
roads and director of many and of several
financial institutions. He is now chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Colorado
and Southern Railway; director of the
Fort Worth and Denver City Railway; and
a director of the Bowling Green Trust
Company. He is a Republican and served
as a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress
from Iowa, from 1867 to 1869. He was a
member of the Commission for the Inves
tigation of the War Department in the
Spanish War by appointment of President
McKinley. General Dodge is president of
the Society of the Army of the Tennessee;
an honorary member of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland; and commander
of the Loyal Legion of New York. He is
an Odd Fellow and is honorary member
of the Union League and a member of Army
and Navy, and Republican Clubs of New
York. Residence : Council Bluffs, Iowa. Ad
dress : 1 Broadway, New York City.
DODGE, James Mapes:
Mechanical engineer; born at Waverly,
New Jersey, June 30, 1852; son of William
Dodge and Mary (Mapes) Dodge. He was
educated in the Academy at Newark, New
Jersey, and in Cornell University, to jun
ior year, and. at Rutgers College. After
leaving college he engaged in mechanical
engineering, directing special attention to
the improvement of conveying machinery
and devices in the' manufacture of
which he extensively engaged, and he is
now president of the Link-Belt Engineer
ing Company, of Philadelphia. He is also
president of the Dodge Coal Storage Com
pany and of the Stair Lift Company, at
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president in 1903 of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, and is a member
and has been vice-president of the Frank
lin Institute of Philadelphia. He is a Re
publican in his political affiliation. Mr.
Dodge is a member of the Union League,
Corinthian Yacht and Germantown Cricket
Clubs of Philadelphia. He married at Chi
cago, Illinois, September 10, 1879, Josephine
Kern. Residence: McKean Avenue, Ger
mantown, Philadelphia. Office: Nicetown,
Philadelphia.
DODGE, Joshua Eric:
Jurist; born at West Cambridge (now
Arlington), Massachusetts, October 25,
1854; son of Joshua Giddings Dodge and
Mary F. (Herrick) Dodge. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered Iowa
College, at Grinnell, Iowa, from which he
was graduated in 1875, with the de
gree of S.B., and received LL.D. de
gree from the same college in 1906. He
was graduated from the Law School of Bos
ton University as LL.B. in 1877. He en
gaged in the practice of law at Racine,
Wisconsin, in 1878, and continued until
1893; was assistant attorney-general of the
United States from 1893 to 1897, and prac
ticed law at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1897
and 1898; and in November, 1898, he was
appointed "one of the associate justices of
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in which
position he is still serving. Judge Dodge
has always been a Democrat, and he was
a member of the General Assembly of
Wisconsin in 1891 and I8g2. He is un
married and resides in Milwaukee. Official
address: Madison, Wisconsin.
DODGE, Raymond:
Professor of Psychology; born in Wo
burn, Massachusetts, in 1871 ; son of George
S. Dodge, M.D. and Anna (Pickering)
Dodge. Educated at Williams College, re-
¦ ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1893 ; Ph.D.
University of Halle a Saale, 1896. Was
assistant librarian Williams College from
1893 to 1894; assistant to Professor Benno
Erdmann, University of Halle, from 1896
to 1897; professor of philosophy, Ursinus
College, from 1897 to 1898; instructor in

philosophy, Wesleyan University from 1898
to 1899; professor of phychology, Wesley
an University since 1902; is also Cooperat
ing editor of the Psychological Bulletins.
Is a member of the American Philosophic
al Association and of the American Psy
chological Association. He married at
vVest Acton, Massachusetts, August 15,
i8g7, Henrietta Cutler. Residence: 107
Lawn Avenue, Middletown. Address :
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con
necticut.DODGE, Theodore Ayrculit:
Lieutenant-colonel of the United States
Afmy and author; born in Pittsfield, Mas
sachusetts, May 28, 1842. He received his
military education in Berlin, and was after
ward a student at University College, Lon
don and the University of Heidelberg. He
was graduated from the London University
in 1861 and from Columbia University in
1866 with the degree of LL.B. He joined
the army of the Potomac in July, 1861, and
he lost a leg at Gettysburg. In 1864 he
was major of volunteers and was then
brevetted colonel. He was commissioned
captain of the Forty-fourth United States
Infantry in July, 1866, and received the
brevet of lieutenant-colonel of the United
States Army and from January, 1864, was
chief of a Bureau of the War Department
until he retired in 1870. He is author of:
Chancellorsville, 1881 ; A Bird's-eye View
of Our Civil War, 1883 ; A Chat in the Sad
dle, 1885; Great Captains, i88g; History of
the Art of War : Alexander, i8go ; Hanni
bal, i8gi ; Caesar, i8g2 ; Gustavus Adolphus,
i8g5 ; Napoleon, 1904 ; and Riders of Many
Lands, 1893. Address : 42 Broadway, New
York City.
DODGE, Walter Phelps:
Barrister-at-law ; born at Beyrout, Syria,
June 13, 1869 ; son of Rev. D. Stuart Dodge,
D.D. and Ellen (Phelps) Dodge. He was
educated at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y.,
and by private tutors preparatory to enter
ing the Yale class of 1891. He was also
a student at the University of Oxford in
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in 1898. He has practiced law in London
for some years, being one of the very few
Americans called to the English bar. His
ancestor, John Phelps, was admitted in
1641 by the same Inns of Court (Middle
Temple). Mr. Dodge has devoted his at
tention very largely to literature and is
author of: Piers Gaveston (a standard
work on the reign of Edward II.) ; From
Squire to Prince (history of the German
Provinces of East Frisia) ; Three Greek
Tales; As the Crow Flies; A Strong Man
Armed; The Sea of Love. He has just
published in London, The Real Sir Richard
Burton. Mr. Dodge is a Republican in
politics. He is a fellow of the Royal Geo
graphical Society, the American Geograph
ical Society and Sons of the 'Revolution.
He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis,
Authors and Players' Clubs of New York
City and the Reform and Wellington
Clubs of London. Mr. Dodge married
first, in 1888, Ida Cooke, and second, in
1905, Ethel Adlard Coles, and hei has three
children: Ada (born in 1889), Stuart
(born in 1891), and Rosemary (born in
1906). Address: The Grange, Simsbury,
Connecticut.DODGE, Willis Edward:
Lawyer; born at Lowell, Vermont, May
11, 1857; son of William Baxter Dodge
and Harriette (Newell) Dodge. He was
graduated from the St. Johnsbury (Ver
mont) Academy; and then he engaged in
the study of law. He was admitted to the
bar in September, 1880, went West and
built up a successful practice, and for sev
eral years past has been general attorney
for the Great Northern Railway, with
headquarters at St. Paul. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and he is a member of the
Minneapolis Club and of the Minnesota and
Lafayette Clubs of St. Paul. Mr. Dodge
married at Vinton, Iowa, March 27, 1882,
Hattie Maud Crist. Residence : 422 Mar
shall Avenue, St. Paul. Office address :
Law Department, Great Northern Railway,
St. Paul, Minnesota.
DODSON, John E.:
Actor; born in London, England, Sep

tember 25, 1858. He was educated for the.
bar. He first appeared on the stage at
Prince's Theatre, Manchester, September,
1876, with J. L. Toole. He played in the
British provinces until September, 1889,
when he came to the United States with the
Kendals, appearing at the ' Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York City, as Dr. Penguin in
The Scrap of Paper, in 1889. He remained
comedian of the Kendal Company until
June, 1894, and as principal comedian at
the Empire Theatre Company of New York,
appearing as Richelieu, until 1898, when
he appeared as John Weatherby in
Because She Loved Him So. In 1901
he joined Mrs. Fiske at the Manhattan
Theatre; played Captain Warriner, in Mir
anda of the Balcony, and then went to
London and played Simonides, in the pro
duction of Ben Hur at Drury Lane Theatre,
London. He produced An American In
vasion, playing John Brainard, at the Bijou
Theatre, New York City, in October, 1902;
played Simonides in a revival of Ben Hur
at New York Theatre in September, 1903,
and played Pierre in. the all-star cast of
The Two Orphans touring the country dur
ing the season of 1904 and 1905 ; and played
Fagin in the new version of Oliver Twist,
by Conyers Carr in New York City, March,
1905. He created the title role in General
Lew Wallace's Prince of India at Chicago
in February, 1906, also in October of the
same year, Stephen Roland in Truth, by
Clyde Fitch. Mr. Dodson is a member
of the Lotos, Players', Lambs', British
Schools and University and the New York
Whist Clubs. Address: Lotos Club, New
York City.
D'OENCH, Albert Frederick:
Architect; born in St. Louis, Mo., De
cember 25, 1852; son of William and Marie
(Braasch) D'Oench. He was graduated
from Washington University, St. Louis,
and M.E. in 1872, and after that at Stutt
gart, Wurtemberg, Germany, graduating
from the Royal Polytechnic Institute there.
He has been engaged in practice of archi
tecture from 1875, and is now senior mem
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was superintendent of buildings of the City
of New York from 1885 to 1889, and was
member and chairman of the Board of Ex
aminers of the City of New York, from
1900 to 1902. Mr. D'Oench is a director
of the Germania Life Insurance Company,
and the Eden Musee Americain Company.
He is a fellow of the American Institute of
Architects and the New York Chapter of
the same and member of the Architectural
League of New York, the Beta Theta Pi,
the Reform and Graduates' Clubs. Mr.
D'Oench married in January, 1901, Alice
Grace, and he has one son, Russell Gil
christ D'Oench (born in 1901). Residence:
Sunset Hill, Manhasset, Long Island, New
York, and 1130 Madison Avenue, New
York City. Office address : 289 Fourth Ave
nue, New York City.
DOGGETT, Frederick Fobes:
Physician; born in Barnstable, Massa
chusetts, February 22, 1855; son of Theo-
philus Pipon and Elizabeth (Bates) Dog-
gett. He was graduated from Phillips Ex
eter Academy in 1873 and from Harvard
College. in 1877; and he studied medicine
in the Harvard Medical School, receiving
his degree of M.D. in 1880. He has held
many important positions and belongs to
several societies and orders. Dr. Doggett
married in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 7,
1880, Mary Chipman DeWolf, and they
have had four children. Address : Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
DOHME, Alfred Bobert Louis:
Manufacturing chemist; born in Balti
more, Maryland, February 15, 1867; son of
Charles E. Dohme and Ida (Schultz)
Dohme. He was prepared for college at
the Friends' School at Baltimore, and then
entered Johns Hopkins University, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1886,
and took post-graduate courses in chemis
try, mineralogy and geology, receiving the
degree of Ph.D. in 1889, then went abroad,
studying at the University of Berlin, the
laboratory of Fresenius at Wiesbaden and
the University of Strassburg until 1891,
when he engaged in business in Baltimore
as a manufacturing chemist, and he is now

vice-president of the corporation of Sharp
and Dohme, manufacturing chemists, of
Baltimore, who are among the leaders in
the modern improvement in pharmaceutical
manufacturing methods. Dr. Dohme is one
of the leading members of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, was chairman
of its Scientific Section in 1898, and at the
Decennial Convention held in Washington
in May, 1900, he was elected secretary of
the National Committee for the Revision
Of the Pharmacopeia of the United States
for the decade from 1900 to 1910. He was
elected lecturer on pharmacy at Johns Hop
kins University, medical department in
1901. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the Deutsche Chemische
Gesellschaft of Berlin, Societe Chimique de
Paris, the Society of Chemical Industry,
London, German Pharmaceutical Associa
tion, and the Maryland Pharmaceutical As
sociation, and was president of the latter in
1899 and 1900. He is a frequent contribu
tor to chemical and pharmaceutical journals
and proceedings. Dr. Dohme is a member
of the University, Baltimore, Athletic, Ger
mania, Johns Hopkins and Baltimore Coun
try Clubs of that city. He married in Bal
timore, February 15, 1893, Emma D. Blum-
ner, and they have five children: Dorothy,
Adelyn, Frances, Louise and Emily. Resi
dence : Chestnutwood, Roland Park, Balti
more. Office address: 303 West Pratt
Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
DOLAN, Thomas:
Manufacturer; born in Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, October. 27, 1834.
He was educated in the common schools,
and in 1851 he began his business life as a
clerk in a Philadelphia commission house
engaged in selling knit goods and hosiery.
Ten years in that house gave to him a
thorough knowledge of the business, and in
1861 he began in a small way the manu
facture of knit goods, and during the years
of the Civil War found a large demand for
the product of his factory. In a few years
he became convinced that there was an
opening for the manufacture at home of
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time only been made abroad, and he es
tablished in 1866, the Keystone Knitting
Mills, and began their production, especially
what are known as Berlin shawls, in which
he had a very large trade Until 1871, since
which time he has been chiefly and since
1882 exclusively engaged in the manufac
ture of worsted goods for men's wear. Mr.
Dolan's career as a manufacturer has been
marked by progressive methods. He has
introduced the latest machinery and has
been a pioneer in the development of
American supremacy in textile manufac
tures and in replacing imported goods with
American products. Not only is he
.the head of Thomas Dolan and Com
pany, the largest manufacturers of materials
for men's wear in this country, but he is
also president of the Quaker City Dye
Works, and has been president of the Phila
delphia Associatidn of Textile Manufac
turers, president of the Textile Dyers' As
sociation; vice-president of the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers, etc.
He is also president of The United Gas
Improvement Company, and director of the
Philadelphia Traction Company, the Brush
Electric Company, the School of Design
for Women, University Hospital, the Penn
sylvania Museum of Art, and many other
institutions and corporations. He is a
trustee of the McKinley National Monu
ment Association, and a member of the Na
tional Committee to Promote the Univer
sity of the United States. He has for many
years been vice-president of the Union
League Club, and was one of the founders
and long president of the Manufacturers'
Club of Philadelphia. Address : 1809 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia.
DOLE, Charles Fletcher:
Clergyman; born at Brewer, Maine, May
17, 1845; son of Rev. Nathan Dole and
Caroline (Fletcher) Dole. He graduated
from Harvard College in 1868; A.M. in
1870. He afterward entered Andover Theo
logical Seminary and was graduated
therefrom in 1872. He was in the
United States Service for three months in
1864 in the Fourth Unattached Conipany,

Massachusetts Militia. He was professor
of Greek in the University of Vermont in
1873; minister of Plymouth Church at
Portland, Maine, from 1874 to 1876, and
since 1876 has been minister of the First
Congregational (Unitarian) Church at
Jamaica Plain, Boston. He was Ingersoll
lecturer at Harvard, 1906; D.D. Bowdoin
College, 1906. He is a trustee of
the Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Ala
bama, and is a member of the American
Peace Society and the Anti-Imperialist
League; the Boston City Club; the Twen
tieth Century Club, and various societies
and clubs. In addition to his ministerial
labors Mr. Dole has been extensively oc
cupied with literature, and he is author of
The Citizen and His Neighbor; Early He
brew Stories ; Jesus and the Men About
Him ; The American Citizen ; A Cathechism
of Liberal Faith; The Golden Rule in
Business; The Coming People; Luxury and
Sacrifice; The Theology of Civilization;
The Young Citizen; Noble Womanhood;
The Religion of a Gentleman ; The Problem
of Duty; From Agnosticism to Theism;
The Smoke and the Flame; The Spirit of
Democracy; etc. Mr. Dole married at
Brunswick, Maine, March 4, 1873, Frances
Drummond, and they have living two chil
dren : James Drummond Dole and Winifred
Dole. Address: Jamaica Plain, Massachu
setts. DOLE, Nathan Haskell:
Author; born at Chelsea, Massachusetts,
August 31, 1852; son of the Rev. Nathan
Dole and Caroline (Fletcher) Dole. Was
graduated from Harvard in 1874. For
four years after graduation, he was en
gaged in teaching. Took up literary work
and became literary and musical editor of
the Philadelphia Press; was for thirteen
years literary adviser T. Y. Crowell &
Company ; secretary department of publicity
D. Appleton & Company; president Omar
Khayyam Society of America; president
Bibliophile Society ; odist to the An
cient and Honorable Artillery Company;
director of the Fellows Athenaeum. Be
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Century (Boston), New York and Boston
Authors, Schlaraffia, Boston City, Harvard
Musical Association, Orpheus, Dofobs
(Chicago), Omar Khayyam of America,
and Castilian. He received a medal from
the Shah of Persia. Author of: Young
Folks' History of Russia, 1881; A Score
of Famous Composers, 1891; (reimpression
under title, Famous Composers, 2 vols,,
1902) ; Not Angels Quite, 1893 ; On the
Point, 1895; The Hawthorn Tree and
other Poems, i8gs; Poems for the Educa
tional Music Course, 1896; Life of Francis
William Bird, 1897; Joseph Jefferson at
-Home, 1898; Omar, the Tent-Maker— A
Romance of Old Persia, i8g9; Peace and
Progress — The Building of the Organ and
Onward (poems), 1904. The Pilgrims and
other Poems for Public Occasions, 1907.
He is the translator of many standard edi
tions from the Russian, the Spanish, the
French, the Italian, the Swedish, and the
Danish. He has also translated from these
languages hundreds of songs and lyrical
pieces for music. His chief recreations are
music, tennis and motoring. In politics, he
is an Independent and in religion a Liberal.
He married at Boston, June 28; 1882, Helen
James Bennett, they have four children:
Robert Montgomery, aged 23, Arthur Alex
ander, aged 21, Margaret Aliona, aged 16,
and Harold Seaford, aged 14. Residence:
91 Glen Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass
achusetts, and The Moorings, Ogunquit,
Maine.
DOLE, Sanford Ballard:
Jurist, ex-president of Hawaii; born in
the Hawaiian Islands, April 23, 1844; son
of Rev. Daniel Dole and Emily (Ballard)
Dole, American missionaries. He was edu
cated at Oahu College, Hawaii, and Will
iams College, Massachusetts. He studied
law at Boston and was admitted there to
the Essex County Bar. He returned to
Hawaii and engaged in the practice of law
at Honolulu. He became a member of the
Hawaiian Legislature in 1884 and 1886, and
became a leader in the reform movement
of 1887, and was judge of the Supreme
Court of Hawaii from 1887 to 1893. At

the time of the revolution of 1893 he was
placed at the head of the Provincial Gov
ernment, and became president by a pro
vision of the Hawaiian Constitution of
1894 that he should hold that office until
1901. When holding the office of pro
visional president he received a demand
from President Cleveland, in December,
1893, through Minister Willis, that he
should relinquish to Queen Liliuokalani her
constitutional authority. He replied with a
denial of the right of Mr. Cleveland to in
terfere in the matter, and continued his
duties as head of the Hawaiian Govern
ment. He was a foremost advocate of the
annexation of Hawaii to the United States
and visited the United States in that inter
est in January, 1898. He was appointed by
President McKinley a member of the com
mission to recommend legislation to Con
gress concerning Hawaii, July 13, 1898, and
in 1900 he was appointed governor of the
Territory of Hawaii, in which position he
continued until November 18, 1903, when
he resigned the governorship and was ap
pointed to his present office as United
States district judge of Hawaii Territory.
Judge Dole married at Castine, Maine,
Anna P. Cate. Address : Honolulu, Ha
waii Territory.
DOLLIVEB, Jonathan Prentiss:
United States Senator; born near King-
wood, Preston County, Virginia (now West
Virginia), February 6, 1858. He was grad
uated in 1875 from the West Virginia Uni
versity and admitted to the bar in 1878.
He never held any political office until
elected in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress
as a representative from the Tenth Con
gressional District of Iowa and was a mem
ber of the Flouse also in the Fifty-second.
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses. On August 23,
1900, he was appointed United States Sen
ator to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. J. H. Gear, and he was elected Jan
uary 21, 1902. to succeed himself and re
elected in January, 1907. His term of of
fice will expire March 3, 1913. Address:
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DONALDSON, Chester:
American consul ; born at Ovid, New
York, March 28, 1862 ; son of John Chester
and MaryMcMahon (Smith) Donaldson. He
was graduated from Hamilton College as
A.B. in. 1884. After his graduation he was
a teacher of mathematics at the Riverview
Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, New
York, 1884 to 1885; master of Berkeley
School, New York City from 1885 to 1887;
head master of the West End School, New
York City, from 1887 to 1895. He served
in the Twenty-second Regiment of the Na
tional Guard of the State of New York
from 1889 to 1895; went to Nicaragua
with the Nicaraguan Canal Commission in
May, 1895 ; was appointed chief military
engineer and confidential advisor of Presi
dent Zelaya of Nicarague, October 15, 1895,
serving until appointed, October 15, 1897,
United States consul at Managua. He
served there until August 12, 1905, when,
owing to his strenuous efforts to get two
Americans released from prison or given
a fair trial, his exequatur was cancelled by
President Zelaya. He proceeded to Wash
ington with the case, got the American
citizens pardoned and was appointed to
his present position as American consul at
Port Limon, Costa Rica. Mr. Donaldson
is a Republican in politics and a Presby
terian in his religious belief. He is a
member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at
New York City. Mr. Danaldson delights
in all kinds of athletics, baseball, football,
lawn tennis, jumping, long distance runs,
wrestling, boxing, and he still holds the
world's record, which he has held for over
twenty-two years, for a stone gathering
race, for thirty stones one yard apart, his
speed exceeding all other races of this kind
at any distance from ten stones up. Mr.
Donaldson married in New York City, De
cember 23, 1886, Edith Maduro, and they
have a son, Austin Smith Donaldson, born
in, 1888, and a daughter, Anna Lyn Donald
son, born in 1891. Address : American
Consulate, Port Limon, Costa Rica, Central
America,

DONEHOO, James de Quincey:
Clergyman; born at Fairview, West Vir
ginia, August 10, 1864; sOn of John R.
Donehoo and Eleanor (McCown) Donehoo:
He was graduated from Washington and
Jefferson College as B.A. in 1885, with the
honorary oration, and he received from
that institution the M.A. degree in 1903.
He also attended the University of Penn
sylvania, taking the course in Hebrew,
ana the Philadelphia Divinity School, from
which he was graduated in 1889. Mr.
Donehoo served as a missionary at Tar-
entum, Pennsylvania, rector of St. Paul's
Church,. Marion, Ohio; Trinity Church,
Marshall, Missouri ; Grace Church, Monroe,
Louisiana; was general missionary at New
Orleans and is now rector of the church
of the Epiphany at Opelousas, Louisiana.
He was editor of the daily and weekly
Democrat-News at Marshall, Missouri,
from 1900 to 1902, and has contributed
special articles to most of the leading Sun
day papers, and written many short stories.
He is author of: Apocryphal antf Legend
ary Life of Christ, 1903 (The Macmillan
Company). Mr. Donehoo is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and is a
Master Mason. He married at Washing
ton, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1889, Bessie *
Brown, and they Have three children:
Katharine W., born in 1891, Eleanor M„
born in i8g4 and James de Q., born in
i8g6. Address : Opelousas, Louisiana. ,
DONNELLEY, Thomas Elliott:
Printing business ; born in Chicago, Aug
ust 18, 1867; son of Richard Robert Don
nelley and Naomi A. (Stenstone) Donnel
ley. He was graduated from Yale as B.A.
in 1889. Mr. Donnelley has been in the
printing business ever since graduation, and
is now president of the R. R. Donnelley,
Sons & Company. He is a Republican in
politics arid a Baptist in religion.' Mr.
Donnelley is chairman of the Smoke Abate
ment Commission, appointed by Mayor
Busee. He is. a member of the Union
League, University, Chicago Athletic, City,
Quadrangle, Caxton,' South Shore, Mid
lothian Country and Grolier Clubs. Mr,
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1899, Laura Gaylord, and they have two
children: Clarissa, born in 1901, and El
liott, born in igo3. Residence : 4735 Kim-
bark Avenue, Chicago. Office address :
149 Plymouth Place, Chicago, Illinois.
DONOHUE. Florince O.:
Physician and surgeon ; born in Syracuse,
New York, October 8, 1850; son of Cor
nelius Donohue and Ellen Donohue. He
was educated at the Cazenovia Seminary,
at Syracuse University and at Long Island
College Hospital, Brooklyn, graduating in
1877 with the degree of M.D. He has been
engaged in practice in Syracuse, New York,
since 1877. Dr. Donohue is ex-president
of the New York State Board of Health and
ex-president of the New York State Tuber
culosis Commission, and he is president of
the American Anti-Tuberculosis League,
elected June 4, 1907, and of the United
States Pension Examining Board of Sur
geons at Syracuse, New York. FT? is. a
Democrat in politics and a member of the
Catholic Church.' Dr. Donohue is a mem
ber of the British Medical Association, the
American Medical Association, the New
York State Medical Society, the Syracuse
Academy of Medicine, the Onondaga Coun
ty Medical Society, Knights of Columbus,
and the Citizen's Club. Dr. Donohue mar
ried, September 27, 1877, Lucy Augusta
Moseley, deceased. Address : 405 South
Warren Street, Syracuse, New York.
D'OOGB, Benjamin Leonard:
Frofessor of Latin; born in Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, January 10, ,1860; son of
Leonard D'Ooge and Johatma (Quintus)
D'Ooge. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan as B.A. in 1881 and
M.A. in 1.884, and from the University of
Bonn, Germany, as Ph.D. in 1901. He was
principal of the high school at Coldwater,
Michigan, from 1881 to 1883; instructor in
Latin at the University of Michigan in 1884
and 1885, and has been professor of Latin
at the Michigan State Normal College since
1886. He was also non-resident lecturer in
the University of Michigan from 1888 to
1890. Dr. D'Ooge is editor and author of
a large number of Latin text-books. He

traveled in Europe, especially in Italy,
Greece and Sicily, from 1899 to 1901. He
is a Republican in politics and a Congrega
tionalist in religion. Dr. D'Ooge is a mem
ber of the. American Philological Associa^
tion, the American Archeological Associa
tion, the Classical Association of the Middle
West and South, and a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity. His favorite recrea
tions are tennis, boating and golf. He is
a member of the Washtenaw Country Club.
Dr. D'Ooge married in Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, June 25, 1885, Jennie E. Pease, and
they have four children : Ida J., born in
1887, Helen I., bora in 1889, Leonard, born
in 1891, and B. Stanton, born in 1895.
Address : 426 Forest Avenue, Ypsilanti,
Michigan.Do'bCHESTEB, Liverus Hull:
Methodist Episcopal clergyman; born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 27,
1864; son of Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D-D.,
and Mary Payson (Davis) Dorchester.
After a careful preparatory education he
entered Boston University, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1886, and he was
graduated as S.T.B. from the School of
Theology in i88g. He entered the ministry
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
New England Conference and was pastor
of Saint Luke's Church at Springfield,
Massachusetts, from i88g to i8g4, the First
Church at Westfield, Massachusetts, from
i8g4 to 1899, the People's Temple at Bos
ton from 1899 to 1902, and the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Newton Centre,
Massachusetts, iri 1902 and 1903. In the
latter year he was transferred to the Saint
Louis Conference where he was pastor of
the Lindell Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church of Saint Louis, until May, 1907,
when he became pastor of Elm Park Metho
dist Episcopal Church, Scranton, Pennsyl
vania, in the Wyoming Conference. He
married at Natick, Massachusetts, June 10,
1889, Nellie E. Hardy, and they have two
children: Donald H., born May 24, 1895,
and Ruth, born August 5, 1897. Address :
Elm Park Parsonage, 718 Linden Street,
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DOBEMUS, Arthur Lispenard:
Manufacturer; born in New York City,
September 3, 1869; son of Robert Ogden
and Estella Emma (Skidmore) Doremus.
He was educated at MacMullen's private
school, New York City, and the College of
the City of New York, in the class of 1890.
He entered the employ of The Crocker-
Wheeler Company, then the Crocker-
Wheeler Electric Company, manufacturers
and electrical engineers, in March, 1892;
and after going through several depart
ments was appointed a salesman in the
latter part of 1893. Later he was assist
ant to the general sales manager, and on
the death of the general sales manager, in
1896, was elected secretary in charge of the
sales division. In 1904 he was elected to
his present position of second vice-presi
dent and director, but also continues as-
secretary. As second vice-president, he has
full charge of the sales division of the
company, and he has established nineteen
branch offices, traveling to all parts of the
United States, also visiting, every year
since 1897, England, Scotland, France, and
Germany, on agency and other business
matters for the company. Mr. Doremus is
a Republican in politics, and was chairman
of his district for five years. He was
elected to this office on the reorganization
of the Republican party under the Commit
tee of Thirty. He is a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church in America. Mr.
Doremus is a member of the New York
Electrical Society, and the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity, and the New York Athletic
Club. Residence : The Strathmore, Broad
way and Fifty-second Street. Address : 39
Cortlandt Street, New York City.
DOBEMUS, Charles Avery:
Chemist; bora in New York City, Sep
tember 6, 1851. Fie was graduated from
the College of the City of New York, with
the degree of A.B. in 1870 ; studied in Hei
delberg and Leipzig from 1870 to 1883, re
ceived the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. at
Heidelberg in 1873 and the honorary de
gree of M.D. from the University of Buf
falo. He was assistant in chemistry at the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College from

1875 to 1879;, was adjunct professor of
chemical toxicology and medical jurispru
dence at Bellevue from 1879 to 1897; pro
fessor of chemistry and toxicology at the
Medical department of the University of
Buffalo from 1879 to 1882; professor of
chemistry at the American Veterinary Col
lege, New York City, from 1882 to 1892;
emeritus professor of chemistry from 1892
to 1898; assistant in chemistry and physics
at the College of the City of NewuYork
from 1892 to 1897; assistant professor of
chemistry and physics from 1897 to 1903,
and acting professor of chemistry from
1903 to 1904. He was the United States
reporter at the Vienna Exposition in 1898,
the Paris Exposition in 1900, and the Ber
lin Exposition in 1903. Dr. Doremus has
acted as chemical expert in many poison
cases in New York and other States and is
an expert in patent causes and consulting
chemist. Dr. Doremus is author of the sec
tion: Gaseous Poisons in Text-Book of
Legal Medicine and Toxicology, and is a
contributor of many papers to scientific
societies. He is a fellow of the New York
Academy of Sciences and a member of the
American Chemical Society, the Society of
Chemists at Paris, the Deutsche Chemasche
Gesellschaft, the Society of Chemical In
dustry; the American Electro-Chemical So
ciety, the Medico-Legal Society, and the
American Institute qf Electrical Engineer
ing. Address : 55 West Fifty-third Street,
New York City.
DOREMUS, Henry M. :
Contractor, ex-mayor; born at Jackson
ville, Morris County, New Jersey, May 23,
185 1 ; son of Peter G. and Susaii Doremus.
He was educated in the public schools of
his native town and of Newark, New Jer
sey, and then engaged in business pursuits.
Since 1879 he has been engaged as a build
er and general contractor at Newark, and
is now president of Flenry M. Doremus &
Company, in that business. He is also
treasurer of the Franklin Savings Institu
tion of Newark, and a director of the
North Ward National Bank, and the Fi
delity. Trust Company. Mr. Doremus has
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Republican party in New Jersey, and is a
member of the New Jersey State Republi
can Committee. He was a member of the
General Assembly of New Jersey, in 1885
and 1886; sheriff of Essex County, New
Jersey, from 1896 to 1899, and in 1902 was
elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey,
serving until December 31, 1906. He is a
Presbyterian in his religious affiliation. He
married in Newark, September 22, 1875,
Phoebe G. Baldwin, and they have four
children: Munson G. Doremus, Mary S.
Hart, Julia Doremus, and Gertrude Dore
mus. Residence : 294 Mount Prospect Ave
nue, Newark. Office address : 79 Orange
Street, Newark, New Jersey.
DORRANCE, Benjamin:
Lawyer and farmer; born at Kingston,
Luzerne CoUnty, Pennsylvania, August 14,
1846; son of Charles Dorrance and Susan
E. (Ford) Dorrance. He was graduated
from Princeton (College of New Jersey)
as A.B. in 1868 and A.M. in 1871. He re
tired from the practice of law in 1885 ; was
admitted to bar in September, 1870, and
practiced continuously until his retirement
was brought about by impaired eyesight.
He is director of the New York Cut Flow
er Company, also of The President and
managers of a company for erecting a
bridge across the Susquehanna River at
Wilkesbarre and he is at the head of the
firm of Benjamin Dorrance. He is a
Democrat in politics and a Presbyterian in
religion, and he is president of the Wyo
ming Commemorative Society. He is a
member of the Bar of Luzerne County, the
Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Mr. Dorrance has been
school director for many years in the Bor
ough of Dorranceton, member of the Sons
of the Revolution, the Pennsylvania So
ciety, as a hereditary companion of the
Military Order of Foreign Wars, Pennsyl
vania Commandery and is a member of the
Royal Horticultural Society of England.
His favorite recreations are shooting and
fishing. He is also a member of the
Princeton Club of New York, and the Flor
ists' Club of Philadelphia. He married at

Bath, Steuben County, New York, May 22,
1872, Ruth W. Strong, and they have two
children: Anne, born June 26, 1873, and
Frances, born June 30, 1877. Address:
Dorranceton, Luzerne County, Pennsyl
vania. DOBSETT, Bobert Clarence:
Lawyer; born at New York City, Jan
uary 30, 1853; son of Robert and Eliza A.
(Marshall) Dorsett. He was graduated
from the Columbia Grammar School, in
1868, from Columbia College, as A.B. in
1872, and as A.M. in 1875, and from the
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1877. He
was admitted to the New York bar in
1877, and since then has been practicing in
New York City. Mr. Dorsett is a director
and the vice-president of the East Bay Land
and Improvement Company. He is a Repub
lican in politics and a Presbyterian in his de
nominational adherence. He is a member
of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, the Delta Kappa Epsilon As
sociation, and the Presbyterian Union, and
also of the Union League and Lawyers'
Clubs of New York City. Mr, Dorsett
married at Newark, New Jersey, April 11,
1893, Eliza D. Macknet, who died, July 5,
1902, and has one daughter, Carolyn H.
Dorsett. Address : 53 West Seventieth
Street, New York City.
DOS PASSOS, John B.:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, July 31, 1844. He attended law lec
tures at the University of Pennsylvania
and served in the militia of Pennsylvania
during the Civil War. He. practiced his
profession in Philadelphia and later in New
York. In his early practice he was counsel
in many notable criminal cases and se
cured the acquittals of Edward S. Stokes
for the murder of James Fisk, and in the
case of Emil Endre. Of late years he has
made a specialty of the law of corpora
tions and of stock brokers' practice. With
John E. Parsons he formed the Sugar
Trust— receiving for same the largest fee
on record at that time. He is author of:
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Trustee on the Law of Stock Brokers and
Stock Exchanges; and during the last
presidential campaign he wrote an address
to the members of the bar entitled : The
Trend of the Republican Party. He is a
charter member of the Pennsylvania So
ciety. Mr. Dos Passos is owner of a large
plantation in Virginia, and is much inter
ested in farming. He is a member of the
Lawyers', Manhattan, Strollers', and Amer
ican Yacht Clubs of New York City; the
Metroplitan Club of Washington, D. C,
and the Eastern Yacht Club of Boston.
Residence : 18 East Fifty-sixth Street, New
York City. Address : 20-22 Broad Street,
New York City.
DOSTEB, Frank:
Jurist; born at Morgan County, Virginia,
January 19, 1849; son of Alfred and Rachel
Doster. He was educated at the Indiana
State University and at Illinois College,
Jacksonville, Illinois. He served in. the
Eleventh Indiana Cavalry Regiment in the
Civil War, from 1863 to 1865; was ad
mitted to the bar in Illinois in 1870; re
moved to Kansas in 1871, engaging in the
practice of law, and afterward being
elected and serving for four years as judge
of the district court; sono after which term
he was elected chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of Kansas, serving until
January, 1903, when he became assistant
general attorney of the Missouri Pacific
Railway, in which position he is still serv
ing. Besides many judicial opinions Judge
Doster has been an extensive contributor
to various publications on sociological and
political themes. He married at Monticello,
Illinois, July 29, 1870, Caroline Riddle, and
they have five children. Address : Topeka,
Kansas. DOUBLEDAY, Frank Nelson:
Publisher ; born in Brooklyn, New York,
January 8, 1862. He was educated in the
Polytechnic School at Brooklyn. He en
tered the employ of Charles Scribner Sons,
where during an aprenticeship of .twenty
years, he acquired a full knowledge of the
publishing business. He revised the Book
Buyer, in 1884, which grew to be a well

known periodical, and when Scribner's
Magazine was issued in 1886, he was ap
pointed its manager. In 1897, he joined
the S. S. McClure Company, and shortly
afterward a partnership with Mr. McClure
was formed under the name of Doubleday
and McClure Company. During the first
year, he published some very successful
books, notably, Mr. Kipling's The' Day's
Work. In 1900 the firm of Doubleday,
Page and Company was formed, with Wal
ter H. Page, H. W. Lanier H. S. Houston
and S. A. Everitt as partners, and within a
year a new magazine, The World's Work,
was founded, the first number being issued
in November, 1900, and later established
Country Life In America, 1901 ; The Gar
den Magazine, in 1905. Early in 1904
Doubleday, Page and. Company became an
incorporated company with Mr. Doubleday
as president. Address : 133-137 East Six
teenth Street, New York City.
DOUD, Levi Barnes:
Dealer in live stock; born in Berlin,
Mahoning County, Ohio, April 7, 1840;
son of James and Mary (Barnes) Doud.
He was educated at the public schools and
at the Academy at Salem, Ohio. He was
reared on a farm, where he remained until
he was nearly twenty, when he removed
to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. There
he established the business of a cattle deal
er, under the firm name of Doud & Keefer.
In 1864 the firm transferred its field to
Chicago, Illinois, and there continued the
commission business on a more extensive
scale. Mr. Doud was for many years a
stockholder in the Stock Yards Bank, and
since January, 1889, he has been a director
and from July of the same year president
of the Live Stock Bank of Chicago. In
politics he has always been identified with
the Republican Party. Mr. Doud is a
member of the Union League Club. He
married, December 24, 1875, Elizabeth R.
Dunham, and has one child, Marion Doud.
Residence : 3257 Michigan Avenue, ¦ Chi
cago. Office address: Exchange Building,
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DOUGHERTY, Hugh:
Banker; born at Greenville, Darke Coun
ty, Ohio, July 28, 1844; son of William
and Margaret Dougherty. His education
was secured at a country school near his
birthplace. In August, 1862, he enlisted as
a private in Company F of the Ninety-
fourth Ohio Regiment of Volunteer In
fantry, and went to the front. He partic
ipated in the battles at Richmond, Ken
tucky, Perryville and Stone River, and was
taken prisoner in the latter battle. After
the war he was employed as deputy re
corder of Darke CoUnty, Ohio, for two
years, then went to Bluffton, Wells County,
Indiana, where he was cashier of the First
National Bank until 1869. In that year
he became partner in the private bank of
John Studebaker & Co., at South Bend,
Indiana, which changed in 1889 to The
Studebaker Bank, of which he was presiT
dent until July, 1904. He is now president
of the Marion Trust Company of Indian
apolis, and is a director in other financial
and other corporations. Mr. Dougherty
has for many years been one of the most
influential members of the Democratic
Party of Indiana. He was a member of
the State Senate of Indiana from 1871
to 1875, and was the Democratic candidate
for State treasurer of Indiana in 1898. He
was a delegate from his district to the
Democratic National Conventions at Chi
cago in 1884 and Saint Louis in 1888,- and
delegate-at-large from Indiana to the Na
tional Conventions at Chicago in 1892 and
at Kansas City in 1900. Mr. Dougherty
has been identified with many important
business enterprises in Indiana, including
the building of the Toledo, Saint Louis
and Kansas City Railroad and the Fort
Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad.
He is a Methodist in his religious affilia
tions and is a trustee of De Pauw Uni
versity at Greencastle, Indiana. Mr.
Dougherty married at Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, October 25, 1877, Emma Gilliland.
Address: Bluffton, Indiana.
DOUGLAS, George William:
Editor; born in Liberty, New York,
April 8, 1863; son of Rev. S. J. Douglas

and Annie Suthers (Jackson) Douglas. He
was graduated from Colgate University
with the degree of A.B. in 1888 and A.M.
in 1891. He was reporter on the Brooklyn
Citizen from 1888 to 1891, law reporter of
the Brooklyn Eagle in 1891, Albany legis
lative correspondent in 1892, and associate
editor and editorial writer on the Eagle
from 1892 to 1902, and has been associate
editor of the Youth's Companion since 1902.
Mr. Douglas has been an Alumni represent
ative on the Board of Trustees of Colgate
University since 1899, and he is a member
of the National Geographic Society, the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science, the New England Alumni Assoc
iation of Colgate University (of which he
has been president since 1905), the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and the Delta Upsilon
fraternity, and he is also a member of the
Boston City Club. His favorite recreation
is photography. Mr. Douglas is author of:
The Many Sided Roosevelt, published by
Dodd, Mead and Company in 1907, and of
many short stories and articles on public
topics. Office address : 201 Columbus
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
DOUGLAS, James:
Mining engineer; bgrn in Quebec in No
vember, 1837; son of James Douglas, M.D.,
and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Douglas. He
was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, and
at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of B.A. in 1858, and afterward re
ceived the degree of LL.D. He was pro
fessor of chemistry at Morrin College,
Quebec; came to the United States in 1875
and was placed in charge of the copper
works at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and
later was connected with the copper indus
try of Arizona. He was president of the
Arizona and Southeastern Railroad Com
pany and other large Arizona corporations,
and with the late Dr. T. Sterry Hunt did
much work in hydro-metallurgy of cop
pers, and is now president of the Copper
Queen Consolidated Mining Company of
Arizona. Mr. Douglas is a well-known
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of : Canadian Independence ; Old France in
the New World ; Quebec in the .Seventeenth
Century; Imperial Federation and Annexa
tion and numerous technical articles and re
ports; also of a biographical sketch of Dr.
G. S. Hunt. He is a member and was
twice president of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, the American Philo
sophical Society, the American Geographi
cal Society, the Society of Arts of London,
the Iron and Steel Institute, etc., and, is
also a member of the Century Association,
and the Westchester Country, Adirondack
League and City Clubs of New York. Resi
dence: Sputyen Duyvil, New York. Ad
dress : 99 John Street, New York City.
DOUGLAS, Orlando B.:
Surgeon, physician; born at Cornwall,
Vermont, September 12, 1836; son of Amos
and Almira (Balcom) Douglas. His pre
liminary education was obtained at Bran
don (Vermont) Seminary; he began his
professional studies in Brunswick, Mis
souri, with Dr. Blue, in 1858. Owing to
the disturbances caused by the Civil War
Dr. Douglas was obliged to discontinue his
studies in 1861, and enlisted, September,
1861, as private in the Eighteenth Missouri
Volunteers; he was afterward promoted to
lieutenant and adjutant of his . regiment,
and later acting assistant adjutant-general
on his brigade staff; he was twice wound
ed, once while on scouting duty and once
at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. For
a year and a half he was on military duty
in Old Concord, Massachusetts, there be
coming acquainted with Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the families of the Hawthomes,
Alcotts, Horace Mann and many other de
lightful and distinguished people. After
the war Dr. Douglas studied in the Medi
cal Department of the University of Ver
mont, and was graduated with the degree
of M.D. by the University Medical College
of New York. Dr. Douglas engaged in the
practice of medicine in New York City
from 1877 to 1901, when he removed to
Concord, New Hampshire. He was for
twenty-five years an active surgeon to the
Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
and is now consulting surgeon; for twelve

years he was professor in the Post-Gradu
ate Medical School and Hospital, New
York City; member of the New York
Academy of Medicine, and for nine years
its treasurer; member of the Medical So
ciety of the County of New York, treasur
er eight years and its president in 1891;
member, and for ten years a director, of
the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association;
permanent member of the Medical Society
of the State of New York; member of the
New Hampshire Medical Society; vice-
president of the Military Surgeons of New
Hampshire; member of the New Hamp
shire Surgical Society; first president of
the New Hampshire Society for the Pre
vention of Consumption; president of the
New Hampshire Orphans' Home— one of
the finest institutions in New England;
vice-president of the Society for the Pro
tection of New Hampshire Forests; presi
dent of the Concord Young Men's Chris
tian Association, and member and -treas
urer of the State Executive Committee, Y.
M. C. A. ; honorary member of the Medi
cal Society of Vermont; member of the
Americap Medical Association; of the
American Laryngological, Rhinological and
Otological Society; of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
and the American Civic Association. Dr.
Douglas joined the Grand Army of the Re
public in 1870 and was surgeon to Reno
Post, New York City; is a Companion,
first class, of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, United States Army; and
member of the Masonic Fraternity (thirty-
second degree). He is the author of a
number of medical publications, such as:
Is the Cure of Chronic Nasal Catarrh as
Difficult as Has Been Supposed?; The
Upper Air Passages and their Diseases;
Modern Methods of Treating Nasal
Catarrh. He has traveled quite extensively
in Europe and America, visiting nearly
every capital and principal city in Europe,
where he saw most of the' reigning
sovereigns and many distinguished people.
Dr. Douglas is a Republican in politics,
and for more than fifty years a member of
the Baptist Church. He was prominently
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sociation work in Vermont, and one of the
founders of the Vermont Sunday School
Association; he is fond of lakes, woods
and mountains and all of Nature's works.
Dr. Douglas married first at Orwell, Ver
mont, December 27, 1864, Mary A. Rust,
who died August 31, 1873 ; second, Septem
ber 16, 1875, Mrs. Maria L. Manson Tiddy.
He has one son, Edwin Rust Douglas
(M.E., ScM., Harvard),- bom September
26, 1872. Address, 25 Auburn Street, Con
cord, New Hampshire.
DOUGLAS, Bobert Martin:
Jurist; born at Douglas, Rockingham
County, North Carolina, January 28, 1849;
son of Stephen A. Douglas, United States
senator from Illinois, and Martha Denny
(Martin) Douglas. He received his early
education in private schools and then en
tered Georgetown University, in the Dis
trict of Columbia, from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1867, later receiving the
degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from the same
institution. He was private secretary to
the governor of North Carolina in 1868,
and colonel of North Carolina from 1868
to. 1871. Colonel Douglas, was secretary to
President Ulysses S. Grant from 1869 to
1873, and United States marshal for North
Carolina from 1873 to 1883. He engaged
in practice and was general counsel for
and director in several corporations. He
was standing master in chancery of the
United States Circuit Court from 1888 to
1896, and associate justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina from 1897 to
1905. He was renominated by acclamation
for the Supreme Court judgeship by. the
Republican State Convention, but was de
feated for reelection, together with the en
tire Republican ticket. He resumed prac
tice at the close of his judicial term, and is
senior member of the law firm of Douglas
& Douglas. He has been a Republican
ever since he became a voter, and has writ
ten extensively on historical, political and
economic .subjects. He married at Greens
boro, North Carolina, June 23, 1874, Jessie
M. Dick, daughter of United States Dis
trict Judge R. P. Dick. Address: Greens
boro, North. "Carolina;

DOUGLAS, William Lewis:
Manufacturer, ex-governor; born at Ply
mouth, _ Massachusetts, August 22, 1845 ;
son of William Douglas , and Mary C.
(Vaughan) Douglas. He was only five
years old when his father died, and at the
age of seven he began work pegging shoes
for an uncle. He returned to his mother
for a short time in his eleventh year, and
then went back to his uncle's shop until he
was 15 years old. He had, during the
time he was with his uncle, a few brief and
irregular periods of attendance upon the
public schools, but beyond this his educa
tion has been self-acquired. At the age of
fifteen he went to work in a cotton-mill at
Chiltonville, Massachusetts, then learned
bootmaking in factories at 'Hopkinton and
South Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1865
he went to Colorado, working as a'journey-
man for two years, and in 1867 starting on
his own account. He sold out his establish
ment there in 1868, and returned to Massa
chusetts, becoming first journeyman and
afterward foreman in a shoe factory at
Brockton until 1876. In the latter year he
began on his own account as a shoe manu
facturer at Brockton, with small facilities
and little help, but from that modest begin
ning he has built up a business which is
one of the largest in the country, with two
factories at Brockton with a capacity of
over seventeen thousand pairs of shoes
daily; 70 retail stores in large cities owned
and operated by the W. L. Douglas Shoe
Company. W. L. Douglas shoes are also
sold by shoe dealers in nearly every city,
town and hamlet in the United States, the
sales aggregating over nine miliions of dol
lars annually. Having a practical knowledge
of the business in all capacities from a boy
shoe-pegger to a millionaire manufacturer,
he knows what to require of his workmen
and subordinates and how to treat them, and
his relations with his workmen have always
been on a basis of mutual respect and con
fidence. His success in business has not
made him self-concentrated, and he has al
ways taken an interest in public affairs. He
has filled numerous elective offices, was a
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the General Court of Massachusetts in 1883
and 1884, and of the Massachusetts Senate
in 1886, was mayor of Brockton in 1891 and
elected governor of Massachusetts in 1904,
declining a re-nomination. Governor Doug
las has always been a Democrat, was a
delegate from his district to the National
Democratic Conventions at Chicago in
1884, 1892 and 1896, and from Massachu
setts at large to the National Democratic
Convention at St. Louis in 1904. He mar
ried at Chiltonville, in the town of Ply
mouth, Massachusetts, September 6, 1868,
N. Augusta Terry. Children : two living ;
Mrs. Amy R. Richmond and Mrs. Marion
L. Russell. Address : Brockton, Massachu
setts.DOUGLAS, William Scott:
Manufacturer; born in Brooklyn, New
York, October 17, 1859; son of George
Bruce Douglas and Henrietta Louisa
(Scott) Douglas. He was educated in pri
vate schools in Brooklyn, and afterward
engaged in business pursuits, and he is now
president and director of the Douglas Man
ufacturing Company. Mr. Douglas is a
Republican in political belief and a Congre
gationalist in denominational connection.
He is a member of the Crescent Athletic
Club of Brooklyn, and the Drug and Chem
ical and Sphinx Clubs of New York City.
Mr. Douglas has been twice married, first in
New York City, June 5, 1890, to Elizabeth
B. Robins, and second, at Brooklyn, May
16, 1906, to Ottilie P. Staber, and he has
two children: Dorothy Douglas (born
April 26, 1891), and Alison Douglas (born
April 16, 1894). Residence: 263 Henry
Street, Brooklyn, New York, Address : 64-
66 Poplar Street, Brooklyn, New York.
DOUGLAS, William W.:
Jurist ; born in Providence, Rhode Island.
November 26, 1841 ; son of Rev. William
Douglas and Sarah (Sawyer) Douglas. His
education was begun in the schools of Prov
idence, from which he went to Brown Uni
versity, and he was graduated from the
latter with the degree of A.B. and Phi Beta
Kappa honors in t86t, afterward receiv

ing the degree of A.M. from that institu
tion. He served as private and officer in
the United States Volunteers, from 1861 to
1864, then entered the j Jbany Law School of
Union University, and- was graduated as
LL.B. in 1866. He engaged in the practice
of law at Providence, R. I., from 1866 until
1891 when he was" elected one of the jus
tices of the Supreme Court of Rhode Is
land, and he has ever since remained on
the bench of that court, and has been chief
justice of that court since February, 1905.
Judge Douglas is a Republican in political
views, was elected to the General Assembly
of Rhode Island, serving from 1871 to 1873,
was a member of the Common Council of
Providence from 1873 to 1876, and of the
Rhode Island Senate in 1890. He was di
visional judge-advocate of Rhode Island
Militia from 1866 to 1874, assistant adju
tant-general in 1881, and adjutant-general
of Rhode Island in 1882. Judge Douglas is
a companion of the Massachusetts Com
mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, and was its
senior vice-chancellor in 1889; and was
judge-advocate-general of the Grand Army
of the Republic of the United States from
1871 to 1877. He married at Providence,
Rhode Island, June 30, 1884, Anna Jean
Bennett. Address:. 121 George Street, Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
»OVENEIi, Blackburn Barrett:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Cabell
County, Virginia (now West Virginia),
April 20, 1842; raised a company of loyal
Virginians and served in the United States
volunteer infantry during the war; studied
law in the office of Hon. George 0. Daven
port, of Wheeling ; was admitted to the bar
in 1873, and has practiced law in Wheeling
ever since ; was elected as a representative
of Ohio Comity in the legislature of 1883;
was the Republican candidate for the Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth.
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the First
West Virginia District. Address: Wheel
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DOW, Edmund Le Boy:
Physician; born at Syracuse, New York,
January 22, 1870; son of H. R. and N. E.
Dow. He was graduated from Syracuse
University as B.S. in 1892 and M.S. in
1895 and entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University,
graduating as M.D. in 1895. After grad
uation he became an interne in Bellevue
Hospital, and later studied in the . hospitals
at Vienna and Berlin. Since then he has
been practicing medicine in New York City.
He is instructor in the practice of medicine
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons ;
visiting physician of the Minturn Hospital
and assistant visiting physician at Bellevue
Hospital. Dr. Dow is a fellow of the New
York Academy of Medicine; a member of
the .Pathological Society; the American
Medical Association ; the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science;
the New York State and County Medical
Societies; Alumni Association of Bellevue
Hospital ;• Alumni of Sloane Maternity Hos
pital and he is a trustee of the Hospital for
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. Dr. Dow
is also a member of the University Club and
the New York Yacht Club. Address : 49
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
DOW, Frederick Neal:
Newspaper publisher; born at Portland,
Maine, December 23, 1840; son of General
Neal Dow and Maria Cornelia Durant
Maynard Dow. He was educated at Port
land Academy and the Friends' School at
Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Dow has
always been active in the Republican Party
in Maine, and has been chairman of the
State Republican Committee. He has held
various local offices in the city government
and school committee of Portland; was a
commissioner from Maine to the Centen
nial at- Philadelphia in 1876; was a dele
gate to the. Republican National Conven
tion at Chicago in 1880'; collector of the
port of Portland, Maine, from 1883 to 1885
and from 1890 to 1895, a member' of the
House of Representatives in the> Maine
Legislature, 1887-1888, and i889-i8go, and
was speaker of the House during the last-

named term. He is president of the Casco
National Bank of Portland; president of
the Evening Express Publishing Company
of Portland, Maine ; president of the Port
land Gas Light Company; and a director
in trust companies and other corporations.
He married in Portland, October 22, 1864,
Julia Dana Flammond, and they have two
children ; William Hammond Dow and
Marion Durant Eaton. Address : Port
land, Maine.
DO WD, Willis Bruce:
Lawyer; born in Carthage, North Caro
lina,. December 3, 1861 ; son of Clement and
Lydia Josephine (Bruce) Dowd. He was
graduated at Trinity College, North Caro
lina, as A.B,. in 1880. He was admitted to
the bar in 1884, and in the course of twenty-
two years at the bar, he never had an ad
verse verdict from a jury in his own case,
and only twice in cases tried as counsel;
and one of these was reversed on appeal
and finally won. A large part of his time
in last ten years has been devoted to the
promotion of justice through law reforms
in New York. He is a Democrat in poli
tics, and is a member of the National Dem
ocratic Club. He is a member of the Asso
ciation of the Bar of the City of New
York, and an occasional contributor to
Bench and Bar, Albany Law Journal, Green
Bag, etc. He is a member of the Chi Phi
fraternity, the Southern Society of New
York, North Carolina Society of New York
and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. His
favorite recreations are golf, tennis, bowl
ing, swimming, riding and fishing. He is
author, of: Juror No. 12; 'Twixt Law
and Morals, and other short stories. • Ad
dress : 141 Broadway, New York City.
DOWD ALL, Edward:
Artist, portrait and figure painter; born
in New York City, May 17, 1858; son of
Edward Dowdall and Winifred (Duggan)
Dowdall. He was educated in the public
schools and studied at the Cooper Institute
from 1873 to 1877; at Art Students'
League, of which he is a life member, and
at Paris and London, from 1895 to 1901.
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don, and the Society of British Artists
from 1900 to 1901. Fie traveled in Europe
for six years, during which time he painted
many notable pictures and studies. His
picture of The Last Interview Between
Charles I and Oliver Cromwell was ex
hibited in the Academy of Design and in
the principal galleries of the United States
from 1887 to 1889. His recent work has
been on decorations, and he painted the
ceiling of Charles M. Schwab's mansion
on Riverside Drive, and his latest portrait,
which was of a prominent society leader
has been exhibited in the National Acad
emy of Design. Mr. Dowdall is now- en
gaged on a large frieze for a New York
palatial residence. Mr. Dowdall married
in London, England, in 1896, Jeanie Sax-
ton, and they have one son: Edward, born
February 22, 1906. Address: 14 Bank
Street, New York City.
DOWDELL, James Bender:
Jurist; born in Chambers County, Ala
bama, near the town of LaFayette, April
2, 1847; son of James F. Dowdell and
Sarah (Render) Dowdell. He received his
early education in the common schools of
LaFayette, Alabama, and Auburn, Alabama,
and then entered the University of Alabama
in 1864, where he was a student until 1865
and also a cadet in the Confederate States
Army. He entered the college at Auburn,
Alabama, in 1865, and was graduated from
it as A.B. in 1867 and. A.M. in 1869. He
studied law, and was admitted to the bar
of Alabama in 1870, and was engaged in
practice at LaFayette until elected to the
bench. He became circuit solicitor of the
Ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama from
1876 to 1880. He was judge of the Fifth
Judicial Circuit of Alabama from 1892 to
1896, chancellor of the Northeastern Chan
cery Division of Alabama from 1896 to
1898, and since 1898 has been one of the
associate justices of the Supreme Court of
Alabama. He was a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic
. Institute at Auburn, Alabama, for two
years. Judge Dowdell is a Democrat in
politics, and is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. He married at

LaFayette, Alabama, December 12, 1878,
Ella M. Ware. Residence: LaFayette,
Alabama. Official address: Montgomery,
Alabama. DOWLING, Alexander:
Jurist; born in Virginia, in 1839. His
parents removed to New Albany, Indiana,
in 1840, and there he was educated in pub
lic and private schools. In 1858, when
he was only nineteen years old, he was
elected prosecuting attorney of the Com
mon Pleas Court of his district, and he
engaged in the practice of law at New Al
bany, Indiana, until 1898. He was city at
torney of New Albany, Indiana, from i860
to 1868, and in 1891 was offered by Gover
nor Hovey an appointment to the Supreme
Bench of Indiana. He was, however, elect
ed, in 1898, as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Indiana and served un
til the expiration of his term in 1904, when
he resumed the practice of law. Address:
New Albany, Indiana.
DOWLING, Michael John:
Banker and real estate dealer; born at
Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachu
setts, February 17, 1866; son of John Je
rome and Honora (Barry) Dowling. He
has lived in Minnesota from boyhood; was
educated in the public schools and at Carle
ton College, Minnesota. He engaged in
business after leaving college, and since
1897 he has been extensively engaged in
the buying and selling of real estate, and
he is also president of the Olivia State
Bank, of Olivia, Minnesota. Mr. Dowling
is an ardent and active Republican,- and
was secretary of the National Republican
League from 1895 to 1897; was special
commissioner to the Philippine Islands in
1900, and speaker of the Minnesota House
of Representatives in 1901 and 1902- Mr-
Dowling married, at Atlanta, Georgia, Oc
tober 2, 1895, Jennie Leonora Bordewich;
children: Dorothy Romona and Marjorie
Janet. Address : Olivia, Minnesota.
DOWLING, Victor J.:
Jurist; born in New York City, July 20,
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beth Fierlants (Faider) Dowling. Fie was
educated at St. Peter's School in 1879, the
De La Salle Institute in 1881, and at Man
hattan College, graduating with the de
gree of A.B. in 1883, and receiving the de
grees of A.M. in 1888, and LL.D. in 1906.
He studied law in the office of Judge James
Fitzgerald and in the law school of the
University of the City of New York, where
he received the degree of LL.B., and double
first prizes for the best written and oral
examinations. He was admitted to the
bar in 1877, and has been in continuous
practice of law until 19x15. He was a mem
ber of the Assembly from the Twenty-
fourth District in 1894 ; was State senator
from the Eighteenth District from 1901
to 1904; and was elected in 1904 justice
of the Supreme Court of New York for
the term from January, 1905 to December
31, 1918. Judge Dowling is a Democrat in
politics. He was an executive committee
man of the Twenty-fourth New York Dis
trict Democratic organization from 1895 to
1898, and secretary of the Executive Com
mittee. He was tendered a nomination for
City Court judge by the United Labor
party in 1899; was again executive com
mitteeman of the Twenty-fourth District
of Tammany Hall in 1902 and 1903, and a
sachem of the Tammany Society from 1903
to 1904. Judge Dowling has several times
been a delegate to the State and national
conventions of his party. He is a Catho
lic in his religious beliefs and was a mem
ber of the Catholic Committee of the
Washington Centennial in 1889; was
State secretary of the Catholic Ben
evolent Legion from 1888 to .1894;
supreme representative of the same
legion from 1894 to 1899; State pres
ident from 1899 to 1900, and served as a
delegate to the Catholic Congresses in
Baltimore and Chicago, and was a member
of the Comfnittee of three of the Catholic
Columbian Parade in 1892. Judge Dowl
ing is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York and of the
New York State Bar Association, the
Friendly Sons of "St. Patrick, Friends of
Ireland, the American Catholic Historical
Society, the United States Catholic His

torical Society, the Bibliophile Society of
Boston, the Columbian Order, Catholic
Benevolent Legion, Knights of Columbus,
and is a member of the Manhattan, Catho
lic, Wyandot and Oakland Golf Clubs.
Judge Dowling married at Middleton, Con
necticut, June 16, 1891, Mary Agnes Ford.
Address : County Court House, New York
City.
DOWNING, Augustus S.:
Third assistant commissioner of educa
tion; born in Baltimore, Maryland, Oc
tober 18, 1856; son of George F. and Mar
garet (Walter) Downing. He was gradu
ated from Pennsylvania College at Gettys
burg, Pennsylvania, as B.A. in 1874, and
M.A. in 1877. After graduation he taught
for one year at Wagner College, Newark,
New York, and later in district schools
for three years. He was assistant principal
of the Palmyra Classical and Union School
from 1877 to 1882; principal of the Fair-
port Union School in 1883; principal of a
school at Palmyra, 1885 to 1889 ; head of
the department of mathematics in the high
school at Newark, New Jersey, 1889 to
1890 ; State Institute conductor, 1890 to 1895 ;
State supervisor of teachers' institutes and
training classes, 1895 to 1898; and he
organized and was principal from 1898 to
1905, of the New York Training School for
Teachers in New York City. Since May 1,
1904, he has been third assistant commis
sioner of education in charge of the ele
mentary schools of the State and of the
training of teachers for such schools. Dr.
Downing received the honorary degrees of
LL.D. from Syracuse University in 1000
and as Ph.D. from the State Normal Col
lege at Albany in 1906.- Dr. Downing is a
Democrat in politics, and a Lutheran in
religious connections. He is a member of
the National Education Association, the
National Council of Education. He is a
Mason, having membership in . Palmyra
Lodge 248, Eagle Chapter 79, and Zenobia
Commandery. His favorite recreations are
hunting and fishing. He is a member of
the Harlem and City Clubs of New York
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Downing married at Palmyra, New York,
July 17, 1889, Louise J. Brown, and they
have two children : George S., born in
1890, and Margaret W., born in 1892. Ad
dress: State Education Department, Capi
tol, Albany, New York.
DRAPER, Andrew Sloan:
Commissioner of education; born in Ot
sego County, New York, June 21, 1848; son
of Sylvester Bigelow Draper and Jane
(Sloan) Draper. He is descended on his
father's side in direct line from James
Draper, the Puritan, who settled at Rox
bury, Massachusetts, in 1646; and through
Mary Pratt, his paternal great-grandmother
is descended from Degory Priest, a May
flower pilgrim. His mother was Scotch-
Irish, her parents coming from the north
of Ireland in 1812; one paternal great
grandfather was an officer in King Philip's
War, and another was an officer in the
Revolutionary War. He attended the Al
bany public schools and was graduated
from the Albany Academy in 1866; the Al
bany Law School of the Union University,
with the degree of . LL.B. in 1871. He after
ward received the LL.D. degree from Col-
• gate University in 1899 ; from Columbia
University in 1903 and from the University
of Illinois in 1905. He taught in the Al
bany Academy and other institutions from
1866 to 1870; was a member of the
law firm of Draper and Chester from 1871
to 1886; and was a member of the Albany
Board of Education from i87g to 1881
and from i8go to i8g2. He was elected to
the New York Legislature serving in 1881 ;
and was a member of the State Normal
College Board from 1882 to 1886. Dr.
Draper was appointed a judge of the United
States Court of Alabama Claims and ser
ved from 1884 to' 1886 ; was State superin
tendent of public instruction of New York
from 1886 to 1892 ; superintendent of
instruction of the Cleveland public
schools', from 1892 to 1894, and
presid'erit of the University of Illinois from
1894 to 1964. Upon the unification of the
two State educational departments in New
York, he was made, in 1904, by special pro

vision in the statute, the first Commissioner
of Education of the State of New York,
which office he now holds. He declined
the position of assistant United States at
torney for the Northern District of New
York in 1882 and the position of first
superintendent of schools of Greater New
York in 1898. He was president of the Na
tional Association of School Superinten
dents from 1889 to 1891 ; president of the
North Central Association of Colleges and
Preparatory Schools from 1903 to 1904;'
honorary member of the New York State
Historical Society, the Illinois State His
torical Society, the Wisconsin State His
torical Society, the Chicago Historical So
ciety, the St. Louis Railway Club, chair
man of the Department of Education of
International Congresses at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition; and was appointed
in 1902 by President Roosevelt a member
of the United States Board of Indian Com
missioners. He is also a director of the Na
tional Commercial Bank, and a trustee of
the National Savings Bank of Albany, New
York. Mr. Draper is author of: The Res
cue of Cuba; also a monograph on Educa
tional Organizations and Administration in
the United States for which he received the
silver medal of the Paris Exposition in 1900.
He was editor of the Department of Educa
tion, Encyclopaedia Americana, and edi
tor-in-chief of Self-Culture for Young Peo
ple which embraces ten volumes. He was
awarded a gold medal and two commemora
tive diplomas for educational writings and
one of the two grand prizes conferred for
conspicuous service to education by the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis
in 1904. Mr. Draper married in 1872, Abbie
Louise Lyon. They have two children:
Charlotte Leland and Edwin Lyon. Resi
dence: 133 Lake Avenue, Albany, New
York. Office address: The Capitol, Al
bany, New York. ' " :;
DBAFEB, Daniel: - '¦" -X
Meteorologist; born "in New York City,
April 2, 1841 ; son of Professor John Wil
liam Draper, M.D., LL.D. and Antonia
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his preparatory education in the grammar
school of New York University and under
the tutorage of his father. The New York
University gave to him Ph.D. in 1880. He
was assistant to his father for several years
in chemistry and physiology at New York
University and amanuensis to his father
for his Intellectual Development of Europe
and other works. He served a five years'
apprenticeship at the Novelty Iron Works,
New York City, and he assisted his broth
er, Henry Draper, M.D., LL.D., in con
structing the observatory at Hastings-on-
Hudson, New York; and he was also as
sistant port engineer of a line of steam
ships between New York and New Or
leans. He established in 1869 and has
since been director of the New York
Meteorological Observatory in Central
Park, inventing for it. many instruments
and making other improvements. In 1871
he began investigations showing that clear
ing land of trees did not diminish rainfall,
and also that American storms cross the
Atlantic. This led to the reporting of
United States disturbances in Great Brit
ain. He has also made many other re
searches which have been published. Dr.
Draper is president of the Draper Manu
facturing Company of 152 Front Street,
New York City. He was elected a mem
ber of the Health Department of New
York in 1870. Dr. Draper is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and a member of the
American Philosophical Society and of the
National Geographic Society. He married
in St. Louis, Missouri, April 28, 1887, Ann
Maury Ludlow, and they have three chil
dren: Dorothy Catherine Draper, Harriet
Maury Draper, and John William Draper.
Residence : Hastings-on-Hudson, New
York. Address : New York Meteorologi
cal Observatory, Central Park, New York
City.
DBAPEB, Eben Sumner:
Manufacturer; born at Hopedale, Wor
cester County, Massachusetts, June 17,
1858; son of George Draper. He was edu
cated in Allen's School at West Newton,
Massachusetts, and at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Boston, and after
that went through a thorough course of
training in machine shops and cotton mills.
He was admitted to the firm of George Dra
per & Sons, and when the business was re
organized and incorporated as The Draper
Company, in 1896, he became its selling
agent, and he continues in that capacity.
He is also a director of the New England
Cotton Yarn Company and the Queen City
Cotton Company, the National Shawmut
Bank, the Milford National Bank, Boston
and Albany Railroad. He is a mem
ber of the corporation of the' Massachu
setts Institute of Technology and
of the Board of Trustees of the
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Fund, vice-
president American Unitarian Association.
In 1898, through the Massachusetts
Volunteer Aid Association, he raised
two hundred thousand dollars for the hos
pital ship Bay State, for the Spanish-
American War. Mr. Draper is an active
Republican, a member of the Home Market
Club at Boston, and one of the leaders in
the Republican party of Massachusetts.
He was chairman of the Republican State
Committee in 1892, and chairman of the
Massachusetts delegation to the Republican
National Convention at St. Louis in 1896,
where he was a leader in securing the
strong declaration of the platform in favor
of the gold standard. He was chairman
of the Massachusetts commission to the
Nashville Exposition in 1897, and was
elected in 1900 as a McKinley and Roose
velt elector from the Eleventh Massachu
setts District ; at present lieutenant-gov
ernor of Massachusetts". Address : Hope-
dale, Massachusetts.
DBAPEB, W. F.:
Capitalist and ex-minister- to Italy;
was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on
the 9th of April, 1842. His father, George
Draper, was a man of remarkable strength
of character, energy and intellect, leaving
a record of usefulness excelled by few
of his contemporaries. General Draper is
descended from Revolutionary stock, one
of his ancestors, Abijah Draper, of Ded-
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Independence. He received his primary
education in the public schools, and early
began his preparation for entering Har
vard College. His efforts in this direction
were, however, frequently interrupted by
his being compelled to resort to- means for
his livelihood, his skill as a machinist
causing his services to be readily employed.
His aspirations for a collegiate education
were destined to receive a serious check
by the breaking out of the Civil War.
Catching the spirit of patriotism which
swept through the country at this crucial
period in the history of the country, he
enlisted on the 9th of August, 1861, in. a
volunteer company which his father, George
Draper, had been largely instrumental in
raising. Subsequently this company was
incorporated with the- Twenty-fifth Massa
chusetts Volunteers, and the son was chos
en as its second lieutenant. His first im
portant duty was in connection with Gen
eral Burnside's Expedition to North Caro
lina, during which he became signal of
ficer on the general's staff, and participat
ed in the battles of Roanoke Island, New
Berne and Fort Macon. During this ser
vice he was promoted to the grade of
first lieutenant, and in August, 1862, he was
commissioned captain and transferred to
the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment
joining his new command just after the
battle of South Mountain, September 14,
1862. This victory of McClellan's immed
iately preceded the more important battle
of Antietam, in which Captain Draper
took an active part. He was also present
at the battle of Fredericksburg, being, a
short time after that disastrous campaign,
transferred on special duty at Newport
News, Virginia. His regiment having been
transferred to the West, it was for a
time engaged in the arduous duty of pur
suing Morgan's Cavalry, a predatory or
ganization which had been inflicting un
usual damage on the Federal lines. In the
discharge of this duty the regiment render
ed most effective service, and was in June,
1863, sent to reinforce General Grant's
Army at Vicksburg, participating in the
siege and capture of that Confederate

stronghold, and in the substequent march to
Jackson and the fighting in that locality.
From the severity of this active campaign
ing the regiment was reduced from six
hundred and fifty in June to one hundred
and ninety-eight in September. In August,
1863, the regiment returned to Kentucky,
marching through Cumberland Gap into
East Tennessee. The siege of Knoxville
and the battles of Blue Springs, Campbell's
Station and Strawberry Plairis were fought
in rapid succession, Major Draper being
in command of the regiment after the
10th of October, Colonel Gbodell having
been wounded. In the spring of 1864 the
regiment was sent to Annapolis, Maryland,
and, after being partially recruited, joined
the Army of the Potomac, under General
Grant. On the sixth of May, in the battle
of the Wilderness, while leading his regi
ment in a charge over a Confederate rifle
pit, he was shot through the body and left
on the field. After the position had been
successively captured and recaptured, he
was finally rescued and sent to a hospital
in Washington. He received his com
mission as lieutenant-colonel from this date
and served as colonel of his regiment until
the close of the war. After partially re
covering from his wounds he joined his
regiment in front of Petersburg, and was
in command of a brigade during the severe
engagement at the Weldon Railroad. A
month later his division was engaged in
the actions at Poplar Grove Church and
Pegsam's Farm, suffering heavy losses and
becoming separated from the rest of the
command. Colonel Draper's regiment was
the only one of the brigade that came out
of these actions with its organization com
plete, bringing off its colors with those of
several other regiments. On this occasion
Colonel Draper received a slight wound,
which, however, did not disable him. On
the 12th of October, his term of service
having expired, and his wounds being of
a troublesome character, he accepted his
discharge and returned home, having re
ceived the brevet of colonel and brigadier-
general for gallant service during the war.
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was connected were characterized as fight
ing regiments, the Twenty-fifth Massachu
setts losing seventy per cent, of its number
in killed and wounded in one engagement,
that of Cold Harbor, while the Thirty-
sixth Massachusetts, in the campaign be
ginning with the Wilderness, had every
field and line affair except one and seventy
live per cent, of the enlisted men killed
or wounded. Soon after the close of the
war General Draper became engaged in the
manufacture of cotton machinery, in which
he attained great success and .he is now
at the head of the firm of George Draper
and Sons, being hesides president and dir
ector in numerous manufacturing, railroad
or insurance companies. He is a mechan
ical expert and an inventor with a record
of over fifty patents. He is a well known
writer on economics and was for one year
president of the Home Market Club.
General Draper served for three years on
the staff of Governor Long, and made a
strong fight for the Gubernatorial nomina
tion in 1880. He was subsequently elected
to Congress from the Eleventh Massachus
etts Congressional District and United
States ambassador to Italy from 1897 to
1900. Address : Hopedale, Massachusetts,
and 1705 R Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.
DBAPEB, William H.:
Congressman; born in Worcester Coun
ty, Massachusetts, June 24, 1841; son of
Stephen Draper and Harriet Draper. He
moved to Troy in 1847 and has resided there
ever since. He attended the public schools
until 1856 and then entered upon a mer
cantile career. He is now engaged in
manufacturing cordage and twine under the
firm name of William H: Draper & Son.
He was trustee of the village of Lansing-
burg and from 1896 to 1900 was commis
sioner of jurors for Rensselaer County.
New York. He was elected in igoo to the
Fifty-seventh Congress from the Twenty-
second District of New York and reelec
ted to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and
again in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress. He
married at Schenectady, New York, 1864,

Miss Livingston, and they have three child
ren: Andrew Livingston, Edward Elliott,
and Bessie Magdaline. Address : Troy,
New York.
DBAVO, Edward Everett:
Colonel United States Army; born near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 25,
1853 ; son of Charles A. and Elizabeth
(Robbins) Dravo ; educated- in the public
schools of Pittsburgh, and to end of sopho
more year at Western University of Penn
sylvania (Pittsburgh) ; graduated from the
United States Military Academy, class of
1876; appointed second lieutenant, Sixth
Cavalry, June 15, 1876; first lieutenant,
August 30, 1881 ; regimental adjutant, May-
October, 1883; regimental quartermaster,
1887-89. Served with regiment in Arizona
and New Mexico against Apache Indians,
1876-90; signal officer in charge heliograph
line in New Mexico, during the Geronimo
campaign under General Miles, April-Sep
tember, 1886; established and operated
three hundred arid thirty miles of line;
with regiment in Sioux campaign, 1890-
91 ; at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, 1891-92 ;
enlisted Troop L, Sixth Cavalry (Brule
Sioux Indian), April, 1891, and in charge
of them until March 28, i8g2; captain,
staff, commissary of subsistence, March 28,
1892; assistant to Commissary General of
Subsistence Washington, D. C, 1892-93;
chief commissary, Department of Colorado
(Denver), i893-g6; chief commissary, De
partment of Texas, and purchasing com
missary, San Antonio, i8g6-98; major, staff,
commissary of subsistence, February 4,
1898; chief commissary, Department of the
Gulf, and purchasing commissary,- Atlanta,
Georgia, 1898-99; lieutenant-colonel and
chief commissary of subsistence, United
States Volunteers, May 9, 1898; colonel
and commissary of subsistence, by assign
ment, July 22, 1898, to March 2, 1899 ; hon
orably discharged from volunteer service
March 7, 1899; chief commissary First Di
vision (Lawton's) Eighth Army Corps,
Philippine Islands, November 23, 1899, to
January 2, 1900; chief commissary, Divis
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19, 1900; temporary chief commissary
United States forces in China, August 1
to 23, 1900; chief commissary Department
of the East, 1900-5; promoted lieutenant-
colonel, United States Army, February,
1901 ; colonel, United States Army, Octo
ber 6, 1905 ; chief commissary Department
of California, November, 1905, to March,
1907; chief commissary, Division of the
Philippines, since March, 1907. He mar
ried in Phoenix, Arizona, May 8, .1879,
Catherine Taylor, and have one son,
Charles A. Regina Dravo. . Address : Man
ila, Philippine Islands.
DBEEB, Edwin Greble:
Born in Philadelphia, October 17, 1862;
son of Frederick Annan Dreer and Louisa
(Greble) Dreer. He entered the University
of Pennsylvania as a special student in
chemistry in 1882 and was graduated in
June, 1884, and studied at the Pennsyl
vania Military Academy at Chester, Penn
sylvania, from 1877 to 1880. Mr. Dreer is
a member of the Union League Club of
Philadelphia, the Priestley Club and Gen
eral Alumni of the University of Pennsyl
vania, the Academy of Natural Science,
the Historical Society, Colonial Society,
and the Netherlands Society of Pennsyl
vania, also the Fairmount Park Art As
sociation, Browning Society of Philadel
phia, League of American Wheelmen, the
National Conference of Charities and Cor
rection, the German Society, and the Pris
on Society of Pennsylvania. He is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church. Address :
1520 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. DBEISEB, Theodore:
Author, editor; born in Terre Haute,
Indiana, August 27, 1871 ; son of John
Paul and Sarah (Schanab) Dreiser. He
was educated in the public schools of War
saw, Indiana, and the State University of
Indiana. He entered newspaper work on
the Chicago Daily Globe, June 15, 1892;
was dramatic editor and traveling corres
pondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
1892 and 1893, and traveling corres
pondent of the St. Louis Republic, 1893 to

1894. He visited Toledo, Cleveland, Buf
falo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New
York City as a general newspaper writer
and reporter. Mr. Drieser was editor of
Every Month, a literary and musical publi
cation, 1895 to 1898, and since then has
been in special work for Harper's, Mc
Clure's, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan and Mun-
sey's magazines. He was editor of Smith's
Magazine from April, 1905, to April, 1906;
managing editor of the Broadway Maga
zine from May, 1906, to June, 1907; editor-
in-chief The Delineator, since June, 1907.
Mr. Drieser is author of: Studies of Con
temporary Celebrities, igoo; and Sister Car
rie (a novel), 1901. He is a member of the
American Social Science Association and
of the Salmagundi Club. He married at
Washington, D. C, December 28, 1898,
Sarah Osborne White. Residence: 399
Mott Avenue. Address : 7 West Twenty-
second Street, New York City.
DBESSEB, Solomon Bobert:
Manufacturer, inventor and ex-Congress
man; born in Litchfield, Hillsdale County,
Michigan, February 1, 1842; son of Parker
Dresser and Lydia (Cronklute) Dresser.
He received a . common school education
and attended the Hillsdale College. He
conducted the Dresser farm with his
father until 1865, when the oil develop
ment of West Virginia began to attract
attention and companies were formed for
oil operation. In one of these he took
stock and soon became its manager, and
continued in this capacity until 1872,
when he came to Pennsylvania to engage
in the production of oil and gas. Here
he gained the practical experience which,
combined with his inventive genius, placed
his name foremost among the men of
brains whose business energy invented and
developed the machinery and appliances
used in the oil and gas industry. Among
his inventions are a packer for oil and
gas wells, which has taken the lead from
the first day , it , was placed on the market,
a rubber pipe coupling which by providing
for contraction. and expansion makes a per
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coupling which prevents the destruction
of water and gas pipes by electrolysis.
He is a large employer of labor and has
never had a strike or any trouble with his
employees. Mr. Dresser was elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902 and reelected
in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress from
the Twenty-first Pennsylvania District.
Mr. Dresser married, first in 1863, Vesta
E. Stimson, " who died in 1883, and second
December 21, 1885, Caroline Kirsch. Resi
dence: 149 Jackson Avenue, Bradford. Of
fice address : 54 Boylston Street, Bradford,
Pennsylvania. DEEW, John:
Actor ; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, in 1853 ; • son of John Drew, Irish
Comedian, who died in 1862, and Mrs. John
Drew, actress and manager, who died in
1897. He was educated at the Protestant
Episcopal Academy at Philadelphia and
by private tutors. He went on the stage
when nineteen years of age, and was for
many years a member of Augustin Daly's
company. Since 1894 he has starred under
the management of Charles Frohman in
Rosemary and Richard Carvel, as De
Lancey, during the season of 1905 and 1906 ;
as the Duke of Killicroankie in 1904; His
House in Order in the season of 1906 and
1907, and many others. He is a member of
the Lambs', Players', The Brook, Racquet
and Tennis and the Westchester County
Clubs. Mr. Drew married Josephine Baker
of Philadelphia. Address : Easthampton,
Long Island, New York.
DBEXEL, George W. Childs:
Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, 1868,
son of the late Anthony J. Drexel, banker
and philanthropist. He was educated in
private schools and by tutors. He became
conected with the Philadelphia Ledger in
association with the late George William
Childs, whom he succeeded as editor
and publisher of that paper, conducting it
until 1903, when the paper was sold and re
tired. He married at Vincentown, Burling
ton County, New Jersey, November 18,
1891, Mary S. Irick: Besides their town
house at Locust and Eighteenth Streets,

Philadelphia, Mr. Drexel has a country
home at Wootton, Bryn Mawr, Pennsyl
vania. Office address : 608 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.
DBIGGS, Marshall Sylvanus:
Fire insurance president; born in New
York City, January 9, 1834; son of Ed
mund Driggs and Delia A. (Marshall)
Driggs. He was educated at the George
Payn Quackenbos' High School and the
Reading (Connecticut) Institute. Mr.
Driggs has been for many years in the fire
insurance business in Brooklyn, and he is
now president and director of the William-
burgh City Fire Insurance Company, a di
rector of the First National Bank of
Brooklyn, a trustee of the Williamsburgh
Trust Company, and the Broadway Trust
Company, and a director of the Casualty
Company of America, and of the National
Foundry Company, the National Surety
Company, the Empire State Surety Com
pany, and treasurer of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters. Mr. Driggs is a
Democrat in politics, a member of the
Baptist denomination, and is a member of
the Automobile Club of America, and the
Insurance Club of New York. Mr. Driggs
married at Redding Ridge, Connecticut,
December 24, 1857, Mary Elizabeth San
ford. Address : 279 Washington Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York. 1
DBISCOLL, Frederick:
Journalist; born in Boston, July 31, 1834.
He received a thorough education in the
schools of Boston, and then entered
newspaper life. He removed to Minnesota
in 1858 and soon became prominent in the
political affairs of that State as a leading
Republican and he was a member of the
Legislature of Minnesota in i860. In 1864
he became general manager of the Pioneer
Press Company of Saint Paul, in which
position he continued until 1900, when he
removed to Chicago, taking his present
position as commissioner of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association of which
he had been for five years previously one
of the 'most active and influential directors ;
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ciated Press from 1892 to 1899. Mr. Dris-
coll was president of the Chamber of Com
merce of Saint Paul in 1890. He was sec
retary of the Republican State Central
Committee of Minnesota in 1867 and 1868
and its chairman in 1869 and 1870. He is
a member of the Masonic order. He mar
ried, first, May 31, 1858, Anna L. Brown,
who died March 31, 1880, and he married,
second, November 8, 1882, Mrs. Lucy N.
Styles. He has three sons: Frederick
Driscoll, Jr., Arthur Brown Driscoll, and
Walter John Driscoll. Residence: 1632
Graceland Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress: 108 La Salle Street, Chicago.
DBISCOLL, Michael Edward:
Lawyer and Congressman; born in Syra
cuse, New York, February 9, 1851. When
about one year old his parents moved to
the town of Camillias, Onondaga County,
where he was educated in the district
schools. He also attended the Munro Col
legiate Institute at Elbridge, Onondaga
County and Williams College, and he is at
present engaged in practice as a lawyer.
Mr. Driscoll was elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress in 1898 from the Twenty-sixth
New York District and reelected in 1900,
1902, 1904 and 1906, and is now serving
in the Sixtieth Congress. Address : Syra
cuse, New York.
DBOWNE, Henry Bussell:
Merchant; born in New York City, Aug
ust 31, r86o; son of Henry Thayer Drowne
and Sarah (Arnold) Drowne. He is des
cended from old New England stock, his
ancestors dating back to early Puritan days
and with the Arnold, Rhodes, Stafford,
Greene, Russell, Rice, Loud, and Tilling-
hast branches are prominently connected
with the early history of the State of Rhode
Island. He was educated in Dr. Callisen's
School and started as a young man in a
dry goods commission business. After be
ing connected wth several prominent houses
as an employee, he established in Decem
ber, 1895, the woolen commission house of
Stockton and Drowne, which was later
succeeded by the present firm of Lowrie,
Mann and Drowne. Mr. Drowne has a

fine collection of books and • engravings ;
Revolutionary and early documents connec
ted with American history, old coins, paper
money and historical relics. For ten years
he was secretary of the American Numis
matic and Archaeological Society of New
York, later its vice-president and was elec
ted a life member of the New York Genea
logical and Biographical Society in 1901.
Fie became sepretary of that society in 1903
and is a member of the National Arts Club
of New York City. On July 4, 1898, he
was elected an' honorary member of the
Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati by
right of his great-grandfather, Dr. Solo
mon Drowne, surgeon of the Second Regi
ment of Infantry of the Rhode Island State
Brigade in the Continental service, and he
has been a member since 1888 and secretary
since 1906 of the New York Society of the
Sons of the Revolution. Address : 61 Leo
nard Street, New York City.
DBYDEN, John Fairfield:
United States senator; born near Farm
ington, Maine, August 7, 1839. He re
moved with his parents, when in his
seventh year, to Massachusetts. He was
fitted for college at Worcester, -Massa
chusetts, and entered Yale Univer
sity, intending to adopt the legal pro
fession, but before fully completing
his course was obliged to leave on
account of ill health. Subsequently he
was graduated with the class of 1865.
During a period of enforced rest he made
a special study of life insurance, and in
1875 at Newark, New Jersey, originated
and founded the Prudential Insurance
Company of America, becoming its first
secretary, and in 1881 became its president,
a position he still holds, and he was also
one of the founders of the Fidelity Trust
Company, and is identified with the man
agement of various street railways, banks
and other large financial enterprises of
New Jersey and New York. Mr. Dryden
has been a Republican all his life, but was
more active in business than in politics.
He was one of the New Jersey Presiden
tial electors at large in 1896 and 1900 and
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to succeed the late William J. Sewell, in
January 29, 1902. His term of office ex
pired March 3, 1907. Address: Newark,
New Jersey.
DUANE, James May:
Banker; born at Honesdale, Wayne
County, Pennsylvania, August 21, 185 1;
son of Richard Bache and Margaret Anne
(Tarns) Duane. He was graduated from
Brown University as A.B., in 1872. Mr.
Duane was connected with United States
Branch of the London Assurance Corpora
tion 1872-1887; Brown Brothers & Co.,
since 1887, having been a partner in that
firm since 1895. He is a member of the
' Board of Managers of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company; a director of the
Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad Com
pany; and a trustee of the United States
Branch of the Sun Insurance Office of
London. In religious connection he is an
Episcopalian. Mr. Duane is a member of
the Sons of the Revolution of Pennsylvan
ia, the Pennsylvania Society of New York,
the University and Church Clubs and Down
Town Association of New York City, and
the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia. Mr.
Duane married in New York City, April
27, 1886, Katharine E. P. Fligginson, and
tney have three children: Richard Bache,
Eleanor Franklin and Katharine. Address :
59 Wall Street, New York City.
DUANE, Russell:
Lawyer; was born June 15, 1866; was
graduated from Harvard University with
the degree of A.B., 1888; studied law at
the law schools of Harvard Univer
sity, University of Virginia, and Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; was graduated
from the Law School of the University of
Pennsylvania with degree of LL.B. in 1891.
Has since been engaged in general legal
practice in the city of Philadelphia; was
junior counsel for the United States in the
Behring Sea Arbitration in 1892, Is now
the senior member of the firm of Duane,
Morris, Heckscher and Roberts. Member
of the Philadelphia, University, Penn and
-Harvard Clubs, also Society of Sons of the
Revolution, and Society of War of 1812.

Residence: 2028 DeLancey Place, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania. Address: 1617 to
1623 Land Title Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
DuBOIS, Edward Church:
Jurist; born in London, England, Janu
ary 12, 1848; son of Edward Church Du-
Bois and Emma (Davison) DuBois. Fie
was brought by his parents to the United
States in childhood, living at first in New
York and later in Rhode Island, and he
attended the high school at Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, in 1861 and .1862, and
the Friends' Academy at New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, from 1863 to
1865. He studied law in Boston and •
was admitted to the Suffolk bar there in
1870, and he was clerk of the Police Court
at Haverhill, Massachusetts from 1872 to
1877. He settled in practice at Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1877, where he continued
until 1899; he was attorney-general of
Rhode Island from 1894 to 1897. Since
March 3, 1899, he has filled his present
office as one of the associate justices of
the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
Judge DuBois has been a Republican from
his first vote. He married at Flaverhill,
Massachusetts, February 24, 1872, Jennie
Roberts. Residence: 202 Waterman
Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island.
Official address : Court House, Provid
ence, Rhode Island.
DU BOIS, Edwin W.:
Dredging contractor; born at New York
City, July 18, 1868; son of Charles and
Emily A. (Wells) Du Bois. He was edu
cated at Public School No. 32, Brooklyn,
and at high schools of Brooklyn. Mr. Du
Bois has been connected with the dredging
interests for years and is now vice-presi
dent and secretary of the Henry Du Bois
Sons Company. He has traveled exten
sively through the United States, Canada
and Europe and he has represented the
dredging interests of New York on several
occasions before Congress in legislative
matters. Mr. Du Bois is a Republican in
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Presbyterian in religious views, and he is
ex-president of the Board of Trustees of
the Parkside Church, in Brooklyn. Mr.
Du Bois is a member of the Royal Arca
num, an executive member of the Associa
tion for the Protection of the Commerce
of the Port of New York, and a member
of the Union League and Willink Clubs
of Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Du Bois
married Etta M. Beardsley of Brooklyn,
and they have two children: Lester P.
Du Bois, boru in 1896, and Charles F. Du
Bois, born in 1898. Address: 79 Winth
rop Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.
DU BOIS, Fred T,:
Ex-United States Senator; born in
Crawford County, Illinois, May 29, 1851 ;
son of Jesse K. Du Bois. He received a
public school and collegiate education grad
uating from Yale College in 1872. He was
secretary of the Board of Railway and
Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois in
1875 and 1876, and he went to Idaho in
1880 and engaged in business there. He
was United States marshal of Idaho from
August 25, 1882, till September 1, 1886, was
elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con
gresses as a Republican delegate, being the
last delegate from the Territory and having
secured the admission of the Territory to
the Union on July 3, 1890. He was chair
man of the first delegation from the new
State to the Republican National Conven
tion held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in
June, 1892. He was elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican, December
18, 1890, for the term beginning March
4, 1891, was chairman of the Republican
delegation from his State to the National
Republican Convention at St. Louis in 1896
and left the convention and the party when
they declared for the single gold standard.
In 1896 he was candidate of the Silver
Republicans of Idaho for reelection to the
Senate, but was beaten. He was nominated
in the State Convention in 1900 by the
Democrats, Populists and Silver Republic
ans, being classed as a Silver Republican,
and was elected to the United States Senate
on the first ballot, for the term beginning

March 4, 1901. After his election Mr. Du
Bois declared himself a Democrat and is
a full member of that party. His term of
office expired March 3, 1907. He married
at Chicago, January 11, 1898. Address:
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Du BOIS, James T. :
Editor; born at Hallstead, Susquehanna
County, Pennsylvania, April 17, 185 1 ; son
of Joseph DuBois and Emroy DuBois.
He was prepared for college at Ithaca
Academy at Ithaca, New York, from which
he was graduated in 1870, and then took
a special course of lectures at Cornell to
prepare for newspaper work. He was edit
or of the National Republican at Wash
ington from 1872 to 1877. In the latter
year he was appointed commercial agent
of the United States at Aix-la-Chapelle,
Uermany, serving until 1881, when he was
promoted to consul at the same place.
Later in the same year he was offered the
position of consul to Callao, Peru, but de
clined the appointment, and was then ap
pointed United States consul to Leipzig,
Germany, serving until 1881, when he was
1885 and returned to the United States,
and was occupied with newspaper editorial
work at Washington until 1897, when he
was appointed by President McKinley to
the office of consul-general of the United
States at Saint Gall, Switzerland, in which
office he continued until 1901. In the lat
ter year he was appointed to his present
position of consul to Calloo, Peru, but de-
Department at Washington. Mr. DuBois
has always been an active Republican in
politics. He is a member and vice-presi
dent of the District of Columbia Chapter
of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. DuBois married in 1883, Emma Pastor,
daughter of Henry Pastor of New York
City. Residence: Hallstead,- Susquehanna,
County, Pennsylvania. Official address:
Department of State, Washington, D. C.
Du BOIS, Patterson:
Literary adviser and editor, author, lec
turer; born at Philadelphia; son of Wil
liam Ewing Du Bois and Susanna (Eck-
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schools and by private tutors, also had train
ing in art schools and studios, and later
in scientific laboratory work. He entered
the assay department of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia in 1867, and became
Assistant Assayer in 1882. He resigned in
1886 to accept the managing editorship of
the Sunday School Times, resigned in 1900.
He was literary adviser and editor for the
F. H. Revell Company in 1902 ; and was on
the committee on Standard Dictionary for
disputed spellings and pronunciations. He
has been for many years a lecturer and writ
er on child-culture and special phases of
education. He is contributing editor to the
Pilgrim Teacher and was on the cabinet staff
of Success Magazine. Mr. Du Bois is au
thor of six books on child-life, education,
ethics, sociology and he is a writer for
magazines in fields of science, art, literature,
ethics and education. He studied art at
the Schools of the Franklin Institute, Aca
demy of Fine Arts and in the studios of
Ridgway Knight and Peter Moran, in early
life. In 1870 Mr. Du Bois traveled to the
Pacific Coast and in the mining regions of
Nevada and California, and he has made
two tours in Europe. He is Presbyterian
in his religious adherence. Mr. Du Bois
is a member and was some time secretary,
of the American Philosophical Society; is
a member of the American Archaeological
and^ Numismatic Society, and the London
Society of Arts ; fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science
and member of the Oriental Society (sec
tion on religion) ; councillor of the Re
ligious Education Association, and is also
a member of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society, Sons of the Revolution (Pennsyl
vania Society), American Dialect Society,
and the Franklin Inn Club of Philadelphia.
He married at Philadelphia, 1875, Clara
Green. Address: 401 South Fortieth St.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DUCEY, Thomas James:
Catholic clergyman; born in Lisnore,
Ireland, February 4, 1843. He came to
this country at the age of five years and
was adopted by James T. Brady in 1859.

lie was educated at the College of St.
Francis Xavier, New York City; studied
theology at the Troy Theological Seminary,
and was ordained to the priesthood in 1868,
and appointed to the Church of the Na
tivity in 1869, where he preached sermons
denouncing the Tweed ring. He was con
nected with St. Michael's Church in 1872,
and began the organization of the Roman
Catholic Societies in 1873. He established
the Church of St. Leo in 1880 and has
since been its pastor. Father Ducey is one
of the founders of the People's Municipal
League and the Social Reform Club, and
during the Lexow Investigation took a fear
less and independent course, which at
tracted the attention of the entire country.
Address : 16 East Twenty-ninth Street,
New York City.
DUDLEY, Charles Bowland:
Librarian; born at Easton, Connecticut,
June 26, 1853; son of Rev. Martin Dudley
and Sarah (Rowland) Dudley. He was
educated at Monson Academy, Monson,
Massachusetts, and then entered the Law
School of Yale University, from which he
was graduated with the degree of LL.B.
in 1877. He was admitted to the Hamp
den County bar in Massachusetts in 1878
and practiced at Monson, Massachusetts,
until 1882, when he removed to Denver, of
which he has since been a citizen. He
was appointed in 1886 librarian of the
Public Library, in which position he has
since continued, and he has also been secre
tary of the State Historical Society of
Colorado since 1887. Mr. Dudley was a
regent of the State University of Colorado
from 1888 to 1900, and again elected in 1906
for a term of six years. He married, Sep
tember 14, 1893, Rose A. Smith, and they
have three daughters : Eugenia Helen, born
in 1895 ; Marian, bora in 1897 ; and Sarah
Rowland, born in 1905. Residence : 1274
Marion Street, Denver. Office address :
Public Library, Denver, Colorado.
DUDLEY, Irving Bedell:
Ambassador; born at Jefferson, Ashta
bula County, Ohio, November 30, 1861 ; son
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Eastwood Dudley. After a preparatory
education in the public schools of Ohio
and the Milwaukee high school, he enter
ed Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1882, then entered the Law Department of
Columbian (now George Washington)
University at Washington, D. C, graduat
ing as LL.B. in 1885 and LL.M. in 1886.
He went to California and engaged in the
practice of law at San Diego from 1888
to 1897. He served as city judge of San
Diego for two terms, and he became aptive
and prominent in the politics of his State
as a Republican, and was a member of the
Kepublican State Executive Committee of
California in 1897. In June, 1897, he en
tered upon his diplomatic career, being ap
pointed by President McKinley envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Peru, in which posi
tion he remained until his promotion to
ambassadorial rank and transfer, in Decem
ber, 1906, as the American ambassador to
Brazil, in which important post he is now
serving. Address : American Embassy, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
DUELL, Charles H. :
Jurist; born in Cortland, New York,
April 13, 1850; son of R: Holland Duell
and Mary Ledyard (Cuyler) Duell. He
was educated at the Corlandville Academy
and was graduated from Hamilton College
with the degree of A.B. in 1871, and from
the Hamilton College Law School with the
degree of LL.B. in 1872, and he received
the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton in
1906. He practiced law in New York City
from 1874 to 1880; in Syracuse from 1880
to 1898, and again in New York City from
1901 to igo4, his specialty being patent law.
He was a member of the New York As
sembly from 1878 to 1880 ; and commission
er of patents from 1898 to 1901, but re
signed to resume the practice of his pro
fession. In December, 1904, he was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt associate
justice of the Court of Appeals of the Dis
trict of Columbia, but resigned September
1, 1906, to resume the practice of his pro
fession in the firm of Duell, Warfield and

Duell. He was assistant treasurer of the
Republican National Committee in 1904;
president of the McKinley League of Onon
daga County of New York, in 1896, and di
rector of- the Carter-Crunne Company and
William A. Rogers, Limited, both of Toron
to, Canada. He is a Presbyterian in his
denominational adherence. Judge Duell is
a member of the American Bar Associa
tion; and of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and is also a member of the
Union League and Republican Clubs of
New York City, and the Cosmos Club of
Washington, D. C. Judge Duell married
at Syracuse, New York, November 20, 1879,
Harriet M., daughter of William A. Sac-
kett, of Saratoga Springs, New York. They
have four children : Holland S., W. Sac-
kett, Mary L., and Charles H., Junior.
Residence: 335 West End Avenue, New
York City. Office address : 2 Rector Street,
New York City.
DU FAIS, John:
Architect; born in New York City, De
cember 21, 1855 ; son of Ferdinand Fred
erick Du Fais and Louise Sterry (Pierson)
Du Fais. He was educated in private
schools in the United States and Germany
and was graduated from Harvard College
in the class of 1877 and from the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology. He is
the architect of various public and private
buildings in New York, notably the Gene
see Valley Club and the Young Men's
Christian Association in Rochester, New
York, several police stations of New York
City, and he is one of the architects of the
new building of the Union Club of New
York City. Mr. Du Fais has traveled ex
tensively in the United States, England,
France, Germany, Cuba, etc. He is a mem
ber of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, the
American Institute of Architects, and is ex-
president of the Architectural League of
New York. He was formerly secretary of
the Metropolitan Golf Association, and is a
member of the Sons of the Revolution, and
the Military Society of the War of 1812.
He is also a member of the Union, Uni
versity, and Harvard Clubs. Address: 333
Fourth Avenue, New York City.

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DUFF, Levi Bird:

Lawyer; born near Saulsburg, Hunting
don County, Pennsylvania, September 13,
1837; son of Samuel Duff and Catherine
(Eckeberger) Duff. He was educated in
Eldersridge Academy and at Allegheny
College, being graduated from the latter in
June, 1857. He studied law in Pittsburgh,
and was admitted to the bar in April, i860.
He enlisted May I, 1861, in Company A,
Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps, and was mustered into United States
service as corporal at Washington, D. C,
July 26, 1861. For gallant conduct in the
engagement of Dranesville, December 20,
1861, he was recommended by General Ord,
commanding general, for promotion, and he
was -commissioned February 6, 1862, as
captain of Company D, One Hundred and
Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, command
ing that company during the siege of York-
town, and at the battles of Williamsburg
and Fair Oaks, where he was severely
wounded by a musket-ball which passed
through his right lung. On recovery he
rejoined his regiment at Harrison's Land
ing August 16, 1862, and his company join
ed General Hooker in the pursuit of Jack
son and was engaged at Kettle Run. He
participated in the battles of second Bull
Run and of Chantilly, and commanded his
company at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
In March, 1863, he was appointed acting
assistant inspector-general of the First
Brigade, First Division, Third Corps, and
served on the staff at Chancellorsville. He
was promoted major of his regiment May
4, 1863, and appointed a week later acting
assistant inspector-general of the Third
Division Third Corps, and of the First
Division, Third Corps on June 26. He
served on the staff at Gettysburgh and in
the campaign to the Rappahannock includ
ing the engagement at Manassas" Gap, July
24, 1863. He was placed in command of
the One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and commanded it in the Mine
Run campaign and until December I, 1863.
On April 9, 1864, he was appointed acting
assistant inspector-general of the First
Division, Third Corps, and afterward of the

Third Division of the Second Corps. He
served on the staff at the Wilderness, and
then at his own request returned to his
regiment: He commanded his own regi
ment and the Sixty-third Pennsylvania Vol
unteers (which was added to his for
field service) from May 8 to June 18, 1864,
and was engaged at Po River, Spottsylvan-
ia Court House, North Anna, Totopotomy,
Cold Harbor and the first assault on Peters
burg, where he was wounded and lost
his right leg. . He was appointed lieu
tenant-colonel of his regiment May 18, 1864.
On October 25, 1864, being disabled for
field duty he was honorably discharged
from the service at his own request. He
returned to Pittsburgh and resumed the
practice of law. He was elected district
attorney of Allegheny County in 1865, and
served three years. He is a member of the
Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military-
Order of the Loyal Legion. Colonel Duff
married July 21, 1862, Harriet H. Nixon,
who died July 13, 1877, and by her has
two sons : Samuel Eckeberger and Heze-
kiah Nixon. He- was again married Janu
ary 16, 1882, to Agnes F. Kaufman. Ad
dress : 518 Taylor Avenue, Allegheny, Penn
sylvania. DUFFIELD, Pitts:
' Publisher; born at Detroit, Michigan,
January 22, 1869; son of Henry M. and
Frances (Pitts) Duffield. He was gradu
ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1892. He
was formerly secretary of Fox, Duffield
and Company, publishers ; and is now presi
dent, treasurer and director of Duffield
™d Company, publishers (incorporated).
He is a member of the American Publish
ers' Association, the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity (Harvard), the University, Play
ers' and Harvard Clubs of New York and
the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard. Mr.
Duffield married at Washington, D. C,
January 6, 1904, Isabel, daughter of Justice
McKenna, of the United States Supreme
Court, and they have a daughter, Carolyn
Pitts Duffield, born in 1905. Residence:
135 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City.
Address: 36 East Twenty-first Street, New
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DUGBO, Philip Henry:
Jurist; born in New York City, October
3, 1855; son of Anthony Dugro. Was
graduated from Columbia College, as A.B.
in 1876, A.M. in 1876; and from Columbia
Law School as LL.B. in 1878. He was
elected a member of the Assembly of the
State of New York in 1878, and a member
of Congress, in 1880. Fie was nominated
for comptroller of the City of New York,
by the Democratic Party, in 1884, but owing
to his father's death immediately after
nomination, he declined it. In 1886, he was
nominated by the governor of New York
as emigration commissioner of the State, but
while the nomination was pending in the
State Senate, he was elected judge of the
Superior Court of the City of New York.
In 1896, by constitutional amendment, he
was made justice of the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, and in 1900, was
elected to the same position for a term
expiring in 1914. Judge Dugro has always
been a Democrat in politics. He built the
Hotel Savoy and the Hotel Seville. Has
two children : Charles H, Dugro (born in
1878) and Antonia, now Mrs. Frederick
H. Cossitt, born in 1887. Address : Hotel
Savoy, New York City.
DULLES, Allen Macy:
Cleryman, theologian; born in Philadel*
phia, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1854; son
of Reverend John Welsh Dulles, D.D., and
Harriet (Winslow) Dulles. He was gradu
ated from Princeton with the degree of B.A.
in 1875, and M.A. in 1878; and from the
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1879;
and received the D.D. degree from Hamil
ton College in 1901. He also studied at
Leipzig University and elsewhere abroad
from 1879 to 1881. He was engaged in
archaeological research in the Sinaitic
Peninsula in 1881 ; was pastor of the Trum
bull Avenue Presbyterian Church of De
troit, Michigan, for six years; of the First
Presbyterian Church of Watertown, New
~York, for eighteen years, and since 1904 has
been professor of theology at the Auburn
Theological Seminary. Mr. Dulles mar
ried at Washington, D. C, Edith, daughter
of Secretary of State John W. Foster, and

they have five children : John Foster, Mar
garet Josephine, Allen Welsh, Eleanor Lan
sing, and Nataline. Address : Auburn,
New York.
DULLES, Charles Winslow:
Physician; born in Madras, India, No
vember 29, 1850 ; son of John Welsh Dulles,
D.D. and Harriet Lathrop (Winslow)
Dulles. He was educated in schools at
Philadelphia and Lawrenceville, New Jer
sey, and at the University of Pennsylvania
received the degree of M.D. in 1875, after
ward pursuing post-graduate studies in
Europe. He has held many hospital po
sitions, is now Lecturer on The History of
Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania,
and was formerly Assistant Surgeon in
the Second Regiment of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dulles is a
member of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy of
Surgery, the Mayflower Society, the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Society of American Au
thors, the American Historical Associa
tion and many others. He is a manager
of the University Hospital, the Pennsyl
vania Society for the Protection of Children
from Cruelty, the Vivisection Reform So
ciety and the Western Home for Poor
Children. Dr. Dulles is a member of the
Presbyterian Church and is an Independent
in politics. He is a member of the Uni
versity, Hamilton and Southern Clubs, and
of the Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Dr. Dulles married at Philadelphia, October
5, 1881, Mary Bateman and they have four
children: James B., born in 1882, Charles
W., Junior, born in 1885, Caroline, born in
1888 and Joseph H., born in 1893. Ad
dress: 4101 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. DULLES, Heatly Courtonne:
Stock broker and banker; born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1867; son
of Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D. and Nataline
(Baynard) Dulles. He was educated in
Lawrenceville School, New Jersey. He is
a member of the firm of Wurts, Dulles
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in with independent proclivities, and in
religion is a Presbyterian. He is a trustee
of the Polyclinic Hospital, the Theodore
Starr Savings Bank, and the Auto Transit
Company of Philadelphia. His favorite re
creations are horseback riding, tennis,
swimming and rowing. Mr. Dulles is a
member of the Philadelphia, University
Barge, Merion, Cricket and Whitemarsh
Valley Hunt Clubs. Residence: 311 South
Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia. Ad
dress : 125 South Fourth Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
DULLES, Joseph Heatly:
Librarian; born in Philadelphia, May 27,
1853; son of Rev. Dr. John Welsh Dulles
and Harriet Lathrop (Winslow) Dulles.
He was graduated from Princeton Univers
ity in 1873 and as A.M. in 1876, and from
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. He
was ordained by the Presbytery of Phila
delphia, December 9, 1877;. and supplied the
Presbyterian Churches of Jenkintown and
Edge Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1877, and the
First Presbyterian Church of Nebraska
City, Nebraska, in 1877 and 1878; traveled
in Europe, Egypt, Holy Land, Constanti
nople and Athens in 1878 and 1879 and
studied in Hanover. Germany; was pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church of Bel
videre, New Jersey, from 1881 to 1883 ; trav
eled • in Europe from 1883 to 1885, and
studied in Leipzig, Germany; and has been
librarian of Princeton Theological Sem
inary since ,1886. In politics he is a Re
publican (tariff-revision). Mr. Dulles is
a member of the American Historical As
sociation His favorite recreations are golf
and tennis. He is a member of the Nassau
and Princeton Golf Clubs of Princeton,
New Jersey. Address: Princeton, New
Jersey. DULLES, William:
Financier ; born in Philadelphia, October
25, 1857; son of Rev. John Welsh Dulles,
D.D. and Harriet L. (Winslow) Dulles.
He was graduated from Princeton Univer
sity as A.B. in 1878 and as A.M. in 1880;
and from the University of Pennsylvania
as LL.B. in 1880, and he received various

prizes in Princeton, including the junior
orations, Maclean Prize, Lynde Debate
Prize, and others, and has been president
of his class from graduation. He practic
ed law, Philadelphia from 1880 to 1882,
and removed to New York in 1882, enter
ing financial business as private secretary,
assistant secretary and treasurer of the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Rail
road, from 1884 to 1889. He was treasur
er of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions, from 1889 to 1897, on resigning
Mi. Dulles assumed the presidency of Ap-
pert Glass Company, and later on became
vice-president of the Mississippi Wire
Class Company, "at its organization in igoi,
and in igo4, also vice-president of the Mis
sissippi Glass Company, and he is also
treasurer and a director of both companies.
with E. W. Humphreys, the president of
Mississippj Wire Glass Company, he has
been especially active in the development of
the manufacture and use of wire glass now
so extensively used as a fire retardent in
window openings, elevator shafts and other
exposures, and as security against breakage
in skylights, etc. He was a director of
the Electric Boat Company, from its or
ganization until 1906, as well as of the
Holland Submarine Boat Company and the
Electro-Dynamic Company, also of Vulcan
Mining Company and the American Stoker
Company. Mr. Dulles, who is a Republic
an in his political views, is a member of
the Board of Education of Engelwood, N.
J., and he is in his religious affiliation a
Presbyterian. He has traveled in the
United States and in Europe many times.
Mr. Dulles is a trustee and secretary of
Mackenzi College in Brazil, South Ameri
ca, a member of the Pennsylvania Society,
the Presbyterian Union, American Civic
Association, National Municipal League,
American Society of International Law,
Executive Committee of Englewood City
Club, the American Museum of Natural
History, and the New York Zoological
Society. He is also a member of the Uni
versity, Lawyers', University of Pennsyl
vania, National Arts', Princeton and Pil
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versity Club of Philadelphia, the Duquesne
Club of Pittsburgh, and the Englewood,
Englewood Field and Englewood Golf
Clubs of Englewood, New Jersey. Mr.
Dulles married at Lake Forest, Illinois,
January 15, 1891, Sophea Rhea, and they
have four children : Dorothy W. Dulles
(born in 1894), Edith R. Dulles (born in
1897), Foster Rhea Dulles (born in 1900),
and William Winslow Dulles (born in
1904). Residence: Englewood, New Jer
sey. Office address: 115 Broadway, New
York City.
Du MAZCEL, Edmond G. F, B. (marquis) :
Consulting engineer; born in Paris,
France, in 1876; son of Dr. Edmond R —
and Antonia R — du Mazuel. He studied at
St. Charles College, principality of Monaco,
graduating as B.L. and B.S. in 1893; be
came a student of the Ecole Polytechnique
and received the degree of Licentiate es
Science at Paris in 1897. The marquis du
Mazuel was assistant engineer to M. Bres-
sand of Montmelian for estimates on roads
for the Isere section, France (the estimates
amounting to $2,000,000) ; chief of staff for
the improvements of the harbor of Algiers
(Algeria) ; chief assistant engineer for
Brousseau d'Essex, CE. on the location,
erection and construction of a $3,000,000
rack railway of La Turbie (Alpes Mari-
times), and on soundings, estimates, etc.,
of proposed piers for the harbor of the
principality of Monaco, 1898- i8g9- 1900. He
gave special lectures in hydraulic engin
eering for the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris,
1900-1901 ; and since 1902 has been in New
York City, doing private bridge work; and,
occasionally working for different firms
and companies, including the New York,
Central Railroad ; Tribus ' & Massa, hy
draulic engineers, as their field engineer for
the Larchmont dam and the Caldwell
waterworks (the works amounting to about
$400,000) ; was engaged" on road locating
and topographical work on Long Island ;
was with the firm of Dr. F. S. Pearson
on computations relating to works of the
Necaxa Power Company, the Electrical
Development Company of Ontario, Limit
ed, and the Sao Paulo Railway Company

(each of these works cost over $1,000,000).
He was at the American Asbestos Mills
of Black Lake, Province of Quebec, Cana
da, designirig and supervising during the
erection of the mills; was chief of the en
gineering department of the Iroquois Con
struction Company and of the Niagara,
Lockport and Ontario Power Company
(companies sold by the Messrs. J. G.
Robin and C. M. Wicker to New York
Central and Westinghouse interests in
1905) ; became with C. M. Wicker, one of
the promoters of the Consolidated Engin
eering Company of America, of which he
has been president since 1906; is a director
of the Watchung Ice and Cold Storage
Company. The marquis du Mazuel was
one of the few promoters of reenforced
concrete construction in this country; was
the designer, architect and engineer of St.
Edmund's Church of New York City, the
first reenforced concrete church in Ameri
ca. Address : 41 Wall .street, New York
City.
DUMONT, Charles Walter:
Law publisher; born at Juneau, Wis
consin, i860; son of Dr. John E. and
Julia (Warford) Dumont. He was edu
cated at the University of Wisconsin,
Mr. Dumont was principal and superin
tendent of various public high schools in
Wisconsin for six years; was formerly
treasurer of the Edward Thompson Com
pany of Northport, Long Island, N. Y.,
law publishers; and is now president and
manager of The American Law Book
Company. He was the originator of the
idea of the Cyclopedia of Law and Pro
cedure CYC, a forty volume work,
which is universally conceded to be the
greatest work in the law. Mr. Dumont
may very properly be called the father of
CYC. Mr. Dumont has visited most of the
European countries. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Odd Fellows
Order. His favorite recreations are yachting
and driving. He is a member of the New
York Athletic and Northport Yacht Clubs.
He is also a member of the Empire State
Society Sons of the American Revolution.
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sin, in 1879, Jennie Hargraves, and he
has three children : George Dumont (born
in 1880), Dorothea Dumont (born in
1885) and Charles W. Dumont (born in
1898. Residence : Glendale, Northport,
Long Island. Address : 60 Wall Street,
New York City.
DUN, Jaines:
Railway official; born in Chillicothe,
Ohio, September 8, 1844; son of James
and Virginia Walker Dun. He was edu
cated at the public schools and at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio. He began his
railway service as a chainman with the
engineering corps of the Indianapolis and
Cincinnati Railroad Company in 1866. Fie
was an assistant engineer with the Atlant
ic and Pacific Railway from 1867 to 1871,
and held a similar position with the Mis
souri Pacific Railway from 1871 to 1874.
For the next three years he was engineer
for the Union Depot Company at Saint
Louis, Missouri. In 1877-78 he was sup
erintendent of bridges and buildings for
the Saint Louis and San Francisco Rail
road Company and was chief engineer of
the same road from 1878 to 1890. For the
succeeding ten years he was chief engineer
of the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe
Railroad Company and its successor, the
Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway
Company.' From August 1, 1900 to Sept.
1, 1906 was chief engineer of the entire
system of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railway System. Since September 1,
1906, to date he has been consulting en
gineer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railway system. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
. the Western Society of Engineers, the
American Railway Engineering and Main
tenance of Way Association, of which he
has been the vice-president, and the Saint
Louis Society of Engineers. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago and Onwentsia Clubs.
Mr. Dun has been twice married, his
first wife was Mrs. Belle R. Otterson, to
whom he was married at Springfield, Mis
souri, in 1885. His secorid wife was Mrs.
Lucy J. Rucker, to whom he was united
at St. James, Missouri, in 1899. He has

one daughter, Mary E. Address : Rail
way Exchange Building. Residence : 503
North btate Street, Chicago, Illinois.
DCNBAB, James Bobert:
Lawyer ; born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
December 23, 1847; son of Henry W. and
Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar. He was
educated in the public schools of Pitts
field, at Williams College, where he re
ceived the degree of A.B., and at the Har
vard Law School. He was admitted to
the bar in 1874, and has ever since been
engaged in practice, now being senior
partner of the law firm of Dunbar, Racke-
mann and Brewster, which holds an en
viable position at the Boston bar. He is
a director of the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust Company. He is a Republican in
politics and has served as a member of the
Massachusetts Senate, and also as District
Attorney and as judge of the Superior
Court of Massachusetts. He has been
chairman of the Taxation Commission and
is now chairman of the Suffolk County
Court House Commission. He is president
of the Evening Law School and a trustee
of Williams College. Mr. Dunbar is a*
member of the Boston Bar Association.
He has traveled extensively in Europe and
the United States, Canada, and the West
Indies. He is a member of the Curtis,
Massachusetts Agricultural, New Algon
quin and Seapuit Clubs. He married at
Westfield, Massachusetts, May 15,- 1875,
Harriet P. Walton, and they have five
children: Ralph W., bora in 1877, Philip
R., born in 1879, Ruth, born in 1886, Helen
L., born in 1888, and Henry F, born in
1889. Residence : Brookline, Massachus
etts. Office address: 23 Court Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
DUNBAB, Balph O.:^-^
Jurist; born in' Schuyler County, Illi
nois, April 26, 1845". His parents crossing
the plains with an ox-wagon in 1846, took
him to Oregon, and he was reared on a
farm in that State and educated in the
schools of the State and at Willamette
University. He moved to Washington
;b-aveI paipms atj pu"E '4jgi in iC.105u.T3j.

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Olympia, and was admitted to the bar in
1869, and he became clerk of the District
and Supreme Courts at Olympia until 1871.
lie practiced law at Yakima City, Wash
ington Territory, from 1871 to 1877, and
after that was in practice until 1889, at
Goldendale, Washington, where he served
as city attorney for several terms, and
was also prosecuting attorney of Klickitat
County for one term. He was elected to
the Territorial Legislature in 1879 and
again in 1885 being speaker of the House
during the latter term; and he was elected
to the Constitutional Convention of 1889,
and was chairman of the Public Lands
Committee of that body.- At the first elec
tion for state officers, in 1889, he was elect
ed one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of the State of Washington, in
which office he has continued ever since.
Judge Dunbar has always been a Repub
lican in politics. He married, October 18,
1873, Clara White. Address : Olympia,
Washington.
DUNCAN, Albert Greene:
Mechanical engineer ; born in Cleveland,
»Ohio, December 12, 1868; son of the Rev.
Samuel White Duncan, D.D. and his wife,
Sarah Margaret Fuller (Greene) Duncan;
grandson of Hon. James Henry and Mary
(Willis) Duncan and of Judge Albert
Groton, and Mary Ann (Clifford) Greene.
His immigrant ancestors included : Wil
liam White, Ipswich, 1635 ; Dr. John
Greene, Boston, 1635, Shawomet, Rhode
Island, with Samuel Gorton, 1643; George
Duncan, Londonderry, New Hampshire,
1719. He was prepared for college at
Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated
at University of Rochester, in the class of
i8gi. He was constructing engineer and
mechanical draughtsman for Westinghouse,
Church, Kerr & Company, Boston and New
York, from i8gi to 1898; treasurer Deane
Steam Pump Company,- Holyoke, Massa
chusetts, 1898-igoo; assistant treasurer
Dwight Manufacturing Company, Chicopee,
Massachusetts, manufacturers of cotton
goods, 1900-1903 and in 1903 became treas
urer of the Chicopee Manufacturing Com
pany, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. Resi

dence : Brookline, Massachusetts. Office ad
dress : 70 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. DUNCAN, Louis:
Electrical engineer; born in Washington,
D. C, March 25, 1862; son of Thomas
Duncan and Maria (Morris) Duncan. He
was graduated from . the United States
Naval Academy in 1880; and he studied
physics and mathematics at Johns Hopkins
University, where he received the degree
of Ph.D. He married in 1887, Edith Mc-
Kee, of Philadelphia. He resigned from
the navy in 1887, and he was major of
the first Volunteer Engineers in the Span
ish War. He was professor of applied
electricity at Johns Hopkins University
from 1887 to 1898, and head of the de
partment of Electrical Engineering of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology from
1902 to 1904. He wrote the article on
Electric Traction in the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, and also many articles on en
gineering subjects in technical journals.
Dr.. Duncan is a member and past president
of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, honorary member of the Frank
lin Institute; a fellow of the American
Philosophical Society; and a member of
the Mathematical Society of France. He
is also a member of the University and
Engineers' Clubs of New York, the Mary
land Cluh of Baltimore, the Army and
Navy Club of Washington, and the Auto
mobile Club of America. Residence: Pel-
ham Manor, Westchester County, New
York. Office address: 56 Pine Street,
New York City.
DUNCAN, William Butler:
Railway official ; born in Edinburgh, '
Scotland, March 17, 1830 ; son of Alexander
Duncan and Sarah (Butler) Duncan of
Providence, Rhode Island. He was edu
cated in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was
graduated from Brown University Provi
dence, Rhode Island, in 1850. Mr. Duncan
was president from 1874 to 1888 and has
been, since 1888, chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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United States Guarantee Company. He
is also a vice-president of the Chamber
of Commerce. Mr. Duncan is a member
of the National Academy of Design; the
Brown University Alumni; the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art; American Museum of
Natural History; and a member of the
Union, Players', Lawyers', Manhattan, New
York Yacht, Racquet, and Whist Clubs. He
married at New Orleans, November 22,
1853, Jane P. Sargent, and they have three
children: A. Butler, Jessie Percy (now
Mrs. Wilton Phipps), and Mary (now Mrs.
Paul Dana). Residence: 1 Fifth Avenue,
New York City. Office address : 80 Broad
way, New York City.
DUNCAN, William Wallace:
Methodist bishop; born at Boydton,
Mecklenburg County, Virginia, December
20, 1839. He was educated at Randolph-
Macon College until 1854, and afterward
attended Wofford College at Spartanburg,
South Carolina, from which he was grad
uated with the degree of A.B. in 1858.
He entered the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South in the Virginia
Annual Conference in 1859, and filled ap
pointments in that conference until 1875,
except that during the war between the
States, from 1861 to 1865, he was chaplain
in the Army of the Confederate States.
He became professor of intellectual and
moral philosophy at Wofford College in
1875 and held that chair until 1886, when
he was elected by the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
as one of the bishops of that church, and
he has ever since been occupied with his
episcopal duties. He was a delegate from
the Methodist Episcopal Church South to
the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism
at London in 1881. He married at Union,
South Carolina, March 19, 1861, Medora
Rice. Address : Spartanburg, South Caro
lina. DUNHAM, George E.:
Editor of Utica Daily Press; born in
Clayville,. Oneida County, New York, April
5. 1859; son of Rev. Dr. M. E. Dunham
and Harriet U. (HughSton) Dunham. He

received his preparatory education in the
Whitestown Seminary, and was graduated
from Hamilton College in 1879. He began
newspaper work as a reporter; has been
editor of the Utica Daily Press since 1886,
and is president of the Utica Daily Press
Company. He is director of the Utica
Trust and Deposit Company, and of the
Utica City National Bank. He has been
a member of the Board of Managers of the
Utica State Hospital for the Insane since
1888, and its president since 1905, and he
has been president for two years of the
Utica Chamber of Commerce. In politics
he is an Independent and in religion a
Presbyterian. He is a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity, and has been on the
Board of Trustees of Hamilton College
since 1890 and clerk of the Board since 1905.
Mr. Dunham is a member of the Fort
Schuyler and Arcanum Clubs of Utica.
He married in Utica, New York, January
9, 1884, Helen L. Jones. Address : Press
Office, Utica, New York.
DUNLAP, Andrew :
Rear admiral United States Navy, re
tired; born in Ovid, 'New York, Oc
tober 7, 1844; son of Andrew Dunlap and
Hannah Kinne Dunlap. He was appointed
acting midshipman April 23, 1862, and mid
shipman July, 1862; and was graduated
from the United States Naval Academy in
1867. He made a special cruise in the
Mediterranean from 1867 to 1868; was pro
moted ensign in 1868; master in 1870; lieu
tenant in 1871 ; lieutenant-commander in
1891 ; commander in i8g8 and captain in
igo2. He served on various sea and shore
stations and in 1896 and 1897 he commanded
the coast and geodetic steamer Blake. He
served in the Spanish-American War in
command of the ambulance and hospital _
ship Solace, and afterward in command
of the same vessel as naval transport to the
West Indies and Philippines in 1898, 1899
and 1900. He was lighthouse inspector of
the Tenth (Buffalo) District in 1902; and
commandant of the naval station at San
Juan, Porto Rico, from 1902 to 1906. He
retired as rear-admiral, a^.his own request,
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1905. He is a member of the United States
Naval Institute; the National Geographic
Society ;„and is a veteran companion of the
Military Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States. He married at Boston,
Massachusetts, October 13, 1875, Ellen
Grace Derby Adams. Address : Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.
DUNLAP, Frederick Levy:
Chemist; born in Chillicothe, Ohio, May
16, 1870. He was educated in the Ohio
State University in 1888 and 1889; in the
University of Michigan in 1892 where he
received the degree of B.S. and ScD. from
Harvard University in 1895 and from Yale
in 1896. He was instructor of industrial
chemistry at the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute from 1896 "to 1900, and inorganic
chemistry in the University of Michigan
from 1900 to 1901, instructor in analytical
chemistry from igoi to igo6, and has been
assistant professor of analytical chemistry
from 1906 in that university. He was
also instructor at the summer school
at Harvard from 1893 to 1895. Dr.
Dunlap is a member of the American Chem
ical Society, and the Deutsche Chemische
Gessellschaft. He was appointed a mem
ber of the United States Board of Food and
Drug Inspection in Washington, D. C. in
April, 1907, and associate chemist of the
Bureau of Chemistry. His principal re
searches have been in the chemistry of oils,
fats and waxes and in organic chemistry.
He has written many papers on products
formed during the boiling or oxidation of
linseed oil. Address : Bureau of Chemistry,
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C.
DUNLAP, Millard Fillmore:
Banker; born at Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Illinois, December 9, 1857; son of
-Irvin Dunlap and Mary F. Dunlap. He
was educated in the public schools of Jack
sonville, and he has been continuously en
gaged in banking there since 1876. Since
January 1-, 1891, he has been associated
with Andrew and William Russel ' in the
.banking firm of_Dunlap, Russel and Com
pany, bankers. Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat

in politics and has taken an active and
influential part in party affairs in his State
and the Nation. He was treasurer of the "
Illinois State Democratic Committee from
r8g7 to 1901, and treasurer of the National
Democratic Committee from 1900 to 1904;
and he was the Democratic candidate for
State Treasurer of Illinois in 1898. Mr.
Dunlap has long been the personal friend
as well as a political supporter of William
Jennings Bryan, their friendship dating
back to the time when Mr. Bryan was a
student at Illinois College in Jacksonville,
and he was the traveling companion of
Mr. Bryan in Europe during the summer
of 1906. Mr. Dunlap married at Wateska,
Illinois, May 21, 1879, Jennie R. Marsh,
and they have two children : Ralph I,
Dunlap and Carrie Dunlap. Address:
1025 State Street, Jacksonville, Florida.
DUNN, Charles Bullen:
Banker ; born in the County of Cornwall,
England, in 1837; son of Robert Dunn and
Mary Ann (Rowe) Dunn, he is de
scended from two very old yoeman families
in North Cornwall, near Tintagal, England.
He was educated in Saint Anstell Grammar
School in Cornwall. He emigrated to the
United States in 1853, and was cashier for
his cousin, John Grigg, late publisher and
banker, from 1853 to i860. He acted as
trustee and executor for the Estates of
John Grigg and his son, John W. Grigg,
until 1867. In conjunction with his broth
ers Joseph H.' and Robert M. Dunn, he
organized the present firm of Dunn Brothr
ers, bankers, in 1868. Mr. Dunn is a di
rector and chairman of the Finance Com
mittee of the Midvale Steel Company of
the City of Philadelphia, and a director of
the Edgemoor Iron Company of Wilming
ton, Delaware. He is a Democrat in poli
tics and an Episcopalian in his religious
views. Mr. Dunn is a member of the Art
Club of Philadelphia and the Arts. Club oi
New York. He married in Philadelphia
iri 1865. Residence : ' Norwood Avenue,
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Office address;
11S South. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, and 2-
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DUNN, Clifford E.:
Patent lawyer; born in Trenton, New
Jersey, July 25, 1876; son of Lewis A.
Dunn and Sarah Parsells (Shurts) Dunn.
He was educated at the Adelphi Academy,
and at the Polytechnic Institute of Brook
lyn, and was graduated from the New York
Law School with the degree of LLB. He
studied law for three years in the office of
William B. Hornblower; and has practiced
patent law for eight years, having been ad
mitted to practice in the courts of seven
teen States. He has represented the Otis.
Elevator Company ; the Baker Heater Com
pany; the Holland Submarine Boat Com
pany; J. H. Lane and Company; and many
other large corporations; and he is now
senior member of the firm of Dunn and
• Turk. He has traveled extensively. Mr.
Dunn is a Democrat in politics and a
Presbyterian in his religious denomination.
He is a member of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers ; the American Elec
tro-Chemical Society; the Franklin Insti
tute of Philadelphia; and the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences. His favorite
recreation is -yachting, and he is a member
of the Natural Arts, the New York Canoe.
and the Pleiades Clubs. Address : Park
Row Building, New York City.
DUNN, Henry E. :
President of the Bradstreet Company;
born in Brooklyn, December 9, 1868. He
was educated in the public school. He is
president and director of the Bradstreet
Company. Mr. Dunn is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of
New York. He married at Rochester, New
York, June ,24, 1896, Elizabeth Wadsworth
Ives, and they have three children. Resi
dence: 53 East Seventy-ninth Street, New
York City. Address: 346 Broadway,- New
York City.
DUNN, Jacob Piatt:
Journalist and author; born at Law-
renceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana,
April 12, 1855; son of Jacob Pratt Dunn
and Harriet L, (Tate) Dunn. He received
his early education in the Indianapolis
public schools, and afterward entered

Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana,
from which he was graduated with the
degree of A.B. in 1874. He then took up
the study of law at the University of
Michigan and was graduated as LL.B. in
1876. He engaged in the practice of law
in Indiana in 1876, and in 1886 he became
secretary of the Indiana State Historical
Society, which position he has held ever
since ; and he was State librarian of Indiana
from 1889 to 1893. He became editorial
writer on the Indianapolis Sentinel in 1893
and continued in that capacity until in
1904 he was elected City Comptroller of
Indianapolis. Mr. Dunn has made a close
study of history and economics and he
has written three historical volumes:
Massacre of the Mountains, a History of
the Indian Wars of the Far West, (1886),
Indiana, in the American Commonwealth
Series (1888), and Indiana — a Redemption
from Slavery (1905). He also wrote
pamphlets : Manual of the Ballot Law (on
the Australian ballot) in 1889, The Tax
Law of Indiana, and the Science of Taxa
tion (1891), The Libraries of Indiana
(1892) and The World's Silver Problem
( 1894) , as well as 'various contributions to
economic journals. Mr. Dunn married in
Indianapolis, November 23, 1893, Charlotte
Elliott Jones. Address: 915 North Penn
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
DUNNE, Edward F. :
Jurist, ex-mayor; born at Waterville,
New Haven County, Connecticut, October
12, 1853; son of P. W. and Delia M.
(Lawler) Dunne. The family removed to
Illinois in his boyhood, and he was grad
uated from the high school at Peoria,
Illinois, in 1870. He went to Trinity Col
lege of Dublin University, Ireland, but
left the University at the end of three
years without finishing the course because
of his father's failure in business. He took
up the study of law, and he was graduat
ed from the Union College of ' Law at
Chicago in 1877, with the degree of LL.B.,
and he later received the honorary degree
of LL.D. from the Saint Ignatius College
of Chicago. He was admitted to the bar
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and he was engaged in the practice of law
until elected in 1892, judge of the Circuit
Court of Cook County, Illinois. He - was
reelected in 1898 and 1904, but resigned
on his election in April, 1905, as mayor of
Chicago for a two-year term which expir
ed in April, 1907. He was elected as the
regular Democratic candidate upon a plat
form strongly favoring the municipal own
ership of the traction lines of Chicago.
He gave to the city a clean administration
and fought valiantly against a hostile ma
jority in the City Council for the traction
reform to which he was pledged, and se
cured the approval of his policy on a ref
erendum vote in 1906, but when he was a
candidate for reelection in 1907, he was
opposed by a strong combination of cor
poration influences, and was defeated.
Judge Dunne has always been a Democrat,
and he was a Democratic nominee for
presidential elector in 1900. He has twice
been president of the Iroquois C'ub of
Chicago, and twice president of the Monti
cello Club. He is a prominent Catholic
layman. Judge Dunne was elected in 1905
vice-president of the National Civic Fed
eration, and in 1906 was elected president
of the League of American Municipalities.
He married in Chicago, August 16, 1881,
Elizabeth J. Kelley ; children : Edward P.,
Gerald, Charles S., Edward F., Jr., Rich
ard, Eileen, Mona, Maurice, Dorothy Jer
ome, Geraldine, Jeanette and Eugene.
Residenc : 3127 Beacon Street Chicago.
Office address : 806 and 807 Ashland
Block, Chicago, Illinois.
DUNNE, Edward Joseph:
Catholic bishop of Dallas ; born in Tip-
perary, Ireland, April 23, 1848. When a
year old he was brought by his parents to
the United States, settling in Chicago, and
he was educated in the parochial schools
of that citv and at the College of Saint
Marv's of the Lake, Chicago. He received
his theological training at the Seminary
of Saint Francis de Sales, at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and at Saint Mary's Seminary
at Baltimore, Marvland ; and he was or
dained to the priesthood at Baltimore, June
29, 1871. He began his ministry as as

sistant in Chicago churches until 1875,
when he was appointed pastor of All
Saints Parish, Chicago, continuing with
much success there for eighteen years until
his consecration, November 30, 1893, as
bishop of Dallas, Texas. He has since
devoted his attention to the episcopal du
ties in his diocese, which has' prospered
greatly under his administration. Ad
dress : Dallas, Texas.
DUNNE, Finley Peter:
Author and journalist; born in Chicago,
July 10, 1867; son of Peter Dunne and
Ellen (Finley) Dunne. He received his
education in the public schools and West
Division High School of Chicago, and in
1885 began as a reporter on a Chicago
newspaper. He was for a time on the staff
of the Chicago Daily News, afterward with
the Chicago Tribune, city editor of the Chi
cago Times, editorial writer on the Chicago
Times-Herald and the Chicago Evening
Post (upon which later paper Mr. Dunne
first introduced to the public the now fam
ous philosopher, Mr. Dooley of the Archey
Road), and from 1897 to 1899, was editor
of the Chicago Journal. He has traveled
extensively, and one of the assignments
of his early reportorial career was to fb
around the world with the Chicago Na
tional Baseball Team, then the champions,
for the Chicago Tribune. From 1900 he
has been occupied with literary work and
he is now associate editor of the American
Magazine. His Dooley articles have at
tained a popularity scarcely equalled by any
other humorous productions of the last de
cade and many of them have been collected
into the volumes : Mr. Dooley in Peace
and in War, 1898; Mr. Dooley in the
Hearts of His Countrymen, 1898; Mr.
Dooley's Philosophy, 1990; Mr. Dooley's
Opinions, 1901; Observations by Mr. Dool
ey, 1902; and Dissertations by Mr. Dooley,
19^6. Mr. Dunne is a Catholic. He is a
member of the Racquette and Tennis, Met
ropolitan, Riding and The Brook Clubs of
New York. He married in New York City,
December 9, 1902. Margaret Abbott, a
daughter of the late Mary Perkins Abbott,
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cago. Address : 141 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
DUNNING, Albert Elijah:
Clergyman, editor; born at Brookfield,
Fairfield County, Connecticut, January 5,
1844; son of Elijah Starr and Abigail
Beach Dunning. After a careful prepara
tory training he entered Yale College,
from which he was graduated with the
degree of B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa hon
ors in the class of 1867, and he was grad
uated from Andover in 1870. He was or
dained in the ministry of the Congregation
al Church in 1870, and was pastor of the
Highland Congregational Church at Bos
ton from 1870 to 1881. He was general
Sunday school secretary for Congregation
al churches from 1881 to 1889, and since
May 2, 1889, he has been editor-in-rchief
of The Congregationalist. Beloit College,
Wisconsin, conferred upon him the degree
of D.D. in 1889. Dr. Dunning was sec
retary of the International Sunday School
Lesson Committee from 1897 to 1902. He
is author of: The Sunday School Library
1883; Bible Studies, 1886; and The Con-
gregationalists in America, 1894. He mar
ried at Kingston, New York, December
27, 1870, Harriet W. Westbrook; children:
Harry W. Yale 1894, Morton D. Amherst
1896, Albert B. Harvard igo7, Emily B.
Vassar 1903. Residence: Brookline, Mas
sachusetts. Office address: 14 Beacori
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
DUNPHY, William Henry:
Lawyer; born in Aurora, Kane County,
Illinois, June 29, i860; son of Robert Dun-
phy and Catharine Dunphy. He was ed
ucated in the public schools of Aurora,
and was graduated from the Aurora High
School in 1876. He then entered the em
ploy of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad in its shops at Aurora,
and afterward was a locomotive engineer
on that road and later on the road of the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company.
While engaged with the latter road he
studied law, and in 1894 he abandoned
railroading for the law, and was admitted
to the bar of the State of Washington.

Fie has since then been engaged in the
general practice of law at Walla Walla,
vVashington. Mr. Dunphy has always been
a Democrat, and has long been active in
party affairs in the State of Washington.
He was a delegate to the National Demo
cratic Conventions at Chicago, in 1892 and
at Kansas City in 1900, from the State of
Washington, and he was receiver of public
moneys of the Walla Walla Land Office
from 1894 to 1898. He was the member
from the State of Washington of the Na
tional Democratic Committee from 1900 to
1904. Mr. Dunphy married, at Walla
Walla, Washington, November 4, 1896,
Mary Helen Lyons. Address: Walla
Walla, Washington.
DUN WELL, Charles Tappan:
Congressman and lawyer; bora at the
Village of Newark, Wayne County, New
York, February 13, 1852. He removed with
his parents to Lyons, Wayne County, New
York, in 1854. Fie was educated at the
Lyons Union School and entered Cornell
University in the class of 1873.- At the
close of his junior year he entered Colum
bia College Law School, New York, wheie
he was graduated in 1874 with the degree
of LL.B. He was admitted to the New
York State Bar in May, 1874, and prac
ticed law for many years in New York
City. He was unanimously nominated for
comptroller of the City of Brooklyn- by
the Republican city convention in 1890, but
was defeated. Mr. Dunwell was a member
of the New York Republican State Com
mittee from 1891 to 1892 and was elected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902 from
the Third New York District, and was re
elected in 1904 and 1906, to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the Third
New York District. He has been a dele
gate to many Republican State Conventions
and has taken an active part on the stump
in campaigns for the last twenty years.
Mr. Dunwell married at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, April 22, 1880, Emma Williams.
Address: Brooklyn, New York.
DUNWOODY, William Hood:
Manufacturer; born at Westtown, Chest
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son of James Dunwoody and Hannah
(Hood) Dunwoody. He received an aca
demic education iii Philadelphia, and in
1064 engaged in business in that city.
From there he removed in i8u9 to Minne
apolis where he has since been continuous
ly engaged in milling, elevator and bank
ing enterprises, now being vice-president
of the Washburn-Crosby Company and
president of the Northwestern National
Bank of Minneapolis, and an officer and
director in other large enterprises of
Minneapolis, and the Northwest. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce of
New York and the Chamber of Commerce
at Minneapolis. He is a member of the
Minneapolis Club of Minneapolis, the Min
nesota Club of Saint Paul, and the Metro
politan Club of New York. He married
at Philadelphia, Katie L. Patten. Address :
52 South Tenth Street, Minneapolis, Min
nesota.DUPEE, John:
Merchant, stock broker, retired; born
in Bangor, Maine; is of French Fluguenot
descent on his father's side; son of John
and Eleanor Winslow (Pratt) Dupee. He
attended the public schools of his native
county. He began his business career as a
clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Bos
ton, removed to Chicago, Illinois, where
he engaged in the grain and stock
brokerage business as a member of
the firm of Schwartz, Dupee & Company.
Upon the death of Mr. Schwartz in 1893
he became the head of the firm, and re
mained as such until its dissolution in
1901. During his active business career he
was a member of the Chicago Stock Ex
change, the New York Stock Exchange,
and the Chicago Board of Trade. Since
the dissolution of his rirm Mr. Dupee has
devoted his time to the care of his private
interests, which are" quite extensive. For
many years he occupied a summer home at
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Fie is a member
of the Washington Park Club, of which he
was one of the organizers and for a num
ber of years a director, and of the Chicago
Athletic and New York Yacht Clubs. He
was married in Chicago, to Evelyn M.

Walker, and has two children : Eleanor
W. and Walter H. Address: The Rook
ery. Residence : Auditorium Annex, Chi
cago, Illinois.
OU PONT, Francis Gurney:
Chemist, physicist; born at The du Pont
residence on the Brandywine, Near Wil
mington, Delaware, in 1850. He was
educated by tutors until seventeen years
old, then entered the University of Penn
sylvania in the class of 1870, but left after
two years to give more special attention to
chemistry, physics and mechanics, with
special reference to progress in the manu
facture of gunpowder. In 1871, when
twenty-one years of age he entered the
business of E. I. du Pont de Nemours &
Co., and two years later a partner, and
was afterward vice-president of the cor
poration until his death November 7, 1905.
He was a .technical expert in all of the
details of gunpowder manufacture and
when smokeless powder was beginning to
attract attention in Europe, he began ex
periments in that direction and perfected
dbout 1893 a satisfactory article for Gov
ernment and commercial use, and constant
ly devoted himself to improvement in a
private laboratory which was probably
never equalled in completeness. A branch «
powder-plant in Iowa was built entirely on
lines planned by him, and he built the
great smokeless powder plant of the du
Pont corporation (now under the manage
ment of his second son, A. Felix duPont)
and was recognized as one of the foremost
experts in the chemistry of explosives.
His recreation was chiefly in the line of
astronomical investigation, and he erected
a complete observatory with highly im
proved telescopes for the study of astron
omy. Mr. du Pont greatly interested
himself in the education of the employes
of the company, and. a fine school house,
the most improved in equipment in the
State, was erected under his direction;
and he maintained a life-long interest in
St. John's Church in Wilmington. He
was a member of the American Chemical
Society, the Society of Chemical Industry,
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the
New York Chemists' Club. He was mar
ried and had residences at Montchanm,
Newcastle County, Delaware and in Wil
mington, Delaware.
DU PONT, Henry Algermon:
United States senator; born near Wil
mington, Delaware, July 30, 1838; son of
Henry Du Pont and grandson of Eleuthere
Irenee Du Pont de Nemours and great-
grandson of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de
Nemours, French Economist and States
man, who died in Delaware in 1817. Mr.
Du Pont was graduated from West Point,
May 6, 1861, at the head of his class. He
was promoted second lieutenant of engi
neers, and first lieutenant of the Fifth Ar
tillery, May 14, 1861. On July 16, 1861,
he was appointed regimental adjutant and
from 1862 to 1863, he was acting assistant
adjutant-general of the troops in New
York Harbor, and on March 24, 1864, he
was commissioned captain of the Fifth Ar
tillery. At the battle of New Market,
West Virginia, he was in command of the
battery and he took part in the battles of
Piedmont and Lynchburg as chief of artil
lery and later was commander of the artil
lery in the corps of General Crook. He
took part in the battles of Opeguam, Fish
er's. Hill and Cedar Creek, and for gallan
try at Opeguam and at Fisher's Hill he
was brevetted major, and was also brevet
ted lieutenant-colonel October 19, 1864 for
distinguished services at Cedar Creek. For
distinguished gallantry he was awarded a
Congressional Medal of Honor and in 1874
he resigned from the army. He engaged
in manufacturing and he has been president
of the Wilmington and Northern Railway
Company from i8gg„ After a long dead
lock in the Delaware legislature he received
fifteen of the thirty votes cast on May g,
1895. The election was contested on the
question of right of the ex-speaker of the
Delaware Senate, Watson, (then acting as
governor) to vote. Without his vote Col
onel Du Pont had a majority of one, the
committee reported in his favor, but the
United States Senate, by a strict party
majority of one, declined to seat him. In

1907 however Mr. Du Pont was elected as
a Republican, by the legislature of Dela
ware United States Senator for the term
expiring in 1913. Address : Winterthur,
Delaware. DUBAND, William Frederick:
Professor of mechanical engineering;
born at Bethany, Connecticut, March 5,
i85g; son of William L. Durand and Ruth
(Coe) Durand. He was graduated from
the United States Naval Academy in 1880,
and received the degree of Ph.D. from La
fayette College in 1888. He served in the
engineer corps of the United States Navy
from 1880 to 1887. He was on special duty
at Lafayette College from 1883 to 1885;
was professor of mechanics and superin
tendent of the Mechanical Department of
the Michigan Agricultural College, from
1887 toi89i, professor of marine engineering
at Cornell from 1891 to 1904 and professor
of mechanical engineering at Stamford
University since 1904. He has been an
advisory editor of Marine Engineering
since 1901. Professor Durand received
the gold medal of the Society of Naval
Engineers in 1900. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, a member of the American In
stitute of Mechanical Engineers, the
Society of Naval Engineers, the So
ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En
gineers, the Franklin Institute of Philadel
phia and the Societe Technique Maritime
of France. His special subjects, of re
search have been in the resistence and pro
pulsion of ships, marine engineering and
hydrodynamics. After the destruction of
the buildings of Stanford University by the
earthquake of April 18, 1906, he was ap
pointed a member of the Commission of
Engineers (three), having in charge the
reconstruction and rehabilitation ' of the
buildings of the University. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Congregationalist
in his religious affiliation. He is a member
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and
Acacia Society (college) and of the Mason
ic Order. lie married at Shelton, Con
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and they have one son: William L. Dur
and, born June 15, 1885. Address: Stan
ford University, California.
DUBBIN, Winfield Taylor:
Manufacturer, ex-governor; born at
Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana,
May 4, 1847; son of William S. and Eliza
A. Durbin. He was educated in the public
schools of his native place, leaving to enter
the Union Army, as a private, serving un
til the war closed. After the war he
taught school until 1869, and in that year
went to Indianapolis where he became con
nected with a wholesale dry goods house
in the office and afterward as a traveling
salesman. In 1879 he removed to Ander
son, Indiana, and established in banking
business. He was connected with the first
fuel gas company that installed a distrib
uting system in Anderson, and also a fuel
supply company, and he is interested as an
officer and director in numerous electric
railways and manufacturing corporations.
He was colonel of the One Hundred and
Sixty-first Indiana Regiment in the Span
ish-American War. He has always been
an active Republican, and one of the most
influential party leaders in Indiana. He
served for several years as a member of
the Republican State Committee of Indiana,
and was chairman of its Executive Com
mittee, and he was the Indiana member
of the National Republican Committee and
of its Executive Committee from 1896 to
1900. In 1900 he was elected governor of
the State of Indiana, and served the four-
year term ending in January, 1905. Gov
ernor Durbin is a prominent member of
the Methodist church and also the Masonic
order, in which he has attained the
thirty-third degree. He married, at And
erson, Indiana, October 6, 1875, Bertha
McCullough, and has a son, Fletcher M.
Durbin who was an officer in the One
ixundred and Sixty-first Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. Address : Indianapolis, In
diana.
DuBELLE, GEOBGE:
Jurist; born at York, Livingston Coun
ty, New York, October 18,' 1852. He re

moved with his parents to Louisville, Ken
tucky, in 1859. He received his prepara
tory education at the Hopkins Grammar
School at New Haven, Connecticut, from
which he entered Yale College in 1868,
but left the University at the close of his
sophomore year in 1870. He taught school
in Louisville and at the same time attend
ed the Law Department of the University
of Louisville, from which he was graduated
in 1874 with the degree of LL.B. He was
admitted to the bar at Louisville in 1874
and engaged in practice, attaining a posi
tion of distinction in his profession. He
was assistant United States attorney for
the District of Kentucky from 1882 to 1886
and from 1889 to 1891, and he was judge
of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky from
1895 to 1902, resuming practice at Louis
ville on the expiration of his term. Judge
DuRelle has always been an active Repub
lican, and is one of the leaders of his
party in Kentucky. Address: Louisville,
Kentucky.
DUBFEE, Henry Bees:
Lawyer; born at Palmyra, New York,
October 5, 1840; son of Bailey and Abigail
n.. (Rees) Durfee. He was graduated
from Yale with the degree of A.B. in
1861 and A.M. in 1864, and from Albany
Law School as LL.B. in 1863. Mr. Durfee
began his practice of law at Palmyra, New
York, in 1868, and has been practicing
there ever since. He was also president
of the Peerless Printing Press Company
until his recent retirement from manufactu
ring. Mr. Durfee, who is a Republican in
his political convictions, was elected mem
ber of the Assembly of the State of New
York, 1871 ; supervisor of the town . of
Palmyra, 1885 to 1888; chairman of the
Board of Supervisors of Wayne County,
New York, in 1888; and was a delegate
to the Constitutional Convention of the
State of New York in 1894. He is a
Presbyterian in his religious views. Mr.
Durfee is a member of the New York
State Bar Association, the Wayne County
Bar Association, the Yale Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity,
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Society of Yale. He was a member of the
Board of Education of Palmyra Classical
Union School for eighteen years, being
for five years chairman of the Board and
is a member of the Wayne County Auxil
iary Committee of the State Charities Aid
Association, and a charter member of the
American Scenic and Historic Preserva
tion Society. Mr. Durfee married in New
York City, June 6, 1872, Mary G. Hatch.
Address: Palmyra, New York.
DURHAM . Israel W. :
Ex-insurance commissioner of Pennsyl
vania ; born in Philadelphia, October 24,
1856; educated in the public schools;
learned the trade of bricklaying, but soon
became connected with his father in the
flour business. Mr. Durham's career, how
ever, soon became a political one, he tak
ing an active interest in political affairs while
quite young and becoming a leader very
early after attaining his majority. He de
clined running for office until 1885, when
he was nominated for magistrate, and after
an active campaign was elected. In 1897
he was elected State Senator, succeeding
Boies Penrose, who was elected to the Sen
ate of the United States. His election was
nearly unanimous, only 72 votes being
polled against him. He was frequently
elected to State and National party con
ventions, and during the exciting contest
for sheriff between Alexander Crow and
Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mr. Durham was the
leader of the section of the Republican Par
ty which carried the election in favor of
Mr. Crow. He was made Insurance Com
missioner of the State in 1900, a position
which he retained until 1905, and under
which his popularity and influence in party
councils became very great Address : 1410
Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DUBKEE, Charles D.:
Marine hardware merchant; born at
Brooklyn. New York, Julv 23, 1862; son
of John S. and Hannah (Smith) Durkee.
He was educated in the public schools of
Brooklyn. Mr. Durkee began his business
career in 1879, as a dealer in marine hard
ware, and he incorporated the business in

1894, as Charles D. Durkee & Company,
Ins., of which he is the president. He is
also general manager and director of the
Pneumatic Manufacturing Company. Mr.
Durkee is past master of Covenant Lodge
of Free and Accepted Masons, a member
of the Royal Arcanum and also a member
of the Brooklyn Yacht, Bensonhurst Yacht
and Arcanum Yacht Clubs. Mr. Durkee
married in Brooklyn, New York, June 12,
1893, Emily Holt, and they have two chil
dren: Charles Holt Durkee (born in
1894) and Jasper Durkee (born in 1901).
Address : 2 and 3 South Street, New
York City.
DUBYEA, Hiram:
President of the National Starch Com
pany; born in Manhasset, Long Island,
April 12, 1834. He was educated in the pub
lic and private schools. At the age of
twenty-one he became a partner in the
starch manufacturing business of his
father, by whom the process of making
starch was originated. He was vice-presi
dent and president of the Glen Cove Starch
Manufacturing Company for many years
and afterwards became president of the
National Starch Company, which succeeded
the Glen Cove Company. In 1855 he was
commissioned by Governor Myron Clark
first lieutenant of artillery in the Forty-
eighth Regiment of the State Militia, a
commission which he held for several years.
At the beginning of the Civil War he
promptly tendered his services to the State,
and on April 25, 1861, was commissioned
captain in the Fifth New York Infantry,
known as the Duryea Zouaves. On Aug
ust 15, 1861 he was commissioned major in
the same regiment, and on September 2,
lieutenant-colonel. After the siege of York-
town he commanded the regiment in the
Peninsula and Maryland Campaigns; in the
Seven Days' Battle and in operations be
fore Richmond, the regiment was specially
mentioned for its gallantry and efficient
service, being one of the most famous of
the New York commands in the war, and
he was several times commended in official
reports for distinguished service. He was
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October 29, 1862, and on May 26, 1866, was
commissioned by the President of the
United States as brevet brigadier-general
of volunteers for distinguished conduct at
the battle of Gaines Mills, Virginia. Gen
eral Duryea retired from the service De
cember, 1862, in consequence of many in
juries received in the field, which incapaci
tated ihim for further duty. He is now presi
dent of the Veterans' Association and a
member of the Veterans' Association of the
Regiment which he commanded during the
war, and is also a member of the Society
of the Fifth Army Corps, the United Ser
vice Club, and the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. Address: 80 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
DUSQUESNE, Frits Joubert:
Soldier, hunter, journalist; born at East
London, Cape Colony, South Africa, De
cember 21, 1879. He studied at various
schools in Calcutta, India and Paris,
France, and he was graduated from the
South African College and Cape Town,
Cape Colony. Before the Boer War was
known as a hunter of big game in Mozam
bique, and was owner of a large cattle and
ostrich ranch in Namaqua Land, South
Africa. He -was a lieutenant and captain
in the South African Republican forces, in
the Anglo-Boer War ; was captured in Por
tuguese, South Africa, and was exiled by
the Portuguese to Europe, where he was
attache to the Africander legations. Cap
tain Duquesne acted as secretary to Com
mander DeWet in his pro-Boer propaganda
in European cities and carried dispatches
between the seat of war and European lega
tions. He was betrayed and captured in
Somerset House, Cape Town, and was sen
tenced to death. The sentence was com
muted to life imprisonment and he escaped
from Bermuda and reached New York
City. He went to Paris, France, and was
a journalist on the staff of Le Petit Bleu.
He was sent to Russia, Macedonia, and
Morocco as a war correspondent, and is
now the New York correspondent of the
same ; also served on the staff of the New
York Evening Sun. Fie was exiled from

British territory, and is now settled in New
York City. He received the prize for
fencing with saber, foil and rapier at the
International Tournament in Brussels.
Captain Duquesne is author of Cossack
Life, (published in Le Petit Bleu) ; The
Spectacles of War; Lost in the Bush, (a"
novel published in South Africa) ; also of
the plays Perdu (in French, produced at
Brussels), and The Yankee Amazon (in
English, copyrighted in United States).
Address : 633 Park Place, Brooklyn, New
York.
DUTCHES, Silas Belden:
Banker; bom at Spririgfield, New York,
July 12, 1829; son of Parcefor Carr and
Ann Low. (Frinck) Dutcher. Mr. Dutcher
was educated in the public schools and for
one term at Gazenovia Seminary at the
age of sixteen. Mr. Dutcher '. has been
president and trustee of the Hamilton
1 rust Company since 1891 ; trustee of the
Union Dime Savings Institution since its
organization in 1859; director of the Met
ropolitan Life • Insurance Company since
1877. He was appraiser of merchandise
of the Port of New York from 1877 to
1880 ; superintendent of public works of the
State of New York from 1880 to 1883, and
was a member of the first Charter Com
mission of Greater New York. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, is
manager Kings Park State Hospital, and
of the Society for Improving the Condition
of the Poor. Mr. Dutcher is a member of
the Brooklyn, Hamilton and Union League
Clubs of Brooklyn. He married at New
York City, February 10, 1859, Rebecca AI-
waise, and they have six children: De
Witt ParcefOr, Edith May, Malcolm Bel-
^11, Elsie Rebecca, Jessie Ruth and Eva
Olive Dutcher. Residence: 196 New
York Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
OUTTON, Edward Payson:
Publisher; born in Keene, New Hamp
shire, January 4, 183T. He removed to
Boston in i8-?3, and was educated in the
onblic and Latin schools. He was a mem
ber of Ide and Dutton. booksellers of Bos
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interest and continued as E. P. Dutton and
Gompany.- He bought the retail business of
Ticknor and Field in 1864, and also that of
the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday
School Union and Church Book Society of
New York and in 1869 moved the business
to New York. Mr. Dutton married in 1856,
a daughter of Jacob Sleeper of Boston.
Address : 31 West Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
DUTTON, John Anthony:
Lawyer; born at Ira, Cayuga County,
New York, September 16, 1862; Son of Ed
mund S. and Naomi (Rhoads) Dutton.
He was educated at Munro (Elbridge)
Collegiate Institute, from 1882 to .1884, and
at the New York University Law School
taking the post-graduate course, with the
ML., 1892 to 1897. He engaged in general
practice' in Auburn, New York, 1887-1889
and since 1889 has practiced in New York
City; and since 1898 he has been a member
of the firm of Hurry & Dutton. Mr. Dut
ton is a Republican in his political views.
He is a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, the New York State Bar Associa
tion, of Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, the Society of Medical Juris
prudence, the Alumni Association of New
York University Law School and the
Patria and Republican Clubs of New York
City. Address: 235 West One Hundred
and Second Street, New York City.
DUTTON, Samuel Train:
Educator; born at Hillsboro, New
Hampshire, October 16, 1849; son of Jere
miah and Rebecca Train. He was educat
ed at New London (Connecticut) Acad
emy; graduated from Yale University as
A.B. in 1873 and A.M. in 1890. He was
in charge of schools at South Norwalk,
Connecticut, in 1873 and 1878; principal
of Eaton School, New Haven, from 1878
to 1882; superintendent of schools of New
Haven, from 1882 to. 1890 ; ' superintendent
of schools of Brookline, Massachusetts,
from 1890-igoo; lecturer in pedagogy at
Harvard, from 1895 to 1897 at Chicago
University in 1897 and 1898; Boston Uni
versity in i8g8; and since then has been

professor of school administration and sup
erintendent of schools, Teachers' College
(Columbia University). He has made
seven journeys abroad, and read a paper at
the International Conference of Drawing
at Berne, igo4. Mr. Dutton is a member
of the American Historical Association,
the National Educational Association, a
chairman of the educational section of the
American Social Science Association, sec
retary of Peace Society of the City of
New York, chairman of the Executive
Committee of National Arbitration and
Peace Congress in igo7, trustee of the
Wheeler School and Library, Stonington,
Connecticut, director of the Choate School,
Wallingford, Connecticut, and a trustee of
the American College for Girls, Constan
tinople. He is author' of : Morse Speller ;
Social Phases of Education; School Man
agement; and- is editor of the Historical
Series published by the Morse Company
and of the World at Work Series by
American Book Company. He is a mem
ber of the Quill, Independent (West Side),
Schoolmasters', Yale and Fortnightly Clubs.
Mr. Dutton married, at New Haven, Con
necticut, October 8, 1874, Cornelia North,
and they have two daughters : Maude B.,
and M. Lillian. Residence : New York
City. Address : Teachers' College, New
York City.
DUTTON, William J.:
Insurance president; born at Bangor,
Penobscot County, Maine, January" 23,
1847; son of Henry and Frances (Stevens)
Dutton. He removed in boyhood, with his
parents, to San Francisco, and he received
his education in the public schools and City
College in that city until January, 1867,
when he became a clerk in the office of
the agency of the North British and Mer
cantile Insurance Company, at San Fran
cisco. In May, 1867, he became a clerk
in the Marine Department of the Fire
man's Fund Insurance Company of San
Francisco, and in 1869 secretary of that
department, and he continued the manage
ment o'f that branch of the business
until 1881, also being assistant secretary of
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became general secretary. He was -vice-
president and general secretary from 1886
to 1890, vice-president and general manager
from 1890 to 1900, and since 1900 he has
been president of the Fireman's Fund In
surance Company. He was also vice-presi
dent from 1892 to 1896, and since then has
been president of the Home Fire and Marine
Insurance Company of San Francisco. He
has been president of the Board of Marine
Underwriters of San Francisco since 1888.
He was president in 1885 and vice-presi
dent for several years of the Board of Fire
Underwriters of the Pacific Coast, and a
member of its Executive Committee from
1884 to 1902. Mr. Dutton is a Congregation
alist in his religious affiliations and is chair
man of the Board of Trustees of the First
Congregational Church of San Francisco.
He was president in 1903 of the California
Society of Sons of the American Revolu
tion and is a member of the Pacific Union
Club. Mr. Dutton married in San Francis
co, in 1868, Mary Heydenfeldt. Residence :
Fairmont Hall, San Francisco. Office ad
dress : California and Sansome Streets,
San Francisco, California.
DWIGHT, Charles Abbott Schneider:
Clergyman, pastor, and editor; born in
Englewood, New Jersey, February 7, i860;
son of Rev. James Harrison Dwight and
Susan (Schneider) Dwight. He was grad
uated from Williston Seminary in 1877,
from Yale as A.B. in 1881, and from the
Union Theological Seminary in 1884; pur
sued post-graduate studies seven years in
New York University, and for two years
at Boston University, and received the
M.A. degree from the University of New
York in 1901, and from Yale in 1902. He
was ordained to the Congregational minis
try in 1884; and from 1884 to 1902 was oc
cupied in missionary work in Turkey,
chiefly at Constantinople, in connection
with the American Board. For ten years
he was pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Closter, New Jersey, and since
then he has been the first pastor of the
Second Congregational Church of Win
chester, Massachusetts, which he was in

strumental in organizing. For ten years
he has been an assistant editor of the
New York Observer, and engaged in other
literary occupations. He is author of : The
Carpenter; Railroading With Christ;
Cruising for the Cross; also of several
serials and a large number of articles. He
has traveled in Europe, Turkey, and Egypt;
spent seven years in Turkey, and made
several trips in little frequented parts of
Anatolia. He is a Republican in politics
and an Evangelical Congregationalist in his
religious connections. Mr. Dwight is a
member of the Loyal Legion (New York
Commandery), the Boston Congregational
Club, Pilgrim Club of Boston, Manhattan
Congregational Association,. Woburn Con
gregational Association, and of the Edgar-
town Yacht Club. He married at Prince
ton, New Jersey, December 22, 1894, Susan
W. Wilbur, and they have one son : Charles
Harrison Dwight, horn July 9, 1897. Ad
dress : 12 Fells Road, Winchester, Massa
chusetts. DWIGHT, John Wilbur:
Congressman and banker; born at Dry-
den, May 24, 1859; son of Jeremiah W,
Dwight and Rebecca A. (Cady) Dwight.
He was educated at New Haven, Connecti
cut. Mr. Dwight was elected to Congress
in 1902, to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-
seventh Congress, caused by the resigna
tion of George W. Ray, who was appointed
United States judge, and reelected to the
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and again in 1906
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Thirtieth
New York District. Mr. Dwight is a mem
ber of the Union League and Republican
Clubs of New York. He married at Los
Angeles, California, in 1895, Emma Childs.
Residence: Dryden, New York. Office
address : Elmira, New York.
DWIGHT, B, Henry W.:
Expressman ; born in Albany, New York,
January 18, 1859; sop of Henry Williams'
Dwight and Mary Jane (Winslow)
Dwight. He was educated in Albany, New
York and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He
has been for many years engaged in the
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and director of the New England Despatch
Company. He is also a trustee of the
Home Savings Bank.- Dr. Dwight was
former president of the Massachusetts So
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution and
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. He is
treasurer and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Commercial Club, and is
a member of the Eastern Yacht Club, the
Boston Athletic Association and the Long-
wood Club. He married at Albany, New
Vork, February 8, 1892, Caroline March
and they have three children. Fie resides
in Brookline, Massachusetts. Address :
67 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
DWYEE, Jeremiah:
Stove manufacturer; born in Brooklyn,
New York, August 22, 1838; son of Mich
ael Dwyer and Mary (O'Donnell) Dwyer.
A few months after his birth his parents
removed to Detroit, Michigan, locating on
a farm four miles from the city. His
father was killed in an accident in 1848,
and after the farm was sold, the family
removed to the city. He was educated in
the common schools of Detroit, and left
school as a boy to work in a saw and
planing mill. From there he went to the
Hydraulic Iron Works in Detroit to learn
the foundry trade. After four years there,
he worked as a journeyman in several
foundries until 1861, when he and his
brother, James Dwyer, established them
selves as stove founders under the firm
name of J. Dwyer & Company, meeting
with much success. In 1864 it became the
Detroit Stove Works, in which he con
tinued until 1869, when he sold out and
went South for the benefit of his health.
In 1871 he returned to Detroit and estab
lished the Michigan Stove Company which
he developed into the largest stove manu
facturing enterprise in the world, and of
which he is still the president. He is also
a director of the Ideal Manufacturing
Company and of the Peoples State Sav
ings Bank, at Detroit. Mr. Dwyer is a
Democrat in politics and a Catholic in re
ligious belief. He is a member of the De

troit Club and of the Detroit Country
Club. He married at Detroit, November
22, 1859, Mary Long, and he has six sons
and one daughter. Residence : 692 Jeffer
son Avenue, Detroit. Office address : 1022
Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
DYER, Elisha, Jr.:
Banker; born in Providence, Rhode Is
land; son of G6vernor Elisha Dyer and
Nancy A. (Viall) Dyer. He was gradua
ted from Brown University in 1883 with
the degree of A.B. and from Columbia Law
School in 1885 with the degree of LL.B.
He was admitted to the bar in 1885, but en
gaged in business as a banker and broker.
Mr. Dyer is president and director of the
Popp Compressed Air and Electric Power
Company and is also director of the Sea
side and Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Rail
road Company. He is a member of the
Brown University Alumni Association and
the Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Union, The
Brook, New York Yacht, and Country
Clubs, the Automobile Club of America,
and the Turf and Field Club. Mr. Dyer
married Mrs. Sydney Turner Swan. Resi
dence : 37 West Fifty-sixth Street, New
York City. Office address : 30 New Street,
New York City.
QYEE, Henry K. :
Merchant ; born in New York City, De
cember, 1846; son of Samuel O. and Emma
(Price) Dyer. He was educated in the
public schools at Brooklyn. Mr. Dyer be
gan his business career as a boy in the
employ of the Dennison Manufacturing
Company, in which he has occupied every
position up to president in 1892, in which
position he continued until 1906, when he
retired from active interest in the com
pany. Mr. Dyer is a director of the Pa
cific Insurance Company, and the Home
Trust Company. He is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the Crescent,
Brooklyn and Lincoln Clubs of Brooklyn.
Mr. Dyer married Miss C. L. Price and
they have one daughter, Agnes Louise, born
in 1877. Address: 86 Lefferts Place,
Brooklyn, New York.

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DYEB, Nehemiah Mayo:
Rear admiral United States Navy; born
at Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1839;
son of Henry Dyer and Sallie (Mayo)
Dyer. At an early age he entered the
merchant service, in which he was engaged
from 1854 to 1859. Fie was then employed
by a mercantile firm until the breaking out
of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the
Thirteenth Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers. Later he sought and obtained
a transfer and was enrolled in the Volunteer
branch of the Navy as acting master's mate
at the Boston Navy Yard, then went with
the West Gulf Squadron, Where he soon
earned distinction for gallantry and efficien
cy and was promoted, May 18, 1863, to the
grade of acting ensign and appointed to the
command of the Eugenie, engaged in the
blockade of Mobile Bay and on despatch
service. He was advanced to the grade of
acting master, January 12, 1864, for faith
ful and gallant service. In the following
July he obtained a two months' leave of
absence, but upon arrival at New Orleans
on his way North he heard that an attack
on the harbor and forts at Mobile was im
minent, and he returned to the Squadron
and asked for active duty. He was ordered
to the Metacomet, which later took a prom
inent part as consort of Admiral Farragut's
flagship, the Hartford, in the passage of the
forts and the engagement with the Confed
erate fleet, in which event he personally re
ceived the surrender of the Confederate ves
sel Selma. He was afterward attached to the
flagship Hartford, and in December, 1864,
was assigned to the command of the Rod-
olph, with which he cooperated with the
forces under General Granger in their op
erations against Mobile from Pascagoula,
rendering important service in this connec
tion in Mississippi Sound and the Pasca
goula River. He had the misfortune to
lose this vessel April 1, 1895, during the
advance upon Mobile, by contact with a
torpedo, after he had rendered conspicuous
service in the general attack. He was pro
moted acting volunteer lieutenant, April 22,
1865, and was present when the enemy's
fleet surrendered to Commodore Thatcher

in the Tombigbee River, May 10, 1865,
Lieutenant, Dyer was assigned to the com
mand successively, of the Black Diamond
and the Morgan, two of the surrendered
vessels. He afterward commanded the Elk,
the Stockdale, and the Glasgow, and was
for a short time executive officer of the
Mahaska; then was on special duty at the
Bureau of Navigation at Washington, from
April, 1866, to May, 1868. H'e was mus
tered out of the Volunteer service and com
missioned lieutenant in the regular Navy,
March 12, 1868, and his subsequent promo
tions were to lieutenant commander, De
cember 18, 1868, commander in April, 1883;
captain, July, 1897; retiring from active
service February 19, igoi, with the rank
of rear-admiral. He held various com
mands during his service in the reg
ular Navy, and performed the various
duties of a naval officer in many parts of
the world. While lieutenant of the Ossipee
off the Mexican Coast in 1870, during the
subsidence of a gale he jumped into the
sea to the rescue of a man who had fallen
overboard, and sustained the man until both
were rescued by a boat's crew, for which
heroic act he was publicly thanked by the
Commodore of the fleet, and was awarded a
medal by the Massachusetts Humane So
ciety. Besides sea service, he served as
light-house inspector for several years, and
in October, 1897, as captain commanded the
protected cruiser Baltimore, with which, in
March, 1898, he was sent to the Asiatic
Station with ordnance supplies for Dewey's
fleet, which contributed materially to the
victory of Manila Bay, in which he partic
ipated. Served as chairman of Massachu
setts Nautical Training School Commission
from April, 1903, until his resignation, Feb
ruary, 1906. Address : 16 Vine Street, Mel
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EAD_., Benjamin Brindley:
Physician; born at Paris, Kentucky,
January 23, 1870; son of Darwin D. and
Anna (Adair) Eads. He was educated at
private schools in his native place and at
the Collegiate Institution, Carthage, Mis
souri. He began the study of medicine
soon after leaving school, and was gradu
ated from Jefferson Medical College, Phila
delphia, in 1891, with the degree of M.D.
He was resident surgeon at the Jefferson
Hospital- in Philadelphia in 1891 and 1892.
In the latter year he' removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he was instructor of anatomy
and physiology at the Rush Medical College
for -two years. He was professor of
anatomy at the Illinois Medical College
from 1894 to 1897, professor of applied
anatomy, operative and orthopedic sur
gery, at the Illinois, and since the latter
year professor of surgery and clinical sur
gery and dean at the same institution. He
is surgeon to the Illinois Hospital and Free
Dispensary, and also to the Cook County
Hospital. . He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the Chicago Medical
Society and the Illinois State Medical
Society. He belongs to the Masonic order,
and is a member of Union Park Lodge,
York Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and
St. Bernard Commandery of Knights
Templar. He is also a member of Medinah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He was
married at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania,
in 1898, to Elizabeth Stedman. Residence:
683 Washington Boulevard, Chicago. Office
address: 103 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
EAGEB, George Eugene:
Consul; born at Enfield, Massachusetts,
March 1.5, 1859 ; son of John D. and Claris
sa (Lathrop) Eager. He was educated in
the public schools and afterward attended
the Military Academy conducted by Gen
eral Russell at New Haven, Connecticut,
where he was prepared for Yale. His
health became so impaired that he was com
pelled to forego his intention to take the
college course, and he went to . Germany,

deciding to embark on a musical career
and entering the Royal Conservatory of
Music at Leipzig. He remained there for
four- years, pursuing his studies under Dr.
Jadassohn and Gustav Schreck in musical
theory and under Professor Dr. Carl Rein-
ecke and Bruno Zwintcher in piano, and at
the end of the four years course he was
awarded the Helbig prize of the conser
vatory for excellence. He returned to Amer
ica and engaged in teaching in New York,
and was also pianist of the Mozart Club
of that city, playing in numerous concerts.
He went to Chicago in 1892 and taught
private pupils there and at the same time
Was head -of the music department of Lake
Forest University at Lake Forest, Illinois,
until appointed in 1906, to his present po
sition as consul of the United States at
Barmen, Germany. Address: American
Consulate, Barmen, Prussia, Germany.
EAKTNS, Thomas:
Artist; bora at Philadelphia, July 25,
1844. He secured his academic education
in the high schools of Philadelphia. He.
studied art under Gerome at Ecole des
Beaux Arts, Paris. After this, he was pro
fessor and lecturer on Anatomy and Paint
ing in various schools of art. With Samuel
Murray, his pupil, he modelled the colossal
figures of the prophets which decorate the
Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia. The
reliefs on the Trenton Battle Monument,
and on the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
in Brooklyn are also his work. Since 1902,
he has been a member of the National
Academy of Design. He was given awards .
at the Columbian Exposition in 1893 ; at
the Paris Exposition in 1900; at the Pan
American Exposition in 1901 ; gold medal
at St. Louis; Proctor prize National Acad
emy of Design ; and the Temple gold medal
of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Address: ,1729 Mt. Vernon Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
EAMES, John C. :
Merchant; born in New York City, Aug
ust 1, i860; son of Edward Everett and
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at St. John's Military Academy, Sing Sing,
from which he graduated with honors in
1878. Immediately after graduation he en
tered the dry goods establishment of
H. B. Claflin & Company; later -he went
West where he became interested in var
ious enterprises. He returned to New York
in 1895 and again became connected with
The H. B. Claflin Company ; he was its vice-
president and afterwards its general manag
er. He is treasurer of the Dry Goods Aux
iliary of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday
Association ; _trus.tee of the Grant Memorial
Association; member of the order of
Founders and Patriots of America ; member
of the New England Society; one of the
founders of the Merchants' Association of
New York — during the past five years, he
has held the positions of secretary and vice-
president and is now actively engaged on
several of the most important committees;
commissioner and trustee of the Hudson-
Fulton Celebration Commission. He be
longs to the Englewood Golf, the Engle
wood Field, the Lakewood Country, the
Merchants', and the Union League Clubs.
He married at Denver, Colorado, in 1886,
Sophie S. Cary, of Louisville, Kentucky.
Address: H. B. Claflin Company, New
York City.
EAMES, Wilberforce:
Librarian and bibliographer; born at
Newark, New Jersey, October 12, 1855 ; son
of Nelson Eames and Harriet P. (Crane)
Eames. He was educated in the public
schools ¦ of Brooklyn ; in 1896, he received
the honorary degree of A.M.- from Har
vard. He was assistant at the Lenox Lib
rary, 1885; assistant librarian, 1892; librar
ian, 1893 until the consolidation in 1895,
with the Astor Library and the Tilden
Trust as the New York Public Library,
librarian Lenox branch since 1895. He
edited volumes 15-20, Sabin's Dictionary of
Books Relating to America, 1885-92 and. has
resumed the editing of this work since its
resuscitation in 1906, under the auspices of
a grant from the Carnegie Institution;
articles by him in that work on Bibliog
raphies of the Bay Psalm Book, 1885 ; of

Ptolemy's Geography, 1886; and of Sir
Walter Raleigh, have been printed separate
ly. He is the author of: A list of Edi
tions of Margarita Philosophica, 1886; im
portant contributions to Pilling's Indian
Bibliographies from which was reprinted
Bibliographic Notes on Eliot's Indian Bible,
1890. He edited, 1892 for Lenox Lirary,
comparative edition of four Latin texts
with new English Translation of Columbus'
Letter to Sanchez on the Discovery of Am
erica (revised edition, 1893) ; he wrote a
bibliographical account of the early New
England Catechisms, 1898. He is editor of
reprint of Bay Psalm Book (1646), New
York (Dodd, Mead & Co.) 1903; John Eliot's
Logick Primer (1672), Cleveland, Ohio,
1904. He contributed a list of catalogues,
etc., published for the English book trade
from 1595 to 1902, to Adolf Growoll's Three
Centuries of English Book trade Biblio
graphy, New York, 1903. He has collected
a large, private library of over 18,000 vol
umes on history, travels, philology, religious
bibliography, archeology and ethnology, five
parts of this library numbering 6,522 entries
were dispersed at auction during 1905-1907.
They covered his collection of General Am
ericana ; the history, literature and languages
of Great Britain and Ireland, Continental'
Europe, Western, Central and Northern
Asia and Egypt; also the Book Arts and
his general reference library. Mr. Eames
is now concentrating his collecting upon his
almost matchless Indian library, and still
retains his large collections on India, China,
Japan, Africa and Oceanica. He is a mem
ber of the American Library Association,
of the Bibliographical Society -of America
(Librarian since 1905), of the American An
tiquarian Society, a corresponding member
of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a
life member of the New York Historical
Society, a member of the Colonial Society
of Massachusetts, an officer d'Academie
d'lnstruction Publique des Beaux Arts et
des Cultes of France. He belongs to the
New York Library Club (vice-president,
1897-99; president 1900-01). Residence:
2752 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Address:

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Lenox Library, 895 Fifth Avenue, New
York City,
GABLE, Frank B.:
Physician; born in Illinois, October 22,
'i860; son of Moses L. and Marie E.
(Breckenridge) Earle. He was educated
in the public schools and was graduated
from the Waukeegan, Illinois, High School
in 1881. He chose the medical profession,
and was graduated from the Chicago Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, with the
degree of M.D., in 1885, and has been en
gaged in general practice in that city since
that time. He was professor of obstetrics
at the Chicago College of Physicians and
Surgeons from 1894 to 1902, secretary since
1901 and professor of pediatrics since 1903
of the same institution. He has been ob
stetrician of the Cook County Hospital
since 1905; attending physician from 1895
to 1903 and consulting physician since 1903
of the Home for Crippled Children, and
attending physician for the children's de
partment of the St. Mary's Hospital since
1903. He was editor of Filatoy's Diseases
of Children, a Russian medical work, in
1904. He is a member of many associa
tions, embracing the American Medical
Association, the Illinois State Medical
Society, the Chicago Medical Society, the
Chicago Gynaecological Society, the Chicago
Pathological Society, and the Chicago
Medico-Legal Society. He is a Congre
gationalist, and his political affiliations are
with the Republican Party. He is a mem
ber and ex-president of the Illinois Club.
He was married in 1885 to Elizabeth H.
Biddlecom. Address : 903 to Elizabeth H.
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
EARLE, George H,:
Lawyer and financier; born in Philadel
phia, July 6, 1856. He was educated in
Harvard University, then studied law and
was admitted to practice in the profession
of which his father and grandfather had
been notable members. He. became a mem
ber of the legal firm of Earle and ' White,
which existed for twelve years, and con
ducted a large and lucrative practice, in
which Mr. Earle showed high ability and

was markedly successful. He was elected
president of the Pennsylvania Warehousing
and Safe Deposit Company, and vice-presi
dent of the Guarantee Trust and Safe De
posit Company. His many duties in these
positions obliged him to withdraw from the
active practice of the law. The great abil
ity which he manifested as a financier led
later to his being made president of the
Finance Company of Pennsylvania and of
the Tradesmens' National Bank, he resign
ing at the same time his vice-presidency in
the Guarantee Company. He has success
fully filled other important financial posi-:
tions and in 1898 he was appointed Receive
er for the Chestnut Street National Bank,
and associated with R. Y. Cook, was as
signee of the Chestnut Street Trust and
Saving Fund Company. The affairs of the
defunct institutions he conducted to a suc
cessful termination. He became also a
member of the Board of the Philadelphia
Record Publishing Company and a director
of the Equitable Trust Company and many
others. Mr. Earle has taken a deep interest
in political affairs and has been a strong
element in the struggle for municipal re
form. He was an active member of the
Committee of One Hundred and has always
taken great interest in the cause of honest
administration. He is a lover of fine
horses and has one of the largest stock
farms in Pennsylvania, at his summer coun
try seat, Broad Acres, near the Radnor
Hunt. Residence : Devon, Pennsylvania.
Office address : 232 Fourth Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
EABLE, Walter F.:
Capitalist. President and treasurer of
the E. and R. Laundry Company, treasurer
of the Harvard Trust Company, trustee of
the Bromley Court Trust and director of
the Columbian Cooperative Bank. Ad
dress : 209 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
EABUNG, Albert J.:
Railway president; bom at Richfield,
Washington County, Wisconsin, January 19,
1849. He was educated in the common
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entered the employ of the Chicago Mil
waukee and Saint Paul Railway, with which
he has been connected ever since. For
the first six years- he was a telegraph
operator, five years a train despatcher,
and four years assistant superintendent of
the road, then he became division super
intendent from 1882 to 1884, assistant
general superintendent from 1888 to 1890,
general manager from 1890 to 1899, and
also second vice-president from 1895 to
1899, and since September 23, 1899 he has
been president of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and Saint Paul Railway Company. He is
also director of the Central Trust Company
of Illinois, the Continental National Bank
of Chicago and the Saint Paul Coal Com
pany. : Residence: 514 North State Street,
Chicago. Office address : Railway Ex
change Building, Chicago.
EASBY-SMITH, James S.:
Lawyer, author ; born at Tuskaloosa, Ala
bama, May 17, 1870; son of William Rus
sell Smith and Wilhelmine Maria (Easby)
Smith. His father, a noted citizen of the
South, was a prominent member of both
the United States Congress and that of the
Confederate States, and was for many years
president of the University of Alabama.
The boy was sent to study at Georgetown
University, where he was graduated from
the academic course in 1891 with the de
gree of A.B., taking that of A.M. the year
later. He remained at Georgetown as a
law student, however, and in 1893 received
the degree of LL.B., obtaining the advanced
degree of LL.M. in 1894. In the latter year
he was admitted to the bar at Washing
ton, D. C, where he has since practiced.
The previous year, however, he had been
appointed to the office of law examiner in
the Department of Justice, and for five
years he remained as such. In 1896 he
was appointed, by President Grover Cleve
land, special assistant United States At
torney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
and three years later pardon attorney. From
1904 to 1906 he was Assistant United States
District Attorney for the District of Co
lumbia. Besides his connection with the
United States Government, • Mr. Easby-

Smith is connected with Georgetown Uni
versity as examiner and quiz-master in the
law department and also lectures in the
academic department on constitutional his
tory. He is also an author of merit and,
besides several legal volumes, compiled
from his experiences in the United States
Courts, has written several works of liter
ary value, principally poetry. He is also
a large contributor to the magazines of
prose,' stories, poetry, etc., and, while at
Georgetown, was editor-in-chief of the col
lege journal. Among the books he has
written are: The Law of Pardons (1903);
and The Department of Justice: Its His
tory and Functions (1904) ; History of
Georgetown University, 1789-1907; he
has also translated from the original Greek
The Songs of Sappho, and The Songs of
Alceus, the former published in 1891, the
latter in 1901. He was married, at Wash
ington, June 5, 1894, to Lilian Louise
Strong. Residence: 1358 Kenyon Street
Address : Century Building, Washington,
D. C.
EASLEY, Balph Montgomery:
Chairman of the Executive Council of the
National Civic Federation; born in Schuyl
er County, Illinois, February 25,- 1858; son
of Charles L. Easley and Elizabeth J.
(Berry) Easley. He was educated in the
public schools of Quincy, Illinois. Mr. -
Easley went to Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1875,
and was a teacher in the public schools
from 1877 to 1888. He was proprietor and
editor of the Hutchinson Daily News from
1883 to 1891 ; postmaster of Hutchinson from
1882 to 1887; and afterward on the staff.
of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, in charge of
the politico-economic department. He or
ganized the Civic Federation of Chicago in
1893 and was its secretary for seven years,
and also organized the National Civic Fed
eration in 1900 and has since been chairman
of its Executive Council, with headquarters
in New York City. He was promoter of
the National Conference on Primary Elec
tion Reform in New York City, January,
1898, -the National Conference on Foreign
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tional Conference on Trusts and Combina
tions at Chicago, September, 1899, and the
National Conference on Taxation, at Buf
falo, 1901. Mr. Easley is a Republican in
politics. He married at Mechanicsburg,
Ohio, March 23, 1881, Nerva C. Cheney.
Residence : Yonkers, New York. Office
address : 281 Fourth Avenue, New York
City. EASTMAN, Charles Alexander:
Physician and author; born in Minnesota,
1858; son of Jacob and Nancy Eastman;
father a full blooded Sioux Indian (native
name Many Lightnings) ; mother the
daughter of a native chief's daughter and
an army officer. He received preparatory
training from Beloit College, Knox College
and Kimball Union Academy, he received
the degree of B.S. from Dartmouth Col
lege, and the degree of M.D. from Bos
ton University. He has been twice Gov
ernment Physician to the Indians, he has
also been traveling secretary for the
Y.M.C.A., in charge of the Indian field.
Has traveled in nearly all the States of the
Union and in Canada. He is the author
of: Indian Boyhood, 1902; Red Hunters
and the Animal People, 1904; and Old
Indian Days, 1907. For several seasons,
he has been a successful lecturer, address
ing about fifty audiences each winter. In
politics he is Independent Republican, and
in religion a Congregationalist. He married
in New York, in 1891, Elaine Goodale ; they
have one son and five daughters. Resi
dence : Amherst, Massachusetts-. Address :
Amherst, Massachusetts.
EASTMAN, Cliarles Bochester:
Geologist and paleontologist; born in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June. 5, 1868; son of
Austin V. Eastman and Mary ScOville. He
was graduated from Harvard University in
1890, receiving the degree A.B. ; he received
the degree A.M. from Harvard in 1891 ;
took a graduate course at Johns Hopkins
in i8g2, received the degree of Ph.D. at
Munich in i8g4. He has been engaged as
special assistant on United States and sev
eral State Geological surveys. He is the
author of: Paleontological Reports, pub

lished by Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, and
New York Surveys, and of numerous
technical scientific contributions ; also trans
lator and editor of von Zittel's Text-book
of Paleontology, 3 volumes (Macmillan &
Co.). He has taken several foreign trips
in behalf of Harvard and Carnegie Muse
ums, and once as delegate of the American
Geological Society. He is curator of Ver
tebrate Paleontology at the Harvard Uni
versity Museum. He is a member of the
leading American and one or two foreign
Scientific Societies. In i8g2, he married
Caroline A. Clark, daughter of Alvan G.
Clark, the astronomer and famous tele
scope maker. Residence : 354 Brookline
Street, Cambridge. Address : Harvard Uni
versity Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
EASTMAN, Edwin Gamage:
Lawyer; bom at Grantham, New Hamp
shire, November 22, 1847; son of William
Henry and Paulina Sibley (Winter) East
man. After a preparatory education in the
public and private schools of New Hamp
shire, he entered Dartmouth College where
he was graduated with the degree of A.B.,
in 1874. He began the study of law
at Bath, N. H., with Judge A. P. Carpen
ter and was admitted to practice in the
courts of New Hampshire at Haverhill, N.
H. in 1876. He entered the office of General
G. Marston in 1876 and two years later be
came his partner and was associated with
him for fourteen years. He is now head of
the firm of Eastman, Scammon & Gardner,
attorneys-rat-law. In 1876 Mr. Eastman was
elected by the Republican party to the lower
house of the New Hampshire legislature
and in 1889 was sent to the State Senate.
In 1881 he became solicitor for Rocking
ham County, and held that office for four
years. In 1892 he was appointed attorney-
general of New Hampshire and has re
tained that position to date, by successive
reappointments. He was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention of 1901, for the
revision of the New Hampshire Constitu
tion. He is vice-president of the Exeter
Banking Company and of the Union Five
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also on the Board of Directors and is the
president of the Exeter Manufacturing
Company and has been a member of the
Board of New Hampshire Bar Examin
ers since 1893. Mr. Eastman has been
twice married; first, at Newport, N. H.,
March 12, 1877, to Elma E. Dodge ; second,
at Exeter, March 15, 1885, to Margie A.
Follansby. Address: Exeter, New Hamp
shire. EASTMAN, George:
Manufacturer; born in Waterville, New
York, July 12, 1854; son of George W.
Eastman and Maria (Kilbourn) Eastman.
He was educated in the public and private
schools of Rochester, New York. He was
an amateur photographer and made experi
ments for the improvement of photographic
processes. He perfected a process for
making dry plates and in 1880 he began
the manufacture of them. He is the in
ventor of the Kodak and of the transparent
rollable film. He is now president and
director of the Eastman Kodak Company,
managing director of the Kodak. Company
Limited, London, director of the Alliance
Bank, Rochester Savings Bank, Rochester
Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Roches
ter Security Trust Company, Rochester Or
phan Asylum, and the Rochester Homoeo
pathic Hospital. He was decorated by tlie
French Government as Chevalier of the
Legion d'Honneur. Mr. Eastman is a Re
publican in politics and he is a member of
the Genesee Valley Club of Rochester.
Address : 350 East Avenue, Rochester,
New York.
EASTMAN, John Coates:
Newspaper publisher; born at Eaton,
Preble County, Ohio, December 19, 1862 ;
son of John Eastman and Harriet Ardella
(Davis) Eastman. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of Ohio, and
was at the Ohio State University at Col
umbus from 1878 to 1882, taking a course
of studies preparatory to the civil engi
neering profession. He was engaged* in
various engineering and newspaper capac
ities until 1890, when he entered the news
paper field in Chicago as a reporter on the
city staff of the Chicago Herald. In 1895

he became the business manager of the
Chicago Chronicle, and from that he went
in 1898 to New York City, where he be
came associate advertising manager of the
iMew York Journal. In July, 1900, when
the Chicago American was established he
became its treasurer and business manager
until 1904. In April 1, 1904, he bought the
Chicago Journal, the oldest newspaper in
Chicago, and he has since been president
and treasurer of the Chicago Journal Com
pany. Under his management the business
and circulation of the Chicago Journal have
greatly increased. Mr. Eastman is a mem
ber by inheritance of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
a member of the Midlothian, Glen View,
South Shore and Chicago Athletic
Clubs of Chicago, and of the Central Young
Men's Christian Association of Chicago. He
is a Presbyterian in his religious affilia
tions. Mr. Eastman married at Marion,
Indiana, July 20, 1886, Eva Harter. Resi
dence : 2718 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Office address: 117 Market Street, Chicago,
Illinois. EASTMAN, Joseph:
Physician; born near Bleecker, Fulton
County, New York, in 1842. He was
brought up on a farm and attended schools
in the winter months. In 1861 he enlisted
in the Seventy-seventh New York Regiment,
and a fever which he contracted after the
battle of Williamsburg was the' indirect
cause of his choice of a profession. He was
sent to the Mount Pleasant Hospital, Wash
ington; was placed on medical duty there;
and afterward was appointed hispital stew
ard in the United States Army. He was grad
uated from Georgetown University as M.D.
in 1865, and on his graduation was com
missioned assistant-surgeon United States
Volunteers and served until May, 1866. He
attended lectures at the Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, New York, in 1870 and
'871, and he received the honorary degree
of LL.D. from Wabash College in 1891.
Dr. Eastman began private practice in
1866. He was professor of anatomy at
the Central College of Physicians and sur
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1885) ; he was also consulting surgeon at
the City Hosoital and the City Dispensary.
He visited the hospitals of London, Bir
mingham, Paris, Strasburg, Munich, Vi
enna, Leipzig, Dresden, Halle, and Berlin.
He was president (section diseases of
women) of the American Medical Asso
ciation. He was the first physician in In
diana to give up general practice, and to
limit his work to abdominal and pelvic
surgery. Address : Indianapolis, Indiana.
EASTMAN, Samuel Coffin:
Lawyer; born at Concord, New Hamp
shire, July 11, 1837; son of Seth and Sarah
(Coffin) Eastman. He received his pre
paratory education in the public and pri
vate schools of New Hampshire and, enter
ing Brown University, was graduated in
1857 with the degree of A.M. Following
his graduation he spent a year as assistant
librarian at Brown and then became a law
student at Harvard University, where, after
a course of one year, he received the degree
of LL.B.. In i860 he was admitted to the
bar of New Hampshire and has since prac
ticed in his native city, Concord. In 1861
he became a member of the Board of- Edu
cation of that city and exerted himself in
behalf of the public schools for twelve
years. In 1883 he was elected by the Re
publican party member of the lower house
of the New Hampshire Legislature for a
term of -two years, being also voted to the
speaker's chair. He was reelected to the
House in 1893. Mr. Eastman has large rail
road and manufa.cturing and other inter
ests in New Plampshire, being president of
the New Hampshire Sayings Bank and the
Concord Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
and member of the Board of Directors of
the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad and
various spinning mills. He is a prominent
member of the national and State bar as
sociations and was a delegate from New
Hampshire to the Universal Congress of
Lawyers and Jurists held at St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1904. He was president of the Associa
ted, Alumni of Brown University in 1906
and 1907. Mr. Eastman is author of: The
White, Mountain Guide Book, a book first

published in 1857, which has passed through
nine editions. He has also translated sev
eral works from the Danish and Norwegian.
He was married July 11, 1861, to Mary
Clifford Greene, of Providence, R. I, Ad
dress : Concord, New Hampshire.
EASTMAN, Sidney Corning:
Lawyer; born -in Chicago, Illinois, Jan
uary 26, 1850 ; son of Zabina and Mary Jane
(Corning) Eastman. He received his early
education in the public schools of Chicago,
and continued his studies under private tut
ors at Bristol, England, from 1861 to 1869,
during which period his father was United
States Consul at that place. Upon return
ing to the United States he entered the
University of Michigan, from which he was
graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1873.
During his stay abroad he had taken a two-
year course in French at Geneva, Switzer
land. After his graduation he took up the
study of law, and was admitted to the Chi
cago bar. July 4, 1876, since which time he
has been engaged in general practice, acting
as referee in many bankruptcy cases since
1898. Fie is a member of the American, Illi
nois State, and Chicago Bar Associations,
and of the Chicago Historical Society. He
is a Republican and a member of the Epis
copal Church. His club memberships _. em
brace the Glen View, Hamilton, City, Union
League and Law Clubs. He was married at
Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 9, 1886, to Char
lotte Hall. Residence : Melrose Avenue,
corner of Essig Street, Kenilworth, Illinois,
Office address : Monadnock Block, Chicago,
Illinois. EASTON, Edward Denison:
Lawyer, organizer of the talking machine
business ; born at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
April 10, 1856 ; son of Denison Michell Eas
ton and Mary (Lyle) Easton. He was ed
ucated in the public schools of Areola and
Paterson, New Jersey; he is a graduate of
the law school of the University of George
town. He became an expert stenographer,
doing newspaper and court work; he was
reporter and assistant editor of the Hack
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stenographer for the United States Light
house Board, Washington, D. C, he report
ed the Guiteau trial and the Star Route
trials for the government, and nearly every
event of national importance for fifteen
years. He was admitted to the' bar of the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia ;
he made corporation law a specialty. With
the invention of the Graphophone, he aban
doned law and stenography and made the
development of the talking machine indus
try a life work. In 1889, he organized the
Columbia Phonograph Company and be
came its president; in 1893, when his com
pany consolidated with the American Graph
ophone Company, he was made president
and counsel of both companies. He is also
president of the Burt Company, and of the
Volta Graphophone Company; he is vice-
president of the Hackensack Trust Com
pany. He married first, at Washington, D.
C, Hattie Kaldenbach, and second at
Washington, D. C, Helen Mortimer Jef-
feris; he has a son and four daughters.
Residence : Areola, New Jersey. Address :
Tribune Building, New York.
EASTON, Frederick Edward:
Physician; born in Cedarville, New York,
December 18, 1861 ; son of Charlon E. Eas
ton and Mary E. (Coapmem) Easton. He
was educated at Moravia High School,
Clyde High School, the Curtice Prepara
tory School and at the Long Island College
Hospital where he received the degree of
M.D. in 1884. Dr. Easton practiced at Fort
Plain, New York, from 1884 to 1885, at
Richfield Springs, New York, from 1885 to
1890, at Van Hornsville, New York, from
1890 to 1896, and since then at Syracuse,
from 1886 to i88g he was health officer at
Richfield Springs and from 1904 to 1906
alderman of Syracuse. He is a Universal
ist in his religious affiliation, Dr. Easton
is a member of the New York State Medi
cal Society, the Onondaga Medical Society,
Syracuse Academy of Medicine, and Cen
tral New York Medical Association. His
favorite recreations are motor boating and
. fishing. He is also a member of the Citi
zens' Club. Dr. Easton married at Mo
ravia, New York, October 9, 1886, Celestia

E. Richardson. Address: 1103 East Gen
esee Street, Syracuse, New York.
EASTON, Morton William:
Professor; .born in Hartford, Connecti
cut, August 18, 1841 ; son of Oliver Hast
ings and Emeline Maria (Brace) Easton.
He was educated at the Hartford High
School ; he received the degrees of B.A. and
Ph.D. at Yale and M.D. at Columbia. He
practiced medicine for a short time at Hart
ford and was afterwards professor of an
cient languages and of comparative philol
ogy at the State University of Tennessee.
He is now professor of English and Com-
oarative Philology at the University of
Pennsylvania. He belongs to the City
Party of Philadelphia and is an Episcopal
ian in religion. He is a member of the
American Oriental Society, the Modem
Language Society, and the Oriental Club.
He married Maria S. Burton, at Knoxville,
Tennessee, and they have two sons and one
daughter. Residence: The Montrose,
Forty-seventh Street and Baltimore Ave
nue, Philadelphia. Address : University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EASTON, Bobert T. B.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 19, 1841 ; son of Job Easton and
Grace (Thomas) Easton. He was educat
ed in the private and public schools. After
being graduated from the College of the
City of New York in i860, he attended the
Columbia College Law School. He was
admitted to the bar, 1862, in New York
City, and has been in continuous practice
ever since. In politics he is a Republican;
in religion, he belongs to the Old Dutch
Reformed Church of Flatbush. He is a
life member of the. American Geographical
Society, a member of the National Geo
graphical Society (Washington, D. C), he
was a delegate to the International Geo
graphical Congress in 1905 ; he is a life
member of the New England Society; New
York City and State Bar Association; and
to American Bar Association; and the
Presbyterian Union. His chief recreation
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married at Wilton, Connecticut, Josephine
Janes ; their children are : Grace J., Alice
(married to William E. C. Mayer), Mary
(married to Samuel C. Kellogg), Robert J.,
and Clifford H. (Labrador explorer). Resi
dence: 556 East Twenty-first Street,
Brooklyn. Address : 120 Broadway, New
York City.
EATON, Amasa Mason:
Lawyer; born at Providence, Rhode Is
land, May 31, 1841 ; son of Levi Curtis.
After a preparatory education obtained
through private tutors and European
schools he entered Brown. University, where
he was graduated in 1861. He engaged in
business pursuits, and afterward took up
the study of law, and was graduated from
the Harvard Law School with the degree
of LL.B. in 1878. His practice is extensive
and he includes among, his clients many
of the larger corporations and manufactur
ers of Providence and Pawtucket He was
a member and president of the town coun
cil of North Providence, 1863-5 ; a mem
ber of the Rhode Island House . of Repre
sentatives, 1865-6, 1872-4; a member of the
Providence common council 1874-5, and of
the Providence Board of Aldermen, 1875.
He has been Rhode Island Commissioner
on Uniformity of State Legislation since
1897 and president of the National Confer
ence on the same since 1901. He is ex-
president of the Rhode Island Horticultural
Society. 'He is- a member of the American
Bar Association; of the American Histori
cal Association; of the American Political
Science Association ; of the National Munic
ipal League; of the Harvard Law School
Association ; and of the University Club. He
is the author of: Constitution Making in
Rhode Island, 1859; and also of numerous
articlps in law review, reports, etc. He
married at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Sep
tember 15, 1873, Maude Dunnell. Resi
dence: 701 Smith Street, Providence. Ad
dress : 59 Studley Building, Providence,
Rhode Island.
EATON, Benjamin Harrison:
Farmer and ex-governor ; born in
Coshocton County, Ohio, December 15,

1833; son of Levi Eaton and Hannah
Eaton. He was educated at the West Bed
ford Academy in Coshocton County, grad
uating in 1852, and taught school in Ohio
from 1852 to 1854. Fie removed to Louisa
County, Iowa, in 1854, and engaged in
farming until 1859; then went to Colorado,
and after mining there two years removed
to New Mexico, where he was also engaged
in mining until 1864, when he returned to
Colorado, locating at Greeley, and became
one of the leaders and pioneers in farming
in that section on an extensive scale by
means of a thorough and effective system
of irrigation, in which he is still most suc
cessfully engaged. He became prominent
in the Republican party of Colorado ; was
a member of both the House and Senate
in the Territorial Legislature, and in 1884
was elected governor of Colorado, serving
for two years. Address : Eaton, Weld
County, Colorado.
EATON, Charles Warren:
Artist; born in Albany, New York, Feb
ruary 22, 1857; son of Daniel Oliver Eaton
and Mary (Bounds) Eaton. He was edu
cated in the National Academy of Design
and at the Art Students' League of New
York. He exhibited his work at the Royal
Academy and Grosvenor Gallery, London,
and at the Paris Exposition in 1900, where
he received honorary mention; also at the
Charleston Exposition where he was award
ed a silver medal, and at Salmagundi ex
hibition where he was awarded the Proctor
prize in 1901, the Inness prize in ig02,
•md the Shaw prize in igo3. He received
the gold medal at the Philadelphian Art
Club in 1003, the Inness gold medal at
the National Academy of Design in
1904 and the silver m'edal at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He is
an associate of the National Acad
emy. Mr. Eaton is represented in the
permanent collection in the Brooklyn Art
Institute and the Boston Art- Clubs. He
had his works on exhibition at the Paris
Slons in 1903, 1904, igo.5 and 1906; also at
Lille, France, and at the Antwerp Triennial
Exhibition in 1904, and. he received the gold
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member of the American Water Color So
ciety, the New York Water Color Club,
Fine Arts Federation and the Salmagundi
and Lotus Clubs of New York City. Resi
dence: Bloomfield, New Jersey. Studio:
318 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
City. EATON, Homer:
Clergyman and publishing agent; born in
Enosburg, Vermont, November 16, 1834;
son of Bennett Eaton and Betsy Maria
(Webster) Eaton. He was educated in the
public schools of West Enosburg, Vermont,
at Bakersville (Vermont) Academy and the
Theological Seminary at Concord, New
Hampshire, and received from Syracuse
University the degree of D.D. in 1878. He
was admitted to the Troy Annual Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
on trial in 1857, and was its first assistant
secretary from 1861 to 1870, and secretary
from 1870 to 1877. He was in the pastorate
of several important churches until Feb
ruary, 1889, when he was elected publish
ing agent of the Methodist Book Concern
at New York City. Mr. Eaton was a dele
gate to the Methodist Episcopal General
Conference at Brooklyn in 1872; a fraternal
delegate to the General Conference of the
Methodist Church in Canada, a reserve
delegate to the General Conference in 1876
and for seven consecutive sessions. He
was also a delegate to the Ecumenic Con
ference at London in 1881 ; and served as
presiding elder of the Albany district, and
of the Cambridge district. He is trustee
of the Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and trustee of several
universities and theological institutions.
Dr. Eaton married, at Sheldon, Vermont,
April 28, 1858, Hannah Saxe. Address :
150 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
EATON, Marquis:
Lawyer; born in Michigan, April 5, 1876;
son of General Charles L. Eaton and Nellie
(Joiner) Eaton. He is a graduate of the
University of Michigan. He was Associate
Reporter of the Michigan Supreme Court,
1897-1901, exclusively engaged in writing
the head notes or syllabi of the decisions.

For five years, he has been a member of
the firm of Cody and Eaton, 135 Adams
Street, Chicago, engaged in the active prac
tice of law, particularly in the corporation
branches. He is president and director of
the Allied Securities Company, director of
the Carlsbad Mineral Spring Company,
trustee of the Chicago Life Insurance Com
pany, director of the Handy Car Equipment
Company, president and director of, .the
Idaho Company Limited, director of the
Kirby Equipment Company, and director of
the Snow Manufacturing Company. He is a
member of the Chicago Bar Association,
he belongs to the Zeta Psi fraternity and
to the Masonic orders. He is a member of
the Hamilton and Quadrangle Clubs of Chi
cago. He has been actively identified with
political affairs and has campaigned ex
tensively under the auspices of the various
Republican State Central Committees. He
is a member of the University Congrega
tional Church of Chicago. His chief re
creation is golf. He married at Flint,
Michigan, June 8, 1904, Jacquette Hunter
of San Francisco, California; they have
one son, Hunter, born in 1905. Residence:
5623 Washington Avenue, Chicago. Ad
dress : 135 Adams Street, Chicago, Illi
nois.
EATON, Samuel Lewis:
Physician ; born at Lancaster, Wisconsin,
January 15, 1853; son of Rev. Samuel W.
Eaton, D.D. and Catherine E. (Demarest)
Eaton. Was educated at Yale; received
the first prize at the Junior Exhibition and
was graduated with the degree of .A.B.
in 1877, received the degree of M.D. from
Hahnmann Medical College, Chicago. He
is the proprietor of the Highland Hall
Sanitarium; a member of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy; of the Interna
tional Hahnemannian Association; and of
the Massachusetts Homeopathic Society.
Was formerly a trustee of the Newton
(Massachusetts) Hospital and one of its
visiting physicians. Is a member of the
Masonic order; is a Democrat in politics
and an Episcopalian in religion. He
married at Newark, New Jersey, April 15.
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Cross), they have one son, Willard Has-
brouck, born October 17, 1887. Address :
340 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands,
Massachusetts.
EATON, Thomas Wood:
Manufacturer; born in Morristown, Ver
mont, June 16, 1839; son of Lathrop and
Sabrina (Wood) Eaton. He was educated
at the public schools of Morristown and of
Crete, Will County, Illinois. His school
studies were followed by private instruction
in natural philosophy, mechanical drawing
and the higher mathematics. In 1854 he
began to learn the furniture trade at Flyde
Park, Vermont. His father dying the fol
lowing year, the family moved to Crete,
Illinois, in 1856, where young Eaton con
tinued the manufacture of furniture in a
little shop of his own, in which he worked
during the intervals when he was not at
tending school, and during the mornings
and evenings as a relaxation from his
studies. He continued to conduct the busi
ness after leaving school until 1864, when
he removed to Kankakee, Illinois, where
he established himself in more pretentious
quarters, with water power for propelling
his machinery. In 1859 an older brother,
returning from California, became associ
ated with him in his business, but the firm
did -not continue long, and the dissolution
was followed by disaster owing to the
death of a large creditor of the concern.
The assets were finally turned over to the
creditors, a settlement with whom was
reached through bankruptcy proceedings.
Mr. Eaton then embarked in the business
of pattern making, and later became a con
tractor and constructing engineer. Imme
diately after the great fire in Chicago he
removed to that city and obtained em
ployment- in the elevator works of the
Crane Brothers Manufacturing Company,
remaining with the company nearly two
years, when he again went into business on
his own account as a manufacturer of
freight and passenger elevators. In 1875
Midas Brooks became associated with him
as a partner, but in the following year
sold his interest to Frederick H. Prince,
and the business was conducted for several

years under the style of Eaton & Prince.
The business was incorporated in 1890 as
the Eaton & Prince Company, of which Mr.
Eaton was president and general manager.
He is also president and director of the
Notaway Mining Company. He is a Re
publican, and was a candidate for alder
man in 1904. He is a Universalist, and a
member of the Board of Trustees of the
Church of the Redeemer, being chairman
of the board. He is a member of the Un-
dercliff Sportmen's Association of Chicago
and Putnam, Illinois, and of the Garfield
Gun (president), Valley Gun (vice-presi
dent), Menoken, and Chicago Fly-Casting
Clubs. He has been twice married; his
first marriage was to Ann Jane Winslow, at
Crete, Illinois, and his second, to Olive
M. Litch, at North Craftsbury, Vermont,
December 25 1888. His children are: Mar
ion Augusta, Edward Winslow, Jessie
Maud, Ethel Bell, and Charlotte Grace.
Address: 70 Michigan Street. Residence:
1447 Fulton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
_EBEBHABDT, Charles C:
Consular official. He was appointed vice
and deputy consul-general at Mexico City,
October 29, 1904, and appointed to his
present post as consul at Iquitos, May 24,
1906. Address: Iquitos, Peru.
EBEBSOLE, Ezra C:
Lawyer; born at Mount Pleasant, Penn
sylvania, October 18, 1840; son of Jacob
and Catherine (Keister) Ebersole. He was
graduated from Amherst College, Massa
chusetts, 1862, with the degree of A.B., and
that of LL.D. was conferred upon him
years later by Western (now Leander
Clark) College, of Iowa. Twice during
the Civil War he was in the Union Army,
each time with the rank of sergeant. For
eight years after graduation (except while
in the army) he was engaged in teaching
in Western College (of which he was presi
dent for a time) and in the State Uni
versity of Iowa. He was admitted to the
Iowa bar in 1870 and practiced for a tiirie
at Iowa City and Adel, but in 1873 he
settled in Toledo, where he has since re
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ten years as county attorney for Tama
County; eight years as Supreme Court re
porter; and as the editor of the Code of
1897, to which position he was chosen by
the unanimous vote of the General Assem
bly. His chief literary legal work is his
Encyclopedia of Iowa Law, a large and
comprehensive volume, which was first pub
lished in 1900, and is kept up to date by
timely supplements. He married at Toledo,
Iowa, in 1895, Emma Smith. Address :
Toledo, Iowa.
ECCLES, Bobert Gibson:
Physician; bora in Scotland, January I,
1848 ; son of David Eccles and Isabella Gib
son Eccles. He was educated in the public
and private schools of Great Britain and
the United States, the Long Island Medical
College, where he received the degree of
M.D. in 1882; the Scio (Ohio) College,
with the degree of Phar. D. and the Brook
lyn College of Pharmacy, with the degree
of Ph.G. Dr. Eccles was dean of Brook
lyn College of Pharmacy, Government
chemist, etc., and served for ten years on
the Committees of Revision of the United
States Pharmacopoeia and chairman of the
section on the active principles of drugs.
He was former president of the New York
State Pharmaceutical Association; presi
dent of the Chemical Section of the Brook
lyn Institute and chairman of the Section
of Education of the American Pharma
ceutical Association. He is a discoverer of
a number of new active principles of plants.
Dr. Eccles has visited the Pacific Coast
,irom Alaska to Mexico, and every point
of interest to tourists from the North Cape
to the Mediterranean. In 1906 he went on
a tour of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia,
New Zealand and South America, which will
occupy over two years. At one time he
was a member of the Executive Committee
of the Republican party of Kings County.
He is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and a
member of the American Geographical So
ciety, the American Medical Association,
the American Anatomical Association, the
American Pharmaceutical Association, the

National Geographic Association and many
other societies. His favorite recreations
are travel, botanizing and bicycle riding.
Dr. Eccles married at Kansas City, Mis
souri, September, 1876, Mary Hance. Ad
dress: 191 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New
York.
ECHOLS, John Warnock:
Lawyer; born at Clarksville, Pennsylva
nia, May 13, 1849; son of James and Mary
Echols, and of Scotch-Irish descent. He
received his. education at Westminster Col
lege, North Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and
at Lafayette College, after the completion
of which he became connected with a
wholesale drug concern, and for three years
traveled through the United States as its
salesman. In 1873 he was admitted to
partnership in the cotton firm of Echols &
Company, at Augusta, Georgia, of which
the Hon. Joseph H. Echols was the head.
Four years later he severed his active con
nections with the firm and took up the
study of law in the office of General Rob
ert Toombs at Augusta, and in 1879 was
admitted to the bar of Georgia, and for
nine years practiced at Lexington. In 1888
he removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
where he was in practice until 1892, going
thence to Atlanta. He practiced in the
latter locality for four years, when, in 1896,
he was admitted to the bar of the United
States Supreme Court at Washington,
where he has since acted as attorney for
many important cases. For three years
after going to Washington he published
The Republic, a weekly magazine, but this
he sold out in 1899, to give his entire at
tention to his law cases. Mr. Echols is a
prominent member of the Scotch-Irish So
ciety of America, and belongs to the order
of the Knights Templar and the Mystic
Shrine. He married, in 1874, Mary Lou
Echols, of Augusta, Georgia. Residence:
1310 Nineteenth Street, N. W. Address:
Columbian Building, Washington, D. C.
ECHOLS, Bandall B.:
Publisher and merchant; born in Wash
burn, Illinois, December 5, 1854. He re
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wards taking a business course in a night
school. For several years he was engaged
in mining in the West. He returned to
Illinois in 1892 and located in Loraine, en
gaging in the harness business. During
the administration of Governor John R.
Tanner, he held an appointive position at
the Southern Illinois prison. He was a
member of the Illinois House of Represent
atives as a Republican, igo5-6. He is the
publisher of the Loraine Times, a local
weekly newspaper. He is a Modern Wood
man and an Odd Fellow. Address : The
Loraine Times, Loraine, Illinois.
ECKEL, Edward Henry:
Episcopal clergyman; born at New Or
leans, November 5, 1862; he is the adopted
son of Henry Eckel, editor and publisher
at Wilmington, Delaware. He was order
ed deacon by Bishop Coleman, June 16,
1889; ordained priest by the same, May 28,
1890; he was rector of St. James', Stanton,
and St. Jamps', Newport, and founder of
St. Barnabas', Marshallton, Delaware, 1889-
1891 ; he was rector of Trinity Church,
West Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1891-1896;
rector, Christ Church Parish, Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, 1856-1905; rector, Christ
Church Parish, St. Joseph, Missouri, since
March, 1905. He is the founder of the Church
Students' Missionary Association, (origi
nated in New York) 1888 ; he was the nom
inee for Bishopric of Harrisburg, 1904.
He was examining chaplain to the Bishop
of Central Pennsylvania, 1898-^05 ; he was
on the board of managers, the diocese of
Harrisburg, 1904; he has been rural dean,
diocese of Kansas City, since 1905; he h?"
been on the standing committee, diocese of
Kansas City. since 1906; he was deputy to
the General Convention, 1907. He was a
director of the Sheltering Arms, St. Joseph,
Missouri, 1906. He is a thirty-second de
gree and a Royal Arch Mason and he also
belongs to the Elks. He is a member of
the Benton, the Country, and the Lotos
Clubs of St. Joseph, Missouri. ' In politics
he is a Republican. He married at Wil
mington, Delaware, June 27, 1889, Anna
Todd Reynolds, daughter of Professor W.

A. Reynolds; they have three children:
Edward Henry, Jr., aged 17; Elizabeth,
aged 15%; arid Albert Reynolds, aged 12.
Address : 207 North Seventh Street, St.
Joseph, Missouri.
ECKEBT, Thomas Thompson:
President and general manager Western
Union Telegraph Company; born at St.
Clairsville, Ohio, April 23, 1825. He was
postmaster and telegrapher at Wooster,
Ohio, in 1849; and in 1852 he supervised
the construction of a telegraph line from
Pittsburgh to Chicago, and was its super
intendent until it. became a part of the
Western Union Telegraph Company; he
resigned in 1859, becoming superintendent
of a gold mining company in North Caro
lina. He was superintendent, military tele
graph, Army of the Potomac,_ with rank
of captain, an8 later general superintendent
military telegraph with rank of major; he
reached the brevet rank of brigadier-gen
eral; he became assistant secretary of war,
1864-6. He was general superintendent,
Eastern Division, Western Union Tele
graph Company, 1866-75; president of the
Atlantic and Pacific Company, 1875-81 ;
president American Union Telegraph Com
pany, 1880-1 ; vice-president and general
manager Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, 1881-92; president and general man
ager of the Western Union Telegraph
company, 1881-92; president and general
manager of the Western Union Telegraph
Company since 1892. He is a director of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company; of
the Texas and Pacific Railway Company,
and the American Telegraph and Cable
Company. General Eckert is a member of
the Union League and Riding Clubs of New
York City. Residence : 54.9 Fifth Avenue.
Address : 195 Broadway, New York City.
ECKHABT, Bernard Albert:
Merchant, manufacturer; born in Alsace,
France, in 1852 ; he is the son of Jacob and
Eva (Root) Eckhart. He came to the
United States with his parents while he
was yet in his infancy. The Eckharts found
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and the son received his early education in
the public schools of that city. His public
school studies were followed by a colleg
iate course in Milwaukee, from which ' he
was graduated in 1868. His first employ
ment was as a clerk for the Eagle Milling
Company, of Milwaukee, where he perform
ed -office duties until 1869, Eastern agent
of the company, and the year following was
the Chicago manager of the concern. In
1874, in association with James Swan, he
purchased the Chicago business of the Eagle
Milling Company, and the wholesale flour
business of Eckhart and Swan was founded.
Mr. Eckhart has been active in politics and
was Republican Senator in the Illinois As
sembly for four years. He was also a mem
ber of the Republican State Committee from
the Third Congressional District in 1888.
He was a director of the Chicago Board of
Trade from 1888 to 1891, a member of the
board of trustees of the Sanitary District
of Chicago in i8g9 and 1900. He is a mem
ber of the Union League, the Chicago, and
the Illinois Clubs. He was married in 1874
to Katie L. Johnson, and has four children :
Carlos K, Percy B., Hazel and Dorothy M.
Residence: 187 Ashland Avenue, Chicago.
Office address : 373 Carroll Avenue, Chi
cago, Illinois.
EDDY, Clarence:
Concert organist; born in Greenfield,
Massachusetts, June 23, 1851 ; son of
George Sanger and Silence (Cheney)
Eddy. He studied music under Dudley Buck
and in Berlin, Germany, under Albert
Loeschhorn and August Haupt He was
engaged as organist in the leading churches
of Chicago for over twenty years, and has
given recitals in the principal American
and European cities. Mr. Eddy is author
of organ works : The Church and Concert
Organist (two volumes) ; The Organ in
Church; and Concert pieces for the Organ.
He is now organist and director of music
of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational
Church of Brooklyn, New York. Resi
dence: 930 West End Avenue, New York
City.

EDDY, Henry Turner:
Professor of mathematics and mechanics
in the College of Engineering and Dean of
the Graduate School, University of Minne
sota; born at Stoughton, Massachusetts,
June 9, 1844; son of Henry and Sarah H.
(Torrey) Eddy. He was educated at Yale,
receiving the degree A.B. in 1867, Ph.B.
from the Scientific School in 1868, A.M.
in 1870; he received the degree CE. from
Cornell in 1870 and Ph.D. in 1872; from
Center College, he received the degree LL.
D. in 1892; he studied at Berlin in 1879
and at Paris in 1880. After filling the posi
tion of instructor in various educational in
stitutions, including Cornell and Princeton,
he was appointed professor of Engineering
and Mechanics in the University of Minne
sota in 1894; he was made dean of the
Graduate School in the same University
in 1906 and advanced to his present posi
tion in 1907. He is a director in the St.
Anthony Falls Bank, Minneapolis, iri the
Barnard-Cope Manufacturing • Company,
and also in the Pillsbury Settlement House
Minneapolis. Besides being a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, he is a member of the
American Philosophical Society, of the
American Mathematical Society, of the So
ciety for the Promotion of Engineering
Education, of the American Physical
Society, and of the Sigma Xi and Phi
Beta Kappa fraternities. He is the author
of several mathematical and engineering
works including an Analytic Geometry, 1874,
and Researches in Graphical Statics, 1878;
besides this, he has contributed numerous
scientific and technical papers to the pro
ceedings of Engineering Societies. He
married at New Haven, Connecticut, Jan
uary 4, 1870, Sebella E. Taylor; they have
five children and six grandchildren. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion,
a Congregationalist. Residence: 916 6th
Street, S. E. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ad
dress : University of Minnesota, Minne
apolis, Minnesota.
EDEBOHLS, George Michael:
Surgeon; born in New York City. He
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Fordham, New York, with the degree of A.
B. in 1871, and received from it the degrees
of A.M. in 1886, and LL.D. in 1903, and he
was graduated from the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons of Columbia Univers
ity, with the degree of M.D. in 1875. He
was house physician and surgeon from 1875
to 1879; gynecologist from 1887 to 1903,
and is now consulting surgeon of St. Fran
cis' Hospital, New York City. He was
appointed in 1893 professor of diseases of
women at the New York Post Graduate
Medical School and Flospital and consult
ing gynecologist at St. John's Hospital,
Yonkers, New York, and the Nyack Hos
pital, at Nyack, New York. Dr. Edebohls
is a fellow of the New York Academy
of Medicine and the American Gynecological
' ' Society. He is an honorary fellow of the
Societe de Chirurgie de Bucarest, a per-
, , manent member, of the Medical Society of
the State, of New York, and a member
of various other medical societies. He
is author of: The Surgical Treatment of
Brights Disease and also of monographs
on Movable Kidney; Shortening the Round
Ligaments; Movable Kidney and Appen
dicitis; The History and Literature of Ap
pendicitis; The Cure of Chronic Bright's
Disease by Operation; Renal Decapsulation
for Chronic Bright's Disease; and Renal
Decapsulation for Puerperal Fclampsia,
etc. Dr. Edebohls married in New York
City, September 19, 1882, Barbara Leyen-
decker, and they have three children: Al-
phonse J., A. Charlotte, and Frank E. Ad
dress : 12 West Fiftieth Street, New York
City.
EDES, Bobert Thaxter:
Physician and surgeon, author and in
vestigator; born in Eastport, Maine, Sep
tember 23, 1838; son of the Rev. Richard
Sullivan Edes and Mary (Cushing) Edes.
and a descendant of John Edes who came
from England to Charlestown, Massachu
setts, previous to 1640; John May, Jamaica
Plain, 1640; Matthew Cushing, Hingham,
1638; and, Thomas Thaxter, Hingham,
1638." He was brought up on a farm;
graduated at the Bolton High School and
at Harvard in the class of 1858. He was

graduated from Harvard University Medical
School as M.D. in 1861. He was appointed
acting assistant surgeon in the United
States Navy September 10, 1861, serving in
the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, 1861 ; the
Mortar Flotilla under Commodore Porter
below New Orleans, 1862; was commis
sioned in the regular service January 26,
1862, and took part in the attack on Vicks
burg and at Port Hudson. He was assigned
to headquarters on the flagship Black
Hawk, Mississippi Squadron, August, 1863,
in the Red River Expedition, and was
stationed at the United States Hospital
at Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1864 and
1865, receiving promotion to passed assist
ant surgeon, May 8, 1865, and resigning
from the service June 1, 1865. He studied
in Europe, principally at Vienna, in 1865,
ind on returning to Boston,' practiced
medicine and surgery in Dorchester, 1866;
Hingham, 1867 to 1869; Roxbury, 1869
and 1870. He was assistant professor of
materia medica in Harvard University from.
1870 to 1875, full professor 1875 to 1884,
and Jackson professor of clinical medicine
from 1884 to 1886. He was also phy
sician to Boston City Hospital from 1872 to
1886 and removed to Washington, D. C.
in 1886, where he was a practicing phy
sician from 1886 to 1891, physician in the
Garfield Memorial Hospital from 1889 to
1891 and lecturer in Georgetown University
Medical School from 1886 to i8gi. He was
resident physician at Adams Nervine Asy
lum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, from
1891 to 1897 and lecturer in materia med
ica at Dartmouth in 1891. He removed
from Jamaica Plain to Reading, Massa
chusetts, in igo3. He was a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
of Boston; of the Philosophical Society of
Washington, D. C, and is now a member
of the American Medical Association, the
Association of American Physicians, of
which organization he was a founder, and
of the American Neurological Association
of which he was president; and is a com
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States. He is the au
thor of : Physiology and Pathology' of the

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Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous Sys
tem (1869) (O'Reilly prize essay) ; Thera
peutics and Materia Medica (1893); A
Therapeutic Handbook of the United
States Pharmacopoeia (1886) ; and contrib
uted to many medical journals the results
of his professional research. Residence:
Reading, Massachusetts. Office address :
419 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
EDESON, Bobert:
Actor; born in New Orleans. His fa
ther was a well known comedian and stage
manager. He was educated in Brooklyn,
New York. In 1886 Mr. Edeson was box
office clerk at the Park Theatre in Brook
lyn under the management of Colonel Sinn.
The following year when Cora Tanner was
to produce Fascination there, an actor, who
had a minor part, became ill, and Mr. Ede
son volunteered to play the part — which he
did most successfully. Later he appeared in
Augustin Daly's and in Charles Dickson's
companies. In 1896 he Joined the Empire
Stock Company and became well known as
understudy to William Faversham in Under
the Red Robe. He was very successful as
leading man with Maude Adams in The
Little Minister, and with Amelia Bingham
in The Climbers. Since then he has starred
in Augustus Thomas's dramatization of
Richard Harding Davis's novel, Soldiers of
Fortune, and in Strongheart, an Indian
play. He married Ellen Barg, an actress,
who died in June, 1906. Address : The
Lambs' Club, New York City.
EDGAB, Charles Bloomfield:
Editor and publisher ; born in Saint Louis,
Missouri, April 2, 1849; son of Joseph
Crowell Edgar and Lucy (Dorey) Edgar.
During the last year of the Civil War he
left school to enter the Quartermaster's
Department of the Federal Army, and serv
ed as clerk to Captain Woolforlk at Cairo
and elsewhere. After a careful preparatory
education he entered Kentucky University
at Lexington, Kentucky, from which he
was graduated with the degree of A.B. in
1872. After leaving college he was en
gaged as a clergyman and writer until 1894,
when he- became editor and publisher of

the Daily News at Saint Joseph, Missouri,
in which position he continues and in 1900
he also acquired control of the Saint Joseph
Daily Gazette-Herald, which he published
in connection with the Daily News until
1902, then selling it. Mr. Edgar is a Demo
crat in politics, and in 1896, was a delegate
to the National (Gold-Standard) Demo
cratic Convention in Indianapolis. He is
also a member of the Society of Sons of the
Revolution. In 1903 he sold his interest in
the St. Joseph News and took a rest, going
abroad for the winter. In January, 1906,
he became a partner with D. E. Thompson,
Ambassador to Mexico, in the ownership
of the Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star of
which he is editor and publisher. Mr. Ed
gar married, at Hannibal, Missouri, May 4,
1882,- Aurora Drescher. Children: Helen
and Joseph Charles. Address : Lincoln,
Nebraska.EDGAB, Charles Leavett:
Capitalist ; born in Griggstown, New Jer
sey, December 23, i860; son of Thomas
Edgar and Anne (Veghte) Edgar. The
Edgars were among the early settlers of
New Jersey, 1650, coming from Scotland;
and the Veghtes were of Holland ances
try. He was prepared for college at Rut
gers School, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
and was graduated at Rutgers College as
A.B. in 1882 and completed a post-grad
uate course there in 1883 in electrical sci
ence with the degree E.E. He at once
found employment with the Edison Electric
Light "Company of New York and was
transferred to Boston as electrical engineer
of the Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany of that city in 1887 and he became
president of the company. He was also
president of the Blue Hill Electric Com
pany; the Boston Electric Light Company;
the Dedha'm Electric Company; the Edi
son Electric Illuminating ' Company ; the
Framingham Electric Company; the Med-
field Electric Light & Power Company;
the Medway tuectric Light and Power
Company; the Milton Lieht & Power Com
pany; the Natick Gas & Electric Company;
the Newton & Watertown Gas Light Com
pany: the Somerville Electric, Light Com-

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pany ; the' Suburban Light & Power Com
pany; the Western Light, Heat & Power
Company; vice-president of the Electrical
Testing Laboratories of New York and a
director of the Vehicle Equipment Com
pany of Long Island City, New York.
He is a member of the Lawyers' and Uni
versity Clubs of New York; the Exchange,
Art, University, Algonquin and Boston
Eastern Yacht Clubs of Boston. He is a
Republican and a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. He married, June 20,
1886, Annette M. Duclos and they have
one child. Residence: Brookline, Massa
chusetts. Office address: 70 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
EDGAB, William C:
Editor and publisher; born in La Crosse,
Wisconsin, 1856; son of J. C. Edgar and
Lucy D. Edgar. He removed to Saint
Louis, Missouri, in boyhood and was edu
cated in the public and high schools
of that city until 1874. He was employed by
a business firm in Saint Louis until 1882,
when he went to Minneapolis to take a posi
tion with The Northwestern Miller, which
is the leading trade journal representing
the- flour milling industry of the United
States. Since 1884 he has been manager of
that journal and since 1886 its editor and
president of its publishing company, and in
these capacities he has administered the af
fairs of the journal with signal success
upon methods which have placed it in the.
front rank of trade journalism in the United
States. In 1891, when a great famine af
flicted the peasants of Russia, he organized
a relief .movement for their benefit, with the
result that the millers of America contrib
uted a shipload of flour, the collection of
which, as well as its shipment and subse
quent distribution were under the personal
direction Of Mr. Edgar, whose efforts in
this humanitarian enterprise were recog
nized by Emperor Alexander III. by the
present to him of a golden flagon. Mr Ed
gar has contributed extensively to other
-periodicals as well as to his own iournal,
- and is author'of: The Story of a Grain of
Wheat, a book published in 1903, and of

pamphlets on The Russian Famine, 1893, and
The Miller's Evil Genius (published by the
American Free Trade League in 1902). He
is a member of the American Social
Science Association, the National Municipal
League, the American Free Trade League,
and the Voters' League, and is a member
of the Executive Committee of the latter.
He is president of the Minnesota Trade
Press Association, and' is a member of the
Minneapolis, Lafayette and Minikahda
Clubs of Minneapolis, the Saint Louis Club
of Saint Louis, and the Reform Club of
New York. Mr. Edgar married in Saint
Louis in 1883, Anne Page Randolph Robin
son. Residence : 66 Groveland Terrace,
Minneapolis. Office address : Miller Build
ing, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
EDGEETON. Charles Eugene:
Economist and statistician; born at Nine
veh, New York, December 25, 1861 ; son of
Franklin and Julia (Taggartl Edgerton.
He was graduated from Hamilton College
in 1882, receiving- the degree of A.B. ; he
also studied at Cornell and Columbia. He
was connected with various banks in Iowa,
Nebraska and Kansas, 1882 to 1890. In
1890, he removed to Binghamton, New
York, and became treasurer of the Wilkin
son Manufacturing Company; he remained
here until 1897. In 1897 and 1898, he held
fellowships at Cornell and Columbia Uni
versities. He taught economics at Smith
College, 1898-9. In igoo, he went to Wash
ington as expert agent of the Industrial
Commission. In 1902 and 1903 he was as
sistant secretary of the Immigration Re
striction League and secretary of the Na
tional Federation for Majority Rule. He is
now special examiner of the Bureau of
Corporations. He is a member of the Am
erican Economic Association and the Am
erican Statistical Association, the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and the Cosmos Club of Washington. He
married at Walton, New York, October 9,
T884, Annie Benedict White. They have
three children : Franklin, born July 24,
t88=;; Henry White, born October 20, 1888;
arid William Franklin, born September 30.
1893. Residence: 80 V Street, •• N. W.,

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Washington, D. C. Address: Bureau of
Corporations, Washington, D. C.
EDGINGTON, Thomas Benton:
Lawyer; born at Ontario, Ohio, April
23, 1839, son of Jesse and Hannah (Mit
chell) Edgington. His preliminary educa
tion he received in the public schools in
the vicinity of his home and, entering Bald
win University, at Berea, Ohio, in 1853,
he, took three years of study, going thence
to the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela
ware, Ohio, where he completed his course
in 1859, receiving the degree of A.B. The
degree of A.M. was conferred upon him
by the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1862
and that of LL.D. in 1905. He removed
to Eldora, Iowa, after leaving college and
after two years of study, he was admitted
to the bar in April, 1861. October 17, 1861,
he enlisted as a private in Company A,
Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and was made first
sergeant of the company. He participated
in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson
and Shiloh. In the battle of Shiloh, he
was in the bloodiest part of the fight, known
in the history of that battle as the Hor
net's nest. He was wounded and captured
at Shiloh, and after six months imprison
ment, he returned and found his commis
sion as first lieutenant awaiting him, which
dated back to the date of the battle. He
resumed active service with his regiment,
but resigned his commission April 4, 1863,
on account of ill health. In the summer
of 1863, he removed to Memphis, where
he resumed the practice of law in the fed
eral and state courts, and the military
courts. He aided the government in the
organization of several regiments of troops
in West Tennessee, and was made major
Of one of them, and held this position until
the close of the war. He is now senior
member of the firm of Edgington and Edg-
ineton, with his son as partner. He is an
earnest advocate of the repeal of the Fif
teenth Amendment and Section Two of
the Fourteenth. He regards the enactment
of negro suffrage as -the great crime of
the age, and made a notable speech to this
effect at the Fedfefal Cemetery, tt'e'ar Mwh-

phis which is published in Volume Seven
teen, of the Southern Historical Society
Papers of Richmond, Virginia. Little,
Brown & Company of Boston, Massachu
setts, published his work entitled, the Mon
roe Doctrine in 1904, and this work has
since become extensively used as a text
book among the universities, colleges and
academies all over the country. It has like
wise become a popular text book for the
masses, and is found in nearly all the public
libraries in the United States. He married
April 5, 1865, Miss Catherine Vose Baxter.
Address : 232 Jones Avenue, Memphis,
Tennessee.
EDISON, Thomas A.:
Electrician and inventor;, was born in
Milan, Ohio, February 7, 1847. The
Edisons are of Dutch origin. The first of
the name of whom Thomas Alva is in
descent was John, who came to America
as early as 1737, and became a banker in
New York; but being a loyalist, in the
struggle of the Colonies and siding with
the British interests, he found it convenient
to change his residence to Nova Scotia.
There Samuel, father of Thomas Alva,
was born. When Samuel Edison had
arrived, at the age of manhood he received
a grant of land from the Government,
located on the shores of. Lake Erie, and
moved to and settled upon it. But in
1838 he became involved in what was
known as the Papineau rebellion, and his
lands were forfeited to the crown. His
personal liberty being endangered, he fled
for safety to United States territory and
settled in Milan, Ohio, where he married
a woman of Scotch descent. Of this union
Thomas Alva was bom. Thus the Teu
tonic and the Celt are blended in the
inventor, and thus, too, some of the con
tradictions to be found in the nature and
the character of the man can be accounted
for. While Thomas was yet a small lad,
nis father found it necessary to remove
to Michigan. The boy was early thrown
on his own resources, indeed early made, in
the stress of circumstances, a contribution
to the family support Of schooling he
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education were laid by his mother, who
had been a school teacher before her mar
riage. It is known, however, that from the
earliest period the young lad was, from
inclination, a constant reader, often under
taking wofks which were beyond his com
plete understanding. Newton's Principia
was one of the works which he attacked
when he was but fourteen. His first reg
ular' employment was as a newsboy ou the
Grank Trunk Railway. Later he learned
the art of telegraphy and was operator at
various places in the United States and
Canada. He showed inventive skill from
boyhood, and at the age of twenty-two he
was in Boston, holding a position requiring
the utmost skill, operating the crack wire
from New York. It was while in this position
that he conceived the idea of the duplex
system, by which two messages could be
sent over a wire at the same time. In
1871 he was made superintendent of the
Gold and Stock Company, and a year later
he not only perfected his duplex system,
but developed it into a quadruple system,
making a single wire do the work pre
viously done by four, and saving to the
telegraph companies millions of dollars.
He established a factory in Newark, New
Jersey, ostensibly for the manufacture of
his stock quotation machines-; but his time
was chiefly, if not wholly, given to ex
perimentation, though still in the line of
telegraphy. It was not long before the
sextuplex system appeared. Indeed, devices,
improvements and new inventions re
lating to telegraphy flowed from his fingers
and brain, almost without number, and
the dominating telegraph company was
kept busy in securing control of them, lest
they should fall into rival hands. In 1876
Mr. Edison removed to Menlo Park and
built the first of those buildings intended
for merely experimental purposes, and
where he has produced some of the most
wonderful inventions of the age. Among
these are his carbon telephone transmitter
for telephones, the phonograph, the micro
phone, the megaphone and the kinetoscope
are among those which have brought his
name into the greatest prominence, together
with the wonderful improvements he has

made in electric lighting, in which field his
greatest achievements have been obtained.
Here he stands unrivaled and unassailable.
In his accomplishment of the incandescent
light no one claims to divide honors with
him. Mr. Edison is a member of the Es
sex Country Club. He married Mina M.
Miller. Address: West Orange, New Jer
sey. EDMONDS, Samuel Owen:
Lawyer; born in Pottsville, Pennsyl
vania ; son of Howard Edmonds and Mary
E. (Owen) Edmonds. He was educated by
private tuition and in the New York Law
School. He has been engaged in the prac
tice of patent law since 1886. Mr. Edmonds
is vice-president and director of the Brod-
erick Copygraph Company. He is a Re
publican in politics and an Episcopalian in
his religious affiliation. He is. a member
of' the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the Pennsylvania Society, and
the Dwight Alumni ; also a member of the
Calumet and Lawyers' Clubs. Mr. Ed
monds married in New York City, Novem
ber 21, 1901, Lillian Coles. They have two
children, Stuart Coles, born in ig02, and
Helen Ormonde, born in igo6. Address:-
32 Liberty Street, New York City.
EDMUNDS, Charles Carroll:
Clergyman ; he was graduated from Trin
ity College as B.A. in 1877; from the Gen
eral Theological Seminary with S.T.B. in
1880. He was ordered deacon by Bishop
Doane in 1880, and ordained priest by the
same Bishop in 1882. He was minister in
charge at Gloversville in 1880; at Fort Ed
wards, 188T-84; at Herkimer, i885-g3; at
Hoosick Falls, 1893-96; at Trinity Church,
Trenton, New Jersey, 1896-99; he was rec
tor, Grace Church, Newark, N. J., 1899-
*go6. He is at present Professor of the
Literature and Interpretation of the New
Testament in the General Theological Semi
nary, New York. He has been three times
Heputy to the General Convention of the
Episcopal Church, twice from the diocese
of Albany and once from the diocese of
Newark. He has. been a member of the
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several years. Address : 4 Chelsea Square,
New York City.
EDMUNDS, Charles Keyser :
Professor of physics and electrical engi
neering; born at Baltimore, Maryland, Sep
tember 21, 1876. He was prepared for
College at the Baltimore City College, 1890-
93; he received the degree of A.B. from
Johns Hopkins in 1897; he was a fellow at
Johns Hopkins, 1902-3; he received the
degree. of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in
1903. He was acting professor of physics
in Utah 1898-99; magnetic observer, United
States Coast and " Geodetic Survey, 1900 ;
• instructor in physics at the High School,
Washington, D. C, 1900-1 ; professor of
physics and electrical engineering, Canton
Christian College, China, 1903 to the pres
ent time. He is a member of the American
Physical Society; an associate of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers ;
a member of the American Association of
China. His chief researches have been on
the optical properties of selenium ; his chief
writings, on the magnetic field of the earth
in China. Address: Honglok, Canton,
China. EDMUNDS, Charles Welsh:
Lawyer; born at Philadelphia, April 24,
1872 ; son of Henry Reeves Edmunds and
Anna Hunter (Welsh) Edmunds. He was
educated in the public schools of Philadel
phia ; afterwards, he attended the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, being in college in
•he class of 1893, and graduated from the
law department with the degree of LL.B.
in 1894. He was admitted to the Philadel
phia bar, June, 1894. He is a director in the
American Building Company and also in
the American Importing and Steamship
Company. He is second lieutenant in the
Second Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry,
National Guard of Pennsylvania, and also
a director in the same. He is a member of
the Law Association of Philadelphia and
'of the Law Academy of Philadelphia. He
belones to the Union League, the Young
Republicans, and the Houston Clubs of
Philadelphia. He has traveled in all five
continents. Residence : 808 North Broad

Street, Philadelphia. Address: 520 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EDMUNDS, Henry Beeves:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, January
17, 1840; son of Franklin D. Edmunds and
Ann Marshall (Stanger) Edmunds. He re
ceived his early education in the Philadel
phia public schools, graduating from the
high school in July, 1856. After studying
law he was admitted to the bar, January
19, 1861. At that time he made a special
study of marine law and for twenty-five
years he has represented the Vessel Own
ers and Captains' Association as counsel.
During this period he won a special num
ber of notable cases for his clients, and be
came the accepted authority on those points
of law dealing with marine legislation and
controversy. He has been a United States
Commissioner since April 4, 1883, and is
now counsel for many of the leading steam
ship lines and marine insurance companies
of the country. Commissioner Edmunds is
a director of the American Dredging Com
pany and is interested in many organiza
tions of a charitable nature, and he is also
president of the Board of Education of
Philadelphia. He is married, and has four
children : two sons and two daughters. Ad-»
dress : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EDS ALL, Samuel Cook:
Bishop of Minnesota; born at Dixon,
Illinois, March 4, i860; son of James K.
and Caroline Florella (More) Edsall. He
entered Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin,
receiving the degree of M.A. in 1888. He
also received the degree of D.D. from Illi
nois College in 1898, and of S.T.D. from
the Western Theological Seminary in 1900.
He was engaged in the- practice of law
from 1882, and after being ordered deacon
in the Episcopal Church in 1888, he was
ordained to the priesthood in 1889 by Bish
op McLaren. He then became rector of
St. Peter's Church, Chicago, Illinois
(which he had founded as a lay reader in
1887), officiating until 1899, when he be
came Bishop of North Dakota, being con
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White. He was elected Bishop of Minne
sota in 1901. He is author of: Prayer
Book Preparation- for Confirmation (1898),
and numerous addresses and sermons. Ad
dress: 2642 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
EDSON, Jarvis B,:
Mechanical engineer and inventor; born
in Janesville, Wisconsin, April 30, 1845 ; son
of Marmot B. Edson and Margaret B.
(Bonesteel) Edson. He was educated at
New York University. He is patentee and
inventor of Edson's Pressure Recording
Gauge, a method of drying gun cotton, by
compressed air at normal temperature; a
method of sinking deep wells in clay, quick
sand, etc. ; a method of making artificial
ivory in pyroxiline compounds; also about
twenty odd devices connected with these
inventions. He retired from business in
1896. In June, 1863 he enlisted as a volun
teer private in Company D of the Twenty-
third Regiment of the National Guard of
the State of New York for service in the
United States Army in the Gettysburg
Campaign. Mr. Edson entered the Uni
ted States Navy November 1864, as third as
sistant engineer, and served on the North
Atlantic Blockade off Wilmington, Charles
ton and along the coast till the end of the
war. He was then ordered to South Ameri
ca under Admiral Kirkland remaining three
years, when he returned to the United
States, and was honorably discharged with
the thanks of the Department. During this
cruise he was in a West Indian hurricane
and tidal wave and helped to seize the cus-
torii house at Montevideo, Uruguay, South
America and defend, also, the American Con
sulate during the rebellion at that place, and
performed various services unusual to those
belonging to the engineer department. Mr.
Edson is a member of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, the Ameri
can Society of Naval Engineers, the Engi
neers' Cluh, the American Society .of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers and the
Frankln Institute, Philadelphia. He is
also a charter member and was ten years
treasurer of the New York Commandery,
and ten years treasurer of the General Com

mandery of Naval Order of the United
States. He organized the Navy League of
the United States. Mr. Edson has edited
and published The Edsons in England and
America. He is a member of the New
York Yacht, Columbia Yacht, and Shelter
Island Yacht Clubs. He married Eliza
Ward Robins and they have three children :
Herman A., Janet De Kay, and Marmont.
Address : 313 West Seventy-fourth Street,
New York City.
EDSON, John Joy:
President, Washington Loan and Trust
Company; born at Jefferson, Ohio, May 17,
1846. He was graduated from the law de
partment of Columbian University in 1869;
he was admitted to the bar, at the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, 1869.
He enlisted in the Civil War in the 61st
New York Volunteers, 1861-3 ; he was a
clerk in the United States Treasury De
partment, 1863-75; he was an attorney-at-
law, patent practice, 1875-81 ; he organized
and was secretary of the Equitable Co
operative Building Association, 1879-80
(president since 1898 J; he has been presi
dent of. the Washington Loan and Trust
Company since 1894. He is a director in
many corporations ; he was president, Na
tional Homeopathic Hospital, 1889-95 ; presi
dent, Civil Service Reform Association, Dis
trict of Columbia, 1895-1904; chairman
executive committee for reception and en
tertainment of Grand Army of Republic,
1892; he served on the Presidential Inaug
ural Executive Committee, 1889, 1893, 1897,
1901, igos ; he was chairman of the Mc
Kinley Second Inaugural Executive Com
mittee, igoi ; president of the Board of
Trade, 1900- 1 ; a member of the govern
ment board of charities, 1900-5; treasurer,
George Washington University, 1903-5 ;
member of the Washington Sanitary Im
provement Company, 1899-1905; member of
the Associated Charities, 1905. He is a
member of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic. He declined the position of commis
sioner of District of Columbia, tendered by
President Harrison, 1893, and by Presi
dent McKinley, 1901. Address : Washing
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EDWABDS, Charles Gordon:
Lawyer; born in Tattnall County, Geor
gia, July 2, 1878; son of Thomas J. and
Annie (Conley) Edwards. He was educa
ted in the common schools of Tattnall Coun
ty, Georgia, at the Gordon Institute, Barnes-
ville, Georgia, at the Florida State College,
and at the University of Georgia; from the
last named institution he received the de
gree of B.L. At the age of 19 he began
the successful practice of law at Reidsville,
Tattnall County, Georgia. In December,
1900, he moved to Savannah, and there con
tinued his practice as an anti-corporation
lawyer. At the age of 21 he was nomina
ted as Representative of Tattnall County
by the Democratic party and endorsed by
the Populists ; this nomination, he declined.
November 6, 1906, he was elected to Con
gress from the First District of Georgia.
He is a lieutenant in the State Militia and
a steward in the Methodist Church. He is
a member of the Savannah Bar Associa
tion, and a trustee of the Wesley Monumen
tal Methodist Church. Fie belongs to Lan-
drum Lodge, No. 48, F. & A. M. ; to the
Palestine Commandery; to the Alee Temple
Shrine; to the Odd Fellows; arid to the
Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is also
a member of the Savannah Yacht Club.
His chief recreations are fishing, shooting.
horseback riding, and boating. He married
at Waycross, Georgia, December 17, 1902,
Ora Biach and they have one son, Charles
Biach. Residence : 302 Thirty-sixth Street,
West Savannah, Georgia. Address : 910 to
912 National Building, Savannah, Georgia.
EDWABDS, David George:
Railway official; born at Liverpool, Eng
land. October 12, 1852; son of Evan W.
and Elizabeth E. Edwards. He was educa
ted in the public schools. He was ticket
agent and traveling passenger agent, In
dianapolis and St. Louis Railroad, 1879-80;
general traveling passenger agent, Dela
ware and Hudson Canal Company, 1880-1 ;
general Southern agent, Cleveland, Colum
bus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway,
1881-84; general western passenger agent,
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1884-8;

assistant general passenger agent, 1888-9,
general passenger agent, 1889-93; Queen
and Crescent Route; general passenger
agent, 1893-6, passenger traffic manager
1896 to 1906, Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railway, vice-president of syndicate
controlling traction lines between Cincin
nati and St. Louis since January, 1906. Ad
dress : Cincinnati, Ohio.
EDWABDS, Frederick:
Clergyman; born at Cornwall, England,
June 18, 1863; son of John Edwards and
Mary Trevenen (Commins) Edwards. He
received from Dickinson College the de
gree of Ph.B. in 1888 and that of A.M. in
1891 ; he studied at the Andover Theo
logical Seminary, 1890-1 ; he received from
the Episcopal Theological School. ' Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, the degree B.D.,
1893. Before going to college, he was a
teacher in the public schools and while in
college, he wrote for newspapers and maga
zines ; in 1888, after graduation, he was on
the editorial staff of the New York Press.
For six years, he was a member of the
School Board, Maiden, Massachusetts,
(chairman, two years) ; rector of Trinity
Church, Bridgewater, 1893-96 ; rector of St.
Paul's, Maiden, 1896-1905 ; and rector of
St. James, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, igos to
the present time. He was chaplain, Mas
sachusetts Fifth Regiment, Militia, 1902-3 ;
he was a member of the National Immigra
tion Conference, being appointed as one of
tiie Wisconsin Delegates by Governor La
Follette, 1906. He is a member of the
Wisconsin Natural History Society; of the
Wisconsin Archaeological Society; of the
Wisconsin Humane Society; of the Mil
waukee Children's Betterment League;, of
the Milwaukee Associated Charities; of
the National Civil Service Reform Associa
tion; and of the American Civic Associa
tion. In addition to his professional work
as a clergyman, he has delivered many lec
tures before various associations. He mar
ried at Andover, Massachusetts, July 26,
1901, Emma Louisa Satterthwaite ; they
have one son, Frederick Trevenen, born
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EDWABDS, George Wharton:
Artist; born at Fair Haven, Connecticut,
1859. He was educated abroad, chiefly
at Antwerp and Paris, and it was in the
latter city where his art education was
chiefly obtained. He began his professional
career in the early eighties, and almost
parallel with his artistic activities he has
done much literary work. He has received
medals from exhibitions in Boston and
from the Pan American, Charleston and
Barcelona Expositions. He is a mem
ber of the American Water Color Society;
National Art Club; National Sculpture
Society; New York Water Color Club;
Authors Club; Ex Libris Society of Lon
don. He was the director of the Art
Department, Collier's, 1898-1903; he is now
connected with the American Bank Note
Company. He is the painter of the mural
decoration, Henrick Hudson, West Point
Military Academy, and designer of the di
ploma for Jamestown Exposition, 1907. He
is the author of : Thumbnail Sketches, 1886 ;
P'tit Matinie Monotones, 1887; The Rival
ries of Long and short Codiac, 1888 ; Break
O'Day and Other Stories, 1889. He is the
illustrator of: O. W. Holmes' Last Leaf,
1885; Austin' Dobson's Sun Dial, 1892; Spen
ser's Epithlamion, 1895 ; Old English Love
Songs, 1896; Old English Ballads, 1897. He
married March, 1896, Anne Johns Cox,
daughter of General John C. Cox, Quincy,
Illinois. Residence : 345 Franklin Place,
Plainfield, New Jersey. Studio: 96 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
EDWABDS, James Thomas:
Educator; born in Barnegat, New Jersey,
January 6, 1838; son of Job and Susannah
(Haywood) Edwards. He was educated
in Pennington Seminary, Pennington, New
Jersey; was graduated from Wesleyan Uni
versity as A.M. in i860, and received the
degrees of D.D. and LL.D. from Allegheny
College. He taught natural sciences in
Amenia (New York) Seminary from i860
¦to t86i ; natural science in East Greenwich
(Rhode Island) Seminary, from 1862 to
1864. He served in the Civil War as first
lieutenant and adjutant in the Rhode Island

Volunteers, in 1862 and 1863; was principal
at East Greenwich, from 1864 to 1870,
president of Rhode Island State Teachers'
Association in 1869 and 1870; principal of
Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New
York, from 1870 to 1892; principal of the
McDonogh School, Baltimore, Maryland,
from 1893 to 1898; professor of physics and
chemistry in the Chautauqua Institution
from 1882 to 1893; and lecturer at
Chautauqua for twenty years. He was
State senator in Rhode Island, from 1865
to 1869 and in the Senate served as chair
man of the Committee on Education. Mr.
Edwards was a delegate to the Loyalists
Convention in 1866 ; was presidential elector
in 1868; and was state senator of New
York, from 1871 to 1873 and chairman of
the senate committee on education; and
was author of the University Bill, and the
Free and Traveling Library law. He is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and was a delegate to the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1884 and in 1892. Mr. Edwards
is a member of the American Academy of
Science ; corresponding member of the New
York Historical Society ; was president' of
the Western New York Agricultural As
sociation from 1880 to 1890; and delegate
to the Congress of Religions at World's
Columbian Exposition in 1893. He is
mthor of: The Grass Family; Silva of
Chautauqua Lake ; Pen and Picture ; Ad
dresses — Educational, Political, Scientific
:ind Religious; Rhymes from a Reclining
Chair ; The Edwards Family ; and a
memorial address at dedication of the
Soldiers' Monument, etc. In politics he is
a Republican. He is a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity, of the Sons of
the Revolution, and a trustee of -Chau
tauqua. Mr. Edwards married in ' Som-
erville, Massachusetts, July 10, 1862, Emma
A. Baker, and they have three children :
Grace Ella, Laura Alice and Florence
Emily. Address : Randolph, New York.-
EDWABDS, Joseph Warner:
Geologist; born at Philadelphia, April
23, 1852; son of Edward B. Edwards and
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Philadelphia schools from 1858 to 1865; he
completed his academic course in Switzer
land and Germany, from 1865, to 1870. He
was an ardent student of rocks from early
boyhood; he chose geology as his life's
work in 1871. He was a special student
in geology, University of Pennsylvania,
from 1873 to 1874; he was aide, Second
Geological Survey Pennsylvania, from 1874
to 1876; he completed a scientific course at
the Royal Saxon Academy of Mines, Frei
berg, from 1876 to 1879, and at the Uni
versity of Heidelberg, from 1879 to 1881.
He located in the Rocky Mountains as con
sulting geologist, with headquarters at Col-.
orado Springs and Denver, from 1881 to
1883 ; at Pueblo, from 1883 to 1890 ; and at
Rico (present address) since 1890; his
field of operations is the three Americas.
He is a member of the Academy of Natu
ral Sciences, Philadelphia ; the American-In
stitute of Mining Engineers, the Engineers'
Club of Philadelphia, the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science,
the Colorado Scientific Society, the Natural
Geographic Society, the American Forestry
Association, the Colorado State Forestry
Association. Address : P. O., Box 282,
Rico, Colorado.
EDWABDS, Landon Brame:
Physician; born in Prince Edward
County, Virginia, September 20, 1845 ; son
of Rev. Dr. John E. Edwards and Elizabeth
Agnes (Clark) Edwards. He was educated
at Randolph Macon College, Virginia, but
his studies were interrupted by the Civil
War. In the summer of 1863, he enlisted
in the Confederate Army. After the war,
he attended one medical course at the Uni
versity of Virginia. In 1867, he graduated
with the degree of M.D. from the Uni
versity of the City of New York. He was
house physician and surgeon, Charity Hos
pital, Blackwell's Island, New York, 1867-8 ;
resident physician, Epileptic and Paralytic
Hospital, Dr. Echeverria's Hospital, on
Lake Mahopac, New York, 1868-9; in 1870,
he was instrumental in organizing the
Medical Society of Virginia, of which he
has been secretary e"er since, as also an
honorary member for the past ten years.

In 1872, he moved from Lynchburg, Vir
ginia, to Richmond, Virginia.' In 1874,
he established the Virginia Medical Monthly
(afterwards changed to. Virginia Medical
Semi-Monthly) and he has been its con
tinuous editor and proprietor. From 1874
to 1879, he filled various adjunct lecture
ships in the Medical College of Virginia.
From 1875 to 1882, he was surgeon in the
First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, with
the rank of major. He has also been
medical examiner in various life insurance
companies. On the organization of the
University College of Medicine, Richmond,
Virginia, he was chosen professor of the
practice of medicine; in 1890, he became
professor of clinical medicine arid also dean
of the faculty, which positions he resigned
in 1907. He contributed the article on
Simple Continued Fever in the Twentieth
Century Practice of Medicine and is also
the author of numerous journal articles.
He has been a member of the Virginia
State Board of Health since its organiza
tion in 1880 to the present time. He is a
member of the American Medical Associa
tion; of the Medical Society of Virginia;
of the Richmond Academy of Medicine;
he is an honorary member of the West
Virginia State Medical Association and he
also belongs to various local societies. He
is a trustee of the University College of
Medicine, Richmond, Virginia. He was a
member of various literary societies at
Randolph Macon College and at the Uni
versity of Virginia ; he belongs to the Delta
Psi Fraternity and is also a mason. For
about two years, he was acting surgeon at
the port of Richmond for the United States
Hospital service. In politics, he is a
Democrat; in religion, he is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of the
South. Residence : 106 West Grace Street,
Richmond, Virginia.
EDWABDS, Stephen Ostrom:
Lawyer; born at Glen, New York, Jan
uary 22, 1855; son of William Henry and
Eleanor Schenck (Mount) Edwards. He
received his academic education at Brown'
University, where he was graduated in 1879
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that of A.M. He was a teacher in Provi
dence High School from 1879 to 1882, and
instructor in mathematics and logic in
Brown University _ in 1886 and 1887. He
then took up the study of law in the of
fice of Bradley & Metcalf, Providence, and
also took the course at the Law School of
Brown University, and was admitted to the
bar of Rhode Island in 1884, where he has
since practiced. In 1889 he was elected
clerk of the House of Representatives of
Rhode Island, arid was reelected the fol
lowing year. In his private practice he is
partner of Walter F. Angell and others,
being senior member of the firm of Ed
wards & Angell. Mr. Edwards is promi
nent in his profession, and is a member of
the Providence Bar Club, and the Rhode
Island Bar Association. In 1904 he was
appointed one of a board of commissioners
created for the revision of the judicial sys
tem of Rhode Island. He is a trustee of
Brown University, a director of the Provi
dence Journal Company, and of the Rhode
Island Company, and a well known club
member of Providence. He married in that
city, June 30, 1887, Ellen A. Chase. Resi
dence: 181 Lloyd Avenue. Address: 170
Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Isl
and.EDWABDS, William Seymour:
Lawyer; bom at New York City, Sep
tember. 14, 1856; son of William H. and
Catherine Colt (Tappan) Edwards; he is
of old Revolutionary ancestry and directly
descended from Rev. Jonathan Edwards,
of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. After a
preliminary education at the Trinity Col
lege School, Canada, where he received
honors, he entered Cornell University, tak
ing the scientific course. He was gradu
ated in 1879 with the degree of B.S., going
thence to New York City, where he took
up the study of law at Columbia Univer
sity, receiving the degree of LL.B. cum
laude, in 1882. The following year he re
turned to his home in West Virginia and
was admitted to the bar of that State,
settling in Charleston-Kanawha, where he
has since practiced. In 1892 he was elected
by the Republican party to the House of

Delegates of the West Virginia State Leg
islature for a term of two years, being re
elected in 1894 for a second term, when
he became speaker of the house. In 1898
he was nominated by his party for Con
gress, but failed of election. He has made
several trips abroad, principally to Eu
rope, and has traveled in Alaska and Mex
ico. He has written several books and
articles on the results of his travels, and
he has also contributed articles dealing
with West Virginia to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. He is a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution, the Sons of
the Revolution, the Alpha Delta Phi fra
ternity, etc. Thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason, and other fraternal orders.
He was married in London, July 5, 1902, to
Hope M. Christensen, and they have a son,
William Seymour Christensen Edwards.
Residence : Coalburgh, West Virginia. Ad
dress : Charleston, West Virginia.
EEIXS, Myron:
Clergyman; born at Walker's Prairie,
.Washington, October 7, 1843; son of Rev
erend Cushing Eells and Myra F. Eeels.
He was educated in Oregon; and was
graduated from the Pacific University, Or
egon, as A.M., 1866 ; and from the Hartford
Theological Seminary in 1871, later receiv
ing the degree of D.D. from Whitman Col
lege. He was ordained at Hartford, Con
necticut, 1871 ; he was pastor at. Boise City,
Idaho, from 1872 to 1874; since 1874 he has
been missionary of the American Mission
ary Association among the Indians at Skok-
omish, Washington; and also fills the du
ties of pastor of the Skokomish Congrega
tional Church. He is a trustee of the Pa
cific University and of Whitman College;
corresponding member of the Anthropolog
ical Society of Washington, and the Victoria
Institute of London, England; superin
tendent, 1893, of the ethnological exhibition
of Washington, World's Columbian Expo
sition. His researches in the philology and
rthnology of the Indians of the Puget
Sound are valued contributions to sci
ence. He is author of: Life of S. H.
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tional Associatiori of Oregon and Wash
ington, 1881 ; History of Indian Missions
on the Pacific Coast, 1882; Ten Years at
Skokomish, 1866; Father Eells, 1894; Reply
to E. G. Bourne's "Whitman Myth," 1902.
He has also written monographs on
Twana, Chemakum and Challum Indians
of Washington; the Indians of Puget
Sound; Hymns in Chinook Jargon; and
other ethnological, religious and biographi
cal articles and contributions, He has fur
nished Smithsonian Institute with vocab
ularies of the Chemakum, Clallum, and
Twana languages ; the Skwaksin dialect of
the Niskwalli language; Lower and Upper
Chehalis languages and Chinook jargon.
Address : Twana, Mason County, Wash
ington.
EELLS, Bichard Latimer:
Stock broker; born in Simsbury, Con
necticut in 1839; son of Erasmus Latimer
and Phebe Eells. He was educated at
the Westfield (Massachusetts) Academy,
and took a business course at Flartford,
Connecticut. Fie was for some time en
gaged in the dry goods business and since
then as a gold and stock broker. Mr.
Eells is a member of the Hartford City
Guard. He was connected with the late
Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage for many years as
superintendent of a Sunday school. He is
a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian
in his religious denomination. He is also
a member of the Prospects Heights Citi
zens' Association and a member of the
Brooklyn League Club. He married at
Brooklyn, in i860, Cornelia A. Boyer.
Address: 51 Exchange Place, New York
City.
EGBEBT, James Chidester:
Professor of Roman archaeology and epi
graphy; born in New York, in 1859; son
of Rev. James C. Egbert and Louisa
(Drew) Egbert. Graduated from Colum
bian University in 1881 ; later received the
degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He held a
prize fellowship from 1882 to 1885 ; was
assistant in Greek from 1885 to 1887; tutor
in Latin from 1888 to 1891 ; instructor in
Latin from 1891 to 1895 ; adjunct profes

sor of Latin from 1895 to 1900; professor
of Roman archaeology and epigraphy, 1900-
1906; professor of Latin, 1906; director
ity since 1902; professor of Latin in the
American school of classical studies in
Rome, 1903-4. Is a member of the Archae
ological Institute of America ; the American
Philological Association ; the Phi Beta Kap
pa Alumni Association, New York, (presi
dent from 1904 to 1905) ; a member of the
managing committee American School,
Rome; a member of the Board qf Educa
tion, Jersey City, from 1898 to 1903. He is
the author of: Macmillan's Shorter Latin
Course 1892; Introduction to the Study of
Latin Inscriptions, 1895; is editor of Mac
millan's Series of Latin Classics; is edi
torial contributor to the American Journal
of Archaeology; wrote The Equestrian
Cursus Honorum in Classical Studies in
Honor of Henry Drisler, 1894, and also sev
eral articles in 'Harper's Dictionary of
Classical Antiquity and the New Interna
tional Cyclopedia. He married in New York
in 1884, Emma G. Pennington. Address:
425 West 146th Street, New York City.
EGGLESTON, David Quinn:
Lawyer; born in Charlotte County, Vir
ginia, June 10, 1857; son of John W. and
Lucy Nash (Morton) Eggleston. He re
ceived his education at Hampden-Sidney
College, Virginia, and, taking up the study
of law at the University of Virginia, at
Charlottesville, was graduated in 1879. In
the same year he was admitted to the bar
of the State of Virginia, settling at Char
lotte Court House, where he has since car
ried on his profession. In 1897 he was
elected by the Democratic party to
a term of four years in the Virginia State
Senate, and during the year following the
completion of his term, served as member
of the convention for the revision of .the
Virginia constitution. In 1902 he became
secretary of the Commonwealth of Vir
ginia, holding the office for four years. He
married at Charlotte Court House, No
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EGGLESTON, George Cary:
Journalist and author ; born in Vevay, In
diana, November 26, 1839; son of Joseph
Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane (Craig)
Eggleston. He attended the Indiana As-
bury University in 1856 and 1857; the
Richmond (Virginia) College in 1858 and
1859, and Brockenborough's Lexington (Vir
ginia) Law School in 1859 and i860. He
was admitted to the bar in Virginia and
practiced one year, before the Civil War,
in that State, and for four years after the
war in Cairo, Illinois. He has traveled ex
tensively in the United States, South
America and Europe. He entered news
paper work in New York City in 1870 ; was
literary editor of the Evening Post from
1875 to 1881 ; editor-in-chief of Hearth and
Home from 1872 to 1874; editor of
the American Homes Magazine in 1874
and 1875; editor-in-chiefXf the New York
Commercial Advertiser from 1884 to 1889,
and editorial writer of the New York
World from 1889 to 1900. Mr.' Eggleston
served in the Confederate Army from the
beginning to the close of the war. Fie is
a member of the Authors Club, the Amer
ican Historical Association, the New York
State Historical Association, the Royal Ar
canum, Knights of Honor, and the Moun
tainside (Lake George) Free Library; and
is honorary president of The Dickens' Fel
lowship. Mr. Eggleston is author of: How
to Educate Yourself, 1872; A Man of
Honor, 1873; A Rebel's Recollections,
1874; How to Make a Living, 1875; The
Big Brother, 1875 ; Captain Sam, 1876 ; The
Signal Boys, 1877; Red Eagle, 1878; The
Wreck of the Redbird, 1882 ; Strange Sto
ries from History, 1885 ; A Primary His
tory of the United States, 1885 ; Juggernaut
(with Dolores Marbourg), 1891 ; Southern
Soldier Stories, 1898; The Last of the Flat-
boats, igoo; A Carolina Cavalier, 1900;
Camp Venture, 1900; The American Im
mortals, 1902; Dorothy South, 1902; The
Bale Marked Circle X., 1902; The Master
of Warlock, 1903; The First of tlie Hoos-
iers, 1903; Running the River,. ig04; A
Captain in the Ranks, igo4; Evelyn Byrd,
1904; Our First Century, 1905; A Daugh
ter of the South, igos; Life in the Eigh

teenth Century, 1905; Blind Alleys, 1906;
Jack Shelby, 1906; Love is the sum of it
All, 1907, and Long Knives, 1907. He is
also editor of: French History For Eng
lish Children, 1882; Hayden's Dictionary of
Dates (American edition), 1883; American
War Ballads (two volumes), 1889; Liber
Scriptorum, 1893. Mr. Eggleston married
at Cairo, Illinois, September 9, 1868, Mar
ion Craggs. Their children are : Horace
Wardner, born in 1870, and Cary, born in
1884. Summer residence : Lake George,
New York. Address : 188 West One Hun
dred and Thirty-fifth Street, New York
City.EGGLESTON, Eichard Henry:
Mining and smelting operator; born in
Albany, New York, 1856; son of Wil
liam Wallace Eggleston and Clara Irene
(Pease) Eggleston. He was educated in
the Shattuck School at Faribault, Minne
sota, and Griswold College, at Davenport,
Iowa. He is president and director of the
International Windmill Company; secre
tary, treasurer and director of the British
Columbia Copper Company, the California
Copper Company, and Number Seven Min
ing Company. He is a member of the Em
pire State Society of the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, and. a member of the
Union League, Riding, Larchmorit Yacht,
Thousand Islands Yacht and the Chippe
wa Yacht Clubs. Mr. Eggleston married
in New York City, in June, 1886, Emilie
V Parker, and they have two children :
Richard Henry, Jr., born in 1888, and
Helen Irene, born in 1892. Residence: 335
West Seventy-sixth Street, New York City.
Summer residence: Alexandria Bay, New
York. Office, address: 31 Nassau Street,
New York City.
EHBMANN, George Alexander:
Technical glass worker; born at Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1862; son
of John Christian Ehrmann and Alma
Christina (Smith) Ehrmann. He re
ceived his education in the common schools.
During his business career (he is at pres
ent connected with the United States Glass
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one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera
in America. His interest in Literature and
Science is shown by the fact that he has in
his library over 6000 volumes on these sub
jects. He is now working on a book, en
titled : Papilios of the World. He is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; of the Na
tional Geographic Society; and also a
corresponding member of the most of the
learned societies of Europe and America.
Though possessed of only a common school
education, he has through his studies, cor
respondence and association with educated
people, come to be recognized as one of the
leading authorities in Natural Science. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion,
a Lutheran. Residence : 2314 Sarah Street,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Address: United
States Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. EICHEB, Henry Martin:
Lawyer; born in Washington County,
Iowa, May 29, 1858, son of Benjamin and
Lydia (Sommer) Eicher. After spending
a year at the Eastern Iowa Normal Col
lege, he began to study law in a law office
at Washington, Iowa. Fie passed his ex
amination for admittance to the bar in
1883, and settled at Washington, Iowa.
where he has since practiced. In 1895 he
was appointed assistant United States at
torney of the Southern Iowa District, hold
ing this office until i8g8. Mr. Eicher is
prominent in various legal associations, and
in 1904 was sent as delegate to the Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists held
at St. Louis in 1904. He married at Wash
ington, Iowa, June 26, 1888, Frances Celia
McKee. Address : Washington, Iowa!
EIS, Frederick:
Catholic bishop of Sault Sainte Marie
and Marquette, Michigan; born in Ar-
bach, near Coblentz, Germany, January 20,
1843. In 1855 he came with his parents
to -the United States, settling in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan, and after complet
ing his preliminary education he studied
for the priesthood at seminaries in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, and in Canada. In

1870 he was ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Mrak, at Marquette, Michigan, and
entered upon his pastoral labors in Saint
Peter's Cathedral Parish 'at that place. He
was afterwards pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church at Calumet, Michigan, Saint Ann's
Church at Hancock, Michigan ; Saint Paul's
Church at Negaunee, Michigan, and at
Crystal Falls, Michigan. Upon the death
of Bishop Vertin, in March, 1899, he was
appointed administrator of the diocese of
Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette, and was
consecrated as successor to that prelate,
August 24, 1899. Address: Marquette,
Michigan.
EISEN, Gustave August:
Biologist; born at Stockholm, August 2,
1847; son of Frans August Eisen and
Amalia (Markander) Eisen. Was educated
at Upsala, Swedes, received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1873. He was Docent in Zoo-.
logy at Upsala in 1873 ; curator at the
Californian Academy of Sciences from 1893
to 1900; Loyd Tevis Aquarium and Bio
logical Station from 1904 to 1907. He
made explorations in Central America and
Mexico at various times from 1880 to
1900, and in Europe from 1904 to 1907.
Was editor of California in 1889; a mem
ber of Jury of Awards, California Mid- *
Winter Fair, in 1895; a member of the
California Academy; president of the San
Francisco Microscopical Society; corres
ponding member Prag Wissentschapter
Gesellschaft ; corresponding member Swed
ish Society Anthropology and Geography.
His principal researches have been in
Ohgochaeta, cytology, caprification of the.
fig, and the plasmocytes of human and bat-
rachian blood. His chief writings are on
aquaria, horticulture and biological sta
tions. Address : California Academy of
Science, San Francisco, California.
EKELEY, John Bernard:
Professor of chemistry; born at Orebro,
Sweden, January 1, 1869; son of John
Ekele'y and Ingeborg (Olson) Ekeley. He
received from Colgate University the de
gree of A.B. in 1891, and that of AM. in
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Baden, the degree of Ph.D. in 1902. Was in
structor in chemistry in Colgate University
from 1891 to 1893, science master, St.
Paul's School, Garden City, New York,
from 1893 to 1900 ; has been professor of
chemistry at the University of Colorado,
from 1902 to the present time. He has
traveled extensively throughout the United
. States and Canada, France, Germany, Hol
land, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and
Belgium. Is a member of the Western
Association of Technical Chemists and
Metallurgists; the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, the
Sigma Xi and the Phi Beta Kappa So
cieties. He is the author of : An Elemen
tary Experimental Chemistry, New York,
1900; and a contributor to various scien
tific journals. Address : Boulder, Color
ado. ELAM, John B.:
Lawyer ; born at Spring Valley, Ohio, De
cember 16, 1845 ; son of Ambrose and Susan
(Babb) Elam. He received his academic
education at Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, graduating in 1870 with the degree
of A.B. Going 'thence to the University of
Michigan as a law student, he was gradu
ated two years later with the degree of
LL.B. Previous to this, however, he had
fought in the Civil War which had interrupt
ed his studies ; he served with an Ohio
Volunteer Regiment and participated in sev
eral of the important battles of the war.
When he had completed his law education
in 1872, he went to Indianapolis, where he
was admitted to the bar. He served as
prosecuting attorney and afterward was in
partnership with the late President Benja
min Harrison. Mr. Elam is a member of
the Marion, Commercial and other leading
Clubs of Indianapolis. He was married
July 22, 1875, to Emma Lee, of Oxford,
Ohio. Residence : 1320 Park Aveune. Ad
dress: Newton Claypool Building, Indian
apolis, Indiana.
ELDEE, Samuel James:
Lawyer; born at Hopeville, Rhode Isl
and, January 4, 1850; son of James and
Deborah (Keen) Elder. He was gradu

ated from Yale University with the degree
of A.B. in 1873, and, taking up the study
of law at Boston, was admitted to the bar
of Massachusetts in 1875. He is a promi
nent lawyer of general practice in Boston,
and a specialist in copyright law. Many
of his arguments have been published. He
is a well known after-dinner speaker. On
May 10, 1876, he married at Hastings-on-
Hudson, New York, Lilla S. Thomas.
Residence : Winchester, Massachusetts.
Address : Pemberton Building, Boston,
Massachusetts.
ELDBIDGE, Frederick L, :
Capitalist. He was graduated from
Harvard in 1882; engaged in business and
is now first vice-president of the Knicker
bocker Trust Company, and the Knick-
bocker Safe Deposit Company; president
and director of the Security Transfer and,
Registrar Qompany; and Ashtabula Water
Company; director of the Mercantile
National Bank, Coal and Iron National
Bank, Albany Trust Company, the Brook
lyn Ferry Company, the Chemung Canal
Trust Company, the Crocker- Wheeler Com
pany, Dairy Products Company, the Con
solidated Cross Tie Company, the Electric
Securities Corporation, the Linden Cemetery
Association, the Merchants' ^Safe Deposit
Company, the Mott Haven Apartment Com
pany, the Rosedale Cemetery Association,
the Schenectady Trust Company, the
Syracuse Trust Company, the Tenth and
Twenty-third Street Ferry Company, Troy
Trust Company, .Varick Securities Com
pany, Westchester Trust Company, Ameri
can and British Securities Company,
Limited, the Equitable Trust Company of
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Cuba Eastern
Railroad Company, Cuba Hardware Com
pany, Santa Cecilia Sugar Company, of
which he is president, the Tehuantepec
Rubber Culture Company, and the West
India Development Company. Mr. Eldrige
is a member of the Union, Harvard, Riding,
Calumet, Garden City Golf and Ardsley
clubs. He married Bettie T. Barret.
Office address : 66 Broadway, New York
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ELIOT, Amory:
Lawyer and trustee; born in Chicopee,
Massachusetts, May 26, 1856; son of Will
iam Prescott and Eleanor (Chapin) Eliot;
grandson of Harvey and Sarah (Stock-
well) Chapin and of William Harvard.
and Margaretta (Bradford) Eliot, and a
descendant from William Bradford and
John Alden, Mayflower, 1620, and from
Andrew Eliot, the immigrant, 1668, and
Thomas Dudley, 1630. He was prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
New - Hampshire, and was graduated at
Harvard, class of 1877; attended Harvard
Law School, 1878-79, and became a prac
ticing lawyer in Boston, 1880. He is treas
urer of the Good Government Association
of Boston and a trustee of the Board of
Trade Trust, Business Real Estate Trust
Congress Street Building Trust, and Real
.Estate Improvement Trust. His club affil
iations include the Tennis and Racquet
Club, the Country Club, the Essex County
Club, and the Exchange Club of Boston,
of which he is treasurer. He was a Cleve
land Democrat and is now an Independent
Republican. Fie was married, December
7, 1881, to Mary, daughter of Henry A. and
Lydia (Sumner) Clarke, and a descendant
of Lawrence Wilkinson, Rhode Island,
1647. Their daughter, Lydia, born in 1883,
became the wife of Alfred Codman ; Sam
uel and Mary (twins) were born in 1887;
and Rosamond, the fourth child, was born
in 1894. The city home of Mr. Eliot is on
Beacon Street, and his business office, 131
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ELIOT, Charles William:
President of Harvard University; born
in Boston, Massachusetts, March 20, 1834;
son of Samuel Atkins Eliot and Mary
(Lyman) Eliot. He was fitted for college
at the Boston Latin School and was gradu
ated from Harvard in 1853 and received
the degree of LL.D. from Williams College ;
and from Princeton in 1869; Yale in 1870;
and John Hopkins in 1902. He was tutor
in mathematics at Harvard and- student
under Professor Joseph P. Cooke in
chemistry from 1854 to 1858; and from
1858 to 1863, he was assistant professor of

chemistry and mathematics at the Lawrence
Scientific School, Harvard. He studied
chemistry and investigated educational
methods in Europe from 1863 to 1865; and
wjis professor of analytical chemistry at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1865 to 1869, and has been president
of Harvard University from 1869.' President
Eliot is a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the American Philo
sophical Society; officier de la Legion
d'Honneur de France, corresponding mem
ber of the Academie des Sciences Morales
et Politiques of the Institute de France. He
has delivered many addresses on educational
and scientific subjects. Mr. EHot is au
thor of: Manual of Qualitative Chem
ical Analysis (with Professor Francis
H. Storer), Manual of Inorganic Chemistry
(with Professor Storer) ; Five American
Contributions to Civilization and other
essays ; Educational Reform ; Charles Eliot-
Landscape Architect, 1902; Annual Reports
of the President of Harvard University
from- 1869 to 1906; More Money for the
Public Schools, 1903; John Gilley, 1904;
Four American Leaders, 1906. Under the
administration of President Eliot, the prog
ress of Harvard University has been great
er than during any corresponding period of
its remarkable history. President Eliot
has been twice married, first in Boston,
October 27, 1858, to Ellen Derby Peabody,
who died in 1869, and second in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, October 30, 1877,
to Grace Mellen Hopkinson. Address:
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ELIOT, Edward C:
Lawyer; born at St. Louis, Missouri,
July 3, 1858; son of William G. and Abby
A. (Cranch) Eliot. He was graduated
from the academic department of Wash
ington University, St. Louis, with the de
gree of A.B., in 1878, and, becoming a stu
dent at the St. Louis Law School, took the
degree of LL.B, after a two years' course.
He received that of A.M. in 1881 from
Washington University. In 1880 he was
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he was appointed lecturer on commercial
law at the St. Louis Law School, continu
ing in this position until 1903, when he
gave up teaching and'has since given his
entire attention to his private practice. He
is member of the firm of Stew.art, Eliot &
Williams, attorneys-at-law. He has been
prominent in the educational' affairs of St.
Louis, and was for many years on the
school'board of that city. In 1902 he was
nominated by the 'Republican party for jus
tice of the St. Louis "Court of Appeals, but
failed of election. He was in 1904 a mem
ber of the 'Universal Congress of Lawyers
and Jurists, held in St. Louis. Mr. Eliot
is interested in allpublic work tending to
ward the betterment of his city and State,
and is prominent in various civic organi
zations. He is a member of the Civil Ser
vice Reform " Association, and the Civic
Improvement League (former president) ;
he is also president of the Soldiers' Or
phans' Home, and trustee of the Missouri
Botanical Garden. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the Missouri
State Bar Association, and the St. Louis
Bar Association. On November 1, 1883, he
married Mary A. Munroe, of Boston, Mas
sachusetts. Residence : 5468 Maple Avenue,
St. Louis. Address: Security Building,
St. Louis, Missouri.
ELIOT, Samuel Atkins:
President American Unitarian Associa
tion; born at' Cambridge, Massachusetts,
August 24, 1862; son of Charles W. Eliot
and Ellen D. (Peabody) Eliot. From
Harvard, received the degree,, of A.B. in
1884, and A.M. in 1889; from Bowdoin,
S.T.D. in igoo. Was minister Unity
Church, Denver, Colorado, from 1889 to
1893; Church of the Savior, Brooklyn,
New York, from 1893 to 1898; secretary
American Unitarian Assembly from 1898
to 1900'; president since 1900. He married
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 22,
1889, Frances;, S, Hopkinson. Residence:
25 Reservoir- Street, Cambridge. Address:
25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts.
ELIOT, Walter Graeme: ' •
Civil engineer; born in New York City,
November 16, 1857; son of Augustus G.

Eliot and a member Df the family of which
the Earl of St. Germans is head. He was
graduated from the School of Mines at
Columbia College with the degrees of M.E. .
and Ph.B. in 1878, and afterward received
the degrees of Ph.D. from Columbia Col
lege and of LL.D. from St. Francis Xavier
College in 1892. He was engaged as sani
tary engineer of the New York Board of
Health; inspector of tenements; assistant
chemist and inspector of foods ; and was
engineer agent of the Tenth United States
Census on Water Works of the United
States cities in 1881. He was connected with
various business corporations until May,
1891, when he -took charge of the Univer
sity Magazine as one of the proprietors and
managing editor. He is vice-president of
the Zeta Psi fraternity; and is president or
director in many corporations and a contrib
utor to many periodicals. Mr. Eliot is auth
or of: Noted Physicians of New York;
History of the Eliot family; College Presi
dents of the United States, and a History
of the Stoutenburgh Family. He is a mem
ber of the Socjety of Colonial Wars ; the
Society of Municipal Engineers ; and a
member of the Seventh Regiment of the. Na
tional .Guard of New York, and of the rifle
team of that regiment, which won in the
I years 1904, 1905 and 1906. He was prom
inently named for. the presidency of Rut
gers College. Mr. Edwards has traveled ex
tensively in the United States. He is a
member ¦ of the Down Town, University,
Rockaway Hunt and Zeta Psi Clubs. He
married, February 2, 1892, Maude Stouten
burgh, and they have three children : Elenor
V., Armory V. and Van Cortlandt S. Resi
dence: Cedarhurst, Long Island and Hyde
Park-on-Hudson, New York.
ELKIN, John P, :
Jurist; born in Indiana County, Pennsyl
vania. He was educated in the Indiana
State Normal School, and afterward taught
in the public schools of the- county. In 1882
he entered the law department of the Uni
versity of Michigan, graduating ¦ in 1884,
and being admitted to the bar of Indiana
County, Pennsylvania, in 1885. Mr. Elkin's
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ful, though broken into by legislative duty
for the State, he being elected a member
of the House of Representatives in 1884,
before his admission to the bar, and re
elected in 1886. While in the House he was
chairman of a number of committees and
has served as chairman of the State Com1
mittee of his party, and delegate to several
Republican State Conventions. He was ap
pointed in 1895 Deputy Attorney General of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in
1899 was appointed Attorney-General of the
State. Fie was a prominent candidate for
Governor in 1902, but, though popular with
the people, he was defeated in the State
Convention, when Mr. Pennypacker became
Governor. Mr. Elkin retired from the of
fice of Attorney General and devoted him
self actively to legal practice in Indiana
County, in whose concerns he has taken an
active interest, having been president of its
school board for the past nine years, a
trustee of the Indiana State Normal School,
and active in the development of its coal
fields. He is president of the Farmer's
Bank of Indiana, one of the leading finan
cial institutions of the county. In March,
1904, on the declination of Governor Penny-
packer to be a candidate for the vacancy on
the bench of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania, Mr. Elkin was unanimously nomina
ted for that judicial position and elected.
Address : Indiana, Pennsylvania.
ELKLNS, Stephen Benton:
United States Senator; born in Perry
County, Ohio, September 26, 1841. He re
ceived his early education in the public
schools of Missouri and was graduated
from the University of that State, and at
Columbia with the class of i860. He was
admitted to the bar in 1864 and in the
same year went to New Mexico, where he
acquired a knowledge of the Spanish lan
guage and began the practice of law. He
was a member of the Territorial legisla
ture Assembly of New Mexico in 1864 and
1865, and held the offices of territorial dis
trict attorney, attorney-general and United
States district attorney. He was elected to
the Forty-third Congress and while abroad
was, nominated and elected to the Forty-

] fourth Congress. During his first term in
: Congress he was made a member of the
Republican National Committee on which
he served for three Presidential cam
paigns. After leaving Congress he moved
to West Virginia and devoted himself to
business affairs. He was appointed Sec
retary of War, December 17, 1891, and
served until the close of President Har
rison's administration in Febraury,- 1894
when he was elected to. the' United States
Senate to succeed Hon. Johnson N. Cam
den, and reelected in 1901 by the unani
mous vote of the Republican members of
the Legislature. He was also reelected, in
January, 1907, to succeed himself. His
term of service will expire in 1913. Ad
dress : Elkins, West Virginia.
EIXEBBE, James Edron:
Congressman; born near Marion, South
Carolina, January 12, 1867 ; and he has been
a farmer all his life. His early education
was received at Old Pine Hill Academy.
In October, 1882, he entered the South
Carolina College where he spent one year,
and in October, 1884, he entered Wofford
College, at Spartenburg, South Carolina,
where he spent three years, and was grad
uated from there with the degree of A.B.,t,
in June, 1887. In 1894 he was elected to
the State Legislature, and in 1895 repre
sented, in part, Marion County, in the
State Constitutional Convention. He was
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904,
from the Sixth South Carolina District,
and reelected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con
gress without opposition. He married, No
vember 23, 1887, Nellie Converse Elford,
of Spartenburg, South Carolina, and they
have had five children, three of whom are
now living. Address : Marion, South Car
olina.
ELLEBMAN, Ferdinand:
Astrophysicist; born at Centralia, Illinois,
May 13, 1869; son of Mathias Ellerman
and Rosa A. (Fleischbein) Ellerman.
Was educated at the high school at Belle
ville, Illinois. In business from 1886 to
1892 ; assistant at the Kenwood Observatory
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atory from 1895 to 1901 ; instructor in
astrophysics from 1901 to 1904; assistant
astrophysicist, Solar Observatory, Carnegie
Institution from 1905 to the present time.
Was a member of the Eclipse Expedition
to v/adesboro, North Carolina in 1900, and
of the Yerkes Observatory Expedition to
Mt Wilson in 1904. Is a member of the
Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of
America, and of the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific. His chief researches have
been on solar spectroscopy and stellar spec
tra; his chief writings on sun-spots, the
chromosphere, and the spectroheliograph.
He married at Belleville, Illinois, May 16,
1895, Hermine Louise Hoenny; they have
one daughter, Louise, born July 29, 1901.
Residence: 451 Winona Avenue, Pasa
dena, California. Address : Mt? Wilson,
California.
ELLICOTT, Edward Beach:
Electrician; born in Lockport, New York,
March. 28, 1866; he is the son of George M.
and Maria (Sears) Ellicott, and a grandson
of Andrew Ellicott, who was the first sur
veyor general of the United States. He
was 'educated in the public schools at Ba
tavia, New York. He early devoted him
self to the study of electricity, and has been
engaged in the electrical business all his
life-. His first employment was as electrician
for the Salina, Kansas, Gas and Electric
Company. Later he became superintendent
of the Concordia, Kansas, Electric Light
Company, and for nine years was in the
employ of the Western Electric Company
of Chicago, as expert and superintendent
of construction. He was appointed by Mayor
Harrison superintendent of the city, tele
graph of Chicago, which position he held
until the Department of Electricity was or
ganized, when he was appointed city elec
trician, in which office he served until 1905,
when he was made principal assistant engi
neer in charge of the water power depart
ment for the Drainage Board of Chicago.
His plan for lighting the Ferris Wheel at
the Columbian Exposition was the only
practical one presented, and the plant was
installed under his direction. Under his
supervision the number of lights furnished

by the municipal street lighting plant of
Chicago has been more than quadrupled. He
is a director and vice-president of the El
Portzuelo Light and Power Company, and
was chief engineer of the mechanical and
electrical department of the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, having designed the power
plant and installed the lighting and power
service. He is a member of the Western
Society of Engineers, the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, the National As
sociation of Stationary Engineers, and of
the Chicago Academy of Sciences. While
not active in politics, his affiliations in that
direction have been with the Democratic
party. He is a member of the Masonic
order, having advanced to the degree of
Knight Templar, and is also a member of.
the Knights of Pythias. His club mem
bership embraces the Union League and the
Chicago Athletic. He was married, April
26, 1898, to Minerva Ellsworth, of Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, and has one son, Chester
C. Residence : 1206 Winthrop Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address: 1003 Security Build
ing, Chicago, Illinois.
ELLINWOOD, Everett E.:
Lawyer; born at Rock Creek, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, July 22, 1862; son of John
P. and Cornelia (Sperry) Ellinwood.
He passed his entrance examinations at
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, in 1881,
but did not stay beyond his sophomore year,
returning to his home town where he began
to study law. In 1889 he was admitted to
the bar of the State of Illinois, but did not
avail himself at once of the privilege to
practice, going instead to the University
of Michigan to perfect himself in the law.
In 1890 he received from this University the
degree of LL:B. In that year he removed
to Flagstaff, Arizona, and began to practice
in his profession. In 1893 he was appointed
by President Grover Cleveland United
States district attorney of Arizona, prose
cuting many important . cases until 1898.
Following this, he was for several years
member of the Commission for the Promo
tion of Uniform Laws of the United States
and in 1904 was a delegate to the St. Louis
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Mr. Ellinwood is member of the firm of
Herring, Sorin and Ellinwood, attorneys-at-
law at Bisbee, and is a prominent member
of the American Bar Association. He is
prominent in Democratic politics, being
member of the National Democratic Con
vention of 1892, and chairman of the Demo
cratic Territorial Committee during the
years 1900-2 and 1904-6. He was married
at Rock Creek, Ohio, November 17, 1886,
to Minnie L. Walkley. Address: Prescott,
Arizona. ELLIOTT, Charles Burke:
Jurist; born near McConnelsville, in
Morgan County, Ohio, January 6, 1861 ;
. son of Edward Elliott and Angeline
Elliott After passing through the schools
"of Morgan County and the academy of
Marietta College, Ohio, he entered the law
department of the University of Iowa, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
LL.B. in 1881, and he afterward took post
graduate work at the University of Min
nesota, receiving the degree of Ph.D. for
special work in Roman and International
Law in 1887. He practiced law at Minne
apolis, Minnesota, until appointed, in Jan
uary, 1890, a judge of the Municipal Court
of 'that city. He was appointed judge of
the District Court for the Fourth District
of Minnesota in 1893, and after eleven years
of service there he was appointed and
thereafter elected one of the associate jus
tices of the Supreme Court of Minnesota,
in which office he is still serving. Judge
Elliott was professor of corporation and in
ternational law in the University of Min
nesota from 1890 to 1897, and is now Lec
turer on International Law; received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Iowa in 1895, and from Marietta
College iri 1904. He is a frequent con
tributor to legal and other periodicals of
this country and Europe and wrote as his
doctor's thesis in 1887, a scholarly discus
sion under the title : The United States
and the Northeastern Fisheries, which was
published by the University of Minnesota
in 1887. Among his legal works are The
Law of Public Corporations, 1898; Minne
sota Practice, 1900; The Law of Private

Corporations, 1900, and The Law of Insur
ance, 1902. He has also made many ad
dresses on legal and other subjects which
have been published. Judge Elliott is a
Republican iri his political views. He mar
ried at Muscatine, Iowa, May 13, 1884,
Edith Winslow, and . has five children.
Residence: 2634 Portland Avenue, Min
neapolis. Official address: State Capitol,
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
ELLIOTT, George Robert:
Physician; born in Cayuga County, New
York, in i860; son of John E. Elliott and
Jane (Johnston) Elliott. He was grad
uated from Comeil University in 1878, and.
from Columbia Medical College with the
degree of M.D. in 18S1, and he studied in
Vienna in* 1896. He was one of the phys
icians attending General Grant during his
last illness, and made a microscopical diag
nosis of the case. He was orthopedic sur
geon at the Moutefiore Hospital, and lec
turer on orthopedic surgery at the New
York Post-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital. Dr. Elliott is a member of the
New York Academy of Medicine, the Am
erican Orthopedic Association and the New
York County Medical Society; and is also
a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and
the Cornell University Club. Address: 48
East Twenty-sixth Street, New York City.
ELLIOTT, Gilbert 3d.:
Lawyer; bora in Scotland Neck, North
Carolina, January 5, 1866; son of Gilbert
Elliott, Jr., and Lucy Ann (Hill)
Elliott. He was educated at the Polytech
nic Institute and Washington University,at
St. Louis, Missouri. He has been engaged
in the practice of law since 1887. Mr.
Elliott is vice-president and director of .the
Home Bank of Brooklyn; director and a
member of the Executive Committee of the
Peoples' Surety Company of New York;
vice-president of the West Brownsville Im
provement Company, and a director ,in the
Remsen Bond and Mortgage Company: :He
is a vestryman of the Church of the Good
Shepherd in Brooklyn; trustee of the
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Sciences. He is also a member of the
Elks and the Royal Arcanum. His favor
ite recreations are sailing and golf. Mr.
Elliott has membership in the Montauk,
Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic, Eastern Park
way Golf, Long Island Automobile, and
Oak Island Yacht Clubs. He married at
Brooklyn, January 7, 1890, Emma Jane
Spence, and they have two children : Gil
bert, 4th, born in i8g2, and Isabel Spence,
born in 1894. Address: 313 Sterling Place,
Brooklyn, New York.
ELLIOT, Mortimer F.:
Lawyer; born in Tioga County, Pennsyl
vania, September 24, 1840. He was edu
cated in the law under Hon. James Lowry
and Hon. Stephen S. Wilson, of Wellsboro,
being admitted to the bar in 1862. He
built up an excellent practice; and he was
the candidate of the Democratic party for
president judge in 1871, and though de
feated, he ran far ahead of his ticket. Fie
was elected to the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1872 and took an important part
in its deliberations. In 1882 he was elected
to Congress and served with distinction.
He was nominated again for Congress in
1890, but failed of an election. Shortly
afterward he was appointed attorney for
the Standard Oil Company, dividing his
time between Oil City and New York. His
long and varied experience at the bar and
his wide knowledge of the law has given
him a high standing in his profession. Ad
dress: 26 Broadway, New York City.
ELLIOTT, William:
Lawyer; born at Beaufort, South Caro
lina, September 3, 1838. He received his
education at Beaufort College, later en
tering Howard University, where he was
graduated in 18—. That year he took up
the study of law at the University of Vir
ginia, Charlottesville, Va., and was admit
ted to the bar of his native State in 1861.
But the breaking out of the Civil War
caused him to abandon his private affairs,
and he enlisted jn the Confederate Army,
as captain in one of the South Carolina
infantry regiments, serving throughout the
entire war. His services for the South

were acknowledged by the people of his
city, by electing him, the year following
the close of the war, to the State Legis
lature. In 1887 he was elected to Con
gress, and was successively reelected for
seven successive terms, being member from
the Fiftieth to the Fifty-seventh Con
gresses inclusive. Mr. Elliott is prominent
in Democratic politics and was a delegate
from South Carolina to the National Demo
cratic Conventions of 1876 and 1888. In
1880 he was presidential elector for the
Democratic party. Address : Columbia,
South Carolina.
ELLIS, David A.:
Lawyer; born at Buffalo, New York,
February 20, 1873 ; son of William D. Ellis
and Bertha (Strass) Ellis. Was educated
in the public schools of Buffalo, New York
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later at
tended the Boston Latin School; graduat
ed from Harvard with the degree of A.B,
and from the Flarvard Law School with
that of L.L.B.. In 1896, he began practice
under Warren & Brandeis, in 1900, start
ed practice for himself; in 1905, took in
two Juniors, and in 1906, two more; and
in the same year, opened a branch office in
New York City. He is president of the
Allinace Israelite Universelle (Boston
Branch) ; a member of the Semitic Com
mittee, Harvard University; vice-president
Mt.- Sinai Hospital ; and secretary and dir
ector of the Shannon, Copper Company.
Was editor of the Harvard Law Review;
belongs to the Phi Delta Phi fraternity,
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Boston
City Club, and the Woodland Golf Club;
has been a member of the School Com
mittee of the City of Boston since 1903;
and is a director in many charitable, bene
volent, public and educational bodies. He
married at Boston, Massachusetts, October
6, 1898, Amy Friedman; they have one
daughter, Mildred Edna, aged four and a
half. He is a Democrat in politics and a
Jew in religion. . Residence : 75 Dale
Street, Boston. Address :i3i State Street,
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ELLIS, George H.:
President of the United Typbthetae of
America ; treasurer and director of the
George H. Ellis Company, trustee of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College and
Simmons Female College. Address : 272
Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
ELLIS, Wade H.:
Lawyer; born at Covington, Kentucky,
December 31, 1866; son of A. C. and Kate
(Blackburn) Ellis. After a high school
education, he entered Chickering Institute
at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was gradu
ated in 1886. Going thence to Lexington,
Virginia, he became a law student at
Washington and Lee University and re
ceived the' degree of LL.B. in 1889. The
honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by Miami University in 1904. A
year after his graduation at the law
school he was admitted to the bar of
Ohio, and after five years of law practice
was made editor of the Cincinnati Tribune,
later being connected with the Commercial-
Tribune in the same capacity. In 1897 he
gave up his editorial work, having . been
appointed assistant corporative counsel for
Cincinnati. The latter position he filled
until 1903 when he was elected by the Re
publican party attorney-general for the
State of Ohio for a term of two years.
Mr. Ellis is a member of various legal or
ganizations and was sent as delegate from
Ohio to the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists, held in St. Louis in 1904.
One of the things for which he is known
is the Ohio municipal code, drawn by him
in 1902 and presented to the Ohio legisla
ture, by which body it was passed in the
fall of that year. He was married at Cov
ington, Kentucky, in 1894, to Bessie Cor
win Chase. Residence : Fourth and Syca
more Streets, Cincinnati. Address : State
Flouse, Columbus, Ohio.
ELLIS, William B.:
Jurist; born at Waveland, Montgomery
County, Indiana, April 23, 1850; son of
James Ellis and Susan (Stone) Ellis.
When he was five years old his parents
removed to Guthrie County, Iowa, where

he attended the district school and worked
on the home farm. Afterward he operated
a farm for himself, teaching school winters
and later attending the Iowa State Agri
cultural College at Ames, and afterward
the law department of the Iowa State Uni
versity at Iowa City, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.B. in
1874. After his graduation he practiced
law at Hamburg, Iowa, until 1883, and he
was for two terms :city attorney and one
term mayor of that city. He removed to
Oregon in 1883, and has since- been a citi
zen of Pendleton, Oregon, where he en
gaged in practice of law, and where he
also became prominent in politics as a
leading Republican. He was superintend
ent of schools of Unatilla County, and
three terms district attorney of the Sev
enth Judicial District of Oregon. In 1894
he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress
from the Second Oregon District, and he
was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress in
1896. In 1900 he was elected to his pres
ent position as judge of the Sixth Judicial
District of Oregon. Judge Ellis has twice
married, first at Hamburg, Iowa, March
31, 1880, Jennie B. Edwards, who died
January 24, 1882, and second, at Walla
Walla, Washington, June 16, 1885, Mrs. Ida
J. Scott. Address: Pendleton,. Oregon.
ELLISON, Eugene L.:
Vice-president of the Insurance Company
of North America; born in Delaware in
1845. He was educated in the public
schools and academy at Newark, Delaware.
Previous to his connection with his present
company he was a clerk in mercantile and
banking houses; general agent of the En
terprise Insurance Company of Philadel
phia, and assistant manager of the Phila
delphia Clearing House. Address: 4100
Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ELLISON, Thomas Emmet:
Lawyer;" bom at La Grange, Indiana,
August 12, 1852 ; son of Andrew and Susan
Miranda (Tuttle) Ellison. He received his
academic education at Notre Dame (Ind.)
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at the latter, preferring to take up the
study of law. This he took up at Michi
gan, graduating from the law school in
1874 with the degree of LL.B. He had,
however, acquired sufficient knowledge be
fore his graduation to be able to pass his
bar examinations late in the previous
year and, after completing his studies, he
settled at Fort Wayne to practice. He
was later admitted also to the United
States . Supreme Court. In 1894 he was
elected to the State Senate for a term of
four years and interested himself in the
question of reforms in the charities de
partment in regard to the care of children.
He had been on the State Board of Chari
ties since 1892 and his observations caused
him to draw up a bill regarding this matter,
while in the legislature. This was suc
cessfully passed, as well as a law changing
the then existing system of imprisonment,
introducing a parole system and the inter
mediate sentence. He brought about the
establishment in Indiana of the first re
formatory for youthful criminals and was
made its president. He was vice-president
of the Natiorial Conference in regard to
prisons ; member of the International
Prison Congress, held at Brussels, Bel
gium. He is member of the National and
State Bar Associations, and in ig04 was
sent as delegate to the International Con
gress of Lawyers and Jurists. He was
married at Topeka, Kansas, December 14,
1887, to Hannah Hall. Address: Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
ELLSWOBTH, Luther T.:
Consular official. He was appointed con
sul at Puerto Cabello, May 5, 1898; consul
at Cartegena, October 12, 1905, and ap
pointed to his present post as consul at
Chihuahua, March 30, 1907. Address:
Chihuahua, Mexico.
ELL WOOD, Isaac Leonard:
Manufacturer and capitalist; born at Salt
Springville, Otsego County, New York,
August 3, 1833 ; son of Abram Ellwood and
Sarah (De Long) Ellwood. He went to
Illinois and became interested in various
business enterprises, and in' the early sev

enties he became an associate of J. F. Glid-
den in the then new business of manufac
turing and selling of barbed wire as a fenc
ing material for the western prairies. Mr.
Glidden sold his interest to the Washburn
and Moen Manufacturing Conipany, and
the business developed rapidly and later be
came known as I. L. Ellwood & Co., of
which Mr. Ellwood became managing part
ner and afterward sole owner. He built
large manufacturing establishments at De
Kalb, Illinois, which he conducted under
the names of the I. L. Ellwood Manufac
turing Company, and the Ellwood Wire
and Nail Company, both of which he sold
to the American Steel and Wire Company
upon its organization in 1898, and he took
a responsible position in the management
of that corporation, which afterward be
came one of the subsidiary companies of
the United States Steel Corporation. Mr.
Ellwood has taken a deep interest in the
development which has advanced De Kalb,
Illinois, from a sleepy country village to
a thriving manufacturing city, and his en
terprise has been a leading factor in this
advance. It was also through his efforts,
chiefly, that the Northern Illinois State
Normal School was established at De Kalb.
Mr. Ellwood married, January 27, i859;
Harriet Miller. Address: De Kalb, Illi
nois.
ELLYSON, J. Taylor:
Merchant; born in Richmond, Virginia,
May 20, 1847; son of Henry K. Ellyson
and Elizabeth P. Ellyson. He was edu
cated in private schools and in Richmond
College, leaving his college work to join
the Army of the Confederate States as a
member of the Second Company of Rich
mond Howitzers, with which he served until
his company surrendered with Lee's Army
at Appomattox in 1865. He then resumed
his studies, going to the University of Vir
ginia, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1869. Since then he has been con
tinuously engaged in business in Richmond.
He is one of the most enterprising and
public-spirited citizens of Richmond, which
he has served in various offices of trust,
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Council, president of the Board of Public
Interests, chairman of the City School
Board for sixteen years, and three terms
as mayor; and he was a member of the
State Senate of Virginia from 1885 to 1888.
Mr. Ellyson is a Democrat of national
prominence, having been since 1891 chair
man of the Democratic State Committee of
Virginia, and Virginia member of the Na
tional Democratic Committee, and a mem
ber of nearly all the Virginia State and
national conventions of the Democratic
party for a still longer period. He is also
a prominent member of- the Robert E. Lee
and George E. Pickett Camps of Confed
erate Veterans, which he has represented
continuously at the annual conventions of
the United Confederate Veterans ; and he
is president of the Richmond Howitzer As
sociation, and has been president of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association.
Mr. Ellyson is a prominent Baptist lay
man; has been president of the Virginia
State Baptist Asociation and vice-president
of the Southern Baptist Convention, and
a member of its Orphanage Board and Ed
ucation Board; and for thirty-three years
the executive member of the Educational
Board of the Baptist General Association.
He is also vice-president of the Board of
Trustees of Richmond College. He is a
member of the Confederate Memorial and
Literary Society, the Society for the Pre
servation of Virginia Antiquities, and the
Westmoreland and Commonwealth Clubs
of Virginia. He married at Howardsville,
Virginia, in 1869, Lora E. Hotchkiss. Ad
dress : Richmond, Virginia.
ELMEB, Herbert Charles:
Educator; born at Rushford, New York.
March 30, i860; son of Charles Jefferson
Elmer and Lucy Jane (Ashley) Elmer. He
was graduated from Cornell University
with the degree of A.B. in 1883; he re
ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins in 1888. He was holder of the
State scholarship to Cornell University
from 1879 to 1883. He was tutor in Latin
in Johns Hopkins University in 1888; as
sistant professor of Latin, Cornell Uni
versity since 1888; studied in the universi

ties of Bonn and Leipzig, Germany,- 1885-
86; traveled in Europe, 1895-6. He is a
member of the Beta Theta Pi and Phi
Beta Kappa fraternities, of the American
Philological Association, of the Town and
Gown Club, Ithaca, New York, and of the
Faculty Tennis Club, Cornell University.
He is a director of the Cuba National
Bank, Cuba, New York. He is author of:
The Copulative Conjunctions, Que, Et and
Atque, in the Inscriptions in Terence and
Cato; The Latin Prohibitive; Studies in
Latin Moods and Tenses; and numerous
articles in the American Journal of Phil
ology, Translations and Proceedings of the
American Philological Association, the
Classical Review, the Latin Leaflet, etc.
He is editor of the Captivi of Plautus and
the Phormio of Terence. He is an Inde
pendent Republican in politics and a Pres
byterian in religion. He married, first at
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1886, Rose El
more; and second, at East Aurora, New
York, in 1891, Bertha E. Beebe ; of the lat
ter marriage there are three children:
Basil B., born in 1892; Charles Wellington,
bom in 1898; and Clarence Jefferson, born
in 1904. Residence: 113 Oak Street. Ad
dress: Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York.ELMOBE, Arthnr E.:
Wholesale produce merchant; born in
Rochelle, Illinois, March 25, 1866; son of
David A. Elmore and Addie V. (Reynolds)
Elmore. He attended Rockford (Illinois)
High School, from 1881 to 1884, was
graduated from Northwestern .Academy in
1885, and from Northwestern University
as Ph. B. in 1889. He is president of the
Elmore-Fort Company, Rockford, arid
secretary and treasurer of Samuel F. Rush
& Company, Chicago. He is a Republican
in politics " and a member of the Hinman
Society, Delta Upsilon fraternity, and Phi
Beta Kappa Society, and is a Mason. His
favorite recreation is golf. He is a mem
ber of the Rockford County Club. Mr,
Elmore married in Paxton, Illinois, Sep
tember 19, 1893, Alice G. Jones. Residence:
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746 West Sixty-third Street, Chicago,
Illinois. ELBOD, Morton John:
Professor of biology in the University of
Montana; born in Pennsylvania, April 27,
1863 ; son of John Morton Elrod and Mary
(Elliott) Elrod. He was educated at the
Monroe (Iowa) High School; at Simpson
College, from which he received the de
grees of B. A., M. A., and M.S.; and at
the Illinois Wesleyan University from which
he received the degree of Ph. D. He
was principal of the high school at Corydon,
Iowa, 1887-8; adjunct professor of natural
science in the Illinois Wesleyan University,
1888-9; professor of biology and physics in
the same institution 1891-7; professor of
biology in the University if Montana since
1897; and director of the University of
Montana Biological Station since 1899. He
was also an instructor for eight sessions
at the Des Moines Summer School of
Methods. He is a member of the executive
committee of the Missoula Chamber of
Commerce. He is a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi Fraternity; of the American
Miscroscopic Society; of the American
Forestry Association ; of the National Geo
graphic Society; he is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science ; secretary of the Montana
Horticultural Society, and also secretary of
the Montana Acaderiiy of Sciences. He be
longs to the Missoula Business Men's
Club. He is secretary of the Montana
Souvenir Company. He was editor of the
First Volume of the Illinois Wesleyan
Magazine and is a contributor to scientific
and other magazines and journals. His
favorite recreation is mountain climbing.
He married at Corydon, Iowa, May 31,
1888, Emma Hartshorn; and they have one
daughter, Mary, born in 1889. Residence:
Missoula, Montana. Address: University
of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
ELBOD, Samuel H.:
Lawyer; born near Coatesville, Indiana,
May 1, 1856; son of ' Jesse F. and Lydia
(Pursel) Elrod. After an elementary edu
cation in the public schools in the vicinity

of his home, he entered DePauw Univers
ity, at Greencastle, Indiana, and worked his
way through the academic department by
employment given him by the college au
thorities. He was graduated in 1882 with
the degree of A.B., later receiving that of
A.M. While at college, however, he also
studied law, so that at his graduation he
was ready to take his bar examinations.
In that year he removed to Clark, South
Dakota, where he was admitted to the bar
and established himself in the. practice of
law. Before the admittance of South Da
kota to Statehood, he served one year as
probate judge, and served a term as at
torney-general of the State. He has al
ways been prominent in the Republican
party, and in 1904 he was elected governor
of South Dakota for a term of two years.
He holds a considerable interest in various
public utilities, and is vice-president of
the Water, Light and Power Company at
Clark, and member of the Board of Di
rectors of the Clark County National Bank.
He married in his native city, November
11, 1884, Mary Ellen Masten. Address:
Clark, South Dakota.
ELWELL, Frank Edwin:
Sculptor and writer; bora .at Concord,
Massachusetts, June 15, 1858; son of John
Wesley Elwell and Clara (Farrar) Elwell.
He was educated in the public schools of
Concord and studied sculpture at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts, Paris, Ghent, Belgium, and
finally under Jean Alexandre Falguire, a
member of the Institute of France. He re
ceived the highest reward at the Chicago
Exposition in 1893; the gold medal from
the Art Club of Philadelphia twice; silver
medal from Leopold II. of Belgium; at
Royal Art School of Ghent, Belgium. He
was in Europe for seven years and visited
Mexico, Egypt and South America. He
has always stood for honest sculpture as
against trade unionism and organizations
in sculpture and has been a constant
writer and worker for the preserva
tion of artistic integrity in American
Art. He is the first American sculptor to
model a statue in America that was erect
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works are. the Monument at Edam, Hol
land, The Death of Strength; bust of the
.Lord Provost of Aberdeen, at Aberdeen,
Scotland; statue of the Awakening of
Egypt, in Paris ; equestrian statue of Gen
eral Hancock at Gettysburg; monument to
Edwin Booth at Mount Auburn, Cam
bridge; the two fountains of Kronos arid
Ceres at the Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo; Dickens and Little Nell at Faif-
mount Park, Philadelphia; the statue of
New Life, Lowell, Massachusetts ; Greece
and Rome, New York Custom House; the
Dispatch Rider at Orange, New Jersey;
and the busts of Hon. Levi P. Morton and
Garret A. Hobart in the Senate Chamber
at Washington, D. C. The heroic busts
of Dante and Shakespeare for the Scranton
Memorial Library, Madison, Connecticut.
He is a veteran member of the Concord Ar
tillery Company, having served two enlist
ments, and an executive member of the
Old Colony Club. Mr. Elwell married, at
Paris, France, November 30, 1882, Molina
Mary Hildreth, and they have two children :
Alcott Farrar, and Stanley Bruce, both of
Harvard University. Studio address : 12-14
Hudson Place, Weehawken, New Jersey.
ELY, James B.:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Aug
ust 12, 1859; son of David Jay Ely and
Caroline (Duncan) Ely. He was educated
at Yale in the class of 1882 and entered
Columbia Law School in 1884, remaining
during the junior year. He studied in the
office of Dunning, Edsall, Hart and Fowl
er, and was a clerk in the office of Roger
Foster from 1884 to 1885. He was admit
ted to the New York bar on January 1,
1886, and has been in general practice ever
since. Mr. Ely belonged to the old County
Democracy and later to its successor the
State Democracy and he was a member of
the Executive Committee of the County
Organization. He was assistant United
States District Attorney f rofn 1895 to 1898 ;
a delegate to the Syracuse Convention of
the National Democratic party and to the
National Convention of the same at In
dianapolis, where Paltrier and Buckner
were nominated. He was a member of the

committee of One Hundred in the move
ment in behalf of an independent judiciary
in 1898; has been assistant district attorney
since 1902 and he has been active in local
State and National politics. Mr. Ely is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, the American Mu
seum of Natural History and he is also
a member of the Union League, Univer
sity, Manhattan, Reform, New York Ath
letic and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Clubs.
He married at New Albany, Indiana, June
8, 1886, Emma Stotsenburg, and they have
two children: David Jay, born in 1889,
and Alice Anne, born in 1893. Address:
56 East Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
ELY, Smith:
Ex-mayor of New York and member of
Congress for several terms, was born on
April 17, 1825, at the residence of his
maternal grandfather, Ambrose Kitchell,
at Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey.
His ancestry were notable in the history
of our country, and especially in its mili
tary history, some members of the family
having taken part in all the principal early
wars. Judge Aaron Kitchell, his maternal
great-grandfather, was a soldier in the Re
volutionary War, and at a later date served
as United States representative and sen
ator and presidential elector-at-large.
His father, Epaphras C. Ely, leather mer
chant in New York City, served as a
soldier in the War of 1812 ; his grandfath
er, Moses Ely, was a soldier in the Re
volutionary army, and his two rnore re
mote paternal ancestors, William Ely and
Richard Ely, were captains in the Colonial
army during the old French and Indian
War. By virtue of this military service
of his ancestors Mr. Ely is a member of
the Society of the War of 1812, of the
Sons of the Revolution and of the Society
of the Colonial Wars. Mr. Ely, after the
period of his preliminary education, adopt
ed the law for his profession, studying
for three years in the office of Frederic
De Peyster, and afterward graduating at
tne Law School of the University of New
York. Yet he never practiced the pro
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to mercantile pursuits, and giving much
time to political matters and in the exer
cise of public duties. An earnest and act
ive member of the Democratic party, he
has kept himself alert in its movements
and interests, and many years of his life
have been spent in official service as a
representative of that ¦ party. His public
life began in 1856, when he was elected
a school trustee of the Seventeenth .Ward,
holding this office for four years. In 1857
he was elected to the State Senate by a
large' majority, being, the first Democrat
ever elected in the' district. In the Senate
he was the only Democrat on the two
most important committees, the Committee
on Cities and the Sub-committee of the
Whole, and was thus enabled to do much
good and prevent evil in legislation. , In
i860 he was elected to the Board of Coun
ty Supervisors, one of whose important
functions at that period was to raise
money and enlist men to carry on the war.
This was a duty of the greatest import
ance, and one to which Mr. Ely devoted
himself earnestly and conscientiously. He
held this office for eight years, and while
a member of the board became conspic
uous by his rigorous opposition to any
extravagant use of the public funds. A
close, and stern supervision was of great
importance, in view of the necessities of
the situation and the tendency to use
public office for private ends, . which was
then growing in the metropolis, and was
soon destined to lead to the deep corrup
tion of the Tweed ring organization. Dur
ing Mr. Ely's term in office any attempt
at misuse of the city's money found in
him a vigorous and persistent opponent.
His record for honor in office was every
where recognized, and in 1867 he was re
elected on an independent ticket in oppo
sition to the regular Democratic and Re
publican candidates, being supported by
every daily newspaper in the city. In the
same year he was made Commissioner of
Public Instruction. Mr. Ely was also ap
pointed by the Legislature one of the com
missioners for constructing the first Brook
lyn Bridge. His distinguished service in
these capacities brought Mr. Ely prom

inently forward, and he became look
ed upon as well fitted to represent his
party in the United States House of Re
presentatives. In 1870 there was a union
of the factions of the Democracy of
New York, and he was nominated and
elected to the Forty-second Congress from
the Seventh District. He took his seat in
the House in 1871 and was placed by
Speaker Blaine on the Railroad Committee
and did good service in that capacity. In
1874 he was ' reelected, and during this
term served on the Committee on Foreign
Relations, the Committee on Public Build
ings and the Committee on the Expend
itures of the Treasury Department — being
chairman of the last-named committee.
In 1876, while he was still serving in Con
gress, the different Democratic elements
of New York City united in nominating
him as a candidate for Mayor. The Tweed
ring had been now .overthrown, the reform
element was at the head of affairs, and
no one but a man of the best record and
most unblemished reputation would have had
any opportunity of gaining the nomination,
much less of winning the election. The
Republicans nominated the distinguished
soldier and statesman, General John A. Dix,
who had recently served a term as Repub
lican Governor of New York, and, under
the circumstances, no man except one of
the highest standing in the community
could have won against him. Mr. Ely was
that man. The citizens rallied to his sup
port and he won the election by a major
ity of over fifty-five thousand. His ad
ministration of the important office for
which he had thus been chosen was char
acterized by the qualities which he had
shown throughout his official life, those
of wise and strict economy and judicious
administration of the duties committed to
his charge. In each of the years of his
term the net amount of the city debt was
reduced, it being in January, 1877, $119,-
811,310; in January, 1878, $117,700,742, and
in January, 1879, $113,418,403 there being
thus a total reduction in two years of
nearly $6,500,000. At the same time the
tax levy, notwithstanding the increase of
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ing from $51,109,521 in January, 1877, to
$28,008,888 in January, 1879. No other
mayor ever succeeded in attaining a simi
lar result. Before the expiration of his
term as Mayor, Mr. Ely was offered by
the Democratic party in his old Congress
ional district the nomination for Congress.
He declined the honor, however, preferring
to retire to private life. Since the period
named Mr. Ely has not held office, his
only appearance in the political field being
as Democratic Presidential Elector in 1880.
He served on the Board of Central Park
Commissioners in 1897-98. He is unmar
ried, and is a member of the Century, the
Manhattan, the Merchant, the Drawing-
room and the Presbyterian Union Clubs.
Residence: 47 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City. Office address : 103 Gold
Street, New York City.
ELY, Thomas Cox:
Physician; born in Holindel, New Jer
sey, July 29, 1863. He was educated in
Colgate Academy at Hamilton, New York,
and in Colgate University. He left his
class in the latter part of his senior year
to enter upon the study of medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was
graduated as M.D. in 1887; and Colgate
University conferred upon him the honor
ary degree of A.M. in 1891. Dr. Ely en
tered upon medical practice in Philadelphia
after his graduation, and he has been act
ively engaged in it ever since. He is a
member of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, the American Academy of
Medicine, and several other medical socie
ties ; also of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania. Dr. Ely married Anna Perry
Cromwell in 1887, and has one son, Wil
liam C. Ely. Address : 2041 Green Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ELY, William Newbold:
First vice-president, Girard Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; born at
New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1859;
son of Richard Elias Ely, and Caroline
(Newbold) Ely. Fie secured his education
at the hands of private tutors. He began
his business career as clerk in the Girard

Trust Company, December, 1881 ; was made
assistant treasurer, May, 1885; treas
urer, December, 1889; secretary and treas
urer, January," 1898; first vice-president,
April, 1900. Is a member of the Histori
cal Society of Pennsylvania, and also of the
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society; a di
rector in the Girard National Bank; a mem
ber of the Philadelphia and the White-
marsh, Valley Hunt Clubs. In politics he
is a Republican, and in religion an Epis
copalian. He married at St. Thomas'
Church, Whitemarsh, June ig, i8g5, Lily B.
Cairns, and they have two children: Wil
liam Newbold, Jr., born June, 1896, and
Dorothy, born March, 1900. Residence:
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Address:
Broad and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.ELZAS, Barnett Abraham:
Rabbi; born at Eydkuhnen, Germany,
December 7, 1867; son of Abraham Elzas
and Hinde (Lewinthal) Elzas. He received
his education at the Jews' College and at
the University College, London, England;
he was Hollier scholar at the latter institu
tion in 1886. At the Toronto University he
received 1st class honors in Semitic lan
guages; he received the degree of M.D.
from the Medical College of the State of
South Carolina and that of LL.D. from the '
South Carolina College. He was rabbi in
Toronto, Canada, and also in Sacramento,
California. Since 1894, he has been rabbi in
Charleston, South Carolina, of the historic
synagogue, Beth Elohim, the oldest Jewish
reformed synagogue iri America. He is a
member of the South Carolina Historical
Society; of the American Historical Asso
ciation, and of the Southern Historical As
sociation. He is a thirty-second degree Ma
son ; a member of the Mystic Shrine ; and
deputy-president for South Carolina of the
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. He is
the author of numerous historical works,
pamphlets, etc., and is a prolific contributor
to the Jewish press. He married at Lon
don, England, June 25, 1890, Annie Samuel,
and they have one daughter; Sybil, born
1893. Address : Charleston Hotel, Charles
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EMANUEL, John Henderson, Jr.:
Banker ; born in Brooklyn, May 8, 1871 ;
son of John Henderson Emanuel and Mar
garet Waters (Sayre) Emanuel. He is a
member of the firm of Emanuel, Parker
& Company, bankers. Mr. Emanuel is a
trustee of the Long Island Loan and Trust
Company. He is a member of the New
York Zoological Society, the American
Museum of Natural History, and the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art ; and also a mem
ber of the Union League, Crescent Ath
letic, Long Island Automobile, and Riding
and Driving Clubs, and of the Automobile
Club of America. Mr. Emanuel married,
November 1, 1898, Jennett Idele Englis,
and their children are : Jennett Englis,
born in 1900, and Henderson, born in 1904.
Address : 304 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York.
EMBREE, Lawrence Effingham:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, May 17,
1856; son of Robert Cornell Embree and
Phoebe Seaman (Birdsall) Embree. He
was educated at Columbia College and at
Columbia Law School. He is a member
of the firm of Finck Embree and Cobb,
the Bar Association of the City of New
York; the New York State Bar Associa
tion; Queens County Bar Association; the
St Nicholas Society and a member of the
Union, New York Yacht, and Oakland
Golf Clubs. Residence : Flushing, Long
Island. Office address : 31 Nassau Street,
New York City.
EMERICH, Martin:
Manufacturer, ex-congressman; born in
Baltimore, Maryland, April 27, 1847. He
was _ educated in the public schools of
Baltimore, and after leaving school engaged
in importing interests in that city. He be
came interested in politics there as a Dem
ocrat, and in 1870 he was appointed ward
commisisoner of the poor of Baltimore;
and he was a member of 'the Maryland
Legislature in 1879. He was also identified
with military affairs in Maryland, and was
a member of the Fifth Regiment of Mary
land National' Guard, and was appointed a
colonel on the staff of Governor William

T. Hamilton in 1880. He removed in 1887
to Chicago, and has since been interested
in manufacturing enterprises in that city,
and he soon became prominent in local
politics. He was elected as a member of
the Board of County Commissioners of
Cook County in 1892, and was assessor of
the. South Town of Chicago in 1901 and
1902. In 1902 he was elected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress from the First Illinois Dis
trict, serving from 1903 to 1905. Colonel
Emerich is now president, treasurer and
manager of the Union' Pressed Brick Com
pany, and president, treasurer and director
of the Mercantile Legal Service Company.
He is a Hebrew in religion, and prominent
ly identified with Jewish charities and so
cial organizations. He has been grand pres
ident of the District Grand Lodges of the
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and of
the Order of Kesher Shel Barsil, and has
also been grand master of the Improved
Order of Free Sons of Israel of the
United States. Colonel Emerich is a direc
tor of the Chicago Orthodox Home for the
Aged, and of the Chicago Home for Jew
ish Orphans, and a member of the Standard
Club of Chicago. He married in Balti
more, September 27, 1871, Lena Strauss.
Residence : 2421 Michigan Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address : Chamber of Com
merce Building, Chicago, Illinois.
EMEBSON, Edward Randolph:
Merchant, author and wine grower; born
in New York City, October 22, 1856; son
of Jesse Milton Emerson and Sophia
Thankful (Pierson) Emerson. He was ed
ucated in the public schools and with a
private tutor. He has traveled extensively
in the United States, Europe, and the Holy
Land. Mr. Emerson is president of the
Brotherhood Wine Company and the Amer
ican Wine-growers' Association; and is
treasurer of the American Champagne
Makers' Association. He is a Congrega
tionalist in his religious affiliations. Mr.
Emerson is a member of the St. Andrew's
Society, and a Royal Arch Mason ; a mem
ber . of the Albany Burgesses Corps.
He is author of: Story of the Vine, 1901;
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is a contributor to magazines. Mr. Emer
son is also a member of the National Dem
ocratic, Arkwright and Orange Lake Clubs,
and an honorary member of the New York
Press Club. He married at Titusville,
Pennsylvania, June 24, 1874, Idanthea De
Lacey, and they have one child, Mrs. Jessie
Emerson Moffatt. Residence: 1271 Broad
way, New York City. Country residence :
Washingtonville, Orange County, New
York. Office address : 332 Spring Street,
New York City.
EMEBSON, Edward Waldo:
Physician and instructor of art anatomy;
born in Massachusetts, July, 1844; son of
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian (Jack
son) Emerson. He was graduated from
Harvard in 1866 and from the Harvard
Medical School in 1874. Dr. Emerson was
instructor of art anatomy at the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston from 1885 to igo6.
He is author of: Emerson in Concord,
1888; and edited the Correspondence of
John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson,
with a sketch of Sterling's life, 1897; and
is also editor of the Centenary Edition of
the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1903,
and of the Life and Letters of General
Charles Russell Lowell, 1907 ; and has made
numerous contributions to magazines. Ad
dress : Concord, Massachusetts.
EMEBSON, Harrington:
Counselling engineer; born at Trenton,
New Jersey, August 2, 1853; son of Edwin
Emerson and Mary Louise (Ingham) Em
erson. He was educated in Paris, France;
Munich, Bavaria; Siena, Italy, and Athens,
Greece, and took the engineering course
at the Royal Polytechnic at Munich, where
he received the degree of A.M. He was
professor at the State University of Ne
braska, from 1876 to 1882, and since 1883
he has been in professional work with the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Union
Pacific Railway and the Santa Fe Railway ;
also of professional reports on the coal
fields of Alaska. He is now counselling en
gineer as to shop practice methods- and
operating engine economics to the Atchison,

Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system, and
standard practice engineer to the American
Locomotive Company. Mr. Emerson is a
member of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, the American Foundry-
men's Association, Association des In-
genieurs Civils de France, the Alas
ka Geographical Society, and the National
Geographical Society. He married first at
Omaha, Nebraska, June, 1879, Florence
Brooks; and second, at Philadelphia, Feb
ruary, 1895, Mary Crawford Suplee, four
children: Raffe, born November 3, 1880;'
Isabel Mary Harrington, bom June 18,
1896; Margaret Eleanor Harrington, born
February 14, 1900, and Mary Louise Har
rington, born August 25, 1901. Address:
in Broadway, New York City.
EMEBSON, William Ralph:
Architect; born in Alton, Illinois, in
1833. At an early age he came to Boston
to reside with his uncle, George B. Emer
son, the well known teacher, by whom he
was educated. He studied architecture
under Jonathan Preston, the designer of
the Boston Theatre, and at one time a.
candidate for the mayoralty of the city.
He began practice in 1855, entering into
partnership with Mr. Preston. His work «
has comprised many school houses, theatres
and club buildings in different sections of
the country, numbers of country houses,
and several elegant private dwellings on
Commonwealth Avenue .md other fashion
able streets of Boston. He was one of the
promoters and incorporators of the Bos
ton Architectural Society and the Boston
Art Club and he has long been closely
identified with art matters. When he began
his career, architecture was not looked
upon as a distinct profession. It was his
idea to arrange shingles on country houses
in fanciful designs, producing unique ex
terior effects. One of the best comments
on his ability was an article recently pub
lished in Scribner's Magazine, in which he
is credited with having advanced the cause
of beautiful architecture more than any
other American architect Address: 120
Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts,

MEN OF AMERICA.

EMERY, Lucilius Alonzo:
Jurist; born at Carmel, Penobscot Coun
ty, Maine, July 27, 1840; son of James
Scammon and Eliza Wing Emery. After a
preparatory education in Hampden Acad
emy he entered Bowdoin College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1861,
and as A.M. in 1864, and LL.D. in 1894. He
studied law and engaged in practice at Ells
worth, Maine, in partnership with United
States Senator Hale. He became active
in political affairs as a Republican, and was
elected to the State Senate in 1874, 1875
and 1881, and was attorney-general of
Maine from 1876 to 1879. In 1883 he was
appointed one of the associate justices of
the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and in
1906 was appointed Chief Justice, in which
office he is still serving. Chief Justice Emery
is lecturer on Roman law in the Univer
sity of Maine, and professor of medical
jurisprudence in the Medical School of
Maine, and he is a member of the Board
of Trustees of Bowdoin College. He mar
ried, at Hampden, Maine, November 9,
1864, Annie S. Crosby, and they have two
children : Annie Crosby, Emery Allinson, of
Providence, R. I., and Henry Crosby Emery,
professorjof political economy in Yale Uni
versity. Address : Ellsworth, Maine.
EMEBY, William H.:
Physician; born at Sanford, Maine, May
11, 1848; son of Caleb S. Emery and Caro
line (Linscott) Emery. His medical educa
tion was received at the Medical School
of Harvard University, from which he
graduated in 1870. In 1864, he was a mem
ber of the Forty-second Regiment, Massa
chusetts Volunteer Militia, and in 1882-3,
he was surgeon of the First Battalion,
Cavalry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medi
cal Society; a Mason; an Odd Fellow; a
Knight Templar; a member of the Old
Guard of Massachusetts; and of the Rox
bury Military and Historical Society. He
married at Boston, Massachusetts, April 18,
1894, Lillian A. Ellsworth. Address: 109
Warwick Street, Boston, Mass.

EMEBY, William Morrell:
Newspaper editor; born at Brunswick,
Maine, October 2, 1866; son of Edwin
Emery and Louisa Farnham (Wing)
Emery. He received his education in the
public, schools, chiefly at New Bedford,
Mass. ; he graduated from Bowdoin in
1889 and received the degree of M.A. from
that college in 1892. He has been on the
staff of the following papers : Citizen,
Lowell, Massachusetts, 1889; Telegram,
Providence, Rhode Island, 1890; Journal,
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1890-1895;
Mercury, New Bedford, Massachustts, 1895-
1899 ; Evening News, Fall River, Massa
chusetts, 1899 to the present time. He is
a member of the Old Colony Historical
Society, Massachusetts, and of the Sons
of the American Revolution. He is a mem
ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is
the editor and publisher of History of San
ford, Maine, 1901. He is the author of
Chadbourne Genealogy, igo4, and is at
work on Deering Genealogy, which is to
be published this year. He married at
New Bedford, Massachuetts, March 24,
i8g4, Margaret Calhoun Donaghy. Resi
dence : Fall River. Address : Fall River
News, Fall River, Massachusetts.
EMMONS, James Gordon:
Steamboat- manager; born in Athens,
Greene County, New York, in 1839; son of
James Andrew and Susan Ann Emmons.
He was educated in the public schools. He
has been in the steamboat business in New
York harbor since early manhood, and is
now trustee and secretary of the New-
York Hafbor Tow-Boat Company; a direc
tor of the John E. Moore Company, and
secretary of C. E. Evarts & Company. He.
is a member of the National Board of
Steam Navigation. >Mr. Emmons is a Re-
oublican in politics and Protestant in re
ligion. He is a Mason and a member of
the Royal Arcanum, Loyal Association,
Actors' Fund of America, and St. John's
Guild. His favorite recreations are thea
tres, poetry and boating. He married in
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clair, New Jersey. Address : 17 State
Street, New York City.
EMMONS, Samuel Franklin:
Geologist of the United States Geologi
cal Survey since 1879; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, March 29, 1841 ; son of Na
thaniel H. Emmons and Elizabeth (Wales)
Emmons. He was graduated from Har
vard as A.B. in 1861, A.M., 1866; studied
at Ecole Imperiale des Mines, Paris, from
1862 to 1864, and at the Bergacademie at
Freiberg in Saxony from 1865 to 1867.
He has been geologist in the government
employ since 1867, and has been identified
with many of the most important explora
tions. Mr. Emmons is a member and
treasurer of the National Academy of Sci
ences and was president of the Geological
Society of America in 1903. He was gen
eral secretary in 1891 and vice-president in
1897 and 1903 -of the International Congress
of Geologists ; member American Philo
sophic Society; fellow American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and Geological So
ciety of London. He is author of : De
scriptive Geology of the Fortieth Paral
lel Region (with Arnold Hague), 1877;
Statistics and Technology of the Precious
Metals (with George F. Becker) ; Tenth
Census Geology and Mining Industry of
x-eadville, Colorado, 1886; Geological Guide
Book of the Rocky Mountains ; Geological
Distribution of the Useful Metals in the
United States, 1893; Geology of Lower
California, 1890; Gedlogy of the Denver
Basin in Colorada, i8g6; Theories of Ore
Deposition Historically Considered; Bi
ography of Clarence King; and others. Mr.
Emmons married first, February 14, 1889,
Sophie Dallas Markoe, who died June 19,
1896; arid second, August 4, 1903, Suzanne
Earle Ogden Jones. Address : 1721 H
Street, Washington, D. C.
EMOBY, William Hemsley:
Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy ;
born in Washington, D. C, December 17,
1846; son of Brigadier-General Emory, of
the United States Army. He was appointed
to the United States Naval Academy, Sep
tember 2, 1862, and was graduated in 1866,'

He was promoted ensign in April,' 1868;
master, March 26, 1869; lieutenant, March
21, 1870; lieutenant-commander, May,,i887;
commander, December 29, 1895; captain,
April 14, I901, and rear-admiral, Novem
ber 2, 1906. He has served on various du
ties and stations and now commands a di
vision of the North Atlantic fleet He
married, after his graduation, Blanche Wil
lis. Address : Navy Department, Washing
ton, D. C.
ENDICOTT, Mordecal Thomas:
Civil engineer, with the rank of rear-
admiral ; born in New Jersey. He was ap
pointed civil engineer in the navy July 14,
1874, and after serving at various stations,
and as consulting engineer to the Bureau
of Yards and Docks, he became, in 1898,
chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks
in the Navy Department, and was reap
pointed in 1902, for another term of four
years, and again in 1906 for a third term,
serving until a time after the date of his
retirement. In 1895 he was appointed by
President Cleveland a member of the Nica
ragua Canal Commission. In 1905 he was
appointed by President Roosevelt a member
of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Ad
miral Endicott reflected great credit on
his corps while serving as chief of bureau,
and as a member of the Isthmian Canal
Commission. One of his brothers is a
judge of the circuit court of New Jersey,
and another is a physician and surgeon of
prominence. Address : Care of the Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.
ENDICOTT, William:
Treasurer of the Permanent Fund of the
Boston Young Men's Christian Union;
member of the Corporation of the Massa
chusetts Institute .of Technology; member
of the Board of Managers of the Frank-
l:n Fund of Boston ; chairman of the Board
of Directors of the New England Trust
Company, and trustee of the Perkins Insti
tution and of the Massachusetts School for
the Blind. Address: 33 Summer Street,
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ENDLICH, Gustav Adolf:
Jurist; born in Lower Alsace Township,
.Berks County, Pennsylvania, January 20,
1856; son of John Endlich who was United
States consul to Switzerland from 1857 to
1861, and Emma N. (Miller) Endlich,
daughter of Kev. Jacob Miller, D.D. From
1867 to 1872 he pursued preparatory courses
in schools at Stuttgart, Tubingen and
Darmstadt, and then entered Princeton Col
lege from which he was graduated as A.B.
in 1875 and as A.M. in 1878. He studied
law in the office of George F. Baer (now
president of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company) , and was admitted to the
Berks County Bar in 1877, to the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania in 1880, and to the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1887.
He engaged in practice at Reading, Penn
sylvania, and also became actively engaged
in the production of legal treatises, of
which his Commentaries on the Interpreta
tion of Statutes, is perhaps the most widely
known, although his works on: The Law of
Building Associations, ¦ which has passed
through two editions, and on: The Rights
and Liabilities of Married Women in Penn
sylvania, are works of learning and value.
He was nominated by the Democratic
party in 1889 as judge of the Twenty-third
Judicial District of Pennsylvania and begaii
his judicial duties in 1890, and in 1899 he
was again nominated (on both the Demo
cratic and Republican tickets) and elected
to the same office. Judge Endlich served
in the United States Assay Commission in
1897. He was editor of the Criminal Law
Magazine and Reporter for four years, and
has contributed many articles to legal pub
lications; an address del-'vered by him be
fore the Pennsylvania State Bar Associa
tion jn 1898 has also been published. He
is president of the Associated Charities of
Reading, Pennsylvania ; and also president
of the Board of Trustees of Muhlenberg
College. He is a member of the Pennsyl
vania State Bar Association and of the
Pennsylvania German Society (1905, presi
dent). He is a member of the Americus,
Reading Press, and Berkshire Country
Clubs. Judge Endlich married at Doyles-

town, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1883,
Amy_H. Duffield; they have two daugh
ters, Emma M. and Elizabeth D. Residence:
1537 Mineral Springs Road, Reading, Penn
sylvania. Address : Judges' Chambers,
Room No. 2, Reading, Pennsylvania.
ENDSLEY, James William:
Coal operator and manufacturer; born at
Somerfield, Pennsylvania, September 15,
1857; son of William Endsley and Julianne
(Watson) Endsley. He was educated in
the public and normal schools of Pennsyl
vania. He taught school at 18, engaged in
mercantile business at 20, and at 21, com
menced the manufacture of spokes, hubs,
etc. ; this continued for a number of years
during which time, he was postmaster. He
was engaged in the manufacture of lumber
in 1895 and is at present a manufacturer of
telegraph and telephone stock and is en
gaged in mining coal, farming, etc. He is
general manager and secretary of the Lis-
tonburg Coal Mining Company; president
of the Endsley Coal Company; director in
the Somerset County National Bank, Somer
set, Pennsylvania, and president of the
First National Bank, Somerfield, Pennsyl
vania. He is a member of the Royal Ar
canum. He was a member of the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania of the sessions of
1905-6-7. Fie was nominated by Somerset
County for the State Senate in 1903. He
was First Burgess of Somerfield borough,
and school director and councilman for a
number of years. He is a Republican in
politics and a Methodist in religion. He
married at Somerfield, Pennsylvania, May
12, 1880, Mary Hagans Connelly; they have
three children : Edna M., aged 25 ; Gilbert
F., aged 23, and Mary Julianne, aged 11.
Address : Somerfield, Pennsylvania.
ENGLAND, Henry C:
Manufacturing president; born at
Swedesboro, New Jersey, November 17,
1844; after receiving a public school edu
cation he engaged as a store clerk in sev
eral situations, and in September,' 1862, he
enlisted in the Twenty-fourth New Jersey
Regiment, being chosen as third sergeant
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old. He was present at the great battles
of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, in
which he showed extreme courage. After
being mustered out at the end of his term
of service he became a salesman for the
Biddle Hardware Company of Philadelphia,
remaining in this position for eight years.
His ability brought him in 1872 the post
of manager of the sales department, when
he removed to Reading, Pennsylvania,
where the manufacturing plant was situ
ated. His zeal in the company's interest
was so highly appreciated that in 1880 he
became a member of the firm, with a
fourth interest, and in 1886 was elected its
treasurer. In 1888 the works at Reading,
valued at a million dollars, were destroyed
by fire, but the finances of the company
were so well managed by its treasurer that
its credit was not affected, and since then
it has .continued a steady development. In
1893 Mr. England was one of the organiz
ers of the Reading National Bank, and he
is also a director of the Citizens' Bank,
and of the United States Traction Com
pany of Reading. In 1896 he organized
the Reading Cycle Manufacturing Com
pany, of which he became president. Mr.
England is also president of the Morris
town Vise Company, and the Auburn Bolt
and Nut Company; vice-president of the
Wilder Manufacturing Company of. Phila
delphia, and treasurer of the Reading
Screw Company, these companies owing
their origin to his advice and aid. Ad
dress : Perkomen Avenue, Reading, Penn
sylvania.
ENGLAND, Howard Glisan:
Clergyman; born in Montgomery Coun
ty, Maryland, January 16, 1869; son of
John G. England, Jr., and Annie L. (Grif
fith) England. Was educated at the Rock
ville Academy, Rockville, Maryland, and at
the Columbian University, Washington, D.
C. ; is a graduate of the School of Philos
ophy of that university; received a gold
medal as the best debater of the Hermesian
Society. Entered the Maryland Divinity
School in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1895.
Private chaplain to Bishop Paret, 1895-98.

Was ordained to the priesthood of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church in Ascension
Church, Baltimore, by Bishop Paret, March
15, 1898. He became a priest in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church; was successful
in Uniontown, Kentucky, in Seaford, Del
aware, and in Berlin, Maryland, in deep
ening the spiritual life of the church and
the community, having large confirmation
classes; also built new churches at Sea-
ford, Delaware, and at Berlin, Maryland,
the church in the latter place costing over
$10,000. At twenty-two years of age he
was warden of Christ Church, Rockville,
Maryland. Is a member of the Southern
Convention of the Diocese of Easton; also
belongs to the Brotherhood of St. Andrew
and to the Masonic and Odd Fellow fra
ternities. Was elected Alternate from the
Diocese of Delaware to the. General Con
vention at Boston in 1904; also alternate
from the Diocese of Easton to the General
Convention in Richmond, Virginia, in 1907;
is consul of the encampment of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America, in Berlin, Mary
land. In politics he is a Democrat. He mar
ried in Wicomico County, Maryland, Ella
Blanche Mitchell; they have two children:
John Mitchell, aged six; and Catharine
Howard, aged four. Address : St. Paul *
Rectory, Berlin, Worcester County, Mary
land.
ENGLISH, Arthur:
Lawyer; bora in New York City, Aug
ust 3, 1863; son of Thomas Dunn English,
physician, poet, and author of Ben Bolt,
and Annie (Maxwell) English. He re
ceived his preliminary education in the pub
lic and private schools of New York City.
He entered New York University, taking the
civil engineering course, but his inclination
being toward law, he left college, after one
year, and pursued legal studies under a
private tutor, making a thorough study of
Hindoo, Greek, Roman, Hebrew, English
and American law, and history of law in
turn. He was also a student of history,
science, medicine, literature and languages.
Mr. English was admitted to the bar in
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United States Courts, and in several other
States. He traveled in the United States,
Canada and Mexico, and then engaged in
practice in New York City. He was as
sistant United States attorney in the In
terior Department at Washington, from
1893 to 1897. He resigned in 1897 and re
sumed practice in New York Citv. He is
one Of the commissioners of the Hudson-
Fulton celebration to take place in igog.
His favorite recreations are hunting, fish
ing, and the study of science, law and
history. Mr. English married, first in Sep
tember, i8gi, Lucie B. Temple, who died
in 1895, and he has one son by this union :
Thomas Dunn English, Jr. He married
again, December 5, igoo, Eloise Young, and
they have three children : Hugh Young,
born in igo2; Edgar, born in 1904, and
Ruth, born in 1906. Address : 149 Broad
way, New York City.
ENGLISH, William East in:
Capitalist and ex-congressman ; born at
Englishton Park, in Scott County, Indiana,
November 3, 1850 ; son of Hon. William H.
English and Emma Mardulia (Jackson)
English. Pie was educated in the North
western Christian University, now known as
Butler University, and he graduated from
the Law Department of the University as
LL.B. and engaged in the practice of law in
Indianapolis until 1880. His father was
one of the most prominent members of the
Democratic party, and was the nominee of
that party for vice-president on the ticket
with General Winfield S. Hancock, in 1880.
Mr. English also became active in politics
as a member of the same party, becoming
a member of the State, county and city
committees of the Democratic party in
Indiana and chairman in 1878 of the In
dianapolis City Democratic Committee and
the Marion County Democratic Committee.
He was a member of the Indiana Legisla
ture from Marion County in 1879 and 1880,
and was elected to the Forty-eighth Con
gress in 1882, declining a renomination in
1884. He was a delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions at Chicago in 1892
and 1896, but left the party after its adop

tion of the radical platform of the latter
year and has since been a Republican in
politics. He was president of the Board of
Park Commissioners of Indianapolis in 1898
and 1899, and of the Board of Police and
Fire Commissioners of Indianapolis in 1901
and 1902. During the War with Spain he
\yas commissioned a captain of United
States Volunteers, Served as aide-de-camp
on the staff of General Joseph Wheeler
during the campaign in Cuba, and was
seriously injured as a result of his horse
being wounded and- falling upon him in the
battle before Santiago, July I, 1898. He
was afterward appointed inspector-general
and aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel
on the staffs of Governors Mount, Durbin
and Hanly. Colonel English is owner of the
English Block, -the Hotel English, the Eng
lish Opera House and other valuable prop
erty interests in Indianapolis. He has been
an extensive traveler in foreign countries,
and some years ago published his exper
iences under the title: Letters from Europe.
He is a prominent Mason of the thirty-sec
ond degree, a Knight Templar, and a mem
ber of the Order of Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, has been grand master of Masons
of Indiana, and is author of a History of
Masonry. He has also served as comman
der-in-chief of the National Association of
United Spanish War Veterans, and as presi-
dent of the Indiana Society of Sons of the
American Revolution, and the Indiana So
ciety of Colonial Wars, and as vice-president
of the Indiana Humane Society and the
Indiana Historical Society. Fie is a mem
ber and was formerly president of the Com
mercial Club of Indianapolis. Colonel Eng
lish married in Indianapolis, January 5,
i8g8, Helen Orr, and they have a daughter,
Rosalind Orr English, born in igo3. City
Residence : Hotel English, Indianapolis.
Country residence : Englishton Park, Scott
County, Indiana. Office address : 102 Monu
ment Place, Indianapolis, Indiana.
ENLOE, Benjamin Augustine:
Railroad commissioner; born at Clarks
burg, Carroll County, Tennessee, January
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Nancy O. Enloe. He attended the private
schools of Carroll County, Tennessee, until
he was fifteen years old, and then attended
Bethel College, and afterward Cumberland
University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, grad
uating from the Law Department as LL.B
in 1873. He was elected a member of the
Tennessee Legislature from Carroll Coun
ty when twenty-one years of age and ser
ved two terms of two years each. After
his graduation he removed to Jackson, Ten
nessee, where he engaged in the practice
of law. In 1875 he entered the newspaper
business, and established the Jackson Sun,
of which he became editor until 1886, when
he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress
from the Eighth Congressional District of
Tennessee and he was reelected to Fifty-
first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con
gresses, serving from 1887 to i8g5. He es
tablished the Nashville Sun in i8g5 and edi
ted it for two years, went to Louisville in
1897 and . became editor of the Louisville
Despatch and in July, 1903, he was appointed
secretary and director of the Tennessee
World's Fair Commission at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis, and
later became executive commissioner for
Tennessee of that Exposition. In Novem
ber, 1904, he was elected a member of the
Tennessee Railroad Commission, in which
position he is still serving. Mr. Enloe has
• always been a Democrat in politics. He
married at Lebanon, Tennessee, April 5,
1870, Fannie Howard Ashworth, and they
have four children: B. A., Jr., Adele, Fan-
tine, and Marie. Residence: Jackson, Ten
nessee. Official address: Nashville, Ten-

ENNIS, Alfred:
Lawyer; born in Morgan County, Indi
ana, June 24, 1837; son of Mitchell Ennis
and -Nancy (Trent) Ennis. On the pater
nal side he is of Scotch-Irish, and in the
maternal line of French descent. He was
educated first in the neighborhood schools
of his native county and afterward in
Franklin College in Indiana, finishing in
1857; then was employed for a year with a
large mercantile house in Martinsville, In

diana, and from there entered the law
school of the Northwestern Christian Uni
versity, of Indianapolis, Indiana, from
which he was graduated in i860: He was
admitted to the Indiana bar and practiced
at Martinsville from i860 to 1871, at To
peka, Kansas, from 1871 to 1882, at Bos
ton, Massachusetts, from 1882 to 1884, and
then went to Chicago as general counsel of
Pullman's Palace Car Company, in which
position he continued for five years, achiev
ing great success. Since 1889 Mr. Ennis
has been engaged in private practice, chief
ly in cases in the high State and United
States courts, and especially in the branches
of corporation, inter-State commerce and
constitutional law, and was at the head for
several years of the late law firm of Ennis,
Morrow and McMillan. Mr. Ennis has a
practice which is international in scope,
and he has had business in the higher courts
of France and Great Britain, and has
served as counsel for many of the larger
corporations of this country. He Has
made numerous contributions to current
legal literature and has broadened his
outlook and experience by extensive foreign
travel. Mr. Ennis is a member of the
American Bar Association, the Illinois.
State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar •
Association.- He married at Manchester,
Indiana, in i860, Almarinda Baldridge,
daughter of Rev. Daniel Baldridge of the
Christian Church. Of that union there
have been born one son, Walter B. Ennis
(now deceased), and three daughters:
Lillie Alice, writer; Luna May, author of
Music in Art ; and Alma Viola, who is now
the wife of George Horace Lorimer, editor
of The Saturday Evening Post of Philadel
phia. Office address : The Rookery, Chi
cago, Illinois.
ENOS, Ala mon Trask :
Manufacturer; born in Brooklyn, New
York, August 5, 1856; son of DeWitt Clin
ton Enos and Anna Fredericka (Trask)
Enos. He was graduated from Princeton in
1878 and from the Columbia School of
Mines in 1879. After his graduation he
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practice of his profession. He was en
gaged in the manufacturing business in
New York City in 1883, and formed the
firm of Oxley, Giddings & Enos. In
1895 he formed the Enos Company, manu
facturers of lighting fixtures, of which he is
now president. He is a Republican in
politics and a member of the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Enos is a member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History; the New
York Genealogical and Biographical Socie
ty, the New York Historical Society, and
the Long Island Historical Society. He is
director of the New York Young Men's
Christian Association and the St. George's
Trade School, and is a member of the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the
Revolution. His favorite recreations are
boating, golf and tennis. Mr. Enos is a
member of the University, Princeton. Arts.
Crescent Athletic Clubs of New York
City. He married' at Southport, Connecti
cut, October 2, 1883, Jennie Louise Tay
lor, daughter of Rev. William Howell Tay
lor, and they have four- children : Alanson
Trask, Jr., born in 1888; Janet, born in
1891; Frederick Marquand, born in 1897,
and Elizabeth Howell, born in 1901. Ad
dress: 160 West Sixteenth Street, New
York City.
ERICSON, Charles John Alfred:
Banker, State Senator ; born in Sodra Vi
Parish, near Vimmerby, Province of Kal-
mer, Sweden, March 8, 1840; son of Eric
Nelson and Carrie (Clemetson) (Nel
son). The family emigrated to Am
erica in 1852, and settled on a farm in
Rock Island County, Illinois. Mr. Ericson
acquired his education in the common
schools of Sweden and Illinois. He worked
on a farm and in a saw-mill in Rock Is
land County for three years, and then re
moved to Altona, in Knox- County, Illinois,
where he worked in a saw and flouring-
mill and clerked in a store until May, 1859,
when he removed to Iowa, locating at
. Mineral Ridge, in Boone County,, where he
engaged in the general merchandise busi
ness and afterward was in the business of
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buying and shipping live-stock. He was ap
pointed postmaster there by President James
Buchanan in i860, was afterward reap
pointed under the Lincoln administration,
and continued in that office for twelve years.
He also held the offices of road supervisor,
township clerk, school director and treas
urer. In 1870 he opened a store in the city
of Boone and continued it. until 1875, in
which year he established in the banking
business at Boone, Iowa, in which he has ,
ever since continued, having been for sev
eral years vice-president and cashier and
now being president of the City Bank of
Boone, $250,000 capital and surplus. Since
removing to the city of Boone he
has served as alderman, city treasurer,
president and treasurer of the School
Board. He was elected to the Fourteenth
General Assembly of Iowa in 1871 and to
the Senate in 1895 and 1903, serving in the
Upper House in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-
seventh, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-
second General Assemblies of Iowa. He
assisted in revising the Iowa Codes of 1873
and 1897, and there is only one other mem
ber now living who had any part in the
revision of both codes. He served on the
Iowa State Commission to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition of 1904 at Saint Louis,
and had charge of the Iowa State Dairy
and Apiary Department. Senator Ericson
has always taken a great interest in educa
tion and libraries, and in 1901 he built a
memorial library and presented it to the
city of Boone, and he is president of the
Board of Trustees of the Ericson Memorial
Library there ; and as president of the Sen
ate Library Committee he has taken a lead
ing part in the legislation of the State
pertaining to library work. He is also vice-
president of the Iowa State Library Asso
ciation. Augustana College conferred upon
Senator Ericson, in 1902, the honorary de
gree of LL.D. He is a member of the Ma
sonic fraternity and a Knight Templar and
he is a member of the Commercial Club,
of Boone and of the Grant Club of Des
Moines, Iowa. Senator Ericson is a Re
publican in politics, and a Presbyterian in-
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Princeton, Illinois, November 8, 1873, Nellie
Linderblood, who died April 29, 1899. Ad
dress : Boone, Iowa.
EBICSON, John Ernst:
Civil engineer; born in Stockholm, Swe
den, October 21, 1858; son of Andrew and
Sophia (Lind) Ericson. He received his
primary education at the common and high
er schools of Norrtelje and Upsala, and
then took a four years' course at the Royal
Polytechnic Institute, Stockholm, from
which institution he was graduated in 1880
with the degree of CE. For one year after
his graduation he was employed as a bridge
constructor at Stockholm, and then came to
the United States, taking up his residence
in Chicago, Illinois. In 1881 he was resi
dent engineer of the Toledo, Cincinnati and
St. Louis (Clover Leaf) Railroad, and in
the following year was employed as a de
signer by the bridge building firm of Hop
kins & Company. His next employment
was with the United States Government on
the Illinois and Mississippi canal surveys,
until the summer of 1883; then draftsman,
City Hall, Chicago, April, 1884, to the spring
of 1886; assistant engineer, 1886 to 1889;
assistant chief engineer, 1889; engaged in
designing the Seattle, Washington, water
works, from 1889 to 1890, assistant engi
neer of the sanitary district of Chicago,
1890 to 1892; assistant engineer on tunnel
and other work for the city of Chicago,
1892-93. He was first assistant city engi
neer of the city of Chicago from 1893 -to
1897 and has been city engineer since the
latter year. He has frequently been called
in consultation by the officials of various
cities for information in the work of erect
ing water-works plants, water-works valua
tions, etc. As city engineer for the city of
Chicago he has had charge of the construc
tion and operation of its water-works, har
bor work, bridges, etc. He was a member
of the Board of Local Improvement from
July 1, 1903 to April 12, 1904, having been
excused from his duties as city engineer
during that period. He is a Democrat, but
has generally acted with the independent
wing of that party. He is a member of the

American Society of Civil Engineers, the
Western Society of Engineers, the Ameri
can Water Works Association, the Chicago
Academy of Sciences, and the Scandinavian
Technical Society. He is a member of the
Chicago Athletic, Swedish Glee, and other
Chicago Clubs. He has been twice mar
ried, his first wife having been Inez Malm-
gren, to whom he was united at Chicago,
July 11, 1888, and who died in 1893, leav
ing one daughter, Mildred Inez. His sec
ond marriage was to Esther Malmgren, at
Chicago, June 30, 1896. Residence: 1934
Kenmore Avenue, Chicago. Official ad
dress : City Hall, Chicago, Illinois.
ERKINS, Henry:
Decorator and architect; born in Bonn,
Germany, in 1868, son of Jacob Erkins and
Gertrude (Fusbahn) Erkins. He was edu
cated in Berlin, Bonn and Paris, and in the
military school of Potsdam, Germany. Af
ter that he served in the- Guards Regiment
in Berlin. Mr. Erkins is head of the firm
of Henry Erkins & Company, decorators
and architects, New York City. He has
traveled in China, Japan, India and Europe.
Mr. Erkins married at Louisville, Ken
tucky, Mary Pemberton. He is a Democrat
in politics. Address: 4 West Fifteenth
Street, New York City.
ERLANGER, Abraham L.:
Dramatic manager ; born at Buffalo, May
4, i860. He was educated in Cleveland,
Ohio. He is a member of the firms of
Hayman, Klaw & Erlanger; and Hayman,
Frohman, Klaw & Erlanger; president of
the American Checkogram Company, the
Klaw & Erlanger Company, the Klaw & Er
langer New Orleans Theatres Company,
the New York Theatre Company, the Aud
itorium Theatre Company, Chicago; the
Klaw and Erlanger Construction Com
pany, the United States Amusement Com
pany; treasurer of the Hayman and Davis
Company, of the Mount Carmel Cemetery
Association, of the Throggs Neck Realty
Company ; secretary of the Nixon and Zim
merman Amusement Company; a director
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a member of the Lambs', Green Room and
Democratic Clubs. Residence: 232 West
End Avenue, New York City. Address :
New Amsterdam Theatre Building, New
York City.
ERLANGER, Joseph:
Professor of physiology, University of
Wisconsin; born in San Francisco, Jan
uary 5, 1874; son of Hermann Erlanger
and Sarah (Gahinger) Erlanger. He was
educated in the San Francisco public
schools; received the degree of B.S. from
the University of California in 1895; that
of M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical
School in 1899. Was a fellow at Johns
Hopkins in 1900; resident medical officer
at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1890, to
1900 ; assistant in physiology Johns Hop
kins, from 1900 to 1901 ; instructor from
1901 to 1903; associate from 1903 to 1904;
associate professor from 1904 to 1906; pro
fessor at the University of Wisconsin from
1906 to the present time. He is a mem
ber of the Physiological Society and of the
Society for Experimental Biology and
Medicine. His chief researches have been
on Metabolism in dogs with shortened small
intestines, on clinical methods of determin
ing blood pressure, and on heart blood. His
principal writings are on: the Influence of
Pulse Pressure on Renal Secretion; Mech
anism of the Circulation ; he has also writ
ten articles on the rhythmicity of auricles.
He married at San Francisco, June 21, 1906,
Aimee Hirstel. Residence : 301 Johnson
Court, Madison, Wisconsin. Address : the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wiscon
sin.EELANGEB, Mitchell L.:
Jurist ; was elected in 1906 on the Demo
cratic ticket, judge of the Supreme Court
of New ¦ York for the First District for
term expiring December 31, 1920. Address :
The Ormonde, Broadway and Seventieth
Street, New York City.
ERNST, George Alexander Otis:
Lawyer; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, No
vember 8, 1850; .son of Andrew H. and
Sarah (Otis) Ernst. After a preparatory

education in the schools of Cincinnati and
Boston, to which city he early removed
with his parents, he entered the academic
department of Harvard University, gradu
ating in 1871 with the degree of A.B. At
the close of his course, he remained at the
university as a law student. In 1875 he was
admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, and
has .since practiced at Boston. In 1883 and
1884 he was elected by the Republican party
to a seat in the lower house of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature. Mr. Ernst takes
great interest in school affairs and in 1900
was elected member of the School Board
of Boston, serving for three years. He
has recently been appointed member of a
commission to investigate the financial con
dition of Boston. He is author of various
articles on legal questions and civil reforms,
and has also written the volume: Law of
Married Women in Massachusetts, pub
lished in 1897. He married in Brooklyn,
New York, December 11, 1879, Jeanie C.
Bynner. Residence: 48 Robeson Street.
Address: Old South Building, Boston,
Massachusetts.
ERNST, Oswald Herbert:
Brigadier-General, United States Army,
retired ; born near Cihcinnati, June 27, 1842 ;
son of Andrew H. Ernst and Sarah H.
(Otis) Ernst; and grandson of a burgo
master in Germany, who emigrated in 1812
to escape the oppression of Napoleon. He
attended Harvard, 1858 to i860; graduated
from the United States Military . Academy
in 1864 as first lieutenant in the corps of en
gineers. He served as assistant chief engi
neer of the Army of the Tennessee; then
was assistant engineer on the fortification
of the Pacific coast from 1864 to 1868, and
was astronomer with the United States
Commission to observe the solar eclipse in
Spain in 1870. He was instructor in prac
tical military engineering, military signaling
and telegraphy at West Point from 1871
to. 1878; as engineer in charge of west
ern river improvements from 1878 to 1886 ;
and in charge of harbor improvements on
the Texas coast from 1886 to 1889, where
he inaugurated the great work which re
sulted in deepening the channel at the en
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to twenty-six feet. He was also engineer
on numerous boards from 1880 to 1905;
was in charge of public buildings and
grounds at Washington from 1889 to 1893;
and served ,as superintendent of the United
States Military Academy from 1893 to
1898. He was promoted through every in
termediate grade, and was commissioned
colonel, February 20, 1903, and brigadier-
general of volunteers in May, 1898. "He
served in the war against Spain, going to
Porto Rico, July, 1898; and he had imme
diate command of the troops in the affair
at Coamo, August 9, 1898. He was di
vision engineer of the Northwest Division
from August, 1901, until he was promoted
to brigadier-general, and retired, June 27,
1906. Brigadier-General Ernst was a mem
ber of the Isthmian Canal Commission
from 1889 to 1904.; president of the. Mis
sissippi River Commission from 1903 until
1906; has served as a member of the In
ternational .Commission upon the condition
and use of waters adjacent to the boundary
lines between the United States and Can
ada. He was reappointed a member of the
Isthmian Canal Commission in 1905. Brig
adier-General Ernst is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Order
of Foreign Wars, the Porto Rico Society,
and the American Society of Civil Engi
neers ; and an honorary vice-president of the
Wisconsin National Guard. He is also a
member of the Metropolitan and Chevy
Chase Clubs of Washington. He is author
of: A Manual of Practical Military En
gineering. General Ernst married, Novem
ber 3, 1866, Elizabeth Amory, daughter of
W. R. Lee, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Ad
dress : Room 428, Mills Building, Wash
ington, D. C.
KSCH, John Jacob:
Congressman and . lawyer ; bora near
Norwalk, Monroe County,. Wisconsin,
March 20, 1861, of German parents. In
1865 his parents moved to Milwaukee and
five years later to Sparta, Wisconsin, where
they both still reside. After graduating
frorn the Sparta High School he entered
the modern classical course of the State

University at Madison, Wisconsin, and
took his degree with the class of 1882. For
three years following he engaged in teach
ing and the study of law, and in 1886 he
entered the law department of the State
University, and was graduated in" 1887.
Since being admitted to the bar he has
practiced law in La Crosse. The only
elective office held by him was that of city
treasurer of Sparta in 1885. In 1883 he
organized the Sparta Rifles, afterwards
known as Company One of the .Third Regi
ment of the Wisconsin National Guard,
and was commissioned captain, retaining
the office until 1887. Upon his removal
to La Crosse he helped organize Company
M of the same regiment, being first lieu
tenant, and afterwards captain. In Janu
ary, 1894, he was commissioned acting
judge-advocate-general, with the rank of
colonel, by Governor W. H. Upham, hold
ing the office for two years. He was elect
ed in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress from
the Seventh Wisconsin District, and re
elected in 1900, 1902, and again in 1904, to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected in
1906 to the Sixtieth Congress. Address:
La Crosse, Wisconsin.,
ESENWEIN, Joseph Berg:
Editor of Lippincott's Magazine; born at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1867;
son of Augustus Esenwein and Katharine
(Angelo) Esenwein. He received the de
gree of B.S. from Albright College in
1884; studied pedagogy at the Millersville
Normal School; received the degree of
A.M. from Lafayette College in 1894;
Ph.D. from Richmond College in 1896;
Litt.D. from the University of Omaha in
1896. He was president of Albright Col
legiate Institute from 1895 to 1896; edu
cational director of the Young Men's
Christian Association, Washington Heights,
New York City, in 1897; from 1898 to 1899,
he spent his time in literary work with
Charles Dudley Warner and in foreign
travel; was professor of English languages
and literature at the Pennsylvania Military
College at Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1899
to 1903 ; manager of the Booklovers Maga
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and manager of Lippincott' s Magazine since
1905. Is a rriember of the National Au
thors' Guild and of -the Periodical Publish
ers' Association of America. He is presi
dent of the Board of Directors of the
Young Men's Christian Association; mem
ber of the Advisory Committee on In
dustrial Work, and of the International
Committee of the Young Men's Christian
Association. He is the author of : Songs
for Reapers, 1895; Modern Agnosticism,
1896 ; Feathers for Shafts, 1897 ; How to At
tract and Hold an Audience, 1901. He is a
lecturer, song writer, and contributor to var
ious magazines and reviews. In politics he
is a Republican, and in religion a Pres
byterian (ruling elder). He married at
Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, March 21, i88g,
Caroline Deats Miller (M.A., Richmond
College) ; they have one son : Joseph Har
old, aged seventeen. Residence : Narberth,
Pennsylvania. Address : E. Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ESHELMAN, George Boss:
Lawyer and publisher arid editor of Lan
caster Law Review; born at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, September 30, 1864; son of
David G. Eshelman and Caroline O. (Car
penter) Eshelman. He was educated at
Yeates School, Lancaster, Franklin and
Marshall and Princeton University Col
lege; from Princeton University he re
ceived the degrees of A.B. and A.M. He
is a member of the Lancaster County Bar
Association, and of the Lancaster Law Li
brary Association. He is a director in the
Williamstown Turnpike Company of Lan
caster and in the United Wireless Tele
graph Company of New York. He is trus
tee and secretary of Bishop Bowman
Church House and vestryman of St. James'
Episcopal Church. He is an Odd Fellow,
and also belongs to the order of Elks. He
is a member of the Hamilton Club, Lan
caster Country Club, and the Young Re
publican Club, of Lancaster, and the Church
Club of Central Pennsylvania. In politics
he is a Republican, and in religion,
an Episcopalian. He married at Lancaster,
June 1, 1893, Elizabeth Spencer. Residence:

Columbia Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Business 'address : 48 North Duke Street,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
ESLING, Charles Henry .Augustine:
Lawyer and lecturer; born in Philadel
phia, January 21, 1845. He was educated
at St. Joseph's Jesuit College, Philadel
phia, and at Georgetown University, Dis
trict of Columbia. He read law with Hon.
William Meredith, and was graduated as
LL.B. from the Law School of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in 1882. He re
ceived the degree of A.M. from George
town University (centennial diploma), in
1889 ; and LL.D. from St. Joseph's College,
Philadelphia (Golden Jubilee Celebration),
in 1902. He represented the Archbishop of
Baltimore and the Catholic laity of ' the
United States at the Golden Jubilee Cele
bration of Pope Pius IX., in 1877, and re
ceived the bronze jubilee medal for him
self, and was appointed to bear others to
distinguished recipients in the United
States. He was a delegate to the lay Cath
olic Congress of the United States at Balt
imore, in 1889, and at Chicago, in 1903;
and a foreign member of the Royal Court
of Saxony. Mr. Esling is a Republican in
politics and a member of the University
Club of Philadelphia, the Anglo-American
Club of Dresden, Saxony, and was poet
of its fortieth jubilee celebration, and the
Wurtemberg Renn Vereins (Sport Club)
of Stuttgart. He is author of: Melodies of
Mood and Tense, 1874. He married on
April 10, 1890, Elizabeth, daughter of
Charles Baeder, of Jenkinstown, Pennsyl
vania. Address: 2109 Locust- Street, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, or Wurtemberg-
ische Vereins Bank, Stuttgart, Germany.
ESTABBOOK, Henry Dodge:
Lawyer ; bora at Alden, New York, Oc
tober 23, 1854; son of Experience Esta
brook and Caroline ' Augusta (Maxwell)
Estabrook. He rerrioved to Nebraska (of
which territory his 'father was appointed
attorney-general) in- 1855. : He was -.edu
cated in' the Omaha"," Nebraska, public
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department, Washington University, in
1875. He practiced law at Omaha from
1875 to 1896, at Chicago from 1896 to 1902;
he was a member of the firm of Low den,
Estabrook & Davis ; since 1902, he has been
solicitor for the Western Union Telegraph
Company in New York City. He is a
member of the State and National Bar As
sociations. He . belongs to the Union
League, the Lawyers' the Lotos, the Metro
politan, the Republican, the Auto (of Amer
ica), the Magnetic (New York City), the
Deal Golf Club (New Jersey), and the
Marquette of Chicago (honorary, mem
ber) Clubs. He married at Omaha, Octo
ber 23, 1880, Clara Campbelll; they have
one daughter : Mrs. Blanche Duel Roeb-
ling, of Trenton, New Jersey. His only
sister was the late wife of R. C. Clowry,
president of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. Residence (summer) : Elberon,
New Jersey; (winter) : 301 West Seven
ty-sixth Street, New York City. Address :
195 Broadway, New York City.
ESTE, Charles:
Importer and dealer in lumber; born in
Dayton, Ohio, January 13, 1843; son of
David Kirkpatrick Este, Jr.,- and Eliza
Phillips (Houston) Este. He was educated
in Switzerland, France and Germany. He
has served in Company E of the First
Regiment, Gray Reserves of the Pennsyl
vania Militia in 1862, and in the Thirty-
Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania Unit
ed States Volunteers in 1863. He started
in business in 1866. Mr. Este is a member
of the Order of Albion, the Society of
Colonial Wars, Descendants of Colonial
Governors, Sons of the Revolution, the
War of 1812, the Grand Army of the Re
public, and the Military order of Foreign
Wars, and was the first secretary of the
Pennsylvania Commandery of the latter.
He is also a member of the Union League,
Manufacturers and Philadelphia County
Clubs and the Corinthian Yacht Club. Mr.
Este married April 14, 1874, Christine
Elizabeth Dodge, daughter of John C
Dodge, of Brooklyn, New York. Address :
41 1 1 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.

ESTES, Webster C:
Merchant; born in Port Kent, Essex
County, New York, October 19, 1855, and
of colonial and revolutionary ancestry, his
ancestors having settled in Massachusetts
in 1675 from Dover, Kent, England. He
received an academic education. He
entered the firm of E. B. Estes and Sons
in 1887 and is now president and treasurer
and also president of the Estes Lumber
Company. Mr. Estes is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, Sons of Revolu
tion, and the New England Society ; and
also of the Union League, the Hardware
Club of New York City, the Midwoou Club
of Brooklyn, the Morristown Field of Mor
ristown, New Jersey, and the Lakewood
Country of Lakewood, New Jersey. Office
address: 45 John Street, New York City.
ESTEYS, Francis W.:
Lawyer. He is president and director
of the Adams Square Company; treasurer
and director of the Red Dragori Company;
treasurer and director of the Majestic
Company ; a member of the Board of Mass
achusetts Ballot Law Commissioners. Ad
dress: 90 Canal Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts. ESTILL, John Holbrook:
Newspaper proprietor; born in Charles
ton, South Carolina, October 28, 1840. He
has been a resident of Savannah, Georgia,
from his boyhood, and was educated in the
schools of that city. After leaving school
he learned the printer's trade, and in 1859
he became publisher of the Savannah Even
ing Express. During the Civil War he
served in the Army of the Confederate
States, and after the war he resumed news
paper work, and since 1867 he has been
editor and proprietor of the Savannah
Morning News, which under his direction
has maintained a place amorig^the fore'
most journals of the South. Address: Sa
vannah, Georgia.
EUSTACE, Alexander Christopher:
Lawyer; born at Troy* New York; son
of Christopher Eustace and' Ann (Me-
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the bar in 1879, he has practiced law at
Elmira. He served as president of the
New York State Civil Service Commission
from 1889 to 1893, and for several years
was a member of the Democratic State
Committee; and was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention in 1892.
He has been identified professionally with
many important and notable litigations.
Mr. Eustace is a member of the principal
clubs of Elmira and of the Catholic and
Democratic Clubs of New York City, and
the Brooklyn Yacht Club. Address :
Elmira, New York.
EUSTIS, William Henry:
Lawyer; born at Oxbow, New York,
July 17, 1845; son of Tobias Eustis and
Mary (Markwick) Eustis. He was edu
cated at Wesleyan University and at Co
lumbia Law College, and was admitted to
the bar of New York State in 1875. He
removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in
1881, where, in 1892, he was elected mayor
of that city. Six years later he was nom
inated by the Republican party for gov
ernor of Minnesota, but they failed to give
him a majority of votes at the polls. He
was in 1902 appointed by President Roose
velt special United States commissioner to
the Hawaiian Islands. Address : Minne
apolis, Minnesota.
EVANS, Beverly Daniel:
Jurist; born at Sandersville, Georgia,
May 21, 1865 ; son of Beverly D. Evans and
Sallie (Smith) Evans. He received his
early education in private • schools at San
dersville, Georgia, and then entered Mer
cer University, at Macon, Georgia, from
which he was graduated with the degree
of A.B. in 1881, and A.M. in 1882, going
thence to the law department of Yale Uni
versity in 1883 and 1884. He was admited
to the Georgia bar in July, 1884, and prac
ticed law until 1899. He was elected to
the Georgia House of Representatives,
serving in the sessions of 1886 and 1887;
was solicitor-general of the Middle Judicial
Circuit of Georgia from 1890 to 1897 ; judge
of the same circuit from 1899 to 1904, and
since April 1, 1904, he has been associate

justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Judge Evans has always been a Democrat,
and he was, in 1888, a delegate to the Na
tional Democratic Convention. He is a
director of the Farmers' and Merchants'
Oil and Guano Company of Georgia.
Judge Evans is a Baptist in his religious
affiliations. He has been twice married,
first at Warthen, Georgia, November 15,
1886, to Bessie Warthen, who died in 1892 ;
and second, at Shorterville, Alabama, July
9, 1894, to Jennie Irwin. Residence : 330
West Peachtree Street, Atlanta. Official
address : State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
EVANS, Charles Bountree:
Lawyer; born in Lancaster, Wisconsin,
April 4, 1863; son of Jonathan H. Evans
and Sarah (Kilbourne) Evans. After a
careful preparatory education he entered
the University of Wisconsin, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1881, then en
gaged in the study of law and was admitted
to the bar in 1884. He located the follow
ing year at Chattanooga, Tennessee, of
which place he has ever since been a citizen,
and engaged in the practice of law. He
was city attorney there in 1887 and 1888,
and again in 1891, and in 1892 was the Re
publican candidate for Judge of the , Cir
cuit Court for the Fourth Judicial District
of Tennessee, was commissioner of registra
tion in 1894 and 1895, and county attorney
of Hamilton County, Tennessee, from 1894
to 1898. He served in the Porto Rican
Campaign of the Spanish-American War
as captain of the Sixth United States Vol
unteer Infantry, from June 20, 1898; was
promoted major, January 7, 1899, judge-
adyocate of general court martial of Porto
Rico and Vieques, and member of the Mili
tary Court of the Province of Arecibo, and
he was honorably discharged from the vol
unteer service, March 15, i89g, when his
regiment was mustered out at Savannah,
Georgia. Major Evans resumed his prac
tice at Chattanooga, also becoming profes
sor of law in 1899 and since 1900 dean of
the Law School of Grant University at
Chattanooga. In politics he is a Republican,
and he was a candidate on the Republican

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ticket for presidential elector-at-darge from
Tennessee, in the McKinley and 'Roosevelt
Campaign of 1900. Address : Loveman
Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
EVANS, Clement Anselm:
Lawyer; born in Georgia. He was edu
cated in the schools in the vicinity of his
home, and, taking up the study of law in
Augusta, Georgia, was admitted to the bar
of that State,, practicing until the begin
ning of the Civil War, the young man prac
ticed his profession at Augusta, filling the
position of justice of the County Court and
being, in 1859, elected to the State Senate
for a term of two years. Before the ex
piration of that time, however, the war
caused him to throw aside private affairs,
and enlist in the Confederate Army as
major in an infantry regiment. He was
rapidly promoted for valiant services, be
coming in succession colonel, brigadier-
general and acting major-general. After
the surrender of General Lee at Appomat
tox in 1865, General Evans resumed his
practice in Georgia. Fie is also an author
of merit, and devotes much of his time to
literary work. He is also a member of the
Board of Prison Commissioners to super
intend the prisons of the State of Georgia.
He- was in 1905 State commander of the
United Confederate Veterans. He is author
of: the Military History of Georgia, and
was editor of the Confederate Military
History. Address : State Capitol, Atlanta,
Georgia.
EVANS, Dudley:
President Wells, Fargo and Company;
born in Morgantown, Virginia, January
27, 1838. He was graduated from the
Washington and Jefferson College in 1859.
Was a member of the Virginia Legislature
from 1863 to 1865; lieutenant-colonel,
Twentieth Regiment Virginia Cavalry, Con
federate States of America; is a member
of the Army and Navy Society of the Con
federate States, of Maryland; of the Sons
of the Revolution; of the Colonial Wars
Society; War of 1812; of the Lee- Jackson
Camp Confederate Veterans, Lexington,
Virginia; of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity;

of the Lawyers' arid the Englewood clubs.
He married in 1878, Miss N. Seelye. Resi
dence: EngleworAp1, New Jersey. Address:
51 Broadway, New York City.
EVANS, Henry:
Insurance president; born in Houston,
Texas, April 14, i860. He became a resi
dent of New York City in 1866, and was
educated in the Brooklyn public schools,
the Shelleck School of Norwalk, Connecti
cut, and one year in the Columbia School
of Mines. He entered the office of the
Continental Fire Insurance Company, as
minor clerk in March, 1878, and was_ elected
secretary May, 1888, second vice-president
in January, 1889; first vice-president in
January, 1892 and has been president since
January, 1903. He is also president of the
Fidelity Fire Insurance Company and the
Continental Fire Insurance Company, and
is director of the Alabama White Marble
Company, the Fidelity Fire Insurance
Company of New York; the Central Trust
Company of New York; and the Brook
lyn City Street Railroad Company of
Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Evans is a
member of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Society of Mayflower Descend
ants, the Chamber of Commerce, the New
York Board of Trade and the Merchants
Association. He is also a member of the
Players' Club and the Lawyers' Club of
New York City, and the Hamilton Club of
Brooklyn, New York. Address : Con
tinental Fire Insurance Company, Box
2038, New York City.
EVANS, Henry Clay:
Former United States consuFgeneral at
London; born in Juniata County, Pennsyl
vania, June 18, 1843 ; son of Jesse B. Evans
and Anna (Single) Evans. He was- edu
cated in the schools of Platteville and Lan
caster, Wisconsin. He served in the Forty-
first Wisconsin Regiment, from 1862 to
1864, after that civilian in the Army at
Chattanooga and later in Texas. Returned
to Chattanooga, 1870; became iron and car
manufacturer; was twice mayor; member
of Fifty-first Congress, 1889 to 1891; as
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elected governor on face of returns, 1894,
but Turney, Democrat, claimed irregular
ities, and was seated. He stood second in
the balloting for vice-president of the
United States at the National Republican
Convention in 1896, and was appointed
United States commissioner of pensions,
from 1897 to 1902. He served as United
States consul-general at London from 1902
to 1905. Address : 203 East Terrace Street,
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
EVANS, Hiram Kinsman:
Jurist; born in Walnut Township, Wayne
County, Iowa, March 17, 1863; son of
Hiram Evans and Sarah Jane (Robison)
Evans. He lived on the farm until 1884,
and was educated in the public schools
and at the high school of Allerton, Iowa.
and then entered the law department of the
University of Iowa, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1886.
He was admitted to the bai of the State
of Iowa in 1886, and practiced law at Cory
don, Iowa, until 1904, being a member of
the firm of Freeland & Evans there from
1891, until elected, in 1904, to his present
office as judge of the Third Judicial Dis
trict of Iowa, and reelected in 1906 for a
term of four years. Judge' Evans has been
an active Republican from his first vote.
He was mayor of Corydon, Iowa, for two
years; a member of the House of Repre
sentatives of Iowa for one term; county
attorney of Wayne County, Iowa, for four
years, and a regent of the State Univers
ity of Iowa for seven years. Judge Evans
is a prominent member of the Iowa State
Bar Association and was for three years a
member of its Executive Committee; and
he was its delegate to the Universal Con
gress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis,
held in connection with the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition in 1904. He is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
married, at Corydon, Iowa, Tanuary 1. 1891,
Hattie Belvel. Address': Corydon, Iowa.
EVANS, Bobley Dungllson:
Rear-admiral of the United States Navy ;
born in Floyd County, Virginia, August 18,
1846; son of Dr. Samuel Andrew Jackson

Evans. He was educated in the public
schools of Washington and appointed to the
.United States Navy, from Utah, Septem
ber 20, i860. He was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in 1863 ; pro
moted ensign, October 1, 1863; lieutenant,
July 25, 1866 ; lieutenant-commander, March
12, 1868; commander, July, 1878; captain,
June- 27, 1893, and rear-admiral, February
11, 1901. He served in the Civil War; par
ticipated in both attacks on Fort Fisher,
and received two severe wounds from rifle
shots. He commanded the battleship Iowa
during the- Spanish-American War-, -and
after the destruction of Cervera's squadron,
off Santiago, July 3, 1898. He also corii-
manded the Asiatic fleet for three years,
and shortly after his return home he was
ordered to command the North Atlantic
fleet, which at the present time contains
the largest number of battleships ever
placed under one officer's command. Ad
dress : Care Navy Department, Washing
ton, D. C.
EVANS, Samuel Sebastian:
• Civil engineer ; born at Paoli, Chester
County, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1857; son
of Samuel W. Evans and Rebecca Entrekin
Evans ; is descended from Robert Evans
who settled in Gwyredd Township, Penn
sylvania, in 1698. He was educated at the
University of Pennsylvania, entering the
Sophomore Class in 1877. Was aide on the
United States Geodetic Survey, in Pennsyl
vania, from 1880 to 1881 ; assistant engineer
on the Mexican National Railway from 1881
to 1885 ; instructor in civil engineering
from 1886 to 1888; assistant engineer,
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany; city engineer to Cedartown, Georgia,
and engineer to the Cedartown Company
from 1890 to 1894; engineer on the Phila
delphia and New York ship canal, archi
tectural, engineer, etc., from 1894 to
1897; assistant engineer to. Nicar
agua Canal Commission from 1897 to
1899; engineer to the Cedartown Company
and to the city of Cedartown, Georgia,
from 1899 to the present time. Is a mem
ber of the Franklin Scientific Society and *
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married, February 9, 1901, Elizabeth H.
Miller; they have one son and one
daughter. Address : 2031 North Thirteenth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EVANS, Walter:
Jurist ; born on a farm in Barren County,
Kentucky, September 18, 1842; son of Jo
seph Warden Evans and Matilda (Ritter)
Evans. He was educated in private schools
in Kentucky, entered the Union Army in
1861, and afterward studied law and was
admitted to the bar of Kentucky in 1864.
He engaged in practice at Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, from 1864 to 1874, and after
that at Louisville, Kentucky. Judge Evans
has always been an earnest Republican. He
was elected to the House of Representa
tives of the Kentucky Legislature from
Christian County in 1871, and to the State
Senate in 1873, and after, his removal to
Louisville he was a Republican candidate
for Congress in 1876 and for governor in
1879, and was commissioner of internal
revenue of the United States under appoint
ment by President Arthur from May, 1883,
to April, 1885, at which time he resumed
his law practice at Louisville. He was elec
ted in 1894 a member of the Fifty-fourth
Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-fifth
Congress in 1896, serving from i8g5 to 1899.
On March 4, i8gg, he was appointed by
President McKinley to 'his present position
as judge of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
He married at Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
June 9, 1868, Louise Gowen, and they have
a daughter, Fannie Louise Evans. Address :
Louisville, Kentucky.
EVANS, William Augustus:
Physician ; born in Marion, Alabama,
August 5, 1865; he is the son of William
Augustus and Julia Josephine (Wyatt)
Evans. He was educated in the public
schools in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and at
the Agricultural College of Mississippi, be
ing graduated from the latter with the de
gree of B.S. in 1883, and receiving from
the same institution the degree of M.S. in
1900. Immediately after his graduation
from the agricultural college, he took up

the study of medicine in the Tulane Uni
versity of Louisiana, where he received the
degree of M.D. in 1885. He soon after
began the practice of his profession in the
city of Chicago, and has been in general
practice in that city for more than twenty
years. He was demonstrator of pathology
at the College of Physicians of the City of
Chicago (now the medical department of
the University of Illinois, from 1891
to 1895, and has been professor of
pathology in the medical department of
the University of Illinois since the latter
period. He is pathologist of the Cook
County Hospital, president of the attend
ing staff of the Dunning Institutions, con
sulting pathologist of the Alexian Brothers
Hospital, secretary of the Society for the
Prevention of Tuherculosis, and also the
Columbus Medical Laboratory. He was ap
pointed health commissioner, Chicago, in
1907. He is a member of the American
Association of Pathologists and Bacteri
ologists, the American Medical Association,
the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the
Chicago Academy of Medicine, the Chicago
Medical Society, of which latter he was
president in 1892-93, and is now president
of its medico-legal committee. He is also
a member of the Chicago Pathological So
ciety and of the Illinois Club. Residence:
453 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illi
nois. Office address: 103 State Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
EVANS, William Gray:
Traction official; born at Evanston, Illi
nois, December 16, 1855 ; son of John Evans
(founder of Evanston, Illinois, and first
president of the Board of Trustees of
Northwestern University, and first gover
nor of the Territory of Colorado) and Mar
garet P. Evans. He was educated at North
western University, graduating from that
institution in 1877 with the degree of B.S.,
and after that becoming identified with busi
ness interests in Denver. He became one
of the organizers, in 1885, of the Denver
Electric and Cable Railway Company, and
was its first secretary, and since then has
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of the Denver City Tramway Company, and
vice-president of the Denver, Northwestern
and Pacific Railway Company. Mr. Evans
parried in Denver, December 12, 1883,
Cornelia L. Gray. Residence: 1310 South
14th Street, Denver. Office address : Majes
tic Building, Denver, Colorado.
EVARTS, Alien W. :
Lawyer ; born in New York City, Decem
ber 10, 1848; .son of William M. Evarts
and Helen Minerva - (Wardner) Evarts.
He was graduated -from Yale University as
B.A. in 1869. and -M.A. in 1872 and studied
law at the Columbia Law School from 1870
to 1871. . -He is a member of the firm of
Evarts, , Tracy and Sherman. . Mr. Evarts
is president-of the Garden City Company,
secretary^ of the United Metals Selling
Company, a member of the New York City
Bar Association, the Society of Medical
Jurisprudence; the Metropolitan Museum
of Art; the American Museum of Natural
History; New York Zoological Society;
the New England Society ; and Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Evarts is a trustee
of Vassar College. He is also a member
of the Century Association and the Union,
University, Yale, New York Athletic,, Man
hattan, Grolier, White, Turf and Field, and
Garden City Golf Clubs and the Metropol
itan Club of Washington, D. C, and the
St. Stephen's Club of London. Address : 60
Wall Street, New York .City.
EVATT, William Henry Pratt:
Physician and surgeon; born in County
Monaghan, Ireland, May 27, 1855; son of
Robert Bayley Evatt and Jane Sinclair
(Pratt) Evatt. He was educated at Trini
ty College, Dublin, where he received the
degree of A.B. in 1876, and at the Royal
College of Surgeons, Ireland, from which
he was graduated in 1879. He practiced
medicine in Barrow-in-Furness, Lanca
shire, England, from August, 1879, to Aug
ust, 1881; in Selkirk, Scotland, from Aug
ust, 1881, until July, 1885; and in Chicago,
from August,' 1885, until the present time.
Heis a member of the Chicago Medical So
ciety. He married at Chicago, October 25,
1887, Annie Connolly, and they have one

daughter: Marie, aged eighteen years;
their daughter Genevieve died at the age
of twelve. Address: 710 West Twenty-
first Street, Chicago, Illinois.
EVEBETT, Henry A.:
Capitalist; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Oc
tober 16, 1856; son of Dr. Azariah Everett
and Emily (Burnham) Everett. He pro
cured his education in public and private
schools in Cleveland, Ohio, and afterward
engaged in business pursuits. From the
pioneer days of electric traction he has been
prominent as a promoter, constructor and
operator of electric railways, and also in
the organizing, financing and operation of
independent telephone companies. He is
interested in various railway, telephone and
electric lighting corporations in various cit
ies of the United States and Canada, is
chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Detroit United Railway, president of the
Northern Ohio Traction and Light Com
pany, the Toledo Railways and Light Com
pany, and the London Street Railway Com
pany, of London, Ontario. Mr. Everett is
a member of the Union, Euclid, Colonial,
Century and Electric Clubs of Cleveland.
He married in Cleveland, in 1886, Josephine
Pettengill; children: Leolyn, Louise, and
Dorothy Burnham Everett. Residence:
Willoughby, Ohio. Office address : Electric
Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
EVEBETT, James Hervey:
Merchant; born in Bath, Steuben Coun
ty, New York, February n, 1837. His ed
ucation was acquired in the public schools.
He is president of fhe Everett and Tread-
well Company, and of the Kingston Board
of Trade. He was a member of the State
Assembly from the First District of Ulster
County, in 1890. He is also a veteran of
the Civil War, having served as lieutenant,
captain, and brevet-major in the One Hun
dred and Twentieth Regiment of New
York Volunteers. Mr. Everett is a Repub
lican in politics, arid is a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church: Mr. Everett is
a merhber of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and the Grand Army of the Re
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married at Kingston, New York, March
21, 1875, Jennie Benson, and they have
had one son, who was born March 21,, 1878,
and died July 8, 1897.. Address : Kingston,
New York.
EVEBINGHAM, Lyman:
Commission merchant; born in Geneva,
New York, September 9, 1831 ; son of the
Rev. John S. (Baptist clergyman) and Jane
Maria Everingham. He was educated in
the public schools of his native' place, pass
ing through the high school grades.' At
the age of twenty he was engaged as a
clerk in the general office of the' Buffalo,
Cording and New York Railroad, and after
a few years' service he became auditor of
accounts and paymaster. He resigned from
this position in 1856 and went to Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, where he assumed the dut
ies of freight agent with the La Crosse and
Milwaukee Ra:lroad Company, afterward
holding the same position with its succes
sor, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway Company. Fie remained with the
company until 1865, when he resigned to in-
¦ augurate the firm of Bacon and Everingham,
which continued until 1874, when it was
changed to L. Everingham and Company,
and the business of the concern was trans
ferred to Chicago in 1880. Mr. Evering
ham was president of the Columbia National
Bank of Chicago in 1891-1892. He is a
member of the Chicago Board of Trade, the
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, and of
the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange. He
was married at Albion, New York, Decem
ber 23, 1857, to Mary Dickinson, and has
four children : Edward L., Henry Dickin
son, Belle, and Mae Louise. Residence : 143
Oakwood Boulevard, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Board of Trade Building. Chicago,
Illinois EVEBMANN, Barton Warren:
Biologist ; born in Monroe County, Iowa,
October 24, 1853. He attended the public
schools, of Indiana and Howard College- at
Kokomo, Indiana, from 1870 to 1872, and
Butler College, Butler, Indiana, from
1878 to 1879;, later a student at the Uni

versity of Indiana, from which he received
the degree of B.S. in 1886, A.M. in 1888,
and Ph.D. in 1891. He was a teacher in
the public schools of Indiana front 1871 to
1879, and in those of California from 1879
to 1881; superintendent of schools, Carroll
County, Indiana, from 1883 to 1885; pro
fessor of biology and geology, Indiana
State Normal School, from 1886 to 1891;
ichthyologist, United States Fish Commis
sion, from 1891 ; assistant in charge, Divi
sion of Scientific Inquiry, United Statef
Bureau of Fisheries, from 1903; curator,
Division of Fisheries, United States Na
tional .Museum, from 1905 ; vice-president,
Board of Education, District of Columbia,
since 1906; special lecturer at Stanford
University from 1893 to 1894; lecturer
on Fish Culture and Fish and Game Pro
tection at Cornell University from 1899 to
1903, and at Yale Forest School from 1904
to the present time; member of the United
States Fur Seal Commission in 1892; re
ceived a gold medal from the Paris Expo
sition in 1900. He is a fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, of the American Ornithologists'
Union, of the National Geographic Society,
of the Plant Preservation Society, of the
Washington Academy of Sciences (editor
since 1903), of the California Academy of
Sciences, of the Indiana Academy of Sci
ences, of the Washington Biological So
ciety. His chief researches and writings
have been on the life histories of American
fishes. Address: 1425 Clifton Street, or
Bureau of Fisheries, ¦ Washington, D. C.
EWABT, Hamilton Grover:
Jurist; born at Columbia South Carolina.
October 23, 1849; son of James B. Ewart
and Mary Ann Ewart. He was educated in
the schools of Columbia and afterward
took the law course at the University of
South Carolina, from which he was gradu
ated with the degree of LL.B. in 1876. In
the same year he was admitted to the bar,
located at Hendersonville, North Carolina,
and engaged in the practice of law. He be
came active in political affairs as a Repub
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Wheeler ticket in 1876, and was elected to
the North Carolina. Legislature in 1887 .-and
1884. In 1888 he was elected to the Fifty-
first Congress, a.nd served until 189.1; .' He
was elected judge of the Western Crim
inal District of North Carolina in 1895,
and served until he was appointed in 1898
by President McKinley to his present of
fice as judge, of the District Court of the
United States for the Western -District ¦ of
North Carolina. He married at Hender-
sonville, North Carolina, in 1879, Sarah
C. Ripley. Address : Hendersonville,
North Carolina.
EWELL, Marshall Davis:
Lawyer, microscopical and handwriting
expert; bom at Oxford, Michigan, August
18, 1844; son of Edmund C. Ewell and
Frances E. (Davis) Ewell. He received
his academic education at the Michigan
State Normal School, where he was grad
uated in 1864. Thence entering as a law
student the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, he completed his course in 1868, re
ceiving the degree of LL.B. The degree of
LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1879 by
the University of Michigan, and that of
A.M. by Northwestern University. In 1868
he was admitted to the bar of Michigan,
practicing there for several years. In 1877
he was appointed professor of common law
. at the Union College of Law at Chicago,
holding that position until 1892, when he
resigned and founded the Kent College of
Law, of which he was president and dean
till 1902. , Dr. Ewell has . taken up the
study of medicine in connection with his
law practice, graduating in 1884 with , the
degree- Of M.D.' from the Chicago Medical
College, and is a noted microscopist and
handwriting expert. He is prominently
connected with the American Microscopical
Society of London. He has made a spec-
and is -a fellow of the Royal Microscopical
Society of London. He, has made a spec
ialty of medico-legal cases and is an au
thority in that branch of the law, writing
many books and articles on his experiences
and observations. Among other works he
is author of: Leading Gases on Disabili
ties (1876) ; The Law of Fixtures (1876-

1904 second edition). (This is his most
important Work and .the one upon which his
reputation largely depends)-- Essentials of
the Law (1882) ; Manual of Medical Juris
prudence (1887). He has also edited var
ious . standard legal works. He. was mar
ried at Armada, Michigan, in 1870, to Abbie
L. Walket." Residence: 747 Hinman Ave
nue, Evanston, Illinois. Address : 50 Clark
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
EVVING, Adlai Thomas:
Lawyer; born in McLeari Comity, Illi
nois, February 5, 1846; son of John Wal
lace and Maria McClellan (Stevenson)
Ewing. He received his early education in
the public schools of McLean County and
was graduated from the Illinois State Un
iversity.., He studied law in the office of his
brother, Hon. James S. Ewing, and was
admited to the Illinois bar in 1868. He was
appointed by President Harrison one of the
Illinois members of the United States Com
mission for the World's Columbian Expo
sition at Chicago, and served on the com
mittee's on Permanent Organization and
on Fine Arts, and was also a member, of
the Executive Committee, in all of which
positions he rendered efficient service. He
is possssed of an unusual degree of "energy,
and was one of the earliest and most act
ive workers in the scheme for the sanitary
drainage of the city of Chicago. He was
also the original promoter of the boulevard
connecting Union Park with Douglas Park
in that city. He is now president of the
Marine Iron Works, and is identified with
other large business enterprises. IHe is a
DeriiOcrat. He was one of the organizers
of the Union Club and is a charter riiember
and ex-president of the Iroquois Club. ; 'He
was married in Buffalo in' 1879 to Kate
Hyde:' 'Residence: 3745" Ellis Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address:. 108 La Salle. Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
EWING, Hampton D.:
Lawyer ; born in Washington, D. C, June
18, 1866; son of General ' Thomas- Ewing. :
and Ellen (Cox) Ewing. He was gradu
ated from Columbia University as A.B. in
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fellowship in science in that institution
from 1888 to 1891. He is a member of the
law firm of Ewing & Ewing, and a member
of the American Bar Association, and of
the New York State, New York City, and
Westchester County Bar Associations, the
Medico-Legal Society of New York, the
Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Alpha
Delta Phi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.
He is trustee of the First Presbyterian
Church, at Yonkers, New York, and presi
dent of the Yonkers Chapter of the Sons
of the American Revolution. Mr. Ewing
is also a member of the University, Alpha
Delta Phi and Columbia University Clubs;
a director of the Amaskasson Club and a
member of the Athelstan Club of Mobile,
Alabama. He married at Richmond, Vir
ginia, April 14, 1898, Marie L. Dunlop,
and they have two children : James Dun
lop, born in 1900, and Hampton D., born in
1902. Address: 27 Belmont Terrace, Yon
kers, New York.
EWING, James Stevenson:
Lawyer; born in McLean County, Illi
nois, July 19, 1835; son of John W. Ewing
and Maria M. (Stevenson) Ewing, He
began his academic education at the Illi
nois Wesleyan College, at Bloomington,
but did not remain to finish, entering instead
Center College, Kentucky, where he was
graduated in 1858 with the degree of A.B.
During the year that followed he studied
for the bar at Philadelphia, and, returning
to Illinois, was admitted to practice in the
courts of that State in 1859. He has a law
office at Bloomington, where he has been
for many years partner of Adlai E. Ste
venson,- former vice-president of the United
States with President Grover Cleveland.
During the adrriinistration of 1893.-1897,
Mr. Ewing was United States Minister to
Belgium, by appointment of President
Cleveland. Address : Bloomington, Illinois.
EWING, John GUlisple:
Lawyer; born at Lancaster, Ohio, May
22, i860; son of Philemon Beecher and
Mary Reoecca (Gillespie) Ewing. After
a preparatory education in the schools of
his native town, he entered Notre Dame

University, Notre Dame, Indiana, where be
was graduated from the academic course in
1878 with the degree of A.B. This he fol
lowed by a two years' study of the law at
Lancaster after which term he was ad
mitted to the bar of Ohio. In 1889 he
was offered the chair of mathematics at
his alma mater, and filled this position
until 1894, when he. was appointed professor
of history and economics. This he held
for eleven years, and in 1905 again re
sumed his private practice. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of
the United States in 1904, and to the bar
of llinois in 1906. In 1904 he was a dele
gate from Indiana to the St. Louis Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists.
He is a member of the American Bar As
sociation, the American Academy of Polit
ical and Social Science, the American Eco
nomic Association, etc. He is also a prom
inent member of the Knights of Colum
bus. He married in San Francisco, Cali
fornia, May 22, 1906, Ethyldreda Kelly,
daughter of Alfred Roberts Kelly and
Frances Raleigh, of that city. Residence:
639 Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
EWING. Presley Kittredge:
Lawyer; born at Lafourche, Louisiana,
July 21, i860; son of Dr. Fayette Clay
Ewing and Eliza Josephine (Kittredge)
Ewing. He was graduated at the Universi- :
ty of Mississippi, receiving in 1881 the de
gree of Ph.B., and having in the mean
time taken various law courses, he re
ceived in the same year the degree of
LL.B. (cum laude). The following year
he was admitted to the bar in the State of
Texas, where he has since practiced. He
has appeared in a number of important
cases in the United States Supreme Court.
He served several ad interim terms in some
of the district courts of Texas, and in 1905
was commissioned chief justice of the Su
preme Court of that State. He is a prom
inent member of the Texas Bar Associa
tion, having been elected its president in
1899. He married at Lafourche, Febru
ary, 10, 1885, Mary Elinor Williams. Ad
dress : Houston, Texas.

MEN OF AMERICA.

EWING, Thomas, Jr.:
Lawyer and patent solicitor; born at
Leavenworth, Kansas, JVlaj; 21, 1862; son
of Thomas Ewing, chief justice of Kansas;
major-general of United States Volunteers,
and member of the Forty-fifth and Forty-
sixth Congresses from Ohio and Ellen
Ewing (Cox) Ewing. He was educated in
the public schools at Lancaster, Ohio, from
1871 to 1877; at the Wooster, Ohio, Uni
versity, from 1879 to 1881 ; received from
Columbia University the degree of A.B. in
1885, and A.M. in 1886 ; was in the Colum
bia Law School from 1887 to 1888; tutor
in the School of Mines from 1885 to 1888;
received from the Georgetown University
Law School the degree of LL.B. in 1890,
having studied there while assistant exam
iner, United States Patent Office, from
1886 to 1890. His patent office experience
has given direction to his practice and since
1891 he has practiced in New York City,
his firm, Ewing, Whitman and Ewing, be
ing constantly identified with the most im
portant patent law litigations. He has
been practicing in New York, mak
ing a specialty of patent law (firm of
Ewing, Whitman & Ewing) ; has also so
licited some well-known patents, notably
fundamental patent of Frank J. Sprague on
multiple unit system of electric tram oper
ation; and Professor M. I. Pupin's patents
on long distance telephony. He is president
of the Current Literature Publishing Com
pany, and director of the Crocker- Wheeler
Company. In politics he- is a Democrat He
was the Democratic candidate for mayor
of Yonkers in 1897 and in 1899 ; a mem
ber of the Yonkers School Board from
1897 to 1903 ; a member of the Commission
to revise the charter of Yonkers, from 1904
to, 1905; vice-president of the Ohio So
ciety of New York; a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, of the University and
the Columbia University Clubs. Author of :
Jonathan, a Tragedy, 1902. Residence;
Yonkers, • New York. Address : 67 Wall
Street, New York City.
EYCLESHYMEB, Albert Chauncey:
Professor of anatomy; bora at Cam
bridge, New York, June 16, 1867; son of

David C. Eycleshymer and Anna M. (Per
ry) Eycleshymer. He received- the degree
of B.S. from the University of Michigan
in 1891 ; was a fellow at Princeton in 1891 ;
a fellow at Clark from 1891 to 1892; a
fellow at Chicago from 1892 to 1893; re
ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of Chicago in 1894; studied at
Cambridge, England, from 1895 to 1896;
was Austin fellow at the Harvard Medi
cal School from 1900 to 1901. Was assist
ant in animal morphology, University of
Michigan in 1889; in botany, in 1890; chief
assistant, Allis Lake Laboratory, from 1890
to 1891 ; assistant in biology, University of
Chicago, from 1893 to 1895 ; associate, anat
omy, from 1895 to 1897 ; instructor from
1897 to 1902 ; assistant professor from 1902
to 1903; director, Department of Anatomy,
St. Louis University, from 1903. Was lec
turer on human embryology, Rush Medical
College, from 1897 to 1898; assistant pro
fessor from 1898 to 1899. He is a mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, of the American
Society of Naturalists, of the American
Association of Anatomists, the Academy of
Science, St. Louis, and of the University
Club. His chief researches have been on
Vertebrate Embryology. He received the
grand prize at St. Louis Exposition for
embryological researches. He married at
Chicago, Illinois, September 23, 1895, Mary
Elizabeth Donovan; they have two chil
dren: Ethel M., agen nine, and Albert D.,
aged five. Address : St. Louis University,
Medical Department, St. Louis, Missouri.
EYEBMAN, John:
Author, geologist and chemist; bora in
Easton, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1867. He
was educated by private tutors, and in Har
vard and Princeton Universities. For some
time he was lecturer and instructor in de
terminative mineralogy at Lafayette Col
lege, and was associate editor of The Amer
ican Geologist arid The Journal of Ana
lytical Chemistry. He is a fellow of the
Zoological Society of London, the Geologi
cal Society of America, the American Geo
graphical Society, the New York Academy
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for the Advancement of Science. He is a
life member of the British Association; a
member of the London Geological Associa
tion, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the
National Geographic Society, the Pennsyl
vania Historical Society, the Colonial So
ciety, the Society, of. the Sons of. the: Revo
lution, and secretary. of the Society, of Co
lonial Wars of New Jersey, Mr. Eyer-.
man is author of: Mineralogy of Pennsyl
vania; A Course in Determinative Mineral
ogy; The Old Graveyards of Northamp
ton; Genealogical Studies; The Ancestors
of Marguerite and John Eyerman; Some
Letters and Documents ; The Genus Temus-
cyon; Contributions to Mineralogy; and
numerous articles on 'mineralogy, geology
and palaeontology in scientific journals.
Address: Oakhurst, Easton, Pennsylvania.
EYBE, Lincoln L.:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, July 24,
1857; son of William Eyre, formerly a
prominent member of the Philadelphia bar.
Mr. Eyre was a student at Harvard for
two years, after which he studied law at
the University of Pennsylvania, and was
admitted to the bar in 1879. He has been
engaged in many important civil and crim
inal cases, and for some years was counsel
for the Philadelphia County Medical So
ciety in its prosecution of those practicing
without a diploma. He assisted in the for
mation of the Trust Safe Deposit and
Surety Companies, and has been solicitor
for that corporation, and also represents
other large' and important interests. He is
a fluent orator and has lectured frequently
on social and political subjects. For a num
ber of years he was an active and promin
ent advocate of municipal reform, but of
recent years he has become a strong sup
porter of the Republican party local organ
ization. He is a member of the Union
League, Art Club, Country Club, and a
number of other Philadelphia societies.
Address : Haverford, Pennsylvania.
EYBE, Wilson Jr.:
Architect; born in Florence, Italy, Octo
ber 30, 1858; son of Wilson Eyre and
Louisa (Lear) Eyre. His early education

was obtained in Italy, and later in the
schools of Newport, Rhode Island; Lenox-
ville, Canada, and Woburn, Massachusetts;
and he took a special course in architecture:
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol*
ogy, in 1876. He was associated -with.
James P. Sims, . architect, from 1876 to
1881 ; and since then he has been engaged :
in. independent practice. He has been. arch
itect of many prominent buildings in New
York City and Philadelphia, having offices
in both cities. Among his works are the
Detroit Club Building, Detroit, and build
ings for the Newcomb Memorial College,
New Orleans, and many others. Mr. Eyre
is a member of the American Institute of
Architects, the American Social Science
Association, and a member of the T-Square
Club, and the Philadelphia Art Club of
Philadelphia. Office addresses : 35 West
Twenty-first Street, New York City, and
929 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.

FABEB, John Eberhard:
Manufacturer; born New York City,
March 14, 1859; son of Eberhard Faber
and Jenny (Haag) Faber. He was edu
cated at Columbia College, School of
Mines, 1878; also studied in Nuremberg,
Germany and Paris, France. He entered
the office of his father, the well-known lead
pencil manufacturer in 1876, and since the
death of his father in 1879, he has had entire
charge of the business, still conducting it
under name of Eberhard Faber. He is
president of the United States Trade-Mark
Association; trustee and director of the
Stationers' Board of Trade, Northern Fire
Insurance Company. His favorite recrea
tions are golf and whist. He is a member of
the Merchants, Arkwright, New York
Athletic, Staten Island, Richmond County,
Fox Hill Golf, Knickerbocker and Whist
Clubs. He married first, December 22,
1886, Abby B. Adams, who died May, 1898;
second April 20, 1904, Roberta A. Heim.
Address : 37 Greenpoint Avenue, Brook
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FABEB, Lothar W.:
Manufacturer ; born New York City,
September 27, 1861 ; son of Eberhard Faber
an^ Johanna (Haag) Faber. He was edu
cated at Columbia College, School of
Mines. He is president Eberhard Faber
Pencil Coriipafty ; director Barnston Tea
Company; and a member of Beta Theta
Pi fraternity; also the German, Fox Hills,
Golf, Richmond County and Country Clubs.
Married at Newark, New Jersey, June 17,
1885, Anna Prieth, and they have three
children: Theodora, Margareta and Lothor.
Address: 337 Riverside Drive, New York
City.
EABYAN, George:
Merchant; born in Boston, Massachus
etts, March 15, 1867; was educated in the
public schools of Boston. He went to Chi
cago, Illinois, while yet a youth and was
for five years in the employ of the lumber
concern of the Kirby-Carpenter Company.
In 1893 he entered the large dry goods com
mission house of Bliss, Fabyan & Company,
of which firm he is now a resident partner.
He is a director of the Federal Life In
surance Company and a member qi the Chi
cago Stock Exchange. He has been an
active Republican and served on the staff
of Gov. Richard Yates with the rank of
colonel. He is a member of the Chicago,
Union League, Calumet, and Washington
Park Clubs. He was married in Minnea
polis,' Minnesota, in 1891 to Miss Wright.
Residence: 3251 Michigan Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address : 237 Fifth Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
PAGAN, Charles A,:
Lawyer; born in Pittsburgh, in 1859. He
was educated at St. Mary's parochial
school, at the Pittsburgh Catholic College
and at Ewalt College. In 1887 he was ad
mitted to the bar and served for a time as
assistant district attorney. He is associ
ated in the practice of law with Senator
W. A, Magee, as Fagan & Magee. Mr.
Fagari serves as director in -various cor
porations, among them being the; German
National Bank, the Post Publishing Com
pany, the Iron City Sanitary Manufactur

ing Company, the Duquesne Fire Proofing
Company, the Natalie and Mt. Carmel Rail
road Company, the Anthracite Coal Com
pany, the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship
Canal Company, and the East End Sav
ings and Trust Company. He is riiem-
ber of the Duquesne, the Union, Mononga-
hela, Country, and the Oakmont Golf
Clubs; also president of the Board of Di
rectors" of the Charity Hospital. Address :
Frick Building Annex, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania. FAUS, Charles Harvey:
Editor; born at Richview, Illinois, May
18, 1872; son of Rolando Ziegler Fahs and
Mary M. Houston. He was graduated
from Northwestern University as A.B. in
1898, and from the Drew Theological Sem
inary, of Madison, New Jersey, as B.D.
in 1901. He was Evanston (Illinois) cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, during
a large part of his college course; assistant
editor of the Association Men (Chi
cago) in 1897 and 1898 ; managing
editor of the Intercollegian (New York),
from 1898 to 1901; assistant editor of the
Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chica
go) in 1901 and 1902; editor of the Board
of Foreign Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church (New York) since 1902. For two
months in 1898 he was among the soldiers
of the Seventh Army Corps, in Jackson
ville, Florida, as an army secretary of the
International Committee of the Young
Men's Christian Associations. Mr. Fahs
is a Republican in politics and a Methodist
Episcopalian in his religious belief. He is
a fellow of the American Geographical So
ciety; member of the National Geographic
Society. He married at Waukegan, Illi
nois, June 14, 1902, Sophia Blanche
Lyon, and they have two daughters : Doro
thy Irene C, born September 28, 1905, and
Ruth Miriam C, born February 6, 1907.
Residence: 528 West One Hundred and
Twenty-third Street, New York. Address-
150 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
FAHYS, Joseph:
Manufacturer of watch cases; born in
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educated there; married at Sag Harbor,
New York, 1856, Maria L. Payne. He
came to New York in 1857, and started
making watch cases. Later established a
factory in New Jersey, and one in Brook
lyn. Since 1881 he has had a factory at
Sag Harbor, New York. Mr. Fahys is
president Fahys Watch Case Company;
director of the Brooklyn Watch Company;
Montauk Steamboat Company; Third Na
tional Bank of New York; Trustee Lafay
ette Avenue Presbyterian Church and
Homoeopathic Hospital, Brooklyn. Resi
dence : 16 West Fifty-second Street. _ Ad
dress : 54 Maiden Lane, New York City.
FAIR, Robert Maitland:
Merchant, retired; born in New York
City, April 17, 1846; son of Robert and
Ann (Maitland) Fair. He received
his education in the public schools
of New York City. He went to Chi
cago when he was fifteen years of age and
obtained employment in a banking and
brokerage house, where he remained until
1865. He was thereafter for several years
engaged in various pursuits, and in 1871
entered a dry goods establishment. Here
he gained a rapid and thorough knowledge
of the business, and in 1890 was admitted
to a partnership. He remained an active
member of the firm for fifteen years, retir
ing January I, 1905, when he retired from
business life. He is a Republican and a
member of the Chicago and Midlothian
Clubs. Fie was married in Chicago in 1870
to Emma Dean, and has ' three children:
Charles Maitland, Helen Wheeler, and
Joseph Brooks. Address : 2222 Calumet
Avenue, Chicago, Illinoi;.
FAIBBANK, John Barnard:
Lawyer, retired; born in Oakham, Massa-'
chusetts, August 8, 1839; son of James
Chanceller Fairbank and Luraha (Robin-
* son) Fairbank. He was graduated from
Amherst College as A.B. in 1867, and from
Columbia College Law School of New
York as LL.B. in 1869. He served from a
private to a brevet major "and through all
the intermediate grades in the Thirty-sixth
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the

Civil War. Major Fairbanks has served as
a member of the Board of Selectmen, and
of the School Committee of Oakham; was
member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives from 1877 to 1878; was
also president of the Board of Education
of Deadwood, South Dakota, and was a
member of the South Dakota Senate in
1897 and 1898. He is a Democrat in poli
tics and a member of the Congregational
Church. Residence: Greenmont, South
Dakota. Office address: Deadwood, South
Dakota.
FAIBBANKS, Charles Warren:
Vice-President of the United States ; son
of Loriston M. Fairbanks and Mary A.
(Smith) Fairbanks. After a preparatory
education in the common schools of the
neighborhood he entered the Ohio Wes
leyan University, Delaware, Ohio, graduat
ing from that institution in 1872 in the
classical course. Mr. Fairbanks was ad
mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court
of Ohio in 1874; removed to Indianapolis
in the same year, where he practiced his
profession until his admission to the. United
States Senate ; never held public office prior
to his election to the United States Senate
in 1897 ; was elected a trustee of the Ohio
Wesleyan University in 1885. He was
chairman of the Indiana Republican State
conventions in 1892 and 1898 was unan
imously chosen as the nominee of the Re
publican caucus for United States Senator
in the Indiana Legislature in January,
1893, and subsequently received his entire
party vote in the Legislature, but was de
feated by David Turpie, Democrat; was
elected to the United States Senate Janu
ary 20, 1897, to succeed Daniel W. Voor-
hees, Democrat; took his seat March 4,
1897, and was reelected in 1903. He was
appointed a member of the United States
and British Joint High Commission which
met in Quebec in 1898, for 'the adjustment
of Canadian questions, and was chairman
of the United States high .corriniissioners*,'
was a delegate at .large to the Republican
National Convention at St., Louis in 1896,
and was temporary chairman of the con
vention; was a delegate at large to the

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Republican National Convention at Phila
delphia in 1900, and as chairman of the
platform; was a delegate at large to the
Republican National Convention at Chi
cago in 1904, and was chairman of the In
diana delegation; was. unanimously nom
inated by that convention for Vice-Presi
dent of the United States, and elected on
the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, re
ceiving 337 of the 476 electoral votes, to
139 for Henry Gassaway Davis, of West
Virginia, the Democratic candidate. Mr.
Fairbanks resigned as United States sena
tor from Indiana to take effect March 4,
1905, at noon, on which day and hour he
took the oath as Vice-President of the
United States. Mr. Fairbanks married in
1874, Miss Cornelia Cole. Residence: In
dianapolis, Indiana. Official address:
Washington, D. C.
FAIRBANKS, Harold Wellman:
-Geologist; born at Conewango, Cattar
augus County, New York, August 29, i860.
Educated in the State Normal School at
Fredonia, New York, and the University
of Michigan, graduating with the degree
of B.S. in 1890; received the degree of
Ph.D. from the University of California.
He has been engaged since 1890 upon the
geology and geography of the Pacific
Coast. Was connected with the California
State Mining Bureau from 1890 to 1894;
was assistant United States Geological Sur
vey from 1899 to 1901 ; since 1900, has been
engaged in independent research. Is as
sociate editor of the Nature Study Re
view; a member of the Geological Society;
of the Geographical Association ; of the Na
tural Geographic Society ; and of the Califor
nia Academy. He is the author of the fol
lowing text-books : Stories of Our Mother
Earth; Home Geography; Physiography of
California; Stories of Rocks and Minerals;
The Western United States (a geographical
reader) and Practical Physiography (for
high schools). Address: Berkeley, Cali
fornia.FAIBBANKS, Henry:
Manufacturer; born at Saint Johnsbury,
Vermont, May 6, 1830; son of the late
Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of scales,

and Lucy P. (Barker) Fairbanks. He was
carefully prepared for Dartmouth College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1853, and from there he went to the And
over. Theological Seminary, graduating in
1857. He was ordained in the ministry of
the Congregational Church and served in
pastorates until i860, when he became pro
fessor of physics at Dartmouth College, re
ceiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Later his chair at that institution was
changed to that of professor of natural
history, in which he continued until 1868,
when he resigned in order to become ac
tively identified with the manufacturing
enterprise of E. and T. Fairbanks and
Company with which he has ever
since been connected, and of which
he is now vice-president Mr. Fair
banks is an inventor of distinction and has
received over thirty patents for his inven
tions. He is a trustee of Dartmouth Col
lege and of the Saint Johnsbury Academy,
and vice-president of National Association
of Manufacturers. Mr. Fairbanks continues
to take an active interest in the affairs of
the Congregational Church and is a mem
ber of the National Council and the Inter
national Council of the Congregational
Church, and president of the Vermont Do
mestic Missionary Society. He has been
twice married, first at Hanover, New Hamp
shire, April 30, 1862, to Annie Noyes, who
died September 11, J&72, and second, at
Newport, Vermont, May 5, 1874, to Ruthy
Page. Address : Saint Johnsbury, Vermont.
FAIRCHILD, Charles Stebbins:
Lawyer, banker; born Cazenovia, New
York, April 30, 1842 ; sofn of Sidney T. and
Helen (Childs) Fairchild; graduated from
Harvard College A.B,, 1863 ; Harvard
Law School, 1865 (LL.D., Columbia Uni
versity) ; married Cazenovia, June 1, 1871,
Helen Lincklaen. Adrhitted to bar State
of New York, 1865; practiced law in Al
bany until 1876; deputy attorney-general,
State of New York, 1874-75; attorney-
general, 1876-77; established law practice
in New York City ; appointed . secretary
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land, 1885 ; secretary of same, 1887-89 ;
upon retirement from Treasury, entered
banking business. President and director
Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway
Company; president and trustee Bifkbeck
Investment, Savings & Loan Company;
director Erie & Pittsburgh Railway Com
pany, National City Bank of New York;
trustee British & American Manufacturing
Company. Democrat. Episcopalian. Mem
ber American Economic Society, Amer
ican Statistical Society, American and Na
tional Geographic Societies, Bar Association
City of New York, Chamber of Commerce,
New York, State Charities Aid Associa
tion, Charity Organization Society of New
York; was president Reform Club; trustee
New York Life Insurance Company; mem
ber New York Institution for the Blind;
member Monetary Committee, appointed
by Executive Committee Indianapolis Con
ference, 1897. Recreations : Golf, billiards,
boating. Clubs. Century, Metropolitan
(Washington), University, Harvard (was
president), Midday, Delta Kappa Epsilon
Alpha Delta Phi (New York), Ardsley,
Garden City Golf. Residence. 10 West
Eighth Street. Address: 10 West Eighth
Street, New York City.
FAIBCHILD, David Grandison:
Agricultural explorer in charge of the
office of Seed and Plant Introduction of
the United States Department of Agricul
ture; born at the Michigan State Agricul
tural College near Lansing, Michigan, April
7, 1869 ; son of George T. and Charlotte
P. (Halstead) Fairchild. He was graduat
ed from the Kansas State Agricultural
College as B.S. in 1888 and later as M.
Sc. ; and did post-graduate work in biology
at the Zoological Station at Naples, at the
Universities of Breslau, Berlin, Minister
and Bonn, and at the Botanical Gardens at
Buitenzorg, Java. He made, as agricultural
explorer for Mr. Barbour Lathrop of Chi
cago, several scientific expeditions in search
of seeds and plants to South America,
South Africa, Australia, South Sea Islands,
Malayan Archipelago, Arabia, China, Japan,
India and Europe, and for the Department

of Agriculture to Greece, Spain, Algiers,
Egypt and the Dalmatian Coast. Profes
sionally engaged as agriculturist since
1889, he has been in his present position
since 1897 ; organized in 1897 the work now-
carried on by the Office of Seed and Plant
Introduction and Distribution in the United
States Department of Agriculture. Resi
dence: 133 1 Connecticut Avenue, Wash
ington.: Official address : United States
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. Summer Residence: R. F. D.
No. 3, Silver Springs, Maryland.
FAIBCHILD, Herman Le Boy:
Professor of geology; born at Montrose,
Pennsylvania, April 29, 1850; son of Har
mon Canfield Fairchild and Mary Amanda
(Bissell) Fairchild. His paternal ancestry
goes back to Thomas Fairchild of Strat
ford, Connecticut, while his mother's fam
ily, the Bissells, were from Cooperstown,
New York, and still earlier from Rhode
Island. Mr. Fairchild was graduated from
Cornell University as B.S. in 1874. He was
professor of natural sciences in Wyoming
Seminary, near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania,
from 1874 to 1876, and engaged as a sci
ence lecturer in the schools and institutions
of New York City and its vicinity until
1888, when he was called to his present
chair as professor of geology in the Uni
versity of Rochester. For three years prior
to his call to Rochester he was secretary
of the Academy of Sciences of New York,
and he published a history of that organiza
tion in 1887. He has written and published
about one hundred monographs and con
tributions on geology, paleontology and bi
ology, and has made special investigations
in the pleistocene geology of Western New
York, and particularly in reference to the
glacial lakes which were held at the ice
front during the retreat of the ice sheet
across New York State. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, was secretary of its Gen
eral Council in 1893, general secretary in
1894, and vice-president of Section E (ge
ology) in 1898. He is a member and was
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Academy of Sciences, and since 1890 has
been secretary of Geological Society of
America. Address : University of Roches
ter, Rochester, New York.
FAIRCLOUGH, Henry Busht.ou:
Professor of Latin at Leland Stanford
Junior University; born near Barrie, On
tario, Canada, July 15, 1862; son of James
Fairclough and Elizabeth (Erving) Fair-
clough. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Toronto as A.B. in 1883, and as
A.M. in 1886, and took post-graduate work
from Johns Hopkins University, from
which he received the degree of Ph.D. in
1896. Author of monographs and articles on
Greek phililogy, editor of various texts and
translater into English of Greek classics.
Dr. Fairclough married at Kingston, Ontar
io, August 25, 1888, Frederica Allen, daugh
ter of J. A. Allen. Address : Stanford
University, California.
FAIBES, Benjamin McKinley:
Bank vice-president ; born in Philadelphia.
April 27, 1855; son of John Wylie Faires.
D. D., principal of the Classical Institute,
and Elizabeth McKinley; after receiving
an academic training in his father's school,
he entered the arts department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, class of 1875, but
left at the end of the Freshman year to
take a position in the Bank of North Amer
ica. He remained in this institution from
1872 to 1886, and then entered the Fourth
Street National Bank, with which he has
since been connected, being appointed as
sistant cashier in 1896 and second vice-pres
ident in 1901. He is a member of the Or
pheus Club; director of the Bank Clerks'
Beneficial Association ; president Board of
Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia, and * member of the
Union League. Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety, Presbyterian Historical Society, New
England Societv of Pennsylvania. Merion
Cricket Club. Racnuet Club, and: Bachel
ors' Barge Club Residence: 245 S. Thir
teenth Street. Philadelphia. Address:
Fourth Street National Bank, Bullett Build
ing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

FAIRFAX, Albert Kirby:
Lord Fairfax of Cameron (twelfth
baron) in the peerage of Scotland, and
merchant; born at Northampton, Largo,
Prince George County, Maryland, June 23,
1870; son of John Contee Fairfax, M.D.
(eleventh baron), and Mary Kirby Fairfax
(daughter of Colonel Edmund Kirby,
United States Army). He received his
education in Maupin's University School,
Ellicott City, Maryland. He was four
teen years with Brown Brothers & Com
pany, bankers, New York City; four
years assistant manager London office In
ternational Banking Company of New York
and now partner in William P. Bonbright
& Company, London and New York. He is
a member and vice-president Yorkshire So
ciety of London, The Pilgrims in London,
Executive Committee, American Society
in London. His favorite recreations are
shooting and hunting. He is also a mem
ber of the City of London, Bachelors,
Sports Club of London and Union of New
York City. Residence: 22 Upper George
Street, London, W. Office address : 16
George Street, Mansion House, London,
E. C, England.
FAIRLEE, George:
Clergyman; born at Knox, Albany Coun
ty, New York, in 1853; son of William
Fairlee and Adaline (Clickman) Fairlee.
He was graduated from Union College as
A.B.' in 1877 and A.M. in 1880, and from
Auburn Theological Seminary in 1880. He
has been pastor of the Westminster Pres
byterian Church of Troy, New York, since
1880; is stated clerk of the Presbytery of
Troy, and president of the Board of Trus
tees of the Presbytery and secretary and
treasurer of Synodical Home Missions; and
a director of the Auburn Theological Sem
inary. He is also director of the Thomp
son Milling Company, and director and
vice-president of the Hanna Manufacturing
Company. Address: Troy, New York,
FALK, Benjamin J.:
Photographer; born in New York City,
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Falk. He was educated in the public
schools ; graduated from the College of the
City of New York, as B.S. in 1872. He
has photographed many celebrities and pub
lic persons, and has one of the largest
collections of this kind in the world ; he
took the first photograph of a stage scene
ever made at night, by electric light, May
1, 1883 ; he was in the theatrical business
from 1888 to 1895, as backer and manager
for Julia Marlowe. He is president of
Falk (a corporation) and of the Photogra
phers' Copyright League of America. Ad
dress : 14 West Thirty-third Street, New
York City.
FALLOWS, Edward H.:
Lawyer ; born Appleton, Wisconsin, Aug
ust 15, 1865 ; son of Rev. Samuel and Lucy
B. (Huntington) Fallows; graduated from
Amherst College, (summa cum laude) B.
A., 1886, A.M., 1890; Yale University,
(post-graduate), 1890; Columbia Law
School 1892. ' Admitted to bar, 1892 ; asso
ciated in practice with Governor Stewart
L. Woodruff; began independent practice,
1893; served in State Assembly from the
Twenty-first District, New York City.
1898-1900. Author of text-book on Col
lateral Inheritance and Transfer Tax.
Director and general counsel Ameri
can Brake-Shoe and Foundry Company.
Republican. Reformed Episcopalian.
Member New York City and State Bar
Associations, New York, Law Institute.
Recreations Golf, tennis, automobiling.
Clubs: University, Yale, Lambs', Republi
can, New York Athletic, Crescent Athletic,
Manhasset Bay Yacht, Automobile of Am
erica. Married, Boston, June 14, 1893,
Julia Haughton Kittredge; one child, An
nette Richards (born June 5, 1894). Resi
dence: 219 West Seventy-ninth Street.
Address: 170 Broadway, New York City.
FALLOWS, Samuel:
•Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal
Church;' born at Pendleton, Lancashire,
England, December 13, 1835 ; son of Thom
as Fallows and Anne (Ashworth ) Fallows.
He came with his parents to the United
States in 1848, settling in Wisconsin, was

prepared in the schools of that State, then
entering the University of Wisconsin, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1859.
He was ordained in the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1859 and
was vice-president of Galesville University
at Galesville, Wisconsin, from 1859 to 1861.
He served in the Civil War becoming col
onel and brevet brigadier-general, and was
afterward a Methodist pastor in Milwau
kee, was State superintendent of public in
struction of Wisconsin from 1871 to 1874,
and a regent of the University of Wiscon
sin from 1866 to 1874. In 1874 he was ap
pointed president of Illinois Wesleyan Uni
versity at Bloomington, Illinois, but re
tired from that position in 1875, when he
left the ministry of the Methodist Epis
copal Church to enter that of the Reform
ed Episcopal Church as rector of Saint
Paul's Church, Chicago, in which position
he has ever since continued, and he has
also, since 1876 been one of the bishops of
the Reformed Episcopal Church, and has
seven times been elected the presiding bish
op. He has received the degree of A.M.
in cursu and the honorary degree of LL.D.
from the University of Wisconsin, and of
D.D. from Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wisconsin, and from Marietta College,
Ohio. Dr. Fallows is one of the foremost
pulpit orators of the country and has also
taken an enviable place in literature,
not only as a writer on religious and
biblical subjects but also as an en
cyclopedist of marked ability, and a
writer on philosophical and sociolog
ical themes. Among his works are, in
chronological order: Bright and Happy
Homes, 1877; The Home Beyond, 1879;
Synonyms and Antonyms, 1884; Handbook
of Abbreviations and Contractions, 1884;
Handbook of Briticisms. Americanisms,
etc., 1884; Supplemental Dictionary of the
English Language, 1887; Webster's En
cyclopaedic Dictionary, 1891; Past Noon,
1892: The Bible Looking Glass; Life of
Samuel Adams, 1898 ; Splendid Deeds, 1900 ;
Popular and Critical Biblical Encyclopedia,
1901; Story of the American Flag, 1903;
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ophy, 1905; Memory Culture, 1905. Not
only as cleric and litterateur, but also as a
citizen in the forefront of all movements
for spiritual, moral and civic betterment
Dr. Fallows is distinguished. He has been
president of the Board of Managers of "the
Illinois State Reformatory since 1891, was
Chancellor of the University Association
and chairman of the General Educational
Committee of World's Congresses. He is
commander of the Militairy Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, for the
State of Illinois. He married, April g, i860,
Lucy B. Huntington. Address : 967 West
Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FANCHEB, Frederick Bartlett:
Ex-governor, farmer; born at Medina,
Orleans County, New York, April 2, 1852;
son of E. T. and Julia A. Fancher. He
was educated in the public schools and
at the State Normal School at Ypsilanti,
Michigan. He was engaged in the insur
ance business at Chicago from 1871 to 1881,
and since 1881 he has been engaged in farm^
ing on a large scale in North Dakota. He
has also been prominent in the politics of
that State, was president of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1889, com
missioner -of insurance of the State of
North Dakota from 1894 to 1898, and he
was also for six years president of the
Board of Trustees of the North Dakota
Hospital for the Insane, and at the elec
tion in 1898, he was elected to the
office of Governor of North Dakota, in
which office he served, from January, 1889
to January 1901. During the past few years
Governor Fancher has resided in California,
while still retaining his interests in North
Dakota. He married -at Albion, Michigan,
October I, 1884, Florence Van Voorhees;
children: none. Now president of The
Pacific Coast Retail Grocers' arid Merch
ants' Association. Address : 801 K Street,
Sacramento, California.
FANNING, Adelbert Canedy:
Jurist; born at Springfield, Pennsylvania,
July 25, 1851. His father, David Grace
Fanning, was one of the pioneers of Brad
ford County, and for fifty-nine years was

a Methodist class leader ; he died March
IS, I9°3- His mother, Antis Brown, daugh
ter of Alexander and Catharine (Brown)
Canedy, of Halifax, Vermont, was born
April 28, 1815, and died at Wetona, Penn
sylvania, September 11, 1870. Of the six
children of David Grace and Antis Brown
Fanning, Adelbert Canedy was the young
est. He was reared on the farm in Spring
field Township, where he received his first
school privileges. He was graduated from
the- Mansfield State Normal School in 1872
and:rfroni the law department of Michi
gan1 University at Ann Arbor in 1874.
In "September of that year he was admitted
to the bar, and at once took high rank in
hrs profession. He began practice at Ath
ens, Pennsylvania, but . after a few months
removed to Troy in that State. He was
district attorney for three years of Brad
ford County, and in September, 1899, was
appointed by Governor Stone,, (president
judge of the Forty-second Judicial District
of Pennsylvania to succeed the late Hon.
Benjamin M. Peck. In January, 1900.
Judge Fanning entered upon the ten-year
term to which he had been elected the pre
ceding fall. Judge Fanning is actively
interested in educational matters, and was
for twelve years a member of the Board
of Education of Troy. In religion he is
a Methodist, and for seven years was sup
erintendent of the Troy Sunday School,
and later filled the same place at Towanda.
He is a Free Mason, a member of Trojan
Lodge, No. 306, Troy Chapter No. 261,
Northern Commandery, No. 16, and has
filled the highest positions in the Order.
Is a member of Towanda Lodge of Per
fection, Hayden Council, Princes of Jeru
salem Calvary Chapter Rose Croix of To
wanda, Pennsylvania, Williamsport Con
sistory and Irem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is-
a member of the Bradford County Bar
Association, trustee of the Mansfield, Penn
sylvania, State Normal School, trustee of
Robert Packer Hospital at Sayre, Pennsyl
vania, and a riiember of a number of his
torical societies. He is a Republican, and
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party on the stump; he is popular as an
orator, and is in frequent demand on pub
lic occasions. He married Jennie E. Loom
is of Troy,, Pennsylvania; they have one
son, A, Carl Fanning, a daughter, Pauline
Frances, being deceased.. Address : To
wanda, Pennsylvania.
FANNING, Jphn Bowe:
Lawyer; born Stirling, Canada, Septem
ber 29, 1849, son' of John Benjamin and
Susan (Orr) Fanning; graduated from
Canadian Military School, 1869; educated
Stirling Grammar School. Has been en
gaged in the practice of law at Rochester
since 1873; corporation counsel at Roch
ester, 1881-82; "chairman Democratic Jud
icial Committee since 1880 for Seventh
Judicial District. Independent in politics.
Episcopalian. Vice-president Monroe Coun
ty Association for Protection of Birds,
Animals and Fish; member Law Commit
tee of New York State Forest, Fish and
Game League ; president Mitchell Preserve
Association; member Genesee Falls Lodge,
No. 507, F. and A. M., Hamilton Chapter,
Monroe Commandery. Recreations : Shoot
ing, fishing. Club: Manitou Beach Rod
and Gun (secretary). Married, Bridgeport,
Connecticut, May 11, 1877, Annie Otto
Shelton. Address : 834 Powers Building,
Rochester, New York.
FANNING, John Thomas:
Consulting engineer; born at Norwich,
Connecticut, December 31, 1837; son of
John Howard Fanning and Elizabeth
(Pridde) Fanning. He attended academies
and normal schools, and then studied and
practiced civil engineering and architect-
ture until i86i,when he entered the Third
Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers and
served the full time of the regiment in the
Civil War. _ He afterwards entered the
Connecticut State Militia as lieutenant and
was promoted in course to lieutenantrcolo-
nel. When the war closed he resumed his
engineering practice, making a specialty of
designing, and constructing Water- works
and tjie mechanical development of water
powers, first in New England; and after- <
ward in the West, doing especially notable j

water-power work at Minneapolis, and on
the Spokane River in Washington, and the
Missouri River at Great Falls, and Helena,
Montana; was also consulting engineer for
railways in the Northwest, etc. He has
written extensively on hydraulic engineer
ing; is a member and former director of
the American Society of Civil Engineers;
member and former president of the Amer
ican Water-Works Association, and he
has been a member since 1880 and a fellow
since 1885 of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. Mr. Fanning
married at Providence, Rhode Island, June
14, 1865, M. Louise Bensley; children:
Jennie L. (married T. A. Jamieson), Ren-
nie B., and Clara E. Fanning. Address :
Kasota Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
FANNING, William Joseph:
Lawyer; born in Crescent, Saratoga
County, New York, July 12, 1850; son of
James Fanning and Johanna (Fitzgerald)
Fanning. He was educated at the Halfmoon
Institute where he took an academic course
and received the degree of LL.B. from the
Law Department of the University of the
City of New York and has been in practice
in New York City since 1880. Mr. Fan
ning has been attorney for the Hotel As
sociation since 1882; and was appointed
by Mayor Strong, city magistrate, but de
clined. He is director, secretary and treas
urer of the Sinclair Realty Company, and
is a member of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art; and he was school trustee oi the
Eighteenth Ward for two years. He is
also a member of the Manhattan, National
Democratic, Catholic and graduates' Clubs.
Mr. Fanning married at New York City,
October 19, 1881, Annie C. Ashman. Ad
dress: 31 Nassau Street, New York City.
FABENHOLT, Oscar Walter:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, re
tired ; born in Texas, May 2, 1845 ; educated
in schools of San Antonio, New Orleans,
Louisiana, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Entered navy at New York a9 seaman, April
1% 1861 ; served on frigate Wabash ; partici
pated in engagements and battles at Fort
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'South- Carolina, Fort Pulaski, Georgia;
severely wounded at battle* of Pocotaligo,
South Carolina, October 22, 1862; sent to
Naval Hospital, New York, and discharged
from navy. Recovered from wounds ; re
entered navy February, 1863, on monitor
Catskill; was in almost daily engagements
with defences of Charleston, South Caro
lina, April, 1863, to April, 1864; participat
ed in unsuccessful storming party of Fort
Sumter, September, 1863 ; promoted acting
ensign August, 1864; commanded schooner
Henry James attached to squadron in
Sounds of North Carolina, participated in
recapture of Plymouth and several engage
ments on Roanoke, Chowan and Black
Water rivers, and capture of Fort Fisher,
North Carolina. After war on various
duties ; commissioned ensign March 12, 1868,
master December 18, 1868, lieutenant March
21, 1870, lieutenant commander May n,
1882, commander June 19, 1892, captain
September, 1990, rear admiral September
1, 1901, and retired: After the Civil War
he had the varied duties of a naval officer,
at sea and ashore, and was inspector of the
Thirteenth Lighthouse District from 1892
to July, 1896, when he was ordered to the
command of the steamer Monocacy, in
which he served on the Asiatic Station dur
ing the Spanish-American War, stationed
at Shanghai as base of information and
supplies for the fleet under Dewey; or
dered to the Navy Yard, Boston, July 5,
1899, to command of the Navy Yard at
Cavite, Philippine Islands in 1900, and to
the command of the Monadnock, Decem
ber 28, 1900, in which he served until his
retirement. Address : Care Navy Pay Of
fice, Washington, D. C.
FABGO, James Congdel:
Transportation manager ; born in Pomp-
ey, New York, May 5, 1829. He was em
ployed in the firm of Wells and Company
at Buffalo, from 1844 to 1848, and in 1848
was transferred to Detroit, and later to
Chicago, where he was agent and manager
of the American Express Company. He
was general superintendent of the same
company from 1866 to 1881, and since then

he has been president, and also president
of the- Merchants" Despatch and Transpor
tation Company and director of other rail
road and express companies. Address :
56 Park Avenue, New York City.
FABIS, George Washington:
Lawyer; born near Renssellaer, Jasper
County, Indiana, June 9, 1854; son of James
Collins and Margaret M. (Brown) Faris.
He received his education at Asbury (now
DePauw) University, Greencastle, Indiana,
graduating from the academic course in
1877 with the degree of A.B. Taking up the
study of law at Indianapolis, Indiana, he
was admitted to the bar in his native
State in 1877 and has since practiced. Mr.
Faris is prominent in Republican politics,
and in 1894 was elected member of Con
gress; was reelected to the house in 1896
and in 1898, serving' from i8gs to 1901.
He is now practicing at Terre Haute, In
diana. He was .married at Indianapolis, in
1878, to Anna C. Claypool, and they have
two children : George M., born in 1879; and
Mrs. Ruby Claypool Tennant, borri in 1882.
Address : Terre Haute, Indiana.
FABLEY, Arthur C:
Merchant; member of the Executive
Committee of the Boston Associated Board
of Trade; treasurer and director of the
Boston Merchants' Association. He is a
prominent layman of the Congregational
Church, a director of the Congregational
Association and secretary of the Board of
Ministerial Aid. Address: 141 Essex
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
FABLEY, Godfrey Pearson:
Civil engineer; born at West Point, New
York, August 7, 1865; son of Joseph Pear
son and Fanny E. (Brinley) Farley; edu
cated at Augusta (Maine) grammar and
high schools, and private tutor in en
gineering. Assistant engineer and draughts
man, United States. Government, 1889-87;
assistant to surveyor Department of Docks,
New 'York City, 1887-89; assistant engineer,
1889-98; acting first assistant engineer De
partment of- Docks and Ferries, 1898; gen
eral manager and chief engineer Wiscasset,

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Waterville & Farmington Railroad, since
1898; chief engineer and director Maine
Water & Electric Power Company; direc
tor First National Bank, Wiscasset, Maine.
Member American Society Civil Engineers,
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Natio.nal Geographic Society,
Loyal Legion (second class). Clubs: En
gineers, Republican, New York Athletic.
Married, Hartford, Connecticut, June 16,
1897, Grace Ingalls; children: Joseph
Pearson (eight), Mary Ingalls (six). Ad
dress : Engineers' Club, New York City.
FARLEY, John Murphy:
Archbishop; born at Newton, Ireland,
April 3, 1842; son of Philip and Catherine
(Murphy) Farley; studied for the priest
hood at St. Macartan's College, Monaghan ;
St. John's College, Fordham ; St. Joseph's
Seminary, Troy, and at the American Col
lege, Rome; was ordained priest at Rome,
June, 1870; assistant rector at St. Peter's
Church, New Brighton, Staten Island, the
same year; secretary to Archbishop Mc-
Closkey, 1872-84 ; private chamberlain (mon-
signor) to pope, 1884 ; vicar-general of New
York Archdiocese, 1892; prothonotary
apostle, 1895; auxiliary bishop of New
York, 1895; bishop (of Zeugma), 1895; ap
pointed administrator of New York, Sep
tember 15, 1902 ; archbishop of New York,
1903. Author of: The Life of Cardinal
McCloskey; Neither Generous Nor Just;
Why Church Property Should Not Be
Taxed. Address : 452 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
FABLEY, Joseph P.:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
was born March 2, 1839. His military car
eer began at the West Point Military Acad
emy, July 1, 1857, to which institution he
was appointed a cadet at large by the
President. He was graduated June 24,
1861, and on the same date appointed Sec
ond Lieutenant in the Second Artillery.
His first active duty was as an aide on
the staff of the commanding General in
the defenses of Washington, July to Oc
tober, 1861, and with Battery A of his
regiment. On October 24, 1861, he was

transferred to the Ordnance Corps, and
was on duty at Watertown Arsenal, Mas
sachusetts, from November I, 1861, to June
10, 1863. During this period he also acted
as assistant inspector at the south Boston
and other gun factories. He was com
missioned First Lieutenant of Ordnance,
March 3, 1863, and his skill in
this branch of the service led to
his selection as one of the officers
to conduct the operations against Charles
ton. His services in this regard were
notably conspicuous in the descent upon
Morris Island, July 10, 1863, and the bom
bardment of Fort Wagner, July 18, follow
ing. Lieutenant Farley was transferred to
the charge of the Ordnance Depot at Hil
ton Head, S. C, July 23, 1863, and re
mained on this duty until February 16,.
1864. From February 23 to August 27,
1864, he was Assistant Ordnance Officer
at the Allegheny Arsenal, Allegheny, Penn
sylvania, and from September 4 of the
same year until March 12, 1865, he was
in command of tne Ordnance Depot at
City Point, Virginia; brevetted cap
tain, March 13, 1865, receiving his regular
promotion to that grade April 6, 1866. Up
on the termination of hostilities he receiv
ed the appointment of principal assistant
professor of drawing at the Military Acad
emy, remaining there until October 1,
1867, when he was assigned to duty as as
sistant ordnance officer at the Washington
Arsenal. From the conclusion of his services
at this arsenal, October 20, 1868, to April
16, 1883, he was on duty for various per
iods at all the arsenals of the country.
March 26, 1876, Captain Farley was ad
vanced to the grade of major, and at the
same time he was made a member of the
Statutory Board (appointed by the Presi
dent)^ to select a magazine gun for the
United States service. Following this duty
came in their order the following duties:
r resident of the Board for. the examina
tion of Officers for transfer to the Ord
nance Department; commanding and con
structing the United States Powder Depot
at Dover, New Jersey; member of the
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promotion ; member of Statutory Board for
the testing of rifled cannon; member of
the Ordnance .Board stationed at New
York Arsenal- inspector of ordnance ma
terial and of pneumatic dynamite guns,
and construction of batteries for the same
at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Fort Schuy
ler, New York, and at Fort Warren, Bos
ton Harbor, Massachusetts; in command
of Frankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania; mem
ber of Statutory Board on magazine arms ;
member of Board on details for construc
tion of magazine rifles and carbines; com
manding Allegheny Arsenal, Pennsylvania;
at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, organizing
leather work on equipments at the Alle
gheny Arsenal; inspector of ordnance ma
terial at the foundries and factories at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; command of
Watervliet Arsenal, New York. On July
7, l8g8, he was promoted to the grade of
colonel and was president of the Board
for the test of rifled cannon from June
20, i8gg, to February 17, 1903, and also
president of the Board for the examina
tion of Ordnance Officers for promotion
from January 24, 1901, to January 1, 1903.
He was made a brigadier-general on Feb
ruary 17, 1903, and retired on his own
application February 18, 1903, after forty-
six years' service, within twelve days of
statutory age limit. Address : Watervliet
Arsenal, New York.
FARLOW, John Woodford:
Physician; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, August 28, 1853; son of John Smith
Farlow and Nancy Wight (Blanchard)
Farlow. He was graduated from Harvard
as A.B. in 1874 and M.D. in 1877. Dr.
Farlow was surgeon for diseases of nose
and throat at • the Boston City Hospital
and formerly, connected in the same capac
ity with Carney Hospital and Boston Dis
pensary; clinical instructor in laryngology
at Harvard Medical School; ex-president
of the American Laryngological Associa
tion and librarian of the Boston Medical
Library. He is a member of the Univer
sity, St. Botolph and Country Clubs of
Boston. Dr. Farlow married in Newton,

Massachusetts, September 21, 1877, Annie
H. Burr, and they, have two children:
Mrs. Margaret F. Castle, born in 1881, and
John Smith Farlow, born in 1883. Resi
dence: 127 Bay State Road, Boston. Ad
dress: 234 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts. FARM AN, Elbert Eli:
Jurist; born New Haven, Oswego Coun
ty, New York, April 23, 1831; son of
Zadok and Martha (Dix) Farman; and he
is a descendant of Robert Foreman, a
planter of Maryland, who came from Lon
don to Annapolis in 1674; and through the
maternal line is a descendant of Leonard
Dix, one of the settlers of Wethersfield,
Connecticut, and from Governor Thomas
Welles of Connecticut; graduated Amherst
College, 1855, A.M., 1858, LL.D. 1882.
Admitted to New York State Bar,
1858; to United States courts, 1862;
one of publishers of Western New Yorker,
1859-61; in Europe, 1865-67; studying
languages and international law, Universi
ties of Berlin and Heidelberg; accompanied
General Grant in voyage of the Nile, 1878;
in Mexico, Yucatan and Cuba, 1893; in
France, winters of 1893-97, 1899-1900; in
Germany, winter 1897-98; in Egypt, 1898-
99; in Spain, winter 1893-94; Italy, 1905-
06. Secured the Egyptian obelisk for New
York, 1879; made large collections of
coins and Egyptian antiquities, now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Was dis
trict attorney Wyoming County, 1868-75 ;
United States diplomatic agent and' con
sul-general at Cairo, Egypt, 1876-81 ; com
missioner to revise judicial code of Egypt
for use of mixed tribunals of Egypt, 1880-
81 ; judge of mixed tribunals of Egypt,
1881-84; United States 'member of com
mission to examine claims and determine
amounts to be paid inhabitants of Alex
andria for losses arising from bombardment
and burning of city in 1882; commission
passed upon 10,000 claims and awarded $20,-
000,000 damages. Delivered political ad
dresses in Presidential campaigns, 1856 to
1888. Republican ; delegate to National Re
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ist. Decorated by Khedive of Egypt, Grand
Officer Imperial Order Medjidieh; member
Sons of Revolution, Psi Upsilon fratern
ity (Amherst). Author: Along the Nile
with General Grant, 1904. Club: Union
League. Married, Madison, December 24,
1855, Lois Parker (died June 27, 1881) ;
second, Galesburg, Illinois, October 9, 1883,
Adelaide Frisbie; children: Lois Elbertine
(born December 27, 1884), Elbert Eli, Jr.,
(born December 21, 1886), Marie Louise
(born July 7, 1889). Address: Warsaw,
New York.
FABNA3I, Henry Walcott:
Political economist and educator; born
in New Haven, Connecticut, November 6,
1853; son of Henry and Ann Sophia
(Whitman) Farnam. He was graduated
from Yale with the degree of A.B. and
Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1874, and re
ceived the A.M. degree in 1876; took post
graduate work in political economy at the
Universities of Berlin, Gottingen and
Strassburg, receiving the degree of R.P.D.
in 1878, and then became a tutor at Yale
until taking, in 1880, his present chair as
professor of political economy in Yale Uni
versity. Professor Farnam is one of the
editors of the Yale Review, is distinguished
as a civil service reformer and has been
chairman of the New Haven City Civil
Service Board and president of the Con
necticut Civil Service Reform Association.
He was a member of the Committee of
Fifty, and one of the editors of Economic
Aspects of the Liquor problem. Professor
Farnam is a member of the Century, Uni
versity, Yale and Reform Clubs of New
York, and the Graduates' and Country
Clubs of New Haven. He married, June
26, 1890, Elizabeth U. Kingsley, and they
have three children : Louise W., Kath
arine K, and Henry W., Jr. Address :
43 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Con
necticut.
FARNAM, William Whitman:
Lawyer; born in New Haven, Connecti
cut, April 6, 1844; son of Henry Farnam
and Ann Sophia (Whitman) Farnam.
After graduating from Yale as B.A. and

M.A. in 1866, from Heidelberg as J.U.D.
in 1868 and from Columbia as LL.B. in
1871, he engaged in the practice of law
in New Haven. He was treasurer of the
Yale University from 1888 to 1899, and
director of the National New Haven Bank
from 1888 to 1900. He has been perma
nent member of the New Haven Commis
sion of Public Parks since its formation in
1880 and is now its vice-president. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religion an
Episcopalian, and he is a vestryman of
Trinity Church at New Haven. Mr. Far
nam is a member of the University and
Century Clubs of New York, and of the
Graduates, Country and Lawn Clubs of
New Haven. He married in New York,
June 4, 1873, Susan Frances Strong. Ad
dress : 335 Prospect Street, New Haven,
Connecticut.
FABBAGUT, Loyall:
Author; born in Norfolk, Virginia, 1844;
son of Admiral David G. Farragut and
Virginia L. Farragut. He was graduated
from the United States Military Academy
in 1888, but later resigned and was in the
employ of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey. Mr. Farragut is author of: Life
of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral
of the United States. He is a member of
the Naval Order of the United States, Am
erican Geographical Society, the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association
of Graduates of the United States Mili
tary Academy and the Century Association
and the University Club. He married in
New York, in 1869, Gertrude Metcalfe. Ad
dress : 113 East Thirty-sixth Street, New
York City.
FABBAND, Max:
Professor of history in Leland Stanford
Junior University since 1901 ; born in New
ark, New Jersey, March 29, 1869; son of
Samuel A. and Louise (Wilson) Farrand.
He was educated at Princeton, receiving
the degrees of A.B. in 1892, A.M. in 1893,
and Ph.D. in 1896, and also did post-gradu
ate work at the Universities of Princeton,
Leipzig and Heidelberg. After five years
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tory at the Wesleyan University at Middle-
town, Connecticut, he accepted his present
chair at Stanford. Besides his doctor's the
sis on The Legislation of Congress for the
Government of the Organized Territories of
the United States from 1789 to 1895, pub
lished in 1896, Dr. Farrand is author of a
translation of Jellinek's Declaration of the
Rights of Man and of Citizen's, " 1901,
and of contributions to the American His
torical Review-and other historical period
icals. He is a member of the American
Historical Association and of the Connecti
cut and New Jersey Historical Societies,
the Nassau Club of Princeton, New Jersey,
the Princeton Club of New York, and the
University and Bohemian Clubs of San
Francisco. Address : Stanford University,
California.FABBAB, Edgar Howard:
Lawyer; born at Concordia Parish,
Louisiana, June 20, i84g; son of Thomas
Prince and Anna (Girault) Farrar. He re
ceived his academic education at the Uni
versity of Charlottesville, Virginia, graduat
ing in 1871 with the degree of A.M.
Thence, going to Baton Rouge, La., he took
up the study of law at the Louisiana State
University and passed his bar examinations
in 1872. Since then he has practiced at
New Orleans. In 1878 he was appointed
by the mayor assistant corporation counsel
for the city and two years later became
full corporation counsel. Mr. Farrar is
one of the leading members of the Demo
cratic party at New Orleans and was -one
of the organizers of National Democracy
in 1896, which refused to accept the silver
platform as that of the party. As a citi
zen, he has always stood for good govern
ment and for many years has. been chair
man of the Committee of One Hundred,
organized to keep the city government^ out
of the hands of unprincipled politicians.
He led' the prosecution against the band of
Mafia who assassinated the chief of
police and caused the riots at New Or
leans. He was married at New Orleans in
1878, to Lucinda Davis Stamps. Address :
2209 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans,
Louisiana.

FABBELL, John 1>. :
Railway official ; born at Brasher Falls,
Saint Lawrence County, New York, July
31, 1856. His railway service began in 1877
as a track laborer on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway. In 1879 he became
timekeeper and the following year foreman
in material yard, buildings and water de
partment of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
Saint Paul Railway in Minnesota and Da
kota. He was a foreman in the Construc
tion Department of the Chicago and North
western Railway in 1881, foreman of bridg
es with the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint
Paul Railway in 1881 and 1882, chief clerk
and foreman of bridges, buildings and wat
er department of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way at Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1882 and 1883 ;
assistant superintendent in same department
on the Western Division of the same road
in 1883 and 1884; brakeman on freight-
train and station agent, 1884 and 1885 ;
freight and passenger conductor from 1885
to 1887, on same road; conductor on the
Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
Railway in 1887; passenger conductor on
the Montana Central Railway in 1887 and
r888; trainmaster of the Chicago Division
of the Chicago, Saint Paul and Kansas
City Railway in 1888 and 1889, and from
1889 to i8g2 division superintendent of the
same road (now the Chicago Great West
ern Railway). He became superintendent
of the Cascade Division of the Great North
ern Railway at Spokane, Washington, as
sistant general superintendent of the West
ern Division of the same road in 1893 and
1894, and general superintendent of the
Western District of the same road from
August. 1894, to January, 1895, when he
resigned and was engaged in mining and
steamboat business until November. 1898,
when he became connected with the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company as its president
until February, 1903, and from March I,
T903, became assistant to the president of
the Great Northern Railway, at Seattle.
Washington, and president of the Northern
Steamship Company. Address: Burke
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FABBELLY, Stephen:
Head of the American News Company
of New York; is a riative of Ireland, in
which country he was born in 1843. His
father, Owen Farrelly, was the master of
a private school in Ireland, and a man
of strong convictions and sterling character.
When his native land was seriously disturb
ed and the conduct of his business inter
fered with by the political troubles of 1848
he emigrated with his family to this coun
try and settled at Penn Yan, New York,
where he himself educated his sons. After
some years he removed with his family
to New York City, where, when seventeen
years of age, Stephen entered the service
of Dexter & Bro., at that time wholesale
news agents, but later prominent members
of the great distributing organization
known as the American News Company,
which was established in 1864. An elder
son of Owen Farrelly was bookkeeper for
Dexter & Bro., and became one of the
founders of the American News Company;
but on the formation of this company,
Stephen, who had just reached his ma
jority, was not admitted to membership.
Not caring to remain with the company
on a salary, he left them to seek his for
tune elsewhere. He went to Savannah,
Georgia, undertook the rehabilitation of the
old book firm of John M. Cooper & Com
pany, which had been' before the war one
of the largest book and stationery con
cerns in the South, reorganized it as
Cooper, Olcott -and Fatrelly and made it a
great success. He sold his interest in 1869
and returned to New York, where he estab
lished the National News Company. This
company prospered under his manage
ment, as a rival to the American News
Company, but after a few years its busi
ness was merged with that of the latter
concern, in which Mr. Farrelly now be
came a director. His residence in Phila
delphia began in 1878, he having accepted
the position of manager of the Central
News Company, a branch house which the
American News Company had established
in that city in 1869. He efficiently managed

this concern, the business of which was
greatly "enlarged and developed. Mr. Far
relly made himself prominent in Phila
delphia affairs, and gained hosts of friends
by his frank and genial manner. He
was President of the Catholic Club, and
a member of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, the Citizens' Municipal As
sociation of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society and the Penn and
Art Clubs. He was also a director of the
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, of the City
Trust, Safe Deposit and Surety Company,
and of the Beneficial Savings Fund So
ciety. He speaks French fluently, and has
on three occasions made extended trips to
Europe, one of them in 1871, immediately
after the Franco-Prussian War, in which
he visited all parts of France and Germany.
Of course, he did not fail to revisit the
old home of the family in Ireland. In
1902 Mr. Farrelly was transferred to New
York, to become, in succession to his
brother, the late Patrick Farrelly, the head
of the American News Company, and he
has directed the affairs of this great busi
ness with signal success. Address : 39
Chambers Street, New York City.
FABBINGTON, Edward Holyoke:
Professor of dairy husbandry at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin since 1894; born at
Brewer (now part of Bangor), Maine,
December 20, i860; son of Joseph Rider
(Farrington) and Ellen (Holyoke) Far-
rington. He was graduated from the
Maine State College at Orono, Maine (now
University of Maine) as B.S. in 1881, and
from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University as M.S. in 1882. He has been
connected with the State Agricultural Ex
periment Stations in Connecticut, Illinois,
and Wisconsin and is author of a volume
on Testing Milk and Its Products and nu
merous bulletins and reports as the result
of special research work. Professor Far
rington married, in Chicago, June 1, 1898,
Margaret Tate; children: Isabel, born in
1901. Address : 315 Mills Street, Madison,
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FABBINGTON, Edward Silsby:
Lawyer; born at Yreka, California, Sep
tember 6, 1856; son of Daniel and Eliza
beth Ann (Silsby) Farrington. He receiv
ed his college education at Amherst, where
he was graduated in 1880 with the degree
of A.B. Following his graduation he be
came a teacher in the West and in 1883
was placed at the head of Nevada State
University at Reno, Nevada. Two years
later he took up the study of law at the
Hastings Law School in San Francisco and
in 1887 returning to Nevada, was admitted
to the bar of the State. He is now Uni
ted States district judge for Nevada. He
was a candidate of the Republican party
for representative to Congress in 1900
and 1902. In igo4 he was member of the
National Republican convention held at
Chicago, and delegate to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St.
Louis. He is an Odd Fellow and also be
longs to the Sage Brush Club at Carson,
Nevada. He married at Salt Lake City,
August 14, 1892, Celia Taber. Residence :
Carson, Nevada. Address : Carson, Nev
ada.
FABBINGTON, Wallace Bider:
Editor; born at Orono, Penobscot Coun
ty, Maine, May 3, 1871 ; son of Joseph Rider
Farrington and Ellen E. (Holyoke) Far
rington. After a careful preparation in the
public schools of Maine he entered the Uni
versity of Maine, from which he was grad
uated with the degree of B.S. in 1891. He
entered upon newspaper work immediately
after graduation as a reporter on the Daily
News at Bangor, of which he afterward
became night editor, and then was reporter
on the Kennebec Journal at Augusta,
Maine. In 1892-1893 he became assistant
editor of the publications of the Phelps
Publishing Company at Springfield, Massa
chusetts,, and in 1894 was one of the found
ers and managing editors of the Daily
Star at Rockland. In 1894, and until 1896
was president of the Hawaiian Gazette
Company and managing editor of the Paci
fic Commercial Advertiser. Since June,
1898, he has been managing editor of the

Honolulu Evening Bulletin, and president
of the Bulletin Publishing Company, Limit
ed. He was a member of the Territorial
Board of Education of Hawaii for 1905
and 1907, is a member of the Republican
Territorial Committee and was active in
the establishment of the Hawaii College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Mr.
Farrington is author of : A Review of the
Revolt of 1895, published as an appendix
to Alexander's History of the Hawaiin
Revolution. Mr. Farrington married in
Honolulu, Hawaii, October 26, 1896, Cath
arine McAlpine Crane, of San Francisco,
and they have three children: Joseph
Rider Farrington, Ruth Farrington, Fran
ces Crane Farrington. Address: The
Evening Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii Ter
ritory.FABBOW, Miles:
Organist; born at Winnsboro, South
Carolina, October 13, 1871 ;¦ son of Miles
Marion and Elizabeth Jane (Caldwell)
Farrow. He was educated in private
schools and received the degree of Bachelor
of Music from the University of Penn
sylvania in 1901. He has been organist
and choirmaster of leading churches in
Baltimore, and wrote a book on the Train
ing of Boys' Voices, published in i8g8; also
organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church, and Christ
Protestant Episcopal Church; organist of
the Madison Avenue Synagogue, Baltimore,
and headmaster of St. Paul's Boys' School.
Address : 8 East Franklin Street, Balti
more, Maryland.
FABSON, John:
Banker, lawyer: born Union City, In
diana, October 8, 1855; son of Rev. John
T. and Harriet S. (Page) Farson, edu
cated public schools, Champaign, Illinois,
and University of Illinois, 1874-76. Studied
law in Chicago in office of J. R. Doolittle,
United States Senator from Wisconsin;
admitted to the bar 1880 ; banker since
1 881; organized firm of Farson, Leach and
Company, in 1889; since changed 1906, to
Farson, Son & Company; director Rock
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Rockford and Freeport Electric Railway
Company. President Illinois State Sunday
School Association 1898; Chicago Metho
dist Social Union 1900 ; vice-president New
York and Chicago Road Association; ex-
president American Automobile Association,
Oak Park Horse Show Association ; Trustee
American University, Washington; director
Eden (Wyoming) Irrigation and Land
Company. Clubs : Chicago Club, Midday
Club, Chicago Athletic Association, Bankers
Club, Illinois Club, Chicago Automobile
Club (ex-president), Union League Club
(ex-director), Gen View Golf Club, Chi
cago Yacht Club; Chicago Golf Club (Chi-
coga) ; Lawyers' Club (New York City) ;
Oak Park Club (Oak Park, Illinois).
Married Mamie A. Ashworth; children:
John Jr., aged 26; William, aged 19, stud
ent at Yale. Residence: Pleasant Home,
Oak Park, Illinois. Address : First Na
tional Bank Building. Chicago, 34 Pine
Street, New York City.
FAB WELL, Granger:
Banker and broker; born in Chicago,
May 25, 1857; son of Judge William W.
and Mary E. (Granger) Farwell. He was
educated in the public schools of Chicago
and at Yale University, being graduated
from the latter in 1878. His collegiate
course was followed by two years spent in
the study of law, but he did not enter
into practice. . He chose a mercantile car
eer, and in 1880 entered the employ of
James H. Pearson & Company, of Chicago,
lumber merchants, and in 1882 was admit
ted to partnership in the concern. In 1890
he withdrew from the firm to become a
member of the brokerage firm of Lobdell,
Farwell & Company, which association con
tinued until 1898, when the present firm
of Granger Farwell & Company was organ
ized. He is a director Chicago Stock Ex
change; president and director the Farwell
Trust Company ; director the Pyle-National
Electric Headlight Company; director the
University Club; chairman Board of Dir
ectors, Utah Gas and Coke Company; di-
ector State Bank of Lake Forest; director
the Western Trust and Savings Bank. He
is a member of the Chicago, University,

Onwentsia, and Merchants' Clubs of Chi
cago, and also of the University Club of
New York City. He married, December
23, 1880, Sarah C. Goodrich. Residence:
Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 226 -La
Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FARWELL, John Villiers:
Merchant, philanthropist ; born at . Paint
ed Post, Steuben County, New York, July
29, 1825 ; son of Henry Farwell and Nancy
(Jackson) Farwell. The family removed
to Ogle County, Illinois in 1838, and Mr.
Farwell's early education was received in
the schools of New York State and of Ogle
County, Illinois, and from 1841 to 1845 in
winter months, he attended the Mount
Morris Seminary at Mount Morris, Illinois.
After leaving that institution he went to
Chicago and in 1852 became a partner in
the oldest wholesale dry goods house in
that city, and in 1862 his brother Charles
B. Farwell (afterward United States Sena
tor from Illinois) became a partner in the
firm which is now known as the John V.
Farwell Company, one of the largest and
most successful wholesale dry goods enter
prises in this country. Mr. Farwell has
from his youth been active in Christian and
humanitarian enterprises and movements.
He was one of the most active and promin
ent members of the United States Christian
Commission during the Civil War, and was
a United States Indian Commissioner dur
ing the first administration of President
Grant. He donated to the Young Men's
Christian Association of Chicago his first
residence lot, upon which the Association
now has a magnificent office building, the
lot being in the heart of the best financial
district of. Chicago. To Mr. Farwell more
than to any other human agency, is due the
success of the magnificent evangelistic ef
forts of the late Dwight L. Moody, he hav
ing from the first aided and encouraged the
great evangelist and remained a • faithful
supporter of all of his undertakings. Mr.
Farweil has been a Republican from -the
birth of the party, and was a Lincoln and
Hamlin elector in the presidential campaign
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cial subjects are frequently sought by news
papers, and recently has published two
books : Early Recollections of D. L.
Moody, and Corner Stones of Character,
and he has written many articles for the
public press. Mr. Farwell has been twice
married, first April i, 1849, to Abigail G.
Taylor, and second, March 8, 1854, to Em-
eret Cooley, children : John V. Farwell,
Jr., Francis C. Farwell, Arthur Lincoln
Farwell . and Fanny Farwell. Residence :
Lake Forest, Illinois. Office address :
Monroe and Market Streets, Chicago, Il
linois.
FARWELL, John Villiers, Jr.:
Merchant; born in Chicago, Illinois,
October 16, 1858; son of John Villiers and
Emeret (Cooley) Farwell. He was educa
ted in the public schools of Chicago and at
Yale University, from which he was grad
uated in the class of 1879. He entered the
employ of the John V. Farwell Company
and has been its treasurer and general
manager since 1891. He is also a director
of the National Bank of the Republic,
president of the First State Pawners'
Society and was president of the Board of
Trustees of the Chicago branch of the
Young Men's Christian Association, during
the period when the La Salle Street Build
ing was erected. ; He is vice-president of the
Board of Trustees of the Lake Forest Uni
versity, chairman of the committee which
secured the passage of the revenue law of
1897, and a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Municipal Voters' League.
Mr. Farwell is a Republican, and takes
an active interest in municipal affairs. He
is a member of the Merchants' Club of
Chicago, of which he was one of the organ
izers and first president, and of the Uni
versity Club, of New York City. He
married at Wheaton, Illinois, May 20, 1884,
Ellen S. Drummond, daughter of the
late Judge Thomas Drummond, and has
one daughter, Katharine D. Residence:
Lake Forest, Illinois. Office address : Mon
roe and Market Streets, Chicago, Illi-

FABWELL, Oliver Atkins:
Librarian, botanist and drug inspector;
born in Boston, Massachusetts, December
13, 1867; son of Oliver Atkins Farwell and
Charlotte L. (Brokway) Farwell. In early
boyhood he removed to Michigan and he
was educated in the public schools and the
Ypsilanti Normal School in that State. He
was a teacher in the public schools in
1889 and 1890, and in the Michigan Normal
School from i8go to 1892; and in the lat
ter year he became curator of the her
barium and librarian for Parke, Davis and
Company, the noted manufacturing phar
macists of Detroit. Mr. Farwell is a mem
ber of the Society of Botanists of the Cen
tral States, the Michigan Academy of
Sciences, Torrey Botanical Club, New York
Academy of Science, and formerly mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Agassiz
Association and of the National Geographic
Society. He has written various papers on
Michigan flora, in connection with which
he has made special researches. In poli
tics he is a Democrat, and in church re
lations a Congregationalist. His favorite
recreations are shooting and fishing. Mr.
Farwell is a member of the Modern Macca
bees. Residence : 449 McClellan Avenue,
Detroit. Office address : Care Parke, Davis
and Company, Detroit, Michigan.
FABWELL, Walter:
Merchant, capitalist; born in Chicago,
Illinois, June 23, 1863 ; son of Charles Ben
jamin Farwell, late United States senator
from Illinois, and Mary Evelyn (Smith)
Farwell. His education was received in the
public schools of Chicago and at Lake For
est Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois, follow
ed by a regular course at Yale University,
from which institution he was graduated
in 1885 with the degree of B.A. His busi
ness career began with his entry into the
wholesale dry goods house of John V. Far-
well & Company, where he served in var
ious responsible positions until he was
finally made vice-president of this world
wide known establishment. He is also a
director of the Capital Freehold Land and
Investment Company of London, England,

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and Chicago, a corporation which has large
holdings of properties in Texas. He is a
member of the Chicago, Chicago Athletic,
Saddle and Cycle and Onwentsia Clubs of
Chicago and of the Metropolitan Club of
Washington City. He was married in
Washington City in 1902 to Mildred Wil
liams. Residence : 65 Bellevue Place, Chi
cago. Office address : 148 Market Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
FASSETT, Jacob Sloat:
Congressman and lawyer; was born in
Elmira, New York, November 13, 1853,
and has always lived in Elmira; was
graduated from the University of Rochester
in June, 1875; was admitted to the bar as
attorney in 1878, and as counselor in 1879.
Immediately thereafter he was appointed
by Governor Lucius Robinson to the office
of district attorney for the county of Che
mung, which position he held for one year.
He then became a student at Heidelberg
University, at Heidelberg, Germany. He
was elected to the New York State senate
in 1883, and served eight years as senator;
was elected temporary president of the
senate in 1889; was secretary of the Re
publican national committee for the cam
paign of 1888 ; September 9, 1891, he was
nominated for governor of New York by
the Republicans in State convention held
at Rochester, but was defeated by Roswell
P. Flower; was temporary chairman of the
Republican national convention in Minne
apolis in 1892; was temporary chairman of
the Republican State convention held at
Saratoga in 1904; was elected to the Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Address :
Elmira, New York. \
FATJLKNEB, Herbert Waldron:
Artist; born in Stamford, Connecticut,
October 8, i860 ; son of James W. Faulkner
and Sarah (Breasted) Faulkner. He was
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale University as Ph.B. and
D.E. (Dynamic Engineer), attended the
Art Students' League of New York and
the Ecole Collin of Paris. He exhibited in
the Paris Salon in 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902,

1903 and 1904; received honorable mention
for pictures in the Pan American Exposi
tion, Buffalo, in 1901, and some of his
pictures were purchased for the St. Louis
Art Museum, Dallas (Texas) Art Museum
and the Nashville (Tennessee) Art Mu
seum. In politics he is a Republican and
in religion an Episcopalian. He is a mem
ber of the American Art Association of
Paris, Syndicat de la Presse Artistique of
Paris, and is a member of the Salmagundi
Club of New York. Mr. Faulkner mar
ried at St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Sep
tember 12, 1895, Mary John, and they have
two children: Flerbert W. W. Faulkner,
born in 1898, and Louis M. Faulkner, born
in 1899. Residence : 70 rue d'Assas, Paris.
Studio address : 17 rue Boissonade, Paris.
FAUNCE, Daniel Worcester:
Clergyman; born at Plymouth, Massa
chusetts, January 3, 1829; son of Peleg and
Olive Faunce. After a careful preparatory
education he entered Amherst College,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of A.B. in 1850, and he afterward
pursued his theological studies in the New
ton Theological Institute at Newton, Mas
sachusetts, and was ordained to the minis
try of the Baptist Church in 1853. He fill
ed several important pastorates in New
England, Washington, D. C, and after
ward at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and is
now retired from pastoral activities but
still identified with church interests as a
member of the Board of Managers of the
American Baptist Missionary Union. He
received the degree of D.D. from Amherst
College in 1870. Dr. Faunce's career has
been one of great usefulness and influence
in his denomination and beyond its bounds,
not only as a pastor and pulpit orator, but
also in highly valued contributions to re
ligious literature. Two of his works,
The Christian in the World and Prayer as
a Theory and a Fact, each received, in dif
ferent years, the Fletcher prize at Dart
mouth College, and among his other best
known books are : The Words and Works
of Jesus; The Words and Acts of the
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his Bible ; The Resurrection in Nature and
in Revelation; Hours with a Skeptic;
Shall We Believe in a Divine Providence ;
Inspiration Considered as a Trend; Advent
and Ascension. Dr. Faunce has been twice
married, first at Bristol, R. I., in 1853 to
Mary P. Perry, and second, at Boston, in
1871, to Mary E. Tucker. His children are :
Rev. William Herbert Perry Faunce, D.D.,
LL.D., president of Brown University and
George P. Faunce and E. Howard Faunce
of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Albert B.
Faunce of Chicago. Address : Providence,
Rhode Island.
FAUNCE, William Herbert Perry:
President of Brown University; born at
Worcester, Massachusetts, January 15, 1859;
son of Daniel Worcester and Mary Park-
hurst (Perry) Faunce. After a prelimin
ary education- in the high school of Concord,
New Hampshire, and Lynn, Massachusetts,
he entered Brown University in 1876, grad
uating four years later with the degree of
A.B., and receiving that of A.M.. in 1883.
The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon
him by the Universities of Baylor and
Alabama in 1904 and the degree of D.D.
by the Universities of Brown, Yale and
Harvard. After his graduation from
Brown University, he became instructor of
mathematics at that college, holding the
position until 1883. In 1884 he was or
dained to the Baptist ministry and -accepted
a call as minister at Springfield, Massachus
etts. In 1889 he resigned, going to New
York in the same capacity, where he of
ficiated for ten years. While he was still
holding the latter position, he was elected
in 1897, trustee of Brown University and
also of the Newton Seminary in 1898. In
1899 he was elected president of Brown
University which position he still holds.
Dr. Faunce is one of the most prominent
educators iri the United States ; he has
delivered many lectures and addresses. He
was lecturer at the University . of Chicago
from 1906 to 1907, and has been appointed
Lymari Beecher lecturer at Yale University
for the year 1907-08. He made several
trips to Europe traveling in Great Britain
and nearly all the countries on the con

tinent. In politics, he is a Republican. Fie
was president of the Religious Education
Association from 1906 to 1907. Dr. Faunce
is also trustee of the Rhode Island School
of Design, a member of the Rhode Island
Metropolitari Park Commission, and of the
University Clubs in Providence, Boston and
New York City, and of the Hope and
Agawam Clubs in Providence. His recrea
tions are golf, and horseback riding and
other out-of-door sports. He was married
at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1884, to Sarah
R. Edson, and has one son, Perry Edson.
Residence : 180 Hope Street. Address :
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Is
land
FAVERSHAM, William Alfred:
Actor; born in London, England, Feb
ruary 12, 1868, and was the youngest of
thirteen children. His first appearance on
the stage was in 1887, in support of Helen
Hastings at the Union Square Theatre,
New York. He joined the Lyceum Com
pany for a time, and- after leaving that ap
peared as Leo, in Rider Haggard's She,
and with Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske in a
number of plays. Returning to the Lyceum
Company he appeared in various plays with
them, and then went to the Empire Theatre,
New York, and played second parts, where
at the end of the second year he succeeded
Henry Miller as leading man — making his
first appearance in that capacity as Gil de
Berault, in Under the Red Robe. He also
appeared in The Conqueror, Lord and Lady
Algy, and other plays, and played Romeo
to the Juliet of Maude Adams. Mr. Fav-
ersham is one of the largest breeders of
bull terriers in America. He has also a
farm in the south of England, where he
imports and breeds American trotting
horses. In 1902, his wife, Marian Faver-
shatri obtained an absolute divorce from
him, and the same year Mr. Faversham
married Julie Opp, an actress, and they
have one son, William Crozier Faversham,
born October, 1905. Address: 28 East
Seventy-sixth Street, New York- City.
FAVILL, Henry Baird:
Physician; born in Madison, Wisconsin,
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Louise Sophia (Baird) Favill. After being
graduated from the University of Wiscon
sin as B.A. in 1880, he entered Rush Medi
cal College, Chicago, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in 1883. He engaged in
the practice of medicine ; was appointed In-
gals professor of therapeutics and preven
tive medicine at Rush Medical College in
1898, and has been professor of clinical
medicine, at the same institution, since
1906. In politics he is a Republican and
became president of the Municipal Voters
League in 1907. Dr. Favill is a member of
the American Medical Association, Ameri
can Academy of Medicine, Illinois State
Medical Society, Chicago Medical So
ciety, Chicago Pathological Society,
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Chicago Society of
Social Hygiene (member of its board of
directors) ; president of the Chicago Tuber
culosis Institute; member of the board of
trustees of the Home for Destitute Crip
pled Children, and a member of the Nu
Sigma Nu and Beta Theta Pi fraternities.
His favorite recreations are hunting and
camping, and he is -a member of the Uni
versity, City, Quadrangle, Chicago Golf and
Chicago Literary Clubs of Chicago, the
University Club of Milwaukee, the City
Club of New York, and the Caledon Moun
tain Trout Club. Dr. Favill married in
Brooklyn, New York, June 17, 1885, Susan
Cleveland Pratt, and they have one son,
John Favill, born in 1886. Residence: 412
East Ontario Street, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FAVILLE, Frederick F.:
Lawyer; born at Mitchell, Iowa, June
5, 1865; son of A. S. Faville, and Esther
D. (Crary) Faville. He received his edu
cation at Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage
Iowa, University of Maryland, Baltimore,
Maryla id ; Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa,
froth which he was graduated as B.Sc,
and from the Iowa State University as
LL.B. He was county attorney of Buena
Vista County, Iowa, from 1895 to 1899,
In 1904 he was a Presidential elector on
the Republican ticket representing the

Eleventh Congressional District of Iowa.
United States District attorney for the
Northern District of Iowa since 1907. Mr.
Faville is a director of the Commercial
State Bank. He is a Republican in poli
tics and a Presbyterian in his religious
affiliations. He is a member of the Iowa
State Bar Association and trustee of
Buena Vista College. He is a Royal Arch
Mason. Mr. Faville married at Orchard,
Iowa, December 22, 1891, Cora Thornburg,
and they have two children: Stanton, born
in 1901, and Marion, born in 1903. Ad
dress : Storm Lake, Iowa.
FAVOBITE, Calvin M.:
Merchant, retired; born near Lafayette,
Indiana, January 22, 1834; he is the son of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Kellenberger) Fav
orite. He was educated in the public
schools of Indiana. He removed to Chi
cago in 1861 and entered the employ of
John G. Law & Company, pork packers,
his father being a member of the firm.
The senior Favorite finally obtained the
controlling interest in the concern, and the
firm was changed to Favorite & Son.
The son subsequently withdrew from the
firm and became associated as a partner
with the concern of B. F. Murphy &
Company, until 1877, when he withdrew
his interest and entered the employ of
Armour & Company, packers. He was
placed in charge of the Board of Trade
department of the company, became manag
er for the firm, and finally, when it was
incorporated, a director of the corporation.
He retired from active business in 1904.
He is a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade. He was married at Miamisburg,
Ohio, in September, 1855, to Eliza C. Cas-
sady, a daughter of Judge Cassady, and
has two children : William Foster of Phil
adelphia, and Ward C, of Chicago. Ad
dress : Lakota Hotel, Chicago. Illinois.
FAWCETT, M. Edward:
Bishop of Quincy ; born at New Hartford,
Iowa, November 1, 1865, son of Rev. Dr.
William Faucett and Sarah (Houghton)
Faucett. He studied in the Upper Iowa
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of B.A. in '1886, receiving that. of M.A. in
1890, and Ph.D. in 1893. He was ordered
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1897,
and in same year was ordained priest by
Bishop McLaren, after, which he accepted
a call from the Church of the Redeemer,
of Elgin, Illinois. He was its rector until
1901, When he was called to the rectorship
of St. Bartholomew's Church, Chicago, Il
linois, where he remained until 1904. He
resigned in 1904 to become Bishop of
Quincy, Illinois. He was consecrated by
Bishops Turtle, Nicholson, Anderson, Sey
mour, Grafton, Edsall, Morrison (Iowa),
Williams (Bishop coadjutor of Nebraska),
and Weller. Bishop Fawcett was married
to Esther L. Faul at Chicago, Illinois, No
vember 13, 1887. Address : Quincy, Illinois.
FAXON, Charles Edward:
Botanical artist; born at Roxbury, Mass
achusetts, January 21, 1846; son of Elisha
Faxon and Hannah Mann (Whiting) Fax
on. He was graduated from the Lawrence
Scientific School of Harvard University as
S.B. in 1867, and received the A.M. degree
from Harvard in 1897. He has been in
structor in botany at Harvard, and is now
assistant director of the Arnold Arboretum
of Harvard University, at Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, and is especially distinguish
ed in botanical art, having made drawings
for plates for the foremost botanical works
. and publications. Member of the Amer
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston
Natural History Society and New England
Botanical Club. Address : Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts.
FAXON, Frederick Winthrop:
Bibliographer; born at West Roxbury,
Massachusetts, Aug. 24, 1866 ; son of Marcus
Faxon and Augusta Chalmers (Fernald)
Faxon. He was graduated from the Bos
ton Latin School in 1885, and from Har
vard as A.B. in 1889, and since the latter
date he has been manager of the library
department of the Boston Book Company.
He, was secretary of the American Library
Association from 1900 to 1903 and has been
editor of the quarterly Bulletin of Biblio

graphy since 1897. He married at Boston,
May 16, 1900, Adeline True Thompson.
Residence: Jamaica Plain, Boston. Office
address : 83 Francis Street, Fenway, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
FAXON, Walter:
Zoologist; born at Roxbury, Massachus
etts, February 4, 1848 ; son of Elisha Faxon
and Hannah Mann (Whiting) Faxon. He
was educated at Harvard University, re
ceiving the degrees of A.B. in 1871 and of
ScD. in 1878. He' has been curator in the
invertebrate department of the Museum
of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, since 1874, and was assist
ant in charge of the Museum from 1892
to 1896. He was assistant professor of
zoology at Harvard from 1880 to 1885, is
a member of the leading zoological societies
and author of numerous scientific mono
graphs and contributions. Residence :
Lexington, Massachusetts. Address : Mu
seum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
FAY, Charles Norman:
Manufacturer; born in Burlington, Ver
mont, August 13, 1848; he is a son of the
Rev. Dr. Charles and Emily (Hopkins)
Fay. He was educated at a private school,
the high school at Cambridge, Massachus
etts, and Harvard University, from which
he was graduated with the degree of A.B.
in 1869. He removed to Marquette, Michi
gan, soon after his graduation and obtain
ed employment with Peter White, banker,
for whom he was cashier from 1876 to
1877, and became a stockholder and direct
or of First National Bank. From 1877 to
1879 he was engaged in ..winding up the af
fairs of A. B. Meeker & Company in Chi
cago, in their bankruptcy proceedings. He
was general manager arid vice-president of
the Chicago Telephone Company from 1879
to 1887, and president of the Chicago Gas
Trust Company from 1887 to 1889. He
financed and promoted the natural gas line
from the Indiana gas field to Chicago and
was the founder of the Chicago Arc Light
and Power Company in 1887 and its presi-

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dent until 1893, when it was consolidated
with the Chicago Edison Company. Since
1897 he has been president of the Reming-
ton-Sholes Company, rnanufa'ctufe'rs of
typewriters, and its- affiliated companies, the
Fay-Sholes Company and the Arithmo-
graph Company. He was the organizer and
is trustee and vice-president of the Orches
tral Association, supporting the Theodore
Thomas Orchestra since 1891. He is a
member of American Historical Society,
and life member of the Field Columbian
Museum, and the Art Institute. He is a
trustee of St. Luke's Hospital and Chil
dren's Memorial Hospital. He is an In
dependent in politics and a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church; His club
membership embraces the Chicago, the Chi
cago Golf, the Saddle and Cycle, the
City, and the University, of New York
City. Residence : Chicago Club. Office ad
dress : 740 The Rookery, Chicago, Illinois

FAY, Edward Allen:
Educator; born at Morristown, New Jer
sey, November 22, 1843; son of Barnabas
Maynard Fay and Louise (Mills) Fay. He
was educated at the University of Michi
gan, receiving the degrees of A.B. in 1862
and A.M. in 1865 ; and he received the Ph.
D. degree from Johns Hopkins University
in 1881. After three years of work as in
structor in the New York Institution for
the Deaf, he became in 1866, and still re
mains a professor in the Gallaudet College
for the Deaf at Washington, of which in
stitution he has been vice-president since
1885, and since 1870 he has been editor of
American Annals of the Deaf. He has
written extensively on the education and
sociology of the deaf, and is also author of :
Concordance to the Divina Commedia. He
married in Brooklyn, New York, July 7,
1871, Mary Bradshaw, and they have six
children: Allan, Sidney, Theodore, Helen,
Laurence, Percival. Address: 3 Kendall
Green, Washington, D. C.
FAY, Edwin Whitfield:
Philologist, teacher; born at Minden,
Webster Parish, Louisiana, January 1, 1865 ;

son of Edwin Hedge and Sarah Elizabeth
(Shields) Fay. He was graduated from
th©=~ Southwestern Presbyterian University
at Clarksville, Tennessee, as A.M. in 1883,
and took post-graduate courses in Sans
krit, comparative philology and the classics
at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore,
receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1890, and
later studied in the University of Leipzig.
He was acting associate professor of Latin
at the University of Texas in 1891 and 1892,
professor of Latin at Washington and Lee
University from 1893 to 1899, and since
that date has been professor of Latin in the
University of Texas. He has written many
articles and memoirs on philological sub
jects. Mr. Fay is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, elected from Johns
Hopkins University. Professor Fay mar
ried at Louisville, Kentucky, December 29,
1904, Lucy B. Hemphill. Address: Aus
tin, Texas.
FAY, Henry:
Educator; born in Williamsburg, Penn
sylvania, January 12, 1868 ; son of Dr. John
Fay and Sarah C. (Royer) Fay. He was
educated in public schools at Altoona,
Pennsylvania, graduated from Lafayette
College as A.B. in 1889; A.M. in 1892; and
from Johns Hopkins University as Ph.D.
in 1895. He was assistant in laboratory of
Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, in 1889 and
1890; lecture assistant of Johns Hopkins
University from 1893 to 1895; instructor
of analytical chemistry, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology from 1895 to 1900;
assistant professor of analytical chemistry
and metallography, from 1900 to 1905, as
sociate professor of analytical chemistry
from 1905 to 1907 and professor of analy
tical chemistry since 1907. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion he is a Pres
byterian. He is a member of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, American Society for Testing Ma
terials, American Chemical Society, Theta
Nu Epsilon and Phi Kappa Psi. : His, fav
orite recreations are tennis and golf. . Mr.
Fay is a member of the Altoona, Cricket,
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Residence: 29 Marlboro. . Street, Boston.
Address: Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston, Massachusetts.
FEARN, Richard Lee:
Chief of the Washington Bureau of the
New York Tribune since 1902; born in
Mobile, Alabama, August 31, 1862; son of
Dr. Richard Lee Fearn, • arid Elizabeth
(Spear) Fearn. He was educated at the
University' of the South at Sewanee,' Ten
nessee, the University of Alabama, and the
Stevens Institute of Technology at Hobok
en, New Jersey, from which he was grad
uated with the degree of M.E. in 1884. He
began newspaper work with the Brooklyn
Eagle in 1886, and was its Washington
correspondent from 1887 to 1891. He was
secretary of foreign affairs for the World's
Columbian Exposition from 1891 to 1893.
He was on the Washington staff of the
United Press from 1893 to 1895, and one of
its London correspondents in 1895, joining
the staff of the New York Tribune in 1897:
He is a meriiber of the Beta Theta Pi col
lege fraternity, and he has been secretary
and vice-president and president of the
Gridiron Club in Washington. Mr. Fearn
married in Baltimore, April 21, 1887, Elean-
ora'Egertbn, and they have two chilaren:
Richard Lee (born January 23, 1888), and
Mildred Egerton (born December 8, 1889).
Residence: 2202 Massachusetts Avenue.
Office address : 1322 F Street, Washing
ton, D. C.
FEAEON, Charles:
Banker. Member of. Philadelphia Stock
Exchange; director Spring Garden Insur
ance Company; member New York Stock
Exchange. . Address : 333 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FEATHEBSON, Maurice:
Dock commissioner; born 1863. ; He was
educated in the public schools and became
master inechanic in New York Fire Depart
ment: He was elected to the State Senate,
in 1895, and reelected three times. Mr.
Featherson has been dock commissioner of
New York City from January 1, 1904; Ad
dress: 32 Broadway, New York City.

FECHTEB, Oscar A.:
Banker; born 'at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
September 2, 1864; son of George W.
Fechter and Clara (Schmidt) Fechter. He
was educated in the public schools of
Manitowoc and thence went to the Univer
sity of Wisconsin at Madison, where he
pursued the classical course from 1880 to
1883, and afterward the law course, grad
uating from the College of Law as LL.B.
in 1887. He went to the then Territory of
Washington, settling at North Yakima, of
which place he has ever since been a citizen.
He was engaged in the real estate business
there from 1888 until November 17, 1904,
when he became president of the Yakima
Valley Bank, in which position he contin
ues. He is also interested in various other
interests in the Yakima Valley ,: being presi
dent of the Yakima Hop Company, the
Yakima Commercial Company and the
Kennewick Investment Company, as well as
others. Fie is a Republican in his political
views, and he has served eight terms as
mayor of North Yakima. He is literary
in his tastes, and was the translator from
the German of Max Midler's The Silesian
Horseherd, published by Longmans, Green
& Co., in 1903. He married at North Ya
kima, Washington, September 2, 1890, Gert
rude Bartholet. Address : North Yakima,
Washington. FECHEIMEB, Martin S. :
Merchant; born in Meitwitz, Bavaria,
June 18,^1835. He was educated in the
village schools and came to ; this country
to enter the employ of his uncle in Cin
cinnati, Ohio. In 1858 he went to Californ
ia! and- engaged in the clothing business and
in -18441 started a -house in New York City
as the firm ¦; of - Fechheimer, Fichel ; and
Company,- now a ' leading "wholesale house.
Mr. Fechheimer Is director -of the Hanover
National Bank and assisted - in orgariizing
the First Ethical Culture Society in New
York. He married in 1865, Miss Meyer.
Residence : 5.1 West Fifty-sixth Street,
New York City. Office address : 748 Broad
way, New York City.

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FEDIGAN, John J.:
Provincial of the Order of Saint August
ine in the United States since July, 1898;
born in,' County Meath, Ireland, April 27,
1842; son of James Fedigan and Ann (Mc
Coy ern) Fedigan, with whom he came to
the United States in childhood. He re
ceived his education at Westchester, Penn
sylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, until
i860, was graduated from Saint Mary's
College in 1864. He then went to Ghent,
Belgium, and entered the novitiate of the
Augustinian Fathers, where he completed
the ecclesiastical course. He was ordained
priest in 1868, filled various pastorates,
built several churches, and in 1898 was
made provincial of the Augustinian order.
Address : Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
FEE, Wm. T.:
Consular official. Appointed consul at
Cienfuegos, Cuba, March 1, 1898, retired
April, 1898; consul at Bombay, January 31,
1899; consul at Bremen, June 22, 1906. Ad
dress : Bremen, Germany.
FELL, Herbert N. :
Underwriter; born in Prescott, Ontario,
June 3, 1871 ; son of John N. Fell and
Sylva (Perrin) Fell. He was educated in
the Prescott, Ontario, public schools. He
began his insurance career in the employ of
the New York General Agency of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York in 1891 ; he was appointed cashier
of the Wilmington (Delaware) office, in
1893, and general agent in. 1895, at the
age of twenty-.three, and was for years
the company's youngest manager; he was
general agent of the Mutual Life 'for Dela
ware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
1895 to 1904; he was manager of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company at New
York City, until September, 1906,. when he
took, a leading part in opposition to. the
administration ticket of the Mutual Life
in the campaign for the election of Trus
tees of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York. Mr. Fell is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Presbyterian in his
religious connections. His chief recrea
tion is horseback riding. Mr. Fell is a

member of the Atlantic Yacht Club ; he is
also a life member of the Automobile Club
of America. Address: Hotel. Gotham,
New York City.
FELL, Thomas:
College president; born in Liverpool,
England, July 15, 1851; son of, Thomas
Fell and Hannah (Corry) Fell. He was
educated at the Royal Institution School
in Liverpool, Kings' College, London, and
the University of London, England, and
for two years at the University of Munich,
Bavaria, Germany. He has received the de
grees of A.B., A.M., and Ph.D., and later
the honorary degrees of LL.D. from Hamp
den-Sidney College, Virginia, and of D.C.L.
from the University of the South, at Se
wanee, Tennessee. He was professor of
ancient and modern languages at New
Windsor College, Maryland, from 1884 to
1886, and he has be*en president of St
John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, since
July, 1886; and also became vice chancel
lor of the University of Maryland in Feb
ruary, 1907. Dr. Fell made a tour of Egypt,
India and China, from 1874 to 1876, and of
France, Germany and Italy in 1878 and
1879. In politics he is a Democrat, and
he is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and a vestryman of St.
Anne's Church in Annapolis. Dr.. Fell is a
member of the American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, American Philo
logical Society, the Phi Sigma Kappa fra
ternity, and the Carpenters' Guild, of Lon
don, England, and of the University Club
of Baltimore. He married' in London, Eng
land, April 21, 1881, Isabella L. Hunter, and
they have two children: Edgar Tremlett
Fell, born in 1895, and John Corry Fell,
born in 1898. Address: St. John's College,
Annapolis, Maryland.
FELLOWS, Abraham Lincoln:
Civil engineer;- bom. in Kennebunk,
Maine, November 1, 1864; son of :Rev,
Franklin E. Fellows and Jane (Stiles) Fel
lows. He was graduated from Norwich
Free Academy in 1882 as first classical
scholar, and with the degree of B.A., cum
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served as assistant engineer and then chief
engineer of the Montezuma Valley Irriga
tion Company, of Colorado from 1887 to
1897; deputy State engineer of Colorado
in 1897; deputy State engineer of Colorado
and hydrographer -of the United /States
Geological Survey from 1897 to ' 1902. In
1901 he made, a notable exploration of
Grand Canon of the Gunnison, laying plans
for the great Gunnison Tunnel. Mr. Fel
lows was district engineer for Colorado of
the United States Reclamation Service, hav
ing charge of the Uncompahgre Valley and
other projects, and all hydrographic work
for that region from 1902 to 1905 ; was State
engineer of North Dakota from 1905 to
1907, and then opened an office in- Denver,
where he is now engaged as consulting en
gineer. - He is author of: Water Resources
of Colorado ; Measurement of Water ; and
numerous scientific reports and essays. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion
an Episcopalian, and is senior warden of
St. George's Church, Bismarck, North Da
kota. . Mr. Fellows is a member of the
American Society of Irrigation Engineers,
the National Geographic Society, Colorado
Scientific Society, Archaeological Society,
and was formerly county superintend
ent of schools, school director, etc., of Mon
tezuma County, Colorado. His favorite
recreations are hunting and fishing; and he
is a member of the Alumni, Commercial
and Chamber of Commerce Clubs of Den
ver. He married in Webster,, Pennsylva
nia, December 20, . 1905, Blanphe Irene
McCoy, and they have one daughter, Ella
Jane, born in 1907. Address: 319 Symes
Building, Denver,- Colorado.
FELLOWS, George Emory:
College president; born at Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin, June 9, 1858; son of George and
Emeline (Gurnee) Fellows. He was grad
uated from Lawrence University as B.A.
-in 1879, M.A., in 1882, and received from
that- university the L.H.D. degree in 1902;
attended the universities of Munich and
Berne, from 1888 to 1890, arid was gradu
ated from Berne as Ph.D. in i8£o ;: the de
gree of LL.D. was conferred upon' him by
Bowdoin College in 1902. He served as

principal of Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Sem
inary from 1879 to 1880; instructor iaf Ryan
High School, Appleton, Wisconsin, from
1883. to 1885; at Central High School, New
Orleans,- Louisiana, from 1885 to 1888; prin
cipal, Aurora (Illinois)1 High School in
1890 and 1891 ; professor of European his
tory in Indiana University, from 1891 to
1895; assistant professor of history at the
University of Chicago, from 1895 to 1902,
and has been president and professor of his
tory at the University of Maine since 1902.
He is a member of the New Orleans Acad
emy of Sciences, National Educational As
sociation, American Historical Association ;
secretary of the National Association of
State Universities, and he is a member of
the University Club of Boston, and the
Twentieth Century Club of Bangor, Maine.
Professor Fellows married in Randolph,
Wisconsin, October 25, 1881, Lucia Russell.
and they have three children : Gladys Ethel,
Dorothy and Donald. Address : Orono,
Maine.
FELLOWS, Gurnee:
Physician; born in Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, April 27, 1863; son of George and
Emeline Electa (Gurnee). Fellows. He was
graduated from Lawrence University, Ap
pleton, Wisconsin, with the degree of A.B.
in 1883, receiving from the same institution
the degree of A.M. in 1886. He chose the
medical profession and was graduated from
Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in
1885, with the degree of M.D. He began
his practice in New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he remained until the spring of 1888,
when he went to New York City, where
he began a special course in the study of
the diseases of the eye, ear and nose, and
throat. He spent one year in Vienna, Paris
and London in the pursuit of the same
studies and then located in Chicago, Illi
nois, where he has since continued in prac
tice. He was' assistant to the chair of eye
and ear in the Hahnemann Medical; College
and later was professor pi diseases of the
nose • and throat, and for the past ' eight
years has been senior professor of ophthal
mology and otology in the same college-

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MEN OF AMERICA.

He is a writer on medical subjects and the
publisher of. The Clinique, a medical jour
nal of Chicago. He is the attending phy
sician at the Hahnemann; Hospital and a
member American Institute of Homoeopa
thy, the Illinois State Homoeopathic . Oph-
thalmological, Otological- and Laryngologic
al Societies, having been president of the
latter in 1892. He is also a member of the
Chicago Art Institute. His political affilia
tions have been with the Republican organ
ization. He is a member of the Kenwood,
Midlothian, Chicago Athletic and Hinsdale
Golf Clubs. He was married in Appleton,
Wisconsin, April 27, 1886, to Angie Wood
ward, and has two children : Marguerite
Way and Woodward. Residence : 4820
Kenwood Avenue. Office address: 70
State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FELMLEY, David:
President; of Illinois State Normal Uni
versity; born near , Somerville, Somerset
County, New Jersey, April 24, 1857; son. of
John S. Felmley and Ellen (Voorhees)
Felmley. He received his education in the
public schools of New Jersey and. Illinois,
Blackburn University at Carlinville, Illinois,
and the University of Michigan, receiving
from the latter the degree of A.B. in 1881:
He was superintendent of schools at Car
rollton, Illinois, from 1882 to 1890, then be
came professor of mathematics at the Illi
nois State Normal University until elected
president of that institution in 1900. Mr.
Felmley has been active in forrnulating and
developing the Illinois State Course of
Study, and in promoting school legislation
in Illinois. He married at Carrollton, Illi
nois, July 6, 1887, Auta Stout, and' they
have three children : Ruth, born in 1888,
Mildred, born in 1890, and John Benjarnin,
born in 1895. Address : Normal, McLean
County, Illinois.
FELSENTHAL,. Eli Benjamin :
Lawyer; 1-iorn- in; Chicago, Illinois, July
14, 1858; sorr of- Herman and Gertrude
, (Hyman);Felsenthal. He was graduated
from. the old University -of- Chicago with
the degree.- of A.B: in. 1878, and received
the degree of A,M, from the 'sairie college

in 1880. During his collegiate course he
began the' studjr of law and was admitted
to the Illinois bar In 1880. He practiced
independently for a number of years, but
since 1898 has been in association with Mil
ton J. Foreman as the head of the firm of
Felsenthal; &- Foreman. He. is affiliated
with the -Republican Party. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago Bar Association, is"'a
charter trustee of the Chicago University
and a continuous member of its board. He
is a Hebrew and a member of the Sinai
Congregation. His • club membership em
braces the Union League, Hamilton, Stand
ard, Lakeside, and Ravisloe Country Clubs.
He was married January 11", 1883, to Nettie
Goldsmith of New York City, and his "chil
dren are : Agatha,: Edward G., Gertrude,
Herman, and Robert. ¦ Residence: 4108
Grand Boulevard, Chicago. Office address :
100 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FELT, Ephram Sorter:
Entomologist; born Salem, Massachus
etts, January 7, 1868; son of Charles Wil
son and Martha Seeth (Ropes) Felt; edu
cated at Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege, Boston University, B.S., 1891; Corn
ell University, D.S., i8g4 (fellow in en
tomology, 1892-93). Specialist in entomo
logy; teacher natural sciences, Clinton Lib
eral Institute (Fort Plain, New York)
!893-9S; assistant to State entomologist,
1895-98; New York State entomologist
since December, 1898; entomological editor
Country Gentleman; consulting entomolog
ist Garden Magazine, American Mosquito
Extermination Society.; is a writer for sev
eral agricultural and horticultural papers
and has published numerous articles on en
tomology; has prepared a number of bulle
tins -and reports issued by the State* the
more important being Scale Insects of Im
portance, Mosquitos of New York State,
and a monograph on Insects Affecting Park
and Woodland Xrees,.4 to volumes of over
80b pages, illustrated by 72 plates;; .import
ant investigations: yon : aquatic insects have
been conducted u"nd<Tr his; direction; Trus
tee village -of Nassau since "1905 ; -trustee
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for the Promotion of Agricultural Science,
Western New York Horticultural Society,
New York State Fruit Growers' Associa
tion, Connecticut Pomological Society fellow
A. A. A. S. ; member of Sigma Xi, Associa
tion of Economic Entomologists (past
president) Entomologist Society of Wash
ington, Societe Entornologique de France,
New York Entomological Society, Albany
Entomological Society, Albany Institute,
Historical and Art Society. Recreations :
Outdoor exercise in garden and field.
Clubs: University. Married at Berlin,
Massachusetts, June 24, 1896, Helen Maria
- Otterson ; children : Margaret, Ernest Por
ter, Helen 2d. Address: Geological Hall,
Albany, New York.
FELTON, Charles N.:
Former United States senator from Cali
fornia; born in Erie County, New York,
1832. He was educated in. the schools of Eric
County and when quite a young man went
to California, locating at first in Yuba
County. He was under-sheriff of that
county in 1857 and later was tax collector
there. He became actively identified with
political matters1 as a Republican and was
twice elected to the California Legislature
later becoming assistant treasurer and
afterward treasurer of the San Francisco
Mint, where he was employed for six years.
He was elected in 1884 to the Forty-ninth
Congress and in 1886 to the Fiftieth Con
gress, serving from 1885 to 1889, and he
became United States senator to fill a va
cancy from 1891 to 1893. He also received
numerous votes in the California Legisla
ture of 1899 for United States Senator.
Senator Felton is identified with various
financial interests. Address: Menlo Park,
San Mateo County, California.
FELTON, Samuel Morse:
-1 President Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company; born Philadelphia, February 3,
1853; Educated at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Boston, -Massachusetts.
Entered railroad service, 1868, as rodman
Chester Creek Railroad; 1870-71, leveller.
and assistant engineer Lane-aster Railroad ;
1873-74, chief engineer Chester and Deia-

are River Railroad; 1874-81, general sup
erintendent Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St.
Louis Railway; 1881-82, general superin
tendent Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis,
Little Miami and C. and M. V Railways;
1882-84, general manager New York and
New England Railroad; February to No
vember, 1884, assistant ; to president Erie
Railroad; 1884-85, general manager New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad;
1885-90, vice-president Erie Railroad; since
1890 president C. N. O: and T. P. Railway
Company, and during a portion of this time
also president East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railway and Louisville Southern
Railroad ; receiver Kentucky and '-Indiana
Bridge Company, June 1' 1897, to Septem
ber 7, I899 ; September, i89g, president Chi
cago and Alton Railroad. Author: Re
ports and expert examinations on thirteen
or fourteen railroad properties. His favor
ite recreations are : shooting, golf, automo
biling. He is a member of the Chicago
Athletic Association, Chicago Commercial
and Chicago Golf Clubs and the St.
Louis, St. Louis Racquet Club ; Queen City,
Optimists', Commercial, Manufacturers',
Cincinnati; Racquet, Tennis, University,
New York.. Address : Chicago, Illinois.
FENN, William Wallace:
Clergyman, theologian; born in Boston,
February 12, 1862; son of William Wal
lace Fenn and, Hannah Morrill (Osgood)
Fenn. He was graduated from the Boston
Latin School in 1880, from Harvard as
A.B. in 1884 and A.M. in 1887, and from
Harvard Divinity School in 1887. He was
ordained in the Unitarian ministry, be
coming minister of Unity Church, Pitts
field, Massachusetts, from 1887 until 1891
and of the First' Unitarian Society- at Chi
cago from 1891 until 1901, and since then
Bussey professor of systematic theology
in Harvard Divinity School and dean of
the School since 1906. Mr. Fenn married
at Berkshire, Massachusetts, -May 28, 1891,
Faitri Huntington Fisher. Address: 25
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FENNEB, Charles Erasmus:
Jurist; born in. Jackson, Tennessee, Feb
ruary 14, 1834; son of Dr. Erasmus Dar
win Eenner and Annie America (Callier)
Fenner. He received his early education
in the schools of New Orleans, and after
ward attended the Western Military Insti
tute of Kentucky and the University of
Virginia, and afterward studied law at the
last named institution and at the University
of Louisiana, being admitted to the Louisi
ana bar in 1855. He became a captain of
Fenner's Louisiana Battery of Light Artil
lery in the Confederate States Army during
the Civil War. He became a justice of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1880,
and served until 1894, when he resumed
the practice of law. Judge Fenner received.
the degree of LL.D. from the University
of the South. He is widely known as an
able lawyer and a distinguished orator, and
many of his addresses before bar associa
tions and to college graduating classes have
been published. He is president of the
Board of Administrators of the Tulane
University of Louisiana, and a trustee of
the Peabody Education Fund. Judge Fen
ner is a Democrat in politics and an Epis
copalian in his religious affiliation. He
married at New Orleans, October 16, 1866,
Carrie Payne. Residence: 1131 First
Street, New Orleans. Office : Cora Build
ing, New Orleans, Louisiana.
FENNO, Edward Nicoll:
Retired wool commission merchant; born
in Boston, November 4, 1845; son of John
Brooks Fenno and Sarah Elizabeth
(Smith) Fenno. He attended Boston Pub
lic Latin School from 1856 to 1862, and was
graduated from Harvard University
as A.B., in 1866 and as A.M., in
1868. He is a director of the Old Boston
National Bank, Indian Head Mills of Ala
bama, Boston Land Company and Slaters-
ville Finishing Company and trustee of the
Provident Institution for Savings. He re
tired from wool commission business in
1900. In politics he is a Republican and in
religion an Episcopalian. He is a vestry
man of. Trinity Church in the City of
Boston ; trustee of the Vincent Memorial

Hospital ; vicerpresident of the Veteran As
sociation of 'Independent Corps Cadets of
Massachusetts Volunteers Militia, a mem
ber of , the Massachusetts Historical and
Genealogical Society and Boston Episcopal
Charitable Society and of the, Boston Ath
letic . Association. He is a member oi the
Somerset, Country, Central Lunch, Woods
Hole Golf, Old Colony and Seapuit Clubs.
Mr. Fenno married in Boston, February,
1872, Ellen M. Bradlee, and they have three
children: Henry Bradlee, Edward Nicoll,
Jr., and Marion Hiller. Residence: Fal
mouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Address : 60 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
FENTON, Lucian Jerome:
Banker ; born on a farm in Adams Coun
ty, near Winchester, Ohio, May 7, 1844;
son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Smith)
Fenton. He was. educated in the public
schools at Winchester, Ohio, afterward at
tending the Ohio Normal School at Leb
anon, and Ohio University at Athens. He
continued to live on the home farm until
he enlisted in the Union Army, August
11, 1862, and he served in the Ninety-first
Ohio Regiment until he was permanently
disabled by a gunshot wound received at
the battle of Winchester, Virginia. After
his war service he engaged as a teacher
in the public . schools, receiving a life-cer
tificate from the State examiners of Ohio
as a qualified high school teacher, and
he became a superintendent of schools,
leaving that vocation in 1880 to take a
position in the United States Custom
House at New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1884
he organized the Winchester Bank, of
which he has ever since been president.
He was elected in 1894, from the Tenth
Congressional District of Ohio to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, and reelected in
1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, serving
from 1895 to 1899, and being a member of
the House Committee on Military Affairs
during the Spanish-American War. Mr.
Fenton is an active Republican and was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention in 1892. He was a member of the
Ohio Centennial Commission - in 1898.

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Since 1892 he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Ohio University.
He married at Maysville, Kentucky, May
22, 1872, Belle Manker. Address : Win
chester, Ohio.
FENTON, William David:
Lawyer; born in Scotland County, Mis
souri, June 2, 1853; son of James Davis
and Margaret Ann Fenton. He was grad
uated from Christian College, Monmouth,
Oregon, with the degree of A.B. in 1872,
later receiving that of A.M. After his
graduation, he engaged in the study of law
at Salem, Oregon, and in 1875 was admit
ted to practice before the bar of that State.
He established himself in practice at Port
land, where he is a well known corporation
lawyer, and is engaged as general solicitor
in Oregon for the Southern Pacific Rail
road. He married October 16, i.879, Kath
erine Lucas of Monmouth, Oregon. Resi
dence: no East Sixteenth Street. Ad
dress: Fenton Building, Portland, Oregon.
FEBGTJSON, Alexander Hugh:
Physician; born in Ontario County, Pro
vince of Ontario, Canada, February 27,
1853; son of Alexander and Annie (Mc-
Fadyen) Ferguson. His parents were both
natives of Argyleshire, Scotland. He was
educated at the Rockwood Academy and at
Manitoba College. He taught school for a
time after his graduation and later was an
instructor in Manitoba College. He began
the study of medicine with Dr. John H.
O'Donnell, at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1877,
soon afterward entering the medical depart
ment of Trinity University, Toronto, be
coming the honor graduate, with the degree
of M.B., in 1881, and later, in the same
year, he was the honor graduate of Trinity
University, with the degrees of M,D. and
CM. He visited many American hospitals
in 1881, and the principal ones of London,
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Berlin, in 1889,
taking a course in Koch's laboratory in the
latter city. He began his regular practice
in the City of Buffalo, New York,. 1881,
but in a few months returned to Winnipeg,
where he remained until July, 1894. Dur
ing this period he took an active part in the

founding of the Manitoba Medical College,
in which he was for three years professor
of physiology and histology and professor
of surgery from 1886 to 1894. He was a
member of the general staff of the Winni
peg General Hospital, surgeon-in-chief at
the St. Boniface Hospital and chief oper
ator at the Brandon and Mordon Hospitals,
Manitoba. He was the first president of
the Manitoba branch of the British Medical
Association and a member of the Provincial
Board of Health. He removed to Chicago
in 1894, and is now professor of clinical
surgery in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons (the Medical College of the Illi
nois State University). He was elected
professor of surgery in the Chicago Post-
Graduate .Medical School and Hospital De
cember 18, 1893, and assumed his duties in
June, 1894. He is surgeon to the Post-
Graduate Hospital, surgeon-in-chief to the
Chicago Hospital, surgeon to the Cook
County Hospital for the Insane. His fame
as a surgeon has become wide spread, and
among the successful operations which he
has performed are for partial hepatectomy,
splenectomy, pylorectemy, for cancer, neph
rectomy, craniotomies, throidectomies, hip-
joint amputations, excisions, cholecyst-
duodenostomies, appendicectomies, and a
large number of other major opera
tions, including many of an entirely
original character. Among the numerous
medical papers of which he is the author
are those on Hyatids of the Liver, Operat
ive Treatment of Diseases of the Gall Blad
der, and others concerning major opera
tions in surgery. He is the author of a
work on modern operations for hernia,
1907. He is a member of the Brit
ish Medical Association, the Interna
tional Surgical Association, the Arnerican
Surgical and the American Medical Asso
ciations, the Illinois State Medical Associa
tion, the Chicago Medical, Chicago Gyne-
ological and Chicago Surgical Societies.
He is a fellow of the Chicago Academy of
Medicine and of the American Association
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is
similarly connected with many other medi
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He is a Presbyterian and a member of the
Masonic order, thirty-second degree. He
was decorated by the King of Portugal, as
Commander of the Order of Christ, 1906.
He is a member of the South Shore Coun
try Club. He was married in 1882 to Sarah
Jane Thomas, of Nassagaweya, Ontario,
and has two sons : Ivan Havelock and Alex
ander Donald. Residence : 4619 Grand
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. Office address :
100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FEBGUSON, Alexander McGowen:
Botanist; born at Belton, Texas, January
7, 1874. From the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, he receiyed the degree
B.S.H. in 1894, M.S., in 1896; he studied
at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1897 to
1898; at Cornell in 1901 and 1902. He was
assistant professor of horticulture and my
cology at the Texas Agricultural and Me
chanical College, 1899 to 1900; instructor in
botany at the University of Texas, 1900-7;
special agent, United States Department
of Agriculture, 1903 to 1904. He: is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a member of the
American Pomological Society, of the So
ciety of Horticultural Science; and a fellow
of the Texas Academy. Now engaged ex
clusively in experimental and commercial
plant breeding, he is State Inspector of
Nurseries and Orchards (Texas) ; secre
tary-treasurer of the Texas Corn Grow
ers' Association; secretary-treasurer of the
Texas Nut Growers' Association; and di
rector of the Texas Seed Breeders' Asso
ciation. His chief researches have been on
crotons of the United States and ant fun
gus gardens, and problems in plant breed
ing. His chief writings, on the Embryol
ogy of Ephedra, plant physiology, fungi
cultivated by ants of Texas, flora of Austin
quadrangle, and plant breeding. Address :
Texas Seed Breeding Farms, Sherman,
Texas.
FEBGUSON, Daniel Araunah:
Presbyterian minister ; born near Ogdens-
burg, New York, July 10, 1850; son of
Rev. Archibald Ferguson and Nancy A.
Rodger, daughter of Rev. James Rodger,

He was graduated from Hamilton College
in 1871 ; Union Theological- Seminary,; New
York, in 1875 j made Doctor of Sacred The
ology by Hamilton. College in 1905, Upon
graduation, became pastor of Hammond
Presbyterian Church, May, 1875. This
pastorate still contiunues after thirty-two
years of service. Has had a good deal to do
with county Sunday school work; is Stated
Clerk of the Presbytery of -St. Lawrence;
is also Permanent Clerk of the Synod of
New York. He is Independent in politics,
and has traveled somewhat: in the West
and in Europe. He married first at Ros-
sie, New York, January 2, 1878, Selina: B.
Leonard; second at Hammond, New York,
Mary Cuthbert, and they, have four chil
dren : William A., lawyer ; Helen, Florence
and Leonard Cuthbert. Address: Ham
mond, New York.
FEBGUSON, Henry:
Clergyman and educator; horn at Stam
ford, Connecticut; son of John Ferguson
and Helen (Morewood) Ferguson. He was
educated at Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, from, which he received the
degrees of -A.B. in 1868, A.M. in 1875 and
LL.D. in 1900. He was ordered deacon in
1872 and ordained priest in 1873 in the
Episcopal ministry, and was rector of Christ
Church, Exeter,. N. H., -1872-78, of Christ
Church, Claremont, New Hampshire, from
1878 to 1880. 1883 he became professor of
history and political science at Trinity Col
lege. Dr. Ferguson married at Middle-
town, Connecticut, October 15, 1873, Emma
J. Gardiner. In 1906, Dr. Ferguson ac
cepted the position of rector, of St. Paul's
school, Concord, New Hampshire. He had
been a trustee of the school for more than
twenty - years previously. Address : St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire.
FEBGUSON, Louis Aloysius:
Electrical engineer; born at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, August 19, 1867; son of
Denis Ferguson and Louisa Ferguson^ IJe
was graduated from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology as B.S. in electripl
engineering in 1888 and has ever since
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Company, successively as electrical engi
neer, general superintendent and since July,
1902, second. yice-president of that com
pany! arid of the .Commonwealth Electric
Gompany, the two companies controlling
the electric light business in Chicago, was
president Association of Edison Humiliating
Companies 1902^3; president National Elec
tric Light Association .1903, vice-president
American Institute Electrical Engineers,
1907 ;. he is also director North Shore Elec
tric Company. He belongs to the follow
ing Clubs: Commercial Club, of Chicago,
Union League, Chicago, Athletic, Midday,
Onwentsia, Glen View, Chicago Golf Club,
Country Club, of Evanston, University Club
Evanston. Mr. Ferguson married at Dor
chester, Massachusetts, June 21, 1892, Mar
tha Sargent Jenkins : they have had five
children: Louis, John (deceased), Arthur
and Martha. Residence: Evanston, . Illi
nois. Address : 139 Adams Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
FEBGUSON, Samuel David:
, Missionary bishop of the . Episcopal
Church ; born Charleston, South Carolina,
January 1, 1842; son of Edward and Rose-
ine Elizabeth Ferguson. He emigrated
with parents to Liberia iii 1848, and was
trained in the Mission Schools, and re
ceived the degree of D.D. from Kenyon
College in 1885, and that of D.C.L. from
1 Liberia College in 1893. He was ordered
deacon in 1865. and .ordained to the priest
hood, by Bishop Payne, in 1868. Ha has
been Missionary Bishop of Cape. Palrnas
and vicinity since 1885, having been- con
secrated in that year at Grace Church'; In
New York City, by Bishops Lee, Stevens,
Littlejohn, Starkey and H. C. Potter. He
is author of numerous addresses, pamph
lets, etc. Bishop Ferguson is the first of
the African race to be consecrated to the
episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. , He has been twice married,; first
iri: April, 1863, to Mary Leonora Mont
gomery, and after her death to Sarah
Elizabeth Brown. Address : Monrovia,
Liberia, West Africa.

FEBGUSSON, Arthur Walsh:
, Executive secretary for the Philippine
Islands; born -at- Benecia, California, De
cember 4, 1859; son of Colonel David and
Emily Amelia (Walsh) -Fergusson. He
lived in Mexico from 1861 to 1869, then
returned to California, and he was gradu
ated from Saint Augustine's College at
Benecia in 1877,' and from the Law School
of Georgetown University as LL.B, in
1885,- and LL.M. in 1886: He was owner,
editor and publisher of the Benicia New
Era from 1879 to 1882. Practiced law in
Washington, D. C, from i886,to 1891. Was
official interpreter of the International Am
erican Conference at Washington in - 1889,
and of the International Railway Commis
sion in 189 1 ; secretary of the International
Monetary Commission in 1891, the United
States Chilian Claims Commission in 1893,
the United States Venezuelan Claims Com
mission, 1894; chief translator for the Bu
reau of Ariierican Republics from 1897. to
i960; official interpreter for the American
and Spanish Peace Commission sit Paris in
1898 ; Spanish secretary of the United States
Philippine Commission, April 1, 1900, later
becoming chief secretary of the commission,
and since July, 1901, executive secretary for
the Philippine Islands.' He is- a member of
the University, and Army and Navy Clubs
of Manila, P- I- He is .a Republican in
politics. Mr. Fergusson married at Wash
ington, D. C, February 1, 1887, Mary
Stanton. Williams, and they have one son,
Arthur 'Robertson, born February 4, 1888.
Address : "Manila, Philippine Islands...
FEBGUSSON, Edmund M orris:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, September 7,1864; son of Alex
ander C. Fergusson of Scotland and Mary
(Morris) Fergusson of Burlington, New
Jersey. He was educated in 3.. private
school in Philadelphia,- graduated from
University of "Penrisylvariia as 'B.A. iri
1883, ';a*nd M.A: in 1886, ;ahd attended
Princeton Theological Sethinary from 1883
to' 1886. He was pastor of the Presby
terian churches of Absecon and Pleasant-
ville, New Jersey, from ordination;-'. June-

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8, 1886, to October, 1887; was active in
local Sunday school work at that time;
was assistant editor of the Sunday School
limes, Philadelphia, from 1887 to 1889;
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, from 1889 to
.1892; and has been general secretary, of
the New Jersey Sunday school Association
since 1892. He edited a monthly Sunday
school paper for ten years from 1892 to
1901 ; served in various honorary offices
of the International Sunday school Associa
tion; is a writer of lesson helps for the
Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sab
bath School Work, and a lecturer and writ
er on Sunday School topics. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion a Presbyter
ian. He is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, and (1907) secretary of
the Sunday School Department of the
Religious Education Association. Mr. Fer
gusson married in Louisville, Kentucky,
May 26, 1898, Mary Fry Huber, and they
have had two children : Edmund Morris,
Jr., born in 1899, and Martha (deceased).
Residence : 724 De Graw Avenue, Newark.
Address: 835 Broad Street, Newark, New
Jersey.FEBGUSSON,, Harvey B.:
Lawyer; born in Alabama, September 9,
1848. He received his academic education
at the Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Virginia, where he was grad
uated in 1873 with the degree of A.M.
He continued at the University as a law
student, and in 1874 was admitted to the
bar of West Virginia. He established. him
self in practice at Wheeling, where he re
mained until 1882. In that year he went
West, settling at Albuquerque, New Mex-
ico, where he has since practiced his pro
fession. Iri 1897 he was elected by the
Democratic party to a seat in the United
States House of Representatives, and
served in the Fifty-fifth Congress. He has
been for many years identified with the
Democratic party, and is member of the
National Democratic Committee. . Address :
Albuquerque, New Mexico.

FEBNALD, Charles Henry:
Professor of zoology in the Massaeku-
setts Agricultural College ; born at Mt. Des
ert, Maine, March 16, 1838; son of Eben
Fernald and Sophronia (Wasgatt) Fer
nald. He was educated in public schools
of Mt. Desert ; Maine Wesleyan Seminary,
and completed college course while in the
United States Navy from 1862 to 1865;
he received the degree of A.M. from Bow
doin College and the degree of Ph.D. from
the University of Maine in 1886. He
worked on the home farm and attended
public school till seventeen years old, then
went to sea during. the summer; rose from
the lowest position to the highest; taught
in the public schools during the winter
months. He entered the United States
Navy in August, 1862, and remained till
the close of the war, and rose from sea
man to line officer. Was at one time ward
room officer, associated with Admiral W. T.
Sampson, who was then a lieutenant, one
grade above him. At the close of the war
Professor Fernald resigned his position in
the Navy; was principal of Litchfield Acad
emy, one year; of Houlton Academy, five
years; professor of natural history in the
University of Maine, fifteen years, and in
this college twenty-one years. Professor
Fernald has traveled extensively through
this country, and twice in Europe. He is
a Republican in politics and a Methodist
in religion. Is a meriiber of numerous sci
entific societies in this country and Eu
rope. He married at Tremont, Maine,
August 24, 1862, Maria Elizabeth Smith,
and they have one son : Henry Torsey
Fernald, Ph.D., born in 1866. Address:
Amherst, Massachusetts.
FEBNALD, Henry Torsey:
Entomologist j^orn at Litchfield, Maine,
April 17, 1866; son of Professor Charles
Henry Fernald and Maria Elizabeth
(Smith) Fernald. He was educated at the
University of Maine, from which he re-
received the degrees , of B.S. in 1885 and
M.S: . in 1888, then taking post-graduate
studies at Johns Hopkins University, from
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1890; then was professor of zoology at the
Pennsylvania State College from 1890 to
1899, and State zoologist of Pennsylvania
in 1898 and 1899; since 1899 professor of
entomology in the Massachusetts Agri
cultural College, State Nursery Inspector of
Massachusetts, since 1902. Dr. Fernald
married at Baltimore, Maryland, June 9,
1890, Minna R. Simon; children: Helen E.,
Charles H., and Ruth L. Address: Am
herst, Massachusetts.
FEBNALD, Merritt Caldwell:
Educator; born at South Levant, Penob
scot County, Maine, May 26, 1838; son of
Robert Fernald and Roxana (Buswell)
Fernald. He was graduated from Bow
doin College, Brunswick, Maine, with the
degree of A.B. in 1861, and pursued post
graduate studies at Harvard University
in 1863 and 1864. He received from Bow
doin College the degrees of A.M. in 1864,
Ph.D. in 1881, and LL.D. in 1902. He
was principal of academies in Maine until
1868, when he became professor of mathe
matics and physics at the Maine State Col
lege (now the University of Maine) at
Orono,- Maine, with which institution he
has ever since been connected. He was
acting president from 1868 to 1871, pro
fessor of mathematics and physics from
1871 to 1879, president from 1879 to 1893,
and since 1893 has been professor emeritus
in the department of philosophy in the Uni
versity of Maine. He is a Republican in
politics and a Congregationalist in his re
ligious connections. He has held member
ship in the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, National Educa
tional Association, American Social Science
Association, the National Geographic So
ciety, and other scientific and literary or
ganizations; He is a member of the Theta
Delta Chi, the Phi Beta Kappa, and the
Phi Kappa Phi fraternities. He married
at Bethelr Maine, August 24, 1865, Mary
Lovejoy Heywood, and they have five chil
dren: Mrs. John A. Pierce (nee Harriet
Converse Fernald), Spokane, Washington;
Robert Heywood Fernald, professor of

mechanical engineering, Case School of
Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; Merritt
Lyndon Fernald, assistant professor of
botany, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Reginald Lovejoy Fernald,
with the Ginn Publishing Company, New
York City; and George Bancroft Fernald,
English master at St. Mark's School,
Southboro, Massachusetts. Address : Orono,
Maine.
FEBNOW, Bernard Edward:
Consulting forest engineer; born Inow-
ratzlav (Salzberg), Prussia, January 7,
1851 ; graduated Gymnasium at Bromherg,
Forest Academy, at Muenden, and law de
partment, University of Koenigsburg (LL.
D., University of Wisconsin, 1897, Queen's
University, Canada, 1903). Served in Ger
man Army in Franco-German War, and
became lieutenant of reserves ; was six
years in Prussian Forestry Department;
came to America, 1876; engaged in metal
lurgical business, establishing factory in
Brooklyn; chief United States Bureau of
Forestry, 1886-98; director College of For
estry, Cornell University, 1898-1903; in
practice as consulting forest engineer, with
office at Ithaca, and in New York City,
1903- 1907; Dean, Faculty of Forestry, Uni
versity of Toronto, Canada, 1907. Editor
and publisher Forestry Quarterly, first pro
fessional journal of its kind in United
States. Author: Economics of Forestry;
Flistory of Forestry ; The Care of Trees in
Lawn, Street and Park; also many re
ports, bulletins, etc., relating to forestry.
Secretary 1883-87, chairman Executive Com-
'mittee i884-g8 first vice-president since
1898, American Forestry Association; fel
low American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science (vice-president of
Section I, 1895) ; life member American
Institute Mining Engineers ; honorary mem
ber Academy of Science of St. Petersburg,
English Arboricultural Society, Pennsyl
vania Forestry Association. Married in
1879, Olivia Reynolds (Brooklyn) ; four
sons, two in engineering profession. Ad
dress : University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario.

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FEBNOW, Berthold:
Historian and litterateur; born at In-
ovratslav, Prussian Poland; son of Edward
Fernow and Bertha (de Jachmann) Fer-
now. He was educated at the Royal Gym
nasium Cloister of Our Lady, Magdeburg,
and at the Royal Gymnasium at Bromberg.
He came to the United States in 1862 to
become 'a farmer in Iowa near Council
Bluffs : enlisted as private of the Fourth
Missouri Cavalry, 1863; lieutenant of the
Third United States Infantry, colored
troops, 1864 ; mustered out in 1865 ; in
mercantile business in New York to 1870;
returned to Europe in 1870; bookkeeper of
the Prussian Credit Bank, Berlin, 1872 to
1874; came back to the United States, Ap
ril, 1874; farmed in New Jersey to 1876.
He was made clerk in charge of Historical
Records at Albany by Hon. John Bigelow,
Secretary of State from 1876 to 1878; in
New York in 1879 and 1880; recalled to
Albany in 1881 ; records transferred to
State Library and with them remained in
office until 1889. Since then he has been
engaged in historical and genealogical work.
He translated and edited volumes twelve,
thirteen and fourteen Documents Relating
to the Colonial History of the State of
New York; seven volumes of the Records
of New Amsterdam, Minutes of the Or
phan' Masters of New Amsterdam (for
Colonial Dames), compiled Calendar of
Wills (for Colonial Dames), New York in
Revolution and New Jersey Archives, vol
ume twenty-one, etc. He is author of;
Albany and its Place in the History of the
United States, 1886; the Ohio Valley in
Colonial Days, 1890; New York Family
Names and their Origin, 1897 ; and of mag
azine articles. He is a Republican in
politics and a Protestant in religion. He
is an honorary member of the Historical
Societies of New York, State of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Buffalo, a companion of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, member of Sagamore
Lodge F. and A.M., New York, George
Washington Post of the Grand Army of
the- Republic, New York City. Address :
Army and Navy Club, New York City.

FEBBABA, Samuel James:
Banking and exchange; born Lercara-
Friddi, Sicily, -February 22, -18S1;- son of
Joseph Anthony and Antonia (Iovino) Fer-
rarar educated New York public schools,"
Trinity School, New York City, St. Steph
en's College, Annandale, New York.
Started an exchange and banking business
in New York City, February,. 1903; in
corporated Siculo Express Company, 1905.
Traveled through Europe, 1905, and Janu
ary 1, 1906, opened an office as headquart
ers for Italian business in Palermo (Italy),
and offices in Boston, Massachusetts,
Brooklyn, and New York City. President
Siculo Express Company, Concordia Be
nevolent Society; member Italian Chamber
of Commerce, Italian-American League.
Republican. Episcopalian. Member- and
trustee Ben Venuti Club. Married, New
York City, February 6, 1902, Teresa Acri-
telli; children: Nina (born 1903), Santa
(born 1904), Glory (born 1905), Emanuel
James (born 1906). Address 410 East
Thirteenth Street, New York City.
FEBBIS, Clarence Clark:
Lawyer; born at Greenwich, Connecticut,
February 15, 1864; son of Samuel Holmes
and Mary (Clark) Ferris. He was grad
uated from Yale University as A.B. in
1887; Columbia, as LL.B., 1892. He was
admitted to the bar in 1891 and has been
in general practice in New York City since
i8g2, and is also a member of the Con
necticut bar; prominent as counsel for
property owners in various important con
demnations and improvements. He is
president of the Spuyten Duyvil Real Es
tate Company. Mr. Ferris is a Democrat
in politics, and a Congregationalist in his
religious belief. He is a member -of the
Yale Alumni Association, New York City
Bar Association, Delta Upsilon, First Con
gregational Society of Greenwich,- Connect-.
icut His chief recreations are European
and American travel, scenic expeditions
with camera, and hunting. He is also a
member of the City, Democratic, National
Arts and Congregational Clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, January 14, 1897,
Katherine Dudek, died October 17, 1905.

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Address: 35 Wall Street, -New York
City.
FEBBIS, George S, :
Jurist; born in Pittston, Luzerne Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1849. He was
educated at Columbia College, Washing
ton, D. C, and Allegheny College, Mead
ville, Penusyv'airia, where he graduated io
1869. In 1870-1871 he served as a clerk in
the Treasury Departrnent at Washington,
at the same time studying in the Columbia
College Law School, where he was gradu
ated in 1871 and admitted to practice be
fore the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia. Returning to Pittston, he
was admitted to the county bar in 1872,
and began a practice which became large
and lucrative, especially in the Civil and
Orphans' Courts. ,He gained much prom
inence for his services in defense of the
sheriff and his deputies, on trial for fir
ing into the mob during the labor troubles,
the trial resulting in their acquittal. Mr.
Ferris has made himself well known as
an effective political speaker for the Re
publican Party. He has served as School
Director and as presiding officer of county
conventions, and in 1898-1899 was County
Solicitor. In 1900 he was elected Judge
of the Common' ' Pleas Court of Luzerne
County for a term of ten years. Address:
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
FEBBIS, Harry B.:
Physician and professor of Anatomy;
Medical Department, Yale University ; born
at Old Greenwich, Connecticut, May
21, 1865;. son of Samuel Holmes Ferris
and Mary F. (Clark) Ferris. He was
graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1887, Yale
as M.D. in 1890. He is a Republican in
politics and a Congregationalist in his
religion. He is a member of the Connec
ticut Medical Society, New Haven County
and City: Societies, American Naturalists,
American -Zoological Society, American
Anatomy Society, American Microscopical
Society, the Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma- Xi,
Delta Epsilon 'Iota Chapter of Nu Sigma
Nu (medical). Dr. Ferris is also a member
of trie Graduates' and Lawn Clubs. He

married at Sound Beach, Connecticut, June
23, 1892, Helen Whiting. Ferris, arid they
have two children: Helen •Millington, horn.
in 1893, and Henry Whiting, born. in 1899.
Residence : 395 St. Ronan Street. Busi
ness address : 150 York Street, New Haven,
Connecticut.
FEBBIS, Madison J. II.:
Lawyer; born in New York City. Au
gust 4, 1846; son of Oliver Lock-wood and
Hannah (Holmes) Ferris. He was educat
ed in Charlier's French Institute, New
York City ; finished legal education in law
school. He studied law in office of Hon.
Roger A. Pryor, 1867; admitted to the bar
in 1868, engaged in politics in 1871, speak
ing in many States in support of the Dem
ocratic ticket in the national" campaigns ;
since 1895 has given exclusive attention to
the legal matters of the Salvation Army,
throughout the United States, and has visit
ed Europe twice in that connection. Mr.
Ferris is a Democrat in politics and a
Salvationist in his religious views. He is
a member of the Colfax Lodge, Royal Ar
canum; trustee of the Salvation Army cor
poration ; director of the Reliance Realty
Company, Industrial Homes Company;
trustee in The Incorporated Trustees of
The Salvation Army in Pennsylvania and
secr'etary of the Board, . and director in
The Salvation Army of Massachusetts In
corporated and secretary of its Board. He
married first, in New York City in 1873,
Laura Barker, died in 1884; second in
July 9, 1902, Mrs. Caroline L, Welsh, and
they have five children : Eva -Bruce, born
in 1881, Madison. B., born in 1885, Ruth
E., born in 1884, Charles R., born in 1886,
and Henry J. L, born in i88g. Address:
120 West Fourteenth Street, New York
City.FEBBISS, Franklin:
Lawyer; born at Peru, New York, Sep
tember 22, 1849; son of Charles and Mercy
(Maeomber) Ferriss. After a prepara
tory education in the schools of his town,
he entered Cornell University as a student
in the scientific course, graduating in 1873

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with the degree of B.S. In that year he
removed with his family to St. Louis, Mis
souri, where he took up the study of law
at the St. Louis Law School, graduating in
1875 with the degree of LL.B. The same
year he was admitted to the bar of Mis
souri and has since practiced in that State.
In 1898 he was elected to the office of cir
cuit judge, but gave up the position in 1903,
becoming general attorney of the Louisi
ana Purchase Exposition Company. Mr.
Ferriss is member of the Business Men's
League and is prominent among the club
men of St. Louis. He was married in that
city, February 10, 1880, to Elizabeth Simon.
Residence: 5828 Cabanne Avenue. Ad
dress: Rialto Building, St. Louis, Missouri.
FEEBY, Dexter Mason:
Merchant; born on a farm at Lowville,
Lewis County, New York, August 8, 1833;
son of Joseph N. Ferry and Lucy D. Ferry.
He was reared on the farm, becoming a
thorough expert in practical horticulture,
and was educated in the schools of Roches
ter, New York, until 1852, when he went
to Detroit, Michigan, of which he has ever
since been a citizen. He was for four years
engaged as a clerk in a stationery store, and
in 1856 he began his experience in the seed
business as one of the organizers of the firm
of M. T. Gardner and Company. In 1867
he established the firm of D. M. Ferry and
Company, now the largest in the seed
business in the United States and command
ing a trade that is practically world-wide.
Mr. Ferry, in addition to ' this business is
also identified with other large business and
financial enterprises. He is president of
the Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance
Company, the Standard Life and Accident
Insurance Company, The First National
Bank of Detroit, and the Union Trust Com
pany of Detroit, and is an officer and direc
tor in various other companies. Mr. Ferry
has always been an active and influential
member of the Republican party, and in
1896 was chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee of Michigan. Address:
1040 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michi
gan.

FEBBY, George Bowman:
Architect; born in Springfield, Massa
chusetts, February 7, 1851 ; son of Robert
Spencer and Almira Tirzah Ferry. He was
graduated from the Springfield high school
in 1870, took a course iri architecture at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
md engaged in the practice of architecture,
iri which he has for years been located at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the archi
tect of the Milwaukee Public Library, the
Wisconsin State Building at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition and many other not
able structures. He married at Springfield,
Massachusetts, January 7, 1880, Cora Fran
ces Phillips. Residence : 19 Prospect Ave
nue, Milwaukee. Office address: 419 Broad;
way, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
FESSENDEN, Franklin Goodridge:
Jurist; born in Fitchburg, Massachu
setts, June 20, 1849; son of Charles and
Martha Elizabeth (Newton) Fessenden,
grandson of Nathan and Jane (Goodridge)
Fessenden, and of Morton and Susan
(Chamberlain) Newton, and a descendant
of Nicholas and Margaret (Cheney) Fes
senden, who came from Canterbury, Eng
land, to Cambridge, Massachusejits, in 1674;
of William Goodridge, Watertown, 1636,
and Richard Newton, Sudbury, Massachu
setts, 1640. Mr. Fessenden was graduated
at the Fitchburg High School and then
studied in Paris, France. He was gradu
ated at Harvard, LL.B., 1872, and while in
structor of French at Harvard, 1872-78,
pursued a post-graduate course in law. He
practiced law in Fitchburg, 1873, and in
Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1874-1891. He
was admitted to practice in the United
States Courts in 1883; was lecturer on
criminal law at Dane Law School, Harvard
University, 1882-1883. He was master in
chancery for many years ; was attorney for
the National Bank of Greenfield and district
attorney pro tempore for the Northwestern
District of Massachusetts. He served as a
trustee of the Prospect Hill School from
1 881 ; of the Franklin Savings Institution
from 1884, and became vice-president of the
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William E. Russell a justice of the Su
perior Court of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, in August, 1891. He is a
member of the Greenfield Club ; of the
Colonial Club of Cahibridge, and of the
Union, University and Tavern Clubs of
Boston. He is a contributor to the Har
vard Law Review on intricate points of
law. He was married, October 3, 1878, to
Mary Jane Rowley. Residence : High and
Main Streets, Greenfield, Massachusetts.
FESSENDEN, Beginald Aubrey:
Electrical engineer ; born at Bolton in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, October 6,
1866; son of Rev. E. J. Fessenden, of a
New England family of Cambridge, Mass
achusetts, and Clementina (Trenholm)
Fessenden. He was educated at the De
Veaux Military School at Suspension
Bridge, New York, and Trinity College
School, Port Hope, Ontario, until 1883,
then studied electrical engineering prac
tically. He held prominent positions with
the Edison Company, New York, the lab
oratory of Thomas A. Edison at Menlo
Park, New Jersey, and with the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing Company
at Newark, New Jersey. He was professor
of physics and electrical engineering at
Purdue University in 1892 and 1893, and
professor of electrical engineering at the
Western University of Pennsylvania from
1893 to 1900, when he became special agent
of the United States Weather Bureau. He
is now general manager of the National
Electric Signalling Company. He is author
of many papers and monographs relating
to physics and electricity. Mr. Fessenden
married in 1889, Helen May Trott, of
Bermuda, and they have a son, Reginald
Kennelly Fessenden. Address: 17371
Riggs Place, Washington, D. C.
FESSENDEN, Samuel:
Lawyer; born at Rockland, Maine, April
12, 1847;. son of Samuel C. and Mary A.
G. (Abbe) Fessenden. He received his
preparatory education in public and private
schools, after which, becoming a law stud
ent at Harvard University, he was grad
uated in 1871 with the degree of LL.B

He served in the Union Army during the
last year, of the Civil War, for, full of
boyish ardor to fight for his beloved coun
try, he had enlisted with a battery of ar
tillery though still under an eligible age.
At the close of the war, he was mustered
out of service with the rank of second
lieutenant. In 1871 he was admitted to the
bar of the State of Connecticut and open
ed an office in Stamford. In 1874 he was
elected to the lower house of the Con
necticut legislature for a term of two years,
being reelected in 1879 and 1895, the latter
year filling the speaker's chair. In 1905
he was sent as member of the State Senate
from Stamford. He was in 1880 made
State's attorney for Connecticut and still
retains that office. He is in politics affiliat
ed with the Republican party in which he
is a prominent figure and was member of
its National Committee from 1884 to 1900,
also being a delegate to the National Con
ventions of 1876, 1880, 1888 and 1896. He
is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Mr. Fessenden married, June 18,
1873, Helen M. Davenport. Address :
Stamford, Connecticut.
FETTER, Norman:
Lawyer; born at Fountain City, Wiscon
sin, May 1, 1864; son of Ferdinand and
Dorothea Fetter. After an elettientary and
high school education, he took up the studj
of law at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, graduating in 1889 with the de
gree of LL.B. In the same year he settled
at St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was ad
mitted to the bar. He is in private prac
tice in that city and has been, since 1898,
member of the Charter Commission. He is
author of various legal works and articles
in law journals. Among the books he has
written are : Handbook on Equity Jurispru
dence, 1895; and Law of Carriers of Pas
sengers, 1897. He married at St. Paul,
October 2, 1900, Isabel Lees. Address : St.
Paul, Minnesota.
FETTEBOLF, Adam H.:
President of Girard College, since 1883 ;
born in Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, Novem
ber 25, 1841. Educated at Ursinus College,

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Pennsylvania. Hon. A.M. 1866, -and Hon.
Ph.D. 1878, Lafayette College, Pennsyl
vania-; Hon. LL.D., Delaware College,
Delaware, 1886. Began life as public school
teacher; became principal of Freeland
Seminary, now Ursinus College, 1865 ; prin
cipal, Andalusia Hall, Pennsylvania, 1870-
80; vice-president, Girard College, 1880-83.
Married, first 1865 ; second, 1883. Address :
Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FEWKES, Jesse Walter:
Ethnologist; born at Newton, Massachu
setts, November 14, 1850. He was educated
at , Harvard College from which he re
ceived the degrees of A.B. in 1875, .A.M. (in
natural history) and Ph.D. in 1877; then
studied zoology at the University, of Leipzig
from 1878 to 1880. He was assistant at the
Museum of Comparative Zoology of Har
vard College from 1881 to i88g, editor of the
Journal of Ethnology and Archaeology
from 1890- to 1894, and since 1895 has been
ethnologist of the Bureau of American
Ethnology in the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington. Dr. Fewkes married at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 4, 1893,
Harriet O. Cutler. Address : Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D. C.
FFOULKE, Charles Mather:
Manufacturer, writer, lecturer and art
connoisseur; born at Quakertown, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1841 ; son
of Benjamin Green Ffoulke and Jane
(Mather) Ffoulke. He received his educa
tion in the schools of the Society of Friends
at Quakertown, Gwynedd and Philadelphia,
and afterward became a teacher in the
Friend's School in Philadelphia, and later
principal of the Friend's School at Quaker-
town, Pennsylvania. He was in the wool
business in Philadelphia from 1861 to .1872,
when he retired from active commercial
business, although he is still interested in
business enterprises as a director of the
Fletcher Manufacturing Company of Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and other corpora
tions. He has taken great interest in art
matters, and he studied aft in Europe
from 1872 to 1874 and from 1882 to 1888,
as well as. on many shorter visits, and

he has devoted himself most assiduously
to the collection of antique tapestries from
all parts of the world. Hjs collection of
these is unrivaled in size and importance
and includes the famous tapestries of the
Barberini family of Rome, which he bought
in 1888, and many others of great valire.
Mr. Ffoulke lectures and writes upon the
History of tapestries, and upon existing
art tapestries, and is one of the leading
authorities in that branch of art. He is
president of the National Society . of -the
Fine Arts, a member of the Historical
Society of Washington, the Archaeological
Institute of America, of the National Geo
graphic Society, of several European Art
Societies, of the Metropolitan, Country and
Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington,1' and
the National Arts Club, of New York
City. He married in Paris, December 10,
1872, Sarah A. Cushing, children : Helen
Seagrave Ffoulke, Gladys Ffoulke, married
to E. Chapman- Sfnith, Charles Mather
Ffoulke, Jr. Address: 201 1 Massachusetts
Avenue, Washington, D. C.
FLELD, AUen W.:
Lawyer; born at La Salle, Illinois; No
vember 20, 1853. His early education was
obtained in the rural school of Tabon,
Iowa, near which town his parents had
removed. Fitting himself for college, he
entered the University of Nebraska, at Lin
coln, Nebraska, in 1873 and was graduated
from the academic department four years
later, with the degree of A. B. The honor
ary degree of A.M. was conferred, upon
him in 1885. In i879, he, was admitted, to
the bar at Lincoln, Nebraska, where he
has since practiced. In 1882 he was elect
ed by the Republican party to the Nebraska
House of Representatives for a term of
two years and was reelected for the suc
ceeding two years, during which he was
speaker of the House. At the close of his
second term in office in 1886 he became
corporation counsel of Lincoln, arid.. in
1887 was elected district judge for a term
of four years, being reelected in 1891. In
1899 he was nominated by the Republican
members of the State legislature for. .the
i office of United States Senator, but they

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failed to give him a majority of votes. He
married at Lincoln, Nebraska, December
20, 1883, May B. Fairfield. Address : 1828
North Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
FIELD, Archelaus G. :
Physician and, surgeon; born in Ontario
County, New York, November 15, 1820 ;
son of Dr. Abel W. Field and Zilpha
(Witter) Field. He was educated in a medi
cal college at Columbus, Ohio, in 1853 and
1854, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York City in 1863 and 1864, Simpson
Centenary Law College in 1879. Membef
of the International Medical Congress in
1879. He was first City Physician of Des
Moines, Iowa, examining surgeon for pen
sioners eighteen years, professor of phy-
is'iology and pathology Keokuk Medical
College iri 1882, a member of the Review
: Board of Pension, Department of the Unit
ed States, , 1885, president of the Iowa State
Medical Society 1872, member of the Sta^e
Bar Association of Iowa, member of the
American "Association for the Advancement
of Science, 1899. He was twice elected
mayor of North Des Moines; is president
of the Des Moines School of Technology.
Has been a liberal contributor to medical
and secular press. He married", May 7,
1877, Hattie Weatherby, Cardington, Ohio.
Address :. Summit Place, Des Moines, Iowa.
FIELD, Cortlandt de Feyster:
-Merchant and philanthropist; boni in
New York City, December 28, 1849; son of
Benjamin- Hazard Field and Catherine M.
Van Cortlandt - (de Peyster) Field. He
was graduated from Columbia College "as
A.B. in 1859, followed by a post-graduate
course of two years under Professors Mc-
Cullough and Jay, in a class which was the
beginning of the School, of Mines. Mr.
Field has been -a merchant and banker
since 1861. He gave the public library
to Peekskill, New York, as a -memorial
to This mother, and founded and endow
ed iri 1887, the Field Home: for Aged, In
firm arid Respectable Poor- Persons, at
FieIdh'o"me,;'Yorktown, Westchester'County,
.New -York', and he also founded in- 18.88
and named for his mother, and has since

maintained St. Catherine's Church and the
industrial schools connected with it. He
is a member of the National Academy of
Design, the Scientific Alliance, the Men
delssohn Glee' Club, the New York Histor
ical Society, the Museum of Natural His
tory Society and the St. Nicholas Society.
Mr. Field married Virginia Hamersley.
Residence : 21 East Twenty-sixth Street,
New York. Office address : 127 Water
Street, New York City.
FIELD, Elisha C.
Lawyer; born at Valparaiso, Indiana,
April 9, 1842; son of Thomas J. and An
toinette Field. - He received his academic
education at the college in his native city
and at the University of Michigan, taking
up the study of law, he was admitted to. the
bar of Indiana in 1865 where he practiced
for many years. In 1878 he was elected to
a seat on the bench of the Circuit Court
of Indiana which he held until 1889. In
that year he resigned, having been appointed
by the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
Railroad (now the Chicago, Indianapolis
and Louisville Railroad) as its general
counsel at. Chicago. He married, September
1, 1864, Mary E. Jackson, of Sycamore, Illi
nois. ' Residence : 542 West Sixty-first
Place. Address: 198 Custom House Court,
Chicago, Illinois.
FIELD, Frank Harvey:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Au
gust 17, 1863 ; son of Cornelius R. and
Sarah E. (Henry) Field. He was educat
ed in public schools, Illinois, and Columbia
Law School, LL.B., 1888. He was a mem
ber of the Board of Education, of the City
of New York, from 1902 to igo6; delegate
to Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, Louis
iana Purchase Exposition; director of. the
Williamsburgh Trust Company Manufactur
ers' Association of New York. He is a
Republicari in politics and a Baptist in his
religious belief. Mr. Field is a member
of "the- Airierican Bar Association and of
its New York State Council; New York
State, New York City and Brooklyn Bar
Associations; ifioderator of the Longr Island
Baptist Association; director of the New

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York Juvenile Asylum. He is also a mem
ber of the Brooklyn, Crescent Athletic,
and the Brooklyn Young Republican Clubs
of which he was president two terms. He
married in Brooklyn, June 3, 1890, ' Mary
L. Sniffen, and they have four children:
Reginald, born in 1894, Ruth, born in 1896,
Paul, born in 1898, and Franklin, born in
1902. Residence: 274 Sterling Place,
Brooklyn. Address : 60 Wall Street, New
York City.
FIELD, Henry Martyn:
Clergyman, author and editor; born in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, April 3, 1822 ;
son of Rev. David Dudley' Field and Sub
mit (Dickinson) Field, grandson of Captain
Timothy Field and of Captain Noah Dick
inson, both officers in the American Re
volution, and brother of David Dudley
Field, law reformer, Cyrus W. Field, who
laid the Atlantic cable, and Stephen J.
Field, for thirty-four years on the Supreme
Bench of the United States. He was
graduated from Williams College in 1838,
studied theology and was installed pastor
of the Third Presbyterian Church of St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1842. This pastorate
he resigned in 1847, went to Europe, and
was in Paris during the Revolution of 1848,
and witnessed the sacking of the Tuiler-
eries by the mob. He returned in 1851,
became pastor of the Congregational
Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts,
until 1854, when he removed to New York
City, having purchased a half interest in
The Evangelist, of which he became, soon
after, the sole proprietor and editor, in
which position he continued for forty-four
years. His travels have been world-wide,
and have been the inspiration of several
volumes, including: The Irish Confeder
ates, a History of the Rebellion of 1798;
Summer Pictures from Copenhagen to
Venice ; From the Lakes of Killarney to
the Golden Horn; From Egypt to Japan;
On the Desert; Among the Holy Hills;
The Gre^k Islands and Turkey After the
War: OH Spain and New Spain; Gibral
tar ;- The Barbary Coast ; Blood is Thicker
than Water; Bright Skies and Dark Shad

ows; Our Western Archipelago. Address:
Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
FIELD, John S. :
Capitalist; born in Beloit, Wisconsin,
August 14, 1847; son of Spofford C. and
Martha Ann (Durgin) Field. He was.edu-
cated at the public and high schools of Be
loit, and began his business career in 1867
by entering the employ of Sweet & Crouch,
ice dealers, in Chicago, Illinois, beginning
as a solicitor, and being gradually ad
vanced to more responsible positions, until
1879, when, upon the purchase of the busi
ness by Js. A. Shedd & Co., he became a
partner in the concern.* The company was
incorporated 'in 1885 as the Knickerbocker
Ice Company, and Mr. Field was made its
vice-president and general manager. In
1898 practically all the ice companies in Chi
cago, thirty-five in number, were absorbed
by the Knickerbocker Company, and he
became the president of the new organi
zation. When the Consumers' (ice) Coni
pany was organized he was made president
of that company also. He is a Republican
in national politics. He is a Congregation
alist; was a trustee of Plymouth Church,
Chicago, for six years, and chairman of
its board for three years. He is a director
of Glenwood School and of the Charity
Hospital; original director Chicago Com
mons. He is a member of the Union League,
Chicago Athletic, and Calumet Clubs of
Chicago, and of the Lawyers' Club of New
York City. Residence : 2250 Michigan Ave
nue, Chicago. Office address : 171 La Salle
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FIELDEB, Frank Sidney:
Physician; born at Dansville, New York,
1866; son of Frank and Ortha O. (Beach)
Fielder. He was graduated from Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, as Ph. B.
1889; and from College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York City, as M.
D. in 1892. He was assistant surgeon
in the United States Navy, serving on
cruiser Cincinnati during Spanish- Ameri
can War. Dr. Fielder is a Republican in
politics and a Presbyterian in his religiouB
affiliations. Ffe is a member of the New

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York State -Medical Society, American
Medical Association, West End Medical
Society, Societies, of Alumni of New York
Hospital, .and: Sloane Maternity Hospital ;
demonstrator of-.anatomy, Cornell Univers
ity Medical College; visiting physician of
the Bellevue Hospital, Out-Patient De
partment in diseases of children. He is a
member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, Phi
Beta Kappa Society, Naval and Military
Order Spanish-American War, and of the
Cornell University Club. He married at
Greenbush Heights, Albany, New York,
June i, 1901, Martha Teller Irwin. Ad
dress: 1 West Eighty-first Street, New
York City.
FIFEB, Joseph Wilson:
Interstate commerce commissioner, ex-
governor; born in Staunton, Virginia, Oc
tober 28, 1840; son of John Fifer and
Mary (Daniels) Fifer. In 1857 the family
moved to Illinois and settled on a farm in
McLean County. Mr. Fifer's early educa
tion was secured in the district schools. In
1861 he enlisted in the Thirty-third Illinois
Volunteer Regiment, for three years; par
ticipated in the Vicksburg campaign of 1863,
and was severely wounded at Jackson, Mis
sissippi, July 13, 1863 ; and was incapacitated
from further active service. When his term
of enlistment expired in 1864, he returned
to Illinois, and worked at tax collecting,
bricklaying, cutting cord- wood and other
work until he accumulated enough means
to take a college -course in the Illinois Wes
leyan University at Bloomington, from
which he was graduated as B.S. in 1898.
He then studied law, was admitted to the
bar in June, 1869, and thereafter practiced
at Bloomington. He soon gained recogni
tion as one of the ablest members of the
McLean County bar, was corporation coun
sel of -Bloomington in 1871, State's attorney
for .McLean County from 1872 to 1879 and
State senator from 1880 to 1884, in each
case being elected on the Republican ticket.
In 1888 he was elected Governor of Illinois,
serving four years. He was the Republican
candidate for governor again in 1892, but
that was the year of the Democratic land

slide in Illinois, when John P. Altgeld was
elected governor. He was appointed by
President McKinley in 1899, an interconti
nental railway commissioner, and ap
pointed by President Roosevelt in 1904, as
a member of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, in which he is now serving. Gov
ernor Fifer was a trustee of the Illinois
Wesleyan University from 1891 to 1893, and
received the LL.D. degree from that insti
tution in 1892. He married in Blooming
ton, Illinois, June 15, 1870, Gertrude Lewis.
Residence: Bloomington, Illinois. Office
address : Sun Building, Washington, D. C.
FLFIELD, Benjamin F.:
Lawyer; born at Orange, Vermont, No
vember 18, 1832; son of Orange Fifield and
Malissa Fifield. He was graduated from
the University of Vermont, at Burlington
in 1855 with the degree of A.B. Taking
up the study of law at Montpelier, he was
admitted to .the bar of Vermont in 1858.
He has since been prominent in the affairs
of his state. In 1869 he was appointed
by President Grant, United States attorney
for Vermont, holding that office until 1880
when he was elected by the Republican
party to the Vermont House of Represent
atives for a term of two years. Since
1869 he has been connected with the Cen
tral Vermont Railroad as its general coun
sel. In 1899 he was offered an appointment
to fill the seat of United States Senator
Morrell, made vacant by his death, but he
refused the offer. In 1893 he represented
his state on the Board of Commissioners
of the World's Columbian Exposition held
at Chicago, and in 1884 was member of
the National Republican Convention. He
is on the Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity of Vermont and also Governor of
the Vermont Society of Colonial Wars in
1904. He was president of the Seventh
Annual Convention of the Vermont Bar
Association in 1884. The University of
Vermont conferred upon him the degree
of LL.D. in 1906. He married, at MontT
pelier in 1865, Lucy Hubbard. Address :
Montpelier, Vermont.

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FILKINS, Claude William Leroy:
Civil engineer; born in Erie, ., Pennsyl
vania, August 25, 1870; son of Isaiah Vale
Filkins and Isadora (Reynels) Filkins. He
was graduated from the Olean (New York)
High School and Academy in 1888, as -vale
dictorian of his class, and was winner of
a State scholarship at Cornell University,
from which he was graduated with the de
gree of CE. in 1893 and • M.C.E. in 1894,
and refusing a scholarship in the latter
year. He . was head of the Mathematical
Department of St. John's Military Acad
emy in 1895, instructor in mathematics, and
drafting in Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New
York, from 1895 to 1898; instructor in civil
engineering in Cornell University from
1898 to 1902; professor of civil engineering
in the Colorado School of Mines from
1902 to 1905, and also professor of me
chanics in Cornell Summer School in 1903.
He was engaged in engineering practice in
1894, 1895, 1899, and 1900, and since 1905,
and from 1906 has been consulting engi
neer with William Wharton, Jr., & Com
pany, Incorporated, of Philadelphia. Among
the lines of researches in which Professor
Filkins has specialized, and written papers
are: geodesy, astronomy, least squares,
stresses and strains in circular hoops, the
eccentricity of three-microscope alidade and
the determination of the temporary zeros
of the microscopes ; a graphic method for
spacing tie-rods (chart) ; a seven-place
table of logarithmic arcs ; a series of rail
way problems. He is a Republican in pol
itics and an Episcopalian in his church re
lations. He is a member of the Cornell
University Civil Engineering Association,
the Society of the Sigma Xi, the Cornell
Club of Philadelphia, and the Wynnefield
Country Club of Philadelphia. Professor
Filkins married in New York City, Decem
ber 24, 1902, Daisy Elizabeth Brenner. Resi
dence: 770 South Broad Street, Philadel
phia. Office address : Care of William
Wharton, Jr., Incorporated, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
FILLEBBOWN, Charles Bowdoin:
Manufacturer and political economist;
bora at Winthrop, Kennebec County,

Maine, December 26, -18424 son of James
Bowdoin Fillebrown and Almira (Butler)
Fillebrown. He was educated at Kent's
Hill, Maine, and at Phillips Academy at
Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1862, and from
that school entered the Twenty- fourth
Maine Infantry for nine months, then to
the Twenty-ninth Maine Infantry, in which
he served for three years in the First
Division of the Nineteenth' Army Corps.
He was aide-de-camp on staff of General
William Dwight, commanding the1 First
Brigade during Banks' Second Red River
Expedition, and again when her commanded
the Division in Sheridan's Shenandoah
Valley Campaign. The last year of service
ending June 1866, he was acting assistant
adjutant-general of the Military District
of Eastern South Carolina, garrisoned by
the First Brigade. He attended the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology in 1866
and 1867, and has since been engaged in
the dry goods business. From 1881 to
1903 he was president and general manager
of the Glenark Knitting Company at Woon-
socket, Rhode Island. Mr. Fillebrown has
attained great prominence as a writer and
propagandist of the Single Tax theory of
Henry George. He married at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, October 9, 1873, Mary
Louise Hall, who died in 1887; he has one
daughter, Mrs. Louise Jackson Murray.
Residence: Newton, Massachusetts. Office
address: 68 Essex Street, Boston, Mass
achusetts.
FILLEB, Mervin G.:
Professor of Latin; born at Boiling
Springs, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1873 ; son
of Peter P. Filler and Elizabeth (Shuh)
Filler. He was graduated from Dickinson
College in 1893 as A.B. ; A.M. in 1895;
studied in the University of Chicago in
1900-igoi, and the University of- Pennsyl
vania in 1906-1907. He was vice-prin
cipal of Dickinson Preparatory School from
1893 to 1899; professor of Latin in
Dickinson College since 1899. He has also
served for the past six years as dean of
Mt. Gretna Summer School for Teachers.
Professor Filler is an Independent in poli
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religious connections. He is a member of
the American Philological Association,
Archaeological Institute of America, Phi
Beta Kappa Society, and the Phi Kappa
Sigma Fraternity. He married at Boiling
Springs, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1895, Mil
dred E. Beitzel, and they have three chil
dren: Donald B. born in 1896; Mildred G,
born in 1898; M. Elizabeth, born in 1904.
Address : Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
FINCH, Edward Bidley:
Lawyer; born in_New York City, Novem
ber 15, 1873. Was graduated from Yale
as A.B. in 1895 (received special honors in
political science and law) ; from the Colum
bia University Law School as LL.B. in
1898. Admitted to the New York bar in
1898; was a member of the firm, Tappan
and Finch; now Finch and Coleman; a
member of the State Assembly from 1901
to 1904; author of bill placing those who
fail to register and vote upon preferred
list for jury service; also laws designed to
protect the labor of women and children,
known as the child labor laws; identified
with educational laws and movements, and
author of important measures affecting the
government of the City of New York;
writer and lecturer on Municipal Govern
ment; member National Bar Association,
State Bar Association, New York, City Bar
Association, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the St. Nicholas Society, the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, Sons of the American Rev
olution;, identified in New York City
with the work of the betterment and
uplifting of boys and young men. He be
longs to the following clubs : City, Re
publican, Yale, Baltusrol Golf, Plainfield
Tennis and Golf, and the Fort Orange
Country (Albany). -Residence: 37 Fifth
Avenue, New York City. Address : 32
Nassau Street, New York City.
FINCH, John Wellington:
Geologist and mine manager; born at
Lebanon, New York, November 3, 1873;
son of De Loss Finch and- Mary Ellen
(Lillibridge) Finch. He was graduated
from Colgate Academy in 1890, from Col
gate University as A.B. in 1897, instructor

in geology and physics, and A.M. in 1898
at Colgate University, and graduate stu
dent and instructor in geology in the Uni
versity of Chicago in 1898 and 1899. He
was engaged in geological work in Indian
Territory and Texas for the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway in 1890; was
geologist for the Gold Coin, Doctor and
other mines in Cripple Creek in 1901, for
the Portland Gold Mining Company, and
Stratton's Independence, Limited, in 1901 ;
made examinations in Colorado, Arizona,
Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Utah - and
Nevada for the Guggenheim Exploration
Company, Amalgamated Copper Company,
etc., from 1901 to 1903; conduced a geolog
ical and engineering office in Denver from
1903 to 1906; was State Geologist of Colo
rado from 1901 to 1906; and in 1906 and
1907. He is now general manager for
United States Senator George S. Nixon
and George Wingfield, and is director and
general manager of the -Goldfield Consoli
dated Mines Company and the Jumbo Min
ing Company of Goldfield; general manager
of the Sandstrom Mining Company, Booth
Mining Company of Goldfield, Columbia
Mining Company, Fairview Eagle Min
ing , Company, Goldfield May Queen Min
ing Company, Goldfield Mining Com
pany, Goldfield Mohawk Mining Com
pany, Red Top Mining' Company of Gold-
field; is director and manager of the La-
guna Goldfield Mining Company, the Com
bination . Mines Company, the Fairview
Golden. Boulder Mining Company, and the
Ubehebe Mining Company. Mr. Finch has
visited nearly every State in the United
States, much .of Mexico and some of Can
ada. In politics he is a Republican. Fie
is a member of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, the Colorado Scientific
Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Nevada Min
ing and Scientific Society, and is president
of the latter; and he is a member, of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and of the
Masonic and Elks orders. His. favorite rec
reations are shooting and fishing. Mr.
Finch is a member of the Denver, Uni
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Denver, the- Cripple Creek Club Associa
tion, the Montezuma Club of Goldfield, and
the Rocky Mountain Club of New York
City. He married in Philadelphia, April
10, 1900, Ethel lone Woods, and they have
a daughter, lone Lillibridge Finch. Ad
dress : Goldfield, Nevada.
FINCK, Henry Theophllus:
Journalist and author; born in Bethel,
Missouri, September 22, 1854 ; son of Henry
C. Finck and Beatrice (Fink) Finck. He
was graduated from Harvard University as
A.B., with highest honors in philosophy in
1876; and the Harris Fellowship in Berlin
and Heidelberg. Since 1881 he has been
musical critic and general editorial writer
on the staff of the New York Evening Post
and The Nation. In politics he is an In
dependent. Mr. Finck is author of: Pacific
Coast Scenic Tour; Spain and Morocco;
Lotos Time in Japan; Romantic Love and
Personal Beauty; Primitive Love; Wagner
and His Works; Chopin and Other Mu
sical Essays; Paderewski and His Art;
Songs and Song Writers; Edward Grieg.
His favorite recreations are fishing, walk
ing and gardening. Mr. Finck married in
1890, Abbie H. Cushman. Address : Even
ing Post, New York City.
FINCKEL, Martin L.:
Capitalist. He is president of the Ivy
Hill Cemetery Company, treasurer of the
Franklin Reformatory Home, manager of
the American Sunday School Union, direc
tor of the National Bank of Germantown,
and of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Germantown and its vicinity. He is a
member of the Union League, and the
Philadelphia Cricket Club. Address : 5614
Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.FINDLAY, George Irving:
Professor of geology; born at Ulster
County, New York, July 9, 1876; son of
David James Findlay and Ella (Peck)
Findlay. He was graduated from Harvard
College, cum laude in 1898 ; from Columbia
University, as Ph.D. in 1903. He was two

years teacher in geology as assistant in
the Columbia School of Mines, New York
City; four years as professor of geology
at Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, assistant geologist, United States
Geological Survey, since 1901. He engag
ed on survey work in Colorado, Montana,
Alaska. He is author of papers on the
Geology of the San Jose District of Tam-
aulipas, Mexico, and of the San Pedro
District, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, The
Granite Area of Barre, Vermont, The Glen-
eyrie Formation and Its Bearing on the
Age of the Fountain Beds, Colorado, and
on An Occurrence of Corundum, with
Dumortierite in Pegmatite near Canyon
City, Colorado; contributor to geological
publications. Mr. Findlay has traveled
through the United States, Mexico, and in
Alaska. He is -a Republican in politics and
an Episcopalian in his religious connec
tions. He is a member of the Kappa Sig
ma, and the Sigma Chi fraternity. His
chief recreation is field sports. He mar
ried at Larchmont, New York, July 19,
1905, Margaret H. Curtin. Address : Col
orado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
FINDLEY, Palmer:
Physician and surgeon; born at Lewis,
Cass County, Iowa, April 22, 1868; son of
Dr. David Findlay and Martha Jane
(Barr) Findley. He was educated at the
State University of Iowa and at the Chi
cago Medical College, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in 1893, since which
time he has practiced his profession in
Chicago, where he is distinguished as a
specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, and
is assistant professor in those specialties at
Rush Medical College (the medical depart
ment of the University of Chicago). Dr.
Findley married at Monmouth, Illinois, in
June, 1896, Lyda M. Hanna. Residence:
4009 Lake Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress: 100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FINE', Henry Burchard:
Dod professor of- mathematics and dean
of the Faculty, at" Princeton University;
born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Sep
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and Mary Burchard Fine. He was grad
uated from Princeton College as A.B. in
1880, and from Leipzig as Ph.D. in 1885.
He is author of: A College Algebra, and
of The Number System of Algebra. Ad
dress: Princeton, New Jersey.
FINK, Bruce:
Professor of botany; born in Kane
County, Illinois, December 22, 1862J son of
Reuben Fink and Mary Elizabeth (Day)
Fink. He was prepared at Jennings Semi
nary, Aurora, Illinois, was graduated from
the University of Illinois as B.S. in 1887,
and as M.S. in 1894, then did graduate
work at Harvard; was appointed in 1895
to a Townsend graduate scholarship, and
received the degree of A.M. in 1896, and
from the University of Minnesota the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1900. He was professor
of biology in the Upper Iowa University
at Fayette, Iowa, from 1892 to 1903, at
. Iowa University from 1903 to 1905, and
since then at Miami University. Dr. Fink
is a member of the Ohio Academy of
Science, the American Society of Natur
alists and the Association Internationale
.des Botanistes, and is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. In 1898 he was first vice-presi
dent of the Iowa Academy of Science, and
again in 1900, and in 1903 he was made
president of the Iowa Academy. In 1897
he was appointed lichenist to the Minne
sota Botanical Survey, an appointment
which is still in force. Dr. Fink has pub
lished a number of works, among them
some six hundred pages on the Taxonomy,
Geographical Distribution and Ecology of
Lichens. He has in preparation a book
of about five hundred papers on the Anat
omy, Physiology, Ecology, and Taxonomy
of Lichens, and has published many papers
on Plant Embryology, Pollination, and the
Taxonomy of Fungi and Seed-Plants. _He
owns a valuable collection of "herbarium
specimens and a special lichen library, of
great completeness. Professor Fink mar
ried' at Mount Vernon, South Dakota,
January 13, 1888, Ida May Raymond, and
they have three children: Lois Day, born
in 1891; Hugh Millard, born in 1897, and

Ruth Elizabeth, born in 1901. Address:
Oxford, Ohio.
FINK, Evert Scott:
Real estate; born in Wheeling, West
Virginia, May 5, 1873; son of John and
Elizabeth (Scott) Fink. He was educated
at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
He is president of the Celtic Avenue Real
ty Company; vice-president, Turner-Fink
Company, Maurice Realty Company, and
Mercantile Land and Improvement Com
pany; director Dauphin Realty Company,
Conestoga Realty Company, Thompson
Avenue Realty Company. He is a Republi
can and a member of the Illinois Society
of New York, of the Lawyers', and City "
Clubs, and the Fairfield County Golf Club.
He married at Watseka, Illinois, Novem
ber 8, 1898, Alice Alter. Address: 115
Broadway, New York City.
FINKELNBUBG, Gustavus Adolphus:
Jurist ; born near Cologne, Prussia, "April
6, 1837. He received his early education
in Germany; attended Saint Charles Col
lege, Saint Charles, Missouri, and was
graduated from the Cincinnati College of
Law. He was admitted to the bar of Mis
souri in i860 ; was a member of the Mis
souri Legislature from 1864 to 1868, and
of the Forty-first and Forty-second Con
gresses, from 1869 to 1873. He was the
Republican nominee for governor of Mis
souri in 1876, and for judge of the Su
preme Court of Missouri in 1898, and was
appointed by President Roosevelt, May 20,
1905, judge of the District Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of
Missouri. Residence: 4312 Westminster
Place, Saint Louis. Office address: 320
Custom House, Saint Louis, Missouri.
FINLETTEB, Thomas Dickson:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, October
20, 1862; son of Thomas K. Finletter,
President Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas. He was educated in the Episcopal
Academy of Philadelphia and the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1882 as
Bachelor of Arts, and afterward entering
the Law School. He took the bar exam
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niitted to practice in the Philadelphia
courts. He was appointed in February,
1884, assistant city solicitor under Wil
liam N. West and Charles F. Warwick,
the latter afterward Mayor of Philadel
phia. After holding this position till De
cember, 1887, he became assistant district
attorney under George S. Graham, with
whom he remained till 1898, when P. F.
Rothermel, Jr., succeeded .Mr. Graham
as district attorney. Mr. Rothermel made
Mr. Finletter his first assistant, which
position he held till the close of the term,
in December, 1901. He is a. member of
the Union League, the • University Club,
and the Young Republican Club. He mar
ried in 1891,' Helen M. Grill, and has one
son. Address : . gos South Forty-eighth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FINLEY, David Edward:
Congressman and lawyer; was- born Feb
ruary 28, 1861 ; was a member of the House
of Representatives of South Carolina in
i8go-9i, and of the State Senate, 1892-96;
was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and again in
1906 to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Fifth South Carolina District. Address:
Yorkville, South Carolina.
FINLEY, William Wilson:
President of the Southern Railway; born
at Pass Christian, Mississippi, September
2, 1853; son of Lewis Augustus and Lydia
Rebecca Finley. After completing his edu
cation he became vice-president's stenog
rapher of the New Orleans, Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad, and the Chicago,
St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, and
served in various positions up to assistant-
general freight agent from March 1,
1883, when he became assistant-gen
eral freight agent of the Texas and
Pacific Division of the Missouri Pacific
Railway; he, was assistant general freight
agent for the receiver of the Texas and
Pacific Railway from December, 1885, to
July, 1886, and then general freight agent
of the same road until September 15, 1888.
Then, until May, 1889, he was general

freight agent of the Pan-Handle Route,
pomprising the Fort Worth and Denver
City, the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth,
and the Denver, Texas and Gulf Railroads.
He was then chairman of the Trans-Mis
souri Traffic Association at Kansas City,
Missouri, until October 1, 1890; and then,
until May 20, 1892, chairman of the West
ern Passenger Association at Chicago, Il
linois. In May, 1892, he became general
traffic manager of the Great Northern Rail
way and the Montana Central Railway,
leaving that position April 10, 1895, to be
come commissioner of the Southern States
Passenger Association. From October 1,
1895, to May 15, 1896, he was third vice-
president of the Southern Railway Comr
:pany, and was third vice-president of the
Great Northern Railway until September
15, 1896, when he became second vice-
president of the Southern Railway. He
continued in that position until December,
1906, when he was elected president of the
Southern Railway in succession to the late
Samuel Spencer. Mr. Finley married at
Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1883, Lillie
Vidal Davis, and they have five children:
Lottie V, Lillie D., Leonora M., Celestine
P., and William Wilson Finley, Jr. Ad
dress : 2019 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
FINN, Francis James:
Catholic priest, author; born in Saint
Louis, Missouri, October 4, 1859; son of
John Finn and Mary (Whyte) Finn. He
was educated at Saint Louis University,
following with three years in philosophy
and four years in theology at the Sacred
Heart College, at Woodstock, Maryland.
He entered the Jesuit order in 1879, was
ordained priest, June 29, 1891, and is di
rector of Saint Xavier School at Cincinna
ti. He is author of numerous successful
and popular stories for . boys. Address :
Saint Xavier College, Seventh and Syca
more Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
FIBTH. Franklin Jones:
President of the Germantown Dispen
sary and Hospital ; he was born in
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Thomas Thompson Firth, who was a di
rect descendant of the Firths, Thompsons
and Hedges of Salem, New Jersey, and of
Thomas Lloyd, the associate and friend of
William Penn and the first Governor of
Pennsylvania. He was educated in Phila
delphia, graduating as a civil engineer
from the Polytechnic College; was employ
ed as a civil engineer in construction of
railroads of the Pennsylvania system and
in charge of building railroad shops at
Renova and Sunbury; assistant to Joseph
D. Potts, general superintendent Phila
delphia and Erie Railroad; Auditor and
subsequently vice-president of the Em
pire Transportation Company; president
from 1881 to 1906 of the Erie and Western
Transportation Company. Member of Board
of William M. Lloyd Company, German-
town Trust Company, Germantown Dispen
sary and Hospital, Germantown Academy,
Lake Carriers' Association, and the Boards
and Executive Committees of the Pennsyl
vania, the Maryland, and the Cambria Steel
Companies ; was • chairman of City Or
ganization's Filtration Committee, the re
sult of whose educational work is seen in
the greatest, filtration plant in the world,
supplying Philadelphia w'ith clean and
wholesome water. Married, October 1, 1867,
Annie, daughter of Samuel H. Lloyd,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Address : Ger
mantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FISCHEL, Washington Emil :
Physician; born in Saint Louis, Missouri,
May 29, 1850; son of Ephraim Fischel and
Babette Fischel. After his graduation from
Saint Louis Medical College as M.D. in
1871, he took graduate work in the univer
sities at Berlin, Prague and Vienna, after
ward engaging in practice at Saint Louis,
where he is professor of clinical medicine
in the Medical Department of" Washington
University. Dr. Fischel married in Saint
Louis, March 28, 1876, Martha Ellis, and
they have a daughter, Mrs. Edna Fischel
Gellhorn, and three sons : Walter, Ellis and
Leopold Fischel. Residence : 3841 Washing
ton Avenue, Saint Louis. Office: Hum
boldt Building, Saint Louis, Missouri.

FISCHEB, Gustave F, :
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, May
8, 1868; son of Franz Fischer and Eliza
beth (Lieberich) Fischer. Received his
education in the public schools of Chi
cago, the Chicago Atheneum and the Chi
cago College of Law, he started as office
boy for the senior member of his present
firm on August 3, 1883, later becoming a
member of the firm of Rubens and Mott,
then Rubens, Depuy and Fischer, and is
now of Rubens, Fischer and Mosser. In
politics he is a Democrat, and in religion
an Episcopalian. He received from the
Emperor of Germany the decoration of the
Order of the Red Eagle of the Fourth
Class. Was president of the German Am
erican Charity Association; was president
from 1901 to 1903 of the Germania Manner-
chor; is director and treasurer of the Ger
man Society of Chicago; director of the
German Hospital of Chicago; secretary of
the Austro-Hungarian Benevolent Associa
tion, and a member of the National Union ;
and is a member of the Edgewater Golf,
Midday and Industrial Clubs of Chicago.
Mr. Fischer married in Chicago, Illinois,
June 26, 1889, Annie Beck. Residence: 52
Walton Place, Chicago. Address : 1626 First
National Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.
FISH, Daniel:
Lawyer; born at Cherry Valley, Winne
bago County, Illinois, January 31, 1848;
son of Daniel Fish and Parmelia (Adams)
Fish. He was educated in the public schools
at his birthplace, served in the Civil War
from January, 1864, to July, 1865, as a
private in Company G of the Forty-fifth
Illinois Infantry, and at the end of his
service went to Iowa, where he studied law
and was admitted to the bar April 19, 1871.
He removed to Delano, Minnesota, in 1871,
was probate judge of Wright County, Min
nesota, in the years 1876, 1877 and 1879,
and since 1880 has practiced law at Minne
apolis. He was chairman of the Commis
sion to Revise the Laws of Minnesota,
which revision went into effect in March,
1906. He has compiled and published (1900,
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Lincoln literature. Residence : 2301 Third
Avenue South, Minneapolis. Office ad
dress : New York Life Building, Minne
apolis.
FISH, Frederick Perry:
President, American Telephone and Tele
graph Company; born at Taunton, Massa
chusetts, January 13, 1855; son of Fred
erick L. Fish and Mary Jarvis (Perry)
Fish. Was graduated from Harvard with
the degree of A.B. in 1875; was at the
Harvard Law School from 1875 to 1876.
Practiced law in New York City and Bos
ton until July 1, igoi ; was president and
director of the American Bell Telephone
Company; the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and the Western Tele
graph and Telephone Company from 1901
to igo7; also a director of the City Trust
Company (Boston), the New England
Trust Company (Boston), and the Old
Colony Trust Company (Boston). May 1,
1907, resumed the practice of law as a
member of the firm of Fish, Richardson,
Herrick and Neave. Is an associate mem
ber of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, and belongs to the fol
lowing clubs : Union, University, Grolier,
National Arts, and Harvard (New York
City) ; Union, St. Botolph, University, and
Exchange (Boston). He married, April
7, 1880, Clara P. Livermore, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Residence : Brookline, Mas
sachusetts. Address : 5 Nassau Street, New
York City, and 84 State Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
FISH, Hamilton:
Lawyer; born at Albany, New York,
April 17, 1849; son of Hon. Hamilton Fish
and Julia (Kean) Fish. Educated at
Churchill's School, Sing Sing, New York,
and at the Chateau de Lancy, Geneva,
Switzerland ; was graduated from Colum
bia College with the degree of A.B. in
1869, and from the Co'umbia Law School
with the degree of LL.B. in 1873. Has
traveled extensively over the United States
and Europe; was private secretary to his
father, Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of

State under President Grant, from 1869 to
1871 ; aide-de-camp on staff of Governor
John A. Dix, in 1873 and 1874; served
eleven terms in the Assembly of the State
of New York; was speaker for two terms,
from 1895 to 1896; was appointed assist
ant treasurer, United States at New York
City, by President Roosevelt in 1903, and
reappointed in 1907. In politics, he is a Re
publican, and in religion, an Episcopalian.
He belongs to the following clubs: Metro
politan, Union, Union League, Republican
and St. Nicholas (New York City). He
married, April 28, 1880, Emily M. Mann.
Address : Garrison, New York.
FISH, Stuyvesant:
Banker and railway official; son of Hon.
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State in
President Grant's Cabinet, and Julia Kean
Fish; born June 24, 185 1, at New York.
He received his education at Columbia Col
lege at New York and was graduated in
1871. He entered the railway service
October 1, 1871, since which he has been
consecutively to June 20, 1872, clerk in
New York office of Illinois Central Rail
road; June 20, -to October, 1872, secretary
to president of. same company; November
1, 1872, to December 31, 1874, clerk with
Morton, Bliss and Company at New York
and Morton, Rose and Company at Lon
don; January, 1875, to March 15, 1877
managing clerk Morton, Bliss and Com
pany, holding their power of attorney;
December 14, 1876 to March 6, 1870, mem
ber New York Stock Exchange; March
16, 1876, elected director Illinois Central
Railroad and appointed treasurer and agent
for purchasing committee New Orleans,
fackson and Great Northern Railroad; No
vember 8, 1877, elected secretary Chicago
St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, and
March, 1882, vice-president Chicago, St.
Louis and New Orleans Railroad, January
7, 1883. to April 2, 1884, second vice-presi
dent Illinois Central Railroad; April 2,
T884, to May 14, 1887, vice-president; May
t8, 1887, to November 7, 1906, president
same road. President American Railway
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1906; chairman Seventh Session Interna
tional Railway Congress, Washington, D.
C, May 1905. Member Monetary Com
mission created by Indianapolis Monetary
Conference, 1897. Trustee of New York
Life Insurance and Trust Company, for
many years vice-president and director
National Park Bank, New York, and di
rector of other fiscal and judiciary institu
tions. Trustee of Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York from 1883 until his
resignation in 1906, owing to disapproval of
"ring" methods then brought to light
among certain of his co-trustees and dis
closed at that time in the press. Clubs :
Union, Metropolitan, Down Town, St. An
thony's; member St. Nicholas Society. He
married Marian G. Anthon. Residence :
25 East Seventy-eighth Street. Address :
214 Broadway, New York City.
FISH, William Hansell:
Jurist; born in Macon, Georgia, May 12,
1849; son of George W. Fish and Martha
E. (Hansell) Fish. After a careful pre
paratory education he entered the Univer
sity of Georgia, from which he was grad
uated in 1869 with the degree of A.B., then
going to the University of Virginia to study
law. He was admitted to the bar of Geor
gia and engaged in practice until 1891 when
he became judge of the Circuit Court serv
ing until 1896 in which -year he was elect
ed one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of the State of Georgia, upon the
duties of which he entered January 1, 1897,
serving as associate justice and later be
coming chief justice, in which office he con
tinues. Judge Fish has been a trustee of
the University of Georgia since 1893 and of
the Wesleyan Female College of Georgia
since 1895. He is a Democrat in politics
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. He married in Washington
County, Georgia, in 1876, Mary P. Hines.
Address : Atlanta, Georgia.
FISH, William Henry:
Unitarian clergyman; born at Millville,
Massachusetts, March 1, 1844; son of Wil
liam Henry Fish and Anne E. (Wright)
Fish. He was graduated from Harvard

College as A.B. In 1865, was a student in
the Divinity School of Harvard from 1866
to 1869, and at the University of Berlin
in 1869 and 1870, began his ministry at
Northampton, Massachusetts, in April, 1871,
afterward filling pastorates in London and
Kidderminster, England, Troy, New York,
Lebanon and Hanover, New Hampshire,
Dedham, Massachusetts, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, and since
1905 minister of the Independent Congrega
tional Church at Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Address : Meadville, Pennsylvania.
FISH, Williston:
Lawyer, author; horn Berlin Heights,
Erie County, Ohio, January 15, 1858; son
of Job and Annie E. (Peabody) Fish. He
was graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1881, afterward stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar in
i8g3, engaging in practice in Chicago.
Since i8gi with street railways; is director
and vice-president of Chicago Passenger
Railway Company and of Chicago West
Division Railway Company and director of
Chicago Union Traction Company. He is
author of: Won at West Point; Short
Rations, and many contributions in prose'
and verse to magazines including the poem :
Time, which appeared in Harper's Monthly
and A Last Will, which appeared in Harp
er's .Weekly. Residence: 5 114 Madison
Avenue, Chicago. Office : 444 North Clark
Street, Chicago, , Illinois.
FISHER, Albert Kenrick:
Naturalist; born at Sing Sing, New
York, March 21, 1856 ; son of Hiram Fisher
and Susan E. (Townsend) Fisher. After
a preparatory education in Holbrook's Mili
tary High School at Sing Sing, he took
the medical course at the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons, graduating as M.D. in
1879, although his career has chiefly been
in the field of economic zoology. He was
assistant ornithologist to the United States
Department of Agriculture, from July 1,
1885, to July, 1896; assistant biologist
from 1896 to 1902; assistant chief of the
Biological -Survey from 1902 to 1906 and
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biology since 1906. He was engaged in the
biological surveys -of the Death Valley Ex
pedition and many other surveys sent out
by the Department of Agriculture in 1891
and subsequent years ; has traveled in all
but four or five States of the Union, and
was a member of the Harriman Alaska
Expedition in i8g9. He is a fellow of the
American Ornithologists' Union, member
of the Washington Academy of Science,
Biological Society of Washington, D. C,
and the Cooper Ornithological Club; cor
responding member of the Linnaean So
ciety of New York; member of the Nuttall
Ornithological Club, and president of the
Washington Biologists' Field Club. Dr.
Fisher is interested specially in formal
and economic zoology and geographic dis
tribution, and is author of Hawks and
Owls of the United States, 1893; Birds of
the Death Valley Expedition, 1893; and a
number of minor papers. His favorite rec
reations are shooting and fishing. Dr.
Fisher is a member of the Cosmos Club of
Washington, D. C. He married at Sing
Sing, New York, in 1876, Alwilda Merritt,
and they have three children living : Walter
K Fisher, born February 1, 1878; Alberta
M. Fisher and Ethel M. Fisher, born July
13, 1885. Address : Department of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C.
FISHEB, Clarence Stanley:
Historical architect ; born at Philadelphia,
August 17, 1876; son of Frederick Theo
dore F. and Emily Margaret (Shewell)
Fisher. He was educated in public schools
until 1890, Eastburn Academy, 1893, and
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1897 as B.S. In the office of J.
L. Mauran; St. Louis, Missouri, in 1897 and
1898; became architect of the Babylonian
Expedition to Nippur from 1898 to 1900,
and at the Museum of the University of
Pennsylvania from 1900 to 1902 ; . since
1903 research fellow in Babylonian archi
tecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is author of: Investigations and Re
searches at Nippur. He is a Democrat in
politics and a Lutheran in his religious
connections. Is a member of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects, T-Square Club,

Philadelphia, National Ge°graphic Society,
director of Carswell Institute; American
Institute of Archaeology, American Orient
al Society, Society of Authors of London,
Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft Berlin,
Deutsche Vorderariatischen Gesellschaft.
Residence: 4152 Parkside Avenue, Phila
delphia Pennsylvania.
FISHEB, Edward D.:
Physician and neurologist; born in New
York City, in 1856. He was graduated
from the College of the City of New York
in 1875 and from the New York Univer
sity Medical College as M.D. He is pro
fessor of diseases of the nervous system
in the New York University Medical Col
lege, visiting physician to the City Hos
pital, and consulting physician to the Man
hattan State Hospital. Dr. Fisher is a
member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, New York Physicians Mutual
Aid Association, New England Society and
Delta Kappa Epsilon Society. He is also
a member of the University, Union League
and Richmond Hill Golf Clubs. Address:
iq West Fifty-second Street, New York
City.FISHEB, Fred D.:
Consular official ; appointed vice-consul
and interpreter at Nagasaki, August 22,
1901, consul at Tamsut, February 23, 1904,
consul at Harbin since June 22, 1906. Ad
dress : Harbin, China.
FISHEB, F. Balph:
Public accountant and auditor; born at
Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1876; son of John
and Cynthia Fisher; was graduated from
public schools and studied accounting under
private instructors. Began as accountant
on leaving school; now treasurer and
managing director Security Audit Company
of New York, corporation engaged in busi
ness of accounts and finance; work has re
quired travel to all parts of the world and
all States of the Union; work has included
investigation of sugar and coffee planta
tions, factories, breweries, railroads, etc..
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financial institutions, and the introduction
of reorganized systems of accounts in vari
ous corporations, etc. ; also secretary Amer
ican Investment Company, and of the Rus
sel Creek Coal and Coke Company. He is
a Republican in politics and a Methodist
in religion. His favorite recreations are
shooting and fishing. He is a member of
the Hamilton Club of Chicago. He mar
ried Emily A. Crooks, and they have one
son, Edson Bartlette. Address : 20 Broad
Street, New York City.
FISHEB, George Huntington:
Lawyer; born at Oswego, New York,
May 7, 1832; son of George and Elizabeth
P. (Huntington) Fisher. He was gradu
ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1852; stu
died at Harvard Law School. Admitted
to the bar at Utica, New York, in 1854,
and has since practiced law in New York
City and Brooklyn, with offices in Brook
lyn. Served two terms in the Legislature,
representing the Seventh Assembly Dis
trict, Kings County, 1860-61; served near
ly nine years in Brooklyn Common Coun
cil, and afterward in Kings County Board
of Supervisors for one term, also register
in bankruptcy, appointed by Judge Salmon
P. Chase; several times member Brooklyn
Board of Education; member of Board of
Park Commissioners in Mayor Low's ad
ministration. Served in National Guard
State of New York as private in the For
ty-seventh Regiment, and after as judge
advocate of the Eleventh Brigade. Since
1871, member of the law firm of Fisher &
Voltz; from its inception, 1866, trustee,
secretary and counsel of the German Sav
ings Bank of Brooklyn; director and coun
sel from incorporation, 1894, of the Broad
way Bank of Brooklyn; trustee for over
twenty-five years and secretary of the In
dustrial/ School Association of Brooklyn,
secretary of the Law Library in Brooklyn;
one of the founders and original directors
of the New England Society in Brooklyn.
He is a Republican in politics and a Uni-
tarian-Universalist in religion. He is an
honorarv member of the One Hundred
and Thirty-ninth New York Volunteer
Veteran Association, having participated in

formation of regiment as member Senator
ial Committee, appointed by Governor Mor
gan. Trustee Eastern District Hospital,
Hospital Saturday and Sunday Associa
tion, Long Island Throat Hospital, Law
Department of Brooklyn Institute; member
of the Brooklyn League. Mr. Fisher
spends his summers at cottage at Sheeps-
head Bay. He is a member of the Han
over and University Clubs. He married,
first, in Brooklyn, New York, December
25, 1857, Emma Chichester (died, 1888) ;
he married, second, at East Norwich, Long
Island, November 6, 1889, Katharine
Weeks, and has one son, George Chichester
Fisher, of San Francisco, California. (48)
Address : 84 Broadway, Brooklyn, New
York.
FISHEB, George Park:
Professor emeritus of ecclesiastical his
tory at Yale University; born in Wren-
tham, Massachusetts, August 10, 1827; son
of Lewis Fisher and Nancy Fisher. After
graduation from Brown University in 1847,-
he studied theology at Yale in 1848 and
1849, at Andover in 1850 and 1851, and in
Germany in 1852 and 1853; was professor
of divinity at Yale from 1854 to 1861 ; of
ecclesiastical history, from 1861 ; and pro
fessor emeritus since 1891. He received
the degrees of D.D. at Brown in 1866,
Edinburgh in 1886, Harvard in 1886, and
Princeton in 1879, and that of LL.D. from
Princeton in 1879, and Yale in 1891. Pro
fessor Fisher is author of: Supernatural
Origin of Christianity, 1865; Life of Ben
jamin Stilliman, 1866; History of the Ref
ormation, 1873; Beginnings of Christianity,
1877; Faith and Rationalism, i87g; Dis
cussions in History and Theology, 1880;
Christian Religion, 1883; Grounds of
Theistic and Christian Belief, 1883; Out
lines of University History, 1885; History
of the Christian Church, 1888; Nature and
Method of Christianity, i8go; Manual of
Christian Evidences, 1890; Colonial His
tory of the United ' States, 1892 ; History
of Christian Doctrine, 1896; An Essay of
Edward's on the Trinity, with Remarks
on his Theology; 1903 ; also contributions
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view, Princeton Review, International Re
view, Century Magazine, British Quarterly,
etc. ; and after 1886 was editor of New
Englander. He is corresponding member
of the Massachusetts Historical Society;
was president of the American Historical
Association in 1897 and 1898, and presi
dent for a series of. years of the American
Society of Church History. He is a mem
ber of the Century Association of New
York. Professor Fisher married Adeline
Louisa Forbes, and they have one son
and one daughter. Address : Yale Uni
versity, New Haven, Connecticut.
FISHEB, Irving:
Professor of political economy; born in
Saugerties, New York, February 27, 1867;
son of Rev. George Whitefleld Fisher and
Elmira (Westcott) Fisher. He was pre
pared for college at the Smith Academy at
St. Louis, Missouri, graduated from Yale
in 1888, and as Ph.D. in 1891 ; and stud
ied in Berlin and Paris, in i8g3 and
¦ i8g4. He was tutor of mathematics,
from i8gi to i8g3 ; assistant profes
sor, from 1893 to 1895 ; assistant' pro
fessor of political economy from 1895 to
1898, full professor of same since 1898
at Yale University; spent the years
from 1898 to 1901 in Colorado and Califor
nia, regaining lost health, and resumed
work at Yale in 1901. He is a member of
the American Economic Association, the
British Economic Association, American
Mathematical Society, Connecticut Academy
of Arts and Sciences, fellow of the Royal
Statistical Society, the New England Free
Trade League, and New York Reform
Club ; is an editor of the Yale Review, and
a contributor to economic journals. Profes
sor Fisher is author of: Mathematical In
vestigations in the Theory of Value and
Prices, i8g2; Bibliographies of the Present
Officers of Yale University, 1893; Mechan
ics of Bimetalism, 1894; Elements of Geom
etry (with Professor A. W. Phillips), 1896;
Appreciation and Interest, 1896; Bibliogra
phy of Mathematical Economics, 1897;
A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal
Calculus, 1897; Appreciation and Interest,
1897; Cournot and Mathematical Econom

ics, 1898 ; Mortality Statistics of the United
States Census, 1899; The Modern Crusade
Against Consumption, 1903 ; A New Tent
for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, 1903;
Gold Production and the Rate of Interest,
1905; Annual Reports of the New Haven
County Anti-Tuberculosis Association from
1905 ; Currency Defects and Remedies,
1906; The Quantity Theory of Money, 1906;
A New Method of Indicating Food Values,
1906; The Best Form of Tent or Shack
for Tuberculous Persons, igo6; Economics \ \
as a Science, 1906; Statistics of Diet in
Consumptive Sanatoria, 1906; The Nature
of Capital and Income, 1906; The Influence
of Flesh-Eating on Endurance, 1907; The
Effect of Diet on Endurance, 1907; A
Graphic Method in Practical Dietetics,
1907; and The Rate of Interest, 1907. Mr.
Fisher married, June 24, 1893, Margaret,
daughter of Rowland Hazard, and they
have three children : Margaret, born in
1894; Caroline, born in 1897; and Irving
Norton, born in 1900. Address: 460 Pros
pect Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
FISHEB, Lucius George:
Manufacturer; born Beloit, Wisconsin,
November 27, 1843; son of Lucius George
and Caroline S. (Field) Fisher. He was
educated in private schools and in the
high school of Beloit, passing a successful
examination for entrance to the Beloit
College. He closed his educational career,
however, at this point, and became an ox-
team freighter across the plains in i860.
A year later he was in the employ of
Blodgett, Brown & Company, hardware
dealers of New York City, where he. re
mained until the spring of 1863, when he
enlisted as a private in the Eighty-fourth
New York State National Guard, serving
through the campaign in the Shenandoah
Valley and being promoted to color ser
geant The regiment was ordered to New
York to assist in quelling the draft riots
in that city and was soon after disbanded,
its term of enlistment having expired.
Young Fisher at once enlisted in the navy
and was assigned to duty in the pay
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until the close of the war. In 1865 he
removed to Chicago, where he obtained em
ployment with the Rock River Paper Com
pany. He rose rapidly in the company's
service and in five years had the entire
management of its business affairs. In
1875 he organized a company to manufac
ture paper plates. In 1877, in association
with Frank Davis of Beloit, he organized
a company for the manufacture pf paper
pails, and in 1881 the Exhaust Ven
tilator Company, with a branch in Lon
don, England. These interests he sub
sequently sold. In the meantime he had
obtained an interest in the firm of Wheel
er & Hinman, manufacturers of paper bags,
the concern becoming Wheeler, Fisher &
Company, and Mr. Fisher becoming the
manager. The business was incorporated
in 1875 as the Union Bag and Paper Com-
, pany, with a capital of five hundred thous
and dollars. In 1894 the capital stock was
increased to two million dollars and Mr.
Fisher was chosen president. The present
New Jersey incorporation was organized
by him in 1899, with a capital of twenty-
seven million dollars, of which he is the
president. The company is one of the
largest in existence, having become the
purchaser, "of the patents, business and
good-will of the leading paper bag manu
factories of the country, including many
paper and pulp mills and large tracts of
land. In 1902 he organized the Pressed
Prism Plate Glass Company of Morgan-
town, W. Va., capital $1,000,000 and with
the other officers built up a very successful
business. Mr. Fisher has large real estate
interests in Chicago, including the eighteen-
story Fisher Building at Van Buren and
Dearborn Streets, which he built in 1897,
and the twenty-one story annex built in
1906. He also has large interests in mines,
Western real estate and irrigation projects.
He is a Republican. He is a member of
the Washington Park, Chicago, Union
League, Chicago Athletic and Tolleston
Hunting Clubs of Chicago and of the
Union League of New York City. He was
married in Chicago, April 20, 1870, to
Katharine Louise, daughter of the Rev.

Alfred Eddy, and has three children :
Lucius George, Jr., Alice, Ethel Field, and
Kathryn- Eddy. Address : Fisher Build
ing, Chicago; Whitehall Building, New
York City. Residence: 317 Erie Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
FISHEB, Napoleon C:
Corporation official; president the Am
erican Sand and Gravel Company, secre
tary, treasurer and director of the Litholite
Stone Company, and the Garden City Sand
Company. Address : 188 Madison Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
FISHEB, Bobert Jones:
Lawyer; born at York, Pennsylvania;
July 25, 1847; son of Robert Jones Fisher
and Catharine (Jameson) Fisher. He was
graduated from Pennsylvania College at
Gettysburg, as A.B. in 1867, and from
Albany Law School as LL.B. in 1869 and
was admitted to the bar in 1869. He en
gaged in practice as a specialist in the law
of patents until he became examiner in the
United States Patent Office in 1876, and
later examiner-in-chief and assistant com
missioner of patents until 1891, when he
resigned and became general counsel of
the Eastern Railroad Association, in which
position he continues. Address : Eastern
Railroad Association, Washington, D. C.
FISHEB, Bobert Joseph:
Manufacturer; born at Athens, Tennes
see, January 23, 1857; son of Richard M.
Fisher and Ann, M. (Gettys) Fisher. He
was educated in the East Tennessee Wes
leyan University, and in 1880 became teller
of the Cleveland National Bank, of Cleve
land, Tennessee. In 1884 he organized the
First National Bank of Athens, Tennes
see, of which he was cashier until 1896.
He devoted much of his leisure to mechan
ical problems and inventions, and has taken
out more than seventy patents. He in
vented the Fisher Book Typewriter which
has taken the leading place among de
vices of its kind, and is engaged in its
manufacture. He was awarded by the City
of Philadelphia the John Scott Legacy
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recommendation of the Franklin Institute.
Mr. Fisher married at New Orleans, Louis
iana, June 9, 1892, Alice M. Gauche, and
they have two sons. Address: Athens,,
Tennessee.
FISHEB, Walter Lowrie:
Lawyer ; born in Wheeling, West Virgin
ia, July 4, 1862 ; son of Rev. Daniel W.
Fisher, now president of Hanover College
and Amanda K_ (Kouns) Fisher. He
was educated in Marietta College in Ohio,
and Hanover College, Indiana, went to
Chicago in 1884, and studied law in of
fices. He was admitted to the bar in 1888
and is now of the firm of Matz, Fisher and
Boyden. From 1900 to 1905 he was secre
tary and from 1905 to 1906 he was president
of the Municipal Voters' League which he
made a powerful influence for civic re
form. Founded the City Club of Chicago
(1903). As special traction counsel of City
of Chicago he drafted and was chiefly in
strumental in securing the passage of ordi
nances settling the street railway contro
versy which had been the chief issue in
local politics for years. These ordinances
contained many novel provisions securing
public rights and giving the city the option
to purchase the system at any time on six
months' notice. Residence : 463 North
State Street, Chicago. Office: 107 Dear
born Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FISK, Everett Olin:
President of the Fisk Teachers' Agen
cies ; born in Marlboro, Massachusetts",
August 1, 1851; son of Rev. Franklin Fisk
and Chloe Catherine (Stone) Fisk. He
was graduated from Wesleyan Academy
in 1869, from Wesleyan University as A.B.
in 1873 and A.M. in 1876. He taught in
Wallingford and Enfield, Connecticut, from
1873 to 1875; was New England agent for
Ginn & Company from 1875 to 1885 ; and
has been president of The Fisk Teachers'
Agencies since 1885, including offices in
Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Denver, Spokane, Portland,
San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religion a
Methodist, and he is treasurer of the Board

of Trustees of the First Methodist Episco
pal Church of Boston; director of the New
England Conference Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and vice-
president of the Boston Missionary and
Church Extension Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; he is also vice-president
of the American Peace Society, trustee of
the New England Deaconess Home and
Hospital; trustee of the New England
Home for Little Wanderers ; trustee of the
Wesleyan Association Building, and a di
rector of the National League for the Pro
tection of the Family. His favorite recrea
tions are golf, tennis, and quoits. He is a
member of the Twentieth Century, Boston
City and Massachusetts Clubs., Mr. Fisk
married in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, Sep
tember 12, 1882, Helen Chase Steele, and
they have one daughter, Harriet Storm
Fisk, born October 14, 1884. Residence:
29 Fern Street, Auburndale, Massachu
setts. Address : 4 Ashburton Place, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
FISKE, Arthur Irving:
Headmaster of the Boston Latin School;
born at Holliston, Middlesex County, Mas
sachusetts, August 19, 1848; son of Lovett
Fiske and Alma (Greenhalgh) Fiske. He
was prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
New Hampshire, and then entered Harvard
College, from which he received the degrees
of A.B. in 1869, and A.M. in 1872. He was
tutor in Greek at Harvard from 1869 to
1873, since then a master in the Boston
Latin School, becoming headmaster Jan
uary 1, 1902. Residence : 17 Montrose Street,
Boston. Office address : The Boston Latin
School, Boston, Massachusetts.
FISKE, Bradley Allen:
Captain, United States Navy; was
born at Lyons, New York, June 13, 1854.
Appointed to United States Naval Acad
emy, September 21, 1870. Was graduated
second in class, May 30, 1874. Served in
U. S. S. Saratoga, Constellation, Pensa
cola, Plymouth, Powhatan, Minnesota,
Brooklyn, Atlanta, Yorktown, Petrel, Mon-
adnock and Massachusetts. In 1877 invent
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boats in a seaway, which is still in use
on many ships. In 1883 wrote Electricity
and Electrical Engineering, which is still
(1906) selling, in its tenth edition. In
1884 was member of the First International
Congress of Electricians. In 1889 he in
vented the naval telescope sight, which
is now in use in the United States and the
principal foreign navies; and in 1892 in
vented the stadimeter, a portable little
optical instrument, by means of which the
distance of a ship can be quickly measured,
if the height of her mast be known. This
instrument is supplied to all the ships of
our navy. In 1894 Lieutenant Fiske was
ordered by the Chief of Bureau of Ord
nance to investigate the applicability of
electricity to turning the turrets of battle
ships. After trying several plans, he re
ported that the Ward Leonard System was
the most promising. After two years of
testing various ways of applying this sys
tem, it was finally adapted perfectly to
the work, the culminating invention for
adapting it being made and patented by
Lieutenant Fiske. He also invented the
electric warning whistle in 1896, and the
same year invented the naval electric sema
phore; and later also a somewhat simi
lar device, ¦ operated by mechanism. He
invented in 1901 the naval telescope and
mount, which renders it easy to use power
ful telescopes on shipboard. In 1904 Com
mander Fiske invented the turret target
range-finder, an optical instrument by means
of which an observer can measure the dis
tance of the enemy whle himself protected
inside the turret. Commander Fiske was
in Valparaiso in the Yorktown in 1892, dur
ing the critical times following the Balti
more incident, and in 1894 he was in Rio,
in Admiral's Benham's flagship, when the
fleet was cleared for action, and enforced
neutral rights. At the battle of Manila
Bay he was navigator of the Petrel. With
the permission of the captain he arranged
an observing station aloft, and there he
stationed himself, above the smoke, with
his stadimeter, and kept the captain con
tinually informed of the distance of the
enemy, and of all that was going on. His

view of the battle was probably the clear
est that any one got that day, and it was
described by him in The Century Maga
zine of November, 1898. He was reported
to the Department by the captain for emi
nent and conspicuous conduct in battle for
his work that day. Lieutenant Fiske, be
sides being navigator of the Petrel
at the capture of Manila, was also
navigator of the monitor Monadnock
during the first four months of the
Filipino insurrection, when the Monad-
nock's light draught and heavy battery
enabled her to support the flank of our
army in its operations on the east side
of Manila Bay. During this time, besides
minor engagements, he took part in the
bombardments of Pananaque and Malabon.
As executive officer of the Yorktown, he
tooK part in the bombardment of San
Fernando. Commander Fiske was a mem
ber of the Naval Wireless Telegraph
Board in 1904-5. He received the Elliott
Cresson gold medal from the Franklin In
stitute in 1893, and the gold medal for the
prize essay by the United States Naval
Institute in 1905. He is the author of
many papers on electrical and naval sub
jects, of which his series of articles in
The United Service Magazine, Recollec
tions of Manila, received the most atten
tion. Commanded United States Steam
ship Minneapolis and United States Steam
ship Arkansas in 1906 and 1907. In 1906
invented the horizometer. Promoted to
captain, August, 1907. Address: 160 Cen
tral Park South, New York City.
FISKE, Eugene A.:
Lawyer; born in Manchester, New
Hampshire. He was educated in the com
mon schools, entered the Union Army and
served through the last half of the Civil
War as an officer in the Eighth Army Corps
under General Winfield S. Hancock, and
was severely wounded. He was graduated
from the Law Department of Columbian
(now George Washington) University in
1868, and was appointed by President Grant
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assistant private secretary to President
Grant until 1876, since which year he has
practiced law at Santa Fe, New Mexico. He
was United States attorney for New Mexico
during the administration of Benjamin Har
rison from 1889 to 1893. Address : Santa
Fe, New Mexico.
FISKE, George Mann:
Merchant; born in Medfield, Massachu
setts, May 2, 1842; son of George Fiske
and Amy P. (Mann) Fiske. He received
his education in the Public Schools of
Medfield, Massachusetts. He served as pri
vate in Company D, in the Forty-second
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers dur
ing the Civil War, and after that was en
gaged in farming in Medfield until 1871,
wheri he embarked on a mercantile career,
in which he has continued successively as
clerk, manager, partner, and now as presi
dent of Fiske and Company, Incorporated.
Mr. Fiske was one of the pioneers in the
manufacture of terra-cotta in this coun
try, and afterward entered upon the manu
facture of buff, mottled and gray face- brick,
making a great success of the industry,
and for many years he has been a leader
in his line of business. He is a director
of the Boston Fire Brick Company and
president of the Fiske Brick Company.
In 1902 he was elected president of the
National Association Brick and Terra
Cotta Manufacturers at their Annual Con
vention at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Fiske
is a Republican in politics and has served
as alderman of the City of Newton, Massa
chusetts; and he is a Congregationalist in
his religious affiliation. Mr. Fiske was
president for thirteen years of the Union
Rescue Mission of Boston; and is a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic.
His favorite recreations are camping, fish
ing and other outdoor sports. He mar
ried at Medfield, Massachusetts, September,
1865, Sarah W. Wilder, and they have two
children : J. P. B. Fiske and Amy Plymp-
ton Fiske. Residence : Auburndale, Massa
chusetts. Office address: 161 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

FISKE, Haley:
Underwriter ; born at New Brunswick,
New Jersey, March 18, 1852; son of Wil
liam Henry and Sarah A. Fiske. Was grad
uated from Rutgers College, in 1871. His
first vocation after graduation was journal
ism, which he later abandoned for the law ;
studied in the office of Arnoux, Ritch and
Woodford, with which firm he subsequent
ly became partner, appearing in many im
portant cases, until his election, in 1891,
as vice-president of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company,, of which he had been
counsel. He is a member of the New
York Bar Association, New York Genea
logical Society; director of the Metropoli
tan Trust Company, Metropolitan Bank,
Lincoln Traction Company, International
Banking Corporation, People's State Bank
of Detroit. He is a member of the Man
hattan, Grolier Clubs of New York City,
and the University Club of Boston. He
married in New York City, April 27, 1887,
Marione Cowles Cushman, and they have
five children: Helen, Archibald F. C,
Marione Virginia, Haley, Katharine Cush
man and Margaret Lois. Address: 1
Madison Avenue, New York City.
FISKE, Harrison Grey:
Editor, theatrical manager; born at Har
rison, West Chester County, New York,
July 30, 1861 ; son of Lyman and Jane
Marie (Durfie) Fiske; educated at the
private school in New York, and Univer-
s;ty of City of New York. Is the editor
of the Dramatic Mirror; president of the
Dramatic Mirror Corporation; manager of
Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan Company
(theatrical), Bertha Kalich and her com
pany (theatrical) ; president of the Natural
Humane Alliance. Mr. Fiske is a member
of the Sons of Revolution, American Aca
demy, Political, and Social Science, Zeta
Psi fraternity, and of the Americari Dram
atists', New York Athletic, Lotos, Manhat
tan and Knollwood County Clubs. Mar
ried at Larchmont, New York, March 19,
1900, Mary Augusta Daveji (Minnie Mad-
dern) . Address : 19 West Fortieth Street,
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FISKE, Stephen:
Author, dramatist, journalist; born in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, November
22, 1840. He was educated at Rutgers Col
lege, class of 1862; admitted to the New
York bar, 1864. Became editorial writer
and special correspondent for the New York
Herald; accompanied the Japanese princes,
Prince of Wales (now Edward VII.) and
President Lincoln on tour; telegraphed the
Bible from Niagara Falls to hold the wire;
war correspondent, 1861 ; dramatic critic,
New York Herald, 1862-66. Went to Eng
land, 1866, in Henrietta yacht race; was
with Garibaldi at Rome; manager of St.
James' Theatre, and Royal English Opera
Company, in London, and Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York City; introduced Mme.
Modjeska and Mary Anderson. Founder,
New York Dramatic Mirror; originator
Actors' Fund. Now dramatic critic, Sports
of the Times. Author, plays : Corporal
Cartouche; Martin Chuzzlewit; My Noble
Son-in-law, Robert Rabagas. Books : Eng
lish Photographs ; Holiday Tales ; Off-hand
Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers, etc.
Clubs: Lotos, Pen, Press, Dramatists, Rut
gers (New York City) ; Savage, Scribblers
(London). Address: 47 West Ninety-third
Street, New York City.
FITCH, Ashbel Farmelee:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 17, 1876; son of Ashbel P. Fitch
and Elizabeth A. (Cross) Fitch. He was
educated in the public schools, at the
Berkeley School from 1892 to 1894, and
was graduated from Yale University as
A.B. in 1898 and from the New York
Law School as LL.B. in 1900. Mr Fitch is
a director of the Trust Company of Am
erica. He served in Squadron A of the
National Guard of New York from 1899
to 1904. He is a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, the Anon Society,
New England Society, New York Historic
al Society, Society of Mayflower Descend
ants, Sons of the Revolution, and is also
a member of the University, Manhattan,
New York Athletic and Yale Clubs. Mr.
Fitch married at Port Chester, New York,
in October, 1903, Josephine H. Smith, and

they have one son, Ashbel, Jr., born
July 23, 1904. Address: 911 Park Ave
nue, New York City.
FITCH, Charles Elliott:
Lawyer, journalist, educator; born at
Syracuse, New York, December 3, 1835;
son of Thomas Brockway and Ursula
Ann (Elliott) Fitch. He was graduated
from Williams College as A.B. in 1855,
Union University, as LL.B., 1857, A.M.,
Syracuse University, 1875, L.H.D., Hamil
ton College, 1895. He practiced law in
Syracuse, New York and Newbern, North
Carolina, until 1866; editor-in-chief of the
Syracuse Standard, 1866 to 1873; editor of
the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
1873 to 1890; editorial writer of the Roch
ester Post-Express, from 1896 to 1898;
contributor to various journals. He was
clerk of provost court, Newbern, North
Carolina, from 1864 to 1865 ; supervisor
of Federal census in New York, in 1880;
regent University State of New York,
from 1877 to 1904; collector of internal
revenue, Western New York, from 1890 to
1894; delegate of the National Republican
Convention, in 1876; chairman of the Re
publican State Convention of New York,
1888; many times delegate to Republican
State Conventions and on Committees on
Resolutions. State lecturer Department
Public Instruction, 1895 to 1904; chief of
Records Division, Education Department,
from 1904 to 1906; chief of Libraries Div
ision in same, from 1906. He is a Repub
lican in politics and an Episcopalian in his
religious connection. He has been a mem
ber of the American Geographical Associa
tion, American Historical Association;
Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa fraterni
ties ; trustee Mechanics' Savings Bank from
1878 to 1898; president of the Rochester
Historical Society, in 1892 and 1893; has
delivered many addresses, literary, educa
tional and political, many of which have
been published. He is a member of the
Whist and Fortnightly Clubs of Rochester.
Mr. Fitch married at Syracuse, New York,
July 21, 1870, Louise Lawrence Smith,
and they have two children : Lawrence
Bradford, born June 20, 1871, and Eliza-

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beth Le Baron, wife of Rev. Wallace H.
Watts, born March 16, 1878. Address:
Education Department, Albany, New York.
FITCH, Clyde:
Dramatist and author ; born May 2, 1865 ;
son of William Goodwin Fitch and Alice
Clarke. He was educated at Amherst;
M.A., 1902. He is author of: A Wave of
Life; The Knighting of the Twins; Some
Correspondence and Conversations ; The
Smart Set. Plays : Nathan Hale ; Beau
Brummel ; Barbara Frietchie ; The Moth
and the Flame; The Cowboy and the
Lady; Pamela's Prodigy; The Climbers;
The Last of the Dandies ; Lover's Lane ;
The Way of the World; Captain Jinks of
the Horse Marines ; The Girl and the
Judge; The Stubbornness of Geraldine;
The Girl With the Green Eyes; Her Own
Way; The Woman in the Case; Her Great
Match; The Truth; The Straight Road,
etc. Address: 113 East Fortieth Street,
New York City.
FITCH, Joseph:
Lawyer; born in Flushing, Queens Coun-
tv, New York, August 27, 1857; son ot
Joseph Fitch and Avis Jenkins (Leggett)
Fitch. He was graduated from Swarth-
more College as A.B. with Phi Beta Kap
pa honors in 1879, and studied at Columb
ia Law School, but took no degree. He
was admitted to the New York bar in
1882; was member of the State Assembly
for Queens County, First District, in 1886
and 1887, and of Board of Education,
Flushing, from 1893 to 1898; commissioner
of water supply, Borough of Queens, in
1898; assistant district attorney of Queens
County, during 1905 ; was officer in the
National Guard of the State of New York,
from 1882 to 1887; unsuccessful candidate
for Congress from the First District (New
York), in 1894; is senior member of the
firm of Fitch, Moore & Swan. In politics
he is a Democrat and in religion an Epis
copalian, and was formerly vestryman- of
St. George's Church, Flushing, Long Is
land. He is a member of the Queens
County and New York State Bar Associa
tions; president of the Epsilon Chapter

of Pennsylvania, of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. Mr. Fitch married in Yonkers,
New York, September 29, 1886, Annie
Loraine Rose, and they have two children:
Avis Loraine, born January 12, 1890, and
Dorothea, born September 13, 1891. Resi
dence: 118 Amity Street, Flushing, Long
Island. Address: 56 Pine Street, New
York City.
FITCH, Theodore:
Lawyer ; born at Franklin, Delaware
County, New York, March 30, 1844; son
of Reverend Silas and Mary Amanda
(White) Fitch. He was graduated from
Yale, as A.B. in 1864, A.M. in 1868. He
studied law in the office of Judge William
Murray at Delhi, New York; admitted to
the bar at Binghamton, New York, May,
1867; removed to Yonkers, New York,
October 1867, and commenced practicing
law; city attorney of Yonkers, from 1876
to 1883; and has since been practicing in
New York City. He is a Republican in
politics. Is past governor of the New
York Society, Order Founders and Patriots
of America; member of the Empire State
Society, Sons of the American Revolution;
trustee and member of the Executive Com
mittee, Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com
mission; secretary of the American Flag
Association; member American Scenic and
itistoric Preservation Society; class agent
of the Yale Alumni University Fund
Association; member American Bar Asso
ciation. Mr. Fitch married in New
Haven, Connecticut, February 4, 1869,
Catherine Hawley Coe, and they have two
daughters : Mary Goodrich, born Novem
ber 19, 1873, and Frances Hawley (Mrs.
Myron Sidney Crissy), born October 2,
1880. Residence: 456 North Broadway,
Yonkers, New York. Address: 120
Broadway, New York City.
FITTS, William Cochran:
Lawyer; born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
January 29, 1866; son of Philip A. Fitts
and Sophia (Cochran) Fitts. He was edu
cated in the Southwestern Presbyterian
University of Clarksville, Tennessee, and
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He was admitted to the bar, and began to
practice law at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in
1886; was elected attorney-general of Ala
bama in 1894 and again in 1896; elected to
the Constitutional Convention of Alabama
in 1901 ; was commissioner of the En
dowment of the University of Alabama
from 1898 to 1901 ; and he removed to Mo
bile, September I, 1901. In politics he is
a Democrat and in religion an Episcopalian.
Mr. Fitts married in Birmingham, Ala
bama, April 23, 1890, Eleanor Hewitt, and
they have four children. Residence : 1053
Government Street. Address : Pollock
Building, Mobile, Alabama.
FITZ, Beginald Heber:
Physician; born at Chelsea, Massachu
setts, May 5, 1843 ; son of Albert and Eliza
Roberts (Nye) Fitz. He was graduated
from Harvard Medical School as M.D. in
1868 and received from Harvard the degree
of LL.D. in 1905 ; practiced medicine
in Boston since 1870, he is also Hersey
professor of the theory and practice of
medicine in Harvard Medical School. He
was joint author with Dr. Horatio C.
Wood of The Practice of Medicine, 1897.
Address : 18 Arlington Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
FITZGEBALD, Adolphus Leigh:
Jurist; born in Rockingham County,
North Carolina, October 27, 1840; son of
Richard Fitzgerald and Martha Jones
(Hooper) Fitzgerald. After a careful
preparatory education he entered the Uni
versity of North Carolina, from which he
received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. After
leaving the university he studied law while
engaged as an educator, becoming pro
fessor of Latin and Greek in the Methodist
College, California, from 1866 to 1868, then
became deputy superintendent of public in
struction of California until 1871, when
he returned to the Pacific Methodist Col
lege as president until 1876. He was ad
mitted to the California Bar in January,
1878, practiced law in Nevada until 1886,
when he was elected judge of the District
Court of Nevada, in which position he
continued until 1901, when he was elected

as nominee of the Democratic and Silver
parties to his present offices as one of the
justices of the Supreme Court of Nevada,
and later became chief justice of that
court, in which position he continues.
Judge Fitzgerald married, at Eureka, Ne
vada, in April 1884, Mrs. Fannie Chappell.
Address: Carson City, Nevada.
FITZGEBALD, Harrington:
Editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Item ;
born in Philadelphia, April 5, 1847. He be
gan his business career as cashier for Jay
Cooke & Co., under Mr. George C. Thomas,
now of Drexel & Co., remaining with that
great firm four years. He then became
business manager of The Item, and after
ten years' service in that position became
editor-in-chief and general manager of
that prosperous and well-known daily
newspaper. He has held the position ever
since. Thirty years ago he became inter
ested in art, as a , relaxation, and studied
under George W. Holmes, and George W.
Nicholson, who taught the leading men
of America. He afterward studied in
Paris, with Isabey and Fortuny. He has
painted steadily, as time would permit,
giving his chief attention to landscapes
and marines. He has won gold, silver and
bronze medals at the great Exhibitions in
America. Mr. Fitzgerald has just com
pleted four large paintings of Gen. Wash
ington at Valley Forge, for the State of
Pennsylvania; at a cost of $10,000. They
will grace the new capitol at Harrisburg.
Mr. Fitzgerald has two studios, fully equip
ped : one at 727 Walnut Street, and one
at his country place, near Norristown.
Mr. Fitzgerald is president of the Ameri
can Art Society, a director in several Art
Institution's, a member of several prominent
clubs, and holds patents under the United
States Government for his inventions.- Ad
dress :- 28 South Seventh Street, Philadel-
Dhia, Pennsylvania.
FITZGEBALD, James:
Jurist; born in Ireland, October 28, 185 1 ;
son of James and Delia Fitzgerald. He
was educated in Jesuit's Seminary, Limer
ick; New York City public schools, Cooper
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Member State Assembly, 1878; State sen
ator, 1882-83; assistant district attorney,
New York City, 1884-89; judge of the
Court of General Sessions, 1890-98; jus
tice of the Supreme Court, New York
State, since 1899. He is / a Democrat in
politics and a Catholic in religion: He is a
member of the Bar Association of the City
of New York (honorary), Veteran Corps,
Sixty-ninth Regiment, National Guard of
New York, Knights of Columbus, New
York Historical Society, Friendly Sons of
St. Patrick. Clubs : Manhattan, Demo
cratic, Arkw right, Catholic, Reform. .He
married in New York City, 1884, Ann
Tynan, and they have two children : Mary,
and James. Address : 140 East Seventy-
ninth Street, New York City.
FITZGEBALD, John Frances:
Editor, mayor of Boston ; born in Boston,
February 11, 1863, son of Thomas Fitz
gerald and Rosanna Fitzgerald. He was
educated in the Elliott Grammar School
and the Boston Latin School and was after
ward a student at Harvard. He is editor
of The Republic, a weekly journal, and has
been prominently identified with Democratic
politics in Boston. He was a member of
the Boston Common Council in 1892, of
the Massachusetts Senate in 1893 and 1894,
and in 1894 was elected to Congress and
reelected in 1896 and 1898, serving in the
Fifty-fourth, Fiftyrfifth and Fifty-sixth
Congresses from 1895 to 1901. Mayor of
Boston, 1906-1907. Residence: Dorchester,
Massachusetts. Office address: City Hall,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FITZGEBALD, John J.:
Lawyer; born Brooklyn, March 10, 1872;
son of Patrick P. and Catherine (McMa-
hon) Fitzgerald; educated Sacred Heart
Academy, Westchester, New Vork; Man
hattan College, B.A. ; New York Law
School (LL.B. cum laude from regents,
State of New York). Elected to the Fif
ty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses from
Second New York District, and to Fifty-
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses
from, Seventh New York District. Director
Borough Bank of Brooklyn, People's Home

Realty Company. Democrat. Catholic.
Member of St. Patrick's Society, Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum Society, Manhat
tan College Alumni Association, Brooklyn
Lodge, No. 22, B. P. O. Elks; Brooklyn
Company, Knights of Columbus (charter
member and past grand knight) ; Catholic
Young Men's Diocesan Union of Brooklyn.
Clubs: Brooklyn, Kings County, Third
Ward Young Men's Democratic. Married
in New York City, January 29, 1901, Kath
leen L. Ferris; children: Justin (four),
John (three), Kathleen (two), and Paul
one). Residence: 418 Pacific Street,
Brooklyn. Address : 215 Montague Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
FITZGEBALD, Louis:
Soldier; born in New York City, May 31,
1838 ; son of Louis Fitzgerald and Adelaide
(Lynch) Fitzgerald. After a thorough edu
cation he entered business in New York
City, and he was for years president, and
is now director of the Mercantile Trust
Company. He joined the Seventh Militia
Regiment of New York in 1857; afterward
entered the United States service as first
lieutenant in the Eleventh New York Regi
ment; took part in the first battle of Bull
Run and was made captain for gallantry.
After the disbanding of the Eleventh Regi
ment he joined the Fortieth New York
Regiment as lieutenant, and again was pro
moted captain for gallant services at the
battle of Fair Oaks. He acted as aide-de
camp during the Peninsular campaign, to
General Philip Kearney, and after his death
to General D. B. Birney, and afterward
joined General J. G. Foster, coriimander of
the Eighteenth Corps. In 1864 he was brev
etted major and subsequently lieutenant-
colonel in the National Guard of New
York; was appointed brigadier-general in
1882 and had command of the First Bri
gade, comprising the Seventh, Eighth, Six
ty-ninth and Seventy-first Militia Regi
ments of New York. Address : 253 Lex
ington 'Avenue, New York City.
FITZGEBALD, Oscar Penn:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
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August 24, 182*. He received his educa
tion in the common schools of the South
and after that was employed in a printing
office in Virginia where he added largely
to his store of knowledge. He took up the
studies for the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Southland was admitted
in 1853, to the Georgia Conference, in
which he began his ministry. He went to
California in 1855, and became editor of
The Pacific Methodist and Christian Spec
tator. He was superintendent of public in
struction for California from 1867 to 1871,
and by virtue of that office was also editor
of the California School Journal. In 1878
he was elected editor of the Nashville
Christian Advocate, and continued in that
position until elected by the General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, in 1890, to the office of bishop.
Bishop Fitzgerald has, in his. long ministry,
pastoral and episcopal, exerted a deep in
fluence upon the affairs and policy of his
denomination. He is the author of numer
ous volumes published by the Southern
Methodist Publishing House at Nashville:
Glimpses of Truth ; California Sketches ;
Christian Growth; Dr. Summers — A Life.
Study; Bible Nights; Centenary Cameos;
The Whetstone ; Eminent Methodists ; The
Epworth Book; Judge Longstreet; The
Day and the Word; Sunset Views, and
Upper Room Meditations in addition to
which many of his sermons have been pub
lished. Bishop Fitzgerald received the
honorary degree of D.D. from the Uni
versity of the South. He married at
Enoa, Alabama, February 16, 1855, Sarah
Banks. Address: 17 Garland Avenue,
Nashville, Tennessee.
FITZHUGH. Thomas:
Professor of Latin in the University of
Virginia; born at Longwood, Goochland
County, Virginia, October 12, 1862; son of
William Henry and Mary Ann (Harrison)
Fitzhugh. He was graduated from the
University of Virginia as A.B. and A.M.
in 1884, and pursued graduate studies in
classical philology at Athens and Rome and
at the University of Berlin. He was in
structor in the Bingham School in North

Carolina in 1881 and 1882, professor of
Latin in Central University, Kentucky, in
1883 and 1884, first assistant at the Belle
vue High School, Virginia, from 1884 to
1889; professor of Latin in the University
of Texas from 1889 to 1899, and since then
in the University of Virginia. Address :
Charlottesville, Virginia.
FITZMAUBICE, John E. :
Catholic bishop of Erie; born in Ireland,
January 8, 1840; son of James Fitzmaurice
and Katherine Fitzmaurice. He received
his education in schools of Ireland and the
United States, and he made his divinity
studies at the Saint Charles Seminary in
Philadelphia, arid was ordained to the
priesthood in 1862. He filled pastorates in
the archdiocese of Pennsylvania until con
secrated in 1898 bishop of Erie. He re
ceived the degree of D.D. from Georgetown
University. Address: Erie, Pennsylvania.
FITZPATBICK, Morgan C:
Lawyer and ex-congressman ; son of J.
M. Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick.
He was educated in the public schools of
Tennessee and af'the University of Ohio
following with a course in the law depart
ment of Cumberland University at Leb
anon, Tennessee, fern which he was gradu
ated in 1890 with iithe degree of A.B. He
was admitted to the bar, and has prac
ticed law at Hart&ville, Tennessee, from
1890. He edited the Hartsville Gazette in
1895 and 1896. He has long been promi
nent as a Democratic leader in Tennes
see, and was chairman of the State Demo
cratic Committee from 1898 to 1902. He
was a member of the Tennessee Legisla
ture from 1894 to i8g8, and its speaker in
1897 and 1898; was State superintendent of
schools from i8gg to 1903, and in 1902 was
elected from the Fourth Tennessee Dis
trict and served in the Fifty-eighth Con
gress from 1903 to 1905. Address: Harts
ville, Tennessee.
FITZPATBICK, Thomas B.:
President and treasurer and director of
the Brown-Durrell Company; and presi
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for Savings; also director of the Boston
Merchants' Association, the United States
Trust Company and the Puritan Trust
Company. Address : 104 Kingston Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FITZPATBICK, Thomas Vanhook:
Physician; born at Nicholsville, Cler
mont County, Ohio, April 9, 1855; son of
Solomon Fitzpatrick and Zerilda (Van-
hook) Fitzpatrick. He was educated in the
public schools of Nicholsville, the Hughes
High School at Cincinnati and the Cin
cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery,
graduating M.D. in 1875. He took post
graduate work at the Post-Graduate Medi
cal School, New York, and' has since prac
ticed at Cincinnati, where he has gained
special distinction as a specialist in diseases
of the ear, nose and throat. Residence :
2046 Auburn Avenue. Office address : 19
West Seventh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
FLACK, William Henry:
Manufacturer ; member of Congress ;
born in Franklin Falls, Franklin County,
New York, March 22, 1861 ; son of Daniel
W. and Jane B. Flack, educated in public
schools; married October 7, 1882, Katherine
M. Lynch ; children : Daniel H. (bora in
1885), William H. (born in 1890). Inter
ested in lumbering and tanning; supervisor
town of Waverly seven years, and chair
man of board two years; elected county
clerk of Franklin County, New York, 1897-
1903 ; served as trustee, village of Malone
(president 1902) ; elected from the Twenty-
sixth New York District, 1902 and 1904,
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gress, 1903-07. Republican; chairman Re
publican County Committee, Franklin
County, New York, 1898-1902. Address :
Malone, New York.
FLAGG, Charles Noel:
Artist; born in Brooklyn, New York,
December 25, 1848; son of Rev. Jared
Bradley Flagg and Louisa (Hart) Flagg.
He was educated at Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven, Connecticut, and af
terward studied art ten years in Paris,
France, under L. Jacquesson de la Chev-

reuse. He has long been professionally en
gaged as an artist and founded and is the
director of the Connecticut League of Art
Students, a free evening art school for men,
at Hartford. Is a member of the Connecti
cut State Capitol Commission of Sculpture.
Was its first president and is now a direc
tor in the Municipal Art Society of Hart
ford, Connecticut. Is vice-commodore of
the Hartford Yacht Club. Is chairman of
the Art Committee of the Hartford Club.
member of the Cercle Frangais of Hart
ford. Represented by portraits in Connecti
cut State Capitol, Federal building Wads
worth Atheneum, Hartford Club and many
other public buildings in Hartford. Also
in Yale University and New Haven City
Hall, in City Hall at Bridgeport, Connecti
cut State Capitol, Federal Building, Wads-
Club, St. Paul, Independence Hall, Phila
delphia, Hillyer Art Gallery at Northamp
ton, Massachusetts, and in many other
places. Address : Ballerst'ein Building,
Hartford, Connecticut.
FLAGG, Edward Octavus:
Clergyman, poet, lecturer; born in
Georgetown, South Carolina, December 13,
1824; son of Henry Collins and Martha-
(Whiting) Flagg. He was educated at
Lancasterian School and Hopkins Grammar
School (New Haven, Connnecticut), and
Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut),
class of 1848 (D.D., New York University,
1866; LL.D., St. John's College, Annapo
lis, Maryland, 1898). Studied civil engi
neering; began study for the Episcopal
ministry under Rev. Drs. Croswell, Pit
kin and Cook. In his twenty-fourth year
was ordered deacon, 1848; ordained priest,
1849; first settled as assistant at Christ
Church, Norwich, Connecticut; was the
first rector of Trinity Church, Norwich;
while at this church inaugurated parish of
Grace Church, Yantic, Connecticut, was
next associate rector of St. Paul's Church,
Baltimore; took charge for a time of Trin
ity Church, New Orleans, but declined call
to its rectorship ; accepted a call to St.
Paul's Church, Paterson, New Jersey; in
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for a year; on return called to All Saints'
Church, New York City, and while there
planted the Church of the Resurrection;
was subsequently assistant to Bishop Pot
ter and Dr. Huntington in Grace Church
for nearly six years; his last clerical duty
was as rector of St. Mark's, Washington
Irving Memorial Church, Tarrytown; now
on the retired list of the clergy, and en
gaged in literary work; has delivered lec
tures on history and literature in Van Nor
man and Gardner Institutes, and in Miss
Dana's school in Morristown, as well as in
public; was secretary of the Society of
American Authors ; member executive com
mittee, New York Huguenot Society of
America; member of the Sons of the Rev
olution, Church Educational Society, Alpha
Delta Phi, and was poet at its Fifty-sec
ond Annual Convention; was chaplain
Prince of Orange Masonic Lodge, also of
the Ninth Regiment; extensive contributor
to the press; author of numerous poems, a
national anthem: Rejoice for Liberty
(words and music), and a number of
Christmas and Easter carols. He married,
first, Eliza Winstanly McNeil; second,
Mary L. Ferris ; children : Elizabeth Jar-
vis (Mrs. Henry W. Brush), Sally Peters.
Address: 152 East Thirty-fifth Street, New
York City.
FLAGG, Ernest:
Architect; born in Brooklyn, in i860. He
was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts,
Paris, graduating from that institution in
1888. He is the architect of St. Luke'.s
Hospital, Morningside Heights, New York
City; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash
ington; the Naval Academy at Annapolis;
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company's building at Hartford, Connecti
cut; the Scribner Building, Fifth Avenue,
New York; St. Margaret's Memorial Hos
pital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Naval Hos
pital, Washington, D. C. ; Naval Hospital,
Annapolis, Maryland; the Singer Manu
facturing Company's buildings Broadway
and Prince Street and Broadway and Lib
erty Street, New York City; and many
other public buildings and private resi
dences. He wrote articles on the Ecole

des Beaux Arts, published in the Archi
tectural Record; in an article, published in
Scribner's Magazine in 1893, entitled The
New York Tenement House Evil and its
Cure, he was the first to call attention to
the fact that all the worst evils of the ten
ement house system of New York lay in
the plan and the twenty-five by one hundred
foot lot. Address: 35 Wall Street, New
York City.
FLAGG, Isaac:
Professor of Greek; born at Beverly,
Massachusetts, September 7, 1843; son of
Wilson Flagg and Caroline Eveleth Flagg.
He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1864 and was tutor in Greek at Harvard
for four years, studied two years at the
Universities of Berlin and Gottingen, re
ceiving the degree of Ph. D. from the latter
in 1871, was professor of Greek at Cornell
University from , 1871 to 1888, then went
to the University of California, associate
professor of classical philology from 1891
until l8gg and since then associate pro
fessor of Greek. He has edited several
Greek Texts, and is author of books and
papers on classical and educational subjects.
Address : Berkeley, California.
FLAGG, James Montgomery:
Artist, author; born at Pelham Manor,
New York, June 18," 1877; son of Elisha
and Anna Elida (Coburn) Flagg; educat
ed at public schools, Dr. Chapin's School,
Art Students' League, Herkomer's Art
School, Bushey, England, and under Victor
Marec in Paris; painter of portraits in oils
and water colors, also magazine illustrator
since 1890, when he began with St. Nichol
as Magazine ; also since 1892 with Life, and
Judge; has also done much illustrating for
the Harper, Scribner and other leading
periodicals. Exhibited paintings at the
Paris Salon, National Academy Design,
and New York Water Color Clubs. Au
thor of: Yankee Girls Abroad; Tomfool
ery II; A Guide to Bad Manners; Why
they Married. Mr. Flagg married in St.
Louis, February 22, 1899, Nellie McCor
mick. Address: 33 West Sixty-seventh
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FLAGG, Stanley «.:
Manufacturer ;' born in Whitesboro, New
York, on March 13, 1830; grandson of
a famous doctor of Hartford, Connecticut,
one of the most learned medical men of his
time. Mr. Flagg spent his early years in
Boston, in public schools of which he -was
educated. He removed to Philadelphia at
fourteen years of age and entered a retail
dry-goods store, in which he remained for
ten years. His tendency, however, was to
ward mechanics, and in 1855 he started
a malleable iron business in a small way,
developing the new idea of making of this
material the fittings for gas, steam and
water pipes, then made of brass. His
idea proved so successful that his trade
rapidly grew and in 1863 larger works
became necessary. In 1865 he bought his
present property at Nineteenth Street, and
Pennsylvania Avenue, and in 1881 greatly
increased it by purchasing adjoining prop
erties. He subsequently admitted his sons
into the business, the firm name becoming
Stanley G. Flagg and Company. In 1896
he built a subsidiary factory at Potts-
town, Pennsylvania. He added to his busi
ness in 1872 the manufacture of stove lin
ing and firebrick, and in .1906 purchased
a pottery on Ridge Avenue. Mr. Flagg
also very successfully added steel castings
to his iron business, these, as well" as his
iron fittings, being of so superior a quality
that they command a very large trade in
the United States and foreign countries.
Address:' ,1731 Wallace Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
FLAGLER, Henry M.:
Capitalist; born in Canandaigua, New
York, 1830. He was educated in public
schools. He early became- a clerk in a store
in Orleans County, Michigan; subsequently
removed to Saginaw, Michigan, and con
ducted salt works there; later became a
resident of Cleveland, and one of the pio
neers in the petroleum business there; he
joined Messrs. Rockefeller and Andrews in
firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, to
which succeeded the Standard Oil Com
pany; has been prominently identified with

its management since its organization. Di
rector, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
way, Minnesota Iron Company, Duluth and
Iron Range Railroad, Western Union Tel
egraph Company, International Bank Note
Company, Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West Railway, and other companies. Built
and is owner of the Ponce de Leon and
Alcazar hotels in Florida, and has built
about six hundred miles of railroad in that
State. Member New England Society.
Clubs : Union League, Metropolitan, City,
Larchmont, New York, -American Yacht,
Knollwood Golf. He married Mary L.
Kenan. Address : 26 Broadway, New York
City.FLAGLEB, John Haldane:
Capitalist He was educated at Patter
son, New York, Academy. He is interested
as officer or director in many corporations,
including : National Tube Company, Ameri
can Union Life Insurance Company, Na
tional Bank of North America, Assurance
Company of America, Crocker-Wheeler
Electric Company, etc. Member Sons of
the American Revolution, Chamber of
Commerce, American Institute of Mining
Engineers, American Museum of Natural
History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Iron^
and Steel Institute, London. Clubs: Lotos,
New York Yacht, American Yacht, Larch
mont Yacht, Lawyers', Automobile of
America (New York City) ; Duquesne
(Pittsburgh). Residence: 15 Park Avenue.
Address : 196 Broadway, New York City.
FLANAGAN, De Witt C:
Capitalist; son of James Flanagan, the
founder and conductor of a leading brew
ery business in New York, and of Sarah
Jane (Ormsby) Flanagan, was born in
New York City, November 28, 1870 ; was.
educated at Callison School and Columbia
College, where he took a three years'
course in applied science, and eventually
succeeded to the management of the ex
tensive brewery business of Flanagan, Nay
& Co., the product of his father's enter
prise and superior business management.
Referring to Mr. Flanagan's ancestry in
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great-grandfather, Christopher Flanagan,
came from Dublin, Ireland, just before the
Revolutionary War, served on a privateer
during the struggle for independence, and
after the war built up a large book busi
ness. His grandfather, Judge James Flan
agan, was long the close friend of Gov
ernor De Witt Clinton, and aided him
greatly in the project of building the Erie
Canal. From this friend of his grandfather
came Mr. Flanagan's name. De Witt Clin
ton built the Erie Canal, and De Witt Clin
ton Flanagan is building the Cape Cod
Canal. As has been said, Mr. Flanagan's
business life has-been an active one. Man
ager of his father's brewing business and
long a successful business man of New
York City, he is largely identified with im
portant commercial and financial interests
in that city, and has taken an active part
in political matters as a prominent member
of the Democratic party. As such he was
elected to Congress in 1900 , from the
Fourth District of New Jersey and served
in the Fifty-seventh Congress. He was de
feated for reelection in his district, through a
legislative change in its borders, having be
come overwhelmingly Republican, but he
had the honor of being supported by ex-
President Grover Cleveland in the only po
litical speech made by him since he left
the' Presidential chair. While in the
House Mr. Flanagan won the confidence
and friendship of many of the leaders of
his party, especially among the Congress
men from the South, and was able to enlist
the support of the Southern delegates to
the standard of Judge Alton B. Parker,
and thus materially to aid him in securing
his nomination as the Democratic candi
date for the Presidency. In the recently
revived project to construct a canal across
the Cape Cod peninsula at the neck between
Buzzards and Barnstable bay's, and in 1899,
with eight other incorporators obtained a
charter from the Commonwealth of Massa
chusetts to construct and operate a ship
canal across the Cape Cod Peninsula.
After the necessary- preliminary work
had been accomplished, Mr. Flanagan
enlisted the financial support of prominent

Boston and New York capitalists, and it is
estimated by the engineers, William Bar
clay Parsons and E. L. Corthell, that the
canal will be open to the public in 1908.
The canal, when completed, will be eight
miles long, one hundred feet wide and
twenty-five feet deep at mean low water,
and will doubtless greatly develop the com
merce between the two great cities of our
eastern coast and prove one of the grand
engineering successes of the day. Mr. Flan
agan is the man to carry it through to suc
cess, and it will be a monument to his en
ergy and enterprise. Residence : 87 Park
Avenue, New York City.
FLANAGAN, Webster:
Lawyer, United States official; born at
Cloverport, Kentucky, January 9, 1832; son
of James W. Flanagan (who became United
States Senator in 1871). He has been a
resident of Texas since 1843, and held
several local offices in Rusk County, Texas,
prior to the Civil War in which he served
in" the Confederate Army as brigadier-
general. After the war he became identified
with the Republican Party, was appointed
judge of the Fifth Judicial District of
Texas in 1865, was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1869 and 1875,
lieutenant-governor of Texas from 1871 to
1873, member of the State Senate in 1875,
collector of internal revenue of the Fourth
Texas District in 1884 and 1885, collector
of customs at El Paso, Texas, from 1891 to
1893, and since 1897, collector of internal
revenue of the Third Texas District. He
has served as delegate to all the National
Republican Conventions from 1872, except
those of 1876 and 1900. Address: Austin,
Texas. FLANDEBS, Henry:
Lawyer; born in Sullivan County, New
Hampshire, February 13, 1826. He was
educated at the Kimball Academy, New
Hampshire, and the Newbury Seminary,
Vermont; received degree from Dartmouth
College of A.M.; and has been engaged in
the practice of law at Philadelphia since
1850. He is the author of valuable works
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law, as well as on literary subjects. Ad
dress : 419 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsyvania.
FLAN DEBS, James Greeley:
Lawyer; born at New London, New
Hampshire, December 13, 1844; son "of
Walter Powers Flanders and Susan Everett
(Greeley) Flanders. He was graduated
from Phillips Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire in the Class of 1861, from Yale
College, with Phi Beta Kappa honors and
the degree of A.B. in 1867, and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1869.
He located in practice of law at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where he has gained distinction
at the bar, was a member of the Milwaukee
School Board from 1875 to 1877 and of the
Wisconsin Legislature in 1877. He was a
delegate to the National Democratic Con
vention at Chicago in 1896, and to the
Indianapolis National Convention of Gold
Democrats in September of the same year.
Residence : 161 Prospect Avenue, Milwau
kee. Office address : 800 Pabst Building,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
FLANNEBT, John:
Merchant and banker; born at Nenagh,
County Tipperary, Ireland, November 24,
1835; son of John Flannery and Hannah
(Hogan) Flannery. He came to the
United States with his father in 1851, be
came clerk in stores at Atlanta, Georgia,
and Charleston, South Carolina until 1854,
and at Savannah, Georgia, from 1854 until
1861, when he became a non-commissioned
officer of the Irish Jasper Greens, in garri
son at Fort Pulaski. This regiment was
united with the Confederate States Army,
in which he served through the war, be
coming lieutenant in 1861 and captain in
1862, serving under Generals Joseph E.
Johnston and Hood in Georgia and Tennes
see. At the close of the war, in 1865, he be
came a partner in the cotton firm of L. J.
Gilmartin and Company, which also oper
ated a line of steamers from Charleston,
South Carolina, to Palatka, Florida. Buying
out his partners in 1877 he formed the pres
ent firm of John Flannery and Company,
with headquarters at Savannah, Georgia,

which has ever since ranked as one of the
most successful and substantial in the cotton
trade. Mr. Flannery became a director of
the Southern Bank of the State of Georgia,
at Savannah, in 1870, and since 1881, he
has been at the head of that institution as
its president. He has been president and
is still an influential member of the
Savannah Cotton Exchange, and is a di
rector in numerous business and railway
corporations. He is a Democrat in politics
and a Catholic in religion and is president
of the Catholic Library Hall Association
of Savannah. He was. captain of the Irish
Jasper Greens from i872yto .1898, and in
1878 he aided in organizing the Jasper
Monument Association, and was its presi
dent from 1881 to 1888. Mr! Flannery
married in 1867, Mary E. Norton. Address:
Savannah, Georgia.
FLATHEB, John Joseph:
Professor of mechanical engineering;
born in Philadelphia, June 9, 1862; son of
Henry Flather. He was graduated from
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni
versity as Ph. B. in 1885, and received the
degree of M.M.E. from Cornell University
in 1887. He was superintendent and me
chanical engineer in machine shops in
Europe and the United States, was three
years instructor in mechanical engineering
at Lehigh University, professor of mechani
cal engineering at Purdue University,
Lafayette, Indiana, from 1891 to 1898, and
since then at the University of Minnesota.
Address: 1103 Fourth Street, Southeast,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
FLEET, Alexander Frederick:
Superintendent of Culver Military Aca
demy; born in King and Queen County,
Virginia, June 6, 1843; son of Dr. Ben
jamin Fleet and Maria Louise (Wacker)
Fleet. He graduated at the University' of
Virginia in 1867, studied one year in the
Medical. Department of that University, and
received the degree of A.M. from Colum
bian College (now George Washington Uni
versity) at Washington, D. C, in 1869,
and of LL.D. from Richmond College
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cer in the Confederate Army through the
Civil War, surrendering as adjutant-gener
al in General H. A. Wise's Brigade at
Appomattox, April 9, 1865. He was pro
fessor of Greek at William Jewell College,
at Liberty, Missouri, from 1868 to 1873;
president of Lexington Female College,
Missouri, from 1873 to 1879; professor of
Greek in the University of Missouri from
1879 to i8go; founder and superintendent
. of" Missouri Military Academy from 1890
to 1896, and since then superintendent of
Culver Military Academy. Address: Cul
ver, Indiana.
FLEISCHMANN, Julius:
Manufacturer and banker; born in Cin
cinnati. He is president of Fleishmann &
Company, of the Union Grain and Hay
Conipany, and of the Market National Bank
of Cincinnati and was Mayor of Cincin
nati from 1901 to 1904. Address: 3555
Washington Avenue, Avondale, Cincinnati,
Ohio.FLEISHEB, David Teller:
Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, in 1878.
He was educated in public and William
Penn Charter schools. Mr. Fleisher is
assistant secretary and treasurer and di
rector of S. B. and B. W. Fleisher, Incor
porated, worsted and woolen yarns and
braids; director of the Merchants' and
Travelers' Association of Philadelphia and
Vicinity; Poor Richard Club, Manufac
turers' Club, Philmount Country Club, etc.
Address: 28 South Sixth Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
FLEISHEB, Samuel S. :
Manufacturer; born in Philadelphia, No
vember 27, 1871 ; son of Simon B. Fleisher
and Celia (Hoffheimer) Fleisher. He took
a collegiate course in the University of
Pennsylvania, and was graduated in the
class of 1902. He is a member and direc
tor of the firm of S. B. and B. W. Fleisher,
Incorporated; also a director and member
of the executive committee of the Jewish
Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, and of
the National Conference of Jewish Chari
ties of America; trustee of the Jewish

Chautauqua Society of America ; vice-presi
dent of the Juvenile Protective Association
of Philadelphia; trustee of the Baron de
rlirsch Fund of America, and of the Young
Women's Union; director of the Philmont
Country Club, and is also a director of the
Woodbine Land and Improvement Com
pany; and chairman of the Woodbine Agri
cultural School, both of Woodbine, New
jersey. .He was the founder and is the
sole supporter of the Graphic Sketch Club,
a free non-sectarian art school. Mr., Fleish
er is a member of the Philmont, Social
Workers' and other Clubs. Residence :
2220 Green Street, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress : Twenty-fifth and Hamilton Streets,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FLEISHEB, Simon B.:
Manufacturer; born in Meadville, Penn
sylvania, in 1840; son of Benjamin W.
Fleisher and Hannah (Techner) Fleisher.
He was educated in the public schools of
meadville, and in private schools of New
York City. Mr. Fleisher is presiaent of the
firm of S. B. and B. W. Fleisher, Incorpor
ated; and director of the Girard National
Bank, the Northern Trust Company, the
Girard National Life Insurance Company,
and the Jewish Hospital Association. He
is a member of the Manufacturers' and
Mercantile Clubs. Mr. Fleisher married
in New York in 1866, Celia Hoffheimer.
Residence: 2220 Green Street, Philadel
phia. Office address : 28 South Sixth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FLEITMANN, William Medlicott:
Merchant; born in New York City, in
i860; son of Hermann (founder dry goods
commission house of Fleitmann and Com
pany) and Louisa Harriet (Medlicott)
Fleitmann, of Bristol, England. He was
educated in private schools in New York
City and abroad. He became partner in
his father's firm in 1887. Spends summers
at Bar Harbor, Maine, or traveling in Eu
rope. Clubs : Deutscher Verein, New York
Athletic, New York Yacht, Merchants',
Riding, Automobile of America, Suburban
Riding and Driving. He married, 1889, Lida
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Heinze and sister of F. Augustus Heinze,
the copper mining operator) ; children :
Frederick H., William M.,.Jr., Lida Louise.
Residence: 3 West Thirty-eighth Street.
Address: 484 Broome Street, New York
City.
FLEMING, Alfred J.:
Consular official; appointed commercial
agent at Stanbridge, October 24, 1905, con
sul at Alden, June 22, 1906, at Yarmouth,
since March 30, 1907. Address : Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia.
FLEMING, Aretus Brooks:
Former governor of West Virginia;
born at Fairmont, Virginia (now West
Virginia), October 15, 1839; son Of Benja
min F. Fleming and Rhoda (Brooks) Flem
ing. He was prepared at the Fairmont
Academy and attended the law department
of the University of Virginia in 1859 and
i860. He was admitted to the bar in 1862;
was prosecuting attorney from 1863 to
1868; member of the West Virginia Legis
lature in 1872 and 1873, and in 1875 and
1876; judge of the Second Judicial Cir
cuit of West Virginia from 1877 to 1888,
and governor of West Virginia from 1889
to 1893. Governor Fleming is a Democrat
in politics. He married at Fairmont,
West Virginia, September 7, 1865, Carrie
Watson, and they have four children liv
ing: Gypsy, wife of C. E. Ward; George,
Virginia, and Brooks. Address : Fair
mont, West Virginia.
FLEMING, Francis Philip:
Former governor of Florida;- born at
Panama, Florida, September 28, 1841 ; son
of Lewis Fleming and Margaret (Seton)
Fleming. He was educated at home by pri
vate tutors, served in the Confederate
Army from 1861 to 1865 as private in the
Second Florida Infantry, and lieutenant in
the First Florida Cavalry, and has been
engaged in the practice of law at Jack
sonville, Florida, since May, 1868. He is
a Democrat in politics -and was governor
of Florida from 1889 to 1893. Governor
Fleming married at Greenville, S. C, May
23, 1871, Florida Lydia Pearson, and they

have three children : Francis Philip, Charles
Seaton and Elizabeth Legere. Address:
Jacksonville, Florida. '
FLEMING, George Elliott:
Lawyer, writer, composer; born at Shel-
byville, Indiana, June 20, 1877; son of
Thomas W. and Anna (Rowen) Fleming.
He was graduated from Harvard College
with the degree of A.B. in 1899, and after
wards attended the Harvard Law School
and the Harvard Graduate School. He is •
engaged in Corporation practice in New
York and Indiana, being admitted to .the
bar of Indiana in 1900, and of New York
in 1904; was on the editorial staff of the
American and English Encyclopedia of
Law, and is the author of: The Laws and
Decisions relating to Attorneys, now in
preparation; campaign speaker; treasurer
and director of the New York and Eastern
Telegraph and Telephone Company; di
rector of the American District Telegraph
Company, the Kenai Mining and Trading
Company, and the Poster People, Publish
ers. Mr. Fleming is a Republican in poli
tics, and a Presbyterian in his religious
connections. He is actively engaged in rail
road and mining enterprises in Washington
and Idaho, in Nevada and in Alaska; inter
ested in charity and mission work; is secre
tary of the Indiana Society. of New York,
of which he was one of the organizers. He
has traveled extensively in Europe, making
a special study of sociological and economic
conditions. He is a strong advocate of
centralization of power in the Federal gov
ernment and the pioneer in the effort to
have the chartering of ¦ corporations taken
away from the States and lodged only in
the Federal Government. He is the author
of the proposed law providing for the de
portation of all aliens convicted of crime,
as proving thereby that they are not the
kind of persons that will ever make the
citizens we want, -or have the right to
harbor. Also an advocate for the coinage
of a two-and-a-half-cent piece, as a means
of solving the street car fare problem and
other public service overcharges ; also of an
effort to abolish the collection agencies and
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tions to legal channels only. He is actively
fighting for a total restriction of child labor
by the Federal Government, and of making
the infringement of patents and copyrights
a crime instead of a civil wrong, as at
present, in order to protect poor patentees
who have a right to feel secure in their
rights, having paid the government for
protection. Also for a national uniform
law of Divorce, and a national uniform
law on naturalization and voting qualifica
tions. Author of: Cecil Gray (a novel),
and A Beggar in Evening Dress. Compos
er of: The Celebrity. He is a member of
the Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Masonic Order,
and the National Institute of Immigra
tion. Mr. Fleming is also a member of the
Lawyers' Club- Address : Box 1419, New
York City.
FLEMING, Matthew Corry:
Lawyer; born in Xenia, Ohio, June 24,
1864; son of E. C. Fleming and Rachel
(Corry) Fleming. He was graduated from
Princeton as A.B. in 1885 and A.M. in
1889, and from Cincinnati Law School as
LL.B. in 1889. He assisted on the revis
ion of Ohio Statutes in 1889 and 1890; was
assistant corporation counsel under George
L. Rives, in New York City, from 1902 to
1904; associate counsel to Charles E.
Hughes (now governor) in the Legislative
gas, etc., inquiry, from March to April,
1905; associate counsel to Charles E.
Hughes in the insurance investigation, from
September, 1905, to May, 1906, and is a
member of the firm of Dexter, Osborn &
Fleming. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Presbyterian. He is a
member of the Board of Managers and re
cording secretary of the Presbyterian Hos
pital, and a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York. His
favorite recreations are tennis and golf.
Mr. Fleming is a member of. the Ardsley,
University and Princeton Clubs of New
York and the Nassau Club of Princeton,
New Jersey. He married in Cincinnati,
Ohio, October 11, 1893, Angeline Wilson,
and they have one son, Matthew C. Flem
ing, Jr., born in 1899. Residence:" 441

Park Avenue. Address : 71 Broadway, New
York City.
FLEMING, Bufus:
Consul, journalist; born in Indiana, in
1853 ; son of Dr. JackSon F. Fleming. He
was educated at the University of Michigan
and on leaving college began newspaper
life as a reporter on the Missouri Repub
lican at St. Louis. In 1882 he became man
aging editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star,
and continued in that capacity until his ap
pointment, October 5, 1897, to his present
position as United States consul at Edin
burgh, Scotland. Mr. Fleming is known as
a writer of exceptional ability on com
mercial and economic subjects, and while
iu the newspaper harness was distinguished
as one of the ablest editorial exponents of
Republican opinion in the Middle West.
He married in 1878 Annabel Lee Hutchins,
daughter of Carleton B. Hutchins, presi
dent of the Hutchins Refrigerator Car
Company, and they have their home at
Avondale, one of the most beautiful res
idence sections of Cincinnati. Address::
American Consulate, Edinburgh, Scotland.
FLEMING, William Henry:
Lawyer and ex-congressman ; born in Au
gusta, Georgia, October 18, 1856; son of
Porter Fleming and Catherine B. (Morag-
ne) Fleming. He was brought up on the
family farm near Augusta; was graduated
from the University of Georgia as CE. in
1875, and afterward received the degree of
A.M. He was superintendent of schools
of Augusta and Richmond County, Geor
gia, from 1877 to 1880, and was admitted
to the bar in 1880, practicing law in Au
gusta ever since. Mr. Fleming has been
prominent in politics as a Democratic
leader, and was a member from 1888 to
1894, and speaker in 1894, of the Georgia
Legislature; and member of the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses
from the Tenth Georgia District from 1897
to 1903. He has been president of the
Georgia State Bar Association, and grand
commander of Knights Templar of Geor
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Georgia, August 22, 1900, Marie Celeste
Ayer. Address: Augusta, Georgia.
FLETCHEE, Austin Barclay:
Lawyer; born at Mendon, Massachusetts,
March 13, 1852 ; son of Asa A. and Harriet
(Durkee) Fletcher. He was graduated
from Tufts College, as A.B. in 1876; LL.D.
in 1899; from Boston University School
of Oratory, in 1878; School of Sciences, as
A.M. in 1879; School of Law, as LL.B. in
1880. He engaged in practice as bank and
corporation lawyer; has reorganized many
large corporations and business concerns;
president of Eppinger and Russell Com
pany; director of Judge Company (maga
zine), Monmouth Company, Electric Com
pany, Pequonnock National Bank (Bridge
port, Connecticut). Mr. Fletcher is a Re
publican in politics, and is president of the
New England Society in the City of New
York; president of the Fletcher Family
Union; trustee of Boston University. He
is also a member of the Union League,
Metropolitan, New York Athletic, and
Lawyers' Clubs, and the Phi Beta Kappa
fraternity, Zeta Psi, Knight Templar. He
iriarried in New York City, January 26,
1882, Hortense M. Follett; died in -1905.
Address : 32 Liberty Street, New York City.
FLETCHEB, Henry:
Lawyer; born Brooklyn, September 29,
1877; son of George Harley and Ida
(Sharp) Fletcher; educated in Reichs
Gymnasium in Hanover, Germany; gradu
ated Adelphi (Brooklyn) Academy, 1894;
Yale University A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa),
1898; A.M., 1901 ; Harvard University Law
School, LL.B. (cum laude) ; editor two
years Harvard Law Review; unmarried.
Has traveled much in Europe, Africa, and
North America; has been a cowboy and
camped and traveled over Western part of
United States, northern Canada, and in
Hudson Bay County territory. Senior
meniber firm Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy;
vice-president Liberty Mortgage Company,
member New York City Bar Association,
Selden Society of Great Britain, Society
Medical Jurisprudence of New York, Bib
liophile Society of Boston/ Democrat.

Presbyterian. Member Phi Delta Phi fra
ternity; Phi Beta Kappa Society. Recrea
tions : Golf, Tennis, Squash, Racquet
Clubs : Harvard, Yale, New York Athletic
(New York City), Phi Delta Phi of New
ifork, Spring Lake Casino, University
(Brooklyn), Lawyers' (Brooklyn). Resi
dences : Pine Knoll, Vroom Avenue, Spring
Lake, New Jersey (and summer home) ;
214 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, and 30 West
Forty-fourth Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 60 Wall Street, New York City.
FLETCHEB, Horace:
Author, lecturer on dietetics; bom in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, August 10, 1849;
son of Isaac Fletcher and Mary A. Blake
Fletcher. He was educated in the Science
Department, Dartmouth, class of 1870. He
is an extensive traveler and, constant stu
dent ; has been in all parts of the world and
"made special study of the development of
Japan and other researches in sociology;
also interested in art subjects; in more re
cent years has made researches in labora
tories of Yale and of the University of
Cambridge, and elsewhere in physiological
chemistry and dietetics, with special refer
ence to the minimum quantity of food
requisite for the best human efficiency and
the physiological and psychological aids or
detriments of nutrition, and lectures on
these and other subjects. Author: ABC
of Snap Shooting; Menticulture ; Happi
ness ; That Last Waif ; or Social Quaran
tine; What Sense? or Economic Nutrition;
Nature's Food Filter; Glutton or Epicure;
A B C of Our Nutrition; Optimism; Na
ture Knows. He is a member of the Japan
Society of London. Resides most of the
year in Venice, Italy, where, with his son-
in-law, Dr. Ernest H. Van Someren, an
English physician and surgeon residing in
Venice, he pursues his studies and experi
ments. He is a member of the Arts Club
(London), and the Tavern Club (Boston).
He married Grace A. Marsh. Address:
Care Barrett Manufacturing Company, 17
Bnttery Place, New York City.
FLETCHEB, Loren:
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County, Maine; he was educated in public
schools and at Maine Wesleyan Seminary,
Kents Hill, Maine; in 1853 he removed to
Bangor, Maine, where he was employed as
clerk by a mercantile and lumber company;
in 1856 he removed to Minneapolis, Minne
sota, where he has since resided, engaged
in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits,
largely in the manufacture of lumber and
flour; was elected to the State Legislature
in 1872, and reelected seven times ; the last
three terms, served as speaker, having been
unanimously elected the last term; was
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress. Address : Minneapolis, Minne
sota.
FLETCHEB, Bobert:
Senior professor and director of the
Thayer School of Civil Engineering at
Dartmouth College, since January, 1871 ;
born in New York City, August 23, 1847;
son of Edward H. Fletcher and Mary
(Hill) Fletcher. He was educated in the
New York public schools, the College of
the City of New York, to the end of the
junior year, and the United States Military
Academy, graduating in 1868. He was
commissioned in June, 1868, as second lieu
tenant of the Second Regiment of United
States Artillery, serving with his regiment
until -September, 1869, when he became in
structor in mathematics at the United
States Military Academy until December
31, 1870, when he resigned to take his
present appointment. He has been consult
ing engineer for steel bridges, water works,
sewerage systems, etc., and is president and
engineer of the Hanover Water Works
Company. Address : Hanover, New Hamp
shire.
FLETCHEB, Bobert Howe:
Director Mark Hopkins Institute of Art,
San Francisco, since 1899; director San
Francisco Institute of Art since 1907; bom
in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21, 1850 ; son of Dr.
Robert Fletcher and Anna (Howe) Fletch
er; He was educated in the United States
Naval Academy from which he was gradu

ated in the class of 1872. After gradua
tion he was transferred to the army and
appointed second lieutenant of the Twenty-
first Infantry, July 27, 1872. He was pro
moted first lieutenant April 23, 1877, and
retired October 21, 1886, for disability con
tracted in the line of duty. He served on
the Indian frontier and in California, and
he was brevetted captain February 27,
1890, for services in the Nez Perces In
dian War. Captain Fletcher has resided in
San Francisco since his retirement from
the service, and in addition to his duties
as director of the Art Institute he has
devoted himself to literature, being author
of: A Blind Bargain; The Johnstown
Stage; Marjorie and Her Papa; Annals of
the Bohemian Club, and short stories and
essays in various publications. He married
at San Francisco, August 1, 1878, Octavia
Shreve Miller ; children : Robert H. Fletch
er, Jr., Cadet United States Military Aca
demy, West Point. Address: San -Fran
cisco Institute of Art, San Francisco, Cali
fornia.
FLETCHEB, Stevenson Whitcomb:
Professor of horticulture; bom at Little
ton, Massachusetts, September 10, 1875. He
was graduated from the Massachusetts
Agricultural College in 1896 as B.S. ; fel
low at Cornell University in 1898 and 1899,
and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1900.
He was professor of horticulture and hor
ticulturist of the Experiment Station at
Washington Agricultural College from
1900 to 1902, at West Virginia University
from 1900 to 1903; assistant professor of
extension teaching in Agriculture at Cor
nell University from 1903 to 1905; and has
been professor of horticulture at the Michi
gan Agricultural College from 1905. Pro
fessor Fletcher has made special studies
on strawberry breeding and the pollina
tion of orchard fruits. He is a member of
the American Pomological Society, and is
author of How to Make a Fruit Garden,
and Soils; How to Handle and Improve
Them, both published by Doubleday, Page
and Company. Address : Agricultural Col
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FLETCHEB, William Baldwin: *
Physician, alienist; born in Indianapolis,
Indiana, August 18, 1837. He was gradu
ated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons as M.D. in 1859; served in scout
service at the beginning of the Civil War;
was captured and served nine months in
Confederate prisons, and afterward was on
the medical staff in the Union Army. He
has practiced medicine since the war at
Indianapolis^ and was a member of the In
diana State Senate in 1882 and 1883 ; and
superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for
the Insane from 1883 to 1888; and since
the latter date has conducted a private in
firmary for the treatment and care of the
insane. Address: 1140 Market Street, In
dianapolis, Indiana.
FLETCHEB, William Isaacs:
Librarian; born in Burlington, Vermont,
April 28, 1844; son of Stillman and Eliza
beth (Severance) Fletcher. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Winchester,
Massachusetts, afterward devoting himself
to library work. He has been teacher of
library economy in the Amherst Summer
School since 1891 ; is librarian of Amherst
College, and is an active member and ex-
president of the American Library Associa
tion. He received the honorary degree of
.A.M. from Amherst in 1884. He was joint
editor of Poole's Index to Periodical Liter
ature from 1876, and since the death of
Dr. Poole has edited the volumes in con
tinuation of that work, and is author of:
Public Libraries in America; the American
Library Association Index to General Lit
erature, etc. Address : Amherst, Massa
chusetts.
FLEXNEB, Simon:
Physician; born at Louisville, Kentucky,
March 25, 1863 ; son of Morris and Esther
(Abraham) Flexner. He was educated in
public schools ; graduated from the Uni
versity of Louisville, as M.D. in 1899 (hon.
D. Sc. from Harvard) ; post-graduate stu
dent of Johns Hopkins, Strassburg and
Berlin Universities. He was associate pro
fessor and professor of pathological anat
omy Johns Hopkins, from 1891 to 1899;

professor of pathology, University of Penn
sylvania in 1899 ; member of Johns Hopkins
University Commission for Investigation of
Tropical Diseases, sent to Philippine IsX
ands, in 1900; member of commission ap
pointed by the Secretary of the Treasury,
United States, to investigate bubonic
plague in San Francisco, California, 1901;
director of Ayer Clinical Laboratory, Penn
sylvania Hospital, 1901 ; pathologist of the
University Hospital, 1900; director of lab
oratories of Rockefeller Institute for Medi
cal Research, New York City; member of
ihe Association of American Physicians,
American Philosophical Society, the Ameri
can. Association for the Advancement of
Science, American Association of Patholo
gists and Bacteriologists; corresponding
member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society,
Bologna, Italy. Dr. Flexner is author of
various monographs and papers relating to
pathological and bacteriological subjects,
snake, venom, bubonic plague, dysentery,
meningitis and other infections. He is also
a member of the Century Club. Dr. Flex
ner married at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,
1903, Helen Whital Thomas, and they have
one child, William; born October 5, 1904.
Address : The Rockefeller Institute, Sixty-
sixth Street and Avenue A, New York City.
FLIC KIN GEB, Daniel Kumler:
Bishop of the United Brethren; born at
Seven Mile, Butler County, Ohio, May 25,
1824. He was educated in local academies,
and entered the ministry of the United
Brethren. He was corresponding secretary
of the United Brethren Church Missionary
Society from 1875 to 1885, and has been
foreign missionary bishop of that church
since the latter date. He has made twelve
missionary tours in Africa and has written
several books on missionary topics. Ad
dress : Huntington, Indiana.
FLLNN, Alfred Douglas:
Civil engineer; born in New Berlin,
Union Co., Pennsylvania, August 4, 1869;
son of Matthew Bonner and Sarah Jane
(Jones) Flinn. He was educated in the
public schools, Worcester, Massachusetts;
was graduated from Worcester (Massa-

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chusetts) Polytechnic Institute, S. B. (Sal
isbury Prize) 1893. Assistant on rapid
transit surveys and water works, Boston,
1893-96 ; engineer of the Metropolitan Water
Works, for Boston and vicinity, 1896-19/32;
last few years in charge of designs for Wa-
chusett dam, Weston aqueduct, etc. ; for
two years lecturer on water works and
sewerage to senior engineering classes in
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni
versity; contributor to engineering jour
nals; managing editor The Engineering
Record (New York), 1902-04; general en
gineering inspector for Aqueduct Commis
sioners, New York City, 1904-05 ; since
August 1, 1905, department engineer, Board
of Water Supply, in charge of designs, or
ganization, and general executive matters
of Engineering Bureau in connection with
the work for obtaining from Catskills an
additional supply of water for New York
City. He is a Republican in politics and
a Baptist in religion. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Boston Society of Civil Engineers, New
England Water Works Association, Nation
al Geographic Society, Worcester Polytech
nic Institute Alumni Association, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity; was connected
with Merrimac Street Mission and Mari
ners' Bethel of Boston, and West Side
Neighborhood House, New York City. He
is a member of the Independent Ciub of
the Twenty-first Assembly District. He
married in Boston, Massachusetts, Novemr
ber 1, 1900, Mary Brownell Davis. Ad
dress: Glenbrook Avenue, Park Hill, Yon
kers, New York.
FLINT, Albert Stowell:
Astronomer; born at Salem, Massa
chusetts, September 12, 1853; son of
Simeon and Ellen Rebecca (Pollard) Flint.
He was graduated from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1875, and later received the de-
*gree of A.M. from the University of Cin
cinnati. He has been engaged in astronom
ical work since 1878, and is now astronomer
at the Washburn Observatory of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. He has contributed
a few papers on astronomical subjects and

portions of the series of publications of the
Washburn Observatory. Address : 450
Charter Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
FLINT, Austin:
Physiologist, alienist, consulting physi
cian ; born a t Northampton, Massachu
setts, March 28, 1836; son of Austin Flint
(distinguished physician ) and Anne S.
Flint. He was educated at private schools
in Buffalo ; at Harvard, from 1852 to 1853 ;
studied at the medical department, Uni
versity of Louisville; received the degree,
M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1857
(LL.D. in 1885). Practiced at Buffalo
from 1857 to 1859; at New York City since
1859. Was professor of physiology, medi
cal department, University of Buffalo, from
1858 to 1859; at the New York Medical
College, from 1859 to i860 ; at the New Or
leans School of Medicine from i860 to
1861 ; was one of the founders, and pro
fessor of physiology, Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, from 1861 to 1898; pro
fessor of physiology, Long Island Gollege
Hospital from 1862 to 1868; at Cornell
University Medical College from 1898 to
1906, emeritus, 1906. Was visiting surgeon,
Buffalo General Hospital, in 1858; acting
assistant surgeon, United States Army, at
General Hospital, New York City, from
1862 to 1865; visiting physician at Belle
vue Hospital in 1869; visiting physician,
Insane Pavilion, Bellevue Hospital, 1896;
consulting physician for nervous diseases,
Bellevue Hospital Dispensary in 1866; sur
geon-general, State of New York, from
1874 to 1878; consulting physician, State
Hospital for Insane, since 1896 (president,
Consulting Board in 1899). Is a fellow of
the New York State Medical Association
(president, 1895) ; a member of the medical
Association, Greater City of New York
(president, 1899) ; a member of the Execu
tive Committee of the New York Prison
Association in 1896. He was decorated
with the Order of Bolivar (third 'class)
Venezuela, in 1891. Is a member of the
American Medical Association; the New
York County Medical Association; the
American Academy of Medicine (honor-

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ary) ; the American Medico-Psychological
Association; the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States ; a fellow of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science ; a member of the
Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadel
phia). He is the author of: Physiology of
Man (five volumes) ; Chemical Examin
ation of Urine in Disease; Physiological
Effects of Severe and Prolonged Muscular
Exercise; Text-Book of Human Physiol
ogy; Source of Muscular Power; Hand
book of Physiology; Collected Essays and
Articles on Physiology and Medicine, two
volumes, 8vo. ; also many contributions to
medical literature. He belongs to the Cen
tury and the New York Athletic Clubs.
He married at Ballston, New York, De
cember 23, .1862, Elizabeth B. McMaster, and
they have four children : Annie, Dr. Aus
tin, Jr., Sherman, and Elliot. Address :
118 East Nineteenth Street, New York
City.
FLINT, Charles Banlett:
Merchant; born at Thomaston, Maine,
January 24, 1850; son of Benjamin and
Sarah (Tobey) Flint. The progenitor of
the family in this country, Thomas Flint,
emigrated to America from Wales in 1642,
and settled at Salem, Massachusetts. Edu
cated in the public schools of his native
town, and those of Brooklyn, New York.
In 1868 was graduated from the Polytech
nic Institute of Brooklyn, being president of
his class and of the alumni. 1869 entered
the employ of W. R. Grace, 1871 organized
the firm of Gilchrist, Flint & Company,
ship chandlers, 1872 with W. R. and M.
P. Grace, established the firm of W. R.
Grace & Company, 1876 Grace Brothers &
Compa'ny of Gallac, Peru, and was ap
pointed consul in New York for the Re
public of Chili, and in the absence of the
Charge d' Affaires attended to the business
of the Chilian Legation. He held this
position until Chili declared war against
Peru in 1879, when owing to his firm being
the financial agents of the Peruvian Gov
ernment, he cabled his resignation to Chili.
1884 visited Brazil and arranged for the

export during succeeding years of large
quantities of rubber from the Amazon.
Upon his return he was appointed consul
of Nicaragua in New York. 1885 entered
the firm of Flint & Company, successors
of the shipbuilding and shipowning firm
of Chapman & Flint, established in 1837,
then composed of his father and his brother.
Mr. Flint rendered important services as a
delegate of the United States to the Inter
national American Conference held in
Washington in the winter of 1889-90, having
an intimate knowledge of the resources and
trade of .the South American countries. In
that Conference he represented the United
States on the Committee on Banking and
as a member of the Committee on Custom
Regulations formulated a report for unify
ing the Custom Regulations for the Am
erican Republics, and in that report, after
consulting Andrew Carnegie and the other
United States delegates, recommended the
organization of the Bureau of American
Republics, which was adopted by the Con
ference and to which Mr. Carnegie has
recently given $750,000. In 1893, during
the Mello Da Gama Rebellion in Brazil he
acted for President Piexoto in the purchase
of vessels and munitions of war; and in
1895, during the Chinese-Japanese War
he purchased the cruiser Esmerelda from
Chili and delivered her to Japan. In
1898, both before and during the war
with Spain, he rendered valuable ser
vices to the United States Government in
the purchase of vessels and munitions of
war. In several instances he blocked the
Spaniards in their efforts to purchase for
eign war vessels and supplies ; he gave the
United States information of the departure
of the Spanish fleet from Cape Verde, and
twelve hours later, the direction in which
the fleet was steaming. He also advised
the Government of the sailing of the col
liers to the rendezvous with the Spanish
fleet off Venezuela. He established in the«
City of Manaos which is located 1,000
miles up the Amazon River, a modern
trolley road, electric light system, water
works and the asphalt block pavement.
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was pro-Russian and at the outset of the
war purchased for the Russian Govern
ment all the available ordnance and pro
jectiles in the United States and bought
and shipped to Russia the submarine Pro
tector, five other submarines and ten tor
pedo boats. Under the diplomatic pass
ports of the Russian Government, he went
to St. Petersburg, was granted an audience
by the Emperor, receiving letters of credit
of de Rothschild Freres of Paris aggregat
ing 150,000,000 francs and conducted im
portant negotiations in preventing the sale
of the Argentine and Chilian war vessels to
Japan and Turkey, visiting Constantinople
for that purpose. During the past fif
teen years Mr. Flint has -devoted himself
largely to the consolidation of industrials
and the existence of some thirty-nine con
solidations, having an outstanding capital
ization of over $346,000,000 bear witness to
his success and industry, and he has become
' widely known as the "Father of Trusts."
He has given much attention to yachting,
being a member of the New York, Sea-
wanhaka, Larchmont, and Atlantic Yacht
Clubs; and he is also a member of the
Century, Union ¦ and Metropolitan Clubs.
He married, in 1883, E. Kate Simmons, of
Troy, New York. Residence: 4 East Thir
ty-sixth Street. Address: 25 Broad Street,
New York City.
FLINT, Homer A Mai:
Rector Christ Church, Montpelier, Ver
mont; was born in Northfield, Vermont,
March 21, 1875. He was graduated from
St. Stephen's College in 1897, receiving M.
A. in 1900, and then took graduate course
in the New York University, receiving the
degree of A.M. in 1900. He was also grad
uated from the General Theological Semi
nary in 1900, receiving the degree of Bach
elor of Divinity in 1901. Received degree
Ph.D. from Western University of Penn
sylvania in 1906. Ordained to Diaconate in
Albany, New York, by Bishop W. C. Doane,
D.D., on May 12, 1900; advanced to priest
hood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Bish
op Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D., on Decem
ber 23 of the same year; assistant in Cal

vary Parish, Pittsburgh, 1900-igoi ; associ
ate rector of Christ Church, Allegheny,
1902-1903; Archdeacon of Pittsburgh and
chaplain of the Laymen's Missionary
League, 1903-1907. Rector Christ Church,
Montpelier, Vermont, October 1, 1907.
Member Franklin Lodge F. & A.M., and
of Pennsylvania Consistory, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. In 1900 he married Theo
dora May, daughter of Judge Plumley, of
Vermont. Address : 8 Baldwin Street,
Montpelier, Vermont.
FLINT, Joseph Marshall:
Surgeon and anatomist; born in Chicago,
July 8, 1872 ; son of Francis Flint and Sarah
Elizabeth (Dancy) Flint. After a prepara
tory education in the public schools and
Lake Forest Academy, he attended Prince
ton University from 1891 to i8g3, and the
University of Chicago from i8g3 to 1895,
receiving the degree of B.S. in 1895; was
at Johns Hopkins Medical School, from
1896 to 1900, receiving the degree of M.D.
in 1900, and the honorary M.A. degree
from Princeton, in 1900. Dr. Flint was an
associate in anatomy at the University of
Chicago in the summer of i8g7, and again
in 1901, and assistant with the Johns Hop
kins Medical Commission to the Philip
pines in 1898; served on special plague
duty with the United States Marine Hos
pital Service in San Francisco in 1900;
was professor of anatomy from 1901 to
igo7 in the University of California, and
since igoo professor of surgery at Yale
University. Dr. Flint traveled in China,
India and the Philippines on the Medical
Commission and studied at Europe during
the year 1896, and again from 1905 to 1907.
He is a member of the Morphologische
Physiologische Gesellschaft of Vienna, Yel
low Fever Institute, the Manila Medical So
ciety, and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity,
the Princeton Club of New York and the
Faculty Club of Berkeley, California. Dr.
Flint married at Hacienda del Pozo de
Verona, California, September 15, 1903,
Anne Drucilla Apperson. Address : Yale
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FLOOD, Henry Delaware:
Congressman ; born in Appomattox Coun
ty, Virginia. He was educated at Washing
ton and Lee University and the University
of Virginia ; is a lawyer ; appointed by Gov
ernor Swanson a member of the Board of
Visitors for the University of Virginia;
served in both branches of the General As
sembly of Virginia; was attorney for the
Commonwealth for Appomattox County,
and was in the Virginia Constitutional Con
vention of 1901-2; was elected to the Fifty-
seventh and Fifty eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress. He is a Republican in politics.
Address: Appomattox, Virginia.
FLOOD, Ned Arden:
Attorney at law; was born in Newmar
ket, New Hampshire, 1870; was graduated
from Johns Hopkins University, 1890; re
ceived degree of Master of Arts from Alle
gheny College, 1898; read law with Hon.
John J. Henderson, judge of Pennsylvania
State Superior Court, and was a law student
in the University of Michigan ; member of
the Pennsylvania bar; assistant editor of
Chautauquan Magazine, 1890-1898; manag
ing editor Chautauqua Assembly Herald,
1889-1898; lecturer on political economy in
Allegheny College, i895-i8g8 ; associate pro
fessor and director of University of Chi
cago Press, 1898-1900; lieutenant-colonel
and aide-de-camp, military staffs of three
governors of Pennsylvania, Governor Will
iam A. Stone, 1898-1903; Governor Samuel
W. Pennypacker, 1903-1907, and reappoint
ed, staff of Governor Edwin A. Stuart,
1907; president, Northwestern Pennsylvania
Association Sons of Veterans, 1900-1902;
president of Western Pennsylvania Alum
ni Association of Johns Hopkins Univers
ity, 1901-1902, and president of Municipal
Board of Water and Lighting Commission
ers, Meadville, 1901-1905; member Board of
Health, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1901 ; on
Board of Trustees of State Hospital for
the Insane, Warren, Pennsylvania, since
1902; Republican campaign orator. Resi
dence : Meadville, Pennsylvania.

FLOBANCE, Ernest Touro:
Lawyer; born at Pass Christian, Miss
issippi, July 30, 1854; son of Benjamin and
Rebecca (Kursheedt) Florance. He was
educated in schools and academies in New
Orleans, and was admitted to the bar at
New Orleans in 1875. He has attained
especial distinction as a commercial lawyer
and was president of the Commercial Law
League of America. Residence; 318
Royal Street. Office address : 320 Saint
Charles Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
FLOBT, Joseph:
Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position Commission; born near Logans-
port, Indiana, June 19, 1856; son of Nathan
and Elizabeth (Cuppy) Flory. He was edu
cated in the common schools of Indiana,
removed to Missouri and went into rail
roading. He was elected State Railroad
Commissioner of Missouri in 1894 and
served six years; was Republican nominee-
for governor of Missouri in 1900, but failed
of election and then became secretary of
the Exposition Commission. Address:
3915A Shenandoah Avenue, Saint Louis,
Missouri.
FLO WEB, Benjamin Orange:
Editor of The Arena; born in Albion,
Illinois, October 19, 1858; son of Rev. Al
fred Flower and Elizabeth (Orange)
Flower; and grandson of George Flower
who founded an English settlement at Al
bion, Illinois, in 1818. He was educated in
the public schools of Evansville, Indiana,
and at Kentucky University ' in Lexington,
Kentucky. He was editor of the American
Sentinel, a social and literary weekly at
Albion, Illinois, from 1878 to 1880. In 1880
he established in Boston, the American
Sentinel, which was merged into The Arena,
which he founded, and of which he was
sole editor from 1889 to 1896; was one
of the editors of The New Time, Chicago,
in 1896 and 1897, and of The Coming Age,
at Boston, from 1897 until March, 1904,
when that magazine was merged in The
Arena, of which he again became, and has
since continued, the editor. Mr. Flower is
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literary and social subjects. He married
at Evansville, Indiana, September 10, 1885,
Hattie Cloud. Residence: Brookline, Mas
sachusetts. Office address : 5 Park Square,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FLOYD, Charles M.:
Governor of New Hampshire. He was
a candidate on the Republican ticket for
governor of New Hampshire in 1906 and
received a plurality over his highest, but
not a plurality of all the votes cast in th;
election. The election therefore went to
the Legislature, which elected him for the
two-year term expiring in January, 1909.
Address : Concord, New Hampshire.
FLOYD, John Charles:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Spar
ta, White County, Tennessee, April 14,
1858; son of John Wesley Floyd and Eliza
Jane (Snodgrass) Floyd; moved with his
parents to Benton County, Arkansas, in
1869, where he worked on a farm and at
tended the common and high schools until
he was eighteen years old; in 1876 entered
the State University, at Fayetteville, Ark
ansas, taking the classical course, from
which institution he graduated in 1879; in
1880 and 1881 taught school; in 1882 read
law and was admitted to the bar ; the same
year he located at Yellville, where he has
since been engaged in the practice of law.
In 1888 was elected representative of Mar
ion County in the State legislature; in 1890
and again in 1892 was elected prosecuting
attorney of the fourteenth circuit, each
time without opposition; was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Third Ar
kansas District. He married in Yellville,
Arkansas, November 24, 1887,- Sarah Vir
ginia Berry. Address : Yellville, Arkan
sas.
FLYNN, Denis T.:
Lawyer; born at Phoenixville, Chester
County, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1862.
His boyhood was spent at Buffalo, New
York, in the schools of which city he was
educated, and in 1880 he removed to
Riverside, Iowa, where he studied law and

was admitted to the bar. He established
there the Riverside Leader, but afterward
removed to Kiowa, Kansas, where he
practiced law and edited the Kiowa Herald,
and was the first postmaster and city at
torney there. He went to Oklahoma in
1889, and was postmaster of Guthrie, Okla
homa, from 1890 to 1893, and delegate in
Congress from Oklahoma jn the Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses. Mr. Flynn is a Re
publican in his political faith. Address :
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
FLYNN, Joseph Michael:
Catholic priest, author; born in Spring
field, Massachusetts, January 7, 1848; son
of Captain Joseph P. Flynn of the Fourth
Regiment of United States Artillery and
Mary (Farrell) Flynn. He was educated at.
Saint Vincent's Academy in New York City,
Saint Charles College, Maryland and Seton
Hall at South Orange, New Jersey, receiv
ing the degrees of A.B. in 1870, A.M. in
1872 and LL. D in 1904. He served as
private and corporal of the Thirty-seventh
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers in
1864. He was ordained priest, June 10,
1874, was bishop's secretary and diocesan
chancellor of Saint Patrick's Pro-Cathed
ral at Newark, N. J., from 1876 to 1881.
He became pastor of Saint Mary's Church
at Morristown, New Jersey, June 15, 1881,
and was appointed its permanent rector
October 24, 1888, dean of Morris and Sussex
Counties, New Jersey, March 14, 1886, and
domestic prelate to Pius X, Septemeber 5,
1904. He is author of several religious
works, and of a History of Catholicity in
New Jersey. Address :• Morristown, New
Jersey. FLYNN, Simon Bichardsou:
Banker; bora in Washington City, March
16, 1863 ; son of Simon and Mary (Rich
ardson) Flynn. He was educated in the
public schools of Washington City and at
Ottawa (Can.) College. He was engaged
in newspaper reporting in Washington City
from 1882 to 1888, when he went in
Tacoma, Washington, as a special agent in
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1889 he was engaged by the Tacoma Ledger
to report the proceedings of the Washing
ton Constitutional Convention, prior to the
admission of that territory to statehood.
He was manager, of the Spokane Chron
icle from 1890 to 1893. In June, 1893,
he was appointed a National Bank
Examiner by the United States Govern
ment, a position which he retained until
December, 1899, when he became president
of the Second National Bank of St. Paul,
Minnesota. In 1992 he resigried to accept
the presidency of the National Live Stock
Bank of Chicago, which he now holds. He
is also president of the Stock Yards Sav
ings Bank, the People's Trust and Savings
Bank, and the West Side Trust and Sav
ings Bank, all located in Chicago. He
married December 29, 1888, at Washing
ton City, Mercine Elizabeth Dickey. Resi
dence : 4514 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois. Office address : Exchange Building,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
FOCHT, Benjamin K. :
Editor and congressman; born at New
Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1863.
His father was of German descent and a
scholar, orator and Lutheran preacher of
note, who died when his son was one year
old. Some of his paternal ancestors served
in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Focht's
maternal grandfather was of English de
scent, and in the early days owned a large
part of what is now Lewisburg, Pennsyl
vania, and operated a number of flouring
mills in the neighborhood. Since child
hood Mr. Focht resided at Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, his present residence. He is
married and has two daughters and a son,
and his home life is ideal. After attending
Bucknell University, Pennsylvania State
College and the Susquehanna University,
Mr. Focht learned the printing and pub
lishing business, and at the age of eighteen
years founded a newspaper which he still
owns. He immediately engaged in politics,
and as a mere boy received his political
tutelege in heated campaigns from the
elder Cameron, his son Donald and M. S.
Quay. He is a talented and forceful news

paper writer, and like his father before
him, is an orator of ability. His career for
twenty-five years in politics and business
has been as distinguished and successful
as it has been stormy. He has been a
recognized Republican leader in Central
Pennsylvania politics for many years. He
served as State delegate, many times a
Congressional Conferee, League Club dele
gate, belongs to a Republican Club in New
York and one in Philadelphia, was three
times a member of the Assembly at Harris-
Durg, served four years in the Pennsylvania
State Senate, is author of one hundred laws
now on the statute books, served on im
portant committees in the House and Sen
ate, has addressed Presidents McKinley
and Roosevelt, as head of special commit
tees, and was chairman of the committee
which had charge of the ceremonies at
tending the inauguration of Governor
Pennypacker. While successfully engaged
in enterprises in Philadelphia: and New
York as a member of the firm of Davis and
Focht, he still retains his ownership of
the newspaper he founded at Lewisburg
when a bny. He was elected in 1906, on
the Republican ticket from the Seventeenth
Pennsylvania District in the Sixtieth Con
gress, in which he is now serving. Ad
dress : Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
FOEBSTEB, Adolph Martin:
Composer, teacher; born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, February 2, 1854; son of
Emil and Elise Marie (NoU) Foerster. He
was educated at the public schools, and
afterward studied music at the Royal Con
servatory of Music, Leipzig, 1872-5. For
merly conductor of the Symphonic Society
(orchestra) and Musical Union (choral).
Numerous works for orchestra (played by
Thomas, Seidl, Damrosch, and others;
Dedication March, written for Carnegie
Music Hall, Pittsburgh, founded upon the
tones A-C, (initials of Andrew Carnegie),
chamber music, church music, piano, organ,
and songs. Louis C. Elson, the eminent
author and critic of Boston, has said: "We
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posers of short songs that America has yet
produced." Address: P. O. Box 883. Pitts
burgh. Studio: Bissell Block, Seventh
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
FOLEY, John Samuel:
Catholic bishop of Detroit ; born at Balt
imore, Maryland, November 5, 1833. He
received his classical education at Saint
Mary's College, Baltimore, and after his
graduation there in 1850, entered upon his
divinity studies at the Saint Mary's Ec
clesiastical Seminary in Baltimore, after
ward completing them at the Roman Sem
inary. He was ordained to the Catholic
priesthood in 1856; was rector of Saint
Bridget's Parish in Baltiriiore, and after
ward for six years at Ellicott City, Mary
land. After that he was assistant pastor
of Saint Peter's, Baltimore. He founded
and became pastor of Saint Martin's, Balt
imore, in which charge he worked faithful
ly until his consecration as bishop, estab
lishing new parochial schools, developing
the Saint Joseph's House of Industry and
the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. In No
vember, 1888, he was consecrated bishop of
Detroit, and has since devoted his energies
to the most successful oversight of that
diocese. Address : Detroit, Michigan.
FOLLANSBEE, George Alanson:
Lawyer; born in Cook County, Illinois
(near Chicago), February 26, 1843; son of
Horatio N. Follansbee and Emmeline
(Sherman) Follansbee. He was graduated
from Lawrence University at Appleton,
Wisconsin, as A.B. in 1865, and from Har
vard Law School as LL.B. in 1867. He
was admitted to the bar March 17, 1867,
and has ever since been engaged in the
practice of law in Chicago. He was for
merly of the firm of Hoyne, Follansbee &
O'Connor, but is now head of the law firm
of Follansbee, McConnell & Follansbee. He
is a member and ex-president of the Amer
ican Law Association ; member of the Illi
nois State Bar Association, and of the Chi
cago Bar Association, the Law Club, Union
League, Harvard and Chicago Literary
Clubs. "Mr. Follansbee married at Apple-
ton, Wisconsin, April 14, 1869, Susan B.

Davis, and they have five children: Mit
chell D. Follansbee, Mrs. Blanche Follans
bee Caldwell, Mrs. Susan Follansbee Hib
bard, Alanson Follansbee, and Eunice D.
Follansbee. Residence: 2342 Indiana Ave
nue, Chicago. Office address : 205 La Salle
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FOLLANSBEE, Mitchell Davis:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, January 23,
1870; son of George Alanson Follansbee
and Susan Dana (Davis) Follansbee. After
a preparatory education in the public
schools he entered Harvard University,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1892, and from Northwestern University
Law School as LL.B. in 1894. Mr. Fol
lansbee has practiced law from, his admis
sion to the bar in June, 1894, and is now
of the firm of Follansbee, McConnell and
Follansbee, of Chicago, and McConnell and
Follansbee of New York. He is editor of
the Illinois Law Review and a professor in
the Northwestern University Law School.
In politics he is a Republican and in reli
gious faith a Unitarian. He is a member
of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illi
nois State Bar Association, the Law Club
of Chicago and the Legal Club of Chicago,
and is a director of Chicago Bureau of
Charities, and the University, Midday,
City, Saddle and Cycle and Harvard Clubs
of Chicago, and the Harvard Club of New
York. Fie married at Seabreeze, Florida,
April 14, 1903, Julia Rogers McConnell, and
they have two children : Eleanor McCon
nell and Mitchell D., Jr. Residence: 52
Bellevue Place, Chicago. Business address :
215 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FOLK, Joseph W. :
Governor of Missouri ; born October 28,
1869, in Brownville, Tennessee. His fa
ther, Henry B. Folk, was a native of North
Carolina, and was one of Tennessee's most
prominent lawyers. Mr. Folk's mother,
Martha Estes Folk, was of Virginia stock.
Mr. Folk .after finishing in the common
schools of his native town, attended Van
derbilt University, where he graduated in
law in 1890. Returning to his home town,
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removed to St. Louis. He practiced in
the civil courts and soon built up a large
and lucrative practice. He took a deep in
terest in public affairs. Always a Demo
crat, he took the stump for the Democratic
ticket in 1896 and again in 1900. In the
summer of 1900 the great street car strike
paralyzed the industries of that city. When
the situation seemed hopeless, Mr. Folk
was appealed to by the strikers, and suc
ceeded in settling the dispute and bring
ing an end to the strike. In October, 1900,
the Democratic managers met to fix up a
ticket. The gold element of the party is
strong in St. Louis, and the committee
settled on a ticket composed largely of gold
Democrats. One of the party leaders pres
ent called their attention to the fact that
the Bryan men were given no recognition,
and insisted that they be given a place on
the ticket by putting Joseph W. Folk on
as Circuit Attorney. The managers saw
the political necessity of this, and acced
ed to it. Mr. Folk did not want the nom
ination nor the office. It meant a financial
sacrifice to him, as he was making more in
his practice than the salary of the office.
He was finally persuaded to accept, how
ever, and was elected by 3,000 majority.
During his term as circuit attorney, he won
national fame by h's prosecution of those
guilty of election frauds, bribery and muni
cipal corruption and against the most vigor
ous opposition, legal and political, brought
about a complete purging of the city gov
ernment. Seven convictions of election
bribers were secured, but set aside on the.
ground that the penal clauses of the law
were unconstitutional. For bribery charges
there were nineteen trials and eighteen con
victions ; among them being Ed. Butler, the
millionaire political boss, and Robert M.
Snyder the banker-capitalist of New
York and Kansas City. Ellis Wain-
wright, another millionaire, is a fugitive
from justice. Then Mr. Folk turned his
attention to State matters. The most as
tounding venality was found to exist there.
Senators were caught chasing $1,000 bills.
Legislation was sold to the highest bidder.
The resignation of Lieutenant-Governor

Lee, and his confession to disgraceful cor
ruption, involving senators and represen
tatives, is still fresh in the public mind.
To accomplish all these things, Mr. Folk
worked incessantly for two years. He
hardly had time to eat, and was com
pelled to give up everything except his
work. Incidentally, he secured a treaty
between the United States and Mexico cov
ering bribery, which is a national boon.
Stirred by his great work for civic right
eousness, the State of Missouri called upon
him to take the office of Governor, to which
he was elected in 1904, receiving fifty thou
sand more votes than other candidates on
his ticket. As Governor he has broken up
the alliance between crooks and the police
departments of the great cities of the State,
closed up every wine-room and gambling
den, enforced a complete reign of law
(such as no other State has ever known),
and has forced through the General As
sembly of the State more good legislation
than had been previously adopted in a
quarter of a century, with the result that
real estate in the State has increased in
value forty per cent and Missouri is en
joying an increase of population at a rate
never known before. Mr. Folk is a
member of the Baptist Church, and at
tends with average regularity. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias and
Masonic lodges. Mr. Folk was married in
1896 to Miss Gertrude Glass, of Browns
ville, Tennessee. Address : Jefferson City,
Missouri.
FOLLETT, Martin Dewey:
Jurist, humanitarian; born at Enosburg,
Vermont, in 1826; son of John Fassett Fol-
lett and Sarah Lemira (Woodworth) Fol-
lett. He removed to Ohio in his youth,
and he was graduated from Marietta Col
lege with the degree of A.B. and Phi Beta
Kappa honors in 1853 ; and he received the
degree of A.M. in 1856. Fie was admitted
to the bar of Ohio in 1859, and engaged in
practice at Marietta. He is a Democrat in
politics and was a member of the Nation
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in 1866 and 1868. In 1883 he was. elected
one of the justices of the Supreme Court
of the State of Ohio, and upon the expira
tion of his term he resumed practice at
Marietta. Judge Follett has been a close
student of penology and charities ; is a
member of the Ohio State, National and
International Prison Associations, the Na
tional Society of Charities and Correction,
and the Ohio State Board of Charities;
and he was a delegate to the International
Prison Congress at Brussels in 1900. Judge
Follett" is also a member of the American
Bar Association, and of the' Society of
Sons of the American Revolution, and a
life member of the Historical and Arch
aeological Society of Ohio. He has been
twice rriarried, first at Marietta, Ohio, in
1856, .to Harriet L. Shipman, and second,
in 1875, to . Abbie M. Bailey, of Lowell,
Massachusetts. Address : Marietta, Ohio.
FOLLETT, William W. :
Civil engineer; born at New Sharon,
Maine, September 22, 1856. He was grad
uated from the University of Michigan
with the degree of civil engineer in 1881,
and engaged in practice. He was consult
ing engineer of the International (water)
Boundary Commission, from 1897 to 1901,
and was again appointed to that position
in February, 1902. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers. He
married, June 13, 1888, Helen Jordan. Ad
dress: El Paso, Texas.
FOLSOM, Benjamin:
Lawyer; born at Folsomdale, New York,
December 5, 1847; son of Benjamin R.
Eolsom and Mary (Rathbone) Folsom.
He was educated at the Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary and at the University of Roches
ter, from which he was graduated as A.B.
in 1871, and as A.M. in 1888. He was
engaged in newspaper work from 1871 to
1873;- was admitted to the New York bar
in 1875, and practiced until appointed, in
1886, United States consul at Sheffield,
England, in which office he remained until
1893. He then engaged in the practice of
law in Buffalo, but a few years ago re
moved to California. He is a member of

the Society of Sons of the American Revo
lution, of the California Club of Los An
geles, and the Country and Twilight Clubs
of Pasadena. He married at Muskegon,
Michigan, October n, 1893, Ella Blanch
ard Howard. Address : Pasadena, Cali
fornia.
FOLSOM, Charles FoUen:
Physician; born at Haverhill, Massachu
setts, April 3, 1842; son of Nathaniel Fol
som and Ann Wendell (Penhallow) Fol
som. He was graduated from Harvard
College as A.B. in 1862, then became con
nected with the educational commission for
Freedmen in the South until 1865 ; in which
year he returned to Massachusetts. He was
graduated from Harvard Medical School
as M.D. in 1870, and has since been in prac
tice in Boston, taking post-graduate work
at Vienna and Berlin in 1873 and 1874, and
at Munich in 1879. He was a lecturer on
hygiene from 1877 to 1882, and a lecturer
and assistant professor of mental diseases
from 1879 to 1888 in Harvard Medical
School. Address : 15 Marlboro Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FOLWELL, Amory Prescott:
Editor; born in Rondout, New York,
January 15, 1865; son of George W. Fol-
well and Mary (Prescott )Folwell. He
was graduated from Brown University as
A.B. in .1885; attended Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology from 1885 to 1887,
and received the honorary degree of ScD.
from Lafayette College in 1907. He has
been practicing civil and sanitary engineer
since 1887; professor of municipal engi
neering, Lafayette College, from 1897 to
1906; editor of the Municipal Journal and
Engineer, New York, in 1907. He de
signed several dozen of sewerage and
water supply systems. He is author of:
Sewerage (John Wiley & Sons) ; Water
Supply Engineering (John Wiley & Sons)-;
and also numerous technical articles and
papers. He traveled in Western Europe,
West Indies, Mexico and extensively in the
United States. In politics he is an Inde
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ments ; member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, American Water Works
Association, and New England Water
Works Association ; director of the Mont
clair Civic Association and Beta Theta Pi,
and member of the Technical and Brown
University Clubs of New York. Mr. Fol-
well married at Glens Falls, New York,
1894, Helen P. Peck, and they have two
children : Helen Mary, bora in 1900, and
Ada Prescott, born in 1905. Residence:
174 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey.
Address: 512 Flatiron Building, New York
City.
FOLWELL, Arthur H.:
Editor ; born in Brooklyn, November 22,
1877 ; son of Arthur Folwell and Agnes H.
(Cahoon) Folwell. He was educated in
the Brooklyn public schools and at the
Boys' High School of Brooklyn. Mr. Fol
well was for seven years on the staff of
the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in various capaci
ties, until June, 1902; was literary editor
from 1902 to 1905, and since 1905, has been
editor of Puck. He married in Brooklyn,
June 12, 1901, Edna M. Neal. Residence :
427 Macon Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Office address : Puck Building, New York
City.
FOLWELL, William Watts:
Professor of political science; born in
Romulus, New York, February 14, 1833;
son of Thomas Jefferson Folwell and
Joanna (Bainbridge) Folwell. He was edu
cated in common schools and Ovid
(New York) Academy; and was gradu
ated from Hobart College as B.A., M.A.,
later LL.D., and the University of Berlin.
He was president of the University of Min
nesota from 1869 to 1884 and professor of
political science from 1869 until 1907,
when he became professor emeritus,
and accepted the retiring allowance
from the Carnegie foundation. He was
first lieutenant of the Fiftieth New
York Engineers, captain and brevet major
of the same, major and brevet lieuten
ant colonel, 1862 to 1865 ; member of
the Minneapolis Park Board for eighteen

years and president six years ; and has been
member and chairman of the Minnesota
Board of Charities and Correction for seven
years. In politics he is a Republican and
in religion an Episcopalian. He is author
of numerous addresses, lectures, etc., and
of a yet unpublished history of Minnesota.
He is a member of the Minnesota Histori
cal Society, American Economical Associa
tion, American Academy of Social and
Political Science, Minnesota Society of Fine
Arts (was its president twelve years), trus
tee St. Barnabas Hospital, Minneapolis. His
favorite recreations are gardening and
wood-working. Professor Folwell married
in Buffalo, New York, March 13, 1863,
Sarah Hubbard Heywood, and they have
three children : Mary Heywood, born in
1864, Russell Heywood, born in 1871, and
William Bainbridge, born in 1878. Address :
1020 Fifth Street, Southeast, Minneapolis.
Minnesota.
FONTAINE, William Morris:
Professor of geology and natural his
tory in the University of Virginia; born
in Louisa County, Virginia, December 1,
1835 ; son of James Fontaine and Juliet
(Morris) Fontaine. He was prepared by
a private tutor and at the Hanover Acad
emy until 1855, then went to the Uni
versity of Virginia, from which he received
the A.M. degree in 1859. He served as
second lieutenant of artillery in the Army
of the Confederate States until 1862, then
as first lieutenant of ordnance until April
9, 1865. He attended the School of Mines
at Freiberg, Saxony, in 1869 and 1870,
then was professor of chemistry and geol
ogy at the University of West Virginia
until taking his present chair at the Uni
versity of Virginia. He is a fellow of the
Geological Society of America and a mem
ber of the Hugenot Society of America.
He is the author in part of Resources of
West Virginia and of Report on the Pei-
nian Flora of Southwest Pennsylvania and
West Virginia; also the author of Mono
graphs VI and XV of the United States
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also of various papers on fossil botany,
published in the Monographs and annual
reports of the Survey; also the author of
various papers on Geology and Mineral
ogy, published in the American Journal of
Science. He is a Democrat. Address : Uni
versity Station, Charlottesville, Virginia.
FOOTE, Lucius Harwood:
Lawyer, author and diplomat; born at
Winfield, New York, April 10, 1826; son of
Rev. Lucius Foote and Electa (Harwood)
Foote. He was educated at Knox College,
Galesburg, Illinois, and at Western Reserve
University, crossed the plains to California
in 1853, was admitted to the bar in 1856,
and was municipal judge of the city of
Sacramento from 1856 to i860. He was
collector of the port of Sacramento from
1861 to 1865, adjutant-general of California
1872 to 1876, consul to Valparaiso, Chile,
from 1876 to 1880, charge d' affaires of
Chile in 1880 and on a special diplomatic
mission in South America in 1880; he was
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Korea
from 1880 to 1883, and distinguished him
self in the protection of Japanese and other
foreigners in the Nationalist revolt at Seoul
in 1883, receiving the thanks of the
Emperor of Japan and the freedom of the
City of Tokio, the thanks of the Emperor
of China, and an autograph letter of thanks
from the Emperor of Korea. He resigned
in 1883 and returned to California, and
since 1890 has been secretary and treasurer
of the academy of science of San Francisco.
He is a Republican in politics and was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention of 1876. He is the author of Red
Letter Day and Other Poems and of On
the He;ghts. He married at Sacramento,
California, in 1862, Rose Frost Carter, who
died in 1885. Address: Bohemian Club,
San Francisco, California.
FOOTE, Nathaniel:
Justice of the Supreme Court of New
York; born in Morrisville, New York, No
vember 15, i84g; son of Nathaniel Foote
and Olivia M. (Knox) Foote. After a

preparatory education in the Morrisville
Union School, and Cazenovia Seminary, he
entered Hamilton College in the class of
1870, and he received the B.A., M.A., and
LL.D. degrees from that institution. Mr.
Foote practiced law at Morrisville, New
York, until 1873; then removed to Roches
ter and continued the practice of law there
until his appointment as justice of the Su
preme Court by Governor Higgins on Jan
uary 2, 1905; and in November, 1906, he
was elected for the full term of fourteen
years, beginning January I, 1906. Judge
Foote was a delegate to the New York
State Constitutional Convention of 1894,
and was chairman of its Committee on Re
vision and Engrossment. He was the first
president of the Rochester Bar Association
on its organization in 1892, and is now a
member of the New York State Bar Asso
ciation, the Rochester Bar Association,
Rochester Historical Society, American So
ciety of International Law, National Geo
graphic Society, and the American Institute
of Civics. In politics he is a Republican,
and in religious adherence an Episcopalian.
Judge Foote is a member of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Genesee Val
ley Club, Country Club, and Church Club
of Rochester. He married in Rochester,
New York, January 10, 1872, Charlotte A.
Campbell; and they have five children:
Nathaniel F. Foote, Franc Estelle Foote,
Louise Knox Foote Jessup, Charlotte Camp
bell Foote Chase, Olivia Jeannette Foote.
Residence : 245 Culver Road, Rochester.
FOOTE, Theodore Clinton:
Clergyman and author; born at Dobbs
Ferry on the Hudson, New York ; educated
at Racine College, Wisconsin, from which
he received the degree of M.A. in 1884 and
at the General Theological Seminary. New
York City, where he was graduated as
S.T.B. in 1887. He was ordered deacon in
1884 by Bishop McLaren of Chicago, and
ordained priest in 1885 by Bishop Quintard
of Tennessee, in the ministry of the Epis
copal Church. He was master at Racine
College in 1884; master, precentor and
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1889; priest in charge at Willoughby,
Ohio, 1890; rector of St. James, Cleveland,
Ohio, 1890; Holy Cross Church, Baltimore,
1898 ; now of St. David's, Roland Park,
Baltimore. He was Raynor fellow of Johns
Hopkins University in 1902 and 1903; re
ceived Ph.D. in Oriental languages from
Johns Hopkins, 1902; instructor in Bib
lical literature in that institution from 1903.
He is a member of the American Oriental
Society, the Society of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis and Die Verderasiatische Ge
sellschaft. He is author of: Hymns for
Use in Racine College, 1884; Catechism
Hymns, 1897 ; Outline of English Grammar,
1886; The Ephod, 1902; The Cherubim and
the Ark, 1904; the Metrical Form of the
Songs of Degrees, 1906 ; Visiting Sins Upon
the Innocent, 1907. Address: Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
FOBAKEB, Joseph Benson:
United States Senator; was born July
5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro,
Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14,
1862, as a private in Company A, Eighty-
ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
with which organization he served until
the close of the war, at which time he
held the rank of first lieutenant "and brevet
captain; was graduated from Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, New York, July 1, 1869;
was admitted to the bar and entered upon
the practice of law at Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 14, 1869; was elected judge of the
superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879;
resigned on account of ill health May I,
1882; was the Republican candidate for
governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeat
ed ; was elected to that office in 1885, and
reelected in 1887; was again nominated for
governor and defeated in 1889; was chair
man of the Republican State conventions
of Ohio for 1886, 1890, 1896, and 1900, and
a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the na
tional Republican conventions of 1884, 1888,
1892, 1896, 1900, and 1904; was chairman
of the Ohio delegation in the conventions
of 1884 and 1888, and presented to both
of these conventions the name of Hon.
John Sherman for nomination for the

Presidency.; in the conventions of 1892 and
1896 served as chairman of the committee
on resolutions, and as such reported the
platform each time to the convention; pre
sented the name of William McKinley to
the conventions of i8g6 and 1900 for nom
ination to the Presidency; was elected
United States Senator January 15, 1896,
to succeed Calvin S. Brice, for the term
beginning March 4, 1897; elected January
15, 1902, to succeed himself. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1909. Ad
dress : Cincinnati, Ohio.
FOBBES, Allan:
Capitalist; born in Boston, MassachuT
setts, November 20, 1874; son of John Mur
ray and Alice (Bowditch) Forbes; grand
son of John Murray Forbes (1813-
1898), a Boston merchant engaged in the
East India trade,, and a* descendant of
James Forbes, who immigrated to Hart
ford Colony from Culloden, Scotland. He
was graduated at Harvard, 1897, and be
came a banker by inheritance, subsequently
being made vice-president and actuary of
the State Street Trust Company; treasurer
of the Riverbank Improvement Company;
trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, of
Boston; treasurer of the Bankers' Electric
Protective Company of New England; di
rector of the Blue Hill Street Railway
Company; secretary of the Hotel Somer
set Company, and trustee of the Boston
Floating Hospital. His club memberships
comprise the Somerset, Boston Tennis and
Racquet, Delta Phi and the Dedham Polo
Club. Residence: Milton, Massachusetts.
Office address: State Street Trust Com
pany, Boston, Massachusetts.
FOBBES, Allen Boyd:
Banker; born in Cleveland, Ohio; son
of Alexander and Catherine C. (Boyd)
Forbes. Was educated at Northwestern
University and at Yale Law School. Is
managing partner of the New York bank
ing house of N. W. Harris & Company:
member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, Ohio Society, Illinois Society.
Is a member of the Metropolitan, City,
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Golf Clubs, and Union League Club of
Chicago. Mr. Forbes married in Chicago,
Illinois, September 25, i8gg, Laura Hatly,
and they have two children : Craig George
born in 1905, and Allen Boyd, Jr., born in
1906. Residence : 22 West Seventy-sixth
Street. Address : Pine and William
Streets, rvew York City.
FOBBES, Elmer Severance:
Clergyman; born at Westboro, Massa
chusetts, September 12, i860; son of
Baxter Forbes and Caroline H. (Sever
ance) Forbes. He was graduated from
Westboro High School, Amherst Col
lege in class of 1881, with the degree of
B.S. He was ordained to the diaconate
in 1890 and to the priesthood in 1891 by
Bishop Thomas A. Starkey. Was minis
ter in charge and rector of St. Mary's
Church, Haledon, New Jersey, from Oc
tober 1, 1890 to September 30, 1893. He
became assistant minister of St. Johnes
Church, Jersey City, New Jersey, on Oc
tober 1, 1893; vicar of same in 1897; rec
tor of same in 1906. He is an* Episcopalian
in his religious connections, and a mem
ber of the New York Historical Society,
Newark Clericus; president of Christ Hos
pital, Jersey City, director of Organized
Aid Association, Jersey City; member of
the New York Amherst Alumni Association,
New York Society of the Sons of the Rev
olution, New York Society Order of Found
ers arid Patriots of America; and is also
a member of the National Arts Club of
New York City, University Club of Jer
sey City, and North Hatley Golf Club of
North Hatley, Quebec, Canada. He mar
ried in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 3,
1890, Sallie Latou Flemming, and they have
one daughter, Alice Caroline, and a. son,
Robert Latou Flemming. Address: 29
Clifton Place, Jersey City, New Jersey.
FOBBES, Jesse Franklin:
Clergyman; born at Hartford, Connecti
cut, December 19, 1847; son of Franklin
J. and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Forbes. He
was graduated from Amherst College, as
B.A. in 1874, A.M., 1884; Union Theo
logical Seminary of New York City in

1877, ..(Ph.D., New York University, 1894,
D.D., Bellevue College, Nebraska, 1906).
Was ordained pastor of the First Congre
gational Church, Warren, Massachusetts,
May 1, 1878; installed pastor of Adams
Memorial Presbyterian Church, New York
City, March 7, 1886 ; has traveled in every
State in the Union and throughout Canada ; -
taught school in Hartford and other parts
of Connecticut, from 1864 to 1869; in Wil
liston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachu
setts, for short time, in 1876; chairman of
school committee, Warren, Massachusetts;
rnoderator of New York Presbytery three
terms; chairman of the Presbytery's Com
mittee on Licensure and committee of Am
erican Tract Society -of New York Presby
tery; member and director of Church Ex
tension Committee of New York Presby
tery ; also a member of Moderators' Council
of New York Presbytery from igo7 to 1909.
He is author of many book reviews and
miscellaneous articles for press ; member
of Phi Beta Kappa, New York City, Psi
Upsilon fraternity, Amherst College Asso
ciation, and the Union Theological Semi
nary, Indoor Tennis, and Presbyterian Min
isters' Clubs. He married at Cromwell,
Connecticut, September 20, 1877, Jennie
Crane Savage, and they have three chil
dren : Charles Savage, born July 8, 1878,
Louise Holt, born July 6, 1885, and Howard
Carpenter, born July 7, 1886. Address:
207-215 East Thirtieth Street, New York
City.FOBBES, Bobert Hunphrey:
Agricultural chemist; born at Cobden,
Union County, Illinois, May 15, 1867; son
of Henry Clinton Forbes and Laura Jane
(Gorham) Forbes. He graduated from
the Princeton (Illinois) High School, in
1888, and from the University of Illinois
as B.S. in 1892 and M.S. in 1897; taking
special research work 1893-94 at Harvard.
He was instructor at the University of
Illinois from 1891 to 1893, and in 1894
became professor of chemistry in the Uni
versity of Arizona and chemist of the
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station
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of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment
Station. He married at Tucson, Arizona,
January 16, 1902, Georgie Hazel Scott. Ad
dress: Tucson, Arizona.
FOBBES, William Cameron:
Secretary of commerce and police of the
Philippine Islands; born at Milton, Mass
achusetts, May 21, 1870; son of William
Hathaway and Edith (Emerson) Forbes.
He was graduated from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1892, then engaged in business and
since i8gg has been a member of the firm
of J. N. Forbes and Co., he was also con
nected as officer and director in several
banks in Boston until 1904, when he was
appointed a member of the Philippine com
mission and secretary of commerce and
police. He is a member of the Union, Saint
Botolph and Tavern Clubs, of Boston, the
University Club of New York City, and
the University Club of Manila. Address:
Manila, Philippine Islands.
FOBBCSH, Edward Howe:
Zoologist; born in Quincy, Massachus
etts, April 24, 1858; son of L. P. Forbush
and R. H. Forbush. He has been ornitholo
gist of the Massachusetts State Board of
Agriculture since 1893, and was associated
with Professor Charles Henry Fernald in
the Gypsy Moth investigation of the State
of Massachusetts, and collaborated with
him on The Gypsy Moth, published in 1896.
Author of Useful Birds and Their Protec
tion, igo7, and many papers on economic
ornithology and entomology. Address :
Wareham, Massachusetts.
FOBCE, William H.:
Merchant; born in Brooklyn, May 11,
1852; son of William Force and Sophia
(Emmons) Force. He was educated at
the Dutchess County Academy, Pough
keepsie, New York. His present business
(shipping and forwarding), he established
in 1873; he is senior member of the firm
of William H. Force and Co.; director,
Rapid Transit Railroad Company; mem
ber, New York Chamber of Commerce;
member, New York Board of Trade; and
also a member of the Coffee Exchange.

He belongs to the following clubs : Down
Town, New York Yacht, Robbin's Island
Gun (secretary and treasurer), Hamilton,
and Crescent (Brooklyn). His chief rec
reations are yachting, driving, and gun
ning. He married Katherine Arvilla Tal-
madge ; they have two daughters : Kath
erine Emmons, aged 16, and Madeleine
Talmadge, aged 15. Address: 78 Front
Street, New York City.
FOBCHHEIMEB, Frederick:
Physician; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
September 25, 1853; son of M. S. and
Fanny Forchheimer. He was prepared at
Woodward High School and then went to
the Universities of Strassburg and Wiirz
burg, and afterward was at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New York,
graduating as M.D. in 1873. He has prac
tised medicine in Cincinnati since 1875, and
is professor of medicine in the Medical
College of Ohio, medical department of
the University of Cincinnati. Residence:
2428 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati. Office
address : The Ortiz, Fourth and Sycamore
Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
FOBD, Arthur Younger:
Journalist; born at Parkville, Missouri,
November 11, 1861; son of Salem H. Ford
and Sallie (Beauchamp) Ford. He re
moved in early boyhood to Owensboro,
Kentucky. He was prepared for the Uni
versity at Centre College, Kentucky, thence
going to Brown University at Providence,
Rhode Island, whence he was graduated as
A.B. in 1884. He began his newspaper ca
reer as editor of the Owensboro Inquirer,
at Owensboro, Kentucky, from 1884 to
1889. In 1890 he became a member of the
staff of the Louisville Courier- Journal, of
which he was State editor from 1890 to
1892, editorial writer from 1892 to 1894,
and since then managing editor of the
paper, which under his supervision, has
maintained and increased its lead in
Southern journalism. He rendered valu
able services as president of the Ken
tucky Exhibit Association in 1904 and
1905, and was chairman of the Kentucky
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ase Exposition in Saint Louis in 1904. Mr.
Ford is a Democrat in politics and a
Baptist in his religious affiliations, is a
trustee of the Georgetown College, Ken
tucky, and a member of the Board of
Trustees of various charitable organiza
tions. He is a member of the Filson,
Louisville Commercial and Tavern Clubs.
He married at Cloverport, Kentucky, Janu
ary 3, 1887, Esther Brown. Residence :
2123 Floyd Street, Louisville. Office ad
dress. Louisville Courier-Journal, Louis
ville, Kentucky.
FOBD, Elias Allen:
Railway official; born at Burton, Geauga
County, Ohio, April 15, 1840; son of John
A. and Eliza Ford. He was educated in
the common schools and at the Western
Reserve Eclectic Institution at Hiram, Ohio.
He taught school until August, 1861, when
he entered the Forty-first Ohio Infantry
regiment as a private, became first lieutenant
arid having been shot through the right
lung at the battle of Stone River, Tenn
essee, December 31, 1862, he was honorably
discharged on account of wounds in May,
1863. He then entered railway service . as
clerk, and later became ticket clerk, passen
ger agent, general passenger agent and then
took his present position as passenger
traffic manager of the Pennsylvania and
Vandalia lines. Address : Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania. FOBD, Henry Jones:
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August '25,
1851 ; son of Franklin Ford arid Annie
Elizabeth (Jones) Ford. He was graduated
from Baltimore City College as A.B. in
1868, and has since then been engaged in
newspaper work. He became editorial
writer of the Baltimore American in 1872,
was later city editor of the Baltimore Sun,
managing editor of the Baltimore Ameri
can, editorial writer of the New York Sun,
managing editor of the Pittsburgh Com
mercial Gazette, managing editor of the
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, editor
of the Pittsburgh Gazette, and since
1905 a member* of the editorial staff of the
Baltimore News; also lecturer on political

science at the Johns Hopkins University.
Author of : The Rise and Growth of Amer
ican Politics, and various monographs on
subjects pertaining to political science. Ad
dress : Mt. Royal Terrace, Baltimore, Mary
land.
FOBD, John:
Lawyer; bora at Knowlesville, Orleans
County, New York, 1862; son of Michael
and Sarah (O'Malley) Ford. He was
graduated from Cornell University as A.B.
in 1890. He was a member of the State
Senate, from 1896 to 1900 ; active in muni
cipal - affairs ; candidate for comptroller,
City of New York, on Hearst ticket, 1905.
He was elected justice of the Supreme
Court, State of New York, First Judicial
District, on Democratic and Independence
League ticket, 1906. He is a Republican in
politics; member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, Friendly . Sons of St. Patrick,
Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum, Fellow
ship of Solidarity. His favorite recrea
tions are rifle shooting and hunting. He
is also a member of the Republican, Cor
nell University, and Dalcassion Clubs. He
married in New York City, in 1891, Lulu
Fairchild Van Aken, and they have two
daughters f Esther, born in 1893, and Edith,
born in 1895. Address : County Court
House, New York City.
FOBD, John Donaldson:
Rear- Admiral of the United States Navy;
born in Maryland; son of Thomas C. and
Isabella (Logie) Ford. He was educated
in public schools, of Baltimore, Maryland;
graduated from the Maryland Institute
School of Design, June, 1861, receiving the
Peabody prize; graduated from Potts
School of Mechanical Engineering, June,
1862; entered the United States Navy as
third assistant engineer, July 30, 1862; pro
moted second assistant engineer, February
13, 1864; first assistant engineer, June 6,
1868; passed assistant engineer, February
24, 1874; chief engineer, December 27/1890.
During the Civil War, took part in the re
capture of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March
1863, battles of Mobile Bay, 1864; was on
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Point, Mississippi River, February 27, 1865.
Was wrecked, in the Sacramento, on Cora-
mandel coast of India, June, 1867; served
on many expeditions and stations; detach
ed and ordered to start Baltimore Manual
Training School March 13, 1884 ; at Mary
land Agricultural and Mechanical College,
from 1894 to 1896; on United States
Steamship Brooklyn, from 1896 to 1898;
Baltimore (flagship), January 25, 1898;
and fleet engineer, Pacific Station; joined
Asiatic Fleet; took part in actions of April
30, May. 1, and August 13; the destruction
of the Spanish fleet off Cavite ; the destruc
tion of the batteries at Cavite and at Sang-
ley Point, and the capture of the forts at
Corregidor and the capture of Manila;
commissioned commander, March 3, 1899,
and later advanced in that grade for emin
ent and conspicuous conduct in battle; pro
moted captain, March 5, 1902; rear-admir
al and placed on retired list, May 19, 1902,
but continued on duty as inspector of
machinery and ordnance at Baltimore, and
Sparrow's" Point, Maryland. He is author
of several pamphlets on Manual Training,
An American Cruiser in the East, 1900;
and many professional papers. Address :
Baltimore, Maryland. *
FOBD, John Sherlock:
Manufacturer; born in Burton, Geauga
County, Ohio, September 16, 1831 ; son of
Stephen and Eunice Ford. He was gradu
ated from Burton Academy at the age of
sixteen, and began his business career at
once as a clerk in the mercantile establish
ment of D. T. Woodbury & Company at
Columbus, Ohio. He remained with this
firm until 1856, when he became a member
of the firm of Brotherlin, Halm & Company,
furniture manufacturers. Upon the dis
solution of the latter firm, in -1893, he
organized the firm of Ford, Stage & Com
pany, which continued until the death of
Mr. Stage in 1865, when he purchased the
interest of his late partner, and continued
the business on his own account. He later
organized the business as a stock company,
to which he turned over all branches of the
factory except the chair department, which
he continued to conduct alone. In 1867 he

formed a partnership with H. W. Johnson,
under the style of Ford & Johnson, and the
following year the firm moved to Michigan
City, where they established an extensive
factory, as Ford, Johnson & Company. In
1872 the Chicago house of J. S. Ford,
Johnson & Company, manufacturers of and
dealers in chairs and settees, was estab
lished. The business thus continued until
June, 1900, when the Michigan City fac
tories and the Chicago business were com
bined in a corporation under the style of J.
S. Ford, Johnson & Co., of which Mr. Ford
is now the president. He is also president
of the Western Cane Seating Company, of
Michigan City, the National Chair Manu
facturer's Association, and' of the Chicago
Furniture Manufacturer's Association.' He
assisted in the organization and was presi
dent for many years of the Western Chair
Association. He is a Republican, and a
member of the Presbyterian denomination.
He was for fifteen years a director of the
Chicago Relief and Aid Society, and is a
member of the Order of Odd Fellows. He
was married in 1856 to Sarah M. Starrett,
of Columbus, Ohio, and he has two chil
dren: Alice M. and Reuben A. Residence:
3906 Lake Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Sixteenth Street and Indiana Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
FOBD, Peter J.:
Manufacturer and financier ; born in Wil
mington, Delaware, in 1857; son of Peter
Ford and Mary (O'Connor) Ford. He
was educated in the public schools, then
learned the carriage-making trade, but af
terward became associated with his broth
er, Thomas Ford, as a contractor and
builder. He later became a manufacturer
of morocco leather, building up one of the
largest enterprises of its kind in this coun
try. He sold out that business in 1898, and
became president of the Economic Insur
ance Company of America, which office he
still holds. He is also vice-president of the
Wilmington City Electric Company; treas
urer of the New Castle and Delaware City
Railway Company and t]?e Wilmington
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the Delaware Fire Isurance Company. Mr.
Ford was the Democratic candidate for
governor of Delaware in igoo, but failed of
election. Address Ford Building, Wilming
ton, Delaware.
FOBD, Simeon:
Proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel.
He has been engaged in hotel business
from youth, and he is also a well known
after-dinner speaker. Mr. Ford is presi
dent of the Hotel Red Book and Directory
Company; director of the Columbia Bank;
trustee of the American Safe Deposit Com
pany;, director of the Manhattan Life In
surance Company, Rye Land and Improve
ment Company, and Fireproof Elevator
Hatchway Company, and treasurer of the
United Agency Company, and the General
Electric Inspection Company. Address :
Grand Union Hotel, New York City.
FOBD, Worthington Chauncey:
Chief Department of Manuscripts,
Library of Congress, Washington, District
of Columbia; born Brooklyn, New York,
February 16, 1858; son of Gordon Lester
and Emily (Ellsworth) Ford. Historian
and economist; chief Bureau of Statistics,
United States Department of State, 1885 to
1889, and of United States Treasury De
partment, 1893 to 1898; connected with
Boston Public Library, 1898 to 1902;
Library of Congress, Washington, . District
of Columbia, since 1902. He is author
of: Life of George Washington; American
Citizen's Manual. Editor of: Writings
of George Washington, and many historical
works. Clubs: Century, Grolier (New
York City) ; Metropolitan, Chevy Chase
(Washington). Married Elizabeth Fill
more Quin, of Washington, District of Co
lumbia. Address : Chevy Chase, Maryland.
FORDHAM, Herbert Latham:
Lawyer; born in Greenport, Suffolk
County, New York, November 23, 1869;
son of Thomas D. Fordham and Lydia M.
(Latham) Fordham. He is a descendant
of Rev. Robert Fordham, who was gradu
ated from Caius College, Cambridge
as A.B. in ' 1625 and A.M. in 1629;

was principal in the purchase of Hemp
stead from the Indians, November 13, 1643 ;
and one of the Patentees named in the
Dutch patent for that town; first minister
of Flempstead from 1643 to 1647; and sec
ond minister of Southampton from 1647
to 1674. Mr. Fordham was graduated from
Greenport Union School in 1887; and at
tended Cornell University, whence he was
graduated as Ph.B. in 1894 and LL.B. in
1895. While at Cornell he won several
honors as a debater; was debater in con
tests with the University of Pennsylvania;
was editor of the Cornell Magazine one
year, and received Phi Beta Kappa honors.
He was admitted to the bar of New York
in 1895; was clerk in a law office in New
York City from 1895 to 1896; began prac
tice in New York City in 1896; and at
Oyster Bay (branch office) in 1897. He
succeeded Hon. B. H. Reeve (deceased)
in the firm of Reeve and Bartlett, in 1902
(firm makes specialty of examining titles
to Long Island real property and of real es
tate brokerage) ; was attorney for the suc
cessful defendants in Town of Southold
against Parks and others, the decision in
which established the title of the State to
the bottoms of all the bays from Riverhead
to Montauk. In politics he is a Republican,
and takes active part as a public speaker
in the campaigns of the party. Mr. Ford
ham is a member of the New York State
and City Bar Associations ; the American
Bar Association; the Sons of the Revo
lution; Suffolk County Historical So
ciety; Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associa
tion; the Delta Chi fraternity, and the
Cornell University and Brooklyn Clubs. He
married in New York City, June 21, 1900,
Inez G. Robbins. Residence : Greenport,
Suffolk County. Office address : 49 Wall
Street, New York City.
FOBDNEY, Joseph Warren:
Congressman and lumberman; was born
in Blackford County, Indiana, November
5, 1853 ; received a common school
education, living with his parents on
a farm until sixteen years of age;
came to Saginaw in June, 1869; began life
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ing pine timber, thus acquiring a thorough
knowledge of the pine land and lumber
industry, which has occupied his attention
since; is also interested in an artificial-ice
plant at Hartford City, Indiana; was vice-
president of the Saginaw Board of Trade;
was elected alderman in 1895 and reelected
in 1897; was elected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and. again in 1906 to the Six
tieth Congress from the Eighth Michigan
District. Address : Saginaw W. S., Michi
gan.FOBDYCE, John Addison:
Physician; born Guernsey, Ohio, Febru
ary 16, 1858; son of John and Mary A.
(Housman) Fordyce; graduated Adrian
(Michigan) College, A.B., 1878, Ph.D.,
1901 ; Chicago Medical College, M.D., 1881 ;
University of Berlin, M.D., 1888. Practic
ed medicine, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1883-
86; studied in Vienna, Berlin and Paris,
1886-88; practiced in New York City since
1888. Member American Dermatological
Association, New York Academy of Medi
cine, American Medical Association, New
York Dermatological Society, American
Academy of Medicine, New York, State
Medical Association of New York, State
Medical Society; New York Academy of
Sciences; American Museum of Natural
History; professor of dermatology and
syphilology, Medical Department New
York University; visiting dermatologist to
the City Hospital, etc. Editor Journal
of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases,
1888-96; contributor to Morrow's System
of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilology
and Dermatology, 3 volumes, 1893; Parkes'
Surgery by American Authors, 1896;
Bangs'-Hardaway's American Text-Book of
Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilology and
Diseases of the Skin ; Wood's Reference
Handbook of the Medical Sciences, and to
Keen's Surgery; author of numerous mon
ographs on subjects pertaining to special
ties in medicine. Married, New York
City, 1886, Alice Dean Smith; children:
Emma Dean (19), Addison (11). Club:
University. Address : 80 West Fortieth
Street, New York City.

FOBEST, John Anthony:
Catholic bishop of San Antonio; born at
Saint Martin's, Saint Germain, France, De
cember 25, 1838. He was educated for the
priesthood and advanced to the diaconate
in France, emigrated to the diocese of
Galveston in 1863 and was advanced to the
priesthood, and was stationed at Saint
Mary's Settlement in Lavaca County,
Texas, and later was pastor of the Sacred
Heart Parish at Hallettsville, Texas, con
tinuing until his consecration by Arch
bishop Janssens of New Orleans, as bishop
of San Antonio, October 28, 1895. Address :
San Antonio, Texas.
FOBGAN, James Berwick:
President of the First National Bank of
Chicago, Illinois; born in St. Andrews,
Scotland, April 11, 1852; son of Robert
Forgan and Elizabeth (Berwick) Forgan.
He was educated in the Madras College,
St. Andrews, and Forres Academy, For
res, Scotland. At the age of seventeen,
after having spent a short time in a law
yer's office, he entered the employ of the
Royal Bank of Scotland at its St. Andrews'
branch; after three years apprenticeship
in the Royal Bank, he secured a position
with the Bank of British North America
in London and was sent by that institu
tion to Montreal, Canada; after filling va
rious clerical positions in its Montreal,
New York, and Halifax offices, he joined
the service of the Bank of Nova Scotia as
paying teller, at the last-named city. Later
he became agent of the bank at Liverpool,
Nova Scotia, and again at Woodstock, New
Brunswick, and subsequently was promoted
to the position of inspector of branches.
In 1885 he established and took charge of
a branch of that bank in Minneapolis, Min
nesota ; and three years later, on the invi
tation of the directors of the Northwestern
National Bank, of Minneapolis, he accept
ed the cashiership of that institution. In
1892 at the request of Mr. Lyman J. Gage,
president of the First National Bank of
Chicago, he was elected vice-president of
that bank, and on January 9, 1900, he suc
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Savings Bank, and of the National Safe
Deposit Company; chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Security Bank of Chi
cago; director of the Standard Safe De
posit Company; the American Radiator
Company; Chicago Title and Trust Com
pany; Metropolitan West Side Elevated
Company; Guarantee Company of North
America; Fidelity & Deposit Company of
Maryland; and the Equitable Life Assur
ance Society of the United States; and is
a member of the Western Board of Con
trol of the Audit Company of New York.
He is a member of the Fourth Presbyter
ian Church of Chicago, and a director of
the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. His
favorite recreation is golf. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago Golf, Chicago, Union
League, Midday, Union, Saddle and Cycle
Clubs of Chicago ; and of . the Ex-
moor Country Club of Highland Park, Il
linois. Mr. Forgan married in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, October 19, 1875, Mary Ellen
Murray, and they have four children:
Robert D., Mrs. Jessie Wilhelmina Ott,
Donald M., and James B., Jr. Residence:
541 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress: First National Bank, Chicago.
Illinois. FOBMAN, Allan: . -
Editor of the Journalist; born in Matti-
tuck, Long Island, New York, September
27, i860. He was educated in private
school and by tutors in Brooklyn, and at
Williams College, where he specialized in
economics and English literature. He_is
a dramatic critic and contributor to cur
rent periodicals; established the Journalist
in 1884, and has since conducted it. He is
a member of the Long Island Historical
Society, and of the Underwriters' Club.
He married Xesia Carlstedt. Residence:
10 East Sixteenth Street, New York. Ad
dress: 41 Liberty Street, New York City.
FOBMAN, Gustns Miles:
Author; born in Le Roy, Genesee Coun
ty, New York, November i, 1875; son of
J. M. Forman and Mary (Cole) Forman.
After graduation from Yale as B.A. in
1808 he took up art, wept to Paris and was

a student in the Academie Julien, mean
while becoming a contributor of short
stories to the leading New York magazines,
and making such success that he has made
literature his chief vocation. Mr. For
man is author of : The Garden of Lies, 1902,
and Journey's End, 1903. Address : 28 West
Twenty-sixth Street, New York City.
FOBMAN, William St. John:
Lawyer; born at Natchez, Mississippi,
January 20, 1847. He was brought by his
parents to Illinois in childhood and was ed
ucated in the schools of Washington Coun
ty in that State until 1867, and then for
two years at the Washington Seminary at
Richview, Illinois. He studied law, was
admitted to the bar, and engaged in the
practice of law at East Saint Louis, Clair
County, Illinois. He became prominent in
politics as a Democrat and was elected to
the Illinois Senate, serving from 1885 to
1889. He was elected in 1888 to the Fifty-
first, and in 1890 and 1892 to the Fifty-sec
ond and Fifty-third Congresses, serving
from 1 1889 to 1895. In 1896 he was ap
pointed by President Cleveland as com
missioner of Internal Revenue, serving for
two years. He was nominee of the Gold
Democrats of Illinois for governor in 1896.
Address East Saint Louis, Illinois.
FOBNEY, James:
Brigadier-General, United States Marine
Corps; was born in Pennsylvania; commis
sioned second lieutenant, March 1, 1861 ;
flagship Roanoke, Atlantic Squadron, 1861 ;
first lieutenant, September, 1861 ; October,
1861, commanding the Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C. ; November, 1861, com
manding Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N.
H. ; steam sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf
Squadron, 1861-2, and part of 1863 ; partici
pated iri" the capture of Forts Jackson and
St. Philip, and the city of New Orleans ;
official reports of that time state that Lieu
tenant James Forney, commanding marines,
had two guns assigned him, and, with his
men, fought most gallantly. He was brev
etted a captain for gallant and meritorious
service at the attack of Forts Jackson and
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ashore by Admiral Farragut at New Or
leans, with the guards of the Brooklyn and
the Verona to raise the flag over the Cus
tom House; he held this building in the
midst of a howling mob, and at sunset
hauled down our flag, bringing the Confed
erate flag off to the ship and handing it
over to Captain Craven; while attached to
the West Gulf Squadron he was in the bat
tles of Chalmette, Port Hudson and Grand
Gulf, first and second attacks on Vicksburg,
Donaldsonville, Bayou Sara, Galveston,
Texas, February 24, 1863; at BTazos de
Santiago cut out and captured four ves
sels laden with valuable drugs from under
the rebel batteries. Commissioned captain,
April 23, 1864; July, 1864, commanded
troops, both regular and volunteer, at
Havre de Grace, Md. In this connection,
General French reports as follows : "Re
ceived the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, for
meritorious services in defeating a rebel
raid at Gunpowder River in July, 1864;
flagship Hartford, Fleet Marine Officer,
Asiatic Squadron, 1865-8; while attached
to the Hartford, commanded marines in
the attack on the island of Formosa, and
was brevetted a major for gallant and
meritorious services in the action, June 13,
1867; October 11, 1870, commanded the ma
rines in the colored riots at Philadelphia, in
enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment, being
the first vote of the colored people." In
1869 commanded the troops while aiding
the revenue officers in breaking up the
whiskey distilleries in the city of Philadel
phia; from June 10, 1872, and part of 1873,
in Europe, on special duty ; September, 1873,
United States frigate Minnesota; from De
cember, 1874, to 1876, fleet marine officer,
North Pacific Squadron; August, 1876,
commanding marines, League Island; Feb
ruary n, 1877-8, commanding marines, Nor
folk, Va. ; during summer of 1877 com
manded Second batallion of marines
during the labor riots ; on his return
he and his command were com
plimented in general orders by the honor
able secretary of the Navy and General
Hancock ; in 1879, was graduated at Tor
pedo School, Newport, R. I.; in 1879-81,
commanded recruiting rendezvous at Phila

delphia, Pa., and in 1883 commanded ma
rines for a short time on receiving ship
Colorado. February 24, 1884, commissioned
major. In 1885-7 commanded marines at-
Norfolk, Va. ; part of 1887-8 commanded
marines at League Island, Philadelphia;
commanded marines at Mare Island Navy
Yard, June, 1888, to November, 1892.
Commissioned lieutenant-colonel January
30, 1891. Commissioned colonel, July 11,
1892; marine barracks, Navy Yard, New
York, November, 1892-6; commanding ma
rine barracks, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, in 1896-7; commanding marine
barracks, League Island, Philadelphia,
1897, to June, 1898. During < the Span
ish-American War Colonel Forney had
command of the Spanish camp, con
sisting of 1,700 prisoners from Admiral
Cervera's fleet, including the marine bar
racks at Portsmouth, N. H. ; in command
of the first brigade of United States ma
rines in the Philippine Islands, from 1901
to 1902; in charge of the recruiting ser
vice, District of Massachusetts, October,
1903, to 1904. Promoted to brigadier-gen
eral, June 3, 1904. Retired June 3, 1904.
Residence: 2221 Spruce Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
FOBBEST, William Sylvester:
Lawyer; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
July 6, 1852. He received his early edu
cation in the public schools of Baltimore
and was graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege in 1875. While teaching school at
Somerville, Massachusetts, from 1875 to
1878, he studied law, and upon the com
pletion of his studies he removed to Chi
cago, Illinois, where he was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1879. He became distin
guished in the practice of criminal law,
and conducted the defense in many noted
criminal cases. Among these occur the
names of Lamb, Schanck, Cronon, Maney,
O'Malley, Baron Curt von Biedenfeld,
Perry, Wheeler, Dalton, McClain, Brennan
and Kahn.. He conducted the prosecu
tion of Marinow and Windrath, who were
hanged for the murder of Carey B. Burch;
also Lake and Griswold, who were sen
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murder of Patrick Owens. He also prose
cuted Healy and Robbard, who were simi
larly sentenced at Dubuque, Iowa, for the
murder Of two private policemen. His po
litical affiliations have been with the Dem
ocratic party. 'He is a member of the Ma
sonic order and of the Iroquois Club. He
was married April 17, 1879, to Elizabeth
Whitney, who died March 6, 1895, leaving
three children: Elizabeth, Marshall, and
Jean. His second marriage was to Emily
Conti Kimball, July .9, 1896, and they nave
two children: Maulsby and William S.,
Jr.. Address: Ashland Block. Residence:
3264 Groveland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
FOBSEY, George:
Clergyman; born at Newfoundland; son
of John and Charlotte Forsey. He was or
dered deacon in 1886, priest in 1887 by
Bishop of Montreal; rector of Cowans-
ville, Province of Quebec, Canada, from
1886 to 1889; rector of St. Thomas' Church,
Detroit, Michigan, from 1889 to 1898; rec
tor of St. Paul's, Muskegon, Michigan,
from 1898 to 1903; dean of Convocation of
Grand Rapids, Deputy to Genera! Conven
tion, 1901 ; member of Standing Committee
of the Diocese of Western Michigan; exam
ining chaplain. Is author of Unive'rsalism
and Orthodoxy.. Appointed by Bishop An
derson, priest-in-charge of Christ Church,
Winnetka, Illinois, June, 1907. Address :'
43 1 1 Ashland Avenue, Rogers Park, Chi
cago, Illinois.
FOBSYTH, George Alexander:
Brigadier-General United States Army;
born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed
from Illinois ; private August 18, 1861 ; first
lieutenant Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Septem
ber 18, 1861; captain February 12, 1862;
major September 1, 1863; brevetted colonel
volunteers October 19, 1864, for gallant and
meritorious service in the battles of Ope-
quan and Middletown, Virginia, and briga
dier-general volunteers March 13; 1865, for
distinguished service and conspicuous gal
lantry; honorably mustered out February
1, 1866; major Ninth Cavalry July 28, 1866;
lieutenant-colonel, military secretary to
Lieutenant-General Sheridan, March 13,

1869 to March 17, 1873; lieutenant-colonel,
aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sheri
dan, April 9, 1878, to June 26, 1881 ; lieuten
ant-colonel Fourth Cavalry June 26, 1881 ;
brevetted lieutenant-colonel March 2, 1867,
for gallant and meritorious service in the
battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia ;
colonel March 2, 1867, for gallant and meri
torious service in the battle of Five Forks,
Virginia, and brigadier-general September
17, 1868, for gallant conduct and meritori
ous service in an engagement with hostile
Indians on the Arickaree Fork of the Re
publican River on September 17, 18, 19 and
20, 1868. He retired March 25, 1890. Ad
dress, 1509 Rhode Island avenue, North
west, Washington, D. C.
FOBT, John Franklin:
Jurist; born at Pemberton, Burlington
County, New Jersey, March 20, 1852; son
of Andrew H. Fort. After a careful pre
paration at Mount Holby Institute and
Pennington Seminary, in. New Jersey, he
took the course at Albany Law School,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1872. He was admitted to the bar in 1873,
and engaged in practice until elevated to
the bench. He was journal clerk of the
New Jersey Legislature in 1873 and 1874;
judge of the District Court of Newark,
New Jersey, from 1878 to 1886; president
judge of the Court of Common Pleas of
Essex County, New Jersey, from 1896 to
1900, and since the latter year one of the
justices of the Supreme Court of New Jer
sey. He is a Republican in politics and
made the nominating speech for Garrett
A. Hobart for vice-president of the United
States at the National Republican Conven
tion at St. Louis in 1896. He married at
Newark, New Jersey, April 20, 1876, Char
lotte E. Stainsby, and they have three chil
dren: Margretta, Franklin W. and Leslie
R. Address : East Orange, New Jersey.
FOBWOOD, William Henry:
Surgeon-general, United States Army;
was born in Brandywine Hundred, Dela
ware on the 7th of September, 1838, and
received his preliminary education in the
public schools and Chester Academy; of

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Chester, Pennsylvania. After graduating
in the medical department of the Univers
ity of Pennsylvania, he was appointed as
sistant surgeon in the army, his first com
mission bearing the date of August 5> 1861.
FIis introduction to military service was in
the capacity of executive officer of the
Seminary Hospital at Georgetown, D. C,
but after a few months he was assigned
to active service, first as surgeon of the
Fourteenth Infantry and later as acting
medical director of Skyes' division of the
Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.
On duty in the office of the medical direct
or in Washington for five months, he again
saw eight months' active service as surgeon
of the Sixth Cavalry in Stoneman's divis
ion when he was disabled by wounds re
ceived in action. His Civil War service
was concluded with tours of duty as ex
ecutive officer of the Satterlee Hospital in
Philadelphia, and in command of the med
ical storeship, Marcy C. Day, and the
' Whitehall General Hospital near Bristol,
Pennsylvania. Whitehall General Hospital,
which had a capacity of 2,000 beds, was
built by General (then Lieutenant Forwood
and remained under his command to the
end of the war. He took part in numerous
engagements, including Yorktown, Gaine's
Mills, Malvern Hills, the second Bull Run,
Antietam, Gettysburg and Brandy Station.
Whatever there was of hard serving during
this period was shared by him ; he frequent
ly attended the wounded under fire, his
horse was killed under him at the battle of
Fairfield and he was severely wounded
through the right breast at the battle of
Brandy Station. His gallantry in bringing
off Lieutenant James F. McElhone, Four
teenth Infantry, who had fallen severely
wounded within the enemy's lines at Gaines'
Mills was an instance of the conspicuous
valor which uniformly attended the perform
ance of his duty. In the long period of nom
inal peace, which prevailed between the Re
bellion and the Spanish War, he saw much
duty under many varied circumstances. At
Fort. Riley in 1866 he fought alone an epi
demic of cholera which carried off twenty-
seven out of fifty-nine cases. In 1870, he

devoted a leave of absence to the study of
yellow fever at the quarantine station near
Philadelphia, in order that he might fa
miliarize himself by actual contact with that
disease. From 1866 to 1870, he was on
frontier duty in the Department of the Mis
souri; from 1870 to 1872, he was at Fort
Brady, Michigan; from 1872 to 1876, he
was in Texas; -from 1876 to 1879, he
served iri the Department of the South, and
1879 to 1882 in the Department of the
Platte. During this latter tour of duty, he
acted as surgeon and naturalist to the mil
itary reconnaissances and exploring expe
ditions conducted in the Northwest by
Lieutenant-General Sheridan, on the last
of which, in 1883, President Arthur and
Secretary Robert T. Lincoln were present.
From 1882 to 1886 he was attending sur
geon on the staff of General Sheridan at
Chicago, and from 1886 to 1890 he was
surgeon of the Department of Dakota. In
1890, he entered upon a prolonged tour of
duty at the Soldiers' Home near Washing
ton. During most of his service here he
occupied the chair of surgical pathology
and for a time that also of military sur
gery in the medical department of George
town University; and in recognition of his
work, the University conferred upon him
the degree of LL.D. When the Army-
Medical School was organized, he became
professor of military surgery, a chair which
he occupied with signal ability until the
suspension of its work consequent upon the
Spanish War. Upon the resumption of its
sessions after the war, he returned to tlie
school, this time as president, a position
which he held until his promotion to the
command of his corps. Upon the return of
the army of invasion from Cuba to Mon-
tauk Point, he was assigned to duty as
chief medical officer of the great convales
cent camp which terminated the first stage
of the Spanish War ; and by the tact, energy,
and efficiency which he manifested, he
brought order out of chaos and placed the
work of the camp in an excellent sanitary
situation. When later the return of the
volunteer regiments necessitated the es
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Savannah, General Fgrwood selected the
location and supervised the work of con
struction, until in December, i8g8, he was
ordered to San Francisco as chief surgeon
of the Department of California — a station
then assuming especial importance because
of the increasing prominence of the hostili
ties in the Philippines. Early in igoi, he
returned to Washington as principal as
sistant to the surgeon-general, a duty which
he continued to perform until his own pro
motion to that office. General Forwood is
the author of numerous important profes
sional contributions, conspicuous among
which are' his monographs upon Military
Surgery in Dennis' System of Surgery and
in Warren and Gould's International Text
book of Surgery. He was for a number
of years editor of The Military Surgeon,
published in Washington in connection with
the National Medical Review. Retired
September 7, 1902, by operation of law for
age limit. Address : 1425 Euclid Place,
Washington, D. C.
FOSDICK, Frederick:
Manufacturer; born in Groton, Massa
chusetts, April 24, 1850; son of David
Fosdick, Jr., and Sarah Lawrence (Wood
bury) Fosdick, and a descendant in the
eighth generation from Stephen Fosdick
who emigrated from England to Charles-
towri, Massachusetts, Bay Colony, in 1635.
He was brought up on a small farm where
his father, who was a Unitarian minister
arid a writer of text-books, directed his in
tellectual training. He started in business
in 1870 as an office boy in the Burleigh
Rock Drill Company of Fitchburg, Massa
chusetts; was employed in erecting coal
mine machinery in Pennsylvania 1871-1872;
was draftsman for the Haskins Machine
Company, 1872-1876 ; became treasurer and
general . manager of the Fitchburg Steam
Engine Company in 1876, and has been
president and general manager of the same
concern since 1879. He was a member of
the Fitchburg school committee, 1873-79;
president of the Common Council, 1883-84;
Republican mayor of the city, 1887 and
1888; trustee of the Worcester North Sav

ings Institution; president of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Fitchburg
for eight years and has been a member of
the Association's State executive commis
sion from 1890. He also served as Massa
chusetts commissioner to the Pan American
Exposition at Buffalo, New York, 1901-02;
is a deacon in the Congregational Church;
chairman of Board of Trustees of the
Foxboro State Hospital; president of the
board of trustees of the Massachusetts Anti-
Saloon League and a speaker for religious,
temperance and mission meetings. He has
contributed to mechanical and engineering
journals and patented several engine move
ments and details in engine building. He
is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the
Mayors' Club of Massachusetts. He was
married April 24, 1873, to Lucy Maria Hill
and has four children: Frederick Wood
bury, Nellie, Richard Coffin and Miriam
Eddy. Address: Fitchburg, Massachus
etts.
FOSS, Cyrus David:
Bishop; born at Kingston, New York,
January 17, 1834; son of Rev. Cyrus Foss
and Jane (Campbell) Foss. In 1854 he
was graduated from Wesleyan University;
received the degree of D.D. from the same
institution in 1870; the degree of LL.D.
from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1879; and
LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania,
1889. From 1854 to 1857 he was instruc
tor, and afterward became principal of
Amenia Seminary. New York. In 1857
joined the itinerant ministry in New York.
From 1857 to 1859 he was pastor at Chester,
Orange County, New York, later trans
ferred to New York East Conference; was
pastor in Brooklyn from 1859 to 1865 ; also
in the churches of New York City from
1865 to 1875. In 1878 he was fraternal dele
gate to the General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, and in 1886
to the British Wesleyan Conference. In
1886 he traveled in Europe, and visited the
Methodist Episcopal Missions ; also in Mex
ico in 1893, and in India and Malaysia, 1897-
1898. Address : 2043 Arch Street, Phila
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FOSS, Eugene N. :
Manufacturer; born at West Berkshire,
Vermont, September 24, 1858; son of
George E. and Marcia (Noble) Foss; entered
class of 1881, University of Vermont, but
left at the end of two years to engage in
business; degree of A.B. conferred in 1901.
He is now treasurer and general manager
of B. F. Sturtevarit Company; president
of Becker-Brainard Milling Machine Com
pany, Mead -Morrison Manufacturing Com
pany, Burgess Mills ; director of the Ameri
can Trust Company of Boston, American
Pneumatic Service Company of Boston,
Bridgewaters Water Company (president),
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, Chi
cago Junction Railway and Union Stock
Yards Company, Hyde Park (Massachu
setts) National Bank, Manhattan Railway
Company, Massachusetts Electric Compa
nies. Visited Europe three times, making
special study of tariff and reciprocity situ
ation, 1906. Mr. Foss is a Republican in
politics ; twice Republican " candidate for
Congress from the Eleventh Massachusetts
District. For past five years, he has been
a leader in movement for tariff revision
and reciprocity, particularly with Canada;
has been a candidate for public office sev
eral times, solely to advance this cause.
Is a Baptist in religion; trustee of Newton
Theological Institution, Colby College,
Moody School, Vermont Academy, Robert
B. Brigham Hospital for Incurables, Bos
ton Baptist Hospital, Boston Young Men's
Christian Association, Hebron Academy;
member New Algonquin Club, Exchange,
Massachusetts, Country, Jamaica, Elio
Boston Art, Boston City Clubs of Boston.
He married at Boston, June 12, 1884, Lilla
S. Sturtevant, and they have four children :
Benjamin Sturtevant, born October 9, 1886;
Noble, born April 8, 1889; Esther and
Helen, twins, bom January 20, 1894. Resi
dence: 11 Revere Street, Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts. Address : 34 Oliver Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FOSS, George Edmund:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Berk
shire, Franklin County, Vermont, July 2,
1863; graduated from Harvard College in

1885 ; attended the Columbia Law School
and School of Political Science in New
York City, and graduated from the Union
College of Law of Chicago in 1889, re
ceiving the degree of LL.B.; admitted to
the bar the same year and began the prac
tice of law in Chicago ; never held any poli
tical office until elected to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; was reelected to the Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
and Sixtieth Congresses from the Tenth
Illinois District. Address : 47 Gordon
Terrace, Chicago, Illinois.
FOBS, Sam Walter:
Librarian; born in Candia, New Hamp
shire ; son of Dyer Foss and Polly (Hardy)
Foss. He was graduated from Portsmouth
High School, Tilton Seminary and in 1882
from Brown University. He was editor of
the Lynn Saturday Union from 1883 to
1887; editor of Yankee Blade, from 1887
to 1894; contributor to many publications
from 1894 to 1898, and has been librarian
of the Somerville Public Library since 1898.
He is author of: Back Country Poems;
Whiffs from Wild Meadows; Dreams in
Homespun; Songs of War and Peace, and
Songs of the Average Man; all published
by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Boston. In
politics he , is an Independent. He is a
member of .the American Library Associa
tion, the Massachusetts Library Club (for
merly president), the Twentieth Century
Association and the Authors' and Economic
Clubs of Boston, and is president of the
Somerville Boys' Club; a member of the
Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa. Mr.
Foss married in Providence, Rhode Island,
July 13, 1887, Carrie M. Cnnant, and they
have two children: Saxton Conant, born
in 1888, and Mary Lillian, borri in 1893.
Residence: 249 Highland Avenue, Somer
ville. Address : Public Library, Somer
ville, Massachusetts.
FOSTER, Addison Gardiner:
. Former United States senator; born at
Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massa
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Illinois in boyhood and received his edu
cation in the common schools of Oswego
in that State, afterward teaching school
until 1859, when he removed to Wabash,
Minnesota, and engaged in the grain and
real estate business there until 1875. He
invested in timber lands and lived at St.
Paul, Minnesota, until 1887, when he re
moved to Tacoma, Washington, where he
is vice-president of the St. Paul and Ta
coma Lumber Company; president of the
Consolidated Lumber Company, and has
also been largely interested in railway and
coal mining developments. In 1899 he was
elected by the Legislature of Washington
to the United States Senate as a. Republi
can, serving from 1899 to 1905. Address:
Tacoma, Washington.
FOSTEK, David Johnson:
Lawyer and congressman; born at Bar-
net, Vermont, June 27, 1857; son of Jacob
Prentiss Foster and Matilda Foster. After
a careful preparation in the academy at
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, he entered Dart
mouth College in 1876, was graduated as
A.B. in 1880, studied law and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1883, at Burlington,
Vermont, where he has ever since been
engaged in the practice of law. Mr. Foster
has always taken an interest in politics as
an active; 'Republican, and has held the
offices of - States's attorney for Chittenden
County, State senator, State tax com
missioner, and chairman of the State Rail
road Commission. He was elected in 1900
from the First Vermont District to the
Fifty-seventh Congress, and has been re
elected biennially since then, and is now
serving in the Sixtieth Congress. Mr.
Foster married at Chelsea, Vermont, Octo
ber 4, 1883, Mabel M. Allen. Address:
Burlington, .Vermont.
FOSTER, Enoch:
Lawyer; born at Newry, Oxford County,
Maine, May 10, 1839; son of Enoch and
Persis Foster. He was carefully prepared
and entered Bowdoin College, served in the
Civil War for three years as second and
first lieutenant of Company H inthe Thir
teenth Maine Regiment, and was in the De

partment of the Gulf and in Butler's Expe
dition in the capture of New Orleans, and
in Bank's Texas and Red River Expedi
tions. He was graduated from Bowdoin
College as A.B. in 1864, and later received
the degree of A.M. ; and from Albany Law
School in 1865, with the degree of LL.B.
He was county attorney of Oxford County
from 1868. to 1874; State senator in 1874
and 1875, and justice of the Supreme Ju
dicial Court of Maine from 1884 to 1898,
then resumed practice. Address : Portland,
Maine.
FOSTEB, Erest LeNeve:
Mining engineer; born in London, Eng
land, January 23, 1849; son of Peter Le
Neve Foster and Georgiana Elizabeth
Chevallier (LeNeve) Foster. He was ed
ucated at the Royal School of Mines, Lon
don, and Bergakademic, at Freiberg, Sax
ony, from 1866 to 1869. He began practice
in Italy and since 1872 in Colorado. He
was State Geologist of Colorado in 1883
and 1884. He has been fellow of the Geo
logical Society of London since 1883, and
is ex-president of the Colorado Scientific
Society. He tnarried in 1875, Charlotte
Teal, now deceased, and they had two chil
dren; one son and one daughter, the latter
deceased. Residence : 3436 Colfax Avenu*-
B, Denver. Office address: 39 Masonic
Temple, Denver, Colorado.
FOSTEB, George Burman:
Professor of the philosophy of religion
in the University of Chicago ; born at
Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia ;
son of Oliver Harrison and Helen Louise
Foster. He was graduated from the West
Virginia University as A.B. in 1883, and
A.M. in 1885, and from the Rochester
Theological Seminary in 1887, becoming
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sara
toga Springs, New York, until 1891. He
studied at the Universities of Gottingen
and Berlin one year, then was professor
of philosophy at McMaster University from
1892 to 1895, then entered the University
of Chicago as professor of systematic theo
logy, ¦ later taking his present chair. He
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University, Ohio, in igo2. He married at
Morgantown, West Virginia, August 6,
1884, Mary Lyon, daughter of Professor
Franklin Lyon of the West Virginia Uni
versity; children: Raymond Lyon, Helen
Elizabeth, Jessie Freeman, George B. Jr.,
Oliver Harrison. Member of Baptist
Church. Author of : The -Finality of the
Christian Religion; University of Chi
cago Press, 1896, p. 532; an associate
editor of the American Journal of Theo
logy; author of various articles in different
magazines. Address: 5535 Lexington
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
FOSTER, George H. D. :
Lawyer; born at Westport, Maine, Sep
tember 23, 1872; son of Moses H. and
Kate (Dunton) Foster. He was gradu
ated from Bowdoin College as A.B. (Phi
Beta Kappa), 1895; Columbia Law School
LL.B. in 1898. He was admitted to the
New York bar in 1897; began general
practice of law, 1898, in the State and
Federal courts, as member of the firm of
Lee, Longfellow and Foster, unassociated
1901 to 1907. May, 1907* in partnership
with John C. Wait, firm name Wait and
Foster. He is a Democrat in politics, and
a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, and
the Graduates' Club. Address : Graduates'
Club, n East Forty-fourth Street, New
York City.
FOSTEB, George P.:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born at
Dover, New Jersey, April 3, i860; son of
Peter Foster and Margaret Foster. He
came to Chicago with his parents at the
age of seven; was educated in the Chicago
public schools and the old University of
Chicago, and he was graduated from the
Union College of Law of Chicago as
LL.B. in 1882. He was admitted to the
bar in 1882, and engaged in practice. He
has been active in politics in Chicago as a
Democrat, and was nominated as presiden
tial elector in 1896, but resigned in order
to permit of a fusion of the Democratic
and Peoples' parties in the State. He was
elected in 1898 and 1900 member of the

Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses
from the third Illinois District, and after
the reapportionment was elected, in 1902, .
as member of the Fifty-eighth Congress
from the Fourth Illinois District. Mr. Fos
ter is now general agent at Chicago for the
Empire State Surety Company. He mar
ried in Chicago, November 27, 1884, Julie
Hoey, and they have three sons: George
P., Jr., Raymond F., and Willard J. Fos
ter. Residence: 1403 Thirty-fifth Street,
Chicago. Office address: First National
Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.
FOSTEB, Gilbert A.:
Warehouseman; born at Brown County,
Wisconsin, June 6, 1861 ; son of Nathaniel
C. Foster and Esther M. Foster. He was
educated in public schools and business
college at Green Bay, Wisconsin; at the
age of sixteen went to work in general
store at Fairchild, Wisconsin. He is presi
dent of the Garfield Park Storage Com
pany of Chicago, secretary and treasurer
and director of Fairchild and Northeastern
Railway, Fairchild, Wisconsin, and the
N. C. Foster Lumber Company, Fairchild,
Wisconsin; director of Farmers' Mutual
Trading Company, and of the Farmers' Co
operative Supply Company, Greenwood,
Wisconsin, and secretary and director of
the Greenwood Roller Mill Company. He
is a Republican in politics. Mr. Foster
married at Fairchild, Wisconsin, October
1, 1884, Clara E. Bradley, and they have
four children: Lee Nathaniel, born in
1885; Herbert Bradley, born in 1887;
Bruce Gilbert, born in 1891, and Caldwell
Abijah, born in 1899. Address: I43n
West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FOSTEB, Herbert Sidney:
Retire 1 army officer ; born in Calais, Vei
mont, August 8, 1853; son of Sidney H.
Foster and Louise R. (Dudley) Foster.
He was educated in the public schools,
God'dard Seminary, Barre, Vermont, and
the United States Military Academy from
which he was graduated June 15, 1876, and
the same day commissioned second lieu
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captain April 20, 1891, major Twelfth In
fantry, November 15, 1899, lieutenant-col
onel, July 26, 1903, and colonel Ninth
Infantry, June 25, 1906. He retired
from active service October 6, 1906,
for disability incurred in the line of duty.
he was adjutant of the infantry battalion
on the expedition to disarm and dismount
Indians at the Standing Rock and Chey
enne Agencies in Dakota Territory from
October 15 to November 10, 1876; com
manded the expedition to collect and re
move to the Fort Berthold Agency the
Gros- Ventre Indians, March 15 to April 10,
1894; participated in the Spanish- Ameri
can War and the Philippines Insurrection ;
was engaged at El Caney and Santiago-de-
Cuba, in Cuba, and at San Guadalupe
Church, Pasig, and Cainta, Luzon, Philip
pine Islands, and was mentioned by name
in the official report of Brigadier-General
Loyd Wheaton, United States Volunteers,
for "very great gallantry at the storming
of Pasig and the combat at Cainta," and he
was nominated by the President for the
brevet of major, United States Army for
conspicuous gallantry in action against
Filipino insurgents at Cainta, Luzon, Phil
ippine Islands, March 16, 1899. Before en
tering the Military Academy he had served
as a page in the Vermont House of Re
presentatives from 1867 to 1869, and in
the Vermont Constitutional Convention of
1870? He was detailed' as professor of
military science and tactics in the Uni
versity of Vermont from 1890 to 1893, and
was commander of the Vermont Division
of Sons of Veterans of the United States
Army in 1891 and 1892. He was present
ed with a war service cross for service in
the Spanish-American War by the Sons of
Veterans United States Army, and a medal
of honor for services in the same war by
the Sons of the American Revolution.
Colonel Foster is a member of both of
those societies, and is also a companion
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, the Society of San
tiago de Cuba, and the Military Order of
the Carabao. He is a Republican in poli
tical and a Universalist in religious views.

He married at Montpelier, Vermont, Feb
ruary 28, 1884, Laura A. Kent, and they
have three children : Forest K, born in
1886, Sidney H., born in 1889, and Louise
E., born in 1892. Address : North Calais,
Vermont. FOSTEB, James:
Fire insurance,'' born at Montreal, Can
ada, June 28, 1846; son of James and
Elizabeth (Robinson) Foster. He was edu
cated in Montreal High School. Has
been connected with the estate of Court-
landt Palmer for over thirty-seven years;
trustee and manager for fifteen years; in
insurance busiriess since 1870; has traveled
extensively in the United States, Europe
and Canada; was member of the Victoria
Volunteer Rifles, and decorated for mili
tary services. Is president of James Fost
er and Son Company; treasurer of the
vvilliamsburg Power Company; director of
the International Pulp Company, Brooklyn
City Savings Bank. He is an 'Independent
in politics, Episcopalian in religion. He is
life member of the American So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, Brooklyn Institute, Metro
politan Museum of Art. His favorite
recreations are golf and fishing. Is also
a member of the Transportation, Montauk,
and Marine and Field Clubs. Mr. Foster
married at Brooklyn, New York, October
12, 1875, Emily S. Hart, and they have
three children :' Arthur C. D., born in 1877,
Florence E., born in 1883, and Hervey Lyt
ton, born in 1888. Address : 850 Broad
way, New York City.
FOSTEB, John Gilman:
Consul-general ; born at Derby Line, Ver
mont, March 9, i8sg; son of Austin T.
Foster and Sarah H. (Gilman) Foster. He
was graduated from Goddard Seminary at
Barre, Vermont, in 1876, and then entered
Tufts College, from which he was gradu
ated as A.B. in 1880. After leaving col
lege he studied law and he was admitted to
the bar of the State of Vermont in 1881,
and from that time until i8g7 was princi
pally engaged in banking and in the man
agement of trust estates at Derby Line,

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Vermont. He has held the positions of
vice-president of the National Bank of
Derby Line and president of the Massawip-
pi Valley Railway Company. He repre
sented the town of Derby in the Vermont
Legislature from 1892 to 1894. He is a
Republican in politics, and he was a colo
nel on the staff of Governor Levi K. Ful
ler of Vermont from 1892 to 1894. Colonel
Foster began his consular service, June 23,
1897, when he was appointed by President
McKinley United States consul-general at
Halifax, Nova Seotia, and since June 18,
1903, he has been consul-general of the
United States at Ottawa, Canada. He mar
ried, June 9, 1886, Clara Merriman, daugh
ter of Judge Amos Lee Merriman, of
Peoria, Illinois. Address: United States
Consulate-General, Ottawa, Ontario, Can
ada.
FOSTER, John Hopkins:
Congressman ; was born January 31, 1862,
at Evansville, and has always resided
there; was educated in the common
schools; is a graduate of Indiana Univers
ity, class of 1882, and of the law depart
ment of Columbia, now George Washing
ton University, of Washington, District of
Columbia, class of 1884; began the prac
tice of law in 1885; was elected to the
House of Representatives of the General
Assembly of Indiana in 1893; elected judge
of the Superior Court of Vanderburg Coun
ty in 1894; reelected in 1898, and again in
1902 was elected to the Fifty-ninth Con
gress and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress. Address : Evansville, Indiana.
FOSTER, John Watson:
Lawyer and diplomat; born in Pike
County, Indiana, March 2, 1836; son of
Judge Matthew Watson Foster. He was
graduated from the Indiana State Univers
ity as A.B. in 1855, and then was one year
at the Harvard Law School before engag
ing in the practice of law in Indiana. He
served as major, lieutenant-colonel and
colonel of Indiana regiments in the Civil
War, and after its close he became- editor
of the Evansville Daily Journal at Evans

ville, Indiana; was postmaster at Evans
ville from 1869 to 1872; United States. min
ister to Mexico from 1873 to 1880, and to
Russia in 1880 and 1881. , On his return
from that mission he engaged in the prac
tice of international law in Washington,
and in that practice was the representative
of leading foreign legations before various
commissions, arbitration boards and other
tribunals. He was appointed in 1883 as
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary of the United States to Spain,
serving until 1885, and then resuming his
practice at Washington. In 1891 he was
appointed special representative of the
United States to negotiate reciprocity trea
ties with Brazil, Spain< Germany, the Brit
ish West Indies and other countries; was
Secretary of State of the United States in
1892 and 1893, and he was appointed agent
of the United States before the Behring Sea
Arbitration at Paris in 1893. Later, on the
invitation of the Emperor of China, he
took part in the peace negotiations between
that country and Japan, and in 1897 he was
commissioned by President McKinley on
a special mission to Great Britain and Rus
sia. He was a member of the Anglo-Can
adian Commission in 1898, and agent of the
United States before: the Alaskan Boundary, c
Tribunal at London in 1903. In 1907 he h
represented China as a delegate to the
Hague Peace Conference. Mr. Foster's
apilities as a diplomat and international
lawyer have met world-wide recognition,
and he has contributed in a valuable way
to the history of diplomacy in the books:
A Century of American Diplomacy, 1900;
American Diplomacy in the Orient, 1903;
Arbitration and the Hague Court, 1904;
and The Practice of Diplomacy, 1906.
He has also written a Biography of Mat
thew Watson Foster (his father), which
was published in 1896. Yale, Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Indiana Universities,
and Wabash Colleges have conferred the
degree of LL.D. upon him. He married in
1859, Mary Parke McFerson. Address:
1323 Eighteenth Street* N. W., Washing
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FOSTER, Luther:
President of the New Mexico College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and direct
or the New Mexico Agricultural Experi
ment Station since December I, igoi ; born
at Whitehall, Owen County, Indiana, Oc
tober 5('i849; son of William M. Foster
and Elizabeth (Bray) Foster. He served
eighteen months in the Third Iowa Cavalry
in the Civil War in 1864 and 1865. After
graduation from the Iowa Agricultural
College in 1872 as B.;S. in Agriculture
(later receiving the M.S. degree), he was
superintendent of the school of Monticello,
Iowa, from 1873 to 1882, superintendent of
schools of Jones County, Iowa, from 1882
to 1885, and was afterward consecutively
professor of agriculture in the agricultural
college and director of the agricultural ex
periment stations of South Dakota, Mon
tana, Utah and Wyoming until taking his
present position in New Mexico. Resi
dence: Las Cruces, New Mexico. Office
address: Mesilla Park, New Mexico.
FOSTEB, Matthew Whildin:
Dean of the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery since 1891 ; born in Phila
delphia, May 17, 1840; son of Matthew
Salaysthal Foster and Ellen Goode (Hut
chins) Foster. He was educated in acad
emies and studied dentistry in the Phil
adelphia Dental College and the Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery, and he was
graduated from the Medical . Department
of Washington University at Baltimore
as M.D. in 1866. Address : 9 West Frank
lin Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
FOSTEB, Murphy J.:
United States Senator; born at Frank
lin, Louisiana, January 12, 1849. After
the Civil War he attended prepara
tory school at White's Creek, near Nash
ville, Tennessee, for two years ; from there
he went to Washington and Lee College
for the session of 1867 and 1868; from
Washington and Lee he went to Cumber
land University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and
graduated there in 1870. He attended the
law school of Tulane University, New Or
leans, graduating in 1871; in 1872 was

elected member of the John McEnery legis
lature, but owing to the fact that this
government was never recognized and that
the Kellogg government was, did not take
his seat; in 1879 was elected a member of
the senate of the State of Louisiana under
the constitution of that year, and was re
turned for three consecutive terms of four
years each; was elected president pro
tempore of the senate in 1888- 1890; led
the anti-lottery fight in the legislature in
1890, and in 1892 was nominated by the
anti-lottery convention as candidate for
governor; was elected for four years, and
in 1896 was nominated to be his own suc
cessor and again elected; at the end of
eight years in the governor's office was
unanimously - elected to the United States
Senate to succeed Hon. Donelson Caffery,
Democrat, for the term beginning March 4.
1901. When- the Democratic party of
Louisiana adopted the plan of selecting
nominees for State offices by a general pri
mary election, he requested, inasmuch as
the members of the general assembly to be
so elected would select his successor, that
the United States Senatorship be included
in the primary, and announced his candi
dacy to succeed himself. His term of ser
vice will, expire March 3, 1913. Address:
Franklin, Louisiana.
FOSTEB, Bobert Frederick:
An authority on games of cards ; for
the past twelve years card editor of the
New York Sun ; born at Edinburgh, 1853 ;
educated as an Architect and Civil en
gineer and practiced until 1893, when he
gave it up for literature. Author of:
Foster's Whist Manual; Foster's Bridge
Tactics; Foster on Bridge; Foster's Bridge
Manual; Foster's Whist Tactics; Foster's
Duplicate Whist; Common Sense in
Whist ; Modern Whist ; Whist at a Glance ;
American Leads ; Common Sense Leads ;
Whist and Its Masters; Foster's Ency
clopedia of Indoor Games; Chess; Cinch;
Poker ; Hearts ; Dice and Dominoes ;
Whist Inferences ; Practical Poker ; Call-
Ace Euchre; Foster's Bridge Maxims; The
Bridge Player's Handbook; The Gist of
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plete Bridge. Inventor of the Foster
Whist Markers and the Self-Playing Whist
and Bridge Cards; the Pocket Card Play
er, etc. ; originator of the eleven rule at
Bridge. His favorite recreations are pho
tography and yachting. He married Mary
E. Johnson of New York. He is a mem
ber of the Savage and National Liberal
Clubs of London. Address : New York
Sun, New York City.
FOSTEB, Bobert Verrell:
Clergyman, teacher and author ; born in
Wilson County, Tennessee, August 12,
1845; son of Rufus Harrisou Foster and
Sarah (Spain) Foster. He was educated
at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Ten
nessee, Union Theological Seminary, New
York. Has received the degrees A.B., A.M.,
D.D., and LL.D. He was professor of He
brew and Greek in Cumberland University
from 1877 to 1893; since 1893 professor of
systematic theology. He is author of an
extensive treatise on Systematic Theology,
besides several other books and numerous
pamphlets and essays. He married at
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, November 7,
1882, Belle Braden, and they have one
daughter, Laura Braden Foster. Address :
Lebanon, Tennessee.
FOSTEB, Boger:
Lawyer, author; born at Worcester,
Massachusetts, April 21, 1857; son of
Dwight (attorney-general and justice Su
preme Court, Massachusetts), and Henri-
, etta Parkins (Baldwin) Foster (daughter
Roger S. Baldwin, governor and United
States senator from Connecticut) ; graduated
Yale, B.A., 1878, M.A., 1881 ; Columbia
Law School, LL.B., 1889. Admitted to
New York Bar, 1880; counsel for Caro
heirs in cases which established liability
of elevated railroad companies to abutters
in New York City, 1880-84; appointed tene
ment house commissioner by Governor
Flower, 1894; drafted tenement house laws
of 1895; as special counsel for New York
City Board of Health, 1896-98; prosecuted
proceedings which established the constitu
tionality of one of these laws, and result
ed in the condemnation and destruction of

more than seventy unsanitary tenement
houses; in 1896, procured appointment of
the receivers of Bay State Gas Company
(subsequently; criticized by. Thomas Law-
son in Frenzied Finance — for which Law-
son apologized) ; in 1902, procured decision
of New York Supreme Court, holding un
constitutional section of charter which for
bade pensioners positions in civil service
of New York City. Author: Taxation of
the Elevated Railroads of New York City
(pamphlet) ; Treatise on the Federal Jud
iciary Acts of 1875 and 1877; Treatise on
Federal Practice (three editions, 1890, 1892,
1901) ; Commentaries on the Constitution
of the United States (volume I), 1895;
Treatise on the Income Taxes of 1894; also
several pamphlets and articles in period
icals; Trial by Newspaper (N. American
Review, May, 1887), in which were first
used the phrases trial by newspaper and
used the phrases, trial by newspaper and,
court of public opinion ; and article in Al-
ment of the proceedings instituted in Penn
sylvania to try riotous strikers for treason;
has also edited articles in Cyclopedia of
Law and Procedure. Address : 35 Wall
Street, New York City.
FOSTER, Scott:
Banker; born near Newburgh, New
York, May 19, 1837 ; son of Dr. John L.
and Harriet (Scott) Foster. Dry goods
clerk and merchant, 1853-82. Became vice-
president 1882, and since 1884 has been
president People's Bank. Presbvterian ; an
elder in Rutger's Presbvterian Church, and
member Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions. Member Chamber of Commerce,
New York, Historical Society, New York
Zoological Society, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, American Museum Natural History,
New York Botanical Garden, Presbyterian
Union. He is a member of the Union
League and Quill Clubs. Executor and
trustee of a number of large estates. Treas
urer of the Northern Dispensary and the
North Eastern Dispensary. He married
;n Pottersville, New Jersey, 1867, Emeline
Hesreman (died July, 1906) ; he has four
children: J. Hegeman, of Stock Exchange
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1868), Eugene Gray (born May 13, 1869) ;
and Howard Crosby (born February 7,
1877), both of Stock Exchange firm, Foster
& Adams; Jennie Groendyke- (born Juiie
14, 1875). Residence: 332 West Seventy-
second Street. Address : 3g5 Canal Street,
.New York City.
FOSTEB, Warren W.:
Jurist; born July 26, 1859; son of Nat.
W. and Fanny (Miller) Foster; graduated
Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass
achusetts, 1877; Dartmouth College, A.B.,
1881, A.M., 1883; Columbia College, LL.B.,
1883. Admitted to the bar, 1883; elected
judge Court of General Sessions, 1899:
Has traveled extensively through Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Indies. Director Am
erican Light and Traction Company. (Ex
ecutive Committee), Fashion Farm Land
Company, Western Gas Company (Mil
waukee, Wisconsin), San Antonio Traction
Company, vice-president Western Gas Com
pany, vice-president National Democratic
Club, Michigan Light Company, Gas Secur
ities Company, etc. Democrat. Member
Psi Upsilon fraternity. Recreations : Farm
ing and yachting. Club : National Demo
cratic. Address : 32 Franklin Street, New
York City. Country home : Hokanum Park
Westport, Connecticut.
FOSTEB, William Davis:
Physician; born in Van Buren County,
Iowa, September 7, 1841 ; son of Joseph
Foster and Elizabeth Kummler (Griffith)
Foster, .niter attending the public schools
and the Birmingham (Iowa) Academy he
became a student in a physician's office
at Jacksonville, Illinois, from 1857 until
October 3, 1861, when he became hospital
steward of the Seventh Missouri Cavalrv
Volunteers, afterward becoming assistant
surgeon of the same regiment from July,
1863, to June, 1865. He was graduated
from the Homoeopathic Medical College of
Missouri at Saint Louis as M.D. in 1869.
From 1889 to 1901 he was professor of
surgery and from 1897 to 1899 dean of the
faculty of the Kansas City Homoeopathic
Medical .College. Dr. Foster married at
Kansas City, Missouri, October 16, 1878,

Mrs. Christie K. Farwell. Residence :
4125 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City.
Office address : 523 Altman Building, Kan
sas City, Missouri.
FOSTEB, William Eaton:
Librarian, author; bora at Brattleboro,
Vermont, June 2, 185 1. He was graduated
from Brown University as A.B. in 1873.
Is librarian of the Providence Public Lib
rary. Mr. Foster has written extensively
ori historical and economic subjects, and is
author of: Town Government in Rhode
Island; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island
Statesman; The Civil Service Reform
Movement"; and The Literature of Civil
Service Reform in the United States. He
is a member of the American Flistorical
Association and of the American Library
Association. Address : 240 Bowen Street,
Providence, Rhode Island.
FOULKE, William Dudley:
Lawyer, author; born in New York
City, November 20, 1848; son of Thomas
Foulke and Hannah S. Foulke. He was
graduated from Columbia College as A.B.
in 1896 and A.M. in 1872, and from Col
umbia Law School as LL.B. in 1871, and
he received the degree of LL.D. from
Earlham College, Indiana, in igo6. He
removed to Indiana in 1876 and engaged
in practice there; and he became greatly
interested in reform in the civil service
and in suffrage laws, becoming president
of the Indiana Civil Service Reform As
sociation, of the American Proportional
Representation League, and of the Ameri
can Woman's Suffrage Association, and he
was chairman of the Suffrage Congress
at the World's Columbian Exposition in
1893. Mr. Foulke served in the Indiana
Senate, and he was United States Civil
Service Commissioner from 1901 to 1903.
He is author of the volumes : Slav or
Saxon?; Life of Oliver P. Morton; Maya,
a Story of Yucatan; Protean Papers; and
of a translation of the History of the
Langobards by Paul the Deacon. Address :
Richmond, Indiana.

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FOTJLKBOD, William W.:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, Novem
ber 22, 1846; educated in the public and
private schools of Philadelphia; entered the
wholesale house of Mustin & Bennett in
1863 to learn the hosiery, glove and no
tion business ; grew up with this firm, until
it was reorganized in January, 1879, when
it took the title of Thomas J. Mustin &
Co., Mr. Foulkrod becoming an active
member of that firm. In April, 1887, this
firm sold out its entire business to John
Wanamaker, who at that time had gone
into the wholesale business. Later, when
in 1890, the firm of Hood, Foulkrod &
Co. was formed, Mr. Foulkrod became
an active member of that firm, which was
the largest wholesale dry goods firm of
Philadelphia, and one of the largest in
this country, Mr. John Wanamaker be
ing connected with it as special partner,
it being the successor of the old firm
of Hood, Bonbright & Co., which was
the name under which Mr. John Wana
maker conducted his wholesale business
after he had bought out Hood, Bon
bright & Co. Mr. Foulkrod comes from
an old Philadelphia family who have re
sided in the section of Philadelphia known
as Frankford for seven generations. The
family has always been prominent in
public affairs. Mr. Foulkrod's father died
while a member of the Pennsylvania
State Senate from Philadelphia. His
grandfather was a member of both the
House and Senate of Pennsylvania, also a
member of the Constitutional Convention
of 1837-1838, also an officer in the War of
1812. His great-grandfather was in the
Revolution and participated in the bat
tles of Trenton, Princeton and Germantown
and others. Mr. William W. Foulkrod has
followed his family in taking an active
interest in public affairs. He was one
of the organizers and the first president
of the Philadelphia Trades League, the
largest commercial organization of Phila
delphia, and one of the . largest in the
country. He continued as its president
for twelve years, until its membership
included between two and three thousand

of Philadelphia's most prominent busi
ness firms. He is yet a member of its
Board of Directors, and Chairman of its
Harbor and Navigation Committee. He
was the first president of the Philadel
phia & Frankford Railroad Company. He is
one of the Trustees of the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum, and was the acting
president of the National Export Exhi
bition. He is president of the Frankford
Fire Insurance Company, president of
the Frankford Hosiery Mills Company,
secretary of the Board of Trustees .of
the Evans Museum and Dental College
for which Dr. Thomas Evans left his for
tune to the city of Philadelphia. He is a
member of the Citizens' Permanent Re
lief Committee, . the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, president of the Frankford
Country Club, president Frankford Histor
ical Society, member of the Art Club of
Philadelphia, and connected with many
other business and social associations. In
November, 1906, Mr. Foulkrod was elected
a member of Congress from the Fifth
Pennsylvania District, which represents the
large manufacturing interests of Philadel
phia. The large carpet and upholstery mills
as well as the largest leather works of the
country, also the great tool works of Phila
delphia are located in this district. In fact
there is scarcely an article made of metal,
wood, cotton or wool that is not manufac
tured in the Fifth Pennsylvania District It
is the largest manufacturing district of this
country. Manufacturers representing a
worth of two hundred million dollars sign
ed a partition asking for Mr. Foulkrod's
nomination by the Republican party of
Philadelphia. He was unanimously nomi
nated by the Republican Convention and
endorsed by four other party conventions
and was elected by over twenty-five thou
sand majority. Address : 4716 Leiper
Street, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. \
FOTJST, Julius Isaac:
Normal College president; born in
Graham, North Carolina, in 1865; son
of Thomas C Foust' and Mary (Rob-
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ham High School and was graduated from
the University of North Carolina with the
degree of Ph.B. He was principal of
Goldsboro (North Carolina) schools from
1890 to 1891; superintendent of Wilson
schools from 1891 to 1894; superintendent
of Goldsboro schools from 1894 to 1902;
professor of pedagogy at the State Normal
and Industrial College at Greensboro,
North Carolina, from 1902 to 1907, and is
now president of that institution. He has
been president of the North Carolina As
sociation of City School Superintendents,
and of the North Carolina Teachers' As
sembly. Mr. Foust married at Wilson,
North Carolina, in 1892, Sallie Price, and
they have two children: Henry P., born
in 1893, and Mary R., born in 1898. Ad
dress: Greensboro, North Carolina.
FOWLEB, Carl H.:
Lawyer; born at Evanston, Illinois, Au
gust 24, 1873 ; son of Bishop Charles H. and
Myra A. (Hitchcock) Fowler. He was
graduated from the LTniversity of Minne
sota as B.A. in 1895; B.S. in 1896; Colum
bia University as M.A. in 1897, LL.B. in
l89g. He made four tours through the
British. Isles and Europe, once through
South America, once around the world, and
also through the United States, including
Alaska. He is director and vice-president
of the Oppenheimer Institute, Federal Ice
Company, American Cigar Box Lumber
Company; director of the Blackbird Cop
per and Gold Mining Company, Amazon
Columbian Rubber and Trading Company,
etc. He is a specialist in corporation law.
Mr. Fowler is a Republican in politics, and
a Methodist-Episcopalian in his religious
views. He is a member of the Psi Up
silon fraternity, and of the Lawyers', West
Side Republican, Psi Upsilon Clubs, Econ
omic Club, of New York City. Address :
96 Broadway, New York City.
FOWLER, Charles Evan:
Civil engineer ; born at Bartlett, Washing
ton County, Ohio, February 10, 1867; sori
of Chalkley T. Fowler and Phebe W.
(Hobson) Fowler. He was educated at
Ohio State University and later studied

civil engineering, which he has practiced
since 1886, and he is president of the
International Contract Company. He has
made important contributions to engineer
ing literature and is author of several im
portant works on engineering subjects.
Residence: 1600 Drexel Avenue, Seattle.
Office address : New York Block, Seattle,
Washington.
FOWLEB, Charles Henry:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, born at Burford, Ontario, Canada,
August 11, 1837; son of Horatio ^nd Har
riet (Ryan) Fowler. He was graduated
from Genesee College (now Syracuse Uni
versity) as A.B., and valedictorian in 1859,
and from Garrett Biblical Institute as B.D.,
with the first rank in his class, in 1861, and
later received from the institute the degree
of D.D. (the first honorary degree ever
awarded by it) , and from the University of
Syracuse, the degrees of LL.D., and D.H.L
After his ordination to the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, he was for
twelve years pastor in various churches of
Chicago, Illinois. In 1872, he was elected
to the presidency of Northwestern Uni
versity, and after serving in that office for
four years, he resigned in 1876 to become
editor of the New York Christian Advo
cate. He was connected with that journal
for four years, and in 1880 he accepted the
position of general missionary secretary
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In
1884, he was elected to the episcopate of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Fow
ler has rendered valuable services to his
church and to education. He presented
to Rock River Conference the plan to pool
the interests of the churches after the Chi
cago fire in 1871 ; was appointed by the
governor of Ilinois to deliver the oration on
Illinois at the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia in 1876; organized the Peking
University in North China, and Nanking
University, in Central China ; organized the
first Methodist Episcopal Church at St.
Petersburg, Russia; established McClay
College of Theology in Southern California,
and secured the union of three colleges in
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University at Lincoln, He was author of
the movement to raise twenty million dol
lars as a Twentieth Century Thank Offering
from the Methodist Episcopal Church (over
twenty-one million dollars was raised) ;
originated the Open Door Emergency Com
mission which culminated in the great
Cleveland Convention, where two hundred
and thirty-five thousand dollars was raised
in one evening. He was a member of the
General Conferences of the Methodist Epis
copal Church in 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884;
was fraternal delegate from the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church to the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, in 1874 (the first delegation they
had received since the separation in 1844) ;
and was also fraternal delegate to the
Wesleyan Methodist Church in Great Bri
tain, in 1898, making an address which was
widely commended as an international doc
ument. He has traveled in all parts of the
United States, and three times in England
and on the European Continent; he has be
sides traveled around the world, visiting
missions in Japan, Korea, China and India.
In politics he is a Republican. Bishop
Fowler is a trustee of Syracuse University ;
also of the Drew Theological Seminary,
and of the American University; member
of the Board of Managers of the Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, the Church Extension Society, the
Freedman's Aid Society and others. He
is author of several volumes of sermons,
orations and addresses. He has also
given lectures on Abraham Lincoln, Grant,
McKinley, Great Deeds of Great Men, Mus
cle versus Brain, The Bible the Prophet of
Science, etc. He married in Chicago, Oc
tober 7, 1868, Myra A. Hitchcock, and has
one son, Carl H. Fowler. Address : 338
West Seventy-second Street, New York
City.
FOWLEB, Charles Newell:
Congressman; born at Lena, Illinois, No
vember 2, 1852; graduated from Yale Uni
versity in 1876 and from the Chicago Law
School in 1878; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,

and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and again in
1906 to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Fifth New Jersey District. Address:
Elizabeth, New Jersey.
FOWLEB, David:
Jurist; born in Washington County,
Maryland, October 21, 1836. He was
graduated from Saint James College, Mary
land, in 1858, studied law, was admitted
to the bar in 1861, practicing in Baltimore
until 1882, when he became associate judge
of the Third Judicial District of Maryland,
in which he continued until he assumed
in 1889, his present office as associate
justice of the Court of Appeals of Mary
land. Residence. Catonsville, Maryland.
Official address: Annapolis, Maryland.
FOWLEB, Edward Fay son:
Physician; was born at Cohocton,
Steuben County, New York, November 30,
1834, being the youngest son of Judge Hor
ace and Mary Fowler. He is descended
from old Puritan stock, being the sixth
lineal descendant of William Fowler, who
came to Massachusetts in 1630 with the
first contingent of the Puritans. He was
graduated from New York Medical Col
lege in 1855, as first prize man. He im
mediately entered into partnership with
Drs. Gray and Hull, who had then per
haps the most extensive and lucrative prac
tice in New York City. Becoming 'con
vinced that homeopathy had in it much
worthy of knowing, he again became a stu
dent and familiarized himself with the prin
ciples of homeopathic practice. He sub
sequently practiced this in connection with
the former, but has never confined himself
to either school, and may be said to belong
to no one school, but to give his patients the
benefit of the good in all. In addition
to his private practice, Dr. Fowler has
availed himself of the benefits of hospital
practice, having served in the Ward's Isl
and and Hahnemann hospitals. Hi,s high
standing in his profession was duly recog
nized in 1887, when there was conferred on
him the honorary degree of Doctor of
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State of New York, and he was appointed
examiner of anatomy in the first Board of
New York State Examiners for conferring
medical degrees. He has been connected
with the foremost medical societies of the
city and State; was one of the founders of
the New York Medico-Chirurgical Socie
ty, and served as its president, and is also
a member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, the Neurological Society, the
Medical Society of the County of New
York, and other societies. While Dr.
Fowler's attention has been devoted assid
uously to his profession, he is unusually
well versed in business affairs. Politically
he is an ardent Republican, and is a mem
ber of the Union League Club, and has
taken an active and earnest interest in the
movements of the party in New York. Dr.
Fowler married, in 1873, M. Louise Mum-
ford, now deceased; two children: Edward
Mumford Fowler and Louise Mumford
Fowler, surviving. In 1896 he ' was
married a second time, Mildred Rus
sell becoming his wife. In addition to
his city home, he has a delightful
summer residence at Cooperstown, New
York. He is the author of valuable med
ical works, including Aetiology and Gen
eral History of Scarlet Fever; Pseudo-Ty
phoid Fever; Certain Maladies of the
Heart; Abnormalities of the Cerebral Con
volutions, etc. He has also translated from
the French and German such works as
Charcot's Localization in Diseases of the
Brain; Richert's Physiology and Histology
of the Cerebral Convolutions, and Bene-
dikt's Anatomical Study of the Brains of
Criminals. Address: New York City.
FOWLEB, Frank:
Portrait and figure painter; born in
Brooklyn, New York, July 12, 1852; son
of John Fowler and Margaret (Wester-
velt) Fowler. He was educated in the
Adelphi Academy (now Adelphi College),
Brooklyn, New York, and by private tutors
in New York, and also at Florence, Italy;
and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
and under Carolus Duran. He painted the
portraits of Charles A. Dana, Samuel J.
Tilden, Archibishop Corrigan; Arthur T.

Hadley, president of Yale University; W.
D. Howells; Governor Tilden, Governor
Greenhalge; Gen. Alexander S. Webb; al
so of many officers and professors at the
United States Military Academy, West
Point, New York, and of Parke Godwin
and John Bigelow. Mr. Fowler has
made the usual travels of students of
art in England, France, Germany, Holland,
and Italy, and passed nearly ten years
abroad, and is a writer in the current maga
zines on art topics. He is a member of
the National Academy of Design; trustee
of the American Fine Arts Society, and
member of the Artists' Fund Society, Art
ists' Aid Society, the Century Association
and the Lotos Club of New York City.
He married in Paris, Fiance, November
28, 1878, Mary Berrien, daughter of Bishop
Odenheimer of New Jersey. Residence :
Yonkers, New York. Studio address : 10C
West Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
FOWLEB, Harold North:
Philologist, archaeologist and educator;
born at Westfield, Hampden County, Mass
achusetts, February 25, 1859; son of Sam
uel Fowler and Maria (Jones) Fowler.
He was graduated from Harvard College
as A.B. in 1880, then taught two years
in a private school in Baltimore, and after
ward pursued post-graduate studies for a
year in the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens and for two years in
the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, re
ceiving the Ph.D. degree from Bonn in
1885. He was instructor at Harvard Col
lege, from 1858 to 1888, professor at Phil
lips Exeter Academy from 1888 to 1892
and in the University of Texas a year
before taking his present ^hair as professor
of Greek in the College for Women of
the Western Reserve University in 1893.
Dr. Fowler is author of various text-books
in Latin and Greek, editor of various
Greek and Latin texts, editor-in-chief of
the American Journal of Archaeology, and
chairman of its committee on Fellowships
of the American School of Classical Stud
ies at Athens.. Address: 2033 Cojnell Road,
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FOWLEB, James Alexander:
Lawyer; born at Bull Run, Knox Coun
ty, Tennessee, February 22, 1863; son of
Joseph W. Fowler and Mary (Connor)
Fowler. He was graduated from the East
Tennessee Wesleyan (now University of
Chattanooga) University as A.B. in 1884,
was a tutor there in 1884 and 1885, and
principal of the Clinton, Tennessee, High
School in 1885 and 1886. He was admit
ted to the bar in 1886, and has since
practiced law; was the Republican candi
date for presidential elector in 1896 and for
governor of Tennessee in 1898; was a
delegate to the General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1896.
He is a trustee of the University of Chat
tanooga. Address : Knoxville, Tennes
see.FOWLEB, John:
Consul-General ; born in New York City,
May 9, 1858. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Winchester, Massachusetts,
and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire. He entered the service of the
United States Government as clerk in the
Naval Rendezvous at Washington, remain
ing there until 1881, then became clerk on
the United States Steamer Tallapoosa until
that vessel was wrecked in August, 1885.
He served as captain's clerk, later as clerk
to the Secretary of the Navy and to the
President, and cruised around the world
from 1886 to 1889. Mr. Fowler entered
the consular service under appointment by
President Harrison, February 27, 1890, as
consul of the United States as Ningpo,
China. He was transferred by President
Cleveland to Chefoo, July 1, 1896, and pro
moted to consul-general by President
Roosevelt, February 2, 1904, in which posi
tion he still remains. He received resolu
tions of thanks from many societies in the
United States, Canada, and Europe, for
services during the Boxer Rebellion, and
was given by the Emperor of China the
decoration of the Order of the Double
Dragon of the First Class. Mr. Fowler
has made numerous contributions to vari
ous magazines on Chinese and other orient

al subjects. Address : American Consul
ate-General, Chefoo, China.
FOWLEB, William P.:
Capitalist; born at Concord, New Hamp
shire, 1850; son of Asa Fowler and Mary
C. (Knox) Fowler. He is president and
director of the Industrial Aid Society, and
Institutions Registrar of the city of Boston ;
director of the Manchester and "Lawrence
Railroad, and chairman of the Board of
Overseers of the Poor of the City of Bos
ton. Address : 18 Tremont Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.FOX, Alexander M.:
. Capitalist; born in Philadelphia, October
7, 1824; learned the grocery business, and
began on his own account in 1845; after
carrying on the business for twenty-five
years he retired, turning over the establish
ment to a faithful employe. During this
period and later he became concerned in
numerous business affairs, becoming a di
rector in the Northern Liberties National
Bank, the Industrial Trust, Title and Sav
ings Company, the Fire Insurance Com
pany of Philadelphia, the Union Traction
Company and other railway companies, and
of the Philadelphia and Trenton and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Companies. He
has served as president of the Northern
Liberties Gas Company and of the Second
and Third Street Passenger Railway Com
pany, and has been connected with other
corporations. Mr. Fox served as council
man from 1864 to 1869, and was one of
the organizing members of the Union
League ; he was active in the original or
ganization of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and was elected a Director by the
City Councils in 1871 to represent the in
terest of the city as a stockholder. Ad
dress : 1415 North Broad Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
FOX, Andrew Fuller:
Lawyer, ex-congressman ; born in Pick
ens County, Alabama, April 26, 1849. He
was educated in private schools and stud
ied law at Grenada, Mississippi, and ad
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which he has since practiced. He has for
years been prominent in politics as a
Democrat, and was a delegate to the Na
tional Democratic Convention at Saint
Louis in 1888, He was a member of the
Mississippi State Senate from 1891 to 1893,
was United States attorney for the North
ern District of Mississippi from 1893 to
1896, and he was elected from the Fourth
Mississippi District in 1896, 1898 and 1900
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses, serving from 1897 to
1903. Address : West Point, Mississippi.
FOX, Austin G.:
Lawyer; born September 7, 1849. He
was educated at Choule's School, Newport,
Rhode Island, and at Churchill's Military
School at Sing Sing, New York. He was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1869,
and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He
was 'special assistant district attorney in the
prosecution of police officials after the
Lexow Committee Investigation, from 1894
to 1896, and chairman of the Citizens' Com
mittee of Nine on reorganization of the
New York police force in 1905. He is a
member of the Bar Association of the City
of New York, the New York Historical
Society; president of the St. Nicholas So
ciety, and a member of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and also a member of the
Harvard, University, Century, Players',
City, and Nineteenth Century Clubs. He
married in 1877 Alice Hoppin. Residence:
37 East Thirty-ninth Street, New York.
Office address : 45 Wall Street, New York
City.
FOX, George Henry:
Physician; born at Balston Spa, New
York, October 1846; son of Norman and
Jane Dettart (Freeman) Fox. He was
educated at the Schenectady High School;
graduated from the University of Roch
ester, as A.B., A.M.; University of Penn
sylvania, as M.D. He enlisted during col
lege course in 1864 in the Seventy-seventh
Regiment of the New York Volunteers,
and served eight months, one year 1870,
in Philadelphia Hospital; studied three
years in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London,

and traveled in Greece and Turkey; began
medical practice in New York City in 1873 ;
member and ex-president of the Medical
Societies of the County and State of New
York, New York and American Dermato
logical Societies; professor of dermatology
at Columbia University since 1880; trustee
of New York Skin and Cancer Hospital.
He is author of Atlas of Skin Diseases,
etc. His favorite recreations are entomolo
gy, ornithology and horticulture. He is a
member of the University, Psi Upsilon (ex-
president), Barnard and Camera Club.
Dr. Fox married at Titusville, Pennsylva
nia, August 29, 1872, Harriet Louisa Gibbs,
and they have four children : George How
ard, Adaline, Alanson Gibbs and Helen.
Address : 18 East Thirty-first Street, New
York City.
FOX, Gilbert Rodman:
Lawyer; born at Westchester County,
New York, July 26, 1861 ; son of Gilbert
Rodman Fox and Catharine (Cruger) Fox.
He was educated at Princeton University.
Mr. Fox is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in his religious connections;
He is also a member of the Art Club of
Philadelphia, Princeton Club of New York,
and the Erskine Club of Norristown. Resi
dence: 909 De Kalb Street, Norristown,
Pennsylvania. Business address : 321
Swede Street, Norristown, Pennsylvania,
and 800 Penn Square Building, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
FOX, James D.:
Jurist; born at Fredericktown, Madison
County, Missouri, January 22, 1847; son of
David M. and Elijah P. Fox. On leaving
the public schools of his native place he
went to Saint Louis University, in 1864
and 1865. He was admitted to the bar be
fore he attained his majority, and prac
ticed at Frederictown until elected judge
of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit of
Missouri, in which post he continued from
1880 until elected November, 1902, to his
present office as one of the justices of the
Supreme Court of Missouri. Address:
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FOX, Joseph J. .
Catholic bishop of Green Bay; born at
Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 2, 1855 ;
son of Paul Fox and Frances (Bartel)
Fox. He began his education in the Cath
edral School at Green Bay, studied the
classics at Saint Francis Seminary at Mil
waukee, and philosophy and theology at
the American College and University of
Louvain, Belgium, receiving the degree of
D.D. He was ordained priest June 7,
1879, and began pastoral duties at New
Franken, Wisconsin, then took charge of
St. John's Church, Green Bay, and acted
as secretary to Bishop Krautbauer. He
became rector of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church at Marinette, Wisconsin, in 1893
and 1894, vicar-general of the diocese of
Green Bay from 1894 to 1904; was ap
pointed domestic prelate to Pope Leo
XIII in 1898, and consecrated bishop of
Green Bay July 25, 1904. Address :
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
FOX, Lyttleton:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 22, 1881 ; son of Edward Campbell
and Mary (Eddy) Fox. Was educated in
Lawrenceville School, New Jersey; grad
uated from Yale University as A.B. in 1902,
while there he was chairman of the Yale
Literary Magazine, the class historian and
editor of the Yale Courant, and was grad
uated from the New York Law School as
LL.B. in 1904. Is member of the law firm
of Escher & Fox; director of the New
York News Bureau, Atlantic Coast Realty
Company, Thomas E. Crimmins Real Es
tate and Construction Company (secret
ary) ; secretary of the Stock Quotation
Telegraph Company. In politics he is an
Independent, a member of the Chi Delta
Theta of Yale (literary), Alpha Delta Phi
(Yale Chapter), Phi Delta Phi (Dwight
Chapter), and a member of the Yale, Aero,
West Side Lawn Tennis, and Graduates'
Club of New Haven. Mr. Fox married
at Good Ground, Long Island, Septem
ber 19, 1905, Genevieve, daughter of
Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, presiding jus
tice of the Appellate Division of Supreme

Court. Addiress: 163 East Eightieth
Street, New York City.
FOX, Philip:
Astronomer; born in Manhattan, Kan
sas, March 7, 1878; son of Simeon M. Fox
and Esther Butler Fox. He was graduated
from the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege as B.S., in 1897, and later received
the M.S. degree from that college; and
from Dartmouth College as B.S. in 1902.
He was assistant in graphics at the Kansas
State Agricultural College in 1897 and
1898; commandant of St. John's Military
School, Salina, Kansas, in 1900 and 1901;
assistant in physics at Dartmouth, in 1902
and 1903; Carnegie research assistant in
Yerkes Obesrvatory from 1903 to 1906;
and instructor in astrophysics at Chicago
University since 1907. He enlisted in the
Twentieth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Com
pany M, June 12, 1898, was promoted cor
poral July 20, 1898; sergeant September 4,
1898; second lieutenant, August 20, 1899;
and was assigned to Company H, and was
mustered out with the regiment. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religion an
Episcopalian. He is. a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and of the Masonic order.
His favorite recreations are all out-door
sports, swimming, boating, skating, golf,
running, and music. Mr. Fox married in
Chicago, August 28, 1905, Ethel Lillian
Snow, and they have one son, Stephen
Snow Fox, born in 1906. Address : Yerkes
Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
FOX, Reuben L. :
Bureau Legislative and Department of
Information, Albany, New York. With
Republican State Committee as chief clerk
and afterwards secretary and member
for twenty-nine years. Deputy State
engineer and surveyor in 1882. Gave to
the village' of Oneonta in 1900, a hospital
in memory of Mrs. Fox, called The Aure-
lia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital. He
was born in Chenango County, New York;
son of H. and Sally M. (Finch) Fox; and
was educated at Cazenovia Seminary. He
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portation Company, T. F. MarVell Ship
building Company, Staples and Hanford
Manufacturing Company; member of Bat
tery A, First New York Artillery, and
Twenty-second New York Cavalry. Clubs. :
Union League, Lotos, Republican, Fort
Orange (Albany), Oneonta (Oneonta).
He married at Oneonta, New York, Aure-
lia Osborn.. Address : Republican Club, 54
West Fortieth Street, New York City.
FOX, William Carlton:
Diplomat; born in Saint Louis, Missouri,
May 20, 1855; son of Elias Williams Fox
and Eusebia Johnson Fox. He was edu
cated in Washington University at Saint
Louis and at the Pennsylvania Military
College at Chester, Pennsylvania. He en
tered the consular service of the United
States upon his appointment, in 1876, as
consul at Brunswick, Germany, where he
remained until 1888. He was appointed in
1891 as vice-consul-general of the United
States at Teheran, Persia, remaining until
1892, and was in charge of the American
Legation at that place. During the cholera
epidemic at Teheran in 1892 he organized
and financed the American Missionary
Hospital and Dispensary, for which work
he received the thanks of the Shah of
Persia and of the American Board of
Foreign Missions. Was secretary to the
United States Minister to Greece, Rouman
ia and Servia in i8g3. He established in
1895 and conducted for some years a dip
lomatic and consular journal. He was
chief clerk of the Bureau of American
Republics from 1898 until 1905 when he was
appointed director of that Bureau, thence
promoted in 1907 to his present position
as envoy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Ecuador.
He represented the International Union' of
the American Republics at the second In
ternational American Conference at Mexi
co, and in 1901 and igo2 the third In
ternational conference at Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Fox is a Republican in politics, and
was for a time president of the New Jer
sey Republican Association of the District
of Columbia. He was a member of the

Government Board of Management of the
Pan American Exposition at Buffalo in
igoi, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
at St. Louis in 1904, and of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon, in
1905. Mr. Fox is a writer on diplomatic
subjects and international questions having
contributed to various publications in Eu
rope and America. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, the Society of the War
of 1812, and the Cosmos Club of Washing
ton, D. C. He married, in Brunswick,
Germany, 1880, Louise Ludewig. Address :
American Legation, Quito, Ecuador,' or
care of the Department of State, Wash
ington, D. C.
FOX, William Freeman:
Forester; bbrn at Ballston Spa, New
York, January 11, 1840; son of Rev. Nor
man and Jane (Freeman) Fox. Was edu
cated in Union College, class of i860. Has
traveled extensively in principal countries
of Europe, noting forest conditions in each;
served in Civil War as captain, ma
jor, and lieutenant-colonel in the One
hundred and Seventh New York Volun
teers; was wounded at Antietam, Chancel
lorsville and Resaca; superintendent of the
State forests (in department twenty-two
years); is member of the Society of Am
erican Foresters ; was president of the
Alumni Association of Chi Psi fraternity,
Northern New York; companion of the
Military Order of Loyal Legion; corres
ponding secretary of the Society of Army
of the Potomac. He is author of Regi
mental Losses in the Civil War, 1889; New
York at Gettysburg, igoo; The Adiron
dack Spruce, i8g4; State Forestry Reports,
1885 to ig03; History of the Lumber In
dustry in the State of New York, igo2;
Tree Planting on Streets and Highways,
ig03; Life of General Slocum; History of
the Twelfth Army Corps, igos ; and is contri
butor to magazines and technical publication.
Colone 1 Fox married at Corning, New
York, September 28, 1863, Mary Ann Shat
tuck, and they have one son, Charles, born
in 1868. Address : 342 Hudson Avenue, Al
bany, New York.

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FOXCROFT, Frank:
Journalist; born in Boston, January 21,
1850; son of George A. Foxcroft and Har
riet E. (Goodrich) Foxcroft. He was
graduated from Williams College as A.B.
in 1871, then became an assistant editor on
the Boston Journal until 1904. He has
been a department editor on the Youth's
Companion since 1895 and editor of Littell's
Living Age since 1896, and was appointed
a civil service commissioner of Massa
chusetts in July, 1904. He edited Resurgit,
a collection of hymns and songs of Resur
rection and has contributed articles to the
Atlantic Monthly, the Nineteenth Century
and other magazines and reviews. Resi
dence : 25 Hillside Avenue, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Office address : 6 Beacon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
FOY, Eddie (Edwin Fitzgerald) :
Actor ; born in New York. He made his
first public appearance in 1869 at a benefit
at the Newsboys' Home at Chicago, in a
clog dance. From 1876 until 1881 he was
dancing and doing turns at concert halls in
Chicago and Kansas City. In 1881 he ap
peared at the Adelphi Theatre, San Fran
cisco, in white face specialties in the open
ing Olios, and played leading parts in the
dramas which wound up the show. Later
he was a member of Emerson's Minstrels,
and of the Carncross Minstrels in Philadel
phia. After that he appeared with various
companies, making his first comedy hit as
the Lunatic, with Kate Castleton, in 1888.
Since then he has starred in a number of
parts, playing in Topsy Turvy for one hun
dred and fifty nights at the Herald Square
Theatre in New York. Mr. Foy married,
in 1895, Madeline Morando, premier danc
er. Address : Post Road, New Rochelle,
New York.
FOYE, Andrew Ernest:
Consulting engineer, capitalist ; born New
York City, May 13, 1872; son of Andrew
J. C. and Catharine S. (House) Foye;
graduated Columbia University, C.E., 1890.
President and director Andrew E. Foye
Company, Hanover Realty & Construction
Company, Foye-Fox Company; secretary,

treasurer Ryan-Parker Construction Com
pany, Upland Realty Company; director
Consolidated National Bank, Mechanics'
and Traders' Bank. Member New Eng
land Water Works Association, American
Water Works Association, Society for
Promotion of Engineering Education; as
sociate member American Society of Civil
Engineers ; member Ohio Society of New
York. Clubs : Engineers, New York Rid
ing and Driving, Graduates, Lawyers, New
York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Atlantic
Yacht and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
Clubs. Address : 20 Broad Street, New
ifork City.
FRANCIS, Charles Spencer:
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary; born
in Troy, New York, June 17, 1853; son of
John Morgan Francis and Harriet E.
(Tucker) Francis. His father was one of
the most distinguished citizens of New
York as journalist, political leader and
diplomat, having been American Minister
to three courts — Greece, Portugal and
Austria-Hungary. He was educated at
the Troy Academy, completing his pre
paratory education there, and then entering
Cornell University, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1877. While a stud
ent at Cornell he distinguished himself in
athletics, and particularly so on the water,
repeatedly winning the single scull cham
pionship of the University. He represent
ed Cornell in the contest for the inter
collegiate single-scull championship at
Saratoga Lake in 1876; winning it by
sculling two miles in thirteen minutes and
forty-two and. three-fourth seconds, which
time still stands as the world's intercolleg
iate record. Before matriculating at Corn
ell University he entered the office of the
Troy Times, and learned the printing
trade. He was successively compositor, re
porter, city editor and manager of that
journal, in which he acquired an interest
in 1881. He became equal partner with
his father in .1887, and in i8g7, on the
death of his father, succeeded to the edit
orial direction and sole ownership of The
Times, and is also sole owner of the
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lary to his father during the latter's three
years' residence at Athens as United
States minister to Greece, and was envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Greece, Roumania and Servia from 1900
to 1903. He was appointed, in March,
1906, American Ambassador to Austria-
Hungary. In 1881 to 1883 was colonel
and aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov
ernor Alonzo B. Cornell, of New York,
and was earlier captain, major and lieu
tenant-colonel on the staff of Major-Gen
eral J. B. Carr of the National Guard of
New York. He was twice elected an alum
ni- trustee of Cornell University, and is
vice-president of the New York Scenic and
Historic Preservation Society. Mr. Fran
cis has always been an active Republican.
He is a member of the Sons of the Re
volution, the Society of the War of 1812,
the Hudson-Fulton, New York State
Commission, the Zeta Psi fraternity,
treasurer and founder in 1887, of the Troy
Times Fresh Air Fund; director of the
Troy Trust Company and the Albany Trust
Company; and was a regent of the Uni
versity of the State of New York from
1903 to 1906 — twice elected by the Legisla
ture and resigning a ten-year term upon
accepting diplomatic mission to Austria-
Hungary. He is a member of the Troy,
Laureate Boat and Rensselaer Coun
ty Republican Clubs of Troy, and the
Republican and Cornell University Clubs
of New York City. Mr. Francis -married,
at Ithaca, New York, May 23, 1878, Alice
Evans, daughter of the late Professor
Evans, of Cornell University, and they have
five children: John Morgan Francis, Mrs.
Eugene Warren, Harriet Francis, Margaret
Francis, and Pomeroy Tucker Francis. Ad
dress : Troy Times, Troy, New York, or
American Embassy, Vienna, Austria.
FRANCIS, David Bowland:
Merchant and ex-governor; born at
Richmond, Kentucky, October 1, 1850; son
of John B. Francis and Eliza Francis. He
was graduated' from Washington Univer
sity, Saint Louis, with the degree of A.B.
in 1870, and then entered the employ of
the firm of Shryock & Rowland. He

founded, 1877, the firm of D. R,. Francis,
which later became D. R. Francis and
Brother and D. R. Francis and Brother
Commission Company, grain merchants, of
which he is president. He also founded
in 1898 the financial house of Francis
Brother and Company, of which he is
senior partner. He was mayor of Saint
Louis from 1885 to 1889, governor of
Missouri from 1889 to 1893, in President
Cleveland's cabinet as secretary of the in
terior from 1896 to 1897, and president of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition elected
in May, 1901, and reelected each succeed
ing year. He was, president of the Mer-^
chants' Exchange of Saint Louis in 1884,
is vice-president of the Merchants'-Laolede
National Bank of Saint Louis, president
of the Madison County Ferry Company.
and director of the Mississippi Valley
Trust Company. Governor Francis has re-:
ceived the degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Missouri in 1891, from Shurt-
leff College at Alton, Illinois, in igo2, from
Saint Louis University in 1904 and from
Washington University in 1905, and in
connection with the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition he received decorations from
the rulers of the principal countries of
Europe and Asia. He is president of the
Hospital Saturday and Sunday Associa
tion. He is a member of the Saint Louis,
University, Mercantile, Saint Louis Coun
try, Log Cabin, Jefferson, Round Table,
Commercial, Noonday, Racquet and Kin-
loch Clubs of Saint Louis and the Metro
politan Club and National Geographic So
ciety of Washington, D. C. He married
in Saint Louis, in 1876, Jane Perry, and
they have six sons: J. D. Perry, David
E., Jr., Talton T., Charles . B., Thomas
and Sidney R. Francis. Residence: 4421
Maryland Avenue, Saint- Louis. Office ad
dress: 214 North Fourth Street, Saint
Louis, Missouri.
FBANCIS, George Ebenezer:
Physician and surgeon; born in Lowell,
Massachusetts, May 29, 1838 ; son of James
Bicheno and Sarah Wilbur (Brownell)
Francis. He received his early education
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school of the Rev. William Cushing at
Bedford, Massachusetts. He was grad
uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1.858; and
M.D. in 1863; receiving his A.M. degree
in 1872. He served with the United States
Army in 1861 and 1862 and was acting as
sistant surgeon of the United States Navy
from 1863 to the end of the Civil War.
Beginning the practice of medicine and
surgery in Worcester, ' Massachusetts, in
1865, he became visiting, and subsequently,
consulting surgeon to the City Memorial
and St. Vincent hospitals of Worcester.
He was president of the Massachusetts
Medical Society in 1902 and 1903 and is
a member of various local professional so
cieties. He married June 23, 1868, Re
becca Newton Kinnicutt and of the two
children born to them, one survives. Ad
dress: Worcester, Massachusetts.
FRANCIS, John Bichard:
Physician; born in Washington, D. C,
March 3, 1856; son of Richard A. Francis
and Mary E. (Cornnell) Francis. He at
tended the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbra-
ham, Massachusetts, and was graduated
from the University of Michigan as M.D.
in 1878. He was first assistant surgeon of
the Freedmen's Hospital; clinical lecturer
on obstetrics in the Medical Department of
Howard University, and is now obstetrician
and lecturer on diseases of children in
Training School for Nurses, Freedmen's
Hospital. Dr. Francis is owner and phy
sician in charge of Francis' Sanitarium.
He is a member of the Medico-Chirurgi
cal Society; the National Medical Associa
tion; was formerly member of the Board
of Education of Washington, D. C, and is
vice-president of the Civic Club there. Dr.
Francis married in Washington, D. C, De
cember 28, 1881, Bettie G. Cox, and they
have five children : Milton A., born in
1883 ; John R., born in 1885 ; Hugh R., born
in 1887; Cederic E., born in 1890; and
Dorothea E., born in 1897. Address: 2I12
Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington,
D. C.
FBANCIS, Joseph Marshall:
Bishop of the Episcopal Church; born
Eaglesmere, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1862;

son of James B. and Charlotte A. (Marsh
all) Francis. He was educated at the
Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, and at
Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin, later
completing his studies at the University
of Oxford, England. He received the
degree of B.D. from Nashotah, (Wiscon
sin) Theological Seminary in 1889, and of
D.D. from Hobart College and Nashotah,
He was ordained to the diaconate in 1884
and was attached to the Cathedral staff;
Milwaukee, with th6 charge of St. Ed
mund's Church, Milwaukee, and St. Peter's,
Greenfield, Wisconsin. After two years
he was ordained te the jitriestheod by
Bishop Welles (1886). He was canon of
the Cathedral of Milwaukee) 1880-87; and
rector of St. Luke'ss Whitewater, Wiscon
sin) i88sKi888. Following this he went to
Japan where, in 1891 he became professor
at the Trinity Divinity School at Tokio;
being made sub-dean in 1894. He also
held the office of priest in charge of Trin
ity Cathedral at Tokio from 1892 until his
return to the United States in 1897, when
he became rector of St. Paul's Church,
Evansville, Indiana. He was elected Bish
op of Indiana on June 8, 1899, and was
consecrated bishop on September 21, 1899,
by Bishops McLaren, Davies, White, Sey
mour, ISlicholson and Burton. Bishop
Francis married in 1887, Kate Stevens, of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Address: 1549
Central Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.
FBANCKE, Kunol
Philologist, historian, educator; born in
Kiel, Germany, September 27, 1855; son
of Judge A. W. S. Francke of the Danish
Supreme Court and Catherine Marie Jensen
Francke. He was graduated from the gym
nasium at Kiel in 1873, and received the de
gree of Ph.D. from the University of Mu
nich in 1878, and of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1904. From 1882 to
1884 he was associate editor of the Monu-
menta Germaniae Historica at Berlin. He
became connected with Harvard University
as instructor in German in 1884, in 1896
he was elected professor of German lit
erature in Harvard College, in 1906 his title
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history of German culture. In 1902 when
the Germanic Museum, largely through
his efforts, was established at Harvard, he
, was appointed its curator and still holds
that , office. Professor Francke is a chev
alier of the Royal Prussian Order of the
Red Eagle and of the Royal Prussian Or
der of the Crown. He is author of several
works on German literature and art in
German and English. Address : Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
FRANK, Julius J.:
Lawyer; born New York City, March
3, 1852; son of Joseph and Emilie Frank;
educated public schools ; graduated College
City of New York, A.B., B.S., 1871, A.M.,
1873; Columbia College Law School, LL.
B-, 1873. Admitted to bar, 1873, and has
since practiced in New York City. Has
been very active in politics as an Independ
ent, and especially .in the reform move
ments of 1894, 1895, and igoi, and the
Anti-Snapper movement of 1892, which re
sulted in nomination of Cleveland, having
been member Committee of Fifty which
organized the movement; member of the
Committee of Seventy (1804) ; the Albany
(Anti-Snapper) Democratic Convention,
February, 1892,. and delegate to Chicago
National Convention, New York Society
for Ethical Culture (trustee) and numer
ous charitable and benevolent organizations.
An organizer of the New York County
Democracy, New York State Democracy,
and of Citizens' Union; as president West
Side Parker Independent Club, active in
presidential campaign of 1904. Member of
Bar Association of New York (Grievance
Committee). Clubs: Freundschaft (ex-
president), Reform (trustee), (Harmonie,
The Judaeans, Club C (trustee). Married,
1883, Helen Rosenberg. Residence: 138
West Seventy-eighth Street. Address : 52
William Street, New York City.
FBANK, Philip:
Lawyer; born Winfield Junction, Queens
County, New York, September 17, 1873;
son of Gustav and Jette (Ehrlich) Frank;
educated College of the City of New York,
New York Law School. Admitted to New

York Bar, November 3, 1898; appointed
assistant corporation counsel city of New
York, April 1, 1904; resigned Ma'ch 1,
1906; appointed Transfer Tax Appraiser
in and for the County of Queens, February
1, 1907. Member law firm of Gregg,
Frank & De Witt; Queens County Demo
cratic Committee, 1900-1905 ; secretary com
mittee for erection Carnegie libraries in
Borough of Queens; past regent Newtown
Council, No. 717, Royal Arcanum ; super
vising deputy grand regent Royal Arcanum
in State of New York; Island City Lodge
586, F. and A. M. He married at Win-
"ield Junction, November 15, 1896, Bertha
Worms ; and they have two children ; Mir
iam, born in 1897, and Helen, born in 1898.
Democrat. Address : 8 Fisk Avenue, Win
field Junction, Queens County, New York.
FBANKFOBTEB, George Bell:
Dean of the School of Chemistry at the
University of Minnesota ; born at Potter,
Wood County, Ohio, April 22, i860; son
of Andrew Frankforter and Elizabeth
1, Clunk) Frankforter. He was graduated
in 1886 and A.M. in 1888; specialized in
-.hemistry in Germany; and received the
legree of Ph.D. from the University of
Berlin. He has held the chair of chem-
:stry at the University of Minnesota since
1-893, and is also director of the Chemical
Laboratory there. He was appointed by
President McKinley, a member of United
States Mint Commission in 1900. Ad
dress : 525 East River Road, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. FBANKLAND, Frederick William:
Actuary, philosophical writer; born in
Manchester, England, April 18, 1854; son
of Sir Edward Frankland and Sophie
Christiana (Fick) Frankland. He was
educated in the University College, London.
He was actuary to the New Zealand Gov
ernment from 1878 to 1890; New Zealand
delegate to the International Congress of
Hygiene and Demography, London, i8gi ;
associate actuary of the New York Life
Insurance Company from 1893 to 1902,
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under-average lives, a new departure which
has turned out highly successful. Fie trav
eled in India in 1903, for the purpose of
studying the ethnological characteristics of
Tibetans and Todas, especially with respect
to the influence of their polyandrous domes
tic institutions on national and tribal life.
He has been a resident since then in New
Zealand, where he has taken an active part
in politics, and has advised the government
on financial and actuarial matters. He has
been a member of the Borough Council of
Foxton, New Zealand, since 1904, and was
a Parliamentary candidate at the general
election of 1905, but retired from the con
test to avoid splitting of votes injurious
to his party. He is a member of the
School Committee of Foxton, New Zea
land. He has been a justice of the peace
in His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea
land since igo6. Mr. Frankland has con
tributed extensively to various publications
on philosophical and sociological subjects,
notably with reference to the relation of
discrete time and space to Certain physical
and metaphysical problems, and with' re
ference to the theology of American Per
fectionism. He is a life member of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science ; fellow of the American
Mathematical Society; member of the
Actuarial Society of America ; fellow
of the National Geographic Society of
Washington, D. C, Royal Statistical So
ciety of London; life fellow of the Insti
tute of Actuaries of Great Britain and Ire
land. In the main, he is a Republican and
a supporter of Mr. Roosevelt, but more
favorable to the assumption of leading in
dustries by the National and State gov
ernments. " In religion, he is an Episcopal
ian. He is a member of the West Side
Republican Club of New York City, Royal
Societies Club of London, and the Welling
ton Club of Wellington, New Zealand. He
married in Wellington, New Zealand, April
30, -1879, Miriam Symons, and they have
two children : Frederick Herston, born in
1882, and Charles Edward Harold, born
in 1897. Address : Okataina, Foxton,
Manawatu, New Zealand.

FRANKLIN, Edward Curtis:
Professor of chemistry in Stanford Uni
versity; born at Geary City, Kansas, March
1, 1862; son of Thomas Henry Franklin
and Cynthia Ann (Curtis) Franklin.
After his graduation from the University
of Kansas as B.S., in 1888, he took post
graduate studies at the University of Ber
lin (Germany), and at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from
the latter institution in 1894. He was as
sistant professor of chemistry from 1889
to 1894; associate professor from 1894 to
1899, and professor of physical chemistry
from 1890, to igo3 in the University of
Kansas; associate professor of organic
chemistry from igo3 to igo6, and professor
of the same chair since igo6 at Leland
Stanford, Jr., University. He was engaged
as a sugar chemist in 1888 and as chemist
with a gold mining company in 1897. Dr.
Franklin is a fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science,
arid the American Chemical Society; mem
ber of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft,
Kansas Academy of Science, Sierra Club,
United States Assay Commission, 1906, Na
tional Geographic Society, Phi Delta Theta
and the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi so
cieties. He has traveled in Europe and
Central America, as well as in the United
States ; and his favorite recreations are
mountaineering and tennis. Politically, Dr.
Franklin is a Republican. He married in
Denver, Colorado, July 11, i8g7, Effie June
Scott, and they have three children : Anna
Comstock, Charles Scott, and John Curtis.
Residence: 11 16 Ramona Street, Palo Alto,
California. Office address : Stanford Uni
versity, California.
FRANKLIN, Fabian:
Editor "Of the Baltimore News from
September, i8g5 ; born at Egar, Hungary,
January 18, 1853; son of Morris J. and
Sarah (Heilprin) Franklin. After being
graduated from Columbian (now George
Washington) University, as Ph.B., in 1869,
he was engaged in civil engineering and
surveying until 1877 when he went to Johns
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then associate professor and profes
sor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins
until .becoming editor of the Baltimore
News. He received the degree of
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Univer
sity in 1880, and that of LL.D. from the
George Washington University in 1904.
Is a member of the Associate fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sci
ences, member of the American Mathemat
ical Society, and American Economic As
sociation, and Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Is a member of the University Club of
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Club of Balti
more, and the Baltimore Country Club.
Mr. Franklin married at Windsor, Con
necticut, August 24, 1882, Christine Ladd,
and they have one daughter, Margaret Ladd
Franklin, born July 26, 1884. Address :
103 West Monument Street, Baltimore,
Maryland.
FRANKLIN, Frank George:
Teacher; born in Plover, Wisconsin,
April 29, 1861 ; son of George -W. Franklin
and Mary Jane (Bates) Franklin. Grad
uated from Cornell University as B.L. in
1887, from University of Chicago as Ph.D.
in 1900. Was instructor in American His
tory and Civics at the University of Ne
braska from 1897 to i8gg, professor of
history at Mount Union College from
1902 to 1904, and has been professor of
history and political science at the Uni
versity of the Pacific, San Jose, California,
since 1904. He is author of : The Legisla
ture History of Naturalization in the United
States, 1906, through the University of
Chicago Press. In politics is a Prohibition
ist and in religion a Methodist Episcopalian.
Is a member of the American Historical
Society, - and of the Sierra Club. Mr.
Franklin married in Wellington, Kansas,
June 20, 1895, Viola V. Price. Address:
University of the Pacific, San Jose, Cali
fornia.
FBANKLIN, Samuel B.:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy;
born in Pennsylvania; appointed from
Pennsylvania, February 18, 1841 ; promoted
passed midshipman, August 10, 1847; com

missioned as lieutenant, September 14,
1855; Naval Academy, in. 1855 and 1856.
He was a volunteer on board of Roanoke
in the action with the Merrimac, March,
1862, in which Congress and Cumberland
were destroyed; the Roanoke was engaged
with the forts at Sewell's Point but ground
ed, and did not get fairly into action. Ex
ecutive officer of the Dacotah in the attack
upon the batteries at Sewell's Point in
the spring of 1862 ; commissioned as lieu
tenant commander, July 16, 1862; com
manding the steam gunboat Aroostook,
James River Flotilla, 1862; commanding
Aroostook, Western Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863 ; on the staff of Acting
Rear-Admiral Thatcher during the opera
tions of Mobile Bay in the spring of 1865,
and was the naval representative in the
demand for the surrender of the City of
Mobile ; commissioned as commander,
September 26, 1866; commissioned as cap
tain, August 13, 1872; fleet captain of
the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron,
under Commodore Bell, Rear-Admiral
Palmer, and Acting Rear-Admiral Thatch
er. Joined the Wabash, on the European
Station, in 1873, and commanded her and
served as Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral
Case ; the flag was shifted to the Franklin,
which vessel he commanded and served in
her as Chief of the Staff to Rear-Admiral
Worden, when he relieved Admiral Case
in command of the squadron ; president of
Board of Examiners for promotion of of
ficers, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1877; promot
ed to commodore, May 1881, special duty,
Washington, 1881 to 1883 ; hydrographer
to the Bureau of Navigation, from 1877 to
1880; superintendent of Naval Observa
tory in 1884 and 1885 ; promoted to rear-
admiral January, 1885, with the Pensacola
as. flagship ; remained in this command
till August, 1887, when he was relieved;
retired, 1887. Appointed by President
Cleveland, February, 1889, as one of the
delegates on the part of the United States
to the International Marine Conference,
and was chosen president of that body on
October 16, upon its assembling at Wash
ington. Is a member of the Pennsylvania

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Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. Address: 1338 Nineteenth
Street, N, W., Washington, D. C.
FRANKLIN, Walter Slmonds:
Civil engineer, capitalist; bom at York,
Pennsylvania, March 1, 1836; son of
Walter Simonds Franklin and Sarah (Buel)
Franklin. He was graduated from the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard
University as B.S. summa cum laude, in
1857, and was engineer on the Fernandina
and Cedar Keys Railroad in Florida for
a year, and then spent the year 1859 in
Europe. He was appointed first lieutenant
of the Twelfth Regiment of United States
Infantry in May, 1861, served in the Army
of the Potomac under General McClellan,
and later under Sheridan in the Shenan
doah Valley, and Grant until Appomattox.
He was on the staff of General Sedgwick
until the latter was killed, and then with
General Wright as inspector-general of the
Sixth Army Corps with the rank of lieu
tenant-colonel. He was brevetted major
and lieutenant-colonel United States Army,
and colonel United States Volunteers, re
turned to his regiment as captain in, 1865
and resigned in 1870. He was general
manager of the Ashland Iron Company of
Maryland until 1887 and after that with
the Maryland Steel Company until 1894.
He was president of the Baltimore City
Passenger Railroad until the consolidation
of all the roads, ihen vice-president of the
consolidation until 1903 when he retired.
Address : 24 East Mount Vernon Place,
Baltimore, Maryland.
FBANTZ. Frank:
Governor of Oklahoma. Appointed Jan
uary 13, 1906, as govenor for a four-year
term; but will hold only until the govern
or to be elected under the new State Con
stitution is inaugurated. Republican. Ad
dress, Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Fit AN ZEN August I
Artist; bora in Drotthem, Sweden. He
was educated in art at the Paris Academy,
as a portrait painter, and received medals
at Paris, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Buf

falo. Mr. Franzen is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Design and of the Play
ers' and Lotos clubs. Address : Carnegie
Hall, New York City.
FRANZONI, Charles William:
Physician; born in Washington, D. C,
August 15, 1837 son of John Clement Fran-
zoni and Ann (Dunbar) Franzoni. He
was graduated from Columbian (now
George Washington) University, as Ph.B.
in 1859, and as M.D. in 1869, and has -ever
since been engaged in the practice of medi
cine at Washington. He served three
months in the District of Columbia . Volun
teers during the Civil War. He has been
president of the Washington Medical Asso
ciation, and for the past thirty-three years
has been treasurer of the Washington Med
ical Society. Fie has been a member of
the American Medical Association since
1872, Dr. Franzoni married Sarah Ce
cilia Saunders, of Cleveland, Ohio, October
25, 1876 (died, July, 1904), and has one
daughter, Cecelia, born in 1879, a B.A.
graduate of George Washington University.
Address: 605 I Street, N. W., Washing
ton, D. C.
FBAFS, George Stronach:
Associate-professor of chemistry; born
in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 9,
1876. Before graduation from the North
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege as B.S. in 1896, he was assistant in
chemistry at that institution for 'a year; was
fellow at Johns Hopkins University in 1898
and 1899, receiving the Ph.D. degree in
i89g. Dr. Fraps was assistant professor of
chemistry at the North Carolina Agricult
ural and Mechanical College and assistant
chemist of the North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station from 1899 to 1903; then
was assistant chemist from 1903 to 1905, of
the Texas Experiment Station; acting
chemist, 1905 to 1906, and since 1906 has
been chemist. Dr. Fraps was also asso
ciate professor of chemistry in 1904 and
1905 ; acting professor from 1905 to 1906,
and again associate professor of chemistry
since 1906 in the State Agricultural and
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ing State chemist of Texas in 1905 and 1906,
and has since been State -chemist. FIis chief
researches have been in the chemistry of
soils, and he is author of: Principles of
Dyeing, and of many scientific papers in
chemical journals and proceedings, as well
as reports and bulletins of the North Caro
lina arid Texas Experiment Stations. lie
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the American
Chemical Society, Association of Official
Agricultural Chemists, Deutsche Chemische
Gesellschaft, the Society of. .Chemical In
dustry and the Phi Beta Kappa Society."
Dr. Fraps married in Durham, North Car
olina, June 17, 1903, Ellen Wade Saun
ders, and they have two children: George
Saunders and Mary Brandon. Address :
College Station, Texas.
FBASEB, Horatio Nelson:
Manufacturing ¦ chemist ; born in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, November 30, 1851 ;
son of Edward Simon Praser and Mary
(Waller) Fraser. He was graduated from
the high school at Davenport, Iowa, in
1866, and from the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy in 1872. He engaged in busi
ness as a manufacturing chemist and is
now president of the Fraser Tablet Com
pany of New York. He was treasurer of
the New York College of Pharmacy from
1890 to 1896. Residence: 339 West
Eighty-sixth Street, New York City.
Office address: 563 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
FBAYEB, Eugene:
Lawyer; born in Huron County, Ohio,
September 15, 1851; son of Ambrose and
Adaline (Lee) Frayer. Was educated in
country schools, Oberlin College (Pre-
_paratory Department), graduated from
Cornell University as A.B. with Phi Beta
Kappa honors in 1876 and A.M. in 1877
and from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
in 1879. Was ten years as partner of John
DeWitt Warner, nine years as partner of
Alfred P. W. Seaman, and three years
with present firm of Frayer, Stotesbury
& Gregg. In politics he is an Independ
ent Republican. Is a member of the Ad

visory Board of Bloomingdale Day Nurs
ery; member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, New York
State Bar Association, Ohio Society, Phi
Beta Kappa Alumni, and Delta Upsilon.
His favorite recreations are golf and bowl
ing, and he is a member of the Down
Town, West Side Republican, Cornell Uni
versity, Graduates and Englewood Golf
Clubs. Mr. Frayer married at Cornwell-
on-Hudson, October 19, 1880, Fanny Wil
son. Residence: 323 West One hundred
and Fourth Street. Address: 141 Broad
way, New York City.
FBAZEB, David Buddach:
Clergyman; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
July 10, .1837; son of William R. Frazer
and Eliza J. (Armitage) Frazer. He was
educated at the Central High School at
Baltimore, at Delaware College and at
Princeton College, from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1861 ; and he was gradu
ated from the Union Theological Semin7
ary in New York in 1864. He was ordained
to the ministry in 1865; was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church at Clifton,
Staten Island, from 1865 to 1867 ; at Hud
son, New York, 1867 to 1872 ; Buffalo, New
York; from 1872 to 1880; Classon Avenue
Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, 1880 to
1883 since then pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Newark, 'New Jersey.
He received the degree of D.D. from
Princeton in 1881. He is a trustee of
Princeton University; director of the Union
Theological Seminary at New York, and
president and trustee of the German Theo
logical Seminary and the Job Haines House
for Aged People, both at Newark, New
Jersey. Dr. Frazer married at Penn's
Manor, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1866, Rose
Thompson, and they have five children.
Address: 1028 Broad Street, Newark, New
Jersey. FBAZEB, Ferslfor:
Geologist and chemist ; born in Phila
delphia, July 24, 1844; son of John Fries
Frazer and Charlotte (Jeffers) Cave.
After a preparatory education at St. Luke's
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J. W. Faires' Classical Academy; he at
tended the University of Pennsylvania,
where he was graduated as B.A. in 1862,
and A.M. in 1865. He attended Booth and
Garrett's Chemical Laboratory in 1866, and
the Mining Academy at Freiberg, Saxony,
from 1866 to 1869 inclusive, passing the
examination in mineralogy with distinction.
He received in 1882, from the Universite
de France the degree of Docteur es-Sci-
ences Naturelles. On July 4, 1862, he was
commissioned as aid in the United States
Coast Survey and assigned to service with
the Navy in the South Atlantic blockading
Squadron. He was with the Philadelphia
City Troop at Gettysburg in 1863, having
obtained leave of absence to volunteer when
Lee crossed the Potomac, and later was
acting ensign United States Navy, to the
end of the war in 1865, serving in the Mis
sissippi Squadron. He was instructor and
assistant professor during 1870 and 1871 ;
and professor of chemistry 1872, '73 and
'74, in the "University of Pennsylvania ; as
sistant geologist of the Second Geological
Survey of Pennsylvania from 1874 to 1882;
general manager of the Central Virginia
Iron Company in 1881 ; consulting geologist,
chemist, and mining engineer, from that
date to the present; professor of chemistry
of the Franklin Institute, and an editor of
its journal from 1882 to 1894, and an edi
tor from 1902 to date; professor of chem
istry of the Horticultural Society of Penn
sylvania since 1889. Dr. Frazer has trav
eled in the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Europe, the Mediterranean coast of Africa,
European and Asiastic Russia. In politics
he classifies himself as a Civil Service Re
form Mugwump. Dr. Frazer is officier de
['Instruction publique de France; corre
spondent de Reichsanstalt (Austria) ; hon
orary member of the Societe Geologique
de Belgique (Belgium). He received in
1906 from the City of Philadelphia, on rec
ommendation of the Franklin Institute, the
John Scott Legacy medal, for the inven
tion of a colorimeter. He is author of:
Tables for the Determination of Minerals
(six editions) ; Bibliotics, or the Study of

Documents (three editions) ; Four Vol
umes of the Reports of the Second Geolog
ical Survey of Pennsylvania'; Life and Let
ters of E. D. Cope; the Matriculate cata
logue of the University of Pennsylvania
(in collaboration) ; Volumes I and II of
Descendants of Persifor Frazer; and over
three hundred papers and contributions to
the scientific press. He is a life member
of the American Philosophical Society
(formerly Secretary), Academy of Natural
Sciences, the Franklin Institute of Penn
sylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
American Institute of Mining Engineers
(twice vice-president), Pennsylvania Hor
ticultural Society (professor), Sociedad Ci
entifica Antonio Alzate (Mexico), Societe
Geologique du Nord (France), British As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of_the
United States, Naval Veterans' Associa
tion, Society of the Cincinnati in New Jer
sey (hereditary), Pennsylvania Society of
the Sons of the Revolution, Delta .Psi fra
ternity; life fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and
the Geological Society of America. He is
a member of the Society of the War of 1812
(vice-president), Society of Colonial Wars
in Pennsylvania, Society of American Au
thors, the University, and Legion dining
Clubs, the Philadelphia Cricket Club and
the Moyamensing Lawn Tennis Club. Dr.
Fraer married in Philadelphia, September
2, 1871), Isabella Nevins Whelen, and they
have had four children : Charlotte, born
September 14, 1872; Persifor, born July 3,
1874; Laurence, born February 11, 1878,
died June 29, 1881 ; and John, born Feb
ruary 5, 1882. Residence, 928 Spruce Street.
Office address : 1082 Drexel Building, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
FBAZEB, Beah:
Pay director United States Navy; born
in Pennsylvania ; captain's clerk, flagship
Hartford and Lackawanna, Asiatic Station,
1872-1875. He was appointed from Penn
sylvania, July 15, 1875; Intrepid, 1875;
Catskill, North Atlantic Station, 1876; Rio
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sistant paymaster, October 27, 1879; assist
ant to paymaster, New York, 1879-1880;
Alliance, North Atlantic Station, and Jean-
nette, search expedition, 1880-1882; Wac-
hussett, Pacific Station, 1882-1885; Alliance,
South Atlantic Station, February, 1888, to
September, 1899; Alliance, on the Asiatic
Station, January, 1890, to July 1893.
Promoted paymaster, January. 19, 1892;
receiving ships St. Louis and Rich
mond, and League Island Navy Yard, Sep
tember, 1893, to November, 1896; Puritan,
North Atlantic Station, 1897; Indiana,
North ¦ Atlantic Station, from January 15,
1898 to 1899 ; Navy Yard, League Island,
September, 1899; promoted pay inspector
August 27, 1901 ; pay director January ig,
igo3; navy pay office, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, October 26, 1903, to February 28,
1907 ; general storekeeper, Navy Yard, New
York, from April 28, 1907. Address : Navy
Yard, New York' City.
FBAZEB, Bobert Sellers :
President Judge ; born September 18,
1849, in Fayette City, Fayette County, Penn
sylvania. He was educated at West Ches
ter Academy, West Chester, Pennsylvania,
and Western University of Pittsburgh. Ad
mitted to practice in the courts of Alle
gheny County, Pennsylvania, March 29,
1873; member of the State House of Rep
resentatives from Allegheny County in
1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880. He was elected
Judge of the Court oi Common Pleas Num
ber 2, Allegheny County, in 1896, for a ten
years' term; was commissioned president
judge of the same court November 5, 1900.
Reelected in 1906 without opposition and
commissioned as president judge for ten
years beginning on the first Monday of Jan
uary, 1907. Republican in politics and a
member of the Union Club, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Address, 5820 Rippey Street,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
FBAZIEB, James B.:
United" States Senator ; born in Pikeville,
Bledsoe County, Tennessee, October 18,
1856; son of Thomas N. Frazier and Mar
garet (McReynolds) Frazier; graduated at
the University of Tennessee in June, 1878;

read law with his father, at Nashville,
Tennessee, was admitted to the bar and
removed to Chattanooga in 1881, and prac
ticed law there continuously until 1902;
was elector for the States-at-large on the
Democratic ticket in 1900; was elected
governor of Tennessee in 1902, and again
in 1904; was elected to the United States
Senate March 21, 1905, to fill out. the un
expired term of Hon. William B. Bate,
who died during the session of the general
assembly, and resigned the office of gov
ernor of Tennessee on March 27, 1905;
took his seat December 4, 1905. His term
as senator will expire March 3, 191 1. He.
married at Athens, Tennessee,, in 1883,
Miss Louis Douglas Keith. Address :
Chattanoogo, Tennessee.
FBAZIEB, Kenneth:
Artist; born at Paris, France, in 1867;
son of Benjamin West Frazier and Alice
(Clarke) Frazier. He was graduated from
the Lehigh University as B.A. and after
ward studied art at the Academie Julian as
a pupil of Lefebvfe and Constant, and has
been engaged as an artist since 1889. He is
a member of the Society of American Ar
tists and of the Century Association. He
is an associate member of the National
Academy of Design. Mr. Frazier married
at Garrison, New York, in 1894, Julia Fish
Rogers, and they have three daughters :
Veronica, born in 1895, Susan Alice, born
in 1899, and Hariette Cornelia, born in 1902.
Address: 58 East Seventy-eighth Street,
New York City.
FBEAB, Hiram Perley:
Decorator; born at Holmesdale, New
Jersey; son of Hiram and Abbie A.
(Brown) Frear. Was educated by private
tutors and at Cooper Institute; followed
by travel in Europe. Direct descendant of
Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam and
Henry Freiza, an officer on General La
fayette's staff; also a connection of Mehit-
able Atwood, one of the Mayflower Pil
grims. Vice-president of E. G. Potter Co.,
member of the Sons of the American Re
volution Soeiety of Genesee, Veterans of
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Republican and a member of the Trans
portation Club. Address : 477 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City.
FBEAB, Walter Francis:
Governor of Hawaii; born in Grass Val
ley, Nevada County, California, October
29, 1863; son of Rev. Walter Frear, and
Frances E. (Foster) Frear. He was grad
uated from Oahu College in 1881 ; from
Yale as A.B. in 1885, and from Yale Law
School as LL.B. in 1890. He practiced law
in Honolulu from 1890 to 1892; and he is
vice-president of the B. F. Dillingham Com
pany, Limited, and trustee of the Oahu
Railway Land Company. He was appoint
ed second judge of the First Circuit, King
dom of Hawaii, in 1893; second associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the Pro
visional Government of Hawaii in 1893 ;
first associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the Republic of Hawaii, in 1896; chief
justice of the Territory of Hawaii in 1900;
governor of Hawaii in 1907. He was a
member of the Hawaiian Commission in
1898 ; chairman of the Hawaiian Code Com
mission in 1903, and chairman of the Ha
waiian Tax Commission in 1907. Iri poli
tics he is a Republican and in religon a
Congregationalist. He is a member of. the
Honolulu Social Science Association, and
the Hawaiian Historical Society. His fa
vorite recreation is horseback riding. Gov
ernor Frear is a member of the Pacific,
University, and Country Clubs of Hono
lulu. He married in Honolulu, Hawaii,
August 1, 1893, Mary Emma Dillingham,
and they have one daughter, Virginia, born
in 1900. Residence: 1434 Punahau Street,
Flonolulu. Address : P. O. Box 473, Hono
lulu, Hawaii.
FBEAS, Andrew M.:
President judge of the Orphans' Court of
the Eleventh Judicial District, comprising
the County of Luzerne; born October 31,
1864, at Berwick, Pennsylvania; son of
Henry L. Freas, M.D., and Amelia M.
Freas. He was educated at Bucknell Col
lege and Yale Law School and admitted to
the bar September 23, 1889. Mr. Freas was
principal of the Berwick Schools and has

been chairman of the Democratic County
Committee of Luzerne County and of the
Twenty-first District Senatorial Committee,
and a member of the State Central Com
mittee. Address: Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl
vania. FBEAS, William Streeper:
Clergyman; born at Marble Hall, Mont
gomery County, Pennsylvania, May 11,
1848; son of Jesse W. Freas and" Ann
Catharine Freas. He was graduated from
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg as
A.B. in 1876, then after a short time as
instructor of the Lutherville Seminary,
Maryland, he entered the ministry of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was sec
retary of the Allegheny Synod from 1878
to 1880, and of the General Synod from
1887 to 1899, becoming president of the
latter from 1901 to 1903 and again since
1905. Address: 2114 East Baltimore
Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
FBEEDMAN, John Joseph:
Jurist ; born in Nuremberg, Germany, Oct
ober 7, 1835; educated in Germany; came
to the United States in 1851. Admitted to
bar, i860, and in general practice until
1869; judge Superior Court, New York,
from 1869 until 1896, when, on consolida
tion of the courts, became judge Supreme
Court until term expired, 1904. Member
American Geographical Society, German
Society, Association Bar City of New York,
New York Historical Society. Clubs:
Liederkranz, Manhattan, Riding, Democrat
ic. Residence: 874 St. Nicholas Avenue.
Address: 2 Wall Street, New York City.
FBEEMAN, Abraham Clark:
Lawyer, author; born in Hancock Coun-.
ty, Illinois, May 15, 1843; son of O. S.
and Nancy (Clark) Freeman. He was
educated in the district schools of his nat
ive place, went to California with his
father in 1861, taught school in Joaquin
County, California, for two years and
studied law, and he was admitted to the
California bar in 1864. He was a member
of the Constitutional Convention of Cali
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ber of the committee appointed by the
governor to propose such amendments as
were necessary to harmonize the codes of
California with the new Conrtitution. He
became editor of American Decisions in
1879, and of American State Reports in
1888. Address: 488 Parrott Building,
San Francisco, California.
FREEMAN, Charles M.:
Consular official ; commercial agent at St.
Pierre, May 10 1898; consul June 22, 1906;
consul at Durango since March 30, 1907.
Address : Durango, Mexico.
FREEMAN, Edward Monroe:
Professor of botany and vegetable patho
logy; born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Febru
ary 12, 1875 ; son of Henry Freeman and
Sybilla (Jenni) Freeman. He was gradu
ated from the University of Minnesota, as
B.S. in 1898, M.S. in 1899, and Ph.D. in
1905; Cambridge University, England, in
1901 and 1912. He was instructor in bot
any at the College of Pharmacy, Univer
sity of Minnesota from 1898 to 1901 ; as
sistant professor of botany in the College
of Science, Literature and Arts, in igo2
and 1903; pathologist at the Bureau of
Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, from
1905 to 1907 ; professor of botany and
vegetable pathology at the College of Ag
riculture, University of Minnesota, since
1907. He is a member of the Botanical So
ciety of America, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Society of Bot
anists of Central States, and the American
Breeders' Association. He married at St.
Paul. Minnesota, -August 19, 1902, Grace
D. Studeman, and they have one son, Mon
roe Edward Freeman, born April, 1906.
Address: College of Agriculture, St. An
thony Park, St. Paul, Minnesota.
FREEMAN, Henry Varnum:
Jurist; born at Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, New Jersey, December 20, 1842;
son of Henry Freeman and Mary (Bangs)
Freeman, and he is of Pilgrim ancestry.
He. was educated in the schools of New
Haven, Connecticut, Freeport, Illinois, and
Beloit, Wisconsin. He enlisted August 6,

1862, in Company K, Seventy-fourth Illi
nois Volunteer Infantry and became its
first sergeant until August 24, 1S63, when
he was commissioned captain in the
Twelfth United States Co ored Infantry,
serving as such in the Army of the Cum
berland until honorably discharged at the
end of the war in July, 1865. He entered
Yale College, from which he was graduat
ed as A.B. in 1869, and received the de
gree of A.M. in 1874. He studied law in
New Haven, Connectxut, and in Chicago,
and was admitted to the bar in 1872, prac
ticing law in Chicago until eleced judge
of the Superior Court in November, 1893.
He was reelected in 1898 and 1904 and
was appointed justice of the Appellate
Court of Illinois in 189S. Address : 5760
Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
FBEEMAN, James Edward:
Clergyman; born in New York City, July
24, 1866; son of Henry Freeman and Mary
(Morgan) Freeman. He was educated in
the New York public schools and subse
quently for orders in the Episcopal Church.
He was in the railroad business with the
New York Central Railroad from 1882 to
1894, he was ordered deacon in the ministry
of the Episcopal Church, May 20, 1894, and
ordained as priest by Bishop Henry C. Pot
ter April 28, 1895 ; became assistant to
the rector, St. John's Church, Yonkers,
May, 1894, assuming charge of St An
drew's Chapel in South Yonkers; has been
rector of the new St. Andrew's Memorial
Church .since its organization in the fall
of 1894; during the summer, is the rector
of the Church of the Redeemer, Sorrento,
Maine; sometime acting rector of St.
John's Church, Dresden, Germany. In
politics he is a Republican. He is the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, and
vice-president of Hollywood Inn, Yonkers ;
president of the Yonkers Sanitary League;
director of the Yonkers Tuberculosis Sani
tarium, and of the St. John-Land Home,
Long Island. He belongs to the following
clubs: Transportation, Churchmen's (New
Vork City), Dunwoodie Country, Parkhill
Country (Yonkers), and the Corinthian
Yacht, He is the author of: If Not the

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Saloon, What?; Certain Aspects of the
Master-Life; Themes in Verse. He mar
ried at New York City, April 16, 1890, Ella
Vigelius; they have three children: Mary
Vigelius, Elsie Donaldson, and Will-am
Vigelius. Address: 47 Livingston Avenue,
Yonkers, New York.
FBEEMAN, James G. :
Real estate dealer; trustee of the Boston
Lying-in Hospital; the Clinton Street Real
Estate Trust; the Cushing Real Estate
Trust; the Massachusetts Charitable Fire
Society; the Park Square Trust, and direc
tor of the Real Estate Exchange & Auc
tion Board. Address: 55 Kilby Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
FBEEMAN, John Charles:
Professor of English literature in the
University of Wisconsin since 1879; born
at Lisle, Broome County, New York, Feb
ruary 14, 1842; son of Charles Waldo
Freeman and -Charlotte (Brockway) Free
man. He received his early education in
the schools of Homer, New York, and in
the Civil War served in the Twenty-seventh
and One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regi
ments of New York Volunteers in 1862
and 1863, became captain in the First New
York Veteran Cavalry Regiment in 1864,
was assistant inspector-general of the
Cavalry Corps, and in April, 1865, com
manded an expedition to Lewisburg and
the Greenbrier. After the war he entered
the University of Michigan from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1868 and
A.M. in 1871, and he was graduated from
the Union Theological Seminary, Chicago,
as B.D. in 1872. He was assistant profes
sor of Greek at the University of Chicago
from 1868 to 1874, professor of Latin
1874 to 1878 and professor of English lit-
terature until taking his present chair in
Wisconsin in 1879. He received the de
gree of LL.D. from the University of
Chicago in -1880. Professor Freeman who
is a Republican in politics was appointed
United States Consul at Copenhagen in
1900, and United States charge d'affaires
to Denmark in 1901. He is a member of
the Alpha Delta Phi, the Loyal Legion

and the Grand Army of the Republic, the
Madison Literary Club and University
Club. He married, at Geneva, Illinois,
1870, Emma Belden; children: John
Dwight, Charlotte and Mary. Address:
Madison, Wisconsin.
FBEEMAN, John Ripley:
Hydraulic engineer; born at. West
Bridgeton, Maine, July 27, 1855 ; son of Na
thaniel D. Freeman and Mary Elizabeth
(Morse) Freeman. He was graduated as
B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and received the honorary
ScD. degree from Brown University in
1904, and from Tufts University in igos.
He was principal assistant engineer of the
Water Power Company at Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts from 1877 to 1880 ; principal as
sistant to Hiram F Mills, consulting hy
draulic engineer, from 1880 to 1886; and
has since been engaged in individual prac
tice as a consulting engineer. Mr. Free
man, was chief engineer and superintend
ent of inspection of the Association of Fac
tory Mutual Insurance Companies from
1887 to 1896 ; engineer member of the Mas
sachusetts Metropolitan Water Board in
1895 and 1896; president and treasurer of
the Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company since 1896; and consulting engi
neer of New York City Water Supply since
igoo. He served as a member of the
United States Gun Carriage Test Board in
igoi ; consulting engineer in the construc
tion of the Owens River Aqueduct for Los
Angeles, California, 1906; to the Isthmian
Canal in 1907, the St. Lawrence River
Power Company, on damming the river at
Long Sault, 1907. He was also consulting
engineer to the Massachusetts Metropolitan
Park Commission in 1903 on the drainage
and sanitation of the marshes at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, and has been con
sulting engineer to various manufacturing
companies. Dr. Freeman is a lecturer in
and member of the corporation of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
has twice been awarded the Norman gold
medal of the American Society of Civil En
gineers, and was vice-president of the So
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Society of Mechanical Engineers and was
its- president in 1904 and 1905 ; the New
England Water Works Association, Boston
Society of Civil Engineers (president,
1894) ; director of the Rhode Island Hos
pital Trust Company, of Providence, Na
tional Bank of Commerce, Providence, and
Providence Gas Company; trustee of the
Peoples' Savings Bank and of Butler Hos
pital. Dr. Freeman is widely known as one
of the foremost of American hydraulic en
gineers. He is an Independent Republi
can in politics and a Unitarian in religion.
He is a member of the Engineers' Club of
New York, the University Club of Provi
dence, and the Technology Club of Bos
ton. Residence: 235 Arlington Avenue,
Business address : 815 Banigan Building,
Providence, and 299 Broadway, New York
City.
FREEMAN, Joseph Edwin:
Lawyer; born at Unity, Maine, Febru
ary 14, 1876 ; son of Joseph Hewitt and Al-
etta (Stone) Freeman; graduated from the
University of Chicago, in 1898, with the
degree of Ph.B. ; Georgetown Law School,
as LL.B. in 1901 ; post-graduate work at
Harvard Law School. Was three years
accountant in United States- Treasury De
partment, and for a brief period in the
banking business ; member of the law firm
of Stover, Hall and Freeman. President
and director of Martini Import Company;
president and director of Trojan Powder
Company; president and director Seashore
Municipal Railroad Company; d:rector of
Link Chain Belt Company, Van Bibber
Construction Company and Land and Lake
Association. Is a member of the Bar As
sociation of New York City, Military Or
der of the Loyal Legion, Delta Kappa Ep
silon fraternity, and the Harvard Club.
Address : 60 Wall Street, New York City.
FREEMAN, Joseph Hewett:
Educator; born at Poland, Androscog
gin County, Maine, May 13, 1841 '. son of
Joseph and Abigail (Gross) Freeman.
He was educated at the Maine State
Seminary and at Bates College, receiving
the degree of A.M. from the latter. He

served in the Civil War as second lieuten
ant of Company G, Twenty-third Maine
Volunteer Infantry Volunteers, ard as
captain of Company H. Fourteenth Maine
Infantry Volunteers. After the war
taught as principal and superintendent of
¦village and city schools in Illinois and
Colorado for twenty-seven years, and for
more than eight years was assistant super
intendent of public instruction, of Illinois
and for seven months State superintendent,
then taking his present position as super
intendent of the Illinois bchool for the
Blind. Mr. Freeman is a Republican in
politics, a member of Aurora Command
ery, Knights Templar, a companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic and a member of
the Congregational Church. - He married
at Unity, Maine, August 25, 1867, Mary A.
Stone, and they have four children:
Grace, Joseph Edwin, Perley L., and Harry
S. Address : Aurora, Illinois.
FBEEMAN, Weldon Winans:
Vice-president and general manager ; born
in Exeter, Ontario, Canada, June 8, 1872;
son of A. D. and Louisa A. (Winans)
Freeman. He was educated in public
schools of Listowel, Ontario; was gradu
ated number three in high school class. He
began his business career as stenographer
with Edison Electric Illuminating Company
of Brooklyn, in 1889 ; filled positions in turn
of 'assistant secretary, secretary and treas
urer, and is now vice-president and general
manager (the president being inactive). In
this period the assets of the company have
increased from $4,500,000 to more than $25,-
000,000. He is director, vice-president and
general manager of Kings County Electrical
Light and Power Company; director, vice-
president and general manager of the Edi
son Electric Illuminating Company of
Brooklyn ; director and vice-president of the
Amsterdam Electric Light, Heat and Power
Company; director and treasurer of the
Electrical Testing Laboratories ; secretary
and treasurer National Electric Light As
sociation; director of the Terminal Bank,
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Company. Is a Congregationalist in relig
ion. Is a member of the Manufacturers'
association of New York City, American
Institute of ELctrical Engineers, National
Electric Light Association, Society of Il
luminating Engineers, Brooklyn League,
Canadian Society of New York, New York
Electrical Society, and the Brooklyn, Cres
cent Athletic, Ridge and Congregational
Clubs. Mr. Freeman married in Brooklyn,
June 5, 1895, Ellen Augusta Burrows, and
they have three children: Louise Phillips,
burn in 1896; Chester Burrows, born in
1901, and Wdden Winans, Jr., born in 1904
Address: 360 Pearl Street, Brooklyn, New
York.
FREEB, Charles Lang:
Capitalist, art connoisseur; born at
Kingston,- Ulster County, New York, 1856;
son of Jacob R. Freer and Phjebe Jane
(Townsend) Freer. He was educated in
the public schools of Kingston and after
ward engaged in railway service for sev
eral years, then became a manufacturer in
Detroit but has for several years been re
tired from business. Mr. Freer has long
been a patron and collector of art, and
made a Whistler collection which gained
recognition as the finest in the United
States, and presented it along with his
other art collections, to the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington. His services to
education have also been notable and he
received from the University of Michigan
the degree of A.M. and is a director of
the American Academy in Rome. He is
a member of the Gro'.ier and Players'
Clubs in New York, the Caxton Club of
Chicago, the Copley Society of Boston, and
the Detroit,- University, Witenagemote,
Yondotega and Lake Saint Clair Fishing
and Shooting Clubs of Detroit. Residence :
33 Ferry Avenue, Detroit. Office address :
Union Trust Building, Detroit, Michigan.
FREEB, Frederick Warren:
Artist; born in Chicago, June 16, 1849;
son of Dr. Joseph Warren Freer and
Katharine (Gatter) Freer. He received
his general education in the public schools
of Chicago, and his art education at the

Royal Academy, Munich, Bavaria, and
elsewhere in Europe, where he spent sever
al years in the study and practice of art.
He was a resident of New York from 1880
to 1890, and since then has resided in Chi
cago, and is a professor at the Chicago
Art Institute. He is an associate of the
National Academy of Design at New York,
a member of the American. Water Color
Society, the New York Etchers' Club, etc.
He has received medals from the World's
Columbian, 1893, the Pan American Ex
position at Buffalo in 1901, the Charleston
Exposition of 1902, and the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition in 1904. Address: 224
Ontario Street, Chicago.
FBEEB, Hamlin e Hurlburt:
Dean and professor in Cornell College;
born in Ellsworth, Ohio, September 9,
1845 ; son of Sweeney C. Freer and Louisa
(Hurlburt) Freer. He was educated in
Cornell College, Iowa, receiving the de
gree of S.B. in 1869, S.M. in 1878, A.B. in
1880, and A.M. in 1883; and he was senior
fellow in political economy at the Univer
sity of Chicago in 1892 and 1893. Mr.
Freer has been teacher and professor in
Cornell College since 1870, and dean since
1902. He was president of the Iowa State
Teachers' Association in 1882, and again
in 1891 ; secretary of the Department of
Higher Education of the National Educa
tional Association, 1892. He was a dele
gate to the Iowa State Republican Con
vention in 1896, and took an active part
in the Sound Money campaign of 1896,
speaking in many places. He is a member
of the American Economic Association, and
the American Academy of Political and
Social Science. Professor Freer is a Re
publican in politics, and in Church rela
tions a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He married at MaquOketa, Iowa,
in December, 1872, Mary L. Markle, and
they have three daughters : Miriam, Helen
ind Louise. Address: Mount Vernon,
Iowa.FREEB, Otto Tiffer:
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Katharine (Gatter) Freer. He was edu
cated in Ludwig's Gymnasium, Munich, Ba
varia, in the Central High School, Chica
go, and Rush Medical College, Chicago,
where he was graduated as M.D. in 1879;
and one semester each in the universities
of Munich, Vienna and Heidelberg after
graduation. He was house physician and
surgeon of Cook County Hospital in 1880;
attending physician at the German Hos
pital of Chicago, from 1890 to 1896; laryn
gologist at the German Hospital, from 1896
to 1905 ; is professor of laryngology and rhi
nology in the Chicago Policlinic since 1898;
and has been assistant professor of diseases
of the throat and nose at Rush Medical
College since 1905. Dr. Freer was presi
dent of the Section on Laryngology and
Otology of the American Medical Associa
tion in 1906; president of the Chicago
Laryngological and Otological Society in
1906, and was elected a member of the
American Laryngological Association in
1904. In politics he is a Democrat. He is
a member of the University Club of Chi
cago. Residence: 224 Ontario Street, Chi
cago. Address : 34 Washington Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
FBENCH, Amos Tuck:
Banker ; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
July 20, 1863; son of Francis O. and Ellen
(Tuck) French; graduated Harvard Uni
versity, A.B., 1885. Meriiber New York
Stock Exchange three years; vice-president
and director Manhattan Trust Company;
director Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railway; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louis
ville Railroad, Northern Securities Com
pany, Northern Pacific Railway. Repub
lican. Member New York Chamber of
Commerce, New York Historical Society;
director Lying-in-Hospital di New York.
He is a member of the Knickerbocker, Met
ropolitan, Union, Grolier, Harvard, New
York Yacht, Down Town, Turf and Field,
Tuxedo, and Coney Island Jockey Clubs.
He married in Newport, Rhode Island,
December 2, 1885, Pauline Le Roy, and they
have six children. Residences: Tuxedo
in 1898, and reelected in 1900, in which

shire. Address : 20 Wall Street, New York
City. ,
FBENCH, Asa Falmer:
Lawyer; born in Braintree, Massachu
setts, January 29, i860; son of Asa French
and Sophia B. (Palmer) French. He re
ceived his preparatory education in the
Boston public schools, Adams Academy,
and "Thayer Academy, and was graduated
from Yale as A.B., in 1882. He was clerk
to the judges of the Court of Alabama
Claims at Washington, in 1885 and 1886;
district attorney for the Southeastern Dis
trict of Massachusetts from 1901 to 1906,
and has been United States attorney for the
District of Massachusetts since January,
1906. He is also president of the Randolph
Savings Bank, of Randolph, Massachusetts.
In politics he is a Republican. He is pres
ident of the Norfolk County Bar Associa
tion ; trustee of Thayer Academy, Braintree,
Massachusetts; governor of the Massachu
setts Society of Mayflower Descendants,
and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity
and the Masonic order. He is also a
member of the University Club of New
York and the University Club of Boston.
Mr. French married in Randolph, Massa
chusetts, December 13, 1887, Elisabeth Am
brose Wales, and they have two children:
Jonathan Wales, born in 1891, and Con
stance, born in 1896. Residence: Ran
dolph, Massachusetts. Address : 87 Milk
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
FBENCH, Burton Lee:
Congressman and lawyer; bom near
Delphi, Indiana, August 1, 1875 ; son of
Charles A. and Mina P. French; moved
with, his parents to Kearney, Nebraska, in
1880, and moved to Idaho in 1882; was
graduated from the University of Idaho
in 1901 with the degree of A.B., and was
fellow in the University of Chicago in 1901
and 1902, graduating in 1903 with the de
gree of Ph.M. ; is an attorney at law, and
member of the law firm of Orland, Smith
& French; was elected upon the Repub
lican ticket to the house of representatives
in the fifth session of the Idaho legislature
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latter year he was the Republican caucus
nominee for speaker; was elected to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the First Idaho District. He married, June
28, 1904, Winifred Hartley. Address :
Moscow, Idaho.
FBENCH, Clarence Freeman:
Lawyer; born at Belfast, Maine, August
20, 1864; son of Allen D. French and Mary
Elizabeth (Yates) French. After a prepar
atory education in the public schools of
Belfast, Maine, he entered Tufts College,
from which he was graduated as Ph.B. in
1889; and afterward attended the Harvard
Law School. He has been in general law
practice since 1890; in Waltham until 1900,
and since then in Boston. He is treasurer
and director of the Boston Water Power
Company, arid director of the Brooklyn De
velopment Company, and the Greater New
York Development Company ; president and
director of the Waltham Street Railway
Company; secretary arid director of the
Wood Harmon Bond Company; director of
the Metropolitan Associates' of New York,
and of the New York Suburbs Company.
He is a trustee of the Waltham Training
School for Nurses, and the Waltham Edu
cational Society ; a member of the Delta Up
silon Society (Tufts Chapter), the New
England Genealogical and Historical So
ciety, Bostonian Society, and the Masonic
Order. Mr. French is a Republican in poli
tics, and was alderman for two years and
served on the School Committee three years
in Waltham ; and he is a member of . the
Congregational Church. He married in Wal
tham, Massachusetts, July 18, 1891, Alice
L. Bates, and they have six children: Jos
eph Allen, bora in 1892; Herbert Moulton,
born in 1894; George Lowell, born in 1896;
Clarence Bates, born in 1898; Alice Eliza
beth, bom in igoi ; and Curtis Bradford,
born in 1903. Residence : 49 Pleasant
Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. Office ad
dress : 85 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.
FRENCH, Daniel Chester:
Sculptor; born in Exeter, New Hamp
shire, April 20, 1850; son of Henry Flagg

French and Anne (Richardson) French.
He attended the Cambridge public schools
from i860 to 1865, Amherst High School
from 1865 to 1867, the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology in 1868 and in 1869,
and he received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Dartmouth College. Mr. French
studied art in Boston and in Florence,
Italy, and has been professionally engaged
as sculptor since 1869, and since 1887 has
resided in New' York. Some of his prin
cipal works are: the statues of the Minute
Man at Concord, Massachusetts, and of
John Harvard, at Cambridge, Massachu
setts, the Milmore Memorial in Forest Hills
Cemetery in Boston the Gallaudet group
and the statue of Lewis Cass at Washing
ton, D. C; the statue of Alma Mater at
Columbia University, New York City;
groups of "Europe," "Asia," "Africa" and
"America" on the New York Custom
House, and the staute of Hon. George F.
Hoar at Worcester, Massachusetts. He was
awarded a medal by the Paris Salon, in
1892, and the Medaille d'Honneur of the
Exposition Universale at Paris in 1900. In
his politics he is a Republican. Mr. French
has long been a member, and was elected
in 1906 president, of the National Sculpture
Society; was a member of the Municipal
Art Commission of New York for the first
seven years of its existence, and is a mem
ber of the New York City Improvement
Commission. He is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Design, the Accademia
di San Luca, Rome,- Italy, Legion d'Hon
neur of France (1900) ; -is a trustee of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, and of the American Academy in
Rome. Mr. French is also ' a member of
the National Institute of Arts and Letters,
the Academy of Arts and Letters, the Cen
tury Association, and National Arts Club
of New York City, and the Technology
Club of Boston. He married in Washing
ton, D. C, in 1888, Mary Adams French,
and they have a daughter, Margaret. Sum
mer residence: Glendale, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts. Address : 125 West Elev
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FRENCH, George E.:
President and director of Essex County
Real Estate Improvement Company. Ad
dress: 2 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. FRENCH, G. Watson:
Capitalist; born in Davenport, Iowa,
October 26, 1858; son of George H. and
Frances W. (Morton) French. After the
usual attendance at the public schools of
his native place he completed his educa
tion at Phillips' Andover Academy, An
dover, Massachusetts. At the age of nine
teen he entered the Eagle Manufacturing
Company . at Davenport, Iowa, where he
learned the trade of moulder. He was
advanced to various positions of trust and
responsibility in the company's works and
finally reached the position of president.
He is also president of the Bettendorf
Metal Wheel Company. He became a di
rector and vice-president of the Republic
Iron and Steel Company in 1900 and chair
man of the executive committee in 1901.
He is also vice-president of the Annie
Laurie Mining Company. He is a member
of the Midlothian, Chicago, Calumet and
Midday Clubs. He was married, at Dav
enport, Iowa, June 18, 1884, to Clara V.
Decker, and has one son, George Decker.
Residence: Auditorium Annex, Chicago.
Office address : First National Bank Build
ing Chicago, Illinois.
FBENCH, W. H.:
Type founder; born at Griggsville, Il
linois, May 14, 1850; son of Nathan
French and Harriet Newell (Hoyt)
French. He was three years in Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, from 1869
to 1872; one year in University of Leipzig,
Germany, from 1872 to 1873. He was
eleven years agent and assistant general
manager of the Associated Press in Chica
go and New York; three years treasurer
and director of the Oak Ranch, located in
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado ; twenty
years secretary and director of Barnhart
Brothers and Spindler, type founders, of
Chicago. He is president of St. Louis
Printers' Supply Company, St. Louis, Mis

souri; vice-president and director of the
National Paper and Type Company, Mexi
co, South America, Central America and
the West Indies ; director of the Great
Western Type Foundry, Kansas City, Mis
souri ; Southern Printers' Supply Company,
Pacific States Type Foundry, Seattle,
Washington; The Unitype Company, New
York and Chicago; The Mississippi Valley
Portland Cement Company, Chicago ; The
Peoples' Building and Loan Association,
Chicago; and is trustee of Cornell Uni
versity of Ithaca, New York. He married
first at Chicago, Illinois, 1875, Charlotte
M. Blodgett, and second to Olive Helen
Walter; has three children; Hazel French
Robertson, Walter Hoyt French, and Vin
cent Thorne French. Address : 187 Mon
roe Street, Chicago, Illinois,
FBEUND, John C:
Musical editor and publisher, dramatist
and writer on Social Economics; born
London, England, November 22, 1848,
where his father, Dr. Jonas Charles Her
mann Freund, was the leading foreign
physician for many years; Deputy Inspect
or General of Hospitals during the Crim
ean War, Surgeon in the British Army,
founder and first directing physician of the
German Hospital, Dalston, London, and
author of a number of leading medical
works. His mother, Amelia Louisa (Rudi-
ger) Freund, was the niece and companion
of Christian Huettner, a noted linguist,
who, as secretary and interpreter, accom
panied Lord Macartney's first English Em
bassy to China. Under the nom-de-plume,
Amelia Lewis, she gained an international
reputation as a writer oh Social Econom
ics. Mr. Freund went to Oxford Univer
sity with the Times (London) and Car
penter Scholarships, won in open com
petition. Remained at the University three
years, but before finishing the full course
came to the -United States, While at Ox
ford, and before he was twenty-two, start
ed and edited the Dark Blue Magazine, to
which the Rossettis, Swinbourne and Wil
liam Morris, the poets, Professors Blackie,
Dowden and Sylvester, Rev. J. G. Wood,
the naturalist, Thomas Hughes and other

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distinguished writers contributed. He pro
duced his first play, The Under-Graduate,
at the Queen's Theatre, London, in 1870,
in which Miss Hodson, now the wife of
Henri Labouchere, the Radical leader,
editor of Truth (London) played the lead
ing role. Mr. Freund came to the United
States in 1871 and became connected with
trade journalism in New York City, first
on staff of the Wine and Spirit Gazette,
and then as proprietor of the Hat, Cap
and Fur Trade Review, which he started.
He later purchased and conducts the
Arcadian, a critical weekly. One of the
pioneers in musical, dramatic and music
trade journalism in the United States.
Was the first to start a musical and music
trade paper in the English language, in
New York, in 1873. Later developed from
it the Musical and Dramatic Times, which
was sold. Then, after a year in Colorado
and New Mexico, he returned to New York
and established a weekly called Music,
which later became Music and Drama,
which was developed into a. daily and was
very successful for a time. In 1885 he
produced his second play, True Nobility,
at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, in which,
with Viola Allen and Robert B. Mantell,
he played the leading character part. Was
after that in Frank Mayo's company, and
later played leading character parts with
Mme. Janish and Henry Miller. Mr.
Freund returned to journalism in 1887 as
editor of the American Musician, until
1890. He then established the Music
Trades and he edited the Dolgeville Her
ald, from 1891 to 1893. Since then, editor
of the Music Trades, and president and
director of the Music Trades Co. Also
editor of Musical America, which he es
tablished in 1898, and president and dir
ector of the Musical America Co., and
editor of the annual, The Piano and Or
gan Purchaser's Guide. He is a member
of the National Civic Federation, the Na
tional Geographic Society, the West End
Association, St. John's Guild, and other
societies. His favorite recreations are
those of outdoor life. He has traveled and
visited many countries. He is a member
of the Pleiades Club of New York City.

Mr. Freund married, in 1887, Florence
Smith (now deceased) by whom he had
one daughter, Florence Louise, born in
1889. He again married, in 1890, Anna
C. Hughes, and of that union there are
two daughters : Annette, born in 1896, and
Marjorie, born in 1904. Residence: 760
West End Avenue, New rork City. Ad
dress: 135 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
FRICK, Henry C.z
Capitalist; born at West Overton, West
moreland County, Pennsylvania, December
19, 1849. His father, John W. Frick, had
been a farmer in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
but at the time of his birth, was working
as an engineer in the mill owned by Abra
ham Overholt at Broad Ford, Pennsylvania.
John W. Frick's wife was the daughter of
Abraham Overholt, and H. C. Frick was
born in Mr. Overholt's house. He was
second of five children, three boys and
two girls. Elder Frick was a failure in
business; H. C. Frick was practically
adopted into the Overholt family when he
was twelve years old. He had a few years
of common schooling at West Overton, a
short term at Chester Military Academy,
and a few months at Otterbein University
in Ohio. At the age of sixteen he began
business life as clerk in store of White,
Orr and Company, merchants, later book
keeper in grandfather's distillery; and
from there with Morgan and Company,
coke dealers, and at about twenty-one be
came their agent at Poughkeepsie; a few
years after, joined a company to build the
Mount Pleasant and Board Ford Railroad,
a short line to penetrate to Connellsville
coke region, which road was opened in
1871. In the same year, he organized the
corporation of Frick and Company, coke
dealers, with help of Abraham O. Tints-
man, one of his grandfather's partners
This company bought about three hundred
acres of soft coal lands and fifty-one coke
ovens in the Connellsville region, and a
year later added one hundred and fifty
ovens to the equipment. In 1873, when
panic was on, borrowe'd' money and bought
out his partners, greatly developed busi
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thirty. In 1882 he reorganized business as
H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Company, with
capital ' of $2,000,000, and company then
owned 3,000 acres of coal lands and one
thousand and twenty-six ovens. Iri 1882,
sold an interest in the coke business to
Carnegie Brothers, becoming a partner in
the latter company. In 1889, he became
chairman of Carnegie Brothers and Com
pany, limited, the reorganization of Carne
gie Brothers, bought the Duquesne Steel
Works, and in 1892, consolidated the Car
negie Steel interests into the Carnegie
Steel Company, Limited. Had charge of the
resistance of the company to the demands
of the strikers in the Horiiestead strike
and persisted until he had won it. Was
assaulted, shot and stabbed, July 23, 1892,
by a: Russian anarchist named Berkmann,
from New York, but after thirteen days
came to the office and resumed charge of
the strike and continued to a successful
conclusion. He continued the management
of Carnegie Steel Company, built the Union
Railroad connecting all the plants with one
another and with the railroad lines entering
Pittsburgh; secured valuable ore properties
in the Nebraska fields of Lake Superior.
Disputes arose between Mr. Frick and Mr.
Carnegie which was finally settled by the
organization in 1900 of The Carnegie Com
pany, in which Mr. Frick had a share of
$31,000,000, about equally divided between
stocks and bonds, and in the subsequent
sale to the United States Steel Corpora
tion, he received about $45,000,000 in stocks
and nearly $16,000,000 in bonds of the lat
ter corporation; has bought largely and
' now one of principal owners of the corpor
ation. He built the Frick Building, the
largest and finest office building in Pitts
burgh, in 1904, and later added to it the
Frick Building Annex; is said to be the
largest stockholder in Pennsylvania Rail
road; has large interests in Cambria Steel
Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad,
and Baltimore and Ohio; extensive inter
ests also in Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road; director and member of the exec
utive committee Union Pacific Railroad;
largest owner of Poughkeepsie real estate,

and an officer and director in many of the
largest interests in Poughkeepsie. He was a
member of the board of directors of the
Equitable; was chairman of cortimittee to
investigate the charges of wrongdoing
against Alexander and Hyde. The committee
reported that the charges were true and
recommended that both men resign. This
report was killed in the directors' meeting,
and the members of the committee re
signed. Mr. Frick is a member of the
Union League Club of Pittsburgh and of
the Metropolitan, Lawyers' and Engineers'
Clubs of New York City. He married in
Pittsburgh, December 15, 1881, Adelaide
Howard Childs. Address: Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
F BISSELL, Algernon:
Banker; born in South Amenia, New
York; son of Rev. A. C. and Lavinia
(Barker) Frissell. He was educated in
Amenia Seminary and private school in
Poughkeepsie, New York. He entered the
City Bank of Poughkeepsie in 1862; has
been in the banking business ever since;
cashier of the Fifth Avenue Bank (New
York City) for ten years, and its president
twenty-one years. Was a member of the
Board of Education from 1901 to igos;
trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank;
member of the Civil Service Reform As
sociation (treasurer). Is a member of the
Century, City, Barnard Club of New York
City, Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.
He married, May 12, 1870, Susan B: Varick,
and they have two children : Lewis F.,
M.D., and Lavinia B. Address : 530 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
FRISSELL, Hollis Burke:
Principal of Hampton Normal and Agri
cultural Institute ; born in Amenia, New
York, July 14, 1851. He was graduated
from Yale in 1874 and from Union Theo-
'ogical Seminary in i87g, and received the
degrees of D.D. from Howard University,
S.T.D. from Harvard in igoo, and LL.D,
from Yale in igoi. In religion he is a
Presbyterian. Dr. Frissell is a member of
the Century and Yale Clubs of New York,
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C. Fie married in Bloomfield, New Jersey,
November 8, 1883, Julia F. Dodd, and they
have one son, Sidney Dodd Frissell. Ad
dress : Hampton, Virginia.
FBIZZELLE, J. Wellington:
Clergyman; born at Rock Island, Illi
nois. Prepared in Rock Island, Illinois,
and Davenport, Iowa. Entered from Illi
nois Wesleyan University. A. B. 1888,
from Northwestern University, A.M.,
B.D., Drew Theological Seminary. Phi
Gamma Delta. Graduate student in history
(in abstentia), 1901-03. Clergyman, Meth
odist Episcopal, Central Illinois Conference ;
presiding elder Rock Island District. Now
pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church,
Galesburg, Illinois. Trustee of Northwest-
em University since 1900. Contributor to
religious and secular papers. Married Car
rie Louisa Warren, April 19, 1900, at Den
ver, Colorado. Residence, 610 Elm Street,
Rock Island, Illinois.
FBOEHUCH, Moses Seymour:
Merchant; born in New York, November
9, 1877, son of Salmon Froehlich and
Cecelia (Baumann) Froehlich. Was edu
cated in public schools and in the College
of the City of New York. Is second vice-
president of the Ludwig Baumann & Com
pany, -Harlem. His favorite recreations are
boating and other water sports. He is a
member of the Progress and Lone Star
Boat Clubs. Residence : 830 Lexington
Avenue. Address : 144 West One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth Street, New York
City.
FROHMAN. Daniel:
Theatrical manager; born in Sandusky,
Ohio, 1853; son of Henry Frohman and
Barbara Frohman. He received his educa
tion in the schools of Sandusky and New
York City. He was office boy with the New
York Tribune, in 1866 and continued in
the newspaper business for five years. He
then became manager of traveling theatrical
companies through the United States ; man
ager of the Fifth Avenue Theatre and
Madison Square Theatre, New York City
in 1879 ; manager of Lyceum Theatre, New

York City, from 1885, and is now manager
of the new Lyceum Theatre, also of Daly's
Theatre, New York and the Daniel Froh
man Stock Company as well as several Eng
lish and American stars. Mr. Frohman is
president of the Actors' Fund of America;
also at one time president of the Theatri
cal Managers' Association of Manhattan and
president of the New York Symphony Or
chestra. He married, in New York City,
November, 1903, Margaret Illington. Ad
dress : 159 West Seventy-Ninth Street, New
York City.
FBONCZAK, Francis Eustace:
Physician; born in Buffalo, New York,
September 20, 1874; son of Adelbert and
Victoria (Jaworska) Fronczak. Was edu
cated in St. Stanislaus School; graduated
from Canisius College as A.B. in 1894,
A.M. in 1895; University of Buffalo Medi
cal Department, M.D., 1897; Law Depart
ment in 1899; Jagellonian University, Cra
cow, Austria (Poland) medical department
(honorary), 1900. Has traveled extensive
ly in the United States, Canada, Europe
and North Africa. Was a member, of the
Civil Service Commission Buffalo, from
1898 to 1902 ; physician, Erie County Peni
tentiary, from 1899 to 1901 ; town physician,
Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York,
from 1903 ; member of the Charter Com
mission of Buffalo, in 1906; assistant health
commissioner of Buffalo since January 1,
1907; director of Buffalo Life Insurance
Company, Union Stock Yards Bank; di
rector and treasurer of the Powder River
Mining Company; trustee American Sav
ings Bank of Buffalo. Is an Independent"
Democrat, and a Catholic in his religious
affiliations. Is a member of the Buffalo
Academy of Medicine, Medical Journal
Club, Erie County Medical Society, New
York State Medical Society, American
Medical Association, New York and New
England Railway Surgeons (surgeon of
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
road Company), Polish Physicians and Sci
entists of Europe, Buffalo Historical So
ciety, vice-president of Election Laws En
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Union, Polish National Alliance, Knights
of Columbus, Catholic Mutual Benevolent
Association, etc. Trustee of the Felician
Sisters' Institute, Cheektowaga, New York;
probation officer of the Buffalo Juvenile
Court; president of Polish National Aid
Association, and member of the Liberal
and Cosmopolitan Clubs. He married at
Buffalo, April 25, 1900, Lucy Rose
Tucholka, and they have two children:'
Eugenia Anna Stephania, born in 1903, and
Edward James, born in 1905. Address :
806 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
FROST, Albert Carl:
Railway official, bariker; born in Berend,
Germany, March 20, 1865; son of Carl and
Phillipine (von Wietersheim) Frost. He
attended the schools of his native place until
his eleventh year, when his parents came to
America. They located at Alpena, Michi
gan, where the son completed his education
in the public schools. Soon after leaving
school he began his business career as a
clerk in a store, where he remained for
three years. In 1883 he became the book
keeper for a lumber manufacturing com
pany, continuing in this employment until
1885, when he established on his own ac
count a plumbing and sheet iron business.
which he carried on successfully until 1890,
and for the next two years was engaged in
the machinery business. In 1892 he re
moved to Chicago, where he established the
firm of A. C. Frost & Company, financial
agents and dealers in municipal and corpo
ration bonds. Mr. Frost projected and built
the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Rail
road, in 1898-igoo, and was vice-president
of the company until igoo, since which
time he has been its president. He is a Re
publican and a. member of the Episcopal
Church. He is' a member of the Union
League, Midday, and Exmoor County
Clubs. He was married at Alpena, Michi
gan, February 5, 1890, to Clara E. Des Jar-
dins, arid has four children : Aerielle, Lu
cille, Marie, and Albert Carl. Address:
108 La Salle Street. Residence : 285 Sheri
dan Road, Chicago, Illinois,

FROST, E. Allen:
Lawyer ; born in Fayette County, Pennsyl
vania, March 27, 1871. Was a newspaper
boy for Pittsburgh papers while attending
public schools of Uniontown. Helped to
pay his way through course at Waynes-
burg College by working as book agent dur
ing summer vacation. Was graduated at
Waynesburg College at the age of eighteen.
On recommendation of the faculty of that
college was elected president of Ozark Col
lege, Greenfield, Missouri, which position
he filled with great success. From Green
field, Missouri, he went to Washington City
to enter Columbian University Law School,
where he took the graduate and post-grad
uate courses. While in Washington he was
clerk to the Committee of the House of
Represenatives on Taxation in the District
of Columbia, of which Hon. Tom L. John
son of Ohio, was chairman. Afterwards
was a law clerk in the office of the Comp
troller of the Currency. He came to Chica
go in 1893 to engage in the practice of law
and for a time was associated with Charles
H. Aldrich, Esq., then lately Solicitor-Gen
eral of the United States. On account of
his experience as law clerk in the office of
the Comptroller of the Currency, he was
appointed assistant to the receiver of the
Columbia and Chemical National Banks,
which failed in Chicago in 1893; afterwards
was assistant to Mr. John C. McKean and
General John McNulta, receivers of the Na
tional Bank of Illinois, and the Calumet
Electric Street Railway Company. With Mr.
Joseph T. Talbert, vice-president of Com
mercial National Bank of Chicago, he de
signed a system of accounts for receivers of
national banks which was placed in nearly
three hundred banks throughout the United
States and is now generally used by re
ceivers. Though a Republican in politics,
he was appointed Deputy Comptroller of the
City of Chicago by Mayor Carter H. Harri
son, and held that office during the term of
Hon. William D. Kerfoot as Comptroller.
It was largely through his persistent ef
forts that the City of Chicago had its en
tire accounts investigated and a new uni
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and Sells at an expense of over $130,000.;
When he resigned the office of Deputy
Comptroller, he was chosen attorney for the
Commission on Revision of City Accounts,
consisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller
and the Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee. He has been closely identified with the
work of the Civil Federation and the move
ment for city charter reform. Took an act
ive part in the reorganization of the Chi
cago New Charter Convention and assisted
in securing the passage of the resolution
for constitutional amendment by the Legis
lature. Is general counsel of the National
Business League, through whose efforts and
agitation the new Department of Commerce
and Labor was established at Washington.
He is a member of the Union League Club,
Chicago Bar Association, Illinois State Bar
Association and American Bar Association.
He is married and resides at 451 Belden
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Office address :
Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois.
FBOST, George Henry:
Newspaper publisher ; born in W. Hawkes-
bury, Ontario, July 9, 1838; son of Eben
ezer (born Brattleboro, Vermont, 1790)
and Caroline (Harwood) Frost (born Ben
nington, Vemont) ; removed to Smith's
Falls, Ontario, 1839; educated in public
school there, in private academies, Glover,
Vermont, one year, and McGill University,
Canada, C.E., i860, P.L.S. (Provincial
Land Surveyor), 1863. Civil engineer with
Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Chicago,
1863-67; city surveying in Chicago, 1867-
74 ; founded Engineering News, April, 1874 ;
removed to New York City, 1878 ; incorpor
ated business January 12, 1883, and is now
president of The Engineering News Pub
lishing Company. Resident of Plain-
field, New Jersey, since 1886; president
Courier-News Publishing Company of
Plainfield, New Jersey. Has traveled ex
tensively in United States, Canada, and
six times to Europe; spent winter of 1905-
06 in Egypt and Italy. Republican. Pres
byterian. Associate member American
Society Civil Engineers, member Can
adian Society .of- 'Civil Engineers, and
sundry engineering associations of the

United States and Canada. New Engv
land Historic Genealogical Society. He
is a member of the Engineers' and Law
yers' Clubs of New York City, and the
Country Club of Plainfield. He married
Louisa, daughter of Edwin Hunt, hard
ware merchant of Chicago, and they have
four children: Charles Hamilton (born
1870), Harwood (born 1872), Edwin Hunt
(born 1874), Francis Willoughby (born
1876). Address: 745. Watchung Avenue,
Plainfield, New Jersey, and 220 Broadway,
New York City.
FBOST, Halstead Holloway, Jr.:
Lawyer; born in East Norwich, Nassau
County, New York, May 7. i860; son of
Halstead Holloway and Mary (Vernon)
Frost; educated public schools East Nor
wich and Oyster Bay, New York, Univers
ity Grammar School, New York City, Fair-
child's Institute, Flushing, Long Island;
Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; Columbia
College, A.B., 1883, A.M., 1885; and Co
lumbia Law School 1885; University of
Berlin, summer semester, 1884; fellow in
history, Columbia, 1886; married at East
Norwich, New York, April 14, 1886, Mary
L. Downing; children: Holloway Halstead,
born 1889, midshipman United States Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Esther M.
born 1892, Charles Lawrence born 1898.
Engaged in practice of law, New York,
since 1886. Director Lorraine Company,
Miller Mining and Smelting Company,
fsecetarv') : president The Safety Coop
erative Building, Loan and Savings As
sociation of New York City; presi
dent Alton Park Company, director
Seaside Improvement Company; presi
dent Tellew Realty Company. Republican
(liberal). Clubs: Union League, Univers
ity, (Brooklyn) ; Underwriters (New York
City). Address: 141 Broadway, New
York City.
FBOST, William Goodell:
President of Berea College; born in Le
Roy, New York, July 2, 1854; son of Rev.
Lewis P. Frost and Maria (Goodell),
Frost. He entered the Beloit Coliege in
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College, where he was graduated as A.B.
in 1876; and he took post-graduate work
at Harvard and Gottingen Universities ; re
ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of Wooster in 1893, and that of
D.D. from Oberlin College, 1893, and Har
vard 1907. He was professor of Greek
language arid literature at Oberlin College,
from 1879 to 1892. In 1885 he was candi
date for lieutenant-governor of Ohio on the
Prohibition ticket and is now a member
of the Republican party. He made exten
sive travels in Europe, Egypt, and Pales
tine, during the years 1891 and 1892, and in
1903 traveled through the British Isles.
Dr. Frost is chiefly known as bringing at
tention to the educational needs of the
Southern mountaineers, and their worth
and promise, and making for them import
ant educational adaptations in methods and
courses. He has gained great prominence
by his addresses in behalf of the mountain
people of Kentucky. He is author of the
articles on Kentucky and Appalachian
America in the Encyclopaedia Americana ;
Our Contemporary Ancestors, in the Atlan
tic Monthly; Southern Mountaineers, in the
Reviews of Reviews ; and Educational
Pioneering, in the Outlook, and various
others. He is a member of the Congrega
tional Church. He married first at Paines-
ville, Ohio, August 15, 1876, Louise Ra-
ney (deceased) ; and second at Oberlin,
Ohio, July 5, 1891, Ella Marsh. He has
had five children : Stanley, born in 1881,
and now on the staff of the New York
Tribune; Wesley, born in 1884; Norman,
born . in 1887 ; Edith, born in 1894 : and
Cleveland,- born in 1896. Address : Berea,
Kentucky.
FBOST, William H.:
Clergyman; born in Ontario, March 1,
1865; son of George Park Frost, and Jean-
nette (Ronson) Frost. After being gradu
ated from Beloit Academy, Wisconsin, in
1889, and Beloit College as B.A. in 1893,
he was a student in the Graduate School of
Philosophy of Columbia College, New
York, in 1893 and 1894, and student in the
ology of the General Theological Seminary
in New York from 1893 to 1895. Fie was

ordered deacon by Bishop Nicholson in
1895, and ordained priest by Bishop Perry
in 1896 in the Episcopal ministry. Mr.
Frost was minister iri charge of Carroll,
Ida Grove, and Mapleton, Iowa, in 1895.
and 1896; rector of St. Andrew's Church,
Waverly, Iowa, from 1896 to 1898; was
temporarily in charge of St. Mark's Church,
Maquoketa, Iowa, in 1899 ; rector of St.
James', Oskaloosa from .1899 to 1905; in
charge of a missionary district for the
Bishop of Laramie in 1905 and 1906, and
has been rector of St. James' Church, Fre
mont, Nebraska, since May 1, 1907. He was
regimental chaplain of the Fifty-fourth In
fantry of the Iowa National Guard from
1902 to 1906. Mr. Frost is a Mason, Knight
Templar and Shriner, is past commander
of De Payens Commandery of Knights
Templar at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and was
grand prelate of the Grand Commandery
of Iowa in 1903-4. He married at Farley,
Iowa, in September, 1895, Mary Louisa
Baker, and they have a daughter, Alice
Louise, born in 1897, and a son, John, born
in 1904. Address : St. James' Rectory,
Fremont, Nebraska.
FEOTHINGHAM, Arthur Lincoln:
Professor of archaeology; born in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, June -21, 1859; son of
Professor Arthur Lincoln Frothingham and
Jessie (Peabody) Frothingham. He re
ceived his early education in the Academy
of the Christian Brothers at Rome, from
1868 to 1873, and took special courses in
Oriental languages in the Catholic Seminary
of Saint Apollinaire, and at the Royal Uni
versity of Rome, from 1875 to 1880, and in
Germany from 1880 to 1883; receiving the
A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Leipzig in
1883; was fellow in Semitic languages and
lecturer in archaeology in Johns Hopkins
University from 1883 to 1885. He has been
professor of archaeology and the history
of art in Princeton University since 1887,
and also of ancient history since 1898. He
has written extensively on archaeological
and historical subjects, was editor of the
American Journal of Archaeology, and is a
member and was formerly secretary of the

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American Institute of Archaeology. Ad
dress : Princeton, New Jersey.
FBOTHINGHAM, Louis Adams:
Lawyer ; born in Boston, July 13, 1871 ;
son of Thomas B. Frothingham and Anne
P. (Lunt) Frothingham. After being
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in i8g3 he
entered Harvard Law School, and was
graduated as LL.B. in i8g6. He has since
been engaged i n the practice of law
in Boston. Mr. Frothingham is a Repub
lican in politics; was speaker of the Mas
sachusetts House of Representatives in
1904 and 1905 and Repubican candidate for
mayor of Boston in 1905. He served as
second lieutenant of the United States Mar
ine Corps in 1898. He is a Unitarian in
religious belief; is president of the Benevo
lent Aid Society of Italian Immigrants, ;
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and
Alpha Delta Phi fraternities, and of the
Country, Union, and Tennis and Racquet
Clubs of Boston. Residence : 140 Beacon
Street, Boston.. Office address: 18 Tremont
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
FBOTHINGHAM, Paul Revere:
Clergyman ; born at Jamaica Plain, July
6, 1864; son of Thomas B. Frothingham
and Anne P. (Lunt) Frothingham. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B., A.M.,
and S.T.B. Has been minister of the Arl
ington Street Church, Boston, Massachu
setts, since 1900, and was preacher to Har
vard University from 1899 to 1902. In re
ligion he is a Unitarian. Is overseer of
Harvard College and trustee of the Mas
sachusetts School for the Blind; also a
member of, the Country and St. Botolph
Clubs. Author of : The Temple of Virtue ;
and William Ellery Channing. Mr. Froth
ingham married, June 14, 1892, Anna C.
Clapp. Address : 294 Beacon Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
FBOTHINGHAM, Theodore Longfellow:
Lawyer ; born in Brooklyn, New York,
September 10, 1863; son of James Hard
ing and Wilhelmine E. (Vietor) Frothing
ham. He was educated at the Brooklyn
Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute from

1875 to 1880; and was graduated from
Harvard University, A.B. in 1884 and from
Harvard Law School, LL.B., in 1887. He
was- admitted to the New York Bar in
1887, and ever since engaged in practice.
Now member of the law firm of Steele De
Friese and Frothingham; also director in
various business corporations. Is member
of the Association Bar of the City of New
York, Harvard Law School Association;
trustee of the Brooklyn Hospital, Brook
lyn Public Library, Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute; director of New England So
ciety, Brooklyn; member of Committee on
Hospitals, State Charities Aid Association.
Is a member of the University, Harvard
and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City, and
Hamilton, Twentieth Century and Brooklyn
Heights Casino Clubs of Brooklyn. He
married in Brooklyn, New York,' December
2, 1901, Elizabeth F. Mason, and they have
one son : Theodore Frothingham born
March 2, 1904. Address (summer) : South
Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Office address:
32 Liberty Street, New York City.
FRY, Alfred Brooks:
Marine mechanical and civil engineer;
born in New York City, March 3, i860 ; son
of Major Thomas William Gardiner Fry,
United States Army, who died of wounds
received in the Civil War; great grandson
of Captain Benjamin Fry, of the Fourth
Rhode Island Continental Infantry in the
Revolution. Was educated at Morse's and
other private schools, and entered the en
gineering course at Columbia in 1877, but
gave up the same on going to sea. Mr.
Fry worked as a rodman and draftsman
from 1877 to 1879; and as a machinist and
marine and stationary engineer from 1879
to 1886; and has been assistant engineer
and chief engineer under the United States
Treasury Department since 1886; is now
on duty as chief engineer and superintend
ent of United States Public Buildings and
of engineering works under the Department
of Commerce and Labor, and United States
Treasury Department, Port of New York.
He has served as an engineer in the Naval
Militia since its formation in 1892, and
at present he is chief of the staff of the

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Naval Militia, State of New York, with
the rank of Lieutenant-Commander; served
in the United States Navy as a passed as
sistant and acting chief engineer in Cuban
waters during the Spanish-American War,
and has served as a consulting, civil, me
chanical and electrical engineer for some
of the largest corporations in the Eastern
States. Mr. Fry is a member of the So
ciety of the Cincinnati, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, Society of Colonial Wars,
Military Order of the Spanish- American
War, the New York Athletic Club, Army
and Navy Club, Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht Club, American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, and the "American So
ciety of Naval Engineers. He was ap
pointed February 18, 1904, by Governor
Odell, a member of the Board of Consult
ing Engineers for canal construction and
enlargement. Mr. Fry married in 1890,
Emma V, daughter of the late Brigadier-
General George A. Sheridan, United States
Volunteers, and they have one son, Sheri
dan Brooks Fry, born in i8g3. Address :
United States Custom House Building,
New York City.
FBYE, William Pierce:
United States Senator and lawyer ; was
born at Lewiston, Maine, September 2,
1831 ; graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine,
1850; studied and practiced law; was a
member of the State legislature in 1861,
1862, and 1867; was mayor of the city of
Lewiston in 1866 and 1867; was attomey-
generalof the State of Maine in 1867, 1868,
and 1869; was elected a member of the
national Republican executive committee in
1872 and reelected in 1876 and 1880; was
elected a trustee of Bowdoin College in
June, 1880, received the degree of LL.D.
from Bates College in July, 1881, and the
same degree from Bowdoin College in
1889; was a Presidential elector in 1864;
was a delegate to the national Republican
Conventions in 1872-76 and 1880; was
elected chairman of the Republican
State Committee of Maine in place of Hon.
James G. Blaine; resigned, in November,
1881 ; was elected a representative in the
Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth,

Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh
Congresses; was elected March 15, 1881,
to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
James G. Blaine, appointed Secretary of
State, and took his seat March 18, 1881 ;
was reelected in 1883, in 1888, in 1895, and
again in 1901 ; was elected president pro
tempore of the Senate February 7, 1896, and
reelected March 7, igoi ; was a member of
the commission which met in Paris, Sep
tember, 1898, to adjust terms of peace be
tween the United States and Spain. His
:erm of service will expire March 3, 1913.
Reelected to the Senate in 1907. Address .
Lewiston, Maine.
FUERTES, Louis Agassiz:
Artist, illustrator, ornithologist; born in
Ithaca, New York, February 7, 1874; son
of Professor Estevan Antonio and Mary
(Perry) Fuertes. He was educated in
public schools, Ithaca High School, and
Cornell University,- as A.B. in 1897. Has
made a specialty of ornithological illustra
tion; illustrated: Birding on a Broncho;
Citizen Bird ; Song Birds and Water
Fowl ; Birdcraft ; The Woodpeckers ; Sec
ond Book of Birds ; Birds of the Rockies ;
Handbook of Birds of Western North
America ; Coues's Key to North Amer
ican Birds ; plates -for report of New York
State Game, Forest and Fish Commission ;
Upland Game Birds, and companion vol
ume, Waterfowl; as well as other illustra
tions for books, scientific journals, and
Government reports. Is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Ornithologists' Union. Ad
dress : Cornell Heights, Ithaca, New York.
FITEBTH, Emil:
Merchant; born in Schuttenhofen, Bo
hemia, November 8, 1857; son of Wilhelm
and Johanna Fuerth. He was educated in
the public school of his native town, and
the Musical College at Prague, Bohemia.
He came to the United States and took up
dentistry and was graduated from the
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at
Philadelphia in 1880. He started practic
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member of the First District Dental So
ciety of New York. He was the dental
surgeon at the Montefiore Home for several
years, also a short time at the German
Polyclinic Dispensary, and remained in
private practice and became a member of
the firm of Ludwig Baumann and Company
at Third Avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-first Street, and when, after being
there six years, the firm moved into the
present large quarters on West One Hund-
dred and Twenty-fifth Street, and changed
into a corporation, he became its president
in April 9, 1904, which position he still
holds, the firm now being known as Lud
wig Baumann and Company, Harlem,
furniture and general house furnishings.
Dr. Fuerth is a Scottish Rite Mason of the
thirty-second degree and a member of the
Mystic Shrine, and was formerly master
of True Craftsman's Lodge of Masons.
He married in New York, May, 1880, Hen
rietta Froehlich, and they have three chil
dren : William B., Selma B., and Cecil E.
Residence : 830 Lexington Avenue, New
York City. Office address : 144 to 146
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Street, New York City.
FCLLAM, William Freeland:
Commander, United States Navy; born
in New York, 1855; entered Naval Acad
emy September 24, 1873; graduated No. 1,
class 1877; served on Marion and Trenton,
European Station, 1877-79 ; final graduation,
June, 1879. Midshipman, 1879-80; Swatara,
China Station, 1879-82; promoted ensign,
March 13, 1880; Naval Academy Depart
ment Applied Mathematics, and in charge
battalion of infantry, 1883-87; practice ship
Dale, 1883-84 ; practice ship Constellation,
1886; promoted lieutenant, (junior grade),
October 7, 1887; served in the Boston,
1887-89; Vesuvius, 1889; Yorktown, Squad
ron- of Evolution, 1889-90; Chicago, Squad
ron of Evolution, 1890; Naval Academy,
Department of Ordnance and Gunnery, and
in charge battalion of infantry, 1891-94;
promoted lieutenant, May 28, 1892 ; Raleigh,
North Atlantic Squadron of Evolution,
1894-97; Amphitrite, North Atlantic Sta

tion, 1897; Naval Academy, departments
of Physics and Discipline, 1897-98; U. S,
S. New Orleans, May, 1898, blockade of
Cuba and Porto Rico; bombardment of
Santiago, May and June, 1898; blockade
and occupation of San Juan, July to Sep
tember; Naval Academy, Department of
Ordnance, October, 1898; U. S. S. Lan
caster, 1899-1902; promoted lieutenant-
commarider, December 29, 1899; Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, August,
1902, to 1905; head Department of Ord
nance, April,' 1903; commander, July I,
1905. Address: Annapolis, Maryland.
FCLLEB, Charles- E.:
Congressman and lawyer : was born near
Belvidere, Illinois; was admitted to the
bar of Illinois in 1870; was city attor
ney of Belvidere two terms ; State's at
torney for Boone County one term; re
presentative in the general assembly of Illi
nois three terms; State senator two terms;
circuit judge for six years; raised a regi
ment for the Spanish-American war in
1898, and was commissioned colonel by
Governor Tanner, but the regiment was
never called into the service; was elected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses.
He is a Republican in politics. Address :
Belvidere, Illinois.
FULLER, Charles Houston:
Advertising agent; born at Rome, Penn
sylvania, October 17, 1843; son of Lucius
and Candace (Newell) Fuller. His par
ents removed to Belvidere, Illinois, while
he was yet in his infancy, and he received
his education in the public schools at that
place and at Rockford and Lee Center in
the same State. He was engaged in the
hardware trade in Belvidere five years be
fore removing :to Chicago,., in 1871, where
he obtained: employment --iff the newspaper
business with the Chicago Daily Mail, and
later with the Chicago Daily News, where
he remained until 1880, when he establish
ed on his own account a newspaper and
magazine advertising . business, which • be
came incorporated in 1888 under the narrie
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cy, of which Mr. Fuller has since been
the president. He is a member of the
Masonic order and of the Chicago Athletic,
the Union League and Atlas Clubs. He
was married in New York State in 1867, to
Alice E. Doolittle, and has one son, Lucius
C. In politics he is a Republican. Resi
dence: 1734 Asbury Avenue, Evanston,
Illinois. Office address: 112 Dearborn
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FULLER, Charles W.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, July
2, 1843; son of Jesse Fuller and Elizabeth
A. (Bartine) Fuller. Was educated in the
public schools and at the College of the
City of New York. Was admitted to the
New Jersey Bar in 1879; to the New York
bar in 1885; was a member of the Board
of Education, City of Bayonne, New Jer-
sey,.for four years; city attorney, Bayonne
for four years ; member of the New Jer
sey State Board of Education for four
years ; member of the General , Assembly
of New Jersey in 1888; State Superintend
ent of Education in 1889; Sinking Fund
Commissioner of Bayonne since 1895;
Rivers Pollution Commissioner of New
Jersey, in 1898; member and chairman,
State Sewerage Commission since 1899;
served three months in the Civil War as
member of the Seventh Regiment New
York Volunteers; adjutant Fifty-fifth
Regiment National Guard, New York,
1869; major and colonel of same,
resigning in 1874. Is a member of
the Veterans' Association, Seventh Regi
ment, National Guard, New York; of the
George Washington Post, 103, Grand Army
of the Republic; the Society of the Army
of the Potomac ; honorable member Friend
ly Sons of St. Patrick ; member of the
Hudson County (New Jersey) Bar Assoc
iation; and the New Jersey State Bar As
sociation. He belongs to the following
clubs: Lotos, Lawyers', Twilight, Union
League, (Hudson County, New Jersey) ;
and the North Jersey Country. In polit
ics he is a Republican and in religion a
Methodist. , He married at New York City,
May 29, 1867, Matilda B. Williams; they
have two children; Harry Williams, born

in 1868, and Fanny S. Toadvine, born in
1871. Address: Boulevard and West
Thirty-sixth Street, Bayonne, New Jersey.
FULLEB, Edward:
Author and journalist; born at Syracuse,
New York, June 30, i860; son of George
and Mary Griffiths Fuller. He was gradu
ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1882. Was
editorial writer for the Boston Advertiser,
September, 1883, to May, 1886; dramatic
editor and editorial writer for the Boston
Post, May, 1886, to November, 1891 ; liter
ary editor, and editorial writer for the
Providence Journal, November, 1891, to
February, 1906, since that date chief edi
torial writer on the Providence Journal.
Mr. Fuller has traveled extensively in Eu
rope. Is a Democrat in politics and an
Episcopalian in religion. His favorite rec
reations are yachting and walking. He
married at Boston, July 3, 1885, Anne De
vens Robinson. Residence: 261 Benefit
Street. Office address : The Journal, Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
FULLER, Edward L. :
Capitalist; born in Hawley, Pennsylvania,
October 10, 1851 ; son of Edward C. Fuller
and Helen (Ruthven) Fuller. He re
ceived his education in the public schools.
Mr. Fuller is president and director of the
International Salt Company, Retsof Mining
Company, Genesee and Wyoming Railroad
Company, Avery Rock Salt Mining Com
pany, Empire Limestone Company, and a
director of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company. He is also a trustee and treas
urer of the State Hospital of Scranton ; di
rector of the Pennsylvania Oral School for
the Deaf at Scranton. He is a member of
the Union . League, Lawyers, City, Mid-day
and New York Yacht Clubs of New York
City; the Maryland Club of Baltimore; the
Buffalo Club of" Buffalo, New York; the
Westmoreland Club of Wilkesbarre, and
the Scranton Club of Scranton, Pennsyl
vania. He married at Scranton, in 1876,
Helen M. Silkman and they have one son,
Mortimer Bartine, born in 1878. Residence :
Scranton, Pennsylvania. Office address : 2
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FULLEB, James Edward:
General contractor ; born in Athol, Mas
sachusetts, October 28, 1865; son of James
E. Fuller and Clara D. (Gould) Fuller.
He was graduated from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, class of 1888, with the degree
of B.S. in the Architectural Department,
Mr. Fuller was with Fuller and Delano,
architects, for one year ; was superintendent
of construction for Darling Brothers, Wor
cester, Massachusetts, two years ; superin
tendent of construction for the George A.
Fuller Company of Chicago, Illinois, for
three years; was a member of the firm of
Vaudreuil-Fuller Company, builders, three
years; in business for himself (J, Edward
Fuller Company, general contractor) for
five years; and has been New England
manager of the George A. Fuller Company,
and director for the past five years. He is
a director of the Worcester and Holden
Street" Railway Company, the Dunstable
Granite Company, and the Edlund Floor
Surfacing Machine Company. Iri politics
he is a Republican and in religion a Con
gregationalist ; and he is a member of the
Masonic Order. His favorite recreations
are fox hunting and motoring. Mr. Fuller
is a member of the Commonwealth Club of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Tech
nology Club of Boston. He married in
Worcester, Massachusetts, April 18, 1895,
Maude L. Knowlton, and they have two
daughters: Frances Allon Fuller, born in
1897, and Virginia Louise Fuller, born in
1899. Residence : 18 Brattle Street, North
Worcester. Office address : 131 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
FCLLEB, Melville Weston:
Chief Justice of the United States, was
born in Augusta, Maine, February 11, 1833;
was graduated from BoWdoin College in
1 1853 ; studied law, attended a course of
lectures at Harvard Law School, and was
adiriitted to the bar in 1855 ; formed a law
partnership in Augusta, Maine, and was
an associate editor of a Democratic paper
called The Age; in 1856 became president
of the common council, and served as city

solicitor; removed to Chicago, Illinois, in
1856, where he practiced law until appoints
ed Chief Justice; in 1862 was a member of
the State constitutional convention; was a
member of the State legislature from 1863
to 1865; was a delegate to the Democratic
national conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876; and
1880; the degree- of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by the Northwestern University
and by Bowdoin College in 1888, by Har
vard in 1890, by Yale and Dartmouth in
1901 ; was appointed Chief Justice April
30, 1888, confirmed July 20, 1888,. and took
the oath of office October 8, same year.
Residence : 1801 F Street, Washington,
D. C.
FCLLEB, Oliver Franklin:
Wholesale druggist; born at Sherman,
Connecticut, October ig, 1829; son of.Re-
vilo and Caroline E. (Hungerford) Fuller.
He was educated in the public schools of
his native place and began his business
career at the age of fifteen in a drug
store in Peekskill, New York, where he
remained for eight- years. In 1852 he re
moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he has
since been engaged in the drug business
on his own account, in its retail and whole
sale branches. The business was incorpor
ated in 1885, as the Fuller & Fuller Com
pany, wholesale druggists, and Mr. Fuller
has been continuously . president of the
company since that period. Politically he
is affiliated with the Republican Party. He
was married in Peekskill, New York, No
vember 8, 1858, to Phebe Ann Shipley,
and he has two sons : Frank R., Charles.
Residence : 325 Dearborn Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address : 220 Randolph Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
FULTON, Charles William:
United States Senator and lawyer; born
in Lima, Ohio, August 24, 1853; son of
Jacob Fulton and Eliza A. Fulton. At
Magnolia Mr. Fulton received his early
education, attending the common schools.
In 1871 his parents moved again, to Pawnee
City, Nebraska, at which place he .took up
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taught school, and during part of the time
attended an academy; in the spring of 1875
he determined to come West, and early
in that year landed in Oregon; taught
school one term at Waterloo, Linn County ;
came to Astoria in June, 1875, which has
since been his home. In 1877 he formed
a law partnership with J. W. Robb, and
through him became interested in politics,
being elected to the State. senate in 1878.
In the early eighties was elected city at
torney, arid in 1888 was a Presidential
elector, carrying to Washington the vote
of Oregon and casting it for President
Harrison. Was elected to the State senate
in 1890, 1898 and 1902, and was president
at the sessions of 1893 and 1901, was elected
to the United States Senate, February 28,
1903, to succeed Joseph Simon, for the
term beginning March 4, 1903. His term
of service will expire March 3, 1909. Sen
ator Fulton married, September 5, 1878,
Miss Ida Hobson and they have one son.
Address : Astoria, Oregon.
FULTON, Bobert Burwell:
Chancellor of the University of Missis
sippi, " 1892-1906. President Miller School
(Technical), Albemarle County, Virginia,
since 1906 ; born Sumpter County, Ala
bama, April 8, 1849; son of William and
Elizabeth K. Fulton. He was educated in
private schools ; University of Mississippi,
.A.B., 1869; A.M., 1873; LL.D., University
of Nashville, 1893 ; South Carolina College,
igos; University of Alabama, 1906; taught
in high schools, Alabama, 1869-70 ; New Or
leans, 1870-71 ; tutor, University of Missis
sippi, 1871 ; adjunct professor of physics,
1872; professor of physics and astronomy,
1875 .to 1906 ; fellow, by election, A. A- A.
S., since 1888; president Department of
Higher Education, National Educational
Association, 1898; president Southern Edu
cational Association, 1899; president Na
tional Association of State Universities,
1896-1902; contributor to Evangelical Bri-
tannica, ninth edition and supplement ; au
thor of various papers on educational and
scientific subjects. Married, first, in 1871,
Annie Rose Garlan, who died in 1893; sec

ond, in 1903,- Florence Thompson. Clubs:
Chi Psi. Address : Miller School, Virginia.
FUNK Isaac Kaufman:
Author, publisher, clergyman; born at
Clifton, Ohio, September 10, 1839. He was
graduated from Wittenberg College with
the degree of D.D. in i860 (LL.D., 1896).
Filled various pastorates from 1867 to 1872,
the last, St. Matthew's English Lutheran
Church, Brooklyn. Is editor-in-chief of
various periodicals of the Funk and Wag-
nails Company; editor-in-chief, Standard
Dictionary (1891-1906), new edition, re
vised, 1903; chairman of editorial board
that produced Jewish Encyclopedia; found
er-editor of the Metropolitan Pulpit (now
the Homiletic Review), 1876; in connec
tion with his house, founded the Voice,
1880; the Missionary- Review, 1888; the
Literary Digest, 1889; and in 1906 estab
lished The Circle ; has published num
erous works of reference ; in 1878 entered
into partnership with A. W. Wagnalls,
merging in 1890, into the Funk and Wag
nalls Company, of which he is president.
Is editor of: Tarry Thou Till I Come,
with introduction, 1901 ; author of : The
Next Step in Evolution, 1902; The Wid
ow's Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena,
1904; The Psychic Riddle, 1907. Is treas
urer of the Prohibition Park Company,
Staten Island; Lutheran; member Simpli
fied Spelling Board (on Executive Commit
tee) ; a member of the National Geographi
cal Society; of the Aldine Club; of the
Brooklyn Clerical Union. He is a Prohi
bitionist ; his chief recreation is golf. Resi
dence: 195 Washington Park, Brooklyn.
Address : 44-60 East Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
FUNKHOUSEE, Abram Paul:
President of Lebanon Valley College;
born at Dayton, Virginia, December 10,
1853 ; son of Samuel Funkhouser and Eliza
beth (Paul) Funkhouser. He was educated
in various schools and entered the minis
try of the United Brethren Church. He
founded the Shenandoah Institute at Day
ton, Virginia, in 1876, and from 1876 to
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Virginia United Brethren Conference. He
took the scientific course at Otterbein Uni
versity and was graduated as B.S. in 1882,
and he became superintendent of schools of
Rockingham County, Virginia, holding this
office until 1886, when he resigned to give
his time entirely to the editing of the State
Republican of Harrisonburg, Virginia, which
he had been publishing for three years and
continued to publish until 1898. He was
superintendent of the Shenandoah Valley
Chautauqua, for thirteen years from 1892
to 1905. For one year, 1893 to 1894, he was
president of the Western College of Toledo,
Ohio; was associate editor of the Religious
Telescope, Dayton, Ohio, from 1897 to
1898; was postmaster at Harrisonburg,
Virginia, from 1898 to 1906 ; and since then
has been president and trustee of Lebanon
Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania. He
is also trustee of the Shenandoah Institute
in Dayton, Virginia. Mr. Funkhouser is
identified in politics with the Republican
party, is a member of the Republican State
Committee and was delegate to the Na
tional Conventions of 1888 and 1900. He
was a delegate in the General Conferences
of the United Brethren in Christ in 1889.
1893, 1897, 1901 and 1905, and represented
his church in the Tri-church Council of
Congregational, United Brethren, and
Methodist Protestant Churches in 1906 and
igo7. He received the degree of A.M. from
Otterbein University, Ohio, and the honor
ary degree of D.D. from York College, Ne
braska, both in igo7. He married at West-
erville, Ohio, June 23, 1880, Minnie King,
and has four children; Jessie, born in 1882;
Samuel, born in 1884; Mary, born in 1887;-
and Edward, born in 1893. Address : Ann
ville, Pennsylvania.
FUNSTEN, James Bowen:
Bishop of Boise; born in Clark County,
Virginia, 1856; son of Col. Oliver Ridge
way and Mary (Bowen) Furisten. He re
ceived his preparatory education at the
Virginia Military Institute, and, upon
graduation in 1875, entered the University
of Virginia, from which he graduated With

the degree of B.L. in 1878. He studied
theology at the Virginia Theological Sem
inary, graduating in 1882. He received
from the University of the South the de
gree of D.D. in 1902. In 1882 he was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church,
and in 1883 he was ordained priest by
Bishop Peterkin. He was connected as
deacon and priest, during the years 1882-
84, with churches at Marion, Virginia, and
Bristol, Tennessee. Following this he was
eight years rector of Christ's Church, Rich
mond, Virginia, and in 1890 became General
Missionary of Virginia. In 1892 he was
called to the rectorship of Trinity Church,
Portsmouth, Virginia, remaining there un
til 1899, when he was made bishop of
Boise. He was consecrated by Bishops
Whittle, Randolph, Paret, Whitaker, Pen-
ick, Peterkin, Talbot, Cheshire and Gibson.
He is author of several tracts and numer
ous other publications. Address: Boise
City, Idaho.
FUNSTON, Frederick:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born at New Carlisle, Ohio, November 9,
1865; son of Hon. Edward Hogue Funston
(speaker of the Kansas House of Repre
sentatives 1875 and congressman from the
Second Kansas District, 1885-95), and Ann
E. (Mitchell) Funston. The family re
moved to Carlyle, Kansas, in 1867, and af
terward to Iola, Kansas, where he was grad
uated from the high school in 1886, and then
attended the University of Kansas until
1888. After a year in the employ of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
he engaged as a reporter on papers in Kan
sas City, Missouri, and city editor of the
Fort Smith Tribune until 1891 when he
became botanist of the United States Death
Valley Expedition. He was appointed, as
botanist, to explore Alaska and report on
its flora for the United States Department
of Agriculture in 1893; camped on the
Klondike in the winter of 1893 and 1894,
four years before the gold discoveries, and
floated down the Yukon alone in a canoe
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taring, went to Cuba in 1896 and joined the
insurgent army under Garcia and Gomez,
having charge of the artillery, and after
eighteen months was wounded, captured,
paroled and sent back to the United States.
When war began between the United
States arid Spainj he orgariized aridj On May
13, i§g8j he was commissioned cOJOriei of
the. tegiriient, which was sent to the Phil-
ijJtiintisi He took part iri. several battles,
and distinguished himself oil ttiany oc
casions; arid was awarded the Congressional
Medal tii Honor for distinguished gallantry
to action at Rid Graridfe de la Pairipanga,
Luzon, Philippine Island's, A{rfii ij\, 1899;
in crossing the river on a raft, arid by his
skill and daring enabled the general Corri-
manding to carfy the enemy's entrenched
position on the north bank of the river and
drive him with great loss" from the im
portant strategic position of Calumpit. He
was promoted to brigadier-general United
States Volunteers, May 1, 1899, and later
he organized and commanded the expedi
tion which resulted in the capture of Aguin-
aldoj leader of the Filipino insurgents. He
was comrnissioned brigadierj-getteral United
States Army, April 1, 1901, and after fur
ther service in the Philippines was placed
in command of the Department of Cali
fornia. His command of the situation in
San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906,
orgarlizihg relief and restoring order, added
greatly to the reputation won by his bravery
in war. Address : 2440 Pacific Avenue, San
Francisco, California.
FUBEY, Charles La Tour:
Vice-President of the American Guaranty
Company; born in New York, August 19,
i860; son of Edward Furey and Mary E.
(La Tour) Furey. He was educated in
public schools of Brooklyn and in Poly
technic Institute. He afterward engaged in
mining, merchandising, banking, and was
receiver of the Chicago Savings Bank ; and
president of the Salt Lake. Southern Rail
road In politics he is a Republican. He
is president of the Women's and Children's
Convalescent Home,- Chicago, and is a
member of the Union League, South Shore
Country, Auto and Marquette Clubs of Chi

cago, and the Lawyefs* Club of New York.
Mr. Furey married iri Denver; ColofadOj
in 1889, Caroline Rebecca Smith, and they
have one daughter, Caroline La Tour Fu
rey, born in 1890. Residence : 135 Lincoln
Park Boulevard, Chicago. Address: 171
La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FUBNESN, Wllliani Eliot:
Lawyer; born iri Philadelphia,- Atfgust-
21; 1839,; sori of James Thwing Fiiffiess alrid
Elizabeth Margaret .(Eliot) Furne'sS. tie
was educated 1(1 the private schools o'i
Charles 'Short, in PrfiladelfJ^ia/ at Harvard
University, where he. was gradti&tsd Ss
A.B. in the claiss of i860; arid wa;s gradd*
ated from5 Harvard Laiw School as A.M.
and LL.B. in 1863. He was president and
is now second vice-president oi tha Multi
ple Speed and Traction Company. Mf,
Furness was commissioned first lieutenant
of the Third United States Colored Troops,
August 10; 1863; captain of the Forty-
fifth United States Colored Troops, i3eceirij
ber 13, 1864; major arid judge advocate
of United States Volunteers, February 22',
1865, and was mustered out October 7/
1865; and his war service was with tbs
Army of the James and in the Departments
of the South arid the Gulf. In politics he
is a Republican, and in religion a Unitari
an. Major Furness is a member of the
Illinois Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution and the Society of Colonial
Wars ; director and treasurer of the Fred
erick Douglas Centre, Chicago; director
and secretary of the Eli Bates House Set
tlement, Chicago ;• member of the Chicago
Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Asso
ciation, American Bar Association, Ameri
can Historical Society, and Phi Beta Kappa
(Harvard Chapter), and is is member of
the University, Hamilton, Chicago Literary
and Harvard Clubs of Chicago and the
Harvard Club of New York City. Mr.
Furness married in Boston, March 27, 1865.
Lucy Fairfield Wadsworth, and they have
four children : Grace Eliot, born July 15,
1867, died July 22, 1897; Elizabeth Marga
ret, born August 6, 1868; Ruth Wads
worth, born February 10, 1875 (wife of

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James F. Porter) ; and James Thwing,
born September 9, 1876, and died Septem
ber 11, 1898. Residence: 417 Orchard
Street, Chicago. Address : 1204 Rector
Building, Chicago, Illinois.
FUBNISS, Henry W. :
Diplomat; appointed consul at Balua,
January 14, 1898; appointed envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Haiti, November 23, 1905. Address : Port-
au-Prince, Haiti.
FUBST,. Conrad:
Manufacturer, retired; born in Ottweiler,
Rhenish Prussia, Germany, June 24, 1829;
son of Andreas and Louise' (KleberJ Furst.
From the age' of six to fourteen years he
attended the public schools of his native
place. He came to the United States in
1849 and settled in Chicago, Illinois, where
he worked for three years in the wagon
and carriage manufactory of J. C. Little
field, the last two years as foreman of the
factory, and one year for William H.
Spearing, half-brother of Mr. Littlefield,
and his successor in the business. In 1853
Mr. Furst became a partner with Spearing,
and in 1854 bought out the latter's in
terest in the business. In the same year
he became associated with David Bradley,
and the firm of Furst & Bradley was
formed, which, in 1872, was incorporated
as the Furst & Bradley Manufacturing
Company, and of which Mr. Furst was
president until he withdrew in 1881 on ac
count of failing health. He returned to
Germany upon, his retirement, where he
remained until r885, when he returned with
restored health. He was president of the
Machinists' Supply' Company of Chicago
from 1885 to 1893, with his sons as treas
urer and vice-president. He sold out his
interest in the business in 1893, since which
time he, with his sons has been engaged
in looking after his extensive real estate
interests in Chicago. He has generally
acted with the Republican Party, particul
arly ou national issues, but in local mat
ters has at times acted independently. FIc
is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church. He was married in Chicago,

January 6, i860, to Dorothea Kroeger, and
his children are : William C, Edward A.,
and Mrs. Louise C. Ernst. Residence: 84
Astor Street, Chicago, •Illinois. Office ad
dress : Ogden Building, 34 Clark Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
FUBST, Michael:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, July 15, 1856;
son of Solomon Furst and Bertha (Jaffe)
Furst. Educated at public school six, and
the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn; was
graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1876
(commencement orator) ; from Columbia
Law School as LL.B. in 1878. Admitted
to the bar, May, 1878; has practiced his
profession continuously since in Brooklyn;
assistant Corporation Counsel, City of
Brooklyn from 1894 to 1898; had charge of
the real estate and street opening bureau;
appointed by Justice Gaynor, with J. Ed
ward Swanstrom and Luke G. Stapleton,
commissioner, to widen Livingston Street.
First vice-president Kings County Mort
gage Company; trustee Greater New York
Savings Bank; director Valley Stream De
velopment Company. Member, Brooklyn
Bar Association; Yale Alumni Association
of Long Island; Society of Old Brooklyn-
ites, Brooklyn; Young Republican Club;
Gilbert Council; Royal Arcanum; Eagle
Council; Royal Addition; Montague Con
clave ; Heptasophs ; Brooklyn League ;
South Brooklyn Board of Trade; Prospect
Heights Citizens' Association; League of
American Wheelmen; vice-president Heb
rew Educational Society of Brooklyn; vice-
president Young Men's Hebrew Associa
tion of Brooklyn ; patron Brooklyn Hebrew
Orphan Asylum Society; member Jewish
Hospital of Brooklyn and Hebrew Benevol
ent Society. Belongs to the Brooklyn, Mon-
tauk, Kings County, .and Royal Arcanum
Clubs. FIis favorite recreation is wheeling;
was formerly president of the Associated
Cycling Clubs of Brooklyn. In politics he
is a Republican, in religion a Hebrew ; he is
trustee of the Temple Israel. Residence:
115 Prospect Park, West Brooklyn. Ad
dress: 215 Montague Street, Brooklyn,
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CABBIELS, Henry:
Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, New
York; born in Wannegem, Belgium, Octo
ber .6, 1838 ; son of Leopold and Rosalie
(Moerman) Gabriels; educated in public
schools of Belgium; was graduated Lou
vain (Belgium), S.T.L., 1864; D.D., 1882;
professor of theology St. Joseph's Seminary,
New York, 1864-92, and its president
from 1871; consecrated bishop, 1892. Au
thor : Book on Rubrics ; translation of Rud
iments of Hebrew and Historical Sketch
of St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy. Address :
Ogdensburg, New York.
GADE, Fredrik Herman:
Consul for Norway at Chicago and law
yer; born in Christiania, Norway, August
12, 1871 ; son of Gerhard Gade and Helen
R. (Allyn) Gade. He was educated in the
high school and gymnasium in Christiania,
Norway, was graduated from Harvard Col
lege as A.B. in 1892 and from Harvard
Law School as LL.B. in 1895. He has prac
ticed law in Chicago since 1895; was in
partnership with Charles B. Pike (now
president of the Hamilton National Bank
of Chicago)', from 1897 to 1903; now
practicing alone, but giving half his time
to the business of the Norwegian consulate
office. He was mayor of the city of. Lake
Forest, Illinois, from 1903 to 1906. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
a Protestant Lutheran. He received from
King Haakon of Norway the Coronation
medal in 1906 ; is a member of the Chicago
Geographical Society, the Chicago. Bar As
sociation, Chicago Law Club, and the
Chicago Legal Club, and of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants. His favorite rec
reations are hunting, riding to hounds with
the Onwentsia Hunt Club. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago and Chicago University
Clubs; the Onwentsia Club (of which he
is secretary), and the Harvard Club of
Chicago, and of the Harvard Club of New
York. Mr. Gade married in Chicago, May
25, 1897, Alice Garfield King, and they
have two children : Gerhard Gade, 2nd,
born in 1898, and Alice King Gade, born

in 1899. Residence : Lake Forest, Illinois.
Address: Stock Exchange Building, Chi
cago, Illinois.
OAEHB, Paul Frederick:
Instructor in physics; born in Thun,
Switzerland, May 15, 1880; son of Gottlieb
Gaehr and Jacobea (Zurbriigg) Gaehr. He
was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) Acad
emy in 1898, then entered Cornell Univeri-
ty, from which he received the degree of
A.B. in 1902 and A.M. in 1905. Mr. Gaehr
was instructor at the Cascadilla Prepara
tory School, at Ithaca, New York, from
1899 to 1901 ; assistant in physics at Cornell
University from 1901 to 1903, and has been
instructor in physics ever since. He is
trustee of the Cornell Aquatic Association
and a member of the American Physical
Society, the Sigma Xi Society (scientific-
honorary), and of the Naga Club. His fa
forite recreations are canoeing and sailing.
He is a Republican in politics and a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church. Resi
dence: Ithaca, New York. Office address:
Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca, New York.
GAFFNEY, Thomas St. John:
United States Consul-General ; was born
in Limerick, Ireland, the 17th day of May,
1864, and was the son of Alderman Thomas
Gaffney, J. P. and Agnes Mary Clune Gaff-
ney. He was educated at Clongowes Wood
College and the Royal University of Ire
land. He became active in all the patriotic
efforts of his time in support of Irish na
tionality, and was especially identified with
the movement under the leadership of the
late Charles Stewart Parnell. In 1882 he
came to the United States and studied for
the New York bar, to which he was ad
mitted and, subsequently, became a strong
advocate of the principles of the -Republi
can party. ' He was Secretary of the Mc
Kinley League of the State of New York
in the campaign of 1896. He has been a
frequent contributor to magazines and
newspapers on' national and international
subjects. He has been an extensive travel
ler in European countries and was deco
rated with the Cross of the Legion of
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King of the Belgians made him an officer
of the Order of Leopold the Second in
February, 1906. In 1907 he was presented
to the German Kaiser. Mr. Gaffney was
nominated consul-general to Dresden, Sax
ony, by President Roosevelt immediately
after his election. In America Mr. Gaffney
is a member of the American Irish His
torical Society, the Knights of Columbus,
the Republican Club of New York, the
Gaelic Society, the Irish Texts Society of
London ; on the Continent he is president
of the Anglo-American Club of Dresden
and a member of the Royal Saxon Auto
mobile" Club, the Dresden Golf Club, the
German Touring Club of Munich, and the
Touring Club of France. Mr. Gaffney's
favorite amusements are automobiling and
golf. Address : Dresden, Saxony.
GAGE, Albert Seth:
Formerly merchant, now hotel proprietor
and manager; born in Dracut, Middlesex
County, Massachusetts, December 30, 1842;
son of Seth and Betsy Gage. He re
ceived an excellent school education, and
qualified himself for entrance into college,
but decided to enter at once upon mercan
tile career. He accordingly entered a dry
goods store in Lowell, Massachusetts, as a
clerk in 1858, where he remained for two
years. In i860 he removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he succeeded in establishing
himself in the same line of business on his
own account. When the great fire of 1871
occurred, his store and stock were de
stroyed, but he was among the very first
to secure a new supply of goods, which he
placed in a temporary store constructed in
his private residence, where he continued to
carry on his business until the old structure
was rebuilt. He finally located at the cor
ner of Wabash and Madison Avenues,
where he conducted a successful business
until about 1895, when he sold out his in
terest. In 1890 he organized the Gage
Hotel Company, which owns the Welling
ton Hotel, Wabash Avenue and Jackson
Boulevard, and of which Mr. Gage is the
president. He is a Democrat. He was the
originator of the Washington Park Club,
and is also a member of the Calumet and

Chicago Clubs. On June 2, 1864, he was
married to Martha A. Hobbs, of Pelham,
New Hampshire. Address : Wellington
Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
GAGE, Lyman Judson:
Financier and ex-secretary of the United
States Treasury; was born in DeRuyter,
l>few York, June 28, 1836. His parents, Eli
A. and Mary (Judson) Gage, were natives
of New York, but the ancestors of each
were from New England, where both
families were settlers in the early history
of the country, having emigrated from
England. Lyman Gage entered the academy
at Rome, New York, when he was but- ten
years of age, but after only four years of
schooling he was obliged to suspend his
studies that he might begin the battle of
life by earning his own support. His
first occupation was found as an employee
in the Rome Post Office, a year later be
came mail agent on the Rome and Water-
town Railroad, and in 1854 he sought and
obtained employment in the Onedia Cen
tral Bank. After eighteen months there,
he went to Chicago, he being then nineteen
years of age. He failed to find employ
ment in the banks, but became a book
keeper for a lumber yard and planing
mill until three years later the business
suspended during the financial depression
of 1858. He remained with the firm as
watchman until August, 1858, when he
found employment with The Merchants'
Savings, Loan and Trust Conipany as
bookkeeper. In less than six months he
was promoted to the position of paying
teller, and at the' expiration of a year was
further advanced to be assistant cashier.
At the end of the second year he
was given the post of cashier, .which
position he held until 1868, when,
having served the institution a complete de
cade, he severed his connection with it to
assume a more advantageous connection
with the First National Bank, of Chicago.
He went into this large financial institu
tion on the most alluring terms as its
cashier, his great abilities having been
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management. He soon gave unmistak
able evidence of the possession of a high
character of banking genius. His service
did much toward extending the popularity
of the bank, and in 1882, when a new char
ter was procured and a reorganization ef
fected, Mr. Gage was elected vice-presi
dent and manager. He filled these positions
for, nine years to the entire satisfaction of
the directors and stockholders, and after
discharging the active duties of the execu
tive for several years he was elected presi
dent of the bank in 1891. Long before this
Mr. Gage^s solid abilities had gained a
general recognition from the financiers of
the country, and as far back as 1882 he
had been elected president of the American
Bankers' Association, and was twice reelect
ed unanimously to that honorable office. Mr.
Gage's great financial "abilities were brought
to the service of the Government when he
accepted the portfolio of the Treasury, under
President McKinley, in 1897. His admin
istration of the affairs of the Treasury
Department, extending over a period of
five years, was marked by great wisdom,
and was such as to inspire confidence among
the financial interests throughout the coun
try. In April, 1902, Mr. Gage resigned from
the Treasury and became the president of
the United States Trust Company of New
York, from which he resigned in 1906.
Having reached the age of seventy years
he removed to California. Mr. Gage is
a man of social tastes, and is a
member of many social organizations.
The quiet life, too, claims much of
his sympathy, for he is a student of litera
ture in all of its leading forms and branches
and adds the culture of books to the knowl
edge he has received from contact with
the best characters of the world's busy and
crowded life. Address : Point Loma, Cali
fornia.
GAGE, Simon Henry:
Teacher; born in Otsego County, New
York, May 20, 1851 ; sori of Henry van Tas
sel and Lucy Ann (Grover) Gage. He
was graduated from Cornell University
with the B.S. degree in 1877, and was- as
sistant and instructor in vertebrate zoology,

1878-81 ; assistant professor, 1881-89 ; asso
ciate professor, i88g-g6; since i8g6 professor
histology and embryology, Cornell Univer
sity. Co-editor American Journal of Anat
omy, chairman, Section Embryology, Inter
national Congress Arts and Sciences, St.
Louis, igo4. Author : The Microscope ;
Anatomical Technology (with Prof. Burt
G. Wilder) ; also contributor to scientific
journals on comparative histology and em
bryology. Independent in politics. Baotist-
Unitarian. Fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science
(vice-president, 1885, i8g2, i8gg) ; member
American Society Naturalists, American
Society Zoologists, Association American
Anatomists, American Microscopical Society
(President 1895 and 1906), Washington
Academy Sciences; associate member
American Medical Association; member
New York State Science Teachers Associa
tion (president 1896) ; honorary member
New York State Veterinary Medical Asso
ciation ; member Delta Upsilon and hon
orary member Omega Upsilon Phi frater
nities. He married at Morrisville, New
York, December 15, 1881, Susanna Stewart
Phelps, and has a son, Henry Phelps, born
October 4, 1886. Addr-ess : 4 South Ave
nue, Ithaca, New York.
GAGEB, C. Stnart:
Director laboratories, New York Botani
cal Garden; bom Norwich, New York,
December 23, 1872;. son of Charles C. and
Leora Josephine (Darke) Gager. He gradu
ated from Syracuse University, A.B., 1895,
New York State Normal College, Albany,
Pd.B., Pd.M., 1897, Cornell University,
Ph.D., 1902. Laboratory assistant in biol
ogy, Syracuse University, 1894-95 ; vice-
principal Ives Seminary, 1895-96; professor
biological sciences and physiography, New
York State Normal College, 1897-1905 ; as
sistant botany, Summer School, Cornell,
1901-02, instructor, 1904; collaborator Jour
nal Applied Microscopy, 1901-02; member
Committee on Physiography, New York
State Science Teachers' Association 1903 ;
laboratory assistant New York Botanical
Garden, 1904-05; acting professor botany,
Rutgers College, 1905; teacher of botany,

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Morris High School, New York City, 1905 ;
associate editor Plant World, 1905 ; in
structor of botany, New York University
Summer School, 1905-06; lecturer on bot
any. New York University, 1906; sec
retary Torrey Botanical Club since 1905.
Methodist. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, Bo
tanical Society of America and Delta
Upsilon fraternity. He married in Rens
selaer, New York, 1902, Bertha Woodward
Bagg, and they have one son, Benjamin
Stuart, born in 1904. Address : New York
Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York
City.
GAILLABD, Edwin White:
Librarian; born at Louisville, Kentucky,
June 14, 1872; son of Edwin Samuel and
Mary Elizabeth (Gibson) Gaillard; educat
ed in schools of New York City. Member
editorial staff Independent, 1888-95 ; trav
eled extensively in the West, Nova Scotia,
Mexico, West Indies and islands of South
Pacific, contributing meanwhile to various
periodicals. Librarian Webster Free Cir
culating Library, New York, since 1897;
supervisor of work with schools and' col
leges, New York ¦ Public Library, since
1903. President New York City Library
Association, vice-president Library Section,
National Education Association; member
International Committee on Moral In
quiry. He married in New York City, No
vember 1, 1906, Clara Sackett. Address :
New York Public Library, 209 West
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
GAILOB, Thomas Frank:
Bishop of Tennessee; born at Jackson,
Mississippi, September 17, 1856; son of
Frank M. Gailor and Charlotte Moffett
Gailor. He took the academic course at
Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin, and
graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1876,
receiving M.A. in 1879. Then he stud
ied theology at the General Theological
Seminary, New York City, receiving the
degree of S.T.B. in 1879 and S.T.B. in
1893. He also received the degree of D.
D: from Trinity College, Hartford, Con

necticut, in 1892, and from the University
of the South in 1893 and S.T.D. from
Columbia University in 1890. He received
the Greek prize at Racine College. in 1876,
and at the General Theological Seminary
in 1879. After leaving the seminary he
took orders as deacon of the Episcopal
Church and was ordained priest in 1880
by Bishop Quintard. During the years of
1879-82, he was connected with the Church
of the Messiah, of Pulaski, Tennessee, and
following that he became chaplain and
professor of ecclesiastical history, in the
University of the South. In 1890 he be
came vice-chancellor arid after three years
he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Ten
nessee, and was consecrated by Bishop
Quintard, Bishops Dudley, Perry, Seymour,
Watson, Jackson, Nelson, Hale, Kinsolving,
Johnston, Sessums and Gray being present
and assisting at the consecration. He was
made Bishop of Tennessee in 1893. Bishop
Gailor is author of : Manual Devotion ; Ser
mons; The Puritan Reaction, 1889; The
Apostolic Succession, 1890; The Divine
Event of All Time, 1892; Things New
and Old, 1895; The Master's Word and
Church's Act, 1895; The Trust of the
Episcopate, 1896. Address : Memphis,
Tennessee.
GAINES, John Wesley:
Congressman and lawyer. He was elect
ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Con
gress in 1896 from the Sixth Tennessee
district and reelected iri 1898, 1900, 1902,
1904 and in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress,
in which he is now serving. Address:
Nashville, Tennessee.
GAINES, Joseph Holt:
Was born September 3, 1864, in the Dis
trict of Columbia; was taken by his par
ents to Fayette County, West Virginia, in
1867; was educated at the University of
West Virginia and Princeton, graduating
from the latter institution in 1886; was ad
mitted to the bar in Fayette, West Vir
ginia, in 1887 ; was appointed United States '
district attorney for West Virginia by Pres
ident McKinley in 1897, and resigned in
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Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses,
and was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress.
Address: Charleston, West Virginia.
GALBBEATH, James Mv..
Jurist; born in Butler Comity, Pennsyl
vania, September 27, 1852 ; educated in
Princeton College, where he graduated in
1880, afterward studying law. He was ad
mitted to the bar of Butler County, March
6, 1882, and practiced with great success
until 1902, part of the time being a part
ner of James B. Mcjunkin; in 1902 Mr.
Galbreath was nominated for County Judge,
and was elected November 4, 1902, taking
his seat on the bench January 5, igo3.
His only other public office has been that
of school director, which he held for six
years. He is a member of the Princeton
Club of Western Pennsylvania, and joined
the American Whig Society when in col
lege. Address : Butler, Pennsylvania.
GALE, Harlow:
Psychological student and writer; born
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2g, 1862;
son of H. A. Gale and Elizabeth (Griggs)
Gale. He was educated in the Minneapolis
public schools, was graduated from Yale
as A.B., in 1885; was graduate student at
the University of Minnesota, from 1885
to 1887; at Yale from 1887 to i88g; at
Cambridge in 1889 and 1890, and at Leip
zig and Berlin from 1890 to 1894. He was
instructor in psychology at the University
of Minnesota, from 1894 to 1903 ; has con
ducted a private psychological laboratory in
Minneapolis since 1903, and has been sec
retary of the Minnesota Academy of
Science since 1903. He is author of: Phy-
chological Studies, 1900; University Ideals
and Practice, 1904; also several psychologi
cal, pedagogical and musical articles. In pol
itics he is a Socialist. Mr. Gale married in
Minneapolis, 1892, Mary Corser, and they
have three children: Mary, born in 1893;
Samuel, born in 1895; and Hilde, born in
1897. Residence: s 615 James Avenue,
North, Minneapolis. Address: 810 Sykes
Block, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GALLAGHEB, Charles Theodore:
Lawyer ; born in Boston, May 21, 1851 ',
son of William and Emily C Gallagher.
After passing through the public schools of
the city he studied law, following the Har
vard Law School course, and completing his
legal education in the office of Hon. A. A.
Ranney. He graduated from the Boston
University Law School as LL.B. in 1875,
was admitted to the Suffolk bar the
same year; and later received the degree of
LL.B. from Boston University, A.M. from
Dartmouth College. He was an active
member of the school committee for twelve
years or more, and for four years its presi
dent. He served in the State Senate (in
1882), declining a renomination. He also
twice refused a congressional nomination.
In 1864 he enlisted as a drummer-boy in
the First Unattached Massachusetts Infan
try. He is now a member of Dahlgren
Post 2, G. A. R. He is also a member of
the Athletic, the Art, University, Exchange,
Algonquin and the Curtis Law clubs. He
is a trustee of the Bird estate and the John
Hawes fund, two educational funds left for
the benefit of South Boston people, and a
member of the board of investment of the
South Boston Savings Bank. President of
the Boston Art Club five years, and on the
executive committee of the University
Club; member. of various dining and social
clubs; director of numerous industrial cor
porations. For twenty years a member of
the Council of the Bar Association; Past
Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts,
and one of the four active 33rd degree of
Massachusetts, in the United States ; trus
tee of Roxbury Latin School, trustee of
Farm School, trustee of Benjamin Frank
lin's will ; trustee of Franklin Fund ; trus
tee of Boston University. Address : Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
GALLANT, Albert Ernest:
Surgeon; bora Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng
land, June 27, 1861 ; son of Rev. Walter
and Sarah (Horsley) Gallant; educated
public schools, Honesdale and Damascus,
Pennsylvania grammar school, Paterson,
New Jersey, College Physicians and Sur-

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MEN OF AMERICA;

geons (Columbia University), M.D., 1890.
Interne St. Joseph's Hospital and Sloane
Maternity Hospital, 1891, New York Canc
er Hospital, 1892; instructor surgery, New
York Post-Graduate Medical School, 1893-
96, Polyclinic Medical School, 1896-98;
assistant surgeon Lebanon Hospital, 1894-
95 » gynecologist Northern Dispensary,
1893-1903. Vice-president and treasurer
New York School Clinical Medicine; con
sulting surgeon, Jamaica Hospital; surgeon
Baptist Deacon Home and Training School ;
assistant gynecologist, Roosevelt Hospital,
Out Patient Department, 1893-1906; pre-
fessor gynecology, New York School Clini
cal Medicine; gynecologist, Westside Ger
man Dispensary. Republican. Served in
Company A, Paterson Light Guard, Na
tional Guard, New Jersey, 1884-88. Mem
ber American Medical Association, New
York State Medical Society, New York
County Medical Society, American Uro-
logical Association Society, Medical Jur
isprudence, New York Academy Medi
cine, Society Moral and Social Pro
phylaxis, Society Alumni Sloane Maternity
Hospital; treasurer New York Urological
Society, secretary 1900-05, president 1905-
10 Class Physicians and Surgeons, 1890,
New York. He married, at Paterson, New
Jersey, January 1, 1895, Eudora Elliot
Burkett. Address: 60 West Fifty-sixth
Street, New York City.
GALLAUDET, Bern Budd:
Surgeon; born New York City, February
11, i860; son of Rev. Thomas (D.D.) and
Elizabeth Reynolds (Budd) Gallaudet; ed
ucated Anthon Grammar School, Everson's
Collegiate School, New York City; Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut, A.B., 1880,
post-graduate course in chemistry, 1880-
81, A.M., 1883; Columbia (College Physic
ians and Surgeons), M.D., 1884 (cash
prize for graduating No. 5 in class of 150
students). Interne at New York Hospital,
1884-86; student of medicine, Vienna and
Berlin, 1886-87; surgeon Vanderbilt Clinic,
1887-go; assistant demonstrator of anatomy
1887791,; demonstrator of anatomy, 1891-
igos, adjunct professor anatomy since igos,

clinical lecturer on surgery and instructor
in surgery since 1890,. Columbia University;
visiting surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, since
1890. . Politically he is a Free Trader, and
in his church relations he is an Episco
palian. He is a member of the New
York Surgical Society, Associatiori Amer
ican Anatomists, Alumni Associations of
New York Hospital, and of College of
Physicians and Surgeons ; and University
Club. He married, Los Angeles, Califor
nia, June 4, 1894, Elise, daughter of Colonel
William A. Elderkin, U. S. A. Address:
Westminster Hotel, 115 East Sixteenth
Street, New York City.
GALLAUDET, Edward Miner:
President of Gallaudet College for the
Deaf; born in Hartford, Connecticut, Feb
ruary 5, 1837 ; son of Thomas Hopkins Gal
laudet. He was graduated from Trinity
College as B.S. in 1856 and received the
degree of LL.D. in 1869; also LL.D. from
Yale in 1895, and Ph.D. from Columbian
(now George Washington) in 1869. He
taught in his father's institution for the
deaf at Hartford in 1856 and 1857, and then
organized the Columbia Institution for
Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Washington, of
which Gallaudet College, founded in 1864,
is a department; professor of moral and
political science in that college. Dr.
Gallaudet is president of the Convention
of American Instructors of the Deaf,
and appeared before the Royal Con
ference in 1886, in the interest of the deaf-
mute education. He is author of: Popular
Manual of International Law, and Life of
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Address:
Kendall Green, Washington, Di C.
GALL A WAT, Bobert Macy:
Merchant, banker; born New Yoml City,
August 4, 1837, of Scottish descent, grad
uated Yale, A.B., 1858. Became a clerk in
his father's store; is president Merchants'
National Bank; for thirteen years was
vice-president elevated railroads; now dir
ector Manhattan Railway Company; presi
dent and director New York Mutual Gas
Light Company; trustee Bowery Savings
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Louisville Railway 'Company, Hocking Val
ley Railway Company, Iron Mountain Rail
road Company, Rio Grande Western Rail
way Conipany, St Louis, Iron Mountain
& Southern Railway Company, St. Louis
Southwestern Railway Company, Southern
Railway Company, Texas & Pacific Rail
way Company* Wabash Railroad Company,
Manhattan Life Insurance Company, New
York Mutual Telegraph Company, Ameri
can Malting Company. Member New Eng
land Society, St. Andrew's Society, St.
Nicholas Society; and of the Union, Union
League, Metropolitan, University, Riding,
New York Yacht, City Midday and Yale
Clubs. He married in 1868, Elizabeth A.
Williams ; children : John Macy, Merrill W.
Residence : 68 East Fifty-fifth Street. Ad
dress": 42 Wall Street, New York City.
GALLINGEB, Jacob H. :
United States Senator; born on a farm
in Cornwall, Ontario, March .28, 1837,
being one of the twelve children of Jacob
Gallinger and Catharine (Cook) Gallinger.
He received a common school and aca
demic education ; was a printer in early life ;
studied medicine and was graduated with
honors in 1858, and followed the profession
of medicine and surgery -iri the citjr of his
present residence from April, 1862, until
he entered Congress, having a practice
which extended beyond ' the limits of his
State ; was connected with various medical
Societies, and made frequent contributions
to medical literature. He was a member of
the House of Representatives of New 'Hamp
shire in 1872-73 and 1891; was a member of
the Constitutional Convention, in 1876 ; was
a "member of the State Senate in 1878, 1879, i
and 1880, being president of that body the
last two years; was surgeon-general of
New Hampshire with the rank of briga
dier-general in 1879-80; received the hon
orary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth Col
lege in 1885; is a trustee of the George
Washington University, of Washington, D.
C. He was chairman of the Republican State
Committee from 1882 to 1890, when he re
signed the place, but was again elected to
the position in 1898, reelected in 1900, 1902,
1904, and 1906; was chairman of the dele

gation from his State to tlie Republican
National Convention of 1888, and made a
speech seconding the nomination of Ben
jamin Harrison; was also chairman of the
Wew Hampshire delegation to the Republi
can National Convention at Philadelphia in
June, 1900, which convention renominated
President McKinley, and headed the dele
gation from his State to the National Con
vention at Chicago, in June, 1904, was for
a time a member of the National Republi
can Committee; was chairman of the Mer
chant Marine Commisison of 1904-05, com
posed of five senators and five representa
tives in Congress. He was elected to the
Forty-ninth and' Fiftieth Congresses, and
declined renomination to the Fifty-first Con
gress; was elected United States senator to
succeed Henry W. Blair, for the term begin
ning March 4, 1891 ; was reelected in 1897
by a unanimous vote of the Republican
.nembers of the Legislature- and the votes
of five Democratic members; was reelected
in 1903 (the first time in the history of the
State that anyone had been elected United
States senator for three full terms) by the
unanimous vote of the Republicans in the
Legislature and the votes of three Demo
crats. His term of service will expire
March 3, igog. Address : Concord, New
Hampshire.
GALLOWAY, Charles Betts:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South ; born at Kosciusko, Mississippi, Sep
tember -1, 1849. In 1868 he was graduated
from the University of Mississippi, and en
tered the Mississippi Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He
was a professor in- Madison College, Missis
sippi, in 1869 and 1870. He filled pastorates
consecutively, at Black Hawk, Port Gib
son, Yazoo, Jackson, Vicksburg, and again
at. Jackson, in the Mississippi Conference,
between 1870 and 1882, and in 1878, while
stationed at Vicksburg, he nursed the sick
during the yellow fever epidemic, was him
self, stricken with the disease and' was re
ported dead, and his obituary was published
iri several papers. The General Conference
of 1882 appointed him editor of the New

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Orleans Christian Advocate, which posi
tion he filled until his election as bishop by
the General Conference of 1886. He re
ceived the degree of D.D. from the Uni
versity of Mississippi in 1882, and later re
ceived that of LL.D. from Northwestern
. University. Bishop Galloway officially vis
ited the missions of his church in China
and Japan in 1894, and in Brazil in 1897.
He has many times represented his church
as fraternal delegate to the General Con
ferences of other Methodist bodies, the
Methodist Church in Canada in 1886, Wes
leyan Conference in England, 1892; Centen
nial Conference in Baltimore, 1884, Ecumen
ical Conference in Washington, 1891. He
has served as chairman of the Prohibition
Executive Committee of Mississippi, and
has been one of the most active agents. in
promoting prohibition sentiment and secur
ing prohibition legislation in the South. He
is president of the Board of Education of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
member of the Board of Trustees of the
John F. Slater Fund, and president of the
Board of Trustees of Millsaps College, at
Jackson, Mississippi. Bishop Galloway has
a reputation as a preacher and orator which
is coextensive with Methodism and is often
called to preach and speak before Northern
as well as Southern gatherings and
churches. He is author of: Life of Bishop
Lumis Parker ; Methodism, a Child of Prov
idence; Handbook of Prohibition; Aaron's
Rod in Public Morals ; Open Letters on
Prohibition (controversy ,with Jefferson
Davis), published in 1888; A Circuit of the
Globe ; Modern Missions : Their Evidential
Value ; Christianity and the American Com
monwealth. Address : Jackson, Mississippi.
GALLOWAY, Thomas Walton:
Professor of biology; born in Columbia,
Tennessee, November 2, 1866 ; son of Wil
liam Thomas Galloway and Elizabeth Re
becca (Smith) Galloway. He was graduat
ed from Cumberland University as A.B.,
in 1887 and A.M., in 1889, also A.M. at
Harvard in 1890, Ph.D. from Cumberland
in 1892, and did post-graduate work at

Harvard from 1897 to 1898. He was pro
fessor of natural sciences at Baird Col
lege for Women, at Clinton, Missouri,
from 1887 to 1889; assistant in the botan
ical laboratory at Harvard from 1889 to
1891 ; professor of biology at the Missouri
Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, from
1891 to 1902 and dean from 1898 to 1902,
and has been professor of biology at James
Millikin University since 1902. Professor
Galloway is a member of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
the American Microscopical Society and the
Boston Society of Natural History, also of
the Golf and Country Club of Decatur,
Illinois, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity and he is a devotee of
golf. He is president of the University
Club and of the Municipal Voters'
League of Decatur, was a Democrat
until 1896 but has been a Republican
since. He is author of: First Course in
Zoology, and The Religion of an Evolution
ist, and is a contributor to various educa
tional and scientific journals on zoological
subjects. Professor Galloway married at
Marshall, Missouri, December 22, 1892,
Mary Louisa Armstrong, and they have
one daughter, Elizabeth Joan. Residence:
1332 West Wood Street, Decatur. Office
address : James Millikin University, De
catur, Illinois.
GALLUP, Asa Oran:
Lawyer, manager; born in Alexandria,
Virginia, September 24, 1865; son of Asa
Oran and Welthy P. (Palmer) Gallup. He
was educated at Yale University, B.A.,
1888; New York Law School, LL.B., 1903;
awarded special honors at Yale in English.
Admitted to the New York bar October,
1903; tutor in Evansville, Indiana, 1888-
89; examiner in science, New York State
University (Albany — Regent's office), 1889-
go; report clerk, University State of New
York, 1890-91 ; chief clerk, 1892-95 ; deputy
secretary, 1893-95 ! regents' special commis
sioner for Greater New York, 1895 ; presi
dent and treasurer New York preparatory
school system ; lecturer on English and po
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secretary, treasurer and general manager
Lake Placid Club since 1900 ; manager sales
department American Real Estate Co., 1902-
1904; school trustee, Lake Placid, 1906-
1907; general manager Belle-Terre estates
and Belle-Terre Club, Port Jefferson, Long
Island, rgo6-07; president Anti-Saloon
League, L. P. Section; father of reestab
lished Yale chapter of the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity. He is a Baptist in his
church relations: He married at Oneida,
Madison County, New York, June 29, 1889,
Almira Dewey; children: A. Marie, born
Septeinber 24, 1890; Asa O., born October
19, 1894. Address : Lake Placid Club, Es
sex County, New York.
GAMBLE, James:
Contractor; born in Ballincollig, Ire
land, June 22, 1835; son of John and
Eleanor (Parfit) Gamble. He was educat
ed in private school and Christ's Hospital,
London, England, familiarly known as the
Blue Coat School. President of the James
Gamble Contract Company, Public Utilities
Company, Patent Purchase Company,
Goshen (New York) Illuminating Com
pany. His recreation is pedestrianism. He
married in London, October, 1862, Emily
Bishop, who died in May, 1892. Two chil
dren survive: John and Eleanor Emily.
Residence : 204 Columbia Heights, Brook
lyn. Address : 15 William Street, New
York City.
GAMBLE, Bobert Jackson:
United States senator and lawyer; was
born in Akron, New York, Fehruary 7,
185 1 ; son of Robert Gamble and Jennie A.
(Abernethy) Gamble; removed to Fox
Lake, Wisconsin, in 1862; graduated from
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wiscon
sin, iri 1874; located at Yankton in 1875,
where he has since been engaged in the
practice of law; is a meiriber of the law
firm of Gamble, "Tripp & Holman ; was dis
trict attorney for the Second Judicial Dis
trict of the Territory in 1880; city at
torney of Yankton for two terms; State
senator in 1885; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and
elected to the United States Senate January

23, 1901 ; reelected January 23, 1907. His
term of service expires March 3, 1913. In
politics he is a Republican. He is a mem
ber of the Cosmos Club, Washington. He
married, March 26, 1884, Carrie S. Os
borne. Address : Yankton, South Dakota.
GANNON, Frank S. :
Railway official ; born in Spring Valley,
New York, September 16, 1851 ; son of
John and Mary (Clancey) Gannon; edu
cated public schools of Port Jervis, New
York. Entered railway service as tele
graph operator on Erie Railway 1868-70;
then with New Jersey Midland Railway as
clerk terminal agent and train dispatcher,
1870-75; train dispatcher 1875 and later
master transportation until 1881, Long Is
land Railroad; supervisor trains Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, 1881 ; general superin
tendent New York City & Northern Rail
road, 1881-86; general superintendent 1886-
g4; general manager, 1894-96, Staten Is
land Rapid Transit Railroad, president Stat
en Island Railway, 1893-96 ; general superin
tendent New York Division, Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, i8go-g6; third vice-presi
dent and general manager Southern Rail
way; vice-president and director New York
City Railway, i903-igo6; director Broad
way and Seventh Avenue Railroad, For
ty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry
Railroad, Fulton Street Railroad, Metro
politan Securities Company. Thirty-fourth
Street Crosstown Railway, Twenty-third
Street Railway, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-
ninth Street Crosstown Railroad; president
and director Norfolk & Southern Railroad,
Virginia and Carolina Coast Railroad, At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad, Pam
lico, Oriental & Western Railroad;
president and director Norfolk & Southern
Railway Co. and director of J. L. Roper
Lumber Co., of Norfolk, Virginia, trustee
of the Emigrants' Industrial Savings Bank,
New York. He married, in Jersey City,
September 24, 1874, Marietta Burrows.
Address; 37 Wall Street, New York City.
GANNON, Frank S., Jr.:
Lawyer; born in Long Island City, New
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and Marietta (Burrows) Gannon; educated
St. Francis Xavier College, A.B., 1898;
A.M., 1899; New York Law School, 1900.
Member firm of Gannon & Curry; general
practice, specializing defending negligence
cases against traction lines ; director Elean
or Oil Company, Atlantic Cement Com
pany. Catholic. Member Xavier Alumni
Association, Xavier Alumni Sodality,
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Clubs :
Catholic, Westchester Golf, The Mummers.
Address: -114 West Seventy-sixth -Street,
New York City.
GANONG, William Francis:
Professor of botany; born in St. John,
New Brunswick, February 19, 1864; son of
James Harvey Ganong and Susan Eliza
beth (Brittain) Ganong. He received his
education in public schools in New Bruns
wick; was graduated from the University
of New Brunswick as A.B., in 1884; from
Harvard University as A.B. in 1887; and
from the University of Munich, Germany,
as Ph.D. in 1894. He was. assistant and
instructor in botany in Harvard' -Univers
ity from 1887 to 1903, and has been pro
fessor of botany in Smith College, North
ampton, Massachusetts, since 1904. Mr.
Ganong is author of books and papers on
botany, and upon the natural history, etc.,
of the Province of New Brunswick. He
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Adv-mcement of Science; member of
the Botanical Society of America; corre
sponding member of the Royal Society of
Canada, and of other scientific societies.
He married in Boston, Massachusetts, April
4, 1888, Jean Murray Carman. Residence:
11 Massasoit Street, Northampton. Ad
dress: Smith College, Northampton, Mas
sachusetts. GANSE, Franklin W. :
Life insurance underwriter; born in New
York, May 31, 1859; son of Rev.. Harvey
D. Ganse and Emma E. (Wite) Ganse.
He was educated in the public- schools of
New York and the Saint Louis high and
law schools. He practiced law in Chi
cago from 1888 to 1903, then he becariie
Chicago manager and later supervisor for

the Central Depot of the Columbian Na
tional Life Insurance Company and was
elected vice-president and director of agen
cies of the same company in 1905, when he
removed to Boston. Mr. Ganse is a mem
ber of the Life Underwriters' Associations
of Boston and Chicago, a director of the
Newton Young Men's : Christian Associa
tion and a member of the Silver Bay Com
mittee, and is also a member of the Brae
Burn County Club, the Hamilton and
Union League Clubs of Chicago and the
Phi Delta Phi fraternity. He has always
been actively interested in the Republican
party and has done much campaign speak
ing, but has never been a candidate for
office. He married in Chicago, April 22,
1900, Helen Seymour Woodbridge and
their children are: Elizabeth, born in 1891,
Helen W., born in 1893, Mary F., born in
1895, and Katharine V, born in 1897. Re
sidence : 37 Shaw Street, West Newton,
Massachusetts. Office address : 176 Fed
eral Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GABDAM, William:
Clergyman; born in Clitheroe, England,
October 18, 1851; son of James Briggs
Gardam and Ellen (Hothersall) Gardam.
He received his education in the schools
of his native town, and at Headingly
College, England, from 1872 to 1875, at the
Lincoln Theological College from 1875 to
1877, at London University in 1875, and re
ceived the degree of B.D. from Seabury
College, Minnesota, in i8gs. He was or
dained priest in Lincoln Cathedral, Eng
land, by Bishop Wordsworth; was minister
for two years in Bourne Abbey Church,
Lincolnshire, England, arid has labored in
the United. States from 1880. He was dean
of Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, at
Farri.hault, Mninesota, rfrom 1887 to 1896.
Mr. Gardam is a member of- the Standing
Committee of the Dloeese' of Michigan, ex
amining chaplain. Fjtom 1896 to the present
tirrje ¦ he has been rector . of St. Luke's; at
YpsiTanti, Michigan,;- " is.- secretary of the
standing committee and deputy to the Gen
eral: Convention. He is a contributor to
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Eclecter of New York, and was for some
time editorial writer on the New York
Churchman and writer of many biographical
and other sketches. His favorite recreations
are golf, walking and tennis, and he has
traveled extensively in Europe and Amer
ica. He married at Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
December 27, 1881, Mary Chase, great-
granddaughter of Right Reverend Philander
Chase, First Bishop of Ohio and Illinois.
Address : Ypsilanti, Michigan.
GABDENHIBE, Samuel Major:
Lawyer, author; born at Fayette, Mis
souri, November 23, 1855 ; son of James
B. and Sarah (Major) Gardenhire. Was
educated in St. Louis public schools, and
Central College, Missouri. He was admit
ted to the bar in White County, Tennessee.
1875; removed to St. Louis, 1876, and
practiced there four years; afterward prac
ticed at Topeka, Kansas; .was admitted to
practice before Supreme Court of the
United States ; clerk of the district and
Circuit Courts of Topeka, in 1890; muni
cipal judge and member of the State legis
lature; traveled in Europe and the Orient;
removed to New York City in 1895; mem
ber of the firm of Gardenhire and Jetmore.
He is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in his religious connections. Is
author of: Lux Crucis, The Silence of
Mrs. Harold; The Long Arm (all Harp
er's) ; also various political and economic
pamphlets ; contributor to magazines. His
recreation is literature. Is a member of
the" Authors Club. Mr. Gardenhire mar
ried, December 24, 1881, Mary Jetmore,
and thgv have four children : Helen, Fred
erick, Marie and Samuel. Address: 49
Wall Street, New York City.
GAEDINEB, Asa Bird:
Lawyer and lieutenant-colonel, United
States Army, retired; born in New York
City, September 30, 1839; son of Asa and
Rebekah Willard Bentley Gardiner; grad
uated College City of New York, A.B.,
1859, A.M, 1862; Dartmouth College, A.M.,
1864; Columbia University, A.M., 1869;
New York University, LL.D., 1875 ; Hobart

College, L.H.D., 1896. Admitted to New
York bar, November, i860. Appointed
first lieutenant, Thirty-first New York
Volunteer Infantry, May 27, 1861 ; captain,
Twenty-second New York State Volun
teer Infaritry, May 31, 1862; first lieutenant
and adjutant, United States Veteran Re
serve Corps, February 11, T865; second
lieutenant, Ninth United States Infan
try, July 20, 1866; first lieutenant,
February 14, 1868; transferred to the
First United States Artillery, April 3,
1869; acting department and division judge
advocate, 1871 ; major and judge advocate,
August 18, 1873; professor law (lieutenant-
colonel), United States Military Academy,
1874-78; assistant in office of secretary of
war, 1887-88; retired, December 8, 1888,
for disability in line of duty; lieutenant-
colonel United States Army retired, April
23, 1904. In Civil War served with regi
ment in Virginia, 1861 ; on regimental re
cruiting service, New York City, July-
August, 1861 ; resigned from that duty and
resumed practice of law. Under subsequent
proclamation of President, "calling for
troops, raised company of Twenty-second
New York Volunteer Infantry and served
with it in Eighth Army Corps in Maryland
and the Shenandoah Valley, May-September,
1862; returned to service June 18, 1863, as
captain same regiment in Army of the Sus
quehanna, and in Sixth Corps, Army of
the Potornac in Pennsylvania and Mary
land; participated' in skirmish at Fairfax
Court House; battles of Blackburn's Ford
and Bull Run ; skirmish at Winchester,
Virginia, August 30, 1862 ; combat at Sport
ing Hill, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1863; de
fense of Carlisle against Cavalry Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia.. July' t-2. T863,
fin which he was wounded), and fisht be
fore Hagerstown, Marvland : brevetted cap
tain United States Volunteers for gallant
ind meritorious services : awarded Medal of
Honor for distinguished services during
Civil War. Judge Court of Common
Pleas, North Carolina, to fill vacancy, Jan
uary-April, 1866; district attorney New
York County, 1897-1900; secretary General
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dent Rhode Island State Society of the
Cincinnati since 1899; member Military
Order Loyal Legion; member and incor
porator United States Military Service
Institution; one of founders and incorpor
ators Sons of Revolution; vice-commandant
Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New
York; member Beta chapter Phi Beta
Kappa, Nu chapter Delta Kappa Epsilon;
deputy to Long Island Diocesan Conven
tion of the Episcopal Church; member of
the Standing Commission on Archives of
the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church. Colonel Gardiner is a member of
the Union, Metropolitan, West Point,
Manhattan and Church Clubs. He mar
ried, October 18, 1865, Mary Austen of
Baltimore County, Maryland (died in 1900).
Address : Union Club, New York City,
GABDINEB, Charles A.:
Lawyer ; born in Canada, September 2,
1855. He was educated in the public
schools of Franklin and Jefferson Coun
ties, New York; and was graduated from
Hamilton College, in 1880; Columbia
Law School, 1884; L.H.D., Western Re
serve University; Ph.D., D.C.L., Syracuse
University; LL.D., New York University.
Admitted to New York bar, 1885; general
attorney for elevated and subway railway
companies of New York City; counsel and
director various other railway and financial
corporations; trustee New York University,
1898; Hamilton College, 1900; regent Uni
versity State of New York, 1903 ; member
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Bar As
sociation City of New York, State Bar As
sociation. Author : Race Problem in the
United States, 1881 ; National. Aid to Edu
cation, 1882 ; Proposed Anglo-American Al
liance, 1898; Our Right to Acquire and
Hold Foreign Territory, 1899; The Con
stitution and Our New Possessions, 1900;
A Constitutional and Educational Solution
of the Negro Problem, 1903; True Expan
sion of the Empire State, 1904 ; Constitu
tional Powers of the President, 1905; Con
stitutional Discretion of the President, 1906.
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Rid
ing and Driving, Ardsley Clubs of New

York City. He married in June, 1890, Alice
May Driggs. Residence (country) : Gardi
ner Park, Tarrytown, New York ; (city) :
581 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Office:
13 Park Row, New York City.
GABDINEB, Bobert Hallowell:
Lawyer; born in Fort Tejon, California,
September 9, 1855; son of John William
Tudor Gardiner and Annie Elizabeth
(Hays) Gardiner. He was graduated from
Harvard as A.B. in 1876. Mr. Gardiner
is president and director of the Shetiicket
Company, director of the Webster and At
las National Bank, the Railway and Light
Securities Company, the Falls Company,
the Cochrane Chemical Company, and the
Arlington Mills; also trustee of the Bea
con Street Trust, the Boston Real Estate
Trust; the Cushing Real Estate Trust, the
Gardiner Real Estate Association, the
Nickerson Land Trust, the Perry Real Es
tate Trust, the "Wells Memorial Institute, ¦
and the William Lawrence Real Estate
Trust. He is a Republican in politics and
an Fpiscopalian in religion, and is president
of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Mr.
Gardiner married in Trinity Church, Bos
ton, June 23, 1881, Alice Bangs ; and their
children are : Robert Hallowell, Jr., born
in 1883, Alice, born in 1885, Anna Lowell,
born in 1890, and William Tudor, born in
1892. Residence : Gardiner, Maine. Office
address : 713 Barrister's Hall, Boston, Mas
sachusetts. GABDNEK, Augustus Peabody:
Congressman; born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, son of Joseph Peabody Gardner
and Harriet Amory Gardner. He was
graduated from Harvard College with the
degree of A.B. in the class of 1886; was a
member of the Massachusetts State Senate
for two terms ; served as captain and as
sistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen.
James H. Wilson during the Spanish-Amer
ican War; was elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of the Hon. W. H. Moody to
become secretary of the navy in the cabinet
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eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Sixth 'Massachusetts District. In politics
he is a Republican. He married, June 14,
1892, Constance Lodge. Residence : Hamil
ton, Massachusetts. Official address : 22
Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GAEDNEB, George A.:
Capitalist. He is a director of the Am-
oskeag Manufacturing Company, the Bos
ton and Lowell Railroad Company, the
Boston and Providence Railroad Company,
the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, the
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance
Company, the Merchants' National Bank,
and the Old Colony Railroad Company;
and is vice-president and trustee of the
Provident Institution for Savings. Ad
dress : 22 Congress Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.(JARDNEB, John J.:
Congressman; born in Atlantic County in
1845; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and re
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and
again to the Sixtieth Congress, from the
Second New Jersey- District. Is a Republi
can in politics. Address : Atlantic City,
New Jersey.
GABDNEB, Washington:
Congressman ; born in Morrow County,
Ohio. When sixteen years of age he
entered the Union Army, serving in the
Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry from
October, 1861, to December, 1865; was se
verely wounded in action at Resaca, Geor
gia; graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University, 1870; studied in the school of
theology, Boston University, 1870-71 ;
graduated from the Albany Law School,
1876; practiced law one year in Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, and then entered the min
istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
in which he served twelve years ; was com
mander of the Department of Michigan,
Grand Army of the Republic, in 1888 ;" was
made professor in and public lecturer for
Albion College, 1889'; was appointed by

Governor John T. Rich, secretary of State,
in March, 1894, to fill out an unexpired
term, and was subsequently twice nomi
nated by acclamation and elected to suc
ceed himself. He was elected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress and again in 1906 to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Third Michigan Dis
trict. Address : Albion, Michigan,
GABFIELD, Harry Augustus:
Lawyer; born in Hiram, Portage Coun
ty, Ohio, October 11, 1863; son of President
James A. Garfield and Lucretia (Rudolph)
Garfield. He was graduated from Williams
College in 1885; also studied one year at
the Columbia Law School in New York
City, and in England, and began the prac
tice of law in 1888. Mr. Garfield was vice-
president and trustee of the Cleveland
Trust Company; was president of the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, for 1898
and 1899; was an organizer and has been
president since 1896 of the municipal Asso
ciation of Cleveland; and is a member of
the Executive Committee of the National
Municipal League; chairman of the Special
Committee of the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce on reorganization of the United
States Consular Service from 1899 to 1907;
and treasurer and trustee of the Lakeside
Hospital. He is also a member of the
American Historical Society, and the
American Economic Association. He mar
ried at Mentor, Ohio, June 14, 1888, Belle
Hartford Mason. Residence (winter) : 143
Handy Street, Cleveland; (summer):
Lawnfield, Mentor, Ohio. Office address:
Garfield Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
GABFIELD, James Budolph:
Secretary of commerce and labor; born
in Hiram, Ohio, October 17, 1865; son of
President James Abram Garfield and
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield. He re
ceived his preparatory education at St.
Paul's School, Concord; graduated from
Williams College in 1885 and studied in the
Columbia Law School. He was admitted
to the bar in 1888 and engaged in practice
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member of the United States Civil Service
Commission; commissioner of corporations
in the United States Department of Com
merce and Labor from F'ebruary, 1903 until
appointed in 1907 secretary of commerce
and labor of the United States. He is
trustee of Williams College and president
of the board of trustees of the Lake Erie
College, at Painesville, Ohio. He married
in Chicago, Helen Newell. Address : De
partment of Commerce and Labor, Wash
ington, D. C.
GABGAN, Thomas J.:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1844; son of Patrick Gargan and Rose
(Garland) Gargan. His early education
was in Boston schools where he graduated
as a Franklin Medal Scholar, and under
private instruction from the Rev. Peter
Krose, S. J., and later he was student at
Boston University, from, which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.B.,
then engaging in the practice of law. He
argued the case of Leahy vs. Archbishop
Williams of Boston, settling the question of
ownership of Roman Catholic Church pro
perty in Massachusetts. Mr. Gargan has
frequently been called upon for the delivery
of important addresses in Boston, includ
ing the Fourth of July oration in 1885;
eulogy of Governor Gaston in 1894 and
eulogy of Mayor Collins in 1905. He is a
member of the law firm of Gargan, Keat
ing and Brackett ; and a director ' of the
United States Trust Company and the Col
umbian Life Insurance Company of Bos
ton. He was a member of the Massachu
setts Legislature from 1868 to 1870, and in
1876; was license commissioner in 1877
and 1878 and member of the Board of
Police in 1880 and 1881 and since 1894 has
been a member of the Transit Commission
of Boston. He served as lieutenant in a
Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment in the
Civil War, and he has traveled in Mexico,
Egypt, and Europe. Mr. Gargan is a
member of the New England Catholic His
torical Society; ex-president and member
of the Executive Committee of the Ameri
can-Irish Historical Society; a trustee of

the Catholic Summer School of America;
member of the Catholic Union of Boston,
the Charitable Irish Society, Knights of
Columbus, and the Economic Club of Bos
ton, Catholic Club of New York, Champlain
Club, O'Reilly Club, Papyrus Club and the
Democratic Club of Massachusetts. He
married in December, 1898, Helena Nord
hoff. Address: Pemberton Building, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
GABLAND, Hamlin:
Novelist, lecturer ; born in West Salem,
Wisconsin, September 16, i860; son of
Richard Hayes and Isabel (McClintock)
Garland; educated Cedar Valley Seminary,
Osage, Iowa, and at Boston. Taught school
in Illinois, 1882-83; took up claim in Mc
Pherson County, Dakota, 1883 ; went to
Boston in 1884; began to write stories,
1887; went to Klondike by trail in 1898 ;
has summer home at birthplace; has trav
eled extensively in America from Alaska
to Central America ; spends several months
trailing in the Rocky Mountains every
summer. Author : Main-traveled Roads,
1890-98; Jason Edwards, 1891; A Little
Norak, 1891 ; , Prairie Folks, 1892 ; A Spoil
of Office, 1892 ; A Member of' the Third
House, 1892; Crumbling Idols (essays),
1893 ; Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, 1895 ; Way
side Courtships, 1897; Ulysses Grant (bio
graphy), 1898; Prairie Songs, 1894; The
Spirit of Sweetwater, 1898; The Eagle's
Heart, 1900 ; Her Mountain Lover, 1901 ;
The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop,
1902; Hesper, 1903; Light of the Star,
1904; The Tyranny of the Dark, 1905;
Money Magic, 1907. He married, Hanover,
Kansas, November 18, i89g, Zulime Taft;.
one daughter, Mary Isabel, (born July 16,
1903). Address: 6427 Greenwood Avenue,
Cnicago; (winter): Players' Club, New
York City.
GABLICK, Henry Manning:
Banker; born in Youngstown, Ohio, De
cember 28, 1848; son of Richard G. and
Caroline Lord (Manning) Garlick; edu
cated in public schools; married April 15,
1870, Sarah Stambaugh Ford; children:
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ident First National Bank, Youngstown,
Ohio; Standard Table Oil Cloth Company
of New Jersey; vice-president tlie Youngs
town Dollar Savings and Trust Company;
director United Engineering and Foundry
Company of -Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Ohio Leather Company of Girard, Ohio ;
Morris - Hardware Company of Youngs
town, Ohio. Republican. Presbyterian ..
Member Ohio Society of New York. Di
rector of ¦ the Ohio Leather Company, of
Youngstown, Ohio. Address : 33 South
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GASMAN, Harrison:
State entomologist of Kentucky; born
at Lena, Stephenson County, Illinois,. De
cember 27, 1858. After preparatory educa
tion in the..public schools he completed the
courses in Illinois State Normal Univers
ity at Normal, Illinois ; and at Johns Hop
kins University^ specializing in biology. In
1883 he became first assistant *in the Illinois
State Laboratory of Natural History and
assistant State entomologist - of Illinois ;
was assistant professor of zoology in the
University of Illinois from 1885 to 1889.
Since 1889 he has been entomologist and
botanist of the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the Kentucky State College ; was
professor of zoology and entomology in
the same college from 1892 to 1896, and
since 1897 has been State entomologist of
Kentucky. His researches and writings
have not been confined to entomology, but
have also extended to general zoology and
botanical subjects. Professor Garman is
a member of the American "Society of Nat
uralists, and the Entomological Society of
America; is a member and late president
of the Association of Economic Entomolo
gists, and has been secretary of the Ento
mological Section of the American Asso
ciation of Entomologists and Experiments
Stations. He is also a member of the
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science; the Society of Zoologists of the
Central States, and various other scientific
societies. Professor Garman married at
Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 30, 1883,
Rosalie Miller. Address : Lexington, Ken
tucky.

GABNSEY, Elmer EUsworth:
Artist, mural painter; bom in. Holmdel,
New Jersey, January 24, 1862; son of John
C. and Louisa J. Garnsey. He studied- at
Cooper Institute and Art Students' League,
pupil of George W. Maynard and
Francis Lathrop. He has painted mural
decorations .in United States Capitol
and Library of Congress, Washing
ton, D. C. ; Boston Public Library,
Bowdoin College, Yale University Memo
rial Hall, State House, Providence,
Rhode Island ; Minnesota Capitol, St. Paul,
Provident Bank, Baltimore; Riggs Nation
al Bank and Evening Star Buildings,
Washington, D. C. ; Prudential -Insurance
Building, Newark, New Jersey; Carnegie
Institute, Mechanics' National Bank, and
Farmers' National Bank, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania; Columbia University Library,
Stock Exchange, New York Life Insurance
Company, Equitable Life Insurance Com
pany, University Club, Union Club, Yale
Club, Bowery Bank, New York Savings
Bank, Greenwich Savings Bank, New York
City ; Electricity Building, Music Hall, Fine
Arts Building, New York State Building
at Columbian Exposition (bronze medal) ;
United States Pavilion, Paris Exposition
(silver and bronze medals). Correspond
ing member American Institute of Archi
tects; vice-president of the National Society
of Mural Painters; member Century Club.
He married at Red Bank, New Jersey, Oc
tober 6, 1886, Laurada Davis ; children :
Helen L., Julian E., Laura, Arlo E. Resi
dence: White House, White Plains, New
York. Address: White House, White
Plains, New York.
GABBETSON, Garret James:
Jurist; born in Newtown, New York,
1847 ; educated at private schools and Flush
ing Institute, Long Island, New York. Ad
mitted to bar, 1869; school commissioner,
Queens County, New York, 1873-75; sur
rogate, 1880; county judge of Queens
County 1886-96; member Greater New
York Charter Commission, 1896; justice
Supreme Court, since 1896. Married, first,
Roslyn, New York, 1876, Eliza L. East-

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man (died 1888); children: Lydia Macy,
Mary Lloyd, Grace Eastman, James; mar
ried second, Brooklyn, New York, 1897,
Sara Wilson. Address: Elmhurst, New
York.
GABBETT, Alexander Charles:
Bishop of Dallas; born at Ballymot,
County Sligo, Ireland, November 4, 1832;
son of Rev. John Garrett and Elizabeth
(Fry) Garrett. He studied at Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland, graduating with
the degree of B.A. in 1855. He received
from his alma mater the degree of D.D.
in 1882, and that of LL.D., from the Uni
versity of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi,
in 1876. 'He was ordered deacon in the
Episcopal Church by the Bishop of Win
chester in 1856 and was ordained to the
priesthood by the same bishop in 1857.
During the years of 1856-59 he was
curate of East Warldham, Hants, and
following that he became missionary
' in the British Colonies, holding the
office for ten years. He was rector
of St. James' Church, San Francisco,
California, 1870-72, and dean of Trinity
Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska, 1872-74. He
was made bishop' of Dallas, Texas, in
1874, and was consecrated, by Bishops Clark
son, Tuttle, Hare and Spalding. Bishop
Garrett is author of: Historical Continu
ity, 1875 ; The Eternal Sacrifice, and other
Sermons, 1881 ; Baldwin Lectures on the
Philosophy of the Incarnation, 1891, and
occasional sermons and addresses. Address:
Dallas, Texas.
GABBETT, Finis James:
Congressman and lawyer ; born August
26, 1875, near Ore Springs, Weakley
County, Tennessee ; son of Noah J.
Garrett and Virginia Garrett. He was edu
cated at the common schools, and at Bethel
College, McKenzie, Tennessee, graduating
from that institution in June, 1897, taking
the degree of A.B. ; was for a time engaged
in teaching in the city schools of Milan,
Tennessee ; studied law under the instruc
tion and in the office of the late Charles
M. Ewing, at Dresden, and was admitted
to the bar in 1899, practicing at Dresden

ever since. He was appointed master in
chancery September 14, 1900, and served
until January 24, 1905 ; was nominated by.
the Democrats of the district for Congress
at a primary election held August 4, 1904,
elected to the Fifty-nintlj Congress at the
regular election in November, 1904,. and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress in Novem
ber, 1906, from the Ninth Tennessee Dis
trict. He married, in 1901, Elizabeth
Harris Burns, of McKenzie, Tennessee.
Address: Dresden, Tennessee.
GABBETT, H. B.:
President of Milligan College; born at
Abingdon, Virginia, May 26, 1866; son of
H. S. Garrett and Mary A. (Ewing) Gar
rett. After a preparatory education in the
common schools of his native city he en
tered Milligan College in 1885, graduating
from the classical course with the degree
of A.B. in 1889 and later receiving that of
A.M. Following his graduation he became
instructor in mathematics at Milligan Col
lege, and in 1903 the presidency being va
cant, was elected head of that institution,
being also ex-officio trustee. In politics he
is identified with the Prohibition party and
he is member of the Church of Christ. He
was married at Strasburg, Virginia, August
13, 1890, to Olive L. Hanen, and by this
union there are five children : Ralph W,
aged 14; Mary L., aged 12; Herbert R.,
aged 10; Wade, aged 6, and Claude, aged
2. Address : Milligan, Tennessee.
GABBETT, John Biddle:
Financier; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, December 30, 1836. In 1854 he was
graduated from Haverford College. From
1854 to 1874 he was a merchant and manu
facturer; in 1874 he engaged with the Le
high Valley Railroad ; afterward in 1887, he
became third vice-president, and later, in
1898, second vice-president; also vice-presi
dent the following year ; from 1879 to 1887
treasurer, vice-president and president of
the Girard Trust Company. In 1895 was
chairman of the First Mohonk Interna
tional Arbitration Conference; minister in
the Society of Friends.' Address: Rose-
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UABBIGUES, Henry Jacques:
Physician ; born in Copenhagen, Denmark,
June 6, 1831; son of Jacques Louis and
Cecilia Olivia (Duntzfelt) Garrigues;
graduated Metropolitan School, Copenhag
en; University of Copenhagen, A.B., 1850,
A.M., 1863, M.D., 1869. Was gynecologist
to German Dispensary, 1879; obstetrical
surgeon New York Maternity Hospital,
1881; visiting obstetrician, New York In
fant Asylum,. 1884; visiting gynecologist,
German Hospital, 1885; professor obstet
rics, Post-Graduate School and Hospital,
1886; visiting gynecologist, St. Mark's Hos
pital, 1890; consulting obstetric surgeon
Maternity Hospital, 1892; professor gyne
cology and obstetrics, School for Clinical
Medicine, 1896; consulting physician Moth
ers' Home and Maternity Hospital, 1897;
introduced antiseptic obstetric treatment in
America, October 1, 1883. President Ger
man Medical Society, 1889-go; honorary
fellow American Gynecological Society, igoi ;
honorary fellow Edinburgh Obstetric So
ciety, 1902; honorary member" College of
Physicians of German Dispensary, 1903 ;
president German Social-Scientific Union,
1893. Author: Gastro-elytrotomy, 1878;
Diagnosis of Ovarian Cysts by Means of
Their Contents, 1882; Practical Guide to
Antiseptic Midwifery, 1886; Development
of Female Genitals and Malformations of
Female Genitals (in System of Gynecology
by American Authors), 1887; Puerperal In
fection and Diseases of the Breasts in Sys
tem of Obstetrics, 1889; Text Book of
Diseases of Women, 1894, 1897, 1900; Sci
ence and Art of Obstetrics, 1902-07; Gyne
cology, Medical and Surgical, igos. He
married at Halle an der Saale, August 6,
1868, Louise Riemer; children: Leon Fer
dinand (36), William Emil (35), Alma
Bertha Caecilia (33), Edith Helen Jaque-
line (32), Alfred Henry (30), Caecilia
Louise (26). Address: 11 Eighth Street,
New York City.
GABBISON, Charles Grant:
Supreme justice; born in Swedesboro,
Gloucester County, New Jersey, August 3,
1849. He is a son of Rev. Joseph Fithian

Garrison, D.D., a well known divine of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, who was a
professor in a Philadelphia college for a
number of years, and died in 1893. The
Judge was educated at Edgehill School,
Princeton, at the Episcopal Academy, Phil
adelphia, and in the University of Pennsyl
vania, from which he graduated as a physi
cian in 1872. He practiced that profession
until 1876, at Swedesboro, and then entered
the law office o'f Samuel H. Grey, of Cam
den, where he remained until he was admit
ted to the bar in 1878. He was made
Judge-Advocate General of New Jersey in
1884, and in 1882 he was made Chancellor
of the Southern Diocese of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of New Jersey. He was
appointed to the Supreme Court bench in
January, 1888, in the place of the late ex-
Governor Joel Parker, for a full term of
seven years. He was re-appointed in 1895
by Governor Werts and again by Governor
Murphy iri 1902. In politics he is a Demo
crat. His term expires in igog. Address :
Merchantville, New Jersey.
GABBISON, Frank Lynwood:
Milling engineer; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 12, 1862; son of
David R. Garrison and Maria M. (Pleiss)
Garrison. He attended the University of
Pennsylvania from i87g to 1883, Royal
School of Mines, London, in 1884 and
1885, and took special studies in Germany
from 1885 to 1887. He has traveled in
China,' Japan, Russia, Finland, arid most
of Europe ; the West Indies, and the United
States. Mr. Garrison is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers; the
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy of
London; the American Institute of Mining
Engineers ; Franklin Institute ; Acad
emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia;
Geographical Society of Philadelphia; Zeta
Psi fraternity, and of the Union League
Club of Philadelphia. He married in Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, November 21,
i8g4, Adela Mary Dwight, and they have
three children : Dwight Garrison, Eliza
beth D. Garrison, and Laura Bell Garri
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adelphia. Address: 760 Drexel Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GABBISON, Llndley M.:
Lawyer; born at Camden, New Jersey,
November 28, 1864; son of Rev. Joseph F.
Garrison, D.D. and Elizabeth V. (born
Grant). He began his education in the
public schools, afterward attending the
Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, Phil
lips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire;
was one year at Harvard and then took
the course of the law department of the
University of Pennsylvania. He was ad
mitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1886, and
to the New Jersey bar in 1888, and was
engaged in the practice of law until ap
pointee June 15, 1904, vice-chancellor of
the State of New Jersey. Vice-Chancellor
Garrison is a Democrat in National and
an independent in local politics. He is a
member of the Lotos and Lawyers' Clubs
" of New York and the Harvard Club of
New Jersey. He married, June 30, 1900,
Margaret Hildeburn. Address: 266 Bar
row Street, Jersey City, New Jersey.
GABY, Elbert Henry:
Chairman of the Board of Directors and
chairman of the Finance Committee of
the United States Steel Corporation; born
on a farm near Wheaton, Illinois, October
8, 1846; son of Erastus and Susan A.
(Vallette) Gary. The Gary and Wheaton
families, who were related by intermar
riage, were born and raised in New Eng
land and were among the earliest settlers
of Milton township in Du Page County,
Illinois, and it was upon the property of
two of the Wheaton brothers and Erastus
uary that the town of Wheaton (now the
county seat of Du Page County) was es
tablished, twenty-five miles from Chicago
on the main line of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway. Here Elbert H.
Gary received his general education in the
public schools and in Wheaton College,
afterward entering the Law Department of
Chicago University, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL.B. in
1867. He was chief deputy clerk of the
Superior Court of Cook County for three

years and then entered Upon the practice of
law in Chicago arid continued until larger
interests called him to New York. Dur
ing the twenty-five years of his legal
practice in Chicago he became identified as
general counsel with many large corpora
tions and became known as a leader at
that bar, and was elected president of the
Chicago Bar Association in 1893. In his
home town of Wheaton he became
the foremost citizen as well . as the most
distinguished member of the Du Page
County Bar. He was three times elected
president of Wheaton under its old cor
porate charter, and when it was reorganized
as a city he was elected its first mayor
and reelected for a second term. He was
for two terms county judge of Du Page
County, declining further nomination be
cause of the demands of his practice in
Chicago. He continued his public service,
however, until he removed to the East, as
president of the Board of Education, and
as the faithful adviser and substantial
friend of all enterprises for the good of his
native town. Even since his residence in
New York he has continued his public-
spirited friendliness for Wheaton, building
for the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Wheaton, at a_ cost approximating one
hundred thousand dollars, and endowing
with income-producing property, the Gary
Memorial Church, as a monument to the
memory of his parents, who. were pioneer
members of that church, and by substantial
gifts to the Baptist Church Building Fund,
the Gymnasium of Wheaton College, the
Wheaton' Cemetery, and other institutions
of the place. He established in 1874 the
Gary- Wheaton Bank, the leading financial
institution of Du Page County, of which he
is still president. But Judge Gary's suc
cesses and activities have not been only
or chiefly in any local or narrow field, but
have become national as the result of or
ganizing and executive abilities of the
highest order. His connection with cor
porations has led him to discern possi
bilities as yet unrealized in the direction of
the consolidation of manufacturing indust
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organization of the Consolidated Steel and
Wire Company in 1892, the American
Steel and Wire Company in 1896, and of
the Federal Steel Company in 1898, retir
ing from the practice of law to become
president of the latter company. He took
a very prominent part in the organization
of the United States Steel Corporation,
the greatest corporation in capital, resourc
es, business and income in the world, and
of that great corporation he is now the
executive head as chairman of the Board
of Directors and chairman of the Finance
Committee. The Steel Corporation in 1906
began the building of a great manufactur
ing city in Indiana, near Lake Michigan
and within the Chicago freight rate belt,
where many of its productive energies are
to be grouped, and this new city has been
appropriately named Gary, in honor of
the chief executive officer of the Corpora
tion. He is also director of a large num
ber of important railroad, manufacturing
and banking corporations. He is a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, and is a trustee of the Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois, to the law
department of which he has made gifts of
valuable law libraries; and he received the
degree of LL.D. from McKendree College,
Illinois, in 1906. He is a Republican in
politics. Judge Gary is a connoisseur in
paintings and objets d'art, of which he has
made a valuable collection during his fre
quent visits in Europe. His chief recreation
is automobiling, and he is owner of sev
eral first-class machines, and is a member
of trie Automobile Clubs of Great Britain
and Ireland, Germany, France and Ameri
ca. He is also a member of the Metro
politan, New York Yacht and Lawyers'
Clubs of New York, and the Union League
Club, and Chicago Club of Chicago.
Judge Gary married, first at Aurora,
Illinois, June 23, 1869, Julia E. Graves,
who died June 21, 1902, and by that
union he has two daughters, Ger
trude, wife of Dr. Harry Willis Sut-
cliffe, of Wheaton, Illinois, and Bertha,
wife of Robert W. Campbell, formerly
of San Francisco, but now of Wheaton,

Illinois. Judge Gary again married, at
New York, December 2, 1905, Mrs. Emma
T. Scott. Residence: The Waldorf-Ast
oria, New York. Office address: 71
Broadway, New York.
GASETLL, Francis Almon:
Jurist; born in Blackstone, Massachu
setts, January 3, 1846; son of Albert and
Anna S. (Comstock) Gaskill. He was grad
uated from Brown University in 1886;
and from Harvard Law School; and the
degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him
by Brown University in 1899. Mr. Gaskill
was district attorney of the Massachusetts
Middle District from 1886 to 1895; was
appointed justice of the Superior Court of
Massachusetts, March 23, 1895, and is now
serving. In politics he is a Republican and
in religion a Baptist. He is president of
the Board of Trustees of Worcester Acad
emy; fellow of Brown University, and is
a member of the Worcester and Patnuck
Country Clubs, and of the University Club,
St. Botolph Club, and Club of Odd Vol
umes of Boston. Mr. Gaskill has married
twice; first, in Providence, October 20,
1869, Katherine Mortimer Whitaker; and
second, July 12, 1892, Josephine L. Abbott,
and he has two children: Mary Mortimer
and George Anthony. Address: 116 Lin
coln Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.
GASTON, Joseph A.:
Major, United States Army, First Cav
alry; born in Honeybrook, Chester Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1856; son
of Dr. Joseph Gaston of Honeybrook,
Pennsylvania; and he is of Scotch-Irish
descent. Fie went to the United States
Military Academy, West Point, New York,
in 1877 ; was graduated in 1881 ; was com
missioned second lieutenant, Eighth Cav
alry, June, 1881 ; first - lieutenant, Eighth
Cavalry, April, 1886; captain, Eighth Cav
alry, January, i8gs, and major, First Cav
alry, February, igo3 ; served in Texas, New
Mexico, Montana, North and South Da
kota, until the Spanish War. During this
time he took part in the Apache War,
1885-1886, and the Sioux War, 1890-1891;
was adjutant of his regiment from March,

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1891, to September, 1893. During the
Spanish War he went to Cuba with his
regiment early in 1899, and returned with
it to the- United States in 1902. His pro
motion to the First Cavalry took him back
,to Fort Clark, Texas, one of the first Army
posts he ever served at. Address : Fort
Clark, Texas.
GATCHELL, Charles:
Physician ; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, No
vember 8, 1850; son of Horatio P. and
Anna Maria (Crane) Gatchell, and grand
son of Horatio and Alice (Page) Gatchell,
and of Thurston and Anna (Owens). Crane
The Gatchells settled in Virginia in 1620
and subsequently a branch of the family
went to Maine, where Horatio P. Gatchell
was born. Dr. Charles Getchell received
his education at the high school at Kenos
ha, Wisconsin, and at the Pulte Medical
College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1874. Among
the offices he has filled are those of : Lec
turer in the Hahnemann Medical College
at Chicago, Illinois, 1875; .professor of
the theory and practice of medicine, Uni
versity of Michigan, from 1877 to 1880 and
from i88g to i8g3 ; attending physician to
Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1882; pro
fessor in the Chicago Homoeopathic Medi
cal College from 1894; president of 1 1 1 i — '
nois Homoeopathic Medical Association,
1889; president of the Homoeopathic Medi
cal Society of Chicago, 1896; -chairman of
the section of clinical medicine World's
Congress of Homoeopathic Physicians and
Surgeons, Chicago, 1893 ; and chairman of
the section in clinical medicine, American
Institute of Homoeopathy, 1899. Dr.
Gatchell is the author of: Diet in Disease,
1880; Key-Notes of Medical Practice,
1883; Haschisch, A Novel, 1886; Medical
Dictionary, 1890; They Say, 1897; and
Methods of Mind-Readers in The Forum,
April, 1891. He also established and edit
ed in Chicago, the Medical Era in 1883.
Residence : 5442 Michigan Avenue, Chi
cago. Office address : 100 State Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
GATES, Charles Gilbert:
Broker ; born in Turner Junction (now
West Chicago), Illinois, May 21, 1876; son

of John W. and Dellora R. Gates; educat
ed Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri,
and Lake Forest, Illinois. For several
years in employ of Consolidated Steel and
Wire Company ; member brokerage firm of
Chicago; in i8gg became interested in cor
porations at Port Arthur, Texas; became
officer of Davenport, Rock Island and
Northwestern and other Western railways;
in ig02 became member brokerage firm of
Harris, Gates & Company, with offices in
New York City and Chicago. Clubs:
Automobile of America, Atlantic Yacht,
New York Athletic, Westchester' Country,
Columbia Yacht (New York City) ; Chi
cago, Chicago Athletic, Washington Park,
Calumet (Chicago). Married, St. Louis,
Missouri, 1898, Mary W. Edgar. Resi
dence. 667 Madison Avenue. Address :
16 Wall Street, New York City.
GATES, Frederick Taylor:
Business manager, financier; born in
Maine, Broome County, New York, July 2,
1853; son of Rev. Grenville and Sarah J.
(Bowers) Gates; graduated University of
Rochester, 1877, A.M., 1879; Rochester The
ological Seminary, 1880. Was pastor Cen
tral Baptist Church, Minneapolis, 1880 to
1888; corresponding secretary American
Baptist Education Society, 1888-93; as such
established University of Chicago. Since
1893 business and benevolent manager for
John D. Rockefeller. Chairman General
Education Board, trustee University of
Chicago and director of various corpora
tions. ¦ Married, Racine, Wisconsin, 1886,
Emma L. Cahoone. Residence : 66 Moun
tain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 26 Broadway, New York City.
GATES, John Warne:
Capitalist; born on farm in DuPage
County, Illinois: near Turner Junction
(now West Chicago), Illinois, 1855; son of
Asei A. arid Mary Gates; educated in dis
trict schools of Kane and DuPage coun
ties, Illinois. Began business life as pro
prietor of a small hardware store at Turn-'
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Illinois, became traveling salesman for
Isaac L. Ellwood, of the Ellwood Barbed
Wire Works, DeKalb, Illinois; introduced
barbed wire in Texas; later established
as barbed wire manufacturer for self at
St Louis, Missouri; organized, Southern
Wire Company, 1880, Braddock (Pennsyl
vania) Wire Company; combined with oth
er wire factories in 1892, as Consolidated
Steel & Wire Company, which sold to
Federal Steel Company, 1898; organized
1897, American Steel and Wire Company,
which is "now a subsidiary company of
United States Steel Corporation; and has
been identified with many large operations
in railway and industrial stocks. Of re
cent years, one of the most prominent fig
ures on the American Turf, and one of
the boldest and most successful speculators
on Wall Street; notably the coup by which
he secured control of the Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad. Republican ; was colonel on
staff of Governor John R. Tanner, of Illi
nois, 1897-igoo. Director Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, Western Mary
land Railway Company, Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company, National
Bank of North America, American Salt
Company, New York Hippodrome, Repub
lic Iron and Steel Company of New Jer
sey, United States Realty and Improvement
Company. Married, St. Charles, Kane
County, Illinois, February 25, 1874, Dellora
R. Baker; one son, Charles G. Gates. Ad
dress : 18 Wall Street, New York City.
GATES, Lowell Mason:
Physician and surgeon; bora at Scott,
Wayne County, Pennsylvania, March 26,
1852; son of Alphens W. Gates and Seman-
tha (Hall) Gates, After his preliminary edu
cation at Deposit Academy, New York, he
entered Hillsdale College, from which he was
graduated as B.S. in 1876 and M.S. in 1879,
and from the University of Michigan, Med
ical Department, as M.D. in 1878. He be
gan practice with O. T. Bundy, M.D., at
Deposit, New York, in 1878; moved to
Scranton, in November, 1879, and was
superintendent and house surgeon at Lack
awanna Hospital, Scranton, from 1880 to
1882, when he took up practice with Dr.

R. -A. Squire; was elected to the' visiting
staff of Lackawanna Hospital after re
signing as superintendent, which position
he held until it became a State Hospital in
1901 ; and is director of the Board of Trade
Real Estate Company. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Baptist. He
is ex-president of the Lackawanna County
Medical Society, Scranton Medical Club
and Scranton Clinical and Pathological So
ciety ; trustee of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association of Scranton, and is a
member of the Pennsylvania State Medical
Association and the American MedicaL As
sociation. Dr. Gates married in Hills
dale, Michigan, November 30, 1880, Helen
Dunn, and they have four children: Way-
land D., born in 1883; Evelyn D., born in
1885; Helen M., born in 1888, and Edith
M., born in 1895. Address : 802 Mulberry
Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
GAUSS, Henry C:
Private secretary to the attorney-gen
eral of the United States. He is a New
Englander, by birth and parentage, and
after completing his education was actively
engaged as a journalist until he entered the
Government service. Mr. Gauss was con
fidential clerk to Secretary William H.
Moody, when the latter was at the head of
the Navy Department, and during the in
cumbency of Secretary Moody was pro
moted to the post of private secretary.
When Secretary Moody went to the De
partment of Justice and Hon. Charles J.
Bonaparte succeeded him as secretary of
the Navy, Mr. Gauss continued as 'private
secretary to the secretary of the navy, un
til Mr. Bonaparte, in the reorganization of
the cabinet in 1906, became attorney-general,
and took Mr. Gauss with him to the De
partment of Justice. Mr. Gauss is author
of: Who's Who in the Government Service.
Residence : 1359 Park Road, Washington.
Office address : Department of Justice,
Washington, D. C.
GAVIT, John Palmer:
Newspaper man; born in Albany, New
York, July 1, 1868; son of Joseph and
Fanny Breese (Palmer) Gavit; paternal

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grandfather was John E. Gavit, president
of the American Bank Note Company,
microscopist and man of science: maternal
grandfather was Erastus Dow Palmer,
famous Americaij; sculptor. Was educated
in Albany public" schools and Albany high
school. In newspaper business in Albany
and Hartford, Connecticut, except from
1893 to 1902, during which time was in
Social Settlement work in Hartford, Chi
cago and Pittsburgh, and is now Albany
correspondent of the Associated Press.
Founder and first editor of the Commons,
organ of Social Settlements of the world.
He is author of: The Reporters' Manual,
a handbook for newspaper men, and sev
eral plays. Served in Connecticut National
Guard (Signal Corps) from 1890 to
1895. In politics he is an Independ
ent; and he is a Mason and Odd Fellow.
Mr. Gavit married in Kingston, New York,
May 8, 1890, Lucy Lamont, and they have
one son, Joseph Lamont, born December
9, 1898. Address: Box 426, Albany, New
York.
GAWTEY, Harrison E.:
Capitalist; born New York City; son of
William M. and A. E. Gawtry. Chairman
of Board of Directors, Consolidated Gas
Company of New York; president East
River Gas Company, New York Carbide &
Acetylene Company, vice-president Astoria
Light, Heat & Power Company, New York,
Mutual Gas Light Company ; director Ast
or Trust Company, Central Union Gas Com
pany, Consolidated Telegraph & Electric
Subway Company, Lincoln Trust Company,
New York & Queens Electric Light &
Power Company, New York Edison Com-
p^inv. Northern Union Gas Compinv, Fulton
Trust Company, Union Trust Company.
Member Sons of Revolution, New York
Historical Society, Chamber of Commerce.
Clubs : Union League, Union, Midday,
Tuxedo. Married E. Louise Brown. Resi
dence: 33 East Fifty-seventh Street. Ad
dress: 4 Irving Place, New York City.
GAWTBT, Lewis Brown:
Capitalist; born New York City; son of
Harrison E. and Louise (B<-own) Gawtry;
graduated Yale, Ph.B., T889. Vice-presi

dent Consolidated Gas Company of New
York; trustee Bank for Savings of City
New York ; director New York and Queens
Electric Light and Power Conipany; di
rector and secretary New York Carbide and
Acetylene " Company, New York Edison
Company, director New York Mutual Gas
Light Company, New York and Queens
Gas Company;- vice-president National
Coal & Coke Company; secretary Astoria
Light, Heat and Power Company; director
Consolidated Telegraph and Electric Sub
way Company, United Electric Light and
Power Company. Member Sons of Rev
olution, New York Historical Society,
Chamber of Commerce. Clubs: Union,
University, Riding, Yale. Married, New
York City, 1899, Olive Van Rensselaer.
Residence : 70 East Fifty-fifth Street. Ad
dress : 4 Irving Place, New York City.
GAY, Edward:
Landscape artist ; born in Dublin, Ireland,
in 1837; son of Richard and Helen (Kill-
duff) Gay; educated Albany, New York,
and in art at Carlsruhe, Germany. Opened
studio in New York City; elected to Na
tional Academy Design, 1870; also member
American Water Color Club. Oil Paint
ings : Mountain Stream, i860 ; Swabian
Home, 1869; Late Afternoon, near Albany,
1870; Ready for Reapers, 1875; A Quiet
Hour, 1876; The Slopes of the Mohawk,
1877; Eastchester, New York, 1878; The
Last Load, Harvest Time, 1878; Gathering
the Leaves, 1880 ; Old Estates, 1881 ; Banks
of the Thames, 1882; On the Sogue Fjord,
Norway, 1883 ; Norwegian Scene, 1884, etc.
Water colors : Foggy Morning by the Lake,
1876; A Spring Morning, 1877; Waving
Grain, 1884; Riverside, 1884; Havmaking,
'884; Rye Fields in Early June. 1885; Hill
side, 1885; Oyster Beds in Pelham Bay,
1885 ; Salt Marshes, 1885. Took Metropoli
tan prize of $2,000 in 1887 for the picture
Broad Acres, presented to the Metropolitan
Museum; awarded Shaw prize Society of
American Artists, for painting entitled Mi-
anus River, Connecticut, 1903; and at the
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of National
Academy of Design, 1905, awarded Inness
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bition; member various art societies and
life member Lotos Club for his achieve
ments in art in 1901. Married, 1862,'Martha
Fearey. Address: Mount Vernon, New
York.
GAY, George Washington:
Physician ; was bora in Swanzey, New
Hampshire, January 14, 1842. His early
education was acquired in the local schools
and academies. He graduated from the
Harvard Medical School in 1868, having
passed a year in the hospital at Rainsford
Island, and another as house surgeon at
the Boston City Hospital. He then enter
ed into practice in the city in which he
has since resided. Dr. Gay is a member
of the British Medical Association, the
American Medical Association, the Ameri
can Surgical Association, the Boston So
ciety for Medical Improvement, etc, etc.
He is president of the Massachusetts Medi
cal Society (1907), lecturer on surgery
at Harvard Medical School, and senior
surgeon of the Boston City Hospital. He
has written numerous professional papers
in Wood's Hand-Book of Medicine, the In
ternational Text-Book of Surgery, and in
the medical journals, on anaesthetics, croup,
appendicitis, tracheotomy, shock, hernia, in
grown toe-nail, the aspirator, treatment of
piles by injection, when to send for the
surgeon in acute abdominal affections. Ad
dress: 665 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass
achusetts.
GAY, Walter:
Artist; born in Hingham, Massachusetts,
January 22, 1856; son of Ebenezer Gay and
Ellen (Blake) Gay. After completing his
general studies in the Boston Latin School,
he was for a time employed in a Boston
business office. He devoted his leisure to
the study of art arid soun took to painting
pictures. He went to Paris in 1876, be
came a pupil of Bonnaf for three years,
arid then established a studio in Paris, con
stantly exhibiting at the Salon. His paint
ing Le Benedicite, was bought in 1888 by
the French Government for the Museum at
Amiens, and Las Cigarreras, in 1894, f°r
the Luxembourg in Paris, and others of

his notable works are in permanent collec
tions in London, New York and Boston.
He is a life fellow of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, New York City; member of
the Society of American Artists ; chevalier
of • the Legion d'Honneur de France; sec
retary of the Societe Nationale de Beaux
Arts, the Paris Society of American Paint
ers, the Societe des Amis du Louvre, Paris,
and the Secession at Munich. Address : 73
rue Ampere, Paris, France.
GAYLEY, Charles Mills:
Professor of the English language and
literature and head of the English depart
ment in the University of California since
1889 ; born Shanghai, China, February 22,
r8s8; eldest son of Rev. Samuel Rankin
Gayley (formerly of Cavnabun, County Ty
rone, Ireland, and later a graduate of Lafa
yette College, Pennsylvania, and Princeton
Theological Seminary) and Sarah Mills,
daughter of Calvin Mills, of Guildford,
New York, a descendant of Simeon Mills
and of John Skinner, founders respectively
of Windsor and Hartford, Connecticut, and
of Thomas Rogers, a passenger on the
Mayflower. Educated: Blackheath, Eng
land; Royal Academical Institution, Bel
fast ; University of Michigan ; Universities
of Giessen and Halle, Germany. Principal
of high school, Muskegon, Michigan, until
1880; instructor and assistant professor of
Latin, and afterwards of English, at the
University of Michigan until i88g; elected
an honorary member of the Senior Com
mon Room of Lincoln College, Oxford,
i8g7 ; at various times vice-president of the
Modern Language Association of America
and the Pacific Coast Branch of the Ameri
can Philological Association ; president of
the latter, igo2-igo3 ; United States dele
gate to the Congres international pour la
reproduction des manuscrits, Liege, 1905,
and member of the standing committee of
that Congress honorary LL.D., Glasgow,
1901; Michigan, 1904; director of the First
National Bank, Berkeley, and of the Berke
ley Bank of Savings and Trust Company.
Member of Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa,
and The Golden Bear (University of Cali
fornia). Publications: Classic Myths in

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English Literature, 1893 ; Representative
English Comedies, 1903 ; The Star of Beth
lehem, a miracle-play, 1903 ; Plays of Our
Forefathers, 1907; joint author of: A Guide
to the Literature of Aesthetics ; English in
the Secondary Schools, The Methods and
Materials of Literary Criticism; Poetry of
the People; The Principles and Progress of
English Poetry contributor of verse and
prose to the Atlantic, New York Nation,
Cosmopolitan, and other periodicals. ' His
favorite recreations are golf and riding and
he is a member of the Claremont Club of
Oakland, California. Professor Gayley
married in 1891, Sallie Pickett, daugh
ter of Right Rev. Samuel Smith Har
ris, Bishop of Michigan; two daugh
ters : Mary Harris, born in 1893, and
Elizabeth Pickett, born in 1907. Address :
University of California, Berkeley, Cali
fornia.
GAYNOB, William Jay:
Jurist; born Whitestown, New York,
1851; educated at Whitestown Seminary,
and later in Boston; from there went to
Brooklyn, 1873, and engaged in journalistic
work while pursuing study of law; admit
ted to bar, 1875 ; became known and feared
as a foe of corruption in public life, and
gained national reputation by effective work
in breaking up "rings" within the Demo
cratic party, of which party was an ad
herent, and by the part he took in securing
conviction of a notorious and powerful
Democratic boss for election frauds; elect
ed justice Supreme Court of New York,
1893, on nomination of Republicans and
Independent Democrats, for term expiring
December 21; 1907. Writer on legal sub
jects. Address: 20 Eighth Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York.
UAZZAAI, Joseph SI.:
Lawyer ; born in Pittsburgh, December
2, 1842; son of Dr. Edward Despard Gaz-
zam- (physician, lawyer, statesman, one of
organizers of the Free Soil Party and its
first candidate for Governor of Pennsylva
nia, arid Elizabeth Antoinette de Beelen de
Bertholff, daughter of Constantine Antoine
de Beelen de Bertholff and granddaughter

of Baron Frederick Eugene FranCois de
Beelen de Bertholff (Austrian Minister to
the United States from 1783 to 1887). He
was educated, at the University of Western
Pennsylvania. Admitted to the Allegheny
County Bar, January 6, 1864; to the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania in November,
1867; to the Circuit and District Courts
of the United States in May, 1869, and
to the Supreme Court of the United States,
March 19, 1870. He practiced at Pitts
burgh until 1879; member of the law firm
of Gazzam and Cochran (Mr. Cochran ex-
member of Congress and vice-president,
Missouri Pacific Railroad) from 1872 to
1879; and removed 1879 to Philadelphia.
He has since practiced law in the latter
city and associated with William S. Wal
lace and Edward Fell Lukens constitutes
the firm of Gazzam, Wallace and Lukens.
Mr. Gazzam is a Republican in politics.
He was a member of the City Council of
Pittsburgh in 1869-1873 and elected State
Senator in 1876, from the Forty-third Sen
atorial District of Pennsylvania. While so
serving he introduced a bill for a marriage
license law which was almost identical
with the law now in force, but which was
defeated in the lower house. He was au
thor of the law which did away with the
calls for special elections for State officers
and thus effected a great saving to the
State and many other important acts. He
was appointed by Governor William A.
Stone, Commissioner from Pennsylvania to
represent the State at the South Carolina
Interstate and West Indian Exposition of
1902, and also a member of the Pennsyl
vania Commission by Governor Samuel W.
Pennypacker to the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at Saint Louis. Mr. Gazzam
is president of the Rees Welsh Digest and
Law Publishing Company, president of the
Kramer Web Manufacturing Company,
was one of the organizers of Quaker City
National Bank of Philadelphia and four
teen years its vice-president. He is presi
dent of the Ames-Bonner Company of Tol
edo, Ohio, vice-president of the Dent's Run
Coal Company, Pennsylvania; chairman of
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& Kerr, Incorporated ; director in the Dela
ware Company and others. He was one
of the projectors of the Beech Creek Rail
road and the town of Gazzam was named
for him. Mr. Gazzam is a life member of
the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the
Fairmount Park Association, the Franklin
Institute, Horticultural Association of
Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Forestry
Association, Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Zoological Society, the Ameri
can Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence, the Genealogical Society of Pennsyl
vania, the Archaeological and Palaeonto-
logical Society of the University. He is a
member and ex-president of the Pennsyl
vania Club, a life member of the Union
League and Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia,
a member of the Young Republicans of
Philadelphia, the National Arts Club of
New York City, City Club of New York,
and the Toledo Club, Toledo, Ohio. Mr.
Gazzam married, in 1893, Nellie M. An
drews of New Orleans, and they have .two
children : Joseph M. Gazzam, Jr., and
Olivia M. de B. Gazzam. Residence-: 265
South Nineteenth Street. Office address :
Bailey Building, 1218 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GEABIN, John SI.:
United States senator and lawyer ; born
in Umatilla County, Oregon, on the Emi
grant Trail, August 15, 1851. He attended
St. Mary's College, San Francisco, from
1863 to 1867; in 1868 entered Notre Dame
University, Indiana, where he graduated in
1871, and received the degree of LL.D.
from this university in 1903. He began
the study of law in 1871 ; was admitted to
the bar of his native State in 1873, and
has been in the active practice of the law
ever since. He was a member of the Ore
gon legislature in 1874, and city attorney
of the city of Portland in 1875 ; was elected
district attorney for Multnomah County,
Oregon, in 1884, and served two years ; in
1878, when Oregon constituted one Con
gressional district, he was the Democratic
candidate for Congress, and was defeated.
When the celebrated opium frauds were

unearthed, in i8g3, was. appointed by
President Cleveland as special prosecutor
for the Government in the cases. On De
cember 13, 1905, he was appointed by the
governor of Oregon United States sena
tor to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of John H. Mitchell, and took his seat De
cember 21. Address : Portland, Oregon.
GEBHABDT, William C:
Lawyer, State senator ; born in Croton,
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, March 28,
1859, and is a lawyer by profession. He
was graduated at the Clinton Institute and
was admitted to the bar at the June term,
1884, as an attorney, and at the June term,
1887, as a counselor. Fie began the prac
tice of his profession at Clinton, New Jer
sey, and now has offices there and in Jersey
City. He served as corporation counsel
of the town of Clinton for ten years, and
as president of the Board of Education ten
years. . He has also filled the position of
school principal, president of the First Na
tional Bank of Clinton, president of the
Frenchtown Water Company. In 1900 he
was elected to the Senate, and again in
1906. Address : Clinton, New Jersey.
GEDDES, James, Jr.:
Professor of Romance languages ; born in
Boston, July 29, 1858 ; son of James Geddes,
of Old Meldrum, Scotland, and Laure
(Sazy) Geddes, of Pau, France. After
preparation in the Boston and Brookline
public schools, he entered Harvard College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1880, receiving from the same college
the degrees of A.M. in 1889 and Ph.D. in
1894. He was a clerk in the United States
consulate at Trieste in 1880 and 1881 ; was
a student in Austria, Germany, Belgium,
France and Spain in 1882 and 1883; pri
vate secretary to Theodore Lyman, member
of Congress, 1883 to 1885 ; a master in Gro
ton School, Groton, Massachusetts, in 1886;
clerk in the president's office of. the Union
Pacific Railway Company in 1886 and 1887 ;
student in Paris in 1887, in that year he
was appointed instructor in Romance lan
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came assistant professor in 1890 and since
1892 he has been professor of the Ro
mance languages in that university. Pro
fessor Geddes, singly and in collaboration
has edited a number of French, Spanish,
and Italian texts, with introductions and
notes; in collaboration with Professor Ad-
jutor Rivard, of Laval University, Canada,
he has compiled Bibliographie du Parler
Frangais au Canada, published in Paris and
Quebec in 1906 ; he is the author of a work
on : Canadian-French : The Language and
Literature of the Decade, 1890- 1900, 1902,
and: Study of an Acadian French Dialect
spoken in Carleton, on the North Shore of
the Baie des Chaleurs, Canada, 1908 — both
published in Europe. He has been a fre
quent contributor to philological journals,
on the Romance languages, and particularly
on the Acadian and Canadian dialects of
French. During recent years he has written
and spoken in behalf of an effort being
made to introduce a uniform system of in
dicating pronunciation in all dictionaries and
standard works of reference. In addition to
his regular work Professor Geddes was in
charge of the Italian and Spanish Depart
ments in the Oswego Summer School of
Languages in 1888 and 1889 and the French
Department of Martha's Vineyard Summer
School in 1894 ; he is the regular contributor
on the annual literary output iri French Can
ada for Vollmoller's Tahresbericht. He is a
member of the Modern Language Associa
tion of America, the ¦ Dante Society of
America, American Dialect Society, Asso
ciation Phonetique Internationale, and
committee on Courses of Instruction in
Harvard University; president of the
Circolo Italiana di Boston ; treasurer of the
Italian Benevolent Aid Society, secretary
and treasurer of the Library of Modern
Italian Literature; member of the Bureau
de 1' Alliance Frangaise Groupe de Boston-
Cambridge. Professor Geddes married at
Newton Centre, Massachusetts, June 27,
1894, Mathilde Hugel of Brumath, Alsace.
Address: 20 Fairmount Street, Brookline,
Massachusetts.

GEEB, George Jarvls: 
Merchant; born at Ballston Spa, New
York, October 25, 1846 ; son of Rev. George
Jarvis (D.D.) and Isabelle (Montague)
Geer. He was graduated from Columbia
College as E.M. in 1868. Manager of B.
Priestley and Company, president of Crav-
enette Company, Limited, Summit Proofing
Company; director of Scotia Worsted
Mills. Mr. Geer is a Republican in poli
tics and an Episcopalian in religion. Is a
member of the Holland Lodge ; Chamber of
Commerce, Museum of Natural History.
Is a member of the University, Church,
Wool, and Baltusrol Golf Clubs. He mar
ried in. New York City, June n, 1873,
Louise, daughter of Hon. Henry Horace
and Esther (Langdon) Goodman, and they
have four children: Louise, born in 1875,
George Jarvis, 3d, born in 1877, Marshall,
born in 1879, and Langdon, born in 1881.
Residence: 23 East Sixty-fourth Street.
\ddress : 100 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
GEEB, Walter:
-Lawyer, manufacturer; born Williams-
town, Massachusetts, August 19, 1857; son
of Asahel Clark and Helen Augusta (Dan
forth) Geer; educated Greylock Institute,
S. Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams
College, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881; National
University Law School, Washington, D. C,
LL.B., 1881, LL.M., 1882. Assistant man
ager Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reap
ing Machine - Company, Chicago, 1882-86 ;
since 1886 president and director New
York Architectural Terra-cotta Company,
New York City; vice-president and direct
or New York Knife Company, Metropoli
tan Safe Deposit Company; director
Brunswick Site Company. Democrat Ep
iscopalian. Member Association for Pro
tection of Adirondacks, American Museum
Natural History, Genealogical and Bio
graphical Society, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Municipal Art Society, National Sculp
ture Society, New England Society, New
York Historical Society, Phi Beta Kappa
Association, Sons of Revolution, Williams
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University, Manhattan, Strollers', National
Arts, Lawyers' (New York City) ; Puritan
(Boston) ; Art (Philadelphia). Married,
New York City, September 26, 1883, Mary
Potter; children: Olin Potter, Walter, Jr.,
Joseph White, Helen Danforth. Resi
dence: 246 West Seventy-second Street,
New York City, Crow's Nest, Ossining,
New York. Address : 1 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
GEER, William Chauncey:
Chemist ; born in Ogdensburg, New York;
June 17, 1876; son of Charles P. Geer and
Lucy A. (Guernsey) Geer. He was edu
cated in the Potsdam State Normal School
in 1897 and received from Cornell Univer
sity the degree of A.B. in 1902 and Ph.D.
in 1905, and was a fellow in chemistry at
Cornell in 1903 and 1904. Mr. Geer was
instructor of science at the high school of
Nyack, New York, in 1898 and 1899; as
sistant in chemistry at Cornell in 1902 and
1903; instructor at Cornell from 1904 to
1906; has been an expert on wood distilla
tion in the Forest Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture in 1906
and 1907; and the chemist of the B: F.
Goodrich Company, of Akron, Ohio, since
1907. He is a member of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, the American Physi
cal Society and the Sigma Xi honor so
ciety. His favorite recreations are tennis,
canoeing, fishing and tramping, and he has
traveled through the Southern, Middle and
far Western States in pursuit of his in
vestigation of wood distillation. Mr. Geer
;s a member of the Cornell University Club
of New York City, and the Town and
Gown Club of Ithaca, New York. He has
made researches in reference to the mer
cury arc, thermoregulators, indium, the
theory of crystallization, the teaching of
chemistry in high schools and principles of
wood distillation, and has written on these
subjects. Residence: 218 Park Street,
Akron, Ohio. Office address: The B. F.
Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio.
GEEB, William Montague:
Clergyman; born in Balston, New York,
April 9, 1848; son of Rev. George Jarvis

"Geer, D.D., formerly rector of St. Timothy's
Church, (now Zion and St. Timothy's)
New York City, and Isabel (Mon
tague) Geer. He was graduated from Co
lumbia College as M.A. in 1869, and from
the General 'theological Seminary in 1878.
Mr. Geer was admitted to the bar of the
State of New York in 1872; was assistant
to Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, Wappingers
Falls, New York, in 1878; rector of St.
John's Church, North Adams, Massachu
setts, in 1879; rector of Christ Church,
Oyster Bay, Long Island, from 1880 to
1888; was assistant minister, from 1888 to
1894, and has been vicar since i8g4 of St.
Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York
City. In politics he is an Independent. He
is a member of the New York Church
men's Association (was its president in
1898) ; trustee of the General Theological
Seminary, Society for Promotion of Relig
ion and Learning, New York Diocese, Trin
ity School, and St. Agatha's ; and is a mem
ber of the Century Club, and honorary
member of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht Club, of which he was fleet-chaplain
from 1900 to 1901. He inaugurated noon
day services in St. Paul's Chapel and
founded the first Business Women's Club
for stenographers, typewriters and others.
Mr. Geer married in New York City, April
8, 1880, Katharine Gridley Throop, who
died in igo6 7 he has seven children : Isa
bel Montague, Enos Throop, William
Montague, Jr., Garrow Throop, Francis
Hunt, Cornelia Throop and Gertrude Mar
shall. Residence: 60 West Eighty-fourth
Street, New York City. Office address: 29
Vesey Street, New York City.
GELEBT, Johannes Sophus,:
Sculptor; born Nybel, Schleswig, Den
mark (now Prussia), December 10, 1852;
son of Ludwig Christian Frederik and
Constance Andrea (Peterson) Gelert; at
tended village school, 1859-65, spent one
year at school in Copenhagen studied art
at Royal Academy of Copenhagen, 1870-
75. Began artistic career as apprentice to
wood-carving in 1866-70; after graduation
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tour through Germany, then worked fifteen
months in Paris and exhibited, at the Salon
of 1.878, a colossal group, representing the
Norse god, Thor, combating a bull; work
ed on large monumental -works, Berlin,
1879-82; executed several decorative stat
ues for theatre in Copenhagen, 1882; stud
ied at Rome on scholarship awarded by
Danish Government, then returned to Cop
enhagen; resident of United States since
1887 and citizen since 1892; worked at his
art in Chicago, 1887-98; since then in New
York City. Exhibited at World's Colum
bian Exposition; Chicago, 1893 (member In
ternational Jury of Award), Paris Exposi
tion, 1900 (honorable mention), Nashville
Centennial Exposition, 1897 (gold medal),
Philadelphia Art Club, for group The
Little Architect (gold medal), American
Art Society, Philadelphia (gold medal),
honorable mention Buffalo Exposition.
Member National Sculpture Society, Arch
itectural League. Among important works
are : Statue representing Denmark, for
United States Custom House, New York
City; colossal group, The Struggle for
Work, at World's Columbian Exposition ;
statue representing Napoleon the Great, for
Missouri State Building, Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition; statue representing Goth
ic Art, Fine Arts Building, St. Louis ; Hay-
market Statue (Haymarket Square), and
Beethoven and Andersen statues (Lincoln
Park), Chicago; four colossal statues for
the Brooklyn Institute of Science and Art
representing Roman civilization; statue of
M. Furmen for Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee; Grant Statue, Gal
ena, Illinois. Married, Chicago, 1896,
Georgina J. B. Sundberg ; children : Carl
Robert, born in 1900; Alfred Christian-,
born in 1901 ; Elsa Ingeborg, born in igo3.
Residence: 22 Elm Place, Fordham. Ad
dress (studio) : 11 East Fourteenth Street,
New York City.
GENTH, Frederick Augustus, Jr.:
Chemist; bom in Philadelphia, February
12, 1855; son of Dr. F. A. Genth and
Minna Pauline (Fischer) Genth. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl

vania as B.S. in 1876. and M.S.. in 1878.
Mr. Genth was assistant in Chemistry on
the Second Geological Survey of Pennsyl
vania from 1877 to 1880; instructor at the
University of Pennsylvania in analytical
chemistry, from 1881 to 1883 ; assistant pro
fessor of chemistry at the University of
Pennsylvania, from 1883 to 1888, inclusive,
and since then has been in general practice
as an analytical expert chemist. He was
chemist to the Dairy Food Commission;
Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania,
from 1897 to 1903 ; also to the State Phar
maceutical Examining Board of Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Genth is one of the founders
and a director of the West Philadelphia
Title and Trust Company; is. a member of
the American Philosophical Society; the
American Chemical Society; the So
ciety of Chemical Industry of London; So
ciete Chimique de Paris, and Deutsche
Chemische Gesellschaft, Berlin; a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and was a director of the
Lansdowne School District from 1900 to
1906. He has traveled extensively in the
United States and abroad. Mr. Genth mar
ried at Philadelphia, in 1881, Louise T.
Raht, who died in 1889; and in 1890, to
Miriam S. DuBois. He had one child,
Julius Frederick, born October 1, 1885,
who died March 4, 1886. Residence: 65
East Greenwood Avenue, Lansdowne,
Pennsylvania. Office address : 222 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GENTHE, Karl Wilhelm:
Professor of natural history; born in
Leipzig, Germany, June 5, 1871 ; son of
Karl Louis Genthe and Anna Emilie (Soh-
nel) Genthe. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Leipzig, the Thomasschule
(humanistic gymnasium) at Leipzig, from
which he was graduated with Maturitas in
1891, and the University of Leipzig, where
he was graduated in 1897 as Ph.D., summa
cum laude. He was instructor in zoology
in the University of Michigan from 1899
to 1901 ; instructor in natural history, from
1901 to 1903 ; assistant professor of natural
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came professor of natural history at
Trinity College, Hartford, Comiecticut,
in 1007. In religion he is a Luth
eran. Professor Genthe is author of vari
ous articles in English and German in sci
entific periodicals and is a contributor to
the Encyclopedia Americana. He is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and member of
the American Society of Zoologists. His
favorite recreation is walking, especially
walking trips, and he is a member of the
University Club of Hartford. Dr. Genthe
married in New Brighton, Staten Island,
January 16, igoi, Martha Krug, Ph.D., and
they have one child, Irmgard Krug Genthe,
born in igo6. Residence: 24 Sumner
Street, Hartford, Connecticut. Address :
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
GEORGE, Henry:
Journalist, author; born in Sacramento,
California, November 3, 1862; son of Hen
ry George (political economist) ; educated
in public schools. Secretary to father on
his lecture tour of Great Britain, 1883; in
journalistic work since 1881 ; succeeded
father on his death, a few days before
election day, i8g7, as nominee for mayor,
of New York City, on Jeffersonian Demo
cratic ticket. Author of: Life of Henry
George; The Tragedy of the Great Penn
sylvania Coal Strike; Who Are the Crim
inals?; Modern Methods of Finance; The
Menace of Privilege, 1905; The Romance
of John Bainbridge, 1906. Clubs : City
and Authors. Address: 180 St. Nicholas
Avenue, New York City.
GEOBGE, William Beuben:
Founder Of the Junior Republic; born in
West Dryden, New York, June 4, 1866;
son of John Francis and Eleanor (Baker)
George; educated in common schools.
Went to New York City in 1880; later
became very much interested in work for
boys and girls, and in 1890 took a group
of children to Freeville for the summer,
and for five years thereafter different
groups were taken each summer for an
outing. In studying children and the work
being done for them, came to the con

clusion that giving the children everything
they needed, free, tended to increase paup
erism among them. While thinking over
a remedy for this conceived the idea of
starting a junior republic, modeled after
the United States Government, and in 1895
put his ideas into operation. The plan
worked so well and created so much in
terest that it was at once incorporated and
placed on a permanent basis. The summer
feature was abandoned and a permanent
institution established, which is widely
known as the George Junior Republic; now
devoting entire time to establishment of the
Junior Republic System. Independent in
politics, with Republican tendencies. Rec
reations: All kinds of athletics. Married,
New York City, November 12, 1896, Esther
Ide Brewster; children: Eleanor Miller
(8), Esther Armington (2). Address:
Freeville, New York.
GEBHABD, John Sergeant:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, December,
1845; son of Benjamin Gerhard and Anna
(Sergeant) Gerhard. He was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania as
B.A., M.A., and B.L. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion an Episcopalian ;
and a member of the Church of St. Asaph.
He is a member of the Historical Society,
the Philadelphia City Institute, the Charity
Ball, and the Sons of the Revolution. Mr.
Gerhard married in Philadelphia, October
4, 1873, Maria Pepper, and they have three
children: Albert P. Gerhard, Mrs. Sarah
Gerhard Whelen, and Anna Sergeant Ger
hard. Residence : Overbrook, Pennsylva
nia. Address : 328 Chestnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
GEBBISH, Frederic Henry:
Physician ; born in Portland, Maine, Mar.
21, 1845 ; son of Oliver Gerrish and Sarah
(Little) Gerrish. He received his education
in the common schools in Portland, and
was graduated from Bowdoin College as
A.B. in 1866; A.M., and M.D., in 1869, and
the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon
him by the University of Michigan in ig04,
and by Bowdoin College in igos. Dr. Ger
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therapeutics from 1873 to 1882; professor
of anatomy, from 1882 to 1905, and has
been professor of surgery since igos at
Bowdoin College; professor of physiology
at the University of Michigan in 1874 and
1875, and is consulting surgeon of Maine
General Hospital. He is editor and in large
part author of the Text-book of Anatomy
by American Authors, 1899; and is author
of articles in Keen's, Park's, and Dennis's
Systems of Surgery ; translator and editor
of Championniere's Chirurgie Antiseptique,
and contributor to various medical and
scientific journals. In politics he is a Re
publican. Dr. Gerrish was the first presi
dent of the Maine State Board of Health
from 1885 to 1889; is a member of the
American Surgical Association, the Socie
te Internationale de Chirurgie, Association
of American Anatomists, American Acad
emy of Medicine (ex-president), American
Therapeutic Society, American Medical As
sociation, American Public Health Asso
ciation, Maine Medical Association (ex-
president), Congress of American Physic
ians and Surgeons, American Society of
Naturalists, Maine Historical Society,
Maine Genealogical Society, Society for
Psychical Research, and the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society; president of the Portland Char
itable Dispensary; associate corporator of
Maine General Hospital; trustee of the
Portland Public Library, and member of
the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin Col
lege, and is a member of the Society of
Colonial Wars and Alpha Delta Phi fra
ternity. He is also a member of the Cum
berland, Portland Athletic, Portland Coun
try, and Alpha Delta Phi Clubs. Dr. Ger
rish married in Portland, Maine, Decem
ber 31, 1879, Emily Manning Swan. Ad
dress : 675 Congress Street, Portland, Maine.
GEBBISH, Henry, Jr.:
Capitalist; born at Boston, December
25th, 1868 ; son of Henry and Elizabeth Ger
rish. He is president and director of the
Grover and Haskell Company, secretary and
director of Parsons Manufacturing Com
pany, and treasurer and director of Boston

Coin Machines Company. - Address : 381
Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GEBBY, El bridge Thomas:
Lawyer; born in the City of New
York, December 25, 1837. He is the
son ot Thomas R. Gerry, who was
the son of Elbridge Gerry, a leading
man in the early history of the country,
and one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. The father of Elbridge
T. Gerry was a naval officer, who died when
his son was but seven years of age. Under
his mother's care the son was carefully
educated, taking a full course at Colunibia
College, from which institution of learning
he was graduated with high honors in
1857, delivering the German salutatory ora
tion on that occasion. Within the same
year he was elected president of the Philo-
lexian Society of the college. A short
time after his graduation he began the
study of law in the office of William Curtis
Noyes, an eminent lawyer of his time.
Under the careful tuition of Mr. Noyes he
became thoroughly proficient in the knowl
edge of the law, and in 1859 he was admit
ted to the bar, soon afterward being ad
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court
of the United States. Following his ad
mission he formed a legal partnership with
Mr. Noyes, his former preceptor, and upon
the death of that gentleman he entered into
partnership with the Hon. William F. Al
len, Judge of the New York Court of Ap
peals, and Benjamin V. Abbott, a well-.
known legal author. Eventually, Judge
Allen withdrew from the firm, and it was
afterward continued under the name of
Abbott & Gerry. For many years he was
actively occupied with the laborious duties
of an extensive practice, being retained in
many famous cases, both civil and criminal.
One of his most notable cases was the de
fense of one McFarland tried for homicide.
He also conducted some memorable will
cases, and was connected as leading coun
sel in many other trials of leading import
ance. In 1867 Mr. Gerry was selected as a
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of the committee which formulated the ar
ticle on the pardoning power, which was
subsequently adopted. He was also active
in the debates which took place on the floor
of the convention on the various amend
ments, and his great legal ability contrib
uted largely toward the . perfection of the
instrument which was finally adopted. It
was at about this period in Mr. Gerry's
career that he began to take an active in
terest in philanthropic and humane work.
It was his daily observation of the suffer
ing inflicted upon dumb animals that led
him to form a connection with the Ameri
can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, after its formation by Mr.
Henry Bergh. He cooperated heartily with
Mr. Bergh in the work of this society, and
it is to his persistent and untiring efforts
that most -of the legislation pertaining to
this subject has been carried through. On
the subsequent formation of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
Mr. Gerry gave the work laid out by it his
hearty cooperation. The formation of the
society, the agitation for which began in
1874,' was, in fact, mainly due to Mr. Ger
ry's efforts, and since 1879 he has 'been its
president, and through his untiring and
eminently successful labors has won for
the 'society a world-wide reputation. Dur
ing the existence of this society it has in
vestigated the cases of more than three
hundred thousand children, and rescued
more than fifty thousand from neglect and
destitution, or from vicious surroundings,
and placed them in moral and comfortable
homes. Through the example and encour
agement of the New York society nearly
two hundred similar associations have been
formed in the United States and a large
number in foreign countries. In 1886 Mr.
Gerry was appointed by the State Legisla
ture, in association with the Hon. Matthew
Hale and Dr. A. P. Southwick, to consider
the most humane and effective method of
executing criminals sentenced to death. As a
consequence of the report of this commis
sion, the State of New York adopted its
present system of electrical execution of
criminals in place of the old method of

hanging. Since 1878 he has been a gover
nor of the New York Hospital; in 1889
served as chairman of the executive com
mittee of the centennial celebration, and in
1892 was chairman of the commission to
consider the best method of caring for the
insane of New York City; he is a trustee
of the Protestant Episcopal General Theo
logical Seminary, and from 1885 to 1892
was commodore of the New York
Yacht Club. Notwithstanding Mr. Gerry's
great activity in the field of philanthropy,
he has always been a leading member of
the higher social circles, and his name is
seldom missing from the list of the more
important gatherings of fashionable society.
Besides a house in New York, he is the
owner of a residence at Newport, Rhode
Island, and he spends much of his
time at that famous summer resort. He
has traveled much, both in his own coun
try and abroad, having many years since
given up the active practice of his pro
fession. He was married in 1867 to Louisa
M. Livingston, a granddaughter of Morgan
Lewis. In addition to the positions of
trust already mentioned as having been held
by Mr. Gerry, he is a director in the New
port Trust Company and the Industrial
Trust Company of Providence, Rhode Isl
and. He is a member of the New York
Yacht, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan and
numerous other Clubs. Residence : Sea-
verge, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode
Island. Business address : 258 Broadway,
New York City.
GHEEN, Edward Hickman:
Rear-Admiral United States Navy;
born in Pennsylvania. Entered • Naval
Academy September 24, 1862; graduated,
1867; flagship Delaware, Asiatic Squadron,
1867-1870. Promoted to ensign December
1868; to master, March 21, 1870; sig
nal duty, Washington, D. C, 1871 ; lieu
tenant, March 21, 1871 ; ironclad Mahopac
and receiving ship New Hampshire, 1872;
storeship Supply, April 1, 1872; flagship
Lancaster, 1872-1875; receiving ship Po
tomac and training ship Constitution, 1875-
1876; Alliance, European Station, 1877-

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1879 ; League Island, 1880 ; Torpedo Station,
1881; flagship Tennessee, 1882-1883; Naval
Academy, 1883-1887; Constellation, prac
tice cruise, 1884 ; Yantic, as executive, 1887-
1890; inspector of steel, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, October, 1890, to May, 1891 ;
charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Phil
adelphia, May, 1891, to April, 1893; lieu
tenant commander, October 2, 1891 ; Navy
Yard, League Island, April, 1893, to Octo
ber, 1894; executive of Minantonomah,
October to December, and of Minneapolis,
December, 1894-1896; Hydrographic Office,
January 5, i897-i8g8; commander, March
28, i8g8; Frolic, June to September, 1898;
Hydrographic Office, September 27, 1898,
to June 18, 1899; commanding Marietta,
June 20, 1899 (Asiatic Station), to April
29, 1901 ; commanding Petrel, May 4, 1901,
to September 7, 1901 ; .captain, June 14,
1902; light-house inspector, Eleventh Dis
trict, February 12, 1902. Retired, December
1, 1902. Address : 1619 New Hampshire
Avenue, Washington, D. C.
GHEISKEY, Bobert Dodd:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, March 4,
1864; son of Charles Markley Ghriskey of
Philadelphia, and Laicita Victoria (Crosby)
Ghriskey, of New York. He was grad
uated from Professor F. W. Hast
ings' West Philadelphia Academy; was
cashier of the Real Estate Trust Company
of Philadelphia from 1901 to 1906 inclusive,
and is now senior member of the firm of
Robert D. Ghriskey and Company, bank
ers. Mr. Ghriskey is secretary and a mem
ber of the Board of Managers of the West
Philadelphia Institute and of the Aronimink
Golf Club of Philadelphia. He is a com
municant of the Protesant Episcopal Church
and in politics he is a Republican. Mr.
Ghriskey married at Allentown, Pennsyl
vania, February 8, 1898, Anna Caroline
Ainey, daughter of Hon. William H. Ainey.
Residence : 241 South Forty-first Street,
Philadelphia. Office address : Real Estate
Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GIBB, Joseph Scribner:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Febru
ary 11, 1859; educated in the public schools

Eastburn Academy, and the Medical De
partment of the University of Pennsyl
vania, graduating in 1880. After a year's
post-graduate service in the Philadelphia
Hospital, he began a general practice, but
since 1896 has devoted himself exclusively
to diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
From 1882 to 1892 he was outdoor physi
cian to the Philadelphia Department of
Charities and Correction, and Surgeon to
the Police Department, and from 1881 to
1884 was in charge of the throat, nose and
ear department of the Northern Dispensary.
Since 1893 he has been surgeon in charge
of the ear, nose and throat department
of the' Episcopal Hospital, and since 1897
has been professor of diseases of the throat
and nose in the Philadelphia Polyclinic.
He is a fellow of the College of Physicians,
and a member of various medical as
sociations, of the Union League, and the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He
married Jessie Hassell in 1882 and has
had three children. Address : 1907 Chest
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GIBBLE, John Benners:
Clergyman; graduated from the Theo
logical Seminary of Virginia in 1892. He
was ordered deacon in 1892 and ordained
priest in 1893 by Rt. Rev. A. A. Watson,
D.D., bishop of the Diocese, of East
Carolina. Mr. Gibble was assistant at
St. James and in charge of the
Chapel of the Good Shepherd, at Wil
mington, North Carolina, from 1892 to
1895; rector of St. Luke's, Denison,
Texas, from 1895 to 1901, and of St. Paul's,
at Butte, Montana, from 1901 to 1906 ; since
1906 he has been rector of St. Thomas'
Church, Windsor, North Carolina. He is
author of : The Teaching of Holy Scripture
on Baptism. Address : St. Thomas'
Rectory,, Windsor, North Carolina.
GIBBONS, Cardinal (James) :
Cardinal; born Baltimore, July 23, 1834;
educated St. Charles College, Maryland,
St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. Or
dained priest, 1861 ; vicar apostolic,
North Carolina, 1868 ; bishop of Richmond,
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dinal, 1886. Publications: The Faith of
Our Fathers ; Our Christian Heritage ; The
Ambassador of Christ. Address : 408 N.
Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
GD3BONS, John Henry:
Commander, United States Navy. Ap
pointed from Michigan. Naval Academy,
September 15, 1875 ; midshipman, June 10,
1881; ensign (junior grade), March 3,
1883; ensign, June 26, 1884; lieutenant
(junior grade), December 16, i8gi ; Adams,
Pacific Station, 1879-81 ; training-ship
Jamestown, 1882-5 ; Naval Academy, 1885-
8; Mohican, Vandalia and Adams, Pacific
Station, 1888-go; was a watch-officer on
board the Vandalia when that vessel was
wrecked at Apia, Samoa, March 16, i88g;
Coast Survey steamer Gedney, August,
1890, to September, 1891 ; Naval Academy,
September, i8gi, to September, 1892; Navy
Yard, Washington, September, 1892, to
July, 1894; Chicago, European Station, to
April, 1895. Promoted to lieutenant, Feb
ruary 28, 1896; Raleigh, North Atlantic
Station, 1895-7; aide to the Assistant-Sec
retary of the Navy and in charge of Naval
Militia, April, 1897, to May, 1898; Newark,
Massachusetts, Brooklyn, Oregon, May
21, 1898, to 1901 ; office Naval In
telligence, November n, 1901, to 1903;
ordered to command the Dolphin and re
mained on that duty until ordered as naval
attache, London, December 23, 1905 ; pro
moted to commander, December, 1906.
Commander Gibbons is a constant contribu
tor to the press on naval topics, and many
of his articles in the Review have attracted
wide attention. Address: American Em
bassy, London, England.
GD3BS, George:
Author, illustrator; born in New Or
leans, Louisiana, March 8, 1870; son of
late Medical Inspector Benjamin F. Gibbs,
United States Navy. Author: In Search
of Mademoiselle; The Love of Monsieur;
American Sea Fights ; Pike and Cutlass,
etc. Entered United States Naval Acad
emy; .1886; resigned, 1888, to study art;
student at Art Students' League and Cor
coran Gallery, Washington, D. C, until

1893 ; began book and magazine illustration.
Moved to Philadelphia, 1898, to work for
the Curtis Publishing Company. Address :
Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
GIBBS, George:
Consulting engineer ; born Chicago, Illi
nois, April ig, 1861 ; son of Francis and
Eliza (Hosmer) Gibbs; graduated Stevens
Institute of Technology, 1882. Engineer of
tests and chemist, 1884-87, mechanical en
gineer, 1887-97, Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railway Company; consulting "en
gineer, Baldwin Locomotive Works and
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company, 1897-igoi ; consulting engineer,
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 1901-
05; first vice-president Westinghouse,
Church, Kerr and Company, 1902-05; mem
ber Electric Traction Commission, New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad,
1902-05; consulting engineer Metropolitan
Securities Company, 1904-05. Member
Board Engineers New York Terminal,
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; chief en
gineer of electric traction Long Island Rail
road Company; chief engineer of the elec
tric traction in the Pennsylvania Tunnel
and Terminal Railway, and of the West
Jersey and Seashore. Railroad. Director
American Society Civil Engineers; member
American Society Mechanical Engineers,
American Institute Electrical. Engineers, In
stitution Civil Engineers of England. Clubs :
Century, University, Down Town, South
Side Sportsmen's (New York City) ; Rit
tenhouse (Philadelphia). Address: 10
Bridge Street, New York City.
GIBBS, Harley B. :
Banker and manufacturer ; born in Milan,
Ohio, March 13, 1849; son of Edward H.
Gibbs and Marie Louise (Brownell) Gibbs.
He was educated at the public school of
his birthplace, and engaged in business,
and has for thirty-two years been secre
tary and treasurer of the King Bridge
Company of Cleveland, Ohio, for seventeen
years vice-president of ftie Lake Shore
Banking and Trust Cdhjpany of Cleveland,
Ohio, and for ten years vice-president of
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affiliations are with the Protestant Epis
copal Church and in politics he is a Repub
lican. He is a member of the Civil En
gineers' Club, Euclid Club, Union Club,
Roadside Club, and the Chamber of Com
merce, of Cleveland; the Union League
Club of Chicago, and the Ohio Society of
New York City. Mr. Gibbs married at
Hudson, Ohio, October 24, 1878, Emma
Johnson. Residence: 6407 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland. ' Office address : 702 Hickox
Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
GLBBS, William David:
President of New Hampshire College;
born in Winchester, Illinois, March 15,
1869; son of William C. Gibbs and Mar
garet C. (Tankersley) Gibbs. He was
graduated from the University of Illinois
as B.S. in 1893 and M.S. in 1894; and was
a post-graduate student at the University
of Wisconsin in 1894. He was assistant
professor of agriculture in 1895 ; associate
professor in 1896, and was appointed pro
fessor of agronomy in 1898 at the Ohio
State University; was director of the New
Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion in 1902; dean and director of Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College ' in
1902, and since 1903 has been president of
New Hampshire College. In religion he
is a Congregationalist. He is a member
of the Sigma Xi Scientific Society, and of
Kappa Sigma fraternity, and is a trustee
of the New Hampshire College of Agricul
ture and the Mechanic Arts. His favorite
recreations are automobiling and tennis.
President Gibbs married in Toledo, Ohio,
June 26, 1901, Perla Gray Bowman, and
they have one son, Thomas Bowman Gibbs,
born in igo3. Address: Durham, New
Hampshire.
GD3SON, Charles Dana:
Illustrator; born in Roxbury, Massachu
setts, September 14, 1865; son of Charles
De Wolf and Josephine Elizabeth Gibson ;
educated in Boston and Flushing, Long
Island; studied at Art Students' League,
1883 and 1884. Devoted himself to illus
trating, 1887; in 1905, made exclusive- con

tract with Collier's Weekly, at largest sal
ary ever paid, for black-and-white work,
but at end of year went to Europe to
study oil painting. . Has illustrated : Rich
ard Harding Davis' Soldiers of Fortune;
Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda, and
Rupert of Hentzau, and other books;
among the series of sketches made by him
are : Americans, 1890 ; London as seen by
C. D. Gibson, 1898; People of Dickens,
1898; Sketches in Egypt, 1898; Education
of Mr. Pipp, 1899; The Widow and Her
Friends, 1901. Clubs: Players', Racquet,
Meadow Brook. Married, November 7,
1895, Irene Langhorne, of Richmond, Vir
ginia. Residence: 127 East Seventy-third
Street. Address : 19 West Thirty-first
Street, New York City.
GIBSON, Edmund T. H. :
Railway official; born Brooklyn, New
York, April 19, 1843; son of E. T. H. and
Elizabeth C. (Sanford) Gibson; graduated
Yale, A.B., 1864: Member _ of ' New
York Stock Exchange, 1868-74; clerk
in Illinois Central Railroad Company,
1874-86, secretary, October 20, 1886,
to May 18, 1887, assistant treasurer
May 18, 1887, to October 18, 1893, and
since then treasurer same company. Also
director Chicago, St. Louis and New Or
leans Railroad Company, Dubuque and
Sioux City Railroad Company. Married,
Duluth, Minnesota, October, 12, 1902, Fan
nie C. Burbank; one daughter, Frances
Hastings (11). Address: 305 West
Eighty-fifth Street, New York City. "> n
GIBSON, John Graham:
Lawyer; born Geneva, New York,
February 26, 1854; son of Rev. William
Thomas and Martha (Field) Gibson; edu
cated common schools of Utica, New York,
Utica Free Academy, 1870; graduated Ho
bart College, B.A., 1874. Admitted to New
York bar, at Rochester, October, 1877, has
since practiced at Utica. Mayor of Utica,
1894-97, corporation counsel of Utica, 1902-
04. Democrat. Episcopalian. ¦ Member
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sociation. Member Board Managers St.
Luke's Home and Hospital, Utica, for it
years; trustee Utica Dispensary. Address:
25 Plant Street, Utica, New York.
GIBSON, Bobert, Jr.:
Lawyer; born at Marietta, Georgia, Oc
tober 22, 1868; son of Robert and Annie
(Glover) Gibson. He graduated from the
University of the South, as B.S., in 1887,
M.A. (several schools), 1888; Columbia,
LL.B., in 1892. He has been engaged in the
practice of law at New York City since
1892. Is a member of the New York City
Local School Board; founder and presi
dent of the Tax Management Corporation.
Is president of the Board of Trustees, Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; has held of
fices in military organizations. Mr. Gibson
is a Democrat in politics, and member of
various committees in Tammany Hall. Is
a member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, Southern Society,
Alumni Association Law School of Colum
bia University, of the University of the
South, and the Dwight Alumni Association.
His favorite recreations are golf, reading
and social intercourse. Is a member of the
New York Athletic (life member), Ardsley
Clubs. Residence : 58 Central Park South,
Address :• 60 Wall Street, New York City.
GD3SON, Bobert A.:
Bishop of Virginia; born at Petersburg,
Virginia, July 9, 1846 ; son of Rev. Church
ill J. Gibson and Lucy Fitzhugh (Atkinson)
Gibson. He studied at Hampden-Sidney
College, Virginia, graduating with the de
gree of A.B. in 1867 and, entering thence
the Virginia Theological Seminary, was
graduated in 1870. The honorary degree
of D.D. was conferred upon him in 1897,
by Kenyon College and by the University
of the South. He was ordered deacon of
the Episcopal Church by Bishop Whittle
in 1870, and the following year was or
dained priest by Bishop Johns. He was
missionary of the South Eastern Convoca
tion 1870-72, assistant of St. James' Church
Richmond, Virginia, from 1872 to 1878,
rector of Trinity Church, Parkersburg, W.

Va., 1878-87, and rector of Christ Church,
Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1887, until his con
secration to the episcopate in 1897. In
this year he was made Bishop of Virginia
and was consecrated by Bishops Whittle,
Peterkin, Vincent and others. Bishop
Gibson was married, at Staunton, Virginia,
November 12, 1872, to Susan Baldwin
Stuart. Address : Richmond, Virginia.
GIBSON, Bobert Williams:
Architect; born Aveley, Essex, England,
November 17, 1854; son of Samuel Lod-
wick and Eliza (Williams) Gibson; edu
cated Ingress House School, Gravesend
and graduated Royal Academy of Arts,
London, 1879 (silver medal and scholar
ship). After graduation traveled in Europe
one year, 1880; came to United States,
1881 ; practiced architecture in Albany,
New York, 1881-88; since then in New
York City; naturalized citizen, 1887. De
signed Albany Cathedral, New York Clear
ing House, New York .Botanical Museum,
New York Coffee Exchange, United States
Trust Company Building, Randall Memor
ial Church (Sailor's Snug Harbor), Green
wich Savings Bank, and many banks,
churches, residences, etc. Seven years in
English Volunteers. Independent in polit
ics. Episcopalian. Member council Fine
Arts Federation; member and ex-director
American Institute Architects, Architectur
al League (twice president) ; member Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bot
anical Society, New York Horticultural
Society, American Fine Arts Society, New
York Chamber of Commerce, St. George's
Society. Recreations : Sailing, riding.
Clubs : Century, Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht, National Arts. Married, New York,
City, 1880, Caroline Hammond; children:
Robert H., Lydia C, Katherine, Hester G.
"Residence : 15 East Seventy-seventh Street,
Address: 76 William Street, New York
City.
GIBSON, William: *
General Superintendent Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania ; born in Scotland, in the year
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old and highly respected West India mer
chant, and his mother was Miss Agnes
Wilson. His early training was in the
Royal High School of Edinburgh, with
which institution he remained up to the
time of his entrance into the University
of Edinburgh; at the age of twenty he
came to the United States. His first busi
ness experience was obtained in the office
of the Alabama Great Southern Railway,
at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and later on
the Queen and Crescent system, in both
of which companies he served in various
capacities ; he subsequently became train
master of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, at Cincinnati; car ser
vice agent of the Columbus, Hocking Val
ley and Toledo Railroad, at Columbus;
superintendent of the Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, at
Cincinnati ; assistant general superintendent
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at
Baltimore, and general superintendent of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Pitts
burgh. He is a director in the following
companies: Pittsburgh and Connellsville
Railroad, Pittsburgh Junction Railroad,
Sharpsburg Railroad, and , the Fairport
Dock Company. He is a Royal Arch Mas
on, a member of the Caledonian Society of
Cincinnati, the Duquesne and Edgewood
Golf Clubs of Pittsburgh, the Transporta
tion Club of New York, the Railway Club
of St. Louis, and Church of the Ascension
(Episcopal) of Pittsburgh; he is a Sound
money Democratic; to the technical liter
ature of his profession he is a valued con
tributor, as well as to economic questions.
Married in Edinburgh, in 1886, to Eliza
Henderson. Address: Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania.
GIBSON, Woolman Hopper :
Insurance ; born in Centerville, Maryland,
August 11, 1853; son of Woolman J. Gib
son and Anna Maria (Hopper) Gibson.
He received his educatiori at St. John's
College, Annapolis, Maryland, and at its
close engaged in business life; and he has
for twenty years been special agent of the
Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool,

England, and for twenty-four years rep
resentative of the New York 'Life Insur
ance Company, and established the oldest
and most important insurance agency in
Eastern Maryland. He is a director of the
Baltimore Header-Bond Concrete Com
pany; vice-president of the Board of Trus
tees for the Poor of Queen Anne's Coun
ty, and was a member of the staff
of Governor Warfield of Maryland,
with the rank of colonel. He is a
member of the Maryland Society of the
Cincinnati; is a Mason, a Knight of Pyth
ias, and a member of the University Club
of Baltimore. Mr. Gibson is a Democrat
in politics, and has frequently been a De
puty of the Diocese of Easton, Maryland,
to General Conventions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and is senior vestryman
and warden of St. Paul's Protestant Epis
copal Church, Centerville. Address. Cen
terville, Maryland.
GIDDINGS, Franklin Henry:
Educator and sociologist; born in Sher
man, Connecticut, March 23, 1855; son of
Rev. Edward J. Giddings and Jane (Ful
ler) Giddings. He received from Union
College the degree of A.B. in 1877, A.M. in
1889 and Ph.D. in 1897; also from Oberlin
College the degree of LL.D. in 1900. He
was engaged in newspaper work in 1877
and 1888; professor of political science in
Bryn Mawr College from 1888 to 1894;
and professor of sociology in Columbia
since 1894. Professor Giddings is joint
author, with Professor John Bates Clark,
of The Modern Distributive Process,
1888; and is author of: The Theory of
Sociology, 1894; Principles of Sociology,
1896; -The Theory of Socialization, 1897;
The Elements of Sociology, 1898; Democ
racy and Empire, 1900; Inductive Sociol
ogy, 1901 ; and Descriptive and Historical
Sociology, 1906. Translations of his
works have been made and published, into
French, Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, Ital
ian, Greek, and Japanese. He is a mem
ber of the Authors, Century and Barnard
Clubs. Professor Giddings married Eliza
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Starr, Elizabeth R., and Lounda Marga
ret Address: 150 West Seventy-ninth
Street, New York City.
GIEGEBICH, Leonard A.:
Jurist; born in Bavaria, May 20, 1855;
son of Leonard and Theresa (Kramer)
Giegerich; educated in village, public and
parochial schools; honorary degree LL.D.,
Manhattan College, New York City. Ad
mitted to New York bar on May 31, 1877,
and practiced law. Member New York
Assembly, 1887; collector United States in
ternal revenue, 1887-90; justice City Court
of New York, 1890 ; county clerk New York
County, 1891 ; judge Court of Common
Pleas, i8gi-95; delegate to Constitutipnal
Convention, New York, 1894; justice Su
preme Court, 1896, reelected November,
1906, for term expiring December 31, 1920
(nominated by Democrats, Republicans,
the Independence League, the Judiciary
Nominators and Prohibitionists). Demo
crat. Roman Catholic. Horiorary mem
ber . New York State Bar Association.
Member Knights of Columbus, Catholic
Benevolent Legion, St. Francis Xavier Sod
ality, Manhattan College Alumni Society,
Tammany Society, New York Historical
Society, Fidelia Gesang Verein, etc. Rec
reations : Agricultural pursuits, fishing.
Clubs : Catholic, Democratic, Manhattan,
Arion, German Press, New York Fishing,
Jefferson of Eleventh Ward. Married,
New York City, Septeiriber 6, 1887, Louise
M. Boll; children: Leonard A., Jr., (born
July 16, 1888) ; Arthur Nicholas (born Sep
tember 28, 1890) . Address : 267 East
Seventh Street, New York City.
GIFS, William J.:
Biological chemist; born at Reisterstown,
Maryland,- February 21, 1872; son of John
and Ophelia L. (Ensminger) Gies; he was
educated in Gettysburg College, B.S., 1893;
M.S., 1896; Yale, Ph.B., 1894; Ph.D., 1897;
University of Berne, Switzerland, 1899;
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, 1901-02. Laboratory assist
ant in zoology, 1895; physiological chemis
try, 1894-96; assistant in physiological
chemistry, 1896-98; tutor in physiology,

1896-98, Yale University; instructor in
physiological chemistry, 1898-02; adjunct
professor physiological chemistry, 1902-05;
professor physiological chemistry, 1905-07;
professor biological chemistry, since- 1907,
Columbia University; professor general
chemistry, College Physicians and Surgeons
since 1904, and of physiological chemistry,
New York College of Pharmacy, since
1904. Consulting chemist to New York
Botanical Garden since 1902. Secretary
Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University,
since 1905. Actively interested in every
important political campaign since 1892;
Independent Republican. Took stump for
Roosevelt, Low, Jerome, etc.; elected Re
publican captain of Forty-third Election
District of former Nineteenth Assembly
District, 1905; secretary Republican organ
ization that elected Harry W. Mack, Re
publican leader of new Fifteenth Assembly
District, 1906; delegate New York Repub
lican State Convention that nominated
Charles E. Hughes for governor, 1906.
Lutheran. Choice of Gettysburg College
alumni for president in 1904; nominated
by the alumni a member of Board of Trus
tees, Gettysburg College, 1907. Trustee Irv
ing College since 1900. Fellow and secre
tary of Section K, American Association
for Advancement of Science; secretary So
ciety for Experimental Biology and Medi
cine, American Society Biological Chemists,
(since 1906) ; member American Society
Naturalists, American Chemical Society,
American Physiological Society, Interna
tional Society Botanists, German Chemical
Society; fellow New York Academy Sci
ences; member Harvey Society, Torrey Bo
tanical Club; president (1890-02), Society
Physiological Chemists; secretary, New
York Gettysburg (College) Club, 1898-
1906, president since 1906; member Sigma
Xi, Nu Sigma Nu, and Druid fraternities.
Author of scientific works, chief among
them : Biochemical Researches, volume
I, 1903 ; volume II, 1907. Editor of
the Proceedings of the Society for Ex
perimental Biology and ' Medicine ; also
of the American Society of Biological
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of Biological Chemistry from the begin
ning. Editor Gettysburg College Spec
trum (1892), and the Gettysburg College
Monthly (1891-3). Alumni editor Gettys
burg Spectrum, 1896-97. Secretary Interna
tional Physiological Congress Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, 1904; founder of Pen
and Sword at Gettysburg College; donor
of annual literary and debating prizes at
Gettysburg College. Married at Millers-
burg, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1899, Mabel
L. Lark ; children : John, born December
10, 1902; James Tressler, born October 31,
1905. Address: 437 West Fifty-ninth
Street, New York City.
GIFFOBD, Charles Ailing:
Architect; born Newark, New Jersey,
July 17, i860; son of John A. and Mary
(Ailing) Gifford; educated Stevens High
School, Stevens Institute Technology, class
1881. Made trips to Europe for study,
1881, 1888, 1889; in office of McKim, Mead
and White, architects, about three years.
Has designed five armories for State of
New Jersey, State buildings for New Jer
sey at Expositions at Chicago and St.
Louis; architect of The Mount Washington
Hotel, White Mountains, New Hampshire,
Clifton Hotel, Niagara Falls, Canada, also
Y. M. C. A. Building, Newark, New Jer
sey. Member of National Guard, New
Jersey, 1890-99, Essex Troop. Associate
American Institute Architects; member
Architectural League of New York, Am
erican Fine Arts Society. Married, Wilkes
Barre, Pennsylvania, December, 1890, Helen
Conyngham. Residence: Summit, New
Jersey. Summer residence: Spring Lake
Beach, New Jersey. Address : 36 East
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
GLFFOBD, George:
Consular official; born in Maine. Com
mercial Agent at Nantes, May 31, 1878;
consul at La Rochelle, February 24, 1882;
consul at Cognac, May 9, 1883, hut de
clined; consul at Basel, January 11, 1884.
Salary, $3,500 per annum. Address:
Basel, Switzerland.

GILBEBT, Barry:
Lawyer; born at Cairo, Illinois, May 16,
1876. He was prepared in Cairo High
School, and graduated from North
western University as A.B. ; Bela Theta
Pi, and Phi Beta Kappa; took the
Cleveland prize, and first prize in pre
liminary Northern Oratorical League con
test; Kirk contestant; graduated from
Northwestern University Law School, as
LL.B. in 1901. Professor of law of the
University of Iowa, from 1903 to 1907 ; pro
fessor of law of the University of Illinois,
since 1907. He married at McGregor,
Iowa, October 15, 1901, Mary M. R. Peter
son. Address: Champaign, Illinois.
GILBEBT, Cass:
Architect; born in Zanesville, Ohio, No
vember 24, 1859; son of Brigadier-General
Samuel A. Gilbert and Elizabeth Fulton
(Wheeler) Gilbert. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of Zanesville and
St. Paul, and in the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology. He begari the study
of architecture in 1876 and has been prac
ticing for himself since 1883. He is archi
tect of the new United States Custom
House, Union Club, Broadway Chambers,
West Street Building, and others in New
York City; Brazer Building and Suffolk
Savings Bank in Boston ; Art Building and
Festival Hall, Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion; the new State Capital of Minnesota;
Public Library Building, St. Louis; Es
sex County Court House in Newark, New
Jersey; also one of the architects of the
Union Club, New York. Mr. Gilbert is a
member and founder of the Architectural
League ; vice-president of the American In
stitute of Architects ; a member of the Sons
of Revolution; associate of the National
Academy of Design; was member Jury of
Fine Arts, World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, 1893, and the National Jury for
Architecture at the Paris Exposition in
1900, and he is a member of the Century,
Metropolitan, Union Clubs, the Lawyers'
Club of New York City, the Cosmos Club
of Washington and the Minnesota Club
of St. Paul. Mr. Gilbert married in Mil
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Residence: 45 East Seventy-eighth Street,
New York City, and Ridgefield, Connecti
cut. Office address r 1 1- East Twenty-fourth
Street, New York City.
GILBEBT, Charles Pierrepont H.:
Architect; born in New York City, Aug
ust 29, 1861; son of Loring and Carolyn
C. (Etchiveri) Gilbert; descendant of John
Gilbert (second son of Giles Gilbert of
Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England), who
came to America and settled at Taunton,
Massachusetts, 1634 and was in command
of troops who fought against the Indians;
took special college courses in civil engi
neering and architecture and studied paint
ing, sculpture and fine arts under noted
artists. Since 1886 has designed hotels,
offices and bank buildings, churches, rail
road stations, factories and business build
ings, and many of most prominent private
residences in the city and suburbs; director
and stockholder in several manufacturing
concerns. Fellow American Institute of
Architects; member Architectural League,
Fine Arts Society, Municipal Arts Society,
Sons of Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, Society War of 1812, New England
Society, Chamber of Commerce; charter
member and one of the founders of Squad
ron A, Cavalry, National Guard of New
York. Clubs : Metropolitan, Racquet, Law
yers', Riding, Union League, National
Arts. He married, September 14, 1896,
Florence Cecil Moss. Residence: 33 Riv
erside Drive. Address : Townsend- Build
ing, New York City.
GILBEBT, George Adam:
. Underwriter ; born in Illinois, April 24,
1859; son of Dr. Samuel S. Gilbert and
Mary S. (Fredenbarger) Gilbert. He was
educated in Asbury (now DePauw) Uni
versity, Greencastle, Indiana, from 1874 to
1876; law student and public school teacher
from 1876 to 1879; special agent Travelers'
Insurance Company from 1879 to 1887 ; resi
dent manager of the Employers' Liability
Assurance Corporation since 1887. Mr.
Gilbert is director of the National Life
Insurance Company of the United States
of America, Western Stone Company, and

resident manager for the Employers' Lia
bility Assurance Corporation, Limited,
He is a Scottish Rite Mason, arid a mem
ber of the Union League and Hamilton
Clubs of Chicago, and the South Shore
Country Club of Chicago. Mr. Gilbert mar
ried at Mattoon, Illinois, April 20, 1881,
Carrie Scott, and they have two children:
Rowena Gilbert, born in 1882, and Charles
R. Gilbert, bora in 1888. Residence: 3356
Calumet Avenue, Chicago. Address : 159
La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
GILBERT, George Gilmore:
Lawyer ; born in Spencer County, Ky. ;
was educated in the common schools of the
neighborhood until eighteen years of age;
went to Cecilian College in 1868 and 1869;
afterwards studied the Latin, Greek and
French languages at Lyndland Institute, in
Kentucky; taught school for several years
and studied law at the same time; attend
ed University of Louisville and graduated
from the law department in 1873; began
practicing law in Taylorsville, Kentucky, in
1874, and -has been an active, busy lawyer
ever since; was elected county attorney of
Spencer County in 1876 and held that office
for four years; was elected to the State
Senate from the counties of Shelby, Spen
cer, and Nelson in 1885, and held that po
sition for four years; was made chairman
of the judiciary committee of the Kentucky
Senate in 1887; was a delegate from the
Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky .
to the Democratic National Convention
held at Chicago in 1896, and was Ken
tucky's representative on the committee
on permanent organization at that conven
tion ; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. Ad
dress : Shelbyville, Kentucky.
GILBEBT, Grove Karl:
Geologist ; bom in Rochester, New York,
May 6, 1843 ; son of Grove Sheldon Gil
bert and Eliza (Stanley) Gilbert. He was
graduated from the University of Roches
ter as A.B. in 1862. He was teacher
in 1862 and 1863; assistant at Ward's
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1869; assistant geologist in the Ohio Geo
logical Survey from 1869 to 1874 ; geolo
gist of the Wheeler Survey from 1871 to
1874; of the Powell Survey from 1874 to
1879; and has been geologist in the service
of the United States Geological Survey
since 1879. He was also lecturer at Johns
Hopkins in 1894 and 1895, and associate
editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia. Mr. Gil
bert received the Wollaston medal from the
London Geological Society in 1899; the de
gree of LL.D. from Rochester University in
1898, and from the University of Wisconsin
in 1904. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science
(past president), the American Society of
Naturalists ; the Geological Society of Amer
ica, the National Geographic Society, the
American Philosophical Society, and the
Washington Geological Society. He is author
of : Geology of the Henry Mountains ; Lake
Bonneville; Introduction to Physical Ge
ography; and numerous articles on geo
logical subjects. He married at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Fannie Loretta Porter and
has two children: Archibald M., and Roy.
Address : United States Geological Sur
vey, Washington, D. C.
GILBEBT, James Harris:
Banker; born in Toronto, Ontario, June
30, 1844; son of E. B. and Jane (Harris)
Gilbert. He was educated at the Toronto
Model Grammar School and at the Upper
Canada College. He also took a two years'
course at the Toronto University. He stud
ied law, and was admitted to the Canada
bar as a barrister at law. After a brief
practice in the Dominion he removed to
Chicago, Illinois, where he was engaged in
general practice. He was an alderman of
the city from 1876 to 1879, and was elect
ed sheriff of Cook County in 1890. Upon
the completion of his term of office as
sheriff he engaged in the banking business,
and is now president of the Metropolitan
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. He is
a member of the Union League, Onwentsia,
Chicago Athletic, and Bankers' Clubs. He
was married in Chicago, June 15, 1870, to

Ella K. Huntley, and has two children:
Helen Richmond and Huntley Harris. Ad
dress : Stock Exchange Building. Resi
dence: 2628 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illi
nois.GILBEBT, William Ball:
United States circuit judge; born in
Fairfax County, Virginia, July 4, 1847; son
of John Gilbert and Mary Catherine (Ball)
Gilbert. He was graduated from Williams
College in 1868, and from the Law School
of the University of Michigan in 1872. He .
engaged in practice at Portland, Oregon,
in 1892, and became one of the leading
lawyers at that bar, and also prominent in
the councils of the Republican party of
that State. In 1892 he was appointed by
President Harrison to the office of judge
of the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Address :
Portland, Oregon.
GTLDEB, Joseph B. :
Editor; born in Flushing, New York,
June 29, 1858; son of Rev. William H. and
Jane (Nutt) Gilder; entered United States
Naval Academy, 1872, resigned, 1874. Be
gan as journalist in capacity of reporter on
Newark (New Jersey) newspapers, 1874-
77; was also a correspondent of Boston
Advertiser, Buffalo Courier, etc. ; became
reporter New York Herald, 1877, and re
signed as assistant city editor December,
1880, in order to establish, January, 1881,
with sister, Jeannette L. Gilder, The Critic,
of which was co-editor, until December,
1901; president and treasurer The Critic
Company, 1893-1901 ; literary adviser The
Century Company, 1895- 1902; United States
despatch agent, London (succeeding late
B. F. Stevens), 1902-04; editor, since July
1, 1906, of Putnam's Monthly (formerly
The Critic). Treasurer American Copy
right League, 1886 ; one of organizers, 1891,
and first secretary University Settlement
Society, New York. Editor: James Rus
sell Lowell's Impressions of Spain; Andrew
Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth; Addresses of
John Hay; The American Idea. Joint edi
tor (with Jeannette L. Gilder) : Essays
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dress: 27 West Twenty-third Street, New
York City.
GILDEB, Bobert F.:
Journalist, archaeologist and artist; born
in Flushing, New York, October 6, 1856;
son of Rev. William H. Gilder and Jane
(Nutt) Gilder. He was educated in the
public schools of Newark, New Jersey, and
at The Gunnery school in Washington,
Connecticut. Mr. Gilder has written many
magazine and newspaper articles relating
to geologican discoveries and the archeol
ogy of the Missouri River in Nebraska and
Western Iowa. He was the discoverer of
the Nebraska Man, believed to be the old
est human remains found on the American
Continent, and also of large aboriginal
quarries in Eastern Wyoming, illustrated
descriptions of which were contributed by
him to magazines. He has also achieved
distinction as a painter of Wyoming and
Nebraska landscapes. Member of American
Anthropological Associations and Nebras
ka Historical Society. -Address : The Oma
ha World-Herald, Ohama, Nebraska.
GILDER, Bichard Watson:
Editor Century Magazine, author ; born
in Bordentown, New Jersey, February 8,
1844; son of Rev. William Henry (A.M.)
and Jane (Nutt) Gilder.* He was educated
at his father's school, also in Dr. James
Strong's Ureek and Hebrew classes, and un
der private tutors; A.M., Harvard; L.H.D.,
Columbia; Princeton (Sesquicentennial) ;
Yale . (Bicentennial) ; LL.D., Dickinson,
Wesleyan (Bicentennial of Wesley). Pri
vate in Union Army, 1863; student of law,
Philadelphia; connected with daily press,
Newark, New Jersey; editor (for the Scrib
ner firm) of Hours at Home, New York
City (monthly), 1869; since 1870 on edi
torial staff of what is now known as Cen
tury (originally Scribner's) Magazine, and
since 1881, editor-in-chief. Member of
Institute Arts and Letters; a founder So
ciety American Artists, and American Copy
right League; member Executive Commit
tee National Civil Service Reform League ;
president Public Art , League of United

States, and of New York Association for the
Blind; member American Institute Social
Service; member Bureau of Municipal Re
search; founder and first secretary New
Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals ; was first president New
York Kindergarten Association; was mem
ber Executive Committee Citizens' Union ;
and chairman New York Tenement House
Committee, 1894. Author: The New Day,
1875 ; later, The Celestial Passion ; Lyrics ;
Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance,
and other Poems (brought together, 1894,
in one volume, Five Books of Song) ; For
the Country, 1897, (collection) ; In Palestine
and other Poems, 1898 ; Poems and Inscrip
tions, 1901 ; A Christmas Wreath, 1903
(collection) ; In the Heights, 1905; A Book
of Music, 1906 (collection), The Fire
Divine, 1907. Recreations : Farming, etc.
Clubs:' Century (trustee), Authors (a
founder), Players', City (formerly first
vice-president and acting presiderit), Na
tional Arts. He married Helena de
Kay, daughter of Commodore de Kay
of New York (in the Navy of the
Argentine Republic), and granddaughter
'of Joseph Rodman Drake (the poet) :
children (living) : Rodman (Harvard
'99), Dorothea, George (Harvard '08),
Francesca, Rosamond. Address : 33 East
Seventeenth Street, New York City.
GTLDERSLEEVE, Henry Alger:
Jurist; born on a farm in Township of
Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, Au
gust . 1, 1840 ; son of Smith J. and Rachel
(Alger) Gildersleeve ; reared on father's
farm; educated in district school, Schultz-
ville, New York, Hudson River Institute,
Claverack, New York, and College Hill,
Poughkeepsie, New York; taught district
school in Bull's Head District, town of
Clinton, .1857; recruited a company, and
was mustered in, September 17, 1862, as
captain Company C, One Hundred Fiftieth
New York Volunteer Infantry ;¦ served with
regiment at Baltimore, participating in bat
tle of Gettysburg arid subsequent campaign
in Maryland and Virginia/in Army of the
Potomac; served in Sherman's army until

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the close of the war, including the march
to the sea ; made provost-marshal of the
First Division Twentieth Army Corps on
staff of General Williams, of Michigan;
promoted major of regiment and brevetted
lieutenant-colonel United States Volunteers,
by President Lincoln "for gallant and mer
itorious service in the campaigns of Georgia
and the Carolinas;" mustered out June,
1865. Studied law in the office of Henry
W. Johnson, in New York City, and at
tended Columbia College Law School, ad
mitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, New
York, May, 1866. Practiced law in New
York- City from 1866 ; elected judge Court
of General Sessions, New York City, 1875;
was renominated 1889, but failed of re
election; appointed by Governor Hill, May,
•1891, to fill vacancy in Superior Court of
City of New York, and elected November,
1891, to same position; transferred to Su
preme Court of New York in January^
1896, under provisions of New Constitution,
abolishing Suprerior Court; reelected, 1905,
for term expiring December 31, 1919; now
presiding justice of the Appellate Term' in
First Department. Was elected lieutenant-
colonel Twelfth Regiment, National Guard
State New York, 1870, and during Orange
Riots in New York City, 1871, had com
mand of Twelfth Regiment, which was as
signed to defense of State Arsenal at Thir
ty-fifth Street and Seventh Avenue; dis
tinguished as marksman and was member
of the American Rifle Team which won in
contest with the Irish Team at Creedmore,
1874, and captain of the team in the con
test (which it won) with the Irish team at
Dollymount, near Dublin, June 9, 1875 ;
also in several competitions in England and
Scotland ; was offered by Governor . Dix,
but declined, position of general inspector
rifle practice. Author : Rifles and Marks
manship, 1876. Democrat. Recreations :
Fishing, hunting, golf. Clubs': Manhattan,
National Democratic, New York Athletic,
Garden City Golf, Oakland Golf, Country
of Westchester, Robbins Island Hunting.
He married in New York City, April 14,
' 1868, Virginia Crocheron ; children : Alger
Crocheron, Virginia. Crocheron, Residence:

28 West Forty-eighth Street Address:
County Court House, New York City.
GILDEESLEEVE, Oliver:
Shipbuilder, merchant; born in Gilder-
sleeve, Middlesex County, Connecticut,
March 6, 1844; son of Henry and Emily
Finette Gildersleeve ; descended in both
lines from early English settlers in Connect
icut; educated district school, Gildersleeve,
Connecticut, Chase private school, Middle-
town, and public high schools at Hartford,
Connecticut. At seventeen began, business
life in father's shipyard (S. Gildersleeve
& Sons), and for ten years, interspersed by
frequent trips to United States, Canada and
Europe, continued to work as practical'SHip-
builder; firm built United States gunboat
Cayuga in 1861 ; the yard has built one
hundred and fifty-one vessels since he be
came connected with the business. Was
also interested, in New York City, with
brother, Sylvester, in shipping commission
business, 1881-84; started, 1897, in New
York City, an agency for selling and char
tering vessels constructed at Gildersleeve
Ship Yard, which has since sold or profit
ably employed eighty-one vessels of from
four hundred to one thousand two hun
dred and fifty tons burden sent from the
Gildersleeve Ship Yard. President Port
land (Connecticut)' Water Company, Mid
dlesex Quarry Company of Portland, Con
necticut, Phoenix Lead Mining Company,
of Silver Cliff, Colorado, vice-president and
treasurer Maine Produce Company, director
First National Bank of Portland, Alabama . ,
Barge and Coal Company of Tidewater;
Alabama, United States Graphotype Com
pany of New York, Ideal Manufacturing
Company of Gildersleeve, Connecticut;
trustee Freestone Savings Bank of Port
land, Connecticut; trustee under will of
Henry Gildersleeve, deceased; trustee S.
Gildersleeve School Fund of Gildersleeve,
Connecticut. Democrat; was nominee for
Congress 1900. Episcopalian; warden
Trinity Church Portland Connecticut since
1884; delegate to Diocesan Convention an
nually from 1884; member Diocesan Com
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of Missions; Diocesan Committee on Fi
nance and of Diocesan Committee to raise
the missionary thank offering to be present
ed at General Convention in Richmond,
1907, by men of the Church in gratitude
for three hundred years of English Chris
tianity (Jamestown, 1607 — Richmond, 1907).
Superintendent Sunday School, Trinity
Church, Portland, since 1872; established
a memorial fund in connection with Trin
ity Church, Portland, 1900. Member Mid
dlesex County Historical Society, Civic
Federation of New England, National Geo
graphic- Society, Association Descendants
of Andrew Ward. Clubs : Church, Fish
and Gariie (Portland, Connecticut) ; Church
Club of Connecticut. He married, Novem
ber 8, 1871, Mary Ellen, daughter Hon.
Alfred Hall, of Portland, Connecticut;
children : Alfred, born August 23, 1872 ;
Walter, born August 23, 1874; Louis, born
September 22, 1877; Emily Hall, born June
9, 1879, died August 12, 1880; Elizabeth
Jarvis, born June 6, 1882, died January 18,
1883; Charles born December 11, 1884;
Nelson, born September 14, 1887; Oliver,
Jr., born March 9, 1890. Residence: Gil
dersleeve, Connecticut. Address : 1 Broad
way, New York City.
GILFILLAN, W. Whitehead:
Physician, oculist; born in Brooklyn,
New York, December 14, 1868; son Will
iam (M.D., M.R.C.S., Edinburgh) and
Caroline M. (Ladd) Gilfillan; educated in
Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York College
Physicians and Surgeons, M.D., 1890; also
post-graduate studies in Vienna, Berlin,
Paris and- London. Oculist to French Hos
pital, City Hospital (Blackwell's Island),
Sailors' Snug Harbor (Staten Island),
House of Refuge (Randall's Island), Man
hattan Eye and Ear Hospital; consulting
oculist to St. Vincent's Hospital, Staten
Island. . Fellow New York Academy Medi
cine; member New York County Medical
Society, New York State Medical Society;
associate member Alumni City ' Hospital ;
corresponding member Richmond County
Medical Society; member Sons of Revolu
tion, Society Colonial Wars. Recreations:

Automobiling and yachting. Clubs : New
York Yacht, New York Athletic (life
member). He married in Newark, New
Jersey, January 25, 1906, Mrs. Mary Louise
(Allen) Hayes. Address : 44 West Fiftieth
Street, New York City.
GILL, George Carleton:
Paper manufacturer; born in Hinsdale,
Massachusetts, February 10, 1858; son of
Bartholemew and Mary (Dwyer) Gill. He
was brought up on his father's farm, at
tended the district school, earned the money
to pay for his tuition at Carter Commercial
College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and at
Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy. In 1876
he began life as an office boy in the Hins
dale Woolen Mills, serving without pay
with the privilege of being instructed in the
business. He shortly after changed to the
business of manufacturing paper as a more
congenial branch of manufacture. He began
as sorter of rags and worked his way in the
mills of the Chester Paper Company, Hunt
ington, Massachusetts, until he had a thor
ough mastery of the details of the business
acquired in less than three years. He next
worked for the Chemical Paper Company at
Holyoke, and as secretary of the corpora
tion, by his business knowledge he doubled
the output of writing paper in a mill that
before had ranked as the largest in the
world. In 1886 he became treasurer and
general manager of the company and in
1891 he purchased the Winona Paper Com
pany, then bankrupt, paid the creditors nine
per cent, on one million dollars of debts
and changed its name to the George' C. Gill
Paper Company and became its president
in 1892, upon resigning as treasurer of the
Chemical Paper Company. In 1898 on the
consolidation of the large writing paper
mills, the Gill Paper Company became a
part of the American Writing Paper Com-
oany and in 1899 Mr. Gill was made vice-
president, resigning in 1900 to assume the
oresidency of the Holyoke National Bank.
In 1902 he was. made president of the Shan
non Copper Company and he is connected
as an investor and director in other enter
prising corporations in Holyoke and vicin-

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ity. He was married June 21, 1893, to
Jenta Johnson and they have two daugh
ters. Address: 208 Northampton Street,
Holyoke, Massachusetts.
GILL, John, Jr, :
Congressman and lawyer; born June 9,
1850, in Baltimore city. . He received his
academic training at Hampden-Sidney Col
lege, Virginia, and studied law at the Mary
land University. In 1871 Mr. Gill was ad
mitted to the Baltimore bar, and has for a
number of years been senior member of
the law firm of Gill & Preston. Mr. Gill
at one time served as one of the legal
advisers of Baltimore city, and for nine
years was one of its police commissioners ;
in the years 1874, 1875, 1876, and 1877 he
was a member of the Maryland house of
delegates; in 1882 was elected to the
Maryland Senate for a term of four years,
and was reelected for a like term in 1904;
it was while serving part of this second
term that Mr. Gill was elected to Congress.
He was president, for a number of years,
of one of the largest manufacturing estab
lishments in Baltimore; in 1877-78 served
as an officer in the Fifth Maryland Regi
ment (State militia). He was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth
Maryland District. In politics he is a
Democrat. Address : 1007 North Charles
Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
GILL, Theodore Nicholas :
Professor of zoology; born in New York
City, March 21, 1837; son of James Dar-
rell Gill and Elizabeth (Vosburgh) Gill,
and a descendant of Nicholas Gill, admi
ralty judge of Newfoundland in 1722.
He attended private schools and received
instruction from special tutors, became
adjunct professor of physics and natural
history in Columbian University in 1861
and 1862; and in 1863 assistant and libra
rian in the Smithsonian Institution. He
was appointed assistant librarian of. Con
gress -in 1866, but resigned, in 1874. . He
was lecturer on natural history from. 1864
to 1866 and again from 1873 to 1884 in
Columbian, University, and since 1884 has

been professor of zoology in the same in
stitution, now George Washington Univer
sity; and he has received from that Uni
versity the degrees of A.M. 1865, M.D.
1866, Ph.D. 1870, and LL.D., 1895. Pro
fessor Gill prepared reports on zoology for
the Smithsonian Institution from 1879 to
1886. He is author of numerous works
on systematic zoology and has written
hundreds of articles on zoology for cyclo
pedias. He has been a member of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences since 1873,
and is a member of about fifty other scien
tific societies ; and he was president, of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science in 1897. Residence: 321
John Marshall Place, Washington, D. C.
Office address : Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
GILLESPIE, George Cuthbert:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, Septem
ber 14, 1858; s6n of Thomas Leonard Gil
lespie and Mary (Cuthbert) Gillespie. He
entered the University of Pennsylvania in
1874 and left at the close of the Sophomore
year. He is a member of the Philomathian
Society of the University of Pennsylvania,
and the Delta Phi fraternity; the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania
Society of Sons of the Revolution, the
Society of Colonial Wars, and the Wel
come Society. Mr. Gillespie is author of:
Early Fire Protection ; Fire Insurance
Companies and the Use of Fire Marks ; and
Fire Protection and Fire Insurance, in their
Relations to Political Economy, the latter
a lecture, delivered at the University of
Pennsylvania, in 1905. Address : "Wood-
verge," Moorestown, New Jersey.
GILLESPIE, George de Normandie:
Bishop of Western Michigan; born in
Goshen, New York, June 14, 1819; son of
John de Normandie and Susan Bedford
Gillespie. He graduated at the General
Theological Seminary, New York City, in
1840, and received the degree of D.D. from
Hobart College, Geneva,. New York, in
1875. He was ordered deacon of the Epis
copal Church in 1840 by Bishop Onderdonk
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Bishop De Lancey in 1843. Preceding his
consecration to the episcopate he was con
nected with St. Mark's .Church, Le Roy,
New York, 1840-44, with St. Paul's, Cin
cinnati, Ohio, 1844-51, with Zion Church,
Palmyra, New York, 1851-61 and with St.
Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
1861-75. He became Bishop of the Diocese
of Western Michigan, February 24, 1875,
and was consecrated at St. Mark's Church,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, by Bishops Mc-
Coskry, J. C. Talbot, Bissell, Robertson,
Littlejohn, B. H. Paddock and Wells.
Bishop Gillespie was married, May 26, 1845,
to Rebecca P. Lathrop (now deceased).
Is author of: The Communion of Saints,
An Holy Priesthood; Manual and Annals
of the Diocese of Michigan, 1868; The
Season of Lent, 1877. Since 1876 Bishop
Gillespie has been a zealous member of
the Michigan State Board of Corrections
and Charities, serving as chairman for many
years and still holds that position on the
Board. Address : Grand Rapids, Michi
gan.GILLESPIE, George Lewis:
Major-general Corps of Engineers*
United States Army ; born in '- Kingston,
Tennessee in 1841 ; graduated from West
Point in 1862, one of the stars in his class,
and was assigned to the Corps of Engi
neers; served with distinction in the Civil
War; second lieutenant, June 17, 1862; -first
lieutenant, March 3, 1863; captain, April
22, 1864; major, September 5, 1871; lieu
tenant-colonel, October 12, 1886;' colonel,
October 2, 1895 ; brigadier-general, chief of
Engineers, May 3, 1901 ; major-general,
January 23, 1904; retired June 17, 1905.
Address: War Department, Washington,
D. C.
GILLESPIE, Lawrence Lewis:
Banker ; born in Chicago, Illinois, Decem
ber 23, 1876; son of George Lewis and
Rhobie (McMaster) Gillespie; he was
graduated from Cutler School, New York
City, 1894, Harvard College, A.B., 1898.
Engaged in banking soon after graduation;
now vice-president and trustee Equitable
Trust Company of New York, director

Distillers' Securities Corporation, Standard
Cordage Company, Chesapeake Western
Railway. Has traveled extensively in
United States and Europe and has been
around the world and visited the Far East,
China and Philippines. Entered Volunteer
Service in 1898 as second -lieutenant First
United States Volunteer Engineer Regi
ment, and served in Porto Rico, being
promoted first lieutenant and then acting
captain; resigned October, 1898. Member
Military Order Foreign: Wars, New York
Chamber of Commerce, Mason (Holland
Lodge 8). Recreations: Travel and exer
cise. Clubs : Union, Brook, Racquet and
Tennis, Turf and Field, Lawyers', New
York Athletic, Harvard. Residence: 12
West Forty-fourth Street. Address : Union
Club, New York City.
GILLESPIE, Oscar William:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Clarke
County, Mississippi, June 20, 1858; son of
T. J. Gillespie and Mary E. Gillespie.
Graduated from Mansfield College, of
Tarrant County, Texas, was admitted to
the bar November, 1886; served as prose
cuting attorney of Tarrant County from
1890 to 1894; was assistant county attor
ney from 1886 to 1888. He was elected to
the Fifty-eighth and . Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Twelfth Texas District.
In politics he is a Democrat. He mar
ried, December 23, 1884, Ada Kate Hodges,
of Mansfield, Texas. Address : Fort
Worth, Texas.
GILLESPIE, Thomas A.:
Contractor; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, July 1, 1852; son of James and
Diana Gillespie; his father was a luriiber
merchant; his ancestors were from the
north of Ireland and Scotland; his early
education was. received in the schools of
Pittsburgh, arid- his -first : occupation was
that of a clerk in the Pittsburgh Gas Com
pany, where he remained but a few months
when; iri August, 1868, he entered the office
of Lloyd & Black, iron manufacturers ; in
April 1871, he resigned to accept a position
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the same line of business ; he remained
with this concern for eight years in the ca
pacity of traveling agent. Thoroughly
skihed and equipped for ventures on his
own account, he then decided to embark in
business for himself, and from 1879 to 1884
engaged in the manufacture of iron bolts
and kindred articles. In 1884 he joined
George Westinghouse, Jr., in the develop
ment of the great natural gas industry; in
this business his efforts were met with un
qualified success, and he continued therein
until 1890, when he became a contractor on
a large scale, with headquarters in the
Westinghouse Building, Pittsburgh, and in
the Havemeyer Building, No. 26 Cortlandt
Street, New York. Gillespie & Company
have laid over five hundred miles of pipe
line; for the Philadelphia Company they
laid 91,000 feet of thirty-six inch steel pipe
for the conducting of natural gas ; these
contractors also laid the pipes of the East
Jersey Water Company, which supplies
Paterson and Newark, New Jersey. In ad
dition to his office as president of the T.
A. Gillespie Company, Mr. Gillespie is also
engaged in many other large interests,
prominent among which are his director
ships in the Iron City National Bank of
Pittsburgh, and the Liberty National Bank
of New York; he was vice-president of the
Central Traction Company of Pittsburgh
up to the time of the consolidation of that
city's Various traction systems ; was a mem
ber of the Select Council of Pittsburgh
for ten years. He is a member of the Du
quesne Club of Pittsburgh and the Lotus
and Lawyers' Clubs of New York. He
was married in Pittsburgh on January 7,
1875, and has four children living : Thomas
H., Henry L., Jean and James P. Gillespie:
Address: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
GILLETT, Frederick Huntington:
Congressman; was born at Westfield,.
Massachusetts, October 16, i8y; graduated
at Amherst College in 1874,. and: at Har^
vard Law School in 1877; was admitted to
the bar in Springfield in 1877 ; was^ assist
ant attorney-general of Massachusetts from
1879 to 1882; was elected to the Massachu

setts House of Representatives in 1890 and
i8gi; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses ; is a member of the Appropria
tions Committee and is chairman of the
Committee on Civil Service Reform. Ad
dress : Springfield, Massachusetts.
GILLETTE, Edwin Fraser:
Architect; born in Chicago, October 19,
1863; son of Edwin Lewis Gillette and
Josephine Mighill (Perley) Gillette. He at
tended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at
Troy, from 1880 to 1884, and was gradu
ated from the Armour Institute of Tech
nology, Chicago, as B.S. in 1906, with Tau
Beta Pi honors. He took charge of the
office of E. L. Gillette in 1885, for real es
tate and renting, and has been manager of
the office of Estate of E. L. Gillette, since
1892; and has been vice-president of the
Strang Engine Company since 1902; and
licensed architect in October, 1906. He
traveled around the world in 1891, and from
1900 to 1902, and was a year in Japan, in
1902 and 1903. In politics he is a Republi
can and in religion a Unitarian. Mr. Gil
lette is a member of the National Geo
graphic Society, Society of Colonial Wars,
Sons of the American Revolution, Theta
Xi fraternity, and member of the Tau Beta
Pi honorary fraternity. His favorite rec
reations are walking, tennis, swimming,
driving, riding and sailing, and he is a
member of the University, Chicago Ath
letic and1 Chicago Architectural Clubs. Mr.
Gillette married in San Francisco, October
27, 1902, Mabel Hyde, and they have one
son, Hyde Gillette, born June 23, 1906.
Residence: 149 Lincoln; Park Boulevard,
Chicago. Address : 140 Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
GILLETTE, William:
Actor, dramatic author ; born in Hartford,
Connecticut, July 24, 1855; son of Francis
(United States senator) and Elizabeth Dag
gett (Hooker) Gillett He was educated in
Boston. CoUegerand- College of the City of
New York, Went on stages in minor roles,
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mas and has so continued since, with a few
exceptional engagemerits. Author of plays
(unpublished) : The Professor; The Pri
vate . Secretary ; Esmeralda; A Legal
Wreck; Held, by the Enemy; Too Much
Johnson; Ninety Days; Mr. Wilkinson's
Widows; All the Comforts of Home; Be
cause She Loved Him So; Settled Out of
Court; The Red Owl; Clarice; Secret Ser
vice; A-i .Maid-of- All- Work; Sherlock
Holmes. Clubs : The Players', The Lambs',
American Dramatists. Address : Empire
Theatre, New York City.
GILLILAND, William H.:
Steamship agent and ship broker 7 born
in Beaumont, Texas, October 16, 1867; son
of John J. F. Gilliland and Annie M.
(Crapster) Gilliland. He received his edu
cation in Tarrytown, Maryland; Gettys
burg, Pennsylvania; Sabine Pass, Texas;
and Trinity University, Tehuacana, Texas.
In 1887 he went to work as bookkeeper in
his father's store at Sabine Pass, stayed
there until i89g, when he went into the
steamship business at Sabine, Texas, operat
ing there and at Port Arthur; and in 1902
he moved his head office to Port Arthur.
The business was successful and "grew to
such an extent that he had to take in a
partner in January, 1906. In December,
1904, the Republic of Mexico honored him
with the appointment of vice-consul. He
is director of the Basin Supply Company;
senior member of W. H. Gilliland & Com
pany, and sub-agent of Lloyds, London.
Mr. Gilliland is a member and chairman
of the State Board of Pilot Commission
ers for Sabine Pass, Texas, from 1899 to
i9og. In politics he is a Democrat and
in religion a Presbyterian. Mr. Gilliland
is- a director and vice-president of the
Port Arthur Board of Trade; chairman of
Maritime Association of Port Arthur, and
a member of the Elks' Club. He married
in Sabine Pass, Texas, January 24, 1900,
Clara E. Broussard. Residence: Fourth
Street and Fort Worth Avenue, Port Ar
thur, Texas.
GILLINGHAM, Albert Jenks:
Railway official ; born in Philadelphia,
August 23, 1847; where he has ever since

iresided; he comes from English Quaker
stock; educated in common schools of the
city, Central High School, and State Col
lege, near Bellefonte. In 1865 he entered
the counting house of Peter Wright &
Sons, in the shipping department, which
formed the nucleus of the American Red
Star Line and International Steamship
Company; in 1869 he entered the service
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
serving successively as chief clerk, trav
eling auditor and assistant auditor, until
called to his present position as auditor of
passenger receipts, November 1, 1899.
Member of Association of American Rail
way Accounting Officers since its organ
ization. Address: Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GILLMAN, Bobert Winthrop:
Physician; born Detroit, Michigan, No
vember 2, 1865 ; son of Henry and Mary
Julia (Johnson) Gillman; and he is a
descendant of Jonathan Edwards. Dr.
Gillman received his education in the De
troit schools and took his M.D. from the
Detroit College of Medicine in 1887, and
was appointed assistant surgeon to the
British Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem,
under the patronage of , the Prince of
Wales, his father being United States Con
sul at Jerusalem for Palestine at that
time. In 1888, he traveled in. Europe, Asia
Minor and Africa, and studied medicine
in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London, from
1888 to 1890.- He then returned to Detroit
and became clinical professor of ophthal
mology and otology in the Detroit College
of Medicine. He subsequently filled ap
pointments as ophthalmic surgeon to the
St. Mary's Hospital and as ophthalmolo
gist to the Woman's Hospital and Found
ling's Home. He was elected member of
the distinguished order of St. John of
Jerusalem (English Langue) for his valu
able services in the British hospital there.
He was also elected member of the Ameri
can Medical Association and of the Michi
gan State Medical Society, and has con
tributed largely to medical periodicals.
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study by a second visit to Europe in 1896.
Address :¦ Detroit, Michigari.
GILMAN, Daniel Coit;
First president of the :Johns Hopkins
University, was born in Norwich, Connect
icut, July 6, 1831; the son of William
Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman, grand
son of Benjamin- Clark and Mary Thing
Gilman, great-grandson of Major John
Gilman, and a descendant of Councillor
John Gilman, one of the original settlers
of Exeter, New Hampshire, who came from
Norfolk, England, in 1638. Through his
mother he is descended from the Coits,
Huntingtons, Bills, Lathrops and other
Connecticut families. He was prepared
for college in New York City and was
graduated a Bachelor of Arts by Yale
College in 1852. After continuing his
studies in New Haven and Cambridge, he
went to Europe and followed lectures in
the University of Berlin during the winter
of 1854-5. For several months previous he
was an attache of the United States Lega
tion in St. Petersburg, and in the slim
mer of 1855 was one of the American
Commissioners of the Exposition Univer-
selle in Paris. From that time onward
his life has been devoted exclusively to
the promotion of education. From 1856
to 1872 he was an officer of Yale College,
serving first .as Librarian and subsequently
as Professor of Physical and Political Geog
raphy in the Sheffield Scientific School
of which he was secretary. When the
University of California was organized in
1870, he declined an election to its presi
dency, but when the call was renewed two
years later, he accepted and remained in
that position until 1875. The munificent be
quests of Johns Hopkins for a University
and a* hospital, and for a medical school
(in connection with them both) were
then available and Dr. Gilman was called
to Baltimore to engage in organizing these
three establishments. He was president of
the University from 1875 to 1901, and in
the organization of the hospital in 1889 he
was the first director. He also took an
active part in the formation of the medi

cal school. When he reached the age of
seventy years, he resigned his office and was
made president • emeritus. Mr. Carnegie
was then . about to establish the Carnegie
institution of Washington for the encour
agement of investigation and Dr. Gilman
was elected president. He held that office
until he asked to be released from it in
1904. He was for a short time the acting
school visitor or Superintendent of Schools
in New Haven, and afterwards secretary
of the State Board of Education in Con
necticut. In Baltimore he has been a trus
tee of the Peabody Institute, the Pratt
Public Library, the New Mercantile Lib
rary and the Samuel Ready school for
Orphans. For ten years he was president
of the Charity Organization Society of
Baltimore. To the problems of Southern
education he has devoted much, attention,
having been one of the original trustees
of the John F. Slater fund for the educa
tion of freedmen, a member of the Pea
body Education Board and of the General
Education Board for ¦ promoting education
in the Southern States. When the Sage
Foundation was established in 1907 he was
appointed one of the original trustees. In
political affairs he has taken much inter
est, acting as an Independent Republican.
President Cleveland made him a member
of an important commission which invest
igated the boundary line between Venez
uela and British Guiana. He served as
one of the commission to revise the Chart
er of Baltimore in 1897, and when the
School Board was reorganized under the
changes introduced by this charter, he was
one of the original members. He was one
of the originators of the Civil Service Re
form Association in Maryland, of which
he is still vice-president, and since 1900
he has been president of the National Civil
Service Reform League, succeeding in this
post George William Curtis and Carl
Schurz. In 1895 he was Commissioner of
Awards at the Atlanta Exposition. He has
been President of the American Social
Science Association, president of the Am
erican Oriental Society from 1893 to 1906,
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tute of America, president of the Associa
tion of Colleges in the Middle States and
since 1903, president of the American Bible
Society. He has frequently given address
es on educational, biographical and histor
ical subjects, many of which have ¦ been
printed, arid ' he has contributed a large
number of reviews and educational papers
to . current periodicals. He- wrote for the
American Statesman Series cthe life of
James Monroe and he is the author of a
life of James D. Dana, the geologist; a
collection of . essays entitled : University
Problems; an introduction to Tocqueville's
Democracy in America; and a volume en
titled The Launching of a University, which
contains in addition to several speeches,
some reminiscences of "the early days of
the Johns Hopkins- University. ' He was
editor-in-chief of ;±he New International
Encyclopaedia. Among the historical ad
dresses which he las given are these: a
bicentennial addfess in Norwich, Connecti
cut (1859) ; tan:.address -before the New
Haven Historical Society "bn the removal
of Yale from.gpybrook; the story of fifty
years in the Sheffield Scientific School
(1897) ; a bicentennial address on Science
and Letters in Yale (igoi) ; and a semi
centennial address at the University of
Wisconsin (igo4). The honorary degree
of LL.D. was conferred on him by Harvard
in 1876, St. John's (Maryland) in 1876,
Columbia in 1887, Yale in 1889, North
Carolina in 1889, Princeton in 1896, Toron
to in 1903, Wisconsin in 1904, Clark in
1905, William and Mary in 1906. He is
an officer of Public Instruction in France
and a corresponding member of the British
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence. He is a fellow of the American
Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(Boston), a member of the American An
tiquarian Society (Worcester), a corres
ponding member of the Massachusetts His
torical Society, and of the American Geo
graphical Society, and a member of many
other scientific and historical ' societies.
He was married in 1861 to Mary, daughter
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leaving two daughters :
Everett P. Wheeler of
Elisabeth. In 1877 he
Dwight, daughter of
of Cleveland and New
614 Park Avenue, Bal-

She died in 1869,
Alice (now Mrs.
New York) and
married Elizabeth
John M. Woolsey
Haven< Address :
timore, Maryland.
GILMAN, Gorman Dummer :
Wholesale druggist; born in Hallowell,
Maine, May 29, 1822; son of Samuel Kins
man Gilman and Lucy Gorham (Dummer)
Gilman. He was educated in the Hallowell
public schools and academy; he has held
various positions first as a clerk in a store
in Hallowell, a sailor around Cape Horn,
a clerk in a store in Honolulu, proprietor
of a store in Lahaina, Hawaii Islands,
superintendent of a cargo between Hawaii
and San Francisco, California, wholesale
druggist in Boston and as. the Hawaiian
consul and consul-general. Mr. Gilman is
a member of the Young Men's Christian
Association, a Mason and Odd .-Fellow.
He received decorations from King Kala-
kua, -Queen Kapiolani and Queen, Liliuok-
alani, of the Hawaiian Islands. "He is a
member of the Old Massachusetts Club and
his favorite recreation is to spend the sum
mer vacation by the sea. He is vice-presi
dent of the Massachusetts State Board of
Trade and director of the Reversable Col
lar Company of Boston. Mr. Gilman has
been twice around Cape Horn, once as a
sailor and another time as a passenger. In
politics he is a Republican arid a member
of the Congregational Church. Residence :
9 Baldwin Street, Newton, Massachusetts.
Office address : 50 Franklin Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
GILMAN, Theodore:
Merchant; born Alton, Illinois, January
2, 1841 ; son of Winthrop Sargent and Abia
Swift (Lippincott) Gilman; educated' in
private schools, Williams College,'" A.'B.,
1862; AM., 1864. On Wall Street forty
years connected .with various business en
terprises, municipal,, railroad and industrial.
Vice-president and director Gilman, Son
& Company ; trustee Bessemer Ditch Com
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Building Association; director Keokuk and
Des Moines Railroad; secretary and treas
urer and director of Keokuk and Hamilton
Bridge Company; director New York
Warehouse and Security Company; trus
tee and director North Platte Land and
Water Company. Republican. Treasurer,
1868-69, president, 1874-76, New York
Bible Society; member New York Sabbath
Committee (treasurer over twenty years) ;
member Board of. Managers American
Bible Society, St. John's Riverside Hos
pital, Yonkers; president of the Young
Men's Christian Association, Yonkers;
trustee of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, Yonkers; deacon and
elder Presbyterian Church. Prepared and
presented bill in Congress for incorporation
of clearing houses, and made statements
before House Committee on Banking and
Currency in support of same. Author: A
Graded Banking System, 1898; Federal
Clearing Houses, 1899; contributor to
Bankers' Magazine; The Completion of the
National Banking System (September,
1893) ; The Philosophy of the History of
Bank Currency in the United States (Oc
tober, 1875); to Chicago Banker : The
Ninety-fifth Section of the National Bank
Act (April-June, 1900) ; Reply to M. Des
Essars, Statistician of the Bank of France
(June, 1902); to Bankers' Monthly; Our
Democratic Banking System and Its Natur
al Ally, the Clearing House (June, ig04).
Also wrote Heredity versus Evolution (The
MoniSt, October, 1893) ; The Clearing
House System (Journal Political Economy,
March, 1904) ; Ambiguities (Open Court,
July, 1905) ; also address before Washing
ton State Bankers' Association, July, 1903,
on Clearing House Emergency Circulation
(resolution passed approving same) ; ad
dress before Nebraska State Bankers' As
sociation, October, 1906, on A Clearing
House Currency; and address before
Founders and Patriots of America, January
31, 1905, on Some Social Theories of the
Revolution. Member Williams College
Alumni Association, Anthropoligical Club,
Yonkers, New York; Kappa Alpha fratern
ity, Founders and Patriots of America, Sons

of the American Revolution, New England
Society of New York. Recreations : Trav
el, fishing, hunting, reading, writing, walk
ing. Club : Union League. He was mar
ried in St. George's Church, New York
City, October 22, 1863, to Elizabeth Drinker
Paxson ; children : , Frances Paxson, Theo
dore, Jr., Helen Ives, Robbins, Mrs. Henry
H. Law (born, Elizabeth Bethune Gilrnan).
Residence: Yonkers, New York. Address:
55 William Street, New York City.
GILMORE, Charles Whitney:
Preparator and paleontologist; born in
Pavilion, New York, March 11, 1874; son
of John E. Gilmore and Carrie (Whitney)
Gilmore. He was graduated from the Ho
well High School in 1895, and from the
University of Wyoming as B.S. in 1901.
Mr. Gilmore was collector of vertebrate
fossils in the Department of Vertebrate
Paleontology of the Carnegie Museum
from 1901 to 1904; and has been preparator
in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology,
in the United States National Museum
since 1904. He is a member of the Am
erican Paleontological Society and the Geo
logical Society of Washington. He was
first sergeant of Troop C of the Second
United States Volunteer Cavalry from May
18, 1898 to October, 1898. In politics Mr.
Gilmore is a Republican, and he is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church. He has
made many original researches in paleon
tology, especially in reptilia and made dis
coveries of a new germ and species of the
Sauropoda; discovered the presence of
teeth in the America Ichthyosaurus; teeth
in the type of Baptanodon natans and other
discoveries ; and he has also written mono
graphs on Baptanodon and Campotosauues,
(revision of the genus). He married at
Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 22, 1902,
Laure Contant, and their children are :
Eloise, born ' in 1904, and Dorothy, born
in 1906. Office . address : ¦ United States
National Museum, Washington, D. C.
GILPIN, C. Monteith:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, October
31, 1872; son ,of Thomas and Sallie E.
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from St. John's College, Annapolis, Mary
land," B.A. in 1894, and from Columbia
University as LL.B. in 1897. Was ad
mitted to the bar in 1897, since then
engaged in the practice of law ; also direct
or and counsel of the Corporation Company
of America, The International Securities
Corporation, Forged Tool Company, Imon
Petroleum Company, General Concentrates
Company, Shoeshone Mines Securities
Company, Western Newfoundland Lumber
Company, Kemp Brass and Bronze Com
pany, J. B. Carr Company, Adolfo Benz
Company, New York and Montana Gold
Dredging Company, associate counsel The
Fisheries Company, The Atlantic Fruit
Company. Mr. Gilpin is an Independent
Democrat in politics. Served in the New
York State Naval Militia, and during the
Spanish-American War in the United
States Navy. He is a Roman Catholic in
his religious faith. Member of the Bar As
sociation of the City of New York, Mary
land Society, Phi Gamma Delta, Sons of
the Revolution, National Geographic Socie
ty and the Columbia University, and Un
derwriters' Clubs. He married in New
York City, January 16, 1901, Gertrude May
Chase, daughter of the late George C.
Chase, Esq., and they have one daughter,
Georgia, born in ig03. Address : 68 Will
iam Street, New York City.
GILSON, Boy Bolfe:
Author; born iri Clinton, Iowa, August
12, 1875.; son of Frank Rindge and Marion
(Roff) Gilson. He was educated in pub
lic schools of Clinton, Iowa, and Benton
FlarbOr, Michigan, and at Benton Harbor
College. Was formerly connected with news
papers in Michigan and New York City.
Is author of : When Love Is Young, igoi ;
In the Morning Glow (short stories),
igo2; The Flower of Youth, 1904; Miss
Primrose, igo6 (all Harper). Also Ka-
trina, 1906 (Baker and Taylor) ; and short
stories published in various magazines.
He married at Detroit, Michigan, Janu
ary 30, 1902, Mary W. McGrath, and
they have one son, Edward, born in 1903,
and a daughter, Dorothy, born in 1905.
Address: Concord, Massachusetts.

GINDELE, Charles W.:
Contractor and builder; was born in
Bavaria, coming to Chicago with his father
in 1852, where he has since held a promin
ent position in business and social circles.
He received his education in the public
schools of Chicago. President of the Char
les W. Gindele Company, occupying spac
ious and eligibly situated premises at 3333
La Salle Street, Chicago, .from which point
he arranges and directs his operations,
which are national in their scope. The in
ception of this business dates back to 1857,
when it was established by Mr. J. G. Gin-
dele, father of Mr. Gindele, who, in the
early history of Chicago, carried through
to successful completion a greater number
of municipal improvements than any other
man identified with the contracting inter
ests of Chicago. He was not only a prom
inent contractor, but was thoroughly ident
ified with the material growth and develop
ment of the city, and during the years from
1861 to 1867, he was a member, as well
as president of the board of public works,
of that city, and from 1867 until December,
1869, was president of the Illinois-Michigan
Canal Board, and from 1869 until January,
1872, when his death occurred, he was coun
ty clerk of Cook County. Among the en
during monuments to his engineering skill
may- be mentioned the Washington and
La Salle streets tunnels, as well as the
first lake tunnel for water supply for the
city, of which he was a promoter. And
in Mr. Gindele's office at the present time
there hangs the original copy of the vote
of thanks passed by the city council, Janu
ary 6, 1869, which he received for the
thorough and conscientious manner in
which he engineered important undertak
ings for the city. In 1868 his son, Charles
W., was taken in as a member of the firm
of J. G. Gindele & Sons, this being the
beginning of the business in which he has
achieved not only most substantial success,
but marked distinction. Mr. Gindele
has executed many important commis
sions in his line for the United States
government, and is at present engaged up
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house and postoffice buildings at Omaha,
Nebraska, Boone, Iowa, and Kalamazoo,
Michigan. He constructed the battleship
Illinois, which attracted thousand of visit
ors at the World's Fair, . and the Calumet
Club House. He is a member of the
Builders' and Traders' Exchange, of which
organization he was president during the
World's Fair year, 1893, being reelected to
that office in January, 1899. He was for
two terms president of the Masons' and
Builders' Association of Chicago, and he
was also a member of the joint arbitration
committee who settled the great lockout
strike in 1887, and one of the delegates
at large of the Building Contractors' Coun
cil which carried through successfully the
fight against the Building Trades Council
in the great building labor strike of 1900.
He is a director of the National Associa
tion of Builders, member and ex-president
of the Builders' Club, and member of the
Carpenters' and Builders' Association. Ad
dress : Chicago, Illinois.
GLACKENS, William J,:
Artist; born in Philadelphia in 1870; ed
ucated in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, and in Europe. Painter and illus
trator; exhibited at Paris Salon, 1896;
Paris Exposition, 1900; Pan American Ex
position, Buffalo, 1901 (gold medal) ;
Louisiana Purchase Exposition; 1904 (silver
and bronze medals). Associate member
National Academy of Design, member So
ciety of Illustrators, and Modern So
ciety of Portrait Painters, London. Mar
ried, Hartford, Connecticut, February, 1904,
Edith Dimock. Address: 3 North Wash
ington Square, New York City.
GLADDEN, Washington:
Clergyman and author; born at Potts
Grove, Northumberland County, Pennsyl
vania, February 11, 1836; son of Solomon
Gladden and Amanda (Daniels) Gladden.
His early life was spent on , a farm near
Owego, New York, and he attended a
country district school and Ow -go Acad
emy, learned the printer's trad; and at
tended Williams College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1859; studied

theology, was licensed to preach in i860,
and in that year was ordained pastor of
the State Street Congregational Church in
Brooklyn, New York, serving a year there
and then holding a pastorate at Morri-
sania, New York, for five years; pastor
at North Adams, Massachusetts, from 1866
to 1871, and in the latter year removed to
New York City and became a member of
the editorial staff of The Independent until
1875. He was pastor of the North Con
gregational Church of Springfield, Massa
chusetts, from 1875 to 1882, and for part
of the same period editor of Sunday After
noon; since 1882 pastor of the First Con
gregational Church of Springfield, Ohio.
Besides being one of the most distinguished
divines of his denomination, Dr. Gladden
has made for himself a prominent place
as a public lecturer and reformer, and- as
author of about thirty books on religious,
ethical and social subjects. He received
the degree of D.D. from Roanoke College,
Virginia, in 1884, and of LL.D. from the
University of Wisconsin in. 1881, and from
the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,
in 1895. He is a member of the Ameri
can Social Science Association, American
Economic Association, the Ohio Archaeo
logical and Historical Society and others.
Address : Columbus, Ohio.
GLADDING, Albert F.:
Jurist; born in Pharsalia, Chenango
County, New York, December 9, 1843; son
of James C. Gladding and Mary (Fargo)
Gladding. He received his education in
the public schools, and Norwich Academy.
He was elected county judge and surro
gate of Chenango County, New York, in
the fall of 1899 on the Republican ticket
and reelected in 1895 and again in 1901,
the last two elections being without oppo
sition, and upon the endorsement of all
parties; elected November 6, 1906, justice
of the Supreme Court for the Sixth Judi
cial District, for the term expiring Decem
ber 31, 1920. He is president of the Chen
ango National Bank. In politics he is a
Republican and he is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Judge Gladding is
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ing been president since its organization in
1900. He married in Cortland, New York,
March 16, 1881, Grace V. E. Owen, and
their children are: Grace, born in 1883;
Gladys, born in 1885, and Gertrude, born
in 1887. Address: Norwich, Chenarigo
County, New York.
GLASS, Carter:
Congressman; born in Lynchburg, Janu
ary 4, 1858. He was educated in private
and public schools in the newspaper busi
ness; owns The Daily News, the morning
paper of the city, and The Daily Advance,
the afternoon paper; member of Virginia
State Senate i899-igo3, and Virginia con
stitutional convention in 1901 and 1902;
eight years member of the Board of Vis
itors, University of Virginia; resigned
from Virginia State Senate to contest for
seat in the Fifty-seventh Congress vacated
by death of P. J. Otey. He was elected
November 4, 1902, for unexpired term in
Fifty-seventh and full term in Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Sixth
Virginia District. In politics he is identi
fied with the Democratic party. Address :
Lynchburg, Virginia.
GLASS, Chester:
Lawyer, banker; born in London, Cana
da; son of Hon. David Glass, K. C, and
Sarah Dixon (Dalton) Glass. He re
ceived his education in Hellmuth College
and Toronto University, and was admitted
a barrister-at-law of Osgoode Hall, Toron
to. He practiced law in Canada, and in
1889 successfully argued the well-known
case of Attorney-General Fonseer before
the Supreme Court of Canada, at Ottawa.
At Spokane, Washington, he engaged ex
tensively and successfully in street rail
road building, real estate, and mining, and
still holds large interests there. Coming
East in 1902 Mr. Glass "became interested
in extensive coal fields in Pennsylvania and
real estate in New York State. He is vice-
president of the Mercantile National . Bank
of the City of New York; director of the
United Copper Company; Aetna Indemnity

Company, and the Pittsburgh and New
York Coal Company. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion an Episcopalian.
He is a member of the bar of the State
of Washington. Is a member of the Calu
met Club of New York and the Seawanha-
ka Yacht Club. Mr. Glass married in Can
ada, June 20, 1883, Beatrice Claus Kings-
will, and they have two children : Gor
don Goldwin, born in 1885 ; and Dorothy
Beatrice, born in 1886. Residence: 40
East Twenty-fifth Street, New York City.
Address : 195 Broadway, New York City.
GLASS, Henry:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
January 7, 1844; son of- Henry Glass and
Martha Katharine (Burnet) Glass. He
was appointed to the United States Naval
Academy from Illinois, September 24, i860,
graduated May 28, 1863, and the same day
promoted ensign and attached to the sloop
Canandaigua in the South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron. He participated in the
general engagements with the forts and
batteries in Charleston Harbor from July
to September, 1863, and on Stone River,
South Carolina, in December, 1863, and
July, 1864, on the North Edisto River,
and the capture of Georgetown, South
South Carolina, in 1865. After the war
he served on the various duties of a naval
office at sea and ashore, was promoted
master November 10, 1865; lieutenant, No
vember 10, 1866; lieutenant-commander,
March 12, 1868; commander October" 27,
1879; captain, January 24, 1894; rear-ad
miral October 9, 1901, and retired Jan
uary 7, 1906. He was in command of the
cruiser Charleston, Asiatic Squadron, from
May 16 to December 12, 1898, and con
voyed the First Division, Eighth Army
Corps, from San Francisco to Manila, cap
turing the island of Guam, Ladrones, June
21, 1898, taking part in the capture of Ma
nila, August 13, 1898, and serving as cap
tain of the port from August 17 to Oc
tober 27, 1898. He was assigned to special
duty at Iloilo, Island of Panay, in Novem
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in possession of the Spaniards to Ameri
can commerce. Address : 2821 Bancroft
Way, Berkeley, California.
GLEAVES, Albert:
Commander United States Navy; born
in Tennessee, January 1, 1858. Appointed
from State at large, June 13, 1873, as cadet
midshipman; was graduated from Naval
Academy, June 20, 1877; ordered to U. S.
S. Hartford, flagship South Atlantic Squad
ron, August 23, 1877; detached from Hart
ford, at Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 1878,
and permitted to return to the United
States, on leave, until March 1879; U. S.
S. Plymouth, North Atlantic Squadron,
March to May, 1879. Appointed midship
man, July, 1879; October, 1879, to Febru
ary, 1883, U. S. S. Nipsic, European Squad
ron. Commissioned ensign, January 1,
1881 ; from September, 1883, to May, 1884,
U. S. S. Trenton, en route to Asiatic Sta
tion; with first Corean Embassy to United
States; May, 1884, to November, 1886, U.
S. S. Monocacy and U. S. S. Trenton, coast
of China; November, 1886, to October,
1889, ordnance duty, Washington Navy
Yard ; and Naval Ordnance proving ground
at Annapolis, Maryland ; U. S. despatch ves
sel Dolphin, November, 1889, to May, 1891.
Commissioned lieutenant (junior grade),
May 26, 1887 ; Boston, Pacific Station, May,
1891, to December, 1892. Promoted to lieu
tenant, January 9, 1893 ; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, March, 1893, to
August 1895; U. S. battleship Texas, Au
gust, 1895, to January, 1896 ; U. S. monitor,
Monadnock, Pacific Station, February, 1896,
to July, 1896; when the Texas was re-com
missioned in July, 1896, rejoined her at
Norfolk; May, 1897, ordered to command
torpedo boat Cushing, and until October,
1897, was engaged in experimental torpedo
work in Narragansett Bay; October, 1897,
Cushing joined Torpedo Boat Flotilla or
ganized for the purpose of coast cruising;
February 11, 1879, was ordered to Havana
in the Cushing; during the Spanish War,
b'ockading the north coast of Cuba ; Navy
Yard, Washington, September 12, 1898, to
1900. Promoted to lieutenant-commander,

May 25, 1900; Alabama, October 16, 1901,
to November 1, 1901. Commanded U. S. S.
Dolphin and U. S. S. Mayflower on special
service, until November 1, 1904. While in
command of the Dolphin, discovered the
greatest depth in North Atlantic Ocean, while
running a line of deep sea soundings. No
vember 16, 1904, ordered to command tor
pedo station at Newport, Rhode Island.
Special duty in Europe, June, July, 1907.
Promoted commander July 1, 1905, while in
command of the Dolphin. Received di
ploma and decoration of Chevalier of Leg
ion of Honor, for services rendered Ro
chambeau Commission, but acceptance not
authorized by Congress. Commander
Gleaves wrote the Life of Captain
James Lawrence, the commander of
the Chesapeake, which book has met with
a great deal of success, and which is re
garded in England as the most impartial
statement of the battle between the Chesa
peake and Shannon that has yet been writ
ten. Commander Gleaves is regarded here
and abroad as an authority on torpedoes
and their manufacture. Address : Tor
pedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island.
GLENN, Archibald David:
Deputy State Superintendent of Public
Instruction ; was born January 30, 1842,
near Dayton, Armstrong County, Pennsyl
vania. He was educated in the public
schools, at Dayton Academy and Iron City
College. He began teaching before reach
ing his sixteenth year and pursued this
vocation for a number of years, at first
teaching in the winter and attending school
in the summer; his last position being that
of principal of Woods Run school in the
City of Allegheny. In 1861 he enlisted in
Company B, Seventy-eighth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. At the
organization of the Company he was made
a sergeant. In 1872 he was elected Super
intendent of Schools in his native county,
Armstrong, and was twice reelected, serv
ing until 1881. In 1883 and again in 1885,
he was elected a member of the legislature
from Armstrong County. During the last
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mittee on Education. He was editor and
half owner of the Kittanning Free Press,
the leading paper in his own county in
1886 and up to April 1, 1887, when he was
appointed to the position of Statistical
Clerk in the State Department of Public
Instruction. In 1889 he was appointed Fin
ancial Clerk, which position he held until
July 15, 1906, during which time he dis
tributed to the public schools of the State
eighty-five million, nine hundred thousand
dollars. On July 15, 1906, he was appoint
ed Deputy Superintendent of Public In
struction, the position he now holds. Ad
dress : Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
GLENN, John Mark:
Trustee; born in Baltimore, in 1858. He
was graduated from the Washington and
Lee University as M.A. in 1879; from the
University of Maryland Law School as
B.L. in 1882; and attended the Johns Hop
kins University. In politics he is a Demo
crat and in religion an Episcopalian. He
is director of the Russell Sage Foundation ;
president of the Supervisors of City Chari
ties of Baltimore from 1904 to 1907; man
ager of the Charity' Organization Society
of Baltimore; and is a member of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Mr.
Glenn married in Baltimore, Maryland,
1902, Mary Willcox Brown. Address : 30
Broad Street, New York City.
GLENN, Bobert Brodnax:
Governor of North Carolina; born in
Rockingham County, North Carolina,
August 11, 1854; son of Chalmers L. Glenn
and Annie S. (Dodge) Glenn. After a
careful preparatory education he entered
Davidson College, North Carolina, after
ward attended the University of Virginia,
and then at Pearson's Law School, Rich
mond Hill, North Carolina. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1878, and soon gained
a prominent place at the North Carolina
bar, becoming head of the firm of Glenn,
Moody and Hendren at Winston-Salem.
He served as attorney for the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the Southern
Railway and other large corporations, and

has taken an active and leading place in
the political affairs of his State as a Dem
ocrat, and has represented the State in
National Conventions. He was a member
of the North Carolina Legislature in 188 1 ;
State Solicitor of North Carolina in 1886,
Democratic presidential elector in 1884
and 1892; United States attorney for the
District of North Carolina, from 1893 to
i8g7, and in igo4 he was elected governor
of North Carolina for the term expiring
in igog. In 1907 he attracted National at
tention by his attitude with reference to
his right to execute State laws, as against
the asserted right of a United States judge
to suspend them pendente lite, but ar
ranged a compromise by which the ques
tions at issue should be speedily decided
by the United States Supreme Court, in
the case of the enforcement of the rate
law against the Southern Railway. He
served in the National Guard of North
Carolina from i8go to igo3. Governor
Glenn is a Presbyterian in his religious
views. He married in Knoxville, Tennes
see, January 8, 1878, Nina Deaderick.
Address : Raleigh, North Carolina.
GLESSNEB, John Jacob:
Manufacturer; was born at Zanesville,
Ohio, in January, 1843, being a son ot
Jacob and Mary (Laughlin) Glessner. He
was educated in the public schools of
Zanesville, and broadened his education by
some years of work on the local news
papers of his native city. On attaining his
majority, however, in 1864, he found his
life's vocation by engaging in the manu
facture of harvesting machinery, becom
ing a member of the firm of Warder,
Bushnell & Glessner. . To the business of
that firm he brought organizing abilities
which were the leading -factor in its suc
cess. In 1870 he removed to Chicago and
there established the administrative and
executive headquarters of the business, re
taining the factory at Springfield, Ohio,
and as vice-president of the Warder, Bush
nell & Glessner Company built up a busi
ness of very extensive proportions in the
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company. In the subsequent organization
of the International Harvester Company
when the business of the Warder, Bush
nell & Glessner Company was combined
with the McCormick, Deering and other
large harvesting interests, he became vice-
president of the company, and was elected
to the position of chairman of the Exec
utive Committee of that great corpora
tion, in which important capacity he has
developed the remarkable and harmonious
development which has given the Inter
national Harvester Company a standing as
a model of organization among the great
business enterprises of the country. Mr.
Glessner 's executive abilities have been ex
ercised not only in behalf of the business
corporations with which he ha's been con
nected, but also, with- much effectiveness,
in measures for public benefit. He was
president of the Citizens' Association of
Chicago during the period when that or
ganization prepared the bill for the estab
lishing of the Sanitary District of Chi
cago and secured "its passage through the
Legislature of Illinois, and from the initia
tive efforts in which Mr. Glessner had so
important a share has resulted the great
Drainage Canal, which is the greatest en
gineering work ever undertaken by a city
for the purposes of sanitation. Since igos
he has been a director of the Chicago Re
lief and Aid Society, and has been re
peatedly urged to accept its presidency.
He is a trustee of the Chicago Orphan
Asylum, of Rush Medical College (now the
medical department of the University of
Chicago), the Chicago Orchestral Asso
ciation which organized, sustained and has
built a home . for the Chicago Orchestra
(of which the late Theodore Thomas was,
until his death, the director), and of the
Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Glessner's
tastes are artistic and literary, and he has
entered heartily into all organized en
deavors to beautify the city and to enhance
its attractions. He is a member and former
president of the Commercial Club of Chi
cago, and is also a member of the Chicago,
Union League, Quadrangle and Literary
Clubs. Mr. Glessner married, in Decem

ber, 1870, Frances, daughter • of James R.
and Nancy, (Bayard) Macbeth. They have
a son, John George Macbeth Glessner
(born in 1871), who is a graduate of Har
vard and manager of the Utility Division
of the International Harvester Company,
and a daughter, Frances, who is now the
wife of Blewitt Lee, a lawyer of Chicago.
Residence: 1800 Prairie Avenue, Chicago.
Office address : Michigan Avenue and Har
rison Street, Chicago, Illinois.
GLIDDEN, Charles Jasper:
Automobile tourist and telegraph and
telephone promotor; born in Lowell, Mas
sachusetts, August 29, 1857; son of Na
thaniel Ames Glidden and Laura Ellen
(Clark) Glidden and grandson of Jasper
E. and Abial S. (Ames) Glidden and of
Jacob and. Mary Clark. When fifteen years
old he left school to take up the business
of telegraphing and he soon arose from
messenger boy to manager of the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company. He or
ganized one of the first telephone exchanges
in the world, at Lowell in 1878, and he or
ganized a system of exchanges and of
telephone companies in eight States. He
was treasurer and president of the various
companies but resigned all his offices and
business connections in 1900, except chair
man of Board of Traders' National Bank
of Lowell which he organized in 1892.
He was a member and many years treas
urer of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
Church at Lowell ; a member of the local
Masonic fraternal bodies up to the thirty-
second degree. He was married July 10,
1878, to Lucy Emma, daughter of James
and Eliza Cleworth, of Manchester, New
Hampshire, and they had no children. On
retiring from the telephone business he be
came interested in "touring the world in
cluding visits to thirty-five countries of the
Old World, in which he automobiled 42,367
miles. , In 1906-8 they visited and drove
through the Indies, China, Japan, Asia
Minor, South Europe and Northern Africa.
Residence : Hotel Touraine, Boston, Mas
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GLOVEB, James Waterman:
Professor; born at Clio, Michigan, July
24, 1868; son. of James Polk Glover and
Emerette (Neff) Glover. After graduation
from the Saginaw (Michigan) High School
in 1885, he entered the University of Michi
gan, where he was graduated as B.L. in
1892, was graduated as A.B. from Harvard
in 1893, and was Morgan fellow in Har
vard from 1892 to 1894, receiving the de
grees of A.M. in 1894 and Ph.D. in 1895.
Dr. Glover was appointed instructor in
mathematics at the University of Michigan
in 1895. He became senior instructor in
1899, and assistant professor of mathemat
ics and lecturer on insurance from 1903 to
1906; and since then has been junior pro
fessor of mathematics and insurance in the
University of Michigan. Professor Glover
originated the insurance courses at the
University of Michigan in 1902, and they
have grown in success and popularity. He
has written many papers on the insurance
situation and was associated as consulting
actuary with the Wisconsin Legislative In
surance Investigation Committee from April,
1906, until their report was completed
in December, 1906. He assisted the counsel
of the Committee, Hon. James L. O'Con
nor, in the preparation of the report, and
the Committee in drafting the insurance
bills which were introduced in the Wiscon-
. sin Legislature, in igo7 ; and he has been
employed as consulting actuary and expert
adviser to the Wisconsin Legislative Com
mittee on Banks and Insurance in connec
tion with the public hearings on the in
surance bills proposed by the former in
vestigation committee. The latter com
mittee was appointed by the Legislature
on the recommendation of then Governor
Robert M. Le Follette, and they were given
full power and authority to investigate all
life insurance companies doing business in
the State of Wisconsin. Professor Glover
is a member of the American Mathematic
al Society, and the Deutsche Verein fiir
Versicherungs-wissenschaft. He was a
member of the Fourth and Fifth Interna
tional Actuarial Congresses. Dr. Glover
married at Ann Arbor, Michigan, August

29, 1900, Alice Durfee Webber, and they
have a son : James Webber ulover, born
September 16, 1901 ; and another son born
in 1903, died in infancy. Address: 1312
Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
GLOVEB, John Franklin:
Lawyer and press correspondent.; born
in Hartleton, Pennsylvania, September 16,
1845; son of William Glover and Eliza
(Fisher) Glover. He was graduated at the
University of Wisconsin, with degrees of
A.B. in 1871 and A.M. in 1874. In pioneer
days in North Western Iowa, Mr. Glover
was an editor of weekly newspapers; and
he was clerk of Osceola County, Iowa,
from 1873 to 1876; a member of the Iowa
Legislature in 1876 and .1877; mayor of
Sibley, Iowa, for three years, and county at
torney of Osceola County for two years.
During the Civil War he served in the Thir
ty-eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, and was promoted from private
to lieutenant. In the battle of Petersburg
(Battle of the Crater) during the retreat,
with the help of three negro soldiers he
carried a wounded Union officer from the
Crater to the main Union line. He also
participated, April 2, 1865, in the charge
against Fort Mahone, resulting in the cap
ture of Petersburg. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Congregation
alist. He is secretary of the Osceola
County Bar Association; and a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr.
Glover married at Lakeville, Iowa, Sep
tember 19, 1876, Mary Frances Upton, and
they have one son, Lyn Fisher Glover. Ad
dress: Sibley, Iowa.
GOB1N, Hillary Asbury:
Educator; born in Terre Haute, Indiana,
March 25, 1842 ; son of Calvin Gobin and
Jane Eliza (Gray) Gobin. His education
was obtained in the public schools of Terre
Haute, and at DePauw University, Green
castle, Indiana; from which he received
the degrees of A.B. in 1870, and A.M. in
1873, and later the degree of D.D. ; and
in 1903 the degree of LL.D. was conferred
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Kansas. He was in service in the Civil
War from 1862 to 1865; was in the active
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
from 1870 to 1880; professor of Greek it..
DePauw University from 1880 to 1886;
president of Baker University, from 1886
to 1890; dean of the School of Theology of
DePauw University from 1890 to 1896,
and president of that University from 1895
to 1903; and has been its vice-president
since 1903. He is a Republican in politics,
and is president of the Preachers' Aid So
ciety of the Northwest Indiana Methodist
Episcopal Conference; has been three times
a delegate to the General Conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and was dele
gate to the Methodist Ecumenical Confer
ence in London,. England, in 1901. He is a
member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity
and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1889
and 1901 he traveled in England, France
and Holland. His chief recreation is horse
back riding. Dr. Gobin married in Terre
Haute, November 1871, Florence A. Or-
rill, who died in l8gi, and was again mar
ried July 11, 1895, to Mrs. Clara L. Beals.
He has three children: Alma Beals, born
in 1888, Florence Beals, bora in 1890, and
Jessie Duvall, born in 1897. Address :
312 Bloom Street, Greencastle, Indiana.
GOBIN, John P. S.:
Lawyer and soldier; born January 26,
1837, at Sunbury, Pennsylvania; on the
paternal side he is descended from good
old Revolutionary stock, his great grand
father, Charles Gobin, being captain in one
of the Berks County associated battalions
during the struggle for independence, serv
ing in the Jersey campaign, and in the
summer of 1780 on active duty on the
frontiers of Pennsylvania; his grandfather,
Edward Gobin, was a soldier in the War
of 1812-1814. He received an academic
education, learned the ait of printing, and
was admitted to the Northumberland
County bar in 1858. When the Civil War
threatened, before the firing upon Sumter,
he tendered his services to Governor Cur
tin, was accepted, and on returning to
Sunbury, commenced the organization of

what eventually was Company F, Eleventh
Pennsylvania, being commissioned First
Lieutenant; his ccimpany participated in
the first fight at Falling Waters, and vol
unteered, to remain in the service at the
request of General Patterson; after the
expiration of the three months' campaign
he reorganized the company, and September
2, 1861, was mustered in as captain of
Company C, Forty-seventh Regiment; this
command first served in Smith's division
of the Army of the Potomac, but in Jan
uary, 1862, was ordered to Florida, and
the regiment garrisoned Fort Taylor on
the island of Key West, and Fort Jeffer
son at Dry Tortugas. In the sunlmer of
1862 the regiment was sent to Hilton
Head, South Carolina, to assist in the at
tack on the approaches to Charleston, and
participated in the battle of Pocotaligo.
In the autumn of the foregoing year the
Forty-seventh was the first regiment which
reenlisted under the so-called Veteran
order. Subsequently the command partici
pated in Red River expedition. At the
battle of Pleasant Hill, Captain Gobin was
especially commended for bravery by Gen
eral J. W. McMillan, who recommended
him to Governor Curtin for promotion.
For services rendered in that campaign he
was detailed by General Banks to conduct
all the prisoners captured on the expedi
tion to New Orleans. In July, 1864, the
regiment came North, and joined General
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Pro
moted to the majority, Major Gobin par
ticipated in that famous campaign and
the battle of Cedar Creek. Major General
McMillan, commanding the First Division
of that corps, wrote Governor Curtin,
commending Colonel Gobiris conduct. In
1865 Hancock's Veteran Corps was organ
ized, and the Forty-seventh was assigned
to it, Major Gobin having been promoted
November 4, 1864, lieutenant-colonel, and
January 3, 1865, colonel of the Regiment
When the spring campaign opened, Colonel
Gobin, having been brevetted Brigadier-
General, March 13, 1865, was placed in
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co-operating with Grant, heading for
Lynchburg, where he received news of
Lee's surrender, and the force returned.
On the day of the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln they were ordered to Wash
ington, and a picket, or rather skirmish
line, was thrown around the entire city.
The Forty-seventh participated in the grand
review, and after it was over the regiment
was again sent South. Ordered at first
to Savannah, subsequently to Charleston,
General Gobin was placed in command of
that city, and at the same time made Pro
vost Judge. All the courts having been
suspended, he was the only judicial officer
in that city during the reconstruction
period, and the regiment was finally dis
charged January 9, 1866. Returning home,
General Gobin resumed the practice of
law at Lebanon. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal
Legion, Grand Master of the Grand En
campment of Knights Templar of the
United States, and a prominent member of
the State Senate. He is a director in numer
ous industrial institutes. Since 1884 he has
been State Senator; is at present time
commanding the Division Pennsylvania
National Guard, with the rank of major-
general. In the war with Spain he served
as brigadier-general of the United States
Volunteers; was elected in 1898 lieutenant-
governor of Pennsylvania. During the coal
strike in 1902 he commanded the Pennsyl
vania National Guard. He has been a prom
inent member of the Grand Army of the Re
public for many years also commander-in-
chief from 1897 to 1898. Married Annie M.
Howe in 1866 at Florida. Address : Leban
on, Pennsylvania.
GODBEY, Allen Howard:
Clergyman and educator ; born in Cooper
County, Missouri, November 21, 1864; son
of Rev.- William Clinton Godbey, and Caro
line Malvina (Smith) Godbey. He was
prepared for college at home, was gradu
ated from Morrisville College, as A.M. in
1883, was fellow in Semitics from 1902 to
1905; and received the degree of Ph.D.
with highest honors in 1905 from the Uni

versity of Chicago. He taught mathematics
in Morrisville College from 1883 to 1886;
was assistant editor of Southwestern
Methodist, St. Louis, from 1886 to 1889,
publishing three subscription books at the
same time; in city mission work at Kansas
City, from 1891 to i8g4; teacher in St.
Charles College, in 1894 and 1895; held a
pastorate from 1895 to 1899; was principal
of Academic Department of Central Col
lege, at Fayette, Missouri, from 1899 to
1902; professor of Greek and Latin, in
1905 and 1906, and president since 1906,
in Morrisville College. In politics he is an
Independent and in religion is a Metho
dist Episcopalian; and he is a Mason. His
favorite recreation is chess. Dr. Godbey
married, in Kansas City, Missouri, June
16, 1892, Emma Moreland, and they have
one daughter, Elizabeth Beulah Godbey,
born in 1895. Address: Morrisville, Mis-.
souri.
GODCHABLES, Frederic Antes:
State senator and iron manufacturer;
born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania,
June 3, 1872; son of Charles A. Godcharles
and Elizabeth (Burkenbine) Godcharles.
He was graduated from Milton High
School in 1888, and from LaFayette Col
lege as E.E. in 1893. He has been asso
ciated with his father and brothers in
the manufacture of iron and steel nails
since youth; and has been title member
of the "firm since 1895 ; is president of the
F. A. Godcharles Company; director of the
Milton Trust & Safe Deposit Company,
North American Mining Company, and of
the Milton Board of Trade and other cor
porations. He served a term in the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania in 1901, and was
elected to the State Senate in November,
1904, which position he now holds ; and is
a member of the Inaugural Committee and
chairman of the Committee on Game arid
Fish. Fie served throughout the Spanish-
American War with the Twelfth Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; and
held the position of captain and inspector of
rifle practice in the Twelfth Regiment of
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is a thirty-second degree Mason, and is
District Deputy Grand Master for Forty-
sixth Masonic District, Knight Templar,
and Mystic Shriner. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion a Pres
byterian. He is chairman of Tour
ing Committee of the Motor Federation
of Pennsylvania; director of the Pennsyl
vania State Sportsman's Association; mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; Phi Kappa Psi,
and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. His fa
vorite recreations are automobiling, hunt
ing and shooting. He is a member of the
Elks' Club of Milton; the Harrisburg Club
of Harrisburg; the Milton Rod and Gun
Club; Otzinachson Rod and Gun Club, and
the Automobile Club of Central Pennsyl
vania (as its president). Mr. Godcharles
married in Washington, D. C, June 15,
1904, Mary Walls Barber, of St. Marys
County, Maryland. Address : Milton, Penn
sylvania. GODDABD, Edward Mnmford:
Lawyer and librarian; born in Virginia
City, Montana, May 30, 1869; son of Ed
ward Nichols Goddard and Janette (Mum
ford) Goddard. He received his education
at the high school in Windsor, Vermont,
the Holderness School for Boys, and the
Rock Point Institute, and in law offices,
having studied four years with Gilbert A.
Davis of Windsor, and one year with John
H. Senter, of Montpelier, Vermont. He
was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1898,
and soon after became junior partner in the
law firm of Senter & Goddard. In May,
1901, he was appointed assistant State li-
brariari. He is also librarian of the Ver
mont Historical Society and chairman of
the Board of Library Commissioners. In
igo7 he received an appointment from the
governor of Vermont to represent that
State as one of its commissioners to the
Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
an Episcopalian. Mr. Goddard was for
two years chairman of the School Board
of Montpelier. He married in Windsor,
Vermont, June 2, 1897, Lovisa Read Hill.

Residence: 6 Mather Terrace, Montpelier.
Address: State Library, Montpelier, Ver
mont.GODDABD, Morrill:
Editor New York Sunday American and
Journal; born in Portland, Maine, October
7, 1866; son of Judge Charles W. and Row-
ena C. (Morrill) Goddard; graduated
Dartmouth, 1885. From 1885 to 1894, was
successively city editor, Washington cor
respondent, Sunday editor and managing
editor New York World; editor of the
Sunday edition New York American and
Journal since 1895 ; has also been was cor
respondent, traveler, magazine writer.
Member Maine Society, American Social
Science Society, National Mosquito Ex
termination Society, American Geographi
cal Society, Palestine Exploration Fund
Association, American Anti- Vivisection So
ciety, American Forestry Association, Peace
Society of New York, American Institute
Scientific Research, American Society for
Psychical Research. Clubs: Atlantic
Yacht, Dartmouth. Married, 1899, Jessa
mine Rugg, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ad
dress : American and Journal, 2 Duane
Street, New York City.
GODWIN, Harold:
Journalist; born in Roslyn, New York,
May 21, 1858; son of Parke and Fanny
(Bryant) Godwin. He received his bach
elor's degree at Princeton University, in
1879 and is a historical fellow of that in
stitution. He was for a time engaged in
editorial work on the New Evening Post,
New York Evening Mail and the New
York Commercial Advertiser, having been
managing editor of the latter in 1890;
later he was editor of Current Literature,
and is now president of the Short Stories
Company, Limited. He is a member of
the New York University Club and the
Garden City Golf Club of Long Island.
Mr. Godwin married in Matlock, England,
May 31, 1884, Elizabeth Marquand; and
they have three children: Frederick M.,
Elizabeth L., and Francis B. Residence:
Roslyn, New York. Office address: 55
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GOEBEL, Herman Philip:
Congressman; born in Cincinnati, Ohio;
is engaged in active practice of law.
He was elected a member of the
house of representatives of Ohio in 1875 ;
was elected judge of the probate court of
Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1884, and . re
elected in 1887; was elected to the Fifty-
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses.
He is a Republican in politics. Address :
Cincinnati, Ohio. •
UOELET, Augustin H. :
Physician; born in Wilmington, North
Carolina, April 1, 1854; son of Dr. Edward
H. and Virginia (Lane) Goelet; educated
Cape Fear (North Carolina) Military
Academy, University of Virginia, Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, 1874. Professor
of gynecology, New York School of Clini
cal Medicine, three years; president of fac
ulty of same. Episcopalian. Fellow New
York Academy of Medicine and American
• Medical Urological Associations; member
of New York County and State Medical
Societies; Zeta Psi fraternity. Married,
New York City, 1897, Elaine Goodnow.
Address: 2030 Broadway, New York City.
GOELLEB, Charles:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 23, i84g; son of Charles J. and
Sophia Goeller; educated in New York
City. Has been in practice of law, in busi
ness for self, thirty-four years; also very
much in private business enterprises. For
thirteen years counsel for Union Square
Bank, now merged in Corn Exchange Bank,
in which is member Advisory Board Union
Square Branch; attorney for many years
in two large breweries; real estate holder,
investor, etc. Democrat belonging to or
ganization of Tammany Hall over twenty-
five years; member Tammany Hall Law
Committee; at one time, for six years,
chairman Tammany Hall General Commit
tee in the old Fourteenth Assembly Dis
trict, New York. About 1885 nominated
for Assembly on Tammany Hall Demo
cratic ticket in old Tenth Assembly District
New York, but was defeated. Was mem

ber New York State Constitutional Con
vention of i8g4; elected on Democratic
nomination (Tammany Hall), i8g3, for the
Ninth Senate District; appointed member
of Military Committee and Committee on
Industrial Interests in that body. Member
Bar Association City of New York, New
York State Bar Association, Society Medi
cal Jurisprudence; also Columbian Order,
Fourteenth Street. Recreations : Traveling,
especially by sea ; many trips to Europe ;
took sea trip to San Francisco; has made
Mississippi River trips. Clubs : National
Democratic, Pensacola. Married, New
York City, April 27, 1882, Emily Byron
Shotwell. Residence : Kenilworth Apart
ment House, 103 East Tenth Street. Ad
dress : gg Nassau Street, New York City.
GOETHALS, George W.:
Chairman and chief engineer, Isthmian
Canal; born in New York, June 29, 1858.
He graduated at the United States Military
Academy at West Point in 1880, and from
the Engineer's School at Willets Point in
1882. He was connected with the engineers'
office, Department of the Columbia, from
1882 to 1884, serving under General Merrill
in the construction of dams, dikes and locks,
and in charge of Mussel Shoals Canal,
Tennessee River; and the beginning of con
struction work on the Colbert Shoals Canal.
He was chief engineer of the First Army
Corps, during the war with Spain ; was de
tailed to the general staff in 1903, and was
appointed chairman and chief engineer of
the Isthmian (Panama) Canal, in 1907.
Address : Culebra, Canal Zone, Panama.
GOFF, Nathan:
Jurist; born in Clarksburg, Virginia,
February 9, 1843; son of Waldo P. Goff
and Harriet L. Goff. He attended the
Northwestern Virginia ATcaderny at Clarks
burg, and Georgetown College until 1861.
He enlisted as a private in the Union
Army in the Third Virginia Infantry, was
later promoted lieutenant, captain and
major, and January 20, 1864, was captured
by the Confederates and confined for sev
eral months in Libby Prison. He was bre
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volunteers and discharged from the volun
teer army. He was graduated from the
law department of New York University
in 1867, and engaged in the practice of
law at Clarksburg; West Virginia. He was
elected to the West Virginia Legislature
in 1867, and in 1868 was appointed by
President Johnson United States attorney
for West Virginia; to which office he was
reappointed in 1872. 1876 and 1880, re
signing in January, 1881, to accept the oi-
fice of secretary of the navy in the Cabinet
of President Hayes. He served until
March, 1881, when he was reappointed
United States district attorney by Presi
dent Garfield. He resigned in 1882, in
which year be was elected to the Forty-
eigfrth Congress, and was reelected in 1884
and 1886 to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses, serving until 1889. In 1876 and
again in 1888 he was the Republican candi
date for governor of West Virginia. In
1892 be was appointed by President Harri
son judge of the United States Circuit
Court for the Fourth Circuit, in which «rf-
Xe he is still serving. Address: Qaiks-
buig, West Virginia.
GOLDFOGXE. Eenr M.:
Jurist and congressman: born in New
York City, May 23, 1856; soa of Mayer
Goldiogle. He received his education in
the public schools, and was admitted to
the bar in 18J7. He practiced law until
1887, when he was elected justice of the
Fifth District Court of New York and re
elected in 1893. He became one of the
judges of the Municipal Court of New
York and retired from the bench Janu
ary 1, 1900, to resume practice of law. In
1900 be was elected to Congress and he
vras reelected in 1902, 1904, and 1906, from
the Ninth New York District Congress
man Goldfogle fcas'been a delegate to every
State Democratic Convention for tbe past
twenty-four years, and a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention in 1896.
He was formerly grand president of Dis
trict One, Independent Order of B'nai
B'rMi: vice-president of Temple Rodeph
Sholom of New York Gty: and master of
the Empire City Lodge. Residence: 16 Co

lumbia Street, New York. Office address:
271 'Broadway, New York Ctty;
GOVOSBOIUSCGB, Winder Swell:
Electrical engineer; born in Baltimore,
Maryland, October 10, 1871 ; son of Wash
ington Elwell and Martha Pearce (Laird)
Goldsborough He attended Wright's Uni
versity School, Baltimore, Maryland, from
1886 to 1888, and be was graduated hoc
Cornell University, ^f.F., 1892. Has trav
eled extensively in the Far East, China,
Japan, Siam, and Farther India, also ia
Europe and United States; in charge elec
trical engineering department, Arkansas In
dustrial University, Fayetteville, 1893-94;
professor electrical engineering, 1894-1904,
and director School Electrical Engineering
of Purdue University, La Fayette, Indiana,
1898-1904; consulting engineer Edison Elec
tric IDnminating Company, Baltimore,
Maryland, 1804-96; chief of electricity and
member superior jury, Universal Exposi
tion, St Lotus, Missouri, 1902-03; vfce-
oresident International Electrical Congress.
St Louis, 1904; chairman executive com
mittee Electric Railway Test Committee.
1903-06; major corps of cadets, Cornell
University, 1892; major First Regiment
Arkansas National Guard, 1893-94; decor
ated by Victor Emmanuel with Cross Order
Crown of Italy. Business manager engi
neering department J. G. White & Com-
oany, Incorporated, 1905-07; vice-president
'Jid general manager Denver Reservoir Irri
gation Company: director Engineering and
Electrical Securities Corporation. Republi
can. Episcopalian. Member American Insti
tute Electrical Engineers, Institute Electrical
Engineers of England; International Elec
trical Congress. Chicago, 1893; Paris, 1900;
St Louis, 1904; member Committee of Na
tional Electric Light Association on Arc
Light-Photometry, etc ; Beta Tbeta Pi fra
ternity. Contributor papers to proceeding
of scientific and engineering societies, and
in scientific and engineering journals.
He is a member of the Lawyers', Engi
neers', National Arts and Cornell Clubs. He
rr.-rried at La Fayette, Indiana, December
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child, Laird Shields, born March 6, 1906.
Address: Ideal Building, Denver, Colo
rado.
GOLDSCHM1DT, Samuel Anthony:
President of the Columbia Chemical
Works ; born in New York City, September
17, 1848; son of John Goldschmidt and
Celetine (Judah) Goldschmidt. He was ed
ucated at Redfield's School in New York,
and was graduated from the College of the
City of New York as A.B. in 1868, and
A.M. in 1879; and from the School of
Mines, Columbia, as E.M. in 1871 ; and
Emory College conferred on hin the degree
of Ph.D. in 1875. He was director and
treasurer of the Columbia Chemical Works
from 1880 to 1890, and has been its presi
dent since 1890. Mr. Goldschmidt is a
member of the American Chemical Society,
the London Chemical Society, the Society
of Chemical Industry, the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science,
the Chamber of Commerce, of New York
City, the Museum of Natural History, and
the Zoological Garden of New York. He
is also a member of the Union League Club
of New York, the Down Town Association,
and of the Columbia University, Grolier,
and Chemists' Clubs of New York the Ap
awamis Club of Rye, New York, and the
Woodstock Country Club of Vermont. He
married in New York City, October 23,
1879, Ellen C. Chesebrough. Residence:
71 Central Park West, New York City.
Office address : 43 Sedgewick Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
GOLDSMITH, Milton:
Merchant, litterateur; born in Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1861 ; son of
Abraham and Cecelia (Adler) Goldsmith;
educated Philadelphia High School, Uni
versity of Zurich, Switzerland, M.A. Stud
ied abroad five years, languages, sciences
and music; traveled all throughf Europe
and United States; resident of New York
City since January, 1903. Partner in firm
of A. Goldsmith & Sons; president Gbld-
smith-Leving . Company ; Israelite ; vice-
president Jewish Chautariqua Society. Au

thor: Rabbi and Priest, 1885 (Jewish Pub
lication Society); A Victim of Conscience,
1903 (H. T. Coates>; Max Geller (in
press) ; also numerous short stories in mag
azines and papers ; many poems in Cosmo
politan, Godey's, Life, Puck, Judge, etc; a
comedy, Jay Caesar, Esq. (produced 1880)
Romance of Kief play (produced 1884)
also numerous other farces, librettos, etc.
and several songs. Member Dramatists
Club. Married, New York City, February
14, 1899, Sophie Hyman; children: Rosa
lind, Madeleine. Address : 1 125 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
GOLDZIER, Julias:
Lawyer; born in Y>?nna, Austria, Jan
uary 20, 1854 ; son of Philip and Mathilde
(Wehle) Goldzier. He was educated in
the public schools and studied law. Com
ing to America, he settled in Chicago, Illi
nois, where he completed his studies and
was admitted to the Illinois bar, in 1877.
He engaged in general practice, and is now
at the head of the law firm of Goldzier,
Rodgers & Froehlich. He was elected an
alderman to represent the Twenty-second
Ward of Chicago in 1890, and was a Dem
ocratic representative in Congress from the
Fourth Congressional District of Illinois
for two terms, beginning in 1892. He again
served as an alderman from the Twenty-
second Ward, from 1899 to 1902. He was
married in Chicago, October, 20, 1877, to
Clara Lemien, and his children are : Mrs.
Ella Dietrich, Harry and Marguerite.
Residence: 220 Schiller Street, Chicago,
Illinois. Office address : 420 Chamber of
Coirimerce, Chicago, Illinois.
GOODE, Thomas Alexander:
Insurance president; born in Ashville,
Alabama, December 5, 1865; son of Ed
ward Goode and Martha (Thompson)
Goode. He received his education in var
ious schools in Alabama and Florida, in
cluding two years at Summerlin Institute,
Bartow, Florida. From 1887 to 1892, he
was postmaster, express, and railroad sta
tion agent, at Haskell, Florida. From 1894
to 1896, he was superintendent of agencies
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sociation of Atlanta, Georgia. He was
subsequently agent for the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, winning cash prizes and
loving cup for producing the largest amount
of business, during a given period, of any
agent in the South. He was a member of
the great convention of Equitable Life
Insurance Agents, held at Manhattan
Beach, New York, in September, 1905. He
is now president and director of the South
ern Home Insurance Company. Mr. Goode
is connected with the Masonic Order and
Knights of Pythias ; and is a trustee of
the First Baptist Church of Bartow, Flor
ida; and he is a Democrat in politics. He
married in Fort Meade, Florida, May 30,
1896, Julia Varn. Address : Bartow, Flor
ida.
GOODHUE, Bertram Grosvenor:
Architect; born at Pomfret, Connecticut,
April 28, 1869; son of Charles Wells and
Helen Grosvenor (Eldredge) Goodhue;
educated Russell's Institute, New Haven,
Connecticut. Began professional career as
employe, draftsman and assistant of Ren
wick, Aspinwall & Russell, architects, 1885-
91 ; partner, 1891, with firm of Cram &
Wentworth, of whom present firm of Cram,
Goodhue and Ferguson are successors.
With partners, designed and executed, as
architects, the reconstruction and addition
to United States Military Academy at West
Point; also numerous libraries, churches,
academies and other public and private
buildings. Also did much work in book
types and decorations, and designer of The
Altar Book. Associate member American
Institute Architects; fellow Boston Society
Architects ; member New York Architec
tural League. Author : Mexican Memories ;
contributor to Spanish-Colonial Architec
ture in Mexico (ten volume work by Syl
vester Baxter) ; also to various magazines.
Club : Calumet (New York City) ; Tavern
(Boston). Married, Boston, Massachu-'
setts, April 8, 1902, Lydia T. Bryant. Ad
dress.: 170 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
GOODHUE, Isaac W.:
Lawyer ; born Boston, Massachusetts, No
vember. 22, 1862; son of Henry A. and

Emma (Burdette) Goodhue; educated Har
vard University,, Columbia University
LL.B., 1901 ; Crozier Seminary, B.D., 1890,
Admitted to the bar of the State of New
York, 1901 ; member law firm of Mc-
Kenna & Goodhue; president and di
rector Continental Talc Company. Repub
lican. Member Alumni Association Colum
bia University, Kane Lodge, F. and A. M.,
Bronx Bar Association, North Side Board
of Trade. Club : Graduates. Address : 41
Wall Street, New York City.
GOODING, Frank B. :
Governor of Idaho. He is a lawyer by
profession and an active Republican; and
he was elected governor of Idaho in 1904,
and reelected in 1906 for the term expiring
January, 1909. Address : Boise, Idaho..
GOODLOE, Green Clay:
Colonel United States Marine Corps;
born in Kentucky and served with distinc
tion in the Union army during the Civil
War. Commissioned second lieutenant in
the United States Marine Corps, April 21,
1869; first lieutenant, January 12, 1876;
and ordered to duty at Marine Head
quarters and has since served there; com
missioned to colonel March 3, 1899; major
and paymaster, March 17, 1877; ordered
to Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C,
April 1869; to Fort Myer, October, 1869,
for instructions in Army Code of Signals.
After finishing course, ordered to Brook
lyn, New York, as instructor, March 7,
1871 ; attached to Post ; detached March
24, 1871, and ordered to Annapolis, Mary
land; detached May 15, 1871, and joined
U. S. S. Wachusett, June I, 1871 ; detached
after full cruise of three years, and order
ed Navy Yard, January 2, 1875; March 15
to U. S. S. Michigan. Married Miss Beck,
daughter of Senator Beck of Kentucky.
Address : Marine Headquarters, Washing
ton, D. C.
GOODMAN, Charles Sydney:
Clergyman. He received his education in
St. Augustine College, Canterbury, England,
graduating first class preliminary TIE., and
in 1889 went to Canada, where < he was in
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of Ontario from 1889 to, 1892. He was orderr
ed. deacon and ordained priest in 1899, in
Ontario; was incumbent of St. Andrew's
Deloraine, Rupertland; from 1892 to , 1894 ;
rector of Antigonish in 1894 and 1895;
minister at West. Mono in 1895 and 1896; in
cumbent of All Saints' Church, King, with
St. Stephen's at Maple, in 1896 and 1897,
assistant rector of St. Luke's, Toronto,
Canada, from 1897 to 1902, rector of the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1902 and 1903, of St. Mark's
Church, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1903 to 1905,
of St. James', Zanesvillei Ohio, from 1905
to 1907, and has been associate rector of the
Church of the Ascension in Atlantic City,
New Jersey, since 1907. He is a notable
special preacher to men, and organizer of
Men's Church Clubs. Mr. Goodman is au
thor of: The Marching Orders, and The
Watchword. Address : Church of the As
cension, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
GOODMAN, William Owen:
Lumber merchant; born Wellsboro, Tio
ga County, Pennsylvania, September 25,
1848; son of Owen Bruner and Susan
(Barber) Goodman. His parents died
while he was in his infancy, and he was
reared under the care of his grandparents
and aunts at Columbia, Pennsylvania. He
was educated at the Columbia Institute
and later attended a school ,at Athens,
Pennsylvania. He began his business ca
reer as a clerk in the establishment of his
uncle, General Willison, a lumber dealer
at Athens. In 1868 he removed to Chi
cago, Illinois, where he obtained employ
ment as bookkeeper for Spalding & Porter,
lumber dealers, and later became a sales
man for the same' concern, meeting with
marked success. He left this employment
to represent the interests of Hon. Philetus
Sawyer, and finally began investing in the
lumber business on his own account at
various points in Illinois, Iowa and Ne
braska. In 1878 he became associated with
Philetus Sawyer, his son, Edgar P. Saw
yer, and his brother, James B. Goodman,
in the organization of the lumber dealing
firm of Sawyer, Goodman & Company,

which in 1880 was incorporated as the
Sawyer-Goodman Company, he being made
treasurer of the company. The company
conducts large operations in the lumber re
gions on the Menominee River and its
tributaries, with mills and general office
at Marinette, Wisconsin. He is a Repub
lican and a member of the Union League,
Washington Park, New Illinois Athletic,
and Midlothian Clubs. He married, Octo
ber 31, 1878, Erna M. Sawyer, daughter
of Hon. Philetas Sawyer, United States
Senator from Wisconsin, and has one son:
K. Sawyer. Address : Railway Exchange..
Chicago, Illinois. Residence : 5026 Green
wood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
GOODNOW, Charles W.:
Capitalist; born in Sudbury, Massachu
setts, 1859; son of John B. Goodnow and
Mary B. President of The Kennebunk
Savings Bank; treasurer of The Leatheroid
Manufacturing Company; and director of
the National Fibre Board Company of Bos
ton. Address : Kennebunk, Maine.
GOODRICH, Albert W.:
Capitalist. He is president and chairman
of the board of directors of the Goodrich
Transportation Company; second vice-pres
ident and director of the Chicago City Rail
way Company ; secretary and director of the
Chicago and Milwaukee Transportation
Company, and a director of the Manitou
Steamship Company. His club member
ships embrace the Washington Park, Chi
cago, Calumet, Saddle and Cycle, Fellow
ship, and Chicago Golf Clubs. Address :
foot of Michigan Avenue. Residence: 1474
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
GOODRICH, Alfred John:
Author, musician, composer, and
teacher; bom at Chilo, Ohio, May 8, 1847;
son of Luther Alfred and Dolly (Healy)
Goodrich. He was educated in the public
schools of San Francisco and Sacramento,
California; was a teacher of piano, sing
ing and theory, in Fort Wayne Conserva
tory of Music, in 1876; teacher of singing
and theory in Beethoven Conservatory, St.
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(writing text-books), from 1888 to 1899,
and since 1899 in New York City, asso
ciated with Mrs. Goodrich in conducting
a private music school. He is author of:
Music as a Language; Complete Music
Analysis; Analytical Harmony; Theory of
Interpretation; The Art of Song; Guide
to Memorizing; System of Strict Coun
terpoint (in manuscript) ; and contributor
of articles on the theory, practice and
esthetics of musical art for the New York
Musical Courier since 1894. He is also a
composer of songs and chamber music and
arrangements for orchestra; and his or
chestration of Rheinberger Tarantella was
successfully performed by the exposition
orchestra at St. Louis, 1904. His Analytical
Harmony (used as a text-book here and in
the old world) is written from the com
poser's standpoint, placing the creative ar
tist above the speculative theorist and the
pedagogue. Neither in his Harmony book
nor in his Theory of Interpretation does
he attempt to formulate any arbitrary rules,
but he discovers and explains principles
which are never subject to exceptions; and
he affirms that the conflict between art and
science will -never be reconciled on this plane
of existence. His book on pure counter
point is said to occupy still more advanced
ground. He married in New York City,
May 20, 1874, Florence Ada Backus. Ad
dress : 80 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
City.
GOODRICH, Casper Frederick:
Rear-Admiral United States Navy; born
in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Connect
icut, December 9, 1861 ; Naval Academy,
1861-4; graduated at the head of the class
of 1864; attached to steam frigate Color
ado, flagship European Squadron, 1865-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866;
steamer Frolic, European Squadron, 1867-
8. Commissioned as lieutenant, March 12,
1868; sloop Portsmouth, and steam sloop
Lancaster, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-
71. Commissioned as lieutenant-command
er, December 18, 1868; Naval Academy,
1871-3; Tennessee (second rate), Asiatic
Squadron, 1875-6; Kearsage (third rate),
Asiatic Station, 1876-8; Torpedo Station,

1878-80; Lancaster European Station-, i'88t-
4; Naval Attache staff of Lieutenant-Gen
eral Sir Garnet Wolseley^ during the Tel-
el-Kebir campaign, 1882 ; special instructor
of Ordnance, 1884-6; member of the Endi-
cott Board of Fortifications, 1885. Pro
moted to commander, September, 1884; in
charge Torpedo Station, 1886-9; command
ing Jamestown, November, 1891 td
September, 1892; commanding Constel
lation from September, 1892, to June,
1893 ; commanding Concord, June, 1893,
to 1895; Lecturer at Naval War Col
lege, 1896-7; president Naval War College,
1897 ; Gold Medallist Naval Institute. Com
missioned captain, September, 1897; com
manding St. Louis, from April 24, 1898,
to August 8, 1898; Newark, from August
8, 1898, to September I, 1899; Iowa, from
September 1, 1899, to June 10, 1900; during
Spanish-American War had the first en
gagement with the batteries at Santiago
while cutting cables, aided by the Wom-
patuck; fought the last naval action of the
war at Manzanillo; lecturer at Naval War
College, July 1, 1900. Promoted to rear-
admiral February 17, 1904; in command of
the Pacific Squadron, from August 1, 1904,
to December 28, 1906. In 1907 was order
ed as commandant of the New York Navy
Yard. Admiral Goodrich is the father of
Lieutenant Goodrich, who died from the
result of injuries received from the explos
ion of powder in his turret in target prac
tice on board the Georgia in July, 1907.
Admiral Goodrich's contributions to the
Proceedings of the United States Naval
Institute and to other periodicals have been
read with interest and pleasure by members
of his own and foreign services. Address:
Navy Yard, New York" City.
GOODBICH, Frederick Augustus:
Merchant; born at Pleasant Farm, Mis
souri, April 13, 1859; graduated from the
Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School in
1883. He has been in the pig iron business
ever since; in 1895 established F. A. Good
rich & Company, Detroit, of which he is
vice-president and treasurer; since Octo
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Iron and Steel Company (pig iron, steel
and coke), St. Louis; vice-president and
treasurer of C. M. Hayes & Company, De
troit. Residence: 5260 Westminster Place.
Office address : 601 National Bank of Com
merce Building, St. Louis, Missouri.
GOODRICH, Wallace:
Musician; born in Newton, Massachu
setts, May 27, 1871 ; son of "John B. Good
rich and Anna L. (Woodward) Goodrich.
After graduating from the Newton High
School in 1888, he attended the Royal Aca
demy of Music in Munich in 1894 and 1895 ;
and continued his studies in Paris and
Leipzig from 1895 to 1897. From 1902 to
1907 he was conductor of choral works of
the Worcester County (Massachusetts)
Musical Association, and was also the
founder and conductor of the Choral Art
Society of Boston, Massachusetts. In 1907
he founded and conducted the Jordan Hall
Orchestral Concerts in Boston, and became
conductor of the Cecilia Society. He has
been organist of Trinity Church, Boston,
since 1902 and organist at the concerts
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and
since 1897 has been a member of the faculty
of the New England Conservatory of JVfusic,
of which he is now the dean. He is a mem
ber of the St. Botolph and Tavern Clubs
of Boston. Mr. Goodrich married at Man
chester, Massachusetts, April 20, 1904,
Madeleine Boardman. Address: 244 Beacon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GOODSELL, Daniel Ayres:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ; born in Newburg, New York, No
vember 5, 1840; son of Buel Goodsell and
Adeline (Ferris) Goodsell. He was edu
cated in Clinton .Academy, Keeseville, New
York; graduated from New York Uni
versity in 1859; and the degree of S.T.D
was conferred upon him by the Wesleyan
University, Connecticut ; D.D. by New York
University; and LL.D. by Dickinson Col
lege, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He entered
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1859, was ordained in 1861 ; filled
various pastorates, became literary editor of

the Christian Advocate in New York City
in 1880, and afterward secretary of the
Board of Education of the Methodist Epis
copal Church until elected by the General
Conference of 1888 to the office of bishop.
He traveled in China, Japan, Korea, and
Europe three times, and resided in Europe
two years. He is author of: Nature and
Character at Granite Bay; The Things
Which Remain; and Peter the Hermit;
and also of numerous contributions to re
views and other periodicals. In politics he
is an Independent. He is a member of the
Society of American Wars ; Sons of the
Revolution ; and the Zeta Psi fraternity ;
and is trustee of the Drew Theological
Seminary, and Wilbraham Academy. Bish
op Goodsell married in Whitestone, New
York, June 6, i860, Sarah F. Loweree, and
they have two children : Anne G, and
Bertha P. Residence : 16 Harris Street,
Brookline, Massachusetts. Address : 36
Bromfield Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GOODSFEED, Joseph Horace:
Treasurer; born at East Haddam, Con
necticut, January 14, 1845; son of George
E. Goodspeed and Nancy Green (Hayden)
Goodspeed. He was educated at Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut, in the class
of 1866, did not graduate but afterwards
(1901) received the degree of M.A. Was
associated with Kountze Brothers, from
1865 to 1870, the Joy Railroads of the West,
as General Auditor from 1870 to 1876;
supervisor of Railroad Accounts, State of
Massachusetts, from 1876 to 1881 ; general
auditor of the Mexican Central Railway
Company, from -1881 to 1887; treasurer of
the West End Street Railway Company,
from 1887 to 1898, and since 1898 of the
Massachusetts Electric Companies. He is
treasurer and director of the Boston and
Revere Electric Street Railway Company,
Hyde Park Electric Light Company, Nashua
Street Railway Company; treasurer of the
Massachusetts Electric Companies, and
Newport and Fall River Street Railway
Company ; assistant treasurer and director
of the Boston and Northern Street Railway
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way Company, and trustee of the Boston
Penny Savings Bank. He is a Republican
in politics and an Episcopalian in his re
ligious faith. Is a member of the Society
of Mayflower Descendants, and the Algon
quin, Allston Golf, Woodland Golf Clubs
of Boston, Massachusetts. He married in
Boston, January 27, 1887, Arabel Morton
and they have two children : Morton Good-
speedy born in 1895, and Joseph H. Good-
speed, born in 1899. Residence: 279 New
bury Street, Boston. Address : 84 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GOODSPEED, Thomas Wakefield:
Clergyman and secretary and registrar of
the University of Chicago; born in Glens
Falls, New York, September 4, 1842; son
of Stephen Goodspeed and Jane (Johnson)
Goodspeed. After spending three years at
the old University of Chicago, Mr. Good-
speed was graduated from the University
of Rochester in 1868, and at the Rochester
Theological Seminary in 1866 ; and received
the degree of D.D. from the University of
Chicago. He was pastor of the Vermont
Street Baptist Church of Quincy, Illinois,
from 1866 to 1872; the Second Baptist
Church of Chicago, Illinois, from 1872 to
1876 ; secretary of the Baptist Union Theo
logical Seminary from 1876 to 1889, and
has been secretary of the University of
Chicago since 1890, and its registrar since
1895. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a trustee of the Chicago Baptist Hospital,
the Baptist Theological Union, the Rush
Medical College, the Frances Shimer Acad
emy at Mount Carroll, Illinois, the Chi
cago Manual Training School Association,
and the University of Chicago. He is a
mernber of the Quadrangle Club of Chi
cago and was formerly president of the
village of Morgan Park, Illinois. Dr.
Goodspeed married at Panton,, Vermont,
September 4, 1866, Mary Ellen Ten Broeke,
and they have two sons: Charles T. B.,
born in 1869, and Edgar Johnson, born in
1872. Residence: 5630 Kimbark Avenue.
Chicago. Address: The University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

GOODWIN, Charles J.:
Professor of Greek,. Lehigh University,
South Bethlehem, 'Pennsylvania; born at
Farmington, Maine, March 13, 1866; grad
uated at Bowdoin College, where he was
awarded highest prizes in Greek, Latin,
and English composition, in 1887; A.M.
and Valedictorian, 1890; student, scholar
and fellow of the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity; Ph.D., 1890; afterward studied at the
University of Berlin ; professor of Greek,
Cornell College, Iowa, 1890-1892; instruct
or, Wesleyan University, 1892-1895; profes
sor, St. Stephen's College, 1898-1899; Le
high University, 1899 to date. Member
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; of the Ameri
can Philological Association; president of
the Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Pennsylvania
(Lehigh University). He has contribut
ed to the American Journal of Philology^
Andover Review, New World, Sewanee
Review, Zeitschriff fur Vergleichende Lit-
teraturgeschichte ; International Journal of
Ethics ; also published Apollonius Rhodius :
His Figures, Syntax, and Vocabulary
(Baltimore, 1891), and The Rose and the
Thorn; A Tale of Modern Life (New
York, 1900). Married, October 23, 1902,
Ellen Converse Blagden, who died Decem
ber 21, 1904. Address: Bethlehem, Penn
sylvania.
GOODWIN, Harold:
Lawyer; born in Brunswick, Maine, No
vember 15, 1850 ; son of Rev. Daniel Raynes ""
Goodwin and Mary Randall (Merrick)
Goodwin. Entered the University of Penn
sylvania in 1866 and received the degree
of A.M. in 1873 and LL.B. in 1874, was
also awarded the Senior English prize, the
Senior Greek prize, (equally with Henry
G. Ward), the Alumni Senior Latin prize
and was the Greek Salutatorian. Mr.
Goodwin is a member of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
the American Philosophical, the National
Geographic, the New England Society of
Pennsylvania and Phi Beta Kappa Societies.
He is an Overseer of the Divinity School of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in Phila
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Board of the Western Temporary Home.
Was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1890. In
politics he is an active Republican and
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Married Julia Murray McIIvaine,
who died in 1896; married Mary Shippen
(Spencer)' in August, 1901. Has four
children: Mary M., Harold, Jr., Mar
garet S., and Daniel R. Residence: 3927
Locust Street, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress: 133 South Twelfth Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
GOODWIN, Nathaniel C:
Comedian; born Boston, Massachusetts,
July 25, 1857; educated in public schools.
Began career by giving impersonations of
well-known men at private entertainments;
has appeared as Mr. Golightly in Lend Me
Five Shillings'; Modus in The Hunchback,
the Gravedigger in Hamlet (Cincinnati
Dramatic Festival, 1883) ; has played in
England as well as United States ; has pro
duced many original plays, including The
Nominee; The Gold Mine; A Gilded Fool;
In Mizzoura; Ambition; An American
Citizen; The Bookmaker; Nathan Hale;
Cowboy and the Lady; When We Were
Twenty-One; The Altar of Friendship;
Hobbies; The Ramblers; Member from
Slocum; Ourselves; The Skating Rink;
Turned Up; also Confusion (burlesque of
Sir Henry Irving in The Bells;) ornate
revivals of The Merchant of Venice and
A Midsummer Night's Dream; and an
original comic opera, Big Pony. , Married,
first, Eliza Weathe'rsby, an English act
ress, who died; second, 1898, Maxine El
liott. Address: 326 West End Avenue,
New York City.
GOODWIN, Warren F.:
Fire underwriter;' born Boston, -Massa
chusetts, 1857; graduated Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute; 1873. Entered -ii&fire^ini
surance "business, entering New York office
of London Assurance ; remained until 1882,
when entered agency department of North
ern of London; appointed, January 1',- 1887,
manager Central Department ' (Ohio, Indi

ana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Arkansas), with headquarters at Cin
cinnati, until July I, 1893, when Central, and
Northwestern Departments were consoli
dated as the Western Department, with
headquarters at Chicago, of which he and
W. D. Crooke were appointed associate man
agers. In 1894, the Union of London estab
lished a Western Department at Chicago, to
be managed by him in association with Hall
& Henshaw, the United States managers;
in 1901, when the Western Department was
consolidated with general office at New
York City, came here, becoming member
Hall & Henshaw. Address : 35 Pine
Street, New York City.
GOBDON, Armistead Churchill:
Lawyer and author; born in Albemarle
County, Virginia, December 20, 1855; son
of George Loyall Gordon and Mary Long
(Daniel) Gordon. He was educated in
private schools and at the University of
Virginia. Mr. Gordon has practiced law
since November 1, 1879, and is of the firm
of Patrick and Gordon. He has been
Mayor of Staunton, Commonwealth attor
ney for that city and for the County of
Augusta, counsel for the City of Staunton;
member of the Board of Visitors both of
the University of -Virginia and of the
College of William and Mary; rector of
the University of Virginia (from the
College of William and Mary, he re
ceived the degree of LL.D.) ; chair
man of the Virginia State Library
Board. He is a member of the Virginia
Historical Society, the New Spalding Club
of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the Chi Phi
College fraternity. He is author of:
Befo' de War; Echoes in Negro Dialect,
with Thomas Nelson Page (Scribner's) ;
For Truth and Freedom; Poems of
Commemoration ; Congressional Currency,
an Outline of the . Federal Money
System (Putnam's) ; The Gift of the Morn
ing Star, (Funk and Wagrialls). -He is
a Democrat in politics and an Episcopalian
in religion. . He iriarned at Staunton, Vir
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five children: Margaret Douglas, born Sep
tember 25, 1891 ; Mary Daniel, born Octob
er 19, 1893; James Lindsay, born May 19,
1895; Armistead Churchill, born July 9,
1897, and George Loyall, born November
26, 1899. Residence: 330 East Beverley
Street, Staunton. Office address: 6 and 7
Law Building, Staunton, Virginia.
GOBDON, Clarence: „
Author; born in New York City, April
28, 1835; son of George and Maria Re-
gina (Stackhouse) Gordon. Was educated
in private school, Savannah, Georgia; Mt.
Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing;
graduated from Lawrence Scientific School,
Harvard University, with the degree of
S.B. in 1855 ; special studies in civil engin
eering. He engaged in journalism and
country life until 1879; then, special agent
in charge of investigation of live meat
stock of the United States, especially of
ranching industries west of the. Mississippi
(for United States census) ; from 1879 to
1882, broker in Southern real estate invest
ments, from 1885 to 1890; resident manager
(head worker) East Side House Social
Settlement, from 1894 to 1903; member of
the advisdry committee of People's Insti
tute. Is an Independent in politics and
an Episcopalian in his religious connec
tions. Is author of Christmas at Under-
Tor, a novelette, 1864; Our Fresh and Salt
Tutors, 1866; Two Lives in One, 1870;
Boarding School Days, 1873 ; contributor to
Atlantic, Knickerbocker, Round Table,
Young Folks, Riverside, Appleton's, Na
tion, Evening Post, Harvard Graduates'
Magazine, Boston Transcript, etc.; juve
nile articles under pen-name Vieux Mous
tache. His favorite recreations are liter
ature and country life. He married at
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, May 1, j86i,
Frances Gore Fessenden, and they have two
children: Mrs. Roger E. Tileston, Mrs.
M. Gordon Smedberg. Address : Vine-
Lea, Newburgh, New York.
GORGAS, William Crawford:
Military surgeon and sanitarian, born
in Mobile, Alabama, October 3, 1854 ; son of
Josiah Gorgas, of the Confederate States

Army, and Amelia (Gale) Gorgas. After
graduation from the University of the
South as A.B., and in medicine from the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1879,
he was interne for a year in Bellevue Hos
pital, New York, then joined the medical
corps of the United States Army with the
rank of first lieutenant, promoted to. cap
tain in 1885, major in 1898, and, by special
act of 1903, colonel for his valuable work
in the extirpation of yellow fever at Hav
ana during the American occupation of
Cuba, Dr. Gorgas has been a leader in the
great advance made during the past de
cade in the pathology of yellow fever, ma
laria and the other febrile diseases of the
tropics, and the measures for the extirpa
tion of the bacteria of these epidemic
scourges and the various species of mos
quitoes by which they are- disseminated:
For this reason he was appointed to his
present position as the chief sanitary officer
of the Isthmian Canal, -in which his work
has been most efficient in hygenic results.
The University of Pennsylvania conferred
upon him in 1903 the honorary degree of
ScD. He married in Cincinnati, Septem
ber 15, 1885, Marie Cook Doughty. Ad
dress : Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama.
GOSS, Chauncey Porter:
Manufacturer; born in Rochester, New
York, August 5, 1838; son of Ephraim Goss
and Margaret (Porter) Goss. He received
his education in District School No. 6,
Pittsford, New York. He entered the em
ploy of the Scovill Manufacturing Com
pany, of Waterbury, Connecticut, January
15, 1862, and has been . in the service of
that company continuously since that time.
Previous to 1862, after leaving school, he
was engaged in work on the Erie Canal
and also in a warehouse vand spent two
years in a country store at Pittsford, New
York, also spent some time in buying' and
shipping produce' to firms' in New York
City. Mr. Goss is president, treasurer and
general manager of Scovill Manufacturing
Company, Waterbury, Connecticut; is a
director of Colonial Trust Company, Water
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Works, New Britain, Connecticut. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religion a
Congregationalist. His favorite recreation is
riding, and he is a member, of the Water
bury and Home Clubs of Waterbury. Mr.
Goss married in Pittsford, New York, Feb
ruary 23, 1864, Caroline Amelia Ketcham,
and they have seven children : Edward Otis,
Caroline Ryan, John Henry, Mary Eliza
beth, Chauncey Porter, Jr., Margaret Por
ter and George Augustus. Address : Wa
terbury, Connecticut.
GOSSLER, Philip G.:
Mechanical engineer; born in Columbia,
Pennsylvania, August 6, 1870 ; son of Philip
and Emily (Washabaugh) Gossler. Grad
uated from Pennsylvania State College, as
B.S. in 1890, and E.E. in 1892; took post
graduate course at Columbia University in
1893. Was in engineering department of
Chester (Pennsylvania) Foundry and
Machine Company and of Edison General
Electric Company in 1890 and 1891 ; as
sistant engineer of the United Electric
Light and Power Company, New York
City, from 1891 to 1895; superintendent
and engineer Royal Electric Company,
Montreal, Canada, from 1895 to 1901 ; gen
eral superintendent and engineer of Mon
treal Light, Heat and Power Company,
from 1901 to 1904; second vice-president
of J. G. White & Company, New York
City, since 1904; second vice-president and
director of Canadian White Company,
Limited ; vice-president and director of
Wilkes-Barre Gas and Electric Company,
and Tri-City Railway and Light Company;
president and director of San Juan Light
and Transit Company; Monterey Light and
Power Company; the Helena Light and
Railway Company; Porto Rico Power
and Light Company; The Eastern Pennsyl
vania Railways Company ; director of Por
to Rico Railway Company. He is a mem
ber of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, National Electrical Light As
sociation, Canadian Society of Civil En
gineers, New York Electrical Society (vice-
president), Canadian Electrical Association
(past president), Pennsylvania Society and

the Pilgrims Society of America, and is
a member of the Engineers, Lawyers', New
York Athletic and Dunwoodie Country
Clubs and of the St. James Club of Mon
treal. Mr. Gossler married in Brooklyn,
November 26, 1895, Mary Claflin, and they
have three children : Mary, Katherine and
Philip. Address : 43 Exchange Place,
New York City.
GOTTLIEB, J, Adelphi:
Physician, educator; born Vienna, Aus
tria, May 10, 1870; son of Adolf and
Karoline (von Sonnenberg) Gottlieb; edu
cated public schools of New York City,
University of the City of New York; Na
tional University, Cleveland (Ohio), Uni
versity of Medicine and Surgery, New
York State University; University Medical
College, New York City; F. S. Sc, Lon
don, 1891, M.A., "D.C.L.; 1897, LL.D., 1898.
Clinical service in department of genito
urinary diseases, Chambers Street Hospital ;
department of surgery, laryngology and
ophthalmology O. D. P. department Belle
vue Hospital; general medicine, obstetrics,
dermatology University Medical College;
professor forensic medicine New York
Medico-Legal Institute Laboratory; exam
iner in lunacy Supreme Court State of
New York; honorary representative for
United States of Society of Science of
England; instructor ambulance corps Na
tional Guard New York, 1889-92; brigad
ier-general and surgeon-in-chief, command
ing auxiliary military medical corps, 1892-
1900; surgeon major-general,, commandant
national volunteers emergency service since
1900 ; consulting physician Rescue Home ;
medical officer German Immigrant Home.
Member Military Service Institution of '
United States'; New York County Medical
Society; fellow- New York State Medical
Society; member American Medical Assoc
iation; Organizer Medical Association of
the Greater City of New York; American
Public Health Association; American and
Royal Microscopical Society; American
Geological Society; Alumni Society C. U.
M.S., etc' Member Masonic order, thirty-
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co-Legal Institute; president civil corpora
tion national volunteer emergency service.
Honorary member (major) First -Battery,
First Brigade National Guard State of
New York. Author: History of Masonic
Rite of Memphis, 1899; Vital Phenomena,
Metabolism, Physiological Therapeutics,
etc. ; - associate editor Gaillard's Southern
Medicine. Address:. 241 West One Hun
dred and Thirty-seventh Street, New York
City.
GOTTSCHALK, Alfred L. M.:
United States consul-general; born New
York City, February 8, 1873; son of L. G.
and Louise de L. (Baucher) Gottschalk;
educated at Kenyon College, 1891-94; New
York University, 1896, and abroad. Was
newspaper and magazine correspondent; at
tached to General Brooke's Division (Porto
Rico campaign, 1898) as representative New
York Herald; author of a book of
verse and magazine articles, etc., and also
engaged in sugar growing in Santo Dom
ingo. In 1900, appointed as collector of
customs at Monte Cristi, Santo Domingo,
for Santo Domingo Improvement Com
pany; appointed consul at San Juan del
Norte, Nicaragua, April 25, 1902 ; consul at
Lallao, Peru, June 23, 1903; promoted to
ponsul-general at Peru, May 22, 1905;
consul-general at Mexico City, December
20, 1905. Member Seventh Regiment Na
tional Guard State of New York, Geo
graphical Society of Lima, Peru, National
Geographic Society, Geographical Society
of Mexico. Clubs : Lambs', Cosmos, Delta
Kappa Epsilon. Address : Mexico City,
Mexico. GOULD, Charles Newton:
Geologist; born near Lower Salem,
Ohio, July 22, 1868; son of Simon
Gilbert Gould and Anna Arvilla (Rob
inson) Gould. He received the de
gree of B.S. in regular course, from South
west Kansas College, in • 1899, and A.M.
from the University of Nebraska in 1900,
and later pursued studies at Johns Hop
kins University, and the University of Ne
braska, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from

the institution last named in 1906. Mr.
Gould was field assistant of the United
States Geological Survey from 1888 to 1903
and was hydrographer in the same con
nection from 1903 to 1906. ' In 1900 he be
came fellow in geology at the University of
Nebraska; was instructor in geology at the
University of Oklahoma from 1900 to 1903 ;
and since 1903 has been professor of geol
ogy in the same institution. He has writ
ten about forty geological articles, includ
ing : The Dakota Cretaceous of Kansas and
Nebraska, Geology of 'Oklahoma; Gypsum
Deposits of Oklahoma ; Oil and Gas in Ok
lahoma, and articles on the Geology and
Water Resources of Oklahoma, and the
Panhandle of Texas. He is a fellow of
the Geological Society of America, and a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, and the
Sigma Xi honor society. Dr. Gould is re
garded as an authority in all matters re
lating to the geology, water resources and
mineral deposits of the Southern part of
the Great Plains. He married at Normah,
Oklahoma, September 23, 1903, Nina L.
Swan, and they have two children: Lois
Hazel, born in 1905 and Donald Boyd,
born in 1907. Address: University of
Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
GOULD, Edwin:
Capitalist; born New York City, Feb
ruary 25, 1866; son of Jay and Helen Day
(Miller) Gould; graduated Columbia, A.B.,
1888. Served in Troop A and Seventy-
first Regiment, National Guard, New York.
President St. Louis and Southwestern Rail
way, Bowling Green Trust Conipany, West
ern Coal and Mining Company, Para-
Gould Southwestern Railway, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas, Railway; vice-president Utah
Fuel Company, American Writing Paper
Company; director Missouri Pacific Rail
way , Company, International & Great
Northern Railroad Company, Texas Paci
fic Railway Company, Western Union Tele
graph Company, Manhattan Railway Com
pany, Colorado Midland Railway Conipany,
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Terminal Railroad Coal, Company, Rio
Grande Southern Railway. Company, West
Side Belt Railroad Company, Western
Maryland Railroad Company, Wheeling &
Lake Erie , Railroad Company, California
and Texas Railway Construction Company,
Mercantile National Bank, Mercantile
Trust Company, Virginia Passenger and
Power Company, American Telegraph and
Cable Company, Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, International Ocean Telegraph
Company, Standard Milling Company.
Member New York Stock Exchange, Chi
cago Stock Exchange, Society Colonial
Wars, Military Order Foreign Wars, Sons
of Revolution. Clubs: Union League,
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, American
Yacht, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht,
New York Athletic, Essex County Country,
Knollwood Golf, Larchmont, Jekyl Island,
Automobile of America, Army and Navy,
Country, Ardsley, (New York City) ; Chi
cago, (Chicago); St. Louis (St. Louis).
Married at New York City, October 27,
1892, Sarah C. Shrady. Residence : Ards-
ley-on-Hudson, and 730 Fifth Avenue, New
York City. Address : 195 Broadway, New
York City.
GOULD, Elgin B, L. :
President City and Suburban Homes
Company; born Oshawa, Ontario, August
15, i860; son of John T. and Emily A.
Gould; graduated Victoria University, A.
B., 1881; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1886.
Lecturer at Johns Hopkins, 1892-97; pro
fessor at University of Chicago 1895.
President City and Suburban Homes Com
pany from 1896; also president New
Netherland Bank. Was appointed cham
berlain of City of New York by
Mayor Seth Low, taking office January
1, 1902, and continuing it to January 1,
1904; was given a complimentary dinner
January 7, ' 1902, by the citizens of New
York City, in recognition of distinguished
municipal service. He was appointed in
1907 by Governor Hughes as a member of
the Commission to Revise the New York
Gity Charter. Ex-vice-president Ameri
can Economic Association; fellow of

d'Economie Politique and Societe de
Statistique de Paris. Author of various
works on social and economic subjects.
Episcopalian ; vestryman and . treasurer St.
Bartholomew's Church. Clubs : Century,
Church, City, Barnard, Natipnal Arts, Balti
more Country and St. Andrew's Golf. Resi
dence: 57 West Fifty-second Street.
Address: 281 Fourth Avenue, and 41
West Thirty-fourth Street, New York
City.
GOULD, Frank Jay:
Capitalist; born New York City, Decem
ber 4, 1878; son of Jay and Helen Day
(Miller) Gould; graduated University of
New York, A.B., 1900. First vice-president
of several corporations, including Missouri
Pacific, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern, Texas & Pacific; and International
Railroad, of which George Jay Gould is
president; also of Western Union Tele
graph and other companies. Clubs : Union
League, Atlantic Yacht, Athletic, Lawyers',
New York Yacht. Married, 1901, Helen
M. Kelly. Residence : 834 Fifth Avenue,
Address : 195 Broadway, New York City.
GOULD, George J.:
Capitalist; born New York City, Febru
ary 6, 1864; son of Jay and Helen Day
(Miller) Gould; educated in Dr. Corn
wall's private school. At close of school
course, preferred business to college; soon
after became clerk in banking house of W.
E. Connor & Company, in which his father
was a partner, and when latter retired,
December, 1885, became member of the
firm in father's place. Became member
New York Stock Exchange, February,
1886; soon after retiring from the Connor
firm. Became vice-president, 1888, and
president, 1893, Little Rock & Fort Smith
Railroad Company; also, since 1893, presi
dent and director Missouri Pacific, Texas
and Pacific, International and Great North
ern, St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway Companies. Also chairman Board
Directors Wabash Railroad Company,. Den
ver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, and
Rio Grande Western Railway Company,
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way Company. Also president and dir
ector Arkansas Midland Railway Company,
Coal Belt Railway Company, Fort Smith
Suburban Railway Company, International
Ocean Telegraph Company, Kansas & Ar
kansas Valley Railway Company, Kansas
City Northwestern Railway Company, Little
Rock Junction Railway Company, Pine
Bluff & Western Railroad Company, Se-
dalia, Warsaw & Southwestern Railway
Company, Weatherford and Mineral Wells
and Northwestern Railway Company; vice-
president and director Western Union Tele
graph Company, Rio Grande Southern Rail
road, K-insas Citv Southern Railroad, dir
ector American District Telegraph Com
pany, Gold and Stock Telegraph Com
pany, American Telegraph and Cable
Company, American Union Telegraph
Company, Atlantic and Pacific Tele
graph Company, New York Mutual
Telegraph Company, New York Telephone
Company, Southern & Atlantic Telegraph
Company, Washington & New Orleans
Telegraph Company, Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, Colorado Midland Railway Com
pany, Eldorado & Bastrop Railway Com
pany, Galveston, Houston & Henderson
Railroad Company, Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railway Company, Pittsburgh Ter
minal Railroad & Coal Company, Wabash
Pittsburgh Terminal Railway Company,
West Virginia Central & Pittsbureh Rail
way Company, Western Maryland Railroad
Companv, Western Pacific Railway Com
pany, Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Company, Bowling Green Trust Company,
Continental Trust Company of Baltimore,
Mercantile Trust Company, National Bank
of Commerce, National Surety Company,
Utah Fuel Company, Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, Davis Coal and Coke Com
pany, Chicago Elevator Company, Kansas-
Missouri Elevator Company, Conried Met
ropolitan Opera Company. Member Sons
of Revolution, Society Foreign Wars.
Recreations : Riding, yachting, polo; has
laid out magnificent polo field near resi
dence at Lakewood, New Jersey, and main
tains fine stud of polo ponies : has one of
the finest ocean-going yachts afloat. Club's :

New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Larch
mont, New York, New York Athletic,
Rockaway Hunt, City Midday, Automobile
of America, Ardsley, Jekyl Island, Country.
Married, New York City, 1886, Edith M.
Kingdon; and they have seven children:
Kingdon, Jay, Marjorie, Vivian, George,
Edith, and Gloria. Residence: Georgian
Court, Lakewood, New Jersey. Address:
195 Broadway, New York City.
GOULD, Howard:
Capitalist; born in New York City in
1870; son of late Jay and Helen Day (Mil
ler) Gould. Received private education.
Member New York Stock Exchange since
1898; director in railway, telegraph, and
financial corporations ; won Lord Dun-
raven's challenge cup with yacht Niagara.
Married, October 12, 1898, Viola Katherine
Clemmons. Address : Irvington-on-Hud-
son, New York.
GOULDEN, Joseph A.:
Congressman; born in Adams County,
Pennsylvania, August 1, 1844; served in
the Navy during 1864 and 1865 ; was a
member of the board of managers, State
Reformatory at Morganza, Pennsylvania,
commissioner and trustee of the public
schools of New York City for ten years;
is a member of the board of trustees, Sol- '
diers' Home, Bath, New York; was sec
retary and a member of the commission
that erected the soldiers' and sailors' mon
ument, by the city of New York, in River
side Park. He was elected to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Eighteenth New York District. In
politics he is a Democrat. He married,
December, 1867, Isabelle Allwein. Resi
dence: .2433 Creston Avenue, Fordham.
Office : 180 Broadway, New York City.
GOVE, William Henry:
Lawyer and business man ; born in South
Berwick, Maine, September 4, 1851 ; son
of Levi Gove and Mary (Meader) Gove;
grandson of Joseph and Mehitable (Var
ney) Meader, and of Moses and Hannah
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Gove, who came from England about 1647,
and settled in Charlestown. Mr. Gove was
brought up ,on his father's farm, with few
school privileges beyond the winter dis
trict school, until he was sixteen years pld,
when' he was a clerk in a law office and a
pupil in the Lynn High School, where he
graduated in 1869. He paid for his tuition
at Harvard, where he was graduated A.B..
1876, LL.B., 1877. He practiced law. Of
fice in Lynn and Salem, 1877-88, as a part
ner of John W. Porter, and alone, 1888-
1900. He was a member of the school
board of Lynn, 1878-81 ; alderman, 1894-96,
and president of the board of aldermen,
1895-96. He was a justice of the peace;
a representative in the General Court, 1903-
04, where he served in the judiciary com
mittee of the house. He is a thirty-third
degree Mason, and an Odd Fellow of high
official position. He is a director of the
Essex Institute, Salem; a member of the
Salem Club. He became president and gen
eral manager of the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Company late in 1900, through
the death of his wife's brother, and he is
now successfully conducting that rapidly
increasing business. He was married, Jan
uary 5, 1882, to Caroline C, daughter of
Isaac and Lydia (Estos) Pinkham, and
they had four children. Address : 284 La
fayette Street, Salem, Massachusetts.
GBABAU, Amadeus William:
Professor of palaeontology, Columbia Uni
versity; born Cedarburgh, Wisconsin, Jan
uary 9, 1870; son of Professor William
and Maria (von Rohr) Grabau; graduated
Massachusetts -Institute Technology, S.B.,
1896; Harvard, S.M., 1898, S.D, 1900.
Formerly professor geology Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and lecturer in geo
logy Tufts College. Fellow Geological
Society of America, A.A.A.S. and fellow
and vice-president New York Academy of
Sciences, and chairman of section; member
Boston Society of Natural History, Buffalo
Society of Natural Sciences. Coeditor :
Guide to Localities, illustrating the geology,
marine zoology and botany of . Boston.
Author: Geology and Palaeontology of

Eighteen-Mile Creek and the Lake Shore
of Erie County, New York (Buffalo So
ciety Natural Sciences) ; Guide to the Geo
logy and PalEeontology of Niagara Falls
(University State ' New York Museum
Bulletin, 1901 ) ; Phylogeny of Fusus and
Its Allies (Smithsonian Institute, 1904) ;
Guide to the Geology and Palaeontology of
the Schoharie Region in Eastern New
York (University State of New York Mu
seum, 1906), and numerous scientific pap
ers. Married, Boston, 1901, Mary Antin.
Residence : Eightieth Street and Eleventh
Avenue, Brooklyn. Address : Columbia
University, New York City.
GBACE, Joseph P.:
President W. R. Grace & Company;
born Great Neck, New York, June 29,
1872; son of William R. and Lilias (Gil
christ) Grace; graduated Columbia, A.B.,
1894; vice-president Ingersoll-Rand Com
pany; trustee Emigrant Industrial Savings
Bank, Lincoln National Bank, Lincoln Safe
Deposit Company, New York Trust Com
pany, Terminal Warehouse Company, Kings
County Trust Company ; director New York
and Pacific Steamship Company, National
City Bank, Ingersoll-Rand Company, and
W. R. Grace & Company. Clubs : Uni
versity, Racquet and Tennis, Meadow
Brook, Alpha Delta Phi, Catholic. Resi
dence : 31 East Seventy-ninth Street. Ad
dress: 1 Hanover Square, New York City.
GRACE, Morgan H. :
Merchant; born at Wellington, New Zea
land, April 9, 1880; son of Hon. Morgan
S. Grace, C.M.G., Count of the Holy Roman
Empire, surgeon-general of New Zealand
Forces, M.L.C., and Agnes Mary (Johns
ton) Grace. He was educated in St. Pat
rick's College, Wellington, New Zealand;
was treasurer of the Wellington City Tram
ways, from 1896 to 1898 ; employee of W. R.
Grace and Conipany, New York City, from
1898 to 1902 ; vice-president . and treasurer
of Edmund Mortimer and Company, from
1902 to, 1905; president and treasurer of
the Coe-Mortimer Company, New York,
since 1905 ; also president of the Land Com
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Smith Company; director af Phosphate
Mining Company and of the Medulla Phos
phate Company. He is a member of
Squadron A of the National Guard of New
York. His favorite recreations are polo,
lawn tennis. Mr. Grace married in New
York City, April 27, 1904, Ruth Agnes
Eden, and they have one son, Morgan H.
Grace, Jr., born in 1906. Address: Great
Neck, Long Island.
GBACE, Oliver J.:
Real estate dealer; born in St. Louis,
Missouri, October 17; 1876; son of the late
P. F. Grace, president of the Grace and
Sons Realty Company, and Margaret M.
(Keane) Grace. He was educated in the
city schools, the St. Louis University . and
Christian Brothers' College, and eight years
ago entered the business of the Grace and
Sons Realty Company, of which he is now
secretary. Mr. Grace was elected in 1904
as a representative from the Sixth District
of St. Louis, to the Missouri Legislature.
He is a Republican in politics. In the sena
torial contest he was a strong supporter of
R. C. Kerens for United States Senator.
Address : 4386 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis,
Missouri.
GBACEY, Samnel L.:
Consular official ; born in Pennsylvania.
Appointed consul at Foochow, May 27,
1890; retired December 31, 1893; reap
pointed Apnl 5, 1897. Salarv $4,500 per
annum. Address : Foochow, China. -
GBACEY, Wilbur T,:
Consular official ; born in Massachusetts.
Appointed marshal at Foochow, April 1,
1899; also vice-consul at Foochow, July 31,
1899; vice and deputy consul, May 2, 1902:
vice and deputy consul at Nanking, October
6, 1904; marshal and vice and deputy con
sul at Foochow, August 28, 2905; vice.and
deputy consul-general at Hongkong, No
vember 13^ igos; consul at Tsingtau,. June
22, 1906. .Salary $4,000 per annum. Ad
dress : Tsingtau, China.

GRADY, Thomas F. :
Lawyer, State senator; born New York
City, November 29, 1853; educated De La
Salle Institute: and St. James' Church
Parochial School (AM., Manhattan College,
1880); studiid law iri offices of Middle-
brook, & Phillips, and of William C. Whit
ney, corporation counsel; admitted to bar,
1883. Member Assembly, 1877, 1878, 1879;
State senator, 1882, 1883, 1889;, police jus
tice, 1891-95 ; elected State senator, 1894,
and has been reelected hiennially since; up
to and including election of 1906; for many
vears prominent member Tammany Society;
leader of Democratic minority in Senate
since 1899; has been a prominent delegate
to many Democratic State Conventions and
conspicuous figure at the National Con
vention, and has been chief speaker for
Tammany Hall at many State conventions;
since session of 1902, member Senate Com
mittees on Rules, Finance, Judiciary and
Cities. Address : 74 Broadway, New York
City.
GRAFF, Joseph V.:
Congressman; born at Terre Haute, In
diana, July 1, 1854; graduated at the Terre
Haute high school at the age of sixteen
years ; attended Wabash College, at Craw
fordsville, Indiana, one year, but never
completed a collegiate course; studied law
and was admitted to the bar while living
at Delavan, Illinois, in 1879: was a dele
gate to the national Republican conven
tion at Minrieapolis in 1892; had never
before held a public office except president
of the board of education, which position
he held at the time of his election to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, but has engaged in
the practice of the law ever since his ad
mission to the bar; was elected to the
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses. Address: Peoria, Illinois.
GRAFLY, Charles:
...Sculptor; .born at . Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, December. 3, 1862; son of Charles
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educated at the Philadelphia public schools
and studied sculpture in Paris under Chapu
and Dampt from 1888 until 1902 and later
at the Spring Garden Institute, and at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. He is instructor in sculpture
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
and curator of sculpture at the Memorial
Hall in Philadelphia. Mr. Grafly has done
much notable work in bronze figures, groups
and busts and is represented in permanent
collections in the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts and in the Detroit Museum
of Fine Arts. He received honorable men
tion at the Paris Salon in 1891, and the
Temple Trust Fund Philadelphia in 1892,
medal at the World's Columbian Exposition
in 1893, silver medal at the Atlanta Ex
position in 1895, the Converse Gold Medal
from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1899,
and gold medals at the Paris Exposition
in 1900, at the Charleston Exposition and
at the Buffalo Exposition in 1901. He was
besides a member of the International Jury
of Awards at the St. Louis Exposition in
1904. He has traveled much abroad, and
during the years 1888-1896 visited ail the
principal art centres in Europe. He is a
fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts and a member of the National
Academy of Design, of the Architectural
League of New York, of the National
Sculpture Society, and of the Art Club of
Philadelphia. He was married at Phila
delphia, June 7, 1895, to Frances Sekeles,
of Corinth, Mississippi, and has one daught
er Dorothy (aged eleven). Residence: 2140
North Twelfth Street. Address: 2200
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
County address : (From June to October)
Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
GRAFLY, Daniel Webster:
Retired manufacturer; born in Phila
delphia, December 5, 1841 ; son of Daniel
Grafly and Mary Clara (Tyson) Grafly.
His education was received at the Jefferson
Grammar School, and the Central High
School, in Philadelphia, receiving from
the latter the degree of A.M. in 1865. He
entered the Navy April 21, 1862, as third

assistant engineer, and was finally promoted
to first assistant engineer. He served at
different times on various vessels, in the
South Atlantic, North Atlantic, and Pacific
Squadrons, at the United States Naval
Academy, and at League Island: He was
in service upon the Keystone State in the
ram fight with the Confederates off Char
leston, South Carolina, in January, 1863,
and on the Sassacad in the ram fight off
Albermarle, North Carolina, in May, 1864.
He resigned from the Navy, April I, 1873.
In 1872, he entered the flour and grain
business with his father under the name
of D- Grafly and Son. This partnership
was dissolved in 1875, when he entered
upon the business of whiting manufactur
ing in Philadelphia, with his brother, Ed
ward T., under the name of Grafly and
Brother. He retired from active business,
with a competency, in 1892. He is a
director in the Integrity Title Insurance,
Trust and Safe Deposit Company; and
was formerly a director in the Northern
National Bank of Philadelphia, and treas
urer of the Alma Portland Cement Com
pany of Wellston, Ohio. He is now chiefly
engaged in the management of estates
of which he is trustee. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a member of the
vestry of St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church of Philadelphia. He has been one
of the managers of the Associated Alumni
of the -Central High School of Philadel
phia since 1877; is a member of the Mili
tary Order, of the Loyal Legion; of the
Masonic order; and of the Columbia Club
of Philadelphia. In 1893 and I895, he
spent much time in traveling, visiting the
Pacific Coast, the Hawaiian Islands, and
Europe. He married in Philadelphia, No
vember 3, 1873, Kate Keen Knorr. Resi
dence: 2008 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia.
Summer home : Beach Haven,- . New Jer
sey. Office address : 2527 East York Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GRAFTON, Charles Chapman:
Bishop of Fond du Lac; born at Boston.
Massachusetts, April 12, 1830; son of Jos
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He studied at Harvard University, gradu
ating with the degree of LL.B- and receiv
ed, the degree of D.D. from Racine (Wis
consin) College in 1889. Is a member of
the Society of Colonial Wars. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1855, and was ordained priest by Bishop
Whittingham in 1858. Following his or
dination to the priesthood he was con
secutively assistant in Reistertown, Mary
land, missionary at Baltimore, assistant in
St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, and chaplain
of the Maryland Deaconnesses. In co
operation with the Rey. R. M. Benson, he
helped to organize the Society of St. John
the Evangelist known as the Cowley Fath
ers. He became rector of the Church of
the Advent, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1888.
He established also the Sisterhood of the
Holy Nativity whose Mother House is at
Fond du Lac. In 1889 he became Bishop
of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, being conse
crated by Bishops McLaren, A. Burgess,
Seymour, Knickerbocker, Gilbert and
Knight. He is author of: Vocation, or,
the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister's
Life, 1886; Plain Suggestions for a Rev
erend 'Celebration of the Holy Communion;
and Christian and Catholic, and the Catholic
Atlas. He has published various sermons.
Address : Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
GRAHAM, George Scott:
Lawyer; born Philadelphia, Pennsylvan
ia, September 13, 1850 ; son of James Henry
and Sarah Jane (Scott) Graham; educated
public schools, Philadelphia, private tui
tion and University of Pennsylvania, LL.
B., LL.D. Lafayette College. Admitted to
bar in Philadelphia, 1871, in New York,
1904. Professor criminal law, in Univers
ity of Pennsylvania, ten years, resigning
in 1898; district attorney of Philadelphia,
eighteen years, six consecutive terms, to
four of which he was elected on both Re
publican and Democratic tickets ; now mem
ber firm of Graham & L'Amoreaux, law
yer. Director: The Columbia Avenue
Trust and Pennsylvania Electric Light and
Power Company, Philadelphia; The Penn
sylvania Heat, Light and Power Company;

International Smokeless Powder and Chem
ical Company of New Jersey ; The Marsden
Company (New Jersey Company). Has
traveled all over United States, Great Brit
ain, France, Germany, Belgium -and Hol
land. Republican. Presbyterian. Mason;
past grand commander Knights Templar of
Pennsylvania. Recreations : Walking, rid
ing, boating, etc. Married first, December
14, 1870, Emma M. Ellis; second, June 8,
1898, Pauline M. Clarke; children: Ethel
Scott (Mrs. C. Perry Wentz), Blanche
(Mrs. Erskine Bains), Marrion HoUister;
also George Ellis, and Adele (deceased).
Address: 42 Broadway, New York City.
GRAHAM, John:
Railway promoter; born near Newville,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, August
4, 1843. Was educated in a, commercial
college; became a teller in the National
Bank of Newville; and in 1876 engaged
in the tanning industry, which he conduct
ed on a large scale for thirteen years. In
1883 was elected to the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives to represent Cumber
land County, serving through the sessions
of 1883 and 1885; subsequently became in
terested in street railway development, and
in the autumn of ,1890 went to Wilkes-
Barre, where he saw an excellent opportun
ity to establish a profitable electric railway.
He became one of the principal promoters
and organizers of the Wilkes-Barre and
Wyoming Valley Traction Company, which
owes its success largely to his earnest and
intelligent efforts; became a director and
treasurer and general manager of the com
pany, which has prospered greatly under
his control. Address : Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania.
GRAHAM, Malcolm Montrose:
Officer of gas illuminating companies;
born in Flushing, New York, February 5,
1867; son of James Varnum Graham and
Kate (Acosta) Graham. He was educated
at the Flushing Institute. In 1884 he en
tered as office boy in the service of the
Equitable Gas Light Company of New
York City with which he remained, through
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consolidated with the New Amsterdam Gas
Company, of which he has been secretary
and treasurer and a director since 1900.
He is now vice-president of the Northern
Union Gas Company, and secretary and
treasurer of the East River Gas Company
at Long Island City. He is a Democrat in
politics and an Episcopalian in religion.
He is interested in out of door sports, and
is a member - of the New York Yacht
Club, the Niantic Club and the Oakland
Golf Club. Residence: 49 Jaggar Avenue,
Flushing, New York. Office address : 131
East Twenty-third Street, New York City.
GRAHAM, William Harrison:
Congressman; born in Allegheny, Penn
sylvania, August 3, 1844, arid received his
education in the public schools of that city.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted,
at the age of seventeen, in a Pittsburgh com
pany, but Pennsylvania's quota being full
they chartered a steamer, went down the
Ohio River to Wheeling, and were accept
ed there, becoming Company A, Second
Virginia Infantry; after a service of two
years they were mounted and became the
Fifth West Virginia- Cavalry ; saw very act
ive service under Generals Ayerill, Crook
and Sheridan; was in service until the
close of the war, witnessing the surrender
of General Lee at Appomattox; was
wounded in the battle of White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia. After the war he
engaged actively in business and has been
very successful; was elected three terms
successively as recorder of deeds of Alle
gheny County; represented his city during
four sessions of the Pennsylvania legislat
ure; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; was
defeated by eighteen votes for the Fifty-
eighth Congress through a Citizens-Demo
cratic fusion movement; was reelected to
the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses.
Address: Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
GRANGER, Abbott Dean:
Civil engineer; born New York City,
December 3, 1870 ; son of John C. and
Althea (Dean) Granger; graduated Col

umbia University School of Mines, 1892.
President A. D. Granger Company, con
tracting engineers of New York City, Phil
adelphia and Pittsburgh; president Oswego
Boiler and Engine Company, Oswego, New
York, Otis Engineering Company.Otis, New
York. Republican. . Congregationalist.. Re
creations : Golf, tennis, motoring. Clubs :
Crescent Athletic, (Brooklyn) ; Brooklyn
Engineers', Columbia University, (New
York); Manufacturers' (Philadelphia).
Married, Brooklyn, New Yonc,.Jane Sher
man Peters; children: Althea Jane (10),
Olive Standish (5). Address: 677 Greene
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
GRANGER, Daniel Larned Davis:
Congressman ; born at Providence, Rhode
Island, May 30, 1852; was graduated from
Brown University in 1874; was admitted to
the Rhode Island bar in 1887 and entered
upon the practice of law in Providence ; was
twice elected reading clerk of the house
of representatives; in 1890 he was elected
city treasurer of Providence on the Demo
cratic ticket, and for eleven years served
in that capacity. Mr. Granger was elect
ed mayor as the candidate of the demo
cratic and Good Government parties and
the next year he was reelected. He was
elected as a Democrat from the First Rhode
Island District, in 1902, to the Fifty-eighth
Congress and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth . Congresses. Address : Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
GRANT, Claudius B,:
Jurist; was born at Lebanon, Maine, Oc
tober 25, 1835. At the age of twenty
he entered the University of Michi
gan, graduating from the classical course
in 1859. The following three years he
taught in the Ann Arbor high school, the
last two years of which he was principal.
He served in the Civil War, entering the
United States service as captain of com
pany D, Twentieth Michigan Infantry, was
made major November 21, 1863, and lieu
tenant-colonel December 20, 1864; resign
ing this position April 12, 1865 ; he returned
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ment of the University; was admitted to
the bar. June, 1866, and began the practice
of law at Ann Arbor. He was elected re
corder of Ann Arbor in 1866, and appointed
postmaster in 1867; was a member of the
house of the State legislature in 1871-2 and
!873-4; was regent of the University in
1871, and in 1872 was appointed alternate
commissioner of the state of Michigan und
er the law authorizing the centennial com
mission. In 1873 he moved to Houghton,
where, until his election, he was engaged in
the practice of law. He was elected pros
ecuting attorney in 1876; judge of the
twenty-fifth circuit in 1881, and reelected
in 1887; was elected justice of the supreme
court in the spring of 1889, for the full
term and reelected April 3, 1899. Resi
dence : Houghton. Official address : Lans
ing, Michigan.
GRANT, Frederick Dent:
Major-General, United States Army;
born St. Louis, Missouri, May 30, 1850;
son of General Ulysses S. and Julia (Dent)
Grant; educated in schools of St. Louis
and Galena, Illinois, where his father was
in business at outbreak of the Civil War;
as a boy, accompanied his father in the
Vicksburg campaign, and was present at
five battles before he was thirteen years
old, remaining with his father until the
final surrender of Vicksburg to the Union
forces ; entered United States Military Aca
demy, 1867; graduated 1871. Commission
ed second lieutenant, Fourth United States
Cavalry, 187 1 ; employed as engineer on
Union Pacific and Colorado Central Railr
roads, summer of 1871; went to Europe
with General Sherman, 1871-72; in 1872
returned to United States and was placed
in command of a cavalry escort to the party
making a preliminary survey for the South
ern Pacific Railway as a protection against
hostile Indians, and, 1873, was made aide-
de-camp on staff of General' Sheridan, with
rank of lieutenant-colonel; was engaged in
various expeditions against Indians, and
later joined his father in the Orient, part
of the celebrated journey around the world,
and continued with him thereafter; resign

ed his commission, 1881, and was constant
ly with his father during his illness, aiding
him in the preparation of his memoirs by
verifying statements from the records, etc.;
after father's death, took charge of the
interests of his mother and the estate until
1889; United States minister to Austria,
1889-93. Served in Spanish-American War
as colonel, Fourteenth New York Volunt
eers; brigadier-general United States Vol
unteers, in Porto Rico and commanding
Military District of San Juan; transferred
to Philippines, 1899; commanded Second
Brigade, First (Lawton's) Division, July-
November, 1899, covering the line south of
Manila and fighting in numerous skirmish
es and battles of Imus (or Big Bend) and
Benician; commanded Second Brigade,
Second (MacArthur's) Division, November,
1899-February, 1900, participating in its en
gagements and commanding the column in
vading the provinces of Bataan and Zam-
bales; commanding Fifth Military District
Department of Luzon, February, 1900, to
October, 1901, during which period many
engagements took place, 4,800 rifles and
much powder and ammunition were secured
and vast quantities of. supplies destroyed;
after pacification of that district, was in
command of Southern Luzon, and after
that was placed in command Sixth Separate
Brigade and transferred in Samar and Ley-
te, where brought about surrender of all
insurgents of Samar, November I, 1902.
Commissioned brigadier-general United
States Army, February 18, 1901, command
ed Department of Texas, November 1,
1902 to January 15, 1904 ; Department of
the Lakes, January-September, 1904; De
partment of the East since September 28,
1904, and commissioned major-general in
1906. Member Military Order Loyal Leg
ion, Society Colonial Wars, Sons of Rev
olution, Society Foreign Wars. Clubs:
Union League, Badminton, Army and Navy.
Married Ida H. Honore. Address: Gov
ernor's Island, New York.
GRANT, Gabriel:
Physician; born in Newark, New Jersey;
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Grant; graduated from Williams as A.B.
in 1846, and subsequently A.M.; and from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
as M.D. in 1851. He was health commis
sioner in the epidemic of cholera in New
ark, in 1854; in Panama, New Granada, in
1852, and organized the American Hospi
tal; surgeon of the Second New Jersey
Volunteers, in 1861 ; brigade and division
surgeon in 1861 ; in first and second battles
of Bull Run, Fair Oaks, and siege of York-
town, Williamsburg, Gaines Mills, Peach
Orchard Station, and Savage Station,
Malvern Hill, Antietam, South Moun
tain, Fredericksburg, Siege of Vicks
burg, and Sartatia, Mississippi, and
honorably mentioned for distinguished gal
lantry in battle of Fair Oaks and Freder
icksburg; medical director of Evansville
Hospitals', in 1863; surgeon in_charge of
Madison United States Army General Hos
pital; delegate to the International Medical
Congress in London, England, 1881 ; re
ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor
for distinguished gallantry at the battle of
Fair Oaks. Dr. Grant is surgeon-general
of the Medal of Honor Legion; member
of the Medical Society of the County of
New York, State Medical Society, Ameri
can Medical Association, Medico-Legal So
ciety, New Jersey Historical Society, Grand
Army of the Republic (Washington Post),
New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society, Military' Order of the Loyal Le
gion, and of the Century and Delta Upsilon
Clubs. Dr. Grant married in July, 1863,
Caroline A. Manice, daughter of De For
est Manice, and they have three sons': Mad
ison, De Forest, and Norman; and one
daughter, Kafhrin Manice. Address: 22
East Forty-ninth Street, New York City.
GRANT, Hugh John:
Former Mayor of New York; born at
No. 307 West Twenty seventh Street. He
was the only child of parents who from
the first gave him the most careful and
thorough training, both educational and
doihestic. He received his education in
the public school in Twenty-eighth Street
and at Manhattan College, where he de

voted special attention to the study of mod
ern languages.' He took private lessons
in German and French, in the former of
which he acquired a marked proficiency.
He was graduated from Manhattan when
he was but sixteen years of age. His par
ents then took him on a trip to Europe,
and he spent nearly a year abroad, the
greater portion of the time being passed
in Berlin. On his return he entered St.
Francis Xavier's College, on West Six
teenth Street, where he remained three
years. The subsequent two years he spent
in the Columbia Law School, from which
he received his diploma as a Bachelor of
Law. After -his graduation he entered the
law office of D. M. Porter, a leading law
yer, where he was initiated into the prac
tice of the legal profession. He remained
in Mr. Porter's office for about a year,
wheri he established a business' connection
with ex-Recorder James M. Smith. He
subsequently moved uptown, and con
ducted his law practice in connection
with his real estate business. His father
had charge of many estates, and this busi
ness engrossed the son's attention to the
almost entire exclusion of ordinary law
practice. The first appearance of Mr. Grant
in politics was in 1882, when he received
the Tammany nomination for Alderman in
the Nineteenth District and was elected.
In the following year he was reelected and
became a member of the famous Boodle
Board of 1884. It was for his manly and
unimpeachable course during that period
that he came prominently before the public.
He was largely instrumental in unearthing
the coupon frauds in the Comptroller's
office, thereby causing orie of the sensa
tions of the day. Numerous franchises for
ferries and railroads were disposed of by
the board of 1884, the most important being
that given the Broadway surface railroad,
to secure the granting of which more than
five hundred thousand dollars was said to
have been used as a corruption fund
through Jacob Sharp. Every member of
the board with the exceptions of Aldermen
Grant and O'Connor were charged with
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their crime, others sought safety in flight
to foreign ports, two were sent to Sing
Sing, and others escaped punishment by
technicalities or death. Mr.- Grant was very
active in exposing this infamy, and his
course greatly increased his popularity. In
the fall of 1884 he received the Tammany
Hall nomination for Mayor, but was de
feated by W. R. Grace in a close contest.
The following year Mr. Grant received the
Tammany nomination for sheriff, and he
was elected by a handsome majority. His
second run for the Mayoralty, which occur
red in 1888, presented one of the most
stirring political battles that the city had
witnessed in many years, and he won by a
decisive vote over Abraham Hewitt and
Joel B. Erhardt. Mr. Grant was reelected
Mayor in 1890, defeating Francis M. Scott,
the Fusion candidate. In 1894 Mr. Grant
was nominated for a third term, but was
defeated by William L. Strong, who had
been selected to head what was termed
the Reform ticket. Since his retirement
to private life Mr. Grant has been a busy
man in the management of his large real
estate interests, and he served as receiver
of the St. Nicholas Bank, the Brooklyn
Wharf and Warehouse Company, and the
Third Avenue Railroad. Mr. Grant mar
ried a daughter of ex-United States Sen
ator Edward Murphy, Jr., of Albany. Resi
dence : 261 West Seventy-third Street, New
York City. Office address : 20 East Seventy-
second Street, New York City.
GRANT, Madison:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 19, 1865 ; son of Gabriel and Caro
line A. (Manice) Grant. Educated in
private schools in New York City and Ger
many, and graduated from Yale University
as B.A. in_i887 and from Columbia Uni
versity Law School in 1890. Is lawyer,
traveler, hunter, explorer, naturalist, writer,
secretary and manager of the New York
Zoological Society; president and director
of Taylor Creek Ditch Company, director
of Atlantic Terra Cotta Company; member
of the New York City Bar Association,
Society of Colonial Wars, Military Order of

the Loyal Legion, American Museum of
Natural History, New York Geographical
Society, League of American Sportsmen.
In politics he is a Republican, and is a
member of the Union, University, Tuxedo
and Ends of the Earth Clubs, and sec
retary of Boone and Crockett Club. Ad
dress. 22 East . Forty-ninth Street, and 11
Wall Street, New York City.
GRANT, Percy Stickney:
Clergyman; born in Boston, May 13, i860,
and is the Son of Stephen Mason and Anna
Stickney Grant. He was educated in the
Boston public schools and at the Roxbury
Latin School, and was graduated from Har
vard in 1883. Having decided to enter the
ministry, he entered the Episcopal Theolog
ical School at Cambridge, and was graduated
from that institution in 1886. Immediately af
ter his graduation he accepted a call as as
sistant rector of the Church of the Ascen
sion at Fall River. Here he soon became at
tracted by the problem presented by the
religious and social needs ,of the .cotton
operatives in that great manufacturing city,
and he raised the funds and built the
Chapel of St. Mark, with a view to putting
his views into practical operation. He be-
•came the rector of the chapel, and labored
earnestly and successfully among these
people until 1893. During that period he
became prominent in Fall River affairs,
serving on school committees and further
ing various philanthropic and educational
works. When Dr. Winchester Donald left
the pulpit of the Church of the Ascension
in New York City in 1893, he was called
to become its rector, and he has since
served in that office. The church has since
then grown greatly in membership, and
has always a large congregation from
the floating population in this con
gested quarter of the city. When he
assumed the charge he made it a con
dition precedent that the pews should be
free. This was a rather startling proposi
tion to some of the vestrymen, when they
considered that its acceptance involved the
surrendering of seventeen thousand dollars
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yielded, and seats in the church have been
free ever since. The result of this change
was most encouraging, the increase in the
attendance being remarkable. Mr. Grant
has ' recently contributed to the liter
ary world a book of poems, entitled
Ad Matrenij and Other Poems, which
has been favorably reviewed by the
press. Mr. Grant has gained an enviable
standing in New York, and is high in the
esteem of Bishop Potter. In the winter of
1899-1900 he was honorary secretary and
chaplain to the Bishop in his trip around
the world, and on his return wrote several
articles on the Philippine Islands, and the
religious conditions in India. He also de
livered an address on the same subjects
before the People's Institute in Cooper
Union. Among his published papers are :
Land Questions in the Philippines, Church
Missions in Asia, Marriage and Divorce,
and Monologues of Robert Browning. Ad
dress : 7 West Tenth Street, New York
City.
GRANT, Robert:
Judge Probate Court and Court of In
solvency, Boston, Massachusetts, since
1893; writer"; born January 24, 1852; son
of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman Grant.
Educated private school in Boston; Public
Latin School, Boston ; Harvard (A.B. 1873 ;
Ph.D., 1876; LL.B. 1879). Practiced law
from 1879; was one of the Water Com
missioners of City of Boston, 1888-93, and
chairman of the board from 1889, overseer
of Harvard College, 1895-1907. Publica
tions: The Little Tin Gods on Wheels
(verse), 1879; The, Confessions of a Friv
olous Girl, 1880; The Lambs (verse),
1882; An Average Man, 1883; Face to
Face, 1886; Jack Hall, or The Schooldays
of an American Boy, 1887; Jack in the
Bush, or a Summer on a Salmon River,
1888 ; The Reflections of „a Married Man,
1892; The Opinions of a Philosopher, 1893;
The "Bachelor's,. Christmas, ,1895; The Art
of Living, 1895; Search-Light Letters, 1899;
Unleavened Bread, .1900; The Undercur
rent, 1904; The ?>0|rchid, 1905;" The Law-
Breakers/ 1906. Recreations : Fishing, golf.

Married, Amy Gordon, eldest daughter of
air Alexander T. Gait, G.C.M.G., Montreal,
1883; four sons. He is a member of the
Somerset, Country, Tavern and Boston
Clubs. Residence: 211 Bay State Road,
Boston. Office address : Court House, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
GRANT, Robert Parks:
Banker, manufacturer ; born Neversink,
New York, May 8, 1844; son of Isaac and
Hannah (Le Roy) Grant; educated public
schools. Served in Civil War in Ninety-
second Regiment New York Volunteers,
private to colonel of the regiment. After
war service, engaged in commercial and
banking affairs; aided in founding the
Bank of Clayton, New York in 1876; in
1884, with others, organized Exchange
Bank, which later became National Bank
of Clayton, and of which he has been cashier
since organization, 1898; is stockholder in
eighteen National banks and two trust com
panies ; is largely interested in the manu
facture and sale of cheese and other dairy
products; president Watertown Produce
Exchange, State Dairy Board of Trade;
vice-president Thousand Islands Park As
sociation; trustee Clayton Publishing Com
pany, etc. ; has been supervisor of the town
of Clayton, New York three years; also
a trustee of the Prospect Park Company,
a summer resort at the Thousand Islands ;
managing owner of six cheese factories ;
has one of the largest fire insurance agen
cies in Jefferson County. Member Masonic
Order, thirty-second degree. _ Republican.
Clubs: Bankers and Brokers, Anglers' (St.
Lawrence River). Married, Hawkinsville,
New York, September 14, 1870, Lettie C.
Hayes; one son, Robert D. (34). Address:
Clayton, New ^ork.
GRANT, Ulysses Sherman:
Geologist; was born in Moline, Illi
nois, F'ebruary 14, 1867; son of General
L. A. Grant. He was educated in Des
Moines, Iowa, from 1873 to 1882; was
graduated from the University of Minne
sota in, 1888 as B.S. ; and the degree of
Ph.D. was conferred on him in 1893 by
Johns Hopkins University. He was assist-

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ant State geologist of Minnesota from 1893
to 1899 ; instructor in geology in the Uni
versity of Minnesota in 1897 and 1898,
has been geologist on the Geology1 and
Natural History Survey of Wisconsin since
1899, and assistant geologist on the United
States Geological Survey, 1901-3, and geol
ogist, 1904-7; consulting geologist in the
Illinois Geological Survey since 1906. He
was also associate editor of the American
Geologist since 1897 to 1906, and has pub
lished a number of papers and reports on
general economic geology. Since 1899 he
has been professor of geology in North
western University and acting dean of the
College of Liberal Arts of that university
since 1907. Professor Grant married at
Minneapolis, October 1, 1891, Avis Win-
chell. Address: Evanston, Illinois.
GRAU, Maurice:
President and managing director of the
Maurice Grau Opera Company in New
York; managing director of Royal Opera,
Covent Garden, London; born Brunn, Aus
tria, 1849; educated College of City of
New York. Began his theatrical career in
1866 with his uncle, Jacob Grau, directing
American tour of Ristori; directed Ameri
can tours of Rubinstein, Wieniaski, Sal-
vini, Aimee Capoul, Paola Marie, Bern
hardt, Coquelin, Mounet Sully, Rejane,
Irving, Sarasate, Josef Hoffman, and other
prominent artistes, Knight of the Legion
of Honour. Clubs: Phoenix, New York,
Capucines,, Paris. Address. Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, 13 Rue Parallele,
Church and Her Ways. Address : Kearney,
Nebraska.GhATATT, William Loyall:
Bishop-Coadjutor of West Virginia ; born
Port Royal, Virginia, December 15, 1858;
son of Dr. J. Gravatt and Mary E. Grav-
att. He took orders as deacon of the Epis
copal Church in 1884 and the following
year was ordained priest by Bishop Whittle.
After his ordination to the priesthood, he
became rector at Charlestown, W. Va. He
was made Bishop-Coadjutor of West Vir
ginia, in 1899 and i was consecrated by.

Bishops Whittle, Peterkin, Satterlee, Bur
ton, Penick and Gibson. The degree of
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
him by Washington and Lee Universities
in 1902. Bishop Gravatt was married at
Richmond, Virginia, October 13, 1887, to
Miss Sidney S. Peyton. Address: Char
lestown, West Virginia.
GRATES, Anson Rogers:
Bishop of Laramie; born at Wells, Rut
land County, Vermont, April 13, 1842; son
of Daniel and Almira (Rogers) Graves.
He was graduated at Hobart College, Gen
eva, New York, in 1866, and from the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, New York City,
in 1870. .He received the degree of D.D.
from Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin,
and that of LL.D. from Hobart College.
He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church by Bishop H. Potter in 1870, and
the following year was ordained priest by
Bishop Littlejohn. After entering the
ministry, he held consecutively the follow
ing offices: assistant of Grace Church,
Brooklyn, New York, rector St. Luke's
Church, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, assistant
Gethsemane Church, Minneapolis, Minne
sota, rector of All Saints' Church, North-
field, Minnesota, of All Saints' Church,
Littleton, New Hampshire, of St Peter's
Church, Bennington, Vermont, and of
Gethsemane Church, Minneapolis. He be
came Bishop of Laramie, Wyoming, and
was consecrated in 1890 by .oishops Tuttle,
Hare, A. Burgess, Knickerbocker, Gilbert
and Knight. Bishop Graves married, at
Brattleboro, Vermont, April 3, 1877, to
Mary Totten Watrbns. He is author of
various tracts, sermons and missionary re
ports and co-author -df the tract : The
Church and Her Ways. Address : Kearn
ey, Nebraska.
GRATES, Charles Hlnman: >
Diplomat, merchant; born in Spring
field, Massachusetts, August 14, 1839 ; son
of Rev.: H.;A. Graves, (editor of the
Christian- Watchman at Boston) and Mary
(Hinrhan) Graves. He was educated in the
public schools of Boston and of Litchfield,
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the Union Army as private in the Fortieth
Regiment of New York Volunteers; was
commissioned as second lieutenant in No
vember, 1861, and afterward was success
ively promoted first lieutenant, captain and
assistant adjutant-general, -major and as
sistant adjutant-general, and brevet lieu
tenant-colonel and colonel of the United
States Volunteers. He was commissioned
as first lieutenant of the Fourteenth Regi
ment of United States Infantry in the reg
ular Army, . and later as captain of the
Thirty-fourth Regiment of united States
Infantry, and brevetted major and lieu
tenant-colonel in the. United States Army.
He was an officer ori the staff of'Genetals
Phil. Kearney, Birney, Stoneman, '¦ and A.
H. Terry, serving in all the operations and
battles of the Army of the Potomac and
the Fort Fisher Expedition, and continued
in the regular service until 1870, when he
resigned. He engaged in mercantile life
in Duluth, Minnesota, where also he was
interested in many of the leading corpora
tions and enterprises. He also became
active and influential, as a Republican, in
the politics of Minnesota, was a State
Senator, and Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives of Minnesota, Delegate to Na
tional Republican Convention, mayor of Du
luth, and from 1893 to 1905 a member of
the Capitol Commission of the State of
Minnesota. In March, 1915, he was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Sweden arid Norway,
and since the division of the two nations
has continued in the same capacity to
Sweden. Iri 1906 he was appointed special
ambassador to the coronation of King
Haakon of Norway at Trondhjem. Colonel
Graves is an Episcopalian in his re
ligious affiliation. He is a companion
of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of. the United States. Colonel
Graves married at Mendhaiu,- New Jersey,
in 1873, Grace Totten, daughter of the late
General Joseph G- Totten of the United
States Army, who died October 20, 1902.
He wa9 again married, April 25, 1905, to
Alice Kinney Trippe, at Athens, Pennsyl

vania. Address : American Legation,
Stockholm, Sweden.
GRATES, Erwin Ralph:
Banker and manufacturer; born in Han
cock, Maine, May 14, 1865; son of Frank
Graves and Ernestine F. (Busche) Graves.
His education was obtained in public and
private schools in Hancock, Maine arid
Boston, Massachusetts. He removed to
Boston when fourteen years of age and was
for many years associated with the Provi
dent Institution for Savings of that city,
which is believed to be the oldest savings
bank in. the world. In 1905 he removed
to New York City and is now president
and director of the First National Bank
of Belleville, New Jersey; director of the
European-American Bank of New York
City; vice-president and general man
ager of the Kornit Manufacturing
Company; director of the Mellis Realty
Company of Belleville, New Jersey;
treasurer of the Cermanite Manufac
turing Company of New York City,
director of the Cummings and King Com
pany of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and is
a member of the firm of Ellis & Graves
of New York City. He has been
an extensive traveler, especially in the
United, States, Canada, the West Indies
and Europe. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Unitarian. He is a mem
ber of, and has held important positions
in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston ; is a member of St.
John's Lodge of Masons (the oldest Ma
sonic Lodge in America), of St. Andrews'
Royal Arch Chapter and Boston Council,
and of the Boston Commandery of Knights
Templar. He is also a member of the
Boston Press, the New York Press, Fulton
Dining, and New York Athletic Clubs
and the Field and Marine Club of Bath
Beach, Brooklyn. Mr. Graves married first
at Buda, Illinois, October 1887, Edith Hood
Evans, a direct descendant of the patriot
James Otis, and by that marriaee there
have been three daughters : Phillis Elizabeth,
born ?n 1889, Edith Frederika, born in
1890, and Dorothy Olis, born in 1895. Mr.
Graves married second, in New York City,

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November, 1906, Mary Ann Rigley. Resi
dence : Old Mamaroneck Road, White
Plains, New York. Address : 603 West
Forty-third Street, New York City.
GRATES, Frederick Rogers:
Bishop of Shanghai ; born in Auburn,
New York, in 1858; son of Samuel Seabury
and Elizabeth Anna Graves. He studied at
Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and gradu
ated with the degree of B.A. in 1878, later
receiving that of D.D. Upon his gradua
tion from Hobart College he entered the
General Theological Seminary, from which
he was graduated 1 in 1881 and received, in
1893, the degree of D.D. He was ordered
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1881 by
Bishop H. Potter and was ordained priest
the next year by Bishop C. M. Williams.
He was missionary to China for several
years, and in 1893 became missionary bish
op of Shanghai, China, being consecrated
by Bishops Littlejohn, Coleman, Lyman,
Dudley, Scarborough, Kinsolving and Barry
(Primate of Australia). Address: Shang
hai, China.
GRAVES, Schuyler Colfax:
Surgeon; born in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
March 6, 1858; son of Samuel Graves and
Mary Colfax (Baldwin) Graves. He was
educated at the Grand Rapids (Michigan)
High School, and at the University of
Michigan, where he received his medical
degree with the class of 1881. Under com
mission as major from President McKinley,
received in 1898, he served during the
Spanish-American War as chief surgeon
of the First Brigade, Third Division,
Fourth Army Corps, and was stationed
at Tampa and Fernandina, Florida, and at
Huntsville, Alabama. He has traveled in
European countries and in Morocco for
recreations and study. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Baptist. He is
associated with various local,' State, and
National medical societies, and is a merii-
ber of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He
married twice, first in St. Louis, Missouri,
October 9, 1883, Annie M. Dryden; second,
in Grand Kapids, Michigan, April 16, 1906,

Caroline E. Larint, and he has one daught
er, Mrs. E. G. Smith of Marietta, Georgia:
Address : Grand Rapids, Michigan.
GRAY, Edward:
Physician ; born in Benicia, California,
November 17, 1849; son of Samuel Cotton
Gray and Lucy (Wetmore) Gray. He re
ceived his education in Preparatory School
of Rev. H. M. Colton (Middletown, Con
necticut) ; Yale University, College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons, and in special course
at University of Vienna. He began medi
cal practice in California in August, 1877,
and continued therein. During the four
years from 1898 to 1902 he was engaged
in editing the revised Velasquez Spanish-
English Dictionary (D. Appleton & Com
pany). In 1902 he became Resident Phy
sician at the California Home for the
Care and Training of Feeble-minded Chil
dren and so continues. He has been di
rector of Benicia Electric Light Company
and secretary at various times of three ves
tries of Episcopal churches. He traveled in
Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.
From 1881 to 1884 he served in the United
States Army as post surgeon (contract) at
Fort Gaston, California. In politics he is
an Independent and in religion an Epis
copalian. He is a member of the Sonoma
County Medical Society, State Medical So
ciety of California, American Medical As
sociation. His favorite recreations are
amateur photography and Spanish litera
ture, and has edited three Spanish texts.
He is a member of the Sierra Club and
former fellow of the Royal Microscopical
Society (London). Dr. Gray married in
London, England, August 31, 1876, Ger
trude Colton. She died in 1884. In 1889
Dr. Gray married Maria Willey. Three
children survive: Henry Colton Gray,
born in 1878, Samuel Herbert Gray, born
in 1879 and Girard Gray, born in, .1896.
Address : Eldridge, California. '
GRAY, George:
Jurist; born in New Castle, Delaware,
May 4, 1840; son of Andrew Caldwell
Gray and Elizabeth (Scofield) Gray. He
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1859, and received from that college the
degrees of A.M. in 1863 and of LL.D. in
1889. He studied law with his father from
1859 to 1862, studied a vear in Harvard
Law School, and in 1863 was admitted to
the Delaware Bar. He was appointed at
torney-general of Delaware by Governor
Hall in 1879 and reappointed by Governor
Stockley in 1884. He was a delegate to
the National Democratic Conventions of
1876, 1880 and 1884; and he was elected
to the United States Senate from Dela
ware to fill the vacancy caused by the ap-'
pointment of Thomas F. Bayard as- Sec
retary of State. He was reelected in 1887
and again in 1893. He was appointed by
President McKinley in 1898, one of the
commissioners to arrange a treaty of peace
between the United States and Spain. At
the close of his senatorial term, March 3,
1899, President McKinley appointed him
United States circuit judge for the Third
Judicial Circuit, in which office he is still
serving. He was appointed a member of
the National Court of Arbitration under
the Hague convention, in November, 1900,
and was chairman of the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission in iqo2. Judge Gray
married Margaret J. Black. Address:
Wilmington, Delaware.
GRAY, WiUiam Crane:
Bishop of Southern Florida; born in
Lambertville, New Jersey, September 6,
1835; son of Joseph and Hannah Price
Gray. He studied at Kenyon College, Gam-
bier, Ohio, and graduated with the degree
of B.A. in 1859, and from Bexley Hall in
Divinity the same year. He received the
degree of D.D. from his alma mater in
1881. In 1892 he received the degree of
D.D. also from the University of the South.
He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church in 1859 and was ordained priest the
following year by Bishop , Otey. He was
general missionary of the Diocese of Ten
nessee from 1859 to i860. Upon his ordi
nation to the priesthood, he was rector of
St. James' Church, Bolivar, Tennessee,
where he remained until 1881, resigning in
1881 to become rector of the Church of the
Advent, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1892 he

was elected Bishop of Southern Florida,
and was consecrated by Bishops Quintard,
Dudley, Weed, Nelson and Hale. Bishop
Gray was married twice : first, on May 20,
1863, to Margaret Locke Trent and second,
on August 2, 1877, to Fannie Campbell
Bowers. He is author of various reports,
addresses, and appeals. Address : Orlando,
Florida.GBEBLE, Edwin St, John:
Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Army;
born at West Point, New York, June 24,
1859 ; son of John Trout and Sarah Bradley
(French) Greble; entered United States
Military Academy, 1877; graduated 1881.
Assigned as second lieutenant to Second Ar
tillery, 1881 ; first lieutenant Second Artil
lery, May 2, 1887 ; captain Second Artillery,
March 2, 1899; in volunteer service, captain
and assistant adjutant-general, May 12, 1898;
major and assistant adjutant-general, Sep
tember 5, 1899; on duty as aide-de-camp
to general commanding Department Platte,
Division of Pacific, and Division of At
lantic, 1886-89; honor graduate Artillery
School, 1892; on duty Sandy Hook Prov
ing Ground, 1893; regimental adjutant
Second Artillery, 1893-97; adjutant-general
Second Division Seventh Army Corps,
from its organization until after its arrival
in Cuba, December, 1898; appointed assist
ant adjutant-general on staff Brigadier-
General William Ludlow, military governor
Department of Havana, December 18, 1898,
and in charge of receiving barrack, . forts
and other public buildings, from Spanish
troops, and of the police of the City of
Havana until its evacuation by Spanish
troops, January 1, 1899; in charge of dis
tribution of rations and relief of destitute,
Department of Havana, until June, 1899;
appointed adjutant-general, Department
Matanzas and Santa Clara, on staff Major-
General James H. Wilson, September 19,
1899; appointed superintendent Department
of Charities and Corrections, Island of
Cuba, on staff Major-General Leonard
Wood, military governor, February 15,
1000; duty at West Point, New York, as
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States Military Academy, June, 1901 to
1904; assistant inspector general Atlantic
Division from July, 1904; on detached duty
since October 18, 1906, as advisor to sec
retary of interior, Government of Cuba,
lieutenant-colonel, August 12, 1907. Mar
ried, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island,
1885, Gertrude Poland. Address: Secret-
aria de Gobernacion, The Palace, Havana,
Cuba.
GBEELEY, Samuel Sewell:
Surveyor, engineer; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, October 11, 1824; son of
Samuel and Louisa May Greeley. He at
tended the Groton, Massachusetts, Academy
in 1834, and the Framingham, Massachus
etts, Academy from 1837 to 1840. In the
latter year he entered Harvard College and
was graduated in 1844. He took a post
graduate course at the Rensselaer Poly
technic Institute at Troy, New York, grad
uating in 1846. He removed to Chicago,
Illinois, in October, 1853, and in the spring
of the following year opened a surveying
office. He was successively elected city
mayor in 1855, 1857 and 1859. His home
and' office, with all their contents, were de
stroyed in the great fire of 1871, but he
resumed business within a few_ weeks in a
temporary structure, and gradually restored
his business to its former prosperous con
dition. In 1887 it was incorporated as the
Greeley-Howard Company, of which Mr.
Greeley is the president. He is a Unitarian
and a member of the Chicago Literary and
Harvard Clubs. He was married in Chi
cago, in 1855, to Annie Morris Lamed,
and his second wife was Eliza May Wells,
to whom he was married at Brookline,
Massachusetts, October 6, 1865. He is
now a widower. His children are: Fred
erick, Louis May, Morris Lamed, Mrs.
Ethel May Copeland and Ruth Lyman.
Address : Opera House Block, Chicago.
Residence: Winnetka, Illinois.
GREELEY, William B.:
Lawyer; born Nashua, New Hampshire,
November 1, 1859; son of Rev. Dr. Ed
ward H. and Louisa M, (Ware) Greeley;

graduated Dartmouth College, A.B., 1881;
Columbia University, Washington, D. C,
LL.B., 1886; LL.M., 1887; assistant exam
iner United States Patent Office from 1884
to 1889. Admitted to the bar, Washington,
D. C, 1887; New York City, 1890, and be
gan practice; formed and became member
law firm of Redding, Kiddle & Greeley,
1895. Chairman Republican City Com
mittee New Rochelle, New York, 1905;
director and secretary Schneible Com
pany. Episcopalian. Member American
'and New York Bar Association,, Pat
ent Bar Association of Washington, D.
G; Chartered Institute of Patent
Agents, London, England; New Hamp
shire Association, Dartmouth Association,
New Rochelle School Board. Clubs : En
gineers, Republican, Dartmouth, Wykagyl,
Huguenot Yacht. Married, New York City,
April 15, 1891, Sarah Noble Burleigh,
daughter of late Hon. George W. Burleigh
of New Hampshire; children: Briard
Noble (n), Bradford Ware (9), Kath
erine Burleigh (7). Address: 38 Park
Row, New York City. Residence: New
Rochelle, New York.
GREELY, Adolphus Washington:
Major-general United States Army; born
in Newburyport, Massachusetts, March 27,
1841 ; son of John Balch Greely and Fran
ces (Cobb) Gfeely; descended from early
colonial and Mayflower ancestry. His mil
itary career began in 1861, when he went
almost directly from the high school to the
Nineteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Vol
unteers. He was promoted to first ser
geant ; was wounded twice at Antietam, and
also at Fredericksburg, Virginia, Decem
ber nf 1862; was appointed second lieuten
ant in the Eighty-first United States Col
ored Infantry; was promoted first lieuten
ant and captain arid brevetted major,
and was honorably discharged from volun
teer service March 22, 1867. He was com
missioned second lieutenant in the regu
lar army and assigned to the Thirty-sixth
Infantry, March '2, 1867; transferred to the
Second United States Artillery, July 14,
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two thousand miles of military telegraph
lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers.
In 1881 he was assigned to command the
Arctic Expedition, now known by his name,
which was dispatched by the United States
Government to establish -one of the inter
national circumpolar stations, in which
eleven nations cooperated. This expedition
added by its discoveries about six thousand
square miles of land to the map, and greatly
to general geographic" knowledge of the
Arctic regions. The loss of the relief-ship
Proteus, crushed by 'ice in July, 1883, left
the party to winter in a hut of rocks and
snow with only six weeks' supply of food.
The members of the party died, one by one,
of slow starvation, and only six were found
alive when the relief-ships Thetis and Bear,
under command of Winfield Scott Schley
and William H. Emory rescued them, June
22, 1884, after they had been for forty-
two hours entirely without food. Lieuten
ant Greely was assigned to the Fifth Caval
ry, July 14, 1869, and was promoted captain,
June 11, 1886; designated acting chief sig
nal officer, December n, 1886,. and was com
missioned brigadier-general, March 3, 1887,
and chief signal officer. By this unusual
advance in rank he became the first volun
teer private soldier of the Civil War to
reach the rank of brigadier-general in the
United States Army; and he was promoted
to major-general, February 10, 1906, and
is now commanding the Department of The
Columbia. For his geographical discov
eries he was awarded gold medals by the
Royal Geographical Society and the Society
de Geographie, and made honorary mem
ber of those societies, and was honorary
vice-president of the International Geo
graphical Congresses at London in 1896 and
Berlin in 1899. He was in command of
the Pacific Division at the time of
the San Francisco earthquake, and with
the efficient aid of General Funston relief
was given and order was enforced with an
effectiveness seldom approached after such
a catastrophe. General Greely is author
of: Three Years of Arctic Service; Ameri
can Weather; and. many monographs and
papers on scientific and meteorological sub

jects. He married, June 30, 1878, Henriet
ta H. C. Nesmith. Address: Washington,
D: C.
GREEN, Adolphus Williamson:
Lawyer ; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
January 14, 1843; son of John H. and
Jane Green. He was graduated from the
Boston Latin School in 1859 and from
Harvard College in 1863. He was prin
cipal pf high schools at Groton, Massachu
setts, from 1863 and 1864, and second assis
tant librarian from 1864 to 1867, and librar
ian from 1867 to , 1869 of the Mercantile
Library Association of New York City.
He studied law in the latter city in the
offices of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate
from 1869 to 1873, and was admitted to
the New York Bar upon the completion of
his studies. He removed to Chicago, Illi
nois, and from 1882 to 1884 was attorney
of the village of Hyde Park. Later he
became the attorney of the South Park
Commissioners. He was a partner with
Honorable Wlliiam C. Goudy in the firm
of Goudy and Green from 184 to 1894.
Later he was head of the firm of
Green, Willits and Robbins, and is
the senior member of the firm of
Green, Peters and Bapst. He is a
Democrat, and was a delegate at large to
the National Democratic Convention of
1892. He organized the Natiorial Biscuit
Company in 1898 and became a member
of its executive committee. He was sub
sequently elected chairman of the board of
directors, and in February, 1905, was made
president of the company. He is Governor
of the Art Institute of Chicago and a mem
ber of the Harvard and Hyde Park Clubs.
He was married in Chicago, July 3, 1893,
to Esther Walsh. Address: 205 La Salle
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
GREEN, Charles Montraville:
Physician ; whose immigrant ancestor was
Thomas Green of Maiden, Massachusetts,
(1638), is the son of George Bent and
Melinda (Wetherbee) Green; he was born
in Medford, Massachusetts, December 18,
1850. He received his early education in
the public schools of his native town, and

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subsequently attended the Boston Latin
School, where he prepared for college. He
entered Harvard College in 1870, and grad
uated in 1874 with the degree of A.B.
He then began the study of medicine in the
Harvard Medical School, and received his
M.D. from Harvard University in 1877, in
which year he was elected a fellow of the
Massachusetts Medical Society. The next
two years were spent in hospital work and
post-graduate study at home and in Europe,
and in 1879 he began the practice of medi
cine in Boston, where he has since lived.
In October, 1879, Dr. Green was appointed
a district physician of the Boston Dispen
sary, and a year later became a member
of the staff at the central office. In 1881
he was transferred to the new department
for Diseases of Women, in which he served
four years. In 1885 he brought about the
establishment of an obstetrical department
and served as its head until 1907. From
1882 to 1885 he was a surgeon to out
patients at the Free Hospital for Women.
In January, 1884, he was appointed assist
ant- physician to the Boston Lying-in Hos
pital, in February, 1890, assistant visiting
physician, and in 1891 was made a member
of the corporation. In February, 1907, he
was made the visiting physician in charge.
In October, 1884, Dr. Green was appointed
physician , for diseases of women in the
out-patient department of the Boston City
Hospital in 1893, assistant visiting physic
ian ; in 1896, visiting physician ; and since
May, 1900, he has served as senior visiting
surgeon for diseases of women, in charge
of the department. He was appointed con
sulting physician to the State Hospital at
Tewksbury in 1894, and to the Adams
Nervine 'Asylum in 1904. In 1907 he was
elected president of the Senior Staff of the
Boston City Hospital, and chairman of the
executive committee. Dr. Green served as
secretary of the Suffolk District of the
Massachusetts Medical Society in 1884-
1886, and as censor from 1886 to 1890,
'when he was made a councillor of the
State Society. In 1899 he served as vice-
president. From 1883 to 1888 he was treas
urer of the Boston Society for Medical

Observation. In 1881 he became a member
of the Boston Society for Medical Improve
ment, and was president for the years 1904
and 1905. Elected to the Boston Obstet
rical Society in 1882, he served as secretary
from 1884 to 1889, and as president from
1893 to 1895. In 1886 he was made a mem
ber of the American Gynaecological So
ciety, and has twice served as a councillor.
In 1880, Dr. Green joined with several col
leagues in establishing in Boston a system
of summer courses in medical study, and
these courses were subesquently made a
part of the instruction offered by Harvard
University. In 1883 he was appointed as
sistant in obstetrics in the Harvard Medi
cal School. In 1886 he was made instruct
or; and in 1894, assistant professor of ob
stetrics. In 1904 he was elected associate
professor of obstetrics and clinical gynae
cology, and in 1907 professor of obstetrics.
Since 1897 he has served as secretary of "
the Harvard Faculty of Medicine. In 1888
Dr. Green was elected a member of the
School Committee of Boston, and served
for five years, holding the chairmanship
of the committees on high schools and text
books. Among the societies in which Dr.
Green holds membership are the following:
Boston Latin School Association, in which
he is a member of the Standing Committee,
Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa,
Harvard University, the Harvard Union,
the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent So
ciety, the Boston Medical Library Associa
tion, the Bunker Hill Monument Associa
tion, in which he is a director, the Massa
chusetts Society of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution, of which he was vice-
president in 1891 and since then treasurer,
a Republican Institution in the Town of
Boston, of which he is president, the Mass
achusetts Charitable Fire Society, of which
he is now vice-president, the Colonial So
ciety of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts
Society of Colonial Wars, of which he is
surgeon, the Bostonian Society, the Massa
chusetts Military Historical Society, the
Harvard Medical Alumni Association, of
which he is a councillor, the Medford His
torical Society, the Royal House Associa-

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tion, of which he is president, the St. Bo-
tolph Club, the Veteran Association of the
First Corps of Cadets', Massachusetts Vol
unteer Militia, the Veteran Association of
the Lawrence' Light Guard, of which he is
vice-president. In 1870 Dr. Green enlisted
in the Fifth .Regiment, M. V. M., and serv
ed for seven years as private, sergeant,
and subaltern. In 1877 he entered the
First Corps of Cadets, M. V. M., of Bos
ton, serving- a« hospital steward for four
years, as assistant surgeon for eighteen
years, and as major and surgeon from 1899
to 1905, when he retired, after a service
of more than thirty-four years, with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel. From 1894 to
1905, he was a member of the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States.
On June 29, 1876, in Boston, Dr. Green
was married to Helen Lincoln Ware. A
son, Charles, Montraville, junior, was born
November 12, 1878, and died in early in
fancy. Robert Montraville Green was born
July 11, 1880; he graduated from the Bos
ton Latin School in 1898, from Harvard
College in 1902, and took his M.D. degree
in 1906. Address : 78 Marlborough Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
GREEN, George E. :
Merchant, ex-State senator ; born in
Kirkwood, New York, August 30, 1858;
educated in public schools. About 1877
entered employment of Ford & Evans, coal
dealers ; became member of the firm of
Ford & Green, on retirement of Captain
Evans, and finally succeeded to proprietor
ship of the concern, directly representing
the §erwind- White Coal, Mining Company,
of Philadelphia and New York, which has
for twenty-five years represented as ex
clusive sales "agent for New York State and
Canada. Secretary and treasurer Yaqui
Copper Company, New York; president
of the International Time Recording Com
pany, Doremus Machine Company, Wash
ington, D. C. ; vice-president Bundy Manu
facturing Company; president Coal Deal
ers Supply Company, and member of the
firm of Berry & Green (wholesale flour
and feed), of Binghamton, New York;

vice-president of the Hudson Valley Rail
way Company ; director of the Guardian
Trust Company, Iron Clad Manufacturing
Company, General Electric Inspection Com
pany of New York, Security Mutual Life
Insurance Company ; vice-president Bing
hamton Railroad Company; director of the
Endicott Land Company, Binghamton
Trust Company, etc. For many years
chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee of Broome County, and later presi
dent of the League of Republican Clubs of
New York State, and twice reelected.
Elected alderman of Binghamton, 1887, and
president of the Common Council, 1888.
Republican candidate for mayor of Bing
hamton, 1889, and elected to that office,
1893, serving for five successive years.
Elected to State Senate in 1900 and 1902.
Clubs : New York Athletic, Republican,
Reform, Transportation, Lawyers' (New
York City) ; Ellicott (Buffalo) ; Dobson
(Binghamton) ; Albany (Albany). Resi
dence : Binghamton. Address : 170 Broad
way, New York City.
GREEN, John Orne:
Physician ; born in Lowell, Massachu
setts, June 7, 1841 ; son of John Orne Green
and Jane (McBurney) Green. He received
his preparatory education in the publifc
schools, and at Phillips Exeter Academy,
and was graduated from Harvard Univer
sity, with the degree of A.B. in 1863, and
the degrees of A.M., and M.D. in 1866.
After supplementary studies in Berlin, Vi
enna, and Wurzburg, Germany, he entered
upon the practice of medicine in Boston.
He is visiting aural surgeon at the Boston
City Hospital, the Massachusetts Eye and
Ear Infirmary, and the Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital; and is also clinical professor
of otology at Harvard University. He is
a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, and the American Otological So
ciety. In religious adherence he is an
Episcopalian, and is an Independent in
politics. Dr. Green is interested in athlet
ics, fishing and shooting, and is a member
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aress : 182 Marlboro Street, Boston, Mass
achusetts.GREEN, John Fogh:
Vice-President Pennsylvania Railroad ;
born in Philadelphia July 31, 1839. He
was educated in the Philadelphia public
schools, graduating with credit from the
Central High School. While at this
school he applied himself especially to the
study of shorthand writing, at a time
when the recent system of stenography was
in its infancy. He foresaw the importance
of the art, made earnest efforts to perfect
himself in it, and became an expert stenog
rapher, an accomplishment to which he
largely owed his early success in life. His
school life was followed by a period de
voted to the general study of law, and in
due time he procured admission to the
Philadelphia bar, where he was beginning
to make his mark in 1861, when the Civil
War broke out. The young lawyer at once
enlisted in the Union service, and remained
in the army till the end of the war, when
he had won the rank of captain, and was
assistant adjutant-general on the staff of
General Thomas L. Kane, commander of
the famous Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade.
Returning to private life early in 1865,
Captain Green entered the services of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as private
secretary to Colonel Thomas A. Scott, then
first vice-president of the company. In
this position his knowledge of stenography
was of great assistance. On January 1,
1866, he became secretary and treasurer of
the Milwaukee and Minnesota Railway
Company, a service in which he remained
till February 1, 1868. On July I, 1869, he
resumed his position as secretary to Colo
nel Scott, holding it till 1874, when he was
promoted assistant to the president. His
next promotion came on October I, 1882,
when he was made fourth vice-president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.' On
June 1, 1886, he was elected third vice-
president, and on March 1, 1893, second
vice-president of the company, a position
which gave him general charge of the ac
counting department and special super

vision over the lines west of Pittsburgh. On
February u, 1897, he was made first vice-
president. Captain Green' has long de
voted much of his leisure time to the
health-giving game of cricket, and has-been
president of the Belmont Cricket Club.
Address : Rosemont, Pennsylvania. Of
fice: 211 Broad Street Station, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
GREEN, Joseph I.:
Jurist; born in New York City, Febru
ary 11, 1868; son of Israel H. and Ray
(Levett) Green"; educated in the public
schools; graduated at Columbia College
Law School and School of Political Science,
LL.B., cum laude, 1887. In 1889, won prize
of $1,000 from New York World in its so-
called Contest of Brains, among 200,000
competitors, the prize idea being a Bureau
of Justice; admitted to the bar of New
York City, 1889 ; engaged in active practice
in New York City cdhtinuously until ele
vated to present position as justice of the
City Court, 1905. Member of the New
York Constitutional Convention, 1894;
member of the Assembly of New York
State from the Twenty-eighth New York
County District, 1896-1900, and served on
all the most important committees, Judi
ciary, Cities, Ways and Means, and Codes.
Democrat. Hebrew. Member of the So
ciety of Medical Jurisprudence, Adelphi
Lodge 23, F. and A. M., Independent Order
Free Sons of Israel, Independent Order of
B'nai B'rith, Wendell Phillips Lodge, K.
of P.- Former president of the Metropoli
tan Hospital and Dispensary, Hebrew
Orphan." Asylum, Hebrew Infant .Asy
lum, Montefiore Home, Mount Sinai
Hospital, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society. Recreations: Hunting and fish
ing and general backwoodman's life (at
every opportunity) at camp in the Adiron
dack mountains, Long: . Lake, Hamilton
County, New York. Clubs : National
Democratic, Cherokee ( former president ;
now chairman of the Board of Managers).
Married in New York City, December 22,
1896, Rose Hellenberg. Children: Eleanor
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Address: 1131 -Lexington Avenue, New
York City.
GREEN, Samuel Abbott:
Physician; born in Groton, Massachusetts,
March 16, 1830 ; son of Joshua Green and
Eliza (Lawrenqe) Green. After preparation
at the Groton Academy, he entered Har
vard University, where he received the
degree of A.B. in 1851, and M.D. in 1854.
The honorary degree . of LL.D. was con
ferred upon him by the University of Nash
ville in 1896. He was assistant surgeon of
the First Massachusetts Regiment in 1861,
and surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Regi
ment of Massachusetts Volunteers from
1861 to 1865; and in 1865 he was acting
staff surgeon on duty at Richmond^, Vir
ginia. Dr. Green was afterward city phy
sician of Boston for ten years; was mayor
of Boston in 1882; and since 1868 has been
librarian, and since _ 1895, vice-president of
the Massachusetts Historical Society. He
has also, since 1883, been a trustee of the
Peabody Fund. He has for many years
served in school committees; has been an
overseer of Harvard University for twenty-
nine years, and superintendent of the Bos
ton Dispensary for ten years. Dr. Green has
made six visits to Europe, the first more than
fifty years ago. He is an Independent in
politics, and a Unitarian. Dr. Green is as
sociated with various societies, including
the American Antiquarian and American
Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; and
is a corresponding member of the Academie
Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Let-
tres de Caen, France. Since 1870 he has
been president of the Channing Home, Bos
ton ; and since .1872 president of the Boston
Numismatic Society. Residence: 72 Har
rison Avenue, Boston. Office address :
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.
GREEN, Samuel Swett:
Librarian; born in Worcester, Massachu
setts, February 20, 1837 ; son of James Green
and Elizabeth (Swett) Green. He is a de
scendant of Thomas Green who came to this
country , early in the seventeenth century,
and. in the maternal line from Ralph

Sprague, who came from Devonshire to
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1629. Mr.
Green received his early education in pri
vate schools, and in public, grammar and
high schools in Worcester; was graduated
from the Worcester High School in 1854,
and from Harvard College as A.B. in 1858.
He went on a voyage to Smyrna in the
barque Race Horse in 1859, and also visited
Constantinople; remained two years in
Worcester on account of ill-health; re
turned to Harvard in 1861 ; was gradu
ated from the Harvard Divinity School in
1864; received the degree of A.M. in 1870,
and was chosen an honorary member of the
Phi Beta Kappa by the Harvard Chapter
in 1877. Mr. Green became bookkeeper in
the Mechanics' National Bank of Worcester
in 1864, and later in the same year teller
in the Worcester National Bank, and some
years later declined offers of the cashier's
position in the Citizens' National Bank and
of another office in the Worcester County In
stitution for Savings. He was elected a di
rector in the Free Public Library, January
1, 1867, and since January 15, 1871, has been
its librarian. Mr. Green is one of the leading
librarians of this country; is author of two
books: Library Aids, and Libraries and
Schools, and of many papers and mono
graphs on library science and historical
subjects. He was one of the founders and
is a life fellow of the American Library
Association; was its president in 1891, and
the first president of its council in 1896;
was one of its delegates to the Internation
al Congress of Librarians in 1877 and a
member of its Council; presided one day
over the World's Congress of Li
brarians in Chicago in 1893, and was vice-
president of the International Congress of
Librarians at London in 1897. He is an hon
orary member of the Library Association
of the United Kingdom, and since 1890 a
member of the-Free Public Library Com
mission of the Commonwealth of Massa
chusetts; and gave courses of lectures be
fore the School of Library Economy of
Columbia University, New York City. He
is also a member of the Council of the
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the Royal Historical Society; a member
of the Colonial Society, etc. ; of the Bunker
Hill Monument Association; has been a
manager of the Sons of the Revolution;
was charter member of the Society of Co
lonial Wars arid its lieutenant-governor; is
et member of the Society ,df the Mayflower
Descendants, the Old Planters' Society,
University Club of Bostori, Worcester Club,
St. Wulstan Society arid the Worcester
Economic Club; Corporator of the Wor
cester Art Muselirii arid ex-presiderit of the
Worcester Art Society. Address : 12 Harv
ard Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.
GREEN, Warren L. :
Engraver, printer; born in New York
City, May, 19, 1866; son of Francis George
and Antoinette Luqueer (Macdonough)
Green. He was educated in Wilson and
Kellogg School, and was pupil of Bougue-
reau. Entered service of American Bank
Note Company, as apprentice in 1882 ; man
ager' of the Canadian branch, 1896 ; second
vice-president in 1901, first vice-president
in 1903 and president since 1906; vice-
president of the United Bank Note Cor
poration ; director of the American Building
Company, National Bank County, Contin
ental Bank Note Company. He is a mem
ber of the Lawyers', Rideau Fairfield Coun
ty Golf, Metropolitan, Indian Harbor Yacht
and Clove Valley Rod and Gun Clubs.
Mr. Green married in Paris, France, Feb
ruary 4, 1891, Jeanne Marguerite Thierry,
and they have one daughter, Marguerite
Macdonough, born in 1897. Address: 627
West End Avenue, New York City.
GREENBAUM, Samuel:
Jurist; born London, England, January
23, 1854; son of Louis and Rachel (Schles-
inger) Greenbaum; came to New York
City when three years old; -educated in
public schools of New York City, College
City of New York, A.B., 1872, A.M. ; Col
umbia College Law School, LL.B., 1875.
Was teacher in public school, New York;
practiced law from 1877 until January I,
1902, when became justice Supreme Court
of New York; term expires December 31,

1915. Meriibel' Association Bar City of
New York, New York State Bar Associa
tion, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Civil
Service Reform Association, Free Trade
League, Jewish Historical Society. Form
er president Young Men's Hebrew Associa
tion; one of founders Aguilar Free Lib
rary Society, and president until its merger
with New York Public Library; one of
founders and first vice-president Education
al Alliance; trustee New York Public Lib
rary, Jewish Theological Seminary of Am
erica. Clubs : Lawyers', Manhattan City and
Reform. Married, New York City, March 13,
1888, Selina Ullman; children: Lawrence
S. (18), Edward S. (17), Grace R. (13),
Isabel (10). Residence: 2 East Ninety-
fourth Street. Address: County Court
House, New York City.
GREENE, Clay Meredith:
Dramatic author, writer; born in San
Francisco, California, March 12, 1850; son
of William and Anne Elizabeth (Fiske)
Greene. Was graduated from the Santa
Clara (California) College as Ph.D., in
1901, and attended University of California.
Was in' early life a stock broker and journ
alist ; in 1883 took up dramatic writing as a
profession, with occasional brief seasons in
acting; made tour of the world in 1894;
has also traveled extensively in Mexico
and Central America; has made extended
yachting cruises across the ocean and in
the Mediterranean. In politics is a Repub
lican and in religion a Catholic. He is a
member of the Actors' Order of Friend
ship, Actors' Fund Society. His favorite
recreations are yachting, horticulture and
photography and is a member of the Lambs'
(president for twelve te*ms), Green Room,
Larchmont Yacht and Manhasset Bay
Yacht Clubs. Mr. Greene married, July
24, 1873, Alice R. Wheeler, and they have
two children: Lizzie Esther and Alice
Moors, both dead. Address : Bayside,
Queens County, New York.
GREENE, Francis Tin I on:
Major-General United States Volunteers;
born Providence, Rhode Island, June 27,
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graduated from West Point 1870, the
head of class of 58 cadets; assigned
to artillery service on graduation; traiis-
'ferred, 1872, to Corps of Engineers:
detailed,. a& military,, attache ,tb United
States Legation at St., Petersburg,. 1877,
special duty, being to make a study of mili
tary operations during the war Between
Russia and Turkey, Accompanied Russian
army throughout its campaign; received
from Czar decorations of St. Vladimir arid
St, Anne ahfl the campaign riiedal; arid
from the PHhte ef Roumania the Star of
toiimahia and the Rourriania Cross. In
structor of practical military engineering,
United States Military Acaderiiy, July, 1885.
Resigned from the afmy and became vice-
president Barber Asphalt Paving Cdrtiriatty ;
soori after advanced td presidency of the
corporatiori, which he resigned to join the
United States Arrriy in Philippines. Joined
National Guard State of New York, 1889,
being commissioned as major and engineer
First Brigade; elected colonel Seventy-first
Regiment, 1892; ordered to Cuba, 1898;
afterwards transferred to Manila; promot
ed to rank of brigadier-general, May 27,
1898, for gallant and distinguished service;
promoted major-general in the Philippines,
August 13, 1898; in command Seventh
Army Corps in Georgia, October, 1898, and
of United States Troops at Havana, No
vember-December, 1898; resigned, January
r, 1899; appointed police commissioner of
New York City, January 1903; resigned
January 1, 1904. Has contributed much
to military literature ; his official report up
on the Turkey-Russian War was published
in two volumes for the United States Gov
ernment in 1879, under the title : The Rus
sian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey,
1877-78. Author: Army Life in Russia;
The Mississippi, which treats of the cam
paigns of the Civil War ; and of a bio
graphy of Major-General Nathaniel Greene.
Clubs: Century, University, Metropolitan,
Lawyers', (New York City) ; University,
Buffalo, (Buffalo) ; Metropolitan, (Wash
ington). Married, February 25, 1879, belle
Eugenie Chevallie. Address: 303 North

Street, Buffalo, New York, and Hotel Se
ville, New York City,
GREENE, Frank Lester!
Newspaper, eciitbr; Born in St. Albans;
Vermont, February 1.0; 1870; son df Lester
Bruce Greene arid Mary Elizabeth (Hoad-
ley) Greene. His education was obtained
in the public schools of Cleveland; Ohio,
and St, Albansj Vermont. He began wbfk
as an errand tidy in tlie Auditing Deflafj^
ment of the Central Vermont Railroad in
1883; mastered short hand in his leisure
time, and was promoted to chief clerk.
of the General Freight Department in 1887.
He obtained a position as reporter on the
St Albans Daily Messenger in 1891, was
made assistarit Bditeir ill iSgij arid since 1899
has Been editor of that paper. He has beeri
president of the Vermont Press AsSociatiori;
vice-pfesident of Vermont Historical So
ciety ; is a member of the orders of Masons
and Elks; department cdmm.itider for Ver
mont of the United Spanish War Veterans ;
a member of the Sons of Veterans (Civil
War), of the Sons of the. American Rev
olution, and the Military Order of For-
eign Wars, He belongs also td the Owl
Club of St. Albans, and is interested iri
amateur theatricals and tennis. He re
cruited Company B of the First Vermont
Volunteer Infantry in the war with Spam ;
was mustered in as its captain, later serving
as adjutant-general of the Third Brig
ade, First Division, Third Army Corps;
and after he was mustered out of service,
was appointed senior aide-de-camp, with
rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor
E. C. Smith of Ver-mont. He is chairman
of the Vermont State Commission to Ex
amine Normal Schools., Colonel Greene is a
Republican in politics. He married at St.
Albans, Vermont, February 20, 1895, Jessie
Emma Richardson, and has three children :
Richard, born in 1896, Dorothy, born in
1897, and Stuart, born in 1901. Address :
St. Albans, Vermont.
GREENE, Henry Fay:
, Lawyer, United States civil service com-
misioner; born in Newbern, North Caro
lina, May 30, 1859; son of Rev.Henry Fay

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Greene and Alice Gray Lawrence. Pre
pared for college at St. James' Grammar
School, near Hagerstown, Maryland; A.B.,
Princeton, 1880; A.M., Princeton, 1883
LL.B., University of Maryland, 1883; Bou-
dinot fellow in history, Princeton, 1880 and
1881. Practiced law, Baltimore, Maryland,
May 30, 1883, to July 21, 1887; Duluth,
Minesota, July 23, 1887, to July 4, 1903.
Referee in bankruptcy, Duluth, 1898.
Chairman of Commission, appointed by
judges of the district court to prepare char
ter for the city of Duluth, 1897-1903. Char
ter adopted, 1900. Member of two law
firms: Ayers, Morris & Greene, composed
of Walter Ayers, now of Boston, Massa
chusetts; Page Morris, now judge of
the United States District Court of
Minnesota, and Henry Fay Greene, 1897-
98; and Greene & Wood, composed
of Mr. Greene and Thomas S. Wood,
1900-1903. Has held offices of city
attorney, city of Duluth, 1893-94; referee
in bankruptcy, 1898- 1903 ; civil service com
missioner, June 20, 1903, to the present
time. Traveled in a majority of the States
of the Union in the discharge of duties as
civil service commissioner. Mr. Greene
was a Republican up to the time that James
G. Blaine was a candidate for the Presi
dency in 1884, on which occasion he voted
for Cleveland and became a Democrat, and
so continued until 1896, when he voted for
William McKinley, and has since been a
Republican. He is a liberal Episcopalian
in religion ; is a member of the Cosmos
Club of Washington and of the Duluth
Bar Library Association, and of the Sons
of the Revolution. Mr. Greene's favorite
recreation is walking. He married, Aug
ust 27, 1895, Susan Ryan Grady. Resi
dence : 1527 Thirty-first Street, Washing
ton, D. C. Address, Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. C.
GREENE, Herbert Wilber:
Musician, editor; born Holyoke, Mass
achusetts, May 20, 185 1 ; son of Myron E.
and Amanda H. Greene; educated high
school, Holyoke; also student of music at'
New York City, London, Paris; twice.

married. Founder and director Metropoli
tan College of Music ; former" associate
editor Godey's Magazine, New York City;
associate editor Etude, Philadelphia; now
director Brookfield Summer School of
Music. Composer ; lecturer on musical and
historical subjects; contributor verses and
short stories to magazines and class journ
als. Member Music Teachers' National
Association (twice president), New York
Clef Club (president). Residence: Brook
field Center Connecticut. Address : Carneg
ie Hall, New York City.
GREENE, John Arthur:
Publisher; born Waterford, Maine; son
of John Adams and Lydia (Cummings)
Greene; educated public schools and high
school, North Waterford, Maine; graduat
ed State Normal School, Farmington,
Maine, 1876, A.M., Colby College, 1896.
Upon graduation from normal school,
taught in Abbot School, Little Blue, Farm
ington, Maine; was then given charge of
local public schools, organizing high school
and its first principal; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in Maine; began
practice in Chicago, but soon afterward
accepted position in publishing house of
Ivison, Blakeman & Company, subsequent
ly entering the employment of the American
Book Company, educational publishers,
where he has been managing director for
a number of years. Republican. Congre
gationalist. Member National Educational
Association, Society of Educational Re
search, Social Science Association, New
England Society, Maine Society of New
York; trustee New York City Savings
Bank. Recreations : Fishing, hunting and
outdoor sports generally. Clubs : . Aldine,
Graduates', Republican. Married, Rockland,
Maine, April 12, 1881, Clara Frances Allen ;
one son, John Arthur, Jr., (Harvard, 1905;
born May 13, 1883). Address: 100 Wash
ington Square, East, New York City.
GREENE, Roger S. :
Consular official; born in Massachusetts.
Appointed deputy consul-general at Rio de
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eral, May 4, 1903 ; interpreter to the consul
ate at Nagasaki, March 22, 1904; also vice-
consul at Nagasaki, August 1-1, 1904; in
terpreter to the consulate at Kobe, June 10,
1905 ; vice and deputy-consul, June 12, 1905 ;
commercial agent at Vladivostok, October
24, 1905; consul, June 22, 1906; consul at
Dalny, March 30, 1907. Salary, $3,500 per
annum. Address : Dalny, Manchuria, Japan.
GREENE, Roy Farrell:
Magazine writer and journalist; born in
Three Rivers, Michigan, December 20, 1873 ;
son of Daniel C. Greene and S. Rosanette
(Shephardson) Greene. His education
was secured in public schools in Kansas
and at the Arkansas City High School.
In 1891 he became engaged in journalistic
work as reporter, city editor, political writ
er, etc., and since 1895 has been a regular
contributor, mostly in verse, to magazines
1 and eastern newspapers. Mr. Greene is
now a regular contributor to Puck, The
Judge, Life, Town Topics, the Smart Set,
Town and Country, the Ladies World,
Munsey's Magazine, Success, New York
Sunday Press, Brooklyn Life, the House
keeper, Good Housekeeping, etc. In polit
ics he is a Democrat. His society and
club membership includes the National Geo
graphic Society, the American Society of
Curio Collectors and the American Press
Humorists Club. He is especially interest
ed in botanizing, geologizing with the ham
mer, and the investigation of prehistoric
mounds. He is author of a volume of So
ciety Verse entitled: Cupid is King (now
in its second edition), published by R. G.
Badger, Boston. He married in Spring
field, Missouri, June 22, 1898, Bertha B.
Pyle. Address: Arkansas City, Kansas.
GREENE, Walter D.:
Health commissioner, Buffalo ; born in
Starksboro, Vermont, April 20, 1853 ; son of
Stephen and Lydia Greene ; graduated Med
ical Department University of Buffalo,
M.D., 1876. Clinical professor genito-urin
ary diseases in University of Buffalo, Medi
cal Department, and surgeon to Erie Coun
ty Hospital, and Buffalo Hospital of Sisters

of Charity; has held several prominent
municipal offices; district physician for the
poor, 1882-89 ; appointed health physician
! for Buffalo, which position he held until
I.1891; at organization of present Health
Department, in 1896, appointed deputy
health commissioner; health commissioner
since 1901. Mason, thirty-third degree;
past potentate Ismalia Temple, Nobles Mys
tic Shrine. Member Buffalo Historical
Society, Buffalo Medical Society (censor,
1888) ; associate in state and county medi
cal societies; member American Medical
Association and American Public Health
Association; second vice-president Masonic
Life Association of Western New York.
Clubs : Independent, Buffalo, Acacia (past
president). Married, November 28, 1878,
Mary E. Pursel, of Buffalo. Address:
Buffalo, New York.
GREENE, William C:
Lawyer ; born Otisfield, Maine, September
23, 1852; son of John and Elizabeth
(Knight) Greene; graduated Bowdoin Col
lege, A.B. (Phi Be' a Kappa orator, editor
Bowdoin Orient), 1877. Admitted to Maine
bar, 1879, Massachusetts bar, 1881, New
York bar, 1884. Practiced law in Mechanic
Falls, Maine, one year; Boston, three
years; at Sag Harbor, New York, since
June, 1884; practices in all courts of New
York and. United States District Court;
has filled offies of justice of the peace,
police justice and secretary Board of
Health. Chairman Republican Town Com
mittee; member Board of Education, Sag
Harbor, Southampton Town Board of Au
dit. Vice-president Suffolk County Build
ing Block Company; trustee, attorney and
member Funding Committee Sag Harbor
Savings Bank, Sag Harbor Real Estate
Company; attorney of Peconic Bank. Re
publican. Member M. E. Church; trustee
and superintendent Sunday School Sag
Harbor M. E. Church : trustee Oakland
Cemetery, Jamesport Camp-Meeting As
sociation. Treasurer Sag Harbor Historic
al Society; president Suffolk County Sun
day School Association; president Literary
Union, Bowdoin Alumni Association, New

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York City, Theta Delta Chi, Bowdoin Col
lege. Recreations : Tennis, yachting.
Married, Paris, Maine, June 6, 1888, Eliza
Ripley. Address: Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, New York.
GREENE, William Houston:
Professor of chemistry; was born De
cember, 1853, at Columbia, Pennsylvania;
received early education at public schools,
and later attended Central High School,
Philadelphia, receiving degree of A.M. In
1873 graduated from Jefferson Medical
College. From 1870 to 1877 he was assist
ant to B. Howard Rand, who was professor
of chemistry at Jefferson Medical College,
also demonstrator of chemistry from 1875
to 1877 at same college. From 1877 to
1879 he followed original research in Lab
oratory Adolph Wurtz, Paris, France, also
private laboratory in Philadelphia. At the
University of Philadelphia from 1879 to
1880 he was demonstrator of chemistry in
the medical department. He was fellow
of Chemical Society (London) ; also a
member of American Philosophical Society ;
Societe Chimique, Paris; Chemischen Ges-
sellschaft, Berlin ; American Association for
Advancement of Science, American Geo
graphical Society. Author of many books,
among which are: A Hand-Book of Medi
cal Chemistry, published in 1880; Lessons
in Chemistry, 1884; he is also translator
and editor of Wurts' Elements of Modern
Chemistry, 1880, 1884, 1887. Is the Am
erican editor of Paul Berts' First Steps
in Scientific Knowledge. Has made many
chemical investigations, which were pub
lished in Bulletin de la Societe Chemique
de Paris; Proceedings American Philo
sophical Society; Pharmaceutical Journal
and Transactions, etc. Professor of Chem
istry in Central High School, Philadelphia.
Address: 2130 Spruce Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
GREENE, William Stedman:
Congressman; was born in Tremont, Il
linois, April 28, 1841. He removed to Fall
River with his parents in 1844; was edu
cated in the public schools of that city,
and was a clerk in the insurance business

from 1858 to 1865; commenced business as
auctioneer, real estate and insurance- agent
in 1866; was elected member of common
council in 1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879, and
was president of the body the latter three
years; elected mayor in 1880; also alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention
which nominated President Garfield ;was re
elected mayor in 1881, but resigned the
same year; being appointed postmaster by
President Garfield; in 1866 was again
elected mayor; was a candidate in 1887
and 1888, but was defeated; in July, 1888,
was appointed by Governor Ames general
superintendent of prisons for the State,
and served until 1893, when he was re
moved by the Democratic governor for po
litical reasons; was again candidate for
mayor in 1894 and defeated; elected mayor
in 1895 by 734 majority, in 1896, by 1,514
majority, and in 1897, by 3,121 majority,
and declined a reelection in 1898; was ap
pointed postmaster by President McKinley,
and entered upon his duties April 1, 1898;
resigned this position and was elected to
Congress May 31, 1898, to fill unexpired
term of the late John Simpkins for the
Fifty-fifth Congress, also elected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses. Address : Fall
River, Massachusetts.
GREENEBAUM, EUas:
Banker; born in Eppelsheim, Grossherz-
gothum, Hessen, Germany, June 24, 1882;
son of Jacob and Sarah Greenebaum. He
received his education in the public schools
and in the agricultural, commercial and
trade school of Kaiserslantern, Germany.
He came to the United States when he
was about twenty-three years of age, and
settled at Uniontown, Ohio. He remained
there, however, less than a year, when he
removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he en
gaged in mercantile pursuits, and met with
considerable success. In 1855, he embarked
in the banking business, in which he
has been engaged to the present time.
While independent in politics, he has al
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and he was school agent of Chicago for a
time. He was one of the founders and
is a member of the Sinai Congregation.
He was married in 1852 to Rosina Straus,
and his children are : Henry Everett, Moses
Ernst, Emma E. (now Mrs. Gutnam), and
James E. Address : 85 Dearborn Street.
Residence: 4510 Grand Boulevard, Chi
cago, Illinois.
GREENHUT, Benedict Joseph:
Merchant; born in Chicago, Illinois,
June 24, 1870; son of Joseph B. and Clara
(Wolfner) Greenhut, his father now being
president of the Siegel-Cooper Company
of New York. He was educated in public
schools in Peoria, Illinois. He entered em
ploy of father, at that time head of the
Whisky Trust, in 1896 became connected
with the Siegel-Cooper Company, of which
is now secretary and treasurer, with its
business substantially under his immediate
and direct supervision, and is secretary and
treasurer of Greenhut & Company; also
president of the Empire City Safe Deposit
Company, director of the Union Exchange
Bank and Phoenix Eire Insurance Company
of Brooklyn; director and treasurer of
Monteeore Home. Member of the Loyal
Legion, Sons of Veterans, and a member
of the Harmonie, Aldine, Republican, Cri
terion and Freundschaft Clubs. Mr.
Greenhut married in 1892, Minnie Gootlieb.
Address: Sixth Avenue, and. Eighteenth
Street, New York City.
GREENMAN, Jesse More:
Botanist; born in North East, Pennsyl
vania, December 27, 1867 ; son of James
Greenman and Clarissa (More) Greenman.
He was educated at the North East Aca
demy from 1884 to 1888 and the Biological
School, and the classical department of
the University of Pennsylvania, frorii 1888
to 1893, from which he graduated with the
degree of B.S. He pursued further stud
ies at Harvard University in 1898 and 1899,
with the degree of M.S. and at the Uni
versity of Berlin from 1899 to igoi, from
which he received the degree of Ph.D.
From 1890 to 1894 he was connected with
the University of Pennsylvania first as as

sistant, and then as instructor in botany,
and afterward as fellow in biology. From
1894 to 1899, he was assistant in the Gray
Herbarium, and from 1902 to 1905 also in
structor in botany, at Harvard University.
Since 1905 he has been assistant curator
of botany at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago. In politics he is an
Independent Republican, and in religion
a Presbyterian. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; member of the Botanical So
ciety of America, the Boston Society of
Natural History, the New England Botan
ical Club; and the Quadrangle Club of Chi
cago, also of the Harvard Chapter of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In con
nection with his botanical studies he has
traveled widely in Europe, Cuba, Mexico
and Central America. He married in Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1902,
Anne Louise Turner, and they have two
children: Jesse More, born in 1903, and
Milton Turner, born in 1904. Address :
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago,
Illinois. GREENMAN, Milton Jay:
Physician and anatomist; born in North
East, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1866; son of
John B. Greenman and Alma (Cole)
Greenman. After preparation at the North
East High School, he entered the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, from which he matri
culated with the degrees of Ph.B. in 1889,
and M.D. in 1892. During the years 1889
to 1891 he was instructor in biology, in
1891 and 1892, assistant director, and since
1905 has been director of the Wistar Insti
tute of Anatomy, at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel
phia, and of the American Philosophical
Society. He married in Philadelphia, July
1, 1891, Frances Hancock. Residence : 3618
Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
GREER, David Huinmell:
Bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of New
York; born Wheeling, West Virginia,
March 20, 1844; graduated Washington

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College, Pennsylvania, 1862; subsequently
studied at P. E. Theological Seminary,
Gambier, Ohio (D.D., Brown University,
Kenyon College, University of the South;
S.T.D., Columbia; LL.D., Washington and
Jefferson College). Ordered deacon, 1866;
ordained priest, 1868 ; rector Christ Church,
Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1866-68; Trin
ity Church, Covington, Kentucky, 1868-71 ;
Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island,
1871-88; St. Bartholomew's Church, New
York City, 1888-1904; electad bishop coad
jutor of Diocese of New York, September,
1903. Author : The Historic Christ ; From
Things to God; The Preacher and His
Place (Yale lectures) ; Visions. Married,
Caroline A. Keith. Address : 7 Gramercy
Park, New- York City.
GliEGG, Alexander White:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Texas ;
he graduated from King College at Bris
tol, Tennessee, and afterwards attended
the law department of the University of
Virginia; elected to the Fifty-eighth Con
gress without opposition, and reelected to
tne Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses
from the 'Seventh Texas District. In poli
tics he is a Democrat. Address : Pales
tine, Texas.
GREGG, David McMurtrie:
Brevet Major-General United States Vol
unteers ; born April 10, 1833, at Hunting
don, Pennsylvania, where his father, Mat
thew D. Gregg, practiced law, and where
his' maternal grandfather, David McMur
trie, had settled before the Revolution.
General Gregg is a grandson also of An
drew Gregg, who was in the United States
House of Representatives from 1791 ' to
1807; in the United States Senate from
1807 to 1813 ; and secretary of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania from 1820 to
1823. Andrew Gregg's father, also named
Andrew, came from Londonderry, Ire
land, to Pennsylvania in 1712, and died at
Carlisle in 1789. A more remote ancestor
was David Gregg, of Argyleshire, Scot
land, who was a captain in Cromwell's
army. Another military forefather of Gen

eral Gregg was his great-grandfather,
General James Potter, of the Pennsylvania
line, who became vice-president of Penn
sylvania in 1781. Educated at Milnwood,
Huntingdon County, and at the University
of Lewisburg, young Gregg entered the
United States Military Academy at West
Point, July 1, 185 1, graduating iii 1855. He
was commissioned brevet second lieutenant
of Dragoons July I, 1855, and then began
his arduous life of the trooper upon the
plains of the West and the battle fields of
the Civil War. Before the war, as an offi
cer of the First Dragoons, Gregg had seen
active service in New Mexico, California,
Oregon, and Washington Territory: He
was on the Spokane expedition in 1858, and
was engaged in the desperate combat at
Tohotsnimme, and in the combat at Four
Lakes in September, 1858, and other Indian
fights. As captain of the Sixth Cavalry he
served in the defences of Washington from
the fall of 1861 until promoted in January,
1862, to be colonel of the Eighth Pennsyl
vania Cavalry, after which he participated
in the battles of Seven Pines and Fair
Oaks in May, 1862, and Glendale and Mal
vern Hill in June and July. In November
of that year he was made a brigadier-gen
eral and placed in command of the Second
Cavalry Division of the Army of the Poto
mac. In 1863 he took part in Stoneman's
Raid, and was' at Brandy Station, Aldie,
Upperville, Gettysburg (where, on the right
flank on July 3, he repulsed Stuart's at
tempt with four brigades of Confederate
Cavalry to reach the rear of Meade's Army,
simultaneously with Pickett's assault in
front), Shepherdstown, Culpepper Court
House and Rapidan Station, Sulphur
Springs, Auburn and Bristoe Station, and
at New Hope Church and Parker's Store
in the Mine Run campaign ; and in 1864 at
Todd's Tavern, in Sheridan's Raid, at
Ground-Squirrel Church, Meadow Bridge,
Hawes' Shop, Gaines' House, Trevilian
Station, Tunstall Station, St. Mary's
Church, Warwick Swamp, Darbytown,
Lee's Mills, Charles City Road, Deep Bot
tom, Ream's Station, Peebles' Farm,
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Bellefield, besides many minor actions and
skirmishes. From March 26, to April 6,
1864, he commanded the Cavalry Corps of
the Army of the Potomac, and the Second
Cavalry Division again from April 6, 1864,
to February 3, 1865, in .the Richmond cam
paign, being in command of all the cavalry
of the Army of the Potomac from August
1, 1864, to February 3, 1865. In many of
the long list of cavalry combats in which
he was engaged General Gregg was in
chief command. On August 1, 1864, he had
been made brevet major-general United
States Volunteers "for highly meritorious
and distinguished conduct throughout the
campaign, particularly in the reconnois-
sance on the Charles City Road." On Feb
ruary 3, 1865, he resigned. The war was
then practically over. General Gregg was
appointed by the President United States
Consul at Prague in 1874, But he resigned
the position in the same year, returned to
the United States, and subsequently resided
at Reading, Pa. Upon the death of Gen
eral Hancock, in 1886, General Gregg suc
ceeded him as commander of the Pennsyl
vania Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
which office he held for many years. In
1891, though without political aspirations,
he was elected auditor-general of Pennsyl
vania by an immense majority. General
Gregg is almost the last survivor of the
long list of distinguished Pennsylvania
soldiers who held high command in the
Union Army. Address: 15 16 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GREGORY, Charles Noble:
Lawyer and educator; born in Unadilla,
New York, August 27, 1851; son of Hon.
J. C. Gregory and Charlotte C. (Camp)
Gregory. He was graduated with honor
from the classical department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1871, and from the
Law School of that institution in 1872, and
received in 1901 from his alma mater the
degree of LL.D. From 1872 to 1894 he
practiced law in Madison,, Wisconsin, in as
sociation at various times with Hon. J. C.
Gregory, Hon.' S. U. Pinney (later on the

Supreme bench of Wisconsin), and Colonel
George W. Bird. From 1894 to 1901 he
was associate dean of the College of Law
of the University of Wisconsin; and since
1904 has been dean of the College of Law
of the University of Iowa. He served the
city of Madison, Wisconsin, as alderman,
and member of its Board of Education.
He is an active member of the American
Bar Association, and has for years been a
member of some of its most important
committees. He was one of the organiz
ers of the American Association of Law
Schools, and presided at the meeting at.
Saratoga at which it was formed,
and was vice-president of the Ant
werp Conference of the International Law
Association. He has delivered addresses
before the Bar Associations of the States
of Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Georgia, and Before many learned so
cieties and universities; and has been a
frequent contributor to the most important
law magazines of the United States and
England, writing especially upon interna
tional law. He . has published a life oi
Justice Samuel F. Miller of the Supreme
Court of the United States. He was a
Democrat up to the time of the nomination
of Mr. Bryan for the Presidency, since
which he has been a Republican ; and he is
an active member of the Protestant Episco
pal Church. He is a member of the Gen
eral Council of the American Bar Associa
tion, of the Iowa Bar Association, the In
ternational Law Association of London and
America, American Political Science As
sociation, and the General Council of the
National Civil Service Reform Asso
ciation. He edited the Tariff Reform Ad
vocate in 1888, and is now one of the edi
tors of the American Journal of Interna
tional Law. He was the author of the
Corrupt Practices Act, now in force in
Wisconsin, requiring that election expendi
tures be made public. He is a member
of the City Club of New York City, the
Grant Club of Des Moines, Iowa, the Tri
angle and Country Clubs of Iowa City, and
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Phi fraternities. Address: 227 North
Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa.
GRESHAM, Otto:
Lawyer; born in Croydon, Indiana, Jan
uary 30, 1859; son of Judge Walter Q.
and Matilda (McGrain) Gresham. After
passing through the public school grades he
took a course of studies at Santa Clara
College, California, and was graduated
from Wabash College in the class of 1881.
He studied law in the offices of Baker,,
Hord & Hendricks, in Indianapolis, and at
the Columbia Law School of Washington
City, from which he was graduated in
1884. He began the practice of his pro
fession at Indianapolis the same year, and
remained there until 1895, when he re
moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he has
built up an extensive practice. He is a
member of the Illinois State, the American.
and the Chicago Bar Associations as well
as the Indianapolis Bar Association. He
was a member of the Chicago Board of
Education in 1897 and 1898. He is a mem
ber of the Theta Pi college fraternity and
of the Chicago Literary, Calumet, Chicago,
and Twentieth Century Clubs. In 1904 he
was elected a member of the board of
trustees of Wabash College. Address :
122 Monroe Street. Residence : 26031
Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
GRIER, William Alexander Montgomery:
Banker; born Danville, Pennsylvania,
December 9, 1833 ; son of Michael C. and
Isabella (Montgomery) Grier; educated
Danville Academy; graduated Lafayette
College, A.B., 1856. Learned telegraphy in
1850 at Danville, and as the line (the first
in interior of Pennsylvania) was extended,
opened offices and instructed operators at
several points; teller Danville Bank, 1856-
63; organized and cashier First National
Bank of Danville, 1863-67; managing part
ner Pardee, Markle & Grier, bankers, Haz
leton, Pennsylvania, 1867-81 ; removed to
New York City in 1882; president and
New York manager Corry Radiator Com
pany until 1901 ; since then, not in active
business. Was delegate from the Eleventh
District of Pennsylvania to Representative
National Convention of 1880; first present

ed to convention the name of General
James A. Garfield for President, and per
sistently voted for him (entirely alone on
most of the ballots) until his nomination
on Thirty-sixth ballot; declined office of
assistant postmaster-general, tendered by
President Garfield. Trustee Pennsylvania
State Hospital for the Insane, 1873-82. Re
publican. Presbyterian. Married, Danville,
September, 1859, Lydia J. Best, children:
Isabella M., William. Address: 76 St.
James' Place, Brooklyn, New York.
GRIERSON, Benjamin Henry:
Brigadier-General United States Army;
born in Pennsylvania; appointed from Il
linois; Volunteer aide-de-camp to General
Prentiss May 8, 1861 ; major Sixth Illinois
Cavalry October 24, 1861 ; colonel April 12,
1862; brigadier-general Volunteers June
3, 1863; major-general Volunteers May 27,
1865; brevet major-general Volunteers Feb
ruary 10, 1865; honorably mustered out
April 30, 1866; colonel Tenth Cavalry July
28, 1866 to April 15, 1890; brigadier-gen
eral April 5, 1890; retired July 8, 1890;
brevetted brigadier-general March 2, 1867,
for gallant and meritorious services in the
raid through Mississippi in 1863 and major-
general March 2, 1867 for gallant and meri
torious services in the raid through Missis
sippi in 1864. Address: 852 East State
Street, Jacksonville, Illinois.
GRIFFITH, Elmer Cummings:
College professor; born in Mount Car
roll, Illinois, October 16, 1869; son of
Hugh Jordan Griffith and Lucy L. (Cum
mings) Griffith. He prepared for college
at the Mount Carroll High School, and was
graduated, as salutatorian of his class, at
Beloit College in 1895. After studying in
history and political economy at the Univer
sity of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D.
from that institution in 1902. From 1896
to 1899 he was principal of the Warren
(Illinois) Academy; from 1902 to 1905
professor in Yankton College, South Da
kota, and since 1905 has occupied the chair
of history and political economy at Wil
liam Jewell College. He is secretary and'
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ical Society, and a member of the Associa
tion of Doctors of Philosophy of the Uni
versity of Chicago. Author of a treatise on
the Rise and Development of the Gerry
mander. Dr. Griffith has traveled much in
Europe, and in 1899 and 1900 pursued
studies at Berlin University. He married
in Granville, Ohio, September 2, 1903, Mar
tha McMillen. Address: Liberty, Mis
souri. GRIFFITH, Fredric:
Surgeon; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, September 17, 1873; son of David
Reese (master craftsman in iron, inventor)
and Sarah Jane (Richardson) Griffith (lin
eal descendant of Samuel Richardson, first
councilor of colony of Pennsylvania, and
friend of William Penn, and through inter
marriage to Henry Hudson, navigator).
He was educated in Friends' Schools in
Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia,
from 1883 to .1892; Pennsylvania Nautical
School, 1892; University of Pennsylvania,
M.D., 1897; School of Auxiliary Medicine
of the University, from 1894 to 1897 ; finish
ing course in medical jurisprudence. For
varying terms has been engaged in the
University Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia Polyclinic, New York Hospi
tal, House of Relief, St. Vincent's Hospital,
New York Polyclinic, Vanderbilt Clinic,
Bellevue Hospital. Has traveled extensive
ly in the United States, Canada, South
America, Europe, West Indies, Azores, Ma
deira Islands, Bermuda Islands, West
Coast of Africa. Has had published more
than one hundred and fifty articles in pro
fessional and scientific journals. Has pro
duced numerous medical, surgical and sani
tary inventions. He is author of: Text-
Book on Surgery, 1904; revised second edi
tion Stoney's Bacteriology and Surgical
Technic for Nurses, 1905 ; also monographs
upon surgery in International Clinics, from
1902 to 1906; The Man Richelieu, character
study, 1907. He is advocate of protection
of the ballot by raising the American flag
over every voting booth and emblazoning
the arms of the United States upon every
ballot-box as means of awakening patriot
ism during such times of public business;

compulsory date stamps of entry and exit
upon all cold storage food products. Free
dom for enlisted men in the United States
Navy to obtain commissions, unrestricted,
relying upon knowledge, merit and experi
ence. Lecturer upon practical surgery under
direction of New York City Board of Edu
cation in 1904 and 1905. Lecturer and ex
aminer in First Aid to Injured, New York
City Police and Firemen, since 1904. Act
ing assistant surgeon of the Third Regiment
Infantry of the National Guard of Penn
sylvania, in 1897 and 1898. He is a mem
ber of the Society of Friends, Universal
Peace Society; and is a member of the
Alumni Society, of the University of
Pennsylvania; fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine. His favorite
recreations are horseback riding, sail
ing, walking trips. Is a member of the
Baltusrol Country Club. Summer home:
Belmar, New Jersey. Address : 49 East
Sixty-fourth Street, New York City.
GRIFFITH, Warren G.:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, September
20, 1850; son of Richard Griffith and Sarah
A. (Harris) Griffith. Was educated in
public schools of Philadelphia. He was ad
mitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Novem
ber 25, 1871. Is director of the Merchants'
Trust Company. In politics is a Republi
can. Member of the Pennsylvania Bar As
sociation, American Bar Association, Law
Association, Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, National Geographic Society,
Free and Accepted Masons, and past
high priest of the Royal Arch Chap
ter, and a member of the Union
League and Penn Clubs of Philadelphia.
Mr. Griffith married in Nutley, New Jer
sey, June 1, 1876, Martha A. Kingsland,
and they have one daughter Helen, who is
wife of Dr. Benjamin D. Parish of Phila
delphia. Residence : 2049 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia. Address: 641 Land Title
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GRIGGS, James Matthews:
Congressman and lawyer; born at La
grange, Georgia, on March 29, 1861. He
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Georgia and at the Peabody Normal Col
lege, Nashville, Tennessee, from which in
stitution he was graduated in May, 1881.
After graduation he taught school and
studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1883, and commenced the practice of law
in 1884 at Alapaha, Berrien County, Geor
gia; was for a short time engaged in the
newspaper business; removed to Dawson
in 1885; was elected solicitor-general
(prosecuting attorney) of the Pataula
judicial circuit in 1888, and was reelected
in 1892; in 1893 resigned; was appointed
judge of the same circuit, and was twice
reelected without opposition. He' resigned
this office in 1896 to make the race for
Congress. He was delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention of 1892; and
was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Second Georgia Dis
trict. In politics he is a Democrat. Con
gressman Griggs married, July 14, 1886,
Theodoshia Stewart. Address : Dawson,
Georgia.
GRIGGS, John William:
Lawyer and Cabinet officer ; born in
Newton, New Jersey, July 10, 1849; son
of Daniel Griggs and Emeline (Johnson)
Griggs. He was graduated from Lafayette
College as A.B. in 1868; studied law and
was admitted to the bar in November, 1871,
at Paterson, where he has since resided and
practiced law. He also became prominent
in politics as a Republican; was a repre
sentative to the General Assembly of New
Jersey in 1876 and 1877 ; was State sen
ator from 1883 to 1889, and president of
the Senate in 1886. In 1895 he was elected
governor of New Jersey, and was inaugu
rated January 1, 1896, the first Republican
governor of that State to be inaugurated
for thirty years. In January, 1898, he re
signed to take the post of attorney-general
in the Cabinet of President McKinley, in
which he remained until 1901, when he
resigned. He was later appointed a mem
ber of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
at The Hague. Address : Paterson, New
Jersey.

GK1NNELI/, George Bird:
President business corporations, author,
ethnologist; born Brooklyn, September 20,
1849; son of George Blake and Helen
(Lansing) Grinnell; educated Churchill's
Military School, Ossining, New York, Yale,
A.B., 1870, Ph.D., 1880. Assistant in os
teology, Peabody Museum, New Haven,
Connecticut, 1874-80; since 1880 president
and editorial manager Forest and Stream
Publishing. Company. Also president Bos
worth Machine Company, Lansing Invest
ment Company; director Milford Land
Company, Campbell-Bosworth Machine
Company. Collaborated with President
Theodore Roosevelt in writing American
Big Game Hunting; Hunting in Many
Lands; Trail and Camp Fire; edited Am
erican Big Game in Its Haunts. As eth
nologist regarded as authority on the his
tory and habits of the Indians of the Plains
and the West generally. Author : Indians
of Today; Blackfoot Lodge Tales; The
Story of the Indian; Pawnee Hero Stories
and Folk Tales; Jack, the Young Ranch
man ; Jack Among the Indians ; Jack in the
Rockies ; Jack, the Young Canoeman ; Jack,
the Young Trapper ; American Duck-shoot
ing; Punishment of the Stingy. Fellow A.
A. A. S., American Ethnological Society,
American Ornithological Union, member
American Folk-lore Society, Washington
Anthropological Society, Biological Society,
Washington ; New York Academy Sciences,
New York Zoological Society (member
Board Managers), New York Aquarium
(member Board Managers). Was member
Committee of Seventy, and took active part
in reform movement of 1894. Member So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Society Mayflower
Descendants. Clubs : Union, University,
Century. Married, New .York City, Aug
ust 21, 1902, Elizabeth K, daughter of
Colonel F. D. Curtis. Residence : Audu
bon Park. Address: 346 Broadway, New
York City.
GRINNELT,, William Morton:
Lawyer ; born in New York, February 28,
1857; son of William F. Grinnell and Mary
(Morton) Grinnell. He received his edu
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Schools, at Harvard University, and also
studied in Germany and the University of
France and was graduated from the Co
lumbia law school as LL.B. in 1881. He
was engaged in the practice of law at Paris,
France, as counsel to the United States le
gation from 1881 to 1886, and after that in
New York until 1892; and in 1893 he be
came third assistant secretary of State of
the United States. He became a partner
in the banking house of Morton, Bliss and
Company, and when the firm was changed
to a trust company under the name of the
Morton Trust Company, he resumed the
practice of law, acting as attorney for the
company, and many other important firms.
Mr. Gunnell served in the Spanish-Ameri
can War and was brevetted major of
United States Volunteers, on the staff of
General Poland of the First Division, Sec
ond Army Corps. He was decorated as
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur de
France in 1890. He is a director of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Rio
Grande and Sierra Madre Railroad Com
pany, the Loup Creek Coal Company and the
Mount Morris Bank. Mr. Grinnell is a
member of the Military Order of Foreign
Wars. In politics he is identified with the
Republican party and he is a member of
the Episcopal Church. He has membership
in the Union, Metropolitan and Fencer
Clubs of New York and the Metropolitan
Club of Washington. He married in
Washington, December 8, 1898, Elizabeth
Lee Ernst. Residence : 873 Madison Ave
nue, New York City. Office address : 40
Wall Street, New York City.
GRISCOM, Clement Acton, Jr.:
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June
20, 1868; son of Clement A. Griscom and
Frances Canby Biddle Griscom. President
and director' The Spencer-Griscom Com
pany, El Tiro Copper Company, and of
Bell Pure Air and Cooling Company; di
rector of American Finance and Se
curities Company, Guanajuato Reduc
tion and Mines Company, the Develop
ment Company of America, New York;
Empire Trust Company, member of Mari

time Association; Port of New York;
member of Chamber of Commerce, New
York; American Academy of Political and
Social Science, Philadelphia ; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; Department of
Archaeology and Paleontology of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
American Museum of Natural History;
New York; Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers; Metropolitan Club,
New York; Pennsylvania Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, Pennsylvania So
ciety of New York, Society of Colonial
Wars, General Alumni Society of the
University of Pennsylvania, Lawyers'
Club, New York; Morris County Golf
Club, Morristown, New Jersey; Merion
Cricket Club, Philadelphia; University Club
Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania
Club, New York, Somerset Hills Country
Club, Bernardsville, New Jersey; Class of
1887, University of Pennsylvania; Mendels
sohn Glee Club, New York Zoological
Society, Permanent International Associa
tion of Navigation Congresses ; member
New York Produce Exchange; New York
Botanical Garden; American Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; Am
erican National Red Cross Society; Am
erican Forestry Association, Washington,
D. C. ; St. James' Club, London, England.
Address : 21 Washington Square, North,
New York City.
GRISCOM, Lloyd Carpenter.
Ambassador; born at Riverton, New Jer
sey, November 4, 1872; son of Clement Ac
ton Griscom (president of International
Navigatiort Company), and Frances Canby
(Biddle) Griscom, both of Philadelphia.
After a thorough preparatory education he
entered the University of Pennsylvania,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1891, with the degree of Ph.B. He en
tered upon the study of law at the Univer
sity of , Pennsylvania Law School from 1891
to 1893, then became secretary to the Ameri
can Embassy at London under Mr. Bayard
(the first representative of the United
States of ambassadorial rank) in 1893 and
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at the Law School of the University of
New York, and in 1896 was admitted to
the New York bar. He was appointed dep
uty district attorney of New York in 1897,
but on the breaking out of the Spanish-
American War he entered the volunteer ser
vice, was commissioned captain and assist
ant quartermaster and served four months
in Cuba as aide-de-camp to Major-
General James F. Wade, and was recom
mended for promotion, but resigned to re
enter diplomatic life. He was appointed
secretary of the American Legation at
Constantinople in July, 1899, and was
charge d'affaires at Constantinople from
December, 1899, to March, 1901. He was
appointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to Per
sia, July 12, 1901, serving at the court at
Teheran until appointed December 16,
1902, as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Japan. Thence he was
transferred in 1906 to Brazil as the first
American ambassador to that country and
in December, 1906, was transferred to his
present post as American ambassador to
Italy. Mr. Griscom has been an extensive
and observant traveler, not only in the
countries to which he has been officially
accredited, but also in other parts of the
world, and during one extended trip
through the Central American countries he
wrote a series of interesting letters de
scriptive of his travels in Honduras, Nica-
raugua, the Isthmus of Panama and Vene
zuela; and he received from the Govern
ment of Venezuela, in 1895, the Order of
Bolivar. He also received the Grand Cor
don of the Order of the Lion and the Sun
from the Shah of Persia in December, 1902,
and Mrs. Griscom received from the Sultan
of Turkey the Grand Cordon of the Order
of Chefekat in November, 1901. Mr. Gris
com has his home at Haverford, Pa. He
married in London, England, November 2,
1901, Elizabeth Duer, daughter of Fred
eric Bronson, of New York. Mr. Griscom
is a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Philadelphia, Radnor Hunt and Merion
Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia, the Union

Club of New York, Bachelors' Club of Lon
don, Tokyo Club of Tokyo, Club des Dia-
rios of Rio de Janeiro, Circolo Nuovo of
Rome, and the Cercle d'Orient of Constan
tinople. Address : American Embassy,
Rome, Italy.
GRISCOM, Rodman E. :
Banker; born in Philadelphia, October
21, 1870; was graduated from the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, class of 1889; man
ager International Navigation Company
(American and Red Star Lines) until
January 1, 1904. Resigned to become
a member of the firm of Bertron, Storrs &
Griscom; director Girard National Bank;
vice-president Susquehanna Railway, Light
& Power Company, United Gas and Electric
Company, and other companies. Member
Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Merion Cricket,
and Philadelphia Country CluBs. Address:
224 Land Title Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
GRISWOLD, Sheldon Munson:
Bishop of Salina; born in Delhi, New
York, January 8, 1861, son of Walter Han
ford and Ann Elizabeth (Betts) Griswold.
He was educated at Union College, Schenec
tady, New York, and graduated with the
degree of A.B. in 1882, receiving that of
A.M. in 1885 and D.D. in 1900. After
graduating from the Union College, he
studied at the General Theological Semi
nary, New York City, graduating in 1885.
He received from the latter the degree of
D.D. in 1903. He was ordered deacon of
the Episcopal Church in 1885, and was or
dained priest soon after by Bishop Doane.
For three years following his ordination he
was connected with churches at Ilion, Mo
hawk, and Frankfort, New York. He
then was called to the rectorship of Emman
uel Church, Little Falls, New York, and in
1890 became rector at Hudson, New York,
where he remained until his election to the
episcopate. He was elected Bishop of Sa
lina, Kansas, and was consecrated in 1903
by Bishops Doane, Seymour and Hall.
Bishop Griswold was married to Kate Max
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S.chenecta'dy, New York. Address: Sa-
lina, Kansas.

GROEL, John Charles:
Real estate dealer; born in Newark,
March 1 1, 1868. After leaving school he
worked in New York City in the importing
and custom house business, which he con
tinued for six years. He was treasurer and
tax collector of the Borough of Vailsburgh,
Essex County, from 1903 to 1905, when the
borough was annexed to the Sixth Ward
of Newark, and is the pioneer real estate
dealer in the Vailsburgh section of New
ark; also president of the United Home
Building Company, and treasurer of the
Annex Realty Corporation. Mr. Groel is
treasurer of the Vailsburgh Democratic
Club, Second District, Thirteenth Ward,
and for years a member of the Democratic
County Committee, of the Jeffersonian
Club, Gottfried Krueger Association, Vails-
burg Improvement Association; is treas
urer of the Suburban Building and Loan
Association; (treasurer and brganizer of
Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a
Mason in high standing, a member of
Vailsburg Council No. 258, Jr. O. U. A. M.
Address: Newark, New Jersey.
GRONNA, Asle J.:
Congressman; born at Elkader, Clayton
County, Iowa, December 10, 1858; at the
age of two years his parents moved to
Houston County, Minnesota, where he was
brought up on a farm and educated at the
public schools, finishing at the Caledonian
Academy; taught school for two years at
Wilmington, Minnesota ; moved to South
Dakota in 1879 where he was engaged in
farming and teaching; in 1880 moved to
Buxton, Traill County, Dakota Territory,
engaging in the mercantile business ; moved
to Lakota, Nelson County, in the winter
of 1887; is a merchant and banker, and
also extensively engaged in farming; was
a member of the Territorial Legislature of
1889; has served as president of the vil
lage Board of Trustees and president of
the Board of Education several terms. In

1902 he became chairman of the County
Central Republican Committee of Nelson
County, and was reelected to the position
in 1904; in 1902 was appointed a member
of the Board of Regents of the University
of North Dakota by Governor Frank
White. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress and reelected in 1906 to the Six
tieth Congress from North Dakota-at-
large. Congressman Gronna married, Au
gust 31, 1884, Bertha M. Ostby, of Spring
Grove, Minnesota, and they have two sons
and three daughters. Address: Lakota,
North Dakota.
GROSS, Samuel Eberly:
Capitalist; was born at the "Mansion
Farm" on the banks of the Susquehanna
River, near the town of Dauphin, in Dau
phin County, Pennsylvania, November 11,
1843; the son of John Custer and Eliza
beth (Eberly) Gross. He is of Holland-
Dutch descent through the early settlers
of New York State. and of Huguenot an
cestry, through Louis DuBois, who found
ed New Paltz, New York, in 1671, also
through John Gross, who settled in Mont
gomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1745, and
Captain John Gross, whose commission in
the Revolutionary Army was dated Novem
ber 25, 1776, and who settled in Dauphin
County, Pennsylvania, after the Revolu
tionary War. His grandson, John C.
Gross, removed with his family to Bureau
County, Illinois, in 1846, and after some
years residence there settled in Carroll
County, Illinois, where his son, Samuel E.,
attended schools and acaderiiies until the
Civil War' broke out. Samuel E. Gross,
like the other patriotic boys of that fate
ful period, enlisted at the first opportunity,
enrolling in the Forty-first regiment of
Illinois volunteers, but was mustered out of
the service because of his youth. He was
then sent to the Whitehall Academy, in
Pennsylvania, and was engaged in his
studies there when the Confederate Army
invaded that State in 1863. He immediately
joined Company D of the Twentieth Penn
sylvania Cavalry, in which he was com
missioned first lieutenant, June 29, 1863,
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rank in the Federal Army. He was pro
moted to captain, Company K, in the
same regiment, February 2-1, 1864, serving
with his command through Virginia, 1864-
65, and taking an active part in the battles
of Piedmont, ' Lynchburg, Ashby's Gap,
Winchester and many others, and at close
of the war was honorably mustered out
July 13, 1865. He went direct from the
war to the Union Law College in Chi
cago, and was graduated in 1866. Even
while a student the great possibilities of
real estate development in Chicago im
pressed him, and he bought a few lots be
fore his admission to the Illinois bar in
1866. He engaged in successful law prac
tice, but his attention became more and
more engrossed with real estate matters,
and in 1868 and 1869 he took an influential
part in the development of the great park
and boulevard system which is one of the
most noteworthy and unique of the physi
cal features of Chicago. In the great
Chicago fire of October 8-9, 1871, he was
fortunate enough to save all his books and
papers, and was able to conduct his busi
ness with an -interruption of only three
days. He began about 1880 the distinctive
business of laying out arid subdividing into
lots, streets, parks, etc., of suburban towns
in close proximity to Chicago. He has
built twenty-one suburban towns, most of
which are now embraced in the municipal
limits of Chicago, has erected and sold
over ten thousand houses and sold forty
thousand lots. He is also interested in
mines and mining. While diligently prose
cuting the business which has made him a
millionaire, Captain Gross has devoted
much time to the study and practice of
literature, to art and to mechanical inven
tion, and in the latter field has invented and
received several patents for improvements
in mathematical instruments and street
pavements. In literature he has written
and published much miscellaneous verse,
and he is author of a romantic comedy,
"The Merchant Prince of Cornville," 1896,
which became famous because of the suit
which he later prosecuted in the United
States Court, contending that Edmond

Rostand, the French author, had plagiarized
from it the play "Cyrano de Bergerac*"
which contention was fully sustained by the
Court in 1902. Mr. Gross married at Chi
cago, January 15, 1874, Emily Brown, a lady
of English parentage, and has a beautiful
home on the fashionable Lake Shore Drive
of Chicago. He is a member of various
military and patriotic organizations. He
is a member of the Grand Army of the Re
public He has been secretary-general and
vice-president-general of the Sons of the
American Revolution; deputy-governor in
the Society of Colonial Wars of the
United States, president of the Western So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac, and is
a member of the Holland Society of Chi
cago and the Huguenot Society of America.
He is a director of the Chicago Relief and
Aid Society and , otherwise identified with
charities ; and is a liberal patron of art.
He is a member of the Chicago Athletic
Association, and of the Chicago Club of
Chicago. Residence: 48 Lake Shore
Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
GROSSCUF, Feter Stengel-:
United States circuit judge; born in
Ashland, Ohio, February 15, 1852; son of
Benjamin Grosscup and Susannah (Bower-
master) ¦ Grosscup ; and a descendant of
Paul Grosscup, who represented Berks and
Lebanon Counties in the Pennsylvania Co
lonial Assembly and also in the Consti
tutional Covention of 1791. After a care
ful preparation in the schools of Ashland,
Ohio, he entered Wittenberg College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. with the
honors of his class in 1872. He then en
tered the Law School of Boston University,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1874. He was admitted to the Ohio bar
the same year, and practiced law in Ash
land until 1883; and for six years he was
city solicitor. He was Republican candi
date for representative in the Forty-fifth
Congress, but was defeated by his Demo
cratic opponent. After 1883 he practiced
law in Chicago until appointed by Presi
dent Harrison, December 12, 1892, as
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ern District ot Illinois, and in January,
1899, he was promoted by President Mc
Kinley to his present office as judge of
the United States Circuit Court for the
Seventh Circuit, of which he is the pre
siding judge. Judge Grosscup has pre
sided in many important cases : upon the
application to close the World's Columbian
Exposition on Sunday; the Debs conspiracy
case; the receivership of the Chicago City
Railway Company, and others. Residence:
Virginia Hotel, Chicago. Office : Federal
Building, Chicago, Illinois.
GROSVENOR, Charles Henry:
Lawyer; was born at Pomfret, Windham
County, Connecticut, September 20, 1833;'
his grandfather was Colonel Thomas Gros
venor, of the Second Connecticut Regiment
in the Revolution, and his father was Major
Peter Grosvenor, who served in the Tenth
Connecticut Regiment in the War of 1812;
his father carried him from Connecticut to
Ohio in May, 1838, but there was no
schoolhouse near where he settled until he
was fourteen years old, when he attended
a few terms in a country log schoolhouse,
in Athens County, Ohio ; taught school and
studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1857; was chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Ohio State Bar Association
from its organization for many years;
served in the Union Army, in the Eigh
teenth Ohio Volunteers, from July, 1861,
to November, 1865; was major, lieutenant-
colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-gen
eral of volunteers, commanding a brigade at
the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864;
has held divers township and village of
fices; was a member of the State House
of Representatives of Ohio, 1874-1878, serv
ing as speaker of the house two years ; was
Presidential elector for the Fifteenth Dis
trict of Ohio in 1872, and was chosen to
carry the electoral vote of the State to
Washington; was Presidential elector at
large in 1880; was a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sail
ors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia, from April,
1880, -till 1888, and president of the board
for five years; was a delegate at large to

the National Republican Convention at St.
Louis in 1896, and again to the National
Republican Convention at Philadelphia in
1900 ; was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fif
tieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress. Address : Ath
ens, Ohio.
GROSVENOR, Lemuel Conant:
Physician; born in Paxton, Massachus
etts, March 22, 1833; son of Silas Newton
and Mary (Conant) Grosvenor. He was
educated at Williston Seminary, Easthamp
ton, Massachusetts, and at the Worcester,
Massachusetts, High School. He was for
seven years a teacher in the Mather School,
Dorchester, Massachusetts, the oldest free
school in 'the United States. He then took
up the study of medicine, entering the
Homoeopathic Medical College at Cleve
land, Ohio, from which he was graduated
in 1864. He practiced his profession in
Peoria, Illinois, for four years, when he
removed to Galesburg, Illinois, where he
has attained a prominence in his profes
sion. He was lecturer on. anatomy, and is
now professor emeritus of the Hahnemann
Medical College and professor of obstetrics
and sanitary science in the Chicago Homo
eopathic College. He also lectures to pop
ular audiences. He was on three occasions
elected president of the Chicago Academy
of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons
and was for three years president of the
American Pedagogical Society. He is a
member of the American Institute of
Homoeopathy. He is a writer on medical
subjects and is the author of: Our Babies;
Bedside Chats with Mothers; The Sanita
tion and Technique of the Lying-in Room,
etc. He is a member of the Chicago and
Congregational Clubs. He has been twice
married, first to Ellen M. Prouty, at Dor
chester, Massachusetts, in 1865, she dying
in 1874, and, second, to Josephine Bassett,
at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1876. Ad
dress : • 185 Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, 111 i —

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GROUT, Edward M.:
Ex-comptroller City of New York; born
in New York City, October 27, 1861; son
of Edward and Fanny (Marshall) Grout;
graduated Colgate University, A.B., 1884;
LL.D., 1903. Studied law in office of Gen
eral Stewart L. Woodford; admitted to
bar, 1885. Democratic candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, 1895; elected president Bor
ough of Brooklyn, 1897; elected comptrol
ler of New York City on Fusion ticket,
1901, and on Tammany ticket, 1903. Judge-
advocate and major Second Brigade, Na
tional Guard State of New York, 1894-
1904. Trustee of Colgate University; mem
ber Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Clubs :
Brooklyn, Hamilton, Montauk, Riding and
Driving. Married, Brooklyn, New York,
June 4, 1889, Ida L. Loeschigk. Residence :
860 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Address: in Broadway, New York City,
and 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New
York.
GROUT, John H.:
Consular official; born in Massachusetts.
Consul at Bermuda, January 14, 1893; re
tired, October, 1893; consul at Malta, Jan
uary 10, 1898. Salary, $2,500 per annum.
Address : Valletta, Malta Islands.
GROUT, Paul:
Lawyer; born in New York City, De
cember 20, 1866; son of Edward and Fan
nie (Marshall) Grout. Was educated in
Colgate Academy and New York Univers
ity. Engaged in practice of law in New
York City as member of the firm of Ed
ward M. Grout and Paul Grout. Is direct
or of the United States Title Guaranty and
Indemnity Company, People's Surety Com
pany, Remsen Bond and Mortgage Com
pany. He served as sergeant in Troop C,
New York -Volunteer Cavalry, in Porto
Rico campaign in 1898, Spanish-American
War ; now captain of Troop Six, Squadron
C, National Guard of the State of New
York. In politics he is a Democrat and in
religion a Baptist. Is a member of the
Zeta Psi, Delta Chi and of the Crescent
Athletic, Brooklyn, Municipal, Northport

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Yacht, Lawyers', and Kings County Demo
cratic Clubs. Mr. Grout married Lily M.
Moran and they have two children; Mar-i
shall, born in 1902, and Margaret, born in
1906. Residence: 1233 Pacific Street,
Brooklyn. Address: in Broadway, Man
hattan; 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
GROTE, James Harvey:
President of Howard Payne College;
bom near Plymouth, Illinois, February 28,
1857 ; son of Samuel Henry Grove and Eliza
Jane (Grove) Grove. He spent the first
seventeen years of his life on a farm and
then began teaching in the country schools
in Illinois. His education was obtained in
the public schools of Hancock County, Illi
nois, at Carthage College, Illinois, the State
Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, and
the University of Missouri. During .this
period, he was mainly dependent upon his
own resources. As a boy- he was accus
tomed to spinning, weaving, knitting,
scutching flax and general farm work.
From 1884 to 1886 he was superintendent
of public Schools, Lathrop, Missouri.
From 1886 to 1890, he was superintendent
of public schools in Liberty, Missouri;
from 1890 to 1893, principal of the Acad
emic Department of Howard Payne Col
lege; from 1893 to 1896 he was professor
of mathematics and moral science in that
college and he has been its president since
1896. He is a director in the Empire Fur
niture Company, and the American Bank
and Trust Company of Brownwood, Texas;
a member of the National Education Asso
ciation; a Mason, and Knight Templar.
President Grove, is' a Democrat in politics
and a Baptist in religion. He is highly
esteemed as a public spirited citizen, whose
example and influence are worthy of emula
tion. He married at Lathropj Missouri,
August 18, 1886, Blanche Lowe, and they
have two children : Roxy, born in 1888,
and Hugh, born in 1890. Address : Brown-
wood, Texas.
GROVER, Oliver Dennett:
Artist ; born in Earlville, Illinois, in 1861 ;
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Grover. He received his primary educa
tion in the public schools of Earlville and
attended the University of Chicago until
the close of his sophomore year, when he
decided to begin the study of art. He
proceeded to Munich, Bavaria, where he
entered the Royal Academy, remaining for
two years. He also pursued his studies
at the Duveneck School, Florence, Italy,
from 1880 to 1884, and in Paris from 1884
to 1886. Upon his return to the United
States he took up his residence in Chicago,
Illinois, where, in 1892, he received the first
Yerkes prize for his painting: Thy Will be
Done. He executed the mural decora
tions of the Branford, Connecticut, Memo
rial Library in 1897, and also the decora
tions for the Blackstone Memorial Library
in Chicago in 1903. He has painted many
notable pictures which have been placed in
public collections. He is ex-president of
the Society of Western Artists and of the
Chicago Society of Artists, a member of
the National Society of Mural Painters, the
Municipal Art League of Chicago, the So
ciety of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the
Revolution. He was awarded the silver and
bronze medals at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition in 1904. He was married to
Louise Rolshoven at Detroit, Michigan, in
1887. Address: 29 Via delle Ruote, Flot
ence, Italy.
GRUBB, Ignatius Cooper:
Jurist; born at Grubb's Landing, Dela
ware, April 12, 1841 ; son of Wellington
Grubb and Beulah Caroline (Allmand)
Grubb, and descendant of John Grubb of
Cornwall, England, who emigrated in 1677,
settled at Grugg"s Landing, Delaware, in
1682, and was later a member of the Co
lonial Assembly. After receiving a clas
sical education he studied law, and was ad
mitted to the Delaware bar in 1862. He
was clerk of the Delaware House of Rep
resentatives in 1867 ; deputy attorney-gen
eral in 1869; city solicitor of Wilmington
in 1871; secretary of State of Delaware
from 1875 to 1879, and the Delaware mem
ber of the Democratic National Committee
from 1880 to 1888. He served as associate

justice of the Delaware Court of Appeals
from 1886 to 1897, and since 1897 has been
a judge at large of the Supreme Court of
Delaware. He is author of Colonial and
State Judiciary of Delaware, 1896. Ad
dress : Wilmington, Delaware.
GUENTHER, Francis Luther:
Brigadier-general, United States Army
(retired) ; born in Buffalo, New York, Feb
ruary 22, 1838; son of Rev. Francis Henry
and Katharine (Knouts) Guenther; ap
pointed from New York cadet at United
State Military Academy, July 1, 1854; grad
uated, 1859; brevet second lieutenant,
United States Army, July 1, 1859; second
lieutenant, Fourth Artillery, November 2,
1859; first lieutenant, Fifth Artillery, May
14, 1861; captain, July 2, 1863; major, Sec
ond Artillery, June 26, 1882; lieutenant-
colonel, Fifth Artillery, July I, 1891; colo
nel, Fourth Artillery, June 6, 1896; briga
dier-general, February 13, 1902; retired,
February 22, 1902. Served in Civil War
in armies of West Virginia, the Ohio, and
the Cumberland ; took .part in many bat
tles. Brevetted for gallant and meritorious
service; captain, April 7, 1862 (for Shiloh) ;
major, December 31, 1862 (for Stone
River) ; lieutenant-colonel and colonel,
March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious
services during the Civil War. In volun
teer service as brigadier-general, United
States Volunteers, May 4, 1898, to Octo
ber 31, 1898. Address: 5 East One Hun
dred and Twenty-fourth Street, New York
City.
GUENTHER, Richard:
Consul-General ; born in Potsdam, Prus
sia, November 3, 1845. He was educated
in the schools of Prussia and in 1866 he
came to the United States, and was en
gaged as a broker in drugs and chemicals
at New York City for a year. He went
to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1867, and has
ever since made his home there. He was
for some years engaged in business there
as a pharmacist. He was for several terms
a member of the School Board of Oshkosh,
and he became active and influential in the
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was elected State treasurer of Wisconsin
from 1878 to 1882; was elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
and Fiftieth Congresses, 1881 to 1889. He
was consul-general of the United States
to the City of Mexico from 1890 to 1893;
was a member of the State Board of Con
trol of Wisconsin from 1895 to 1899, and
its president 1898-99, and resigned from
that position January 1, 1899, in order to
accept from President McKinley the ap
pointment to his present position as consul-
general of the United States at Frankfort-
on-the-Main, Germany. Address : Frank-
fort-on-the-Main, Germany.
GUERIN, Jules:
Artist, illustrator; born St. Louis, Mis
souri, November 18, 1866 ; son of Richmond
Lee and Louise (Davis) Guerin; educated
at Paris, France, under Jean Paul Laurens
and Benjamin Constant; finishing academy
work, 1894. Traveled in France, England,
Ireland, Holland, Egypt, Greece, Sicily,
Italy, and Morocco. Five years in France,
four years in Holland, sketching. Made
the French Chateaux for Century Maga
zine; made the drawings for the Civic
Improvement of Washington, D. C. Has
received numerous medals in France and
United States, including medals from Paris
Exposition, 1900 and Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, 1904. Member American Water
Color Society, New York Water Color
Club, Society of Illustrators. . Club : Play
ers', Married, New York City,'i902, Mary
Mulford. Address : 90 Grove Street, New
York City.
GUGGENHEIM, DlinicI:
Smelter, capitalist ; member of the firm
of -M. Guggenheim's Sons ; president and
director, Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany; president of the board of directors,
American Smelters' Securities Company;
president and director of the American
Smelting & Refining Company; director of
the National Bank of Commerce, Morton
Trust Company. Address : 71 Broadway,
New York City.

GUGGENHEIM, M. Robert:
Mining and smelting; born in New York
City, May 17, 1885; son of Daniel and
Florence (Schloss) Guggenheim; was a
member of Columbia class of 1907. Direc
tor and member of the executive commit
tee of the American Smelting and Refining
Company, American Smelters' Securities
Company; member of M. Guggenheim
Sons; director Guggenheim Exploration
Company and Western Mining Company,
second vice-president United States Zinc
Company. Has traveled extensively in Eu
ropean countries ; presented to Pope Pius X,
January 21, 1906. Recreations : Motoring
and breeding and exhibiting English bull
terriers. Married in New York City, No
vember 30, 1905, Grace L. Bernheimer.
Residence : 12 W. Fifty-fourth Street. Ad
dress : 71 Broadway, New York City.
GUGGENHEIM, Simon:
United States senator; born in Philadel
phia, December 30, 1867; son of Meyer and
Barbara (Myers) Guggenheim; he was
graduated from the public schools of Phila
delphia and studied languages two years in
Europe. Engaged in mining and smelting,
United States and Mexico; director (exec
utive committee) American Smelting and
Refining Company ; mining director Guggen
heim Exploration Company. Went to Pueblo,
Colorado, 1888, with brothers; retains citi
zenship in Colorado and votes there regu
larly. Republican ; nominated for lieuten
ant-governor by Silver Republicans of Colo
rado ; declined nomination, although ticket
was elected; nominated by same party for
governor of Colorado, 1898, and endorsed
by People's Party, but withdrew from
ticket; elected, January, 1907, United States
Senator from Colorado, for term 1907-13,
Presidential elector, Colorado, 1904. Clubs :
Lawyers, Harmonie, ( New York City) ;
Progress, (Denver); Pueblo, (Pueblo);
Alta (Salt Lake City). He married i"
New York, November 24, 1898, Olga Hirsh.
Address : 1555 Sherman Avenue, Denver,
Colorado.
GUGGENHEIMER, Randolph:
Lawyer ; born in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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ginia;- educated in schools there and in
law school New York University, LL.B.,
1869. Came from Virginia to New York
City, 1865, and was employed by M. L.
Townsend, an attorney; admitted to bar,
1869, and engaged in practice, making a
specialty of corporation practice and real
estate law. In 1882, with half-brothers,
Isaac and Samuel Untermyer, established
firm of Guggenheimer & Untermyer, which,
by accession of Louis Marshall, 1893, be
came Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Mar
shall; firm sprang into prominence, 1893,
by negotiating for the English syndicate
that consolidated many of the largest brew
eries of the United States and brought over
$100,000,000 foreign capital to United
States. Appointed by Mayor Grace, 1887,
a commissioner of common schools, serving
until 1896; reappointed by Mayors Grant
and Gilroy, and taking a leading part as
chairman of the Site Committee in the selec
tion of convenient sites for schools ; also
a leader in originating the evening high
school system and the free lectures for
working people, in securing retention of
German as a required part of the curricu
lum and in securing legislation for the
schools as chairman of the committee on
legislation. Pioneer in erection- of large
office buildings on Broadway, having erected
the New York Commercial buildings on the
site of the old New York Hotel, of which
he is still owner. Elected, 1897, president
of the Municipal Council, serving four
years, and was acting mayor during the
four summer absences of Mayor Van
Wyck ; reappointed, 1906, by Mayor McClel
lan. commissioner of the Board of Educa
tion (five-year term). Democrat. Member
Arion Society, Liederkranz Society, Friend
ly Sons of St. Patrick. Clubs: Manhat
tan, Lotos, National Democratic. Married
in New York City, June 16, 1875, Eliza,
daughter of ex-Commissioner Katzenberg.
Children : Two sons, one daughter. Ad
dress.: 725 Broadway, New York City.
GUILD, Curtis, Jr.:
Governor of Massachusetts ; born in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, February 2, i860; son

of Curtis Guild (publisher of the Boston
Commercial Bulletin) and Sarah C. (Cobb)
Guild. After completing his preparatory
education in the Chauncey Hall School in
Boston, he entered Harvard College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in the
class of 1881, with highest honors. While an
undergraduate he was for a time editor of
the Harvard Crimson, and in his senior
year of the Harvard Lampoon. After
graduation he entered the office of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin, and was later
admitted to the publishing firm, and in 1902
became sole owner of the paper. He joined
Troop A of the First Battalion of Massa
chusetts Cavalry in 1891, was elected second
lieutenant in 1895, and in 1897 was ap
pointed by Governor Wolcott inspector-
general of rifle practice on his staff, with
the rank of brigadier-general. In April,
1898, the war with Spain having begun, he
resigned to become adjutant in the Sixth
Infantry of Massachusetts Volunteers,
with the rank of lieutenant, and in
May, 1898, he was appointed by President
McKinley as inspector-general on the staff
of General Fitzhugh Lee, Seventh Army
Corps, serving until the close of the war,
reaching the rank of colonel of United
States Volunteers. In politics he is an ac
tive Republican, and he was elected lieu
tenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1902,
serving until 1905, and was elected in 1905
and again in 1906, governor of Massachus
etts. He married in Boston June 1, 1892,
Charlotte H. Johnson. Residence : 124
Marlboro Street, Boston. Office address :
41 India Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
GUILFORD, Simeon Haytlen:
Dentist; born April 11, 1841 ; son of Si
meon Guilford, iron master. Was edu
cated in the Lebanon public schools, Litiz
Academy (Lancaster County) in 1856, and
graduated from Franklin and Marshall Col
lege, receiving the degree of A.B. in 1861,
A.M. in 1864 and Ph.D in 1886. Taught
school during winter of 1861 and 1862; en
tered Union Army, August, 1862, as pri
vate in Company E. One Hundred and
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Third Brigade, Second Division, Second
Corps, Army of the Potomac.; was actively
engaged in battles of Fredericksburg, De
cember, 1862, and Chancellorsville, May,
1863. Began study of dentistry in June,
1863 ; was graduated from the Pennsylvania
College of Dental Surgery in February,
1865, with degree of D.D.S. In 1884 re
ceived the honorary degree of D.D.S. from
the Philadelphia Dental College. Began
practice in native city, Lebanon, Pennsyl
vania, and seven years later, October, 1872,
removed to Philadelphia, where he has
since resided and practiced his profession.
In 1881 elected to the chair of Operative
and Prosthetic Dentistry in the Philadel
phia Dental College; in 1896 was elected
Dean of the institution, which office he re
signed in 1905. Is member of the Ameri
can Dental Association; National Associa
tion of Dental Faculties; Pennsylvania
State Dental Society; Philadelphia Acad
emy, of Stomatology; National Institute of
Dental Pedagogies; honorary member of
the Reading Dental Society, Dental Society
of Southern New Jersey, American Acad
emy of Dental Science, Boston; First Dis
trict Dental Society, State of New York;
American Dental Society of Europe. Has
been president of the National Association
of Dental Faculties, Pennsylvania State
Dental Society, Odontological Society of.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Academy of
Stomatology and the National School of
Dental Technics and vice-president of the
National Dental Association. Dr. Guilford
is author of Nitrous Oxide, 1887, and
Orthodontia (four editions), 1889, 1893,
1898 and 1905. One of the editors of the
American System of Dentistry, 1886, and
the American Text Book of Operative Den
tistry in 1900. Has been a frequent con
tributor for thirty-five years to the various
dental journals of this and other countries.
Is regarded as an authority on Orthodontia.
Is a member of the University Club and the
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He married
June 8, 1868, Virginia Susan Gleim, of
Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Residence : Lans
downe, Pennsylvania. Office: 163 1 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GULESIAN, Moses H.:
Manufacturer and philanthropist ;. born in
Marash, Armenia, Asia Minor, in 1865.
He was brought up to the trade of cop
persmith in the isolated village of his birth.
When seventeen years of age he ran away
from home, came to America and within
one year he was joined by twenty-five Ar
menians from his native town, the begin
ning of the exodus of 1884. It was May
4, 1883, that young Gulesian reached New
York with a Turkish pound in his pocket.
He learned from his countrymen in New
York to weave, and he journeyed to Wor
cester, Massachusetts, and worked at his
new trade for five years. He next came
to Boston, where he worked as a copper
smith, and after two years began the man
ufacture of cornices on his own account,
and in two months had twenty-two men in
his employ, and in a few years had a large
factory in operation. In the massacres
of 1894-6 he telegraphed money to aid his
family in escaping from the threatened town
of Morash, and twenty-three members of his
immediate family were by this means en
abled to reach Boston, after having all
their property destroyed ; and the same year
two hundred of his countrymen followed
and were sustained and found employment
in Boston through the liberality of Mr.
Gulesian, the beginning of the Armenian
settlement in Boston. He was married in
1891 to Cora F. Plummer, of Boston, and
in 1891 he built a beautiful home in Chest
nut Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts. He of
fered the Government $10,000 for the old
ship Constitution, rather than to see her
used, as threatened, as a target. In 1907,
when a wealthy Armenian was murdered
by a secretly organized society, jealous of
the prosperity of their fellow countrymen
in America, Mr. Gulesian was marked as
the second victim of their greed, but arm
ing himself, and contributing liberally of
his wealth to ferret out the murderers, he
with other of his countrymen, succeeded in
placing the society under the ban of the
law. Residence : Brookline, Massachusetts.
Office address : Waltham Street, Boston,
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GUMMERE, Samuel B. :
Consular official; born in New Jersey.
Consul-general at Tangier, May 4, 1898;
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary to Morocco, March 8, 1905; ap
pointed a member of the commission to
represent the United States at the Moroc-
con Conference November 24, 1905, salary
$7,500 per annum. Address : Tangier,
Morocco.
GUMMET, Charles Francis:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, December
22, 1862. Of a Welsh family, which came
to Virginia in 1635. Prepared for college
at the Germantown Academy, and entered
the University of Pennsylvania from
which he graduated in 1884, with the de
gree of. B.S. Read law and graduated
LL.B. from the same institution in 1888.
Admitted to the Philadelphia bar June 16,
1888. Married June 7, 1900, to Florence,
daughter of John H. Catherwood, Esq.
Address : 2126 Locust Street ; country
residence, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.
GUNN, Archie:
Artist; born in England in 1863; edu
cated in England; studied art in London;
came to New York fifteen years ago and
was employed on various papers; is famous
as a drawer of postals, and has latterly
gained great distinction as a painter.. He
is a member of the Strollers' Club. Ad
dress : Strollers' Club, 67 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
GUNNISON, Almon:
President of St. Lawrence University.;
born in Hallowell, Maine, March 2, 1844;
son of Nathaniel Gunnison and Ann L.
(Foster) Gunnison. He was prepared at
Green Mountain Institute, Woodstock, Ver
mont, Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and was graduated from Tufts Col
lege, and in divinity from St. Lawrence
University. The degree of D.D. was con
ferred upon him by St. Lawrence Univer
sity, and. the degree of LL.D. by Union
College and Tufts College. After complet
ing his studies, he entered the Universalist

ministry, settling first at Bath, Maine.
Three years afterwards he was called to All
Soul's Church, Brooklyn, New York, where
he remained twenty years, then to the First
Universalist Church of Worcester, Massa
chusetts, where he was pastor for ten
years. From there he was called to the
presidency of St. Lawrence University,
Canton, New York, which position he now
occupies. He is one of the editors of the
Geographical Magazine, and editorial writer
for the Christian Leader; and was for
ten years a trustee of the General
Convention of Universalists. Dr. Gun
nison has made eight tours abroad,
visiting Europe, Asia and Africa ; has writ
ten two books : Rambles Overland, and
Wayside and Fireside Rambles; has been
a frequent contributor to magazines, and
has lectured extensively. In politics, he is
a Republican. He is a member of the Zeta
Psi fraternity. He married at Canton,
New York, July 7, 1868, Ella E. Everest,
and they have one son : Frederick E.,
lawyer and president of the Gas and Elec
trical Commission of New York City, and
a daughter, Lulu A. Address : Canton,
New York.
GUNNISON, Royal Arch:
United States judge; born in Bingham
ton, New York, June 24, 1873; son of
Christopher B. Gunnison and Juliette
(Turner) Gunnison. He received a high
school education at Binghamton, was grad
uated from the Law Department of Cor
nell University as LL.B. in 1896, and after
practicing seven years in Binghamton and
serving as a referee in bankruptcy for six
years, he was appointed by President Roose
velt to his present office as United States
district judge for the First Division of the
District of Alaska, in which office he is
now serving. Address : Juneau, Alaska.
GUNSAULUS, Edwin N, :
Consular official; born in Ohio. Ap
pointed consul at Pernambuco, February 1,
1900; consul at Toronto, November 13,
1901 ; consul at Cork, March 8, 1905 ; con
sul at Rimouski, June 22, 1906. Salary,

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$3,Soo per annum. Address : Rimouski,
Quebec.GURLET, William W.:
Lawyer; born in Mount Gilead, Ohio,
January 27, 1851 ; son of John J. and An-
seville C. (Armentrout) Gurley. His edu
cation was obtained in the public schools
and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, from
which he was graduated in 1870. He stud
ied law in his father's office and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1873. He began the
practice of his profession in Chicago, Illi
nois, in 1874, where he eventually became
largely engaged in corporation practice.
He is the general counsel of the Chicago
Union Traction Company, the Chicago
Consolidated Traction Company, the Met
ropolitan West Side Elevated Railway
Company, the Featherstone Foundry and
Machine Company, and several other prom
inent corporations. He has large invest
ments and is a director in the Stearns &
Culver Lumber Company, the Lyon Cy
press Lumber Company, the Baker Lumber
Company, and others. He is at present
the head of the law firm of Gurley, Stone
& Wood. He is a member of the Union
League, Chicago, Washington Park, Ex-
moor, and Edgewater Golf Clubs, and also
of the Transportation Club, the New York
Club and the Ohio Society of New York
City. He was married, October • 30, 1878,
to Mary Eva Turney, daughter of the
late Hon. Joseph Turney, of Cleveland,
Ohio. He has one daughter, Helen Kath-
ryn. Address : 204 Dearborn Street. Resi
dence : 528 North State Street, Chicago,
Illinois.
GURLITZ, Augustus T.:
Lawyer; born in Riga, Russia, in 1842;
son of Ivan A. T. and Juliana A. (von
Schuttenbach) Gurlitz; educated by tutors
and at common and high schools at Riga,
Russia, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville,
Kentucky; graduated Columbia College
law school, LL.B., 1870. Engaged in prac
tice of law at New York City and through
out the United States, especially as counsel
in copyright, patent and trade-mark causes,

since 1870. Aided in organizing a cam
paign of the Home Guard (being the Union
side) at Louisville, Kentucky, when Fort
Sumter was threatened ; when company was
mustered into the Second Kentucky Caval
ry Volunteers, became color sergeant of
the regiment, 1861 ; second lieutenant, No
vember, 1862; first lieutenant, May 1, 1864;
discharged in November, 1865 ; several
in the Army of the Cumberland with Sher-.
man to fall of Atlanta, then going to Gen
eral Thomas at Nashville. Independent in
politics. Bar City of New York, New York
Law Institute, Alumni Association Law
School of Columbia University, Dwight
Alumni Association. Member Military Or
der Loyal Legion, George Washington
Post, G. A. R. Recreations : Whist, fish
ing. Clubs : Army and Navy, Columbia
University, Whist. Married in Brooklyn,
New York, - 1877, Amelia, daughter of Dil
lon S. Landon, M.D., Children : Helen
Harper, born 1878; Landon, born 1880;
Amy Landon, born 1883; Christina, born
1885; Marguerita, born 1886; Elizabeth
Harper Landon, born 1891. Residence : 109
Clark Street, Brooklyn. Address : 80
Broadway, New York City.
GUY, Charles L.:
Jurist; born in New York City, January
6, 1856; son of Pierre A. and Sarah B.
Guy; graduated New York public school,
and entered College of the City of New
York ; attended Columbia law school. Ad
mitted to the bar, 1881, and actively prac
ticed for twenty years ; former member of
the law firm of Lexow, MacKellar, Guy &
Wells ; law assistant to surrogate, 1892-93 ;
State Senator, 1894-98; prominent member
Senate Committee on Judiciary and Codes;
author of School Teachers' Pension Bill,
and bills establishing many public improve
ments in New York City, such as Cathed
ral Parkway, Riverside Drive Extension,
Botanical and Zoological Gardens, etc. ;
school comriiissioner, 1902-03 ; . assistant
corporation counsel City of New York,
1904-06; elected November 6, 1906, justice
of the Supreme Court for first department,
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tive in political affairs; stampeded Sara
toga Convention in favor of David B. Hill,
in 1895; nominated Henry George for
United States Senator against Hill, 1897;
supported Seth Low for mayor, 1897, Ed
ward M. Shepard, 1901, and George B.
McClellan, 1903. Democrat. Member So
ciety Medical Jurisprudence. Clubs : Man
hattan, National Democratic, St. Andrew's
Golf. Married in Boston, Massachusetts,
May 16, 1888, Eliza M. Bowen. Children:
Ruth Alline, Laura Elizabeth and Mary
Bowen. Residence : 67 Convent Avenue,
New York City. Address : County Court
House, New York City.
GWTNNE, Walker:
Clergyman; born in Strabone, Ireland,
June 7, 1845; son of Richard Gwynne and
Ann (Walker) Gwynne. After a prepara
tory education in private schools and at
Strabane Academy, he entered the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, New York City,
from which he was graduated in 1871, and
was ordained to the ministry of the Epis
copal Church. In 1871 he became assist
ant rector of St. Paul's Church, Albany,
New York; in 1872, was in charge of St.
Paul's Free Chapel at Troy, New York;
rector of St. John's Church, Cohoes, New.
York, in 1876; rector of St. Mark's
Church, Augusta, Maine, in 1884; and has
been rector of Calvary Church, Summit,
New Jersey, since 1893. He has written
several books including : Manual of Chris-
tion Doctrine; The Gospel in the Old and
New Testaments ; Confirmation and the
Way of Life; Some Purposes of Para
dise; Five Hundred Stories, etc. In poli
tics he is an Independent. He married at
Cooperstown, New York, January 16, 1877,
Helen Bowers Lee, and they have five chil
dren : Helen Bowers, Walter Lee, Fred
erick Walker, Arthur and Edythe Stewart.
Address : Summit, New Jersey.
H
HAAS, George Christian Frederick:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, May 5,
1854; son of John C. Haas and Anna
Margaret (Schur) Haas. After five years

of study in Zion's Lutheran Parochial
School and three years in the Protestant
Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, he en
tered the University of Pennsylvania in
1872, and was graduated from that insti
tution as A.B., with first honors and elec
tion to Phi Beta Kappa, in 1876, received
the A.M-. degree of that University in 1879,
was graduated from the Evangelical Luth
eran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia
in 1880, and received the D.D. degree from
Muhlenberg College in 1901. He taught
in the Protestant Episcopal Academy at
Philadelphia in 1876 and 1877, was ordain
ed in the ministry of the Lutheran Church
in 1880, was assistant pastor of St. Mark's
Lutheran Church, New York City, from
1880 to 1882, and since the latter date has
been in full charge of that church. He
was president of the Evangelical Lutheran
Ministerium of New York from 1893 to
1896 and again from 1899 to 1901, is a
member of the General Council Publication
Board" and on its Church Book Committee
and also was for a time member of its
Sunday School Literature Committee ; and
he is also a director of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and
vice-president of the German Lutheran
Emigrant House in New York City. Dr.
Haas is composer of the Luther League
Rally Hymn and other hymn tunes, and
co-editor of the Luther League Hymnal.
His favorite recreations are music, micros
copy and photography. He married in
April, 1882, Anna S. Hansen, daughter of
Otto E. Hansen, and they had three chil
dren, of whom the only one living is
George C. O. Haas, a tutor at the College
of the City of New York. Dr. Haas lost
his wife and daughter, as well as many
members of his congregation, in the Gen
eral Slocum steamboat disaster, June 15,
1905. He married again in May, 1906,
Clara M. Holthusen, daughter of John
Holthusen. Address : 64 Seventh Street,
New York City.
HAAS, Kalman:
Merchant; born in Germany, 1840. Mr,
Haas founded in 1867, in San Francisco,
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remarkably successful career and now con
trol the quicksilver product of the United
States. He is also a director of the Ameri
can Beet Sugar Company, Haas Brothers,
the Napa Quicksilver Mining Company, the
New Idria Quicksilver Company, and the
Mutual Alliance Trust Company. Mr.
Haas, in addition to his business- promin
ence, takes a deep interest in charities,
is president of the Mount Sinai Train
ing School for Nurses and a director of
the Mount Sinai Hospital. Mr. Haas mar
ried in New York City, in 1883, Harriet
Fatman, and they have three children :
Edith, George and Robert Kalman. Resi
dence: 7 East Sixty-ninth Street. Ad
dress : 27 William Street, New York City.
HABBERTON, John:
Author; born in Brooklyn, New York,
February 24, 1842; son of J. J. Habberton
and Esther E. (Peck) Habberton. He
was educated in public schools, afterward
attended a high school in Illinois, returned
to New York in 1859, and learned the
compositor's trade in the printing, office
of Harper and Brother, and was afterward
in the counting room of the same firm
until he enlisted in the Union Army as a
volunteer, serving first as a private, and
afterward becoming a lieutenant of United
States Colored Troops. After the war he
returned to the counting room of Harper
and Brothers until 1872, when he started
as a publisher on his own account, but
did not succeed. He was literary editor
of The Christian Union from 1874 to 1877,
a staff editor of the New York Herald
from 1877 to 1892, literary editor of Godey's
Magazine from 1892 to 1894, and on the
staff of the Illustrated American in 1896
and 1897, and after that engaged chiefly
in literary work. His first book, Helen's
Babies, which was published in 1876, made
a great success, selling over a quarter of
a million copies in the United States, be
sides many editions in England, and in
other countries in many languages. He is
also author of: All He Knew; Life of
George Washington; Brueton's Bayou;
Caleb Wright; Some Boys' Doing;, The

Tiger and the Insect and many other books,
and wrote a play, Deacon Crankett, in 1880
which played over four hundred times.
His favorite recreations are sailing and
gardening. He married in Hartford, Con
necticut, February 25, 1868, Alice L. Hast
ings, and they have two sons and two
daughters. Address: New York.
HABERSTROH, Albert:
Mural painter and decorator;, born in
Boston, Massachusetts, July 26, 1855; son
of Lucas Haberstroh and Fredericka
(Mueller) Haberstroh. After his element
ary course in the Roxbury Grammar
School he attended the West Roxbury and
Jamaica Plain High School, and after
leaving high school became assistant book
keeper and entry clerk for Phillips, Shu-
man and Company, and shortly afterward
entered his father's business of interior
decorator as an apprentice and studied
also at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bos
ton under Otto Grundmann, Frederic
Crowninshield and Dr. William Rimmer,
also the figure painter (his uncle) Daniel
Miiller. He attended Lowell Institute and
then studied anatomy and sculpture under
Dr. Rimmer and figure printing under
Otto Grundmann. He has since been en
gaged in the highest grades of work in
mural painting and interior decoration, and
since 1883 has been sole proprietor
of the business of L. Haberstroh
and Son. He ranks especially high
as a mural figure painter and his work
is shown in numerous fine public and
private buildings in many American cities.
He has visited England, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Italy for pleasure and
study. In politics Mr. Haberstroh is a Re
publican and in religion is of the Protest
ant faith. He has membership in the
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Asso
ciation, Arts and Crafts Society, the Cop
ley Society (Art), Revere Lodge of Free
Masons, the Jamaica Plain Citizens' As
sociation, Royal Arcanum, and Boylston
Schul Verein,. and also in the Boston Art
Club and Architectural Club of Boston.
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Art Students' Association, which is now
the Copley Society of Boston. Mr. Haber
stroh married in Boston, September 21,
1880, Emma Baumgarten, and they have
two sons : Emil Frederick, born in 1884,
and Arthur Lucas, born in 1888. Resi
dence: 117 Sheridan Street, Boston. Of
fice address: 647 Boylston Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
HABLISTON, William M.:
Capitalist; president and director of the
Broad Street Bank of Richmond, Virginia,
and the National Bank of Virginia, of the
Roanoke Rapids Power Company; vice-
president and director of the Tidewater
and Western Railroad Company; director
of the Augusta National Bank of Staunton,
Virginia, Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of
Staunton, Virginia, Old Dominion Iron
Nail Works and Roanoke Mills Company.
Address : 120 Broadway, New York City.
HACKENBURG, William B.:
Merchant and silk manufacturer; born
in Philadelphia, June 2, 1837. He received
his education in the public schools of Phil
adelphia and in the private academy of
Rev. Dr. Max Lilianthal, in New York.
He has been forty years in the manufacture
of sewing and rnachine silks. In 1858 ' he
was secretary of the United Hebrew Re
lief "Society ; in 1865 was one of the organ
izers of the Jewish Hospital and Home
for Aged and Infirm Israelites, of Phila
delphia, and now is its president. Mr.
Hackenburg was one of the founders of the
Society of United Hebrew Charities, the
Federation of Jewish Charities, the He
brew Charity Ball Association and a mem
ber of all the Jewish and many non-Jew
ish charities ; was one of the original
members and a director of the Young
Men's Hebrew Association, Central Board
for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia, and
the Hebrew Education Society. In 1879
he finished the only authentic census of the
Jews made in this country, now found
in most libraries here and in Europe. He
is on the Board of Inspectors of County
Prisons; is a Mason; and since 1891, a
trustee of the Baron Maurice De Hirsch

$2,400,000 Trust for the relief of Russian
and Roumanian Jews, and vice-president
of one of its colonies in South Jersey. In
politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hacken
burg married, September 14, 1864, Adeline
Schoneman. Address : 612 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HACKETT, Frank Warren:
Lawyer; born in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, April n, 1841 ; son of William
H. Y. Hackett. After a preparatory course
in Phillips Academy at Exleter, New
Hampshire, he entered Harvard College,
from which he received the degrees of
A.B. in 1861 and A.M. in 1864; studied
law in offices in Portsmouth and Phila
delphia and at Harvard Law School. Dur
ing the Civil War he was an acting as
sistant paymaster of the United States
Navy. Was paymaster of the U. S. S.
Miami and on board that vessel at Ply
mouth, North Carolina, in 1864, during the
engagement with the Confederate ram Albe
marle in which Lieutenant-Commander
Charles W. Flusser of the Miami was killed.
After the war Mr. Hackett resumed his
law studies, was admitted to the bar in Bos
ton in 1866, and practiced law there until
1871, and since 1873 in Washington, D.
C. He was private secretary to Caleb
Cushing, while the latter was senior coun
sel for the United States before the Ge
neva Tribunal of Arbitration in 1872. In
politics Hr. Hackett is a Republican. He
was assistant secretary of the Navy in 1901
and 1902, but resigned to resume law prac
tice. He is author of various legal and his
torical books, addresses, etc. Mr. Hackett
has a summer residence at New. Castle, New
Hampshire. He married in April, 1880,
Ida Craven, daughter of the late Rear-
Admiral Thomas T. Craven, U. S. N.
Residence: 1418 M Street, Washington,
D. C. Office address : Maryland Building,
Washington, D. C.
HACKETT, James Keteltas:
Actor, manager; born in Ontario in
1869; son of James Henry Hackett, the cel
ebrated Falstaff, and half-brqjher to John
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New York for nineteen years. After grad
uation from the College of the City of
New York in 1891, he studied law for a
brief period in the New York Law School.
He made his debut on the professional
stage in Palmer's Stock Company in Phil
adelphia in 1892; afterward became leading
man in New York Lyceum in 1895, being
the youngest leading man in the stage
history of New York City, and made not
able successes in The Prisoner of Zenda,
Rupert of Hentzau, and The Pride of
Jennico. In 1901 he became his own man
ager, producing successively Don Caesar's
Return, The Chance Ambassador, The
Crisis, John Ermine of the Yellowstone,
The Crown Prince, and The Walls of
Jericho, and now controls The Secret of
Polichinelle, with William H. Thompson.
He is manager of Hackett's Theatre, New
York City, and is a member of the Play
ers', Alpha Delta Phi, Strollers', Lambs',
and New York Athletic Clubs. Mr. Hack
ett married Mary Mannering, the well-
known actress. Address : 38 East Thirty-
third Street, New York City.
HACKNEY, Henry C(ay:
Stock broker; born in Elmira, New
York, September 23, 1849; son of Ben
jamin and Helen Bradley Hackney. He
completed his education at Genesee College,
Lima, New York, and soon thereafter re
moved to Aurora, Illinois. His first busi
ness engagement was with Jansen, Mc-
Clurg & Company, booksellers, his con
nection with the concern extending over
twenty years. In 1889 he engaged in the
brokerage business in Chicago, and that has
been his principal business since that time.
He was vice-president of the Chicago Stock
Exchange from 1899 to 1904, and is a
member of the Chicago, Chicago Athletic
and Midday Clubs. He was married in
Chicago in 1882 to Georgie C. Sharp, and
they have one son, Raymond. Residence:
99 East Forty-ninth Street, Chicago, Illi
nois. Office address : Fisher Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
HACKNEY, Leonard J.:
Lawyer; Dorn in Indiana, March 29,
1899. After completing his preparatory

education in the public schools of his nat
ive State he studied law and was admitted
to the Indiana bar. He was prosecuting at
torney in the circuit comprising Shelby and
Johnson counties in Indiana from 1878 to
1880, and judge of the same circuit for
the five years from 1888 to 1893, then for
six years on the Supreme bench of Indi
ana. He is now general attorney for the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and- Saint
Louis Railway. Address : Office of the
C. C. C. & St. L. Railway, Cincinnati, Ohio.
HACKSTAFF, Alexander G.:
Railway manager; born in Middletown,
Connecticut, May 16, 1853; son of William
G. and Anna (Garr) Hackstaff. He was
educated at St. Paul's School, Concord,
New Hampshire. He is vice-president and
director of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, and also of the Mississippi Val
ley Corporation, and director of the Chi
cago, St. Louis and New Orleans Rail
road Company, the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley Railroad Company, and the
Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad
Company. He is a member of the St.
Nicholas Society of New York, the So
ciety of the War of 1812, and the New
York Yacht and Union Clubs. Mr. Hack-
staff married at Greenfield, Massachusetts,
1879, Cornelia Tilden Allen, and they have
one daughter. Residence: Astor Apart
ments, 235 West Seventy-fifth Street. Ad
dress: 11 Broadway, New York City.
HADDEN, Crowell:
Capitalist; born in New York' City in
1840; son of Crowell and Fanny (Ludlow)
Hadden. He was educated in the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Hadden is vice-
president and trustee of the Brooklyn
Savings Bank, treasurer and . director of
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New
York and Long Island Realty Com
pany; trustee of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear
Hospital, the Franklin Safe Deposit Com
pany, and Franklin Trust Company, and
director of the Brooklyn City Railroad
Company, the Nassau National Bank, and
the Nassau Oil Company. He married in
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beth Stevens. Residence: 71 Remsen
Street, Brooklyn. Office address: 186
Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New York.
HADLEY, Arthur Twining:
President of Yale University; born in
New Haven, Connecticut, April 23, 1856;
son of the late James Hadley, philologist
and professor in Yale University. After
graduation from Yale University as A.B.
in 1876, after which he went abroad
for study at Berlin, returning to Yale as
tutor from 1879 to 1883, lecturer from 1883
to 1886, professor of political economy
from 1886 to 1899, and since the latter date
president of Yale University. President
Hadley received the LL.D degree from
Harvard in 1899, from Columbia in 1900,
and from Johns Hopkins University in
1902. He was commissioner of labor stat
istics of the State of Connecticut from
1885 to 1887, and president of the American
Economic Association from 1897 to 1899;
appointed Theodore Roosevelt professor of
American History and Institutions in the
University of Berlin, 1907-1908. Dr. Had
ley is author of various publications in
cluding: Railroad Transportation, its His
tory and its Laws, 1885 ; Connecticut Labor
Reports, 1885, 1886; Economics, an Ac
count of the Relations between Private
Property and Public Welfare, 1896; The
Education of the American Citizen, 1901;
Freedom and Responsibility, 1903; Bacca
laureate Addresses, 1907; Standards of
Public Morality, 1907. His favorite recrea
tions are mountain climbing, tennis and
golf. President Hadley is a member of the
Century Association and the University
Club of New York City. He married, in
1891, Helen, daughter of Governor Luzon
B. Morris, of Connecticut, and they have
two sons and one daughter. Address :. 93
Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut.
HADLEY, John Vestal:
Chief justice of the Indiana Supreme
Court; born in Hendricks County, Indiana,
October 31, 1842; son of Jonathan Hadley
and Ara (Carter) Hadley. He attended
the Northwestern Christian (now Butler)
University at Indianapolis, from 1858 to

i860. He entered the Civil War in Aug
ust, 1861, as a private and was discharged
as first lieutenant and aide-de-camp in
March, 1865 ; he was wounded at the sec
ond battle of Bull Run and the Wilderness
and was left on the latter field for dead;
was taken prisoner, May 4, 1864, and es
caped from Columbia, South Carolina, No
vember 4, 1864, and entered the Union
lines at Knoxville, December 10, 1864. He
-was admitted to the bar in 1867, and was
engaged successfully in practice until elect
ed Circuit Judge in 1888. He tried the
William E. Hinshaw and other important
murder cases, and remained on the "circuit
bench until 1898 when he was elected to
the supreme bench, where he has been serv
ing ever since. Judge Hadley was pres
ident of the First National Bank of
Danville, Indiana, from 1877 to 1888. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion
is a member of the Christian or Disciples
Church. He is a member of the Indiana
Bar Association, a Mason, a companion of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
comrade of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and member of the Columbia and
Marion Clubs of Indianapolis. He mar
ried in Hendricks County, Indiana, March
15, 1865, Mary J. Hill, and they have three
children : Kate B. (Mrs. W. W. Buchanan
of Chicago), born in 1871, Hugh H. (of
Chicago), born in 1874, and Walter G. (of
Danville), born in 1877. Residence: 1910
North Alabama Street, Indianapolis. Office
address : State House, Indianapolis, In
diana.
HADLOCK, Albert Emerson:
Lawyer; born at Amherst, New Hamp
shire, February 9, 1863; son of John Had-
lock and Sarah Elizabeth (Carlton) Had-
lock. After a preparatory education in the
public schools and Phillips Exeter Aca
demy, from which he was graduated in
1883, he entered Dartmouth College, where
he was graduated as A.B. and valedictorian
in 1887, receiving A.M. in 1890; and he
graduated from Harvard University Law
School as LL.B. cum laude, and A.M. in
1893. After graduation from Dartmouth he
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Massachusetts, 1887 to 1890; law clerk
1893 to 1896 in the office of Evarts, Choate
and Beaman; secretary to the president of
the Borough of Richmond from 1898 to
1902; assistant corporation counsel of the
City of New York, from 1902 to 1904, and
has. been in general practice since 1904.
He was Republican candidate for county
judge of Richmond County in 1905, and
member of the Committee of One Hundred
on judicial nominations in the Second De
partment in 1906. Mr. Hadlock is a mem
ber of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, the Psi Upsilon and
Phi Delta Phi fraternities and the Casque
and Gauntlet Society, third vice-president
of the Staten Island Chamber of Com
merce, and a member of the Staten Island
Club. Mr. Hadlock married in Burlington,
Vermont, June 28, 1902, Marion Canfield,
and they have two sons : Albert Emerson,
Jr., and Canfield. Residence : New Brigh
ton, Staten Island. Address : 63 Wall
Street, New York City.
HAESCHE, William Edwin:
Musical conductor and composer; born
in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1867; son
of Henry W. Haesche and Rosina Haesche.
His general" education was acquired in the
public schools of New Haven and Boston.
His musical education included violin in
struction under Bernhard Listemann, piano
with Ernst Perabeau, and composition and
theory with Dr. Horatio Parker, as well as
many other instructors; and he received
from Yale the degree of Mus. Bac. in 1897.
Mr. Haesche has had much success with
compositions; has conducted a number of
large choral societies, and has taken prizes
for composition, notably for his symphonic
poem Fridthjof and Ingeborg, and for a
Sonata in E minor for violin and piano.
He is a member of the faculty of the Yale
Department of Music; and member of the
New Haven Historical Society and the
Yale Graduate Club Association. He mar
ried in New Haven in 1890, Nora Helena
Russell. Address: 19 Whitney Avenue,
New Haven, Connecticut.

HAFFEN, Louis F. :
Civil and mining engineer; and president
of the Borough of the Bronx; born at
Melrose (Morrisiana), Westchester County,
New York, November 6, 1854. After a
preparatory education in the public schools
he entered St. John's College at Fordham,
and after a year there went from 1869 to
1871 to Niagara University at Suspension
Bridge, New York, returning in 1871 to
St. John's College, where he graduated as
A.B., 1875 (A.M., 1887) ; then took the
engineering course at Columbia University
with graduation as CE. in 1879; and the
degree of LL.D. was afterward conferred
upon him by St. John's College. He en
gaged in private practice and as engineer
and city surveyor, in 1880 and 1881 ; studied
and practiced civil and mining engineering
in the Far West in 1882; was engineer of
the Department of Public Parks, New
York City, from 1883 to 1890; engineer in
charge and superintendent of the New York
parks of the Twenty-third and Twenty-
fourth Wards, and adjoining in Westchest
er County, from 1890 to 1893; commiss
ioner of street improvements of the Twen
ty-third and Twenty-fourth wards (the
Bronx) from 1893 to 1898, and since 1898
has been president of the Borough of the
Bronx, elected successively six times. Mr.
Haffen has been Democratic leader in the
Bronx for the past sixteen years. Ad
dress : Municipal Building, Crotona Park,
Borough of the Bronx, New York City.
HAGEN, Hugo Joseph von:
Railroad president and mine operator;
born in Germany, February 3, 1866; son of
Theodor and Margaretha (von Struye)
von Hagen. After preparatory education
in German gymnasium and college in Diis-
seldorf, he attended the University of
Heidelberg, from which he received the
degrees of A.M. and S.B. and then took
a post-graduate course in the University
of Chicago, where he gained the degree
of Ph.D. Mr. von Hagen was general sec
retary of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation in St. Louis, Missouri, Brooklyn,
New York, and New York City for four
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ploring trips in South America, and in
1902 built the Beersville Railway in New
Brunswick, Canada, of which he is still
president. He is interested in the Cobalt
silver mines, Ontario gold mines, and oil
wells in Pennsylvania. Mr. von Hagen is
a Republican in politics and cast his first
' vote after naturalization for Harrison in
1888, and has been a member of the Ger
man-American League for years, and
stumped the West and New York State
and City for McKinley and Roosevelt. He
served in the army of Emperor William I,
as a one-year volunteer, after having been
in the United States for two years, to keep
up the family record. Mr. von Hagen is
president of the Manhattan Cobalt, Limit
ed; president of the von Hagen Explora
tion Company; treasurer of the Laurentian
Gold Mines, Limited; president of the
North Cobalt Silver Mines Company, and
Beersville Coal and Railway Company;
vice-president of the Imperial Coal Com
pany; president of the Voloff Company,
and Table Rock Oil Company, Manhattan
Cobalt Company, of Quebec, North Cobalt
River Mining Company of Ontario; treas
urer of the Anthony Blum Gold Mines,
Limited, Mineral King Nickel Company,
and Kenora Telephone Company, Limited;
president of the Northern Coal Company
and president of the Little Larder Lake
Gold Company. He is a Presbyterian in
religion, is a member of the American
Museum of Natural History, the National
Geographic Society, and the German Hos
pital of New York City. His favorite re
creations are fencing, shooting, riding and
driving. Mr. von Hagen married at Lake
Waccabuc, New York, June 7, 1893, Luella
Narcissa Pardee, and they have four chil
dren: Hildegard Rosalind, born in 1895,
Roxy Margaretha, born in 1897, Hugo
Pardee, born in 1899, and, Elsa Mead,
born in 1901. Residence: Ridgefield, Con
necticut. Address: 500 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
HAGERMAN, Herbert J.:
Governor of New Mexico; born in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, about forty years ago;
son of James J. Hagerman and Anna (Os

borne) Hagerman. After a preparatory
education in the preparatory department of
Colorado College and in Europe he eriter-
ed Cornell University, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1894 and as LL.B. in
1896, then engaging in law practice in
Colorado until appointed in 1899 second
secretary of the American Embassy at St.
Petersburg, returning to the United States
in 1901 after receiving from the Czar the
Russian decoration of the Order of St.
Anne. He engaged ©n a large scale as a
stockman in Southern New Mexico, being
vice-president of the Southspring Ranch
and Cattle Company, the Felix Irrigation
Company and the Hagerman National
Bank of Roswell, New Mexico. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and he was sent
as a delegate to the National Republican
Convention in Chicago in 1904. He was
appointed Governor of New Mexico by
President Roosevelt for the four year term
beginning January 22, 1906, and is now
serving. Governor Hagerman is a member
of the Denver Club of Denver, the El Paso
Club of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and
the Roswell Club of Roswell, New Mexico.
Residence : Roswell, New Mexico. Of
ficial address : Santa Fe, New Mexico.
HAGERTY, Andrew Neely:
Presbyterian clergyman; born in Inde
pendence Township, Washington County,
Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish parents ; pre
pared for college at West Alexander Acad
emy, Pennsylvania, and Waterford Acad
emy, Pennsylvania, teaching the higher
mathematics in the last mentioned institu
tion; entered Lafayette College, 1877, and
was graduated with degree of A.B. 1881 ;
A.M. 1892; was graduated from Allegheny
U. P. Theological Seminary, 1884; licensed
by Presbytery of Chartiers, April 8, 1884 ; be
gan ministry that year at Hanover, Jo Da
viess County, Illinois; pastor of the United
Presbyterian Church of Olathe, Kansas. In
July, 1887, was sent' to Castroville, Cali
fornia, as missionary to begin the first
Protestant church of the town; pastor of
the Second United Presbyterian Church
of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1888 to
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Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, Pennsyl
vania, which is one of the historic Presby
terian landmarks of Pennsylvania. He has
been three times commissioner to the Gen
eral Assembly; was one of the first mem
bers of the Council of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip; is a
member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
He married, December 7, 1876, Sarah J.
Smith, daughter of William Smith of Wash
ington County, Pennsylvania. Address :
Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
HAGGARD, Fred Forter:
Clergyman; born in Bloomington, Illi
nois, December 15, 1862; son of John
William Haggard and Eliza C. (Watson)
Haggard. He was graduated from the
Grammar School, Bloomington, Illinois in
1876, the high school in 1879, Illinois
Wesleyan University as A.B. and A.M. in
1886, arid from the Divinity School of the
University of Chicago as B.D. in 1889.
He served as a drug clerk from 1879 to
1882; held a pastorate at Warrenville,
Illinois (during divinity course), from 1886
to 1889, at Red Oak, Iowa, from 1889 to
1891, and at Dubuque, Iowa, from 1891
to 1893 ; was a missionary of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in Assam, India,
from 1893 to 1899; assistant secretary,
from 1901 to 1903, editorial secretary
from 1903 to 1905, and has been corres
ponding secretary since 1905 of the Ameri
can Baptist Missionary Union, Boston, and
is editor of the Baptist Missionary Maga
zine. Mr. Haggard is a charter member
and member of' the Executive Committee
of the Board of Managers of the Young
People's Missionary Movement and mem
ber of the Advisory Board of the Student
Volunteer Movement. In politics he is a
Prohibitionist, and he is" a member of the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Mr. Haggard
married at Normal, Illinois, June 17, 1886*,
Fannie Lillian Snow,, and they have three
children : Roy Snow, born in 1887, Har
riet Elizabeth, born in 1893, and Harold
Witter, born in Assam in 1896. Residence:
6 Garfield Street, Watertown, Massachu
setts. Office address : Ford Building,
Boston, Massachusetts.

HAGGIN, James B, :
Capitalist, horseman; born in Frankfort,
Kentucky, in 1827. He was educated in the
local schools of Frankfort, and later stud
ied law, and was engaged in the practice
of law at St. Joseph, Missouri, and at
Natchez, Mississippi, until 1849; then went
to California, and became interested in '
large mining enterprises in California, Nev
ada and Montana. He now owns a large
interest in the mines of the Anaconda Cop
per Company in Montana ; owns large stock
farms in Kentucky and the largest stud
of racing and trotting stock in the United
States. Mr. Haggin is president, treasurer
and director of the Homestake Mining
Company; president and director of the
Cerro de Pasco Improvement Company;
vice-president and director of the American
Car and Foundry Company, the Interna
tional Steam Pump Company, Knickerbock
er Trust Company, Louisville and Atlantic,
Railway Company, Oriental Consolidated
Mining Company, and Oyamel Company.
He is a member of the Union, Tuxedo,
Riding, Turf and Held, Metropolitan
Clubs of New York City. He married,
first, Miss Sanders, daughter of Colonel
Lewis Sanders, of Natchez, Mississippi,
Mrs. Haggin died May 23, 1894, and he
again married, at Versailles, Kentucky,
December 23, 1897, Pearl Voorhies. Resi
dence: 587 Fifth Avenue. Address: 15
Broad Street, New York City.
HAGSTROM, Gustavus Arvid:
Clergyman, editor; born in Sundsvall,
Sweden, September 8, 1867; son of Anders
Gustav " Hagstrom and Marie Elizabeth
(Hemlund) Hagstrom. He came to Am
erica at an early age and was educated
in the public and business schools of Min
neapolis, Minnesota, and at the Divinity
School of the University of Chicago,
which was formerly the Baptist Union
Theological Seminary. Previous to his
graduation, which occurred in 1892, he was
engaged in various mechanical and mer
cantile pursuits in Minneapolis. He was
licensed to. preach in 1889, and while pur
suing his theological studies was pastor
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sota, in 1890 and 1891, and of the Baptist
Church at Newark, Illinois, from 1891 to
1893. He was ordained to the ministry
in Newark, Illinois, in 1902, immediately
after graduation. He served as Sunday
School missionary for the American Bap
tist Publication Society and Illinois Swed
ish Baptist Sunday School Union "from
1893 to 1896, and has been pastor of the
First Swedish Baptist Church of Chicago,
the largest church in the Swedish branch
of the Baptist denomination in the United
States, from November 1, 1896, to January
1, 1907, a continuous pastorate of ten
years and two months. He has been since
January 1, 1907, the corresponding and
missionary secretary of the Swedish Bap
tist General Conference of America and has
direction and oversight of the missionary
work of the denomination. He was editor of
the Young People's Paper for Swedish
Baptists in 1895 and 1896 and has been
editor of the Church and Home (Forsam-
lingen och Hemmet), a Swedish religious
monthly, since 1896. He was a depart
ment editor of the Swedish magazine,
Hemmets Van, of Chicago, during the life
of that magazine, is. a life member of th<-
American Baptist Missionary Union, di
rector of the Swedish Baptist Mutual Aid
Association, trustee of the Swedish Bap
tist General Conference, vice-president of
the Illinois Swedish Baptist Sunday School
Union, for ten years, president of the
Illinois Swedish Baptist Young People's
Union, director of the Scandinavian Ameri
can fission to the Jews, auditor of the
Scandia Loan and Investment Association,
and president of the Swedish Baptist Old
People's Home. He is a Prohibitionist in
politics. He married in Minneapolis, Min
nesota, June 1, 1892, Caroline W. Ander
son, and they have one daughter, Marion
Edith. Address : 101 Reaper Block, 101
Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HAGUE, Arnold:
Geologist; born in Boston, December 3,
1840 ; son of Rev. William Hague, D.D.,
and Mary Bowditch (Moriarity) Hague.
He was graduated from Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale in 1863, and completed his

professional education in Germany and
France. He received the honorary degree
of ScD. from Columbia University in 1901,
and of LL.D. from the University of Aber
deen in 1906. He is author of various
books and papers on geology and has writ
ten extensively on the Yellowstone Na
tional Park. He was attached to the Unit
ed States Geological Exploration of the
Fortieth Parallel as geologist from 1867
to 1878, and since 1880 has been in the
service of the Government as geologist of
the United States Geological Survey. He
was a member of the Forestry Commission
appointed by the National Academy of
Sciences at the request of the secretary of
the Interior to suggest a forestry policy
for the government, 1896, and since 1901,
has been secretary of the National Academy
of Sciences. Address : 1724 I Street,
Washington, D. C.
HAGUE, James Duncan:
Mining engineer and geologist; born in
Boston, Massachusets, February 24, 1836;
son of Rev. William Hague (D.D.) and
Mary Bowditch (Moriarty) Hague. He
studied in the Lawrence Scientific School
of Harvard University in 1854, the Uni
versity of Georgia-Augusta, at Gottingen,
Germany, in 1855, the Royal School of
Mines, Freiberg (Saxony), from 1856 to
1858. He was engaged as chemist of a
South Sea Exploring Cruise from 1859 to
1861, and afterward as a mine engineer
and superintendent in the Lake Super
ior copper region, aiding in the early de
velopment of the Calumet and Hecla mines,
from 1863 to 1866; was first assistant
geologist of the United States Geological
Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel from
1867 to 1870; consulting mining engineer
in California from 1871 to 1878, and has
practiced as consulting engineer and mine
expert in New York City since 1879, and
he is also president of the North Star
Mines Company. Mr. Hague was editor and
part author of the Clarence King Memoirs.
also author of various Government and
other reports on mining and geology, nota
bly, also, on many small islands of the
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the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Am
erican Institute of Mining Engineers, New
York Chamber of Commerce, American
Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Botanical Gar
den, American Geographical Society, New
York Historical Society, Saint Andrew's
Society, American Numismatic Society, New
England Society of New York, the Century
Association, the Metropolitan, Union
League, City, Midday, and Down Town
Clubs of New York City, the Union Club of
Boston and the Pacific Union Club of San
Francisco. Mr. Hague married in 1872,
Mary Ward Foote, who died in 1898. Resi
dence : 108 East Fortieth Street. Address :
18 Wall Street, New York City.
HAIGHT, Albert:
Jurist; born at EUicottville, Cattaraugus
County, New York, February 20, 1842.
After a preparatory education in the Aca
demy at Springville, Erie County, New
York, he took up the study of law, and
in 1863 was admitted to the bar. He was
elected supervisor of Erie County from
1870 to 1872, and was county judge
of Erie County from 1872 to 1876,
and resigned December 31, 1876, hav
ing been elected, November, 1876, jus
tice of the Supreme Court of New York.
He was appointed associate justice of the
General Term in 1884, by Governor Cleve
land; appointed associate judge of the
Court of Appeals of the Second Division
in 1889, by Governor Hill; reelected justice
of the Supreme Court in 1890, and reap
pointed associate judge of the Second Div
ision by Governor Hill, reappointed assoc
iate justice of the General Term in 1892,
by Governor Flower; and resigned as as
sociate justice of the General Term and
as justice of the Supreme Court, December
31, 1894, having been elected associate
judge of the Court of Appeals in Novem
ber, 1894, for a term of fourteen years.
Judge Haight is now the senior judge, in
point of service, in the State. He married
November 20, 1864, Angeline Waters of

West Falls, Erie County, New York. Ad
dress: Buffalo, New York.
HAIGHT, Charles Coolidge:
Architect; born in New York City,
March 17, 1841 ; son of Rev. Benjamin J.
Haight (assistant rector of Trinity Church
in New York City) and Hetty (Coolidge)
Haight. He was graduated from Columbia
College as A.B. in 1861, and studied at the
Law School of Columbia University. He
enlisted and served with the Seventh
Regiment in Baltimore in 1862; with the
Thirty-first New York Volunteers as first
lieutenant and adjutant from October, 1862,
and as captain of the Thirty-ninth New
York Volunteers from December, 1863, to
November, 1864. He was severely wound
ed while in command of- the regiment in
the battle of the Wilderness, and was, in
consequence, obliged to retire from active
service. Mr. Haight was elected and serv
ed as vice-commodore of the New York
Yacht Club in 1886, and reelected in 1887;
is a trustee of the New York State Lib
rary, Society for Promotion of Religion
and Learning, and the Corporation for
Relief of the Widows and Children of
Deceased Clergymen. He designed the
buildings erected by Columbia College on
its Madison Avenue property, the Man
hattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York
Cancer Hospital, buildings of the General
Theological Seminary, New York American
Theatre, also Vanderbilt Hall, Phelps
Flail and the University Library at Yale,
the Kenney Memorial Tower at Hartford,
Connecticut, St. Ignatius Church, in New
York City, the Garrison Church on Gover
nor's Island, Armory of the Second Bat
tery of New York, the Vanderbilt dormit
ories at Sheffield Scientific School, New
Haven, Connecticut, and others. Mr.
Haight married in New York City, Octob
er, 1865, Euphemia Kneeland, and they
have four children: Euphemia, Charles
Sidney (U. S. A.), Sara Bard, and John
McVicar. Residence: Garrison, New
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HAINER, Bayard Taylor:
justice of Oklahoma Supreme Court;
bom at Columbia, Missouri, May 31, i860.
He was reared in Iowa where he was
taken a few months after his birth, was
educated in the public schools of that
State and the Iowa State College, graduat
ing as B.S. in 1884, and was graduated
from the law department of the University
of Michigan as LL.B. in 1887. He prac
ticed law in Larned, Kansas, from 1887 to
1889, when he went to Oklahoma, at the
first settlement of the town of Guthrie,
of which he was city solicitor from 1894
until appointed by President McKinley,
February 16, 1898, as an associate justice
of the Territorial Supreme Court, to which
he was reappointed in 1902 and 1906 and
has continued to serve. Judge Haines is
a Republican in politics. He married in
Des Moines, Iowa, October 6, 1895, Flor
ence Weatherby. Address : Perry, Okla
homa.
HAINES, Thomas Harvey:
Professor of psychology ; born in Moores-
town, New Jersey, November 4, 1871 ; son
of Zebedee Haines and Anna Phillips
(Harvey) Haines. After a preparatory
education in the Westtown (Pennsylvania)
Boarding' School, he entered Haverford
College, where he was graduated as A.B.
in 1896 and received the A.M. degree in
1897, then took graduate work in Harvard
University, receiving from that institution
the degree of A.M. in 1898 and of Ph.D.
in 1901. He was assistant in philosophy
in Harvard University in 1899 and 1900;
and became in 1901 assistant professor of
psychology, and is now professor of psy
chology and director of the Psychological
Laboratory in the Ohio State University;
and he has conducted important researches
in experimental psychology. Dr. Haines
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and
Sigma Xi honor societies, a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science and a member of the American
Psychological Association. He has travel
ed abroad in Germany, Switzerland, Hol
land and France, and in this country in
Colorado, Washington, Wyoming and

British Columbia, his favorite recreation
being mountain climbing. Dr. Haines is a
member of the Columbia Club and of the
Harvard Club of Central Ohio. He mar
ried at Colerain, Ohio, December 26, 1901,
Rachel A. Russell, now deceased. Resi
dence : 396 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
Office address : Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio.
HAINS, Peter Conover:
Brigadier-General United States Army,
retired; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvan
ia, July 6, 1840. He was appointed from
New Jersey as a. cadet in the United
States Military Academy July 1, 1857;
was commissioned second lieutenant and
first lieutenant in the Second Artillery,
June 24, 1861 ; transferred to Engineers,
March 3, 1863 ; captain July 18, 1863 ; major
September 22, 1870; lieutenant-colonel Sep
tember 16, 1866; colonel August 13, 1895;
brigadier-general of Volunteers May 27,
1898; honorably discharged from Volun
teers November 30, 1898; brigadier-general
United States Army April 21, 1903, and
was retired by operation of law July 6,
1904. He served with efficiency and gal
lantry throughout the Civil War ; was
brevetted captain May 27, 1862, for gallant
and meritorious service in the battle of
Hanover Court House, Virginia; major,
July 4, 1863, for gallant and meritorious
service during the siege of Vicksburg, Mis
sissippi and lieutenant-colonel March 13,
1865, for gallant and meritorious services
during the war. General Haines is a
companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. Address: 1523 K Street,
N.W., Washington, D. C.
H ALBERT, Homer Valmorc:
Physician; borrt in Otsego, New York,
March 6, 1858; son of Morris and Ann
Eliza (McFarland) Halbert. He received
his preparatory education at the Gilberts-
ville (New York) Academy, and was grad
uated from Williams College, Massachus
etts, in 1881 and- from the Hahnemann
Medical College of Chicago, with the de
gree of M.D., in 1887; and he has been
engaged in the general practice of his pro-

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fession in the latter city since that year.
Soon after his graduation he received
the appointment of adjunct lecturer in ana
tomy in the medical college of which he
was a graduate, and in 1888 he became
professor of anatomy and in 1890 profes
sor of the theory and practice of medicine
in the same institution. Since 1898 he has
been senior professor of clinical medicine.
He was editor of The Clinique in 1901
and 1902, and is a regular contributor to
various medical journals. His latest liter
ary product is a work on practice. He is
on the medical staff of the Cook County
Hospital, a member of the Clinical Society,
the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Society,
the American Institute of Homoeopathy,
and the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical As
sociation. He is also a member of the Mid
lothian, Kenwood, and Union League Clubs.
He married in Chicago, June 12, 1892, to
Abbie M. Sherman and has two children :
Howard Valmore and Frances. Residence :
4630 Greenwood Avenue, Chicago. Office
address : 70 State Street, Chicago, Illi
nois.
HALDEMAN, Frederick Dwight:
Physician; born in Muscatine County,
Iowa, October 2, 1859; son of James F.
Haldeman and Anna H. Haldeman. After
a preparatory education in the Iowa State
University he entered the Omaha (Nebras
ka) Medical College, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in 1882. He located in
the practice of medicine and surgery at
Ord, Nebraska, where he has since remain
ed. He was secretary of the Nebraska
State Board of Health from 1891 to 1898,
and president of the Nebraska State Medi
cal Society in 1896 and 1897. Dr. Halde
man married, January 14, 1885, Olive A.
Newbecker, and they have had two chil
dren : Irma, born in 1890, died on Christ
mas morning, 1905, and Keene, born in
1 901. Address : Ord, Nebraska.
HALDEMAN, Horace L.:
Manufacturer; born at the Haldeman
hornestead, Locust Grove, Conoy Township,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September
16, 1847; son of- Cyrus S. Haldeman, bre

vet major, captain and assistant adjutant-
general of the United States Volunteers,
from 1862 to 1866, and descended from
Jacob Haldeman, who served in the War
of the Revolution, a German-Swiss, whose
parents came to America in 1827, and who
was a relative to General Sir Frederick
Haldimand, K.B., at one time governor-
general of Canada. Mr. Haldemaris
mother was Elizabeth Steman Breneman,
a descendant of Melchior Breneman, a
German-Swiss who settled in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania in 1709. In the Civil
War he entered the Union service as first
lieutenant of the Twentieth Pennsylvania
Cavalry in 1863; was promoted captain in
1865, and -was mustered out by reason of
the termination of the war in 1865. Dur
ing his service he was acting assistant ad
jutant-general on the staffs of Major-Gen
eral George Cadwalader, Major-General D.
N. Couch, and Brigadier-General O. S.
Ferry. Mr. Haldeman was connected with
the Pennsylvania Railroad in New York
and New England from 1867 to 1872; en
gaged in the manufacture of pig iron at
Chickies, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
from 1872 to 1898; now actively interested
in coal and iron industries in Virginia and
West Virginia, and band and railroad direct
or. He is at present lieutenant- colonel and
assistant commissary-general of subsistence
in the National Guard of Pennsylvania;
is a companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, and a mefnber of the
Grand Army of the Republic (serving as
post commander and aide-de-camp on the
staff of the commander-in-chief), United
States Cavalry Association, Sons of the
Revolution, Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety, the Genealogical Society of Pennsyl
vania, Pennsylvania German Society, Lan
caster County Historical Society, American
Institute of Mining Engineers, Franklin
Institute, and Pennsylvania Forestry As
sociation. Mr. Haldeman married Emma
Louisa Jones. Residence: Chickies, Lan
caster County, Pennsylvania.
HALE, Albert Barlow:
Physician and writer; born at Jones-
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vin Moses Hale and Abba (George) Hale.
He was educated in Racine College and
the University of Michigan where he was
graduated as A.B., the Chicago Medical
College as M.D. and the Universities of
Strasburg and Kiel in Germany. Dr. Hale
was associate clinical professor of ophthal
mology in Rush Medical College of the
University of Chicago until 1905. He
translated and edited Fick's Ophthalmology
and was on the editorial staff of several
technical publications. He retired from
active professional life in 1905 and re
moved from Chicago to travel. He has
contributed studies to the Reader Magazine
and wrote The South Americans,, a de
scriptive and political study, published in
1907. Dr. Hale was decorated as corre
sponding member of the Geographical So
ciety of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and he has
traveled over most of Europe, all of the
United States and Mexico, and largely
through Central and South America. He is
a member of the Episcopal Church and of
the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Dr. Hale mar
ried at Saratoga, New York, August 16,
1889, Ida Viller ; and they have two sons :
Edwin, born in 1894, and Gerald, born in
1896. Temporary address: 515 East Fif
teenth Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
HALE, Clarence:
United States judge; born at Turner,
Maine, April 5, 1848 ; son of James Sullivan
Hale and Betsey (Staples) Hale. After
graduation from Bowdoin College in 1869,
he studied law in the office of his brother
(now United States senator) Eugene Hale,
and was admitted to the bar in 1871, prac
ticing in Portland, Maine, until 1902. He
was city solicitor of Portland from 1879 to
1882, a member of the Maine Legislature
from 1883 to 1886, and in 1902 was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to his pres
ent office as United States district judge
for the District of Maine. Address : Port
land, Maine.
HALE, Edward Everett:
Author and clergyman; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, April 3, 1822; son of Nath
an Hale and Sarah Preston (Everett)
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Hale; grandson of Rev. Enoch and Octa
via (Throop) Hale, great-grandson of
Deacon Richard and Elizabeth (Strong)
Hale ; and a descendant in the seventh gen
eration from Deacon Robert Hale who
came to Massachusetts from Hertford
shire, England in 1632. After a prepara
tory education in the Boston Latin School
he entered Harvard, whence he was grad
uated as A.B., in 1839 and A.M. in 1842.
After being occupied as an usher in the
Boston Latin School from 1831 to 1841, he
read theology and church history, worked
in his father's printing office and editorial
rooms as secretary to his father in his
railroad work. He was licensed to preach
by the Boston Association of Unitarian
Congregational ministers, but had not per
manent charge until 1846, when he was
settled over the Church of the Unity, Wor
cester, Massachusetts, where he remained
ten years ; and after that he was pastor
of the South Congregational Church in
Boston until October 1, 1899, when he re
signed and became pastor emeritus. He
was elected president of the National Con
ference of Unitarian and other Christian
Churches in 1894 and 1895, and was a
member of its council frorii its organiza
tion; was an overseer of Harvard from
1866 to 1875 and from 1876 to 1887, and
elected to many learned societies; and
Harvard University conferred upon him the
degree of S. T. D. in 1879. Dr. Hale has
edited numerous publications, including the
Monthly Chronicle, the Boston Miscellany,
the Christian Examiner, the Sunday School
Gazette, Old and New, Lend a Hand, and
the Lend a Hand Record, and assisted in
editing the New England Magazine and
The Commonwealth. His lis,t of books
embraces about sixty titles and many of
them have reached a very large circulation.
His Man Without a Country, published in
1864 made his name familiar wherever the
English language is read, and his Ten
Times One is Ten led to the organization
of Henry Wordsworth Clubs, devoted to
charity, all over this country and abroad,
and many others taking the name Lend-
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not clown; look forward and not back;
look out and not in; lend a hand. A uni
form edition of his works was published
in 1898. Dr. Hale married at Hartford,
Connecticut, October 13, 1852, Emily Bald
win Perkins. Address: 39 Highland
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HALE, Edward Everett, Jr.:
Professor of English; born in Boston,
February 18, 1863; son of Edward Everett
Hale and Emily Baldwin (Perkins) Hale.
After a preparatory education in Roxbury
Latin School, he attended Harvard Col
lege, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1883; afterwards at the Univer
sity of Halle he received the Ph.D. degree
in 1892. He was instructor in English in
Cornell, from 1886 to 1889; acting assist
ant professor of English at Cornell in
1889 and 1890 ; Harris fellow of Harvard
University in 1890 and 1891 ; professor
of English in the State University of Iowa
from 1892 to 1895 ; and after that professor
of rhetoric and logic from 1893 to 1903,
and professor of English since 1903 in
Union College. Dr. Hale is author of:
Lowell, 1899; Dramatists of today, 1905.
In politics he is a Republican and in re
ligion a Presbyterian. Dr. Hale is presi
dent of the New City Mission, Schenec
tady, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity, and of the Century Association
of New York City, and the Mohawk Club
of Schenectady. He married, June 15,
1893, Rose Postlethwaite Perkins, and they
have three children : Maurice Perkins,
Nathan and Thomas Shaw. Address:
Union College, Schenectady, New York.
HALE, Eugene:
United States senator; born in Turner,
Oxford County, Maine, in 1836. He re
ceived an academic education; became
learned in the law through the medium of
the country law office, and began the prac
tice of law at the age of twenty. He was
county attorney of Hancock County, Maine,
for nine years, and after three terms in the
Maine Legislature was elected to the For
ty-first Congress, and has been a member
of every Congress since that time, either

as a representative or a senator. That Sen
ator Hale has consistently chosen a career
as a legislator is evidenced by his declina
tion of posts in the Cabinets of successive
Presidents. He was offered the postmaster-
generalship by President Grant, and the
secretaryship of the Navy by President
Hayes, both of which he declined. He
took a leading part in the investigation
which followed the election of 1876, and
was chairman of the Republican Congres
sional Committee for the Forty-fifth Con
gress. No outside interest has, however,
interfered with his consistent pursuit of his
duties as a legislator or with his services
in the Senate in behalf of the Navy of the
United States. It is in this latter capacity
that Senator Hale is best known to the
country. As chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, it has been his
part to very largely shape the naval policy
of the United States. Opposing sudden in
fluxes of large expenditure, he has stimu
lated interest in the naval arm at times
when that interest on the part of the people
generally was at a low ebb, and is recog
nized as the foremost naval authority of
the United States in matters relating to
the means for the support of the Navy
and on questions of legislation referring
to its materiel and personnel. While he
has always been a staunch supporter of the
Republican party and a recognized factor
in its councils, Senator Hale has never
surrendered his independence of thought,
and notably, at the time of the impending
war with Spain and of the discussion of
questions relating to the Philippines, was
outspoken in his views. Residence: Ells
worth, Maine; and Sixteenth and K
Streets, Washington, D. C.
HALE, Frank Judson:
Manufacturer; born in Newton Upper
Falls, Massachusetts, August 14, 1862; son
of Amos Lawrence and Tamson C. Hale,
and a descendant from Robert Hale, the
immigrant, Boston, 1632. He was a pupil
in the grammar and high schools of the
city of Newton, and was graduated at the
Newton High School in 1880. He worked
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pany, at Newton Upper Falls, while not at
school, and continued to work in the estab
lishment under its various changes of name,
and in 1907 is the director and agent of the
cotton machinery works in Newton, and a
director of the corporation Saco & Pettu
machine works, with shops at Saco, Maine,
as well as at Newton Upper Falls, Massa
chusetts. He served as a member of the
common council of Newton, 1888-89, and of
the Newton School Board, 1890-1900. His
club affiliations include the Home Market
Club- of Boston; the Manufacturers' Club,
of Charlotte, North Carolina; the Newton
Club, of Newton, Massachusetts, and the
Derryfield Club of Manchester, New Hamp
shire. He is a member of the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers. His
directorates include the Saco & Pettu Ma
chine Shops; the Laurens Cotton Mills,
Laurens, South Carolina; the Hart-Spiller
Manufacturing Corporation of Boston; the
Gainesville Cotton Mills, Gainesville,
Georgia; the Davis Mills, Fall River; East
ern Machinery Company, and the Newton
Center Trust Company, the Newtonville
Trust Company, and the Newton Center
Savings Bank, all of the city of Newton.
Mr. Hale married Grace Ella Herrick, and
their children are: Marjorie and Roger D.
Hale. Residence: 1141 Walnut Street, New
ton Highlands. Office address: Newton
Upper Falls, Massachusetts.
HALE, George Ellery:
Astronomer and astrophysicist; born in
Chicago, June 29, 1868; son of William E.
and Mary S. Hale. After a careful pre
paratory-education, he entered the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, from
which he .was graduated as S.B. in 1890 ;
and he was a student in Harvard College
Observatory in 1899 and 1890, and in the
University of Berlin in 1893 and 1894. He
was director of the Kenwood Observatory
from 1890 to 1896; professor of astro
physics in the University of Chicago from
1892 to 1905; and has been non-resident
professor of that University from 1905;
he was director of the Yerkes Observatory
at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, from its or
ganization ' until 1905, when he undertook

the organization of the Solar Observatory
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
at Mount Wilson, California, of which he
is director. He invented and developed
the spectroheliograph, and has made re
searches in solar and stellar physics
and in general spectroscopy, . and has
received the honorary degrees of ScD.,
from the Western University of Pennsyl
vania, in 1897; LL.D. from Beloit College,
in 1904; ScD. from Yale University, in
1905, and from the Victoria University of
Manchester, England, in 1907; .he has
been awarded the Janssen, Rumford, and
Draper medals and the gold medal of the
Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Hale is
vice-president of the Astronomical and As
trophysical Society of America; foreign
associate of the Royal Astronomical Society
of England; foreign member of the Socie-
ta degli Spettroscopisti Italiani ; member of
of the National Academy of Sciences, As-
tronomische Gesellschaft, Societe Franchise
de Physique, etc. Dr. Hale is coeditor with
E. B. Frost, of the Astrophysical Journal,
and has contributed numerous papers on
Spectroscopy and Solar and Stellar Phys
ics in the Astrophysical Journal, publica
tions of the Yerkes Observatory, publica
tions of the Carnegie Institution, etc. Dr.
Hale married in 1890, Evelina S. Conklin,
of Brooklyn, and they have a son and a
daughter. Address : Mt. Wilson Solar Ob
servatory, Pasadena, California.
HALE, Irving:
Soldier and electrical engineer; born at
North Bloomfield, New York, August 28,
1861 ; son of Horace Morrison Hale and
Eliza (Huntington) Hale. He removed with
his family to Colorado in 1865 ; received his
preliminary education in the schools of that
State, and was appointed to the United
States Military Academy, from which he
was graduated with high honors in 1884;
and he served in the engineer corps until
1890, and -was during his service engaged
upon the various duties of an engineer of
ficer, and for a time instructor of engineer
ing at West Point. He resigned in 1890
to enter into, civil life in the practice of
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marked distinction, arid became manager
of the Rocky Mountain District of the
Lreneral Electric Company at Denver,
Colorado. He also became an active
officer in the Colorado National Guard and
was brigadier-general when, at the begin
ning of the war with Spain, he was com-
, missioned colonel of the First Regiment
of Colorado Infantry in the United States
Volunteers. This regiment was engaged
in the Philippines, and led the army at the
capture of Manila and President McKinley
commissioned him as brigadier-general of
United States Volunteers for gallant and
distinguished service, and he afterward com
manded the Second Brigade, Second Di
vision of the Eighth Army Corps until the
return of the volunteers in 1899. He was
wounded in battle at Meycauayan, March
26, 1899; and was recommended for the
brevet rank of major-general of Volun
teers for gallant and meritorious services
throughout the campaign against the Fili
pino Insurgents, and distinguished gallantry
in action near Calumpit, Luzon, April 25,
1899. He was honorably discharged from
the Volunteer service in October, 1899, and
resumed his position as manager at Denver
for the General Electric Company. Gen
eral Hale is a life member of the Executive
Committee and was formerly national presi
dent of the Society of the Army of the
Philippines. He is also a member of vari
ous scientific and engineering societies, and
received honorary degrees of E.E. from the
Colorado State School of Mines, and LL.D.
from the University of Colorado. He
married, June 14, 1887, Mary Virginia,
daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William R.
King, of the United States Army. Residence :
1430 Franklin Street, Denver. Office ad
dress : Kittredge Building, Denver, Col
orado.
HALE, Ledyard Park:
Lawyer; born in Canton, St. Lawrence
County, New York, May 17, 1854; son of
Horace W. and Betsey R. (Lewis) Hale.
After attending public schools and Canton
Academy he entered St. Lawrence Univers
ity, where he was graduated as B.S. in 1876,
and M.S. in 1879; then attended the Law

Department of the University of Wiscon
sin, graduating as LL.B. iri 1878, following
which he was admitted to the bar in June,
1878, in Wisconsin and in September, 1881,
in New York. He was assistant district at
torney of St. Lawrence County from 1882
to 1887, supervisor of Canton from 1890 to
1893; district attorney of St. Lawrence
County from 1894 to 1899; was appointed
county judge in October, 1902, and elected
to the same position in 1903. He was a
member of the Board of Education of Can
ton High School for eighteen years, and
the president for the last eight years; has
been a trustee of St. Lawrence University
since 1884, and is a member of the Execu
tive Committee of that institution. He was
the successful prosecutor in the celebrated
murder cases of Conroy and Burt; the lat
ter involving a remarable instance of cir
cumstantial evidence, which attracted wide
attention. Mr. Hale is a Republican in
politics and was appointed commissioner of
the State Board of Charities by Governor
Hughes in May, 1907, and is now serving in
that office. He is a director of the First
National Bank of Canton, a member of the
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and the National
Geographic Society. His favorite recre
ations are fishing, canoeing and mountain
eering; and he is a member of the Appa
lachian Mountain Club. Mr. Hale married
at Canton, New York, May 21, 1879, Ettie
Bacheller, and they have two children:
Irma, born in 1881, and Horace Charles,
born in 1889. Address : Canton, St. Law
rence County, New York.
HALE, Nathan Wesley:
Congressman; born in Scott County, Vir
ginia, February 11, i860. His father, Dray
ton S. Hale, is an old soldier and staunch
Republican. Mr. Hale's education was se
cured at Nicholasville, Virginia, and Kings-
ley Academy, Tennessee. He has been in
the nursery business for nineteen years; is
president of the Knoxville Nursery Com
pany; also president of the Southern Nurs
ery Company, Winchester, Tennessee; was
president for two years of the Southern
Nurserymen's Association, and one year
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men; helped organize and is a partner in
the wholesale dry goods and notion firm
of Brown, Payne, Deaver &; Company, of
Knoxville; a director in the East Tennes
see National Bank, of Knoxville, and pres
ident of Frank's Medicine Company, Knox
ville. He also owns a large farm. His
political career began in 1900, when he was
elected to the lower house of the General
Assembly of Tennessee. In the succed-
ing election in 1892 he was elected to the
upper house of the General Assembly; in
1894 many counties instructed their dele
gates to vote for Mr. Hale for governor,
but he did not attend the convention. He
was an unsuccessful competitor of Hon. H.
R. Gibson for the Congressional nomination
in 1902, but was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, in which he is now serving as a
Republican member from the Second Ten
nessee District. Address : Knoxville, Ten
nessee.HALE, Philip Thomas:
Clergyman; born- in Alabama, August 18,
1857; son of Dr. P. P. Hale and Caroline
Susan (Gulledge) Hale. After graduation
from Harvard College, Alabama, he entered
the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1883. He was
ordained to the Baptist ministry, and after
officiating in various pastorates he became
in 1904, president of the Southwestern Bap
tist University in Jackson, Tennessee, until
1906, and since then has been corresponding
secretary of the Baptist Education Society
of Kentucky. Howard College conferred
upon him the degree of D.D. in 1890, and
Southwestern Baptist University the degree
of LL.D. Dr. Hale was formerly chaplain-
general of the Sons of Confederate Veter
ans of Alabama, and a member of the
State Board of Missions ; vice-president of
the Foreign Mission Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention. He married at
Mayfield, 'Kentucky, December 9, 1885, Lena
Lyle -Bolinger. Address : 1820 Brook
Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
HALE, Richard W.:
Lawyer; born in Milton, Massachusetts,
January 30, 1871 ; son of George Silsbee

Hale and Ellen (Sever) Hale. He was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1892
with honors, and from Harvard Law
School with honors and the degree of LL.B.
in 1895. After his graduation he was ad
mitted to the bar and has ever since been
engaged in practice as a lawyer in Boston,
Massachusetts, and also holds the office of
United States commisisoner in the United
States District Court. Mr. Hale is senior
partner in the law firm of Hale and Grin
nell; is treasurer and director of the Guan-
tanamo Exploration Company; vice-presi
dent and director of the Imboden Coal and
Coke Company, the Improved Dwelling Aa-
sociation, and the Keokee Coal and Coke
Company ; and treasurer and director of the
Massachusetts Cremation Society, and the
State Line and Sullivan Railroad Company.
Mr. Hale is also treasurer of- the Old South
Meeting House Association, and is a mem
ber of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, and the
Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a Repub
lican in politics and an ex-member of the
Naval Militia, from which he was hon
orably discharged in 1891. He is a mem
ber of the Norfolk Country, and Norfolk
Hunt Clubs, both of Boston, and of the
Century Association of New York City.
Mi. Hale married in New York City, May
14, 1903, Mary Newbold Patterson. Resi
dence : Strawberry Hill, Dover, Massachu-
seets. Office address : 60 State Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
HALE, William Henry:
Lawyer and writer ; born in Albany, New
York, August 20, 1840 ; son of Silvester and
Nancy Arzelia (Eames) Hale. He is de
scended from distinguished Colonial and
Revolutionary ancestry, his grandfather,
William Hale, and great-grandfather, Gid
eon Deming, having been soldiers of the
Revolution. Dr. Hale was graduated from
Albany Academy (first in rlass) and was
for a short time at Union College, after
ward entering Yale College, from which
he was graduated with honors as B.A. in
i860, and winner of the Clark and Berkeley
scholarships (only prize scholarships then
open to competition for graduates) ; and
he was graduated from Albany Law School

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in 1861. He was admitted to the bar in
1861, and was engaged for two years in
study of Sanskrit, comparative philolgy and
higher mathematics, under Professors
Whitney and Newton at Yale. He received
the degree of Ph.D. from Yale, in 1863, and
is, with the exception of Drs. J. M. Whiton
and A. W. Wright, the senior living hold
er of this degree from an American college
or university. After several* years in com
mercial life he engaged in the practice of
law at Albany, removing in 1888 to Brook
lyn, where he has continued to practice
since. Mr. Hale has made a specialty of
attending meetings and reporting proceed
ings for leading publications; was for sev
eral years American correspondent of Na
ture (London) ; edited the Science De
partment of the Bachelor of Arts Maga
zine; has given special attention to civil
service matters, and has been instrumental
in affecting a notable reform in that con
nection in enforcing the constitutional pro
vision for appointing employees for merit
and fitness, as a result of the leading case of
Hale versus Worstell, et al., 185th New
York, 247, as an incidental outcome of
which case he was appointed superintendent
of public baths for the Borough of Brook
lyn of New York City on March 10, 1906.
Dr. Hale is one of the original fellows of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Alumni in New York. Ad
dress 40 First Place, Brooklyn, New York.
HALEY, Patrick Columbus:
Lawyer; born in Saranac, New York,
March 17, 1849; son of Thomas and Han
nah (Caton) Haley. He was educated in
the public schools of his native place and
is a high school graduate. He chose the
legal profession, and was a graduate from
the law department of the University of
Michigan as LL.B., in the class of 1871. He
was admitted to the Illinois bar in the
same year and engaged in practice at Joliet,
Illinois. He was elected city attorney of
Joliet in 1874, but since the expiration of
his term of office has been engaged in pri
vate practice. He is a Democrat, and was
a representative of that party in the Board

of Aldermen for twelve years. He also
served one terih as mayor of the city, and
was twice the Democratic candidate for
Congress. He was special counsel of the
Sanitary District for twelve years. While
he has an extensive practice in Joliet, he
also does a large legal business in Chicago,
where he is a member of the firm of Eddy,
Haley & Wetten. He was married at Jol
iet, December 1, 1875, to Mary A. D'Arcy,
and their children are : Margaret, Robert,
Raymond, Columbia, Madeline, Genevieve,
Paul, Angela, and John. Residence : Joliet,
Illinois. Office address : Temple Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
HALL, Arthur Crawshay AUiston:
Bishop .of Vermont; born at Binfield,
Berkshire, England, April 12, 1847-; son of
Major William Thomas Hall and Louisa
Astley (Alliston) Hall. He was gradu
ated (from Christ Church) at the Univer
sity of Oxford, England, in 1869, as B.A.,
receiving M.A. in 1872. The degree of D.D.
(honoris causa) was conferred upon him
by the University of Oxford in 1893, Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1894,
and by Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Prov
ince of Quebec, • Canada, in 1894. He also
received the degree of LL.D. in 1904 from
the University of Vermont. In 1870 he
took the orders of deacon of the Church
of England as a member of the Society of
St. John the Evangelist, and priest's orders
a year later, both ordinations being by Bish
op Mackamess of Oxford. For two years
following his ordination to the priesthood
he was a licensed preacher of the Diocese of
Oxford, England, coming thence, in 1873,
to the United States, to become assistant
at the Church of the Advent, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.' In 1881 he became priest in
charge of the Mission of St. John the Evan
gelist. In 1891 he returned to England and
for two years occupied his first position at
Oxford. In 1894 he became Bishop of Ver
mont, being consecrated February 2, by
Bishops Neely, Niles, Coleman, Grafton,
Lawrence and Lewis (Archbishop of On
tario). Bishop Hall is a prolific and ex
tensive writer on ecclesiastical subjects, and
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which are: Meditations on the Creed, 1876;
Confession and the Lambeth Conference,
1879; The Virgin Mother, 1894; charge on
The Church's Discipline Concerning Mar
riage and Divorce, 1896; .charge on Pro
hibited Degrees, 1899; Companion to the
Prayer Book, 1902; charge on Ecclesiasti
cal Discipline, 1904 ; Notes on the Use of the
Prayer Book, 1906 ; Christ's Temptation and
Ours (Baldwin Lectures, 1896) ; The Use of
Holy Scripture in the Public Worship of
the Church (Paddock Lectures, 1903) ; The
Christian Doctrine, of .Prayer (Bohlen Lec
tures, 1904) ; Trie Relations of Faith and
Life (Bedeil Lectures, 1905) ; Confirmation,
(in the Oxford Library of Practical Theol
ogy), J904; The Example of Our Lord,
Especially for His Ministers, 1906; Facts
Affirmed by the Creed, 1907 ; charge on The
Eucharist, 1907. Address : Burlington, Ver
mont.HALL, Benjamin Mortimer:
Civil engineer; born in Fairfield County,
South Carolina, January 31, 1853; son of
Dr. Nathaniel B. Hall and Nancy (Boul-
ware) Hall. Graduate of Georgia Uni
versity, B.E., 1876; C. and M.E., 1885; 1876
to 1880, professor of mathematics in the
North Georgia Agricultural College; 1880
to 1900, active in development of mines,
quarries and water powers in Georgia and
adjacent States; 1896 to 1903, hydrograph
er and consulting engineer United States
Geological Survey; 1904 to June, 1907, su
pervising engineer United States Reclama
tion Service for New Mexico, Texas and
Oklahoma ; since July 1, 1907, consulting-en
gineer United States Reclamation Service,
and irrigation engineer for the Insular
Government of Porto Rico. Member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the
Masonic order. He married at Whitewater,
Wisconsin, June 5, 1881, Kate Chamberlin,
of Weston, Georgia ; children : Warren E.,
born in October, 1881; Gertrude, born in
1885, and Benjamin M., Jr., born in 1891.
Permanent address.: United States Recla
mation Service, Washington, D.-C, and 413
Temple Court, Atlanta, Georgia.

HALL, Bolton:
Counsellor-at-law and author; born in
Armagh, Ireland, August 5, 1854; son of
Rev. John Hall (D.D) and Emily (Bol
ton) Hall. He was graduated from Prince
ton as A.B. in 1875, and A.M. in 1878, and
from Columbia Law School as LL.B. in
1886. Mr. Hall is a lecturer on funda
mental reforms and author of: Things as
They Are; Game of Life; Monkey Shines
(children's stories); Free America; Three
Acres and Liberty (on intensive farming) ;
and numerous contributions to magazines.
He was treasurer and managing director of
the Berkeley Heights Real Estate Asso
ciation; treasurer of the Longshoremen's
Union, in 1896; founder and vice-president
of the New York Tax Reform Association,
and founder and treasurer of the New
York Vacant Lots Gardens for the Unem
ployed. In political views he is a Single
Taxer, and by religious connection a Pres
byterian; and he is a member of the Uni
versity Club of New York City. He mar
ried, February 6, 1884, Susie Hurlbut
Scott, and they have two children: Lois S.
Bolton, born in 1892 and John S. Bolton,
born in 1898. Residence: 33 East Sixty-
first Street. Address : 56 Pine Street, New
York City,
HALL Charles Martin:
Manufacturer and inventor; born at
Thompson, Geauga County, Ohio, Decem
ber 6, 1863; son of Rev. Heman B. and
Sophronia (Brooks) Hall. He was gradu
ated from Oberlin College as A.B. in 1885,
and A.M. in 1893. Mr. Hall invented in
1886 the process for manufacturing alum
inum now in universal use, being the pro
cess known in Europe as Heroult process,
invented by Paul Heroult about the same
time. This material, formerly as costly as
silver, and little used, is now bulk for bulk
cheaper than any other metals, except iron,
zinc and lead. He commenced the manu
facture of aluminum with the Pittsburgh
Reduction Company, now the Aluminum
Company of America, and has been vice-
president of that company since 1890. The
validity of his patent was attacked, but
was sustained by a decision of the United

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States Circuit Court in 1893. Mr. Hall is
vice-president of the St. Lawrence River
Power Company, Northern Aluminum
company of Canada, and director of the
Power City Bank of Niagara Falls, New
York. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, the American Philo
sophical Society, American Electrochemical
Society, Institute of Engineers of Great
Britain, the Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York; trustee of Oberlin Col
lege, and president and trustee of the Niag
ara Falls Memorial Hospital. Mr. Hall
was one of the one hundred "captains of
industry" invited to meet Prince Henry of
Prussia in New York City in February,
1902. He is a member of the University
Club of Buffalo, and the University Club
of New York , City. Address : Niagara
Falls, New York.
HALL, Edward Hagaman:
Writer and lecturer; born in Auburn,
New York, November 3, 1858 ; son of Chief
Justice Benjamin F. Hall and Abigail Far
nam (Hagaman) Hall. He was graduated
from Auburn Academic High School as
salutatorian in 1877. Mr. Hall was editor
of the Norwich Morning Bulletin from 1877
to 1888, the Waterbury (Connecticut) Re
publican in 1888 and 1889, and was cor
respondent of the New York Tribune sev
eral, years prior to 1890, and later for a
short time with its business department in
New York City. He was engaged as pub
lisher, printer and writer in New York City
from 1890 to 1900, and has been a writer,
lecturer and executive secretary since 1900;
is author of numerous books and mono
graphs relating to American history,
scenery, archaeology and biography ; was
special agent of the New York Commerce
Commission in 1898 and 1899. He is now
secretary of the American Scenic and His
toric Preservation Society, and the Asso
ciation for the Protection of the Adiron
dacks; and assistant secretary of the Hud
son-Fulton Celebration Commission. In his
politics he is a Republican, and in re
ligion an Episcopalian. He is the governor
of the New York Society of the Order of

Founders and Patriots of America, and past
deputy governor-general of the order; a
governor of the National Arts Club of
New York; past vice-president of the Sons
of the American Revolution ; captain of the
Washington Continental Guards; sachem
of the Society of Cayugas; vicerpresident
of the American Flag Association; member
of the Municipal Art Society, of the New
York Historical Society, etc. Mr. Hall's
favorite recreations are the historical study
of original sites in England, Holland and
America, and archaeological work in the
field. He married in Philadelphia, Feb
ruary 7, 1893, Irene Gilbert Gazzam, and
they have a daughter, Edwina Gazzam Hall,
born September 27, 1894. Residence: 12
West One Hundred and Third Street. Ad
dress : Tribune Building, New York City.
HALL, Edward J.:
Capitalist; born at Perth Amboy, New
Jersey, in 1853 ; son of Edward J. Hall and
Mary H. Hall. He was graduated from
Yale as Ph.B. in 1873. Mr. Hall is vice-
president of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; a director of the New
York Telephone Company, and the New
York and New Jersey Telephone Company;
is president of the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company; director of the
Bell Telephone Company of Buffalo, New
York; the Bell Telephone Company of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; the Market and
Fulton National Bank, New York, and the
Western Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. He is a member of the University,
Morris County Golf, Morristown, Larch
mont Yacht, and New York Yacht Clubs.
Mr. Hall married in Buffalo, New York,
in 1875, Louisa Winne, and they have two
daughters : Eleanor W. (Mrs. Joseph Win-
terbotham, Jr., Chicago), and Gertrude S.;
and a son, Edward B. Hall. Residence:
Morristown, New Jersey. Address: 15
Dey Street, New York City.
HALL, Francis J.:
Theological professor and ivriter ; born in
Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1857; son of Joseph
B. Hall and Juliet E. (Griswold) Hall. He
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as A.B. with honors, and in 1885 as A.M.;
was graduated from the Western Theologi
cal Seminary in Chicago in 1886, and re
ceived the degree of D.D.- from Kenyon
College in 1898. After graduation he was
instructor of dogmatic theology in the
Western Theological Seminary from 1886
to 1905, and since 1905 has been professor
of the same chair in that institution. He is
author of: Doctrine of God, 1892 (second
edition revised in 1905) ; Doctrine of Man
and of the God-Man, 1893 ; Doctrine of the
Church and of Last Things, 1895 ; Kenotic
Theory, 1899; Introduction to Dogmatic
Theology (first of series of ten volumes),
1907; and numerous pamphlets and contri
butions. Dr. Hall is a member of the
American Bible League. He is a regularly
ordained Episcopalian clergyman, and in
addition to his regular work as an educator
has been in charge of Christ Church, Har
vard, Illinois, 1887; Trinity Church, Whea
ton, Illinois, from 1889 to 1893 ; St. John's,
Naperville, in 1895 and 1896. He has been
registrar of the Diocese of Chicago from
1894; secretary of the Standing Committee
of the Diocese of Chicago from 1898 to
1901, and on the Commission of the Gen
eral Convention of the Protestant Episco
pal Church on Swedish Orders, 1901. Dr.
Hall is a member of the Menoken Club of
Chicago. He married at Girard, Pennsyl
vania, in 1886, Prudence A. Griswold, and
they have a son Leo, born in 1890, and two
daughters : Mary, born in 1892 and Marga
ret, born in 1897. Summer address : One-
kama, Michigan. Address: 654 Park Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois.
HALL, Harry Alvan:
Jurist and author; born in Karthaus,
Pennsylvania, October 7, 1861 ; educated at
Dickinson Seminary, University at Lewis
burg, St. Gregory College, and Yale Uni
versity; holds the degrees of A.B. and
LL.B.; was admitted to the bar in June,
1881. Elected a member of the Pennsyl
vania Senate in 1890; apopinted United
States attorney for the Western District of
Pennsylvania in 1893; reappointed in 1897
and resigned the same year. Mustered Into
the United States service for the Spanish-

American War, May 10, 1898, as captain
of Company H, Sixteenth Pennsylvania
Infantry, United States Volunteers ; served
as judge advocate-general of the First
Corps on the staff of General Wilson ; was
promoted major of his regiment for dis
tinguished gallantry on the field at the
battle of Coamo, Porto Rico, August 9,
1903, and by general orders of Lieutenant-
General Miles was sent to Washington to
present the Spanish flags captured in that
action to President McKinley. He was vice-
commander-in-chief of the National Asso
ciation of Spanish-American War Veter
ans ; and commander-in-chief of the Na
tional Commandery, Naval and Military
Order of the Spanish-American War ; was
delegate to Democratic Conventions of
1884 and 1888, and delegate-at-large in
1892; he was for thirteen years general
counsel for the Austro-Hungarian Empire
and the Kingdom of Italy in the United
States. Has been general counsel for sev
eral railroads, and made a specialty of rail
road, corporation and international law ;
during his term as United States attorney
was chosen by the Inter-State Commerce
Commission to try the test cases under that
act. He was elected president judge of the
Twenty-fifth Judicial District of Pennsyl
vania in 1906. He is an author, linguist
and traveler. He married, June 10, 1886,
Currin, daughter of the late Colonel R.
C. McNairy, of Nashville, Tennessee. Ad
dress : Ridgway, Pennsylvania.
HALL, Henry:
Journalist, financial writer; born in
Auburn, New York, December 6, 1845; son
of Benjamin F. Hall, the first chief justice
of Colorado, and Abbe Farnam (Hagaman)
Hall. He was educated in public schools
and Auburn Academy, and took a pre
paratory course for college, but did not
enter. Mr. Hall was teller of the First
National Bank of Auburn for a time, and
then went into journalism; served suc
cessively on The Auburn News, The Au
burn Advertiser, and The Norwich (Con
necticut) Bulletin; and after 1875, for
twenty-six years, -was on the New York
Tribune, most of the time as business man-

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ager. He was agent of the United States
Census Bureau in 1880 and 1881, for the col
lection of statistics of American ship
building, and prepared the only census of
that industry ever taken ; and he served in
the Forty-ninth Regiment, of the National
Guard of New York for nine years. In
politics he is a Republican, and he is an
Episcopalian in his religious views. He has
made minute investigation of Wall Street
and its ways, and has compiled a remarkable
scrap-book of events in that famous local
ity; compiled American Millionaires, the
first list of the kind ever printed, and is
author of History of Auburn; Cayuga in
the Field (in collaboration with his
brother, James, being the history of two
New York regiments in the Civil War) ;
History of the Societies of Descendants
of Men of the American Revolution ; Amer
ica's Successful Men; How Money is Made
in Security Investments, or, A Fortune at
Fifty-five; and is a general writer on finan
cial and business topics. Mr. Hall is fond
of open-air sports, is a good horseman and
a good rifleman, and has rowed in several
eight-oar races on Owasco Lake. Mr. Hall
married at Bath, Maine, in 1887, Virginia
Houghton. Residence: Bronxville. Ad
dress : 52 Broadway, New York City.
HALL, James:
Art educator; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, December 20, 1869; son of Joseph
Henry and Alice (Ryder) Hall. His gen
eral education was received in the public
schools, the Agassiz Grammar School and
the West Roxbury High School, at Bos
ton. He studied art at the Massachu
setts Normal Art School, the Art Students'
League of New York, and the Academie
Julien, in Paris and on his return from
France became teacher of drawing in New
Hampshire College at Durham, was later
supervisor of drawing at Springfield,
Massachusetts, and is now director of the
art department of the Ethical Culture
School of New York City. He -has trav
eled extensively in Europe; has exhibited
paintings in various national exhibitions, in
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
the Art Institute of Chicago, and others.

Mr. Hall is a member and ex-president of
the Eastern Art Teachers' Association; a
member of the Council of Supervisors of
the Manual Arts, National Society of
Craftsmen, and chairman of the official
committee for the United States to pre
pare for the Third International Congress
on Art Education to meet in London in
1908. He is author of: With Brush and
Pen; Pen and Ink Drawing; and numer
ous educational articles. Mr. Hall is a
member of the National Arts Club of New
York. He married at Chelsea, Massachu
setts, June 22, 1898, Grace Lydia Berney.
Residence (summer) : North Scituate,
Massachusetts (winter) : 518 West One
Hundred and Fifty-first Street, New York
City. Office address : Ethical Culture
School, New York City.
HALL, James Parker:
Dean of the University of Chicago Law
School; born in Frewsburg, New York,
1871 ; son of Edward L. Hall and Char
lotte (Parker) Hall. After being gradu
ated from the Jamestown (New York)
High School in 1890, he entered Cornell
University, and was graduated from that
university as A.B. in 1894, and from the
Law School of Harvard University, as
LL.B., cum laude, in 1897. He was ad
mitted to the New York bar in 1897; prac
ticed at Buffalo from 1897 to 1900 ; was
lecturer in Buffalo Law School from 1898
to 1900; associate professor of law at Le
land Stanford, Jr., University, from 1900
to 1902, and has been professor of law at
the University of Chicago since 1902, and
its dean since 1904. In politics he is an
Independent Republican. Mr. Hall is a
member of the American Bar Association,
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Quad
rangle and Law Clubs of Chicago. He
married at Buffalo, New York, in 1900,
Evelyn H. Movius, and they have two chil
dren. Address : University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, or 202 Forest Ave
nue, Jamestown, New York.
HALL, John Lesslle:
College professor; born in Richmond,
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Jr., and Emily G. (Moore) Hall. He was
educated in the Randolph-Macon College
of Virginia and at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity where he was graduated; then
taught in schools, and was afterward a fel
low at Johns Hopkins, and received the
degree of Ph.D. He has been professor
of English and history in the College of
William and Mary since 1888, and dean of
the Faculty since 1906. Dr. Hall has been
executive secretary of Virginia Alpha of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1897,
and is a member of the Modern Language
Association of America. He is author of :
Translation of Beowulf, published in 1892;
Old English Idylls, 1899; and of a Trans
lation of Judith, Phoenix, and Other An
glo-Saxon Poems, 1902; Half-Hours in
Southern History, 1907. In politics he is
a Democrat, and in religion an Episcopal
ian. Dr. Hall married at Tappahannock,
Virginia, April 30, 1889, Margaret F. Far-
land, and they have four children : Chan
ning Moore born in 1890; J. Lesslie, born
in 1891 ; Joseph Farland, born in 1893, and
Emily Moore, born in 1894. ! Address :
Williamsburg, Virginia.
1IALL, Lewis A.:
Railway official. He was educated at
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Hall is
president of the Pacific and Idaho North
ern Railway; president and director of the
Boston and Seven Devils Copper Company ;
vice-president and director of the Atlantic
Coast Steamship Company, and the Man-
istique Railway; and director of the Con
solidated Crdss-Tie Company. He built the
Manistique Railway, and in 1906 engaged
in building the Pacific and Idaho Northern
Railway,' and he has been president of both
companies since their organization. Ad
dress: 52 Broadway, New York City.
HALL, Ora Loft in:
Dramatic critic; born in Indiana, July
14, 1877; son of Jonathan T. Hall and
Julia (Loftin) Hall. He received his ed
ucation in Greer College at Hoopeston,
Illinois, and in Northwestern University at
Evanston, Illinois; was engaged as teacher
in 1895 and 1896; bank cashier from 1896

to 1899; and then engaged in newspaper
work. He was Sunday editor of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean from 1902 to 1905 ; asso
ciate managing editor of the Chicago Jour
nal in 1905, and has been dramatic critic
of the Chicago Journal since 1905. Mr.
Hall is a member of the Oriental Consist
ory of Scottish Rite Masons, and of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He is
well known as a writer on sociologic top
ics, and of light fiction. In politics he is
a Republican. He married at Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, February 1, 1904, Frieda Paul
ine Cohen. Residence : 434 East Sixty-
fifth Street, Chicago. Office address : 117
Market Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HALL, Prescott Farnsworth:
Lawyer; born in Boston, September 27,
1868; son of Samuel Hall and Mary E.
(Farnsworth) Hall. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1889 as A.B., and as LL.B.
from Harvard in 1892, and has since been
engaged in practice in Boston. Mr. Hall
was chairman of the executive committee of
the Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 1902-
1904; secretary for New England of the ex
ecutive committee of the Indianapolis Mone
tary Convention in 1896; delegate to the
Palmer and Buckner convention at Indi
anapolis in 1896. He is now a Republican
in politics. He has published five law books
and a treatise on Immigration and is a fre
quent contributor to reviews on legal and
economic topics. Mr. Hall was founder in
1894 and from 1896 to 1907 secretary of
the Immigration Restriction League; is a
member of the Boston Bar Association, and
the Economic Club of Boston; was presi
dent of the Brookline Education. Society in
1902 and 1903, and is a member of the
Union and Twentieth Century Clubs of Bos
ton. Residence: 135 High Street, Brook
line, Massachusetts. Office address: 60
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HALL, Randall Cooke:
Clergyman; born at Wallingford, Con
necticut, December 18,- 1842; son of Fran
cis C. Hall and Elizabeth W. (Cooke) Hall.
He was educated at Trinity School, in New
York City, from 1854 to 1859; graduated

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from Columbia College as A.B, in 1863, and
A.M., in 1866; from the General Theologi
cal Seminary, 1866, receiving its S.T.D., in
1884, and received the degree of S.T.D.
from Racine College, Wisconsin, in 1881.
He was ordered deacon in 1866, and or
dained priest in 1870; instructor in He
brew, General Theological Seminary, New
York City, from 1869 to 1871 ; professor
of Hebrew and Greek, 1871-1899, professor
emeritus since 1899; published: Some Ele
ments of Hebrew Grammar. Was examin
ing chaplain to the Bishop of New York,
from 1872 to 1895 ; chaplain of the House
of the Holy Comforter since 1904. Was
curate in St. Stephen's Church, New York
City, December, 1875, to June, 1887; assist
ant in Church of St. Mary the Virgin, since
1904. Is a member of the New York
Churchman's Association, the Clericus, New
York Catholic Club, Catholic Clerical Union
of New York. He married in Brooklyn,
New York, July 25, 1878, Lizzie Eyland,
and they have three children: Eyland J.
Hall, born in 1879 ; Margaret P. Hall, born
in 1888, and Francis C. Hull, born in 1890.
Address : 245 West Forty-eighth Street,
New York City.
HALL, Robert Calvin:
Stock broker; born at Cleveland, Ohio,
September 3, 1865. Parents born and bred
in New York City; paternal grandfather
was for many years a large shipping mer
chant and maternal grandfather a lawyer
there. Real estate owner; interested in
telephones, electric light and street rail
ways, Pittsburgh. Married Frances Pear
son Clapp, daughter of Captain John M.
Clapp; of Washington, D. C, August 7,
1897. Republican and Independent. En
tered active mercantile business with his
father after graduation from Titusville
High School, 1882, and for five years
thereafter. For ten years succeeding in
employ of Standard Oil Company. Ad
dress : 345 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.HALL, Robert Henry:
.Brigadier-General United States Army,
retired; born in Detroit, Michigan, Novem
ber 15, 1837. The family removed to Au

rora, Illinois, in 1846, and he was ap
pointed from that State as cadet at the
United States Military Academy, July i,
1855, and was graduated July 1, i860, and
assigned to the Fifth United States- In
fantry as brevet second lieutenant. He was
commissioned second lieutenant of the
Tenth Infantry, January 23, 1861 ; first lieu
tenant June 1, 1861 ; captain August 31,
1863 ; major of the Twenty-second Infantry
May 21, 1883 ; lieutenant-colonel, Sixth In
fantry, August 5, 1888; colonel Fourth In
fantry, May 18, 1893; brigadier-general,
February 5, 1901, and was retired by opera
tion of law November 15, 1901. He served
through the Civil War; was brevetted ma
jor November 24, 1863, for gallant and
meritorious services in the battle of Look
out Mountain, Tennessee, and brevetted
lieutenant-colonel, August 19, 1864, for gal
lant and meritorious services in battle on
the Weldon Railroad, Virginia. After the
war he was for years engaged on frontier
service, and several times commanded
troops called out to quiet labor disturbances.
In April, 1898, he went with his regiment
to Tampa, Florida, and in May, 1898, he
was appointed brigadier-general of United
States Volunteers, and served as brigade
and division commander in Florida and
Alabama. He went to the Philippines in
March, 1899, as brigadier-general of vol
unteers, and was in active service against
the Philippine insurgents, including the
battles at Banlac, Mariquina, Antipolo and
Calamba. General Hall, in 1900, conducted
the expedition from Sinilvan to Binango-
nan, occupied the latter place October 9,
1900, and captured an insurgent gunboat,
and three days later took possession of the
island of Polillo. General Hall is a com
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion and a member of other military or
ganizations, and author of several works
on military subjects. He married at Ba
tavia, New York, February, 1866, Geor-
giana K. Foote. Address : 29 Irving Place,
Buffalo, New York.
HALL, Tom as Proctor:
Physician; born in Ontario, October 7,
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(Greenwood) Hall. He was graduated
from the University of Toronto as B.A. in
1882, with a medal in natural science ; from
the Illinois Wesleyan University as M.A.
and Ph.D. (course in chemistry) 1888 ; from
Clark University, Worcester, Massachu
setts, as Ph.D. (course in physics) 1893;
National Medical University (Chicago),
as M.D. in 1902. Dr. Hall was a fel
low of the University of 'Toronto in 1883
and 1884; professor of natural science at
Woodstock College (Ontario) from 1885 to
1890; a fellow of Clark University from
1890 to 1893; professor of natural science
at Tabor College, Iowa, from 1893 to 1896;
professor of physics at Kansas City Uni
versity from 1898 to 1901 ; professor of
electrotherapeutics at Jenner Medical Col
lege, Chicago, in 1904 and 1905. He was
editor of the American X-Ray Journal from
1902 to 1905, and was also editor of the
American Journal of Progressive Therapeu
tics until 1905, when he removed from Chi
cago to Vancouver, where he is now en
gaged in practice. Dr. Hall is a Socialist
in his political views, though not now a
member of the Socialist party; he is a
Baptist in religious affiliation, and is a
member of the Masonic Order. Dr. Hall
married at Souris, Prince Edward Island,
July 15, 1885, Elizabeth Knight (who died
May 24, 1901), and of that marriage there
are three children: Amy Violet, born in
1887; Unina Frances, born iri 1891, and
Vernon Knight, born in 1899. He married
again in Chicago, September 10, 1902, Ruth
Maude McManus, M.D., who is also a
physician of distinction. Address: 1301
Davie Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
HALL, William Maclay:
Lawyer; born at Bedford, Pennsylvania,
September 6, 1864; son of William Macley
Hall and Ellen Rowan (Cramer) Hall.
He was graduated from Princeton in the
class of 1885 as B.A. and later received the
M.A. degree. Mr. Hall has practiced law
in Pittsburgh, since 1887. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion a Presby
terian. He has membership in the Sons
of the Revolution (and was elected one of
its vice-presidents, 1907) ; member and was

president in 1897 of the University Club of
Pittsburgh, and is also a member of the
Pittsburgh, Duquesne and Union Clubs of
Pittsburgh, and the University Club of New
York. Mr. Hall married in Indianapolis,
October 20, 1897, Augusta Day Lyon. Resi
dence : 625 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh.
Office address : Frick Building, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. HALL, William Phillips:
Inventor, signal engineer ; born, Stam
ford, Connecticut, February 1, 1864; son of
Thomas Shepard and Sarah Catharine
Hall ; educated public schools ; prepared for
college course, but did not enter. Learned
trade of electrical machinist; was one
of the first railway signal engineers in
United States; organized present Hall Sig
nal Company, in October, 1889, and became
its president; under his supervision the
company has instituted many of the most
important block signal installations on the
railroads of- the United States, notably that
on the Illinois Central Railroad for the Co
lumbian Exposition traffic in the city of
Chicago, where, during the six months of
the exposition, 19,500,000 passengers were
carried under the protection of the system
without an accident. President of the Hall
Signal Company, the Continental Hall Sig
nal Company, of Brussels, Belgium. Re
publican. Member of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. Member of the American
Railway Signal Association, American Rail
way Appliance Association (Executive
Committee), New York Board of Trade and
Transportation, etc. ; past master Acacia
Lodge, No. 85, F. and A. M., Greenwich,
Connecticut, Rittenhouse Chapter, No. 11,
Stamford, Connecticut, Palestine Command
ery, No. 18, Knights Templar, New York
City; president of the American Tract So
ciety, American Bible League ; vice-presi
dent World's Christian Endeavor Union;
manager of the American Bible Society,
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn ;
president of the Evangelistic Commission,
New York East Conference, Methodist
Episcopal Church ; member of the Commis
sion on Aggressive Evangelism, Methodist
Episcopal Church. He married, at Bristol,

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Connecticut, October 4, 1887, Charlotte
Sophia HoUister; children: William Phil
lips, Jr., Lyman HoUister, Melville Phil
lips, Theodore Dana, Thomas Shepard,
Dorothy Catherine, Mary Phillips, Char
lotte HoUister, Margaret Frances. Ad
dress: 25 Broad Street, New York City.
HALL, William Preble:
Brigadier-General United States Army;
born in Missouri June 11, 1848; was ap
pointed from Missouri as cadet at the
United States Military Academy, Septem
ber 1, 1864, was graduated and commis
sioned second lieutenant of the Nineteenth
Infantry June 15, 1868. He was assigned
to the Fifth Cavalry July 14, 1869, promoted
first lieutenant July 1, 1876; captain March
8, 1887; major and assistant adjutant-gen
eral, September 11, November 6, 1893; lieu
tenant-colonel, assistant adjutant-general,
September 11, 1897; colonel, assistant adju
tant-general, April 18, 1901 ; and promoted
brigadier-general April 23, 1904, and as
signed to duty as one of the military secre
taries. During the earlier years of his ser
vice he was engaged against Indians on the
frontier, including the Apaches in Arizona
under' Crook in the early seventies, the
Sioux campaign in Northern Wyoming, the
Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition of
1876 and others; and was awarded the Con
gressional Medal of Honor for most dis
tinguished gallantry in action near camp on
White River, Colorado, October 20, 1879,
"when as first lieutenant of the Fifth Cav
alry, in command of a reconnoitering party
of three men, and while going to the res
cue of a brother officer who had been at
tacked by Indian?, was himself attacked by
about thirty-five warriors. During the en
gagement he several times exposed himself
in order to draw the fire of his assailants
and locate their position so that his small
party could reply with effect. He was ad
jutant-general of Porto Rico in 1899 and
1900. General Hall is a distinguished
marksman and has won various prizes for
markmanship. Address: Adjutant-Gener
al's Department, Washington, D. C.

HALL, Winfield Scott:
Physician, author, teacher and lecturer;
bprn at Batavia, Illinois, January 5, 1861;
son of Albert Nelson Hall and Adelia
(Foote) Hall. Graduated from North
western, University as B.S. in 1887, M.D.
in 1888; Leipzig University as M.D., in
1894 ; A.M., Ph.D., 1895 ; Interne of Mercy
Hospital, Chicago, in 1888 and 1889; in
structor in biology and head of depart
ment of biology, Haverford College, Penn
sylvania, from 1889 to .1893; student in
Leipzig University, Germany, from 1893 to
1895 ; professor of physiology at the North
western University Medical School since
1895, and junior dean of faculty since
1901 ; lecturer on dietitics, digestion and
metabolism in Mercy Hospital, Chicago,
and in Wesley Hospital; also iecturer on
physiology of muscular exercise at the
Young Men's Christian Association, Insti
tute and Training School. He is author
of: Text-Book of Physiology; Manual of
Experimental Physiology ; Reproduction
and Sexual Hygiene, in 1906; also several
smaller works on physiology and many arti
cles in journals of Germany, England and
America. Is an Independent in politics and
a Presbyterian in his religious faith. Is a
fellow of the American Academy of Medi
cine, the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Chicago Academy of
Sciences; member of the American Medical
Association, American Physiological Socie-
ey; member of Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta
Kappa, Sigma Xi, Nu Sigma Nu, and Alph^
Omega Alpha fraternities. He married at
Juniata, Nebraska, October 11, 1888, Jean
nette Winter, and they have four children:
Ethel Hall, born in 1893; Albert Winter
Hall, born in Switzerland, in 1895; Rey-
mond Ludwig Hall, born in 1897, and Mu
riel Hall, born in 1903. Residence: 3136
Ivison Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. Office
Address : Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago, Illinois.
HALLOWELL, Thomas Jewett:
Banker; born in Steubenville, Ohio, De
cember 28, 1869; son of Charles and Belle
(Jewett) Hallowell; educated abroad. Be
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National Bank of New York City; clerk to
American Surety Company; manager Fi
delity Department of Lawyers' Surety
Company; member banking firm of Hal
lowell & Henry; served as petty (naval)
officer in Spanish-American War. Treas
urer The Associated Iudustrial Corporation,
Montague Realty Company, the Kitchawan
Telephone Company. Republican. Member
American Bankers' Association. Recrea
tions : Riding and driving. Clubs : Players',
Metropolitan Opera Club, Society Sons of
the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial
Wars. Address: 52 Beaver Street, New
York City.
HALLS, William, Jr.:
Banker; born in Brooklyn, August 4,
1858; son of William and Lavinia M.
(Plows) Halls ; educated German Com
mercial Institute, Brooklyn. Formerly vice-
president of Hanover National Bank, and
still a director, but resigned as vice-presi
dent; rose from messenger in bank to vice-
president; was for a short period, 1881-82,
with stock brokerage firm of Prince &
Whitely; acquired, with others, Union Col
lege holdings of real estate in Long Island
City in 1898 and organized New York Land
and Warehouse Company; reorganized Ely-
ton Land Company of Birmingham, Alaba
ma, and established the Birmingham Realty
Company; director Irving National Ex
change Bank, Flatbush Trust Company;
vice-president and director The Summit
(New Jersey) Bank, the Birmingham (Ala
bama) Realty Company; president and di
rector New York Land and Warehouse
Company; vice-president and manager
Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal .Hospital.
Republican. Methodist. Member New
York City Chamber of Commerce. Recre
ation : Travel. Clubs : Lawyers', Canoe
Brook, Highland (New Jersey). Married,
Brooklyn, October 14, 1879, Sarah W. Whit-
taker. Residence : 2 Beekman Road, Sum
mit, New Jersey.
HALSEY, Francis Whiting:
Editor and author; born at Unadilla,
New York, October 15, 1851; son of Gaius
Leonard Halsey and Juliet (Carrington)
Halsey. After being prepared for college

at Unadilla Academy he entered Cornell
University, from which . he was graduated
in 1873 with the degree of B.S. and took a
prize for an essay in English Literature.
Mr. Halsey was assistant editor of the
Binghamton Times from 1873 to 1875; as
sistant day editor of the New York Trib
une from 1875 to 1880, foreign editor of
the New York Times from 1880 to 1891 ;
literary editor of the New York Times
from 1891 to 1896, and editor of the New
York Times Saturday Review from its first
number, October 10, 1896, until June, 1902.
He was literary adviser of D. Appleton and
Company, from 1902 to 1905, and has been
literary adviser of the Funk and Wagnalls
Company since 1905.' Mr. Halsey is author
of Two Months Abroad, 1878; The Old
New York Frontier, 1891 ; Virginia Isabel
Forbes (memoir of his wife), privately
printed, 1900; Our Literary Deluge, 1902;
The Pioneers of Unadilla Village, 1902.
He is also editor of American Authors and.
Their Homes, 1901 ; Authors of Our Day
in Their Homes, 1902; Women Authors of
Our Day in Their Homes, 1902; of the
Making of a Book, 1904; Mrs. Rowson's
Charlotte Temple, 1905 ; Richard Smith's
Tour of Four Great Rivers, 1905 ; associ
ate editor of The World's Famous Orations,
1906 (of which William J. Bryan was edi
tor-in-chief), of which 500,000 volumes
were disposed of in the first six months.
Mr. Halsey has lectured before the New
York and New Jersey Historical Societies,
the . students of Columbia and Princeton
Universities, Chautauqua, and other bodies,
on literary and historical subjects. In poli
tics he is an independent Democrat and he
is an Episcopalian and member of the Holy
Trinity Church in New York City. Mr.
Halsey is a trustee of the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society, the Peo
ple's University Extension Society, and
the New York State Historical Associa
tion; is a member of the American His
torical Association, the New York Library
Association, Municipal Art Society, Otsego
Society, the Century Association • and the
Authors, National Arts, Cornell University,
and Drawing Room Clubs of New York

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City. He married in New York City, De
cember, 1883, Virginia Isabel Forbes. Club
address: 7 West Forty-third Street, New
York City. Business address : 44 East
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
HALSEY, Fred R.:
Lawyer; born in Ithaca, New York,
March 28, 1847; son of Robert and Sarah
(Stuart) Halsey; educated in Europe;
Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, A.B.,
1868; A.M., 1872; Columbia College
Law School, LL.B., 1870, Engaged
in practice of law in New York City from
1870. Was paymaster-general State of New
York on staff of Governor Roswell P.
Flower. Member St. Nicholas Society,
New York Historical Society. Clubs : Har
vard, Union, University, Grolier, Manhat
tan, New York Athletic, Racquet and Ten
nis, Automobile Club of America (New
York City), Tuxedo; Royal Societies (Lon
don) ; Cercle de ITsle de Puteaux, Paris;
Automobile Club de France. Married, New
York, April 24, 1872, E. Gertrude Keep,
New York. Address : 22 West Fifty-third
Street, New York City, and Egeria, Tuxe
do Park, New York.
HALSTEAD, Albert:
Consul, journalist; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, September 19, 1867; son of Murat
Halstead, the distinguished journalist, and
of Mary (Banks) Halstead. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered
Princeton University, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in the class of 1889.
He was Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette from 1891
to 1.896 ; editor of the Springfield Union, ol
Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1896 to
1899, and from 1900 to 1906 was Washing
ton correspondent of the Brooklyn Stand
ard Union, and the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph, and writer on various magazines
and periodicals. He was colonel and aide-
de-camp on the staff of Governor William
McKinley, of Ohio, and took an active
part in Ohio politics as a Republican. On
the resignation of his brother, Marshal
Halstead, on April, 1906, of the position of
consul, to Birmingham, England, which he

had held for nine years, Albert Halstead
was appointed to succeed him at that post,
which he still holds. He is a member of
the Chevy Chase Club of Washington, D.
C, and the Cosmopolitan Club of Birming
ham, England. Mr. Halstead married in
Washington, D. C, December 8, 1906, Aline .
Wilcox, and they have three children : Al
bert, born October 28, 1897; Aline, born
August 24, 1899, and Margaret Adams, born
September 11, 1902. Address: American
Consulate, Birmingham, England.
HALSTEAD, Albert Edward:
Surgeon; born in Ottawa, Ontario, April
21, 1868; son of William S. and Sara (Gib
bons) Halstead. He received a liberal ed
ucation in the schools of his native place
and chose the medical profession. He en
tered the Northwestern University Medical
School and was graduated with the degree
of M.D. in 1890. Immediately after his
graduation he received the appointment of
interne in the Cook County Hospital, serv
ing as such for two years. He established
himself in a general practice in the city
of Chicago, where he has been continuously
since, having become a specialist in sur
gery. He has been the attending surgeon
of the Cook County Hospital for twelve
years ; was formerly professor of anatomy
and surgery in the Northwestern University
Medical College, and is now professor of
surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic; assist-
tant professor of clinical surgery in Rush
Medical College and attending surgeon in
the Cook County, St. Luke's and Polyclin
ic Hospitals. He was made a life member
of the Chicago Medical Society, and is
secretary and fellow of the Chicago Surgi
cal Society. He married at Sturgeon Bay,
Wisconsin, February 1, 1893, Mary S. Co-
chems, and has two daughters : Lucille
Maria, and Alice Dorothea. Residence:
2937 Indiana Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 103 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HALSTEAD, Marshall:
Journalist; bom in Cincinnati, Ohio; eld
est son of Murat Halstead and Mary V.
(Banks) Halstead. He was graduated
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he was New York correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, and Cincinnati
Commercial-Gazette, from 1886 to 1888;
night editor, managing editor, business
manager and vice-president of the Cincin
nati Commercial-Gazette from 1888 to 1896 ;
served in an advisory capacity with the
London Daily Mail, in 1896 and 1897; was
appointed American consul at Birmingham,
England, December 8, 1897; resigned the
position, June 15, 1906, and was succeeded
by his brother, Colonel Albert Halstead, the
present incumbent. Mr. Halstead made a
careful study of the commercial and indus
trial conditions of Birmingham, and has
aided largely in the development of the
American foreign commerce. In politics he
is a Republican. He is a member of the
Masonic order; and senior warden of the
Alma Mater Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, No. 1644, in the Grand 'Lodge of
England. FIis favorite recreation is the
study of mechanics. He is a member of
the Queen City Club of Cincinnati, and
also of the Ivy Club of Princeton, of which
he was president in 1886. Address 45 West
Sixty-eighth Street, New York City.
HALSTEAD, Murat:
Journalist, born at Paddy's Run, Ohio,
September 2, 1829; son of Colonel Griffin
and Clarissa (Willets) Halstead. He was
graduated from Farmers' College, Ohio, in
1851. He began his connection with the
Cincinnati Commercial in 1853, first as a
local reporter, but within a few months be
came editof; purchased a part interest in
the Commercial in 1854, and in 1867 gained
complete control of the paper. For a time
he managed it as an independent sheet, but
afterwards he made it the leading Repub
lican, exponent of the Southwest, and in
1883 combined it with the Gazette, under a
company of which he was president. He
was one of the first war correspondents;
was present in turn with both the French
and German armies during the Franco-
Prussian War, in which, in company with
Prince Bismarck, King William and Gen
eral Sheridan, he was at the battle of
Gravelotte. His criticisms of conduct of
armies were so vigorous and acute that

they gained him the title of "field mars-
shal." He was nominated by President
Harrison in 1889 to the important diploma
tic post of minister of Berlin, but he was
rejected (the close party balance affording
the opportunity) by the Senate because of
his personal denunciation of the use of
money in securing senatorial seats. Mr.
Halstead is author of: Outflanking Two
Emperors ; Our Country in War ; The
Story of Cuba; The Story of the Philip
pines; History of Our War With Spain;
The Life of Admiral Dewey; The Life of
McKinley; Life of President Roosevelt;
The Great Century; The Boer and British
War; The Galveston Tragedy; The War
Between Russia and Japan; and other his
tories and works. He married in 1857,
Mary Victoria Banks, of Cincinnati; and
they have ten children. Address : Press
Club, New York City.
HALSTED, George Bruce:
Mathematician and author; born in
Newark, New Jersey, November 25, 1853 ;
son of Oliver Spencer Halsted and Adela
(Meeker) Halsted. He was graduated as
A.B. and A.M. from Princeton University,
and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University,
and was fellow of Princeton University
and twice fellow of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Dr. Halsted is instructor in post
graduate mathematics in Princeton Uni
versity, and is head of the Department of
Mathematics in the State Normal School
of Colorado at Greeley, Colorado. He is
trustee- of the Ohio Academy of Science;
member d'Honneur du Comite Lobachev-
ski ; member of the Society of Arts ; So
ciete Mathematique de France; Circolo
Matematico di Palermo ; fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society; member of
the London Mathematical Society; mem
ber of the American Mathematical Society,
and Sociedad Cientifica Antonio Alzate of
Mexico. He has made scientific researches
in Russia, Siberia, Japan, Hungary, and
Mexico. Mr. Halsted is author of:
Mensuration ; Elements of Geometry ; Ele
mentary Synthetic Geometry, Synthetic
Projective Geometry, Rational Geometry,
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and Hypothesis; The Value of Science;
Lobachevski's Researches on the Theory of
Parallels; Bolyai's Science Absolute of
Space. In politics he is a Republican, and
in religion a Presbyterian. He married at
Austin, Texas, in 1886, Margaret Swearin-
gen, and they have three children : Arthur,
born in 1890; Harbeck, born in 1892, and
Halcyon, born in 1894. Address : Greeley,
Colorado. HALSTED, William Stewart:
Physician; born in New York City, Sep
tember 23, 1852; son of William Mills Hal
sted and Mary Louise (Haines) Halsted.
He was graduated as A.B. from Yale in
1874, as M.D. from Columbia University
in 1877, and later received the honorary de
gree of LL.D. from Yale in 1904; ScD.
from Columbia in 1904, LL.D. in Edin
burgh, 1905; honorary fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons of England, in 1900,
and honorary fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1905. Dr. Hal
sted engaged in teaching and in hospital
practice in New York City immediately
after his graduation; was demonstrator of
anatomy at Columbia from 1881 to 1885 ;
attending surgeon to the Bellevue, Presby
terian, Roosevelt, Charity, and Emigrant
Hospitals in New York City, from 1882 to
1886, and since 1889, he has been surgeon-
in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and
professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Un
iversity. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the American Surgical Association,
Association of Pathologists and Bacteriolo
gists; associate fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellow
of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Chirurgie.
He is a contributor to medical journals on
surgical and pathological subjects. Dr.
Halsted married at Columbia, South Caro
lina, June 4, 1890, Caroline Hampton. Ad
dress 1201 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Mary
land.
HAMBLETON, Albert F. N.:
Examiner of titles, real estate; born at
Forest Home, Iowa, September 4, 1857 ; son
of Levi Hambleton and Mary Heston

(Hall) Hambleton. He received his educa
tion in the Preparatory Department of Iowa
College, Oskaloosa High School and Penn
College, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. When four
teen years old his father's family moved to
Oskaloosa. Here he began work as a clerk
and bookkeeper in his father's store, after
wards entering the general mercantile, grain
and live stock business- at Springville, in
Linn County, in partnership with his broth
er. While at Springville he held the offices
of town recorder and secretary of Inde
pendent school district. In 1885 he moved
to Oskaloosa, where he made a study of
real estate law, and has since that time
been engaged in the real estate business
and as examiner of titles in the firm of
Cowan, Hableton Company. For sev
enteen years he has been a trustee of
Penn College, at the present time being
president' of the board; is a trustee of Iowa
Yearly Meeting of Friends and of the Five
Years' Meeting of Friends of America.
Was president of the Iowa State Sunday
School Association from 1904 to 1906 and
was sent as a delegate from that body to
the international convention at Toronto,
Canada. For three years was a member of
the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska
County. Was elected representative in 1903
and reelected in 1906, serving in the
Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second
General Assemblies, being speaker pro
tempore of the Thirty-second General As
sembly. He married at Marshalltown,
Iowa, September 3, 1879, S. Josepha Rob
ert, and they have a daughter, Alma Ham
bleton, born in 1890. Address : Oskaloosa,
Iowa.
HAMERSLEY, William:
Jurist; born at Hartford, Connecticut,
September 9, 1838. He has been associate
judge of the Supreme Court of Errors in
Connecticut since 1894. Address : Hart
ford, Connecticut.
HAMILL, Charles Humphrey:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, March
20, 1868; son of Charles Davisson Hamill
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in 1890, he remained there as Larned and
Clark Scholar in 1890 and 1891, and then
attended the Law School of Northwestern
University, graduating as LL.B. in 1893.
He began his legal work with Williams,
Holt and Wheeler (lawyers), from 1891 to
1897; was in practice alone from May to
December, 1897; member of the firm of
Hubbard and Hamill, from December, 1897,
to June, 1898 ; of Hamill and McLaren from
June, 1898, to December, 1898; then of
Deneen and Hamill from December, 1898,
to October, 1905 (his partner being Charles
S. Deneen, now governor of Illinois), and
since then of Rosenthal and Hamill, his
partner being Lessing Rosenthal. He is
a member of the bar of the Supreme Court
of the United States. Mr. Hamill is a
member of the American Bar Association,
the Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago
Bar Association, and Chicago Law Insti
tute; is a trustee of the Orchestral Asso
ciation (Chicago Orchestra) ; member of
the Psi Upsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa
Society, and Scroll and Key (Yale). He
made a visit to Greece in 1900 ; to England,
France, Italy, and Switzerland from 1873
to 1875; and Mexico and California in
1892. He is a Republican in politics; is
president of the Second Ward Republican
Club, and is attorney for the Illinois In
surance Department. He is a member of
the Chicago Club, The Law Club, Chicago
Golf, South Shore Country, and City Clubs
of Chicago, and the Graduates' Club of
New Haven. Residence : 2227 Prairie Ave
nue. Office address : 134 Monroe Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
HAMILTON, Allan McLane:
Physician; born in Brooklyn, October
6, 1848; son of Philip Hamilton (youngest
son of Alexander Hamilton of Revolution
ary fame) and Rebecca (McLane) Hamil
ton ; graduated Medical Department Colum
bia University, M.D., 1870; F. R. S. E.
Was president New York Psychiatrical So
ciety; professor mental diseases, Cornell
University, Medical College; specialist in
mental and nervous diseases ; his opinion
has been sought in the past twenty-five
years in determining the sanity of many

noted criminals, notably in the cases of
Guiteau and Czolgosz, the assassins of
Garfield and McKinley, and the more re
cent Harry Thaw case; consulting neurol
ogist to Manhattan State Hospital. Demo
crat. Member American Neurological As
sociation; fellow Royal Society of Edin
burgh, etc. Clubs: University, Manhattan.
Married Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1902,
May C. Tomlinson. Address : 25 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
HAMILTON, Brad din:
Lawyer; born at Stratford, Canada, No
vember 20, 1863; son of James and Eliza
beth (Braddin) Hamilton. He was grad
uated from Trinity University, Toronto,
Canada, and from Cambridge University,
England, both with honors, from the lat
ter in 1884. While in Cambridge Uni
versity he was a classmate of Prince Al
bert Victor, eldest son of King Edward
VII (then Prince of Wales), and while in
England became, in .1884, one of the found
ers of Toynbee Hall, the famous university
settlement in the Whitechapel District of
London. On returning td New York City
he became the minister for the City Gov
ernment in the Department of Public
Charities, serving three years; and during
the cholera and typhus epidemic of 1893
he lived on Blackwell's Island, through the
heated months of July and August, ad
ministering to the sick and dying. In the
same year the City Government sent him
to London to gather information regard
ing the English methods of conducting in
stitutions of public charity. He has lectur
ed in many of the large cities of the East
on social lines, education of poor children,
errors of city governments, etc., and has
written many articles on the beauties and
advantages of Newport, Rhode Island,
where he has a residence. Mr. ' Hamilton
takes a deep interest in politios, and has
been for seven years Republican leader of
the Seventh District in the Twenty-ninth
Assembly District of New York City. He
is now associated with Mrs. Russell Sage
in sdme of her charities, and he is well
known as a speaker , in the Young Men's
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ton became a member of the New York
Bar in 1901. He is author of: The
Family of Hamilton, 1898 : Divorce Re
forms, 1903. He is fond of athletics, espe
cially golf, and riding, and is a member of
the Knickerbocker Riding Club, and was
its president for ten years. He married
in Philadelphia in 1896, Augusta R.
Stevenson. Address : 61 East Fifty-fifth
Street, New York City. Summer: Haw
thorne Villa, Newport, Rhode Island.
HAMILTON, Edward L,:
Congressman; born in Niles Township,
Michigan, December 9, 1857; was admitted
to the bar in 1884; was elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-
eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Address :
Niles, Michigan.
HAMILTON, Franklin Elmer Elsworth:
Clergyman; born in Pleasant Valley,
Ohio, August 9, 1866; son of the Rev. Wil
liam Charles Patrick Hamilton, and Hen
rietta Maria (Dean) Hamilton; and grand
son of Patrick and Mary (Graham)
Hamilton and of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Breckenridge) Dean. He was graduated
at the Boston Latin School in 1883, and at
Harvard as A.B. in 1887; completed a
course in philosophy at the University of
Berlin from 1889 to 1891, having previous
ly been professor of Greek and Latin at
Grant University in 1888 and 1889, studied
at Paris, and was graduated at Boston Uni
versity as S.T.B. in 1892 and Ph.D. 1899.
He was pastor of Orient Heights Church,
Boston, from 1895 to 1900, at the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Newtonville, Massachu
setts, from 1900 to 1902, and of the First
Methodist Church of Boston since 1902;
president of Old South Historical Society
of Boston, from 1892 to 1895. He was
elected a member of the board of control of
the Epworth League in 1904 and a trustee
of Boston University Theological School
Alumni Fund in 1905. He was orator at
the celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Har
vard College in 1886, and University visi
tor of Boston University. In 1003-04 made

tour of the world, studying Christian mis
sions and native religions, on which he
wrote widely in many journals; elected
chancellor of American University at Wash
ington, D. C, May 15, "1907. He married,
April 25, 1895, Mary Mackie Pierce, daugh
ter of Edward and Elizabeth (Kingsbury)
Pierce and his children are : Edward Pierce,
and Arthur Dean Hamilton. Address:
American University, Washington, D. C.
HAMILTON, Irenus Kittredge:
Lumber merchant; born in Lyme, New
Hampshire; December 1, 1830; son of Dea:
con Irenus and Mary Esther (Kittredge)
Hamilton. He received his education in the
public schools of Lyme and at the St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, Academy. His first
employment after leaving school was as a
clerk in a general store at St. Johnsbury,
which he left to take a position as book
keeper in New York City with the scales
manufacturing concern of E. & T. Fair
banks & Company. He acted in this ca
pacity for a year and a half, and for the
year and a half following was manager
of the company during the absence of Mr.
Charles Fairbanks in Europe. In 1853 he
became a clerk with A. Latham & Company,
car, locomotive, and general machinery
manufacturers at White River Junction,
Vermont, but in 1855 joined his brother,
W. C. Hamilton, in the lumber business at
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. In 1868 he sold
his interest to his brother and became as
sociated with A. C. Merryman in a large
lumber manufacturing enterprise at Mari
nette, Wisconsin, where the firm erected a
large mill. The company was incorpor
ated in 1873 as the Hamilton & Merry
Company, and Mr. Hamilton became its
president. In 1875 the company opened an
office and a yard in Chicago. It owns vast
tracts of timber and iron lands in Michi
gan and elsewhere, and is a part owner of
the large plant of the Marinette & Menom
inee Paper Company. Mr. Hamilton is a
member of the Episcopal Church. He mar
ried, first in October, 1853, Mary Louise
Waterbury, of Brooklyn, New York, who
died in 1886; and, second, to her sister,
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Massachusetts. His children are: Amy,
now Mrs. R. J. O. Hunter; Louise, now
Mrs. William Waller; Nathaniel W., Ire
nus K, Jr., by the first marriage, and one
daughter, Caroline W., by the second mar
riage. Address : 204 Dearborn Street. Res
idence: 5225 Lexington Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois.
HAMDLTON, Isaac Miller:
Life insurance president;' born in Ash
Grove, Illinois, September 6, 1864; son of
Ephraim S. and Celia B. (Miller) Hamil
ton. He was educated in the public schools
of Ash Grove, and at the Grand Prairie
Seminary, Onarga, Illinois. Soon after
leaving school he entered the banking busi
ness, and through his entire business he
has been engaged in banking and insurance
affairs. When the Federal Life Insurance
Company of Chicago was organized, in
May, 1900, he was made its president, and
he is also president and a director of the
Union Securities Company; vice-president
of the Young & Hamilton Company, bank
ers, Cissna Park, Illinois, and of the same
company at Freeland Park, Indiana; also
president of the Young & Hamilton Com
pany, bankers, Chicago. He is a Repub
lican and represented that party in the Illi
nois Senate from 1896 to 1900. He was
president of the Illinois Republican League
from 1898 to 1900, and president of the
National Republican League from 1900
to 1902. He is a member of the Ma
sonic order (thirty-second degree), Orient
al Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and a
Knight Templar. He is also a member of
the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Wood
men of America. His club memberships
include the Union League, the Hamilton,
of which he is a life member ; the Calumet,
South Shore Country Club, Automobile,
Yacht, and Colonial Clubs of Chicago, and
the New Illinois Athletic Club. He mar
ried Amanda S. Ernst, daughter of Charles
E. Ernst of Chicago. Residence: 3807
Grand Boulevard, Chicago. Office address :
Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois.
HAMILTON, John E.:
Consular official; bom in Pennsylvania.
Commercial agent at Morrisburg, July 13,

1897; commercial agent at Cornwall, July
1, 1901 ; consul June 22, 1906. Address :
Cornwall, Ontario.
HAMILTON, John William:
. Methodist Episcopal bishop ; born at
Weston, Virginia, March 18, 1845. After
a careful preparatory training he entered
Mount Union College at Alliance, Ohio,
from which he was graduated in 1865. He
then entered upon the conference studies
of the Metho'dist-Episcopal Church, and en
tered the university in the Pittsburgh An
nual Conference in April, 1868, as deacon
and was appointed to the Newport (Ohio)
charge. The same year he was transferred
to the New England Conference, and he
was ordained elder in 1870. He was a stu
dent in the Theological Department of Bos
ton University while filling preacher ap
pointments, and was graduated in 1871 ; and
afterward filled various pulpits in that con
ference. He founded the People's Church
in Boston of which he was pastor for nine
years, and in 1892 he was elected secretary
of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Edu
cation Society and editor of the Christian
Educator. He was elected by the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church to the office of bishop in 1900. He
has been a member of each of the quadren
nial general conferences of his church from
and including that of 1894; was a member
of the Ecumenical Methodist Conferences
in Washington in 1891 and London in 1901,
and fraternal delegate to , the English and
Irish Conferences in 1898. Bishop Hamil
ton is an extensive contributor to the litera
ture of the church. He married at Cov
ington, Kentucky, in 1873, Julia Elizabeth
Battelle, who died in 1883, and in 1888 he
married at Buffalo, New York, Emma Ly
dia Battelle. Address.: 435 Buchanan
Street, San Francisco, California.
HAMLIN, Alfred Dwight Foster:
Architect, professor of architecture ;
born at Bebek, near Constantinople, Tur
key, September, 1855; son of Cyrus (D.D.,
LL.D.) and Harriet Martha (Lovell) Ham
lin ; educated Robert College, Constanti-
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1875; M.A., 1885; Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1876-77; Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris, 1878-81. Since 1883, engaged
in teaching and in practice of architecture;
consulting expert to Brooklyn Public Li
brary, New York Municipal Court House-
Commission, and other bodies; member of
Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis,
1904 (Section Architecture). Since 1883,
in School of Architecture, Columbia Uni
versity as special assistant, 1883, assistant,
1887-89, assistant professor, 1889-91, ad
junct professor, 1891-1904, and since 1904
professor history of architecture and head
of School of Architecture. He is author of :
History of Architecture, 1896; European
and Japanese Gardens (in collaboration
with others), 1902; Cyrus Hamlin, Mission
ary, 1903 ; also numerous articles in maga
zines and encyclopedias, technical and gen
eral. Independent Republican. Congrega
tionalist. Member Architectural League,
New York; corresponding member Ameri
can Institute Architects; honorary member
Society Columbia University Architects ;
Alpha Delta Phi (Amherst chapter) ; di
rector Municipal Art Society; club : Century.
Married, Hartford, Connecticut, June 4,
1885, Minnie Florence Marston ; children :
Marston Lovell, born 1887; Talbot Faulk
ner, born 1889 ; Clara Louise, born 1893 ;
Genevieve Karr, born 1896. Address : 105
Morningside Avenue, East, New York City.
HAMLIN, Charles:
Lawyer and volunteer brigadier-general;
born at Hampden, Maine, September 13,
1837; son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was
vice-president of the United States from
1861 to 1865. After graduation from Bow
doin College in 1887 he engaged in the
practice of law until the Civil War began
when he engaged in recruiting service. In
August, 1862, he was commissioned major in
the Eighteenth Maine Infantry, and later
held that rank in the First Maine Regiment
of Heavy Artillery; resigned to go into the
field, and was appointed assistant adjutant-
general of United States Volunteers ; was
assistant adjutant-general of the Second
Division of the Third Corps, participated in

Gettysburg and various other battles and
was brevetted brigadier-general of volun
teers, remaining in the service until the
close of the war. After that he resumed the
practice of law in Bangor, Maine, where he
continues. He is a Republican in politics,
was twice elected to the Maine Legislature,
and was speaker of that body in 1885. He
has been city solicitor of Bangor, reporter
of the Maine Supreme Court and for many
years register in bankruptcy, becoming a
special expert in that branch of the law and
writing a work on the Insolvent Laws of
Maine. General Hamlin is chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Maine Get
tysburg Commission, and is a member and
has been commander of the Maine Com
mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, and he is president of the Eastern
Maine General Hospital. Address : Ban
gor, Maine.
HAMLIN, Charles Summer:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
August 30, 1861 ; son of Edward Sumner
Hamlin and Anna Gertrude (Conroy)
Hamlin.' He was graduated from Harvard
University as A.B. in 1883, and A.M. in-
1886, and he ' received from Washington
and Lee University the degree of LL.D.
in 1895. Mr. Hamlin was assistant sec
retary of the United States Treasury from
1893 to 1897; special commissioner of the
United States to Japan in 1897; United
States delegate to the Convention between
Russia, Japan and the United States to
consider the Fisheries of the North Pa
cific Ocean in 1897 ; and United States dela-
gate to the convention between Great
Britain, Canada, and the United States on
the Fisheries dispute in 1897. He was a
member of the Paris Exposition com
mission from Massachusetts, and was a
lecturer on government at Harvard Uni:
versity in 1903 and 1903. :He is Democratic
in politics and • an Episcopalian in re
ligion ; is a trustee of the Massachusetts
School for the Feeble Minded, and a mem
ber of the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange).
Mr. Hamlin married in Albany, New York,
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and they have a daughter, Anna Hamlin,
born in 1900. Residence, 2 Raleigh Street,
Boston. Office address : 14 Beacon Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
HAMLIN, John Austin:
Proprietor of Chicago Grand Opera
House; born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit
County, Ohio, June 29, 1837; son of Dr.
William Starr and Eliza (Welch) Hamil
ton. He was educated in the public schools
and at Taylor's Academy, Cuyahoga
Falls. His first engagement in business
was as commercial traveler, which he aban
doned in 1859 to become the founder of the
Hamlin Wizard Oil Company, at Cincin
nati, Ohio. He removed the business to
Chicago, Illinois, in 1861, where the busi
ness was greatly developed and increased.
Mr. Hamlin was made president of the
company, a position which he still retains.
After the great Chicago Fire, in 1872, he
built Hamlin's Theatre, which later be
came- the Grand Opera House, and of
which he is the soje proprietor. He is a
Republican and a member of the Masonic
order, also of the Union League and Wash
ington Park Clubs. He was married in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in i860, to Mary Elean
or Hart, and has one child living, Bessie
F. Address: 87 Clark Street, Chicago, Il
linois.
HAMLIN, William G.:
Lawyer; born at Holland Patent, New
York, October 23, 1856; son of Joseph
Sprague Hamlin and Delia (Willard)
Hamlin. After he was graduated from
Hamilton College in the class of 1879 with
the degree of A.B. he taught school at
Cedar Lake, Michigan, and St. Louis,
Michigan, from 1880 to 1882; studied law
at St. Louis, Michigan; was admitted to
the bar in 1882, and moved to Des Moines,
Iowa, 1883; was proprietor of a business
college there in 1883 and 1884; and he has
practiced law in Des Moines since 1884.
Mr. Hamlin is a member of the Polk Coun
ty Bar Association at Des Moines, Iowa;
and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity;
is secretary of the Ben Franklin Chapter
of the Sons of the American Revolution

at Des Moines, and a member of the Wood
men of the World. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Hamlin married at Consta-
bleville, New York, September 10, 1888,
Jennie Eliza Miller, and they have two
children : Marcia Burrell Hamlin, born in
1897; and Miller Hamlin, born in 1899.
Residence: 1343 West Seventh Street, Des
Moines. Office address : 508 Lowa Loan
and Trust Company Building, Des Moines,
Iowa. HAMMARSKOLD, John Gottfried:
Clergyman. He was educated in the
Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge
and received the degree of B.S. in 1892,
and also received from St. Stephen's Col
lege, Allandale, New York, the A.M. de
gree in 1905. He was ordered deacon in
1888 and priest in 1889 by Bishop Clark, in
the ministry of the Episcopal Church. Mr.
Hammarskold was in charge of the Swed
ish Mission at Providence, Rhode Island,
in 1888 and 1889; of the St. Bartholomew's
Swedish Mission in New York City from
1889 to 1893 ; and is at present general
superintendent of the Swedish Missions of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is
author of : Amerikanska Episkopalkyrkan ;
The Mission of the Protestant Episcopal
Church among the Swedes in the Eastern
states; Past and Present Relations Be
tween Anglican Communion and the Church
of Sweden; Glimpses of Swedish Church
Life; Church Work Among Swedish
Americans; Sweden and Its People; and
Our Foreign Population and the Church.
He married at Stockholm, Sweden, Sep
tember 11, 1888, Adelinei Peterson, and
they have three children : Elsa, born in
1890; Carin, born in 1894; and Alva, born
in 1896. Address: 171 North Broadway,
Yonkers, New York.
HAMMER, Thomas Bockius:
Wholesale lumber merchant; born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania, January 15,
1863 ; son of Philip Weaver Hammer and
Sara Jane (Birchall) Hammer. After com
pleting his education in Germantown High
School, he engaged in the lumber business
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ner of the firm of .Taylor & Betts, and W.
S. Taylor & Company, of Philadelphia ; and
he is now owner of the business conducted
as Thomas B. Flammer, and president of
the Hammer Lumber Company, Clarks Lum
ber Company, and the American Quarry
and Construction Company. Mr. Hammer
is a Republican in politics and a Baptist in
religion; is a trustee of the Temple Bap
tist Church of Philadelphia, and of the
Second German-Baptist Church of Ge|r-
mantown, Pennsylvania. He is a director
of the Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadel
phia; a member of the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association, and a member
of the Site and Relic Association of Ger
mantown. Mr. Hammer is a member of
the Odd Fellows order, the Order of Spar
ta, the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia,
and the Egypt Mills Club of Pike County,
Pennsylvania. Fie married in Philadelphia,
in 1879, Flora Maria Levering, and they
have four children : Frances Levering, born
in 1881 ; Thomas Philip, born in 1884 ; John
Levering, born in 1887, and Buchall, born
in 1892. Residence : The Chimneys, Mount
Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Business
address : 417 Girard Trust Building, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
HAMA1ERSTEIN, Oscar:
Theatrical manager and operatic impres-
sario; born in Berlin, Germany, in 1847. He
came to America in 1863 and made his
living as a cigar maker, inventing and pat
enting many labor-saving devices in this
industry. In 1868 he wrote three one-act
comedies and they were successfully pro
duced at one of the German theatres in
New York. In 1870 he started as a the
atrical manager, unsuccessfully, however,
from a financial point of view. In 1880 he
built the Harlem Opera House, one of the
most beautiful theatres of the \vorld. Later
he built the Columbus Theatre in Harlem,
the Manhattan Opera House, which after
wards became Koster and Bial's Music
Hall, and the Olympia, now the New York
music hall, which was taken from him
by the New York Life Insurance Company
on a mortgage for $900,000. Since then he
has built fonr more theatres in New York,

the Victoria, which he now manages, the
Belasco Theatre and the new Opera House
where he inaugurated annual seasons of
grand opera with much success in the
winter of 1906 and 1907. Address : Ham-
merstein's Theatre, New York City.
HAMMETT, William F.:
Vice-president and trustee of the Boston
Suburban Electric Companies; director:
Bingham Consolidated Mining & Smelting
Company; Federa.l Trust Company; Lex
ington and Boston Street Railway Com
pany; Natick & Cochituate Street Railway;
Newton and Boston Street Railway Com
pany; Newton Street Railway Company;
Newtonville Trust Company; Norumbega
Park Company ; Middlesex & Boston Street
Railway Company; Suburban Manufactur
ing Company; Waltham Gas Light Com
pany; Waltham Street Railway Company,
and Westborough and Hopkinton Street
Railway Company; director and treasurer
of the Coffin Valve Company, and J. H.
McCafferty Company. Address: 53 State
Street, Room 439, Boston, Massachusetts.
HAMMOND, John Hays:
Mining engineer; born in San Francisco,
March 31, 1855 ; son of Richard Pindle and
Sarah Elizabeth (Hays) Hammond; edu
cated public and private schools; graduated
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, Ph.B., 1876
(A.M., Yale) ; mining course at Royal
School of Mines, Freiburg, Saxony; honor
ary Doctor of Engineering, Stevens Insti
tute of Technology, 1896 ; LL.D., St. John's
College, June, 1907. Special expert United
States Geological Survey, 1880, examining
California gold fields ; later in Mexico, and
afterward consulting engineer Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, and to Central and
Southern Pacific Railways. Has examined
properties in all parts of the world. Be
came consulting engineer for Barnato
Brothers, 1893, and later for Cecil Rhodes,
of whom he became strong supporter; con
sulting engineer Consolidated Gold Fields
of South Africa, British South Africa
Company, and the Randfontein Estates
Gold Mining Company; one of four. lead
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96. After the Jameson Raid, an incident of
the reform movement of which he was one
of the leaders, but with which raid he was
not in sympathy, he was arrested and sen
tenced to death; sentence was afterward
commuted to fifteen years- in prison, and
was later released on payment of a fine of
$125,000. Went to London and became inter
ested in many large mining companies; re
turned to United States and has traveled
extensively, examining mines in the United
States and Mexico. Fellow A. A. A. S.;
professor of mining at Yale; has also lec
tured at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hop-
ins and Stevens Institute of Technology;
contributor to scientific magazines. Clubs :
Metropolitan, Century, Engineers', Explor
ers', Racquet and Tennis, University,' New
York Yacht (New York City), Chevy
Chase, Cosmos, Metropolitan (Washing
ton), Country (Lakewood, New Jersey),
University, Denver (Denver) ; Union, Uni
versity (Boston) ; University (Salt Lake
City) ; University, Pacific Union (San
Francisco); Carlton (London). Married,
January 1, 1880, Natalie Harris, of Missis
sippi; children: Harris, John Hays, Jr.;
Richard Pindle, Nathaniel, Natalie. Resi
dence : Lakewood, New Jersey. Address :
71 Broadway, New York City.
HAMMOND, Kensey Johns:
Clergyman; born in Baltimore, Mary
land; son of Charles H. Hammond and
Julia (Johns) Hammond. After a prepar
atory , education in the Episcopal High
School of Virginia, where he was classical
medalist in 1876, he entered Hampden-
Sidney College, Virginia, from which he
was graduated with the first honor in 1878
as B.A., and in 1888 received the M.A. de
gree. He attended John Hopkins. Univer
sity as a special strident in 1878 and 1879,
and the Theological Seminary of Virginia,
from 1879 to 1882, graduating as B.D. Mr.
Hammond was ordered deacon in 1882 and
priest in 1883 by Bishop Pinckney of Mary
land, in the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church; was assistant in the
Church of the Ascension, Baltimore, in
1882 and 1883; missionary in West Vir
ginia from 1883 to 1885; rector of Trinity

Church, Moundsville, and missionary in
New Martinsville and Sistersville in West
Virginia from 1885 to r888; and has been
rector of Immanuel Church, Wilmington,
Delaware, since 1888. Mr. Hammond was
deputy to the General Convention in 1892,
1895, 1898, 1901 and 1907. He is president
of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Delaware, and examining chaplain for the
bishop, and president of the Diocesan Sun
day School Institute. He is a contributor,
regularly, to the American Church Sunday
School Magazine at Philadelphia, and is a
.member of the Beta Theta Pi College fra
ternity (Hampden-Sidney, Chapter Zeta).
He married in Baltimore, Maryland, No
vember, 1896, Carrie Machen, and they
have three sons : Kensey Johns, Jr., born in
1897; Arthur Machen, born in 1901 ; and
Lewis Machen, born in 1906. Address :
2410 West Seventeenth Street, Wilmington,
Delaware.
HAMMOND, William Churchill:
Organist; born at Rockville, Connecticut,
November 25, i860. Studied music in Hart
ford and New York, and since 1885 has
been organist of the Second Congregational
Church of Holyoke; was instructor in the
Organ Department of Smith College from
1890 to 1900, and has been professor of
music at the Mount Holyoke College since
1900. Address : Holyoke, Massachusetts:
HAMMOND, William Robinson:
Lawyer; born in Franklin, Georgia, Oc
tober 25, 1848 ; son of Dennis F. Hammond
and Adeline (Robinson) Hammond. After
his graduation from the University of
Georgia with first honor in the class of
1869, he engaged in the general practice of
law, and represented railroad and other
corporations to a considerable extent in his
professional career; and he represented
many important cases in the courts of his
State. He was elected judge of the Su
perior Court, November, 1882, to fill an un
expired term ; was reelected in November,
1884, for a full term, and resigned in No
vember, 1885. Judge Hammond is author
of : The Mission of the Lawyer ; Thought
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of the Negro in Connection with the Race
Problem, and a number df others. He has
traveled extensively in the United States
and Europe. Judge Hammond is a Demo
crat in politics, and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South; is a
member of the Georgia Bar Association,
and American Bar Association, and of the
Driving Club. He married at Atlanta,
Georgia, October 6, 1870, Laura Rawson.
Residence: 521 Peachtree Street. Office
address: 913 and 914 Century Building,
Atlanta, Georgia.
HAMMOND, Winfield Scott:
Lawyer; born at Southboro, Massachu
setts, November 17, 1863; son of John W.
Hammond and Ellen (Harding) Hammond.
He was graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1884, and was admitted to the bar
in 1891, after being principal of the
high school at Mankato, Minnesota, in 1884
and 1885, and superintendent of schools at
Madelia, Minnesota, from 1885 to 1890. He
was Democratic candidate for Congress in
1892, but was defeated by J. T- McCleary,
in the Second Minnesota District. Mr,
Hammond has practiced law in Watonwan
County, Minnesota, from the date of his
admission, and is now in partnership with
R. H. Burns. He was county attorney for
Watonwan County, Minnesota, from 1894 to
1896, and from 1901 to 1905, and has been a
member of the Minnesota State Normal
School Board since 1899. Fie was elected a
member of the Sixtieth Congress in 1906.
He is a Democrat in politics and attends
the Presbyterian Church. Address : Park
Hotel, St. James, Minnesota.
HAMPTON, William Henderson:
Clergyman; born at Frankfort, Kentucky,
November 27, 1850; son of Ambrose W.
Hampton and Virginia F. (Tutt) Hamp
ton. He was educated in the Frankfort
(Kentucky) public schools, took a private
grammar school course at Geneva, N. Y.,
and was in Hobart College class of 1875,
but did not graduate. He was ordered
deacon in 1884 and priest in 1888 by Bishop
Dudley; was minister in the Church of
the Merciful Saviour at Louisville, Ken

tucky in 1884 and 1885 ; assistant Ascension
Church, Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1885
to 1887; in charge of Calvary Mission,
Ashland, Kentucky, from 1887 to 1892, and
missionary in western Kentucky in 1892
and 1893 ; since 1893 he has been rector of
Christ Church, Ironton, Ohio. Mr. Hamp
ton married at Frankfort, Kentucky, No
vember 27, 1873, Maria J. Taylor, and they
have a daughter, Mary Taylor Hampton
(now Mrs. William M. Merchant). Ad
dress : Ironton, Ohio.
HAN AN, John H.:
Merchant, capitalist ; born in Ireland, July
28, 1849; son of James and Anne (Dalton)
Hanan. He was elucated in the schools of
Brooklyn. Mr. Hanan is a manufacturer of
boots and shoes, as senior member of the
firm of Hanan & Son; is vice-president of
the United Shoe Machinery Company, Bos
ton ; president of the Hanan Shoe Com
pany, of Milwaukee; De Muth & Company,
Chicago; Hanan Shoe Company, Buffalo,
New York; Hanan-Baker Shoe Company,
St. Louis, Missouri; Hanan-Mathewson
Company, Cleveland, Ohio ; Hendryx Elec
tro Cyanide Company, and president of the
Sherry Casino Company, Narragansett Pier,
Rhode Island; president Hanan-Baker Shoe
Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He
is president of the National Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers' Association of the
United States; director of the Mer
chants' Exchange National Bank, and as
sociate director of the Title Guarantee &
Trust Company. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in religion a Protestant. His
favorite recreations are yachting and au
tomobiling. Mr. Hanan has traveled all
over Europe and cruised in yachts to the
principal ports in the Mediterranean; also
all along the Atlantic Coast "and the West
Indies. He is a member of the New York
Yacht, New York Athletic, Lambs', Larch
mont Yacht and Brooklyn Clubs, and of
the Temple Club of Boston. Mr. Hanan
has been twice married: first, in New Jer
sey, June 8, 1869, to Henrietta F. Garth-
waite, and second, in Rhode Island, April
IS, I9°3. to Edith Evelyn Smith, and-he
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1873, and Addison G, born in 1876. Res
idence: 23 East Fifty-first Street, New
York City. Address : Bridge, Front and
Water Streets, Brooklyn, New York..
HANCOCK, James Cole:
Physician; born in Fulton, New York, in
1865 ; son of Chauncey B. Hancock and
Lenna Cole. He was educated in Brook
lyn Public School No. 11, Brooklyn Poly
technic, College of Physicians and Surgeons
(Columbia University), New York City,
class of 1889. Chambers Street Hospital
resident surgeon, June, 1889, to October,
1890; New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
resident surgeon, November, 1890, to June,
1892 ; assistant surgeon, New York Eye and
Ear Hospital to June, 1896. Began private
practice in 1893. Member of American
Medical Association, New York State Medi
cal Society, Kings County Medical Society,
Brooklyn Ophthalmological Society, Brook
lyn Neurological Society, Associated Phys
icians of Long Island (secretary), Long
Island Medical Society (ex-secretary),
Brooklyn Pathological Society, Medical So
ciety of Greater City of New York, Brook
lyn Medical Library Association (charter
member), Society Alumni New York Hos
pital, Society ex-member Omega Club Col
lege Physicians and Surgeons; life mem
ber Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn. Arti
cles written: Headaches Due to Eye
Strain; Glaucoma; Trachoma; Ocular
Haemorrhage; Diseases of the Eye of In
terest to the General Practitioner ; The Eye
Symptoms of Bright's Disease ; Invented
trachoma forceps. Republican. Member
Episcopal. Church of the Messiah, Brook
lyn. Married, August 18, 1905, Flor
ence Stevens Biddle, of New York. Ad
dress: 43 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, New
York.
HANCOCK, Joseph Lane:
Physician; born in Chicago, April' 12,
1864; son of John L. Hancock arid Emel
ine P. (Goding) Hancock. After a pre
paratory education in the public schools of
Chicago he entered the Northwestern Uni
versity Medical School from which he re
ceived the degree of M.D. Dr. Hancock

has been engaged as a practicing physician
since 1888; is inventor of a drainage tube
for empyema, and a surgical safety pin.
He is also a landscape painter, and has
exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago
Annual Exhibitions, and he stuoied art at
the Chicago Art Institute for a short time.
He is also a naturalist and has contributed
to scientific journals and is author of var
ious monographs on entomology. Dr. Han
cock is a member of the American Medi
cal Association, the National Geographic
Society, Illinois Medical Society, Chicago
Academy of Sciences, Chicago Entomologi
cal Society, Entomological Society of Amer
ica, and is a life fellow of the Entomol
ogical Society of London. He has a
summer residence, studio and laboratory at
Lakeside, Berrien County, Michigan, and
his researches in biology are pursued there.
Dr. Hancock married at Oskaloosa, Iowa,
March 22, 1893, Louise Lambert, and they
have a daughter, born in 1894. Address :
3757 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HANCOCK, Theodore E.:
Lawyer; born in Granby, Oswego Coun
ty, New York, May 30, 1847; son of Free
man Hancock and Mary (Williams) Han
cock. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University with the degree of A.B. in 1871,
and LL.D. in 1874; also from Columbia
College Law School as LL.B. in 1873. From
1890 to 1892 he was district attorney of
Onondaga County; he was attorney-general
of the State of New York from 1894 to
1898; and is now a member of the firm of
Hancock, Hogan and Devine. In politics
he is a Republican. _ Mr. Hancock is a mem
ber and president of Onondaga County Bar
Association; president of the Syracuse Es
cort, Syracuse Art Museum, the Albany,
Citizens' and University Clubs, and the Re
publican Club of New York City. He mar
ried in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7,
1882, Martha B.. Connelly, and their chil
dren are Stewart F, born 1884; Clarence
E., born 1886, and Martha W., born 1893.
Address : Syracuse, New York.
HAND, Alfred:
Jurist; born at Honesdale, Pennsylvania,
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lege in 1857. He then entered upon the
study of law at Montrose, Pennsylvania,
and was admitted to the bar of that place
in 1859. In i860 he opened an office at
Scranton, Pennsylvania, entering a law firm
entitled Jessups & Hand, which soon had an
active and profitable business. In 1866 he
entered into partnership with Isaac J. Post,
which continued until 1879, when Mr.
Fland was appointed by Governor Hoyt a
judge in the Eleventh Judicial District. He
was elected judge in 1880 for a ten years'
term, and in 1888, while serving as presi
dent judge, he was appointed by Governor
Beaver justice of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, to fill a vacancy. He re
tired from the bench in 1889, since which
time he has been engaged in law prac
tice, largely as counsel for important cor
porations. He was president of the Third
National Bank from 1872 to 1879, and has
been active in charitable institutions, being
president of the Oral School for Deaf
Mutes, at Scranton, and actively connected
with other institutions. He has been pres
ident of the Scranton Free Library since
its foundation. Address : Scranton, Penn
sylvania.
HAND, John Pryor:
Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois ;
born in Henry County, Illinois ; son of
Henry and Mary (Hanna) Hand. After
completing his general education in the
Rock River Seminary, located at Mount
Morris, Illinois, he entered the Law
Department of Iowa State University,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1875. He was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of Illinois in the same year;
was county judge of Henry County from
1885 to 1890; assistant United States at
torney for the Northern District of Illinois
from 1890 to 1895, and he was elected in
1900, on the Republican ticket, one of the
justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois,
in which office he is now serving. Address :
Cambridge, Illinois.
HAND, William Jessun:
Lawyer; born July 26, 1866, at Scran
ton, Pennsylvania ; son of Hon. Alfred

Hand, ex-justice of Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, and grandson of Hon. Will
iam Jessup, the distinguished jurist of Mon
trose, Pennsylvania; prepared for college
at the School of Lackawanna in Scranton;
was graduated from Yale University with
the class of 1887. Was a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa
fraternities in college; read law in his fa
ther's office, and on retirement of latter
from bench, formed partnership with him
in practice of law in Scranton in 1890.
He is a Republican in politics. Served
in the City Councils and on the School
Board; served as director twelve years and
as president two years of the Young Men's
Christian Association. President of Nay
Aug Coal Company, of Scranton, and '
American Chair Manufacturing Company,
of Hallstead, Pennsylvania ; treasurer of the
National Elevator and Machine Company
of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and director
of Thouron Coal Land Company, of Scran
ton, and Western Sugar and Land Com
pany, of Grand Junction, Colorado. He
marrjed, January 12, 1893, Caroline Bailey
Smith. Address, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
HANDERSON, Henry E.:
Physician; born at Orange, Ohio, March
2I> 1837; son of Thomas Handerson and
Catharine (Potts) Handerson. He was
graduated from Hobart College, Geneva,
New York, as A.B. in 1858, and A.M. in
1867; and from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, as M.D., in 1867;
was assistant surgeon of the Hospital for
Ruptured and Crippled, New York, from
1869 to 1872. He was captain and assistant
adjutant-general of the Second Louisiana
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, Con
federate States Army, in 1864 and 1865. Dr.
Handerson is author of: The School of
Salernum, 1883; Genealogy of the Han
derson Family, 1885; editor of Baas's Out
lines of the History of Medicine, 1889; and
is author of numerous journalistic contri
butions, chiefly of a hygienic or medico-his
torical character. Dr. Handerson was a
member of the New York County Medical
Society, 1879-1885, and is a member of
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land Academy of Medicine ; and Cleveland
Medical Library Association ; and the Theta
Delta Chi fraternity. He married in New
York City, October 16, 1872, Juliet Alice
Root; and second at Cleveland, Ohio, June
12, 1888, Clara "A. Corlett; and has three
children : Juliet A., born in 1881 ; Clarence
Henry, born in 1889; and Philip C, born
in 1897. Address : 1924 East Sixty-sixth
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
HANDLEY, William W.:
Consular official; born in District of Co
lumbia. Vice-consul at Trinidad, January
12, 1904; consular agent at Matanzas, Au
gust 17, 1904; consul at Puerto Plata, June
5, 1905; consul at Trinidad November 13,
1905. Salary, $3,000 per annum. Address :
Trinidad, W. I.
HANECY, Elbridge:
Lawyer; born in Wisconsin, March 15,
1852; son of William Hanecy and Mary
(Walls) Hanecy. After completing his
education in common schools and academy,
he studied law, and was admitted to prac
tice in Illinois. He engaged in the general
practice of law in Chicago until - elected
judge of the Circuit Court of Illinois in
Cook County in December 1893, and he
was reelected in June, 1897, his term ex
piring in 1903. He was appointed judge
of the Superior Court in January, 1904,
afterward resuming the practice of law in
which he is now engaged. Judge Hanecy
is a prominent and active Republican, and
in religious affiliation is an Episcopalian.
He is a member of the Union League Club,
Chicago Athletic Association, Midday Club,
South Shore Country Club, Chicago Com
mercial Association and the Gentleman's
Riding and Driving Club. He married in
Chicago, Illinois, March 1, i87"6, Sarah
Barton, and they have seven children:
Olive, Edith, Ruth, Myra, William, Hazel,
and Harriet. Residence: 31 16 Michigan
Avenue, Chicago. Office address: First
National Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.
HANEY, Dick:
Jurist; born in Iowa, November 10, 1852;
graduated from the law department of the

Iowa State University in 1874. He is judge
of the Supreme Court of South Dakota.
Address : Pierre, South Dakota.
HANEY, James Farton: '
Physician, educator; born New York
City, April 16, 1869; son of Jesse and
Martha (Edwards) Haney; graduated Col
lege City of New York, B.S., 1888; teacher
Manual Arts School 77, New York City,
1888-92; graduated College Physicians and
Surgeons (Columbia), M.D., 1892. In
terne New York City (Charity) Hospital,
New York Hospital for Nervous Diseases,
and Maternity Hospital, 1892-93 ; practiced
medicine, 1893-94; lecturer New York Uni
versity School of Pedagogy, 1895-99 ; since
September, 1896, director of art and manual
training, New York City Schools. Made
general European trip, 1889; visited France
and Italy, 1902, Spain, 1904, Greece and
Italy, 1906. An associate editor Manual
Training Magazine; contributor to maga
zines on topics dealing with medical aspect
of teaching, industrial education and on
the manual arts, and lecturer on manual,
esthetic and industrial topics. Member
Medical Association of Charity Hospital
Alumni, National Educational Association,
Society for Promotion of Engineering Edu
cation, Council of Supervisors (president
1901, 1904), Eastern Art Teachers' Asso
ciation, Society for Promotion Industrial
Education (Board of Managers), Eastern
Manual Training Teachers' Association, In
ternational Drawing Association, Advisory
Board Public Education Association, New
York City, Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,
Kane Lodge 454, F. and A. M., (master
1903). Jerusalem. Chapter, R. A. M. Clubs:
Salmagundi, Graduates', New York Ath
letic. Address : 500 Park Avenue, New
York City.
HANFORD, Cornelius Ifolgate:
Jurist; born in Van Buren County, Iowa,
April 21, 1849; son of Edward Hanford
and Abby Hanford. He removed to Wash
ington Territory in early childhood and
after completing the courses of the pub
lic schools studied law and engaged in
practice in Seattle. He was elected to the

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Territorial Legislature of Washington, was
city attorney of Seattle, assistant United
States attorney for Washington Territory,
and then appointed chief justice of the
Territory, serving until the adoption of
Statehood. He was appointed by President
Benjamin Harrison in 1890 to his present
office of United States judge for the Dis
trict of Washington, in which he is still
serving. Address : 1023 Washington Street,
Seattle, Washington.
HANFORD, Franklin:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Chili, Monroe County, New
York, November 8, 1844 ; son of William
Haynes Hanford and Abbey (Pixley) Han
ford. After a preliminary education in the
Scottsville (New York) Union School and
in Rochester High School he was appointed
to the United States Naval Academy from
New York and was graduated in 1866. On
graduation he was ordered to the United
States Steamship Saco, cruising in the West
Indies and Gulf of Mexico until the end
of 1867; joined the Kearsarge in January,
1868; was promoted ensign in April, 1868,
master in 1869, lieutenant in 1870, lieuten
ant-commander in 1894, captain, January
29, 1901, rear-admiral' January 3, 1903, and
retired from, active service on the last
named date. He served on the Kearsarge
until September, 1868, on the South Pacific
Station; on the Tuscarora, on the South
Pacific and West Indies stations, from
1868 to 1.871; Wabash, flagship of Euro
pean Station, from 1871 to 1874; torpedo
duty in Newport, Rhode Island, from July
to November, 1874; receiving-ship Ver
mont, New York harbor, ' 1874 and 1875 ;
Tennessee and Ashuelot, Asiatic Station,
from 1875 to 1878; ordnance duty, New
York Navy Yard, from 1878 to 1881 ; flag
ship Pensacola, as navigator, in which he
circumnavigated the globe, from 1881 to
1884; on ordnance duty at the Washington
Navy Yard from 1884 to 1886; inspector
of ordnance (building of modern guns for
New Navy), at West Point foundry, Cold
Spring, New York, from 1886 to 1888;
executive officer of the Pensacola, from

1888 to 1891 ; senior aide to the comman
dant at New York Navy Yard from 189210
1895 ; commanded the United States steam
ship Alert on the Pacific Station,, from
1895 to 1897; lighthouse inspector, from
1898 to 1900; commandant of the United
States Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine
Islands from 1900 td 1902 ; since his retire
ment he has been engaged in farming. His
favorite recreation is book collecting. Rear-
Admiral Hanford married in Scottsville,
New York, November 6, 1878, Sara A. Cros
by, and they have two children: John
Munn, born February 2, 1882, and Ruth
Crosby, born March 23, 1887. Address:
Scottsville, New York.
HANLY, J. Frank:
Lawyer; born in St. Joseph, Illinois,
April 4, 1863; admitted to the bar April
6, 1889; elected to the State Senate 1890,
serving one term; elected to Congress 1894;
elected Governor of the State of Indiana,
1904. Term expires January 19, 1909. Ad
dress : Indianapolis, Indiana.
HANNA, Meredith:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, October
27, 1874; son of William B. Hanna and
Mary V. (Hopper) Hanna. After his
graduation from William Penn Charter
School, in Philadelphia in 1891, he entered
the University of Pennsylvania, where he
received the degree of B.S. in 1895 and
that of LL.D. in 1898. He enlisted in Bat
tery A, Pennsylvania Volunteer , Artillery
in June, 1898, served in Porto Rico undei
General Fred D. Grant in the Army of Oc
cupation, and was mustered out in Novem
ber, 1898. Since then he has been prac
ticing law in Philadelphia. Mr. Hanna is
a Republican in politics and a Baptist in
religion. He traveled in England, France,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and
Switzerland in 1905. He is a member of
the Pennsylvania State Bar Association,
and the Law Association of Philadelphia;
is treasurer of the Pennsylvania Working
Home for Blind Men, solicitor for the
Young Women's Christian Association of
Philadelphia, clerk and trustee of Epiphany
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pa Psi fraternity, the Pennsylvania So
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, Neth
erlands Society, St. Andrew's Society, the
Sharswood Law Club and the Penn and
University Clubs of Philadelphia. Resi-
ence: no South Thirty-eighth Street, Phil
adelphia. Office address: 1420 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HANNA, Philip C:
Consular official; born in Iowa. Con
sul at La Guaira, February 27, 1891 ; re
tired January, 1894; consul at Trinidad,
July 2, 1897; consul at San Juan, Porto
Rico, September 1, 1897; retired April 21,
1898; consul-general at Monterey, Novem
ber 1, 1899. Salary, $3,500 per annum. Ad
dress: Monterey, Nueva Leon.
HANSBOROUGH, Henry Clay:
United States senator; born in Prairie
du Rocher, Randolph County, Illinois, Jan
uary 30, 1848; son of Eliot Hansborough
and Sarah (Hagen) Hansborough, and a
descendant of John Hansborough who came
from England and settled in Virginia in
1640. His parents moved from Kentucky to
Illinois in 1846 ; _ and the son was brought
up upon his farm, and was educated in the
common schools. He removed with his
parents to California in 1866, learned the
trade of a printer in the office of the San
'Jose Mercury, and was a partner in pub
lishing a daily paper in San Jose in 1869.
He was employed in the printing depart
ment of the San Francisco Chronicle from
1870 to 1872, was telegraph editor and later
assistant managing editor of the same paper
from 1872 to 1879, engaged in newspaper
work in Wisconsin in 1880, and in 1880 went
to Dakota Territory. There he continued
in active newspaper work until 1888. He
was elected the first representative from
North Dakota, in the Fifty-first Congress,
from 1889 to 1891, and was elected United
States senator, January 23, 1891, and he
was reelected in 1897 and in 1903. His
present term will expire in 1909. He was
a delegate to the National Republican Con
vention of 1888, and was National Com
mitteeman from North Dakota, from 1888
to 1896. Senator Hansborough has been

twice married, first to Josephine Orr, who
died in January, 1895, and second, in 1897,
to Mary Berri Chapman, of Washington,
D. C. Residence: Devil's Lake, North Da
kota. HANSELMAN, Joseph Francis:
Clergyman and educator; born in
Brooklyn, New York, October 28, 1856. He
was graduated from St. Francis Xavier's
College, New York City, in 1877; was
president of the College of The Holy Cross,
Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1901 to
1906, and is now provincial of the Mary
land-New York Province of Jesuits. Ad
dress : 30 West Sixteenth Street, New York
City.HANSEN, George:
Landscape architect; born in Hildesheim,
Germany, April 15, 1863; graduated from
the Royal Horticultural College at Pots
dam, Berlin. Mr. Hansen was the first,
and so far the only one to classify the
Orchid Hybrids, a work considered monu
mental by its critics; and is author of:
What is a Kindergarten?, setting forth that
America owes the world the supplementing
of the Froebel Garten, by the actual setting
of a Kindergarten home in garden sur
roundings. Has pictured the first one
thousand days of the life of a natural
child in three thousand photographs; prov
ing that it is the adult who mars "His
image and likeness" to which a child is
born. These pictures depict moods of the
child, being sets of about twelve photo
graphs. The child up to that age was
never interfered with and never instructed,
merely having the example of his parents
before him. Address : Scenic Tract,
Berkeley, California.
HANSON, Bert:
Lawyer; born in Sanford, Maine, July
26, 1867; son of Benjamin Franklin Han
son and Fannie (Thompson) Hanson. He
was graduated from the Phillips Exeter
Academy in the class of 1886, from Yale
College as A.B. in 1890 and from Cornell
University Law School as LL.B,. in 1893 ;
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1894. He became third deputy commis
sioner of police of New York City in 1907.
In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Hanson
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York; governor and
treasurer of Cornell University Club; trus
tee and secretary of the Reform Club, and
is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
Residence : 30 West Forty-fourth Street,
New York City. Address : 42 Broadway,
New York City.
HANTS, Faul Henry:
Professor of education ; born in Germany,
March 14, 1855; son of Gustaf Hanus and
Ida (Aust) Hanus. Was teacher of Den
ver High School, District No. 1, 1878 and
1879 ; instructor in the University of Col
orado in 1879 and 1880; professor of
mathematics ffom 1881 to 1886; principal
of the Denver High School, District No.
2, from 1886 to 1890; professor of peda
gogy, State Normal School (Colorado) in
1890 and 1891 ; assistant professor of edu
cation, Harvard University from 1891 to
1901 ; professor since 1901. He has travel
ed extensively in Europe. In politics he is
an Independent. Professor Hanus is a
member of the National Society of Col
lege Teachers of Education, New Eng
land Society of College Teachers of Edu
cation; chairman of the Massachusetts
State Commission on Industrial Education
(for three years from 1906) ; Advisory
Committee for the Young Men's Christian
Association Preparatory School, Boston,
and Boston Trade School for Girls. Is a
member of the Boston City Club; Econom
ic Club of Boston, Cambridge Club, Oakley
Country Club of Watertown, Massachus
etts, and the Massachusetts Schoolmasters'
Club. Author: Elements of Determinants
(Ginn & Company, 1886) ; Geometry in the
Grammar School (D. C. Heath & Company,
1893) ; Educational Aims and Educational
Values (Macmillan Company, 1899) ; A
Modern School (Macmillan Company,
1904). Contributor to current periodicals.
Lecturer. Advisory editor School Review,
Chicago. He married in Denver, Colorado,
August 10, 1881, Charlotte Hoskins, and
they have one daughter, Winifred Hanus

Whiting, born in 1883. Resideiiv : 15
Phillips Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Business address : Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HAFGOOD, Herbert Jackson:
Broker, merchant; born Boston, Massa
chusetts, 1870 ; son Charles M. and Olive C.
(Emery )Hapgood; graduated Dartmouth
College, A.B., (Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta
Kappa, French Prize, etc.). Associated
with the C. M. Hapgood Shoe Company
of Easton, Pennsylvania, 1896-1902; in lat
ter, originated idea of a national organiza
tion of Brain Brokers, to supply high-grade
men for the more responsible positions in
business and technical work, and founded ,
Hapgoods to carry out this idea; visited
England and France, 1905-06, to assist in
the organization of Hapgoods, Limited,
which is operating in Great Britain and the
Colonies, along the same lines as the Am
erican original; president Hapgoods, Hap
goods Sales' Company, Suffolk County Land
Company, and director in other companies.
Republican. Congregationalist. Director
Brooklyn Latin School; is a recognized
authority on employment subjects, and has
given frequent lectures and addresses on
them; contributor of articles on the em
ployment problem to World's Work, Satur
day Evening Post, World Today, Busi
ness Man's Magazine, System, Har
per's Magazine, and other publica
tions. Author of: Echoes of Dart
mouth; The Hapgoods Idea, and has in
preparation an elaborate work on the em
ployment problem. Clubs : Dartmouth,
Phi Delta Theta. Married, Brooklyn, No
vember 10, 1905, Ethel Tagliabue. Ad
dress : 305 Broadway, New York City.
HAPGOOD, Hutchins:
Journalist, author; born Chicago, May
21, 1869; son of Charles H. and Fanny
Louise (Powers) Hapgood; educated pub
lic schbols of Illinois, a year at University
of Michigan and Harvard, A.B., 1892, A.M.,
1897. Taught at Harvard, 1893 ; spent three
years abroad, mostly in Germany; resided
short time in Japan ; made tour around the
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instructor at Harvard, and later at Uni
versity of Chicago. Since fall of 1897,
journalist and writer; has contributed to
many newspapers, magazines and reviews;
was on staff of New York Morning Tele
graph, when it was managed by Finley
P. . Dunne (Mr. Dooley) ; later dramatic
critic Chicago Evening Post; in Italy, 1906-
07. Author : Paul Jones, 1901 ; The Spirit
of the Ghetto, 1902 ; The Autobiography of
a Thief, 1903; The Spirit of Labor, 1907
(Duffield & Co.). Married, Mount Vernon,
New York, June, 1899, Neith Boyce. Ad
dress : Care Duffield & Co., 36 East Twen
ty-first Street, New York City.
HAFGOOD, Norman:
Author, journalist ; born in Chicago,
March 28, 1868 ; son of Charles H. Hapgood
and Fanny (Powers) Hapgood. He was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1890,
and A.M. in 1893, and from Harvard law
school as LL.B. in 1893. He served for
several years as dramatic critic of the New
York Commercial .Advertiser and The
Bookman, and has been editor of Collier's
Weekly since 1903. He is author of: Lit
erary Statesmen, 1897; Daniel Webster,
1899; Abraham Lincoln, 1899; The Stage
iii America, 1901, and George Washington,
1901. Mr. Hapgood married in Chicago,
June 17, 1896, Emilie Biglow. Address:
107 East Seventy-third Street, New York
City.KARAHAN, James Theodore:
Railway official; born in Lowell, Massa
chusetts, in 1843. He entered railway ser
vice in 1864 at Alexandria, Virginia, and
was in the employ of the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad for one year. From the
fall of 1865 to 1866 he was in the employ
of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad at
Nashville, Tennessee; from 1866 to 1870
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in
various capacities. From 1870 to August,
1872, in charge of the Shelby Railroad;'
from August, 1872 to 1879 roadmaster of
the Nashville and Decatur Railroad; from
1879 to 1881 superintendent of the Memphis
Line, Louisville and Nashville Railroad;
from 1881 to 1883, superintendent of the

New Orleans Division; and from Decem
ber, 1883 to July 1, 1884, general superin
tendent of the same road south of Deca
tur; from July I, 1884 to January I, 1885,
he was general manager of the entire line;
from January I to April I, 1885 Mr. Hara-
han was general superintendent of the
Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad; from April 1 to October,
1885, assistant general manager of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and from
October, 1885 to October, 1888, general
manager of the same road. From October,
1888, to November 1, 1890, he was suc
cessively assistant general manager of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
way, general manager of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, and general manager of
the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
Railway. From November I, 1890, he was .
second vice-president of the Illinois Central
Railroad until in 1907 he was elected presi
dent of the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany. Address : Illinois Central Railroad
Company, Chicago, Illinois.
HARBEN, William Nathaniel:
Author; born Dalton, Georgia, July 5,
1858; son of Nathaniel Parks and Myra
(Richardson) Harben; educated Crawford
College and privately. Traveled several
years abroad and studied in Paris and Lon
don; associate editor The Youth's Com
panion, 1891-93 ; contributed short stories
to the Century, Harper's Magazine, Satur
day Evenirig Post/ Author : White' Marie,
1889; Almost Persuaded, 1890; A Mute
Confessor, 189 1 ; The Land of the Changing
Sun, 1894 ; From Clue to Climax, 1901 ; The
Caruthers Affair, 1898; The North Walk
Mystery, 1899; The Woman Who Trusted,
1901 ; Westerfelt, 1901 ; Abner Daniel, 1902 ;
The Substitute, 1903; The Georgians, 1904;
Pole Baker, 1905 ; Ann Boyd, 1906 ; Mam'
Linda, 1907. Club: Authors. Married,
Dalton, Georgia, July 3, 1896, Maybelle
Chandler; children: William Chandler (8),
Eric Marion (3). Address: Care Harper
& Brothers, New York City.
HARDIN, Martin D.:
Lawyer and brigadier-general United
States Army, retired; born at Jacksonville,

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Illinois, June 26, 1837 ; son of General John
J. Hardin, who was killed in the battle of
Buena Vista. After a preliminary educa
tion in the local schools he was appointed
at large to the United States Military Acad
emy from which he was graduated in 1859
and brevetted second lieutenant of the
Third United States Artillery. He was at
the artillery school at Fort Monroe, Vir
ginia, in 1859 and i860; served on the staff
of General Robert E. Lee during the John
Brown raid at Harpers Ferry, and took
part in the Blake Expedition to the Pacific
Coast in i860, remaining in Oregon until
October, 1861, when he returned with Gen
eral Sumner by the Panama route and
entered the Army of the Potomac, serving
with the artillery.- He was appointed,
April 1, 1862, lieutenant-colonel .of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania Reserves, and colo
nel July 8, 1862. He commanded that regi
ment at Harrison's Landing, the Twelfth
Pennsylvania Reserves in Pope's campaign,
and the Third Brigade of Pennsylvania Re
serves at Second Bull Run, where he was
severely wounded; commanded the Twelfth
Pennsylvania Reserves at Gettysburg and
Falling Waters, and served afterward as
brigade commander in various battles, and
commanded the First Brigade of Pennsyl
vania Reserves at Spottsylvania, North
Anna and others. He was commissioned
brigadier-general of United States Volun
teers and commanded Hardin's Division in
the defenses of Washington north of the
Potomac from July, 1864, to August, 1865.
He was commissioned major of the Forty-
third United States Infantry, July 26, 1866,
and was retired as brigadier-general of the
United States Army, December 15, 1870, on
account of wounds. General Hardin was
admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1871, and
has since been engaged in the practice of
law in Chicago. He wrote the History of
the Twelfth Regiment of Pennsylvania Re
serve Volunteers Corps, and is author of
many contributions to military and other
magazines. Address : 538 North State
Street, New York City.
HARDIN, Willett Lepley:
General manager of The Symmes Creek
Coal Company; born in Lima, Ohio, De

cember 8, 1868; son of John Hardin and
Elizabeth (Jacobs Hardin). He was grad
uated from Buchtel College as B.S. in 1893
and from the University of Pennsylvania
as Ph.D. in 1896; was instructor in chem
istry and physics at Buchtel College in
1893 and 1894; senior fellow in chemistry
and lecturer in physical chemistry of the
University of Pennsylvania, from 1896 to
1899; instructor in physical and technical
chemistry in the same university in 1899
and 1900, and has been general manager of
the Symmes Creek Coal Company since
1903. He is author of: The Rise and De
velopment of the Liquefaction of Gases
(Macmillan Company), 1899; translated
Traube's Physico-Chemical Measurements
(P. Blakiston's Sons & Company), and has
written articles in scientific journals, on
The Atomic Masses of Silver, Mercury,
Cadmium, Tungsten and Pallodium, and
on Derivatives of Pallodium with Organic
Bases. In politics he is a Democrat. Dr.
Hardin is a member of the American Chem
ical Society, American Institute of Mining
Engineers and the National Geographic So
ciety. He married in Greenwood, Missis
sippi, July 9, 1903, Isabella Moore Green, of
Akron, Ohio. Residence: Waterloo, Ohio.
HARDING, Charles H.:
Vice-president, treasurer and director
The Erben-Harding Company, Yarns; dir
ector Bank of North America; director
The Land Title and Trust Company, dir
ector Philadelphia Manufacturers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Company; executive coun
cil Philadelphia Board of Trade; trustee
School of Industrial Art of the Pennsyl
vania Museum. Address : 512 Arcade
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HARDING, John R.:
Clergyman; born Washington, North
Carolina, June 30, i860; son of Israel and
Caroline (Hughes) Harding; educated
Trinity School, Chocowinity, North Caro
lina, The Academy, New Berne, North
Carolina, Union College, A.B., 1883, Gener
al Theological Seminary, New York City,
1887, Union College, D.D. 1907. Ordered
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Carolina, July 3, 1887, and ordained priest
in Trinity Church,. Asheville, North Caro
lina, May 6, 1888, by Bishop Theodore B.
Lyman, of North Carolina. Assistant minis
ter, Trinity Church, Asheville, 1887-88; rec
tor St. James' Church and School, Macon,
Missouri, 1888-89; assistant Church of the
Messiah, Brooklyn, 1888-91 ; rector Grate
Church, Lyons, New York, 1891-94; rector
Trinity Church, Utica, New York, since
1894. Episcopalian. Member Utica Theolog
ical Club, Alumni Association General The
ological Seminary; president Standing Com
mittee Diocese of Central New York ; presi
dent Board Examining Chaplains, Diocese
of Central New York; president Deaf Mute
Commission, diocese of Central New York.
Member Delta Phi fraternity (Alpha Chap
ter, Union College, 1881). Editor : One Hun
dred Years of Trinity Church, Utica, New
York. Has traveled in the United States,
Canada, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Germany,
Austria, France, Belgium, Holland, England
and Scotland. Married, Brooklyn, October
20, 1887, Katherine, daughter of John M.
Rountree, of Chicago ; children : Madeleine
H., born in 1892, and Katherine R., born in
1895. Address : Trinity Rectory, Utica,
New York.
HARDING, RusseU:
Railway expert; born in Springfield,
Massachusetts, in 1856; son of William H.
Harding and Mary E. Harding. He re
ceived his education in the the public schools
of Portland, Maine, until 1870, when he
began his railway experience as office boy
for his father, who was a railway contract
or, and for whom he later became pay
master. From 1873 to 1886 he was with
the International and Great Northern Rail
way of Texas, in the engineering depart
ment, and afterward successively station
agent, operator, and ticket seller; assistant
engineer of construction; and resident en
gineer in charge of tracks, bridges and
buildings; then was with the Missouri Pa
cific Railway as superintendent and en
gineer of lines iri southern Kansas from
1886 to 1894; then with the Great Northern
Railway as division superintendent, district
superintendent, and general superintendent

of the Great Northern system, from 1894
to 1898; vice-president and general man
ager of the St. Louis Southwestern Rail
way, and president of the St. Louis South
western Railway of Texas, from 1898 to
1900; vice-president and general manager
of the Missouri Pacific system from 1900
to 1904; vice-president and general man
ager of the Pere Marquette system in 1904
and 1905. In October, 1905, he was chosen
vice-president of the Erie Railroad ; Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway; Pere
Marquette Railroad; and Chicago, Cincin
nati and Louisville Railroad in charge of
operation, but resigned November 15, 1905,
to become associated with H. B. Hollins
and Company, bankers of New York, as a
railway expert. Mr. .Harding is a director
of the Commonwealth Trust Company and
the Mechanics' National Bank, both of St.
Louis, Missouri, where he has his residence.
Address : Room 38, 195 Broadway, New
York City.
HARD WICK, Thomas William:
Congressman and lawyer; born in
Thomasville, Georgia, December 9, 1872;
son of Robert William Hardwick and
Zemula Schley (Matthews) Harwick. He
was graduated from Mercer University in
1892, and Lumpkin Law School, University
of Georgia, in 1893; served "two terms in
Geprgia Legislature; was elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress without opposition,
and reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress,
also to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Tenth Georgia District. In politics he is
a Democrat. He married, April 25, 1894,
Maude Elizabeth Perkins. Address: San-
dersville, Georgia.
HARDY, Alpheus Holmes:
Merchant ; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 14, 1840; son of Hon. Alpheus
Hardy and Susan Warner (Holmes)
Hardy. He was prepared. for college, in the
Boston public schools, Tower's Latin
School and Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, graduating at Harvard as
A.B., in 1861. After having .served in the
Civil War as first lieutenant of the Forty-
fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in
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in India, returning to Boston two years
later; and in 1866 he entered into partner
ship with his father in the mercantile house
of Alpheus Hardy & Company, becoming
the head of the firm in 1873. He was made
vice-president of the Boston Board of
Trade in 1881, and president in 1884; pres
ident of the Commercial Club of Boston,
from 1888 to 1890; chairman of the Mer
chants' Municipal Commission; member of
the Commission for the Protection of the
Adult Blind, and of the Cape Cod Board of
Commissioners. In 1886 he became a trus
tee of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa
chusetts, its treasurer in 1889, and a trus
tee and treasurer of Wellesley College in
1894. He retired from active business July
1, 1890. He has been an extensive traveler
through India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and
elsewhere. He is a member of the Mili
tary Historical Society of Massachusetts.
Mr. Hardy married August 26, 1862, Mary
Caroline Sumner and has five children:
Alpheus Sumner (Harvard, A.B., 1887),
Susan White, Eleanor, Mary Caroline (A.
B. Radcliffe, 1901), and Roger Sumner
(Harvard, A.B., 1901). Address: 1107
Tremont Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
HARDY, Arthur Sherburne:
Diplomat and author; born in Andover,
Massachusetts, August 13, 1847; son of
Alpheus Hardy and Susan W. (White)
Hardy. He was prepared, at the Andover
(Massachusetts) Academy, was a student
at Amherst College, and afterward at West
Point Military Academy, where he was
graduated in 1869; was instructor at West
Point, and then, after a year's service in
the Third Regiment of United States Artil
lery, he resigned from the Army. Later
he studied at the Ecole des Ponts et
Chaussees, Paris. He was professor of civil
engineering at Iowa College and later at
Dartmouth College; professor of mathe
matics at Dartmouth ; editor of the Cos
mopolitan Magazine; American minister
and consul-general to Persia, from 1897 to
1899; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Greece, Roumania and Servia from 1899
to -igoi, to Switzerland in 1901 and 1902,

and to Spain from 1902 to 1904. Mr.
Hardy received the degrees of A.M. and
Ph.D. from Iowa and Dartmouth Colleges.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Hardy
has visited Europe ten times and has trav
eled in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Persia,
Algeria, Japan, etc. He is author of the
hovels : But Yet a Woman, The Wind of
Destiny, Passe Rose, and His Daughter
First ; also of Songs of Two (poems) ;
The Life and Letters of Joseph H. Nees-
ima (biography), and of the mathematical
volumes : Elements of Quaternions ; Ele
ments of Calculus; Elements of Analytic
Geometry; New Methods in Surveying,
and Imaginary Quantities. Mr. Hardy is
a fellow of the National Academy of Arts
and Science. He received the decoration of
the Grand Cross of the Lion and Sun from
Persia; is a trustee of Woodstock Acad
emy, and is a member of the. Authors Club
and the Century Association of New York
City. Mr. Hardy married in Athens,
Greece, March 7, 1898, Grace Aspinwall
Bowen. Address : Casa de Campo, Wood
stock, Connecticut.
HARDY, Charles J.:
Lawyer; born New York City; educated
College City of New York, Columbia Uni
versity, Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1885.
Admitted to New York bar; is now senior
member of the firm of Hardy & Shella-
barger ; in active practice, principally en
gaged in corporation work. Member Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity. Address : 141
Broadway, New York City.
HARDY, John Crumpton:
President of Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College ; born in Mississippi,
December 24, 1864. Was graduated from
Mississippi College in 1889. Since 1900, he
has been president of Mississippi Agricul
tural and Mechanical College. Address:
Agricultural College, Mississippi.
HARDY, John Henry:
Jurist; born in Hollis, New Hampshire,
February 2, 1847. He fitted for college at
the academies in Mount Vernon and New
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Dartmouth in 1866, graduating in 1870;
and he afterward attended the Harvard
Law School, and read law with Hon. Rob
ert M. Morse, Jr., also acting in the capacity
of teacher in Chauncy Hall School. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872;
and then formed a law connection with
George W. Morse, under the firm name
of Morse & Hardy. In 1883 he asso
ciated himself with Samuel J. Elder and
Thomas W. Proctor, under the name
of Hardy, Elder & Proctor, the firm con
tinuing until Mr. Hardy was given a posi
tion on the bench of the municipal court
in 1885. In 1896 he was appointed asso
ciate justice of the Superior Court of Mas
sachusetts, which position he now holds.
He was in the Army, in the Fifteenth
New Hampshire Volunteers; was elected
to the lower house of the Legislature from
Arlington, from 1882 to 1884, and was
Arlington town counsel from 1873 to 1885.
Address : Arlington, Massachusetts.
HARDY, Walter Manly:
Artist; born at Brewer, Maine, February
9, 1877; son of Manly Hardy and Emma
(Wheeler) Hardy. He graduated from
Bangor high school; attended the Uni
versity of Maine, entered the Art Students'
League of New York, where he was a stu
dent for five years, and later studied under
Lazar in Paris. He was a member of the
school board of the Art Students' League
for three years, being chairman of the
school committee during that time, and
taught in the sketch class. Has illustrated
articles on birds and animals for Mc
Clure's, Success, and other magazines and
books. Has exhibited in the Art Club of
Philadelphia, American Water Color So
ciety of New York, and minor societies.
Address : Brewer, Maine.
HARE, Hobart Amory:
Physician; born September 20, 1862, at
Philadelphia. In 1885 was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania, B.Sc. ; also
M.D. in 1884; and later in 1893 from Jef
ferson Medical College. At the University
of Pennsylvania in 1890 was Professor of
Children's Diseases, and since that time

has been Professor of Therapeutics at Jef
ferson Medical College, and physician to
the Jefferson Hospital. He is the author
of a Text-book of Practical Therapeutics
(twelfth edition) ; a Text-book of Practi
cal Diagnosis (sixth edition) ; a Text-book
of the Practice of Medicine (second edi
tion) ; The Medical Complications and Se
quelae of Typhoid Fever (second edition).
Various Universities and Medical Socie
ties both American and foreign have
awarded him prizes for medical essays.
He is a member of the College of Physi
cians, Philadelphia; Association of Ameri
can Physicians. He belongs to the follow
ing clubs : Philadelphia, Union League,
University, Corinthian Yacht, Philadelphia
Country Club. Address : 1801 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HARE, J. Montgomery: m
Fire insurance.; born in Princeton, New
Jersey, January 20, 1842; son of Rev.
George Emlen Hare, D.D., LL.D., and Eliza
beth Catherine (Hobart) Hare. After
completing his education in the Episcopal
Academy in Philadelphia, he began busi
ness life as a clerk in a wholesale commis
sion dry goods house in that city. Soon
after he entered the office of the American
Fire Insurance Company, and on October
1, 1861, that of the Pennsylvania Fire In
surance Company. He served one year in
the Keystone Battery of Philadelphia, in
the Civil War; in April, 1864, he removed
to New York City and became a partner of
C. P. Frame,, in the firm of Frame & Hare,
which became, January 1, 1866, Frame,
Hare & Lockwood, who represented several
fire insurance companies, and were United
States managers of the London Assurance
Corporation. On October 1, 1877, the firm
was dissolved, Mr. Lockwood withdrawing
with the London Assurance Corporation,
and the remaining partners continuing the
business in the old name. In May, 1879,
the firm became managers of the Norwich
Union Fire Office of England, and con
tinued so until December 31, 1888, when
they dissolved, and since then Mr. Hare
has been sole United States resident man
ager of the Norwich Union. He is also

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president of the Indemnity Fire Insurance
Company- of New York; has been vice-
president- -of the Union of the West; presi
dent of the New York Board of Fire Un
derwriters, and president of the New York
Fire Insurance Exchange, and is now vice-
president of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters. Mr. Hare is a member of
the Union, Century, City, Down Town,
Church, Tuxedo and St. Andrew's Golf
Clubs. He married in Philadelphia, June.
6, 1867, Mary Emlen Meredith, and they
have six children: Montgomery, Mere
dith, William Hobart, Dennie M., Mary
M., and Morin S. Residence: 20 East
Seventy-fifth Street. Address: 56 Pine
Street, New York City.
HARE, William Hobart:
Bishop of South Dakota; born at Prince
ton, New Jersey, May 17, 1838; son of
Rev. Dr. George Emlen and Elizabeth C.
(Hobart) Hare. He studied at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and received the
degree of D.D. from Columbia University,
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and
from Kenyon College, in 1872. He was or
dered deacon of the Episcopal Church by
Bishop Bowman in' 1859, and was ordained
priest in 1862 by Bishop A. Potter. He
accepted a call as assistant in St. Luke's
Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, becom
ing rector of St. Paul's Church, Philadel
phia, in 1861. He was locum tenens of
St. Luke's Church again, 1863-64, curate
of the Church of the Ascension, Philadel
phia, 1864-70. In the latter year he was
appointed secretary and general agent of
the Foreign Committee of the Domestic
and Foreign Missionary Society, holding
this office until he was made bishop in
1873. He was consecrated by Bishop Ben
jamin Bosworth Smith, Alfred Lee, T.
Williams, Odenheimer and Stevens. His
jurisdiction was first Niobrara, but later the
boundaries of his jurisdiction were changed
and he became Bishop of South Dakota.
Bishop Hare was married in 1861 to Mary
Amory Howe, daughter of Bishop M. A.
De- Wolfe Howe, He is author of num
erous missionary reports, addresses and

sermons. Address : Sioux Falls, South Da
kota. HARE-POWEL, Robert Johnston:
Lawyer; born Newport, Rhode Island,
May 4, 1855; son of Samuel and Mary
(Johnston) Powel; on paternal side de
scended from Hare-Powel, Hare, Willing
and Shippen families of Philadelphia; from
de Veaux and Barnwell families of South
Carolina; Verplanck, Beekman, Provoost,
Van Cortlandt and Schuyler families of
New York; on maternal side, from the
Johnston, Gilbert, Taylor and Hind famil
ies of Jamaica, W. I., .and "of Scotland
and England. Educated by tutors in Phila
delphia and Newport until 1872, after that
at Mr. Fay's School, Newport, and Har
vard, B.A., 1878. Admitted to Philadel
phia bar, November 18, 1882, entering law
office of uncle-in-law, John G. Johnson;
removed to New York City in 1886, and
became partner, successively of Crosby &
Crosby (William B. Crosby and Ernest H.
Crosby), 1886-90, Crosby & Powel (E: H.
Crosby retiring), 1890-91, Powel and Kropf,
1892-98, and since then on own account.
Practice has been largely in management
of estates, acting as trustee, executor, ad
ministrator, etc. Traveled for pleasure in
Europe, Canada, and as far as the middle
part of United States. Independent in poli
tics. Episcopalian. Alpha member Delta
Kappa Epsilon, also of Institute of 1770,
Athletic Association and Rifle Club, all of
Harvard (class of 1878). Director and
counsel for Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital of New York, since 1898; member
Association Bar City of New York, Penn
sylvania Historical Society. His favorite
recreations are field sports ; and he is a
member of the Ardsley Club; formerly
member of several Philadelphia clubs. Mar
ried, Morristown,' New Jersey, June I,
1887, Elisabeth Butler Crosby, daughter of
John P. Crosby of New York City; chil
dren: Elisabeth (born November 11, 1889),
John (born July 6, 1893, died July 24, 1893),
Robert Johnston (born November 23, 1895).
Residences: Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, and
Newport, Rhode Island. Address: 120
Broadway, New York City.

MEN OF AMERICA
UABGEST, Thomas 8.:
Jurist; born in Baltimore County, Mary
land, November 34, 1846; educated in the
Baltimore public schools; removed with
his parents to Wilmington, Delaware, in
i860, where he worked in the market gar
dens of his father; removed to Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1861, working in the
same business till 1863, when he entered
the army as wagon master, having muster
ed thirty-two men and taken them to
Washington. After the war he studied law
and general literature at Winchester, Vir
ginia, and in 1867 was admitted to practice
in the Virginia courts. He was appointed
District Attorney for Shenandoah County,
Virginia, in 1868, making Hon. Mark Bird.
who had been elected but was incapacitat
ed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution, his deputy. In like manner
he was appointed to succeed Judge J. T.
Harris, who was similarly incapacitated,
as Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit
of Virginia. When the new Constitution
of Virginia was adopted he lost his seat
on the bench through hostile legislation
and resumed his private practice at Win
chester. He returned to Harrisburg in
1873, and in 1876 was elected City Solicitor,
holding this office till 1890. Since then he
has been engaged in general practice. Ad
dress: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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HARGITT, Charles Wesley:
Educator, biologist, author; born near
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, March 28, 1852;
son of Thomas and Mary F. (Lyness)
Hargitt; educated Indianapolis High
School, Moore's Hill College, B.Sc, 1877,
Ohio University, Ph.D., 1890. Professor
Natural sciences, Moore's Hill College,
1885-88; professor biology and geology,
Miami University, 1888-91; head professor
biology, Syracuse University, since 1891,
and director Biological Laboratories, Syra
cuse University. Trustee Marine, Biolog
ical Laboratory, 1900-07 and member of
investigators staff; assistant director Cold
Spring Biological Laboratory, 1891-93.
Traveled extensively and studied in Eu
rope; conducted investigations at the Na
ples Biological Station. Author of numer

ous memoirs, scientific researches, text
book on Outlines of General Biology, etc.
President New York Science Teachers' As
sociation, 1898-99 ; Onondaga Academy Sci
ences, 1896-99. Fellow and vice-president
of Section of Zoology, American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science ; mem
ber American Society of Zoologists, Biolog
ical Society, Washington, Washington
Academy of Sciences, American Society
Naturalists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi,
and also of the University and School
masters' Clubs. He married at Moore's
Hill, Indiana, July, 1877, Susan E., daugh
ter of Rev. E. G. Wood; children: Fran
cis W. (born 1879), George T. (born 1881),
Charles H. (born 1883). Address: Syra
cuse, New York.
HARKNESS, Charles William:
Lawyer; born Monroeville, Ohio, De
cember 17, i860; son of Stephen V. and
Anna M. Harkness; graduated Yale, 1883,
Columbia Law School, 1888. At twenty-
four, entered business as clerk; at death
of father, was made administrator of es
tate;, director Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway Qompany, New York Trust
Company, Standard Oil Company, Tilden
Iron Mining Company. In 1890, moved to
New York City. Clubs: University, Mor
ris County Golf, Riding, New York Yacht,
Down Town. Married, Philadelphia, 1896,
Mary Warden. Residence : 685 Fifth Ave
nue. Address : 26 Broadway, New York
City.
HARKNESS, William:
Painter and interior decorator, insurance
president; born in Ireland, November 1,
1840; son of David and Isabel (McCrea)
Harkness. He was educated in public
schools, and afterward engaged in the dec
orating and painting business for years. He
is president of the Nassau Fire Insurance
Company; vice-president of the Kings
County Trust Company ; -trustee of the City
Savings Bank of Brodkiyn; director of the
Pacific Fire Insurance Company of New
York; member of the Advisory Board of
the Pacific Fire Insurance Company; and
member of the Advisory Board of the Law*

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yers' Title Insurance Company. Mr. Hark-
ness was president of the Brooklyn Board
of Assessment for two years ; and school
commissioner in Brooklyn and Greater New
York for about twenty-eight years. He has
traveled in the United States, Canada, and
Europe. He is a member and treasurer of
the Brooklyn League ; member of the Manu
facturers' Association of New York; and
is one of the leading members of the Han
son Place Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Brooklyn, and superintendent of its Sun
day School; and is also a member of the
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Hark-
ness married in Brooklyn, July 26, 1866,
Mary Thompson, and they have five chil
dren : Isabel Grace, William H., Roy T.,
Violet L., and Natalia. Address : 293
Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
HARLAN, George Cavier:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, January
28, 1835; son of Richard Harlan, M.D. He
attended various schools in Philadelphia,
Burlington, West Chester and Wilmington ;
was graduated at Delaware College in class
of 1855, and in medicine at University of
Pennsylvania in 1858. Resident physician at
Wills Eye, St. Joseph's and Pennsylvania
Hospitals. Surgeon Eleventh Pennsylvania
Cavalry ; medical inspector of forces at Suf
folk, Virginia, Army of Virginia ; taken pris
oner during Wilson's raid at battle of
Ream's Station, and left in charge of prison
hospital in Petersburg; on return to Phila
delphia was in charge of Military Hos
pital at Twenty-third and Filbert Streets ;
was Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, to
the Eye and Ear Department of the Chil
dren's Hospital, and to Wills Eye Hos
pital. He is now attending ophthalmolo
gist to the Pennsylvania Hospital, consult
ing surgeon to Wills Eye Hospital ; also
consulting ophthalmologist to the Pennsyl
vania Institute for the Blind and the Penn
sylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,
and emeritus professor of diseases of the
Eye in Philadelphia Polyclinic. Author of
article on the Orbit in Wood's System of
Medicine, article on the Eyelids in Norris'
and Oliver's System of Diseases of the

Eye, Section on Diseases of the Ear in
American practice of surgery, and of nu
merous papers on ophthalmological subjects,
chiefly published in the Transactions of
the American Ophthalmological Society, of
which he was president for several years;
also revised the chapters on the eye in the
American edition of Holmes' Surgery and
in Gross System of Surgery. Address:
1700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
HARLAN, Henry David:
Jurist; born at Churchville, Harford
County, Maryland, October 23, 1858; son
of Dr. David H. Harlan, medical director
of the United States Navy, and Margaret
Rebecca (Herbert) Harlan. He was gradu
ated from St. John's College, Annapolis,
Maryland, as A.B. in 1878; and received
from that college the degrees of A.M. in
1884 and LL.D. in 1894; and he was grad
uated from the University of Maryland
with the degree of LL.B. in 1881. Mr. Har
lan was admitted to the bar and engaged
in the practice of law in Baltimore until
elected in 1888 chief judge of the Supreme
Court of Baltimore, in which office he con
tinues. He has been since 1883 of the Law
Faculty of the University of Maryland,
where he is now professor of constitutional
law; and is president of the Board of
Trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and
a trustee of Johns Hopkins University.
Judge Harlan is a Democrat in politics.
He married in Philadelphia, December 19,
1889, Helen Altemus. Residence: 9 West
Biddle Street, Baltimore. ' Office address:
1062 Calvert Building, Baltimore,. Maryland.
HARLAN, James S. :
Lawyer ; born at Evansville, Indiana, No
vember 24, 1861 ; was. graduated from
Princeton University in 1883. He was
member of the law firm of Harlan and
Harlan of Chicago, Illinois. He is now
a member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission; was attorney-general of Porto
Rico, I90i-i9d3. Address: Chicago, Illi
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HARLAN, John Marshall:
Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court; was born in Boyle Coun
ty, Kentucky, June I, 1833; was graduated
from Center College, Kentucky, in 1850;
studied law at Transylvania University;
practiced his profession at Frankfort; was
elected county judge in 1859; was the Whig
candidate for Congress in the Ashland
district in 1859; was elector, on the Bell
arid Everett ticket; removed to Louisville
in 1861, and formed a law partnership with
Hon. W. F. Bullock; in 1861 raised the
Tenth Kentucky Infantry Regiment and
served in General George H. Thomas's
division ; owing to the death of his father
in the spring of 1863, although his name
was before the Senate for confirmation as
a brigadier-general, he felt compelled to
resign; was elected attorney-general by the
Union party in 1863 and filled that office
until 1867, when he returned to active
practice in Louisville; was the Republican
candidate for governor in 1871 ; his name
was presented by the Republican conven
tion of his State in 1872 for the vice-
presidency; in 1875 was again the Repub
lican candidate for governor; was chair
man of the delegation from his State to
the national Republican convention in 1876;
declined a diplomatic position as a sub
stitute for the attorney-generalship, to
which, before he reached Washington,
President Hayes intended to assign him;
served as a member of the Louisiana Com
mission; was commissioned an associate
justice of the United States Supreme Court
November 29, 1877, and took his seat De
cember 10, same year; has received the
degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin College and
the University of Pennsylvania; was vice-
moderator of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America in 1905, has been for many
years a lecturer on constitutional law in
the Law Department of the George Wash
ington University at the National Capital.
Address: Fourteenth Street and Euclid
Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.
HARLAND, William Guy Bryan:
Physician; born Philadelphia, April 14,
1869; son of Edward Harland and Frances

Margaretta Jacoby. Graduated from the
Germantown Academy 1886, and from the
Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1890. Dr. Harland is a
specialist in diseases of the ear, nose and
throat, and is associate in otology in Phil
adelphia Polyclinic and. College for Grad
uates in Medicine; instructor in laryngol
ogy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel
phia General Hospital, Home for Incur
ables, etc. Was major and surgeon, First
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
in the war with Spain, and served in the
State Guard both before and afterwards.
Independent. Episcopal. Fellow of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Fel
low of the American Rhinological, Laryngo
logical and Otological Society, etc. Mem
ber of University Club. Married at Holden,
Massachusetts, June 21, 1904, Agnes Caro
line Browne, one daughter, Margaret Har
land, born December 24, 1905. Address :
223 South Seventeenth Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
HARLINGEN, Anton Van:
Physician ; born at Philadelphia, October
25, 1845 ; son of John Martin Van Harlin-
gen and Isabel (Campbell) Van Harlingen.
After receiving a preparatory education in
the private schools of Philadelphia, and
graduating from Yale College as Ph.B. in
1864, and the University of Pennsylvania
as M.D. in 1867, Dr. Harlingen became resi
dent physician of the Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania Hospitals. He was lecturer
on dermatology at the Jefferson Medical
College, and professor of dermatology at
the Philadelphia Polyclinic. Dr. Harlin
gen is author of numerous papers on Dis
eases of the Skin, and of the Handbook
of Skin Diseases. He is a fellow of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia; a
member, and president of the American Der
matological Association ; and of the Uni
versity Club. He married at London, Eng
land, August 31, 1882, Bessie Butler Whit
ney, and they have one son, John Martin,
bom September 14', 1883, Address: 1831
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

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HARMON, Benjamin Smith:
Lawyer; born in Three Mile Bay, New
York, December 15. 1859. Was educated in
Malone Academy; graduated from, Dart
mouth College as A.B. in 1882, and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. (cum
laude), in 1885. Is member of the firm of
Harmon & Mattewson. Member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa
fraternities; New England Society; The
Pilgrims; Sons of Revolution; New York
City Bar Association; and the Lawyers',
Union League, Whist, New York Yacht,
Apawawmis Golf, and Racquet and Tennis
Clubs. Mr. Harmon married in New York
City, June 3, 1897, Helen Lockwood Ket-
cham. Residence: 65 Central Park West.
Address: 40 Wall Street, New York City.
HARPER, Henry Winston:
Professor of chemistry; born in Boon-
ville, Missouri, September 20, 1859; son of
James W. Harper and Virginia (Cren
shaw) Harper. Dr. Harper is a lineal de
scendant of Alexander Spotswood, gov
ernor of Virginia from 1710 to 1723, and
of Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia
from 1776 to 1779 and from 1781 to 1786.
Dr. Harper received his education in the
Boonville Male Academy and High School,
in Missouri; was graduated as Ph.G., from
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
(with the Henry C. Lea prize for thesis),
in 1881 ; and as M.D. from the University
of Virginia in 1892; did graduate work in
chemistry with Dr. Mallet in the summer
of 1894; and took a -European study and
pleasure trip in 1897. Dr. Harper was a
manufacturing chemist and perfumer at
Fort Worth, Texas, from 1881 to 1884;
chemist and metallurgist to the Colorado
and Refugio Mining and Smelting Com
pany at Ceralvo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in
1884 and 1885 ; to the Compania La Mina
Imogena, at San Jose, Tamaulipas, Mexi
co, 1886; chemist and pathologist to Drs.
Beall and Adams, chief surgeons of Fort
Worth and Denver Railway, 1887 to 1890;
assistant resident physician, Rockbridge
Alum Springs, Virginia, in 1892; adjunct
professor of chemistry ' in charge of the
¦School of Chemistry, and director of

the Chemical Laboratory of the Uni
versity of Texas from 1894 to 1897; ai-
sociate professor of chemistry from 1807
to, 1903; and professor of chemistry line*
June, 1903, in the University of Texas, and
also chief chemist to the University of
Texas Mineral Survey. Dr. Harper is a
Democrat in politics; was in early life a
member of the Waddill Guards of Boon
ville, Missouri, and was a member of the
Law and Order League of Fort Worth,
Texas, during the Railway Strike of 1886.
He is a fellow of the Chemical Society of
London, and Deutsche Chemische Gesell
schaft, of Berlin; the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science; and
the Texas Academy of Science ; member of
the American Chemical Society; American
Electrochemical Society; Society of Chemi
cal Industry, London; the Fifth Interna
tional Congress of Applied Chemistry ;' the
American Medical Association ; Texas His
torical Society, etc. He has been director
of the Chemical Laboratory of the Univers
ity of Texas since 1894; a member of the
Council of the Texas Academy of Science
since 1895 ; and was president thereof in
1901 and 1902; and he is also a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Beta Theta Pi
fraternity, and the Alpha Mu Pi Omega
medical fraternity. He has contributed many
articles on chemical and medical- subjects
in technical journals and proceedings of
learned societies and university bulletins,
also a serial on Travels in the Land of the
Montezumas. Dr. Harper has investigated
and reported upon mines and reduction
properties in various parts of the United
States and Mexico. He is a member of
the University, and Town and Gown
Clubs of Austin, Texas. He married in
Westland, Louisa County, Virginia, July 9,
1895, Susan Randolph West, and they have
two children : Henry. Winston Harper, Jr.,
born June, 1896, and Virginia Randolph
Harper, born January 2, 1904. Address:
2208 San Antonio Street, Austin, Texas,
HARPER, Joseph Henry:
Publisher ; born New . York City, June
23, 1850 ; son of Joseph -W. and Ellen Ur-
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Hall, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Fay's School,
Newport, Rhode Island, and Frankfort,
Germany. Vice-president Harper & Broth
er's. Clubs : Century, Racquet and Tennis,
Rockaway Hunting, Turf and Field. Mar
ried, Brightside, West Farms, New York,
June 5, 1874, Mary Say Hoe; children:
Fletcher, Richard March Hoe, Mrs. L. L.
Benedict, Jr., J. Henry, Jr., John. Kesi-
dence: "Brightside", Lawrence, Long Is
land . Address : Harper & Brothers,
Franklin Square, New York City.
HARRIGAN, Edward:
Actor; born in New York City, October
26, 1845. He appeared in nearly all prin
cipal variety theatres of the country, and
subsequently accepted an offer from Tony
Pastor to appear at his theater in New
York City. After leaving Pastor's he was
on the road for three years ; and later as
sumed the management of the Theatre
Comique, and after several seasons secured
control of the Globe Theater in 1881. In
December, 1884, the Globe was destroyed by
fire, after which he played at the Four
teenth Street Theater, and later opened a
theater on West Thirty-fifth Street, which
he continued until 1890, when he retired
until 1905. He then returned to the stage
in Old Lavender. Mr. Harrigan is author
of the plays : Chowder ; Surprise ; Mulli
gan's Silver Wedding; The Major; The
Grip; The Doyle Brothers; Under Cover,
and others. He is a member of the Players'
Club of New York City. Address: 210
Park Place, Brooklyn, New York.
HARRIMAN, Edward H.:
Capitalist; president and director of the
Central Pacific Railway Company; the
Louisiana Western Railroad Company;
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad
Company (and steamship company) ;
Orange County Road Construction Com
pany; Oregon and California Railroad Com
pany; Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company; Oregon Short Line Railroad
Company; Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany; Portland and Asiatic . Steamship
Company; Railroad Securities Company ;
Southern Pacific Coast Railway Company;

Southern Pacific Company ; Texas and New
Orleans Railroad Company; and a director
in many other companies. Mr. Harriman is
a member of the Republican, Tuxedo, Met
ropolitan, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht,
Whist, Automobile of America, New York
Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, New York Ath
letic Clubs, and St. Nicholas Society. Ad
dress : 120 Broadway, New York City.
HARRINGTON, Charles M.:
Lawyer; born in Middleport, Niagara
County, New York, i860; son of Henry S.
Harrington and Hannah J. (Adams) Har
rington. After having been graduated from
Lockport Union School in 1879, and from
Phillips Exeter (New Hampshire) Academy
in 1881, he entered Harvard where he was
graduated as A.B. in 1885. He has been
engaged in the general practice of law at
Buffalo, New York; is a member of the
firm of Romer & Harrington; secretary of
the Buffalo Meter Company. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion a Presby
terian, and he is trustee and vice-president
of the Board of Trustees of Lafayette
Presbyterian Church, and is a Mason. Mr.
Harrington is a member of the Erie Coun
ty Bar Association; Phi Beta Kappa; and
is also a member of the University, Law
yers', and Harvard Clubs of Buffalo; mem
ber and ex-president of the Delta Upsilon
Club of Western New York. He married
in Brooklyn, New York, April, 1891, Mary
Bassett, and they have five children : Henry
B., born in 1892; Ralph M., born in 1894;
George L., born in 1896 ; Ruth, born in 1900,
and Henry; born in 1904. Residence: 595
Ashland Avenue. Address : 66 Erie Coun
ty Savings Bank Building, Buffalo, New
York. HARRINGTON, Purnell Frederick:
Rear admiral United States Navy; born
at Dover, Delaware, June 6, 1844; son of
Samuel M. Harrington, chancellor of Dela
ware, and Mary (Lofland) Harrington.
He was appointed to the United States
Naval Academy as midshipman, September
10, 1863; ordered into active, service, in
September,. 1863', promoted acting ens.igri,
October 1, 1863, and was ordered to the

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Ticonderoga and -attached to the Monon-
gahela in 1864 and 1865. He served in the
battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and
in all actions against the Confederate de
fences of Mobile Bay during the summer
of 1864. He was promoted master May 10,
1866 ; lieutenant February 21, 1867 ; lieuten
ant commander March 12, 1868; command
er May 28, 1881 ; captain March 1, 1895 ;
rear admiral March 21, 1903, and retired
by operation of law in 1906. He filled
many positions as a naval officer between
the Civil War period and the Spanish-
American War, in which he commanded
the Puritan in the blockade of Cuban ports,
and in the action at Matanzas forts. After
ward he was from 1899 successively com
mandant of the Portsmouth, New York and
Norfolk Navy Yards until retired. Ad
dress : Wilmington, Delaware.
HARRIS, Abram Winegardner:
President of Northwestern University;
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No
vember 7, 1858 ; son of James Russell Har
ris and Suzanna (Reed) Harris. After
completing his preparatory education in
the Friends' Central School at Philadel
phia, he entered Wesleyan University, at
Middletown, Connecticut, from which he
was graduated with the degree of A.B. in
1880, and A.M. in 1883. He also did post
graduate work at the Universities of Ber
lin and Munich; and the degree of ScD.
has been conferred upon him by Bowdoin
College, and that of. LL.D by the Wesleyan
University and the Universities of Maine
and New Brunswick. He has been con
secutively instructor of mathematics at
Dickinson Seminary, Williamston, Pennsyl
vania, instructor of mathematics and his
tory at Wesleyan University, assistant dir
ector and director in the office of Experi
ment Stati6ns of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C,
president of the University of Maine, dir
ector (president) of the Jacob Tome In
stitute, Port Deposit, Maryland, and he was
elected in 1906 to the presidency of North
western University in which position he
continues. In politics he is a Republican,

and he is a member of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. Dr. Harris is a member of
the Board of Education, and the Southern
Education Society of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the Association for the Advancement
of Engineering Education, the National Ed
ucational Association, the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, and of Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Kap
pa Phi, and Alpha Delta Tau fraternities.
Fie is also a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Masonic order,
the University Clubs of Bangor, Maine, of
Boston, Massachusetts, of Baltimore, Mary
land, of Washington, D. C, and of Chi
cago and Evanston, Illinois, and the Liter
ary Club of Chicago. He married at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 28,
1888, Clara Virginia Bainbridge, and they
have one son : Abram, born June 25, 1890.
Address : 1745 Chicago Avenue, Evanston,
Illinois.
HARRIS, Andrew Lintner:
Farmer; born in Butler County, Ohio,
November 17, 1835; son of Benjamin Har
ris and Nancy (Lintner) Harris. Was
graduated from Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, as B.Sc. in i860; afterward Miami
University conferred upon him the degree
of LL.D. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a
private soldier, and advanced through all
offices until he became colonel of the Sev
enty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was
mustered out as brevet brigadier-general in
1865. Was admitted to the bar in 1865,
having studied law previous to enlistment.
Was State Senator in 1866 and 1867, from
1875 to 1887 probate judge; Representa
tive in the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth
General Assemblies ; lieutenant-governor
when William McKinley was governor from
1892 to 1896. In 1905 elected lieutenant-
governor for the third time and on the
death of Governor J. M. Pattison in June,
1906, he became governor for term end
ing in January, 1909.. Is a Republican in
politics. General Harris is a member of
the Loyal Legion and Grand Army of the
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Ohio, October 17, 1865; Caroline Conger,
and they have one son, Walter Conger
Harris, born in 1870. Residence : Eaton,
Ohio. Business address: Governor's Of
fice, Columbus, Ohio.
HARRIS, Charles Butler:
Consular official ; born at Goshen, Indi
ana, December 9, 1843 ; son of Leonard G.
Harris and Rosalie H. Harris. He was
educated in the public schools of Indiana,
and on the call of President Lincoln for
volunteers he enlisted April 29, 1861, as a
private in Company B, Thirteenth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, serving until December
18, 1861, when he was honorably discharged
for disability contracted in the service.
After the war he engaged in banking at
Goshen, Indiana, and later in stock farm
ing and dairying, and he became a member
and sometime president of the Indiana State
Board of Agriculture. Mr. Harris has al
ways been active in the Republican party,
and he is a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution. He was ap
pointed by President McKinley, October 23,
1897, as American Consul at Nagasaki,
Japan, from which position he was trans
ferred to that of consul at Reichenberg,
Bohemia, Austria, on April 5, 1907. Ad
dress: American Consulate, Reichenberg,
Bohemia, Austria.
HARRIS, Edward:
Farmer and florist; born at Moorestown,
New Jersey, September 17, 1851 ; son of
Edward Harris and Mary Guglielma (Us-
tick) Harris. He entered the University of
Pennsylvania in 1868 and left at the close
of the first term of the Sophomore year,
and was a member of the Zeta Psi fra
ternity. Mr. Harris has pursued the study
of natural science, especially botany and
ornithology; his father was a coworker
.with and close friend of Audubon the nat
uralist, and a well known ornithologist of
his time. Mr. Harris married Ellen Deac
on, daughter of Josiah Hooton Venable,
and they have three children : one daughter
Mary Guglielma Harris, and two sons, one

of whom, Edward Harris, is a physician,
the other, William Ustick Harris, an elec
trician in Mobile, Alabama. Address :
Moorestown, New Jersey.
HARRIS, Ernest L.:
Consular official; born in Iowa. Ap
pointed consular agent at Eibenstock, May
10, 1898; commercial agent, November 11,
1902 ; consul at Chemnitz, March 23, 1905 ;
consul at Smyrna, July 25, 1906. Salary,
$3jS00 per annum. Address : Smyrna,
Syria.
HARRIS, George William:
Librarian; born Pictou, Nova Scotia,
1849; son of John F. and Margaret Grace
(Johnson) Harris ; educated Pictou Aca
demy, and Cornell University, Ph.B., 1873.
Assistant librarian, 1873-83; acting librar
ian, 1883-90; librarian since 1890, Cornell
University. Editor Library Bulletin of
Cornell University, 1883-96, and of Cornell.
University Ten-Year-Book, 1888 ; contribut
or to New York Nation, Library Journal,
and other periodicals. Independent in poli
tics. Life member Bibliographical Society
of London, Pomological Society of Amer
ica ; member American Library Association,
Gutenberg Gesellschaft. Recreation : Row
ing. Club : Town and Gown, Ithaca.
Married, Campbellton, N. B., June 26,
1895, Annie Smith; one daughter, Dorothy
M. Harris (born 1897). Address: 3
Grove Place, Ithaca, New York.
HARRIS,' Heaton W. :
Consular official ; born in Ohio. Consul
at Mannheim, December 19, 1899; consul
at Nuremberg March 30, 1907. Salary,
$4,000 per annum. Address : Nuremberg,
Bavaria. HARRIS, Henry Leavenworth:
Colonel in the Coast Artillery, United
States Army ; born in Pennsylvania ; ap
pointed from New Jersey. Cadet Military
Academy December 4, 1865; second lieu
tenant, First Artillery, June 15, 1869; first
lieutenant November 1, 1876; regimental
adjutant April 15, 1887, to April 15, 1891 ;
captain August 26, 1897; Artillery Corps,
February 2, 190T ; major August I, 1901 ;

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lieutenant-colonel April 12, 1905; colonel
October 1, r9o6. Address: Fort Hancock,
Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
HARRIS, James Arthur:
Biologist; born in Plantsville, Ohio, Sep
tember 29, 1880; son of J. T. Harris and
Ida E. (Lambert) Harris. He was gradu
ated from the University of Kansas as
A.B. in 1901 and A.M. in 1902, and from
Washington University at St. Louis as
Ph.D. in 1903. He began his connection
with the Missouri Botanical Garden as as
sistant in botany from 1901, and since 1904
he has been librarian of the Missouri Bo
tanical Garden, and also, since 1903, in
structor in biology in Washington Univers
ity. He was^ also instructor in botany in
the Summer School of the University of
Kansas in 1900 and 1901. Dr. Harris is
an Independent in politics, and a Unitarian
in religion. His scientific researches have
been in connection with plant and animal
ecology, and the geographical distribution
of species, and he has published many
papers in scientific journals and transac
tions. He is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science; the St. Louis Academy of
Sciences (of which he has been secretary
since 1906) ; the St. Louis Biological So
ciety (of which he was secretary in 1904):
and the Society of Sigma Xi. Address :
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis,
Missouri.
HARRIS, Joel Chandler:
Author; born in Eatonton, Georgia, De
cember 9, 1848, and received his education
in the Oldfield School.. He was editor of
the Atlanta Constitution for twenty-five
years, and is now editor of Uncle Remus'
Magazine, which he established in 1907.
He is author of: Uncle Remus, 1880;
Mingo, and Other Sketches, 1882; Nights
With Uncle Remus, 1884; Free Joe, and
-Other Stories, 1887; On the Plantation,
1889; Daddy Jake, the Runaway, 1890;
Evening Tales (from the French) ; Balaam
and His Master, 1891 ; Uncle Remus and
His Friends, 1892; Little Mr. Thimblefin-
ger, 1894; Mr. Rabbit at Home, 1895; The

Story of Aaron, 1896; Stories of Georgia
History, 1896; Aaron in the Wildwood,
1897 ; Sister Jane, 1897 ; Tales of the Home
Folks, 1898 ; Plantation Pageants, 1899, and
The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann,
1899. Mr. Harris resides in the suburb of
West End, where he has had a comfortable
home built to a verandah on a five-acre
lot, full of birds, flowers, children and cal-
lards. He married in 1873. Address: At
lanta, Georgia.
HARRIS, John Andrews:
Clergyman, teacher ; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; son of Nathaniel Sayre and
Elizabeth Callender (Andrews) Harris;
born July 15, 1834, in Philadelphia; edu
cated at Kinsley Military School, West
Point, New York; Protestant Episcopal
Academy, Philadelphia ; University of Penn
sylvania, 1850-1851; Princeton, 1852- 1853;
A.B. and A.M., Princeton, 1855; D.D, Jef
ferson Medical College, 1880; S.T.D. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 1886. Member of
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science, Archaeological Society; Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; Associate Mem
ber of Victoria Institute of Great Britain;
member of University Club of Philadel
phia. Author of: Principles of Agnosti
cism Applied to Evidences of Christian
ity; The Calvinistic Doctrine of Elec
tion and Reprobation No Part of St.
Paul's Teachings; essays, reviews, etc.
Instructor of Episcopal Academy, Philadel
phia, 1851-1856; principal of private school
1856-1857; principal of St. Mark's Episcopal
Academy 1857- 1863; assistant minister of
St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia, 1859-
1862 ; rector of St. Paul's Church, Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia, since 1864; ordained
deacon 1858; priest 1859; trustee, Episcopal
Academy since 1869 ; vice-president of trus
tees since 1898, and president of its Alumni
Society since 1877; vice-president of Civil
Service Reform Association, Philadelphia,
since 1881 ; clerical deputy to General Con
vention of Protestant Episcopal Church in
1886, declining reelection in 1889; member
of Standing Committee, Diocese of
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1116

chaplain of Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1888-
1899; director of Pennsylvania Insti
tution for Deaf and Dumb, Mt Airy,
since 1899 ; and a vice-president since 1901 ;
president of Chestnut Hill Relief Associa
tion since 1879; vice-president of Chestnut
.Hill Village Improvement Association; a
manager of the Episcopal Hospital, Phila
delphia; vice-president Chestnut Hill Hos
pital. He married, November 6, 1856,
Almy Sophia Hale; re-married April 2,
1861, Anne Cole Wright. Address : Chest
nut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HARRIS, John Charles:
Lawyer ; born in New York State in i860 ;
son oi John C. Harris and Harriet (Shep
herd) Harris. He was graduated at Mount
Union College as A.B. in 1883. Mr. Har
ris was appointed a midshipman in the
United States Revenue Cutter Service in
1883, and served two years on the United
States barque Chase, and one year on the
United States steamer Woodbury. He was
made lieutenant in 1886 and served on the
United . States steamer Manhattan at the
Battery, New York, and on the United
States steamer Dix at Galveston, Texas.
He resigned in 1891 to enter the active
practice of law at Galveston, Texas. In
1889 he was admitted to the Texas bar ;
was made county attorney of Galveston
County, Texas, in 1891, and since then has
been engaged in the general practice of law
at Galveston, until the hurricane in 1900,
which caused his removal to Houston. He
is a director and attorney of the Otis Ele
vator Company of Texas, the National Rice
Milling Company of Texas, the Browne
Builders' Supply Company, and the Texas
Grading Company; and he is a member of
the firm of Harris and Harris, lawyers,
He is also a director and secretary
of the Crittenton Home, and of the
United Charities. In politics he is a
Democrat, and he is a vestryman of
Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal), at
Houston. Mr. Harris is a member of the
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and of the
Thalian Club, and the Houston Golf Club.
of which he is a director and a member of
the House Committee. He is a Royal

Arch Mason and a Knight Templar; a
member of- the Texas Bar Association,
Texas Historical Association, and the Sons
of the American Revolution. He married
in Massachusetts, in 1886, Florence How
land Parlow. Address : Houston, Texas.
HARRIS, John Howard:
President of Bucknell University; born
in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1847; son of
Rees Harris and Isabel (Coleman) Harris.
He was graduated from Bucknell Univers
ity as A.B. and A.M., and from Lafayette
College as Ph.D. ; and the degree of LL.D.
was conferred upon him by Dickinson Col
lege and Colgate University. He served in
the Civil War eighteen months; was a stu
dent at law, two years; was principal of
Keystone Academy for twenty years, and
has been president of the Bucknell Uni
versity since 1889. In politics he is an In
dependent Republican, and in religion a
Baptist. President Harris married in La
Plume, Pennsylvania, 1881, Lucy Bailey.
Address : Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania.HARRIS, Joseph Smith:
Railway official; born in Frazer, Chester
County, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1836; enter
ed service of North Pennsylvania Railroad
m April, 1853; officer United States Coast
Survey from 1854 to 1864. Assistant As
tronomer Northwest Boundary Survey
1857 to 1864, attached to Farragut's Mis
sissippi Squadron in 1862, as first officer,
and later in command of United States
steamer Sachem. Civil and Mining Engin
eer, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, from 1864 to
1868; chief engineer, Morris and Essex
Railroad from 1868 to 1870; engineer Phil
adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, 1870-1877; superintendent and engin
eer, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company,
1877-1880; general manager Central Rail
road of New Jersey from 1880 to 1882.
President Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company from 1882 to 1893; receiver, and
afterward vice-president Central Railroad
of New Jersey 1886-1890; vice-president
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company, 1892; receiver and president of

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MEN OF AMERICA.

the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company and Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company 1893-1896; presi
dent, 1896-1901, of Reading Company, Phil-.
adelphia and Reading Railway Company,
and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company; member executive com
mittee of the several Reading companies,
the Central Railroad Company of New
Jersey, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company. Director of numerous corpora
tions. Trustee since 1886 of the University
of Pennsylvania, member American Philo
sophical Society, Pennsylvania Historical
Society, Contemporary Club of Philadel
phia. Member Germantown Cricket Club
Trustee of Protestant Episcopal Divinity
School, of Philadelphia. Received degree
of Doctor of Science, from Franklin and
Marshall College, 1903. Author of : Record
of the Harris Family, 1903 ; and Record of
the Smith Family, 1906. Address : Read
ing Terminal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HARRIS, Maurice Henry:
Clergyman; born in London, England,
November 9, 1859; son of Rev. Henry L.
H. Harris and Rachel (Lewis) Harris. He
was graduated from the Columbia Univer
sity as A.B. in 1887, and as A.M. and Ph.D.,
and has been rabbi of the Temple Israel of
Harlem (Reform Jewish), at Lenox Ave
nue and One Hundred and Twentieth Street,
since 1882. Mr. Harris is author of: The
People of the Book (three volumes Bibli
cal history) ; A Thousand Years of Jewish
History; History of the Jews of the Mid
dle Ages; and also of many monographs
and contributions relating to the welfare
of the Jewish people; also three volumes
of Selected Addresses. In politics he is an
Independent. He is a member of the As
sociation of Ph. D.'s of Columbia Univers
ity, the Independent Order of B'nai Brith;
vice-president of the Society for Aid of
Jewish Prisoners, New York Board of
Jewish Ministers; director of the Jewish
Protecting and Aid Society, New York
State Conference of Religion , president and
founder of the Harlem Federation for
Jewish Communal Work, and is a mem
ber of the West Side Club. Dr. Harris mar

ried in London, August 14, 1888, Kitty
Green, and they have three children: Ruth,
born in 1899, Naomi, born in 1891, and
Adriel, born in 1893. Address: 254 West
One Hundred and Third Street, New York
City. HARRIS, Thomas Jefferson:
Physician; born in Glaremont, New
Hampshire, July 25, 1865; son of Thomas
J. Harris and Myra (Beaumont) Harris.
He was graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege as A. B. in 1886 and A.M. in 1889,
and from the University of Pennsylvania
as M.D. in 1889. Dr. Harris has been en
gaged in the practice of medicine in New
York City since 1891 ; is trustee of the Jen
nie Clarkson Home, the Baptist City Mis
sion Society, Memorial Baptist Church, and
the Society for Relief of Widows and
Orphans of Medical Men. ,In politics he
is a Republican and in religion a Baptist.
He is a member of the American Otologi
cal Society, the American Laryngological
Association, American Medical' Association,
Xew York State Medical Society, New
York County Medical Society, New York
Academy of Medicine; American Laryngo
logical, Rhinological and Otological So
ciety; New York Otological Society, and
the Theta Delta Chi fraternity; is adjunct
professor of diseases of the nose and throat
in the New York Post-Graduate Medical
School and College ; and assistant surgeon
of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital ; and he is a member of the Dart
mouth and Quill Clubs. Dr. Harris mar
ried in Lynn, Massachusetts, October 21,
1896, Lena Breed, and they have one
daughter, Elizabeth, born September 15,
1903. Address: 117 East Fortieth Street,
New York City.
HARRIS, Thomas Robinson:
Clergyman ; born Combridge, Massachu
setts, June 15, 1842 ; son of Thaddeus Wil
liam (M.D.) and Catharine (Holbrook)
Harris; graduated Harvard, A.B., 1863,
General Theological Seminary, 1866, St.
Stephen's College, D.D., 1887. Ordered
deacon and ordained priest of Episcopal
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1117

Assistant minister St. Mark's Church, New
York City, 1866-67; rector St. John's, Fra.-
mingham, Massachusetts, 1867-69; St.
John's, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island,
1869-70; St. Paul's Morrisania, New York,
1870-95 ; St. Mary's Scarborough, New
York, 1895-1904; warden of St. Stephen's
College, Annandale, New York, since Feb
ruary 1, 1904. Secretary of Convention of
Diocese of New York since 1887, and mem
ber Standing Committee of diocese since
1895; trustee General Theological Semin
ary and member of its Standing Com
mittee, since 1897; examining chaplain Dio
cese of New York, 1895-1902; general sec
retary Church Congress, 1899- 1904. Served
nine months in Forty-fourth Massachu
setts Infantry in Civil War, 1862-63, and
later three months in United States Sani
tary Commission. Married, 1867, Margaret
Schenck Van Kleeck. Address : Annan-
dale, New York.
HARRIS, William Hamilton:
Lawyer; born Delaware, Ohio, 1856; son
of Bishop W. L. and Anne A. Harris;
graduated Northwestern University, 1878;
LL.B. Columbia, 1880. Admitted to New
York bar, 1880 ; member law firm of Harris
& Towne. Director Manhattan Refrigerat
ing Company, Starr Engineering Company,
Associate Owners (president). Member
Association Bar City of New York, Ex
ecutive Committee New York Law Library ;
manager American Bible Society. Clubs :
University, Hardware, Sachem's Head
Yacht. Married, New York City, Decem
ber 1, 1885, Grace F. Nicoll; children:
Helen F., Anne E., William N. Resi
dence: 141 Madison Avenue. Address:
258 Broadway, New York City.
HARRIS, William Robert:
Clergyman; born at White Plains, New
York ; son of Rev. Robert A. Harris, D.D.,
and Frances (Fisher) Harris. After grad
uation from Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, where he received the degree
of B.A., and M.A., he studied theology at
the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middle-
town, Connecticut. Mr. Harris was or
dered deacon in 1861 and ordained priest

in 1862 by Bishop Williams, in the minis
try of the Episcopal Church. He was as
sistant of St. James' Church, New London,
Connecticut, in 1861 and 1862; assistant
at Grace Church, Utica, New York, from
1862 to 1864; rector of St. George's, Lee,
Massachusetts, from 1871 to 1878, of St.
Michaels, Marblehead, Massachusetts, from
1878 to 1886, and of St. John's, Somerville,
New Jersey, from '1886 to 1893 ; and he is .
now priest in charge of Gloria Dei Church
at Palmville, New York. He is a member
of the Delta Psi fraternity. He married
first in Brooklyn, in 1867, Augusta Bogart,
and by that marriage has a daughter, Mrs.
E. V. Bartine, of Plainfield; and he again
married in Newark, New Jersey, January
12, 1904, Ella A. Brown. Address : Palm
ville, New York.
HARRIS, William Torrey:
Former United States commissioner of
education ; born at North Killingly, Con
necticut, September 10, 1835; son of Wil
liam Harris and Zilpah (Torrey) Harris,
and descendant of Thomas Harris, Roger
Williams, William Torrey, and other prom
inent early settlers of New England. After
a preparatory education in Phillips Exeter
Academy he attended Yale College for
over- two years. He received from Yale
the honorary degrees of A.M. in 1869, and
LL.D. in 1895 ; of LL.D. from the Univer
sity of Missouri in 1870; the University of
Pennsylvania in 1894, and from Princeton
in 1896; and of Ph.D. from Brown Uni
versity in 1893, and the University of Jena,
Germany, in 1899. From 1857 until 1880
he was engaged in educational work in St.
Louis, Missouri, as teacher, principal, as
sistant superintendent, and, from 1868, as
superintendent. For his published reports
during that period, which were contributed
to the American Educational Exhibit at the
Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878, he re
ceived from the French Government the
title of Officier de l'Academie. He repre
sented the United States Bureau of Educa
tion at the International Congress of Edu
cators in Brussels in 1880, and then went
to Concord, Massachusetts, where he be
came an active member of the School of

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MEN OF AMERICA.

Philosophy. He represented the - United
States Bureau of Education at the Paris
Exposition of 1889, and received from the
French Government the title of Officier de
^Instruction Publique;. and in the same
year he was appointed United States Com
missioner of Education, in which office he
continued until 1906. He is a member of
the American Historical Association; a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; was founder of
the Philosophic Society of St. Louis in
1866 ; president of the National Educational
Association in 1875; and for fifteen years
an officer of the American Social Science
Association. Dr. Harris edited the Jour
nal of Speculative Philosophy; which he
founded ; was on the editorial staff of John
son's Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of Ap-
Dleton's International Education Series; ed
itor-in-chief of Webster's International
Dictionary; and is author of: Introduction
to the Study of Philosophy, 1890; Hegel's
Logis, 1890 ; The Spiritual Sense of Dante's
Divina Commedia, 1891 ; Psychologic Foun
dations of Education, 1898; and edited the
A. E. Kroeger Translation of Fichte's Sci
ence of Ethics, published in London, in
1897. Dr. Harris married at Providence,
Rhode Island, December 27, 1858, Sarah
T. Bugbee. Residence: 1360 Yale Street,
Washington, D. C.
HARRIS, William Welton:
Editor; born at Hudson, Lenawee Coun
ty, Michigan, February 10, 1866; son of
Caleb H. Harris and Eliza (Durling) Har
ris. He was graduated from the Jackson
(Michigan) High School in 1885, and from
the University bf Michigan as Ph.B. in
1889. Fie was a commercial traveler in
1887 and 1888; reporter on the Detroit
News in 1890, and on the Chicago Inter-
Ocean and Chicago Tribune, from 1891
to 1895; copy reader, night city editor and
assistant night editor of the New York
Journal, from 1896 to 1901 ; telegraph edit
or of the New York Herald, from 1901
to 1904, managing editor of the New York
Evening Telegram from 1904 to 1907,
and became in 1907 Sunday editor
of the New York Herald. Mr. Harris

was a. member of .the Jackson Greys Regi
ment of Michigan Militia from ,1886 to
1889. He is a member of the Collectivist
Society, University of Michigan Associa
tion and Intercollegiate Socialist Society.
His favorite recreations are golf, tennis,
bicycling and fishing. He is also a member
of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, New York
Golf Club (member of the Board of Man
agers) and the Dunwoodie Country CIud.
Mr. Harris married in Jackson, Michigan,
January -25, 1893, Jessie Elizabeth Brown,
und they have three daughters : Jean, born
in 1898,. Janet, born in 1902, and Ruth,
born in 1906. Address : Lowerre Summit,
Yonkers, New York.
HARRISON, Alfred Craven, Jr.:
Explorer; son of Alfred C. and Kate De
Forest (Sheldon) Harrison; bom Decem
ber 14, 1875, at Philadelphia; received his
education at the Episcopal Academy, Phil
adelphia; also at St. Paul's School, Con
cord, New Hampshire; at the University of
Pennsylvania he took honorary degree of
B.S. Since 1896 has been occupied in scien
tific research in archaeology, anthropology
and geography; went on an exploration in
1896 to Spanish Honduras to view the ruins
of Copan. From 1897 to 1899 he also went
on explorations to Borneo ; and from Pekin
to St. Petersburg by way of China through
the Gobi District, Mongolia, and Liberia;
in 1900 explored the Nega Hills and trav
eled through India, Afghanistan, Cashmere,
Upper and Lower Burma, Cochin China and
Japan, and investigated the Veddahs of
Ceylon. In 1901-1902 he made explorations
in Sumatra. Member of Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain, Academy of Na
tural Sciences, Philadelphia; Societe de
Geographie de France; Philadelphia Geo
graphical Society; Photographic Society,
member of Royal Geographical Society;
Asiatic Society of Japan ; Philadelphia Club,
and of the Rittenhouse, University and
Philadelphia County Clubs. Address : 1616
Locust Street, Philadelphia. Business ad
dress : Ensenada de Mora, Cuba.
HARRISON, Birge:
Artist; born in Philadelphia, October 28,
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and Margaret (Belden) Harrison. He re
ceived his education in Philadelphia and in
Paris, France. He circumnavigated th"
globe ffom 1889 to 1891, preparing' illus
trated papers for Scribner's and Harper's
Magazines, and spent four years in South
ern California, one year in Arizona, two
years in New Mexico with the Pueblo In
dians, and twelve years in France, Italy
and Spain. He is an associate of the Na
tional Academy of Design; director and
professor in the Summer School of th.
Art Students' League of New York at
Woodstock, New York; exhibited hors
concours at the Paris Salon; received
medals at the Paris Exposition, the World's
Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893,
the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo
in 1901, Louisiana Purchase- Exposition at
St. Louis in 1904, at Washington iii 1904,
etc., and has paintings in public museums
at Marseilles, France, the Philadelphia Aca
demy of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute.
St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the
Museum of Oakland, California, and is a
painter of American landscapes, making
winter scenes a specialty. He is a member
of the Century Association and the Sal
magundi Club. Mr. Harrison has been
married twice, first in 1892, to Eleanor
Ritchie, of Melbourne, Australia, who died
in May, 1895, and second to Jenny Seaton
Harrison, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Address : 7 West Forty-third Street, New
York City.
HARRISON, Carter Henry:
Lawyer, ex-mayor ; born in Chicago,
April 23, i860; son of Carter H. Harrison,
five times mayor of Chicago, and of an
early Virginia and pioneer Kentucky family.
and of Sophonisba Grayson (Preston) Har
rison. After a preparatory education in the,
public schools of Chicago and a German
gymnasium, he entered St. Ignatius College,
Chicago, from which he was graduated B.A.,
in 1881, and rece'ved the degree of LL.D.
in 1900; and from there he went to the
Yale Law School, from which he was grad
uated as LL.B. in 1883. He engaged in
the practice of law in Chicago from 1883
to 1889, then in the real estate business until

1891, when, in association- with his brother,
Preston €. Harrison,- he became- publisher
and editor of the- Chicago Times, which
they sold in 1894. Mr. -Harrison early be
came active in the politics of Illinois as a
Democrat, and particularly in the political
affairs of the City of Chicago, with the
problems of which he became familiar dur
ing his father's able incumbency of ten
years in mayoralty of Chicago. In 1897
he was elected mayor of the city for a
two-year term, and he was reelected in
1899, 1901, 1903, serving until April, 1905.
He has been delegate to several State and
National Conventions; and was chairman
of the Resolutions Committee in the State
Democratic Convention of Illinois in 1900.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the Masonic
order, the Sons of tne Revolution, Sons of
the American Revolution, Society of the
War of 1812, Society of Colonial Wars, Chi
cago Historical Society, and the Chicago,
Iroquois, and Saddle and Cycle Clubs. His
favorite recreations are hunting and fish
ing, and he is also a member of the Swan
Lake Club of Henry, Illinois, and the Hu
ron Mountain Hunting and Fishing Club
of Marquette, Michigan. Mr. Harrison
married, December 14, 1887, Edith Ogden
of New Orleans, who is the author of some
charming books of juvenile fiction, and they
have two children : Carter Henry Harrison,
Jr., and Edith Ogden Harrison. Address :
Virginia Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
HARRISON, Charles Custls:
Provost of the University of Pennsyl
vania; born in Philadelphia, May 3, 1844;
son of George Leib Harrison and Sarah
Ann (Waples) Harrison, and a descendant
of Thomas Harrison, of Carlisle, England,
who visited America before tht. Revolution
and there espoused the cause of the
Colonies at the cost of the sacrifice of his
English estate. His son established the
first chemical manufactory in America and
this was carried 01: by his uncles under the
firm name of Harrison Brothers. On his
mother's side he is descended from the
famous Custis" family, of Virginia, whose
name he bears. He was educated in the
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Pennsylvania, and intended to make the
law his prosession, but during his absence
on a visit to the army in 1862, with the
purpose of joining its ranks, the late John
Welsh proposed to his father to establish
their two sons, with Walter S. Newhall,
in the sugar-refining business, under the
firm name of Harrison, Newhall & Welsh.
Young Harrison, then only nineteen, on his
return home, found his warlike aspirations
checked, and entered actively into the
business formed for him, which quickly
showed signs of prosperity. His brothers
and brother-in-law subsequently entered
the firm, which became known as Harrison,
Frazier & Co., and later as the Franklin
Sugar Refining Company. In 1892, when
the refinery was sold, it_ was doing the
largest business in value of products of
any manufactory in Pennsylvania. Mr.
Harrison attended to its mercantile in
terests,, and in doing so traveled widely
through the United States and Mexico.
Aside from his business relations he was
an active member of St. Luke's Episcopal
Church, and took great interest in the
Episcopal Hospital, and also in the Society
for the Protection of Children from Cruel
ty, of which he is the president. He was
elected a trustee of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1876, and on the death of
John Welsh succeeded him as chairman of
the Committee on Ways and Means. In
1894, on resignation of the highly efficient
Provost Pepper, Mr. Harrison was re
quested to accept this office. He declined,
but was finally induced to accept it for
a brief interval and after a year's exper
ience consented in June, 1895, to be instal
led as Provost. A few days previously he
had established, in honor of his father,
"The George L. Harrison foundation for
the encouragement of liberal studies and
the advancement of knowledge," endowing
it with $500,000. Its purpose was to estab
lish scholarships and fellowships for men
of exceptional ability, increase the library,
and aid professors to devote themselves
to special work. The new provost sought
diligently to add to the rescources and
develop the capabilities of the university,
a striking result of his labors being .the

building of the dormitories, at a cost of
6oo,doo, and of Houston Hall, as a college
club house of $160,000— this money being
obtained in the form of gifts from liberal
patrons of the institution. This is but a
portion of the funds raised during the
administration of Provost Harrison, these
having amounted to over $6,000,000, which
have been applied greatly to the advan
tage and development of the university.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the Penn
sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the
American Philosophical Society, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and the University
Club. He married on February 23, 1870,
Ellen Nixon Wain, their family consisting
of three sons and three daughters. Ad
dress : 400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
HARRISON, Francis Rurton:
Lawyer, member of Congress; born in
New York City, December 18, 1873; son
of Burton and Constance (Cary) Harrison.
After receiving his education in Cutler
School, he entered Yale, where he was
graduated in 1895 ; and he graduated from
New York- Law School as LL.B. in 1897.
He has been practicing law since 1897;
is a member of the firm of Harrison, Sea-
songood & Edwards; vice-president and
director of the McVicar Realty Trust Com
pany, and the Empire Trust Company. He
was instructor in the New York Night
School from 1897 to 1899. Mr. Harrison
served in the Spanish-American War as
private in Troop A, New York Volunteer
Cavalry, from May 19 to June 20, 1898,
and was promoted captain and assistant
adjutant-general of United Mates Volun
teers, serving until January 31, 1889. He
was nominated by the Democratic party and
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from
a district which was, under normal con
ditions, Republican by several thousands
majority. He resigned his seat before the
expiration of this term, having accepted
the Democratic nomination for lieutenant-
governor, but was defeated by the Roose
velt tidal wave. Mr. Harrison was elected
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leenth New York District in November,
1906, as a Democrat. He is a life member
of the American Museum of Natural His
tory; trustee of the New York Ortho
paedic Hospital, trustee of the Institution
for the Improved Instruction of Deaf
Mutes, and is a member of the Knicker
bocker, University, Racquet and Tennis,
Manhattan, New York Athletic, City, Mid
day, Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo and Psi
Upsilon Clubs of New York City, and of
the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.
C. Mr. Harrison married on June 7, 1900,
Mary, daughter of Charles P. Crocker of
San Francisco (now deceased), and he has
two children : Jennie A. Crocker and Char
les T. Crocker. Residence: 876 Fifth
Avenue. Address : 43 Cedar Street, New
York City.
HARRISON, George Paul:
Lawyer; born near Savannah, Georgia,
March 19, 1841 ; son of George P. Harri
son and Adelaide (Guinn) Harrison. He
is descended from the old Virginia Harri
son family and from Benjamin Harrison,
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. He was graduated from the
Georgia Military Institute, went imme-
-diately into the Confederate Army and was
commissioned a brigadier-general before
he was twenty-two years old. He served
throughout the war, settled as a planter in
Alabama, and in 1871 entered upon the
practice of law. General Harrison was a
member of the State Constitutional Con
vention of 1875 ; member of the State Sen
ate several terms, and of the Fifty-third
and Fifty-fourth Congresses; and a dele
gate to the State Constitutional Convention
of 1900. General Harrison has been grand
master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of
Alabama, and is major-general command
ing the Alabama Division of United Con
federate Veterans. In religious affiliations
he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. He married at LaGrange,
Georgia, November 20, 1900, Sarah Nun-
nally. Address: Opelika, Alabama.
HARRISON, Joseph Le Roy:
Librarian ; born in North Adams, Massa
chusetts, October 12, 1862; son of John

Le Roy Harrison and Ellen Maria (Hawks)
Harrison, After a preparatory education
at Drury Academy, North Adams, Massa
chusetts, and the Cascadilla School at
Ithaca, New York, he entered Cornell Uni
versity, and afterward studied in the. Uni
versity of Heidelberg (Germany), and the
New York State Library School at Albany,
receiving the degree of B.L.S., conferred by
the University of the State of New York.
Mr. Harrison worked in the city staff of
the Commercial Advertiser of New York
City from 1885 to 1888, was assistant cor
respondent of the Commercial Advertiser
at Washington in 1888 and 1889; was a
student and traveling in Europe from 1889
to 1893 ; sub-librarian for Legislation in
the New York State Library in 1893 and
1894; and has been librarian of the Provi
dence Athenseum, at Providence, Rhode
Island, since 1894. Mr. Harrison is editor
of: Cap and Gown, some College Verse
(Boston), 1893; With Pipe and Book, a
collection of college verse (Providence)
1897 ; In College Days, recent 'varsity
verse (Boston), 1901. He is a member of
the American Library Association, the
Rhode Island Library Association, Massa
chusetts Library Club, New York State
Library School Association, Rhode Island
Historical Society, Rhode Island School of
Design, the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and the
Hope, Agawam Hunt, Psi Upsilon and Art
Clubs of Providence. Residence : East
Greenwich, Rhode Island. Office address :
The Providence Athenxum, Providence,
Rhode Island.
HARRISON, Thomas Perrin:
Educator ; born at Abbeville, South Caro
lina, October 11, 1864, son of Francis Eu
gene and Mary Eunice (Perrin) Harrison,
and grandson of James and Sarah (Earle)
Harrison and of Thomas Chiles and Jane
(Wardlaw) Perrin. After attending
school at Abbeville, he was graduated from
the South Carolina Military Academy in
1886. He taught in this institution for two
years, and then took a post-graduate course
in Johns Hopkins University from 1888 to
1891, receiving his Ph.D. degree in the latter
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lish in Clemson Agricultural College, South
Carolina, from 1891 to 1895, and professor of
English in Davidson College, North Caro
lina in 1895. Professor Harrison married,
January 9, 1894, Adelia, daughter of James
Turner and Adelia (Lake) Leftwi.ch. Ad
dress : Davidson College, North Carolina.
HARRISON, Wallace K.:
Physician; born in Bethlehem, Connecti
cut, August n, 1848; son of William R.
Harrison and Susan L. (Kasson) Harrison.
He was graduated from Yale College in
1874 as A.B. and as M.D. in 1884 from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Chicago. He was formerly demonstrator
of anatomy and professor of medical chem
istry, and is now in general practice of
medicine, and is also supreme medical ex
aminer of several fraternal insurance so
cieties. Dr. Harrison is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Illinois
State Medical Society, Chicago Medical So
ciety and the American Academy of Medi
cine. He is also a member of the Royal
League, a Mason and a Knight Templar.
In politics he is identified with the Demo
cratic party; and in religion is a member
of the Unitarian Church. He married at
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, July 27, 1882,
Emma G. Wheaton and their children are :
Louise L., born in 1884; Constance, born
in 1891, and Geneva W., born in 1899.
Residence : 426 North State Street, Chi
cago. Office address : 1606 Masonic Tem
ple, Chicago, Illinois.
HARRITY, WUUam F.:
Lawyer ; member of law firm of Harrity,
Lowrey and Thompson ; born in Wilming
ton, Delaware, October 19, 1850; attended
public schools, Clarkson Taylor's Academy
and St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Dela
ware; was graduated from La Salle Col
lege, Philadelphia, 1870; taught mathemat
ics, Latin, etc., in La Salle College, 1870-
1871 ; received degree of Master of Arts,
1871 ; admitted to the Philadelphia bar,
1873 ; practiced law in Pennsylvania ; re
ceived the degree of LL.D., from St.
Toseph*s College, Philadelphia, 1902. Chair
man TJemocratic city executive committee

of Philadelphia, 1882; delegate-at-large to
Democratic National Convention, 1884;
postmaster, Philadelphia, 1885-1889; elect
ed chairman Democratic State Central
Committer of Pennsylvania, 1890 : secretary
of Statr. of Pennsylvania, 1891-1895; chair
man Democratic National Committee, 1892-
1896; delegate-at-large to Democratic Na
tional Convention, 1896; chairman Penn
sylvania delegation to Democratic National
Convention of 1896 and temporary chair
man of that convention. Director of the
equitable Trust Company, Philadelphia;
Franklin National Bank, Philadelphia;
Market Street National Bank, Philadel
phia; Philadelphia Electric Company;
American Railways Company; Distilling
Company of America ; Chicago Union Trac
tion Company, The Kansas City Southern
Railway Company, Lehigh Valley Transit
Company, Midland Valley Railroad Com
pany, Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York and other business corporations ;
and he is a trustee of LaSalle College,
Philadelphia, and a member of the Board
of Public Education. Mr. Harrity is 3
member of the American Bar Association,
Law Association of Philadelphia, Lawyers'
Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Board
of Trade, American Academy of Political
and Social Science, Franklin Institute, Art
Club of Philadelphia, The Penn Club, Or
pheus Club, Racquet Club, Merion Cricket
Club, Overbrook Club, Philadelphia Coun
try Club, Overbrook Golf Club, Pennsyl
vania Society of New York, Sons of Dela
ware, Hibernian Society, Catholic Club of
Philadelphia; member American Catholic
Historical Society, Catholic Philopatrian
Literary Institute, Five O'Clock Club, Liv
ingston Club, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and
other social organizations ; member of His
torical Society of Pennsylvania ; member
National Geographic Society. He married
Rose M. Devlin in 1883, and has four chil
dren : Mary Agnes, Marguerite Marie,
Isabelle, Josephine and William Francis
Harrity, Jr. Residence: 6310 Sherwood
Road, Overbrook, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress.: Livingston Club, Allentown, Penn
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HARRY, Joseph Edward:
Professor of Greek; born at Pylesville,
Maryland, October i, 1863; son of David
Harry and Maria Jane (Warner) Harry.
He is a descendant in the eighth genera
tion from William Warner of Dreyreet,
Worcestershire, England, a famous captain
under Oliver Cromwell, who left England
in 1658 and settled on the west bank of the
Schuylkill (now the township of Block-
ley), twenty-four years before Penn came,
and was the very first man to settle in the
vicinity of Philadelphia. Professor Harry
was graduated from the State Normal
School of Maryland as salutatorian in
1880; won a Hopkins scholarship in the
Johns Hopkins University in 1886; a Uni
versity scholarship in 1887, and a! fellow
ship in Greek in 1888, and received from
that university the degree of A.B. in 1886,
and Ph.D. in 1889, and he afterward studied
in Germany. He taught Greek, Latin and
German in the Friends' High School in
Baltimore while pursuing studies at Johns
Hopkins; and later had private classes in
French, Spanish, Italian and Sanskrit. Dr.
Harry was elected to the chair of Greek
and German in Georgetown College, Ken
tucky, in 1889; to the chair of Greek in
the University of Cincinnati in 1900; be
came dean of the College of Liberal Arts
of the same institution in 1903 ; acting presi
dent of the University of Cincinnati in
1904; and has been dean of the Graduate
School of that university from 1906. Pro
fessor Harry has traveled all over the east
ern half of the United States, over the
whole of Europe (spending four summers
there), part of Northern Africa, everywhere
in Greece, the Archipelago, Crete, and Asia
Minor. Being fond of outdoor exercise
he walked over one thousand miles in the
Rhine lands, through the Black Forest
and Switzerland, and he climbed several
of the high mountains. He is a Republi
can in politics, and in religion is a member
of the Society of Friends. Professor Harry-
has been a corporate member of the
Oriental Society from 1896, and of the
Archaeological Institute of America from
1898; was a member of the International
Congress of Archaeologists, at Athens,

Greece, in 1905; secretary of the Greek
Division of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position, at St. Louis, Missouri, 1904; sec
retary of the Cincinnati Society of the-
Archaeological Institute of America ; mem
ber of the Classical Association of the
Middle West and South, and of the Cin
cinnati Literary Club. He married in New
Park, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1890, Cora
Day, and, they have a daughter, Mary
Worthington, born in 1898. Residence : Au
burn Hotel, Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Business address : University of Cincin
nati, Ohio.
HARSHA, William Mclntire:
Physician and surgeon; born in Harsha-
ville, Ohio, June 15, 1855; son of William
B. and Rachel (Mclntire) Harsha. He re
ceived his education in the public schools of
Harshaville, the North Liberty Academy,
and at the National Normal University of
Lebanon, Ohio, where he obtained the de
grees of B.S. and A.B. He studied medi
cine one year at the University of Michigan
arid finished his studies at the Chicago
Medical College, from which he was grad
uated in 1883. He practiced his profession
in Cerro Gordo and Decatur, Illinois, until
1890, when he removed to Chicago, Illi
nois, where he has since been continuously
engaged. He has been professor of oper
ative and clinical surgery in the Chicago
College of Physicians and Surgeons, now.
The College of Medicine of the University -
of Illinois, since 1896, and is also a mem
ber of the board of directors of that insti
tution. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the American Acad
emy of Medicine, the Illinois Medical So
ciety, the Mississippi Valley Medical Asso
ciation, and the Chicago Medical and Sur
gical Societies. He acts with the Repub
lican party in National affairs, but is in
dependent on local issues. He is medical
director of the order of Columbian Knights,
of which he is a trustee, and is a member
of the Physicians', University, Press and Il
linois Athletic Clubs. He was married- in
Lebanon, Ohio, June 1, 1880, to Adelia S.
Hutchinson, and has. two children : William
Thomas and Edward Houston. Address :

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103 State Street. Residence : Grand Boule
vard, Chicago, Illinois.
HARSHBERGER, John William:
Assistant professor of botany; born in
Philadelphia, January I, 1869; son of Dr.
A. Harshberger and Jane Harris (Walk)
Harshberger. Through his father he is
descended from a German ancestor who
settled in central Pennsylvania' in 1735,
and in the maternal line he comes of a
Scotch-Irish family that settled in Path
Valley, Pennsylvania, prior to the French
and Indian Wars. After graduation from
the Central High School of Philadelphia
in 1888,' he entered the University of Penn
sylvania on a city scholarship, and was
graduated from that university as B.S. in
1892 and Ph.D. in 1893. In the summer of
1890 he studied dendrology at the Arnold
Arboretum of Harvard University and in
that year was appointed assistant instructor
in botany in the University, and later, in
1893, became instructor in botany, general
biology and zoology in the same institution
serving both in the Biological School and
the Veterinary Department. Later was ap
pointed a lecturer in the Department of
Philosophy, and in April, 1907, was advanc
ed to the position of assistant professor of
botany in the University of Pennsylvania.
His doctors' thesis, entitled Maize : A Bot
anical and Economic Study, was published
in Contributions from the Botanical Labor
atory of the University of Pennsylvania,
and was afterward translated into and
published in Spanish. Dr. Harshberger has
also published many other important con
tributions to botanical science. He is a
member of the Botanical Society of Penn
sylvania, Academy of Natural Science, the
Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Ameri
can Forestry Association, Philadelphia Nat
ural History Society, Botanical Society of
America, Geographical Society of Philadel
phia, American Philosophical Society, and
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. Address :
737 Corinthian Avenue' Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.

HART , Albert Bushnell :
Professor of history in Harvard Univer
sity; born at Clarksville, Pennsylvania, July
1, 1854; son of Albert Gaillord and Mary
(Hornell) Hart. He was graduated from
Harvard as A.B. in 1880, and from the
University at Freiburg, Germany, with the
Ph.D. degree, 1883. He was instructor in
American history at Harvard from 1883
to 1887, assistant professor of history from
1887 to 1897, and since then professor of
history in Harvard University. Professor
Hart is one of the most distinguished
teachers of history of our time and an ex
tensive contributor to the history of the
development of American institutions. He
is author of numerous works dealing with
American history, and editor of the Amer
ican Historical Review.- Address : Har
vard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HART, Francis Russell:
Banker; bom at New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, January 16, 1868; son of Thomas
Mandell Hart and Sarah Davis (Watson)
Hart. After a preparatory education in the
Friend's Academy at New Bedford he en
tered the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, where he was graduated in the class
of 1889, Mr. Hart was engaged in engin
eering in the West Indies from 1889 to
1891 ; was general manager of the Carta-
gena-Magdelena Railway, Colombia, South,
America, in 1891 and 1892; vice-president
and general manager in 1892 and 1893, and
president from 1893 to 1906 of the same
road, and has been vice-president of the
Old Colony Trust Company since 1896. He
is now also president and director of the
Cartagena Terminal and Improvement
Company, Limited, the Lowell Electric
Light Corporation ; vice-president and di
rector of the Northern Railway Conipany
of Costa Rica ; secretary and member of
the Shareholders' Committee of the Pere
Marquette Railroad, director and member
of the executive committee of the United
Fruit Company; director of the Bay State
Trust Company, Elders and Fyffes, Limited
(of London), Marlborough and Westbor-
oiigh Street Railway Company, the Pair-
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Conipany, Tacoma Railway and Power
Company, Tropical Fruit Steamship Com
pany, Limited (London), Nipe Bay Com
pany of Cuba, and the United Electric Se
curities Company. He is trustee of the
Hathaway House Trust, the Milton (Mas
sachusetts) Savings Bank, and the Worces
ter Railways and Investment Company and
voting trustee of the New England Brick
Yards Company. lie is a Republican in
politics and is chairman of the Board of
Sewer Commissioners of Milton, Massa
chusetts, where he resides. In religious
views he is a Unitarian; and he is a trus
tee of Milton Academy. Mr. Hart is a
life fellow of the Royal Geographical So
ciety -of London, and of the Imperial Insti
tute of London, a member of the Society
of Arts of Boston, the Socfety of Natural
History of Boston and various historical
and geographical societies in various places.
He is also a member of the St. Botolph and
Exchange Clubs of Boston, the Country
Club of Brookline, Milton Club of Milton,
Hoosic Whisick Club of Canton, Wamsutta
Club of New Bedford, the National Arts
Club of New York City, and others. He
married at Northampton, Massachusetts,
June 4, 1896, Helen Bronson Hobbey, and
they have three children: Helen Weld,
born in 1898; Gwendolyn, born in 1901, and
Francis R, Jr., born in 1903. Residences :
Nonquitt, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
(summer), and Cragwold, Milton, Massa
chusetts (winter). Office address: Ames
Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
HART, James Morgan:
Educator; born at Princeton, New Jer
sey, 1839; son of John Seely and Amelia
Caroline (Morford) Hart. He was gradu
ated from Princeton, as A.B. in i860, A.M.
in 1863, L.H.D. in 1900; Gottingen, J.U.D.
1864. Was assistant professor of modern
languages, Cornell, from 1868 to 1872; pro
fessor of modern languages and English
literature, Cincinnati, from 1876 to 1890;
professor of English, Cornell, since 1890.
He has made several visits to Germany,
Switzerland, London, Dublin, Copenhagen,
for study. Mr. Hart is author of: Ger
man Universities ; Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon

Literature; Handbook of English Composi
tion; Essentials of Prose Composition; The
Development of Standard English Speech,
in Outline (Holt) ; and is editor of various
German texts, with notes, and revised edi
tion of father's Manual of Composition
and Rhetoric. Translator of: The Ama
zon, a novel, from the German of Franz
Dinglestedt ; and of a work on Colour, from
the French of Cave. He is a frequent con
tributor of book reviews, etc., to the Na
tion, and of articles to magazines. Member
of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity; Phi
Beta Kappa Society; American Philosophi
cal Society of Philadelphia; Modern Lan
guage Association of America; and the
University Club of New York City. He
married at Cincinnati, 1883, Clara Doherty.
Address : Ithaca, New York.
HART, James Wallace:
Lawyer; born in Malden-on-the-Hudson,
Ulster County, New York, July 21, 1866;
son of Rev. William and Mary Y. (Selo-
ver) Hart. Was educated in Auburn Aca
demic High School. He was admitted to the
bar October, 1891 ; now practicing law at
Auburn, New York. Was city judge of
Auburn, New York, 1895 to 1904; assistant
district attorney of Cayuga County in 1892
and 1893 ; now president of the Civil Ser
vice Commission, Auburn, New York. In
politics is a Republican and in religion an
Episcopalian. Is member of the New York
Commandery Military Order of Loyal
Legion ; Auburn Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons (district deputy grand master of
the Thirtieth Masonic District, in 1897
and 1898) ; vice-president of the Cayuga
County Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals ; and secretary of the Cayuga
County Historical Society; treasurer, Au
burn Business Men's Association, and is a
member of the City Club. Residence : 96
North Street. Address : Auburn Savings
Bank Building, Auburn, New York.
HART, Samuel:
Clergyman and professor; born in Say-
brook, Connecticut, June 4, 1845; son of
Henry Hart and Mary A. ¦ (Witter) Hart.
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Hartford, as A.B. with optimus, in 1866,
and as- MA. in 1869, and from the Berkeley
Divinity School in 1869. The honorary
degree of D.D. was conferred upon him
in 1885, and the degree of D.C.L. in 1899
by Trinity College ; and the honorary degree
of D.D. in 1902 by Yale University. He was
ordained deacon in the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and ordained
priest in 1870. From 1868 to 1870 he was
tutor at Trinity College, where he was as
sistant professor in mathematics from 1870
toi873; professor of mathematics from 1873
to 1883, and professor of Latin from 1883
to 1889. He has been vice-dean and prp-
fessor of doctrinal theology and the Prayer
Book since 1899 at the Berkeley Divinity
School; and acting librarian in both insti
tutions. Professor Hart was secretary of
the American Philological Association for
five years, and Was its president in 1892.
Since 1890 he has been president of the
Connecticut Historical Society; was presi
dent' of the Connecticut Library Association
in 1894; has been registrar of the Diocese
of Connecticut since 1874; and has been
custodian of the Standard Prayer Book of
the Protestant Episcopal Church since 1886,
and secretary of the House of Bishops of
the Protestant Episcopal Church since 1892 ;
secretary of the Connecticut Beta of Phi
Beta Kappa, since 1870, senator of the Na
tional Council of Phi Beta Kappa since
1892; president of the Good Will club of
Hartford; vice-president of the Church
Missions Publishing Company, and chaplain
of the Guild of St. Barnabas. He is also
honorary member of the New Haven Colo
ny Historical Society, the New London
County Historical Society, and is trustee of
the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Watkinson Li
brary, the Colt Bequest of Hartford, and
the Russell Library of Middletown. He is
a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, Phi
Beta Kappa Society, the American Orient
al Society, the American Historical Asso
ciation, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Society of
Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the
Egypt Exploration Fund. Address: Berk
eley Divinity School, Middletown, Con
necticut.

HART, Thomas Norton:
Banker and ex-mayor; born at North
Reading, Massachusetts, January 20, 1829;
resident of Boston sijice 1842. His educa
tion was procured at country schools, and
after that he engaged in business pursuits
in Boston; became a prominent merchant
of that city, and was head of the firm of
Hart, Taylor & Company, until he retired
and became president of the Mount Vernon
National Bank of Boston. Mr. Hart has
for many years been a leading Republican
of Boston; was elected a member of the
Boston Common Council in 1879 and 1881,
and of the Boston Board of Aldermen in
1882, 1885, and 1886. He was Republican
nominee for mayor of Boston in 1887 and
1888 ; was elected mayor in 1889, 1890, 1900
and 1901, and was postmaster of Boston
under appointment of President McKinley
from 1897 to 1900. Address : 298 Common
wealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.'
HARTER, George Abram:
President of Delaware College; born in
Leitersburg, Maryland, November 7, 1853;
son of Peter Koontz and Mary (Poe)
Harter. After a preparatory education at
the common schools of Washington Coun
ty, Maryland, he took up study at the
National Normal School of.Lebanan, Ohio,
for a year (1870). In 1874 he entered St.
John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and
graduated in 1878 with the degree of A.B.
taking that of A.M. in 1880. The honorary
degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him
by the same college in 1892. After his
graduation from St. John's he became in
structor in Delaware College, and two years
later he was appointed principal of the
Leitersburg Grammar School. In 1881 he
resigned this position, going to Hagers
town, Maryland, to accept a similar one.
Here he remained until 1885 when he ac
cepted the position of professor in mathe
matics and modern languages at Delaware
College, becoming in 1888, professor of
mathematics and physics. He was elected
in 1896 president of the college, holding
that position to this date. Dr. Harter has
traveled considerably in Europe and the
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ent with Republican leanings and is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church. He is a
member of the State Board of Education
and belongs to various societies of a scien
tific and educational character. He is al.«o
a member of the Philadelphia University
and the Church Clubs. He was married at
Annapolis, Maryland, April 26, 1882, to
Ellen Studdiford Graff, and has one daugh
ter, Elinore Theodora. Address : Newark,
Delaware.
HARTLEY, Jonathan Scott:
Sculptor; born Albany, September 23,
1845; son of Joseph and Margaret (Scott)
Hartley; educated Albany Academy. En
tered upon his artistic career at an early
age; member National Academy Design
since 1891 ; among his works are the
Daguerre monument at Washington, D. C. ;
the Ericsson monument, New York City;
the statue of Miles Morgan at Springfield,
Massachusetts; Alfred the Great for the
New Appellate Court Building, New York
City; Thomas K. Beecher, Elmira, New
York, and numerous others. Member Na
tional Sculpture Society (secretary), So
ciety of American Artists, Architectural
League, Art Students' League; founder of
Salmagundi Club of New York City.
Married, New York City, 1888, Helen In
ness ; five, children. Residence : Mont
clair, New Jersey. Address : 145 West
Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
HARTMAN, Herbert T.:
Vice-president and general manager of
the American Gas and Electric Company;
born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 2, 1867 ;
son of H. C. Hartman and Serepta E.
(Johnston) Hartman. He was educated
in Lehigh University and Amherst Col
lege. In 1887 he entered the employ of the
Fort Wayne Electric Company, and in
1890, the engineering department of the
Sprague Electric and Motor Company. He
continued with the Edison General Electric
Compariy after it absorbed the Sprague
Company ; was appointed- superintendent of
construction for Quebec Province in
1891, and district engineer for Canada in
1892. When the General Electric Company

absorbed the -Edison, he remained with them.
as- assistant - Superintendent, and in- 1-893 "was
promoted to work engineer. From 1896 to
1899 he served as assistant engineer of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturing Light and
Power Company. In 1899 he was appointed
second vice-president of the Electric Com:
pany of America, serving until January,
1909, and later in his present position as
vice-president of the American Gas and
Electric Company. He is also vice-presi
dent and director of the Atlantic Electric
Light and Power Company, the Electric
Light Company of Atlantic City, the Con-
shohocken Electric Light and Power Com
pany, the Conshohocken Gas Company, the
Scranton Electric Company, the Auburn
Light, Heat and Power Company, Wheeling
Electric Company,- Canton Electric Com
pany, Muncie Electric Light Company, the
Marion Light and Heating Company, and
the Rockford Edison Company and is di
rector of the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Altoona, Pennsylvania. He
has" traveled extensively in the United
States and Canada, and his favorite recre
ations are golf and boating. In politics he
is identified with the Republican party,
and he is a member of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Hartman is a member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Chi
Phi fraternity, and the University, South
ern, Merion Cricket, St. David's Golf, and
Lehigh Clubs of Philadelphia. He married
at Marion, Alabama, November 18, 1891,
Mary Ella Lee. Residence : St. David's,
Pennsylvania. Office address : Witherspoon
Building, Philadelphia.
HARTSHORN, William N.:
Publisher, Sunday School worker; born
at Greenville, New Hampshire, October 28,
1843; son of George Hartshorn and Mary
A. (Putnam) Hartshorn. He was edu
cated in the public schools of New Hamp
shire and at Appleton Academy, Mount
Vernon, New Hampshire. He engaged in
the publishing business in . Boston and is
now president and treasurer of the Priscilla-
Publishing "Company and of the Publishers
Binding and Mailing Company, and is also
a director of the Mechanics' Trust Com-

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pany of Boston. Mr. Hartshorn has al
ways been active in Sunday School .work,
and for many years past has devoted most
of his time to organized Sunday School
work. He was elected chairman of the
executive committee of the International
Sunday School Association in 1902 and re
elected in 1905 at the International Sunday
School conventions, and was secretary of
the World's Convention in Jerusalem in
1904, and was elected joint secretary of the
World's Sunday School Association at
Rome, in 1907. He is a Baptist in his de
nominational relations, and is ex-president
of the Baptist Social Union of Boston; is
prominent in philanthropic institutions, and
has especially been a leader in the exten
sion of organized Sunday School work on
this continent and beyond seas. Residence :
54 The Fenway, Boston. Office address :
85 Broad Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HARTSHORNE, Charles:
Retired railway official ; born in Phila
delphia, September 2, 1829; son of Dr.
Joseph Hartshorne and Anna (Bonsall)
Hartshorne. He was educated at Haver
ford College two years, and the University
of Pennsylvania two years, graduating A.B.
in 1847, and receiving the degree of A.M.
in 1850. He was president of the Quakake
Railroad in 1857, and of the Lehigh and
Mahanoy Railroad until it merged with the
Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1868, when he
became vice-president of that road, serving
in that capacity until January, 1, 1899. He
was formerly also president of the Choctaw
Coal and Railway Company, and vice-pres
ident of the Philadelphia, Reading and
New England Railroad. He married Caro
line C. Yarnall, of Philadelphia, in 1859. Ad
dress : Merion Station, Pennsylvania.
HARTZELL, Joseph Culver:
Geologist; born in New Orleans, Louisi
ana, September 10, 1870; son of Bishop J.
C. Hartzell, D.D., LL.D. (of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church), and Jennie (Cul
ver) Hartzell. He was graduated from
Grant University as B.S. in 1892, from
Yale University as M.S. in 1899, the Uni
versity of Munich as Ph.D. in 1904; was

graduate student at the University of Pisa
in 1903, Johns Hopkins University from
1896 to 1898; and Harvard University in
1896. He was professor of geology in the
South Carolina State Agricultural College
and Mechanics' Institute from 1892 to 1896;
professor of geology and biology in the Illi
nois Wesleyan University from 1899 to
1904; and has been professor of geology
and chemistry at the University of the
Pacific since 1904. He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, American Chemical Society,
American Geographical Society, National
Geographic Society, Ohio Academy of
Science, Washington Geological Society,
Washington Biological Society, etc., and of
the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Dr.
Hartzell has traveled extensively and has
published a number of scientific articles in
Europe and America. He has a private li
brary of over four thousand volumes, and
several hundred reprints, and has a large
collection . of ricks, minerals, fossils, and
chemical compounds. He married at Day
ton, Ohio, August 31, 1893, Helen Hitch
cock Thresher. Residence: 271 South
Eighth Street, San Jose. Office address:
University of the Pacific, San Jose, Cali
fornia. HARVEY, Alexander:
Editor; born in Brussels, Belgium, De
cember 25, 1868; son of Alexander Arthur
Harvey and Mary (Cameron) Harvey, both
Americans. He was educated in the public
schools of Philadelphia, and began his jour
nalistic career as a reporter on the Phila
delphia Press, and after that ou the Phila
delphia United Press, and the New York
Telegram, then successively associate editor
of the Bacheller Newspaper Syndicate, edi
tor of The Twentieth Century, secretary to
the diplomatic agent and consul-general of
the United States in Egypt, assistant Sun
day editor of the New York Herald, foreign
editor of the Literary Digest; now asso
ciate editor of Current Literature and editor
of The Bang; also associate editor of The
Booklovers' Shakespeare. He has resided
in Egypt in service of the United States
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Italy and England. Mr. Harvey has written
for magazines, such as The Cosmopolitan;
has been associate editor on the staff of
The Warner Library of the World's Best
Literature ; compiled, with H. W. Warner, a
Dictionary of Authors, and acted as asso
ciate editor on the encyclopedia staff of
J. A. Hill and Company, and the Univer
sity Society. He is a Republican in politics,
a Presbyterian in his religious views, and is
a trustee of the Palisade Avenue United
Presbyterian Church, of West Hoboken,
New Jersey. Mr. Harvey is a member of
The Vagabonds' Club. He married in Jer
sey City, New Jersey, April 7, 1895, Eva
Augusta Schubert, and they have two sons :
Julian Harvey, born in 1896 and Herbert
Harvey born in 1901. Residence: 105
Shippen Street, Weehawken Heights, New
Jersey. Office address : 41 West Twenty-
fifth Street, New York City.
HARVEY, EU:
Artist, painter, sculptor; born Ogden,
Ohio, September 23, i860; son of William
P. and Nancy (Moore) Harvey; educated
public schools, McMicken University of
Cincinnati, Ohio, fine arts course; studied
art at Academie Julien, Ecole Delecleuse,
Cour de Design at the Jardin des Plantes,
Paris, France. Was a regular exhibitor at
the Paris salons of painting and sculpture,
1894-1900; represented at Paris Exhibition
1900; Buffalo Exposition, 1901 ; Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, 1904; bronzes of Play
ing Leopards and group of Lion Cubs in
private collection in Liverpool and London;
awarded gold medal Paris Province Ex
hibition, 1900, for picture, Orpheus Charm
ing the Animals ; Wanamaker Prize for
sculpture, Paris, 1900; medals for exhibits
at Pan American and Louisiana Purchase
Expositions ; awarded commission by New
Vork Zoological Society for sculptural de-.
corations on the new lion house, New
York Zoological Park; in 1906 the New
York Metropolitan Museum acquired -his
bronze piece of a lioness and cub, Maternal
Caress.. Represented in St Louis Museum
of Fine Arts by two pieces in sculpture:
Roaring Lion, and Rampant Jaguar ; mod
eled The American Elk, 1905, for Order of

Elks; Young Greyhound Adonis, 1905,
Leopardess and Cubs, Contentment, Elk
No. 2 with Winter Coat, and a series of
Bear groups ; designed and modeled station
ery cabinet and ink stand, 1906, Rex, or Lion
with Antelope, 1906, and other works. In
dependent in politics. Member New. York
Zoological Society, New York Architectur
al League, National Sculpture Society.
Member New York Municipal Art Society.
Mr. Harvey married at Glen Loch, Penn
sylvania, June 13, 1893, Mary Anna Baker.
Address: The Benedick, 80 East Wash
ington Square, New York City.
HARVEY, George:
Editor, publisher ; born in Peacham, Ver-
rnont, February 16, 1864; son of Duncan
Harvey and Margaret S. (Varnum) Har
vey. He was graduated from Peacham
Academy; and he received from Erskine
College the degree of LL.D. in 1904. He
was reporter for the Springfield Republi
can, Chicago News and New York World,
and managing editor of the New York
World; constructor and president of var
ious electric railroads, and he bought i
March, 1899, the North American Review,
of which has since been editor; became
president of Harper & Brothers, in 1900,
and since then has been editor of Harper's
Weekly; and he was elected trustee of the
Stevens Institute in 1903. -In politics he is
a Democrat. He is a member of the New
York, Lotos, Turf and Field, Racquet,
Metropolitan, Lawyers' Clubs of New York,
Devonshire and Savage Clubs, London, arid
Travelers' Club, Paris. Mr. Harvey mar
ried in Peacham, Vermont, October 13,
1887, Alma A. Parker. Residence: Deal,
New Jersey. Address : Harper & Brothers,
Franklin Square, New York City.
HARVEY, Joel D,:
Lawyer, dealer in real esate; born in
Kane County, -Illinois, in 1836; son of
Joel and Polly Harvey. He was educated
in the public schools of Kane County, and
began the study of law immediately after
leaving school. He was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1858, and practiced in Kane
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Chicago, Illinois, where he has since re
mained. He also engaged in the real es
tate business, and now carries on a general
real estate and loan office. He is a Repub
lican, and was for nine years. United States
collector of internal revenue for the North
ern District of Illinois, continuing as such
under the administrations of Presidents
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Cleve
land. Fie was married in Kane County in
1858, to Julia Plato, and has three children.
Residence : Geneva, Illinois. Office address :
164 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HARVEY, Turlington Walker:
Lumber merchant ; born at Siloam, Madi
son County, New York, March 10, 1835;
son of Joshua and Paulina (Walker) Har
vey. He was educated in the public
schools of Madison County and at the
Oneida (New York) Academy. He learned
the carpenter's trade, and at the age of
nineteen went to Chicago, Illinois, where
he was employed in a sash and blind fac
tory for five years. In 1859 he became
the owner of a planing mill in association
with, a Mr. Lamb, under the style of Lamb
& Harvey. In 1865 he purchased his part
ner's interest in the business, and con
tinued thereafter to conduct the mill alone,
greatly increasing its capacity and also ac
quiring large mills at Muskegon, Michigan,
and Marinette, Wisconsin. The business
was incorporated in 1883 as the T. W- Har
vey Lumber Company. Mr. Harvey be
coming its president. He is the owner
of a large stock farm in Eastern Nebraska,
and laid out the town of Harvey, Nebraska,
where he has many important investments.
ITe is president of the Acme Gas Com
pany and a director in numerous companies.
He has devoted much of his time and
means in the direction of charitable work.
He was president of the Young Men's
Christian Association from 1871 to 1873
and from 1876 to 1879. He has been a
director since 1866 and president since
1886 of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society,
¦ and was on it's 'executive committee and
-'in active" ^charge of it's shelter' wo.rk after
the" great ' fire of 1872. He was married
first in 1859, Maria Hardman of Louisville,

Kentucky, who died in 1871, leaving four
children : Charles A., John R., George L,
and Robert H. His second wife was Belle
S. Badger, of Chicago, to whom he was
united May 28, 1873, and by whom he has
had four children: Belle B., Turlington
W., Jr., Elbert A. and Paul S. Address:
Monadnock Block. Residence: 49 Pine
Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HARWOOD, Herbert Joseph:
Manufacturer of assembly chairs; born
at Littleton, Massachusetts, September 6,
1854; son of Joseph Alfred Harwood and
Lucy Maria (Hartwell) Harwood. He
was educated in the public schools of Lit
tleton from i860 to 1869; at the Lancaster
Academy, Lancaster, Massachusetts, from
1869 to 1870; at Philips Exeter Academy
from 1870 to 1873, and at Harvard College
until 1877, when he received the degree of
A.B. After leaving college he was in the
employ of the Montague Paper Company,
at Turner's Falls, Massachusetts; of J. A.
and N. Harwood, and the Harwood Manu
facturing Company, both of Boston, and of
R. W. Reid and the Andrews-Demarest
Seating Company, these being both of New
York, for whom -he was the Boston repre
sentative. On January 1, 1899, he went
into business for himself in Boston, as a
manufacturer of assembly chairs; and he
is also a director of the National Fibre
Board Company. He was lieutenant-colonel
and assistant adjutant-general on the staff
of Governor John D. Long in 1882 and was
a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives in 1899. He is also trus
tee of the Bromfield School, at Harvard,
Massachusetts ; was trustee of the public li
brary at Littleton for twenty-one years until
1906; was a member of the School
Committee from 1893 to 1906. Mr.
Harwood is a member of the New
England Historic-Genealogical Society;
of the Essex Institute, the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Harvard, and was an
original member of the University Club of
Boston from which he has resigned: ' While
at" Exeter Academy he' was a member of
the Golden Branch Society; and while at
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1770, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the
Hasty Pudding Club, and he is also a Ma
son. His favorite recreation is farming on
the two hundred and twenty-two acre es
tate and local history. He traveled in New
Brunswick, England, and in France in 1869
and made various trips through the middle
and west parts of the United States and in
Canada. He is a Republican in politics and
a member of the Unitarian Church. Mr.
Harwood has written articles on Littleton,
in Drake's History of Middlesex County,
Massachusetts, and in Hurd's History of
Middlesex County, and has written and
published Historical Sketch of Littleton;
and he is on a committee to publish the
vital records of Littleton. He married at
Lancaster, Massachusetts, October 15, 1879,
Emelie Augusta Green and their children
are : Joseph Alfred, born - in 1880 ; Helen
Diman, born in 1883; Margaret, born, in
1885 ; Richard Green, born in 1886 ; Herbert
Edward, born in 1889; Emelie Minerva,
born in 1891 ; Jonathan Hartwell, born in
1892, and Robert Walker, born in 1897.
Residence: Littleton, Massachusetts. Of
fice address : 220 Devonshire Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
HASBROUCK, Daniel B. :
Capitalist. He is vice-president of the
New York City Railway Company; presi
dent and director of the Broadway and
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, Kings-
bridge Railway Company, and Metropolit
an Street Railway Company; vice-president
and director of the Bleecker Street and
Fulton Ferry Railroad Company, Central
Park, North and East River Railroad
Company, Dry Dock, East Broadway and
Battery Railroad, Forty-second Street and
Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company,
Fulton Street Railroad Company, Third
Avenue Railroad Company, Thirty-fourth
Street Crosstown Railway, Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth Street. Crosstown Rail
road Company, and Twenty-third Street
Railway Company; director of the Bronx
Traction Company, Hudson River and
Long Island Sound Railroad Company,
Union Railway Company of New York,
and West Eighty-sixth Street Railway Com

pany. Residence: 418 Sackett Street,
Brooklyn. Address: 621 Broadway, New
York City.
HASBROUCK, Henry C.:
Brigadier-General, United States Army,
retired; born in New York City, October
26, 1839 ; son of William C. Hasbrouck and
Mary Elizabeth (Roe) Hasbrouck. Upon
his graduation from the United States
Military Academy, he was appointed sec
ond lieutenant of the Fourth Artillery,
May 6, 1861 ; first lieutenant, May 14, 1861 ;
captain, July 26, 1866; major, March 5,
1887; lieutenant-colonel, October 29, 1896;
colonel of the Seventh Artillery, February
13, 1899 ; brigadier-general of United States
Volunteers, May 27, 1898, to June 12, 1899;
and brigadier-general of the United States
Army, December 1, 1902. He served
throughout Civil and Spanish-American
Wars; and was retired, January 5, 1903.
Brigadier-general Hasbrouck married in
Buffalo, New York, 1882, Laetitia V. War
ren. Address : 99 Montgomery Street,
Newburgh, New York.
HASKELL, Edward H. :
Paper manufacturer; born in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, October 5, 1845; son of
William H. Haskell and Mary S. Haskell.
He received his education in the public
schools of Gloucester. Colonel Haskell
served in the Civil War as signal officer;
with Burnside in North Carolina in the
campaign of 1861 and 1862 ; was in the cam
paign of the Army of Virginia and Ten
nessee from 1862 to 1863 ; with Sherman in
Georgia in 1864; and assistant adjutant-gen
eral on Governor Long's staff from 1880
to 1883. He was a member of the Massa
chusetts Legislature in 1877 and 1878; and
a member of the Governor's Council from
1882 to 1885; served as delegate to the Re
publican National Convention in 1880 and
1884, and was secretary of the latter con
vention. Colonel Haskell was president of
the Boston Paper Trade Association, and
is now president of the New England Bap
tist Hospital ; the Baptist Social Union ; and
the American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety; and is vice-president of the Boston

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Associated Board of Trade. Colonel Haskell
married at Gloucester, in 1866, Hattie J.
Munsey, and their children are: Edward
A., Marion R., and Edith L. Haskell. Resi
dence: 888 Beacon Street, Newton Centre,
Office address: 176 Federal Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
HASKELL, William Edwin:
Editor and publisher; was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, June 18, 1862;
son of Edwin Bradbury and Celia (Hill)
Haskell; grandson of Jonas and Joanna
(Hubbard) Hill, and of Moses Greenleaf
and Rosilla (Haines) Haskell, and a de
scendant of Samuel Haines, who came from
England to Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
in 1646; and of William Haskell, who came
from England to Gloucester in 1635. Will
iam Edwin Haskell was graduated at Har
vard with the class of 1884. He acquired
a half interest in the Minneapolis Tribune
and conducted the paper 1884-1888; became
part owner of the Minneapolis Journal in
1885, his father being chief owner of the
paper, and he was editor-in-chief and gen
eral manager i8g4-i90d, and on May 1, 1900,
became proprietor of the Minneapolis
Times, retaining the ownership after he
left the city of Minneapolis in order to take
charge of the Boston Herald as its pro
prietor. He was a member of the staff of
Governor Merriam with the rank of colonel
1889-1893 ; and a member of the personal
staff of Governor McGill 1887-1889. He
removed to Boston, Massachusetts, a few
years later, and assumed the proprietorship
of the Boston Herald, of which his father
was publisher and a chief owner from 1869,
up to the time of his death in 1907, and
editor-in-chief up to 1887. He was enabled
through his experience in the newspaper
business in Minneapolis to install new life
in the already vigorous Boston Herald, and
the newspaper enjoyed a period of profit
able existence that placed it at the head of
the Independent press in Boston and in
1907 it removed its quarters to a new build
ing on Tremont Street. Address : Boston
Herald, Boston, Massachusetts.

HASKINS, Caryl Davis:
Electrical engineer; born at Waltham,
Massachusetts, May 23, 1867; son of John
F. and Helen P. (Davis) Haskins. He was
educated in the Massachusetts public schools
and private tutors; Allison Towers and
Rosindale Schools (England) ; London Uni
versity (Tuition System), London, Eng
land. He has traveled in the West Indies,
Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Austria,
and England, Scotland, and Sweden, with
Haskins, Davis and Company, engineers,
London, 1857; S. Z. de Ferranti and Com
pany, engineers, of London, 1888; Thomp
son Electric Welding Company, 1889;
Thomson-Houston Electric Company, and
its successor, General Electric Company,
since 1889; now manager of the lighting
department. He has been granted about
twenty-five patents for electrical and other
inventions. Commanded Boston Battalion,
Volunteer Electrical Corps, United States
Army, in Spanish-American War, 1898. In
dependent Republican in politics, and a
member of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers ; American Society of Me
chanical Engineers ; United States Naval
Institute; Military Service Institution;
United States Geographical Society. His
favorite recreations are shooting, fishing, * *
motoring, canoeing, and golf. He is author
of: Transformers, 1889; joint author of
Questions and Answers About Electricity,
1889 ; also about thirty technical papers and
essays. Also fiction : For the Queen in
South Africa, 1899; and about ten stories,
sketches and essays. Is a member of the
Engineers' Club of New York City; the Mo
hawk, Mohawk Golf Clubs of Schenectady;
and the Aulters Golf Club of Amsterdam,
New York. He married at Wakefield,
Massachusetts, November, 1894, Frances J.
Parker. Address : Schenectady, New York.
HASKINS, Kittredge:
Lawyer ; born Dover, Vermont, April 8,
1836; was educated in the public schools
and by a private tutor; read law and was
admitted to the bar of the State courts
in April, 1858, and of the Supreme Court
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State's attorney for Windham County from
1870 to 1872; was United States attorney
for the district of Vermont from October,
1880, to June, 1887; served as first lieuten
ant of Company I, Sixteenth Regiment,
Vermont Volunteers, in the Union Army;
in 1869 was appointed colonel and chief of
staff to Governor Peter T. Washburn ; is
a member of the Grand Army of the Re
public and of the Loyal Legion; served on
the Republican State committee for the
Second Congressional district from 1876 to
1884; represented Brattleboro in the legis
lature, 1872 to 1874, and again from 1896
to 1900; was speaker of the house at the
special war session in May, 1898, and again
of the regular session, 1898 to 1900; was
State senator from Windham County from
1892 to 1894; is a member of the board of
trustees of the Norwich University; was
elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress. Address : Brat
tleboro, Vermont.
HASTINGS, frank Seymour:
Industrial corporations; born in Mend
ham, New Jersey, May 31, 1853'; son of
Thomas S. and Fanny (de Groot) Hast
ings. Was educated in private schools in
New York City. Is president and director
of the Indianapolis Gas Company, and
Johnson-Lundell Electric Company; vice-
president and director of the Maine Engine
and Machine Company, Amazon Wireless
Telephone and Telegraph Company, Thom
as B. Brown & Son ; director of the Colum
bia Trust Company, and the United States
Rubber Company. In politics he is an In
dependent and in religion a Presbyterian.
Is trustee of the New Ydrk Magdalen Ben
evolent Society, Hahnemann Hospital;
director of the Oratorio Society; presi
dent and director of the Russian Sym
phony Orchestra ; and member of the City,
New York Athletic, Mendelssohn Glee,
Amateur Glee (is its vice-president and di
rector), Indian Harbor Yacht Club and Sea
wanhaka-Corinthian Ciub (rear-commodore
and trustee). Mr. Hastings married, Oc
tober 14, 1876, Cardline Fanning, and
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they have one son : Charles F, born Sep
tember 21, 1876. Residence: 15 West Fif
tieth Street. Address : 80 Broadway, New
York City.
HASTINGS, Hugh:
State historian of New York; born in
Albany, New York, July 22, 1856; son of
Colonel John Hastings and Margaret Hast
ings. After having received his education
in public and private schools of Albany, he
removed to New York City in 1874. He
became connected with Commercial Adver
tiser in May, 1874, as its Wall Street re
porter; established a reputation as a politi
cal and military writer and as managing
editor; was connected with the New York
World from 1885 to 1888, as chief politi
cal correspondent, and with the New York
Times in the same capacity, from 1888 to
1895. Mr. Hastings was appointed, April
25, 1895, as State historian, an office creat
ed for him, by Governor Morton, and was
reappointed in 1899, by Governor Roosevelt,
and in 1903, by Governor Odell. He has
edited and published Ancient American
Politics, written by his uncle, Hugh J.
Hastings, for the Franklin Square Library
(Harper's) Series in 1866; and also in his
official capacity has edited two volumes of
Colonial Records and Muster Rolls; three
volumes of Military Papers of Governor
Daniel D. Tompkins ; eight volumes of Pub
lic Papers of Governor George Clinton;
four volumes of Ecclesiastical Records of
New York; four volumes of Military Min
utes of the Council of Appointment of
New York; one volume of New York and
the War with Spain. Mr. Hastings is a
member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the
American Revolution (honorary member),
and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States and is a member of
the New York Athletic and Transporta
tion Clubs of New York City, the Albany
Club of Albany and the Army and Navy
Club of Washington, D. C. He married
in Charleston, South Carolina, April 5,
1883. Address: Albany Club, Albany,
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HASTINGS, William Granger:
Lawyer; born at Woodstock, Illinois,
April 9, 1853; son of Carlisle and Hannah
(Granger) Hastings. He was graduated
at the University of Chicago in 1876, and,
going thence to settle in Nebraska, was
admitted the following year to the bar.
Here he took up the practice of law, ident
ifying himself at the same time with the
Democratic party in politics. In 1884 he
was elected to "the Nebraska State senate
for the years 1885-87, becoming in 1889
prosecuting attorney of Saline County and
district judge of the seventh judicial dis
trict of Nebraska 1891-1900. Following
this he was for three years, 1901-04, Su
preme Court commissioner of Nebraska.
From 1904 to 1907, professor of law at
University of Nebraska, teaching eq
uity and constitutional law. Mr. Hast
ings is author of various articles on law
topics. He was married at Marengo, Illi
nois, October 20, 1880, to Elizabeth Hack-
ley. Address : Station A, Lincoln, Ne
braska. HATFIELD, Charles Albert Phelps:
Colonel of the Thirteenth Cavalry, United
States Army; born in Dayton, Alabama,
December 9, 1850; son of Henry Phillips
Hatfield and Stella (Phelps) Hatfield. He
received his preparatory education in priv
ate schools, then entered West Point Mili
tary Academy in June, 1868, and was grad
uated in June, 1872. He was on the cavalry
raid into C'oahuila, Mexico, in May, 1873,
and on May 18, 1873, in an engagement
with hostile Indians at Remalino, Mexico,
and on October 27 and 29, 1874, was in an
engagement with Comanche Indians in the
Pan-Handle of Texas. On May 15, was in
an engagement with the Geronimo Apaches,
in Sonpro, Mexico, and was brevetted major
for this action. He also served in Cuba
from July 1889, to May, 1901, and in the
Philippines from September, 1901, to April,
1905. After his graduation he served as
second and. first lieutenant and captain in
the -Fourth United States Cavalry from
June, 1872, to October, 1898; as major of
the Eighth United States Cavalry from Oc
tober, 1898, to April, 1901; as lieutenant-

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colonel of the Fifth Cavalry from April,
1901,. to March, 1903, and colonel of the
Thirteenth Cavalry since March, 1903.
He traveled in Japan in 1905 and China
in 1906. Colonel Hatfield married in
Colorado, October 4, 1880, Frances Ellen
Blackmore, and their children are: Albert
Blackmore, born in 1881 ; and Helen, born
Address: Fort Myer, Virginia,

HATLEY, John Craig:
Capitalist; born in Durham, England,
October 30, 1845; son of John and Jane
(Craig) Hatley. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town. He was
apprenticed to a provision dealer in Dur
ham in 1859, and later was with the firm
of Furness & Company, of Hartlepool, Eng
land, where' he remained until 1873, when
he came to America and established him
self in Chicago, Illinois, in the provision
trade, continuing alone until 1881, when
he associated with him his brother, under
the style, of Hatley Brothers, which con
tinued until 1895, when he withdrew. He
is now a director of the Provision Dealers'
Dispatch, chairman of the Chicago Beach
Hotel Company, and a member of the Chi
cago Board of Trade. He is a Republican;
and is a member of the Union League (di
rector), Homewood, Caxton, Midday, and
Lake Geneva Country Clubs. He was mar
ried in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, in
January, 1871, to Annabella Robson, and
has four children : John George, Ethel
Craig, Margaret M., and Louise. Resi
dence: Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago.
Address : Board of Trade, Chicago, Illi
nois.HATLEY, Walter Craig:
Grain and provision merchant; born in
Durham, England, September 5, 1848; son
of John and Jane "(Craig) Hatley. He
was educated in the public schools of Dur
ham. Soon "after leaving school he entered
the British merchant service as a cadet
apprentice, where he qualified himself as
an officer and was acting in that capacity
when he first came to America, in 1873.
He left the British service and established
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exporter, in 1873. He remained at Brant-
ford, Ontario, until 1882, when he removed
to Chicago, Illinois, where he became as
sociated with his brother, John Craig Hart
ley, in the same line of business, under
the style of Hartley Brothers. He has
been for many years a prominent member
of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is a
member of the Episcopal Church and of
Union League and Highland Park Clubs.
He -was married in Brantford, Ontario,
September 9, 1894. Residence: Highland
Park, Illinois. Address : Board of Trade,
Chicago, Illinois.
HATJGAN, Helge Alexander:
Banker; born in Christiania, Norway,
October 26, 1848. He attended the public
schools of Christiania until his eleventh
year, when he came with his parents to
America. The Haugans settled in Mont
real, where the son completed his education
in the schools of that city. He learned
the trade of steam fitter and brass finisher,
and in 1862 removed to Chicago, where
he worked at his trade as a journeyman,
and in a few years established - a business
on his own account, which he carried on
successfully. In 1879, in- association with
John R. Lindgren, he established the bank
ing house of Haugan & Lindgren. The
firm was reorganized in 1891 as the State
Bank of Chicago and Mr. Haugan has
been its - president to the present time. He
is a director of the Chicago Title and
Trust Company, and a member of the
Union League Club. He was married in
Chicago in 1869, td Laura A. Wardrum.
Residence: 1713 Deming Place, Chicago.
Address : 142 Washington Street, Chicago,
Illinois.HATJGEN, Gilbert N.:
Congressman; born April 21, 1859, in
Rock County, Wisconsin. Since the age of
fourteen, and prior to his election to Con
gress, he was actively engaged in various
enterprises, principally real estate and bank
ing ; was treasurer of Worth County, Iowa,
for six years ;. was elected to the Iowa Leg
islature,' serving in the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth General Assemblies; was

elected to the Fifty-sixth, .Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty^ninth Congresses and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from
the Fourth Iowa District.- In politics he is
identified with the Republican Party. He
married in Winneshiek County, Iowa, Oc
tober 25, 1885, Bertha Elise Evensen. Ad
dress : Northwood, Iowa.
HAUGHTON, Victor Mellet:
Clergyman; born in Boston, March 24,
1866; son of James Haughton and Augus
tine (Mellet) Haughton. He was educated
in Columbia College in' 1886 and 1887; at
Haverford College, where he received the
degree of B.A. in 1889, and in the General
Theological Seminary of New York from
1889 to 1903. He, was ordered deacon June
12, 1892, by ' Bishop Whitaker, at Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania, and ordained priest
June 11, 1893, by Bishop Niles at St. Luke's
Church, Charlestown, New Hampshire.
Mr. Flaughton was rector at Charlestowji
from 1893 to 1897, of the Church of Good
Shepherd at Clinton, Massachusetts, from
1897 to 1903, and ¦ since then of Christ
Church, Exeter, New Hampshire. He is
clerk of the Exeter College Hospital; an
Independent in politics, and is a member
of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He married
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 16,
1901, Jennie Leonard Hodges, and they
have one son: James Haughton, born in
1902. Address : Christ Church Rectory, Ex
eter, New Hampshire.
HATJPT, Alexander James Derbyshire:
Pastor; born in Greenfield, Massachu
setts, June 1, 1859; son of Brigadier-Gen
eral. Herman Haupt and Ann Ceeelia (Kel
ler) Haupt. He received his preparatory
education in the public schools of Phila
delphia ; graduated from the Central High
School as A.B. in 1878 and received his A.
M. in 1883. He ranked among the distin
guished scholars and was awarded a prin
cipal's certificate by the Philadelphia Board
of Education. He was also graduated as A.
B. from the University of Pennsylvania in
1882, and from the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Philadelphia, in 1884.. He re
moved to St. Paul when his father was

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general manager of the Northern Pacific
Railway, and began the second English
Lutheran Mission northwest of Chicago, in
connection with the Rev. G. H. Trabert
of Minneapolis. He also organized three
other congregations and built six chapels
and churches. He is one of the founders
of the English Lutheran Synod of the
Northwest and of the Northwest Alumni
Association of the University of Pennsyl
vania. In 1895 he was elected chairman
of the Rescue Committee of the Christian
Citizens' League, and in 1898 was appointed
by the mayor of the City of St. Paul as
delegate, to the Western Conference, of
Charities at Omaha. In 1903 he was sec
retary to the Scandinavian Famine Relief
Fund Committee of Ramsey County. In
1906 he was appointed by Governor John
son one of the Minnesota Commissioners
to the National Divorce Congress at Wash
ington, D. C, and at Philadelphia. For
fifteen years he has been a member of the
Board of Directors of the St. Paul Society
for the Relief of the Poor. He is a mem
ber of the National Conference of Chari
ties and Correction; and of the Asso
ciated Charities of St. Paul; is ex-presi
dent of the Ramsey County Bible, and
City Mission Society; ex-president of the
English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the
Northwest, and first vice-president of the
Minnesota Sunday School Association. June
11, 1907, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg,
conferred upon him the honorary degree of
D.D. in appreciation of his services to
Church and State. For twenty-three years
he served the Memorial English Evangel
ical Lutheran congregation at St. Paul, but
on July 6, 1907, was called to be the first
superintendent of the American Mission So
ciety of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Haupt married at Reading, Pennsylvania,
June 10, 1885, Ida Louise Boyer, and their
"hildren are : Edith Anna, born in 1888 ;
Margaret Cecelia, born in 1890; Alexander
James, born in 1892; John Boyer, born in
1895; George Edward, born in 1896; and
Henry Haupster, born in 1903. -Address:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

HACPT, Lewis M.:
Consulting engineer; born in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, March 21, 1844; son of Her
man Haupt and Ann Cecilia (Keller)
Haupt. Hp received his education in nu
merous schools, and at Harvard, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and the United
States Military Academy, and was gradu
ated from the latter into the United States
Corps of Engineers, in 1867. The degree
of A.M. was conferred upon him by the
University of Pennsylvania, and that of
ScD. by Muhlenberg College. He was
lieutenant of engineers on lake surveys in
1868; also in 1869 engineer officer of the
Fifth Military District in Texas, and re
signed from the Army September 20, 1869.
From 1872 to 1892 he was professor of
civil engineering at the University of Penn
sylvania ; and he now practices his pro
fession at Philadelphia. He served in the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
in Pennsylvania, and in the United States
Light House service. He was a member
of the Nicaragua Canal Commission from
1897 to 1899, and since 1899 has been a
member of the Isthmian Canal Commis
sion. In 1897 he was president of the
Colombia-Cauca Arbitration; was chief en
gineer of the survey for a ship canal across
New Jersey, and consulting engineer for the
Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal. Dr.
Haupt is a recognized expert on water
ways and maritime engineering, and was in
ventor of the "reaction breakwater" for re
moving ocean bars. He was editor of the
American Engineering Register in 1885 and
1886, and is author of: Engineering Speci
fications and Contracts; The Topographer
— His Methods and Instruments; Physical
Phenomena of Harbor Entrances (prize
essay of the American Philosophical So
ciety) ; Special Report on the Railway
Plant of the Paris Exposition; Canals and
Their Economic Relation to Transporta
tion; A Move for Better Roads; he has
also written numerous pamphlets on engi
neering subjects. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Society, the Na
tional Geographic Society, the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the Franklin

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Institute, the Trades' League of Philadel
phia, the Connecticut Society of Civil En
gineers, and the Geographic Society of
France. He is independent in politics, and
a member of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church. Dr. Haupt married at Philadel
phia, June 26, 1873, Isabella C. Cromwell,
and they have had nine children, five
of whom are now living. Address : 107
North Thirty-fifth Street, Philadelphia.
HATJPTON, James:
Clergyman; was graduated from Har
vard as B.A. in i860, and M.A. in 1862.'
He was ordered deacon in 1866 by Bishop
Eastbum and ordained priest in the same
year by Bishop Chase. From 1866 to 1869
he was in charge of the church of Exeter,
New Hampshire; from 1869 to 1876 at
Hanover, New Hampshire ; was dean of All
Saints' Cathedral, Albany, New York, from
1876 to 1879, and rector at Yonkers from
1879 to 1887. Since then he has been rec
tor of the Church of the Redeemer, at
Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. Address :
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
II AC SER, Julius:
State treasurer, baker and confectioner;
born in Rust, Baden, Germany, August 7,
1854; son of Pius Hauser and Mary Eve
(Schwartz) Hauser. He was educated in
the graded school at Ettenheim, Baden.
Since 1878 he has been in the bakery and
confectionery business at Sayville, Long
Island. He was elected town clerk of Is-
lip, Long Island, seven times; was elected
supervisor in 1903 and reelected in 1905,
always as a Democrat in a Republican
town; was chairman of the Democratic
County Committee of Suffolk County from
1901 to 1905, and was elected November
6, 1906, State treasurer of New York, which
office he now holds. Mr. Mauser is a di
rector of the' Sayville Electric Light Com
pany; member of the Fred Adee Company;
and interested in the Oysterman's National
and other banks. In religion he is an
Episcopalian, and he is a Mason, Knight
Templar arid Shriner; member of the Odd
Fellows, Royal Arcanum, Foresters of
America, and of various German benevolent

and singing societies ; and is ex-chief and
secretary of the Sayville Fire Department.
Mr. Hauser married in Sayville, Long Is
land, November 23, 1881, Dora Jedlicka,
who died in February, 1906; and June 12,
1907, he married, second, Mrs. Adelia M.
Anthony, of Washington, D. C. Address :
Sayville, Suffolk County, New York.
HAUTHAWAY, Edwin D.:
Capitalist; president and director of C.
L. Hauthaway and Sons, Incorporated;
president and trustee of the Manomet Cran
berry Company, and director of the Mc
intosh Zinc Mining Company. Address :
1702 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HAVEMEYER, Henry Osborne:
Sugar refiner; born in New York, 1847;
son of Frederick Christian Havemeyer.
After receiving his education in public and
private schools, he became connected with
Havemeyer and Elder, sugar refiners, first
as member of the firm and then becoming
Manager. Since 1891, he has been president
of the American Sugar Refining Company,
American Coffee Company and of the Great
Western Company; trustee of the Colonial
Trust Company; director of the Alliance
Realty Company, Brooklyn Cooperage Com
pany, Brooklyn Elevator and Milling Com
pany, Colonial Safe and Deposit Company,
National City Bank of New York, New
Jersey and New York Realty and Improve
ment Company, Palmer Waterfront Land
and Improvement Company, Pennsylvania
Stave Company. He is a member of the
Grolier, Riding and Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht Clubs. Mr. Havemeyer married
Louisine W. Elder, and they have four
children: Henry Osborne, Jr., Adaline,
Electra and Horace. Residence : 1 East
Sixty-sixth Street. Address: 117 Wall
Street, New York City.
HAVEMEYER, Henry Osborne, Jr.:
Railroad lighterage; born New York City,
April 15, 1876; son of Theodore Augustus
and Emily (de Losey) Havemeyer; grad
uated Yale, 1900. Secretary and treasurer
New Jersey and New York Investment
and Improvement Company; president AI-

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a-ska". Copper and Coal Company,- Brooklyn
Eastern District Terminal, and .director of
the Natiqnal Copper Bank . of. . City, of
New York; secretary Point. Comfort Im
provement Company; treasurer of the
Scranton and Lehigh Coal Company and
the Brooklyn Elevator and Milling Com
pany. Republican. Roman Catholic. Clubs :
Yale, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht,
Tuxedo, Racquet and Tennis, City Midday,
Knickerbocker. Marrie.d, Newport, Rhode
Island, July n, 1900, Charlotte A. G. Whit
ing; children: Carlotta, Henry O., 3d.,
Florence H. Address: 113 Wall Street,
New York City.
HAVEMEYER, John Craig:
Merchant, sugar refiner ; born in New York
City, 1833 ; son of William F. and Sarah
A. Havemeyer; educated at private schools
and prepared for college at Columbia Col
lege Grammar School, but owing to failing
eyesight, was unable to complete college
course. In 1854 assumed responsibility of
office work at sugar refinery of Have
meyer and Moller; in 1856 established sug
ar refinery in Brooklyn and com
menced business for himself, but lat
er sold out and became connected with
Havemeyer & Moller again; in 1871 en
gaged in sugar refining business in Green-
point, Long Island; continued until 1880,
when failing health obliged him to retire.
In past years has been trustee and director
in railroad and other corporations and
various benevolent societies. Writer and
speaker on political, moral and religious
topics;, wrote monographs on: The Rela
tion of the United States to Armenia;
Why I Vote for Hancock; Various Studies
of Labor Unions ; Labor, Accumulation of
Wealth and connected subjects; Patriotism
and the American Flag; Shall we prepare
for War in times of peace ? ; Logic of Sab
bath Observance; Railroad Excursions on
Sunday; Ministers with Titles; Various
discussions of Church work and Religious
Methods; The Needs of the Church from
a Layman's Standpoint; What is Love of
Country?. Married, 1872, Alice Alide
Francis. Address: Yonkers, New York.

HA VEMEYERt Theodore .Augustus.:  -.
'Sugar refiner;; born: in"New"^Ybrk 'City.
He was graduated frOm "Columbia ' College
in 1891:- Mr: Havemeyer is "president and
director of the American Generator " Com
pany; treasurer and director of the Brook
lyn Elevator and Mining Company, and the
New Jersey and New" York Reialty and Im
provement Company; director of the City
Investing Company, Kentucky Coal Lands
Company, and New York Investment and
Improvement Company. He is a member
of the Delta Psi fraternity and is a mem
ber of the Metropolitan, St. Anthony's,
Westchester County Country, Meadow
Brook and Racquet and Tennis Clubs.
Mr. Havemeyer married Katherine Aymar
Sands. Residence: 21 West Thirty-ninth
Street. Address : 117 Wall Street, New
York City.
HAVEMEYER, William F. :
Capitalist ; born in New York City,
March 31, 1850; son of William F. and
Sarah Agnes (Craig) Havemeyer. After
receiving his education in private schools,
he engaged in business. He is trustee of
the North River Savings Bank; director of
the Century Realty Company, Chelsea Re
alty Company, Colorado Eastern Railway
Company, Corn Exchange Bank, Fifth
Avenue Estates, National Bank of North
America, New York Mortgage and Secur
ity Company, Nineteenth Ward Bank, Title
Insurance Company of New York, Union
Ferry Company of New York and Brook
lyn, United States Realty and Improve
ment Company, Van Norden Safe Deposit
Company, and Van Norden Trust Company.
He is treasurer of the Council of New
York University and is a member of the
Union League, Metropolitan, Century,
Down Town, Grolier, National -Arts and.
Ardsley Clubs. Mr. Havemeyer married in
New York City, April 3, 1877, Josephine
Harmon, and they have four children:
Hector H,, Mrs. W. R. Willcox, Arthur,
and Raymond. Residence : 10 East Fifty-
seventh Street. Address : 32 Nassau Street,
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HAVEN, George Griswold:
Banker. After graduating from Columb
ia University in 1857, entered business, and
he is now president and director of the
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Com
pany, and Worcester, Nashua and Roches
ter Railroad Company; vice-president and
director of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago Railway Company; trustee of the
Fifth Avenue Trust Company, Greenwich
Savings Bank, Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York; director of the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Com
pany, Bank of America, California Eastern
Railway, Central of Georgia -Railway Com
pany, Cuba Company, Girard Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia, Guaranty Trust Com
pany of New York, Gulf, Colorado and
Sante Fe Railway Company, Morristown
Trust Company, Morton Trust Company,
National Bank of Commerce, New York &
Harlem Railroad, Newport Railroad Com
pany, Sonora Railway, Washington Life In
surance Company. He is a member of the
Knickerbocker, Metropolitan and Union
Clubs, the Automobile Club of America,
the New York Yacht, Union League, Rac
quet and Tennis, Tuxedo, Down Town,
Players', Turf and Field and Whist Clubs
of New York City, and of the Metropoli
tan Club of Wa'shington. Mr. Haven mar
ried Fanny Arnot. Residence : 24 East
Thirty-ninth ' Street. Address : 26 Liberty
Street, New York City.
HAVEN, Joseph E.:
Consular official; born in Illinois. Ap
pointed commercial agent at St. Christo
pher, August 18, 1904; consul, June 22,
1906; consul at Crefeld, March 30, 1907.
Salary, $2,500 per annum. Address : Cre
feld, Prussia.
HAWES, James William:
Lawyer ; born in Chatham, Massachusetts,
July 9, 1844; son of James and Susannah
(Taylor) Hawes. He is descended on both
sides from early settlers of Plymouth Col
ony; his paternal ancestor, Edmond Hawes,
who came, from England in 1635, having
been prominent in the 'government of the
Colony; and he is also a descendant of

John Howland and Stephen Hopkins, both
of the Mayflower. Mr. -Hawes was gradu
ated from Harvard College in 1866, at -the
head of his class; and attended the Har
vard Law School in 1867-8, being at the
same time instructor in mathematics in. the
college, and is one of the founders : and
first president of the Pi Eta Society. Mr.
Hawes was admitted to the bar in" New
York City in 1868: In 1881 and 1882, he
was a Republican member of the New
York Board of Aldermen and chairman
of the Committee on Law Department of
the Board. Since 1871, when he took part
in the campaign that overthrew the Tweed
ring, he has been active in all movements
for the improvement of city affairs and in
framing legislation and constitutional pro
visions. In 1885 he was a candidate on
the Republican ticket for justice of the
City Court of New York. In 1890 he was
the anti-Tammany candidate for president
of the Board of Aldermen (vice-mayor).
He was chairman of the committee of the
Republican Club which in 1884-5 brought
forward the name of William M. Evarts
for the United States senatorship, and, in
connection with other interests, secured his
election. He was one of the principal or
ganizers in- 1887 of the Republican League
of the United States, and of the New
York Republican State League; and in 1889
was a delegate at large from the State
League to the convention of the National-
League. He was on the Committee of Fif
ty-three of 1884 which secured the passage
by the legislature of many valuable reform
measures, and the sub-committee which
performed the actual work. In 1885 he was
an active member of a committee which
drafted and submitted to the Legislature a
constitutional amendment separating mu
nicipal from State elections, substantially as
embodied in the new constitution of 1894,
and was chairman in 1886 of a joint com
mittee of several Republican, Democratic
and Reform Clubs, formed to secure a con
stitutional convention, whose work ulti
mately resulted in success ; and in 1893 Mr.
Hawes was appointed chairman of a' com
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drafted amendments and submitted them
to the conventions of 1894 in convenient
printed form and of this document sub
stantial portions were submitted to and
adopted by the people. Mr. Hawes has
also taken a leading part in the work for
an improved ballot. The law relating to
naturalization passed in 1895 was drafted
by Mr. Hawes. He suggested and revised
the act of the same year providing for the
registration of inmates of lodging houses.
In 1901 he was chairman of the Campaign
Committee of the Republican Club, which
actively promoted the election of Seth Low
as mayor. As a lawyer he has had a va
ried and important office and trial practice,
and has frequently acted as referee. He is
the author of: Legislative Reform, 1886;
The Letter from Brazil (translated from
the Portuguese), 1886; The New Consti
tution of Brazil, 1892; The Guarany, a Bra
zilian Romance, translated from the Por
tugese, 1893 ; Genealogies of the Hawes
and Taylors of Chatham, 1882. He was a
contributor to Appleton's American Cyclo
paedia, 1873-76; Appleton's Annual Cyclo
paedia for several years, and to Kiddle &
Schem's Cyclopaedia of Education, 1877.
On May 17, 1883, he read a paper on the
Portuguese literature, before the Phi Beta
Kappa Alumni of New York. Mr. Hawes
has been a frequent speaker on political
subjects, and on important public occa
sions. He is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Alumni of New York, of which he
was president in 1881-2; Association of the
Bar of the City of New York; Harvard
Club of New York City, of which he was
one of the incorporators in 1887; The Re
publican Club of the City of New York,
of which he was president from 1882 to
1884, and chairman of the Executive Com
mittee in 1885 and 1886. Mr. Hawes mar
ried in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1873,
Amelia Appleton Prendergast. Residence :
1200 Madison Avenue. Address : 35 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
HAWK EH, McDougall:
Lawyer; bom in New York City in 1862:
son of W. Wright Hawkes, LL.D., and
Eliza (Forbes) Hawkes; and he is a de

scendant of an old Colonial family. He
was educated in Trinity Church School at
Philadelphia, Hopkins Grammar School,
New Haven, Connecticut, at Government
Schools in' Tours and Paris, France, and
Marburg in Germany, Colurhbia School of
Mines, where he was graduated with the
degree of Engineer in 1885, the Columbia
School of Political Science, 1886, and
School of Law, with the LL.B. degree in
1887. He was admitted to the New York
bar the same year and since then has been
engaged in practice in New ^York City.
He has represented important foreign in
vesting interests in American enterprises;
and as counsel has represented security
holders in several large railroad and other
reorganizations ; authority on admiralty
law and on railroad and transportation
matters. Served as commissioner of docks
during Mayor Low's administration, 1902
and 1903, carrying out the numerous im
provements of the department during that
period, including the prosecution of the
Chelsea improvement, which had been
talked about for many years but had never
taken effect ; the establishment of the Union
Trunk Line and Ferry Terminal at West
Twenty-third Street; the building of the
Market street Recreation Pier; the laying
out of extensive plans for the improvement
of the waterfront in the other boroughs
of the city, and in particular in regard
to the creeks in these boroughs ; the first
presentation to the authorities of plans for
municipal ferries ; the reorganization of the
Dock Department into bureaus, etc. : was
the first to hold the position after the old
Board of Docks was replaced by statute
with a single commissioner and reorganiz
ed the Department of Docks and Ferries
upon methods which greatly increased its
efficiency, effecting notable economies. Mr.
Hawkes is a Republican in politics, has
been active in campaigns from 1896, and
was first vice-president of the Republican
County Committee of New York in 1899.
He is a member, vice-president and gen
eral counsel of the Maritime Association
of New York, chairman of the New York
State Interstate Bridge Cdmmission, and
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and Shipping of the New York Chamber
of Commerce and of the Merchants' Asso
ciation, the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, the New York Law
Institute, New York Chamber of Com
merce, Society of the Cincinnati, Society
of. Colonial Wars, St. Nicholas Society,
New York Historical Society, the Union,
Metropolitan, Union League, Westchester
Country, City, Midday and Grolier Clubs.
Residence : 42 East Twenty-sixth Street,
New York. Office address : 32 Nassau
Street, New York City.
HAWKINS, Eugene Dexter:
Lawyer; born New York City, May 2,
i860; son of Dexter A. and Sophia T.
(Meeks) Hawkins ; educated Philips Ex
eter Academy; graduated Harvard Uni
versity, A.B. ; Columbia University, LL.B.
President North American Coal and Coke
Company; director Bank of Long Island,
Queens Borough Electric and Gas Com
pany, Rocky River Coal and Coke Com
pany, New Central Coal Company. Repub
lican. Unitarian. Member New York City
and State Bar Associations; director J.
Hood Wright Hospital. Member Delta
Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Delta Phi. Clubs:
University, Union League, Harvard, Rid
ing, City, Midday. Married, New York
City, April 27, 1897, Julia F. Clarkson; one
son, Dexter Clarkson (9) . Address : 1
Nassau Street, New York City.
HAWKINS, Russell:
Vice-president of the Diamond Match
Company; born in Philadelphia, March 18,
1870; son of Dennis Russell Hawkins and
Elizabeth Atwood Hawkins. He was edu
cated in Girard College and the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, leaving the
latter, after a partial course, to engage in
business. He owned the Lancaster Match
Works at Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania, until
1897, then, built the plant arid conducted
the York Match Company at York, Penn
sylvania, until 1899, when he became identi-
ued with the Diamond Match Company,
of which he is now vice-president. He has
traveled in the company's interest, becoming
familiar with its business in Mexico, Cen

tral America, Peru, Ecuador, Japan, China,
India, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain,
Germany and France. Mr. Hawkins is
vice-president of the Butte County Rail
road of California. In politics he is a Re
publican, and in religion a Presbyterian.
Mr. Hawkins is a member of the Psi Up
silon fraternity and the New York Ath
letic Club, and is a member of the Chi
cago Athletic and South Shore Country
Clubs of Chicago. Address: 111 Broad
way, New York City.
HAWLEY, Edwin:
Railway official; born Chatham, Colum
bia County, New York. Began railway serv
ice June, 1867, as clerk Erie Railroad ;
clerk and ticket agent Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad, 1868-70 ; clerk and later contract
ing agent Rock Island Route, 1870-74; con
tracting agent, 1874-75 ; general eastern
agent, 1875-83, California Fast Freight Line ;
general eastern agent Galveston, Harris
burg & San Francisco Railway and South
ern Pacific Railway, from 1883, and also
from 1885 of Morgan's Louisiana & Texas
Railroad and Steamship Company, Houston
& Texas Central Railroad, Texas & New
Orleans Railroad, Louisiana Western Rail
road and Mexican International Railroad,
and after those were amalgamated, March,
1890, became assistant general traffic man
ager Southern Pacific Company, at New
York City, until resigned, 1902. Became
vice-president, October, 1894-96; president,
since, 1896, Minneapolis & St. Louis Rail
way; also since June, 1900, president IoWa
Central Railway. In 1906 elected president
Great Western Power Company (of Cali
fornia). Clubs: Lawyers', Metropolitan,
Merchants', City Midday, Riding, Country,
Automobile of America, Bay Shore Golf.
Address : 25 Broad Street, New York
City.
HAWLEY, Willis Chatman:
Congressman and college president ; born
near Monroe, Benton County, Oregon,
May 5, 1864; son of Sewell Ransom Haw
ley and Emma Amelia (Noble) HaWley.
He was graduated from the Willamette
University, at Salem, Oregon, as B.S. in

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1884, A.B. and LL.B. in. 1888 and A.M. in
1891. He was principal of Umpqua Acad
emy of Wilbur, Oregon, from 1884 to 1886,
and professor of history and economics at
Willamette University from 1891 to 1907.
Professor Hawley was president of the Ore
gon State Normal School at Drain, Ore
gon, from 1888 to 1891, of the Willamette
University from 1893 to 1902, and vice-
president and dean of the same institution
from 1902 to 1906. He was also presi
dent of the Willamette Valley Chautau
qua, at Oregon City from 1899 to 1907, and
head manager of the Pacific Jurisdiction of
Woodmen of the World. He is a member
of the American Historical Association and
of the Oregon Historical Society; also a
member of the Pacific Jurisdiction, Wood
men of the World, and of the Pacific Juris
diction, Women of Woodcraft; and is a
Royal Arch Mason. In politics he is iden
tified with the Republican party; and he is
a Methodist Episcopalian in his religious
affiliations and his favorite recreations are
hunting and mountaining. Congressman
Hawley married at Albany, Oregon, August
19, 1885, Anna Martha Geisendorfer, and
their children are : Cecil C, born in 1887 ;
Kenneth F., born in 1889, and Iras A., born
in 1892. Address : Salem, Oregon.
HAWORTH, Paul Leland:
Author; born in West Newton, Indiana,
August 28, 1876; son of John D. Haworth
and Fanny (Horner) Haworth. He re
ceived the degree of A.B. in 1899 and A.M.
in 1901 from Indiana State- University and
the degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon
him in 1906 by Columbia University. He
was professor of history and civics in the
Michigan Northern State Normal School
in 1901 and 1902; teacher of subject mat
ter courses in history in Teachers' College
from 1904 to 1906 and lecturer in history in
Columbia College from 1906 to 1907. He
is a member of ' the American Historical
Association, and of the Western Reserve
Historical Society, and was fellow- in .Am
erican, history at Columbia University in
1903 and 1904. In politics he is an Inde
pendent Republican and in religious affilia

tions a member of the Society of Friends.
He is now collaborating on Avery's History
of the United States, in fifteen volumes,
three of which have been published. He has
contributed to Harper's Magazine, The Out
look, The Youth's Companion, The Political
Science Quarterly, The American Historical
Review, the New International Encyclope
dia, Nelson's Encyclopedia and other publi
cations, and is author of a volume on the
Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Elec
tion, published in Cleveland in 1906. His
favorite recreations are tennis and shooting.
Mr. Haworth married at Flint, Michigan,
September 1, 1903, Martha B. Ackermann,
and they have two children: Leland,, born
in 1905, and Anna Ruth, born in 1906.
Residence : 13502 Superior Road, Cleveland,
Ohio.HAWTHORNE, Julian:
Novelist, journalist, historical writer and
biographer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
June 22, 1846 ; son of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
novelist, and Sophia (Peabody) Hawthorne.
He lived in Europe from 1853 to i860;
Concord and Cambridge, Massachusetts,
from i860 to 1868; Dresden in 1868 and
1869; in New York as hydrographic engin
eer in the Dock Department from 1869 to
1871; Dresden from 1871 to 1873; London
and neighborhood from 1874 to 1881; New
York from 1881 to 1889; Europe in 1889;
New York from 1890 to 1894; Jamaica,
West Indies, from 1894 to 1897; India in
1897 ; and in New York since 1898. He
has not practiced engineering since 1871
but has followed authorship exclusively.
He is author of: Saxon Studies, 1874;
Garth, 1875; Archibald Malmaison, 1878;
Sebastian Strome, 1879; Dust, 1882; For
tune's Fool, 1883; Sinfire, 1885; Biography
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1885 ; Fool of Na
ture, 1897 (ten thousand dollar prize
novel) ; Love is a Spirit, 1898 ; and many
others, besides early novels and stories.
Mr. Hawthorne was receiver on the London
Spectator- from 1877 to 1881 ; literary editor
of the New York World, 1885; and corr
respondent in the Indian plague and fam
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literary critic of the North American, Phil
adelphia, 1901-1903; now special commis
sioner of the New York American. His fa
vorite recreations are walking, running,
rowing, gymnastics and tennis. He mar
ried at New York, November 15, 1870,
Minnie Amelung, and they have seven chil
dren: Hildegarde, John Francis Brenwick,
Henry Amelung, Gwendolen, Beatrice, Imo
gen, and Frederick L. Address : 49 Arthur
Street, Yonkers, New York.
HAY, Albert L. G,:
Lawyer; born in Elk Lick Township,
Somerset County, Pennsylvania, August 8,
1866; taught in public schools of his home
district; was graduated from Franklin and
Marshall College, at Lancaster, in 1888,
with degree of A.B. ; degree of A.M. has
since been conferred upon him by his Alma
Mater. He studied law in the office of his
uncle, Valentine Hay, Esq. ; admitted to the
bar at Somerset, September 26, 1892. In
partnership with Charles W. Walker, 1893-
1897; now in partnership with his uncle,
Valentine Hay, which is one of the leading
firms in practice at the Somerset bar.
Since 1897 county solicitor; vice-president
and director of the Farmers' National Bank
of Somerset. On February 3, 1898, mar
ried Emma, daughter of Judge and Mrs.
William J. Baer. Address : Somerset, Penn
sylvania.HAY, Eugene Gano:
Lawyer; general appraiser; born in
Charlestown, Indiana, March 26, 1853 ; son
of Andrew J. and Rebecca (Garrett) Hay.
Was educated in private schools. He was
admitted to the bar in 1876, removed to
Minnesota in 1886, and practiced in Minne
apolis in that State for seventeen years;
was member of the Minnesota Legislature
in 1889; United States district attorney for
District of Minnesota four and a half
years, and was appointed United. States
general- appraiser m 1903,. Mr.. Hay .mar
ried in Indianapolis,- Indiana, November 4,
1891, Eleariora Farquhar. Address : 641
Washington Street, New York City. .

HAY, George T.:
Shipbroker; born in Brooklyn, May 21,
1858; son of Charles H. and Rachel (White)
Hay. Fie received his education in pub
lic schools of Brooklyn. Left school at
an early age to begin business life with
J. F. Whitney arid Company; given an in
terest in 1882, and in 1894 became a member
of the firm; his business interests having'
taken him on different occasions to Europe
and Nova Scotia. He is trustee of the
Broadway Savings Bank; director of the
Flatbush Building and Loan Association,
Battery Park National Bank, Modern Pen
Company. Is a Republican in politics, and a
Methodist in his religious connections. Is
a member of the Maritime and Produce
Exchanges; manager of the Brooklyn
Church Society. Mr. Hay married in
Brooklyn, October 12, 188.1, Susan Ann
Dobbs, and they have four children : Anne
Elizabeth, Esther Melbourne, George Taber,
Jr., and Susie Dobbs. Address 80 Win
throp Street, Brooklyn, New York.
HAY, James:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Mill
wood, Virginia, January 9, 1856; son of
William Hay. He was educated at pri
vate schools in Maryland and Virginia, at
the University of Pennsylvania, and Wash
ington and Lee University, Virginia, from
which latter institution he graduated in
law in June, 1877; moved to Harrisonburg,
Virginia, in 1877, where he practiced law
and taught school until June, 1879, when
he removed to Madison, Virginia, and de
voted himself exclusively to his profession;
was elected attorney for the Commonwealth
in 1883 and reelected to that office in 1887,
1891, and 1895 ; was elected to the house of
delegates of Virginia in 1885 and reelected
in 1887 and 1889; was elected to the Vir
ginia State senate in 1893; was a member
of the State Democratic committee for four
years, and was a member of the Democratic
national convention of 1888 ; was elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses .
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Seventh Virginia District. Address :
Madison, Virginia.

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MEN OF AMERICA.

HAY, Louis Condlt:
Export lumber merchant, born in Orange,
New Jersey, November 29, 1859; son of
Silas Condit Hay and Elizabeth Caroline
(Piatt) Hay. He received his early edu
cation in J. H. Morse's School, New York
City, was graduated from Williston Semi
nary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1877,
and from Yale University as A.B. in 1881.
He engaged in real estate operations from
1884 to 1897, chiefly in New York City,
and since 1897 has been -in business as a
lumber exporter, with headquarters in Eng
land. Mr. Hay has traveled extensively
through Great Britain and Ireland, Ger
many, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium,
Austria and Russia. He is a member of the
Royal Geographical Society, and of the
Chamber of Commerce of London. His
favorite recreations are fishing, shooting
and golf. In politics he is a Republican,
and in church affiliation a Presbyterian. He
is a member of the American Society and
Pilgrims Society, both of London, Sons of
the Revolution, New York; organized and
founded the London Section of the Navy
League of the United States. Mr. Hay is
also a member of the Century Association
and the University and Yale, Clubs of New
York City, Graduates' Club of New Haven,
and Devonshire Club of London. He mar
ried at Saginaw, Michigan, November 2,
1887, Jennie Eloise Burt, and they have one
son, Wellington Burt Hay. Residence :
Berkeley House, Berkeley Square, London.
Office address: 96 Biliiter Buildings, Lon
don, England.
IIAYDEL, Abner J.:
Architect; born in St. John the Baptist
Parish, Louisiana, 1868; educated College
of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi ; architectural
course at Cornell University, 1887-89; stud
ied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris, France, 1889-92. Architect of
numerous buildings, the more notable of
which are the Shepard Memorial Church
and Grey Craig Castle, Newport, Rhode
Island ; in 1901 traveled in Europe to study
castles for Howard Gould, and was sub
sequently employed as architect in the con

struction of Mr. Gould's Castle on Long
Island; exhibited at Paris Exhibition, 1900,
the Shepard Memorial Church, and receiv
ed medal ; has traveled extensively in Eng
land, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzer
land, and particularly in Italy, where he
remained for long periods studying medi
eval architecture and decoration. Member
Architectural League of New York, charter
member of the Beaux Arts Society of
Architects of New York, member Cornell
Alumni Association. Club : City. Ad
dress : 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
HAYDEN, Albert:
Manufacturer; born in Columbus, Ohio,
May 18, 1847 ; son of Peter and Alice
(Booth) Hayden. He removed with his
parents to New York City in his infancy,
where he attended the public schools. He
attended the preparatory school of Profes
sor Quackenboss five years, and was a year
at the Military Academy at New Milford,
Connecticut. He then entered Kenyon Col
lege, from which institution he was grad
uated with the degree of A.M. in 1869.
Soon after his graduation he became a
member of the firm of P. Hayden & Son,
manufacturers of brass goods, at Newark,
New Jersey. Later he became a member of
the firm of P. Hayden & Company, dealers
in saddlery and saddlery hardware, the con
cern being incorporated in 1884 as the P.
Hayden Company. In 1877 Mr. Hayden
went to Chicago to assume the manage
ment of the company's branch in that city,
but retaining his interest in the business
in its various branches throughout the
country. He was one of the originators of
the Hayden hollow paving material and
the Hayden fireproof tiling. He is also
financially interested in various other enter
prises. He is a lover of the arts and was
one of the organizers of the Art Institute
of Chicago. He was for a time president
of the Beethoven Society, a noted musical
organization of Chicago, and of which Carl
Wilson was the leader. He was formerly
a trustee of Kenyon College. He is a
-.epublican, and was, the financial secretary
of the local committee of the Republican
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of the Washington Park, Chicago Athletic
Clubs of Chicago, the Union League Club
of New York City, and of Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity. He was married first in
New York City, May 13, 1869, to Lizzie
Barker Smull, who died in 1873. His sec
ond marriage was to Emma How, of Chi
cago, in 1877, and he has two children:
Albert, Jr., and Julian. Residence: 3155
Michigan Boulevard, Chicago. Address:
79 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HAYDEN, Charles:
Banker; born in Boston, July 9, 1870;
son of Josiah W. Hayden and Emma A.
(Maxwell) Hayden. He was educated in
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
as B.S. Mr. Hayden is trustee and a
member of the executive committee of the
Boston and Worcester Electric companies;
treasurer and director of the Continental
Zinc Company; director and member of
the executive committee of the Lamson
Consolidated Store Service Company; of
the Planters' Compress Company, and of
the Shannon Copper Company; and is
director of the National Bank of the Re
public, the Nevada Consolidated Company,
the Nevada Northern Railway Company,
the Pope Manufacturing Company, the
Twin City Rapid Transit Company, and
the Utah Apex Mining Company, and he
is treasurer and director of the United
Telegram Company. He was major and
aide-de-camp of the general staff of the
Massachusetts Volunteer militia and dis
bursing officer for the United States Gov
ernment in Massachusetts. He is a mem
ber of the Theta Xi fraternity and of the
University, Algonquin, Boston Athletic,
Art, Country, Exchange, and Nahant
Clubs; the New York Yacht Club; East
ern Yacht Club, Boston Yacht Club, and
the Massachusetts Automobile Club; and is
steward of the National Steeplechase and
Hunt Association. Mr. Hayden is a mem
ber of the Unitarian Church and in politics
is a Republican. His favorite recreations
are racing, yachting and motoring. Resi
dence: Nahant Club, Nahant. Address: 87
Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

HAYDN, Hiram Collins:
Clergyman and professor; born in Pom-
pey, New York, December 11, 1831 ; son of
David Ellsworth Haydn and Lucinda (Coo
ley) Haydn. He was graduated from
Pompey Academy, Amherst College in
1856; the Union Theological Seminary of
New York, in 1859; received the degree of
D.D. from Wooster University in 1878, and
of LL.D. from Amherst and Marietta Col
leges in 1898. Fie was pastor of the First
Churches of Meriden, Connecticut, and
Painesville, Ohio ; of the First Presbyterian
Church, at Cleveland, Ohio, from 1872 to
1880 ; served four years as district, secre
tary of the American Board of Commis
sioners for Foreign Missions, New York.
He was recalled in October, 1884, to the
First Presbyterian Church, of Cleveland,
and served until 1902; and is now pastor
emeritus. While pastor, he was president
of Adelbert College from 1887 to 1890, and
was organizer and president of the West
ern Reserve University in that critical pe
riod. He was also founder of the Cleveland
College for. Women, and of half a dozen
Presbyterian churches in Cleveland. Dr.
Haydn is a trustee of Adelbert College of
Western Reserve University, and vice-
president of the Western Reserve Univer
sity. He was for thirty years a trustee
of Lake Erie College at Painesvillef He
has traveled extensively in Europe, once
to Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, and Greece, and
in all parts of America. In politics he is
a Republican, and he is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Haydn is author
of: Lay Effort; Death and Beyond; From
Hudson to Cleveland, a brief history of
How the Western Reserve College Be
came Adelbert, and the Western Re
serve University a Fact; also Amusements
(prize essay) ; American Heroes on Mis
sion Fields ; and the Bible and Current
Thought. He married, first at Norwich,
Connecticut, May I, 1861, Elizabeth Bill
Coit, and second, at Meriden, Connecticut,
in 1864, Sarah J. Merriman; and their
children are: Elizabeth C, Charles R.,
Howell M., and Ruth Evelyn. Residence :
11401 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, Ohio .

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MEN OF AMERICA.

HAYES, Charles Harris:
Clergyman, professor; born in Newark,
New Jersey, Septemher I, 1868; son of
Charles Hayes and Caroline Rosamond
(Ortoh) Hayes. Was educated in- Newark
Academy; graduated from Columbia Uni
versity as B.A. with Phi Beta Kappa hon
ors, in 1890, and as M.A. in 1891 ; was uni
versity fellow in 1891 and 1892; was grad
uated from the General Theological Semin
ary as B.D. in 1894, where he received the
degree of D.D. in 1907; attended Berlin
and Halle in 1894 and 1895, and Oxford
the following year. Ordered deacon in the
Episcopal Church, May 23, 1894; and or
dained priest December 2, 1896; member
of the. staff -of St. Mark's Pro- Cathedral,
Washington, D. C, from 1896 to 1900;
chaplain to the bishop of Maine in 1900
and 1901 ; associate professor of philosophy
at Trinity College, Hartford, in 1901 and
1902; professor of Christian Apologetics at
the General Theological Seminary, New
York City since 1902, having been reap-
pdinted in May, 1907. ' He is author of
Bible Lessons on the Creed, 1906; and Bible
Lessons on Christian Duty, 1907. Is a
member of the American Philosophical As
sociation, New York Churchman's Asso
ciation, Phi Delta Theta, Society of Colo
nial Wars in the State of New Jersey (its
chaplain), Phi Beta Kappa; fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; member of the Alumni Asso^
ciations of Newark Academy, Columbia
College and General Theological Semin
ary. His favorite 'recreations are tennis
and golf. Is a member of the Columbia
University and the Madison Golf Clubs.
Address : General Theological Seminary,
Chelsea Square, New York City.
HAYES, Everls Anson:
Congressman; born at Waterloo, Wis
consin, March 10, 1855; was educated in
the public schools of his native State;
graduated at the Waterloo High School
and entered the University of Wisconsin
at Madison in 1873; graduated from both
the literary and law departments of that
institution, receiving the degrees of B.L.
and LL.B., the latter in 1879; began at

once the practice of his profession at Madi
son; in 1883,. moved, to , Ashlarid,, Wiscon
sin;, while, engaged in the practice of, law
at Ashland he.: became .interested, irj jjon
mines on .the. Gogebic Range in northern
Wisconsin and Michigan, and since- 1885
much of his time, has been devoted to the
personal management of ..the, business of
these properties. In 1887 he removed to
Santa Clara County, California, and there
has been engaged in fruit raising and
mining, and, with his brother, is publisher
and proprietor of the San Jose Daily
Morning Mercury and Evening Herald.
He was for two years an, alderman of the
city of Madison and for one year member
of the board of supervisors of Gogebic
County, Michigan; was elected as a Repub
lican to the Fifty-ninth, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress. Address : San Jose,
California.
HAYES, Henry R,:
Secretary and director Algonquin Elect
ric Brake Corporation, 'director Galveston
Electric Company, . director Houghton
County Electric Light Company, director
Jacksonville' Electric Light Company, di
rector the Mairi Street Railroad Company,
vice-president and director The Minneapolis
General Electric Company, secretary and
director Minnesota Brush Electric Com
pany, director Northern Texas Traction
Company, director The Paducah Light and
Power Company, director The Paducah
Traction Company, director Paducah Trac
tion and Light Company, secretary and di
rector Poface Electric Company, director
Ponce Railway and Light Company, di
rector St. Croix Falls Wisconsin Improve
ment Company. Address : 84 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
HAYES, John RusseU:
Author; librarian of Swarthmore College;
born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, June
25, 1866; son of William M. and Rachel
H. (Russell) Hayes ; his ancestors on both
sides were of old Chester County and
Lancaster County Quaker stock; was grad
uated at West Chester High School, 1884;
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vard University,- 1889. He- studied law
with his -father, and -at University of Penn
sylvania Law School i- -was - graduated LL.
B,i 1892'. Practiced law, J891-1892;. studied
English literature at Oxford and Strasburg,
1892-1893; taught in the English Depart
ment, Swarthmore College, 1893 to 1906.
Published The Old-Fashioned Garden and
Other Verses, 1895 ; The Brandywine, .1898
(second -edition, 1899) ; Swarthmore idylls,
1899; In a Brandywine Harvest Field,
1903; The Shepherd's Hour Glass (songs
and reveries beside the Brandywine), 1904;
has written odes for the twenty-fifth an
niversary of Swarthmore College, the West
Chester Centennial, etc. He is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and con
tributor to Book News Monthly. Married,
Emma Gawthrop of Wilmington, Delaware,
June 30, 1892. Address : Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania.
HAYES, John W. :
Labor leader; born at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, December 24, 1854. His
education has been acquired entirely through
his own efforts and study. When a youth
he entered the service of the Pennsylvania
Railroad as a brakeman, and while serving
thus lost his right arm. Subsequently he
learned telegraphy and was employed! as
such until the general strike of 1883.
Since 1884 he has been connected with the
Knights of Labor and prominent in labor
organization, first (1884 to 1888) as a
member of the General Executive Board;
as general secretary-treasurer, from 1888
to 1902; and since November of that year
general master workman. He is also editor
of the Journal of the Knights of Labor.
Address: 43 B Street, N. W., Washing
ton, D. C.
HAYES, William Van Valzah:
- Physician; born Lewisburg, Union Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1867; son
of Hon. Alfred and Mary (Van Valzah)
Hayes ; graduated Bucknell College, Lewis-
bufgi'Penn'sylvania, -Ph.B., 1888; student in
Berlin and Paris, 1888-89; graduated Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Colum
bia medical department), New York City,

1893 (one of 10 Plarsen Prize tjasnl i grad
uate. .New- York. Hospit»U. Sloane .-.Matfern-
ity .Hospital, JSfew.:York-. Foimd%g--Hos-
pital.- :-.Since. completing his hospital-: service
he has been in private practice. . in New
York City, giving his attention chiefly to
diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract; was
elected professor of diseases of the digest
ive system at the New York Polyclinic
School and' Hospital in 1904. Republican.
Presbyterian. Attending physician New
York Polyclinic Hospital; member Ameri
can and New York Academies of Medi
cine; American Medical Association, Med
ical Societies of the County, of New York,
and Medical Association of the Greater City
of New York, Medical Society State of New
York, Society Alumni New York Hospital,
Society Alumni Sloane Maternity Hospital,
Clinical Society New York Polyclinic,
Men's Association of Brick Church, Delta
Upsilon fraternity. Clubs : Quill, Students'
(treasurer twelve years). Married, Altoona,
Pennsylvania, September 9, 1903, Mary
Coulbourne Conner. Address : ' 34 West
Fiftieth Street, New York City.
HAYNES, Emory J.:
Clergyman; born Cabot, Vermont, Feb
ruary 6, 1847; son of Zadoc Seymour and
Marion Wallace (Baylay) Haynes; grad
uated, Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Connecticut, D.D., 1867. After graduation
traveled in Europe, studying the languages ;
pastor E. Main Street Church, Norwich,
Connecticut; St. Paul's, Fall River; built
Hanson Place Church, Brooklyn; pastor
Grace and Washington Avenue Churches,
Brooklyn ; Tremont Temple and People's
Churches, Boston, and St. James, New
York City; has retired to family estate,
Mt. View, Poughkeepsie. Republican.
Member Psi Upsilon fraternity; first vice-
president Anti-tenement House League,
Boston; helped organize movement against
sweat-shops evils ; editorial writer on various
New York City dailies. Author: The
Fairest of Three; A Wedding in War
Time ; Dollars and Duty ; Are - These
Things So ? ; A Farm House Cobweb. Re
creations: Riding, driving, beautifying
country place. Married at Poughkeepsie,

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New York, April 25, 1878, Grace Forby.
Children: Blanche, Marion, Alice, Herbert,
Francis, Helen, Harold, William and Mary.
Address: Mount View, Poughkeepsie,
New York.
HAYNES, Henry Williamson:
Archaeologist; born at Bangor, Maine,
September 20, 1831; son of Nathaniel Hay
nes and Caroline J. Williamson; was grad
uated from Harvard University in 1851,
A.B., and A.M. Since 1873, devoted to
archaeology, making investigations and re
searches in Europe and Egypt. Married,
in Paris, France, August 1, 1867, to Helen
W. Blanchard, of Boston. Address : 239
Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HAYNES, Irving Samuel:
Physician; born in Saranac, New York,
August 29, 1861 ; son of Samuel and Phoe
be (Ayres) Haynes; educated Plattsburg
(New York) High School; graduated Wes
leyan University, Ph.B., 1885 (honor in
chemistry, the J. Brown Goode Prize for
original research in biology) ; medical de
partment New York University, M.D. 1887.
Junior and senior assistant and house sur
geon,. Bellevue Hospital, 1887-88; assistant
demonstrator of anatomy, New York Uni
versity Medical College, 1888, demonstrator
anatomy, 1889; adjunct professor anatomy,
1894; professor practical anatomy, Cornell
University Medical College, 1898; attend
ing surgeon outdoor department Chambers
Street Hospital, 1888-90; assistant attending
surgeon, New York Orthopaedic Hospital
and Dispensary, 1891-99; visiting surgeon
to the Harlem Hospital since 1895. Inde
pendent in politics. Methodist. - Member
Bellevue Alumni Society, New York County
and New York Stg.te Medical Societies, Am
erican Medical Association, Association of
American Anatomists, New York Academy
of Medicine, Harlem Medical Association,
New York Surgical Society. Author :
Guide to Dissection; Manual of Anatomy,
and numerous papers on medical topics.
Recreations: Country life, fishing, etc.
Clubs : Laurentides Fish and Game, Grad
uates'. Married, first, Plattsburg, New
York, T890, Charlotte E, Scribner (died

December 7, 1897) ; second, East Buckman-
town, July 5, 1899, Laura E. Marsh; chil
dren: Harriet M. (born September 4, 1900),
Dorothy (born December 29, 1902). Ad
dress: 1 125 Madison Avenue, New York
City, HAYNES. John Randolph:
Physician and surgeon; born at Fair-
mount Springs, Pennsylvania, June 13,
1853 ; son of James Sidney Haynes and El
vira Mann (Koons) Haynes. After a com
plete preparation in public and private
schools in Philadelphia, he entered the
Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated
in 1874 with the degree of M.D., and later
received the Ph.D. degree. Dr. Haynes
began the practice of medicine in
1874 in Philadelphia, and in 1887 re
moved to Los Angeles, California, where
he has ever since continued in active prac
tice. He was assistant professor of gyne
cology in the University of Southern Cali
fornia from 1889 to 1891 ; and he is now
a director of the California Hospital of Los
Angeles, the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the National Securities Com
pany. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the State Medical So
ciety of California, Southern California
Medical Society, Los Angeles County Med
ical Society, the Clinical and Pathological
Society of Los Angeles, and the Los An
geles Academy of Natural Sciences. Dr.
Haynes is independent in politics, but is
greatly interested in economics, social, in
dustrial and political ; was appointed a
member of the first Civil Service Com
mission of Los Angeles in February, 1903,
reappointed in February, 1905, and became
president of the Commission in February,
1906. He is president of the Direct Legis
lation League of California. In religious
affiliation he is an Episcopalian. Dr. Haynes
is a member of the National Economic As
sociation, the California Society of Sons
of the Revolution, California Society of
Colonial Wars, Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce, Voters' League, Municipal
League, the California Sunset, and Univer
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Club of California, and National Liberal
Club of London. Residence: 945 South
Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Office ad
dress: 411 H. W. Hellman Building, Los
Angeles, California.
HAYNES, Thorn well:
Born in South Carolina. Appointed con
sul at Rouen, May 22, 1900; commercial
agent at Vladivostok, March 8, 1905; con
sul at Nanking, June 13, 1905; consul-gen
eral at Singapore, March 30, 1907. Ad
dress Singapore, S.S., West Africa.
HAYS, Charles Melville:
Second vice-president and general man
ager of the Grand Trunk Railway ; born in
Rock Island, Illinois, May 16, 1856. He
began his railway career as a clerk with
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad at St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1873 ; became secretary
to the general manager of the Missouri
Pacific Railway from 1877 to 1884, and to
the general manager of the Wabash, St.
Louis and Pacific in 1884; afterward be
coming assistant general manager in 1886;
general manager of the Wabash Western in
1887; vice-president of the Wabash Rail
road from 1894 until January I, 1896, when
he became general manager of the Grand
Trunk, serving as such until January 1,
1901, when he was chosen president of the
Southern Pacific Railway. He retired from
that office later in 1901 to return to the
Grand Trunk Railway in his present posi
tion of second vice-president and general
manager, which office he still holds ; and he
is also president of the Grand Trunk Pa
cific Railway, Central Vermont Railway,
Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Rail
way, Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Rail
way, Michigan Air Line Railway, Chicago,
Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction
Railroad, Detroit and Toledo Shore Line,
Canadian Express Company, St. Clair Tun
nel Company, International Bridge Com
pany, Montreal Warehouse Company, Port
land Elevator Company, and New England
Elevator Company; and represents the
Grand Trunk Railway as director of the
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, and
the Belt Railway of Chicago. Office:

Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
HAYS, Willet Martin:
Assistant secretary of Agriculture; born
near Eldora, Iowa, October 19, 1859. His
early life was spent on his mother's farm in
Iowa, his father having died when he was
six years of age. He was prepared in the
common schools and later attended Oska
loosa College and Drake University, but
subsequently attended the Iowa Agricultur
al College, from which he was graduated
iii 1885. In 1886 he was made assistant in
agricultural experiments in the Iowa Agri
cultural College, where he conducted im
portant investigations, demonstrating the
wide extent and character of the roots of
corn ; was associate editor on the Prairie
Farmer, Chicago,'*£887 and 1888; assistant
in agriculture from 1888 to 1890, and pro
fessor of agriculture from 1890 to 1892 in
the College of Agriculture, University of
Minnesota, and agriculturist of the Experi
ment. Station in the University. In 1892
Professor Flays removed to North Dakota,
where he held similar , positions in the
North Dakota Agricultural College and Ex
periment Station. He began there a ser
ies of experiments in farm management,
especially crop rotation and farm statistics
investigations, and the theoretical investiga
tion of plant and animal breeding. In 1894
he returned to Minnesota and resumed his
former place as professor of agriculture in
the University of Minnesota, and agricul
turist of the Experiment Station. Presi
dent Roosevelt appointed him assistant
secretary of Agriculture December 19,
1904. Professor Hays was active in the
Organization of the American Breeders'
Association in 1903, and is the present sec
retary of that association. His writings
have been mainly along the lines of plant
and animal breeding, agricultural engineer
ing, farm management, agricultural eco
nomics, and the organization of agricul
tural education and he is author of a Text
book on Agriculture, and Flome Economics
for the Use of Schools. In 1885 Professor
Hays married Clara Shepperd, of Clinton,
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dren, .Bessie S. and Myron Etna. He was
married again in 1897 to Miss Ellen Beach,
and two children have. been born to them:
Doris Marie and . Silas Beach. Address :
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C.
HAYWARD, William Stone:
Clergyman; born iri Sodus, New York,
September 24, 1839; son oi Josiah Hay-
ward and Dorothy (Stone) Hayward. He
was educated in the Sodus Academy and by
private study under the direction of the De
Lancey Divinity School at Geneva, New
York. He was graduated from the Berkeley
Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut,
in 1866. Mr. Hayward was admitted candi
date for Holy Orders in the Diocese of
Western New York in 1861 and candidate
for Priest's Orders, while at the Berkeley
Divinity School in the Diocese of Connecti
cut. Before leaving home he was elected
path master but resigned on account of con
flict of duties with his studies. In 1865 he
was drafted and called to appear at El
mira, New York, on May 1, and on the
return of peace he helped to ring the bells
at Middletown for three hours. He has
served as an itinerant missionary in five
counties of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, also
of five counties of the Diocese of Indiana
and four counties in Western Michigan,
and at present is in charge of the Good
Shepherd (Indian) Mission at Onondaga
Castle, in the Diocese of Central New
York. He married at Ridgefield, Connecti
cut, September 2, 1868, Martha Jane Avery,
and they have six children : Rev. William
Leete, Martha Stone, Bertha Fredericka,
Mary Elizabeth, Charlotte Wickham and
TreadweU Josiah. Address: R. F. D. '5,
Syracuse, New York.
HAZARD, Willie Hatfield:
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal
Church; son of Willis Pope and Susan
Robinson (Gilpin) Hazard; born July 26,
1866, at West Chester, Pennsylvania; in
1887 was graduated from Haverford Col
lege, Pennsylvania; also graduate of the
Theological Seminary, New York, in 1891 ;
at the -University of Pennsylvania in 1888

was a graduate, student in English philol
ogy ;. graduate. student m£emilic philology
at . Columbia. ^University in ,1891.1: Shift: Ara
bic, prizeman and. Cary. scholar, .also: A.
M. with honors at Harvard" in' 1892.
In 1894 he took his degree of Ph.D.
in Semitic philology at Harvard; was
ordained deacon in 1891, and afterward,
in 1896, ordained priest. Rector of St.
John's at Concord, Pennsylvania, 1896; also
of St. Mark's, Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1899 was editorial writer on The
Churchman, New York; was also in the
editorial department of D. Appleton & Com
pany, New York. He is an associate of
Victoria Institute of Great Britain; also
a member of the American Oriental So
ciety, Society of Biblical Literature and
Exegesis, Oriental Society, New York;
Salmagundi Club, New York. Married
Mary Dunbar Creigh, November 14, 1898,
at West Chester, Pennsylvania. Address:
West Chester, Pennsylvania.
HAZEL, John Raymon:
United States judge; born in Buffalo,
New York, in December, i860; son of
John K. Hazel and Adelaide Hazel. After
completing his education in the schools
of Buffalo he studied law, and was ad
mitted to the bar in April, 1882, practic
ing law in Buffalo until appointed by
President McKinley in 1900, to the office
of judge of the United States District
Court for the Western District of New
York, in which he continues. Judge Hazel
administered the constitutional oath of of
fice to President Roosevelt, September 14,
1901, after the death of President McKin
ley. He is a member of the New York,
Republican, Buffalo, and Ellicott Clubs.
Address : " 37 Hodge Avenue, Buffalo, New
York. HEACOCK, Seth G. :
Oil producer; State senator from the
Thirty-third Senate District; born in Buf
falo- on March 1, 1857, and was grad
uated from Hamilton College in 1880.
His only official position before his elec
tion as Senator was that of postmaster,
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¦ent -oil- "producing business. Nominated for
Statb- '-Senator by .the Republican party in
1996:"" Sehator-Heacdck -m %of -became a
Member- pf -the following ¦/Saiate ^commit
tees;1', 'Canals, Internal -Affair's, -'Military
Affairs, Agriculture, and ' Public Printing.
Address : Ilion, New York.
HEALD, Frederick Do Forest:
Botanist; born at Midland City, Michi
gan, July 23, 1872; son of Henry Francis
and Hettie (Charles) Heald; attended pub
lic schools of Midland City, Michigan, and
later completed the preparatory work of
the University of South Dakota, 1891.
Graduate of University of Wisconsin, B.S..,
1894; M.S., 1896, same institution; Ph.D.,
1897, University of Leipzig, Germany. Fel
low in botany, Uniyersity of Wisconsin,
1894-1896; professor of biology, Parsons
College, Fairfield, Iowa, 1897-1903; adjunct
professor plant physiology, University of
Nebraska, 1903-1905; professor of agricul
tural botany and botanist of Experiment
Station, since 1905; , also State botanist
since 1907 ; assdciate chief of . Nebraska
State Insect Pest and Plant Disease Bu
reau, 1907. . Fellow American Society for
the Advancement of Science ; member As
sociation Internationale des Botanistes;
secretary Nebraska Academy Sciences;
member of American Naturalists, Central
Naturalists, American Forestry Association,
American. Microscopical Society. Author of:
Revision of Keys to Genera and Species of
North . American Mosses, by C. R. Barnes,
Madison, Wisconsin, 1897; Laboratory
Manual in Elementary Biology, 1902. Has
published numerous magazine articles along
the; line .of his researches in physiological
ajtd pathological problems ; also reports and
bulletins -from the Nebraska Experiment
Station. Residence : 120 South Twenty-
eighth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. Office :
!; University of Nebraska. Agricultural Ex-
perthiejlt. Station, Lincoln, Nebraska.
HEAL Y, John J,:' ,
:? Lawyer j r born -in Chicago,, Illinois, Oc
tober 28; 2865 ; son of Maurice J. and
Mary Healy. He was' educated at the
Lincoln public school and at the North

Division High School of Chicago. He
studied law. and was admitted to the Illi
nois bar in- 1886, • He. -engaged ._ in general
practice- and attained prominence - in , his
profession. , In 1904 he was elected to suc
ceed Charles S. Deneen, the present Gov
ernor of the State, as State's attorney of
Cook County. He has always been prom
inent in Republican politics. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago Athletic and Union
League Clubs. He was married in Chi
cago, June 21, 1900, and has three children :
Lois, Allan and Helen. Address : Crim
inal Court Building. Residence: 2291
Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois.
HEARST, William Randolph:
Newspaper proprietor, publicist; born in
San Francisco, California, 1863 ; son of
George (United States Senator) and
Phcebe (Apperson) Hearst; educated in
the public schools of San Francisco and at
Harvard. Became editor and proprietor of
the San Francisco Examiner in 1886; in
1895 purchased and became editor of the
New York Journal, and in 1896 established
the New York Evening Journal; founded
the Chicago American in 1900, and the
Chicago Examiner in 1902 ; and in 1902
changed the name of the morning issue of
the New York Journal to New York
American; also publishes the Los Angeles
(California) Examiner. . President of the
National Association of Democratic Clubs ;
was elected as Democrat to the Fifty-
eighth and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, from the Eleventh New York
District; candidate for mayor of New
York City on municipal ownership ticket,
1905, and was defeated by only a few hun
dred votes, according to the returns ; nomi
nee of the Independence League and the
Democratic party for Governor of New
York, 1906, but defeated. Active in legisla
tion, litigation and other efforts to curb
the power of corporate combination. In
augurated early and effective relief meas
ures at times of distress at Galveston and
San Francisco. Married in New York
City, April 28, 1903,, Millicent,, daughter" of
George H. Wilson. Address : 76 West
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HEATH, Daniel Callamore:
Publisher; born in Salem, Maine, Octo
ber 26, 1843; son of Daniel and Mila Ann
(Record) Heath; graduated from Am
herst College, B.A., 1868; M.A., 1871. Was
junior member of the firm of Ginn & Heath,
publishers, until 1886; npw president and
general manager of D. C. Heath & Com
pany, which has branches in Boston, New
York, Chicago, San Francisco, and London.
He is a Congregationalist in church rela
tions ; is a member of the Aldine Association,
American Civic Association, American
Academy Political and Social Science,
County of Seventy, Psi Upsilon (Amherst).
Clubs : University, Schoolmasters', Econom
ic, State of Maine, City (Boston). Married,
January, 1881, Mrs. Nelly Lloyd Knox ; chil
dren : Arnold C, Daniel Collamore, Jr.,
Warren. Address : 147 Highland Avenue,
Newtonville, Massachusetts.
HEATON, Augustus George:
Artist and author; born in Philadelphia,
April 28, 1844; son of Augustus Heaton
and Rosabella (Crean) Heaton. He was
educated in l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,
which he was the first American to enter
(1863), under- Cabanel and later under
Bonnat. Mr. Heaton exhibited in the Paris
Salon in 1879, 1880, 1882, and in Rome.
His painting, The Recall of Columbus, was
bought in 1883 for the United States Capi
tol, and he received a medal for it in Chi
cago in 1893. Others of his notable pic
tures are: Washington at Fort Duquesne
(Union League, Philadelphia) ; Bishop
Bowman (Cornell College, Iowa) ; Pro
moters of the New Library of Congress ;
Tulane and Gibson group (Tulane Uni
versity, New Orleans) ; portrait of Miss
Winnie Davis ; and many portraits in many
cities; also the painting, Baron Steuben at
Valley Forge, 1777, exhibited at the James
town Exposition in 1907. He is an asso
ciate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and member of the National Society
of Fine Arts. He was president of the
Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1867; secre
tary of the Pen and Pencil Club, Paris,

1864; is a member and was president in
1888 of the American Numismatic Associ
ation; was secretary of the Literary So
ciety of Washington in 1886, and vice-
president of the Washington Society of
Artists. He is a member of 'the National
Geographic Society, the American Archae
ological Society, the Short Story Club, and
the Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs of
Washington. Mr. Heaton has been an ex
tensive traveler in Great Britain, France,
Holland, Belguim, Austria, Germany,
Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Mexico,
Canada, and through the United States. In
November, 1863, he was the bearer of com
plimentary documents from the Union
League of Philadelphia to John Bright and
Richard Cobden in England; and he was
presented at the Italian Court to Queen
Marguerite in 1882. He is author of: The
Heart of David, 1900; and Fancies and
Thoughts in Verse, 1904, which was praised
by the late John Hay. In politics he is a
Republican, and in religious connection an
Episcopalian. He married in New York
City, December 24, 1874, Adelaide Gres-
wold, and has three sons : Augustus, bom
in 1875; Harry, born in 1877, and Perry,
born in 1884. Address : , 1618 Seventeenth
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
HEATON, John Langdon:
Editor ; born in Canton, New York, Jan
uary 29, i860; son of Ira Wilmarth and
Lucinda (Langdon) Heaton; graduated St.
Lawrence University, Canton, New York,
A.B., 1880, later A.M. Editorial writer on
Brooklyn Times, 1882-92; founder Provi
dence (Rhode Island) News, 1892; on edi
torial staff New York Recorder, 1894-96;
editor on New York Sunday. World, 1897-
99 ; editorial writer on New York World
since 1899. Author of: The Story of Ver
mont ; Stories of Napoleon ; The Book of
Lies; The Quilting Bee. Member Board
Trustees Pulitzer Scholarship Fund. Club:
University (Brooklyn). Married, Danvers,
Massachusetts, August 22, 1882, Eliza Os-
born Putnam; one son, James Putnam
(23). Address: 131 Westminster Road,
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HEBBERD, Robert William ;
Commissioner of public charities; born
in New York City, October 31, 1857 ; son of
Gilbert C. Hebberd and Isabella (Lennox)
Hebberd. He" is descended on his father's
side from Robert Hebberd, who came from
Salisbury, England, and settled in Salem,
Massachusetts; in 1635, and Oliver and
Sbuthwick Hebberd, who fought in the
Revolution Army, and on his mother's side
is of Scotch descent. He was educated in
the Grammar School 37, New York
City, and the Myndej-se Academy at
Seneca Falls, New York. He began his
charitable work as a visitor of the New
York Association for Improving the Con
dition of the Poor ; was connected with The
Charity Organization Society of the City
of New York from 1882 to 1896, and was
its superintendent, when appointed secretary
of the State Board of Charities of New
York, October 15, 1896, remaining until
January 1, 1906, when he was appointed
Commissioner of Public Charities, which of
fice he now holds. He was president of the
Fifth New York State Conference of Chari
ties and Correction in 1904. Mr. Hebberd
is compiler of: Charity Legislation in New
York from 1609 to 1900, published by the
State Board of Charities, and was one of
the organizers of the New York State Civic
League in 1906. In politics he is an Inde
pendent, and he is a member of the Pres
byterian Church. Mr. Hebberd is a mem
ber of the National Conference of Chari
ties and Correction, the New York State
Conference of Charities, the American Po
litical Science Association, and American
Economic Association; is a Scottish Rite
Mason and Knight Templar, and is trustee
of the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, the
Charity Organization Society of New York
City, the New York Juvenile Asylum, and
the New York Infant Asylum. He is lec
turer in the extension course of the State
Board of Charities and in the course of the
School of Philanthropy of the Charity Or
ganization Society of the City of New
York; arid is also a member of the City
Club of New York. He married at Seneca
Falls, November 29, 1882, Harriet Metcalf.

Address : 26 Gramercy Park, New York
City. HECKSCHER, John Gerard:
Secretary of the National Horse Show
Association ; born in New York City in
1837. He served in the Civil War in Army
of the Potomac as first lieutenant of the
Twelfth United States Infantry for two
years. After the war he engaged in busi
ness pursuits ; and for many years past has
been chiefly devoted to gentlemanly sport.
He is one of the founders and vice-presi
dent of the Coney Island Jockey Club; one
of the organizers and secretary of the
National Horse Show Association, and a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Mr. Heckscher is also a member
of the Jockey, New York Yacht, South
Side Sportsmen's, Metropolitan, Union,
Racquet, Army and Navy, Brook and Turf
and Field Clubs. He married first in 1862,
Cornelia Lawrence Whitney; second, in
1892, Mary, daughter of William R. Trav
ers, and third, Virginia Otis, of Charles
ton, South Carolina. He has two daugh
ters living: Georgiana Louise, wife of
Mayor George B. McClellan, and Emeline
Dore, wife of Egerton Leigh Winthrop,
Jr. Address : 18 ' West Eighty-eighth
Street, New York City.
HECKMAN, Wallace:
Lawyer; born at Moscow Mills, Morgan
County, Ohio, May 22, 1851 ; son of Philip
and Sarah Ann Heckman. He received his
preliminary education in the public schools
of De Kalb County, Illinois, and was grad
uated from Hillsdale College, Michigan,
in 1874. He studied law and was admitted
to the Illinois bar June 1, 1876, and to
practice before' the United States Supreme
Court in 1896. He is a member of the
firm of Heckman, Eldsori & Shaw. He is
the counsel and business manager of the
Chicago University, vice-president of the
Merchants' Safe Deposit Company and of
the National Storage Company, a director
of the Hamilton National Bank, the Mer
chants' Building Company, and of the West
Chicago Street Railway Company. He is
a Republican and a member of the Baptist

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Church. His club memberships include the
Union League, Kenwood, Law, Hamilton
and Quadrangle. He was married in Sche
nectady, New York, November 16, 1881, to
Tillie C. Howe, and has one child, Jessie.
Address : 135 Adams Street. Residence :
4505 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HEDDEN, A. Wletlng:
Physician and surgeon; born Lowville,
Lewis County, New York, May 21, 1866;
son of Amos K. and Anna M. (Wieting)
Hedden. Graduated Albany Medical Col
lege, M.D., 1893. Engaged in practice of
medicine and surgery at Syracuse, New
York, since 1893. Great medical examiner
of the Knights of the Maccabees of the
World for State of New York. Republi
can. Presbyterian. Member of New York
State Medical Society; Onondaga County
Medical Society; Medical Association of
Central and Western New York; Syracuse
Academy of Medicine ; Central Alumni As
sociation Albany Medical College; Ameri
can Medical Association. Clubs : Citizens',
Syracuse Yacht. Married in Syracuse, New
York, January 24, 1895, Ella Mae Yarwood.
Address : 512 South Salina Street, Syra
cuse, New York.
HEDGE, Thomas:
Ex-congressman and lawyer; born in
Burlington, Iowa, June 24, 1844; son of
Thomas Hedge and Eliza B. (Eldridge)
Hedge. He prepared for college at Phil
lips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
graduating in 1861 ; was graduated from
Yale College in 1867 and from Columbia
College Law School, New York, in i86g.
He served as private in Company E, and
as second lieutenant in Company G, One
Hundred and Sixth New York Infantry, in
1864-1865; has been engaged in the prac
tice of law in Burlington, Iowa, from 1869
to the present time ; was elected to the Fif
ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Ninth
Congress from the First Iowa District. In
politics he is a Republican. He married
at Burlington, Iowa, January 8, 1873, Mary
F. Cook. Address : Burlington, Iowa.

HEDGES, Job E.:
Lawyer; born at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
May 10,. 1862; son of Job Clark- and Eliza
beth Wood (Elmer), , Hedges. , He was
graduated from Princeton, as -A.B. in 1884;
A.M. in 1887-; and from Columbia Law
School as LL.B. in 1886; and engaged in
the practice of law in New York City in
1886. Mr. Hedges was secretary to Mayor
Strong from 1895 to 1897, city magistrate
from May to December of 1897 and deputy
attorney-general of the State of New York
in 1900. He is a Republican in politics,
and a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, the New York State Bar Associa
tion, the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, Sons of Veterans, Sons
of the American Revolution, and the Union
League, University, Princeton, and Law
yers' Clubs. Address : 141 Broadway, New
York City.
HEENAN, Thomas E.:
Consular official; born in Pennsylvania.
Consul at Odessa, October 29, 1885 ; consul-
general at Newchwang, Match 30, 1907.
Salary, $4,500 per annum. Address : New
chwang, China.
HEERMANCE, Martin:
Lawyer ; born at Hillsdale County, Michi
gan, December 17, 1852; son of Rev. Hari-
son and Rebecca A. (Van Denbergh) Heer-
mance. He was educated at De Garmo
Classical Institute, Rhinebeck, New York.
Was supervisor of the Town of Rhinebeck,
New York, in 1881 and 1882; district at
torney of Dutchess County, from 1889 to
1892; chairman of State Board of Tax
Commissioners of the State of New York,
from 1896 to 1900; member of the Amer
ican Bar Association ; New York State Bar
Association; Holland Society; past mas
ter of Rhinebeck Lodge, and F. and A. M.
He married at Rhinebeck, New York, April
27, 1881, Nina Radcliffe, and they have
one son, Radcliffe, born April 18, 1882.
Residence: Poughkeepsie. Address: 56
Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New -York.
HEFELBOWER, Samuel Gring:
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son of Samuel and Anna Elizabeth
(Gring) Hefelbower. He attended the
Dickinson Preparatory School of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, from ,1885 to 1887 and, en
tering Pennsylvania College in the latter
year, was graduated from it with the de
gree of A.B, in 1891, receiving the A.M.
degree in 1894. Thence he entered Get
tysburg Seminary; his studies being carried
on further at the Leipzig University, Ger
many, from 1895 to 1896 and at Leipzig and
Halle, from 1901 to 1902. The honorary
degree of D.D. was conferred upon him
by Dickinson College iri 1905. On his
return from Europe in 1896, he accepted a
call to the pastorate of the Lutheran
Church at Manheim, Pennsylvania, of
which denomination he is a member, and
after three years went to Frostburg, Mary
land, as pastor of the Lutheran Church.
Here he officiated until 1901, and- in 1902
became professor of German at Pennsyl
vania College. In 1904 he was elected
by the trustees president of the college.
While a student abroad, Dr. Hefelbower
traveled extensively through various Euro
pean countries. He is a member of the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church, and also a member of Phi Beta
Kappa of Dickinson College. He was
married first, at Troy, Pennsylvania, May
6, 1897, to Edna May Loomis; second, at
Frostburg, Maryland, September 25, 1902, to
Anna Eaton Hitchins. He has one daugh
ter, Edna Elizabeth, born May 9, 1898. Ad
dress: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
HEFFERN, Andrew D. :
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Febru
ary 24, 1856 ; son of Andrew P. and Eliza
beth (Smith) Heffern. He was gradu
ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1878, at
tended the University of Berlin, and the
Philadelphia Divinity School, and received
from the Western University at Pittsburgh,
the degree of D.D. He was ordained dea
con in the Protestant Episcopal Church in
1881, and. priest in 1882 ; was rector of St.
Mary's, Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1881 and 1882;
at Trinity, Southwark, Philadelphia, from
1882-1887; associate rector, Trinity Church,

San Francisco, 1887-1888; rector, Church of
the Good Shepherd, Pittsburgh, 1889-
1900. He has been professor of New
Testament, language and literature, at the
Philadelphia Divinity School since 1900. He
is a member of the Society of Biblical
Literature and Exegesis, and is a Mason.
Dr. Heffern married in Philadelphia, July
3, 1889, Louise F. Wagner, and they have
two children: Anna C. and Louise. Resi
dence: 4519 Kingsessing Avenue, Phila
delphia. Address : 5000 Woodland Ave
nue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HEFFRON, John L.:
Physician ; born in New Woodstock, New
York, November 29, 1851 ; son of Dr. Lo
renzo and "Mary A. (Pettit) Heffron; grad
uated at Colgate University, A.B., 1873,
A.M., 1876 (Phi Beta Kappa) ; Syracuse
University, M.D., 1881 ; post-graduate
University of Vienna and Heidelberg.
Professor of clinical medicine, Syracuse
University; physician-in-chief to Hospital
of the Good Shepherd ; consulting physician
to Hospital for Women and Children. Re
publican. Unitarian. Member of , Syra
cuse Academy of Medicine (ex-president),
Onondaga County Medical Society (ex-
president), Central New York Medical As
sociation (ex-president) ; chairman of the
Committee on Public Health New York
State Medical Society, New York Academy
of Medicine, American Climatological So
ciety, American Medical Association, Madi
son County Medical Society (honorary),
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Central
New York D. K. E. Alumni Association
(ex-president) ; ex-trustee Syracuse Cham
ber of Commerce ; alumnus trustee Syra
cuse University. Author of many contri
butions to the medical press, the latest of
which is A Century's Progress in Thera
peutics. Recreations : Golf, travel, fish
ing. Clubs : University, Citizens', Syracuse
Golf and Country. He married in New
York, August 13, 1881, Marie A, Marcher,
and they have three children: Marian,. born
in 1886; Emilie, born in 1888, and John
Marcher, born in 1890. Address: 528 S.
Salina Street, Syracuse, New York.

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HEFLIN, James Thomas:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Louina,
Randolph County, Alabama, April 9, 1869;
son of Dr. W. L. Heflin and Laircie Cathe
rine (Phillips) Heflin. He was educated in
the common schools of Randolph County,
at the Southern University, Greensboro,
Alabama, and at the A. and M. College,
Auburn, Alabama, studied law at Lafayette,
Alabama, under Judge N. D. Denson, and
was admitted to the bar, January 12, 1893.
He was elected mayor of Lafayette, Alaba
ma, March 16, 1893, and reelected, holding
this office two terms; was register in chan
cery two years, resigning in 1896 to accept
the Democratic nomination from Cham
bers County to the Legislature ; was elected
in 1896 and reelected to the Legislature in
1898; was a member of the Democratic
State Executive Committee from 1896 to
1902; was a delegate in the constitutional
convention of Alabama in 1901 ; was elected
secretary of State in November, 1902, for
a term of four years ; resigned that office
May 1, 1904; was elected May 19, 1904, to
fill the unexpired term of Hon. Charles W.
Thompson, deceased, in the Fifty-eighth
Congress, without opposition, and on No
vember 8,. 1904, reelected as Representative
in the Fifty-ninth Congress, also to the Six
tieth Congress, from the Fifth Alabama
District. In politics he is a Democrat. He
married at Lafayette, Alabama, December
18, 1895, Minnie Kate Schuesslcr. Address :
Lafayette, Alabama.
HEIDEL, William Arthur:
Professor of Greek; born in Burlington,
Iowa, March 10, 1868; son of Charles
Heidel and Mary Magdalen (Fengel)
Mcidel. He received his education in pub
lic schools at St. Louis and in public
• schools at Warsaw, Illinois ; was graduated
from Central Wesleyan College as A.B. in
1888, and A.M. in 1891, attended the Uni
versity of Berlin, from 1888 to 1890, Uni
versity of Chicago, from 1894 to 1896, and
received the degree of Ph.D. in 1895. He
was acting professor of Latin, from 1890
to 1891, and professor of Greek, from 1891
to 1894, at the Illinois Wesleyan Univer

sity; senior fellow in Greek, in 1894, and
instructor in philosophy from 1895 to 1896,
at the University of Chicago; professor of
Latin at Iowa College, from 1896 to 1905
and has been professor of Greek at Wes
leyan University since 1905. He is an ex
tensive contributor to philological and philo
sophical journals and reviews, and is as
sociate editor of classical philology. He
traveled in Germany, Belgium and France.
In politics he is an Independent and in re
ligion a Methodist. He is a member of
the American Philological Association,
Archaeological Institute of America, Man
aging Committee of the American School
at Athens, and of the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr.
Heidel married in Grinnell, Iowa, June 15,
1898, Mary Elizabeth Mack, and they have
one son, Warren Clark, born September 4,
1903. Residence: 41 Lawn Avenue, Mid
dletown, Connecticut. Address : Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut.
HEMROD, George:
Consular official ; born in Germany. Con
sul-general at Alpia, November 23, 1901;
consul, June 22, 1906. Salary, $3,500 per
annum. Address : Alpia, Samoa.
HEINGARTNER, Alexander:
Consular official; born in New York. Ap
pointed consul at Catania, August 11, 1898;
consul at Guelph, September 15, 1905; con
sul at Riga, June 22, 1906. Address : Riga,
Russia.
HEINS, George Lewis:
Architect; born in Philadelphia, May 24,
i860; son of John and Anne Marie
(Vaughn) Heins; was two years at Uni
versity of Pennsylvania before entering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
from which he was graduated in architec
tural course, in 1882. Since 1882 he has been
associated with Christopher Grant La Farge,
who was a classmate ; the firm of Heins &
La Farge has been for eight years archi
tect for all State buildings in New York;
since 1898 the Protesant Episcopal Cathe
dral of St. John the Divine, on Morning-
side Heights ; the interior of the Church of
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Incarnation ; the alterations of Grace Church,
and many other churches and edifices in New
York City and elsewhere; and are consult
ing architects for the Rapid Transit Com
mission. Mr. Fleins married in 1896, Aimee
La Farge. Residence: Mohegan, New
York. Address : 30 East Twenty-first
Street, New York City.
HEINS, John Lewis:
¦-Railroad official; born in New York City,
September 12, 1844; son of Carsten and
Anna (Evers) Heins; educated in the pub
lic schools. Has been engaged in the rail
road and transportation business since
1858 ; president- and director of the Coney
Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company,
Brooklyn City and Newton Railroad Com
pany, De Kalb Avenue and North Beach
Railroad Company; director National City
Bank of Brooklyn, Long Island Safe De-
_ posit Company. Lutheran. Recreations :
Automobiling, riding, driving. Mr. Heins
is a member of the Brooklyn and Brooklyn
Yacht Clubs. Married December 27, 1871,
Eliza Anna Zundt, and they have one
daughter, Mrs. George Walsh. Address:
191 1 Albermarle Road, Flatbush, New
York.HEINZE, Arthur P.:
Lawyer and capitalist; bom in Brooklyn,
New York, December 18, 1864. His father,
Otto Heinze, was a merchant of consider
able standing in New York City. Arthur's
grandfather was a Lutheran clergyman, who
traced his ancestry back to Caspar Aquila,
who was associated with Martin Luther in
the latter's translation of the Bible into
the German language. A copy of this Bible,
which was presented to this ancestor by
the nobles of Thuringia, is now in the
possession of Mr. Heinze. His preparatory
education was received in the public schools
of New York City and the High School
of Leipzig, Germany, from which he en
tered Columbia College, where he was grad
uated with high honors in 1885. He re
turned to Leipzig, continued his studies
there for some time, and afterward at
Heidelberg, and traveled on the Continent.
On his return he entered the Law School

of Columbia University and was graduated
in 1888. He immediately entered upon the
practice of his profession, with varying re
sults for a time, but made his first appear
ance in the active legal world in the law
offices of Wing, Shoudy and Putnam, where
he remained for several years, taking an
active part in the litigation of many im
portant cases. The death of Mr. Heinze's
father, in 1891, materially changed his
career. The elder Heinze was possessed
of considerable means, and it fell to the lot
of this son to settle up the affairs of the
estate. Upon the completion of this duty
he decided upon making an extended tour
of the world He visited many foreign
lands, and returned to the United States by
way of the Pacific Coast. His youngest
brother, F. Augustus Heinze, had cast his
fortunes in the Western country, and was
located at Butte, Montana, where he had
engaged in the copper mining industry. He
joined his brother in organizing the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing Company, which, in
a short time, ranked third in the eopper-
producing companies of the State, disburs
ing more than twelve hundred thousand
dollars in four years. After several years
of uninterrupted success, the Purchasing
Company found itself involved in about
fifty suits brought, against it, but these at
last resulted in an unqualified victory for
Mr. Heinze and his brother and their
associates. Prior to this successful ending
of the legal struggle over the interests of
the ore company Mr. Heinze looked after
and managed the financial ends of his
brother's copper mining and railroad en
terprises in British Columbia, where the
latter had built an extensive railroad and
a smelter, and had received a subsidy of
four million acres of land from the Cana
dian Government. This investment proved
of immense value, and was subsequently
sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany. Mr. Heinze then transferred the
immediate supervision of his Western in
terests to other hands and returned to New
York City, where the old firm of his father,
Otto Heinze & Co., wholesale dry goods
and commission merchants, is located, and
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terest. He is still, however, vift-president
of the United Copper Company, president
of the Aetna Indemnity Company, and a di
rector in the Nipper Consolidated Copper
Company, besides holding a similar posi
tion in several banking concerns. He is a
member of numerous social organizations
and clubs, including the Hamilton Club,
the Crescent Athletic Club, the German
Club, the Downtown Association, the Sil
ver Bow Club of Butte, Montana, and the
Karleuhensia Society of Heidelberg, Ger
many. Mr. Heinze married in 1899, Ruth
Meiklejohn Noyes, daughter of John Noyes,
one of the most prominent pioneer citizens
of Montana. Residence: 220 Madison Ave
nue, New York City. Office address : 31
Nassau Street, New York City.
HEINZE, F. Augustus:
Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, New York,
December 5, 1869; son of Otto Heinze and
Lida Marsh (Lacey) Heinze. He was
educated in the schools of Brooklyn, after
ward taking a course in the Columbia Col
lege School of Mines, from which he was
graduated as a mining engineer. He also
took a course in the best scientific schools
of Germany, before putting his theoretic
and academic training and attainments to
practical test in the mining camp. In 1890
Mr. Heinze went West, seeking his first
business opening in life, and settled in
Butte, Montana. Here he found employ
ment with the Boston and Montana Copper
Company as a mining engineer, and quickly
acquired a thorough practical knowledge of
the mining and smelting business. Two
years later he started a mining enterprise
of his own. His first operations were con
fined to mining under leases and concentrat
ing ores so produced in a mill at Meader-.
vilfe. Later he purchased this mill, and
shortly afterward arranged to construct his
own smelter. On October 27, 1892, con
struction was begun, and inside of sixty-
eight days the works, produced copper mat
ter; in 1893 the Montana Ore Purchasing
Company was incorporated when F. Augus
tus Heinze was only twenty-four years of
age. This company was among the first

to adopt improvements in machinery and
mining methods, and in 1895 paid thirty-two
per cent, in dividends on a million dollars
of capitalization, and employed sixteen mil
lion pounds of copper and six hundred and
fifty ounces of silver. Millions of dollars
were paid in dividends in a few years, the
capital stock was greatly increased, more
than five million dollars were expended for
additional mining properties and improve
ments, until the company owned one of the
most valuable copper mines . in the world,
including both the east and west extensions
of the Anaconda lode. When the claims
around Butte got so thick and close to each
other that the operators began to clash,
Eastern capital interested in the mines and
Western operators conceived a plan of amal
gamation, and the Copper Trust was
formed, under the name of the Amalga
mated Copper Company. Mr. Heinze has
been active in other localities than Montana,
erecting in 1895 large smelting works at
Trail, British Columbia, and connecting the
same with Rossland by the first railroad en
tering that town. He also connected Trail
with Robson by a railway, which comprises
part of the Columbia and Western Railway
Company. Mr. Heinze is a member of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers;
the Down Town, Strollers', Larchmont, Sea-
wanhaka, Columbia University, Deutscher
Verein of New York City, the Crescent
Athletic (Brooklyn), Montana (Helena),
Silver Bow (Butte, Montana), University
(Salt Lake), St. James (Montreal, Cana
da). Residence: Butte, Montana. Ad
dress : 42 Broadway, New York City.
HEINZ, H. J.:
Manufacturer; born in Pittsburgh, Oc
tober 11, 1844; educated in the public
schools and local business college.; As a
young man, engaged part of the time in
operating a garden in the vicinity of Pitts
burgh and in disposing of the product in the
city market; assisted his father in con
ducting the brick and contracting busi-.
ness ; 1869; gave his entire time and energy
to the pickling and preserving business,
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of this country, ..and -the largest-of its kind
ih-the -world. The organization now has its
-ramifications, in both production", arid distri
bution, in almost every country iri the civi
lized world. The parent plant is reinforced
by twelve branch factories, sixty odd salting
stations, or depots for the assembling of
raw products and their partial prepara
tions; twenty-five, branch warehouses in
commercial centres, including one in Lon
don, and fifty-two agencies. Four thousand
people are employed regularly; the prod
ucts of 30,000 acres annually, and the labor
of 40,000 people to tend and harvest these
crops are required. Aside from a thorough
familiarity with every detail of his busi
ness, Mr. Heinz gives much time to other
interests. Is identified with Pittsburgh busi
ness institutions as follows : Director of
Western Insurance Company, director of
Union National Bank, president of the Cen
tral Accident Insurance Company, presi
dent of the Aspinwall Land Company,
vice-president of the Western Pennsylvania
Exposition Society, and a director of the
Chamber of Commerce. He is president
of the Winona Interurban Railway of Indi
ana. In educational work his interest is
shown through his relation to these insti
tutions: The Kansas City University, of
which he is a trustee and for years was
president of the board ; the Winona Agri
cultural Institute, of Winona, Indiana, and
the Winona Technical Institute, Indianap
olis, Indiana. Address: Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania.

HEISLER, John C:
Physician and professor of anatomy in
the;: Medico-Chirurgical. College, Philadel
phia; born . at Jersey Shore, Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1862;
educated in' public schools and by private
tutors; was graduated from Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy in 1883; graduated
from Medical School of University of
Pennsylvania in 1887; interne at St. Mary's
Hospital, Philadelphia, from 1887 to 1888;
begain the- private practice of medicine in
Philadelphia in 1888; teacher in Medical
School of University of Pennsylvania in

-various- capacities from 1888 • to 1897—- as
sistant - demonstrator of obstetrics, -assist
ant -demonstrator' of anatomy,- prosecutor
to the -Chair of Anatomy;- instructor in
diseases of -the chest in Philadelphia Poly
clinic for two- years (1889-1891) ; professor
of anatomy in the Medico-Chirurgical Col
lege since 1897. Member of Philadelphia
County Medical Society ; of Philadelphia
Pediatric Society, Pennsylvania State Medi
cal Society, American Medical Association,
Association of American Anatomists, fellow
of - College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Author of: A Text- Book of Embryology,
(W. B: Sounders & Company), Philadel
phia, 1899; second edition, 1901). Married
in 1892, Anna M. Reardon. Address :
3829 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
HEISLER, William H.:
Banker; born in Pemberton, New Jer
sey, November 19, 1842; educated in the
Pemberton public schools; employed in a
drug store in 1859, remaining there till
1863, when he entered the Mount Holley
National Bank, In 1866 he removed to
Philadelphia, having acquired a good know
ledge of the banking business, and seeing
there a more promising field. Obtaining a
position in the Seventh National Bank, his
ability and energy brought him to the post
of cashier in 1871, a position which he held
for seventeen years. In 1888 he entered
the Manufacturers' National Bank as cash
ier and vice-president, serving till 1893,
when he was elected president of that in
stitution. This position Mr. Heisler still
holds, and is also concerned in other busi
ness bodies, being a director and the treas
urer of the Schliehter Jute Cordage Com
pany. He is a director of the Seaside Park
Association, treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Seamen's Friend Society, and treasurer of
the Philadelphia Layman's Association,
taking an active part in its charitable work.
Address : Pemberton, New Jersey.
HELLEMS, Fred Burton Renney:
Dean of Arts Department; bom at Wel-
land, Ontario, September 1, 1872; son of
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(Gould) Hellems. He was graduated from
the University of Toronto as B.A. in 1893,
and from Chicago University as Ph.D. in
1898. Dr. Hellems became professor of
Latin at the University of Colorado,, in
1898, and dean of the Arts Department of
the same institution since 1899. Has writ
ten various technical articles to the Jour
nal of Philology, and the American Jour
nal of Archaeology; and is a regular con
tributor to The Dial. He is independent
in politics; and is a member of the Amer
ican Philological Society. He married at
Boulder, in 1902, Hortense Whiteley. Ad
dress: 1 162 Twelfth Street, Boulder, Colo
rado. HELLIER, Charles Edward:
Lawyer; born at Bangor, Maine, July 8,
1864; was graduated from Yale College in
1886. Has been practicing his profession
m Boston since 1890. Address : 57 Equit
able Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
HEMENWAY, James Alexander:
United States senator ; born March 8,
i860, at Boonville, Indiana. He was edu
cated in- the common schools; commenced
the practice of law in 1885; in 1886 and
again in 1888 was elected prosecuting at
torney of the Second Judicial Circuit of
Indiana; in 1890 was selected as the mem
ber of the Republican State Committee from
the First District; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, resigning from the latter before
taking his seat in the House of Representa
tives; was elected to the United States
Senate January 18, 1905, to succeed Hon.
C. W. Fairbanks, chosen vice-president on
the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, and
took his seat March 6, 1905. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1909. Address :
Boonville, Indiana.
HEMMETER, John C. :
Physician and university professor; born
in Baltimore, Maryland, April 25, 1864 ; son
of John Hemmeter and-Mathilda (Ziegler)
Hemmeter. He was educated in the K6-
niglich-Kaiserlich Gymnasium at Wiesba

den, Baltimore City College, University of
Maryland, graduating as M.D. in 1884,
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1890,
and received from St. John's College, An
napolis, Maryland, the degree of LL.D.,
honoris causa. Dr. Hemmeter studied in
Europe six years consecutively and has re
peatedly visited Europe for long periods
since. He has served as physician in
charge of the Bay View Hospital, Univer
sity of Maryland Hospital and other hos
pitals ; his practice is now limited to dis
eases of the digestive organs. He is pro
fessor of physiology and clinical professor
of medicine and regent of the University
of Maryland. He is associate editor of
Archiv fiir Klinisch Medicin, Germany,
and of Archiv fiir Verdarungskr'ankheit;
Berlin, and is author of: Diseases of the
Stomach (four editions) ; Diseases of the
Intestines (two volumes) ; The Organic
Diseases of the Digestive Tract; A His
tory of the Discovery of the Circulation of
the Blood.; Biography of Theodore Bill
roth (a study of his surgical and musical
achievements) ; The Poetic and Physiologic
Work of Albrecht von Haller; and many
contributions to the foreign and American
medical and scientific press. Professor
Hemmeter's most recent experimental re
search brings out conclusively that the sali
vary glands have an internal secretion
which passes into the blood and reaching
the stomach causes a secretion of gas
tric juice. His favorite recreation is
music, and he is the composer of Hy-
giea, a cantata for full male chorus and
orchestra, also a musical setting to the
Twenty-third Psalm, and many composi
tions for piano and voice. His portrait in
oil, life-size, painted by the artist, Louis P.
Dietrich, was presented to him' in 1905 by
one hundred subscribers from all over the
United States. General Walter Wyman,
of the United States Marine Hospital Ser
vice, making the presentation speech. Pro
fessor Hemmeter is a member of all the
medical societies, of Baltimore, an honor
ary of the Tristate Medical Association of
Virginia and the Carolinas; corresponding
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kunde and innere Medicin of Vienna;
honorary member of the Koniglich-Kaiser-
liche Gesellschaft Ostreichischer Aerzte,
Vienna, and of the Congress fiir innere
Medicin, Germany; and he is a trustee of
the Home for the Aged (German) of Bal
timore. He is a member of the Univer
sity, Germania, Johns Hopkins, and Bal
timore Medical Journalists Clubs. He mar
ried in Baltimore, January 18, 1893, Helene
E. Hilgenberg. Address : 1734 Linden Ave
nue, Baltimore, Maryland.
HENCKE, John William:
Cashier, United States Custom House,
Cleveland, Ohio; born in Akron, Ohio, Oc
tober 21, 1868; son of John Nicholas
Hencke and Eliza (Smith) Hencke. Af
ter receiving his education in the Cleveland
public schools he became stenographer for
the Standard Oil Company; later, secretary
and treasurer of the Ohio Electric Works
which marketed a number of electric novel
ties originated by his firm, among them
the electric pocket flash light. Being a
staunch republican, he devoted much time
and energy to the famous McKinley cam
paign of 1895, in which the Tippecanoe Club
of Cleveland took such a prominent part.
He was made secretary of that organization
and it was largely through his efforts that
the Tippecanoe Club won its national repu
tation. His political affiliations landed him
in his present federal office. As cashier he
has won a reputation as expert on counter
feit money. Mr. Hencke is of an inventive
turn of mind. He has recently been granted
letters patent on Folding Comfort Chairs
and various automatic toys. He is public
spirited and as an officer in local improve
ment bodies, secured for his community
many benefits; he is active in the present
popular movement to establish hygienic
playgrounds for children. In 1901 Mr.
Hencke was honored by Hon. Theodore
E. Burton, chairman of the national rivers
and harbors committee, when he chose him
as his private secretary on an inspection
trip of the waterways and harbors of the
Southern, Western and Alaskan coasts of
the United States, traveling over fourteen

thousand miles and visiting many of the
principal cities. Residence: 3609 Clark
Avenue, S. W., Cleveland, Ohio. Office
address: Wilshire Building, Cleveland,
Ohio. HENDERSON, (Jbarles Richmond:
Professor of sociology; born in Coving
ton, Indiana, December 17, 1848 ; son of Al
bert Henderson and Lorana (Richmond)
Henderson. He was graduated from the
Old University of Chicago in 1870 as A.B.
and in 1873 received the degree of A.M.
He was also graduated from the Baptist
Union Theological Seminary, as B.D. in
1873 and D.D. in 1885 and the degree of
Ph.D. was conferred upon him in 1901 by
the University of Leipzig. He was pastor
at Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1873 to
1882; at Detroit, Michigan, from 1882 to
1892; has been professor of sociology at
the University of Chicago since 1892 and is
at the head of the Department of Ecclesias
tical Sociology. Professor Henderson is a
trustee of Kalamazoo College, Michigan, is
a life member of the executive committee
of the National Conference of Charities and
Correction and is also a member of the
American Economic Association, the Atner-
ican Sociological Society, the Societe
Generate des Prisons, the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, Psi Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi
fraternities, and of the Quadrangle Club of
Chicago. He has recently published Ar-
beiterversicherung in den Vereinigten
Staaten yon Nord Amerika; and is author
of other books, including: Social Elements,
1898; which was translated into Japanese
by Professor T. Takebe of Tokyo Univer
sity, and published in Japan. He married
at La Fayette, Indiana, May 14, 1873, Ele
anor Levelling, and they had one son, who
was born in 1877 and died in 1880. Resi
dence : 5736 Washington Avenue, Chicago,
Office address: The University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
HENDERSON, George B, ;
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of Thomas D. Henderson and Emily (Ri-
ter) Henderson. He was graduated from
Lauderbach Academy, Philadelphia, in
1876. He served successively as assistant
chief draughtsman of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; assistant superintendent of the
Roanoke (Virginia) Machine Works; me
chanical engineer of the Norfolk and
Western Railway; assistant superintendent
of motive power of the Chicago and North
western Railway; assistant Superintendent
and superintendent of motive power .of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
He is now established as a consulting en
gineer in New York City. Mr. Henderson
is a Republican in politics, and an Episco
palian in his religious faith. He is a mem
ber of the American Society of Mechani
cal Engineers, the American Railway Mas
ter Mechanics' Association, Master Car
Builders' Association, the National Geo
graphic Society and the New York Rail
road Club. He married at Altoona, Penn
sylvania, May 22, 1884, Virginia P. Curry,
and they had one daughter, Emily, who
died in 1903. Address : 20 West Thirty-
fourth Street, New York City.
HENDERSON, John J.:
Jurist; born in Allegheny County, Penn
sylvania, September 23, 1843; son of an
eminent Methodist clergyman of that local
ity. He was educated at Meadville Aca
demy and Allegheny College, and after
graduation took part in the Civil War
from 1862 to 1865. On his return he stud
ied law at Meadville and was admitted to
the bar of Crawford County in 1867. His
knowledge of and ability in the law soon
brought him an excellent practice, and in
1872 he was elected district attorney of
the county, serving for one term. By 1887
he had won such standing in his profession
that he was elected president judge of
the Thirtieth Judicial District, serving for
the full term of ten years. He resumed
the practice of law in 1897 with the great
est success, and in March, 1903, was select
ed by the Governor to fill a vacancy upon the
bench of the Supreme Court of the State,
which position he now occupies. He is
noted for his eloquence and ability as a

public speaker. Address : Meadville, Penn
sylvania. HENDRICK, Ellwood:
Broker; born in Albany, New York,' De
cember 19, 1861 ; son of James and Anna
(Wands) Hendrick; educated at University
of Zurich, Switzerland, 1878-1881; Corps
Tigurinia (F. M. xxx, xx) ; studied chem
istry under Professors Victor Meyer,- Vic
tor Merz, and Wilhelm Weith, Was super
intendent and chief of laboratories Albany
Aniline and Chemical Works, 1881, until
change of ownership, 1884; surveyor, and
later special agent Commercial Union As
surance Company of London, at New York
City; Atlanta, Georgia; Richmond, Vir
ginia; Albany, New York; and Boston,
Massachusetts. Retired from fire insur
ance in 1900, returned to New York
and became stock and bond broker. Di
rector of the American Tube and Stamp
ing Company . (Bridgeport, Connecticut) ;
Peoria Water Works Company (Peoria,
111.) ; Building and Sanitary Inspection
Company (New York). Clubs: Players',
Republican. Married in New York City,
November 15, 1897, Josephine Pomeroy;
children: Grace Virginia', James Pomeroy.
Residence: 139 East Fortieth Street, New
York City; (summer) Wainscott, Long
Island; (spring and fall) . Simsbury, Con
necticut. Address: 25 Pine Street, New
York City.
HENDRICK, Michael J.:
Consul; born Penn Yan, New York, De
cember 23, 1847; son of Thomas and Cath
erine (Corcoran) Hendrick; educated in
public schools, Penn Yan Academy. Was
engaged in merchandise in Penn Yan, 1865-
1884 ; trustee of village six years ; appointed
United States consul at Belleville, Ontario,
1893. Member Knights of Columbus. C.
M. B. A., C. R. and B. A. Married in
Belleville, Ontario, June 14, 1005, Genevieve
Yates. Address : Belleville, Ontario, Can
ada. HENDRICK, William Jackson:
Lawyer; bom Flemingsbarg, Kentucky,
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Sophia (Damall) Hendrick; graduated
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, A.B.,
1873; A.M., 1876. Admitted to the bar,
June 8, 1876; Court of Appeals, Kentucky,
1877; Supreme Court of the United States,
1892; attorney-general of Kentucky, 1891-
1896; removed to New York City, and ad
mitted to New York bar, 1899 ; represented
Fleming County in Kentucky Legislature,
1882- 1883; Democratic elector for State at
large, 1.884 ', Democratic elector for Ninth
Congressional District, 1888; member- Con
stitutional Convention, 1890-1891 ; counsel
for Kentucky in Supreme Court of the
United States, 1896-1899; counsel Ameri
can Transportation and Navigation Com
pany, Eastern Kentucky Coal Lands Cor
poration, etc. Democrat. Presbyterian.
Member Southern Society, Associate Con
federate Veterans' Association, Beta Theta
Alumni Association; director New York
Bible Society. Club: Filson (Kentucky).
He married at Columbia, Missouri, Septem
ber 25, 1878, Mattie H. Harris; children:
Mrs. Robert Burns Wilson, Mrs. Sophia K.
Pickett, John Harris, Jane C, Jacqueline.
Address : 25 Broad Street, New York City.
HENDRICKSON, Charles E.:
Judge; born in New Egypt, Monmouth
(now Ocean) County, New Jersey, Jan
uary 8, 1843. He prepared for college at
the academy in his native town. In Sep
tember, i860, he entered the Sophomore
Class of Union College, Schenectady, New
York, hut continued there only one term,
joining the Sophomore Class of Princeton
College, New Jersey, the following Jan
uary, where he graduated at the age of
twenty with the class of 1863. On leaving
college he conducted a classical school for
one year at Pemberton New Jersey. He stud
ied law with Abraham Browning and Gar-
rit S. Cannon, successively, and was ad
mitted to the bar of New Jersey as an
attorney at -the November term of the Su
preme Court, 1866, and three years later
as, counselor.. He settled at Mount Holly
upon his admission to the bar where, he re
sided until 1904 when he removed to Red
Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
He was appointed prosecutor of the Pleas

for Burlington County by Governor Ran
dolph in March, 1870, and was re-appoint-:
ed by Governors Bedle, McClellan and
Abbett, thus serving twenty years in the
office, from which he voluntarily retired
at the close of his fourth term in March,
1890. Judge Hendrickson was elected to
the House of Assembly from the Third
district of Burlington County in 1867. He
represented the New Jersey Annual Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
as one of the . two lay delegates from
that body to the General Conference of
that Church held at Baltimore in May,
1876. He was there appointed by the
Board of Bishops one of the Committee
to Revise the Hymnal of the Church,
a work that was completed by the com
mittee and presented to the Board of Bish
ops at their meeting in Cleveland, Ohio,
the following year. He has further served
the New Jersey Methodist Annual Con
ference as trustee of Dickinson College and
of Pennington Seminary, and was president
of the Board of Trustees of the latter in
stitution for a number of years. He was
also a Lay Delegate to the Methodist Ecu
menical Conference held in Washington,
D. C, in 1891, having been designated by
the Board of Bishops as one of the repre
sentatives from the New Jersey Con
ference District. He was appointed by
Governor Griggs a judge of the Court of
Errors and Appeals on March 26, 1896,
for a term of six years. On January 28,
1901, he was nominated by Governor Voor-
hees for justice qi the Supreme Court,
to fill a vacancy caused by the death of
George C. Ludlow, and the nomination was
confirmed by the Senate on February 4.
In politics he is a Democrat. His term
will expire in 1908. His circuit comprises
the counties, of Monmouth, Burlington and
Ocean. Address : Red Bank, New Jersey.
HENDRIX, Eugene Russell:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South; bom at Fayette, Missouri,
May 17, 1847; son of Adam and Isabel J.
(Murray) Hendrix. After a preparatory
education in the schools of Missouri, he
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account of the Civil War he did not re
main to complete his course, going in
stead, to the Wesleyan University of Mid
dletown, Connecticut, where he was grad
uated in 1867. Thence he took up the
study of theology at the Union Theo
logical Seminary, where two years later he
was graduated with the degree of B.D.
The honorary degree of D.D, was conferred
upon him by Emory College in 1878, and
by Wesleyan University in 1903, and that
of LL.D. by the University of Mis
souri and of North Carolina in 1888, by
Washington and Lee University in 1892. Af
ter his ordination to the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, in 1870, he accepted the
pastorate of the churches in Macon and
St. Joseph, Missouri, officiating until 1878,
when he was elected president of Central
College. In 1886 he was elected to the
bishopric of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and gave up the college
presidency. He has been university preach
er at Vanderbilt, Cornell, and Princeton Uni
versities, and Cole lecturer at Vanderbilt
University in 1903. In the same year he
was Quillian lecturer at Emory College,
and Henry Martyn Loud lecturer at Ann
Arbor in 1907. He has made official visits
to Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China and Korea,
and founded the mission of his church in
the latter country. He was also fraternal
messenger to the British Conference in
1900. Bishop Hendrix is a trustee of Van
derbilt University, of Woman's College of
Baltimore, of Central College, Missouri,
of the Scarritt Bible and Training "School,
and of Paine Institute. He spends his va
cations in traveling, and is fond of driv
ing and athletics. He is author of vari
ous books, principally on religious topics,
among which are: Around the World
( 1878) ; Skilled Labor for the Master
(1900) ; The Religion of the Incarnation
(1903) ; and The Personality of the Holy
Spirit (1904). He was married at Kansas
City, Missouri, June 20, 1872, to Annie E.
Scarritt, and has four children : Evangeline,
Mary, Nathan and Helen. Address : 3242
Norledge Place, Kansas City, Missouri.

HENEY, Francis Joseph:
Lawyer; born in Lima, New York,
March 17, 1859; son of Richard Heney and
Julia (Schreiber) Heney; removed to San
Francisco in 1864. He received his edu
cation in the schools of San Francisco,
was in the University of California for
a year and later attended for one year
the Hasting's Law School in San Francisco.
He was admitted to the bar in 1883; was
a cattle-man and Indian trader in Arizona
from -1885 to 1889, and a lawyer in Tuc
son from 1889 until 1895; since then prac
tising in San Francisco. He was active in
politics as a Democrat in Arizona, and
while there became prominent in' connec
tion with reforms in territorial adminis
tration. He was territorial attorney-general
in 1893 and 1894. After his removal to
San Francisco he confined his practice to
civil matters for several years, but in 1903
was appointed by Attorney-General Knox
as special counsel for the prosecution of
the land fraud cases against Senator Mit
chell and others, and unearthed the com
plicity of John H. Hall, United States At
torney, whose indictment and removal he
procured, and secured several convictions.
He had charge of -the prosecutions of
Mayor Schmitt and Abe Ruef in San Fran
cisco and secured their conviction. Ad
dress : Kohl Building, San Francisco, Cali
fornia.
HENNEY, William F.:
Lawyer and mayor ; born at Enfield, Con
necticut, November 2, 1852; son of John
Henney and Meme' (Barclay) Henney. He
completed his education in Princeton Uni
versity, where he was graduated as A.B.
in 1874, and received the degree of A.M.
in 1877; and Trinity College conferred
upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1906. Mr,
Henney was admitted to the bar at Hart
ford, Connecticut, in 1876, and engaged in
practice there. He was Police Court judge
from 1883 to 1889, and has since been en
gaged in general practice. He was offered
in 1907 ' an appoihtment as judge of the
Superior Court of Connecticut, but declined
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ford Electric Light Company, and of the
Municipal Art Society. In politics he is a
Republican ; was a member of the Common
Council of Hartford in 1877; corporation
counsel from 1890 to 1892, and in 1895 ;
and was elected mayor for the term from
1900 to 1902, and reelected in April, 1906,
for another two-year term as mayor oi
Hartford. He is a Presbyterian in religious
views; is a Mason up to and including the
council degrees, and a Knight Templar, and
a member of the Hartford, Country and
Twentieth Century Clubs of Hartford. Res
idence: 32 Vernon Street, Hartford. Of
fice address: n Central Row, Hartford,
Connecticut.
HENRI, Robert:
Artist; born Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865; son
of John and Theresa Henri; educated in
public schools of New York City, Cincin
nati, and Denver; student of Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1886-
1888 ; Academie Julien and Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris, 1888-1891 ; later studied in
France, Spain, and Italy. His picture, La
Neige, was purchased from the Salon, 1899,
by French Government for Luxembourg
Gallery; picture, Girl in White Waist, pur
chased by Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, for
permanent collection, 1904; awarded silver
medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
1901, and at Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, 1904; Harris prize of $500, Chi
cago Art Institute, 1905. . Represented in
permanent collection of Spartanburg, South
Carolina, by Girl With Red Hair. In
structor of portrait and figure painting,
drawing and composition New York School
of Art. Member of National Academy of
Design, Society of American Artists, New
York City, Fellowship Pennsylvania Acad
emy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Address:
-35 East Fortieth Street, New York City.
HENROTIN, Charles:
Banker and broker; born in Belgium,
April 15, 1848; son of Dr. Joseph F. Hen-
rotin. He came to America with his
father when he was five years of age, but
soon afterward returned to Belguim and
was educated at the Polytechnic School of

Tournay. He returned to American in 1861
and joined his father, who had settled in
Chicago, Illinois,, and who had been ap
pointed Belgian consul in that city in 1856.
Young Henroten's first employment was as
a clerk with the Merchants' Loan and Trust
Company. He eventually became cashier
of the company, succeeding Lyman J. Gage,
and retained the position for ten years. In
1878 he engaged in business as a banker
and broker on his own account, and has
conducted many large negotiations, includ
ing the sale for English companies of the
American Brewing and Malting Company
and the Union Stock Yards Company. He
has also been the American representative
of large financial interests in London and
on the Continent. During the administra
tion of the elder Harrison as mayor of Chi
cago, in 1878, when the city issued a quan
tity of scrip which was declared by the
courts to be illegal, Mr. Henrotin offered
to take the entire issue at ninety-two cents
when it was being sold at eighty-five cents,
and he thereby saved a large amount to
the city employees, the scrip not being re
deemed for more than a year. He like
wise cashed the coupons of the city's bonds
when there was no money in the city
treasury, and these he carried until the city
was able to redeem them. He is a mem
ber of the firm of Feder, Holzman and
Company, of New York, Chicago, and Cin
cinnati ; a member of the Chicago and New
York City Stock Exchanges and of the
Chicago Board of Trade. He was a di
rector of the World's Columbian Exposi
tion in 1893, and has been resident consul
of Belgium at Chicago since 1876, and of
Turkey since 1877. He is now the consul-
general of the latter country at Chicago.
In 1889 he was created a Knight of the
Order of Leopold (Belgium), and later an
officer in the same order. He was also
decorated by the Turkish Government with
the order of Commander of Ottoman Med-
jidie. He is a. Republican and a member of
the Chicago, Bankers', Union League and
other clubs. He was married in Chicago
in 1869 to Ellen M. Martin, who was pres
ident of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs from 1894 to 1898. He has three

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children : Edward C, Charles M., and Nor
ris B. Address : 159 La Salle Street. Res
idence : 251 Goethe Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HENRY, Albert M.:
Lawyer; born in Grand Rapids, Michi
gan, September 20, 1845; son of William
G. Henry and Huld'ana (Squier) Henry.
He was graduated from the University of
Michigan in the class of 1867, receiving the
degrees of B.S. and M.S.; then studied law
and entered upon the practice, in which he
has been eminently successful. Mr. Henry
is a Republican in politics; a former mem
ber of the City Council of Detroit, and has
served on the Board of Pardons and the
Board of Estimates of the State of Michi
gan. He has traveled extensively, and once
went around the world; and he has crossed
the Atlantic nine times, and the Pacific
three times. Mr. Flenry is a Presbyterian
in religion ; is a Mason up to the consistory
degrees, and a member of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine; and he is a member of
the Detroit and Country Clubs of Detroit.
He married in Detroit, January 20, 1875,
Frances M. Burns, and they have a son,
Burns Henry, born in 1878, and a daughter,
Mrs. Edith Henry Barbour, born in 1880.
Residence: 158 Fort Street, West, Detroit.
Office address: 1201 Jenobscot Building,
Detroit, Michigan.
HENRY, Bayard: t"
Attorney at law; director of Trades
men's National Bank, of the Real Estate
Trust Company of Philadelphia, of the In
surance Company of North America, John-
sonburg Railroad Company, president and
director of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company; director of United Railroad and
Canal Company of New Jersey, Alli
ance Insurance Company, Keystone Ware
house Company (Buffalo, New York) ;
vice-president and director; Castner Elec
trolytic Alkali Company (Niagara Falls),
director; Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley
Traction Company, director; trustee of
Princeton University; president of the
Young Men's Christian Association, Ger
mantown; member of the Senate of Penn

sylvania, 1898-1902. Address : Land Title
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HENRY, Charles Philip:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, June 5,
1863; son of Arthur Henry and Anne
(Maglade) Henry. He entered the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in 1878, and was -
awarded the Latin and Greek Matriculate,
Philosophy, Senior English, Alumni Latin
and Henry Reed prizes, and he received
the degrees of A.B., A.M., and M.D. He
the follo.wing"year:~ Hgjias further served
trustee of, the New Jersey Annual Con-
was pbjfsician to Blockley Hospital, Phila
delphia Insane Hospital and Girard Col
lege/ He has been assistant surgeon to
the United States Navy with rank of lieu
tenant since 1889. In religion he is a
Catholic. He has been lecturer in the
Catholic High School, and is a member
of the New York Catholic Club. Dr. Hen
ry married in Philadelphia, December 21,
1891, Agnes Brady. Residence : 1629 Race
Street, Philadelphia. Address: Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.
HENRY, Edward Steieru:
Farmer and congressman; born in Gill,
Massachusetts, in 1836 ; son of Edward Fish
Henry and Elisa (Stevens) Henry. At the
age of twelve, he removed with his parents
to Rockville, Connecticut, where he has
since resided. He was a representative in
the lower house of the Connecticut Gen
eral AssemhTy'oT 1883"; State senator from
the Twenty-third Senatorial District in
1887-88; delegate-at-large to the Chicago
National Republican Convention in 1888;
treasurer of the State of Connecticut from
1889 to 1893; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses,
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress,
from the First Connecticut District. la
politics he is a Republican. He married at
Lebanon, Connecticut, in i860, Lucina E.
Dewey. Address : Rockville, Connecticut.
HENRY, Frederick Augustus:
Judge of the Circuit Court of Ohio;
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Charles Eugene Henry and Sophia M.
(.Williams) Henry. He was graduated
from Hiram College as A.B. in 1888, and
from the University of Michigan, as A.M.,
and LL.B. in 1891. He entered the office
of Webster and Angell, at Cleveland in
1891 ; practiced alone from 1893 to 1898 ;
was a member of the firm of Winch, Henry
and Thompson in 1898 and 1899, of Ford,
Henry Baldwin and McGraw and Ford,
Snyder, Henry , and McGraw, from 1899
to 1905; was nominated judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in 1902, but de
clined; and was elected circuit judge in
1905. Judge Henry is a member of the
Union and University Clubs, the Cleveland
Council of Sociology, the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, New England Historic-Genea
logical Society, and Old Northwest Genea
logical Society; and is president of the
Board of Trustees of Hiram College. He
married at East Smithfield, Bradford
County, . Pennsylvania, January 25, 1893,
Louise Adams, daughter of Levi T. and
Charlotte (Clair) Adams, and they have
four children: Marcia Louise Henry, born
in 1894, Charles Adams Henry, born in
1897, Charlotte Sophia Henry, born in 1900,
and Margaret Rhoda Henry, born in 1902.
Address : Cleveland, Ohio.
HENRY, John A.;
Lawyer; born on a farm near Sidney,
Shelby County, Ohio, May 29, 1848; son of
David and Margaret (Maxwell) Henry.
He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University with the degree of A.B. in 1868,
and received the degree of A.M. from the
same institution in 1871. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar at Sidney,
Ohio, in 1871. He removed to Indianapo
lis in 1873, and was elected city attorney of
that city in 1879, serving for three years.
In 1883, he was appointed law clerk of the
Postoffice Department under Judge Gres-
ham, serving until March, 1885, when he
removed to Chicago, where he has since
practiced his profession. In 1887, he was
appointed special master to sell the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad, which had been
placed in the hands of receivers. Later he

was attorney for the receiver of the Chi
cago and Atlantic Railroad. He was at
torney for Cook County in 1891-92. He
was one of the counsel in the litigation
which followed the attempt in 1893 to for
feit the charters of the gas companies of
Chicago under the anti-trust law. He is a
Republican; a member of the Hamilton
Club, the Masonic order, and of the Sigma
Chi college fraternity. He was married in
Sidney, Ohio, in 1871, to Ella C. Carey, and
he has two children: Mrs. Frank Eulette,
and Margaret Carey. Address : Tacoma
Building. Residence : 6601 Stewart Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
HENRY, John Norman:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Septem
ber 12, 1873; son of Frederic P. Henry and
Josephine B. (Nancrede) Henry. After
graduation from the college department of
the University of Pennsylvania, as A.B. in
1893, and from its medical department as
M.D. in 1895, he engaged in medical prac
tice in Philadelphia, in which he has ever
since continued. Dr. Henry is assistant
physician to the Philadelphia Hospital;
physician to the Out Patient Department of
the Pennsylvania Hospital; clinical profes
sor of medicine in the Women's Medical
College of Pennsylvania ; fellow of the Col
lege of Physicians, of Philadelphia, etc.;
and Ke was formerly -assistant surgeon in
the Second Regiment of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. In religious af
filiation he is an Episcopalian. Dr. Henry
is a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fra
ternity, the Gerriiantown Cricket Club, Uni
versity Barge Club,- University Club and
Philadelphia Club. Residence: 1635 Locust
Street, Philadelphia. Business address : 252
South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.HENRY, Nelson Herrick:
Physician and surgeon ; at present ad
jutant-general, State of New York; born
April 27, 1855, Staten Island, New York;
son Of Joshua J. Henry and Maria Caroline
(Herrick) Henry. Was educated in the
public schools arid College of the City of
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geons, graduating in 1879; has served in
the National Guard twenty-three years, fill
ing consecutively positions of distinction;
joined Twelfth Regiment in 1883; was as
sistant surgeon-general under General
Joseph D. Bryant and General Marshall O.
Terry, 1893-1898. In 1898 under the re
organization was made chief surgeon of
National Guard, New York, with rank of
colonel on the staff of Major-General
Charles F. Roe, commanding the National
Guard; served as major and chief sur
geon of Division, United States Volunteers,
in Spanish- American War; member of
Assembly, Legislature, 1899-1900-1901. Ad
jutant-general, State of New York, 1902-
1903- 1904, during administration of Gov
ernor B. B. Odell, Jr. ; 1905-1906, Governor
Frank W. Higgins, ; 1907, appointed for
fourth term by Governor Charles E.
Hughes. He is a member of the Military
Order of Foreign Wars; Spanish- American
War Veterans; Delta Kappa Epsilon; and
a member of the Army and Navy Clubs, the
Republican and Graduate Clubs. Married
Sarah Rodgers Sloan, April 30, 1901. Re
publican. Resides in Twenty-fifth Assem
bly District. Address: 59 West Ninth
Street, New York City.
HENRY, Philip Walter:
Civil engineer; born at Scranton, Penn
sylvania, March 24, 1864; son of Eugene
Thomas and Emma E. (Walter) Henry.
He was graduated from the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute as C. E. in 1887; was
on the engineering corps of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad from
1880 to 1883, on location and construction
between Binghamton and Buffalo; and
with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
from 1887 to 1902 for a time as vice-presi
dent and general manager. In 1893 he
made surveys for a tramway and pier in
Trinidad for facilitating the transportation
of asphalt; made surveys of Asphalt Lake,
establishing the rate of subsidence; and
made the only borings ever made in the
lake. Mr. Henry is now practicing as a
consulting engineer, chiefly in the organ
ization of the operating and construction
departments of railway and industrial cor

porations, and as an expert on asphalt and
asphalt pavements. He is president and
director of the South American Construc
tion Company; vice-president and director
of the Pan American Company, and a
director of the A. L. Barber Asphalt Com
pany. Mr. Henry has traveled in Venez
uela, Mexico, and the West Indies, and has
also made several trips to Europe, and his
favorite recreation is yachting. He is a
member of the American Society of -Civil
Engineers, and the Sons of the Revolution,
and of the Engineers, Union League, Cen
tury and University Clubs. He married at
Chicago, Illinois, January 22, 1906, Dover
Cox. Residence : 981 Madison Avenue,
New York. Office address: 90 West
Street, New York City.
HENRY, Robert Edwards:
Banker; born in Stapleton, Staten Island,
June 12, 1877; son of James Buchanan and
Louisa (Anderson) Henry; grand-nephew
of President James Buchanan; educated at
the United States Military Academy, St.
John's College, Annapolis, Maryland;
Georgetown College, Washington, D. C.
Member firm of Hallowell & Henry. Pres
ident Associated Industrials Corporation,
Montague Realty Company; vice-president
Bailey Piano Company; director Green-
Meehan Mining Company. Republican.
Episcopalian. Recreations : Boating, riding
and driving. Clubs : City, Crescent Ath
letic. Married, Fort Hamilton, New York,
October 26, 1904, Virginia Bell Tolar; one
son, Robert Edward, Jr., (born in 1905).
Address : 52 Beaver Street, New York City.
«
HENRY, Robert T.ee:
Congressman; born in Linden, Texas,
May 12, 1864. At 14 years of age moved
to Bowie County, and there resided until
January, 1895, when he moved to Waco;
graduated with the degree of M.A. from
the Southwestern University of Texas in
1885, valedictorian of his class ; was licensed
to practice law in 1886; practiced for a
brief period, and then taking a law course
at the University of Texas, graduated in
1887; was elected mayor of Texarkana in
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first office assistant attorney-general, and
before the two-year term expired was pro
moted to the position of assistant attor
ney-general, holding the latter office for
nearly three years ; was elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, without opposition.
At the beginning of the Fifty-ninth Con
gress Mr. Henry was elected chairman of
the Democratic caucus by a unanimous
vote. Reelected to the Sixtieth Congress.
Address : Waco, Texas.
HENRY, Walter O.:
Physician and surgeon; born at Colum
bus, Adams County, Illinois, February 19,
1858; son of Samuel Henry and Harriet
N. (Wells) Henry. After a preparatory
education at the Maplewood High School
he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical Col
lege, New York, from which he was gradu
ated as M.D. ; and then settled in practice
as a physician and surgeon in Omaha, Ne
braska, where he has ever since remained.
Dr. Henry is professor of gynecology in the
John A. Creighton Medical College at
Omaha; gynecologist to St. Joseph Hospi
tal, and surgeon to the Omaha General
Hospital. He is a Republican in politics
and a Presbyterian in religious adherence,
and is specially interested in the religious
and benevolent activities of his home city.
Dr. Henry is president of the Omaha
Christian Institute; chairman of the Busi
ness Committee of the Nebraska State
Young Men's Christian Association; chair
man of the Executive Board of the Omaha
Young, Men's Christian Association; presi
dent of the Nebraska Children's Home So
ciety, and president of the Christian Ben
evolence Association. He is also a mem
ber of the Omaha, Commercial and Happy
Hollow Clubs of Omaha. Dr. Henry mar
ried,. October 5, 1881, Fannie L. Potts.
Residence: 2526 Dodge Street, Omaha.
Office address: 210 McCague Building,
Omaha, Nebraska.
HENRY, William Anion:
.Professor of agriculture; born at Nor-
walk, Ohio, June 16, 1850; son of William

Henry and Martha (Condict) Henry. He
received his education in the Ohio Wes
leyan University and at Cornell Univers
ity, receiving from the latter the degree
of B.Agr., 1880. He has also received the
honorary degrees of D.Agr. from the Uni
versity of Illinois, 1904; D.Sc. from the
University of Vermont at its Centennial
celebration in 1904; and from the Michi
gan Agricultural College at its Centennial
celebration in 1907 the degree of D.Sc
He was professor of botany and agriculture
in the University of Wisconsin in 1880,
professor of agriculture in the same insti
tution in 1883; and director of the Agri
cultural Experiment Station of Wisconsin
since 1887. In 1891 he was made dean of
the College of Agriculture in the Univers
ity of Wisconsin, which has had great
progress under his administration. This
position he resigned to take effect June
30, 1907, when the Regents appointed him
emeritus professor of agriculture. He is
associate editor of Hoard's Dairyman ; staff
correspondent of the Breeders' Gazette;
and lecturer on animal nutrition at the
University of California in 1902. Professor
Henry married at Batavia, New York, in
August, 1881, Clara R. Taylor, who died
July 5, 1904, and has a son, Arnon Taylor
Henry. Address: Agricultural Experi
ment Station, Madison, Wisconsin.
HENRY, William George:
Manager; born in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, April 15, 1862; son of James N.
and Sarah J. (Kennedy) Henry. After
leaving the public schools he studied for
a time in the Upper Canada College at
Toronto and then entered the McGill Uni
versity at Montreal, Canada, and was
graduated from the latter with the degrees
of M.D.. and CM. He also received the
degree of L. R. C. P. in London, England.
He practiced his profession for a short
time, but was compelled to relinquish it on
account of ill health. He soon, after en
gaged in mercantile pursuits and became
associated with the Detroit, Michigan,
Stove Works, at first in then purchasing
department and later as secretary and
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came, vice-president and removed to Chi
cago, Illinois, to manage the western branch
of the company. He is an Episcopalian, a
member of the Masonic Order and of the
Zeta Psi College fraternity. He is also a
member of the Chicago, and Chicago Ath
letic, and Detroit (Michigan) Clubs. He
was married in Detroit, Michigan, June I,
1892, to Florian T. Barber, and has three
children : Edwin B., Taft and Ella Flo
rian. Address : 2921 La Salle Street.
Residence : 525 Sheridan Road, Chicago,
Illinois.HEPBURN, A. Barton:
President of the Chase National Bank;
born in Colton, New York, July 24, 1846;
son of Zina Earl and Beulah (Gray) Hep
burn; graduated at Middlebury (Vermont)
College, A.B., 1871, later receiving the de
gree of LL.D.; St. Lawrence- University,
D.C.L., 1906. He was instructor of mathe
matics, St. Lawrence Academy ; principal
of Ogdensburg Educational Institute; prac
ticed law at Colton, New York ; member of
New York State Assembly, 1875-80;
superintendent banking department State of
New York, 1880-83; United States Bank
Examiner for New York, 1888-92 ; comp
troller, of the currency, 1892-93 ; president
of the Third National Bank of New York,
1893-97; vice-president of the National City
Bank of New York, 1897-99; president- of
the Chase National Bank since 1899; direc
tor Bankers' Trust Company, Columbia
Trust Company, Maryland Trust Company,
Baltimore; New York Life Insurance Com
pany, American Car and Foundry Company,
American Agricultural Chemical Company,
Safety Car Heating and Lighting Com
pany, Union Typewriter Company, United
Cigar Manufacturers' Company, Sears, Roe
buck & Company, Chicago. Membes of New
York Chamber of Commerce, St. Andrew's
Society, New England . Germanistic ; dele
gate to London Chamber of Com
merce, 1901 ; trustee and treasurer chil
dren's Aid Society ; member of Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. Author : . History of
Coinage and Currency; contributor to re
views and magazines. Clubs : Metropoli
tan, Union League, Lawyers', Barnard, City,

Camp Fire, Boone and Crockett, Blooming
Grove Hunting and Fishing, Long Island
Country, Automobile Club of America.
Married, first, St. Albans, Vermont, Decem
ber 10, 1873, Hattie A. Fisher; second,
Montpelier, Vermont, July 14, 1887, Emily
L. Eaton ; children : by first marriage,
Charles Fisher, born July 14, 1878, now re
siding in Minneapolis, Minnesota; by sec
ond marriage, Beulah Eaton, born August
28, 1890; Cordelia Susan, born December
30, 1894. Address : 83 Cedar Street, New
York City.
HEPBURN, Weldon Brinton:
United States senator ; born in Dela
ware County, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1852;
his parents were Quakers, of English de
scent; he received an academic education;
was admitted to the Dar in 1876, and has
practiced law continuously since that time.
In the winter of 1883-84 he moved to Sho
shone County, Idaho, and has resided there
ever since. He was a member of the con
vention which framed the constitution of
the State of Idaho, and was chairman of
the judiciary committee in that body. Mr.
Heyburn has always voted and supported
the Republican ticket; was a delegate to
the Republican National Conventions of
1888, 1892, and 1900; was not affected by
the silver craze of 1896, and was largely
instrumental in maintaining the Republican
organization in Idaho during that cam
paign and since, which resulted in the
sweeping Republican victory in 1902. He
was the nominee of the Republican party
of Idaho for Congress in 1898, but was
defeated by a fusion of the Democrats,
Populists, and Silver Republicans; was
elected to the United States Senate, Janu
ary 13, 1903, receiving the entire Republi
can vote of the Legislature, to succeed
Henry Heitfeld, Democrat, for the term
beginning March 4, 1903. His term of
office withh expire March 3, 1909. Address :
Wallace, Idaho.
HEPBURN, William Peters:
Congressman and lawyer; born, Novem
ber 4, 1833, at Wellsville, Columbiana Coun
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ritory) in April, 1841. He was educated in
the schools of the Territory and in a print
ing office; was admitted to practice law in
1854; served in the Second Iowa Cavalry
as captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel
during the Civil War. Colonel Flepburn
was a delegate from Iowa to the Republican
National Conventions of i860, 1888, and
1896; was a presidential elector-at-large
from the State of Iowa in 1876 and in 1888 ;
served as solicitor of the Treasury during
the administration of President Benjamin
Harrison ; was elected to the Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Eighth Iowa District. Ad
dress : Clarinda, Iowa.
HERBERT, Hilary A.:
-Lawyer ; born in Laurensville, South Caro
lina, March 12, 1874; son of Thomas E.
Herbert and Dorothy T. Herbert. He re-
- ceived his education in the Universities of
Alabama and Virginia. He was colonel of
the Eighth Alabama Confederate Volunteers
and was disabled at the Battle of the Wild
erness. Mr. Herbert practiced law at
Greenville and Montgomery, Alabama ; was
for sixteen years representative in Con
gress from Alabama; and was secretary of
the navy of the United States from 1893
to 1897, in the secorid administration of
President Cleveland. He is author of:
Why the Solid South?; A History. of Re
construction; and magazine articles. His
favorite recreations are fishing and hunt
ing, and he is a member of the Metropoli
tan, and Army and Navy Clubs of Wash
ington. Mr. Herbert married in Selma,
Alabama, iri 1867, Ella B. Smith, who died
in 1885. Address : 1419 G Street, Wash
ington, D. C.
HERBERT, J. Frederick:
Physician; born January 8, i860, in Phil
adelphia; educated in a private school,
where both English and German were
taught. At a very early age he displayed
a decided interest and love for optics and
everything pertaining to eyes and eyesight;

at the age of fourteen he entered the op
tical establishment of Messrs. Queen &
Company. In the year 1877 he accepted
the management of the optical department
of a well known English firm of opticians,
Messrs. R. and J. Beck, of London. In
1879 he entered Jefferson Medical College
to study medicine, making opthalmology
his specialty, graduating with honors in
1883. Has invented several instruments
which have proved of great value to the
profession. Fie has written numerous pap
ers on his special subject, among these
a very lucid and interesting work on the
Preservation of the Eye-Sight. Address :
1516 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.HERBERT, John:
Lawyer; born in Wentworth, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, November 2,
1849; son of Samuel Herbert and L. Maria
(Darling) Herbert; grandson of John and
Sally (Allen) Herbert and of Benjamin and
Susan (Reed) Darling and a descendant of
James Herbert who came from London,
England, to Salisbury, Massachusetts, about
1720. He was graduated at Dartmouth in
the class of 1871, receiving his master de
gree in course. He was principal of Ap
pleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hamp
shire, from 1871 to 1874; and after leaving
New Ipswich he studied law and was ad
mitted to the bar in New Hampshire in
1875. In the' fall of 1875 he went to An
dover Theological Seminary and was pastor
of the Congregational Church in Stoughton,
Massachusetts, from 1876 to 1878. After
traveling more than a year in Europe and
the East he established a law office in Bos
ton, in 1880, and has been admitted to the
bar in Massachusetts, and as an attorney
and counsellor of the Supreme Court of
the United States. He is, or has been,
president of the E. T. Cowdrey Company;
of the Eastern Forge Company; the Multi
ple Phonograph Company; and the Bear
Creek Oil Company. He is a Republican;
president of the Somerville Municipal
League ; and of the Somerville Citizen Com
pany; director of the Somerville Young
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chants' Cooperative Bank, of Boston ; pres
ident of the Boston Congregational Club;
of the Appalachian Mountain Club and of
the Appleton Academy Association. He is a
member of the Congregational Sunday
School and Publishing Society and president
of its Board of Directors; president of the
Mystic Valley Club, organized to secure
clean politics ; moderator of the Winter Hill
Congregational Church Corporation and a
member of the Twentieth Century Club and
the Economic Club of Boston. He married
August i, 1872, Alice, daughter of Chester
and Roxanna Guy, and by that marriage
had two children : Carl Guy and Lena F.
Herbert. Mr. Herbert married, second,
June 24, 1895, Blanche E., daughter of
Charles and Emma C. Ruscoe, and by her
has one son, John W. Herbert. Residence :
Somerville, Massachusetts. Office address ;
19 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HERBERT, Victor:
Musician, composer; born in Dublin,
Ireland, February 1, 1859; grandson of
Samuel Lover, the popular Irish novelist;
educated by private tutors in Germany;
musical education covered complete range,
but he specialized in the violoncello and
was solo 'cellist in the Court Orchestra
of the Kingdom of Wiirttemberg at Stutt
gart and en tour in various European cities.
In that capacity came to New York City,
1886, as solo 'cellist at Metropolitan Opera
House; afterward appeared in same ca
pacity with the leading orchestras; when
Gilmore died and the question of securing
a conductor for the Twenty-second Regi
ment Band, who would be a worthy suc
cessor of that famous conductor, became
important, he was chosen as the leader,
and has held the position for twelve years.
Was for some time conductor of the Pitts
burgh Orchestra, and for the past few
years has been at the head of his own
New York organization. Author of many
comic operas, including Prince Ananias ;
The Ameer; Babes in Toyland; It Hap
pened in Nordland, etc. ; of the cantata
The Captive, and of numerous compositions
for band and orchestra, as well as many
vocal numbers. Address : 321 West One

Hundred and Eighth Street, New York
City.HERENDEEN, Edward Gideon:
Lawyer; born in Macedon, Wayne Coun
ty, New York, October 19, 1857; son of
Edward W. and Anna Hallet (Nickerson)
Herendeen; graduated at Hobart College,
B.A., 1879, M.A., 1882 (salutatorian of
class, Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Alpha. Ad
mitted to bar, 1882, in active practice since
at Elmira, New York; member of law firm
of Herendeen & Mandeville since 1891.
President of The Herendeen Manufactur
ing Company of Geneva, New York, since
1897; director of The Merchants' National
Bank of Elmira since 1892; counsel Elmira
Savings Bank. Republican. Presbyterian.
Member of the American and New York
State Bar Association; trustee of the Ho
bart College. Recreation: Golf. Clubs:
Elmira City, Elmira County. Married,
first, 1887, Ida Seely Barton, deceased,
1889; second, 1893, Augusta Langstaff Sat-
terlee. Children: Walter Barton, born
1888; Henry Satterlee, born 1895; Edward
Gideon, Jr., born 1896. Address: Robin
son Building, Elmira, New York.
HERING, Carl:
Electrical engineer; born i860, in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania; son of the late Dr.
Constantine Hering, the well known father
of homeopathy in America. . He studied
mechanical engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania, graduating B.S. in 1880, and
later M.E. Appointed instructor in math
ematics and assistant in mechanical engin
eering at the University in 1882; assistant
in physics in 1883. Studied at Darmstadt,
Germany, under Professor Kittler and made
his assistant. He was assistant electrician
at the International Electrical Exhibition iri
Philadelphia in 1884. In 1886-1887 taught
electrical engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania. He was a member of the
Jury of Awards or scientific commission,
at Expositions at Vienna, 1883; Philadel
phia, 1884; Paris, 1889 and 1900; St.
Louis, 1890 ; Frankfort, Germany, 1891 ;
Philadelphia Export Exposition, 1899; Pan-
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St. Louis Exposition in 1904; and at the
Jamestown Exposition in 1907, becoming
member of the highest or superior jury
at some of them. The French Gov
ernment conferred upon him the decoration
of Officier de ^Instruction Publique in
1889 and in 1900 that of the Cross of the
Legion of HonOr. He was also representa
tive of the United States Government, the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
and of the Franklin Institute to various in
ternational electrical congress-meetings,
etc. In 1892 technical editor of the Elec
trical World. Member of the committee to
prepare the preliminary programme for the
Chicago International Electrical Congress
of 1893. Past 'president of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, of the
American Electro-chemical Society, of the
Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, of the
Electrical Section of Franklin Institute and
honorary member New York Electrical So
ciety. American delegate of International
Society of Electricians, whose headquarters
are in Paris. Honorary member of the In
ternational Engineering Congress at Glas
gow, Scotland. From 1893 to 1903 he pre
pared a weekly digest of the current elec
trical literature, both foreign and American.
He has obtained a number of patents for
electrical inventions. Since 1886 he
has been practicing as consulting elec
trical engineer in Philadelphia, being
engaged chiefly with tests, reports, patent
litigations, and acting as consulting electri
cal engineer for companies. Address : 929
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HERING, Daniel Webster:
Professor of physics and applied mech
anics; born at Smithburg, Maryland,
March 23, 1850 ; son of Joshua Hering
and Susanna (Harmon) Hering. He was
educated in the public schools of Johns-
ville, Maryland, and in 1861 received a
teacher's certificate of qualification to teach
at Frederick, Maryland. He was a student
in Westminster Seminary in 1866 and 1867 ;
principal of the Preparatory Department
and teacher in mathematics at Western
Maryland College from 1867 to 1869; and
was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific

School of Yale, in 1872. He was division
engineer of the Berks County Railroad in
1873 and 1874; fellow in engineering in
Johns Hopkins University, from 1876 to
1878; assistant engineer of the Baltimore
and Cumberland Valley Railroad from 1878
to 1880; professor of mathematics at the
Western Maryland College from 1880 to
1884; professor of physics at the Western
University of Pennsylvania in 1884 and
1885 ; and has been professor of physics at
New York University since 1885. He has
been dean of the Graduate Faculty, New
York University, since 1902. In 1895 he
received the degree of Ph.D. from Western
Maryland College and in 1907, LL.D., from
the Western University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Hering is author of numerous papers in-
scientific and educational periodicals. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; fellow of the
New York Academy of Sciences, charter
member of the American Physical Society;
member of the American Geographical
Society; was a member of the First Coun
cil of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences in its reorganization under its
present director, and was for several years
president of the Department of Physics
in the same institution. He married at
Baltimore, Maryland, November 23, 1881,
Mary Hollis Webster, and they have two
children: Doris Webster and Hollis Web
ster. Residence : 128 West One Hundred
and Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
Address : University Heights, New York
City.
HERING, Rudolph:
Hydraulic engineer, sanitary expert;
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Febru
ary 26, 1847; son of Constantine and
Theresa (Buchheim) Hering; educated
private schools of Philadelphia; graduate
Royal Polytechnic College, Dresden, Ger
many, C.E., 1867. Assistant city engineer,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1872-1880 ;
commissioner of National Board of Health,
reporting on sewerage works of Europe,
1881 ; constructing and consulting engineer
for water supply and sewerage works in
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ca, including New York City, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, San
Francisco, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus,
Indianapolis, Atlanta, Montgomery, New
Orleans, Los Angeles, Tacoma, Victoria,
Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, and others;
since 1901, member of firm of Hering and
Fuller; now consulting 'engineers to De
partment of Water Supply, Gas and Elec
tricity, New York City; Sewerage and
Water Board, New Orleans; Board of
Public Service, Columbus, Ohio. Member:
American Society of Civil Engineers, Ca
nadian Society Civil Engineers, Institution
Institute and Engineers' Club of Philadel
phia ; Boston Society Civil Engineers ;
Western Society Civil Engineers ; American
Water Works Association ; American Pub
lic Health Association.; honorary member
of New England Water Works Associa
tion; fellow American Academy of Sci
ences; New York Municipal Art Associa
tion, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Berlin),
Century Club of New York. He married,
first, 1873, Fanny Field Gregory; second,
1894, Hermine Buchheim ; children : Oswald
C, born 1874; Ardo, born 1880; Dorothy,
born 1895; Paul E., born 1898; Margaret,
born 1902. Residence : 40 Lloyd Place,
Montclair, New Jersey. Address : 170
Broadway, New York City.
HERMAN, John Armstrong:
Lawyer; born in Silver Spring Town
ship, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
November 28, 1853, on the estate of his
father that had been in the family for
several generations. His ancestors were
Scotch-Irish, French and German, and
were prominent in the Colonial and Revolu
tionary War history through General John
Armstrong, Sr., of Pennsylvania and Gen
eral John Armstrong Jr., of New York.
He graduated from Princeton University in
1874; studied law at Harrisburg, Pennsyl
vania ; was admitted to the bar in 1877. Has
practiced law continuously in Harrisburg.
Has been a Republican in politics. Is a
member of the Society of. Colonial Wars
of New York ; a member of the Society
of Colonial Wars of Pennsylvania, and a
member of the Sons of the Revolution of

Pennsylvania. Address : Harrisburg, Penn
sylvania. HERRESHOFF, John B. :
Shipbuilder; born in Bristol, Rhode Is
land, April 24, 1841 ; son of Charles Fred
erick and Julia Ann (Lewis) Herreshoff.
He attended schools in Bristol until fail
ing eyesight compelled him to abandon his
studies, and since fifteen years of age he
has been totally blind. He has been in
business as a builder of steam and sailing
yachts, the firm' now being known as the
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, of
which he is president. In addition to
yachts, in which the company have built the
finest and best of the cup defenders as well
as the most noted private yachts, they have
also built many vessels for the United
States, British and many foreign govern
ments. Address : Bristol, Rhode Island.
HERRESHOFF, Nathaniel Greene:
Yacht designer; born in Bristol, Rhode
Island, in 1848. He received a special
technical education in engineering in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
became connected with the Herreshoff
Manufacturing Company, of which he is
now superintendent. The company are
builders of steam and sailing yachts and
also of torpedo boats and other naval
vessels, of which he is the designer, and
yachts from his designs and the Herreshoff
yards have won • the highest honors in
races. Mr. Herreshoff is the most dis
tinguished of American naval architects in
the designing of vessels of these classes.
He is a member of the Institute of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers of New
York, and the Institute of Naval Archi
tects of England. Address : Bristol, Rhode
Island. HERRICK, Charles Judson:
Professor of neurology; born at Minne
apolis, Minnesota, October 6, 1868; son of
Henry Nathan Herrick and Anna (Strick-
ler) Herrick. He attended Denison Uni
versity, in 1888 and 1889 and received
from it the degree of M.S. in 1895; was
graduated from the University of Cincin
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University as Ph.D. in 1900. He was in
structor in Granville Academy in 1891 and
1892; professor of natural science in Ot
tawa University in 1892 and 1893 ; profes
sor of zoology, at Denison University from
1898 to 1907; and has been professor of
neurology in the University of Chicago
since October, 1907. He was associate in
comparative neurology at the Pathological
Institute of the. New York State Commis
sion in Lunacy, New York City, from 1897
to 1901 ; and has been managing editor of
the Journal of Comparative Neurology and
Psychology since 1894. Dr. Herrick was
secretary of the Zoological Section of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science from 1903 to 1907 and
president of the Ohio Academy of Sci
ences in 1903. In politics, he is an Inde
pendent and he is a Baptist in religious
belief. Dr. Herrick is author of over sixty
scientific articles on- comparative neurology
and allied subjects. He is a member of
the American Society of Zoologists, Asso
ciation of American Anatomists, and Amer
ican Society of Naturalists. He married at
Granville, Ohio, August 17, 1897, Mary
Elizabeth Talbot, and they have one daugh
ter, Ruth, born in 1895. Address : Uni
versity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
HERRICK, D. Cady:
Lawyer; born in Esperance, New York,
April 12, 1846; son of Jonathan R. and
Harriet E. (Deuel) Herrick; educated Al
bany Classical Institute, Albany Law
School. Admitted to the bar in 1868 ; elect
ed district attorney of Albany County in
1880; appointed corporation counsel City
of Albany in 1886; elected judge of the Su
preme Court of the State of New York in
1891 ; appointed associated justice of the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York in 1894; unsuc
cessful candidate for governor, 1904; mem
ber of Democratic State Committee, 1885-
92 ; now practicing law in Albany and New
York City. Married, November, 1875, Oris-
sa H. Salisbury; children: Charles J.,
Helen D., Bertha. Address: 452 Broad
way, Albany, New York ; 5 Nassau Street,
New York City.

HERRICK, John Jacob:
Lawyer; born in Hillsboro, Illinois, May
25, 1845; son of Dr. William B. Herrick, -
who was the first president of the Illinois
State Medical Society, and Martha (Se
ward) Herrick. He was prepared for
college at the Lewiston Falls, Maine, Acad
emy, and was graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1866. Immediately after his
graduation he removed to Chicago, Illi
nois, where he taught in the Hyde Park
School for two years. He became a student
in the Union College of Law in Chicago,
and was also in the law offices of Higgins,
Swett and Quigg. He graduated from the
law school in 1868 as the valedictorian of
his class. He was admitted to the Illinois
bar upon his graduation, but remained in
the office of Fliggins, Swett and Quigg until
1871, when he began practice on his own
account. He continued to practice alone
until 1878, when the firm of Dexter, Her-
rich and Allen was formed, which contin
ued until the death of Mr. Dexter, in 1890.
In 1893 Mr. I. K. Boyesen was admitted
to the firm and in 1896 Mr. Horace H. Mar
tin, the firm now being .Herrick, Allen,
Boyesen and Martin. Mr. Herrick is a
member of the Chicago Bar Association,
the Law Institute, and the Citizens' Asso
ciation. He is also a member of the Chi
cago, Chicago Literary, and University
Clubs. He was married in New York City,
June 28, 1883, to Julia T. Dulon, and his
children are : Clara M., Julia T., and Mar
garet J. Address : 107 Dearborn Street.
Residence : 2221 Prairie Avenue, Chicago.
Office address : 107 Dearborn Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
HERSCHEL, Clemens:
Hydraulic engineer ; born March 23, 1842 ;
graduated Harvard University, Lawrence
Scientific School, S.B., i860. Hydraulic
engineer Holyoke (Massachusetts) Water
Power Company, 1879-89; engineer and su
perintendent East Jersey Water Company,
1889-1900; has been consulting engineer of
several Niagara Falls power companies
since 1884; railroad commissioner, Massa
chusetts, 1881-83 ! inventor of the Venturi
meter; member Boston and American So-

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cieties of Civil Engineers, Institution of
Civil Engineers of London, etc ; was award
ed the Elliott Cresson gold medal of
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, for his
Venturi meter. Author : Continuous Re
volving Drawbridges, 1875; One Hundred
and Fifteen Experiments; 1897; Frontinus
and the Water Supply of the City of
Rome, 1899; is a contributor to many tech
nical journals. Clubs: Union (Boston),
Century Association (New York), etc.
Married, Boston, May 12, 1869, Grace D.
Hobart (died August, 1898) ; children : Ar
thur Hobart, born in 1870; Winslow Ho
bart, born in 1873 ; Clementine, born in
1883. Residence: Glen Ridge, New Jersey,
Address : 2 Wall Street, New York City.
HERTZ, Henry Lamar tine:
Government official; born in Copenhagen,
Denmark, November 19, 1847; sori of Mar
tin and Henrietta (Frobose) Hertz. He
was educated in the Metropolitan Latin
School at Copenhagen, and was gradu
ated from the University of Copenhagen
with the degree of A.B. in 1866; receiving
the degree of Ph.B. in the following year.
He came to America in 1869 and settled
in Chicago, Illinois, where he obtained em
ployment as a clerk in a banking house,
and later became teller in the Commercial
Loan Company's Bank. He was a clerk in
the recorder's office of Cook County, from
1872 to 1878; clerk in the criminal court
clerk's office from 1878 to 1884; coroner of
Cook County from 1884 to 1892 ; chief clerk
in the election commissioner's office, and
later in the county court, from 1893 to 1896 ;
State treasurer of Illinois in 1896 and 1898;
chief clerk in the office of the Board of Re
view from 1899 to 1901, and since April 1,
1901, has been United States Collector of
Internal Revenue for the First Revenue
District of Illinois. He is an active Re
publican and has served his party on num
erous local, county and State committees,
and a delegate to many conventions. He
is the owner of a large stock farm. He
is a director of the Chicago and Carter -
ville Coal Company; president Danish
American Association of the United States ;
trustee Danish Old People's Home ; member

Society of Dania, and was for two years
president of the Inland Lake Yachting Asso
ciation. He is also a member of the
Northwest, Chicago Yacht, Pistakee Yacht,
Fox Lake Yacht, Oshkosh Yacht Clubs, and
of the Royal Danish Yacht Club of Copen
hagen. He was married in Chicago, Sep
tember 1, 1880, to Mary Patricia Power,
and has five children.: Harriet May, Mar
tin Power, Henry Louis, Marguerite Han
nah, and Paul Power. Residence: 628
North Hoyne Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois.
HESS, Selmar:
Publisher; born in Bemburg, Germany,
November 26, 1847; son of Moritz and
Rosalie (Fabian) Hess; educated in com
mercial high school, Bernburg. Became
member of the firm of McMenamy, Hess
& Company, Philadelphia, 1870; established
in New York City, August, 1871 ; branches,
1875-80, in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
and other cities ; located in present quarters
iri Manhattan, 1900; has traveled in Europe
and the Orient, igo5-d6. Hebrew. Mem
ber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
American Geographical Society, New York
Academy of Sciences, New York. Zoologi
cal Society, New York Botanical Garden,
American Mus'eum of Natural History,
Municipal Art Society, New York Histori
cal Society, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Scientific Alliance
of New York; was director of Montefiore
Home and Hospital for Chronic Diseases;
much interested in floriculture, and in pro
motion of science and art ; has collection
of fine paintings. Recreation: Horseback
riding. Clubs : Aldine, Harmonie, Mer
chants. Married in New York City, Feb
ruary .16, 1873, Josephine Solomon. Chil
dren : Dr. Alfred F, born in 1876, Mrs. A.
I. Elkus, born in 1874, Ruth Josephine, born
in 1891. Residence: 956 Madison Avenue,
New York City; (summer) : Rumson Road,
Seabright, New Jersey. Address : 122 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
HESTER, St. Clair:
Clergyman; born in Oxford, Granville
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sori of John Cason and Lucy Ann (Ham
let) Hester; educated at Horner Military
School, Oxford; University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, B.A.,
1888; M.A., 1890; University of the City of
New York; General Theological Seminary
pf New York City; studied at Keble Col
lege, Oxford, England; won various hon
ors, prizes, scholarships and medals. Dur
ing the past eight years has spent three
months of each year in travel, including all
Europe, North Africa, Palestine, Turkey,
Russia in Europe and Asia, East Coast of
Chiria, Japan, Canada, Hawaiian Islands
and United States; assistant minister
Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, 1893-95;
rector of St. George's Church, 1895-98;
Church of the Messiah, 1898; archdeacon
of Archdeaconry of Brooklyn, since 1902.
Episcopalian. Member of Delta Kappa
Epsilon Association; chaplain of North
' Carolina Society of New York ; member of
standing committee of the Protestant Epis
copal Diocese of Long Island; trustee of
the General Theological Seminary; on the
board of managers of the Church Charity
Foundation and Brooklyn Howard Colored
Orphan Asylum. Recreations : Travel,
reading poetry. Club : University. Mar
ried in Brooklyn, June 17, 1896, Sarah Con-
selyea Baker. Children : Mary St. Clair,
aged 9; Ruth Conselyea, aged 8; Charles
Baker, aged 5. Address : 207 Washington
Park, Brooklyn.
HESTER, William:
Publisher; born in Poughkeepsie, New
York, December 7, 1835; son of Samuel
Wood and Jane (Van Anden) Hester. He
was educated in Poughkeepsie, and the
Rhinebeck Academy. President and direc
tor of Brooklyn Daily Eagle Association
(for thirty-one years) ; trustee of Brook
lyn Trust Company; director of the Eagle
Warehouse and Storage Company. Mem
ber of the New York Chamber of Com
merce and Manufacturers' Association.
Clubs: Metropolitan, Automobile of Amer
ica, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht,
Larchmont Yacht, Nassau Golf, Shelter
Islan'd Yacht, Crescent Athletic, Brooklyn,
and Hamilton (Brooklyn). Married in

Brooklyn, New York, February 25, 1858,
Theodosia Ward. Residence: 158 Remsen
Street. Address : Eagle Building, 307 Wash
ington Street, Brooklyn, New York.
HEWITT, Erskine:
Lawyer; born in New York City, 187 1;
son of Abram S. and Sarah A. (Cooper)
Hewitt; graduated at Princeton University,
1891 (cum laude, special honors in political
science, etc.); M.A., 1893; New York Law
School, LL.B., 1893. Secretary to the spe
cial embassy sent to London, 1897; served
in the Spanish-American War as captain
and assistant adjutant-general United
States Volunteers. Director, officer or trus
tee in Sterling Iron & Railway Company,
United Missouri River Power Company,
St. Nicholas Skating & Ice Company, Shel
by Iron Company, Ringwood Company,
Pequest Company, Missouri River Power
Company, Hexagon Realty Company,
Hewett Realty Company, International
Banking Corporation, Cooper-Hewett Elec
tric Company, Union Sulphur Company,
Deepwater Railway Company, Westboro
Realty Company, Hugenot Society, the
Lehigh & Oxford Mining Company, the
New York & Greenwood Lake Railway
Company (vice-president), the Basic Iron
Ore Company, Gauley Mountain Coal Com
pany; secretary Loup Creek Colliery Com
pany; secretary Midvale Water Co., Pe
quest Company, Oriental Bank (vice-presi
dent), Soho Park and Land Company, An
dean Trading Company, Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, United Engineering
and Contracting Company, International
Bank. Member of the American Institute
Mining Engineers, Sons of the Revolution,
Veterans of Foreign and Spanish-American
Wars, St. Nicholas Society; trustee Wini
fred Masterton, Burke Foundation and
Sheltering Arms Societies. Clubs : Union,
University, Racquet, Down Town, Tuxedo,
Racquet and Tennis, Players, etc. Resi
dence : 9 Lexington Avenue. Address : 17
Burling Slip, New York City.
HEWITT, Henry, Jr.:
Capitalist and banker; born in Lanca
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Henry Hewitt and Mary (Proctor) Hew
itt ; brought to the United States by parents
in infancy, and lived in Wisconsin, where
he was educated in the public schools.
He went into the lumber business in Men-
asha, Wisconsin, and continued there for
over twenty years, extending his operations
in lumber and banking to other parts of
the Northwest, and finally to the State of
Washington, in which he has been for years
the largest individual owner of coal and
timber lands. He is president of the Hew
itt Investment Company, Hewitt Land Com
pany, Wilkeson Coal and Coke Company
and Climax Coal Mining Company, and is
a director in banks, and various other
corporations, many of which he founded;
and has been one of the most active of
those identified with the development of the
resources of the State of Washington. He
is an active member of the Republican
party. Mr. Hewitt married at Menasha,
Wisconsin, in 1870, Rocena L. Jones. Ad
dress : 501 North Fourth Street, Tacoma,
Washington.
HEWITT, Peter Cooper:
Electrical engineer; born in New York
City, March 5, 1861 ; son of Abram Stevens
and Sarah A. (Cooper) Hewitt; educated
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,
New Jersey, and Columbia University
(honorary ScD., Columbia), 1903. Mem
ber of the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Com
pany; director Greenwood Lake Railway.
Engaged in experimental work in me
chanics, physics, and especially in elec
tricity. Member American Physical So
ciety; American Institute Electrical En
gineers; New York Electrical Society;
New York Genefal Society Mechanics and
Tradesmen. Mr. Hewitt is a member of
the Union, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Met
ropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, The Brook,
Lambs', Turf and Field, Automobile of
America, Tuxedo, Players', Century, and
Engineers' Clubs. He married, New York
City, Lucy Work. Residence: 11 Lexing
ton Avenue. Address : 17 Burling Slip,
New York City.

HEWLETT, James Monroe:
Architect; born in Lawrence, Long Isl
and, August 1, 1868; son James Augustus
and Mary Elizabeth (Sanderson) Hewlett;
graduated Columbia University, Ph.B., 1890.
Studied in Paris, 1891-93, -under P. V. Gar
land; formed partnership in 1894 with A.
W. Lord under name of Lord & Hewlett.
Episcopalian. Member of American Insti
tute of Architects ; New York Architectural
League; Society Columbia University;
Architects; Alpha Delta Phi fraternity;
Pennsylvania Society. Clubs : Hamilton,
Garden City, Golf, Alpha Delta Phi (New
York). Married in Brooklyn, March 29,
1894, Anna Willets; children: Anne, born
in 1895, James Augustus, born in 1897,
Anglesea, born in 1900, Willets, born in
1901, Carman, born in 1902, Laurence, born
in 1904, and Arthur Thomas, born in 1905.
Address : 345 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
HEWSON, Ad din ell:
Surgeon ; born in Philadelphia, September
2, 1855 ; son of Dr. Addinell Hewson and
Rachel Macomb (Wetherill) Hewson. He
was educated in . the Protestant Episcopal
Academy of Philadelphia from 1867 to 1872;
in the University of Pennsylvania, where
he was graduated as A.B. in 1876, and re
ceived the A.M. degree in 1879 ; and at
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
from which he was graduated as MD. in
1879, engaging in the practice of medicine
in Philadelphia. Dr. Hewson was clinical
assistant in the Surgical Department from
1879 to 1882, and in the Ophthalmic De
partment from 1882 to 1884; and from
1890 to 1894 was chief of the Surgical De
partment of Jefferson Medical College Hos
pital, and was connected with the chair of
anatomy in Jefferson- Medical College from
1879 to 1906; as assistant demonstrator
from 1879 to 1886; prosector, from 1886
to 1889; demonstrator from 1889 to 1906,
and also assistant professor from 1902 to
1906. ¦ He was dispensary surgeon at. St.
Mary's Hospital from 1879 to 1888, and at
the Episcopal Hospital from 1887 to 1904;
has been surgeon to St. Timothy's Hos
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anatomy at the Philadelphia Polyclinic Col
lege for Graduates in Medicine since 1897;
and physician to the Philadelphia Orphan
Society from 1886 to 1900. Dr. Hewson
was editor of the first and second editions
of Holden's Dissector; has been secretary
of the State Anatomical Board since 1899,
and surgeon and trustee of the American
Oncologic Hospital of Philadelphia since
1905 ; and he is a member of the Philadelphia
County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania
State Medical Society, Academy of Sur
gery, Pathological Society, Obstetrical So
ciety; fellow of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons; member of the American
Association of Physicians and Surgeons, the
American Association of Anatomists, the
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity and Alpha
Kappa Kappa medical fraternity He is a
Republican in politics and an Episcopalian
in religious adherence. Dr. Hewson is a
member of the University Club of Philadel
phia. He married in St. Mark's Church,
Philadelphia, September 4, 1883, Lucy Cla-
baugh, and they have four children: Wil
liam, born in 1884; Ellen, born in 1886;
Addinell Stevenson, . born in 1890, and
Harry Clabaugh, born in 1896. Address:
2120 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.hibbard, H. Wade:
Mechanical engineer, professor; born in
Moulmein, Burmah, September 10, 1863;
son of Reverend Charles (of Vermont) and
Susan Ann (Robinson) Hibbard (Provi
dence, Rhode Island) ; educated, Vermont
Academy; Brown University, A.B., 1886;
Cornell University, M.E., 1891 (First Sib
ley Prize, 1890; election to Society Sigma
Xi, 1891) ; A.M., Brown University, 1899.
In shops of Rhode Island Locomotive
Works, 1886-1889, with evenings in an en
gineering school ; engineer with general
superintendent motive power of Pennsyl
vania Railroad, engaged in designing, .test
ing and research, 1891-18945 examination
and report on foreign railway mechanical
engineering four months in Europe, 1892;
with Lehigh Valley Railroad in charge of
mechanical engineers' department, 1894-1895 ;
there designing several classes of locomo

tives, tenders, cars, shop machinery, boilers,
standardizing motive power, rolling stock
and general equipment, and betterment of
shop methods. Assistant professor machine
design and locomotive engineering (initiat
ing latter), University of Minnesota, 1895-
1898 ; made tests of five classes of single-ex
pansion and compound locomotives for
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie
Railway, 1896; since 1898 professor in Sib
ley College, Cornell University, in charge of
the Department of Railway Mechanical En
gineering, organizing the same. Investi
gating railway practice, four months in
Europe, 1900; expert mechanical examiner,
New York State Civil Service Commission,
1904, 1905; occasional railway consulting
practice. President Cornell Cooperative So
ciety, 1903- 1905; director since 1905. In
dependent Republican. Baptist. Member
of American Society Mechanical Engineers ;
American Railway Master Mechanics' As
sociation; Master Car Builders' Associa
tion; Society for Promotion of Engineering
Education; Railway Clubs in New York
City, Buffalo, Pacific Coast, Northwest
(vice-president 1897-1898). For two years
chairman Committee of Engineering Investi
gation to report to American Railway Mas
ter Mechanics' Association. Author of:
Discipline and Management of Men in
Shops; also many articles in engineering
journals, papers and discussions- before en
gineering societies, addresses, reports and
reviews. Recreations : Athletics, tramping,
camping, mountain and glacier climbing. Mr.
Hibbard married, first, Richford, Vermont,
1891, Mary P. Scofield (died, 1895) ; one
daughter, Hope, born 1893. Married, sec
ond, Walpole, New Hampshire, 1896, Mary
C. Davis ; children : Ruth, born 1901 ;
Harlan D., born 1903. Address: Cornell
Heights, Ithaca, New York.
HIBBARD, John Denison:
President of the John Davis Company;
born in Chicago, December 2, 1864; son of
Hon. Homer Nash Hibbard and Jane
(Noble) Hibbard. After a preparatory
education in the public schools and Hyde
Park High School in Chicago, he entered the
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graduated as B.S. in M.E., in 1887. He
became an employee of the John Davis
Company immediately after graduation in
1887, vice-president and manager in 1889,
and since 1901 he has been president of that
company and also president of the Davis
Construction Company. Mr. Hibbard was
president of the Chicago Metal Trades As
sociation from 1903 to 1905, president of
the Central Supply Association from 1905
to 1907 and chairman of the National Con
federated Supply Associations in 1906 and
1907. He was a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1892
to 1902; is president of the' University
of Michigan Alumni Association of Chicago,
and a member of the Sigma Phi So
ciety. He is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian in religious faith, and is a
vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Chicago. He is a member of the Union
League, Kenwood, Homewood Country,
City and Church Clubs of Chicago. He
married in Chicago, December 11, 1889,
Josie Wilson Davis; and they have two
children: Helen, born in 1891, and John
Davis, born in 1895. Residence : 52 Madi
son Park, Chicago. Office address : Twen
ty-second and Halsted Streets, Chicago,
Illinois.
HICKS, Alfred:
Coal operator; born July 21, 1841, near
Cardiff, in Wales; came to this country
with his parents in 1842. Enlisted on
April 16, 1861, in Company H, Second
Pennsylvania Volunteers; re-enlisted in
Company C, Seventy-sixth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861. During the
war was commissioned second lieutenant,
1861 ; first lieutenant, 1862 ; captain, 1863,
which position he filled until the close of
the war. He was in Washington on duty
at the War Department, was in Ford's
Theatre the night President Lincoln was
assassinated, and was among the first on
the stage trying to arrest Booth, the assas
sin. At the close of the war, went into the
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and served seventeen years; is one
of the largest coal operators in Weste'rn
Pennsylvania; president of the Allegheny

Steel & Iron Conipany, and the Interstate
Steel Company, and has a controlling in
terest in both; president of the First Na
tional Bank, of Leechburg, Pennsylvania;
First National Bank, of Natrona, Pennsyl
vania, and the Tarentum Savings & Trust
Company, Tarentum, Pennsylvania. Mar
ried in April, 1868, Martha E. Lewis, of
Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. Address, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
HICKS, John:
Diplomat; born in New York. Envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Peru, March 30, 1889; resigned, 1893;
appointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Chile, "July 14, 1905. Ad
dress: Santiago, Chile.-
HIGBIE, Robert W. :
Manufacturer; born in Springfield, New
York, March 5, 1863 ; son of Alexander and
Sarah Frances (Davison) Higbie, ancestor
(Higbie) Settled in Jamaica, 1665; gradu
ate New York University (valedictorian),
A.B., 1882; M.A., 1887. Began business as
a bank clerk in 1882 ; in 1885 engaged in the
lumber business in which he has continued
since; as a member of the executive com
mittee of the Inter- State Commerce Law
Convention and chairman of committee on
legislation pf the National Wholesale Lum
ber Dealers' Association, was in close
touch with the work that led to the pas
sage of the rate bill by Congress, and ap
peared before the committees of both
houses in connection with the same mat
ter. President, Robert- W. Higbie Com
pany, Sea Coast Realty Company; vice-
president Queens Borough Development
Company; member executive committee
Long Island Bond and Mortgage Guaran
tee Company; director National Lumber
Insurance Company; member Executive
Committee Lumber Underwriters, member
American Forestry Association, National
Geographical Society, Psi Upsilon frater
nity, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associa
tion; trustee and member of execu
tive committee National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers' Association. Clubs : Lawyers
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maica. Married, September 12, 1888, Anna
Augusta Pearsall. Children: Hamilton
A., born 1889; Robert W., Jr., born 1894.
Address : Hillview, Jamaica, Queens Bor
ough, New York.
HIGGINS, Edward:
Consular official; born in Massachusetts.
Consul at Berne, June 18, 1903; consul at
Stuttgart, April 29, 1907. Salary $4,000
per annum. Address : Stuttgart, Wiirttem-
berg. HIGGINS, Edward E.:
Publisher; born at Chelsea, Massachus
etts, April 4, 1864; son of George W. Hig
gins and Caroline N. (Denison) Higgins.
He received his education in public schools,
and after graduating from the Massachus
etts Institute of Technology, as B.S., in
1886 he became practicing electrical engi
neer and later editor of the Street Rail
way Journal from 1893 to 1900. He was
engaged as a street railway and financial
expert, from 1890 to 1893; was connected
with the early development of electric rail-'
roading in the United States and foreign
countries; and is now president of The
Success Company, publishers of the Suc
cess Magazine. In politics Mr. Higgins is
an Independent Republican, and he is a
Universalist in his religious faith. He is a
member of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, the Periodical Publishers'
Association of America, the Masonic or
der, and the University and National Arts
Clubs. He married at West Roxbury, Mas
sachusetts, June 10, 1896, Mary Austin
White, and they have two sons: Austin
Denison and Philip White. Address : Uni
versity Building, New York City.
HIGGINS, Edwin Werter:
Congressman and lawyer; born July 2,
1874, at Clinton, Connecticut. He was edu
cated in the schools of Norwich and gradu
ated from the Yale Law School in 1897,
receiving the degree of bachelor of laws;
and has been engaged in the active practice
of the law since his admission to the bar
in 1897. In 1899 he represented Norwich
in the "General Assembly, and served on

the Committee on Judiciary; has been cor
poration counsel of Norwich, a deputy judge
of its City Court, and health officer for the
County of New London; has served on the
Republican State Central Committee since
1900, and was a delegate to the last Re
publican National Convention, representing
Connecticut on the Committee on Resolu
tions. At a special election held October
¦2, 1905, he was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
Frank B. Brandegee, elected to the United
States Senate and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Third Connecticut
District. He married September 21, 1904,
Alice M. Neff. Address: Norwich, Con
necticut. HIGGINS, Frank James:
Jurist; born in New York City, March
18, 1869 ; was educated in the public schools
of Jersey. City. Is judge of the First
Criminal Court of New Jersey. Address :
15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J.
HIGGINS, James H. :
Governor of Rhode Island; was elected
in 1906, on the Democratic ticket, for the
term from January, 1907, to January, 1908.
Address : Providence, Rhode Island.
HIGGINS, Milton Prince:
Manufacturer and mechanical engineer;
born in Standish, Maine, December 7, 1842;
son of Lewis Higgins and Susan (Whit
ney) Higgins. After being graduated from
Dartmouth College as B.S. in 1868, he be
came superintendent of the Washburn
shops of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti
tute for twenty-eight years; and he is now
president of the Norton Company, of the
Worcester Pressed Steel Company; Wor
cester Plunger Elevator Company, Gem
Manufacturing Company of Boston, Mas
sachusetts, and the Manchester Supply
Company of Manchester, New Hampshire;
director of the Mechanics' National Bank
of Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Higgins
is especially interested in the subject of in
dustrial education, and is chairman of the
Executive Board of the National Educa
tion Association. He has traveled in Eng-

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land, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
Holland and Austria. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Congregation
alist. He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Na
tional Society for the Promotion of In
dustrial Education; trustee of Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and is a member of
the Worcester Club. Mr. Higgins mar
ried in Manchester, New Hampshire, June
15, 1870, Katharine E. Chapiri, and they
have four children : Aldus Chapin, born
December 7, 1872 ; John Woodman, born
September 1, 1874; Katharine E., born
August 7, 1878, and Olive Chapin, born
January 6, 1882. Residence : 228 West
Street, Worcester. Address : Norton
County, Worcester, Massachusetts.
HIGGINS, Thomas T. :
Farmer and legislator; was born in Ran
dolph County, Indiana, February 10, 1844,
and went to Michigan with his parents in
1858 and settled on a farm in Cass Coun
ty. He was educated in the common
schools, married and moved on the farm
where he now resides. He was elected to
the Legislature of 1903-4 and was reelected
to the Legislature of 1905-6. Address :
Cassopolis, Michigan.
HIGGINSON, George, Jr.:
Railway official; born in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, September 3, 1864; son of
George, Jr., and Elizabeth Flazard (Baker)
Higginson. He was educated in the pub
lic schools and at Harvard, from which
university he was graduated in 1887. His
graduation was followed by one year of
travel in Europe. He began his railroad
career with . the Kansas City, Fort Scott
and Memphis Railway at Memphis, Ten
nessee, in October, 1888. In May, 1899, he
went to the Kansas City office of the same
company, where he remained until . May,
1892, when he removed to Chicago, Illinois,
to assume the duties of first secretary and
treasurer of the Metropolitan West Side
Elevated Railway Company. These duties
he continued to discharge for ten years,
when he was elevated to his present posi
tion of vice-president, treasurer and direc

tor of the company. He is treasurer and a
director of the Chicago Maternity Hospital,
a director of the Illinois Children's Home
and Aid Society, and vice-president and
trustee of the Allendale Association. His
political affiliations are with the Republican
Party. He is an Episcopalian, and junior
warden of Christ Episcopal Church, Win
netka. He is a member -of the Village
Board of Winnetka, and of the University,
Harvard (president in 1904), Caxton (for
mer treasurer and director), Saddle and
Cycle, American Kennel, Collie of America,
and Skokie Country Clubs, and also of the
Zeta Psi College fraternity. He has been
twice married, his first wife being Edith
Green Griswold, to whom he was married
in New York City, May 20, 1891. His sec
ond marriage was to Emily Waken, at Win
netka, Illinois, September 7, 1898. His liv
ing- children are : George 3d, Theresa and
Emily. Address : 169 Jackson Boulevard.
Residence : Winnetka, Illinois.
HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth:
Author ; born in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, December 22, 1823; son of Stephen
Higginson and Louisa (Storrow) Higgin
son. He was graduated from Harvard
College as A.B. in 1841, from the Divinity
School in 1847, and received from Harvard
the degree of A.M. in 1869, and LL.D.
in 1898, and also received the LL.D. degree
in 1896 from the Western Reserve Univer
sity at Cleveland, Ohio. He entered the
Union service as captain in the Fifty-first
Regiment of Massachusetts in 1862, and
September 25, 1862, was commissioned col
onel of the First South Carolina (Union)
Volunteers, afterward the Thirty-third
Regiment of United States Colored Troops,
the first black regiment enlisted in the
service during the Civil War, and com
manded it until 1864, when he resigned
because of disability from wound received
at Wiltown Bluff, South Carolina, July 10,
1863. After the war he devoted himself to
literature. Colonel Higginson was a mem
ber of Massachusetts House of Represent
atives in 1880 and 1881, of the military staff
of the governor of Massachusetts, 1880 and
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Education from 1881 to 1884. In political
views Colonel Higginson is Democratic
and independent; and he has taken a lead
ing part in independent movements in poli
tics and religion. His favorite recreations
are gymnastics and boating, and he has been
an extensive traveler in the Azores, Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Italy. He is a director of
the Cambridge Public Library, the Newport
(Rhode Island) Athenaeum, the Worcester
(Massachusetts) Public Library; president
of Harvard Chapter and of the National
Society of Phi Beta Kappa; president of
the Old Planters' Society of Salem, Massa
chusetts; vice-president of the Liberal
Congress of Religions, Chicago; president
of the Old Colored Women's Home, Bos
ton; vice-president of the Cambridge His
torical Association. Colonel Higginson is
a member of the Grand Army of the Re
public, companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States,
member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical
Society, Royal Society of Canada, Ameri
can Oriental Society, New England His
toric Genealogical Society. He is author of :
Atlantic Essays; Out-door Papers; Army
Life in a Black Regiment; Malbone; Old-
port Days; Young Folks' History of the
United States ; Larger History of the United
States ; Common Sense about Women ; Trav
elers and Outlaws; The New World and
the New Book; The Monarch of Dreams;
The Procession of the Flowers ; The After
noon Landscape (poems) ; Book and
Heart; Cheerful Yesterdays; Tales of the
Enchanted Islands; Old Cambridge; Con
temporaries ; Life of Longfellow ; Life of
Whittier; Life of Francis Higginson; Life
of Stephen Higginson ; and a translation of
Epictetus; Collected Works (revised edi
tion) seven volunies published by Hough
ton, Mifflin and Company in 1900; Part of
a Man's Life, 1905. He is an ex-president
of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, vice-
president of the Authors' Club of Boston
and member of the Authors Club of New
York. Colonel Higginson married at West
Newton, Massachusetts, February 6, 1879,

Mary Potter Thacher, and they have a
daughter, Margaret Waldo (Higginson)
Barney. He has a summer residence
"Glimpeswood," at Dublin, New Hamp
shire. Address: 29 Buckingham Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HILDEBRANDT, Howard Logan:
Artist; born in Allegheny City, Pennsyl
vania, November 21, 1872; son of George
Henry and Christiana (McComb) Hilde-
brandt; studied art at the National Acad
emy of Design, New York City; obtained
silver medal at Delecluse Academy, Paris;
became Eleve de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts,
Paris. Won Evans prize, 1906; figure
painter ; has given most of his time to por
trait painting, and has painted many prom
inent men and women for his subjects; an
nual exhibitor at important exhibitions.
Member American Water Color Society.
Clubs Lotos, Salmagundi. Married at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, September 3, 1902, Cor
nelia Trumbull Ellis (miniature painter).
Address : 27 West Sixty-seventh Street,
New York City.
HILDENBRAND, Wilhelm:
Civil engineer; born at Karlsruhe, Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany. He was edu
cated in the Polytechnic University of
Karlsruhe, 1868, and passed examination
of State as CE. Mr. Hildenbrand was
principal assistant to W. A. Roebling in
building the Brooklyn Bridge, from 1870
to 1883; assistant engineer of the Harlem
Railroad, designing the Grand Central Sta
tion in 1869; constructing Pike's Peak
Railroad, 1890; chief engineer of Coving
ton and Cincinnati Bridge, from 1895 to
1899; building Rack railroad in Mexico,
1897; chief engineer for cables of the Wil
liamsburg Bridge, from 1900 to 1903; con
sulting engineer for the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company since
1904; and he was technical attorney for the
Chamber of Commerce to prevent building
on pier in North River for railroad bridge,
1894. He is an Independent in politics.
Mr. Hildenbrand is a member of the Amer
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and Engineers' Society of Hanover, Ger
many, National Geograpnic Society, Amer
ican Forestry Association, Society of Old
Students of Germany, the Democratic Club
of New York, and the German Club of
Pittsburgh. He married at Covington,
Kentucky, 1900, Florence Hubbard. Ad
dress : 1 Broadway, New York City.
HILGARD, Eugene Weldemar:
Chemist and geologist; was born in
Zweibrucken, Bavaria, January 5, 1833; son
of Theodore Erasmus Hilgard, jurist, pub
licist and poet. He came with his parents
to America in 1833 and received his early
education under instruction from his fath
er at Belleville, Illinois. He returned to Ger
many, studied at the Royal Mining School,
Freiberg, and at the University of Zurich,
and graduated at Heidelberg, receiving his
Ph.D. degree in 1853. He was- assistant
State geologist of Mississippi, 1855-57;
chemist in charge of the laboratory of
Sriiithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C,
and lecturer on chemistry in the National
Medical College in Washington, 1857-58;
State geologist of Mississippi, 1858-66; pro
fessor of chemistry in the University of
Mississippi, and State geologist, 1866-73;
professor of mineralogy, geology, zoology
and botany in the University of Michigan,
1873-5; and since then has been professor
of agricultural chemistry in the University
of California, and director of the State
Agricultural Experimental Station. He
conducted the agricultural division of the
Northern Transcontinental survey, 1881-83,
and made a specialty of the study of soils
of the Southwestern States and of the Pa
cific slope, in their relation to geology, to
their chemical and physical composition, to
their native flora and to their agricultural
qualities. He was elected to membership
in the National Academy of Sciences, in
1872, and is a member of many scientific
societies. He received the degree of LL.D.
from the University of Mississippi in 1882;
from the University of Michigan in 1887,
arid from Columbia, in 1887. He published :
Report on the Agriculture and Geology of
Mississippi (i860) ; On the Geology of
Louisiana and the Rock-salt Deposit of

Petite. Anse Island (1869) ; Reports on the
Experimental Work r>f the College of Agri
culture, University of California (1877-
1904) ; Report on the Arid Regions of the
Pacific Coast (1887); and monographs on
Mississippi, Louisiana and California, in the
Report on Cotton Production, of the United
States census report of 1880, which he ed
ited. He prepared for the United States
Weather Bureau in 1892 a discussion 'of
the Relations of Climate to Soils, which
was translated into several European lan
guages and gained for the author from the
Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich, the
Liebig medal for important advances in
agricultural science, in 1894. He has also
published numerous papers on chemical, geo
logical and agricultural subjects in govern
ment reports, and in scientific journals both
at home and abroad. His latest work is a
six hundred page volume entitled Soils, ,
which comprehends the agriculture of the
arid as well as of the humid regions. In
1904 he became professor emeritus of agri
culture, and resigned the directorship of the
California Station. Address : 2728 Ban
croft Way, Berkeley, California.
HILL, David Bennett:
Lawyer; born at Havanna, New York,
August 29, 1843; son of Caleb and Eunice
Hill. He was educated at Elmira Acad
emy; admitted to the bar in 1864, and in
the same year was appointed city attorney
of Elmira. He took an active part in poli
tics; was a delegate to the Democratic
State Convention in 1868; elected in 1870
and reelected in 1871 member of the New
York Assembly. In the legislature of 1872
he was elected one of the managers of the
prosecution before the Senate of ring
judges in scandals exposed at that time in
New York City. Mr. Hill was appointed
in 1875, by Governor Tilden, member of
the commission to provide a uniform char
ter for the cities of the State; was chair
man of the Democratic State Conventions
in 1877, 1881 and 1894; alderman-in 1880 and
1881 and mayor in 1882, of Elmira, New
York; was elected lieutenant-governor in
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had left to become President of the United
States, and was reelected in 1885 and 1888,
arid was elected to the United States Senate
from the State of New York, 1891, serv
ing from 1891 to 1897. Senator Hill is a
member of the New York State Bar Asso
ciation. Address: Albany, New York.
HILL, David Jayne:
Educator and diplomat; born in Plain-
field, New Jersey, June 10, 1850; son of
Daniel T. Hill and Lydia Ann (Thompson)
Hill. He received from Bucknell Univer
sity, the degree of A.B. in 1874, and A.M.
in 1877; from the University of Berlin,
Ecole Libre, des Sciences, Politiques, Paris,
Colgate University, the degree of LL.D. in
1884, from Union University the degree of
LL.D. in 1902 and from the University of
Pennsylvania the degree of LL.D. in 1902.
He was president of Bucknell University
from 1879 ' to 1888 ; of the University of
Rochester, New York from 1888 to 1896;
professor of diplomacy in Columbian Uni
versity, Washington, D. C, from 1899 to
1903. He has traveled much in Europe and
made researches in various libraries and
archives. He was first assistant secretary
of State of the United States from 1898 to
1903; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Switzerland, from January, 1903, to July,
1903, and since then to The Hague. He
is representative of the United States on
Administrative Council of Permanent
. Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Mr.
Hill is author of various literary and sci
entific publications and is engaged upon
A History of Diplomacy in the Interna
tional Development of Europe, published by
Longmans, of which two volumes have ap
peared as follows: The Struggle for Uni
versal Empire, 1905, and The Establish
ment of Territorial Sovereignty, 1906. In
politics he is a Republican. He is a fel
low of the American 'Association for the
Advancement of Science. His favorite rec
reation is cycling. He is also a member
of the Century, Metropolitan, Authors
Clubs of New York City, Cosmos Club of
Washington, D. C, Genesee Valley of Ro
chester and Club de la Hague of The

Hague. He married in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, June 6, 1886, Juliet Lewis
Packer. Address : American Legation, The
Hague, Netherlands.
HILL, Ebenezer J.:
Congressman ; born in Redding, Connecti
cut, August 4, 1845. Educated at public
school in Norwalk and entered Yale in the
class of 1865. In 1892 he received from
Yale University the honorary degree of
master of arts. In 1863 he joined the Army
as a civilian, and remained until the close
of the war. He was engaged in business
from that time until elected to the Fifty-
fourth Congress. He has held the commer
cial positions of secretary and treasurer of
the Norwalk Iron Works, president of the
Norwalk Street Railway Company, presi
dent of the Norwalk Gaslight Company,
and is now vice-president of the Norwalk
Mills Company and vice-president of the
National Bank of Norwalk. He is a past
grand master and past grand representa
tive of the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows of Connecticut ; has served twice as
burgess of Norwalk, twice as chairman of
the board of school visitors ; was the
Fourth district delegate to the National Re
publican Convention of 1884; was a mem
ber of the Connecticut Senate for 1886-87;
served one term on the Republican State
central committee ; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress. Ad
dress : Norwalk, Connecticut.
HILL, Frank D,:
Consular official ; born in Minnesota ; con
sul at Asuncion, November 5, 1887; consul
at Montevideo, February 19, 1890; re
tired, October 30, 1893; appointed consul
at La Guaira, November 13, 1895; retired,
September 9, 1896; appointed consul at
Santos, November 25, 1896; appointed con
sul at Amsterdam, July 19, 1899; appointed
consul-general at St. Petersburg, April 29,
1907. Address : St. Petersburg, Russia.
HILL, Frank Pierce:
Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library;
born in Concord, New Hampshire, August

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22, 1855; son of Cyrus and Nancy Long
(Walker) Hill; educated local public
school; graduated Dartmouth College, B.S.,
1876; Litt.D., 1906. Elected librarian of
Lowell (Massachusetts) Public Library,
1881 ; called to Paterson, New Jersey, 1885,
and there organized (under the act of 1884)
first free library in New Jersey; later in
augurated Salem (Massachusetts) Public
Library, and in 1889 became librarian of
first free public library in Newark, New
Jersey, until 1901, when called to present
position as librarian Brooklyn Public Li
brary. Secretary of American Library As
sociation for five years, succeeding Melvil
Dewey, its first secretary; president of
same, 1905-06. Married, May 17, 1880,
Annie M., daughter of Robert Wood, of
Lowell, Massachusetts. Address : Public
Library, Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, New
York.HILL, Frederick Trevor:
Lawyer, author; born in Brooklyn, New
York, May 5, 1866; son of Edward and
Mary Hill; educated in Brooklyn Poly
technic; graduated from Yale, B.A., 1887;
Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1889, M.A.,
honorary, conferred by Yale, 1907. Au
thor of: Miniatures from Balzac (with S.
P. Griffin), 1893 (Appleton) ; The Case
and Exceptions (short stories), 1900
(Stokes) ; The Care of Estates (law),
1901 (Baker, Voorhis) ; The Minority
(novel), 1902 (Stokes) ; The Web (novel),
1903 (Doubleday, Page) ; The Accomplice
(novel), 1905 (Harper) ; Lincoln the Law
yer (history), 1906 (Century) ; Decisive
Battles of the Law history, 1907 (Har
per) ; various contributions to magazines
since 1901. Member of the New York Bar
Association and Century, Authors, Play
ers', Ardsley and Down Town Clubs. Mar
ried in 1895, Mabel Wood. Residence : 29
' Washington Square, West. Address : 56
Wall Street, New York City.
HILL, George William:
Astronomer; born in New York City,
March 3, 1838; graduated Rutgers College,
A.B.; 1859, Ph.D.; (LL.D., Columbia,
Princeton ; honorary ScD., Cambridge Un

iversity, England). Assistant in office of
the American Ephemeris and Nautical Al
manac, 1861 ; received medal of Royal As
tronomical Society of England, 1887, and
also received the Damoiseau prize of the
Paris Academy for researches in celestial
mechanics, and the Schubert prize of the
St. Petersburg Academy in 1905. Lecturer
in celestial mechanics, Columbia University.
Member National Academy Sciences, As
tronomical and Astrophysical Society of
America, American Mathematical Society
(president, 1894-96), American Philosophi
cal Society; associate fellow American
Academy of Sciences; member New York
Academy of Sciences; foreign associate
Royal Astronomical Society (England) ;
foreign member Royal Society (England),
Cambridge (England) Philosophical Socie
ty, Manchester (England) Literary and
Philosophical Society; corresponding mem
ber Paris Academy Sciences. Author:
Collected Mathematical Works ; contributor
to mathematical and astronomical journals.
Address : West Nyack, New York.
HILL, Henry Wayland:
Lawyer; born in Isle La Motte, Ver
mont, November 13, 1853; son of Dyer
and Martha P. (Hall) Hill; educated in
public and preparatory schools; graduated
at University of Vermont, A.B., 1876,
A.M., 1881, LL.D., 1900. Principal Swan-
ton (Vermont) Union School, 1877-79;
Chateaugay (New York) Academy, 1879-
83; admitted to the New York State Bar.
at Albany, January 24, 1884; has been in
general practice at Buffalo since 1884;
member of New York Constitutional. Con
vention, 1894, State Assembly, 1896- 1900;
State senator, 1901-08. Vice-President Buf
falo Historical Society (vice-president),
Board of Managers of State Normal
School (secretary and treasurer), Endow
ment Fund Commercial University of Ver
mont, Alpha Chapter of Vermont of Phi
Beta Kappa Society, the Bibliophile Society
of Boston, Massachusetts ; was chairman
of the delegation to the New York State
Bar Association to the meeting of the
American Bar Association at St. Paul,
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gers of Buffalo Historical Society, Masonic
order (Knights Templar, Scottish Rite
Consistory), Knights of Pythias, Delta
Psi fraternity of University of Vermont.
Republican. Congregationalist. Has traav-
eled extensively in the United States and
through Great Britain and Europe. Has
private library of rare and valuable books.
Author: The Development of Constitu
tional Law in New York; article on Water
ways in the Encyclopedia Americana; con
tributor to the Bibliophile edition of the
Odes and Epodes of Horace; author of
several amendments to the State constitu
tion; one of the principal advocates of the
1,000-ton barge canal. Club : . University.
Married at, S wanton, Vermont, August n,
1880, Harriet Augusta Smith. Address :
471 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
HILL, James Jerome:
Railroad president and financier; son of
James and Anne Dunbar Hill; is of Scotch
and Irish descent, and was born near
Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Can
ada, September 16, 1838. From his seventh
to his fifteenth year he attended Rockwood
Academy, a Quaker school, where he was
carefully instructed in mathematics and
Latin. The death of his father in 1853
prevented his studying for the medical pro
fession, as had been intended, and he se
cured employment in a country store.
Early in 1856 he made a tour of the United
States, from Maine to Minnesota, and de
cided to settle in St. Paul, in the latter
State. Here he engaged as shipping clerk
with J. W. Bass & Company, agents for
the Dubuque & St. Paul Packet Company's
line of Mississippi River steamboats, and
used the opportunity afforded him by this
position to carefully study all subjects re
lating to river transportation ; especially that
of fuel. In 1865 he took the agency of
the Northwestern Packet Company's line of
Mississippi River steamboats; and when
this line was merged with the Davidson
line, in 1867, he engaged in a general trans
portation and fuel business. In the mean
time, the First Division of the St. Paul
& Pacific Railroad Company had built and
put into operation a portion of its railroad,

beginning near the steamboat landing in St.
Paul and running westward, through Min
neapolis, to the prairie region beyond, with
a branch up the Mississippi River toward
St. Cloud, and Mr. Hill had become its
station agent at St. Paul. In this way his
career as a railroad man began. In 1869
he formed the fuel and warehousing firm
of Hill, Griggs & Company, and in 1870
the Red River Transportation Company,
for operating a line of steamboats .on the
Red River of the North, between points in
the United States, and the province of
Manitoba. Mr. Flill was the first to place
mineral coal on the market at St. Paul.
In 1872 the first regular through transpor
tation service between St. Paul and Winni
peg — then Fort Garry — was established by
him. In 1875, together with E. N. Saun
ders, C. W. Griggs, and Wm. Rhodes, he
formed the Northwestern Fuel Company;
but three years later sold all his interests in
the fuel and steamboat companies. In 1877
Mr. Hill and his associates obtained control
of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Com
pany and the first, division of the
St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and in 1879 reorganized it under the
name of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manito
ba Railway Company, of which Mr. Hill
became general manager. He became vice-
president in 1882, and president in 1883, and
was the first to propose a railway from the
Great Lakes to the Pacific Coast, through
the great region lying between the Inter
national boundary line on the North and
the Northern Pacific Railroad on the South.
The extension of the Hill lines toward the
Pacific Coast began in 1880; and by 1893
they had reached Puget's Sound, with a
branch starting from the main line in Cen
tral Montana and running southwest,
through Great Falls and Helena, to Butte.
The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
organization being deemed inadequate for
an extensive transcontinental and interna
tional transportation system, in 1890 the
railway and properties of that company
were taken over by the Great Northern
Railway Company, which has since oper
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time having been its president. For the
better handling of the Asiatic trade, a line
of steamships, under the name of Great
Northern Steamship Company, has been es
tablished, for which have been constructed,
in an American yard, two of the largest
and most capacious steamships ever planned
up to this time. One, the Minnesota, is in
commission, and her consort, the Dakota,
approaches completion. The system also
has two large sized and swift passenger
steamers on the Great Lakes, connecting
Duluth and Chicago with the Lake Erie
ports. Mr. Hill is a member of the Union,
Metropolitan, Down Town, Larchmont
Yacht, New York Yacht, Manhattan and
Jekyl Island Clubs. He married Mary T.
Mahegan, and they have five children :
James N., Clara, Rachel, Gertrude and
Walter J. Residence : 240 Summit Ave-
nut, St. Paul, Minesota, and 763 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City. Address : St. Paul,
Minnesota.
HILL, James Langdon:
Clergyman, lecturer, author; born at
Garnavillo, Iowa, March 14, 1848. He was
' graduated from Iowa College in 1871 ; tutor
in Iowa College, 1872; graduated from An
dover Theological Seminary, 1875. Before
graduating he was called to the North Con
gregational Church in Lynn, Massachusetts.
He was one of four clergyman, in 1891, to
make addresses and to plant Societies of
Christian Endeavor in England; and he
founded the Society at Old Boston, England.
That same year he was made director of
Divinity by his Alma Mater. Dr. Hill
has made addresses in almost all the
States from one ocean to the other; and
he has single lectures which he has given
more than a hundred times. He delivered
the Election Sermon before the Governor
and Legislature of Massachusetts in 1878.
He is a trustee of Iowa College; and has
been a trustee from the beginning to now,
of the United Society of Christian En
deavor. Dr. Hill was one of four who se
cured control of the Golden Rule, a relig
ious paper, and established it as the cham
pion of the Societies of Endeavor. He is

author of: The Growth of Government,
which was published by vote of the Legis
lature of Massachusetts, and of: Modern
Methods of Christian Nurture; The Super
lative Vacation; A Decade of History;
Seven Sorts of Successful Sunday Evening
Services (pp. 224). His leaflets and news
paper articles are very numerous, and his
fugitive pieces that have been gathered fill
450 pages, as large as an atlas. He mar
ried in 1878, Lucy B. Dunham, daughter
of the chaplain of the Massachusetts Sen
ate. Address : 325 Lafayette Street, Sajem,
Massachusetts.
HILL, John, Jr.:
Grain merchant; born in Peru, Illinois,
November 23, 1856 ; son of John and Eliza
beth (Donohue) Hill. His parents re-~
moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was
five years of age; and he received his edu
cation in the public schools of that city.
At the age of sixteen he entered the of
fice of W. G. Purdy, cashier of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way Company, where he remained four
years. In 1876 he was employed by the
grain commission house of McLandburgh
& Company, remaining with the concern
until 1881, when he engaged in business on
his own account. He continued to- carry
on business alone until the firm of Mc-
Courtie, Hill & Company was formed in
1889. He retired from the firm in 1897 and
has not* since been engaged in business. He
was elected a director of the Chicago Board
of Trade iri 1892, and was reelected in 1895.
He was chairman of the bucket shop com
mittee of the board from 1896 to 1898, and
was always distinguished for his aggres
sive warfare on bucket shops and illegel
trading.- He was a member and chairman
of the committee on gambling of the Civic
Federation of Chicago during 1896, 1897
and 1898. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and
a member of the Royal Arcanum and Royal
League. He was married in Chicago, in
May, 1881, to Nellie M. Graham, and has
two children: Dorothy and Jessie. Ad
dress : Board of Trade. Residence : 6049
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HILL, Joseph Morrison:
Jurist; born in North Carolina, Septem
ber 2, 1864; educated at University of Ar
kansas and was graduated from Lebanon
(Tennessee), Law School, in 1883. One
of the authors of Sandels & Hill's Digest
of the Statutes (1894). Is chief justice of
the Supreme Court of Arkansas, elected
as' such September, 1904. Address: Little
Rock, Arkansas.
HILL, Joseph Wood,
Proprietor of boarding school; born at
Westport, Connecticut, May 28, 1856; son
of Joseph Wakeman Hill and Ann Re
becca (Wood) Hill. He was graduated
from Yale as A.B. in 1878, and from Wil
lamette University as M.D. in 1881. He
was lessee arid principal of the Bishop
Scott Academy in Portland, Oregon, from
1878 to 1901 ; proprietor and principal of
the Hill Military Academy since 1901. In
politics Mr. Hill is an Independent, and
in his religious belief is *an Episcopalian.
Is a Knight Templar and Shriner, and a
member of the University Club of Port-
-land, Oregon. He married, first, at Port
land, Oregon, November, 1878, Jessie K.
Adams, and by that union there are two
sons : Joseph Adams Hill, born in 1880,
and Benjamin Wood, born in 1890; mar
ried, second, February, 1903, Laura E. Mac-
Ewan. Address : 821 Marshall Street,
Portland Oregon.
HILL, Louis Clarence:
Civil engineer; born in Ann Arbor, Feb
ruary 22, 1865; son of Alva T. Hill and
Frances (Bliss) Hill. He was graduated
from the University of Michigan as B.S.
in civil engineering in 1886, and B.S. in
electrical engineering in 1890. Mr. Hill
was appointed division engineer of the
Duluth, Red Wing & Southern Railroad in
1887; assistant engineer of the United
States Army in the summer of 1887; divis
ion engineer on construction of the Great
Northern Railway; professor of electrical
and hydraulic engineering in the Colorado
School of Mines from 1890 to 1903; engi
neer of the United States Geological Sur
vey in 1903 and 1904, and is supervising

engineer of the United States Reclamation
Service, in charge of the Salt River and
Yuma Projects, and of work on the Color
ado and Rio Grande Rivers. Mr. Hill is
a member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the National Geological Society,
Society of Forestry and Irrigation, Color
ado Scientific Society, and is a Mason, a
Shriner, and member of the Arizona Club.
Address : Phoenix, Arizona.
HILL, Robert Carmer:
President coal company; born in Phila
delphia, July 12, 1869. He is a descendant
of Matthew Clarkson, who was governor-
general of New York in 1689, and of Ger-
ardus Clarkson, surgeon in the Continental
Army. His maternal grandfather, William
Chapin, was for forty-nine years president
of the Pennsylvania Institution for the In
struction of the Blind. His education was
obtained in the Friends' Central School, the
Episcopal Academy, and the University of
Pennsylvania, where he studied in the De
partment of Arts, and the Wharton School
of Finance and Economy, graduating in
1889. Beginning his business life as a bank
clerk and as a clerk in the coal offices of
the George B. Newton Company, he went
to New York in 1893, where he organized
the Madeira-Hill Company, of which he
has since been treasurer. He is also vice-
president of the George B. Newton Com
pany; president and director of the Raven
Hill Coal Company; director of the Brook-
wood Coal Company; general manager of
the Messena Terminal Railroad, and direc
tor of the St. Lawrence Power Company,
He is a member of the University and other
societies in Philadelphia and New York.
Address : Anglewood, New Jersey.
HILL, Uriah, Jr.:
Manufacturer; born at Red Mill, Putnam
County, New York, August 13, 1817 ; son of
Uriah and Anna (Dean) Hill. He was
educated in the public schools, has been
connected with the Union Stove Works at
Peekskill for over fifty years, and is now
president of the company. For several
years he was president of the town of.
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is now president of the Peekskill Savings
Bank, and trustee of the Peekskill Mili
tary Academy. Mr. Hill is a Democrat in
politics, and a Presbyterian in his religious
affiliations. He is a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution (Empire State
Society). He married at Peekskill, New
York, April 10, 1842, Alethea Finch. Ad
dress : 945 Paulding Street, Peekskill, New
York.
HILL, William Burr:
Lawyer; born at Stratford, Connecticut,
November 17, 1857; son of William Tou-
cey and Jane C. (Burr) Hill; graduated
at Phillips Exeter (New Hampshire) Acad
emy, 1877; Yale College, B.A., 1881 ; Yale
Law School, LL.B., 1883. Secretary, treas
urer and director of Ore Knob Copper
Company; secretary and director of By
products Company, Americus Manufactur
ing Company, Ovine Company; director of
The Peoples' Trust Company, Shelter Isl
and and Greenport Ferry Company, South
New York Investors, American Guaranty
Company, Discovery Gold Mining Com
pany of British Columbia, Sag Harbor
Water Company, etc. ; member of Brook
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Sons of
the Revolution, Long Island Historical So
ciety, American Geographic Society, Phi
Beta Kappa Alumni in New York; trustee
of Hoagland Laboratory; secretary Shel
ter Island Yacht Club. Professional work
largely in the organization and conducting
of corporations. Clubs : Hamilton, Yale,
Twentieth Century. Married at Brooklyn,
April 2, 1891, Illie C. Clapp ; one son, Wil
liam Burr, Jr., born 1891. Address : 68
William Street, New York City.
HILL, William Henry:
Banker; born in Boston, July 14, 1838;
son of William Hill and Abby (Remick)
Hill. After completing his educational pre
paration in the Roxbury High School, he
engaged in 1855 as clerk in a publishing
house which developed into the firm of
Chase, Nichols and Hill, in which he was
a partner for two years, then was in busi
ness for himself for eight years as a pub
lisher and bookseller until in 1869 he be

came a member of the,present banking firm
of Richardson, Hill and Company, now
one of the most prominent on the Boston
Stock Exchange. Mr. Hill is also a mem
ber of the Boston Chamber of Commerce,
the Boston Real Estate Exchange and other
commercial organizations, and his firm is
constantly identified with large monetary
operations and the financing of large en
terprises in the New England States. Mr.
Hill is trustee of some large estates, is a
director of the First National Bank of
Boston, the Boston Insurance Company and
various other corporations ; and he is a
member of the Bunker Hill Monument As
sociation, the Bostonian Society, Algonquin
Club, Boston Art Club, Colonial and Coun
try Clubs of Boston. He married in Bos
ton, January 8, 1862, Sarah E. May. Resi
dence : Brookline, Massachusetts. Office
address : 50 Congress Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
HILL, William Wisong:
Banker; born at Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, West Virginia, July 9, 1876, and is
the son of George S. and Mary- D. Hill.
His father has been cashier of the Na
tional Bank of Martinsburg for thirty-
nine years; his grandfather was its organ
izer and first president; with the old Na
tional Bank of Martinsburg, West Vir
ginia, from 1893 until 1902; started as run
ner and ended as assistant cashier. From
January 9, 1902, to July 9, 1903, cashier of
the Jeannette National Bank, Jeannette,
Pennsylvania; resigned this position to be
come secretary and treasurer of the Mount
Washington Savings & Trust Company, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. . Address : Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
HILL, Wilson Shedrlc:
Congressman and lawyer; born January
19, 1863, in Choctaw County, Mississippi;
son of Dr. Samuel Hill and Elizabeth
Hill. He was educated in the common
schools of that section and the University
of Mississippi; studied law at the Cumber
land University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and
began its practice at Winona in 1884; was
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one term, and in 1891 was elected district
attorney for the Fifth Judicial District of
Mississippi; reelected without opposition in
1895 and in 1899; was elected to the Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Address:
Winona, Mississippi.
HDLLIS, Newell Dwight:
Clergyman, author; born at Magnolia,
Iowa, September 2, 1858; educated at Lake
Forest University, M.A., Iowa College,
Grinnell, Iowa, McCormick Theological
Seminary, Chicago (D.D., Northwestern
University). Entered Presbyterian minis
try, 1887, and was pastor at Peoria, Illi
nois, three years, and at Evanston, Illinois,
four years ; succeeded late Professor David
Swing as pastor of Central Church, Chi
cago (an independent church), 1894-99;
since 1899, pastor Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn (succeeding Dr. Lyman Abbott. Con
gregationalist. Author: A Man's Value
to Society; How the Inner Light Failed;
Investment of Influence; Great Books as
Life Teachers; Foretokens of Immortality;
Influence of Christ in Modern Life; Quest
of Happiness; Success Through Self -Help;
Building a Working Faith; The Quest of
John Chapman; The Fortune of the Re
public. He married in Chicago, April 14,
1887, Annie Louise Patrick, and they have
three children: Richard Dwight, born in
1887; Marjorie Louise, born in 1888, and
Nathalie Louise, born in 1899. Residence:
31 Grace Court, Brooklyn. Address: Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, New York.
HILLS, Alfred Kimball:
Physician; born at Hudson, New Hamp
shire, October 23, 1840; son of Alden and
Nancy Currier (Kimball) Hills; educated
in scientific and medical course at Har
vard University, 1868; medical course,
M.D., 1868-69; Hahnemann (Pennsylvania)
Medical College, 1870. President and edi
tor of the Medical Times; fellow Academy
of Medicine of New York, American Medi
cal Association, Medical Societies State
and County of New York ; American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science;
member of National Geographical Society,
American Social Science Association, the

Founders and Patriots of America, New
England Society, Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Charity Organization , So
ciety; consulting physician to the Metro-
polital Hospital, department of 'charities.
Club: Union League. Married at Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1887, Ida
Virginia Creutzborg. Address : 541 West
End Avenue, New York City.
HILLS, George Heathcote:
Clergyman ; born in Syracuse, New York,
July 6, 1862; son of George Morgan Hills
and Sarah (Dows) Hills. He was grad
uated from Trinity College, Hartford, Con
necticut as B.A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1887
cum honore. He received ordination in the
ministry of the Episcopal Church in 1887
and served a year as curate in St. James'
Church, New York, was rector of Christ
Church, Riverton, New Jersey from 1888
to 1891 ; rector of Holy Trinity Church,
West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1891 to 1898;
assistant, Grace Church, Chicago, 1898;
rector of Christ Church, St. Joseph, Mis
souri from 1898 to 1902; assistant, St.
Luke's Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1902; and
since 1903 has been rector of St. Mark's
Church, Minneapolis. He was registrar of
the Diocese of New Jersey in 1890; deputy
to the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church in 1901,- and member of the Stand
ing Committee of the Diocese of West Mis
souri, 1901. His favorite recreations are
golf, tennis, botany and zoology. Mr. Hills
is author of: Seen of Men; The Church in
the House. He is a director of the Minne
sota Children's Aid Society; member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the Sons of the
Revolution and the Minikahda Country
Club. He married in New York City, May
24, 1887, Carrie Louise Pearson, and they
have three children: Beatrice, born in 1888,
Heathcote, born in 1889, and Violet, born
in 1891. Residence: 2721 Lake of the
Isles Boulevard, Minneapolis. Office ad
dress : St. Mark's Church, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
HILLS, John Dows:
Clergyman; born in Syracuse, New Yorlc,
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Hills, D.D., and Sarah (Dows) Hills. He
was graduated from Trinity College, Hart
ford, Connecticut, as B.A. in 1878, valedic
torian, and cum honore, and made M.A. in
1881 ; and in 1907 the degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by the Western Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and by Trinity
College. He was curate of St. Mary's
Church, Burlington, New Jersey, from
1880 to 1882; rector of St. Andrew's
Church, Mount Holly, New Jersey, from
1882 to 1889; rector of St. Luke's Church,
Tacoma, Washington, from 1889 to 1892;
associate rector of .St. Mary's Church, Phil
adelphia, from 1893 to 1898; rector of
Christ Church, Dayton, Ohio, from 1899 to
1902 and has been rector of Christ Church,
Oil City, since 1903. Dr. Hills was deputy
to the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church, from Washington, in 1892, from
Southern Ohio in 1901, and from Pitts
burgh, in 1907 ; examining chaplain of
Washington, from 1890 to 1892 and of
Pittsburgh from 1904 to 1907; a member
of the standing committee of Diocese of
Pittsburgh, in 1907, and was chaplain of
the Third Regiment of the National Guard
of Ohio, from. 1900 to 1902. In religion he
is an Episcopalian. He was trustee of the
Annie Wright Seminary at Tacoma, Wash
ington, from 1890 to 1892 ; trustee and vice-
president of the board of the Fannie C.
Paddock Memorial Hospital of Tacoma,
from 1890 to 1892; member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity; honorary secretary of
Phi Beta Kappa; member of the Pennsyl
vania Society of Founders and Patriots of
America, and the Pennsylvania Society of
Sons of the Revolution, and he is a Mason
and Knight Templar. Dr. Hills married
in Burlington, New Jersey, January 18,
1883, Clara James Rogers, and they have
one daughter, Adriana, born in 1884. Ad
dress : 309 West First Street, Oil City,
Pennsylvania.
HILLS, Joseph Lawrence:
Dean of the University of Vermont ; born
at Boston, Massachusetts, March 2, 1861 ;
son of Thomas Hills and Amelia Elien
(Drew) Hills. He was graduated from
the Massachusetts Agricultural College as

B.Sc. in 1881, and from Boston University
as B.Sc. the same year. He served as as
sistant chemist of the Massachusetts Ex
periment Station from 1882 to 1884, and of
the New Jersey Experiment Station in 1884
and 1885; was chemist of the Phosphate
Mining Company, Limited, of Beaufort,
South Carolina, from 1885 to 1888; chemist
from 1888 to 1900, and director of the Ver
mont Experiment Station, since 1893. Mr.
Hills has been professor of chemistry since
1893, and dean of the Department of Agri
culture since 1898 in the University of Ver
mont. Politically he is a Republican, and
he is an Episcopalian in his religious affi
liation. He is a member of the Society for
the Promotion of Agriculture, and the As
sociation of American Agricultural Col
leges and Experiment Stations. He mar
ried at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sep
tember 11, 1888, Kate Conover, and they
have one son: Thomas Lawrence Hills,
born in 1890, and a daughter, Bertha Hills,
born in 1893. Address : 59 North Pros
pect Street, Burlington, Vermont.
HI WES, James M . :
Railroad superintendent; born at Oswe
go, New York, September 15, 1843; son of
Alanson and Elizabeth P. (Cally) Himes;
educated in public schools, business college.
Was accountant at Oswego Starch factory,
1866-72; real estate business, 1872-77;
lumber business, 1878-91 ; organized lum
ber business for late A. S. Page in Lewis
County, 1899 ; built the Glenfield and West
ern Railroad, 1901-02, and has been its
manager since. Served three years in the
Civil War as member of the Twelfth New
York Cavalry; clerk in adjutant-general's
office under General I. N. Palmer, and in
medical director's office under General W.
T. Sherman until the close of the war; in
spector of plantations in North Carolina,
with Freedman's Bureau, 1865,' appointed
by Grover Cleveland commissioner for the
improvement of the Salmon River; direc
tor Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Rail
road, 1890-91. Republican. Baptist.
Member Masonic order, Grand Army of
the Republic; was school commissioner at
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York, 1872, Charlotte Dykeman (deceased,
1896) ; second, at Providence, Rhode Isl
and, 1902, Clara E. Morgan. Children:
Mrs. R. N. Wright, aged 33; Mrs. H. J.
Wright, aged 31; Mrs. Lyman E. Allen,
aged 24; Alanson P., aged 29; J. Irving,
aged 19. Residence: Oswego City, New
York. Address: Glenfield, Lewis Coun
ty, New York.
HEUMEL WRIGHT, A. L. A,:
Civil engineer, author; born in Milford
Square, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Feb
ruary 7, 1865 ; son of Charles R. and Susan
(Artman) Himmelwright ; graduated from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York, 1888. Was transitman and topog
rapher on railroad surveys for Northern
Pacific Railroad, in Idaho, 1888- 1889; as
sistant engineer of the Rome, Watertown
& Ogdensburg Railroad, 1889- 1900; in
charge of engineering operations for W. A.
Engeman, Moorfield, West Virginia, in de
velopment of limestone property, etc., 1890-
1891 ; examination, purchase and develop
ment of phosphate properties in Florida ; lo
cation and construction of branch railroad,
Williston to Montbrook, and now part of
Plant system, 1891-1892 ; designing and con
structing operating plant of Columbia Gran
ite Company, Middletown, Connecticut,
1892-1895; manager department fire-proof
construction for John A. Roebling's Sons
Company, New York City, 1895-1899; gen
eral manager of the Roebling Construction
Company since 1899. Author of: In the
Heart of the Bitter Root Mountains, 1895 ;
Tests, 1898; The Baltimore Fire, 1904; The
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1908 ;
contributor to North American Review,
Engineering Magazine, etc. President of
United States Revolver Association (life
member) ; director New York State Rifle
Association; member of American Society
of Civil Engineers, American Geographical
Society (life member), National Geographi
cal Society, Manhattan Rifle and Revolver
Association, Chi Phi and Sigma Xi fra
ternities. For amusement and recreation
in 1903, he made an original map and sur
vey of the central portion of Idaho, between
• the middle fork and the headwaters of the I

Salmon River, embracing an area of 600
square miles. Recreations: Capturing big
game, mountain scenery photography, pistol
and revolver shooting. Club: Engineers'.
Married in Albany, New York, January 25,
1895, Harriet Sage Hamlin; one son, Ken
neth Hamlin (10). Residence: Stockholm,
New Jersey. Address: 949 Broadway,
New York City.
HINCHMAN, C. Russell:
Secretary and treasurer; born at Phila
delphia, February 21, 1875; son of Charles
S. Hinchman and Lydia S. Mitchell. He
received his education in the University of
Pennsylvania from 1892 to 1894, Haver
ford College, in 1895 and 1896, and was
graduated with the degree of B.S., and
from Haverford in 1896. He has been en
gaged in clerical work and in offices as sec
retary or treasurer, or both since 1896. He
is secretary and treasurer of the Western
Land Association, and secretary, treasurer
and director of the Washington, Arlington
and Falls Church Railway Company. He
has traveled extensively in Europe and
eastern Canada. In politics Mr. Hinchman
is a Republican, and he is a member of the
Philadelphia Bala Golf Club. Mr. Hinch
man married at Highland, Maryland, April
24, igoi, Elizabeth S. B. Hopkins, and they
have one daughter, Martha T. H. Hinch
man, born March 14, 1902. Residence:
Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Address : 902
Provident Building, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. HINDS, John I. D.:
Professor of chemistry; born in Guilford
County, North Carolina, December 13, 1847;
son of John Hinds and Rhoda (Webb)
Hinds. Fie was graduated from Cumber
land University as A.B. later receiving from
the same university the degrees of A.M.,
CE. and LL.D.; and he took post-graduate
work in chemistry at Harvard, and in the
University of Berlin. He was professor of
chemistry at Cumberland University from
1873 to 1899, and since 1899 has been pro
fessor of chemistry in the University of
Nashville. Dr. Hinds is a member of the
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Chemische Gesellschaft, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence; and he is a contributor to scientific
and literary journals. He has traveled ex
tensively in Europe, Northern Africa, and
Western Asia. In politics he is a Demo
crat, and in his church relations a Presby
terian ; and he is a thirty-second degree
Mason and Knight Templar. Address:
Nashville, Tennessee :
HINDS, Warren Elmer:
Economic entomologist; born at Town-
send, Massachusetts, September 20, 1876;
son of Warren D. Hinds and Mary P.
(Colby) Hinds. He received his educa
tion in public schools at Townsend, Massa
chusetts; at the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, Amherst, Massachusetts ; and Bos
ton University as undergraduate from 1895
to 1899, and did post-graduate work at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College from
1899 to 1902, receiving the degree of Ph.D.
He assisted at the Hatch Experiment Sta
tion, Massachusetts, in 1899 and 1900; had
a lecture course in entomology at the Mary
land Agricultural College Summer School
in 1901, and was special assistant of the
United States Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D. C,
in the summer of 1901. Dr. Hinds became a
special field agent of the Bureau of Ento
mology, July 1, 1902, and was in charge of
the Cotton Boll Weevil Laboratory of the
Bureau of Entomology from July 1, 1903,
to September 30, 1907. He has published
several bulletins of the Bureau of Ento
mology upon the Mexican Cotton Boll WeeT
vil. He has been professor of entomology
in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and
entomologist to the Alabama Agricultural
Experiment Station since October 1, 1907.
Mr. Hinds is an Independent in politics,
and a Congregationalist in his religious
faith. He is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science ; the Washington Entomological
Society; the Association of Economic
Entomologists; Entomological Society of
America; the Phi Kappa Phi and College
Shakespearean Clubs of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College. Fie married at Tem-

pleton, Massachusetts, March 4, 1903, Edith
Goddard Gray. Residence and office ad
dress : Auburn, Alabama.
HINDS, William Alfred:
Author; born in Enfield, Massachusetts,
February 2, 1833; son of Samuel and Lucy
(Amsden) Hinds; graduated from Yale
(Sheffield Scientific School), Ph.B., 1870.
Became member of Oneida Community,
1849; and for thirty years was associated
with its noted founder, John H. Noyes, as
stenographer, writer and editor. Since or
ganization of the community into a joint
stock company in 1880, has served as one
of its directors for twenty years, and at
times filled its different executive offices,
now being president. In 1878, after making
a tour of the communistic -societies of the
United States, published his work on Amer
ican Communities, two revised and greatly
enlarged editions of which have been is
sued. Address : Kenwood, New York.
HINITT, Frederick William:
President of Central University of Ken
tucky; born at_ Kidderminster, England,
November 2, 1866; son of John and Selina
(Williams) Hinitt. He received his pre
paratory education at St. George's School,
situated in his native town, entered West
minster College, Missouri, and graduated in
1889 as B.S., taking the degree of B.A.
a year later, and that of A.M. in 1892. The
degrees of Ph.D., 1896; and D.D., 1902,
were conferred upon him by the University
of Wooster, as well as that of D.D. by his
Alma Mater in 1904. In 1892 he became
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of War
rensburg, Missouri, remaining until 1895
when he resigned to become pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Ottumwa,
Iowa, officiating here for five years. But
Dr. Hinitt did not "remain long in the
ministry for in 1900 he became president
of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, and
in 1904 was elected president of Cen
tral University of Kentucky, at Danville.
He is very prominent in educational mat
ters ; Trustee of the Presbyterian Theologi
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of Kentucky. He is a member of Phi Del
ta Theta fraternity, and his recreations are
golf, tennis, and sailing. On June 29, 1892,
he was married at Fulton, Missouri, to
Elfie Hampton Humphreys, and has three
children : Dorothy, born in 1895, Margaret,
born in 1897, and John, born in 1903. Ad
dress : Danville, Kentucky.
HINKEL, Frank Whitehill:
Physician; born in Lexington, Illinois,
March 6, 1858; son of James Craig White-
hill and Ada Fulweiler; graduated Lafa
yette College, A,B., 1879; A.M., 1882; Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1882. Elec
ted to chair of laryngology in medical de
partment University of Buffalo, 1885 ; ap
pointed aural surgeon and consulting laryn
gologist, Buffalo General Hospital, 1886;
delegate from Erie County Medical So
ciety, State of New York, 1885-87; dele
gate American Medical Association to Sev
enth International Congress olf Otology,
Bordeaux, France, 1904; fellow of Ameri
can Laryngological Association, American
Laryngological, Rhinological and Otologi
cal Society. Club: University. Married,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1884,
Kate Allen Campbell ; children : Edith
Whitehill, born September 21, 1885; Allen
Whitehill, born June 25, 1887. Address:
581 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
HINMAN, Harvey D.:
Lawyer and State senator; born at
Pitcher, Chenango County, New York,
September 17, 1864, and attended the dis
trict school and the Cincinnatus Academy.
He was graduated from the Albany Law
School in 1889, and read law with Car
ver, Deyo and Jenkins at Binghamton,
New York. He was admitted -to the bar
in 1891, and became clerk in Hon. George
F. Lyon's law office at Binghamton, until
Mr. Lyon became a Supreme Court Justice,
January 1, 1895. He was a member of the
law firm of Lyon, Painter and Hinman,
from January 1, 189S; to January 1, 1900,
and since the latter date has been a mem
ber of the law firm of Hinman, Howard
and Kattell at Binghamton, New York. In
the year 1905, Lieutenant-Governor Bruce

appointed Mr. Hinman. a member of the
Codes, Commerce and Navigation, Revis
ion, Affairs of Villages, and Public Health
Senate committees. He was renominated
for Senator in 1906. Senator Hinman re
ceived 17,211 votes to 9,796 cast for John
Murray, Democrat. In 1907 Senator Hin
man became chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Miscellaneous Corporations, and
1 member of the Judiciary, Codes and Vil
lages committees. Address : 80 Riverside
Drive, Binghamton, New York.
HINRICHS, Frederick W. :
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, September
[2, 1851 ; son of Charles F. A. and Louisa
Ann (Dotter) Hinrichs; educated
Deghuee School, Brooklyn; graduated Co
lumbia College, 1874, A.B., A.M.; Columbia
Law School, LL.B. (valedictorian at Law
School), 1875; studied at University of
Gottingen, Germany, 1875-1876. Has been
in general practice in New York City since
1876; has been abroad six times for edu
cation and recreation; has lectured on po
litical, economic and literary subjects, and
written for magazines, etc., on kindred
topics ; was first secretary of Revenue Re
form Club, of which Henry Ward Beecher
was first president; two terms president of
Department Law, Brooklyn Institute, 1902-
1903 ; two terms president of Young Men's
Democratic Club, Brooklyn; two terms
president National Civic Club, Brooklyn;
member of Board of Education, 1882-1883,
Brooklyn; registrar of arrears of taxes,
Brooklyn, 1896-1898; condidate for lieu
tenant-governor on Gold Democratic ticket,
1896; candidate for president of Brooklyn
Borough on Seth Low ticket, 1897; candi
date for attorney-general on Independent
ticket, 1898; for comptroller of New York
City on Fusion ticket, 1903 ; president over
convention of Citizens' Union, 1905. In
dependent iii politics. Congregationalist.
Member law firm of Fred. W. & A. E.
Hinrichs ; director of S. E. Floward's Son
& Company. Member : State Bar Asso
ciation ; chairman Committee on Fran
chises Citizens' Union ; member Psi Upsilon
fraternity; Alumni Association Columbia
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the Drug and Chemical, Citizens' Union,
City, and Brooklyn Democratic Clubs. He
married in Brooklyn, January 16, 1878,
Lazelle P. Spear ; children : Captain Fred
erick W., Jr., ordnance United States
Army; Mrs. Frederick C. Bates; Insa L.
Residence : 387 Henry Street, Brooklyn.
Address: 76 William Street, New York
City. HINRICHS, Gustav:
Musical conductor; born at Ludwigslust,
Mecklenberg, Germany, December 10, 1850;
son of August and Sophie (Havekoss)
Hinrichs. He was graduated from Lud
wigslust Gymnasium, and studied music in
Hamburg under Angelo Reissland and Ed
ward Marxsen. He came to the United
States in 1870; and engaged as a teacher
of music, later with Theodore Thomas as
associate conductor of the National Opera
in New York City; then for several years
was teacher at the National Conservatory
of Music, New York City; director of
music at Columbia University and Metro
politan Opera House, New York City; and
later managed, at Philadelphia, Hinrich's
Opera Company, which was for years a
favorite organization, and first introduced
the operas I Pagliacci and Cavalleria
Rusticana in America; and also produced
Onteora, three-act romantic grand opera, of
which Mr. Hinrichs was composer. He
is also composer of several manuscript
productions for orchestra, voice, chorus,
etc., which have been produced. Mr. Hin
richs is a Lutheran in his religious connec
tions. He married at San Francisco, De
cember 17, 1896, Katharine Fleming. Ad
dress: 138 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
HINRICHSEN, William H.:
Editor; born in Illinois, May 27, 1850.
Editor of Jacksonville Courier and Quincy
Herald until 1890. Clerk of Illinois State
Legislature 1890.; secretary of State of Il
linois, 1892-1896; chairman of Democratic
State Central Committee, 1894 and 1896.
Member of Congress, 1896-1898. Writer
for Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1900 to 1906.
Author of: The Australian Ballot; Plots
and Penalties, etc. Address : Jacksonville,

Illinois. Country home: Alexander, Illi
nois. HINSHAW, Edmund Howard:
Congressman and lawyer ; born at Greens
boro, Indiana, December 8, i860 ; son of D.
L. Hinshaw and Emeline (Isgrigg) Hin-
shaw. He lived on his father's farm until he
was sixteen, and began teaching school and
continued in that profession for ten years,
attending college intermittently, and in 1885
graduated from Butler College, Indianapo
lis ; the last year he taught he removed to
Fairbury, Nebraska, to accept the superin-
tendency of the public schools; declined a
reelection, and was admitted to the bar in
1888; immediately beginning the practice of
law ; has held various municipal and county
offices, and in 1898 was nominated for Con
gress by the Republicans, but was unable
to overcome, the Fusion plurality; in 1901
was a candidate for United States Senator;
was again in 1902 nominated for Congress
after a spirited contest, and elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Ad
dress : Fairbury, Nebraska.
HIRSCHBERG, Michael Henry:
Jurist; born in Newburgh, New York,
April 12, 1847; son of Henry and Fanny
(Francks) Hirschberg; graduated New
burgh Free Academy, 1862. Practiced at
Newburgh until elected justice of Supreme
Court; member Newburgh Board of Edu
cation, 1871-83; special county judge of
Orange County, 1875-78; district attorney
of Orange County, 1889-95; State delegate
to Constitutional Convention, 1894; elected
Justice Supreme Court of State of New
York, 1896; assigned to appellate division,
second department, Brooklyn, 1900; ap
pointed presiding justice, January, 1904.
term expiring December -31, 1910. Mr.
Hirschberg is a member of the -Republican,
Manhattan, Lawyers', Hamilton, Brooklyn,
Powellton, Newburgh City Clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, March 16, 1878, Liz
zie McAlles. Children: Harry, born 1879;
Stuart, born 1885; Frances, born 1887;
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New York. Address: 302 Central Park
West, New York City.
HISCOCK, Frank:
Lawyer; bom Pompey, Onondaga Coun
ty, New York, September 6, 1834; son of
Richard and Cynthia (Harris) Hiscock;
educated Pompey (New York) Academy.
Admitted to New York bar 1859; member
of the firms of L. H. & F. Hiscock; His
cock, Doheny & Gifford; and Hiscock,
Doheny> Williams & Cowie; district at
torney of Onondaga County, New York,
1860-1863; member of New York State
Constitutional Convention, 1867 ; representa
tive in Congress 1877-1887; United States
senator from New York, 1887-1893. In 1876
was a delegate to National Republican Con
vention; in 1880 was a delegate-at -large to
the Republican National Convention; in
1884 was delegate-at-large to the Republican
National Convention, and presided in part
at this convention ; in House of Representa
tives was a member of Committee on Elec
tions, of the Potter Investigating Commit
tee to investigate the election of President
Hayes; the chairman of the Committee on
Appropriation, and a member of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means; in the Senate
was member of the Committee on Finance,
Interstate Commerce, Coast Defenses and
Patents; and on a Special Committee on
the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Com
missioners and the President's Message
thereon. Director of Syracuse Savings
Bank; Trust & Deposit Company, .of Onon
daga ; State Bank of Syracuse. Republican.
He married at Tully, New York, November
23, 1859, Cornelia King; children: Albert
King, born 1864; Fidelio King, born 1891.
Address: 401 West Onondaga Street,
Syracuse, New York.
HISCOCK, Frank Harris:
Lawyer and justice of the Supreme
Court; born in Tully, New York, April 16,
1856. He was graduated from Cornell Uni
versity as A.B. in 1875, and is a member
of Kappa Alpha fraternity. In 1878 he
was admitted to the bar. Mr. Hiscock was
a member of . the Republican State Com
mittee in 1894 and 1895, and has been jus-
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tice of the Supreme Court since 1896. He
was also a member of the Fourth Appellate
Division from 1901 to 1905; acting asso
ciate judge of the Court of Appeals since
January, 1906. He is trustee of Cornell
University; director of the State Bank of
Syracuse, and the Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Onondaga; also of Whitman
and Barnes Manufacturing Company.
Judge Hiscock married in Syracuse, New
York, October, 1879, Miss Barnes. Ad
dress : Syracuse, New York.
HITCHCOCK, Ethan Allen:
Ex-Secretary of the Interior ; born in Mo
bile, Alabama, September 19, 1835. He re
ceived his education in private schools in
Nashville, Tennessee, and the Military
Academy of New Haven, Connecticut. The
degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him
by the University of Missouri in 1902. Mr.
Hitchcock was engaged in mercantile busi
ness until i860, when he went to China to
enter the commission house of Olyphant
and Company, of which firm he was made
a partner in 1866, and he retired from busi
ness in 1872. He was envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Russia, 1897 ;
and was made ambassador extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary at St. Peters
burg in 1898. He was appointed Secretary
of the Interior by President McKinley, De
cember 21, 1898, and re-appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1901, and 1905, serving
until 1907. Address : Department of the In
terior, Washington, D. C.
HITCHCOCK, George Gale:
Professor of physics; born in Galesburg,
Illinois, 1861', son of Henry Ethan Hitch
cock and Margaret (Gale) Hitchcock. He
was graduated from the University of Ne
braska as A.B. in 1883, and attended Johns
Hopkins University in 1884 and 1885. Mr.
Hitchcock was professor of natural science
at Pierre College, Dakota, from 1885 to
1891 ; professor of chemistry at the Wash
ington Agricultural College from 1891 to
1893; professor of physics and chemistry
from 1903 to 1906, and has been professor
of physics since 1906 at Pomona College,1
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Republican and in religion a Congrega
tionalist. He is a member of the American
Physical Society; the American Electro
chemical Society; and the Engineers' and
Architects' Association of South California.
Professor Hitchcock married in Excelsior,
Minnesota, 1887, Abbie L. Williams, and
they have four children: Edith Mar
guerite, born in 1888; Henry Williams,
born in 1890; George Gale, born in 1896;
and Arthur Lincoln, born in 1892. Ad
dress : Claremont, California.
HITCHCOCK, Raymond:
Comedian; born in Auburn, New York;
began professional career in leading parts
on the road, but was .unsuccessful and
worked in Wanamaker's store in Phila
delphia for a year. He was then engaged
to appear in the chorus of The Brigand.
He later became leading comedian in the
Castle Square Opera Company. He sup
ported May Irwin in The Belle of Bridge
port and became a star under the manage
ment of Henry W. Savage in King Dodo.
Address : Care Henry W. Savage, 144 West
Forty-third Street, New York City.
HITCHCOCK, Ripley:
Author, editor; born at Fitchburg, Massa
chusetts, July 3, 1857 ; son of Alfred Hitch
cock (A.M., M.D.), a distinguished surgeon
and publicist, and Aurilla Phebe (Well-
man) Hitchcock, who was for a time pro
fessor of Latin at Mt. Holyoke College. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1877. He has been engaged in liter
ary work in New York City from 1879;
was special correspondent of the New York
Tribune in Mexico, the West, and North
west, in the summers of 1882, 1883; art
critic for, the New York Tribune, from
1882 to 1890; literary adviser for D. Apple-
ton and Company, from 1890 to 1902; and
now associated with Harper and Brothers.
Mr. Hitchcock is a director of the United
Zinc and Chemical Company. He is a con
tributor to magazines, a writer upon topics
of art and literature, American history, and
life. out of doors; and has delivered many
lectures and addresses upon art and literary
subjects. He is author of: An American

Landscape Painter, George Inness; Etch
ing in America; The Western Art Move
ment; Representative Etchings; The Ma
donna in Art; Water Color Painting in
America; Thomas De Quincey, A Study;
The Louisiana Purchase and the Building
of the West; The Lewis and Clark Ex
pedition. He has also edited numerous
volumes, including: The Life of an Art
ist (by Jules Breton) ; The Art of the
World Illustrated in the Paintings, Statu
ary and Architecture of the World's Co
lumbian Exposition (with an introduction
and much other text) ; The Story of the
West Series (The Story of the Indian, The
Story of the Mine, The Story of the Cow
boy, The Story of the Railroad, The Story
of the Soldier, The Story of the Trapper),
with introductions ; Recollections (by Rich
ard Henry Stoddard) ; The Trail Makers —
A Library of History and Exploration, pub
lished in seventeen volumes ; and other
books and series. He is an Independent
in politics, and an Episcopalian in
religious affiliations. He is a member of
the American Historical Association; the
New York Historical Society; and the New
England Society in New York. His favor
ite recreations are outdoor sports and fish
ing. Mr. Hitchcock is a member of the
Century Association, and the Authors,
New York Athletic, and Harvard Clubs of
New York City; the Onteora Club, the
Harvard Union of Cambridge, Massa
chusetts ; and the National Club of Lon
don. He married at Springfield, Massa
chusetts, May 23, 1883, Martha Wolcott
Hall, who died September 1, 1903; and
he has two sons : Roger Wolcott, born in
1887, and Ripley, Jr., born in 1895. Resi
dence: The Strathmore, 1674 Broadway.
Address: Harper and Brothers, Franklin
Square, New York City.
HITCHCOCK, Thomas:
Lawyer, writer ; born in New York City,
December 1, 183 1; son of William R. and
Elithea Sands (Lockwood) Hitchcock; edu
cated private schools; graduated University
of New York, 1849. Practiced law, 1853-
1868; joined, 1868, editorial staff The New
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social, literary and financial articles (on
Mondays under the name of "Mathew Mar
shall"). Republican. Recreation: Liter
ary. Club : Century. Married at Walpole,
New Hampshire, July n, 1855, Mane
Louise Center ; children : Center, born 1855,
Francis R., born 1857, Thomas, Jr., born
i860. Address : 8 East Twenty-ninth Street,
New York City.
HOARD, William Dempster:
Journalist and farmer; born at Stock-
bridge, New York, October 10, 1836; son
of Rev. William Bradford Hoard and Sarah
Catherine (White) Hoard. After receiv
ing an education in common schools, he
became a private in the Civil War, of the
Fourth Wisconsin Infantry and First New
York Light Artillery. He started his first
paper, the Jefferson County Union, March
17, 1870, and Hoard's Dairyman, Novem
ber, 1885. He was president of the North
western Dairymen's Association, and the
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association; pres
ident of the Wisconsin Editorial Asso
ciation; and commander of the Department
of Wisconsin of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Mr. Hoard was governor of
Wisconsin from January 1, 1889, to Janu
ary 1, 1891 ; president of the National Dairy
Union, and is now president of the Board
of Regents of the University of Wiscon
sin. He is the owner of a large farm and
herd of pure-bred Guernsey cattle. He is
a member of the Wisconsin Consistory of
Masons,, and of the Hamilton Club of Chi
cago. Mr. Hoard married at Lake Mills,
Wisconsin, February 9, i860, Agnes Eliza
beth Bragg, and they have three sons :
Halbert Louis, Arthur Ralph, and Frank
Ward. Address : Fort Atkinson, Wiscon-

HOBAN, Michael John:
Bishop of Scranton ; born in Waterloo,
New Jersey, June 6, 1853; son of Patrick
Hoban and Brigid Agnes (Hennigan)
Hoban. He studied at Holy Cross Col
lege, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1868
to 1871, and attended the American Col
lege, Rome, Italy, from 1875 to 1880. He
was ordained priest in Rome by Cardinal

Monaco La Valletta, May 22, 1880; was
consecrated bishop of Alalis, and coad
jutor of Scranton, in Scranton, by Cardinal
Satolli, March 22, 1896; and he succeeded
Bishop O'Hara as bishop of Scranton, Feb
ruary 3, 1899. Bishop Hoban is a trustee
of the Pennsylvania Oral School, Scranton
Public Library, Sanatorium for Con
sumptives, and St. Patrick's Orphan Asy
lum, etc. His favorite recreation is travel
ing in foreign countries. Address: 315
Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
HOBART, George Vere:
Humorist and playwright; born in Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia, January 16, 1867;
educated in public schools. Engaged in
newspaper work, first at Cumberland,
Maryland, and afterward at Baltimore, be
coming locally notable as a humorist some
time before his Dinkelspiel papers attract
ed outside attention. Since 1899, writing
for the New York American and Journal
and the other Hearst papers, and has pub
lished many volumes of Dinkelspiel pro
ductions. Also writer of plays, including :
The Ham Tree; Mrs. Black is Back; and
many others. Married, Baltimore, Mary
land, July 14, 1897, Sarah H. De Vries.
Residence: Pelham Manor, New York.
Address : Care New York American, New
York City.
HOBBS, Franklin Warren:
Treasurer, Arlington Mills, Lawrence;
born Roxbury, Massachusetts, September 24,
1868; son of William and Mary (Cogswell)
Hobbs; grandson of Francis and Mary
(Marland) Cogswell. His immigrant an
cestors included Joseph Hobbs of Bristol,
England, who came to Watertown, Mass-
achusets, in 1685 and John Cogswell who
came from England to Ipswich in 1635.
He was graduated at the Brookline High
School, and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, S.B., 1889. He was in
structor in mechanical engineering M. I.
T. 1889-91 and in 1891 began his practical
work as an engineer in the Arlington
Mills and in 1902 he was elected treasurer
of the corporation, William Whitman hav
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presidency. He was a member, secretary
and is now chairman of the Brookline
School Board. He is also a member and
director of the Home Market, Club of Bos
ton; a member of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manufacturers; and original
trustee and one of the State trustees of
the Lowell Textile School; a director of
the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance
Company and a member and director of the
National Association of Cotton Manufac
turers. He is a member of the Arkwright,
Technology and Union Clubs of Boston and
of the Country Club of Brookline. He is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
a vestryman of St. Paul's Church, Brook
line, and a vice-president of the Episcopalian
Club. He is a trustee of the Cemetery
of Mount Auburn. He married, May 31,
1892, Jane Hallett, daughter of William and
Jane (Hallett) Whitman of Brookline, and
they have four children. Residence : 78
Upland Road, Brookline, Massachusetts. Of
fice address : 78 Chauncy Street, -Boston,
Massachusetts.HOBBS, James Bartlett :
Retired merchant; born in Sabattis,
Maine, in January, 1830; son of Charles
and Jemima (Prescott) Hobbs. He was
educated in the public schools, and after
ward at the Litchfield Liberal Institute,
Litchfield Corners, Maine. In 1853 he un
dertook his first business enterprise, owning
and managing a country store, in which
he remained until 1856, when he removed
to Chicago, Illinois, where he was soon
afterward engaged in the produce commis
sion business, which he carried on suc
cessfully for thirty years, retiring in 1887.
He was a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade and was president of the board one
year. He is president of the National
Church Insurance Company and of the
North Waukegan Harbor and Dock Asso
ciation. He is an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and has been
honored by many positions as a layman in
that organization. He is active in educa
tional and charitable organizations, is a
member of the board of trustees of the
Northwestern University; president of

the City Missionary and Church Extension
Society, and president of the board of trus
tees of the Methodist Deaconesses'
Orphange at Lake Bluff. He was mar
ried at Litchfield Corners, Maine, March,
1853, to Mary M. Quinnam, daughter of the
Rev. Constant Quinnam. He has no chil
dren living. Residence : 343 LaSalle Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois. Address : 108 Dear
born Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HOBBS, William Herbert:
Geologist; born in Worcester, Massachu
setts, July 2, 1864; son of Captain Horace
and Mary Paine (Parker) Hobbs. His
father was second son of General George
Hobbs, a major-general in the Massachu
setts militia, and fourth in descent from Jo
siah Hobbs, the emigrant ancestor, who
came to Boston from England in 1671. His
mother was third in descent from Captain
Timothy Parker, who commanded a com
pany in the French War and marched to
Lexington at the head of his company of
minute men in 1775. Fitted at Worcester
Academy and graduated in 1883 from the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute with the de
gree of B.S. Was principal of Boylston
High School in the winter of 1883-84.
He took graduate work in mineralogy,
geology, chemistry, and physics at Johns
Hopkins University," 1884-6, and at Har
vard University in winter of 1886-7. Was
fellow in Geology at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, 1887-8, receiving degree of Doc
tor of Philosophy there in 1888. Studied
at the University of Heidelberg, winter
semester of 1888-9, and traveled extensively
in Europe during the year. Joined faculty
of University of Wisconsin in fall of 1889
as Curator of the Geological Museum and
Instructor in Mineralogy. In 1890 was
made assistant professor of mineralogy and
metallurgy. This title was changed in 1893
to assistant professor of mineralogy and
petrology. Advanced to professor of min
eralogy and petrology in 1899. Joined the
¦United States Geological Survey in 1885 as
volunteer assistant, serving later in the
year as field assistant. In 1895 was com
missioned assistant United States Geolo
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Investigations for the Government have
been.largely within the region of southwest
ern New England in preparation of a geo
logical map of that complex area. Was sec
retary of the Wisconsin Academy of Sci
ences, Arts and Letters, 1891-93. Was sec
retary of Section E, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, 1893-4.
Was a delegate of the United States Gov
ernment to the Seventh International Con
gress of Geologists at St. Petersburg in
1897. Has been editor-in-chief of the Bul
letin of the University of Wisconsin since
it was started in 1894. Elected to the schol
arship fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa at Johns
Hopkins University, 1902, and Sigma Xi
at University of Michigan, 1907. Profes
sor of geology at the University of Michi
gan since 1906. Secretary of the American
committee on Seismology. Published pa
pers number over one hundred titles.
Edited Volumes VIII and IX, Trans
actions of the Wisconsin Academy of
Sciences, Arts, and Letters ; Volumes I and
II of the Bulletin of the Uniyersity of
Wisconsin, Science Series; mineralogical
notes in American Naturalist, 1894-5; Year
Books, Madison Literary Club, 1901-3; de
partments of dynamical geology and petrol
ogy in the New International Encyclo
pedia, Dodd, Mead & Company, New
York, 1902. Was married June 23, 1896,
to Sara Kimball Sale of Green Bay, Wis
consin. One daughter, Sarah Winifred
Weston Hobbs, born of this union. Ad
dress: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
HOBSON, John Peyton:
Jurist; born in Virginia, September, 3,
1850; educated at Washington College,
Virginia. Is judge of the Kentucky Court
of Appeals. Address: Frankfort, Ken
tucky.HOBSON, Richmond Pearson:
Congressman, late naval constructor,
United States Navy; born in Greensboro,
Alabama, August 17, 1870. At the age of
twelve years he entered the Southern Uni
versity, where he remained for three years.
On May 21, 1885, having received the ap
pointment of cadet at the Naval Academy,

Annapolis, was graduated with high
honors in 1889. Fie also studied, at the
Ecole d'Application du Genie Maritime in
Paris. During his career at the Acad
emy he gained distinction as a close
student, and it was no surprise that he
selected to enter one of the higher branches
of the service, that of naval constructor.
He received his appointment as assitant
naval constructor on July 1, 1891, and was
promoted to the grade of constructor on
June 23, 1898, and as such was on active
duty with the North Atlantic Squadron at
the breaking out of the Spanish-American
War, on board the flagship New York. It
was during this period that his superior
skill and ability were brought to the atten
tion of his superior officers, he rendered
efficient service at the bombardment of
Matanzas and in the expedition against
San Juan, Porto Rico. When the Spanish
fleet under Admiral Cervera entered the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba, and was
blockaded by the combined fleets of Ad
mirals Sampson and Schley, it was deter
mined by the commanding officer to at
tempt to effectually stop the egress of ths,
fleet from the harbor by placing obstruc
tions in the channel. With this purpose
in view the collier Merrimac was select
ed, and Constructor Hobson, having ten
dered his services, was selected by Ad
miral Sampson to carry into effect this
perilous enterprise. Selecting a crew of
eight , men from the hundreds who were
eager to share with Hobson the danger
and the glory of the expedition, on the
night of June 2, 1898, he entered the har
bor with the vessel. No sooner had he
approached the spot designated for the
sinking of the Merrimac than its presence
was discovered by the enemy, and imme
diately a concentrated fire from the forti
fications at the mouth of the harbor en
sued, by which the work of placing the ob
struction in mid-channel was so seriously
interfered with as to render the enterprise
only partially successful. Captain Hobson
and his crew," having attached themselves
to a life raft which had been provided for
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Spaniards and made prisoners. This act
of heroism on the part of Hobson and
his companions thrilled every community
throughout the land with patriotic enthu
siasm, scarcely any event of the war having
attracted more wide-spread attention and
approval. After the Spanish fleet was de
stroyed in its attempt to escape from the
harbor, it was determined by the author
ities to endeavor to float some of the ves
sels, with a view to their reconstruction.
To this arduous task Captain Hobson was
assigned, but the destruction of the ships
had been so thoroughly accomplished, that
but one of them was raised, the Maria
Teresa, which was subsequently lost in an
attempt to tow her to an American harbor.
At the close of the war Captain Hobson
was sent to Hohg Kong to supervise -the
reconstruction of three Spanish gunboats
which had been partially destroyed at the
battle of Manila, a duty which he per
formed with entire satisfaction to the
authorities at Washington. He was, at the
conclusion of this duty, placed in charge
of the construction department of the Navy
Yard at Cavite, P. I. He returned to the
United States in 1902, and was for a brief
period superintendent of naval construction
at the Crescent shipyards, Elizabeth, New
Jersey. At this period Captain Hobson de
sired to be placed on the retired list, and
made formal application to the Secretary
of the Navy for such retirement. The
Secretary, however, took the view that this
officer's services were too valuable to the
country to be thus dispensed with, and
denied the application. Captain Hobson
subsequently made an effort to secure his
retirement by a special act of Congress,
but was not successful, and in February,
1903,- he formally tendered his resignation
and it was accepted. Since then he has
lectured very successfully and has stead
fastly advocated a large increase in the
Navy. Captain Hobson successfully oppos
ed the renomination of the Hon. John Hol
lis Bankhead in his home district of Ala
bama, and was nominated and in due
course elected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Sixth District. He was elected Demo- I

cratic elector-at-large of Alabama in - 1904.
The Southern University conferred upon
him the degree of LL.D. He is a member
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, Phi Chapter,
is a member of the Metropolitan and Army
and Navy Clubs of Washington, the Sea
wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club, and the
Army and Navy Club of New York. He
married at Tuxedo Park, New York, May
25> 1905, Grizelda Houston Hull. Address:
Fayette, Alabama, and 21 17 S Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
HOCART, John H. :
Manager of the banking house of A. Ise-
lin and Company. He is also secretary,
assistant treasurer and director of the Buf
falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway
Company; director of the Allegheny and
Western Railway Company; Cowanshan-
nock Coal and Coke Company; the John-
sonburg and Bradford Railroad Company;
and the Mahoning Valley Railroad Com
pany. Residence : 300 McDonough Street,
Brooklyn. Summer residence : Goshen,
New York. Address : 36 Wall Street, New
York City.
HOCH, Edward Wallis:
Governor of Kansas ; born at Danville,
Kentucky, March 17, 1849; son of E. C.
Hoch and Elizabeth (Stout) Hoch. He
was educated in Center College, Danville,
Kentucky, went to Kansas and since 1874
has been editor of the Record at Marion,
Kansas. He has long been prominent as
a leader in the Republicari Party of his
State, was a member in 1889 and 1890 and
1893 and 1894, and speaker pro tem. in
1893 and 1894 of the Kansas House of
Representatives. He was nominated by ac
clamation in the State Republican Conven
tions of 1904 and 1906 for the office of
Governor of Kansas, and elected for the
two terms from 1905 to 1909, in which he is
now serving. In religious affiliation Gov
ernor Hoch is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Address : Topeka,
Kansas.
HOCKER, William Adam:
Jurist; born in Virginia, December 5,
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College and the University of Virginia.
Is judge of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Address : Tallahasee, Florida.
HODENPYL, Anton G. :
Banker. He is. a member of the firm of
Hodenpyl, Walbridge and Company; pres*
ident and director of the Michigan Light
Company, Springfield Railway and Light
Company, Saginaw-Bay City Railway and
Light Company, Peoria Light Company,
Evansville Light Company, and the Wil
liamsport Light Company; director of the
American Light and Traction Company, J.
G. White and Company (incorporated),
Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway Com
pany, Rochester Railway Company, Spring
field Gas Light Company. Mr. Hodenpyl
is a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and of the Metropolitan, Na
tional Arts, City Midday, and Down Town
Clubs, Automobile Club of America, and
the Seawanhak'e-Corinthian Club of New
York City, the Chicago Club of Chicago,
and St. Botolph Club of Boston. He mar
ried Annie E. Preusser. Residence : Locust
Valley, Long Island. Address : 7 Wall
Street, New York City.
HODGE, George Woolsey:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born in
Philadelphia, May 20, 1845; son of Hugh
Lenox Hodge, M.D., professor Medical De
partment of Northwestern University, and
Margaret Elizabeth Aspinwall. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania, 1865 (class orator) ; and was grad
uated at Divinity School Protestant Epis
copal Church, Philadelphia, 1868. Assist
ant minister Christ Church, Philadelphia,
1869-80; rector Church of the Ascension,
Philadelphia, 1880 to date. Member and
Chaplain Pennsylvania Society Sons of
Revolution. Contributor to religious press.
Married Mary De Veaux, daughter of
Henry Baring Powel. Address : 334 South
Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. HODGE, Henry Wilson:
Civil engineer; born in Washington, D.
C, April 14, 1865; son of Ledyard Hodge

and Susan Savage (Wilson) Hodge. He
received his preparatory education at Em
erson Institute, Washington, and was grad
uated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute, Troy, New York, as CE. in 1885.
He is consulting engineer, member of the
firm of Boiler and Hodge, specialist in
designing bridges and structures ; has de
signed some of the most prominent railroad
and monumental bridges in the country;
has acted as consulting engineer to many
prominent railroad corporations, the Na
tional Government and city governments;
and is president of the Porterfield Con
struction Company. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Presbyterian.
He is a member of the Institute of Civil
Engineers of Great Britain, and the Am
erican Society of Civil Engineers; veteran
of the Seventh Regiment of the National
Guard of New York, and is a member of
the Century and University Clubs. Mr,
Hodge married in Savannah, Georgia, De
cember 14, 1897, Sarah C. Mills. Address :
51 East Eighty-second Street, New York
City.
HODGE, Richard Morse:
Clergyman, teacher ; born in Mauch
Chunk, Pennsylvania, 1864; son of Rev. J.
Aspinwall and Charlotte B. (Morse)
Hodge ; educated in public schools ; gradu
ated at Princeton University and Prince
ton Theological Seminary, A.B., 1886;
A.M., 1889; D.D., University of Nashville,
1901. Has traveled through Egypt and
Palestine ; director of extension courses for
lay students Union Theological Seminary;
lecturer in Biblical literature, Teachers'
College, Columbia University; on staff of
school of pedagogy, Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences. Democrat. Member of
the Society of Biblical Literature and
Exegesis; director Union Settlement;
member of committee on Vacation Bible
Schools under Federation of Churches.
Author: Historical Atlas of the Life of
Christ, 1898; Hodge Historical Maps, 1906;
has written several pamphlets on Biblical
literature and religious education. He is a
member of the Ministers, Theta and Chi
Alpha Clubs. He married at Glencoe, Mary-

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MEN OF AMERICA.

land, 1888, Alice Austen, and they have two
children : Genevieve Austen, born 1894 ; Ed
ward Austen, born 1896. Residence : 552
West One Hundred and Thirteenth Street.
Address : 700 Park Avenue, New York
City.HODGES, Nathaniel Dana Carlile:
Librarian; born in Salem, Massachusetts,
April 19, 1852; son of John Hodges and
Mary Osgood (Deland) Hodges. He was
educated in private and public schools of
Salem, Massachusetts, at Harvard College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1874, and for a year and a half in post
graduate work in the University of Heidel
berg, Germany. He became assistant in
the physical laboratory of Harvard Uni
versity from 1877 to 1881 ; assistant editor
from February, 1883 to October, 1885, and
then editor until February, 1894, of Sci
ence; was assistant in the Public Library
of New York from 1895 to 1897, in the
Library of Harvard University from 1897
to 1900; and since April, 1900, has been
librarian of the Public Library of Cincin
nati. He was elected a fellow of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1879, a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in 1882;
director of the Theological and Religious
Library Association of Cincinnati; trustee
of the Cincinnati Library Society for the
Blind. Mr. Hodges has made four trips
to Europe, covering in all two and a half
years' time ; and his favorite recreations are
photography and tramping. He married in
Cincinnati, May 13, 1886, Adele Louise
Goepper. Address : Public Library, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
HOIK; KINS, Howard Lincoln:
Educator ; born in Elgin, Illinois, Jan
uary 23, 1862 ; son of David Hodgkins and
Harriet (Shears) Hodgkins. He was
graduated from Columbian University
(now George Washington University), as
A.B. and A.M. in 1883, and Ph.D. in 1892.
He served as tutor in 1883, assistant pro
fessor in" 1884 and professor of physics
since 1887, was dean of the Scientific school
from 1898 to 1903, dean of University in
1901 and 1903; and has bee» -'can of

Washington College of Engineering since
1905 in George Washington University; and
was special computer of the Nautical Al
manac Office, Navy Department, from 1882
to 1892. He is a member of the American
Physical Society, American Mathematical
Society, Washington Philosophical Society,
Washington Society of Engineers; fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and others, and is
a member of the Cosmos and Federal
Schoolmen's Clubs. Residence: 1830 T
Street, Washington. Address: George
Washington University, Washington, D. C.
HOE, Robert:
Manufacturer, inventor; born in New
York City, March 10, 1839; son. of Robert
Hoe (2d) ; educated in private schools of
New York City. Has invented many im
provements on the printing-press; head of
firms of R. Hoe & Company, New York
City and London, England; has always re
sided in New York City; possesses one of
the finest libraries in the world; has sum
mer residence at Lake Waccabuie, New
York. One of the founders of the Metro
politan Museum of Art; founder and first
president Grolier Club of New York.
Clubs: Union League, Century,' Players',
Fencers, Engineers'. Residence: 11 East
Thirty-sixth Street. Address: 504 Grand
Street, New York City.
HOE, William Alfred:
Builder; born in New York City, June
19, 1841; son of James Clarke and Tem
perance (Miller) Hoe. He was educated
in the School of General Society of Me
chanics and Tradesmen. Mr. Hoe is a trus
tee and third vice-president of the New
York Bank for Savings. He is a member
of the American Geographical Society, the
American Museum of Arts, and the Sons
of the Revolution. He married at New
York City, April 20, 1865, Marion Morri
son, and they have four children: James
Clarke, William Alfred, Jr., Marion Mori
rison and Carolyn Morrison. Address:
126 West Seventy-third Street, New York
City.

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HOFF, John Van Rensselaer:
Colonel, assistant surgeon-general, United
"States Army; born at Mount Morris, New
York, April n, 1848; son of Brevet Colonel
Alexander H. Hoff, and Ann Eliza (Van
Rensselaer) Hoff. He was graduated from
Union University as A.B., A.M., and M.D. ;
and from Columbia University as M.D. in
1874; was a matriculant at the University
of Vienna, but was appointed first lieuten
ant assistant-surgeon of the United State's
Army, November 10, 1874. He was pro
moted captain in 1879; major surgeon 1891 ;
lieutenant colonel, deputy surgeon-general
igoi ; colonel and assistant surgeon-general
1905. He organized the first detachment
of the Hospital Corps in the United States
Army at Fort Reno, Indian Territory in
1887, and the first Company of Instruction,
Hospital Corps, at Fort Riley, Kansas in
1891. He was chief surgeon of the first
autumn manoeuvers in the United States
Army, held in Oklahoma in 1888; and
those at Chilocco, Oklahoma Territory
1889, and at Fort Riley from 1902 to 1906.
He was recommended for brevet and medal
of honor in the Sioux campaign of 1890
and 1891. Dr. Hoff was chief surgeon of
the Third Corps of the Spanish-American
War 1898, and chief surgeon in Porto
Rico 1898 to 1900. He was organizer and
president of the Superior Board of Health
and Board of Charities, Porto Rico; and
was in charge of hurricane relief work
following disaster of August, 1899. He was
detailed as chief surgeon of the China Re
lief Expedition, August, igoo; on duty in
the surgeon-general's office of the United
States Army from 1900 to 1902; chief sur
geon of the Department of the Missouri
1906, chief surgeon in the Philippines in
1907. He served . as instructor in ophthal
mology, etc.,' in the University of Cali
fornia 1885 ; professor in the Army Medical
School in 1901 and 1902; instructor in
Military Hygiene, General Service and
Staff College from 1903 to 1905; professor
of military sanitation at the University of
Nebraska, 1906. He is author of: The Most
Practicable Organization lor the Medical
Department of the United States Army in

Active Service; Outline of the Military
Sanitary Organizations of Some of the
Great Armies of the World ; Military Sani
tary Organization on the Lines of Com
munication and at the Base; A Scheme of
Military Sanitary Organization; Some
Suggestions for the Organization and In
terior Economy of 'a State Medical Military
Sub-Depot in War Time; etc. He was
president of the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States in 1901
and 1902 ; member of the New York Acad
emy of Medicine, Society of the War of
1812, New York, Loyal Legion of the
United States, Society of the Dragon,
Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, the Metropolitan Club of Washing
ton, D. C, and Army and Navy Club of
Manila, Philippine Islands. Address : Ma
nila, Philippine Islands.
HOFFMAN, Samuel Verplanck:
Trustee real estate; bom in Brooklyn,
May 12, 1866; son of Eugene A. and Mary
C. (Elmendorf) Hoffman; graduated Ste
vens Institute, M.E., 1888; Columbia (P.
and S.) ; Johns Hopkins University (fel
low). Director Empire City Fire Insurance
Company, North River Fire Insurance
Company; fellow Royal Astronomical So
ciety; Seventh Regiment National Guard
New York, Holland Society, Sons of the
Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, St.
Nicholas Society, New York Historical So
ciety (president), Chamber of Commerce,
Delta Phi ; trustee General Theological
Seminary, New York College of Dentistry,
Hudson-Fulton Tercentenary Committee.
Clubs : Century, Metropolitan, University,
Army and Navy, Grolier, Metropolitan of
Washington, D. C. Married April 17, 1893,
Louisa N. Smith ; children : Louisa V., born
1896, Margaret E., born 1899, Eugene A.,
born 1902. Address : 258 Broadway, New
York City.
HOGGSON, William J.:
Contracting designer; born in New
Haven, Connecticut, November 19, 1861 ;
son of Samuel J. and Lucy (McLean)
Hoggson; educated public schools. Orig
inator of contract designing, a new building

1206

MEN OF AMERICA,

method. President Floggson Brothers (In
corporated), Hatasatah Realty Company;
secretary Mutual Realty Company (New
Haven). Republican. Member Hiram
Lodge, No. i, F. and A. M., New Haven,
Connecticut ; president the Brunswick School
for Boys at Greenwich, Connecticut. Clubs -.
Aldine, New York Athletic. " Married
Fanny D. Smith ; children : Bruce, born
1892, Harriet, born 1894, Wallace, born 1897,
MacLean, born 1899. Residence : Greenwich,
Connecticut. Address : 7 East ¦ Forty-
fourth Street, New York City.
HOLCOMB, William Horace:
Railway contractor; born in Knoxville,
Illinois, September 12, 1838. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Knoxville and
began to make his way in the world as a
freight brakeman and fireman on the Peoria
and Oquawka Railroad in 1856. By his in
dustry and intelligent effort he obtained a
position in the freight department, and was
advanced from the position of station agent
to general freight agent and assistant treas
urer. He was general superintendent of
the Chicago and Iowa Railroad from 1882
to 1885 ; general superintendent of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Northern Railroad
from 1885 to 1887; general manager of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
in 1887-1888, vice-president of the Union
Pacific Railway from 1888 to 1890, and as
sistant general manager of the same road
in 1890-1891. He was general manager of
transportation at the World's Columbian
Exposition in 1892. He then retired from
the railroad business and became a member
of the firm of Naugle, Holcomb & Com
pany, Chicago, railway contractors. He is
now president of the Holcomb-Lobb Com
pany, contractors for railroad ties and
telegraph poles. Address : 204 Dearborn
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Residence : Hins
dale, Du Page County, Illinois.
HOLCOMBE, Chester:
Diplomatist, author, lecturer; born in
Winfield, Ne_w York; October 16, 1844; son
of Chester and Lucy (Tompkins) Hol-
combe ; graduated Union College, Schenec
tady, New York, A.B., 1861 ; A.M., 1864.

Interpreter and secretary United States Le
gation at Peking, 1871-85; acting minister,
1875-76, 1878-79, 1881-82; member of com
mission for negotiating new treaties with
China, 1880; assisted in negotiating treaty
with Korea, 1882; appointed United States
minister to Colombia, 1884, but declined.
In 1896 prepared for Chinese authorities in
Chinese and English documents for a gov
ernment loan of $100,000,000, and also pre
pared, in both languages, the plans in detail
for the construction of double track rail
ways about 3,000 miles in length, and for
securing funds amounting to $240,000,000
for building the same, and a project for the
inauguration and maintenance of schools
for the instruction of Chinese students in
methods of construction and maintenance
of railroads. Lowell Institute lecturer,
Boston, February, 1902. Translated the-
Declaration of Independence into Chinese,
and wrote, in same language, a Life of
Christ and a manual of Mental Arithmetic.
Author : Travels in Western China, 1875 ;
Practical Effect of Confucianism Upon the
Chinese Nation, 1882 ; Catalogue and Hand
book of Antique Chinese Porcelains, 1890;
The Real Chinaman, 1895; The Real Chi
nese Question, 1900; writer in newspapers,
magazines and reviews upon Far Eastern
topics. Address : Rochester, New York.
HOLDEN, Alexander Martin:
Banker ; born in Mendon, New York,
October 11, 1848; son of Timothy Hum
phrey and Minerva Jane (Martin) Holden;
educated Rochester (New York) High
School. Has been engaged in the banking
business since 1870 ; president village Hone-
oye Falls ; president Bank of Honeoye
Falls ; Genesee Lime Company ; director and
treasurer Honeoye Falls Manufacturing
Company; Honeoye Falls Wood- Working
Company; connected officially with many
other industrial organizations; member
American and New York State Bankers'
Association ; trustee and treasurer Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, New York;
treasurer Union School, Honeoye Falls;
president Honeoye Falls Cemetery Associa
tion ; board of trustees of Methodist Epis
copal Church; member General Conference

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1207

Methodist Episcopal Church at Cleveland,
1896; member Empire State Society Sons
of the American Revolution, Rochester His
torical Society,' etc. Republican. Metho
dist. "Clubs Genesee Valley (Rochester),
Masonic. Married Lima, New York, De
cember 1, 1870, Eleanor L. Warner; one
son, Raleigh Warner. Address : Honeoye
Falls, New York.
HOLDEN, Edward Singleton:
Librarian and astronomer; born in St.
Louis, November 5, 1846; son of Edward
Holden and Sarah Frances (Singleton)
Holden. He was graduated from Wash
ington, University, B.S., 1866, and from
the United States Military Academy
in 1870; and he received the degrees of
ScD. from. the University of the Pacific,
and LL.D. from the University of Wiscon
sin and Columbia College. He was lieu
tenant of engineers in the United States
Army from 1871 to 1873; professor of
mathematics in the United States .Navy
from 1873 to 1881 ; president of the Uni
versity of California from 1885 to 1888;
director of the Washburn Observatory,
Wisconsin, from 1881 to 1885, and of the
Lick Observatory from 1888 to 1898. He
is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences; an honorary member of the
Royal Astronomical Society in London ; the
Astronomical Society of France; the Ital
ian Spectroscopic Society, and many others.
Mr. Holden is author of: Bastion System
of Fortification, 1872; Index Catalogue of
Nebulae, 1877; Life of Sir William Her-
soheld, 1881; Astronomy (with Simon New-
comb), 1887; Handbook of the Lick Obser
vatory, 1888; Briefer Astronomy (with
Simon Newcomb), 1892; the Mogul Em
perors of Hindustan, 1895; Mountain Ob
servatories, 1896; Memorials of W. C. and
G. P. Bond, 1897; Pacific Coast Earth
quakes, 1898; Earth and Sky, 1898; Our
Country's Flag, and Primer of Heraldry, all
in 1898; Elementary Astronomy, 1899;
Family of the Sun, 1899; Essays in As
tronomy, 1900; Stories of the Great As
tronomers, 1900. He is editor of the Pub
lication of Washburn Observatory, in four
volumes, from 1881 to 1885; of the Lick

Observatory, in three volumes, from 1888.
Dr. Holden is a Knight Commander of
the Ernestine Order of Saxony; Knight of
the Royal Order of Dannebrog of Den
mark, etc., and is a member of the Cen
tury Club. He married in 1871, Mary
Chauvenet, and they have one son and two
daughters. Address : United States Mili
tary Academy, West Point, New York.
HOLDEN, James Franklin:
Manager ; born at Prince Albert, Ontario,
Canada, December 22, 1861 ; son of James
and Orilla Fidchette Holden. He was edu
cated in the public and high schools of his
native place. He entered the business world
as an employee in the service of the Port
Perry and Lindsay Railway Company, his
first position being that of clerk to the
superintendent and traveling auditor of that
company. In 1880 he became chief clerk
in the traffic manager's office of the Mid
land Railway of Canada, serving as such
for three years, when he was appointed local
freight agent of the same road at Ontario.
He was traveling freight agent for the Ca
nadian Pacific Railway, with headquarters
at Toronto in 1885 and 1886, and was in
charge of agents' accounts in the accounting
department of the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railway, at St. Louis, Missouri, from
1886 to 1889. He was chief clerk in the
general freight office of the same road from.
1889 to 1891, and its auditor and traffic
manager from 1891 to 1898. From 1898 to
1902 he was traffic manager of the Choc
taw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, at Lit
tle Rock, Arkansas, and since February,
1903, has been freight traffic manager of
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way and of the Chicago, Rock Island and
El Paso Railway. He is a Republican and
a member of the Methodist Church. He re
tains a membership in the Homewood and
Hamilton Clubs. He was married in Peter-
boro, Ontario, in 1887 to Charlotte I. Hol
den, and his children are : Maude, James
A., Ellsworth Vincent, Royal, and Victor.
Address : 144 Van Buren Street. Resi-
derice: 135 Fifty-first Street, Chicago,
Illinois.

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MEN OF AMERICA.

HOLDEN, Liberty Emery:
Owner and publisher of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer; born in Raymond, Maine,
June 20, 1833; son of Liberty Holden and
Sally (Cox) Holden. He was graduated
from the University of Michigan as A.B.
in 1858 and A.M. in 1861. He was admit
ted to the bar and in 1862, moved to East
Cleveland in 1866; was manager of the
Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Mines, 1872;
interested in silver mines in Utah from
1876 to 1893 ; now proprietor of the Hol-
lenden Hotel and president of the Hollen-
den Hotel Company, the Plain Dealer Pub
lishing Company, the Union Club Company,
Maple Leaf Land Company, Hub Transfer
and Storage Company; and director of the
First National Bank of Cleveland, Cleve
land Transfer and Carriage Company,
Western Reserve Insurance Company,
Haskins Realty Company and Lennox Real
ty Company. Mr. Holden is vice-president
of the Western Reserve Historical Society,
trustee of Western ' Reserve University,
Adelbert College and Lake View Cemetery
Association ; chairman of the Building Com
mittee of the Cleveland Museum of Art;
member of the National Municipal League,
Municipal Association of Cleveland, and
American Institute of Mining Engineers,
the Rowfant, University and Country Clubs
of Cleveland, and the Alta Club of Salt
Lake City. He married in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, August 14, i860, Delia E. Bulk-
ley. Residence: Loch Hame, Lake Shore
Boulevard, Bratenahl, Ohio. Office ad
dress : 2 Plain Dealer Building, Cleveland,
Ohio.
HOLDEN, William Hiram:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, June
6, 1843; son of Charles N. and Frances W.
(Woodbury) Holden. He was educated
in the public schools of Chicago, being grad
uated from the West Division High School
in 1861. He soon afterward entered the
Union College of Law and was graduated
with the degree of LL.B. in 1866. He was
admitted to the Chicago bar the same year
and has been in active practice in Chicago
since that period, being now a member of
the firm of Holden & Buzzell. He is an

associate member of the Chicago Real Es
tate Board, and of the Chicago and Illinois
State Bar Associations. He was treasurer
of the Chicago Law Institute for twenty-
one years and is now its librarian. He was
for a time trustee of the University of Chi
cago. He is a member of the Baptist
Church, trustee of the Baptist Theological
Union, and also of the Young Men's Christ
ian Association; president and director of
the Bible Institute Colportage Association;
ex-president of the Board of Trustees of
the Second Baptist Church of Chicago; for
thirty years superintendent of its Sunday
School, and now holds the position of its
honorary superintendent. He was married
in Chicago, July 17, 1867, to Sarah J.
Revell, sister of Mrs. Dwight L. Moody,
wife of the famous Evangelist. His living
children are: Charles Revell and Ethel
Revell. Address: 140 Dearborn Street;
Chicago. Residence: Forest Avenue,
Evanston, Illinois.
HOLDER, Charles Frederick:
Author; born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
August 5, 1851 ; son of Dr. Joseph Bassett
Holder, U. S. A., and Emily (Gove) Hold
er; lineal descendant of Christopher Hold
er, who established the first society of
Quakers in America at Sandwich in 1657,
and of Edward Gove, 1650, the Hampton
Quaker in whose old manor home Whittier
died. He was educated in the Friends'
School at Providence, Rhode Island, Al
len's School at West Newton, by private
tutor and was a midshipman at the United
States Naval Academy from 1869 to 1871.
He saw the Civil War from Fort Jefferson,
Florida, where his father, Dr. Holder, was
surgeon; and after the war resided in New
York until 1885, then went to California.
He was founder and for two years editor
of the California Magazine, and editor
(with Governor Lionel A. Sheldon) of the
Los Angeles Tribune in 1888 and 1889, and
is a prolific writer, having produced over
forty books and pamphlets on historical,
biographical and scientific subjects, the
latter chiefly on zoology questions. He
has been the principal champion of the
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1209

ard of sport. His favorite recreations are
fencing, angling and cross-country riding.
He is a Republican in politics and a Quak
er in his religious affiliation. Mr. Holder
is vice-president of the Boston Realty
Company, of Pasadena, California; fellow
of the New York Academy of Sciences;
president of the Pasadena Academy of
Sciences; ex-trustee of the Los Angeles
State Normal-Throop University; ex-presi
dent of the Board of Education of Pasa
dena; ex-library trustee Pasadena; vice-
president of the State Audubon Society of
California; is founder and president of the
Tuna Club, founder and honorary member
of the Valley Hunt Club; director of the
Light Tackle Club, and honorary member
of the Aransas Pass Tarpon Club of Texas.
Mr. Holder married in Brooklyn, New
York, November 8, 1879, Sarah Elizabeth
Ufford. Address: 475 Bellefontaine Ave
nue, Pasadena, California.
HOLGATE, Thomas Franklin:
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
Northwestern University; born in Hastings
County, Ontario, April 8, 1859; son of
Thomas Holgate and Eleanor (Wright)
Holgate. He graduated from Victoria Col
lege of the University of Toronto, with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1884, and re
ceived the master's degree in 1889. He was
a fellow of Clark University, Wor
cester, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1893,
receiving his doctor's degree in 1893. The
University of Illinois conferred upon him
the degree of LL.D. in 1905. He was master
in mathematics in a preparatory school in
Ontario, Canada, from 1884 to 1890 ; was
instructor in mathematics in Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1893-1894,
and has since remained in the faculty of that
university as professor of applied mathe
matics from 1894 to 1905 and professor of
mathematics since 1905. Since 1902 he has
also been dean of the College of Liberal
Arts, and was acting president of North
western University from 1904 to 1906. Dr.
Holgate is a member of the American Math
ematical Society, and was secretary of its
Chicago section from 1897 to 1905. He is
also a member of the Deutsche Mathe-

matiker Vereinigung. Among his published
works are : Translation of Reye's Geometry
of Position, 1898 (Macmillan) ; Elementary
Geometry, 1902 (Macmillan) and numerous
mathematical articles in scientific journals.
He is a member of the University Club of
Chicago. Dr. Holgate married at New
burgh, Ontario, July 23, 1890, Georgina
Angela Burdette. Address : 617 Library
Street, Evanston, Illinois.
HOLLAND, Edmund Milton:
Actor; born in New York, 1848; son of
George and Catharine Holland; educated
public schools New York City. Has played
leading roles in Social Highwayman, 1896-
97; Eben Holden, 1901-02; Pope Pius X in
the Eternal City, 1902-03; in 1903-05 Cap
tain Bedford the Detective in Raffles; 1907,
starred in vaudeville in The Phantom
Highwayman; also played The Bishop in
The Duel with Otis Skinner; etc. Married
in New York, 1875, Mary E. Seward. Ad
dress : Lambs' Club, New York City.
HOLLAND, James B.:
Jurist; he was engaged in the practice
of law in Philadelphia, until appointed April
19, 1904, by President Roosevelt, to his
present office of judge of the District Court
of the United States for the Eastern Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Residence: Consho-
hocken, Pennsylvania. Office address : Post
Office Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HOLLAND, James William:
Physician, author; dean of Faculty of
Jefferson Medical College since 1887; born
in Nashville, Tennessee, 1849; son of Rob
ert C. and Elizabeth Holland; was gradu
ated from University of Louisville, 1865,
A.M.; M.D., Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, 1868. Professor in Medical
Department University of Louisville, 1872-
1885 ; editor Louisville Medical News, 1880 ;
professor medical chemistry and toxicolo
gy, Jefferson Medical College, 1885-1904.
Member College of Physicians, Univer
sity Club (Philadelphia), American Phi
losophical Society. Author of: Diet for
the Sick, 1880; Common Poisons and the
Urine, 1887; chapter on Mineral Poisdtts

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in Saunders' Text-book of Toxicology and
Medical Jurisprudence; Medical Chemistry
and Toxicology; also many papers on
medical subjects. He married Mary Ru
pert in 1877. Address: 2006 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HOLLAND, William J.:
Presbyterian clergyman, educator, nat
uralist, artist, and author; was born Au
gust 16, 1848, in Jamaica, West Indies.
Graduated at Amherst, B.A., 1869; M.A.,
1872; D.D., 1888; Princeton Theological
Seminary, 1874; Ph.D. Washington and
Jefferson, 1886, ScD. 1902; LL.D., Dickin
son, 1906; New York University, 1897; St.
Andrews', Scotland, 1905. He was chan
cellor of the Western University of Penn
sylvania, 1891-1901; since 1897 managing
director of the Carnegie Museum, Pitts
burgh; vice-president of Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission since 1904; vice-presi
dent Board of Trustees Western Theologi
cal Seminary since 1889; director Chamber
of Commerce of Pittsburgh. He was nat
uralist ' of the United States Eclipse Ex
peditions to Japan, 1887, and Africa, 1889;
and is regarded as an authority upon zo
ology, paleontology, and museum adminis
tration. President Entomological Society
of Western Pennsylvania; fellow Zoological
and Entomological Societies of London;
member Entomological Societies of Wash
ington, New York, London, Germany,
France, etc. Member of the Pennsylvania
Historical Society; fellow American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science ;
honorary member of the Anthropological
and Geographical Society of Sweden, and
many other learned societies in Europe and
America. Member of the Union and Uni
versity (Pittsburgh), Cosmos (Washing
ton), and Authors (New York) Clubs.
Author of: The Butterfly Book, 1898; The
Moth Book, 1903 ; and many scientific
papers (225 titles), published by the United
States Government, the Zoological Society
of London, etc. He was. married January
23, 1879 to Carrie T. MborhCad, youngest
daughter of John Moorhead, an iron manu
facturer, Pittsburgh. Address : Carnegie

Institute, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania. HOLLEY, Byron:
Clergyman; ordered deacon, 1879, by
Bishop Coxe; ordained priest, 1883, by
Bishop Beckwith, in the Episcopal ministry.
Rector St. Paul's Church, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, formerly assistant St. Luke's
Church. In charge Good Shepherd, Roches
ter, New York, 1879-1882. Rector of
St. Andrews' Church, Darien, Georgia,
1882-1886; St. Philips' Church, Atlanta,
Georgia, 1886-1889; Rector Christ Church,
Greenville, South Carolina, 1889-1900;
dean of Atlanta, 1887-1889; rector of Grace
Church, New Orleans, 1900-1906; rector of
St. Pauls' Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
since 1906. Address : 306 West Seventh
Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
HOLLICK, Charles Arthur:
Curator; born New Brighton, New York,
February 6, 1857; son of Frederick and
Eleanor Eliza (Bailey) Hollick. Educated
in private schools in New York City and
Wiesbaden, Germany; graduated from Co
lumbia College School of Mines, Ph.B.,
1879; Ph.D., Columbian (now George Wash
ington) University, Washington, D. C,
1897. Was superintendent of Mexican
mine, Mariposa County, California, 1880;
was inspector, sanitary engineer, and special
inspector, New York City Health Depart
ment, and inspector of offensive trades,
New York State Board of Health, en
gaged in sanitary engineering 1881-1890;
assistant, department of geology, Columbia
College, 1892; tutor, 1893-1901 ; curator, de
partment of fossil botany, New York Bo
tanical Garden, since 1901 ; as assistant
geologist, United States Geological Sur
vey, traveled extensively through the West
and Alaska; also made investigations for
the State Geological Surveys of "New York
and New Jersey, Maryland and Louisiana;
assisted in organization of good government
and Citizens' Union movements, serving as
trustee, officer and member of committees;
commissioner and president Port Richmond
(New York) Boulevard Commission, 1896"
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Richmond County Park Commission, 1897-
1904; member Board of Education, City of
New York; was member of New Brighton
Board of Health; recording secretary
Staten Island Association Arts and Sci
ences. Republican. Member American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science
and Geological Society of America, Bo
tanical Society of America, New York
Academy of Sciences, Staten Island As
sociation of Arts and Sciences (trustee),
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Sigma Xi
Society. Recreations : Golf, bowling. Clubs :
Torrey Botanical, Fox Hills Golf. He
married at Port Richmond, New York,
September 19, 1881, Adeline Augusta Talk-
ington; children: Eleanor Adeline, born
1882, Roger Frederick, born 1884, Grace
Eaton, born 1886. Residence : New Brigh
ton, Staten Island, New York. Address :
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park,
New York City.
H0LLD3AY, Elias S.:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Aurora,
Indiana, -March 5, 1842 ; was taken West
by his parents, and spent his early life on
a farm. He secured a common school edu
cation, and later in life a partial academic
education; served through the Civil War
in a Kansas regiment ; studied law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1873. He located in
Brazil in that year, and has been living
there, engaged in the practice of his profes
sion, ever since. He was elected to the
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, from the Fifth Indiana District.
He is a Republican in politics. He mar
ried, March 5, 1873, Lina Gregg. Ad
dress : Brazil, Indiana.
HOLLINS, F. C:
Banker, railroad official; born in Phila
delphia. At age of seventeen entered
agency of Bank of British North America
in New York, where rose to position of as
sistant cashier; at twenty-one took charge
of Coles estate in Jersey City, and sold
it for that estate to Erie and Morris and
Essex Railroad Companies, a large part
of dock and terminal properties now oc

cupied by them ; for two years as director
in Board of Education in Jersey City. In
1879, became a junior partner in banking
and brokerage firm of H. B. Hollis and
Company ; in 1886 organized present bank
ing and brokerage house of F. C. Hollins
and Company; 1886 became a director of
Lake Erie and Western Railway Company,
and was afterwards appointed chairman of
stockholders' committee of reorganization;
after a bitter controversy, carried plans
through successfully and at sale of prop
erty secured road for stockholders. Was
also director Peoria, Decatur and Evans
ville Railway Company, and as one of ex
ecutive committee, with late Columbus R.
Cummings, sold road to Columbus C. Bald
win and Hanover Bank interests of New
York City. Address: 11 Wall Street, New
York City.
HOLLIS, W. Stanley:
Consular official; born in Massachusetts.
Consular agent at Port Natal,- March 18,
1891 ; consul at Mozambique, August 18,
1892; appointed consul at Lourencp Mar-
quez, January 6, 1898. Salary $5,000 per
annum. Address : Lourengo Marquez, East
Africa. HOLLISTER, John Hainilcar:
Physician; born in Riga, New York, Au
gust 5, 1824; son of John Bentley Hoi-
lister and Mary (Chamberlin) HoUister.
He was graduated from Rochester Collegi
ate Institute in 1842, Berkshire Medical
College as M.D. in 1847, from Beloit Col
lege as A.M. in 1880 and charter member
at Chicago Medical College in 1859. He
has been medical practitioner in Chicago
for fifty-two years ; member of American
Medical Association for fifty years and
member of the Executive Committee for
eight years, professor in Chicago Medical
College and Northwestern University for
fifty years ; clinical lecturer in Mercy Hos
pital, for forty-five years; was president of
Illinois State Medical Society in 1875 ; pres
ident of various local medical societies since
1847 in continuous medical practice. He
was volunteer surgeon at Camp Douglas
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Home, Chicago, from 1862 to 1865. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
a Congregationalist. He was delegate to
International Medical Association at Phil
adelphia in 1876; member of the Illinois
State Historical Society, Chicago Acad
emy of Science; trustee of New West
Education Society; president of Chicago
Bible Society; vice-president of American
Sunday School Union; and member of
local medical societies. His favorite recre
ation is travel.^ He is a member of the
Physicians' and Congregational Clubs of
Chicago. He married in Drayton Plains,
Michigan, January 2, 1849, Jennette Windi-
ate, and they have one daughter, Isabel
HoUister Martin, wife of Doctor Franklin
H. Martin of Chicago. Address : 3210 Lake
Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HOLLOPETER, William Clarence:
Physician; born in Muncy, Pennsylvania.
He acquired his early education and col
lege preparation in public and private
schools of Muncy, and was, graduated from
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsyl
vania,, in 1874. The same year he entered
the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, taking his degree with the
class of 1877, and in the usual competitions
for the various hospital positions he won
that of interne at the Presbyterian Hos
pital, where he remained for a year and a
half. The succeeding three years he was
associated as a student and assistant with
Dr. George Strawbridge, making a special
study of diseases of the throat, ear and eye.
Upon the organization of the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia in 1888
he was selected as one of the attending
physicians, and in 1890 was elected lecturer
of diseases of children in the Medico-Chi
rurgical College, subsequently being ad
vanced to a fellowship of pediatrics with
a full seat in the faculty. In 1895 he was
elected pediatrician to St. Josephs' Hospital,
and the following year he was appointed at
tending physician to the same institution.
In 1900 he was chosen by the Board of
Charities and Corrections as attending phy
sician in children's diseases at the Philadel
phia Hospital. Dr. Hollopeter is a mem

ber of the American Medical Association;
the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia County
Medical Society; the Philadelphia Pediatric
and the Philadelphia Medical Club. He is
the author of: A Text-book on Hay-
Fever, which was warmly received both at
home and abroad, and has passed through
two large editions. He also contributes to
the transactions of various professional
bodies, and to the medical journals. Ad
dress: 1428 North Broad Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
HOLLOWAY, Fred E.:
Lawyer; born in Martin County, Indiana,
March 23, 1867; son of James B. and
Eleanor (Jackman) Holloway. He was
educated in the public schools and in the
University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, California, to the end of the
junior year. Mr. Holloway was editor of
the Pacific Monthly, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, in 1889 and 1890; night editor of
the Evansville (Indiana) Journal-News;
was elected to the General Assembly of
Indiana, 1894; admitted to the bar of In
diana in 1895, 'and removed to Anderson,
Indiana, in 1896. He is a Republican in
politics ; and was active in his profession in
Indiana until March, 1905, when he re
moved to New York City. He became
general counsel for the Walla Walla Fire
Insurance Company, and other financial
interests, in 1907, and removed to the State
of Washington. Mr. Holloway marrie'd in
Elizabeth, Indiana, December 9, 1891, Ade
laide Compton. Address : Walla Walla,
Washington. HOLLOWAY, Thomas Pawling:
Baptist clergyman ; born Burlington, New
Jersey, May 17, 1865; son of Henry Har
rison Holloway and Cecilia (Pawling)
Holloway. Entered Freshman Class, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 1888, and left at
close of Sophomore year. Was graduated
at Crozer Theological Seminary, Up
land, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1893.
While undergraduate student at Crozer
Theological Seminary regular supply of
Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Philadel
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November, 1893. Pastor Mizpah Baptist
Church, Philadelphia, 1893-94. Resigned
that consolidation of two churches might be
effected. Pastor Lower Dublin Baptist
Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (oldest
Baptist Church in Pennsylvania) from 1894-
190a While there rebuilt parsonage. Mis
sionary spirit of church quickened. Pastor
Huntingdon Baptist Church, Baltimore,
Maryland, 1900- 1904. Membership greatly
increased, auditorium enlarged, new pipe
organ installed. Pastor College Avenue
Baptist Church, Annapolis, Maryland, 1904
to date. Membership doubled. New
granite church edifice erected. Married
Tillie May, daughter Rev. Gamer Hunt
Tullis, 1891. Address : 180 Prince George
Street, Annapolis, Maryland.
HOLLOWAY, William Robeson:
Consul-general, journalist; born -at Rich
mond, Indiana, December 6, 1836; son of
Hon. David P. Holloway, who was a mem
ber of Congress from Indiana and Commis
sioner of patents during the administration
of President Lincoln, and of Jane Ann
(Paulson) Holloway. He was educated in
the schools of Richmond, Indiana, and
learned the printing business in the office
of the Richmond Palladium, of which his
father was the proprietor. He read law in
the office of Oliver P. Morton at Centerville,
Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in
i860, and when Mr. Morton became gover
nor, in 1861, he became his private secre
tary. He was appointed State printer of
Indiana in 1861, and continued in that con
nection until 1863", purchased the Indianap
olis Journal in 1864, and was its editor for
several years, and from 1869 to 1881 was
postmaster of Indianapolis. In 1880 he es
tablished the Indianapolis Times 'and con
tinued to conduct it until 1886. In 1897
Mr. Holloway was appointed by President
McKinley as consul-general of the United
States at St. Petersburg, Russia, continuing
there until 1904, when he was transferred
to his present post as consul-general of the
United States at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr.
Holloway is a Republican in politics .and
has borne an influential part in the affairs
of the party in his native State. He is au

thor of : Holloway's Indianapolis, a local
history. Mr. Holloway married, at Rich
mond, Indiana, November 8, 1858, Eliza
Brubank, who died in August, 1880. Ad
dress : United States Consulate, Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
HOLM, Herman Theodor:
Botanist; born at Copenhagen, Denmark,
February 3, 1854; son of Christian Z. Holm
and Amalie (Holm) Holm. He was edu
cated in Copenhagen, and received from the
Catholic University of America, the degree
of Ph.D. in 1902, he was naturalist for the
Danish North Pole Expedition, in 1882
and 1883 ; and the Danish Expedition to
Greenland from 1884 to 1886; was assist
ant botanist to the United States National
Museum from 1888 to 1893, and the United
States Department of Agriculture, from
1893 to 1896. He has explored at his own
expense, the Flora of Colorado in 1896
and 1899, also the Allegheny Mountains of
North Carolina in 1895, and Florida in
1893. He is the author of several works
dealing with the geographical distribution
of Arctic and Alpine plants, on plant mor
phology and anatomy. Mr. Holm is a Luth
eran in his religious faith, and is a mem
ber of Danish, Swedish, French and Cana
dian scientific societies. Address : 1432 New
ton Street, Brookland, D. C.
HOLMES, Artemas H.:
Lawyer; born in Galena, Illinois, May
16, 1849; son of Artemas Lawrence and
Mary Margaret (Bloomer) Holmes; edu
cated Washington Univers'ty, St. Louis,
Missouri; graduated Phillips Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire, 1866; Harvard
College, A.B., 1870; Harvard Law School,
1871. Was admitted to the New York bar
in 1874; and has been in general practice
since ; member law firm of Holmes, Rapallo
& Kennedy, New York City Bar Associa
tion, the Law Institute, Sons of the Re
volution, etc. Mr. Holmes is a member
of the University and Harvard Clubs.
Married, May 20, 1880, Lillian Stokes, and
they have three children : Artemas, Mrs.
John D. Crimmins, Jr., Hilda. Address:
453 Madison Avenue, New York City.

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HOLMES, Clay W.:
Manufacturer; born at Le Raysville,
Pennsylvania, September 26, 1848; son of
Daniel and Lois (Wood) Holmes; grad
uated from Lafayette College, Easton,
Pennsylvania, as A.B. in 1869, A.M. in
1874. He engaged in the retail drug busi
ness at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, from
1872 to 1876; was a wholesale druggist and
manufacturer at Elmira, New York, from
1877 to 1884; and has been manufacturing
Frostilla, a toilet preparation, since 1885.
Mr. Holmes was a member of the Elmira
City Council from 1883 to 1885; publisher
of the Elmira Daily Advertiser, from 1889
to 1905; and is president of the Hygeia
Refrigerating Company, and Chemung Val
ley Mutual Loan Association; and vice-
president of the Elmira Cooperative Sav
ings arid Loan Association. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a Baptist in his
religious faith; is a member of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of
the American Revolution, Sons of Veter
ans, is a Ivy Lodge Royal Arch Mason,
Knight Templar, and member of Corning
Consistory; life member of the American
and New York State Pharmaceutical As
sociations ; trustee of the Young Men's
Christian Association, and vice-president
of the Century Club of Elmira. He mar
ried, November 2, 1871, Charlotte Steevens,
and they have one daughter : Flora Lois.
Address : Elmira, New York.
HOLMES, George Kirby:
Statistician and investigator of economic
and social subjects; born in Massachusetts,
May 10, 1856. Is chief of the Division of
Foreign Markets and member of the Crop
Reporting Board in the United States De
partment of Agriculture. Address : De
partment of Agriculture, Washington.
HOLMES, Joseph Austin:
Geologist, testing expert; born in
Laurens, South Carolina, November 23,
1859: He received his education in Laurens
Academy and Holmes School, and was
graduated from Cornell University in
1881. He was professor of geology and
natural history at the University of North

Carolina, from 1881 to 1891 ; lecturer on
geology at the same institution and North
Carolina State geologist, from 1891 to
1903 ; was chief of the Department of Mines
and Metallurgy, at Louisiana Purchase Ex
position in 1904, and has been in charge
of the United States Geological Survey
laboratories for testing fuel and structural
materials since 1905 ; became expert in
charge of Technologic Branch of the
United States Geological Survey in 1907.
In religion he is a Presbyterian. He is a
fellow of the .American Geological So
ciety, and American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and a member of
the American Institute of Mining Engi
neers, and of the St. Louis Club, and the
Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. Resi
dence : 2137 LeRoy Place, Washington. Ad
dress : United States Geological Survey,
Washington, D. C.
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States; born in Boston,
March 8, 1841 ; son of the novelist and
poet of the same name. He joined the
Fourth Battery of Infantry at the begin
ning of the Civil War; and served with
the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry. He
was present at the Battle of Balls Bluff;
at Antietam and at the Battle of Marye's
Hill, being wounded in the three battles.
In 1862 he was made captain ; and was
provost-marshal of Falmouth, Virginia, and
lieutenant-colonel in 1863. He was aide-
de-camp on the staff of Brigadier-General
H. G. Wright in 1864. Mr. Holmes en
tered the Harvard Law School arid was
graduated as LL.B. in 1864. He was ad
mitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1867; taught
constitutional law in Harvard College in
1870 and 1871 ; was university lecturer on
jurisprudence in 1871 and 1872; professor
in Harvard Law School in 1882; associate
justice of the Supreme Court of Massachu
setts from 1882 to 1889; and chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
from 1899 to 1902, when he was appointed
to the United States Supreme Bench. He
edited the twelfth edition of Kent's Com
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Common Law, 1881 ; Speeches, 1891 and
- "1900 ; and articles in law reviews and was
editor of The American Law Review from
1870 to 1873. Justice Holmes married at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, Fanny,
daughter of Epes Sargent Dixwell. Ad
dress 1720 I Street, Washington, D. C.
HOLMES, Richard Sill:
Clergyman Presbyterian Church; born
in Brooklyn, New York, July 6, 1842; was
graduated from Middlebury College, Ver
mont, in 1862; Auburn Theological Sem
inary, 1868; A.M., 1865; D.D., 1890; LL.D.,
1900, Middlebury. Ordained to the minis
try November 1, 1887; pastor, Warren,
Pennsylvania, and Shadyside Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburgh. Member Chi Psi and
Phi Beta Kappa; member and chaplain
Pennsylvania Society Sons American Re
volution. At present editor of The West
minster and president of the Holmes
Press. Address : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
HOLMES, William Henry:
Clergyman; born at Danville, Vermont,
March 15, 1844; son of Lewis Holmes and
Lucinda Clark (Pope) Holmes. He was
educated in the schools of Vermont and of
Garrett Biblical Institute as B.D. in 1876,
and from Northwestern University as
A.M., in 1889; and the degree of
D.D., was conferred upon him by
the American University at Harri-
man, Tennessee in 1900. After service as'
a teacher in the Academy at Jonesville,
New York, from 1867 to 1869, he became
a teacher in the Academy at Jonesville,
from 1869 to 1872 ; and in 1872 entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dr. Holmes was a member of the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1900; was presiding elder of
joliet District from 1897 to 1903, and has
filled various pastorates in the Rock River
Conference. He enlisted as. private in 1862
in Company E of the Sixth Vermont Vol
unteers, Vermont Brigade, Sixth Corps
of the Potomac and was discharged for
disability in 1864. He fought in the bat
tles of Fredericksburg, the assault of Marye

Heights; Salem Heights (Chancellors
ville), Franklin's Crossing and Gettysburg,
and was in a skirmish at Funkstown, Mary
land. Dr. Holmes is a contributor to
church periodicals, and author of The Sci
entific Basis of Patriotism, printed in the
American Statesman Magazine. "In poli
tics, Dr. Holmes is a Republican. He was
president of the Chicago Methodist Preach
ers' Meeting in 1896, is a trustee of Gar
rett Biblical Institute, Jennings Seminary,
and Rock River Conference, and a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
the Western Society of the Army of the
Potomac. He married in Lima, New York,
June 17, 1876, Frances Melanie Goddard,
and they have had four children : Ralph
William, born October 1, 1876, Marion, born
November 10, 1878, Paul Lewis, born No
vember 1, 1886, and Francis Henry, born
July 24, 1892, died in infancy. Address :
6024 Princeton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HOLT, Charles Sumner:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, October 21,
1855; son of DeVillo R. Holt and Ellen
M. . (Hubbard) Holt. He was graduated
from Lake Forest Academy, Illinois, in
1870, from Williams College as A.B. in
1874, and from Harvard Law School
in 1878. He was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in October, 1878, and has since
been engaged in practice in Chicago. He
was a member of the firm of Williams and
Thompson, from 1882 to 1889, Williams,
Holt and Wheeler, from 1889 to 1899, and
since 1900 has been of the firm of Holt,
Wheeler and Sidley, doing a general prac
tice and also counsel for many large elec
trical interests. Mr. Holt is also secretary
and director of the Holt Lumber Company.
He is a member of the Chicago Bar Assoc
iation, the American Historical Association
and National Geographic Society. He is a
director of the McCormick Theological
Seminary; trustee of the Chicago Orphan
Asylum; treasurer of the Presbyterian
League of Chicago, and trustee of Williams
College. He is an Independent Republican
in politics, and a Presbyterian in religion,
and is vice-president of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood of America. Mr. Holt went

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around the world from 1874 to 1876, in the
early days of globe-trotting. His favorite
recreations are music and golf. He is a
member of the Chicago, Union League,
University, Onwentsia, Chicago Literary,
Chicago Law and South Shore Country
Clubs "of Chicago; and also of the City
Club of New York. Mr. Holt married at
Mumford, New York, October 9, 1889,
Camilla McPherson, and they have three
children: Isabella, born in 1892, Charles
McPherson, bom in 1895, and Marian
Hubbard, born in 1901. Residence: 1931
Calumet Avenue, Chicago. Office address:
131 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HOLT, George C. :
Jurist; born in Mexico, New York, De
cember 31, 1843. He was graduated from
Yale University as A.B. in 1866, and re
ceived from that university the degree of
LL.D in 1894; and was graduated from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1869.
He practiced law at New York bar until
1898 ; was referee in bankruptcy, from 1898
to 1903; and since then has been judge of
the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. Mr. Holt
is a Republican in politics, and is a member
of the Fine Arts Society, the New York
Bar Association, and the Sons of the Re
volution. He is also a member of the
Yale, Century, and Lawyers' Clubs of New
York City. He married in 1871, Mary
Louisa Bowen. Address : Federal Build
ing, New York City.
HOLT, Hamilton:
Managing editor ; born in Brooklyn, New
York, August 19, 1872 ; son of Judge George
C. Holt and Mary Louise (Bowen) Holt.
He was graduated from Yale as A.B. in
1894, and took post-graduate work in soci
ology and economics for three years at Co
lumbia University. After graduating from
Yale he entered the editorial department of
The Independent, and has been the manag
ing editor for the past six years. He is a
member of the Executive Committee of the
Citizens' Union, and has served a dozen
different committees in the Union ; and
was president of the Citizens' Protective

League that urged the Recount Bill in
1907. In religion he is a Congregationalist.
He is chairman of the Press committee of
the National Peace and Arbitration Con
gress ; ex-president of the Brooklyn Guild
Association, trustee of the Woman's Trade
Union League; member of the Dramatic
Department of the People's Institute;
member of the Executive Committee of
The Japan Society of America and of
the Friends of Russian Freedom, and the
New York Peace Society. Mr. Holf is
also a member of the American Branch of
the International Conciliation, and of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity. His favorite recrea- -
tions are the theatre, golf, tennis, and
swimming. He has published one volume:
Undistinguished American, through the firm
of James Pott & Company. He is a mem
ber of the Century, Authors, X, February
Social Reform, Independent and Economic
Clubs. Mr. Holt married in Baltimore,
Maryland, February 6, 1899, Alexina C,
Smith, and they have thrge children:
Beatrice, born in 1900, Leila Stuart, born
in 1902, and John Eliot, born in 1904.
Residence: 176 West Eighty-seventh
Street, New York City. Address: 130
Fulton Street, New York City.
HOLT, Henry:
Publisher, author; born Baltimore, Mary
land, January 3, 1840; son of Daniel and
Ann Eve (Siebold) Holt; graduated from
Yale University, A.B., 1862 ; Columbia Law
School, LL.B., 1864; LL.D., University of
Vermont, 1901. President publishing cor
poration Henry Holt & Co. ; was first chair
man of New York University Settlement
Society; first chairman of University Club
Library; trustee American Geographical
Society ; fellow New York Academy of Po
litical Science ; member of American Politi
cal Science Association, American Eco
nomic Association ; Sons of the Revolution.
Author: Calmire— Man and Nature, 1892
(sixth edition, 1906) ; Talks on Civics, 1901
(third edition; On the Civic Relations,
1907) ; Sturmsee— Man and Man, 190S
(third edition, 1906), and sundry review
articles. Recreations: Music, landscape,
gardening. Clubs : Authors', Century, Uni-

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versity, Yale, City. He married, first, June
n, 1863, Mary Florence West (died March
7, 1879) ; second, December 2, 1886, Flor
ence Taber; children: Roland, Winifred,
Edith, Henry, Jr., Eliot, Sylvia. Address :
29 West Twenty-third Street, New York
City, HOLT, Roland:
Publisher; born in New York City, De
cember 18, 1867; son of Henry and Mary
Florence (West) Holt; educated at var
ious New York schools, chiefly the Berk
eley School, Yale, (A.B.) honor in Eng
lish, 1890. At Yaie was, one of the editors
of Courant and for a time dramatic critic
New Haven Palladium. In 1890 went into
Henry Holt & Company, and on its incor
poration, 1903, became vice-president. Au
thor of: The Operatic Situation (Theatre,
July, 1902) and A Symphony for Everyone ;
Tschaikowsky's Pathetic' (Musician, Janu
ary, 1904). Traveled in Europe, summers
of 1896 and 1901. Was president Citizen's
Union Club, Twenty-ninth 'Assembly Dis
trict, 1898, and has since been member
Citizens' Union Executive Committee,
Twenty-ninth Assembly District. Cleveland
Democrat. Member Sons of Revolution,
Civil Service Reform Association. Recrea
tions: Reading, tennis, theatre, opera, or
chestral concerts. Mr. Holt is a member of
the City and Yale Clubs. Address : 29
West Twenty-third Street, New York City.
HONORE, Henry HamUton:
Capitalist; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
February 19, 1824; son of Francis and Ma
tilda (Lockwood) Honore. His grand
father came to America from Paris, France,
in the latter part of the eighteenth century
and settled near Baltimore, Maryland, after
ward removing to Louisville, Kentucky,
where his son, Francis, became a wealthy
merchant. Young Honore decided to make
Chicago the scene of his initial efforts in a
business career, and he accordingly took
up his residence in that city in 1855 and
made extensive investments in real estate.
He erected a large number of office and
mercantile buildings on Dearborn and other
prominent streets, which were destroyed by

the great fire of 1871. These he erected, on
a more extensive scale and added many
others. He developed Ashland Subdivision
No. 1 and No. 2, on the West Side, of
which Ashland Boulevard is now a part,
and was largely instrumental in organiz
ing and constructing the park system of
Chicago, especially that pertaining to the
South Side. He is a Democrat in political
faith. He was married in 1846 to Eliza
Carr, daughter of Captain John Carr of
Oldham County, Kentucky. His children
are: Adrian C, Mrs. Bertha Honore Pal
mer (widow of Potter Palmer), Henry
H., Jr., Ida M. (wife of General Fred. D.
Grant, United States Army), Nathaniel
K, and Lockwood. Address : Marquette
Building. Residence : 2103 Michigan Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois.
HONORE, Lockwood:
Jurist; born in Chicago, Illinois, Sep
tember 7, 1865 ; son of Henry Hamilton and
Eliza (Carr) Honore. He was prepared
for college at the Phillips Exeter Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and was gradu
ated from Harvard University with the
degree of A.B. in 1888, receiving the de
gree of A.M. in 1891. He entered the
Flarvard Law School in 1888 and was grad
uated with the degree of LL.B. in 1891.
He was admitted to the Illinois bar in the
same year and was engaged in general
practice until 1903, when he was elected
judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County,
taking the seat formerly occupied by Judge
Hanecy. He is a member of the Univer
sity, Chicago, Saddle and Cycle, Union,
Iroquois, and Chicago Golf Clubs. He
was married at Brewster, Massachusetts,
August 12, 1902, to Beatrice C. Richardson,
and has one daughter : Bertha :. Address :
County Building. Residence : 68 Cedar
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HOOK, William Cather:
United States circuit judge; born in
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, September 24,
1857; son of Enos Hook and Elizabeth
D. Hook. He went to Kansas in his boy
hood and was educated in the public and
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ated in law at the St. Louis Law School in
1878. He practiced law from that time until
appointed by President McKinley in 1899,
judge of the United States District Court
for the District of Kansas; and in 1903 he
was promoted by President Roosevelt to his
present office of judge of the United States
Circuit Court for the Eighth Judicial Cir
cuit. He married in Leavenworth, Octo
ber' 31, 1882, Louise Dickson. Address:
Leavenworth, Kansas.
HOOKER, Edward Beecher:
Physician; born in Hartford, Connecti
cut, February 26, 1855 ; son of John Hooker
and Isabella (Beecher) Hooker, and grand
son of Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D. He was
educated at the Ecole de Medecine, Paris,
France, and at the Boston University
School of Medicine, from which he
was graduated as M.D. ; and since
graduation he has been engaged in the
practice of medicine in Hartford, Connecti
cut. He was elected in 1907 president of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy,
which office he now holds; is a member of
the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical So
ciety, the American Homoeopathic. Ophthal
mological, Otological . and. Laryngological
Society, and is a trustee of Hopkins Gram
mar School, Hartford. He is a Republican,
except in local politics; and is a Con
gregationalist. His favorite recreation is
golf. Dr. Hooker is a member of the
Hartford, Twilight, Twentieth Century and
Hartford Golf Clubs. He married in Hart
ford, September 18, • 1879, Martha Clarke
Kilboume, and they have three children:
Isabel K, born in 1882, Thomas, born in
1886, and Joseph K., born in 1887. Resi
dence: 70 Farmington Avenue, Hartford.
Office address : 721 Main Street, Hartford,
Connecticut.
HOOKER, Frank A.:
Jurist; born in Hartford, Connecticut,
January 16, 1844; son of James Sedgwick
Hooker and Camilla (Porter) Hooker.
After his graduation from the University
of Michigan as LL.B. in 1865, he engaged
in the practice of law at Bryan, Ohio, for
a year, and after that continued practice at

Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan until
elected to the bench in 1878. He was
county superintendent of schools of Eaton
County for two years, justice of the peace
for two years, and prosecuting attorney for
four years. In 1878 he was elected judge
of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Michigan,
in which office he continued until he took
his seat January, 1893, on the Supreme
Bench of Michigan, of which he has been
a member ever since. His present term
will expire in January, 1914. Address:
Lansing, Michigan.
HOOKER, George Ellsworth:
Secretary of the City Club of Chicago;
born in Peacham, Vermont, April 25, 1861;
son of William Davenport Hooker and
Esther (Bickford) Hooker. He was grad
uated- from Amherst as A.B. in 1883, with
Phi Beta Kappa honors (was Hardy Prize
debater and class Ivy orator) ; was grad
uated from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
in 1885 and from Yale Divinity School as
B.D. in 1890. He was admitted to the bar
of New York City in 1885; practiced law
in New York City from 1885 to 1887; was
a student at the Union Theological Semin
ary in 1887 and 1888; student at the Yale
Divinity School from 1888 to 1890; mem
ber of Yale Band in Washington State,
under the Congregational Home Mission
ary Society from 1890 to 1893. Mr. Hook
er traveled in Europe one year, in 1894
and 1895 ; was editorial writer on the
Chicago Daily Tribune, from 1899 to 1902
and in 1905 and 1906; secretary of Chicago
City Council Harlan Committee and wrote
the committee's report on Chicago Street
Railways, in 1898. He traveled a year on
the continent of Europe in 1902 and 1903,
studying municipal- conditions. He has
been secretary of the City Club of Chicago
since its organization in December, 1903,
and is author of magazine and newspaper
articles on municipal topics. In politics he
is an Independent. He is a member of the
Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi fratern
ities. His favorite recreations are bicycling,
tramping and sailing, and he is a member
of the City Club of Chicago. Residence:
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cago. Address: City Club, 228 Clark
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
HOOKER, Warren Brewster:
Jurist; born in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus
County, New York, November 24, 1856;
son of ' John and Philema (Waterman)
Hooker. He was educated in Forestville
(New York) Free Academy, and received
degree of LL.D. from' Hamilton College in
189,9. He was engaged in the practice of
law at Fredonia, New York until ' 1898 ;
was elected to Congress from the Thirty-
fourth Congressional District of New York
in 1890, and four times reelected; resigned
from Congress. in November, 1898, and was
appointed judge of the Supreme Court
and elected to the same bench for a term
of fourteen years in 1899. Judge Hooker
was designated by the governor, associate
judge, of the Appellate Division, Second
Department, State of New York, in De
cember, 1902,- and is still member of that
court. Mr. Hooker married in Fredonia,
New York, September n, 1884, Etta Eliza
beth Abbey, and they have two children:
Sherman Abbey, born in 1887, and Florence
Elizabeth, born in 1890. Address : Fre
donia, New York.
HOOPER, Franklin W.:
Director Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences, born in Walpole, New Hampshire,
February 11, 1851; son of William and
Elvira (Pulsifer) Hooper; educated in dis
trict schools of Walpole, New Hampshire,
Antioch College Preparatory School, Ohio,
1867-71 ; entered sophomore class, Harvard,
1872, A.B., Harvard, 1875; honorary A.M.,
1897. Served on scientific expedition to
Florida Keys for Smithsonian Institution,
1875-76; principal high school, Keene,
New Hampshire, 1876-80; professor of
chemistry and geology Adelphia College,
New York City, 1880-89; director Brook
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences since
1889 (trustee since 1887) ; lecturer on geo
logical subjects. Trustee Brooklyn Art As
sociation since 1890; trustee of Brooklyn
Public Library, 1895-1903, of Antioch Col
lege, since 1898; president Board of Trus
tees, Antioch College, 1902-06. Member

Board of Education, Brooklyn, New York,
1892-93 ; Brooklyn Young Republican Club,
1881-84; Brooklyn League, 1884-92 (chair
man council of league, 1886-92) ; director
and treasurer New England Society, Brook
lyn, since 1892. Delivered one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary address of founding of
town of Walpole, 1903. Independent. Uni
tarian. Fellow American Association for
the Advancement of Science ; vice-president
American Bison Society ; member American
Forestry Association, member American
Committee on Lectures on the History of
Religions, American Oriental Society, Na
tional Geographical Society. Recreation :
Farming at Walpole, New Hampshire.
Clubs : Hamilton, University, Mohtauk,
Harvard, Union, Unity. Married at Augus
ta, Georgia, May 23, 1876, Martha S. Hold
en; children: Rebecca Lane, born in 1878;
William Sylvester, born in 1880, died 1884;
Franklin Dana, born in 1884. Address :
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
502 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New "York.
HOPKINS, Albert J.:
United States senator ; born in Dekalb
County, Illinois, August 15, 1846; graduated-
at Hillsdale (Michigan) College in June,
1870;. studied law and commenced practice
at Aurora, Illinois ; was State's attorney of
Kane County from 1872 to 1876; was a
member of the Republican State Central
Committee from 1878 to 1880; was presi
dential elector on the Blaine and Logan
ticket, 1884; was elected to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
and Fifty-seventh Congresses ; was nomi
nated for the United States Senate in State
Convention and elected to succeed William
E. Mason, Republican, and took his seat
March 4, 1903. His term of service will
expire March 3, 1909. Address : Aurora, Il
linois. HOPKINS, Alphonso Alva:
Editor, author, lecturer ; born in Bur
lington Flats, Otsego County, New York,
March 4, 1903. His term of service will
(Hale) Hopkins; educated district school
in West Exeter, New York, Hamilton

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(New York) Academy, Ph.D., pro merito
from American Temperance University,
Tennessee. Edited Moore's Rural New
Yorker, Rochester, 1867-70; American
Rural Home, Rochester, 1871-84? Ameri
can Reformer, New York City, 1882-84;
The Facts, Elmira, 1897-98. Professor eco
nomics, American Temperance University,
1891-93. Author: Asleep in the Sanctum
and other Poems; Our Sabbath Evening;
His Prison Bars, Sinner and Saint; Waifs
and Their Authors; Geraldine; Ballads of
Brotherhood; Wealth and Waste. As a
lecturer, traveled widely throughout United
states and Canada. Republican as a young
man, and held clerkship in a State depart
ment at Albany. Prohibitionist since 1871 ;
candidate of Prohibition Party four times
for Congress; once for State comptroller,
once for Secretary of State and once
1.1882) for governor. Presided over sev
eral state conventions ; wrote many State
and national platforms of party. Secret
ary and treasurer Thomas Spring & Gear
Company, Canisteo, New York. Baptist.
Married, first, Rochester, New York, 1867,
Adelia R. Allyn; second, Hornellsville,
New York, 1897, Emma M. Santee; and
had one daughter, by first marriage, Lil-
larene R. (born Rochester, 1871). Ad
dress : Hornell, New York.
HOPKINS, Charles Comstock:
Civil engineer; born in Jersey City, New
Jersey, January 22, i860; son of Stephen
and Henrietta Louisa (Comstock) Hop
kins; graduated Lehigh University, B.Sc.
(Wilbur scholarship and valedictorian),
1882; C.E., 1884. In practice of hydraulic
and sanitary engineering since 1884. Mem
ber Rome Board of Education since 1902;
city engineer, Rome, New York, 1892-98.
Trustee Oneida County Savings Bank. Re
publican. Episcopalian. Member American
Society Civil Engineers, New England
Water Works Association, National Geo
graphic Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, Psi Upsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Phi
Beta Kappa. Trustee Rome Cemetery As
sociation, Central New York Institute for
Deaf Mutes. Clubs : Rome, Teugega Coun
try. Married, Woodhull, New York; May

7, 1885, Eleanora Sherwood (died March
9, 1902) ; children : Arthur S., born 1886,
Ruth, born 1887, Henrietta, born 1889,
Clara, born 1893. Address: Rome, New
York.
HOPKINS, George Gallagher:
Physician, surgeon; born in Peoria, Illi
nois, June 9, 1843; son of William Rogers
and Mary (Murray) Hopkins; educated
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland;
Hobart College, class of 1862, A.M.; grad
uated University of Pennsylvania Medical
Department, M.D., 1868. Practicing as
physician and surgeon from 1868. Delegate
International Medical Congress from Amer
ican Medical Association, Paris, 1901 ; pres
ident Kings County Medical Society, 1883;
regent counsellor, and consulting surgeon,
Long Island College Hospital; consulting
surgeon St. John's Hospital; surgeon to
Old People's Home, Orphanage and Home
for Blind. Served in Civil War as captain
Company E, Fifth B. I. Heavy Artillery,
and brevetted major United States Volun
teers. In politics he is a Republican and in
religion an Episcopalian. He is a member
of the American Medical Association, Am
erican Academy of Medicine, New York
State Medical Society, Kings County Medi
cal Society, New York Academy of Medi
cine, American Roentgen Ray Society,
Brooklyn Medical Association, Military Or
der Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Re
public; honorary member Montgomery
County Medical Society, Ohio, and of
Church Club, Brooklyn; trustee Diocesan
Missions (Incorporated), Diocese Long Is
land; treasurer Church Extension Diocese
Long Island, Brooklyn Archdeaconry and
Northern Archdeaconry of Brooklyn; trus
tee Deaconess Society, Diocese of Long Is
land. Married, Boston, Massachusetts, Alice
Julia, daughter of Joseph Buckminister
Gardner ; children : George Gallagher, born
in 1879, married Lisa Delavan Bloodgood,
daughter Medical Director Delavan Blood-
good, TJnited States Navy, Mary Murray,
born in 1881, Joseph Gardner, M.D., born
in 1884. Address : 350 Washington Avenue,
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HOPKINS, Sidney Wright:
Retired merchant; born at Newburg,
New York, August 23, 1836; son of Edwin
Augustus Hopkins and Cornelia Ann (Gold-
er) Hopkins. He received his education
at select and private schools in New York
' City. In August, 1850, Mr. Hopkins be
came a clerk with T. B. Coddington and
Company, New York City, importers and
dealers in iron and other metals, and re
mained with that firm until 1855, when he
became member of the firm of Bunting,
Bean and Company, metal brokers. He
joined his father in i860, in establishing the
firm of E. A. and S. W. Hopkins, importers
and dealers in railway iron and railway
supplies, and negotiators of railway and
other securities in America and Europe.
On the retirement of his father in 1866,
he became senior partner of the firm of
S. W. Hopkins and Company, with two
new partners, and established a branch in
London, where his two partners resided,
both houses doing a large business in ne
gotiating railway securities and furnishing
rails and supplies to railroad companies in
the United States, until it dissolved in
1874. The firm financed the construction
of the Port Huron and Lake Michigan
Railway, and the Peninsular Railways of
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois; these four
railroads were later consolidated as the
Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad Com
pany, and later reorganized as Chicago and
Grand Trunk Railway. He formulated
plans, in 1874 and carried them out suc
cessfully for the reorganization and re
capitalization of the People's Gas Light and
Coke. Company of Chicago, purchasing for
himself and for his English friends one-half
the new issue of bonds and a large block of
the new issue of stock of the com
pany (total amount $8,600,000) and was
for years one of the largest stockholders
in that company; since 1879, he has been
.a member of the Board of Trustees of the
Dry Dock Savings Institution of New
York ; was president, with controlling inter
est, of the American Construction Com
pany, which under franchise from the City
of Council Bluffs, in 1880, erected water

works, completed 1884, which were the first
to take their supply from the muddy waters
of the Missouri River and deliver filtered
water, perfectly clear, through their pipes
to consumers,* fit for drinking, culinary and
other domestic purposes ; sold his entire in
terest, subsequently, to a syndicate organ
ized to purchase it; in 1886 was vice-pres
ident of the New York Cab Company and
rescued it, without loss, from complica
tions caused by the failure of Ryerson
and Brown, who owned the control
ling interest in the company; bought
the entire capital stock of the Newburg
(New York) Street Railway in 1887, and
afterward sold it to a syndicate organized
to purchase it. In 1890 he purchased a
tract of nearly half a million acres of
Western agricultural and mineral lands,
and went to England to get from his
friends the financial aid required to develop
it, but the Barings' difficulties and result
ing financial complications made it impos
sible at that time to finance such under
takings in England ; his purchase was there
fore cancelled, with some loss in time and
money to himself. He married in New
York City, June 4, 1855, Anna Maria Clark,
one of the descendants of the Abram Clark
who signed the Declaration of Indepen
dence, and they have three children: Ella,
born May 24, 1856, Sidney Wright, Jr., born
February 18, 1863, and Anna Maria, born
November 5, 1865, wife of Edward F. San
ford of New York City. Address : 604 West
One Hundred and Fifteenth Street, New
York City.
HOPKINS, Thomas Cramer:
Geologist, educator ; born in Center Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1861 ; son of Isaac
C. and Mary A. (Glenn) Hopkins; gradu
ated De Pauw University, B.S., 1887; M.S.,
1900; Leland Stanford, Jr., University,
A.M., 1892; University of Chicago, Ph.D.,
1900. For three years assistant State Geol
ogist, Arkansas; three years assistant pro
fessor geology, Pennsylvania State College;
two years fellow in geology, University of
Chicago; since igoi professor of geology,
Syracuse University. Three summers as
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mers in geological work in Ontario, Cana
da ; one summer spent in study and travel
in Europe ; one each in geological work in
Colorado and California. Fellow Geologi
cal Society of America, American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, Na
tional Geographical Society, Phi Beta
Kappa, Sigma Xi, Onondaga Academy of
Science, New York State Science Teachers'
Association, Phi Delta Theta fraternity and
the University and Current Events Clubs.
He is author of several books and papers
on geological subjects. He married at
Greencastle, Indiana, January, 1890, Edistina
Farrou, who died May 28, 1907. Address :
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
HOPPER, De Wolf:
Comedian; born in New York in 1858;
son of John Hopper and Rosalie (De
Wolf) Hopper. He was with Daniel Froh-
man's Madison Square Company as Pit-
tacus Green in Hazel Kirk and other
roles, the McCaull Opera Company, Weber
and Fields Company. He was starring in
his own company from 1880 with the ex
ception of the two years at Weber and
Fields and starred in_Happyland during
the season of 1905 and 1906. Mr. Hopper
is a member of the Lambs', Players', Sub
urban, Riding and Driving Clubs of New
York City, and of the Green Room Club
and Eccentric Club of London, England.
Address : Care Lambs' Club, New York
City.
HOPPER, Harry Shelmire:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, June 13,
1858; son of Professor Zephaniah Hopper,
a prominent educator. His ancestors were
English and came to America in the seven
teenth century. Was graduated from the
Central High School of Philadelphia, A.
B., 1875, and A.M. 1880; also from the
Law School of the University of Penn
sylvania, LL.B., 1878 ; admitted to the bar
in 1879 and has been in continuous practice
in the State Courts and United States
Courts ; has given special attention to
corporation practice. Member of law firm
of Hopper, Lessig & Smith. Flistorian of
the Associated Alumni of the Central High

School of Philadelphia for fifteen years.
Republican. Has made extensive genealo
gical and historical researches, and is a
contributor to legal periodicals and to
genealogical, historical and educational
magazines. Married, December 5,. 1888,
Laura Annie Fetter, of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : Land Title Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
HOPPIN, Samuel Howland:
Lawyer; born in Newport, Rhode Island,
August 28, 1858; son of Hamilton Hoppin
and Louisa (Howland) Hoppin. He re
ceived his preparatory education in private
schools in Dresden, Paris, Brussels and
Newport, Rhode Island, St. Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated
from Harvard College in 1879, and from
Columbia College Law School in 1881, and
was admitted to the bar. He has ever since
been engaged in the practice of law in New
York City, now being a member of the
firm of Hoppin and Berard. He is also
president of the Eastern Kentucky Coal
Lands Corporation. He is a member of tlie
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, the New York Zoological Society and
American Geographical Society. In poli
tics he is a Republican, in religion an Epis
copalian ; and he is a member of the Union
Club of New York City. Residence: 2173
Broadway, New York City. Office ad
dress : 55 Liberty Street, New York City.
HORD, Arnold Harris:
Clergyman; born October 13, 1867, in
Woodford County, Kentucky, son of Wil
liam Taliaferro Hord, Medical Director
United States Navy; was graduated from
Columbian University, Washington, D. C,
and the Philadelphia Divinity School; or
dained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, May 24, 1891 ; priest, June 12,
1892; curate at Christ Church, German-
town, Philadelphia, 1891-1892; senior curate
at St. James's Church, Philadelphia, 1892-
1894 ; rector of Emmanuel Church, Holmes-
burg, Philadelphia, 1894-1901 ; rector of St.
Michael's Church, Germantown, Philadel
phia, since January 1, 1901. He is one of
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a trustee of the Society for the Advance
ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania;
member of the Virginia Historical Society.
Companion of the first class by inheritance
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion;
chaplain of the Society of the War of
1812 in Pennsylvania; member of the So
ciety of Colonial Wars and the Sons of
the Revolution. Author of the Genealogy
of the Hord Family and Thomas Hord,
Gentlemen. He married Annie Robb Firth,
October 1, 1903. Address : 244 High Street,
Germantown, Philadelphia.
HORNBECK, Marquis D.:
Clergyman; born near Circleville, Ohio,
February 28, 1849; son of Curtis Horn-
beck and Sarah J. (Plum) Hornbeck. He
was reared on a farm in Shelby County,
Illinois; was graduated from the Illinois
Wesleyan University as A.B. and A.M. ;
from the University of Denver, Ph.D., hon
orary D.D., studied at Boston School of The
ology, where he was graduated as S.T.B. in
1884. He entered the ministry of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church in 1877 in Illinois
Conference. He was president of the Dan
ville Wesleyan Seminary, Danville, Illi
nois, from September, 1884 to 1887; pres
ident of Chaddock College, Quincy, Illi
nois, from September, 1887 to 1890. He
was minister at Urbana, Illinois, from
1891 to 1893; minister in Colorado since
1893. He is author of various commence
ment orations and addresses, and uni
versity sermons. Dr. Hornbeck is a mem
ber of The American Akademe at Jack
sonville, Illinois, of the Philosophical
Club, Boulder, Colorado, trustee of the
University of Denver for eight years, and
of the Alpha Deuteron Chapter of Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity. He married at
Beardstown, Illinois, September 1, 1881,
Lydia M. Kuhl; to them were born two
children: Helen, deceased, and Stanley K.,
born in 1883. Address: 216 South Grant
Avenue, Denver, Colorado.
HORNBLOWER, William B:
Lawyer; born in Paterson, New Jersey,
May 13, 1851; son of Rev. William H.
(D.D.) and Matilda (Butler) Hornblower;

graduated Princeton University, A.B., 1871 ;
Columbia University Law School, LL.B.,
1875; honorary A.M., 1874; LL.D., 1895,
Princeton University. Admitted to bar of
New York, 1875; member commission ap
pointed under act of Legislature in 1890 to
propose amendments to State Constitution
Judiciary Article; appointed to United
States Supreme Court, September, 1893,
by President Cleveland, to succeed Justice
Blatchford, nomination rejected by Senate,
January, 1894, owing to political opposition
by Senators Hill and Murphy, , of New
York. Head of firm of Hornblower, Miller
& Potter. Member American Bar Associa
tion, New York State Bar Association
(president, 1902), Bar Association of the
City of New York, Sons of Revolution.
Clubs : University, Century, Metropolitan,
Manhattan, City, Reform, Riding, Prince
ton. Married, first, in New York City,
April 26, 1882, Susan C, daughter of Wm.
E. Sanford, of New Haven, Connecticut
(died April 27, 1886) ; second, in New
York City, January 31, 1894, Emily S. Nel
son, daughter of William F. Sanford, and
widow of Lieutenant-Colonel A. D. Nel
son, United States Army ; children : Lewis
W., born April 15, 1883, Princeton, AB.,,
1904; George S., born June 19, 1884,
Princeton, A.B., 1904, Columbia University
Law School, LL.B., 1907; Susan San
ford, born April 19, 1886, died June 16,
1900. Residence : 5 East Eighty-ninth
Street. Address : 24 Broad Street, New
York City.
HORNE, Durbin:
Merchant; head of the sales and ad
vertising departments of Joseph H. Home
Company, Pittsburgh; son of the late Jos
eph Home, founder of the great dry goods
house of that riame; attended the public
school, then Newell Institute in 1876 was
graduated from Yale. Returning home,
he accepted a minor position in his father's
store. In 1882 he was admitted to the
firm. His Success is shown by the firm's
present large business. Is also connected
with different financial institutions. Ad- '
dress : Fifth Street and Penn Avenue,
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HORNER, Junius Moore:
Bishop of Asheville; born at Oxford,
North Carolina, July 7, 1859; son of James
H. and Sophronia (Moore) Horner. He
took the academic course at Hopkins In
stitute, graduating B.A. in 1885, and thence
entering the General Theological Seminary,
graduated with the degree of B.D. in 1892.
He received an honorary D.D. from the
University of the South in 1899. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1890, and was ordained to the priesthood
by Bishop Lyman in 1891. Following this
he was for several years associate principal
and instructor in the Horner School, Ox
ford, North Carolina. He became Bishop
of Asheville, North Carolina, in 1898, and
was consecrated by Bishops Cheshire, Wat
son, Capers and Gibson. Bishop Horner
was married at Augusta, Georgia, in 1892,
to Eva Harker. Address : Asheville, North
Carolina. HOROWITZ, Louis J.:
Real estate, builder; born in Chenstocho-
wa, Russia, January 1, 1875 ; son of Salo A.
Anna (Cata) Horowitz; educated at Uni
versity of Chenstochowa, Russia ; married,
New York City, July 14, 1903, Mary E.
Decker. Came to America in 1892; en
gaged in real estate in Brooklyn in 1900;
president Brooklyn Heights Improvement
Company, 1902-03 ; Assembly and Catering
and Supply Company, 1903-04; secretary
Brooklyn Amusement Company, 1903-04;
treasurer Standish Arms Realty Company,
1904-05 ; vice-president Thompson-Starrett
Company, since 1904; director of the In-
terborough Bank of New York, Standish
Arms Realty Company, Assembly Catering
and Supply Company. Member Masonic
Order. Recreations : Automobiling, fishing.
Clubs : Brooklyn, Laurentian. Residence :
(winter) 2 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Ad
dress: 51 Wall Street, New York City.
HORSTMANN, Ignatius Frederick:
Catholic bishop of Cleveland; born in
Philadelphia, December 16, 1840; son of
Frederick Horstmann and Catherine
(Weber) Horstmann. His early education
was received in a private school, and later
in a public school and the Central High

School of Philadelphia, and he then en
tered St. Joseph's Jesuit College at Phila
delphia, a preparatory seminary, from
which he went to the American College at
Rome, where he received the degree of
Doctor of Theology. He was ordained
priest in Rome, June 10, 1865; was pro
fessor of logic, metaphysics, ethics, German
and Hebrew in St. Charles' Seminary,
Philadelphia, from 1866 to 1877; rector of
St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, from 1877
to 1885 ; chancellor of the Diocese of Phila
delphia from 1885 to 1892, and was con
secrated bishop of Cleveland in Philadel
phia, February 25, 1892. Address : Bishop's
House, 1007 Superior Street, Cleveland,
Ohio. HORTON, George:
Consul, author; born at Fairville, New
York November, 1859; son of Peter
Davis and Mary Sophia 'Horton. After
a thorough preparatory education he en
tered the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1878.
From the time of leaving college he en
gaged in literary pursuits and in 1893 he
was appointed consul to Athens, Greece,
by President Cleveland, serving until 1898.
He was for some years literary editor of
the Times-Herald at Chicago, and in 1901
became editor of the literary supplement
of the Chicago American. In 1904 he was
again appointed, by President Roosevelt,
consul of the United States at Athens,
Greece. Mr. Horton has contributed much
to the best magazines, in verse and prose,
and he is author of several volumes, in
cluding : Songs of the Lowly ; In Unknown
Seas; Aphroessa; Constantine; A Fair
Brigand; Like Another Helen; Modern
Athens ; The Tempting of Father Anthony ;
The Long, Straight Road ; In Argolis ; The
Monk's Treasure; The Edge of Hazard,
etc. In 1903 he received the degree of
doctor of letters from George Washing
ton University. In 1906 he was made con
sul-general to Greece. Address : The Amer
ican Consulate-General, Athens, Greece.
HORTON, Henry Lawrence:
Banker; bom in Shesquin, Bradford
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of William B. and Melinda (Blackman)
Horton, daughter of Colonel Franklin
Blackman. He was brought up on a farm
and obtained such sparse education as was
there to be had; at the age of seventeen
he left home, and went to Tonawanda,
New York to accept a . position as clerk
in a mercantile house. At the age of
twenty-two years Mr. Horton left Tona
wanda, for the West, settling at Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, when he began business on
his own account in the produce commiss
ion line, and where he remained for eleven
years, the latter part of which included
the period of the Civil War. At the end
of this contest in 1865 he disposed of his
establishment in Milwaukee, and left the
West for New York City; soon after his
arrival in the metropolis, Mr. Horton con
nected himself with the Stock and other
Exchanges, entering into the banking and
brokerage business; since then he has con
ducted one of the most successful establish
ments of that kind in the city ; and is now
the senior member of the firm of H. L.
Horton and Company. Soon after engag
ing in business iri New York, Mr. Horton
took up his residence at New Brighton,
Staten Island, and he took an active part
in public affairs in that district. Mr. Hor
ton is especially entitled to credit for his
energy in promoting the developments and
interests of the Staten Island Water Sup
ply and of the Rapid Transit Companies,
he has occupied the position of president
of New Brighton. He is a member of the
Stock and Produce Exchange, of the Chi
cago Board of Trade, and also of the Union
League, Manhattan, Athletic and other
Clubs. He married Sarah S. Patten,
of New York, and they have two daught
ers: Blanche and Grace. Residence: 144
West Fifty-seventh Street. Address: 66
Broadway, New York City.
HORTVET, Julius:
Chemist; born at Baraboo, Wisconsin,
April 24, 1863; son of Morten Hortvet and
Sophia (Halvorsen) Hortvet. He was ed
ucated in the district and high schools at
Baraboo, the Wisconsin State University,
from 1882 to 1886; and took a post-grad

uate course in chemistry, in the University
of Minnesota, from 1890 to 1892. Mr.
Hortvet was principal of Sacred Heart
School, Minnesota, in 1887 and 1888; city
superintendent of schools, Red Lake Falls,
Minnesota, from 1889 to 1891 ; teacher of
chemistry and physics in the high school of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1892 to 1900;
and State chemist of the Minnesota Dairy
and Food Department, since 1900. He is
author of: Elementary Practical Physics
for Secondary Schools; has contributed
articles on the Chemical Composition of
Maple Syrup and Sugar; Methods of An
alysis of Maple Products Development of
Pure Food Legislation, The Adulteration
of Syrups and Molasses ; Sorghum Syrups
and Sorghum Mixtures ; and Biennial Re
ports of the State Chemist, in 1902, 1904
and 1906 in the Minnesota Dairy, and Food
Department. He is an Independent in poli
tics ; and is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, member of the American Chemical
Society, and the Association of Official Ag
ricultural Chemists. Mr. Hortvet married,
first at Minneapolis, Minnesota, November,
1893, Anna Quinn, who died in 1900, and
married, second, Etta Burgess, and he has
four children: Esther, born in 1895, Rich
ard, born in 1897, Florence, born in 1899,
and Louise, born in 1904. Residence; 45
Barton Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis. Ad
dress : Old Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota.
HORWiyZ, George Quintard:
Lawyer ; born in Washington, D. C, Feb
ruary 3, 1868 son of Phineas J. Horwitz,
surgeon-general of the United States Navy,
and Caroline (Norris) Horwitz. He was
educated in Rugby Academy, Philadelphia
and in the University of Pennsylvania,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1886, and LL.B. in 1888; and since the
latter date he has been engaged in the
practice of law in Philadelphia. He is also
a director of the Jefferson Fire Insurance
Company of Philadelphia, and the Phila
delphia, Bristol and Trenton Street RaifWay
Company. Mr. Horwitz is. a founder and
director of the Alumni Association of the
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the Law Association of Philadelphia and
the Lawyers' Club. His favorite recrea
tions are horseback riding and canoeing,
and he has also been an extensive traveler
in the Azores Islands, Portugal, England
and throughout Europe on three different
occasions. He is a Republican and an
Episcopalian; a member of the Delta Phi
fraternity, St. Elmo Club, Markham, Uni
versity, Philadelphia Country, Racquet and
University Barge Clubsv Mr. Horwitz mar
ried, May 23, 1901, Marian Newhall. Resi
dences (country house) : 1721 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, and Stratford, Penn
sylvania. Office address : 604 West Trust
Building, Philadelphia.
HORWITZ, Orville:
Surgeon; born in Washington, D. C,
June 26, i860; son of Phineas J. Horwitb,
M.D., medical director United States Navy,
and Caroline (Norris) Horwitz. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania as B.S. in 1881, and from Jefferson
Medical College as M.D. in 1883, and was
awarded a gold medal for his thesis at
his graduation in medicine. He is pro
fessor of genito-urinary surgery, Jefferson
Medical College; surgeon to the Jefferson
Hospital; St. Agnes' Hospital and State
Hospital for the Insane ; consulting sur
geon Jewish Hospital. Fellow College of
Physicians ; member American Surgical As
sociation, Association of Genito-Urinary
Surgeons, Philadelphia Medical, Pennsyl
vania State Medical and American Med
ical Associations. Published Surgical Quiz
Compend; besides articles in medical jour
nals. Address : 1721 Walnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
HOSFORD, Henry Hal lock:
Educator; born at Hudson, Ohio, July
12, 1859 ; son of Henry Brown and Mary
Eliza (Plant) Hosford, and grandson of
Stephen and Amy (Brown) Hosford, and
of Benjamin and Sarah Mason Plant. He
is descended from William Hosford, one
of the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, and from Sampson Mason, an
officer in Cromwell's Army. After taking
his A.B. degree from the Western Reserve

College in 1880, and his A.M. degree from
Adelbert College in 1883, Mr. Hosford be
came a teacher in the Western Reserve
Academy at Hudson, Ohio, from 1880 to
1883. He engaged in stock-raising in Lin
coln County, Nebraska, from 1883 to 1886,
was again a teacher in the Western Re
serve Academy in 1886 and 1887, and pro
fessor of Latin at Doane College, Crete,
Nebraska, from 1887 to 1889. He studied
and practiced electrical engineering from
1889 to 1892, and was appointed professor
of chemistry and physics in Doane College
in 1893, which position he now holds. Pro
fessor Hosford married, August 25, 1892,
Jennie, daughter of Dr. W. I. Chamber
lain, of Hudson, Ohio, and they have four
children : Caroline Austin, Herbert Cham
berlain, Donald Mason and Hallock Clifton.
Address : Crete, Nebraska.
HOSKINS, William:
Chemist ; born in Covington, Kentucky
in 1863. He received his education by
private instruction and in the Chicago High
School. He has been a member since 1880
and is now sole proprietor of the business
of Mariner and Hoskins, Chicago; engaged
in general chemical and assaying practice.
He is a fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science ; mem
ber of the American Chemical Society, and
is past vice-president and chairman of the
Chicago section of the latter; is a member
of the Society of Chemical Industry, the
American Electrochemical Society; the Am
erican Institute of Mining Engineers, the
American Microscopic Society, the West
ern Society of Engineers, the Franklin In
stitute of Philadelphia, and the Chicago
Academy of Sciences. Mr. Hoskins intro
duced the use of liquid fuel for furnaces;
used particularly by chemists and assayers;
developed processes now extensively used
in the manufacture of turpentine and other
products from the waste and fallen timber
of the South, and has been actively con
nected with the. development of' chemical
industries of various kinds during the past
twenty-five years. Residence : 49 Sixth
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dress : 81 South Clark Street, Chicago, Illi
nois.HOTCHKISS, E. Scott:
Consular official; born in New York;
- consul at Brockville, July 26, 1902 ; consul
at Calgary, June 28, 1906. Salary $2,000
per annum. Address : Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.HOUGH, Charles M.:
United States district judge for the
Southern District of New York. He was
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1879,
studied law and was engaged in the prac
tice of law in New York City, with an of
fice in Wall Street, until appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1906, to his present judge
ship. Judge Hough is a member of the
University Club. He married Ethel Powers.
Residence : 550 Park Avenue, New York
City. Office address : Post Office Build
ing, New York City.
HOUGH, Emerson:
Author and magazine writer; born in
Newton, Iowa, June 28, 1857; son of Jos
eph Bond Hough and Elizabeth H. Hough.
He was graduated from the State Uni
versity of Iowa in 1880. He practiced law
at White Oaks, New Mexico in 1882; was
in newspaper work from 1889 to 1903, and
was Western manager of Forest and
Stream of New York. Mr. Hough has
traveled much in the West; has killed big
game; crossed Yellowstone Park on ski in
winter of 1894 and 1895; and has a long
and thorough knowledge of many phases
of Western and out of doors life. He is
author of : 1 ne Girl at the Half- Way House ;
The Mississippi Bubble; Heart's Desire;
The Law of the Land ; The Way of . a
Man; The Story of the Cowboy; The
Story of the Outlaw; etc., and is a con
tributor to leading magazines. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
His favorite recreations are with horse,
dog, rod and gun. He is a member of the
University, Press, South Shore Country
and American Canoe Clubs of Chicago.
Mr. Hough married in Chicago, October
26, 1897, Charlotte A. Cheesebro. Resi

dence: 6140 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago.
Address : 1808 Commercial National Bank
Building, Chicago, Illinois.
HOUGH, Warwick:
Lawyer, jurist; born in Loudoun Coun
ty, Virginia, January 26, 1836; son of
George W. Hough and Mary C. (Shawen)
Plough. He is a descendant of Richard
Hough who came from Cheshire, England,
under the auspices of William Penn, in the
ship Endeavor, landing in Philadelphia
in 1683, and of his grandson, John Hough
who moved to Virginia from Bucks Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, about the year 1750, and
settled in Loudoun County, where he
married Sarah Janney, also from Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hough moved
with his parents from Virginia to Mis
souri, in 1838, and the family settled at
Jefferson City, Missouri, where his father
was in mercantile business until his re
tirement in 1854 and was prominent in
Democratic politics. Warwick Hough was
fitted in private schools at Jefferson City,
.Missouri, for the State University at Co
lumbia, from which he was graduated with
the degree of A.B. in 1854 and received the
degree of A.M. in 1857. He distinguished
himself at college by his classical and scien
tific attainments ; and he was selected from
the graduating class of 1854, to make some
barometrical observations and calculations
for Professor Swallow, then the head of
the Geological Survey of Missouri, and
later he was appointed, by Governor Sterl
ing Price, assistant State geologist, and
on December 29, 1856, he was elected a
corresponding member of the Academy of
Science, of St. Louis, of which he is now
an active member. Before attaining his
majority he was chief clerk in the office of
the Secretary of State, and he was Secre
tary of the State Senate during the ses
sions of 1858-59, 1859-60 and 1860-61. He
was commissioned first lieutenant in the
Governor's Guards of Missouri, January
17, i860. Meanwhile he had studied law,
and in 1859 was admitted to the bar, and
in i860 he formed a law partnership with
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Missouri and afterward governor of Ken
tucky), which continued until January,
1861, when he was appointed adjutant-gen
eral of Missouri by Governor Claiborne
F. Jackson, with the rank of brigadier-
general. He had previously commanded the
Governor's Guard's in the Sduthwest Ex
pedition in the fall of i860 under General
D. M. Frost. On April 22, 1861, he is
sued, as adjutant-general, the order under
which the military organizations of the
State went into encampment on May 3, fol
lowing, at Camp Jackson, St. Louis, the
capture of which precipitated the armed
conflict between the Federal authorities
and the Southern sympathizers in Mis
souri. After the death of Governor Jack
son he was appointed secretary of State
of Missouri by Governor Thomas C. Rey
nolds, resigning in December, 1863, to en
ter the army of the Confederate States, in
which he was commissioned a captain in
the inspector-general's department. He
was assigned to the staff of Lieutenant-
General Leonidas M. Polk, .and after his
death was on the staff of Lieutenant-Gen
eral Stephen D. Lee, and later on the staff
of Lieutenant-General Dick Taylor, with
whom he surrendered to General E. R. S.
Canby, May 10, 1865. Being debarred from
practice in Missouri by the provisions of
the Drake Constitution, he practiced at
Memphis, Tennessee, until 1867, when,
upon the repeal of the test oath of attor
neys in Missouri, he located in practice at
Kansas City, attaining great distinction at
the bar. He was elected to the Supreme
bench of Missouri in 1874, and after ten
years' service, during two years of which
he was chief justice of that court,, he re
turned to practice, locating at St. Louis,
where he built up a large and lucrative
practice. He was appointed in 1893 one of
the receivers of the Sioux City and North
ern Railroad and so continued until Jan
uary, 1900, when the receivers were dis
charged after having paid every current
obligation, rehabilitated the road and its
rolling stock and turned over about one
hundred thousand dollars to the court. He
was nominated without his solicitation, and

elected in 1900, Judge of .the Circuit Court
of the city of St. Louis, and since Jan
uary 7, 1907, has resumed the prac
tice of law, as counsel, with the firm
of Klein and Hough at St. Lcmis. The
State University of Missouri conferred
upon Judge Hough the degree Of LL.D. in
1881. Politically he has always affiliated
with the Democratic party, and he is also
prominent in the Masonic fraternity as a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.
He married in May, 1861, Nina E., daugh
ter of Hon. Benjamin F. Massey (then
Secretary of State of Missouri) and of
Maria (Withers) Massey; and they have
two sons : Warwick Massey Hough, a
distinguished member of the St. Louis
bar, and Louis Hough, M.D., of Denver,
Colorado, and three daughters. Address:
Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.
HOUGHTELING, James Lawrence:
Banker and manufacturer; born in Chi
cago, November 29, 1855; son of William
DeZeng Houghteling and Marcia E.
(Stockbridge) Houghteling. He was grad
uated from Yale as Ph.B. in 1876 and re
ceived honorary degree of M.A. in 1901.
Since 1882 he has been a member of the
banking house of Peabody, Houghteling &
Company, established in 1865; secretary of
the Menominee River Lumber Company;
treasurer and president of the Mackinaw
Lumber Company; and is president of
several other lumber companies and other
Industrial corporations. He is one of the
founders" of the Municipal Voters' League
of Chicago and was first' chairman of its
Finance Committee. In politics he is a Re
publican and in religion an Episcopalian.
He is a trustee of the Chicago Young
Men's Christian Association (was its
president three years and treasurer fifteen
years) ; was founder of the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew (the principal men's society
in the Anglican Communion), and for many
years was president of its council. He is
a member of the Chicago, University,
Commercial and Onwentsia Clubs. Mr.
Houghteling married in Chicago, Septem
ber 20, 1879, Lucretia Ten Broeck Peabody,
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born in 1882; James L, bom in 1884; Har
riot P., . born in 1886 ; William, born in
1887; Leila, born in 1889; and Margaret
S., born iri 1895. Residence: Winnetka,
Illinois; Address : 181 La Salle Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
HOUGHTON, George Clarke:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
December 17, 1850; son of Frederick E.
Houghton and Anna E. (Dawson) Hough
ton. In the paternal line he is descended
from Clarke Houghton, of Deerfield, Massa
chusetts, an Englishman who married into
a Colonial family which won distinction in
Colonial times and also for its services to
the patriot cause during the Revolution.
On the maternal side Dr. Houghton is
descended from a Scotch family of Mor
tons, who intermarried with the English
family of Dawsons who settled in this
country early in the Nineteenth Century.
He was educated in a private school and
at St. Stephen's College at Annan-
dale, New York, whence he was grad
uated in 1867, being then seventeen
years old. He then entered the Gen
eral Theological Seminary in New York,
from which he was graduated in 1870, in
the same year receiving the M.A. degree
from St. Stephen's College, which after
ward (in 1895) honored him with the de
gree of D.D. He took deacon's orders in
the ministry of the Episcopal Church in
1870, and was ordained to the priesthood
by Bishop Horatio Potter in 1871. He was
editor of a church magazine three years,
was head master of a school at the age of
twenty-two and an instructor and lecturer
Xn other schools. He was for some years
curate of Trinity Church in New York and
afterward of St. Chrysostom's Church, also
in Trinity Parish, until 1879, when he was
. called, as rector, to Trinity Church, Hobo
ken, New Jersey, in which he remained
until 1897. During the eighteen years .of
his administration there, the number of the
communicants of that parish increased from
about seventy-five to six hundred and fifty.
He organized many agencies of institutional
work among the poor of Hoboken, and or-.
ganized effective chapters of the Brother

hood of St. Andrew and of the King's
Daughters and other church societies. Dr.
Houghton was elected by the State Board
of Education of New Jersey, in 1885, sup
erintendent of Public Instruction for Hud
son County, New Jersey, and held that
office until 1897. In 1887 he organized the
New Jersey Industrial Education Associa
tion, and founded the Manual Training
College, of which he was president and
a director for ten years. During his rector
ship of Trinity Parish, Hoboken, Dr.
Houghton occupied other important posi
tions in addition to the educational con
nections above mentioned, having been also
rector of St. John's Church, West Hobo
ken, Grace Church, Weehawken, and the
Church of the Transfiguration at Pine Hill,
New Jersey, chaplain of the Ninth Regi
ment, National Guard of New Jersey, chap
lain of Euclid Lodge of Masons, Royal
Arch Chapter and Pilgrim's Commandery
of Knights Templar; chaplain of the Wid
ow's Home and the Riverside Yacht Club;
president and warden of St. Katherine's
Home; director in Christ's Hospital, Jersey
City. Besides carrying on the great amount
of work connected with all . these varied
duties Dr. Houghton so directed the finan
cial affairs of the parish that the heavy
debt with which the church had been bur
dened at the inception of his incumbency,
was canceled during the first ten years of
his administration. The church was re
built and greatly enlarged, an exten
sion was made to the rectory and a large
school-house and parish buildings were
erected. In 1897 Dr. Houghton was called
to the Church of the Transfiguration as
vicar, his uncle Dr. Houghton, being then
the rector of the parish, and upon the
death of the latter he succeeded him as
rector. In this church lovingly known as
The Little Church Around the Corner, he
has faithfully ministered ever since. The
name thus applied to the church arose
when George Holland, a well known actor,
died and Mr. Joseph Jefferson applied to
a neighboring church for its services in
performing the funereal rites. The request
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was referred to a Little Church Around
the Corner. Dr. George H. Houghton,
then rector, responded in the true Christ
ian spirit and the service was rendered.
The incident appealed strongly to the mem
bers of the theatrical profession as well
as to all others of liberal mind, and the
church has ever since been largely attend
ed by members of the dramatic profession.
Under the present rectorship the church has
been greatly beautified and many memorial
added, the latest of which is a Lady Chapel
in memory of Mary C. Houghton, and
Saint Joseph's Chapel, which is a memorial
of the founder of the parish, and is a Mor
tuary Chapel, and very beautiful, probably
the most beautiful chapel of the kind in this
country. Dr. Houghton is author of: Ser
mons of the Festivals ; Manual of Devo
tions ; History of the Church of the Trans
figuration ; The Life of the First Rector and
Founder of the Church of the Transfigura
tion. He is a member of the New York
Historical Society, the American Museum
of Natural History, the National Geographic
Society, the Church Choral Society, the
Municipal Art Society, Society of the Sons
of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial
Wars, and the Calumet, the Catholic? the
Players', the Graduates', the Salmagundi,
and National Arts Clubs. Dr. Houghton
married, in 1871, Mary C. Pirsson, daugh
ter of Talbot Pirsson, of New York. Ad
dress : 1 East Twenty-ninth Street. New
York City.
HOCSER, Gilbert Logan:
Professor of biology ; born on an Iowa
farm, July 9, 1866. His preparatory edu
cation was given by local academies and
colleges. Entering the University of Iowa,
he pursued an undergraduate course in
that institution, receiving the degree of
B.S. in 1891. A year was subsequently
spent in graduate study at the University
of Iowa, leading to the degree of M.S.,
1902. Graduate studies were continued
later at the University of Chicago and the
Johns Hopkins University, the latter of
which conferred the degree of Ph.D. in
1901. Receiving an appointment as instruc
tor in biology in the University of Iowa in

1892, he has gradually been advanced to
positions of larger and larger responsibili
ties, culminating in his election to the
professorship of animal biology in 1897,
a position which he yet fills as director of
the Laboratories of Animal Biology.- A
biological expedition of three months to the
West Indies, and four seasons' work at the
Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, have provided the
stimulus for the pursuit of numerous re
searches. Two short papers were published
early — The Uses of Formaldehyde in Ani
mal Morphology, and The Nerve-Cells of
the Shark's Brain. A monograph followed
on The Neurones and Supporting Elements
of the Brain of a Selachian. Among later
publications may be mentioned — Intracellu
lar Canaliculi of the Liver; Methods for
the Microscopical Study of the Nervous
System; The Animal Cell in the Light of
Recent Work. The researches in progress
at present pertain to the fields of the archi
tecture of the nervous system of the lower
vertebrates, the biology of the animal
cell, and the rapidly expanding experi
mental biology. Opportunity for some ex
pression is given as a collaborator of the
American Journal of Anatomy. Dr. Houser
is a member of the Society of American
Naturalists, the Society of American Zo
ologists, and Sigma Xi; and he is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Iowa
Academy of Science. He is married and
has two boys. Residence : 430 Iowa Ave
nue, Iowa City, Iowa.
HOUSTON, A. Ross:
Was born in Middletown, Orange Coun
ty, New York, March 20, 1847, his parents
being Anthony Houston and Mary Ross,
whose ancestors were of the early families
of the county, of Scotch and Irish descent,
and having had representatives in the mili--
tary service in the Wars of the Revolution
and 1812. Captain Houston received his
early education under private tuition . and
at the Walkill Academy in Middletown,
New York. Fie entered the Army at the
age of sixteen, at which time he was pre
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at the Naval Academy of the United
States. He was commissioned second lieu
tenant, Fourth Regiment of Engineers,
Corps d'Afrique, in September, 1863, and
ordered to report at New Orleans, Louisi
ana. February 25, 1864, he was promoted
to first lieutenant, and was assigned to duty
as aide-de-camp at the headquarters of the
Engineer Brigade, New Orleans, Louisi
ana, while the organization was being com
pleted. He was appointed aide-de-camp at
the headquarters of the Department of the
Gulf, General Banks commanding, ¦ in
March, 1864, and served during the Red
River, Louisiana, campaign, being in the
engagements and battles of Natchitoches,
March 20; Crump's Hill, April 2; Compte,
April 4; Wilson's Farm, April 7; Sabine
Cross-Roads, April 8; Pleasant Hill, April
9; Monete's Bluff, Cane River, April 23;
Alexandria, April 26; Governor Moore's
Plantation, May 2 ; Dunn's Bayou,- May s ;
and Mansura, May 14 and 16. Being young,
alert, and a good horseman, his duties were
continuous and severe during the whole
campaign ; while escaping himself the bul
lets of the enemy, two horses were shot
under him in the terrific battles of Sabine
Cross-Roads and Pleasant Hill, and an
other horse killed when the headquarters
were stampeded by the enemy firing on
them from trees and elevations across the
river below Alexandria. Captain Houston
was picked up for dead, being badly in
jured by being dragged by his wounded
horse and trodden on by the cavalry escort.
In this campaign Captain Houston received
special commendation for his ride, after the
battle at Monete's Bluff, outside the lines
of the Army, through country occupied by
the enemy, to Alexandria, to notify Gen
eral Grover of the safety and approach of
the retreating Army, and of the early re
lief of General Grover's forces from at
tacks already begun. In 1865 Captain
Houston served at the headquarters of
General E. R. S. Canby, during the cam
paign against Mobile, in the seige and cap
ture of Spanish Fort and Blakely, March
26 to April 9, and the surrender of Mobile,
April 11; He was retained in service after

the close of the war by special order of
the Secretary of War. In the winter of
1865-66 he was on duty as provost-mar
shal, and Freedmen's Bureau Agent in
charge of the parishes of Iberville and
West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In No
vember, 1865, he was appointed captain of
Independent Company of Pontoniers
(white), Department of the Gulf. Af
ter his war service was over he entered
the employment of the Engineer Depart
ment, United States Army, and has re
mained continuously engaged in this de
partment up to the present time, serving
on the New England Coast and on works
connected with the Great Lakes and rivers
of the Northwest, living at Newport,
Rhode Island, Chicago, and Milwaukee.
Captain Houston is a companion of the
loyal legion of the United States, through
the Commandery of Wisconsin, and has
served as member of council, chancellor,
and junior vice-commander, and as re
corder from May, 1889, until the present
time. Address : Commandery, Milwau
kee, Wisconsin.
HOUSTON, Howard H.:
Ex-mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania ; was
born at Christiania, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, February 16, 1861 ; educated
at public schools in his native place, Ham-
berg-Seiter Academy, Greensboro, North
Carolina ; Chester Academy and State Nor
mal School, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
In 1881 entered office of Chester Rolling
Mills and learned every branch of the
indutsry. In 1892 formed a copartnership
(iron, coal and coke business) with C. B.
Houston & Company, of which he is now
senior member. Actively engaged in min
ing and operating coal deposits in West
Virginia and Pocahontas fields. He is vice-
president of the Houston Coke and Coal
Company, director of Chester National
Bank, Cambridge Trust Company, Chester
Hospital, Chester Free Library, and is
officially connected with several corpora
tions in West Virginia. Republican in poli
tics. In 1897 was elected to Council of
old South Chester Borough ; 1898-1903
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1903 Mayor of Chester. Member of Penn
sylvania Club and Springhaven Golf Club.
October 4, 1888, he married Nellie Matlack,
ofNegaune, Michigan. Address: Chester,
Pennsylvania.
HOVEY, Edmund Otis:
Geologist; born in New Haven, Con
necticut, September 15, 1862; son of Hor
ace Carter and Helen L. (Blatchley) Ho-
vey; educated public schools, Peoria, Illi
nois; Kansas City, Missouri; New Flaven,
Connecticut; graduated Yaie University,
A.B., 1884; Ph.D., 1889; studied at Heidel
berg, Germany, 1890-91. Principal schools
Janesville, Minnesota, 1884-85; Elk River,
Minnesota, 1885-86; assistant Mineral Lab
oratory, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale,
1886-87; assistant principal Waterbury
(Connecticut) High School, 1888-91; prin
cipal same, 1891-92; superintendent Mis
souri Mineral Exhibit, Columbian Exposi
tion, 1892-93; assistant United States Geo
logical Survey, 1890, 1903-06 ; assistant cura
tor geological department American Mu
seum of Natural History, 1894-1900; asso
ciate curator since 1901. Has traveled in
Russia, including Russian Armenia ; Lesser
Antilles for special study of the eruption of
Mt. Pelee and the Soufriere in 1902-03; in
Mexico and in other regions. Corresponding
member Sociedad Cientifica Antonio Alzate,
Mexico. Fellow American Association for
the Advancement of Science (secretary
Section E, 1903, 1904-07), Geological So
ciety of America (secretary since 1907), As
sociation American Geographers, American
Institute of Mining Engineers ; fellow New
York Academy of Science (vice-president,
1905-06 ; recording secretary since 1907) ;
member Seismological Society of America,
National Geographic Society, New York
Mineralogical Club (president, 1906) ; dele
gate to International Geological Congress,
'1897, 1903, 1906. Is particularly interested
in vulcanology and general geology. Au
thor of many papers on geological subjects.
Club : Century. Married, New Haven, Con
necticut, September 13, 1888, Esther A. Lan-
craft. Address : American Museum' of Na
tural History, New York City.

HO VET, Henry Emerson:
Clergyman; born in Lowell, Massachu
setts; son of Charles Hovey and Catharine
(Smith) Hovey. He was graduated from
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut as-
B.A. in 1866 and M.A. in 1869, and from
the General Theological Seminary, New
York City as LL.B. in 1869. He received
ordination in the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in 1869; and the same
year became rector of St. John's Church
at Fort Hamilton; rector Church of the
Ascension, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1871 ;
rector of St. Barnabas Church, Brooklyn,
1873, and rector of St. John's Church,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire since 1882.
He is president and was a founder of the
Portsmouth Hospital; president of the
Portsmouth Children's Home,, president of
the New Hampshire Society of Sons of
the Revolution, and trustee of the Home
for Aged Women; and he is a member
of the Portsmouth School Board, and of
the Boston Athletic Association. Mr. Hovey
is a Republican in politics. He married
in St. George's Church, New York, April
19, 1871, Louise Folsom; and they have
five children : Sarah, Katharine, Louise,
Ethel and Emerson. Address : The Rect
ory, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
HOWARD, Arthur Day:
Professor of biology; born at Glencoe,
Illinois, September 30, 1874; son of Gen,
Charles Henry Howard and Mary Kath
arine (Foster) Howard. He was graduat
ed from Amherst College as B.S. in 1898,
from Northwestern University as M.S. in
1901, and from Harvard University as Ph.D.
in 1906. He was Army secretary of the
Young Men's Christian Association from
1898 to 1899, instructor in the Boys' School,
Englewood, New Jersey, in 1899 and 1900;
and has been professor of biology and
geology in Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pennsylvania, since 1907.- Dr.
Howard is a Republican in politics, and a
Presbyterian in his religious faith, is a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American
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al History -Society. Address: New Wil
mington, Pennsylvania.

HOWARD, Bronson:
Dramatic author ;- born in Detroit in 1842.
His father was a ship owner, and the
mayor of Detroit in 1849. He was edu
cated at Russle's Institute, New Haven,
Connecticut. He began his career as a
newspaper man in 1862 working on The
Evening Mail, The Tribune, and The
Evening Post, in New York. In 1866
he retired from journalism to devote him
self to* dramatic authorship. During his
career he has' written scores of comedies
and dramas, among the most successful of
which are: Saratoga, The Banker's Daugh
ter, Young Mrs. Winthrop, The Henrietta
and Shenandoah. Mr. Howard is one of
the foremost American dramatists. He
married Alice Wyndham, a sister of Sir
Charles Wyndham, in London m 1880. Ad
dress: The Lambs' Club, New York.
HOWARD, Charles Beni;:
Editor, and publisher; born at Leeds,
Kennebec County, Maine, August 28, 1838;
son of Rowland Bailey and Eliza (Otis)
Howard. He received his college prepara
tion at Yarmouth Academy and Kent's Hill
Seminary. He entered Bowdoin College
and was graduated in 1859. He began the
study of theology in the Bangor Theologi
cal Seminary in the fall of i860, but upon
the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861
quit his studies to enlist in the Third Maine
Regiment, commanded by his brother, O.
0. Howard, who ultimately attained such
eminence as a commanding general in the
Union Army. Young Howard remained in
the army seven years. He was promoted
to second lieutenant in January, 1862, and
served as an aide-de-camp in the first bat
tle of Bull Run, and also in other famous
battles of the Army of the Potomac, in
cluding Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair
Oaks, South Mountain, Antietam, Freder
icksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
He was promoted to the rank of major
early in 1863 and to that of lieutenant-colo
nel and corps inspector of the Fourth Army
Corps in the spring of 1864. He served

under General Grant in the battles around
Chattanooga, and was with Sherman in his
march to the sea. He was brevetted colo
nel after the battle of Gettysburg and briga
dier-general after the battles around At
lanta. He was chief of staff for Major-
General Saxton and inspector of schools
for South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
In 1866 he was transferred to Washington
City as assistant commissioner of refugees,
freedmen and abandoned lands for the Dis
trict of Columbia, three counties of Vir
ginia, and the States of Maryland, Dela
ware and West Virginia. He remained on
this duty until he left the service in 1868.
For the following five years he was West
ern secretary of the American Missionary
Society, with headquarters at Chicago, Illi
nois. He was editor-in-chief of The Ad
vance at Chicago, from 1873 to 1882; for
three years Indian inspector under the Sec
retary of the Interior, and for one year
was the Western editor and business man
ager of the National Tribune, the organ of
the veteran soldiers, at Washington, D. C.
For more than twenty years he had the
editorial control of the Farm, Field and
Fireside, and was also treasurer of the
Howard Company, by which it was pub
lished. He retired from business in 1906.
He is a Republican, but went with the silver
wing of the party in 1896. He supported
Roosevelt in 1904. He is one of the trus
tees and president of the New Trier Town
ship High School of Cook County, Illinois,
a member of the Illinois Commandery of
the Loyal Legion, and of the Congregation
alist Church. He was married in 1867 to
Katherine Foster, at Bangor, Maine, and
has seven children. Residence: Glencoe, Il
linois.HOWARD, George Elliott:
University professor; born at Saratoga,
New York, October 1, 1849; son of Isaac
Howard and Margaret (Hardin) Howard.
After preparatory training in the State
Normal School of Nebraska he entered the
University of Nebraska, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1876 and Ph.D.
iri 1894 ; became professor- of history there
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tory at Leland Stanford University from
1891 to 1901. He was professor of history
in the summer session of Cornell Univers
ity in 1902; professorial lecturer in history
in the University of Chicago in 1903 and
1904; since then at the University of Ne
braska, where he is head professor of pol
itical science and sociology. Professor
Howard is author of: Local Constitutional
History of the United States (Baltimore),
1889; Development of the King's Peace,
1891 ; History of Matrimonial Institutions,
three volumes (Chicago and London),
1904; Preliminaries of the Revolution, 1905
(Harper and Brothers).; Social Control
and the Function of the Family in the In
ternational Congress of Arts and Science,
VII, 1906, (Houghton, Mifflin & Company) ;
and many articles in encyclopedias and
periodicals. Professor Howard is a mem
ber of the American Political Science As
sociation, American Historical As
sociation, and American Sociological So
ciety. Address : 1910 E Street, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
HOWARD, John Raymond:
Publisher, book editor ; born in Brooklyn,
New York, May 25, 1837; graduate from
University of Rochester, 1857, A.B.; i860,
A.M. Traveled in America, 1858; instruct
or Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1859;
traveled and studied in Europe, 1859-61;
served during Civil War as captain and
aide-de-camp, United States Volunteers,
August, 1861, to February, 1865 ; editor of
reports with Adelberg and Raymond, min
ing engineers, 1865 ; editorial writer New
York Times and New York Examiner and
Chronicle, 1866-67; since December, 1867,
partner and editorial manager in publishing
business (J. B. Ford & Company and Fords,
Howard & Hulbert). Author of: Henry
Ward Beecher — A Study; sundry lectures
and many articles, chiefly in the Outlook.
Editor : Patriotic Addresses by H. W.
Beecher; Bible Studies by H. W.
Beecher ; Sermon Briefs by H. W.
Beecher ; Educational Nuggets ; Patriotic
Nuggets ; Historical Nuggets ; A Treasury
of Illustration, by H. W. Beecher (with
T. J. Ellinwood) ; Prose You Ought to

Know ; One Hundred Best American
Poems; and, as managing editor (with
Bliss Carman and others) ; The World's
Best Poetry. Married, 1871, Susan R.
Merriam, Of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Residence and address : Montclair, . New
Jersey. HOWARD, Josiah:
President of C. B. Howard Company,
manufacturers of lumber; born in Will
iamsport, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1861 ;
son of Charles B. and Lucetta Morris
Howard. Admitted to partnership' in the
lumber business with, his father in 1887;
elected Burgess of Emporium, Pennsylvan
ia, in 1903. Member of Republican Party.
Elected vice-president of the Pennsylvania
State Sabbath School Association in 1903.
Married to Laura Ann Bisel, June 17, 1886.
Address : Emporium, Pennsylvania.
HOWARD, Leland Ossian:
Entomologist; born at Rockford, Illinois,
June 11, 1857; son of Ossian Gregory
Howard and Lucy Dunham (Thurber)
Howard. He was graduated from Cornell
University with the degree of B.S. in 1877,
and received the degree of M.S. in 1883,
and from Georgetown University the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1896. As an undergrad
uate he worked with Professor Comstock
in the Department of Entomology, iand
from 1878 to 1886 was an assistant en
tomologist in the United States Department
of Agriculture. He was made first assist
ant in 1886, and since 1894 has been chief
of the Bureau of Entomology in the Depart
ment of Agriculture. He is distinguished
for his special studies of the parasitic
hymenoptera and their habits and host re
lations, numerous investigations in econom
ic entomology, and an especially exhaustive
investigation in the ecology of mosquitoes.
He has been honorary curator of the Unit
ed States National Museum since October
31, 1895, and consulting entomologist of the
United States Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service since 1902. Dr. Howard
is author of: Mosquitoes — How They
Live, etc., 1901 ; The Insect Book, 1902
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many Government publications and mono
graphs; and contributor in entomology to
the Century Dictionary, Standard Diction
ary, and New International Encyclopedia.
Dr. Howard is permanent secretary of the
American Association for the Advancement
, of Science, a position which places him in
close touch with practically the entire body
of working scientists in this country, is a
member and was president in 1894 of the
Association of Economic Entomologists;
member and was president in 1897 and 1898
of tlie Biological Society of Washington
and member of many other American and
foreign scientific societies. He is also a
member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity
and of the Cosmos Club of Washington.
Dr. Howard married in Washington, D. C,
April 28, 1886, Marie T. Clifton, and they
have three children : Lucy Thurber, born
April 4, 1892, Candace Leland, born No
vember 3, 1896, and Janet Moore, born
January 21, 1901. Address : Cosmos Club,
Washington, D. C.
HOWARD, Oliver Otis:
Major-General of the United States
Army, retired; born at Leeds, Maine, No
vember 8, 1830; son of Rowland Bailey
Howard and Eliza (Otis) Howard. He
was prepared in the academies at Yar
mouth and Monmouth, Maine, and then
entered Bowdoin College from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1850, and later
received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D.
from Bowdoin, and LL.D. from Water
ville College, Shurtleff College, and Gettys
burg Theological Seminary. He entered
West Point as a cadet in 1850 and was
graduated in 1854, and promoted second
lieutenant in the Ordnance Department.
He was stationed first at Watervliet Ar
senal, New York, and in 1855 was in com
mand of Kennebec Arsenal, Maine; chief
of ordnance in the field against the Semi
nole Indians, under General Harney in
1856 and 1857; promoted first lieutenant
July 1, 1857; instructor in mathematics at
the United States Military Academy from
1857 to 1861; resigned and was elected in
May, 1861, colonel of the Third Maine
Volunteers, which he organized and took

to Washington, when he was directed by
General McDowell to select three other
regiments besides his own; selected the
Fourth and Fifth Maine and Second Ver
mont regiments, and commanded this bri
gade in the first battle of Bull Run; pro
moted to brigadier-general of volunteers
September 3, 1861 ; organized a new brigade
and commanded it through the winter and
spring of 1861 and 1862 and with it had
his first independent expedition to Rappa
hannock under General Sumner; then with
McClellan's Army, back to Alexandria and
by water to the Peninsula, in the battles of
Yorktown, Williamsburg and at Fair Oaks,
where he was twice wounded and had two
horses shot under him, receiving for this
the Medal of Honor. His arm being ampu- -
tated he was on leave for two months,
spending the period of convalescence raising
volunteers in Maine and filling the quota
of that State ; returned to the field, was
assigned to command the Second Brigade
of the Second Division, commanded it in
the second battle of Buil Run, and at An
tietam, and when his division commander,
General Sedgewick, was wounded, he suc
ceeded to the command of the Second Di
vision, Second Corps, to the completion of
the battle, and also in the Battle of Fred
ericksburg, with other divisions storming
Marie's Heights, and commanded that di
vision and sometimes the Second Corps,
during trie winter of 1862 and 1863; pro
moted major-general of volunteers, No
vember 29, 1862; assigned to command of
Eleventh Army Corps, was at Chancellors
ville, where the corps was repulsed from
Stonewall Jackson's attack, and at Gettys
burg, where, the first day, he selected the
battleground and held it, keeping a su
perior force in check from General Reyn
olds till near night • and participated with
credit in remainder of the battle; after
ward in the Army of the Cumberland,
commanding corps at the battles of Wau-
hatchie, Missionary Ridge, and relief of
Knoxville ; commanded Fourth Army
Corps from April, 1864, in the Battles of
Dalton, Resaca, Adairsville, Kingston and
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Muddy Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna
Camp Ground, Peach Tree Creek, Ezra
Church, Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station,
and after the Battle of Atlanta, in which
General McPherson was slain, General
Howard commanded the Army of the Ten
nessee. For services in the Battle of
Jonesboro, General Howard was brevetted
major-general in the regular army, March
13, 1865. He commanded the Army of the
Tennessee through the battles and marches
of the last year of the war to Johnston's
surrender. He was made a brigadier-gen
eral in the regular army, December 21,
1865. From May 12, 1865, he was for
seven years commissioner of the Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen and 'Abandoned
Lands, and accomplished a most success
ful work in alleviating the suffering of
freedmen, and especially in the educational
features, having founded many permanent
institutions of learning, such as Howard
Institute, Hampton Institute, Atlanta Uni
versity, Lincoln, Fiske, Straight and other
universities. He was appointed in 1872
as a commissioner to make peace with the
Chiricahua Indians, and to settle difficulties
with other tribes in New Mexico and Ari
zona, which he accomplished without arms ;
commanded the Department of the Colum
bia from 1874 to 1880, and passed through
the Nez Perce War of 1877 and the Piate
and Bannock War of 1878; in 1879, a tribe
known as the Sheepeaters becoming re
bellious near Salmon River, he sent out
and captured them en masse, brought them
in as prisoners, put them at work at Van
couver, and put their children in school.
He was superintendent of the United
States Military Academy from 1880 to 1882 ;
commanded the Department of the Platte
from 1882 uritil his promotion to major-
general in the regular army, March 19,
1886; commanded the Military Division of
the Pacific, 1886 to 1888, then the Military
Division of the Atlantic and later the De
partment of the East until his retirement
November 8, 1894. Organized the Lin
coln Memorial University at Cumberland
Gap, Tennessee, for education of the moun
taineers, of which he was managing di

rector and is now president of the Board
of Trustees. During the Spanish-American
War he was constantly in the field in the
interest of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation, giving addresses in all camps from
Chickamauga to Cuba. General Howard is
author of several works on historical sub
jects, as well as articles on subjects of cur
rent interest and on military topics in
various journals. He married in Portland,
Maine, February 14, 1855, Elizabeth Ann
Waite, and they have had seven children:
Colonel Guy Howard, born in 1855, died in
1899; Grace Ellen, born 1859, married J.
S."Gray; Chanecy Otis, born in 1863; Cap
tain John, United States Army, born 1866;
Harry Stinson, born 1869; and Elizabeth,
born 1871, married Joseph Bancroft. Ad
dress : Burlington, Vermont.
HOWARD, William Marcellus:
Congressman; born in Berwick City,
Louisiana, December 6, 1857; of Georgia
parents. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Georgia; began practice of law
February, 1880; was elected solicitor-gen
eral of the Northern Circuit of Georgia by
the State Legislature in 1884; reelected to
that office in 1888 and in 1892; was elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses,
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from
the Eighth Georgia District. Address : Lex
ington, Georgia.
HOWDEN, Frederick B,:
Clergyman; born at Staten Island, New
York, December 10, 1869; son of William
D. Howden and Esther Y. (Orrell) How-
den. He received his education at St.
Austin's School, Staten Island, New York,
Trinity College, the University of Toronto,
and the General Theological Seminary, New
York, from which he was graduated with
the degrees of B.A. in 1891, and M.A. in
1893. He was assistant minister of St.
John's Church, Detroit, in 1894; assistant
minister of Calvary Church, New York,
from 1895 to 1897; rector of Emmanuel
Church, Cumberland, Maryland, from 1897
to 1902; was archdeacon of Cumberland,
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St. John's, Georgetown parish, since March
1902, and examining chaplain to Bishop of
Washington since 1904. He is a member of
of the. Golf Club, and on its Board of
Governors. He married in New York,
February 20, 1895, Angelica C. Faber, and
they have six children, three boys and
' three girls. Address : St. John's Rectory,
3238 O Street, Washington, D. C.
HOWE, Charles Sumner:
President of Case School of Applied Sci
ence; born at Nashua, New Hampshire,
September 29, 1858; son of William R. and
Susan D. (Woods) Howe. He was grad
uated from the Massachusetts Agricultural
College and from the Boston University in
1878 with the degree of B.S., taking a
post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity during the year 1882-83. The de
gree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him
by the University of Wooster in 1887, and
that of D.Sc. by the Armour Institute of
Technology in 1905. After his graduation
from college in 1878 he went West, becom
ing principal of Albuquerque Academy, Al
buquerque, New Mexico, for three years,
1879 to 1881. Then followed the year at
Johns Hopkins, after which he was ap
pointed, in 1883, professor of mathematics
and astronomy at Buchtel College, Akron,
Ohio, which position he filled for six years.
In 1889 he was offered the chair of mathe
matics and astronomy in the Case School
of Applied Science, being in 1902 elected
to the presidency of that institution. Dr.
Howe is affiliated with the Republican
party and is a member of the Congregation
al Church. He was married at North Am
herst; Massachusetts, May 22, 1882, to Abbie
A. Waite, and has three children : William
C. (aged twenty-three), Erie W. (aged six
teen), Francis E. (aged twelve). Address:
68 Cornell Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
HOWE, Church:
Consular official; born in Massachusetts.
Consul at Palermo, July 26, 1897 ; consul at
Sheffield, August 25, 1900 ; consul-general at
Antwerp, September -8, 1903; consul-general
at' Montreal, June 22, 1906. Salary, $6,000
per annum. Address : Montreal, Quebec.

HOWE, Edgar Watson:
Editor Atchison Globe; author of: The
Story of a Country Town; A Moonlight
Boy; Daily Notes of a Trip Around the
World, etc. Of The Story of a Coun
try Town; W. D. Howells said in the
Century : "A fiction which is of the kind
most characteristic of our time, and which
no student of our time hereafter can safely
ignore. Address : Atchison, Kansas.
HOWE, Henry Marion:
Consulting metallurgist; professor of
metallurgy; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 2, 1848; son of Samuel Gridley and
Julia (Ward) Howe. He graduated from
the Boston Latin School in 1865; grad
uated from Harvard College as A.B. in
1869; A.M. in 1872; LL.D. in 1905, LL.D.
from Lafayette College 1905. He designed
and built works at Orford Nickel and Cop
per Company at Capelton and at Eustis,
Canada, and at Bergen Point, New Jersey;
from 1880 to 1882; in Boston engaged as
consulting metallurgist and expert in
metallurgical, patent causes and as lecturer
on metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology from 1883 to 1897; professor
of metallurgy at Columbia University since
1897; in 1890 introduced into this country
the manufacture of manganese steel and
of the Hadfield projectiles; takes active part
in the management of company which car
ries on this industry; member of jury in
the class of mining and metallurgical pro
cesses, Paris Exposition in 1889 and 1900;
in 1893 was president of jury of awards on
mines and mining at World's Columbian
Exposition; has been president of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers
and three terms president of the Alumni
Association of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; is a Knight of the Order
of St Stanislas of Russia, Chevalier of
the Legion d'Honneur of France, honorary
member of the Russian Imperial Tech
nical Society, the Societe d'Ericouragement
pour l'Industrie Nationale of France, the
British Institution of Mining and Metal
lurgy, the Dallas Historical Society, The
Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He is
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sophical Society. His Metallurgy of Steel,
published in 1890, and translated into
French brought him recognition by scien
tific societies at home and abroad, and
among other things the Cordon Bleu of
metallurgists, the Bessemer Gold Medal, the
'2,500 francs prize awarded by the French
Societe d'Encouragement pour l'lndustrie
Nationale, a gold medal by the Verein zur
Beforderung des Gewerbfleisses of Ger
many, and the Franklin Institute of Phila
delphia. After his Metallurgy of Steel his
most important works are : Copper Smelt
ing; Metallurgical Laboratory of Notes, the
first text-book for the metallurgical labora
tory ever written, translated into French
and now translating into German, and Iron,
Steel and Other Alloys, which is now trans
lating into Russian ; besides these he has
published more than 100 professional pa
pers. He is second vice-president of
the Taylor Iron and Steel Company; di
rector of the Manganese Steel Safe De
posit; member of the firm of Howe and
Stoughton. Mr. Howe is a member of
the Engineers', Century, Harvard, and
Technology Clubs. He married at Troy,
New York, April 7, 1874, Fannie Gay. Ad
dress : 27 West Twenty-third Street, New
York City, and Green Peace, Bedford Sta
tion, New York.
HOWE, James Sullivan:
Physician; born in Longwood, Massa
chusetts, July 7, 1858; son of Solomon
Henry Howe and Lucinda (Savage) Howe.
He attended St. Mark's School, Southboro,
Massachusetts, Harvard College in 1877
and 1878, Harvard Medical School, and
in Vienna, Paris and London. He was
physician of Boston Dispensary from 1884
to 1886 and has been physician of diseases
of the skin in that institution since 1886;
was assistant physician for diseases of
the skin at Boston City Hospital from 1886
to 1892 and physician for diseases of the
skin since 1892, at the same hospital, and
has been professor of Tufts College since
1898. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the American Dermato
logical Association, Massachusetts Medical
Society and Boston Dermatological So

ciety. His favorite recrations are golf,
shooting and fishing. He is a member of
the Puritan Club of Boston and Country
Club of Brookline. Dr. Howe married in
Boston, December, 1882, Annie Louisa
Bigelow, and they have two children: Fan
ny Reynolds and James S., Jr. Residence:
26 Chestnut Street, Brookline. Address: •
437 Marlboro Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.
HOWE, Malverd Abijali:
Professor of civil engineering; born in
Northfield, Vermont, December 9, 1863;
son of Dr. Asa Howe and Lucy Ann Fran-,
ces (Cummings) Howe. He was educated
in grade and high schools in Northfield, Ver
mont, was graduated from Norwich Univer
sity as B.S. in 1882, and from the Thayer
School of Dartmouth College, as CE. in
1886. He was instructor in surveying and
drawing at , Harvard University in 1886 and
1887; and has been professor of civil en
gineering at Rose Polytechnic Institute,
at Terre Haute, Indiana, since 1887. His
outside practice is confined principally to
bridges and buildings. He is author of:
Sabula Draw by Graphies, 1887; Retain
ing Walls for Earth, fourth edition, 1907;
A Treatise on Arches, second edition, 1907;
Design of Simple Roof Trusses in
Wood and Steel, second edition, 1907;
Symmetrical Masonry Arches, 1907; The
ory of the Continuous Girder, 1889; Maxi
mum Stresses in Draw Bridges, 1894;
Formulas, Diagrams and Tables for Engi
neers and Architects, 1893 ; Tables for Use in
the Application of Least Squares, 1890; Some
Experiments to Determine the Strength of
American Sewer Pipe, 1891 ; and Bridge
Deflections, 1895. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers and
of the Society for the promotion of En
gineering Education. Professor Howe
married in Emporia, Kansas, June 25, 1888,
Jessie White, and they have one son,
homer Asa Howe, born in 1889. Resi
dence: 2108 North Tenth Street, Terre
Haute. Address: Rose Polytechnic Insti
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HOWE, Mark Antony De Wolfe:
Editor and writer ; born in Bristol, Rhode
Island, August 28, 1864; son of Rt. Rev.
M. A. DeWolfe Howe and Eliza (Whit
ney) Howe. He was graduated from
Lehigh University as B.A. in 1886, and
from Harvard University as- A.B. in 1887
and A.M. in 1888. He was associate editor
of the Youth's Companion, Boston, from
1888 to 1893; assistant editor of the At
lantic Monthly, Boston, from 1893 to 1895,
and has been associate editor of the Youth's
Companion since 1899. He is author of:
Shadows, 1897; American Bookman, 1898;
Phillips Brooks, 1899 ; and Boston : The
Place and the People, 1903 ; editor of The
Memory of Lincoln, 1899, and the Beacon
Biographies, (twenty-seven volumes). In
politics he is an Independent Republican
and in religion an Episcopalian. He is a
member of the Tavern and Union Boat
Clubs of Boston, of the Chi Phi fraternity,
and of the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety. His favorite recreations are lawn
tennis and sailing. Mr. Howe married in
Boston, September 21, 1899, Fanny Hunt
ington Quincy, and they have three chil
dren. Residence : 26 Brimmer Street,
Boston. Address : 201 Columbus Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts.
HOWE, Marshall Avery:
Curator; born at Newfane, Vermont,
June 6, 1867; son of Marshall Otis and
Gertrude I. (Dexter) Howe ; graduated at
University of Vermont, Ph.B., 1890; Co
lumbia University, Ph.D., 1898; instructor
in cryptogamic botany, University of Cali
fornia, 1891-96; curator of the herbarium,
Columbia University, 1899-1901 ; assistant
curator, New York Botanical Garden, 1901-
06; curator of the museum, same, since
1906 ; editor of Torreya since 1901 ; mem
ber of scientific expeditions to Newfound
land and the West Indies, 1901-07-; makes a
special study of the marine algae. Fellow
New York Academy of Sciences, A. A. A.
S. ; member Botanical Society of America,
National Geographical Society, Phi Beta
Kappa, Sigma Xi and Phi Delta Theta fra
ternities; has written various papers and
monographs on botanical subjects. Ad

dress : New York Botanical Garden,
Bronx Park, New York City.
HOWE, William Wirt:
Lawyer; born at Canandaigua, New
York, November 24, 1833; son of Henry
Howe and Laura (Merrill) Howe. He
was graduated from Hamilton College as
valedictorian with the A.B. degree in 1853;
studied law in St. Louis, Missouri from
1853 to 1855 and was assistant editor of '
the St. Louis Republican, and was admitted
to the bar of New York State. He enlist
ed in the Union Army in 1861, was com
missioned lieutenant in 1862 and major in
1863, and after the War settled in the
practice of law in New Orleans in 1865,
and is now head of the law firm of Howe,
Fenner, Spencer and Cocke. He was judge
of the Supreme Court of Louisiana from
1868 to 1872, treasurer of the University
of Louisiana in 1875; administrator of the
Charity Hospital in 1877; president of the
Louisiana Historical Society in 1881 ; presi
dent of the Civil Service Commission of
New Orleans in 1897, and in 1900 was ap
pointed United States' Attorney for the
Eastern District of Louisiana, which office
he still holds. He was president of the
American Bar Association in 1897 and 1898.
He is a Republican in politics and, a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church; and he is a
member of the Boston Club of New Or
leans. Judge Howe married in Utica, New
York, June 4, 1862, Frances A. Gridley ; and
they have two daughters : Bessy H. Heu-
ard and Frances L. Cocke, and one son,
Wirt Howe of the New York bar. Address :
1304 Second Street, New Orleans, La.
HOWELL, Benjamin Franklin:
Congressman ; born in Cumberland, New
Jersey, January, 1844; in 1862 enlisted in the
Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers and served
until the close of the war ; was elected sur
rogate of Middlesex County in 1882, and
reelected for a second term in 1887; was
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-Seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses. Mr. Howell is a
Republican in politics. Address : New
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HOWELL, Clark:
Editor ; born in South Carolina, Septem
ber 21, 1863 ; graduated at the University
of Georgia in 1883 ; several times member
of Georgia General Assembly, as speaker
of the House, and president of the Senate ;
member for the past ten years National
Democratic Executive Committee from
Georgia; member board of directors of the
• Associated Press. Is editor-in-chief of the
Atlanta Constitution, of which company he
is president. Address : Atlanta, Georgia.
HOWELL, Joseph:
Congressman ; born February 17, 1857, in
Boxelder County, Utah. He attended com
mon schools and studied in Utah Univer
sity; his occupation is that of a merchant;
was formerly mayor of Wellsville, and a
member of the board of regents of Utah
University; served three terms in the Terri
torial Legislature and one in the State Sen
ate; was elected to the Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress. Mr. Howell is a Re
publican in politics. He was married Octo
ber 24, 1878, to Mary Maughan. Address :
Logan, Cache County, Utah.
HO WELLS, William Dean:
Author ; born in Ohio, 1837 ; son of
William Cooper and Mary (Dean) How-
ells; A.M., Harvard, 1877, Yale, 1885;
Litt.D., Yale, 1901 ; D.Litt, Oxford, 1904;
LL.D., Adelbert College, 1904; Litt.D., Co
lumbia, 1905. Worked as compositor, cor
respondent and editor in his father's and
other Ohio newspaper offices ; correspond
ent of Cincinnati Gazette, 1856 ; news editor
Ohio State Journal, 1859; United States
consul at Venice, 1861-65; editorial writer,
New York Times, and regular contributor
to New York Nation, 1865-66; sub-editor
and editor Atlantic Monthly, 1866-81 ; edi
torial contributor Harper's Magazine, 1886-
91, and was for a short time editor of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine. Contributed
poems to Ohio papers and Atlantic Month
ly before war period, many of which were
included in Poems of Two Friends, which
was published in collaboration with" John
J. Piatt. Wrote a Campaign Life of Lin

coln in i860. During his consular resi
dence in Venice engaged in writing books.
Author : Venetian Life ; Italian Journeys ;
Suburban Sketches; No Love Lost; Their.
Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaint
ance ; A Foregone Conclusion ; Out of the
Question; A. Counterfeit Presentment;
Poems; Lady of the Aroostook; The Un
discovered Country; A Fearful Responsi
bility, and Other Tales; Dr. Breen's Prac
tice ; A Modern Instance ; A Woman's Rea
son ; Three Villages ; The Rise of Silas
Lapham ; Tuscan Cities ; The Minister's
Charge ; Indian Summer ; Modern Italian
Poets ; April Hopes ; Annie Kilburn ;, A
Hazard of New Fortunes ; The Sleeping
Car and Other Farces ; The Mouse Trap
and Other Farces; The Shadow of a
Dream ; An Imperative Duty ; A Boy's
Town ; Criticism and Fiction ;- The Quality
of Mercy; A Little Swiss Sojourn; Christ
mas Every Day; The World of Chance;
The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveler from
Altruria; My Literary Passions; The Day
of Their Wedding; A Parting and , A
Meeting; Impressions and Experiences;
Stops of Various Quills ; The, Landlord at
Lion's Head; An Open-Eyed Conspiracy;
Stories of Ohio; The Story of a Play;
Ragged Lady* Their Silver Wedding Jour
ney; Literary Friends and Acquaintance;
A Pair of Patient Lovers; Heroines of
Fiction ; The Kentons ; Literature and Life ;
The Flight of Pony Baker; Questionable
Shapes ; Miss Bellard's Inspiration ; Lon
don Films ; Certain Delightful English
Towns ; Through the Eye of the Needle ;
Between the Dark and the Daylight.
Editor : Choice Autobiographies, with es
says (eight volumes) ; Library of Univer
sal Adventure. Married in Paris, 1862,
Elinor G. Mead. Club: Century. Address:
Care Harper & Brothers, New York City.
HOWER, M. Otis:
Manufacturer and banker; born in
Doylestown, Ohio, November 25, 1859; son
of John H. Hower and Susan (Yoiingker)
Hower. He was educated in the public
schools and Buchtel College at Akron,
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millers, until that business was consolidated
with the American Cereal Company, now
the Quaker Oats Company. He removed
to Chicago and became vice-president and
general manager of the American Cereal
Company until 1898, when he disposed of
his interests in that company and returned
to Akron. He is president of the Akron-
Sefle Company, the Bannock Coal Com
pany, Jahant Heating Company, Hower
Building Company, Lombard-Replogle En
gineering Company, Akron Hi-Potential
Company, Akron Skating Rink Company;
vice-president of the Central Savings and
Trust Company; director of the Home
Building and Loan Association and the Arc-
turus Lithia Water Company, all of Akron.
Mr. Hower is a Republican in politics and
a Lutheran in religious views. His travels
have covered North America thoroughly
and he has visited Europe frequently.
His favorite recreation is automobiling and
he is president of the Akron Automobile
Club; and he is a member of the Portage
Country Club. Address : 60 Fir Street,
Akron, Ohio.
HOWES, Reuben Wing:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
January 31, 1841 ; son of Reuben Wing
Howes (founder and first president of the
National Park Bank of New York City
and afterward of the firm of Howes and
Macy) and Melissa (Townsend) Howes.
After a thorough preparation in Charlier
Institute, he entered Columbia University
from which he received the degrees of
A.B. and A.M. in course and afterward
the degree of S.T.D. He was rector of
All Saints' Church at Briar Cliff in 1864
and 1865, and rector of Trinity Church,
Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1866 to 1874;
and while in the latter pastorate was also
chaplain of a New Jersey regiment from
1872 to 1874. Dr. Howes has lived much
abroad, and was for some time in charge
of the American Church in Geneva, Swit
zerland. He is a member of the Philosoph-
ian Society, and the Delta Phi fraternity.
He married in New York C'ty, November
15, 1864, Emilie Breeden, and they have
two sons : Reuben Wing III, and Towns-

end Howes. Address : Care of the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company, William
Street, New York City.
HOWIE, William Clarence:
Lawyer ; born in Davis County, Iowa
(near the Missouri Line), November 27,
i860; son of John Howie and Hannah O.
Evans. He was educated in the Southern
Iowa Normal and Scientific Institute at
Bloomfield, Iowa, and was graduated from
the Commercial Department in 1880, and
from the Scientific Department in 1883.
He taught school in Iowa and Nebraska
until 1890, and meanwhile studied law with
Good and Good (old classmates) at Wa-
hoo,- Nebraska, and was admitted to the
Nebraska bar there in 1888. In 1890 he
studied law in the office of M. B. Reese
at Lincoln, Nebraska, and in October, 1890,
located in the practice of law at Mountain
Home, Idaho, where he has since continued.
He was also a director of the Mountain
Home Publishing Company, and the Moun
tain Electric Lighting Company. Mr.
Howie is a Republican and active in poli
tics ; has been for fourteen years a mem
ber of the County Central Committee, and
of the State Central Committee for twelve
years. Since 1903 he has been president of
the Idaho State Dairy, Food and Oil Com
mission, and was for four years secretary
and two years president of the Mountain
Home School Board, and since 1902 a
member and for most of the time president
of the Mountain Home Public Library.
He is a director of the Idaho State Horti
cultural Society; president of the Mountain
Home Memorial Association; is a member
of the Masonic order, the Order of the
Eastern Star and the Modern Woodmen
of America, and is a member and director
of the Mountain Home Commercial Club.
Mr. Howie married at Oskaloosa, Iowa,
June 9, 1891, Ada Eunice Harris. Ad
dress : Mountain Home, Idaho.
HOWISON, George Holmes:
Mills professor of philosophy in the Uni
versity of California since 1884. He was
born in Montgomery County, Maryland,
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mes) Flowison. He was educated in Mari
etta College, Ohio (B.A., 1852; M.A., 1855) ;
Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati
(1852-55); studied, later, at University of
Berlin. Engaged in various educational of
fices in academies and public schools, as in
structor, town superintendent, and head
master, in Ohio and Massachusetts, 1855-
64; assistant professor of mathematics,
Washington University, St. Louis, 1864-
67; Tileston professor of political economy,
ibid, 1867-69 ; senior master in the English
high school, Boston, 1869-71 ; professor of
logic and the philosophy of science, Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, 1871-79;
lecturer on ethics, Harvard University,
1879-80; studying in Europe, chiefly at the
University of Berlin, 1880-82; lecturer on
logic and metaphysics, University of Michi
gan, 1883-84. Editor of the Philosophical
Publications of the University of Califor
nia, and of the Publications of the Philo
sophical Union ; one of the co-operating
editors of the Psychological Review, New
York; member of the American Editorial
Board of the Hibbert Journal, London.
LL.D., Marietta College, 1883. Member of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; of the American Histori
cal Association ; of the National Geographic
Society; and of the St. Louis Philosophi
cal Society; one of the two principal speak
ers before the Department of Philosophy,
Congress of Arts and- Science, Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Pub
lications : Treatise on Analytic Geometry,
1869; The Limits of Evolution, and other
Essays in Philosophy, 1901, second edition,
1905; Philosophy: Its Fundamental Con
ceptions and Its Methods (in Congress of
Arts and Science, Volume L), 1905; The
Conception of God (jointly with Professors
Royce, Le Conte, and Mezes), 1897. Mar
ried, 1863, Lois Thompson Caswell, of Nor
ton, Massachusetts. Address: 2631 Pied
mont Avenue, Berkeley, California.
HOWLAND, Alfred C:
Artist; born at Walpole, New Hamp
shire in 1838; son of Aaron P. Howland
and Huldah (Burke) Howland. His gen
eral education was received in the Walpole

High School and Academy, and he first
studied art in Boston in 1856 and 1857,
and was afterwards for three years in
New York. In i860 he went to Europe,
entering the Royal Academy at Diisseldorf
and later the private atelier of Professor
Albert Flamm. From Diisseldorf he went
to Paris and studied under Emil Lambinet,
After studying abroad for five years he
returned, to New York and opened a studio
where for more than forty years he has
been identified with the Art of this coun
try, winning distinction as a genre and
landscape painter. He was elected an
academician of the National Academy of
Design in 1882, and has served two terms
of three years each on its Council; and he
is also a member of the Artists' Fund So
ciety. He has exhibited yearly at the Na
tional Academy of Design, at many of the
leading galleries in the City, throughout the
United States and at Munich and Paris.
Examples of his work are included in the
permanent collections of the Layton Gal
lery at Milwaukee, Yale University and
the Century Association of New York.
He has traveled extensively in Europe,
painting in France, Holland and Germany,
visiting Italy, Switzerland, England and
Ireland. Mr. Howland is a member of the
Century Club of New York City. He
married at Williamstown, Massachusetts,
Clara Ward, of New York City, and they
have a son, Winthrop, born in 1873, and
a daughter, Alice, born in 1878. Address:
7 West Forty-third Street, New York City.
HOWLAND, Hewitt Hauson:
Editor; born in Indianapolis, October 8,
1863. Is editor of The Reader Magazine.
Address : University Club, Indianapolis,
Indiana.HOWRY, Charles Rowen:
Jurist ; born in Oxford, Mississippi, May
14, 1844; son of Judge James M. Howry.
He was educated in the University of
Mississippi before and after the Civil War,
and was graduated as LL.B. in 1867. He
served as private and second and first lieu
tenant in the Twenty-ninth Mississippi In
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of Franklin. After the war he practiced
law, was elected to several terms in the
Mississippi Legislature; trustee of the State
University of Mississippi from 1882 to 1894,
United States Attorney for the District of
Mississippi from 1885 to 1889, assistant at
torney-general of the United States, 1893-
1896; since 1896 associate justice of the
United States Court of Claims. The Uni
versity of Mississippi conferred upon him
the LL.D. degree in 1896. Residence : 1728
I Street, Washington, D. C.
HOXIE, Richard L.:
Lieutenant-Colonel of engineers of the
United, States Army; born in New York
City, August 7, 1844; son of Joseph Jr.,
and Jacqueline (Barry) Hoxie. He receiv
ed his education in public and private
schools at home and abroad, University of
Iowa, and at the United States Military
Academy. He enlisted June 13, 1861, in
the First Iowa Volunteer Cavalry; reenlist-
ed January, 1864; and was mustered out
to accept the appointment of cadet at the
United States Military Academy, June 10,
1864; graduated into Corps of Engineers,
United States Army, as second lieutenant
June, 1868; promoted first lieutenant, 1870;
assistant engineer on public works in the
harbor at Boston, Massachusetts, 1870 to
1872; was under orders of Lieutenant
Wheeler as assistant engineer on Western
exploration, from 1872 to 1874; chief en
gineer of the District of Columbia, from
1874 to 1878; promoted captain, 1882; in
charge of various river and harbor im
provements, surveys, etc., in Georgia, Flor
ida and Alabama, from 1883 to 1889; in
command of engineer company, and instruc
tor in military engineering in the School
of Application, Willet's Point, New York,
from 1889 to 1894; major, March 31, 1895;
lieutenant-colonel, April 23, 1904. Lieu
tenant-Colonel Hoxie is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of
the American Revolution, National Geo
graphic Society, and is a member of the
Metropolitan Club of Washington, the Uni
versity Club of Baltimore, and the Du

quesne Club of Pittsburgh. He married,
May -^3, 1878, Vinnie Ream (the sculptor),
and they have one son : Richard Ream
Floxie, born in 1884. Address : 1632 K
Street, N. W., Washington, ,D. C.
HOYNE, Thomas Maclay:
Lav,3'er; born in Galena, Illinois, July 17,
1843 ; son of Thomas and Leonora (Tem
ple) Hoyne. The family removed to Chi
cago while Thomas was in his early boy
hood and he received his education in that
city, passing through the high school course.
After leaving school he was for a time em
ployed in New York City, but returned to
Chicago, where he, studied law for three
years in the offices of Hoyne, Miller &
Lewis, of which his father was the senior
member, and -in the law school of the old
Chicago University, from which he was
graduated in 1866. The following year he
became a member of his father's firm, the
style becoming Hoyne, Horton & Hoyne.
On the death of his father in 1883 the firm
was changed to Horton & Hoyne, which
continued until 1887, when Mr. Horton was
elevated to the bench. Mr. Hoyne then be
came associated with George A. Follansbee
and John O'Connor, under the style of
Hoyne, Follansbee & O'Connor, which con
tinued until 1899, when the firm was changed
to Hoyne, O'Connor & Hoyne, Maclay
Hoyne, his son, becoming the junior part
ner. The firm is engaged in general prac
tice, but has made a specialty of commer
cial, real estate and probate law. Mr. Hoyne
is a Democrat and was one of the found
ers of the Democratic Club, the name of
which was changed in 1881 to the Iroquois
Club. In 1903, acting under the provisions
of the law of July I, 1901, each party nomi
nated three provisional candidates for addi
tional circuit judges of Cook County, and
Mr. Hoyne received three thousand iJQur
hundred and seventy-seven more votes than
the next highest candidate, but the Supreme
Court declared the election invalid. He is
a meinber of the Illinois State and Chicago
Bar Associations, the Chicago Law Insti
tute, and of the Iroquois and Law Clubs,
having been president of the former club
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nie T. Maclay, daughter of Moses B. Mac-
lay of New York City, and his children
are: Maclay, Thomas T., Archibald L.,
Susan, Eugene M., and Mary L. Address:
Stock Exchange Building. Residence: 3364
Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HOYT, Arthur Stephen:
Clergyman, theological professor; born
at Meridian, New York, January 3, 185 1 ;
son of Stephen Close and Betsey Ann
(Barnes) Hoyt; graduated at Auburn
High School, 1868; Hamilton College,
A.B., 1872; Auburn Theological Seminary,
1878; D.D., Hamilton College, 1891. Tutor
Robert College, Constantinople, 1872-75;
pastor Presbyterian Church, Oregon, Illi
nois, 1878-86. Professor English literature
and public speaking, Hamilton College,
1886-91 ; professor of homiletics and soci
ology, Auburn Theological Seminary.
Presbyterian since 1891. Author : The
Work of Preaching, 1905 (Macmillan).
Member Auburn School Board since 1896.
Trustee Seymour Library. Independent
Republican. Presbyterian. Member Psi
Upsilon fraternity. Recreations : Outdoor
sports, especially fly fishing and tennis.
Club : Owasco Country. Married at Au
burn, New York, October 8, 1879, Mary
Emma Hewson. Children : John Hewson,
died 1896; Hildegarde, 16. Address: 15
Seminary Street, Auburn, New York.
HOYT, Herbert W.:
Physician; born Wellsville, New York,
July 3, 1863; son of Julius and Martha
Hoyt; educated at Geneseo State Normal
School, 1884; University of Rochester,
A.B., 1888; Boston University School of
Medicine, M.D., 189 1 ; post-graduate study
in New York City and in Europe, 1897-98.
Member of Monroe County Flomoeopathic
Medical Society, the New York State
Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Amer
ican Institute of Homoeopathy; secre
tary American Homoeopathic Ophthalmolog
ical, Otological and Laryngological Society.
Member of the staff of Rochester Homoeo
pathic Hospital, Batavia Hospital. Repub
lican. Unitarian. Recreation : Gardening.
Club : Delta Kappa Epsilon of Rochester.

Married in Lancaster, New Hampshire,
1891, Mary M. Moore. Residence : 225
Culver Road. Address : 33 Clinton Avenue,
S. Rochester, New York.
HOYT, William Edwin:
Consulting civil engineer; born "at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, July 3, 1845; son
of Alfred Metcalf and Harriet Walker
(Fabyan) Hoyt; graduated Phillips Exeter
Academy, 1865 ; Massachusetts Institute
Technology, S. B., 1868. Chief engineer
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway
Company, 1881-1900; assistant engineer of
New York Central & Hudson River Rail
road Company since 1900. Has made vis
its officially to Europe and Mexico to study
railroad conditions in those countries and
to report on them. Health commissioner,
Rochester, New York, 1892-97. Member
of American Society Civil Engineers,
American Railway Engineering and Main
tenance of Way Association, New York
State Chapter Society, Colonial Wars, So
ciety of the Genesee (New York City).
Recreations : Golf, photography. Clubs :
Genesee. Valley, Country, Fortnightly
(Rochester), Transportation (New York).
Married at Boston, June, 1876, Susan Rog
ers White. Children : Charles Wentworth,
born in 1881, A.B., M.D., Harvard; Made
leine, born in 1886. Address : 50 West
minster Road, Rochester, New York.
HRDLICKA, Ales:
Anthropologist ; born at Humpolec, Bo
hemia, March 30, 1869; son of Maxmilian
and Karolina Hrdlicka ; educated in com
mon and high schools in Bohemia; gradu
ated at New York Eclectic Medical College,
M.D., 1892, New York Homcepathic Med
ical College, 1894; Medical Allopathic State
Board, Maryland, 1894; courses at Ecole de
Medicine and Ecole d' Anthropologic, Paris,
1896. Interne, Middletown State Hospital,
New York,- 1894-96'; Associate Anthropol
ogy Pathological Institute of State Hospi
tals, New York, 1896-99 ; in charge of physi
cal anthropology, Hyde Expedition, Ameri
can Museum Natural History, New York
City, 1899-1903 ; assistant curator, in
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thropology, United States National Mu
seum, since 1903. Made anthropologi
cal expeditions to Mexico, Southwest
and Florida, 1898, 1899, 1906, 1902,
1905, 1906. Author of over seventy
papers and works on anthropology (chil
dren, skull, bones, brain, anthropoids, In
dians, antiquity of man in North America).
Corresponding member Paris Anthropologi
cal Society, Royal Bohemian Society of
Sciences, Bohemian Ethnological Society.
President Anthropological Society of
Washington ; fellow A. A. A. S. ; member
of Society American Anatomists, American
Anthropological Association, Washington
Biological Society. Associate editor Ameri
can .Naturalist. Residence : 2501 Pennsyl
vania Avenue, Washington, D. C. . Ad
dress : United States' National Museum,
Washington, D. C.
HTJRBARD, Elbert:
Author, journalist, banker, lecturer ; born
at Bloomington, Illinois, June 19, 1856 ; son
of Dr. Silas Hubbard and Julia F. (Read)
Hubbard. He was educated in the public
schools and acquired a taste for classical
literature which has had much to do with
shaping his later career, and later his at
tainments in literature were recognized by
the awarding to him by Tufts College, of
the degree of A.M. in 1899. Mr. Hubbard
engaged in journalism, first as a reporter
on the New York Sun and the Chicago
Times, and later was superintendent of
the Larkin Soap Company. He afterward
established and is editor of The Philistine.
He is also proprietor of the Roycroft Shop,
devoted to the production of classics in
befitting typographical dress and binding.
The quality and originality of the work
done by this establishment has met wide
recognition, and the work of the Roy-
crofters has a fame and prestige with
bibliophiles analagous to that enjoyed by
the productions of William Morris in Eng-
larid, and the name Raycroft Edition is a
¦ recognized synonym for unique merit in
book-making. The Philistine has a- place
all alone in literature, and is original and
virile in its point of view, as well as de
lightful in its literary flavor. Mr. Hubbard

is also proprietor of The Roycroft Bank.
Mr. Flubbard is the author of the famous
Message to Garcia, a booklet which has
probably had a wider circulation in the
same time than any other book ever writ
ten. He is author of: No Enemy but
Himself ; Little Journeys to Homes of Good
Men and Great; Little Journeys to the
Homes of American Authors ; Little Journ
eys to the Homes of Famous Women;
Little Journeys to the Flomes of American
Statesmen; Little Journeys to the Homes
of Eminent Painters; All Baba of East
Aurora; As It Seems to Me; A Message
to Garcia; Time and Chance; The Legacy;
Forbes of Harvard; One Day; A Tale of
the Prairies ; Contemplations ; John Bur
roughs ; Consecrated Lives ; _ Chicago
Tongue ; The Man of Sorrows ; and others
making thirty-two books to date. Mr.
Hubbard is also well known and popular
on the lecture platform. He has traveled
extensively over Europe and America.
Among the other pursuits of this many-
sided man is that of farmer and raiser of
saddle horses, in which he finds much de
light. Mr. Hubbard married Miss Alice
Moore. Address : East Aurora, New
York.
HUBBARD, Henry W.:
Treasurer; born at Elgin, Illinois, May
17, 1844; son of William G. and Char
lotte (Wright) Hubbard. He was grad
uated from the University of Michigan in
1866 and received the degree of M.S. in
1872. He attended the Law School of
the University of Michigan for one year;
and was admitted to the bar in Illinois in
1868. Mr. Hubbard was professor of math
ematics and acting treasurer of Fisk Uni
versity, Nashville, Tennessee, from 1871 to
1873 ; in the New York office of the Amer
ican Missionary Association in 1873; was
its assistant treasurer in 1876 and has been
its treasurer since 1879. He is also treas
urer of the Board of Trustees of Talla
dega (Alabama) College, Straight Uni
versity, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Ton-
galoo University, Mississippi. Private in
One Flundred and Thirty-fourth Illinois
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England Society, Psi Upsilon fraternity,
and Grand Army of the Republic, and is
also a member of the Quill Club and of the
University of Michigan Club. Residence :
in Madison Avenue, New York City. Ad
dress : 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
HUBBARD, Lucius Frederick:
Eighth Governor of Minnesota (1882-87),
was born at Troy, New York, January 26,
1836, eldest son of Charles F. and Margaret
(Van Valkenburg) Hubbard; and is of
Dutch and English descent. Becoming an
orphan when but three years old, young
Hubbard was educated in the district
schools, and for three years attended an
academy at Granville, New York. At the
age .of fifteen he was apprenticed to a
tinsmith, and devoted his attention to this
trade until his twenty-first year, ¦ having
meanwhile located at Chicago, Illinois. In
1857 he removed to Red Wing, Minnesota,
and, although with no previous journalistic
experience, established the Red Wing Re
publican, which he conducted with success
until the breaking out of the civil war.
In 1858 he was elected to the office of
register of deeds for Goodhue county,
which he held for two years ; and was
then nominated for the State senate on
the Republican ticket, but defeated. In De
cember, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the
Fifth Minnesota infantry, and continued
in the service until the close of the war.
He was promoted captain February 5,
1862; lieutenant-colonel March 24, 1862;
colonel August 31, 1862, and brevetted brig
adier-general December 16, 1864, for con
spicuous gallantry in the battle- of Nash
ville, Tennessee. He commanded a brigade
for nearly two years, and participated dur
ing his service in thirty-one engagements,
and in all the important campaigns of the
Southwest. He was wounded at Corinth,
Mississippi, May 28, 1862, and at Nashville,
Tennessee, December 16, 1864. Returning
to Red Wing in the latter part of 1865
with shattered health he rested for a time,
and the following year engaged in the
grain and milling business, his operations
subsequently becoming quite extensive. In
1876 he became interested in railroad build

ing and completed the Midland railway,
from Wabasha to Zumbrota. This road
was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. 'Paul, but resulteu in the construc
tion and operation of a competing line by
the Northwestern railway. Subsequently
-Mr. Hubbard projected and engaged in
the construction of the Minnesota Central
from Red Wing to Mankato. He projected
the Duluth, Red Wing and Southern, which
until recently was under his management.
He was elected State senator in 1871 and
1873, and governor of Minnesota in 1881
and 1883. He was appointed a brigadier-
general by President McKinley, June 6,
1898, and commanded the Third Division,
Seventh Army Corps, through the Spanish
War. He is a member of Acker Post, G.
A. R., of St. Paul; the Minnesota Com
mandery of the Loyal Legion; the Minne
sota Society Sons of the American Revolu
tion; Society of the Army of Tennessee;
the Military Order of Foreign Wars; the
Society of American Wars ; the Red Wing
Commandery of Royal Arch Masons; the
board of trustees of the Minnesota Sol
diers' Home, and was a member of the Re
publican National Committee, 1896-1900.
He was married in 1868, at Red Wing,
to Amelia, daughter of Charles Thomas,
and a lineal descendant of Sir John Moore.
They have three children : Charles F,
Lucius V. and Julia M. Residence: 303
Dayton Avenue, St. Paul. Office address:
617 Manhattan Building, St. Paul, Minne
sota.
HUBBARD, Thomas H.: ¦
Lawyer; born in Hallowell, Maine;
graduated Bowdoin College (LL.D.) and
Albany Law School. Served in the field
through the Civil War in various grades
up to colonel and brevet-brigadier-general.
Former first vice-president Southern Paci
fic Company and president of several af
filiated railroad companies. Now Com
mander Military Order Loyal Legion, New
York Commandery; vice-president Army
and Navy Club of New York; trustee
Bowdoin College; president Pacific Im
provement Company; president and chair
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Banking Corporation; president Guatemala
Central Railroad Conipany; chairman Ex
ecutive Committee American Light and
Traction Company; director National Bank
of Commerce, Mechanics' National Bank of
New York, Equitable Trust Company, Wa
bash Railroad Company, Toledo, St. Louis
and Western Railroad Company, and other
corporations. Mr. Hubbard is vice-president
of the Army and Navy Club, and a member
of the Union League, Metropolitan, Cen
tury, Republican, Riding, Lawyers' and
Down Town Clubs. Residence : 16 West
Fifty-eighth Street. Address : 25 Broad
Street, New York City.
HUBBARD, William Lines:
Dramatic and musical editor of the Chi
cago Tribune; born at Farmersville, New
York, March 22, 1867 ; son of William Riley
Hubbard and Augusta M. (Pearson) Hub
bard. He was educated at Kinmundy, Il
linois, Lake View Grammar School, Lake
View (now Chicago) Illinois, and Lake
View High School, where he was graduated
as valedictorian in the class of 1885. He
was musical editor of the Chicago Evening
Journal in 1889 and 1890, and of the Chi
cago Tribune from February, 1891, to July,
1893; spent five years, from 1893 to 1898,
in Europe, studying music (piano, singing
and theory) in Dresden - with Hermann
Scholtz, G. B. Lamperti and Hans Fahr-
mann, and in London with Fred Walker.
Mr. Hubbard returned to Chicago in July,
1898, and taught harmony and singing. He
resumed his position in the spring of 1899
as musical editor of the Tribune and in
October, 1899, went to Vienna, Austria, as
special correspondent for the Tribune. He
remained there until October, 1900, returned
to Chicago, and became literary and music
editor of the Tribune. He filled both po
sitions until the summer of 1901, when he
returned to Vienna and spent four months
studying singing with Prof. J. Steineder.
On his return he began the teaching of
singing arid retained the music editorship
of the Tribune. In 1902 he became dra
matic as well as musical editor and has
continued in both positions until present
time, doing teaching of singing also, so far

as time permits. His summers are spent
in Europe. Mr. Hubbard's favorite recre
ations are golf, photography and travel. He
is a Republican in politics and in religious
views a Spiritualist. Residence : 445 Elm
Street, Chicago. Office address : Chicago
Tribune, and 500 Kimball Hall, Chicago,
Illinois.HUBBELL, Alvin Allace:
Physician, ophthalmologist; born at
Conewango, New York, 1846; son of
Schuyler P. Hubbell and Hepzibah (Farns
worth) Hubbell. He received a prepara
tory education in public schools at Cone
wango and at Randolph Academy; was
graduated as M.D. from the University of
Buffalo in 1876, and received from Niagara
University the Ph.D. degree in 1893. He
is professor of clinical ophthalmology and
otology at the University of Buffalo, .and
ophthalmic surgeon to the Charity Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital, and other hos
pitals of Buffalo, New York. Dr. Hubbell is
a member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, American Ophthalmological So
ciety, Buffalo Academy of Medicine, and
New York Academy of Medicine; and was
president of the New York State Medical
Association in 1902. He is author of
Section on Disease of the Eye, in Dr.
Schweinitz' American Text-book of Dis
eases of the Eye, Philadelphia, 1899, and
many contributions to medical journals;
and was former associate editor of the
Buffalo Medical Journal. He married in
1872, Evangeline Fancher, and they have
one daughter, Mrs. Everett W. (Bula Hub
bell) Olmsted, born in 1873. Residence :
The Lenox Hotel. Office address: 212
Franklin Street, Buffalo, New York.
HUBBELL, William Stone:
Clergyman, secretary; born Wolcottville,
Connecticut, 1837 ; son of Stephen and
Martha (Stone) Hubbell; graduated Yale
College, 1858; Hamilton College, D.D.,
1884; graduated Andover Theological
Seminary, 1866. Assistant to Richard Sal
ter Storrs, D.D., Braintree, Massachusetts,
1866-1868; pastor of West Roxbury, Massa
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Church, Somerville, Massachusetts, 1872-
1881 ; North Presbyterian Church, Buffalo,
New York, 1881-1886; general- secretary
New York Sabbath Committee since 1898.
Enlisted as a private in Twenty-fifth Con
necticut Volunteers, August, 1862; dis
charged, July,. 1865, as captain and brevet-
major in Twenty-first Connecticut Volun
teers. Served for a year as adjutant-gen
eral of brigade and for a short time of di
vision. Received medal of honor at the
battle of Fort Harrison, Virginia, Septem
ber 30, 1864. Is member and chaplain of
the New York Commandery Loyal Legion,
Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States, and of George Washington Post 103,
Grand Army of the Republic. Republican.
Presbyterian. Member of various clerical
and college associations. Clubs : Army and
Navy, Quill. He married at Middletown,
Connecticut, October 9, 1866, Caroline
Southmayd ; children : Mary Charlotte,
Susan Southmayd, William Stone, Jr. (died
1901), De Witt. Address: 31 Bible House,
New York City.
HUCKEL, Samuel, Jr.:
Architect; born in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, in the district of Frankford, Feb
ruary 14, 1858. Studied at the Philadel
phia High School, seventy-first class ; after
ward pursued his studies in architecture
under Banjamin D. Price, an architect of
prominence at that time in Philadelphia.
Commenced the practice of architecture in
1883 in conjunction with Edward Hazle-
hurst. He formed the present firm of Wat
son & Huckel in 1902. His professional
work is shown in the Odd Fellows' Temple
Building, Philadelphia. Residence of Daniel
Baugh, Foederer House and many of the
prominent churches, banks and other
buildings of Philadelphia, and in 1902 he
designed and supervised the remodeling
of the Grand Central Station in New York
City, American Express Building, etc. He
is a member of the American Institute
of Architects, Art Club of Philadelphia,
Architectural League, New York, Philadel
phia Chapter, American Institute of Archi
tects, Union League of Philadelphia, Trans
poration Club of New York, United So

cieties Club of London, England, v the Al
umni Association of Central High School,
Manheim Club, etc. Mr. Huckel came of
distinguished ancestry, his great-grand
father having served in the Colonial Army
under George Washington. Mr. Huckel
married in 1881, Emma Frances, daughter
of James V. Kirk, a merchant of Phila
delphia. Resides at Germantown, Phila
delphia. Office address: 121 1 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HUDSON, Henry:
Manufacturer; born at Stuyvesant Falls,
New York, August 10, 1852; son of Wil
liam and Julia (Van Curen) Hudson. He
was educated in public schools; was super
intendent of woolen mills at Little Falls,
New York, from 1874 to 1879; and at
Trenton, New Jersey, from 1879 to 1881;
and was with the James Smith Woolen
Machinery Company, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, as mill expert, from 1881 to 1893.
Mr. Hudson organized the Hudson Fibre
Company and Henry Hudson Company
(president and treasurer), 1893; was police
commissioner of Hudson for two years;
elected mayor of same in 1906; reelected
mayor of that Democratic city in 1907 for
full term of two years on the Republican
ticket, with a majority in every ward. He
is president of the Carter Luff Chemical
Company, and director of the National
Bank of Hudson. Mr. *Hudson was ap
pointed by Governor Higgins a commission
er on the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com
mission, and was made trustee of same by
General S. L. Woodford, the president;
also a member of the Naval Committee.
He has traveled extensively in the. United
States and Canada; is a Republican in
politics, and a Presbyterian in his religious
connections. He is a member of the Ma
sonic "order, Mystic Shrine, Knights of
Pythias, etc. Mr. Hudson married at Little
Falls, New York, 1876, Annie. Atherton,
and they have one son, Charles H. Ad
dress : 514 Warren Street, Hudson, New
York.
HUFF, George Franklin:
Congressman; born at Norristown, Penn
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dii in the public schools at Middletown and
ter at Altoona, where, after learning a
ade in the car shops of the Pennsylvania
ailroad Company, #t an early age he en-
red the banking house of William M. Lloyd
Company. In 1867 he removed to West-
loreland County to engage in the banking
nsiness. He was married in 1871 to Hen-
ietta, daughter of the late Judge Jeremiah
1. Burrell, of Pennsylvania, afterward
fnited States District Judge and Chief Jus-
ce of Kansas by the appointment of Presi-
ent Franklin Pierce; he was a member
f the National Republican Convention in
880, where he was one of the Three Hun-
red and Six who followed the lead of
foscoe Conkling in the ever-memorable
ffort to nominate General U. S. Grant for
he Presidency. Mr. Huff is president of
he Keystone Coal and Coke Company, one
if the largest producers of gas and steam
oal in the United States ; is largely en-
;aged in many, other business industries
n various parts of Pennsylvania, together
vith the banking business in Greensburg,
n which he has been constantly engaged
ince his youth ; is president of the West-
noreland Hospital Association. , He was
ilected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 1884
md represented the Thirty-ninth Senatorial
District four years; was elected to the
Fifty-second Congress from the Twenty-
irst District, then composed of the coun-
les of Westmoreland, Indiana, Armstrong,
ind Jefferson; was elected Congressman
it large from Pennsylvania to the Fifty-
fourth Congress ; was reelected to the
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con
gresses. Address : Greensburg, Pennsyl
vania.HUGHES, Charles Evans:
Governor and lawyer; born in Glens
Falls, New York, April 11, 1862; son of
David Charles Hughes and Mary Cath
arine (Connelly) Hughes. He was a stu
dent at , Colgate University from 1876 to
1878; was graduated from Brown Univer
sity in .1881 as A.B. and from Columbia
Law School as LL.B. in 1884; and the de
gree of LL.D was conferred upon him by
Brown University in 1906 and by Columbia

University, Knox College, and Lafayette
College in 1907. Fie was admitted to the
bar, June, 1884, and practiced law in New
York City from 1884 to 1891 and from 1893
to 1906. Governor Hughes was professor of
law at Cornell University from 1891 to
1893 ; special lecturer on law from 1893 to
1895 ; also at the New York Law School
from 1893 to 1900. He was counsel for
Stevens Gas Committee of the New York
Legislature in 1905, and for the Armstrong
Insurance Committee in 1905 and 1906; and
was special assistant to the United States
attorney-general in the coal investigation of
1906. He was nominated for office of
mayor of New York City by the Republi
can Convention in 1905 but declined, and
was nominated for governor by the Repub
licans in 1906 and elected. He is a member
of the American Bar Association, the New
York State Bar Association, the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
and is trustee of Brown University. He is
also a member of the University, Republi
can, Lawyers', Brown, Cornell, Delta Upsi
lon, and Nassau Country Clubs. Governor
Hughes married, December 5, 1888, Antoi
nette Carter, and their children are :
Charles E., Jr., born in 1889; Helen, born
in 1892, Catherine, born in 1898, and Eliza
beth, born in 1907. Address : • Executive
Mansion, Albany, New York.
HUGHES, Daniel:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, March
1, 1858; son of Isaac W. Hughes, M.D.,
and Alice E. (Donnel) Hughes. His gen
eral education was received at Matua Aca
demy, Philadelphia and in the Academic
Department of the University of Pennsyl
vania, and he was graduated from the
Medical Department of the same institution
as M.D. in 1879; and was assistant demon
strator of anatomy in 1878 and 1879.
Since graduation he has been continuously
engaged in the practice of medicine and
surgery in Philadelphia. He was elected
gynecologist to the Philadelphia Hospital
in 1883. He was school director in the
Twenty-seventh Ward of Philadelphia from
1897 to 1900. Dr. Hughes is a member of
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Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl
vania, Philadelphia County Medical So
ciety, Philadelphia Pediatric Society, and
the American Geographical Society; and
he is also a member of the Masonic or*der
and of the Philadelphia Medical Club. Dr.
Hughes married in Philadelphia, Novem
ber ig, 1884, Sarah Summers Burton, and
they have a son, Burton . Donnel Hughes,
born in 1886. Residence : 2022 Locust
Street. Office address : 4003 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HUGHES, Edwin Holt:
President of De Pauw University; born
at Moundsville, West Virginia, December
7, 1866; son of the Rev. Thomas B. Hughes
and Louisa Hughes. He was educated at
the Ohio Wesleyan University, being grad
uated from it with the degree of A.B. in
1889, and receiving an honorary A.M.
in 1892. After his graduation he studied
at the Theological School of Boston Uni
versity wherein he finished his course in
1892, receiving the degree of S.T.B. The
degree of S.T.D. was conferred upon him
by the University of Syracuse in 1903 and
that of D.D. by the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity a year later. Upon his ordination
to the ministry in 1892, he became pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He re
mained here until 1896, that year accepting
a call to the pastorate of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Maiden, where, he
officiated until 1903. Since 1903 he has
been president of the De Pauw University
at Greencastle, Indiana. Dr. Hughes is a
trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Science, and a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Tau
Delta Fraternities ; also of the University
Club of Indianapolis. His recreations are
tennis, and various out-of-door sports. He
was married at Atlanta, Georgia, June 8,
1892, to Isabel Baker Elbert, and has had
five children : Isabel, Holt, Elbert, Caro
line and Anna Louise. Address : Green
castle, Indiana.
HUGHES, George M.:
Railway official ; born in Southfields,
Orange County, New York, June 19, 1843 ;

son of Samuel Hughes and Susan Wilkes
Hughes. He received his education in
the public schools and afterward was en
gaged in the audit office of the Erie Rail
road, New York City, from November
28, 1863, to 1867; was station agent at
Ramapo, New Jersey, in 1868; Rutherford,
New Jersey, in 1875, and Passaic, New
Jersey, in 1884; contracting agent of New
York City for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway in 1894; general
agent for the New York, Susquehanna
and Western Railway in New York City in
1896; traveling agent for the Central of
Georgia Railway in New York City and
Philadelphia in 1898; contracting agent in
New York City for the Maine Steamship
Company in 1899 and 1900; traveling agent
and general freight agent for the Portland
Steamship Company at Boston, Massachu
setts, 1901 ; general freight agent, traffic
manager and general manager, respectively,
of the Newark Bay Shore Line in 1905;
now president and general manager of the
New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railway
with an office in New York City. He is
a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr.
Hughes married in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,
October 18, 1871, Georgiana Ingersoll and
their children are : Grace M., Clarence
F., and George I. Address : 100 William
Street, New York City.
HUGHES, James Anthony:
Congressman; born in Ontario, Canada,
February 27, 1861 ; son of James W.
Hughes and Ellen Hughes. In July, 1873,
he removed with his parents to Ashland,
Kentucky, where he entered on a business
career; was elected to represent the coun
ties of Boyd and Lawrence in the Legis
lature of Kentucky for the years 1887 and
1888; the bulk of his business interest hav
ing drifted to the adjoining State of West
Virginia, necessitated the removal of his
residence to that State also. Here, as in Ken
tucky, he was called on to be a representa
tive in the Legislature, the Sixth Senatorial
District having by a large majority sent
him, the first Republican senator, to repre
sent it in the term of 1894-1898. He has al
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publican, identifying himself with all the
movements and aspirations of his party;
was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress
by the largest Republican vote ever given
in the Fourth District, and to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Fifth West Virginia District. In politics
he is a Republican. He married in Ceredo,
West Virginia, December 28, 1885, Belle
Vinson. Address : Huntington, West Vir
ginia.HUGHES, Oliver John Davis:
Physician, surgeon; born Buenos Aires,
South America, December 18, 1855 ; son of
John H. and Sophia Louise Hughes ; edu
cated Upper and Lower School, Peckham,
London, Harrow Public school, England,
St. John's College, Buenos Aires, S.A.,
Long Island College Hospital, M.D. 1875,
Lord Brougham Scholarship and Medal,
London. Has traveled all over the world;
practiced medicine in Fultonville, New
York ; Meriden, Connecticut ; Brooklyn,
New York, and in New Rochelle, New
York. Was vice-president Connecticut Med
ical Society, president New Haven County
Medical Society, health officer and presi
dent Board Education Meriden, Connecti
cut; police surgeon, New Rochelle, deptfiy
health officer, Port of New York; was
surgeon of the United States Army;
executive 'medical officer Marine Hos
pital, Staten Island ; consul in Orient
and at Sonneberg and • Coburg, Germany ;
consul-general at Coburg, Germany; served
in medical corps, National Guard. Repub
lican. Elder St. Luke's Church. Received
war medal with six clasps Franco-German
War, 1870-71, Kaiser Wilhelm special med
al, Grand Ducal Badish Medical Cross,
French Secour aux Blesse Cross, 1870-71 ;
Commander's Cross first class Saxon Er
nestine Order, Grand Cross and Star order
St. Catherine Knights Cross '-Milusine,
Papal Bene Merenti Medal; Knight Temp
lar; Past Exalted Ruler Elks.' Member
American Medical Society, New York
State and Westchester County Medical So
ciety, Empire State Society, S. A. R. ; com
panion Military Order Foreign, Wars of

United States. Flas lived in Mexico and
South America and written extensively on
diabetes and yellow fever. National dele
gate to Army and Navy Union, Washing
ton, D. C, 1907. Married Lotte Baroness
von Petersdorff; one daughter, Lottka
Louise Constance Emily Hughes (born
1905). Address: The Onieta, 346 Main
Street, New Rochelle, New York.
HUGHES, William Edgar:
Lawyer and banker; born in Morgan
County, Illinois, March 15, 1840 ; son of
John Hughes and Eliza (Rutherford)
Hughes. He received his education in the
high school of Jacksonville, Illinois and
in Illinois College. He has been president
of tlie City Bank of Dallas, subsequently
of the Exchange Bank of Dallas and later
in 1891 became president of the Union
Trust Company of St. Louis ; is now presi
dent of The Continental Land and Trust
Company, and also president of the Cen-
tinental Trust Company of Denver. Mr.
Hughes married in Fort Worth, Texas, "in
October, 1866, Annie Clifton Peete. Ad
dress : Continental Building, Denver, Colo
rado.
HUGHES, William Mackenzie:
Engineer ; born near Utica, New York
June 5, 1848; sori of William and Susan
M. Hughes. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and was apprenticed to the
trade of machinist, at which he continued
until 1870, when he took an optional course
at Cornell University. After leaving the
university he was engaged in engineering
and railroad surveying until 1874, since
which time he has devoted his time almost
wholly to bridge engineering. He was en
gineer of bridges for the city of Cincinnati
from 1874 to 1881, and was then engaged
by the New York, Chicago and St. Louis
Railroad to design and superintend the con
struction of all the bridge work between
Chicago and Buffalo. He was in charge
of the designing and construction of
bridge work for the city of Cleveland,
Ohio, for five years, and was engineer and
assistant general manager of the Keystone
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vania, in 1889-90. He was one of the en
gineers employed in the construction of the
buildings for the World's Columbian Expo
sition at Chicago, and later was bridge en
gineer of Chicago and engineer on con
struction of the West Side Metropolitan
Elevated Railway. Since 1895 he has con
ducted business on his own account in Chi
cago, and among other important works
placed in his charge was that of the con
struction of the Drainage Canal bridges.
He is a member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers and of the Western So
ciety of Engineers. He was married in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876, to Nettie Small,
and has one daughter : Lilly M. Address :
Postal Telegraph Building. Residence :
5927 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HUGHSON, Walter:
Clergyman of the Episcopal Church; or
dered deacon, 1885, by Bishop Starkey;
priest, 1897, by Bishop Davies. Rector Grace
Church of Morgantown, and priest in
charge of the Associate Missions and arch
deacon of District of Asheville, 1901-06.
First assistant Calvary, New York City,
1895-97; rector Trinity Church, Detroit,
Michigan, 1897. 1907, rector Grace Church,
Waynesville, North Carolina, and associate
Missions — archde.acon of the District of
Asheville. Address : Waynesville, North
Carolina.
HUGHITT, Marvin:
Railway official ; born in Genoa Town
ship, Cayuga County, New York, August
9, 1837; he was educated in the public
schools and removed to Chicago, Illinois,
while yet a youth, where he became a tel
egrapher and was in the employ of the
Chicago and Alton and the Illinois Central
Railroads. With the latter road he was
successively trainmaster, assistant general
superintendent and general superintendent.
He was assistant general manager of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
in 1870-71 ; general manager of the Pull
man Palace Car Company, 1871-72 ; general
superintendent in 1872, and general mana
ger from 1876 to 1880. On June 2, 1880,
he was appointed vice-president and gen

eral manager of the Chicago and North
western Railway, which position he re--
tained until 1887. He was president of
the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway Company, the Tremont,
Elk Horn and Missouri Valley Railroad
Company, the St. Paul Eastern Grand
Trunk Railway, and the Sioux City and
Pacific Railroad Company, and is now pres
ident of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company. He is a director of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, the
Northern Trust Company, and the Equit
able Life Assurance Society of the United
States. Address : 22 Fifth Avenue. Resi
dence : 2828 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, and
Lake Forest, Illinois.
HULDEKOPER, Frederic Wolters:
Retired railway official; born Meadville,
Pennsylvania, September 12, 1840; son of
Edgar and Frances (Shippen) Huidekoper;
A.B. Harvard University, 1862; A.M.,
1871 ; captain Company F, Fifty-eighth
Pennsylvania Militia, and participated in
the capture of the Confederate raider,
General John H. Morgan, 1863. President
of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail
road, 1877-1882; president of the Evans
ville and Terre Haute Railroad, 1881-1882;
first vice-president of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad and vice-president of the
Richmond and West Point Terminal Rail
way and Warehouse Company, and of the
Virginia Midland Railway, 1885-1886; presi
dent of the Virginia Midland Railway,
1886-1887; president and receiver of the
Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Rail
road, 1889-1891 ; president of the South
Atlantic and Ohio Railroad, 1890-1892; re
ceiver of the Richmond and Danville Rail
road, 1892-1894; receiver of the Georgia
Pacific Railroad, the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, and the Columbia
and Greenville Railroad, 1893-1895; presi
dent of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis
Railway, 1896-1897 ; president of The Unit
ed Land Company of Florida since 1901;
governor of the Society of Colonial Wars
of the District of Columbia, igoi-1902;
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lumbia, 1903-1905; president of the Society
of the Sons of the Revolution of the Dis
trict of Columbia, since 1905. Clubs:
Metropolitan, Country and Chevy-Chase of
Washington; University and Harvard of
New York. Societies : Colonial Govern
ors, Colonial Wars and Sons of the Revolu
tion of the District of Columbia. Married,
Meadville, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1867,
Anna Virginia Christie. Residence: 1614
Eighteenth Street. Office address : 734
Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C.
HUD3EKOPER, Henry Shippen:
Soldier; born at Meadville, Pennsylva
nia, July 17, 1839; son of Edgar and Fran
ces (Shippen) Huidekoper and grandson
of Harm Jan and Rebecca (Calhoun)
Huidekoper, Harm Jan having come to
America from Holland in 1795; was grad
uated at Harvard College in 1862, and re
ceived, in 1872, the degree of A.M. from
the same college; from 1898 to the present
time one of the overseers of Harvard Col
lege; served in the War of the Rebellion
as 'captain, lieutenant-colonel and colonel
with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regi
ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
while in command of his regiment at Get
tysburg, on July 1, 1863, was wounded
twice, losing his right arm. He returned
£0 service in September, 1863, but, pros
trated by his wounds, had to resign from
the army at Culpepper, Virginia, in 1864.
He was appointed major-general in the
National Guard of Pennsylvania by Gover
nor Geary in 1870, and, as such, was act
ive in the labor riots in 1877 under Gover
nor Hartranft, solving at Scranton a ques
tion between the civil and the military
powers with such tact and firmness as
to establish himself strongly in the con
fidence of the Governor and the people.
Upon reorganization of the National Guard,
with Governor Hartranft as the major-
general, was appointed the senior briga
dier-general in the Guard; in 1879 he com
piled and published a Manual of Service,
which became an accepted authority on
military matters. From 1880 to 1886 was
postmaster at Philadelphia, and was credit
ed with having organized and carried

through the ounce measure for letters, in
stead of the former half ounce. Residence :
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HULINGS, Willis James:
Oil and mine operator; born in Clarion,
Pennsylvania, July 1, 1856 ; academic educa
tion, studying law at the conclusion of his
academic course; admitted to practice in
the courts of Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia and Arizona; member of the Penn
sylvania Legislature, 1881-1886; procured
passage of bill to prohibit unjust discrim
inations in railroad freight rates; enlisted
in the National Guard of Pennsylvania in
1876, serv.ing through various grades until
elected colonel in February, 1887; served
in railroad riots (1877), Homestead riots
(1891), and Walston riots (1892); volun
teered with entire regiment May 10, 1898,
for service in Spanish- American War;
served in Porto Rico; promoted September
26, 1898, to brigadier-general of the United
States Volunteers for gallant and meri
torious conduct at battle of Coamo, Au
gust 9, 1898; discharged January 1, 1899.
Commander-in-chief of the National' As
sociation of the Spanish-American War
Veterans ; member of the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution ; brigadier-general, Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania; State sen
ator from the Forty-eighth District of
Pennsylvania; engaged in mining and large
Mexican enterprises. Address : Oil City,
Pennsylvania.HULL, Charles Aurelius:
Fire insurance officer; born Brooklyn,
New York, May 26, 1848; son of Aurelius
B. and Sarah Norris (Tucker) Hull; grad
uated Yale College, B.A., 1869. Entered
insurance business in office of Continental
Insurance Company, and on February 21,
1876, became secretary Howard Insurance
Company; vice-president February 9, 1892,
and since February 10, 1904, president and
director New York Fire Insurance Com
pany; vice-president and director Sanborn
Map Company. Was member Board Edu
cation during Mayor Seth Low's mayoral
ty in Brooklyn. Republican. Congrega
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chairman Executive Committee American
Missionary Association. Clubs : Hamilton,
Rembrandt (Brooklyn) ; Lawyers' (New
York City). Married first, November 8,
1870, Elizabeth A. Stanton (died April 6,
1889) ; second, June 10, 1891, Katharine
Louise Stanton. Residence: 115 Remsen
Street, Brooklyn. Address: 95 William
Street, New York City.
HULL, John A. T.:
Congressman and manufacturer ; born at
Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio, May 1, 1841.
He removed with his parents to Iowa in
1849; was educated in the public schools,
Asbury (Indiana) University, and Iowa
Wesleyan College, at Mount Pleasant; and
was graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio)
Law School in the spring of 1862. He en
listed in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry,
July, 1862 ; was first lieutenant and captain ;
was wounded in the charge on intrench
ments at Black River, May 17, 1863; re
signed on account of wounds, October,
1863 ; was elected secretary of the Iowa
State senate in 1872 and reelected in 1874,
1876, and 1878;' was elected secretary of
State in 1878 and reelected in 1880 and
1882 ; was elected lieutenant-governor in
1885, and reelected in 1887. He is engaged
in farming and banking. He was elected
to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the Seventh Iowa District.
Address : Des Moines, Iowa.
HULL, Merlin:
Lawyer and publisher ; born at Warsaw,
Indiana, son of George M. Hull and Han
nah B. (Baker) Hull. He was educated in
De Pauw University, and Columbian Uni
versity. Mr. Hull has been publisher of the
Jackson County Journal since 1904. He
has been in the government service at
Washington, clerk of the circuit court in
Wisconsin, and district attorney of Jackson
County, Wisconsin. Address : Black River
Falls, Wisconsin.

HULME, George Breedon:
Underwriter; born Reading, Berks, Eng
land, August 27, 1855 ; son of George and
Marion (James) Hulme; educated Well
ington College, Berks, and Magdalen Col
lege, Oxford, England, B.A. Was in Land
Department Northern Pacific Railroad in
New York City ; then took charge of Land
Company in Montana; member firm of H.
Clark & Company, who built large portion
of N. P. R. R. ; receiver for Yellowstone
National Park Improvement Company. In
1890 took charge of the East Bay Land
and Improvement Company, which operated
in the Bronx; in 1901 joined the Insurers
Agency Company of which is secretary,
treasurer and director. Also secretary,
treasurer and director Insurance Exchange;
treasurer and director Knickerbocker
Equipment Company, Livingston Glass Jar
Company; director Abdulla & Company,
Limited, Pacific Mining Corporation,
Straight Mines Company; president and
director Marshall Osage Oil Company,
Brooklyn Osage Oil Company, Yukon Mill
ing, Dredging and Power Company. Ma
son; Apollo Lodge 357, Oxford, England
and Mary Magdalen Lodge, Greenwich,
England. Recreation : Driving, yachting,
shooting, travel. In 1897 took over the
first stable of show horses (American
bred) to exhibit in England, showing in 32
classes and winning 35 prizes ; in England
competed in ninety-eight eight-oared races
alone, and was only beaten twice ; was sec
retary first lawn tennis club in England
(organized 1875). Clubs: New York
Yacht, New York Athletic, American
Coaching, Tandem, Tandem Sleighing,
Whip (New York City) ; Yellowstone Gun,
Oxford University Boat, Leander Boat
(England) ; Colac Boat (Australia), Ad
dress : 250 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City.
HULSE, Hiram Richard:
Clergyman; born at Middletown, New
York, September 15, 1868; son of Freder
ick and Selena (Richards) Hulse. After
being graduated from the Philadelphia Di
vinity School in the class of 1896 as B.D..
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in 1896 by Bishop Potter. He became rec
tor of St, Mary's Church, New York City
in 1899; formerly vicar of the pro-Cathe
dral, from 1896 to 1898; was examining
chaplain of the Diocese of New York; and
has been general secretary of the Mission
ary Thank-Offering. Dr. Hulse is secre
tary of the American Church Missionary
Society. He married at Northampton,
Massachusetts, May 20, 1903, Frances Sey
mour. Address : 101 Lawrence Street, New
York City.
HULSIZER, Greene R.:
Physician ; born in Easton, Pennsylva
nia, July 28, 1862; was graduated from the
Easton High School in 1880; afterward en
tered Lafayette College, but left there to
study medicine at home while engaged for
two years in teaching. He then entered
Jefferson Medical College, where he was
graduated in 1887. His interest was espec
ially given to surgery, and after graduating
he was, by competitive examination, ap
pointed resident physician of the Jefferson
Medical Hospital. He subsequently en
tered upon general practice, and soon after
was appointed police surgeon of the Sev
enth District,' a year later being made as
sistant chief surgeon of the Philadelphia
Police and Fire Department. In 1895 he,
with Dr. T. H. Andrews, organized the
Medical Emergency Corps, composed of dis
trict police surgeons, its purpose being to
render all -possible assistance in case of in
jury at fires and elsewhere. This corps,
which is under Dr. Hulsizer's command,
and was the first of its kind in this country,
has proved to be highly efficient and useful
in its operations. In addition to his labors
in these fields he has been appointed as
sistant medical inspector of the Board of
Health. He is a member of several medical
societies and of the Pen and Pencil Club.
Address : 225 Brown Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
HUMES, William P. :
Banker; born in Bellefonte, Pennsylva
nia, September 21, 1844; son of the late
prominent, efficient and reputed to be at the
time of his death (March 28, 1895, being in

the eighty-fifth year of his age), the oldest
bank president in the United States, Ed
ward C. Humes, of Bellefonte, Pennsylva
nia, lie was educated at the Bellefonte
Academy; afterward at the Pennsylvania
State College, then known as the Farmers'
High School (later as Agricultural College
of Pennsylvania), from where he was
called to his home during the early part
of the Civil War, to assist his father in his
varied business interests, taking an active
part in the banking interests of his native
place in connection with the First National
Bank, and the successful banking firm es
tablished previously by his father of Humes,
McAllister, Hale & Company, composed of
Edward C. Humes, H. N. McAllister, a
prominent lawyer ; Judge James T. Hate,
also a leading lawyer and member of Con
gress, and Andrew G. Curtin, the great
war governor of Pennsylvania, and which
was after a number of years merged into
the former (First National Bank of Belle
fonte), of which his father was also presi
dent until his death. In addition to his
financial interests Mr. Humes became more
generally known to the public as a Candi
date for position of United States Commis
sioner of Railroads, to succeed General
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. He
was supported in his application by nearly
all the Republican leaders of Pennsylvania,
by the United States senators, and several
judges of the higher courts of the State;
by the governor, the mayor and former
mayor of Philadelphia, and indorsed in pri
vate letters from leaders of both political
parties .throughout the State, as well as
from personal friends of the President of
his own State of Ohio. While there were
other applicants from several States, Mr.
Humes' strongest competitor was General
Longstreet, of Georgia, who, as a promi
nent Southern supporter of the Union and
the Administration, was finally appointed
to the place by President McKinley. His
time is still actively and almost continu
ously with the bank, as well as in giving
attention to his father's estate. He is a
director of the bank, and, with his sister,
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largest stockholders. He is an elder of the
Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, with
which his father and grandfather (Hamil
ton Humes) bore the same connection.
The family from its earliest history have
been closely identified with church, charit
able and missionary work, always interested
in the best general welfare of the com
munity and their friends, and have been
favored with the highest social standing.
Politically he is a Republican, and, while
loyal to party interests, respects those who
may differ with him in their political faith
or views. Fie has also been for many
years an active member of the Union
League of Philadelphia, and belongs to
various other organizations Address :
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
HUMPHREY, George Seranton:
Engineer, financier; born Ithaca, New
York, August I, 1856; son of William R.
and Mary H. (Wheeler) Humphrey; edu
cated public schools and private instruction ;
attended scientific lectures at Cornell Uni
versity. Was for a time in First National
Bank> at Ithaca, New York; in 1875, re
moved to Oxford, New Jersey, and be
came furnace manager at the Oxford Iron
Company ; assayer and superintendent re
duction works, Carlisle, New Mexico, 1885;
assistant manager and treasurer Kokomo
(Indiana) Glass .Company, 1887; treasurer
and purchasing agent C. W. Hunt Com
pany, New York City, since 1890; has trav
eled extensively in United States and Eu
rope; attended the joint meetings of the
American and English engineering socie
ties in Europe in 1900 ; deeply interested in
politics, but ' not active in recent years.
Republican. Presbyterian. Member Am
erican Institute Mining Engineers, Ameri
can Society Mechanical Engineers, New
York Society Electrical Engineers, Staten
Island Association of Arts and Sciences
and Staten Island Academy (trustee),
Stateri Island Cnamber of Commerce (dir
ector), National Geographical Society,
American Forestry Association. Member
Association for the Protection of the Adi
rondacks, Staten Island Masonic Mutual
Benefit Association, Richmond Lodge

of Masons (past master) ; interested in
church affairs, and has represented New
York Presbytery in Synod and General
Assembly. Recreations : Outdoor life,
camping, boating, bowling, literary work,
historical research. Club : Staten Island.
Married, Oxford, New Jersey, September
27; 1883, Caroline, daughter of Colonel
Charles Scranton, and niece of Colonel
George W. Scranton, founder of Scranton,
Pennsylvania ; children : Charles Scranton
(born September 2, 1888), Mary Wheeler
(born March 9, 1892). Residence: 250
Bement Avenue, West New Brighton. Ad
dress : 45 Broadway, New York City.
HUMPHREY, James Otis:
United States district judge for the
Southern District of Illinois; born in Mor
gan County, Illinois, December 30, 1850;
son of William Humphrey and Sarah
(Stocker) Humphrey. After completing his
general education in Shurtleff College, he
was engaged in teaching school while study
ing law for two years. He was admitted
to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois
in 1880, then was a legal clerk in the office
of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission
of the State of Illinois, in Springfield,- un
til 1883, then engaged in private practice.
He was actively identified with politics as
a Republican. He was a presidential elec
tor in 1884, and was a member of the Na
tional Republican Convention at St. Louis
in 1896. He was appointed by President
McKinley in 1897,- to the office of United
State attorney for the Southern District of v
Illinois, and when his term in that office
expired in igoi, was appointed to the judge
ship which he now holds. Address : Spring
field, Illinois.
HUMPHREY, John:
Lawyer; born in Walpole, County of
Norfolk,, England, June 20, 1838; son of
Thomas and Mary (Dring) Humphrey.
His parents came to the United States
when he was ten years of age and settled
on a farm at Orland, Cook County, Illi
nois. The son was educated in the public
schools of Chicago, and Leonia, Michigan.
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Root, and was admitted to the Illinois, bar.
in 1872. He has for many years been en
gaged in general practice, and is now a
member of the firm of Humphreys & Hum
phreys. He has in addition to his law
practice been engaged in farming nearly all
his life. He is a member of the Chicago
Bar Association. He is a Republican and
has been active in politics throughout his
long career. He was superintendent of Or-
land for thirty-five years; school treas
urer twenty- four years; a member of the
House of Representatives of, the General
Assembly four years, and of the State Sen
ate twenty-two years, his last term being as
a representative from the Seventh District.
He has been twice married, his first wife
being Amelia A. Patrick, of. Bremen Town
ship, Illinois. His second marrige was to
Ida L. Stuart, and he has four children :
Wirt' E., Clara B. (now Mrs. P. Myers),
Maud E. and John S. Address : Ashland
Block, Chicago. Residence : Orland, Il
linois.
HUMPHREY, William E.:
Congressman; born March 31, 1862, near
Alamo, Montgomery County, Indiana. He
attended the common schools and was grad
uated from Wabash College, Crawfords
ville, Indiana, in 1887; was admitted to the
bar in 1887, and practiced law at Crawfords
ville to 1893; in 1893 moved to Seattle,
Washington, where he has since practiced
his profession; in 1898 was elected to the
office of corporation counsel of the city of
Seattle ; was reelected to that office in 1900 ;
was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress on the Republican ticket.
' Address : Seattle, Washington.
HUMPHREYS, Benjamin Grubb:
¦ Congressman and lawyer; born in Clai
borne County, Mississippi, August 17, 1865;
son of Brigadier-General Benjamin G.
Humphreys, Confederate States Army, and
governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868,
when he was forcibly ejected from the ex
ecutive mansion by Federal soldiers under
the command of Brigadier-General Adelbert
Ames, United States Army, who succeeded

him as military governor; his mother was
Mildred Hickman Maury, of Tennessee. He
was educated at the University of Missis
sippi, in the class of 1885, but left before
graduation, having completed the junior
year; he engaged in mercantile pursuits,
first as a clerk, afterwards as a commer
cial traveler, or drummer, and subsequently
on his own -account ; studied law, and was
admitted to the bar, November, 1891 ; was
appointed superintendent of education for
Leflore County in January, 1892, for a term
of four years. He was selected messenger
by the Presidential electors in 1892 to de
liver the electoral vote of Mississippi; in
1895 he was elected district attorney for
the Fourth Circuit Court, District of Missis
sippi for a term of four years, and was re
elected without opposition in 1899; when
war was declared against Spain, in April,
1898, he raised a company at Greenwood
and was elected first lieutenant; he offered
to resign the office of district attorney in
order to join the army, but United States
Senator A. J. McLaurin, who was then gov
ernor of Mississippi, refused to permit it,
and gave him a leave of absence instead ; he
served in the Second Mississippi Volunteer
Infantry, under Major-General Fitzhugh
Lee in Florida, during the entire war, be
ing mustered out with his regiment at Co
lumbia, Tennessee, December 22, 1898; was
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, also
to the Sixtieth Congress, from the Third
Mississippi District. He is a Democrat in
politics. He married, October 9, 1889,
Louise Yerger, of Greenville, Mississippi.
Address : Greenville, Mississippi.
HUNEKER, James Gibbons:
Dramatic and musical critic, author and
pianist; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
January 31, i860; son of John and Mary
(Gibbons) Huneker. He received his edu
cation in Roth's Military Academy ; studied
law and conveyancing in the office of Dan
iel M. Fox, ex-mayor of Philadelphia ; later
studied piano and theory in Paris. He
traveled extensively in Europe ; musical
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from 1900 to 1904; occupied the same po
sition at different periods on the New York
Recorder and the Morning Advertiser ; con
tributor to magazines, and critical contrib
utor to the New York Times; special cor
respondent to the New York Herald. He
is author of: Mezzotints in Modern Music,
1899; Chopin, 1900; Melomaniacs, 1902;
Overtones, 1904; Iconoclasts — a Volume of
Essays Devoted to Ibsen and the Modern
Drama, 1905; Visionaries, a Collection of
Tales, 1905; and author of many prefaces
and of the extended articles, Music, in In
ternational Cyclopaedia. Mr. Huneker is
now preparing a definitive ' biography of
Franz Liszt. He is a Catholic in religion.
His favorite recreations are the piano, Rus
sian literature and modern painting. Ad
dress : The Carrollton, 981 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
HUNT, Emory William:
President of Denison University; born
at Clarence, New York, February 2, 1862 ;
son of the Rev. Harrison Perry Hunt and
Caroline (Holmes) Hunt. He received his
preparatory education at the rural school
of his native town, and at the Buffalo State
Normal School, whence he entered the
University of Rochester, graduating in 1884,
he entered the Crozer Theological Semin
ary where he received in 1887, the degree
of B.D. The honorary degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by Denison University
in 1901, and that of LL.D by the Univers
ity of Rochester in 1902. After his grad
uation from the Crozer Theological Sem
inary he entered the ministry of the Bap
tist Church and accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Ashland Avenue Baptist
Church of Toledo, Ohio, officiating in this
parish for thirteen years. In 1900 he took
charge of the Clarendon Street Baptist
Church at Boston, Massachusetts, but in
1902 resigned to become president of Deni
son University. Dr. Hunt has traveled
through England, Scotland and France.
He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity,
and the Triton Fish and Game Club of
Quebec. He spends his summer vacation
in camping. He was married at Waltham,

Massachusetts, August 24, 1892, to Elizabeth
Olney, and has three daughters : Helen,
Harriet and Carolyn. Address : Gran
ville, Ohio.
HUNT, Leigh:
Journalist; born in Indiana, in 1855. He
was president Iowa State Agricultural Col
lege; resigned to accept management Seat
tle Post-Intelligencer, which paper he later
owned and edited until the panic of 1903.
Since that event he has spent most of his
life pioneering in remote places, chiefly
China, Corea, and Africa. Clubs : Union,
Brook, and New York Yacht, of New York,
and St. James', London. Address: 17 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
HUNT, Leigh Harrison:
Artist, professor of art ; born Galena, Illi
nois, 1858; son of Leigh and Eliza (Har
rison) Hunt; educated College City of New
York, B.Sc. (salutatorian, second honor of
class), 1877, M.Sc, 1881; New York Uni
versity Medical Department), M.D. (first
honor, first 'prize), 1880. Professor Art
Department, College City of New York,
since 1877. Etcher. Author: Treatise on
Etching. Art critic and art writer; con
tributor to Catholic Encyclopedia of arti
cles on art and artists. Traveled and
studied art in Europe in 1887, 1889, 1900
and 1901. Republican. Episcopalian.
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Del
ta. Recreations : Farming, driving. Clubs :
Black and White (treasurer), Salmagundi
(secretary), Artists' Fund (secretary).
Married, New York City, 1881, Grace Anna
Storrs. Address: 14 West Twelfth Street,
New York City.
HUNT, Richard Howland:
Architect; born Paris, France, 1862; son
of Richard Morris Hunt; educated Insti
tute of Technology; finished studies
at Ecole des Beaux Arts, with view
to following father's profession.. From a
small sketch left by father he completed
the new East wing for Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, and of individual works may
be mentioned : Quintard Hall and Hoffman
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at Vanderbilt University ; Schmid House ;
Idle Hour, for W. K. Vanderbilt; Schief-
felin mansion. Devotes attention to arch
itectural designs for large office buildings.
Member American Institute of Architects,
Architectural League, Beaux Arts Society.
Clubs : Players', Century. Married, first,
Pearl, daughter of Francis D. Carley; sec
ond, 1891, Margaret Livingston Watrous,
daughter of S. Otis Livingston ; children :
Richard Carley, Frank Carley, Jonathan.
Address : 28 East Twenty-first Street,
New York City.
HUNT, Theodore Whitefleld:
University professor; born at Metuchen,
New Jersey, February 19, 1844; son of
Holloway W. Hunt and Henrietta (Mun-
day) Hunt. He was graduated from
Princeton University with first honor in
1865 and from Princeton Theological Semi
nary in 1869, from Lafayette College he
received a Ph.D. in 1880, and from Rut
gers an L.H.D. in 1890. He was tutor
in English in Princeton University, from
1868 to 1873; adjunct professor of English
from 1873 to 1881, and has been professor
of English in the same institution from
1881. He has published Caedmon's Exodus
and Daniel, 1883; Principles of Written
Discourse, 1884; English Prose and Prose
Writers, 1887 ; Studies in Literature and
Style, 1890; Ethical Studies in Old English
Literature, 1894; American Meditative
i-.yrics, 1896; English Meditative Lyrics,
1899 ; and Literature : Its Principles and
Problems, 1906; and has contributed to
the leading American reviews, literary and
philological. He married at Camden, New
Jersey, June 29, 1882, Sarah Cooper Reeve,
now deceased. Address : 48 Library Place,
Princeton, New Jersey.
HUNT, William H.
Consular official; born in Ireland. Vice-
consul at Tamatave, May 20, 1899; consul,
August 23, 1901 ; consul at St. Etienne, No
vember 1, 1906. Address : St. Etienne,
Cochin China.
HUNT, William Henry:
Jurist; born in New Orleans, November
5, 1857. Was educated at Yale. Is United

States District judge for the District of
Montana. Address : Flelena, Montana.
HUNT, William Prescott:
Manufacturer; son of Caleb and Rebecca
(Pool) Hunt; was born in Bath, New
Hampshire, January 14, 1827. His father
was a woolen manufacturer at Bath, New
Hampshire, and imported the first carding
machine used in that State, and his mother,
a native of Hollis, New Hampshire, was a
cousiri of W. H. Prescott, the historian,
He was fitted for Dartmouth College, but
receiving an offer from the South Boston
Iron Company, he entered the service of
that corporation in August, 1847, and has
been continually identified with it and its
successors to the present time. He was
elected treasurer of the South Boston Iron
Company in 1863, and president and treas
urer in 1876; and has held the same of
fices iri the corporation succeeding that
company. He has been president of the
Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Com
pany ever since 1875 ; was president of
the Boston Machine Company from 1864
to 1884; has been a director in the Boston
Lead Manufacturing Company since 1880 ;
and was a director in the Carver Cotton-
Gin Company from i860 to 1888. He was
elected a director of the Atlas National
Bank in 1872, and president in 1878, serv
ing until 1882 ; and he was a director in the
Manufacturers' Insurance Company from
1872 to 1882. Mr. Hunt was first married
in 1856 to Catherine Muller, of New
York City; she died in 1869. In 1871 he
married Helen S. Cummings, of New
Bedford. He has five children : Mary E.,
William Prescott, Henry M., Arthur P.,
and John Cummings Hunt. Address : 140
Savin Hill Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
HUNTER, Aaron Burtis:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, April
26, 1854; son of John C. Hunter and Sarah
Ann Hunter. After a thorough prepara
tory training in the Central High School
of Philadelphia and graduation from Am
herst College as A.B., he took theological
courses in the Union Theological Seminary
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dained in the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and since 1891 he has
been principal of St. Augustine's School,
Raleigh, North Carolina. He has traveled
in Germany, Greece, Italy, Palestine, and
Egypt. Mr. Hunter married in Brooklyn,
New York, January 19, 1888, Sarah Lathrop
Taylor. Address : Raleigh, North Caro
lina.
HUNTER, Edwin Gustavus:
Clergyman; born in Ontario, Canada,
January 21, 1846, Edwin Hunter and
Eliza Bliss (Hosmer) Hunter. He was
educated in high school, New Market, On
tario, Canada, Seabury Divinity School,
Faribault, graduating in June, 1876, with
the degree of B.D. He was in charge
of the church at Redwood Falls, Minne
sota from 1876 to 1878; Janesville, Minne
sota, from 1878 to 1883; Cannelton, In
diana, in 1883 to 1887; Holy Innocents,
Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1887 to 1898;
St. John's, Louisville, Kentucky, from
1898 to 1901 ; Talladega, Alabama, since
1901. He was dean of the Central Con
vocation, Indiana, from 1892 to 1898; mem
ber of the Standing Committee of the Dio
cese of Indiana, from 1887 to 1898; pres
ident of the committee from 1890 to 1898;
president of the Special Diocesan Conven
tion, 1894; for some time editor of The
Church Worker, The Diocesan paper, Dio
cese of Indiana. Author of Chart, illus
trating the divine dispensation, and chief
events in Ecclesiastical History, Questions
on the Episcopal Church, Practical Ques
tions on Church Catechism, The Church in
the Reformation. ' Dr. Hunter married at
New Market, Ontario, May 16, 1878, Sarah
Jane Bradshaw. Address : 148 North Street,
Talladega, Alabama.
HUNTER, T. Comly:
Merchant; born in Bustleton, Philadel
phia, November 25, 1848; son of George
Hunter and Mary T. (Comly) Hunter. He
received his education in the grammar
school at Bustleton. He entered the office
of Morris Tasker & Company, July, 1863;
and with D. F. Dickson he founded the firm
of Hunter & Dickson in January, 1881.

Mr. Dickson died in 1897, and the com
pany being incorporated in 1900, under the
name of Hunter & Dickson Company, of
which he is president and director, and is
director of the Central Trust and Savings
Company, Frankford Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company, and of the Cedar. Hill Cem-
tery Company. He traveled in Europe,
United States and Canada. In politics he
is a Republican, and in religion a Metho
dist. He is a trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal Orphanage, the Methodist Epis
copal Home for Aged Persons, Methodist
Episcopal Hospital, and of the Wrights In
dustrial Institute; director of schools in the
Twenty-third Section of Philadelphia and
he is a member of the Frankford Country
Club. Mr. Hunter married in Frankford,
Philadelphia, October 30, 1883, Josephine
B. Shallcross. Residence: 4624 Leeper
Street, Frankford. Address : 245 Arch
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HUNTER, William Dulany:
Consular official; born in the District of
Columbia. He was appointed clerk Decem
ber 13, 1888, served in the consulate at
Liverpool from Junie, 1889, to Novem
ber, 1890, in the consulate-general at Paris
from February, i8gi, to October, 1892, ap
pointed vice and . deputy consul-general at
Shanghai, June 23, 1893, was in charge
of the consulate-general from Novem
ber, 1893, to May, 1894, resigned as vice
and deputy consul-general May 8, 1895,
appointed vice-consul to establish a consul
ate at Harput, Turkey, June 1895 ; attached
to the legation at Constantinople from De
cember 1895, to January 1896, designated
to make an inspection of consulates on the
West Indies and certain consulates to
South America November 20, 1896, appoint
ed also deputy consul-general at Cairo
June 1898, appointed also vice-consul gen
eral at Cairo, May 23, 1899, retired as
vice-consul general and as deputy consul-
general at Cairo, July 10, 1902, appointed
consul at Nice, March 30, 1907. Address:
Nice, France.
HUNTINGTON, Daniel:
Artist; born in New York City, Octo
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(Trumbull) Huntington. He was educated
at Hamilton College, from which he re
ceived the degree of LL.D. He studied his
profession under Samuel F. B. Morse;
traveled in Europe, studying there; made
several visits abroad, and exhibited his
paintings at the Royal Academy in London
in 1857 and 1858. He has been an acade
mician since 1840, and was president for
many years of the National Academy of
Design. His works comprise, besides a
number of historical paintings and land
scapes, the portraits of Martin Van Buren,
Albert Gallatin, Abraham Lincoln, Generals
Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman, Admiral
DepOnt, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hays, Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison, Louis Agassiz, William
Cullen Bryant, and many other notable
persons. In religious faith Mr. Huntington
is an Episcopalian, and is vestryman and
warden of his church. He is a member
of the National Museum of Arts (trustee) ;
life member of the New York Historical
Society, and the New York Geographic So
ciety; was one of the original trustees of
the Lenox Library, and later of the New
York Public Library, and is also one of
the founders and for many years was presi
dent of the Century Association. He mar
ried in Brooklyn, New York, June, 1842,
Harriet Sophia Richards, and they have
one son, Charles Richard. Address : 49
East Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
HUNTINGTON, Henry Edwards:
Railway official; born Oneonta, New
York, February 27, 1850; son of Solon and
Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; educated
in public schools. Was superintendent,
1880, of construction' of Huntington (C.
P.) lines between Louisville and New Or
leans, especially construction of Chesa
peake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad,
continuing until roads were completed in
1884. Superintendent, 1884-85, receiver,
1885-86, of Kentucky Central Railroad, of
which after sale in 1886, was vice-presi
dent Until road was sold to Louisville and
Nashville in 1890; vice-president and gen-
„ eral manager Elizabethtown, Lexington and
Big Sandy and Ohio Central Railways;
was also superintendent construction Mays-
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ville and Big Sandy Railroad and had
charge of the construction company which
built the lines through Covington, Ken
tucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, including the
Ohio' River Bridge. Was first assistant to
present Southern Pacific Company, 1892-
1900 (representing president at San Fran
cisco) ; second vice-president March-June;
1900; "first vice-president, 1900-1904. Now
president Pacific Electric Railway Com
pany, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Railway
Company, Los Angeles-Inter-Urban Rail
way Company (comprising over 685 miles
of trolley lines in Southern California).
Is chairman board of directors Newport
News (Virginia) Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company (of which he is half own
er). Is director Southern Pacific Com
pany, Newport News Light and Water
Company, Old Dominion Land Company
(Newport News), International Banking
Corporation, Wells, Fargo and Company
Express, Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail
way Company, Iowa Central Railway Com
pany, Toledo, St. Louis and Western Rail
way Company, Colorado and Louisville
Railway Company, Huntington Land and
Improvement Company, Los Angeles Land
Company, Electric Light and Power and
Land Companies, Safety Insulated Wire
and Cable Company, and about' forty-five
other companies. Clubs : California, Jon
athan, San Gabriel Valley Country, Pasa
dena Country, Bolsa Chica Gun, all of
California, Union League, Metropolitan and
City Midday of New York City, Oneonta
of Oneonta, Children : Howard E., Clara
E., Elizabeth V. and Marian. Residence :
Metropolitan Club, New York City. Busi
ness address : 25 Broad Street, New York
City.
HUNTINGTON, William Edwards:
President of Boston University; born at
Hillsboro, Illinois, July 30, 1844; son of
William P. Huntington and Lucy (Ed
wards) Huntington. He was educated in
the University of Wisconsin, receiving the
A.B. and A.M. degrees in course and the
honorary degree of LL.D. ; also D.D. from
Wesleyan University and from Syracuse
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He served in the Civil War as a private
in the Fortieth Regiment of Wisconsin Vol
unteer Infantry in 1864, and as first lieu
tenant in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volun
teer Infantry in 1865. Dr. Huntington was
a minister in the New England Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church from
1871 to 1882; dean of the College of Lib
eral Arts of Boston University from 1882
to 1904, and has been president of Boston
University since January, 1904. He spent
one year in Europe in 1880 and 1881, and
two summers in England, Scotland and
Wales in 1890 and 1900. He is a Repub
lican in politics; and his .favorite' recrea
tion is golf. President Huntington is a
member of the University, Boston City and
Ministers' Clubs of Boston, and the Neigh
bors and Commonwealth Country Clubs of
Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He mar
ried at Newton, Massachusetts, May 10,
1881, Ella M. Speare, and they have three
children : Raymond, born in 1882, Gene
vieve, born in 1892, and Miriam, born in
1897. Residence : Newton Centre, Massa
chusetts. -Business address: 688 Boylston
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HUNTINGTON, William Reed:
Clergyman; born at Lowell, Massachu
setts, September 20, 1838; son of Elisha
Huntington, M.D. and Hannah (Hinckley)
Huntington. He was graduated from Har
vard in 1859, and afterward received the
degrees of D.D. from Harvard, Yale,
Columbia and Princeton; L.H.D. from
Hobart College; D.C.L. from the Uni
versity of the South and LL.D. from Union
University. He was ordered deacon, 1861,
and ordained priest, 1862, in the ministry
of the Episcopal Church; was curate of
Emanuel Church, Boston, in 1861 and
1862; rector of All Saints' Church, W01-
cester, Massachusetts, from 1862 to 1883,
and since 1883 has been rector of Grace
Church, New York City. Dr. Huntington
is author : The Church Idea ; The Peace
of the Church; Conditional Immortality;
A National Church ; Popular Misconcep
tions of the Episcopal Church ; The Causes
of the Soul ; Four Key Words of Religion ;
Sonnets and a Dream; A Good Shepherd

and Other Sermons; also pamphlets and
sermons. He is a member of the Century
Association and the Harvard and Uni
versity Clubs. Dr. Huntington married in
1863, Theresa Reynolds, and has one son
and three daughters. Address : 804 Broad
way, New York City.
HUNTLY, Charles R:
Vice-President and general manager;
born in West Winfield, Herkimer County,
New York, October 12, 1853; son of Rus
sell and Clorinda (Talbot) Huntly; edu
cated in public schools of Utica, New York.
Began his business life in 1877 as a clerk
for the Standard Oil Company at Brad
ford, Pennsylvania; member School Board
three terms ; was a member of the city gov
ernment two terms ; entered the brokerage
business in 1883; removed to Buffalo in
1888, and accepted a position with the
Brush Electric Company, now the Buffalo
General Electric Company, and of which
he is the vice-president and general man
ager; and also of the Cataract Power and
Conduit Company; vice-president People's
Bank of Buffalo; treasurer International
Achison Graphite Company; Buffalo and
Niagara Falls Light and Power Company;
director German-American Bank, Buffalo
Audit Company, and Western New York
Water Company. He is a Republican and
an Episcopalian. Member of American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers; National
Electric Light Association. Mr. Huntly is
a member of the Buffalo Country, Ellicott,
Niagara Falls, and Republican (New York
City) Clubs. He married June 12, 1878,
Ida Richardson; children: William R.,
born 1880; Walter W., born 1883; Mary,
wife of Robert W. Chapin, born 1885;
Robert R., born 1894. Address: 712 Fi
delity Building, Buffalo, New York.
HURD, Arthur William:
Physician; born at Galesburg, Illinois,
December 26, 1858; son of Henry Sterling
and Eleanor Eunice (Hammond) Hurd.
He was graduated from Knox College,
Galesburg, Illinois, as A.B. in 1880, A.M.
in 1883; and from the College of Phy
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M.D. in 1883. He served as assistant phy
sician at the Buffalo State Hospital from
1885 to 1894; and has been its superin
tendent since 1894. He was" formerly pro
fessor of insanity in the University of
Buffalo ; and president of the Buffalo Acad
emy of Medicine. Dr. Hurd is author of
numerous papers on medical subjects, and
a member of, a number of professional bod
ies. He was married at Buffalo, New York,
June 20, 1895, to _ Mary Wheeler. Ad
dress; Buffalo State Hospital, Buffalo,
New YorK.
HURD, Henry Mills:
Physician; born in Union City, Michigan,
May 3, 1843 ; son of Dr. Theodore Canfield
Hurd and Ellen E. (Hammond) Hurd.
He was educated in Knox College, Gales
burg, Illinois, and the University of Michi
gan, and was graduated from the latter as
A.B. in 1863, and MD. in 1866; later re
ceiving from that institution the degrees
of A.M. in 1870 and LL.D. in 1895. Dr.
Hurd was assistant physician in the Michi
gan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo
from 1870 to i8f8 and assistant superinten
dent in the same in 1878. He was super
intendent of the Eastern Michigan Asylum
at Pontiac from 1878 to 1889; and since
1889 has been superintendent of Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
He has also, 'since 1889 been editor of the
¦Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin and the
Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, and since
1895 editor of the American Journal of
Insanity. Dr. Hurd was also, from 1889 to
igo6, professor of psychiatry in Johns Hop
kins University. He has written extensive
ly on medical and psychological subjects,
particularly as to the -treatment of the in
sane; also as to hospital and nurses' train
ing school management, and is joint author
with Dr. John S. Billings of: Hospitals,
Dispensaries and Nursing, and of Hints
to Hospital Visitors. He is member and
ex-president of the American Medico-
Psychological Association, and a member
of the Association of American Physicians ;
member of the American Academy of
Medicine, American Medical -Association,
American Neurological Association and

American Public Health Association. In>
politics he is an Independent Republican
and in. religion a Presbyterian. Dr. Hurd
is a member of the University and Johns
Hopkins Clubs of Baltimore, the Baltimore
Country Club of Roland Park and the
Lake Placid Club of Lake Placid, New
York. He married in Utica, New York,
September 16, 1874, Mary Jane Doolittle,
and they have two daughters : Eleanor H.,
and Anna G. Address : The Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
HURD, Richard Melancthon:
President of Lawyers' Mortgage Com
pany; born in New York City, June 14,
1865; son of Melancthon M. Hurd and
Clara A. (Hatch) Hurd. He was gradu
ated from Yale University, in 1888. He is
president and director of the Mortgage
Bond Company of New York, City Real
Property Investing Company. He is author
of Principles of City Land Values. He is
a member of the Economic Association and
the University and Yale Clubs. Mr. Hurd
married in Mobile, Alabama, September
22, 1898, Lucy Gazzam, and they have three
children : Mary, born in 1900 ; Eleanor,
born in 1903, and Richard M., born in 1906.
Address : Locust, New Jersey.
HURD, William Lambert:
President of the Monongahela Tube
Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; born
at Port Lavaca, Texas, on August 28, 1847;
educated at Colby Academy, New London,
New Hampshire, and at Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island. He, at an early
age, filled various clerical positions, paving
the way to a satisfactory business opening.
At the time of the great fire in Boston
in 1872, he was a clerk in a wholesale cloth
ing house, which succumbed to the wide
spread conflagration, and afterward took
a position with the National Tube Works
Company at McKeesport, Pennsylvania,
with which concern he remained for a
period of twelve years. He then connected
himself with the Continental Tube Com
pany, and later on he accepted a leading
position with Duquesne Tube Works Com
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the iron and steel commission business with
Mr. Hugh H. Davis, as Hurd, Davis &
Co., and in 1899 organized and became
president of the Monongahela Tube Com
pany, which position he now fills, and he
is also president of the Home Trust Com
pany of Pittsburgh. Mr. Hurd's ancestors
on his father's side were of English origin
and settled in New England several genera
tions back; his mother's ancestors were
English and French. Her father, Nathaniel
"Dearborn, was a descendant from Godfrey
Dearborn, who settled in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire in 1638; her mother being a
descendant of Dr. Pierre Sigourney, a
French Huguenot, who settled in Massa
chusetts in the latter part of the seven
teenth century. During the Civil War Mr.
Hurd was a member of Company F, Sec
ond Massachusetts Artillery. He was mar
ried in 1873 to Miss Alabama Vandervort,
daughter of the late Robert Vandervort of
Pittsburgh, and has three children. Ad
dress, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
HURLBUT, Bryon Satterlee:
Professor of English and dean of Har
vard College; born at Shelburne, Vermont,
February 10, 1865; son of Hiram Fuller
Hurlbut and Roxcy Jane (Satterley) Hurl-
but. He was educated in public schools
of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Harvard Col
lege, from which he was graduated as A.B.
in 1887; A.M. in 1888. He was assistant in
English in 1890 and 1891 ; instructor in
English from 1891 to 1901 ; recording secre
tary of Harvard University from 1895 to
1902; assistant professor of English from
igoi to 1906; professor of English since
1906; and dean of Harvard College since
1902. He married at Beverly, Massachu
setts, July 12, 1904, Eda Adams Woolson,
and they have two sons : James Woolson
Hurlbut, born June 15, 1905; and David
Huntington Hurlbut, born May 18, 1907.
Address : 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
HURRY, Edmund Abdy:
Lawyer ; born New York City, • August
8, 1839; son of Edmund Hurry and Eliza
beth M. (Flanagan) Hurry. He was

graduated from Columbia as A.B.., i860,
A.M., 1862; Columbia College of Law, LL.
B., 1862. Captain's clerk and- aide to his
uncle, by marriage, Captain (afterward
Commodore) Homer C. Blake, United
States Navy, on U. S. S. Eutaw, 1863-64;
under fire at Chapin's Bluff; was wounded
at Bermuda Hundreds; on volunteer pick
et duty above Newbern, North Carolina,
blockading off Fort Fisher; bearer of dis
patches to the Hartford at Pensacola, Flor
ida, on pontoon bridge at Cross of the
James River by United States Army at City
Point; present at reception given by Presi
dent Lincoln in the Blue Room to the
admiral and officers of the Russian fleet,
and had pleasure of conversing with Presi
dent Lincoln. Was volunteer nurse of our
wounded and sick soldiers in New York
City in early summer of 1863. Practiced
law in New York City for some years ; now
retired from practice. Director United
States Fire Insurance Company. Republican.
Episcopalian; vestryman Trinity Church,
Saugerties. Has been much abroad in Eu
rope; visited Crete, Turkey, Greece, Egypt;
present at Vatican at beatification of two
saints during pontificate of Leo XIII, and
present at other interesting ceremonials
there and elsewhere. Member (formerly
trustee and secretary) New York Genea
logical and Biological Society, and has
written on genealogical and semi-historical
subjects for New York papers and other
publications. Also has made addresses in
public in New York and other places.
Formerly trustee Eastern Dispensary and
treasurer Babies' Hospital. Member St.
Nicholas Society, St. George's Society, New
York Genealogical and Biological Society.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American
Geographical Society. Clubs : Union League,
University, Church, (New York City) ;
Saugerties. Married, New York City, No
vember 17, 1868, Emily Ashton Renwick;
daughter of William Rhinelander Renwick;
children: Edith Renwick, Bessie Crosby,
Helen Schuyler, Renwick Clifton, Mary
Crosby, Emily Ashton, Rutgers Ives. Resi
dence (summer) : Clifton, Barclay Heights,
Saugerties-on-Hudson. Address : 122 East
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HURRY, Randolph:
Lawyer; born New York City; son of
Edmund and Elizabeth M. (Flanagan)
Hurry; graduated Columbia College, B.A.,
1875, M. A., LL.B. Is president and direct
or Stanley Court Realty and Construction
Company; secretary and director Randolph
Realty Company. Episcopalian. Member
New York City and State Bar Associa
tions, Delta Psi fraternity; director New
York Juvenile Asylum ; vestryman Episcop
al Church of the Epiphany. Clubs : Uni
versity, Racquet and- Tennis, St. Anthony,
New York. Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Law
yers', Garden City Golf. Married, New
York City, May 17, 1883, Marye Agnes
Condit; children: Elizabeth M., 'Dorothy
W. Residence: 242 Lexington Avenue.
Office address : William Street, New York
City.
HURST, Carleton Bailey:
Consul; born in Bremen, Germany
(where his parents were temporarily re
siding), August 16, 1867; son of Bishop
John Fletcher Hurst, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of the United States, and
of Catherine (La Monte) Hurst.' He was
educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire, at Harvard College (where he
was editor of the Daily Crimson, and of
the Harvard Advocate), and at the Uni
versity of Tubingen, Germany, receiving
from the latter the degrees of A.M. and
Ph.D. He entered the consular service of
the United States in 1892 under appoint
ment of President Harrison as consul at
Catania, Italy, was transferred to Crefeld,
• Germany, in 1893, to Prague, Bohemia, in
1895, to Vienna, Austria, in 1897, to La
Guaira, Venezuela, in 1904 ; and in 1905 was
transferred to his present post as Amer
ican consul at Plauen, Saxony. Mr. Hurst
has written much for the magazines on sub
jects of travel, as well as short stories in
fiction'. He married, August 1, 1892, Har
riette Hamlin Strobridge. Address: Amer
ican Consulate, Plauen, Saxony, Germany.
HUSEMEN, F. R.:
Banker; born November 29, . 1876, in
Wheeling, West Virginia ; educated in pub

lic schools and Linsley Institute, Wheeling,
West Virginia. He was chosen cashier of
the Allegheny Valley Bank of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, April 1, igo3. He married
Essie Jane Swearer of Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, in December, 1901. Residence:
830 Heath Street. Office: Allegheny Val
ley Bank of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania. HUSS, George Martin:
Architect; born Newark, New Jersey,
July 23, 1853 ; son of George J. and Sophie
R. (Holden) Huss; graduated College of
the City of New York, B.S., 1873. Was
one of the four successful competitors for
designs for the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine; one of three selected as supervis
ing architect of United States Treasury
Department at Washington; has translated
from the French the article Construction,
from Viollet-le-duc's Dictionnaire Raisonne,
now published by The Macmillan Company
as Rational Building. Republican. Pres
byterian. Associated with Clement B. Brun
upon several important architectural
schemes ; retired member first class of
Mendelssohn Glee Club; member New
j-ork Architectural League, New York
Athletic Club (life member). Recreations:
Outdoor sports. Married. June, 1902, Del
Kearney Fisher; one daughter, Gladys
Georgia, born in 1902. Address : 30-32 East
Twentieth Street, New York City.
HUSSEY, William Joseph:
Astronomer; born near Mendon, Ohio,
August 10, 1862. Graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1889. Is professor
of astronomy and director of the Observa
tory of the University of Michigan. Ad
dress : Ann Arbor, Michigan.
HUTCHINGS, Richard Henry:
Physician ; born Clinton, Georgia, August
28, 1869; son of Richard H. and Cornelia
(Greaves) Hutchings ; educated Middle
Georgia- Military College, certificate 1887;
University of Georgia, special course, 1887-
88; Bellevue (New York) Medical College,
M.D., 1891. Was house physician, alms
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Island, 1891-92; appointed fourth assistant
physician St. Lawrence State Hospital,
after competitive civil service examination,
1893; subsequently promoted to third, sec
ond and first assistant, and in September,
1903, was appointed superintendent. Has
been a frequent contributor to current
medical literature, particularly relating to
nervous and mental diseases. Interested
in all that pertains to the care and treat
ment of the insane and the prevention of
insanity, nursing and training schools for
nurses, particularly those connected with
hospitals for the insane. Member Ameri
can Medical Association, the American
Medico- Psychological Association, the Med
ical Society of New York State, and other
learned societies. Clubs : Century, Og
densburg. Married, Milledgeville, Georgia,
1893, Lillie Beall Compton; children: Rich
ard Henry, Charles Wyatt. Summer home :
Near Saranac Lake, Adirondacks. Ad
dress : Ogdensburg, New York.
HUTCHINSON, Joseph Baldwin:
Assistant to second vice-president of thex
Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pittsburgh
and Erie ; born at Bristol, Pennsylvania,
March 20, 1844. His father, Joseph B.
Hutchinson, was a native of Bristol, Penn
sylvania, and his mother, Miss Selina
Knapp, of Arlington, Vermont. He re
ceived his early education at the hands of
a private tutor, who fitted him for entrance
to the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania.
He graduated from this institution in 1861,
and, in order to perfect himself in the
knowledge of machinery and applied me
chanics, entered the Delamater Iron
Works, of New York, in the spring of
1862. He continued there until the fall of
the same year, when he passed an exami
nation by the Board of Inspection of New
York City, and received a certificate as
third assistant engineer. Upon receipt of
this certificate, he at once entered the ser
vice of Messrs. Hargous & Company, as
third assistant engineer on one of their
steamers plying between New York and
Havana, in which capacity he continued
until the steamer was sold to the United-
States Government in the early part of

1863. In June; 1863, he entered the ser
vice of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany as rodman, in the construction corps,
on the Miffin and Centre County Railroad.
Two weeks later he secured leave of ab
sence from the president to enter the army.
He served through the Gettysburg cam
paign, and was honorably discharged in
September, 1863, when he resumed his
duties in the service of the railroad as rod-
man, in the construction corps, on the
Western Pennsylvania Road. In August,
1864, he was advanced to the position of
assistant engineer of that road, and in
May, 1865, to the position of assistant en
gineer of Maintenance of Way and Con
struction. From March, 1868, until July,
1870, he was consecutively assistant en
gineer of the Columbia and Port Deposit
Railroad and the Butler Extension and Co
lumbia Bridge ; in July, 1870, he was ap
pointed principal assistant engineer of the
Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad, and
on July 1, 1877, he was made assistant
superintendent of the road. On January
I, 1879, Mr. Hutchinson was promoted to
the position of superintendent of the Lewis-
ton division, after which he was consecu
tively, to March 1, 1893, superintendent of
the Frederick Division, Altoona Division,
West Pennsylvania Division, and Maryland
Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad, the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad and the Washington
Southern Railway. On March 1, 1893, he
was promoted to the position of general
superintendent of transportation, being the
second incumbent of that office. In this
position he had general supervision over all'
train movements of the entire system east
of Pittsburgh and Erie, the looking after of
all the freight cars belonging to the com
pany, as well as those of foreign roads
used in its service, and such other duties
as might be assigned to him by the gen
eral manager; he also acted as the general
manager in the latter's absence. On Feb
ruary 12, 1897, upon the reorganization of
the company, after the death of President
Roberts, -Mr. Hutchinson was chosen gen
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sylvania Railroad east of Pittsburgh and
Erie, and January i, igo3, was appointed
assistant to second vice-president of same
line. Residence: 1304 Spruce Street. Ad
dress: Broad Street Station, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.HUTCHINSON, Winfield S.:
Lawyer; born at Buckfield, Maine, May
27, 1845; son of Stephen Drew Hutchinson
and Mary (Atkinson) Hutchinson. Fie
was graduated from Bowdoin College as
A.B. in 1867, and received the degree of
A.M. in 1870. He engaged in general
practice of law from 1876 until Sep
tember, i8g2, when he entered the ser
vice of the American Bell Telephone Com
pany in a professional capacity and with
drew from other practice. He is vice-presi
dent of the Western Telephone and Tele
graph Company, and director of the Cen
tral Union Telephone Company, the Du
luth Telephone Company, the New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company, North
western Telephone Exchange Company,
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone
Company, and the Wisconsin Telephone
Company. He is a member of the Corpo
ration of the Sarah Fuller Home for Deaf
-Children at West Medford, Massachusetts,
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Hunnewell
Club, and was the first president of the Uni
tarian Club of Newton, Massachusetts. He
married at Brunswick, Maine, January 1,
1870, Adelaide L. Berry, and they had one
son: Harold, born May 30, 1871, died July
15, 1906. Residence : 44 Billings Park, New
ton, Massachusetts. Address: 125 Milk
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
HUTT, Henry:
Illustrator; born Chicago, Illinois, De
cember 18, 1875; educated in the public
"schools and Art Institute of Chicago. Be
gan work as illustrator in the West, but
for the past few years has been a resident
of New York City and regularly employ
ed on the New York magazines, through
which the Hutt women have attained a
fame almost parallel to that of the Gibson
Girl; has also illustrated several of the
recent popular works of fiction. Married,

New York City, January 17, 1903, Edna
Garfield Delia Torre. Residence: 362
Riverside Drive. Address : Life Building,
19 West Thirty-first Street, New York City.
HUTTON, Frederick Remsen:
Consulting engineer, emeritus professor
mechanical engineering; born New York
City, May 28, 1853; son of Mancius Smedes
and Gertrude (Holmes) Flutton; graduated
Columbia, A.B., 1873, E.M., 1876, Ph.D.,
1882, ScD., 1904. Professor mechanical
engineering, Columbia University, 1877-
1907; dean Faculty of Engineering, Co
lumbia University, 1899-1905. Prepared
census monographs for Government, 1880-
82; editor Engineering Magazine, 1892,
Johnson's Encyclopedia, 1893. Author:
Mechanical Engineering of Power and
Plants; Heat and Heat Engines; The Gas
Engine, 1904 to 1907; Machine Tools
(United States census, 1800). Member
American Society Mechanical Engineers
(secretary 1883-1906, president 1906-1907),
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
American Museum Natural History. Trus
tee Collegiate School, New York Reformed
Dutch Church, New York. Recreations :
Tennis, automobiling. Clubs: Century, En
gineers', Motor. Married, New York City,
1878, Grace Lefferts ; children : Lefferts
Hutton, M.D. (born 1880), Mancius Smedes
Hutton (born 1882). Address: 319 West
One Hundred and Seventh Street, New
York City.
HUTTON, Mancius H.:
Clergyman; born in New York City, Oc
tober 13, 1837; son of Mancius Smeden
and Gertrude (Holmes) Hutton. He was
educated in private schools : New York
University, Union Theological - Seminary,
New York and Theological Seminary of
the Reformed Church, New Brunswick,
New Jersey and received the degree of
D.D. from the Rutgers College. Dr. Hut
ton was pastor of the Reformed Churcn
at Mount Vernon, New York, from 1864
to 1879, and has been pastor of the Sec
ond Reformed Church of New Brunswick,
New Jersey, since -1879. Fie has twice been
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Brunswick, New Jersey. He visited Pales
tine, Syria, Egypt, Italy and Greece in
1899; and made a tour around the world,
visiting as delegate the mission stations
of the Reformed Church in Arabia, In
dia, China and Japan in 1904 and 1905.
Fie has been president of the Board of
Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church
in America for many years. In politics he
is a Republican. Dr. Hutton is a mem
ber of the New Jersey State Microscopic
Society; chaplain of the New York State
Society of the Cincinnati, member of Re
formed Church Union and the Presby
terian Ministers' Association. He mar
ried in Mount Vernon, New York, Oc
tober 8, 1879, Mary Eleanor Clark. Res
idence: 26 Union Street, New Brunswick,
New Jersey. Office address : 25 East
Twenty-second Street, New York City.
HYATT, Abram M.:
Capitalist; born New York City, 1859;
son of Walter and Josephine Flyatt. Presi
dent and director Eldred Process Com
pany; vice-president and director Combus
tion Utilities Company; director Lincoln
Trust Company, Madison Safe Deposit
Company, New York and Queens Electric
Light and Power Company, Strong Mach
inery and Supply Company. Married, New
York City, 1897, Carrie Louise de Groot.
Address : Allenhurst, New Jersey.
HYDE, Edward Pechin:
Physicist; born in Baltimore County,
Maryland, January 3, 1879; son of Edward
Ingle Hyde and Caroline R. (Clemm)
Hyde. He was graduated as A.B. from
Johns Hopkins University in 1900 ; was a fel
low of that university in 1901 and 1902,
and fellow by courtesy from 1902 to 1906;
received his Ph.D. degree in the latter
year. He was laboratory assistant at the
Bureau of Standards from 1902 to 1905,
assistant physicist from 1905 to 1907, and
associate . physicist from 1907 ; he has
been in charge of the Section of Photome
try since 1903. He made a European tour
in 1906 for the purpose of comparing the
unit of luminous intensity of the United

States with those of England, France and
Germany. He is a member of the Ameri
can Physical Society, and of the Illuminat
ing Engineering Society, serving on the
International Committee on Nomenclature
and Standards of the latter. He is author
of various monographs and articles, the re
sult of his researches in physics. He is a
Republican in politics and a Presbyterian in
religion. Dr. Hyde was married in Balti
more, May 4, 1904, to Clara Virginia Getz-
endanner. They have a daughter, Dorothy
Virginia, born August 25, 1906. Residence:
The Cliffbourne, Washington, D. C. Of
fice address: Bureau of Standards, Wash
ington, D. C.
HYDE, E. Francis:
Banker ; born in New York 'City, June 23,
1842 ; son of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde,
He received his early education in New
York City, and" Middletown, Connecticut;
graduated from the New York Free Acad
emy (now College of the City of New
York), in 1861, and from Columbia Law
School as LL.B. in 1863. Mr. Hyde served
in the United States Army in a New York
regiment in Virginia in the Civil War. He
practiced law in New York City until 1886,
and since 1886 has been vice-president and
trustee of the Central Trust Company of
New York. He is a Republican in politics
and a Presbyterian in his religious belief.
Mr. Hyde is a patron of orchestral music.
and has an extensive library of the scores
of the great musical composers; was presi
dent of the Philharmonic Society of New
York, from 1888 to 1901 ; is a fellow of the
Philharmonic Society of London, England;
member of the Manuscript Society of New
York, etc. He is a trustee of the Presby
terian Board of Church Erection; member
of the New York Sabbath Committee;
manager of the American Bible Society;
trustee and treasurer of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, and is a member of
the American Geographical Society, the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, New England Society in New York.
Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the
Revolution, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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sociation and the Union League, Metropoli
tan, University, Riding, City, Down Town
Clubs. He married in 1868, Marie E.,
daughter of Albert B. Brown, merchant, of
New York City. Residence : 36 West Fif
ty-eighth Street. Address : 54 Wall Street,
New York City.
HYDE, James Hazen:
Former vice-president of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the United
States; born in New York City, June 6,
1876; son of Henry B. Hyde (founder and
late president of the society) and Annie F.
Hyde, He was educated in New York City,
and was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1898. He was elected second vice-presi
dent November 2, 1898, and vice-president
May 10, i8gg, of the Equitable Life, from
which he resigned in 1905. He was several
years president of the Alliance Francais;
gave $30,000 to the Cercle Fra-ngais of Har
vard for the promotion of the study of
French literature,- and the French Govern
ment recognized his munificence by confer
ring on him the cross of the Legion of
Honor ; and he is_ now director of the Fed
eration of French Alliances in the United
States. Mr. Hyde is vice-president of the
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, Coney Island
and Brooklyn Railroad Company, and di
rector in many other companies. He is a
member of the Union, University, Lawyers',
Press, Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis,
Turf, Grolier, Century, Tuxedo, South Side,
Riding, Fencers', Meadow Brook, and Auto
mobile Clubs. Address : 120 Broadway,
New York City.
HYDE, Miles Goodyear:
Physician, author; born Cortland, New
York; son of Frederick and Elvira (Good
year) Hyde; educated Cortland Academy,
Yale, A.B. (with honors), 1865, A.M.,
1868; Geneva Medical College, M.D., 1868.
Began medical practice at Cortland, 1868;
demonstrator of anatomy, 1872-74; profes
sor of internal anatomy, 1874-78, College
of Medicine, Syracuse University. Presi
dent Cortland County Medical Society,
1875, reelected in 1876; delegate to Ameri

can Medical Association, 1876; for several
years surgebn to Elmira, Cortland and
Northern Railroad; removed to New York
City, 1888. Member Phi Beta Kappa,
American Geological Society, Delta Kappa
Epsilon Association of New York City.
Delivered address, June, 1905, before Medi
cal Alumni of Syracuse University. Au
thor "of several books of fiction and of
monograph on The. One-Time Wooden
Spoon at Yale, etc. Married, Solon, New
York, June 30, 1870, Julia Elizabeth Boyd;
children : Frederick William, Lavina Hath-
way. Address : 108 West One Hundred
and Twenty-eighth Street, New York City.
HYDE, William De Witt:
President of Bowdoin College; born in
Winchester, Massachusetts, September 23,
1858; son of Joel Hyde and Eliza Hyde.
He received his education at Phillips Exe
ter Academy, Harvard College and Ando
ver Seminary. He is author of : Social
Theology ; Practical Ethics ; Practical Ideal
ism ; God's Education of Man ; Jesus' Way ;
From Epicurus to Christ; and the College
Man and the College Woman. President
Hyde married in 1883, Prudence M. Phil
lips. Address : Brunswick, Maine.
HYDE, William Henry:
Artist, painter; born New York City,
January 29, 1858; son of John James and
Maria Louisa (Card) Hyde; graduated
Columbia, B.A., 1877; studied in Paris at
Academie Julien under Boulanger, Lefeb-
vre, Doucet, Alexander Harrison. Asso
ciate National Academy Design. Independ
ent (Mugwump) in politics. Club: Cen
tury. Married, Grace Church, New York
City, December ig, 1894, Mary, daughter
of Right Rev. H. C. Potter; one daughter,
Sylvia (11). Address: 105 East Sixty-
first Street, New York City.
HYNES, William J.:
Lawyer; born in Kilkee, County Clare,
Ireland, March 31, 1842 ; son of Thomas
and Catherine (O'Shea) Hynes. His fa
ther died in 1848 and the mother brought
the family to the United States in 1853, set
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young Hynes attended the public schools
until he became an apprentice to the print
ing trade in the office of the Springfield Re
publican. He acquired sufficient means to
enable him to become a student at the
Columbian University Law School in Wash
ington, from which he was graduated in
1870. He was admitted to the bar in the
same year and began his practice at Little
Rock, Arkansas . He was elected to Con
gress from the Little Rock District in 1872
on the Greeley ticket, and was reelected in
1874, but his election was contested and
he failed to secure his seat. He removed
to Chicago, Illinois, in 1875, and for a time
practiced in association with Judge Walter
B. Seates. Later he was the senior mem
ber of the firm of Hynes, English & Dunne,
but is now practicing alone. He was mar
ried in September, 1871, to Jennie W. Way,
daughter of Judge George B. Way, of
Ohio. Address : 59 Clark Street. Resi
dence : 3914 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
HYSLOP, James Hervey:
Professor of logic and ethics at Colum
bia; born in Xenia, Ohio, August 18, 1854;
son of Robert Hyslop. He was graduated
from Wooster (Ohio) University in 1877,
received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University in 1887. He formerly
taught in Lake Forest University, Smith
College, Bucknell University, and Colum
bia, where he was professor of logic and
ethics, resigning in 1902, to become secre
tary of the American Society of Psychical
Research. He is author of : Elements of
Logic; Ethics of Hume; Elements of Eth
ics ; Democracy ; Logic and Argument ; Syl
labus of Psychology; Science and a Future
Life ; Enigmas of Psychical Research ; Bor
derland of Psychical Research; Problems
of Philosophy; also publications in Proceed
ings of the Society for Psychical Research.
Professor Hyslop married in Philadelphia
in 1891, Mary Fry Hall. Address : 519
West One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street,
New York City.
HYSLOP, John William :
Clergyman ; graduated from St. Stephen's
College as B.A. in 1887, and from the Gen

eral Theological Seminary in 1890. He was
ordered deacon in 1890, by Bishop Leonard,
and priest in 1890, by Bishop Wingfield. He
was in charge of the church at Vir
ginia City, Nevada, 1890-92; Carson City,
Nevada, 1892-95 ; St. Peter's, Ashtabula,
Ohio, 1895-1901 ; Trinity Church, Tiffin,.
Ohio, 1901-1906; St. Mark's, Aberdeen,
South Dakota, 1907. Priest in- charge of
Cavalry Cathedral, Sioux Falls, igo6-igo7
Address : Aberdeen, South Dakota.
HIDINGS. Lewis M:
Diplomatic officer; born in Ohio; ap
pointed secretary of the Embassy at Rome
August 3, 1897; secretary of Embassy, Jan
uary 14, 1898; diplomatic agent and con
sul-general at Cairo, March 23, 1905. Ad
dress : American Diplomatic Agency, Cairo,
Egypt.IDE, George Edward: ,
Life underwriter; born in Brooklyn, New
York, May, i860; son of Henry and Lydia
(Smith) Ide. He was graduated from Yale,
B.A., 1881, receiving his M.A., in 1906. He
became secretary Home Life Insurance
Company, 1890, vice-president, 1892, presi
dent since 1904; director Fidelity and Casu
alty Company, Corn Exchange Bank (Grand
Central Branch) ; president Larchmont Na
tional Bank. Clubs: University, Yale,
Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Automobile
Club of America, Larchmont Yacht, Hamil
ton, Graduates' (New Haven). Married in
Brooklyn, 1895, Carrie W. Hester. Resi
dence: Larchmont Manor, New York. Ad
dress : 256 Broadway, New York City.
IDE, George Elmore:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy; born
at Zanesville, Ohio, December 6, 1845; son
of Dr. William E. and Angelina (Sullivan)
Ide; sent to Naval Academy in 1861, gradu
ated in 1865. In summer of 1862 and 1864,
while midshipman-, cruised after Confeder
ate steamers Tallahassee and Florida; in
1870, went to Greenland on Juniata in
search of Polaris survivors, and same year
took Virginius filibusters from Santiago,
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ships, including the Kenosha, which, in
1871, escorted English battleship Monrach
to Portland, Maine, carrying remains of
George Peabody, philanthropist ; command
ed steamer Justin off Santiago, during
Spanish War; took United States steamer
Yosemite to Guam, 1899, carrying governor
of island and surveying the harbor, in view
of making it a cable and coaling station
in 1900; commanded United States steam
ship New Orleans, on Manila Station;
thence to Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cali
fornia, as captain of yard until retired as
rear-admiral, September 26, igoi, after
forty years' service. Clubs : Metropolitan,
City, New York Athletic and New York
Yacht. He married at Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, July 28, i88g, Alexandra Louise
Bruen. Address: 1128 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
D7FT, George H.:'
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania;
appointed consul at Chatham, May ig, igos ;
consul at Annaberg, June 22, 1906. Ad
dress : American Consulate, Annaberg,
Saxony.
ILES, Robert S.:
Lawyer; born in Alexandria, Kentucky,
January 30, 1848; son of Nicholas and
Martha (Smith) lies. He received his edu
cation through instruction from his parents
until he was seventeen years of ' age. He
taught school for a time and entered the
North Missouri State Normal School at
Kirksville, Missouri, from which he was
graduated in 1875, taking a post-graduate
course later and receiving the degree of
AM. He was superintendent of schools at
Hiawatha, Kansas, from 1875 to 1881,
studying law during the same period. He
went to the Black Hills of Dakota in 1881
and engaged in cattle ranching. He was
admitted to the Dakota bar in 1882, but re
moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the same year,
where he engaged in general practice. He
was county attorney of Cook County from
1894 to T900. He is a Republican, and was
a member of the Cook County Central
Committee from the Thirty-first Ward from
1891 to 1895. Mr. lies is senior member

of the firm of lies & Martin. He was Su
preme Archon of. the Royal League three
terms and is now supreme president of the
North American Union. He is a member
of the Hamilton and Colonial Clubs. He
was married in 1876 to Althea I. Davis of
Butler, Missouri, and has one daughter:
Bertha. Address : 59 Clark Street. Resi
dence : 669 Forty-eighth Street, Chicago,
Illinois. ILLOWAY, Henry:
Physician; born in Kolin, Bohemia, No
vember 2g, 1848; son of Reverend Bernard
and Katherine (Schiff) Uloway; educated
in public schools and by private tutors ; med
ical education received in Miami Medical
College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Resident physi
cian to the Cincinnati Hospital, 1869-70;
was professor of the diseases of children,
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur
gery, and visiting physician to the Jewish
Hospital in the same city. Author: Con
stipation in Adults and Children, With
Special Reference to Habitual . Constipa
tion and its Most Successful Treatment by
the Mechanical Methods (Macmillan) ; The
Summer Diarrhoeas of Infants (E. R. Pel-
ton, New York) ; one of collaborators on
The American Text- Book of the Diseases
of Children (Saunders) ; contributor to
medical literature through the New
York Medical Journal, New York Medical
Record, American Journal of Medical Sci
ences, and other journals of this country
and Germany. Member of the Academy
of Medicine, New York County Medical
Society, Society of Medical Jurisprudence,
German Medical Society, Harlem Medical
Society, State Medical Society, and several
others. Address: II 13 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
INGALLS, Melville Ezra:
Chairman of Board of Directors of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis Railway; born on a farm in the town
of Harrison, Maine, September 6, 1842. He
attended district school during the winter
months and worked on the farm during the
summer; at sixteen he passed an examin
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for three winters taught a country school,
working on the farm in the summer months
as before, and carefully saving his earnings
to provide for his further education; he
spent some time at the academy at Bridge-
ton, Maine, and at Bowdoin College, but
his moderate resources led him to abandon
his ambitions for a complete college course,
and to enter at once upon his professional
training, which he took at the Harvard Law
School, from which he was graduated in
1863, receiving at graduation the prize for
his essay on Underground Easements. After
practicing for a short tome at Gray, in
Cumberland County, Maine, he removed to
Boston, where he soon became successful
in a practice which became specialized
along the line of the law of transportation.
He became active in politics also, and
known as a ready and effective speaker,
being elected as a Democrat to the Senate
of Massachusetts in 1867, the youngest
member of that body. He could have con
tinued in politics with success, but his
business had so enlarged that it required his
undivided attention. The stockholders of
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette
Railroad Company engaged him to straight
en out the legal tangles in which that prop
erty had become involved, electing him
president in 1870, and as the result of the
litigation which followed, he was selected
by the court in 1871, as receiver, to take
charge of the property; but it again went
into his hands as receiver as the result of
litigation in 1876. In November-, 1880, the
road was reorganized as the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway,
and he became its president, the popular
name of Big Four dating from that reor
ganization. In 1889 the road, with the
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
dianapolis Railway (the Bee Line) were
consolidated under the present name of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
Railway, of which he was president until
February 1, 1905, when he became chair
man of the Board of Directors. From Oc
tober 1, 1888, to February 1, igoo, he was
also president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, which he thoroughly rehabili

tated; and from January, 1881, to October,
1883, he was also president of the Kentucky
Central. -His success as a railway man
ager has been one of the most noteworthy
of those that have marked the wonderful
development of the railway situation in this
country. As a citizen of Cincinnati, from
1871, he has been a leader in efforts for the
advancement and improvement of the city,
in the building of the Exposition Buildings,
the beautiful Art Museum, and the found
ing of the Art School of Cincinnati, and in
other measures for the material welfare of
the city of his home.. Politically he is a
Democrat of the Sound Money School and
as such was prominently mentioned for the
Democratic nomination for the presidency
prior to the National Convention in 1904.
He was president of the National Civic
Federation in 1905, and as a public spir
ited citizen his opinions and advice are
often asked in public affairs, not only those
of local interest, but also in matters of na
tional importance. Residence: East Wal
nut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.
INGALLS, Melville E., Jr.:
Lawyer ; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
October 10, 1870; son of Melville E. and
Abbie (Stimson) Ingalls; graduate Har
vard College, A.B., 1892; Harvard Law
School, LL.B., 1892. Was admitted to the
New York, bar and practiced in the law
office of Stetson, Jennings & Russell, after
leaving the law school, and in ApriL 1900,
formed partnership with John S. Sheppard,
under name of Sheppard & Ingalls; later
became associated with Judge William
Rumsey, late judge of the New York Ap
pellate Division, under name of Rumsey,
Sheppard & Ingalls; upon the death of
Judge Rumsey his son was admitted to the
firm; has traveled much over the United
States and Canada, and has visited Alas
ka, Cuba, England, Germany, France, Aus
tria, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Swit
zerland; director and counsel Seaboard
Transportation Company. In politics Mr.
Ingalls is a Democrat. He is a member of
the New York City and State Bar Associa
tions, Board of Managers J. Hood Wright
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Lawyers', and Knollwood Country Clubs.
Unmarried. Residence: 44 West Forty-
fourth Street. Address : 26 Liberty Street,
New York City.
INGALLS, Walter Renton:
Mining and metallurgical engineer, edi
tor; born in Lynn, Massachusetts, October
25, 1865; son of Jerome and Emma (Ren
ton) Ingalls; graduate Lynn (Massachu
setts) High School, 1882; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, S.B., 1886. En
gaged in mining at Leadville, Colorado,
1886-90; assistant editor Engineering and
Mining Journal, 1890-92; mining and met
allurgical engineer Pittsburgh and Mexican
Tin Mining Company, Durango, Mexico,
1892; consulting mining engineer New
York City, visiting, professionally, various
mining districts in the United States, Can
ada, Belgium, Germany and Poland, espec
ially in connection with the metallurgy of
zinc, 1893-94; metallurgist Gold and Silver
Extraction Company, Limited, Denver and
Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1895; superin
tendent Quien Sabe Smeltery, Durarigo,
Mexico, 1896; consulting engineer, New
York City, and assistant editor, The Min7
eral Industry, 1897-99; metallurgical engi
neer for American Zinc, Lead and Smelt
ing Company, Columbia Lead Company,
and Laharpe Zinc Smelting Company, 1899-
1904; chief Canadian Zinc Commission,
1905-06; since July 1, 1905, he has been edi
tor of the Engineering and Mining Journal
and of The Mineral Industry. Was mem
ber of jury at St. Louis Exposition. In
dependent in politics. Member of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers,
Institution of Mining and. Metallurgy,
American Chemical Society, Society of
Chemical Industry, American Electrochem
ical Society. Author: Production and
Properties of Zinc, 1902 ; Metallurgy of
Zinc and Cadmium, 1903 ; Notes on Metal
lurgical Mill Construction, 1906; Lead
Smelting and Refining, 1906 ; Economic His
tory of Lead and Zinc in the United States
(in press) ; Treatment of Mixed Sulphide
Ores, (in press). He is a member of the
Lawyers', Engineers', and Technology Clubs.
He married, Stapleton, Staten Island, Oc

tober 26, i8g8, Ella Gordon ; children : Rosa
mond, born in 1901, Catherine, born in ig02,
Hildegarde, born in 1906. Residence : West
New Brighton, Staten Island. Address : 505
Pearl Street, New York City.
INGALS, E. Fletcher:
Physician; born in Lee County, Illinois,
September 29, 1848; son of Charles Fran
cis Ingals and Sarah (Hawkins) Ingals.
He was graduated from Rush Medical Col
lege as M.D. in 1871. He began the teach
ing of medicine in 1871, and has taught
several months annually ever since : in the
Northwestern Woman's Medical Scho'ol for
several years, and continuously in Rush
Medical College. Dr. Ingals has been hon
ored by the presidency of the Illinois State
Medical Society, American Laryngological
Association, American Climatological Asso
ciation, the Laryngological Section of Pan-
American Congress, and also of the Ameri
can Medical Association, and of the Chicago
Laryngological Society. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion a Baptist. He
has been president of the Chicago Citizens'
Association, was director of the Chicago
Athletic Association three years, and trustee
of the Journal of the American Medical As
sociation for six years. His favorite recre
ation is golf. Dr. Ingals is a member of
the. Chicago Athletic, Homewood Country,
Quadrangle, Reynolds, and Colonial Clubs.
He married in Chicago, September 5, 1876,
Lucy Storrs Ingals, and they have four
children : . Francis E., born in 1881 ; Mrs.
M. Rachel I. Fisher, born in 1884; Mary
G., born in 1896, and E.. Fletcher, Jr., born
in 1898. Residence: 5540 Woodlawn Ave
nue, Chicago. Address : 34 Washington
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
INGERSOLL, Ernest:
Author, naturalist and' lecturer ; born at
Monroe, Michigan, March 13, 1852; son of
Dr. T. Dwight and Eliza (Parkinson) In-
gersoll; educated at Oberlin College, Law
rence Scientific School, Harvard ; has re
sided at New Haven, Connecticut, and at
Montreal, where he was editor, 1887-88,
of publications of Canadian Pacific Rail
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leaving school was associated with United
States Geological Survey and other scien
tific departments in Washington; in this
capacity and later in service of railway
companies and Harper's, The Century, and
other magazines; traveled extensively in
Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific Coast,
and wrote much in regard to the scenery,
natural history and industrial progress of
that part of the country. Was one of the
first to visit and describe the cliff ruins of
the Southwest; lately has devoted himself
to writing and lecturing (for a time as
member of the faculty of the University
¦of Chicago) on zoological topics. Was one
of the editors of the Standard Dictionary;
had charge of and largely prepared biologi
cal department of New International En
cyclopedia, 1901-04, and of Nelson's 'Cyclo
pedia, 1905-06. Author : Nests and Eggs
of American Birds, 1880-81 ; Oyster Indus
tries of the United States (Tenth Census),
1881; Birds' Nesting, 1882; Friends Worth
Knowing, 1882; Knocking Round the
Rockies, 1883 ; The Ice Queen, 1884 ; Coun
try Cousins, 1884; The Crest of the Con
tinent, 1884 ; Down-East Latchstrings, 1887 ;
The Silver Caves, 1890; A Week in New
York, 1892; Western Canada, 1895; Wild
Neighbors, 1897; The Book of the Ocean,
1898 ; Nature's Calendar, 1900 ; Wild Life of
Orchard and Field, 1902 ; The Life of Ani
mals-Mammals, 1906; An Island in the Ait
(story), 1905; The Wit of the Wild, 1906;
Eight Secrets, 1906. Also guides to the
Hudson Valley, New York City, Philadel
phia, Washington, the New England States,
the Southeastern- States, etc. Member of
Boston Society Natural History, Davenport
Academy Sciences, Nuttall Ornithological
Club, New York Linnaean Society. Clubs :
Authors, Explorers'. Address : Authors
Club, New York City.
INGRAHAM, Darius Holbrook:
Lawyer ; born in Maine, October 14, 1837 ;
he is prominent in Democratic politics in
Maine ; has been mayor of Portland ; consul
to Cadiz, Spain, and consul-general to Hal
ifax, Nova Scotia. Address : Portland,
Maine.

INGRAHAM, George L.:
Jurist; born in New York in 1847'; son
of Daniel P. and Mary (Landon) Ingra-
ham; graduate of Columbia Law School
1869. Admitted to bar, 1869; judge of the
Superior Court of the City of New York,
January, 1883; appointed May, 1891, and
elected November, 1891, justice of the Su
preme Court, for the First New York Dis
trict, and reelected November, igos, for
term expiring December 31, igi9; justice of
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court since January, 1896; present designa
tion expiring October 31, 1910. He is a
Democrat in politics, and a member of the
Century, Manhattan, Metropolitan, New
York Yacht, and Tuxedo Clubs. Mr. In-
graham married, December 4, 1872, Georg-
ina Lent. Children : Phoenix, Natalie. Ad
dress : 80 Irving Place, New York City.
INGRAHAM, Henry C. M. :
Lawyer; born at Amenia, New York,
May 2, 1838; son of George and Mary
(Michelle) Ingraham; educated at Willbra-
ham Academy, 1858-60; graduate of Wes
leyan University, A.B., M.A., LL.D., 1864.
President of the Brooklyn Bar Association,
i8g9-i903 ; counsel Williamsburg Bridge
Company to 1898; three years chairman of
the Committee on Moral Character for Ad
mission to the Bar in Second Department,
State of New Yofk; trustee Dime Savings
Bank of Brooklyn ; director of Glen Cove
Bank. He is a Republican in politics, and
a Methodist in church relations. Mr. In
graham is a trustee and president of the
board of trustees of Wesleyan University;
trustee of Pekin University, China; man
ager of the Board of Education of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church ; manager of the
American Bible Society; member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and of the Hamilton
Club of Brooklyn. Married at Des Moines,
Iowa, September 3, 1873, Winifred E. An
drews. Children: Henry A., born in 1877;
Edward A., born in 1879; Olin, born in
1882 ; Edith, Ruth, Grace, Mark Hoyt, born
in 1895. Address: 16 Court Street, Brook
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INGRAM, Augustus E. :
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
Appointed clerk, under civil service rules,
in the Department of Agriculture, April
12, i8g8; transferred to the Department of
State, March 31, igoo, and detailed for duty
in the office of the Third Assistant Secretary
of State; appointed consular clerk, May 15,
1902; appointed deputy consul-general at
Paris, December 13, 1902; appointed vice
and deputy-consul-general at Paris, July
20, 1903; retired as vice and deputy con
sul-general at Paris, December, 1903; as
signed to duty in the Consulate-General
at Antwerp, December, 1903; appointed
vice-consul at Nottingham, June 17, 1904;
appointed vice-consul-general at Stockholm,
June 8, 1905; in charge of the Consulate-
General at Stockholm from June 16, 1905,
to August 16, 1905 ; appointed vice-consul at
Nottingham, August 1, 1905 ; appointed vice
and deputy consul-general at Paris, Decem
ber 22, 1905 ; appointed vice and deputy
consul-general at Berlin, July 7, 1906; re
tired as vice and deputy consular-general at
Berlin, January, 1907; assigned to duty in
the Consulate-General at Montreal, Janu
ary, 1907; appointed consul at Warsaw,
March 30, 1907. Address: United States
Consulate, Warsaw, Poland.
INGRAM, Henry Atlee:
Lawyer; born at number 1620 Summer
Street, Philadelphia, February 8, 1858. Edu
cated at Friends' Central School, Philadel
phia; Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania;
Hallowell High School, Philadelphia;
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; and
University of Pennsylvania, Towne Scien
tific School. Law student with Francis
Rawle, Esq., and later with Charles Gib
bons, Jr., Esq., of Philadelphia. Gradu
ated from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School, with degree of LL.B. in 1881.
Admitted to the bar, Philadelphia, 1881.
Member of the bars of Supreme and Su
perior Courts of Pennsylvania, as well as
the various lower courts, and of the United
States Circuit and District Courts. Re
publican . in politics, but has never been a
candidate for public office. After extensive

travel in Europe, the United States and
Canada, in 1888 elected secretary of The
Pennsylvania Club, later a member of its
Board of Governors, and chairman of its
Elective Committee. Member of the Com
mittee which induced the late Mr. Blaine
to reconsider his determination not to enter
the State of Pennsylvania, in the celebrated
State campaign of 1890. President of The
Franklin Scientific Society of the University
of Pennsylvania (1876). Member of The
Union League of Philadelphia; of The
Law Association ; and of Corinthian Lodge
No. 368 F. and A. M. Actively engaged
in the practice of law at Philadelphia;
General Counsel for the American Steel
Corporation and its subsidiary companies;
director of the Delaware & Lackawanna
Steel Company. Author of: The Life and
Character of Stephen Girard, Mariner and
Merchant (1884), used in Girard College,
Philadelphia; Jean Girard de Montbrun
(1886); Illustrated Girard College. From
time to time has contributed articles, prose
and verse, to various standard publications,
including a number of translations from
the French. Married, July 27, 1899, at Saint
Asaph's Church, Bala, Pennsylvania, Miss
Jennie Isabel Bell. Children : , Henry Alli
son, Victor de Montbrun, and Arthur Gi
rard. Address : Fairacre, Cynwyd, Mont
gomery County, Pennsylvania.
INNESS, George, Jr.:
Artist, painter; born at Paris, France,
January 5, 1854; son of George Inness, cele
brated American artist, and Elizabeth
(Hart) Inness; studied with his father at
Rome, Italy, 1870-1874, and with Bonnat at
Paris in 1875. Lived in Boston, 1876-78;
came to New York City, 1878; resided at
Montclair, New Jersey, 1879-94, at Paris,
1894-99 exhibiting at the Salon each year
(mention honorable, 1893 ; gold medal,
1899). Associate, 1894, academician, 1898,
National Academy of Design; exhibits at
National Academy annually; officier
d'Academie, Paris ; member of the Society
of American Artists. Married in New York
City, 1879, Julia Roswell Smith. Residence :
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dress: 51 Washington Square, South, New
York City.
INSULL, Samuel:
President of electric corporations; born
in London, England, November 11, i85g;
son of Samuel Insull and Emma (Short)
Instill. After completing his education in
public schools, Mr. Insull became the pri
vate secretary of Colonel George E. Gou-
raud, then the London representative of
Mr. Edison, who was engaged in organizing
the telephone business in England. Mr.
Insull came to the United States in 1881,
and became private secretary to Mr. Thomas
A. Edison, and for years had active charge
of Mr. Edison's business affairs. He be
came organizer and manager, on behalf
of Mr. Edison, of the Electric Tube Com
pany, and also of the Edison Machine'
Works and the Edison Lamp Company,
and built and managed for Mr.- Edison
the plant of the Edison Machine Works, at
Schenectady, New York. On the consoli
dation of the various Edison interests with
the Edison-General Electric Company, he
became its second vice-president, in charge
of the manufacturing and selling depart
ments. Mr. Insull resigned that position in
June, 1892, to take his present position as
president of the Chicago Edison. Company ;
and he is also president of the Common
wealth Electric Company, and the North
Shore Electric Company, these three com
panies controlling practically the entire
electric lighting interests of Chicago. He
is also an officer and director of electrical
corporations in other cities. He is a mem
ber of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers. He married in New York City,
May 24, 1899, Margaret A. Bird. Resi
dence : Kenilworth, Illinois. Office address :
139 Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
IRELAND, John:
Archbishop of St. Paul ; born in Ireland,
September 11, 1838; emigrated to America
in 1849 with his parents and settled in Saint
Paul, Minnesota. He was educated in the
Cathedral School of Saint Paul, and the
Petit Seminaire at Meximeux, and in di
vinity at the Grand Seminaire at Hyeres,

France, from which he was graduated in
1861. He was ordained priest by Bishop
Grace at Saint Paul, December 21, 1861 ;
was appointed chaplain of the Fifth Minne
sota Volunteers and went with the regiment
to the front, and after a service of two
years returned to Saint Paul and was ap
pointed rector of the Cathedral and secre
tary of the diocese, holding both these po
sitions until his consecration as titular
bishop of Maronea and bishop coadjutor
to Bishop Grace, December 1, 1875. He
organized the first total abstinence society
in Minnesota, in 1869, and founded a regu
lar system of temperance societies in con
nection with the various parishes. He
worked especially for the colonization of
the Northwest and was a director of the
National Colonization Society, settled nine
hundred Catholic colonists in Minnesota in
1876, and many afterward. He succeeded
to the see of Saint Paul on the resignation
of Bishop Thomash Grace, July 31, 1884,
and when, four years later his diocese was
raised to a metropolitan see he was made
its first archbishop. Archbishop Ireland
was for several years president of the Min
nesota State Historical Society. He is
author of: The Church and Modern So
ciety, 1896, and of many important contri
butions to church and secular journals. Ad
dress : Saint Paul, Minnesota.
JRISH, Henry Clay:
Superintendent of the Missouri Botanical
Garden; born at Rock County, Wisconsin,
April 22, 1868; son of Benjamin and Lydia
Aimira (Wood) Irish. He was educated
in the public schools of Wisconsin and
South Dakota; the South Dakota State
College of Agriculture, from which he was
graduated in the class of 1891 ; and from
the Iowa State College of Agriculture as
M.S. in 1897; student at Cornell Univer
sity, in 1896 and in 1898. He was horticult
ural assistant • in the Missouri Botanical
Garden from October, '1894, to December,
1902 ; and has been superintendent Of the
Missouri Botanical Garden since 1903. In
politics, Mr. Irish is a Republican,. and in
his religious affiliation he is a Congregation
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Horticultural Science, Society for the Pro
motion of Agricultural Science, American
Pomological Society, American Forestry
Association, National Geographic Society,
Engelmann Botanical Club, of which he was
secretary in 1901 and 1902; the National
Council of Horticulture (secretary since
1905) ; Society of American Florists and
Ornamental Horticulturists, and the St.
Louis Florists' Club (president in 1906 and
1907). He married in St. Louis, Missouri,
May 10, 1896, Margaret Holmes Duffey, and
they have one daughter, Marguerite, born
May 26, 1897. Residence: 1920 Old Man
chester Road. Office address : Missouri
Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri.
IRVIN, Elihu C:
President of the Fire Association of Phil
adelphia; born near Harrisburg, Pennsyl
vania, May 22, 1839. Receiving an ordinary
school education, he was for a time school
teacher at Duncannon, and afterward en
tered the Duncannon Iron Works, in which
his ability and activity led to his being
made manager of the works. He entered
the fire insurance business in 1869 as agent
for Pennsylvania of the Germania Fire In
surance Company of New York, continuing
with this company till 1874, when he be
came general agent of the Phoenix Fire In
surance Company of Hartford, Connecticut.
He then made Philadelphia his place of
residence, and has since dwelt in that city.
His field of action was a wide one, cover
ing nearly the whole Atlantic section of the
United States. In 1884 he was offered, and
accepted the vice-presidency of the Fire As
sociation of Philadelphia, and in 1891 was
elected its president. This position he still
fills. Mr. Irvin has done much to develop
the resources and business of this company,
which dates back to 1817, but has gained a
new activity under his control, and has now
a large surplus, while paying excellent divi
dends. Address': 407 Walnut Street;
house, 1900 N. Thirteenth Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
IRVINE, Frank:
Lawyer, teacher ; born in Sharon, Penn
sylvania, September 15, 1858; son of- John

Mitcheltree and Mary (Winter) Irvine;
graduate Cornell University, B.S., 1880;
National University, LL.B., 1883; practiced
law in Omaha, Nebraska, 1884-91, the firm
being Estabrook, Irvine & Clapp; without
associates in Lincoln, Nebraska, i89g-igoi ;
admitted to bar of the District of Colum
bia, March, 1883; assistant United States
attorney, District of Columbia, 1883-84;
judge Fourth District of Nebraska, 1891-
93 ; commissioner, Nebraska Supreme Court,
i893-gg; professor Cornell University Col
lege of Law, since 1901 ; dean and director,
1907. Member American New York State
and Nebraska Bar Associations. Married,
Sharon, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1887,
Clara Cristy ; children : Lida, born in 1892 ;
Winifred, born in 1896; and Marjorie, born
in 1899. Address : Ithaca, New York.
IRVING, George W.:
Merchant and banker; born in Wood
stock, New Brunswick, August 24, i860;
son of Robert Irving and Elizabeth (Bea
con) Irving. He received his education in
the public schools of Presque Isle, Maine.
Mr. Irving served two terms in the Maine
Legislature and the Maine Senate from 1901
to 1907. He is president and director of
the Caribou National Bank, the Caribou
Water, Light and Power Company, Caribou
Sewer Company, Caribou Hydraulic Stone
Company, and the Irving and Ricker Com
pany and he is director and treasurer of the
Aroostook Realty Company. He is a
Knight Templar, Shriner, Odd Fellow, and
a member of several beneficiary societies.
Mr. Irving has crossed the Continent sev
eral times and traveled extensively in the
United States. In politics lie is identified
with the Republican party, and he is a mem
ber of the Universalist Church. Address :
Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine.
IRWIN, John Arthur:
Physician; born in Ireland, June 17, 1853;
son of John Irwin, high sheriff of Sligo,
1852, and lineal descendant of Sir William
de Irwin, armor-bearer of Robert Bruce;
graduate, M.A., from Cambridge Univer
sity, England; B.A., M.A., and M.D., from
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of Surgeons, England; College Physicians,
Dublin, Ireland, 1875. Life fellow of Lon
don Obstetric Society ; fellow New York
Academy Medicine, and member of various
American and foreign medical societies.
Has been extensive contributor to medical
literature ; was editorial writer on British
Medical Journal, London Lancet, Medical
Record and Medical News. After holding
the highest positions at hospitals in Eng
land, came to United States in 1882; sev
eral years physician of St. George Society.
Clubs : New York, Manhattan, Atlantic
Yacht, British Schools and Universities
(president, 1899-1902). \ddress: 14 West
Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
IRWIN, William Henry:
Journalist, author; born in Oneida, New
York, September 14, 1873; son of David
S. and Edith Emily (Greene) Irwin; grad
uate Denver High School, 1892; Leland
Stanford, Junior, University, A.B., -1899.
On staff of San Francisco Wave as assist
ant editor and editor, 1899-igoi ; on staff
San Francisco Chronicle, 1901-04 ; reporter,
New York Sun, 1904-05; managing editor,
McClure's Magazine, 1906. Socialist. Au
thor: Stanford Stories (with C. K. Field),
1900; The Reign of Queen Isyl (with G.el-
ett Burgess), 1903; The Picaroons (with
Gelett Burgess), igo4; The Hamadryads
(verse), igo4; The City That Was, 1906.
Frequent contributor of fiction and articles
to magazines. Clubs : Bohemian, Sequoia
(San Francisco) ; Players' (New York
City). Married, San Francisco, January 1,
1901, Harriet Hyde. Residence: 11 1 East
Twenty-third Street. Address : 44 East
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
ISAACS, David:
Proprietor Prospect House, Niagara
Falls ; born in New York City, 1848 ; en
listed at the age of 13 and during Civil
War served in Union Army as bugler in
the Fifth New York Cavalry. Began busi
ness career with Erie Railway at Niagara
Falls and later in charge of company's gen
eral ticket office in Buffalo, New York; re
signed position and opened Prospect House
at Niagara Falls on Canadian side ; con

ducted business there fourteen years, and
when that site was taken by the Canadian
Government for Niagara Falls Park, 1887,
built the hew Prospect House on . the
American side, of which he is still owner
and director. President of the Cataract and
International Hotels Company; special cor
respondent for several important news
papers. Was railroad contractor and, built
several miles of Canadian Pacific Railroad
in the Rocky Mountains, and many miles
of Grand Trunk Railway in Muskoka; ex-
president of the First National Bank of
Niagara Falls ; vice-president of the New
York Hotel Association ; director of the
Board of Colonial and Foreign Governors
of Hotel Protective Society of England;
member of the Buffalo Exempt Volunteer
Firemen's Association, having served seven
years as active member and trustee of Eagle
Hose Company No. 2, in the Buffalo Vol
unteer Fire Department, winning gold
badge of merit; now active fire commis
sioner of Niagara Falls paid Fire Depart
ment ; formerly harbor commissioner.
Mason, Knight Templar and member of
the Mystic Shrine; past junior vice-com
mander of the Department of New York,
Grand Army of the Republic, with rank of
general'; companion of first class Military
Order Loyal Legion ; ex-president of the
Fifth New York Veteran Volunteer Cav
alry Association; honorary member of the
Veteran Association, Forty-second Separate
Company, National Guard of New York.
Mr. Isaacs is a member of the Adirondack
Shooting, North Channel Shooting, Toronto
Shooting (Long Point, Canada), Winni
peg Gun Clubs. Address : Niagara Falls,
New York.
ISELIN, Charles Oliver:
Banker, yachtsman; son of Adrian and
Eleanora (O'Donnel) Iselin; graduate
Columbia University, 1877. Owner of rac
ing yacht Vigilant and managing owner
of Columbia and other cup defenders in re
cent races. Member of banking firm of A.
Iselin & Company. Clubs : Union, Country,
Knickerbocker, Larchmont Yacht, New
York Yacht, New York Athletic, Tuxedo,
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and Tennis, Turf and Field, Automobile!
of America. Married, first, Frances, daugh
ter of the late Thomas Garner, Jr. ;
second, Hope, daughter of Colonel William
Goddard, of Providence, Rhode Island;
children : Eleanora, Frances, Adrian 2d.,
and C. Oliver, Jr. Residence : New Ro
chelle, New York. Address : 36 Wall
Street, New York City.
ISELIN, Columbus O'Donnell:
Banker; son of Adrian and Eleanora
(O'Donnell) Iselin; member of the firm of
A. Iselin & Company; president and direct
or New Rochelle Water Company; vice-
president and director New Rochelle Home
stead Company, New York Dock Company;
trustee New York Life Insurance and
Trust Company; treasurer and director Al-
• legheny & Western Railway Company, Buf
falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Com
pany, Clearfield & Mahoning Railway Com
pany, Helvetio Realty Company, Jefferson
& Clearfield Coal and Iron Company, John-
sbnburg & Bradford Railroad Company,
Mahoning Valley Railroad Company, Man
hattan Storage and Warehouse Company,
Reynoldsville & Falls Creek Railroad.
Clubs : Union, Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht, Down Town, University, Knicker
bocker, Metropolitan, Country, Larchmont
Yacht, New York Yacht, Riding. Mar
ried Edith C. Jones. Residence: 3 West
Fifty-second Street. Address : 36 Wall
Street, New York City.
ISELIN, William E.:
Dry goods commission merchant; born in
New York City, January n, 1848; son of
Adrian and Eleanora (O'Donnell) Iselin;
graduated Columbia College, 1869. Mem
ber firm William Iselin & Company; di
rector Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Railway Company, New Rochelle Water
Company. Clubs : Union, Delta Phi, Sea
wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, City, Knicker
bocker, Eastern Yacht, Larchmont Yacht,
New York Yacht, Metropolitan, Riding,
Country, Catholic, Merchants' Automobile
of America. Married, New York City,
April 5, 1877, Alice Rogers Jones; chil
dren: Arthur, William O'Donnell Oliver.

Residence: 745 Fifth Avenue. Address:
1 Greene Street, New York City.
ISHAM, Ralph:
Real estate; born in Chicago, February
13, 1865 ; son of Ralph N. Isham and Kath-
rine E. (Snow) Isham. After graduating
from Harvard in 1889, he became connected
with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail
road Company, in 1890. He was with the
Illinois Steel Company, from 1890 to 1899,
and secretary of the Chicago Union Trans
fer Railway Company, from l89g to igos ;
and has been in the real estate business
since 1905. In politics Mr. Isham is a Re
publican ; and in religious belief a Presby
terian. Fie is a member of the Sons of the
Revolution of the State of Illinois (vice-
president), the National Geographic So
ciety, National Forestry Association, Delta
Kappa Epsilon ; and is also a member of
the University Club, Chicago Athletic As
sociation, Onwentsia, Saddle and Cycle, and
South Shore Country Clubs. He married
in Rochester, New York, Mary Louise Otis,
and they have one' son, Albert Keep Isham,
born January 9, 1894. Address: 11 Ritchie
Place, Chicago, Illinois.
ISHAM, Samuel:
Artist; born in New York City, May 12,
1855 ; son of William Bradley and Julia
(Burhans) Isham; educated at Phillips
Andover Academy; graduate of Yale Uni
versity, 1875. After graduation traveled
and studied abroad for three years; re
turned to New York City, studied law and
was admitted to the bar; in 1883 went to
Paris and entered Atelier Julian; studied
painting under Boulanger and Lefebvre.
Since 1887 has followed profession in New
York City. Member of the Society of
American Artists ; academician National
Academy of Design; member jury of the
Buffalo Pan-American Exposition ; awarded
silver medal Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion, 1904. Author : History of American
Painting, 1905 (Macmillan). Trustee of
American Fine Arts Society. Clubs : Cen
tury, ¦ Metropolitan, Riding, University,
Players', Salmagundi. Address : 5 East
Sixty-first Street, New York City.

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ISIIERVVOOD, Benjamin F. : ¦
Chief engineer (with rank of rear-ad
miral retired) United States Navy; born in
New York. Appointed froni New York,
May 23, 1844 . Entered the service as First
assistant engineer; stationed at Navy Yard,
Pensacola, 1844-45 ; attached to steamer
General Taylor, Pensacola, 1846-7; special
duty, 1848-50. Promoted to chief engineer,
October 31, 1848; special duty, Navy De
partment, 1852-3 ; steam frigate San Jacin
to, East India Squadron, 1854-8; special
duty, 1859-60; appointed engineer-in-chief,
1861, which position he retained until 1869,
his services covering the whole period of
the Civil War; Navy Yard, Mare Island,
California, 1870-1 ; special duty, 1874. Re
tired, June 6, 1884. Address: ill East
Thirty-sixth Street, New York City.
ISRAELS, Charles Henry:
Architect; born in New York City, De
cember 23, 1865; son of Lehman and Flor
ence Z. (Lazarus) Israels; educated at
Irving Institute, Tarrytown, New York;
Art Students' League, Paris France. Trav
eled in Europe, 1889-90, for study; two
trips to West Indies, 1902-03 ; member of
the firm of Israels & Harder, architects ;
firm has designed many notable structures,
among them the Hudson (New York)
Theatre, Hahnemann Monument, Scott Cir
cle, Washington, District of Columbia.
Hotels : The Devon, Warrington, Arling
ton, Walton, Howard, Hampton and Hol
land, New York City; Lord & Taylor's
Fifth Avenue store, the Silo Building, etc.
Mr. Israels has been active in local politics
in the Republican and Citizens' Union or
ganizations ; was first secretary of the Citi
zens' Union Twenty-first Assembly District
organization ; five years member of the
executive committee of the West Side Re
publican Club ; was for three years member
of the executive committee of the Archi
tectural League of New York; charter
member of the Municipal Art Society; di
rector of the West Side Mutual Building
Loan and Savings Association; member of
the New York Chapter of the American In
stitute of Architects, Loyal Legion, Muni

cipal Art Society (chairman) committee on
Street Fixtures, Building -Code Revision
Commission. Recreations : Yachting, fish
ing. Clubs : Republican, West Side Re
publican, Independent - of the West Side,
National Arts. Married in New York City,
November 9, 1903, Belle Lindner; one son,
Carlos Lindner, aged 2 years; one daugh
ter, Miriam, aged five months. Address:
179 West Ninety-seventh Street, New York
City.
IVES, Brayton:
Capitalist ; born in Farmington, Connecti
cut, 1840; graduate of Yale- University,
1861. Served in the Civil War, being hon
orably mustered out, 1865, with rank of bre
vet brigadier-general. Has been vice-pres
ident and president of the New York Stock
Exchange. President and director of the
Standard Milling Company, Metropolitan
Trust Company, Hecker- Jones- Jewell Mill
ing Company, Kanona and Prattsburgh
Railway Company, Metcalf Land Company;
chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur
ing Company; director of the Atlantic Safe
Deposit Company, National Bank of Com
merce, United States Guarantee Company.
Member of the Military Order of Loyal
Legion. Clubs : Century, Grolier, Metro
politan, Turf and Field, New York Yacht,
The Brook, Union League, University,
Lawyers'. Residence: 33 East Thirty-
ninth Street. Address: 49 Wall Street,
New York City.
IVES, Frederick E.:
Inventor, manufacturer; born at Litch
field, Connecticut, February 17, 1856; son of
Hubert L. and Ellen A. (Beach) Ives; edu
cated in the public schools. Was printer's
apprentice 1869-71; printer and amateur
photographer, 1871-73; in charge of photo
graphic laboratory of Cornell University,
1874-78; inventor of. the first successful pro
cess (and the name) of "half-tone" photo
engraving; also- of the half-tone process
now universally employed, and of the half
tone tri-chromatic process ; inventor of the
Kromskop system of color photography,
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troscope gratings, the multiple slit diffrac
tion chromoscope, etc. ; has taken- out about
thirty patents and been awarded sixteen
medals by scientific societies at home and
abroad for original work and inventions,
chiefly in applied optics. Has lectured be
fore the principal scientific bodies in . Eng
land and the United States. Fellow Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, Royal Photographic Society, Royal
Microscopical Society; member: Franklin
Institute, American Microscopical Society;
honorary member of the Photographic So
ciety of Philadelphia, etc. ; consulting ex
pert of the Ives Inventions Company of
New York City. Recreations : Work and
experiment in private laboratory and work
shop. Club : New York Camera. . Married
at Milford, New York, Mary E. Olmstead
(died April 7, 1904) ; one son, Herbert E.,
(aged 24, B.S., fellow in physics, Johns
Hopkins University) . Address : Wood-
cliff-on-Hudson, Weehawken, P. O, New
Jersey. IVINS, William Mills:
Lawyer; born at Freehold, New Jersey,
April 16, 1851 ; son of Augustus Ivins and
Sarah (Mills) Ivins. He removed in early
childhood to Brooklyn, and was one of the
first graduates of Adeiphi Academy in that
city. After his graduation he was for a
time in the employ of D. Appleton & Com
pany, publishers, but left their employ to
enter Columbia Law School. . He was ad
mitted to the bar of New York in 1873,
and to that of the United' States Supreme
Court in 1879. He began practice in
Brooklyn as a member of the firm of Ber
gen and Ivins. He was soon active in poli
tics and took part in the movement headed
by General Slocum against the Brooklyn
ring; and in 1879 he conducted the prose
cution of the O'Reilly cases, resulting in
the imprisonment of the Brooklyn Board of
Aldermen for contempt of court. He was
private secretary to Mayor Grace, of New
Yprk, in 1881 ; was a school commissioner
of the City of New York from 1883 to
1886; city chamberlain of New York from
1885 to 1889, during the administration of
Mayors Grace and Hewitt; member of the

Fassett Investigating -Committee of 1891,
and took an active part in the movement
for ballot reform which culminated in the
general adoption of the Australian bal
lot. Among his most interesting clients
were the late Mme. Blavatsky, and the late
General Garcia. He has traveled widely
throughout South America, and is an ex
pert in the rubber business. As a lawyer,
Mr. Ivins has had charge of numerous cases
of international importance, and he is now
head of the firm of Ivins, Mason, Wolff
and Hoguet. He was the Republican can
didate for mayor of New York City in
1905. In 1907, after the passage of the bill
to establish the New York City Utilities
Commission, he was appointed special
counsel of the commission. He is a mem
ber of the Bar Association, and the Man
hattan, Union League, Republican, Down
Town, New York Yacht, Lawyers', Riding
and Barnard Clubs of New York City, and
the St. Stephen's Club of London. He' is
a member and chairman of the commis
sion for the revision of the city charter,
recently appointed by Governor Flughes.
Mr. Ivins married, in 1879, Emma L.
Yard, of Freehold, New Jersey, and he has
two sons : William M., Jr., and James S.
Y. ; and two daughters : Margaret and
Katharine. Residence: 55 East Twenty-
fifth Street, New York City. Address: 27
William Street, New York City.

JACCACI, August F.:
Painter, author, editor; born in Paris,
1857; he was educated abroad. Became a
citizen of the United States in 1888; one
of the editors of McClure's Magazine at
its foundation; for several years art editor
of Scribner's Magazine. He is the author
of On the Trail of Don Quixote, 1896
(Scribner's) ; coeditor with John La Farge
of Noteworthy Paintings in American Pri
vate Collections. He is a member of the
Century and Grolier Clubs. Address :
Locust Valley, Long Island, New York,
and 7 West Forty-third Street, New York
City.

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JACKSON, Charles Eben:
Banker ; born at Middletown, Connecticut,
January 25, 1849; son of Ebenezer Jackson
and Hannah Sage (Hubbard) Jackson.
He is a descendant of General Michael
Jackson, of Newton, Massachusetts, who,
with his five sons, served all through the
Revolutionary War as officers, thus giving
Mr. Jackson's family six memberships in
the Society of the Cincinnati, an unequalled
record in that society. He is also de
scended from the Fenwicks and Draytons of
South Carolina. He received an educa
tion in private schools and at St. Paul's
School, Concord, New Hampshore. Mr.
Jackson is president of the Jackson Com
pany, vice-president of the Middlesex Bank
ing Company, and treasurer of the trustees
of the Berkeley Divinity School since
.1869. He. is a Republican in politics,
and a Protestant Episcopalian in his re
ligious views. Mr. Jackson is a member of
the Connecticut Historical Society, the
Middlesex County Historical Society, trus
tee of the Berkeley Divinity School, Mis
sionary Society of Connecticut, and Indian
Hill Cemetery Asociation, member of the
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati,
and one of the Standing Commit
tee of that society. Mr. Jackson is
also a member of St. Nicholas Club of New
York, and of the Church Club of Con
necticut. Mr. Jackson married in Stam
ford, Connecticut, June 12, 1873, Evelyn
Quintard, daughter of Edward A. Quin
tard, and they have seven children : Ed
ward Q., born in 1876, Lieutenant Robert
F. (United States Army), born in 1877,
John G., born in 1879 (lawyer of New
York), Evelyn Q., Mary M, William L.
P., born in 1888, and Winthrop Alsop,
born in 1889. Residence : 392 Washington
Street, Middletown, Connecticut. Business
address : 163 Court Street, Middletown,
Connecticut.
JACKSON, Daniel Dana:
Sanitary engineer and chemist ; born in
Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 1, 1870;
son of Daniel and Lucy Agnes (Langs-
ford) Jackson. He was graduated from
Gloucester High School ; Allen's English

and Classical School, West Newton, Mas
sachusetts, .and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, B.S., in 1893. He was success
ively chemist of the Boston Water Works,
Biologist of the Massachusetts State Board
of Health, Bacteriologist Worcester, Massa
chusetts ; • lecturer at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, chief chemist of the
Brooklyn Water Supply. He is now di
rector of the Laboratories of the Depart
ment of Wafer Supply, Gas and Electricity
of New York City. In general practice as
sanitary engineer and chemist and expert
on water supply and sewage disposal. He
is the author of numerous papers and re
ports on sanitary engineering, chemistry,
microscopy and bacteriology. Mr. Jackson
is a member of the Society of the Cincin
nati of Massachusetts ; of the Advisory
Committee of one hundred to borough pres
ident of Brooklyn and special Committee
on Public Health; of the Merchants' As
sociation's Special Committee on Pollution
of the Waters of New York, the Inter
national Zoological Congress ; of the Board
of Directors, Municipal Engineers of New
York City; American Public Health Asso-
ciatiori ; American Microscopical Society ;
American Chemical Society; Society of
Chemical Industry; Prospect Heights Cit
izens' Association ; New England Water
Works Association ; Society of Arts. He is
a Democrat. He is a member of the Chem
ists', Brooklyn Engineers', Montauk and
Washington Clubs. He married in Brook
lyn, New York, November 26, 1902, Ella
Howard Phillips, and they have one son,
Daniel Dana, Jr., born February 21, 1905.
Address : 941 President Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
JACKSON, Douglas V.:
Jurist; born in Muscatine, Iowa, Novem
ber 17, 1859; son of Peter Jackson and
Christiana (Sinclair) Jackson. He was
graduated from Northwestern University
as B.L. in 1879, and from the State Uni
versity of Iowa in 1881. He began to prac
tice law in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1881 ; was
elected county attorney in 1894 and declin
ed reelection; was elected judge of the
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judge in 1906. Fie is vice-president and
director of the First National Bank and
is a director of the Muscatine Savings
Bank. He served as colonel in the Second
Regiment of Iowa National Guard, and as
colonel in the Fiftieth Regiment of Iowa
Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-Am
erican War. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Methodist. Judge Jack
son is a trustee of the Hershey Memorial
Hospital of Muscatine and is a Mason.
His favorite recreation is golf. He mar
ried in Muscatine, Iowa, September 14,
1885, Alberta C. Jackson, and they have
two children : Robert S. Jackson, born in
1890, and Louis D. Jackson, born in 1894.
Residence: 513 West Third Street, Mus
catine. Address : Court House, Muscatine,
Iowa. *
JACKSON, Dugald C:
Engineer, educator; born at Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1865 ;
son of Josiah Jackson and Mary Detweiler
(Price) Jackson. He received his educa
tion in the Hill School at Pottstown, Penn
sylvania, the Pennsylvania State College,
civil engineering course, and graduated as
B.S. in 1885 and CE. in 1887; and he was
a fellow and instructor in electrical engin
eering at Cornell University from 1885 to
1887. Mr. Jackson was connected with the
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Com
pany and other Edison interests, in import
ant engineering and administrative posi
tions, from 1887 to 1891 ; became professor
of electrical engineering at the University
of Wisconsin, in the fall of 1891 upon the
establishment of that chair, and remained
at the head of that strong department until
recently. He is now professor of electrical
engineering and head of the department
of electrical engineering at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology. Mr. Jackson
is also a consulting engineer, and senibr
member of the engineering firm of D. C.
and William B. Jackson, Chicago and Bos
ton ; and is -inventor, and patentee of num
erous devices. He is a director of the
Central Wisconsin Trust Company, Madi
son, and the Cutler Hammer Clutch Com
pany, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is

chairman of the engineer commission now
advising the City of Chicago on the tele
phone franchise situation. Mr. Jackson is an
Independent in politics, and a Congregation
alist in his religious faith. He is a member
of the American Society of Civil Engeneers,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
Western Society of Engineers, and Frank
lin Institute; president of the Society for
the Promotion of Engineering Education,
member of Sigma Xi and of the Phi Kappa
Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi fraternities, and
the Union League Club and Engineers'
Club of Chicago, the Milwaukee Club, and
the Maple Bluff Golf Club of Madison.
He married at wrono, Maine, September,
1889, Mabel A. Foss, and they have two
children: Catharine E., born in 1891, and
Dugald C, born in 1896. Residence :
Brookline, Massachuestts. Business ad
dress : Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston, Massachusetts.
JACKSON, Frank D.:
. Ex-governor ; born in Arcade, New York,
January 26, 1854; son of Hiram W. Jack
son and Marion (Jenks) Jackson; removed
to Iowa in boyhood; he was educated in the
public schools of Jesup, Iowa, and the Iowa
State Agricultural College, and was grad
uated from the law department of Iowa
State University in 1874; he was secretary
of the State Senate for two terms, and
secretary of State for three terms ; was gov
ernor of Iowa from 1894 to 1896. He was
elected in 1899, president of the Royal
Union Life Insurance Company of Des
Moines. Address : Des Moines, Iowa.
JACKSON, George H.:
Consular officer; born in Massachusetts.
Appointed consul at Cognac, July 28, 1897;
consul at La Rochelle, May 25, 1898. Ad
dress : American Consulate, La Rochelle,
France.
JACKSON, George Thomas:
Physician ; born in New York City, De
cember T9, 1852; son of George T. and
Letitia J. A. (Macauley) Jackson; edu
cated private and public schools of New

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York City, and through freshman class
College City of New York; was graduated
from the College of Physicians and Sur
geons (Columbia), M.D., 1878; member
staff, Charity Flospital, 1877-78; post-grad
uate work in Berlin, Vienna and Strasburg
from 1878 to 1880. Engaged in practice of
medicine in New York City since 1880;
specialist in dermatology. Author : Dis
eases of Hair and Scalp, 1887, second edi
tion, 1894; Ready Reference Handbook of
Skin Diseases, 1892, fifth edition, 1905; also
many papers in medical journals. Mem
ber New York State Medical Society, New
York County Medical Society, American
Medical Association, New York Academy
Medicine, American Dermatological Asso
ciation, New York Dermatological Society,
Alumni Association City Hospital and Pres
byterian Hospital. Consulting dermatolo
gist to Presbyterian Hospital, and to New
York Infirmary for Women and Children;
instructor in dermatology in medical depart
ment Columbia University. Member Cen
tury Association, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, American Museum of Natural His
tory. Married, Montclair, New Jersey, Oc
tober 30, 1878, Caroline G. Weidemeyer;
they have three children : Frederick W.,
Robert M., and Arthur H. Residence : 692
West End Avenue. Address : 23 West Thir
ty-sixth Street, New York City.
JACKSON, George Washington:
Civil engineer; born in Chicago, Illinois,
July 21, 1861. He was educated in the
public schools of Chicago and at Oxford,
England. He became a civil engineer and
has been engaged in engineering and con
tracting since 1883. Prominent among the
works on which he has been engaged are
the Strickler Tunnel through Pike's Peak,
the fourteen-foot subway at Reading, Penn
sylvania ; the pneumatic tube system at Chi
cago for the Associated Press, the Went-
worth Avenue drainage system of Chicago,
a large percentage of the underground sys
tems for the Chicago Telephone Company,
the Postal-Telegraph-Cable Company and
the Western Union Telegraph Company, be
sides similar systems in Columbus, Ohio;
Indianapolis, Indiana; Muscatine, Iowa;

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and other cit
ies. He was the engineer and contractor for
the entire system of tunnels in Chicago for
the Illinois Telephone Construction Company
and was the consulting engineer for the
transportation committee of Chicago in
working out the traction problem. He was
also the hydraulic engineer for the high
pressure water commission of the city of
Chicago. He is president of the contract
ing company of George W. Jackson, Incor
porated. Mr. Jackson is a member of the
Western Society of Engineers, and of the
fraternal organizations of Masons and
Elks. He was married in Chicago in 1883
to Rose Tracy Casey and has two children :
Thomas and Rose. Residence: 5309 Wash
ington Boulevard. Address : 169 to 179
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
JACKSON, Henry Godden:
Clergyman; born at Manchester, Dear
born County, Indiana, January 1, 1838; son
of John and Mabel Gregory (Garrigus)
Jackson. He was educated in the public
soiools and an academy of Manchester and
at the Indiana Asbury (now the DePauw)
University, graduating from the latter with
the degree of A.B. in 1862 and receiving
irom the same institution the degrees of
A.M. in 1865, and D.D. in 1876. He. was
ordained to the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in 1862 and was principal
of the Stockwell Collegiate Institute frorn^
1862 to 1865. He was pastor of the Ames
Methodist Episcopal Church at New Or
leans, Louisiana, in 1865 and 1866, mission
ary in Buenos Ayres, South America, from
1868 to 1878, pastor of the Grand Avenue
Methodist Church, Kansas City, Missouri,
from 1878 to 1883, president of the Lewis
College, Glasgow, Missouri, 1883 to 1885,
pastor of the Centenary Church, Chicago,
1885 to 1890; presiding elder of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church at Chicago 1890 to
1901, and since 1902 has been pastor of
Ravenswood and Ingleside Ave. Methodist
Churches, Chicago. He is a mernber of the
General Missionary Committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and member for the
Rock River Conference of the Joint Hymn
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Church and of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. While in Buenos Ayres he
published a collection of hymns in Spanish,
Hymnos Evangelicos, for the use of the
Evangelical congregations in South Ameri
ca. He is a Republicari and a Prohibition
ist. He was married at Ash Grove, Sep
tember 22, 1862, to Alice Clark, and his
children are: Charles Henry, John Luther,
Alice Mabel, Mary Sophia, Arthur Dudley,
Harrison Clarke, Emmett Monroe and Ray
mond Danforth. Address : 7612 Ingleside
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
JACKSON, James H.:
Physician; born Petersboro, Madison
County, New York, June 11, 1841; son
James Caleb and Lucretia Edgerton
(Brewster) Jackson; seminary education at
Dansville, New York, and Bellevue Hos
pital Medical College, New York City.
Manager of the Jackson Heath Resort from
1861 to 1895 ; chief of its medical staff since
1876 ; president of The Jackson Sanator
ium Company. Succeeded his father, James
Caleb Jackson, the founder, in 1858, of the
famous Jackson Health Resort, as medical
director of the same, and for forty-six
years has been identified with its devel
opment and great success. The first to use
the wOrd Sanatorium in the country, he
has seen the inception and complete growth
of the great Health Resort Movement as re
lated to Institutional life and the practice
of the healing art. Editor Laws of Life
and Journal of Health. Republican; mayor
of Dansville ; first Republican to hold that
office. Member Christian Union. Mem
ber Livingston County Medical Society,
New York State Medical Society, Amer
ican Medical Association. Mason: lodge,
Royal Arch chapter, Sons of American
Revolution, Society Mayflower Descend
ants, Society Colonial Wars. Married:
Dansville, New York, September 13, 1864,
Kate Johnson, of Sturbridge, Massachu
setts; one son, James Arthur, born in 1868.
Address: Dansville, Livingston County,
New York.
JACKSON- John John Brinckeroff:
Diplomat; born in. Newark, New Jersey,
August ig, 1862; son of F. Wolcott Jack

son and Nannie (Nye) Jackson. He
graduated from the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1883,
and then cruised for two years in European
waters, being for part of the time junior
aide to the commander-in-chief of the Eu
ropean Squadron. He passed his final ex
amination in 1885, and was commissioned
ensign in the United States Navy, July 1,
1885. He attended the course at the Tor
pedo Station at Newport, Rhode. Island,
and was afterward stationed at the Ord
nance Proving Grounds at Annapolis, Mary
land. He resigned from the Navy, June
30, 1886. He engaged in the study of law
in New York City, and was admitted
to the bar of the State of New York, Feb
ruary 14, 1889. He entered upon his dip
lomatic career upon his appointment, De
cember 30, 1890, as second secretary of the
United States Legation to Berlin. He was
promoted to -secretary of the embassy, No
vember 15, 1894, and while there, frequently
served as charge d'affaires. In 1902 he
was offered the post of minister to Chili
and accepted same, but was appointed
on October" 13, 1902, envoy extra
ordinary arid minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Greece, Rou
mania and Servia, and, on June 5, 1903,
diplomatic agent in Bulgaria in addition :
he represented the United States at the
Coronation of King Peter of Servia, Sep
tember 21, 1904. On March 6, 1905, he
was appointed to the office of envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Greece and Monten
egro, and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, and
in 1907, appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Persia. Mr.
Jackson received the honorary degree
of A.M. from Princeton .University in
1896. He was a delegate to the Interna
tional Conference on Maritime Law, held
at Hamburg in 1902, and to the Interna
tional Archaeological Congress at Athens
in 1905. He was Amercian representative
at the Olympic games in Athens in 1906.
He is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, the Union
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Lawyers' Club of New York, the Ritten
house Club of Philadelphia, National Geo
graphic Society, New Jersey Historical So
ciety, Society of International Law, the
Metropolitan Club of Washington, the
Casino of Berlin, and the Imperial Yacht
Club of Kiel, Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde,
Kolonial Gesellschaft, Goethe Gesellschaft,
Shakespeare Verein, of Germany. Mr.
Jackson married, at Philadelphia, April 26,
1886; Florence A. Baird, daughter of the
late Matthew Baird. Address : Care of
United States Despatch Agency, London,
England.JACKSON, Richard A.:
Lawyer ; born at Richmond, Indiana, Sep
tember 5, 1858. Graduated. University of
Virginia, 1879. Is general solicitor and first
vice-president of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railway Company. Address :
144 Van Buren Street, Chicago, Illinois.
JACKSON, Samuel Macauley :
Editor and educator; born in New York
City, June 19, 1851 ; son of George T.
Jackson and Letitia Jane Aiken (Macau-
ley), Jackson. He received his preparatory
education in a private school from 1858 to
1863; Ward School No. 35, from 1863 to
1865, and was graduated from the College
of the City of New York as A.B. in 1870,
and A.M. in 1876; was a student in the
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1870
and 1871 ; and was graduated from the
Union Theological Seminary in 1873. He
traveled and studied abroad from 1873 to
1875. The degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by Washington and Lee Univer
sity in 1892, and D.D. by New York Uni
versity in 1893. He was pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Norwood, New
Jersey, from 1870 to 1880 ; assisted the
late Phillip Schaff from 1878 to 1886 on
the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, of which
he was managing editor from 1880
to 1884; and on the Encyclopedia of Liv
ing Divines, as joint editor in 1885 and
1886. He is editor of Concise Dictionary
of Religious Knowledge, 189T ; Heroes of
the Reformation Series in nine volumes
from 1898 to '1906 (contributing the biog

raphy of Huldreich Zwingli, 1901, and
the second edition, 1903) ; Handbook for
Practical Workers in Church and Philan-
throphy in nine volumes; The Schaff-Her
zog Encyclopedia (a new edition pre
paring since 1903, containing twelve vol
umes, the first to be published in 1907).
He issued Selections from Zwingli, 1901.
Mr. Jackson has been professor in church
history in the New York University since
1895. He was a member of the council
and executive committee from 1887 to
1904, and has been vice-president since
1904, of the Charity Organization Society,
a member of the executive committee of
the Prison Association since 1890. While
he was chairman of the publication com
mittee of the Huguenot Society, he brought
out in 1890 its volume commemorative of
the Tercentenary of the Edict of Nantes,
and other volumes in 1-903 and 1904. He
was trustee of the Board of Trustees of
the Christian College of Canton, China, and
since 1905 has been its president. He is
a member of the Century, City and Chi
Alpha Clubs, being secretary of the latter
since 1901. Address: 692 West End Ave
nue, New York City.
JACKSON, Theodore Frelinghuysen:
Lawyer ; bom in Rockaway, New Jersey,
November 16, 1830; son of William Jack
son and Susan D. (Halsey) Jackson. He
was educated in the public and private
schools, was admitted to the bar in 1852 and
retired from active practice in 1890. Mr.
Jackson was registrar of arrears in Brook
lyn from 1882 to 1886; city comptroller of
Brooklyn from 1890 to 1892; director of
the First National Bank of Brooklyn;
trustee of the Long Island Loan and Trust
Company, the Williamsburgh Trust Com
pany; director of the Title Insurance Com
pany of New York, the Empire State
Surety Company, the New York and East
River Ferry Company (of which he is
president), the Union Ferry Company and
the Brooklyn Ferry Company. He is a
member of the New York Historical So
ciety; the Long Island Historical Society,
the Bar Associations of New York City Mid
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Art, the New York Zoological Society, the
New York Botanical Gardens, the Sons of
American Revolution, the Order of the
Founders and Patriots of America, and
Municipal Art Society, and also a mem
ber of the Racquet, Riding and National
Arts Clubs of New York City and the
Brooklyn, Hamilton and Hanover Clubs
of Brooklyn. Mr. Jackson married in
Brooklyn, in 1861, Cornelia Burr. Resi
dence: West Hampton Beach, Long Island.
Office Address : 84 Broadway, New York
City.
JACKSON, William:
Civil engineer; born in Brighton, Massa
chusetts, March 13, 1848; son of Samuel
Jackson and Mary (Field) Jackson; and is
a descendant of Edward Jackson of New
Town, Massachusetts, 1640. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Brighton and
attended the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston, from 1865 to 1868, but
was not graduated. He began professional'
life as a rodman in the Boston City Engin
eers' Office, in May, 1868, was assistant en
gineer of the City of Boston, from 1869
to 1885, and city engineer since 1885. He
is a member of the Society of Colonial
Wars of Massachusetts, the New England
Historic-Genealogical Society, the Boston-
ian Society, the Society of Arts of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the
Technology Club, Union Club, Boston City
Club; American Society of Civil Engineers,
and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
He married, April 27, 1886, Mary Stuart,
daughter of James Stuart and Julia L.
MacCorry, of Boston, and their son, Wil
liam Stuart Jackson, is their only living
child. Address: City Engineer's Office, 50
City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
JACKSON, William H.;
Lawyer; born in Marion, Alabama,
March 26, 1864; son of Howell E. Jack
son and Sophie (Molloy) Jackson. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1885; and from the Columbian Law Col
lege of Washington, D. C, as LL.B. in
1886. He has been engaged in the prac
tice of law since then and for several

years was assistant general solicitor of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. He
became judge of the Superior Court_ of
Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1897 to 1902; and
is now vice-president, general counsel and
director of the Standard Motor Construc
tion Company of New Jersey. Mr. Jack
son was Democratic nominee for Congress
from the Thirteenth Congressional Dis
trict of New York City in 1906. He is a
member of the Ohio Society, Southern
Society and of the Manhattan, National
Democratic and Harvard Clubs of New
York City and the Garden City Golf Club,
of Garden City, Long Island. He married
in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 1895, Caroline
Dickson; and they have one daughter,
Frances Helen, born in 1905. Residence :
48 West Fifty-ninth Street, ,New York.
Office address: 15 William Street, New
York City.
JACOBI, William:
Physician; born in Hartum, Westphalia,
Germany, May 6, 1830. He received his
education in the Gymnasium of Minden and
the Universities of Greifswald, Gottingen
and Bonn. The degree of M.D. was con
ferred upon him in 185 1 by the same Uni
versity and he received the degree of LL.D.
from the University of Michigan in 1898;
LL.D. from Columbia University in 1900;
LL.D. from Yale in 1905 and from Harvard
in 1906. He was professor of the diseases
of children in the New York Medical Col
lege from i860 to 1865, the Medical Depart
ment of New York University from 1865 to
1870; College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University from 1870 to 1903;
and professor emeritus since 1902. He is
consulting physician to the German Dispen
sary and Hospital, Women's Infirmary,
Bellevue, the Babies Orthopaedic and other
hospitals. He is ex-president of the New
York Obstetrical Society, the New York
Pathological Society, the Medical Society
of the County of New York, the Medical
Society of the State of New Y ork, the New
York Academy of Medicine, Association of
American Physicians, the American Pedia
tric Society, the American Climatological
Association, honorary fellow of the Med-

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ical Societies of Wiirzburg, Berlin, Paris,
Rome, St. Petersburg and Kiew; of the
Pediatric Society of Germany, the College
of Physicians of Philadelphia, and medical
societies in Boston, Louisville, Brooklyn
and many others. Dr. Jacobi is author of
Dentition and its Derangement, 1862; In
fant Diet (two editions), 1872, 1875; Trea
tise on Diphtheria, 1880; Therapeutics of
Infancy and Childhood, 1896, 1900, 1903. In
politics he is a Mugwump and he has twice
been a member of the Committee of Sev
enty. Dr. Jacobi is a member of the Cen
tury and City Clubs of New York City. He
married in 1-873, Dr. Mary C. Putnam, who
died June 10, 1906. Address : 19 East For
ty-Seventh Street, New York City. "
JACOBSON, Isaac Wolf son:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, Decem
ber 25, 1866; son of Adolph Jacobson and
Minnie (Wolf son) Jacobson. He was ed
ucated in public school and by private
tutor, and was licensed to teach evening pri
vate schools in 1889. Mr. Jacobson was ad
mitted to the bar in Brooklyn in February,
1889; was associated in practice with Am
brose H. Purdy from 1896 to 1899, and
with General Horatio C. King from 1900 to
1905. He was attorney for Lawrence R
Jerome in the contest of the will of Kath
erine H. Jerome, his and the present dis
trict attorney's mother; attorney for Mary
E. Underhill in her suit for divorce against
Franklin B. Underhill, and is attorney for
the property owners in the effort to prevent
the establishment of a tuberculosis clinic in
Henry Street, in which he was successful,
the city appealing. Mr. Jacobson was re
tained in 1905 to adjust a large estate in
Logansport, Indiana, going to that place
and effecting a settlement; and is attorney
for the Retail Cigar and Tobacco Dealers'
Association of New York. He enjoys the
confidence of the bench, exhibited by fre
quent appointments as referee, receiver,
etc. In politics he is a Republican; was
president of the Thirty-third Assembly Dis
trict Republican Club in 1898, and a dele
gate to the State Republican Convention of
1898. He is a Mason, Blue Lodge (past
master), Chapter (past high priest) Coun

cil, and the thirty-third degree, Scottish
Rite; and a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters. He is a member of
the American Bar Association and the
Brooklyn Bar Association, the Brooklyn
and First Assembly District Republican
Clubs and the XIII Club. Mr. Jacobson
married in New York City, February 22,
1894, Ernestine Aschner, and they have
four daughters : Madeline A., born in 1895 ;
Alma, born in 1896; Juliet, born in 1900,
and Jeannette, born in 1903. Residence : 67
Pineapple Street, Brooklyn. Office address :
5 Beekman Street, New York City.
JACOBY, Harold:
Astronomer, educator; born in New
York City, March 4, 1865 ; son of Max and
Eve M. (Jackson) Jacoby. His father
is a native of Germany, came to the United
States in 1865, retired New York mer
chant; mother was a native of New York
City. He was educated in private schools
in New York City and was graduated from
Columbia University, A.B., 1885, Ph.D.,.
1896. Was assistant astronomer of the
United States Eclipse Expedition to West
Africa from 1889 to 1890 ; volunteer assist
ant at Cape of Good Hope Observatory in
1890; adjunct professor of astronomy from
1894 to 1904; Rutherford professor of as
tronomy since 1904, and head of Depart
ment of Astronomy, since 1903, Columbia
University. He is the author of Practical
Talks by an Astronomer, 1901 (Scribner's);
contributor of technical papers to Ameri
can and foreign scientific journals and to
the publications of the Royal Astronomical
Society of London ; Academie des Sciences
of Paris; Societas Scientiaruffl Fennica,
Helsingfors; Astronomische Gesellschaft,
Leipzig, on the application of photography
to astronomical measurements of precis
ion, stellar parallax, star clusters, varia
tion of latitude, aberration of light, polar
celestial photography, etc. ; also articles for
popularization of astronomy in New York
Evening Post and other newspapers and
magazines. Fellow of the Royal Astronom
ical Society of London; member of the
Astronomische Gesellschaft of Leipzig;
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America (councillor and editor from 1906
to 1908) ; American Mathematical Society
(former treasurer and editor Bulletin) ;'
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; New York Acad
emy of Sciences (former councillor and
secretary). He is a member of Century
Club of New York City. Married, Decem
ber 28, "1890, Annie, daughter" of the late
George Maclear, astronomer at the Royal
Observatory, Capetown, South Africa, and
they have two children : Maclear, born in
1896, and Eve Marion, born in 1898. Ad
dress : 333 West Seventy-sixth Street, New
York City.
JAEGERS, Albert:
Sculptor; born in Elberfeld, Germany,
March 28, 1868; son of Albert and Eliza
beth (Loser) Jaegers; educated in Ger
many and United States. Engaged, since
1890, as sculptor, executing many private
monuments, busts, and other works in
marble, bronze, etc., including works which
have won in competitions; statuary for
the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
1901 ; Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St.
Louis, 1904; the new Custom House, New
York City, etc. ; now engaged executing
the Baron von Steuben Monument for
Washington, District of Columbia, won in
competition. Unitarian. Member National
Sculptor Society, New York. Architectu
ral League, Municipal Art Society of New
York City and Cincinnati Art Club. Mar
ried, Richmond, Virginia, July 8, 1890,
Matilda Holdt. Address: Suffern, New
York.
JAMES, Arthur Curtiss:
Merchant, philanthropist ; born in New
York City, June 1, 1867; son of D. Willis
and Ellen S. (Curtiss) James; graduate
Amherst, A.B., 1889. Member firm of Phelps,
Dodge and Company; director American
Brass Company, El- Paso and Southwestern
Railroad Company, United Globe Mines,
New York Trust Company. Member
Chamber of Commerce, American Institute
Mining Engineers, American Geological
Society, New York Botanical Garden, New
York Zoological Society. Clubs : Metro

politan, University, Century, Riding, New
York, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Atlan
tic Yacht, Amherst. Married Harriet Eddy
Parsons. Residence: 92 Park Ave-
Address : 99 John Street, New York City.
JAMES, Charles Henry:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, January
27, 1870; son of Isaiah James and Eliza
G. (Fry) James. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of Philadelphia.
He is assistant cashier of the First National
Bank, and is director, secretary and treas
urer of the Thomas C. Fluke Company.
In politics he is a Republican, and in relig
ion a Baptist, and is deacon, trustee and
treasurer of the Gethsemane Baptist
Church. Mr. James married in Philadel
phia, October 26, 1896, Helen J. Hussey.
Residence: 1321 Erie Avenue. Address:
First National Bank, 315 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
JAMES, Clinton R.:
Capitalist; son of John F. and Mary E.
James; educated Polytechnic Institute,
Brooklyn. First vice-president and direct
or Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange (Limit
ed-), New York Mortgage and Security
Company, trustee Brooklyn Savings Bank;
director and treasurer Kings County Mort
gage Company, director Prospect Park
Bank of Brooklyn, Title Insurance Com
pany of New York, United Cities Realty
Corporation. Married, New York City,
1896, Evelyn M. Betts. Address: 193
Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York.
JAMES, Darwin Rush:
Merchant; born Williamsburg, Massa
chusetts, May 1, 1834; educated Williams
burg schools and Mount Pleasant Board
ing School, Amherst, Massachusetts. En
gaged from 1857, in New York, as import
er of indigo and spices from the East In
dies, in firm of D. R. James and Brother,
now retired. Is president East Williams
burg Savings Bank; trustee Franklin Trust
Company ; vice-president and trustee Frank
lin Safe Deposit Company. Was park com
missioner of Brooklyn for six years, and
a member of Congress, 1883-87; member

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from 1889 and chairman United States
Board Indian Commissioners. Married,
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, January 14,
1858, Mary E. Fairchild; one son, Darwin
R. Jr., (Princeton 1895). Address: 226
Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
JAMES, Francis Bacon:
Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June
10, 1864. He was educated in the public
schools and the Cincinnati College Law
School, was graduated as LL.B. in 1886,
and has, been practicing law ever since.
He is a member of the law firm of Jones
and James, engaged chiefly in a commer
cial practice in the State and Federal
courts, and is a member of the Law Fac
ulty of the University of Cincinnati. He
has written on the subject of Expert Opin
ion as Evidence under the Laws of Ohio,
and a Collection of Cases on the Construc
tion of Statutes, as well as other contribu
tions to the literature of the law, and com
merce, which have been published under the
title of Advertising and Other Addresses.
Mr. James is a member of the American
Bar Association, and is of its General Coun
cil, and is also a member of the American
International Law Association, Ohio State
Bar Association and the Cincinnati Bar As
sociation ; and is president of the Ohio State
Board in the movement for securing uni
formity of laws in the several States. Mr.
James is dean of, the Cincinnati College of
Finance, Commerce and Accounts, where
the faculty is made up of men actually en
gaged in business and professional life, who
believe the future of America depends on
higher technical and commercial education.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. James
is a member of the Queen City, Univer
sity, Country and other clubs of Cincin
nati, and of the Columbus Club of Colum
bus, Ohio. Residence : East Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati. Office : Mercantile Library
Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
JAMES, Henry:
Author; born in New York City, April
15, 1843; son of Rev Henry James, a dis
tinguished theologian. His early education,
directed by his father, was acquired chiefly

in France and Switzerland, and he took
a partial course in Harvard Law School
from 1862 to 1864. He began literary work
as a contributor to various periodicals in
1863, and has continued in the profession
of literature ever since. After 1869 he
made his residence in Europe, chiefly in
Italy and England. His work is char
acterized by literary finish, keen analysis
and psychologic insight, and include:
Transatlantic Sketches, 1875; A Passionate
Pilgrim and Other Tales, 1875 ; Roderick
Hudson, 1876; The American, 1877; Watch
and Ward, 1878; French Poets and Novel
ists, 1878; Daisy Miller, 1878; The" Euro
peans, two volumes, 1878; An International
Episode, 1879 ; The Madonna of the Future,
and Other Tales, two volumes, 1879; Haw
thorne, 1879 ; A Bundle of Letters, reprinted
from the Persian, 1880; Confidence, 1880;
The Diary of a Man of Fifty, 1880; Wash
ington Square, 1880; The Portrait of a
Lady, 1882; The Siege of London, 1883;
Portraits of Places, 1883; Tales of Three
Cities, 1884 ; A Little Tour in France, 1885 ;
The Art of Fiction, 1885; Stories Revised,
two volumes, 1885; The Author of Bel-
traffio, 1885; The Bostonians, 1886; The
Princess Cassamassima, 1886; Partial Por
traits, 1888; The Aspern Papers and Other
Stories, 1888; The Reverberator, 1888; A
London Life, 1889; The Tragic Muse, two
volumes, 1890; The Lesson of the Mas
ter, 1892 ; The Real Thing and Other Tales,
1893; Picture in Text, 1893; The Private
Life, 1893 ; Essays in London and
Elsewhere, 1893 ; Theatricals, two vol
umes, 1893; The Wheel of Time, 1894;
Terminations, 1895 ; The Other House,
1896; The Spoils of Poynton, i8g7; Saint
Eva, 1897; What Maisie Knew, 1897; In
the Cage, 1898; The Awkward Age, 1899;
The Soft Side, 1900; A Little Tour in
France, 1900 ; The Sacred Fount, 19O1 ;
The Wings of the Dove, 1902; The Better
Sort, 1903 ; The Ambassador, 1903 ; The
Question of Our Speech, 1904; The Les
son of Balzac, 1905 ; The Golden Bowl,
1905 ; English Hours, 1905 ; and many con
tributions to magazines, etc. He is a mem
ber of the Athenaeum Club of London.
Residence: Rye, Isle of Wight, England.

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Address: The Athenaeum Club, London,
England. JAMES, James Alton:
Professor of history; born in Hazel
Green, Wisconsin, September 17, 1864; son
of John R. James and Mary A. (Alton)
James. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin as B.L. in 1888; from
Johns Hopkins University as Ph.D. in 1893,
and won scholarship and fellowship in his
tory. He was professor of history in Cor
nell College, Iowa, from 1893 to 1897; and
has been professor of history in North
western University since 1897. He is au
thor of numerous monographs on historical
subjects. In politics he is a Republican,
and in religion a Methodist. He is a
member of the American Historical Asso
ciation, American Political Science Asso
ciation, the Council of the Northwestern
University Settlement Association, and is
a Mason. His favorite recreations are
tennis, bicycling and walking, and he is a
member of the University Club of Evans
ton. Professor James married in Platte-
ville, Wisconsin, September 28, 1892, Jen
nie Thomas, and they have two children :
Maurice A. James, born in 1894, and Hu
bert E. James, born in 1896. Address :
2127 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
JAMES, Louis:
Actor ; born at Tremont, Illinois, in 1842 ;
son of Benjamin F. James and Almira H.
James. Beginning his stage career with
the stock company of McAuley's Theater
at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1864, he went
the following year to Philadelphia, where
he was for five years a member of the
famous stock company in Mrs. John Drew's
Arch Street Theater, and while there be
came a great favorite socially and pro
fessionally in that city. In leading theaters
of New York, San Francisco, Baltimore,
and Boston he played leading parts, and
from the Boston Theater stock company
went in 1881 to be leading man with Law
rence Barrett, alternating with that great
actor as Jago and Othello, and playing the
Other principal supporting roles in the Bar

rett repertoire. After starring for him
self from 1886 to 1889 he played with
Joseph Jefferson a year and then for three
years starred jointly with Frederick Ward
in legitimate tragedy; since 1895 he has
been starring individually under the man
agement of Wagenhals and Kemper. Mr.
James married in 1871, in Philadelphia,
Lillian Scanlan, who died in 1876; and
December 24, 1892, he married in Philadel
phia, Alphie Kendricks. Address : 723
Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
JAMES, Ollie M.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Crit-
tendon County, Kentucky, July 27, 1871 ;
son of L. H. James and Elizabeth J. James.
He was educated in the common and acad
emic schools. He was a page in the Ken
tucky Legislature, session of 1887; studied
law under his father, L. H. James, and
was admitted to the bar in 1891. He was
one of the attorneys for Governor Goebel
in his celebrated contest for governor of
the State of Kentucky; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention at Chi
cago, 1896, and delegate from the State-at-
large to the Democratic National Conven
tion at St. Louis, 1904, and elected chairman
of the Kentucky delegation at both. He
served as chairman of the State Conven
tion in Kentucky in 1900, which sent dele
gates to the Democratic National Conven
tion at Kansas City. Mr. James was elected
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the First Kentucky District. He
married, December 2, 1903, Ruth Thomas
of Marion, Kentucky. Address : Marion,
Kentucky.JAMESON, Edwin C:
Attorney at law ; he was admitted to
the bar in 1903 ; he is now president and
director of the Globe and Rutgers Fire In
surance Company ; director of the Na
tional Fire and Marine Insurance Company
of New Jersey; Pacific Fire Insurance
Company, and the Stuyvesant Insurance
Company. Address : 76 William Street,
New York City.

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JAMIESON, Egbert;.
Lawyer; born in Castleton, Vermont,
April 29, 1846; son of Egbert and Caroline
M. (Woodward) Jamieson. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Vermont
and at Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin,
to which place the family removed in his
youth. He learned the printing trade in
the office of the Racine County Democrat,
after which he was for a time engaged in
editorial work on the Milwaukee Daily
News. In 1866 he took up his residence
in Chicago, Illinois, where he began the
study of law in the office of E. S. Smith.
He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1869
and was associated in practice with Judge
James H. Knowlton until 1871, after which
for two years he was in partnership with
Emory S. Storrs. He was elected city at
torney in 1873, following this with a term
as corporation counsel, during which he
made the successful fight in the Hoyne-
Colvin mayoralty contest. He was elected
judge of the Superior Court of Cook Coun
ty in 1886 and served until 1890. He was
the presiding judge in the noted conspiracy
cases, involving a majority of the county
commissioners as defendants. He resigned
his judgeship to become the general coun
sel for the West Chicago and North Chica
go Street Railway Companies, which he
retained until 1897. He was a member of
the Lincoln Park Board from 1893 to 1897.
He has always been independent in politics.
He was married in Chicago, December 2,
1873, to Mary A. Daniels. Residence : 38
Stratford Place, Chicago. Office address :
New York Life Building, Chicago, Illinois.
JAMIESON, Thomas N.:
Wholesale druggist; born in the County
of Grey, Ontario, Canada, February 29,
1848; son of James and Agnes (Robert
son) Jamieson. He was- educated in the
public schools of Ontario, and was a drug
gist's apprentice from 1862 to 1866. He
removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he was
a drug clerk until he entered business for
himself in 1870. He was president of the
Chicago Retail Drug Association for three
years, and president of the Illinois Board

of Pharmacy five years. He was the
founder of the Chicago Veteran Drug
gists' Association. He is a Republican and
was chairman of the Cook County Central
Republican Committee in 1890. He was
secretary of the Republican State Central
Committee in 1892, and chairman of the
State Central Committee in 1894. He was
the Illinois member of the Republican Na
tional Committee from 1896 to 1900. He
was for a time clerk of the Appellate Court
of Chicago, Illinois District, and has been
naval officer of the Port of Chicago since
1904. Mr. Jamieson was vice-president and
treasurer of the Automatic Switch and
Signal Company. He is a member of the
Chicago Athletic and Press Clubs. He
was married in Chicago, in 1887, to Anna
M. Bingham. Residence: 4508 Woodlawn
Avenue, Chicago. Office address : Post Of
fice Building, Chicago, Illinois.
JANEWAY, Edward Gamaliel:
Physician; born in Middlesex County,
New Jersey, August 31, 1841; graduate
Rutgers, A.B., i860, LL.D., College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons (Columbia), M.D.,
1864. Acting medical curator, United
States Army Hospital, Newark, New Jer
sey, 1862-1863; curator, 1866-1872; visiting
physician 1872-1892; professor of pathology
and anatomy, 1872-1876; demonstrator of
anatomy, 1876-1879; Bellevue Hospital Med
ical College; now professor medicine and
dean of University and Bellevue Hospital
Medical College. Visiting physician, Charity
Flospital, 1868-1871; Mount Sinai Hospital
since 1885 ; consulting physician, Presbyter
ian Hospital, since 1888; consulting patho
logist, Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled
since 1875. Member Commission of Con
ference, Health Department and Academy
of Medicine, 1887; member Advisory Com
mittee Chamber of Commerce, during chol
era of 1892. Author of: Pathological Re
port of Autopsies Made in Bellevue Hos
pital ; Leucocyfhaemia ; and numerous other
papers. Clubs : City, Century, Tuxedo;
National Arts. Address: 36 West ^Fortieth
Street, - New York City.

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JANSSEN, John:
Bishop of Belleville; born in Keppeln,
Diocese of Minister, Prussia, March 3,
1835. He was educated for the priesthood,
but before he finished his course was in
duced by Bishop Juncker, of Alton, Illinois,
to remove to the United States. After fin
ishing his theological preparation he was
ordained by Bishop Juncker in the Cathe
dral of Sts. Peter and Paul at Alton, was
given missionary work for a time in the
diocese of Springfield, and afterward served
as secretary and assistant in parochial work
to Bishop Juncker in the Diocese of Alton,
and on the death of that bishop, October
2, 1868, was given charge of the affairs of
the diocese until the consecration of Bishop-
Baltes, January 23, 1870 ; he was made vicar-
general, and after the death of Bishop
Baltes, February 15, 1888, was adminis
trator of the diocese until the consecration
of Bishop Ryan, May 1, 1888. Meanwhile
the newly erected diocese of Belleville, Il
linois, was created and he was appointed its
bishop February 25, 1888; and he was con
secrated in St. Peter's Cathedral, Belleville,
Illinois, by Archbishop Feehan, assisted by
Bishop Hogan of Kansas City and Bishop
Fink, of Leavenworth; and his diocese has
greatly prospered under his administration.
Address : Belleville, Illinois.
JANVIER, Charles:
President of the Sun Mutual Insurance
Company of New Orleans ; born in New
Orleans, September 8, 1867; son of Charles
A. and Zelime (Coiron) Janvier. He was
educated at the College of the Immacu
late Conception at New Orleans. After
several years passed in the office of an ex
change broker, he entered the service of the
Sun Mutual Insurance Company, as solic
itor, February 15, 1890. He was elected
secretary in February, 1891, and succeeded
the late Mr. Finley, on his death, as pres
ident of the company, June 12, 1894. He is
also manager of the Southern department
of the Palatine of Manchester, England,
having jurisdiction over ten States. Mr.
Janvier is an administrator of the Tulane
Educational Fund, a director in the Canal
Bank and Trust Company, of the Provident

Savings and Safe Deposit Bank and pres
ident of the Citizens' League of New Or
leans. He married, October 3, 1883, Jose
phine Celeste Bush, who died January 8,
1899. Residence: 1445 Webster Street,
New Orleans. Office address : 308 Camp
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
JANVRIN, Joseph Edward:
Physician; born Exeter, New Hampshire,
January 13, 1839; son of Joseph Adams
and Lydia Ann (Colcord) Janvrin; educat
ed Phillips Exeter Academy; College of
Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia),
1864. Practicing as physician and surgeon
in New York City since 1865. Acting as
sistant surgeon, Second New Hampshire
Volunteers, May, 1861, to December 1862;
assistant surgeon, Fifteenth Regiment New
Hampshire Volunteers, December 1862, to
August, 1863; acting assistant surgeon,
United States Volunteers, July, 1864, to
January, 1865. Republican. Presbyterian.
Member New York Academy of Medicine,
New York State Medical Society; ex-
president American Gynecological Society;
New York Obstetrical Society Internation
al Gynecological Society; corresponding
member Boston Gynecological Society, So
ciety Mayflower descendants, Sons of Col
onial Wars. Descendants Colonial Govern
ors, Military Order Loyal Legion, George
Washington Post, Grand Army of the Re
public. He married at, Easton, Pennsylva
nia, September, 1881, Laura L. La- Wall, and
they have two children: Edmund R. P.,
born in 1884, and Marguerite L., born in
1889. Address : 191 Madison Avenue, New
York City.
JAQI7ES, William Henry:
Engineer and naval architect; born in
Philadelphia, December 24, 1848. After a
preparatory education in the schools of
Newark, New Jersey, he entered the United
States Naval Academy, from which he was
graduated in 1867, and remained in the ser
vice until 1886, when he resigned as lieu
tenant to enter civil life. He had during
his service come to be regarded as one of
the most promising offices in the Navy, and
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and after his resignation inaugurated the
manufacture of heavy ordnance and armor
in the works of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany ; and he has introduced into this coun
try many improved processes in the manu
facture of steel ordnance, and also has
gained much distinction as a naval archi
tect. He has served on various boards and
expert commissions having to do with ord
nance matters, and received from the Mika
do the Japanese decoration of The Rising
Sun. He is a member of the American
Society ¦ of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers, the United States Naval Insti
tute, British Institution of Naval Archi
tects, American Society of Civil Engineers,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and other engineering societies, American
and British, and is author of various works
on ordnance, armor and kindred subjects;
and was appointed in 1905 a member of the
Board of Visitors to the United States
Naval Academy. He is a member of the
Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs
of Washington, D. C. ; the Essex Club of
Newark, New Jersey; Warwick Club of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the
Lotos and Metropolitan Clubs of New
York City. Address : Little Boar's Head,
New Hampshire.
JARRETT, Edwin Seton:
Civil Engineer; born Brooklyn, New
York, March 7, 1862; son of James M. and
Sarah O. (Heather) Jarrett; graduate
Buffalo (New York) Central High School,
1881 ; graduate Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute, Troy, New York, C.E., 1889. En
gaged in practice as civil engineer from
graduation ; made a trip around the world
1887; has traveled extensively since. En
gineer with Sooysmith and Company for
ten years; and for past five years with
the Foundation Company, of which secre
tary, treasurer and director; also director
the Waterproofing Company; expert engin
eer in all classes of . foundation and sub
aqueous work, and has been connected with
many notable engineering achievements of
this..nature. Independent. Associate mem
ber of American Society of Civil Engineers.
Member and director of Rensselaer Society

of Engineers ; member and vice-president
the New York Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute Alumni Association. Clubs : Uni
versity, Engineers. Married, Norfolk, Vir
ginia, June 26, 1906, Cora Hardy. Ad
dress : Care the Foundation Company, 115
Broadway, New York City.
JARVIE, James N.:
Capitalist ; formerly member firm of Ar-
buckle Brothers; trustee Central Trust
Company, London Assurance Corporation,
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York; director B|ank of America,
Bloomfield Trust Company, Guaranty Trust
Company ' of New York, Morton Trust
Company, National Bank of Commerce,
Worcester, Nassau and Rochester Railroad.
Clubs: Metropolitan, Down Town. Resi
dence : Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
JARVIE, William:
Retired dentist; born in Manchester,
England, July 14, 1841 ; son of William Jar-
vie and Isabella (Newbegin) Jarvie. He
was educated in England and in Brooklyn,
New York, and received the degree of
M.D.S. and practiced in Brooklyn until
he retired. Dr. Jarvie is ex-president of
the Dental Society of the State of New
York; of the New York Odontological
Society and the Second District Dental
Society, and president of the Brooklyn
Dental Society. At various times he has
traveled in England, Scotland, Norway,
Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Bel
gium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Aus
tria, Italy, Egypt, Soudan, Palestine, Tur
key and Greece; has ascended Mont Blanc
and several others of the highest snow
capped mountains in Switzerland and has
motored in England, Scotland, Franca,
Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy'.
Dr. Jarvie is director of the Cooperative
Law Company, and a member of the Na
tional Dental Association, the Academy of
Dental Science, and the Odontological So
ciety of Great Britain and is president of
the Bass Rocks Improvement Association-.
In politics he is a Republican and his
favorite recreations are automobiling, golf
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ton, Rembrandt, Heights Casino, Dyker
Meadow Golf Club of Brooklyn and the
Nassau Country Club and is also vice-pres
ident of the Bass Rocks Golf Club. He
married in Brooklyn, September 10, 1867,
Amelia C. McHenry and they have had
four children : William, Jr., Mrs. Fred C.
Fletcher (who died July 1, 1903), George
Kendall and Amelia Frances Goodrich.
Address : 105 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New
York. JARVIS, Samuel M.:
Banker; born in McDonough County,
Illinois, January 31, 1853; descendant of
the early settlers of Virginia; admitted to
bar 1876, but soon turned attention to fi
nance, closely identified with development of
the West; one of the organizers and first
president North American Trust Company;
immediately on American occupation of
Santiago, during Spanish-American War,
he opened there a branch of the Trust
Company .and rendered important assistance
to United States Government; was offered
the post of fiscal agent of the United States
in Cuba by President McKinley, but asked
and obtained the appointment for the com
pany instead; later accepted present posi
tion as vice-president National Bank of
Cuba, fiscal agent and government deposi
tary of Republic of Cuba; and depositary
of United States Government in Cuba;
connected with many important corpora
tions. Has traveled extensively abroad.
Member Southern Society, Kentucky So
ciety, American Museum Natural History,
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clubs:
Lawyers', Larchmont Yacht, Columbia
Yacht, Automobile Club of America (New
York City) ; American (Havana) ; The
Pilgrims' (London). Married, 1873, Pris
cilla Wear. Address: in Broadway, New
York City.
JASTROW, Joseph:
Professor of psychology; born in War
saw, Poland, January 30, 1863 ; son of Mar
cus Jastrow and Bertha (Wolfsohn) Jas-
trow. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, as A.B., in 1882,
and A.M. in 1885, and from Johns Hopkins

University as Ph.D. in 1886. He was in
charge of the Department of Psychology at
the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
in 1893 ; and is now professor of psychology
at the University of Wisconsin. He is
author of: Fact and Fable in Psychology,
1900; The Subconscious, 1906; and numer-
out articles on psychology and education in
all leading, popular and scientific periodi
cals. Fie is a member of the American
Psychological Association (was its presi
dent in 1900), American Association for
the Advancement of Science (was its vice-
president, in 1891), .American Society of
Naturalists/ Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma
Xi, and received a medal at the World's
Fair in 1893. His favorite recreations are
tennis and touring. He is a member of
the University Club of Madison, Wiscon
sin. Professor Jastrow married in Balti
more, Maryland, August 2, 1888, Rachel
Szold. Residence : 237 Langdon Street,
Madison. Address : University of Win-
consin, Madison, Wisconsin.
JASTROW, Morris, Jr.:
Professor Semitic languages and librarian
of the University of Pennsylvania ; born
in Europe, August 13, 1861 ; son of Mar
cus and Bertha Jastrow; graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, 1881 ; received
the degree of Ph. D. from the University
of Leipzig, 1884; also studied in other uni
versities of Germany and France. Is an
authority on Semitic religions, languages
and literature. Author of: Religion of the
Babylonians and Assyrians, 1898; Two
Grammatical Treatises of Abu Zakariyya
Hayyug, 1897; A Fragment of the Baby
lonian Dibbarra Epic, 1891 ; The Study of
Religion, 1902; Die Religion Babyloniens
und Assyriens, 1902-1905; and numerous
papers in technical periodicals. Married,
February 28, 1893, Helen Bachman, Phila
delphia. Address : 248 South Twenty-
third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
JAY, William:
Lawyer; -graduate Columbia College,
1859. Member firm of Jay and Candler;
president and director New York Cab
Company (Limited) ; director American

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Florse Exchange, Commercial Cable Com
pany, Manhattan Storage and Warehouse
Company, New York Mortgage and Secur
ity Company, Windsor Trust Company.
Member Sons of Revolution, Loyal Legion,
St. Nicholas Society. Clubs: Church,
Turf and Field, Metropolitan, City, Law
yers', Brook, Century, Knickerbocker, Mea
dow Brook. Married Lucie Oelrichs. Res
idences: 572 Madison Avenue; Bedford
House, Katonah, New York. Address : 48
Wall Street, New York City.
JAYCOX, Walter Husted:
Jurist; born Wassaic, New York, Sep
tember 3, 1863; son of Lorin H. and Han
nah (Darling) Jaycox; educated in com
mon schools. Studied law in office Wilmot
M. Smith, at Patchogue, New York; ad
mitted to bar September 13, 1889. Elected
1893, reelected 1896, district attorney Suf
folk County, New York, serving six years;
appointed January, 1902, and elected No
vember, 1902, county judge Suffolk County,
serving four years; appointed April, 1906,
elected November, 1906, justice Supreme
Court New York, for Second Judicial Dis
trict, for term expiring December 31, 1920.
Republican. Married Inez Learning. Ad
dress : Patchogue, New York.
JEFFERS, Eliakim Tupper:
President of the faculty of York Collegiate
Institute; born in Nova Scotia, April 6,
1841'; son of James Dickey Jeffers and
Mary A. Benvie (Tupper) Jeffers. He was
fitted for college at the high school at Law
rence, Massachusetts ; graduated from Jef
ferson College as A.B. in 1862, and from
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1865; and
he received from Washington and Jef
ferson College the degree of D.D. in 1872,
and LL.D. in 1902. He was pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church at Oxford,
Pennsylvania, from 1865 to 1872; president
of Westminster College, Pennsylvania, from
1872 to 1883 ; professor of theology at Lin
coln University, from 1883 to 1890; pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church of Oil
City, from 1890 to 1893 ; and has been
president of the York Collegiate Institute
since 1893. Dr. Jeffers was also president of

the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Associa
tion. He is a director of the York His
torical Association and a member of the
Victoria Institute of London, England, and
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
traveled in France, Italy, Switzerland and
England in igo6. In politics he is a Repub
lican. Dr. Jeffers married at Cannons-
burg, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1867, Esther
Graham Hodgens, and their children are: *
Mary, Harriet (Curtis), George H., Evetta
T., and Roland H. Residence: 210 South
Duke Street, York. Office address: Box
161, York, Pennsylvania.
JEFFERY, Edward Turner:
Railway president; born Liverpool, Eng
land, April 6, 1843 ; came to United States,
1850. Began railway service, 1856, with
Illinois Central Railroad, as office boy to
superintendent of machinery, advancing un
til became its general superintendent, 1877-
1885 ; general manager, 1885-1889, resigned;
commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1889, on
behalf of executive committee of citizens
of Chicago, for the purpose of studying
and reporting upon the exposition; chair
man Grounds and Buildings Committee,
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
until September, 1891 ; president since Oc
tober 1, 1891, of Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, also president Rio Grande West
ern Pacific Railway; also since October 18,
1905, chairman Board of Directors Wabash
Railroad, also president of Western Pacific
Railway Company. Married, 1877, Vir
ginia Osborne Clarke. Address : ig5 Broad
way, New York City.
JEFFERYS, Edward Miller:
Clergyman ; born in Philadelphia, May 4,
1865; son of C. P. B, Jefferys and Eliza
beth (Miller) Jefferys. He was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1886 and in 1889 from Berkeley Divinity
School. Mr. Jeffreys was ordained deacon
in 1889, and priest in 1890; was assist
ant of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia,
in 1889 and 1890; assistant of St. John's
Church, Detroit, from 1890 to 1894; rector
of St. Paul's Church, Doylestown, Penn
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Cumberland from 1904 to 1906; rector of
Emmanuel Church, Cumberland, Maryland,
from 1902 to 1906, and has been rector
of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, since
1906. He is a member of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Address: 717 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
JELKS, William Dorsey:
Editor, ex-governor; born in Russell
County, Alabama, November 7, 1855 ; son of
J. W. D. Jelks and Jane Goodrum (Fra
zier) Jelks. After his graduation from
Mercer University," as A.B. in 1876, he en
gaged in newspaper work, and was for over
twenty years editor of the Eufaula Times;
and his alma mater conferred upon him the
degree of A.M. * He was for several terms
a member of the State -Senate, and was
president of the Senate, and acting lieu
tenant-governor when Governor William J.
Samford died in June, 1901, and he suc
ceeded to the governorship; and in the
general election of 1902 he was elected for
a full term, which expired in January,
1907. Address; Eufaula, Alabama.
JEIXETT, Edwin C:
Author; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, November 22, i860; is of Scotch-
Irish extraction, a descendant in the eighth
generation of William Jellett, born 1632 at
Dromore, County Down, Ireland, the son
of a French Huguenot; and in thirteenth
generation of Sir Ralph Sadleir, of Scot
land; removed to Lumberton, Burlington
County, New Jersey, and from there to
Limerick, Montgomery County, Pennsyl
vania; since 1873 at Germantown, Pennsyl
vania; educated at private and public
schools. Is a Republican in theory, but an
Independent in practice. For several years
has followed steam engineering. Member
of the Site and Relic Society, of German-
town, of the executive committee of the
Mermaid Club, of board of managers of
Workingmen's Club; vice-president of City
History Club; vice-president of German-
town Horticultural Society; member of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel
phia, Geographical Society of Philadelphia,

and Pennsylvania Foresters' Association. Is
a correspondent of scientific and literary
papers and magazines. Author of : The Mer
maid of the Past, 1892; Ferns of German-
town, 1896; The Mermaid Club, its Past
and Future, 1897; Personal Recollections of
William Kite, 1901 ; Winter Flora of Ger
mantown, 1901 ; German-Towne : Its Foun
ders and Their Progenitors, and What We
Owe Them, 1903; A Flora of Germantown,
with Notes of Nature and Nature Lovers,
1903. Address, 118 Hermann Street, Ger
mantown, Pennsylvania.
JEIXIFFE, Smith Ely:
Physician; born New York City, October
27, 1866; son of William M. and Susan E.
(Kitchell) Jelliffe; educated public schools
of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Polytechnic, A.B.,
College Physicians and Surgeons (Colum
bia), M.D., 1889, A.M., Ph.D., 1900. Began
practice New York City, January, 1895 ;
spent three years in hospitals of New York
City, Brooklyn, Vienna, Paris, Berlin,
Munich and London. Clinical professor of
mental diseases, Fordham University, New
York; visiting neurologist City Hospital;
assistant in department nervous diseases,
Columbia University ; formerly editor Medi
cal News before its incorporation with
New York Medical Journal; associate edit
or "New York Medical Journal; managing
editor Journal of Nervdus -and Men
tal Diseases ; medical editor Encyclo
pedia Americana. Made extensive col
lection of plants on Long Island,
concerning which published doctorate
thesis in 1900. Author of: Essentials of
Vegetable Pharmocognosy, 1895; Morphol
ogy and Histology of Plants, i8gg; Notes
on Pharmacognosy, igo2; Essentials of
Pharmocognosy, 1905 ; also minor text
books. Translations of Dubois; Psychic
Treatment of Nervous Disorders, 1905;
Grasset, Demi Fous et Demi Responsables,
1907; Reissig: Arztliche Hausbuch 1907.
Wrote chapter on nervous diseases in But
ler's Diagnostics, 1902; articles on Idiocy
and Imbecility and on Death by Electricity
and Lightning in Peterson and Haynes'
Text-Book of Legal Medicine, 1903 ; revised
Butter's Materia Medica; 1902, 1905, and

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Shaw on Nervous Diseases, 1904; numer
ous articles on nervous and mental disease.
Member American Neurological Associa
tion, American Medical Association, New
York State Medical Society, New York
County Medical Society, West End Medical
Society, New York Academy Medicine,
New York Neurological Society. Married,
December, 1894, Helena Dewey Leeming,
Address : 64 West Fifty-sixth Street, New
York City.
JENKINS, Edward Hopkins:
Director of the Agricultural Station ; born
at Falmouth, Massachusetts, May 31, 1850;
son of John Jenkins and Chloe (Thomp
son) Jenkins. He attended Phillips Acad
emy,, and Leipzig University, and was grad
uated from Yale as Ph.D. in 1872. He
was a chemist of the Agricultural Station
from 1877 to 1900; director and treasurer
since 1900; chairman of the Connecticut
Sewerage Commission, 1897 to 1903. He
married at Guilford, Connecticut, June 18,
1885, Elizabeth Elliot Foote. Address : 123
Huntington Street, New Haven, Connecti
cut.JENKINS, George W.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of M. Hartley Company; vice-president and
director of the Bridgeport Gun Implement
Company, Remington Arms Company ; treas
urer and director of the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company, and trustee of the
Washington Trust Company. Address : 313
Broadway, New York City.
JENKINS, James Graham:
Jurist; born at Saratoga Springs, New
York, July 18, 1834; son of Edgar Jen
kins and Mary E. (Walworth) Jenkins,
of New York City; and grandson of Reu
ben H. Walworth, the last chancellor of the
State of New York. He received a thor
ough education and was admitted to the
New York State bar; removed to Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, in 1857, and practiced there
until he was appointed to the Federal bench.
He was city attorney of Milwaukee from
1863 to 1867 ; was Democratic nominee for
governor of Wisconsin in 1879; received

the Democratic vote in the Legislature for
the United States Senate in 1881. He was
appointed by President Cleveland as United
States judge for the Eastern District of
Wisconsin in 1888, and was promoted to
the circuit bench in 1893, in the Seventh
Circuit, and was presiding judge of the
United States Court of Appeals from 1901
until he retired in 1905. Address : Mil
waukee, Wisconsin.
JENKINS, John G,:
Capitalist; president and director First
National Bank (Brooklyn) formerly also
president and director Amphion Academy
Company, the Empire Audit and Con
tract Company, Tompkins Realty League,
Williamsburgh Trust Company; vice-presi
dent and director American Malting Com
pany, Cypress Hills Cemetery; trustee
Bushwick Savings Bank, Hamburg Savings
Bank; chairman of Board of Directors, the
Empire State Surety Company; director
Broadway Trust Company, Brooklyn
Heights Railroad Company, Brooklyn,
Queens County and Suburban Railroad
Company, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company, Brooklyn Union Elevated
Railroad Company, Fuse Wire and Manu
facturing Company, Jenkins Trust Com
pany, National Surety Company, Ridge-
wood Bank, Terminal Bank, the Williams
burgh City Fire Insurance Company. Ad
dress : Broadway, corner Kent Avenue;
Brooklyn, New York.
JENKINS, John J.:
Congressman and lawyer; was born in
Weymouth, England, August 20, 1843; set
tled in Baraboo, June, 1852; attended the
common schools for a few terms; served
during the Civil War in Company A, Sixth
Wisconsin Infantry; was a member of the
State Assembly from Chippewa County,
and county judge of Chippewa County;
appointed United States attorney for the
Territory of Wyoming by President Grant,
in March, 1876; was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
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Jenkins is a Republican. Address : Chippe
wa Falls, Wisconsin.
JENKINS, J. P. Hale:
Lawyer; born in Hatfield Township,
Montgomery County; educated in the pub
lic schools, and a graduate of Critten
den's Commercial College in Philadel
phia; entered the law office of Hon.
George N. Corson as a student, 1872, and
admitted to the Montgomery County bar
-1874; has since been practicing law at
jNorristown. Has been solicitor for the
Borough of Norristown and for the Coun
ty of Montgomery, at present holding the
latter position. Republican in politics.
Represented the Seventh Congressional
-District as a delegate in the Republican
National Convention which nominated Mr.
Blaine at Chicago; was president of the
State Firemen's Association of Pennsyl
vania; has been active in the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows of the State, serving
on many committees. Married Ella C,
daughter of Augustus Slight, of Quaker-
town, Bucks County, December 30, 1875.
Address : Norristown, Pennsylvania.
JENKINS, William M.:
* Lawyer; born in Alliance, Ohio, April 25,
1856; son of William Jenkins and Lydia
'(Miller) Jenkins. He was educated in pub
lic schools and took a partial course at
Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio;
taught school in Ohio, went to Iowa and
engaged in the practice of law there for
a year, then went to Arkansas City, Kan
sas, where he continued practice. He is a
Republican in politics, was a delegate to
the National Republican Convention in 1888,
and was appointed by President Harrison
as a special agent to allot lands in severalty
to Indians. He made allotments for the
Siletz Indians in Oregon and the Pawnee
Indians in Oklahoma. Since 1893, he has
been a resident of Oklahoma. He was ap
pointed by President McKinley in 1897 sec
retary of the Territory of Oklahoma and
-served until May, 1901, and then as gov
ernor of the Territory until the following
November. Since then he has continued

Address : Guthrie,

the practice of law.
Oklahoma.
J KINKS, Almet Francis:
Jurist; born Brooklyn, New York, May
21, 1853; son of Greenville T. and Persis
(Smith) Jenks; graduate Phillips Academy,
Andover, 1871 ; Yale, A.B., 1875 : Columbia
LL.B., 1877. Admitted to New York bar
1877; assistant district .attorney Kings
County, 1884-1886; corporation counsel,
Brooklyn, 1886-1893; judge advocate-gener
al New York, 1891-1895; member of Con
stitutional Convention, 1895 ; assistant cor
poration -counsel Greater New York, 1898 ;
elected justice of Supreme Court of New
York for Second District, 1898, for term
expiring December 31, 1912; appointed to
appellate division, 1900; present designa
tion to that division expiring April 4, 1910.
Democrat. Clubs: Hamilton, Brooklyn,
D'yker Meadow Golf. Married, April 29,
1891, Lena Barre. Address : 8 Pierrepont
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
JENKS, John Story, Jr.:
Banker ; born in Philadelphia, 1876 ; son
of William H. Jenks and Hannah M.
(Hacker) Jenks. He received his education
in Haverford College. He is a member of
the firm of Edward B. Smith & Company,
bankers, of New York and Philadelphia,
and is director of the Girard Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia. He is a member of
the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia and
of the Union and Metropolitan Clubs of
New York. Mr. Jenks married Isabella F.
G. Morton, and they have two children :
Thomas Story Jenks, born in 1904, and Mor
ton Jenks, born in 1907. Residence: Chest
nut Hill, Philadelphia. Address: 7 Wall
Street, New York City.
JENKS, Tudor:
Writer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
May 7, 1857 ; son of Grenville Tudor Jenks
and Persis Sophia (Smith) Jenks. He re
ceived his education in the Polytechnic In
stitute in Brooklyn, New York, and was
graduated from Yale University as B.A.
and from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
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on the editorial staff of St. Nicholas Maga
zine from 1887 to 1902 and has been en
gaged in writing since 1902. He is author
of: The Century World's Fair Book, 1893;
Imaginotions, or Truthless Tales; Boys'
Book of Exploration, 1900; Galopoff, 1902;
Gypsy, 1902; Defense of the Castle, 1903;
Making a Start, 1903; A Little Rough
Rider, 1904; Great Writers, series, five vol
umes, on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton,
Scott, Goldsmith, 1904- 1907; When Amer
ica Was New, 1907; Electricity for Young
People, 1907; Captain John Smith, 1904;
Captain Myles Standish, 1905; and has
written for magazines, etc., for many
years. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the college societies
at Yale. His favorite recreations are chess,
sketching, photography, and card-playing.
Mr. Jenks married in Brooklyn, New York,
October 5, 1882, Mary Donnison Ford, and
they have three children : Dorothy, Pauline
and Amabel. Address: Bronxville, New
York.JENNEY, Charles Albert:
Publisher; born New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, October 18, 1841 ; son of Sanford
and Julia Ann Jenney; educated in public
schools; commissary, United States Hos
pital, 1864 and 1865. He was engaged in
dry goods business at Waupun, Wisconsin,
1865-1875 ; secretary Statistical Bureau Na
tional Board Fire Underwriters, 1875 ; spec
ial agent Tenth Census of United States, hav
ing charge of Division of Fire Insurance;
special agent Eleventh Census, having su
pervision of all insurance statistics; since
1883, with Underwriting Printing and Pub
lishing Company, of which he is now pres
ident and treasurer ; also president and pub
lisher of the weekly Underwriter and Rec
ord of Fire Insurance by States, and pres
ident Unity Press. Republican. Episcopal
ian. Member American Trade Press Asso
ciation, fellow American Statistical Asso
ciation, American Academy Political and
Social Science ; fellow Royal Statistical So
ciety, England, Society American Authors
(member Board Managers). Clubs: Press;
Underwriters' (member Board Managers),
(New York City) ; Union League, (Brook

lyn) ; Tuscarorar, Grant Mills, New York
(secretary, treasurer and chairman of the
Executive Committee). Mr. Jenney mar
ried, December 4, 1865, Mary Frank Smith.
Residence: 29 McDonough Street, Brook
lyn. Address: 58 William Street, New
York City.
JENNINGS, Edward H.:
President of the Columbia - National
Bank; was born at Brady's Bend, Arm
strong County, August 10, 1852, and, after.
completing a practical course of educa
tion, he joined his father, Richard Jen
nings, in the production of oil. His first
experience was acquired at Armstrong
Run. The Jennings family removed from
Brady's Bend to Queenstown, where they
resided up to the time of the elder Jen
nings' death, in 1891. It was at the
time of his. father's death that the pres
ent firm of E. H. Jennings & Bros, was
organized. In addition to being senior
member of this concern, he is president
of the Columbia Bank and the Pennsyl
vania Title and Trust Company, a di
rector in the Pittsburgh Chamber of Com
merce, and, with his brothers, is the
principal stockholder of the Kanawha
Oil Company. He is also a member of
the oil- producing firm of M. Murphy &
Co., and Jennings, Guffey & Co. Iri 1879
Mr. Jennings was married to Miss Mary
Colwell, of Kittanning, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Jennings became a member of Pittsburgh
in 1888. Address: Columbia National
Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
JENNINGS, Frederic Beach:
Lawyer; born Bennington Centre, Ver
mont, August 6, 1853; graduated Williams
College, S.B., 1872, A.M., 1875; Harvard
Law School, LL.B., 1874; New York Uni
versity Law School, New York City, 1875.
Admitted to New York Bar, 1875 ; member
law firm of Stetson, Jennings and Russell.
Interested as officer or director in various
corporations, including Chicago and Erie
Railroad Company, New York Trust Com
pany, International Paper Company, Amer
ican Trading Company, Hudson and
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companies. Mr. Jennings is vice-president
Of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York; member Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Zoological So
ciety, New England Society, Williams Al
umni Association; trustee Williams Col
lege, Barnard College. Clubs : Century,
University. Union League, Metropolitan,
Racquet and Tennis, New York Athletic,
City, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Down Town,
City, Midday, Westchester County (New
York) ; St. Andrew's Golf, Garden City
Golf, Country. Married, July 27, 1880, Lila
Hall Park, of North Bennington, Vermont;
children: Elizabeth, Percy Hall (Yale,
1904), Frederic B., Jr., Edward Phelps.
Residence : 86 Park Avenue. Address :
15 Broad Street, New York City.
JENNINGS, Herbert Spencer:
Professor of experimental zoology, Johns
Hopkins University; born at Tonica, Il
linois, April 8, 1868; son of George N.
Jennings and Olive (Jenks) Jennings. He
was graduated from the University of
Michigan as B.S. in 1893; from Harvard
University as A.M. in 1895, and Ph.D. in
1896 ; attended the University of Jena, Ger
many, in 1897; Morgan fellow at Harvard
in 1895 and 1896; Parker traveling fellow
at Harvard in 1896 and 1897. He was as
sistant professor of botany, in the State
Agricultural College of Texas in 1888 and
1889; professor of botany in Montana State
Agricultural College, in 1897 and 1898; in
structor in zoology at Dartmouth College,
New Hampshire, in 1898 and 1899; instruc
tor in zoology from 1899 to 1901, and as
sistant professor of zoology from 1901 to
1903 in the University of Michigan. In 1902
Mr. Jennings had charge of the Biological
Survey of the Great Lakes, carried on by the
United States Fish Commission. He was
assistant professor of zoology of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1906;
research assistant of Carnegie Institution in
1903 and igd4; associate professor in 1906
and 1907, and has been professor of ex
perimental -zoology at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity since 1907. He is author of numer
ous scientific papers in various zoological
journals and in the publications of the

Carnegie Institution ; also of the book :
Behavior of the Lower Organisms, 1906
(Macmillan Company) ; and is joint author
with Jacob Reighard of Anatomy of the
Cat, 1901 (Henry Holt and Company). He
is associate editor of the Journal of Com
parative Neurology and Psychology, and
of the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
Mr. Jennings is a member of the Ameri
can Society of Naturalists; American So
ciety of Zoologists ; American Physiological
Society; American Psychological Associa
tion; American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science; Philadelphia Acad
emy of • Natural Sciences; American Philo
sophical Society. Honorary fellow uf the
Royal Microscopical Society of Great Brit
ain; trustee of the Marine Biological
Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts ;
and is a member of Johns Hopkins Club.
He married at Tecumseh, Michigan, June
18, 1898, Mary Louise Burridge. Resi
dence: 4106 Pennhurst Avenue, West Ar
lington, Baltimore, Maryland. Business ad
dress : Johns Hopkins University, Balti
more, Maryland.
JENNINGS, William Sherman:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Cen-
tralia, Illinois, March 24, 1863; son of
Joseph W. Jennings and Amanda (Couch)
Jennings. He was educated in public
schools, the Southern Illinois Normal
University at Carbondale, and the Union
College of Law, Chicago. He went to
Florida in 1885, practiced law; was ap
pointed circuit court commissioner in May,
1887; was elected county judge of Hernan
do County, Florida; member of the Legis
lature 1892, speaker 1895 ; presidential
elector of Florida, elected on the Demo
cratic ticket, 1896; chairman of the Demo
cratic State Convention in 1898; elected
governor in 1900, and served four years,
from 1901 to 1905. Since leaving the guber
natorial chair he has resumed his law prac
tice; is general counsel of the Internal Im
provement Fund of the State of Florida,
and the Board of Drainage Commissioners
of Florida; and first vice-president and
general counsel of the Florida Bank and
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State Bank; director of the Indian River
State Bank, the Barnes and Jessup Com
pany, Naval Stores Company, Jacksonville.
Governor Jennings is trustee of the John
B. Stetson University ; vice-president of the
Florida Baptist Convention, and is a mem
ber of the Knights of Honor, Knights of
Pythias and Elks orders. He married at
Tallahassee, Florida, May 12, 1891, May
Mann, and they have a son, Bryan Jen
nings, born in 1893. Address: 1845 Main
Street, Jacksonville, Florida.
JEROME, Franklin S.:
Banker. He is president and director
of the First National Bank, the Thames
Loan and Trust Company, of Norwich,
Connecticut; vice-president and director
Norwich and New York Propeller Com
pany; treasurer and director of the United
States Finishing Company, Apponaug Com
pany, Assawaga Company, Norwich Con
struction Company, Sterling Improvement
Company, and the Sterling Securities Com
pany ; he is director of the Atlantic Nation
al Bank, Chatham National Bank, Norwich
Construction Company, the Occum Com
pany, of Norwich, Connecticut, and the
Uncas Paper Company. Address : 320
Broadway, New York City.
JEROME, William Travers:
Lawyer ^and jurist; born in the city of
New York, April 18, 1859. He is the son
of Lawrence K. Jerome, popularly known
as "Larry," a noted wit, whose fame was
by no means confined to Manhattan Island.
Lawrence Jerome and his brother, Leonard,
as is familiar to every old New Yorker,
married sisters, and one of the four
daughters of the latter union was the
famous Lady Randolph Churchill, who later
married Lieutenant G. F. M. Cornwallis
West. Until 1877 young Jerome was under
the instruction of private tutors. He then
began a course of study at the Williston
Preparatory School, at East Hampton,
Massachusetts. In the autumn of 1878 he
entered Amherst College, by the advice of
his last tutor, who was a clergyman. This
gentleman was radical in his religious
views, which were largely instilled into the

mind of his young pupil, and to this day
these impressions have remained. Lawrence
Jerome, although of exactly opposite tem-?
perament and views of things theological,
approved of this religious tendency, and
was very proud of his boy. A friend says
young Jerome developed into a man of a
strong religious nature, positive in his opin-;
ions and belief — absolutely honest and con
scientious. Because of this he sowed no
wild oats, and always sought the counsel
and society of good men. In 1881 he left,
Amherst with the highest honors, though
in ill-health from overwork in his studies.
He stood highest in mathematics, but took
a deep interest in metaphysics, the sciences
and languages, , particularly in Greek and'
Latin. So great was his knowledge of
chemistry that he was made an assistant
instructor to Professor Harris in that de--
partment. In 1881 Mr. Jerome entered the
law department of Columbia College, and'
after taking the usual two years' course de
cided to remain another year, and was'
graduated with the class of 1884, receiving-
the degree of LL.D. After serving the re
quired time with the law firm of Stanley,
Clark & Smith, he was admitted to the
bar at the June term- of the Supreme Court,
after passing a brilliant examination. Of
his own merits he was never sanguine.
After his examination he said he had not
felt confident that he would pass, as he
had answered only half of the questionsii
But the answers in writing were so com*
prehensive, and they so completely coveredi
every point of the law that he passed;
triumphantly. He opened his first office iri
Temple Court, with Mr. Daniel Nason, his1
college chum, who had graduated and
passed with him, as his partner. This re-;
lation continued unchanged, for some time.
The new firm prospered, and later the office,
was removed to 55 Nassau Street. In 1888
District Attorney John R. Fellows appointed
Mr. Jerome one of his assistants. In the
fall of 1899 the latter supported Mr. Goff
for the district attorneyship against De
.Lancy Nicoll, and upon the election of Mr.
. Nicoil he retired from the office and re
turned to private practice. While in the
district attorney's office he managed a num-

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ber of important cases, among others that
against James Barker, then the Tammany
Hall leader in the Thirteenth Assembly
District, who was convicted of a charge of
assault; also. the case of Emerson, the keep
er of a policy shop, in which Bedell, a clerk,
had lost a vast sum of his employer's
money. On one occasion, during the trial
of certain police officers, he took the wit
ness stand himself to testify that a certain
detective officer could not be believed under
oath. After leaving the district attorney's
office Mr. Jerome appeared as counsel in
the celebrated Carlyle W. Harris case, and
in connection with Mr. Goff in the equally
celebrated Gardner case. Mr. Jerome's
career really began when he joined the re
form movement which inspired the appoint
ment by the Legislature of an investigating
committee, which was headed by State Sen
ator. Clarence Lexow. John W. Goff, coun
sel for the committee, selected him as one
of his assistants in that historic investiga
tion, at the close of which the great politi
cal campaign for reform in the city's affairs
began, with Mr. Jerome as counsel for the
famous Committee of Seventy and manager
of the campaign against Tammany, which
resulted in the election of William L. Strong
as Mayor and John W. Goff as Recorder.
In the following year Mayor Strong ap
pointed Mr. Jerome judge of the Court
of Special Sessions, ranking him second only
to Judge Hinsdale, and giving him the eight-
year term. He was elected November, 1901,
district attorney of the County of New
York, and reelected in November, 1905. Mr.
Jerome is a member of the Bar Association
of New York, and of many social clubs.
Residence: 3 Rutgers Street. Country resi
dence : Lakeville, Connecticut. Address :
Criminal Court Building, New York City.
JESSE, Richard Henry:
. President of the University of Missouri ;
born on the Ball Farm (home of Washing
ton's mother) in Lancaster County, Vir
ginia, March 1, 1853; son of W. T. Jesse
and Mary (Claybrook) Jesse. He was
prepared in' Hanover Academy, Virginia,
was a student in the University of Virginia
from 1873 to 1875 and part ' of 1878 ; in

structor in French and mathematics in
Hanover Academy in 1876; dean of the
Academic Department in the University
of Louisiana from 1878 to 1885; studied
in Europe, part of 1885 and of 1890; was
professor , of Latin in Tulane University,
Louisiana, from 1884 to 1891 ; and in 1891
was called to the presidency of the Uni
versity of Missouri. He received the
degree of LL.D. from Tulane University
in 1892, from the University of Wisconsin
in 1904, from South Carolina College in
1905, from Missouri Valley College in 1906,
and from Washington University, St. Louis,
in June, 1907. President Jesse was chair
man of the Section of Higher Education of
the National Educational Association in
1898, and became a member of its Commit
tee of Ten in 1891-2. He was a member of
the Administrative Board of the Congress
of Arts at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion, St. Louis, in 1904, and was awarded
by that Exposition a commemorative di
ploma and medal in recognition of distin
guished services to education. He was
president of the National Association of
State Universities in 1905 and 1906; dele
gate from the United States to the First
International Congress of Radiology in
Belgium in the summer of 1905 ; studied
in the University of Munich, spring and
summer semester, 1905, and in the Uni
versity of Berlin in the fall and winter
semester of 1905-1906. President Jesse was
president of the National Baptist Congress
in 1906. He is joint author with E. A.
Allen, of Missouri Literature; and is also
author of pamphlets and various papers in
society transactions and periodicals. He
married in 1882, Addie Henry Polk, of
Princess Anne, Maryland. Address : Uni
versity of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
JESUP, Morris Ketchum:
Banker, philanthropist; born in Westport,
Connecticut, June 21, 1830; he is a descend
ant of an old English family.' In 1843 he
obtained employment with Rogers, Ketch
um and Grosvenor, of Paterson, New Jer
sey, and remained with that firm until 1852.
He entered into business on his own re
sponsibility, organizing the firm of Clark

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and Jesup, which became successively M. K.
Jesup and Company, M. K. Jesup, Paton
and Company, Jesup, Paton and Company,
now Cryler, Morgan and Company. In 1884
Mr. Jesup retired from active business.
He is president of the American Sunday
School Union, the Chamber of Commerce
of New York, American Museum of Na
tural History, Peary Arctic Club, Sailors
Snug Harbor, Audubon Society (State of
New York), Five Points House of Indus
try; is first vice-president of the New Eng
land Society; vice-president of the Pil
grims; director in the Western Union
Telegraph Company, Metropolitan Trust
Company of New York, New York Institu
tion for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb ;
trustee of the Union Theological Semin
ary, Brick Presbyterian Church, John F.
Slater Fund for Education of Freedmen,
General Education Board, Peabody Educa
tion Board, Atlantic Mutual Insurance, Hos
pital Saturday and Sunday Association. He
is a member of the Sons of the Revolution,
Century, New York Yacht, Metropolitan,
University, Down Town (New York City),
Metropolitan (Washington), Rittenhouse
(Philadelphia), Jekyl Island and. other
Clubs. Mr. Jesup married, April 26, 1854,
Maria Van Antwerp, daughter of Rev.
Thomas De With. Residences : 195-197
Madison Avenue, New York City; Lenox,
Massachusetts ; and Bar Harbor, Maine.
JEWELI,, John F.:
Consular officer ; born in Illinois ; ap
pointed consul at Martinique June 9, 1902 ;
consul at St. Michael's June 22, 1906. Ad-.
dress : American consulate, St. Michael's,
Azores. JEWETT, Charles:
Physician; born in Bath, Maine; son of
George and Sarah (Hale) Jewett. He
was graduated from Bowdoin College in
1864, A.M., 1867, ScD., 1894; College of
Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia),
M.D., 1871. Engaged in practice of medi
cine in Brooklyn, from graduation. Pro
fessor of obstetrics from 1880 to 1900 ; pro
fessor of gynecology and obstetrics since
1900, and gynecological surgeon of Long

Island College Hospital; consulting obstet
rician of Kings County Hospital; con
sulting gynecologist of Bushwick Hospital,
and Swedish Hospital, Brooklyn, and con
sulting surgeon at St. Christopher's Hos
pital. He is the author of Essentials of
Obstetrics; Manual of Child-bed Nursing;
editor of Practice of Obstetrics, by Ameri
can authors; contributor of chapters on
specialty to various text-books. He is a
member of the Brooklyn Pathological So
ciety, Medical Society County of Kings,
Brooklyn Gynecological Society, New York
Obstetrical Society, New York Academy of
Medicine, Medical Society of the State of
New York, American Gynecological So
ciety, American Academy of Medicine,
Medical Association, of Greater New York,
Associated Physicians of Long Island,
British Gynecological Society, International
Periodical Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, Long Island College Alumni,
Long Island Hospital Alumni, Bowdoin
Alumni, Alumni of Columbia University.
He is a member of the Union League and
University Clubs (Brooklyn) ; and Long
Island Automobile Club. He married in
1868, Abbie E. Flagg. They have two
children: Harold F. (M.D.) and Mrs,
Alice H. Jewett Schwarte, of Saratoga
Springs. Address: 330 Clinton Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.
JEWETT, Charles Sherman:
Physician ; born Moravia, Cayuga County,
New York, March 16, 1865; son of Dr.
Charles Carroll' and Ellen (Burroughs)
Jewett; graduated Yale, Ph.B.; 1887; Col
umbia, M.D., 1890; graduate student Uni
versity of Berlin, Vienna, Prague and
Graz. Attending physician, Erie County
Hospital; clinical pathologist, Buffalo Hos
pital Sisters of Charity; practicing physic
ian in Buffalo since 1893 ; member resident
staff of Charity (now City) Hospital,
Blackwell's Island, 1890-1891. In Europe
doing graduate work, 1892-1893, and 1898-
1899 in various clinics and universities.
He is a member of the American Medical
Association, American Academy Medicine,
New York State Medical Association,
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Buffalo Academy Medicine, 1906-1907. Mem
ber Buffalo Yale Alumni Association, Buf
falo Association Medical Alumni of Co
lumbia. Club: Saturn (dean, 1907). Ad
dress: 892 Main Street, Buffalo, New York.
JEWETT, Edgar Boardman:
Manufacturer; bom in Ann Arbor,
Michigan; son of John Cotton Jewett and
Priscilla (Boardman) Jewett. He received
his education in the schools of Buffalo.
He served as sergeant in Company C of
the Seventy-fourth Regiment of New York
Volunteers in the Civil War and brigadier-
general of the National. Guards of New
York in 1884. He is president of the John
C. Jewett Manufacturing Company; the
Jewett Refrigerator Company; and- vice-
president of the Cary Safe Company. Po
lice commissioner in 1894 and mayor of
the City of Buffalo from 1895 to 1898. He
is a member of the Sons of American
Revolution; Order of Founders and Pa
triots of America and of the Buffalo Club.
General Jewett married, October 3, 1865,
Elizabeth Foster Danforth, of Ann Ar
bor, who died August 9,. 1905. Address:
Hotel Touraine, Buffalo, New York.
JEWETT, Milo A.:
Consular officer; born in Turkey; ap
pointed consul at Sivas, March 29, 1892;
consul -at Trebizond, December n, 1905.
Address: United States Consulate, Trebi
zond, Turkey.
JEWETT, Sherman Skinner:
Lawyer ; born Buffalo, New York, March
IS, 1870; son of Josiah and Grace (Hall)
Jewett; graduate Yale, B.A., 1891; Colum
bia, A.M., 1893, LL.B. 1894. Admitted to
bar 1893; United States commissioner
Western District of New York since July
1, 1897. Captain Company C, Seventy-
fourth Regiment, National Guard, New
York, since November 5, 1902. Director
and vice-president Jewett and Company,
stove manufacturers, Buffalo, New York.
Republican. Episcopalian. Member Sons
of American Revolution, Delta Kappa Ep
silon; charter member University Club
(Buffalo). He married at Binghamton,

New York, October 14, 1896, Helen E.
Flallock; children: Kelsey, (born Novem
ber 29, 1899), Sherman S., Jr. (born July
7, 1904). Residence: 563 West Ferry
Street. Address : 502 D. S. Morgan
Building, Buffalo, New York.
JOB, Robert:
Analytical chemist; born at Boston, Mas
sachusetts, October 10, 1866; son of Daniel
Ward Job and Susan Grey (Adams) Job.
After graduating from the Boston Latin
School in 1886, and from Harvard Col
lege as A.B. with honorable mention in
chemistry in 1890, he entered the Test De
partment of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway at Reading, in 1892, as assistant
chemist. He was appointed chemist in
1897, and resigned this position July 1,
1906, to enter into partnership with Booth,
Garrett and Blair, analytical and engineer
ing chemists. In politics Mr. Job is a Re
publican, and in religious views a Congre
gationalist. He is a member of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, the Society of Chem
ical Industries, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Frank
lin Institute, and the Society for Testing
Materials. He married at Reading, Penn
sylvania, September 3, 1897, Marguerite E.
Maltzberger, and they have three children :
Gertrude, Robert, Jr., and Margaret C.
Address : 406 Locust Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
JOHANNSEN, Albert:
Geologist and petrographer ; born in
Belle Plajne, Iowa, December 3, 1874. He
received his education in the State Center
(Iowa) High School, and was graduated
as B.S. from the University of Illinois in
1894, and from the University of Utah in
1898. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred
upon him in 1903 by the Johns Hopkins
University, in which he was fellow in 1902-
1903. From 1901 to 1903 he was geological
assistant on the Maryland Geological Sur
vey, and has been assistant geologist on the
United States Geological Survey since 1903.
He is a member of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, and
the Geological Society of Washington, and

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is a Phi Beta Kappa, and a Mason. Dr.
Johannsen has made many petrographical
reports on rocks collected in different parts
of the country, which have been embodied
in various publications of the United States
Geological Survey, and is the author of: A
Key for the Determination of Rock-
forming Minerals in Thin Sections, pub
lished by John Wiley and Sons in 1907.
As a relaxation from his scientific work he
collects Dickensiana, and has a good col
lection of first editions and a large col
lection of works relating to Dickens. He
married at Radford, Virginia, November
16, 1904, Annabelle Scott. Address : United
States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
JOHNSON, Alba Boardman:
Partner Burnham, Williams & Company,
proprietors Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, February 8, 1858, of New England
ancestry, being descended from Lieutenant
Timothy Johnson, who came to Massachus
etts Bay about 1677; educated in Philadel
phia public schools and was graduated
from Central High School, June, 1876.
Employed at Edge Moor Iron Company,
Wilmington, Delaware, 1878-1879. Mr.
Johnson is a Republican in politics. Mem
ber of Executive Council Philadelphia
Board of Trade ; director of Union League ;
trustee of Jefferson Medical College and
Hospital; member of Merion Cricket Club.
Geographical Society, Contemporary Club,
Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolu
tion, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
New England Society of Pennsylvania,
Lawyers' Club, New York, etc. Married,
April 30, 1883, to Elizabeth T. Reeves,
daughter of Biddle Reeves. Residence:
Rosemont, Montgomery County, Pennsyl
vania.
JOHNSON, A. E'.:
General passenger agent; born in Swed
en, 1840; educated at Mount Carroll Sem
inary, Mount Carroll, Illinois. Senior
member of the firm of A. E. Johnson and
Company, general passenger agents of the
Scandinavian-American Line of Copenha
gen, operating a line of steamers between

New York and Norwegian and Danish
ports, the firm having offices in New York,
Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Seattle. Acting consul for Sweden at New
New York City. Vice-president Scandin-
son and Company, Spuyten Duyvil. Di-
paper in the United States ; also part owner
Nordstjernan, the only Swedish paper in
New York City. Vice-president, Scandin
avian Sailors' Temperance Home, Brook
lyn; director Swedish Lutheran Emigrant
Home (New York City), Working Wo
men's Home (Chicago). Royal Swedish
Knight of Wasa since 1895, Royal Danish
Knight of Dannebrog since 1905. Address :
No. 1 Broadway, New York City.
JOHNSON, Bradish:
Capitalist ; president and . director estate
of Bradish Johnson Company of Louisiana
(Limited). Vice-president and director of
City Investing Company; trustee Equitable
Trust Company of New York; Greenwich
Savings Bank; director American Cotton
Oil Company, Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States, Lincoln Trust
Company. Member Sons of the Revolution,
St. Nicholas Society. Clubs: Midday,
South Side, City, Riding, Knickerbocker,
Union. Married Aimet Gaillard; children:
Bradish G., Aymar. Residence: 102 Fifth
Avenue. Address: 39 Cortlandt Street,
New York City.
JOHNSON, Surges:
Editor; born in Rutland, Vermont, No
vember 9, 1877; son of James Gibson and
Mary A. (Rankin) Johnson; he was grad
uated as B.A. from Amherst College, in
1899. Engaged in reportorial work Com
mercial Advertiser and Evening Post,
1899-1900; literary adviser G. P. Putnam's
Sons, 1900-03 ; on literary staff Harper &
Brothers, 1903-06; assistant editor, Every
body's Magazine, 1906; managing editor,
Outing Magazine from 1907. He is the
author of: Rhymes of Little Boy's, 1905
(Crowell) ; Pleasant Tragedies of Child
hood, 1905 (Harper) ; Beastly Rhymes,
1906 (Crowell). Has lectured to some ex
tent, and is a constant contributor of verse
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a Republican. He is a member of the Am
herst Association of New York, Delta
Kappa Epsilon Association, and the Port
Washington Yacht Club. He married in
New York City, in 1904, Constance F,
daughter of the Hon. Everett P. Wheeler.
Address : Port Washington, Long Island,
New York.
JOHNSON, Charles Rensselaer:
Lawyer; born in Dana, Massachusetts,
December 28, 1852; son of Theodore Wild
er Johnson and Emily Sears (Miller)
^Johnson. Fie was graduated from Wor
cester High School in 1871 and from Har
vard College as A.B. in 1875. He was a
member of the Worcester School Com
mittee in 1877 and 1878; from 1892
to 1894 and since 1896 a member
of the Massachusetts House of Re
presentatives in 1898 and 1899 ; master of
chancery of Worcester County in 1882, and
^has been a member of the State Board of
; "Charities of Massachusetts since 1904. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
a Congregationalist. He is a life member
of the Worcester Society of Antiquity ; cor
responding member of the Western Re
serve Historical Society; director of the
Free Public Library of Worcester, since
; 1906; member of the Royal Arcanum, Im
proved Order of Red Men, Order of Unit-
' ed American Mechanics, and of the Wor-
" cester ' Economic and Congregational Clubs
' "' of Worcester. Mr. Johnson has married
twice; first at Maynard, Massachusetts,
August 8, 1882, Mary McGown, who died
"December 6, 1887; and second at Daven-
!| '' '''''port, Iowa, May 29, 1889, Susie Servey,
and he has three children : Florence Emily
Johnson, born July 19, 1883, Charles Ward
. Johnson, born March 8, 1894, and Theo-
1 dore Howard Johnson, born November 24,
¦ > > > 1896. Residence : 3 Norwood Street, Wor
cester. Address : 704 State Mutual Build
ing, Worcester, Massachusetts.
JOHNSON, Charles Willison:
' ' " Zoologist; born in Morris Plains, New
Jersey, October 26, 1863; son of Albert
Fletcher Johnson and Sarah Elizabeth
,( ,( ,( , (Willison) Johnson. He received his edu

cation in public and private schools ; moved
to Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1880,
continuing studies in natural history
and making large collections of in
sects, mollusca and fossils, throughout
the Southern States ; was curator of
'the Museum of the Wagner Free In
stitute of Science, Philadelphia, from 1888
to 1903 and has been curator of the Boston
Society of Natural History since 1903, and
associate editor and manager of the Nau
tilus, since 1890. He is a member of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel
phia, American Entomological Society, En
tomological Society of Washington, Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, Malacological Society of London,
Conchological Society of Great Britain and
Ireland. His researches have been chiefly
in invertebrate biology, and particularly in
relation to mollusca and diptera, concern
ing which he has contributed papers to va
rious scientific journels. Mr. Johnson mar
ried in Philadelphia, January 14, 1897, Car
rie W. Ford. Residence : Brookline, Mas
sachusetts. Address : Boston Society of
Natural History, Boston, Massachusetts.
JOHNSON, Clarke Howard:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of Rhode Island; born at Foster, Rhode
Island, November 18, 1851 ; son of Elisha
Johnson and Matilda (Howard) Johnson.
He received his education in the public
schools of Foster, Rhode Island, Lapham
Institute, North Scituate, Rhode Island, and
graduated from Brown University as A.B.
in 1877. He was admitted to the Rhode
Island bar in 1879. He was a member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives in
1879 and 1880, and from 1899 to 1903 ; clerk
of the Rhode Island House of Representa
tives from 1886 to 1903; associate justice
of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island
from April 30, 1903. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. Johnson married at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, December 21, 1889,
Ida Susan Harrington. Address : Supreme
Court House, Providence, Rhode Island.
JOHNSON, David:
Artist; born in New York City May 10,
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was educated in public schools of New
York City; was awarded medals by Cen
tennial Exposition, Philadelphia; Mechan
ics' Institute, Boston, etc. Mr. Johnson is
a member of the Academy of Design, the
Artists' Fund Society, and the old New
York Fire Department, up to the time of
its disbandment. He served nine years in
New York State Militia. In politics he is
a Republican, and in religion a Presbyter
ian. He married in New York City, Jan
uary 20, 1869, Maria Louise West. Ad
dress: Walden, New York.
JOHNSON, Duncan Starr:
Professor of botany; born at Cromwell,
Connecticut, July 21, 1867; son of Edward
Tracy Johnson and Lucy E. (Starr) John
son. He was graduated from the Wes
leyan University at Middletown, Connecti
cut, as B.S. in 1892, and from Johns Hop
kins University as Ph.D. in 1897. He has
since been connected with Johns Hopkins
University, in which he now fills the chair
of botany. He is a member of the Chi
Psi fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. Member of the Council of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science; secretary of the Botanical Society
of America. He married in Baltimore, June
22, 1904. Mary E. G. Lentz, M.A. Address :
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Mary
land.JOHNSON, Ellas Finley:
Jurist; born at Van Wert, Ohio, June
24, 1861 ; son of Abel Johnson. He re
ceived his education in the National Uni
versity at Lebanon, Ohio, and in the law
department of the University of Michigan,
and engaged in practice in his native place.
He was elected as a Republican to the
Ohio Legislature, serving four years ; and
in 1890 he removed to Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, becoming a professor of law in the
University of Michigan, until appointed in
February, 1901, by President McKinley, to
his present position as judge of the Su
preme Court of the Philippine Islands.
Judge Johnson had previously been for
four years a member of the State Board
of Education of Michigan. He is author

of : a text-book'on Bills and Notes, and has
edited editions of other legal text-books;
and is a contributor to the legal press.
Judge Johnson married, September 6, 1883,
Clara A. Smith. Address: Manila, Phil
ippine Islands.
JOHNSON, Emory Richard:
Professor of transportation and com
merce; born in Waupun, Wisconsin, March
22, 1864; son of Eli and Angeline (Nich
ols) Johnson. He received his education
in the public and State normal schools
of Wisconsin, was graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, with the degree of
B.L. in 1888, and from the University of
Pennsylvania as Ph.D. in 1893. He was
instructor in economics at Haverford Col
lege from 1893 to 1896; and has been pro
fessor of transportation and commerce in
the University of Pennsylvania since 1896.
Dr. Johnson was expert on transportation
of the United States Industrial Commis
sion in 1889 ; member of the Isthmian Canal
Commission from 1899 to 1904; expert on
valuation of railway property for the Unit
ed States Census Bureau in 1904 and 1905.
He has been editor of the. Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science since 1901 ; member of the Board
of Collaborators of Carnegie Institution,
preparing an Economic History of the
United States. He is 'a member of the
Association of American Geographers, of
the National Geographic Society, the Amer
ican Economic Association, the Public
Education Society of Philadelphia, Twenty-
seventh Sectional School Board and the
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. He was
a member of the committee of the Mari
time Exchange that drafted the proposed
bill for the reorganization of the port of
Philadelphia. His published works include
three books : Inland Waterways ; American
Railway Transportation; and Ocean and
Inland Water Transportation, besides nu
merous official reports and other papers.
He has been at work for two years on a
history of American commence. Mr. John
son is a member of the City Club of New
York, City Club of Philadelphia, and the
Cosmos Club of Washington. He married

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in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, September 5, 1894,
Orra L. March. Residence: 516 South
Forty-fourth Street, Philadelphia. Ad
dress: University of Pennsylvania, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, Franklin:
Clergyman and college professor; born in
Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, November'
2, 1836; son of Rev. Hezekiah Johnson and
Eliza Shepherd (Harris) Johnson, and
grandson of Rev. Eleazar Johnson and
Margaret (Rounds) Johnson. He was
graduated from Hamilton (now Colgate)
Theological Seminary in 1861, and ordained
in the -Baptist ministry, served as pastor
of churches in Michigan and New Jersey
until 1874, then of a Baptist church in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1888, when
he became president of Ottawa University,
Kansas, until 1892. In that year he became
assistant professor, in 1894 associate pro
fessor and since 1895 he has been profes
sor of church history and homiletics in the
University of Chicago.- He received the
degree of D.D. from the University of
Jena, Germany, in 1869, and of LL.D. from
Ottawa University, Kansas, in 1898. He
was formerly one of the editors of The
Watchman; and is author of numerous re
ligious, theological and philosophical books
and articles. Address: 5531 Washington
Avenue, Chicago.
JOHNSON, F. Colt:
Merchant; born in Norwich, Connecti
cut, September 20, 1863; son of Isaac and
Frances Adams (Coit) Johnson. He was
educated at Norwich Academy. Engaged
as cotton goods commission merchant;
president J. H. Lane & Company, New York
City; president Hampton Company; direc
tor West Boylston Manufacturing Com
pany, Easthampton, .Massachusetts; Mil-
stead Manufacturing Company, Conyer-s,
Georgia; Unity Cotton Mills and Elm
City Cotton Mills, La Grange, Georgia;
Holywell Company, Flint, Wales. In poli
tics he is a Republican. Episcopalian.
Member New York Chamber of Commerce.
Clubs: Union League, Merchants', Hard
ware (New York City) ; Nassau Country

(Nassau, Long Island). Married at Bay
Ridge, Long Island, October 1.8, 1888, Flor
ence M. Dickinson. ' Children : Stuart
Flolmes, aged 15 ; Florence Chester, aged
13; Donald Coit, aged 11. Country home
at Mill Neck (Locust Valley), Long Isl
and. Residence : 21 West Sixteenth
Street. Address: no Worth Street, New
York City.
JOHNSON, Frederick Foote:
Assistant bishop of • South Dakota; born,
Newtown, Connecticut, April 23, 1866; son
of Ezra L. and Jane E. (Camp) Johnson.
He was graduated with the degree of B.A.
from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecti
cut, in 1894, receiving that of M.A. in 1897.
Studied theology at Berkeley Divinity
School, Middletown, Connecticut. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1896 by Bishop White, acting for the
Bishop of Connecticut, being ordained to
the priesthood the next year by Bishop
Spalding. Following his entry to the min
istry he was assistant at St. Stephen's
Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado, for
one year, and later rector of Trinity
Church, Redlands, California. In 1904 he
became Diocesan Missionary of Western
Massachusetts, and a year lated was made
assistant bishop of South Dakota. Address :
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
JOHNSON, George:
Clergyman and professor of theology;
born in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 4, 1872;
son of James B. Johnson and Annie
Wares Todd. He was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1893 as
A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), and member of
Philo Society. He received honorable men
tion for the Junior Greek prize, and was
awarded the Junior English prize, Alumni
Senior Latin prize, Senior German prize
equally with Erskine Wright, and Henry
Reed prize at graduation; was associate
editor of Red and Blue; class prophet, and
Ivy poet; student at the Theological Semi
nary at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1893
to 1896. He was missionary of the Board
of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church to Mexico, from 1896 to 1902; and

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has been John C. Baldwin Professor of
Systematic Theology, Lincoln University,
since 1902. He married Florence De Baun,
at Nyack, New York, and they have three
children : Archibald DeBaun, born No
vember 3, 1898; Catherine Perry, born
January 20, 1904; and Mary Todd, born
October 26, 1906. Address : Lincoln Uni
versity, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, George K.:
President of the Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company ; born in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, December n, 1848, of Quaker
parentage. He was educated in the Friends'
Academy and at the Friends' Central
School im Philadelphia, from which
latter institution he was graduated in
1866. He began his business career as" a
clerk in a Philadelphia manufacturing house,
and in 1880 started in business for himself
as a member of the firm of Belknap, John
son and Powell, manufacturers of umbrellas,
which became the largest concern in that
trade in the United States. Mr. Johnson
became a member of the Board of Trus
tees of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Company, many years ago, was elected vice-
president of the company in April, 1897,
and continued in that office until the death
of Mr. Harry F. West, when he succeeded
him in the presidency of the company, in
which office he continues. Mr. Johnson is
a director of the Camden National Bank
and a trustee of many large estates. He
is a member of the Union League Club of
Philadelphia. Residence : Langhorne, Penn
sylvania. Office address : Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.JOHNSON, Gilbert H.:
Treasurer and director of Isaac G. John
son and Company, Spuyten Duyvil. Di
rector : Merchants' Exchange National
Bank, The Preferred Accident Insurance
Company. Address : Spuyten Duyvil, New
York.
JOHNSON, Henry Abert:
Consular officer; born in the District of
Columbia ; appointed consul at Venice,
March 29, 1886; consul at Valencia, May 1,

1903 ; consul at Liege, March 30, 1907. Ad
dress : American Consulate, Liege, Belgium.
JOHNSON, Henry Boynton:
Lawyer; born in Woodstock, Vermont,
July 14, 1862; son of Henry Calvin and
Mary (Cushing) Johnson, He was gradu
ated from Dartmouth College, A.B,, in
1883; Albany Law School, LL.B., 1887;
engaged in the practice of law in New
York City as a member of firm of Niles
and Johnson. He is also a director in
sundry business corporations. Republican.
Congregationalist. Trustee Hahnemann
Hospital. Member of the Dartmouth Alum
ni Association. His recreations are rid
ing and motoring. He is a member of the
Union League, Riding, Dartmouth Clubs.
He married in Highland Park, Illinois, in
1903, Augusta Eckhardt Walker. Summer
home: Woodstock, Vermont. Address: 11
Wall Street, New York City.
JOHNSON, Herbert Spencer:
Clergyman; born in McMinnville, Ore
gon, October 4, 1866; son of John W.
Johnson and Helen E. (Adams) Johnson.
He was graduated from the University of
Oregon as A.B. in 1887; from Harvard
University as A.B. in 1891, and from Roch
ester Theological Seminary in 1893.
He was minister of the First Baptist
Church of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from
1893 to 1899; and has been minister of
Warren Avenue Baptist Church of Boston,
Massachusetts, since 1899. He lectured
through the Eastern and Northwestern
part of the United States, against the Con
go atrocities from January, 1906, to March,
1907, unofficially representing the Congo
Reform Association of the United States.
In politics he is an Independent and in
religion Baptist, and he is a member of the
University, Twentieth Century and Econo
mic Clubs of Boston. Mr. Johnson mar
ried in Dalton, Massachusetts, June 21, 1900,
Mary Crane, and they have two children:
Elizabeth, born in 1903, and Mary, born
in 1905. Address: 611 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
JOHNSON, Isaac:
Jurist; born in Delaware County, Penn
sylvania ; served through the Civil War,

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which he left with the rank of Captain;
made the law his profession, after serving
for many years as prothonotary and clerk
of the courts of Delaware County. Cap
tain Johnson had the distinction of being
the only man ever admitted to the county
bar without a formal examination, Judge
" Clayton admitting him to practice on the
motion of ex-Judge Broomall, who said
that Mr. Johnson's qualifications for legal
practice were too well known to render
an examination necessary. He became very
successful as a lawyer and highly popular
as a public speaker, especially on patriotic
themes, and on the death of Judge Clayton,
in January, 1900, he was appointed by Gov
ernor Stone to succeed him as President
Judge. He was elected to this office in the
November election for the ten years' term.
Address : Media, Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, James:
Consular official; born in England; ap
pointed consul at Sheffield, July 29, 1897;
consul at Palermo, August 25, 1900 ; consul-
general at Hankow, December 13, 1904;
consul at Algiers, February 2, 1905. Ad
dress : American Consulate, Algiers, Al
geria.JOHNSON, Jesse H,:
Consular official; born in West Virginia;
appointed consul at Coaticook, November
16, 1899; consul at Santas, September 20,
1901 ; consul at Swansea, March 30, 1907.
Address : American Consulate, Swansea,
Wales.
JOHNSON, John A.:
Journalist, governor; born in St. Peter,
Minnesota, July 28, 1861. He was educated
in the public schools; received the degree'
of LL.D. from the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1907. Was State senator from
1898 to 1902; elected governor of Minne
sota in 1904, and reelected in 1906. Chair
man of inter-State conference to investigate
insurance problems in 1906; member and
vice-president of the International Policy
holders' Committee in 1906. In politics he is
a. Democrat, and in religion a Presbyterian.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the Minnesota,

Town and Country, and St. Paul Clubs.
He njarried in Rochester, Minnesota, in
1895, Nora Preston. Residence: St. Peter,
Minnesota. Address : The Argus, St. Paul",
Minnesota.
JOHNSON, John G.:
Lawyer,; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, in or about the year 1840, and all his
life a resident of that city. He received a
common school education, graduating at
the Central High School in its thirtieth
class, and subsequently entering the office
of William F. Judson, a well-known mem
ber of the Philadelphia bar, for the study of
law. Fie was admitted to the bar, Febru
ary 7, 1863, and continued in association
with Mr. Judson, making steady and rapid
progress in his profession, and became the
special counsel of various large corpora
tions. He had the good fortune, on the
death of Mr. Judson to be chosen to
succeed him as counsel for the Pennsyl
vania Company for Insurance on Lives and
Granting Annuities, a corporation having
business connections in every part of the
United States. With this important finan
cial company Mr. Johnson remains con
nected, and he has conducted its legal busi
ness in the greater number of the States,
this, fact aiding to spread his reputation
widely and give him the standing, in the
opinion of many, of being the most eminent
lawyer in this country. Among the numer
ous great cases in which he has been prom
inently concerned is that of the Northern
Securities Company, one of the great events
in the recent legal history of the United
States. He might have attained to the high
est honors, such, as that of attorney-gen
eral of the United States, or Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, tenders of
both those high offices being made him, but
he has steadily declined, and the only office
he has held is the minor one of a com
missioner of Fairmount Park. Mr. John
son's one recreation is that of enjoyment
of art and the study and purchase of noted
pictures, of which he has gradually ac
quired a large and highly valuable collec
tion, which fills his house till there is hard-

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ly a square inch of wall space not covered
by some notable canvas, while valuable
pictures stand about the floor, resting upon
chairs and tables, behind sofas, etc. His
fine taste and high judgment in this direc
tion have become so widely known that his
reputation as a judge in art is only second
to that of his skill in law, and other col
lectors have eagerly availed themselves of
his aid in adding gems to their galleries.
This has been especially the case with the
fine collection of P. A. B. Widener, which
was chosen under his assistance and ad
vice. The city of Philadelphia has availed
itself of his judgment in the selection of
pictures for the well-chosen Wilstack gal
lery in Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park,
and his own splendid collection will very
probably be donated to that city for public
display, whenever the proposed fireproof
municipal art building is erected. Mr.
Johnson married late in life, his wife being
Mrs. Morrell, a daughter of John Hare
Powell, and long a leader of fashion in
Philadelphia. He has no children, but his
stepson, Mr. Edward de V. Morrell, has
occupied a prominent position, having at
tained the position of brigadier-general in
the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and
represented Philadelphia in the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses.
Residence : 406 South Broad Street, Phila
delphia. Office address : Land Title Build
ing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, John Quincy Adams:
Lawyer; born at Washington, District of
Columbia, February 12, 1858; son of Wil
liam Clarkson and Mary Louisa (Adams)
Johnson; educated, Newburyport (Massa
chusetts) high school, Yale, A.B., 1878;
Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1880. En
gaged in practice of law in New York City
from graduation ; partner with Frederick
Potter (Yale, 1878) in firm of Potter &
Johnson, from 1888 until Mr. Potter with
drew from active practice in 1894 ; since then
practicing alone. Democrat. Episcopalian.
Member Psi Upsilon, Sons of Revolution
(New York), Society Colonial ¦ Wars, Or
der of Runnemede. Recreations : Golf,
fishing, hunting. Clubs : St. Andrew's Golf

(Chauncey, New York), Palisade Boat
(Yonkers). Married, Yonkers, New York,
January 23, 1884, Caroline Curtiss. Chil
dren : William C, aged 21 ; John Quincy
Adams, Jr., aged 19; Alexander B., aged
15; Caroline C, 2nd, aged 12; Charles A.,
aged 10; Abigail Adams, aged 4; Mary
Louisa Adams, aged 2; Martha, aged i„-
Residence : 87 High Street, Yonkers, New
York. Address : 38 Park Row, New
York City.
JOHNSON, Joseph Esrey:
Iron master ; born at Montgomery Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1843; son of
Alexander Johnson and Sarah Peterman
(Esrey^ Johnson. He received his educa
tion in public schools of Delaware and
Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania, and
the private school of Edward B. Wetherill.
He enlisted in the Fourth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Infantry, at Washington,. D.
C, in June, 1861, and served with it until
the expiration of its service, in July of the
same year. In August, ' 1861, he was ap
pointed second lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. With
this regiment he served as second lieuten
ant, first lieutenant and captain, receiving
commission as major, January, 1866; and
he was brevetted major for special gallantry
at the capture of Fort Harrison, Virginia,
September 29, 1864. In 1866, in connection
with General Cecil Clay, now of Washing
ton, he built the first boom on James River,
and established a merchant sawmill. This
enterprise was a failure; in 1872 he be
came manager of the Longdate Iron Com
pany, Longdate, Virginia, and "still holds
the position. He is' a director of the Long-
dale Iron Company of Virginia, the Har
vey Coal and Coke Company, the Dunloup
Coal and Coke Company, and the Prudence
Coal and Coke Company. He is a member
of the American Institute of Mining Engi
neers, the United Service Club of Phila
delphia, the Loyal Legion, and of the Medal
of Honor Legion. He married in Balti
more, Maryland, November 5, 1865, Mary
Catharine Roche, and they have two sons:
Guy Roche Johnson, born in 1866, and
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Address : Longdate, Allegheny County, Vir
ginia.
JOHNSON, Joseph French:
Educator and economist; born in Hard-
wick, Massachusetts, August 24, 1853; son
of Gardner Nye Johnson and Eliza
(French) Johnson. He was graduated
from Harvard as A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa)
in 1878 and took one year of post-graduate
study in history and political economy in
Germany. Mr. Johnson is treasurer of the
Economic Club of New York, and was sec
retary of the Special Currency Committee
of the New York Chamber of Commerce in
1906. He was engaged in journalism until
1893; first with the Springfield (Massachu
setts) Republican, and later as financial edi
tor of the Chicago Tribune ; established the
Spokane (Washington) Spokesman in 1890,
sold his interest in 1893 and became pro
fessor of finance in the University of
Pennsylvania until 1901, where he also
conducted a pioneer course in journalism
on original lines, which have since been
followed by other institutions in the United
States and Europe. He was lecturer on
finance in Columbian University from
1900 to 1903 and since 1901 has been pro
fessor of political economy and from Jan
uary 1, 1903, dean of the School of Com
merce' at New York University. Mr.
Johnson is author of: Money and Currency
1906 (Grim) ; also various contributions
to financial journals and leading reviews
upon currency, economics, commerce and
related subjects. He is a member of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science; the American Economic As
sociation and of the Harvard Club of New
York City. Mr. Johnson married at Au
rora, Illinois, August 4, 1884, Caroline
Temperance Stolp, and their children are:
Pauline '• Dustin, born in 1886 ; Harold In
galls, born in 1888; and, Redford Kohl-
saat, born in 1890. Address : 32 Waverly
Place, New York City.
JOHNSON, Joseph Horsfall:
Bishop of Los Angeles ; born in Sche
nectady, New York, June 7, 1847; son of
Stephen Hotchkiss Johnson and Eleanor

Johnson. He was educated at Williams
College, graduating as B.A. in 1870, and
thence entering the General Theological
Seminary at New York City, graduated
in 1873. He received the degree of D.D.
from Nashotah (Wisconsin) Theological
Seminary in 1895. He took orders as
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1873 and
the following year was ordained priest by
Bishop A. Potter. Until his election to
the episcopate, he filled the rectorship of
various churches in the East and
North, being curate of Holy Trin
ity Church, Highland, New York,
1873-79, rector of Trinity Church, Bristol,
Rhode Island, 1879-81, of St. Peter's Church,
Westchester, New York, 1881-86, of Christ's
Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1886-96. He
became Bishop of Los Angeles, California,
in 1896 and was consecrated by Bishops
Davies, Worthington, W. A. Leonard, Tal
bot, A. Leonard, Nicholson and Gailor.
He was married at Worcester, Massachu
setts, to Isabel Greene Davis in 1881. Ad
dress : 523 South Olive Street, Los An
geles, California.
JOHNSON, Joseph Travis:
Congressman; born in Brewerton, South
Carolina, February 28, 1858; was graduated
from Erskine College July 2, 1879; ad
mitted to the practice of the law in all
the courts of South Carolina May 30, 1883 ;
never held office until elected to the Fifty-
seventh Congress; reelected to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth Dis
trict. Mr. Johnson in politics is a Demo
crat. Add/ess : Spartanburg, South Caro
lina.
JOHNSON, Owen:
Author; born in New York City, August
27, ,1878; son of Robert Underwood and
Katharine (McMahon) Johnson; educated
at Lawrenceville School and Yale, A.B.,
1900. Founder and first editor of the Law
renceville Literary Magazine, and chairman
of Yale Literary Magazine for class of
1900. Author (novels) : Arrows of the Al
mighty, 1901 ( Macmillan) _j In the Name of
Liberty, 1905 (Century) ; Max Fargus,

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1906 (Baker, Taylor). Club: The Play
ers. Married May 25,' 1901, Mary Gait
Stockly, of Lakewood, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 327 Lexington Avenue, New York
City.
JOHNSON, Robert Underwood:
Editor; born in Washington, D. C, Jan
uary 12, 1853 ; son of Nimrod Hoge and
Catherine (Underwood) Johnson; he was
educated at Centreville, Indiana, Collegiate
Institute, and Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana, and was graduated B.S. in 1871,
and later honorary Ph.D. ; also honorary A.
M. from Yale in 1891. In 1889 he originated
and with John Muir planned and forwarded
the improvement of the Yosemite National
Park, created in 1890; he has supported
with voice and pen causes of international
copyright, forest conservation, free art, civil
service reform and low tariff. He has been
a member of the editorial staff of the Cen
tury Magazine since 1873, and associate
editor since 1881 ; co-editor with C. C. Buel
of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
(the Century's War series enlarged to four
volumes). Author of: The Winter Hour
and Other Poems ; Songs of Liberty and
Other Poems; Poems (collected); all of
which were published by the Century Com
pany. He was decorated Chevalier de la
Legion d'Honneur in 1891 ; Cavaliere della
Corona d'ltalia in 1895. Since 1888 and dur
ing international copyright campaign of 1891
has been secretary of the American Copy
right League (authors) ; secretary of the
National Institute of Arts and Letters;
preliminary secretary of the ^cademy of
Arts and Letters ; originator of the Keats-
Shelley Memorial in Rome (secretary of
the American Committee).. Mr. Johnson
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, New
York Civil Service Reform Association,
American Forestry Association, Citizens
Union, and the Century, Players and Au
thors Clubs, and honorary member of the
Sierra Club. He married in Washington,
District of Columbia, August 31, 1876,
Katharine McMahon ; and they have two
children : Owen- McMahon Johnson, and
Agnes McMahon Johnson (Mrs. F. H.

Holden) . Address : 327 Lexington Ave
nue, New York City.
JOHNSON, Rossiter:
Author, editor; born in Rochester, New
York, January 27, 1840; son of Reuben and
Almira Alexander Johnson; graduate of
the University of Rochester, A.B., 1863,
Ph.D., 1888, LL.D., 1893. Associate editor
Rochester Democrat, 1864-1868; editor Con
cord (New Hampshire) Statesman, 1869-
1872 ; associate editor American Cyclopaedia,
1873-1877; managing editor Cyclopaedia of
American Biography, 1886-1888; associate
editor of Standard Dictionary, 1892-1894;
editor of Authorized History of the World's
Columbian Exposition, 1896; editor of Ap-
pletons' Annual Cyclopaedia, 1883-1902;
editor of The Literary Querist in the Lamp
(formerly Book-Buyer), 1888-1904; editor
of the Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas
since 1901 ; supervising editor of revised
editions of Velasquez' Spanish Dictionary
and Adler's German Dictionary, 1901-1903;
devised and edited the series of Little Clas
sics (eighteen volumes) and also Liber
Scriptorum, the book of the Authors Club.
Editor : Works of the British Poets, with
Biographical Sketches (three volumes) ;
Playday Poems ; Famous Single and Fugi
tive Poems ; Fifty Perfect Poems (with
Charles A. Dana) ; The World's Great
Books (forty volumes) Dictionary of No
table Americans (ten volumes) ; The
Great Events by Famous Historians (twen
ty volumes) ; The Literature of Italy (with
Dora Knowlton Ranous) (sixteen volumes).
Author : Phaeton Rogers ; The End of a
Rainbow; History of the War of 1812;
History of the French War ; History of the
War of Secession; Idler and Poet (poems) ;
The -Hero of Manila; Morning Lights and
Evening- Shadows (poems) ; The Alphabet
of Rhetoric; The Story of the Constitution
of the United States ; also wrote the Whis
pering-Gallery series in the Overland
Monthly. Lecturer on historical subjects.
Recreations : Working at the bench in
wood and "brass. Ex-president New York
Association Phi Beta Kappa, Society of
the Genesee, Quill Club, Delta Upsilon
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versity Extension Society. Clubs: Au
thors (successively secretary, chairman and
treasurer), and Century. He married in
1869, Helen Kendrick. Residence : Ama-
gansett, Long Island. Address : 34 'Union
Square, New York City.
JOHNSON, Thomas Cary:
Theologian; born at Fishbok Hill, Mon
roe County, Virginia, in what is now West
Virginia, July 19, 1859; son of Thomas
and Minerva (Hinchman) Johnson, and a
descendant of Scotch, Irish, Huguenot and
English ancestors. He was graduated from
Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, as A.B.
in 1881 ; studied in the University of Vir
ginia in 1883 and 1884; was graduated
from the Union Theological Seminary of
Virginia in 1887, and was a special student
at Yale Divinity School during the fol
lowing year. He was licensed by the Pres
bytery of Greenbrier, West Virginia, in
May, 1887; was professor of Greek and
Hebrew exegesis at the Austin Theological
School, Texas, from 1888 to 1890, and si
multaneously acted as professor of mental
and moral philosophy in the University of
Texas. Ordained by the Presbytery of Cen
tral Texas in 1890, and was a stated supply
and pastor-elect of the Third Presbyterian
Church of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1890 and
1891. In the later year he took the chair
of English Bible and pastoral theology in
the Union Theological Seminary of Vir
ginia; and since 1892 has been professor
of ecclesiastical history and polity in the
same institution. The degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him in 1891, and that of
LL.D. in 1899, by Hampden-Sidney College.
Dr. Johnson is author of : A History of the
Southern Presbyterian Church (Volume
XI of the American Church History Se
ries. ; The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis
Dabney; The Life and Letters of Benjamin
Morgan Palmer; and of various other
works and articles on historical and relig
ious subjects. He married at Appomattox,
Virginia, December 26, 1894, Ella Faulkner
Bocock. Address : Union Theological Semi
nary, Richmond, Virginia.

JOHNSON, Tom Loll in:
Mayor of Cleveland; born in George
town, Kentucky, July 18, 1854; son of Al
bert W. Johnson and Helen (Loftin) John
son. After attending the public schools
of Georgetown he found employment in a
rolling mill, and afterward entered the of
fice of a street railway in which he was
soon advanced to the position of secretary.
In 1872 he invented an improvement in
steel rails, known as Johnson's car-rail, and
engaged in its manufacture. He attained
street railway interests in Indianapolis, and
also in Cleveland, and acquired a large
fortune; and he erected a large plant for
the manufacture of steel rails in Cleve
land. He was nominated in 1888 as Demo
cratic candidate for the Fifty-first Congress
from the Twenty-first District of Ohio, but
was defeated; but was elected to the Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses, serving
from 1891 to 1895. He was elected mayor
of Cleveland in 190 1, and has been twice re
elected, his present term expiring January
1, 1908. Although his own fortune has
been largely acquired through the medium
of franchise privileges, Mayor Johnson is
recognized as one of the ablest advocates
of the municipal ownership of public util
ities, and one of the most forceful expo-
nerits of the single-tax theory of Henry
George, and his policy as mayor has been
directed toward the securing of lower street
railway fares, and in other ways lightening
the burden imposed upon the people by
special privileges. Address : Cleveland,
Ohio.
JOHNSON, William Eugene:
Journalist, government official ; born in
Coventry, New York, March 25, 1862; son
of William Johnson and Elizabeth H.
(Stiles) Johnson. He was educated in the
public schools and at the University of Ne
braska, but never took a degree. Mr.
Johnson was on the staff of the Lincoln
(Nebraska) Daily News from 1884 to
1886 ; manager of the Nebraska News Bur
eau in 1886 and 1887, and after that spe
cial feature and syndicate writer until 1895.
He was associate editor of the New York
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its successor, the New Voice, of Chicago,
and was its acting editor for a year. He
has written about twenty-five brochures on
various phases of the traffic in intoxicating
liquors, and was joint editor with John
G. Woolley of the Encyclopaedia of the
Alcohol Problem. In the case of South
Carolina versus The United States, some
years ago, Mr. Johnson gathered the evi
dence on behalf of the Government that
resulted in a victory for the United States
by establishing the fact that the State Dis
pensary of South Carolina was a business
proposition instead of a police enterprise
as was claimed by the State. In 1905 he
conducted a section of the propaganda
which resulted in the passage of the De
natured Alcohol Act. In 1899 and 1900
he spent ten months abroad, including a
trip around the world, gathering data re
garding the liquor traffic. In August, 1906,
he was appointed by the Secretary of the
Interior as a special agent to look after
the suppression of the liquor traffic in In
dian Territory and Oklahoma, with head
quarters at Muskogee, Indian Territory,
and has followed up that strenuous assign
ment with an effectiveness and vigor which
has. paralyzed the illegal traffic in those re
gions and made his name a terror to those
law-breakers he has not yet jailed or
driven out of the Territory. Mr. Johnson
has been vice-president of the Anti-Saloon
League of Maryland and has been Prohibi
tion nominee for the House of Delegates
and for Congress in that State. He is a
member of the American Economic Asso
ciation, the American Academy of Politi
cal and Social Science; and the National
Geographic Society. He is independent in
politics and unclassed as to religion, but
adheres to the ethics of Jesus Christ. Mr.
Johnson married in Lincoln, Nebraska, De
cember 25, 1886, Lillie M. Trevitt, and they
have three children: Clarence T., born in
1888 ; Clifford, born in 1891 ; and Clara,
born in 1901. Address: Laurel, Mary
land. JOHNSON, William Hallock:
Professor of Greek and New Testament;
born in New York City, December 3, 1865;

son of John Edgar Johnson and Fanny E.
(Hallock) Johnson. He was graduated
from Princeton as A.B. in 1888; from
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1896,
and the degree of A.M. was conferred upon
him by Princeton in 1897; B.D., from the
Theological Seminary in 1898, and Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1902. He was
professor of logic and psychology in Cen
tre College, Danville, Kentucky, and in
structor in New Testament literature in
the Danville Theological Seminary from
1897 to 1901 ; and from 1903 to the pres
ent time he has been professor of Greek
and New Testament literature in Lincoln
University, Pennsylvania. He was ordained
to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church
by the Presbytery of West Chester, New
York, September 1, 1897. Professor John
son is author of: The Free- Will Problem,
in Modern Thought; and articles on philo
sophical and religious subjects in the
Princeton Theological Review and other
periodicals. In politics he is a Republican.
His favorite recreations are tennis and
golf. Dr. Johnson married at Chambers
burg, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1905, Vir
ginia Sherrard, and they have two sons.
Address : Lincoln University, Chester Coun
ty, Pennsylvania.
JOHNSON, William Mindred:
Lawyer; born at Newton, Sussex Coun
ty, New Jersey, December 2, 1847; son of
Whitfield S. Johnson, who was secretary
of State of New Jersey from 1861 to 1865,
and Ellen (Green) Johnson. After a thor
ough preparation in the Model School at
Trenton, New Jersey, he entered Princeton
University, from which he was graduated as
AB. in the class of 1867, and later receiv
ed the A.M. degree. He entered on the
study of the law and was admitted to the
bar of the State of New Jersey in 1870;
and he has since then been engaged in
the practice of law at Hackensack, New
Jersey. Mr. Johnson has been prominent
in the politics of his State as a Republican,
and he was elected to the Senate of New
Jersey and served from 1895' to 1900, and was
elected president of that body in 1900.
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of New Jersey during the absence of Gov
ernor Voorhees in Europe in May and
June, 1900. Later in 1900 he was appoint
ed first assistant postmaster-general of the
United States, which office he held until
1902, when he returned to the practice of
law in New Jersey. He was a delegate to
the National Republican Conventions of
1888 and 1904, and was chairman of the
New Jersey State Republican Conventions
of 1900 and 1904. Mr. Johnson was the
donor to Hackensack of its Public Library.
He is a member of the Lawyers' and
Princeton Clubs of New York and of the
Holland Society. He married in 1872,
Maria E. White. Address : Hackensack,
New Jersey.
JOHNSON, Willis Fletcher:
Editor, author and lecturer; born in
New York City,' October 7, 1857; son of
William Johnson and Alathea Augusta
(Coles) Johnson. He received his educa
tion in the Pennington Seminary and New
York University, from which he afterward
received the degree of L.H.M. ; and the
A.M. and L.H.D. degrees were conferred
upon him by Dickinson College. He was
school principal in 1876 and 1877; has
been a member of the editorial staff of
the New York Tribune since 1880 and of
the lecture staff of the New York City
Board of Education since 1902. In 1904
he traveled in Panama to inspect the canal
and other things. Mr. Johnson is author
of: A Century of Expansian, 1903 (Mac-
" millan) ; Four Centuries of the Panama
Canal, 1906 (Henry Holt and Company) ;
was the biographical editor of the History
Of the New York University and editor of
Songs of the New York University. His
favorite recreations are photography, driv
ing and fishing. He is a member of the
American Geographical Society ; the Na
tional Geographic Society; the New York
Historical Society; the National Institute
of Civics; the Brooklyn Institute; Psi Up
silon fraternity; the National Historic and
Scenic Preservation Society ; also the Royal
Arcanum, the National Civil Service Re
form Association; a member of the Coun
cil of the New York University and presi

dent of the Board of Trustees of the Pen
nington (New Jersey) Seminary. He is
also a member of the Psi Upsilon,
National Arts, and Quill Clubs. Mr. John
son married at Tuckerton, New Jersey, in
1878, Sue Rockhill. Residence: Firleigh
Hall, New Providence, New Jersey. Of
fice address : 154 Nassau Street, New York
City.
JOHNSON, Willis Grant:
Author and agricultural editor; born at
New Albany, Franklin County, Ohio, July
4, 1866; son of William Henry Harrison
Johnson and Rose Mary (Humphrey)
Johnson. After attending the preparatory
department of Ohio State University he
entered Cornell University in 1889, and
was graduated as A.B. in 1892; then went
to Leland Stanford, Jr., University as post
graduate student in science, instructor in
entomology and embryology and assistant
registrar, receiving the degree of A.M. in
1894. He. was instructor in entomology in
the University of Illinois, and at the same
time engaged in special work for the Il
linois State Laboratory of Natural History
and as assistant State entomologist of Il
linois, from 1894 to 1896; then, from 1896
to 1900, was State entomologist of Mary
land, professor of invertebrate zoology
and entomology in Maryland Agricultural
College, and entomologist of the Mary
land State Agricultural Experiment
Station. Professor Johnson organized
and was chief of the Maryland State
Horticultural Department to 1900, and
since that date has been agricultural editor
to the Orange Judd Company of New York
City, publishers of the American Agri
culturalist, the Orange Judd Farmer and
the New England Homestead. He is au
thor of: Fumigation Methods, 1902, and
The Peach Crop, 1907 (both published by
the Orange Judd Company) ; The Poultry
Book,- three volumes, . 1903-1905 (Double-
day, Page and Company) ; and also of
many technical and scientific papers. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; member of
the Society for the Promotion of Agri
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Society, American Association- of Econ
omic Entomologists, Washington Biological
Society, Patrons of Husbandry (or Na
tional Grange) ; is a life member of the
Maryland State Horticultural Society, and
New York State Dairymen's Association.
His favorite recreations are nature study
and biological research. Professor John
son is a Republican in politics and an
Episcopalian in religious affiliation. He is
a member of the Phi Delta Theta frater
nity (California Beta chapter), and of the
New York Press and Republican Clubs of
New York. He married at Stanford Uni
versity, California, April 19, 1892, Fannie
Helena Phillips, of Ithaca, New York, and
they- have two children : Chester Phillips,
born April 2, 1893, and Helen Louise, born
March 26, 1898. Address : 439 Lafayette
Street, New York City.
JOHNSTON, James Steptoe:
Bishop of Western Texas; born in
Church Hill, Mississippi, June 9, 1843 ; son
of James Steptoe and Louisa C. B. John
ston. He attended the University of Vir
ginia, in i860 and 1861, and served four
years in the Army of the Confederate
States, most of the time in Lee's Army ;
first as a private in Hood's Division, after
wards as lieutenant in Stuart's Cavalry.
He was ordered deacon, of the Episcopal
Church in 1869, and in 1871 was ordained
to the priesthood by Bishop Green. He
was connected with St. James' Church,
Port Gibson, Mississippi, 1870-76, with the
Church of the Ascension, Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky, 1876-80, with Trinity Church,
Mobile, Alabama, 1880-88. In 1888 he be
came bishop of Western Texas, and was
consecrated by Bishops Wilmer, Dudley,
Harris, Gallagher, and Thompson. Receiv
ed the degree of D.D. from the University
of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Bishop
Johnston is author of numerous reports, ap
peals, addresses, and sermons. Address :
San Antonio, Texas.
JOHNSTON, Mercer Green:
Clergyman ; born in Church Hill, Missis
sippi, December 3, 1868; son of Right
Reverend J. S. Johnston and Mary (Green)

Johnston. He received his education at
Barton Academy, Mobile, Alabama, and at
the University of the South, Sewanee,
Tennessee; and studied law one year at
the University of Virginia. He served- his
diaconate from 1898 to 1900 iri Grace
Parish, New York; was ordained to the
priesthood in the Episcopal Church and
was rector of St. Paul's Church and of the
West Texas Military Academy at San An
tonio, Texas, from 1900 to 1903; and has
been rector of the Cathedral Parish of St.
Mary and St. John, Manila, since 1903.
He is chairman of the Council of Advice
and examining chaplain of the diocese.
While at college he was vice-president of
the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation, and was chairman of the commit
tee that organized . the first southern inter
collegiate track and field • meet. He was
editor of the college weekly and magazine
and won several medals for oratory. He
is a director and chairman of the Tennis
Committee and dean of the Union Reading
College of Manila. Mr. Johnston is a
member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and
president of the Alumni Chapter of Far
East, Manila; and honorary vice-president
of the Columbia Club. In politics he is a
Cleveland Democrat, and he has traveled
extensively throughout the United States
and Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines,
and Borneo. He married at Ivy, Virginia,
September 5, 1901, Katherine Aubrey.
Residence : 248 Calle Nozaleda, Manila.
Office address : P. O. Box 239, Manila.
JOHNSTON, RusseU M.:
Lawyer ; born in Albany, New York,
July 6, 1864; son of Colonel Robert G-
S. A. (West Point, 1850), and Catherine
S. (Van Rensselaer) Johnston ; he was
educated at Geneva, New- York, High
School; was graduated from Hobart Col
lege, B.S., 1884; Albany Law School, LL.B.,
1887. Estate lawyer, and -has' been five
times to Europe, through West Indies as
far south as Trinidad. He has traveled
extensively in the United States; has been
to the Pacific Coast and in thirty States
and territories. Director of the Mutual
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York. He is a Democrat; also an Epis
copalian. Member of the State Bar Asso
ciation (Grievance Committee) ; Sub-Com
mittee of Grievance Committee which in
vestigated charges against Justice Warren
B. Hooker; Albany County Bar Associa
tion. He is a member of the Fort Orange
(ex-secretary and trustee), University
(was first president), Albany County,
Burns (Albany) Clubs. Unmarried. Resi
dence : 20 Elk Street. Address : 38
Tweddle Building, Albany, New York.
JOHNSTON, William Agnew:
Jurist; born in Oxford, Ontario, July 24,
1848; son of Mathew Johnston and Jane
(Agnew) Johnston. His early education
was received in the schools of Ontario, and
he completed his studies in Illinois, studied
law, went to Kansas and in 1872 was ad
mitted to the bar of that State and
engaged in the practice of law.. He became
active in politics as a Republican, was
elected to the State House of Representa
tives in 1875, to the Senate in 1876; was
appointed assistant United States attorney
for the District of Kansas in 1879, elected
attorney-general of Kansas, serving from
1880 to 1884, when he was elected to the
Supreme bench of the State, on which he
served as associate justice until 1902, when
he became chief justice of that court, in
which office he is still serving. Judge
Johnston married in 1875, Lucy Brown.
Address:. Topeka, Kansas.
JOHNSTONE, Edward Robert:
Editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Leader;
born in Utica, New York, April 30, 1849;
son of Mervin E. Johnstone and Julia E.
Johnstone. He was graduated from Dick
inson College in 1870. Mr. Johnstone
served in Indian campaigns in 1877, 1880
and 1881; was on the editorial staff of the
St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1882 to 1892;
city, and country assessor at St. Paul, Min
nesota, from 1892 to 1895; served with the
Associated Press in 1897 and 1898, in New
York City ; editor of the Minneapolis Times
- from 1898 to 1903 ; and managing editor of
the New York Commercial Advertiser in
1903 and 1904. He also served in charge*

of a fleet of dispatch boats in the Spanish-
American War, at Key West, in the Ha
vana and Santiago blockades, and in Porto
Rico. Mr. Johnstone is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa Society, Phi Kappa Sigma fra
ternity, the Sons of the American Revolu
tion ; and the American Social Science As
sociation, and is secretary of the Porto
Rican Expedition Association. He mar
ried in Boston, January 27, 1887, Ida Louise
Abell. Address : The Leader, Cleveland,
Ohio. ¦10 LINE, Adrian Hoffman:
Lawyer; born in Sing Sing, New York,
June 30, 1850; son of Colonel Charles O.
and Mary (Hoffman) Joline; educated
Mount Pleasant Academy; Princeton, A.B.,
1870; A.M., 1873; Columbia Law School,
LL.B., 1872; Princeton, LL.D., 1904. Ad
mitted to the bar, May, 1872; member of
the law firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard,
1881-96; of Butler, Notman, Joline & Myn-
derse, 1896-1905 ; since 1905, of Joline, Lar-
kin & Rathbone. Chairman Board of Di
rectors, and president, Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railway Company, 1906. Mem
ber of the American Bar Association, Bar
Association of the City of New York, New
York State Bar Association, New York,
New Jersey, 'Virginia and American Histor
ical Societies. Author : Meditations of an
Autograph Collector, 1902; Diversions of a
Book Lover, 1903. Clubs : Century, Univer
sity, Grolier, Princeton, Nassau, Barnard,
Morristown, Down Town; also Caxton
(Chicago). Married, 1876, Mary E., daugh
ter of Francis Larkin. Address : 54 Wall
Street, New York City.
JONAS, Edward:
Real estate dealer; bo'rn in Columbus,
Illinois ; January 17, 1844 ; son of Abraham
Jonas and Louise (Block) Jonas. He re
ceived his education at Quincy, Illinois,
and at private semi-military schools, leav
ing to enter the army in the Civil War.
He went into the army with the Quincy
Cadets in the Fiftieth Illinois Infantry;
served as private from July, 1861, to No
vember, 1862; was captured at Shiloh, and
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frequently at Vicksburg during the siege.
Fie served later, on the staff of General
Hurlbut of the Sixteenth Corps, and finally
on the staff of General G. M. Dodge, as
aide during the Atlanta Campaign and in
the Department of Missouri, and later ac
companied him against the Indians in the
Powder River Country; was mustered out
of service as brevet lieutenant-colonel and
aide-de-camp, and later, was appointed first
lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth United
States Infantry but declined. After leaving
the army he commenced business as a
wholesale crockery merchant at Quincy, Il
linois ; thence to New Orleans, where he
engaged in the cotton business, and for the
past fifteen years in the real estate business
there. He is president of the Real Es
tate Auction Exchange, and director of the
Keystone Life Insurance Company. He is
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, and secretary of the Army
of the Tennessee, and is a Democrat in
politics. He married at Donaldsonville,
Louisiana, December 16, 1890, Flora Levy.
Residence: 2720 Berlin Street, New Or
leans. Office address : 808 Union Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
JONAS, Johannes Benoni Eduard:
Professor of Germanic languages ; born
at Ahnapee (now Algoma), Wisconsin,
April 21, 1873; son of Heinrich Eduard
Jonas and Emma Christine (Leffler) Jonas.
He was educated in the public and high
schools of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Con
cordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (a
German gymnasium) , graduating in 1893 ;
the University of Wisconsin as A.B. in
1894, and A.M. in 1895; fellow in Germanics
in the University of Chicago from 1896 to
1899, with the degree of Ph.D. in 1899 ; and
studied in Berlin, Germany, in 1897. He
became instructor in German in the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, in 1894 and 1895, while
working for the degree of A.M. ; was in
structor in German at Morgan Park Acad
emy in 1895 and 1896, and in the summer
quarter of 1896; instructor in German in
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, from
1899 to 1901 ; assistant professor of Ger
manic languages and literatures in Brown

University, 1901 ; and acting head of the de
partment in 1904 and 1905. Mr. Jonas has
contributed to Modern Language Notes, the
Publications of Modern Language Associa
tion, School Review, Journal of Theology,
etc. He is an Independent in politics, and
a Lutheran in his religious faith. He is a
member of the Modern Language Associa
tion of America, the American Dialect So
ciety, and the Barnard Club of Providence,
Rhode Island. Address : 7 Barnes Street,
Providence, Rhode Island. •
JONES, Andrew B.:
Merchant; born in Whallonsburgh, New
York, May 19, 1840; son of Benjamin G.
and Almira E. (Morhous) Jones; educated
in country school. Served seven years in
the National Guard of the State of New
York. Member of the firm of Walker &
Jones, proprietors of the Hudson Valley
Paper Company. Trustee of the Albany
County Savings Bank; director of the Al
bany County Bank. Republican. Episco
palian. Trustee of the Mohawk and Hud
son Humane Society. Club: Country.
Married, Palmyra, New York, November
8, 1871, Alice Louise Tucker; children:
Lucy Elizabeth, . Alice Frances, Florence
Juliette, Sydney Tucker. Address: 32 Elk
Street, Albany, New York.
JONES, BURR W.:
Lawyer; born in Wisconsin, March 9,
1846. Graduated at Wisconsin State Uni
versity in 1870. Is one of the professors
at the Law School of the University of
Wisconsin. Member of Congress 1883,
1885. Chairman Wisconsin State Tax
Commission, 1897-98; now chairman Wis
consin State Bar Association. Address,: 112
Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
JONES, Charles Henry:
Lawyer; born in Beverly, New Jersey,
September 13, 1837; son of Hon, J! Glancy
Jones and Anna (Rodman) Jones. He re
ceived his education in Rensselaer Poly
technic Institute, Troy, New York. He
was counsel for the Commissioners of Fair-
mount Park, counsel for the Centennial
Exhibitors Commission iri 187(1; and coun
sel for the Democratic Party. Mr. Jones
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of Philadelphia; and has been counsel in
many important public and political cases.
He was vice-president of the Trust Com
pany of North America ; was formerly
special deputy collector of customs; at
tache of the American Legation at Vienna,
Austria. In religion he is an Episcopalian.
Mr. Jones is author of: A Pedestrian
Tour through Switzerland; Recollections of
Venice; A Trip to the Neusiedlersee ; Mem
oir of William Rodman; Sketch of Old
St. Peter's Church; Early Settlements on
the Delaware; Digest of Park Laws and
Ordinances; Davault's Mills, a n&vel; His
tory of the Campaign for the Conquest of
Canada in 1776; Genealogy of the Rodman
Family; The Camp on the Neshaminy;
Sketch of the Services of Captain Gustavus
Conyngham; and Life and Public Services
of Hon. J. Glancy Jones. He is chairman
of the Board of Managers of Christ Church
Hospital; vestryman of Old St. Peter's
Church; deputy to the Diocesan Conven
tion; president of the Colonial Society of
Pennsylvania and chairman of the Board of
Managers of the Sons of the Revolution.
Mr. Jones married in Philadelphia, April
20, 1872, Kate Evelyn Sauk,, and they have
three children: Evelyn Glancy Jones, C.
Rodman Jones, and Anna Rodman Jones
(wife of Robert Massey Drayton). Resi
dence: Rydal, Pennsylvania. Address:
1224 Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
JONES, Charles Landon:
Lawyer; born in Litchfield County, Con
necticut; son of Rev. Ezra Jones and Cor
nelia (Landon) Jones. He was graduated
from Columbia University as LL.B. in
1878. Mr. Jones has been practicing law
in New York City since 1878, was some
time a member of the firm of S. P. and
J. McL. Nash and is now of Nash and
Jones. In politics he is identified with
the Democratic party and he is a member
of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Jones is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York; of the Society of
Colonial Wars; a life member of the New
York Historical Society; the American
Geographical Society; the New York Ge

nealogical and Biographical Society; the
Suffolk County Historical Society and is
secretary of the Leake and Watts Orphans'
Home. He is also a member of the Union,
Church, New York Athletic, Lawyers', City,
Midday, National Democratic, Columbia,
University and Camera Clubs. Address : 63
Wall Street, New York City.
JONES, Charles Reading:
Chairman of the National Committee of
the Prohibition Party; born at Philadel
phia, November 9, 1862; son of Charles
Jones and Esther (Harding) Jones. After
receiving his education in the public schools
of Philadelphia, and a business college, he
became a member of the firm of Charles
Jones and Sons from 1880 to 1890; secre
tary and manager of the Frink, Barcus and
Jones Manufacturing Company, Philadel
phia, from 1890 to 1893; manager of John
Wanamaker's Harness Department, Phila
delphia, in 1894 and 1895; president of the
Associated Prohibition Press since 1905.
Mr. Jones was chairman of the Prohibition
Party, Philadelphia, from 1892 to 1897, the
Prohibition Party of Pennsylvania, from
1897 to 1905, and of the Prohibition Party
of the United States since 1905. He is a
Methodist Episcopalian in his religious
faith. He is an Odd Fellow, a Royal Arch
Mason, member of the National Union, and
of the Order of the Golden Cross. He
married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1882,
Bertha I. Hoar, and they have five chil
dren: Edna, born in 1885, Anna Eliza,
born in 1887, Bertha Irene, born in 1888,
Herbert, born in 1891, and Esther H., born
in 1900. Residence: 1458 Maple Avenue,
Evanston, Illinois. Business Address: 1301
The Temple, Chicago, Illinois.
JONES, Constant Eakln:
Secretary of the S. S. White Dental
Manufacturing Company; born in Philadel
phia, March 20, 1861 ; son of Samuel Tat-
em Jones and Adelaide S. (Eakin) Jones.
He received his education in the University
of Pennsylvania, and at the United States
Military Academy in 1880 and 1881. He
began business with the firm of Morris
Wheeler and Company, iron and steel mer-

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chants, then formed the firm of Stephen and
Jones and Cason and Jones, iron commission,
and was elected secretary of the S. S. White
Dental Manufacturing Company in April,
1901. In politics Mr. Jones is a Republican,
and in religious belief an Episcopalian. He
is a member of the Society of the War of
1812, the Sons of the Revolution, and .the
Delta Phi fraternity. He married in New
Orleans, Louisiana, March 2, 1886, Mary
Eleanor Lyons, and they have two children :
Mary Lyons Jones, born in 1892, and Samuel
Tatem Jones, who died at the age of seven
teen. Residence: 471 1 Chester Avenue,
Philadelphia. Office address: Twelfth
and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
JONES, David Percy:
Banker and real estate operator; born
in Minneapolis, July 6, i860; son of Judge
Edwin S. Jones and Harriet (James)
Jones. He was educated in the Minne
apolis High School and the University of
Minnesota, where he was graduated as A.B.
in 1883. In 1883 he became associated in
Minneapolis with his father who had then
been for fifteen years engaged in business
in banking, mortgage loans, and real es
tate, ana has ever since been engaged in
that business, of which, under the cor
porate name of David P. Jones and Com
pany, he is now president. He is also
president of the Jones Realty Company,
and the Jones-Davis Agency (insurance),
and vice-president of the Hennepin County
Savings Bank of Minnesota. Mr. Jones is
a Republican in National politics, but in
dependent in municipal affairs. He served
six years on the Board of Aldermen of
Minneapolis and five years as president of
the Board; became ex-officio acting mayor
of Minneapolis to fill a vacancy from July
to December, 1902 ; and afterward was
elected and served as mayor of Minne
apolis for the term expiring January 1,
1907. Mr. Jones is a prominent layman
of the Congregational Church, and a cor
porate member of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and
is vice-president of the Board of Trustees
of Carleton College at Northfield, Minne

sota. He is a companion, by inheritance,
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States. Mr. Jones married
in Minneapolis, May 13, 1891, Alice Gale.
Residence: 2005 Third Avenue, South,
Minneapolis. Office address : Bank of
Commerce Building, Minneapolis, Minne
sota.
JONES, De Witt Clinton, Jr.:
Merchant in dyewoods and colors; born
at Tarrytown, New York, December 25,
1862; son of De Witt Clinton and Josepha
(Crosby), Jones. He attended schools in
San Francisco and Oakland, California;
went three times to Mexico and Central
America in youth, and lived in California
and Oregon from 1870 to 1879. He went
into business of dyewoods and colors with
the New York Dyewood Extract and
Chemical Company in April, 1880, and has
been associated with that company and its
successors ever since. He is director, sec
retary and member of the Executive Com
mittee of the American Dyewood Com
pany; director and member of the Execu
tive Committee of the New -York Tanning
Extract Company;- director, secretary and
treasurer of the General Colors Company;
director -and treasurer of the Compagnie
Haitienne; and director of the Argentine
Quebracho Company. Mr. Jones is a mem
ber of the City Club of New York City;
the Suburban Club of Elizabeth, New Jer
sey. He married at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
January 20, 1891, Bessie Duncan Cannon,
and they have two children: De Witt
Clinton, 3d., born in 1892; and Rutgers
Brevoort, bom in 1897. Residence: Eliza
beth, New Jersey. Address: 84 William
Street, New York City.
JONES, E. Clarence:
Banker ; born in New York City in 1865 ;
son of John Perry and Ellen Jane (Ho
vey) Jones; educated in the College of the
City of New York. Head of the banking
firm of E. Clarence Jones & Company (sole
partner) ; founded firm in 1889 at the age
of twenty-four; has handled many large
corporation bond issues and many import
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New York Stock Exchange. He has trav
eled in Europe and elsewhere, several
months each year for many years. He has
maintained a coaching stable in New York;
also one or more automobiles abroad for
touring annually; now maintains hand
somely appointed stable at 36 West Sixty-
sixth Street; has been exhibitor at shows.
Recreations : horseman, automobilist, hunt
ing, fishing. Member New York Chamber
of Commerce. Clubs : Metropolitan, Law
yers', Ardsley, Larchmont Yacht, Stock
Exchange, New York Riding, Automobile
Club of America (New York) ; Triton Fish
and Game (Canada) ; Cercle de Bois de
Boulogne (Paris). Address: 1 Nassau
Street, New York City.
JONES, Edward Franc:
Scale manufacturer; born in Utica, New
York, June 3, 1828; son of Lorenzo Bald
win and Sophronia (Chapman) Jones; he
was educated at Leicester, Massachusetts.
Served in the Civil War as colonel, Sixth
Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment (first
regiment to enter the field) ; the regiment
was attacked in Baltimore, and reached
Washington in time to save the capital
from falling into the hands of the Con
federates; became colonel, Twenty-sixth
Massachusetts _ Volunteers, October, 1861;
brevetted brigadier-general, United States
Volunteers. At close of war, established
scale works at Binghamton, New York,
which has since conducted under style of
Jones of Binghamton, in connection with
which coined and popularized the expres
sion: "Jones, He Pays the Freight;" now
totally blind. Was member Massachusetts
Legislature, 1865; resident of Binghamton
from October, 1865, and held various local
offices there; lieutenant-governor New
York, 1886-91. Democrat. Member Grand
Army of the Republic, Military Order Loyal
Legion, Sons of the American Revolution,
Society Founders and Patriots of America.
Author : Richard Baxter ; Uncle Jerry ; The
Origin of the Flag. Clubs: United Service
(New York City) ; Army and Navy
(Washington). Married, first, 1850, Sarah
Antoinette Tarbell; second, 1863, Susan

Annie Brown. Address : Binghamton, New
York.
JONES, Edward Groves:
Physician; born in Chattooga County,
Georgia, January 14, 1874; son of John A.
Jones and Margaret (Kendrick) Jones.
He was graduated from Emory College,
Oxford, Georgia, as A.B. in 1895, from
Atlanta College of Physicians and Surg
eons, as M.D. in 1900, and did post-grad
uate work in Johns Hopkins University in
1900. He is a practicing physician of At
lanta, Georgia; and is proctor and profes
sor of surgery in the Atlanta School of
Medicine. He is director of the Realty
Company of the Atlanta School of Medi
cine. In religion he is a Presbyterian.
Dr. Jones married in 'Columbia, South
Carolina, November 7, 1906, Lillian Taylor.
Address : Atlanta, Georgia.
JONES, Edward N. :
Principal New York Training School for
Teachers; born at Oneida County, New
York, January 2, 1854; son of Edward T.
and Rebecca (Evans) Jones. He was grad
uated from Hamilton College as A.B. in
1883. He was superintendent of schools,
Saratoga Springs, from 1883 to 1892; prin
cipal of the State Normal School, Pitts
burgh, New York, from 1892 to 1898; first
assistant of the New. York Training School
for Teachers, from 1898 to 1904; principal
since 1904. He was president of the New
York State teachers' Association, in 1894
and 1895 ; member of the Board of Edu
cation, White Plains, New York. He is a
member of the National Educational Asso--
ciation, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Delta Up
silon fraternity. He married at Hamil
ton, -New York, August 10, 1882, Elizabeth
Tompkins, and they have four children :
Rebekah, born in 1883 ; Edith, born in 1885 ;
Edward, born in 1888, and Elizabeth, born
in 1890. Address : 220 West One Hundred
and Twentieth Street, New York City.
JONES, Eugene:
Miller; born in Fairfield, Connecticut,
July, .1842. Began business life in father's
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his brother succeeded to business, under
name of Jones and Company; 1892, formed
a new organization, The Hecker-Jones-Jew-
ell Milling Company. Married, 1888, Julia
Dix, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Address:
205 Produce Exchange, New York City.
JONES, Francis Coates:
Artist; born in Baltimore, July 25, 1857;
student at Ecole des Beaux Arts under
Yvon, Lehmann, Boulanger and Lefebvre;
returned to New York City, 1882. Awarded
Clarke prize, National Academy of Design,
1885; silver medal at Pan American Expo
sition, 1901. Member National Academy
Design, Society American Artists, American
Water Color Society, Architectural League
and Mural Painters, American Fine Arts
Society, Municipal Aid Society, Fine Arts
Federation. Club : Century. Address : 253
West Forty-second Street, New York City.
JONES, Frank Smith:
Merchant; born in Stamford, Connecti
cut, August 19, 1847; son of Isaac S. and
Francis J. (Weed) Jones. He was edu
cated in Stamford schools and Eastman's
Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
He began his business career as bookkeeper
and later became confidential clerk with A.
J. Johnson, publisher of Johnson's Uni
versal Cyclopedia. In 1872, with his broth
ers, Cyrus D. and Charles F., he opened
a tea and coffee store at Scranton, Penn
sylvania; after retirement of his brother,
Charles F., the Grand Union Tea Company
was organized, of which Frank S. Jones
was president from 1893 to 1903, and is
still a director, the business extending un
til the company now has 200 branch stores
in many cities of the United States and
headquarters in New York City. Also
member of firm of Jones Brothers of
Brooklyn, New York, who also own the
Anchor Pottery at Trenton, New Jersey.
He is a director of Sidney Novelty Com
pany, Sidney, New York, and is large
ly interested in timber land and the manu
facture of lumber in Pennsylvania and Miss
issippi, and in coal lands in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia. In 1898 he presented
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

with the Gebhard Geological Collection,
and the Neumoegen Entomological Collec-'
tion; gave $40,000 to Bedford Branch of
the Young Men's Christian Association,
Brooklyn. Republican. Congregationalist.
Trustee of the Wesleyan University of
Middletown, Connecticut,. Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences, and Central Con
gregational Church. He is a member of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, and
Manufacturers' Association. He is a mem
ber of the National Arts, Brooklyn, Union
League, Crescent, Riding and Driving and
Congregational Clubs. He married in New
York City, June 4, 1879, Mary Louise
Granbery, and they have two children : Hen
rietta Jones Simons, born in 1881 and
¦Maude Virginia Jones, born in 1885. Ad
dress : 790 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York.
JONES, Frank Warren:
President . mining and milling company ;
born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, August
20, 1855; son of Francis and L. Augusta
(Thompson) Jones. He is a descendant
of Governor Winslow, one of the Mayflow
er party who landed at Plymouth, Mass
achusetts, in 1620. His ancestors settled
in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and
served in the Indian, Colonial and Revo
lutionary wars. His grandfather was one
of the incorporators and the first selectman
of the town of Dedham. Mr. Jones was
educated in the public schools of his native
place. From 1876 to 1884 he was superin
tendent of a shoe factory in Lynn, Massa
chusetts and was treasurer and general
manager of a shoe manufacturing company
from 1884 to 1888. In 1888 he entered the
firm of Jones, Curtis & Towne, which con
tinued until 1898. He was president of
an electric company from 1896 to 1900, sec
retary and director of the Belt Line Elec
tric Railway, 1890 to 1895, president of the
Home Medical Conipany since 1898, secre
tary and vice-president of the Kraig Chem
ical Company since 1902, president of the
American Insulite Company since 1904, and
since September, 1901, has been president
of the United States Mica Mining and Mill
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posits and is the largest producer of mica
in the country. He is a Democrat, and
was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in 1884-85, senator from
1886 to 1888. Park commissioner 1889-
1894. Prison commissioner 1892-1896. He
'has held other important political positions
and was nominated for Congress in 1892
against Flenry Cabot Lodge, and also for
mayor of Lynn, both of which nominations
he declined. He was chairman of the Demo
cratic Committee of Essex County, Massa
chusetts for several years. He became a
resident of Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. He
-is a member of the Municipal Ownership
League, the Iroquois Club of Chicago, the
Jefferson Club, and the New England So
ciety of Chicago. President Illinois Tax
Reform Association. He was married in
Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1879, and has two
children: Myron Scott and Marion Louise,
Residence: 3761 Lake Avenue, Chicago.
Address: Drexel Bank Building, Chicago,
Illinois.
JONES, Frederick Robertson:
Professor of economics, Bryn Mawr
College; born on the eastern shore of
Maryland, Wicomico County, January 4,
1872; son of Rev. John Bayley Jones, D.D.,
and Anne A. Follin Jones. Received pre
liminary education in the public schools
of Baltimore, and at Cambridge, Maryland ;
received degree of A.B., Western Maryland
College, 1892, and A.M., 1895 ; Ph.D., Johns
Hopkins University, 1896; acting professor
in History and Economics, Western Mary
land College, 1896-1897; scholar in history,
fellow by courtesy and acting instructor
in economics, Johns Hopkins University;
instructor and assistant professor of his
tory and sociology, Union University, 1897-
1902; assistant superintendent of the Char
ity Organization Society, Hartford, Con
necticut, 1894-1895; special representative
of the United States Bureau of Education
in England, 1897; historical expert on the
tenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britan
nica. Author of: Colonization of the
Middle States and Maryland (Barrie &
Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ; History
of Taxation in Connecticut; The Study of

History ; Biographical Notes ; and of mono
graphs and articles on historical, economic,
and sociological subjects. Member of the
American Historical Association, also of
the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, Alpha of
Maryland (Johns Hopkins University),
also of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Ad
dress : Low Buildings, Bryn Mawr Col
lege, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
JONES, Gardner Maynard:
Librarian; born at Charlestown, Massa
chusetts, June 27, 1850; son of Nahum
Jones and Lucy (Blake) Jones, and a de
scendant of Lewis Jones who came from
England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, before
1640. After graduation from the high
school at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in
1866, Mr. Jones was an employee of
various book stores in Boston from 1867
to 1887, then attended the School of Li
brary Ecoriomy of Columbia College, and
in February, 1889, became librarian of the
Public Library at Salem, Massachusetts.
He is author of: List of Subject Headings
for Use in Dictionary Catalogues, 1895;
Rough Subject Index to the Publications
of the Essex Institute, and various con
tributions to library publications. He is a
member of the American Library Associa
tion, and its treasurer from 1897-1906;
member and ex-president of the Massachu
setts Library Club; member, and formerly
treasurer and vice-president of the Appa
lachian Mountain Club. Mr. Jones married,
June 30, 1897, Kate Emery Sanborn, of
Franklin Falls, New Hampshire. Address :
Salem, Massachusetts.
JONES, George Miller:
Lawyer and teacher; born in Reading, -
Pennsylvania, September 8, 1874; was grad
uated from the Reading High School in
1891 ; received the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy, with honors, from the Univers
ity of Pennsylvania, 1896; studied law un
der the instruction of Isaac H'ester, Esq.,
of Reading; admitted to bar in Berks
County in 1898; appointed instructor in
History, Commercial Law and Commercial
Geography in the Boys' High School of
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Lutz, April 10, 1901. Republican. Ad
dress-: 52 North Fourth Street, Reading,
Pennsylvania.
JONES, Harry Clary:
Chemist; born in Maryland, November
11, 1865 . Graduate Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, A.B., 1889 ; university scholar, 1889-
1891; fellow, 1891-92; Ph.D., 1892; 1892^94,
studied at the Universities of Leipzig,
Stockholm and Amsterdam. Professor
physical chemistry Johns Hopkins Univer
sity; associate editor of the Journal de
Chimie physique and of the Physikalisch-
chemisches Centralblatt; author of various
text-books on physical and inorganic chem
istry (Macmillan). Has published about
eighty scientific papers in American, Ger
man, French and English scientific jour
nals; two monographs on his own investi
gations in the series being published by the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Ad
dress : Johns Hopkins University, Balti
more, Maryland.
JONES, Horace C. :
Manufacturer; born June 16, 1857; edu
cated in the Scientific Department of the
University of Pennsylvania; entered the
firm of E. D. & E. Jones, large lumber
dealers, to represent his father's interest,
continuing in it till 1880, when he organ
ized the firm of H. C. Jones & Co. ; took
the Schuylkill Woolen Mills, and since then
has devoted himself to this flourishing en
terprise. His first partner in this was
Stanley Lees, but he retired in 1885, and was
succeeded by John Booth, who became
manager of the -mills. In addition to his
actice labors in the development of the
Schuylkill Mills, Mr. Jones has become
prominent in other concerns, being a dir
ector of the Conshohocken Woolen and
Gas Light Companies, and of the First Na
tional Bank of Conshohocken and the Nor
ristown Title and Trust Company, and is
secretary and treasurer of the Electric
Light and Power Company of Consho
hocken. He gives his chief attention
however, to the Schuylkill Woolen Mills.
He is a member of the Union League and

the Manufacturers' Clubs of Philadelphia.
Address : Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
JONES, Hugh Bolton:
Artist; born Baltimore, Maryland, Oc
tober 20, 1848. Awarded medal (third
rlass), Paris Exposition, 1889; medal, Co
lumbian Exposition, 1893; bronze medal,
Paris Exposition, 1900; Webb prize, So
ciety of American Artists, 1902; Shaw
Fund prize, Society American Artists, 1902;
received gold medal Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, 1904. Member National Acad
emy Design; Society of American Artists;
American Water Color Society; American
Fine Arts Society; Municipal Aid Society.
Clubs : Century, Salmagundi. Unmarried.
Address : 253 West Forty-second Street,
New York City.
JONES, Ira B.;
Jurist; born at Newberry, South Caro
lina, December 29, 185 1 ; son of Charles
M. Jones and Mary J. (Neel) Jones. Af
ter graduation in 1870 from Erskine Col
lege (from which he has received the A.M.
degree), he studied law and was admitted
to the bar in 1873. In 1875 he located in
the practice of law at Lancaster, South
Carolina, where he has since resided, and
there also became prominent in political
matters as a representative Democrat. He
was three times elected a member of the
House of Representatives of South Caro
lina, and was for two terms speaker of
the House, was a member of the Consti
tutional Convention of 1895. In 1896 he
was elected to the Supreme bench of the
State, on which he is still serving as as
sociate justice. Judge Jones married at
Newberry, South Carolina, January 21,
1875, Rebecca H. Wyse. Residence: Lan
caster, South Carolina. Official address:
Columbia, South Carolina.
JONES, James Kimbrongh:
Lawyer; born in Marshall County, Mis
sissippi, September 29, 1839; son of
Nathaniel K. Jones and Caroline J. Jones.
He received his education in local schools
and by private tutors. He was a private
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to 1865; was a member of State Senate
in 1873, and its president in 1877; member
of Congress from 1881 to 1887; member
of the United States Senate from 1885 to
1903 ; chairman of the Democratic National
Committee from 1896 to 1904, and was
chairman of Democratic Caucus in the Sen
ate for several years. In religion he is a
Methodist. Mr. Jones married twice; first,
to Sue Rust Eaton; after her death to
Sue Eaton Somervell, both of Dallas
County, Arkansas, and he has three chil
dren living: Sue R., Mrs. Leonora Car-
rigan, and James K., Jr. Residence:
Hope, Arkansas, and 1812 Nineteenth
Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Office
address : Colorado Building, Washington,
D. C.
JONES, Jenkin Lloyd:
Independent minister; born in Cardigan
shire, South Wales, November 14, 1843;
son of Richard Lloyd Jones and Mary
(Thomas) Jones ; removed with parents to
Wisconsin, where he remained until in 1862
he enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin Bat
tery, serving until the end of the . war as a
private. He was graduated from the The
ological Seminary at Meadville, Pennsyl
vania, in 1870; pastor of All Souls' Church,
Janesville, Wisconsin, from 1870 to 1879;
one of founders in 1878, editor since 1879,
of Unity, a weekly publication of wide in
fluence. Since 1882 he has been pastor of
All Souls' Church, Chicago. He was secre
tary of the World's Parliament of Religions
in 1892 and 1893; one of founders 1894,
and ever since secretary of the Congress
of Religion ; lecturer in English in the Uni
versity Extension Department of the Uni
versity of Chicago; distinguished as au
thor of several books, lecturer, editor and
worker for social reform and civic im
provement. Address : 3939 Langley Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
JONES, Jerome:
Crockery and glass merchant; born in
Athol, Massachusetts, October 13, 1837;
son of Theodore Jones and Marcia (Esta
brook) Jones. He received .his education
in common schools in Athol. Mr. Jones
became connected with Otis Norcross &

Company, predecessor of Jones, McDuffee &
Stratton, in 1853, as errand boy and has
remained in that establishment ever since;
is president and director of Jones, Mc
Duffee & Stratton Company; vice-presi
dent and trustee of the Home Savings
Bank; director of the Boston Safe De
posit and Trust Company and of the Bos
ton Transcript Company, and trustee of the
Mount Auburn Cemetery. In politics he
is a Grover Cleveland Democrat and in re
ligion a Unitarian. He is president of the
Boston Merchants' Association; member of
the Executive Committee of the Boston
Associated Board of Trade, and is a Mason.
He is also a member of the Union, Algon
quin, Country, Art, Commercial, Brookline
Thursday and Exchange Clubs. Mr. Jones
has married twice ; first in Greenfield, 1864,
Elizabeth R. Wait, and second, February
16, 1881, Mrs. Maria E. Dutton; and he
has four children : Theodore Jones, Eliza
beth Wait Sherman, Marcia Estabrook Tay
lor, and Helen Reed Whitney. Residence:
101 Summit Avenue, Brookline. Address :
33 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
JONES, John H.:
President of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Coal
Company; bora in j Greenock, Allegheny
County, October 7, 1866; educated in the
public schools of Monongahela, finishing
with a business education in Pittsburgh.
When he was seventeen years old he was
made a mine foreman; was next promoted
to general superintendent, and by the time
he attained his majority he was manages
of his father's extensive mining interests-
In 1896, he was instrumental in forming
the James Jones and Sons Company, which
was absorbed by the Monongahela combine
in 1899; the Pittsburgh and Buffalo Com
pany was formed later and has been an
important factor in the Western Pennsyl
vania coal trade. He is also treasurer of
the Johnetta Coal Company and the Wash
ington and Greene Railroad Company; he
was active in the organization of the Mon
ongahela River Consolidated Coal and
Coke Company and became one its leading
officers. Address: Frick Building,. Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.

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JONES, John Sutphin:
Capitalist; born at Washington Court
House, Ohio, January 4, 1848 ; son of Wil
liam R. and Elizabeth (Morris) Jones. He
received his education in the public schools
of his native town. For eighteen years in
his early life he was engaged in the rail
road business as conductor, trainmaster
and superintendent, and in 1888 became
president of the Jones and Adams Com
pany, operating coal mines in West Virgin
ia, Ohio and Illinois, with coal docks on the
lakes and offices in Chicago. He became a
resident of Chicago in 1887. He is also
president of the National Hocking Coal
Company, and is connected with the Little
Kanawha syndicate in building railroads
and acquiring coal properties in West Vir
ginia. His political affiliations are with the
Republican party. He is a member of the
Masonic order (thirty-second degree), a
Knight Templar, and also of the Consist
ory and Mystic Shrine. His club member
ship embraces the Union League, Kenwood
and Midday. He was married at Granville,
Ohio, October 22, 1884, to Sarah F. Follett.
Address : Old Colony Building, Chicago.
Residence : Monomoy Place, Granville,
Ohio. Address: Old Colony Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
JONES, John William:
Clergyman; born at Louisa, Virginia,
September 25, 1836; graduate University of
Virginia, 1859; Washington and Lee Uni
versity, D.D., 1874; private soldier, Thir
teenth Virginia Infantry, and chaplain of
that regiment; afterwards missionary chap
lain of A. P. Hill's. Corps Army Northern
Virginia ; chaplain Washington College dur
ing presidency of General R. E. Lee; two
years chaplain University of Virginia; sec
retary Home Missionary Board, Southern
Baptist Convention ; secretary Southern
Historical Society, and editor of Fourteenth
volumes of its Papers. Author: Personal
Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of
Robert Edward Lee, Army of Northern
Virginia Memorial Volume; Christ in the
Camp, or Religion in Lee's Army; Me
morial Volume of Jefferson Davis; School
History of the United States ; High School

and College History of the United States;
Life and Letters of R. E. Lee, the Soldier
and the Man. Now (July, 1907) chaplain-
general of the United Confederate Veterans,
and secretary and superintendent Confed
erate Memorial Association. Address:
709^ West Clay Street, Richmond, Vir
ginia. JONES, Leonard Augustus:
Jurist and author; born in Templeton,
Massachusetts, January 13, 1832; son of
Augustus Appleton Jones and Mary (Part-.
ridge) Jones. He was graduated from
Harvard College as A.B. in 1855, and LL.B.
in 1858. He began the practice of law in
Boston in 1858 ; was a partner with Edwin
Hale Abbot in 1866, and later John Lath
rop, became the senior member of the firm
which continued for a few years; in 1876
Mr. Jones began writing on leading sub
jects of the law, and for about thirty years
devoted his time largely to this work. He
has been chief judge of the Land Court
of Massachusetts since 1898. Judge Jones
is author of: A Treatise on the Law of
Mortgages of Real Property, six editions;
Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds
and Mortgages, three editions ; Treatise on
the Law of Mortgages of Personal Proper
ty, four editions ; Treatise on the Law of
Pledges, including Collateral Securities,
two editions; Treatise on the Laws of
Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable
and Maritime, two editions; Forms in Con
veyancing, five editions ; An Index to Legal
Periodical Literature, two volumes; Treat
ise on the Law of Easements, one volume;
Treatise on the Law of Landlord and
Tenant, one volume; and he has been as
sociate editor of the American Law Re
view, 1885-1904, editor-in-chief, 1904-1907,
when he resigned. In politics he is a Re
publican and in religion a Unitarian. Mr.
Jones married at Templeton, Massachusetts,
Josephine Lee. Residence : 89 Mount Ver
non Street, Boston. Address: Pemberton
Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
JONES, Lewis Ralph:
Professor of botany; born at Brandon,
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Jones and Lucy (Knapp) Jones. He
began his education in Ripon College,
Wisconsin, and was graduated from the
University of Michigan as Ph.B., in 1889,
Ph.D. in 1904. He spent one year in re
search, dividing his time between botanical
laboratories of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture in Washington, and
various European laboratories, especially
those of Berlin. He was a 'teacher in. nat
ural science at Mt. Morris (Illinois) Col
lege, and in 1887 and 1888 instructor in
natural science in the University of Ver
mont, 1890; assistant professor in 1891, and
professor of botany since 1892; botanist in
the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion since 1890, and collaborator of the
Bureau of Plant Industry of the United
States Department of Apriculture since
1904. Mr. Jones is a Republican in politics
and a Congregationalist in his religious
connections. He is a member of the Ver
mont Botanical Club, the New England
Botanical Club, fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the Society for the Promotion of
Agricultural Science, Vermont Forestry
Association (president) and the Botanical
Society of America. He married in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, June 24, 1890, May Ben
nett. Residence : 46 North Prospect Street,
Burlington, Vermont. Address: Univers
ity, Burlington, Vermont.
JONES, Paul:
Lawyer; born in Nashville, Tennessee,
November 21, 1854 ; son of Ira Philander
Jones and Martha Elizabeth (Paul) Jones.
His early education, was in the public
schools of Nashville, from which he went
to the University of Nashville, taking
honors there in the School of Metaphysics
and Political Economy and a medal for
oratory. After leaving that university in
1875 he was a reporter on the Nashville
American for a year, and secretary of the
Tennessee State Board of Agriculture Sta
tistics and Mines in 1876 and 1877 before
entering the Vanderbilt Law School ,from
which he was graduated as LL.B. in 1879.
He was elected judge of the Moot Court
in that institution in 1878. Mr. Jones

practiced law in Nashville in 1879 and 1880 ;
was assistant financial clerk of the United
States Senate at Washington from 1880 to
1884. He was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
1883, and since 1884 has practiced law in
New York City. He has given special at
tention to corporation matters and to the
argument of appeals in the Appellate Di
vision of the Supreme Court and the Court
of Appeals in New York. He is author
of two articles in the Encyclopaedia Amer
icana, under the titles : Law of Husband
and Wife, and Law of the Family; and of
a volume entitled The Commercial Power
of Congress, published in 1904. In poli
tics he is a Democrat. He is a member
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and
of the Tennessee Society of New York.
He married in New York City, August 30,
1893, Constance B. Andrews, only daugh
ter of Constant A. Andrews ; and they have
a son, Loring Paul, born April 19,- 1897,
and a daughter, Helena Paul, born Febru
ary 2, 1902. Residence: 438 Sixth Street,
Brooklyn, New York. Office address: 56
Pine Street, New York City.
JONES, Richard Lloyd:
Associate editor Collier's Weekly; born
Janesville, Wisconsin, April 14, 1873; son
Jenkin Lloyd and Susan (Barber) Jones;
educated University of Wisconsin and Uni
versity of Chicago, LL.B., LL.M., 1897.
Was member of Chicago bar, practicing
one year; came to New York City to enter
journalism; edited daily paper at Stam
ford, Connecticut, 1899; organized and was
contributor to Independent Democratic
Syndicate Service, 1900;' Eastern repre
sentative and editorial contributor to Pil
grim Magazine, and special editorial writer
Washington Times, 1900- 1902; associate
editor Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1902- 1903;
since 1903, associate editor Collier's Weekly..
Organized with Robert J. Collier and
Clarence H. Mackay, the Lincoln Farm As
sociation (of which he is secretary), a
patriotic organization of American citizens
to make a national park of the farm in
Kentucky on which Abraham Lincoln was
born. Independent in politics. Member

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Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: City, National
Arts, Players. Address : Hastings-on Hud
son, New York.
JONES, Robert Ellis:
Clergyman; born in New York City,
March 18, 1858; son of Eleazer and Anna
(Parry) Jones; he was graduated from
Williams College, A.B., 1879, D.D., 1898;
topographer, United States Geological Sur
vey, 1880; rector of Saint Luke's Church,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1884; Trinity
Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1889; he was a
student at University of Berlin in 1895;
president of the Hobart College in 1897;
canon of the Cathedral of Saint John the
Divine, New York City in 1905. He is an
Episcopalian. Member of the Chi Psi, Phi
Beta Kappa fraternities. He married in
New York City, December 4, 1901, Lattie
Gill. Address : Cathedral of Saint John
the Divine, New York City.
JONES, Thomas Goode:
Jurist, ex-governor; born in Macon,
Georgia, November 26, 1844; son of Samuel
G. Jones and Martha Ward (Goode) Jones
and descendant of John Jones and John
Goode, both of whom came from England
and settled near Richmond, Virginia, be
tween 1650 and 1665. His parents re
moved in 1850 to Montgomery, Alabama,
of which place he has ever since been a
resident. He was graduated from the Vir
ginia Military Institute in 1862, and there
after served in the Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia until the end of the war,
becoming major on the staff of General
John B. Gordon,, in which capacity he car
ried one of the flags of truce sent out by
General Gordon to General Sheridan's
lines at Appomattox Court House, April
9, 1865. He became a planter after the
war; studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1866, and after that practiced law
at Montgomery, Alabama. He was a mem
ber of the City Council of Montgomery
from 1875 to 1884; served in the Alabama
Legislature four years and was speaker of
the Alabama House of Representatives
from 1886 to 1888; was Supreme Court re
porter of Alabama for ten years, and as

such prepared and published eighteen vol
umes of Supreme Court Reports; was
colonel of the Second Regiment of Ala
bama State Troops from 1880 to 1890,
commanded the troops in the. suppression
of riots in 1883 and 1888, at Birmingham,
was governor of Alabama from 1890 to
1894, and personally commanded the State
troops in the suppression of the railroad
riots, in 1894; was delegate to the Consti
tutional Convention of Alabama in 1901,
and was appointed by President Roosevelt,
October 9, 1901, United States district
judge for the Middle and Northern Dis
tricts of Alabama. In the summer of 1907
he attracted national attention by enjoin
ing the State officials of Alabama from
executing a law passed by the Legisla
ture of Alabama, fixing passenger rates on
railways in that State, on the ground that
the law was unconstitutional. Judge Jones
married in Montgomery, Alabama, Decem
ber 20, 1866, Gena C. Bird. Address:
Montgomery, Alabama.
JONES, Wesley L.:
Congressman and lawyer; born near
Bethany, Illinois, October 9, 1863. He was
graduated from the Southern Illinois Col
lege at Enfield. He studied law, removed
to- the State of Washington and engaged in
practice. He was elected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and was reelected to the Six
tieth Congress, from the State of Washing
ton at large, as a Republican. He married
in Enfield, Illinois, October 13, 1886, Minda
Nelson, and he has two children, a boy and
a girl. Address: North Yakima, Wash
ington.
JONES, WUUam Albert:
Brigadier-General of the United States
Army; bom at St. Charles, Missouri, June
26, 1841 ; son of Stilman Jones and Ann
Jane (Perkins) Jones. He received his
education in public and private schools at
Carrollton, Illinois, and at the United States
Military Academy. He served as a cadet
in the United States "Military Academy,
and was appointed first lieutenant of the
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June 13, 1864; served in the Sixth Corps
of the Army of the Potomac in the War
of the Rebellion; served at the Military
Academy- as assistant professor in engineer
ing; assistant professor of law and ethics;
instructor in practical military engineering,
and treasurer of the Academy ; and was
in command of Company A, Battalion of
United States Engineers. He served on
rivers and harbors and other public works,
also on the construction, care and mainten
ance of light houses on the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts; was chief engineer of the
Division of the Pacific, Department of the
Platte, and Department of Dakota. He re
tired from active service in 1905, and en
gaged in business of growing, packing and
shipping oysters at Fowling Point Farm,
Nassawadox, Virginia. He commanded the
exploring expedition at Yellowstone Park
and Northwest Wyoming. He was con
sulting engineer of Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, California, of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts on Charles River
Dam, of the railroad from Seattle, Wash
ington, to New Westminster, British Col
umbia, of St. Anthony Falls Water Power
Company, the Clequet Lumber Company,
and of the lock and dam on Galena River,
Illinois. He is vice-president and manager
of the Portland Reduction Works, Port
land, Oregon and Blandon Mill Company,
of St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a member
of the American Geographic Society, the
University Club of Philadelphia, and the
Virginia Club of Norfolk, Virginia. He
married at Chicago, Illinois, November 25,
1873, Louisa V. Test, and they have a
daughter : Martha Erwin Jones. ' Address :
Nassawadox, Virginia.
JONES, William Atkinson:
Congressman ; born in Warsaw, Virginia,
March 21, 1849; in the winter of 1864 and
1865 he entered the Virginia Military In
stitute, where he remained until the evacu
ation of Richmond, serving, as occasion re
quired, with the cadets in the defense of
that city; after the close of the war stud
ied at Coleman's School in Fredericksburg,
until October, 1868, when he entered the
academic department of the University of

Virginia, from which institution he was
graduated with the degree of B.L. in 1870;
was admitted to the bar in July, 1870, and
has continued to practice law since; was
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses and re
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, re
ceiving 7,826 votes to 2,331 for Josephus
Trader, Republican. He was also elected
to the Sixtieth Congress, receiving 5,773
votes to 1,294 for R. S. Bristow, Repub
lican. He was one of the delegates-at-latge
from Virginia to the National Democratic
Convention, which assembled in Chicago in
1896 and chairman of his delegation. He
was also delegate-at-large to the Kansas
City Convention in 1900. Mr. Jones was
the author and first advocate of the reso
lution adopted by the Democratic party in
Virginia to nominate Democratic candidates
for United States Senators at party pri
mary elections. Address : Warsaw, Vir
ginia.
JONES, William Hugh:
Manufacturer; born in Penygroes, Wales,
May' 1, 1845; son of Hugh Jones. He was
educated until his twelfth year in the
schools of his native place, when he came
to America with his parents, who took up
their residence in Waushara County, Wis
consin. Young Jones there attended the
public schools and worked on the farm un
til 1865, when he became agent for the sale
of the Dodge reapers and Champion mow
ers, located at Berlin, Wisconsin. He was
a traveling salesman for L. J. Bush & Com
pany, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1868
to 1870 and in the employ of E. H. Gam
mon and William Deering from 1870 to
1881. In association with E. H. Gammon
he organized the Piano Manufacturing Com
pany at Piano, Illinois, in 1881, of which
he was president and which was later re
moved to West Pullman, Illinois. Upon
the organization of the International Har
vester Company in 1902, he became vice-
president of the Company. In politics he
is a Republican and he is a member of the
Union League Club. He was married in
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are : Hugh W., William O., and Garfield
R. Residence : Evanston, Illinois. Ad
dress : 7 Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois,
JONES, Woodruff:
Chemical manufacturer; born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1841 ;
grandson of Isaac C. Jones, a Philadelphia
merchant in the East India trade. He was
educated in several Philadelphia schools,
obtaining his higher education in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where he was
graduated from the Department of Arts in
i860. He then took a position with Crew,
Rogers & Crew, manufacturing chemists,
at the same time attending lectures in the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. During
the war he was second lieutenant in the
First Philadelphia Battery, and served
through the Antietam and Gettysburg cam
paigns. Subsequently he engaged in the
manufacture of chemical and pharmaceuti
cal preparations until 1878, when he enter
ed the white lead, oil and color factory
of John T. Lewis & Brother, of which com
pany he became secretary and treasurer on
its incorporation in 1889, and in 1907, he
was elected vice-president and treasurer.
These positions he still retains. Mr. Jones
was one of the founders of the Science and
Art Club of Germantown. Address : 5503
Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.JORDAN, Chester B:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born at Cole-
brook, Coos County, New Hampshire, Oc
tober 15, 1839; son of Johnson Jordan and
Minerva (Buel) Jordan. He received his
education in the public schools of his na
tive place and the Kimball Union Acad
emy at Plainfield, New Hampshire. After
his graduation he engaged in newspaper
work, and from 1868 was for six years
clerk of the Supreme Court for Coos Coun
ty, New Hampshire. While filling that of
fice he studied law, and in 1875 he was ad
mitted to the bar and engaged in practice
at Lancaster, New Hampshire, and became
one of the leaders at the Coos County bar,
and also prominent in political affairs as a
representative Republican. He was elected

to the House of Representatives of New
Hampshire arid was its Speaker in 1881,
to the State Senate and became its pres
ident in 1897, and in 1900 he was elected
governor of New Hampshire for the term
from 1901 to 1903, which he served. Gov
ernor Jordan received the degrees of A.
M. in 1881 and LL.D. in 1901 from Dart
mouth College and of M.Sc. from the New
Hampshire College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts in 1901. He is a prom
inent member of the State and local bar
associations of New Hampshire. Address:
Lancaster, New Hampshire.
JORDAN, David Starr:
President of Stanford University; born
in Gainesville, New York, January 19,
185 1 ; son of Hiram Jordan and Hul-
in 1872, and the degree of LL.D. was af
terward conferred upon him by the same
university, and by Johns Hopkins Univer
sity. He also received the degrees of M.D.
(from the Indiana University); and Ph.D.
(from Butler College). He served as
professor of natural history at Lombard
University in 1872 and 1873; was principal
of the Appleton Collegiate Institute, of Ap
pleton, Wisconsin, in 1873 and 1874;
teacher of science in the Indianapolis High
School in 1874 and 1875 ; professor of biol
ogy in Butler University from 1875 to
!879 ; professor of zoology in Indiana Uni
versity from 1879 and 1885; president of
the Indiana University from 1885 to 1891 ;
and since 1891 has been president of the
Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Dr.
Jordan is a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
the American Philosophical Society; Na
tional Educational Association, and the Car
negie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, and many others. He has been
almost continuously connected with the
United States Fish Commission and his
travels in the United States and in the
Pacific have been in carrying out investi
gations of this bureau. He is author of
a number of books, notably, A Manual of
Vertebrates; Synopsis of Fishes of North
America (with Professor C. H. Gilbert) ;
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Dr. B. W. Everman) ; A Guide to the Study
of Fishes ; Science Sketches ; Care and Cul
ture of Men; Footnotes to Evolution; Im
perial Democracy; The Blood of the Na
tion; Evolution and Animal Life; The
Philosophy of Hope ; The Human Harvest ;
and scientific papers in magazines and
proceedings of societies, aggregating about
five hundred titles. He is also a member of
Delta Upsilon fraternity, the Sigma Xi
Society and the University Club ; Bohemian
and Sierra Clubs of San Francisco. He
married first, at Hinsdale, Massachusetts,
in 1875, Susan Bowen, by whom he has
two children: Edith Monica, born in 1877;
and Harold Bowen, born in 1882; and he
married, second, at Worcester, Massachu
setts, in 1887, Jessie L. Knight, by whom
he has two sons: Knight Starr, born in
1889, and Eric Knight, born in 1904. Ad
dress : Stanford University, California.
JORDAN, Edwin Oakes:
Professor of bacteriology, University of
Chicago; born in Thomaston, Maine, July
28, 1866. He was educated in the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, from
which he received the degree of S.B.
in' 1888, and Ph.D. from the Clark Uni
versity in 1892. Editor of The Journal Of
Infectious Diseases ; president ' American
Society of Bacteriologists. Publications:
Translations of Hueppe's . Bacteriology ; spe
cial monographs in Journal of Experi
mental Medicine, Journal of Hygiene, etc.
Married, 1893; two sons. Address: Uni
versity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
JORDAN, James Henry:
Chief justice of Indiana; born at Wood
stock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, De
cember 21, 1842; son of Charles B. Jor
dan and Elizabeth Rhoads (Burke) Jor
dan. His paternal grandfather, David
Jordan, came from Germany to Virginia
about 1784, and his maternal grandfather
was a relative of the famous statesman,
Edmund Burke. He has been a resident
of Indiana since 1853; served three years
in the Army of the Potomac in the Forty-
fifth Indiana Volunteers, participating in
all the important battles of that army. Af

ter the war he went to the State Univer
sity of Indiana, graduating therefrom as
A.B. in 1868 and as LL.B. in 1871 ; the de
gree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by
Wabash College in 1907. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1869, before his grad
uation in law and practiced at Clinton, Mis
souri, and Martinsville; was appointed
prosecuting attorney in 1872, judge of the
Circuit Court, trustee of the State Univer
sity of Indiana from 189 1 to 1895, and was
elected judge of the Supreme Court of In
diana in 1894. He has continued on the
Supreme bench by successive reelections in
1900 and 1906, and is now chief justice.
Judge Jordan is a Republican in politics,
was elected a member of the Republican
State Committee of Indiana in 1880 and its
chairman of the committee in 1882. He is
a prominent member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and was formerly judge ad
vocate of the Department of Indiana. Resi
dence : Martinsville, Indiaria. Office ad
dress: State House, Indianapolis, Indiana.
JORDAN, John L.:
General contractor; born New York City,
May 17, 1874; son John and Rose Jordan;
educated public school New York City, Co
lumbia Institute, and Trade School of Me
chanics' and Traders' Institute. Has been
fifteefa years in the general contracting
business with his father, and on retirement
of the latter, August, 1905, succeeded to
entire business ; also secretary of Bois
Sheet Steel Stairs Company. Was assist
ant superintendent of Buildings of New
York City for four years, being retained
by Superintendents Stewart, Thompson,
and Hopper; resigning on August 1, 1905,
to assume charge of business of John Jor
dan and Son. Served ten years in Seventh
Regiment, National Guard of New York,
resigning as second lieutenant, Company A.,
January, 1905. Democrat. Roman Catholic.
Member Master Builders' Association;
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association ; So
ciety of Tammany ; Mechanics' and Traders'
Institute ; Knights of Columbus. Clubs :
Manhattan, National, Democratic, New
York Athletic, Lambs', Englewood .Golf.
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1899, Isabelle M. Murray. Address: 315
West Ninetieth Street, New York City.
JORDAN, John Woolf:
Librarian; born in Philadelphia, Septem
ber, 14, 1840; son of Francis Jordan and
Emily (Woolf) Jordan. He received his
education in private and Moravian schools
and received the degree of LL.D. from
Lafayette College. He is librarian of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania and has
been editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography since 1886. He
served as commissary sergeant in Starr's
Battery, attached to the Thirty-second
Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, and he
served throughout the Gettysburg Cam
paign. In politics he is a Republican. Dr.
Jordan is a commissioner of the Pennsyl
vania State Archives, and of the Valley
Forge Park of Pennsylvania; registrar of
the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of
the Revolution, and vice-president of the
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Jordan married in Philadelphia, Anne
Page, and they have three children : Wil
fred, born in 1884, Helen, born in 1887, and
Bevari P. Y., born in 1892. Residence-.
806 North Forty-first Street, Philadelphia.
Address : 1300 Locust Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
JORDAN, Noah W.:
Chairman of Directors of American
Trust Company; trustee Boston and Wor
cester Electric Companies ; director of Co
lumbian National Life Insurance Company;
Manhattan Building Company (Seattle) ;
Waldorf Building Company (Seattle);
Olympia Light and Power Company, vice-
president and director. Address: 53 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
JOSEPHI, Isaac A.:
Artist; born New York City, 1859; stu
dent at Art Students' League, New York
City, and under Leon Bonnar, Paris. Land
scape artist and painter of miniatures.
Honorable mention at Paris Exposition,
1900; silver medal, Charleston Exposition,
1902. Member American Society Miniature
Painters ; Royal Society of Miniature Paint

ers (London). Clubs: Salmagundi, Lotos.
Address: 558 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.JOSEPHTHAL, Louis Maurice:
Banker and broker; born in New York
City, October 17, 1869; son of Moriz and
Theresa (Wise) Josephthal; was graduated
from the College of the City of New York,
B.S. (third in class Phi Beta Kappa),
1887. Engaged since graduation as banker
and broker; now senior member Albert
Loeb & Company, and member of New
York Stock Exchange. Served as assist
ant paymaster, United States Navy, April
28 to October 4, 1898; now lieutenant and
assistant paymaster, First Naval Battalion,
New York. In politics he is a Democrat
and in religious faith a Hebrew. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Naval Order of the United States, Naval
and Military Order of Spanish-American
War ; has fifteen-year State service decora
tion. Member Naval Reserve Association.
His favorite recreations are: Horses,
motor cars, yachting, and he is a member
of Atlantic Yacht, Army and Navy, Na
tional Democratic, and Criterion Clubs. He
married in New York City, March 28,
1900, Edyth Guggenheim, and they have
two children : Elinor Clare, born 1901 ; and
Audrey Barbara, born 1903. Residence:
26 East Seventy-third Street. Summer resi
dence : Sands Point, Long Island. Ad
dress : 32 Broadway, New York City.
JOSSELYN, Edgar Alonzo:
Architect ; born Boston, July 2, 1861 ;
won Rotch Traveling Scholarship (archi
tecture), 1887; entered Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris, 1888. Practicing architecture
in New York City; among principal build
ings erected are the Horace Mann School
and Speyer School of Columbia University ;
Clarkson School of Technology, Potsdam,
New York; Charlton School; Stamford
Town Hall. Member Society Beaux Arts
Architects ( secretary, 1895-1898) ; associate
American Institute Architects and mem
ber New York Chapter same ; Architectural
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- son Square Garden Tower. Address : 3
West Twenty-ninth Street, New York City.
JOT7RDAN, James:
President and director Brooklyn Union
Gas Company, Central Union Gas Coma-
pany, , director New Amsterdam Gas Com
pany, Northern Union Gas Company, East
River Gas Company of Long Island City,
Mechanics' Bank (Brooklyn), People's
Trust Company, National Copper Bank, In-
terborough Rapid Transit Company, Rapid
Transit Subway Construction Company,
New York and Long Island Traction Com
pany, Long Island Electric Railway Com
pany, New York and Queens County Rail
way Company, New York and New Jersey
Telephone Company, Subway Realty Com
pany, Century Realty Company, Brooklyn
and Canarsie Realty Company. Residence:
174 Washington Park. Address: 180
Remsen ¦ Street, Brooklyn, New York.
JOYCE, William B.:
President National Surety Company;
born in Utica, New York, 1865; son of
Henry Mauwaring Joyce; educated public
schools in Michigan. Formerly insurance
agent; since February, 1904, president
National Surety Company. Is reputed
to have written (as agent) the largest
amount of surety bonds of any agent in the
world. Originator of the Fidelity Insur
ance Policy, and the Automobile Bail Bond
Power of Attorney. Democrat (sound
money) ; has some political experience in
St. Paul, Minnesota, where he retains his
legal residence. Episcopalian. Recreation:
Automobiling. Clubs: Arkwright (New
York City) ; Minnesota (St. Paul) ; Min
neapolis (Minneapolis). Married Lucy
Natalie Curley, of Louisville, Kentucky;
children: William Bradford (sixteen),
Morton Dean (six). Residence: 50 West
Seventy-seventh Street. Address : New
York Life Building, New York City.
JOYCE, William Thomas:
Lumber merchant; born in Salisbury,
Connecticut, January 2, i860; son of David
and Elizabeth F. (Thomas) Joyce. He be
came engaged in the lumber business with

his father at Clinton, Iowa, when he was
twenty years of age and succeeded to his
father's interests in 1895, which had in the
meantime become greatly enlarged. He is
now president of the W. T. Joyce Company,
William T. Joyce Company, Southern In
vestment Company, Tremont Lumber Com
pany, Winn Parish Lumber Company,
Trinity County Lumber Company, Joyce
Lumber Company, Itasca Lumber Company,
Joyce- Watkins Company, Deer River Lum
ber Company, Tremont and Gulf Railroad.
Minneapolis and Rainy River Railroad
Company, Manistee and Grand Rapids Rail
road Company, Merchants' National Batik,
Clinton, Iowa, First National Bank, Lyons,
Iowa, the Lyons Savings Bank of Lyons,
Iowa, and a director in the Mississippi
River Logging Company, the St. Paul Boom
Company and other corporations. He is a
member of the Masonic Order and of the
Protective Benevolent Order of Elks. He
is also a member of the Union League,
Chicago, Athletic, Chicago Yacht and Mid
lothian Clubs. Mr. Joyce married at Clin
ton, Iowa, October 15, 1884, Clotilde Gage,
and they have two children: David G, and
James Stanley. Residence: 4614 Wood-
lawn Avenue, Chicago. Address: 234 La
Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
JOYNER, James Yadkin:
Educator; born in North Carolina, Aug-'
ust 7, 1862. Was educated at the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Is superintendent of
public instruction of North Carolina. Ad
dress : 304 E. Jones Street, Raleigh, North
Carolina.
JUDD, Aspinwall:
Surgeon; born in New Orleans, Louisi
ana, June 4, 1868, son of John Judd and
Franc (Aspinwall) Judd.v He received his
preparatory education in private schools
and Elmira Academy and was graduated
from the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of Columbia University as M.D. He
was interne at Roosevelt Hospital, the
Post-Graduate Hospital and St. Luke's
Hospital, associate attending surgeon, of
the Babies Wards at the Post-Graduate
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the Post-Graduate Medical School; and is
now radiologist at the same institution. He
is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine
and a member of the New York Medical
Society. Dr. Judd married in New York
City, August 18, 1904, Marion Beardsley.
Address : 137 West Sixty-ninth Street, New
York City.
JUDD, Charles Hubbard:
Professor of psychology; born at Bare-
illie, India, February 20, 1873 ; son of
Charles Wesley Judd and Sarah (Hubbard)
Judd. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University as A.B. in 1894, and from Leip
zig as Ph.D. in 1896. He became instruct
or in philosophy in Wesleyan University
from 1896 to 1898, professor of experiment
al psychology from 1898 to 1901, in New
York University, professor of psychology
and pedagogy in the University of Cin
cinnati in 1901 and 1902; instructor in
psychology at Yale University from 1902 to
1904; assistant professor of psychol
ogy at Yale University, 1904 to 1907,
Professor in 1907. He was director of
the Yale Summer School in 1906 and 1907;
editor of Monograph Supplements to the
Psychological Review, and of the Yale Psy
chological Studies ; and is author of : Gene
tic Psychology for Teachers (Appleton) ;
and of a Series of Psychological Text-
Books (Scribner's). Mr. Judd is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, member of the Coun
cil of the American Psychological Associa
tion; and member of the American Philo
sophical Association, the Delta Kappa Ep
silon fraternity, and the Phi ' Beta Kappa
and Sigma Xi honor -societies. He is also a
member of the Graduates' Club of New
Haven. Mr. Judd married at Binghamton,
New York, August 23, 1898, Ella Le
Compte, and they have one daughter,
Dorothy, born January 24, 1904. Address :
318 Willow Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
JUDGE, John H.:
Lawyer; born in Dublin, Ireland; son of
Frederick H. and Alice (Quan) Judge, old
Irish families, Blennerhassetts and Egars ;
came to New York City with his father

when a child; he was educated in this
country in public schools. Entered a clerk
ship and the study of law with E. Dela
field Smith and Judge and George P. An
drews, with whom he was associated until
their death. Admitted to the. bar in 1876,
and since has been actively engaged in
practice of law- in New York City; now
principally commercial, probate and real
estate law. He has been commissioner in
lunacy proceedings, and in proceedings for
the condemnation of land for city and rail
road purposes; and has served as referee
under court appointments and on consent
of parties for more than twenty years, and
is also executor and trustee of estates of
large holdings. Democrat (independent).
Member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, New York His
torical Society, Municipal Art Association,
West End Association. Has a country
place at Holly Beach, near Cape May, New
Jersey. He is a member of the Manhattan
and the National Democratic Clubs. He
married Winifred E. Hollis, of Louisville,
Kentucky. Residence: 27 West Ninety-
fourth Street. Address : 261 Broadway,
corner of Warren Street, New York City.
JUDSON, Adoniram Brown :
Physician; born in Maulmain, Burma,
April 7, 1837; son of Adpniram and Sarah
Hall (Broadman) Judson. He was edu
cated in public and preparatory schools of
Massachusetts, tne University Grammar
School, of Providence, Rhode Island,
Brown University, A.M., 1859; Harvard
Medical School, Jefferson Medical College,
M.D., 1865 ; College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Columbia), M.D., ad undem
gradum, 1868. He served as assistant sur
geon in the United States Navy, July 1,
1861 ; surgeon in the United States Navy
December 26, 1864, to May 1, 1868 ; re
signed. Since 1868 he has practiced in
New York City; specialist in orthopaedic
surgery. He has filled several hospital
appointments and was orthopaedic sur
geon to the New York Hospital (Out
patient Department), from 1878 to 1907.
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Board of Health from 1869 to 1877; pen
sion examining surgeon from 1877 to 1884,
and 1901 to 1907; medical examiner of the
New York State Civil Service Commission
from 1901 to 1907. He is a member of the
American Orthopaedic Association (ex-
president), the American Medical Associa
tion ; Lafayette Post of the Grand Army of
the Republic; fellow of the American Acad
emy of Medicine, New York Academy of
Medicine. Contributor of papers relating to
his specialty to medical journals and to the
transactions of medical societies. He is
the author of The Influence of Growth on
Congenital Deformities. He married in
New York, November 19, 1868, Anna Mar
garet Haughwout. Residence : 18 West
Twenty-first Street. Address: 53 Wash
ington Square, New York City.
JUDSON, Charles N.:
Lawyer; member of the firm of Judson
and Hale. Director of Mabie, Todd and
Company. Trustee of Plymouth Church
and Memorial Fund Association; South
Brooklyn Savings Institution. Director of
the Spencerian Pen Company. Address :
40 Wall Street, New York City.
JUDSON, Edward:
Clergyman ; educator ; born in Maul-
main, Burmah, December 27, 1844; son of
Adoniram and Sarah Hall Judson; he was
graduated from Brown University, A.B.,
1865, A.M., D.D., Colgate University.
Was principal of Leland and Gray Semi
nary, Townshend, Vermont, from 1865 to
1867; professor of Latin and modern lan
guages, Colgate University, from 1868 to
1874. Traveled in Europe and the East
from 1874 to 1875. Pastor of the North
Orange Baptist Church, Orange, New Jer
sey, from 1875 to 1881; pastor of the
Memorial Baptist Church, New York City,
from 1881 to 1906. Erected in Washing
ton Square the Judson Memorial, in mem
ory of his father, the missionary of Bur
mah. Head Department Homiletics in the
Divinity School of University of Chicago,
1903 to 1905; now pastor Memorial Bap
tist Church of Christ in New York City;
also professor of pastorial theology in
Theological Seminary of Colgate Univer

sity, Hamilton, New York. Author: Life
of Adoniram Judson; The Institutional
Church. He is trustee of Brown Univer
sity, Vassar College. Member of Phi
Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Phi frater
nities. Fie is a member of the Century
Club. He married in 1871, Ellen Antoi
nette Barstow ; they have two children :
Elizabeth and Margaret. Address : 53
Washington Square, New York City.
JUDSON, Harry Pratt:
President of the University of Chicago;
born in Jennestown, New York, December
20, 1849; son of Lyman Parsons Judson
and Abigail Cook (Pratt) Judson. He was
graduated from Williams College as A.B.
in 1870, A.M. in 1883, and LL.D. in 1893;
and the degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by the Queens University in 1903,
by the State University of Iowa in 1907,
and by Washington University in 1907. He
was teacher and principal of the Troy High
School, from 1870 to 1885; professor of
history at the University of Minnesota,
from 1885 to 1892; has been professor and
head of department of political science at.
the University of Chicago since 1892, and
afterward became dean of faculties of arts,
literature and science; and he was elected
president, in 1907, of the University of
Chicago. In politics he is a Republican,
and in religion a Baptist. He is a member
of the American Historical Association,
American Political Science Association;
Order of the Crown (second class), from
the German Emperor; trustee of the Uni
versity of Chicago, the Lewis Institute of
Chicago, the Bradtey Polytechnic Institute
of Peoria, Illinois ; the General Education
Board of New York, and a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon' fraternity, and Phi
Beta Kappa.' His favorite recreations are
golf, and trout fishing. He is a member of
the Union League, University, City, Hamil
ton, and Homewood Country Clubs of Chi
cago. Dr. Judson married in Troy, New
York, January 14, 1879, Rebecca A. Gilbert,
and they have one daughter, Alice Cleveland
Judson (Laing). Residence: 505 Fifty-
ninth Street, Chicago. Address : The Uni
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JUDSON, William Bosworth:
Journalist; born in Syracuse, New York,
May 17, 1849; son of John F. and Maria
(Bosworth) Judson. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of Chenango
County. He was a local writer on the
Miami Valley News at Piqua, Ohio, in
1867-68, and was engaged in the insurance
business at Bay City, Michigan, from 1868
to 1871. He was employed for a few
months in the office of the Lumberman's
Gazette, at Bay City, that paper being the
first one established in the direct interest
of the lumber trade. In 1873 Mr. Judson
established the Michigan Lumberman at
Grand Rapids, Michigan, but removed to
Muskegon after the first issue, and in Jan
uary, 1874, to Chicago, Illinois, at the same
time changing the name to the Northwest
ern Lumberman, which was for many
years regarded as among the leaders of its
class. In 1899 the Northwestern Lumber
man was consolidated with the Timber-
man, under an incorporation, of which Mr.
Judson is the president and general man
ager. He is a member of the Union League
and Hamilton Clubs of Chicago. He was
married at Rochester, New York, in 1872,
to Grace King, and has three children
William Bruce, Paul King, and Ruth
Sarah. Residence : 4231 Michigan Avenue
Chicago. Address : 315 Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
JUDSON, William Pier son:
Civil engineer; born in Oswego, New
York, May 20, 1849; son (second son) of
Colonel John Work (of West Point Mili
tary Academy, class of 1836) and Emily
(Pierson) Judson, fifth in descent from
Rector Pierson, first president and founder
of Yale College (died 1688) ; educated Os
wego public and high schools, 1856-1867,
and private tuition. United States civil as
sistant engineer on forts, rivers and har
bors, 1870-1899; deputy State engineer of
New York, three terms, 1899-iQOK : now
practicing as consulting engineer for work=
on rivers, harbors and canals, hydro-electric
developments, roads and pavements. Pres
ident Broadalbin Electric Light and Power

Company ; director Broadalbin Improvement
Company; Broadalbin Knitting Company;
Commissioner Varick Water-Power Canal,
Oswego. Author: City Roads and Pave
ments, 4 editions, 1894-1902-1906-1907 ; From
the West and Northwest to the Sea, 1890;
Lake Ontario to the Hudson River;
Through the Oswego-Oneida-Mohawk Val
ley, from Oswego to Troy, 1896; History
of Various Projects for Reaching the Great
Lakes from Tidewater, 1768-1901; also
many published reports on harbors, and pro
jects for various improvements, etc.; con
tributor to professional publications. Re
publican. Episcopalian. Member American
Society Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil
Engineers of Great Britain ; associate mem
ber American Institute of Electrical Engi
neers ; member American Society Municipal
Improvements, Massachusetts Highway As
sociation, Oswego Historical Society, Buf
falo Historical Society, New York Geneal
ogical and Biographical Society, National
Geographical Society, Society of Colonial
Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Society of
the War of 1812 in New York (director),
Aenonian Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, 679, Oswego. Clubs: Fortnightly,
Yacht (Oswego) ; Fort Orange (Albany).
Married, October 9, 1888, Mrs. Anna L
(Thompson) McWhorter, of Oswego, mem
ber Colonial Dames, daughter of Dr. Rich
ard H. Thompson (health officer of Port
of New York, 1862). Residences: 144
West Fifth Street, Oswego, New York;
"Sunnybank," Broadalbin, Fulton County,
New York; "Solana," Punta Gorda, Flori
da. Address : Broadalbin, Fulton County,
New York.
JUHRING, John C:
Merchant; was born in New York City,
and is the son of John C. and Lena
(Stuke) Juhring. His father was a real
estate, operator, and at the time of his death
resided in Lincoln Place (Wilson Street),
Brooklyn, E. D., although for many years
a respected citizen and property holder in
New York. John C, the younger, received
his preliminary education in the public
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tered Mount Washington Collegiate Insti
tute, from which he was graduated in 1867.
He entered the employ of Francis H. Leg-
gett & Company, in 1873, and as the re
sult of close application and ability to de
velop and push business, was given an in
terest in the profits, and in 1892 was
admitted to partnership. In 1902 when the
firm was changed to a corporation, he was
chosen as its vice-president and secretary.
He was one of the charter members of the
Mechants' Association of New York and
at its first meeting, 1897 he was elected its
vice-president. Imbued with an unusual
degree of civic pride, he laid plans to
secure members and within a short period
after its organization he succeeded in add
ing to the membership roll one hundred and
fifty representative firm?. Mr. Juhring is
recognized as a public-spirited citizen, and
one who always has in mind the welfare
and best interests of the city of his birth.
He takes a commendable pride in setting
forth the superior advantages possessed by
New York City as a great trading center.
On February 15, 1905, the Evening Mail
in a department of that journal called Men
of Affairs, published a picture of Mr. Juh
ring, and styled it the Promoter of Goth
am's Advantages. The explanation as to
why the Evening Mail selected Mr. Juhring
as the subject of its cartoon is found in the
fact that in 1904, through his untiring ef
forts, more than two thousand out-of-town
merchants were induced to visit the metrop
olis during the season as the guests of Leg-
gett & Company. They were cordially wel
comed and royally entertained during their
stay in the city. They were invited to par
take of a bountiful luncheon, which was
served in the King Street manufacturing
home of the company^ and afterward, from
the deck of a large steam yacht, treated to a
revelation of the commercial supremacy of
the' city, viewing its vast wharves, ware
houses and immense skyscraping business
structures. Many of the visitors had not
been in the city in many years, and so pro
found was the impression made upon them
on this occasion, that, they were forced to
tlie conclusion that their business interests

would be best subserved in the future by
making their purchases in this market,
which offers more of everything and in
greater variety than it is possible to find
elsewhere, and on more advantageous
terms. Thus the efforts of Mr. Juhring in
inducing these merchants to visit the met
ropolis were productive of splendid results.
Mr. Juhring is a director of the Coal and
Iron National Bank of New York City, a
trustee of the Citizens' Savings Bank, be
sides being connected in a similar capacity
with many other commercial institutions.
In politics he is a Republican, but of In
dependent views. He is a member of the
Merchants' Club of New York and of sev
eral out of town social organizations.
He was married on October 19, 1901, at the
Hotel Majestic, New York City, to Miss
Frances Bryant Fisher. They have one
son, John C, 3rd, born August 30,
1902. Residence: 311 West Eighty-sixth
Street, New York City.
JUILLIARD, Augustus D, :
Capitalist; he is the senior member of
A.D. Juilliard & Company; president and
director of the Cossit Land Company;
trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany; of the New York Life Insurance
and Trust Company; of the Title Guaran
tee and Trust Company; of the Central
Trust Company; of the Fifth Avenue
Trust Company; of the Greenwich Savings
Bank; also a director of the Bank of
America; of the Chemical National Bank;
of the Girard Trust Company of Phila
delphia; Guaranty Trust Company of New
York; Metropolitan Opera and Real Es
tate Company; Morton Trust Company;
National Bank of Commerce; North Brit
ish and Mercantile Insurance Company of
London and Edinburgh (United States di
rector) ; North British and Mercantile In
surance Company of New York; Realty
Associates. He is a member of the Metro
politan, Union League, Republican, Mer
chants', Tuxedo Clubs. Residence : 16 West
Fifty-seventh Street and Tuxedo Park.
Address: 70 Worth Street, New York
City.

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JUNKIN, Francis Thomas Anderson:
Lawyer; born in Virginia, February 3,
1864; son of Rev. William Finney Junkin,
D.D., LL.D., and Anna Aylett (Anderson)
Junkin. His father was son of Rev. George
Junkin (founder of Lafayette College, pres
ident of Washington and Lee University,
Virginia, and father-in-law of "Stonewall"
Jackson) ; and his mother was daughter of
Hon. Francis Thomas Anderson, for many
years and until his death justice of the Su
preme Court of Appeals of Virginia. He
is descended through his mother's side from
the earliest settlers of Virginia, a direct an
cestor being Gov. John West, first governor
of Virginia, son of Lord De La Warr II.
Mr. Junkin was graduated from Kenyon
College as A.B... and A.M. in 1884; and
from Columbia University Law School,
New York, as LL.B. in 1887. He started
his professional career in the offices of
Joseph H. Choate, William M. Evarts, and
Charles C. Beaman, New York, and he
practiced law in Wall Street many years.
He has broad experience in corporation
and especially railroad practice, being active
as one of the counsel for the Farmers'
Loan and Trust Company in most of the
important foreclosures and reorganizations
of railroad systems from 1893 to 1897. Mr.
Junkin is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York ; American
Bar Association; National Geographic So
ciety; American Forestry Association; So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Southern Society,
and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
is also a member of the Uhiversity Club of
New York; the University Club of Chi
cago ; Democratic Club of New York ;
Union Club of Chicago; Chicago Club;
Onwentsia and Saddle' and Cycle Clubs of
Chicago. Address : Union Club, Chicago,
and the Railway Exchange, Chicago, Illinois,
JUNKIN, Joseph de Eorest:
Member of Philadelphia bar ; born in
Philadelphia, April 16, 1855 ', >s a son of
George and Jeanie de Forest Junkin; at
tended school of John W. Faires until
1870; was graduated from University of
Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, 1874,
B.A., and received degree of M.A,, 1877.

Admitted to bar in 1877 ; in active practices
in Philadelphia since then, representing
large corporate interests in all parts of the
United States ; on Board of Directors of
Real Estate Trust Company of Philadel
phia, Jefferson Medical College and
Lafayette College and Lawyers' Club.
Member of the Union League Club
of Philadelphia, Art Club, Lawyers' Club,
Law Association, Penn Club, Bachelors'
Barge Club, New York Yacht Club, Sons
of the Revolution, St. Andrew's Society,
Orpheus Club and Country Club. Address :
Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

K

KAHN, Julius:
Congressman; born, February 28, 1861,
at Kuppenheim, Grand Duchy of Baden,
Germany; came to California with his
parents in 1866; and was educated in the
public schools of San Francisco. After leav
ing school he followed the theatrical pro
fession for ten years, playing with Edwin
Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Tomasso Salvini,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, Clara Morris,
and other well-known stars. He returned
to San Francisco in 1890 and began study
ing law; in 1892 was elected to. the Legisla
ture of the State of California; in January,
1894, was admitted to the bar by the Su
preme Court of California; was elected to
the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Con
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses from the Fourth Cali
fornia District. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He married in San Francisco, March
19, 1899, Florence Prag. Address: San
Francisco, California.
KALANIANAOLE, Jonah Kuhio:
Congressman; born .March 26, 1871, at
Koloa, island of Kauai, Hawaii; was edu
cated in Honolulu, the United States and
England; is a capitalist; was employed in
the office of minister of the interior and
in the custom house under the monarchy ;
is cousin to the late King Kalakaua and
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Kingdom of Hawaii, and nephew of Queen
Kapiolaui, Consort of Kalakaua; was cre
ated prince by royal proclamation in 1884;
was. elected Delegate to the Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress by an increased
majority; married Elizabeth Kahanu Kaau-
wai, daughter of a chief of the island of
Maui, October 8, 1896. Address Waikik"i,
Honolulu.
KANE, James Johnson:
Chaplain of the United States Navy, with
rank of rear-admiral, retired; born in Ot
tawa, Canada, October 18, 1837; of Scotch-
Irish descent; son of Clement Kane, late
midshipman in the Royal Navy, and cap
tain Canadian artillery, and Barbara Mary
(Price) Kane: Was educated at Chamblei
College, and Montreal College (one year in
each), and four years in Stonyhurst Col
lege, England, from 1847 to 185 1; two
terms at Harvard Law School, in 1869
and 1870; received the M.A. degree from
Bucknell University and attended two
terms at the Medical School in Toronto.
Went to sea for his health, in the merchant
service; became chief mate of a packet
ship at twenty-two ; master of a schooner
in the coasting trade at twenty-three; en
tered the United States Navy as master's
mate, August 8, 1861, and appointed acting
chaplain of the Frigate Potomac in addi
tion to other duties; was promoted to en
sign in the Volunteer Navy by Admiral
Farragut for special services rendered, Oc
tober, 1862. Served on the blockade, and
detached cruising as executive officer. Took
part in several important naval battles in
' the Civil War, including the two battles of
Fort Fisher, under Admiral D. D. Porter,
and mentioned for heroic services in battle
and recommended for promotion. Honor
ably discharged at his own request, August
31, 1865. Completed his theological course
at the University of Lewisburg (now Buck
nell), Pennsylvania, 1867; appointed chap
lain with the relative rank of lieutenant-
commander in 1868; promoted commander
1874, rank of captain in 1893; retired 1896
for wounds and incident of war service.
Has been acting chaplain United States Sen

ate on several occasions. Was nominated
and confirmed to the rank of rear-admiral,
December 11, 1906. He is a writer of a
number of religious and lay novels, includ
ing : Adrift on the Black Wild Tide, which
passed through four editions in Great Brit
ain and America, also the author of: The
Flistory of English Newspapers, Illustrated ;
the only book of the kind. Chaplain Kane
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Re
public, Masonic order, and the Army and
Navy Club of New York City. He married,
March 3, 1864, Mina Cloughly, niece of
Hon. John Coriness, United States senator
(1863-1869) from California (she died in
1868). Address: Army and Navy Club,
New York City.
KASSON, John Adam:
Diplomat; born at Charlotte, Vermont,
January n, 1822; son of John Steele Kas-
son and Nancy (Blackman) Kasson. He
was graduated from the University of Ver
mont as A.B. in 1842 and afterward studied
law at Worcester, Massachusetts; practiced
at New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1844
to 1849, at St. Louis, Missouri, from 1850
to 1856,' and in 1857 located in the practice
of law at Des Moines, Iowa. He was a
Free-soiler in politics (delegate to the Free-
soil Convention at Buffalo in 1848), and one
of the original members of the Republican
Party; chairman of the Republican State
Committee of Iowa from 1858 to i860, and
a member of the Republican National Con
vention at Chicago in i860, and a member
of the Committee and Sub-Committee on
Resolutions of that body. He was ap
pointed by President Lincoln first assistant
postmaster-general of the United States,
serving from 1861 to 1863; was the special
United States Commissioner to the Inter
national Postal Conference at Paris, 1863 ;
was member of the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-
ninth, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses ; was
United States Minister to Austria from
1877 to 1881 and to Germany in 1884 and
1885 ; member of the Congo International
Conference, 1885, Samoan International
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Canadian Joint High Commission in 1898,
and United States special commissioner
plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity
treaties from 1897 to 1901. Address: 1726
I Street, Washington, D. C.
KAUFMAN, Gustave:
Civil engineer; born in Allegheny City,
Pennsylvania, February 16, 1869;- son of
Simon and Sibilla (Marks) Kaufman. He
received his education in the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York,
from which he was graduated CE. in 1880.
He was engineer and builder of the bridge
across the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh
in 1890, and served in the same capacity in
the construction of bridges at Cincinnati
and Wheeling in 1891 and 1892 and at Peo
ria, Illinois, in 1899; was a contractor on
the Long Island Railroad subway, Atlantic
Avenue, Brooklyn, which was completed in
1904 and is at present contractor for the
construction of the Brooklyn Anchorage of
the Manhattan Bridge across East River;
chief engineer of the Wilson and Baillie
Manufacturing Company, and the Kosmos
Engineering Company. Mr. Kaufman is a
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American Society for Test
ing Materials, the National Geographic So
ciety and of the Engineers' and Harmonie
Clubs. He married in April, 1895, Sidonia
Stirn. Address : 251 West Ninety-fifth
Street, New York City.
KAUFMAN, Matthias Sailor:
Clergyman; born at Decatur, Illinois,
November 7, 1845 ; son of Joseph and Mary
Ann (Sailor) Kaufman. He prepared for
college at Union School, Ann Arbor,Michi-
gan; was graduated from Northwestern
University, as A.B. in 1874 (prizes in essay
and oration), received the degree of B.D.
from Garrett Biblical Institute in 1876, of
A.M. in 1877, and D.D. in 1901, from the
Northwestern University, also Phi Beta
Kappa; and Ph.D. in 1895, from Boston
University. He enlisted, August 11, 1862,
in -Company F, of the One hundred and
Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer In
fantry; was in the battle of Chickamauga,
September 20, 1863, and at Nashville, Ten
nessee, January 15, 1864; and he was mus

tered out as first corporal, June 24, 1865.
Dr. Kaufman has held pastorates in Illi
nois, Minnesota, North Dakota, and at Fall
River, New Bedford, East Bridgewater, and
Brocton, Massachusetts, and Providence,
Rhode Island. He built the two finest
church edifices in the New England South
ern Conference and has served four of its
best five charges. He has traveled through
Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and other
lands. Dr. Kaufman was a delegate to the
Methodist Ecumenical Conference in Lon
don, 1900, and to the Epworth League In
ternational Convention in San Francisco,
July, 1901. He is author of a series of ar
ticles on the Holy Land for the Methodist
Magazine ; and a contributor to the Metho
dist Review, and other church periodicals.
For sixteen years, he wrote regularly for
Euworth League Department of Zion's Her
ald, Boston. He married at Princeton, Il
linois, July 26, 1876, Adolphine Louise
Schlieman, and they have one son, Joseph
Paul, born July 29, 1886. ' Address : 28
Pearl Street, Norwich, Connecticut.
KAVANAGH, Marcus:
Jurist; born in Des Moines, Iowa, Sep
tember 3, 1859 ; son of Marcus and Mary
(Hughes) Kavanagh. He attended the
public schools of Des Moines and was grad
uated from the Niagara University in 1876
and from the law department of the Iowa
State University with the degree of LL.B.
in 1878. He was admitted to the Iowa bar
in the same year and engaged in general
practice in his native city. In 1880 he was
elected city attorney of Des Moines and was
reelected to the same office in 1882. In 1885
he was elected district judge of the Ninth
Judicial District of Iowa, but resigned the
position in 1889 and removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he became associated in
practice with Judge John Gibbons, under
the style of Gibbons & Kavanagh, which
later was changed to Gibbons, Kavanagh &
O'Donnell. Judge Gibbons retired from the
firm upon his elevation to the berich, and
it was continued as Kavanagh & O'Donnell
until at the election in 1899 Mr. Kavanagh
was chosen for judge of the Superior Court
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holds. While residing in Des Moines he
was major and afterward lieutenant-colonel
of the Third Regiment of the Iowa Na
tional Guard. He was elected lieutenant-
colonel of the Seventh Regiment of the Illi
nois National Guard in 1894 and promoted
to colonel in 1896. He served with dis
tinction in the Spanish-American War as
colonel of the" Seventh Volunteer Infantry.
He is a Republican in politics. Address :
1518 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
KEAN, John:
United States senator ; born in Ursino,
Union County, New Jersey, December 4,
1852 ; son of John Kean and Lucy Kean. He
studied at private school and entered Yale
College in the class of 1876; did not grad
uate, but left to study law; graduated at
Columbia College Law School, 1875, and
was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1877.
He was elected to the Forty-eighth and
Fiftieth Congresses ; was chairman of the
Republican State Committee in 1891 and
1892, and Republican candidate for gover
nor, 1892 ; received the degree of M.A. from
Yale University in 1890; was a member of
the committee to revise the judiciary sys
tem of the State. He is president of the
National State Bank of Elizabeth, New Jer
sey, and vice-president of the Manhattan
Trust Company, of New York; was nomi
nated by acclamation by the Republican
caucus, and elected to the United States
Senate, January 25, 1899, to succeed James
Smith, Jr., Democrat; and was reelected
in 1905. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1911. Address : Ursino, near Eliza
beth, New Jersey.
KEANE, John Joseph:
Archbishop of Dubuque; born at Bally-
shannon, County Donegal, Ireland, Septem
ber 12, 1839; and was brought to the
United States by his parents in 1846. He
was graduated from St. Charles College,
Ellicott City, Maryland, and studied the
ology at St. Sulpice and St. Mary's Semi
nary in Baltimore. After his ordination
to the priesthood by Archbishop Spalding
in 1866, he was assistant to the permanent
rector of St. Patrick's Church, Washington,

D. C, until he was consecrated, August 25,
1878, bishop of Richmond, Virginia. This
office he resigned in August, 1888, re
ceived the titular see of Ajasso, and
was rector of the Catholic University of
America from 1888 to 1896. He was sum
moned to Rome, and was made titular
Archbishop of Damascus, January 9, 1897,
served as assistant at the pontifical throne,
canon of the Lateran and consultor to the
Propaganda, with residence at the Canadian
College, Rome. In July, 1900, he was ele
vated to the metropolitan see of Dubuque.
Address : Dubuque, Iowa.
KEANY, Joseph F.:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York.
He is engaged in practice as a lawyer in
New York City; is attorney for the Long
Island Railroad Company; secretary, treas
urer and director of the Long Island Con
struction Company, and the River and
Harbor Transportation Company; director
of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated Railroad
Company, the Glen Cove Railroad Com
pany, the Glendale and East River Rail
road Company, the Jamaica and South
Shore Railroad • Company, the Long Island
Consolidated Electrical Companies, the
Long Island Railroad Company (North
Shore Branch), the Montauk Steamboat
Company, Limited, The Montauk Water
Company, the Nassau County Railway
Company, the New York and Rockaway
Beach Railway Company, the New York,
Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach . Railway
Company, Ocean Electric Railway Com
pany, Prospect Park and Coney Island
Railroad Company, and the West Jamaica
Land Company, Limited. Residence : 470
Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Office ad
dress : 128 Broadway, New York City.
KEASBEY, Henry Miller:
Manufacturer; born in Newark, New
Jersey; January 16, 1859; son of Anthony
Q. Keasbey and Edwina L. (Miller) Keas-
bey. He received his education in private
schools and the Newark (New Jersey)
Academy. He commenced business with
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yeaib; was manager of a bank in Colorado
for two" years; and in 1882 he became as
sociated with the. Raritan Hollow and
Porous Brick Company, of Keasbey, New
Jersey, as secretary and treasurer; and
afterward became successively vice-presi
dent and then president of the company.
In 1902 he became vice-president and East
ern manager of the National Fire Proofing
Company; also president of the Federal
Clay Manufacturing Company; the Ameri
can Vitrified Conduit Company and East
ern manager of the H. B. Camp Company.
In politics he is a Republican. His favorite
recreations are riding, driving and auto
mobiling. Mr. Keasbey is a member of the.
Lawyers' and the Essex County Country
Clubs. He married at Newark, New Jer
sey, April 18, 1883, Charlotte Condit Lewis,
and their children are: Edwin L. (Mrs.
Jacques Bramhall), born in 1884, Dorothy
M. (Mrs. Stephen Delavan Day), born in
1885, and Marjorie L., born in 1891. Resi
dence : Country Home, "Holmwood,"
Orange, New Jersey. Office address : 949
Broadway, New York City.
KEASBEY, Lindley Miller:
Educator and author; born in Newark,
New Jersey, February 24, 1867. Graduated
at Harvard in 1888; Ph.D. Columbia Uni
versity, 1890; R.P.D. Kaiser- Wilhelm Uni
versity, Strassburg, Germany, 1892. Pro
fessor Economics and Political Science,
State University of Colorado, 1892-1895.
Professor Economics and Politics, Bryn
Mawr College, 1895-1905. Professor, and
head of the School of Political Science,
State University of Texas, 1905. Author
of : The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe
Doctrine; The Economic Foundations of
Society, from the French of Achille Loria
and monographs and papers on economic
and political subjects. He married in
Louisville, Kentucky, June 8, 1892, Nelly
Simrall.. Address: Austin, Texas.
KEATOR, Frederic William:
Missionary bishop of Olympia ; born at
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1855 ;
son of Jerman S. and Mary (Baldwin)
Keator. He was educated at Yale Uni

versity, graduating with the degree of B.A.
in 1880 and taking, after studies for the
law the degree of LL.B. in 1882. The
degree of D.D. was conferred upon him
by the Western Theological Seminary in
law, the degree of LL.B. in 1882. The
1902. He was engaged for eight years
in the practice of the law after being ad
mitted to the bar in i882,"then, entering
the ministry of the Episcopal Church,
was ordered deacon in 1891 and the same
year was ordained priest by" Bishop Mc
Laren. He was connected w'th the Church
of the Atonement, Chicago, Illinois, 1891
to 1896, being in the latter year called to the
rectorship of Grace Church, Freeport, Illi
nois. After officiating in this church for
three years, he resigned to become rector
of St. John's Church, Dubuque, Iowa,
where he remained until his election to the
episcopate. He was made missionary
bishop of Olympia, Washington, in 1902.
and was consecrated by Bishops McLaren,
Hare, Morrison (Iowa), Nicholson, Edsall,
Williams (bishop coadjutor of Nebraska),
Anderson (bishop coadjutor of Chicago),
White and Taylor. Bishop Keator was
married in Chicago, October 30, 1894, to
Emma Victoria Lyon. Address : Bishop's
House, Tacoma, Washington.
KEELEY, James:
Editor; bora in London, England, Oc
tober 14, 1867 ; came to the United States
and was educated in the public schools.
He began his newspaper career with the
Chicago Tribune as a reporter and has con
tinued with that paper ever since, being
successively promoted to night city editor,
city editor, and, in 1898, to his present
position as managing editor. He added to
his many laurels of journalistic enterprise
by planning and executing the series of
coups by which Paul O. Stensland the ab
sconding president of the Milwaukee Ave
nue State Bank of Chicago was tracked
(by Mr. Keeley and Harry Olsen, since
elected chief justice of the Municipal Court
of Chicago) to Tangier, Morocco, taken
back to Chicago and sent to Joliet peni
tentiary for forgery. Mr. Keeley married
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Residence: 86 Astor Street, Chicago. Of
fice address: The Tribune,- Chicago, Illi
nois.KEEN, Gregory Bernard:
Curator and secretary of the Council of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania;
born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1844; son
of Joseph Swift and Lucy Ann (Hutton)
Keen. He was graduated as A.B. from
the University of Pennsylvania, 1861, and
received the degree of A.M., in 1864, and
LL.D. from Gustavus Adolphus College in
1907. He was graduated at the Divinity
School of the ^Protestant Episcopal Church
in Philadelphia and ordained deacon of the
Church in 1866; resigned this office and
became a Catholic in 1868; and during
1869 and 1870 he traveled in Europe. He
attended lectures , in the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania
in 1870 and 1871 ; was professor of mathe
matics in the Theological Seminary of St.
Charles Barromeo at Overbrook, Pennsyl
vania, in 1871 and 1872 and for several
years devoted himself to the study of Greek
literature. He was corresponding secret
ary of the Historical Society of Pennsyl
vania from 1880 to 1898; librarian of the
University of Pennsylvania from 1887 to
1897; and librarian of the Historical So
ciety of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1903,
when he became curator of that society.
As executor of Professor George Allen,
LL.D. he prepared a catalogue of his
famous Chess Library, printed in 1878;
edited the Pennsylvania Magazine of His
tory and Biography in 1883 and 1884, con
tributing translations of various Dutch and
Swedish manuscripts and pamphlets re
lating to the early Swedish colony on the
Delaware, as well as a series of articles
on The Descendants of Joran Kyn, the
founder of Upland, his first American an
cestor; wrote the chapters on New Sweden
and New Albion in the Narrative and
Critical History of America, edited by
Justin Winsor; prepared the catalogue of
the Collection of Autographs formed by
Ferdinand Julius Dreer, privately printed
in 1890-1893. He was delegate to the
Columbian Catholic Congress at Chicago

in 1893 and has been historiographer of the
Alumni Society of the College Department
of the University of Pennsylvania since
1890. Dr. Keen is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa fraternity, the American Philo
sophical Society, the American Catholic
Historical Society, the Pennsylvania So
ciety of Sons of the Revolution, the So
ciety of the War of 1812, registrar of the
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and his
torian of the Pennsylvania Society of
Colonial Wars. He married in 1885 Stella
Maria, daughter of John Marshall and
Hanna Martina (Gunwalsen) Watson of
New York. Address : 1300 Locust Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
KEEN, William Williams:
Surgeon; born in Philadelphia, January
19, 1837; son of William Williams Keen
and Susan (Budd) Keen. His ancestor
Joran (i. e. George) Kyn came from Up
land, Sweden, in 1642, in the expedition of
Governor Printz. Fie was graduated from
Brown University in 1859, and from Jef
ferson Medical College as M.D. in 1862;
and he received the degree of LL.D. from
Brown University in 1892, from Northwest
ern University in 1903, the University of
Toronto in 1904, the University of Edin
burgh in 1905, and frorii Yale in 1906, and
the honorary degrees of M.D. from Greifs-
-wald in 1906, and of Ph.D. from the Univer
sity of Upsala in 1907. Before his gradua
tion in medicine he was appointed assistant
surgeon of the Fifth Massachusetts Volun
teer Regiment in 1861 ; was acting assistant
surgeon of the United States Army from
1862 to 1864; studied in Europe from 1864
to 1866, and since then has practiced sur
gery in Philadelphia. Dr. Keen was lec
turer on pathological anatomy in Jefferson
Medical College from 1866 to 1875; profes
sor of artistic anatomy in the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts from 1876 to 1890;
professor of surgery in the Woman's Med
ical College from 1884 to 1889 ; and has been
professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical
College from 1889 until 1907, when he re
signed his chair and was made professor
emeritus. Dr. Keen is a member of many
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•rttnerican Surgical Association in 1898,
of the American Medical Association in
1899, the College of Physicians of Phila
delphia in 1900, and the Congress of Amer
ican Physicians and Surgeons in 1903.
Since 1894 he has been a foreign corre
sponding member of the Societe de Chir
urgie de Paris, Societe Beige de Chirurgie
and the Clinical Society of London; and
he is an honorary fellow o'c the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons of England, Royal Col
lege of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie. He is
author of several works on surgery, the
latest of which is Keen's Surgery (five vol
umes), 1907. In politics he is a Republican,
and in his religious faith a Baptist ; and
he is author of the History of the First
Baptist Church of Philadelphia. He is a
member of the University Club, Brown
University Club, and the City Club. Dr.
Keen married at Fall River, Massachusetts,
December 11, 1867, Emma Corinna Borden,
who died in 1886, leaving four children :
Corinne (now Mrs. Walter J. Freeman),
Florence, Dora, and Margaret (now Mrs.
Howard Butcher, Jr.). Address: 1729 Chest
nut- Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
KEENE,, Francis B.:
Consular officer; born in Wisconsin; ap
pointed consul at Florence, March 24, 1903;
appointed consul at Geneva, March 23, 1905.
Address : Geneva, Switzerland.
KEENE, James Robert:
Capitalist; born in London, England,
in 1838; went as a boy to California, where
as miner, he laid the foundation of a large
fortune. He was for some time president
of the San Francisco Stock Exchange;
but has, since 1877 carried on operations
in New York. Mr. Keene is an active
member of the Rockaway Hunt Club and
of the leading Jockey Clubs here and
abroad. For years he has been a generous
supporter of the Turf, and horses of his
breeding and training have won in differ
ent years nearly all the classic races held
in England and France. Residence:

Cedarhurst, Long Island. Address : 30
Broad Street, New York City.
KEEP, Chauncey:
Capitalist; born at Whitewater, Wiscon
sin, August 20, 1853; son of Henry Keep
and Phebe (McClues) Keep. He received
his education in the Chicago public schools.
He was engaged in the lumber business,
1878 to 1883 and the Raymond Lead Com
pany, 1888 to 1903. Mr. Keep is vice-pres
ident and director of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank; director of the Merchants'
Loan and Trust Company of Chicago, the
Chicago Telephone Company, the North
western Elevated Railroad Company, the
Pullman Company, and the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company; trustee
of the New York Trust Company and of
the United States Trust Company of New
York, and is executor and trustee of the
estate of Marshall Field. He is a member
of the Chicago Historical Society, the Chi
cago Home for Incurables, Old People's
Home of Chicago, and Hahnemann Hos
pital and College. In politics he is a Re
publican; and he is a member of the Epis
copal Church. He has traveled extensively
in Europe, Egypt, Mexico, the West Indies
and many other countries. His favorite
recreations are golf and horseback riding.
Mr. Keep is a member of the Chicago and
Union League Clubs of Chicago, the Chi
cago Athletic Association, and the Chicago
Golf Club, Chicago Literary Club, Onwent
sia Golf Club, Lake Forest, Illinois, and
the Midday Club of Chicago. He married
at Chicago, January 19, 1888, Mary H.
Blair, and their children are: Margaret,
born October 28, 1888, Henry B., born Sep
tember 25, 1891, and Katharine F. Keep,
born July 19, 1894. Residence : 2825 Prairie
Avenue, Chicago. Office address : 135
Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
KEEP, William John:
Manufacturer; born in Oberlin, Ohio;
son of Rev. Theodore John Keep and Mary
A. (Thompson) Keep. He was graduated
from Union College as CE. in 1865. Mr.
Keep has been engaged as a stove manu
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Siichigan Stove Company; also a manu
facturer of testing machines. In 1885 he
discovered the relation between the shrink
age and chemical composition of cast iron,
devised the system of Keep's Test, which he
later named Mechanical Analysis. He is
author of: Cast Iron (John Wiley and
Sons), and is a contributor to various tech
nical journals. In politics he is a Repub
lican, and in religion a Presbyterian. Mr.
Keep is a member of the American Insti
tute of Mining Engineers, American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, Iron and
Steel Institute of Great Britain, Interna
tional Association for Testing Material,
American Foundrymen's Association, Frank
lin Institute of Philadelphia, Detroit En
gineering Society; fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence; honorary member of the Rensselaer
Society of Engineers and of the Foundry-
men's Association of Philadelphia, and is
a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution and of the New England So
ciety. Mr. Keep married in Oberlin, Ohio,
Frances S. Henderson, and they have two
children: Helen Elizabeth Keep and
Henry Keep. Residence : 753 Jefferson
Avenue, Detroit. Address : Michigan
Stove Company, Detroit, Michigan.
KEIFER, Joseph Warren:
Lawyer, soldier and statesman ; born on
a farm in Bethel Township, Clark County,
Ohio, January 30, 1836; son of Joseph
Keifer and Mary (Smith) Keifer. He
resided' in his native township until 1856,
arid was educated in the common schools
and at Antioch College, Ohio. He began
the study of law on the farm and later
continued it in an office at Springfield,
Ohio, where he was admitted to practice
January 12, 1858, and he has since been
continuously engaged in the practice of
law at Springfield, except at such times
as he has been engaged on some public
duty. Following Lincoln's first call for
volunteers he enlisted in the Union Army,
April 19, 1861, and on April 27, 1861, he
was commissioned as major of the Third
Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He
was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel of

that regiment, February 12, 1862, and was
commissioned colonel of the One Hundred
and Tenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, September 30, 1862. He was ap
pointed brigadier-general by brevet No
vember 30, 1864, for gallant and meritor
ious services in the battles of Opequan,
Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, Virginia,
and was assigned to duty as brigadier-
general, by President Lincoln, December
29, 1864. He was appointed, July 1, 1865,
major-general by brevet, for gallant and
distinguished services during the campaign
ending in the surrender of the insurgent
army under General R. E. Lee, and was
mustered out of service June 27, 1865, hav
ing been in the Volunteer Army four years
and two months. He was severely wound
ed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 5,
1864, and three times slightly wounded,
having served in Western Virginia and
Kentucky, in 1861, in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama and West Virginia in 1862 and
in Maryland and Virginia, 1863 to 1865.
He was in New York City and Brooklyn
(August *nd September, 1863) to enforce
the draft. On November 30, 1866, without
his solicitation General Keifer was appoint
ed lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth
Infantry, United States Army, but declined
the appointment. General Keifer was a
member of the Ohio State Senate in 1868
and 1869, and was a representative from
Ohio in the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses from
1877 to 1885, and was speaker of the Forty-
seventh Congress, elected December 5, 1881,
and serving until March 4, 1883. In 1904
he was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress,
1905-1907, and in 1906 was reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress (1907-1909) in which he
is now serving. General Keifer served
as a major-general, in the Spanish-American
War from June 9, 1898, to May 11, 1809,
and commanded the First Division of the
Seventh Army Corps (and sometimes the
corps) in Florida (Miami and Jackson
ville), Georgia (Savannah) and Cuba
(Habana and Buena Vista). General
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and was a delegate-at-large from Ohio to
the Republican National Convention at
Cincinnati in June, 1876. General Keifer
has also been prominent in the affairs of
the Grand Army of the Republic, of which
ne was vice-commander-in-chief in 1872 to
1873; and he was the first commander-in-
chief of the Spanish War Veterans, 1900-
1901, and was commander of the Ohio
Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, 1903-
04. General Keifer was trustee of the Ohio
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, from April
16, 1870, to March 5, 1878, and again in
1903-04. He has been a trustee of Antioch
College since June 30, 1873, and has been
president of the Lagonda National Bank,
Springfield, Ohio, from its organization in
April, 1873, except for a short time when
he served as its vice-president. General
Keifer is the author of: Slavery and Four
Years of War, published by G. P. Put
nam's Sons (New York) in 1900. He
married, March 22, i860, Eliza Stout, who
died March 12, 1899, and he has three
sons : J. Warren Keifer, Jr., Win. White
Keifer and Horace C. Keifer. Address :
Springfield, Ohio.
KEILEY, Benjamin J:
Bishop of Savannah ; born in Petersburg,
Virginia, October 13, 1847. After com
pleting his preparatory education he went
to the American College at Rome, and he
was ordained to the priesthood December
31, 1873. He filled pastorates at New
Castle and Wilmington, Delaware, until
1886, then at Atlanta, Georgia, until 1896,
and after that at Savannah, Georgia, until
consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons, June 3,
1900, as bishop of Savannah. Address :
Savannah, Georgia.
K HI SER. Edward Harrison:
Professor of chemistry; born in Allen
town, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1861 ;
son of Bernhard and Katherine Keiser.
Fie was educated in Swarthmore College,
B.S. and M.S. 1881, and Johns Hopkins
University, Ph.D., 1884; and special stud
ies in chemistry at Gottingen and Freiburg,
Saxony. He was instructor in chemistry
in Swarthmore College, 1880- 1881, and
Johns Hopkins, 1884 and 1885 ; professor

of -chemistry in Bryn Mawr College, 1885
to 1899, and since then at Washington Uni
versity. He married at Bryn Mawr, Penn
sylvania, 1896, Elizabeth Harris. Address :
Washington University, St. Louis, Mis
souri.KEITH, Charles Penrose:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, March 15,
1854; son of Washington Keith and Anne
Mathews (Penrose) Keith. He was grad
uated from the University of Pennsylvania
as B.S. in 1873. He taught school; was
librarian pro tern of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania in 1876, and was title ex
aminer, Real Estate Title Insurance and
Trust Company of -Philadelphia, for ten
years. He was chief clerk of the United
States Appraiser's Office, Philadelphia, from
1889 to 1893. He is author of: The Pro
vincial Councillors of Pennsylvania from
1733 to 1776 and their Descendants, 1883;
and The Ancestry of Benjamin -Harrison
and Notes on Families Related, 1893. In
politics he is an Independent and in relig
ion an Episcopalian, and he is a vestryman
of old Christ Church, Philadelphia. He is a
member of the Philadelphia Club and the
Germantown Cricket Club. Mr. Keith mar
ried in Philadelphia, December 18, 1883,
Elizabeth Harvey Wister. Residence: 321
South Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Ad
dress : 262 Drexel Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
KEITH, Edson, Jr.:
Lawyer, engineer, composer; born in
Chicago, Illinois, June 27, 1862; son of
Edson and Susan (Woodruff) Keith. He
was educated at the Harvard School in
Chicago, and at Yale University, where he
took a course in dynamic engineering, and
was graduated with degree of Ph.B. in
1884. He studied law in the Columbia
University Law School in New York City,
and was graduated with the degree of LL.
B. in 1889. On January i, 1897, he was
elected vice-president of the incorporated
concern of Keith Brothers and Company,
of Chicago, Illinois, dealers in hats and
caps, a position which he still holds.
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its president and so remained until 1901,
when he disposed of all his interest in that
concern. He is possessed of rare musical
talent which he has cultivated and he is
the composer of a number of musical pro
ductions of various kinds, which have
been published by Schirmer and Company
and Lyon and Healy. He is also a Con
tributor to magazines on various topics.
He is a Republican and a member of the
University, Chicago, Chicago Athletic, Chi
cago Literary, Yale, Onwentsia, Chicago
Golf and Saddle and Cycle Clubs. He was
married in Denver, Colorado, April 15,
1891, to Nettie Keener, and has two chil
dren: Katherine and Frederick Walter.
Residence: 2110 Prairie Avenue, Chicago.
Address: Postal Telegraph Building, Chi
cago, Illinois.
KEITH, James:
President, of the Court of Appeals of
Virginia; born in Fauquier County, Vir
ginia, in 1839; son of Isham Keith and
Juliet (Chilton) Keith. He was educated
in private schools, took the law course at
the University of Virginia, was admitted
to the bar and practiced at the Fauquier
County Bar with residence at Warrenton
until elected to the bench, and for some
years past he has been president of the
Court of Appeals of Virginia. Address:
Richmond, Virginia.
KEITH, John DeKalb:
Lawyer; born in Waynesboro, Pennsyl
vania, June 11, 1879; son of William H.
Keith and Helen A. (Himes) Keith. He
was graduated from Pennsylvania College
as B.S. in 1899 and attended the Law De
partment of the University of Michigan.
He has been District Attorney of Adams
County, Pennsylvania, since January, 1906.
He is treasurer and director of the East
Berlin Railway Company; receiver of the
Berlin Branch Railroad, and director of
the Gettysburg Gas Company, and direc
tor of Emmittsburg Railroad Company.
He served as a private of Company H,
Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry during the Spanish-American
War. In politics he is a Republican and in

religion a Methodist. He is a Mason and
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. Resi
dence : Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. Ad
dress : Crawford Building, Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania.
KEITH, Minor C. :
Capitalist; born in Brooklyn, New York
in 1848; son of Minor Hand and Emily
Meiggs Keith, he was educated at Stamford,
Connecticut. He is president and director of
the Abangarez Gold Fields of Costa Rica,
Costa Rica Esperanza Mining Company,
Baltimore Bridge Company, Guatemala
Railway Company, Northern Railway Com
pany of Costa Rica, and Banco Comercial
de Costa Rica ; vice-president and director
of the Belize Royal Mail and Central Am
erican Steamship Company, United States
Company (Boston), director of the Fruit
Dispatch Company, the Nipe Bay Company,
and United Mines Company. Mr. Keith
is a member of the Metropolitan, New
York Athletic, and City Midday Clubs of
New York City. Residence: Babylon,
Long Island. Office address : 17 Battery
Place, New York City.
KELIHER, John A.i
Congressman and real estate agent; born
in Boston, November 6, 1866; son of John
Keliher and Joanna (Shea) Keliher. He
received his education in the public schools ;
was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives, in 1896 and "1897, and
of the Massachusetts Senate in 1899 and
1900. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the Ninth
Massachusetts District. He is a Democrat
in politics. Address : Boston, Massachu
setts.KELLAR, Harry:
Public entertainer and magician; born in
Erie, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1849; son of
Francis P. Kellar. He was graduated from
the Painesville High School in 1866. He
began his professional career as assistant to
The Fakir of Ava, the magician ; became
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spirit mediums, in 1879 ; toured South Am
erica, Africa, and Mexico with Fay from
1871 to 1873 ; with Ling Look and Yama-
deva, toured South America, Africa, Aus
tralia, India, China, the Philippine Islands
and Japan, with J. H. Cunard, he traveled
five years through Iridia, iSurmah, Siam,
Java, Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, and the
Mediterranean ports. He is a Mason and
Shriner, and a member of the Mecca
Temple of New York City, and also of the
Players' Club of New York City and
the Erie Club of Erie, Pennsylvania. He
married at Kalamazoo, Michigan, Novem
ber 1, 1887, Eva Lydia Medley. Address :
129 West Eighth Street, Erie, Pennsyl
vania.KELLER, Benjamin Franklin:
United States judge; born at Boalsburg,
Pennsylvania, April 21, 1857; son of Henry
Keller and Margaret Keller. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered the
Pennsylvania State College, from which h<
was graduated as B.S. in 1876 and M.S
in 1879, then entering the Law Department
of Columbian (now George Washington)
University, from which he was graduated
as LL.B. in 1882; and he received from
that University the LL.D. degree in 1903.
He engaged in the practice of law in West
Virginia until appointed by President
McKinley, July 1, 1901, as judge of the
newly formed Southern District of West
Virginia. Address : Bramwell, West Vir
ginia.
KELLER, Edward:
Chemist and metallurgist; born at Sauk
City, Wisconsin, March 10, 1857; son of
Ferdinand Solomon Keller and Rosina
(Stucki) Keller. He received his educa
tion in high school in Sauk City and Bara
boo, Wisconsin, in the Preparatory School
in St. Gall, Switzerland, in the Polytechnic
School in Stuttgart, Germany, and was
graduated from the University of Zurich,
Switzerland, as Ph.D. in 1881. He was
chemist to W. A. Clark and the Parrot
Copper Company, Butte, Montana; and
since 1893 has been representative of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and

later also of the Boston and Montana
Company and the Utah Consolidated Min
ing Company in Baltimore and Perth Am-
boy, and is a member of the firm of Keller
Brothers, fruit growers and ranchers,
Montrose, Colorado. He traveled in Eng
land, France, Germany, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, Canada and the United States.
In politics he is an Independent. Dr.
Keller is a fellow of the American Assoc
iation for the Advancement of Science;
member of the American Chemical Society,
American Institute of Mining Engineers,
American Electro-Chemical Society and the
Society of Chemical Industry. His favor
ite recreations are walking, horseback riding,
swimming and traveling. Residence :
Packer House, Perth Amboy. Address:
Anaconda Laboratory, Perth Amboy, New
Jersey. KELLER, E. E.:
Manufacturer; born in New York Citv
and educated in Rochester, New York. He
became superintendent for a prominent
Rochester manufacturing company and in
January 1888, went to Pittsburgh where
he was engaged in the construction force
of an affiliated' Westinghouse company, and
his first work brought him to the company's
notice. In April of the same year he was
placed in charge of all the company's Pitts
burgh work, and in October was made
manager of their Chicago office. He held
this position until he became electrical en
gineer of the Department of Electricity at
the Chicago World's Fair. He resigned
this to assume management of the West
inghouse lighting contract at the fair. In
this work he was so successful that in 1894
he became vice-president of the Westing
house Machine Company in which he con
tinues. He is also vice-president of the ¦
Pittsburgh Meter Company, and the
Nernst Lamp Company; director of the
Security Investment Company and of the
Westinghouse Foundry Company and of the
Westinghouse Inter- Works Railway (all
Westinghouse interests). Mr. Keller is a
member of a number of engineering and
scientific societies and clubs. Address:
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KELLER, Hermann A.:
Mining engineer; born in Philadelphia,
March 23, i860; son of Dr. William C. C.
Keller and Augusta (Cramer) Keller.
He received his education in the Grand
Ducal Gymnasium at Darmstadt, Germany,
and was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania as B.S. in 1881. Mr. Keller
has been engaged in managing and examin
ing mines and metallurgical works since
1882; and is now in practice as an indepen
dent consulting engineer. He was instruct
or in geology in the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1881 and 1882. He is a member
of the American Institute of Mining En
gineers and of the Engineers' and Jolly
Mariners' Clubs of New York City and the
University Club of Denver, Colorado. Ad
dress: Engineers' Club, 374 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
KELLER, John William:
Journalist; born in Bourbon County,
July 5, 1856; son of John Cantrell Keller
and Mary E. (Simpson) Keller. He was
graduated from Yale in the class of 1879.
After leaving college he went to New York
City, becoming a reporter on a daily news
paper, and subsequently dramatic critic,
editorial writer and managing editor on
various New York City papers. He was
president and commissioner 01 Public Char
ities of New York City from 1898 to 1902;
is a member of Tammany Hall; was a
sachem of the Tammany Society from 1899
to 1903; was prominently mentioned for
nomination as vice-president of the United
States in the campaign of 1900 and went
to the convention with the indorsement of
the New York delegation to the National
Democratic Convention, for that high office.
He was connected with the Equitable Life
Assurance Society from 1903 to 1906. Mr.
Keller is author of: Tangled Lives (a
play) and wrote articles on public chari
ties for the Encyclopedia Americana. He
is a member of the National Democratic
Club, of which he was president in 1899
and igoo, and the New York Press Club
of which he was president in 1904 and 1905.
Residence: 1748 Broadway, New York.
Office address : 25- Broad Street, New
York City.

KELLEY, Augustus W.:
Banker ; born in New York City, No
vember 6, 185 1 ; son of Augustus W.
Kelley and Sarah J. (Brant) Kelley. He
was educated in Public School 35 of New
York City. Mr. Kelley is vice-president
and trustee of the Union Trust Company
and director of the Colonial Bank. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religion
an Episcopalian, and is trustee of the
Church Mission for Deaf Mutes. He mar
ried in New York City, April 22, 1879,
Christina Bowne Genin, and they have five
children : Agnes Genin, Marion W., Aug
ustus W., Jr., Christina and Sidney Genin.
Address : 20 West Eighty-eighth Street,
New York City.
KELLEY, Leverett M.:
Deputy commissioner of pensions; born
at Schenectady, New York, September 28,
1841 ; of Scotch-Irish and Dutch-Am
erican ancestry. He removed with his
father to Kane County, Illinois, in 1845,
and was educated in the schools of that
county and Beloit College at Beloit, Wis
consin. He was a student in the latter in
stitution when he enlisted in July, 1861, as
a private in Company A, of the Thirty-
sixth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer In
fantry, which was mustered into United
States Service at Camp Hammond, Illinois,
August 22, 1861. He served as corporal,
sergeant, first lieutenant and captain of
the regiment, until mustered out in Octob
er, 1865. He was an active participant in
the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
Dalton, Resaca, Adairville, Dallas,
Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek,
Lovejoy Station, Jonesboro, Columbia,
Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville.
When sergeant of Company A, at
Missionary Ridge, calling upon comrades
to follow, he rushed forward in face of
an incessant and deadly fire, and was
among the first over the works on the
summit, where he compelled the surrender
of a Confederate officer and received his
sword. After the war he returned to Illi
nois, and he was sheriff of Kane County
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agent at Standing Rock and Los Pinos
Agencies in 1878, in which capacity he
consummated an important treaty with the
Indians. He became chief of a division of
the Pension Bureau at Washington from
1889 to 1893, and since 1897 has been de
puty commissioner of pensions. He is a
Republican in politics, and is a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Medal
of Honor Legion of the United States.
Residence : The Cecil, Washington. Of
ficial address : Bureau of Pensions, Wash
ington, D. C.
KELLEY, William D. :
Civil engineer; born at Kelley's Island,
Erie County, Ohio, May 11, 1859; son of
William D. and Marcella (Dean) Kelley.
He received his early education in the
public schools, normal college and Wooster
University, all in Ohio ; and^ was graduated
from Cornell University as B.S. in 1880,
and CE. in 1881. He followed civil en
gineering professionally until 1893 with the
New York and New England Railroad
in Boston, with the Catskill Mountain Rail
road, on location and construction; the
South Pennsylvania Railroad as assistant
engineer on surveys, location and construc
tion; served four years as special assistant
engineer on the northern half of the New
Croton Aqueduct, New York City. In
1891 and 1892 he was engineer in charge of
the Third Corps Intercontinental Railway
for United States Government and Pan-
American Government, surveying and ex
ploring from Quito, the capitol of Equador,
to Puno, Peru, a distance, including side
lines, of about 3,000 miles in the plateau
and Amazon countries of the Andes. Since
1893, he has been engaged in engineering,
building and contracting in New York City.
Mr. Kelley is president of Kelley and Kelley
engineers, builders and contractors, and a
director of the Leonia Heights Land Com
pany. In politics Mr. Kelley is an Independ
ent Democrat. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, Na
tional Geographic Society and the Cornell
University Club. He married in Tarry
town, New York, in 1894, Isabella Silver;

and they have one son, William Datus
Kelley, born April 25, 1905. Address : 45
East Forty-second Street, New York City.
KELLEY, William Valentine:
Editor of the Methodist Review; born
in Plainfield, New Jersey, February 13,
1845; son of Rev. Benjamin Kelley and
Elizabeth Kelley; and descended from an
cestors who came from England in 1636
to Newburyport, Massachusetts. He grad
uated from Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut, as A.B. in 1865, and
afterward received from that college the
degree of D.D. in 1883, and from Dickin
son College that of L.H.D. in 1892. He
was professor of mathematics and sciences
in Pennington Seminary, New Jersey, in
1866 and 1867, and entered the ministry of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1868.
Dr. Kelley was pastor of prominent church
es in Camden, New Brunswick and New
ark, New Jersey, at Philadelphia, Buffalo
and Brooklyn and at Middletown and New
Haven, Connecticut, until 1892, has been
lecturer and preacher at various univer
sities, colleges and theological schools; and
contributor for many years to reviews and
other periodicals. He is a trustee of Wes-
: leyan University, Drew Theological Sem
inary and Parkin (China) University; a
manager of the American Bible Society;
; member of the Missionary Board of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a
member of the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1896, 1900
and 1904. He has studied and traveled
extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Beginning in 1893, Dr. Kelley has been
elected three times to the editorship of
the Methodist Review, the oldest and most
extensively circulated periodical of its cl^ss
in America, established in 1818. He is a
member of the Joint Committee for making
a new Catechism for the Northern and
Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches,
and represents his denomination in the In
ternational Commission on divorce and re
marriage. Dr. Kelley married in Phila-
t delphia, Eliza A, daughter of John White-
j man. Address : 150 Fifth Avenue, New
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KELLOGG, Charles Day:
Founder and secretary of the Women's
Hotel Company; bom in Troy, New York,
June 4, 1828; son of Day Otis Kellogg and
Ann Eliza Smith. He is descended in a
direct line from John and Priscilla Alden.
He received his education in private schools
in Lenox and Boston, Massachusetts; be
gan commercial business in Boston in 1850;
and at the beginning of the Civil War, in
1861, he was appointed quartermaster-gen
eral's storekeeper, and had charge of equip
ping the first twenty-seven regiments sent
by Massachusetts to the front. He was
for several years a director, of the Young
Men's Christian Association, and treasurer
of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church
in Boston. In 1865, he removed to New
York City, and in December, 1873, was one
of the founders of the Reformed Episcopal
Church. For thirteen years he was secre
tary to its General Council, and since 1883
has been trustee and treasurer of its Sus-
tentation Fund. He was in business in
New York City until 1878, when he was in
vited to become general secretary of the
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Char
ity, then being inaugurated; he remained
in Philadelphia till 1882, when he was called
to became general secretary of the Charity
Organization Society in New York City,
then forming, and remained in charge un
til 1896. In 1891, he was invited by Presi
dent Harrison to take charge of newly
created office of superintendent of charities
"in. the District of Columbia, but feeling
obliged to decline, was asked to select the
appointee. In 1900 he originated the
Woman's Hotel Company, to found high-
grade hotels for the exclusive accommoda
tion of business and professional women
and the reception of transient guests, ex
cept that its restaurants are equally open
to men. The first hotel, the Hotel Martha
Washington, was opened in New York in
March, 1903. Address: 105 East Twenty-
second Street, New York City.
KELLOGG, Edward B. :
Physician; born at Sheboygan, Wiscon
sin, August 21, 1850; son of Eliot Eaton
Kellogg and Hannah Barrett (Foster)

Kellogg. He received his early education
in a grammar school in Boston, Massachu
setts, the Burr and Burton Seminary, Man
chester, Vermont, and Nunda Academy,
New York. He went to Jacksonville, Flor
ida, where he 'remained nine years as one
of the editors and proprietors of the Jack
sonville Union; and returning to Boston
in 1878, he began the study of medicine.
Subsequently, in 1882, he graduated from
the Medical School of Maine, Bowdoin
College, as M.D. Dr. Kellogg is now as
sistant medical director of the John Han
cock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Dr.
Kellogg is a member of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, American Medical Asso
ciation, Boston Medical Library Associa
tion, Society of Mayflower Descendants,
the Algonquin, Commonwealth, Bowdoin,
Vermont and Middlesex Clubs. He mar
ried in Gardiner, Maine, January 17, 1879,
Minnie W. Bradbury, and they have one
son, Foster Sandish Kellogg (Harvard '06),
born November 16, 1883. Address : 1084
Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
KELLOGG, Frank B. :
Lawyer; born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence
County, New York, in 1856; removed with
parents to Minnesota in 1865, and set
tled on a farm in Olmstead County. He
worked on the farm summers and attended
the county schools winters; and at the age
of nineteen began the study of law at
Rochester, Minnesota, first in the office of
H. E. Eckholdt and afterward with Rich
ard A. Jones who later became chief jus
tice of Washington Territory. He was
admitted to the bar in 1878 and began prac
tice at Rochester, Minnesota, in partner
ship with Burt W. Eaton. He was city
attorney of Rochester for three years and
county attorney of Olmstead County for
five years. In 1887 he removed to St. Paul,
forming a partnership with Cushman K
Davis (afterward United States Senator
from Minnesota) and Cordenip A. Sever
ance, under the firm name of Davis, Kel
logg and Severance, and since the death
of Senator Davis in 1900, the other mem
bers of the firfn have remained together ;
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tice of corporation law. He argued suc
cessfully the Great Northern stock issue
case, involving sixty million dollars, the
State of Minnesota demanding an explana
tion of the use to which this money was to
be put, and also won on behalf of the lease
holders, the Mineral Lease case, involving
fifty million dollars, and was also counsel
in the case involving the receivership of
the Northern Pacific Railway. He is now
special counsel of the Northern Pacific
Railway, general counsel of the Chicago
Great Western Railroad, and the Duluth
and Iron Range Railroad, and attorney for
the United States Steel Corporation in the
Northwest. He has been employed by the
United States Department of Justice in sev
eral suits against trusts and illegal com
binations, dissolved the General Paper
Company, commonly known as the West
ern Paper Trust, having charge of the case
from its inception and through the United
States Supreme Court; was special coun
sel for the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion in the investigation of the Union Pa
cific-Chicago and Alton operation of E.
H. Harriman and associates ; and in No
vember, 1906, after some months of prep
aration instituted the suit for the Govern
ment in the United States Court at St.
Louis, to dissolve the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey. Mr. Kellogg is a
Republican in politics, and has always taken
an active .interest in political affairs, and
was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention at Chicago in 1904; and since
then has been the Minnesota member of the
National Republican Committee. He re
cently contributed to The Green Bag a note
worthy discussion of Monopoly and the
Law, and has written other papers on legal
topics. He was a delegate from the Minne
sota State Bar Association to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St.
Louis in 1904. Address : St. Paul, Minne
sota.KELLOGG, Frederic Rogers:
Lawyer; born at Middlebury, Vermont,
May 6, 1867; son of Brainard and Julia
(Cutler) Kellogg. He was graduated from
the Broolyn Polytechnic Institute as B.S.

in 1885, and from Columbia Law School
as' LL.B., second honorary man of a class
and cum laude in political science, 1888.
He has been engaged in the practice of
law since 1888; was Eastern counsel for
the United Copper Company and subsidiary
companies in its extensive litigation with
the Amalgamated Copper Company; coun
sel for Comptroller Coler in his fight-
against O'Brien and Clack, etc. He is
senior member of the law firm of Kellogg,
Beckwith and Emery, is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, and the New York State Bar Asso
ciation, and trustee of the Polytechnic In
stitute of Brooklyn, New York. His favor
ite recreations are motoring, yachting, golf,
etc. He married at Dover, New Jersey,
June 24, 1903, Cornelia Van Wyck Halsey.
Address : 52 Broadway, New York City.
KELLOGG, James C:
Consular officer; born in Mississippi. Ap
pointed consul at Stettin, March 21, 1890;
retired September, 1893; appointed consul
at Barranquilla, February 3, 1905; ap
pointed consul at Colon, May 27, 1905. Ad
dress : Colon, Panama.
KELLOGG, James. Lawrence:
Professor of biology; born in Kewanee,
Illinois, September 15, 1866; son of Hosmer
Lawrence Kellogg and Emily (Piatt) Kel
logg. He was educated in Kewanee High
School, was graduated from Olivet College,
as B.S. in 1888, from Williams College as
M.A. in 1900 and from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity as Ph.D. in 1892. He was profes
sor of biology and geology in Olivet Col
lege from 1892 to 1899; assistant professor
of biology, from 1899 to 1902 and has
been professor of biology since 1902 at
Williams College. He has made investiga
tions on the life-histories, growth and arti
ficial culture of shell-fish for the States of
Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts
and Louisiana; studies on the anatomy of
shell-fish for the United States Fish Com
mission and was instructor in the Marine
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole,
Massachusetts. He is a member of the
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Society of American Zoologists. His re
creations include all out-door sports. Dr.
Kellogg married in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
June 16, 1892, Ida M. Archambeault, and
they have four children: Emily, born in
1894, Louise, born in 1898, Helena, born in
1901, and Margaret, born in 1904. Ad
dress : Williamstown, Massachusetts.
KELLOGG, Theodore H.:
Physician; son of Rev. Ezra B. Kel
logg, D.D., and grandson of Judge Jason
Keilogg. He received his education at
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and receiv
ed the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from
Norwich- University, Vermont. He studied
medicine four years in Europe, at Paris,
Berlin and Vienna, and was graduated
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College as
M.D. in 1865. Dr. Kellogg has made a
specialty of nervous and mental diseases;
was resident physician of the New York
-Lunatic Asylum from 1865 to 1871 ; phy
sician-in-chief of the New York City Asy
lum for the Insane from 1872 to 1875; first
assistant physician of the Hudson River
State Hospital from 1888 to 1891 ; physician
in charge of Sanford Hall (private hos
pital) in 1891 and 1892; superintendent of
the Willard State Hospital from 1892 to
1895; and since 1897, physician in charge
of Dr. Kellogg's House, Riverdale-on-Hud-
son, New York City (licensed by the State
for the care of nervous and mental diseas
es). He is author of: Text-Book on
Mental Diseases, 1897; and of numerous
monographs on nervous and mental diseas
es. He is a writer on subjects of popular
science, such as English Phonology; Song
of Birds ; and Physiology of Vowel Sound.
Dr. Kellogg is a veteran officer of the
Civil War; was first lieutenant of the
Seventh Squadron of the Rhode Island
Cavalry and is- numbered among the Col
lege Cavaliers of the Military University
of Northfield, Vermont. Address: River-
dale-on-Hudson, New York.
KELLY, Edmond:
Lawyer and author; born. Toulouse,
Haute-Garonne, France, May 28, 1851 ; son
of Robert Edmond Kelly and Sarah
(Palache) Kelly. He graduated from Co

lumbia College, New York, as M.A. and LL.
B., from Cambridge, England, as M.A., and
at the Ecole de Droit, Paris, from which
he was graduated as Licencie en Droit, and
he is a fellow of the Geological Society
of London. He practiced in New York
from 1877 to 1879, in Paris from 1879
to 1881, New York from 1891 to 1899, and
again in Paris from 1899 to 1906. He has
now abandoned practice in France and
opened an office in New York City. Mr.
Kelly has written : Evolution and Effort ;
Government or Human Evolution ; Practical
Programme for Workmen ; the French Law
of Marriage. He is a chevalier de la Legion
d'Honneur; was a member of the Faculty
of Political Science of Columbia College,
from 1895 to 1899 and lectured on Muni
cipal Politics and History of the State of
New York. Mr. Kelly is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Delta
Phi fraternity. He is also a member of
the Century Association and City Club of
New York, the Savile arid Alpine Club of
London, and the Artistique et Litteraire,
Puteaux and American Clubs of Paris.
He married in Paris, December 19, 1880,
Frances Bartow, and of that marriage two
children : Kathleen, born in 1883, wife of F.
J. Hylia, Oxford, England, and Shannon,
born in 1884. He again married, August 22,
1905, Edith Thuresson. Residences: 175
Second Avenue, New York City; Coucy le
Chateau, Aisne; and Cabinscourt, Pagoda,
Routt County, Colorado. Office address : 52
William Street, New York City.
KELLY, Harry Eugene:
Lawyer; born in Des Moines, Iowa, De
cember 27, 1870; son of Michael Joseph
and Margery (Lytle) Kelly. He was
graduated from the Department of Lib
eral Arts and received the degrees of
Ph.B. and M.A. from the State University
of Iowa, and afterward pursued graduate
studies in physics and chemistry at the Uni
versity of Chicago. From 1892 to 1894 he
was editor and publisher of the Litchfield
(Illinois) Daily Herald; was principal of
the Litchfield High School in 1894 and
1895 ; superintendent of schools of Sullivan,
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lish language and literature in the State
University of Iowa from 1896 to 1899;
studied law at the University of Denver
in 1899 and 1900; and was admitted to the
bar of Colorado in 1900. He has since
practiced in Denver, and has been employed
in several cases which have attracted na
tional attention. He was a member of the
Sixteenth General, Assembly of Colorado,
and the Republican House leader. He was
the author of the Railroad Commission
Law; the Pure Food Law; Public Morals
Law and eight other, enactments during
his term of service. He placed Simon
Guggenheim in nomination for the United
States Senate. He is a member of the
Colorado State Bar and Denver Bar, As
sociations; and of the Republican and Mile
High Clubs of Denver. He is a Liberal
in religious belief. Mr: Kelly married at
Princeton, Missouri, January 1, 1893, Jes
sie L. Speer, who died October 15, 1899,
and of that marriage has a " son,, William,
born June 16, 1894. He again married,
August 27, 1903, Edna McElravy Smalley.
Residence : 901 Humboldt Street. Office :
414 Ernest and Cranmer Building, Denver,
Colorado.
KELLY, James Edward:
Lawyer; born in New York City, April
29, 1856; son of Colonel P. D. Kelly and
Mary E. (Gaffney) Kelly. He received
his education in the College of the City
of New York and was graduated from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1878.
He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and
since then has been practicing law in New
York City. He is a member of the New
York Athletic and Democratic Clubs. Mr.
Kelly married in Philadelphia, November
24, 1890, Mary de Lacy Reed, and their
children are: Warren, born in 1892, Rus
sell, born in 1893, and Howard, born in
1896. Residence : Cedarhurst, Long Island,
New York. Address : 45 Broadway, New
York City.
KELLY, John Forrest:
Electrical engineer and inventor; born
at Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, March 28,
1859; son of Jeremiah Kelly and Kate

(Forrest) Kelley. He took a special course
and was graduated from the Stevens In
stitute of Technology in 1878, with the de
gree of B.Sc, and received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1881. He was chemist in the
laboratory of Thomas A. Edison in 1879;
electrician in the New York factory of the
Western Electric Company from 1879 to
1882; became assistant electrician in 1882
and -chief electrician in 1886 of the United
States Electric Lighting Company, and
electrician of the Newark shops of the
Westinghouse Electric Company until Jan
uary, 1892, was partner in the Stanley
Laboratory Company from 1892. to 1905,
and consulting engineer of the Stan
ley Electric Manufacturing Company and
the Stanley Instrument Company until
1905. Mr. Kelly is president of the
Telelectric Company of Pittsfield, Massa
chusetts, and the Cokel Company. Mr.
Kelly has taken out about ninety United
States patents for apparatus for generating,
transmitting, distributing and measuring
electricity, and has led in many important
branches connected with the commercial
utilization of electricity. He is a mem
ber of the Institute of Electrical engi
neers, the American Statistical Society, Am
erican Economic Association, the Academy
of Political Science, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, the
British Institution of Electrical Engineers,
the London Society of Arts, Societe In
ternationale des Electriciens, the American
Irish Historical Society, the Irislu Texts
Society of England and the Engineers'
Club of New York City. Mr. Kelly mar
ried . in New York City, in 1892, Helen
Tischer. Residence: 284 West Housaton-
ic Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Ad
dress : Care Telelectric Music Comp'any,
285 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
KELLY, William:
Mine manager; born in New York City,
April 17, 1854 ; son of Robert and Arietta
A. (Hutton) Kelly. He was graduated
from Yale as B.A. in 1874, and from Co
lumbia as E.M. in 1877. He was chemist
of the Himrod Furnace Company, Youngs
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Kemble Coal and Iron Company, Riddles^
burg, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1885; su
perintendent of Glamorgan Iron Company,
Lewistown, Pennsylvania, in 1885 ; and again
superintendent of Kemble Iron Company,
Riddlesburg, Pennsylvania, from 1886 to
1889: He is general manager of Penn Iron
Mining Company, and Republic Iron Com
pany; treasurer 'of the Penn Store Com
pany, and director of the Commercial Bank,
Iron Mountain, Michigan. He was pres
ident of the Board of Examiners of Bitu
minous Mine Inspectors of Pennsylvania,
from 1885 to 1889. Mr. Kelly is chair
man of the Township Board of Education
and has held other local offices. He is a
member of the Institution of Mining and
Metallurgy, American Institute of Mining
Engineers, Lake Superior Mining Insti
tute, Society for the Promotion of Engin
eering Education, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and National
Geographic Society. Since June, 1897,
Mr. Kelly has been a member of the Board
of Control of the Michigan College of
Mines, and since 1904 chairman of the
board. He is a member of the University
Club of New York, Pine Grove Golf Club
of Iron Mountain, Michigan, and Hough
ton Club of Houghton, Michigan. He mar
ried at Hopewell, Pennsylvania, June 24,
1886, Annie L. Ashcom, and thej- had one
son William A., now deceased. Address :
Vulcan, Michigan.
KELSEY, Albert:
Architect; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
.April 26, 1870; son of A. Warren Kelsey
"arid Jannette Garr (Washburn) Kelsey,
He received most of his education abroad.
His architectural ability was tester and de
veloped by constant work in the T-Square
Club competitions in Philadelphia, where
he was a frequent prize-winner. After
having won the highest average for one
year's work, he was elected to every office,
until he became president of the club. He
won the Fourth Traveling Scholarship in
Architecture of the University of Pennsyl
vania and traveled extensively. While his
duties as an architect occupy most of his
time, he finds opportunities to take part

in many municipal conferences and is re
cognized as an authority. Mr. Kelsey was
elected president of the Architectural
League of America at the Cleveland Con
vention in 1899. He was also a delegate
to the Fourth International Congress of
Architects in Brussels in 1897 and to an
other in London in 1906. As chairman of
the Committee of Experts of the Art Fed
eration of Philadelphia he has long been
identified with the movement which cul
minated a few years ago in the enactment
of legislation insuring the construction
of a parkway from the public buildings
to Fairmount Park. Mr. Kelsey is archi
tect for the reorganizing and rebuilding of
Chautauqua, New York. In 1903, an an Of
ficer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company, he was sent' abroad to study the
Dresden .Municipal Exposition. He was in
charge of the Division of Municipal Im
provement at the World's Fair in 1904, and
architect of three buildings on the Fair
grounds. He is founder and editor of the
Architectural Annual. Mr. Kelsey mar
ried Henrietta Latitia Allis, of New York
City. Address : 1524 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
KELSEY, Francis W.:
Teacher; born in Ogden, Monroe Coun
ty, New York, May 23, 1858; son of Henry
Kelsey and Olive Cornelia (Trowbridge)
Kelsey. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Rochester as A.B. in 1880, and
received the degree of Ph.D. from it in
1886. Mr. Kelsey was instructor in Latin
from 1880 to 1883, and professor of
Latin from 1883 to 1889, at Lake Forest
College, and has held the same chair at
the University of Michigan, since 1889.
He was associate director of the American
School of Classical Studies in Rome in
1900-0.1. Mr. Kelsey edited with introduc
tion and notes : T. Lucreti Cari de Rerum
Natura (six books), 1884; Caesar's Gallic
War, 1886 ; Selections from Ovid, 1891 ;
Select Orations and Letters of Cicero, 1892 ;
Xenophon's Ar->basis (with Andrew C.
Zenos), 1889, and is joint editor of Hand
books of Archeology and Antiquities. He
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Life and Art. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Presbyterian. He is a
member of the American Philological Asso
ciation, the Archaeological Institute of Am
erica, American Historical Association;
president of the University Musical Society
of the University of Michigan and director
of the McCormick Theological Seminary,
Chicago; and is a member of the Psi Up
silon fraternity. His favorite recreation is
music. Mr. Kelsey married in Niles, Michi
gan, December 22, 1886, Mary Isabelle
Badger, and they have three children:
Ruth Cornelia, born in 1894, Charlotte
Badger, born in 1897 and Easton Trow
bridge, born in 1904. Address : 826 Tap-
pan Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
KELSEY, Frederick Wallace:
Merchant, nurseryman; born in Ogden,
Monroe County, New York, April 25, 1850;
son of Henry and Olive Cornelia (Trow
bridge) Kelsey. He was educated in public
schools and is one of the very few men
who have ever succeeded in establishing a
successful nursery business in New York
City. He has traveled extensively abroad,
and to some extent in this country. Has al
ways been active in civic affairs ; and
was chairman of the committee which
framed the New Jersey Municipal Shade
Tree Commission Law of 1893 ; also origi
nator of, and chairman of the committee
which framed the first Park Commission
Act of Essex County, New Jersey in 1894 ;
member of the commission which prepared
the Park Commission Charter passed by
the legislature in 1895, under which law the
Essex County Park System was establish
ed ; chairman of committees on the Mc
Kinley and Dingly tariffs; member of the
committee interested in tne preparation and
passage of the present New York law for
fruit and nursery inspection ; chairman of
the Committee which framed the first limit
ed franchise law (1905) proposed in New
Jersey. He was vice-president of the First
Essex County Park Commission, and
one of the five commissioners empowered
to inaugurate and develop the Essex Coun
ty (New Jersey) Park System. He is the
author of "The First County Park Sys

tem" I905. Mr. Kelsey was chairman of
the committee for preparing amendments
to the corporation laws of New Jersey in
1906. In politics he is an Independent Re
publican. He is a member of the American
Civic Association ; life member of the New
England Society of Orange (president
1902 and 1903) ; American Forestry As
sociation; New Jersey Historical Society;
the Municipal League; the Municipal Art
Society of New York City; American Nur
serymen's Association; New Jersey mem
ber of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion (and the Orange Chapter of same) ;
vice-president of the New Jersey Civil Ser
vice Reform Association; governor of the
People's Lobby, 1907: He is a member
of the Lawyers' Club of New York City,
and the Civics Club of Orange, New Jer
sey. Mr. Kelsey married at Waverly, New
York, Ella Abigail Butts ; and they have
two children : Frederick Trowbridge, born
in 1889, and Ronald Butts, born in 1893.
Address : 150 Broadway, New York City.
KELSEY, Otto:
Lawyer, superintendent of insurance;
born in Rochester, New York, November
11, 1852; son of Charles S. and Lucretia
P. Kelsey. After completing his education
in the public schools he studied law, and
was admitted to bar, and for many years
has practiced law at Geneseo, New York.
Mr. Kelsey is an active Republican; was a
member of the- Assembly from Livingston
County, from 1893 to 1902, and in the latter
session was chairman of the Committee on
affairs of Cities; member of the Committee
on Ways and Means and of the Committee
on Rules; while in the Assembly he was
active in establishing and fostering - the
growth of the Craig Colony for Epileptics
at Sonyea, New York. Mr. Kelsey was
appointed deputy comptroller, January, 1903,
and upon resignation of Comptroller Miller
in November, 1903, he was appointed Comp
troller by Governor Odell. He was elected
Comptroller of New York in 1904, and
served until appointed by Governor Hig
gins, May 17, 1906; superintendent of in
surance, which office he still holds. Ad
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KEMP, C. H.:
Banker; born in Fayette County, Penn
sylvania, July 29, 1839; educated in the
county schools of Fayette and Somerset
Counties of Pennsylvania. Served as a
private soldier in the Civil War three
years, and as a civilian until the close of
the war. For many years trustee of the
First Presbyterian Church of Kane, Penn
sylvania; served in the Borough Council
of Kane, Pennsylvania; director in the
Kane Window Glass Company, Kane Flint
Bottle Company, Temple Theatre Company,
and the Y.M.C.A. Building Company.
Manager of the Bolton Hotel, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, for eight years; Washington
Hotel, Philadelphia, during the Centennial;
one season at the Columbia Hotel, Cape
May, New Jersey ; proprietor of the Thom
son House, Kane, Pennsylvania; Willard
Hotel and the Lowry Hotel, Butler, Penn
sylvania. Has been a director in the First
National Bank of Kane from the time it
started, eight years ago, and served two
years as cashier; served one year as vice-
president, and has been president for the
last two years. He married in Phila
delphia, December 19, 1876, Annie J. Pink
erton. Address : Kane, McKean County,
Pennsylvania.
KEMP, James Furman:
Professor of geology; born in New York
City, August 14, 1859; son of James Alex
ander Kemp and Caroline Anna (Furman)
Kemp. After a preparatory education at
the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, he entered
Amherst College, where he was graduated
as A.B. in 1881 ; and received the degree of
D.Sc, honoris causa, in 1906. He was grad
uated from the School of Mines of Col
umbia University as E.M. in 1884, and stud
ied abroad- in 1885 and 1886. He served as
instructor" and assistant professor of geo
logy, ¦ at Cornell University from 1886 to
1891 ; adjunct professor of geology at Co
lumbia University in 1891 and 1892, and
professor of geology and head of the De
partment of Geology in the same institu
tion since 1892. Since 1891, he has been
connected with the United States Geology

Survey, and New York State Geological
Survey. Professor Kemp is a writer on
geological subjects, especially on those con
nected with mining and is author of: Ore
Deposits of the United States and Canada;
Handbook of Rocks, etc. He is associate
editor of Economic Geology, and of the
Zeitschrift fiir praktische Geologie, is a
director of the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers (vice-president from 1901 to
1904), member of the Board of Managers
andjnember and secretary of the Board of
Scientific Directors of the New York
Botanical Garden ; also member of the Am
erican Museum of Natural History. He is
normally Democratic in politics, and in
religion is an Episcopalian. Professor
Kemp is a fellow of the Geological So
ciety of America (councilor 1905 to 1908),
New York Academy Sciences (president
1905), member of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science (past
vice-president) ; member of the National
Geographic Society, the American Geo
graphical Society, the Geological Society
of Washington, Washington Academy of
Sciences and School of Mines Alumni As
sociations (past president). His favorite
recreations are outdoor sports. Dr. Kemp
is a member of the Century and Columbia
University Clubs of New York City. He
married in Kingston, Rhode Island, in Sep
tember, 1889, Kate Taylor, and they have
three children: James Taylor, born Aug
ust 7, 1890, Philip Kittredge, born February
11, 1892, and Katherine Furman, born
April 25, 1898. Address : Columbia Uni
versity, New York City.
KEMPNER, Otto:
Lawyer; born in Austria, July 5, 1858;
educated in the public schools of New York
City and at Cooper Union. Mr. Kempner
was elected to the Assembly from the Tent1-
District of New York City in 1892 and
1894 as an independent Democrat; and be
came known as a staunch opponent of
Tammany bossism by his record in the
Legislature and by his pamphlet entitled:
Boss Crocker's Career. He was nominated
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in 1896, but declined the nomination, re
moved to Brooklyn in 1897, and was com
missioner of public works under Borough
President Swanstrom's administration in
1902 and 1904. He is president and direct
or of the King and Queens County Real
Estate Exchange ; and director of the Home
Trust Company, of New York. Mr. Kemp-
ner is regent of Dauntless Council, Royal
Arcanum, and a member of the Municipal
Club of Brooklyn. Address : 53 Linden
Street, Brooklyn, New York
KEMPSON, St. George:
Editor and publisher; born in Fort Erie,
Canada; son of Dr. P. Tertius Kempson
of the Royal College of Physicians of Lon
don, England, and of Clare Taylor (Davis)
Kempson, and grandsori of the late Sir
Peter Kempson. . He was. educated in Buf
falo Academy. He began his newspaper
career as a correspondent in 1874; estab
lished the X. Y. Z. Railroad and Steam
ship Guide in 1879; established the Metuch-
en Inquirer in 1880; purchased the Middle
sex County Democrat, 1884; established
Daily Herald in 1889, and removed 1884 to
Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1886 he
became associated with his father as man
ager of the New York Insurance Journal,
which was established in 1862, and is now
the third oldest insurance paper in the
world. Mr. Kempson has held many poli
tical offices, such as president of the Board
of Health of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
He organizea the Light Artillery Company
of 300, and was its major; was commodore
of the Raritan Yacht Club of Perth Amboy
two terms; and was appointed by the gov
ernor of New Jersey as a member of the
Election Board.' Mr. Kempson is managing
director of the Tellar Guide Company;
director and president of the Middlesex
County Democrat Publishing Company, the
St. George Kempson Company, and Inter
national Bureau of Insurance information.
In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is
treasurer of the International League of
Press . Clubs ; honorary member Of the Life
Underwriters' Association; member of the
American Geographical Society, the Metro
politan Museum of Art, New Jersey So

ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to chil
dren, New Jersey Editorial ¦ Association,
Eagle Hook and Ladder Company, Metuch-
en, Society of Good Fellows, New York
City, and the American Trade Press As
sociation. He is an Odd Fellow, a member
of the National Union and Royal Arcan
um ; also a member and trustee of the New
York Press Club; member of the Chicago
Press Club and the Thirteen Club of New
York. He married in 1905, Grace Duffie
Boylan, poet and author. Address: 94
uroadway, New York City.
KEMPTON, Charles Walter:
Mining engineer; born in Fairhaven,
Massachusetts, January 30, 1847; sOn of
Captain Charles Wilson Kempton and Luc
inda (Tripp) Kempton. He graduated
from the High School, in Fairhaven, Mas
sachusetts, in 1864. Studied engineering in
the office of J. Herbert Sheld arid Company,
in Boston, with special instruction in the
mining branches. Mr. Kempton served on
the staff of the Essex Water Power Com
pany, Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1870
to 1874. Was in charge of exploration with
the diamond drill in Eastern States from
1874 to 1876, mining operations in the
Eastern States and Canada from 1877 td
1880, mining operations and explorations in
the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Col
ombia, South America, from 1883 to 1892;
manager of gold mine in Arizona from
1892 to 1897; explorations in the Darien
Isthmus, 1902, and explorations in Santo
Domingo, 1904. He is now senior member
and consulting engineer of Kempton and
McCory, mining engineers, director, gener
al manager and chief mining engineer of
the American Smelters' Exploration Min
ing Company of Arizona; director and
vice-president of the Andes1 Mining and
Tunnel Company of New YorE City. In
politics he is an independent Republican,
and he is a member of the New Church
(Swedenborgian). Mr. Kempton is a
member of the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers, the National Geographic So
ciety, the American Association for the Ad
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and the Engineers' Club. Address: 29
Broadway, New York City.
KENDALL, William Converse:
Naturalist; born at Freeport, Maine,
April 4, 1861 ; son of William Pote Kendall
and Frances Ann (Carver) Kendall. He
was educated in Freeport High School, and
Bowdoin College, where he was graduated
as A.B. in 1885, A.M., 1890, and from the
Medical School of Georgetown University
as M.D. in 1896. He became principal of
public schools at Thompson, Minnesota,
from 1885 to 1887; principal of Patten
(Maine) Academy from 1887 to 1889; and
since then has been scientific assistant-
naturalist) of the United States Com
mission of Fish and Fisheries (now Bur
eau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce
and Labor). He is author of papers on-
Systematic Ichthyology, Geographical Dis
tribution and Habits of Fishes in the Pub
lications of the Fish Commission and the
National Museum, and contributions on
Angling and Natural History to sports
men's journals, newspapers, etc., also some
short juvenile and childten's stories. Mr.
Kendall is a Republican in politics, and an
Episcopalian in his religious faith. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, associate of
the American Ornithological Union, mem
ber of the American Fisheries Society,
Washington Academy of Sciences, Wash
ington Biological Society, Maine Ornitho
logical Society, American Forestry Assoc
iation, corresponding member of the Port
land Society of Natural History. He mar
ried in Washington, D. C, April 3, 1893,
Ida Wilhelmina Aschenbach, and they have
one daughter, Minerva Converse Kendall,
born June 29, 1897. Residence : 1404
Eleventh Street, N. W. Wasmngton, D. C.
Office address : Bureau of Fisheries, Wash
ington, D. C.
KENDRICK, John Mills:
Missionary bishop of New Mexico and
Arizona; born at Gambier, Ohio, May
14, 1836; son of John and Julia G. Ken
drick. He was graduated from Marietta
College, Marietta, Ohio, with the degree of

B.A., receiving later the M.A. and D.D.
degree. He was ordained deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1864, being ordained to
the priesthood the following year by Bishop
Mcllvaine.. Since his entry to the minis
try, he was consecutively deacon at Put-in-
Bay, Ohio, rector of St. Andrew's Church,
Fort Scott, Kansas, of St. Paul's Church,
Leavenworth, Kansas, and of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Columbus, Ohio.
He then became superintendent of City
Missions, Cincinnati, Ohio, and general
missionary of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
He was consecrated bishop in 1889 and
made missionary bishop of New Mexico
and Arizona. Address : Phoenix, Arizona.
KENDRICK, John William:
Railway official; born in Worcester,
Massachusetts, October 14, 1853. He was
graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 1873; was engaged in general
engineering work for six years ; and since
1879 has been engaged in railway service,
beginning as a levelman with a construc
tion party on the Yellowstone Division of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and re
mained until 1880 in the location of the
Yellowstone and Missouri Divisions, and
from 1880 in charge of the construction of
one hundred and sixty miles of those di
visions until 1883. He was chief engineer
in charge of construction of the main line
of the St. Paul and Northern Pacific Rail
way between Staples and Brainerd, through
Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and the ter
minals and shops in connection with the
same. He became chief_ engineer of the
Northern Pacific Railroad and leased lines
from 1888 to 1893 ; general manager for the
receivers of that road and for the reor
ganized road, the Northern Pacific Railway,
from 1893 to 1899 and second vice-president
of the same road, in charge of operation,
from 1899 to 1901. On June 5, 1901, Mr.
Kendrick became connected with the At
chison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as
third vice-president in charge of operation,
and was promoted to second vice-president
in 1905, which office he still holds. Mr.
Kendrick 'married at Gloucester, Mas
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Foster Dolliver, and has four children :
Margaret Carroll, Carroll Crosby, Helen
Elizabeth and John Foster. Residence :
460 North State Street, Chicago. Office
address: Railway Exchange Building, Chi
cago, Illinois.
KENNAN, George:
Writer and lecturer; born in Norwalk,
Ohio, February 16, 1845 ; son of John Ken-
nan and Mary Ann (Morse) Kennan. He
was educated in the common and high
schools of Norwalk and Columbus, Ohio;
became a telegraph operator, at Norwalk,
Ohio, in 1857; was assistant manager of
the Western Union telegraph office at Cin
cinnati, Ohio, in 1863 and 1864; and went
to Northeastern Siberia as an explorer and
telegraphic engineer, in 1865. Mr. Kennan
was superintendent of construction of the
middle division of the Russo-nmerican
Telegraph Company in Siberia from 1866
to 1868; made an exploration of the East
ern Caucasus, in 1870 and 1871 ; and was
night manager of the Association Press at
Washington, D. C. from 1877 to 1885. He
made an investigation of the Russian exile
system in Siberia in 1885 and 1886; lectured
throughout the United States from 1889
to 1898 and in Great Britain in 1894; re
ported the Spanish-American War in 1898
as special correspondent in Cuba of The
Outlook, New York. He was expelled
from Russia by order of the minister of
the Interior, in 1901 ; went to Martinique
in 1902, to report for the Outlook the erup
tion of Mont Pelee and the destruction' of
St. Pierre; was special correspondent in
the Far East from 1904 to 1906; and has
been on the editorial staff of McClure's
Magazine, New York, from 1906. He is au
thor of: Tent Life in Siberia, 1870;
Siberia and the Exile System (two vol
umes), 1890; Campaigning in Cuba, 1899;
Folk Tales of Napoleon, 1902; The Tra
gedy of Pelee, 1902; also various articles
in Appleton's, Journal, The Outlook, Put
nam's, Lippincott's, The Atlantic, and Cen
tury Magazines from 1869 to 1902. . His
recreations are yachting, bicycling and
flower gardens. He is a member of the
Authors Club of New York. Mr. Kennan

married Emeline, daughter of J. R. Weld,
in 1879. Address : Care McClure's Maga
zine, 44 East Twenty-third Street, New
York City.
KENNARD, John Hanson:
Lawyer; born on the Elleray Plantation,
Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1862; son
of John Hanson Kennard and Ann Mc-
Gehee (Burruss) Kennard; he is a descend
ant on his mother's side of Captain James
Jack, who, in 1775, carried the Mecklen
burg (North Carolina) Declaration of In
dependence to Philadelphia and presented
it to John Hanson (paternal ancestor) then
president of the Continental Congress;
was educated in the University High School,
New Orleans; Roanoke College, Virginia,
and the University of Louisiana, where
he was awarded five of the six medals
given by that university (Latin, mathemat
ics, ancient history, English essay, and elo
cution), and the degree of A.B. in
1882; then attended Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, where he was one of the Semi
nary of Historical and Political Science of
1884; and the Law Department of Tulane
University of Louisiana, where he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1886. Mr. Kennard
was assistant instructor in mathematics in
the Tulane University of Louisiana in 1885
and 1886; was admitted to the Louisiana
bar, and to Bar of the United States Courts
in 1886; practiced in New Orleans until
1898 and was master in chancery of the
United States Circuit Court in the receiver
ship of the, Texas and Pacific Railway
Company. He was critic of French opera
for the New Orleans Daily States from
1893 to 1898; secretary of the Municipal
Improvement Association of New Orleans;
president of the Southern League of Build
ing and Loan Associations from 1891 to
1897, and president of the Interstate League
of Building and Loan Associations from
1894 to 1898. He removed to New York
City in December, 1897, to become editor
of the Savings and Loan Review; and
was admitted to the New York Bar in
1905. Mr. Kennard is .a- member of the
Maryland Society of New York, the New-
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Burgesses Corps, and the Lotos Club of
New York City. Address : 277 Broadway,
New York City.
KENNARD, Joseph Spencer:
Lawyer, author; born in Bridgeton, New
Jersey, in 1859. He was educated at the
Colgate" University, Columbia University
Law School, Chicago University, the Sor-
bonne, Paris, and the Instituto di Belle
Arte at Florence, and has received the de
grees of A.M., LL.B., Ph.D., LittD.,
L.H.D., D.C.L, and Docteur es lettres.
Mr. Kennard has given his attention chief
ly to the practice of corporation and rail
road law before the United States Supreme
Court and the Supreme Courts of New
York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois; and in
Europe in cases of international iaw. He
is an amateur artist and his paintings have
received honorable mention in Europe and
America, and he has several times been a
juror of awards on paintings, and was a
commissioner to the Paris Exposition in
1900. Mr. Kennard is a member of many
learned societies and clubs in Europe and
America, is an hereditary member of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution and
of the Society of Colonial Wars. He is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater
nity and of the Masonic orders and others.
Author of : The Friar in Fiction ; The Fan-
fara of the Bersigilari ; Studi-Danteschi ;
Memmo-One of the People; The Fallen
God; A Liberal Education; De Deo Lapso
Commentarius ; Some Early Printers and
Their Colophous; Italian Romance Writ
ers; Entro un Cerchio di Ferro; La Paura
del Ridicolo ; La Femme dans le Roman
Italien, Les Confessions d'un Octogenaire;
and others. Lecturer at the Sorbonne,
Paris. Associate editor Encyclopedia Am
ericana, and contributor to North Amer
ican, and other reviews. lie married in
1889; Isabelle D. Brandreth. Addresses:
Tarrytown, New York, and 74 Rue Notre
Dame de Champs, Paris, France.
KENNEDY, Elijah Robinson:
Insurance; born at Hartford, Connecti
cut, May 6, 1846; son of Leonard, Jr., and
Parthenia (Robinson) Kennedy. He re

ceived his education in public schools of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee Uni
versity. He is engaged in the insurance
business in New York City. He has served
as park commissioner in Brooklyn for two
terms, and as president of the commission
to acquire and plan the Shore Road. Mr.
Kennedy has- traveled, in the United States
extensively, and in ¦ Europe. He is presi
dent of the New England Society in
Brooklyn; trustee of the Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences ; member of the
Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society
of Colonial Wars, and Sons of the Revolu
tion; and is also a member of the Republi
can, Down Towri, New York City, Hamil
ton, Montauk, Nassau Country, and Shin-
necock Hills Golf Clubs. He married in
New York City, December 2, 1875, Lucy
Brace Pratt, and they have three children:
Sidney Robinson, born in 1878 ; Susan Pratt,
born in 1883 ; and Leonard, born in 1887.
Address : 33 Prospect Park, West, Brook
lyn, New York.
KENNEDY, Hugh:
Director and manager of the furnace
department of the American Steel Hoop
Company; born July 24, 1856, in Poland
Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, and
worked upon his father's farm, which was
one of the finest stock farms in Mahoning
County, and attended the district school
at Poland Center. In the spring of 1880,
Mr. Kennedy accepted a position with the
Carnegie Steel Company, at Braddock,
Pennsylvania, assistant to his br6ther
Julian, who was at that time superintendent
in charge of construction and operation of
blast furnaces at the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works. He was appointed January
1, 1881, superintendent of the Isabella Fur
naces at Etna, Pennsylvania, and continued
with them as superintendent and general
manager until April, 1899. Since that time,
Mr. Kennedy has been manager of the
furnace department of the American Steel
Hoop Company, which purchased the Isa
bella Furnace Company's property. H.e
has recently been elected a director of
the American Steel Hoop Company. Mr.
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ers' and Merchants' Bank, of Sharps
burg, Pennsylvania ; president of the Sharps
burg and Etna Young Men's Christian As
sociation, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, and a
member of the board of managers of the
Allegheny County Workhouse, the board of
trustees of the Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and the U. P.
Board of Publication, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. He is also a member of the Ameri
can Institute of Mining Engineers. Ad
dress : Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania.
KENNEDY, James:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Poland
Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, Sep
tember 3, 1853; one of seven sons of T.
W. Kennedy, the pioneer furnace builder
of that section. The father constructed his
first furnace at Haselton, the lines of which
furnished the model for all subsequent like
structures; his six brothers are prominent
in the iron world, the oldest, Julian, being
the leading consulting and constructing en
gineer in the world. Mr. Kennedy prepared
for college at Poland Union Seminary, and
graduated A.B. at Westminster College,
Pennsylvania, 1876; studied law with Gen
eral T. W. Sanderson, of Youngstown, and
was admitted to the bar in March, 1879.
He never held public position until elected
to Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses, from the Eight
eenth Ohio District. In politics he is a
Republican. He married Phebe Erwin, and
they have one daughter. Address : Youngs
town, Ohio.
KENNEDY, Walter:
Consulting engineer; born in Poland,
Ohio, in 1861 ; attended the same school as
did President McKinley and early became
apprenticed to the blast furnace building
business as workman. His first position
was with the Carnegie Steel Company, and
here he made a thorough study of chemis
try and at the different plants held various
positions of trust and for three years was
superintendent of the Lucy furnaces. In
1889, he became connected with the Moore-
head-McClain Company, later manager of

the Jefferson Iron Company, Steubenville,
Ohio, and in 1891 was made superintendent
of the Buffalo Furnace Company, owned
by M. A. Hanna and Company. In 1897
he was engaged to do railroad work in
China, and later was employed by the Chin
ese Government and was appointed first
secretary of the Chinese Imperial Railway,
and technical director and general manager
of the iron and steel works at Han Yang.
Returning to this country he took up his
work and has gained prominence in this
line of business. Address: 611 Penn Ave
nue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
KENNY, William John:
Roman Catholic bishop of diocese of St.
Augustine, Florida; born at Delhi, New
York, October 9, 1853. Graduated at St.
Bonaventure's College, 1875. Ordained
priest 1879; consecrated bishop May 18,
1902. Is third bishop of St. Augustine.
Address : St. Augustine, Florida.
KENT, Augustus Palmer :
Editor; born in Adrian, Michigan, May
19, 1847; son of Burton Kent and Caro
line (Palmer) Kent. He attended the
Adrian schools and high school, and Ham
ilton College and received first prize for
Curran Classical Examination. He was as
sociate editor, from 1861 to 1898, and edi
tor since 1898, of The Elkhart Review;
was editorial writer on Indianapolis Jour
nal, and frequent contributor to other peri
odicals, was superintendent of public
schools at Elkhart, from 1879 to 1882. He
is secretary of Review Printing Company,
and editor of the Review. In politics he is
a Republican and in church relation a Con
gregationalist. He is a member of the In
diana Republican Press Association, North
ern Indiana Press Association; president of
Carnegie Library Board, Elkhart, a member
of the Delta Upsilon College fraternity, and
is a member of the Century and Golf Clubs
of Elkhart. Mr. Kent married in Chicago,
May 28, 1874, Emma Louise Newell. Resi
dence : 310 South Third Street, Elkhart.
Address : 1 19 Lexington Avenue, Elkhart,
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KENT, Charles William:
Educator, editor and author; born at
Louisa, Virginia, September 27, i860; son
of Robert M. Kent and Sarah G. (Hunter)
Kent. He was educated in the Univer
sity of Virginia, from which he re
ceived the degree of M.A., and took post
graduate work at the University of Leipzig
with the degree of Ph.D.,; and the degree
of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the
University of Alabama, and he was elected
to honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa,
by William and Mary College. He was
professor of English and German in the
University of Tennessee, professor of Eng
lish literature and rhetoric in the Univer
sity of Virginia; is editor of numerous
texts, author and contributor to magazines
and lecturer. Literary editor of the Li
brary of Southern Literature. He has
traveled extensively in the United States
and Europe. Mr. Kent is a member of the
Virginia State Board of Education, Vir
ginia Historical Society, and Modern Lan
guage Association ; chairman of Virginia
Young Men's Christian Association, Phi
Kappa Psi, Raven Society, and Phi Beta
Kappa fraternity. He is also a member of
the Arcade Club of the University of Vir
ginia, and the Westmoreland Club of Rich
mond, Virginia. He married at the Uni
versity of Virginia, June 4, 1895, Eleanor
A. Miles, and they have two daughters:
Elise Fielding Mites, and Eleanor Douglas
Kent. , .Residence: West Lawn, University
of Virginia. Business address: University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
KENT, Edward:
Chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Arizona; born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
August 8, 1862; son of Edward Kent who
was elected as a Whig governor of Maine
in 1838 and 1840. He was graduated from
Harvard as A.B. in 1883 and from Colum
bia Law School, New York, as LL.B. in
1887. He practiced in New York City un
til 1896, then in Denver until appointed by
President Roosevelt in 1902 chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Ad
dress : Phoenix, Arizona.

KENT, Henry Thomas:
Manufacturer; born in Upper Darby,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, November
4, 1854; was educated in private schools
of Philadelphia; entered Cornell University
September, 1871 ; after leaving college en
tered his father's woolen mills, and after
his death, succeeded to the management
of the business. Contracts largely with
the Government for woolen supplies. Presi
dent First National Bank, Clifton Heights,
Pennsylvania; president and treasurer
Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company,
Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania; president
and treasurer Columbia Worsted Company,
Wallingford, Pennsylvania; president Bed
ford Mills Company, Bedford City, Vir
ginia. He is a Republican in politics ; is a
member of the Union League, Philadelphia,
Historical Society of Pennsylvania; So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants, Pennsyl
vania Society Sons of the Revolution, New
England Society of Pennsylvania. He mar
ried, October 1, 1885, Louise Leonard, of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Address :
Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania.
KENT .Jacob Ford:
Brigadier-General United states Army;
born in Pennsylvania, September 14, 1836;
appointed from Pennsylvania, cadet at
United States Military Academy, July I,
1856; graduated May 6, 1861, and was ap
pointed second lieutenant of the Third In
fantry May 6, 1861 ; first lieutenant July '
31, 1861; Captain January 8, 1864; major
Fourth Infantry July 1, 1885; lieutenant-
colonel, acting inspector-general January
and August, 1865. He was brevetted
major May 3, 1863, for gallant and meri
torious services in the battle of Spottsyl-
vania, Virginia; brevetted colonel of Vol
unteers Octooer 19, 1864, for faithful and
meritorious services in the field during the
campaign before Richmond, Virginia. He
served in Civil War frofn 1861 to 1865 in
the first Bull Run campaign 1861 ; prisoner
of war to September, 1862; in the Fred
ericksburg and Chancellorsville campaign
and subsequent operations of the army be
fore Richmond, to the surrender of Lee
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After the Civil War he served on frontier
duty in various departments to 1877; on
recruiting service in 1877 and 1878; in
Montana to 1885; at Fort Omaha, Ne
braska, to July 1886 ; then at Fort Spokane,
Washington. He took part in the battle
of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ; was three times
wounded and captured; was exchanged in
September, 1862; the battle of Fredericks
burg, Virginia, December, 1862; Marye's
Heights, May, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsyl
vania, July, 1863; the Wilderness, Spottsyl-
vania, Tolopotomy and Cold Harbor, Vir
ginia, in 1864; was again captured at Pet
ersburg, Virginia, and was present at the
surrender of Lee in 1865. After the war
he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the
Eighteenth Infantry, January 15, 1891 ; col
onel of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, April
2S» !895 ; brigadier-general of Volunteers,
May 4, 1898; and assigned to the com
mand of the First Division, Fifth Army
Corps, and was promoted to major-general
Of Volunteers, July 8, 1898. General Kent
served in the campaign , against Santiago,
Cuba, in 1898; was honorably discharged
from the Volunteer service November 30,
1898 ; commissioned brigadier-general
United States Army, October 4, 1898; and
retired October 15, 1898. Address: Water
vliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York.
KENT, Norton Adams:
Teacher; born in New York City, July
28, 1873; son of Elmore Albert (Kent
and Mary Abbe (Holman) Kent. He was
educated in Berkeley School, was grad
uated from Yale as A.B. ("philosophical ora
tions), 1895, and received the degree of Ph.
D.- from Johns Hopkins University in 1901.
He was engaged in commercial pursuits
in Chicago from 1895 to 1897; studied sci
ence in the graduate departments of Yale
from 1897 to 1898 ;x was assistant in
** spectroscopy at Yerkes Observatory, from
1901 to 1903 ; professor of physics at
Wabash College from 1903 to 1906, and has
been professor of physics at Boston Uni
versity since 1306. He is author of: Notes
on the Zeeman Effect; On the Effect of
Circuit Conditions upon the Wave Lengths
of Spark Lines ; The Relative Positions of

Arc and Spark Lines of the Spectra of
Titanum, Zinc and Iron; also (in collabo
ration with Professor Hale of the Yerkes
Observatory) : Second Note on the Spark
Spectrum of Iron in. Liquids and Com
pressed Gases ; The Spectrum of the High
Potential Discharge between Metallic Elec
trodes in Liquids and in Gases at High
Pressures, and also published in the Out
look, two papers : In the Woods of Ontar
io and Canoeing in Ottawa Waters. In
politics he is an Independent and in relig
ion a Presbyterian. He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of -Science, the Astronomical and Astro-
physical Society and the American Phys
ical Society ; also of the Yale Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa. His favorite recreations
are tennis, canoeing and travel. Mr. Kent
married in Salem, Massachusetts, March 27,
1906, Margaret Crowninshield. Residence :
4 Arlington Street, Cambridge. Address:
Boston University, College of Liberal Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts.
KENT, Orville Clare:
Lawyer; born at Espyville, Pennsylvania,
June 15, 1876 ; son of J. O. Kent and Mary
(Free) Kent. He was educated in the
public schools of North Shenango Town
ship, Pennsylvania, the Linesville High
School, and Allegheny College, from which
he graduated as A.B. in 1896. Mr. Kent
began the practice of law in Crawford
County, Pennsylvania, in 1900, was ad
mitted to the bar of the Supreme and
Superior Courts of Pennsylvania in 1902
and 1903, and to the United States Courts
for the Western District of Pennsylvania,
in 1902. He has been district attorney of
Crawford County, Pennsylvania, since
1905. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Order of Elks. Mr.
Kent is identified with the Republican
party and the United Presbyterian Church:
and when leisure permits he finds diversion
in hunting and fishing. He married at
Waterford, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1903,
Marion L. Irvin, and they have two chil
dren: John Irvin, born in 1904, and
Marion, born in 1906. Residence : 995

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Park Avenue, Meadville. Office address:
353 Centre Street, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
KENT, Robert D. :
Banker; born at Wilmington, Delaware,
October 24, 1855; son of James and Janet
(Scott) Kent. He attended the public
schools, Philadelphia, and was a bank clerk
in that city from 1874 to 1880; cashier of
the Atlantic City National Bank, Atlantic
City, from 1881 to 1886; cashier of the
Passaic National -Bank, Passaic, New Jer
sey, from 1886 to 1899; president of Mer
chants' Bank of Passaic; vice-president of
the Stapleton National Bank of Stapleton,
New York; Rockland County Trust Com
pany, Nyack, New York; Riverside Na
tional Bank, Riverside, New Jersey, and
Metuchen National Bank, Metuchen, New
Jersey. He is a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association ; member of
thex Presbyterian Unipn, St. Andrew's So
ciety, and of the Hardware Club. Mr. Kent
married, first, in Philadelphia, October 24,
1880, Ella R. King, and, second, at Wood
bury, New Jersey, December 15, 1886, Caro
line Earl Riddle; and he has two children:
Janet Scott, born in 1882; and William
Riddle, born in 1891. Address : 31 Nassau
Street, New York City.
KENT, Willi iam:
Dean and professor of mechanical engi
neering at Lyman C. Smith College of Ap
plied Science, Syracuse University since
1903 ; born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1851 ;
son of James Kent and Janet (Scott)
Kent. He graduated from the Central
High School, Philadelphia, as A.B. in 1868
and A.M. in 1873 ; Cooper Union, New
York in 1872 (received diploma and
bronze medal). Stevens Institute of Tech
nology, M.E., 1876; honorary ScD., Syra
cuse University, 1905. He made a research
on alloys of copper and tin, and copper and
zinc under the direction of Professor R.
H. Thurston, for the United States Test
ing Board, from 1875 to 1877; was editor
of The American Manufacturer, Pittsburgh,
from 1877 to 1879; with Shoenberger and
Company, iron and steel manufacturers,
Pittsburgh, from 1879 to 1882; with the

Babcock and Wilcox Company, steam boiler
manufacturers, Pittsburgh and New York
City, from 1882 to 1885; with the Springer
Torsion Balance Company, Jersey City, as
general manager of their scale works, from
1885 to 1890; consulting engineer in New
York City from 1890 to 1903. He was
a member of the New Jersey Commission
of Pollution of Streams, in 1898 and 1899.
Mr. Kent has made five trips to Europe and
one to Mexico. In politics he is a Re
publican and in religion a Presbyterian.
Mr. Kent is a member of The American
Institute of Mining Engineers, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice-
president from 1888 to 1890), the American
Society of Heating and , Ventilating En
gineers (president in 1905), the Technology
Club of Syracuse (president in 1905), and
fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (vice-pres
ident of Section D, 1895). Mr. Kent is
author of: The Mechanical Engineer's
Pocketbook, 1895 (Wiley); Steam Boiler
Economy, 1901 (Wiley), also numerous
papers in the transactions of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers and the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He contributed to Appleton's Encyclopedia
of Mechanics, and Johnson's Universal Cy
clopedia, and was associate editor of The
Engineering News from 1895 to 1903. His
favorite recreations are traveling, reading
and summer vacations. He is a member of
the Engineers' Club of New York City and
of the University and Technology Clubs of
Syracuse, the Delta Tau Delta and Tau
Beta Pi fraternities and the Sigma Xi So
ciety. He married in Jersey City, New
Jersey, February 25, 1879, Marion W.
Smith and tney have three children: Rob
ert Thurston, born July 17, 1880; Agnes
Scott, born February 4, 1884; and, Edward
Raylor, born December 6, 1888. Address :
601 Comstock Avenue, Syracuse, New
York.
KENT, William:
Real estate and live stock dealer ; born in
Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 1864; son of
Albert Emmett and Adalme Elizabeth
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tion was received at private schools in
California and at the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, Connecticut, in
entered Yale College in 1883 and was grad
uated with the degree of A.B. in 1887.
Immediately after his graduation he went
to Chicago, Illinois, where he entered the
office of his father, who was a large oper
ator in real estate. In 1890 he was taken
into partnership with his father, the firm
being known as A. E. Kent and Son.
Since the death of his father, in 1901, Mr.
Kent has managed the business and has
added to holdings of land and buildings
in the States of Nebraska, California,
Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and
Kansas. He is a director of the American
Trust and Savings Bank, a member of the
firm of Kent and Burke, cattle feeders, and
president of the Golconda Cattle Company,
of Nevada. He is an Independent in politics,
and was a member of the Chicago City
Council from 1895 to 1897; president of
the Municipal Voters' League, 1899-1900,
on the executive committee of the same
from 1897 to 1904, and was also for a
time on the Executive Committee of the
Citizens' Association. He is a member of
the Illinois Civic Service Association, the
Civil Service Reform League, All Souls'
Church, and the Union League, University,
Chicago Athletic, Quadrangle and City
Clubs of Chicago ; Bohemian and Univer
sity Clubs of San Francisco, Yale and City
Clubs of New Haven ; and Graduates' Club
of New York City. Fie was married
at Ojai Valley, California, February 26,
1890, to Elizabeth Thacher, and has seven
children : Albert, Emmett, Thomas, Thacher,
Dutton, Sherman, and Roger. Residence :
5 1 12 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago. Address:
12 Sherman Street, Chicago, Illinois.
KENYON, Ralph Wood:
Clergyman; born in Brooklyn, New
York; son of Captain Ralph Watson and
Julia (Waterman) Kenyon. He was pre
pared in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti
tute ; graduated from Columbia College as
B.A., with English Seminary prize, in 1878,
and M.A. in 1881 ; and was graduated from
the Episcopal Theological School, of Cam

bridge, Massachusetts, as S.T.B. in 1881 ;
and he received from the University of
New York the degree of LL.B. in 1898 and
from St. John's College that of D.D. in
1899. He was ordered deacon in 1881 and
ordained priest in 1882, by Bishop Little-
john, in the Episcopal ministry. He served
as assistant in St. Luke's Church, Brook
lyn, New York, in 1881 ; rector of the Holy
Innocents' Church, Albany, New York,
from 1881 to 1887; associate and rector
of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, New
York City, from 1887 to 1889; assistant
St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, New York,
from 1889 to 1892; rector of the Church
of the Archangel, New York City from
1892 to 1899. He has been professor of
apologetics and Christian ethics, and sec
retary of the Faculty of Amity Theological
Schools, New York City, since 1902. He
was chaplain, Master's Lodge of Masons
(Albany) from 1882 to 1887 ; and delegate
to the Federate Council of the Episcopal
Church representing the Diocese of Albany
from 1884 to 1887. Dr. Kenyon is a writer
of editorials, essays, sermons and papers
on ethical and sociological topics. He is
a life member of the Alumni Association
of Columbia University; member of the
society of Colonial Wars, the Society of
Mayflower Descendants, and of the Cam
bridge Club of New York and Boothbay
Harbor Yacht Club of Maine. He mar
ried in 1891, Elise C. Rathbone, and they
have one daughter, Theda. Address : 43
Halsey Street, Brooklyn, New York.
KENYON, William Houston:
Lawyer; born in Hartford, Connecticut,
January 5, 18^6; son of Robert and Jean
(Houston) Kenyon. He received from the
College of the City of New York, the degree
of A.B. in 1876, and A.M. in 1883; and
from Columbia College LL.B. in 1879. Mr.
Kenyon has been engaged in the practice
of law in New York City from gradua
tion, with a specialty in patent law, and
is now senior member of the firm of
Kenyon and Kenyon. He has been identi
fied with much of the important patent liti
gation of the last twenty-five years; and
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Law of the United States. He has made
several trips abroad, both for health and
pleasure, and also to Mexico, in connection
with patent litigation; he served in the
Seventh Regiment of the National Guard
of New York, from 1877 to 1884. Mr.
Kenyon has been active in reform move
ments; was chairman of the Committee of
Fifty-three in 1897, and 1898, which secured
the passage of the Primary Law of the
State of New York. In politics he is a Re
publican- and in religion a Unitarian. Mr.
Kenyon is a member of the American Bar
Association, the New York State Bar As
sociation, Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American Geo
graphical Society, American Society of
Electrical Engineers, American Electro
chemical Society, the National Civil Serv
ice Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, and Phi Beta Kappa Society. His
favorite recreations are golf, tennis and
automobiling. He is a member of the Uni
versity, Barnard, Republican, and West
Side Republican Clubs of New York City,
and the University Club of Philadelphia.
Mr. Kenyon married, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
April 21, 1887, Maria Wellington Stanwood,
who died June 25, 1905; and he has three
children : Dorothy, born in 1887, Theodore
Stanwood, born in 1889, and William
Houston, Jr., born in 1899. Address : 49
Wall Street, New York City.
KEOGH, Martin Jerome:
Jurist; born in Ireland, in 1855; son of
John Keogh and Margaret Keogh. He re
ceived his education in the public schools
and was graduated from New York Uni
versity as LL.B.. in 1876; and the degree
of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the
same university in, ,1906. He was admitted
to the bar in 1876; presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket in 1886, and was
elected by the- votes of both leading par
ties, as 1 justice of the Supreme- Court of
New York in 1895, for the term expir
ing 1909. Judge Keogh married at New
Rochelle, New- York, in 1894, Katharine
Temple Emmet. Address: New Rochelle,
New York.

KEPPEL, Frederick:
Importer of pictures, art writer and lec
turer; born in Tullow, Ireland, March 22,
1845. He was educated in England and at
Wesley College, Dublin. He is senior
member o'f the firm of Frederick Keppel
and Son. Mr. Keppel is a writer on art
topics for current periodicals in New York
City; and the Studio and Pall Mall Ga
zette of London. He has been a lecturer
on art, at Yale, Columbia and Johns Hop
kins Universities, and also at the Metro
politan Museum of Art and the Groliers
Club of both of which organizations he is
a member. He married in Cork, Ireland,
in 1875, Fannie McVickery. Residence:
239 East Seventeenth Street, New York.
Office address : 4 East Thirty-ninth Street,
New York City.
KEPPLER, Joseph:
Publisher and artist, a member of the
firm of Keppler and Schwarzman, publish
ers of Puck. Residence: Stapleton, Staten
Island. Office address : 39 East Houston
Street, New York City.
KEPPLER, Rudolph:
Banker and broker; born in Constanz,
Germany, in 1843, son of Karl Keppler and
Marie Keppler. He was educated in New
York City. He is president of the New
V ork Stock Exchange ; a member of the
firm of Rudolph, Keppler and Company;
and a director of the New York Stock
Exchange Building Company and South
Porto Rico Sugar Company. He is a mem
ber of the American Geographical Society,
Fine Arts society, the Scientific Alliance,
the New .York Academy of Sciences, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History and of
the Union League Club and the Deutscher
Verein. Mr. Keppler married in New
York City, 1868, Elise Gramm. Residence :
28 West Seventieth Street, New York. Of
fice address : 25 Broad Street, New York
City.
KERENS, Richard C:
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States in early childhood, and was edu
cated in the public schools of Iowa. He
served in the Union Army as a private
from 1861 to the end of the war. After
the war he was a resident of Arkansas
and became an extensive mail route con
tractor, and afterward was largely en
gaged in railway construction, with resi
dence at St. Louis after 1876. Mr. Kerens
became active in politics as a Republican
and particularly as the personal and polit
ical friend of the late James G. Blaine,
and was the member from Missouri of the
National Republican Committee from 1892
to 1904. He was a commissioner from
Missouri to the World's Columbian Ex
position. Residence : 36 Vandeventer Place,
St. Louis. Office address : 214 Rialto Build
ing, St. Louis, Missouri.
KERKER, Gustave Adolph:
. Conducter and composer; born in Her-
ford, Germany, February 28, 1867; son of
Gustave Adolph Kerker and Elizabeth
Kerker. His parents were both musicians
and his first instructors in music. He has
been conductor at the New York Casino
since 1889. Mr. Kerker is the composer
of The- Pearl of Pekin, the Belle of New
York, and others. Address: 115 Manhat
tan Avenue, New York City.
KERN AN, Walter N.:
Lawyer; born in Utica, New York,
March 20, 1864 ; son of Francis Kernan and
Hannah (Devereux) Kernan. He was
graduated from Georgetown College in
1885 and is a member of the firm of Kernan
and Kernan. He is also a member of the
Transportation and University* Clubs of
New York City. Office address : Deve-
reaux Block, Utica, New York.
KERR, Abram Tucker:
Anatomist and educator ; born at Buffalo,
New York, January 7, 1873 ; son of Abram
T. Kerr and Rebecca (Marshall) Kerr. He
received his education in the common and
high schools of Buffalo, New York, and
was graduated from Cornell University as
B.S. in 1895, and the University of Buffalo
Medical Department, as M.D. in 1897 ; was

a graduate student at the University of
Gottingen, Germany, in 1899 and in the
Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1899 and
1900. He was student assistant in histology
and pathology at the University of Buffalo
from 1894 to 1897; acting professor of
anatomy in 1897 and 1898; and adjunct
professor and demonstrator of anatomy
from 1898 to 1900 in the same institution;
was assistant professor of anatomy in Cor
nell University Medical College, Ithaca,
from 1900 to 1904, and has been professor
of anatomy and secretary of the same
since 1904. Professor Kerr is a collabora
tor on the American Journal of Anatomy,
and associate editor of Morris' Anatomy,
fourth edition, sections on Ear, Nose, Skin,
Tongue and Mammary Glands. He is a
member of the American Microscopical
Society, the Association of American
Anatomists, the County and State Medical
Associations, the American Medical Asso
ciation, Beta Theta Pi, and Nu Sigma Nu
fraternities, Sigma Xi Society and a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science. In religious affilia
tion he is an Episcopalian; and he is a
member of the Town and Gown Club. Dr.
Kerr married in Newark, New York, July
10, 1895, Agnes Rogers Sherman. Resi
dence : Kelvin Place, Ithaca, New York.
Office address : Cornell University Medical
College, Ithaca, New York.
KERR, Charles V olney:
Mechanical engineer; born in Miami
County, Ohio, March 27, 1861; son of,
George W. and Nancy Kerr. He was
graduated from the Western University
of Pennsylvania as Ph.B. in 1884 and Ph.
M. in 1888 and received his Ph.D. degree
in 1898 ; and was also graduated 1 in
mechanical engineering from Stevens In
stitute of Technology at Hoboken, New
Jersey, in 1888. Mr. Kerr was private
tutor and instructor in the chemical
laboratory at Stevens Institute in 1887 and
1888 ; instructor in mathematics and science
in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York,
in 1888 and 1889; assistant professor of
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1891; professor of engineering in the
Arkansas Industrial University at Fayette
ville, from 1891 to 1896; professor "of
mechanical engineering in the Armour
Institute Technology, Chicago, from 1896
to 1902; engineer with Westinghouse,
Church, Kerr and Company, New York
City, from 1902 to 1904, and since then
chief engineer of the Kerr Turbine Com
pany, of Wellsville, New York. Address :
Wellsville, New York.
KERR, James:
Capitalist; born in Mifflin County, Penn
sylvania, in 1851. He received his educa
tion in the Pennsylvania schools and re
moved to Clearfield, Pennsylvania, when he
was a young man. He took an active part
in politics on the side of the Democratic
party, with which he has always been iden
tified, and was elected to the Fifty-first
Congress in 1888. Mr. Kerr was Demo
cratic State chairman during the Pattison-
Delamatur gubernatorial campaign in Penn
sylvania, one of the rare occasions when
the State went Democratic; also a member
of the National Committee at that time,
He was clerk in the United States House
of Representatives in the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses, and received the
vote of the Philadelphia delegation and
other scattering votes in 1902 for the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial nomination in Penn
sylvania, although not a candidate for nomi
nation for governor. Mr. Kerr has always
been identified with the timber and coal in
terests of Pennsylvania. He is president
and director of the Pennsylvania, Beech
Creek and Eastern Coal Company, the
largest shipper of bituminous coal on the
Pennsylvania division of the New .York
Central and Hudson River Railroad, arid
was instrumental in organizing the same.
He is also president and director of the
Automatic Coaling and Weighing Barge
Company, the Clearfield Manufacturing
Company, the Commonwealth Coal and
Coke Company, the Hooverhurst and
Southwestern Railroad, the Iroquois China
Company, the North River Coal and Wharf
Company, the Pennsylvania Construction
and Investment Company, the Potts Run

Land Company, and director of the Beech
Creek Railroad Company, the Chest Creek
Railroad Company, the Clearfield Trust
Company, the Farmers' Bank of Indiana,
Pennsylvania; the O'Gara Coal Company,
and Philadelphia Record. Ffe is a member
of the Calumet and Barnard Clubs. Mr.
Kerr married at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in
1874, Julia B. Smith and their children are :
Albert B., Walter B,, Chester M., James,
Jr., and Frederick B. Residence (summer) :
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and (winter), 108
Central Park West, New York City. Of
fice address : 17 Battery Place, New York
City.
KERR, John B.:
Lawyer; born in Newburgh, New York,
February 1, 1851 ; son of George W. Kerr
and Margaret T. L. Kerr. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Newburgh,
New York, and Trinity School, of New
York City, and was admitted to the bar in
1872, after studying law in the office of E.
A. Brewster at Newburgh. He practiced
there until 1882, when he became attorney
for the New York, Ontario and Western
Railway Company, and removed to New
York City, where he has since resided, and
during that time has been continuously
connected with the management of
that company, of which he is now '
vice-president and general counsel. He
is also vice-president of the Scran
ton Coal Company. For four years
he was recorder of the city of Newburgh
and he was trustee of the New Amsterdam
Eye and Ear Hospital , of New York City.
Mr. Kerr is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, and
of the Down Town Club. He married at
Newburgh, New Yonc, November 16, 1881,
Elizabeth R. Case, and they have three
children : Marian M., Katharine and John.
Address : 56 Beaver Street, New York City.
KERSTEN, George:
Jurist; born in Chicago, Illinois, March
21, 1853 ; son of Joachim and Sophia (Eis
ner) Kersten. He received his education
in Captain Standon's German-American, In
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Commercial College, having been graduated
from the latter in 1869. He was engaged
in various employments until 1880, when
he was made clerk of the Police Court
of Chicago, and shortly afterward was
elected a justice of the peace. Event
ually he was appointed one of the police
justices of the City of Chicago, a position
which he retained for a number of years.
In 1903 he was elected judge of the Circuit
Court of Cook County. He is a member
of the Masonic order, the Mystic Shrine,
the Order of -Foresters, Knights of Pyth
ias, the Knights of Columbus, and the
Royal Arcanum. He is also a member of
the North Side Turner's Society, and was
one of the organizers, its first secretary
and later president of the Cook County
Democratic Club. He is prominent as a
sharpshooter, and is a member of several
gun clubs and of the Germania and Iro
quois Clubs. He was married Septembei
4, 1875, to Julia Baierle, and has one living
child: Lilian. Residence: 418 Belden Ave
nue, Chicago. Address : County Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
K ERWIN, James C. :
Justice of the Supreme Court of Wiscon
sin; bom at Menasha, Wisconsin, May 4,
1850. He was graduated from the law de
partment of the University of Wisconsin
as LL.B. in 1875 and practiced law at
Neenah, Wisconsin and Milwaukee until
elected to the Supreme bench for the term
beginning in January, 1905. Residence:
Neenah, Wisconsin. Office address : Madi
son,. Wisconsin.
KETCHAM, Henry B.;
Lawyer; born in Dover Plains, Dutchess
County, New York, August 8, 1865 ; son of
John H. Ketcham and Augusta A. (Belden)
Ketcham. He was graduated from Yale
as A.B. in 1887 and from the Columbia
Law School as LL.B. in 1889; and since
1890 he has been a member of the law firm
of Reid, Esselstyn and Ketcham. He is a
director of the Livingston Realty Company.
Mr. Ketcham is a Republican in politics
and was candidate for Congress in the
Second Congressional District of Kings

County in 1900, defeated by two hundred
and seven votes in a district normally
Democratic by five thousand; and was an
unsuccessful candidate on the Republican
ticket for district attorney in Kings Coun
ty in 1904. He is a member of the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Ketcham is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and the
Yale Club of New York City, the Hamil
ton, Oxford, Crescent, Athletic Clubs of
Brooklyn and the Dyker Meadow Golf
Club. He married at Englewood, New-Jer
sey, September 12, 1889, Sallie Bray Hol-
man, and they have three children : Henry
Holman, Katharine and John Belden. Ad
dress : 2 Rector Street, New York City.
KEY, Joseph Staunton:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South; born at LaGrange, Georgia,
July 18, 1829; son of Rev. Caleb Witt Key,
for more than fifty years a Methodist minis
ter in Georgia, and Martha (Hames) Key.
He was graduated from Emory College as
A.B. in 1848, and A.M. in 1851, and received
the D.D. degree from the University of
Georgia in 1867. After graduation he en
tered the ministry, and served in various
pastorates of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South; in the Georgia Confer
ence, until elected bishop by the General
Conference in 1886. He married, in 1892,
Lucy Kidd. Address : Sherman, Texas.
KEYES, Edward Lawrence:
Surgeon ; born at Fort Moultrie', Charles
ton Harbor, South Carolina, August 28,
1843 ; son of Major-General Erasmus Keyes,
United States Army, and Caroline M.
Keyes. He was graduated from Yale as
A.B. in 1863, and A.M. in 1866, from the
Medical Department of the University of
New York as M.D. in 1866 an df later as
LL.D., Xavier; also took special courses in
France. Dr. Keyes was lecturer from 187 1
to 1872, and professor of genito-urinary
surgery from 1872 to 1890, at -Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, and since then
has been consulting surgeon to Bellevue
Hospital. He is vice-president of the
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ciation d'Urologie de France ; and has been
president at various times of several medi
cal societies, local and National. Fie is
author of: Tonic Treatment of Syphilis;
Venereal Diseases ; Surgery of .the Kidney,
Bladder and the Genitalia in the Male. Dr.
Keyes is a member of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Century, Association
and Metropolitan Clubs of New York City,
and the Meadow Golf Club of Southamp
ton; Shinnecock Golf and Tuxedo Clubs.
He married at Georgetown, D. C, Sarah
M. Loughborough. Residence: Tuxedo
Park, New York. Address: 109 East
Thirty-fourth Street, New York City.
KEYSER, Cassius j..
Mathematician and educator; born in
Rawson, Ohio, in 1862 ; son of J. B. Keyser
and Margaret J. (Ryan) Keyser. He was
graduated from the Ohio Normal Univer
sity as B.S. in 1883; studied law at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, and Kenton, Ohio, from
1883 to 1885; graduated from the Univer
sity of Missouri as B.S. in 1892; was a
student at the Summer School of the Uni
versity of Michigan, in 1894; was a gradu
ate scholar in mathematics in 1895 and 1896,
and a fellow in 1896 and 1897, and received
the degrees of A.M. in 1896 and Ph.D. in
1901 from Columbia University. Dr. Keyser
was principal and superintendent of public
schools in Ohio and Missouri from 1885 to
1890; instructor in mathematics at the
Missouri State University in 1891 and 1892,
professor of mathematics at the State Nor
mal School at New Paltz, New York, from
1892 to 1894; instructor in mathematics at
Smith Academy, Washington University,
St. Louis, in 1894 and 1895, and at Bar
nard College from 1897 to 1900; instructor
in mathematics at Columbia University
from 1897 to 1903; adjunct professor in
1903 and 1904 and since then Adrain pro
fessor of mathematics. Professor Keyser
is editor of the department of mathematics
in the Encyclopedia Americana, has been
Atherican editor of the Hibbert Journal
since 1904, and is contributor to various
scientific and philosophic journals. He is a
member of the American Mathematical So
ciety, CircolO Matematico di Palermo; a

fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and member of
the Columbia University Club. He mar
ried at Ridgeway, Ohio, in 1885, Ella Maud
Crow, and he has one' daughter, Eva
Blanch, born in 1888. Address : Columbia
University, New York City.
KEYSER. Ephraim:
Sculptor; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
October 6, 1850;- son of Moses Keyser, a
native of Fritzlar, Germany, and Betty
(Preiss) Keyser, born in Schlichtern, Ger
many. After completing his general educa
tion in the Baltimore public schools, and a
year's study^ in the Maryland Academy of
Arts he studied for four years in the Acad
emy of Fine Arts in Munich, Bavaria, re
ceiving the silver medal for his bronze
statue The Page. In 1876 he was a pupil
of Albert Wolff in Berlin, where he mod
eled his statute Psyche, for which he re
ceived the Michall-Beer prize, a year's tui
tion in. Rome, Italy, 1876-1877. He had
studios in Rome and New York until 1893 ;
since then in Baltimore, where he is
professor of sculpture in the Academy of
Fine Arts of the Maryland Institute. His
works include : The Pet Falcon,- Titania,
Ye Olde Storye, The Rose, A Duet, the
Memorial to President Chester A. Arthur
in Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York;
bronze monument of Baron DeKalb at An
napolis ; portrait busts of Cardinal Gibbons,
Henry Harland, Dr. D. C. Gilman, Sidney
Lanier and others. Address : 2408 Linden
Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland.
KTRBEY, Joseph II.:
Governor of Arizona ; born at Center
ville, Indiana, March 4, 1853. He was edu
cated in Earlham College, at Richmond, In
diana, practiced law in Indiana from 1875
to 1888, and after that in Arizona. He was
appointed by President Harrison in 1889
an associate justice of the Supreme Court
of Arizona and serving until 1893. ' He re
sumed practice, became active in the pol
itics of the Territory as a Republican and
was a member of the Territorial Council
from 1902 to 1904. He was appointed . at
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commissioned JVIarch 7, 1905, governor of
Arizona, under appointment from President
Roosevelt. Address : Phoenix, Arizona.
KIELLAND, Soren Theodor Munch Bull:
Civil engineer and Norwegian vice-con
sul; born in Stavanger, Norway, Septem
ber 7, 1854; son of Lauritz Christian Kiel-
land, publisher and owner of newspapers,
and of Johamie Mette Colbjornsen
(Munch) Kielland. His. mother is the
cousin of the famous violinist, Ole Bull, and
he is related on both sides to Norwegian
Celebrities. He was educated in "the Latin
School at Stavanger, Norway, passed the
Royal Navy Board as navigator on the
high seas at the age of sixteen; was a stu
dent at the Engineering College, Gothen
burg, Sweden, and was graduated with
honors in 1876. He visited Africa in 1868
and spent three months in Zululand ; was
a sailor from 1870 to 1872 ; engaged on
railroad construction in Natal, South Afri
ca, as engineer and contractor, from 1876 to
1878; engineer on harbor work and river
regulation in Norway in 1879 and 1880;
assistant engineer of the Erie Railroad in
Buffalo from 1881 to 1885 ; assistant en
gineer resident of the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Montana and Washington from
1885 to 1888; division engineer of the Le
high Valley Railroad at Buffalo; in charge
of the construction of terminals, from 1888
to 189J ; chief engineer of the Montana
Southern Railroad and principal assistant
engineer of the Montana Midland Railroad
from 1893 to 1895 and since 1898 he has
been civil engineer of the Buffalo Creek
Railroad. He is also director, treasurer
and consulting engineer of various corpo
rations. Since the independence of Nor
way, he has been vice-consul for Norway at
Buffalo. . Mr. Kielland is an Independent
in politics and a member of the Lutheran
Church, and is treasurer and a member of
the council, at the Church of the Redeemer,
Buffalo. He is also a member of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers, the Engi
neering Society of Western New York, of
which he is president ; the Buffalo Rail
road Association (past vice-president) ; the
American Geographical Society, the Civil

Engineering Society, and the Masonic
order. Mr. Kielland is an extensive trav
eler, having been through the Mediterra
nean to Turkey, Greece, the Crimea, Black
Sea and Sea of Azov. He was on a hunt
ing expedition in, Zululand, being the only
white man in the party, and has traveled
and camped along trails and canyons in the
Rocky Mountains. His favorite recreations
are sailing, traveling and painting. He
married Anna May, daughter of Hon. Mar
vin and Jinnet (Lyall) Harris, of Kendall,
New York, and their children are: Rolf,
born in 1884; Jinnet, bom in 1886; Doro
thea, born in 1890; Casper, born in 1893,
and Anna, born in 1895. Address: 364
Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York.
KILBURN, Frederick Douglas:
Lawyer and superintendent of banks;
born in Clinton County.New York, July 25,
1850; son of Henry Gardiner and Soph-
rona (Evans) Kilburn. He was educated
in Franklin Academy and Albany Law
School. Practiced law from 1874 to 1885.
He was vice-president, director and man
ager of the People's National Bank, Ma
lone, New York, from 1885 to 1896; presi
dent of the Malone Light and Power Com
pany; director of the Malone Shirt Com
pany; Symonds and Allison Company.
County treasurer six years ; State Senator
two years; Superintendent of Banks since
January, 1896. Republican. Methodist.
Trustee of the Northern New York Insti
tution for Deaf-Mutes. His recreations
are hunting and fishing. He is a member
of the Republican (New York City), and
Fort Orange, and Albany (Albany). He
married Clara M. Barry, July 21, 1875, and
they have four children: James B.,
born in 1880; Edward D., born in 1882;
Alice R., born in 1887, and Clarence E.,
born in 1893. Address : Malone, New York.
KTLDAHL, John Nathan:
College president ; born in Norway, Janu
ary 4, 1857 ; son of Johan Kildahl and Nico-
lina (Buvarp) Kildahl. He was gradu
ated from Luther College as A.B. in 1879,
and graduated from Luther Seminary in
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Churches, Goodhue County, Minnesota,
from 1882 to 1889, of Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Chicago, Illinois, from 1889 to
1899, and has been president of the Saint
Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, since
1899. He traveled in Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, England and the
United States. Dr. Kildahl married in
Goodhue County, Minnesota, July 11, 1882,
Bertha Soine, and they have four children :
Carl, born in 1885, Johan, born in 1887,
Anna, bom in 1889 and Lars, born in 1891.
Address: Saint Olaf College, Northfield,
Minnesota.
' KILIANI, Otto George Theobald:
Surgeon; born in Munich, Bavaria,
September 5, 1863; son of Judge Herman
Kiliani and Carola (Faulstock) Kiliani.
He was graduated from the University of
Munich in 1886; the University of Halle
.in 1888, and as M.D. from the University
of Leipzig in 1888. He was surgeon of
the Third Royal Artillery Regiment in
1890; passed the New York State examina
tion in 1891 and has been in practice as
surgeon in New York City since then.
Dr. Kiliani is author of: Surgical Diag
nosis; and many surgical papers; is a con
tributor to Ashhurst's Encyclopedia of Sur
gery, and to the Twentieth Century Prac
tice of Medicine. He received the order
of St. Michael at Bavaria. Dr. Kiliani is
surgeon to the German Hospital, New
York City, and to the Imperial German
Consulate General. He is a member of the
New York Academy of Medicine; the New
• York County Medical Society ; the German
Medical Society; Medico-Surgical Society;
Physicians'- Medical Aid Association; and
New York Surgical Society; and is a
life member of the Surgical Society of
Berlin. He married August 12, 1887,
Lilian Bayard Taylor, and they have one
son, Richard Bayard Taylor, born, May
6, 1888. Address: 116 East Fifty-seventh
Street, New York City.
KILLM ASTER, George B.:
Consular official ; bofn in Canada ; app
pointed commercial agent at Port Rowan,
April 2, 1894; appointed consul June 22,

1906. Address : Port Rowan, Ontario, Can
ada.
KIMBALL, Amos Samuel:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in Lawrence, New York, July 14,
1840; son of James and Sophia (Taft)
Kimball. He was graduated from the
State Normal School, Albany, New York,
in 1859. He entered the Union Army as
first lieutenant of the Ninety-eighth New
York Infantry, November 27, 1861 ; honor
ably mustered out May 1, 1864; captain,
assistant quartermaster, volunteers, ¦ April
7, 1864; brevet-major, February 1, 1866.
In regular army as captain, assistant
.quartermaster, November 19, 1866; major,
quartermaster, October 11, 1883; lieutenant-
colonel deputy, quartermaster-general, De
cember 31, 1894; colonel, November 13,
1898; brigadier-general, October 1, 1902;
retired, October 2, 1902. He served in the
Army of the Potomac in the Civil War;
under Sheridan in the Indian campaign in
1868 and 1869; field quartermaster with
General .Miles in the Arizona campaign
against Geronimo, etc. Married at Fort
Covington, New York, in 1861, Hattie F.
C'rary. Address : The Highlands, Wash
ington, D. C.
KIMBALL, Charles Dean:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
Providence, Rhode Island, September 13,
1859; son of Emery Sheldon Kimball and
Mary C. (Briggs) Kimball. He received
his education in the public schools of Prov
idence, including the high school. In 1878
he entered the employ of Kimball and
Colwell, pork packers, and in 1890 was
admitted to the firm, which is now incor
porated under the name of the Kimball and
Colwell Company, of which he is treasurer.
Mr. Kimball is president of the Board of
Managers of the Rhode Island College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, is treas
urer of the What Cheer Beef Company,
and president of the Fall River Pier Com
pany. He was a representative in the
Rhode Island General Assembly from 1894
to 1900, was lieutenant-governor of Rhode
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1902, having been selected as a Republican.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the
Revolution, Association of Descendants of
Roger Williams, the first Light Infantry
Veterans' Association of Providence, Prov
idence Board of Trade, Rhode Island His
torical Society, and Business Men's Asso
ciation. He is also a member of the Poin-
ham, Providence, Central, Elmwood, Com
mercial, and the" Young Men's Republican
Clubs of Providence. Mr. Kimball mar
ried in Providence, November 26, 1885,
Gertrude C. Greenhalgh, and they have a
daughter, Marion, born in 1887. Resi
dence: 398 Broadway, Providence. Office
address : 459 Washington Street, Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
KIMBALL, Daniel Tomlinson:
Lawyer; born in New York City, March
20, 1852; son of Richard Burleigh Kim
ball and Julia Caroline (Tomlinson) Kim
ball. Mr. Kimball is a descendant in the
paternal line from Richard Kimball of
Ipswich, England, who came in the ship
Elizabeth to Watertown, Massachusetts,
in 1634, and was afterward one of the
first settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and
on his mother's side a direct descendant
of Colonel Andrew Adams of the Revolu
tionary War, who was speaker of the Con
tinental Congress in 1779 and 1780 and
chief justice of Connecticut. Mr. Kim
ball received his education at Oakley's
School, Mount Vernon, New York; Eras
mus Academy, Flatbush, Long Island; the
Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, New
Hampshire, and eighteen mo'nths at Dart
mouth College in the class of 1876. His
health failed from overstudy and after
four months at his brother's plantation, in
Kimball, Texas, he returned to New York
City. He- studied law in his father's office
and was admitted to the bar. in 1879. The
degree of A.M. was conferred upon him
in 1886 by Dartmouth College. Mr. Kim
ball has been engaged in the practice of
law, in New York City from 1879, and
has been employed in many notable- cases,
including the Storrs and Hammond divorce
cases; the matter of Garvey, involving the

right of students from other States to vote;
Ralph vs. Coler, involving the constitu
tionality of the eight hour law; Kessler vs.
Best, the wine libel suit arising out of
the christening of the German Emperor's
yacht, Meteor; the Mitchell accounting
case; and others, including many cases
arising, from negligence, upon the law of
which, he is often consulted as expert by
other lawyers. He is a Republican jn Na
tional and an Independent in local politics.
He took an active part in the Harrison and
Morton campaign of 1888 (Governor Mor
ton being a cousin by marriage) ; in the
mayoralty campaign of 1903 for Mayor
Low; and in the campaign of 1905 for
Jerome. Mr. Kimball is a member of the
Citizens' Union; the bar of the Circuit and
District Courts , of the United States for
the Southern District of New York, and
the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States for the Eastern District of
New York. He is a member of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church; a trustee of
the Alexander Mission of that church, and
of the New York Practical Aid Society.
His favorite recreations are swimming,
bowling, political speaking and public de
bating. He is also a member of the Dart
mouth Alumni Association; the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence; the Civil Service
Reform Association, and of the Greenwich
Citizens' Club, of which he is also a di
rector. Address : 198 Broadway, New
York City.
KIMBALL, Dexter Simpson:
Mechanical engineer; born at New River,
New Brunswick, Canada, in 1865 ; son of
William H. Kimball and Jane (Patterson)
Kimball. He was graduated from Leland
Stanford, Jr., University, as A.B. in 1896.
He served apprenticeship with the firm of
Pope and Talbot, Port Gamble, Washing
ton, from 1881, to 1887 ; in the machine shop
of the Union Iron Works; San Francisco,
from 1887 to 1893 ; and in the drafting room
of same, from 1896 to 1898; designing en
gineer for the Anaconda Mining Company,
Montana, in 1898-; assistant professor of
machine design in Sibley College of Cor
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manager of the Stanley Electric Manu
facturing Company, Pittsfield, Massachu
setts, from 1901 to 1904, and professor of
mechanic arts in 1904 and 1905 and since
then professor of machine design and con
struction in Sibley College of Cornell Uni
versity. He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers and the
Sigma Xi Society. Professor Kimball
married in San Francisco, in 1898, Clara
Evelyn Woodner and their children are
Isabella Jarie, born 1902, and Dexter Simp
son born 1906. Residence : 23 East Ave
nue, Ithaca, New York. Office address :
Sibley College, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York.
KIMBALL, George Albert:
Civil engineer ; born in Littleton, Massa
chusetts, May ¦ 14, 1850 ; son of William
Kimball and Mary A. (Lawrence) Kim
ball. He received his education in the
public schools of Littleton, and at- Apple-
ton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hamp
shire. He practiced the profession of civil
engineer, having commenced in 1869 as
rodman in Somerville, Massachusetts ; was
city engineer of Somerville, Massachusetts,
from 1876 to 1887 ; member of the Massa
chusetts Grade Crossing Commission in
1888; member of the Massachusetts Metro
politan Sewerage Commission from 1896
to 1901 ; and he has been chief engineer of
Boston Elevated Railway Company, since
1896. Mr. Kimball was a member of the
Somerville Board of Aldermen in 1888 and
1889, of/the Somerville Board of Health
from 1880 to 1887, and the Somerville
Water Board from 1891 to 1900. He is a
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engi
neers, and New England Water Works As
sociation; director of the Somerville Co
operative Bank, Knights of Honor and the
Royal Arcanum. He is also a member of
the New England Street Railway Club, and
the Winchester Country Club. He married,
February 29J 1872, Lizzie E. Robbins. Res
idence: 336 Mystic Street, Arlington, Mas-
"sachusetts. Address: 101 Milk Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.

KIMBALL, Ingalls:
Publisher; born in West Newton, Massa
chusetts, April 2, 1874; son of Hannibal
Ingalls Kimball and Mary (Cook) Kim
ball. He was graduated from Harvard
University in 1894. He founded, as a
member of the publishing firm of Stone &
Kimball, The Chap Book in 1894; pub
lished the Stedman-Woodberry edition of
Poe's Works; also publisher for R. L.
Stevenson, Harold Frederic, and Gilbert
Parker, and established The Cheltenham
Press in 1897. He is president of The
Cheltenham Press, The Engraving Machine
Company, The Neucraft Company, and the
Cheltenham Press, Limited, of London. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion
an Episcopalian ; and he is a member of
the Players', Harvard, and Grolier Clubs.
Mr. Kimball married in Winchester, Vir
ginia, November 22, 1894, Nancy Virginia
Allen, and they have two children: Kath-
ryn, born August 12, 1896; and Mary, born
December 12, 1897. Address : 150 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
KIMBALL, James Putnam:
Geologist, mining engineer ; born in
Salem, Massachusetts in 1836. He was edu
cated at the Lawrence Scientific School,
Harvard University, University of Berlin,
University of Gottingen, and the Mining
Academy of Freiburg, Saxony. He was
graduated from the University of Georgia,
Augusta; Gottingen, A.M., Ph.D., 1857;
geologist of the State Geological Surveys
of Wisconsin and Illinois in 1859 and i860;
appointed by President Lincoln assistant
adjutant-general of volunteers with the
rank of captain, and assigned as chief of
staff to General Marsena R. Patrick, Army
of Rappahannock; took part in the numer
ous battles of that army and its successive
reorganizations, notably those of South
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan
cellorsville, Groveton, Chantilly, and Get
tysburg. Fie resigned from the army at
the close of the campaign of 1863, and re
sumed practice in New York City. He
was brevetted major' in 1865. Accepted in
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geology at Lehigh University, while con
tinuing professional relations at New York
City. He was appointed by President
Cleveland Director of the Mint, in 1885;
resigned in 1899. He was a contributor to
American and foreign scientific and literary
periodicals, and author of official reports
of the Bureau of the Mint, including an
nual reports on production of the precious
metals in the United States. He has ranch
interests with sons in Wyoming. He is a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, also a member of the Century
Club. Address : Century Association, 7
West Forty-third Street, New York City;
also Red Lodge, Montana.
KIMBALL, William C . :
Manufacturer of silks and ribbons ; born
in Boxford, Massachusetts, February 11,
1847; son of Jefferson and Mary (Griffin)
Kimball. He received his .education in the
common schools and at Putnam Academy,
Newburyport, Massachusetts. Early in
life he went into business in Boston; came
to New York City in 1868, was associated
with the Wilcox Silver Plate Company, and
later with H. F. Barrows and Company. In
1888 he was connected with Strange and
Brother, and is now vice-president of the
William Strange Company, manufacturers
of silks and ribbons, with mills at' Pater
son, New Jersey; director of The Read and
Lovatt Manufacturing Company, of New
York, Hobart Trust Company of Pas
saic, New Jersey, and president of the
American Transformer Company of New
ark, New Jersey. He was treasurer of
the Jewelers' Republican Club in the Blaine
campaign and also treasurer of the Central
Division Dry Goods Republican Club from
1896 to 1900 and in 1904; Mr. Kimball is
a member of the New England Society,
Jewelers' League, and president of the
Board of Trustees of the Passaic Public
Library. At the request of the New Jer
sey Library Association, he had a bill pre"-
pared for the Legislature, appointing a Pub
lic Library Commission which, after con
siderable efforts on the part of those . in
terested, was passed by the Legislature. He
was appointed by Governor Voorhees as

one of the commissioners and upon the
organization of the committee was made
chairman of the New Jersey Public Li
brary Commission, which office he still
holds. He is a member of the Merchants'
Central Clubs. Mr. Kimball was married
at-Mt. Kisco, New York, June 4, 1873, to
Blanch L. Read, and they have two sons :
W. Lockwood, and Clarence. Address :
Passaic, New Jersey.
KIMBER, Arthur Clifford:
Clergyman; born in New Hamburg, New
York, November 5, 1844; son of Arthur C.
and Elizabeth C. Kimber, both of England;
he was graduated from Saint Stephen's
College, 1866 (primus) ; tutor in that col
lege from 1866 to 1867; acting professor
in mathematics in 1869; B.D. 1879, S.T.D.
1886, Saint Stephen's ; graduated from Gen
eral Theological Seminary (Alumni Greek
prizeman), 1871 ; ordered deacon in 1871;
served at Trinity Church, New York; or
dained priest in 1872; vicar of Saint Au
gustine's Chapel, Trinity Parish, since 1872.
First editor Church Sunday School Teach
ers' Weekly, 1878. President of Saint
Stephen's College Alumni Association from
1895 to 1899; member for New York of
Committee on Uniform Sunday School Les
sons ; trustee of General Theological Semi
nary Alumni Association, and of Saint
Stephen's College. He is a member of
the Brooklyn University Club. He mar
ried at Vancouver, Washington, June
12, 1894, Clarissa Evans ; they have three
children: John Evans, born 1895; Arthur
Clifford, Jr., born 1896; George Card, born
in 1898. Residence : 464 Jefferson Ave
nue, Brooklyn, New York. Address : - 105
East Houston Street, New York City.
KIMBER, Robert Bootman :
Clergyman; bom in Flushing, Long
Island, 1871 ; son of Rev. Joshua and Mary
(Gove) Kimber; was graduated from Co
lumbia ' College, B.A., 1891 ; General Theo
logical Seminary, B.D., 1894. He was or
dered deacon in 1894 by Bishop Littlejohn;
ordained priest 1895, by Bishop Whitehead
in Episcopal ministry. Formerly rector of
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from 1894 to 1900; local secretary Board
of Managers of Domestic and Foreign Mis
sionary Society from 1900 to 1902. Super
intendent New York Protestant Episcopal
City Mission Society since 1902. He is a
member of the City Club, and Pennsylvania
Society. Married in Richmond Hill, Long
Island, in 1894, Genevieve L. Tyler. Ad
dress : 38 Bleecket Street, New York City.
KINDLE, Edward Martin:
Geologist; born near Franklin, Indiana,
March 10, 1869; son of Martin Van Buren
Kindle and Bitha Ann (Mullikin) Kindle.
He was graduated from Indiana University
as A.B. in 1893, and from Cornell as M.S.
in 1906, and there received the cash prize
of one hundred dollars for the best work
in geology; and was fellow at Yale from
1906 to 1908, receiving there the Ph.D. de
gree. Fie. was instructor in geology at
Indiana University in 1893 and 1894;
assistant State geologist of Indiana from
1898 to 1901 ; and has been assistant geolo
gist of the United States Geological Sur
vey since 1901. Mr. Kindle was volun
teer assistant on the Arkansas Geological
Survey in 1889; and paleontologist of the
Cornell Expedition to Greenland, which ac
companied Captain R. E. Peary's Expedi
tion in 1896; has spent two summers in
Alaska, in connection with professional
work. In politics he is a Democrat. He is
a member of the Connecticut Academy of
Sciences, and the Washington Geological
Society, and a fellow of the Geological So
ciety of America. Mr. Kindle married in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 21,
1900, Margaret Ferris, and they have four
children.. Residence: 1505 Decatur Street,
N. W., Washington. Address: Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C.
KINDRED, John Joseph:
Physician; born in Southampton County,
Virginia, July 15, 1864; son of John J.
Kindred and Caroline Antoinette (Drewry)
Kindred. He received his education in the
Suffolk Military Academy, the Randolph-
Macon College, the University of Virginia,
University of New York, Medical Depart
ment, and was graduated from the Hospital

College of Medicine as M.D. in 1889 in
special courses from the University' of
Einburgh, Scotland. He was resident phy
sician at the Maryland General Hospital,
Baltimore, assistant physician at the New
York City Asylum, Blackwell's Island,'
clinical assistant at Bloomingdale Asylum,
New York, assistant physician at the Hud
son River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie,
New York, first assistant physician at the
Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane at Har
risburg, extra assistant physician at the
Royal Asylum, Momingside, Edinburgh,
Scotland; clinical assistant to Professor
Hughlings Jackson at the London National
Hospital for Nervous Diseases ; physician
in charge and proprietor of the Darien
Home for Mental and Nervous Diseases
and of Dr. Kindred's Sanitarium at StanF-
ford, Connecticut. He is founder and pro
prietor of the River Crest Sanitarium, As
toria, Long Island, an institution under
State license for mental and nervous dis
eases and habitues, having a capacity of
one hundred and thirty-five patients. Dr.
Kindred is president and treasurer of" the
River Crest Sanitarium Company and of
the New York and Astoria Land and Im
provement Company. In politics he is an
Independent Democrat and he is a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dr. Kindred is a member of the American
Medical Association; a member of the
Auxiliary Committee on National Legisla
tion, the 'New York County Medical So
ciety; the New York County Medical As
sociation, the New York State Medical As
sociation, the American Medico-Phsycho-
logical Association; the Harlem Medical
Association, the Associated Physicians of
Long Island, the Society of Virginians, the
Southern Society in New York,*Sigma Chi
fraternity, a member of Kane Lodge, Elks
and Knights of Pythias. His favorite
recreations are horseback riding and -golf.
He is also a member of the National Demo
cratic and Patria Clubs. Dr. Kindred mar
ried at Luzerne, Switzerland, July 10, 1902,
Ella Welbon Cramer, and they have one
son, John Cramer, born in 1903. Ad
dress : Astoria, Long Island, New York.

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KING, Charles:
Soldier and novelist; born, Albany, New
York, October 12, 1844. Educated at Co
lumbia College and West Point. Began
his military career in 1861 and retired in
1899. He served in the Artillery and Caval
ry. Instructor at West Point to 1871 ; aide-
de-camp to General Emory to 1874 ; Apache
campaign, 1874; Sioux campaign, 1876; and
Nez Perces campaign, 1877. Retired for
wounds, 1879. University of Wisconsin,
from 1880 to 1882; aide-de-camp to Gover
nors Rusk and Hoard, 1882 to 1891 ; in
spector-general, Wisconsin National Guard,
1883 to 1889; commanded the Fourth Wis
consin Infantry from 1890 to 1892; com
mandant of cadets, Michigan Military Acad
emy, in 1892; adjutant-general of Wiscon
sin, 1895-1897. In the Philippines as brig
adier-general, United States Volunteers,
1898 and 1899. ' He is author of: Famous
Battles ; The Colonel's Daughter ; Between
the Lines ; The General's Double ; Under
Fire, and many others. He married daugh
ter of Captain Yorke, of Carroll Parish,
Louisiana, and they have one son and two
daughters living. Address : Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.KING, C. F.,
Capitalist ; born in North - Carolina, in
1867. He is the proprietor of the Boston
Daily Tribune, and King's Financial Bulle
tin; is president and director of the Alton
Manufacturing Company, of the King-
Crowther Corporation and the Norton Oil
Company, and is treasurer and director of
the Ehrman Manufacturing Company.
Residence: Brookline, Massachusetts. Of
fice addresses : St. James Building, New
York Cityt and Journal Building, Boston,
Massachusetts.
KING, Clifford Julius:
Lawyer; born in Warren, Ohio, October
22, 1865 ; son of Dr. Julius King and Caro
line (Gray) King. He was educated in
public and private schools, with' special
courses at Oberlin College, and the Uni
versity of Michigan. Previous to entering
the practice of law, he was for- fourteen
years engaged in business with the Julius

King Optical Company, in Cleveland, Ohio,
and in New York City, of which company
he is now auditor., Mr. King is secretary
and treasurer of the Cleveland-Ari
zona Mining Company. He is a member
of the American Institute of Civics, the
National Geographic Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, and the Ohio State
Bar Association, the Masonic order and
the order of Elks; and he is a member of
the Ashtabula Board of School Examiners,
is chairman of the Republican Executive
Committee, and county chairman of the
Ohio Primary Election Reform League.
He has traveled extensively abroad. Mr.
King is president of the Automobile Club
of Ashtabula, a member of the Lake Shore,
the Lenewawee, and the Roque Clubs of
that city, and of the Rowfant and Hermit
Clubs of Cleveland, Ohio. He married in
Jefferson, Ohio, June 11, 1891, Susan
Gilkey, and has one son, Julius, born
October 5, 1893. Residence (winter) :
"Kingdom Come," Orlando, Florida, (sum
mer) : 69 Park Street, Ashtabula, Ohio.
Law office : 164 Main Street, Ashtabula,
Ohio.KING,' David Bennett:
Lawyer, writer; born in Mt. Pleasant,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June
20, 1848. He was graduated from Lafayette
College in 1871 ; successively tutor, adjunct
professor, and professor of Latin at La
fayette College from 1871 to 1886. Ad
mitted to the bar in 1883 ; since then in
practice of law in New York City. Author
of: Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Ques
tion; and also a contributor to periodicals.
He is a member of the Bar Association of
New York, Pennsylvania Society, and La
fayette Alumni Association. He is a mem
ber of the Authors, Lawyers', University,
Essex County Country, and Union League
Clubs. Residence : 67 West Forty-ninth
Street. Address : T70 Broadway, New York
City. KING, Edward:
Banker; born in Highwood, Weehawken,
New Jersey, in 1833; son of James Gore
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He was graduated from Harvard in 1853.
Mr. King has been president and trustee
of the Union Trust Company since 1873;
director of the Hanover National Bank;
trustee of the Northern Assurance Com
pany of London ; treasurer of the board of
trustees of the New York Public Library,
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, and
governor of the New York Hospital. He
is a member of the American Geographical
Society, Chamber of Commerce, the New
York Historical Society, the St. Nicholas
Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the National Academy of Design, the Dun
lap Society and of the Harvard, University,
Century, Ardsley and Riding Clubs. Mr.
King married, first, Isabella Ramsay Coch
rane, who died in 1873 ; and second, in New
York in 1885, Elizabeth Fisher; and his
children are: Isabella C, Elizabeth G.,
Edward, Jr., Alice Bayard, Edgar James
Gore and Rupert C. Residence : 1 Univer
sity Place, New York City. Office address :
80 Broadway, New York City.
KING, Hamilton:
Diplomat; born at St. Johns, Newfound
land, June 4, 1852; son of William and
Maria King. After a thorough preparatory
education he entered Olivet College, at
Olivet, Michigan, from which he was grad
uated in 1878 with the degree of A.B., and
from which he received the degree of A.M.
in 1881. He was a student of the Chicago
Theological Seminary in 1878 and 1879, of
the University of Leipzig, 1883 to 1884,
and of the American School at Athens,
Greece, in 1884. He was principal of the
Preparatory Department of Olivet College,
Michigan, from 1879 to 1898, and also was
a lecturer and preacher. He became active
also in the Republican Party of that State
and well known as an effective political
speaker, and was a delegate from Michigan
to the National Republican Convention at
St. Louis in 1896. In January, 1898, he
was appointed by President McKinley as
minister resident and consul-general in
Siam, and April 27, 1903, he was advanced
to his present rank as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Siam. Mr. King js author of a

Greek Reader, and of Outlines of United
States History. Mr. King married in 1884,
Cora Lee Seward, who is a member of the
famous old New York Seward family.
Home : Olivet, Michigan. Address : Amer
ican Legation, Bangkok, Siam, or care State
Department.
KING, Henry Churchill:
President of Oberlin College; born at
Hillsdale, Michigan, September 18, 1858;
son of Henry J. King and Sarah (Lee)
King. He was graduated from Oberlin
College as A.B. in -1879, D.B. in 1882, and
D.D. in 1897; from Harvard University as
A.M. in 1883. He received the degree of
i D.D. from the Western Reserve Uni-
I versity in 1901, and Yale University in 1904.
I He was tutor in Oberlin Academy from
! 1879 to 1882; student of Harvard Univer
sity from 1882 to 1884; associate profes
sor of mathematics in Oberlin College, from
1884 to 1890 ; associate professor of philoso
phy in Oberlin College, 1890 to 1891 ;
professor of philosophy, Oberlin College,
from 1891 to 1897; and student of the Uni
versity of Berlin, 1893 to 1894; and he
has been professor of theology and philoso
phy in Oberlin Seminary and College since
1897, and president of Oberlin College since
1902. He is a Republican in politics, and a
Congregationalist in his religious faith. He
married at Breckville, Ohio, July 7, 1882,
Julia Marana Coates, and they have four
children : Harold Lee, born June 12, 1883 ;
Philip Coates, born May 27, 1887; Donald
Storrs, born June 19, 1889, and Edgar Weld,
born December 24, 1893. Address: Ober
lin, Ohio.
KING, Herbert Maxon :
Physician ; born in Adams, New York,
August 11, 1864; son of Horace Brigham
and Adelaide (Maxon) King; he was edu
cated at Dartmouth College and the Uni
versity of the City of New York; gradua
ting M.D., 1886; studied in Paris, 1897;
engaged in practice of medicine from 1886;
he is now physician-in-chief of Loomis
Sanatorium. He is a member of the Na
tional Association for Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis ; American Sanator-

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ium Association ; American Climatological
Association; Association American Path
ologists and Bacteriologists; fellow of
the International Anti-Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, Berlin ; New York Academy of
Medicine. He is an Episcopalian. He mar
ried in Milford, Pennsylvania, February I,
1893, Lucy Maples Pinchot, and they have
two children : Constance Pinchot, born in
1896, and Adelaide Maxon, born in 1899.
Address : Loomis Sanatorium, Liberty,
Sullivan County, New York.
KING, Horatio Collins:
Lawyer; born in Portland, Maine, De
cember 22, 1837 ; eldest son of ex- Postmas
ter-General Horatio King and Anne (Col
lins) King. He removed to Washington
City in 1839; was graduated from Dickin
son College, Pennsylvania, as A.B. and
later as A.M., and received the degree of
LL.D. from Allegheny College in 1897.
He studied law with Edwin M. Stanton;
removed to New York City, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1861. He entered the
Union Army in August, 1862, as captain
and assistant quartermaster, and was hon
orably discharged, October, 1865, with
brevets of major, lieutenant-colonel, and
colonel, and was awarded' the Congressional
Medal of Honor for conspicuous bravery
near Dinwiddie, Virginia, March 29, 1865.
He resumed the practice of law in New
York City, in 1865 ; was associate editor
of the New York Star and publisher of the
Christian Union and Christian-at-Work
from 1871 to 1876; returned to the prac
tice of law in 1877 and was admitted to
the United States Supreme Court in 1890.
In 1883 was- appointed judge advocate-gen
eral of the State of New York, on the staff
of Grover Cleveland. General King was
a member of the Brooklyn Board of Edu
cation from 1883 to 1894; resigned to ac
cept the trusteeship of the New York State
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, and was re
appointed trustee in 1897, and resigned in
February, 1900. He has been secretary of
the Army of the Potomac since 1877, and
was its president in 1904; and was a direc
tor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society.
He was the Democratic candidate for secre

tary of State in 1895; delegate to National
Convention at Indianapolis in 1896. He is
clerk of Plymouth Church of Brooklyn.
He was a member of the New York Com
mission on Laws' Delays, 1903; is a trus
tee of Dickinson College; chairman of the
Fredericksburg National Park Association;
a member of the Lake Mohonk Arbitration
Conference, and the International Law As
sociation. General King is author of:
King's Guide to Regimental Court-Martial,
1871; Silver Wedding Anniversary of
Plymouth Church, 1873 ; The Great Con
gregational Council in Plymouth Church,
1876; History of the Thirteenth Regi
ment's Trip to Montreal, 1879; Life and
Writings of Tloratio King, ex-Postmaster-
General, 1895 ; ¦ Songs and Glees ; History
of Dickinson College, 1898; Songs of
Dickinson; Songs of, Phi Kappa Sigma;
and is a frequent contributor to newspa
pers and magazines, and composer of many
musical compositions ; also orator, poet
lecturer and postprandial speaker. He
is a member of the Military. Order of
the Loyal Legion; Grand Army of the
Republic; Medal of Honor Legion; the
Phi Beta Kappa Society; the Masonic
order; Veteran Masons; Elks; the Thir
teenth Regiment Veterans; Sons of the
American Revolution, and the Brooklyn
Club. He married, first, in 1862, Emma
C. Stebbins, who died in 1864, and second,
in 1866, Esther A. Howard. He has had
ten children, of whom five survive, and
fifteen grandchildren. Address : 44 Court
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
KING. Oscar A.:
Physician; born on a farm near Peru,
Indiana, February 22, 185 1 ; son of Timothy
Lewis and Mary M. (Wright) King. He
was educated in the public schools and was
graduated as the valedictorian of the Peru
High School. He taught in public schools
until 1873, when he began his study of
medicine under Professor Henry Palmer,
surgeonrgeneral of Wisconsin, at Janes-
ville. He was afterward a private student
with Professor Louis A. Sayre ot New
York City. He entered the Medical College
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graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1878.
He was associated in practice for a short
time with his former preceptor, Dr. Henry
Palmer, until he was appointed second as
sistant physician in the Wisconsin State
Hospital for the Insane at Madison. He
visited Europe in 1880 and 1881 and at
tended the lectures in the University of
Vienna and the clinics in the Algemeien
ivrankenhousen. He made special studies
in neurology and phychiatry under Pro
fessors Meynert, Liedersdorf, Weiss and
Benedict. He was first assistant physician
in the Wisconsin State Hospital at Madi
son, Wisconsin, in 1881-82, which position
he resigned to become the professor of
mental and nervous diseases in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, where
later he became professor of neurology,
psychiatry and clinical medicine. In 1894
he became secretary of the college, and
since 1900 has been its vice-dean. He was
largely instrumental as chairman of the
committee on university relations in 1899
in- securing the adoption of the by-law
favoring the development of the college
and securing its incorporation into the Uni
versity of Illinois. He also aided in the
purchase of new grounds and buildings and
in the founding of the College of Dentistry
of the University of Illinois as a department
of the College of Medicine. He was ap
pointed in 1895 pathologist and consulting
alienist to the State charitaDie and penal
institutions. In 1883 he founded the Oak-
wood Retreat, at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,
a private sanitarium for the care of the
insane, of which he was the president and
chief of the medical staff. In 1896 he like
wise founded the Lake Geneva Sanitarium,
which in 1901 was united with the former,
and the two are now under his direction.
In 1896 he applied successfully the toxine
of erysipelas in the treatment of a number
of cases of mania and melancholia. He
has had a large practice in Chicago since
1882 in the treatment of mental and ner
vous diseases. He is professor of neurology
in the Post-Graduate Medical School, and
holds numerous similar positions in the
medical institutions of the city. He is a

member of the various medical societies and
associations -of the city and State. He was
married in 1887 to Minerva Guernsey,
daughter of Hon. Orrin Guernsey, of Janes-
ville, Wisconsin, and graduate of the Bos
ton University. Address : 330 Ashland
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.
KING, Pendleton
Consular official; born in North Carolina.
Appointed secretary of the Legation at Con
stantinople, March 9, 1886; served as
Charge d'Affaires ad interim at various
times; retired June 5, 1890; appointed
Chief of the Bureau of Indexes and Ar
chives, June 1, 1894 ; appointed consul at Aix
la Chapelle, December 12, 1905. Address :
Aix La Chapelle, Prussia, German Empire.
KING, RockweU:
President, capitalist; born in Chicago, Il
linois, February 7, 1853 ; son of Charles
Boham and Jane (Rockwell) King. After
passing through the public schools of Chi
cago he entered the preparatory school of
Phillips Andover, ( at Andover, Massachu
setts, from which he entered and was grad
uated from Harvard University. For one
year after his graduation he was in the
employ of the Adams & Westlake Com
pany. He then established the firm of King
& Andrews, foundrymen, which was later
incorporated as the King & Andrews Com
pany,, of which he is the president. In
1898 he was selected as the president of
the Western Cold Storage Company, which
is the most extensive plant of its kind in the
world. He is treasurer of the Harrington-
King Perforating Company and a director
of the Adams & Westlake Company. He is
still actively engaged in business and gives
his personal 'direction to his various en
terprises. As a young man he was a mem
ber of the First Regiment, Illinois National
Guard. He is a Republican and a mem
ber of Chicago, University, Saddle and
Cycle, Harvard, and Merchants' Clubs. He
was married in Chicago, January 6, 1881,
to Lucy Wolcott Andrews, and has four
children : Ethel, Marjorie, McGregor
Adams, and John Andrews. Address : 39
North State Street; residence: 63 Haw
thorne Place, Chicago, Illinois.

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KING, Samuel Thoma :
Physician, surgeon; born in Warrens
burgh, Warren County, New York, April
29, 1857; son of Hesden and Minerva
(Richards) King; he was educated at War
rensburgh Academy; Dartmouth College,
A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), 1880; he was
graduated from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York City, M.D., 1883 ;
engaged in practice of medicine from 1883;
member of the City Health Board since
1887, Kings County Medical Society. He,
is a. member of the Brooklyn Chess (first
vice-president), University, (Brooklyn)
and Long Island Automobile Clubs. He
married in Brooklyn, New York, June 12,
1886, Indiana Bloede; they have three chil
dren; Ralph Richards, born in 1887; Rob
ert McCorkie, born in 1891 ; Harold, born
in 1895. Address : 34 Green Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York.
KING, William Fletcher:
President of Cornell College, Iowa; born
near Zanesville, Ohio, December 20, 1830;
son of James J. King and Mariam (Coff-
man) King. He was prepared in the Zanes
ville High School, was graduated from Ohio
Wesleyan University as A.B. in 1857 and
A.M. in i860; and afterward received the
D.D. degree from Ohio Wesleyan in 1870,
and LL.D. from the State University of
Iowa and Ohio Wesleyan in 1887. On
graduation in 1857 he was appointed tutor
in his alma mater, and in 1862 resigned to
take the chair of Latin in Cornell College
at Mount Vernon, Iowa. At the close of
the first year, on the death of the president,
he was chosen acting president and two
years later, in 1865, was chosen president
of the college. He is, in length of serv
ice the oldest college president now in office
in this country. President .King has de
voted his life to the building up of Cor
nell College, and Waving accumulated one
hundred and sixty thousand dollars he has
given it in support of the college : one hun
dred thousand dollars to endow in perpetu
ity a scholarship in each of the one hundred
counties in Iowa, available for worthy, as
piring youth; and these scholarships are in
memory of President King's deceased wife.

Of the remainder, fifty thousand dollars
was given to endow the President's chair,
in memory of his daughter. Dr. King's
favorite recreation is -travel, and he has
been in every State except one in this
country; and has been four times to Eu
rope, one of his trips including Scandinavia,
and others extending into Egypt and Pales
tine. He was appointed by President Har
rison a National Commissioner of the
World's Columbian Exposition; was. a dele
gate to the Congress of Higher Education
at the Paris Exposition of 1900; member
of the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in
London in 1901, and has five times been
elected to the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been
for many years a member of the Council of
Education of the National Education Asso
ciation, and also of the Board of Educa
tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
is a Republican in politics. -President King
married at Chillicothe, Ohio,_ August 3,
1865, Margaret M. McKell, now deceased;
and they had one daughter, Lucy Hayes
King, born April 1, 1876, died April 12,
1887. Address : Mount Vernon, Iowa.
KINGSBURY, Benjamin Freeman:
Professor of physiology; born in Saint
Charles, Missouri, November 18, 1872; son
of B. B. and Sarah R. (Freeman) Kings
bury; he was graduated from Buchtel Col
lege (Akron, Ohio), A.B., 1893; from Cor
nell University, Ph.D., 1895; from the Uni
versity of Freiburg, Baden, Germany, M.D,,
1903; he was assistant professor of histol
ogy and embryology from 1898 to 1902;
and has been professor of physiology since
1902, at Cornell University. He was mar
ried at Meadville, Pennsylvania, on June
22, 1904, to Marguerite Hempstead; they
have one daughter (Marguerite), born in
1906. Address : Ithaca, New York.
KINGSLEY, Darwin Pearl:
Life underwriter; born in Alburgh, Ver
mont, May 5, 1857; son of H. P. Kingsley
and Celia P. (La Due) Kingsley. He was
graduated from the University of Vermont
in 1881. In 1884 he was a delegate to the
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auditor and superintendent of insurance in
Colorado in 1887 and 1888; superintendent
of agencies of the New. York Life Insur
ance Company from 1892 to 1898 and from
then trustee, vice-president and president ;
at the present time also trustee of the Uni
versity, of Vermont; director of the Citi
zens' Central National of New York, and of
and Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Mr.
Kingsley is author of: The First Busi
ness of the World, chiefly addresses and
papers on life insurance. He is a mem
ber of the University, Union League, Mer
chants', and St. Andrew's Clubs. He mar
ried, first, June 19, 1884, Mary M. Mit
chell; and second, December 3, 1895,
Josephine I. McCall. Residence : River-
dale-on-Hudson, New York. Office ad
dress : 346 Broadway, New York City.
KINGSLEY, John Sterling:
Zoologist; borri at Cincinnatus, New
York, April 7, 1854; son of Lewis Kings-
ley and Julia A. (Kingman) Kingsley.
He was educated at Williams College,
where he was graduated as A.B. in 1875,
at Princeton University receiving the
degree of .ScD. "in 1885, and at the Uni
versity of Freiburg, Germany. He occu
pied the chair of zoology in Indiana Uni
versity from 1887 to 1889, and the same
chair in the University of Nebraska from
1889 to 1891 ; . and has been professor of
biology in Tufts College since 1892. From
1882 . to 1886, Dr. Kingsley was editor of
the Standard Natural History, and he was
editor of the American Naturalist from
1887 to 1896. He is a member of the
Washington Academy of Sciences ; the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science,
the Boston Society of Natural History,
American Society of Zoologists, and
American Society of Anatomists. Among
the wOrks Of which he is the author are:
Popular Natural History (Estes and
Lauriat) ; also of Comparative Zoology,
Vertebrate Zoology, Hastings Manual of
Zoology, and Guide for Vertebrate Dis
sections (Henry Holt and Company). He
is a Republican in politics. Dr. Kingsley
is a member of the Naturalists Club and
City Club" of Boston. He married at

Salem, Massachusetts, July 31, 1882, Mary
Emma Read, and they have one daughter,
Mary Winship. Address: Tufts College,
Massachusetts.
KINGSTON, Henry H. :
President of the Investment Company of
Philadelphia, and Buffalo & Depew Rail
road; born in Philadelphia, July 7, 1854;
educated at the Germantown Academy and
University of Pennsylvania; entered rail
road service in 1870, under his father, the
general freight agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad; 1890, was made general manager,
and afterward appointed receiver of the
Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Boston Rail
road; 1895, was appointed general traffic
manager, Lehigh Valley Railroad, from
which he retired on June 20, 1903, to take
the presidency of the Investment Company
of Philadelphia. Is a director in many
companies; married September 9, 1875,
Frances Allan Hunter, of Philadelphia.
Address : Chestnut Hill ;. office, North
American Building, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

KINKAID, Moses P.:
Congressman ; born in Monongalia Coun
ty, West Virginia, in 1854. He has resided
in several States; in Nebraska twenty-five
years. He is a graduate of the law school
of the University of Michigan, and presi
dent of his class in his senior year. He
served in the Nebraska State Senate, and
was made chairman of the Committee on
the Judiciary; held the office of district
judge for three terms and ran for- judge of
the Supreme Court of the State in 1896,
when the Republican ticket was defeated.
Mr. Kinkaid was elected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress in his third successive can
didacy in the Sixth Nebraska District, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses, .from the Sixth Nebraska Dis
trict. He is the first Republican to repre
sent his district;, has been constantly identi
fied with the Republican Party since attain
ing his majority. Address: O'Neill, Ne
braska.

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KINNE, Arthur B.:
Physician; born in De Witt, Onondaga
County, New York, September 25, 1850;
son of Mason P. and Mary J. (Spaulding)
Kinne; he was educated in the Syracuse
public schools ; was graduated from The
Syracuse High School, New York Homeo
pathic Medical College and Hospital, M.D.,
1877 ; has practiced in Syracuse since May,
1877. He is a Republican ; also a Pres
byterian. He is president on the staff of
the Syracuse Homeopathic Hospital. Mem
ber of the American Institute of Homeo
pathy, New York State Medical Society,
Onondaga County Homeopathic Medical
Society, Medico-Chirurgical Society, and
Chamber of Commerce. He is also a mem
ber of the Citizens' Club. He married in
Paterson, New Jersey, October 14, 1880, Ju
lia P. Smylie ; they have two children : Mar
garetta, born in 1882; and, Dorothy, born
in 1897. Address : 410 East Genesee Street,
Syracuse, New York.
KINNEY, Francis Sherwood:
Manufacturer; born in New Brighton,
Staten Island, October 16, 1839. He' was
graduated from the public schools; went
to sea and rose to be mate, but tiring of a
sailor's life became interested in railroads.
In 1869 he began to manufacture tobacco,
founding the firm of Kinney Brothers. Mr.
Kinney has invented valuable mechanical
appliances. Residence: Butler, New Jer
sey, and 19 West Fifty-fourth Street, New
York. Office address : 135 Broadway, New
York City.
KINNEY, Troy:
Illustrator; born in Kansas City, Mis
souri, December 1, 1871 ; son of William
C. Kinney and Mary (Troy) Kinney. He
was graduated from Yale as A.M. in 1896;
from the Yale Art School and the Chicago
Art Institute. In 1896 and 1897 he was
engaged in newspaper work at Baltimore
and Chicago; since then in illustration of
books and magazines, fiction and other
works, in collaboration with his wife, over
the signature, The Kinneys, including the
Century, Munsey's, Saturday Evening Post,
Harper's, McClurg, Macmillan, Dodd, Mead

and Company, McClure, Phillips and Com
pany and others. Mr. Kinney has also done
mural decoration work, including the
proscenium arch and foyer of the Grand
Opera House at Chicago. His favorite rec
reations are etching and aquatinting. He
is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity and of the Yale Club of New
York City and the Elihu Club of Yale Uni
versity. Mr. Kinney married in Chicago,
in June, 1901, Margaret West, and they
have one son, John West, born in 1903.
Address : 15 West Sixty-seventh Street,
New York City.
KINNICTJTT, Francis Parker:
Physician; born in Worcester, Massa
chusetts, July 13, 1846. He was graduated
from Harvard as A.B. in 1868 and A.M. in
1870, and from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Medical Department of Co
lumbia University, as M.D. in 1871. He
was professor of chemical medicine at the
Medical Department of Columbia Univer
sity; physician at St. Luke's Hospital, the
Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, the
Babies', Woman's Minturn Hospital, Mor
ristown Memorial Hospital, andf Vassar
Brothers' Hospital at Poughkeepsie. Dr.
Kinnicutt is a member of the Advisory
Board of the Commissioner of Health, in
New York City; of the Advisory Board of
the Port Officer, of the State of New
York ; and of the. board of directors of the
Cancer Hospital. He was joint editor with
Dr. N. B. Potter, of Sahli's Chemical Diag
nosis, 1905. Dr. Kinnicutt was president of
the Association of American Physicians in
1906 and 1907 ; is a member of the Ameri
can Medical Society, New York Academy
of Medicine, American Museum of Natural
History, of the Century Association, the
Harvard, University, City, and Whippany
River Clubs. He married in New York, in
1873, Eleonora Kissel and their children are
Francis H. and G. Hermann. Address: 39
East Thirty-fifth Street, New York City.
KINSMAN, Frank E:
Electrical engineer ; born in Leominster,
Massachusetts; son of Cyrus Kinsman and
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cated in the public schools of Massachu
setts, and after graduation from school he
engaged in the electrical business, and be
came identified with the earliest develop
ment of the telephone business. He devised
the first central office telephone system ever
built, and in other electrical lines he was
the first man to burn arc lamps on incan
descent circuits. In 1877 General Walker,
vice-president of the Gold and Stock Tele
graph Company, sent him to Chicago, to
assist in establishing the telephone there.
In 1878 he invented the multiple switch
board, which was afterward sold to the
Western Electric Company. Mr. Kinsman
was first superintendent of repairs and
attachrnents for the Metropolitan Telephone
Company (afterwards the New York
Telephone Company) from 1879 to 1881.
He was a member. of the firm of Kinsman
and Toby,, in 1881, and of its successor,
The . Electric Construction and Supply
Company, of which he was president until
1890, and is still a director. From 1890 he
has been .consulting engineer for several
large concerns. , He is now president of "the
Kinsman Block System Company, manu
facturing the automatic train-stop system
now in use on the express tracks of the
New York Subway; also treasurer of the
Kinsman Electric and Railway Supply
Company. Mr. ' Kinsman is a member of
the American Society of Electrical Engi
neers, the New York Society of Electrical
Engineers, is a Knight Templar, Mason and
Shriner, and a member of the Merchants'
Association of New York. .He married,
first, in New York City, in 1881, Florence
Hillman, and second, in Albany, in 1902,
M. E. Davis. His children are: Cyrus H.
Annis L., and Grace. Residence: Plain-
field, New Jersey. Office address : 55 Dey
Street, New York City.
KINSMAN, Frederick Joseph:
Clergyman; born in Warren, Ohio, in
1869; son of Frederick Kinsman, Jr., and
Mary Louisa (Marvin) Kinsman. He was
educated in St. Paul's School, "at Concord,
New Hampshire, and was graduated from
Keble College, Oxford, England, as B.A.
in 1895, and M.A. in 1899. He was or

dained in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church ; was master of St. Paul's School,
Concord, from 1895 to 1897; rector of St.
Martin's Church, New- Bedford, Massachu
setts, from 1897 to 1900; professor of
ecclesiastical history, Berkeley Divinity
School, Middletown, Connecticut, from 1900
to 1903, and since then has been professor
of ecclesiastical history in the General
Theological Seminary of New York City.
Address: 5 Chelsea Square, New York City.
KINSOLVING, Arthur B.:
Clergyman ; educated at the University
of Virginia and Theological Seminary of
Virginia; ordered deacon in 1886, ordained
priest in 1887 by Bishop Whittle in the
Episcopal ministry. Formerly at St. John's
Church, Warsaw, Virginia, from 1886 to
1889, Christ Church, Brooklyn, New York,
from 1889'to 1906, since which time he has
been rector of St. Paul's Church, Balti
more, Maryland. Address : 24 West Sara
toga Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
KINSOLVING, George Herbert:
Bishop of Texas ; born in Bedford Coun
ty, Virginia, April 28, 1849, son of Rev.
Dr. Ovid A. and Julia Heiskell (Krauth)
Kinsolving. He was educated at Griswold
College, Davenport, Iowa, and at the Vir
ginia Theological Seminary, graduating
from the latter in 1873. He received from
the University of the South the degree of
D.D. He took the orders of deacon of the
Episcopal, Church in 1874, and a year later
was ordained priest by Bisho'p Whitting-
haffi. After his. ordination to the priesthood
he became rector of St. Mark's Church,
Baltimore, Maryland, being later rector of
St. John's Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, and of
the Church of the ' Epiphany, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He was made Bishop of
Texas, and was consecrated in 1892 by
Bishops R. H. Wilmer, Quintard, Whit-
aker, Wingfield, Dudley, Jaggar, Randolph,
Johnston, Kendrick, Davies, Nichols, Hale
and Jones (of Newfoundland). Bishop
Kinsolving was married at Cincinnati, Ohio,
to the sister of Bishop Jaggar. He is
author of various addresses and sermons.
Address : Austin, Texas.

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KIRBY, Thomas E.
Managing director of the American Art
Galleries of New York City; was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 14,
1846; son of William Kitts and Mary
(Sothern) Kirby. He was educated in
the Philadelphia public schools and com
mercial colleges. He began his business
career at the age of twelve years as a boy
with M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers, of
Philadelphia, remaining with the firm and
working through all the departments for
eighteen years ; and in 1876 became con
nected with the firm of George A. Leavitt
& Company, the leading art auctioneers of
New York City. Later he became a partner
of John Ortgies, conducting sales of ori
ental porcelains, pictures and other art ob
jects; in 1882 he joined in the reorganiza
tion of the American Art Galleries as the
American Art Association, of which he is
now the active partner and managing di
rector, and he has personally managed and
conducted the most important art sales
held in the United States, amounting since
1883 to a grand total of over sixteen mil
lion of dollars. He has traveled extensively
in Europe, Japan and the United States.
He served five years in the First Regiment
of the Pennsylvania State Militia, ' as pri
vate, corporal to first lieutenant, command
ing Company I, and was honorably dis
charged in 1869. He is a member of the
American Geographical Society, the Nation
al Geographic Society; of the Society of
Arts and The Japan Society, both of Lon
don, England; of the Chamber of Com
merce, of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion, of the Pennsylvania Society of New
York, of which he is vice-president; and is
a Mason. He is also an honorary member
of the United Typothetae of New York;
and a sustaining member of the Metropol
itan Museum of Art. His recreations are
golf and tennis. He is a member of the
Union League, Republican and Bedford
Golf and, Tennis Clubs. He married in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 7,
1871, Isabelle C. Town ; they have two chil
dren : Gustavus Town, born in 1874 ; and,
Mrs. Florence S. Kirby Midgley, born in

1881. Address : American Art Galleries, 6
East Twenty-third Street, New York City.
KIRCHHOFF, Charles William Henry:
Editor of The Iron Age; born in San
Francisco, California, March 28, 1853; son
of Charles and Virginia (Siemsen) Kirch-
hoff ; graduated as mining engineer . and
metallurgist of the Royal School of Mines,
Clausthal, Germany, 1874. He was en
gaged with the Delaware Lead Refinery,
Philadelphia, as chemist from 1874 to 1877 ;
assistant editor of the- Metallurgical Re
view from 1877 to .1878; assistant editor of
The Iron Age from 1878 to 1881 ; manag
ing editor of the Engineering and Mining
Journal from 1881 to 1884 ; since 1884 again
with The Iron Age as associate editor
from 1884 to 1889, editor-in-chief from
1889; now also vice-president and manager
of publications of David Williams Com
pany. Special agent of the United States
Geological Survey from 1883 to 1907, for
collection of statistics of production of
lead, copper and zinc. Author of Notes
on Some European Iron Districts, 1900.
He is a member of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers (president from 1898
to 1899), Iron and Steel Institute of Great
Britain, Verein Deutscher Eisenhuetten-
leute, American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
(honorary). He is a member of the Cen
tury, Engineers and Hardware Clubs. Res
idence : 422 West End Avenue. Address :
14-16 Park Place, New York City.
KIRCHWEY, George Washington!
Professor of law; born in Detroit, Mich
igan, July 3, 1855. He received his educa
tion in the public schools of Chicago and
Albany, New York; was graduated .from
Yale as A.B. in 1879 and studied law in
Albany. He was admitted to the bar in
1881 and practiced law in Albany from
1881 to 1891. Professor Kirchwey was
editor - of Historical Manuscripts of the
State of New York from 1887 to 1889;
professor of law at Union University, and
dean at the Albany Law School from 1889
to 1891; and has been professor of Jaw
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1902 and dean of the School of Law of
Columbia University since 1901. He is
author of: Reading in the Law of Real
Property; Select Cases and other Author
ities on the Law o'f Mortgage and articles
on law in legal periodicals ; and he is edi
tor of the Department of Law, in the New
International Encyclopedia. He is a mem
ber of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York and of the Century As
sociation and Columbia University and Yale
Liubs. Professor Kirchwey married at
Wilmington, Delaware, Dora Child Wen
dell. Address : 908 St. Nicholas Avenue,
New York City.
KIRK, Milton W. :
Manufacturer ; born in Utica, New York,
February 18th, 1846; son of James S. and
Nancy A. Kirk. At the age of 14 years his
parents, in i860, moved to Chicago, where
he was educated in the public and high
schools. Soon after leaving school he en
tered the soap manufacturing establish
ment of James S. Kirk & Company, of
which his father was the founder and head.
He became actively identified with con
duct and management of the business,
which, after the death of his father, was
incorporated, and of which he is to-day
president and director. He served as pres
ident of the village hoard of Evanston,
Illinois, before its incorporation as a city,
and was a member of the board of di
rectors of the World's Columbian Expo
sition. He is a Republican, a member of
the Methodist Church, the Masonic order,
and of the Chicago, Chicago Yacht, Fellow
ship, Union, Illinois Athletic, and South
Shore Country Clubs. He was married
first to Alice Florence Thompson, to whom
were born three children : Walter R., Em
ma D., and Milton B. His second wife
being Ethel Lucy Kirkman. His third
marriage was to Josephine Mary Cunning
ham, at Buffalo, New York, September 1,
1902. Address : 360 North Water Street ;
residence : 3139 Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois.
KIRKLAND, James Hampton:
Chancellor,' Vanderbilt University since
1903 ; ' was born in Spartanburg, South
45

Carolina, on September 9, 1859; youngest
child of the Rev. W. C. Kirkland and Vir
ginia L. Galluchat. He was educated at
Wofford College, South Carolina; Leipzig
and Berlin, Germany, receiving degrees of
A.M., and Ph.D. Tutor in Wofford Col
lege from 1877 to 1880 ; assistant professor
from 1880 to 1882 ; professor of Greek from
1882 to 1883 ; professor of Latin in Van
derbilt University since 1886. Publications :
Articles in Quarterly Review, American
Journal of Philology, Classical Review;, edi
tion of Satires and Epistles of Horace. The
University of North Carolina conferred
upon him the LL.D. degree, 1894, and the
University of the South, that of D.C.L.
in 1900. His recreations are mountain
climbing, hunting, shooting. He mar
ried Mary, the daughter of Judge W. A.
Henderson. They have one daughter. Ad
dress : Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee. KIRKMAN, Marshall Monroe:
Railway official and author; born in
Morgan County, Illinois, July 10, 1842. He
was educated in the district school, and at
fourteen years of age he entered the serv
ice of the Chicago and North-Western
Railway. He passed through the various
grades of telegraph operator, train des-
patcher, auditor, general accounting officer,
and since November 1, 1889, has been
a vice-president of the Chicago and
North-Western Railway. He has been a
constant writer on railway matters since
1870, and since 1894 has published numer
ous volumes in a series known as The
Science of Railways, embracing: Organ
ization of Railways ; Financing, Construct
ing and Maintaining ; Fiscal Affairs ;
Motive Power ; Basis of Railway Rates ;
Air Brake; Passenger Train Traffic and
Accounts; Freight Traffic and Accounts;
Cars; Trains; Safeguarding Railway Ex
penditures ; Engineers ai:d Firemen ; Uses
of Electricity; Collection of Revenue;
Building and Repairing Railways; Loco
motive Appliances ; Oil as Fuel ; Surplus
Material and Track Accounts ; and others.
He is also author of a work oil Primitive
Peoples and Carriers, and of two novels :

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Iskander; and The Romance of Gilbert
Holmes. He was a director and member
of the Board of Transportation of the
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893;
and he is a member of the Evanston Club,
and a member and for eleven years presi
dent of the Evanston Country Club. He
married in 1867, Fanny Lincoln Spencer, of
New York City. Residence: Evanston,
Illinois. Office address : Chicago and
North-Western Railway Company, Chicago,
Illinois.
KIRKPATRICK, William. Sebrlng:
Jurist; born in Easton, Pennsylvania,
April 21, 1844; was graduated from La
fayette College, Pennsylvania; A.M., 1863;
LL.D., Washington and Jefferson College,
1902; studied law with Hon. H. D. Max
well; admitted to the bar, 1865. He has
been presiding judge, Third Judicial Dis
trict of Pennsylvania; solicitor, Easton,
Pennsylvania, several years; chairman Re
publican State Convention, 1882; delegate
to National Republican Convention, Chi
cago, 1884; attorney-general of Pennsyl
vania, 1887-1891 ; has been lecturer on mu
nicipal law; Lafayette College; was trus
tee of Lafayette College some years; act
ing president, 1902-1903. Member of Fif
ty-fifth Congress from the Eighth Pennsyl
vania District. Address : Easton, Pennsyl
vania. KISS AM, Henry Snyder:
Architect; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 22, 1866; son of Benjamin Adrian
and Sara A. (Snyder) Kissam. He was
educated in Public Schools Nos. 35 and 69,
and by private tutor, New York City, Co
lumbia University, graduate in Architec
ture, B.S., 1886; student in Paris, France,
1886-1888. Practicing and residing in Ta
coma, Washington, 1888-1892. Practicing
in New York City since 1892. Republican.
Episcopalian. He is a member of the
Architectural League of New York City,
Society of Columbia University, Archi
tects, and of its board of governors, Alum
ni Association, School of Mines, Columbia
University ; Psi Upsilon fraternity, Cy
clopes, Society of the Colonial Wars, and

the Order of Founders and Patriots of
America. Recreations: Outdoor sports,
traveling. He is a member of the Univer
sity Club. Address : 156 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
KISSEL, Gustav Edward:
Banker; born in New York City, Sep
tember 30, 1854. He was educated in the
schools of Charlier and Morse, New York
City, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Heidel
berg University. He is the senior member
of the firm of Kissel, Kinnecutt and Com
pany, bankers; a director of the Commer
cial Trust Company of Jersey City, Mor
ristown Trust Company, State Street Trust
Company of Boston, Massachusetts, United
States Casualty Company, United States
Mortgage and Trust Company, The Brear-
ley School. He is a member of the Chil
dren's Aid Society, president of the Peo
ple's Symphony Concert Society, director
of the American Geographical Society,
New York Institution for the Blind;
a member of the New England
Society, Chamber of Commerce. He is a
member of the Union, Century, Knicker
bocker, Racquet, Down Town, New York
Coaching, City, Morristown Golf, and
the New York Yacht Clubs. He married
Caroline Thorn. Residence: Morristown,
New Jersey, and 15 West Sixteenth Street,
New York City. Address: 37 Wall Street,
New York City.
KITCHIN, Claude:
Congressman; born in Halifax County,
North Carolina, near Scotland Neck, March
24, 1869 ; graduated from Wake Forest Col
lege, June 1888; was admitted to the bar
September, 1890, and has since been en
gaged in the practice of the law at Scot
land Neck; never held public office until
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress;
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and
reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses. He married, November 13,
1888, Kate Mills. Address: Scotland Neck,
North Carqlina.
KITTREDGE, Abbott 15.:
Clergyman; born in Roxbury, Massachu
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from Williams College, was ordained to
the ministry, and was pastor of the Third
Presbyterian Church of Chicago for several
years; and he is now pastor of the Madis
on Avenue Reformed Church of New
York. Mr. Kittredge was president of the
General Synod of the Reformed Church
in America in 1903. He is a member of
the New England Society, the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Williams Assoc
iation and the Union League and Univer
sity Clubs of New York City. Address :
711 Park Avenue, New York City.
KITTREDGE, Alfred Beard:
United States Senator; born in Cheshire
County, New Hampshire, March 28, 1861.
He was graduated from Yale College in
1882, and from the law school of that in
stitution in 1885; and immediately began
the practice of law at Sioux Falls. He was
appointed to the United States Senate, July
11, 1901, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the Hon. James H. Kyle, and
took his seat December 2, 1901 ; was elected
by the Legislature in 1903 to succeed him
self. His term of service will expire March
3, 1909. Address : Sioux Falls, South Da
kota. KLEIN, William:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, October
13, 1876; son of Adolph Klein and Rosie
(Propper) Klein. After a preparatory
education in the public schools and the
College of the City of New York, he en
tered and was graduated from New York
University as LL.B. in 1896. In 1896 he
brought about the consolidation of the
theatrical programme printers; in 1905
represented and formed the Sam. S. and
Lee Shubert Incorporated Companies
which was the opposition to the Theatrical
Trust and was elected its counsel and
director, and in 1907 was elected counsel
of the United States Amusement Company.
He is secretary and director of the Shu-
bert-Anderson Company, controlling the
New York Hippodrome ; counsel and di
rector of the Wilber-Shubert Theatre Com
pany and of Wolf & Carrillo, Incorporated ;
counsel of the Comstock Amusement Com

pany; director of the American Carbon &
Chemical Company of New Jersey, Auto
Robe and Rubber Company; Charles E.
Evans Company, Henry Miller & Company,
Independent Five and Ten Cent Stores,
Lincoln Surety Company of Delaware, Sarah
Bernhart Realty Company, Selwyn & Com
pany, Shubert Realty Company, Shubert
Theatrical Company, Shubert-Holding
Company, Miller-Shubert Company, Man
hattan Producing Company, F. Ray Com
stock Company, Casino Theatre Company,
Lyric Theatre Company, Jefferson DeAn-
gelis Opera Company, DeWolf Hopper
Opera Company and of the Nouveate Pro
ducing Company. In politics he is a Demo
crat; in religion a Hebrew. He is a mem
ber of the Advisory Board of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum, of the Montifiore Home
and of the Educational Alliance. Resi
dence: 200 West One Hundred and
Twelfth Street. Address : 346 Broadway,
New .York City.
KLINE, Mahlon N.:
President and general manager of the
Smith, Kline & French Company, of Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, which is one of the
largest wholesale drug concerns in the
United States; born February 6, 1846,- near
Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania; he
was educated in the public schools near
Hamburg, and for two years attended a
private school in Reading, Pennsylvania.
When he was fourteen years old he went
to Philadelphia, and attended public school
for six months, returning then to his home
in Berks County, where he taught school
for one year at a place three miles from
Reading.' For a year and a half he worked
in a country store at Hamburg, and in
1865 returned to Philadelphia to take a
position as bookkeeper with the wholesale
drug firm of Smith & Shoemaker ; he was
admitted as a member of the firm in 1868;
Mr. Shoemaker retired in 1869 and the
name of the firm was changed to Smith,
Kline & Co.; in 1888 the firm was incor
porated under the name of the Smith &
Kline Company. On January 1, 1891, the
business of the wholesale drug house of
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and Mr. Harry B. French entered the
Smith & Kline Company, and was elected
its vice-president, the name being changed
to the Smith, Kline & French Company.
In volume the business is the third in its
line in the United States. Mr. Kline was
president of the National Wholesale Drug
gists' Association in 1885, and was chair
man of its most prominent and active com
mittee from 1887 to 1897; he was president
and has been for many years a director of
the Philadelphia Drug Exchange ; he has
been since its organization a member of
the Board of Directors of the Trades
League; in January, 1904, he was elected
first vice-president of that organization,
and in January, 1906, he was elected presi
dent, and reelected in 1907 ; he is also a
member of the Board of Directors of the
Bourse. He is a member of the Union
League, and the Manheim and Philadelphia
Cricket Clubs ; he is accounting warden
and superintendent of the Sunday School,
and director of the Chapter of the Brother
hood of St. Andrew of the Church of the
Saviour ; also second vice-president of the
National Organization of the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew; he is also a member of the
Board of Directors of the Franklin Refor
matory Home. Address : Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
KLOPSCH, Louis:
Journalist; born in Germany, March
26, 1852; and received his education in the
public schools He was proprietor of the
New York Daily Reporter, from 1877 to
1890; the Pictorial Associated Press from
1884 to 1890; and of the Talmage Sermon
Syndicate since 1885. He went to Pales
tine, and on his return, in 1890, he became
interested in the Christian Herald, of which
he became proprietor in 1892. Through
the Christian Herald he has conducted
large philanthropies, raising and distribut
ing over $2,500,000, in charities, including
the Russian Famine Relief, 1892, the In
dian famine relief, 1896, sending a cargo
of corn and money, aggregating $400,000,
and received the thanks of the English and
Indian Governments in 1898. In 1898 he
was appointed, by President McKinley,

one of the three United States commis
sioners charged with the relief of starving
reconcentrados in Cuba, for which purpose
he raised nearly $200,000; visited the
famine and cholera districts of India in
1900, and through the Christian Herald
raised in six months nearly $700,000 to
relieve distress there. He has supported
for six years, 5,00d Indian Famine Or
phans, at an expense of about $100,000
per annum; sent $80,000 for the starving
people of Shensi, China in 1901, in re
sponse to an appeal by cable from Li Hung
Chang; went to Sweden and Finland to
visit the famine-stricken districts, for re
lief of which cabled $125,000, when he was
received in a private audience by Queen
Alexandra, King Christian of Denmark,
the King and Queen of Sweden and the
Dowager Empress of Russia. Mr. Klopsch
raised $250,000 in 1906 for the relief of fam
ine sufferers in Northern Japan, in recog
nition of which President Roosevelt wired
him a message of congratulation for hav
ing rendered a very real service to hu
manity and to the cause of international
good-will. He received from King Edward
in 1904, the gold Kaiser-I-Hind medal of
the first class. Mr. Klopsch is founder and
president of the Christian Herald Chil
dren's Home at Nyack, New York, in
which over 25,000 tenement-house children
have been given a ten days' outing; and
is president of the Bowery Mission in
New York City. Address : 100 East
Seventeenth Street, New York City.
KLOTZ, Hermann Gustav:
Physician ; born in Rochlitz, Saxony,
Germany, on August 21, 1844; son of Karl
and Emilie (Schmidt) Klotz. He was
educated at private schools, the Royal
Gymnasium (Furstenschule), Grimma,
Saxony; the University of Leipzig from
1863 to 1866; the University of Wurzburg
from 1866 to 1867; the Heidelberg Univer
sity in 1867; and the University of Leip
zig from 1867 to 1868, receiving degree of
M.D. After serving as surgeon on various
steamers of the Hamburg-American Line,
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pensary from 1872 to 1904; was attending
physician for skin and venereal diseases
in the German Hospital since 1879; and is
a consulting physician of Isabella Hei-
math. He is a Lutheran. Also a member
of the Citizens' Union; of the Medical So
ciety of the County of New York, of
the Academy of Medicine of New York, of
the American Dermatological Association,
of the .Dermatological Society of New
York, the German Medical Society, the
Harveyan Society, the American Medical
Association, the New York State Medical
Society, the New York Physicians' Mu
tual Aid Association, the New York So
ciety for the Relief of Widows and Orph
ans of Medical Men, the German Derma
tological Society, and an honorary mem
ber of the Medical Society of Kings Coun
ty, etc. He is co-editor of Archiv fiir
Dermatologie and Syphilographie (of
Vienna) ; and a contributor of numerous
papers on skin diseases, syphilis, etc., to
the American Journal of Cutaneous Dis
eases, the New York Medical Journal, the
Medical News, the New York Monatschrift
and to German dermatological periodicals.
He married in New York City on Decem
ber 4, 1873, Marie C. Schwedler, and they
have five children: Walter C. (M.D.),
born in 1875; Edward H., born in 1876;
Mrs. Lillie E. Breitwieser, born in 1878;
Mrs. Gertrude M. Ardagh, born in 1884,
and Robert G., born in 1886. Address:
130 West Fifty-eighth Street, New York
City.
KLOTZ, Otto Julius:
Astronomer and seismologist; born in
Preston, Ontario, March 31, 1852. Fie was
graduated from the University of Toronto,
in 1869; and was a student at the Univer
sity of Michigan from 1869 to 1872. He
was explorer and topographical surveyor
for the Dominion Government from 1872
to 1884; and has been Dominion astron
omer since 1885. The University of To
ronto conferred upon him the degree of
LL.D. Dr. Klotz is a fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science; member of tlie National Geo
graphic Society, Washington Academy of

Science, the Canadian Institute, Ottawa
Literary and Scientific Society, Ottawa
Field Naturalists' Club; fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society; and honor
ary fellow of the New Zealand Institute.
He has made special researches and pub
lications in relation to Trans-Pacific longti-
tudes, connecting Canada, Australia and
New Zealand, completing first astronomic
girdle of the world, and transcontinental
longtitude and pendulum observations. Ad
dress : 437 Albert Street, Ottawa, Canada.
KNABENSHL'B, Samuel S.:
Consul, journalist; born near Lancaster,
Ohio, November 1, 1845 ; son of Joseph N.
Knabenshue and Nancy (Prentice) Knaben-
shue. He received his education in the
public schools of Ohio and also by private
study, and went to work in a printing of
fice at the age of thirteen, and after hav
ing learned the trade went to work as a
compositor in Cincinnati, Ohio, until his
health broke down from the confinement
incident to that occupation. He then re
turned to Lancaster, Ohio, and taught
country school, then became for ten years
principal of a grammar school. He became
editor and part proprietor of The Repub
lican, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, from 1876
to 1878. He became superintendent of the
public schools of Lancaster, Ohio, from
1878 to 1881, was night editor of the Ohio
State Journal at Columbus, 1881 to 1883,
and political writer on the Toledo Blade
from 1884 to 1905. Since 1905 Mr. Knaben
shue has held his present position as Amer
ican consul at Belfast, Ireland. Mr. Kna
benshue is a Republican in his political
views. He is a member of the Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society. He
married at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1871, Salome
Matlack, and they have their home at To
ledo, Ohio. Address : American Consulate.
Belfast, Ireland.
KNAPP, Charles:
Teacher; born in New York City, June
22, 1868; son of Michael Knapp and
Mary Josephine (Rennett) Knapp. He
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was graduated from Columbia University
as A.M. in 1888 and received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1890. He was prize fellow in clas
sics at Columbia University from 1887 to
1890. Instructor in Latin and Greek, Bar
nard College, Columbia University, from
1891 to 1902; adjunct professor of classical
philology at the same from 1902 to 1906,
and head of the department since 1906.
Professor Knapp is a Republican in poli
tics and in his religious affiliation is an
Episcopalian, and is also a member of the
American Philological Association; secre
tary and treasurer of the Classical Asso
ciation of the Middle States and Maryland.
He is editor of: Stories from Aulus Gel-
lius, 1894; joint editor of selections from
Viri Romae, 1895 ; and editor of the elabo
rate school edition of Virgil's Aeneid I-VI,
with selections from VII-XII, 1901. He
is associate editor of the Classical Weekly,
and is author of numerous articles in va
rious learned periodicals on subjects con
nected with classical literature, especially
Latin. He married in New York City, June
24, 1889, Therese Isabel Shaw, and they
have one son, Charles Merriam, born in
1892. Address : Columbia University, New
York City.
KNAPP, Charles Luman:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Har
risburg, Louis County, New York, July 4,
1847. He was educated at Lowville Acad
emy and Rutgers College, New Jersey,
graduating from the latter in 1869; stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar, and
began the practice of his profession in Low
ville in 1873. In 1885 he was elected to
the State Senate from the district con
sisting of Lewis, St. Lawrence, and Frank
lin counties ; served in the Senate during
1886 and 1887 on the committees on Judi
ciary, Railroads, and Miscellaneous Cor
porations, and was chairman of the cqm-
mittee on Literature and Public Education.
In 1889 he was appointed by President Har
rison consul-general to Montreal, and
served during Harrison's term and until
September, 1893, when he returned to Low
ville and resumed the practice of his pro
fession. He was elected to the Fifty-

seventh Congress, November 5, 1891, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Hon, A. D. Shaw, and to the Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress, from the Twenty-
eighth New York District. In politics he
is a Republican. He married, June 26,
1887, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Daniel G.
Dorrance of Oneida Castle, New York. Ad
dress : Lowville, New York.
KNAPP, Charles Welbourne:
Editor and publisher; born in St. Louis,
Missouri, January 23, 1848; son of Colonel
John Knapp and Virginia (Wright)
Knapp, and grandson of Edward Knapp.'
He was graduated from St. Louis Uni
versity, as A.B. in 1865, and A.M. in 1867,
and from the University of Kentucky as
LL.B. in 1867. After his graduation he
entered the office of the Missouri Republic
an, now the St. Louis Republic and served
in the various business and editorial
departments, and was for several ' years
Washington correspondent of the paper.
Since 1887 he has been president and
general manager of the corporation pub
lishing the paper, and also its editor-in-
chief. He has been a director since 1889,
and from 1895 -t° 1%99 was president of
the American Newspaper Publishers' Asso
ciation; has been a director since 1892; and
in 1900 was president of the Associated
Press. St. Louis University conferred upon
him the degree of LL.D. in 1904. Mr. Knapp
married Frances Shackelford, and they
have a daughter, Genevieve, now the wife
of Dr. Guthrie McConnell of St. Louis.
Address: The Republic, St. Louis, Mis
souri.
KNAPP, Jacob Hermann:
Physician; born at Dauborn, Prussia,
March 17, 1832; son of Johann Knapp,
member of the German Reichsrath. He
was educated in the College at Weilburg,
Dukedom of Nassau, and the Universities
of Munich, Wiirzburg, Berlin, Leipzig,
Zurich, Vienna and Giessen, and was grad
uated from the latter as M.D. in 1854;
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Paris, London, Berlin, Utrecht and Heidel
berg. Dr. Knapp was appointed lecturer
on ophthalmology in 1859, and professor of
ophthalmology in 1862 in the University
of Heidelberg, and established a dispensary
and hospital for eye diseases, which was
later incorporated into the University of
Heidelberg. He caffie "to the United States
in October, 1868, and located permanently
in New York City, where he has since been
engaged in practice as a ' specialist in
ophthalmic and aural diseases. He organ
ized an eye and ear clinic, incorporated
as the New York Ophthalmic and Aural
Institute, and also founded the Archives
of Ophthalmology and Otology, with Eng
lish and German editions, both in active
operation ever since. He was appointed
professor of ophthalmology in the Medical
School of New York University, and after
the death of Dr. Agnew held the same
chair in the Medical Department of
Columbia University until he resigned in
1902. Address: 26 West Fortieth Street,
New York City.
KNAPP, Kemper K.:
Lawyer; born in Marquette, Green Lake
County, Wisconsin, March 7, i860; son of
Charles and Jennette (Vine) Knapp. He
received his early education in the public
schools at Winneconne, Wisconsin, enter
ing the University of Wisconsin in 1875.
and being graduated with the degree of
B.S. in 1879; received the degree of B.L.
from the same institution in 1882. He was
admitted to the bar in the latter year and
has been engaged in general practice since.
He removed to Chicago in 1882 and in 1904
became the senior member of the firm of
Knapp, Haynie & Campbell. He was in the
law department of the Chicago and Great
Western Railroad Company from 1885 to
1890; in the same department of the Chi
cago and Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany from 1890 to 1893; attorney for the
Wisconsin Central Company, operating the
Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad,
from 1893 to 1895 ; attorney of the Chi
cago and Calumet Terminal Railway Com
pany, 1893 to 1897; attorney for the re
ceivers -of the Chicago and Northern Paci

fic Railroad Company, 1895 to 1897 ; general
attorney of the Chicago Terminal Transfer
Railroad Company and of the Elgin, Joliet
and Eastern Railway Company and of the
Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway
Company, and of the Illinois Steel Com
pany, from 1897 to 1899. He has been
general counsel and director since 1899 of
the Illinois Steel Company, of the Elgin,
Joliet and Eastern Railway Company, and
of the Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern
Railway Company. Is also' director in the
Calumet Insurance Company, the South
Chicago Savings Bank, the Universal Port
land Cement Company, the Indiana Steel
Company. He is a member of the Uni
versity,' Law, Glen View, Skokie Country
South Shore Country and Marquette Clubs.
Address : The Commercial National Bank
Building; residence: 411 Oak Street, Chi
cago, Illinois.
KNAPP, Wallace Percy:
Lawyer; born in Connecticut, August 7,
1863 ; he was graduated from Yale Uni
versity, A.B., 1886; Columbia University,
LL.B., 1888; University of New York, M.L.,
1898. Traveled extensively in Europe and
Africa. Republican. Episcopalian. He is
a member of the New York City Bar As
sociation and Psi Upsilon fraternity; and
trustee of The Boys' Club. He is a mem
ber of the University, Racquet and Tennis,
Riding, and the Skull and Bones Clubs.
He married in New York City, 1894, Caro
line Duncan Miller; they have two chil
dren: Mary Elizabeth, born in 1898, and
Emma Whitman, born in 1899. Address :
15 William Street, New York City.
KNAPP,- Walter H.:
Lawyer; born in Hopewell, Ontario
County, New York, March 23, 1856; son of
B. Franklin and Harriet (Warner) Knapp;
he was educated at Canandaigua Academy
from 1871 to 1874 ; was graduated from Am
herst College, A.B., 1879; teacher at Placer-
ville Academy, California, from 1879 to
1883 ; Canandaigua Academy, New York,
from 1883 to 1885. He was admitted to
practice law' in the Supreme Court, 1885;
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1902; was frequently a delegate to judicial
conventions, lie is a Republican; also a
Presbyterian. He is a member of the
Canandaigua Scientific Association ; trustee
of the Knights of Maccabees of Canandai
gua; Sessions of Presbyterian Church;
Masonic order (past master). He is a
member of the Canandaigua Club. He mar
ried in Manchester, New York, August
3, 1879, Mary Cole ; they have four chil
dren : W. Chandler, born in 1881 ; Robert
Cole, born in 1885; B. Franklin, born in
1889; Edson Warner, born in 1898. Ad
dress : 5 Hallenbeck Building, Canandaigua,
New York.
KNAPP, Wilmot E.:
Lawyer; born at Springfield, Bradford
County, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1857;
son of Elisha and Philindia (Guthrie)
Knapp; educated in the public schools at
Wellsburg, New York. He began the study
of law with Smith and Robertson, at El
mira, New York, in 1880, and completed
the same with Dix W. Smith, of the same
place; was admitted to the bar in 1883,
and has been in general practice at Elmira
since that period. He was elected district
attorney of Chemung County in 1904. Re
nominated for district attorney by the Re
publican County Convention in June, 1907,
for another term. He was married at
Austinville, Pennsylvania, November 6,
1897, to Alice Teeter. They have two
children : Guthrie and Charles T. Re
publican. He is a member of the Kana-
weola Cycle Club (president). Address:
401 Grove Street, Elmira, New York.
KNIGHT, Albion Williamson:
Missionary bishop of Cuba ; born ¦ at
White Springs, Florida, August 24, 1859;
son of Augustine and Martha (Demere)
Knight. He was educated at the University
of the South. In 1881 he took the orders
of deacon in the Episcopal Church and in
1883 was ordained priest by Bishop Young.
He was missionary of South Florida from
1881 to 1884, in the latter year accepting
the rectorate of St. Mark's Church at
Palatka, Florida. After officiating here for
two years he was called to the rectorate

of St. Andrew's Church, Jacksonville, Flor
ida, where he remained until 1893. From
1893 until 1904 he was dean of the Cathe
dral of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1904 he was
consecrated bishop by Bishops Tuttle, Nel
son and Weed, having been elected Mission
ary Bishop of Cuba. Bishop Knight was
delegate to the General Conventions of
1889, 1892, 1895,-1898, 1901 and 1904. He
was president of the Standing Committee
of Georgia and trustee of the University
of the South. He was married to Elise
Nicoll Hallowes at Jacksonville, Florida,
August 27, 1889. Address: Havana, Cuba.
KNIGHT, Augustas S.:
Medical director of life insurance; born
in Manchester, Massachusetts, November
21, 1864; son of John and Deborah (Carle
ton) Knight; he was educated at Phillips'
Andover Academy, and was graduated
from Harvard University, A.B., 1887; M.D.,
1891. He is- medical director of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company, also di
rector of the Federal Trust Company. He
is an Episcopalian; and a member of the
New York Academy of Medicine, the Har
vard Medical Society of New York City;
the Harvard and The Players' Clubs. He
was married at Boston, on October 1, 1891,
to Abbie F. Knight. Address : 1 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
KNIGHT, Charles Huntoon:
Physician; born in Easthampton, Massa
chusetts, November 22, 1849 ; son of Hora
tio Gates and Mary Ann (Huntoon)
Knight ; he was educated at Williston Sem- .
inary, in 1867; was graduated from Wil
liams College, A.B., 1871 ; A.M., 1886;
Columbia Medical College, M.D., 1874; pro
fessor laryngology, Cornell University
Medical College; surgeon, Manhattan Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital. He is a Repub
lican. Member of the American Laryngol
ogy Association, American Medical Asso
ciation, American Academy of Medicine,
Delta Psi fraternity, Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, New England Society,
etc. ; he is director of the Manhattan Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital. His recreation
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versity, Mendelssohn Glee, Hospital Grad
uates' Clubs. 'He married in New York
City, June 28, 1893, Lucy Ellen Tolford.
Address : 147 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City.
KNIGHT, Erastus Cole:
Ex-mayor of Buffalo ; born in Buffalo,
New York, March 1, 1857 ; he was educated
in the public schools. Commission mer
chant from 1880 to 1887; engaged in the
real estate business in 1887, which he still
continues ; supervisor from 1889 to 1895,
and chairman in 1894; comptroller of City
of Buffalo from 1895 to 1900; comptroller
of State of New York in 1901 ; mayor of
Buffalo from 1901 to 1905. He is president
and general manager of the Isle of Pines
Home and Plantation Company. Grand
commander of Knights Templar in the
State of New York from 1905 to 1906. He
married in Buffalo, New York, May 14,
1881, Mary Elizabeth Cowles. Address :
Buffalo, New -York.
KNIGHT, Frederick Irving:
Physician; born in Newburyport, May
18, 1841. He was graduated from Yale
in the class of 1862, and then began the
study of medicine, which he continued
until the spring of 1867, first at the United
States Hospital, New Haven, then in the
Harvard Medical School, where he receiv
ed the degree of M.D. in 1866, and finally
in New York City. For a year, from 1865,
he held the position of senior house
physician at the Boston City Hospital. In
the spring of 1867 he left New York to
become associated in practice with Dr.
Henry L. Bowditch of Boston, with whom
he was in partnership until 1879. Mean
while he held appointments in the Boston
Dispensary, in the Carney Hospital, and
in the City Hospital. These he relinquished
in the summer of 1872 to establish a
special clinique in laryngology at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1871
and 1872, Dr. Knight spent a year in
Europe, studying- in Vienna and Berlin.
While in Paris in May, 1872, he received
the appointment of instructor in ausculta
tion, percussion, and laryngoscopy in Har

vard University. He has always devoted
much time to the Medical School there,
and in 1882 was appointed assistant profes
sor of laryngology, and in 1888 clinical
professor, a position which he resigned in
1892 to devote himself to private practice.
He is consulting physician to the Massa
chusetts General Hospital, the Sharon
Sanatorium, and the Free Home for Con
sumptives. In 1880 to 1883 he was asso
ciate editor of Archives of Laryngology,
published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York. Dr. Knight is a fellow of the Amer
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, was
president of the American Laryngological
Association in 1882, and was president of
the American Climatological Society, 1891,
and of the Boston Society for Medical Im
provement, 1891. He is a member of the St.
Botolph and University Clubs of Boston.
He married in Berlin, Prussia, October 15,
1871, Louisa Armistead Appleton, who died
in 1901, and has one daughter, Theodora,
now Mrs. George Knight Budd Wade, of
New York. Address : 195 Beacon Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
KNIGHT, NeweU Clark:
Dealer in municipal and corporation bonds
as Newell C. Knight & Company ; born in St.
Louis, Missouri, April 25, 1862; son of
Augustus and Fanny (French) Knight.
His preparatory education was obtained in
the public schools and at the academy of
the Washington University, St. Louis. He
entered Yale University and was grad
uated in 1884. After his graduation he
took a course in bookkeeping. Electing to
become a shoe manufacturer, he entered
the Flamilton-Brown • Shoe Company's fac
tory and obtained a practical knowledge of
the business by working at the bench and
on the machines. His health becoming af
fected, he retired from the factory after
two years' work, and accepted the position
of secretary of an investment company at
Wichita, Kansas. He remained but a short
period in this position, resigning to es
tablish with his brother a business in the
handling of mortgages and commercial
paper. This business was discontinued in
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and in association with Reuben H. Donnelley
established the firm of Knight, Donnelley
& Company, bond and stock brokers. He
was a Cleveland Democrat, but on the gold
issue was an active advocate of the elec
tion of Mr. McKinley in the campaigns of
1896 and 1900, and of Roosevelt in 1904.
He was elected president of the Four Mile
League of Evanston, Illinois, in 1899, and
was appointed chief of police of that city
without compensation, in order that he
might enforce the anti-saloon law. He was
married in 1886 to Annie Louise Sloss of
St. Louis, Missouri, and has five children :
Augustus, Francis McMaster, Katharine,
Newell Sloss, and Louise. Residence:
Evanston, Illinois. Address : Royal Insur
ance Building, Chicago.
KNIGHT, Ora Willis:
Chemist and microscopist ; born in
Bangor, Maine, July 15, 1874; son of
George Willis Knight and Nellie Ada
(Blood) Knight. He attended public
schools in Bangor, Maine, and at San Diego
and Santa Barbara, California, and took a
course in chemistry at the Maine State Col
lege, graduating as B.S. in 1895. In the soph
omore year he shared with a classmate the
scholarship prize. He was engaged as an
assistant in natural history in the Uni
versity of Maine from 1895 to 1897;
assistant chemist of the Maine Experiment
Station from 1897 to 1903, and'' has been
in business for himself as a chemist and
microscopist since 1903. He has also been
since 1902, State ass'ayer of Maine. Mr.
Knight Has been called into service in
connection with many noted criminal cases
in the courts of Maine, and his investiga
tions secured the first new trial ever grant
ed to a person convicted of murder in that
state. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the Entomological So
ciety of America, the Maine Ornithological
Society, Josselyn Botanical Society, the
American Ornithologists' Union, and the
Phi Kappa Phi Society. He is author of :
List of Birds of Maine; Birds of Maine,
and of various articles relating to the bot
any of Maine. His chief recreations are the
study of plants, birds and insects, and hunt

ing and fishing. Mr. Knight is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Unitarian in his re
ligious belief. He married in Bangor,
Maine, August ' 14, 1899, Minnie Gertrude
MacDottald. Address : 84 Forest Avenue,
Bangor, Maine.
KNIPP, Charles H.:
Lawyer; born in Corning, New York,
August 7, 1858; son of John and Elizabeth
(Hook) Knipp; he was educated in Corn
ing Free Academy, Warner's Business Col
lege, Albany Law School, LL.B., 1883. Ad
mitted to the bar in 1883 and has since
practiced law in Elmira; he is the senior
member of the law firm of Knipp, Aldridge
and Losie, engaged in general practice. He
was elected and served as district attorney
of Chemung County from 1892 to 1898 ; was
a member of the General Assembly of
New York from Chemung County in 1900,
1901, 1902. Member of the National Guard,
1882 to 1888. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and he is a Mason and "Knight Tem
plar, -Elk; member of the Independent Or
der of Red Men. His recreations are hunt
ing, fishing. He married at Elmira. April
11, 1893, Jenny L. Walker. Address: 406
Lake Street, Elmira, New York.
KNOPF, Philip:
Congressman; born on a farm in Lake
County, Illinois, November 18, 1847. He
enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and
Forty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Volun
teer Infantry, and served until the regi
ment was mustered out at Savannah, Geor
gia. He went to Chicago in 1866, and at
tended Bryant & Stratton's College for one
year; was in the teaming business until
1884, when he was appointed chief deputy
coroner and served eight years. In 1886
he was elected State senator, and was re
elected in 1890, serving eight years; in 1894
was elected county clerk of Cook County,
and was reelected in 1898, serving eight
years; in 1896 was a delegate to the Na
tional Republican Convention at St. Louis;
is at present a member of the State Cen
tral Committee. He was elected to the
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reelected to the' Sixtieth Congress, from
the Seventh Illinois District. He married,
December 23, 1880, Carrie Fehlman of Lake
County, Illinois. Address : 471 North Hoyne
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
KNOPF, S. Adolph us:
Physician; born in Halle-on-the-Saale,
Germany, November 27, 1857; son of
Adolphus and Nanina Knopf. He was edu
cated in Halle Municipal High School;
came to the United States in youth; set
tled first in New York City and later at
Los Angeles, California; taught languages
and attended the University of Southern
California until 1886; he was graduated
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
M.D., 1888; engaged in medical practice
in Los Angeles in 1888; went to France in
1890; was graduated from the University
of Paris in 1895, spent a year, 1895 and
1896, in Europe in special study of sana
torium treatment of consumptives, being as
sistant physician to Professor Dettweiler
of the Falkenstein Sanatorium; made
laureate of the Academy of Medicine of
Paris in 1896, for doctorate thesis : Les
Sanatoria, Traitment et Prophylaxie de la
Phtisie Pulmonaire; settled in New York
City in 1896. He was made laureate by
College of Physicians of Philadelphia in
1898, for his work entitled, Pulmonary Tu
berculosis : Its Modern Prophylaxis and the
Treatment in Special Institutions and at
Home. He was awarded prize by the In
ternational Congress for Study of Tuber
culosis, Berlin, in 1889, for essay: Tuber
culosis as a Disease of the Masses, and
How to Combat It (since published in 20
different languages). Has been interne,
assistant and visiting physician to several
French and American special hospitals for
consumptives ; honorary vice-president of
British Congress on Tuberculosis, London,
in igoi; chairman of Committee on Relief
of Sick Poor of New York State Confer
ence of Charities in i9d2; United States
Government Delegate to International Tu
berculosis Congress in Paris in 1905- Con
tributor to Twentieth Century Practice of
Medicine, Nelson's American Encyclopedia
and to various medical and sociological

journals. Associate director of Clinic for
Pulmonary Diseases of New York Health
Department ; visiting physician of Riverside
Sanatorium for Consumptives, New York
City; consulting physician of Sanatoria at
Gabriels, New York, and Binghamton,
N«w York, and consumptive hospitals at
Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Denver, Colo
rado. Member of the American Academy
of Medicine (ex-vice-president) ; fellow of
New York Academy of Medicine and
American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
member of American Medical Association,
New York State Medical Association, New
York County Medical Association, Society
of Medical Jurisprudence;, honorary fel
low of Maine Academy of Medicine and
Science, and Sociedad Cientifico Antonio
Alzate of Mexico; corresponding member
of German and French Societies for Pre
vention of Tuberculosis ; honorary director
of New Haven Anti-Tuberculosis Associa
tion ; vice-president of Pennsylvania So
ciety for Prevention of Tuberculosis; di
rector of National Association for Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis ; member
of the Tuberculosis Committee of the New
York Charity Organization Society. He
married in Los Angeles, California, October
19, 1889, Pearle Nora, daughter of Har
rison Gray Dyar. Address : 16 West 95th
Street, New York City.
KNOWLAND, Joseph Russell:
Congressman; born in the City of Ala
meda, California, August 5, 1873. He was
educated in public and* private schools and
in the University of the Pacific; is asso
ciated with father, Joseph Knowland, in
the wholesale lumber and shipping busi
ness; is a director and member of the
finance committee of the Alameda Savings
Bank and Bank of Alameda; in 1898, at
the age of 25, he was elected to the lower
house of the State legislature; was re
elected in 1900; in 1902 was elected to the
State senate, resigning in 1904, after serv
ing one session, having in the meantime
received the Republican nomination to fill
the unexpired term in the Fifty-eighth Con
gress of Hon. Victor H. Metcalf, ap
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and also for the Fifty-ninth Congress; was
elected for both terms, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress. Address : Alameda,
California.KNOWLES, Edward Randall:
Journalist and author; born at North
Providence, Rhode Island, January 10, 1861 ;
son of Edward P. Knowles and Alice (Ran
dall) Knowles. .He was graduated from
Princeton University as A.B. in 1881, and
received from the Arkansas Normal College
the degrees of ScD, and LL.D. in 1901.
He is a litterateur, journalist, author and
publicist, is author of: The Supremacy of
The Spiritual, The True Christian Sci
ence, Songs of The Life Eternal, Ecce
Regnum and other poems, and The Deific
Life. He is commander of the Ottoman
order of Medjidieh, commander of the
Venezuelan Order of the Liberator, corre
sponding fellow of the Royal Society of
Geography of Lisbon, and member of many
learned societies. He married, at Boston,
December 16, 1879, Jennie Earl of Provi
dence ; and they have had five children :
Edward, deceased ; Albert, born in 1883 ;
Alice, born in 1888; Katharine, born in
1892 ; and George, born in 1900. Address :
Taunton, Massachusetts.
KNOWLES, Horace G.:
Consular officer; born in Delaware; ap
pointed consul at Bordeaux, June 20, 1889;
retired July 16, 1893 ; appointed envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Roumania and Servia, January 16, 1907.
Address : Bucharest, Roumania.
KNOWLES, John Harris:
Clergyman ; born in Cork, Ireland, April
24, 1832; son of John Knowles and Jane
(Harris) Knowles. He was educated in
Jubilee College, Illinois, received the
degree of M.A. (causa honoris), from
Racine College, Wisconsin, and of Mus.
Bac. from Knox College, Illinois, and
was graduated from the General Theo
logical Seminary, New York, in 1865. He
was in business life from 1854 to i860 in
Chicago and other parts of the West. Af
ter his ordination in 1865, by the Bishop of

Illinois, he served as rector at Aurora and
Naperville, and in 1867 was appointed canon
of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul,
Chicago, where for twenty-five years, he
took an active part in the ecclesiastical af
fairs of the. diocese under the episcopates
of Bishops Whitehouse and McLaren. In
1906, though resident in New York, he was
appointed Honorary Canon, of the same
Cathedral, by Bishop Anderson. For the
past fifteen years he has been senior curate
of St. Chrysostom's in Trinity Parish, New
York City. He has frequently been in Eu
rope and has traveled extensively in 'he
United States. His favorite recreations are
fine arts and literature. Mr. Knowles is a
member of the Churchman's Association of
the diocese of New York and The Clericus.
He is author of: To England and Back;
A Flight in Spring; From Summer Land
to Summer; and A Day Book for Lent.
Address: 113 West Fortieth Street, New
York City.
KNOWLES, William Hyer:
Banker; born in Pensacola, Florida,
December 27, 1857; son of Peter Knowles
and Josephine (Hyer) Knowles. He at
tended Pensacola's private schools and the
University of the South, at Sewanee, Ten
nessee, and has been connected with banks
as clerk and officer ever since leaving
school. He is president of the First
National Bank of Pensacola, president of
the Pensacola Investment Company, Mid of
Knowles Brothers, and is one of the manag
ing directors of the Pensacola Lumber Com
pany. In politics he is an independent
Democrat and in religion an Episcopalian.
He is a Mason, Knight Templar and Shrin
er. His favorite recreation is golf. Mr.
Knowles is a member of the Army and
Navy and Lawyers' Clubs of New York
City, and of the Osceola and Pensacola
Country Clubs of Pensacola. He married
in Newbern, North Carolina, November 24,
1885, Mary Daves Ellis (eldest daughter
of Governor John W. Ellis, who was
governor of North Carolina in i860), and
they have five children : Ellis Knowles, born
in 1886, Josephine, born in 1889, Jeanie,
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William H., Jr., born in 1907. Residence:
"Harbourview," Pensacola. Address : First
National Bank, Pensacola, Florida.
KNOWLTON, Marcus Perrin:
" Chief justice of Massachusetts; born in
Wilbraham, Massachusetts, February 3,
1839; son of Merrick Knowlton and Fatima
(Perrin) Knowlton. He attended Monson
Academy, was graduated from Yale Uni
versity as A.B. in i860, and the degree of
LL.D. was conferred upon him by Yale
University in 1895 and by Harvard Uni
versity in 1900. He practiced law in
Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1862 to
1881, and since then has been justice of
Superior Court, from 1881 to 1887, associ
ate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
from 1887 to 1902, and chief justice of
the Supreme Judicial Court since 1902.
He was director of the Springfield and
New London Railroad Company, and of
the City National Bank of Springfield,
was trustee of the Springfield Institution
for Savings and is director of the Massa
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
He was president of the Common Council
of Springfield, in 1872 and 1873 ; member
of the Massachusetts House of Represent-!
atives in 1878; and of the Massachusetts;
Senate in 1880 and 1881. In politics he
is a Republican- and in religion a Unitarian.
He was formerly trustee and treasurer of
Springfield City Hospital and is now
director of the City Library Association;
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and a member of the Union Club of Bos
ton and of the Nayasset and Country
Clubs of Springfield. Mr. Knowlton mar
ried twice, first in Springfield, Massachu
setts, July 18, 1867, Sophia Ritchie ; second,
May 21, 189-1, Rose M. Ladd, and he has
two children: Marcus L, born March 17,
1892, and Elizabeth, born October 17, 1-895.
Residence : Springfield, Massachusetts.
Address: Court House, • Boston, 'Massa
chusetts. "'; X .
KNOX, George Washington:
Engineer; born in Milledgeville,- Illinois,
June 21, 1865; son of George W- and
Mary J. (Palmen) Knox. He was educated

in the public schools until his nineteenth
year, when he took a two years' course
in science at Northern Illinois College, Ful
ton, Illinois. Fie was employed in the
mechanical department of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Northern Railway Company
from 1885 to 1887, and in the street car
department of the Pullman Palace Car
Company in 1887. He then engaged with
the Thomson-Houston Company and as
sisted in equipping the first cars that were
sent west of the Mississippi, being those
for an Omaha street railway. He was with
the Sprague Company in 1889; assistant
engineer in charge of the installation of
the West Side street car line in Milwaukee,
assistant to the chief engineer in, charge of
the equipment of the street railways in
Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1891 and 1892,
for the Edison Electric Company. He was
engaged in the installation of additional
railway lines in Milwaukee and other cities
and in installing motors and generators
for the Kansas City Elevated Railway, etc.,
in 1892. He was the electrical engineer and
later the engineer of construction for the
Chicago' City Railway Company from 1892
to 1900 and manager of the railway depart
ment of Kohler Brothers in 1900 and 1901.
In the latter year he opened an. office as
electrical engineer and builder which in
1902 was incorporated as ¦ the Knox En
gineering Company, of which he is the
president. The company has under his di
rection built electric railways at Rockford
and Galesburg, Illinois; Beloit, Janesville,
Green Bay, De .Pere and Kaukauna, Wis
consin ; Canton, Alliance, and Salem, Ohio ;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Joplin, Mis
souri. He is president of the Knox, George
& Company of New Orlearis, Louisiana, and
president and manager of the Knox Con
struction Company. He is the inventor of
the auto-motoneer and , president of the
company engaged in its construction. He
is also president and general manager - of
the Green Bay Traction Company. He is
an Independent Republican and a mem
ber of the Union League Club. He was
married at Evanston, Illinois, September 5,
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two children : Alice Henrietta and George
Washington, Jr. Residence: Magnolia
Avenue, Edgewater, Illinois. Address :
Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois.
KNOX, George William:
Clergyman; born at Rome, New York,
August ii; 1853; son of Rev. W. E. and
Alice Woodward (Jenckes) Knox. He
was graduated from Hamilton College in
1874; Auburn Theological Seminary in
1877, and received the degree of D.D. from
Princeton in 1888, and LL.D. from Hobart
in 1904. He was engaged for a time in
missionary work in Japan; was professor
of homiletics at the Union Theological
Seminary, Tokio; professor of philosophy
and ethics, Imperial University; vice-presi
dent of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1891
and 1892 ; later returned to the United
States, becoming pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Rye, New York; lecturer on
apologetics, Union Theological Seminary,
New York, from 1897 to 1899; and pro
fessor of philosophy and history of religion
in the same institution since 1899. Dr.
Knox was Nathaniel Taylor lecturer at
Yale, 1903, and lecturer on the history of
religion in 1905 and 1906. He is author
of: A Brief System of Theology; Out
lines of Homiletics; Christ, the Son of
God; The Basis of Ethics; The Mystery
of Life; A Japanese Philosopher; The
Christian Point of View; The Direct and
Fundamental Proofs of the Christian Re
ligion, 1903; Japanese Life in Town and
Country, 1904; The Spirit of the Orient,
1906; The Development of Religion in
Japan, 1907. He is a member of the Cent
ury Association and Apawamis Club. Dr.
Knox married in 1887, Anna Caroline
Holmes, and they have four children:
Maryal, Carol A., Dorothea, and R. Jay.
Residence: 46 East Seventieth Street,
New York City. Office address : 700 Park
Avenue, New York City.
KNOX, John T.:
Lawyer; born in Wilson, Niagara Coun
ty, New York, February 26, 1844; son of
John and Agnes (Murray) Knox; -he was
educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute,

from 1861 to 1863; was graduated from
Hamilton College, A.B., in 1867; he has
been engaged in the practice of law since
1872; district attorney of Yates County,
from 1878 to 1884, 1892 to 1895; county
judge from 1896 to 1902; reelected for the
term of 1902 to 1908. He is a Republican.
Presbyterian. Member of the Masonic or
der, Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
Knights of Maccabees; trustee of Palmer
Institute, and Starkey Seminary. He is a
member of the Penn Yan, Penn Yan Yacht
Clubs. He married in Penn Yan, New
York, June 26, 1872, Agnes R. Lapham,
and they have two children: Agnes Louise,
born in 1877, and Paul, born in 1881. Ad
dress : Penn Yan, New York.
KNOX, Philander Chase:
United States Senator; born in Browns
ville, Pennsylvania; graduated from Mt.
Union College, Ohio, in 1872. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1875, and in 1876-
77 occupied his first and only public office
until he became attorney-general of the
United States. He was for that year
assistant United States district attorney
for the Western Division of Pennsylvania,
resigning in 1877 to form with James H.
Reed, Esq., the law firm of Knox & Reed,
which came to represent the interests of
many of the large industrial .corporations
of Pittsburgh, including the great Carnegie
Steel Company. From 1877 until 1901
nearly a quarter of a century of ardent
pursuit of an exacting profession brought
Senator Knox to the top of the list of
legal lights of the Allegheny Bar Associa
tion, among whose membership is included
some of the strongest members of the legal
fraternity in the United States. Upon the
earnest solicitation of the President, and
in view of the very great questions affect
ing the corporate interests which were
impending, Mr. -Knox left private life and
accepted a position in President McKinley's
Cabinet. During the succession of Presi
dent Roosevelt, the question of the opera
tions of the so-called trusts under the
Federal statutes on the subject became
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Knox's part as attorney-general to prepare
the groundwork of the successive processes
taken before the greatest judicial tribunal
of the country, for the purpose of deter
mining, how far the great aggregations of
capital referred to were within the law,
and how far, if at all, encroachments had
been made upon the common rights of the
people. While in the midst of the suc
cessful prosecutions and inquiries and court
proceedings involved, a senatorship from
Pennsylvania became vacant by the death
of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, and
the attorney-general of the United States
was appointed by the Governor of Pennsyl
vania to fill the vacancy, taking his seat
in the Senate at the beginning of the
second session of the Fifty-eighth Congress
and being elected to serve a full term by
the Pennsylvania Legislature of 1905. In
the Pennsylvania Republican Convention
of 1907 Senator Knox was declared to be
Pennsylvania's choice for the Republican
nomination for President. One of the
most conspicuous arguments on the subject
of railroad rate regulation was made by
Senator Knox, whose constitutional argu
ment in the spring of 1906 has taken its
place among the notable exemplifications of
the fundamental document of the United
States Government. Senator Knox is a
member of the Lawyers' and the Union
League Clubs of New York, of the Du
quesne and Americus Clubs of Pittsburgh,
having been president of the Duquesne for
three years, and is also a member of the
Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia. Home
address : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Of
ficial address : 27 K Street, Washing
ton, D. C. \
KOBBE, George C:
Lawyer; born in New York, September
27, 1852; son of William August (born
in Duchy of Nassau, Germany; many
years Nassovian consul-general of the
United States), and Sarah Lord (Sistare)
Kobbe (born in New London, Connecti
cut) ; he was graduated from the schools
of art, Columbia College, 1874 ; Law School
of Columbia College in 1876. Chose the
legal profession, and was admitted to the

bar in 1876. He is now in active practice
and is a member of the firm of Roosevelt
and Kobbe; president and director of the
Brooklyn Bridge Freezing and Cold Stor
age Company; director of the Harrison
Street Cold Storage Company, United
States Casualty Company. He is a mem
ber of the Society of Colonial Wars in
the State of New Jersey, Sons of Revolu
tion in the State of New York. He is a
member of the Union, Saint Anthony,
Down Town and Baltusrol Golf Clubs. He
married Alice, daughter of Henry S. Lea-
vitt, of New York, and they have five
children : Louise L., Alice L, George L.,
Walter, Jr., and Martha L. Residence:
109 East Twenty-ninth Street, New York
City. Address: 44-46 Wall Street, New
York City..
KOBBE, Gustav:
Author, journalist; born in New York
City, March 4, 1857; son of William Au
gust and Sarah Lord (Sistare) Kobbe. He
attended the public schools of New York
City, and of Wiesbaden, Germany, and was
graduated from Columbia College as A.B.
in 1877 (A.M., 1879), and Columbia Law
School as LL.B. in 1879. He began in jour
nalism as one of the editors of Musical Re
view until 1881 ; on staff of the New York
Sun in 1881 and 1882; sent to Bayreuth in
the summer of 1882, by the New York
World, as correspondent at the production
of Parsifal ; and after a few years of news
paper work, he became a magazine contrib
utor. He wrote for The Century, an ar
ticle on Life on the South Shoals Light
ship, and five articles in The Heroes of
Peace series; also many articles on music
and drama to that magazine, Scribner's,
The Forum, North American Review, and
other magazines. He is author of : Signora,
a Child of the Opera House; Miriam, a
Story of the Lightship ; Some Famous Act
ors and Actresses in Their Homes ; Opera
Singers; Wagner's Life and Works (two
volumes) ; Wagner's Music Dramas Ana
lyzed; Wagner and His Isolde; Loves of
the Great Composers; How to Appreciate
Music ; Famous American Songs ; and My
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1882, Carolyn, daughter of George Minor
Wheeler, of Scarsdale, New York; and
they have five children : George Minor
Wheeler, Beatrice, Hildegarde, Virginia,
and Carolyn. Address : 126 West Forty-
fifth Street, New York City.
KOBBE, Walter:
Dry goods merchant; born in New York
City, August 1, 1850; son of William A.
and Sarah Lord (Sistare) Kobbe. He was
educated in the Columbia Grammar School
at Wiesbaden, Prussia, and Bonn-on-the-
Rhine. He has been thirty years in the
dry goods commission business ; has made
ninety-eight crossings to Europe, being
one of the oldest regular European trav
elers; has visited all principal countries of
Europe, and for twenty-two years made
four crossings a year. Resident partner
and head of the New York house of C. J.
Bonnet, Kobbe and Company, American
branch of Les Petits fils de C. J. Bonnet
and Company, Lyons, France, manufac
turer of the widely known Bonnet silksJ
He was for eleven years member of Com
pany K, Seventh Regiment; resigned as.
first lieutenant and acting captain; has
honor medal decoration. Formerly Demo
crat ; he has been a Republican since 1896 ;
Episcopalian in religion; member of the
Flolland Lodge of Masons ; and of the
Union and Merchants' Clubs and president
of the Central Club. He married Elizabeth
W., daughter of V. Munford Moore. Ad
dress : 412 West End Avenue, New York
City. KOBBE, William A,:
Major-General of the United States Army,
retired ; born in New York City, May 10,
1840; son of William A. and Sarah Lord
(Sistare) Kobbe. He attended the com
mon schools of New York, took a colle
giate course in Germany, and a course of
"mining engineering at the academies of
Freiberg and Clausthal, Germany, and later
;was graduated from the United States Ar
tillery School. He enlisted as a private in
the ; volunteer service in 1862; served
through the Civil War until discharged as

captain, of the One Hundred and Seventy-
eighth New York Volunteers, March" 1,
1866; appointed to the regular service,
March 17, 1866, serving on the frontier un
til 1872, when he was transferred to Artil
lery and to the sea coast. As major of the
Third Artillery, he was ordered to the Phil
ippines in command of a battalion of that
regiment and served throughout the Phil
ippine Insurrection. He was appointed
brigadier-general of Volunteers and later
promoted to brigadier-general United
States Army ; was military governor, and
commanding the Department of Mindanao
and Jolo until September, 1901 ; then" com
manding the Department ef Dakota until
January, 1904, when he was promoted ma
jor-general, and retired January 4, 1904.
He was instructor in military science of the
United States Artillery School, from 1885
to 1896; and is a member of the California
Academy of Sciences. He married in Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, June 26, 1867, Isa
bella, daughter of Major-General William
Hoffman, and they have four children :. Fer
dinand, born in 1871, Sarah, born in 1873,
William, born in 1882, Herman, born in
1885, and Eric, born in 1888. Address:
Care of War Department, Washington,
D. C.
KOCH, Julius Arnold:
Professor of chemistry; born in Bremen,
Germany, August 15, 1864; son of Arnold
Koch and Amanda (Wenke) Koch. He
was educated in the public schools, and the
College of Pharmacy at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, and the Universities of Heidel-
burg and Munich, receiving the degrees
of Ph.G, Phar.D., Ph.D., and ScD. He
was employed in the office of delinquent tax
collector in Pittsburgh from 1877 to 1880;
was engaged in the drug business from
t88o to 1890; was dean and professor of
pharmacy from 1890 to 1901, and has been
dean and professor of chemistry since 1901,
in the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy;
and professor of chemistry in the. Western
Pennsylvania Medical College since J901.
Dr. Koch is- a member of the,; German
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Pennsylvania Pharmacal Association, and
vice-president of the American Pharma
ceutical Association. He is one of the trus
tees of the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy,
¦is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the
Lutheran Church, and the Republican party.
He has a country home and farm in Clarion
County, Pennsylvania, and finds recreation
in playing tennis. He is a member of the
German Club of Pittsburgh. Dr. Koch
married in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, No
vember 16, 1889, Albertina M. Strunz, and
has three daughters : Adele born in 1891,
Florence, born in 1893, and Elsa, born iri
1895. Residence : 28 Arlington Avenue,
Pittsburgh. Office address : Bluff and
Pride Streets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
KOHLSAAT, Christian Cecil:
United States Circuit judge; born at Al
bion, Illinois, January 8, 1844; son of
Reimer Kohlsaat and Sarah (Hall) Kohl-
saat. He was educated in the public schools
of Galena, Illinois, and in the old Univer
sity of Chicago; studied law and acted as
law reporter for the Chicago Journal;
served as one of the clerks in the County
Court of Cook County, Illinois, and was
admitted to the bar. He practiced law in
Chicago and took an active part in politics
as a Republican; and was the Republican
nominee for County judge of Cook County
in 1881. He was appointed by Governor
Shelby M. Cullom a member of the Board
of West Park Commissioners in 1880 and
served until elected in 1890, on the Repub
lican ticket, as probate judge of Cook Coun
ty, in which office he distinguished himself
not only by judicial ability but also by his
fostering care of the estates under the di
rection of his court. He was continued in
this office by reelections in 1884 and 1888,
but resigned in 1899 Upon his appointment
by President McKinley to the office of
judge of the United States Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, from which
he was promoted by President Roosevelt,
in March, 1905, to his present office as
judge of the United States Circuit Court
for the Seventh Circuit. Judge KohlsSftj
is a member and ex-president of the Union1
League Club. He married, in 1871, Frances

Smith. Residence : 239 Ashland Boulevard,
Chicago. Office address : Federal Building,
Chicago, Illinois,
KOHLSAAT, Herman Henry:
Capitalist, publisher; born at Albion, Ed
wards County, Illinois, March 22, 1853 ; son
of Reimer Kohlsaat, a native of Germany,
and Sarah (Hall) Kohlsaat, native of Eng
land. The family removed from Albion
to Galena, Illinois, and he was educated in
the public schools there until 1865, and af
ter that in the Chicago public schools. He
worked as a boy in *, dry-goods establish
ment, then became traveling salesman for
a wholesale baker until 1880, when he es
tablished in business for himself in the
same line, also starting bakery lunch rooms
of high grade in various locations in Chi
cago, now conducted by H. H. Kohlsaat &
Company, Incorporated. Of these he made
a great business success, and he also ac
quired valuable real estate interests. He
had a controlling interest in the Chicago
Inter-Ocean from 1891 to 1893, became
owner and publisher of the Chicago Times-
Herald in 1894 and continued with its suc
cessor, the Record-Herald until 1902, and
also owner of the Chicago Evening Post
from 1894 to 1901. He presented the city
of Galena with a statue of General Grant
(who was long a citizen there) in 1891.
Mr. Kohlsaat is a Republican, and was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
ventions of 1888, 1892 and 1896. Address :
120 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
KOLLEN, Gerrit J.:
College president; born in the Nether
lands, August 9, 1843 ; son of Getrit J.
Kollen and Egberdina (Scholten) Kollen.
He was graduated from Hope College as
A.B. in 1868, as A.M. in 1871* and received
the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1894. He
was assistant professor in 1871, professor
in 1878 and has been president since 1893
of Hope College, at Holland, 'Michigan.
He has been director of the First State
Bank of Holland, Michigan, "since 1892.
In politics he is a Republican and is a
member of the Reform Church- }n America,
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Nassau by Queen Wilhelmina in 1906; and
he is a member of the Board of Education
of the Reformed Church in America. Dr.
Kollen married in Holland, Michigan, in
1879, Mary W-. Van Raalte, who died in
1905, and he has one daughter, Estelle
Marie, born in 1886. Address : Holland,
Michigan.
KOOPMAN, Harry Lyman:
Librarian ; born in Freeport, Maine, July
1, i860; son of Charles Frederick Koop-
man and Mary Brewer (Mitchell) Koop-
man. He was graduated from the Eree-
port High School in 1876, "from Colby
College as A.B. in 1880. and A.M. in 1883
and from Harvard University as A.M. in
1893. He was assistant in the Astor
Library, New York City, in 1881 and 1882;
cataloguer at Cornell University Library,
in 1883 and 1884, at Columbia University
Library, in 1884 and 1885, at Rutgers
College Library, in 1885 and 1886, at the
University of Vermont Library, from 1886
to 1892; was a graduate student in English
at Harvard University in 1892 and 1893
and has been librarian of Brown Univers
ity since 1893. He is author of: Orestes
and Other Poems, 1888; Woman's Will,
with Other Poems, 1888 ; Mastery of Books
1896; Morrow Songs, 1898; Catalogue of
the Marsh Library, University of Vermont,
1892; Historical Catalogue of Brown Uni
versity, 1895 ; At the Gates of the Century,
1905. In politics he is an Independent and
in religion a Unitarian. He is a member
of the Rhode Island Historical Society,
the American Library Association, and the
Rhode Island Library Association, and was
president of the latter from 1904 to 1907.
He is a member of the Boston Authors,
Barnard and Massachusetts Library Clubs,
and president of the latter in 1900 and
1901. Mr. Koopman married in Burling
ton, Vermont, June 27, 1889, Helene Luise
Mayser, and they have two children :
Mary Fredrika, born in 1890, and Karl
Henry, born in 1892. Residence : 57 East
Manning Street, Providence. Address:
Brown University Library, Providence,
Rhode Island.

KOPELKE, Johannes:
Lawyer; born in Buchwald, near Neu-
stettin, Germany; son of Ferdinand Ko-
pelke and Sophie (Erbguth) Kopelke. He
received a general education in the common
schools and gymnasium in Germany from
i860 to 1871, and a legal education in the
University of Michigan from 1874 to 1876,
graduating with the degree of LL.B. He
was Democratic elector in 1884 and State
Senator from 1890 to 1894; was special
judge in cases in the Circuit Court and
Democratic nominee for judge of the
Appellate Court of Indiana, in 1898. In
politics he is a Democrat and he is a
member of the Episcopal Church. In
former years he occasionally contributed
to the Albany Law Journal, and to the
newspapers. Mr. Kopelke has published a
book, a description of A Summer Trip to
Europe. He finds his favorite recreation
in literature, and he has traveled in Eng
land, France, Belgium, Holland and Ger
many. Address : Crown Point, Indiana.
KOPLIK, Henry:
Physician ; born in New York City, Oc
tober 28, 1858; son of Abraham S. and
Rosalie Koplik. He was graduated from
the College of the City of New York,
A.B., 1878, and from Columbia University,
M.D., 1881. House physician at Bellevue
Hospital from 1881 to 1883; assistant and
instructor of histology at Columbia Uni
versity from 1883 to 1885 ; during the year
1885-1886 he traveled, attending European
clinics; attending physician of the Good
Samaritan Dispensary, New York City,
from 1886 to 1900 and of Mount Sinai
Hospital since 1900. He was also at one
time attending physician to the St. John's
Guild Hospitals. Dr. Koplik was the dis
coverer of an early sign in measles by
which the disease is recognized before the
eruption appears on the body; and he also
discovered a bacillus which causes whoop
ing cough. He first established milk de
pots for the distribution of sterilized milk
from medical dispensaries for the poor,
in 1890. He is a member of the Associa
tion of American Physicians, of the' New
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one time president, and of the New York
County Medical Society. His specialty is
the diseases of infancy and childhood. He
is the author of Diseases of Infancy and
Childhood and numerous monographs on
diseases of children. He married in 1902,
Stephanie Schiele. Address : 692 Madi
son Avenue, New York City.
1 KOPMEIER, John H, :
Ice merchant; born in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, February 16, 1854; son of John T.
Kopmeier and Adelbert (Allen) Kop-
meier. He was educated in the local
schools and the Spencerian Business Col
lege of Milwaukee. Mr. Kopmeier has been
an ice merchant since leaving school. He
organized the Wisconsin Lakes Ice and
Cartage Company in 1891, consolidating all
the Milwaukee companies, and was made
its president in 1898. The company which
is worth $1,500,000, sells ice through Wis
consin, and very largely in the cities of
Milwaukee and Chicago, and also through
out Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. He is a di
rector of the Wisconsin Compressed Air
House Cleaning Company, the American
Investment and Security Company of Bos
ton, Massachusetts, and president of the
The Lindwurm Company. He is a Demo
crat in politics, and a Roman Catholic in
religious belief. Mr. Kopmeier is active in
humanitarian efforts, and is president of
the Milwaukee Home Finding Association
(for boys), and vice-president of the Mil
waukee Sanitarium for Tuberculosis. He
is a director of the Citizens' Business
League, Grand Knight of the Knights of
Columbus of Milwaukee, and a member of
the Deutsche . Club, Calumet Club, Millioki
Club, and the Athletic Club of Milwaukee.
President of the Travelers' Protective As
sociation of Milwaukee, the membership of
which consists of over eight hundred of the
principal business and traveling men. He
married in Milwaukee, March 19, 1878,
Dorothy M. Germershausen, and they have
two sons : Norman J., born in 1879 and
Waldemar S. J. Kopmeier, born in 1882.
Residence: 760 Booth Street, Milwaukee.
Office address : Wells Building, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.

KORTRIGHT, Frederic Lawrence:
Professor of chemistry ; born at Middle-
town, New York, June 10, 1867; son of
Lawrence William Kortright and Harriet
(Eaton) Kortright. He was assistant
in chemistry in Cornell University in 1890
and 1891 ; assistant chemist of the Solvay
Process Company, Syracuse, New York,
in 1891 and 1892; instructor in chemistry
in Cornell University from 1892 to 1899;
traveled and studied in 1899 and 1900; in
structor in Cornell University in 1900;
assistant professor of chemistry of the
West Virginia University from 1900 to
1902; associate professor of chemistry from
1902 to 1907; and professor of chemistry
since 1907, in the same institution. He
practiced at Rochester, New York, in 1901.
Mr. Kortright is an associate editor of the
Chemical Engineer, and is a director of the
Fraternal Building Association. He has
traveled in Germany, Switzerland, England,
Italy, France, Holland and Belgium. Mr.
Kortright is a Republican in politics, and
a Presbyterian in his religious faith. He
is a member of the American Chemical
Society, American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Society for the Pro
motion of Engineering Education, Sigma
Xi honor society, and the Sigma Chi fra
ternity. He married at Middletown, New
York, June 15, 1892, Flora M. Corwin, who
died May 15, 1892, Address : 234 Jackson
Avenue, Morgantown, West Virginia.
KOTINSKY, Jacob:
Entomologist; born in Poltava, Russia,
July 22, 1873; son of Joseph Kotinsky and
Bessie (Zitkjn) Kotinsky. He came to
the United States in 1888, and worked at
various occupations until ' he entered
Rutgers College (New Jersey State College
of Agriculture) course in agriculture, from
which he was graduated in 1898. He was
teacher of Natural History at Hirsch
Agricultural School from July, 1898, to
September, 1899; scientific aid in the
Division of Entomology, United States
Department of Agriculture from September
1899, to October 1900, promoted to assist
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successful work1 in breeding the introduced
Asiatic ladybird to combat the San Jose
scale received substantial promotion in
July, 1902. He was again promoted in
1904, but in September of that year entered
the service of the Flawaiian Board of
Agriculture and Forestry as assistant en
tomologist, which position he still holds.
He is a member of the Washington En
tomological Society, Washington Biological
Society, Entomological Society of America,
Association of Economic Entomologists and
Phi Beta Kappa Society; secretary and
treasurer of the Hawaiian Entomological
Society ; and councilqr-treasurer of the Ha
waiian Photographic Society. Mr. Kotinsky
married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Au
gust 19, 1902, Sara R. Levin, and they have
one daughter, Ruth, born in 1903. Address :
P. O. Box 331, Honolulu, Hawaii.
KODNTZ, John S. :
Insurance "and real estate agent; born at
Richfield, Lucas County, Ohio, March 25,
1846; son of Michael and Helen Kouritz.
He was educated in the common schools
but September 30, 1861, he enlisted as a
drummer in the Thirty-seventh Regiment
of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle
of Missionary Ridge he left his position
of safety in the rear and voluntarily went
to the front and took part in a heroic as
sault on the enemy's position; losing his
left teg. For his distinguished gallantry
there he received the Congressional Medal
of Honor, and the incident is the subject
of Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood's poem,
The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge. He
has been several times elected to public of
fice in Lucas County, Ohio, serving as
.county treasurer from 1872' to 1874, and
as county recorder from 1875 to 1877. Fie
is one of the most prominent members of
the Grand Army of the Republic, having
been commander of the Department of Ohio
in._i88i and 1882, and commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic in
1884 and J885. He is also a member of
the Medal of Honor Legion of the United
.States- and secretary and historian of the
Vicksburg National Military Park Commis
sion since-March 1, 1899.: Heimarried, first,

at Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 21,
1868, Sarah Jane Hadnett, who died March
11, 1875; and second, at Toledo, Ohio, June
4, 1879, Agnes Jane Denniston, and he has
living four sons and four daughters:
His eldest son, Frederick J. Kountz, served
as assistant adjutant-general during the
Spanish-American War, but died in 1901.
Residence: 327 Twelfth Street. Officei
address : 205-207 St. Clair Building, Toledo,
Ohio.
KRACKE, Frederick John Henry:
Naval officer, Port of New York, mer
chant; born in New York City, July 11,
1868; son of Henry and Henrietta (Hoff
man) Kracke; he was educated at the pub
lic schools and Collegiate High School,
New York City; is produce merchant in
Washington Market, under own name; also
in granite construction for cemetery and
memorial - purposes. Formeily assistant
commissioner of agriculture of the State
of New York for ten years. Member of
the Republican State Executive Committee
and General Committee; also Executive
Committee of Kings County Republican
Committee. Has represented the State of
New York in National Agriculture Con
ventions by commission from various gov
ernors in States from Maine to California,
and South to Texas. President of the
Tayntor Construction Company; director
of the Tayntor Granite Company. He is
a Republican. Member of the Dutch Re
formed Church; of the New York Mer
cantile Exchange; Kings County Masonic
Lodge ; Clinton Commandery, Knights
Templar : and Kismet Temple, Mystic
Shrine; Patrons of Husbandry (Granger).
He is a member of the Union League, Mid-
wood, Cortelyou, Mercantile, Roosevelt, and
Republican Clubs. He married in Brook
lyn, New York, 1890, Florence Tayntor;
they have two children : Frederick T.,
born in 1898; Helen T., born in 1905.
Address: 11 Kenmore Place, Brooklyn,
New York.
KRAEMER, Henry:
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tory in the Philadelphia College of Phar
macy; editor of the American Journal of
Pharmacy; born in Philadelphia in 186.8;
entered Girard College in June, 1877, and
was graduated in 1883; entered Philadel
phia College of Pharmacy in ^1886, gradu
ating in 1889; entered School of Mines,
Columbia University, in 1891, graduating
in 1895, and receiving the degree of Ph.B. ;
entered Marburg University (Marburg,
Germany), in 1896, obtaining the degree of
Ph.D. in 1897 ; assistant in chemistry at
the University of Pennsylvania from 1888
to 1890; instructor in botany in the College
of Pharmacy of the City of New York from
1890 to 1892; professor of botany in the
School of Pharmacy of Northwestern Uni
versity from 1895 to 1897 ; professor of
botany and pharmacognosy, and director of
the Microscopical Laboratory in the Phila
delphia College of Pharmacy, 1897; editor
of the American Journal of Pharmacy,
1898; member of the Revision Committee
of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1900.
Author of: A Text-Book of Botany and
Pharmacognosy; Viola Tricolor; Studies
on the Origin and Nature of Color hi
Plants; The Action of Copper Foil on the
Typhoid Organism ; The Structure of the
Starch Grain ; On the Continuity of Pro
toplasm; Crystalline and Crystalloidal Sub
stances and Their Relation to Plant Struc
ture ; The Morphology of the Genus Viola ;
An Examination of Commercial Flour ;
Qualitative Examination of Powdered
Vegetable-Drugs ; etc. Fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, and of the Wild Flower Preserva
tion Sooiety of America ; life member of
International Botanical Society; Philadel
phia Academy of Natural Sciences ; Amer
ican Philosophical Society; Botanical So
ciety of America ; American Pharmaceutical
Association. Member of the Torrey Botan
ical Club; The Botanical Society of Penn
sylvania ; the Philadelphia Botanical Club ;
etc. Corresponding member" of Societe de
Pharmacie de Paris ; etc. Address : 145
North Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.

KRAFT, John E. :
State civil service commissioner ; born at
Kingston, New York, 1865, of German par
entage. He was educated in the local
schools, learned the printing trade in the
office of the Kingston Press, became clerk
of the Board of Supervisors and read law
with Judge Alton B. Parker. Before his
admission to the bar he, with John W.' Sear
ing, purchased The Kingston Leader, and
he is still the principal proprietor of that
paper, which has daily and weekly issues
and is* the organ of the Democratic party
in the City of Kingston, and the County of
Ulster. In January, 1901, Mr. Kraft was
appointed by Governor Odell as one of the
Democratic members of the Board of Civil
Service Commissioners of the State of New
York, and is still serving. He was for
merly a member of Company H of the
Twentieth Battalion of the New York Nar ,
tional Guards (now disbanded). He was
an alderman in the common council of
Kingston, and in 1890 was elected mayor
of that city, the youngest who ever held the
office. He is general manager of the Dr.
J. A. Deane Company, and a trustee of
the Kingston Savings Bank, and was the
first president of the Kingston City Hos
pital Association. He is an active Demo
crat in politics, has served on the State
Democratic Committee and been a dele
gate to State and National Conventions. He
is senior warden of the Mission Church of
the Holy Cross (Episcopalian) ; is a mem
ber and has been presiding officer in the
different orders of the Masonic fraternity,
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Pa
trons of Husbandry; and is a member of
Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and
of the Elks order. Address : Kingston,
New York.
KRANS, Horatio Sheaf e:
Editor and author ; born in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, December 9, 1872 ; son of Rev.
Edward H. Krans and Charlotte (Sheafe)
Krans. He was educated in private schools,
and is a graduate with the degrees of A.B.
and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Mr.
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magazines and reviews and in editorial
work; and is literary adviser to G. P. Put
nam's Sons, in New York City. He is au
thor of: Irish Life in Irish Fiction, 1903
(Macmillan) ; William Butler Yeats and
the Irish Literary Revival (Contempor
ary Men of Letters Series, 1904 (McClure,
Phillips and Company) ; and is American
editor of The World's Wit and Humor
(ten volumes) Review of Reviews Com
pany; and of George Withers' Christmas
Carrol, with Biographical and Critical In
troduction, 1907 (Putnam). Address; Care
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 27 West Twenty-third
Street, New York City.
KRAUS, Edward Henry:
Professor of mineralogy and petro
graphy; born in Syracuse, New York,
December 1, 1875 ; son of John E. Kraus
and Rosa Kocher Kraus. He was gradu
ated from the Syracuse High School in
1891 ; from the Syracuse University, B.S.,
1896, M.S., 1897; University of Munich Ph.
D., 1901. He was instructor of German and
mineralogy in the Syracuse University
from 1896 to 1899; of mineralogy from 1901
to 1902; associate professor in 1902; head
of the Department of Science in 'the high
school at Syracuse, New York, 1902 to
1904; assistant professor of mineralogy in
the University of Michigan, from 1904 to
1906, junior professor, 1906 to 1907, and
junior professor of mineralogy and petro
graphy since 1907. In 1903 and 1904 was
professor of chemistry and geology dur
ing the summer session at the Syracuse
University. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, and also of the Geological Society
of America; a member of the American
Chemical Society; the Onondaga Academy,
of which he was president from 1903 to
1904 ; the Michigan Academy of Sciences ;
the Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Phi
Kappa Psi fraternities ; and of the Research
Club of the University of Michigan. Pro
fessor Kraus is the author of: Essentials
of Crystallography (Ann Arbor, 1906) ; and
has contributed numerous articles on
mineralogy, crystallography, and geology
to the American Journal of Science, Ameri

can Geologist, Science, and Zeitschrift fiir
Krystallographie. He is a Republican and
a Methodist. He married at Syracuse, New
York, on June 24, 1902, Lena M. Hoffman,
of Syracuse. They have one daughter,
Margaret Anna, bom in 1903. Address :
818 Oakland Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michi
gan. KRATJSS, William C:
Physician; born in Attica, New York,.
October 15, 1863. He was graduated from
Attica Union School in 1880 (valedic
torian) ; Cornell University, B.S., in 1884,
with two-year certificate of extra work
done in medical preparatory course; and
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
M.D., in 1886 (second in honor class) ;
studied in European universities from 1886
to 1889 (M.D. summa cum laude, Berlin,
1888). He has practiced medicine in Buf
falo since 1890, confining his work to dis
eases of the mind and nervous system.
Professor of pathology from 1890 to 1895;
professor of nervous diseases since 1895, of
the Medical Department of the Niagara
University. Delivered a course of lectures
at Cornell University in 1890. Associate
editor of the Buffalo Medical Journal, and
contributor to other American and Euro
pean medical journals, and author of over
one hundred scientific papers; editor of:
Text-Book on Insanity; fellow of the
Royal Microscopical Society of London
and of the American Neurological Asso
ciation. He is a member of the American
Microscopical Society (secretary rin 1895 ;
president in '1898) ; Buffalo Microscopical
Society (president from 1892 to 1893) ;
New York State Medical Society; the •
Medical Association of Central New York
(president in 1897) ; Lake Erie Medical So
ciety; Erie County Medical Society (presi
dent in 1904) ; he was one of the founders
in 1892 of the Buffalo Academy of Medi
cine (secretary for several years) ; mem
ber of the Buffalo Obstetrical Society
(secretary from. 1890 to 1892). Neurologist
to the Erie County Hospital, Buffalo Gen
eral Hospital, and Asylum and Hospital
Sisters of St. Francis : president of the
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hospital; medical superintendent of the
Providence Retreat. Member of the Buf
falo Association of Cornell Alumni. He
is a member of the Medical, Buffalo, and
University Clubs. He married in Sala
manca, New York, September 4, 1890, Clara
Krieger. Address : 479 Delaware Avenue,
Buffalo, New York.
KREHBIEL, Henry Edward:
Editor, musical critic, lecturer; born in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 10, 1854;
son of Reverend J. and Anna Maria Eliza
beth (Haake) Krehbiel. He was educated
in the public schools of Ohio. Was musical
critic for the Cincinnati Gazette from 1874
to 1880 and for the New York Tribune,
since November, 1880. He was a member
of the Iriternational Jury of the Exposition
Universelle at Paris in 1900 (musical sec
tion), and is of the Beethoven Haus Verein
at Bonn, Germany; decorated by France
with Cross Legion d'Honneur (Chevalier),
January, 1901. Mr. Krehbiel was editor
of the Musical Review of New York City
in 1880 and 1881. He is the author of:
An Account of the Fourth Musical Festival
held at Cincinnati, 1880; Notes on the Cul
tivation of Choral Music, 1884.; Review of
the New York Musical Season (five vol
umes, 1885- 1890) ; Studies in the Wag
nerian Drama, 1891 ; The Philharmonic So
ciety of New York, a Memorial, 1892;
How to Listen to "Music, 1897; Music and
Manners in the Classical Period in 1898.
He was the reviser and continuator of La-
vignac's Music and Musicians in 1877;
editor and translator of The Technics of
Violin Playing (Courvoisier), in 1880;
translator and annotator of Mozart, The
Man and Musician; Beethoven, the Man
and Musician (Kerst), in 1905; American
editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and
Musicians (second edition) ; consulting
editor of Music of the Modern World, etc.
He is a member of the Authors Club. He
married, first, at Birmingham, Connecticut,
in 1877, Helen Virginia Osborne ; second
at Brooklyn, New York, iri 1896, Marie
Van. He has one daughter, Helen, born
in 1883. Spends summers at Blue Hill,

Maine. Address : 152 West 105th Street,
New York City.
KROEZE, Barend H,:
President of Whitworth College; born
in Kampen, the Netherlands, in 1869; son
of Henry J. Kroeze, Sr., and Nellie (De
Brink) Kroeze. He was educated in Grand
Rapids High School, was graduated from
the University of Michigan as A.B. in
1894; did graduate work in 1895, attended
McCormick ^Theological Seminary from
1895 to 1898; was a graduate student in the
University of Chicago in 1901, and received
the degree of A.M. from Lenox College
in 1904 and the degree of D.D. from Coe
College in 1906. He was pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church, Austin,
Minnesota; was called to the vice-presi
dency of Lenox College, and after three
years' service there was called to the
presidency of Whitworth College, Tacoma,
Washington; and up to this year he has
been the youngest president of a college in
the Presbyterian denomination. While a
student in the University of Michigan he
was secretary of the Tappan Presbyteriar
Association. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Holland Society of
Washington and is a Mason. President
Kroeze married in Preston, Minnesota,
November 30, 1904, Nettie Muzetta Gray,
and they have one son, Robert Gray
Kroeze, born in 1905. Residence : 4202
North Stevens Street, Tacoma. Address :
Whitworth College, Tacoma, Washington.
KRUSE, Frederick W. :
Judge; born, June 25, 1852, in Germany,
and brought to this country when one
year old. He received his education in the
common schools and at Griffith Institute,
Springville, New York. He worked on
farms,- in factory, and in a store, and at
the age of seventeen taught school. In
1877 he was admitted to the bar and prac
ticed law in Arcade and Olean, New York.
He was a member of the New York As
sembly from 1884 to 1887, and a member
of various State commissions. In 1887 he
was one to revise the general excise laws,
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class cities. In 1890 he was special com
missioner to investigate the Federal census
frauds, and reenumerated the city of Min
neapolis, Minnesota. He was county judge
of Cattaraugus County from 1897 to 1900.
Governor Roosevelt appointed him justice
of the Supreme Court, January 1, 1900;
and he was elected to the full term at the
general election of that year. He was as
signed" to the Appellate Division, Fourth
Department, in January, 19O7. Judge Kruse
is a Republican in politics. "He took his
seat on the Supreme Bench, January. 1,
1900, and his present term expires in 1914.
He married in 1878, Julia V. Engle. Ad
dress : Olean, New York.
KUHNE. Percival H. :
Banker; born in New York City, April
6, 1861 ; son of Frederick Kuhne and Ellen
Josephine (Miller) Kuhne. He is de
scended from an ancient German family,
who trace their ancestry back to famous
landed proprietors in Magdeburg and the
vicinity of that famous city. He was
educated in the public schools and at the
College of the City of New York and
spent several years in the completion of
his education in the University of Leipzig,
Germany. He returned to New York and
entered his father's banking house, and,
on the death of the latter in 1890, became
head of the firm. At present he is trustee
of the Colonial Trust Company, the Lin
coln Safe Deposit Company, trustee and
member of the finance committee of the
Citizens' Savings Bank, a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, vice-president and
director of the Regina Music Box Com
pany, and director of the Aetna Indemnity
Company, the Mutual Alliance Trust Com
pany and of the Palisades Trust and
Guarantee Company of Englewood, New
Jersey. He is a member of the Metro
politan Museum of Art, the New York
Botanical Garden, and the New York
Zoological Garden, and of the Union,
Metropolitan, Union League, Calumet and
Down Town Clubs of1 New York City,
He married, January 31, 1893, Lillian B.
Kerr. Residence: 7 East Seventy-eighth

Street, New York City. Office address:
15 William Street, New York City.
KUICHLING, Emil:
Consulting civil and hydraulic engineer;
born in Kehl, Germany, January 20, 1848;
son of Dr. Louis and Marie (von Saeger)
Kuichling; he was brought by his parents
to Rochester, New York, in 1849. He was
graduated from the University of Roches
ter, B.A., 1868 (Phi Beta Kappa), Sci
entific and post-graduate course, C.E.,
1869; further post-graduate course in Poly
technic School, Carlsruhe, Germany, from
1870 to 1872, as CE. Before entering col
lege, was subordinate in canal engineer's
and city engineer's offices in Rochester, and
continued work therein during all vaca
tions ; assistant engineer on Rochester
Water Works from 1873 to 1885; consult
ing engineer for the New York Board of
Health from 1881 to 1892; designed ex
tensive sewerage system for Rochester
from 1887 to 1900, and other large works
for water supply sewerages and water
power in many other places. He was chief
engineer of the Rochester Water Works
with construction of new conduit and en
larged distributing system" from 1890 to
1900 ; engineer of water supply of the New
York State Barge Canal in 1900 and 1901.
Since 1901 he has been consulting engineer
in New York City, engaged in numerous
extensive municipal water supply and sew
erage projects and water power develop
ments for private corporations. In 1885
he was elected by the voters of Rochester,
New York, to the position of member of
the Executive Board (corresponding to
Board of Public Works), Rochester, New
York, serving from 1885 to 1888. He has
been frequently engaged as engineering ex
pert in important litigations, particularly in
water supply and sewerage cases. He is a
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, American Water Works Asso
ciation, New England Water Works Asso
ciation, American Public Health Associa
tion, Rochester Academy of Science, Ma
sonic fraternity (all branches), Delta Up
silon fraternity. He is a member of the
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New York, January 28, 1879, Sarah L.
Caldwell. Address : 52 Broadway, New
York City.
KUNZ, George Frederick:
Gem expert; born in New York City,
September 29, 1856; son of J. G. Kunz
and Maria Ida (Widmer). He was edu
cated in the public schools and Cooper
Union; received from Columbia the degree
of A.M. in 1898, Ph.D. from the University
of Marburg, 1903; D.Sc. Knox College,
1907. He is president of the American
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,
president of the New York Mineralogical
Club; late vice-president of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers; was a ju
ror of the Nashville Exposition; special
agent of the United States Geological Sur
vey from 1882 to 1907; honorary curator
of precious stones in the American Museum
of Natural History; honorary member of
the Uralian Natural History Society of the
Ural Mountains. He is third vice-presi
dent and gem expert of Tiffany and Com
pany. In politics, Dr. Kuntz is a Repub
lican, and in his religious belief an Epis
copalian. He is chevalier of the Legion
d'Honneur of France, and officier d'lnstruc-
tion Publique de France", honorary member
of the Chamber of Commerce of Precious
Stones, Paris, honorary member of the Co
lumbia Alumni Association, member Amer
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, fellow
New York Academy of 'Sciences; and Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science; juror of the Jamestown Exposi
tion of 1907; and member of the Metropol
itan Museum of Art. Dr. Kunz's favorite
recreations are mineralogical excursions,
travel and scientific work. He is active in
the preservation of the Palisades and other
scenic objects; is a member of the Century
Association and of the Union League, Gro
lier, National Arts, and Mineralogical Clubs.
Dr. Kunz married in New York, October
29, 1881, Sophia Leore Handforth, and
they have one daughter, Ruby H., now
Mrs. Hans Zinsser. Residence : 49 West
Fifty-seventh Street, New York City. Of
fice address : 401 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.

KURTZ, Charles M. :
Director of Buffalo Fine Arts Academy;
born in New Castle, Pennsylvania; son of
Davis B. and Julia M. (Wilder) Kurtz.
He was graduated by Washington and Jef
ferson College, Pennsylvania, B.S., 1876,
M.S., 1879, Ph.D., 1902. Was three years
student at_ the National Academy of De
sign and special student of L. E. Wil-
marth, N.A., and William Morgan, A.N. A.,
New York City. He was connected for
several years with the New York Tribune ;
editor for nine years of the National Acad
emy Notes, and in 1884 edited the Art
Union Magazine. He was director of the
Art Department of the Southern Exposi
tion at Louisville, Kentucky, from 1883 to
1886. Art editor of the New York Daily
Star in 1889, and later also literary editor
and editor of the Sunday Star until 1891.
Appointed in 1891, assistant chief of
the Department of Fine Arts of the
World's Columbian Exposition. Acted in
advisory capacity for the art committee of
the St. Louis Annual Exposition in 1893,
and at the close of the World's Columbian
Exposition was tendered the position of art
director of the St. Louis Exposition ; vis
ited, annually, the art centers of the
United States and Europe from 1894 to
1899, in interests of that exposition, which
attracted wide attention for its advanced
representations of contemporary art, in
cluding the first organized exhibit made in
this country of works by painters of the
Glasgow School and the Munich Seces
sion, as well as other important syste
matic exhibits of contemporary art. Some
time assistant director of fine arts, United
States Commission to the Paris Exposi
tion of 1900. Was appointed in August,
1901, assistant chief of the Department of
Art, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
and visited Europe in that year in in
terest of the Exposition ; later, served on
International Jury of Award for Se'ction of
Fine Arts and was chairman of Jury of
Award for photography in the Department
of Liberal Arts. Since, January 1, 1905, di
rector of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy,
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organized exhibits of Scottish paintings in
1905, and of contemporary German Art in
1906. Editor of Academy Notes (a
monthly art publication of Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy). Awarded medal by
Trans-Mississippi International Exposition
of Omaha, and gold medal by authorities
of Louisiana Purchase Exposition for ser
vices for art exhibits. Created officer Or
der of Merit of Bulgaria by Prince Ferdi
nand for services in interest of Bulgarian
Art. He is a member of the American
Museums Association; National Geograph
ic Society, Buffalo Historical Society,
National Sculpture Society, National So
ciety of Mural Painters, New York Muni
cipal Art Society, St. Louis Artists' Guild,
Japan Society, London; Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity; honorary member of the So
ciety of Western Artists. He is a member
of the Lotos and National Arts Clubs of
New York City; St. Louis, of St. Louis;
Buffalo and University Clubs, of Buffalo.
He married in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Oc
tober 1, 1885, Julia Stephenson. They
have two children: Julia Wilder, born in
1889, and Isabella Starkweather, born in
1901. Address: Albright Art Gallery,
Buffalo, New York.
KURTZ, Edward B.:
Mining, manufacturing; born in Albany,
Ohio, September 30, i860; son of William
Wyland and Isabella (McEllroy) Kurtz ; he
was educated In the public schools in Ath
ens, Ohio. He began work in 1876 and has
been engaged continuously in manufactur
ing business since 1879. He is now presi
dent and director of the American Finance
and Securities Company, New York City;
director New Jersey Steel Company, Rah
way, New Jersey; Guanajuato Reduction
and Mines Company, Guanajuato, Mexico;
Columbus Public Service Company, Co
lumbus, Ohio. President and director of
the Authors and Newspapers Association,
New York City. He is a Republican. He
is a member of the New York Athletic
Club. He married at Columbus, Ohio, No
vember 16, 1887, Lula R. Conrade. Ad
dress: 5 Nassau Street, New York City.

LACEY, Edward Samuel:
Banker; born in Chili, New York, No
vember 26, 1835 ; son of Edward D. Lacey
and Martha C. (Pixley) Lacey. He was
taken by his parents to Eaton County,
Michigan, in 1842, was educated in the
public schools and Olivet College. After
leaving college he was engaged in business
pursuits at Kalamazoo, Michigan, until
1857, when he removed to Charlotte, Michi
gan; was register of deeds there from i860
to 1864; and was engaged in private bank
ing from 1859 until 1871, when the bank
was reorganized as the First National Bank
of Charlotte, of which he was at first
cashier and afterward president. He was
interested in the building of the Grand
River Railroad in 1868. Mr. Lacey became
active in political matters as a Republican;
was elected the first mayor of Charlotte
in 1871 ; trustee of the Michigan Asylum
for the Insane from 1874 to 1880; delegate
to the Republican National Convention in
1876; chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee from 1882 to 1884. In
1880 he was elected from the Third Dis
trict of Michigan tci the Forty-seventh Con
gress, and reelected to the Forty-eighth
Congress in 1882, serving until 1885; and
he was a candidate before the Republican
Legislative Caucus for United States Sena
tor in 1886. He was appointed comptroller
of the currency by President Harrison in
April, 1889, but resigned in 1892 to accept
the presidency of the newly organized
Bankers' National Bank of Chicago, in
which position he has ever since con
tinued. Mr. Lacey married, January 1,
1861, Annette C, daughter of Hon. Joseph
Musgrave of Charlotte, Michigan, and tfiey
have two daughters : Jessie P. and Edith
M., and a son, Edward M. Residence:
Evanston, Illinois. Office address: Bank
ers' National Bank, Marquette Building,
Chicago. LACEY, John Fletcher:
Ex-congressman and lawyer ; born at
New Martinsville, Virginia (now West
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in 1855; received a common school and
academic education. He enlisted in Com
pany H, Third Iowa Infantry, in May, 1861,
and afterwards served as a private in Com
pany D, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, as
sergeant-major, and as lieutenant in Com
pany C of that regiment; was promoted to
assistant adjutant-generai on the staff of
Brigadier-General Samuel A. Rice, and
after that officer was killed in battle was
assigned to duty on the staff of Major-
General Frederick Steele. He served in
the Iowa Legislature one term, in 1870;
was temporary chairman of the Iowa Re
publican Convention in 1898; served one
term in the City Council; one term as city
solicitor of Oskaloosa; is a lawyer and
author of Lacey's Railway Digest and
Lacey's Iowa Digest. He served as a
Republican representative from the Sixth
Iowa District in the Fifty-first, 1889 to 1891,
and from the Fifty-third to the Fifty-ninth
Congresses from 1893 to 1907. Address :
Oskaloosa, Iowa.
LACEY, John Wesley:
Lawyer; born in Randolph County, In
diana, October 13, 1848 ; son of Rev. Henry
J. Lacey, a clergyman of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and of Elizabeth
(Thompson) Lacey. He was prepared in
the public schools of his native county and
afterward entered DePauw University,
from which he was graduated in the class
of 1871. After a study of the law in of
fices, he was admitted to the bar in 1876,
and practiced law at Marion, Indiana, until
1884, when he was appointed by President
Arthur chief justice of the Territory of
Wyoming, holding that office until 1886,
when he resumed practice at Cheyenne.
Judge Lacey is a Republican in politics,
and is a member of the Methodist Episco
pal Church; and was a delegate to the
General Conference of that church in 1888.
He married at Marion, Indiana, October
10, 1878, Elizabeth Van Deventer. Ad
dress : Cheyenne, Wyoming.
LACHMAN, Samson:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May
2, 1855 ; son of Samuel Lachman and Ba-

bette (Hirsch) Lachman. He received his
early education in the public schools and
was graduated from the College of the
City of New York as A.B. He has been
engaged in the practice of law in New York
City and is now a member of the firm of
Lachman and Goldsmith. Mr. Lachman
was justice of the District Court of the
Sixth District of New York City from
1888 to 1894. He is a member of the New
York Bar Association; the American His
torical Society; the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York; the Law Insti
tute; and the Phi Beta Kappa Society;
a fellow of the American Geographical So
ciety; and a trustee of the Aguilar Free
Library. He is also a member of the Har-
monie, Lawyers', and City College Clubs.
Address : 313 West One Hundred and
Sixth Street, New York City.
LACKNER, Francis:
Lawyer; born in Detroit, Michigan, Oc
tober 14, 1840; son of Francis C. and
Rosalia (Harnischmacher) Lackner. He
was educated in the public schools of De
troit and at the German-American Acad
emy of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He en
tered the volunteer service as a second
lieutenant in 1862, and served until the
close of the war. He arose to the rank
of major, and was brevetted lieutenant-
colonel for gallant services. He was on
active duty in the field with his regiment
for a time and was on the staff of General
Carl Schurz, and later on the staff of Gen
eral Daniel Butterfield, as judge advocate
and assistant inspector-general of the Third
Division of the Twentieth Army Corps.
He studied law and was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1866. He began the prac
tice -of his profession in the City of Chi
cago, where he has built up a lucrative
general practice. He is the senior member
of the firm of Lackner, Butz and Miller.
He is a Republican, and a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion and
of the Union and University Clubs. He
was married at Columbus, Wisconsin, in
1872 to Nannie Jussen, and has five chil
dren : Meta, now Mrs. Franklin Corbin ;
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dress : Title and Trust Building, Chicago,
Illinois. Residence : Kenilworth, Illinois.
LACOMBE, Emile Henry:
Jurist; born in New York City, Janu
ary 29, 1846; son of Emile H. Lacombe
and Elizabeth E. (Smith) Lacombe. He
received his education in the Columbia
Grammar School, was graduated from the
Columbia College as A.B. (honorary), in
1863; from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
(prize essay on Constitutional Law), 1865;
and received the LL.D. degree from Co
lumbia in 1894. He was engaged in the
private practice of his profession until ap
pointed to a position in the City Law
Department in 1875. He rose through
various grades and was appointed corpora
tion counsel in 1884, and July 1, 1887, he was
appointed by President Cleveland to his
present position' as United States Circuit
Judge. Judge Lacombe was a member of
the Seventh Regiment of the National
Guards of New York from 1862 to 1869;
and was present with the regiment at Bal
timore and Frederick City in 1862 and 1863.
Fie is a member of the University, Metro
politan, Delta Phi, and Richmond County
Country Clubs. He married in 1873 Eliza
beth Tyron, who is now deceased, and he
has two children. Residence : Coxsackie,
New York. Office address : United States
Circuit Court, New York City.
LACY, William Henry:
Clergyman ; born in Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, January 8, 1858; son of Walter Lacy
and Eliza Lacy. He received his prepara
tory training in public school and the Mil
waukee High School, entering Northwest
ern University at Evanston, Illinois, in
1877, and was graduated as A.B. in 1881,
and as B.D. from Garrett Biblical Institute
in 1883. He was a member of the
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity while at North
western University, and he received from
that institution the degrees of A.M. in
1884 and D.D. in I906. He entered the
ministry of. the Methodist Episcopal Church
in the Wisconsin Conference in 1883, and
was ordained deacon ; was pastor three
years at Pleasant Prairie and one year at

Menominee Falls, and in 1887 was ap
pointed missionary to Foochow, China. In
the same year he was ordained elder at
Foochow, and has ever since been a mem
ber of the Foochow Conference, and was
a reserve delegate from that conference to
the General Conference at Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1896. He was professor in the Anglo-
Chinese College in Foochow seven years;
superintendent of the Anglo-Chinese Book
Concern from 1891 to 1903, and in 1903
was appointed manager of The Methodist
Publishing Flouse in China (Shanghai and
Foochow), since which date he has resided
in Shanghai. Dr. Lacy married at Min
neapolis, Minnesota, May 24, 1883, Emma
Nind (graduate of Northwestern Univers
ity, 1880) and they have five children :
Walter Nind, born in 1884 ; Henry V., born
in 1886; G. Carleton, born in 1888; William
Irving, born in 1891 ; and Alice Maie, born
in 1892. Address: Methodist Publishing
Flouse, Shanghai, China.
LADD, Herbert Warren:
Merchant and ex-governor; born in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, October 15, 1843;
son of Warren Ladd and Lucy L. Ladd.
After graduation from the New Bedford
High School in i860, and a year in a whole
sale dry goods store, he became connected
with the New Bedford Mercury from 1861
to 1864 as war correspondent and editor.
Since 1864 he has been in the wholesale
dry goods business, first in Boston, but
since 1871 in Providence, Rhode Island,
where, since 1887, he has been president of
the H. W. Ladd Company. He has been
a Republican in politics from the formation
of the party, and served two terms as gov
ernor of Rhode Island between 1889 and
1892. He initiated the movement which re
sulted in the building of Rhode Island's
new State House, and was the donor to
Brown University of the Ladd Astronom
ical Observatory. He is a Congregational
ist in his religious affiliation, and is pres
ident of the Rhode Island Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He mar
ried in Providence, in 1870, Emma Bur
rows, who died in 1889. Address: Provi
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LADD, Horatio Oliver:
Clergyman, educator, author; born at
Hallowell, Maine, August 31, 1839; son of
Gen. Samuel G. and Caroline (Vinal)
Ladd. He was graduated from Bowdoin
College, as A.B. in 1859; A.M., in 1862;
student at Yale Theological School, in
1862 and 1863; Hobart College, S.T.D.,
1905. He was in the ministry of the Con
gregational Church for twenty-five years,
and pastor of churches in Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Michigan ; also educator,
serving at different times as principal
Farmington Academy, Maine; New Hamp
shire State Normal School ; professor of
rhetoric and oratory, Olivet College, Michi
gan; president and founder of the Univers
ity of New Mexico, Santa Fe, from 1881
to 1889; also founder of the Ramona In
dian School, and United States Indian In
dustrial School, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He received his ordination in the Episcopal
ministry from Bishop Potter, as deacon and
priest in 1891 ; rector of Trinity Church,
Fishkill, New York, from 1891 to 1896;
since July, 1896, he has been rector of
Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Island. He
is author of Memorial of John ' S. C. Ab
bott, 1878; The War with Mexico, 1887 >
History of New Mexico, 1888; Founding
of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess
County, New York, 1895 ; Chunda, A Story
of the Navajos, 1906. He edited RamOna
Days, a magazine of Indian education, 1886
to 1888 ; Grace Church Chimes from 1897 ;
also many contributions to newspapers,
magazines and the religious press. He is a
member of the American Historical Asso
ciation, Alpha Delta Phi, and the Phi Beta
Kappa fraternities. He married August 6,
1863 ; Harriet Vaughan, and they have four
children: Lillian V. Church, Julia Eirene,
Harry Abbott, Maynard M. D. Address:
Jariiaica, New York.
LADD, Scott M.:
Jurist; born in Sharon, Wisconsin, June
22, 1855; son of John Ladd and Sarah
(Wilmarth) Ladd. He was educated in
Beloit College, Wisconsin, and Carthage
College, Illinois, and was graduated from
the Scientific Department of the latter in

1879, and from the Law Department of the
University of Iowa in 1881, locating in
that year in the practice of law at Sheldon,
Iowa. He became active in. politics as a
Republican, was elected district judge in
1887, and since 1897 has been on the Su
preme bench of Iowa as associate justice.
Address : Sheldon, Iowa.
LADEW, Edward R, :
Tanner; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 18, 1855 ; son of the late Harvey
Smith Laden. He was educated in Char-
lier Institute and Anthon Grammar
School and after leaving school became
his father's partner in the firm of J. B.
Hoyt and Company, afterwards Fayer-
weather and Laden, of which he is senior
partner. He is also vice-president of the
United States Leather Company. Mr.
Ladew is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce and of the Union League, Law
yers', Carteret Gun, New York Yacht,
Larchmont Yacht, Lambs', Salmagundi,
Riding and Driving, Collie and Lieder-
kranz Clubs. He married in 1886, Louise
B. Wall, daughter of Charles Wall, of
New York City. Residence : 3 East Sixty-
seventh Street, New York City. Office ad-"
dress : 91 Liberty Street, New York City.
LaDOW, Orville D.:
President of corporations ; born in Balls-
ton, New York, October 9, 1852; son of
Jacob L. LaDow and Mary E. (Vaughn)
LaDow. He received his education in the
high school of Mechanicville, New York.
He was private secretary of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington, D. C,
for thirteen years ; in the advertising de
partment of the Royal Baking Powder
Company of New York City for seven
years, and general manager of the Cereal
Machine Company, of ¦ New York City.
Mr. LaDow is now president of the Na
tional Gramophone Corporation, the Uni
versal Talking Machine Company, the In
ternational Record Company, all of New
York City, and of the Health Vibrator
Company of Chicago, Illinois. In politics
he is identified with the Republican party,
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Episcopalian. He married Thalia T. Pren
tice and their children are : Mignon C,
born in 1879, and Stanley V., born in 1894.
Address : 57 West Tenth Street, New
York City. '
LA FARGE, Bancel ;
Artist, designer of cut glass windows
and mural decorations ; son of John La
Farge and Margaret (Perry) La Farge. He
is a member "of the Sons of Revolution,
Arch Mundy Society and of the Century
Association and St. Anthony Clubs. He
married Mabel Hooper. Residence: 31
West Tenth Street, New York City. Of
fice address : 51 West Tenth Street, New
York City.
LAFEAN, Daniel Franklin:
Congressman and manufacturer; born in
York, York County, Pennsylvania, Febru
ary 7, 1861. He was educated in the public
schools of his native city, entering the High
School in 1876. Mr. Lafean has been ac
tively engaged in the manufacturing busi
ness upward of twenty years, being con
nected with a number of local manufactur
ing concerns, as well as president of the
Security Title and Trust Company, a lead
ing financial institution of Philadelphia;
and he is a director of the Gettysburg Col
lege and trustee of the Gettysburg Semi
nary of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was
tendered a unanimous Republican nomina
tion and elected to the Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, from the Twentieth
Pennsylvania District. He married, in 1882,
Emma B. Krone, and they have three chil
dren. Address: York, Pennsylvania.
LAFFAN, William M. :
Editor of New York Sun; born in
Dublin, Ireland, January 22, 1848; son of
Michael and Ellen Sarah (Fitzgibbon) Laf-
fan. He was educated by tutors and at
H. T. Humphrey's School at Blackrock,
French College at Booterstown, Dublin
University and St. Cecilia's School of Med
icine ; artist to the Pathological Society of
Dublin. He was newspaper reporter,
managing editor of the San Francisco Bul

letin, 1870; editor and half-owner of the
Daily Bulletin, Baltimore, Maryland, and
owner of the Baltimore Bulletin and Sun
day Bulletin; general passenger agent of
the Long Island Railroad; managing di
rector of the Long Beach Improvement
Company, and Eastern Steam Navigation
Company. He became connected as gen
eral writer with The Sun in 1877; in 1881,
1882 and 1883, art editor of Harper Broth
ers, and agent in London of that house
from 1881 to 1883; in 1884, elected pub
lisher of the Sun. In 1887 he was elected
trustee of the Sun Printing and. Publish
ing Association, and in 1887 founded the
Evening Sun. In igoo he purchased in
terests of the estate of Charles A. Dana
in the Sun Printing and Publishing Asso
ciation, and became its president; also
vice-president of Lanston Monotype Com
pany, and director of Harper and Brothers.
He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, and the New York Polytech
nic Hospital, and a member of the Arts
Club of London, the Chicago Club of Chi
cago, and the Union, New York Yacht, and
Racquet and Tennis Clubs of New York
City. He married at Baltimore, 1872,
Georgiana Tompkins Ratcliffe. Residence:
335 Lexington Avenue, and Laffan House
Lawrence, Long Island. Office address : 170
Nassau Street, New York City.
LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion:
United States senator; born at Primrose,
Dane County, Wisconsin, June 14, 1855 ;
son of Josiah La Follette and Mary (Fur-
geson) La Follette. He was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in 1879,
and won the Interstate Collegiate Oratori
cal contest. In February, 1880, he was ad
mitted to the bar, and in the following No
vember was elected district' attorney of
Dane County, and reelected in 1882. He
was elected to Congress from the Third
Wisconsin District in 1884, reelected in
1886 and 1888, and served through the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first_ Con
gresses, but was defeated for reelection in
1890 and returned to the practice of law
in Madison in 1891. He became the leader
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party and secured a devoted and increasing
following, and although an unsuccessful
candidate for the nomination for governor
in the State Conventions of 1896 and 1898
he was elected to that office in 1900 and re
elected in 1902 and 1904, resigning the of
fice at the end of 1905 to take his seat in
the United States Senate to which he
had been elected for the term expiring
March 3, 1911. He secured while he was
governor laws providing for nominating
all candidates by direct ballot, for taxing
railroad property on the same basis as all
other property, and for the State control
of railroad rates within its borders. He
is widely known also as an orator and suc
cessful lecturer and a forceful executive
whose earnestness and persistence make
his work effective for the causes he advo
cates. Senator La Follette married at
Baraboo, Wisconsin, December 31, 1881,
Belle, daughter of Anson T. Case. Ad
dress : Madison, Wisconsin.
LATDI.AW, James:
British consul at Portland; born in
Fisherton, Ayrshire, Scotland, January 23,
1847; son of Rev. James Laidlaw. He
was educated at Wanlockhead Parish
School and the Andersonian University, at
Glasgow. For some years he was in a
foreign shipping merchant's office in Glas
gow; went to Valparaiso in 1867, and in
1872 to Portland, Oregon, and commenced
business as a shipping merchant. In 1874
he was appointed British vice-consul; and
he retired from business in 1895, when he
was commissioned consul for the States of
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. He is a
member of the Arlington Club of Portland.
Mr. Laidlaw married, first, in 1875, Louise
Carpenter, of Brooklyn, New York, who
died in 1886, and by whom he had two
sons; and second, in Portland, Oregon, in
1890, Charlotte C. Stout, and they have two
sons and three daughters living. Address:
Portland, Oregon.
LAIDLAW, Walter:
Clergyman, and executive secretary of
The Federation of Churches and Christian
Organizations in New York City; born in

Norval, Ontario, Canada, March 7, 1861 ;
son of Dr. Alexander Robinson Laidlaw
and Mary (Patton) Laidlaw. He received
his education in Dr. Tassie's School at
Gait, Canada; the Barrie Collegiate In
stitute, and the Toronto University, where
he was graduated as B.A. in 1881 and M.A.
in 1886. He was graduated from Prince
ton Theological Seminary, in 1884, and
took post-graduate courses in the Univers
ity of Berlin in 1884 and 1885; at Prince
ton in 1885 and 1886; in the Union Theo
logical Seminary in 1895; the New York
University (receiving his Ph.D. in 1896),
and Columbia University. He was stated
supply of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Troy, New York, in 1884; of the First
Presbyterian Church of New York City,
in 1885; pastor of the Jermain Memorial
Church (Presbyterian), at Watervliet, New
York, from 1886 to 1892; first president of
the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane
Society, from 1887 to 1892; founder and
first president Watervliet Evangelical Alli
ance, from 1888 to 1890; first president of
Fairview Home for Friendless Children ;
president of the University of Fairhaven,
Washington, in 1892 to 1893; assistant
minister of the Saint Nicholas Collegiate
Reformed Church in 1894 and 1895, and
since then executive secretary of the Fed
eration of Churches and Christian Organi
zations in New York City. He is en
rolled as minister of the Presbyterian
Church in America, but work is interde
nominational. He was a member of Queen's
Own Rifles, Toronto, Canada, 1880 to
1891, and of the Seventh Regiment of New
York in 1897 and 1898. Dr. Laidlaw was
the practical founder of civic cooperative
church work in American cities and the
first salaried federation secretary in Ameri
ca. He is a naturalized American citizen
without hereditary politics and therefore in
dependent He is a member of the Ameri
can Society of Church History; and a
fellow of the American Statistical Society.
Dr. Laidlaw is editor of Federation, a
quarterly review of racial, religious, and
social conditions in New York City. His
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back riding, and photography. Dr. Laid
law is a member of the Camera, National
Arts, Quill and Knollwood Clubs. He mar
ried in Harvard Church, Brookline, Massa
chusetts, in 1899, Mrs. J. Louise Childs
Potter ; and their children are : Philip
Childs Potter, a stepson, born 1893; and
Robert Wordsworth Laidlaw, born 1901,
Residence : Tarrytown, New York. Of
fice address: Studio 52, Arts Club Studios,
119 East Nineteenth Street, New York
City. LAIRD, Frank Livingston :
Editor; born at Hughesville, Pennsyl
vania, October 28, 1872; son of John C.
Laird and Sophia S. (Tallman) Laird. He
was educated in Pennsylvania College at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and in the Whar
ton School of Finance of the University
of Pennsylvania, which he entered in the
junior class in 1891, and from which he
was graduated as Ph.B. in 1893. He en
tered newspaper life as a reporter on the
Philadelphia Times, later became New
' York correspondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer, and is now managing editor of
the New York Commercial. He is a mem
ber of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Ad
dress : 8 Spruce Street, New York City.
LAKE, Everett John:
Merchant, lieutenant-governor of Con
necticut; born in Woodstock, Connecticut,
February 8, 1871 ; son of Thomas A. Lake
and Martha A. (Cockings) Lake. He was
graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, as B.S. in 1890 and from Har
vard as A.B. in 1892. He is president and
treasurer of The Hartford Lumber Com
pany, and of The Tunnel Coal Conipany;
director of the Hartford National Bank,
Hartford Life Insurance Company and of
the Riverside Trust Company. He was
school visitor of the City of Hartford,
from 1900 to 1903 ; member of the Con
necticut House of Representatives in
1903 and 1904 and of the Connecti
cut State Senate in 1905 and 1906 and
he became lieutenant-governor of the State
of Connecticut in 1907. In politics ' he is
a Republican and in religion a Congre

gationalist. He is a member of St. John's
Lodge of Master Masons and of the Kee-
ney Lodge of Foresters, and he is a mem
ber of the Union League and Republican
Clubs of New York, Union League and
Graduate Clubs of New Haven; Hartford
and Hartford Golf Clubs of Hartford, and
of the Country Club of Farmington, Con
necticut. Lieutenant-Governor Lake mar
ried in Rockville, Connecticut, September
25, 1895, Eva L. Sykes, and they have two
children : Harold S., born in 1897 ; and,
Marjorie S., born in 1899. Residence: 553
Farmington Avenue, Hartford. Address:
17 Albany Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut.
LAKE, Richard Conover:
Banker, stock farmer; born on a farm in
Montour County, Pennsylvania, July 20,
1846; son of James and Hannah (Dye)
Lake. He received his education in the
public schools of his native county and
through private instruction. He also gave
much time in his youth to self-education.
He entered his business career as an em
ployee of the firm of Fowler and Creveling,
at Espy, Pennsylvania, which was followed
by engaging with the firm of Roworth
Brothers, at Central City, Colorado. In
1869 he entered business on his own ac
count as a member of the firm of Roworth
& Lake, at Central City, which continued
until 1877, when he removed to Deadwood,
South Dakota, where he carried on a mer
cantile business. He was made president
of the First National Bank of Deadwood
in 1879; president of the First National
Bank of Rapid City, South Dakota, in
1884; president of the Bank of Chadron,
Nebraska, in 1886; second vice-president of
the Union National Bank of Chicago, Il
linois, in 1894, and president of the
Masonic Fraternity Temple Association in
1896. He has retired from all these posi
tions, but retains a financial interest in
several of these monied institutions. His
orincipal activity now is in connection with
the cattle ranee business of Lake, Tomb
and Company, in Texas and South Da
kota. He is a Reoublican in politics. He
is a director of the Evanston Free Public
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Board. He is a member of the Union
League Club, Evanston Club, Country Club
of Evanston, Glen View Golf Club, and
Evanston Golf Club. He was married,
first, at Central City, Colorado, September
14, 1871, to Mary Randolph, who died in
1894, leaving six children: Jessie, Amy,
Richard Randolph, Margaret, George
Ernest, and Gertrude His second marriage
was at Evanston, Illinois, February 9, 1899,
to Helen Kitchell, but he has no living chil
dren by this union, his daughter, Helen,
having died in infancy Address : Mar
quette Building, Chicago. Residence:
Evanston, Illinois.
LAMAR, William Bailey:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Jef
ferson County, Florida, June 12, 1853 ; son
of Colonel B. Lamar of the Confederate
States Army. He received his education in
Jeffefson Academy at Monticello, Florida,
and at the University of Georgia, and af
terward attended the Law School at Leb
anon, Tennessee, from which he was grad
uated as LL.B. in 1875. He was at once
admitted to the bar of Mississippi, and
turned to Florida. He was clerk of the
after a year at Tupelo in that State re-
Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Florida,
from 1877 to 1881, and county judge of
the same county from 1883 to 1886. He
was elected a member of the House of
Representatives of Florida in 1866, attor
ney-general of Florida in 1888, serving un
til 1902, and in the latter year was elected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Demo
crat, from the Third Florida District. He
was reelected in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con
gress in which he is now serving. Ad
dress: Tallahassee, Florida.
LAMB, Charles Rollinson:
Artist and architect; born in New York
City ; son of Joseph Lamb and Eliza (Rol
linson) Lamb. He received his education
in the schools of New York City and the
College of the City of New York. _ He is
a specialist in memorial and historical art
and was architect of the Dewey Arch,
erected in Madison Square, New York City,

in 1889. Mr. Lamb is a member of the
Fine Arts Federation; trustee of the Pub
lic Art League ; a member and ex- vice-
president of the American Arts Society;
the National Sculpture Society, and of the
Architectural League, and a member and
ex-president of the Art Students' League.
He is president of the Municipal Art So
ciety; a member and trustee of the Society
of Mural Painters, the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, the Merchants Associa
tion; trustee of the Hudson-Fulton Cele
bration Committee, of the Robert Fulton
Monument Association, and president of
the Arts Realty Company. Mr. Lamb is
also a member and trustee of the National
Arts, the Reform Club and the Church
Club and a member of the Nineteenth Cen
tury Club. He married in New York City,
Ella Condie. Studio: 360 West Twenty-
second Street. Summer studio: Cresskill,
New Jersey. Office address : 27 Sixth Ave
nue, New York City.
LAMB, Frederick Stymetz:
Artist ; born in New York City, June 24,
1863 ; son of Joseph Lamb and Eliza (Rol
linson) Lamb. He received his preliminary
education at the Art Students' League,
studying under William Sartain, J. Car
roll Beckwith and others; was a pupil of
Lefebvre and Boulanger, Paris, and studied
modeling under M. Millet and took the first
place in competition in composition. He
received honorable mention at the World's
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893;
the gold medal at the Atlanta Exposition,
1895; was one of the four glass workers
invited to represent the United States at
the Paris Exposition in 1900 and received
a medal from the French Government. He
is a lecturer and writer on civic art arid
municipal aesthetics. Mr. Lamb is trustee
of the American Scenic and Historic Pres
ervation Society; ex-secretary of the Mu
nicipal Art Society of New York; ex-vice-
president of the Architectural League of
New York, ex-president of the Architectur
al League of America and secretary of the
National Society of Craftsmen. He is a
member of the Art Students' League, Na
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ciety of Mural Painters, the American
Civic Association and of the National Arts
Club, in which he is a member of the Board
of Governors. Address : 14 and 15 Gram-
ercy Park, New York City.
LAMB, George Alfred:
Lawyer; born in London, in 1872. He
studied law with Davies, Stone and Auer-
bach, and was graduated from the New
York University Law School in 1896 as
LL.B. On being graduated, he was ad
mitted to the New York bar; formed a
partnership with George A. Voss (former
partner of Elihu Root) under title of Lamb
and Voss, until 1900; and since then has
been a partner with ex-judge Daniel W.
Guernsey, in the firm of Lamb and Guern
sey. His specialty is corporation law, and
he .has been particularly concerned in pro
tecting the legal rights of minority stock
holders. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr.
Lamb is a thirty-second degree Mason,
and a member of the National Democratic,
New York Athletic, Calumet, Lotos and
Phi Delta Phi Clubs. Address : 135 Broad
way, New .York City.
LAMB, Horatio A.:
Corporation official ; president and a direc
tor of the Boston Cooperative Building Com
pany; treasurer and one of the corporation
of the Simmons Female College; trustee
of the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen
and Others. He is also the president and a
director of the Boston Children's Aid So
ciety and treasurer of the Massachusetts
Society of the Cincinnati. Address: 27
Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
LAMB, John:
Congressman ; born in Sussex County,
Virginia, June 12, 1840. He was educated
by his father, who taught a private school;
served through the war between the States
in "Company D, Third Virginia Cavalry,
Confederate States Army; commanded his
company three years, and was wounded
several times. After the war he engaged
largely in business ; served as sheriff, treas
urer, and surveyor in his county; was
elected to 'the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-

seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-Ninth Con
gresses, and reelected :to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Third Virginia District. He
is a Democrat in politics. Address : Rich
mond, Virginia,
LAMB, ' Robert B. :
Physician and superintendent; born in
Jamestown, New York, August 4, 1869;
son of Henry L. Lamb, and, Elizabeth
(Brockway) Lamb. He received his edu
cation in the public schools, Lansingburgh
Academy, and the Medical Department of
Union University at Albany, from which
he was graduated as M.D. in 1891; and
he took post-graduate study in New York
City and Edinburgh, Scotland. He entered
the State Hospital Service in 1891, as in
terne; was promoted to junior assistant
physician in 1893; senior assistant in 1896
and medical superintendent in 1900. Dr.
Lamb has visited most of the important
medical centers of Europe and America.
He is also medical superintendent of the
Matteawan State Hospital and consulting
physician to the Highland Hospital at Mat
teawan, New York. He is a member of
the Dutchess County Medical Society, the
Medical Society of the State of New York,
the Newburgh Bay Medical Society; .the
American Medico-Psychological Associa
tion of New York and the New York
Psychiatrical Society. Dr. Lamb has a
summer camp Onawaawek, at Chazy Lake
in the Adirondacks. Address: Fishkill-on-
Hudson, New York.
LAMB, William:
Shipping merchant ; born at Norfolk, Vir
ginia, September 7, 1835 ; , son of William
Wilson Lamb and Margaret Kerr (Wil
son) Lamb. He was graduated from Wil
liam and Mary College in 1855 with the
degrees of Ph.B. and LL.B. (and Phi
Beta Kappa honors) ; and was editor of
the Daily Southern Argus at Norfolk un
til 1861. He was a delegate to the Na
tional Democratic Convention in 1856' and
a presidential elector on the Breckenridge
and Lane ticket in i860. He was. captain,
before the war, of a local military organiza
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Confederate Army, in which he served from
captain to colonel, taking part in many bat
tles. He built Fort Fisher and commanded
it until its capture by the Federal forces in
January, 1865. Since the war he has been
in the shipping business in Norfolk, and a
leader in the promotion of its foreign trade,
and he is also consul for Germany and vice-
consul for Sweden, and was mayor of Nor
folk from 1880 to 1886. Colonel Lamb con
tinued to act with the Democratic Party af
ter the war; was a member of the Demo
cratic National Convention of 1876, be
came affiliated with the Readjuster wing
of the party in 1879 "and was a Hancock
elector in 1880, but since 1882 has been af
filiated with the Republican Party. He was
a Harrison elector in 1888, chairman of
the Republican State Committee for two
years, and was a member of the Republican
National Convention ' in St. Louis in 1896.
Address: Norfolk, Virginia.
LAMBERT, Alexander:
Physician; born in New York City, De
cember 15, 1861; son of Edward Wilber-
force Lambert and Martha (Waldron)
Lambert. He received his education in the
private schools of New York City; was
graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1884 and
Ph.B. in 1885 ; and from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia as
M.D. in 1888. He is professor of clinical
medicine at Cornell University; attending
physician at Bellevue Hospital; consulting
physician to the New .York Infirmary for
Women and Children, the Perth Amboy
(New Jersey) Hospital, and Greenwich
(Connecticut) Hospital. Dr. Lambert is
a member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the Amer
ican Medical Association, the New York
State and County Medical Societies, the
New York Academy of Medicine and the
New York Zoological Society. He is also
a member of the University and Yale Clubs
and the Century Association. He married,
in 1895, Ellen W. Cheney of South Man
chester, Connecticut. Address: 36 East
Thirty-first Street, New York City.

LAMBERT, John:
Manufacturer; born in Hunterdon Coun
ty, New Jersey, January 12, 1847. After
the usual course in the common schools he
entered business life and in 1874 went West,
locating at Joliet, where in 1879 he en
gaged in the manufacture of fencing wire,
until 1892, when he became associated with
Isaac L. Ellwood,. John W. Gates and'
other manufacturers in the organization of
the Consolidated Steel and Wire Com
pany, of which he was vice-president and
general manager, and this in turn, was
merged, in the American Steel and Wire
Company, organized in 1899, of which he
is president. He is a Republican in poli
tics and was a- colonel on the staff of Gov
ernor Tanner of Illinois from 1897 to
1901. Address : The American Steel and
Wire Company, The Rookery, Chicago.
LAMBERT, John S.:
- Justice of the Supreme Court ; born at
Johnsonville, New York, February 4, 1851.
After completing the grammar courses in
the public schools he attended the Academy
of Greenwich, New York, and after that
studied law. He was admitted to practice
in 1877, and the following year settled in
practice in Fredonia, New York. He was
elected county judge of Chautauqua Coun
ty in 1882, and served in that office until
elected, on the Republican ticket, judge of
the Supreme Court of the State of New
York; and in 1.903 he was reelected for a
second term, which will expire December
31, 1917. Judge Lambert married at Cassa-
dega, New York, in .1891, Winnifred Phil
lips. Address: Fredonia, -New York.
LAMBERT, Louis A,:
Catholic priest and editor ; born in Char
leroi, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1835 ; son of
William Lambert and Lydia (Jones) Lam
bert. He received his education at St.
Vincent's College, Pennsylvania, and the
Archdiocesan Seminary, St. Louis, Mis
souri, where he received the degree of
LL.D. He was ordained priest' in the
Diocese, of Alton, Illinois, in 1859 ; served
in the Civil War in 1861 and 1862 as chap
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instructor in moral theology and philoso
phy, at the Paulist Novitiate, New York
City; and filled pastorates at Cairo, Illi
nois; Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New
York. He founded the Catholic Times,
1874, and was its editor until 1880; was
editor of the Philadelphia Catholic Times,
and is now editor-in-chief of the New
York Freeman's Journal. Dr. Lambert is
author of : Thesaurus Biblicus, or Handbook
of Scripture Reference; Notes on Inger-
soll ; Comments on Ingersoll's Christmas
Sermon ; and he has translated The Chris
tian Fathers ; and Instructions on Gospels
of the Sundays of the Year. He also ed
ited Catholic Belief. Father Lambert is a
member of the Victoria Institution of
Great Britain. Address : Scottsville, New
York.
LAMBERT, William H. :
Life insurance manager; born in Read
ing, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1842; son of
James Lambert and Susana (Keen) Lam
bert. His parents removed, during his
early youth, to Philadelphia, where he re
ceived his education, was graduated from
the Central High School in 1859, and be
gan the study of law. He enlisted, August
18, 1862, as a private in the Fifteenth Penn
sylvania Cavalry, from which, he was dis
charged November 24, 1862, to accept a
commission as lieutenant and adjutant ol
the Twenty-seventh New Jersey Volun
teers. Upon the expiration of the term of
that regiment he was appointed first lieu
tenant and adjutant of the Twenty-third
New Jersey Volunteers ; was commissioned
captain, January 13, 1864; brevetted major,
March 13, 1865, and mustered out July 17,
1865. He participated in the battles of
Antietam, Fredericksburg, the battles
around Chattanooga, the campaign for the
relief of the force under General Burnside
at Knoxville, the engagement at Pine
Hill, Sherman's march to the sea, and
through the Carolinas to the surrender of
General Joseph E. Johnston's Army. He
was awarded a medal of honor for distin
guished services during the war. After
the war he became connected with the Phil
adelphia general agency of the Mutual Life

Insurance Company of New York, and was
a partner in the agency from 1872 until
1887 when he was made general agent, and
in 1901 was made manager. Major Lambert
retired from active business in 1906. He is a
member of the Pennsylvania Commandery
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
the Grand Army of the Republic, and he
is distinguished as an orator, especially at
military reunions. He was president of
the Department of Charities and Correc
tion of Philadelphia from 1892 to 1899;
member of the Board of Directors of City
Trusts since June, 1899; director of the
Union League of Philadelphia from 1901
to 1904, and its secretary in 1903 and 1904;
member of the Council of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania; member of the
Board of Trustees of the Free Library of
Philadelphia, and director of the Phila
delphia Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance
Company. His favorite recreation is the
collection of Lincoln and Thackeray litera
ture. Major Lambert married in Phila
delphia, October 15, 1874, Herminia Van
Haagen. Address : Germantown, Phila
delphia.LAMM, Henry:
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mis
souri ; born at Burbank, Ohio, December 3,
1846 ; son of William Lamm and Cath
erine Lamm. He was graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1879, studied law
at Sedalia, Missouri, and after his admis
sion to the bar was engaged in .practice
there. He has been an active Republican,
was a member of the State Committee and
delegate to State and National Conven
tions; served as circuit clerk and after
ward as prosecuting attorney of Pettis
County, and was elected in 1904 as an asso
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of Mis
souri for the term beginning January 1,
1905, being the only Republican on the
Missouri Supreme bench. Address : Se
dalia, Missouri.
LAMONT, Hammond:
Editor; born in Monticello, New York,
January 19, 1864 ; son of Rev. Thomas La
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He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1886, and received from Brown Uni
versity the honorary degree of A.M. in
1900. He was teacher in 1886 and 1887;
in newspaper work in Albany from 1887
to 1890; in Tacoma and Seattle, Wash
ington, from 1890 to 1892; instructor in
English at Harvard from 1892 to 1895; as
sociate professor and professor of rhetoric
at Brown University from 1895 to 1900;
managing editor of the New York Evening
Post from 1900 to 1906, and since then
editor of The Nation. He is also editor
of : Specimens of Exposition (Holt) ;
Burke on Conciliation (Ginn) ; and is
author of English Composition (Scribner).
Mr. Lamont is a member of the Harvard,
Brown, City, and Century Clubs, of New
York City. He married at Nyack, New
York, May 14, 1891, Lillian Mann, and
their children are: Gordon, born in 1894;
and Katherine, born in 1898. Address :
The Nation, Box 794, New York City.
LAMONT, Thomas William:
Banker; born in Claverack, New York,
September 30, 1870; son of Thomas La
mont and Caroline (Jayne) Lamont. He
was graduated from Phillips Exeter Acad
emy in 1888 and from Harvard as A.B. in
1892. He is second vice-president of the
Bankers Trust Company; president of La
mont, Corliss and Company; director of
the Astor Trust Company; J. G. White
and Company, Incorporated; the Crowell
Publishing Company; and of Duffield and
Company.' He is a trustee of the Engle
wood Hospital Association, and a mem
ber of the Metropolitan, Players', City, Har
vard, Lawyers', Englewood Golf and Engle
wood Clubs. Mr. Lamont married in Engle
wood, New Jersey, October 31, 1895, Flor
ence Haskell. Corliss, and they have three
children : Thomas 3d, born in 1899 ; Corliss,
bOrn in 1902; and Austin, 2d, born in 1905.
Residence: Beech Road, Englewood, New
Jersey. Office address : 7 Wall Street, New
York City.
LAMPTON, William James:
Journalist; born in Laurence County,
Ohio ; son of William H. and Ellinor Fair

fax (Milter) Lampton. Fie received his
education, in the academies of Kentucky,
and received from the Marietta College the
honorary degree of A.M. He began news
paper work as editor and proprietor of a
Republican paper at Ashland, Kentucky,
in 1877; then worked on the Cincinnati
fimes, and other papers; was editor of
The Merchant Traveler, Cincinnati ; later
on the staff of the Washington Critic; the
Washington Evening Star; and the De
troit Free Press. He is contributor of cur
rent satirical verse to the New York Sun,'
New York Herald, and New York World,
and is a writer for magazines and in
Freelance newspaper work. In politics he
is Independent. Residence : 109 West
Fifty-fourth Street. Office address : Care
of New York Sun, New York City.
LAND, Alfred Dillingham:
Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisi
ana; born in Holmes County, Mississippi,
January 15, 1842; son of Thomas Thomp
son Land and Mary Eliza (Dillingham)
Land. He was educated in the University
of Virginia and the law department of the
University of Louisiana, and had just been
graduated from that institution in 1861
when the Civil War began, and he en
tered the Confederate Army, serving in
the Seventh Louisiana Infantry, Twenty-
eighth Mississippi Cavalry, and Harvey's
Scouts. After the war he engaged in the
practice of law at Shreveport, Louisiana,
until elected district judge in 1894. He
served in that office until elected in 1903
as associate justice of the Supreme Court
of Louisiana. Address : 2235 Carondelet
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
LANDIS, Charles B. :
Congressman and journalist ; born at Mill-
ville, Butler County, Ohio, July' 9, 1859 ;
son of Abraham H. Landis and Mary Lan-
dis. He was graduated from Wabash Col
lege in 1883, and at once became editor of
the Logansport Journal, remaining there
until 1887, when he became editor of the
Journal at Delphi, Indiana. He also be
came very prominent in Republican poli
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lican Editorial Association in 1894 arid 1895,
and in. 1896 was elected as a Republican td
the Fifty-fifth Congress. He has since been
biennially reelected and is now serving in
the Sixtieth Congress. Mr. Landis is also
well known on the lecture platform, and
is a favorite in many of the best lyceum and
Chautauqua courses of the Middle Western
States. Address : Delphi, Indiana.
LANDIS, Kenesaw Mountain:
United States judge; born at Millville,
Butter County, Ohio, November 20, 1866;
son of Abraham H. Landis and Mary K.
Landis. He removed with his parents to
Logansport, Indiana, in 1876 and attended
the public schools of that city. He was
graduated from the Union College of Law
of Chicago as LL.B. in 1891, and engaged
in the practice of law in Chicago, immedi
ately after graduation. From 1893 until
his death in 1895, Mr. Landis was private
secretary to Judge Walter Q. Gresham,
secretary of State at - Washington, and
after that he resumed the practice of law
in Chicago until appointed by President
Roosevelt, March 28, 1905, to his present
position as judge of the United States'
District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois. Judge Landis presided in the
trial which resulted in „the imposition of a
fine of over twenty-nine million dollars
against the Standard Oil Company for ille
gal rebating in 1907. He is a Republican
in politics, and a member of the Chicago
Club. Residence: 4830 Madison Avenue.
Office address : Federal Building, Chi
cago, Illinois.
LANDON, Francis Griswold:
Ex-assemblyman; born in New York
City, August 20, 1859; son of Chartes
Griswold _Landon and Susan H. Landon ;
descendant of John Leverett, governor of
the Colony of Massachusetts, from 1673
to 1679, and of Captain David Landon.of
the Army of the Revolution. He received
his education at several schools and was
finally graduated from the John C. Green
School of Science, Princeton University,' in
1881. He was a member of the Seventh
Regiment of New York City, and for four

'years was its adjutant; in 1895 he became
captain of Company I, and in 1899, with
associate officer, went to England to rep
resent the Seventh Regiment and the Na
tional Guard of the State; he resigned and
received full and honorable discharge in
1902. He is a Republican in politics, and
an Episcopalian in his religious affiliation.
He was elected to the Assembly of the
State of New York, in 1900, and was re
elected in 1901 and 1902; was a. presi
dential elector for the State of New York
in 1904; appointed by President Roosevelt
third secretary of the American Embassy
at Berlin in January, 1905, and second sec
retary of the American Embassy at
Vienna, May, 1905 ; resigned from the dip
lomatic service, June I, 1907; appointed
by Governor Hughes member of the Com
mission to inquire into the condition of
the National Guard and Naval Militia
State of New York in May, 1907. Septem
ber 12, 1907, elected chairman Republican
County Committee of Dutchess County,
New York". He is a member of the Metro
politan, University, Princeton, . New York
Athletic, New York Yacht, Racquet and
Union Clubs. He married in New York
City, May 20, 1897, Mary Homer Toel, and
they have two children: Adelaide, born
in 1898, and Eleanor, born in 1901. Ad
dress : Mansewood, Staatsburg-on-Hudson,
New York.
LANDON, Melville De Lancey ("Ell Perkins")
Humorist and journalist; born in Eaton,
New York, September 7, 1839 ; son of John
Landon and Nancy (Marsh) Landon. He
received his education in Madison Univer
sity, to the sophomore year, and was grad
uated from Union College as A.B. In 1861.
In the same year he was appointed to of
fice in the United States Treasury; assist
ed in organizing and served in Clay Bat
talion; and served in the Civil War on the
staff of General A. L. Chetlain, at Mem
phis, Tennessee. He resigned from. the
army in 1864 and engaged in cotton plant
ing in the States of Arkansas and Louisi
ana. In 1867 Mr. Landon went abroad,
traveling over Europe and into Russia, and
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Clay, then minister to Russia, as secretary
of legation to St. Petersburg, Mr. Lan
don returned to the United States in
1870 and wrote a history of the Franco-
¦ Prussian War. Since then he has been en
gaged in authorship and newspaper work.
His humorous writings, in the Commercial
Advertiser, the New York Sun and
Graphic in 1872 gained him wide repute,
arid called him into the humorous lecture
field. He is now president of the New York
News Association. Mr. London is author
of: A Biography of Artemus Ward;
Thirty Years of Wit; Kings of Platform
and Pulpit, and other works. He is a
member of the Colonial Club of New York.
He married at New York City, in 1875,
Emily Louise Smith. Address : 8 East
Ninety-second Street, New York City.
LANDRETH, Lucius Scott:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, April 20,
1856; son of Oliver Landreth and Harriet
Rea (Linton) Landreth. He was gradu
ated from the University of Pennsylvania
as A.B. in 1876, A.M. in 1879 and LL.B. in
1880. He is church advocate of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl
vania; formerly vice-president of the Law
Academy of Philadelphia; is a member of
the Board of Trustees of Philadelphia
Divinity School and formerly member of
the Board of Governors of the Trades
League of Philadelphia. Address : 512
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LANDRETH, Olin Henry:
Civil engineer and professor of engineer
ing; born in Addison, Steuben County,
New York, July 21, 1852; son of Rev.
James Landreth and Adelia (Comstock)
Landreth. He was educated at the Union
School, Rushville, New Yqrk, and in acad
emies at Sodus, Penn Yan, Dundee and
Canisteo, New York, then in 1874 entered
Union College where he received the de
gree of CE. in 1876, A.B. in 1877; A.M.
in 1881 and D.Sc. in 1905. Mr. Landreth
held various engagements in railroad engin
eering from 1869 to 1874; assistant astron
omer at the Dudley Observatory, Albany,
New York, from 1877 to 1879, professor of

engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nash
ville, Tennessee, from 1879 to 1894; dean
of the engineering department at the same
university from 1886 to 1894; professor of
engineering at Union College, Schenectady,
New York, from 1894 to date, and consult
ing engineer of the New York State Board
of Health, from 1896 to 1906. He was a
member of the New York State Water
Storage Commission of 1902 and 1903; of
the New York Bay Pollution Commission
of 1903 to 1905 and of the Metropolitan
Sewerage Commission of New York of 1906
to 1909. Mr. Landreth has filled numer
ous engagements as civil engineer and as
consulting engineer to various municipal
ities and corporations, particularly in hy
draulic and sanitary engineering since 1885.
He has contributed articles on professional
engineering subjects and on engineering
education to numerous professional jour
nals and to the transactions of the various
technical societies. In politics he is a Re
publican and he is a member of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. Dr. Landreth is
a member of the Society for the Pro
motion of Engineering Education, past pres
ident of the Society of Engineers of East
ern New York; member of the Delta Up
silon fraternity and the Sigma Xi Society;
also a member and past director of the
American Society of Civil Engineers ; mem
ber and past vice-president of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He married Eliza
Taylor and their children are: William
Comstock, born November 9, 1883 ; Olin
Henry, Jr., born October 19, 1885; died
February 6, 1888; Mary Eliza, born Sep
tember 21, 1889; Helen Adelia, born De
cember 15, 1892; James Taylor, born Octo
ber 28, 1894; and Robert Nelson, born July
2, 1897. Address : Union College, Schenec
tady, New York.
LANDRETH, William Barker:
Civil engineer; born in Rushville, New
York, August 8, 1857; son of James Lan
dreth and Sarah (Barker) Landreth. He
received his education in Sodus and Dun
dee Academies from 1865 to 1870; at Dan-

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ville High School from 1870 to 1873;
Friendship Academy from 1873 to 1876 and
receive'd from Union College in 1876 and
1881 the degrees of A.B. and CE. He
was assistant engineer for the Sinaloa and
Durango Railroad, Mexico, from 1881 to
1884; city engineer of Schenectady, New
York from, 1884 to 1887, engineer of the
Board of Public Works, Amsterdam, New
York, from 1887 to 1889; in charge of
city work from 1889 to 1897 at White
Plains, Port Jervis, Jamestown, Tonawan-
da, Cortland, and Waverly, New York, and
at Athens, Pennsylvania. Mr. Landreth
was assistant engineer of the New York
State Canals from 1897 to 1900; resident
engineer in 1903 and is now special resident
engineer. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the Rensselaer
Society of Engineers, the Massachusetts
Highway Association, and the Engineers'
Society of Eastern New York. He is a
contributor of technical papers to engin
eering journals and transactions. Mr.
Landreth married at Schenectady, New
York, May 7, 1881, Amelia T. Fitzgerald.
Residence : 20 Gillespie Street, Schenectady,
New York. Office address : State Hall,
Albany, New York.
LANE, William Coolidge:
Librarian; born in Newton, Massachu
setts, July 29, 1859; son of William H.
Lane and Caroline M. (Coolidge) Lane. Af
ter being prepared in the public schools
of Newton he entered Harvard University
from which he was graduated as A.B. (Phi
Beta Kappa) in 1881. He began his con
nection with the library of Harvard Col
lege in 1881 as an assistant, was in charge
of the catalogues from 1884 to 1893 and
assistant librarian from 1887 to 1893 when
he became librarian of the Boston Athen
aeum from 1893 to 1898, and in the latter
year was elected librarian of Harvard to
succeed Dr. Justin Winsor. Mr. Lane is
a member of the American Library Asso
ciation, was secretary and later chairman
of its publishing board from its organiza
tion in 1886 until 1907, and president of the
association in 1899- 1900; has been secretary
of Alpha of Massachusetts (Harvard)

Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
since 1889 ; president of the American Biblio
graphical Society since 1904; and librarian
of the Dante Society since 1888; also mem
ber of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and of the Literary and Historical
Society of Quebec. He is author of: The
Dante Collections in the Harvard College
and Boston Public Libraries, 1890; Index
to the Subject Catalogue of Harvard Col
lege Library, 1891 ; and other bibliographic
al publications; also contributions to the
Proceedings of the Colonial Society of Mas
sachusetts. He married at Andover, Massa
chusetts, May 12, 1903, Bertha Palmer. Ad
dress : Harvard College Library, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. LANE, William C:
Capitalist; president and director of the
Standard Safe Deposit Company, the Stan
dard Trust Company; treasurer and di
rector of the Chicago Junction Railway
and Union Stock Yards Company; trus
tee of the Union Dime Savings Institution;
director of the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad Company, the Chicago Junction
Railway Company, the Electrical Security
Corporation, the Erie Railroad, the Hud
son Companies and the Lackawanna and
Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit Company.
Residence : Hotel Royalton, New York
City. Office address : 25 Broad Street, New
York City.
LANGDON, Andrew:
Banker and manufacturer; born in New
Marlboro, Massachusetts; son Of John
LeDroit Langdon and Jerusha (Stillman)
Langdon. He received his education at
Lenox Academy, Massachusetts. Mr. Lang
don has been engaged in the banking
and manufacturing business in Buffalo for
thirty years and is director of the General
Railway Signal Company of Rochester, New
York, the Commonwealth Trust Company,
of Buffalo, and the Buffalo Foundry Com
pany; director and vice-president of the
Buffalo General Electric Company; di
rector of the Frontier Telephone Company,
the Consolidated Telephone Company, all
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Telephone Company of Canada. He has
traveled extensively in all parts of the
United States and adjoining countries, and
in all countries of Europe. He was park
commissioner of the city of Buffalo for sev
eral years, a member of the Grade Cross
ing Commission of Buffalo, he has been
president of the Buffalo Historical Society
for fourteen years. Mr. Langdon erected in
Delaware Park, and gave to the city of
Buffalo, the bronze replica of David,
Michelangelo's masterpiece (the only one in
America) ; this was cast in bronze especial
ly for, and received the gold medal at, the
Paris Exposition of 1900 ; and he presented
the bronze doors for the Buffalo Historical
Society's marble building in Delaware Park.
In politics he is identified with the Repub
lican party. Mr. Langdon is a member of
the Presbyterian Church; also a member of
the Sons of American Revolution, Society
of Colonial Wars, the Allegheny Society,
St. Andrew's Scottish Society ; president
of the Buffalo Historical Society; director
¦of the Buffalo Homoeopathic Hospital ;
vice-president of the Society of Natural
Sciences, and a member of the Buffalo,
Buffalo Yacht, Ellicott, and Buffalo Library
Clubs. Mr. Langdon married, first, at Bel
mont, New York, August 29, 1866, Alice
B. Woodward, and second, at South Bend,
Indiana, November 25, 1903, Harriet C.
Studebaker, and his children are : John Le
Droit, Elleri E., William Chauncey and
Elizabeth. Address : 175 North Street, Buf
falo, New York.
LANGE, J. Chris:
Physician; born in Bremen, Germany,
February 24, 1847; son of J. Chris
Lange. He was graduated from the Belle
vue Hospital Medical College as M.D. in
1876; he was professor of medicine at the
Western University of Pennsylvania;
dean of the Western Pennsylvania Medical
College and is ex-president of the Alle
gheny County Medical Society. He is au
thor of many papers, among them being:
Why Oxygen Absorption is not Increased
by Oxygen Inhalation; Studies of the Ty
phoid State; The Likeriess of the Lesions
and Symptoms in all the Acute Infections.

In politics he is a Republican and in re
ligion a Lutheran. He is a member of the
Allegheny County Medical Society, Medi
cal Society of the State of Pennsylvania
and of the American Medical Association;
trustee of the Western Pennsylvania Medi
cal College and of the Western University
of Pennsylvania; consulting physician to
Mercy, St. John's, South Side, and Reine-
mann Maternity Hospitals. He is a mem
ber of the University and Union Clubs of
Pittsburgh. Dr. Lange married in Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, 1875, Katherine M.
Smith, and they have three children : George
J. C. Lange, William T. Lange and Walter
Lange. Address : Hotel Annex, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
LANGTON, Daniel Webster:
Landscape architect; born in Kemper
County, Mississippi, May 5, 1864. Fie was
graduated from the University of Ala
bama in 1882, and received the Ph.D. de
gree in 1891. From 1883 to 1889 he was
on the Geological Survey of Alabama, then
became consulting geologist for the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railway in 1893. He has
been a fellow of the Geological Society of
America since 1889, and is a member of
the American Society of Landscape Archi
tects, and the Engineers' Club. Mr. Lang-
ton is author of: Report on the Geology
of Southeast Alabama, also geological
papers in Sillimari's Journal and the Bul
letin of the Geological Society of America.
He married at New Haven, Connecticut, in
1896, Berenice Francis.. Residence : Great
Oaks, Morristown, New Jersey. Office ad
dress: 347 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
LAN HAM, Samuel Willis Tucker:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born at Spar
tanburg, South Carolina, July 4, 1846; son
of James Madison Lanham and Louisa
D' Aubrey (Tucker) Lanham. He received
his education in the local schools, and when
a boy of sixteen entered the Third South
Carolina Regiment and served in the Con
federate Army to the end of the war. He
removed to Red River County, Texas, in
1866; studied law and engaged in practice
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politics as a Democrat he was elected dis
trict-attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial
District of Texas in 1870, serving from
1871 to 1876; was a presidential elector on
the Hancock ticket in 1880, was elected from
the Eleventh Congressional District to the
Forty-eighth Congress, and was reelected
biennially, serving from 1883 until the. close
of the Fifty-second Congress in 1893; de
clined a renomination to the Fifty-third
Congress in 1892, but was elected in 1896
from the new Eighth District to the Fifty-
fifth Congress and reelected in 1898 and
1900, serving until 1903, when having been
elected governor of Texas he served until
the end of 1906. Governor Lanham mar
ried, September 4, 1866, Sarah Beona,
daughter of Garland Thompson and Su
sannah (Thomas) Meng, of Union County,
South Carolina. Address : Weatherford,
Texas. LANIER, Charles:
Banker; born in Indiana. He was edu
cated at New Haven, Connecticut. Mr.
Lanier is president of the Massillon and
Cleveland Railroad Company and the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway
Company ; director of the American Cot
ton Oil Company; the Cleveland and Pitts
burgh Railroad Company; the Western
Union Telegraph Company; director and
vice-president of the Central and South
American Telegraph Company; director of
the National Bank of Commerce in New
York, the Central Trust Company, the
Southern Railway Company, and the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company. Mr. Lanier
is also treasurer of the American Museum
of Natural History. He is a member of
the Union League, Jekyl Island, Century,
Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Tuxedo,
Union, Knickerbocker, and Lawyers' Clubs.
Residence: 30 East Thirty-Seventh Street,
New York. Office address : 59 Cedar Street,
New York City.
LANMAN, Charles Rockwell:
Orientalist and professor of Sanskrit;
born at Norwich, Connecticut, July 8, 1850 ;
son of Peter Lanman and Catharine (Cook)
Lanman. After graduation from the Nor
wich Free Academy in 1867- he entered Yale,

from which he was graduated as B.A. in
1871 ; , remained there as a student of San
skrit and linguistic science under Professor
Whitney until 1873, when he received the
degree of Ph.D., after which he pursued
further studies in' the same branches at the
Universities of Berlin, Tubingen and' Leip
zig. He received the LL.D. degree from
Yale in 1902 and from Aberdeen University
in 1906. He was instructor in Sanskrit in
Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to
1880, and since then has been professor of
Sanskrit in Harvard. In 1898 Professor
Lanman gave the lectures of the Percy
Turnbull Memorial Lectureship of Poetry
at Johns Hopkins University, the subject of
his course being The Poetry of India, and
he has also lectured in the Lowell Insti
tute of Boston. He is author of> A San
skrit Reader with Vocabulary and Notes,
and of various contributions to philological
and oriental publications, has been joint
editor of the Journal of the American Ori
ental Society, arid is editor, with the coop
eration of various scholars, of the Harvard
Oriental Series. He is an honorary mem
ber of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the
Royal Asiatic Society of London, and So
ciete Asiatique of Paris; a foreign member
of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences
at Prague, corresponding member of the
Royal Soeiety of Sciences at- Gottingen,
Prussia ; is a member, and was . elected
president in April, 1907, of the American
Oriental Society; member of the American
Philosophical Society, and of the Societe de
Linguistique, Paris, and fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Boston. He has traveled extensively, in
India. Professor Lanman married, at
Beach Bluff, Massachusetts, July 18, 1888,
Mary Billings Hinckley, lineal descendant
of Governor Thomas Hinckley of Ply
mouth Colony, and they have six children:
Faith Trumbull, Thomas Hinckley, Edith
Hamilton, Jonathan Trumbull, Katha
rine Mary, and Esther Cook. Address: 9
Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LANNING, Wlllam Mershon:
Judge of the United States District Court ;
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ary I, 1849. He received his education in
the famous Lawrenceville School, and af
terward taught in district schools and in
the old Trenton Academy until 1878, when
he began the systematic study of law' in an
office at Trenton, New Jersey, He was ad
mitted as an attorney in 1880, and as coun
sellor at law in 1883; was city solicitor of
Trenton from 1883 to 1887, and after that
judge of the City District Court of Tren
ton, until 1891. He was elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902, but resigned
upon his appointment, June 1, 1904, to his
present office as judge of the District
Court of the United States for the Dis
trict of New Jersey. Judge Lanning is a
prominent Presbyterian layman ; member of
the Board of Trustees of the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, a di
rector of the Princeton Theological Semi
nary and. a trustee of the Lawrenceville
School. He married, August 3, 1881, Jen
nie Hemenway of St. Lawrence County,
New York. Address : Trenton, New Jer
sey. LANSING, James:
Jurist; bdrn in Decatur, New York, May
9, 1834. He was graduated from the Al
bany Law School in 1864. Mr. Lansing was
surrogate of Rensselaer County from 1890
to 1895 and is a professor in the Albany
Law School. He married July 4, 1857,
Sarah A. Richardson of Poultney, Ver
mont. Residence : Troy, New York.
LANSING, Robert:
Lawyer; born in Watertown, New York,
October 17, 1864, son of John Lansing and
Maria L. (Dodge) Lansing. He received
his education in the Watertown High
School and at Amherst College. He was
associate counsel for the United States in
the Behring Sea Arbitration in 1892 and
1893; counsel for the United States before
the Behring Sea Claims Commission in
1896 and 1897; solicitor for the United
States before the Alaskan Boundary Tri
bunals in- 1903, and counsel for the Mex
ican and Chinese legations at various, times.
Mr. Lansing is a director of the City
National Bank of Watertown and- the

Eager Electric Company. In politics he is
a Democrat ; and he is an elder in the
Presbyterian Church. He is , a member of
the Executive Committee of the American
Society of International Law; of the New
York State Bar Association, the National
Geographic Society; and editor of the
American Journal of International Law;
and he is corresponding secretary of the
Jefferson County Historical Society; trus
tee of the R. P. Flower Memorial Library
and a member of the Black River Valley
Club of Watertown, New York. Mr. Lan
sing married at Washington, D. C, July
15, 1890, Eleanor, daughter of Hon. John
W. Foster. Address : io>5 Washington
Street, Watertown, New York.
LARREMORE, Wilbur:
Lawyer and editor; born in New York
City, in 1855 ; son of Richard L. Larremore
and Caroline E. (Livermore) Larremore,
He was graduated from the College of the
City of New York as A.B. in 1875 and
from Columbia Law School as LL.B. in
1877. Since then he has been practicing
law, and in later years has • largely . been
engaged in trying cases as referee. Mr.
Larremore has been editor of the New
York Law Journal since 1891. He has
delivered addresses before bar associations
and law schools and has written on leg.al
topics in the Harvard Law Review, the
American Law Review, arid other legal
periodicals, and on legal, political, literary,
and miscellaneous subjects in the North
American Review, The Forum, The At
lantic Monthly, .and other magazines. He
has also contributed verse to many maga
zines. Mr. Larremore is a member of the
New York City and State: Bar Associa
tions and Of the Century Association, the
University Club, and Alpha Delta Phi fra
ternity. .He "married, in 1886, Susan Armit-
age, and they have one son, Thomas A.,
bom in 1889. Address : 32 Nassau Street,
New York City.
LASKER, Emanuel:
Chess champion of the world; born' in
Berlinchen, Germany, December 24, 1868..
He was educated in the Universities of

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Berlin, Gottingen, and' Heidelberg; receiv
ing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He
studied mathematics from March, 1888, to
March, 1891, and from May, 1896, to Oc
tober, 1897. In 1892 he won the chess
championship of England; of America in
1893; and of the world in 1894; return
matches, 1896 and 1907; first prize in the
chess tournaments of London in March and
April, 1892; New York in 1893; St. Peters
burg in 1895 ; Nuremberg, in 1896 ; London
in 1899; and Paris in 1900. Mr. Lasker is
author of: About a Certain Class of
Curved Lines (Nature, October 17, 1895) ;
Metrical Relations (Nature, August 8,
1895); Common Sense in Chess, 1896; An
Essay on the Geometrical Calculus; Uber
Reihen auf der Convergenzgreure, 1901 ;
Zur Theorie der Modeln und Ideale, 1904;
Lasker's Chess Magazine, founded in 1904,
and a philosophic book, Struggle, dealing
with the principles of strategy. Address :
116 Nassau Street, New York City.
LASSITER, Francis Rives:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in Peters
burg, Virginia, February 18, 1866; son of
Daniel William Lassiter, M.D., and Anna
Rives (Heath) Lassiter. He was gradu
ated from the University of Virginia as
LL.B., and has since been engaged in the
practice of law. He was attorney for the
City of Petersburg three terms, and was
United States attorney for the Eastern
District of Virginia, appointed in 1893.
Mr. Lassiter has traveled in the principal
countries of Europe. He was major of
the Fourth Regiment of Virginia Volun
teers in 1891 ; presidential elector in 1892 ;
supervisor of the Twelfth Census, and was
elected representative from the Fourth Vir
ginia District to the Fifty-sixth Congress
in 1898, and the Fifty-seventh Congress
in 1900, and in 1906 was elected to the
Sixtieth Congress, in which he is now
serving. In politics he is a Democrat and
in religion an Episcopalian. He is a mem
ber of the Bar Association of Virginia;
the Historical Society of Virginia ; Sigma
Chi fraternity, and the Masonic order, and
of the Westmoreland Club of Richmond,

Virginia. Mr. Lassiter is a widower. Ad
dress : Petersburg, Virginia.
LATCH, Edward Biddle:
Chief engineer, United States Navy; born
in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1833;
son of Gardener and Henrietta Latch (old
German name Lutz) ; educated at public
schools; was at Norris Locomotive works
1851-1857. Entered the navy as third
assistant engineer, September 20, 1858;
Paraguay Expedition, 1858- 1859; west coast
of Africa in suppression of the slave trade,
1859-1861 ; second assistant engineer, Oc
tober 8, 1861 ; first assistant engineer,
March 17, 1863. During the Civil War,
from 1862 to 1864, was attached to the
flagship Hartford (Admiral Farragut).
Participated in engagements at Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, and the Confed
erate fleet on the Mississippi River,
Chalmette, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Port
Hudson, Grand Gulf, Warrenton, Forts
Morgan, Gaines and Powell, gunboats and
ram Tennessee at Mobile Bay; East In
dian Station, 1865-1868; Naval Academy,
1869-1870; West Indies, Greenland and
European Station, 1870-1872; member of
Board of Inspection, 1873-1875; sick leave,
1876-1877; retired 1878. Originator and
developer of the Mosaic System Of Chro
nology, also methods for the recovery
and elucidation of the history of the
world by the Mosaic System. Editor of:
The Greater Light, a Philadelphia month
ly. Author of: A Review of the Holy
Bible, 1884; Indications of the Book of
Job, 1889; Indications of Genesis, 1890;
Indications of Exodus, 1892 ; Indications of
Romans (serial in Greater Light, 1900-
1901, J. France) ; Indications of the Revela
tion of St. John the Divine (serial in
Greater Light, 1901-1903, J. France) ; In
dications of Leviticus (serial in Greater
Light, 1903-1905, J. France) ; Indications
of Numbers, now running in Greater
Light; also numerous papers otherwise in
relation to universal history. Address :
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LATHROP, Francis:
Artist; born at sea, near the Hawaiian
Islands, June 22, 1849; son of Dr. George
Alfred Lathrop and Frances M. Lathrop.
He was educated in Dresden, Germany,
from 1867 to 1870; afterward in London,
under Burne-Jones and Madox Brown.
Since 1873 he has given his attention to
portrait painting, mural painting and
stained glass windows. Mr. Lathrop is a
member of the Municipal Art Society, the
New York Zoological Society; fellow and
associate of the National Academy of De
sign, the Architectural League, Society of
American Artists, the American Fine Arts
Society, Sons of Revolution and a mem
ber of the Century Club. Address : 29
Washington Square, New York City.
LATHROP, John:
Jurist; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
February 8, 1835 ; son of Rev. John P.
Lathrop, a Protestant Episcopal clergy
man, and Maria Margaretta (Long) La
throp; and a lineal descendant of Rev.
John Lathrop who emigrated from Eng
land in 1634 and was the first minister of
Scituate and Barnstable, Massachusetts.
After attending the Boston public schools
he entered Burlington College, New Jersey,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1853 and A.M. in 1856, and from Harvard
Law School as LL.B. in 1855; and in 1896
he received the degree of LL.D. from Wil
liams College. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1856 and to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
1872;- served as reporter of the decisions of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts from
1874 to 1888, justice of the Superior Court
of Massachusetts from 1888 to 1891, and
justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts from 1891 to 1906. He was
lecturer. on law in Harvard University in
1871 and 1872, and in Boston University in
1873 and again from 1880 to 1883. He mar
ried, June 24, 187S, Eliza Davis, daughter
of Richard G. and Mary Ann (Davis)
Parker. Address: 10 Gloucester Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.

LATHROP, Levi Chapman:
Banker; born in Syracuse, New York,
November 22, 1844; son of Benjamin Col
vin Lathrop and Permela Colburn (Chap
man) Lathrop. He was graduated from
the Syracuse High School in May, 1863.
He is senior member of the banking firm
of Lathrop and Smith, which has been
twenty-eight years in its present office; is
vice-president and director of the Colum
bus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company;
president of the Bessie Ferro Silicon Com
pany, the Rhode and Hackens Company,
and the Ohio Trading Company; and di
rector of the Saratoga Vichy Springs
Company. He is a member of the New
York Stock Exchange and charter member
of the New York Cotton Exchange. Mr.
Lathrop has traveled all over the United
States and made one trip of three years'
duration in Europe, visiting every coun
try. In politics he has been identified with
the Republican party since 1866; and he is
a member of the Presbyterian Church. His
favorite recreation is reading. Mr. La
throp is a member of the Morristown,
Morristown Field, and New York Yacht
Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, November 5, 1867, Fannie R. Graves,
and they had five children, two of whom
are living, Fannie R. Graves and Mrs.
Marian Lathrop Haskins. Residence: The
Dakota, Seventy-second Street, New York
City. Office address : 37 Broad Street,
New York City.
LATHROP, Lorin Andrews :
Consular officer; born in Ohio; ap
pointed consul at Bristol July 18, 1882; re
tired October 31, 1889; reappointed Febru
ary 28, 1891 ; appointed consul at Cardiff,
August, 1907. Address : Cardiff, Wales.
LATIMER, Asbury Churchwell:
United States senator; born July 31,
1851, near Lowndesville, Abbeville County,
South Carolina, and brought up on his
father's farm. He has spent much of his
life in active participation in agricultural
pursuits; was educated in the common
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in the memorable campaign of 1876; re
moved to Belton, Anderson County, his
present home, in 1880; devoted his energies
to his farm; was elected county chairman
of the Democratic party of his county in
1890 and reelected in 1892. He was urged
to make the race for lieutenant-governor
of his State in 1890, but' declined; was
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh
Congresses; and was elected to the United
States Senate to succeed John L. McLau-
rin, and took his seat March 5, 1903. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1909.
Address : Belton, South Carolina.
LATROBE, Ferdinand Claiborne :
Lawyer ; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
October 14, 1833; son of John Hazlehurst
Boneval Latrobe and . Charlotte Virginia
Latrobe. After completing his education in
the College of St. James in Maryland he
engaged for a time in a commercial house,
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in i860. He practiced at first with his
father in Baltimore and later alone. He
was judge-advocate-general on the staffs of
Governors Swann, Bowie, Groome, White
and Carroll of Maryland; member of the
Maryland House of Delegates for three
terms and its speaker in 1870; and at the
extra session of the Legislature in 1900;
and mayor of Baltimore for seven terms
from 1875. He is president of the Con
solidated Gas Company of Baltimore. Mr.
Latrobe is a Democrat in politics. Resi
dence : 906 North Charles Street, Balti
more. Office address : 205 St. Paul Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.
LATTA, John:
Lawyer and ex-lieutenant governor; born
in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
March 2, 1836; educated in neighboring
academies and read law under D. H. Hazen
of Pittsburgh, continuing his studies at
Yale University; was adrhitted to the bar
of Westmoreland County in 1859. He en
gaged in the practice of law at Greensburg,
where for many years he has served as., a
school director, giving close attention to
its duties. An earnest Democrat, he early

became active in party affairs, having been
a prominent worker in his party since i860,
and serving as a delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions of 1864 and 1872; in
the latter he voted against the nomination
of Horace Greeley but supported- him at
the general election. He was nominated
for the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1863,
and was elected to represent the counties of
Westmoreland and Fayette. He was a
member of the House of Representatives
during the session of 1872 and 1873, and in
1874 was nominated by the Democratic
State Convention for lieutenant-governor of
Pennsylvania; he was elected to this office
and filled it in a highly creditable manner.
Since the end of his term he has devoted
himself to his legal practice. Address:
Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
LATTIMORE, Samuel Allan:
Professor of chemistry; bprn in Union
County, Indiana, May 31, 1828; son of
Samuel Lattimore and Mary (Poague) Lat-
timore. He was graduated from the De
Pauw University as A.B. in 1850 and A.M.
in 1853, and the degree of Ph.D. was con
ferred upon him by the same university, and
the degree of LL.D. by Hamilton College,
New York. He has been professor of
chemistry at the University of Rochester
since 1867. Professor Lattimore is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and a member
of the American Chemical Society. He
was chemist to the State Board of Health
from 1881 to 1883; chemist to the State '
Department of Agriculture since 1886 and
was acting president of the University of
Rochester from 1896 to 1898. Address :
595 University Avenue, Rochester, New
xork.
LAUBER, Joseph:
Artist (mural painter) ; born in West
phalia, Germany; son of Conrad L. Lauber
and Therese (Wigge) Lauber. He re
ceived his education in public and private
schools in the Cooper Institute and the Art
Students' League of New York. He also
studied sculpture under Karl Muller, later
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John La Farge for a while and then trav
eled abroad for study. He executed a se
ries of mural paintings, in the Appellate
Court of New York; and windows and
paintings in Ascension Church, St. An
drew's, Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
(Brooklyn), Trinity Church at Lancaster
and many others, and a painting of Christ
in competitive exhibition. Mr. Lauber is
author of some etchings and exhibitor in
current exhibitions. He has served on
various committees tending towards, the
beautification of the city; and on the Ad
visory Committee of color scheme at the
Pan American Exposition, Buffalo. He
has been vice-president of the Architectural
League, 1905-1907, a delegate to the Fine
Arts Federation; member of the National
Society of Mural Painters; trustee of the
Artists' Aid Society, and a member of the
Salmagundi Club. He married, in 1892, Ida
M. Crow, and they have one son, Hubert C,
born in 1893. Residence : Montclair, New
Jersey. Studio : 123 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
LAUER, Edgar J.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 10, 1871 ; son of William E. Lauer
and Cecilia (Hornthal) Lauer. He re
ceived his education in the Columbia Gram
mar School, New York City, the School of
Political Science, Columbia, and was grad
uated from the School of Law at Columbia
University as LL.B. in 1891. In 1892 he
was admitted to the bar of New York State.
He was secretary to James A. Blanchard as
justice of the ' Supreme Court from 1900
to 1903; and was elected November, 1905,
justice of the Municipal Court of the City
of New York for the Fourteenth District,
Borough of Manhattan, which office he now
holds. Judge Lauer is a member of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, and of the Republican and Har-
monie Clubs. Address: 22 East Eightieth
Street, New York City.
LAUGHLIN, Frank C. :
Jurist; born in Newstead, New York,
July 20, 1859. He was educated at the
Lockport (New York) Union School and

then studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1882; was assistant city attorney and
city attorney of Buffalo from 1886 to 1891;
corporation counsel of Buffalo in 1893;
justice of the Supreme Court of New York,
sitting in the Eighth District 1885, and the
Appellate Division, Rochester and New
York City and his present term will expire
in 1909. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Laughlin is a member of the Manhat
tan, Catholic and Republican Clubs. He
married, in 1896, Mrs. Martha Taylor Bart
lett of Buffalo. Address : Buffalo, New
York. LAUTERBACH, Edward I
Lawyer; born in New York City,
August 12, 1844; son of Solon Lauterbach
and Mina (Rosenbaum) Lauterbach. He
was educated in the common schools and
the College of the City of New York,
where he received the degree of -A.B. in
1864, taking first prize in declamation, and
later A.M. and LL.B. and LL.D. He en
gaged in the practice of law and has been
leading counsel in many noted legal contests,
and also connected with the organization of
many large financial undertakings. He is
now a member of the firm of Hoadly,
Lauterbach and Johnson. Mr. Lauterbach
is one of the State Board of Regents; has
been chairman of the Republican County
Committee, and was formerly president of
the Board of Trustees of the College of
the City of New York ; and has been a dele
gate to all the National and State Repub
lican conventions for years, past. He mar
ried Amanda Freedman, and thei, children
are : Alfred, born in 1871 ; Florence Hirsch^
field, born in 1881 ; Edith McDavitt, born in
1879 ; and Alice, born in 1886. Address : 22
William Street, New York City.
LAW, Charles Blakeslee:
Lawyer, and member of Congress; bom
in Hannibal, New York, February 5, 1872;
son Of Eli B. Law and Mary Louise
(Payne) Law. He was graduated from
Colgate Academy in 1891 ; studied at Col
gate University and Amherst College, and
was graduated iri r895 as B.S. He was
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and is now a member of the law firm of
Law and Mackay. Mr. Law was a mem
ber of Gorigress from the Fourth New
York District, elected in 1904, and served
in the Fifty-ninth Congress and was re
elected in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress
for the term expiring in 1909. He is a
member of the Kings County Republican
County Committee and of the Union
League Club arid Brooklyn Club of Brook
lyn. He married at Gloucester, Massachu
setts, November 20, 1901, lima Best. Ad
dress : 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, New
York. LAWLER, Thomas Bona venture:
Publisher; born in Worcester, Massa
chusetts, July 14, 1864; son of Thomas
Lawler and Eliza (Maher) Lawler. He
was graduated from Holy Cross College
as A.B. in 1885, and A.M. in 1893; and is
at present a member of the firm of Ginn
and Company, educational publishers. Mr.
Lawler has traveled three times around
the globe. He is author of: Essentials of
American History; Primary History of the
United States ; The Story of Columbus and
Magellan. He is a member of the Ameri
can Oriental Society, and of the Univers
ity Club and Papyrus Club of Boston. Mr.
Lawler married in New York City, in 1899,
Margaret A. Brennan. Residence : 102
West Eighty-fourth Street, New York.
Office address : 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
LAWRENCE, Abram B.:
Lieutenant-colonel, United States Volun
teers ; born at Warsaw, New York ; he is of
New England parentage; and a lineal de
scendant from Sir Robert Lawrence, cru
sader, of Lancashire, England, who was
knighted by Richard Coeur de Lion. After
receiving an education in public schools, he
engaged in mercantile pursuits ; erected and
operated the Warsaw Gas Light Works,
also Foundry and Machinery Building.
When the Civil War broke out, he en
tered the Union Army, as quartermaster
of what was later designated as the One
Hundred and Thirtieth New York Volun
teer Infantry, known as First New York

Dragoons, which became famous under
Gen. Sheridan; in 1862, he was placed on
detached service in the commissary and
quartermaster's department, Peck's Di
vision, »of the Seventh Army Corps ; sub
sequently assigned to duty in Sheridan's
Cavalry Corps as quartermaster of regular
cavalry brigade; promoted to captain, and
assistant quartermaster, United States Vol
unteers and assigned to the headquarters
of the Eighteenth Army Corps; later be
came chief quartermaster, and with rank
i)f major in the quartermaster's de
partment, serving in the Tenth, Eighteenth,
and Twenty-fifth Corps; upon reorganiza
tion and consolidation of troops of the
Ninth, Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, con
stituting Twenty-fourth Army Corps, be
came its chief quartermaster and promoted
to lieutenant-colonel; during campaign
which ended with surrender of General Lee,
he was appointed by General Grant chief
quartermaster of the Army of the James ;
assigned by order of General Grant to re
ceive surrender and make disposition of
property of Army of Northern Virginia,
and to act as chief quartermaster of the
United States forces at Appomattox Court
House, Virginia. In the fall of 1865 he
was assigned to duty in vicinity of Rocky
Mountains, and in 1866, upon application
for muster-out, returned to Warsaw, where
he received an honorable discharge with
brevet commissions for faithful and meri
torious services during the war. He was
one of the organizers of the National Guard
Association of the State of New York;
member of its Executive Committee, and
its recording secretary for ten successive
years; member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and was for several years com
mander of Gibbs Post of Warsaw, New
York, which he organized. He is a mem
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion ; honorary member of the Military
Service Institution of the United States;
member of Masonic fraternity; an Odd
Fellow, and of higher grades of Masonry;
five years president of the Wyoming Coun
ty Agricultural' Society; assisted jn or
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Agricultural Societies, and for four years
was its president. Address : Warsaw, New
York. LAWRENCE, Abraham Ricker:
Jurist; born in New York City, Septem
ber 19, 1832; son of Hon. John L. Law
rence and Sarah Augusta Lawrence. He
received his education in private schools,
at Ballston Spa Law School and in the
offices of his father and Judge W. Gilbert.
He was admitted to the bar in 1853; and
was assistant corporation counsel from
1853 to 1856 and from 1857 to 1858. He
served as a member of the Constitutional
Convention of the State of New York in
1867, Democratic candidate for mayor, in
1872; elected justice of the Supreme Court
in 1873; reelected in 1887 and served until
December 31, 1901, having occupied the
bench for twenty-eight years. He is author
of: A Compilation of the Tax Laws of
the State of New York with notes of cases.
Judge Lawrence was president of the St.
Nicholas Society for two terms in 1882
and 1883, and is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
the New York State Bar Association, the
Society of Colonial Wars and the St.
Nicholas Society and of the Union, Man
hattan and Century Clubs. He married
Eliza, daughter of Dr. William Miner of
New York City. Residence : 69 Washing
ton Place, New York City. Office address :
135 Broadway, New York City.
LAWRENCE, Amory Appleton:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
Boston, April 22, 1848; son of Amos
Adams Lawrence and Sarah E. (Appleton)
Lawrence and a descendant from John
Lawrence, the immigrant, 1635, and of
Samuel Appleton, 1635. He was graduated
from Harvard as A.B. in 1870; was clerk
and partner in the commission house of
Lawrence and Company; director of the
Massachusetts National Bank from 1873,
the National Union Bank from 1887; Sal
mon Falls Manufacturing Company, and
president of the corporation; president of
the Ipswich, Gilmanton and Pacific Cotton
Mills ; director of the Dwight and the Cho-

ceco Manufacturing Companies; treasurer
of the Groton Water Works Company;
and president of Boston Merchants' As
sociation from 1901. He was also treasur
er of the Episcopal Charitable Society;
chairman of the committee of Harvard
Class of 1870; one of the committee of
three appointed in 1903 to arbitrate the dif
ficulties between the teamsters and merch
ants, which was settled after one confer
ence with the leaders of the strike. He
married, first June 1, 1871, Emily Fairfax
Sillsbee, a descendant of Henry Sillsbey, the
immigrant, Salem, 1639; and their children
are: Amos Amory, born in 1874, John
Sillsbee, born in 1878, Edith, born in 1879
(married Harold Jefferson Coolidge),
Emily F. (Sillsbee) Lawrence, died April
4, 1895. Mr. Lawrence again married June
12, 1900, Gertrude Major Rice, who died
in 1907. Office address : Lawrence & Co.,
Franklin Street, Boston.
LAWRENCE, Cyrus J.:
- Banker; born in South Salem, West
chester County, New York, February 28,
1832; son of Cyrus Lawrence and Louisa
Maria (Weed) Lawrence. He was educated
in the district schools of South Salem, New
York. From 1854 to 1864, he was engaged
as a merchant and since then as a banker.
He is senior member of Cyrus J. Lawrence
and Sons, and vice-president and director
of the Bush Terminal Company. Mr. Law
rence has traveled in the United States,
France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and
England. He is a member of the Metro
politan Museum of Art, the American Mu
seum of Natural Flistory, the Numismatic
Society, the American Archeological So
ciety, Bibliological Society of Boston, Mu
nicipal Art Society of New York, the Mu
nicipal Art Society of Baltimore and of the
Union League, and Grolier Clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, October 15, 1856,
Emily A. Hoe, and their children are :
Richard Hoe, Henry Corbin, Theodora,
Emily Hoe, and Mary Say. Address : 81
Park Avenue, New York City.
LAWRENCE, Egbert Charles:
Clergyman and writer ; born in Borodino,
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Rensselaer Lawrence and Lucinda (Hull)
Lawrence. He was graduated from Union
College as A.B. in 1869 and A.M. in 1872
(with the salutatory and the Warner cup
prize for scholarship) ; from Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1875 to post
graduate work at Auburn Theological Sem
inary in 1878; took a post-graduate course
in physical science at the Syracuse Uni
versity and received his Ph.D. from the
National University of Chicago in 1889.
He was tutor in mathematics at Union
College from 1870 to 1873; teacher at the
Blair Presbyterian Academy, Blairstown,
New Jersey, in 1874; instructor in Latin
and mathematics and adjunct professor of
history at Union College from 1878 to 1882.
He was ordained in the Presbyterian min
istry in 1875, and was pastor in Brooklyn,
Auburn, Schenectady, Alexandria Bay,
Vernon and Westhampton, New York. He
assisted Dr. James B. Thompson in the prep
aration of his series of text-books on
mathematics. The summer of 1882 he
spent in traveling in Europe. He is author
of: Historical Recreations, and is a con
tributor to church papers and other current
publications. Dr. Lawrence was corres
ponding secretary of the Long Island Bible
Society from 1897 to 1902; commissioner to
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church at Saratoga in 1896. He is a mem
ber of the Albany Presbytery; chairman of
the Standing Committee on Ministerial Re
lief; life director of the American Bible
Society; and vice-president of the Schenec
tady County Bible Society. He engaged
President Roosevelt to deliver an address
on the Bible which was published by the
American Bible Society and has had wide
circulation. He has supplied, for one or
more Sabbaths, the pulpits of over sixty
churches during the last four years.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the Congo Reform Association,
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, honorary
member of the Clio Society of Princeton,
-New Jersey; a member of the National
Geographic Society, Central New York
Ministers' Club, Delta Upsilon fraternity,
Schenectady Ministerial Association; the

Suffolk County Historical Society; director
of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane
Society, and treasurer of its Schenectady
Department. Dr. Lawrence married, first,
at Buffalo, New York, in 1877, Sarah Jean
Burtis, and second, at Setauket, New York,
in 1896, Mary Sylvester Dering, and his
children are : Arthur Burtis, born in 1879,
Grace Phillips, born in 1881 (wife of Wil
liam C. Yates), and John Joel, born in
1883. Address : 36 University Place, Sche
nectady, New York.
LAWRENCE, George Pelton:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Adams,
Massachusetts, May 19, 1859; graduated at
Drury Academy, 1876, and at Amherst Col
lege, 1880; studied law at Columbia Law
School. He was admitted to the bar in 1883,
has since practiced law at North Adams;
was appointed judge of the district court
of Northern Berkshire in 1885 ; resigned in
1894 upon being elected to the Massachu
setts senate; was a member of the Massa
chusetts senate in 1895, 1896, and 1897 ; was
president of that body in 1896 and 1897,
being elected each year by unanimous vote ;
was elected from the First Massachusetts
District to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Corir
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress in which he is now serving. Ad
dress: North Adams, Massachusetts.
LAWRENCE, Isaac:
Lawyer; born in London, England, July
6, 1828; son of William Beach Lawrence,
governor of Rhode Island, and Esther
(Gracie) Lawrence; descendant of Major
Thomas Lawrence, who was an extensive
land owner on Long Island from 1655. He
was graduated from Columbia College as
A.B. and afterward A.M., and from Har
vard Law School, engaging in practice. He
was editor of the Democratic Review; can
didate for governor of Rhode Island, and
United States consular agent at Port Hope
and Cobourg, Canada, under General
Grant's administration, for six years. He
is a Democrat in politics, was a member
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cratic Convention at Chicago in 1884, and
was at one time chairman of the Demo
cratic Committee of Hancock County,
Maine. He was president of the Liberty
League of the United States; and was ap
pointed on the committee to secure a re
count of the Mayoralty , Election in New
York City. Mr. Lawrence has traveled
through Europe, Canada and the United
States ; was presented to Queen Victoria
in 1852 by United States Minister Abbott
Lawrence, and to Napoleon III by United
States Minister Rives. While Mr. Law
rence was consular agent at Cobourg, Can
ada, General Ryan, head of the Cuban
Revolution, met him at Niagara, and urged
him to accompany him in the Virginus.
Fortunately Mr. Lawrence declined, and
thus escaped the fate of Ryan and his as
sociates, who were captured by a Spanish
cruiser, taken to Havana and shot in front
of Moro Castle. Mr. Lawrence is an
Episcopalian in his church relations. He is
a thirty-second degree Mason and Knight
Templar, and was formerly master of St.
John's Lodge, Newport, Rhode Island. He
is a life member of the New York Histor
ical Society, and a member of the New
York Biographical Society and the St.
Nicholas Society. He married in New
York City, November 1, 1883, Lee Gwynne,
daughter of Nicholas Gwynne, president of
the Bank of America at Louisville, Ken
tucky, and they have one son, William
Beach Lawrence, born in 1886. Address:
15 East Ninetieth Street, New York City.
LAWRENCE, William:
Bishop of Massachusetts ; born at Boston,
Massachusetts, May 30, 1850; son of Amos
Adams and Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton)
Lawrence. He was graduated at Har
vard University with the degree of
A.B. in 1871, going thence to An
dover Seminary and the Philadelphia
Divinity School. He studied there for
a time, later entering the Episcopal
Theological School at Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, when he was graduated with the
degree of B.D. in 1875. The degree of
S.TJX was conferred upon him by Hobart
College in 1896 and by Harvard University

in 1893, as well as an honorary LL.D. by
Princeton University in 1904. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1875, and the following year was ordain
ed priest by Bishop Paddock. After his
ordination to the priesthood in 1876, he
became assistant of Grace Church, Law
rence, Massachusetts, being made rector
the following year and officiating in this
church for eight years. He was professor
of homiletics in the Episcopal Theological
School, Cambridge, from 1884 to 1893, and
dean of same from 1886 until 1893. He
became bishop of Massachusetts in 1893
and was consecrated by Bishops Williams,
Clark, Whipple, Potter and Doane. Bishop
Lawrence is author of: Life of Amos A.
Lawrence, 1888; Visions and Service, 1896;
Address on Phillips Brooks; Life of Roger
Wolcott, (all published by Houghton, Mif
flin & Company) . Address : 122 Common
wealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
LAWRENCE, William Van Duzer:
Manufacturer; born near Elmira, New
York, February 12, 1842; son of Robert D.
Lawrence and Catherine (Van Duzer)
Lawrence. He was educated in Michigan.
He removed to New York City when nine
teen years old and was employed for five
years by S. R. Van Duzer and Company,
wholesale druggists. In 1866 he went to
Canada to establish a branch house, repre
senting a number of American manufac
turers of proprietary medicines, including
Perry, Davis and Company of Providence,
Rhode Island, and conducting it for twenty-
one years, and in 1887 the business merged
into the Davis and Lawrence Company of
Montreal, which had been established there
in 1884. That company, in 1895, bought out
the business of Perry, Davis and Sons, of
Providence, Rhode Island, and all its pro
prietary interests, and later a branch cor
poration, the Davis and Lawrence Com
pany of New York, was organized in. New
York City and since 1900 the head office
of the business has been located there, Mr.
Lawrence being president of both compan
ies; also of the Fellows Manufacturing
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New York City. He is owner of Law
rence Park, Bronxville, New York, and is
a member of the Union League Club of
New York City and the St. James' Club of
Montreal, Canada. He married in 1867,
Sarah Bates of Monroe, Michigan, and
they have two sons : Arthur W., and Dud
ley B., and two daughters : Louise L. Meigs
and Anna L. Bisland. Address : 969 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
LAWRENCE, William Watson:
Manufacturer; born at Huntington,
Pennsylvania, April 22, 1859; son of John
Jacob Lawrence and Anna Elizabeth (Wat
son) Lawrence. He was graduated from
Princeton as A.B. in 1878. He became
connected with the firm of Suydam, Law
rence and Company and M. B. Suydam and
Company, from 1878 to 1884; established
the firm of W. W. Lawrence and Company,
in 1884, and Sterling White Lead Company
-in 1893. He is vice-president of the Na
tional Lead Company of New York; direct
or of the National Lead Company, United
Lead Company, National Bank of Western
Pennsylvania, W. W. Lawrence and Com
pany. Mr. Lawrence is a Republican in
politics, and a member of the American
Whig Society of Princeton, Pennsylvania
Society of New York, Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, and the Society of Colon
ial Wars. He is a member of the Uni
versity Club of New York, Metropolitan
Club of New York, Riding, Westchester
Country, Princeton, Lawyers' Clubs of New
York, Maryland Club of Baltimore, Du
quesne Club of Pittsburgh, and the Pitts
burgh Club of Pittsburgh, and the Auto
mobile Club of New York. Residence :
749 Fifth Avenue. Office address : 100
William Street, New York City.
LAWSON, Publius Virglrlus:
Manufacturer; born in Corning, New
York, November 1, 1853; son of Publius
V. Lawson and Elizabeth (Fleming) Law-
son. After graduation from the High
School at Menasha, Wisconsin, he entered
the University of Wisconsin, where he took
three years in the English course and the
complete law course, being graduated in

1878 with the degree of LL.B. He has
been a resident of Menasha, Wisconsin,
from his infancy. Mr. Lawson designed an
improved pulley, known as the Lawson
Wood Split Pulley, and established for
its manufacture the Menasha Wood Split
Pulley Company, of which he is presi
dent, the company having a trade
which extends all over the world. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and he has served
as county supervisor, 1878, city, alderman,
1882 and 1883, six terms as mayor of Men
asha, 1886 to 1889, 1893 to 1896, school
commissioner 1895, circuit commissioner of
the Sixth Judicial Circuit from 1888, and
was Republican nominee for the State Sen
ate in 1890. Mr. Lawson was director from
1895 to 1903 and vice-president and member
of the Book Committee from 1899 to 1903,
of the Public Library Board of Menasha,
Public Park Commissioner from 1895 to
1903, and president of the Board from 1900
to 1903 ; president of the Menasha Museum
of History and Art Association; Citizens'
member of the Board of Equalization and
Assessments, 1895; president of the Fox
River Valley Library Association from 1898
to 1903 ; president of the Winnebago Coun
ty Traveling Library Board, from 1901 to
1903, and president of the Wisconsin State
Library Association from 1901 to 1903. He
originated the county system of traveling
libraries, incorporated into the laws of
Wisconsin in 1901, and since adopted by
twelve counties in Wisconsin. He is vice-
president of the Wisconsin Archeological
Society; a member of the National Geo
graphic Society; the Wisconsin Historical
Society, Wisconsin Natural History Society,
the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and the Sons
of the Revolution. The favorite recreations
of Mr. Lawson are in the line of research
in the field of archeological, historical,
geological and natural history study and
he is author of: Bravest of the Brave;
Charles de Langlade, 1904; Prince or
Creole; the Mystery of Louis XVII, 190S;
Rocks and Minerals of Wisconsin, 1906;
and other historical and scientific works
and papers. He is a member of the Nee-r
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Neenah, Wisconsin, August 5, 1884, Flor
ence Josephine Wright, and they have
seven children. Harold K, born August
9, 1885, Percy V., born April 20, 1887, Lil
lian Edith, born March 24, 1889, Marion
Florence, born February 23, 1891, Donald
Washburn, born November 23, 1892, Ken
neth Finney, born July 19, 1894, and Helen
Elizabeth, born August 31, 1896. Address :
Menasha, Wisconsin.
LAWSON, Thomas William:
Banker and author; born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, February 26, 1857; son of
Thomas Lawson and Anna Maria (Loring)
Lawson. He received his education in the
public schools of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and since April, 1870, has been in business
as a banker and broker. He is an inde
pendent Republican iri politics, and an ex
tensive contributor to magazines, formerly
of poems and short stories, but in the past
few years chiefly of caustic criticisms of
modern financial methods, overcapitaliza
tion, and the like. Mr. Lawson is an en
thusiastic yachtsman and author of a hand
some quarto volume on the History of the
America's Cup, which he had printed for
private distribution in 1902. His most
notable recent publications are: Frenzied
Finance, 1905 ; and Friday the Thirteenth
(novel), 1906. Mr. Lawson is a member
of the Boston Stock Exchange and the
New York Stock Exchange. He married
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1878, Jeannie
Augusta Goodwillie (now deceased). Ad
dress: 33 State Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts. LAWSON, Victor Fremont:
Newspaper publisher; born in Chicago,
Illinois, September 9, 1850; son of Iver
Lawson and Malinda (Henderson) Lawson.
He was educated at Phillips Academy at
Andover, Massachusetts, and after leaving
school took charge of an interest of his
father's estate in a printing establishment.
He bought the Chicago Daily News in 1876
and with Melville E. Stone as partner
made it the leading evening paper of Chi
cago. In 1881 they started a morning edi
tion and in 1888 Mr, Lawson bought out

the interest of Mr. Stone, becoming sole
proprietor of both papers. He changed
the name of the morning paper to the Chi
cago Record, and in 1901 it was merged
with the Chicago Times-Herald into its
present style of the Record-Herald. The
Chicago Daily News was the pioneer of
one-cent journalism in Chicago, and has
been the most prominent success in the
newspaper field of that city. In enterpris
ing pursuit of the news no newspaper in
the country excels it, and in reliability it
is accepted as the model of all that is-
dependable by all classes of people in Chi
cago. In political affairs, especially those
pertaining to municipal affairs, its influence
has been at all times great, and its out
spoken independence has made it the con
trolling factor in many a close civic fight.
Mr. Lawson, in connection with his paper
established 'the Daily News Fresh Air
Fund, which has for years maintained the
Lincoln Park Sanitarium for sick poor chil
dren and is one of the most beneficient of
the charitable institutions of Chicago, and
has also taken active part in many other
philanthropic operations. He has been
president of the Associated Press and
greatly promoted the usefulness of that
organization as a news-gathering agency,
is a life member of the Chicago Press Club,
and is a member of the Chicago, Union
League, Chicago Athletic, Union, Com
mercial, University, Onwentsia Golf and
Fellowship Clubs of Chicago. Residence :
317 La Salle Avenue, Chicagoi Address :
The Chicago Daily News, Chicago, Illi
nois. LAWYER, George:
Lawyer; bom in New York City, Sep
tember 24, 1864; son of James Lawyer and
Eliza J. (Irwin) Lawyer. He received his
early education at the Schoharie (New
York) Academy, was graduated from
Hamilton College as A.B. in 1885, A.M. in
1888, and from the Albany Law School as
LL.B. in 1887. He was admitted to the
bar in May, 1887, and began practice of law
in Albany in April, 1890. In 1897, he form
ed a copartnership with Charles J. Buchan
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Lawyer, and the firm is now Buchanan,
Lawyer and Whalen. He was counsel for
the New York State Bar Association in the
trial of Justice Warren B. Hooker before
the State Legislature in 1905. Mr. Law
yer is author of : Syllabus on the Law of
Contracts, 1907; editor of Smith on Per
sonal Property (second edition) 1907, and
author of numerous articles on legal topics
in law journals since 1890. He has been
lecturer on the law of contracts and per
sonal property in Albany Law School since
1905. In politics he is a Democrat. He
was one of the organizers of Troop A of
New York City in 1889, and has been
judge advocate of the Third Brigade Of the
National Guard of New York since Feb
ruary, 1901. In religious views he is a
Presbyterian, and he is trustee of the
Presbytery of Albany. He is a member .of
the New York State Bar Association, Amer
ican Bar Association, Society of Interna
tional Law, Washington, D. C, Albany
County Bar Association, Association of
Troop A of New York City, Theta Delta
Chi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa Society
at Hamilton College, Phi Delta Phi at Al
bany Law School, and Sons of the Revolu
tion. He is also member and past-master
of Temple Lodge of Masons at Albany,
and of the Fort Orange Country, Univer
sity, and Jefferson Clubs of Albany. He
married in New York City, February 9,
1892, Agnes, daughter of David B. Pershall,
and they have three children : James Per
shall, born in 1892, George Irwin, born in
1896, and David Buchanan, born in 1901.
Residence : 437 State Street, Albany. Of
fice address : 79 Chapel Street, Albany, New
York. LAY, Julius Gareche:
Consul-general; born in Washington, D.
C, August 9, 1872; son of Richard G. Lay
(lieutenant-colonel United States Army),
and Caroline Y. (Kimball) Lay. He was
educated in public schools and by private
tutors, and afterward at the Columbia
Grammar School, New York City, until
1889. He began his consular service as
clerk in the American consulate at Ottawa,
Canada, from 1889 to 1891, became vice-

consul there from 1891 to 1896; consul at
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from 1896 to
1899 ; consul-general at Barcelona, Spain,
from 1899 to 1904; consul-general at Can
ton, China, 1904 to 1906, and in 1906 was
appointed to his present position as consul-
general of the United States at Cape Town,
South Africa. Mr. Lay is a Republican in
politics and a Catholic in his religious
views. He is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution of the Metropolitan
Club at Washington, and the Civil Service
and City Clubs of Cape Town, South
Africa. He married at New York City,
December. 10, 1904, Annie Howard. Ad
dress : American Consulate-General, Cape
Town, South Africa.
LAXNG, James D. :
Railway official; born at Columbus, Lan
caster County, Pennsylvania, August 30,
1833. After his graduation from the West-
em University of Pennsylvania in 1849 he
joined the engineer corps of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroad, in which he was
successively rodman, levelman and assistant
engineer of construction in 1849 and 1850.
He filled the position of resident engineer
of construction on the Steubenville and
Indiana and the Cleveland and Mahoning
railroads until 1856, was chief engineer of
maintenance of way from 1856 to 1858 and
superintendent ' from 1858 to 1865 of the
Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, and
superintendent of the Eastern Division of
the Pittsburgh, Fort vvayne and Chicago
Railroad until July, 1871 ; assistant general
manager from 1871 to 1874, and general
manager from 1874 to i«8i of the Pennsyl
vania Company's Lines; general superin
tendent of the Chicago and North-Western
Railway from 1881 to 1883 ; general manag
er from 1884 to 1899, and also second vice-
president from 1896 to 1899 qi the West
Shore Railroad ; president of the Cleveland,
Columbus^ Cincinnati and Indianapolis
Railway from 1887 to 1890, and .since the
date of consolidation, July 1, 1890, vice-
president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago and St. Louis Railway. Address:
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LEA, Henry Charles:
Publisher and author; born September
19, 1825; son of Isaac Lea and Frances
Ann (Carey) Lea. He was educated pri
vately and received from the University of
Pennsylvania, from Harvard and from
Princeton the degree of LL.D., and from
the University of Giessen that of S.T.D.
From 1843 to 1881 he was in busi
ness as a book publisher, but has since
retired. Mr. Lea is author of: Supersti
tion and Force, first edition in 1866; fourth
edition in 1892; Historical Sketch of Sacer
dotal Celibacy, first edition, 1867, second,
1884, and third edition in 1907; Studies in
Church History, first edition 1869, second
edition 1883; History of the Inquisition of
the Middle Ages, 1888; Chapters from the
Religious History of Spain, 1890; A Form
ulary of the Papal Penitentiary in the Thir
teenth Century, 1892; History of Auricular
Confession and Indulgence, 1896; The
Morescos of Spain, their Conversion and
Expulsion, 1901 ; History of the Spanish
Inquisition, 1906 and 1907; The Inquisition
in the Spanish Dependencies, 1908; also
numerous pamphlets and articles in period
icals; a chapter on The Eve of the Refor
mation in the Cambridge Modern History;
French Translation of Inquisition of Middle
Ages by Solomon Reinach, Paris, 1899; and
German translation of the same,, edited by
J. Hansen and H. Haupt, Bonn, 1905 and
1906. Mr. Lea married, in 1850, Anna C.
Jaudon, and they have two sons and one
daughter. Address : 2000 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LEA, Preston :
Governor of Delaware ; born in Wilming
ton, Delaware, November 12, 1841 ; son of
William Lea and Jane Scott (Lovett) Lea.
After completing his education at the
Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, he
became connected with his father's milling
business, in which he continued ever .since,
now being president of William Lea and
Sons Company, and is also president of the
Union National Bank and other corpora
tions. He is a Republican in politics and
iri November, 1904, was elected governor

of Delaware for a four-year term. Ad
dress : Wilmington, Delaware.
LEACH, Albert Ernest:
Chief of the United States Food Inspec
tion Laboratory, Denver, Colorado; born in
Boston, April 7, 1864; son of John Brooks
Leach and Mary P. (Bellows) Leach. He
was graduated from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology as S.B. in the class
of 1886; was expert in patent causes from
1886 to 1892; assistant analyst in the
Massachusetts State Board of Health, from
1892 to 1899, and chief analyst, 1899-1907.
He is author of many technical papers on
food and drug analysis in the journals, and
of Food Inspection and Analysis, 1905
(John Wiley and Sons). In politics Mr.
Leach is an Independent, and in his relig
ious views a Swedenborgian. He is a
member of the American Chemical Society,
the Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists and of the Society of Arts. He
married at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Sep
tember 2, 1890, Martha H. Thompson, and
they have four children: Winthrop W.,
born in 1891, Charlotte, born in 1893, Kath
arine, bom in 1896, and Dorothy, born in
1900. Office address : Tabor Opera House
Building, Denver, Colorado.
LEACH, Frank Wiling:
Lawyer, politician, author; born at Cape
May, New Jersey, August 26, 1855; son of
Joseph Smallidge Leach and Sophia (Ball)
Leach; both natives of Massachusetts,
where his earlier ancestors had resided for
several generations. He vvas educated at the
best schools in South Jersey, and by a pri
vate tutor, and was admitted to the Phila
delphia bar, March 31, 1877. He early de
veloped a propensity for journalistic and
literary work, and has contributed consid
erably to the leading journals of Phila
delphia, notably the North American, the
Press, and the Evening Bulletin, both in
prose and poetry; as well as to other peri
odicals, monthly and otherwise. For the
last twenty, years he has devoted much
time to a work of great magnitude, histor
ical, biographical and genealogical, entitled :
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pendence; their Ancestors and Descend
ants. He also contributed over one hun
dred biographical sketches and several
complete chapters to Scharf and Westcott's
History of Philadelphia. In 1904 and 1905
he contributed to the Philadelphia North
American a series of papers, embracing his
reminiscences in the realm of politics, en
titled: Twenty Years with Quay. He is now
on the staff of the journal mentioned, and
conducts a department designated : The
Philadelphia of Our Ancestors, embracing
historical, biographical and genealogical
data. Mr. Leach's chief life-work has
been in the domain of political endeav
or. In 1881 he was a delegate to and sec
retary of the Republican State Convention
of Pennsylvania, and also acted as secretary
of the Independent Republican State Com
mittee, which directed the independent can
didacy of Charles S. Wolfe for State treas
urer. He continued as secretary of that
committee the following year, 1882, and had
charge of the details of organization in
behalf of Senator John Stewart, independ
ent Republican candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, and was a delegate to and
secretary of the convention which, May
24, 1882, placed the latter in nomination.
He was appointed February 21, 1883, chief
auditor in the office Of city controller in
Philadelphia, and succeeded to the chief
clerkship of that department a year later,
at the same time becoming secretary of the
commissioners of the Sinking Fund of said
city. In 1885 he was appointed secretary of
the Republican State Committee of that
Commonwealth, which office he held until
1893, when he declined further service,
owing to ill health. He was also secretary
of the Republican State Conventions in
1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892.
In December, 1887, he became private sec
retary of Matthew Stanley Quay, who be
gan at that time his service in the United
States Senate. In this position or as the
manager of his most notable campaigns,
Mr. Leach continued for many years closely
associated with that noted political strate
gist. Mr. Leach was secretary of the Re
publican National Convention which met
in Chicago in June, 1888, and soon after
ward he was named as assistant secretary

of the Republican National Committee,
which position he held until 1892. During
the presidential canvass of 1888 he was
located for two months at the headquarters
of the Republican National Committee, as
the confidential lieutenant of Chairman
Quay, and during September and October
was stationed at Raleigh, North Carolina,
where he conducted the Harrison campaign
in that State. In January, 1891, he as
sumes the position, a semi-judicial one, of
chief and real estate deputy sheriff of the
City and County of Philadelphia, which he
resigned in 1895 to lead the forces of
Senator Quay in a desperate political battle
waged against the latter in the summer of
that year. Mr. Leach was secretary of the
Republican State Convention of 189S, and,
immediately thereafter became chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Republican
State Committee, by appointment of Chair
man Quay, of the latter committee. He led
the fortunes of John Wanamaker in the
Penrose- Wanamaker senatorial contest of
1896 and 1897. In the memorable senatorial
battle of 1898 he again supervised and di
rected the candidacy of Matthew Stanley
Quay, who was then an aspirant for a third
term. In the following year, his health
having become seriously impaired from
overwork, chiefly in the domain of political
effort, Mr. Leach withdrew from public and
professional life in Pennsylvania and
settled in his native State, at Tuckerton,
Ocean County, New Jersey, where he is
now chiefly engaged in literary pursuits.
By appointment of President Roosevelt he
assumed the duties of the office of collector
of customs for the District of Little Egg
Harbor, New Jersey, March 13, 1905,
which position he still holds. In Novem
ber, 1906, he was chosen a member of the
Tuckerton Borough Council, for a term of
three years. Mr. Leach is a member of
the Markham Club, Philadelphia, of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution, and of the Society of May
flower Descendants in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of
the Masonic fraternity, of the Junior Order
of United American Mechanics and of the
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February 18, 1890, Hessey Matilda Wiegand,
who died February 18, 1903, leaving two
daughters: Dorothy Lascelles Leach and
Mildred Washburn Leach. Address : Tuck
erton, Ocean. County, New Jersey.
LEACH, Josiah Granville:
Lawyer; born at Cape May Court House,
New Jersey, July 27, 1842; son of Joseph
S. Leach and Sophia (Ball) Leach. After
receiving a classical education he, engaged
in journalism. In 1862 he entered the
Union Army, becoming second lieutenant
in the Twenty-fifth New Jersey Volunteers,
then studied law and was graduated in
1866 from the University of Pennsylvania
Law Department as LL.B. He was a
member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania
in 1876; commissary general of, the State
from 1887 to 1891, with rank of' colonel,
and appraiser of the Port of Philadelphia
from, 1889 to 1893. He was a large con
tributor to Appleton's Cyclopedia of Amer
ican Biography. Mr. Leach is author of:
Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and
Family of Ex- Vice-President Morton; Me
morials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes,
Watts, Latham and Elkins Families; His
tory pf the Bringhurst Family, with Notes
on the Clarkson, De Peyster and Boude
Families; History of the Girard National
Bank of Philadelphia; History of the Pen
rose Family; Chronicle of the Yerkes
Family, with Notes on the Leech and Rut-
ter Families; Annals of the Sinott, Rogers,
Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied
Families ; and edited the Journal of the
Rev. Silas Constant. He was the first to
suggest that June 14 be recognized in the
American annals as Flag Day. He is a
founder and vice-president of the Genea
logical Society of Pennsylvania, historio
grapher of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, and a founder and historian of
the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of
the Revolution ; member of the New Eng
land Historic-Genealogical Society, Histor
ical Society of Virginia, Old Planters' So
ciety, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and
"Society of Colonial Wars. He is a Re
publican in politics, and an Episcopalian, j
Mr. Leach married, in Philadelphia, Octo

ber 5, 1866, Elizabeth T. Whilldin, and they
have four children: J. Granville, Jr., born
in 1868, Dr. Wilmon W., born in 1870,
Meredith Biddle, born in 1874, and Annie
Adele, born in 1884. Address: 733 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LEAKE, Eugene W. :
Congressman, lawyer; born in Jersey
City, July 13, 1877. He received his educa
tion in the public school of Jersey City,
also at Andover and New York Law
School. He was admitted to the, bar of
New Jersey in June, 1898, as an attorney,
and in February, 1902, as counselor, and is
a member of the law firm of Hartshorne,
Insley and Leake of Jersey City. Mr.
Leake is a member of the Jersey City
Board of Trade and many charitable and
social organizations. Mr. Leake was elect
ed to the Sixtieth Congress in 1906, from
the Ninth New Jersey District. He is a
Democrat. Address. Jersey City, New
Jersey.LEAKE, Frank:
Manufacturer ; born in Camden, New Jer
sey, December 15, 1856; son of Samuel Fith-
ian Leake and Arabella G. (Gray) Leake.
He was educated in the North Ward Pub
lic School of Camden, New Jersey, until
1870, when he became a clerk with Samuel
Lees and Company, remaining until 1876;
then commission merchant and salesman
from 1876 to 1882, and after that engaged
in manufacturing as Frank Leake & Com
pany until 1888, and since the latter date
has been president of the Star and Crescent
Mills Company, textile manufacturers. He
is also vice-president and director of the
Keystone Mutual Insurance Company, and
a director in .the Manton Mutual Insur
ance Company. Mr. Leake has taken an
active part in commercial and civic organi
zations, was chairman of the- Manufacturers'
Club Committee on Pure Water, in 1899,
and chairman of the Allied Water Execu
tive Committee of Philadelphia Organiza
tions since 1899; chairman of delegation
to the National Association of Manufactur
ers and to the Reciprocity Convention at
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of the Industrial Committee of the Southern
Industries Convention, also of the Com
mittee on Plan and Scope, 1900; president
of the United Textile Association of Phila
delphia, in 1905 and 1906; chairman of
the Municipal Progress Convention, 1902.
He is a Republican in politics. In his
church relations he is a Presbyterian, and
is president of the Board of Trustees of
the First Presbyterian Church of German-
town, Philadelphia; vice-president of the
Whosoever Gospel Mission, and vice-pres
ident of the Kensington Young Men's Chris
tian Association. He is a member of the
Presbyterian Social Union, St. Andrew's
Society, the Transatlantic Society of Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania Society of New
York, New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania,
Archaeological Society of the University
of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, and Pennsylvania
Historical Society. Mr. Leake traveled over
six hundred thousand miles about the
United States, visiting every large city, be
tween 1878 and 1895, and has twice visited
Great Britain and the European continent.
He is author of pamphlets on : Sound
Money versus Bimetallism, 1896; Philadel
phia Water Supply, 1899; Factory Condi
tions in the South, 1900. He is a member
of the Manufacturers' and Union League
Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Young Re
publican - Club of Germantown. He mar
ried, first, at Melrose, Massachusetts, June
9, 1880, Ella F. Palmer, and of that union
has three daughters : Ethel P., born in 1882,
Marion E., born in 1883, and Gertrude E.,
born in 1885. He again married, at Ger
mantown, Philadelphia, April 6, 1903, Mary
E. London. Residence: 316 East Price
Street, Germantown, Philadelphia. Office
address : Lehigh Avenue and Hancock
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LEAL, John Lalng:
Physician and surgeon; born at Andes,
New York, May 5, -1858; son of John R.
Leal, M.D., and Mary E. (Laing) Leal.
He was graduated from Princeton as A.B.
in 1880 and A.M. in 1883, and from Co
lumbia as M.D. and afterward studied at
the New York Post-graduate Medical

School. He was interne at Elizabeth Gen
eral Hospital, and attending surgeon, and
now consulting surgeon at the Paterson
General Hospital. He was health officel , at
tending and city physician of the Passaic
County Insane Asylum, Paterson, New
Jersey; and is sanitary adviser of the East
Jersey Water Company, and the Jersey City
Water Supply Company. He is ex-presi
dent of the Passaic County Medical So
ciety; officer of the New Jersey State
Medical Society; member of the American
Medical Association ; ex-vice-president of
the American Public Health Association;
ex-president of the New Jersey State Sani
tary Association, etc. He is also a member
of the Hamilton Club, North Jersey Coun
try Club of Paterson, the Acquackanonk
Club of Passaic, Essex Club of Newark,
Union League Club of Jersey City, and Uni
versity Club of Hudson County, New Jer
sey, and the Princeton and Republican
Clubs of New York. Dr. Leal married at
Yonkers, New York, in February, 1888,
Amy L. Arrowsmith, who died in 1903,
and has one son : Graham A. Leal, born in
1890. Address : 158 Ellison Street, Pater
son, New Jersey.
LEALE, Charles A,:
Physician; born in New York City,
March 26, 1842; son of Captain W. P.
Leale and A. M. Leale. He was graduated
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College as
M.D., February, 1865, and took post-grad
uate studies in Europe in 1866. He was
medical cadet in the United States Army;
assistant surgeon and brevet captain of
United States Volunteers; surgeon in
charge of the commissioned officers ward
in 1865; executive officer of the United
States Army General Hospital, Washing
ton; was first surgeon to reach President
Lincoln after assassination and was con
sulting physician at the last illness of Presi
dent Garfield. Dr. Leale investigated Asiat
ic cholera in Europe and America; devot
ed his life to the poor in the epidemic of
1866 ; studied the epidemic of cerebro-spinal
meningitis in 1874 and many epidemics and
causes of typhoid fever in Brooklyn and
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iri mid-summer, thousands of mothers and
sick children of New York City were daily
given salt water baths on trips of a floating
hospital to the waters of the Atlantic
Ocean; conceived the idea and urged the
construction of recreation piers in New
York City; suggested and planned sum
mer hospitals for children on the super
structure of wharves; urged doubling the
area of Bellevue Hospital and its recon
struction in 1895 and devoted fifteen sum
mer vacations to gratuitous care of poor
mothers with sick children. He is author
of: Chronic Diseases Among Children of
New York City; Prenatal Diseases; Sur
gery of the Lungs; Sunstroke of Infants;
Observatories in Asiatic Cholera; also var
ious papers before medical associations and
others. Dr. Leale is a member of the
Alumni Association of Bellevue Hospital,
Medical College (president in 1875), of the
New York County. Medical Association
(president 'from 1885 to 1887), of the
New York Society for the Relief of
Widows and Orphans of Medical -Men,
(president from 1895 to 1898) ; St. John's
Guild (president from 1891 to 1893) ; was
a member of the Council of the Interna
tional Medical Congress, 1887, and is a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Loyal Legion. He is consulting phy
sician at Bellevue Hospital and to the New
York Institution for Instruction of the
Deaf , and Dumb. He married in ¦ 1867
Rebecca , Medurn Copcutt. Address : 604
Madison Avenue, New York City.
LEAMTNG, Jeremiah:
Lawyer ; born at Cape May, New Jersey,
January 20, 183 1 ; son of Jeremiah and Abi
gail (Faulkenburg) Learning. He was
educated in the public schools and at
Princeton College, from which he was
graduated in 1853. He studied law at B'or-
de'ntown, New Jersey, and was admitted
to the bar of that State in 1856. He re
moved to Illinois immediately aftef his ad
mission to the bar, locating at Blooriiing-
ton, where he formed the acquaintance and
friendship of Abraham Lincoln, and prac
ticed in the court over which David Davis
presided as judge He remained in Bloom

ington until 1867, when he removed to
Chicago, where he has since practiced. He
was for several years a master in chancery
of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He
is a Democrat and a member of the Re
formed Episcopal Church. He is a member
of the Law Institute of Chicago, of which
he was at one time president, and of the
Iroquois Club. Mr. Learning married, in
1856, Harriet Scovel, daughter of the Rev.
Alden Scovel of Bordentown, New Jersey.
Residence.: 3869 Ellis Avenue. Address :
59 Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.
LEAMING, Thomas:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, May 29,
1858; son of Robert Wain Learning and
Julia (Scott) Learning. He was educated
in the University of Pennsylvania, and has
since been engaged in the active practice
of law in Philadelphia. In religion he is
an Episcopalian. He is a member of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Law Asso
ciation of Philadelphia, Law Academy,
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution, the Historical Society, and of
the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, Philadelphia
Country, Lawyers' and Down Town Clubs.
Mr. Learning married in Philadelphia, June '
18, 1888, Josephine Lea Brown. Residence:
115 South Twenty-first Street, Philadelphia
(winter) ; Brentwood, Wayne, Delaware -
County, Pennsylvania, (summer). Ad
dress : 1306 Land Title Building, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
LEARNARD, H. H.:
Capitalist; born at Brighton, Massachu
setts, 1871 ; son' of Edward A. and Susan
E. He is president and director of the
New England Rendering Company, treas
urer and director of the Butchers' Slaugh
tering and Melting Association, and the
S. S. Learnard Company; and director of
the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Company,
and W. H. ' Mitchell and Son Company.
Address : 50 Faneuil Hall Market, Boston,
Massachusetts.
LEAVITT, Charles Wellf ord Jr. :
Civil and landscape engineer; born at
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of Charles Wellford Leavitt and Sara
(Allibone) Leavitt. He received his edu
cation at the Gunnery School, Washington,
Connecticut; finishing at Cheltenham
(Pennsylvania) Military Academy. He
was assistant engineer in charge of the con
struction of the East Jersey Water Com
pany; in charge of the construction of
Caldwell Railway, and engineer for the
town of Essex Falls, including water, sew
ers and roads. He has directed and super
vised the laying out and construction of the
estates of William C. Whitney, Foxhall
Keene, Daniel S. Lamont, the Empire City
Race Track, and the race tracks at Sara
toga, Belmont Park, Toronto and Mont
real; engineer of the Palisades Inter-State
Park Commission, and has superintended
the laying out of numerous grounds, public
and private, in various parts of the country.
In politics he is identified with the Repub
lican party and he is a member of the
Episcopal Church. His favorite recrea
tions are farming and hunting. Mr. Leav
itt is a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, the American Society
of Landscape Architects, the Architectural
League and the Union, National Arts, Adi
rondack League, and Transportation Clubs.
He married at Essex Fells, New Jersey,
October 26, 1899, Clara Gordon White, and
their children are Gordon, born in 1902,
Kent, born in 1904, and Charlotte, born in
1906. Address: Meadow Farm, Hartsdale,
New York.
LEAVITT, Julius Adelbert:
President of Ewing College; born at
Gouverneur, New York, March 4, 1852;
son of Halsey C. Leavitt and Romanda
(Leach) Leavitt. After receiving a pre
paratory education in the schools of Suf-
field, Connecticut, he entered the academic
department of Brown University, whence
he was graduated in 1875 with the degree
of A.B. He then began to study for the
ministry at the Newton Theological Sem
inary, and on May 24, 1876, was ordained
to the Baptist ministry. The degree of D.
D. was conferred upon him in 1896, by
Brown University. From his ordination to
the ministry until 1884, he held pastorates

at Grafton and Essex, Vermont, and Beloit
and Leavenworth, Kansas. He was Sunday
School superintendent for the Baptists of
Illinois, from "1884 to 1890, in which latter
year he was called to the presidency of
Ewing College at Ewing, Illinois. Dr.
Leavitt is a fellow of the Royal Geograph
ical Society. He married twice, first, at
Providence, Rhode Island, May 30, 1876,
Isabelle I. Brown; second at Collinsville,
Illinois, December 29, 1880, Lillie L. Lemen,
and he has two sons : Halsey B., born
July 25, 1878, and Frederick Louis, born
September 1, 1886. Address : Ewing, Illi
nois. LEATCRAFT, J. Edgar:
Real estate broker; born in New York
City, March 15, 1849; son of Anthony D.
Leaycraft and Hannah (Thompson) Leay-
craft. He received his education in the
public schools. Mr. Leaycraft was during
its existence, director and treasurer of the
Real Estate Exchange and Auction Room,
Limited, and director of the Real Estate
Board of Brokers. He was appointed
State Tax Commissioner by Governor
Roosevelt in 1899 and reappointed by Gov
ernor Odell, serving five years, and was
appointed a member of the Board of Ex
aminers and Appraisers of the New Barge
Canal, for a term of four years. Mr.
Leaycraft was a member of the Republican
County Committee for several years: is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce of
the State of New York; a member and
director of the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation, a member and treasur
er of the West End Association ; a member
of the Merchants' Association ; president and
treasurer of the J. Edgar Leaycraft Co.,
trustee and treasurer of the Franklin Sav
ings Bank; director and president of the
Lyricroft Realty Company, the. Library
Square Realty Company, director of the
Thirty-fourth Street National Bank, City
of New York Fire Insurance Company and
the New York Plate Glass Insurance Com
pany. In politics he is a Republican and
in religious denomination a Methodist, He
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Angeles in 1904. Mr. Leaycraft is also a
member of the Sons of the Revolution, the
Society of Colonial Wars, a thirty-second
degree Mason, member and treasurer of the
Mystic Shrine, New York City Church
Extension and Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, American Bible Society, member
and treasurer of the Board of Education
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
member of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation (committee of management),
and is trustee of the Wesleyan University
at Middletown, Connecticut, and of Hahne
mann Hospital, New York. He is also a
member of the Union League, Republican,
Quill, West Side Republican and Aldine
Clubs. He married in Ossining, New
York, November 25, 1874, Caroline Craw
ford, and their children are: Agnes
Crawford (Donough), and Edward Craw
ford. Residence: 311 West End Avenue,
New York City. Office address: 19 West
Forty-second Street, New York City.
LE BARON, John Francis Patch:
Civil and mining engineer and geologist ;
born in Boston, September 28, 1847; son of
John Patch, lawyer, and Margaret Ann
Gurley (Poor) Patch. His name was
changed by act of court, while a minor, by
petition of his father, for reasons of a
. property inheritance. After attending the
Ipswich (Massachusetts) High School, he
entered the Lawrence Academy at Groton,
Massachusetts, from which he was grad
uated, second in class, withr the salutatory
oration in the class of 1866. He studied
civil engineering three years in the office
of J. Herbert Shedd. In 1868 he was em
ployed on surveys for sewerage and street
lines in Taunton, Massachusetts, and on
the water works for Providence, Rhode Is
land, then became transit man on the Mas
sachusetts Central Railroad and in two
years rose from that position to chief engi
neer and assistant to the president of the
Fitchburg Railroad (Hoosac Tunnel Line),
at Boston, when only twenty-six .years old ;
and at the same time he was associate city
engineer of Chariestown, Massachusetts, and

associate city engineer of Middlesex County,
Massachusetts. He was subsequently United
States Deputy Surveyor, and afterward
United States mineral surveyor in the
United States Land Office. In 1881 he en
tered the Engineer service of the United
States Army, on staff of Major-General O.
A. Gillmore, and designed and was in
charge of numerous surveys and construc
tion of works for improvement of rivers
and harbors on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
and the canalization of rivers; for nearly
four years. In 1887 he was appointed
a transit man on the Nicaragua Canal
and in two years, after four promotions
became engineer in charge and chief field
engineer, and afterward was a commission
er of the Nicaragua Canal. Mr. Le Baron
has also been chief engineer of over twenty-
five railways, water works, etc. He was
the discoverer of the immense phosphate
of lime deposits in Florida while employed
as a United States engineer on a recon-
naisance of Peace River, and he made ex
tensive archaeological studies in Florida for
the Peabody Museum of Harvard Univer
sity and for the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington, also geological surveys and
palaeontological reconnaisances in Florida
for the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Le-
Baron is author of over fifty published
books, articles and memoirs on technical
subjects. His travels have extended over
the Eastern, Middle and Southern States,
British Honduras, Spanish Honduras, Gua
temala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
and Jamaica. He raised a company of Im-
munes in three days for the Spanish-Amer
ican War, which was mustered in the
Tenth Regiment, United States Army as
Company L, and was appointed its
captain by President McKinley, but failed
to pass the medical examination on
account of partial deafness. He is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, elected for his me
moir on the Geology of Honduras ; a found
er and secretary, 1885 to 1887, and director
1890 to 1897, Southern Society of Civil
Engineers ; member of the National Geo
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Engineers, American Institution of Mining
Engineers, United States Naval Institute,
Americann Forestry Association, and Civil
Engineers' Club of Cleveland, Ohio. He
is a member of the Masonic Order and of
the Sons of the Revolution, Florida' Chap
ter, descended in both lines from Revolu
tionary and colonial ancestry, who fought at
Lexington and Bunker's Hill. He has
been three times married, first at Ipswich,
Massachusetts, November 28, 1872, to Mary
B. Kinsman, by whom he has three chil
dren : Ernest Thacher, Rudolph Phillips,
and Hattie Marie ; and second, at Mandarin,
Florida, December 26, 1885, to Philomena
E. (Brown) Manucy, by whom he has a
daughter, Juana Frances ; and he again
married at Ipswich, Massachusetts, April
29, 1901, Carrie Louise Lakeman. Resi
dence : Chardon, Ohio. Office address :
812 Park Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
LE BOUTILLIER, William G. :
Physician; born in New York City,
December 21, 1859; son of Thomas Le
Boutillier and Margaret (Gallier) Le
Boutillier. He received his early educa
tion in private schools and was graduated
from Columbia College as A.B. in 1880;
and from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia
University, as M.D. in 1883. He was visit
ing surgeon to the J. Hood Wright Hos
pital ; acting assistant surgeon in the United
States Army from September, 1898, to
March 1899; surgeon of the Twelfth Regi
ment, National Guard of New York, from
1902 to 1906, and since then has been sur
geon on the staff of Major-General Charles
F. Roe, commanding the National Guard of
New York. Dr. Le Boutillier is a member
of the New York Academy of Medicine,
the Surgical Society and of the Union
League and University Clubs. Address :
45 West Fiftieth Street, New York City.
L'ECLtTSE, Milton:
Capitalist; president and director of S.
Osgood Pell and Company; vice-president
and director of the Plandome Land Com- j
pany, vice-president and member of the \
Board of Governors of the Long Island j

Real Estate; and vice-president and treas
urer of the Country Investing Company.
Address : 537 Fifth Ayenue, New Yprk City.
LEDERER, George W. :
Theatrical manager; born iri Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He has been
manager of the New York Casino and of
Lillian Russell since 1893; also manager
and director of the New York Theatre,
Prince of Wales Theatre, London ; has also
an interest in the Shaftesbury Theatre,
London. London office: Avenue Man
sions, 16 Shaftesbury Avenue, West. Amer
ican address : The Casino, Broadway and
Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.
LEDOUX, John Walters:
Civil engineer; born at St. Croix Falls,
Wisconsin, August 28, i860; son of John
and Wilhelmina (Knox) Ledoux. He was
graduated from Lehigh University as civil
engineer in 1887. He has made reports on
water supplies and water powers in nearly
every State in the Union, as well as in
Porto Rico, Mexico and British Columbia;
has been chief engineer of the American
Pipe Manufacturing Company of Phila
delphia since 1891, and chief engineer of
approximately fifty water works systems
costing over $30,000,000. Some of the pro
jects designed by, and constructed under
his supervision are the Springfield water
system supplying the suburbs . of Philadel
phia, Octorara Water Company's system
supplying the Pennsylvania Railroad from
Downingtown to Lancaster, the Rochester
& Lake Ontario water works system sup
plying railroads and manufacturies in Roch
ester and its suburbs, the Charleston,
South Carolina, water works system, the
Hagerstown, Maryland, water storage sys
tem, the Depew & Lake Erie water works
system supplying the suburbs of Buffalo,
the Greenville, South Carolina, water sys
tem, the New York Interurban and Consol
idated Water Company of Suburban, New
York, supplying the suburbs of New York
and Westchester County. He has also had
charge of the design and engineering of
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Pittsburgh, comprising thirty water com
panies, whose works were constructed large
ly in the interest of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. Mr. Ledoux is the inventor of va
rious water works devices, among which
are a mechanical filter, a regulating valve,
a rate controller for filters, etc., a meter
for large pipes, and an automatic air valve.
He is a contributor to the Engineering
News, Engineering Record, Philadelphia
Engineers' Club Proceedings, and Other pub
lications; among his papers are: A Sand
Filter Plant ; A Deep Well Pumping Plant ;
Water Supply of Philadelphia; Water Sup
ply of Charleston, South Caroliria; Descrip
tion of a Regulating Valve for Controlling
the Level of Reservoirs and Staridpipes;
Description of the Simplex Water Meter ;
etc. Mr. Ledoux has been a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers
since 1895, and is a member of the Frank
lin Institute, the American Water Works
Association, the Engineers' Club of Phila
delphia, and the Athletic Club of Philadel
phia. Residence: Ogderi Avenue and Wal
nut Lane, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Busi
ness address: 112 North Broad Street, Phil
adelphia.LEDOUX, Urbain J.:
Consular officer; born in Canada; ap
pointed consul at Three Rivers, July 28,
1897; consul at Prague, September 8, 1903;
consul at Santos, March 30, 1907. Address :
Santos, Brazil.
LEDYARD, Henry Brockholst:
Railway official; born in Paris, France,
February 20, 1844, of American parentage,
his father being secretary of the American
Legation there. He was appointed at large to
the United States Military Academy, from
which he was graduated in the class of
1865, and was commissioned as first lieu
tenant in the United States Artillery, serv
ing until January, 1870, when he resigned
to enter the engineering department of
the Northern Pacific Railroad. In July,
1870, he became clerk in the office of
division superintendent of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and in
1872 assistant superintendent and in 1873

and 1874 -superintendent of the Eastern
Division of the same road. Since 1874 he
has been with the Michigan Central Rail
road, as assistant general superintendent
until 1876, general superintendent in 1876
and 1877, general manager from 1877 to
1883, president until January, 1905, and
since then chairman of the Board of Dir
ectors. Address : 579 Jefferson Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan.
LEDYARD, Lewis Cass:
Lawyer; born in Detroit, Michigan, April
4, 1851 ; son of Henry Ledyard and Matilda
Frances (Cass) Ledyard. He was grad
uated from Harvard College as A.B. in
1872 ; from Harvard Law School as LL.B.
in 1875; and Harvard University as A.M.
in 1875. He is first vice-president of the
American Express Company; vice-president
and secretary of the National" Express
Company ; director of . the National Park
Bank, the Metropolitan Trust Conipany,
the United States Trust Company, the
Newport Trust Company, the Boston and
Maine Railroad Company, the Maine Cen
tral Railroad Company, the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, the Merchants'
Dispatch Transportation Company, the
Newport and Wickford Railroad and
Steamboat Company, the Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company, and the Great North
ern Paper Company. Mr. Ledyard is a
member and vice-president of the Associa
tion of the Bar of thevCity of New York,
trustee of the New York Public Library;
president and trustee of the- Lying-in Hos
pital, a member of the Rapid Transit Com
mission and of the Knickerbocker, Union,
Metropolitan, Century, Harvard, Down
Town, Lawyers', University, New York
Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and
the Larchmont Yacht Clubs. He married
Gertrude Prince. Address: 54 Wall"
Street, New York City;
LEE, Albert:
Editor and author; born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, May 11, 1868; son of General
Albert L. Lee. He was graduated from
Yale in 1891, editor of Yale Literary Maga
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the editorial staff of the New York Sun,
Harper's Round Table, McClure's Maga
zine and Harper's Weekly. Mr. Lee was
associate editor of Collier's Weekly in 1901
and 1902 and is now the managing editor.
He is author of: Tommy Toddles; Track
Athletics in Detail ; The Knave of Hearts ;
Tour for a Fortune; He, She and They.
He is a member of the Yale Club of New
York. Residence : Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, New York. Office address: 416
West Thirteenth Street, New York City.
LEE, Benjamin:
Physician; born in Norwich, Connecticut,
September 26, 1833 ; was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania, 1852, and
from the New York Medical College, 1856.
He took a post-graduate course in Europe,
and upon his return to this country, es
tablished practice in New York City. Sur
geon Twenty-second New York National
Guard, in service of United States, in 1862-
1863 ; member New York County and State
Medical Societies. He removed to Phila
delphia in 1865; was long treasurer of the
Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl
vania; secretary of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Health, 1885 to 1905;
appointed assistant to the Commissioner of
Health of Pennsylvania, 1905; president of
the American Academy of Medicine, 1884;
president of Conference of State and Pro
vincial Boards of Health of North America,
1898; president of the American Public
Health Association, in 1898; honorary
member of the Society of Hygiene, Paris ;
member American Medical Association;
Congress of American Physicians and Sur
geons; Philadelphia County Medical So
ciety; Philadelphia Society for Organizing
Charity; president American Orthopedic
Association, 1891-1892; secretary Pennsyl
vania State Quarantine Board, 1893 to
1905 ; professor of Orthopedics, Philadel
phia Polyclinic, 1895-1896; health officer,
Philadelphia 1898- 1899; sanitarian to State
Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania.
Member of Philadelphia Medical Club and
Philadelphia Association for Organizing
Charity. Specialist in orthopedic surgery
,and neryous diseases. Author of : ' Correct

Principles of Treatment for Angular Cur
vature of the Spine, 1872 ; and of Tracts on
Massage (translated from German), 1885;
editor of the American Medical Monthly.
Dr. Lee married, April 5, 1859, Emma Hale
White. Address : Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
LEE, Blewett:
Lawyer ; born near Columbus, Mississippi,
March 1, 1867; son of Lieutenant-general
Stephen Dill Lee of the Confederate States
Army and Regina (Harrison) Lee. He
was graduated from the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Mississippi, B.S., iii
1883. He studied at the University of Vir
ginia from 1883 to 1885, and then went to
Harvard College from which he received
the degrees of A.M. and' LL.B. in 1888, and
afterward studied in the Universities of
Leipzig and Freiburg, Germany. Return
ing to America he became private secretary
to Justice Horace Grey of the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1890 and
practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, from
1890 to 1893. Among the other positions
he has filled are professorships in North
western University and later the University
of Chicago, and he has practiced his pro
fession in Chicago ever since 1893. Mr.
Lee -was elected a member of the American
Bar Association in 1894 and is also a mem
ber of the Illinois State Bar Association
and the Chicago Bar Association; and is
the author of various articles in legal peri
odicals. He is now general attorney of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company. Mr.
Lee is a member of the Chicago, Uni
versity and South Shore Country Clubs of
Chicago. He married at Chicago, Febru
ary 9, 1898, Frances, daughter of John J.
Glessner and- Frances (Macbeth) Gless
ner ; children : John Glessner Lee, Frances
Lee and Martha Lee. Residence: 1700
Prairie Avenue, Chicago. Business ad
dress : Central Station, Chicago, Illinois.
LEE, Duncan Campbell:
Editor and publisher; born in Bovina
Center, Delaware County, New York,
March 4, 1869; son of Rev. James B. Lee
and Jane Isabella (Campbell) Lee. He
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emy, Delhi, New York, as valedictorian in
1887 and from Hamilton College as A.B.
(salutatorian) in 1891, and received the
degree of A.M. in 1894. He was teacher
in secondary schools from 1891 to 1893;
professor of oratory and debate at Cornell
University from 1893 to 1904 ; editor of the
Ithaca Daily News since 1899; president of
the Ithaca Publishing Company since 1900;
traveled abroad in 1901 and 1902. Mr. Lee
was the author of the anti-ice-trust resolu
tion in the Democratic convention of 1900;
was party nominee for State regent, 1902;
prominently mentioned for Democratic
nomination as lieutenant-governor in 1904;
permanent chairman of the Democratic
State Convention 1904; and took an active
part in the State campaign of 1906. Mr.
Lee is an elder of the First Presbyterian
Church. He is director of the Ithaca Busi
ness Men's Association, of the Ithaca
Young Men's Christian Association; a
member of Theta Delta Chi, and Delta Chi
fraternities, and Phi Beta Kappa Society;
also member and officer of the Masonic and
Elks Orders. He is active in religious edu
cation, in which field he has written several
text-books, and a frequent lecturer on liter
ary, political and historical themes. Mr.
Lee is founder of the Ithaca Bible High
School. He is author of: Thomas Jeffer
son, as a scholar and educator ; also ad
dresses; University Life at Oxford;
Shakespeare, and his art; Predecessors of
Shakespeare, and others. He married at
Ithaca, New York, June 8, 1889, Elizabeth
Williams, and their children are : D.
Boardman, born in 1903, and Nancy B.,
born in 1904. Address : Ithaca, New
York. LEE, Elmer:
Physician; born at Piqua, Ohio, March
12, 1856; son of Jonathan and Nancy
Lee. He received his early education in
the public schools and was graduated from
the Ohio Wesleyan University as A.B. in
1877, and A.M. in 1880, from the Medical
Department of Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri, as M.D. in 1882 ; and from
St. Louis University as Ph.B. in 1886. He
was house physician at the St. Louis City

Hospital,, teacher and principal in the St.
Louis public schools, and assistant editor
of the St. Louis Age of Steel. He was
surgeon of the Sante Fe Railway, resident
physician at the Palmer House, Chicago,
Illinois, where he removed in 1888; phy
sician in Russian and German Flospitals in
the epidemic of cholera in 1892; supported
and commended by Professor Virchow,
president of the University of Berlin. In
1896 he moved to New York, where he is
lecturer for the New York City Board of
Education, and lecturer to the Society of
First Aid to the Injured. Dr. Lee was
assistant surgeon in the war with Spain,
and is an annual guest of honor at the So
ciety of the Cincinnati of Rhode Island.
He is contributor of more than one hun
dred essays ; has been three times chairman
and secretary of departments in the Ameri
can Medical Association; vice-president of
the American Academy of Medicine; sec
retary of the American Social Science As
sociation; originator of the medical liquid
soap and is deeply interested in solving the
question of economic housing and feeding
human beings, affirming that the basis of a
true human progress is proper shelter and
food. He has designed model homes and
apartments and prepared a competition
sketch for the Tuberculosis Hospital that
was erected in England by the King in 1904.
Dr. Lee takes a deep interest in, and is
exponent of, natural and simple living, and
an advocate of fruit diet and uncooked
foods. He is a member of the New York
Medical Society, the Medical Association
of Greater New York, the American Medi
cal Association, the American Academy of
Medicine, and the International Medical
Congress, and a lecturer on medical and
social questions. His favorite recreations
are walking, music and travel. Address :
127 West Fifty-eighth Street, New York
City.
LEE, Edward Clinton:
Vice-president of the De Long Hook
and Eye Company; bom in Phila
delphia December 5, 1857 ; son of Dr.
Richard Henry Lee, of Philadelphia; and
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Graduated from the Episcopal Academy,
Philadelphia, 1874; began business in 1874
with Putnam and Earle, bankers of New
York, afterward with the iron firm of
Morris, Tasker & Company, Philadelphia,
and then for eighteen years with the United
Gas Improvement Company, of Phila
delphia, of which he was secretary and
treasurer; also of all of its various subsid
iary gas and electric companies in about
fifty cities of the United States. Has been
director in the Welsbach Light Company,
Storage Battery Company, the Marsden
Company, International Smokeless Powder
Company, De Long Hook and Eye Com
pany, Standard Roller Bearing Company,
American Railways Company, Trust Com
pany of North America of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston
Railroad Company, and others. He is a
member of various clubs and historical and
genealogical and patriotic and art societies
of Philadelphia and New York; also Phila
delphia Bourse, the Union League Club of
Philadelphia, etc. Mr. Lee married Mai
Philter, daughter of George Philler, pres
ident of the First National Bank of Phila
delphia. Address : Haverford, Pennsyl
vania. Office: 892 Drexel Building, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
LEE, Gordon:
Congressman; born May 29, 1859, on a
farm near Ringgold, Catoosa County,
Georgia. He received his primary educa
tion in the country schools ; was graduated
from Emery College, Oxford, Georgia, in
1880; is a farmer and manufacturer; served
ns member of the House of Representatives
of the State Legislature in 1894 and 1895,
and in the Senate in 1902, 1903, and 1904;
was appointed by Governor Atkinson- as
member of the State Memorial Board. He
was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from
the Seventh Georgia District, as a Demo
crat. Address : Chickamauga, Georgia.
LEE, Guy Carleton:
Educator, author and critic ; he was edu-
cited in private schools ; was graduated
from the Law Department of University of
North Carolina as LL.B. in 1894; and from

Dickinson College as A.B. in 1895, and the
degree of LL.M. was conferred upon him
by Dickinson School of Law in . 1896, and
that of A.M. was conferred in 1897, by Dick
inson College, and the degree of Ph.D. by
Johns Hopkins University in 1898. He was
admitted to the bar in North Carolina, in
1895, in Pennsylvania in 1896, and in Mary
land in 1897 ; was professor of English his
tory and common law at Dickinson College
in 1895; and has been lecturer on compara
tive politics since 1900 at Columbian (now
George Washington) University. Member
of the historical faculty of Johns Hopkins
University from 1897; also literary editor
of the Baltimore Sun since 1901. Managing
editor of International Literary Syndicate
since 1900. He was staff lecturer on his
tory and literature for the American So
ciety for the Extension of University Teach
ing; lecturer on history for the Board of
Education, New York City, lecturer in poli
tics to the League for Political Education,
People's Institute and Brooklyn Institute.
He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, American Historical Association,
National Geographic Society, American
Sociological Society, and the American Po
litical Science Association. He is author
of: Hincmar, An Introduction to the Study
of the Church in the Ninth Century, 1898;
Public Speaking, 1899; Historical Jurispru
dence, 1900; Source Book of English His
tory, 1900 ; True History of the War be
tween the States, 1903. He is also editor-
in-chief of: The World's Orators (ten vol
umes), 1900; A History of England, 1901;
History of Woman (ten volumes), 1902;
The History of North America (twenty
volumes), 1904; and contributor on legal,
historical, political and sociological subjects
to reviews and journals. He is a member
of the City Club of New York, the Frank
lin Inn Club of Philadelphia; also of the
Press Club of Chicago, and of the Balti
more Yacht Club of Baltimore. Address:
Johns Hopkins University, Baltifnore,
Maryland.LEE, Homer:
Engraver, artist, inventor; born in Mans
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Lee. He studied under his father and Rob
ert Mackintosh in Toronto, Canada; after
wards studied abroad. He received honora
ble mention from the Vienna World's Fair
in 1873; designed the Arms of the United
States, . which surmounted the entrance to
the American Pavilion at Vienna, and re
ceived the first class medal from the State
of Ohio. He is president and founder of
The Homer Lee Bank Note Company; vice-
president and director of Franklin-Lee
Bank Note Company, New York City. Mr.
Lee received honorable mention from the-
Paris Exposition in 1900 for his picture
Building of the Skyscraper, bought by the
French Government; is represented in the
Lotos and Salmagundi Clubs of New York
City and elsewhere; was an exhibitor at
the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, in
igoi; received a medal from Charleston
(South Carolina) Exposition in 1902 and
from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
in 1904. He is a member of the Sons of
American Revolution; vice-president of
Ohio Company of Associates ; member Mu
nicipal Arts Society; commissioner on dec
oration of public buildings; founder of St.
John's Guild Floating Hospital; member
of the committee on liturgy appointed by^
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States of America;
and a founder of Ohio Society of New
York. He is inventor of the Homer Lee
Steel Plate Printing system, together with
mechanical devices used by the United
States Government and abroad ; also of
many improvements in linotype composing
machines. He is a member of the Colonial,
Columbia Yacht, Lotos and Salmagundi
- Clubs. Mr. Lee married at Glen Riddle,
Pennsylvania, 1891, Charlotte R. Riddle.
Residence: 551 West End Avenue, New
York City. Address: Tribune Building,
New York City.
LEE, James Wideman:
Clergyman; born in Rockbridge, Georgia,
November 28, 1849 ; son of Zachary J. Lee
and Emily H. Wideman. He was educated
in Bawsville Academy,- Grantville High
School and Emory College, Oxford, Geor
gia. He was ordained to the ministry of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
1876; was pastor of churches in Georgia
at Rockmart, Long Cane, Carrollton, Dalton,
Rome, and Atlanta; transferred in 1898
to St. Louis, Missouri, becoming pastor of
St. John's Church; head of an expedition
to Palestine in 1894 and was sent out in
company with the artist R. E. M. Bain to
secure material for an illustrated book on
the. Earthly Footsteps of Christ and His
Apostles ; was presiding elder of the St.
Louis District from 1897 to 1901, pastor of
St. John's, second time, from 1901 to 1905,
and has been pastor of Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church, South Atlanta, Georgia,
since 1905. He is author of: The Making
of a Man, 1892 (translated in Japanese in
1893 and Chinese in 1904) ; Christ the Rea
son of the Universe, in an Address before
the World's Parliament of Religions, held
in Chicago in 1893; The Earthly Footsteps
of the Man of Galilee, 1895; Henry W.
Grady, Editor, Orator, and Man, 1897; Mr.
Lee edited and illustrated The Self-inter
preting Bible, 1897 ; and is author of : Illus
trated History of Methodism, 1900; His
tory of Jerusalem, 1904; The Religion of
Science, 1905. His favorite recreation is
traveling. Dr. Lee married, in 1875, Emma
Eufaula, daughter of Rev. L: L. Ledbetter of
Cedartown, Georgia, and they have three
sons and three daughters. Address : 33
Columbia Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia.
LEE, Joseph W. J.:
Diplomat; born in Maryland. Appointed
secretary of legation at Panama, March 31,
1904; consul-general March 1, 1905; envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Ecuador, September 18, 1905; appointed
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary to Guatemala and Honduras, Janu
ary 10, 1907. Address : Guatemala City,
Guatemala.
LEE, Stephen Dill:
Commissioner of the Vicksburg National
Military Park; born at Charleston, South
Carolina, September 22, 1833; son of Dr.
Thomas Lee and Caroline (Alison) Lee.
He served as lieutenant of the Fourth Ar
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July, 1854, to February, 1861; and afW
that as captain, major, lieutenant-colonel,
colonel, brigadier-general, major-general,
and lieutenant-general of the Confederate
Army. After the war he was a cottoni
planter in Mississippi ; president of the Mis
sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege from 1880 to 1889; member of the
Senate of Mississippi; member of the Con
stitutional Convention of Mississippi in
1890; lieutenant-general of the Department
of the Army of the Tennessee, Confederate
Veterans and general commanding the
same; chairman of the Historical Commit
tee of Confederate Veterans, president of
the Mississippi Historical Society, and com
missioner of the Vicksburg National Mili
tary Park; general commanding the United
Confederate Veteran Association; member
of the American Historical Society, and the
Mississippi Historical Society. He is a
Democrat in politics, and a Baptist in his
religious faith. He married at Columbus,
Mississippi, February 9, 1865, Regina Har
rison, and they have one child : Blewett
Lee, born March 1, 1867. Address : Col
umbus, Mississippi.
LEE, Thomas George:
Professor of histology and embryology.;
born in Jacksonville, New York, Novem
ber 27, i860; son of Horace Cooper Lee
and Sarah Lovinia (Shaw) Lee. He re
ceived his education in secondary schools
in Ithaca; was graduated from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania as B.S. and M.D.
in 1886 and received the degree of B.S.
in 1892, from Harvard University. He
was an assistant in histology and embry
ology at the University of Pennsylvania,
from 1884 to 1886 ; lecturer in histology and
embryology and director of the laboratory
at Yale from 1886 to 1891 ; assistant in
histology at Radcliffe College in 1891 and
1892; and has been professor of histology
and embryology and director of the Labo
ratory in the University of Minnesota since
1892. Dr. Lee is secretary of the College
of Medicine and Surgery and librarian of
the Department of Medicine at the Univer
sity of Minnesota. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in religion a Unitarian. He is

a member of the American Society of Zo
ologists and American Society of Natural
ists and secretary of the Central Branch
of each; member of the American Society
of Anatomists ; fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
member of the Deutsche Anatomische Ge
sellschaft, American Medical Association,
Minnesota Academy of Medicine and of the
Minnesota Academy of Science Profes
sor Lee married in West Bloomfield, New
York, December 21, 1887, Emma Louise
Shaw. Residence: 509 River Road, S. E.,
Minneapolis. Address: University of Min
nesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
LEEDOM, Joseph:
Lawyer; born at Plymouth Meeting,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Aug
ust 23, 1853; son of Edwin C. Leedom, a
noted medical writer and scientist, having
designed the first orrery. Mr. Leedom's
mother was a daughter of Peter Lukfens, a
direct descendant of Jan Luckin, one of
the earliest settlers of Germantown. He
was educated in the public schools of
Philadelphia, and graduated from the Cen
tral High School with the degree of Bach
elor of Arts, in 1871 ; read law with David
Webster, of Philadelphia; attended the law
school of the University of Pennsylvania,
receiving degree of Bachelor of Laws, and
was admitted to the bar in .September,
1874; 1876, admitted to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter in
the United States Courts. He was re
tained as one of the counsel of the Chest
nut and Walnut Street Passenger Railway
Company, and assistant solicitor of the
Adams Express Company and tried for
that company its case against Morrell; was
retained in important cases outside of the
State, particularly in New Jersey, Ohio and
Virginia. He was chairman of the Sena
torial convention which first nominated the
Hon. Boies Penrose as senator and made
the nomination speech in the Controllers'
convention on behalf of Gen. James S.
Stewart, the candidate for that office. He
is an honorary member of the Republican
Invincibles ; a member of the Union League,
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tion, and a Mason; president of the Phila
delphia and Tonawanda Land Company;
late a director in the Kenilworth Inn Com
pany of Biltmore, North Carolina; for
merly director of the Tradesmen's Trust
and Safe Deposit Company, and one of the
original stockholders of the Commonwealth
Title Insurance and Trust Company. In
politics he is a Republican. Mr. Leedom
is married and has one son, Edwin Conover
Leedom. Address, 25 North Juniper Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LEEDS, Theodore Edward:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia; son of
Theodore Churchill Leeds and Mary Ann
Leeds. He received his education under
private tutors in Boston, Massachusetts. He
was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts
at Boston and in 1876 to the bar of New
York. He represents extensive interests
as trustee and acts as counsel for corpora
tions, banks, and family estates. He is
trustee of several charitable institutions and
is a life member of the New York State
Bar Association; the New England Genea
logical-Historic Society of Massachusetts
and a member of the Union League, Law
yers', Stock Exchange and Luncheon Clubs.
Mr . Leeds married in Brooklyn, New
York, in 1886, Mary E., daughter of Mal
colm and Jane (Sanger) Bronson. Resi
dence: 20 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Office address : 3 Broad Street, New York
City.
LEEMING, John:
Physician and surgeon; born in Brant-
ford, Canada, March 17, 1859 ; son of Henry
B. and Janet (Whitaker) Leeming. He
was educated in the public and high schools,
and graduated from the Collegiate Insti
tute of Brantford, 1879. For several years
after leaving school he was employed as a
clerk in a grocery store in Brantford and-
then went to Chicago, Illinois, where he was
in the employ of Schere, Shirk and Com
pany, wholesale grocers. After traveling
two years for the New York firm of Thomas
Leeming & Company he began the study
of medicine in the medical department of
the University of Toronto, Canada, and

was graduated in 1886. After a year's ad
ditional study at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Ontario, and at the College
of Physicians, London, England, he settled
in Chicago, where he has been since in gen
eral practice. He has been connected with
the Northwestern University Medical School
for ten years as a member of the faculty
and professor of materia medica. He was
attending physician at various hospitals for
several years, was attending surgeon at
Lakeside Hospital, and Chicago Hospital,
and is now acting in the same capacity at
Chicago Baptist Hospital and the Cook
County Hospital. His practice for the past
ten years has been confined for the most
part to surgery. He is a Republican. He is
a member of the American Medical Asso
ciation, the Chicago Medical Society, the Il
linois State Medical Society, and the Chi
cago Athletic, Physicians' and Colonial
Clubs. He was married in Chicago, July 16,
1890, to Margaret Sibley, and has six chil
dren : John, Jr., Francis C, Eleanor W.,
Tom, James W., and Mason Starring. Ad
dress : 3541 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illi
nois. LEFENS, Thles Jacob:
Dealer in and owner of real estate; born-
in Hamburg, Germany, March 4, 1846; son
of Jacob and Meta (Stremann) Lefens. He
was educated in the schools of Germany.
He was apprenticed to a produce merchant
in his native place, at which business he
served from 1861 to 1865, when he came
to America and took up his residence in
Chicago, Illinois. He engaged in the pro
duce commission business, which he carried
on from 1865 to 1878, when he became the
secretary and treasurer of the Seipp Brew
ing Company, remaining with the company
until its interests were sold to the Chicago
Consolidated Brewing and Malting Com
pany, in 1902. He then engaged in the
real estate business and so remains. He
is president of the Traders' Insurance Com
pany, vice-president of the South Side Ele
vated Railway Company and of the Audi
torium Association, and a director in the
Merchants' Loan and Trust Company. He
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of the Chicago, Commercial, Tolleston, and
German Mannerchor Clubs. He was mar
ried in Chicago, February 12, 1878, to Marie
Seipp and has four children. Residence:
2626 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Address : Teutonic Building, Chicago, Il
linois. LEFFERTS, George Morewood:
Surgeon; born in Brooklyn, February 24,
1846. He attended the College of the City
of New York, class of 1867. From Dickin
son College he received the degree of A.
M. in 1869; College of Physicians and Sur
geons, New York, M.D., 1870; Columbia
University, M.Sc. in 1901. He was chief
of clinic in the Imperial University of Vi
enna, in 1872 and 1873 ; professor of laryn
gology at Columbia University, in 1876 ; and
became emeritus professor in 1904. He is
honorary fellow of the Laryngological So
ciety of Berlin, 1901 ; and of London, 1894;
fellow of the Academy of Medicine, New
York; American editor of Internationales
Centralblatt fiir Laryngologie (Berlin) ;
formerly editor of The Archives of Laryn
gology, New York, and coeditor of The
Archives de Laryngologie (Paris) ; also
, collaborator in other professional publica
tions and author of medical works. He is
a member of the University and Riding
Clubs. Dr. Lefferts married at Albany, New
York, 1891, Annie Cuyler Van Vechten.
Address : 212 Madison Avenue, New York
City.LEFFINGWELL, Albert:
Physician, author; born in Aurora, New
York, February 13, 1845; son of Dr. Elisha
and Jane E. (Jackson) Leffingwell. Pre
pared for and entered Hamilton College,
and received its honorary degree; taught
several years at Polytechnic Institute,
Brooklyn, New York, and graduated in
medicine in 1874. Spent 1875-1879 in sci
entific and literary work in Europe, and
several years in travel and residence in
Japan, China, Burmah, India, Palestine,
Egypt, and in all parts of Europe from
Spain to Russia. One of the founders and
proprietors of the Dansville (New York)
Sanatorium (1882-1888) ; a founder and di

rector of the Vivisection Reform Society;
vice-president (1889- 1904) and- president
(i904-'o5) of American Humane Associa
tion; vice-president of Massachusetts So
ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ;
life member of Long Island Historical So
ciety. Has written much in favor of legal
regulation (not prohibition) of vivisection.
Author: Rambles in Japan Without a
Guide; Suicide in American Cities; In
fluence of" Seasons upon Conduct; The
Morality of London; Illegitimacy; Vivisec
tion in America; The Vivisection Question;
The Leffingwell Record; American Meat
and the Public Health; and has written
various papers and monographs on philo
sophical and economic subjects for Amer
ican and foreign periodicals. In politics
he is a Republican, but favors the estab
lishment of old-age pensions, postal sav
ings-bank, and the Government control of
trusts and public utilities. In religion he
sympathises with every effort for the world's
amelioration; has no dogmatic creed at
present. Recreations include original re
search in demography, a little travel, and
the observation of living things. He mar
ried, first, December 23, 1871, Mary C.
Hathaway, who died September 28, 1886;
and, second, December 1, 1892, Elizabeth
Fear, M.D. They have three sons: Albert
Fear, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
April 24, 1895; Thomas Arthur, born in
Brooklyn, November 29, 1896; and Dana
Stuart, born in Brooklyn, June 13, 1901. Ad
dress: Aurora, New York..
LE G ALLIEN NE, Richard:
Journalist and author; born in Liverpool,
England, January 20, 1866; son of John Le
Gallienne and Jane Le Gallienne. He re
ceived his education in Liverpool College.
He was engaged in commercial pursuits
for several years, but 'afterward in journal
ism and literature in England and the
United States. He is one of the most bril
liant of the younger school of authors; has
lately become a resident of New York and
is a constant contributor to Harper's Month
ly and other leading magazines. Mr. Le
Gallienne is author of : My Ladies' Son
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Folio, 1888; George Meredith, 1890; The
Book-Bills of Narcissus, 189 1 ; English
Poems, 1892; The Religion of a Literary
Man, 1893 ; Prose Fancies, first series, 1894 ;
Robert Louis Stevenson and other Poems,
1895; Retrospective Reviews, 1896; Prose
Fancies, second series, 1896; The Quest of
the Golden Girl, 1896; If I were God, 1897.
Editor of an edition of Isaak Walton, The
Compleat Angler, and of a verse transla
tion editipn of Omar Khayyam; The Ro
mance of Zion Chapel, 1898; Young Lives,
1899; Worshipper of the Image; Travels
in England; The Beautiful Life of Rome;
The Life Romantic, 1900; Sleeping Beauty,
1900; An Old Country House, 1902. He
married first in 1891, Mildred Lee, who
died in 1894 and second, in 1897, Julie
Norregand. Address : 59 West Forty-fifth
Street, New York City.
LEGARE, George S.:
Congressman and lawyer; bOrn in Rock
ville in Charleston (formerly Berkeley)
County, South Carolina, in 1870. He was
graduated with honors from the Porter
Academy, of Charleston, after which he at
tended the University of South Carolina for
two years, then went to the Georgetown
University Law School, Washington, D. C,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1893. He has been engaged in the practice
of law in Charleston since 1893 ; was elected
corporation counsel of Charleston and held
that position until 1902. In the latter year
he was elected on the. Democratic ticket
from the First District of South Carolina
to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He was re
elected in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress
and in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress, in
which he • is now serving. Mr. Legare is
married and has four children. Address :
Charleston, South' Carolina.
LEGGETT, Francis II.: .
Importing grocer; born in New York
City, March 27, 1840; he received an aca
demic education and began business life
as, clerk in 1856; was in business in part
nership with his older brother, from 1862
to 1872; then withdrew, and with his
younger brother, established the present

firm of Francis H. Leggett and Company
of which he continues to be head, and
which is one of the largest importing
houses in teas, coffees and groceries. Mr.
Leggett is director of the Washington
Trust Company; trustee of the Greenwich
Savings Bank, a member of the Chamber of
Commerce; Produce Exchange, Mercantile
Exchange ; a member of the Council Char
ity Organization -Society and of the Metro
politan, Union League, and Merchants'
Clubs. Country Home : Stone Ridge, Ulster
County, New York. Residence: 269 Madi
son Avenue, New York. Office address :
West Broadway, Franklin and Varick
Streets, New York City.
LEIGH, William R.:
Artist ; born on a farm in Berkeley Coun
ty, West Virginia, April 23, 1866; son of
William Leigh and Mary W, (Colston)
Leigh. He received his education at home ;
at the age of fourteen went to Maryland In
stitute, Baltimore, art school, and three
years later went to the Royal Academy,
Munich, Bavaria; received the first awards
each year in Baltimore, and three bronze
and two silver medals in the academy at
Munich. He was chief figure painter on
six panoramas in Germany; received hon
orable mention in the Paris Salon on pic
tures. He has painted many portraits and
pictures (figure, landscape and interiors),
and has illustrated for all the best maga
zines. He married in New York City, in
1901, Anna Sing, and they have one son :
William Colston Leigh, born in 1902. Ad
dress : 107 East Twenty-seventh Street,
New York City.
LEIGHTON, Joseph Alexander:
Clergyman and college professor ; born at
Orangeville, Ontario, December 8, 1870;
son of James Leighton and Jane (Speers)
Leighton. He was educated at Orangeville
High School, graduated from Trinity Col
lege, Toronto, as B.A., with honors in' sci
ence and philosophy, and received the gov
ernor general's medal in 1891; went to
Cornell University as Sage scholar and fel
low in philosophy 1891 to 1894, receiving
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Theological School, Cambridge, Massachu
setts, in 1896; student in Berlin and Er-
langen Universities in Germany, in 1897. He
was assistant in Grace parish, New York
City, 1896-1897; chaplain and professor of
philosophy and psychology in Hobart Col
lege, since September, 1897, and University
preacher since 1900 in Cornell University.
He is author of many articles and reviews
in philosophical journals, and of the books:
Jesus Christ and the Civilization of To-Day,
1907 (Macmillan) ; Typical Modern Con
ceptions of God, 1901 (Longmans). In
politics, Dr. Leighton is an Independent.
He is a member of the American Psycho
logical Association, American Philosophical
Association, Phi Beta Kappa Society,
and of the Kanadassaga Club of Geneva,
New York. He married in New York City,
April 4, 1899, Victoria E. Paul, and they
have two sons : Paul Alexander, born in
1900, and Reginald, born in 1903. Address :
630 South Main Street, Geneva, New York.
LEIGHTON, Marshall Ora:
Civil engineer; born in Corinna, Maine,
May 1, 1874; son of Llewellyn Morse
Leighton and Annie (Stone) Leighton. He
was educated in the public schools of Port
land, Maine, and was graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology as
B.S. in 1896. He was superintendent of
Health at Montclair, New Jersey, from
1896 to 1902; was resident hydrographer in
1902 and 1903, chief of the Division of
Hydro-Economics from 1903 to 1905, and
has been chief hydrographer since 1906, of
the United States Geological Survey. He
also became consulting hydrographer of
the United States Inland Waterways Com
mission in 1907; has been flood commis
sioner of the State of New Jersey since
1903, and was special expert of water in
vestigations of the United States Reclama
tion Service from 1904 to 1906. His pro
fessional specialties are public hygiene,
sewage disposal, water purification and
economics and vital statistics relating there
to, and hydraulic engineering. He is au
thor of: Papers on the Pecuniary Value
of Life; Sewage Pollution in the Metro
politan Area; The Passaic Floods of 1902

and 1903 ; Sewage Pollution of Lake Cham-
plain; Pollution of the Illinois and Missis
sippi Rivers ; and Normal and Polluted
Waters in the United States. He traveled
extensively in the United States and Mex
ico. In politics he is a Republican and in
religion a Baptist. He is an associate mem
ber of the American Society of Civil En
gineers, member of the American Public
Health Association, Washington Society of
Engineers, New England Water Works As
sociation, and of the University Club of
Washington, D. C. Mr. Leighton married
in Portland, Maine, October 1, 1896, Maud
Augusta Hawkins, and they have one
daughter, Helen Reed Leighton, born Oc
tober 9, 1907. Residence: The Mendota,
Washington. Address: United States
Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
LEISHMAN, John G. A.:
Ambassador ; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, March 28, 1857. He attended the
public schools of Pittsburgh, but while
still a boy he entered the office of Shoen
berger and Company, iron and steel manu
facturers. In 1881 he entered the iron
and steel brokerage business at Pittsburgh
with a partner, under the firm name of
Leishman and Snyder, and a few years
later entered the firm of Carnegie Brothers
and Company as vice-president. Later,
when that firm united with the other Car
negie interests under the name of the Car
negie Steel Company, he was elected presi
dent of that corporation, which position
he held until June,. 1897, when he resign
ed, in order to accept the position of envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Switzerland. He
held that position until 1901 when he was
transferred, to Constantinople, and in 1906
his office was raised to ambassadorial rank
and he was appointed the first ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the
court of the Sultan. Mr. Leishman in his
mission to the Golden Horn has represented
the Government in many complicated and
difficult negotiations which he has con
ducted with great skill. Mr. Leishman has
always been a Republican in his politi
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Crawford, and they still have their home
in Pittsburgh. Address: American Em
bassy, Constantinople, Turkey.
LELAND, Arthur S.:
Banker; born in Boston, Massachusetts.
He received his education in Chauncey Hall
School and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is a member of the firm
of Arthur S. Leland and Company, bank
ers and brokers, of New York City and
Boston. Mr. Leland is also a member of
the New England Society and of the Ards
ley, New York Athletic, and Republican
dubs of New York City, and the Algon
quin Club of Boston. Residence: Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, New York City. Office ad
dress: 40 Exchange Place, New York
City. LELAND, Lester:
Capitalist; vice-president and director of
the Meyer Rubber Company of New Bruns
wick,, New Jersey; of the American Com
merce Company, New York; of the Rub
ber Goods Manufacturing Company, New
York; vice-president, director and member
of the Executive Committee of the United
States Rubber Company, and of the Gen
eral Rubber Company ; and director of the
American Dunlop Tire Company, of the
Goodyear India Rubber Glove Manufac
turing Company, the Mechanical Rubber
Company, the Peerless Rubber Manufac
turing Company, the Single Tube Automo
bile and Bicycle Tire Company, all of New
York; and also director of the American
Trust Company, the American Rubber
Company, the Atlantic Coast Lumber Cor
poration, Georgetown, South Carolina ; the
Boston Rubber Company, the Georgetown
and Western Railroad, the Industrial
Mutual Insurance Company, the New York
Belting and Packing Company (Limited),
the State National Bank, the Automobile
Mutual Insurance Company of America,
the Anglo-American Rubber Company
(Limited), the United States Rubber Com
pany (Limited), and the Wm. Lymington
and Company (Limited), all of London;
also of the Fabric Fire Hose Company, the
Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company,

the Hartford Rubber Works Company; the
L. Candee and Company, all of Connecti
cut; the G. and J. Tire Company, the In
dianapolis Rubber Company, of Indiana;
the India Rubber Company, of New
Jersey; the Lycoming Rubber Company,
of Pennsylvania; the Morgan and Wright
Company, of Michigan; the Sawyer Belt
ing Company, of Ohio;, and the Stoughton
Rubber Company, of Massachusetts. He is
also treasurer and director of the Bay
State Rubber Company; treasurer, general
manager and director of the Boston Rub
ber Shoe Company. Address : 101 Milk
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
LELAND, Lorenzo :
Banker,' lawyer; born in Ottawa, Illinois,
October 17, 1852; son of Lorenzo Leland
and Martha (Holbrook) Leland. He re
ceived his education in Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and at Yale, Col
lege. He was admitted to the bar of Il
linois in 1876; practiced law and was city
clerk in El Dorado, Kansas, from 1877 to
1880; practiced law at Ottawa, Illinois,
from 1880 to 1893 ; became president of
the First National Bank of Ottawa in 1894,
and still holds that position. He is vice-
president of the King and Hamilton Manu
facturing Company; and treasurer and di
rector of the Ottawa Building Homestead
and Savings Association. He traveled
in Mexico, China, Japan, The Ha
waiian Islands and in Europe. In
politics he is a Republican, and in re
ligion a Congregationalist; and he is a
trustee of the Ottawa Township High
School. Mr. Leland married in Ottawa,
Illinois, October 9, 1878, Fannie C. Hamil
ton, and they have one son/ Hugh H., born
in 1881. Address : Ottawa, Illinois.
LENIHAN, Mathias C.
Catholic Bishop of Great Falls; born at.
Dubuque, Iowa, October 6, 1854; son of
Edmund Lenihan and Mary (Donavan)
Lenihan. He was educated in the Grand
Seminary, Montreal; received minor or
ders from Bishop Hennessy of Dubuque ;
was ordained deacon by Archbishop Bour-
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fevre of Montreal. He was consecrated,
by Most Rev. J. J. Keane, D.D., Archbishop
of Dubuque, at Dubuque Cathedral, Sep
tember 21, 1904, bishop of Great Falls. Ad
dress : Great Falls, Montana.
LEONARD, Edgar Cotrell:
Merchant; born in Albany, New York,
May 28, 1862; son of Daniel Leonard and
Mary E. (Cotrell) Leonard. He was edu
cated in *the public schools, the Albany
Boys' Academy and Williams College, from
which he was graduated as B.A. in 1886.
In 1887 he became a member of the firm
of Cotrell and Leonard, whose business
was established by his maternal grandfather
in 1832. He is a director and treasurer of
the Albany Safe Deposit Company, and of
the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Al
bany, New York. Mr. Leonard visited
Europe in 1902 and again in 1906. He
served five years in the National Guard of
New York, is a Republican in politics, and
is a member of the Albany Water-front Im
provement Commission. He is a Presby
terian in his church relations, a director
(was president from 1899 to 1904) of the
Young Men's Christian Association and a
member of its State Committee, and is a
director of the Auburn Theological Semi
nary. He is a member of the American
Civic Association, National Geographic So
ciety, American Institute of Mining Engi
neers, the Albany Historical and Art So
ciety; is a Mason, a member of the Delta
Psi fraternity, Sons of the Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars, and is presi
dent of Albany Chapter of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants. He is also a mem
ber of the University, Fort Orange, Coun
try, and Polo Clubs of Albany, and The
Sanctum, of Litchfield, Connecticut. He
married in Albany, October 15, 1890, Bessie
Woolworth, and they have two daughters,
Ruth Woolworth and Katharine. Resi
dence: 44 Willett Street, Albany. Office
address : 472 Broadway, Albany, New York.
LEONARD, Gardner Cotrell:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
West Springfield, Massachusetts, • October
16, 1865; son of Daniel and Mary Eliza

beth (Cotrell) Leonard. He was gradu
ated from Albany Academy in 1882, and
from Williams College as A.B. in 1887
(with philosposphical oration and election
to Phi Beta Kappa Society). He has been
since 1888 with Cotrell and Leonard, of
Albany, and a partner since 1890. Mr.
Leonard was the originator and director
of Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Cos
tume, incorporated by the Regents of the
University of the State of New York in
1902. He served in the New York Na
tional Guard from 1888 to 1893, including
service at Buffalo during the strike of 1892.
He is director of the Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company. In politics he is a Re
publican and in religion a Presbyterian.
Mr. Leonard is a member of the Albany
Institute and Historical and Art Society
(formerly vice-president) ; editor of Songs
of Williams, 1898 ; member of the Society
of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution,
Williams Alumni Association of Northern
New York (formerly president), and he is
a Mason. His favorite recreation is farm
ing at Hardscrabble, Altamont, New York.
He is a member of the University Club
of New York City; of the University, Fort
Orange, Albany, Country and Uncondi
tional Clubs of Albany, and of. the Dejta
Psi fraternity. Mr. Leonard married in
Albany, New York, February 18, 1903,
Grace Watson Sutherland, and they have
a son, Gardner Cotrell, Jr., born Septem
ber, 22, 1905, and a daughter, Margaret
Sutherland, born October 4, 1907. Ad
dress : 42 Willett Street, Albany, New York.
LEONARD, John William:
Author; born in London, England, June
6, 1849; son of Howard James Leonard
and Mary Ann (Smith) Leonard. He re
ceived an academic education and came to
the United States in 1868. Was lawyer and
newspaper proprietor and editor in Texas
and Arizona; county attorney of Jefferson
County, Texas, 1878 to 1880; after that in
newspaper work as editorial writer and
editor of city dailies ; since 1886 author and
editor of books (over thirty titles). Origi
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States ; sqle e'ditor of the four biennial vol
umes of Who's Who in America from 1897
to 1906;: editor of Who's Who in New
York, 1907; Men of America, 1908; and
,many others; edited The Social Forum
; (magazine.) 1899 and 1900 ; critic and maga
zine writer. Democrat; twice nominee
for Congress in the Eighth Illinois District ;
eight years director and six years secre
tary of the Wheaton (Illinois) Board of
Education. Methodist; active in Sunday
School work. Member of, many scientific
and other societies; lecturer... Mr. Leonard
married in Chicago, May. 21, 1884, Georgi-
ana Mix, and they have five children : How
ard George, born March 25, 1885 ; William
M., born April 22, 1886, Alice Mae, born
August 4, 1891 ; Bessie Virginia, born April
2, 1893; Robert H., born April 20, 1898.
Residence: ..2.420 Seventh Avenue, New
York City: Office address : 1 West Thirty-
fourth Street, New York City.
LEONARD, William Andrew:
Bishop of Ohio ; born at Southport, Con
necticut, July 15,' 1848; son of William
Boardman and Louisa (Bulkley) Leonard.
Early ancestors came to Taunton, Massa
chusetts, in 1653. He studied theology at
the Berkley Divinity School, and received
the degree of D.D. from Washington and
Lee University in 1885, and of B.D. and
D.D. from St. Stephen's College, Annan-
dale, New .York, in 1888. He was ordered
deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1871
and was ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Williams in 1873. A.fter entering
the ministry, he became assistant at Holy
¦Trinity Church, Brooklyn, New York; and
in 1873 was made rector of the Church of
the Redeemer in the same city. After
nine years of activity he was called to the
rectorship of St. John's Parish, Washing
ton, D. C, serving until 1889, when he
was elected Bishop of Ohio. He was con
secrated by Bishops Williams, Whipple,
Doane, Whitehead, Paret, Vincent, and
Courtney (of Nova Scotia), in St., Thomas'
Church, New York, on October 12, 1889.
He ?s president of trustees of Kenyon Col
lege, Gambier, Ohio. Bishop Leonard is
a member of the University and Church

Clubs of Cleveland, and the Society of Co
lonial Wars, and is chaplain of the Ohio
Society of New York. He is author of:
Via Sacra, or Foptprints of Christ, 1875;
Brief History of the Christian Church
(sixth edition, E. P. Dutton, 1882) ; A
Faithful Life; The Witness of the Amer
ican Church to Pure Christianity (Bedell
Lectures, 1893) ; and Church Club Lectures
of New York, Bishop Leonard was mar
ried in Brooklyn, New York, April 17,
1873, to Sarah L. Sullivan. Address,: 3054
Eudid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
LEOPOLD, Isaac:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, Janu
ary 6, 1864; son of Simon Leopold and
Delia (Levi) Leopold. He was prepared
in public and high schools, and was gradu
ated from the University of Pennsylvania
as B.S. in 1883 and M.D. in 1886. He has
served as ophthalmologist to Stetson Hos
pital, to the Jewish Hospital and to the
Kensington Hospital for Women; consult
ing opthalmologist and medical director of
Jewish Maternity Hospital ; and medical
director of Jewish Seaside Home for In
valids, Atlantic City. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Hebrew. He
is a member of the County, State and
American Medical Associations, and the
American Academy of, Medicine, Pathologi
cal and Pedriatric Societies ; director , of
the Jewish Maternity Association; and is
a Mason. He is also a member of the
Mercantile and Philmont Country Clubs.
Dr. Leopold married in Philadelphia, June
7, 1888, Sara Stein, and they have three
children: Florence S. Leopold, born in
,1890; Simon S. Leopold, born in 1892; and
Charles S. Leopold, born in 1896. Address :
1518 North Franklin Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. LE ROY, James A.:
Consular officer, born in Michigan. Ap
pointed consul at Durango, August 7, 1903;
consul at Nogales, March 30, 1907. Ad
dress : Nogales, Sonora.
LESHER, Arthur L.:
Merchant; born in New York City, Au
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Emilie Theresa (Sniffen) Lesher. He was
graduated from Columbia University as A.
B. in 1883. He is now a partner of Lesher,
Whitman and Company; trustee of the
Bowery Savings Bank ; director of the Bank
of the Metropolis. Mr. Lesher is a mem
ber of the British Society of Arts, the Na
tional Geographic Society, the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
of Delta Psi fraternity, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Botanical Garden, Museum
of Natural History, the Zoological Garden
and trustee of Vassar College and Roches
ter Theological Seminary. He married in
New York City, April 10, 1888, Marion
Alice Isaacs. Address t 670 Broadway, New
York City.
LESLEY, Robert W. :
Cement manufacturer and lawyer ; born in
Philadelphia, July 5, 1853; entered Uni
versity of Pennsylvania class of 1871, and
received his degree, by special action of
the Board of Trustees, in December, 1906,
as of the date of the graduation of his class
which he left in 1868 to go into the employ
ment of George W. Childs, editor of the
Public Ledger, Philadelphia. He remained
in this office until 1879 as reporter and as
sociate editor, studying law during the mean
time. Was assistant State reporter of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for two
years and was admitted to the bar of Penn
sylvania where he became one of the at
torneys of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Whilst engaged on the Public Ledger he
became the senior member of the cement
firm of Lesley & Trinkle at the age of eigh
teen, having established this firm for the
sale of cements in Philadelphia. Was con
nected with D. O. Saylor in the upbuilding
of the first successful American Portland
cement works. In 1883 made numerous in
ventions in the cement industry and founded
the American Cement Company, which has
now seven works at Egypt, Pennsylvania,
and one at Jordan, New York. For the past
twenty-five years has read and contributed
numerous papers and articles before the
Franklin Institute, American Society of
Civil Engineers, Association for Testing
Materials, Association of Portland Cement

Manufacturers, and many other societies,
has also contributed articles on cement to
leading scientific journals in the United
States and Europe. In 1903 started the Ce
ment Age, a leading publication on cement,
published in New York. President of the
American Cement Company of New Jersey,
vice-president of the American' Cement
Company of Pennsylvania, vice-president
North American Portland Cement Com
pany, president of Lesley & Trinkle Com
pany, Philadelphia, president United Build
ing Material Company of New York and
Boston; vice-president Guard Rail Fastener
Company, vice-president of the American
Society for Testing Materials, member In
ternational Association for Testing Mater
ials, an. associate member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers; member of the
American Chemical Society, the English
Chemical Society and the Engineers' Club
of Philadelphia and a member of the Na
tional Advisory Board on Fuels and Struc
tural Materials, member of the Joint Com
mittee on Concrete and Reinforced Con
crete; was first president of the Associa
tion of American Portland Cement Manu
facturers and now past president. Mr. Les
ley is a member of the Merion Cricket,
(Haverford) Racquet, Rittenhouse, Coun
try, Engineers' and Lawyers' Clubs of Phil
adelphia, and the Engineers' Club of New
York. Address: Pennsylvania Building,
Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets,, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
LESPINASSE, Alphonse J.:
Consular officer; born in New York; was
graduated from Fort Washington Insti
tute, New York City. He was a commis
sion merchant in New York City for twenty
years. Appointed consul at Merida, Octo
ber 27, 1874; retired February, 1880; consul
at Tuxpan, January 28, 1902. Address :
Tuxpan, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
LESTER, George Bacon:
Lawyer ; born in Seneca Falls, New York,
July 12, 1872; son of Elias and Caroline
(Foote) Lester. He was educated in Myn-
derse Academy, and was graduated from
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member of the law firm of Lester, Graves
& Miles; director and. general counsel of
Fleischmann Manufacturing Company ;
general counsel of The Fleischmann Com
pany. He is a member of the Law Insti
tute and Association of the Bar of the
City of New York. His favorite recrea
tions are yachting, riding, driving, and
golf. Mr. Lester is a member of the Apa
wamis Club of Rye, New York, of the
Orange County Golf, Auburn City, and Au
burn Country Clubs ; of the Lotos, City, and
St. Nicholas Clubs, and Down Town Asso
ciation of New York, and the Manhasset
Bay Yacht Club of Port Washington, Long
Island. He married Josephine Knapp. Ad
dress : 34 West Tenth Street, New York
City. LESTER, James Westcott:
Lawyer; born in Saratoga Springs, New
York, September 8, 1859; son of Charles
Smith Lester and Lucy L. (Cooke) Lester.
He was educated in the Union Classical In
stitute, Union College as A.B. in 1881, and
Columbia College Law School. He served
in the National Guard of New York, en
tering as private, in the Twenty-second
Separate Company, November 25, 1884; was
promoted sergeant, January 24, 1885; cap
tain, January 15, 1892; major of the Sec
ond Regiment, November 18, 1898; lieuten
ant-colonel of the Second Regiment, March
31, 1899; colonel of the Second Regiment,
National Guard of New York, December
11, 1903. He served in the United States
Army as major of the Second Regiment,
New York Volunteers, from May 2, 1898,
to October 25, 1898. Mr. Lester is a mem
ber of the firm of C. S. and C. C. Lester;
secretary of the United States Hotel Com
pany, a member of the New York State
Bar Association; and of the Saratoga and
Elks Clubs of Saratoga Springs, New York,
and Army and Navy Club of New York
City. He married in Saratoga Springs,
June 13, 1888, Bertha North Dowd, and
their children are: James Dowd, born in
1889, Charles Willard, born in 1892, Dud
ley Gove, born in 1894, and Ralph West
cott, born in 1897. Address: Saratoga
Springs, New York.

LETCHWORXH, Ogden Pearl:
Manufacturer and merchant; born in Au
burn, New York, 1851; son of George J.
and Charlotte Pearl (Letchworth). He was
educated in the Auburn High School and
Williston Seminary. He is president of the
Pratt and Letchworth Company, the United
States Home Company; vice-president of
the Frazer and Jones Company; the Solvey
Foundry Company; director of the Great
Lake Engineering Works; Manufacturers'
and Traders' Bank, Erie County Savings
Bank, Lumber Insurance Company, and the
Adirondack Fire Insurance Company. In
politics he is a Republican and he is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Letch
worth is a member of the Lodge of Ancient
Landmarks; trustee of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Buffalo
Historical Society, the Wyoming Benevo
lent Institute, and a member of the Buffalo,
Ellicott, Country Park, Buffalo Yacht Club
of Buffalo, Royal Canadian Yacht Club of
Toronto, Transportation Club of New
York City, the Brantford Club of Brant
ford, Ontario and the Hamilton Club of
Hamilton, Ontario. He married iri Buf
falo, New York, 1876, Laura Strong, and
they have one daughter. Address : Buffalo,
New York.
LEUBUSCHER, Frederic Cyrus:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, Sep
tember 1, i860; son of Louis Mortimer and
Katharine- (Horner) Leubuscher. Mr. Leu-
buscher's father was one of the German
revolutionists of 1848, at the time being a
lieutenant in the Prussian Army. He was
arrested and sentenced to be shot, but es
caped in a sailing vessel to America; he
served throughout the War of the Rebellion,
commanded his regiment at Chancellors
ville, and was wounded at Gettysburg. Mr.
Leubuscher was graduated from the Col
lege of the City of New York, as A.B. in
1878; and from Columbia University, as
LL.B. in 1880. He was admitted to the
New York bar in 1881 ; secured the first
indictment for bribery at elections ever ob
tained in New York City; established pre
cedent in law of injunctions; and has been
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and loan associations. He is author of:
History of the George-Hewitt Campaign of
1886. He was candidate for judge of Court
of General Sessions in 1887 ; director of the
Metropolitan League of Cooperative Build
ing and Loan Associations, and president
of the State League of Cooperative Build
ing and Loan Associations with an ag
gregate membership of one hundred thou
sand ; president of the New York Teachers'
Plantation Company, Real Estate Statistics ;
secretary of the Climax Zinc Mining Com
pany ; director of the Economic Game Com
pany, Teachers' Cooperative Building and
Loan Association, Serial Building Loan
Savings Institute, Eclectic Cooperative
Building and Loan Association. His favor
ite recreations are swimming, bicycling,
walking. He is a member of the Knicker
bocker Yacht, Harlem, Harlem Democratic,
and Manhattan Single Tax Clubs (pres
ident). He married in New York City,
1903, Aurella Lange, and they have one son :
Frederick Henry Louis, born in 1906. Ad
dress: 258 Broadway, New York City.
LEVENTRITT, David:
Jurist; born in Winnsboro, South Caro
lina, January 31, 1845; son of George M.
Leventritt and Betty Leventritt. He re
ceived his education in the public and pri
vate schools and the Free Academy of New
York City, was graduated from there as
salutatorian in 1864; and then took a law
course in New York University. He was
admitted to the bar in 1871 and engaged
chiefly in commercial litigation and as coun
sel for corporations; also special counsel
to the city of New York in condemnation
proceedings, until he was elected, in 1898,
as justice of the Supreme Court of the First
District, for the term expiring December
31, 1912. Judge Leventritt is director of
Mt. Sinai Hospital, St. Mark's Hospital,
Lebanon Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
Montefiore Home, Hebrew Technical In
stitute, Home for Aged and Infirm, Educa
tional Alliance, Guild for Crippled Children
and the Young Men's Hebrew Association.
He married. in 1868, Matilda Lit. Address:
34 West Seventy-seventh Street, New York
City.

LEVER, Ashbury Francis:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Spring-
hill, Lexington County, South Carolina, son
of Washington Lever and Elvira (Der
rick) Lever. He was brought up on his
father's farm, attending the common schools
of his community until his entrance into
Newberry College, from which institution
he graduated with the honors of his class
in 1895. After graduation he taught school
until he was selected as the private secre
tary to the late Hon. J. William Stokes,
whom he succeeds ; he graduated in law at
the Georgetown University in 1899, and the
same year was admitted to practice in his
State by the Supreme Court. He was a
member of the State Democratic Conven
tions in 1896 and 1900, and in 1900 was
elected to the State Legislature from Lex
ington County, holding that position until
his resignation to enter the race to fill
the unexpired term of the Hon. J. William
Stokes in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and
he was reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, from the
Seventh South Carolina District: Address:
Lexington, South Carolina.
LEVEY, Edgar J.:
President of the Title Insurance Com
pany of New York; born in New York
City, November 4, 1863 ; son of Isaac Levey
and Anne E. (Lemon) Levey. He was
graduated from Columbia University as
A.B. in 1883; and from Columbia Law
School- as LL.B. in 1886. For several
years after leaving college, he was engaged
in journalism, making a specialty of musi
cal criticism. In 1891 he became secretary
to the comptroller in the Department- of
Finance of New York' City; was appointed
assistant deputy comptroller in 1893,- and
deputy comptroller in 1899. He served
many years as secretary of the Sinking
Fund Commission of New York City. His
magazine articles on the New York Sink
ing Funds caused the thorough-going ref
ormation -which this branch of New York's
finance has recently received. In 1899 he
was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt,' then
governor of New York, as a member of
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York Charter; appointed by Mayor Mc
Clellan in 1905, chairman of the commis
sion on ¦ Taxation and Finance, having for
its object reformation of New York City's
finances, The legislative recommendations
of the commission in regard to uncollect-
able arrears of taxes were enacted by the
State Legislature in 1906. In 1902, with
John D. Crimmins, Charles T. Barney,
James A. Deering and others,, he organized
the Title Insurance Company of New York
and the New York Mortgage and Security
Company, of which corporations he is presi
dent. He is regarded as a leading author
ity on matters of municipal finance.- Mr.
Levey is also a director of the Knicker
bocker Trust Company, and the Century
Realty Company; vice-president of the
Chelsea Realty Company; president of the
Lawyers' Engineering and Surveying Com
pany; director of the Bush Terminal Com
pany, and chairman of the Tuberculosis
Committee of Charity Organization So
ciety. His favorite recreations are music,
literature, and yachting. He is a member
of the Manhattan, Columbia University,
and Brooklyn Yacht Clubs. Mr. Levey mar
ried first Julia P. Harrison, who died
February 24, 1904; and second, Arilelia H.
Speed. Address : 135 Broadway, New York
City.LEVY, Charles Emanuel:
Banker and cotton merchant; born in
Lexington, Mississippi, September 20, i860;
son of Moses Levy and Rosa (Hertz) Levy.
• He graduated from the College of the City
of New York, with the degree of B.S. He
was on the Board of Education of the
State of Louisiana for ten years. Mr. Levy
is now a member of the firm of M. Levy
and Sons. His travels have been very ex
tensive and his favorite recreations are fish
ing and reading. He is president and di
rector 'of the Interstate Securities Com
pany; director of The Borough Bank of
Brooklyn, The Guardian Trust Company,
the Gulf and Chicago Railroad, the Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Com
pany, The Oriental Bank and the Union
Trust Company of New Jersey. In politics
he is a Democrat. Mr. Levy is a member

of many clubs in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Residence : Hargrave Hotel, New York.
Office address : 30 Broad Street, New York
City.LEVY, Jefferson Monroe:
Lawyer; born in New York City; son of
Captain Jonas P. Levy and Fanny (Mitch
ell) Levy. His ancestors settled in New
ifork and Virginia early in the Seventeenth
Century, and their patent in New York dates
back to 1665 in the records at Albany.
He studied law under the late Clarkson
N. Potter; was admitted to the bar in
New York City, and engaged in practice.
He inherited from the uncle, Commodore
Uriah P. Levy, United States Navy, and
now owns, the home of Thomas Jefferson
at Monticello, Virginia, which has been in
the Levy family since the death of Thomas
Jefferson. He is author of the compila
tion : Election Laws of the City of New
fork. Mr. Levy agitated and caused the
reform of surrogates' practices in the Coun
ty of New York. He organized the Demo
cratic Club of New York; represented the
Thirteenth District of New York in the
Fifty-sixth Congress, from 1899 to 1901 ;
was leader of Gold Democrats in that Con
gress, and aided in defeating the Nica-
raguan Canal scheme by making a speech
:n House of Representatives, which was
ised as a text for opposition to the Nica-
aguan Canal and afterwards for the pur
chase of the Panama Canal. He made other
notable speeches in the House; one on in
vestigation of the secretary of the Treasury
->n Repeal of the War Tax, and on the
bill for fixing and defining the rank of
officers in the revenue service. He offered
resolutions for the repayment of money
expended by the United States Government
in behalf of the Island of Cuba, the bill to
orovide for international notes, and bill au
thorizing national banks to include national
bank notes in their lawful money reserve.
Mr. Levy is a member of the Sons of
the Revolution, Sons of the American Rev
olution, and the Manhattan, Democratic,
New York Yacht, Meadow Creek Country,
qnd Sundown Park Clubs. Address : 30
Pine Street, New York City.

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LEWI, Maurice J.:
Physician; born at Albany, New York,
December i, 1857; son of Joseph Lewi
and Bertha (Schwartz) Lewi. He attend
ed Albany High School, Albany Medical
College, Heidelberg and Vienna Universi
ties. He was formerly a teacher at Albany
Medical College, and was professor of med
ical jurisprudence in Albany Law School;
is ex-president of the Albany County Med
ical Society, and of the Northern Med
ical Association; ex-president of the New
York Alumni Association of Albany Med
ical College ; and is now, and for .the past
sixteen years, has been secretary of the
New York State Board of Medical Exam
iners. Member of the Board of Governors
of the Albany Society of New York, and
member of the Yonkers City Club and the
Union University Club of New York City.
Summer residence : Far Rockaway, New
York. Address: 1133 Broadway, New York
City.
LEWIS, Arthur Franklin:
Clergyman; born in Trumbull, Connecti
cut, February 29, 1872; son of Frank B.
Lewis and Georgia F. Ambler. He was
graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1892. Mr.
Lewis was ordered deacon in 1896 and or
dained priest the same year by Bishop
Brewer in the Episcopal ministry. He was
formerly in charge of St. Andrew's Church
at Phillipsburg, Montana, in 1896 and 1897 ;
at St. Andrew's, Centerville, Butte, Mon
tana, in 1897 and 1898; in charge of. the
church at Delaware City, from 1898 to
1900; rector of All Saints' Church, Leonia,
New Jersey, from 1900 to 1903, and at
the church at Unionville, Connecticut,
since 1903. He is vice-president .of the
Board of Managers of the Masonic Home
at Wallingford, Connecticut. He married
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 2, 1896,
Edith Kaynor Thompson, and they have
one son, George Birdseye Lewis, born Sep
tember 20, 1897. Address: Unionville,
Connecticut. LEWIS, Charles L.:
Jurist ; born in Ottawa, Illinois, March
8, 1852. He was prepared for college' in

the Ottawa High School and the old Uni
versity of Chicago, and was graduated from
Oberlin College as A.B. in 1876. He stud
ied law in Chicago, and after his admission
to the Illinois bar, removed to Minnesota,
practiced at Fergus Falls and afterward at
Duluth, and was elected in 1892 judge of
the District Court for the Eleventh Judic
ial District of Minnesota, serving a term,
and in 1898 was elected on the Republican
ticket to the Supreme Court of Minnesota,
in which he is still serving as associate
justice. Address : 62 South Dale Street, St.
Paul, Minnesota.
LEWIS, Daniel:
Physician ; born at Alfred, New York,
January 17, 1846; son of Alfred Lewis and
Lucy (Langworthy) Lewis. He was grad
uated from Alfred University as A.B. in
1869 and the degree of A.M. was con
ferred upon him in 1872 and that of Ph.D.
in 1886 and LL.D. in 1902 by the same uni
versity, and was also graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Co
lumbia as M.D. 1871. He served in the
United States Navy from 1864 to 1865 ; was
commissioner of health, for the State of
New York; medical director of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Department of New
York, 1888; and president of the American
Congress of Tuberculosis. He is editor and
proprietor of the Medical Review of Re
views. Dr. Lewis is a fellow of the New
York Academy of Medicine; a member of
the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid As
sociation; the Society of Medical Juris
prudence, the Medical Society of the Coun
ty of New York; the Medical Society of
the State of New York and of the Repub
lican and Union League Clubs. He ^mar
ried in 1872, Achsah D. Vaughan. Resi
dence : Spuyten Duyvil, New York. Office
address: 616 Madison Avenue, New York
City. LEWIS, Daniel F. :
Railway official; born in Brooklyn, New
York, March 28, 1849 ; and was educated in
the public schools. He was in the service
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also president of the Brooklyn Heights
Railway Company, the Knickerbocker
Steamboat Company;, the Bay Ridge Park
Improvement Company, and interested as
officer or director in other corporations.
Mr. Lewis is a member of the Hamilton,
Crescent Athletic, Brooklyn, and Park
Driving Clubs. Residence: Hempstead,
Long Island, New York. Office address :
180 Montague Street, New York City.
LEWIS, Elijah Banks:
Congressman; born in Dooly County,
Georgia, March 27, 1854; removed to
Montezuma, his present home, at the age
of 17 years ; was educated in the common
schools of Dooly and Macon counties; has
had a- business training, his father making
him his partner in the banking and mercan
tile business before his maturity, and is
still in the banking and mercantile busi
ness; always took art active interest in pol
itics, working for his friends and political
party, but never accepted any office until
1894, when he was elected to the State Sen
ate for the years 1894-95 ; was elected from
the Third Georgia District to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses, and reelected to the
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses; be
sides his services in Congress he is at the
head of or president of a successful Na
tional and State bank each, and giving
much attention to the developments of many
industrial enterprises, now going on in his
State. Address: Montezuma, Georgia.
LEWIS, Franklin Crocker:
Superintendent of the Ethical Culture
Schools; born in Centreville, Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, in 1877 ; son of Joseph Free
man and Emma Caroline (Hinckley) Lewis.
He received his education in the Barnstable
High School, at Hyannis, Massachusetts;
was graduated from Dartmouth College as
A.B. in 1900 and from Harvard College
as A.M. in 1901. He was instructor of
mathematics and science at Hanover High
School during his senior year in college,
1900; took a European trip in the summer
of 1900; at Harvard as a graduate student
from 1900 to 1902; instructor in pedagogy

at Dartmouth from 1902 to 1906; assistant
superintendent of the Ethical Culture
Schools from February to July, 1906; and
superintendent of same since July, 1906. He
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety and Chi Phi fraternity. Mr. Lewis
married at Denver, Colorado, June 20, 1903,
Ellen Anderson and their children are : Bea
trice, born 1904, and Madeleine, born 1905.
Address : 33 Central Park West, New York
City.LEWIS, G. Griffin:
Physician; born at Avoca, New York,
December 17, 1865; son of Sylvester Lewis
and Margaret E. (Clute) Lewis. He at
tended Worcester Academy at Worcester,
Massachusetts, and Union University
(Medical Department) ; and took post
graduate courses in Paris, Berlin and. New
York. He practices as oculist, aurist,
rhinologist and laryngologist; is oculist to
the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, oculist
and aurist to St. Mary's Maternity Hos
pital, to ¦ St. Vincent's Asylum, and to the
Syracuse public schools; special United
States pension examiner, and oculist and
aurist to the New York Central and Hud
son River Railroad. In politics he is a Re
publican, and in religious views a Presby
terian. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the New York State
Medical Society; the Western New York
Medical Society and the Onondaga County
Medical Society; fellow of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-
Laryngology and of the Syracuse Academy
of Medicine, and member of the Associa
tion of United States Pension Examining
Surgeons. He is also a member of the
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and of the Citi
zens' Club of Syracuse. Dr. Lewis mar
ried at Syracuse, February 6, 1896, Marian
Foster Argersinger, and they have two
children: Edward Dench, born in 1897,
and Dudley Griffin, born in 1898. Resi
dence: 308 Waverly Avenue. Office ad
dress : 600 University Block, Syracuse,
New York.
LEWIS, John Frederick:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, September
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(Kalbfus) Lewis; he was graduated with,
highest honors from Central High School
in 1879, and received the degree of A.M.
from same in 1884; studied law undel
Hon. GeOrge M, Dallas, and was admitted
to the bar in 1882; practiced with Hon.
Charles Gibbons & Son in the Courts of
Admiralty. He is president of the Mercan
tile Library Company of Philadelphia,
treasurer of the Genealogical Society of
Pennsylvania; author of monograph, Gen
ealogical Obstacles Considered; president
of the Young American Humane Union;
ho'norary curator of the Prints and president
of the directors of the Pennsylvania Acad
emy of Fine Arts; author of several mono
graphs on the art of engraving: Schrott-
blatter; Teigdriicke; William Hogarth,
etc. President of the Philadelphia Skating
Club and Humane Society; one of the vice-
presidents and member of the Council of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania;
librarian and member of the Numismatic
and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia;
and he is author of a'History of Skating.
He is a director of the Farmers' and Me
chanics' National Bank of Philadelphia;
was one of the organizers and is solicitor
of the Philadelphia Bourse; solicitor for
the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange;
vice-president of Philadelphia Trans-At
lantic Line ; solicitor of the Northern Home
for Friendless Children; secretary of the
Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, member of the Archaeological De
partment of the University of Pennsyl
vania, and one of the advisory managers
and member of the Philadelphia Country
Club, Farmers' Club of Chester County,
Franklin Institute, and Merion Cricket
Club. He has held the office of United
States Commissioner for many years, and
his practice as a lawyer is chiefly in ad
miralty and maritime cases, upon which
branch of the law he is special lecturer at
the University of Pennsylvania. He married
in Philadelphia, May 23,, 1895, Anne H.
Rush Baker, daughter of Alfred G. and
Henrietta Rush (Fates) Baker. Residence
in winter : 1914 Spruce Street, and in sum
mer ' at "Morstein," Morstein, Chester Coun

ty, Pennsylvania. Address : 622 Bourse
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LEWIS, Merton Elmer:
Lawyer; born in Webster, Monroe Coun
ty, New York, December 10, i86i;son of
Charles Chadwick Lewis arid Rhoda Ann
(Willard) Lewis. He received his educa
tion at the Webster Union School. He has
practiced law continuously since his ad
mission to the bar in 1887 and is now a
member of the law . firm of Lewis and
McKay. He was elected alderman of the
city of Rochester in 1890; a member of
the New York State Constitutional Con
vention in 1894; president of the Common
Council of Rochester from 1893 to , 1895 ;
acting mayor of the city of Rochester in
1895 ; a member of the Assembly of
New York State in 1896, 1898, 1899 and
1900; a member of the Senate of New
York State in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 and
1905, was Republican nominee for State
Comptroller of New York in 1906. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in his religious
affiliations a Methodist Episcopalian. He is
a Mason, Knight of Pythias and a member
of the Masonic Club. Mr. Lewis married,
first, at Webster, New York, January 2,
1886, Adaline Louise Moody, who died June,
1894, and second, at Rochester, New York,
November 8, 1899, Eva J. Gates, and his
children are: Donald M., born in 1894;
Roscoe C, born in 1899, and Margaret, born
in 1905. Address : Rochester, New York.
LEWIS, Richard Anthony:
Retired merchant; born at, Worcester
County, Massachusetts, September 14, 1830;
son of Thomas Lewis and Betsey Eddy
(Anthony) Lewis. He attended common
schools. Mr. Lewis is president of the
Mercantile Beneficial Association; treas?
urer and director of New Church Book
Association; secretary and manager of the
House of Refuge, and director of the Dela
ware Insurance Company of Philadelphia.
He is a Republican in politics, and is a
member of the New England Society of
Pennsylvania, and the Union League Club
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Historical
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trial Art Association. Pennsylvania. Acad
emy of, the Fine Arts. He married in Provi
dence, Rhode Island, March 7, 1855, Sarah
Patterson Hail, and they have seven chil
dren: Elizabeth Eddy, born in 1856, George
Hail, born in 1859, deceased, Arthur Pat
terson, born in. 1861, F'rederic Anthony,
born in 1863, deceased in infancy, Henry
Anthony, born in 1865, Frank Nichols, born
in 1868, and Walter Gibbs, born in 1873.
Residence: 1909 Green Street. Office ad
dress: 902 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.LEWIS, Richard V ¦
Merchant: born in Wales, December 23,
1841; son of Richard Vaughan and Eliza
beth Vaughan (born Lewis). He received
his education in the Mechanics' Institute
School of New York City. He entered the
employ of J. and C. Berrian in 1856; suc
ceeded as partner, with Henry C. Conger
to the business in 1868, and is now president
of the firm of Lewis and Conger: Mr.
Lewis enlisted as a private in the Ninth
Regiment of the New York Volunteer In
fantry and served until the close of the
Civil War, from 1862 to 1865. He is a
member of the Baptist Church, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and of the
Republican Club. He married in England
in 1882, Miriam Ellis, and their children
are: Helen, Edmund, Millicent, Wilfred,
Richard, Jr., and Arthur. Residence : Ir-
vington-on-Hudson, New York. Office ad
dress: 130-132 West Forty-second Street,
New York City.
LEWIS, Robert. Jr.:
Physician, otologist and rhinologist ; born
in New York City, March 8, 1862; son of
Robert Lewis and Catherine (Monks)
Lewis. He received his education in pri
vate and public schools, of New York, City;
the College of the City of New York; the
Coltege of Physicians and Surgeons, and
was graduated from the Medical Depart
ment of Columbia University as M.D. in
1885. He was on the house staff of Ran
dall's Island. Hospitals in 1885 arid 1886 ;
first house surgeon at the Harlem Branch
of Bellevue Hospital, 1887; and in general

practice in Harlem from 1888 to 1892. He
was appointed assistant surgeon in the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1889; and
surgeon in the Aural Department of the
same since 1901 ; clinical assistant in the De
partment of Otology, in the Vanderbilt
Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
1888; instructor in the same and chief of
clinic, 1896. Fie associated with Dr. Al
bert H. Buck (retired in 1902) in 1892 and
has been engaged since then in the special
practice of otology and rhinology. Dr. Lewis
was visiting aurist to Randall Island Hos
pital; is now consulting aurist to Flushing
and St. Francis' Hospitals. He was dele
gate from the New York County Medical
Society to the State Medical Society in
1900 and 1901 ; censor in 1901 ; second vice-
president in 1902; member of the council
and Executive Committee of the Alumni
Association of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. He is a, contributor to The
Reference Handbook of the Medical Sci
ences of articles on: The Mastoid Opera
tions ; Affections of the Auricle ; Anatomy
and Physiology of the Auricle; also a con
tributor to the journals on otological sub
jects. He is a member of the New York
Otological Society ; the American Otologic^
Society; the American Rhinological," Laryn
gological and Otological Society; the Amer
ican Medical Association; the New York
Academy of Medicine ; the New York Coun
ty, and State Medical Societies; Hospital
Graduates' Club; American Society of
Moral Prophylaxis, Public Health Defence
League,' National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis'; Xi Grad
uates' Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta ; . and of
the Columbia University, Sound Beach Golf
and Country Clubs, and the Laurentian
Club. Dr. Lewis married in New York
City in 1892, Lillie B. Graham, and their
children are : Robert Graham, born in 1901 ;
Hallett Nixon, born in 1903; and Gwen
dolyn, born in 1906. Country residence:
Sound Beach, Connecticut. Residence: 48
West Fortieth Street, New York City.
LEWIS, Robert E.:
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trict Court of the United States, for the
District of Colorado. Address : Denver,
Colorado. LEWIS, Willis L.:
Lawyer; born in Potter County, Penn
sylvania, in 1852; educated in Alfred Uni
versity, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1876;
studied law under Olmsted and Larrabee,
and was admitted to the bar of Potter and
McKean Counties in 1878. He opened an
office at Duke Center, McKean County, and
practiced there till 1882, when he went to
Coudersport, Potter County, and there in
1883 became a partner of his preceptor,
Hon. D. C. Larrabee. Mr. Larrabee died in'
1889, and in 1892 Mr. Lewis entered into
partnership with F. C. Leonard, ex-
United States Marshal of the Middle Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. In 1894 Potter and
Clinton Counties indorsed his name as a
candidate for Congress, but after a dead
lock of two months he and his opponent
withdrew from the contest, and his part
ner, Mr. F. C. Leonard, was nominated
and elected. In September, 1906, Mr.
Lewis became general counsel for the Tide
water Pipe Company (Limited). He formed
a partnership with A. F. Jones and R. R.
Lewis,. who carry on the business at Coud-
erspo'rt, Mr. W. I. Lewis being in New
York City a large part of the time. Ad
dress, Coudersport, Pennsylvania.
LEWISOHN, Adolph:
President and director of the United
Metals Selling Company, of the General
Development Company; vice-president and
director of the Utah Consolidated Mining
Company; and director of the Crocker-
Wheeler Company; Importers' and
Traders' National Bank; National Copper
Bank; and Butte and Boston Mining Com
pany. Address : 42 Broadway, New York
City.LIEB, John William, Jr.:
Electrical engineer ; born in Newark, New
Jersey, February 12, i860. He received his
education at the Newark Academy, Stevens
High School, Hoboken, New Jersey, and
the Stevens Institute of Technology, from
which he was graduated as M.E. in 1880.

He entered the employ of the Edison Elec
tric Light Company, New York, in 1881,
and in 1882 was put in charge by Mr. Edi
son of the installation of the electrical
equipment of the historic Pearl Street Sta
tion. He was sent by Mr. Edison, in 1882,
to superintend the installation of the Milan
Edison plant, of which he became director
and chief engineer of the company, in general
charge of its technical department, engaged
in the manufacture of electrical apparatus
and the constructing and operating of light
ing and power plants in Italy; returned to
the service of Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of New York in 1894, advancing
by steps to third vice-president and general
manager. On .the consolidation of the var
ious lighting interests in New York City,
under the corporate name of The New
York Edison Company, appointed to third
vice-president and associate general man
ager. He is president of the Electrical
Testing Laboratories and director in sev
eral electrical corporations. He is past
president of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers; vice-president of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ;
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers; past president of the Associa
tion of Edison Illuminating Companies and
the New York Electrical Society; member
of the Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana,
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and En
gineers' Club. Address : 869 West End
Avenue, New York City.
LIEBERKNECHT, Adam:
Consul officer; born in Gerrnany. Ap
pointed consul at Tampico, August 16, 1890;
retired October, 1893; appointed consul at
Zurich, July 17, 1897. Address: Zurich,
Switzerland. LIGGETT, Sidney B.:
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Lines
west of Pittsburgh; born on Fifth Ave
nue, Pittsburgh, May 10, 1849; son of
John Liggett, who was engaged in mer
cantile life, and Catherine (Hutton) Lig
gett. His family was one of the earliest
of Scotch-Irish origin to settle in Pitts
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schools and at the Western University of
Pittsburgh, and on the conclusion of his
studies, became a clerk in a large iron
and steel firm, where he remained until
1871, when he entered the service of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a clerk
in the accounting department. His pro
motion was continuous until 1881, when
he was appointed secretary of the lines
west of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars, and one of the
Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania
Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
Address : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
LILLE Y, George Leavens:
Congressman ; was born In Oxford, Mas
sachusetts, August 3, 1859. He was edu
cated in the common schools of Oxford,
at the Worcester High School, and had one
year at the Worcester Polytechnic Insti
tute; settled in Waterbury in December,
1881, and has since resided there. He is
a director of the Torringtori National
Bank, Torrington, Connecticut; has served
on the Republican State Committee since
1901 ; served in the House of Representa
tives of the Connecticut Legislature in
1901 ; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Con
gress and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses from the State of
Connecticut at large, as a Republican. Ad
dress : Waterbury, Connecticut.
LINCOLN, Arthur:
Stock broker ; born in Providence, Rhode
Island, June 5, 1849; son of John Larkin
Lincoln and Laura Eloise (Pearce) Lin
coln. He was graduated from Brown Uni
versity as A.B. in 1870 and later as A.M.
He is engaged in business as stock broker
in New York City; also secretary and
treasurer of the Jewell Export Filter Com
pany. He is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society; Chi Psi fraternity, and of
the University, Strollers', Larchmont,
Brown University, Stock Exchange,
Luncheon and Metropolitan Opera Clubs
of New York City. Hope Club of Provi
dence, and the National Club of London.
Address: 570 Fifth Avenue, and 29 Wall
Street, New York,

LINCOLN, Charles Z.:
Lawyer; born in Grafton, Vermont,
August 5, 1848; son of Pratt Lincoln and
Harriet (Whitcomb) Lincoln. He received
his education in the schools of Vermont
and East Otto, New York, and an acad
emic course in the Chamberlain Institute
'at Randolph, New York. He was teach
ing from 1867 to 1872 ; began the study of
law, first, in 1871, with Joseph R. Jewell,
at Little Valley, New York, and after
wards with Hon. Charles S. Cary at Olean,
New York. He was admitted to the bar
at Rochester, April 10, 1874; practiced at
Little Valley from 1874 to 1894; the fol
lowing six years was chairman of the New
York Statutory Revision Commission and
legal advisor to Governors Morton, Black
and Roosevelt. He opened an office in
Albany in November, 1901, and continued
practice until 1904. In January, 1901, he
began collecting material for a Constitu
tional History of New York, which was
published in 1906. In July, 1905, he was
appointed editor of the governor's mes
sages, under the new law providing for an
annotated edition of the governor's com
munications to the legislature from the or
ganization of the Colonial Assembly in
1683, to and including 1904, and is still
engaged on that work. Mr. Lincoln in
1893 wrote the History of the Bench and
Bar of Cattaraugus County and he is a
contributor to legal and other periodicals.
He is also the author of a recent book on :
The Fundamentals of American Govern
ment, including the four great documents
on which American institutions are found
ed : Magna Charta, the Declaration of In
dependence, the Articles of Confederation,
and the Constitution of the United States ;
and also the statutes relating to naturaliza
tion and expatriation, with an introduction
and explanatory notes. The book is de
signed primarily for the use of foreigners
intending to become American citizens.
He was lay delegate to the Methodist
Episcopal General Conference, at Los
Angeles, California, in 1904; has been pres
ident, trustee and attorney of the Village
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member of the Board of Education; super
visor from 1886 to 1889 ; delegate to the
Constitutional Convention in 1894, serving
as a member of the committee on appor
tionment, privileges and elections and civil
service. He married in East Otto, No
vember 12, 1874, Lusetta Bonfsteel and
they have one son, Leroy A., born August
18, 1880. Address : 103 South Swan
Street, Albany, New York.
LINCOLN, Joseph Crosby:
Author; born in Brewster, Massachusetts,
February 13, 1870; son of Joseph Lincoln
and Emily (Crosby) Lincoln. He attended
schools at Brewster and at Chelsea, Massa
chusetts, and was afterward bookkeeper for
the Somerville Desk Company of Boston,
in 1894 and 1895 ; but left there to study
illustration with Henry Vandham, the Bos
ton artist. Mr. Lincoln was assistant edi
tor of the Bulletin of the League of Amer
ican Wheelmen from 1896 to 1899; and
then began writing verse and short sketches,
mostly of a humorous nature ; came to New
York as a free lance in July, 1899. He
is. author of: Cape Cod Ballads, 1902;
Cap'n Eri, 1904; Partners of the Tide,
1905; Mr. Pratt, 1906; The Old Home
House, 1907; and is a contributor to var
ious magazines. In politics he is an In
dependent Republican and in religion a Uni
tarian. He is president of the New Jer
sey Unitarian Mens' Club. His favorite
recreations are boating, sailing and fish
ing. Mr. Lincoln married in Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts, May 12, 1897, Florence Ellery
Sargent, and they have one son, Joseph
Freeman Lincoln, born in 1900. Address :
Summit Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey.
LINCOLN, Robert Todd:
President of the Pullman Palace Car
Company; born in Springfield, Illinois, Au
gust 1, 1843 ; eldest son of Abraham Lin
coln, sixteenth President of the United
States and Mary (Todd) Lincoln. He was
graduated from Harvard College as A.B.
in 1864, and entered Harvard Law School,
but left in order to enter the army, in
which he served as a captain on the staff
of General U. S. Grant. When the war

ended he completed his law studies and
engaged in practice in Chicago. In 1881 he
entered the cabinet of President Garfield as
secretary of War, and retained that port
folio under the administration of President
Arthur. In 1884 he was strongly mentioned
for the presidential candidate, but he re
fused to oppose President Arthur in the
Convention. During the administration of
President Benjamin Harrison he was en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Great Britain,
from 1889 to 1893. After that he was gen-
eneral counsel for the Pullman Palace Car
Company until the death of George M. Pull
man, when he was elected president of the
company. He is also vice-president of the
Chicago Edison Company, and a director
in various corporations. He is a member
of the Union, University, Howard, Chicago
Golf and other clubs of Chicago. Mr. Lin
coln married, September 24, 1868, Mary
Harlan, daughter of James Harlan, senator
from Iowa and secretary of the Interior in
Lincoln's second cabinet. They have two
daughters : Mrs. Mary Isham and Mrs.
Jessie Beckwith. Residence : 60 Lake Shore
Drive, Chicago. Office address: Pullman
Building, Chicago, Illinois.
LINDBLOM, Robert:
Commission merchant; born in Nerike,'
Sweden, November 17, 1844; son of Nils
and Lovisa (Tolf) Lindblom. He received
his education through the instruction of
private tutors, taking a course in an agri
cultural and business college, and also a
course in civil engineering. He came to
this country in 1864 and settled at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, where he engaged in
business. He met with considerable suc
cess, and since 1873 has been engaged as a
Board of Trade commission merchant, un
der the style of Robert Lindblom & Com
pany. He was on the staff of Governor Alt-
geld from 1893 to 1897 and was president of
the Civil Service Commission of Chicago
from February 18, 1898, to July I, 1902, and
member of the Board of Education. He
was most instrumental in bringing the
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directors, the Swedish Royal Coinmis-
sioner to that exposition, and he was
knighted by the King of Sweden for his
distinguished services in that connectiori.
He . is secretary of the Farmers' National
Exchange Company. He is an Agnostic
in religious belief and a member of the
Union League and Swedish Clubs, and of
the Milwaukee Club of Milwaukee. He was
married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Novem
ber 17, 1874, to Hattie Lewis, now de
ceased, and they have had three children:
Lenor and Vesta and Benton, the young
est, who is now deceased. Residence: 678
La Salle Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Ad
dress: Postal Telegraph Building, Chicago,
Illinois. LINDENTHAL, Gustav:
Civil engineer; born in Brunn, Austria,
May 21, 1850; son of Dominik and Fran-
ciska (Schmutz) Lindenthal. He took
scientific studies at colleges in Brunn and
Vienna from 1864 to 1870. He was em
ployed on surveys and construction of rail
roads and bridges in Austria and Switzer
land till 1874, when he came to the United
States; engineer at the Centennial Inter
national Exhibition, Philadelphia, from
1874 to 1877 ; thereafter consulting engineer
in the construction of Western Railroad,
with the main office at Pittsburgh. He
removed to New York City in 1892; was
originator, chief engineer and architect of
the proposed bridge over the North River
at. Twenty-third Street, with a single span
of' 3,100 feet. He is contributor of papers
and essays, mostly on engineering subjects,
to scientific journals and engineering so
cieties ; was commissioner of bridges in the
City of New York in 1902 and 1903, dur
ing the administration of Seth Low; com
pleted the construction , of the Williams
burg Bridge and made plans for the Black-
well's Island Bridge and Manhattan Bridge •
also prepared plans for the reconstruction
of Brooklyn Bridge, and for a great monu
mental bridge terminal and municipal build
ings combined. . Mr. Lindenthal was a mer"
ber of the board of six consulting en
gineers, which planned the tunnels and ter
minal of the Pennsylvania Railroad under

the North and East Rivers in New YOrk:
is engineer and architect of Hell Gate
Bridge over the East River for the New
York Connecting Railroad, which when
completed, in 1908, will be the boldest and
longest steel arch bridge in the world. He
is president of the North River Bridge
Company; a member of the British Insti
tution of Civil Engineers; the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineers; the American
Society of Civil Engineers; a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science; a member of Verein Deutscher
Maschinen Ingenieure in Berlin; Hudson-
Fulton Celebration Committee, Municipal
Art Society; Arion Society (president) ;
and a member of the Manhattan and City
Clubs. He married in New York City,
July 10, 1902, Gertrude Weil, who died
October 21, 1905. Address : 45 Cedar
Street, New York City.
LINDSAY, George Henry:
Congressman ; born in New York City ;
removed to Brooklyn with his parents in
1843; he was educated in the public schools
and for many years engaged in the hotel
business; was elected to the State Assem
bly from the Seventh District, compris
ing the Sixteenth Ward of Brooklyn, in
1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, and 1886; in 1886
was elected coroner for the Second Dis
trict of Kings County and served six years,
being reelected in 1889; in 1898 was ap
pointed assistant tax commissioner in the
Department of Taxes and Assessments of
the City of New York; was elected to the
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, as a Democrat from the Second
New York District. Address: 244 Bush
wick Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
LINDSAY, John D.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, De
cember 31, 1865 ; son of Dr. William Fran
cis Lindsay and Sarah A. (Vredenburgh)
Lindsay. He received his early education
in the public schools and was graduated
from the New York University Law School
in 1887. He entered the district attorney's
office as clerk in 1882 ; was admitted to the

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New York bar in 1887; was made deputy
assistant district attorney in 1887; serv
ing as such till 1893; assistant district at
torney from 1893 to 1898 ; and has been in
practice since then as a member of the
firm of Nicoll, Anable and Lindsay. He
was president of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
1903; is a member of the American Society
of International Law, the New York City
and State Bar Associations, St. Nicholas
Society, the New York Historical Society,
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution,
Alumni Association of the New York Uni
versity Law School, vice-president and
chairman of the Law Committee of the
New York State Convention of Societies
for the Prevention of Cruelty. He is also
a member of the Manhattan and Calumet
Clubs of New York City, and the Fort
Orange Club of Albany. He married in
St. Louis, Missouri, June 3, 1895, Stella
Gregory. Address : 34 West - Eleventh
Street, New York City.
LINDSLEY, Smith M.:
Lawyer; born in Monticello, New York,
April n, 1847; son of Rufus B. Lindsley
and Seeney J. (Weed) Lindsley. He was
educated in the Monticello and Wyoming
Seminaries. He studied law in an office
and was admitted to the bar in 1870, at
Utica, New York, where he has sjnce been
engaged in practice and is now a member
of the law firm of Lindsley and Mackie.
He was corporation counsel of Utica in
1872 and 1873; was chairman of the Civil
Service Commission in 1894 ; and nominated
for justice of the Supreme Court, but de
clined in 1895. In politics he is a Demo
crat; and he is a member of the Presby
terian Church. He is also a member of
the New York State Bar Association and
was one of its delegates to the Universal
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St.
Louis in 1004. He married at Barryville,
New York, April 23, 1873, Dorlissa J.
Johnston. Address: Utica, New York.
LINEHAN, John C:
Insurance commissioner of New Hamp
shire ; born at Macroom, County Cork, Ire

land, February 9, 1840; son of John Linehan
and Margaret (Foley) Linehan, and came
to the United States in 1849. He served
in the Civil War in the Union Army, and
was a merchant at Penacook, New Hamp
shire, from 1886 to 1890. Colonel Linehan
has been in both branches of the Concord
city government and was a member of the
Governor's Executive Council one term.
He was appointed insurance commissioner
in 1890, and reappointed for a second term
of three years in 1893, and has continued
in that office by successive reappointments.
He was elected president of the National
Convention of Insurance Department Com
missioners at the meeting in 1892. From
1885 to 1895, he was one of the directors of
the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Asso
ciation. Mr. Linehan has been a trustee
of New Hampshire Industrial School since
1884, and president of the Board; trustee
of the Loan and Trust Savings Bank of
Concord ; a member of the New Hampshire
Historical Society and '.treasurer of the
American-Irish Historical Society. Colonel
Linehan married in Penacook, then Fisher-
ville, New Hampshire, January 2, 1864,
Mary E. Pendergast. Residence: Pena
cook, New Hampshire. Office address :
Concord, New Hampshire.
LINES, Edwin Stevens:
Bishop of-' Newark; born at Naugatuck,
Connecticut, November 23, 1845 ; son of
Henry W. and Harriet Lines. He was
graduated at Yale University with the de
gree of B.A. in 1872, and received from
Yale the degree of D.D. in 1897; from the
Berkeley Divinity School the degree of
S.T.D. in 1904. He was ordered deacon
and priest of the Episcopal Church in 1874
by Bishop Williams of Connecticut. After
his ordination to the ministry he accepted
the rectorship of Christ Church, West
Haven, Connecticut. In 1879 he became rec
tor of St. Paul's Church at New Haven,
officiating there until 1903, when he was
elected bishop of Newark and was con
secrated November 18, 1903, by Bishops
Turtle, Doane, Porter, Scarborough,
Brewster, Coleman, Talbot and Whitehead.
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to Mary L. Morehouse. Address ; Newark,
New Jersey.
LINN, William Alexander:
Author, banker, lawyer; born at Sussex,
New Jersey, September 4, 1846; son of Dr.
Alexander Linn and Julia (Vibbert) Linn.
After a thorough preparatory training at
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
he entered Yale College in 1864, and was
graduated as B.A. from the class of 1868,
of which he was class poet, and was also
editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. He
was admitted to the bar of the State of
New York but made journalism his pro
fession, and was a member of the editorial
staff of the New York Tribune from 1868
to 1871 and of the New York Evening
Post from 1871 to 1900. He is president of
the People's National Bank of Hackensack,
and of the Hackensack Mutual Building and
Loan Association. Mr. Linn, who is a Re
publican, is a commissioner of the Palisades
Interstate Park Commission, appointed by
the governor of New Jersey, which rescued
the Palisades from destruction, and he is a
trustee of the Johnson Public Library at
Hackensack. He is author of the Story of
the Mormons, 1902 (Macmillan) ; Rob and
his Gun, 1902 (Scribner's) ; and Horace
Greeley, 1903 (Appletons), and also of
numerous contributions to periodical liter
ature. He is a widower. Mr. Linn is in
terested in horticultural subjects, owning a
fruit and dairy farm in Sussex County,
New Jersey. Address: Hackensack, New
Jersey.
LINSCOTT, Daniel C:
Lawyer ; born in Jefferson, Maine, March
17, 1828 ; son of Jonathan Linscott and
Hannah (Clark) Linscott. He was fitted
for college at Lincoln and Yarmouth Acad
emies, graduating from Bowdoin College
in 1854, going to Chelsea, where he taught
school and studied law in i860, and admit
ted to the Suffolk bar. In 1876 he was ad
mitted to the United States Supreme Court.
He has been engaged in general practice
ever since. For a period, during his resi
dence in Chelsea, he was in the city gov
ernment. He has long been a member of

the First Baptist Church, and for several
years one of its deacons. In politics he is
a Democrat. He was formerly president of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Bowdoin.
Mr. Linscott married, July 29, 1855,
Annie Barron, and they Have five children :
Roswell, Frank K, Annie M., Grace and
Daniel. Address: 85 Devonshire Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
LINSLEY, George Thomas:
Clergyman; born at New Haven, Con
necticut, September 4, 1S64; son of Fred
erick H. Linsley and Sarah M. (Smith)
Linsley. He received his education in Hill-
house High School in 1882, at Yale Uni
versity, from which he was graduated as
B.A. in 1885, and the Berkeley Divinity
School, in 1888. Mr. Linsley was ordered
deacon in 1888 and ordained priest in 1889
by Bishop Williams; was minister in
charge of Calvary Church at Round Hill
and Emmanuel Church, Glenville, from
1888 to 1890, and of St. John's Chapel,
Byram, 1889-1890^ rector of Trinity Church,
Newtown, 1890 to 1902, and rector of
Church of the Good Shepherd, since 1902.
He was secretary of Fairfield Archdea
conry from 1896 to 1902; Church Scholar
ship Society, since 1902, and member of
the standing committee of the Diocese of
Connecticut, since 1898. He was president
of Newtown Academy Association from
1890 to 1902, and of the Newtown Library
Association from 1890 to 1902. Mr. Lins
ley is a member of the Gamma Delta Psi
fraternity. He married in New York City,
January 10, 1895, Mary Renshaw Chaun
cey. Address : 92 Wethersfield Avenue,
Hartford, Connecticut.
LINSON, John J.:
Lawyer; born in Sullivan County, New
York, November 29, 1850; son of John J.
Linson and Emily Fidelia (Jordan) Lin-
son. He was educated in the Monticello
Academy and the State Normal School,
Albany. In January, 1872, he was admit
ted to the bar, became a member of the
firm of Schoonmaker and Linson, in Jan
uary, 1876, and has practiced in Kingston,
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tion counsel of Kingston from 1883 to 1887,
State Senator from 1888 to 1891, commis
sioner of statutory revision from 1892
to 1895; commissioner to recommend
changes in legislative procedure, 1895;
special counsel for New York City in
charge of condemnation proceedings for
the Catskill Water Supply, 1907. Mr. Lin
son is vice-president and attorney for the
National Ulster County Bank, and trus
tee and attorney of the Kingston Savings
Bank. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a member of the New York State, New
York City and Ulster County Bar Asso
ciations; trustee and "treasurer of the
Kingston City Library; a member of the
Masonic order, Knights Templar, Knights
of Pythias and of the Reform Club of New
York City and the Kingston Club of Kings
ton. He married in Monticello, October
16, 1872, Ida Mapledoram, who died Feb
ruary 23, 1902, and his children are :
Ernest J., born in 1873; Harold M., born
in 1878; .Kenneth K, born in 1880, and
John J., born in 1882. Address : Kingston,
New York.
LIPPINCOTT, Craige:
Publisher; born in Philadelphia, Novem
ber 4, 1846; son of Joshua B. Lippincott
and Josephine (Craige) Lippincott. He re
ceived his education in the school of Rev.
James G. Lyons in Philadelphia, and in the
University of Pennsylvania, class of 1866.
He entered in 1866, the publishing house
of J. B. Lippincott & Company, which in
1885 changed to the J. B. Lippincott Com
pany, and in 1886 succeeded his father as
president of that company. He is also a
director in the Farmers' and Mechanics'
National Bank of Philadelphia, and in the
Pennsylvania Company for the Insuring of
Lives and Granting Annuities. Mr. Lip
pincott is a member of the Delta Psi fra
ternity, and of the Union League, Ritten
house, Art, Philadelphia Country, Hunting
ton Valley Country, Racquet, and Bachel
ors' Barge Clubs. He married in Philadel
phia, April 13, 1871, Sallie E. Bucknell, and
they have three children. Residence ; 218
West Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. Of

fice address : 227 East Washington Square,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LIPPINCOTT, Henry C.:
Manager of agencies for the Penn Mu
tual Life Insurance Company; born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1844,;
he was graduated from the Central High
School of that city; was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar in May, 1865, and prac
ticed law until 1869, when he removed to
Colorado, where he taught school and
wrote for newspapers. He entered the
insurance business in the employ of the
Penn Mutual in February, 1874, and served
in various capacities until he was appointed
manager of agencies in January, 1888. He
is active in everything that pertains to life
insurance. His contributions to the busi
ness have been many and influential, and he
has been in frequent request as a speaker
by various associations. He has made the
excellent canvassing material of the Penn
Mutual, and has had much to do with, its
development as a company. Address : 1421
North Seventeenth Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
LIPPINCOTT, Joseph Barlow :
Hydraulic engineer; born in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, October 10, 1864; son of J.
A. Lippincott, LL.D., and Harriet Phillips
(Barlow) Lippincott. After attending Dick
inson College for two years he went to the
University of Kansas, from which he was
graduated as B.S. in 1886. After gradua
tion he was connected with the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad until 1888;
was topographer of the United States Geo
logical Survey for four years and after that
engaged in various irrigation enterprises.
He was hydrographer of the United States
Geological Survey from 1895 to 1902, and
supervising engineer of the United States
Reclamation Service from 1902 to 1906.
Mr. Lippincott was a lecturer at the Uni
versity of California, and consulting engi
neer for various cities ; was appointed civil
service commissioner of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia in 1904 and is now assistant Ghief
engineer of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.- He
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California, Engineers' and Architects' As
sociation; is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers; vice-president
of the California Water and Forest Asso
ciation; honorary member of the Semper-
virens Club and member of the California
Club -of Los Angeles. He has made a spe
cial study of the problems of storage of
water on the Gila River of Arizona, and
Kings' River, California, the development
and application of water in Southern Cali
fornia and California hydrography in gen
eral, and the results of these investigations
have been published as Water Supply papers
by the United States Geological Survey. He
married at Beverly, New Jersey, Josephine
Phillips Cook. Address : 1400 Union Trust
Building, Los Angeles, California.
LIPPINCOTT, Joshua Bertram:
Publisher; -born in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania, August 24, 1857 ; son of
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, the well known
Philadelphia publisher and bookseller. Mr.
Lippincott received his preliminary educa
tion, at the Penn Charter School, was pre
pared for college at the Episcopal Acad
emy of Philadelphia, and entered the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in the class of
1878. He left, however, in 1875, at the
end of his freshman year, to enter his
father's establishment, and has since been
engaged in the book trade. He became a
member of the firm in January, 1884, and
after the incorporation of the business in
1887, and the death of his father in 1886,
he became the vice-president of the J. B.
Lippincott Company, which position he still
holds. Mr. Lippincott has been active in
the details of the business. Aside from
business relations he is a trustee of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, a director of the
Academy of Music, and a member of the
Union League, the Art Club, University
Club, Geographical Club, and various other
social organizations. Address : Logan,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
.LIPPINCOTT, Walter:
Publisher; born in Philadelphia in. 1849;
educated in the Thomas Baldwin School
and the University of Pennsylvania, class

of 1868. He left the University in his
sophomore year and went into business in
his father's publishing and bookselling es
tablishment, the J. B. Lippincott & Company
house. In this he showed extraordinary
activity, so great : indeed that he broke
down nervously about 1881 and was obliged
to withdraw from active labor in the es
tablishment. His interest in the concern
continued, however, and on the reorganiza
tion of the firm into an incorporated com
pany in 1885 he became a director in the
company. Since then his services have been
of an advisory character, his health not
permitting an active participation. Mr. Lip
pincott is a member of the Union League,
Rittenhouse, University, Art, Racquet,
Country, Franklin Inn, and Merion Cricket
Clubs, and Mayflower Society. He married
Elizabeth T. Horstmann, in 1879, and has
one child, a daughter. Address : 2101 Wal
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LIPPINCOTT, William Henry:
Artist; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, December 6, 1849; son of Isaac Lip
pincott and Emily Lippincott. He com
menced the study of art at the Pennsyl
vania, Academy of Fine Arts, and became an
illustrator for publications and later a scenic
artist, practicing that branch- of art for six
years, at the same time, continuing to paint
easel pictures. In 1874 he went to Europe
to study as a pupil of Leon Bonnat of
Paris ; and remained in Paris until 1882.
He then returned to the United States and
established a studio in New York City. He
was professor of painting at the National
Academy of Design, for three years; was
made an associate in 1887 and an academic
ian in 1896. He is a painter of portraits,
figures, compositions and landscapes, has
exhibited at the Paris Salon and a regular
contributor to the American art exhibitions.
He devoted a portion of his time to scenic
painting, having painted the scenery for
Salambo, La Boheme, Manru and Other
operas. Some of his most important oil
and water • color pictures are Un Jour de
Conge (Paris Salon 1879) ; The Duck's
Breakfast, Centennial (Exposition 1876) ;
Pink of Old Fashioned (Water Color So-

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ciety 1882) ; Helena (National Academy of
Design); Infantry in Arms; Love's Am
bush; Pleasant Reflection. Address: 7
West Forty-third Street, New York City.
LIPPITT, Charles Warren:
Ex-governor of Rhode Island; born in
Providence, Rhode Island, October 8, 1846;
son of Henry Lippitt (governor of Rhode
Island 1875-1876) and Mary Ann (Balch)
Lippitt. He was graduated from Brown
University in 1865, and became connected
with his father's manufacturing interests
in which he has ever since continued, now
being president of the Social Manufacturing
Company, president of the Rhode Island
National Bank, and a director in various
other corporations. He served as colonel
on the staff of the governor of Rhode Is
land and afterward prominent in the Re
publican party of his State. He was
governor of Rhode Island from 1895 to
1897. He married in Providence, February
23, 1886, Margaret B. Farnum. Address :
Providence, Rhode Island.
LIPPITT, Francis Smith:
Clergyman; born in Providence, Rhode
Island, July 27, 1873; son of Albert D.
Lippitt and Mary Bradford (Smith) Lip
pitt. He was graduated from St. Stephen's
College in 1895 and from Berkeley Divinity
School in 1898. He was ordered deacon in
1898 by Bishop Brewster and ordained
priest in 1899 by Bishop Walker. He was
curate of St. Andrew's Church, Rochester,
New York, from 1898 to 1904; and has
been rector of the Church of the Ascension,
Rochester, since 1904. He was director of
the Children's Playground League of Roch
ester; member of the Sigma Alpha Ep
silon fraternity; is a Mason, Knight Temp
lar and Shriner, and is a member of the
Genesee Valley Club. Address : 21 Selye
Terrace, Rochester, New York.
LITTAUER, Lucius Nathan:
Manufacturer; born in Gloversville, New
York, January 20, 1859; son of Nathan
Littauer and Harriet (Sporborg) Litt
auer. He was educated in Charlier, New
York, and was graduated from Harvard

College as A.B. in 1878. He succeeded to
the glove manufacturing business of his
father in 1882 and now extensively engaged
therein. He was elected to the United
States Congress in 1896 and has served
five terms, but refused unanimous renomi
nation in 1906. Mr. Littauer has been a
member of the National and State Con
ventions of the Republican party since
1896; was a member of the committee on
appropriations, while in Congress; had
charge of bills : legislative, executive and
judicial; urgent deficiencies; general de-
ficiences, and fortifications. He is presi
dent of the Gloversville Knitting Company,
Fonda Glove Lining Company, Metropoli
tan Sewing Machine Company of Nyack,
Parkes Machine Company; treasurer of
the Monroe-Eckstein Brewing Company;
director of the Fulton County Bank of
Gloversville, The State Bank of New
York, the Adirondack Trust Company of
Saratoga, and manager of Nathan Lit-
tauer's Hospital, at Gloversville. His fa
vorite recreations are rowing and fishing.
He is a member of the Metropolitan Club
of Washington, D. C, and of the Harvard
Club of New York City. Address: Glov
ersville, New York.
LITTLE, Adelbert Pierson:
Manufacturer of typewriter ribbons, car
bon paper, etc.; born in Riga, New York,
in 1847; son of Marshall E. Little and
Sabrah R. Little. He received his educa
tion in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary
and was graduated from the University of
Rochester in 1872, with the degree of A.M.
He was Supreme Court reporter for twenty-
one years and since 1885 has been a manu
facturer and conducts his business alone
with offices at Rochester, New York City,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
London, England. He has traveled in for
eign countries and all through the United
States. Mr. Little is director and trustee
of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Roches
ter. In politics he is a Republican and in
]his religious affiliations a Presbyterian. He
is a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity
and of the Whist, Oak Hill, Country and
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Frances A. Munn, now deceased. Ad
dress: Rochester, New York.
LITTLE, Arthur W.:
Clergyman; born in Brooklyn, New
York, 1856; son of William H. Little and
Caroline F. (Cobb) Little. He attended
Dr. Pingry's School, Elizabeth, New Jer
sey, the General Theological Seminary,
Berkeley Divinity School, and Knox Col
lege, from which he was graduated with
the degrees of B.A. and M.A. ; and he af
terward received from Hobart College the
degree of L.H.D., and from the Western
Theological Seminary that of S.T.D. He
was rector of St. Paul's Church, Portland,
Maine, from 1881 to 1888, and since then
has been rector of St. Mark's Church,
Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Little is author of
books and pamphlets, especially: Reasons
for Being a Churchman; The Times and
the Teaching of John Wesley; The Intel
lectual Life of the Priest; The Church
Idea ; The Correction of the Civil Title of
Our Church; The Character of Washing
ton. He has been a member of the stand
ing committee of the Diocese of Maine
and of Chicago; has represented both
dioceses as deputy to the General Conven
tion of the Episcopal Church, and has been
for many years examining chaplain to the
Bishop of Chicago. He is a man of wide
learning, an eloquent preacher, a faithful
pastor, and a genial and witty after-dinner
speaker. Dr. Little is a Republican in poli
tics, is a trustee of the Western Theologi
cal Seminary of Chicago, and a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and the
Sons of the Revolution. He married in
New York City, 1889, Caroline,' daughter
of William Ferris of Portland, Maine.
Address : St. Mark's Rectory, Evanston,
Illinois.
LITTLE, Edward Porter:
Clergyman ; born in Brooklyn, New
York, December 19, 1853; son of William
Henry Little, and Caroline Frances
(Cobb) Little. He attended the Pingry
School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, was gradu
ated from Knox College cs A.B. and M.A.
and from the General Theological Semi

nary as S.T.B. He was ordered deacon
in 1878, ordained priest In 1879, was rec
tor of Pittsfield, Illinois, until October,
1880, Lancaster, -New Hampshire, until 1886,
Nantucket, Massachusetts, from 1887 to
1893; and has been rector of Hannibal,
Missouri, since 1893, and rural dean of
Hannibal since 1903. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity, Society of Coloniol
Wars, Descendants of Colonial Governors,
and the Old Colony Historical Society.
Mr. Little -married in Pittsfield, Illinois,
May 9, 1882, Henrietta Nevin Grimshaw,
who died April 27, 1900, and has four chil
dren : Harold Leonard Grimshaw, born
August 13, 1887; Alice de Warenne, Isa
bel Grimshaw and Margaret Dacre. Ad
dress: Trinity Church Rectory, Hannibal,
Missouri.
LITTLE, George Thomas:
Librarian; born in Auburn, Maine, May
14, 1837; son of Edward T. Little and
Lucy Jane (Bliss) Little. He was gradu
ated from the Edward Little High School
at Auburn in 1873, and from Bowdoin Col
lege as A.B. in 1877; studied in Paris,
France, in 1877 and 1878, and received from
Bowdoin the degree of A.M. in 1880, and
LittD. in 1894. He was instructor in
Latin in Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mas
sachusetts, from 1878 to 1882; professor
of Latin in Bowdoin College from 1882 to
1886, and has been librarian of Bowdoin
College since 1883. He is also president
and treasurer of the Agawam Manufactur
ing Company. Dr. Little was chairman of
the State Library Commission of Maine
from 1899 to 1902. He is author of: De
scendants of George Little of Newbury,
Massachusetts, 1640; Historical Sketch of
Bowdoin College; Longfellow Bibliogra
phy; and is also an occasional contributor
to The Nation. He is a Republican in
politics, and a Congregationalist. Dr. Lit
tle is a member of the American Library
Association, the Maine Historical Society,
Minnesota Historical Society, and Maine
Genealogical Society; and is trustee and
clerk of the Edward Little Institute of
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Petraea, in 1905, and his favorite recrea
tion is mountain climbing. He is a mem
ber of the American Alpine Club, Ap
palachian Mountain Club, Delta Kappa Ep
silon fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. He married in Braintree, Massa
chusetts, December 18, 1884, Lilly Thayer
Wright-Lane, and they have four chil
dren: Rachel T., Ruth B., George Tap-
pan, and Noel C. Residence: 8 College
Street, Brunswick, Maine. Office address :
Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick,
Maine. LITTLE, John Mason:
Merchant and trustee; born in Boston,
July 14, 1848; son of James Lovell Little
and Julia Augusta (Cook) Little. His im
migrant ancestors included : Thomas Lit
tle, Plymouth, 1630; and Richard Moore,
Mayflower, 1620. He was a pupil in the
Boston public schools, including Chauncey
Hall, the English High School, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
learned the dry goods commission business
and became a leading merchant in that
line of trade. He served as president of
the Merchants' Club and of the Real Es
tate Club; is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Boston Associated Board
of Trade, and has served as president of
the body. He is a director of the Ameri
can Bank Note Company; director of the
Boston Ports and Seaman's Aid Society;
director of the Good Government Asso
ciation of Boston ; and he is also treasur
er of the New England Civic Federation ;
vice-president of the Real Estate Exchange
and Auction Board; was chairman of the
Commission on Revision of the Building
Laws of the Commonwealth by appoint
ment of Governor Bates. He is a director
of the American Unitarian Association,
chairman of the Prudential Committee of
the Arlington Street Church since 1888;
a member of the Algonquin and Tedesco
Country Clubs and the Merchants' As
sociation. He married, January 14, 1872,
Helen, daughter of James H. and Judith
Beal, of Boston. Address : Boston, Massa
chusetts.

LITTLE, John Sebastian:
Governor of Arkansas; born at Jenny
Lind, Sebastian County, Arkansas, March
i-5> 1853. He was educated in the common
schools and at Cane Hill College, Arkan
sas; was admitted to the bar in 1874; in
1877 was elected district attorney for the
Twelfth Circuit of Arkansas, composed of
Sebastian, Scott, Crawford, and Logan
counties, and was reelected for four suc
cessive terms. He was elected a repre
sentative to the Legislature in 1884; in
1886 was elected circuit judge for a term
of four years; in 1893 was chosen as chair
man of the State Judicial Convention; and
in September, 1894, was elected, without op
position, to fill the unexpired term of C.
R. Breckinridge in the Fifty-third Con
gress ; was elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was elected
Governor of Arkansas in 1906, on the Demo
cratic ticket, for the term expiring in 1910.
Address : Greenwood, Arkansas.
LITTLE, Joseph James:
Printer; born in Bristol, England, June
5, 1841 ; son of James Little, who emi
grated with family to the United States
in 1847, and settled in central New York.
At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed
to a printer; three years later he com
pleted his apprenticeship and at the age
of twenty-four he became foreman. At
the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861,
joined the Thirty-seventh New York Regi
ment, and in the three following years,
volunteered with his regiment, when Presi
dent Linfcoln called for emergency troops,
and reached the rank of first lieutenant.
In 1867 he commenced business, which,
since 1876 has been known as J. J. Lit
tle arid Company. He is a prominent
Free Mason, served several terms as master
of Kane Lodge; has been grand master of
the district and for some years representa
tive of the Grand Lodge of England in
this country; King Edward, when he was
Prince of Wales and grand master of
Masons, of England, having given him the
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the Commission of Appeals of the Grand
Lodge of ; New York ; commander of La
fayette Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic; and for some years was colonel
of. Veteran Troops of the Seventy-first
Regiment. He has served several years
as school commissioner of New York City.
In 1891, as chairman of the Commission on
Buildings of Board of Education, reorgan
ized the building department, greatly im
proving the quality of school buildings of
New York City. After the formation of
Greater New York, he was twice elected
president of the Board of Education.
Colonel Little was a member of Congress
from 1891 to 1893; advisory director of
the Astor Place Branch of the Corn Ex
change Bank; trustee of the Excelsior Sav
ings Bank; a life member and ex-presi
dent of the American Institute; also of
the General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen, and a life member of the
American- Geological , Society. Address :
47 West Sixty-eighth Street, New York
City." LITTLEFIELD, Charles Edgar:
Congressman; born June 21, 1851, in
Lebanon, York County, Maine; received a
common school education and studied law ;
was admitted to the bar in 1876; was a
member of the Maine Legislature in 1885 ;
and speaker of the House in 1887; was
attorney-general of the State from 1889 to
1893; was elected to the Fifty-sixth Con
gress June 19, 1899, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Nelson Dingley, and
to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fif
ty-ninth Congresses, from the Second
Maine District, and he was reelected in
1906 to the, Sixtieth Congress, in which he
is now serving. Address : Rockland, Maine.
LITTLEFIELD, Nathan Whitman:
Lawyer; born at East Bridgewater, Mas
sachusetts, May 21, 1846; son of Rufus
Ames Littlefield and Abigail Russel (Whit
man) Littlefield. He is a descendant of
John Alden and other Plymouth pilgrims.
He attended the common schools of East
Bridgewater and Bridgewater Academy,
was graduated from Phillips Academy at

Andover in 1865, from Dartmouth College
as valedictorian in 1869, and from the Bos
ton University Law School in 1876. He
was principal of Newport High School
from 1871 to 1873; principal of Westerly
High School and superintendent of schools
of Westerley, Rhode Island, in 1873 and
1874. Mr. Littlefield was admitted to the
Massachusetts bar at Boston in May, 1876,
and to the Rhode Island bar in Providence,
January, 1877. He was appointed by the
Supreme Court, standing master in chan
cery in 1890, and by the United States Dis
trict Court referee in bankruptcy in 1898 ;
a member of the commission for revising
the judicial system of Rhode Island in
1905. He has lectured frequently on polit
ical and historical subjects and has traveled
extensively in this country and abroad; and
was orator at the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, in 1906. He is a director of
the Providence Realty Company, Stewart
Street Land Company; and member of the
law firm of Littlefield and Barrows. Mr.
Littlefield was a member of the School Com
mittee of Pawtucket, for several years, and
State senator in 1897 and 1898. He was
Democratic candidate for governor of
Rhode Island in 1900. He is a member
of the Rhode Island Bar Association,
the American Bar Association, and Na
tional Municipal League; honorary mem
ber of the Bridgewater (Massachusetts)
Historical Society, the Rhode Island His
torical Association, Old Colony Historical
Society; president of the Bethany Home
of Rhode Island, and member of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Pi chapter. He is
also a member of the To Kolon Club of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and the Rhode
Island Congregational Club. Mr. Littlefield
married at Ellsworth, Maine, August 13,
1873, Arietta V. Redman, and of that union
had one son, Nathan W. Littlefield, Jr., born
April 20, 1877. He married, second, at
Pawtucket, 1889, Mary Wheaton Ellis;
and they have one son : Alden L. Ellis.
Residence : 29 Cottage Street, Pawtucket,
Rhode Island. Office address: 87 Wey-
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LITTLETON, Martin WUie:
Lawyer ; born near Kingston, Roane Coun
ty, Tennessee, February 12, 1872; son of
Thomas Jefferson Littleton and Hannah (In-
graham) Littleton. He is self-educated;
went to Texas at the age of fifteen and be
gan the study of law at Weatherford, Texas,
at the age of eighteen. He was admitted to
the bar in July, 1891 ; was assistant prose
cuting attorney of Parker County, Texas,
and later of Dallas County, Texas ; came to
New York in 1896, was assistant district
attorney of Kings County, New York, and
while so engaged, tried the case of People
against William F. Miller, charged with
larceny of over $11,000,000; tried the case
of People against Doody, charged with
corrupting the old City of Brooklyn. He
was president of the Borough of- Brooklyn,
in 1904 and 1905 ; chairman of the Demo
cratic State Convention of New York, in
1900; nominated Edward M. Shepard for
mayor of New York City, in 1901 ; nomi
nated Judge Alton B. Parker for president
of the United States at the Democratic Na
tional Convention, St. Louis, 1904. His
favorite recreation is golf. Mr. Littleton
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, and of the Law
yers', National Democratic and Manhattan
Clubs of New York City, National and
Brooklyn Clubs of Brooklyn, Garden City
Golf Club, Oakland (Long Island) Golf
Club, and Manhasset. Bay Yacht Club. He
married at Dallas, Texas, December 1, 1896,
Maude Elizabeth Wilson, and they have two
sons : Martin Wilson, born in 1898, and
Douglass Marshall, born in 1900. Address :
60 Wall Street, New York City.
LITTON, James Price:
Manufacturer, merchant ; born Abingdon,
Washington County, Virginia, March 25,
1845 ; son of John Milton and Judith Tyree
(Price) Litton; family removed to Wythe-
ville, Virginia, where father died in 1851,
leaving a widowed mother with a family
of six children from one to twelve years
old; mother removed to Lynchburg, Vir
ginia, 1852, and opened private school. He
was educated in a private school at Lynch
burg, Virginia, 1853 to 1859, and at the age

of fourteen began work at ordinary labor,
steaming tobacco in tobacco factory at
Lynchburg, Virginia, and has ever since
(except the years 1862 to 1865) been con
tinuously in the tobacco business; worked
through all the various manufacturing de
partments, becoming practical in all factory
operations ; transferred to office and worked
up through various departments from as
sistant secretary to second vice-president
of the largest tobacco manufacturing plant
in the world, that of the Liggett & Myers
Tobacco Company, St. Louis, who sold out
to the Continental Tobacco Company of
New Jersey, 1899 ; transferred to New York
City, 1899, as assistant treasurer, and di
rector Continental Tobacco Company, later
merged with the American Tobacco Com
pany, in which he is stockholder, and with
which he has since been engaged, in charge
of purchasing of supplies department. Presi
dent and director of the Floradora Tag
Company; vice-president and director Am
sterdam Supply Company; director Conley
Foil Company. He joined the Confederate
Army on his birthday, March 25, 1862, at
Lynchburg , Virginia; first bivouac at
Orange Court House, Virginia, April, 1862,
then to Yorktown, Virginia, and continuous
ly with Army of Northern Virginia,
through all its campaigns to surrender at
Appomattox Court House, 1865; moved to
St. Louis, 1866, to New York City, 1899.
Has traveled, on business and pleasure, in
thirty-two States of the Union. In politics
he is an Independent Democrat; and
he was brought up in the Methodist Epis
copal Church. Mr. Litton is a member of
the Missouri Society of New York. He
married at Moberly, Missouri, September 4,
1873, Sarah Brooke; children: Milton J.
(born September 8, 1874, died June 24,
1876), Roberta May (born August 15, 1877;
married June 24, 1905, Harry Prufrock, of
Prufrock Furniture Company, St. Louis).
Residence: Hotel Beresford, Eighty-first
Street and Central Park ' West. Address :
111 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
LIVERMORE, Charles Herbert:
President of Adelphi College; born in
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son of Rev. Aaron Russell Livermore and
Mary Gay (Skinner) Livermore. He was
graduated from Yale College as B.A. in
1879 and from Johns Hopkins University
as Ph.D. in 1886. President Livermore is
a member of the American Historical Asso
ciation, Board of Trustees of Adelphi Col
lege, the New England Society of Brook
lyn, Adelphi Academy, Hackley School and
a member of the Century, Delta Kappa Ep
silon, the Yale Club of New York City and.
the University Club of Brooklyn He mar
ried at New Haven, Connecticut, Septem
ber 4, 1884, Mettie Norton Turtle and their
children are: Charles Lewis, Margaret,
George Kirchwey, Lilian and Elsa. Ad
dress : 30 St. James Place, Brooklyn, New
York. LIVINGSTON, John Henry:
Lawyer; born in Oak Hill, Columbia
County, New York, July 8, 1848; son of
Clermont and Cornelia Livingston. He
was graduated from Columbia College as
A.B. in 1869 and from Columbia Law
School as LL.B. in 1871. In 1871 he was
admitted to the bar and engaged in the
practice of law. He has visited every
country of Europe, except Russia and
some of the smaller countries; has been
around the world, visiting India, Japan and
the Orient; also has been to Algeria,
Egypt, and east and- west coasts of Africa,
visiting Victoria Falls, Cape Town, etc.
In politics he is a Democrat and in his
religious affiliations an Episcopalian. Mr.
Livingston is a member of the New York
Bar Association, the Society of the Cincin
nati, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the
.Revolution, St. Nicholas Society, and the
University Club. He married, first, in New
York City, November 2, 1871, Catharine
Livingston Hamersley, who died iri 1873,
leaving one daughter; second, October 30,
1880, Emily Evans, of Philadelphia, who
died April 7, 1894, and third, November
9, 1906, Alice Delafield Clarkson. Ad
dress: Clermont, Tivoll-on-Hudson, New
York.
LIVINGSTON, Leonldas Felix:
Congressman and farmer; borri in New
ton County, Georgia, April 3, 1832; is of

Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather emi
grated to this country from North Ireland,
and served under General Washington dur
ing the Revolutionary War. Mr. Livingston
was educated in the common schools of the
county; is a farmer by occupation and has
always lived on his farm. He was a private
soldier in the Confederate Army from Au
gust, 1861, to May, 1865 ; was for two
terms a member of the House of Represen
tatives and one term a member of the State
Senate; was chairman of the Committee
on Agriculture in both the House and Sen
ate ; was vice-president of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society for eleven years and
president of the same for four years. He
was president of the Georgia State Alli
ance for three years, but resigned when
elected to Congress ; and has been promi
nent in all political struggles in his State
for many years. Mr. Livingston was elected
as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Fifth Georgia District.
Address : Covington, Georgia.
LLOYD, Arthur Seldon:
Clergyman; born in Mt. Ida, Alexan
dria County, Virginia, in 1857 ; son of John
Janney Lloyd and Eliza Armistead (Sel
den) Lloyd. He was educated in the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute, the University
of Virginia, the Theological Seminary in
Virginia, as D.D. and Roanoke College.
He entered the ministry of the Episcopal
Church, in 1880, was missionary in the Dio
cese of Virginia, from 1880 to 1884; rector
of St. Luke's Church, in Norfolk, Vir
ginia, from 1884 to 1899; secretary of the
Board of Missions from 1899. He was
elected bishop of Mississippi January 20,
1903 ; elected bishop of Kentucky, Septem
ber 21, 1904, and of Southern Virginia,
November 8, 1905; but declined all. these
elections. He was elected professor of ec
clesiastical history at the Virginia Seminary
in 1896 and is now general secretary of the
Board of Missions of the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church; general secretary

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of the American Church Missionary So
ciety and trustee of the Educational So
ciety of Virginia and the American Build
ing Fund Commission. Mr. Lloyd married
at The Meadows, Washington County, Vir
ginia, in 1880, Lizzie Robertson Blackford,
and their children are: Mary Robertson,
Elizabeth Blackford, Gay Blackford, John
and Rebecca. Address : 281 Fourth Ave
nue, New York City.
LLOYD, Curtis Gates:
Botanist; born in Florence, Kentucky,
July 17, 1859; son of Nelson Marvin
Lloyd, and Sophia (Webster) Lloyd. He
was educated privately. At present he is
in the wholesale druggist and- pharmacy
business and he is a partner in the firm of
Lloyd Brothers, wholesale druggists and
manufacturing pharmacists and is trustee
of the Lloyd Library. Mr. Lloyd has trav
eled extensively in Mexico, West Indies,
Sandwich Islands', Samoan Islands, Egypt
and Europe. He is a member of the Cuvier
Club. Residence : 224 West Court Street,
New York City.
LLOYD, Henry:
Ex-governor of Maryland ; born near
Cambridge, Maryland, February 21, 1852;
son of Daniel Lloyd and Kitty (Henry)
Lloyd. Brought up on farm, educated in
private schools, taught school and after
1880 engaged in the practice of law. He
was elected to the Maryland Senate in
1880 and in 1884 became president of that
body. He became ex-officio acting gover
nor of Maryland on the appointment of
Governor McLane as minister to France
in 1885,' and was elected by the legislature
to complete the term which expired in
1888. Since 1892 he has been judge of the
Circuit Court of Maryland. Judge Lloyd
is a Democrat in politics. Address : Cam
bridge, Maryland.
LLOYD, Henry Albert:
Lawyer; born in Doylestown, Pennsyl
vania, November 12, 1849; son of E. Mor
ris Lloyd and Julia Dunlap (Hendrie)
Lloyd. He was graduated from Princeton

College in 1869; was admitted to the bar
at Philadelphia, October, 1871, and practiced
his profession there and in adjoining coun
ties until March, 1884, when he received the
appointment of assistant-general claim
agent, of the Gould South- Western System
of Railways, and removed to St. Louis,
appointment of assistant general claim
agent of the Wabash Railroad Company in
June, 1884, and subsequently assistant sec
retary. He resigned the positions there
April, 1899, and removed to New York City
being admitted to the bar of New York
September, 1899. Mr. Lloyd is president
and director of the Brazoria Land and Cat
tle Company ; treasurer and director of the
Cleveland Grains Drying Company, and di
rector of the Guardian Trust Company of
Kansas City, president of the Atlantic Ex
port Company. He is also a member of
the New York Produce Exchange, Sons of
Revolution, and the New York Athletic
Club. He married at Detroit, Michigan, in
1871, Cornelia P. Voorhees. Address : 32
Broadway, New York City.
LLOYD, Herbert Marshall:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
March 29, 1862; son of Henry H. Lloyd
and Anna (Badger) Lloyd. He was grad
uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1883; and
from Columbia as LL.B- in 1885; he was a
member successively of the law firms of
Murphy, Lloyd and Boyd, Murphy and
Lloyd and now of Lloyd and Maddox:
secretary-treasurer and director of the
American Paper Goods Company; secre
tary and director of the Webb Wire Works.
In politics he is a Democrat and in his
religious views a Congregationalist. Mr.
Lloyd is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa ;
member and secretary of Board of Man
agers of the New Jersey State Geological
Survey, a member of the Board of Health,
Montclair, New Jersey, and of the City,
Midday, Harvard Clubs of New York City
and Harvard Club of New Jersey. He mar
ried in New York City, October 19, 1893, -
Anna Lord. Residence: 24 Lloyd Road,
Montclair, New Jersey. Office address: 92'
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LLOYD, Horatio G. :
President of the Commercial Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia; born in Middletown,
Delaware, January 14, 1867; educated in pri
vate schools and University of Pennsylvania
Law School; admitted .to the bar in 1888,
but never practiced. Entered Philadelphia
Trust Company as a clerk; made assistant
secretary in 1894. In January, 1900, went
to Commercial Trust Company as treas
urer; made vice-president July, 1900, and
president of the Commercial Trust Com
pany in December, 1902 ; director of several
corporations. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Radnor Hunt, Mark
ham and Merion Cricket Clubs. Mr. Lloyd
married, May 6, 1897, Mary Helen Wingate,
daughter of General George W. Wingate
of New York. Residence: Haverford,
Pennsylvania. Office address : Arcade Build
ing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LLOYD, James Tighlman:
Congressman; born at Canton, Lewis
County, Missouri, August 28, 1857. He
was graduated from Christian University
at Canton, Missouri, in 1878; taught school
for a few years thereafter; was admitted
to the bar, and then practiced his profes
sion in Lewis County until 1885, when he
located at his present home, where he has
since resided. He had held no office, ex
cept that of prosecuting attorney of his
county from 1889 to 1893, until his election
to the Fifty-fifth Congress, to fill a vacancy ;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from the
First Missouri District. In politics he is a
Democrat. He married, March 1, 1881,
Mary B. Graves. Address : Shelbyville,
Missouri.LLOYD, John:
Banker; born in April, 1842, at^Holli-
daysburg, Pennsylvania; educated in La
fayette College. President of the First Na
tional Bank of Altoona; president Edison
Electric Light Company, Altoona Gas Com
pany, Altoona Coal and Coke Company,
Henrietta Coal Mining Company, Altoona
and Logan Valley Street Railway Company.

In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Lloyd
married, January, 1866, Caroline B. McCord.
Address, Altoona, Pennsylvania.
LLOYD, WlUiam Supplee:
Manufacturer; born in La Crosse, Wis
consin, February 12, i860; son of Wil
liam Jones Lloyd and Ann Elizabeth (Cus
ter) Lloyd. He attended Rugby Acad
emy and the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the firm of Lloyd &
Supplee Hardware Company, and of the.
William J. Lloyd Manufacturing Company,
at present proprietor of the Stratford Knit
ting Mills, Wayne Junction, Philadelphia.
He was formerly major in the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion an Episco
palian. Mr. Lloyd is a member of the
Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Society
of Pennsylvania, Historical Society, the
Franklin Institute and other societies, and
is a member of the Union League and
Germantown Cricket Clubs. He married
in Philadelphia, April 27, 1893, Ida Cros-
key Mustin. Residence : 5901 Wayne Ave
nue, Germantown, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress: Wayne Junction, Philadelphia.
LLWYD, John P. Derwent:
Clergyman; born in Manchester, Eng
land, June 7, 1861 ; son of Rev. Thomas
Llwyd, S.T.D., archdeacon of Algoma and
Emma (Plummer) Llwyd. He was grad
uated from Trinity University, Toronto
as B.D. and also attended Montreal Theo
logical College. He was rector of St.
Paul's Church, Riverside, Illinois, from
1887 to 1889; rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Omaha, Nebraska, from
1889 to 1897, and has been rector of St.
Mark's Church, Seattle, Washington, since
1897. He is a member of the American
Archaeological Society; chairman of the
Board of Library Trustees of the City of
Seattle, was president of the Associated
Charities, from 1897 to 1899; and is pres
ident of the Monday Club and member of
the University Club of Seattle. He has
also been twice elected deputy to the Gen
eral Convention of the Episcopal Church.
Dr. Llwyd married in Milwaukee, Wiscon-

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sin, December 28, 1886, Mary Emilie
Thomas, and they have five children. Ad
dress : St. Mark's Rectory, Seattle, Wash
ington. LOBDELL, Charles Wesley:
Banker, manufacturer, retired merchant;
born in Victor, Ontario County, New
York, February 27, 1834; son of George
A. and Almira (Preston) Lobdell. His
father was a direct descendant of the
Simon Lobdell who settled in Milford,
Connecticut, in 1646. Mr. Lobdell obtained
his education in the public schools and
became a student of law. He was admitted
to the bar in 1859 and practiced his pro
fession for three years, when he decided
to engage in a business career. He went to
Moline, Illinois, where he was active as a
merchant, banker, and manufacturer until
1888, when he removed to Chicago, Illinois,
where he was prominent in business circles
for many years, but has now retired. He
is a member of the Chicago Stock Ex
change; a Republican, and a member of
the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was
married at Moline, Illinois, October 22, 1864,
to Henrietta M. Shaw, and has three chil
dren : Edwin L, Mrs. Frances Lobdell
Brown, and Mrs. Marion Lobdell Bradford.
Address : 3861 Lake Avenue, Chicago, Il
linois. LOBINGIER, Charles Sumner:
Lawyer; born at Lanark, Illinois, April
30, 1866, son of George and Ada (Stewart)
Lobingier. He was graduated from Ne
braska State University with the degree of
B.A. in 1888, receiving later the degrees
of A.M., LL.M., and Ph.D. from the same
university. He was assistant State librar
ian and reporter of the Supreme Court
during the years 1888-1892, and having
in the meanwhile been admitted to the bar
in 1890, practiced at Omaha for a dozen
years. In 1900-1903 he was professor of
law at the University of Nebraska and
member of the Nebraskan Supreme Court
Commission, 1902-1903. In the latter year
he became United States judge of the
Court of First Instance in the Philippine
Islands, where he still is. In 1907 he was

appointed chairman of a commission to
codify the Philippine laws. He was presi
dent of the Nebraska Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution, and is a -member of the
Phi Beta Kappa. He has written many
articles and papers on legal topics published
in various periodicals, and is the author
of works on: Constitutional Law, Equity,
The Popular Ratification of Constitutions,
Manual of Primary Justice in the Philip
pines (second edition), published in both
Spanish and English). Address: Au-
diencia, Manila, P. I.
LOCHREN, William:
Jurist; born in County Tyrone, Ireland,
April 3, 1832 ; removed in infancy to Frank
lin County, Vermont, and was educated in
the schools there, and then took up the
study of law. He was admitted to the Ver
mont bar at St. Albans, in 1856, and went
at once to St. Anthony, Minnesota (now
Minneapolis). When the Civil War began
in 1861, he enlisted at once in the first Min
nesota Volunteers, and was mustered out
as first lieutenant in 1865. He was elected
to the. State Senate of Minnesota in 1868,
and judge of the District Court for the
Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota in
1881, serving until appointed in May, 1893,
by President Cleveland to the office of Com
missioner of Pensions, serving until ap
pointed, May 20, 1896, to his present posi
tion as judge of the United States Court
for the District of Minnesota. Judge
Lochren has always been a Democrat in
politics. He married first in September,
1871, Martha A. Demmon, who died in
January, 1879; and married, second, April
19, 1882, Mary E. Abbott. Address: 422
Tenth Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis, Minne
sota.LOCKE, Charles Edward:
Clergyman ; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, September 9, 1858; son of William
Henry Locke and Margaret Ellen (Lnor)
Locke. He was graduated from Allegheny
College as A.B., A.M., and D.D. He be
gan ministry in the Western Reserve of
Dhio; has served in Smithfield Street
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Methodist Episcopal Church, at Portland,
Oregon; the Central Methodist Episcopal
Church at San Francisco; the Delaware
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Buffalo, and is now pastor of the Hanson
Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brook
lyn, New York. He was the pastor con
ducting the funeral services of President
McKinley at Buffalo. Dr. Locke has
traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and
Africa. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety, Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and a
Thirty-second Degree Mason. He is author
of: Freedom's Next War for Humanity.
He married at Pittsburgh, December 27,
1882, Mina J. Wood, and their children
are: Lucile, Ruth, Lydia Margaret and
Charles Edward, Jr. Address : 29 South
Portland Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
LOCKE, James William:
Jurist; born in Wilmington, Vermont, Oc
tober 20, 1837; son of Rev. William Sher
burne Locke and Caroline Dame (Tibbetts)
After completing his high school course he
began the study of law in an office at Man
chester, New Hampshire, and practiced un
til 1861, when he entered the United States
Navy as a volunteer officer, serving through
the Civil War until mustered out in 1865.
He practiced at Key West, Florida, from
1865 to 1868; was appointed county judge
of Monroe County, Florida, in 1868, elected
to the State Senate of Florida in 1870, and
in 1872 was appointed by President Grant
to his present office as judge of the United
States Court for the Southern District of
Florida, in which he is still serving. Judge
Locke married at Kittery, Maine, October
5, 1866, Alvina C. Neal. Address : Jackson
ville, Florida.
LOCY, William Albert:
Professor in Northwestern University;
bom in Troy, Michigan, September 14,
1857 ; son of Lorenzo Dow Locy and Sarah
(Kingsbury) Locy. He was graduated
from the University of Michigan as B.S.
in 1881, M.S. in 1884, received the, degree
of Ph.D. from Chicago in 1895, and the hon
orary degree of ScD. from the Universitv

of Michigan, in 1906; attended Harvard
in 1884 and 1885, as fellow in biology; the
University of Berlin in 1891, and the
Naples Biological Station, in 1902 and 1903.
He was professor of biology at Lake For
est University from 1897 to 1899; professor
of animal morphology at the same institu
tion, from 1889 to 1895 ; professor of physi
ology at Rush Medical College in 1891 ; and
has been professor of zoology at North
western University since 1895. Dr. Locy
is author of many monographs and papers
on embryology and animal morphology;
had charge of the Zoological Department of
the New American Supplement to the En
cyclopedia Britanhica, and spent a year
at" the Zoological Station at Naples, mak
ing investigations in his specialties. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion
a Presbyterian. He is a member of the
Association of American Anatomists, Asso
ciation of American Zoologists, and the
Association of American Naturalists ; trus
tee of the Marine Biological Station at
Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, and is a mem
ber of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and
the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Societies.
His favorite recreations are sailing and
golf. He is a member of the University
Club of Evanston. Professor Locy mar
ried in Flint, Michigan, June 26, 1883, Ellen
Eastman, and they have two children:
John Lorenzo, born in 1885; and Francis
Eastman, born in 1890. Residence: 1823
Hunman Avenue, Evanston. Address :
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illi
nois. LODER, Fercival E. :
Physician; born at Allentown, Pennsyl
vania, July 13, 1853 ; son of Alexander W.
Loder and Mary A. (Yeager) Loder. He
attended Stroudsburg Academy, Strouds-
burg, Pennsylvania, in 1868 and 1869 ; grad1
uated from Jefferson Medical College in
1875, and from the Pennsylvania College of
Dental Surgery in 1885. He was demon
strator of anatomy in the Pennsylvania
College of Dentai Surgery for nineteen
years, and has been professor of anatomy
in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Sur
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surgeon of the Second Brigade of the Na
tional Guards of Pennsylvania in 1877 and
1878, and has been assistant police surgeon
of Philadelphia for the past twenty years.
He is a member of the Philadelphia Coun
ty Medical Society, Pennsylvania State
Medical Society and. American Medical
Association, and trustee of the First Pres
byterian Church of Philadelphia; is an
Odd Fellow, and a member of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle, and of the Union
Republican Club of Philadelphia. He
married at Philadelphia, September 23,
1880, Hannah Rose, and they have three
children, all now deceased. Address : 5*17
South Eighth Street, Pnilaaelphia, Penn
sylvania.
LODGE, Henry Cabot:
United States senator, author ; born in
Boston, Massachusetts, May 12, 1850; son
of John Ellerton Lodge. He received a
private school and collegiate education;
was graduated from Harvard College in
1871 ; studied law at Harvard Law School
and graduated in 1875, receiving the de
gree of LL.B. ; was admitted to the Suf
folk bar in 1876; in the same year, 1876,
received the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard
University for his thesis on The Land
Law of the Anglo-Saxons. He is author
of Life and Letters of George Cabot, 1877 ;
Short History of the English Colonies in
America, 1881 ; Life of Alexander Hamil
ton, 1882; Life of Daniel Webster, 1883;
Studies in History, 1886; Life of Wash
ington, two volumes, 1889; History of
Boston (in the Historic Towns Series,
(published by the Longmans), 1891 ; His
torical and Political Essays, and a vol
ume of selections from speeches, 1892; au
thor, in conjunction with Theodore Roose
velt, of Hero Tales from American His
tory, 1897; author of Certain Accepted
Heroes, and Other Essays, 1897; Story of
the Revolution, two volumes, 1888; Story
of the Spanish War; A Fighting Frigate,
and other essays, 1897; A Frontier Town
and other essays, 1906; and he edited the
works of Alexander Hamilton, in nine
volumes, in 1885. Senator Lodge is a
member of the Massachusetts Historical

Society, of the Virginia Historical So
ciety, the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the New England Historic and
Genealogical Society, and of the Ameri
can Antiquarian Society. He has received
the degree of LL.D. from Williams Col
lege, Clark University, Yale University,
and Harvard University; was permanent
chairman of the Republican National Con
vention which met in Philadelphia, June
19, 1900; chairman of the committee on
resolutions of the Republican National
Convention of 1904 at Chicago; was a
member of the Commission on Alaskan
Boundary, appointed by President Roose
velt; regent of the Smithsonian Institu
tion during the service in the House of
Representatives and appointed Regent
again in 1905. He served two terms as
member of the House of Representatives
of the Massachusetts Legislature; was
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses ; and
was elected to the Senate, January 17,
1893, to succeed Henry L. Dawes. He
resigned his seat in the House and took
his seat in the Senate March 4, 1893, and
he was reelected in 1899 and 1905. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1911.
Senator Lodge married, April 6, 1872, Anna
Cabot David and they have three children :
Constance Davis, born in 1872; George
Cabot, born in 1873, and John Ellerton,
born in 1876. Residence: Nahant, Mas
sachusetts. Address : United States Sen
ate, Washington, D. C.
LOEB, Adolph:
Fire insurance manager; born at Bingen,
Germany, March 9, 1839; son of Ludwig
and Helen (Brandeis) Loeb. He was
educated in the schools of Bingen, and was
graduated from the Normal School. He
came to this country in his youth and be
gan life as a bookkeeper, at which he
continued until 1869, when he established
a fire insurance agency at Memphis, Ten
nessee. In 1873 he removed to Chicago,
Illinois, where he established a fire inst
ance agency, which is still conducted under
the style of Adolph Loeb & Son. He has
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States of the North German Fire Insur
ance Company of Hamburg, Germany, and
of the Trans-Atlantic Fire Insurance Com
pany of Hamburg. He is president of the
North German Fire Insurance Company of
New York, and local agent of the German
of Freeport and New Hampshire of Man
chester, and general agent of the Anchor
Fire Insurance Company of Cincinnati,
and of the Atlanta-Birmingham Fire In
surance Company, of Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a Hebrew, and rs ex-president of
the Chicago Sinai Congregation, president
of the Jewish Agricultural Aid Society, ex-
president of the District Grand Lodge of
the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and
trustee of the Cleveland Orphan Asylum.
He was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in
1864, to Lucille Hart. Address : 159 La
Salle Street. Residence : Grand Boule
vard, Chicago, Illinois.
LOEB, Jacques:
Professor of physiology; born April 7,
1859, and was educated in the Ascanis-
sche Gymnasium, Berlin, the Universities
of Berlin, Munich and Strassburg, where
he received the degree of M.D. in 1884.
He was assistant in physiology at the
University of Wiirzburg, from 1886 to
1888; at Strassburg from 1880 to 1890;
Stazione zoologica, at Naples, in 1890 and
1891 ; associate in biology at Bryn Mawr
College, Pennsylvania, in 1891 and 1892;
assistant professor of physiology at the
University of Chicago from 1892 to 1895;
associate professor^ from 1895 to 1900 ; pro
fessor from 1900 to 1903, and since then
head of the Department of Physiology, Uni
versity of California. He is author of:
Animal Heliotropism and its Identity with
the Heliotropism of Plants, 1890; Physi
ological Morphology, Part I.; Heteromor-
phosis, 1891 ; Physiological Morphology,
Part II. ; Organization and Growth, 1892;
Papers on Developmental Mechanics, Physi
ological Effects of Ions, Artificial Partheno
genesis, Comparative Physiology, Hybridiza
tion, etc. ; Comparative Physiofogy of the
Brain and Comparative Psychology, 1900;
Studies in General Physiology, 1905; The
Dynamics of Living Matter, 1906; Unter-

suchungen iiber Kiinstliche Parthenogenese,
1906. Professor Loeb married in 1890,
Anne L. Leonard, and they have two sons
and one daughter. Address : University
of California, Berkeley, California.

LOEB, James:
Banker; born in New York City, Au
gust 6, 1867; son of Solomon Loeb and
Betty (Gallenberg) Loeb. He was grad
uated from Harvard University as A.B.
in 1888. After his graduation he engaged
in the banking business in New York City
in the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Company
until he retired in 1901. He is a member
of the Chamber of Commerce, the Metro
politan Museum of Art, the American Mu
seum of Natural History, the American In
stitute of Archaeology, the English So
ciety for the Prevention of Hellenic Studies,
the New York Botanical Garden, the Mu
nicipal Art Society and a member of the
Lotos, Lawyers', Players', City, Grolier,
Harvard, St. Andrew's Golf and the Colon
ial Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Res
idence: 37 East Thirty-eighth Street, New
York. Office address : 52 William Street,
New York City.
LOEB, Louis:
Artist; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Novem
ber 7, 1866; son of Alexander Loeb and
Sarah (Ehrman) Loeb. He was a student
of Gerome, Paris, and is professionally en
gaged as an artist and illustrator. He ex
hibited at the Salon at Paris, receiving hon
orable mention in 1895, third medal, 1897,
also two silver medals from the Pan Amer
ican Exposition in 1901 and two from the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.
Also the Hallgarten prize of the National
Academy of Design, 1902; Webb prize of
the Society of American Artists, 1903. He
was elected associate in 1901, academician
1906 of the National Academy of Design.
He won the Carnegie prize of the Society of
American Artists, 1904; first prize of the
Society of Washington Artists, 1906 and
he has a picture at the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, New York City; Temple of
the Winds, Sunset; National Gallery,
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Academy, The Gilt Shawl. He is a mem
ber of the Society of American Artists,
Architectural League, the Society of Il
lustrators and a member of the Lotos Club.
Address : 58 West Fifty-seventh Street, New
York City.
LOEB, William, Jr.:
Secretary to the President; born in Al
bany, New York, October 9, 1866. He re
ceived his education in common and high
schools. In 1888 he was stenographer of
New York State Assembly; afterward was
law and general reporter and acted as pri
vate secretary to various public officials,
among them the president pro tempore, of
the New York State Senate, speaker of the
Assembly and lieutenant-governor. In 1894
he was a member of the stenographic corps
in. the New York State Constitutional Con
vention; in 1895 was grand jury and dis
trict attorney's stenographer of Albany
County; stenographer and private secretary
to Goyemor of New York, Jaunary 1, 1899 ;
secretary to the vice-president of the United
States, March 4, 1901, and was appointed
September '25, 1901, assistant secretary to
the President and February 18, 1903, sec
retary to the President which position he
still holds. Address: The White House,
Washington, D. C.
LOGAN, Frank Granger:
Commission merchant, retired; he was
born on a farm in Cayuga County, New
York, October 7, 1851; son of Simeon
Ford and Phebe (Hazen) Logan. He was
educated in the public schools of Cayuga
County and at the Ithaca Academy. He
went to Chicago in 1870 and entered the
dry goods establishment of Field, Leiter &
Company as a clerk, remaining' in this em
ployment five years. He was then for one
year with a Board of Trade firm, after
which he entered into business on his own
account in the commission grain trade as
a member of the firm of F. G. Logan &
Company. The beginnings of the firm were
on a modest scale, but in time the house
became one of the leading ones operating
on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Lo
gan is an archaeologist of some note, and

has a fine collection of specimens, which
he exhibited in the anthropological depart
ment of the World's Columbian Exposi
tion. He has also made a collection of
interesting relics relating to the lives of
Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, which
he exhibited in the Illinois Building at the
Exposition. He is a member and officer
of Plymouth Church, a director of the City
Missionary Society, and a member of the
Union League Club. He was married in
1882, in Chicago, to Josie Hancock. Resi
dence : 2919 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illi
nois. Address: Board of Trade, Chicago,
Illinois. LOGAN, William Newton:
Geologist and mineralogist; born at Bar-
boursville, Kentucky, November 4, 1869.
He was graduated as A.B. and A.M. from
the University of Kansas in 1896, was a
fellow in geology in the University of Chi
cago for two years from 1898, receiving the
degree of Ph.D. in 1900. He served as
superintendent of public schools at Pleasan-
ton, Kansas, from 1896 to 1898; was pro
fessor of geology and mineralogy at St.
Lawrence University, Canton, New York,
from 1900 to 1903, and since 1903 has been
professor of geology and mining engineer
ing in the Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College. Professor Logan was
assistant geologist of the Kansas Geological
Survey from 1895 to 1897 and again in
1900; assistant collector for the Field Co
lumbian Museum, Chicago, in 1898; mem
ber of the Wyoming Scientific Expedition,
1899; assistant on the New York Geologic
al Survey in 1902; geologist in charge from
1903 to 1906; and geologist from 1907 of
the Mississippi Geological Survey. Dr.
Logan is a member of the Sigma Xi (Uni
versity of Kansas, 1902) ; member of the
Kansas Academy of Science, and the Geo
graphical Society of America. He has in
vestigated and written papers on the geol
ogy of Kansas Upper Cretaceous; Paleon
tology of Kansas Upper Cretaceous; Geol
ogy of Freeze-Out Hills, Wyoming; An
Epicontinental Sea of the Jurrassic Age;
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Clays of Northern Mississippi. Address:
Agricultural College, Mississippi.
LOMBARD, Isaac Gross:
Banker; born at Truro, Massachusetts,
September 9, 1835 ; son of Lewis and Sarah
(Gross) Lombard. He was educated in
the public schools and at the Davis Aca
demy, Truro. He was secretary of the
Union Insurance and Trust Company of
Chicago, Illinois, from 1857 to 1863, having
removed to that city in the former year.
He was cashier of the Fifth National Bank
of Chicago from 1863 to 1883, and president
of the National Bank of America from
1893 to 1900. He has been director of the
Corn Exchange National Bank since 1900,
and was chairman of the Clearing House
Committee from 1880 to 1900. He is a
Conservative Republican, a member of the
New England and Mayflower Societies, and
of the Bankers' and Union League Clubs.
He was married in Boston, Massachusetts,
December 24, 1857, to Margaret Baker, and
has two children : Katharine and Ernest
Baker. Residence: 1819 Indiana Avenue,
Chicago. Address : Corn Exchange Bank,
Chicago, Illinois.
LOMBARD, Josiah:
Refiner of petroleum ; born in Griggs-
ville, Illinois, July 29, 1842; son of Josiah
Lombard and Sally (Ayres) Lombard. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1863. Mr.' Lombard has been engaged in
refining petroleum, first as the firm of
Lombard and Ayres, then Lombard, Ayres
and Company, incorporated, which was sold
to and merged with the Tidewater Oil
Company, but since the last merger there
has been peace. He is director of the
Tidewater Oil Company, Piatt and Wash
burn Refining Company, East Jersey Rail
road Terminal Company; vice-president
and director of the Indian CJreek and Pound
River Railroad Company, of Virginia; di
rector of Elwell Mercantile Company, and
Wallace Muller and Company, Limited.
In politics he is a Republican and in his
religious belief a Congregationalist. He is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society,
(Harvard chapter), and his favorite recrea

tions are golf and tennis. He married in
New York City, June 7, 1877, Alice N.
Rathbun; and their children are: Emily,
R., born 1878, Ethel A., born 1880, Edith
born 1884, and Louise A., born 1877. Ad
dress : 1 1 Broadway, New York City.
LONDON, Jack:
Author ; born in San Francisco, January
12, 1876; son of John London and Flora
(Wellman) London. He was educated in
the Oakland High School and the Uni
versity of California. In his search for ad
ventures among the scum marine popula
tion of San Francisco Bay he soon lost his
ideal romance and replaced it with the real
romance of things. He became, in turn, a
salmon fisher, an oyster pirate, a schooner
sailor, a fish patrolman, a longshoreman
and general bay-faring adventurer; when
he was seventeen he shipped before the
mast as able seaman; went to Japan and
seal hunting on the Russian side of Bering
Sea, among other things, and served at
d'vers times in various forecastles. He be
came possessed of an interest in sociology
and economics. Swayed partly by this and
partly by the fascination of the enterprise,
he tramped over the United States and
Canada, many thousands of miles, and hav
ing more than one jail experience because
he possessed no fixed place of abode and
no visible means of support; and later on
repeated his vagabond career in the East
End of London. He went over Chilcoot
Pass with the first of the Klondike rush
of 1897; afterward, writer, socialist lecturer
and journalist. He went as a war corres
pondent to Japan, Korea and Manchuria in
1904; and in 1907 started on a seven years'
cruise around the world in a fifty-foot
Ketch- rig yacht. .His favorite recreations
are kite-flying, yacht sailing, fencing, box
ing, horseback-riding and swimming. He
is author of: The Son of the Wolf; The
God of His Fathers; A Daughter of the
Snows; The Children of the Frost; The
People, of the Abyss ; The Cruise of the
Dazzler; The Call of the Wild; The
Kempton- Wace Letters ; The Faith of
Men; The Sea- Wolf; The War of the
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Patrol; Moon-Face; White-Fang; Love of
Life; Before Adam; The Iron Heel. Mr.
London married, first in Oakland, Califor
nia, in 1900, Bessie Maddern, by whom he
has two daughters ; and second, in Chicago,
Illinois, in 1905, Charmian Kittredge. Ad
dress : Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, Cali
fornia. LONG, Chester I.:
United States Senator; born in Perry
County, Pennsylvania, October 12, i860;
moved with his parents to Daviess County,
Missouri, in 1865, where he resided until
1879, when he moved to Paola, Kansas;
received an academic education; was ad
mitted to the bar at Topeka, Kansas, in
1885, and located at Medicine Lodge, where
he has since resided. He was elected to
the State Senate in 1889; was elected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses. Before his
term as Representative in the Fifty-eighth
Congress began, he was elected as a Re
publican to the United States Senate to suc
ceed William A. Harris, Democrat, for the
term beginning March 4, 1903. His term
of service will expire March 3, 1909. Ad
dress : Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
LONG. EU H.:
Physician; born in Clarence, New York,
July 24, i860; son of David Long and
Mary (Miller) Long. He was educated
in the public schools of Williamsville, New
York, and was graduated from the Uni
versity of Buffalo, Medical Department as
M.D. in 1882. He has been practising
medicine at Buffalo from graduation; was
professor of materia medica in Pharmacal
Department from 1889 to 1899, dental de
partment since 1893, medical department
since 1899 at the University of Buffalo;
also assisting attending physician at the
Buffalo General Hospital. He is author
of: Table for Doctors and Druggists;
Dental Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Dr. Long is medical examiner of the
Provident Life and Trust Company, sec
retary and treasurer of the medical depart
ment and dental department of the Uni
versity of Buffalo; secretary of medical

staff of the Buffalo General Hospital; a
member of Church of Christ (Disciples),
a member of the American Medical As
sociation, the American Therapeutic So
ciety, the Medical Society of the State of
New York, the Buffalo Academy of Medi
cine and a member of the Board of Man
agers of the New York Christian" Mission
ary Society. He married in Buffalo, in
1884, Alice Eggert and their children are:
Edith M., born 1885-, Austin O., born 1888,
Raymond D., born 1891, and Edwin E.,
born 1897. Address: 1335 Main Street,
Buffalo, New York.
LONGDEN, Ala dine Cummings:
Professor of physics; born at Leesville,
Ohio, February 19, 1857; son of Samuel
Longden and Adaline M. (Cummings)
Longden. He was graduated from De
Pauw University with first honors in math
ematics, as A.M. in 1884, and Ph.D. from
Columbia in 1900. He was instructor in
physics and chemistry at the State Normal
School, Westfield, Massachusetts, from 1888
to 1897, and has been professor of physics
at Knox College since 1901. He has made
researches and published articles on elec
trical subjects. He is a member of the
American Physical Society, and the Nation
al Geographic Society ; fellow of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, and a fnember of the Phi Kappa
Psi fraternity. He married ' in Buffalo,
New York, December 24, 1884, Jeanie I.
Humble. Address: 643 West North
Street, Galesburg, Illinois.
LONGFELLOW, Alexander Wadsworth, Jr.:
Architect ; born at Portland, Maine, 1854 ;
son of Alexander W. Longfellow and
Elizabeth (Porter) Longfellow. He was
graduated from Harvard College, in the
class of 1876, and was a special student at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He
worked for four years as assistant in the
office of the late H. H. Richardson in
Brookline, and in 1887 established the firm
of Longfellow, Alden and Harlow, design
ers of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh,
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works; dissolved in 1895. He then formed
another firm with his brother R. K. Long
fellow, and they are the architects of Phil
lips Brooks House and Sefnitic Museum,
Harvard College, and Grace Eliot Hall,
Bertram Hall and Agassiz House, Radcliffe
College; and have carried on general prac
tice mostly in Massachusetts and in Maine,
where they have designed the Brunswick
and Yarmouth Memorial Library. Mr.
Longfellow is active in the Arts and
Crafts movement, is a trustee of the
Boston Athenaeum and the Museum of
Fine Arts, and a member of the Art Com
mission of the City of Boston; a fellow of
the American Institute of Architects, and
member of the Boston Society of Archi
tects, the Somerset, Tavern and Union
Clubs of Boston, India Wharf Rats Club
of Boston, and the Cumberland Club of
Portland, Maine. Address : 12 Mt. Vern
on Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
LONGFELLOW, Ernest Wadsworth:
Artist; born in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, in 1845; son of the poet. He was
a pupil of Couture, Paris. Some of his
works are: Old Mill at Manchester,
Massachusetts; Italian Pines; Love Me,
Love my Dog; Misty Morning; John and
Priscilla, and others. Address : Century
Association, 7 West Forty-third Street,
New York City.
LONGFELLOW, William Pitt Preble:
Architect; born in Portland, Maine, Oc
tober 25, 1836; son of Stephen Long
fellow. He was graduated from Harvard
as A.B. in 1855 and as B.S. in 1859. He
was engaged in the practice of architecture
in Boston from i860 to 1879 and retired
from practice in 1879. He was assist
ant architect of the Treasury Department
of the United States, under the first Grant
Administration. He was a fellow of the So
ciety of American Architects. He was
the first editor of The American Architect,
and is author of various works on archi
tectural subjects. Address. 479 Broad
way, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LONGTNO, Andrew Houston:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Law
rence County, Mississippi, May 16, 1855;

son of John Thomas Longino and Annie
(Ramsey) LonginO. He was graduated
from Mississippi College in 1876, and im
mediately thereafter became clerk of the
Circuit and Chancery Courts of his native
county, serving until 1880. He was admit
ted to the bar,, was a State senator from
1880 to 1884, United States district attorney
for the Southern District of Mississippi
from 1888 to 1890; chancellor of the
Seventh District of Mississippi from 1894
to 1899, and in 1899 was elected governor
of Mississippi, in which office he served
from January, 1900, to January, 1904. Gov
ernor Longino married at Jackson, Missis
sippi, in 1887, Marion Buckley. Address :
Jackson, Mississippi.
LONGLEY, Harry S.:
Clergyman; born in Cohoes, New York,
September -10, 1868; son of John T. and
Marie E. (Fulton) Longley. He was edu
cated in the public and private schools of
Troy, New York, at St. Stephen's Prepara
tory School, Annandale, New York, and
was graduated from St. Stephen's College
as B.A. in 1891 and M.A. in 1896, and
from the General Theological Seminary.
He was curate of St. Paul's Parish, Troy,
New York, in 1894 and 1895 ; rector of
Trinity Parish, Milford, Massachusetts,
from 1895 to 1899 ; rector of Christ Church
Binghamton since September 16, 1899; was
examining chaplain of the Diocese of Cen
tral New York. He was a delegate to the
General Convention of the Episcopal
Church representing the Diocese of Central
New York in 1907. He is 'a member of
Kappa Gamma Chi, St. Stephen's College,
a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight
Templar and a member of Katurah Temple,
Mystic Shrine; master of Otsenig Lodge,
Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge. He
is president of the Board of Trustees of
the House of Good Shepherd, Binghamton,
New York, and he is a member of the
Broome Country Club. He married at
Waterford, New York, September 17, 1894,
Hattie E. Longley, and they have one son,
Harry S. M., born 1899. Address: Christ
Church Rectory, Binghamton, New York.

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LONGWORTH, Nicholas:
Congressman and lawyer; bom in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, November 5, 1869; son of
Nicholas Longworth and Susan (Walker)
Longworth. His preliminary education
was at the Franklin School in Cincinnati,
and from there he went to Harvard Uni
versity, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1891. After that he spent one year
in the Harvard Law School, then went to
the Cincinnati Law School from which he
was graduated in 1894, with the degree of
LL.B., and in the same year he was admit
ted to the bar. Mr. Longworth was a
member of the School Board of Cincinnati
in 1898, was elected to the Ohio House
of Representatives in 1899; and to the
Ohio Senate in 1901. In 1902 he was elect
ed from the First Ohio District to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, and he was reelect
ed in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress and
in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress, in which he
is now serving. He is a member of the
Queen City and Blaine Clubs of Cincinnati,
Somerset Club of Boston, and Metropolitan
Club of Washington, D. C. Mr. Long-
worth married, February 17, 1906, Alice
Roosevelt, daughter of President Roosevelt.
Address : Grandin Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.
LOOMIS, Archibald Gilbert:
Banker; born in Hartford, Connecticut,
June 20, 1848; son of Pascal and Martha
Jones (Greenfield) Loomis. He received
his education in the district and high
schools of Hartford. He entered the Aetna
National Bank of Hartford as a messenger
March, 1865; promoted to discount clerk
the same year; teller next year; acting
cashier in 1871 ; cashier in 1887 ; director
1890; president 1891 and in April, 1899,
resigned to accept the position as vice-
president of the National Bank of New
York City, but resigned January, 1905;
moved to San Francisco, in December, 1905,
and accepted the position as vice-president
of the Union Trust Company, January 1907.
He is a member of the Bohemian Club of
San Francisco. Mr, Loomis married, May
18, 1892, Ellen Seymour Hanson. Resi
dence : 234 Wayland Avenue, Providence,
Rhode Island,

LOOMIS, Charles Bai tell:
Writer and reader; born in Brooklyn,
New York, September 16, 1861 ; son of
Charles Battell Loomis and Mary (Worth-
ington) Loomis. He was educated at the
Juvenile High School and at the Polytech
nic Institute of Brooklyn, and left at the
end of the academic course. Mr. Loomis
is author of: Cheerful Americans; A
Bath in an English Tub; Minerva's Man-
oeuvers ; and seven other books. He tour
ed the United States as reader with Jerome
K. Jerome; has traveled across the con
tinent, visited every State, but two, and
has been three times to Europe. In politics
he is a Republican, but independent, and in
his religious faith an Episcopalian. His
favorite recreations are wheeling and ten
nis. Mr. Loomis is a member of the Sal
magundi and Authors Clubs of New .Yoric
City. He married in Brooklyn, February
14, 1888, Mary Charlotte Fullerton, and
they have three children: Charles Battell,
borfl in 1889, Alfred Fullerton, born in
1890, and Edith Worthington, born in 1895.
Address : Hackensack, New Jersey.
LOOMIS, Edward Eugene:
Railroad official ; born near Ilion, New
York, in 1865; son of Chester Loomis and
Esther Loomis. He received a college edu
cation. He entered the railroad service in
the law department of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway Company; was appointed
in 1894, superintendent of the Tioga Divis
ion of the Erie Railroad, also superintend
ent of the Blossburg Coal Company, in
charge of their bituminous coal and lumber
interests. Mr. Loomis was appointed, in
1898, general superintendent of New York,
Susquehanna and Western, and the Wilkes-
Barre and Eastern railroads, and became
superintendent of the Coal Mining Depart
ment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, in June 1899, and in
March, 1902, manager of the entire coal
department with charge over mining, ship
ping and sales of that company's produc
tion of anthracite coal. Since April, 1902,
he has been vice-president of the same
road; also president of the Bangor and
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rose Railroad, Glen Alden and Lackawanna
Valley Coal Company, and Arnot Water
Company; vice-president of the Hoboken
Ferry Company, the Morris and Essex
Railroad Company, Syracuse, Binghamton
and New York Railroad Company, and
Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley
Railroad Company, and others, and direct
or of the Coal and Iron Bank of New
York. He is a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, the Lawyers'
Club of New York City, Westmoreland
Club of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the
City and Country Clubs of Scranton, and
the' City Club of Elmira, New York. He
married in November, 1902, Julia Olivia
Langdon, daughter Of General C. J. Lang
don of Elmira, New York. Address : 160
West Fifty-ninth Street, New York City.
LOOMIS, Elmer Howard:
Professor of physics; born in Vermilion,
New York, May .24, 1861 ; son of Jiram
Warner Loomis and Adaline (Sayles)
Loomis. He was educated in the public
schools of New York, and Mexico Aca
demy, and was graduated from Colgate
University as A.B. in 1883, and from Stras
burg University, Germany, as Ph.D. He
taught physics and chemistry in Colgate
Academy from 1883 to 1890; has been en
gaged in the department of physics at
Princeton University since 1894, and since
1897 has been professor of physics. In
politics he is an Independent and in religion
a Baptist.. He is a member of the Ameri
can Physical Society; fellow of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science; member of Princeton Science
Club; trustee of McKinley Hospital; di
rector of the New Jersey Association for
Prevention of Tuberculosis and is a mem
ber of Delta Upsilon fraternity. Mr.
Loomis married in Mexico, New York,
June 23, 1885, Mary Bennett, and they have
one son, Robert Bennett Loomis, born in
1895. Address: Princeton, New Jersey.
LOOSE, Jacob L.:
Manufacturer; born in Franklin County,
Pennsylvania, June 17, 1850 ; son of Isaac
and Ella (Schull) Loose. In 1870 he re
moved to Sangamon County, Illinois. He

finished his schooling in the Decatur (Illi
nois) High School ; worked a short time in
a Decatur dry goods store, and afterward
in a store conducted at Chetopa, Kansas,
by two of his brothers. One of these he
later bought out, the firm becoming D. A,
and J. L. Loose, who started a. branch house
at Joplin, Missouri, which his brother later
took over, while he continued the Kansas
business alone. With his brother Joseph S.
Loose, he bought, in 1882, the controlling
interest in the Cork Cracker and Confec
tionery Conpany, Kansas City, which be
came Loose Brothers Manufacturing Com
pany and greatly enlarged. Mr. Loose or
ganized in 1890, and was president for seven
years of the American Biscuit and Manu
facturing Company, consolidating "all the
Western bakers for mutual protection and
in opposition to the New York Biscuit
Company. Because of ill-health he retired
in 1897, and went to Europe. During his
absence the American Biscuit and Manu
facturing Company was merged with others
to form the . National Biscuit Company,
much against his wishes and from which
he withdrew his interests. When his health
was restored he, with his brother J. S.
Loose, and others, organized the Loose-
Wiles Cracker and Candy Company, Kan
sas City; Works Biscuit Company, Minne
apolis; Brown'Cracker and Candy. Company,
Dallas ; and Manewal-Lange Biscuit Com
pany, St. Louis ; also acquiring the Chi
cago Biscuit Company, Chicago; Austin
Biscuit Company, and Hazen Confectionery
Company, Boston ; also organized the
North American Biscuit Company, all. di
rect competitors of the National Biscuit
Company. Mr. Loose is a member of the
Chicago and Union League Clubs of Chi
cago, and the Kansas City and Kansas City
Country Clubs. He married, in 1878, Ella
Clark of Carthage, Missouri. Address : 507
R. A. Long Building, Kansas City, Mis
souri. LORAINE, Robert:
Actor ; born at Liscard, Cheshire, England,
January 14, 1876; son of Dr. Henry and
Ellen (Baylis) Loraine. He attended New
Brighton High School, Cheshire, England.
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peared in America first in 1901, again in
the winters of 1902 and 1903, 1904; on
, September 5, 1906, he made his first ap
pearance as John Tanner in Man and Sup
erman. He served as trooper in the Ninth
Imperial Yeomanry, during the Boer War,
from 1899 to 1900, arid received the South
African war medal, with three bars. His
favorite recreations are horseback riding,
motoring and music. Mr. Loraine is a
member of the Lambs', and the Players'
Clubs. Address : Care of C. B. Dilling
ham, 1402 Broadway, New York City.
LORD, Chester Sanders :
Editor ; born in Romulus, New York,
March 18, 1850; son of Rev. Edward Lord
and Mary Jane (Sanders) Lord. He was
graduated from Hamilton College as A.B.
and M.A. in 1873 and received the LL.D.
from the St. Lawrence University. In 1870
he was associate editor of the Oswego
(New York) Advertiser; managing editor
of the New York Sun from 1880 to 1907.
He was regent of the University of the
¦ State of New York from 1897 to 1904; and
is a member of the New England Society,
Sigma Phi fraternity and of the Union
League, University, Lotos Clubs of which
latter he was secretary from 1894 to 1905,
and has since been vice-president; a mem
ber of the Long Island Country, Barnard,
and Dyker Meadow Golf Clubs. He mar
ried in Adams, New York, October 18, 1871,
Katherine M. Bates and their children are :
Kenneth, born 1879, and Richard, born 1882.
Address : 57 South Portland Avenue, New
York City.
LORD, George P.:
Retired banker ; born in Barrington, New
York, July 25, 183 1 ; son of Benjamin M.
Lord and Elizabeth (Fleming) Lord. He
received his early education in the Lima
Seminary, and was graduated from Hobart
College as A.M. in 1856, also with diploma,
from the State Normal School. He was
school commissioner for Yates County
from i860 to 1867; a member of the State
Assembly from 1871 to 1872; the State
Senate from 1879 to 1883; and State civil
service commissioner during the terms of
Governors Morton and Black. In politics

he is a Republican. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church and built the Episcopal
Church in Dundee, New York, in memory
of his deceased wife. He is a member of
the Dundee Board of Education and Alpha
Delta Phi Society. Mr. Lord married
March 2, 1859, Eliza Bunce. Address:
Yates County, New York.
LORD, John Brackett:
Manufacturer; born at Newton Upper
Falls, Massachusetts, June 30, 1843; son
of Brackett and Clarissa Williams . (Win-
slow) Lord. He was educated in the public
schools of Newton, Massachusetts, and at
the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massa
chusetts. His father was engaged in the
grain and flour business, and when the son
left school he entered his father's establish
ment, where he remained until 1872, when
he removed to the town of Kansas, Illinois,
where he owned a large grain warehouse,
of which he took charge. He was a gener
al buyer and shipper of grain throughout
Central Illinois from 1875 to 1882, in the
railroad lumber supply business, in assoc
iation with C. W. Powell, of Paris, Illi
nois, from 1882 to 1884, and in the same
business in Chicago, Illinois, from 1884 to
1893, when the firm dissolved; since 1893
of the Ayer & Lord Tie Company, said to
be the largest dealer in oak ties for rail
roads in the United States. He is a Re
publican and a member of the Chicago,
Kenwood and Homewood Clubs. He was
married in 1874 to Annie E. Steele, of
Grand View, Illinois, and has four children :
Clara S., Mary L., Margaret, and Russell.
Residence: 4857 Greenwood Avenue, Chi
cago. Address : Railway Exchange, Chi
cago, Illinois.
LORD, William Faine:
Ex-governor of Oregon; born in Dover,
Delaware, in 1838. After serving through
the Civil War as major of a Delaware
Cavalry Regiment in the Union Army, he
studied law, was commissioned as lieuten
ant in the Regular Army, and served in
Alaska until 1868, when he resigned from
the army and began the practice of law
at Salem, Oregon, of which he has ever
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in the Republican party of Oregon, was for
fourteen years a judge of the Supreme
Court of Oregon; governor of Oregon
from 1895 to 1899, and minister plenipoten
tiary and envoy extraordinary of the Unit
ed States to the Argentine Republic from
1899 to 1903. Address : Salem, Oregon,
LORE, Charles Brown:
Jurist; born at Odessa, Delaware, March
16, 1831; son of Eldad C. Lore and Pris
cilla Lore. He was graduated as A.B.
from Dickinson College in 1852. He after
ward studied law and engaged in practice
at Wilmington, Delaware, until 1893. He
'was attorney-general of Delaware from
1869 to 1874; was elected to the Forty-
eighth Congress as a Democrat in 1882 and
to the Forty-ninth Congress in 1884; was
elected Presidential elector on the Hancock
ticket in 1880 and the Cleveland ticket in
1892, and since 1893 has served in his
present office of chief justice of Delaware.
Address : Wilmington, Delaware.
LOREE, Leonor Fresnel:
Railway official; born in Fulton City,
Illinois, April 23, 1858, and received his
education in Rutledge College. He began
railway service in 1877, as assistant in en
gineer corps of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in 1877, was transitman in the engineer
corps of the United States army from 1879
to 1881 ; leveler, transitman and topograph
er on the preliminary survey and location
of the Mexican National Railway, from the
Rio Grande River to Saltillo, Mexico, from
1881 to 1883; from 1883, with the Pennsyl
vania lines west of Pittsburgh, as assistant
engineer of the Chicago division in 1883
and 1884; engineer maintenance of way,
various Western divisions, from 1884 to
1889; superintendent of the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh division from 1889 to 1896 ; gen
eral manager from 1896 to 1901 ; and fourth
vice-president from January to June 1901,
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burgh ; president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway, from 1901 to 1904; of the Rock
Island Company of New Jerseyfrom Janu
ary to October, 1904; and president of the
Delaware and Hudson Company, April,

1907. He has been since 1907, chairman of
the Executive Committee, Kansas City
Southern Railway; trustee, Equitable Trust
Company, New York; director of the
National Railroad Company of Mexico and
of the Underground Electric Railways Com
pany of London, Limited. Mr. Loree is a
member of the Century, Midday, the Auto
mobile of America, Oakland and Maidstone
Golf Club of New York, the Union Club
of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Rittenhouse
Club of Philadelphia. Residence: Hoffman
House. Office address : 25 Broad Street,
New York City.
LORIMER, George Horace:
Editor; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
October 6, 1868; son of Rev. George Claude
Lorimer, D.D., distinguished Baptist divine,
and Belle (Burford) Lorimer. After com
pleting a high school course in Chicago he
studied at Colby University and later at
Yale; engaged in journalism and in 1899
became editor-in-chief of the Saturday
Evening Post, of Philadelphia. Mr. Lori
mer is author of : Behind the Veil of Isis ;
Letters from a Self-made Merchant to his
Son, 1902 ; Old Gorgon Graham, 1904 ; Jack
Spurlock — Prodigal, 1907. ' He married,
June 6, 1893, Alma. Viola Ennis, daughter
of Alfred and Almarinda (Baldridge) En
nis of Chicago. Residence : Wyncote, Penn
sylvania. Office address : Curtis Publishing
Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LORIMER, William:
Congressman and contractor; born in
Manchester, England, April 27, 1861 ; resi
dent, since 1870, of Chicago, where he at
tended the public schools. Began work at
twelve and continued in various trades un
til 1886, when he became a real estate agent,
later entering the contracting business. He
was superintendent of the Water Depart
ment of the City of Chicago for two years.
Mr. Lorimer has been prominent in Chicago
politics for years as an active Republican.
He was elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress, from the Sixth Illinois Dis
trict. Address: 1183 Douglas Park Boule
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LORING, Wiliam Caleb:
Jurist; born at Beverly, Massachusetts,
August 24, 185 1 ; son of Caleb William
Loring and Elizabeth Smith (Peabody)
Loring. He was graduated from Harvard
Law School as LL.B.. in 1874, and received
the A.M. degree in 1875 and the LL.D.
degree iri 1901 from Harvard University.
He was assistant attorney general of
Massachusetts from 1875 to 1888, and after
that engaged in private practice until 1899,
when he became one of the associate jus
tices of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts, In which office he continues.
Judge Loring is a Republican in politics.
He married in 1884, Susan Mason Law
rence. Address : Court House, Pember
ton Square, Boston, Massachusetts.
LOTT, Edson Schuyler:
Casualty insurance underwriter; born in
Yates County, New York, November 10,
1858; son of Jesse T. Lott and Sarah M.
(Wheeler) Lott. After completing his edu
cation in the public schools and in the Acad
emy at Penn Yan, New York, he engaged in
newspaper work. Later he became inter
ested in the insurance business ; and upon
the organization of the United States Casu
alty Company, was made assistant secre
tary, afterwards being elected to his present
position as secretary, general manager and
director. Mr. Lott was elected president
of -the International Association of Ac
cident Underwriters in 1903, and reelected
in 1904, and elected member of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Board of Casual
ty and Surety Underwriters, 1906. He has
been yice-president of the Alliance Against
Accident Fraud since its organization in
1905. He has written and lectured exten
sively on casualty insurance topics. -Mr.
Lott is a member of the Underwriters',
Lawyers' and Republican Clubs of New
York City. He married Emma A. Cowl,
and they have a son, Frederick Barnum,
born in 1880. Address : 141 Broadway, New
York City.
LOUD, George Alvin:
Congressman; born at Bracebridge, Ge
auga County, Ohio, June 18, 1852; son of

Henry M. Loud and Villetta (Kile) Loud.
He was graduated from Ann Arbor (Mich
igan) High School, in 1869. He has been
engaged in the lumber business for thirty
years, in connection with his father and
brothers; was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the Tenth
Michigan District. In politics he is a Re
publican. He married, December 5, 1888,
Elizabeth Glennie. Address : Au Sable,
Michigan. LOUDENSLAGER, Henry Clay:
Congressman; was born May 22, 1852.
After leaving the home farm he engaged.
in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
in 1872, and continued in it ten years; was
elected county clerk in 1882, and reelected
in 1887; was elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected in 1906 to the Six
tieth Congress from the First New Jersey
District, as a Republican. Address : Pauls-
boro, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
LOUGEE, Willis Eugene:
Secretary of the International Committee
of the Young Men's Christian Association;
born iri Chelsea, Vermont, May 2, 1857;
son of John C. Lougee and Marcia H.
Lougee. He received his education at Gil
manton Academy, New Hampshire. He
was formerly president of the Presbyterian
Union, Manhattan, trustee of the McAuley
Mission, and of Madina College, India; di
rector of the New York Christian Home for
Intemperate Men; a member of the Board
of Governors of White Plains Hospital As
sociation and Jennie Clarkson Home for
Children; was formerly business manager
of the International Committee of the
Young Men's Christian Association ; closely
identified with Mr. Moody in Northfield
work; raised a large amount of money
for the Young Men's Christian Association
work in the army during the Spanish-
American War ; had much to do with
securing the endowment fund for the In
ternational Committee and recently elected
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Home Missionary Society. He married at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, March 17, 1895,
Ella J. Reed. Address: 287 Fourth Ave
nue, New York City.
LOUNSBURY, Phineas Chapman:
Banker; born in Ridgefield, Connecticut,
January 10, 1844. He was educated in the
public schools, and during the Civil War
was a private in the Seventeenth Regiment
of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, but was
compelled to retire from the service by
serious illness. After the war he engaged
in business, and also became active in poli
tics as a Republican, was a member and
speaker in the House of Representatives
of the Connecticut Legislature, and was
governor of Connecticut from 1887 to 1889.
Governor Lounsbury has for years been
president of the Merchants' Exchange 'Na
tional Bank of New York City, is president
of the Preferred Accident Insurance Com
pany, and an officer and director in various
corporations. He is a member of the New
England Society in New York, and of the
Union League and Republican Clubs pf
New York City. Residence : Ridgefield,
Connecticut. Office address : Merchants'
Exchange National Bank, 257 Broadway,
New York City.
LOVEJOY, Francis Thomas Fletcher:
Iron manufacturer; born in Baltimore,
Maryland, July 21, 1854; was educated in
public schools of Washington, Ohio, taking
instruction in telegraphy while attending
school. From 1870 to 1880 was employed
at Washington and Pithole, Pennsylvania,
as telegrapher, etc. ; employed by American
Union Telegraph Company, Pittsburgh,
1880; entered the service of the Carnegie
steel interests as clerk and telegrapher,
June, 1881 ; he became auditor in April,
1889, of Carnegie Brothers & Company,
Limited, and, of Carnegie, Phipps & Com
pany, Limited, becoming also a member and
stockholder of these concerns; elected sec
retary of Carnegie Brothers & Company,
June, 1889; elected member of the Boards
of Managers of both associations, 1891 ;
in 1892, took active part in their consolida
tion, becoming secretary and manager of

the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, July
1, 1892; selected by the board of managers
and by Henry C. Prick to give information
to newspapers during Homestead strike,
1892; resigned positions, 1900, refusing to
join attack by majority stockholders upon
Mr. Frick, chairman of the board of man
agers. Conducted compromise negotiations
and wrote the agreement under which new
company was to be formed; appointed one
of committee to carry out provisions of
agreement. Now largely interested in
Western mining enterprises, and local
banks and insurance companies. Member
of various clubs. Mr. Lovejoy married,
June 22, 1892, Jane Clyde Fleming. Ad
dress : Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
LOVELAND, John Winthrop:
Lawyer; born in West Pittston, Pennsyl
vania, October 1, 1866; son of John Love-
land and Helen M. (Strong) Loveland; de
scended from the colonial families of Buck
ingham, Strong and Deming. He was edu
cated at the Pennsylvania Military Col
lege, Yale University and Columbia Law
School. He is a specialist in patent,
trade-mark and copyright causes ; is pat
ent counsel for the Linen Thread Company,
Harrison Safety Boiler Works, Charles
Sooysmith, Barbour Brothers Flax Com
pany, and Naval Electric Company. Mr.
Loveland was a member of Squadron
A of the National Guard of New York;
Troop A of the United States Volunteers
served in Porto Rico campaign in 1898, in
the Spanish-American War; was second
lieutenant of the Fourth Regiment of New
Jersey; first lieutenant and adjutant of the
Fifth Regiment of New Jersey Infantry.
In politics he is a Republican and he is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. He
is also a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Na
tional Geographic Society, the United
States Infantry Association, the Pennsyl
vania Military College Alumni Association ;
trustee of the Pennsylvania Military Col
lege. His favorite recreations are yachting,
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In 1889 he was a member of the Berkeley
Athletic Club and anchored the lightweight
tug-of-war team that won the championship
of the United States; is an expert military
rifle and revolver shot, and a member of
the Pennsylvania Society, Yale, Lawyers',
Englewood Field Club and Association of
the Bar of the City of New York. He mar
ried at Elmira, New York, June 5, 1890,
Florence Lee Partridge, and their children
are : John W., Jr., born 1891, Florence Lee,
born 1893, and Helen Marian, born 1899.
Residence: Englewood, New Jersey. Office
address: in Broadway, New York City.
LOVELL, Leander Newton:
Senior partner of the firm of Borden and
Lovell; born at Fall River, Massachusetts,
in 1835 ; son of Leander P. and Ariadne B.
Lovell. He was educated in Fall River.
Mr. Lovell is president of Borden Mining
Company, Lovell Coal Mining Company,
Northern Insurance Company of New
York, Eastern Coal and Coke Company,
d;rector of the Old Colony Steamboat Com
pany, the Ohio and Kentucky Railway
Company; trustee of the Atlantic Mutual
Insurance Company; chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee of Bituminous Coal As
sociation. In politics he is a Republican
and he is a member of the Presbyterian
Church. He is elder of the .Crescent
Avenue Church, Plainfield, New Jersey;
vice-president of the Board of Education,
Plainfield, New Jersey; life member of the
New York Young Men's Christian Assoc
iation; one of the managers of the Life
Savings Benevolent Association of New
York City. Mr. Lovell is a member of the
New York Society of Mayflower Descend
ants, governor of the New Jersey Society
of Mayflower Descendents; member of the
Society of Colonial Wars, the New York
Society of Sons of American Revolu
tion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
England Society of New York, and the
New York Chamber of Commerce. He
married in Fall River in 1867, Phebe
Borden Durfee, and they have eight chil
dren. Residence: Plainfield, New Jersey.
Office address: 17 Battery Place, New
York City.

LOVEMAN, Robert:^
Writer of verse ; born at Cleveland, Ohio,
April 11, 1864; son of David R. Loveman
and Esther (Schwartz) Loveman. He was
graduated from the University of Alabama
as M.A. He has published: Poems, 1889;
Poems, 1890; Poems, 1896 (Lippincott);
A Book of Verses, 1900; The Gates of
Silence, 1903 (Putnam) ; Songs from a
Georgia Garden, 1904, (Lippincott) ; and
has been a contributor to leading magazines.
Address : Dalton, Georgia.
LOVERESfG, William C:
Congressman; was born in 1835, in
Rhode Island; was educated in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, at the Cambridge High
School and the Hopkins Classical School.
He has been engaged in cotton manufactur
ing nearly all of his life ; is interested in
many other manufactories, in which he is
president, director and manager; served for
a short period in the war as engineer at
Fort Monroe ; retired from the service an
invalid. He was State senator for two years,
1874-75; was a delegate to the national Re
publican convention that nominated Gar
field in 1880; was nominated by acclama
tion in the Congressional convention of the
Twelfth district September 22, 1896, and
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, reelected to the Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and was reelected in 1906
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Four
teenth Massachusetts District as a Repub
lican. Address : Taunton, Massachusetts.
LOVETT, Eldon H. :
Clergyman; born in Lincoln, Penobscot
County, Maine, 1852; son of Alfred L.
Lovett and Julia A. (Jordan) Lovett. He
was graduated from Colgate University in
1877 and from Hamilton Theological Sem
inary in 1885, and received the degree of
D.D. in 1900, from the same institution.
He was pastor of West Baptist Church,
Oswego, New York, for five years, of Gal-
vary Church, Davenport, Iowa, for six
years, and since 1898 he has been engaged
in evangelistic work and in raising money
for Baptist educational institutions. He
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two years, and of various philanthropic in
stitutions ;. and has traveled extensively. He
raised $65,000 for Cook Academy; large
sums for colleges at Des Moines, Iowa and
Sioux Falls, South Dakota; $85,000 for
Ottawa University and $30,000 for Hia
watha Academy, in Kansas; $50,000 for
Colby Academy, New London, New Hamp
shire, over $125,000 for Colgate University,
$30,000 for South Jersey Institute, Bridge-
ton, New Jersey, and in much demand to
day for this kind of work. He has bap
tized one thousand candidates in his pas
torate. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Beta Theta Pi Society.
His favorite recreations are fishing and
hunting. Dr. Lovett married in Alton, Illi
nois, 1871, Martha G. McGlauffin, and they
have four children: William P., born in
1873, Alfred H., born in 1876, Rose, born
in 1881, and Lena D., born in 1883. Ad
dress : 146 South Portland Avenue,
Brooklyn, New York.
LOW, Seth:
Merchant, educator and philanthropist;
born in Brooklyn, New York, January 8,
1850; son of Abiel Abbot Low and Ellen
(Dow) Low. He was prepared in the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, entered
Columbia College . and was graduated as
A.B. in 1870. He received the LL.D de
gree from Amherst College in 1889; from
the University of the State of New York,
the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard,
and Trinity College in 1890, from Prince
ton in 1896 and from Yale in 1901. After
his graduation in 1870 he took an extended
foreign tour, then became a clerk in the
mercantile house of his father and uncles,
A. A. Low and Brothers, in which he be
came a partner in 1875. He was made the
first president of the Brooklyn Bureau of
Charities, and was officially and otherwise
associated with other philanthropic insti
tutions and reform movements in his city.
He took active part as a Republican in
local and national politics, and was one
of the organizers of the Young Re
publican organization in Brooklyn. He
was elected mayor of Brooklyn in 1881, and
was reelected in 1883, serving until 1885.

r±e was president of Columbia University
from 1890 to 1901, and it was mainly
through his efforts that the University was
removed to its present commanding' site on
Momingside Heights, to the fund for
which he personally contributed a million
dollars. Mr. Low became an Independent
candidate for mayor of Greater New York
in 1897, but was defeated; and in 1899 he
was selected by President McKinley as one
of the representatives of the United States
Government at the Hague Peace Confer
ence, in the deliberations of which he took
a prominent part. He was elected mayor
of Greater New York on the Fusion ticket
in 1900, serving from 1901 to 1903. Mr.
Low has been president of the Geographical
Society of New York, the New York Aca
demy of Political Science; vice-president
of the New York Academy of Sciences ;
honorary member of the Chamber of Com
merce of New York; member of the So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants, the Cen
tury Association, University, Union League,
Metropolitan, City, Republican, New York
Yacht, Down Town, Authors, National
Arts, Barnard and Columbia University
Clubs of New York City, and the Hamilton
Club of Brooklyn. Mr. Low married, De
cember 9, 1880, Annie, daughter of Judge
B. R. Curtis. Address : 30 East Sixty-
fourth Street, New York City.
LOW, Will Hlcok:
Artist; born in Albany, New York, May
31, 1853. He studied art under Gerome
and Carolus Duran, Paris. He was in
charge of the life classes in schools of
Cooper Union, from 1882 to 1885, in the
National Academy of Design, from 1889
to 1892; and visiting instructor of the Chi
cago Art Institute, in 1902. His work in
cludes, besides portraits and illustrations,
mural' paintings in Hotel Waldorf and
many private residences and public build
ings. He was awarded medals at. various
expositions: Paris, 1889; Chicago in 1893.
He has been academician of National Aca
demy of Design since 1890. He is a mem
ber of the Society of American Artists (a
founder), Fine Arts Federation, National
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and Lotos Clubs. Mr. Low married in
Paris, 1875, Berthe Eugenie Marie Julienne.
Address : Lawrence Park, Bronxville, New
York. .
LOWDEN, Frank Orren:
Lawyer, member of Congress; born at
Sunrise City, Minnesota, January 26, 1861 ;,
son of Lorenzo Orren and Nancy Elizabeth
(Breg) Lowden. ' His boyhood was spent
at Point Pleasant, Iowa, where he attended
the public school in the winter months,
working on the farm in the summer sea
son ; he attended the Iowa State University
at Iowa City, and was graduated, as vale
dictorian of his class, in 1885, then went
to the Union College of Law in Chicago,
distinguishing himself there also, being the
valedictorian of the class of 1887, and re
ceiving first prizes for oration and scholar
ship. He was admitted to the bar of Illi
nois in September, 1887, and immediately en
gaged in the practice of law at Chicago, tak
ing for himself a place of prominence at the
bar. In 1899 in addition to his practice,
he became a professor of law at the North
western University Law School, and in
1898 he was elected president of the Law
Club of Chicago. He was for a time di
rector of the National Bank of the Repub
lic, the National Biscuit Company, the Cen
tral Trust Company, the American Radi
ator Company, the Pullman Company,
and various other corporations. As a be
liever in the principles and policies of the
Republican party Mr. Lowden has been
active in its councils in the State of Illi
nois and in the Nation. He was a delegate
to the National' Republican Convention at
Philadelphia in 1900, and at Chicago in
1904. In the State Convention of 1904 he
was a strong candidate for Governor in the
triangular contest which deadlocked the
convention for several weeks at Spring
field, and he was elected and is now serving
as the National Committeeman from Illi
nois, and was a member of the Republican
Executive Committee for the Roosevelt
Campaign of 1904. He was nominated and
elected, at the November election 1906,
as successor to the late Robert R. Hitt for
the unexpired portion of the Fifty-ninth

Congress, and for the Sixtieth Congress,
from the Thirteenth Congressional District
of Illinois. He has also been " prominent
in the affairs of the National Guard, and
was commissioned in 1898, as lieutenant-
colonel of the First Infantry Regiment, Illi
nois National Guard. Colonel Lowden is
a member of the American Bar Associa
tion, of the Illinois State Bar Association
:ind of the Chicago Bar Association, and is
a member of several leading clubs in Chi
cago and elsewhere. He married at Chi
cago, April 29, 1896, Florence, daughter of
the late George M. Pullman, president of
the Pullman Palace Car Company. They
have a magnificent home and farm in the
most picturesque portion of the beautiful
Rock River country, near Oregon, the
county seat of Ogle County, Illinois. Ad
dress : Oregon, Illinois.
LOWE, Perley:
Lumberman; born in Levant, Maine,
December 6, 1845; son of William G. and
Susan (Moor) Lowe. He attended the
public schools at intervals while working
on his father's farm, and acquired a liberal
education. In 1864 he enlisted as a private
in the First Maine Cavalry, and served
under General Phil Sheridan until the close
of the war. After being mustered out he
taught school in his native State. In 1867
he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he
worked in various lumber yards, gradually
acquiring sufficient means to enter business
on his own account, which he did in 187S
as a member of the firm of Thompson
Brothers & Lowe, which continued until
1879, when it was changed to Kelley, Lowe
& Company. Since 1889 the style of the
firm has been Perley Lowe & Company.
He was for several terms a director, later
vice-president and in 1886 president of the
Lumbermen's Exchange of Chicago. He is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is distinguished for his activ
ity as a layman. He has been greatly in
terested in the success of the Halstead
Street Mission and was a lay delegate
from the Rock River Conference to the
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in 1904. He is president of the Wesley
Hospital Association and a trustee of the
Northwestern University. .He is a member
of the Westward Ho and Chicago Golf
Clubs. He was married in Chicago in
1873, to Eliza Templeton, and has four
children: Agnes S., Emily E., Annie E.,
and Grace. Residence : 599 Washington
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. Address :
Railway Exchange Building, Chicago, Illi
nois. LOWELL, Francis Cabot:
Judge of the . United States Circuit
Court; born in Boston, January 7, 1855;
son of George G. Lowell and Mary Ellen
(Parker) Lowell. After his graduation
from Harvard College as A.B. in 1876, he
attended Harvard Law School; and in 1880
he was admitted to the bar, and practiced
law in Boston until 1898. He became in
terested in politics as a Republican ; was
a member of the Common Council of the
City of Boston from 1889 to 1892; and of
the House of Representatives in the Gener
al Court of Massachusetts from 1895 to
1898. He was appointed in 1898 judge of
the District Court of the United States for
the District of Massachusetts, and served
in that capacity until promoted to the Cir
cuit bench in 1905, now serving in the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the
First Circuit. Judge Lowell is author of
a work on Joan of Arc, published in 1896.
Residence: 159 Beacon Street, Boston.
Office address : Post office Building, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
LOWELL, Ferclval:
Author, astronomer; born in Boston,
March 13, 1855 ; son of Augustus Lowell
and Katharine Bigelow (Lawrence) Lowell.
He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
cum laude in 1876, and received the degree
of LL.D. from Amherst College in 1907.
He was counsellor and foreign secretary
to the Korean Special Mission to the Unit
ed States in 1883; guest of the Korean
Government at Seoul in 1883, and lived in
Japan at intervals; established the Lowell
Observatory in 1894; undertook with Todd
the Eclipse Expedition to Tripoli in 1900;

and sent an expedition to the Andes to
photograph the planet Mars in 1907. He is
author of : Choson. 1885 ; The Soul of the
Far East, 1886; Noto, 1891 ; Occult Japan,
1894; Mars, 1895; Annals of the Lowell
Observatory, Volume I, 1898, Volume II,
1900 and Volume III, 1905; The Solar
System, 1903 ; Mars and Its Canais, 1906 ;
also numerous contributions to learned so
cieties. He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences ; member of
the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain
and Ireland, American Philosophical So
ciety, Societe Astronomique de France, As
tronomische Gesellschaft, Societe Beige
d'Astronomie ; honorary member of the So
ciedad Astronomica de Mexico; Janssen
medalist of the Societe Astronomique de
France in 1904 for researches on Mars ;
member of the Corporation of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology; non-resi
dent professor of astronomy at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology since 1902,
and director of the Lowell- Observatory at
Flagstaff, Arizona, since 1894. Dr. Lowell
has traveled around the world several times.
He is a member of the Somerset, Union, St.
Botolph, Boston, Century and Aero Clubs
of New York, of the Imperial Tokyo Club
of Tokyo, and of the Grosvenor Club of
London. Residence: 11 West Cedar St.,
Boston. Office address : 53 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
LOWRIE, WaU L.:
Consular officer ; bom in Michigan ; ap
pointed vice and deputy consul-general at
Rio de Janeiro, January 14, 1899, resigned
July 15, 1901 ; appointed consul at Weimer,
July 21, 1906. Address : Weimer, Saxe-
Weimer. LOWRY, Hiram Harrison:
Clergyman and college president; born
in Zanesville, Ohio, May 29, 1843; son of
Hiram Lowry and Margaret (Speare)
Lowry. He was educated in Ohio Wesley
an University at Delaware, Ohio, from
which he has received the degrees of A.B.,
A.M. and D.D. He served as a private
in the Ninety-seventh Regiment of Ohio
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ruary 25, 1863. After leaving college he
was ordained as a minister in the Method
ist Episcopal Church; was appointed a
missionary to China in 1867; located at
Foochow, from 1867 to 1869, and at Pek
ing since 1869. He was superintendent of
North China Mission for twenty years, and
is now president of Peking University, and
chairman of the General Board of Educa
tion in China. In politics Dr. Lowry is a
Republican. He married at Delaware,
Ohio, February 28, 1867, Parthenia E.
Nicholson, and they have four children:
George D. U., born in 1868, Edward K,
born in 1870, Grace (Mrs. R. G. Hooper),
born in 1876, and Mabel, born in 1884. Ad
dress : Peking, China.
LOWRY, Robert:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in South
Carolina in 1830. After completing his
education in the ordinary schools he studied
law and was admitted to the Mississippi
bar, and practiced in Jasper County until
the Civil War, when he enlisted as a priv
ate in the Sixth Mississippi Regiment, -of
which he was elected major. Later he was
promoted to colonel and in 1864 to brig
adier-general. He served at Shiloh and
through the heaviest campaigns in Georgia,
Tennessee and Mississippi. After the
war he resumed practice; served in the
Mississippi House of Representatives and
Senate, and in 1882 was elected governor;
and he was reelected in 1886, serving eight
years, after that resuming the practice of
law in Jackson, Mississippi. He married
in 1849, Maria M. Gammage. Address :
Jackson, Mississippi.
LOWRY, Thomas:
Railway official; born in Logan County,
Illinois, February 27, 1843; son of Samuel
R. Lowry and Rachel (Bullock) Lowry.
After completing his general education at
Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois,
he studied law, and after his admission
to the bar he engaged in practice at Minne
apolis. He became interested in the local
street railways and finally became sole
owner of all the street railways of Minne
apolis and St. Paul. These he rehabilitat

ed and reorganized into one compact sys
tem under the name of the Twin City
Rapid Transit Company, of which he is.
president. He is also president of the
Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte
Marie Railroad, and is interested in various
banks and other corporations of the Twin
Cities and elsewhere. Address : Minne
apolis, Minnesota.
LTJBECK, Henry:
Clergyman; born in Sydney, Australia,
February 2, 1856; son of Peter Henry and
Louisa (Collins) Lubeck. He was educat
ed at St. James' School, Sydney, All Saints'
College, Bathurst, Trinity College, Mel
bourne, and Melbourne University,, all in
Australia, and afterward in Albany Law
School, and Trinity University, Toronto,
and has received the degrees of M.A., L.L.
B., B.C.L., D.C.L., and LL.D. He was or
dered deacon in 1881, and priest in 1882, by
the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, in
Australia, and removed to the United States
in 1883. Dr. Lubeck served as missionary
at Fonda, New York, from 1883 to 1885;
rector of Grace Church, Lyons, New York,
from 1885 to 1888 ; rector of St. Timothy's
Church, New York City, from 1888 to 1890 ;
and has been rector of the Church of Zion
and St. Timothy in New York City since
1890. Dr. Lubeck is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. He married at Al
bany, New York, June 25, 1884, Emma,
daughter of the late Colonel Rose. Ad
dress : 334 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City.
LUCE, Robert:
President of the Press Clipping Bureau;
born in Auburn, Maine, December 2, 1862;
son of Enos Thompson Luce and Phebe
(Learned) Luce. He was educated in pub
lic schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine,
and in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was
graduated from Harvard University as A.
B. iri 1882 and A.M. in 1883. Mr. Luce
was a teacher in 1883 and 1884; on the
editorial staff of the Boston Globe from
1884 to 1888; one of the founders of The
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is author of: Going Abroad; and Writing
for the Press. He has been a member of
the Massachusetts House of Representat
ives since 1899. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in religion a Unitarian, and he
is a Mason and a member of the Appalach
ian Mountain, Republican and Exchange
Clubs. Mr. Luce married in Somerville,
Massachusetts, September 21, 1885, Mabelle
Clifton Farnham. Residence : 140 High
land Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts.
Addresses : 68 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, and 66 Park Place,. New
York City.
LUCE, Robert Lee:
Lawyer; born in Hartwick, New York,
September 19, 1862; son of Rufus P. Luce
and Cornelia Luce. His early education
was attained in Williston Seminary and he
was graduated from Yale in 1889. He is
a member of the firm of Luce and Davis,
also a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity,
City Bar Association, Sons of Revolution
and of the Manhattan, Yale, Democratic,
New York Athletic, Psi Upsilon Club of
New York City, Mohican Club of Coopers-
town, New York and the Graduates' Club
of New Haven, Connecticut. Residence:
137 West Fourteenth Street, New York.
Office address : 29 Liberty Street, New
York. City.
LUDEMAN, August:
Capitalist; president of Consumers Park
Brewery and vice-president of Central Park
Brewery; president of Central Consumers'
Ice Company; treasurer of the Merchants'
Specialty Manufacturing Company, and a
member of the firm of August Ludeman
and Company. Address : 17 West Hous
ton Street, New York City.
LTJDINGTON, Charles H., Jr.:
Magazine publisher; born in New York
in 1866 ; son of Charles H. Ludington and
Josephine L. (Noyes) Ludington. He at
tended St. Paul's School for five years and
Yale University, from which he was grad
uated as B.A, in 1887, and M.A- in 1888.
He is secretary-treasurer and director of
The Curtis Publishing Company of Phila

delphia, and director of the Home Pattern
Company of New York. Mr. Ludington is
a member of the American Academy of
Political Science, American Geographic So
ciety, American Civic Association, Octavia
HiU Association, New England Society,
Yale Alumni Association, the University
Club of New York, the Racquet and Down
Town Clubs of Philadelphia, Merion Cricket
Club of Bryn Mawr and the Polo Club.
He married at Brooklyn, New Yorlc, April
24, 1895, Ethel Mildred Saltus, and they
have three children : Charles Townsend,
born in 1896, Wright Saltus, born in 1900,
and Nicholas Saltus, born in 1905. Resi
dence : Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Address :
425 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
LUDLAM, Charles Stewart:
Certified public accountant; born in Chi
cago, Illinois, November 11, 1866; son of
James D. and Isabel (Stewart) Ludlam.
He was educated in Chicago public schools.
He began work with The Pullman Com
pany, as office boy at fourteen years of age ;
remained two years, advancing to book
keeper of its capital stock accounts and
records ; resigned and went to Albuquerque,
New Mexico, on account of health ; worked
several years in the accounting department
of Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company,
at Albuquerque ; left there to go to Colo
rado as general bookkeeper in the treasur
er's office, Colorado Midland Railway; then
for several years with J. J. Haggerman, a
capitalist of Colorado, and general account
ant and auditor of seventeen different rail
road, construction, mining, irrigation and
land companies; then went to Eddy (now
Carlsbad), New Mexico, as auditor of the
Pecos Valley Railway, now part of the
Santa Fe System, and left that road to be
come associated with Haskins & Sells; now
member of that firm, who are certified pub
lic accountants, of New York City, Chicago,
St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Lon
don, England. In politics he is a Repub
lican. He is a member of the American
Association of Public Accountants, New
York State Society of Certified Public Ac
countants, Illinois Society of Certified Pub
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Public Accountants, Missouri Society of
Public Accountants, American Economical
Association, American Academy of Polit
ical and Social Science, and American Au
tomobile Association. His favorite recre
ation is automobiling. He is a member
of the Manhattan and Lawyers' Clubs of
New York City and of Chicago Athletic.
Mr. Ludlam married in New York City,
August 30, 1904, Anna Gately. Address :
30 Broad .Street, New York City.
LUKE, Arthur Fuller:
Banker; born in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, January 28, 1853; of an old Massa
chusetts family. He was educated in public
schools, and at seventeen went to work in
a wholesale clothing house in Boston, but
six months later he became messenger and
general clerk in First National Bank, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, remaining one year;
then in National Bank of the Common
wealth, Boston, until 1878; national bank
examiner for the Boston District, from 1878
to 1880 ; cashier of National Bank of North
' America, Boston, from 1880 to 1890 ; as
sistant treasurer from 1890 to 1893, treas
urer from 1890 to 1899, National Tube
Works Company, McKeesport, Pennsyl
vania ; treasurer of National Tube Company
of New York, from 1899 to 1901 and treas
urer of United States Steel Corporation,
April, 1901, to January 1, 1902; since then
of banking house of Darr, Luke & Moore,
Pittsburgh and New York City. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers',
New York Riding and New York Athletic
Clubs. Mr. Luke married, December 18,
1878, Eliza W. Brown. Residence: I West
Ninety-second Street. Address: 115 Broad
way, New York City.
LUKE, John Guthrie:
Paper manufacturer : born in Springfield,
Massachusetts, April 29, 1857; son of Wil
liam and Rosa Thompson (Lindsay) Luke.
He was educated in public schools of Dela
ware, and Taylor & Jackson's Academy,
Wilmington, Delaware., He is president
and director of West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company; director of Irving Ex
change National Bank. In politics he is

a Republican and in religion an Episcopal
ian. He is a member of the New England
Society of New York, and of Union
League, Ardsley, New York Athletic and
Arkwright Clubs. Mr. Luke married twice,
first in Greenville, Delaware, July 27, 1880,
Ella Hope Green; second, February 27,
1907, Grace P. Buckley, and he has four
children: Allan Lindsay, born iri 1882, Rose
Hope, now Mrs. George E. Nelson, born
in 1884, Charles Wilson, born in 1886, and
William G., born in 1890. Address : 194
Riverside Drive, New York City.
LUKEMAN, Henry Augustus:
Sculptor; born in Richmond, Virginia,
January 28, 1871. He was educated in Na
tional Academy of Design, New York City
and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. His
works include, beside numerous busts and
bas-reliefs, Manu for Appellate Court
House, New York City; statue of Robert
Livingston for St. Louis, Missouri, statue
of McKinley, for Adams, Massachusetts,
statue of Columbus, for Custom House,
New York; group of Music, St. Louis Ex
position; bronze sculpture doors and four
colossal statues in marble for Royal Bank
of Canada at Montreal and four colossal
statues for the Brooklyn Institute. He was
awarded medal at St. Louis Exposition.
Mr. Lukeman is a member of the National
Academy of Design, Society of American
Artists, National Sculpture Society, Archi
tectural League of National Arts Club.
Residence : Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Address : 145 West Fifty-fifth Street, New
York" City.
LUKENS, David L.:
Vice-president and director of the Swarth
more National Bank; also a director
of the Logan Trust Company of Phila
delphia, and purchasing agent and director
of William Sellers and Company, machin
ists. Address: 1600 Hamilton Street, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
LUKENS, Edward FeU:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, April 29,
1870; son of Ezra Lukens and Maria Fell
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cation in the Friends' Central School, Phil
adelphia, and graduated from University
of Pennsylvania as B.L. He is member of
the firm of Gazzam, Wallace and Lukens;
secretary-treasurer and director of The
Schwarzwaelder Company, and notary pub
lic of Quaker City National Bank. In pol
itics he is a Republican and in religion a
Methodist Episcopalian; and he is a mem
ber of the Union League Club of Phila
delphia. Mr. Lukens married in Phila
delphia, January 31, 1893, Margaret Pat-
ton, and .they have two children: Edward
Fell Lukens, Jr., born in 1895; and Mar
garet Peattie Lukens, born in 1897. Resi
dence : 147 West School Lane, Germantown.
Address : 707 Bailey Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
LURTON, Horace Harmon:
Jurist; born in Kentucky, in 1844. He
was educated in Cumberland University, at
Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he was
graduated in 1867, and then studied law
and practiced' until 1875. He was elected
in 1874 chancellor of the Sixth District
of Tennessee, serving until 1878, then re
sumed practice until 1886, when he was
elected a justice of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee. He became chief justice of
that court in January, 1893, but on March
29 of that year he was appointed by Presi
dent Cleveland judge of the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Sixth Judicial
Circuit, which office he continues to hold.
Address : Nashville, Tennessee.
LYDECKER, Charles E.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May
26, 1851; son of John A. and Julia (Kent)
Lydecker. He was educated in the College
of the City of New York, as B.S. in 1871 ;
fellow in 1872, from Columbia College, as
LL.B. in 1873. He has been engaged in
various will contests and litigations, in
cluding those of the Eeland Stanford es
tate, California, Eugene Cruger will, New
York, Howard Paul, London; also in com
mercial and corporation law; also in case
sustaining visitational powers of State Com
missioner in Lunacy. He has traveled to
Europe, Alaska, British Columbia and

United States. He has been public admin
istrator of New York since 1889 to 1892;
chairman of the Committee of Independent
Political Club, which printed and distrib
uted ballots and obtained successful vote
by which last Constitutional Convention
was held in New York. He is major of the
Seventh Regiment of the National Guard
of New York; president of the National
Guard Association of the State of New
York ; member of Council, Military Service
Institution of the United States ; member of
the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment of
the National Guard of New York; received
brevet commission and long-service decora
tion of the State of New York. He is a
member of the New York State Bar Asso
ciation, Association Bar of the City of New
York, Holland Society, Phi Gamma Delta,
Phi Beta Kappa, and the Manhattan, New
York Athletic, Reform, Lawyers', and Hack
ensack Golf. Married in New York City,
January 19, 1882, Ella Voorhis, who died
in 1889, leaving three children: Leigh Kent,
born in 1884, Kenneth, born in ¦ 1886, and
Nathalie, born in 1888. Mr. Lydecker was
again married in 1907, to Josephine B.
Pond. Address : 2 Rector Street, New
York City.
LYFORD, Frederic E,:
Banker; born in Waterville, Maine; son
of Albert and Phebe (Bates) Lyford. He
was educated at Waverly (New York)
Academy. Mr. Lyford has been thirty-five
years in First National Bank of Waverly,
New York, of which he is now president,
director, and active officer, and he is also
president of the York State Realty Com
pany, vice-president of the National Bank
of Sayre, Pennsylvania, member of the
firm of F. E. Lyford and Company, real
estate and insurance, and director of the
Valley Telephone Company, and the Con
solidated Telephone Company. He was
formerly also connected with the Waverly
Electric Company, Sayre Land Company,
Sayre Water Company, Cayuta Wheel and
Foundry Company, of Sayre, Pennsylvania ;
director of the First National Bank of
Whitney Point. He is a Republican in
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lief. Mr. Lyford was vice-president of the
New York State Bankers' Association;
trustee and president of the village and
trustee and president of the School Board
of Waverly, New York; member of the
-Waverly Lodge of Masons ; trustee of Rob
ert Packer Hospital, and Athens Histor
ical Association, and member of the City
Club of Elmira, New York. Mr. Lyford
married, first, at Waverly, New York, in
1877, Cora B. Lorman (deceased), and sec
ond in 1891, Jane Lemon, and he has five
children : Winifred H., Charles A., Percy
L., Frederic IL, Jr., and Katharine V. E.
Address : Waverly, New York.
LYFORD, Will Hart well:
Lawyer; born at Waterville, Maine, Sep
tember 15, 1858; son of Oliver S. and
Lavinia A. (Norris) Lyford. He received
an education in public schools of Cleveland
and Buffalo; graduated from Cleveland
High School, 1875, at Colby University,
Waterville, Maine, as A.B., 1879; later A.
M. In the service of Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company for twenty-eight
years, five years in- different subordinate
capacities as assistant engineer, sten
ographer and clerk in general manager's
office and other departments, and three
years in law department; general counsel
since January, 1888. Member of the law
firm of Calhoun, Lyford and Sheean, Chi
cago. He is a member of the Bar Associa
tion of the City of New York, Lawyers'
Club of New York, Chicago, Union League,
and Chicago Athletic Association of Chi
cago. He married at Nebraska City, Ne
braska, April 28, 1886, Mary Lee Mac-
Comas, and they have two children: Ger
trude Wells, born in 1890, and Calhoun,
born in 1895. Address : 115 Broadway, New
York City, and The Rookery, Chicago.
LYMAN, Arthur Theodore:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
Boston, Massachusetts, December 8, 1832 ;
son of George Williams Lyman and Anne
(Pratt) Lyman, and a descendant of Rich
ard Lyman, Chariestown, Massachusetts,
1631, and Hartford, Connecticut, 1636. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1853, A.M. in 1857. He engaged in the

East Indian trade from Boston in 1856, on
completing a tour of Europe for study and
observation. He was treasurer of the Ap
pleton Company from 1861 to 1863; of the
Hamilton Manufacturing Company from
i860 to 1863 ; Lowell Manufacturing Com
pany from 1881 to 1900; and is president
of the Pacific Mills, the Bigelow Carpet
Company, the Merrimack Manufacturing
Company, the Boston Manufacturing Com
pany, Massachusetts Cotton Mills, Massa
chusetts Mills in Georgia, and of the
Locks and Dams on Merrimack River.
He served for a time as partner in
the firm of J. W. Page & Company,
selling agents for several cotton mills,
and as treasurer of the Hadley Company
from 1866 to 1889. He is a trustee of the
Provident Institute for Savings in Boston;
director of the Massachusetts Hospital Life
Insurance Company; president of the Bos
ton Atheneum; formerly member of the
corporation of the Massachusetts Institute
Technology, and now of the Massachu
setts Historical Society. He served on the
staff of Governor Rice, as aide-de-camp with
the rank of colonel, from 1876 to 1879 ; and
he was an overseer of Harvard from 1892
to 1899. He married, April 8, 1858, Ella,
daughter of John Amory and .Elizabeth
Cabot (Putnam) Lowell, and they had
seven children, and of that number six are
living. Address : 50 State Street, Boston.
LYMAN, Hart:
Editor; born in Plymouth, Connecticut,
December 8, 1851; son of Reverend Eph
raim Lyman and Hannah D. (Richards)
Lyman. He was graduated from Yale in
1873 and took special courses at the Uni
versity of Berlin and Heidelberg. He has
been editorial writer on the New York
Tribune, since 1876 and editor-in-chief
since March, 1905. He is a member of
the University, and Graduates' Clubs. Mr.
Lyman married af Englewood, New Jer
sey, in 1881, Marion Torrey. Address:
The Tribune, 154 Nassau Street, New York
City. LYMAN, Henry D.:
President of the American Surety Com
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Ohio, April 12, 1852; son of Darius and
Betsey C. (Converse) Lyman. He was edu
cated in common schools. He was special
agent at Post-Office Department; chief
clerk of contract office Post-Office Depart
ment; second assistant postmaster-general
at thirty-two years of age, under the ad
ministration of President Arthur; vice-
president and later president of the Amer
ican Surety Company of New York; direc
tor of North River Savings Bank of New
York. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Ohio Society of New
York, and of the Union League and Lotos
Clubs. Mr. Lyman married twice; first, in
Boston, Massachusetts, January 13, 1887,
Laura M. Stevens, who died December 31,
1902; second, June 7, 1907, Louise C. Davis.
Address : The Plaza, New York City.
LYMAN, Joseph:
Landscape and coast painter; born in
Ravenna, Ohio, July 17, 1843; son of Jo
seph' and Mary (Clark) Lyman. He was
educated in schools of Cleveland, Ohio ;
studied art in New York City. He is as
sociate member of National Academy of
Design. He was awarded a bronze medal
by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
St. Louis. He is a member of the Cen
tury Club. Residence: 621 Fifth Avenue.
Address: 7 West Forty-third Street, New
York City.
LYMAN, Ronald Theodore:
Treasurer of the Boston Manufacturing
.'Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, was
born in Waltham, Massachusetts; young
est son of Arthur Theodore Lyman and
Ella (Lowell) Lyman. He became, in 1901,
treasurer of the Waltham Bleachery & Dye
Works, and in 1905, treasurer of the Boston
Manufacturing Company. The Boston
Manufacturing Company was incorporated
in 1813 and Mr. Lyman's father had been
treasurer and is president of the corpora
tion. The mill began the spinning and
weaving of cotton cloth in 1814, having the
first mill in the United States that took
raw cotton, spun it and wove it into cloth
on power iooms. Address : Waltham, Mas
sachusetts.

LYON, Ernest:
Diplomat, clergyman; born at Belize,
British Honduras, October 22, i860; son of
Emmanuel Lyon and Ann F. (Bending)
Lyon. He was educated at Gilbert Indus
trial Institute, La Teche, Louisiana, for
three years, Straight University, New Or
leans, and at New Orleans University,
graduating from the latter as A.B. in 1888,
and later as A.M. He also took a special
course at the University Theological Semi
nary at New York, and later received the
degree of D.D. from Wiley University,
Marshall, Texas. He joined the Louisiana
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1882, was given his first charge,
at La Teche, Louisiana, in 1883, was af
terward pastor in New Orleans, Louisiana,
in charge consecutively of the Mallalieu
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1886, the
Thompson Church in 1889, and the Simp
son Church in 1891. He was appointed
Sunday School Agent of the Louisiana Con
ference in 1894 and special agent of the
Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational
Society in 1895. Dr. Lyon was pastor of
St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church at
New York City in 1896, and of the John
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church in
Baltimore in 1901, and he founded the
Maryland Industrial and Agricultural In
stitute for the education of colored youths,
at Laurel, Maryland. Dr. Lyon has always
been an ardent and active Republican in
his politics, and was appointed, in 1896,
an auxiliary member of the National Re
publican Committee, to whom all matters
pertaining to the colored vote of the East
were referred; and he was also a member
of the Advisory Board appointed by the
National Republican Committee in 1900.
In 1903 Dr. Lyon waS appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt to his present position as
minister resident and consul-general of the
United States to Liberia. He married at
Wilmington, Delaware, June 16, 1893, Clara
F. Bacchus. Address : Monrovia, Liberia.
LYON, George F.:
Jurist; born in Barker, New York, July
13, 1849; son of Harry and Pamelia A.
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from Binghamton Academy, in 1868, from
Hamilton College as A.B. in 1872 and LL.
D. in 1904. He was admitted to New York
State bar in 1875; was member of law
firm of Chapman & Martin in 1876 and
1877; and of Chapman & Lyon, from
1877 to 1890. He was member of the New
York State Constitutional Convention in
1894, and was elected justice of the Su
preme Court on the nomination of both
Republican and Democratic parties in 1895,
for term ending December 31, 1909. Mr.
Lyon married in 1884, Elizabeth R. Mather,
of Binghamton, New York. Address :
Binghamton, New York.
LYON, Henry Ware:
Rear-Admiral United States Navy; born'
in Massachusetts, November 8, 1845. He
was appointed to Naval Academy from
Massachusetts, October 7, 1862; graduated,
1866. On graduation he was attached to the
Sacramento, until that vessel was lost off
the coast of India in 1867; promoted to
ensign, April, 1868; on ordnance duty at
Boston, 1868; storeship Guard, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1869; promoted to mas
ter, July 26, 1869; steam sloop, Richmond,
European Fleet, 1869; commissioned as
lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Wabash, 1872-
73; frigate Franklin, North Atlantic Fleet,
1873; special ordnance duty, 1874; Tennes
see, flagship, European Squadron, 1875-77;
special ordnance duty, 1877-80; Galena,
European Station, 1880-83 ; ordnance duty
at Washington, D. C, 1883; promoted to
lieutenant-commander, November, 1884; as
signed to duty at South Boston Iron Works,
1882-86; Trenton, Pacific Station, 1886-89;
commanding Nipsic, Pacific Station, 1889-
90; the passage of the Nipsic from Samoa
to Honolulu, where she was repaired, was
made with a jury rudder, deformed screw,
all outside keel gone and leaking; at Tor
pedo Station, June, 1890, to May, 1893;
commanding Yantic, May, 1893, to Decem
ber, 1893. Promoted to commander, Octo
ber 1, 1893; Naval War College June 12,
1894 to October, 1894; at Navy Yard, Bos
ton, 1894-97; commanding Dolphin, May,
1897, to June, 1899 ; Navy Yard, New York,
June, 1899, to June, 1901. Promoted to

captain, March 27, 1900; on duty in con
nection with fitting out the United States
Steamer Olympia, and was afterward her
commander until December, 1903; com
mandant Naval Station, Hawaii, Novem
ber 10, 1904, to 1906. Promoted rear-
admiral, February 19, 1906, and since July
4, 1906, commandant Mare Island Navy
Yard, California. Address : Navys Yard,
Mare Island, California.
LYON, Samuel Backus:
Physician and medical superintendent;
born at Palmer, Massachusetts, August 25,
1841; son Of Amasa U. and Mary E.
(Backus) Lyon (daughter of Sarah Daniel-
son, of Danielson, Connecticut, and great-
granddaughter of Col. William Danielson,
of the Eleventh Connecticut Volunteers,
in the Revolutionary War, and daughter of
Rev. Samuel Backus of Westminster, Con
necticut, a great-grandson of Rev. Isaac
Backus, historian, and descendant of Ed
ward Winslow of the Mayflower). He re
ceived an academic education and was
graduated from the National Medical Col
lege, Washington, D. C, as M.D. in 1879.
He began independent life in a business
house and bank; in 1869, went South and
West on account of threatened lung trouble ;
entered the United States Government serv
ice, 1870, at the Government Hospital for
the Insane at Washington, D. C. ; was
graduated from Columbian University Med
ical School, at Washington and studied at
Vienna, Austria; practiced at Government
Hospital for Insane at Washington, and
in 1890 was elected medical superintendent
of Bloomingdale Asylum, New York City,
in which position he continues. He super
vised the design, construction, removal and
development of new Bloomingdale Asylum
at White Plains, New York. He is a
member of the American Medico-Psycho
logical Society, American Neurological So
ciety, New York Neurolpgical Society, So
ciety of Medical Jurisprudence, New Eng
land Society of New York, the Century,
National Arts, New York City, and the
American Yacht Clubs. He married Mar- <
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have one son: Winslow, born in 1890. Ad
dress : White Plains, New York.
LYON, Thomas R.:
Lumberman, financier; born in Conneaut,
Ohio, May 31, 1854; son of Robert and
Clarissa (Kellogg) Lyon. His education
was obtained in the public schools and fin
ished by an academic course. At the age
of nineteen he removed to Ludington, Mich
igan, where he remained until 1892, when
he went to Chicago, Illinois, and became
the managing partner of the lumber manu
facturing firm of Thomas R. Lyon, of
which he had been the agent for a number
of years at Ludington. He is now the
senior member of the firm of Lyon, Gary
& Company, dealers in investment securi
ties, Chicago, the firm having been formed
in 1891. He was president of the Commer
cial Loan and Trust Company Bank of
Chicago, 1895 to 1898. Mr. Lyon has large
interests in timber lands and lumbering, and
is president of the Lyon Cypress Lumber
Company and of the Stearns & Culver
Lumber Company. He is a Republican and
a member of the Chicago, Union League,
Calumet and Onwentsia Clubs. He was mar
ried in Ludington, Michigan, October 26,
1875, to Harriet W. Rice, and has four chil
dren : Mrs. Emily Lyon Gary, John K, Mrs.
Pauline Lyon Fentress and Harriet. Resi
dence: 72 AstOr Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Address: 204 Dearborn Street, Chicago,
Illinois. LYONS, Timothy Augustine:
Captain, United States Navy, retired;
born in Ireland, March 25, 1845; son of
Timothy Lyons and Margaret (Langford)
Lyons. He was educated in the public
schools of Massachusetts and Minnesota,
and at the United States Naval Academy
from which he was graduated in October,
1865. In November, 1865, he was ordered
to the Monongahela of the West India
Squadron, and was attached to her until
1867, when she was driven ashore and
wrecked on the Island of Santa Cruz by a
huge wave from the open sea, following
immediately upon an earthquake; after
ward, served in the De Soto, of the same

squadron; promoted ensign in 1866 and
master in 1868; attached to the Idaho and
Unadilla, Asiatic Squadron, and was on
the former vessel at Yokohama, when the
British steamer Bombay ran down and sank
(with great loss of life) the U. S. S.
Oneida in the Gulf of Yeddo, and was im
mediately connected with the rescue of the
survivors. He was promoted to lieutenant
in 1869; instructor at the Naval Academy
from 1871 to 1873; on flagship Pensacola,
Pacific Squadron, from 1873 to 1876; at
the Hydrographic office, Washington, D.
C, from 1876 to 1879, and while there sys
tematized the collection of wind and
weather observations at sea and published
therefrom a series of meteorological charts
of the ocean — an extension and amplifica
tion of those devised by Commander M. F.
Maury; attached to the Constellation and
Trenton from 1879 to 1881 ; promoted to
lieutenant commander, 1880; superintendent
of compasses in the Bureau of Navigation
from. 1881 to 1885 ; on leave on account of
sickness in 1885 and 1886, executive officer
of the Tennessee and the Richmond, each
successively flagship of the North Atlantic
Squadron, from 1886 to 1889; promoted
commander, 1889, and then until 1892 mem
ber of the Board for Inspection of Mer
chant Vessels at New York; afterward
commanded the U. S. Training-ship Monon
gahela, having on board naval apprentices,
during a cruise to Lisbon and return to
New York, via the West Indies; afterward
commanded the Alliance in the Pacific.
From 1894 to 1897 was on tours of duty
at New York and the War College, in
Newport, alternating with periods of sick
leave, and in May, 1897, was placed on the
retired list at his own request on account
of physical disabilities Jong previously in
curred in the line of duty. In 1898 he was
on duty in Washington in the office of the
superintendent of compasses. He was pro
moted to captain on the retired list in
June, 1906. Captain Lyons, since his re
tirement has been engaged in literary work
in New York, the chief product of which
is two volumes under the title of: A Treat
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the Compass and its Deviations Aboard
Ship — Mathematical, Theoretical and Prac
tical. He is an Independent in politics and
in religion a Catholic. He married in New
York City, September 14, 1871, Marie
Blanche Humbert, and they had two daugh
ters, Ada Marie and Aimee, both of whom
died when young. Address : Hotel San
Remo, Central Park West and Seventy-
fourth Street, New York City.
LYTTLE, Eugene William:
School inspector; born at Theresa, New
York, April 15, 1857; son of William A.
Lyttle and Carolina (Fredenberg) Lyttle.
He was graduated from Hamilton College,
from which he received the degree of A.
B. in 1878, A.M. in 1883 and Ph.D. in
1897, making on graduation the Kirkland
Prize Oration, and receiving the classical
medal; and he did post-graduate work in
the University of New York from 1878 to
1881 and 1892. He became a teacher in the
Pingry School at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
from 1882 to 1885, and its associate prin
cipal from 1885 to 1889; vice-principal of
the Englewood School for Boys, from 1891
to 1893; principal of the Watertown High
School from 1893 to 1898; and has been
school inspector for the New York State
Educational Department since 1898. Dr.
Lyttle was elected president of the Second
ary Department of the National Education
al Association in 1907, and is a member of
the American Historical Association and
the New York State Historical Society.
Dr. Lyttle has membership in the Delta
Upsilon fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa
Society, is a Royal Arch Mason; and a
member of the University Club of Albany.
He married at Irvington, New York, in
1883, Susan Warren Bryan, and they have
a daughter, Margaret V., and two sons :
Warren E. and Theodore F. Residence:
Fayetteville, New York. Office address :
Albany, New York. M
MABBOTT, John Milton:
Physician; born in Waterbury, Connecti
cut, July 14, 1862; son of John Mabbott

and Catherine Benton (Homer) Mabbott.
After his graduation from Waterbury High
School in 1879 he continued special studies
for two years, then entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni
versity, from which he was graduated as
M.D. in 1884, and has since been engaged
in practice. He has served as house phy
sician of St. Luke's Hospital, and as
interne and ambulance surgeon of the
Chambers Street (now Hudson Street)
Hospital, New York City; surgeon of the
Netherlands-American Steamship Zaandam
(New York and Amsterdam, Holland) ;
was chief resident physician for three years
of the Nursery and Child's Hospital; and
is now attending obstetrician to the New
York Infant Asylum and Old Marion
Street Maternity Hospital, and gynecologist
to the New York Hospital Out-Patient De
partment. He was school inspector of New
York City under the administration of
Mayor Strong. Dr. Mabbott has written
several articles relating to obstetrics and
the diseases of children, published in Am
erican Medicine, the New York Medical
Journal and the American Journal of Ob
stetrics; among which may be mentioned:
The Theory and Practice of Infant Feed
ing, 1891 ; Drugs in the Treatment of the
Summer Diarrhoea of Children, 1892; Peri
neorrhaphy, Chiefly in Reference to the Me
chanics of Deep Sutures, 1900; Pneumogal-
actocele of the' Breast, 1902; Asepsis and
Antisepsis in Obstetrics; also "Sterile"
Gauze and "Sterile" Water, 1905; The
Regulation of Midwives in New York City,
1907. Dr. Mabbott is a fellow and chair
man of the Committee on Admissions- of
the New York Academy of Medicine; fel
low New York Obstetrical Society, member
Medical Societies of the County and State
of New York, American Medical Associa
tion, Medical Association of the Greater
City of New York, Society of the Alumni
of St. Luke's Hospital, Hospital Graduates'
Club, Physicians' Mutual Aid Association;
member of the Comitia Minora of the New
York County Medical Society and of the
Medical Committee of the Society for
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Since 1890 he has been associated in private
practice with Dr. E. L. Partridge. Dr.
Mabbott married in New York City, Oc
tober 30, 1895, Kate Adele Ollive, and they
have one son, Thomas Ollive, bom July
6, 1898. Address: 19 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
MABIE, Hamilton Wright:
Associate editor of The Outlook; born
at Cold Springs, New York, December 13,
1846. He was graduated from Williams
College as A.B. and later received the A.
M. and L.H.D. degrees from that college;
from Columbia as LL.B. and he has re
ceived the LL.D. degrees from Union Uni
versity and Western Reserve University.
He is trustee of Williams College; trus
tee of Barnard College, and president of
New York Kindergarten Association. Mr.
Mabie is author of: Norse Stories Retold
from the Eddas, 1882; Nature in New
England, 1890; My Study Fire, first ser
ies, 1890 ; Short Studies in Literature, 1891 ;
Under the Trees and Elsewhere, 1891 ; Es
says in Literary Interpretation, 1892; My
Study Fire, second series, 1894; Nature and
Culture, 1897; Books and Culture, 1897;
Work and Culture, 1898; The Life of the
Spirit, 1899; William Shakespeare, Poet,
Dramatist and Man, 1900 ;' Works and Days,
1902; Parables of Life, 1902; In Arcady,
1903; Backgrounds of Literature, 1903;
The Great Word, 1905; Myths Every
Child Should Know, 1905; Fairy Tales
Every Child Should Know, 1905; Heroes
Every Child Should Know, 1906. He is a
member of the Authors, Century and Alpha
Delta Phi Clubs of New York City. Resi
dence: Fernwood Road, Summit, New
Jersey. Address : 287 Fourth Avenue, New
York City:
McADIE, Alexander George:
Meteorologist; born in New York, Au
gust 4, 1863; son of John McAdie and
Anne (Sinclair) McAdie. He was grad
uated from the College of the City of New
York as B.A. in 1881 and M.A. in 1884,
from Harvard University as M.A. in 1884,
and attended Clark University in 1889. He
was district forecaster of the United States

Weather Bureau from 1899 to 1903; and
has been professor of meteorology in the
United States Weather Bureau since 1903.
He is honorary lecturer in the University
of California; and associate editor of the
National Geographic Magazine. Mr. Mc
Adie is author of: Climatology of Califor
nia; Protection from Lightning; and var
ious books on frost fighting. He married
at Edge Hill, Virginia, October 7, 1893,
Mary Randolph Browne. Address : United
States Weather Bureau, San Francisco,
California. McADOO, William Gibbs:
Lawyer, railway official ; born near Mari
etta, Georgia, October 31, 1863; son of
William Gibbs and Mary Faith (Floyd)
McAdoo. He received his education at the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He
was appointed deputy clerk of the United
States Circuit Court for the Southern Di
vision of the Eastern District of Tennessee
in May, 1882; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1885 ; practiced law at Chatta
nooga; was division counsel in Tennessee
for the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, and the Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company; and came to New York
City, 1892. He was elected in 1902, and
is now president and director of Hudson
and Manhattan Railroad Company, which
is building the Hudson River tunnel sys
tem, and which completed, March 8, 1904,
the first tunnel under the Hudson River.
Mr. McAdoo was the first man to walk
from New Jersey to New York under the
Hudson. He is a member of the Metro
politan, Lawyers', Ardsley, Rockaway Hunt.
Automobile, Strollers' and St. Andrew's
Golf Clubs, and the Southern Society. He
married at Chattanoosra, Tennessee, Novem
ber 18, 1885, Sarah Houstoun Fleming, and
they have six children : Harriet Floyd,
Francis Huger, Nona Hazlehurst, William
Gibbs, 3d, Robert Hazlehurst, and Sarah
Flemine. Address: n 1 Broadway, New
York City.
McADOO, William:
Lawyer; born in Rathmelton, County
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of Joseph and Elizabeth McAdoo. He came
to the United States when young and was
educated in public schools. At twenty he
became a reporter in Jersey City. He
studied law and soon after was admitted
to the bar and was appointed attorney to
the Hudson County Board of Health
through the influence of the late William
McAvoy, then Democratic leader of Jer
sey City. Was elected to and served one
term as member New Jersey Legislature.
On the record made then was nominated
for and served four terms as member of
the United States House of Representatives
from the Seventh New Jersey District from
1883 to 1891. Mr. McAdoo was appointed
assistant secretary of the navy during Mr.
Cleveland's second administration; after
that, in active practice of law; police com
missioner of New York City from 1904 to
1905. He married in Richmond, Virginia,
in 1885, Eva Lee Tardy. Residence : 210
West Fifty-seventh Street. Address: 170
Broadway, New York City.
Mac ALISTER, James:
President of Drexel Institute, Phila
delphia; born in Glasgow, Scotland, April
26, 1840. He was graduated from Brown
University and received the degree of A.
M. ; studied law in the University of
New York and received the degree of LL.
B. He was superintendent of Public
Schools in Milwaukee from 1874 to 1883;
Regent of Normal Schools, Wisconsin, from
1873 to 1883; first superintendent of Pub
lic Schools in Philadelphia from 1883 to
1891, when he resigned to become president
of the Drexel Institute, which position he
still holds. He was trustee of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania from 1885 to 1897 ; was
elected a member of the American Philo
sophical Society in 1886. In 1889 Brown
University conferred upon him the honor
ary degree of LL.D., and in 1890 he received
from the French Government the appoint
ment and decoration of Officier d'Aca-
demie. In 1895 he was appointed a mem
ber of the Jury of Awards in the Atlanta
Interstate and International Exposition,
and in 1903 a member of the Advisory
Board of Education in the Louisiana Pur

chase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. He is a
member of the Board of Trustees, Fair-
mount Park Art Association, Philadelphia,
and of other public bodies. He has been
lecturer on History and Institutes of Edu
cation in the Johns Hopkins University and
on History of Education in New York Uni
versity. He was invited to read a paper
in the International Educational Confer
ence, held in London in 1884, and was se
lected to read a paper in the Educational
Congress in the Exposition Universelle,
Paris, 1900. He was one of the first ad
vocates of manual training in education in
the United States. When the Drexel In
stitute was opened, the scheme, as organ
ized by him, included the newer forms of
technical education, some of which had few
or no precedents either in this country or
in Europe. He has published numerous ad
dresses, reports and papers on education.
Address : Drexel Institute, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
McALLISTER, James Gray:
President of Hampden-Sidney College;
born in Covington, Virginia, November 27,
1872; son of A. Addams McAllister and
Julia Ellen (Stratton) McAllister. He was
graduated from Hampden-Sidney College
as A.B., with honor, in 1894, as B.D. from
Union Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia, in 1901; and the degree of D.D.
was conferred upon him by Washington
and Jefferson College (Pennsylvania) and
by the Central University of Kentucky in
1906. He was editor of Bath News, Warm-
Springs, Virginia, in 1894 and 1895; busi
ness manager of the Central Presbyterian,
Richmond, Virginia, from 1895 to 1898;
fellow of Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond, 1901 and 1902; and assistant
professor of- Hebrew in the same in 1902
and 1903 ; pastor of the Farmville (Vir
ginia) Presbyterian Church, from -June,
1903, to September, 1904; adjunct professor
of Hebrew in Union Theological Seminary,
in 1904 and 1905, and since September,
1905, president of Hampden-Sidney Col
lege. President McAllister was quarter
master-general of the Sons of Confederate
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of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He is
a Democrat in politics, and a Presbyterian
in his church relations. Fie married at
Winchester, Virginia, May 18, 1904, Meta
E. Russell. Address: Hampden-Sidney,
Virginia. MCALLISTER, James w..-
Insurance company president; born in
Philadelphia, May 15, 1836. He was edu
cated in the Central High School of Phila
delphia until 1853, when he entered the
service of the Franklin Fire Insurance
Company of Philadelphia, with which he
has ever since been connected, and of which
he is now president and director. He is
also treasurer and director of the Fire In
surance Patrol; and a director of the Penn
sylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, and
of the American Academy of Music. Mr.
McAllister has traveled extensively, in busi
ness trips all over the United States, and
frequent visits to Europe. He is treasurer
of the Hahnemann Medical College and
Hospital of Philadelphia; a life member
of the Academy of Sciences of Philadel
phia, and of the Art Club, Philadelphia.
Residence: 1603 Green Street, Philadelphia.
Office address : 421 Walnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
McALVAY, Aaron Vance:
Chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Michigan'; born at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
July 19, 1847; son of Patrick Hamilton
McAlvay and Sarah (Drake) McAlvay.
After completing the courses in the public
schools, he entered the University of Michi
gan, where he was graduated as A.B. in
1868, and from the Law School of the
same institution as LL.B. in 1869. He
practiced law at Manistee, Michigan, and
became a leader at the Manistee County bar.
He was circuit judge for four years prior
to his election in 1904 to the Supreme bench
of Michigan, which he now occupies as
chief justice. He was for some years a
member of the Faculty of Law in the Uni
versity of Michigan. Judge McAlvay is- a
Republican in politics and a Congregation
alist in his church relations. Address:
Lansing, Michigan.

MacARTHUR, Archibald:
Contractor; born at Mt. Morris, New
York, June 15, 1834; son of John R. and
Mary MacArthur. He received an acad
emic education, which was followed by a
course in civil engineering. His father was
a prominent contractor in the State of New
York and he learned that business under his
father's instruction. In 1857 he became as
sociated with his brothers, William and
James, in the formation of the contracting
firm of MacArthur Brothers. The busi
ness of the firm grew rapidly and came to
extend over a wide range of territory in
the East. In 1873 the headquarters of the
firm were removed to Chicago, Illinois,
where its operations were greatly extended
in consequence of the rebuilding of the city
after the destructive fire of 1871. In 1893,
after the death of William and James Mac-
Arthur, the concern was incorporated un
der the style of the MacArthur Brothers
Company, with Archibald MacArthur as
its president. In 1903 the present corpor
ation of the MacArthur Brothers Com
pany of New Jersey was formed and became
the successor of the business of the Illi
nois corporation. Throughout the long
period since the establishment of the busi
ness its numerous large contracts have been
successfully carried through mainly under
the directing hand of Archibald MacArthur.
Under his administration many of the most
important contracts in the way of public
works in the United States, embracing
many thousands of miles of railroad con
struction and the erection of many Gov
ernment buildings, have been executed. The
contracts for the single year of 1904 in
volved an outlay of over fourteen million
dollars. Mr. MacArthur is. the principal
stockholder and chairman of the W. & A.
MacArthur Company, Limited, of Che
boygan, Michigan, which has carried on an
extensive lumber business in Michigan and
Canada since 1865. He is a member of
the Western Society of Engineers. He was
married in 1856 to Keturah Pratt of Ora-
mel, New York, and has three sons and
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ton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Address :
Fisher Building, Chicago, Illinois.
MacARTHUR, Arthur:
Lieutenant-general, United States Army;
born in Massachusetts, June 2, 1845. His
military service began when, in August,
1862, the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin In
fantry was organized and mustered into the
United States service, and he, a boy of
seventeen was its adjutant and a first lieu
tenant. The regiment was first engaged
October 8, 1862, at Chaplin Hills, and at
Stone River, the colonel being sick and the
lieutenant-colonel having resigned the regi
ment was led by its major and young Mac-
Arthur. At Missionary Ridge, Tennessee,
while serving as first lieutenant, he was in
the severe fighting that took place dur
ing the ascent, when many officers and men
fell, some from bullets and some from ex
haustion. Among the latter was the color-
bearer of the regiment, but the colors were
at once seized by MacArthur who bore
them, at the same time encouraging the
men to follow him up the ridge. For his
coolness and conspicuous bravery on this
occasion he. was awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor. He was promoted major
January 25, 1864, acted as lieutenant-col
onel of his regiment at Kenesaw Mountain,
and led his regiment at the battle of Frank
lin, where he was wounded and served
through the Atlanta campaign. He was
brevetted colonel March 13, 1865, pro
moted to lieutenant-cOlonel of the Twenty-
fourth Wisconsin Infantry, May 18, 1865,
and honorably mustered out June 10, 1865.
He was appointed second and first lieuten
ant of the Seventeenth Infantry in the Reg
ular Army February 23, 1866; captain of
the Thirty-sixth Infantry, July, 1866, and
transferred to the Thirteenth Infantry July
5, 1870. He served through various In
dian campaigns and in the Southern States
until he was made an assistant adjutant-
general, July 1, 1889, with the rank of
major; and promoted lieutenant-colonel
and assistant adjutant-general in 1896. At
the beginning of the Spanish-American
War he was commissioned, May 27, 1898,
brigadier-general of volunteers. He went

to the Philippines with the First Expedi
tion, in 1898, and commanded the Division
of the Philippines at Manila ; was promoted
to major-general of volunteers August 13,
1898, brigadier-general in the regular serv
ice January 2, 1900, major-general, Feb
ruary 5, 1901, lieutenant-general, September
15, 1906. After several years of most ef
fective service in the Philippines as com
mander-in-chief of the forces there, he re
turned to the United States, and commanded
the Department of the Lakes until he be
came lieutenant-general. Address: Colby-
Abbott Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
MacARTHUR, Robert D.:
Physician; born in Glengarry, Ontario,
Canada, August 1, 1843; son of John and
Margaret (MacMartin) MacArthur. He
was graduated from the Williamstown
Grammar School in 1863 and from the
medical department of the- McGill Univer
sity at Montreal, Canada, with the degree
of M.D. in 1867. He was engaged in the
practice of medicine in Canada for two
years, when he removed to Chicago, Illi
nois, where he has since resided. He was
appointed professor of skin a«:<i venereal
diseases at the Chicago Poijc'linic in 1889,
and in 1890 was the attending physician in
dermatology at the Presbyterian and St.
Joseph Hospitals, Chicago. Dr. MacAr
thur is a member of the Chicago Medical
College, the Chicago Dermatological Society
and the American Medical Association. He
is a Democrat, but did not support Mr.
Bryan on account of his silver policy. He is
a member of the Union and Midday Clubs.
He was married in Montreal, Canada, Sep
tember 27, 1871, to Minnie Beattie, and has
one daughter, Ida Belle. Residence: 414
Dearborn Avenue, Chicago. Address: 204
Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
MACBETH, George Alexander:
Glass manufacturer; born at TJrbana,
Ohio, in 1845 ; son of James Reed Macbeth
and Frances Arm (Bayard) Macbeth;
After completing his education in the public
schools of his native place he was engaged
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manufacture of glass in Pittsburgh, and
for years past' at the head, as president, of
the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, with
factories in Pittsburgh and at Charleroi,
Pennsylvania. He is also president of the
First National Bank of Charleroi and of
the Charleroi Savings and Trust Company.
He was a commissioner from Pennsylvania
to the World's Columbian Exposition at
Chicago and is a trustee for life of the
Carnegie Free Library of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Macbeth is a member of the New Church
(Swedenborgian). His - tastes are artistic
and literary,- and he is a member -of the
National Arts* Club and other art organiza
tions in New York and of the Grolier Club
of New York, Rowfant Club of Cleveland
and other organizations of book lovers;
and was formerly president of the Pitts
burgh Art Society. Mr. Macbeth has had
a leading share in the progress of the Am
erican glass industry, was the first in this,
country to make optical glass, and received
a medal from the World's Columbian Ex
position for the first exhibit ever made of
optical glass of American manufacture.
He married in Pittsburgh in 1880, Kathar
ine Duff. Office address : Empire Build
ing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
McBRIDE, Henry:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Utah
in 1856. He was educated in the public
schools and in Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, to the end of the junior year.
He studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1864, and engaged in practice at
Mount Vernon, Washington. He was elect
ed prosecuting attorney . of Skagit County,
Washington, in i 888. In 1891 he was ap
pointed by Governor Elisha P. Ferry to, the
office of judge of the Superior Court for
Skagit and Island Counties to. fill a vacancy
and in November, 1892, was elected to the
same office for a four-year term, upon the
expiration of which he resumed the prac
tice of law. He was elected lieutenant-
governor of Washington in November,
1900, and became governor upon the
death of Governor John . R. Rogers
in December, 1901, until the end of
the term in January, 1905, when he re

sumed practice at Seattle, where he is at
the head of -the firm of McBride, Stratton
and Dalton. Governor McBride is a Re
publican iri politics and an EpiscopaFan iri
religion. He married at Coupeville, Island
County, Washington, in 1884, Alice Gar
rett. Address : Seattle, Washington.
McCABE, William Gordon:
Late head-master of the University
School; bom in Richmond, Virginia, Au
gust 4, 1841 ; son of Rev. John Collins Mc-
Cabe, D.D., and Sophia Gordon Taylor,
great-granddaughter of Colonel George
Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of In
dependence. Attended Hampton Acad
emy, for six years, and was gold medallist
the last two years, and valedictorian on
graduation; was graduated from the Uni
versity of Virginia in 1861 ; served . four
years in the Confederate Army, enlisting
as private in the Richmond Howitzers in
1861 ; promoted first lieutenant of Artil
lery in 1862, and rose to be captain of ar
tillery in A. P. Hill's Corps in the Army
of Northern Virginia. About 1870 he es
tablished the University School at Rich
mond, Virginia, of which he was head
master for over thirty years, retiring' in
1901. He received the degree of M.A.
from William and Mary College in 1868,
M.A. from Williams College, Massachu
setts, 1885, LL.D. from Willia!m and Mary
College, 1906, arrd Litt.D. from Yale, 1907.
Dr. McCabe has edited several classical
books, contributed to Harper's, The Cen
tury and other periodicals,' and is still a
regular contributor to the London Satur
day Review; also contributor to the Ox
ford and Cambridge Review (quarterly).
He is a member of the Philological Asso
ciation of America, Modern Language As
sociation,; A Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa; So
ciety, of the Cincinnati; president of the'
Sons of the Revolution in Virginia, pres
ident of the Virginia Historical Society
from 1903 to 1906; member of the Board
of Visitors of the University of Vir
ginia for eight years and the Board
of Visitors, University of Richmond, the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity of the Uni
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many literary societies. He is a State com
missioner and director of the Jamestown
Exposition. He was formerly colonel com
manding The A. P. Hill Camp of United
Confederate Veterans, and is president of
the Pegram Battalion Veteran Association.
In politics he is a Democrat, and he is an
Episcopalian in church relations. He is
a member and ex-president of the West
moreland Club of Richmond, and a mem
ber of the University Club of Richmond,
Virginia. He married in Petersburg, Vir
ginia, April 9, 1867, Jane Pleasants Har
rison Osborne, and they have three sons :
Edmund Osborne McCabe, W. Gordon Mc-
Cabe, Jr., and Edward R. Warner McCabe,
lieutenant, Sixth United States Cavalry.
Address : 405 East Cary Street, Richmond,
Virginia. McCALL, Edward Everett:
Jurist; engaged in practice of law in
New York City until elected, November,
1902, judge of New York Supreme Court,
term expiring 1916. He is a Democrat and
a Catholic. Member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, Society
of Medical Jurisprudence, Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, and also of the Manhattan,
Lawyers', New York Athletic, Catholic, Na
tional, Democratic, Tilden, Lotos and the
Columbia Yacht Clubs. Residence : - 321
West Eighty-sixth Street. Address: 346
Broadway, New York City.
McCALL, John Etheridge:
United States judge; born in Clarksburg,
Tennessee, August 14, 1859; son of Henry
McCall and Rebecca Frances (Bowlin)
McCall. After graduation from the Uni
versity of Tennessee in the class of 1881,
he engaged in law, journalism, business and
politics, becoming one of the leaders of the
Republican party in his State. He edited
the Tennessee Republican at Lexington,
Tennessee; was for four years a member
of the Tennessee House of Representatives,
a member of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and
Republican candidate in 1900, for governor
of Tennessee. He was appointed collector
of internal revenue in 1902, and in January
1905, was appointed to his present office as

judge of the United States Court for the
Western District of Tennessee. He is
president of the Bank of Lexington. Resi
dence: Lexington, Tennessee. Office ad
dress: United States Court, Memphis,
Tennessee. McCALL, Samuel Walker:
Congressman; was bagn in East Provi
dence, Pennsylvania, February 28, 185 1;
graduated at New Hampton (New Hamp
shire) Academy in 1870, at Dartmouth Col
lege in 1874; was admitted to the bar,
practicing in Boston ; served as editor-in-
chief of the Boston Daily Advertiser; was
a member of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives of 1888, 1889 and 1892; was
a delegate to the Republican National Con
ventions of 1888 and 1900. He is the author
of: Biography of Thaddeus Stevens in
American Statesmen Series. He was elected
to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty^eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the eighth
Massachusetts district. Address: Win
chester, Massachusetts.
McCALLA, Bowman Hendry:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy; born
in Camden, New Jersey, June 19, 1844; son
of Auley McCalla and Mary Duffield (Hen
dry) McCalla. He was appointed a cadet
in the United States Naval Academy, No
vember 3, 1861, remained at the Academy
until the end of 1864; was attached to the
steam sloop Susquhanna, in the Brazil
Squadron in 1865 and 1866, and to the
steam sloop Brooklyn, flagship of the South
Atlantic Squadron in 1866 and 1867, con
tinuing in sea service on the Sabine, Tus-
carora, Wabash and Wachusett, until 1875,
and meanwhile being promoted to master,
December 1, 1866; lieutenant, March 12,
1868, and lieutenant-commander December
18, 1868. He was at the Naval Academy
from 1875 to 1878 ; attached to the Powhat
an, North Atlantic Squadron from 1878 to
1881, and was an assistant at the Bureau of
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ber, 1884. He commanded the Enterprise
on the European station from 1887 to 1890;
then after over three years' service as equip
ment officer at .the Mare Island Navy Yard
and several months at the Naval War Col
lege was appointed to command the protect
ed cruiser Marblehead, in which he served
with the North Atlantic Squadron during
the Spanish-Amejican War. He was com
missioned captain August 10, 1898; was
captain of the Norfolk Navy Yard until
September, 1899, when he was placed in
command of the Newark which he took
from San Francisco to Manila. He com
manded a division of six cruisers and gun
boats on the North and West Coasts of
Luzon. In December, 1899, with a force of
two hundred and fifty, officers and men,
marched to the relief of the city of Vigan,
four miles inland, held by a small foice
of the Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry, and
six days later received the surrender of all
the insurgent forces in the provinces of
Isabella and Cagayan and in the Batan Is
lands. In June, 1900, with one hundred
and twelve, officers and men, from the
Newark formed part of the column of the
International, forces which under Vice-Ad
miral Seymour marched to the relief of the
Legations at Peking. He was advanced
for service in war with Spain, advanced
three numbers for service with the Peking
Relief Column. He commanded the battle
ship Kearsage from 1901 to 1902; com
manded the Naval Training Station at San
Francisco in 1902; promoted rear-admiral
October 11, 1903, and commanded the Mare
Island Navy Yard and Station in 1904,
1905 and 1906, retiring June 19, 1906. Ad
dress : 2420 Upper Garden Street, Santa
Barbara, California.
McCARREN, Patrick H,:
State Senator; born in Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts; resident of Brooklyn, from age
of eight ; he , was educated in the public
schools of Brooklyn. He was elected to the
Assembly three times, and was one of the
leaders on the floor of the House in 1889,
the year before he first entered the Senate ;
elected to Senate in 1895, 1898, 1900, 1902,
1904 and 1906, Has been identified with

much important legislation, and it was chief
ly through his efforts that free text-books
are now supplied in the public schools;
also led in securing passage of original bill
for a second bridge over East River, for
the benefit of the Eastern District of Brook
lyn. He is a Democrat, and Tammany leader
of the Borough of Brooklyn. Address: 4
Court Square, Brooklyn, New York.
McCARTY, William Mnrdock:
Chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court;
born at Alpine, Utah, May 15, 1859; reared
on farm, attended country schools, and
afterward worked in mines. He studied
law in an office at Monroe, Utah, was ad-.
m'tted to the bar in 1887 and engaged in
practice. He was appointed assistant Unit
ed States attorney for Utah in 1889; elect
ed for two terms as county attorney of
Sevier County, under the Territorial or
ganization; was elected at the first State
election in 1895 and reelected in 1900 as
judge of the Disrict Court for the Sixth
Judicial District of Utah, serving in that
office until elected to the Supreme Bench in
1902, in which he was associate judge until
1906 and since then has been chief justice.
He is a Republican in politics. Judge Mc-
Car.ty married at Marysvale, Utah, October
7, 1893, Lavina L. Murray. Address : 1053
Third Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
McCASKEY, William Spencer:
Major-General, United States Army;
born iri Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
October 2, 1843; son of William and Mar
garet Piersol McCaskey. He was educat
ed in the public schools. He responded to
President Lincoln's first call for volunteers
April, 1861 ; was private in the Lancaster
Fencibles, Company F, First Pennsylvania
Volunteers, April 20, 1861, to July 26, 1861 ;
served in General Patterson's Army in
Western Virginia; first sergeant, second
and first lieutenant and captain, Company
B, Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteers, from September 5,1861, to July
12, 1865; engaged in all campaigns and
battles of Army of Ohio, 1862; Army of
Cumberland from 1863 to the surrender of
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lina, 1865; in battles of Chaplain Hills,
Kentucky, 1862; Stone River, Tennessee,
1863; Tullahoma and Hoover's Gap, Ten
nessee; Chickamauga, Georgia, 1863; siege
of Chattanooga ; re-enlisted in Veteran Vol
unteers, Sherman's Army, battles up to
and including capture of Atlanta; march
to the sea and north through the Carolinas;
grand review, Washington, May or June,
1865; mustered out at Philadelphia July,
1865. He was appointed second and first
lieutenant, Thirteenth United States Infan
try, February 23, 1866; transferred to
Twenty-second Infantry, in which he was
regimental adjutant and regimental quarter
master; transferred to Twentieth Infantry,
July, 1869; regimental quartermaster, cap
tain, September 5,-1871; major Twentieth
Infantry, May 31, 1895; lieutenant-colonel,
August 30, 1898 ; colonel,- January 29, 1900 ;
brigadier-general, January 24, 1904. Serv
ed in the Dakotas and Minnesota from 1866
to 1877; in Texas and Missouri to 1885;
in Montana to 1894; Department of Mis
souri to 1898; April 19, 1898, en route to
Cuba; in Cuban campaign and battles of
El Caney and Santiago, July 1 to July 17;
surrender of Spanish Army; commanded
regiment; reorganized it on return to Fort
Leavenworth. En route to Philippine Is
lands; sailed from San Francisco January
26, 1899; returned to San Francisco March
13, 1902; in action and campaigns of Gau-
daloupe and Pasig; in Batangas, etc.; com
manding Fort Sheridan, Illinois, .March,
1902, to November 20, 1903; embarked for
second tour of service in Philippine Islands,
December 1, 1903. He was promoted brig
adier-general January 24, 1904 ; commanded
the First Brigade' and Post of Manila, Phil
ippine Islands, from March 6, 1904 to April
1905; commanded the Department of Colo
rado from May, 1905, to April, 1906, then
the Department of Texas until April, 1907;
promoted major-general April 15, 1967, then
commanded the Department of Dakota un
til retired October 2, 1907. General Mc-
Caskey is a member of the Pennsylvania
Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, artd also a member, of the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland,

the Grand Army of the Republic, Society
of Santiago de Cuba, Society of the Phil
ippines and Society of the Carabao. He
married in Detroit, Michigan, November 20,
1867, Eleanor Garrison. Address : Care
War Department, Washington, D- C.
MACCAUD, Francis William:
Clergyman; born in Dublin, Ireland; son
of Edward David Maccaud and Mary J.
(Burrows) Maccaud. He attended the
College at Castlenock, County Dublin ; and
the University of Dublin (taking a prize
at matriculation in 1899). He passed
through, with honor, St. Andrew's Divinity
School, Syracuse, New York, and he later
became a Literate of the Church of Eng
land. He was ordered deacon in 1895,
and ordained priest in 1897, by Bishop
Huntington. He was formerly rector of
Grace church, Huron, South Dakota, 1900 to
1903; chaplain of St. Anna's Chapel and
House of Good Shepherd, Syracuse, New
York, 1899; St. Paul's church, Antwerp,
New York, 1898; Grace church, Whitney's
Point, New York, from 1895 :t0 1897.
He wrote a series of articles for a church
paper on God in Science; also philologic
tetters to The Living Church; and letters
to The Church Standard. He is now pre
paring a work on the evidences of Chris
tianity, both in a historic and scientific way.
He married in London, England, March 2,
1897, Lucy Foweraker, niece of Cation
Foweraker. They have two children : Irene
Blanche, born in 1897, and Victor Emman
uel Maccaud, born in 1899. Address : Ros
lyn, Washington.
M'CAULEY, Calvin Hull son:
Lawyer; born in Elk County, Pennsyl
vania, in July, 1850. His early life was, one
of hard work on a farm and in the lumber
mills ; he had a common schqol education
and afterward entered Bucknell University
at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He began his
career by teaching school at the age of
seventeen, and entered upon the study of
law a year later; he was admitted to the
bar of Elk County in 1872, and later to that
of tfie State Supreme Court, the United
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Court of the United States. In 1875 he
was elected district attorney of Elk County
on the Democratic ticket. When Ridgway,
in 1881, was incorporated as a borough, he
became a member of its council, ¦ and for
three years was president of that body;
he was reelected in 1888 and served as
president for three years more, but the de
mands of his large practice caused him then
to withdraw from this duty. He is solicit
or for the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burgh Railroad Company, district solicitor
for the Pennsylvania and the Erie Rail
roads, and is an acknowledged expert in
railroad and corporation law. In 1893 he
organized the Penn, the Elk and the Union
Tanning Companies, and was prominent in
the organization of the United States
Leather Company. He is now general solic
itor for the Elk Tanning Company; solic
ited for the United States Leather Com
pany, and general solicitor for its affiliated
companies in • Pennsylvania. In recent
years he has organized a large number of
industrial corporations, all of which he
now represents as general counsel. Ad
dress : Ridgway, Pennsylvania.
McCAUSLAND, WUliam Clifton:
Director and treasurer of the Carnegie
Steel Company; born in Pittsburgh, August
9, 1861 ; son of W. A. McCausland and
Margaret (Mackrell) McCausland. He at
tended the Fourth Ward Public School in
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, from 1869 to 1876.
He was successively cashier of the H. C.
Frick Coke Company, of Carnegie, Phipps
and Company, and of the Carnegie Steel
Company, Limited, then assistant treasurer
of the Carnegie Steel Company ; and is now
director and treasurer of -the Carnegie Steel
Company, and of the Clairton Steel Com
pany; treasurer of Union Steel Company
and director of Pittsburgh Life and Trust
Company. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Pennsylvania So
ciety, and of the Duquesne, Union and
Country Clubs of Pittsburgh. Mr. Mc
Causland married in Pittsburgh, February
9, 1893, Margaret Alice Crouch. Resi
dence: 411 Graham Street, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Summer residence: Cedar

Cliff, Wolfe Island, Ontario. Office ad
dress: 1 1 17 Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
McCAW, Walter Drew:
Major and surgeon, United States Army;
born in Richmond, Virginia, February 10,
1863; sori of Dr. James B. McCaw and
Delia (Patteson) McCaw. After a pri
vate preparatory education in Richmond,
he entered the Medical College of Vir
ginia, from which he was graduated as
M.D. in 1882, and thence to the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Uni
versity, New York City, receiving there
from the M.D. degree in 1884. He entered
the United States Army, August 20, 1884,
as first lieutenant assistant surgeon, was
promoted to captain assistant surgeon, Au
gust 20, 1889, and promoted to major and
surgeon, February 2, 1901. He was major
and brigade-surgeon, United States Vol
unteers, from June 4, 1898, to November
30, 1898, serving in the campaign of San
tiago de Cuba, and San Juan Hill ; and was
major-surgeon of the Forty-second United
States Infantry, from August 17, 1899, to
February 2, 1901, and in the Philippines
with his regiment in 1900 and 1901 ; and he
is now member of the Army Examining
Board, . instructor in tropical medicine in
the Army Medical School and librarian in
the Surgeon General's Office (the largest
medical library in the world). Dr. McCaw
is an honorary member of the Medical So
ciety of the District of Columbia; mem
ber of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity;
Mason of the Thirty-second degree, Scot
tish Rite, Knight Templar and member of
the Mystic Shrine; also a member of the
Army and Navy Club, of Washington, D.
C. Residence: 1915 S Street, Washington.
Office address: Library, Surgeon General's
Office, Washington, D. C.
MacCHESNEY, Nathan William:
Lawyer; bora in Chicago, June 2, 1878;
son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Brunson
MacChesney, United States Army (A.M.,
M.D.) of Ohio, and Henrietta (Milsom)
MacChesney, M.D., of London, England.
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tling ' in Virginia in Colonial times. Mr.
MacChesney was educated in the public
schools of Chicago, University of the Paci
fic, 1898, University of Arizona, 1899, special
student in the Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity, the University of Denver and the
University Of Chicago. He also studied
law at Northwestern University, 1899-1900,
the' University of Michigan, LL.B., 1902
and post-graduate work iri Northwestern
University Law School, in 1902 and 1903.
He was engaged as a lecturer on Amer
ican constitutional history for Chautau
qua circles in Arizona, California and Min
nesota, 1899; press correspondent in Cali
fornia, Arizona and New Mexico from 1897
to 1899; associated with his father in busi
ness from 1899 to 1903. He has been ad
mitted to the bar in Illinois, Michigan, New
York and the Federal Courts, and is senior
member of the law firm of MacChesney
and Bradley; and F. W. Becker, succeeding
the firm of Carter & Becker, established in
1858 ; and partner in the firm of Holt, Mac
Chesney and Cheney, real estate and bonds,
owners and agents of the Manhattan Build
ing. He is counsel for The Chicago Real Es
tate Board ; is secretary and director of the
Building Managers' Association of Chicago ;
was chairman of the Public Service Com
mittee from 1903 to 1906, and is mefnber of
the Joint Committee on High Pressure
Water System. He is secretary and a direc
tor of the Excelsior Printing Company and
the Hilton Lithographing Company ; direc
tor of the E. C. Frady Manufacturing Com
pany, and treasurer of the Northwestern
University Law Publishing Association. He
is a member of the Hyde Park Presbyterian
Church, of Chicago, active in settlement
work and other philanthropic and religious
movements; also a member of the Execu
tive Committee of the Young Men's Pres
byterian Union of Chicago. He is donor
of the MacChesney prizes at Northwestern
University Law School, and one of the
founders and an associate editor of the
Illinois Law Review, as well as a frequent
contributor to other technical magazines on
legal and other subjects connected with
property and corporation management. He

was a delegate to the Universal Congress
of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904.
He has been a member of the National
Guard of California, National Guard of Ari
zona, volunteer for the Spanish-American
War, doing garrison duty on the Pacific
Coast, and was commissioned, June I, 1907,
lieutenant-colonel and judge-advocate of the
Third Brigade, Illinois National Guard. He
is a member of the 'American Bar Associa
tion, Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago
Bar Association, Chicago Law Institute,
honorary member, Building Managers' As
sociation, Geographic Society of Chicago,
Chicago Association of Commerce, Sons of
Veterans, U. S. A. ; and also of the Masonic
order, Royal Arcanum, Michigan Union
of Ann Arbor, and of the University,
Union League, City, Chicago Literary,
Twentieth Century, Chicago Yacht, and
South Shore Country Clubs of Chicago. He
is an active Republican, taking a prominent
part in campaigns as speaker throughout
the country ; is chairman of the Seventh Dis
trict Republican Club of Chicago; member
of the committee on National Legislation
of the Hamilton Club and chairman of its
special Telephone Franchise Committee,
and associate editor of the Hamiltonian.
He married, December 1, 1904, Lena,
daughter of W. E. Frost of Riverside, Illi
nois. Mrs. MacChesney is a graduate of
the University of Michigan, 1901 ; and was
student of the University of Berlin, 1901-
1902. Residence: 47 East Forty-sixth
Street, Chicago. Office address : 108 La
Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, and 231 West
Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.
McCLATCHY, Charles Kenny:
Newspaper editor; born in Sacramento,
California, November I, 1858 ; son of James
McClatchy, founder and editor of the Sac
ramento Bee. After completing his course
at Santa Clara College, California, he enter
ed the office of the Bee, which his father
had made one of the leading papers of the
Pacific Coast. After being thoroughly
trained in the news and editorial de
partments, he succeeded his father in Janu
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position he continues. He married Ella
Kelly in 1885. Residence: 1015 O Street,
Sacramento. Office address: The Bee,
Sacramento, California.
McCLEARY, James Thompson:
Second assistant postmaster-general ;
born at Ingersoll, Canada, February 5,
1853; son of Thompson McCleary and
Sarah (McCutcheon) McCleary. He was
educated in the high school of Ingersoll,
Canada, and the McGill University of Mon
treal. He was a teacher in Wisconsin from
1871 to 1881 ; county superintendent of
schools of Peirce County, Wisconsin, from
1879 to 1881 ; conductor of State Teachers'
Institute of Minnesota, from 1881 to 1892;
professor of history and civics in the State
Normal School of Mankato, Minnesota. He
took an active interest in politics as a Re
publican and in 1892 he was elected to the
Fifty-third Congress from the Second Min
nesota District, and was biennially elected
up to and including the Forty-ninth Con
gress, and in 1907, he was appointed by
President Roosevelt to his present posi
tion as second assistant postmaster-general
of the United States. He is a life member
of the Minnesota State Historical Society.
Mr. McCleary is especially fond of travel
and has made three trips to Europe, cov
ering most of that continent, and one trip
to Hawaii. He is a Presbyterian in his re
ligious views. He married at Maiden Rock,
Wisconsin, June 4, 1874, Mary Edith Tay
lor, and they have one son, Leslie Taylor
McCleary, born July 4, 1875. Residence:
Mankato, Minnesota. Office address : Post
Office Department, Washington, D. C.
McCLELLAN, George Brinton:
Mayor of New York; born in Dresden,
Saxony, November 23, 1865 ; son of General
George B. McClellan, commander-in-chief
of the Union Army during the first year of
the Civil War, and of Ellen M. (Marcy)
McClellan. He was educated in the schools
of Trenton, New Jersey, during the term
of his father as governor of New Jersey,
three years in a military school at Ossin-
ning, New York, and at Princeton Uni
versity, where he received the degrees of

A.B., 1886, A.M., 1889, and LL.D. He also
received the degree of LL.D. from St.
John's' College, Fordham, in 1905, and from
Union University in 1906, also becoming
honorary chancellor of the last-named in
stitution in 1906. After his graduation he
engaged in newspaper work as a reporter
for New York dailies, and in- 1889 was ap
pointed treasurer of the New. York and
Brooklyn Bridge, studying law while so
occupied, and in 1892 he was admitted to
the bar. He was nominated and elected, in
1892, president of the Board of Aldermen
of New York City, the youngest man ever
elected to that office, and several times acted
as mayor during the absence of Mayor
Thomas F. Gilroy. He was elected in 1894
from the Twelfth New York District to
the Fifty-fourth 'Congress, and reelected in
1896, 1898, 1900 and 1902, resigning in 1903,
when he was elected mayor of New York
City on the Democratic ticket, and he was
reelected mayor in 1965. Mayor McClellan
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, of Lafayette Camp, Sons
of Veterans, of the Aztec Club (Mexican
War organization), and of the Sons of the
Revolution. He served as a member of the
Eighth Regiment of the New York National
Guard and was three years first lieutenant
in that regiment, and was also on the staff
of Governor Hill with the rank of colonel.
He is an honorary member of the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick and the Irish Brigade.
Mayor McClellan is author of a book:
The Oligarchy of Venice, published in 1904.
He is an Episcopalian, and member of
Grace Episcopal Church. His club mem
berships include the Union, Authors and
Church Clubs of New York City, the Auto
mobile Club of America, and the Metro
politan and Army and Navy Clubs of
Washington. Residence : 10 Washington
Square, North. Office address : City Hall,
New York City.
McCLUNG, Samuel A.:
Jurist; born in Plum Township, Alle
gheny County, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1845 ;
son of Rev. Samuel M. McClung. He was
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began the study of law under John M.
Kirkpatrick and John Mellon, obtaining
admittance to the Allegheny County bar
in 1868. His learning and ability as a
lawyer brought him in May, 1891, the
Governor's appointment as a judge of the
No. 3 Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny
County, and in November of the same year
he was elected to this position for the ten-
year term; he was again elected to the
bench in 1901, and is now serving his sec
ond term. Address : Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania.McCLURE, Alexander Kelly:
Editor; born^ at Centre, Perry County,
Pennsylvania, January 8, 1828. He receiv
ed his education in the common schools.
He was later superintendent of public
printing; State representative three times;
State senator one term from the Franklin
District and one term from Philadelphia;
assistant adjutant-general of the United
States Army with the rank of major; and
was prothonotary of Supreme Court. He
was admitted to the bar in 1855 ; editor of
the Juniata Sentinel, Chambersburg Re
pository, and for twenty-six years chief
editor of the Philadelphia Times. In poli
tics he is an Independent. Mr. McClure
married twice; first in 1852, Matilda S.
Gray and second in 1879, Cora M. Gratz.
Address : 1828 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.McCLURE, James Gore King:
President of the McCormick Theological
Seminary ; born in Albany, New York, No
vember 24, 1848; son of Archibald and
Susan Tracey (Rice) McClure. He receiv
ed his preparatory education at Albany
(New York) Academy (1865) and at Phil
lips Andover Academy (1866), taking his
entrance examinations for Yale .University
in the latter year. In 1870 he graduated
from Yale with the degree of A.B. and in
that year entered the Princeton Theological
Seminary from which he graduated in 1873.
The degree of D.D. has been conferred upon
him by the Universities of Princeton, Lake
Forest and Yale and that of LL.D by Illi
nois College. Following his ordination to

the ministry of the Presbyterian Church
in 1874, he became pastor of the Presby
terian Church of New Scotland, New
York, where he remained until 1879.
In 1881 he accepted a call to the pastorate
of the Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest,
Illinois, where he officiated until 1905. At
the same time he was during the year 1892-3
president pro tempore of Lake Forest Uni
versity, and he was president of that uni
versity from 1897 to 1901. In 1905 he was
elected president of the McCormick Theo
logical Seminary at Chicago, Illinois, and
resigned from the pastorate of the Lake
Forest Presbyterian Church to take that of
fice. Dr. McClure has traveled extensively
in various parts of Europe, but principally
in Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. He is
a trustee of Lake Forest University, a di
rector of the McCormick Theological Sem
inary, and member of the College Board
of the Presbyterian Church in, tho United
States. He is author of various books,
among which are: The Great Appeal,
1898; Living for the Best, 1903;. Loyalty,
the Soul of Religion, 1905 ; and others. Dr.
McClure is a member of the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society, the Onwentsia Club of Lake
Forest, Illinois, and the Chicago Literary
Club. He married at Westerly, Rhode Is
land, November 19, 1879, Annie P. Dixon,
and they have five children: Annie D.,
James G. K., Jr., Harriet, Archibald and
Nathan D.' Address: 1070 North Halsted
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
McCLURE, Samuel Sidney:
Editor and publisher; born in County
Antrim, Ireland, February 17, 1857 ; son of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Gastron) McClure.
He was -graduated from Knox College: as
A.B. in 1882 and A.M. in 1887. He estab
lished a newspaper syndicate in November,
1884, which is now the S. S. McClure Com
pany, of which he is president; founded
McClure's Magazine in 1893 and the pub
lishing firm of McClure, Phillips and Com
pany in 1900. He is a trustee of Knox
College, Galesburg, Illinois ; and is a mem
ber of the National Geographic Society and
of the Union League Club. His favorite
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Harriet Flurd, arid they have four chil
dren: Robert, Eleanor, Elizabeth and
Mary. Address: 44-60 East Twenty-third
Street, New York City.
McCOMAS, Joseph Fatton:
Clergyman ; born at Hagerstown, Mary
land, September ' 19, 1870 ; son of Henry
A. McComas and Annie Virginia (Smith)
McComas. He attended private schools in
Hagerstown, Dickinson College, from which
he was graduated as Ph.B. in 1890, and
A.M. im 1893, and the General Theological
Seminary in 1895. He was ordered deacon
in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, 1895, and
ordained priest in St. Paul's Church, Balti
more, 1896. He was chaplain to the House
of Delegates of Maryland in 1896 ; assistant
minister in St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis,
Maryland, from 1895 to 1899; and has been
rector, of that parish, since 1899. He is
vice-president of the Maryland Clericus ;
member of the Committee on Canons of
the Diocese of Maryland, Executive Com
mittee of the Maryland Sunday School In
stitute; trustee of the Chase Home, Anna
polis, Maryland, and of the University Club
of Baltimore, the Severn Boat Club of
Annapolis, and the Annapolitan Club of
Annapolis. He is author of: Letters of
Travel in Egypt and the Levant, 1898 ; Oc
casional Sermons, 1905. Mr. McComas
married in Annapolis, Maryland, November
9, 1899, Katharine C. Murray, and they have
one son, Murray Clement, born Novem
ber 23, 1903. Address : The Rectory, Duke
of Gloucester Street, Annapolis, Maryland.
McCOMAS, Louis Emory:
Jurist; born in Washington County,
Maryland, October 28, 1846; son of Fred
erick C. McComas and Catharine A. Mc
Comas. After his graduation from Dickin
son College, Pennsylvania, he studied law
and was admitted to the bar, and engaged
in practice in 1868 in Maryland and at
Washington, D. C. He was elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress in 1882 and reelect
ed to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-
first Congresses. In 1892 he was appointed
by President Harrison an associate justice
of the Supreme Court of - the District of

Columbia and served until elected by the
Maryland Legislature, in 1899, to the office
of United States Senator. He served until
his term expired in 1905, when he was ap
pointed to his present office of associate
justice of the Court of Appeals of Mary
land. He is a Republican in politics. He
formerly held the chair of international
law in Georgetown University Law School.
Judge McComas married, September 23,
1875, Leah M. Humrichouse. Residence :
Williaffisport, Maryland. Address : 1628 K
Street, Washington, D. C.
McCOOK, Anson George:
Brigadier-general of United States Vol
unteers; born in Steubenville, Ohio, Octo
ber 10, 1835 ; son of. Dr. John McCook and
Catherine (Sheldon) McCook. He was
educated in the public schools of Lisbon,
Ohio. In 1861 he was admitted to the Ohio
bar ; served in the Civil War, participating
in the first battle of Bull Run, as captain of
the Second Ohio Infantry; served in the'
Army of Cumberland and in the Atlanta
campaign under Sherman and was brevet
ted brigadier-general. From 1866 to 1872
he was United States assessor of internal
revenue at Steubenville, Ohio. He was a
member of Congress from 1877 to 1883,
from the Eighth New York District; sec
retary of the United States Senate from
1884 to 1893, and city chamberlain of New
York from 1895 to 1897. Brigadier-Gener
al McCook is president and director of the
New York Law Publishing Company; di
rector of the Iron Silver Mining Company
and of the Public Accountant Corporation.
Fie is a member of the Ohio Society, the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, "and of
the Union League, New York Athletic,
Hardware and Republican Clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, in 1886, Hettie B.
McCook, and their children are: Kath
arine and George Anson. Residence : 33
West Fifty-fourth Street, New York. Of
fice address : 319 Broadway, New York
City. McCOOK, Henry Christopher:
Clergyman, entomologist; born at New
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from Jefferson College in 1859, subsequent
ly receiving the degrees of D.D. and ScD.
from Lafayette College, and LL.D. from
Washington-Jefferson. He entered the
army at the breaking out of the Civil War
as a lieutenant in the Forty-first Illinois
Volunteers, and afterward became chaplain
of the regiment; was chaplain in Pennsyl
vania Commandery of the Loyal Legion
and chaplain Second Regiment National
Guard, Pennsylvania, with which he entered
the Spanish-American War, serving in
Cuba by special order of President Mc
Kinley and Secretary of War. He founded
the National Relief Commission; was for
thirty-three years active, pastor Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; promin
ent as an entomologist; president American
Entomological Society; vice-president Aca
demy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; and
is now president of the American Presby
terian Historical Society. Author: Agri-
, cultural Ants of Texas ; Honey and Occi
dent Ants ; American Spiders and Their
Spinning Work ; Tenants of an Old Farm ;
Old Farm Fairies ; Women Friends of
Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; Object and
Outline Teachings ; Ecclesiastical Emblems ;
The Latimers, a Scotch-Irish Historic Ro
mance of the Western Insurrection ; Martial
Graves of Our Fellow Heroes in Santiago
de Cuba, a Record of the Spanish-Ameri
can War ; The Senator, a tribute to Marcus
Haune, a schoolmate; and of Nature's
Craftsmen, his last book. Married, Sep
tember 11, 1861, Emma C. Herter, and June
27, 1899, Mrs. Eleanor D. S. Abbey. Ad
dress : "Brookcamp," Devon, Pennsylvan
ia. McCOOK, John James:
Lawyer; born at Carrollton, Ohio, May
25, 1845. He entered Kenyon College, but
left at the end of the first year to serve
in the Civil War; enlisted in the Fifty-
second Ohio Infantry; was subsequently
commissioned first lieutenant of the Sixth
Ohio Cavalry, and captain and aide-de
camp of United States Volunteers. He
served in the campaigns of Perryville, Stone
River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga and Chat

tanooga, with the Western armies, and in
General Grant's campaign with the Army
of the Potomac; was severely wounded in
the battle of Spottsylvania Court House;
mustered out as brevet-colonel of Volun
teers ; reentered Kenyon College, and was
graduated as A.B. in 1866; and from Har
vard as LL.B. in 1869; received the honor
ary A.M. degree from Princeton University,
in 1873 and LL.D. from the University of
Kansas in 1890, and from Lafayette Col
lege in 1893. He is senior member of the
firm of Alexander and Green; and counsel
for railroad, financial and insurance corpora
tions. He was invited to a place in Presi
dent McKinley's first cabinet; chairman of
the Army and Nayy Christian Commission
during the war with Spain; is a trustee
of Kenyon College, Ohio, and director of
Princeton Theological Seminary; president
of the Ohio Society of New York, and of
the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York.
He is a member of the University, Union,
and Union League Clubs of New York,
the Somerset Club of Boston, and the Met
ropolitan Club of Washington. Residence:
10 West Fifty-fourth Street. Office ad
dress : 120 Broadway, New York City.
McCORD, James Benney:
Civil engineer; born in Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, May 12, 1878; son of Walter
Lowrie McCord and Annie Kidd (Benney)
McCord. He was student in the civil en
gineering course in Allegheny College at
Meadville, Pennsylvania, in the class of
1897. He was a draftsman with the Ster-
lingworth Railway Supply Company of
New York City and Easton, Pennsylvania;
draftsman and constructing engineer of the
New York Filter Manufacturing Company
of New York, and had charge of the con
struction and testing of a water purifica
tion system of three millions of gallons
daily capacity, for Macon, Georgia; in 1900
was draftsman with H. L. Thompson, con
sulting engineer of Waterbury, Connecticut,
on design of brass mills for the Scovill
Manufacturing Company; assistant engi
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Falls purification plant for the East Jer
sey Water Company, 1900-1902; with Gen
eral Construction Company of New York
as resident engineer in charge of the water-
1 supply system for the Government at Fort
Greble, Rhode Island, and as secretary and
treasurer of the company, April to Octo
ber, 1902; with the Jersey City Water Sup
ply Company of Paterson, New Jersey, on
inspection of construction of 72-inch riv
eted steel pipe-line from Kingsland to Jer
sey City, New jersey, and connections of
the same to Bergen Hill reservoirs in Jer
sey City, in 1902 and 1903; after that with
the New York Continental Jewell Filtra
tion Company, as resident engineer of con
struction of three miles of 48-inch cast
iron pipe-lines and connections to reser
voir in Brooklyn, New York, until Octo
ber, 1904, and after that in private prac
tice in New York City. He was engaged
in 1906 on the survey and location of the
Nashville and Huntsville Railway from
Nashville, Tennessee, to Huntsville, Ala
bama, 120 miles; built pumping stations on
Long Island for additional water supply
for the city of Brooklyn, New York, in
1906, and built sewage system at Inter-
laken, New Jersey, in 1906 and 1907. He
is secretary and treasurer of the General
Construction Company of New York City,
and president and chief engineer of the
Suburban Engineering and Contracting
Company of New York City. He is an
associate member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, and member of the
New York Electrical Society. Mr. Mc
Cord is a Republican in politics. He is a
member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity
and of the Elizabeth Town and Country
Club. He married at Elizabeth, New Jer
sey, February 3, 1903, Adelaide Louise Pat
erson. Residence : Elizabeth, New Jersey.
office ' address : 29 Broadway, New York
City.
McCORMICK, Andrew Phelps:
United States circuit judge; born in Bra
zoria County, Texas (then in Mexico), De
cember 18, 1832. His father, Joseph Manson
McCormick, was one of the pioneers
of American settlement in that region and

took part in the organization of the Re
public of Texas three years later. The
son's early education was in private schools
in Brazoria, and he then went to Centre
College, Danville, Kentucky, from which
he was graduated in 1854, then studied law
and was admitted to the bar at Brazoria,
and began practice. He served as probate
judge in 1865 and 1876; was elected mem
ber of the State Constitutional Convention
in 1866 and 1868; judge of the District
Court from 1871 to 1876; member of the
Texas Legislature from 1876 to 1879. He
was appointed in April, 1879, United States
district judge for the Northern District of
Texas, which office he filled until appointed
by President Harrison to his present office
of United States Circuit judge of the Fifth
Circuit. Address : Dallas, Texas.
McCORMICK, Cyrus Hall:
President of the International Harvester
Company; born in Washington, D. C, May
16, 1859; son of Cyrus Hall McCormick,
inventor of the McCormick reaper. He
was graduated from Princeton University
as A.B. in the class of 1879, then became
connected with the McCormick Harvesting
Machine Company at Chicago, serving in
various capacities until his father's death
in 1884, when he became president of the
company. When the company with other
harvester manufacturers, consolidated their
interests in the organization of the Interna
tional Harvester Company in August, 1902,
he was elected president of that company.
Mr. McCormick is a member of the Chi
cago, Union League, University, Commer
cial and Chicago Athletic Clubs of Chicago,
and the Metropolitan and University Clubs
of New York. He married in Chicago,
March 5, 1889, Harriet Bradley Hammond.
Residence: 321 Huron Street, Chicago.
Office address : 234 Michigan Avenue, Chi
cago, Illinois.
McCORMICK, Harold Fowler:
Manufacturer; born in Chicago, Illinois,
May, 1872; son of Cyrus Hall McCormick
and Nettie (Fowler) McCormick. He was
prepared for college, at the University
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School, New York City. He entered
Princeton in 1891 and was graduated in
1895. Mr. McCormick spent much of his
vacation time during his college years in
the works of the McCormick Harvesting
Machine Company, and with the local
agents, familiarizing himself with the duties
that he was destined to assume at a later
date. He was the general agent of the
company at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1896
and 1897, and since 1902 has been vice-
president of the International Harvester
Company. He is a trustee of the Univer
sity of Chicago, of the McCormick Theo
logical Seminary, and of the Chicago Ex
change Building. He is a member of the
Chicago, Merchants', University, Chicago
Athletic and Onwentsia Clubs of Chicago,
and of the University, Racquet and Tennis,
Strollers' and Princeton Clubs of New
York City. Mr. McCormick married in New
York City, November 26, 1895, Edith,
daughter of John D. Rockefeller, and they
have had five children: John 'Rockefeller
McCormick, born February 24, 1897, died
January 2, 1901 ; Fowler McCormick, born
November 15, 1898; Muriel McCormick,
born September 10, 1902; Editha McCor
mick, born September 17, 1903 ; died June
11, 1904; and Mathilde McCormick, born
April 8, 1905. Residence: 88 Bellevue
Place, Chicago. Office address : 7 Monroe
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
McCORMICK, John Newton:
Bishop-coadjutor of Western Michigan;
born in Richmond, Virginia, February 1,
1863; son of John and Virginia (Newton)
McCormick. He was graduated with the
degree of B.A. from Randolph-Macon Col
lege in 1883, taking a post-graduate course
at Johns Hopkins University which he com
pleted in 1886. The degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by the University of
the South in 1903. He was ordained dea
con of the Episcopal Church in 1892 and
ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Ran
dolph a year later. Following his entry
to the ministry, he wa!s missionary in
Southern Virginia, 1892-93, being called to
the rectorate of St. Paul's Church, Suf
folk, Virginia in 1893. Two years later

he became rector of St. Luke's Church, At
lanta, Georgia, and after officiating for
three years, became, in 1898, rector of St.
Mark's Church, Grand Rapids, iri the Dio
cese of Western Michigan. This rector
ship he filled until 1906 when he was elected
bishop-coadjutor of Western Michigan.
He is author of the following works:
Distinctive Marks of the Episcopal Church ;
The Litany and the Life, (Young Church
man Company) ; Pain and Sympathy, Long
mans, Greene and Company. Bishop Mc
Cormick was married at Baltimore, Mary
land, in 1889, to Bessie Chapman Tucker.
Address : 285 East Fulton Street, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
McCORMICK, Robert Laird:
Capitalist; born in Clinton County, Penn
sylvania, October 29, 1847; son of Alex
ander McCormick and Jane Hayes (Laird)
McCormick. After completing a course in
the public schools and then attending Saun-
der's Institute at Philadelphia he engaged
in business pursuits, and in 1874 went to
Minnesota and engaged in the lumber busi
ness. This he continued also acquiring ex
tensive timber and mineral properties in
Minnesota and the Northwest, and also
acquiring extensive interests In the grain
trade. He became associated with Freder
ick Weyerhaeuser in extensive purchases of
timber lands in the State of Washington, r
and in 1903 removed to Tacoma, where he
is secretary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber
Company, president of the Lumberman's
National Bank of Tacoma, and the Lumber
man's State Bank of Hoquiam, Washington.
He is also interested as officer arid director
in other large corporations. He was elect
ed member of the State Senate of Minne
sota in 1880, and was a delegate from Wis
consin to the National Republican Con
vention at Philadelphia in 1900. He mar
ried in Seneca County, Ohio, September 11,
1870, Anna E. Goodman. Residence: 421
North Yakima Avenue, Tacoma. Office
address: Northern Pacific -Headquarters
Building, Tacoma, Washington.
McCORMICK, Robert Sanderson:
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son McCormick and Mary Ann Girsby.
He received his education in the University
of Virginia. He was secretary of the Unit
ed States Legation, London, from 1889 to
1892; official representative in London of
the World's Columbian Exposition in 1892
and 1893 ; United States Minister to Aus
tria-Hungary, in 1901 and 1902, when raised
to rank of ambassador; was American am
bassador to St. Petersburgh, from 1902 to
1905, and American ambassador to France,
from 1905 to 1907. His favorite recreations
are snooting, riding and golf. He is a
member of the St. James' Club of London;
of Chicago and Chicago Golf Clubs of Chi
cago; of Union, University and Players'
Clubs of New York; of Metropolitan and
Country Clubs of Washington, and of
Cercle de l'Union Club of Paris. Mr. Mc
Cormick married in 1876, Katharine Medill
daughter of Joseph Medill, editor of the
Chicago Tribune. Address : Chicago Club,
Chicago, Illinois.
McCORMICK, Samuel Black:
Chancellor of the Western University of
Pennsylvania; born in Irwin, Westminster
County, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1858; son of
James Irwin McCormick, M.D., and Rachel
Long (Black) McCormick. He received
from Washington and Jefferson College the
degrees of A.B. in 1880, A.M. in 1883,
D.D. in 1897, and LL.D. in 1902. After
graduation he taught in Canonsburg
Academy in 1880 and 1881, and taught
Greek in the Washington and Jefferson
College in 1881 and 1882. In 1879 he was
admitted to study law in the office of H.
H. McCormick of Pittsburgh and admitted
to the Allegheny County bar in July, 1882.
He practiced, law in Pittsburgh in 1882 and
1883, and in Denver, Colorado, from 1883
to 1887.' He attended the Western Theo
logical Seminary from 1887 to 1890, and
was ordained as Presbyterian minister,
April 30, 1890. He was pastor of the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church at Allegheny from
1890 to 1894; of the First Presbyterian
Church, Omaha, Nebraska, from 1894 to
1897; president of Coe College, Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, from 1897 to 1904, and since then
chancellor of the Western University of

Pennsylvania. In politics he is a Repub
lican. Dr. McCormick has traveled sev
eral times over the United States and once
in Europe. His favorite recreations are
golf and farming. He is a member of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American Historical
Society, the American Economic Society,
the American Political Science Association,
the Archeological Institute, the National
Geographic Society, the College-University
Council of Pennsylvania, the University
Extension Society, Phi Gamma Delta fra
ternity, the Chamber of Commerce, of Pitts
burgh, and the Pennsylvania Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He is
also a member of the Duquesne, Univer
sity, and Oakmont County Clubs of Pitts
burgh, the National Arts Club of New
York, and the Pennsylvania Club of Wash
ington, D. C. He married in Carnegie,
Pennsylvania, September 29, 1882, Ida May
Steep, and they have four children: James
Irwin, born October 21, 1884; Gertrude,
born August 9, 1886; Samuel Black, Jr.,
born February 25, 1892, and Rachel, born
May 22, 1898. Residence: Western Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Of
fice address: 802 Home Trust Building,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
McCOUCH, H. Gordon:
Lawyer; bom in Philadelphia, October
1, 1855; son of William McCouch and
Josephine (Kramer) McCouch. He was
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, as B.A. in 1875, studied law,
was admitted to the bar and has ever since
been engaged in the practice of law in Phil
adelphia, now being of the law firm of
Dickson, Beibler and McCouch. He is a
member of the Pennsylvania State Bar As
sociation, the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, and the Delta Psi fraternity. He
is a trustee of the Starr Savings Bank
and of the Chestnut Hill Academy. Mr.
McCouch is a Republican in politics, and
he is a member of the University, City and
Down Town Clubs of Philadelphia. He
married in Philadelphia, November 11,
1884, Virginia Mallet-Prevost, and they
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Grayson P., born in 1889; and Eric A.,
born in 1898. Residence : St. Martin's
Lane, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Office
address : 750 Bullitt Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
McCREA, James:
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; born in Philadelphia, May I,
1848; son of Dr. James Alexander McCrea
and Ann B. (Foster) McCrea. He was
educated in Rev. John W. Fairies' School,
and the Pennsylvania Polytechnic College,
Philadelphia. He began railroad service
in 1865, as rodman of the Connellsville and
Southern Pennsylvania Railroad; was rod-
man on construction of the Wilmington and
Reading Railroad, in 1867, assistant engi
neer of the Allegheny Valley Railroad,
1868, principal assistant engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1871 ;
transferred to assistant engineer of the
Philadelphia Division, in 1874; superinten
dent of the Middle Division, 1875 ; super
intendent of the New York Division, 1878;
manager of .the Southwest System of the
Pennsylvania Company, 1882; general man
ager of all Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburgh, 1885; and fourth vice-president
of same in 1887; second vice-president,
March, 1890; and first vice-president in
May, 1891 ; was made director of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company in June, 1898,
and January 2, 1907, was elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
is also president of the Northern Central
Railway Company, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington Railroad Company, West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company,
and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St. Louis Railroad. He is a mem
ber of the Philadelphia Club, Merion
Cricket Club, and Penn Club of Philadel
phia, the Union League Club of New York,
Chicago Club of Chicago, and the Pitts
burgh Club of Pittsburgh. He married,
February 12, 1873, Ada M. Montgomery,
and they have two sons : James A., and
Archibald M., and a daughter, Ada M.
Residence : Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Busi
ness address : Broad Street Station, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.

McCREA, James Alexander!
General superintendent of the Long Is
land Railroad ; born in Philadelphia, May
26, 1875; son of James McCrea and Ada
(Montgomery) McCrea. He was grad
uated from the Sheffield Scientific School,
Yale, Ph.B., 1895. Civil engineer by pro
fession; has been with Pennsylvania Rail
road and Pennsylvania lines since 1895, first
in engineering and later in operating de
partments; now general superintendent of
the Long Island Railroad, Ocean Electric
Railway, Huntington Railroad, Nassau
County Railroad, Northport Traction Com
pany, Glencove Railroad; vice president of
the Montauk Water Company. Republican.
Episcopalian. Associate member of the Am
erican Society of Civil Engineers, member of
Delta Psi fraternity. He is a member of
the Rittenhouse (Philadelphia) ; Rockaway
Hunting, and St. Anthony (New York
City) Clubs. He was married at Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1897,
to Mabel Clarke. They have two children,
James A., born in 1899, and Charles Clarke,
born in 1901. Address : Care. Long Island
Railroad, Long Island City, New York.
McCREADY, Richard Lightburne:
Clergyman; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
son of George William McCready and Sal
lie Pendleton (Lightburne) McCready. He
was educated in Louisville and Lexington,
Kentucky, and on account of temporary
trouble with his eyes after his high school,
course he studied in private. He was or
dered deacon in 1891 and priest in 1895 by
Bishop Dudley in the ministry of the Epis
copal Church; was assistant at Christ
Church, Lexington, Kentucky, from 1891 to
1893; rector of the Church of the Ascen
sion, Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1893 to
1903, of Grace Church, Cincinnati, Ohio,
from 1903 to 1905, and of St. Mark's
Church, Louisville, Kentucky, since 1905.
Mr. McCready was secretary of the Con
vention at which the Diocese of Lexington,
Kentucky, was organized and its first bish
op elected ; was a member of the Standing ,
Committee, Board of Missions and Cathed
ral Chapter and deputy to the General Con-

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vention of 1901. He is now examining
chaplain of the Diocese of Kentucky, and
was deputy to the General Convention in
Richmond in October, 1907. Mr. McCready
is chaplain of the Kentucky Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. Ad
dress : 1232 Fourth 'Avenue, Louisville,
Kentucky.McCBEARY, George Deardorff:
Congressman; born in York Springs Vil
lage, Adams County, Pennsylvania, Sep
tember 28, 1846; his infancy and early youth
were spent in the anthracite coal regions at
Tremont, Tamaqua, and Mauch Chunk,
where his father, the late. John B. Mc-
Creary, one of the pioneer coal operators,
was engaged in coal mining. In 1864, with
his parents, he removed to Philadelphia;
was educated in the common arid private
schools, and in the same year, 1864, en
tered the University of Pennsylvania, re
maining until his junior year, 1867, when
he left to take a position in the Honey
Brook Coal Company, of which his father
was president. He began his independent
business career in 1870, when he becarne a
member of the newly organized coal firm
of Whitney, McCreary and Kemmerer, re
tiring from the firm in 1879 to take charge
of his father's estate. In 1882 he became
interested in municipal affairs of the city
of Philadelphia, and was an original mem
ber of the Committee of One Hundred,
serving on the important committees ; was
elected treasurer of the city and county of
Philadelphia in November, 1891 ; and dur
ing his term of office, from 1892 to 1895,
reorganized the finances of the city, in
troducing and carrying out many needed
measures, which have resulted in large fin
ancial gains to the city and safety in the
transaction of its finances. He is an officer
in and,director of a number of successful
financial, mining, and business companies,
and is also associated in church and philan
thropic institutions ; has traveled extensivl-
ly in this and foreign countries ; was elected
to the ,FiftyTeighth arid,- Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Sixth Pennsylvania ' Dis

trict. He is a Republican. He married,
June 18, 1878, Kate R. Howell. Address:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McCREARY, James B.:
United States senator; born in Madison
County, Kentucky, July 8, 1838. He was
graduated from Centre College, Danville,
Kentucky, in 1857; commenced the study of
law the same year, and graduated at the
law department of Cumberland University,
Tennessee, with the first honor in a class
of forty-seven, in 1859, and in i860 com
menced the practice of law at Richmond;
entered the Confederate army in 1862, and
was lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Ken
tucky Cavalry at the close of the war ; was
selected a Presidential elector on the Demo
cratic ticket in 1868, but declined; was then
elected a delegate to the National Demo
cratic Convention held in New York, July
4, 1868; was elected a member of the House
of Representatives of Kentucky in 1869,
187 1, and 1873, and was elected speaker of
the house in 1871, and reelected speaker in
[873; was nominated as Democratic candi
date for governor in May, 1875, and elected,
serving from August, 1875, to September,
1879; received the degree of LL.D. from
Centre College in 1879; was appointed,
under an act of Congress, by the President
of the United States and served as a dele
gate to the International Monetary Con
ference held at Brussels, Belgium, in 1892,
where twenty nations were represented ;
was elected as a Democrat to represent the
Eighth district of Kentucky in the Forty-
ninth Congress in 1884, and reelected to
the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses as a
Democrat; was elected a delegate from the
State at large to the National Democratic
Convention held at Kansas City in 1900, and
was chairman of the State Democratic Com
mittee in the campaign of 1900 ; was elected
a delegate from the State at large to the
National Democratic Convention held in St.
Louis in . 1904 ; was elected to the United
States Senate as a Democrat ' in 1902 to
succeed William J. Deboe, Republican, for
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term of service will expire March 3, 1909.
Address : Richmond, Kentucky.
McCREERY, Fenton Reuben:
Diplomat; born in Flint, Michigan, April
21, 1866; son of William Barker McCreery
and Ada Birdsall (Fenton) McCreery. He
received his education in the public schools
of Flint, Michigan, in the Michigan Mili
tary Academy and in the University of
Michigan in the class of 1888. He. was
clerk in the United States Consulate in
1890; and secretary of the United States
Legation to Chile in 1891 ; charge d'af
faires in Chile in 1893. His service in
Chile was during the Revolution of 1891,
and the settlement of the Baltimore Affair.
He was secretary of the American Embas
sy in Mexico from 1897 to 1906. During
this period he was charge d'affaires for
nearly three years. He was appointed min
ister-resident and consul-general to the Do
minican Republic, January 16, 1907, which
post he still occupies. On account .of
broken health, he was compelled to leave
the University of Michigan before gradua
tion. He spent three years in Northern
New Mexico and California, and he has
traveled extensively in Europe, and in
every country of Central and South Amer
ica, with the exception of Venezuela and
the Guianas. He has also visited every
island in the West Indies; has traveled
in Canada, and in every State in the Union.
Residence: Flint, Michigan. Office ad
dress : Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub
lic. McCULLOCH, Edgar Alien:
Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court;
born in Trenton, Tennessee, August 1,
1861 ; son of Dr. Phillip D. McCulloch and
Lucy Virginia (Burrus) McCulloch. After
completing the public school course he
studied law and he was admitted to the bar
of Arkansas in 1883 and practiced law at
Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas, until
elected in 1904 to his present office as as
sociate justice of the Supreme Court of
Arkansas, for an eight-year term. He is
a Democrat in political and a Presbyterian

in religious affiliations. He married at
Trenton, Tennessee, November 30, 1887,
Hattie Louise Hassell. Address: The
Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas.
McCULLOCH, Joseph Flavins:
Educator and journalist; born in Guil
ford County, North Carolina, June 24, 1856 ;
son of Joseph McCulloch and Sarah (Jul
ian) McCulloch; grandson of Thomas and
Rebecca (Dobson) McCulloch. He was
graduated from Adrian College, Michigan, as
A.B. in 1883, Ph.B. in 1884, and A.M. 1889,'
and was instructor in the same college in
1883 and 1884. Mr. McCulloch became Hop
kins scholar at Johns Hopkins University
in 1884; assistant professor of mathemat
ics at Adrian College, from 1885 to 1887;
instructor in mathematics at the University
of Michigan, in 1887 and 1888; fellow in
mathematics at Clark University, Wor
cester, Massachusetts, in 1889 and 1890;
president of Adrian College and professor
of psychology, logic and history of philos
ophy from 1890 to 1893, professor of,
mathematics in Adrian College, 1904-5."
Pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church
at Fairmount, West Virginia, in 1893- and
1894, and has been editor and publisher of
Our. Church Record, at Greensboro, North
Carolina, from 1894 to the present Mr.
McCulloch wrote: Rolle's Theorems Ex
tended and A Theorem in Factorials," pub
lished in Annals, of Mathematics, Univer
sity of Virginia, 1888; published Parallel
Multiplication and Division — a New Meth
od, in 1905. He married at Blissneld,
Michigan in 1883, Mary Elizabeth BarrOw;
and his children are two sons and one
daughter living, and one son dead. Ad
dress : Greensboro, North Carolina.
McCULLOUGH, John G.:
Capitalist; he is president and a director
of the First National Bank of North Ben
nington, Vermont; a director of the Amer
ican Trading Company; Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway Company; Bank of
New York (National Banking Associa
tion) ; Buffalo Creek Railroad; Central'
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Erie Railroad Company; Erie & Wyoming
VaUey Railroad; Erie Railroad Company;
Fidelity & Casualty Company; Hudson &
Manhattan Railroad Company; Lackawan
na Steel Company, Middletown; Union
ville & Water Gap Railroad Company;
National Life Insurance Company; New
Jersey and New York Railroad Company,
New York and Greenwood Lake Railway
Company ; New York and New Jersey Rail
road Company; New York and Wil
kesbarre Coal Company; New York,
Susquehanna arid ¦WesLeni Coal Company;
New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail
road Company; Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany, Pere Marquette Railroad Company;
and the Stark Paper Company. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, Union League,
Midday, University and Lawyers' Clubs.
He married Eliza Hall Park, and they have
two children : Ella S., and Esther M. Resi
dence: 88 Park Avenue. Address: 2 Cort
landt Street, New York City. '
McCUMBER, Forter J.:
United States senator; born in Crete,
Illinois, February 3, 1858; son of Orlin
McCumber and Ann E. McCumber. His
parents removed to Rochester, Minnesota,
the year of his birth, and he was brought
up on a farm and educated in the district
schools and after that in the city schools.
He taught school for a few years, and later
took the law course in the University
of Michigan, from which he was graduated
as LL.B. in 1880. He removed in 1881 to
Wahpeton, North Dakota, where he has
since resided, and engaged in the practice
of law. He was elected a member of the
Territorial Legislature of Dakota in 1885
and '1887, and afterward served as State's
attorney of Richland County, North Dakota,
He was elected in 1899 and reelected in
1905 by the Legislature of North Dakota
to the office of United States Senator, and
his present term will, end in 1911. Senator
McCumber is a Republican. He married,
May 29, 1889, Jennie Shorning. Address:
Wahpeton, North Dakota.
McCURDY, Charles W.:
Osteopathic physician; born -in Ossian,
Livingston County, New York, November

26, 1856; son of David McCurdy and Lydia
(Lemen) McCurdy. He received his edu
cation in Geneseo (New York) State Nor
mal School; was graduated from theMichi-
gan State College as B.S. in 1881 and M.S.
in 1885, from the University of Wooster
as A.M- in 1894 and Ph.D. in 1895; received
the degree of ScD. (honoris causa) from
Milton College in 1892; he was grad
uated with the degree of D.O. (Doctor of
Osteopathy) by the Philadelphia College
of Osteopathy in 1903. He was head of
Department of Science at the high school
in Winona, Minnesota, from 1888 to 1893;
professor of chemistry at the University
of Idaho and State chemist of Idaho from
1893 to 1900; and has been professor of
physics, chemistry and therapeutics, lecturer
on dietetics and hygierie, and late dean
and president of faculty at the College of
Osteopathy, Philadelphia, .1900-1907. He
was acting president of the University of
Idaho and director of the Experiment Sta
tion in 1899; special agent of the United
States Sugar Beet Investigations in Idaho
in 1898 and 1899; secretary and member of
the Board of Trustees of Philadelphia
College and Infirmary of Osteopathy. He
was editor of the Philadelphia Journal of
Osteopathy. He has made investigations and
written papers on the soils of Idaho, sugar
beets in Idaho, therapeutics, hygiene and
dietetics and miscellaneous subjects. He
was president of a Division Association
of the Twenty-seventh Ward of Philadel
phia in 1905 and 1906. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Presbyterian.
He is a member of the American Chemical
Society; fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science; fel
low of Research Society ; member of the
American Osteopathic Association; and of
the Masonic fraternity. Dr. McCurdy mar
ried in Winona, Minnesota,' August 16,
1893, Eva A. Woodruff, and they have two
children: Gretchen, born in 1894, and
Marion, born in 1896. Residence: 5051
Walton Avenue, Philadelphia. Address;
331 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

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Mi-Cl Kill', Richard Aldrich:
Ex-president of the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company of New York; born in New
York City in 1835; son of the late Robert
H. McCurdy, many years a prominent di
rector of the company. He was graduated
from the Law School of Harvard Univer
sity, LL.B., in 1866. He practiced law in
New York with Lucius Robinson, after
ward governor of New York; appointed
attorney for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company in i860; elected vice-president in
1865; president in 1885, on death of Presi
dent Winston, until 1906, when he resigned.
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Law
yers', Morristown, and Morris County
Golf Clubs. He married Sarah E. Little
and they have one son, Robert H., born
May 26, 1859. Address : Morristown, New
Jersey. McCURDY, Bobert H.:
Life insurance; born in New York City,
May 26, 1859. He was graduated from
Harvard College in 1881. He entered the
service of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany in 1881 ; was appointed superintendent
of the Foreign Department of the Company
from 1886 to 1903, and from 1903, general
manager and a trustee of the company. He
is a director of the Astor National Bank,
First National Bank of Morristown, Wind
sor Trust Company, Commercial Trust
Company of New Jersey, Metropolitan
Trust Company, Central Realty Company,
Casualty Company of America, National
Safe Deposit Company, O'Rourk Engineer
ing Construction Company, Conried Metro
politan Opera Company, International Bell
Telephone Company. Address: 11 East
Ninth Street, New York City.
M'CUTCHEON, George Barr:
Author; born in Indiana; July 26, 1866;
son of John Barr and Clara Glick Mc
Cutcheon. He received his education at
Purdue University. He was city editor of
the Lafayette Evening Courier from 1893
to 1901. He is author of: Graustark;
Castle Craneycrow ; The Sherrods ;, Brews
ter's Millions ; The Day of the Dog ; Bever

ly of Graustark; The Purple Parasol;
Nedra; Cowardice Court; Jane Cable; The
Flyers ; The Daughter of Andersori Crow ;
and various magazine stories and serials.
He married, in 1904, Marie Van Antwerp
Fay. Address : 57 Cedar Street, Chicago,
Illinois.McCUTCHEON, John Tinney:
Artist, journalist and lecturer; born on
a farm in Tippecanoe County, Indiana; son
of John Barr McCutcheon and Clara
(Glick) McCutcheon. The family removed
to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1876, and was edu
cated there in the public schools and at
Purdue University, from which he was
graduated in 1889. He studied art and be
gan in newspaper work with the Chicago
Record in 1889, and remained with it and
its successor, The Chicago Record-Herald
until 1903, when he became cartoonist of
the Chicago Tribune, in which position he
continues. He started on the trip around
the world on the dispatch boat McCulloch,
in January, 1898, and so was on that vessel
in Asiatic waters during the war with
Spain. It thus happened that he was an
eye witness of the battle of Manila Bay,
his detailed account of which, sent to the
Chicago Record, was one of the most nota
ble events of journalism in connection with
the war. He visited many places in the Ori
ent, and in the Philippines during the in
surrection in the interests of " his paper,
and was with the Boer Army, as corre
spondent for the Record, in 1900, returning
for service as political cartoonist for the
paper in the fall of that year. He is au
thor of: Stories of Filipino Warfare; and
several series of his cartoons have been pub
lished in bound volumes. Mr. McCutcheon
is also one of the most popular lecturers in
lyceum and Chautauqua courses. He is a
member of the Chicago Art Society, the
Chicago Athletic Association and'Chicagb .
Press Club. Residence: 300 Schiller Street,.
Chicago. Office address : 203 Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
McDANIEL, Henry Dlckerson:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Mori-
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Ira Oliver McDaniel and Rebecca J.
(Walker) McDaniel. He was educated in
Mercer University, from which he received
the A.B. degree in 1856 and A.M. in 1859.
He was a delegate to the Secession Con
vention of the State of Georgia in 1861,
and served from first lieutenant to major
in the Eleventh Georgia Regiment, Confed
erate States Army, from 1861 to 1865. He
was a member of the Georgia Constitutional
Convention of 1865, served in the Georgia
House of Representatives in 1873 and 1874,
and the State Senate from 1874 to 1883;
and was governor of Georgia from 1883 to
1886. He has practiced law at Monroe,
Georgia, ever since the war period, and he
is a director of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, and a director in several
cotton mills, oil manufacturing and other
corporations in Walton County, Georgia.
Governor McDaniel is a. Democrat in pol
itics and a Baptist in his church relations;
and is chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Georgia. He married
at Monroe, Georgia, December 20, 1865,
hester Felker. Address : Monroe, Georgia.
McDERMOTT, Allen Langdon:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; bom in
South Boston, Massachusetts, March 30,
1854. He was corporation attorney of Jer
sey City, 1879-1883; district court judge,
1883- 1886; president Jersey City Board of
Finance and Taxation, 1883-1886; member
of State Board of Taxation, 1884- 1886;
member of the State Assembly, 1880-81;
corporation counsel of Jersey City, 1897 to
1902; member of the State Senate, 1899-
1900; chairman of the New Jersey State
Democratic Committee, 1885-1895; member
of the commission to revise constitution of
New Jersey, 1894. He was the candidate
of the Democratic legislative caucus for
United States senator in 1895 and in 1902;
was elected to the Fifty-sixth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
William D. Daly, to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the , Fifty-ninth Congress, in which he
served until March 3, 1907- Address : Jer
sey City, New Jersey.

McDERMOTT, James Thomas:
Congressman and telegraph operator;
born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, February
13, 1872; son of John McDermott and
Anna (Horan) McDermott. He was edu
cated in St. Andrew's Cathedral School
at Grand Rapids; learned telegraphy and
engaged as an operator. He is a member
of the Commercial Operator's Union, af
filiated with the American Federation of
Labor. Mr. McDermott has been active in
Chicago politics as a Democrat, and in 1906
he was elected to the Sixtieth Congress
from the Fourth Illinois District. In re
ligion he is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Mc
Dermott is a member of the Modern Wood
men of America, the Catholic Order of
Foresters, Knights of Columbus, Select
Knights of America, United Irish Societies
and Ancient Order of Hibernians. Ad
dress : 4524 Union Avenue, Chicago, Illi
nois. McDOEL, William Henry:
Railway president; born at Goffstown,
New Hampshire, March 28, 1841 ; son of
Joseph McDoel and Ann (Clogston) Mc-
Doel. He was educated in the common
schools, and entered railway service Sep
tember 7, i860, as check freight clerk of
the Great Western Railway of Illinois,
which he afterward served as acting agent
at Danville and agent at Tolono, Illinois,
until December, 1863. He went to the To
ledo, Wabash and Western Railway in Jan
uary, 1864, as agent at State Line, Indiana,
was general agent of the same road at Keo
kuk, Iowa, from 1865 to 1875, and from
1875 to 1877 was western agent of the Blue
Line at Keokuk, Quincy, Burlington and
other points. From 1878 to 1884 he was
general freight agent of the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad, and from May to July,
1884, southwestern freight agent of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at
Kansas City, Missouri. On August 1, 1884,
he began his long connection with the
Monon Route as -general freight agent of
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
Railway, of which he became traffic man
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April 15, 1891, and also vice-president April
24, 1894. , He was appointed receiver of the
road August 24, 1896, and on its reorgani
zation as the Chicago, Indianapolis and
Louisville Railway, July I, 1897, became
vice-president and general manager until
April '25, 1899, since which date he has been
president and general manager of that road.
Since 1899 he has also been president of
the Indiana Stone Road, and president of
the Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Rail
road Company; and in 1889 and 1890 he
was chairman of the Chicago and Ohio
River Traffic Association! Mr. McDoel
is a director of the American Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago. He is a member
of the Chicago, Union League, Chicago Golf
and Midlothian Clubs. He has been twice
married, first at State Line, Indiana, Sep
tember 12, 1865, Rebecca Lucas, by whom
he has one daughter, Mrs. Mary McDoel
Hickman; and married, second, at Kenosha,
Wisconsin, December 27, 1898, Katharine
R. Neff. Residence: Geneva, Illinois. Of
fice address: 198 Custom House Place, Chi
cago, Illinois.
MACDONALD, James Allen:
Capitalist. He was graduated from Co
lumbia College in 1863. He is extensively
engaged in mining and other enterprises as
partner of Senator W. A. Clark, of Mon
tana; and he is the president, treasurer
and director of the Henry-Bonnard Bronze
Companv ; vice-president of the United
Verde Copper Company; the Butte Electric
Railway Company; the Clark Coal Com
pany; the Equator Mining and Smelting
Company; the Waclark Realty Company,
Waclark Wire Company; first vice-presi
dent, treasurer and director of the United
Verde and Pacific Railway; member of
the Committee of Management of the Royal
Insurance Company of England ; treasurer
and director of the American Stone Com
pany; director of the Commercial Trust
Company of New Jersey, Erie and Kala
mazoo Railroad Company; and of the
Queens Insurance Company. He is a mem
ber of the University, Players', Down Town
and Metropolitan Clubs. He married Clara

Crooke and they have One daughter; Flora.
Residence : Flushing, Long Island. Ad
dress: 49 Wall Street, New York City.
McDONALD, Jesse F.:
Ex-governor of Colorado, mine operator;
born in Ashtabula, Ohio, June 20, 1858;
son of Lyman M. McDonald and Caroline
(Bond) "McDonald. He was brought up on
a farm and educated in the country schools
and at an academy, and engaged in civil
engineering work. At the age of twenty-
one he went to Colorado, and practiced as
civil and mining engineer. Since 1888 he
has been engaged in mining on his own ac
count, being owner of the Penrose and
Harvard mines at Leadville, Colorado,
where also he is vice-president of the Eli
Mining and Land Company, treasurer of
the Argus Gold and Silver Mining Com
pany and vice-president of the American
National . Bank. He has always been ac
tive in politics as a Republican, was mayor
of Leadville from 1899 to 1905; elected
State .senator in 1902 and lieutenant-gov
ernor in 1904. On the resignation of Gov
ernor Peabody, March 17, 1905, he became
Governor of Colorado, which office he filled
until the close of the term in January, 1907.
Address : Leadville, Colorado.
MacDONALD, John B.:
Railroad contractor and builder; born in
Ireland, November 7, 1844; son of Barthol
omew and Mary MacDonald; he was edu
cated at public schools. He is a self-made
man, having begun life as a poor boy; be
came a foreman, next a contractor. Has
built railroads in the United States and
Canada, and one of his most noted under
takings was the building of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad tunnel under City of
Baltimore through rock; now in charge
of construction of the New York subways.
He- married, in i860. Georgia A. Strong.
Residence: 1 West Seventy-second Street.
Address : 21 Park Row, New York City.
MacDONALD, Loren Benjamin:
Clergyman ; born in Newport, Nova Sco
tia, January 21, 1858; son of Edward Mac
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donald. He was graduated from Harvard
University as A.B. and from Harvard Di
vinity School and has received the degree
of S.T.D. He has been settled over Uni
tarian churches in Ellsworth, Maine, Wolf-
bofo, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massa
chusetts, and has been pastor of the First
Unitarian Church in Concord, Massachu
setts, since 1895. He was three times in
Europe and in Porto Rico at the time of
Spanish-American War. In politics he is
an Independent. His favorite recreations
are canoeing, golfing, gardening. He is a
member of the Social Circle in Concord,
founded in 1782; and is a Royal Arch
Mason. Dr. Macdonald married in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, June 7, 1905, Mary
Josephine Bygrave, and they have one son,
Gordon Bygrave Macdonald, born July 8,
1906. Address : Concord, Massachusetts.
MacDONALD, Firie:
Photographer of men; born in Chicago,
Illinois, January 27, 1867; son of Dr.
George Macdonald and Margaret (Reilly)
Macdonald. He has been engaged in the
photographic business since 1883; photo
grapher of men exclusively, and has made
photographs of many notables. He has re
ceived' many prizes, from the Photographers'
Association of America, Cramer grand prize
cup, grand prize for portraiture, diamond
decoration, laurel wreath, seven gold and
two silver medals; bronze trophy, Boston;
speeiaj silver medal and later gold medal
at Indianapolis ; diamond medal from Oma
ha; gold medal at Philadelphia; gold medal
from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
Belfast, Trier, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Am
sterdam, Brussels, Nancy, Paris. He is a
member and was the first and third pres
ident of the Professional Photographers'
Society of New York; member of Chambre
Syndicate, de la Photographie de France;
decorated officier d'Academie, 1906. He is
a member of the Salmagundi Club of New
York City. Mr., Macdonald married, in
1890, Emily Van Deusen. Residence: 701
St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City.
Studio: 141 Broadway, New York City.

MACDONALD, Theodore II.:
Insurance commissioner for Connecticut;
born in New Haven, March 11, 1862; son
of William D. Macdonald and Harriet W.
(Nims) Macdonald. He attended the pub
lic schools of New Haven. He has been
deputy collector of internal revenue, chief
clerk of the Board of Assessors, member
of the Board of Assessors, and of the In
surance Commission of the State of Con
necticut. He was chairman of the Repub
lican Committee of New Haven, for eight
years, lieutenant of the New Haven Grays,
and colonel and quartermaster-general of
the State of Connecticut on the staff of
Governor Henry Roberts. In politics he is
a Republican; and in his religious connec
tions he is a Congregationalist. He is a
member of the America Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, Order of United Workmen, Mac
cabees, Ancient Order of Foresters, Gov
ernor's Foot Guard, and of the Sons of the
American Revolution. He is also a mem
ber of the Union League Club of New
Haven, Army and Navy Club of New York
City, and the Republican Club of New
Haven. He married in New Haven, No
vember 10, 1897, Flora L. Hitchcock, and
they have one son, Harry Nims Macdonald.
Address : 174 Sherman Avenue, New
Haven, Connecticut.
MacDONALD, William:
Professor of American history; born in
Providence, Rhode Island, July 31, 1863;
son of William MacDonald and Frances
(Jordan) MacDonald. He was graduated
from Harvard University as A.B. in 1892,
and received the honorary degrees of Ph.D.
from Union University in 1895, and LL.D.
from the University of New Brunswick in
'1900. He was professor of history and
political economy at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 1892 and 1893 ; professor of
history and political science at Bowdoin
College from 1893 to 1901 ; and has been
professor of history at Brown University
since 1901 ; and has been a member of the
summer school faculties at Harvard, Cor
nell, University of Chicago, University of
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is author of : Jacksonian Democracy ; His
tory of the United States (with T. W. Hig
ginson) ; History and Government of Maine ;
editor of Select Documents Illustrative of
the History of the United States; Select
Charters ; Select Statutes ; Burke on Con
ciliation; and Johnston's High School His
tory of the United States. He was chair
man of the Rhode Island Citizens' Union
from 1904 to 1906, and has been a
member of the Executive Committee of the
Lincoln Union of Rhode Island since 1906.
In politics he is an Independent and in re
ligion a Congregationalist. He is a mem
ber of the American Historical Association
and American Antiquarian Society; and
vice-president of the Rhode Island Histor
ical Society. His favorite recreation is
walking. He is a member of the University
and Art Clubs of Providence. Professor
MacDonald married in Lawrence, Kansas,
November 24, 1887, Harriet B. Haskell. Ad
dress : Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island.
MacDOUGALL, Clinton Dugald:
United States marshal; born in Glasgow,
Scotland, June 14, 1839 ; son of Dugald and
Margaret (MacKendtick) MacDougall. He
was educated in Canada; graduated from
Jordan Academy in 1853; served in the
Civil War; brevetted brigadier-general of
Volunteers, February, 1865, for gallantry;
commanded brigade and division, Army of
the Potomac. After the war, engaged in
manufacturing agricultural implements, and
is now president of the New Birdsell Com
pany of Auburn, New York. He was post
master of Auburn, New York, from 1869
to 1873; member of Congress from 1873 to
1877; presidential elector in 1888; United
States marshal of the Northern District of
New York from 1877 to 1885 and since
January 9, 1901. General MacDougall is
a Republican in politics. He married Eva
Sabine. Address: 108 South Street, Au
burn, New York.
MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly:
Botanist ; born at Liberty, Indiana, March
16, 1865 ; son of Alexander MacDougal and

Amanda (Sho waiter) MacDougal. He was
educated at De Pauw University, as B.S.
and A.M. in 1892; Purdue University as
M.S. in 1891, Ph.D. in 1897. He was in
structor iri biology at Purdue University
from 1890 to 1893; instructor and assistant
professor of botany at the University of
Minnesota from 1893 to 1899; director of
laboratories and assistant director of the
New York Botanical Garden from 1899
to 1905 ; and is now director of the Depart
ment of Botanical Research, in the, Carnegie
Institution at Washington. He was special
agent of the United States Department of
Agriculture, making explorations in Ari
zona and Idaho, in 1891 and 1892. He
made explorations in Sonora, Baja-Califor-
nia and other parts of Mexico, Montana,
California and elsewhere, for the New York
Botanical Garden, from 1899 to 1905. He
was a member of the committee in charge
of the Desert Botanical Laboratory at Tuc
son, and is now director of same. He made
special investigations at Leipzig and Tu
bingen, Germany. He is author of several
books and many scientific papers dealing
with botanical subjects, and editor of var
ious journals and books. Dr. MacDougal
is a life member of the Botanical Society
of America, Torrey Botanical Club, the
Horticultural Society of New York; hon
orary member of the Barnard Botanical
Club; foreign member of Hollandsche Mat-
schappij der Wetenschappen, Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity. He is a member of the Ex
plorers', and National Arts Clubs of New
York, and Cosmos Club of Washington.
He married at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24,
1893, Louise Fisher, and they have one
daughter, Alice, born in 1894. Address:
Tucson, Arizona, and Carnegie Institution,
Washington, D. C.
McDOWELL, George Washington:
Physician; born in New York City, June
17, i860; son of Thomas and Catharine
(Foster) McDowell. He was educated in
the New York schools, and graduated from
the College of the City of New York, as
A.B. in 1882, and A.M. in 1886, and the
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and Hospital, as M.D. in 1886 ; and studied
in the College of New York Ophthalmic
Hospital, 1889. He is professor of otology
in the New York Homoeopathic Medical
College and Hospital; consulting aurist at
Flower Hospital ; surgeon of the New York
Ophthalmic Hospital; consulting aurist of
the Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Chil
dren; aurist of St. Gregory's Hospital; oc
ulist and aurist of the Protestant Half-Or
phan Asylum, and the Methodist Episcopal
Church Home. He is a Republican in pol
itics, and is a member of the American In
stitute of Homoeopathy, American Oph
thalmological, Otological and Laryngologic
al Society, New York State and County
Homoeopathic Medical Societies, and of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon Association. He mar
ried at Newark, New Jersey, June 5, 1889,
Lettie Belle Bolen, and they have one
daughter, Dorothy, born December 17, 1890.
Address : 1 West Thirty-fourth Street, New
York City.
McDOWELL, Henry Clay:
United States District Judge; born in
Louisville, Kentucky, August 24, 1861 ; son
of Henry Clay McDowell and Anne (Clay)
McDowell. After graduation from Yale
as B.A. in 1884 and attending the Law
Department of the University of Virginia
in 1885 he practiced law uritil appointed by
President Roosevelt, November 14, 1901,
United States district judge for the Western
District of Virginia, which office he now
fills. He is a Republican in politics. He
married, July 5, 1892, Louise Clay. Ad
dress : Lynchburg, Virginia.
McDOWELL, William Fraser:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church since .1904; born at Millersburg,
Ohio, February 4, 1858; son of David A.
and Rebecca Fraser McDowell. He at
tended the Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela
ware,' Ohio, was graduated as B.A. in 1879,
and M.A. in 1882, and received the degrees
of Ph.D. in 1891 and S.T.D. in 1894; was
graduated from Boston University as S.
T.B. in 1882, and received the degrees of
D.D. from Wesleyan University, 1903, and

LL.D. from Baker University, Mount Union
College, Cornell College and Denver Uni
versity, 1904; and from Northwestern Uni
versity in 1905. He was Methodist pas
tor from 1882 to 1890 at Lodi, Oberlin,
and Tiffin, Ohio; chancellor of the Uni
versity of Denver from 1890 to 1899; mem
ber of the Colorado State Board of Char
ities and Corrections ; corresponding secre
tary of the Board of Education of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church from 1899 to 1904;
member of the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1900 and
1904, and elected and consecrated bishop at
the latter Conference at Los Angeles. He
is a member of the International Committee
of the Young Men's Christian Association;
president of the Religious Education As
sociation, in 1905 and 1906 ; president of the
Board of Trustees of Northwestern Uni
versity, since 1906. He is author of: Syl
labus; Studies in the French Revolution;
The College Student and the Christian
Confession, 1898. • Bishop McDowell is a
member of the University Club of Chicago.
He married, in 1882, Clotilda Lyon, and they
have one daughter. Address : 57 Washing
ton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
McDOWELL, William Osborne:
Orator, lecturer and organizer of so
cieties, having for their object peace through
universal liberty; born Bedminster Town
ship, Somerset County, New Jersey, April
10, 1848; son of Colonel Augustus W. and
Anna M. (Osborne) McDowell. He was
educated in public schools and by private
instruction; LL.D., 1902. He was ap
prenticed to a trade ; was appointed lieuten
ant of Volunteers in 1864, but being only
sixteen years of age was not permitted to
serve; clerk in a New York grocery store
from 1865 to 1869; in the twine and cord
age business in 1869. He reorganized the
Montclair Railway of New York, the On
tario and Western Railway, and .Midland
Railway of New Jersey; planned the con
solidation of the New. York, Susquehanna
and Western Railroad; was president of
the New York and Sea Beach Railway, and
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the presidency. He started the successful
-dollar subscription for the completion of the
Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World; organized the National Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution, Order
of the American Eagle, Pan-Republic Con
gress; initiated the universally accepted
white bordered ensign of liberty and peace,
the flag of any and every nation in a white
field; the World's Liberty and Peace Bell;
orator by official invitation on the Fourth
of July at the World's Columbian Exposi
tion, at the Centennial of the inauguration
of General Washington as president; at the
Six Hundredth anniversary of the Swiss
Republic, centennial of the fall of the Bas-
tile, of the birth of the French Republic,
of the adoption of a Constitutional form of
Government by Poland and of the freedom
of the Press in Hungary, and in England
on the Six Hundred and Eighty-ninth an
niversary of the signing of the Magna Char-
ta, and at various other patriotic anniver
saries; with Dr. Deems organized the Am
erican Institution of Christian Philosophy;
revived the Washington idea of the Uni
versity of the United States, and by reso
lution of special convention appointed the
Committee of 400 (Ex-Governor John W.
Hoyt, Chairman) who have that work in
hand; organizer and, from its inception,
president Cuban-American League ; organ
ized the Human Freedom League, and other
societies. In 1904 was special envoy from
the Interparliamentary Union to every par
liament in the world, brought Cuba,
China, Venezuela, and Newfoundland and
Canada into the Interpaliamentary Union,
besides largely increasing the membership
in other nations. Led in organizing Par
liamentary government in Russia, China and
Persia. Was nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1897-1906 and 1907 by twen
ty-one universities and colleges, 2 senators,
40 members of Congress, Vice-President
Hobart, John Clark Ridpath, and a large
number of most distinguished citizens, in
cluding Honorable William J. Bryan, twice
candidate for President. Took active part
in the work for making Brazil a republic
and Australia a federation, and active for

other movements for universal liberty and
peace. President of the League of Peace.
Author : The Bible of Liberty, and The Cpn-
stitution of the United Nations of the
World. American Editor of the Review of
Internationalism, published in English, Ger
man, French and Dutch at The Hague, Hol
land. He riiarried, November 17, 1873, Jose
phine R., daughter of Colonel Henry Ti-
manus of Fernaridina, Florida. Residence:
447 Summer Avenue, Newark, New Jersey.
Address : 51 Liberty Street, New York City.
McENERY, Samuel Douglas:
United States senator; born at Monroe,
Louisiana, May 28, 1837. He was educated
at Spring Hill College, near Mobile, Ala
bama, the United ¦ States Naval Academy,
and the University of Virginia; graduated
from the State and National Law School,
Poughkeepsie, New York, served in the
Confederate Army, in the war between the
States, as lieutenant, in Virginia, under
Magruder, and in the Trans-Mississippi De
partment. He is a lawyer by profession;
was nominated by the Democratic party and
elected lieutenant-governor, with L. A.
v/iltz as governor, in 1879. On the death
of Governor Wiltz, October, 1881, he suc
ceeded him in the executive office; was
nominated by the Democratic party for gov
ernor and elected in 1884 ; was a candidate
for renomination and was defeated by Gen
eral Francis T. Nicholls for the nomination;
General Nicholls was elected in 1888 and
appointed his opponent, S. D. McEnery, to
be associate justice of the Supreme Court
in 1888 for the term of twelve years. He
was nominated by the Democratic party in
1892 for governor and defeated by the Anti-
Lottery party ; was nominated by the Demo
cratic caucus for senator at the session of
the Legislature in 1896, and elected to the
Senate for the term beginning March 4,
1897, to succeed the Hon. H, C. Blanchard,
May 28, 1896 ; and he was reelected in 1902.
His term of service will expire March 3,
1909. Address : 1233 St. Mary Street, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
MACFARLAND, Charles Stedman:
Clergyman and author ; born in Bpstpn,
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Daniel Macfarland and Sarah Abigail
(Crafts) Macfarland. He was educated in
the Chapman School, Boston High School
and Yale University, where he received the
degrees of B.D. and Ph.D. He entered
business at the age of seventeen and at
twenty-one he became general manager of
T. O. Gardner and Company, manufactur
ers and commission merchants. In 1892
and 1893 he was general secretary of the
Young Men's Christian ' Association ; and
in 1893 and 1894 was assistant pastor of
the Maverick Congregational Church of
Boston. In 1899 and 1900 he was instruc
tor in Yale University, from 1900 to 1906
pastor of the MaplewOOd Congregational
Church at Maiden, Massachusetts, and since
1906 he has been pastor of the Congrega
tional Church at South Norwalk, Connec
ticut. He is president of the Travel Club
of Boston and London. Mr. Macfarland
is a member of the American Oriental So
ciety, the Society of Biblical Literature and
Exegesis, the National Geographic Society;
a fellow of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science and a member
of the Masonic Order. His favorite recre
ation is foreign travel, and he has been
abroad several years for study and pleas
ure. In politics he is a Republican.- Dr.
Macfarland is examiner for West Point
and Annapolis. He is a member of the
Yale Club of New York, the Yale Club
of Boston, and the Congregational Club of
New York. He is author of: The Spirit
Christlike; Jesus and the Prophets; The
Old Puritanism and the New Age; and
The Infinite Affection. He married in An
dover, Massachusetts, March 9, 1904, Mary
Perley Merrill, and they have one son.
Charles S. Macfarland,' Jr., born in 1905.
Address: The Congregational Parsonage,
South Norwalk, Connecticut.
MacFARLAND, Henry B. F.:
President of the Board of Commissioners
of the District of Columbia ; born in Phila
delphia, 1861, but living from 1865 in Wash
ington, where he was educated and read
law. He was appointed by President Mc
Kinley, commissioner of the District of

Columbia in May, 1900, when he was not a
candidate and reluctantly consented to
serve, and was reappointed twice by Pres
ident Roosevelt in 1903 and 1906, both
times long before his term expired and
without his being a candidate. During
these six years,- he has been president of
the Board of Commissioners, which board
succeeded to the powers and duties of the
Governors of the District of Columbia in
1878. He was urged by President McKin
ley to take the place because of his known
interest in the civic affairs of the District
and activity in all movements for its im
provement, especially with respect to social
conditions. He was chairman of the Na
tional Capital Centennial Committee in
1900, delivering the Centennial address at
the White House, December 12, 1900, and
taking an active part in the celebration, out
of which grew the Senate Park Commis
sion and its plans for the beautification of
the District^ which was then designed to be
the monument of the Centennial Celebration.
The physical improvement of the National
Capital, including the railway terminal
work, involving the abolition of grade
crossings and a new union station, the fil
tration plant and sewage .disposal system,
the District Government building, the new
bridges and parks, and the financing of the
District's share of one-half of the cost have
engaged his attention as have all questions
of public art and architecture. He has de
voted much time to the improvement of
the departments of the District service un
der his supervision. The public charity
system has been very largely reorganized
and modernized by the Board of Charities,
and the Health Department, made more ef
fective, and others under his supervision
have been advanced by his direction. Pub
lic education and the public library and
playground projects have had his constant
support, and his lifelong interest in social
and 'philanthropic work has been seen in
his support of the measures which became
law in the Fifty-ninth Congress, most-of the
bills being prepared under his direction,
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condemnation of insanitary buildings, com
pulsory education, abatement of nuisances,
restriction of the sale of drugs and poisons,
regulation of employment agencies, gov
ernmental supervision of savings banks,
conversion of allews into minor streets, and
other similar propositions. Mr. Macfarland
delivered an address on District of Co
lumbia Day, at the Pan American Expo
sition at Buffalo, September 3, 1901, at
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Octo
ber 19, 1904, -and at the Jamestown Expo
sition, June 11, 1907. He was president of
the International Convention of the Young
Men's Christian Associations in 1904. Resi
dence : The Marlborough, Washington, D.
C. Office address : District Building, Wash
ington, D. C.
MeFIE, John R, :
Supreme .judge of New Mexico. After
having been engaged in the practice of law
for several years he was appointed by Pres
ident McKinley and later reappointed by
President Roosevelt one of the associate
justices of the Supreme Court of New Mex
ico. He is a Republican in politics. Jus
tice McFie was a delegate from New Mex
ico to the Universal Congress of Lawyers
and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904. Address :
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
McGARVIN, Charles:
Congressman and lawyer; born in River
ton, Sangamon County, Illinois, January 10,
1874 ; son of James McGavin and Mary Ann
(Farley) McGavin. He attended the com
mon schools at Springfield and high school
at Mount Olive, Illinois; was admitted to
the bar in 1897, after which he practiced
for two years in Springfield; removed to
Chicago in 1899, where he has since been
practicing. He became assistant city at
torney in 1903, and was elected to the Fifty-
ninth Congress and reelected to. the Six
tieth Congress, from the Eighth Illinois Dis
trict. Residence: 435 Washington Boule
vard, Chicago. Office address: 1108 Unity
Building, Chicago, Illinois.

McGEE, W J:
United States Inland Waterways Commis
sioner; born in Dubuque County, Iowa,
April 17, 1853; son of James and Martha
(Anderson) . McGee; attended common
schools in Iowa for a short time, but his
education has been chiefly acquired by pri
vate study; engaged in farm work at ten
years of age and continued at it until he
was twenty, and during that period studied
Latin, astronomy, the higher mathematics,
law, and surveying. During the years 1873
to 1875 he put the last two of these branches
of study to use by appearing as attorney in
justices' courts and engaging in land sur
veying work. From 1874 to 1876 he be
came interested in the manufacture of agri
cultural machinery, inventing and patenting
machines and working at forge and bench,
While engaged in this occupation, and. af
terward, made a study of geology and arch
aeology, and from 1877 to 1881 made a
geological and topographical survey, of
Northeastern Iowa, the most extensive ever
executed in America without State or Na
tional aid. After that he was engaged
in examining and reporting upon the
building stones of Iowa for the Tenth
Census, and in 1882 became attached to the
United States Geological Survey as geol
ogist, continuing until 1893, and from 1885
having charge of an important division of
that survey. While so serving, he surveyed
and mapped 300,000 square miles in the
Southeastern section of the United States,
and compiled geologic maps of the State
of New York and of the United States. He
made an investigation and report in rela
tion to the Charleston earthquake, in 1886,
and wrote many monographs, reports and
articles on geologic subjects for scientific
journals during that period. He went from
the Geological Survey in 1893 to the Bu
reau of American Ethnology, as ethnologist-
in-charge, and remained in that position
until 1903, when he resigned in order to
become Chief of the Department of An
thropology at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis. Under his direc
tion there was collected the most compre
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world's peoples ever assembled in an ex
hibit, and no feature of that World's Fair
attracted more widespread and interested
attention. When, .therefore, the St. Louis
Public Museum was established as a per
manent result of the Exposition, in 1905,
Dr. McGee was chosen as its director, and
continued in that position until March,
1967, when, on the creation of the Inland
Waterways Commission by President
Roosevelt, he was appointed a member of
the commission, and at the same tiffie was
appointed soil expert in the United States
Department of Agriculture ; and at the first
meeting of the Commission he was elected
as secretary. He received the degree of
LL.D. from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1898.
He has beeri an important and constant con
tributor to science in the departments of
ethnology, anthropology, geology and arche
ology ; has been United States commissioner
on the International Archeological and Eth
nological Commission since 1902; studied,
in 1894 and 1895, on Tiburon Island, a sav
age tribe never before scientifically studied,
and has made various important researches
in the ethnology, language, and archeology
of various native American tribes, accounts
of which have been presented in books, ar
ticles and scientific memoirs. He was a mem
ber of the editorial board of Science, edited
the Department of Anthropology in the In
ternational Encyclopedia ; is associate editor
of the American Anthropologist and of the
National Geographic Magazine. Dr. Mc
Gee has' been one of the most effective ad
vocates and promoters of organized ef
fort among scientific men. He became a
member, 1878, and a fellow, 1882, of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, was secretary of Section E
(geology and geography), 1891, vice-pres
ident of Section H (Anthropology), 1897,
and acting president, of the Association in
1897-98. H" is a rnember of the American
Society of Naturalists, a member and past
president of the Ameri«m Anthropological
Association and of the Anthropological So
ciety of Washington ; member of the Geo
logical Society of America and first edi
tor of its Bulletin, member of the American

Geographical Society, the Archaeological
Institute of America! (viee-president 1902-
05), the National Geograpfiie Society (past
president), the Society of Amefteain Geo
graphers, the Explorers' Club, past *ieej
president of the Washington Academy oi
Sciences, a member of all the scientific so
cieties of Washington, leading founder of
the Columbia Historical Society, honorary
member of the Missouri Historical Society,
and president of the Missouri Folk-Lore
Society. He was senior speaker for the
Department of Anthropology at the World's
Congress of Aft9 and Sciences, held at St.
Louis in 1904, and chairman of the Or
ganizing Committee for the International
Geographic Congress, St. Louis, 1904. There
is probably no man in this country who
has a wider personal acquaintance artlcSng,
men of science than Dr. McGee. He has
been a constant arid valued contributor to
scientific literature in the form of books,
reports and papers in Scientific magazines
and the proceedings of scientific societies.
He married, in 1888, Anita, daughter' of
Professor Simon Newcomb, the distin
guished astronomer, and herself a noted
physician and scientist. Address: United
States Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. C.
McGEHEE, Edward Larned:
Physician; born in Wilkenson County,
Mississippi, April 4, 1852; son of Charles
G. McGehee and Stella (McNair) McGehee.
He received his preparatory education in
Woodville, Mississippi, and in Cumber-
'and University, at Lebanon, Tennessee,
then entered the Southern University, at
Greensboro, Alabama, from which he was
graduated as B.S. in 1871 ; and he was
graduated from the Medical Department of
ihe, University of Louisiana as. M.D. in
1874. He has since been in continuous
oractice, eighteen years, in Mississippi, and
since then in New Orleans. He was a
rnember of the Mississippi State Board of
Health, and of the Mississippi State Board
of Medical Examiners ; and is now a mem
ber of the State Board of Medical Exam
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the Mississippi State Medical Society. He
was professor of physiology, hygiene and
pathology in the New Orleans College of
Medicine; was resident student of the
Charity Hospital, and president of Charity
Alumni Association, of the Louisiana Anti-
Tuberculosis League, and of the Rayne
Memorial Home,. He is physician in charge
of the Poydras Orphan Asylum; president
of St. Tammany Health Homes Company,
and of the Glady's Mineral and Oil Com
pany of Calcasien Parish, Louisiana; also
partner in the Hammond Sanatorium, at
Hammond, Louisiana. He is a member
of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, the
Louisiana and Mississippi State Medical
Association, American Medical Asso
ciation and the National Health Asso
ciation. His favorite recreations are fox
and deer hunting. He is a member of the
Masonic Order. Dr. McGehee married in
Greensboro, Alabama, March 4, 1875, Anna
O. Webb, and . they have five sons : J.
Webb, E. J. Jr., Lucius D., C. G., and
Robert M. Residence : 1502 Webster Street,
New Orleans. Office address : Macheca
Building, Canal Street, New Orleans, Lou
isiana.
McGILVART, Evander Bradley:
Professor of philosophy; born in Bang
kok, Siam, July 19, 1864 ; son of Daniel
McGilvary, D.D., and Sophia Royce (Brad
ley) McGilvary. He attended Bingham
School, North Carolina, from 1876 to 1880,
was graduated from Davidson College as
A.B. in 1884, from Princeton University
as A.M. in 1888 and from the University
of California as Ph.D. in 1897. He was
translator in Siam from 1891 to 1894; in
structor in English in the University of
California, in 1894 and 1895,. logic and
psychology from 1895 to 1897, assistant pro
fessor of logic and epistemology from 1897
to 1899 ; Sage professor of ethics at . Cor
nell University from 1899 to 1905, and has
been professor of philosophy at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin since 1905. He is di
rector of the University Clubhouse Asso
ciation of Madison, Wisconsin, and di
rector of the University Club of Madison,

Wisconsin. He has made special researches
in Hegel's logic; the psychic process of
knowledge, and the psychology of the
moral life, and is author of papers on the
theory of moral value and other philosoph
ical subjects. He is a member of the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science, American Philosophical Associa
tion, American Psychological Association,
Western Philosophical Society, Kappa Al
pha, Southern Order, and the University
Club of Madison. Professor McGilvary
married in East Orange, New Jersey, June
16, 1891, Elizabeth Allen Paton and they
have two children : Margaret Cornelia, born
in 1894, and Lewis Paton, born in 1896.
Residence: 1902 Arlington Place, Madison.
Address : University of Wisconsin, Madi
son, Wisconsin.
McGINLEY, John R.:
President of the Duff Machinery Com
pany; born at Cresson Springs, Pennsyl
vania,, on September 14, 1856; son of John
and .Mary Logan 'McGinley, the latter a
daughter of Robert Rainey, a man of con
siderable prominence as a lawyer in West
moreland County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Mc-
Ginley's father was superintendent of the
old Portage Railroad, between Cresson
Springs , and Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania,
then the only railroad crossing the Alle
ghany Mountains. Until he was thirteen
years old young McGinley attended the vil
lage school in New Alexandria, Pennsyl
vania, where his, mother resided, his father
having died three weeks before the birth
of the son. When Mr. McGinley reached
the age of manhood he removed to Pitts
burgh, where he took a course in business
training in Duff's Commercial College, and,
after completing his course, was elected
secretary and business manager of the in
stitution, and held the position for four
years. Then he organized the Carbon
Bronze Company, for the manufacture of
special grades of anti-friction metals, in
which enterprise he was remarkably success
ful, and accumulated considerable capital,
which served as a nucleus for larger opera
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Westinghouse became interested in natural
gas, and, disposing of his business, Mr. Mc
Ginley joined him- in organizing the Phila
delphia Natural Gas Company, and he
served as vice-president until 1900; and
such was its success that within two years
sixteen companies were formed with an
aggregate capital of $20,000,000, but the
Philadelphia company is the most prominent
gas fuel company in existence, and it de
livers more fuel gas daily than any other
gas company in the world. As one of the
organizers, promoters and active officers of
the East Pittsburgh Improvement Company,
Mr. McGinley took a prominent part in the
founding and building of the progressive
industrial towns of Wilmerding, where the
Westinghouse Air-Brake Company's works
are situated, and East Pittsburgh, where the
exterisive works of the Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing Company, Westing
house Machine Company and East Pitts
burgh Improvement Company are located.
These plants are evidences of the enterprise
and business genius of the man who made
their establishment possible. In company
with Mr. George Westinghouse, Mr. Mc
Ginley organized the Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing Company, serv
ing as a director for several years. He as
sisted in the organization and promotion
of the Central Traction Company, operat
ing cable and electric lines in Pittsburgh,
which was subsequently' absorbed by the
Pittsburgh Railways Company of that city.
At present Mr. McGinley is president of
the Duff Manufacturing Company, and the
East Pittsburgh Traction Company; is vice-
president and director of the R. D. Nuttall
Company and of the Hidalgo Milling Com
pany of Parral, Mexico, and director in the
following institutions in Pittsburgh: Fi
delity Title and Trust Company, Pitts
burgh National Bank of ¦ Commerce, Sec
ond National Bank, Union-Fidelity Title
and Trust Company, East Pittsburgh Na
tional Bank, East Pittsburgh Trust Com
pany, Monongahela Water Company, Chi
cago Pneumatic Tool Company, of Chicago,
Parral and Durango Railroad Company,
Mexico; Southern Investment Company, of

Texas, together with a. number of others.
He is a member of the Duquesne and the
Union Clubs of Pittsburgh and the Law
yers' Club of New York. . Mr. McGinley,
in 1879, married Jennie M. Atterbury, the
only daughter of the late Thomas B. At
terbury, a glass manufacturer of Pitts
burgh. Address : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
MacGINNISS, John:
Smelting and mining engineer; born in
Homer, Iowa, in 1867; son of John and
Mary (Brandon) MacGinniss. He was edu
cated in the Chicago public schools. He or
ganized the United Copper Company in
1902, with a capital of $50,000,000, built and
financed the Columbian & Western Railway
in British Columbia; also smelter at Trail,
from 1896 to 1898; smelter at Polaris, Mon
tana, in 1906; organized Santa Rosa Min
ing and Smelting Company in Mexico in
1902; defeated by two votes for United
States senator in Montana Legislature,
1901, by W. A. Clark, after sixty days' vot
ing; member of the Montana Legislature,
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth sessions, mem
ber of Democratic National Committee in
1900 ; mayor of Butte, Montana, in 1905 and
1906. He is vice-president and director of
United Cppper Company, Oppenheimer In
stitute, Aetna Indemnity: Company, pres
ident of Silver Bow National Bank, Silver
Fissure Mining Company; and is a mem
ber of the Montana Society of Engineers.
His favorite recreations are golf and hunt
ing and breeding, horses and cattle. He
is a member of the- Lawyers' and
Democratic Clubs of New York City, of the
Silver Bow and Country Clubs of -Butte,
Montana, and of the, Montana and Lambs'
Clubs of, Helena, Montana. Addresses: 42
Broadway, New York City, and Butte,- Mon
tana. MacGOWAN, John K. :
Capitalist; he is manager and director
of American Smelters' Steamship Company ;
member of Executive Committee and di
rector of the American Smelting & Re
fining Company and of Pine Products Com
pany. Director of American Smelters' Se
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pany of America, Federal Mining and
Smelting Company, Nevada Consolidated
Copper Company, Northwestern Commer
cial Company, Northwestern Steamship
Company, Northwestern Fisheries Company
and of the Copper River and Northwestern
Railway.' Address: 71 Broadway, New
York City.
McGOWAN, John Patrick:
Physician; born in Irvington, New Jer
sey, April 23, 1865 ; son of Patrick and
Sarah (Gilmartin) McGowan. He was edu
cated in the parochial and public schools
of New York City, New Germantown (New
Jersey) Academy, and was graduated from
the Bellevue Hospital Medical College as
M.D. in 1888. He was attending surgeon
of the Genito-Urinary Department of Bel
levue (Out-Patient Department), from
1888 to 189S ; attending surgeon of Roose
velt Hospital, Out-Patient Department,
from 1892 to 1896; assistant dermatologist
Demilt Dispensary from 1888 to 1893. He
was brigade surgetm of the Naval Militia
of New York; passed assistant surgeon of
the United States Navy during the Spanish-
American War, April 26 to September 8,
1898; assistant surgeon of the Naval Mili
tia of New York, in 1897 and 1898; sur
geon from 1898 to 1904; visiting physician
of the New York Foundling Hospital;
chief surgeon of the Department of Genito-
Urinary and Skin Diseases, St. Bartholo
mew Hospital; consulting surgeon of the
French Hospital. He is a Republican in
politics, and a Roman Catholic in his re
ligious faith. Dr. McGowan is a mem
ber of the Academy of Medicine of New
York, State and County Medical Societies ;
honorary member of L'Association Fran-
ca's d'Urologie; member of the Urological
Association, New York Society of Der
matology, Genito-Urinary Surgeon of Phy
sicians' Mutual Aid Association, Celtic
Medical Society; vice-president and chair
man of the Executive Committee and di
rector of St. Bartholomew Clinic, and mem
ber of the Medical Board of the New York
Foundling Hospital. He is a member of the
Naval Order, Navy League Military Or

der, of Foreign Wars, Military and Naval
Order of the Spanish-American War, and
of the Union League, Strollers', Calumet,
Wykagyl Golf, and the Army and Navy
Clubs of New York City. He married in
Jersey City, March 1, 1905, Frances Ma
tilda Conduct. Address: 115 Madison. Ave
nue, New York City.
McGREGOR, Duncan:
Ex-president of Wisconsin State Normal
School; born in Prethshire, Scotland, in
1836, and came directly to Wisconsin with
his father's family in 1857. His preparatory
education was obtained in Perth Academy,
and his collegiate in University and King's
College, Aberdeen, and Lawrence" Univers
ity, Appleton, Wisconsin. For four years
after coming to Wisconsin he was employed
in running logs in the Wisconsin River,
farming in summer and teaching in winter.
He enlisted from Waupaca,, Wisconsin,
where he had been principal of the High
School, and was commissioned captain of
Company A, Forty-second Wisconsin In
fantry, serving with his regiment to the
close of the war. In 1867 he was elected
professor of mathematics in the Platteville
Normal School, first normal school estab
lished in the State, and remained in the
school until June, 1904, in all thirty-seven
years. He was professor of mathematics
for five years for the Platteville School;
institute conductor for nine years, and pres
ident for twenty-three years. He was
elected a member of the General Assembly
of Wisconsin in 1904, and again in 1906, and
was chairman of the Committee on, Edu
cation in both sessions. Lawrence Uni
versity conferred upon Mr. McGregor
the degree of Litt.D. He served two terms
as Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Ma
sons of Wisconsin. In the election for suc
cessor to United States Senator John C.
Spooner in March, 1907, Mr. McGregor
held third place in the Republican caucus,
and toward the close of the balloting receiv
ing twenty-three votes while 'W. H. Hatton
received twenty-five and Isaac Stephenson
thirty-one votes. Mr. McGregor has always
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gregatiorialist in his church relations and
was elected moderator of the Congregation
al Church of Wisconsin in 1906. Address :
Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin.
McGUIRE, Bird Segle:
Congressman and lawyer ; born at Belle
ville, Illinois, in 1864, and when but a
child of two years his parents, Joel and
Rachael McGuire, moved to Randolph
County, north central Missouri, where they
resided upon a farm until the spring of
1881, at which time they moved to Chau
tauqua County, Kansas ; after remaining
there a few months Mr. McGuire left home
and lived for three years in different parts
of the Indian Territory, a part of which
is now Oklahoma, being engaged a greater
portion of the time in the cattle business;
having been able to save a small sum of
money, returned home and entered the State
normal school at Emporia, Kansas, remain
ing for two years; then taught school sev
eral terms and entered the law department
of the university at Lawrence, remaining
one year and again returning home to Chau
tauqua, Kansas; in the fall of 1890 was
elected county attorney of that county, and
served four years, or two consecutive terms ;
at the expiration of the last term, in the
spring of 1895, moved to Pawnee County,
Oklahoma, and practiced law; in 1897 was
appointed assistant United States attor
ney for Oklahoma Territory; in which ca
pacity he served until after his nomination
for Congress; was elected delegate to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, and reelected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress. Address : Pawnee
County, Oklahoma.
McGUIRE, James Clark:
Civil engineer and contractor; born near
Ellicott City, Maryland; son of Joseph D.
McGuire and Anna (Chapman) McGuire;
is great-great-nephew of President James
Madison ; lineally descended from the Plan-
taganet line of England; also a lineal des
cendant from eighteen of the twenty-five
surety barons who signed the Magna
Charta on the field of Runnymede. He
attended Rittenhouse Academy, Washing-

ton, D. C, in 1881 and 1882, Emerson Insti
tute, Washington, in 1883, and was gradu
ated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute, Troy, New York, as CE. in 1888.
He was engaged on the United States Geo
logical Survey in the West one year after
graduation; was assistant engineer of the
Nicaragua Canal one year; engineer of
Phoenix Bridge Company three years; the
Treasury Department, Washington, D. C,
for three years and has been conducting
business on his own account as engineer
and contractor since 1896. He is president
of James C. McGuire & Company; vice-
president and general manager of the Por-
terfield Construction Company, Marken-
field Construction Company, Huntingfield
Construction Company, Mayfield Construc
tion Company. He is a member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers of Great
Britain, American Society of Civil Engin
eers, Society of Naval Architects and Ma
rine Engineers, Society for Testing Ma
terials, Society of the Cincinnati, Society
of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution,
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and is a
member of the University Club and Dawn
Town Association of New York City and
of the Metropolitan Club of Washington,
D. C. Address : 26 Cortlandt Street, New
York City.
McGUIRE, Joseph Hubert:
Architect ; born in New York, January 21,
1866; son of Joseph and Catharine (Rorke)
McGuire. He was educated in private and
public schools, in St. Francis Xavier Col
lege, Metropolitan Arts Schools of New
York City and in the Ecole des Beaux Arts,
France. Among his principal works are the
Catholic Cathedral at Richmond, Virginia;
churches of St. Rose of Lima, Holy Trin
ity and St. Malachy, New York City; the
chapel and Assembly Hall at Westchester
Protectory, St. Elizabeth's Hospital;, also
many school buildings; hospitals, commercial
buildings and private residences. He was
a member of the Fine Arts Federation ; and
is a member of the American Institute of
Architects, Society of Beaux-Arts Archi
tects, the Architectural League, and of the
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McGuire married in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, Harriet Mein, and they have four
children : Joseph Mein, Hubert Amer, Alan
Rorke, and Catharine. Residence : Beech-
mont, New Rochelle. Address: 45 East
Forty-second Street, New York City.
McINTIRE, Albert Washington:
Lawyer; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, January 15, 1853; son of Joseph
Phillips Mclntire and Isabella A. (Wills)
Mclntire. He attended the public schools
to 1866; the preparatory school of New-
ell's Institute, Pittsburgh, to 1869; was
graduated from Yale College as B.A. in
1873, Yale Law School, as LL.B. in 1875.
He was admitted to the bar of the Con
necticut Supreme Court, 1875; the Pitts
burgh bar in 1875; Colorado Supreme
Court in 1880; Ohio Supreme Court in
1899; and Washington Supreme Court in
1901. Since 1901 he has been engaged in
developing copper mining property in
Washington. Mr. Mclntire read a paper
on The Copper Deposits of Washington
before the American Mining Congress,
Denver, Colorado, 1906. He is president and
general manager of the Foss River Con
solidated Copper Company of Everett,
Washington; president of the Washington
State Mining Association; member of the
Committee of the American Mining Con
gress to devise methods to prevent fraud
ulent mining schemes, and is also a mem
ber of the American Bar Association. He
married in New Haven, Connecticut, July,
1873, Florence Johnson, and they had two
children: Joseph Phillips Mclntire, born-
December 1, 1874, and Elizabeth L. Mcln
tire, born January 29, 1884, and now de
ceased. Mr. Mclntire married again, Janu
ary 26, 1899, Ida Noyes Beaver, M.D. Resi
dence: 3129 Colby Avenue, Everett. Busi
ness address: American National Building,
Everett, Washington. '
McINTIRE, Charles John:
First judge of Probate Court, and of the
Court of Insolvency for Middlesex County,
Massachusetts; born at Cambridge, Massa
chusetts; son of Ebenezer and Amelia A.

(Landais) Mclntire. He attended the Cam
bridge public schools, Chapman Hall School,
and Harvard University Law School; ad
mitted to the bar when twenty-two years
of age, assistant district attorney at the age
of twenty-nine, and was city solicitor at
the age of forty-four, serving for eight
years. He was common councillor in 1866
and 1867; alderman in 1877, school com
missioner from 1868 to 1870, and served in
the House of Representatives in 1869 and
1870. He prosecuted slaughtering estab
lishments on Miller's River, with success;
prevented the Boston and Albany Railroad
from compelling the city of Cambridge to
build over its tracks at Harvard Bridge;
procured grant of Fresh Pond by the leg
islature to the city of Cambridge; brought
to successful termination the suits of the
ice companies and others on Fresh Pond.
He served as private in Company G of
the Forty-fourth Regiment under General
Foster in North Carolina, for over nine
months, during the Civil War. Mr. Mc
lntire is a member of the Sons of the Revo
lution, and Massachusetts Society of Co
lonial Wars. Mr. Mclntire married at
Chariestown, 1865, Mary Theresa Mclntire.
Residence : 1600 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Business ad
dress : Probate Court House, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.McTNTYRE, Thomas A.:
Banker ; born in New York City, October
19. 1855; son of Ewen and Emily Amelia
(Bridgeman) Mclntyre. He was educated
in private schools and by tutors. He has
been in the banking and brokerage business
since 1878 in the firms of Mclntyre & Bing
ham, Mclntyre & Wadwell, Mclntyre &
Marshall ; his present firm being T. A. Mc
lntyre & Company. He is a director and
member of the Executive Committee of
Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Company,
Standard Milling Company, Duluth Super
ior Milling Company, Southwestern Mill
ing Company, and the International Ele
vator Company. Trustee and member of
the Auditing Committee of the New York
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age Company; committee on management
of the Royal Insurance Company of Eng
land. Mr. Mclntyre is also a member of
the New York Chamber of Commerce, For
estry Association, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York Zoological Society and
American Geographic Society. His recre
ations are yachting, stock farming and au
tomobiling He is a member of the Auto
mobile of America, Metropolitan, Lawyers',
West End, Lambs', Down Town, West
Side Republican, Atlantic Yacht, Seabright
Golf, Larchmont Yacht, Nassau Country,
New York Yacht, Suburban Riding and
Driving, New York Athletic, Motor Boat,
Century of Syracuse, Sea Cliff Yacht, and
Seabright Golf Clubs. He married, first,
Anna Knox; second at Baltimore, Mary
land, December 17, 1902, Lucie Elvera Mar
tin; and he has four children: Thomas A.,
Jr., born in 1882, Anna, born in 1883, Mal
colm, born in 1885, and Donald, born in
1894. Address: The Wyoming, Fifty-fifth
Street and Seventh Avenue, New York City.
McINTOSH, Burr William:
Author, photographer, publisher and ac
tor; born in Wellsville, Ohio, August 31,
1862. He was educated at Lafayette Col
lege and at Princeton College, in 1884; was
clerk in an office of a coal company in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of which his father
was president, in 1883 and 1884; reporter
for the Philadelphia News and Press in
1884 and 1885. He made his first appear
ance on the stage in Bartley Campbell's
play, Paquita, August 21, 1885, in New
York; was the original Taffy in Trilby, in
1895; correspondent of Leslie's Weekly
during the war in Cuba, until prostrated
by yellow fever, July 2, at El Paso. He
started the Burr Mcintosh Photographic
Studio, in New York City, in 1900, and the
Burr Mcintosh Monthly in April, 1903.
He also organized the Burr Mcintosh Pub
lishing Company,' October, 1903. Mr. Mc
intosh is author of: The Little I Saw of
Cuba, and several one-act plays, also a
musical comedy, The Photographer, pro
duced by Shubert Brothers, in New York,
April, 1907. Studios: Los Angeles, Cali

fornia. Address: 20 West Thirty-third
Street, New York City.
MACK, Andrew:
Actor; born in Boston, July 25, 1863. His
early professional career was in short
sketches of Irish character in vaudeville,
but later he supported stars in the regular
drama, and during several seasons past
has been starring at the head of his own
company in legitimate Irish comedy, and is
one of the most successful Irish comedians
now playing in this country. Address : 2314
Broadway, New York City.
MACK, Norman Edward:
Editor, publisher ; born in West Williams,
Ontario, Canada, July 24, 1855; he was
educated at schools near his home. He
started the Buffalo Sunday Times in 1879,
and during the campaigns of 1884, 1888 and
1892 he and his paper gave generous sup
port to the candidacy of Grover Cleveland.
In 1892, he was alternate delegate to the
Chicago Convention, and later representa
tive from New York State on committee
to notify Mr. Cleveland of his nomination.
He has been a member of the National
Democratic Committee since 1900. He mar
ried at Buffalo, New York, December 22,
1891, Harriet B. Taggart. Residence: 1100
Delaware Avenue. Address : 193 Main
Street, Buffalo, New York.
MACK, William:
Lawyer; editor; born in Sumter County,
South Carolina, October 24, 1865; son of
Rev. Dr. Joseph Bingham Mack and Har
riet Hudson (Banks) Mack. He was
graduated from Davidson (North Carolina)
College as A.B. and later received from that
college the A.M. degree, and LL.D. in
1907; he was graduated from Missouri
State University as LL.B. in 1887. He is
secretary andv editor-in-chief of the Amer
ican Law Book Company. Mr. Mack is a
member of the Missouri Society, Southern
Society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity,
and the Masonic order, Is a Knight Temp
lar, and member of Kismet Temple,
Mystic Shrine. He is author of Mack's
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author of Rapalje & Mack's Digest of
Railway Decisions, seven volumes ; and
editor-in-chief of Cyclopedia of Law and
Procedure and of Encyclopedia of Forms
and Precedents. Mr. Mack married at
Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York,
June I, 1899, Minnie Frank Bayles, and
they have one son, William Bayles, born
October 20, 1903. Address : 60 Wall Street,
New York City.
MACKAY, Clarence Hungerford:
Capitalist; born in San Francisco, Cali
fornia, April 17, 1874; only son of John
W. Mackay one of the most famous min
ing operators of the- Pacific Coast, and a
financier of great ability and joint founder
with James Gordon Bennett of the Com
mercial Cable Company and the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company. Clarence H.
Mackay received his early instruction at
home but was educated chiefly abroad, at
tending the Vangirard College in Paris and
Beaumont College, Windsor, England. In
1894 he entered his father's office, where
he familiarized himself with the great
business enterprises of which he is now the
head. He was elected president of the
American Forcite Powder Company in 1896
and held that office about three years. He
became a director in 1896, vice-president in
1897, and since his father's death in 1902
has been president of the Commercial Cable
Company and the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company. He is also a director of the
American Exchange National Bank, the
Equitable Trust Company, United States
Mortgage and Trust Company, the Com
mercial Cable Company of Cuba^ and com
pleted in 1902 the cable connection between
San Francisco and the Hawaiian and
Philippine Islands. Mr. Mackay is an en
thusiastic sportsman and fond of athletics,
and formerly owned a large stable of
thoroughbreds, but disposed of his racing
stable in 1902. He has a large estate, Har
bor Hill, near Roslyn, Long Island, where
he has erected a magnificent country resi
dence. Socially Mr. Mackay is a member
of the New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht,
Union, Lawyers' and Metropolitan Clubs of
New York, and many other clubs of this

country and Europe. He married, May
17, 1898, Katherine Alexander Duer, of an
old Knickerbocker family. Mrs. Mackay
takes a great interest in the cause of popu
lar education, which led to her election as
a member of the Board of Education ot
Roslyn Township in which office she is now
serving. • Residence address : Hempstead,
Long Island. Office address : 253 Broad
way, New York City.
MACKAY, Donald Sage:
Clergyman; born in Glasgow, Scotland,
November 20, 1863; son of the Reverend
William Murray and Christian Sutherland
(Sage) Mackay. He was graduated from
Glasgow University, M.A., (philosophy and
literature). He was graduated with hon
ors from New College, Edinburgh; D-D.,
Rutgers College, LL.D., Hope College,
Michigan. He was pastor of the First
Congregational Church, St. Albans, Ver
mont, from 1890 to 1894; of the North Re
formed Church, Newark, New Jersey, from
1894 to 1899; of the Collegiate Church of
St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth
Street, Manhattan. Mr. Mackay was pres
ident of the General Synod of the Reformed
Church in America in 1906. He is a mem
ber of St. Andrew's Society and the
Union League Club. He married Helen L
Smith, youngest daughter of Governor J.
Gregory Smith of Vermont, President of the
Central Vermont Railroad, and they have
six children : Annette, Donald Sage, Wini
fred, Stewart, Aileen and Olivia. Address:
20 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City.
MACKAY, George Devereux:
Banker; born in Brooklyn, New York,
September 28, 1854; son of John Suther
land and Mary Wilson (Devereux)
Mackay. He was educated in the public
schools in Brooklyn and the Polytechnic
Institute. He has been a member of the
New York Stock Exchange since 1875; was
of the firm of Vermilye and Company from
1880 to 1905; Mackay and Company since
1905 ; vice-president of the Tri-City Railway
and Light Company ; secretary and treasurer
of the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Rail
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Company, and Acme Sales Company. He is
a Republican and a Catholic; a member of
the Board of Managers of the Roman Cath
olic Orphan Asylum, Knights of Columbus ;
also member of the Metropolitan, Catholic,
New York Athletic, Republican and the
American Yacht Clubs. He married, Feb
ruary 5, 1880, Annie R. Barnes; they have
six children: Madeline, Donald, Hugh, Al
fred, Lois, and George. Address : Nassau
and Pine Streets, New York City.
MacKAY-SMITH, Alexander:
Bishop-coadjutor of Pennsylvania; born
in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated
at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hamp
shire, at Trinity College, Hartford, and
partly in England and Germany; studied
theology partly at the General Theological
Seminary in New York, and partly in pri
vate; was ordained deacon in December,
1876, by Bishop Williams, of Connecticut,
and priest in December, 1877, by Bishop
Paddock, of Massachusetts. He received the
degfee of D.D. in 1889 from Trinity Col
lege, and of S.T.D. from Hobart College in
the same year. He was in charge of Grace
Church, South Boston, from 1877 to 1880,
afternoon preacher at St. Thomas's Church,
New York, from 1880 to 1887; archdeacon
of New York, from 1887 to 1893, and rector
of St. John's Church, Washington, from
1893 to 1902", as well as archdeacon of
Washington from 1900 to 1902, in conjunc
tion with his rectorship. He was elected
bishop-coadjutor of Pennsylvania, and
consecrated in the Church of Holy Trinity,
Philadelphia, on May 1, 1902. In 1886 he
was elected bishop-coadjutor of Kansas,
but declined the office., He was also a dele
gate to the General Convention of the
Church in 1898 and 1901. Address : 251
South Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
McKEE, Frank:
Theatrical manager, proprietor of the
Savoy and the Garrick theatres. He is
manager for Miss Mary Mannering and
other stars. For many years, and up to
the death of Charles H. Hoyt in 1900 he
was a member of the firm of Hoyt and Mc-

Kee. In his early life he was with Haver-
ly's minstrels, and among his associates in
that organization were Charles Frohman,
Alfred Hayman and Peter Daly. He is
married and has one daughter. Address :
Savoy Theatre, New York City.
McKEE Myron A.:
Banker; born in. Winfield, Heck County,
August 17, 1840; son of Samuel McKee
and Carcena (Eldred) McKee. He was
graduated from Hamilton College in 1862
with the degree of A.B., and received the
degree of A.M^ in 1865. He engaged in
banking, farming, and civil engineering;
farming and a student until 1862; was sur
veyor and civil engineer from 1858; teacher
iri the Cooperstown Seminary in 1863 and
1864, and in West Winfield Academy, from
1865 to 1867; principal of North Benning
ton Academy, Vermont, in 1868 and 1869;
bookkeeper and teller of the First Na
tional Bank, Winfield, from 1869 to 1874;
assistant cashier and vice-president until
1882. He was also cashier of the First
National Bank of Richfield Springs, from
1882 to 1903, and vice-president since then.
He was chief of the Richfield Springs Fire
Department for three terms. Mr. McKee
is president of the. Richfield Springs Elec
tric Light and Power Company, of the Rich
field Springs Public Library and trustee of
the West Winfield Academy. He was a
member of the Assembly from Herkimer
County in 1876 and 1877. In politics he is
a Republican, and he is a Congregation
alist in his religious affiliation. He is also
a Royal Arch Mason. Mr. McKee married
in West Winfield, New York, September
12, 1866, Sarah E. Rose, and they have
two daughters : Mrs. Rose B. Tuller, born
in 1870, and James McKee, born in 1878.
Address : Richfield Springs, New York.
McKEEN, James:
Lawyer; born in Brunswick, Maine, De
cember 5, 1844; son of Joseph and Eliza
beth (Farley) McKeen. He was graduated
from Bowdoin College as B.A. in 1864, and
later received the degrees of A.M. and
LL.D. He was admitted to the New York
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sion to revise the charter of Greater New
York; of counsel to the Armstrong Com
mittee; in charge of the Brooklyn office of
the Law Department, Low administration,
in 1902; Republican candidate for justice
of the Supreme Court, in 1903; senior part
ner of the firm of McKeen, Brewster &
Morgan, and general counsel of Mutual
Life since 1906. He is president of the
New York State Colonization Society; di
rector of Long Island Historical Society;
trustee of Packer Collegiate Institute,
Brooklyn Public Library; member of the
New York Prison Association ; overseer of
Bowdoin College; member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa
Society and a member of Hamilton Club of
Brooklyn and University Club. Mr. Mc
Keen married April 29, 1871, Mary Ellen
Lewis, and they have three children:
Helen J., Elizabeth F. and Anna L. Ad
dress : 58 Clark Street, Brooklyn, New
York.McKELLAR, Peter:
Mining and real estate operator; born in
Middlesex County, Ontario, April 27, 1838;
son of Duncan McKellar and Margaret
(Brodie) McKellar. He Was educated in
the- public schools of Ontario and self edu
cated in surveying, mining, engineering and
geology. He gained prominence as a mines
explorer; was in charge of a party under
Dr. R. Bell of the Canadian Geological
Survey in 1869 and 1870. He is a pioneer
in mining exploration on the north shore
of Lake Superior, and in that region dis
covered the first silver mine, The Thunder
Bay Mine, and the first gold mine, the
Huronian Gold and Silver Mine. His
brothers and partners, John and Donald
McKellar, discovered in the same, region
the first zinc mine, the Zenith Mine, and
the first iron mine, the Atikskan Mine, and
the firm of McKellar Brothers have made,
besides these, many important mining dis
coveries. He was superintendent of the
Huronian Gold Mine from 1882 to 1884,
superintendent of exploration and develop
ment work of the Toronto and Western
Mines Development Company, Seine River
and Lake of the Woods districts in 1897

and 1898, and since then engaged exten
sively in mining and real estate business in
the firm of Kellar Brothers. He has served
as municipal councillor and reeve at Fort
William, Ontario, and is a justice of the
peace. He has traveled over the Eastern,
Southern and Western States and Canada
to British Columbia. Mr. McKellar in
vented a rock breaker, and a rock pul
verizer and, jointly with A. Murray, a
rotary engine. He has written pamphlets
and papers on mining and geology, read be
fore scientific societies, including: Mining
on the North Shore of Lake Superior,
1874; Correlation of the Animikie and
Huronian Rocks of Lake Superior, 1888;
The Gold-Bearing Veins of Bag Bay, Lake
of the Woods, 1899; The Silver Bearing
Formation of Thunder Bay. In politics
Mr. McKellar is affiliated with the Re
formers (Liberals), and in church rela
tions he is a Presbyterian. His favorite
recreations are tennis, curling and the like.
He is also a devotee of music, and has
served as president and honorary presi
dent of local musical societies. Mr. Mc
Kellar is a life fellow of the Geological
Society of London and the Geological So
ciety of America, and is also a member of
the National Geographic Society and the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. He is president and hon
orary president of the Curling Club and
a member of the Kaministique Club of Fort
William. Address : Fort William, On
tario, Canada.
McKELWAY, St. Clair:
Editor of Brooklyn Daily Eagle ; born in
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, March
IS, 1845; son of Dr. Alexander J. McKel-
way and Mary Ann (Ryan) McKelway;
and he is of Scotch ancestry on his father's,
and Irish descent on his mother's side.
He removed with his parents to New Jer
sey in 1853; was educated at Blackwood
Academy and by private tutors and he has
received the degrees of A.M. from Colgate
University, LL.D. from Princeton, Syra
cuse and the University' of Missouri;
L.H.D. from Union University, and D.C.L.
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came city editor of the Trenton Monitor
in 1863; began the study of law in 1864 \
was admitted to the bar in 1866; assistant
editor of the New York World in 1867;
associate editor of Brooklyn Eagle in 1869,
editor-in-chief of Albany Argus in 1878
and since 1885 he has been editor-in-chief
of the Brooklyn Eagle. He was elected re
gent of the University of the State of New
York in 1883. He has given many public
addresses, among which are: The Press
and the Pulpit; Need of Reform in Ex
pert Testimony; The Lawyer and the
Times, and Plea for Old-Fashioned Preach
ing. He is a member of the -Long Island
Historical Society, Suffolk County Histori
cal Society, Society of Medical Jurispru
dence, the Albany Institute, American
Academy of Science; corresponding mem
ber of the British Association for the Ad
vancement of Science; director of the
American Social Science Association;
member of the Phi Betta Kappa (Rochester
University Chapter) and of Clio Hall,
Princeton. He is a companion of the mili
tary order of the Loyal Legion in succes
sion to his father, who was a surgeon in
the United States Army during the Civil
War. Mr. McKelway is also a member
of the Metropolitan Club of New York City
and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. He
has been twice married, first, to Eleanor
Hutchinson of Booneville, Missouri, who
died in 1884, and second, in 1888, to Vir
ginia Brooks Thompson, of New York City.
Residence: 21 Monroe Place, Brooklyn.
Office address : Eagle Office, Brooklyn,
New York.
McKENNA, Joseph:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States; born in Philadelphia,
August 10, 1843 ; attended St. Joseph's Col
lege of his native city, until 1855, when he'
removed with his parents to Benicia, Cali
fornia, where he continued his education
at the public schools and the Collegiate
Institute, at which he studied law. He was
admitted to the bar in 1865 ; was twice
elected district attorney for Solano County,
' beginning in March, 1866 ; served in the
lower house of the Legislature in the ses

sions of 187s and 1876; was elected as a
Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses;
resigned from the last-named Congress to
accept the position of United States circuit
judge, to which he was appointed by Presi
dent Harrison in 1893 ; resigned that office
to accept the place of attorney-general of
the United States in the Cabinet of Presi
dent McKinley; and was appointed, De
cember 16, 1897, an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States to
succeed Justice Field, retired, and took his
seat January 26, 1898. Home : San Fran
cisco, California. Address : 1705 Rhode
Island Avenue, Washington, D. C.
McKENZIE, John Heyward:
Rector of Howe School; born at Boume-
ville, Ohio, May 31, 1862; son of Henry B.
McKenzie and Ella A. (Gregg) McKenzie.
He was graduated from Mount Union Col
lege, as A.B. in 1883, and from Boston Uni
versity as A.M. in 1884, and received from
Kenyon College the honorary degree of
L.H.D. in 1905. He was ordained priest
by Bishop Vincent. He was president of
Hillsborough College from 1888 to 1890;
president of Belmont College and Ohio
Military Institute, from 1890 to 1894, and
has been rector of Howe School, Lima, In
diana, since 1895. He is examining chap
lain of the Diocese of Michigan City; pres
ident of the Standing Committee of the
Diocese of Michigan City, and was a deputy
to the General Convention of the Episcopal
Church in 1898, 1901, 1904, and 1907. Dr.
McKenzie is a Republican in politics. He
is a trustee of Akeley Hall, (school for
girls, at Grand Haven, Michigan), and of
Nashotah House (theological seminary).
He is a member of the University Club of
Chicago. Address : Howe School, Lima, In
diana. McKIM, Alexander Rice:
Architect ; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
1863 ; son of Judge John W. and Margaret
ta Fisher (Prettyman) McKim. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts Insti
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as A.M., and attended four terms at the
Technische Hochschule, Berlin, Germany.
He has been associated with most of the
prominent New York architects on their
larger works, especially those having struc
tural problems. He was architect for B.
and E. Edgewater Plant, Davies Coal
Pockets and other manufacturing plants;
expert for the City of New York recre
ation piers and other dock work; consult
ing concrete expert for the Numismatic,
Stanford Municipal and other concrete
buildings; and expert in numerous build
ing litigations. He was chairman of the
Board of Election Inspectors of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, 1906, and is a
member of the Architectural League of
New York, and American Society of Civil
Engineers ; also of the National Arts Club,
University Club, Technology Club, Colum
bia University Architects' Club, and of the
Thuringia Club of Berlin, Germany. Ad
dress: 116 Twenty-eighth Street, New York
City.McKIM, Charles Pollen:
Architect; born in Chester County, Penn
sylvania, August 24, 1847. He was grad
uated from Harvard Scientific School, 1868;
and studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,
1867 to 1870. He is a member of the firm
of McKim, Mead & White, architects of
numerous notable buildings ; awarded the
royal gold medal by King Edward for pro
motion of architecture, 1903. Designed the
University Club; also recent alterations to
White House. He is a member of the Mu
nicipal Art Society, American Institute of
Architects, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
American Fine Arts Society, Pennsylvania
Society, Architectural League, and a mem
ber of the University, Lambs', The Brook,
Metropolitan, Garden City Golf, City (New
York City), Somerset, St. Botolph (Bos
ton) and Metropolitan (Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia) Clubs. Residence: 9
East Thirty-fifth Street. Address: 160
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
McKIM, John:
Missionary bishop of Tokyo; born at
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, July 17, 1852. He

was educated at Griswold College, Daven
port, Iowa, and was graduated from the
Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wiscon
sin, in 1879. The honorary degree of D.D.
was conferred upon him in 1893 by Nasho
tah and by Trinity College, Hartford, Con
necticut. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1878 and was ordained
to the priesthood a year later by Bishop
H. Brown. He was first connected with
the diocese of Chicago, being later sent
as missionary to Japan. In 1893 he was
made missionary bishop of .Toyko, Japan,
and was consecrated by Bishops Littlejohn,
Lyman, Dudley, Scarborough, Kinsolving
and Barry (Animate of Australia). Bishop
McKim married at Nashotah, Wisconsin,
September 16, 1879; Miss E. A. Cole. He
is author of missionary reports, translations,
appeals, and other papers. Address: 38
Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan.
McKIM, William Duncan:
Physician; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
February 14, 1855; son of Haslett McKim
and Sally (Birckhead) McKim. He re
ceived his education in the schools of Bal
timore and New York, in Columbia Col
lege, where he received the degree of A.B.
in 1875, and was graduated as M.D. from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
in 1878; and Ph.D. from the University
of Leipzig, Germany, in -1895. After tak
ing the degree of M.D. he was interne at
Bellevue Hospital, New York City, for a
year and a half ; then spent two years in
professional study abroad, at Vienna, Paris,
Wiirzburg and London. On his return he
practiced his profession in New York City
from 1882 to 1892. He was lecturer on
operative surgery, in the New York Post-
Graduate Medical School in 1883 and 1884,
and professor in the same chair in 1884 and
1885. He was also visiting physician and
surgeon in the French Hospital, New York
City from 1888 to 1892, and from 1892 to
1895 he engaged in scientific study abroad,
having retired from practice and since oc
cupied with literary work. He is a mem
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Archeological Society and the Fine Arts
Society of Washington, D. C. He is also
a member of Delta Phi fraternity, the
Union Club of New York City, and the
Cosmos, Metropolitan University and
Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, D. C.
He is author of: Hereditary and Human
Progress, 1899. He married, first, in Bos
ton, November 22, 1882, Roge Coolidge of
Boston and second in New York City,
April 26, 1900, Martha Moran Jones. Ad
dress : 1701 Eighteenth Street, Northwest,
Washington, D. C.
McKINLAY, Duncan E.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Orilla,
Ontario, Canada, October 6, 1862; son of
Duncan McKinlay and Mary (Millard) Mc-
Kinlay. He was educated till twelve years
of age in the common schools of Orillia,
and then learned the trade of carriage paint
ing and worked in Flint, Michigan. At
twenty-one years of age he removed to San
Francisco and worked at his trade until
1884, when he went to Sacramento, where
he stayed for a year, then moved to Santa
Rosa,, where he engaged in the painting
business and studied law. He was ad
mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of
California in 1892; in McKinley's first
Presidential campaign in 1896, was nomi
nated elector-at-large on the Republican
ticket; in 1901 was appointed by President
McKinley as assistant United States attor
ney at San Francisco; was elected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, from the Second Cali
fornia District. He married in Santa Rosa,
California, December 16, 1892, Nannie V.
Hendley, and they have four children. Resi
dence: Santa Rosa, Colifornia. Office ad
dress: Call Building, San Francisco, Cali
fornia;
McKINLEY, William Brown:
Congressman and electric railway presi
dent; born in Petersburg, Illinois, Septem
ber S, 1856; son of George McKinley and
Hannah (Finley). McKinley. He was edu
cated in the common schools and spent two
years in the University of Illinois. He is
a farmer and banker; and is a trustee of

the University of Illinois: He was elected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress, from the Eight
eenth Illinois District. In politics he is a
Republican. He married in Chicago, Febru
ary, 1881, Kate Frisbee. Address : Cham
paign, Illinois.
McKlNNEY, James:
Congressman and banker; born at Oqu-
awka, Illinois, April 14, 1852; son of John
McKinney, one of the earliest settlers of
western Illinois. . He was educated in the
public schools and Monmouth College,
graduating from the latter in 1874, and re
ceiving the degree of A.M. several years
later. Upon leaving college he joined his
father in business, and upon the death of
the latter was elected president of the Ale-
do bank, which position he still holds.
Since 1894 Mr. McKinney has been a mem
ber of the Republican State Central Com
mittee ; in 1900 he was chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of that body, and in the
campaign of 1904 was a member of the
managing committee, having direct charge
of the Presidential campaign in Illinois;
was appointed by Governor Yates in 1901
a member of the State Railroad and Wars-
house Commission, but resigned in 1902;
has been president of the Aledo Board of
Education. Mr. McKinney was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress at a special elec
tion held November 7, 1905, to fill the vac
ancy caused by the death of Hon. B. F.
Marsh, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Fourteenth Illinois District.
Address : Aledo, Illinois.
MACKINTOSH, Alexander:
Architect; born in London, England,
October, 1861 ; son of Alexander and Eliza
beth (Smith) Mackintosh. He studied
architecture in prominent English and
Scotch architects' offices, from 1878 to 1892 ;
traveled through Italy and France in 1892;
was admitted to the Royal Academy of
Arts; London, in 1888, winning two prem
iums for designs in 1889 and 1890; silver
medallist ; also winner of Sir William Tite's
prize, Royal Institute of British Architects,
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Institute of British Architects, by examina
tion, in 1892; American Institute of Archi
tects in 1904. He was a member of Troop
C, National Guard of New York, from 1897
to 1904. Mr. Mackintosh is vice-president
of the Brooklyn Chapter of American In
stitute of Architects, and member of the
Architectural League of New York. He is
architect of the Colt Building, Paterson,
New Jersey, All Angels' Church, Twilight
Park, New York, and numerous fine private
residences; also designed the architecture
of the Empire Building, New York City.
His favorite recreations are golf, tennis and
riding. He is a member of the Hamilton,
Crescent Athletic, Barnard and Dyker
Meadow Golf Clubs of Brooklyn and of
the British Schools and Universities Club,
St. Andrew's Society, and the National
Arts Club, of New York City. Address : '55
Bible House, Astor Place, New York City.
McKNIGHT, Alexander:
Vice-president of the Fidelity Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia;
born August 25, 1856; educated in the city
public schools. He took up the study of
shorthand and associated himself with J.
M. Lingle, under the firm name of Lingle
& McKnight, in the establishment of the
first school of shorthand writing in Penn
sylvania; the firm was successful, but Mr.
McKnight, becoming interested in life in
surance, gave up school work in 1884, and
accepted the position of superintendent of
agents for the above named company. In
1894 he was elected vice-president, and has
since held that position. He is a member
of the Board of Public Education of Phila
delphia and is an active Mason. Address:
400 North Fortieth Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.McLACHLAN, James:
Congressman and lawyer; born August,
1852, in Argyllshire, Scotland; at the age
of three years he removed w'th his parents
to Tompkins County, New York, where he
was reared on a farm and educated in the
public schools. He began teaching in the
public schools at the age of sixteen years,
and while engaged in that work prepared

himself for college, and graduated from
Hamilton College, New York, in 1878.- He
was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of New York State in 1880, and com
menced the practice of the law in 1881 at
Ithaca, where he remained until 1888, when
he removed to Pasadena, California, and
there continued the practice of his profes
sion. In 1877 he was elected on the Re
publican ticket to the office of school com
missioner of Tompkins County, New York,
and in 1890, was elected district attorney of
Los Angeles County, California; was
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses,
from the Sixth California District. In poli
tics he is a Republican. He married in
Cortland, New York, December 26, 1887,
Minnie J. Jones. Address : Pasadena, Cali
fornia. McLAIN, Frank Alexander:
Congressman and lawyer ; born on a farm
in Amite County, Mississippi, January 29,
1853. He attended the common schools of
the county and was graduated as A.B. from
the University of Mississippi in 1874. He
commenced the practice of law in Liberty,
Mississippi, 1880; was elected to the State
Legislature in 1881 for a term of two years ;
was elected district attorney for his judicial
district in 1883, in which capacity he served
for twelve consecutive years ; was elected to
the Constitutional Convention of Mississippi
in 1890 as floater delegate from the coun
ties of Amite and Pike; retired voluntarily
from the office of district attorney January
t, 1896, and resumed his law practice at
Gloster, Mississippi where he now resides;
was elected to fill out the unexpired term
in the Fifty-fifth Congress of William
Franklin Love, who died October 17, 1898;
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
and Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Seventh'
Mississippi District. Mr. McLain is a
Democrat. He married, March ' 6, 1879,
Fannie A. Tyler, who died -March 13, 1900.
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McLANE, John:
Governor of New Hampshire; born in
Lennoxtown, Scotland, February 27, 1852.
He came in early childhood to New Hamp
shire and , was educated in the public
schools of Manchester, served an appren
ticeship to the cabinet-making trade and
afterward established for himself. He
specialized in the manufacture of special
furniture and equipments, in which he built
up a large trade covering the entire coun
try, and is still at the head of that business
as president of the McLane Manufacturing
Company. He is also president of the
Souhegan National Bank and a director in
other corporations. He has for years been
prominent in politics as a Republican; was
elected to the New Hampshire House of
Representatives in 1885, and as senator
from the Sixteenth New Hampshire Dis
trict in 1891 and 1893, and president of the
Senate at both sessions; and he was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention of 1900. He was elected in 1904
governor of New Hampshire for a two-
year term, which he served. Governor
McLane is a thirty-third degree Mason
and was Grand Master of New Hampshire
Masons in 1898. He married at Milford,
New Hampshire, in 1880, Ellen L. Tuck.
Address : Milford, New Hampshire.
MCLAUGHLIN, Chester B.:
Jurist; born in Moriah, New York, Feb
ruary 10, 1857; son of Lyman and Harriet
C. McLaughlin. He was graduated from
the University of Vermont in 1879; and
from Middlebury College, as LL.D. in 1901.
He was admitted to the bar in 1881 ; county
judge and surrogate of Essex County, New
York, from 1891 to 189S ; when he was
elected justice of the Suprerne Court of
New York, for the term expiring in 1909.
He served in the General Term, from 1896
to 1898; was appointed in i8g8, associate
justice of the Supreme Court, Appellate
Division of the First Department, January
1, 1898. He is a Republican in politics,
and is a member of the University of Ver
mont Alumni Association, and of the Uni
versity, Century, Lotos, West Side Repub

lican, and Manhattan Clubs. He married
in Port Henry, New York, 1866, Lucy-
Warner. Residence: 393 West End Ave
nue, and Twenty-fifth Street, New York
City.MACLAY, Isaac Walker:
Ex-army officer, and civil engineer; born
in New York City, May 14, 1841 ; son of
Dr. Archibald Maclay and of Julia Ann
(Walker) daughter of Isaac Walker, Balti
more, one of the defenders of Baltimore
in the War of 1812, and great grand
daughter of Henry Sater of Baltimore,
Maryland, who received large grants of
land from Lord Baltimore, and erected the
First Baptist Church in the Province of
Maryland in 1742. He was educated at
University Grammar School, and was
undergraduate of the University of the City
of New York from 1856 to i860. Entered
the United States Military Academy in
June, i860, graduated June, 1864, and was
appointed second lieutenant, First Regiment
of Artillery, July 6, 1864; instructor of
heavy artillery to Sixty-ninth Regiment
New York Volunteers and Fifty-eighth
Brooklyn Regiment of Volunteers at Fort
Wadsworth, New York, 1864; assistant
ordnance officer Washington Arsenal,
Washington, D. C, 1864 to 1866; made the
first tests and reports for the War Depart
ment of the Gatling Machine Gun at the
Watertown Arsenal, in 1866 and 1867.
Promoted first 'lieutenant Ordnance Corps,
1867 ; assistant superintendent United States
Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1867
and 1868; chief ordnance officer, Depart
ment of the Platte on staff of General C.
C. Augui, 1868 and 1869 ; assistant ordnance
officer, Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy,
New York, 1869 to 1873 ; member of Board
of Officers to appraise and sell various
arsenals; assigned to Rock Island Arsenal,
Illinois, as ordnance officer, August 1, 1873;
resigned from the United States Army, No
vember 13, 1873. On April 14, 1865, was at
Ford's Theatre with two army officers,
when President Lincoln was assassinated,
being in the front row of orchestra seats,
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sisted in carrying the President to the Pet
erson house, and at the request of Mrs.
Lincoln, brought Dr. Stone to the bedside.
Mr. Maclay was appointed assistant engin
eer in the Topographical Bureau, Depart
ment of Public Parks, New York City,
October 27, 1875 ; subsequently became prin
cipal assistant civil and topographical, en
gineer, Department of Parks, engaged in
surveying, laying out and monumenting
streets, avenues and roads north of One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street, Manhattan,
and also in the Twenty-third and Twenty-
fourth Wards after annexation of these
Wards to the City, which position he re
signed to accept that of chief engineer
Long Island Railroad. He was civil en
gineer and city surveyor, New York, in
1876, and in that year established the firm
of Maclay and Davies, since then engaged
in the real estate business. He is president
of the Maclay and Davies Real Estate
Company and the Yonkers Wharf and
Warehouse Company, and vice-president of
the Pelhamdale Land Company, a director
and member of the Executive Committee
of the Westchester Trust Company and the
Westchester-Bronxville Realty Company
and director Of the People's Savings Bank
of Yonkers. He is a member of the Amer
ican Civic Society, Municipal Art Society,
American Scenic and Historic Preservation
Society, Westchester County Historical So
ciety, Yonkers Library and Historical So
ciety, New York Zoological Society, So
ciety for the Preservation of the Adiron
dacks, American Forestry Association, Am
erican Museum of Natural History, Asso
ciation of Graduates of United States Mili
tary Academy, Sons of the Revolution and
Veteran Corps of Artillery, and Society of
the War of 1812, Delta Phi (Gamma Chap
ter), General Committee National Arbitra
tion and Peace Society; life member of the
New York Historical Society, American
Baptist Historical Society, and Yonkers So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil
dren. He was trustee of the University of
Chicago from 1900 to 1905, and is now trus
tee of the Virginia Union University, War-
burton Avenue Baptist Church and the Bap

tist Church Extension Society, and is a
member of the Board of Managers of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society,
National Temperance Society and Publish
ing House, and of the Executive Committee
of the Andrew H. Green Memorial Asso
ciation. Mr. Maclay was formerly a Demo
crat and a member of the Tammany Hall
General Committee, but is now a Repub
lican. He has served on various important
commissions in Yonkers, and in June, 1905,
was appointed member of the Rapid Transit
Commission for the City of Yonkers by
Mayor Andrus, and appointed by Mayor
Coyne of Yonkers, July, 1907, on the Com
mittee of Citizens to confer with Public
Service Commission and protest against
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
road Company. He married, in New York
City, November 30, 1869, Laura A., daughter
of ex-Mayor William F. Havemeyer, and
they have had six children; Julia Have
meyer, Agnes Craig, William F. H. Have
meyer, Henry Havemeyer (deceased),
Archibald and Laura Grace. Residence:
Yonkers, New York. Office : 67 Wall Street,
New York City.
McLEAN, Charles B.:
President of the Lincoln National Bank,
of Pittsburgh; also president of the Alle
gheny Plate Glass Company. When seven
teen years old he moved to Allegheny and
was employed in the old Masonic Deposit
Savings Bank, now Lincoln National Bank,
as messenger and general utility man. He
rose rapidly through the various positions.
In 1880 he became cashier and In 1888
president. Mr. McLean is interested in
outside industries ; was treasurer of the
Art Society and the Pittsburgh Orchestra
Guarantor's Fund, and is now a director
of. the West Penn Hospital, in financial and
manufacturng affairs in the Consolidated
Ice Company, and is now a director of the
Glassmere Land Company and the Am-
bridge Trust Company. Address : Lincoln
National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
MacLEAN, Charles F. :
Jurist; born at New Hartford, New
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Harriet (Waters) MacLean. After grad
uation at Yale in 1864, and post-graduate
studies in the University of Berlin, lie was
admitted to the bar and engaged in practice
in New York City. He was active in polit
ical affairs, as a Democrat, and served at
different times as police commissioner, pres
ident of the Police Board, park commis
sioner and health commissioner of New
York City. In 1895 he was elected justice
of the Supreme Court of New York for
the term expiring in 1901. Judge MacLean
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, and of the Yale
Alumni Association, and is a member of
the Manhattan, National Democratic, Law
yers', Barnard, Lotos, Reform, New York
Press, and German Press Clubs of New
York City. Address: 2122 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
McLEAN, John Roll:
Newspaper publisher; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, September 17, 1848; son of Washing
ton McLean. He was educated in the Cin
cinnati public schools and at Harvard Uni
versity. He bought the interest of his
father in the Cincinnati Enquirer and after
ward purchased the shares of the other
members, becoming the sole owner of the
paper, which has always been remarkable
for the comprehensive completeness of its
news "of the Ohio Valley region. Mr. Mc
Lean has taken a prominent position in the
Democratic politics of Ohio and the Nation,
and was for years the Ohio member of the
National Democratic Committee. He Was
Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio
in 1899. Residence: Washington, D. C.
MACLEAN, Samuel Richter:
Banker, foreign negotiator of American
issues^ born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
April 5, 1842; son of Samuel Maclean, Jr.,
He was graduated from Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, in 1861 and attend
ed Yale two years. He is a member of
Samuel Maclean and Company, bankers,
Pittsburgh; assistant financial editor of
Wall Street Journal and the Albion of New
York. He is a member of the Yale Al
umni Association and of the Merchants'

Club of New York City, Apawamis Club
of Rye, New York, and of the Junior Carl
ton and City Clubs of London. Mr. Mac
lean has been married twice; first in 1863
to Henrietta Thornton Wood; and second
in 1892 to Esther Clarke Schoonmaker of
Pittsburgh, who died November, 1905. Ad
dresses: 39 Broad Street, New York City,
and 68 Lombard Street, E. C, London,
England. McLENNAN, Peter Baillte:
' Jurist; born in Lyndon, Cattaraugus
County, New York, 1850; son of Colin and
Ann (Frazer) McLennan. He was grad
uated from Alfred University as A.B. in
1873 and later received the degrees of Ph.
D. and LL.D. He was admitted to the bar
in 1876; elected justice of the Supreme
Court of New York in 1892; assigned to
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, in
1898; designated as presiding justice by
Governor Odell in 1903, the "designation ex
piring December 31, 1906; reelected No
vember, 1906, as justice of the Supreme
Court for the term expiring December 31,
1920. He was redesignated as presiding jus
tice by Governor Hughes in 1907, the des
ignation expiring December 31, 1920. In
politics he is a Republican. Judge McLen
nan married in Addison, New York, in
1881, Bella Barron. Address : Syracuse,
New York.
MACLEOD, Frederick Joseph:
Lawyer; born in Prince Edward Island,
Canada, June 30, 1870"; son of Hector Mac-
leod and Melinda (Douglas) Macleod. He
was graduated from Dalhousie University
as B.A. in 1890, and from Harvard Uni
versity as A.B. in 1891, A.M. in 1892, and
LL.B. in 1899. He became instructor in the
University of Nebraska in 1895 and . 1896 ;
was expert agent on corporation laws and
taxation for the Massachusetts Commission
for the Revision of the Corporation Laws
in 1902. Mr. Macleod was State senator,
representing Cambridge, in 1906 and 1907.
He is a Democrat in politics. He is a mem
ber of the Citizens' Trade Association,
Economy, Intercolonial and Boston City
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First Corps Cadets Massachusetts Volun
teer Militia, and the Good Government
League. Residence: no Oxford Street,
Cambridge. Address: 15 Beacon Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
McMAHON, Fulton:
Lawyer; born in Ohio in 1863. He was
graduated from Princeton University as
A.B. in 1884, and M.A. in 1886, and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. He trav
eled and studied abroad; then engaged iij
general law practice in New York City.
He is an Independent Democrat in national
politics; and active in the efforts for secur
ing a non-partisan business administration
of city affairs. Mr. McMahon is a member
of the Association of ,the Bar of the City
of New York and the New York State Bar
Association. He is trustee of the Skin and
Cancer Hospital, and is a member of the
University, City and Princeton Clubs.
Residence : 28 West Thirty-ninth Street,
New York City. Address: 54 William
Street, New York City.
McMICHAEL, Thomas Hanna:
President of Monmouth College; born at
Bellbrook, Ohio, July 7, 1863; son of Jack
son B. and Mary (Hanna) McMichael.
He received his academic education at
Monmouth College, where he was graduat
ed in 1886 with the degree of A.B., re
ceiving that of A.M. in 1889. After his
graduation from Monmouth College he be
gan to study for the ministry at the Xenia
Theological Seminary, graduating from it
in 1890. The honorary degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by Westminster Col
lege in 1903. After his ordination to the
ministry of the United Presbyterian Church
in 1890, he became pastor at Spring Hill,
Indiana. In 1892 he resigned from this
pastorate to take charge of the First United
Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, Ohio,
where he officiated for eleven years. In
1903 he was elected president of Monmouth
College, Monmouth, Illinois, which position
he now holds. In politics he is identified
with the Republican party. He married at
Burlington, Iowa, May 21, 1890, Minnie E.
Mac Dill, and has two children : Mary

Lois, and David Mac Dill. Address : Mon
mouth, Illinois.
McMILLAN, Duncan James:
Clergyman; born at Pulaski, Tennessee,
June 2, 1846; son of Rev. Edward and
Mary Ann (Brown) McMillan. He was
graduated from Blackburn University as
A.B., S.T.B., 1870, and A.M., in 1873;
and received the D.D. degree from Wash
ington and Jefferson College in 1883. He
was superintendent of public schools at
Carlinville, Illinois, from 1870 to 1872; and
pastor of the Walnut Grove Presbyterian
Church of Carrollton, Illinois, from 1872
to 1875. He was founder of Wahsatch
Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Utah, in 1875; and
the originator and superintendent of the
system of Presbyterian schools in Utah and
Montana. He was founder and first presi
dent of the College of Montana, secretary
of the Presbyterian Board of Home Mis
sions from 1890 to 1898 ; and has been past
or of the New York Presbyterian Church,
New York City, since 1899. He was regi
mental orderly of the Thirty-second Illinois
Infantry in 1862 ; and a private of Company
K of the Seventh Illinois Mounted Infantry
in 1865. He was alderman of Deer Lodge,
Montana, in 1888; and declined nomination
to the United States Senate in 1890. Dr.
McMillan is a director of the Presbyterian
Board of Church Erection. He is a mem
ber of the Chi Alpha fraternity, the British
Philosophical Society; is a Mason, a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
a trustee of the University of Texas. He
married at Godfrey, Illinois, June 18, 1879,
Emily Kent Johnston, and they have two
children : Clarence and Florence. Address :
226 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
Street, New York City.
McMILLIN, Benton:
Ex-governor of Tennessee ; born in Mon
roe County, Kentucky, September n, 1845;
removed to Tennessee in boyhood. He was
educated in private schools and academies,
and after studying law in offices he began
practice at Carthage, Tennessee, in 1871.
He became active in politics, and in 1874
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of the Tennessee Legislature, and the follow
ing year was appointed a special commis
sioner to treat with the State of Kentucky
for the purchase of Territory. He was a
presidential elector on the Tilden and Hen
dricks ticket in 1876 ; was appointed a spec
ial judge of the Circuit Court of Tennessee
in 1877 and in 1878 was elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress, and1 was biennially
reelected to subsequent Congresses up to
and including the Fifty-fifth, serving from
1879 to 1899. He gained distinction as one
of the leading members on the Democratic
side of the ¦ House, and. was a member of
the Ways and Means Committee during the
latter part of his "service. He was governor
of Tennessee, from 1899 to 1903. Address :
Carthage, Tennessee.
McMILLIN, Emerson:
Banker;, born in Ewington, Ohio, April
16, 1844. He received his education in the
public schools. He served in the Union
Army during the Civil War, and subse
quently became connected with a firm build
ing gas works at Ironton, Ohio, and
on their completion, 1869, was made their
manager; later manager Columbus Gas
Company, president St. Louis Gals Company
and many smaller properties. In 1891 he
went to New York, establishing the bank
ing firm of Emerson McMillin and Com
pany. He is president and director of the
American , Light and Traction Company,
Binghamton Gas Works, Consolidated Gas
Company of New Jersey, St. Joseph Gas
Company, St. Paul Gas Light Company, San
Antonio Gas and Electric Company, San
Antonio Traction Company, Western Gas
Company, Grand Rapids Gas Light Com
pany; vice-president and director of the
Muskegon Traction and Lighting Company ;
chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Denver Gas and Electric Company, Jacques
Cartier Water Power Company ; director of
the American Coal Products Company, Cap
ital City Bank, Consolidated Rubber Tire
Company, Lincoln Gas and Electric Light
Company, Michigan Light Company, and
National Surety Company. Mr. McMillin is
a member of the Union League, Lawyers',

Army and Navy, and Engineers' Clubs of
New York. Residence: 320 Riverside
Avenue, New York City. Office address:
49 Wall Street, New York City.
McMORRAN, Henry:
Congressman and merchant ; born in Port
Huron, Michigan, July n, 1844; son of
Robert W. McMorran and Isabella Mc-
Morran. He attended public schools un
til he was thirteen years old, and then be
gan business life. He has been engaged
in the grocery business, milling, grain and
elevated trade, and is connected with nu
merous commercial, manufacturing and
transportation companies. He was general
manager of the Port Huron and North
western Railway from 1878 to 1890, when
it was sold to the Flint and Pere Marquette
Company. Mr. McMorran has always been
an active Republican and prominent in
party affairs. He has been alderman and
city treasurer of Port Huron, Michigan, and
a member of the Canal Commission. He
was elected in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Con
gress, and in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Con
gress, and in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress,
in which he is now serving. He married,
October n, 1866, Emma C. Williams, daugh
ter of Myron Williams of Marysville, Mich
igan, and he has a son, who is engaged in
business with him, and two daughters. Ad
dress : Port Huron, Michigan.
MacMURPHY, Jesse Gibson:
Clergyman; born in Derfy, New Hamp
shire, April 8, 1845; son of Alexander Mac-
Murphy, Jr., and Sarah Atwood (Gibson)
Murphy. After a preparatory course at
Pinkerton Academy at Derry, from 1859 to
1863, he entered Dartmouth College, from
which he received the degree of B.S. in
1868, and later M.S. ; and was graduated
from Nashotah Theological Seminary in
1873, with the degree of B.D. He was or
dered deacon by Bishop Whitehouse in 1873
and ordained priest by Bishop Armitage in
1874, in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. He was in charge of St. Peter's
Church, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, one
year ; rector of Immanuel Church, Racine,
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the Church of St. John the Evangelist, San
Francisco, 1881 to 1884; master in Racine
College and rector of the Church of the
Holy Innocents at Racine, for three years;
since August 6, 1900 (when services were
begun) rector of the Church of the Trans
figuration, at West Derry, New Hamp
shire, which he built up, building a new
church which was opened in March, 1907.
Mr. Mac Murphy is a member of the New
Hampshire Historical Society, New Eng
land Genealogical Society, Confraternity of
the Blessed Sacrament, Society for the
Promotion of Christian Unity. He is a
Thirty-second degree Mason, Knight Tem
plar and member of the Mystic Shrine;
member of Derry Grange, Patrons of Hus
bandry, and the Derry Board of Trade, is
a trustee in the Nutfield Savings Bank, and
a director in the First National Bank of
West Derry. Mr. Mac Murphy married,
April 23, 1870, Mary Lucy James, daugh
ter of Captain Joseph Warren James and
Harriet Neely (Hoyt) James of Deerfield,
New Hampshire, and they have had three
children, of whom two are living: Sarah
Russell Mac Murphy and Jerome Case
Mac Murphy. Address: West Derry, New
Hampshire.
McMURRAY, James Henry:
President of Lincoln College; born at
Tuscarawas, Ohio, in 1871 ; son of E. G.
and Lydia (Van Lehn) McMurray. He
received his preparatory education at Ober
lin Academy, 1891-93, and, entering Oberlin
College was graduated in 1897, with the
degree of A.B. He took post-graduate
study at the University of Chicago in the
summer following and received from Har
vard University in 1900, the degree of
A.M. Following his graduation from Ob
erlin College in 1897 he was appointed to
the chair of science in Central College and
holding that position until 1902, when he
was elected to the presidency of the same
college. In 1905 he resigned to become the
head of Lincoln College, a position he still
holds. In the summer of 1901 he did work
in connection with the United States Fish
Commission. Mr. McMurray is in politics

a Republican and he is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. He married at Tus
carawas, Ohio, August 25, 1897, Kathryn
Romig, and has two children: Bessie
Claire, born in 1899, and Jean Gordon, born
in 1903. Address: 226 Latham Street,
Lincoln, Illinois.
McMURTRY, George G.:
Capitalist. He is director of the Ameri
can Can Company, the Rock Island Com
pany, Railway Steel Spring Company, and
the National Bank of commerce and chair
man of the Board of Directors of the Am
erican Sheet and Tin Plate Company. Ad
dress: 71 Broadway, New York City.
McNALLY, James Clifford:
United States consul; born May 12,
1865; educated in the public schools of
Allegheny, Pennsylvania; was graduated
from St. Vincent's College at Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, with the degree of M.A-, and
from the University of Michigan, law de
partment in the class of 1891, with degree
of LL.B. ; was admitted to the bar of Michi
gan and Utah, practicing at Salt Lake City ;
appointed United States commissioner, and
later probate judge at Salt Lake City by
President Cleveland, holding the same until
the admission of Utah as a State; appoint
ed secretary of legation and consul-general
of the United States at Bogota, Colombia,
February 14, 1898; appointed secretary of
legation and consul-general of the United
States at Guatemala City, October 27, 1899 ;
appointed consul-general May 17, 1900, to
take effect July 1, 1900; appointed consul
at Liege, Belgium, November 5, 1902.
While secretary of legation and consul-gen
eral at Bogota, Columbia, he was selected
by the diplomatic representatives of Great
Britain, Germany, France and Italy, on the
one hand, and Colombia, on the other hand,
to act as umpire on the Arbitration Board
selected to pass upon the claims of Cerruti
and his creditors against the Republic of
Colombia; both representatives failing to
agree, the burden of the decision rested up
on the umpire, who decided the same. Ad
dress : United States Consul, Liege, Belg-

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MacNEIL, Hermon Atkins:
Sculptor and teacher; born at Everett,
Massachusetts, in 1866; son of John Clin
ton MacNeil and Mary Lash (Pratt) Mac-
Neil. He was educated at the Massachu
setts Normal Art School, Academie Julien
and Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, holding
the Roman Rinehart scholarship for four
years in Rome. He taught at the Art In
stitute of Chicago, and at .Cornell Univer
sity, Pratt Institute and Art Students'
League, New York City, and is now
teacher at the National Academy of
Design, New York City. He executed im
portant decorative work at the Paris Ex
position in 1900, including the spandrills
on the United States buildings. At the Pan
American Exposition, 1901, he sculp
tured the group : Despotism, and made the
tympanum of the Ethnological Building. At
St, Louis Exposition in 1904, main cascade;
and others of his works are the McKinley
Memorial at Columbus, Ohio; Heroic In
dian group, Coming of the White Man;
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial at Whitins-
ville, Massachusetts, and other works locat
ed at the Art Institute, Chicago; Peabody
Institute, Baltimore; Cornell University;
Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Illinois, and
Montclair, New Jersey. He received the
Designers' medal at Chicago, 1893; silver
medal at Paris, 1900, and the Charleston
Exposition in 1902; and gold medal at the
Pan American Exposition, 1902. He was a
member of the International Jury, and re
ceived the commemorative gold medal of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904
Mr. MacNeil is an academician of the Na
tional Academy of Design; member of the
National Arts Club, Society of American
Artists, National Sculpture Society, Archi
tectural League, Municipal Art Society, and
is a member of the Century Association of
New York City. He married in Chicago,
Illinois, in 1895, Carol Louise Brooks.
Residence and studio : College Point, Long
Island. Address: Manhattan Studio, 45
West Twenty-second Street, New York
City. MacNEILLE, John R.:
Auditor, investigator and statistician;
born in Brockton, Massachusetts, January

21, 1876; son of Robert G. S. and Ellen L.
(Coe) MacNeille. He received a college
preparatory course at the Hotchkiss School,
Lakeville, Connecticut, graduating with a
record number of special honors; and he
was graduated from Yale College, as A.B.,
in 1897 with special honors in three de
partments ; and a fellowship in the academic
department. He engaged with the Interna
tional Paper Company, as statistician, in
1898, and was successively chief of the
bureau of statistics, manager of statistical,
cost, and pay departments of the company,
and has been auditor of company since 1905.
Mr. MacNeille has traveled extensively in
France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy,
Switzerland, France and England, in 1906.
He was a member of the Connecticut Naval
Reserve in 1897 and 1898; served as a
petty officer during the Spanish-American
War on the United States Monitor Wyan
dotte ; and was a member of the New York
Navai Reserve, of the Second Battalion, a
petty officer from 1900 to 1903. Mr. Mac
Neille was a member of the faculty of the
New York University, School of Commerce
lecturing on business organization and
management, from 1904 to 1906; member
of the faculty of the Wharton School of
Commerce and Finance, of the University
of Pennsylvania, lecturing in a similar
course during the same period. In 1906
he made an investigation of the American
Ice Company, for the attorney-general of
State of New York. He is vice-president
and director of the Investors' Agency. In
1906 he was retained by the attorney-gener
al of New York State for special work,
investigating the accounts of the Consoli
dated Gas Company of New York, and was
retained by Charles E. Hughes for special
work in connection with the investigation
of the coal carrying railroads by the depart
ment of Justice at Washington. In 1907
he was retained by the attorney-general of
New York . to help brief the facts in the
State's case against the Consolidated Gas
Company, also to take charge of the further
investigation of the American Ice Company,
pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court.
In 1906 he was retained by Commissioner
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vestigations of large corporations. In 1907,
Mr. MacNeille was retained by Mayor Mc
Clellan of New York, with Marvyn Scud-
der, to investigate the departments of the
borough presidents of Manhattan and the
Bronx. He is a Republican in politics, and
a Congregationalist in his religious faith.
He is a member of the American Economic
Association, Phi Beta Kappa Society and
Zeta Psi fraternity, and of the Yale, New
York Athletic, Crescent Athletic and Grad
uates' Clubs of New York City. He married
in New York, 1906, Ada L. Merrall. Ad
dress: 52 Wail Street, New York City.
McNEIR, George:
Merchant. He is vice-president and dir
ector of W. & J. Sloane; of McCleary,
Wallin & Crouse, Amsterdam, New York,
of the Bank of the Metropolis, New York
City, and of Oldham Mills, Philadelphia;
director of the American Seeding-Machine
Company, Springfield, Ohio, Nairn Linol
eum Company, Kearney, New Jersey, Os-
sining National Bank and Shuttleworth
Brothers Company, Amsterdam, New
York; and is a trustee of the Bowery Sav
ings Bank of New York. Address : 884
Broadway, New York City.
McNIECE, Robert Gibson:
Clergyman and college dean; born at
Topsham, Orange County, Vermont, Janu
ary 10, 1839; son of John McNiece and
Lydia Divoll. He was graduated" from
Dartmouth College as A.B. in 1867, and
from Princeton Theological Seminary in
1877; and he received the degree of D.D.
from Knox College, Illinois, and from Wa
bash College, Indiana, in 1883. He was
principal of the high school at Fort Wayne,
Indiana, from 1867 to 1870; editor of the
Fort Wayne Daily Gazette from 1870 to
1873 ! pastof of the First Presbyterian
Church of Salt Lake City, from 1877 to
1897, and since April I, 1897, dean of West
minster College, Salt Lake City, of which
he is also a trustee. Dr. McNiece has taken
an active part in the work of Americanizing
and Christianizing Utah. He is a Repub
lican in politics ; is one of the leading Pres
byterian divines of the Pacific Slope, and

is a member of the Salt Lake Ministerial
Association. He married at Galesburg, Il
linois, August 4, 1881, Sara J. Irwin, a
graduate of Knox College, and they have
two sons: Irwin, born June 17, 1882, and
Renwick Sloane, born June 28, 1886, both
of whom are graduates of Princeton Uni
versity (1905 and 1907). Residence: 1136
Blaine Avenue, Salt Lake City. Office ad
dress : Westminster College, Salt Lake City.
MACON, Robert Bruce:
Congressman and lawyer; born near
Trenton, Phillips County, Arkansas, July
6, 1859. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress without opposition, and to the
Fifty-ninth Congress, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, from the First Arkansas
District, Address: Helena, Arkansas.
McOWEN, Frederick:
Capitalist. He is treasurer of the Ber-
wind- White Coal Mining Company; direct
or of the Merchants' National Bank and
director of the DeLong Hook and Eye
Company. Address: 305 Betz Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McPHERSON, John Bayard:
Jurist; born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
November 5, 1846; son of William C. Mc
Pherson and Elizabeth (Wallace) McPher
son. He was graduated from Princeton as
A.B. in 1866, and A.M. in 1869, and receiv
ed from that university in i8og, and from
the University of Pennsylvania and Frank
lin and Marshall College in the same year,
the degree of LL.D. He practiced law at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1870 until
1882, and served as district attorney for
several years. He was elected judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in 1882, and served
in that office until appointed by President
McKinley, March 13, 1899, as judge of the
United States District Court for the East
ern District of Pennsylvania. Address:
2216 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

McPHERSON, Smith:
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education in the public schools he entered
the law department of the University of
Iowa, and in 1870 was admitted to the bar.
He practiced law at Red Oak, Iowa, until
his appointment to the bench. Meanwhile
he was active politically as a Republican;
was district attorney for six years, attorney-
general of Iowa for four years, and in
1898 was elected from the Ninth Iowa Dis
trict to the Fifty-sixth Congress, serving
until June, 1900, when he resigned his seat
to accept appointment to his present office
of judge of the United States District
Court for .the Southern District of Iowa.
Address : Red Oak, Iowa.
McSURELY, William Harvey:
Jurist; born at Oxford, Ohio, January
27, 1865; son of Rev. William Jaspar Mc-
Surely, D.D., and Hulda (Taylor) McSure-
ly. He received his early education in the
public schools, attended the South Salem
(Ohio) Academy, and entered the Univers
ity of Wooster, Ohio, from which he was
graduated as A.B- in 1886 and as A-M. in
1889. He removed to Chicago in 1887, and
engaged in the practice of law there in
1889. In 1897 he became a member of the
firm of Burley and McSurely, which con
nection continued until he went upon the
bench. He has taken an active part in
political affairs as a Republican ; was elected
to the General Assembly of Illinois, in
1904, and in 1907 he was elected to his
present office as judge of the Superior Court
of Illinois. Judge McSurely is a Presby
terian in his church relations and is a trus
tee of the University of Wooster. He is a
member of the Illinois State Bar Associa
tion, the Chicago Bar Association and the
Chicago Law Club, and is also a member of
the Union League, University, Hamilton and
Homewood Country Clubs of Chicago. He
married in Chicago, October 18, 1892, Eliza
beth Cadman. Address: 5037 Washington
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
MacVEAGH Franklin:
Merchant ; born on a farm near Phoenix-
ville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He
was graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1862,
and from Columbia Law School, New York,

in 1864, and began practice with his brother
Wayne MacVeagh, but his health failing
he abandoned the law and went West.
Shortly after he established in Chicago the
wholesale grocery house of Franklin Mac
Veagh and Company, which has for many
years been one of the largest in the country,
and of which he is still at the head. He
is also a director of the Commercial Na
tional Bank and of other Chicago Corpora
tions. Mr. MacVeagh is distinguished in
Chicago not only as a most successful
merchant, but especially for his active work
in behalf of civic progress and reform. He
was president of the Citizens' Association
of Chicago in 1874 and several years after
ward and made it the means of important
political reforms. He was nominated in
convention by the Democracy of Illinois,
for the United States Senate, and made a
canvass of the State, but was defeated in
the Legislature. At the head of the Bureau
of Charities he added greatly to the effect
iveness of that organization, and as chair
man of the Municipal Art League and
otherwise he has been a faithful worker for
the beautifying of Chicago, by extension of
the boulevard system and in many other
ways. He also has taken an active part
in the work of the National Civic Federa
tion. He married Miss Emily Eames.
Residence: 103 Lake Shore Drive, Chi
cago. Office address: Wabash Avenue
and Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.
MacVEAGH, Wayne:
Lawyer; born on a farm near Phoenix-
ville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, April
I9> !833- He was graduated from Yale in
1853, and was admitted to the bar at West
Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1856. From 1859
to 1864 he was district attorney of Chester
County; and served as captain of infantry
in 1862 and of cavalry in 1863 when Penn
sylvania was threatened with invasion. He
became one of the Republican leaders of
Pennsylvania and was elected chairman of
the Republican State Central Committee
in 1863. He also attained great distinction
as a lawyer. He was United States minis
ter to Turkey in 1870 and 1871, and in the
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politics against Simon Cameron, his father-
in-law. In 1872 and 1873 he was a promin
ent member of the Constitutional Conven
tion of Pennsylvania. He was chairman of
the MacVeagh Commission, sent by Presi
dent Hayes to represent him unofficially
in Louisiana and secure an amicable ad
justment of the political differences in that
State. He was appointed attorney-general
of the United States in March, 1881, by
President Garfield, but resigned upon the
accession of President Arthur. He sup
ported Cleveland for the Presidency in 1892,
and was ambassador to Italy from 1893 to
1897; but in 1896 and since then has sup
ported Republican candidates. He was
chief counsel of the United States in 1903,
in the matter of the Venezuelan arbitra
tion before the Hague Tribunal. Resi
dence: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Office
address : Washington, D. C.
McVICKAR, Edward:
Real estate operator ; born in Boston, in
1869. He was educated at boarding school
and one year at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; then entered the Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale, from which he was
graduated as engineer in 1892. Soon after
graduation he became interested in stock
farming at his country place, the Vickarage
Stock Farm, in Lewis County, New York,
and since 1898 he has been engaged in the
real estate business. He organized, in 1901,
the Real Estate Security Company of New
York; in 1902, the McVickar Company;
and in 1904, with others, the Shippan Point
Land Company. He is largely interested
in suburban development, as well as trans
acting a general real estate business in the
city. He is a member of the Union, Delta
Phi, Racquet and Tennis, Calumet, City
Midday and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. He
married, in 1890, Edith Lawrence Speyers,
daughter of Albert George Pigot Speyers
of New York City. Residence: 112 East
Fifty-sixth Street, New York City. Office
address : 200 Broadway, New York City.
McVICKAR, William Neilson:
Bishop of Rhode Island; born in New
York City, October 19, 1843; son of Dr.

John A. McVickar. He received his aca
demic education at Columbia University,
graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1865
and receiving that of A.M. in i§68. Hav
ing taken up in the meanwhile theological
studies at the General Theological Semin
ary, New York City, he graduated in 1868.
The degree of D.D. was conferred upon
him by Kenyon College in 1885, and by
the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. He
received that of S.T.D. from Columbia in
1898, and LL.D. from Brown University
in 1904. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1867 and the following
year was ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop H. Potter. During his diaconate lie
was assistant at St. George's Church, New
York City, being in 1868, made rector of
the Holy Trinity Church in Harlem (New
York City). After seven years of activity
in this station, he was called to the rector
ship of Holy Trinity Church at Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, remaining there until
his consecration to the episcopate in 1898.
He was bishop-coadjutor of Rhode Island
from 1898 to 1903, becoming bishop of the
same diocese in the latter year. He is an
elected member of the Board of Missions of
the Protestant Episcopal Church and a
member of the Inter-Church Conferences
on Marriage and Divorce. Address: Bish
op's House, Providence, Rhode Island.
McWHORTER, Henry Clay:
President judge of the Supreme Court of
Appeals of West Virginia; born in Marion
County, Ohio, February 20, 1836. He en
tered the Union Army as captain in 1861,
and served until compelled by a wound to
leave active field service in 1863, continuing
until 1865 as chief clerk of the provost
marshal's enrollment office. From 1866 un
til 1897 he practiced law at Charleston,
West Virginia. He was actively identified
with politics in his State as a Republican,
and was four terms a member of the West
Virginia House of Representatives,, and its
speaker. in 1868; prosecuting attorney from
1869 to 1873 ; again a member of the West
Virginia House of Representatives from
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from 1891 to 1893. He became an associate
justice of the Supreme Court of West
Virginia in 1897, and since 1903 has been
president of that court. His religious af
filiation is with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he was a member of the Gen
eral Conference of that Church in 1904.
Address : Charleston, West Virginia.'
MADDEN, Martin Barnaby:
Congressman; born in Darlington, Eng
land, March 20, 1855; son of John Madden
and Elizabeth Madden. He was educated
in the public schools and business colleges ;
was a member of the Chicago city council
from 1889 to 1897; presiding officer of that
body from 1891 to 1893, and chairman of
the Finance Committee from 1892 to 1897.
He was chairman of the Republican State
Convention in 1896, and delegate to the Na
tional Conventions of 1896 and 1900. Mr.
Madden is president of the Western Stone
Company of Chicago and a director of the
Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank of
Chicago. He was elected to the Fifty-
ninth Congress, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the First Illinois Dis
trict. He married at Downer's Grove, Il
linois, in 1878, Josephine Smart. Residence :
3829 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : 320 Chamber of Commerce Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
MADDOX, Samuel T.:
Jurist; admitted to bar and was engaged
in practice of law in Brooklyn and New
York City until November, 1896, when he
was elected to his present position as jus
tice of the Supreme Court of New York,
for the term expiring December 31, 1910.
Address: 87 Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn,
New York.
MADEIRA, Easton Earl:
Clergyman; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
January 8, 1868 ; son of Rev. Addison Dash
iell Madeira and Marie Louise (Isette)
Madeira. He was graduated from St
Stephen's College as B.A. in 1891 and M.A.
in 1899, received honors in logic in 1890
and in psychology in 1891 ; and was senior
prize essayist in 1891, and was graduated

from the General Theological Seminary in
1894. He was ordered deacon in 1894 and
ordained priest in 1894 ; was rector of Grace
Church, Chillicothe, Missouri, from 1894 to
1896, of Christ Church, Waterloo, Iowa,
from 1896 to 1900 and has been rector
Christ Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, since
1906. He is author of: Mission of the
Anglican Church to the Twentieth Century.
In politics he is a Democrat. He is direct
or of the Children's Home Society of Min
nesota, a member of the Masonic fraternity,
the Royal Arcanum and Sigma Alpha Ep
silon fraternity. His favorite recreations
are fishing and music. He is a member of
the Commercial Club of St. Paul, the St.
Paul Automobile Club. Mr. Madeira mar
ried, December 22, 1896, Marie Louise Ire
land, daughter of John B. Ireland and
Adelia Duane (Pell) Ireland, of New York
City, and they have three children: Dash
iell Livingston, born in 1898, Aston Floyd,
born in 1900, and Augustus Ireland, born in
1906. Residence : 155 West Fourth Street,
St. Paul. Address : Christ Church, St. Paul,
Minnesota. MADEIRA, Louis Childs:
Coal miner and shipper; born in Phila
delphia, June 2, 1853; son of Louis C.
Madeira and Adeline L. (Powell) Madeira.
He was prepared in the Episcopal Academy
of Philadelphia and graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania as B.S. in the
class of 1872. He was employed as civil
engineer, on the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad, from 1872 to 1874, and the Bound
Brook Railroad, from 1874 to 1877; entered
the firm of Louis C. Madeira and Sons in
1877; and became an officer of Madeira
Hill and Company in 1903, and is now its
secretary. Mr. Madeira is secretary and
director of George B. Newton and Com
pany, Incorporated, treasurer of the
Saltsburg Coal Mining Company, the Mad
eira, Hill, Clark Coal Company, treasurer
and director of the Thomas Coal Com
pany, and is director of the Standard Ice
Manufacturing Company, and the General
Accident Company. In politics he is a Re
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copalian. He has been a trustee of the Epis
copal Academy since 1899, and is a member
of the Rittenhouse, University, Philadel
phia, Philadelphia Country, Corinthian
Yacht, Germantown Cricket, and Philadel
phia Barge Clubs. Mr. Madeira married
in Philadelphia, October 16, 1890, Marion
Clark, and they have three children': Ed
ward Walter, born in 1892, Crawford Clark,
born in 1894, and Elizabeth, born in 1906.
Address : 900 North American Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MAGEE, John:
President of Fall Brook Coal Company;
born in Watkins, New York, December 2,
1867; son of George J. and Emma S. (Slot-
hoff) Magee. He was educated at Law
renceville (New Jersey) School. He was
engaged for years as miner and shipper of
coal ; now president of the Fall Brook Coal
Company, Fall Brook Railway Company,
and Morris Run Coal Mining Company;
and a director of the Syracuse, Geneva &
Corning Railway Company; Pine Creek
Railway Company, Beech' Creek Coal and
Coke Company, Pocahontas Collieries Com
pany, Kean Van Cortlandt and Company (re
alty company), Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany, Albany Trust Company, Schenectady
Trust Company, Chemung Canal Trust
Company, Atlantic Terra Cotta Company,
Chest Creek Land and Improvement Com
pany, Philadelphia and Reading Dock and
Terminal Company, and Tioga Improve
ment Company. He served as aide-de
camp on Governor Flower's staff. He is
a member of the Union, Racquet and Ten
nis, Turf and Field, Strollers', Midday
Lunch, Jekyl Island, Automobile of Amer
ica, Currituck Shooting, Travelers' (Paris)
Cercle de Bois de Bologne. He married
in Elmira, New York, November 4, 1901,
Florence Wetmore Seeley. Residence;
Corning, New York. Address: 13 West
Thirty-seventh Street, New York City.
MAGELSSEN, WiUlam C:
Consular officer; born in Minnesota. He
was appointed vice and deputy consul at
Beirut, September 20, 1899; appointed vice

and deputy consul-general, August 30, 1905,
and appointed consul at Bagdad, June 22,
1906. Address: Bagdad, Turkey.
MAGILL, George Ernest:
Clergyman; born in Melbourne, Province
of Quebec, Canada, June 7, i860; -son of
Rev. George John Magill, who was for
twenty-two years rector of Trinity Church,
Newport, Rhode Island, and Sarah McDon
ald (Tait) Magill, sister of Sir Melbourne
Tait, chief justice of Montreal, Canada.
He was educated in church schools, and
was graduated from Trinity College, as B.
A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1887; attended the
General Theological Seminary in 1884
and 1885, and Berkeley Divinity School
from 1885 to 1887. He was ordered
deacon in Holy Trinity Church, Middle-
town, Connecticut, by Rt. Rev7 John Wil
liams, D.D., on June 1, 1887; and was or
dained priest in Trinity Church, Newport,
Rhode Island, by Rt. Rev. Thomas March
Clark, D.D., on June 11, 1888. He was
curate at St. James' Church, Philadelphia,
from 1887 to 1889; at Trinity Church, New
York, from 1889 to 1893; rector of St.
Paul's Church, Yonkers, New York, from
1893 to 1896 and has been rector of the
Church of the Holy Innocents, Hoboken,
New Jersey, since 1896. He has visited
Great Britain and France, several times.
He is a trustee of Christ Hospital, Jersey
City, New Jersey; St. Katherine's Home,
Jersey City; the Widows' Home, Hoboken,
and Church of Holy Innnocents, Hoboken;
member of' Psi Upsilon fraternity and the
Church Clerical Union of New York City.
Address : Holy Innocents' Rectory, 311
Sixth Street, Hoboken, New Jersey.
MAGILL, Samuel E. :
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
He was appointed clerk in the consulate at
Cardenas, in October, 1881, from which
he retired August, 1882; was appointed
consul at Tampico, July 17, 1897, and ap
pointed consul-general at San Salvador,
May 25, 1907. Address. San Salvador,
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MAGONIGLE, Harold Van Buren:
Architect; bom at Bergen Heights, New
Jersey, October 17th, 1867; son of John
Henry and Catherine . Celestine (Devlin)
Magonigle; he was educated in public
schools. He studied in. the offices of Vaux
& Radford, Charles C. Haight, McKim,
Mead & White, Rotch and Tilden ; awarded
a gold medal by Architectural League of
New York in 1891 ; Rotch traveling scholar
ship, 1894 to 1896 ; won competitions for Cor
nell Alumni Hall, National Maine Monu
ment, Gates Avenue Court House, McKin
ley National Memorial, etc. Served as first
lieutenant and battalion adjutant, One Hun
dred and Ninth Regiment, National Guard,
State of New York. He is a member of the
American Institute of Architects and New
York Chapter of same. He was married in
• New York City in 1900 to Edith Marion
Day. Address : 40 Washington Square, New
York City.
MAGOON, Charles E.:
Provisional governor of Cuba, born in
Minnesota, December 5, 1861 ; son of Henry
C. Magoon and Mehitable W. (Clement)
Magoon. After completing the course and
graduating from the high school at Owa-
tonna, Minnesota, he pursued a course of
studies at the University of Nebraska. He
was admitted to the bar in 1882, and engag
ed in the general practice of law at Lin
coln, Nebraska, and he became judge-ad
vocate of the Nebraska National Guard.
On March 21, 1899, he was appointed law
officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs and
in that place had an important part in
formulating and putting in force the pro
cedures and regulations in connection with
the new problems thrust upon the Govern
ment of the United States as the result of
the War with Spain. In this responsible
position he remained until July 1, 1904,
when he was appointed general counsel of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, another
place in which the problem to be encounter
ed required not only legal. ability, but also
gifts for initiative judgment. He remained
in that office until April 1, 1905, when he
was appointed a member of the Isthmian

Canal Commission, in addition to which he
became May 25, 1905, governor of the
Canal Zone, with official headquarters at
Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, and on July
7, 1905, was also appointed envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States at Panama. Upon the estab
lishment of intervention in Cuba, Secre
tary of War Taft acted as provisional gov
ernor from September 29, until a man of
the requisite experience and qualifications
could be found. The choice fell upon Gov
ernor Magoon who was appointed provision
al governor of Cuba, by President Roose
velt, and assumed the duties of the office
October 13, 1906, rapidly restoring peace
throughout the island and establishing an
orderly government. Mr. Magoon is a Re
publican in politics and a Congregationalist
in his religious beliefs. He is author of
a legal work on The Law of Civil Gov
ernment under Military Occupation, which
was published by the War Department of
the United States in 1902. The degree LL.
D. was conferred upon him, June 8, 1905,
by Monmouth College, Illinois. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, Alibi, Cosmos
and Chevy "Chase Clubs of Washington, and
1 governor Of the latter. Address : Ha
vana, Cuba.
MAHAN, Alfred Thayer:
Captain in the United States Navy; born
at West Point, New York, September 27,
1840; son of D. H. Mahan, who was pro
fessor of military engineering at the United
States Military Academy; he was appointed
from New York as cadet at the United
States Naval Academy in 1856 and was
graduated in 1859. He received the honor
ary degrees of D.C.L. from the University
of Oxford, and LL.D. from, the University
of Cambridge, England, 1894; from Har
vard University in 1895; from Yale Uni
versity in 1897; from . McGill University,
Montreal, in 1900; and from Columbia Uni
versity in 1900. He served on the United
States Steamship Brazil from 1859 to 1861 ;
•he Steamer Pocahontas of the South Atlan
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1861 ; served at the Naval Academy from
1862 to 1863; on the steam sloop Semi
nole of the Western Gulf Squadron from
1863 to 1864; on the steamer James Adgar
of the South Atlantic Squadron from 1864
to 1865; was commissioned lieutenant com
mander, June 7, 1865 ; served on Steamer
Muscoota of the Gulf Squadron from 1865
to 1866; on the Steamer Iroquois of the
Asiastic Squadron from 1867 to 1869; com
manded the Steamer Aroostook of the Asi
atic Fleet in 1869; Navy Yard, New York,
from 1870 to 1871 ; the Steamer Worcester
in 1871 ; was commissioned commander
November 20, 1872; commanded the Wasp
of the South Atlantic Station from 1873 to
1874; at the Navy Yard, Boston, from
1876 to 1877; at the Naval Academy from
1877 to 1880; at the Navy Yard, New York,
from 1880 to 1883 ; commanded the Wachu-
sett of the Pacific Station from 1883 to
1885 ; promoted to captain in 1885 ; at the
Naval War College in 1885 ; was president
of Naval War College from 1886 to 1889;
president of commission for selecting site
for navy yard on Northwest Coast in 1889 ;
on special duty in the Bureau of Navigation
from 1889 to 1892; president of the War
College and Torpedo School from 1892 to
1893 ; commanded the Chicago from 1893
to 1895; retired upon his own application
after forty years' of service, November 17,
1896. In May, 1898, he was ordered to duty
as a member of the Naval War Board ; and
was naval delegate to the Hague Confer
ence in 1899. He is the author of: The In
fluence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-
1873 ! Influence of Sea Power Upon the
French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812;
Life of Admiral Farragut ; Life of Nelson ;
Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of
1812; and of other works bearing on po
litical history as effected by naval and com
mercial power. His recreation is cycling.
He is a member of the University, Century
and Church Clubs. Address : 160 West
Eighty-sixth Street, New York City.
MAHAN, Dennis Hart:
Captain, United States Navy; born at
West Point, New York; son of D. H.

Mahan, who was professor of military en
gineering in the United States Military
Academy. He was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy in July,
1865 ; commissioned ensign in July, 1870 ;
master, February, 1873; lieutenant, Septem
ber, 1877; lieutenant-commander, May,
1898; commander, March, 1901; captain,
July 1, 1905. He served on the Sabine from
1869 to 1870; the Tennessee, on special
service on the San Domingo Expedition,
1871 ; Wachusett, Shenandoah and Con
gress in the European Squadron from 1871
to 1874; Plymouth, North Atlantic Squa
dron, 1874 and 1875; the Supply, on special
duty in 1876 and 1877 ; training ship Min
nesota, 1877 and 1878; receiving ship In
dependence, 1879 and 1880 ; the Alert, Ashue-
lot and Richmond, Asiatic Squadron, 1880
to 1883 ; Pensacola, special service, 1883 and
1884; training ship Minnesota, 1885; at
the Naval Academy, 1886 to 1888; War
College, 1888 ; Coast Survey, 1888 and 1890 ;
Alert, special service, 1890 to 1893; on duty
in the Hydrographic Office from 1893 to
1896; United States steamer Machias, 1896
to 1898; Yumuri, April, 1898; Badger, May,
1898 to 1899; Brooklyn, 1899 to 1900; ord
nance duty at the Washington Navy Yard,
1900; Navy Yard, Puget Sound, 1901 to
1904; ordnance officer, Navy Yard, Nor
folk, Virginia, 1905 and 1906; commanding
the Indiana, North Atlantic Fleet, since
December 10, 1906. Address : Care of the
Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
MAHON, Thaddeus Maclay:
Ex-congressman and lawyer; born at
Greenvillage, Franklin County, Pennsyl
vania; received a common school and aca
demic education; enlisted as a private in
Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-
sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers in August,
1862 ; after term of service in this regi
ment reenlisted as a veteran in January,
1864, in the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Ca
valry ; served until September, 1865 ; par
ticipated in most of the engagements with
Army of the Potomac, Fifth Corps; was
seriously wounded at Boydton Plank Road,
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law, and was admitted to practice in 1871,
and has been actively engaged in his pro
fession in southern, Pennsylvania ever since
his admission to the bar. Mr. Mahon was
a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature
in 1870 and 1871 ; served as chairman of
the General Judiciary Committee; is presi
dent of Baltimore and Cumberland Valley
Railroad, president of St. Thomas Bank,
a member of the commission having charge
of the soldiers' orphan schools of Pennsyl
vania, and was a candidate for Congress
in the Eighteenth District in 1876, and was
defeated by Hon. W. S. Stenger (who re
ceived the support of the Greenbackers)
by the small majority of 49. He has always
been a Republican and has always taken an
active part in State and National politics;
was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, serving until
March 3, 1907. Address: Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania.MAILHOUSE, Max:
Physician; born in New Haven, Connect
icut, February 5, 1857; son of Jacob Mail-
house and Caroline (Rosenthal) Mailhouse".
He was graduated from Yale University
as Ph.B. in 1876, and M.D. in 1878. He is
chairman of the Commission appointed by
the governor of Connecticut to investigate
the care and treatment of epileptics in that
and other States; is attending physician
of New Haven Hospital, and clinical pro
fessor of neurology at Yale University. He
was secretary of the State Medical Ex
amining Board from its organization in
1893, for a period of seven years. Dr.
Mailhouse is past president of the New
Haven and New Haven County Medical
Societies ; member of the Connecticut Medi
cal Society, New York Academy of Medi
cine, and New York Neurological Society.
He is a member of the Graduates' Club of
New Haven, and also the Harmonie Club
of New Haven. He married first, in New
Haven, September 15, 1887, Clara L. John
son, died April 18; 1900; married, second,
at Chicago, Illinois, June 3, 1902, Celia B.

Katz, and they have three children : Grace
L., born in 1889, Robert J., born in 1894,
and Barbara C, born September 11, 1907.
Address: 45 Elm Street, New Haven, Con
necticut.
MALLORY, Stephen RusseU:
United States senator; born in Florida,
November 2, 1848; son of Stephen R. Mal-
lory. He entered the Confederate Army in
Virginia in the fall of 1864; in the spring
of 1865, was appointed midshipman in the
Confederate Navy; entered Georgetown
College, District of Columbia, November,
1865, and was graduated in June, 1869. He
taught a class at Georgetown College until
July, 1871 ; was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of Louisiana at New Or
leans in 1873; removed to Pensacola, Flor
ida, in 1874, and began practicing law. He
was elected to the lower house of the Legis
lature in 1876; was elected to the Senate
of Florida in 1880, and was reelected in
1884; was elected to the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses from the First Dis
trict of Florida, and was elected to the
United States Senate by the Legislature of
Florida for the term beginning March 4,
1897, and was reelected in 1903, for the
term expiring March 3, 1909. Received the
degree of LL.D. from Georgetown Uni
versity in June, 1904. Address : Pensacola,
Florida.MALONEY, Andrew P.:
Official of public utilities and industrial
corporations; was born in Scranton, Penn
sylvania, March 16, 1861 ; son of John
Maloney and Catherine Maloney. He was
educated in the public schools and busi
ness college. Mr. Maloney is -president of the
State Construction Company, and of the
Coast Gas Company ; vice-president of Mal
oney Land Improvement Company; secre
tary of the Lakewood Gas Company ; treas
urer of the Newbold Improvement Com
pany, City Gas Light Company and Shore .
Gas Company. In politics he is a Republican
¦and in religion a Catholic. He is a member
of the Knights of Columbus and Lincoln
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children: John C. Maloney, born in 1888,
Joseph Maloney, born in 1891, Charles A.
Maloney, ' born in 1893, Marie Maloney,'
born in 1895, Ruth Maloney, born in 1897
and Andrew Maloney, Jr., born in 1906.
Residence: 1504 Tioga Street, Philadel
phia. Address : 1530 Land Title Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MALTBIE, Milo Roy:
Member of the Public Service Commis
sion for the First District, New York ; born
at Hinckley, Illinois, April 3, 1871 ; son of
Henry Munson Maltbie and Harriet S.
(Delano) Maltbie. He was graduated
from Upper Iowa University as Ph.B. in
1892, Northwestern University as Ph.M. in
1893, and from Columbia University as
Ph.D. in 1897. He was secretary of the
Reform Club Committee on City Affairs,
from 1897 to 1902. He was editor of Muni
cipal Affairs from 1897 to 1903; secretary
to Art Commission of the City of New
York from 1902 to 1907 ; investigated muni
cipal conditions in Europe for the Reform
Club, 1899; superintended the inquiry into
municipal ownership of public utilities in
Great Britain for the National Civic Fed
eration in 1906; delegate to the Internation
al Congress on Housing, 1902. He is a
member of the American Political Science
Association, Economic Association, Mu
nicipal Art Society, Metropolitan Parks As
sociation, and City Club. He is author of :
English Local Government of To-day; A
Study of the Relations of Central and
Local Government; Municipal Functions;
Street Railways of Chicago. He has con
tributed to many economic journals and
prepared numerous reports upon cities for
private organizations. He married at Mt.
Morris, Illinois, July 11, 1901, Lucia Mc-
Cosh. Residence: 512 West One Hundred
and Fifty-first Street. Office address:
Tribune Building, New York City.
MAN, Ernest A.:
Consular officer ; born in Pennsylvania.
He was appointed consul at Gothenburg,
February 22, 1887; retired December 5,
1890; appointed consul at Bergen, May 15,

1896; retired August 4, 1898; appointed
consular agent at Schiedam, October 27,
1898; appointed consul at Breslau, March
8, 1901 ; appointed June 22, 1906, consul-
general at Copenhagen, June 24, 1907, ap
pointed consul at Leghorn, Italy, where he
is now serving. Address : Leghorn, Italy.
MANIERRE, Alfred Lee:
Lawyer; born in New York' City, May
4, 1861 ; son of Benjamin F. and Caroline
(Flynn) Manierre. He received his educa
tion at Columbia College, in the class of
1883. He was Prohibition candidate for
mayor of New York City in 1900, and for
governor of New York State in 1902. In
his religious faith Mr. Manierre is a Pres
byterian; and he is an elder of the Scarbor
ough Presbyterian Church. He is a member
of the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, and the Alpha Delta Phi fra
ternity ; trustee of the National Temperance
Society; trustee and treasurer of the New
York Red Cross Hospital; and member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is also
a member of the City, Alpha Delta Phi
and Barnard" Clubs. He married in New
York City, November 10, 1897, Cornelia
P. Lockwood, and they have three chil
dren : Ruth Lockwood, born in 1899, B.
Franklin, 2d., born in 1900, and Alfred L,
Jr., born in 1903. Residence: 330 West
Seventy-sixth Street, New York City. Of
fice address : 31 Nassau Street, New York
City. MANN, Cameron:
Missionary bishop of North Dakota ; born
in New York City in 1851 ; son of Rev
erend Duncan Mann and Caroline Brother
(Schuyler) Mann. He studied at Hobart
College, graduating with the degree of B.A.
in 1870, receiving that of M.A. in 1876;
and that of D.D. was conferred upon him
in 1889 by the General Theological Semi
nary in New York. He took orders as
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1873, and
tvas ordained priest by Bishop Coxe in 1876.
He was rector at Branchport, New Jersey,
1873-75 ; of St. Peter's • Church, Albany,
New York, 1875 ; of St. James' Church, Wat
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Church, Kansas City, Missouri, 1882-1901.
He was elected missionary bishop of North
Dakota and was consecrated by Bishops
Tuttle, Talbot, Atwill, Brooke, Millspaugh,
Edsall, and Morrison (Iowa). Bishop Mann
married, in 1882, Mary Le Cain. He is au
thor of: Future Punishment, 1888; Com
ments on the Cross, 1893. Address : Fargo,
N. D.
MANN, James R.:
Congressman and lawyer; bom on a
farm in McLean County, Illinois, October
20, 1856; moved with his family to Iroquois
County, Illinois, when eleven years old.
His early education was received in the
public schools, and he afterward attended
the University of Illinois, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1876, and com
pleted the law course of the Union College
of Law with the degree of LL.B. in 1881.
Since then he has been engaged in law
practice in Chicago, and is head of the law
firm of Mann and Miller. He has been at
torney for Hyde Park and the South Park
commissioners of Chicago; was for four
years a member of the City Council of
Chicago; was chairman of the Illinois
State Republican Convention in 1894; and
chairman of the Republican County Con
vention in Chicago in 1895, and again in
1902; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected, to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Second Dis
trict of Illinois. Residence: Hyde Park,
Hotel, Chicago. Office address: Ashland
Block, Chicago, Illinois.
MANN, Louis:
, Actor ; born in New York City, 1865 ; son
pf Daniel and Caroline Mann; first appear
ance on stage was at three years of age, in
a children's production of Snow Flake, a
Christmas pantomime in' Germany, at the
Old Stadt Theatre, on the Bowery; went
to California with parents at twelve; edu
cated in New York public schools and par
tial course at University of California; did
not complete college course, but joined the
McCullough & Barrett Stock Company and
played boy parts, and on Sundays appeared

with the German Stock Company under
Ottilie Genee; returned, with his parents,
to the East and was induced to go to a
private school, but at seventeen was again
on the stage, where he has since continued.
Appeared with Booth, Salvini, Marie Pres
cott and Lewis Morrison, and other famous
actors, and finally headed his own company
as Robert Audley, in Lady Audley; Or-
mand Duval, in Camille; Rolando, in The
Honeymoon ; Master Walter, in the' Hunch
back; later in the Clemenceau Case, and in
Incog; later made his first essays as a Ger
man dialect comedian as Rothschild Hoff-
meister, in The Passing Regiment; took his
own company to the Pacific Coast and back,
playing the Laughing Girl (of which he was
joint author with Mrs. D. F. Verdenal) ;
since that has created the roles of Herr von
Moser, in The Strange Adventures of Miss
Brown; Hans the Innkeeper, in The Girl
from Paris; Hans Nix, Inspector of Tele
phones, in The Telephone Girl; Lebardy,
chocolate manufacturer, in The Girl in the
Barracks ; Hochstuhl, in All on Account of
Eliza; then was for a season with Weber
& Fields; starred as Leopold, in The Sec
ond Field ; since then, for last and the pres
ent season, playing Papa Poujol, in Julie
Bonbon, written by Clara Lipman. He mar
ried Clara Lipman, actress. Address: 310
West One Hundred and First Street, New
York City.
MANN, Matthew Derbyshire:
Physician; born in Utica, New York,
July 12, 1845; son of Charles Adison and
Emma (Bagg) Mann. He was educated in
the public schools of Utica, and was grad
uated from Yale University as A.B. in
1867 and A.M. in 1870, and from Columbia
University as M.D. in 1871. He practiced
medicine in New York City until 1879;
moved to Hartford, Connecticut and prac
ticed there until 1882; and since 1882 has
been practicing in Buffalo; and is pro
fessor of obstetrics and gynecology and
dean of the Medical Faculty in the Uni
versity of Buffalo. He has traveled in
Europe five times; also extensively in this
country. He is a fellow of many local,
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has held many important offices in societies
Dr. Mann is a member of the present com
mission to revise charter of Buffalo. In
politics he is an Independent Democrat and
in religion an Episcopalian. He is a mem
ber of the American Civic Federation, Psi
Upsilon fraternity; president of the Guido
Chorus, member of the Society of Colonial
Wars; president of St. Margaret School
Association; and president -of the Society
for beautifying Buffalo. His favorite re
creations are horseback riding, music, fish
ing, shooting and gardening. He is a
member of the University Club of Buffalo.
Dr. Mann married in St. Paul, Minnesota,
November ii, 1869, Elizabeth Pope, and
they have had seven children: Ethel, now
Mrs. Hurlow C. Curtiss, Dr. Edward Cox,
Rev. Arthur S., Paul F., Matthew D., Jr.,
Alan N. and Richard L. Address : 37 Allan
Street, Buffalo, New York.
MANN, William D'Alton:
Soldier, inventor and editor; born at
Sandusky, Ohio, September 27, 1839 ; son of
William R. and Eliza (Ford) Mann. He
was educated as a civil engineer, and at
the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered
the army as captain of the First Michigan
Cavalry; and in 1862 he organized the first
Mounted Rifles, afterward known as the
Fifth Michigan Cavalry. Immediately . fol
lowing, at the urgent request of the gov
ernor, he organized and commanded in the
field the Seventh Michigan Cavalry. Colonel
Mann received patents for valuable ac
coutrements for troops. After the war, he
settled in Mobile, Alabama, and engaged as
a manufacturer of cottonseed oil and in rail
road promotion and construction, and was
proprietor of Mobile Register. He was
elected to Congress from the Mobile District
in 1869, by an overwhelming majority,
but was refused a certificate by the Re
construction officials. In January, 1872, he
patented the boudoir car. and spent the next
ten years in Europe introducing it there ; in
1878, patented a platform on railway cars
constituting the vestibuled trains now in
universal use. He returned in 1883, settled
in New York City and established the Mann

Boudoir Car Company, which afterward
sold out to the Pullman Company. Colonel
Mann became owner and editor of Town
Topics in 1891 ; in 1900 founded The
Smart Set Magazine; and in 1905, the
Trans-Atlantic Tales Magazine. He is a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion; member of the Southern Society,
Ohio Society, and life member of the Al
bany Burgesses Corps; member of the
Lotos, Manhattan, Army and Navy, Na
tional Democratic, Press, and Transporta
tion Clubs and the Old Guard. He mar
ried Sophia Hartog, of New York City. Ad
dress : 309 West Seventy-second Street, New
York City.
MANNERS, Edwin:
Lawyer; born in Jersey City, March 6,
1855 ; son of David S. Manners and De
borah Philips (Johnes) Manners. He re
ceived his preparatory education in the
Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, and at
Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Ossi-
ning-on-Hudson ; was graduated from
Princeton University as A.B. in 1877, and
A.M. in 1880, and from Columbia Univer
sity as LL.B. in 1879. He was admitted to
the New Jersey bar as an attorney in 1880,
and as a counsellor in 1883, and has prac
ticed his profession in his native town. He
has large real estate interests in Jersey
City and stock holdings in several busi
ness corporations. He is of literary tastes
and inclinations and contributes occasion
ally to the press, in both verse and prose.
In politics he is a Democrat and in reli
gion an Episcopalian. Mr. Manners is a
member of the Hudson County Bar Asso
ciation, Society of the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution. His favorite recreations
are horse-back riding, theatre and social
diversions. He is a member of the Prince- '
ton Club of New York and of Univer
sity and Palma Clubs of Jersey City.
Country house : Harlingen, near Princeton,
New Jersey. Residence : 298 Barrow
Street, Jersey City. Address: 1 Mont
gomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey.
MANNING, Henry S.:
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Mary D. (Weeks) Manning. He was
graduated from Yale in 1862. He is vice-
president and director of Sixty Wall Street ;
president and director of the Pedrick and
Ayer Company; vice-president and director
of New Amsterdam' Casualty Company;
director of the Guardian Trust Company,
the International Bank, International Bank
ing Corporation, Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient Railway Company (member, of the
Executive Committee), Quincy, Manchest
er and Sargent Company. He is a member
of the Loyal Legion and of the University,
Apawamis Golf, Union League, Automobile
of America, Army and Navy and New
York Yacht Clubs. Mr. Manning married
in Philadelphia in 1880, Leona C. Pearce,
and they have three children : R. F, John
Pearce and Henry S., Jr. Residence : 3
West Fiftieth Street, New York City. Ad
dress: 60 Wall Street, New York City.
MANNING, Isaac A.;
Consular officer; born in Indiana; ap
pointed consular agent at Matagalpa, No
vember 2, 1899; resigned January, 1905;
appointed consul at Cartagena, March 30,
1907. Address : Cartagena, Columbia.
MANNING, William X.:
Clergyman ; born in England in 1866 ;
son of John Manning. He was graduated
from the University of the South, receiving
the degree of B.D. in 1893 ; and the degrees
of D.D. from the University of Nashville in
1901, S.T.D. from Columbia Uniyersity
in 1905, and D.D. from the University of
the South in 1906. He was rector of Trin
ity Church, Redlands, California, in 1891 ;
professor of dogmatic theology in the Uni
versity of the South in 1893; rector of St.
John's Church, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania,
in 1896 ; rector of Christ Church, Nash
ville, Tennessee, 1898; vicar of St. Agnes'
Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York, 1903,
and was elected assistant rector of Trinity
Parish, 1964. Address: 121 West Ninety-
first Street, New York City.
MANSFIELD, Howard:
Lawyer; born at Hamden, Connecticut,
July 2, 1849; son of Jesse Merrick Mans

field and 'Julia (Turtle) Mansfield. He
was graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1871,
and A.M. in 1874, and from Columbia as
LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the
bar in 1874, and is now a member of the
law firm of Lord, Day and Lord. Mr.
Mansfield has been counsel at different
times for numerous corporations- as well
as individuals, including the West Shore
Railroad Company, Pullman Company, St.
Louis and San Francisco Railway Company,
New York, Ontario and Western Railway
Company, Western New York and Penn
sylvania Railway Company, Omaha Water
Company, Cuba Company and the Railroad
Company. He is a member of the Art
Commission of the City of New York; and
director and general counsel of the Omaha
Water Company. Mr. Mansfield is trustee
of the People's Institute; and is a collector
of modern etchings, especially the works of
Whistler, Haden, Meryon, Millet, Bracque-
mond, Legros, Daubigny, Lalanne, Gaillard,
and collector of Japanese works of art.
He is a member of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, American Museum of Natural
History, and of the Century, University,
Yale, Grolier (ex-president), Barnard, Na
tional Arts, Players', Lawyers', Down
Town, and MacDowell Clubs of New York
City, St. Botolph Club of Boston, the Grad
uates' Club of New Haven, and the Caxton
Club of Chicago. He married at Narra
gansett Pier, September 12, 1895, Helen
Coolidge Turtle (Todd). Address. 49
Wall Street, New York City.
MANSFIELD, Howard:
Consular officer ; born In Iowa. He was
appointed consul at Zanzibar, May 25, 1899 ;
retired January 10, 1901 ; was appointed
consul at Valparaiso, March 27, 1901 ; and
consul at Lucerne, June 22, 1906. Address :
Lucerne, Switzerland.
MANTON, Benjamin Dyer:
United States consul; born in Providence,
Rhode Island, May 10, 1829; son of Austis
P. Manton and Salina Manton. He is
eighth in descent from Roger Williams,
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for her Quaker principles, on Boston Com
mon, June i, 1660. He was educated in the
common schools, went to sea in 1844 and in
1849 sailed for California, via Cape Horn.
Later he commanded some of the finest
clipper ships from the port of New York,
in the China and Australian trade, his first
command being the barque ' Le Coq, in
which he went to Montevideo in 1852; in
1856 he commanded the clipper Haidee, in
the China trade, and in 1857 in command
of the ship Messenger of the Black Ball
Line, he made the voyage to Melbourne
from. Liverpool in seventy-one days; after
that he returned to the China trade and at
the beginning of the Civil War he was ap
pointed one of the sixteen volunteer lieu
tenants authorized by Congress and com
manded the mortar brig Sea Foam and
the ship Relief in Dupont's and Farragut's
Squadrons. After the war he built two
steamships, and, entering the employ of the
Brazilian Government and carried about
sixteen thousand troops from Rio de Jan-
iero and other ports to the war then raging
between Paraguay and the three neighbor
ing countries of Brazil, Argentina and Uru
guay. He built in 1868, at Colonia, Uru
guay, the first dock for repairing vessels
on the River Plate, and since 1869 has
been United States consul at Colonia. He
was the first to introduce the telephone into
Argentina and Uruguay, and 1890 he also
introduced the electric light into Uruguay,
supplying the town of Colonia; and he has
extensive vineyards at San Benito, near
Colonia. He is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
the California Pioneers, Farragut's Veter
ans, and . the Sons of the Revolution. He
married in Providence, Rhode Island, Feb
ruary 1, 1855, Julia D. Gladding. Address :
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.
MAPES, Victor:
Author, playwright; born in New York
City, March 10, 1870; son of Charles V.
and Martha Mapes; nephew of Mary
Mapes Dodge. He was graduated from
Columbia University, A.B. (first in class)

in 1891 ; studied literature and the drama
at the Sorbonne, Paris,; from 1892 to 1893.
He resided in Paris from 1892 to 1896.
His first play, La Comtesse de Lisne, was
produced at Theater Mondain, Paris, and
was pronounced a success; while in Paris
he was a correspondent of the New York
Sun. On his return to the United States
in 1897 he became stage manager for Dan
iel Frohman at the Lyceum Theater. His
first play produced in New York City was
a one-act play, A Flower of Yeddo, at the
Empire Theater. He was dramatic critic
of the New York World from 1898 to 1899;
manager of the Globe Theater, Boston,
from 1903 to 1904; director of the New
Theater (endowed) of Chicago, Illinois,
from 1906 to 1907. Among his later plays
are: The Tory's Guest (Empire Theater,
November, 1900) ; Don Caesar's Return
(Wallack's, New York City, September,
1901) ; Captain Barrington (Manhattan
Theater, 1903) ; and The Undercurrent
(Studebaker Theater, Chicago, January 22,
1907). He is the author of Duse and the
French and a contributor of short stories
to magazines. He is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon fraternities.
He is also a member of the University,
The Lambs', Columbia University, The
Players', Psi Upsilon (New York City),
and University (Chicago) Clubs. He mar
ried in Washington, June 5, igoo, Anna
Louise Hoeke. Residence: New Rochelle,
New York. Address : 60 West Fortieth
Street, New York City.
MARBLE, Manton:
Editor, author, diplomat; born at Wor
cester, Massachusetts, November 16, 1834;
son of Joel and Nancy Chapin (Coes)
Marble; she a descendant of Thaddeus
Chapin and Lucy Whitney, he a descendant
of Samuel and Freegrace Marble, after
whom Marble Ridge was named near An
dover, Massachusetts, and son of Deacon
Solomon Marble (at Bunker Hill, Sara
toga, Yorktown) and Jerusha (Green
wood) Marble, both of Millbury, Massachu
setts. He was educated chiefly by his
father, was graduated from Albany Acad
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1855. After seven years service with Bos
ton and New York journals (under Wil
liam Cullen Bryant, 1858-60, journey To
Red River and Beyond, 1859; The World
under Mr. Spalding, 1860-62) ; was then
from 1862 to 1876 the proprietor and -editor
of the New York World, through the War
and Reconstruction period. He was chair
man of the Executive Committee of the
National Democratic Committee in 1864.
Mr. Marble gave early publicity in the
United States to the writings of Herbert
Spencer on the maintenance of justice, as
the chief, if not the sole legitimate domestic
function of government wielding the co
ercive power of the whole body of citi
zens. He held, in opposition to the Peace
Democrats, that after Fort Sumter war
was ineluctable for resisting the disruption
of the Union and the Subversion of its Con
stitution, while, at the same time, he op
posed exorbitances of executive power and
usurpings of ungranted power, as likewise
its subversion; he opposed the warping of
Custom House taxation, touching all, into
profit-machines for a few; opposed income-
taxing as equipping the Government-Fetish
with poisoned claws, and unapportioned
Federal income-taxing as direct taxes faith
less to a compromise and false to the terms
of the Constitution. He opposed green
backs as an ever-injurious substitute for
money, doubling the cost of the war then
waging, thus redoubling our own calamitous
colonial experience, which had caused the
shaping of the Constitution to make such
issues lawless. He opposed Negro-suffrage
and the impeachment of President John
son, urged and supported negotiations that
led to the Washington Treaty, the Geneva
Arbitration, and the Alahama Award, deem
ing the explicit avowal of regret from the
source over seas of our greatest injury,
the best close of old antagonisms and the
only beginning of future peace. He began
the assault against the Tweed Ring which
finally purged the city government for a
season and elected Samuel J. Tilden gover
nor of New York. He wrote the Syracuse
(New York) Democratic State Platform of
1874, upon which Mr. Tilden stood for

the governorship of New York and the St.
Louis National Democratic Platform of
1876, upon which he stood for the Presi
dency of the United States ; most of the
platform of 1884, upon which Mr. Cleveland
stood for the Presidency, and a pamphlet,
in 1878, disclosing that Mr. Tilden was not
responsible for the Electoral Commission
Law. He was sent by President Cleveland,
in 1885, as a special envoy to the Govern
ments of Great Britain, France and Ger
many, and, after conferences with Prince
Bismarck, with MM. Freycinet and Carnot,
and also with Cernuschi (the classic au
thority upon international bimetallism),
with Mr. Goschen, Lord Iddesleigh and Mr.
Gladstone, he ascertained and advised the
President that resumption of free bimetallic
coinage by any European power was con
ditioned, sine qua non, upon British co
operation, which neither Troy nor Liberal
ministries were prepared for (Mr. Glad
stone doubtless preferring, even then, the
closure of the Indian mints to continuing
their free coinage of silver), and finally
that our own United States Treasury pur
chases of silver should cease. Mr. Marble
is author of: A Letter to Abraham Lin
coln, 1864 ; The Presidential Counts, 1877 ;
A Secret Chapter of Political History, 1878 ;
Memoir of Alexander G. Mercer, D.D., pre
fixed to his Bible Characters, 1885, and
Notes of an Outlook on Life, collected' from
the Mercer manuscripts, 1899. He has been
a member of the Century Association of
New York since 1862; honorary member of
the Cobden Club (London) since 1872, of
the Round Table (New York) since 1878;
was a founder of the Manhattan Club in
1865, its first secretary and, from 1884 to
1889, its president; is a life member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science (Philadel
phia), the American Scientific Alliance,
American Geographical Society, and the
New England Society of New York. Ad
dress : Bedford, New York.
MARCUS, George Elder:
Jeweler; bom in New York City, 1859;
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(Elder) Marcus. He received his educa
tion in the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn,
at Lausanne, Switzerland, and in Heidel
berg, Germany. He is secretary, treasurer
and director of Marcus and Company; and
director of the International Pearl Com
pany. He is a member of the American
Geographical Society and of the Lotos, New
York Riding, New York Athletic, Knoll
wood Country, Apawamis, Barnard and
Northward Ho Golf Clubs. Mr. Marcus
married, June 2, 1886, Anna R. Hand, and
they have one son, Herman. Address : 544
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
MARCUS, William Elder:
Jeweler; born in New York City, August
28, 1857; son of Herman and Margaret
(Elder) Marcus. He was educated in the
schools of New York City, at Lausanne,
Switzerland, and in Heidelberg, Germany,
He founded, in 1878, the firm of Jaques and
Marcus, which was changed in 1902 into
Marcus and Company, Incorporated, of
which he is president; and he is vice-presi
dent of the International Pearl Company.
Pie has traveled extensively in Europe and
India. He served in the Seventh Regiment
of the National Guard of New York, nine
years. He is a member of the Lotos. New
York Athletic, City, Montclair Golf and
Baltusrol Golf Clubs. Mr. Marcus mar
ried in 1881, Mary Ward Chapin, and they
have three children : William Elder, Jr.,
born in 1883, Chapin, born in 1884 and
Dorothy, born in 1899. Residence : Mont
clair, New Jersey. Address : 544 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
MARCY, Henry Orlando:
Surgeon; born in Otis, Massachusetts,
June 23, 1837; son of Smith Marcy and
Fanny (Gibbs) Marcy. He was educated
at Wilbraham Academy and Amherst Col
lege, from which he received the degree
of A.M., and he was graduated from the
Medical School of Harvard University in
1863. In April, 1863, he was commissioned
assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Mas
sachusetts Volunteers, and in November,

1863, was commissioned surgeon of the
First Regiment of Colored Troops, re
cruited in North Carolina. In 1864 he was
appointed medical director of the Depart
ment of Florida, and served on the staffs
of General Van Wyck, Potter and Hatch,
resigning his commission in June, 1865, his
last special service being the sanitary ren
ovation of Charleston, South Carolina. He
returned to Massachusetts and practiced
in Cambridge until 1869, when he went to
Europe, and in that and the following year
he studied in the University of Berlin as
a special student of Professors Martin and
Virchow, then visited hospitals in several
European cities, spending the summer of
1870 in London and Edinburgh and in the
latter city becoming the first American pu
pil of Professor Lister, whose antiseptic
treatment of wounds, aided by private in
vestigations made in a laboratory of his
own in Boston, he introduced in his private
and hospital practice. He established, in
1880, a private hospital in Cambridge for
the treatment of the surgical diseases of
women, which is still continued. To Dr.
Marcy is due the credit of introducing into
America the methods of antiseptic wound
treatment, and his researches and discov
eries have contributed in a valuable degree
to the effectiveness of modern surgery. He
was a member of the Seventh (London,
1881), and vice-president of the gyneco
logical section of the- Ninth (Washington,
D. C, 1887), International Medical Con
gresses; is a member and was president in
1891, of the American Medical Associa
tion, and a member and was president,
1884, of the American Academy of Medi
cine. Wesleyan University conferred upon
him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1887.
He has been a very extensive contributor
to the literature of medicine and surgery.
Dr. Marcy married at Somersworth, New
Hampshire, October 14, 1863, Sarah E.
Wendell, and they have a son, Henry Or
lando Marcy, -Jr., A.B., M.D. assistant in
anatomy in Harvard University. Address:
180 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.

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MARO EN, Orison Swett:
Founder and editor of the Success Maga
zine; born in Thornton, New Hampshire.
He was educated at the Boston University ;
School of Oratory; Boston University Law
School; Harvard Medical College; A.B.,
A.M., B.O., LL.B. and M.D. He is the
author . of : Pushing to the Front, 1894 ;
Rising in the World, or Architects of Fate,
1895 ; How to Succeed, 1896 ; Success, 1897 ;
The Secret of Achievement, 1898; Char
acter the Grandest Thing in the World,
1899 ; Cheerfulness as a -Life Power, 1899 ;
The Hour of Opportunity, 1900 ; Good Man
ners and Success, 1900; Winning Out, 1900;
Elements of Business Success, 1900; Talks
with Great Workers, 1901 ; How They Suc
ceeded, 1901 ; Economy, 1901 ; Stepping
Stones, 1902 ;~ Stories from Life, 1905 ; The
Making of a Man, 1905; Choosing a Ca
reer, 1905. He married, in 1905, Clare
Evans. Address : 32 Waverly Place, New
York City.
MARKLE, John:
Coal operator; born at Hazleton, Penn
sylvania, December 15, 1858; son of George
Bushar Markle and Emily A. (Robison)
Markle. He was graduated in the mining
engineering course from Lafayette College
in 1880, with the degree of M.E. In No
vember, 1880, he was appointed general sup
erintendent of the mines of G. B. Markle
and Company, and upon his father's retire
ment succeeded him as managing partner
of that firm, which has for some years been
the largest of the independent operators
in the anthracite coal field. He is also
president of the Jeddo Tunnel Company,
and a director of the Highland Coal Com
pany, the East Broad Top Railroad and
Coal Company, Rockhill Iron and Coal
Company, Shade Gap Railroad Company,
Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railroad Com
pany, Hazle Hall Association, the Consoli
dated Telephone Company of Buffalo, New
York, and Interstate Telephone and Tele
graph Company of Trenton, New Jersey.
Mr. Markle represented the independent
operators in the negotiations with President
Roosevelt, and in the inquiry by the Presi

dent's Commission in connection with the
anthracite coal strike of 1902. He was also
one of the Committee or One Hundred,
known as Captains of Industry, invited to
meet Prince Henry of Prussia on his visit
to this country. In politics he is a Repub
lican; and he is a director of the School
Board of the Borough of Jeddo, Pennsyl
vania. He has traveled extensively in this
country, including, Alaska, and has also
in Europe; and his favorite recreations are
golf and automobiling. He is a trustee of
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, of
the State Hospital of the Middle Coal
Fields of Pennsylvania, at Hazleton, Penn
sylvania, and the J. Hood Wright Memorial
Hospital in New York City. He is a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, the Am
erican Institute of Mining Engineers, Am
erican Museum of Natural History, Metro
politan Museum of Art, and New York
Botanical Garden, all of New York; the
Franklin Institute and the Pennsylvania
Forestry Association, of Philadelphia, and
the American Forestry Association, Wash
ington. He is also a member of the Auto
mobile Club of America ^ the Art and Uni
versity Clubs of Philadelphia; Blooming
Grove Hunting and Fishing Club of Penn
sylvania; Hazleton Country Club, of Hazle
ton, Pennsylvania; Wyoming Valley and
Westmoreland Clubs of Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania; Pomfret Club of Easton,
Pennsylvania; Canadian Camp Club;
Ardsley Club of Ardsley-on-Hudson, New
York; the Graduate Club of Theta Delta
Chi, New York; Pennsylvania Society of
New York, and the Fulton, Metropolitan,'
New York Athletic, the New York Yacht,
The Players', Union League and University
Clubs of New York City. Mr. Markle
married in New York City, April 22, 1884,
May E. Robinson. Residence: Jeddo,
Pennsylvania. Office address : 31 Nassau
Street, New York City.
MARKLEY, Alfred C:
Brigadier-general, United States Army,
retired; born at Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
April 18, 1843 ; son of John Sorver Markley
and Eliza (Collins) Markley. He was edu-

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cated in private and public schools in Phila
delphia, and afterward had a business edu
cation with Browning and Brothers, Phila
delphia, until the Civil War, entered upon
his military career as private in the Twen
ty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry (State mili
tia), in which he served from September
i to 15, 1862; afterward was corporal in
the Fifty-second Pennsylvania Infantry
(State Militia) from July 9 to September
1, 1863, both in the service of the United
States. He was sergeant of Company K,
One Hundred Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania-
Infantry, July 11 to September 5, 1864; sec
ond lieutenant One Hundred Twenty-sev
enth United States Colored Infantry, Sep
tember 9, 1864; first lieutenant, March 5,
1865 ; honorably mustered out, October 20,
1865 ; second lieutenant Forty-first Infantry
July 28, 1866; adjutant, December 25, 1866,
to June 14, 1867; first lieutenant, March
31, 1868; transferred to Twenty-fourth In
fantry, November 11, 1869; captain • March
20, 1879; major Eleventh Infantry, April
26, 1898; transferred to Twenty- fourth In
fantry, August 6, 1898; lieutenant-colonel
Twenty-second Infantry, June 9, 1900;
transferred to Twenty-fourth Infantry, Au
gust 7, 1900; colonel Thirteenth Infantry,
October 5, 1901 ; brigadier-general, March
2, 1907, and retired April 18, 1907. Gen
eral Markley served with much distinction
in the Spanish-American War, conspicuous
ly in his command of the yellow fever hos
pitals at Siboney, Cuba, from July 15 to
August 26, 1898, which was one of the no
table incidents in the history of the United
States Army. General Markley is a com
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. He married in Philadelphia, April
23, 1868, Rebecca C. Morgan, and they had
one son, Captain Edward Browning Mark-
ley, United States Volunteers, who died
. in the hospital at Santiago, Cuba, in 1899.
Address : Radnor, Delaware County, Penn
sylvania. MARLAND, Ernest Whitworth:
President of the Pittsburgh Securities
and Guarantee Company of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, May 8,

1874 ; was graduated from Rugby College
and the University of Michigan; read law
and was admitted to the bar in Allegheny
County in June, 1895. At the age of
twenty-one years he was elected a direc
tor, and in 1902 made general counsel of
the Pittsburgh Securities and Guarantee
Company; in 1903 he was elected presi
dent of that institution; is an organizer
and financier of corporations. He is a Re
publican. He married in November, 1903,
Mary Virginia Collins of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : The Buckingham, Craft Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
MARLING, Alfred E.:
Real estate; born in Toronto,. Ontario,
Canada, 1858; son of Rev. Francis H. Mar
ling and Marina C. (Macdonald) Marling.
He received his education in the Collegiate
Institute, Toronto. He is president of the
corporation of Horace S. Ely & Company;
was president of the Real Estate Exchange,
1896; director of Fulton Trust Company;
Hanover (fire) Insurance Company; New
York Plate Glass Insurance Company; City
of New York Insurance Company; Madison
Avenue Company, National Safe Deposit
Company of New York ; and trustee of the
United States Savings Bank. In politics he
is a Republican. He is vice-president and
director of the New York Juvenile Asylum;
vice-chairman of the International Commit
tee of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, and a member of the Union League,
Metropolitan, Down Town, City, Lawyers',
Army and Navy, Republican, and New
York Yacht Clubs. Mr. Marling married
in New York City, January 10, 1884, Har
riet W. Philips. Residence: 47 West For
ty-seventh Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 21 Liberty Street, New York City.
MARSH, Converse Denny:
Capitalist; born at Evansville, Indiana,
January 17, 1865; son of Charles Emerson
and Mary E. (Denny) Marsh. He began
his career as a newspaper reporter; sub
sequently became editorial writer, and later
the proprietor of an advertising agency.
He formed an association with Thomas A.
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came president of the Bryan-Marsh Com
pany, manufacturers of incandescent lamps,
and has made investments in various elec
tric and gas properties. Mr. Marsh is pres
ident or treasurer of fourteen different com
panies, including a controlling interest in
the Bates Advertising Company. He is a
Republican in politics, and a member of
the New York Yacht, Union League, and
New York Athletic Clubs. He married Oc
tober 17, 1900, Louise E. Woods, and they
have three children : Faith, Converse Emer
son, and Richard Norman. Address : 15
Spruce Street, New York City.
MARSHALL, George W.:
Physician; born in Georgetown, Dela
ware, August 31, 1854; son of William
Marshall, M.D., and Hester Angelina (Mc-
Colley) Marshall. He was graduated from
Delaware College as A.B. and A.M., and
from Jefferson Medical College as M.D. He
was secretary and later president of. the
Delaware State Medical Society ; is a mem
ber of the American Association, and for
two years represented Delaware in the
House of Delegates of that Association,
at the Atlantic City and New Orleans meet
ings. He was elected in 1901, for four
years, insurance commissioner of Dela
ware and was reelected in 1905 and is now
serving as supervisor of insurance and
banking in Delaware. He has been a trus
tee of Delaware College, Newark, Dela
ware, for twenty-five years, and trustee of
the State College for Colored Students,
near Dover, for sixteen years. He was
formerly colonel of the National Guard of
Delaware for six years. He is a Repub
lican in politics, president of the Repub
lican League of Clubs of Delaware ; was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention at Minneapolis in 1892, and alter
nate to the National Republican Conven
tions at St. Louis, 1896, and at Chicago in
1904; and was for seventeen years chair
man of the Kent County Republican Com
mittee; and he was lately commissioned a
member of the Division of Records, look
ing to the preservation of all old records in
the State previous to the year 1800. He
is a Mason, and was grand master of

Masons of the State of Delaware in
and 1889. He married, in Newark, Dela
ware, in 1878, Mary Louise Donnell, and
they have four sons : Andrew Donnell Mar
shall, attorney-at-law, William Marshall, .
Jr., A.B., M.D., George Chester Marshall,
and S.M.D. Marshall. Address: Milford,
Delaware.MARSHALL, John Augustine:
Jurist ; born in Fauquier County, Virginia,
September 5, 1854; son of John Marshall
and Rebecca B. (Smith) Marshall. He
was educated in the Shenandoah Academy
and the University of Virginia; went to
Utah and practiced law in Salt Lake City
from 1878. He was probate judge of Salt
Lake County in 1888 and 1889; served in
the Territorial Legislative Assembly in
1892, and was appointed February 4, ¦ 1896,
by President Cleveland, United States Dis
trict Judge for the District of Utah, in
which office he is now serving. Judge Mar
shall married, in 1888, Jessie Kirkpatrick.
Address : Salt Lake City, Utah.
MARSHALL, Rouget D. :
Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court;
born at Nashua, New Hampshire, December
27, 1847. He received his education' at the
Delton Academy, Baraboo Collegiate In
stitute and Lawrence University; and re
ceived the degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1905. The Mar
shall came to this country from England
in 1650 and settled in Boston. Mr. Mar
shall has resided in Wisconsin since 1854.
He commenced the study of law at the age
of seventeen, which he continued with his
school work till he was twenty-four, and
after that time was actively engaged in the
profession. He was county judge of Chip
pewa County from 1876 to 1883; member
of the Board of Regents of the University
of Wisconsin from 1884 to 1889; elected
circuit judge of the Eleventh Circuit in
April, 1888; and reelected in April, 1894.
He was ' appointed justice of the Supreme
Court in August, 1895, and was elected to
the Supreme Bench in April, 1896, for
the unexpired term of Chief Justice Orton,
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and April 2, 1907. He married in 1869,
Mary E. Jenkins, of Baraboo, Wisconsin.
Residence: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Of
fice address : Madison, Wisconsin.
MARSHALL, Thomas Frank:
Congressman and banker; born at Han
nibal, Missouri, March 7, 1854. He was
educated at State Normal School, Platte
ville, Grant County, Wisconsin ; learned the
profession of surveyor, which he has fol
lowed more or less for twenty-five years ;
became a resident of Dakota in 1873; and
is engaged in banking. He was elected
mayor of Oakes, North Dakota, two terms ;
State senator from the Twenty-fifth Dis
trict of North Dakota, one term — four
years; was a delegate to the Republican
National Convention held at Minneapolis
in 1892; was one of the leading candidates
for United States Senator from North Da
kota in 1899; was elected from the State at
large to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, in which he is now
serving. He is a Republican. Address :
Oakes, North Dakota.
MARSTON, Edwin S, :
Capitalist; president and director of the
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, De
troit, Hillsdale and Southwestern Railroad
Company, Fort Wayne and Jackson Rail
road Company; director of the Citizens'
Mutual Gas Company, National City Bank
of New York, New Amsterdam Gas Com
pany, New York Mutual Gas Light Com
pany, Queens Insurance Company of Ameri
ca, Standard Gas Light Company of the
City of New York. He is a member of
the Metropolitan, Garden City Golf, Bal-
tusrol Golf and Manhattan Clubs. Resi
dence: South Orange, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 22 William Street, New York City.
MARTIN, Chester W.:
Consular officer; born in Michigan. He
was appointed consul at Amherstburg, Oc
tober ^15, 1897; appointed consul at Mar
tinique, June 22, 1906. Address : Martinique,
West Indies.

MARTIN, Edwin K.
Lawyer, real estate; born in Millersville,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, October
1, 1844, son of Barton B. Martin and Cath
arine C. (Rohrer) Martin. He was edu
cated in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas
sachusetts ; was graduated from Amherst
College as A.B. and A.M. and from Co
lumbia Law School; and attended Prince
ton College during freshman year. He
served in the Civil War as member of the
Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
having enlisted at the age of sixteen, while
a student at Phillips Academy, to which he
returned after the war, and from which,
after a part of the freshman year at Prince
ton, he entered Amherst; during the last
six months of service in the Civil War he
was attached to General Sherman's head
quarters. He practiced law fifteen years
after graduation, at Lancaster, Pennsyl
vania; removed to New York City and en
tered the real estate business. He is pres
ident of the American Real Estate Com
pany, Real Estate Corporation of New York
City, Penn Realty Company, Amherst Re
alty Company and Inwood Realty and Dock
Company. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Pennsylvania Ger
man Society (one of the founders), Board
of Trade of Yonkers, New York (was its
president), Pennsylvania Society of New
York City, Amherst College Association of
New York, the New York Association of
the Alumni and Students of Phillips Acad
emy, North Side Board of Trade of the
City of New York; trustee of St. John's
Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, New York.
member of the Alpha Delta Phi, Camp Fire,
ind Hardware Clubs of New York City;
vice-president of the Dunwoodie Country
Club ; and member of the Park Hill Coun
try Club of Yonkers. Mr. Martin married
in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 2, 1881,
Caroline A. Varick, and they have two
children : Adele Woolsey and Anna Romeyn
Varick. Residence: Park Hill, Yonkers,
New York. Address: 527 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

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MARTIN, Eben Wever:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born in
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, April
12, 1855; son of Captain James W. Martin
and Louise (Hyde) Martin. He was grad
uated from Cornell College in 1879, with
the degree of B.A., and three years later
received the degree of A.M. from his Alma
Mater; attended the law school of the Uni
versity of Michigan, and was there presi
dent of his class; was admitted to the bar
in the spring of 1880, after which, in the
summer of the same year, he moved to
Deadwood, and has since practiced law con
tinuously in the various State and Federal
courts of that region. He was a member
of the Territorial Legislature of Dakota in
1884 and 1885; was for several years pres
ident of the Board of Education of the city
of Deadwood; is a member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, South Dakota
Chapter, and of the Iowa Commandery of
the Loyal Legion, the latter by inheritance
from his father^ Capt. James W. Martin,
of Company I, Twenty-fourth Iowa Vol
unteers, now deceased. He was elected
from the State of South Dakota-at-large,
as a Republican, to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress. He married at
Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 13, 1883, Jessie
A., daughter of George N. Miner, and they
have three sons and two daughters. Ad
dress : Deadwood, South Dakota.
MARTIN, James:
Managing, editor, New York Tribune;
born in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland, De
cember 16, 1862; son of Peter and Mar
garet Martin. He was educated in the com
mon schools in Scotland. Settled in the
United States in 1884; continuously in news
paper profession; for many years reported
legislative proceedings of the New Jersey
State Legislature in Trenton, New Jersey;
helped to expose the corruption and mis-
government which drove the Democratic
party from power, and worked hard for the
election ' of Governors Griggs, Voorhees,
Murphy and Stokes; always fought dis
honest politicians of all' parties ; connected

with Tribune since 1895. He is the author
of: Essays on Municipal Government — ar
guing for non-partisanship in local affairs.
His recreations are walking, cycling and
fishing. He married in 1889, Helen T. B.
Welsh, graduate of Mount Pleasant Col
lege, Liverpool, England. Address : 41
Westcott Street, East Orange, New Jer
sey.MARTIN, James Loren:
United States judge; born at Landgrove,
Vermont, September 13, 1846 ; son of James
Martin and Lucy (Gray) Martin. He was
educated in the schools of Londonderry,
Vermont, and Marlow, New Hampshire,
and was graduated from the Albany Law
School in 1869. ' He was admitted to the
bar in 1869, and practiced law in London
derry, Vermont, until 1883, when he located
at Brattleboro. He was a member of the
General Assembly of Vermont in 1874, r876,
1878, 1880 and 1882, from Londonderry, and
in 1892 from Brattleboro, and was speaker
of the House of Representatives of Ver
mont in 1878, 1880 and 1882 ; was State's
attorney for Windham County, from 1874
to 1876, and State commissioner of taxes
from 1890 to 1892. He was appointed by
President McKinley in 1898, and reap
pointed by President Roosevelt in 1902 as
United States attorney for the District of
Vermont, and held that position until 1906,
when he was appointed to his present of
fice as judge of the United States' District
Court for the District of Vermont. He is
a Republican in politics, and a Universalist
in religious preference. Address : Brattle
boro, Vermont.
MARTIN, John Calvin:
Coal operator and philanthropist; born
in Millersville, Pennsylvania, November 13,
1845 ; son of Barton B. Martin and Catha
rine C. (Rohrer) Martin. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and in private schools and
by private tutors. At the age of seven
teen he enrolled and was mustered into
United States service at Fort Delaware
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of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh
Pennsylvania Volunteers ; and was honor
ably discharged, on resignation, for disabil
ity, at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, in
1864. Since the war he has been contin
uously engaged in business ; and he has a
thorough knowledge of the manufacture
of lumber and mining of coal in all their
details, and of engineering as applied to
mining; and since 1869 has been engaged
in the manufacture of lumber and mining
of coal in Cambria County, Pennsylvania,
where he has accumulated a very large es
tate; upon this property ten extensive col
lieries are producing over one million tons
annually of the highest grade of semi-bi
tuminous coal to be found in the United
States. He is regarded as one of the most
successful men of Pennsylvania; several
years ago removed to New York City, his
present residence, and from here, conducts
large business interests. He founded in 1889
the John C. Martin Educational Fund to pro
mote intellectual, ethical and Christian edu
cation in the United States and dependen
cies without regard to race or color. The
work is undenominational and affiliated
with many Christian schools and colleges
in the United States, and of this organi
zation he is president and sole supporter.
He is also trustee and president in half a
dozen corporations, two National banks,
and a water company, coal companies, and
others. In political views he is a Repub
lican, but is independent and a seeker after
civic righteousness and justice for the whole
people. In church relations he is a Pres
byterian. Mr. Martin is a member of the
Pennsylvania Society of New York City,
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
and a trustee of the Society for Suppression
of Vice, of New York City. Mr. Martin
married in May, 1867, Emilia Doolitte,
daughter of the late Adrastus Doolitte, of
New York City. Residence. The Wollas-
ton, 23 West Ninety-sixth Street, New
York City. Office address : 1 Broadway,
New York City.
MARTIN, Newell:
Lawyer; born in China in 1854; son of
Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D.D., and Jane

(Vansant) Martin. He was graduated
from Yale as B.A. in 1875 and from Co
lumbia Law School as LL.B. in 1877. Mr.
Martin is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, and Cen
tury, University, City Midday and City
Clubs of New York City. He is a Repub-
lican in politics. He married in New
York City, in 1886, Laura Grinnell, and
they have three children: Grinnell, Helen
and Janet. Residence : Audubon Park, New
York City. Office address : 25 Broad Street,
New York City.
MARTIN, Thomas C'ommerford:
Editor of Electrical World since 1883,
author, lecturer; born in London, England,
July 22, 1856; son of Thomas and Cath
arine (Commerford) Martin. He received
his general education in England and later
studied divinity. He was associated with
Edison in his laboratory from 1877 to 1879,
and has been special expert of United
States Census Office since 1900. He is
author of: The Electric Motor and Its
Applications; Inventions, Researches and
Writings of Nikola Tesla. He is a mem
ber and past president of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers and the
New York Electrical Society; director of
the Society for the Suppression of Unnec
essary Noises; member of the Committee
of the Robert Fulton Monument Asso
ciation; life member of the Iron and Steel
Institute ; honorary member of the National
Electric Light Association ; member of Eng
lish Institution of Electrical Engineers, New
York Academy of Sciences, Franklin Insti
tute of Philadelphia, Municipal Art So
ciety, National Civic Federation; member
and on the mechanical advisory board of
the American Museum of Safety Devices;
and member of Executive Committee of
the American Institute of Social • Service.
He is a member of the Automobile Club
of America and the Engineers' Club, and
is president of the latter. Mr. Martin
married in Kingston, Jamaica, West In
dies, 1880, Elizabeth Gould. Residence: 40
Morningside Avenue, New York City. Ad
dress: 239 West Thirty-ninth Street, New
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MARTIN, William:
Medical inspector, United States Navy,
retired; born in New Orleans, Louisiana,
February 7, 1849; son of James and Eliza
beth (O'Brien) Martin. He was educated
in the Jesuits' College in New Orleans, and
the Medical Department of the University
of Louisiana, from which he was gradu
ated as M.D. He entered the United
States Navy at New Orleans, Louisiana,
January 4, 1865, and was honorably dis
charged, F'ebruary 28, 1868; was appointed
apothecary, United States Navy, April 18,
1871, acting assistant surgeon, January 14,
1874; volunteered in September, 1874, for
yellow fever duty at the Pensacola Navy
Yard. In 1875 was on Federal quarantine
duty at Pensacola City, and in 1878 on
yellow fever duty at New Orleans. In
1880 he was on quarantine duty at Ship
Island, Mississippi, for the National Board
of Health ; was -commissioned assistant sur
geon in 1882, and assigned to yellow - fever
duty in Pensacola City; in 1883 on yellow
fever duty at Pensacola City and Navy
Yard; in 1888 on yellow fever duty at
Gainesville, Florida. For these services
he was commended repeatedly by the sur
geon-general of the Navy, the National
Board of Health, the surgeon-general of the
Marine Hospital Service, and by citizens.
In 1890 he was recommended and pro
moted to surgeon by special act of Con
gress, for meritorious services. He retired,
December 25, 1893, and in 1906 he was pro
moted to medical inspector, United States
Navy, retired. He is a Republican in poli
tics and a Catholic in religious adherence.
He has traveled in South America and Eu
rope; is fond of pedestriariism and swim
ming and is a member of the Bohemian
and Olympic Clubs of San Francisco. Ad
dress : Bohemian Club, San Francisco.
MARTIN, William:
Consular officer; born in England. He
was appointed consul at Chinkiang, Oc
tober 19, 1897; consul at Nanking, May 19,
1902, and consul-general at Hankow, Feb
ruary 3, 1905. Address : Hankow, China.

MARTIN, William Parmenter:
Lawyer; born in Virginia City, Nevada,
October 8, 1871 ; son of James Parmenter
and Holdena (Bell) . Martin. He is de
scended from an old New England family
and his immediate ancestry lived for many
years in Union and Middlesex Counties
in New Jersey. His early education was
obtained in the public schools of San Fran
cisco, and he afterward entered Columbia
•University Law School, from which he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1892. He then en
tered the offices of Tracy, Boardman and
Piatt, in New York, and soon after he
opened an office independently in New
York and has continued to practice there.
He was admitted to practice in New Jer
sey early in 1893, and established a branch
office in that State. Mr. Martin has been
a member of the Newark Common Coun
cil since 1902. He was a member for five
years of the Seventh Regiment of the Na
tional Guard of the State of New York.
He has resided for many years in Newark,
and is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, the
California Society of New York, Law
yers' Club of Essex County, the Republican
Club of New York, Essex County Country
Club, Lincoln Club of Roseville; Roseville
Athletic Association; the University Club
of New Jersey, and several bodies in the
Masonic fraternity. In religious affiliations
he is a Presbyterian. Mr. Martin was
chairman of the Republican- Committee for
Limited Franchises and Equal Taxation in
Essex County during the recent campaign
for progressive measures which successfully
nominated at the primaries and carried to
election at the polls Everett Colby as Sena
tor for Essex County in 1905, and State
chairman in 1906. Mr. Martin was a mem
ber of the General Assembly of New Jer
sey, serving in the session of 1906. He
married at Geneva, New York, June 10,
1896, Margaret Morrison. Residence: 314
Sixth Avenue, Newark, New Jersey. Of
fices : 120 Broadway, New York City ; 164
Market Street, Newark, New Jersey.
MARVIN, Frederic Rowland:
Clergyman, author ; born -in Troy, New
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Uriah Marvin and Margaret Jane (Stevens)
Marvin. He was educated in Union Col
lege, Schenectady, New York; Lafayette
College,. Easton, Pennsylvania ; the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University, from which he was graduated
as M.D. in 1870; and he was graduated
from the Theological Seminary of the Re
formed Church at New Brunswick, New
Jersey. He was professor in the New
York Free Medical College for Women in
New York City from 1872 to 1875; pastor
of the First Corigregational Church of
Middletown, New York, from 1879 to 1883;
pastor of the First Congregational Church
of Portland, Oregon, from 1883 to 1886;
First Congregational Church of Great Bar
rington, Massachusetts, from 1887 to 1895.
Dr. Marvin is author of: Literature of the
Insane; Death in the Light of Science;
Christ Among the Cattle; Last Words of
Distinguished Men and Women; Flowers
of Song from Many Lands; The Compan
ionship of Books ; Consecrated Woman
hood ; Poems and Translations, 1907. He
traveled in Europe and lived some time in
Italy and in Germany. In local politics he
is an Independent and in national politics
a Republican. He is vice-president of
General Alumni Association of Union Col
lege; member of the National Geographic
Society, Medico-Legal Society, Hudson
River Association of Congregational Minis
ters and Churches, and of the Fort Orange
Club of Albany, and of the Authors Club
of New York City. Dr. Marvin married
in New York City, Persis Ann, daughter of
Samuel Rowell, of Lancaster, New Hamp
shire. Address : 537 Western Avenue, Al
bany, New York.
MARVIN, William E.:
Lawyer; born in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, January 1, 1872; son of Will
iam Marvin and Eliza S. (Anderson)
Marvin. He received his education in pub
lic schools at Portsmouth, and was gradu
ated from Harvard University as LL.B. in
1893. He was admitted to the New Hamp
shire bar in 1894; entered partnership with
Hon. John S. H. Frink in September of
that year, and continued such till the death

of Mr. Frink in September, 1905; since
then he has continued in practice under the
firm name of Frink, Marvin and Batchelder,
He is trustee of the Portsmouth Savings
Bank; director of the National Mechanics'
and Traders' Bank and of the Portsmouth
Harbor, Land and Hotel Company. -He
was mayor of Portsmouth in 1905 and
1906; and was urged but declined to run
as Democratic and anti-railroad candidate
for governor of New Hampshire in the
campaign in 1906. In religion he is a
Unitarian. He is a member of the New
Hampshire Bar Association, Southern New
Hampshire Bar Association, Rockingham
County Bar Association, Knights of Pythias
and of Portsmouth Athenaeum. His favorite
recreations are walking and boating. He is
a member of the Portsmouth Country,
Portsmouth Athletic, Warwick and Piscata-
qua Yacht Clubs. Mr. Marvin married in
Wayland, Massachusetts, June 24, 1896,
Susan Roby Bent, and they have five chil
dren: William, born in 1897; Sarah, born
in 1899 ; Elzabeth, born in 1901 ; Robert,
born in 1903, and Isabel, born in 1905.
Residence : 5 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth.
Address : 14 Middle Street, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire.
MASON, Amos Lawrence:
Physician; born at Salem, Massachusetts,
in 1842; son of Charles Mason, D.D., and
Susan (Lawrence) Mason. After gradu
ating from Harvard as A.B. in 1863, and
M.D. in 1872, he was admitted to practice
in Boston, and is now senior physician to
the Boston City Hospital. Dr. Mason was
formerly associate professor of clinical
medicine at Harvard Medical School. He
married in Boston, September 30, 1874,
Louisa Blake Steedman, and they have one
daughter: Marion Steedman Wilson, wife
of Richard T. Wilson, Jr. Address: 265
Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
MASON, Darius:
Physician and surgeon; born in Swan
sea, Massachusetts, April 1, 1830; son of
Olney Mason and Lillis (Pierce) Mason.
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Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1850, and af
terward studied medicine at Harvard Med
ical School and at the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons of New York City,
and was graduated from the latter as M.D.
in 1853. Dr. Mason was physician to Ran
dall's Island Hospital from 1853 to 1855;
in private practice of 'medicine at Prairie
du Chien, Wisconsin, until 1877, then at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, until 1886, and since
then at Spokane, Washington. During the
Civil War he was commissioned surgeon
of the Thirty-first Wisconsin Volunteer In
fantry, September 25, 1862, serving in the
field until December 27, 1863, and after
that was draft surgeon on the Board of
Enrollment for the Third District, of Wis
consin, until discharged in August, 1865.
Dr. Mason was a member of the Wiscon
sin State Medical Society from i860 to
1886, and was its president in 1877; hon
orary member of the North Iowa Medical
Society and of the Medical Society of the
State of California, member of the Medical
Society of the State of Washington, and
was its president in 1895, the Spokane
County Medical Society, and was its first
president for two terms, following its or
ganization in 1888 ; was member of the hos
pital staff of St. Mary's Hospital, Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, consulting surgeon of the
Milwaukee County Hospital six years, and
was for four years member of the hos
pital staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital at
Spokane, Washington; is now practically
retired, giving attention only to profession
al consultations and office work. He was
formerly a member of the School Board
of Prairie du Chien for several years, and
of the Board of Health of Spokane, Wash
ington for four years. He was formerly
an extensive contributor to medical jour
nals. He is a Republican in politics; a
Mason and Knight Templar, and a mem
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Dr. Mason married first at Prairie
du Chien, Wisconsin, in October, 1861, Ade
laide Brishois, and second, in 1886, Ella
J. Bean. Residence: 3402 Grand Street,
Spokane. Office address : Falls City Block,
Spokane, Washington,

MASON, Frank H.:
Consul-general; born at Niles, Ohio,
April 24, 1840; son of Dean E. Mason and
Bertha (Hoteomb) Mason. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Niles, Ohio,
and afterward took a partial course at
Heram College. He enlisted as a private
in the Forty-second Regiment of Ohio
Volunteer Infantry in July, 1861, and July
3, 1863, at Vicksburg, was promoted cap
tain and aide-de-camp, serving until No
vember 25, 1865, when he was mustered
out as captain in the Twelfth Cavalry.
After the war he engaged in newspaper
work, first as reporter, later editorial writer
and finally as managing editor of the Cleve
land Leader, until 1880, when he began his
career in the consular service on his ap
poihtment as United States Consul at Basle,
Switzerland. He served there for four
years, was then consul at Marseilles from
1884 to 1889; consul-general at Frankfort-
on-the-Main from 1889 to 1899; at Berlin
from 1899 to 1905, and since March 6,
1905, has been consul-general of the United
States at Paris. Address : American Con
sulate-General, Paris, France.
MASON, Mortimer B.:
Banker. He is director of the First Na
tional Bank, Mutual Boiler Insurance Com
pany, and the Paper Mill Mutual Insurance
Company, and trustee of Suffolk Savings
Bank for Seamen and Others. Address :
161 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. MASON, Newton Eliphalet:
Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, United
States Navy, with rank of rear-admiral;
born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad
emy, July 24, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 : Sa
bine, special cruise, 1869 to 1870. Promoted
to ensign, 1870 ; torpedo instruction, 1871 ;
Wabash, European Squadron, from 1871 to
1872. Promoted to master, 1872; Manhat
tan (ironclad), North Atlantic Station,
1873 ; Kansas, same station, 1874-5. Com
missioned as lieutenant, 1874; Catskill
(ironclad), North Atlantic Station, from
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1876 to 1877; receiving-ship St. Louis, from
1878 to 1880; U. S. S. Constellation on Irish
Relief Service; Monocacy, Asiatic Station,
tion, from 1883 to 1884; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, from 1884 to
1885 ; Bureau of Ordnance, from 1885 to
1889; Petrel, North Atlantic Station, 1889
to October, 1891; Miantonomah, North
Atlantic Station, October, 1891, to Novem
ber, 1892; Bureau of Ordnance, November,
1892, to June, 1903; inspector of ordnance,
in charge of Naval Ordnance Proving
Grounds, June, 1893, to 1896. Commissioned
as lieutenant-commander, November, 1896;
Brooklyn, December, 1896, to February,
1899; inspector of ordnance, League Island
Navy Yard, February, 1899, to October,
1899; Inspector of Ordnance in charge
Naval Torpedo Station, October, 1899, to
1902. Promoted commander, November,
1899; commanded Cincinnati on home and
Asiatic Stations, 1902-1904; chief of Bu
reau of Ordnance, August 1, 1904; pro
moted captain, September 30, 1904. Dur
ing Rear-Admiral Mason's administration,
great changes have occurred and are occur
ring in ordnance matters; and he has kept
his service fully abreast of the times in
every way. His duty has been not only of
great responsibility, but of the most exacting
nature. One of the many thing that have
commended him to the affection of the serv
ice, is his absolute impartiality, and his won
derful success in selecting the best men as
his subordinates, afloat and ashore. Ad
dress : Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
MASSIE, Robert Klnloch:
Clergyman and professor; born in Char
lottesville, Virginia, February, 1864; son of
Nathaniel Hardin Massie and Eliza Kin-
loch (Nelson) Massie. He received his
education in private schools at Charlottes
ville, Virginia, attended the University of
Virginia, from 1882 to 1884 and in .1887
and 1888; the Theological Seminary of
Virginia from 1888 to 1891, and was grad
uated from Columbian University (now
George Washington University) as M.A. in
1902, and received the degree of D.D. from

Washington & Lee University iri 1906. He
was ordered deacon and ordained priest in
1891 by Bishop Whittle; was foreign mis
sionary in China, from 1891 to 1895; rector
of Meade Parish, Fauquier County, Vir
ginia, from 1896 to 1898; and has been
professor of ecclesiastical history at the
Theological Seminary in Virginia since
1898. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a trustee of the Young Men's Christian
Association Work (Madison Hall), Uni
versity of Virginia; was member of the
Football Team of the University of Vir
ginia in 1887 and 1888, and of the boat
crew of the University of Virginia in 1887
and 1888; and he is a member of the Pi
Kappa Alpha." His favorite recreations are
college athletics. Dr. Massie married in
Berryville, Virginia, July 8, 1891, Harriet
Ross Milton, and they have two children:
Robert K., Jr., and Francis Milton. Ad
dress : Theological Seminary, Virginia.
MASSON, Thomas Lansing:
Managing editor of Life since 1894; born
at Essex, Connecticut, July 21, 1866; son
of Captain Thomas L. (famous ship cap
tain) and Malvina M. Masson. He at
tended the public schools of New Haven,
Connecticut. He began his business career
in New York City and St. Louis up to 1885;
began literary career then as news editor
of the American Press Association, and
contributor to New York Sun; after
wards, until 1894, assistant managing editor
and humorous editor of the American Press
Association. He is editor of: The Master
pieces of American Humor, 1903; and au
thor of: The Yankee Navy, 1899 (Life
Publishing Company) ; In Merry Measure,
1905 ; A Corner in Women, 1905 ; The Von
Blumers, 1906 (Moffat, Yard and Com
pany) ; The Humor of Love, 1906 (Mof-.
fat, Yard and Company) ; and A Bachelor's
Baby, 1907. He married at Hartford, Con
necticut, October 24, 1893, Fanny Zulette
Goodrich. Residence : 162 Ridgewood Ave
nue, Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Office ad
dress: 17 West Thirty-first Street, New
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MATHER, Robert:
Lawyer, railway official; born in Salt
Lake City, Utah, July I, 1859; son of James
and Margaret (Holt) Mather. He was
graduated from Knox College, Galesburg,
Illinois, as A.B. in 1882^. and received the
degrees of A.M. in 1885, and LL.D. in 1907.
He was admitted to Illinois bar, at Chicago,
in 1886 ; was appointed local attorney of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Company in 1889 ; assistant general attorney
in 1894, general attorney from 1894 to 1902
and general counsel since 1902. He is now
president of The Rock Island Company;
first vice-president and general counsel of
the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Company, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail
road Company, Evansville & Terre Haute
Railroad Company ; director of the Chicago
& Alton Railroad Company, the National
Bank of the Republic, Chicago, Mercantile
Trust Company, New York, and of the
Havana Electric Railway Company. In pol
itics he is a Republican and in religion an
Episcopalian. He is a member of the Chi
cago Bar Association, Illinois Bar Asso
ciation, and American Bar Association ; and
a trustee Knox College, Galesburg, Illi
nois. Mr. Mather is a member of the Chi
cago, Union League, Chicago Athletic As
sociation and Law Clubs of Chicago and
of the Metropolitan, University, and Law
yers' Clubs of New York City. He married
in Detroit, Michigan, April 23, 1892, Alice
Caroline, daughter of Horatio Jell. Ad
dress: 115 Broadway, New York City.
MATHESON, William John:
Merchant and manufacturing chemisf;
born at Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wis
consin; son of Finlay Matheson and Anna
Meigs (Lightball) Matheson. He attended
St. Andrew's University, Scotland. He be
gan business in 1876 as a chemist in the ap
plication of coal tar dyes, forming a connec
tion with a large German firm of manu
facturers of coal tar dyes, of which he is
now the American president partner. He is
president and director of William J.
Matheson and Company, Limited, and of
Five-forty Park Avenue ; vice-president and

director of the Cassella Color Company,
Corn Products Company, Corn Products
Refining Company, and New York Glucose
Conipany; director of the Bank of New
York, the Billings-Clapp Company, the Con
tinental Insurance Company, the Fidelity
and Casualty Company, and the Read
Phosphate Company; trustee of the Title
Guarantee and Trust Company. He is
president of the Biological Laboratory at
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and the
American Mosquito Extermination Society;
trustee of the Hoagland Laboratory of Long
Island College; member of the Society of
Chemical Industry, American Chemical In
dustry, American Chemical Society, and is
also a member of the Hamilton, Rembrandt
Clubs, Twentieth Century Club of Brook
lyn; and the Down Town, Union League,
Metropolitan, New York Yacht, Seawan-
haka Yacht, and Chemist Clubs, and the
Century Association of New York. He
married in 1881, Harriet Torrey, and they
have three children. Mrs. Anna Matheson
Wood, Hugh M., and Malcolm. Residence :
Fort Hill, Lloyd Neck, Huntington, New
York. Office address : 184 Front Street,
New York City.
MATHEWS, Charles Thompson:
Author and architect; born in -Paris,
France, March 31, 1863; son of Charles
Drellincourt Mathews and Rebecca
(Thompson) Mathews, and grandson of
William Edmund and Anna (Loree)
Mathews. One of his maternal ancestors
was Anthony Thompson of Sandwich, Eng
land, who married Dorothy Honeywood of
Royton Manor, and came to America in
1637, and one of his paternal ancestors was
Major Dirke Wesselse Ten Broeck, who
came to Beverwyck (now Albany) in 1662,
was the first recorder of the city in 1686,
and mayor from 1696 to 1698. Mr. Mathews
received his preparatory education at St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire,
and in Paris and Nice, France, then en
tering Yale, from which he was graduated
as A.B. In 1886 and A.M. in 1892, and from
the Columbia School of Mines as Ph.B. in
1889. After studying architecture in Paris,
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MEN OF AMERICA.

lumbia Exhibition, Chicago, 1893, and was
made fellow of the American Institute of
Architects. Mr. Matthews, in 1891, won the
competition for remodelling the Church of
the Holy Trinity, New York City; intro
duced under the requirements of the New
York Building Department, an innovation
in fireproof construction; and in 1901 won
the competition for remodelling the east
end of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
City, the competitors being architects from
France, England, Canada, and America.
Mr. Mathews wrote : The Renaissance un
der the Valois, 1893; and the Story of
Architecture, 1896. The Renaissance under
the Valois was very favorably reviewed by
Brunetiere in the Revue des deux Mondes,
and the minister of public instruction wrote
an official flattering letter concerning it
to the American ambassador. Address : 281
Fourth Avenue, New York City; or 30
West Fifty-seventh Street.
MATHEWS, John Alexander:
Metallurgist; born in Washington, Penn
sylvania, May 20, 1872; son of William
Johnston Mathews and Frances Sage (Pel-
letreau) Mathews. He was educated in
the Washington and Jefferson College, and
graduated as B.S. in 1893, M.S. in 1896,
and ScD., causa honoris, in 1902; received
from Columbia University the M.A. degree
in 1895, and Ph.D. in 1898. He was three
years instructor in chemistry at Columbia
University; some time university fellow in
chemistry, and Barnard fellow of Colum
bia University; received the Andrew
Carnegie Research Scholarship of the Iron
and Steel Institute of Great Britain; and
was the first recipient of Andrew Carnegie
Gold Medal for Research by the Iron and
Steel Institute. He was honorary assist
ant to the late Professor Sir W. C. Roberts-
Austen, in the Royal School of Mines, Lon
don University. In 1902 Dr. Mathews left
Columbia and became metallurgist of the
Crucible Steel Company of America, and for
the past three years has been assistant man
ager of the Sanderson Brothers Steel Com
pany, one of the constitutent plants of the
Crucible Steel Company of America. He was

twice member of the United States Assay
Commission, in 1900 and 1905 ; secretary
of the Syracuse Lighting Commission to
investigate the feasibility of using the
Niagara power in Syracuse and feasibility
of municipal ownership of gas and elec
tricity; chairman of the Chamber of Com
merce Committee of Seven to investigate
the methods of Smoke Prevention. He is
director of the Syracuse Chamber of Com
merce. Mr.' Mathews is author of many
papers on chemical and metallurgical sub
jects and one of the special contributors on
steel to the Encyclopedia Americana in
1907. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, American Society for
Testing Materials, Society of Chemical In
dustry, Iron and Steel Institute of Great
Britain; president of the Syracuse Chemi
cal Society; fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science;
member of the Phi Delta Theta and Sigma
Xi fraternities, and the Syracuse Music
Festival Association. He is also a mem
ber of the Citizens', University, and Syra
cuse Country Clubs of Syracuse, and the
Engineers' Club of New York. He mar
ried at Columbus, Ohio, January 29, 1903,
Florence Hosmer King, and they have one
daughter, Margaret King, born in 1903.
Address : 1813 West Genesee Street, Syra
cuse, New York.
MATHEWSON, Albert McClellan:
Jurist; born in Woodstock, Connecticut,
October 19, i860; son of William Williams
Mathewson and Harriet Augusta Mathew-
son. He is descended from John and Pris
cilla Alden and Governor William Brad
ford, of the Mayflower, and from Governor
Jonathan Trumbull, William Williams, and
General Samuel McClellan of Revolutionary
times. He received his education in Wood
stock Academy and was graduated from
Yale Law School as LL.B. in 1884 and M.
L. in 1891. Mr. Mathewson was formerly a
member of the New Haven Grays. In poli
tics he is a Republicari and in religion a
Congregationalist. He is a member of the
National Geographic Society, American
Forestry Association; trustee of the Young

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Men's Christian Association of New Haven;
member' of Sons of American Revolution
and Mayflower Descendants and he is a
member of the Young Men's Republican,
Union League and Graduates' Clubs. Mr.
Mathewson married in New Haven, June
13, 1888, Mary E. Foster. Residence: 657
Orange Street, New Haven. Address : 865
Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
MATHEWSON, Charles Frederick:
Lawyer; born in Barton, Vermont, May
3, i860; son of Azro B. Mathewson and
Amelia (Sias) Mathewson. He was grad
uated from Dartmouth College as A.B. in
1882 (as valedictorian for first scholarship,
with prize awards in Greek, Latin, mathe
matics and " oratory, and Phi Beta Kappa
honors), and was graduated from Colum
bia University Law School as LL.B. in
1885. He was admitted to the bar of New
York City in 1885, and has been in continu
ous practice there ever since, largely in cor
poration law; and he is now member of
the firm of Harmon & Mathewson. He
is a director of Caledonian-American In
surance Company; and is a member of the
New York Law Institute, Association of the
Bar of the City of New York (member
of Executive Committee* and Grievance
Committee) . In politics he is a Republican.
His favorite recreations are golf and ten
nis. Mr. Mathewson has been prominently
identified with college and amateur inter
ests and sports before and since graduation.
He was president of the Dartmouth College
' Association of New York from 1895 to
1897; and has been alumni trustee of Dart
mouth College from 1894, having been
twice reelected; president of the Metropol
itan Association, Amateur Athletic Union;
and a member of the New England Society
of Vermonters. He is a member of the
Dartmouth Club and was its first pres
ident and also a member of the Down Town
Association, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon,
Baltusrol Golf, St. Andrew's Golf and Apa
wamis Clubs. Mr. Mathewson married, De
cember 8, 1886, Jeanie Campbell Anderson,
daughter of General Samuel J. Anderson,
of Portland, Maine, and they have one son,

Samuel Anderson Mathewson, born in
1889. Address : 40 Wall Street, New York
City.MATSON, Roderick Nathaniel:
Jurist; born in Floridaville, New York,
November 1, 187 1 ; son of William Town-
sent Matson and Sara Jane (Brackett)
Matson. He was prepared in the Hannibal
(New York) High School, was graduated
from Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio,
in 1894, with the degree of A.B. taking
first honors; also received from the same
college the degree of A.M. in 1897, and in
the same years was graduated from Syra
cuse University Law School as LL.B. as
president of the class. Mr. Matson prac
ticed in Syracuse, New York, from grad
uation until February 1, 1901. In 1898
he formed a partnership with T. Blake
Kennedy, who was a graduate from the
same schools as Matson, and in Feb
ruary, 1901, they removed to Chey
enne, Wyoming, on account of Mr. Ken
nedy's fear of pulmonary trouble if he
should remain in Syracuse, and the part
nership continued until March 1, 1906, when
Mr. Watson was appointed judge of the
First Judicial District of Wyoming, to fill
a vacancy, and in 1906 he was elected to
the same position. Judge Matson is a
Republican in politics and has been active
in the party's interest from the time he
became a voter. He was president of the
New Athens Republican Club at New
Athens, Ohio, while in college; member of
the House of Representatives of Wyoming
in 1903 and 1904, and was chairman of the
Judiciary Committee and member of the
Committees on Rules and on Sanitary and
Medical Affairs. He introduced and se
cured the -passage of the Inheritance Tax
Law and other important measures. He
has been a speaker in all political cam
paigns since 1892. Judge Matson is a
thirty-second "degree Mason, and member
of the Mystic Shrine; exalted ruler of the
Cheyenne Lodge of Elks, member of Phi
Delta Phi (legal fraterftity), the Industrial
Club of Cheyenne, Young Men's Literary
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Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company. Resi
dence: 115 West Nineteenth Street, Chey
enne. Office address : Court House, Chey
enne, Wyoming.
MATTHEW, WUliam Diller:
Museum curator; born at St. John, New
Brunswick, February 19, 1871 ; son of
George F. Matthew and Katherine M:
(Diller) Matthew. He attended St. John
public school, the University of New Bruns
wick, from which he was graduated as A.B.
in 1889, and was graduated from Colum
bia University as Ph.B. in 1893; as M.A.
in 1894, and Ph.D. in 1895. He was as
sistant in the American Museum of Natural
-History from 1895 to 1898; assistant cura'tor
from 1899 .to 1901 ; associate curator since
1902. He has been engaged during the
summers, upon various geological field
work, and since 1894 upon collecting fos
sils in the Western Bad Lands ; and during
the remainder of the year upon the exhibi
tion, study and description of the extinct
vertebrates in the American Museum of
Natural History. He is a fellow of the
Geological Society of America, and the New
York Academy of Sciences ; member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, National Geographic Society,
American Forestry Association, and of the
Beta Theta "Pi fraternity (Columbia chap
ter). He married in Brooklyn, New York,
July 15, 1905, Kate Lee, and they have one
daughter, Elizabeth Lee, born in 1906.
Residence : Hastings-on-Hudson, New
York. Business address : American Museum
of Natural History, New York City.
MATTHEWS, Albert:
Writer; born in Boston, June 26, i860;
son of Nathan Matthews and' Albertine
(Bunker) Matthews. He was graduated
from Harvard College as A.B. in 1882.
He is editor of publications of the Colonial
Society of Massachusetts. He is a Demo
crat in politics, and a member of the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society, American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, etc. Address: Hotel Oxford, Boston,
Massachusetts.

MATTHEWS, Brand er:
Author, educator ; born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, February 21, 1852. He was edu
cated in the private schools ai New York
City, and Columbia College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1871, A.M. in
1874, and from Columbia Law School, as
LL.B. in 1873. He received from the Uni
versity of the South the degree of D.C.L.
in 1899, from Yale University that of Litt.
D. in 1901, and LL.D. from Columbia in
1904. He received the decoration of the
Legion d'Honneur from the French Gov
ernment in 1907. He was admitted to the
bar in 1873; and acted for several years
as private secretary to his father, Edward
Matthews, one of leading business men of
New York City. He has -contributed to
magazines ; published his first book in 1879 ;
was called to Columbia as lecturer in Eng
lish, 1891 ; appointed professor of literature
in 1892, and has been professor of dramatic
literature in that university since 1899. In
1902 he lectured on the English Drama be
fore the Royal Institute of Great Britain;
and in 1905 he served as managing
editor of the Columbia University Quar
terly. Professor Matthews was one of the or
ganizers of the Authors Club, New York
City, 1882; The Kinsmen, New York City,
1882, London, 1883; American Copyright
League, 1882; the Dunlap Society, 1885;
The Players', 1889 ; the Columbia University
Press, 1893 ; National Institute of Arts and
Letters, 1899, and the Simplified Spelling
Board, of which he was the chairman in
1906. He is author of (plays) : Margery's
Lovers, produced in 1884; A Gold Mine
(with George H. Jessop), produced in 1887;
This Picture and That, produced in 1887,
published in 1894; On Probation (with
George H. Jessop), produced in 1889; The
Decision of the Court, produced and pub
lished in 1893; Peter Stuyvesant, Governor
of New Amsterdam, produced in 1899. He
is also author of fiction : In Partnership
(with H.'C. Bunner),' 1884; The Last Meet
ing, 1885; A Secret of the Sea and Other
Stories, . 1889; With My Friends— Tales
Told in Partnership, 1891 ; In the Vestibule
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Hours (with George H. Jessop), 1892; Tom
Paulding, 1892; The Story of a Story and
Other Stories, 1893; Vignettes of Manhat
tan, 1894; The Royal Marines, An Idyl of
Narragansett Pier, 1894; His Father's Son,
1895 ; Tales of Fantasy and Fact, 1896 ; Out
lines in Local Color, 1897; A Confident
To-morrow, 1899; The Action and the
Word, 1900; also of many works in es
says and criticisms, including: French Dra
matists and' of the Nineteenth Century, three
editions, 1881, 1890, 1901 ; Parts of Speech —
Essays on English, 1901 ; The Development
of the Drama, 1903; Diversions of an An
thologist, 1904; Inquiries and Opinions,
1907 ; and numerous pamphlets arid booklets,
of which the most recent are The Spelling
of Yesterday and the Spelling of To-mor
row, 1906; American Character, 1907. He
has' edited twelve books, furnished prefaces
and introductions to many publications and
contributed chapters to important works on
literary and educational' topics. He is a
member Of the Authors, Century, Players
Clubs of New York City, and the Athe
naeum and Savile Clubs of London. Ad
dress : 681 West End Avenue, New York
City.
MATTHEWS, George Edward:
Editor of Buffalo Express ; since 1889;
born March 17, 1855 ; son of J. N. Mat
thews. He was graduated from Yale as A.
B. in 1877. Mr. Matthews is president of
The Matthews-Northrup Works, printers
and publishers. Residence : Falcenwood,
Grand Island, near Buffalo,. New York. Ad
dress : 179 Washington Street, Buffalo, New
York. MATTHEWS, Paul Clement:
Clergyman; bom in Glendale, Ohio, De
cember 25, 1866; son of Thomas Stanley
Matthews and Mary Ann (Black) _ Mat
thews. He received his education in St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire,
in Princeton University and in the General
Theological Seminary. He was ordered
deacon by Bishop Vincent in 1890 ; ordained
priest by Bishop Worthington in'1891; was
associate missionary at Omaha, Nebraska,

from 1891 to 1896; rector of St. Luke's
Church, Cincinnati, from 1896 to 1904, and
has been dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Cin
cinnati, since 1904. He was elected bishop
coadjutor of Milwaukee in 1905, but de
clined it. He has visited Egypt, the Nile,
the Holy Land and Europe. He is a mem
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Le
gion, and" of the University and Business
Men's Clubs. Dr. Matthews married in
Glendale, Ohio, May 11, 1897, Elsie Procter,
and they have four children: Charlotte E.,
Thomas S., Mary Ann and Harriet. Ad
dress : 226 West Seventh Street, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
MATTISON, Richard V.:
Manufacturing chemist; born in Sole-
bury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, No
vember 17, 1851 ; son of Joseph Jones Mat-
tisori and Mahala (van Zeelust) Mattison.
He attended country school, Philadelphia
College of. Pharmacy, and the University
of Pennsylvania Medical Department, re
ceiving the degree of M.D. He erected
and presented the well known Church of
the Beautiful Windows, Trinity Memorial
Protestant Episcopal Church, at Ambler,
Pennsylvania, arid presented it to the Dio
cese of Pennsylvania. The church is said
to have the most harmonious collection of
church windows in the United States. He
is president of the First National Bank
of . Ambler, Philadelphia Drug Exchange,
vice-president of the Philadelphia Col
lege of Pharmacy; presidency of the Keas
bey and Mattison Company, Magnesia Cov
ering Company, Asbestos Shingle, Slate
and Sheathing Company, The Bell Asbes
tos Mines, Thetford, P. Q. Canada, the
Asbestos Company, the Asbestos Manufac
turing Company, The Ambler Electric
Light' Company, The Ambler Spring Water
Company, The Upper Dublin Water Com
pany. He is a Republican in politics, and
an Episcopalian in religion. Dr. Mattison
is a member of various scientific societies,
and of the Union League Club. He mar
ried at Hightstown, New Jersey, Novem
ber 4, 1873, Esther Dafter of Cranbury,
New Jersey, and they have three children :

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Richard V. Mattison, Jr., born in 1880,
Royal Mattison, born in 1892, and. Esther
V. Mattison, who died at the age of four.
Address : Ambler, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania.MAURICE, Arthur Bartlett:
Editor; born in Rahway, New Jersey,
April 10, 1873. He was educated in public
and private schools in Rahway, at Paris,
France, and New York City; at Mount
Pleasant Military Academy, Ossining, Rich
mond College and Princeton University. He
was editor of the Woodbridge (New Jer
sey) Register, in 1895 ; city editor of Eliza
beth (New Jersey) Daily Herald, in 1896;
special writer of New York Commercial
Advertiser, in 1897 and 1898; joint editor,
with Professor Harry Thurston Peck, of
The Bookman, from September, 1899, to
January, 1906, and has been joint editor
of The Bookman with Frank Moore Colby
since January, 1906. He is author of: New
York in Fiction, 1900 ; The History of the
Nineteenth Century in Caricature (with
Frederic Taber Cooper, 1903) ; International
Wit and Humor, 1906. He is a member of
the Authors and Players' Clubs of New
York City, and of the Colonia Country Club
of ' Colonia, New Jersey. Residence : 16
Gramercy Park. Address : Thirty-fifth
Street, and Fifth Avenue, New York City.
MAURY, Mytton:
Clergyman and writer; born in England,
1839; son of William Maury and Sarah
Mytton (Hughes) Maury. He was grad
uated from Columbia University as A.B.
and M.A. from Berkeley Divinity School,
as B.D. He received from the University
of New York the degree of D.D. and
Honors, from the Institute of Technology.
He was ordered deacon in 1863 and priest
in 1865 by Bishop H. Potter; was rector of
Cold Spring, New York, from 1865 to
1871, and various other churches there
after. He is now rector of St. John's
Church, Rockland County, New York. He
was acting professor of physics and chem
istry in the University of New York in 1880.
In 1888 he sustained a writ of -certiorari in

the Supreme Court of New York against
H. C. Potter, Bishop of New York, and
established the fact that the Supreme Court
of the State is a Court of Appeal against
erroneous rulings of a bishop (the first
case of the kind in the history of law in
the United States). Dr. Maury is an ex
tensive, writer and is author and editor of
Maury's Series of Geographies; Maury's
Physical Geography; Famous Men of
Greece; Famous Men of the Middle Ages,
and Famous Men of Modern Times. He
is a member of the Alumni Association of
Columbia University. His favorite recre
ation is gardening. Dr. Maury married at
Hastings-on-Hudson, 1865, Virginia, daugh
ter of John W. Draper, and has three
children : Antonia C. de Paiva Pereira, John
W. Draper and Carlotta Joaquina. Ad
dress : Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
MAXEY, Thomas S. :
Jurist; born in' Brandon, Mississippi,
September 1, 1846 ; son of Robert Maxey and
Harriet Virginia Maxey. His general edu
cation was received in the University of
Mississippi, interrupted by a year's service
in the Confederate Army from 1864 to
1865, and his legal education in the Uni
versity of Virginia, from which he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1869. The follow
ing year he went to Texas, engaging in
the practice of law and soon taking an in
fluential position at the Texas bar, which
he held until appointed by President Cleve-
(and, in 1888, to his present position as
judge of the United States District Court
for the Western District of Texas. Ad
dress: Austin, Texas.
MAXIM, Sir Hiram Stevens:
Mechanical engineer and inventor; born
at Sangerville, Maine, February 5, 1840 ; son
of Isaac Weston Maxim; and he is of
Puritan descent.. He attended the common
schools of Maine and after serving an ap
prenticeship of four years at the coach-
building trade he worked in several iron
works. From his early years he had a bent
toward study in the mechanical sciences,
and he read, experimented and attended
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he had patented several inventions in the
United States. He went to England in 1881
and has since made his home there, and is
of the firm of Vickers, Sons and Maxim;
and in 1901 he was knighted by Queen Vic7
toria. He invented the Maxim gun, the
automatic system of firearms, and many
improvements in ordnance; has given much
attention to electrical problems, and has
made numerous inventions in machines for
controlling the current automatically; and
during recent years has devoted much at
tention to aerial navigation and aerodynam
ics. He is a member of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, chevalier of the
Legion d'Honneur of France; member of
the Royal Society of Arts, of England, the
British Association for the Advancement
of Scients, and various technical organiza
tions. He married Sarah Haynes. Ad
dress : Bayley's Hotel, South Kensington,
S. W., London, England.
MAXIM, Hudson:
Inventor, mechanical engineer ; born at
Orneville, Piscataquis County, Maine, Feb
ruary 3, 1853; son of Isaac and Harriet
Boston (Stevens) Maxim; educated at
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill,
Maine. He engaged as a printer and pub
lisher, of subscription books, Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, 1883; since 1888, engaged
as inventor and manufacturer of ordnance
and explosives; was the first maker of
smokeless powder in the United States and
the first to submit samples to the United
States Government for trial ; built dyna
mite factory and smokeless powder mill at
Maxim, New Jersey (named, for him),
1890; sold smokeless powder inventions to
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wil
mington, Delaware, 1897, and since then has
been consulting engineer and expert in ex
perimental department of that company.
Joint inventor (with Dr. Robert Schupp-
haus) of the Maxim-Schupphaus smokeless
powder, adopted by United States Govern
ment; invented and sold to United States
Government, 1901, the formula of Maxi-
mite, which was the first high explosive to
be fired through heavy armor plate; more

recently perfected a smokeless powder pro
ducing ballistic results far superior to any
other, which he has named Stabillite; more
recent experiment has been on the Hudson
Maxim automobile torpedo, driven by a
new, self-combustive material of his own
invention, which he has named Motorite.
Inventor of process and apparatus for
manufacturing multi-perforated powder
grains; improvements in smokeless powder
grains; safety detonating fuses, and num
erous other inventions; has fifty or more
United States patents now pending. Mr.
Maxim is a member of the Military Serv
ice Institute, Chemists' Club, Society of
Chemical Industry, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the
New England Society. He was married in
London, England, March 26, 1896, to Lil
lian Durban. Country residence: Maxim
Park, at Landing, New Jersey. Address :
698 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn, New
York. MAXWELL, William H.:
City superintendent of schools of New
York City; born at Stewartstown, Ireland,
March 5, 1852; son of Rev. John Maxwell,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Brigh,
Ireland. He received his early education
in the local National School, and studied
classics, modern languages and mathematics
with his father and the Rev. George Maclos-
kie, a well-known educator,- and at Queens
College, Galway, winning the first place in
classics and in English, and being graduated
as B.A. in 1872 with honors in classics and
as prizeman in metaphysics and English
literature ; and| he received the M.A. degree
in 1874 with honors in ancient classics. Mr.
Maxwell began teaching in 1872, as sub-
master in the Royal Academical Institution
of Belfast, Ireland, where he gave instruc
tion in English and classics, and at same
time was lecturer in English literature in
the Ladies' Collegiate Institute at Belfast.
He came to America in 1874, and was re
porter on the New York Tribune and New
York Herald; later associate editor of The
1 Metropolitan Weekly newspaper, and after-
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Brooklyn Times; during the last two years
of his editorship he entered the educational
field* as a teacher and lecturer in Evening
High Schools of Brooklyn. He was elected
associate superintendent of schools by the
Brooklyn Board of Education in 1882;
elected superintendent of schools of Brook
lyn in 1887, and three times reelected; and
was elected city superintendent of "schools
of New York City under the revised charter
in 1898. He received the honorary degree
of Ph.D. from St. Lawrence University;
and, in 1901, that of LL.D. from Columbia
University. Dr. Maxwell has been pres
ident of the National Educational Associa
tion; president of the State Council of
Superintendents, and head of the Depart
ment of Superintendence of the National
Educational Association; served on the
Committee on English of the Association of
Colleges and High Schools of the Middle
States and Maryland ; chairman of the Com
mittee of Fifteen, appointed by the National
Department of Superintendence; and was
appointed in 1903 chairman of the Commit
tee on Instruction in Municipal Government
in American Educational Institutions under
authority of the National Municipal League.
He has been a trustee and fellow of Brook
lyn Institute of Art and Sciences. Dr. Max
well is author of: First Book in English;
Introductory Lessons in English Grammar;
Elementary English Grammar and School
Grammar; and is joint author, with George
J. Smith, of Writing in English, and, with
Miss Emma L. Johnston, of School Com
position. He was one of the founding edi
tors and associate editor until 1896 of the
Educational Review. Dr. Maxwell mar
ried in Brooklyn, in 1877, Marie A. Folk.
Address : Park Avenue and Fifty-ninth
Street, New York City.
MAY, Calvin Sloane:
Physician; born in Naugatuck, Connec
ticut, June 1, 1848; son of James Wilson
May and Abigail P. (Hotchkiss) May. He
was graduated from Naugatuck High
School and from the Medical Department
of Yale University as M.D. in 1873. He
was house surgeon at the New Haven Hos

pital in 1873; assistant physician and act-'
ing superintendent of the Connecticut Hos
pital for the Insane, from 1873 to 1879;
superintendent of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Danvers, Massachusetts,
from 1879 to 1882. He is a fellow' of the
New York Academy of Medicine, a mem
ber of the New York County and State
Medical Societies, and a member of the
American Medical Association. He is a
Republican in politics and an Episcopalian
in his religious views. Dr. May married
in St. John, New Brunswick, February
24, 1878, Rebecca P. Cushing, and they
have one daughter, Eleanor Cushing May,
born in 1880. Address: The Osborne, 205
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
MAY, Charles Henry:
Physician; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
1861 ; son of Henry and Henrietta May. He
was educated in public schools and in the
College of the City of New York, 1877.
He is consulting ophthalmic surgeon to
the Gouverneur, French and Red Cross
hospitals, New York City; attending oph
thalmic and aural surgeon in the New York
City hospitals, Randall's Island and Mt.
Sinai Hospital. He is a member of the
American Academy of Medicine, New York
Academy of Medicine, New York County
and State Medical Societies, American Med
ical Association, Manhattan Medical and
Surgical Society, American Ophthalmologi
cal Society, American Otological Society,
New York Otological Society, Metro
politan Medical Society, and the Medical
Society of Greater New York. Dr. May
is author of: May's Manual of Diseases of
the Eye, and is a contributor to the Inter
national Encyclopaedia, and to the Refer
ence Handbook of the Medical Sciences. He
married in New York City, in 1893, Rosalie
Allen. Address : 698 Madison Avenue, New
York City.
MAYBURY, William Cotter:
Lawyer; born in Detroit, Michigan, No
vember 20, 1849; son of Thomas Maybury
and Margaret (Cotter) Maybury. He was
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and the University of Michigan, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1870 and A.
M. in 1880. He was admitted to the bar
of Michigan in 1871, and has since then
been engaged in practice in Detroit. From
the beginning of his career he took an ac
tive interest in politics as a Democrat, was
city attorney of Detroit from 1875 to 1879,
and in 1882 was elected to the Forty-eighth
Congress and reelected in 1884 to the Forty-
ninth Congress as a Democrat. In 1897 he
was elected mayor of Detroit and remained
in that office by reelection continuously for
eight years; and he was at one time the
Democratic nominee for governor of Michi
gan. He has been identified with much of
the important court business of Detroit,
and also with prominent corporations, not
ably the Standard Life and Accident In
surance Company of Detroit, of which he
is managing director. Address : Moffat
Building, Detroit, Michigan.
MAYER, Alfred Goldsborough :
Zoologist; born at Frederick, Maryland,
April 16, 1868; son of Alfred Marshall
Mayer and Katharine Duckett (Goldsbor
ough) Mayer. He was graduated from
Stevens Institute of Technology as M.E.
in 1889, and from Harvard University as
S.D. in 1897. He was assistant in charge
of radiates and assistant to Dr. Alexander
Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University, from 1894
to 1900, curator of natural science and
curator-in-chief of the Brooklyn Institute
Museum, from 1900 to 1904; and has been
director of the Department of Marine Bi
ology of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington, since 1904. Mr. Mayer has traveled
in the Bahamas, also to Australia, Fiji,
the Tropical Pacific, and the West Indies.
He is a member of the Society of Ameri
can Naturalists, Society of American Zo-
ogolists ; fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Boston
Society of Natural History; patron of the
New York Zoological Society; and mem
ber of the Cambridge Entomological Club.
He married at Annisquam, Massachusetts,
August 27, 1900, Harriet Randolph Hyatt,
and they have three children : Alpheus

Hyatt, born June 28, 1901 ; Katherine Golds-
borough, born September 9, 1903; and
"Brantz, born May 27, 1906. Residence:
Maplewood, New Jersey. Business address :
Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.
MAYER, Henry:
Artist; born at Worms-on-Rhine, Ger
many, July 18, 1868; son of Herman and
Helen Mayer. He was educated in Eng
land, where his father was a London mer
chant, and at the Gymnasium at Worms-on-
Rhine; went to England, and was for a
time engaged in business there; went to
Mexico in 1885, then came to the United
States in 1886; has resided in New York
since 1893; he is a contributor of carica
tures to numerous journals and magazines
of prominence: Fliegende Blatter, Life
Judge, Punch, Le Figaro, Illustre, Le Rire,
Black and White, and the New York
Times. He is author and illustrator of:
A Trip to Toyland; In Laughland; Fan
tasies in Ha Ha; Autobiography of a
Monkey; Adventures of a Japanese Doll;
and illustrator of The Real New York.
He has traveled extensively in Europe and
America. For the sentiment expressed in
his ^cartoons during the Japanese-Russian
War, he was presented by the Emperor of
Japan with two silver raised Cloissonne
vases bearing the Imperial crest. He is a
member of the Salmagundi, and Lambs'
Clubs. Address : The Lambs' Club, New
York City.
MAYER, Leyy:
Lawyer ; born in Richmond, Virginia.
October 23, 1858; son of Henry D. Mayer
and Clare (Goldsmith) Mayer. He has
lived in Chicago from his childhood, his
early education being at the Jones (public)
School, from which he went to the Chi
cago High School, graduating there in
1874. He afterward took special studies at
Yale College and studied also in the Yale
Law School until 1876. He was assistant
librarian of the Chicago Law Institute
from 1876 to 1881, and while so engaged
edited and revised the manuscripts of Judge
David Rorers' works on Inter-State Law
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was admitted to the bar in 1881, and has
been engaged in practice ever since, his
practice now being chiefly in the line of
corporation and constitutional law and the
law of municipalities. He has been legal
adviser in the formation of some of the
largest industrial combinations, including
those of brewers, distillers, glucose-sugar,
coal, chewing-gum and others, and he has
for many years been general counsel of
the Illinois Manufacturers' Association.
Mr. Mayer is a member of the American
Economic Association, the Union League,
Iroquis, Germania, Midday and South
Shore Country Clubs of Chicago; the Law
yers' Club of New York City, and the
Old Colony Club of Massachusetts. Ad
dress : 125 Monroe Street, Chicago, and
27 William Street, New York City.
MAYER, William G :
Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Au
gust 15, 1850; son of Frederick J. Mayer
and Pauline C. Mayer. He was graduated
from Woodward High School, Cincinnati,
Ohio, from the United States Naval Acad
emy in 1870, and from the College of Cin
cinnati as LL.B. He was in the Naval
Service of United States as midshipman,
ensign and master until , 1875 when he re
signed. Mr. Mayer was admitted to the
bar of Ohio in 1875, and practiced law in
Cincinnati until 1890, since which time he
has been without specific profession. He
moved to Waterville, New York, where he
has been living since; was commissioned
as lieutenant in the United States Navy
at the outbreak, of the Spanish-American
War and served as navigating officer of
the United States Steamship Siren on the
North Cuban blockade until the close of
the War; was honorably discharged Sep
tember 24, 1898, returning to Waterville,
New York. He is a director of the Water
ville National Bank. He has traveled
throughout the United States, South Amer
ica, Europe, Western Asia, Northern
Africa, the Canary and Madeira Islands,
and the Sandwich Islands. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion an Epis
copalian. He is a member of the Cin
cinnati Law Library Association, Bar As

sociation, of Ohio, Naval Academy Grad
uates' Association, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Amos 0.
Osborne Historical Society; president of
the Board of Education, Public Library
Trustees, Cemetery Association, Soldiers'
and. Sailors' Monument Association, Board
of Health; member of the Oneida County
Court House Commission; trustee of Cin
cinnati Hospital; member of the Military-
Order of Foreign Wars, Naval Order of
the United States, Naval and Military Or
der of the Spanish-American War, Regular
Army and Navy Union, United States Vet
eran Navy, and American National Red
Cross. His favorite recreations are golf
and automobiling. He is a member of the
Waterville Golf, Pickwick, and University
Clubs, and of the Literary Clubs of Cin- -
cinnati. Mr. Mayer married in Water
ville, New York, January 14, 1880, Esther
L. Osborne, and they have three children:
Pauline Mayer Randall, Rosalie Osborne
Mayer and O. Osborne Mayer. Address:
Waterville, New York.
MAYNARD, Harry Lee:
Congressman; born in Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, June 8, 1861; son. of John W. May-
nard. He received his education in the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Ihstitue, and has since
been identified with business interests in
Portsmouth, Virginia, where he is pres
ident of the Norfolk, Portsmouth and New
port News Railroad, and officer and direc
tor in various local enterprises. After serv
ing for four years in the Virginia House of
Delegates and six in the State Senate, Mr.
Maynard was elected in 1900 to the Fifty-
seventh Congress, from the Second District
of Virginia. He has since been reelected
biennially, and is now serving in the. Six
tieth Congress. He is a Democrat in pol
itics. He married, August 5, 1885, Mary
Eleanor Brooks. Address : Portsmouth,
Virginia. MAZET, Robert:
Lawyer; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, May 15, 1857; son of William and
Melsena (Wessell) Mazet. He was edu
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graduated from Columbia University as
LL.B. and A.B. He was deputy attorney-
general for the prosecution of violations
of the State agricultural law; chairman of
the Board of Transfer Tax Appraisers of
New York; member of the State Assembly
of New York from 1897 to 1899; member
of special committee to investigate trusts
in 1897; chairman of Cities Committee of
the State Assembly; chairman of the com
mittee to investigate the government of the
City of New York in 1899, and was cap
tain of Company D, Seventh Regiment,
National Guard of New York. In politics
he is a Republican, and in religion a Pres
byterian. He is a member of the Penn
sylvania Society, Chi Phi fraternity, and
of the Republican and West Side Repub
lican Clubs. Mr. Mazet married Elsie S.
Moore (deceased), daughter of Commo
dore John W. Moore, and they have two
children : ¦ Robert, Jr., and Horace Sawyer.
Address: 257 Broadway, New York City.
MEAD, Albert Davis:
Teacher of biology; born in S wanton,
Vermont, 1869; son of Charles Davis Mead
and Minerva Harrington Mead. He gradu
ated from Middlebury College as A.B., 1890,
from Brown University as A.M., 1891,
and from the University of Chicago as
Ph.D. in 1895. Dr. Mead was associate
professor of comparative anatomy from
1895 to 1901, and has been professor of
comparative anatomy since 1901 at Brown
University. He has written several techni
cal biological papers. He is a member of
the Atrierican Society of Naturalists, Amer
ican Society of Zoologists, American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Mead married in Palmer, Massachu
setts, July 2, 1902, Ada Geneva Wing. Ad
dress : 283 Wayland Avenue, Providence,
Rhode Island.
MEAD, Albert Edward:
Governor of Washington; born at Man
hattan, Kansas, December 14, 1861 ; son of
William Banks and Harriet (Carlton)
Mead. He was educated in the public
schools of Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, and

in the Southern Illinois Normal University
at Carbondale, Illinois, and after his grad
uation studied in the Union College of Law
at Chicago. He began practice in Kansas
from 1885 to 1889, and since then in the
State of Washington. He has been active
in the Republican party of that State ever
since he began his citizenship there, and
was mayor of Blaine, Washington, in 1892
and 1893. He afterward served a term in
the Washington House of Representatives,
and another as county attorney of What
com County, and in 1904, was elected gov
ernor of the State of Washington, for the
term expiring in January, 1909. Residence :
Bellingham, Washington. Official address :
Olympia, Washington.
MEAD, Edwin Doak:
Editor, author and lecturer; born at
Chesterfield, New Hampshire, September
29, 1849; son of Bradley Mead and Sarah
(Stone) Mead. He was brought up on a
farm, attended the local schools, and was
for a time employed in a village store
until 1866, when he secured employment
with Ticknor and Fields, Boston publish
ers. He attended English and German Uni
versities from 1875 for four years, and on
his return in 1879 engaged in literary work
and lecturing; is author of: Martin Luther
— A Study of the Reformation, and various
essays and pamphlets, was editor of the
New England Magazine from 1889 to 1901,
is director of the Old South historical
work, and editor of the Old South Leaflets
and Annual Series. He is especially prom
inent in the movement for the promotion
of universal peace. He was delegate of
the American Peace Society to the Con
gresses at Glasgow and Rouen, and was
chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Thirteenth International Peace Con
gress at Boston in 1904. He is editor of
the International Library, composed of the
best works published, condemning the meth
ods of force and inculcating the meth
ods of reason in the settlement of the dif
ferences between nations. Mr. Mead mar
ried in Boston, September 29, 1898, Lucia
True Ames. Residence : 39 Newbury Street,
Boston. Office: 20 Beacon Street, Boston.

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MEAD, Larkin Goldsmith:
Sculptor; born at Chesterfield, New
Hampshire, January 3, 1835 ; son of Larkin
Goldsmith Mead and Mary Jane (Noyes)
Mead. The family removed in his early boy
hood to Brattleboro, Vermont, and there he
received his education in the public schools,
then became a clerk in a local hardware
store. While engaged thus he evinced a
predilection for art, and took such oppor
tunities as he could find to gratify his taste
in this direction. One cold winter he mod
eled in snow the colossal figure of an angel,
with such success that it becaffie the talk
of the town and was commented, on by the
local newspapers. This resulted in secur
ing for him the opportunity for an artistic
education. He worked in the studio of
Henry Kirke Brown in Brooklyn, from
1853 to 1855, and after that began his ca
reer as a professional sculptor, finished in
1857 the colossal statue of Vermont on the
dome of the State House at- Montpelier,
Vermont, and in 1861 th^ statue of Ethan
Allen for the portico of the same building.
During the consulate of his brother-in-law,
William Dean Howells, at Venice, Mr.
Mead was attached to the consulate there
and improved his opportunities for study
in Italian art centers, and during the early
part of the Civil War he was for six
months at the front as an artist for Har
per's Weekly, an experience of great value
for his after work in the designing of sol
diers' monuments and ideal works in which
the soldier was the theme. He has exe
cuted many famous groups, monuments,
portrait statues and ideal figures. His por
traits of Lincoln for the monument at
Springfield, Illinois, and of Ethan Allen for
the National Art Gallery at Washington,
are widely famous ; while in ideal or alle
gorical statues, Echo, The Mississippi, and
others, the colossal marble group at Sacra
mento, California, representing Columbus
appealing to Isabella, and the group The
Returned Soldier, are among the many
specimens of his art which have made for
him a place in the forefront of American Art.
Since 1862 he has resided chiefly in Flor

ence, and there, in 1866, he married Marietta
di Benvenuti. Address : Florence, Italy.
MEAD, William Rutherford:
Architect; born in Brattleboro, Vermont,
August 20, 1846; son of Larkin Goldsmith
Mead and Mary Jane (Noyes) Mead. He
was graduated from Amherst College in
the class of 1867, studied architecture with
Russell Sturgis in New York, and after
ward for two years in Europe, then estab
lished, with partners, in New York, the firm
of McKim, Mead and White, who have been
architects of many of, the most important
buildings in New York City and elsewhere
throughout the country; among them the
buildings of Columbia University on Morn-
ingside Heights, the Boston Public Library,
Rhode Island State Capitol, New York Her
ald Building, the new additions to the White
House at Washington and many other pub
lic, office and residence structures. Address :
160 Fifth Avenue, New York.
MEADE, Richard Worsam:
President of the New York Transporta
tion Company; born at Cold Spring, New
York, February 7, 1870; son of Rear-Ad
miral Richard Worsam Meade, United
States Navy, and Rebecca (Paulding)
Meade. In 1889 he entered the railroad
business as a clerk in the office of the pres
ident of St. Paul and Duluth Railroad
Company, New York City; was secretary
to the general manager of the New York
and Northern Railway Company, 1891 ; sec
retary to the general manager of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company, 1894. He enlisted in the United
States Navy for the war with Spain, as
boatswain's mate of the United States Ship
Yankee, 1898, and served through the war
on the south coast of Cuba ; was appointed
general foreman of freight terminals of
the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company, New York City, 1899;
assistant to president of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, New York' City,
in 1902; since 1904, president and general
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in ' New York City and Newport, Rhode
Island. Introduced the taxameter cab and
the double-deck motor omnibus in New
York. He is also president and director
of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, Park
Carriage Company, Motor Cab Company of
New York, and the Metropolitan Express
Company ; vice-president and director of
the Metropolitan Securities Company; di
rector of the New York City Railroad Com
pany, Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany, Third Avenue Railway Company, and
other subsidiary companies. He is a mem
ber of the Society of Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick, the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, the Union Club, Automobile Club
of America, and the New York Railroad
and Transportation Clubs.- Address :
Eighth Avenue and- Forty-ninth Street, New
York City.
MEANY, Edward P.:
Lawyer; born in Louisville, Kentucky,
May 13, 1854; son of Judge Edward A.
Meany and Maria Lavenia (Shannon)
Meany. He received his education in St.
Louis University and St. Mary's College,
Kentucky. He is counsel of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company; di
rector of The Trust Company of New Jer
sey, Colonial Insurance Company and di
rector of several telephone companies, form
ing part of the Bell Telephone System. He
is judge-advocate-general of New Jersey,
with the rank of brigadier-general. In poli
tics he is a Democrat. He is a member of
the Lawyers' and Morris County Golf Clubs,
the Automobile Club of America, Essex
County Country and Morristown Field
Clubs. General Meany married Rosalie
Behr of St. Louis, Missouri, and they have
one son, Shannon Lord. Residence: Aln
wick Hall, Convent Station, New Jersey.
Office address: 15 Dey Street, New York
City.MEEHAN, William Edward:
Commissioner of fisheries of Pennsyl
vania; eldest son of the late Thomas
Meehan, eminent vegetable biologist; was
born in Philadelphia County, August 31,

1853 ; for nearly fifteen years an associate
editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
also special article writer for high class
American and European magazines. In 1892
was appointed botanist and scientific col
lector on Peary Relief Expedition to North
Greenland. Author of: In Arctic Seas,
part II; Flora of Greenland, History of
Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Pennsylvania.
and Mountain Lakes of Pennsylvania. In
1895 was appointed State statistician of
fisheries by Pennsylvania Fish Commis
sion; appointed fish commissioner by Gov
ernor William A. Stone in February, 1901 ;
elected corresponding secretary by the
board, June, same year; reappointed com
missioner by Governor Samuel W-- Penny-
packer, February, 1903. On the abolition
of the Fish Commission by the Legislature
and the establishment of the Department of
Fisheries, was appointed commissioner of
Fisheries. He was reappointed by Gover
nor Stuart, June 2, 1907. Mr. Meehan was
also one of the founders and the first pres
ident of the City History Club of Philadel
phia, and is now its honorary president.
Address : Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MEEK, Edward Roscoe:
Jurist; born in Davenport, Iowa, Decem
ber 23, 1865; son of Aaron Meek and
Rhoda (Gardner) Meek. He was edu
cated in the University of Iowa, from which
he received the degrees of A.B., A.M., and
LL.B. Since 1889 he has lived in Texas,
and he was general attorney of the Fort
Worth and Denver City Railway Company
until appointed in July, 1898, to his present
office as United States district judge for
the Northern District of Texas. He is
a Republican in politics. Judge Meek mar
ried in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1890, Elizabeth
Clarkson, daughter of the late Richard P.
Clarkson, editor and publisher of the Des
Moines Register. Address: Dallas, Texas.
MEEKER, Stephen:
Manufacturer ; born in Newark, New Jer
sey, March 17, 1843. He was educated in
a private school at Newark, New Jersey,
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in the foundry business, which is being car
ried on by his sons and nephew as the
Meeker Foundry Company. Mr. Meeker
was president of the New Je'rsey Commis
sion, to the Worlds Columbian Exposition
in 1893 at Chicago, was a member of the
Temporary Commission of Essex County
Parks and a member of the first Board of
Permanent Commissioners of the same. He
is a Democrat in politics (but a firm be
liever in the gold standard) and since 1895
he has been a member of the State Board
of Assessors of New Jersey. He is a mem
ber of the Washington Association of New
Jersey, a governor of the Essex County
(New Jersey) Country Club, arid a member
of the Lawyers' Club of New York. Mr.
Meeker has twice married, first, Elizabeth
P. Townley in 1868, and second, Margaret
Potter Cox in 1886. Address : 17 High
Street, Orange, New Jersey.
MEES, Carl Leo:
President of the Rose Polytechnic In
stitute; born in Columbus, Ohio, May 20,
1853, son of Konrad and Elizabeth (Adam)
Mees. He received his preparatory educa
tion at the Columbus (Ohio), High School,
entering later the Ohio State University
and the Starling Medical College, and tak
ing at the latter the degree of M.D. He
took a post-graduate course at the Uni
versity of Berlin, Germany, and at the South
Kensington schools, England. In 1872 he
became assistant chemist of the Ohio Geo
logical Survey and after remaining four
years there he accepted, in 1876, the posi
tion of professor of physics in the Male
High School of Louisville, Kentucky. He
resigned in 1880, and spent a year in Eu
rope. In 1882 he was called to the chair
of chemistry and physics at the University
of Ohio, which position he filled for five
years. In 1887 he became professor of
physics at the Rose Polytechnic Institute
at Terre Haute, Indiana, and eight years
later was elected to the presidency of that
institution, at the same time continuing to
lecture in physics. Dr. Mees has made
extensive travels throughout the European
continent. He is a Republican in politics

and a member of the Lutheran Church. He
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, a member of
the American Physical Society, American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, and other
scientific societies. Residence : 2209 North
Ninth Street. Office address : Rose Poly
technic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana.
MEIGHAN, Burton C:
Lawyer; born in Mamaroneck, West
chester County, New York, 1871 ; son of
Thomas J. and Phebe S. (Bryan) Meighan.
He was graduated from the College of the
City of New York as B.S. in 1890, salu-
tatorian and second honor ; New York Uni
versity Law School in 1894, first speaker
ship and prize for best written examina
tion on graduation. He engaged in the
practice of law" in Westchester County, and
New York City, from 1894. He was trus
tee of village four years, village counsel
for three years. He is trustee and coun
sel of the Union Savings Bank of West
chester ; director and member of the Execu
tive Committee, Lawyers' Westchester Title
Insurance Company; president and direc
tor of the Rushmore Realty Corporation,
counsel to the First National Bank of
Mamaroneck, New York, and the Larch
mont National Bank. He is a member of
the New York Bar Association, West
chester County Bar Association, and of the
Republican Club of New York City, and
the Larchmont Yacht Club. He married
in Mamaroneck, New York, 1899, Effie I.
Hunter, and they have two children: Bur
ton C, Jr., born in 1901, and Bryant, born
December, 1906. Address : Mamaroneck,
Westchester County, New York.
MEIGS, Montgomery: '
United States civil engineer; born in De
troit, Michigan, February 27, 1847; son
of Mayor General Montgomery Cunning
ham Meigs, United States Army, and
Louisa (Rodgers) . Meigs. After complet
ing his public school courses he took up
technical study at the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard University, and then
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in the Royal Polytechnic School at Stutt
gart. From 1870 to 1873 he was engaged
on the surveys and construction of the
Northern Pacific Railroad; since 1874 en
gaged as a civil engineer in Government
service in connection with the improve
ments of the Mississippi between St. Paul
and St. Louis, and he has invented and
introduced improvements in hydraulic en
gineering. Mr. Meigs married at Rock Is
land, Illinois, in 1877, Grace C. Lynde, since
deceased. Address : 618 Franklin Street,
Keokuk, Iowa.
MELL, Patrick Hues:
President of Clemson College; born at
Penfiel'd, Georgia, May 24, 1850; son of
Patrick Hues Mell, D.D., LL.D., third chan
cellor of the University of Georgia and
Lurene Howard (Cooper) Mell. He was
graduated as A.B. in 1871 from the Uni
versity of Georgia, from which he received
in 1872 the degree of CE. and M.E., and
Ph.D. in 1880; and he also received the
LL.D. degree in 1905 from South Carolina
University. He was State chemist of Geor
gia from 1874 to 1877 ; professor of geology
and botany in the Alabama Polytechnic In
stitute from 1878" to 1902, and also director
of the Alabama Weather Service from 1884
to 1893, and director of the Alabama Agri
cultural Experiment Station from 1898 to
1902; and since 1902 he has been president
of Clemson College, South Carolina. Dr.
Mell has devoted his life very largely to
original researches in the fields of geol
ogy, botany and meteorology, and has writ
ten numerous scientific monographs, nota
bly on ore deposits and mining in the South ;
auriferous . slate deposits in Southern re
gions; Southern soapstones and free clays;
the cotton plant ; grasses and forage plants ;
the flora of Alabama; climatology of Ala
bama ; Climatology of the Cotton Plant (is
sued by the United States Department of
Agriculture), Botanical Laboratory Guide;
Biological Laboratory Guide. He edited a
revision of Mell's Parliamentary Practice;
revisor of White's Gardening for the South ;
and numerous newspaper and magazine ar
ticles. Dr. , Mell invented the system of
weather signals now used by the United

States Weather Bureau; and he received a
medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900.
He is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Geolog
ical Society of America, and the Association
of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment •
Stations, of which he was vice-president
in 1898. He is also a member of the Na
tional Geographic Society, the Southern
Historical Association, South Carolina His
torical Association, Alabama Historical As
sociation, the Sons of the Revolution, and
Sons of Confederate Veterans. President
Mell married, June 15, 1875, Annie R.
White. Address : Clemson College, South
Carolina.MELLEN, Chase:
Lawyer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,- Sep
tember 21, 1863; son of William Proctor
and Ellen Seymour (Clark) Mellen. He
was prepared at Colorado College,- Colorado
Springs, and by . private tutors ; entered
Brasenose College, Oxford, England, and
was graduated from Oxford University as
B.A. in 1887. He practiced civil engineer
ing in Colorado for two years, with the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany, and fourteen months in Mexico with
the Mexican National Railway Company;
came to New York City in 1889; studied
law at Columbia College, and in the office
of Parsons, Shepard and Ogden. He was
admitted to the bar in April, 1892. He
was appointed assistant corporation coun
sel by Hon. Francis M. Scott, April 1,
1895; served as such also under Hon.
John Whalen, and Hon. George L. Rives.
He resigned December 31, 1903, and re
sumed private practice. He is member of
the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, and the American Bar As
sociation. Mr. Mellen is also a member
of the University, St. Anthony, and City
Clubs of New York City and of the Gar
den City Golf Club. He married in Au
gusta, Maine, June 7, 1893, Lucy Cony
Manley, daughter of Joseph Homan Man-
ley, and they have four children : Joseph
Manley, born in 1894; Chase, bom in 1896;
William Palmer, born in 1902; and Susan
Cony, born in 1903. Residence : Garden '

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City, Long Island. Office address : 32 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
MELLIN, Carl J.:
Mechanical engineer; born in Westergot-
land, Sweden, February 17, 1851 ; son of
Sven Mellin and Maria Elizabeth (Bjorn)
Mellin. He received a college and techni
cal education in Sweden, embracing me
chanical engineering and naval architecture.
He was mechanical engineer and naval
architect in Sweden and Scotland; from
1877 to 1887, notably with Robert Napier
and Son, and the Caledonian Locomotive
Works, Glasgow, and the Erikberg and
Atlas Works, Sweden ; was mechanical
engineer with the Dynamite Gun Company,
New York City, from 1887 to 1889; me
chanical engineer, from 1889 to 1894, and
chief engineer from 1894 to 1902, with the
Richmond Locomotive Works, Richmond,
Virginia, -and since 1902 he has been con*
suiting engineer to the American Locomo
tive Company. He was prominently con
nected with designing the dynamite gun
machinery for the United States cruiser
Vesuvius ; had charge of the designing and
construction of machinery of the United
States battleship Texas; designer and
patentee of what is known as the Rich
mond Compound Locomotive and Articu
lated Compound Locomotive, built for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which was
exhibited and awarded gold medal at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, and
received the highest award for a com
pound locomotive at the Pan American Ex
position at Buffalo in 1901. He was knight
ed for commendable services by King
Oscar of Sweden in 1905. Mr. Mellin is
the originator of the introduction of the
Walschoert valve motion on the Ameri
can locomotives, and was primarily re
sponsible for the introduction of the four-
cylinder balanced compound locomotive in
this country. He has traveled in the in
terest of the engineering profession
throughout Europe and the greater part
of the United States, and has contributed
numerous technical articles on locomotive
design to prominent railroad journals, in
cluding Railway Machinery, the American

Engineer and Railroad Journal, Railroad
Gazette and others. He is a member of
the American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, American Society of
Naval Engineers, American Railroad Mas
ter Mechanics' Association, American So
ciety of Swedish Engineers, and other, so
cieties. He is also a member of various
railroad clubs, and of the Mohawk Club
of Schenectady. He married in New York
City, December 31, 1889, Gertrude Alice
Levie, and they have two children: Ger
trude Anna Maria, born in 1891, and Carl
Eugene, born in 1894. Address: 1005
Union Street, Schenectady, New York.
MELLON, James Ross:
Banker; born in Pittsburgh, January 14,
1846; son of Judge Thomas Mellon and
Sarah Jane (Negley) Mellon. He received
his education in Jefferson College, Can-
nonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylva
nia. He has been successful in banking
and general business. He built and owns
the Ligomer Valley Railroad in Westmore
land County, Pennsylvania; he is president
of the City Deposit Bank, the Liberty
Market Company and director of St. Clair
Incline Plane Company. He is also pres
ident of the Western Pennsylvania Hos
pital, the Dixmont Insane Hospital, and
of the Western Pennsylvania Alumni As
sociation. He is trustee of Athalia Daly
House for Young Working Girls; and a
member of Theta Delta Chi Association.
In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Mellon
is a member of the Union, Golf, Duquesne,
Country and University Clubs of Pitts
burgh. He married in Leavenworth, Kan
sas, June 3, 1867, Rachel Huey Larrimer,
and they have three children: Wilbur L,
born in 1870; Thomas, born in 1880; and
Lucille, born in 1890. Residence: 400
North Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh. Office
address : Mellon National Bank, 514 Smith-
field Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
MELVILLE, George Wallace:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy; born
in New York City, July 30, 1841 ; son of
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and is of Scotch descent. After attending
public and private schools in the city he
served an apprenticeship in the machine
shop of James Binns, in East Brooklyn,
New York^ until 1841, when he entered the
Navy as third assistant engineer. He
served in the North and South Atlantic
Squadrons and in Wilke's Flying Squadron,
during the Civil War. He was on board of
the Wachusett in the harbor of Bahia,
South America, and took part in the sink
ing of the Florida by that vessel. His first
voyage to the Arctic was as chief engineer
of the Tigress, in search of the Polaris,
and when the Jeannette Expedition was be
ing prepared, Captain George W. DeLong,
who was his personal friend, induced Mel
ville to go with him. After the wreck of
the Jeannette the devotion of Melville, his
successful measures for the saving of the
crew of the whale-boat which he com
manded, his heroic search along five hun
dred miles of ice-bound coast for the crews
of the other two boats, form one of the
most thrilling of the momentous chapters
in the history of Arctic exploration. He
again went to the Arctic as chief engineer
of the flagship Thetis in the Greely Re
lief Expedition. He was appointed in Au
gust, 1887, and reappointed in 1892, 1896
and 1900, engineer-in-chief of the United
States Navy, and advanced to the rank of
rear-admiral, March 4, 1899; retired in
1903. He was advanced fifteen numbers by
special act of Congress in 1890 for his dis
tinguished services in the Arctic. His abil
ity, as an engineer gave special value to his
services at the head of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering, during a period, when the new
navy was being constructed, and for many
of the vessels built during this period he
himself prepared the general designs of the
machinery. He is an interesting and force
ful writer, and his book of Arctic exper
ience, In the Lena Delta, takes rank as
one of the best written records of real ad
venture. Rear-Admiral Melville is a mem
ber and ex-president of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers. Address :
1720 H Street, Washington, D. C.

MELVILLE, Henry:
Lawyer; born in- Nelson, New Hamp
shire, August 25, 1858; son of Josiah H.
Melville and Nancy R. (Nesmith) Mel
ville. He was .graduated from Dartmouth
College as A.B. in 1879, and from Har
vard University as A.M. and LL.B., cum
laude, in 1884. Pie was admitted to the
New York bar in 1885. He served as
captain of Company A, Eighth Regiment
of the National Guard of New York, and
was captain of Company A, Eighth
Regiment, New York Infantry Volunteers,
during the Spanish-American War. He is
president of the New York State Board of
Managers of Reformatories (having in
charge Elmira and Napanoch). In poli
tics he is a Republican and in religien a
Congregationalist. He is a member of the
Association Of the Bar of the City of New
York, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Society
of Colonial Wars, Sons of Revolution, and
the Naval and Military Order of the
Spanish-American War, and is a member
of the University, Republican and Dart
mouth Clubs of New York City. Address:
120 Broadway, New York City.
MERCER, Alfred Clifford:
Physician; born in Syracuse, New York,
July 5, 1855 ; son of Dr. Alfred Mercer and
Delia (Lamphier) Mercer. He attended
the public schools of Syracuse from i860
to 1875 ; was graduated from Syracuse Uni
versity as M.D. in 1878;- attended St.
Thomas Hospital, London, England, from
1878 to 1881 and Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Sick Children (London) in
1890 and 1891. He was professor of
pathology from 1886 to 1893, professor of
clinical pediatrics from 1893 to 1904, and
has been professor of pediatrics since 1904
at Syracuse University. He is consulting
physician of the children's clinic at Syra
cuse Free Dispensary, and physician to the
Children's wards of the Syracuse Hospital
for Women and Children. Dr. Mercer was
health officer of Syracuse from 1883
to 1885; and is a contributor to medical,
microscopical and photographic periodicals.
He is author of: An Experimental Study

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of Aperture as a Factor in Microscopic
Vision, 1896. He devised the Syracuse
solid watch glass commonly used in micro
scopical laboratories ; the iconoscope, used
on hand cameras, and a double-bulb X-ray
tube, used with Tesla coils. He is chair
man of the Milk Commission of the Syra
cuse Academy of Medicine, and member of
the Anti-tuberculosis Committee of the As
sociated Charities. Dr. Mercer is fellow of
the Royal Microscopical Society, London,
England; member of the Americal Micro
scopical Society (was its president in 1896),
the American Rontgen Ray Society, New
York State Medical Society, Central New
York Association; fellow of the Academy
of Medicine of Syracuse, New York; cor
responding member of the Academy of
Science, Rochester, New York; member of
the Onondaga Historical Society; honorary
member of the Syracuse Botanical Club, and
is a member of the Citizens' and Fortnight
ly Clubs. Address : 324 Montgomery Street,
Syracuse, New York.
MEREDITH, Daniel W. :
Merchant. He is assistant treasurer,
general manager and director of the Bay
State Flour and Grain Company, Girard
Flour and Grain Company, Chesapeake
Grain Company (Baltimore), and of the
Stuyvesant Grain Company. Address: 105
Hudson Street, New York City.
MERRIAM, Clinton Hart:
Chief of the United States Biological
Survey; born in New York City, Decem
ber 5, 1855 ; son of Clinton L. Merriam
and Caroline (Hart) Merriam. After a
preparatory training in Williston Seminary
at Easthampton, Massachusetts, he was at
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni
versity in the class of 1877 and he was
graduated as M.D. in 1879 from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.
He practiced medicine until 1885 at Locust
Grove, New York, meanwhile continuing
his biological studies. He was naturalist
with Hayden's Survey, assistant of the
United States Fish Commission ; was sur
geon of the Steamship Proteus, visiting
the Arctic Seal Fishery from Newfound

land; and he was United States Bering
Sea Commissioner, engaged in the Fur
Seal Investigations on Pribilof Islands in
1891. Dr. Merriam is a fellow and ex-
president of the American Ornithologists'
Union; member of the National Academy
of Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, foreign member of the Zoological
Society of London, and a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. He is author of numerous
works on zoological, botanical and ethno
logical subjects, contributor to the scientific
press and publications of the United States
Biological Survey. Address : United States
Biological Survey, Washington, D. C.
MERRIAM, George Spring:
Author; born at Springfield, Massachu
setts, January 13, 1843; son of George Mer
riam and Abby (Fiske) Merriam. He was
graduated from Yale College in 1864, and
attended Yale Theological School from
1865 to 1868. He was tutor in Yale Col
lege from 1866 to 1868; office editor of the
Christian Union from 1870 to 1875, and
since 1878 has been resident in Springfield,
Massachusetts. He was connected with the
publication of the Webster International
Dicti&nary, and has been mainly occupied
in literary work. He is author of: A Liv
ing Faith, 1876; The Way of Life, 1881;
The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles,
1885; The Story of William and Lucy
Smith, 1889; Noah Porter, 1893; A Sym
phony of the Spirit (compilation), 1894;
The Chief End of Man, 1897; Reminis
cences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs,
1897; The Negro and the Nation, 1906.
Mr. Merriam is an Independent in politics.
His favorite recreations are walking, bicy
cling, and piquet. He married first at
Frankfort, Kentucky, June 30, 1868, Mrs.
Fanny Smith Post (died January 13, 1878) ;
married, second, at Winchester, Massachu
setts, June 30, 1897, Susan Adela Clapp.
Address : Crescent Hill, Springfield, Massa
chusetts. MERRIAM, William Rush:
Banker, ex-governor of Minnesota; born
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York, in 1849; son of John L. Merriam and
Mahala-(de Lano) Merriam. He has. been
a resident vof St. Paul, Minnesota, since
1861, was prepared in the schools of that
place, graduated from Racine College in
1871, and in the same year became a clerk
in the Merchants' National Bank of St.
Paul, of which he became cashier in 1873,
vice-president in 1880 and has been presi
dent since 1882; in addition to which he
is a director in various corporations. He
was a member of the Minnesota Legislature
for several years and its speaker in 1886;
elected governor of Minnesota in 1888, and
served through the four-year term, begin
ning in 1889. In 1898 he was appointed by
President McKinley, director of the Twelfth
Census, and served until 1903. Governor
Merriam has important business interests
in Virginia in addition to those in the
Northwest, and he makes his home in
Washington. Address : 1414 Eleventh Street,
Washington, D. C.
MERRICK, Samuel Vaughan:
Retired; born in Philadelphia, Decem
ber 10, 1856; son of William Henry Mer
rick and S. Maria (Otis) Merrick. He was
educated in the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Merrick has traveled extensively in the
United States and was several times abroad.
He is a Republican in politics and an Epis
copalian in his church relations. He is a
member of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, a trustee of the Philadelphia Or
thopaedic Hospital, St. Christopher's Hos
pital and is a member of the Phi Kappa
Sigma fraternity. He participates in most
of the outdoor recreations, and is a mem
ber of the Philadelphia Club and the Ger
mantown Cricket Club. Mr. Merrick mar
ried in Philadelphia, April 15, 1880, Mary
Rodney King, and they have four daugh
ters: H. L, E. O., M. R. and F. V. Mer
rick and one son, Rodney K. Merrick. Ad
dress : 5219 Wayne Avenue, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MERRICK, William Henry:
Manager of The Philadelphia Saving
Fund Societyj born in Philadelphia, April

27, 1831 ; son of Samuel Vaughan Merrick
and Sarah (Thomas) Merrick. He received
his education in Philadelphia High School
and in the University of Pennsylvania. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
an Episcopalian. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Society and the
Franklin Institute and of The Philadelphia,
Germantown Cricket and Penn Clubs. Mr.
Merrick has been married twice; first in
Philadelphia, in 1855, to Sara Maria Otis,
and second, in 1866, Helen Louise Smith,
and he has three children : Residence : Ven
ice, Italy. Address : School House Lane,
Germantown, Pennsylvania.
MERRILL, Charles Edmund:
Publisher of educational text-books ;
born in Hanover, New Hampshire, Febru
ary 26, 1848; son of Phineas Merrill and
Abigail (Rollins) Merrill. He was educated
in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu
setts, and Dartmouth College in the class
of 1869. He was engaged in the school
book publishing business as Charles E. Mer
rill & Company, afterward became president
of Maynard, Merrill & Company and is
now president of its successor, Charles E.
Merrill Company, publishers. He is a mem
ber of the Central Council of the Charity
Organization Society of New York; trus
tee of the Brick Presbyterian Church of
New York City; is a life member of the
New England Society and a member of the
University, Century, Aldine and Dartmouth
Clubs of New York. Mr. Merrill has been
twice married, first in New York City,
1874, to Lydia W. Brown, second, in New
York City, 1905, to Sally C. Markoe, and
he has three children: Charles Edmund,
Jr., Payson McLane and Wallace Wyles.
Address : 44 to 60 East Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
MERRILL, Edward Bagley:
Lawyer; born in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, January 25, 1835 ; son of Edward
and Mary (Converse) Merrill. He at
tended Exeter Academy 1851-1853; was
graduated from Bowdoin College as A.B. in
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Law School in 1859. He was admitted to
the New York bar in i860 and since then
has been engaged in practice of law in New
York City. In politics he is an Independent
Democrat and in religion a Unitarian. He
is vice-president of the New York Coloniza
tion Society, and member of the Executive
Committee of the New York Prison Asso
ciation, and of the University Club. Mr.
Merrill married in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts, September 12, 1861, Mary Eliza
beth Gibbs, and they have one son, Edward
Gibbs, born June 20, 1875 (A.B. Columbia,
1897) . Address : 52 Broadway, New York
City. MERRILL, Edwin Godfrey:
Banker; born in Bangor, Maine, Novem
ber 21, 1873; son of Isaac Hobbs Merrill
and Ada Frances (Godfrey) Merrill. He
attended the Bangor High School in .1889,
Philips Exeter Academy, from wbich he
graduated as honor man in 1891 ; and was
graduated from Harvard College as A.B.
in 1895, and received honorable mention in
French and history. He was connected
with the firm of Merrill and Company, Ban
gor, from July, 1896, to February, 1898,
with the firm of Kountze Brothers, New
York, from February, 1898, to September,
1898, and he was with Estabrook and Com
pany, New York, from October, 1898, to
January, 1901. He was managing partner
of Merrill and Company, in Bangor, from
March, 1901, to June, 1903; and he organ
ized the Merrill Trust Company, of which
he became president; starting with $100,000
capital and $132,800 deposits it has grown
in less than four years to have $200,000
capital and $1,000,000 deposits, and the com
pany also owns the Veazie National Bank,
of which Mr. Merrill was elected president
in November, 1905. With the Veazie Na
tional deposits, the Merrill Trust Company
now controls more commercial deposits than
any bank in Maine outside of Portland. Mr.
Merrill is secretary, treasurer and director
of the Bangor Opera House Association,
director of the Stockton Springs Trust Com
pany, Merchants' Trust and Banking Com
pany, of Presque Isle, the Union Trust

Company, of Ellsworth, the Frontier Trust
Company, of Fort Fairfield, and of the Eu
ropean and North American Railway Com
pany. He is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Merrill is a trustee of the Eastern Maine
General Hospital, Bangor Fuel Society, the
Good Samaritan Home of Bangor, and the
Home for Aged Women at Bangor. He is
corresponding secretary of the Citizens'
League of Bangor, director of the Meadow-
brook Golf Club, member of the Tarratine
Club of Bangor, Harvard Union of Cam
bridge, and the Harvard and University
Clubs of New York City. He married at
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, January
21, 1902, Adelaide Isabel Katte, and they
have two children : Edwin Katte Merrill,
born in 1903, and Dudley Merrill, born in
1904. Residence : 219 French Street, Ban
gor. Business address : 2 Hammond Street,
Bangor, Maine.
MERRILL, George Edmands:
President of Colgate University; born in
the Charleston District of Boston, Massa
chusetts, December 19, 1846 ; son of Nathan
Merrill and Amelia G. (Edmands) Merrill.
He was graduated from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1869, and A.M. in 1872, from New
ton Theological Institution in 1872, and
Colby College with the degree of D.D. in
1896; and he received from Rochester Uni
versity the LL.D. degree in 1901. He was
minister of the First Baptist Church of
Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1872 to
1877; First Baptist Church, of Salem, Mas
sachusetts from 1877 to 1885; First Bap
tist Church of Colorado Springs, Colorado
from 1885 to 1887; Immanuel Baptist
Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1890
to 1899; and has been president of Col
gate University, Hamilton, New York, since
1899. He is author of: The Story of the
Manuscripts ; Crusaders and Captives ; The
Reasonable Christ; The Parchments of the
Faith. He is a member of the Fort Schuyler
Club of Utica, New York, and Harvard
Club of New York City. President Mer
rill has been twice married, first October
1, 1872, to Florence Whittemore, by whom
he has one daughter, Elinor; and married.

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second, September 19, 1882, Emma M.
Bateman. Address: Hamilton, New York.
MERRILL, Selah:
Consular officer; born at Canton Centre,
Connecticut, May 2, 1837; son of Daniel and
Lydia (Richards) Merrill. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered Yale
College, in the class of. 1863, but left before
graduation, and later. became a student in
the New Haven Theological Seminary. He
was ordained in the ministry of the Con
gregational Church in 1864, and he was
chaplain of the Forty-ninth Regiment of
United States Colored Infantry at Vicks
burg, Mississippi, in 1864 and 1865. He
was afterward pastor of churches at Le
Roy, New York, and at San Francisco,
California, following which he became, a
teacher of Hebrew at the Andover Theolog
ical Seminary. He became deeply inter
ested in archaeology and was connected with
the active work of the American Palestine
Exploration Society as archaeologist from
1874 to 1877, and in that connection made
valuable discoveries in and around Jeru
salem, notable among which was the dis
covery and excavation of the Second Wall
of Jerusalem, outside of which Christ was
crucified. He made a large numismatic,
archeological and zoological collection re
lating to Palestine. He served as United
States consul at Jerusalem from 1882 to
1886, and again from 1891 to 1894, then be
came for four years curator of the Biblical
Museum in connection with the theological
seminary at Andover, Massachusetts. In
1898 he was again appointed by President
McKinley as American consul at Jerusalem,
in which' capacity he is still serving. Yale
has conferred upon him the honorary de
gree of M.A., Iowa College that of D.D.
in 1875, and Union College that of LL.D.
in 1884. Dr. Merrill is an extensive con
tributor of articles on biblical history, geo
graphy and archaeology to various maga
zines, and is author of various books upon
like subjects including: East of the Jordan,
1881; Galilee in the Time of Christ, 1881 ;
Greek Inscriptions Collected in the Years
from 1875 to 1877 in the Country East of

the Jordan, 1884 ; The Site of Calvary, 1885 ;
Ancient Jerusalem, 1905. Dr. Merrill mar
ried in 1875, Adelaide Brewster Taylor. Ad
dress : American Consulate, Jerusalem,
Syria.
MERRILL, William Bradford:
Journalist ; born in Salisbury, New Hamp7
shire, February 27, 1861 ; son of Rev. Ho
ratio Merrill and Sarah Bradford (Whit
man) Merrill. He was educated in the
Boston Latin School, preparatory to Har
vard, and finished his education under pri
vate instructors, in Paris, France, two years,
in 1877 and 1878. He began journalism as
a reporter on the Philadelphia North Am
erican in 1879; staff correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press in 1880; resigned to
write books for National Railway Publish
ing Conipany ;- traveled over United States
in 1880 and 1881 ; returned to the Phila
delphia Press as telegraph editor, in 1882,
dramatic and Sunday editor from 1883 to
1885 ; assistant managing editor in 1885 and
managing editor from 1887 to 1891 ; vice-
president and general manager of the New
York Press from 1902 to 1904; managing
editor of the New York World, from 1895
to 1901 ; financial manager of the New York
World, from 1902 to 1906; trustee of S.
s. McClure (Magazine) Company; -re
signed both positions to become, in Feb
ruary, 1907, manager of the New York
American, directing both the business and
news departments. In politics he is an In
dependent Republican- and in religion an
Episcopalian. He is a member of the Play
ers' Club. Mr. Merrill married in Phila
delphia, September 12, 1882, Sara Ann
Louise Taylor of Washington, D. C, and
they have three children : Bradford, born
in 1883, Elizabeth Reynolds, born in 1886,
and Dorothy Susan, born in 1891. Resi
dence : Great Neck, Long Island. Address :
New York American Office, New York City.
MERRY, William Lawrence:
Diplomat; born in New York City, 1842.
After receiving a good academic education
he engaged in maritime life, going to sea
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steamships on the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans engaged in California trade under
the American flag. He resigned from the
service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany in 1874, and has ever since made his
home in San Francisco, California. He
was for three years general agent of the
Central American Transit Company and
of the North American Steamship Com
pany on the Nicaraguan Isthmus, and for
one year was agent of the United States
Mail Steamship Company on the Isthmus
of Panama. He became president of the
North American Navigation Company on
the Pacific coast and was for seven years
president and for several years trustee of
the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
and was also consul-general for Nicaragua
on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
From 1880 he became an enthusiastic sup
porter of the project for a canal across the
Isthmus of Nicaragua, and wrote a work
entitled: The Nicaragua Canal, the Gate
way Between the Oceans, and also wrote
The Problem of Cheap Transportation, and
various papers in support of the Nicaragua
Canal project, and of an increase of the
American naval force on the Pacific coast
and the- maritime development of Pacific
coast ports. In 1897 Mr. Merry was ap
pointed by President McKinley as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States to Costa Rica, Nica
ragua and San Salvador, which position he
has held ever since. Address : American
Legation, San Jose, Costa Rica.
MERSHON, Stephen L.:
Financier, manufacturer; born- at East
Hampton, Long Island, April 13, 1859; son
of Rev. Stephen L. Mershon (pastor of
the Presbyterian Church of East Hampton)
and Mary (Talmage) Mershon (sister of
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage). He was edu
cated in a public school, private academy
and by private tutor, and began his busi
ness career in the National Park Bank of
New York City. He was afterward lo
cated for some years in Chicago, in charge
of Western branches of houses in the iron
and steel trade, and after that returned East
and was executive officer in several corpor

ations producing minerals and manufactur
ing metal products. Mr. Mershon is now
president and director of the American
Title and Security Company, a corporation
advancing moneys on mineral and metal
products. He is a Republican in politics.
His church relations are Presbyterian, but
he is deeply interested in all kindred de
nominations, and very actively identified
in National Christian Endeavor work for
many years (voluntary and without com
pensation), and other philanthropic enter
prises. He is a frequent contributor to
leading periodicals and is author of several
literary and religious works. Mr. Mershon
married at 'Moriches, Long Island, April 13,
1882, Addie J. Hawkins, and they have three
children : Laura, Stephen and Adelaide. Ad
dress : 32 Broadway, New York City.
MERWIN, Henry Childs:
Lawyer and author; born in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, August 5, 1853 ; son of Elias
Merwin and Annie (Childs) Merwin. He
received his early education in a private
school and was graduated from Harvard
College as B.A. in 1874. He was formerly
associate justice of the District - Court of
Central Middlesex, and was lecturer in the
Law School of Boston University and at the
Lowell Institute. He is author of: Patent
ability of Inventions; Road, Track and
Stable; Life of Aaron Burr; Life of
Thomas Jefferson, and numerous essays in
Atlantic Monthly and other magazines;
editor of Merwin's Equity (by Elias Mer
win) and Curtis's Federal Courts. In poli
tics he is an Independent and in religion
an Agnostic. He is president of Boston-
Work-Horse Parade Association; secretary
of Red Acre Farm (Home for Horses)
and director of Animal Rescue League.
His favorite recreations are riding and driv
ing. Mr. Merwin married in Boston, April
22, 1884, Anne Amory Andrews. Resi
dence : 3 West Cedar Street, Boston. Ad
dress : State House, Boston, Massachu
setts. MERWIN, Milton Hervey:
Jurist ;. born in Leyden, New York, June
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Amanda (Kimball) Merwin. He was edu
cated in Oneida Conference Seminary and
Hamilton College, from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1852. He entered the of
fice of Joseph Mullin, at Watertown, New
York, in the fall of 1852, to study law, and
was admitted to the bar of Watertown in
1853. In October, 1874, he was appointed,
arid November, 1874, elected justice of the
Supreme Court; reelected in 1888, term
expiring December 31, 1902. He was ap
pointed to the General Term of the Su
preme Court, 1888 ; served till 1895 ; Appel
late Division of the Supreme Court, from
1895 to 1901. Judge Merwin has been a
resident of Utica since 1874. He married
in 1858, Helen E. Knapp, of Middle Gran
ville, New York. Residence: 56 Rutger
Street, Utica. Business address : Mann
Building, Utica, New York.
MESSENGER, Hiram J.:
Actuary of the Travelers Insurance Com
pany; born in Canandaigua, New York,
July 6, 1855; son of Hiram J. Messenger
and-LuanaL. (Heaton) Messenger. Among
his ancestors were, Nathaniel Heaton who
came to Boston in 1634; Deacon Stephen
Hart and William Kelsey, who came to
Hartford with Hooker's party in 1635; and
Deacon Samuel Chapin one of the found
ers of Springfield, Massachusetts. He grad
uated at the State Normal School, Cort
land, New York, in the class of 1875, and
at Cornell University, class of 1880, re
ceiving the degree of Lit. B. ; was mathe
matical-fellow of Cornell, 1886, Ph.D., Cor
nell, 1886; Institute of Actuaries, London,
England, 1890. Mr. Messenger was profes
sor of mathematics in the State Normal
School, Cortland, New York, 1881 ; pro
fessor of mathematics, Napa College, Napa,
California, 1881 to 1883; acting associate
professor of mathematics, New York Uni
versity, 1886 to 1890; in the actuarial de
partment, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company from 1891 to 1898; non-resident
lecturer on life, accident, liability and health
insurance, Cornell University, 1901 ; fel
low of the Actuarial Society of America;
fellow of the American Association for Ad
vancement of Science ; fellow of the Amer

ican Statistical Society; member Amer
ican Mathematical Society, Phi Beta Kappa
Society, Psi Upsilon, National Geographic
Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York City, American Museum of Natural
History, New York City; trustee of the
American Scenic and Historic Preservation
Society. Author of various pamphlets on
life and health insurance, including: Health
Insurance in the United States ; The Rate
of Sickness ; The Gain and Loss Exhibit.
Mr. Messenger is a member of the Cornell
Club of New York City, and the New Eng
land Cornell Club. Address : Care Trav
elers Insurance Company, Hartford, Con
necticut. MESSENGER, James Fi-imklin:
Professor of psychology and education ;
born in Benton County, Iowa, January 30,
1872; son of James J. Messenger and Mary
Ann (Hamlin) Messenger. He was grad
uated from the University of Kansas as
A.B. in 1895, from Harvard as A.M. in
1901 ; fellow in 1901 and 1902, and Ph.D.
1903, Columbia University. He was in
structor of psychology in the University of
New Mexico in 1899 and 1900; assistant in
psychology at Harvard in 1900 and 1901 ;
instructor in Pratt Institute in 1902 and
1903, and at the State Normal School of
Minnesota in 1903 and 1904; dean of the
Highland Park Normal College in 1904 and
1905, and since 1905 has been professor of
psychology and education in the State Nor
mal School at Farmville, Virginia. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science ; member of
the American Psychological Association and
the National Educational Association and
the Sigma Nu fraternity. Professor Mes
senger is a Republican in politics and a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married at Lawrence, Kansas, in 1895,
Lora Estelle Olds, and they have two chil
dren : Loren Eliot, born in 1903, and Dor
othy Marie, born in 1907. Address : State
Normal School, Farmville, Virginia.
METCALF, Edwin D. :
Manufacturer ; born in Smithfield, Rhode
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Nancy E. (Crook) Metcalf. He received
his education in Westford (Massachusetts)
Academy. He is president of the Colum
bian Rope Company; vice-president of D.
M. Osborne & Company, and the Cayuga
Savings Bank; director of the Cayuga
County National Bank; president of the
Auburn and Northern Railroad; director
of Auburn and Syracuse Railroad, Massa
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Massachusetts; member of the Staff of
Governor George D. Robinson for three
years, and assistant" quartermaster-general
of Massachusetts Volunteers. He has served
as mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts,
and as a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives and Senate. He
has been in Europe nine times on busi
ness and for pleasure. In politics he is a
Republican. Mr. ' Metcalf is a member of
the City and Cayuga Country Clubs of
Auburn, New, York, Nayassett Club in
Springfield, Massachusetts, and Citizens'
Club, Syracuse, New York. He married in
Fall River, Massachusetts, September n,
J873, Carrie W. Flint, and they have three
children: Edwin F., Harold G. and Stanley
W. Address : 86 South Street, Auburn,
New York.
METCALF, Horace W.:
Consular officer ; born in Maine. He was
appointed consul at Newcastle, December
13, 1890 ; retired in June, 1893 ; and was
reappointed June 25, 1897. Address :
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
METCALF, James A.:
Silversmith; born in Lowell, Massachu-
v setts, May 6, 1852 ; son of Isaac Newton
Metcalf and Nancy (Aiken) Metcalf. He
received his education in Highland Military
Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts. He
has been engaged as a silversmith for the
past thirty years : with the Meriden Britan
nia Company and its successor, the Inter
national Silver Company, twenty-three
years; with Simpson, Hall, Miller & Com
pany, three years, and for the past four
years as president and treasurer of The
Metcalf Company of New York City. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion

an Episcopalian. He is a member of the
New York Yacht, the Players', Church, and
Mendelssohn Glee Clubs. Residence: The
Oakdale, 36 West Thirty-fifth Street, New
York City. Address : 2 West Thirty-
ninth Street, New York City.
METCALF, Victor Howard:
Secretary of the Navy; born in Utica,
Oneida County, New York, October 10,
1853 ; son of William Metcalf and Sarah
P. Metcalf. He was graduated from the
Utica Free Academy, also from Russell's
Military Academy, New Haven, Connecti-
out, and then entered the class of 1876 at
Yale. During the college vacations he
studied law in the office of Senator Fran
cis Kernan, as also in the offices of Horatio
and John F. Seymour, at Utica, New York;
left the academical department of Yale in
his junior year and entered the Yale Law
School, graduating therefrom in 1876. Mr.
Metcalf was admitted to practice in the Su
preme Court of Connecticut in June, 1876,
and in the Supreme Court of New York in
1877; practiced law in Utica, New York,
for two years, then moved to California,
locating in Oakland. He formed a law
partnership in 1881 with George D. Met
calf (who is also a graduate of Yale) un
der the firm name of Metcalf & Metcalf.
He was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses; was
appointed Secretary of Commerce and La
bor, July 1, 1904, and Secretary of the
Navy, December 17, 1906. Mr. Metcalf
married at Oakland, California, April 11,
1882, E. Corinne Nicholson. Residence:
Oakland, California. Address : 2009 N
Street, Washington, D. C.
METCALF, Wilde Stevens:
Lawyer and financial agent ; born in
Milo, Maine, September 10, 1855 ; son of
Isaac Stevens Metcalf and Antoinette B.
(Putnam) Metcalf. He was graduated
from Oberlin College, Ohio, with the de
gree of A.B. in 1878, and from Kansas
State University, Lawrence, Kansas, re
ceived the degree of LL.B. in 1897. He
was in the cheese and butter business, at
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broker, financial agent and lawyer, at Law
rence, Kansas, from 1887 to 1898; major
and colonel of the Twentieth Kansas In
fantry, United States Volunteers, in 1898
and 1899; and brevetted brigadier-general,
United States Volunteers, serving in the
Philippine Islands. Since 1902- he has been
United States Pension Agent of the To
peka, Kansas Agency. He was a delegate-
at-large from Kansas to the National Re
publican Convention at Philadelphia in
1900. In politics he is a Republican and
in his religious views a Congregationalist.
General Metcalf has traveled in the Philip
pines, China, Japan and the Hawaiian Is
lands. His favorite recreations are riding,
hunting and fishing. He is past pres
ident of the Army of the Philippines and a"
member of the Military Order of Foreign
Wars; also a. member of the School Board
"of Lawrence, Kansas, the Masonic order,
and Phi Gamifia Delta fraternity. He is
a member of .the Topeka Club of Kansas,
the Kansas City Club of Kansas City, Mis
souri, the Army and Navy Club of Wash
ington, D. C, and the University Club of
Kansas City, Missouri. He married in
Wellington, Ohio, June 30, 1878, Mary E.
Crosier. Residence: 1236 Massachusetts
Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Office address :
Federal Building, Topeka, Kansas.
METZ, Herman A. ;
Merchant; born in New York City, Oc
tober 19, 1867; After his graduation in the
public schools, he became an office boy,
at the age of fourteen, with P. Schulze-
Berge, the founder of the corporation of
Victor Koechl and Company, and while so
engaged studied chemistry in the evening
classes of Cooper Union. He became suc
cessively laboratory assistant, clerk, city
salesman, traveling salesman, Boston agent
and manager, and in 1893, the business was
incorporated as the H. A. Metz Company,
of which he was vice-president and treas
urer until 1899, and has since been pres
ident, the company being manufacturers and
importers of chemicals and dye stuffs ; and
is also head of H. A. Metz and Company
drugs, and of the Consolidated .Color and
Chemical Company, manufacturers at New

ark, New Jersey. Mr. Metz has served as
a member of the Board of Education of
Greater New York, and is now comptroller
of the City of New York, elected in 1905.
Pie was formerly president of the Kings
County Democratic Club; and he is also
president of the National Civic Club of
Brooklyn, a member of the Brooklyn Demo
cratic Club and president of the Clinton Ave
nue Association, is a member of the Kings
County Democratic, General and Finance
Committee. He is a member of the Society
of Chemical Industry of London, the Verein
Deutscher Chemiker of Dresden, American
Chemical Society, Electro Chemical So
ciety, the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, the Chemists Club and the Drug
Club. He is a director of the Merchants'
Association, the Board of Trade and Trans
portation, the Manufacturers' Association
of New York and the National Association
of Manufacturers, and is one of the found
ers and directors' of the Brooklyn League.
He is also a member of the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences, the Metropol
itan Museum of Art, the American Museum
of Natural History, and of the Riding and
Driving, Germania, Crescent Athletic, Lin
coln, Seymour and Bushwick Clubs of
Brooklyn, and the Salmagundi, National
Democratic, New York Athletic and Wool
Clubs of New York City. Residence : 253
Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn. Offices : 122
Hudson Street, and Comptroller's Office,
280 Broadway, New York City.
MEYER, Adolph:
Congressman ; born October 19, 1842.
He was a student at the University of
Virginia until 1862, during which year he
entered the Confederate army and served
until the close of the war on the staff of
Brigadier-General John S. Williams, of
Kentucky, holding finally the position of
issistarit adjutant-general. At the close of
the war, he returned to Louisiana, and has
been engaged largely in the culture of cot
ton and sugar since ; has also been engaged
in commercial and financial pursuits in the
City of New Orleans. He was elected
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in 1881 was appointed brigadier-general to
command the First Brigade, embracing all
the uniformed corps of the State. Mr.
Meyer was elected to the Fifty-second, Fif
ty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress from the First Louisiana
District. In politics he is a Democrat. Ad
dress : New Orleans, Louisiana.
MEYER, George von Lengerke:
Postmaster-General ; born in Boston, June
24, 1858; son of the late George A. Meyer
His father was a native of New York, and
his mother, Grace Helen Parker, a native
of Boston, a granddaughter of the late
Bishop Parker. He was prepared at
Noble's School in Boston, entered Harvard
College in the class of 1879, and on gradu
ating went into the office of Alpheus -H.
Hardy & Co., remaining in this house until
1881, when he became a member of the firm
of Linder and Meyer, East India merchants
— a firm which his father had established
on India wharf, Boston, in 1848, and the
present offices of which are at 89 State
Street. Mr. Meyer is also president of the
Ames Plow Company, a director of the Old
Colony Trust Company, a director of the
Bank of Commerce, Amoskeag Manufactur
ing Company, Electric Securities Company,
Electric Corporation, and a trustee of the
Providence Institution for Savings. He
has taken an active interest in politics, and
in 1889 was elected on the Republican ticket
to the Common Council, in which he served
two years. During this time he was a
member of the finance committee, the com
mittee on water, on laying out and widening
streets, and on the Charles River bridges.
In the fall of 1890 he was elected to the
Board of Aldermen from the Fourth Dis
trict, receiving the nomination of both the
Democrats and Republicans ; and in 1891
he was elected on the Republican ticket to
the lower house of the Legislature. In
1893 he was chosen speaker of the House
and reelected for three consecutive years.
Mr. Meyer was a member of the Republican
National Committee for eight years ; was

appointed chairman of the Massachusetts
Paris Exposition managers by Governor
Wolcott. Mr. Meyer was appointed Ameri- -
can ambassador to Italy by President Mc
Kinley in the fall of 1900; was transferred
from Rome to be ambassador to Russia
by President Roosevelt in March, 1905, and
recalled in February, 1907, to enter the
cabinet of President Roosevelt, and took
the oath of office as postmaster-general on
March 4, 1907. While in college Mr. Meyer
took an active part' in athletics, and was
on the winning class senior crew of 1879.
In his church relations he is an Episcopal
ian. He is a member of the St. Botolph,
Somerset and Racket Clubs, Boston; the
Myopia Club of Hamilton, Massachusetts;
the Harvard and Knickerbocker Clubs,
New York, and the Metropolitan Club of
Washington. Mr. Meyer married at Lenox,
Massachusetts, June 25, 1885, Alice Apple-
ton, and, they have three children: Julia,
born in 1887, Alice born in 1888, and George
von Lengerke, Jr., born in 1891. Resi
dence : Hamilton, Massachusetts. Office
address : Washington, D. C.
MEYERS, James Cowden:
Lawyer ; born in Columbia, Pennsylvania,
August 30, 1869 ; son of James Alfred Mey
ers and Anna M. (Cowden) Meyers. He
was graduated from Princeton in 1891, and
from the New York Law School in 1893.
He was admitted to the New York State
Bar in June, 1893 ; elected alderman of the
Thirty-fourth District of New York City
in 1901, 1903 and 1905 ; and during the
term of 1906 and 1907 was Republican
leader ; chairman of the Committee on
Rules and Committee on Salaries and Of
fices. In politics he is a Republican and
in religion a Presbyterian. Mr. Meyers is
a member of the New York State Bar
Association, the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, and of Princeton
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
In the summer Of 1905 he was appointed
special agent of United States Interior De
partment to investigate conditions on the
Alleghany and Cattaraugus reservations of
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pointed by Governor Hughes a member of
the New York City Charter Revision Com
mission. He is a member of the City, Prince
ton, and Economic Clubs. Mr. Meyers mar
ried in Somerville, New Jersey, March 9,
1898, Helen E. Hendrickson, and they have
one daughter, Marian Forst, born in 1901.
Address : 527 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.MICHAEL, William H. :
Consular officer; born in Ohio. He was
mustered into the United States volunteer
infantry service, September 21, 1861 ; honor
ably discharged therefrom on account of
injuries sustained in and subsequent to the
battle of Shiloh, October 23, 1862 ; reenter
ed the service in 1863, for duty in the
Mississippi Squadron, United States Navy,
as master's mate; was promoted in 1864
for gallant conduct in action, and was hon
orably discharged with the thanks of the
Government in June, 1866. He was ap
pointed clerk of Printing Records in the
United States Senate, and editor and com
piler of the Congressional Directory and the
Abridgment of Messages and Documents,
June, 1887. He served in that capacity for
six years, and was again, in 1895, employed
by the Senate as editor of the Directory and
Abridgment, and performed that duty two
years. Mr. Michael was appointed chief
clerk of the Department of State, May 20,
1897; appointed consul-general at Calcutta,
November 6, 1905. Address : Calcutta,
India.
MICHELSON, Albert H.:
Consular officer; born in Maryland. He
was appointed consular agent at Charleroi,
April 13, 1901 ; appointed consul at Turin,
January 29, 1906. Address : Turin, Italy.
MICHENER, Edwin O. :
Lawyer. He is solicitor of the Eighth
National Bank; general counsel for Phila
delphia Rapid Transit Company, General
Asphalt Company and of Barber Asphalt
Paving Company, and advisory counsel for
Keystone Telephone Company. Address :
1835 Land Title Building, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

MICHENER, Harry G.:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, August 1,
1852; son of John Hanson and Sarah (Key
ser) Michener. He is president and direc
tor of the Bank of North America, and the
National Optical Company; director of the
American Surety Company, Land Title and
Trust Company, and the Deleware Insure
ance Company, and is a member of the firm
of J. H. Michener and Company. Address :
956 N°rth Front Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.MICKS, Henry Ra Hi bone:
Manufacturer; born at Clinton, North
Carolina, July 25, 1854; son of Dr. William
Micks and Cornelia (Rathbone) Micks. He
received his education at Union College.
He was secretary and general manager of
La France Manufacturing Company, El
mira, New York, from 1875 to 1879; mem
ber of the firm of Boykin, Carmer and
Company,' Baltimore, Maryland, from 1879
to 1896; and has been president of Rumsey
and Company, Limited, Seneca Falls, New
York, manufacturers of pumps, fire engines,
since 1896. He is a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, and of the Maryland
Club of Baltimore, the Seneca Falls Club
of Seneca Falls, and the Alpha Delta Phi
Club of New York City. He married at
Seneca Falls, New York, April 12, 1876,
Ariana Rumsey, and they have five children :
Margaret Wentworth, Philip Rathbone, Jay
Rumsey, Ransom Rathbone, Henry Wilson.
Address : Seneca Falls, New York.
MIKELL, William E.:
Professor of law ; was born in Sumter,
South Carolina, January 29, 1868; educated
in the South Carolina Military Academy,
graduating 1890. From 1890 to 1895 he was
principal of schools in Blackstock, South
Carolina, and Lincolriton, North Carolina,
studying law white teaching, and following
up with a law course in the University of
Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in
South Carolina in 1894; practiced for one
year in Sumter, then went to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where for a year he was en
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was appointed instructor in law at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, was made assistant
professor in 1899, and elected professor in
1902. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity and an honorary member of the
legal fraternity of the Phi Delta Phi. He
is the author of a work on criminal law;
.of the Life of Chief Justice Taney in Great
American Lawyers ; of the article on False
Pretense in the Encyclopedia of Law and
Procedure, and is a contributor to several
legal and other periodicals. Address : 366
Church Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia.
MILES, George Wellington:
Chemical expert; born in Milford, Con
necticut, December 30, 1868; son of George
W. Miles and Mary (Lee) Miles. He was
educated in Sheffield Scientific School and
graduated from Yale in 1889. He is a
member of the Society of Chemical Indus
try, American Chemical Society and Society
of Arts, and is a member of Yale, Drysalt-
ers, Rock Haven Hunt and Fish Clubs, and
Masons' and Chemists' Clubs. Residence :
Belmont, Massachusetts. Address : 29 Cen
tral Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
MILES, H. E.:
President of the National Association of
Agricultural Implements and Vehicle
Manufacturers, and chairman of the Tariff
and Reciprocity Committee of the National
Association of Manufacturers. Address :
Louisville, Kentucky.
MILLARD, Joseph Hopkins:
Banker and ex-United States senator ;
born in Hamilton, Canada, April, 1836; the
son of natives of the United States tem
porarily residing abroad. In childhood he
removed with his parents to Iowa, near
Sabula, Jackson County, and at eighteen en
tered a store in Dubuque as clerk. Two
years later he removed to Omaha, which
has since been his home ; engaged in the
land business and later in banking, becom
ing a director of the Omaha National Bank
in July, 1866, and on January 1, 1867; its
cashier and in 1885 its president, still re
taining his place at the head of the insti
tution. He served one term as mayor of

Omaha, was for six years a Government
director of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and subsequently served the stock
holders of the company as one of their rep
resentatives on the board for a period of
seven years. He was elected to the United
States Senate, March 28, 1901, succeeding
John M. Thurston, Republican, who was
not a candidate for reelection. Mr. Millard
took his seat, December 2, 1901, and his
term of service expired March 3, 1907. Ad
dress : Omaha, Nebraska.
MILLER, Andrew:
Publisher. He is secretary, treasurer and
director of Life Publishing Company; di
rector of the Coney Island Jockey Club and
secretary, treasurer and director of the
Saratoga Racing Association. Address: ig
West Thirty-first Street, New York City.
MILLER, Charles Henry:
Artist, landscape painter ; born in New
York City, March 20, 1842; son of Jacob
Miller and Jane M. (Taylor) Miller. He
attended Mt. Washington Institute, New
York City, the art schools of the National
Academy of Design, New York City, and
the Royal Academy of Bavaria at Munich,
Germany. He first exhibited his paintings
at the National Academy of Design, in
i860; took the M.D. degree in 1863, and
received his diploma from the hand of Wil
liam Cullen Bryant; made his first voyage
to Europe as surgeon of the packet ship
Harvest Queen in 1864, visiting Paris, Lon
don and Scotland; he became academician
of the National Academy in 1875. Mr.
Milter is best known for his paintings of
Long Island scenes ; was five years presi
dent of the Art Club of New York; presi
dent of the American Art Committee of the
International Exposition at Munich, in
1883; former president of the Shakespeare
Club of Queens, Long Island. In politics,
Mr. Miller is a Republican, and he is a
member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
He is a member of the Municipal Art So
ciety of New York, American Geographic
Society, the Masonic order (past master) ;
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Union Free School. He is author of : The
Philosophy of Art in America; and is an
artistic, poetic and philosophical essayist,
strongly advocating human reason and
judicial sense in place of arbitrary pacifica
tion. Mr. Miller is a member of. the Cen
tury, Lotos, and Republican Clubs. He
married at .Queens, Long Island, October,
1900, Elizabeth Dorothea Mosback, nee
Herdfelder. Address : "Queens Court,"
Queens, Long Island, New York.
MILLER, Charles Sumner:
Lawyer ; born at Hornellsville, New York,
June 2, 1856; son of Josiah Conger Miller
and Emeline (Gibbs) Miller. He resided
in Rochester, New York, during boyhood.
He was graduated from Yale as A.B. in
1877; and from Columbia Law School, as
LL D. in 1879. He studied law in the office
of Hon. Ernest Hall, late justice of the
Supreme Court; has been in general prac
tice on individual account since 1885, in
New York City, and is counsel for and di
rector in several business corporations. Mr.
Miller has traveled abroad and somewhat
extensively in the United States. He was
one of the compilers of a History of the
Class of 1877 in Yale College, 1904; and
was a member and vice-president of the
Patria Club of New York City. He is a
member of the Yale and Psi Upsilon Clubs
of New York, and the Crescent Athletic
Club of Brooklyn. Residence: 71 Colum
bia Heights, Brooklyn. Address: 150 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
MILLER, Clifton Merideth:
Physician ; born in Richmond, Virginia,
April 21, 1873; son of William G. Miller
and Emma H. Wiglesworth. He was edu
cated at Richmond College, and was grad
uated as M.D. from the Medical .College of
Virginia in 1892. He was demonstrator of
anatomy at the Medical College of Vir
ginia, from 1896 to 1905, professor of anat
omy in 1905 and 1906, and has been pro
fessor of diseases of the nose and throat
since 1906. He was acting assistant surgeon
of the United States Marine Hospital Service
in 1893, and captain and surgeon of Rich

mond Light Infantry Blues Battalion, from
1896 to 1901. Dr. Miller was president of
the Alumni Society of the Medical College
of Virginia, in 1903 and 1904; vice-presi
dent of the Richmond Academy of Medi
cine and Surgery in 1906; has been member
of the Executive Committee of the Med
ical Society of Virginia since 1902; is sur
geon to the Department of Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat diseases in Richmond City Dis
pensary, and laryngologist and rhinologist
to the Memorial Hospital. Dr. Miller mar
ried at Wilmington, Virginia, September 2,
1902, Mary Ashley Bell, and they have two
children : Clifton M., Jr., born in 1905, and
Mary Bell, born in 1906. Address : 217
East Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia.
MILLER, E. Clarence
Capitalist ; born in Philadelphia, in 1867 ;
son of J. Washington and Mary A. Miller.
He is president of the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange. Address : 437 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MILLER, Elmer Pliny:
Clergyman; born at Saranac Lake, New
York, February 28, i860; son of Van Buren
Miller and Sarah E. (Malbone) Miller. He
was graduated from Middlebury College in
1884 and from the General Theological
Seminary in 1889. He was missionary of
All Saints' Church, Hudson, New York,
and Trinity Church, Claverack, New York,
from 1889 to 1891, and has been rector of
St. Luke's Church, Catskill, New York,
since 1 891. Mr. Miller married in Brook
lyn, New York, October 14, 1890, Sarah
L. Barrett, and they have one child, Lloyd
Reginald Miller. Address : Catskill, New
York. MILLER, Frank Ellsworth:
Professor of mathematics; born in Fair
field County, Ohio, April 17, 1862; son of
Martin P. Miller. He was graduated from
Otterbein University as A.B. in 1887, A.M.
in 1890 and Ph.D. in 1891. He was super
intendent of public schools in 1887 and
1888; professor of mathematics at North
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1889; president of the same college in 1889
and 1890, and has been professor of mathe
matics at Otterbein University since 1890.
He is a director of the Bank of Westerville.
In politics he is a Republican. He has
membership in the Ohio Teachers of Mathe
matics and Science Association, American
Association for the Advancement of Science
and International Association for the Pro
motion of Quaternions. Professor Miller
married in Westerville, Ohio, July 23, 1889,
Nellie S. Knox, and they have one daughter,
Winifred Miller, who died January 10, 1905.
Address : Westerville, Ohio.
MILLER, Frederick Augustus Abercrombie:
Commander, United States Navy, retired ;
born at Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland,
June 12, 1842; son of Frederick Augustus
Muhlenberg Miller and Martha Mason
(Abercrombie) Miller. He was educated
in the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia,
Thompson's Military Academy and Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He en
tered the Navy as a volunteer in 1861,
declining an appointment to the United
States Naval Academy, and was trans
ferred to the Regular Navy, at the close of
the Civil War, having been recommended
for promotion three times by F. A. Parker,
executive of the Washington Navy Yard,
I. A. M. Craven, commanding the Tus-
carora, and M. B. Woolsey, commanding
the Princess Royal. He served on varied
duties and stations, as a Naval officer up
to and including the rank of lieutenant-
commander, with which rank he retired,
November 30, 1885, for incapacity resulting
from incidents of service. On July 22,
1905, a bad fall caused paralysis, and the
complete withdrawal from all work, and
June 29, 1906, he was advanced in rank to
commander. Commander Miller has been
twice around the world, cruising for twen
ty odd years, and traveled in Europe. He
was a director of the American Security
and Trust Company, Washington, D. C, and
of the Sanitary Housing Company of
Washington until his recent resignation be
cause of physical disability. He is a mem
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Commander Miller was also until recently

treasurer of St. John's Hospital, president
of the Children's Aid Association, and vice-
president of the Emergency Hospital. He
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. of the United States, the So
ciety of American Wars, the Cosmos, Met
ropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wash
ington, and the Corinthian Yacht Club of
Philadelphia. He married in Brooklyn,
New York, May 18, 1882, Alice Townsend,
and they have three children, Edith, Alice
and Townsend. Address : 2201 Massachu
setts Avenue, Washington, D. C.
MILLER, Henry B.:
Consular officer; born in Ohio. He was
appointed consul at Chungking, March 6,
1900; consul at Newchwang, March 20,
1901 ; consul-general May 12, 1904 ; appoint
ed consul-general at Yokohama, March 8,
igos. Address : Yokohama, Japan.
MILLER, J. Martin:
Consular officer; born in Virginia. He
was appointed consul at Aix la Chapelle,
March 24, 1905 ; appointed consul-general at
Auckland, September 9, 1905; appointed
consul at Rheims, November 7, 1905. Ad
dress : Rheims, France.
MILLER, James Monroe:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Three
Springs, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania,
He was graduated from Dickinson Semin
ary, Williamsport, Pennsylvania; is a law
yer; was elected county attorney of Morris
County, Kansas, in 1880 for a term of two
years, and reelected in 1884 and 1886. He
was elected a member of the Kansas Legis
lature in 1894; elected a Republican Presi
dential elector for Kansas in 1884, and was
selected by his colleagues to carry the vote
of Kansas to Washington. Mr. Miller is
a Methodist and was a delegate to the Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1896. He was elected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth
Kansas District. Address : Council Grove,
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\iILI<fCK, "Joaquin" :
Author; real name Cincinnatus Heine
Milter; born in the Wabash District, In
diana, November 10, 1842. He removed
with his parents to Oregon in 1852; and
afterward mined in California. He was a
volunteer in Walker's Nicaragua Expedition
of 1855, after that lived with the Indians
of the Pacific coast until i860, then studied
law for a while under George H. Williams
afterward attorney-general of .the United
States and in 1863 edited a Democratic
paper at Eugene City, Oregon, which was
suppressed by the authorities for disunion
sentiments. He engaged in the practice of
law at Canon City, Oregon, in 1863, and
was a district judge in Oregon from 1866
to 1870. During this period his poems be
gan to attract some attention, taking his
pen-name of Joaquin from Joaquin Mu-
rietta, a Mexican bandit of whom he had
written a defense. In 1870 he went to. the
Eastern States and in 1871 to London,
where he gathered into a volume some of
his poems which had been published in the
United States, and a few others, under the
title Songs of the Sierras. The volume
brought him great popularity. He after
ward did newspaper work in New York,
Washington and San Francisco, and made
his home in Oakland, California, until re
cently; and he was correspondent of the
New York Journal and the San Francisco
Examiner in the Klondike in -1897 and 1898,
writing tetters of much interest, which dealt
with mining and social conditions in the
Yukon country at that time. Among his
volumes of verses are : Songs of the Suri-
land ; Songs of Italy ; Songs of the Mexi
can Seas ; Chants for the Boer. He is
also author of : The Danites in the Sierras
(novels), and '49 (hovel), and of the plays
of the same name, and of several other
books and plays. Address : The Hights,
Dimond, California.
MILLER, John Anthony:
Professor of mathematics and astronomy ;
born in Greensburg, Indiana, December 16,
1859; son of Bruno B. Miller and Kathe
rine (Arnold) Miller. He was graduated

from Indiana University as A.B. in 1890,
received the degree of A.M. from Leland
Stanford, Jr., University in 1893, Ph.D. in
the University of Chicago in 1899. He was
instructor in mathematics at Indiana Uni
versity in 1890; instructor at Leland Stan
ford, Jr., University from 1891 to 1893 ',
assistant professor of mathematics at Le
land Stanford, Jr., University, in 1893
and 1894; acting professor of mathematics
at Indiana University, in 1894 and 1895 ;
professor of mechanics and astronomy, from
1896- to 1906; professor of mathematics and
astronomy at Swarthmore College since
1906. He had charge of the Indiana Uni
versity Expedition to observe total solar
.eclipse in 1905. Dr. Miller has written
a text-book on trigonometry and has been
a frequent contributor to the various as
tronomical journals of this country and Eu
rope and to the leading mathematical jour
nals of America. He is a Republican in
politics and a Methodist in religion. He
is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, American
Mathematical . Society, Astronomical and
Astrophysical Society of America, and of
the Scientific Society of the Sigma Xi fra
ternity. He married at Kokomo, Indiana,
December 24, 1880, Mary Katherine Good-
wine, and they have two children: Max
Bruno, born July 6, 1886, and Harry Lynn,
born November 8, 1888. Address : Swarth
more College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
MILLER, Joseph T. :
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Water
Company; born August 21, 1871, at Port
Perry, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania;
son of George T. Miller and Mary Jane
(Craig) Miller, and grandson of Colonel
William L. Miller and Jane Torrence Mil
ler. Educated at the Western University
of Pennsylvania, Columbian University of
Washington, D. C, and University of
Wooster; is secretary and treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Water Company, Wilkinsburg,
Pennsylvania, and a director in the East
Pittsburgh Savings and Trust Company.
Member of the Sons of the American Revo
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Mary M. Stewart, of Stewart, Westmore
land County, Pennsylvania. Address : Edge-
wood, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
MILLER, Nathan L.:
Jurist; born in Solon, Cortland County,
New York, October 10, 1868; son of Sam
uel and Almira (Russell) Miller. He was
graduated from the Cortland Normal
School, 1887. He was admitted to the New
York bar, November 21, 1893. Mr. Miller
was a member of the law firm of Dougherty
and Miller, Cortland, New York, from 1893
to 1903, corporation counsel of the City of
Cortland in 1900 and 1901 ; school commis
sioner of the First District, Cortland Coun
ty, from 1894 to 1900; State comptroller, in
1902 £nd 1903. He was appointed justice
of the Supreme Court since November 10,
1903; and elected in 1904 for the term ex
piring in 1918. He was designated and has
served as associate justice of the Appellate
Division, Second Department, since Decem
ber 19, 1904. In politics he is a Republican.
He married at Marathon, New York, No
vember 23, 1896, Elizabeth Davern, and
they have three children : Mildred, born in
1899, Marian, born in 1903, and Margaret,
born in 1905. Address : Cortland, New
York. MILLER, Robert Morrison, Jr.:
Cotton manufacturer ; born in Pleasant
Valley, South Carolina, April 20, 1856; son
of Robert Morrison Miller and Ann Eliza
beth (Cureton) Miller. He was graduated
from Davidson College, North Carolina
in June, 1876, with the degree of A.B. Mr.
Miller is president and treasurer of the
Elizabeth Mills ; secretary and treasurer
of the Bedford Hotel Company; president
and manager of the Millerton Homes Com
pany; president of The Cotton Manufac
turing Association, of North Carolina ; a
member of the Board of Water Commis
sioners of the City of Charlotte, North
Carolina ; director of the Commercial Na
tional Bank, and in three cotton mills. He
is ex-vice-president of The D. A. Tomp
kins Company and The Atkerton Mills of
Charlotte, North Carolina. In politics he
is a Democrat and he is a member of the

Presbyterian Church. He is also a mem
ber of the Southern Manufacturing Club
of Charlotte, North Carolina, and the
Southern Club of Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. He married in Charlotte, North
Carolina, February 6, 1889, Estelte Ross,
and they have one daughter, Sara Eliza
beth Milter, born in 1898. Residence: 402
North Tryon Street, Charlotte. Office ad
dress : Piedmont Building, Charlotte, North
Carolina.MILLER, Roswell:
Chairman of the Board of Directors, of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
way Company; born at Hartford, Susque
hanna County, Pennsylvania, October 28,
1843. Previous to May, 1882, he was ^sec
retary and general superintendent of the
Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, then be
came second vice-president and treasurer of
the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad
until April, 1883, when he entered the serv
ice of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul"
Railway Company in which he has ever
since continued. He was assistant to the
general manager until March, 1884; assist
ant general manager until April, 1885; gen
eral manager until May, 1888; president
until September, 1899, and since then has
been president of the Board of Directors.
Residence : 19 East Sixty-second Street,
New York City. Office: 30 Broad Street,
New York City.
MILLER, Rudolph P.:
Civil engineer; born in New York City,
July 5, 1866 ; son of Anton W. and Matilda
E. (Schmah) Miller. He attended the pub
lic schools ; graduated from the College of
the City of New York, as B.S. in 1885, and
from Columbia University as CE. in 1888.
His early professional work was as engineer
on the Richmond and Danville Railroad and
the Long Island Railroad ; he was ten years
connected with Department of Buildings,
New York City, and during the last five
years, as chief engineer in the Borough of
Manhattan ; and is now in private practice.
He was appointed an expert to investigate
into the causes of failure of the Criminal
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American Society of Civil Engineers, and
of the Committee of Experts to Revise the
Building Laws of New York City, the Am
erican Society for Testing Materials, So
ciety of Engineers of New York City, Na
tional Fire Protection Association. He is
an authority on building laws and fire pro
tection and lecturer on such subjects; and
a contributor to technical literature, and
is a member of the Engineers' Club. He
married at. Widewater, Virginia, 1892,
Agnes Robinson Nelson, and they have
three children : Rudolph Nelson, born in
1894, Mary Moncure, born in 1897, and
Matilda, born in 1898. Address : 141 East
Fortieth Street, New York City.
MILLER, Spencer:
Civil engineer ; born in Waukegan, Illi
nois, April .25, 1859; son of Samuel Fisher
Miller and Charlotte (Howe) Miller. He
was graduated from Worcester (Massachu
setts) Polytechnic Institute in 1879. He is
an inventor and designer of cableways, no
tably the marine cableways for life saving
and for coaling warships at sea, traveling
cableways used on Chicago drainage canal,
Sault Ste. Marie Canal, and Panama
Canal ; and is chief engineer of cableway
department of the Lidgerwood Manufactur
ing Company. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, Am
erican Society of Mechanical Engineers, So
ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En
gineers, Canadian Institute of Mining En
gineers, American Institute of Mining En
gineers ; and trustee of South Orange Free
Library. He is a member of the Engineers'
Club of New York, the Essex County Coun
try Club of Orange, and the Metropolitan
Club of Washington. He married at Worces
ter, Massachusetts, January 1, 1885, Hattie
M. Rnggles, and they have three children :
Marguerite R., Spencer, Jr., and Helen Em
erson. Residence : South Orange, New
Jersey. Address : 96 Liberty Street, New
York City.
MILLER, Warner:
Manufacturer and ex-United States Sen
ator; born at Hamilton, Oswego County,

New York, August 12, 1838; son of Hiram
Milter, and descendant of John Milter, who
came from Germany and settled in West
chester County, New York, in 1680. He
was prepared in the local schools, was grad
uated from Union College in i860, and af
terward received the degree of LL.D. from
Union and (' Syracuse Universities. After
graduation he became professor of Greek
and Latin in the Collegiate Institute at
Fort Edward, New York, but at the- be
ginning of the Civil War enlisted in the
Union Army as a private in the Fifth New
York Cavalry, in which he was soon pro
moted to lieutenant. He was in active serv
ice under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Val
ley, and in the battle of Winchester was
severely wounded and confined some time
in a Confederate hospital. He was finally
exchanged and returned to Fort Edward,
where he soon became convalescent. Re
ceiving his honorable discharge at the end
of his term of enlistment he went to Herk
imer, New York, and was employed in the
mechanical department of a paper mill, of
which he in time became superintendent.
He took great interest in the use of wood
pulp as a material .for making printing
paper, and made many inventions of value
in connection with that branch of manu
facture. He obtained a large interest in
the mill at Herkimer, established others at
Palmer's Falls and Lyon's Falls, and has
long been regarded as the leading and most
successful representative of that branch of
the paper industry. Mr. Miller became a
member of the Republican Party when he
became a voter and has always taken an
active part in its campaigns. He was elected
to the General Assembly of New York in
1874 and 1875 ; was elected to the Forty-
sixth Congress in 1876 and to the Forty-
seventh Congress in 1878; was elected to
the United States Senate in 1881 and served
until 1887. He was the author of the Alien
Contract Labor Law, which has proved of
such benefit to the labor interests of the
country. He was long president of the
corporation having for its object the con
struction of a canal across the Isthmus to
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has been largely interested in gold and
copper mining in the United States and in
British Columbia. He is a, member of the
Lawyers', Union League, Republican and
University Clubs of New York City. He
married in 1864, Caroline Churchill. .Ad
dress : 100 Broadway, New York City.
MILLER, William Edward:
Ex-senator; born at West Hill, Cumber
land County, Pennsylvania, February 5,
1836 ; son of A. G. Miller and Eleanor Mill
er. He was educated in the common
schools of Pennsylvania and was engaged
in farming when the Civil War broke
out. He enlisted August 8, 1861, in Com
pany H of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry
Regiment and before being mustered out
was elected second lieutenant of the com
pany, was commissioned as such and served
in that company until August 27, 1864, par
ticipating in thirty-seven engagement. He
was promoted to captain for gallantry at
Antietam, where he opened the fight with
his command, and at Gettysburg' he won
the Congressional Medal of Honor for brav
ery, and was wounded in that battle. In
1865 he removed to Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
and was engaged in mercantile pursuits un
til 1898, when he was elected to the Penn
sylvania Senate from the Thirty-second
District, serving in the sessions of 1899 and
1901. He has also served as chief burgess
of the City of Carlisle, and as secretary of
the Board of Trade. He is a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
and was the original commander of Post
201, Grand Army of the Republic of the
Department of Pennsylvania, and has serv
ed as quartermaster since 1887. He is also
a member of the Medal of Honor Legion
of the United States, and is a vestryman of
the Episcopal Church. He has been twice
married, first in 1856, to Elizabeth Ann
Hocker, who died in 1859, and by whom
he has two daughters, one of whom died
while he was in the Army; and in 1868 he
Married Anna D. Bush, daughter of J. S.
Bush of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Ad
dress : Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

MILLET, Francis Davis:
Genre painter, war correspondent and au
thor ; born at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts,
November 3, 1846; son of Dr. Asa Millet,
a physician of East Bridgewater, Massa
chusetts. He was graduated from Har
vard as A.B. in 1869 and later A.M. He
took part in the war as a drummer and as
sistant surgeon; and after leaving Harvard
was a student in the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts at Antwerp, and also studied in
France and Italy, at the same time writing
illustrated articles for American periodicals,
and visiting the Vienna Exposition of 1873,
where he was secretary to the Massachu
setts Commission. He was a correspondent
of the New York Herald and the London
Daily News, attached to the staff of Gen
erals Skobeteff and Gousko in the Russo-
Turkish War of 1877-78, receiving several
military crosses and medals, and later the
Legion of Honor of France. He was di
rector of decorations during the construct
ive period and director of functions during
the fair, at the World's Columbian Expo
sition. He was special correspondent of
the London Times with the expedition to
the Philippines in 1898. He is best known
as a painter of genre subjects of England in
the Eighteenth Century and of classic Rome
and Greece in which costumes and interiors
are studied with much detail. He is an
Academician of the National Academy of
Design; member of the Institute of Paint
ers in Oil Colors, London, and honorary
member of the American Institute of Arch
itects. Member of the New York Municipal
Art Commission. Member of the Niagara
Falls Commission. He has a summer resi
dence in the village of Broadway, Worcest
ershire, England. Studio : 6 East Twenty-
third Street, New York City.
MILLIKEN, Charles F. :
President of the New York State Civil
Service Commission ; born in Canandaigua,
New York, August 27, 1854 ; son of Nathan
J. Milliken and Orline O. (Sutton) Milli-
ken. He received his education in Canan
daigua Academy. He has devoted his life
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tor of the Ontario County Times, founded
by his father in 1852. He was chairman of
the Ontario County Republican Committee,
in 1887 and 1888; was alternate to National
Republican Convention, in 1900; was ap
pointed member of State Civil Service Com
mission in 1903, and has been president of
the same since January, 1905. He is man
ager of the business of C. F. & R. B. Milli-
ken. In religion he is a Congregationalist.
He is a trustee of Frederick Ferris Thomp
son Hospital; manager of Clark Manor
House Home for Old People; and is presi
dent of the Ontario County Historical So
ciety. Mr. Milliken married in Canandai
gua, June 18, 1895, Margaret Townley, and
they have three children: Margaret F.,
born in 1901, Charlotte T., born in 1904, and
Nathan T., born in 1906. Address : Can
andaigua, New York.
MILLIKEN, James Foster:
Lawyer; born in Lewiston, Pennsylva
nia, July 19, 1847; son of Samuel and Mary
(Porter) Milliken. He was educated in
Lewistown Academy, Tuscarora (Pennsyl
vania) Academy, Pennsylvania Military
Academy and in Iron City College. He ran
away from the Pennsylvania' Military Aca
demy in 1863 and entered the Union Army
as a member of Company A, Independent
Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He
was admitted to the bar of Blair County in
1868; was elected district attorney of Blair
County in 1874, and went to Egypt in 1877,
for the purpose of entering Egyptian mili
tary service during the Turko-Russian War,
and was appointed by Loring Pasha (Gen
eral W. W. LOring) lieutenant-ColOnel on
his staff, but was not commissioned, as soon
afterward all Americans in the service of
the Khedive were relieved from duty. He
remained in Egypt six years. He was elect
ed colonel of the Fifth Regimerit of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1874.
In politics he is an Independent Democrat
and in religion a Presbyterian. He is a
member of the Sons of Revolution, the Ma
sonic order, and the Khights of Pythias.
His favorite recreation is fishing. Mr. Mil-
liken married at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylva
nia, February 10, 1869, Fannie Caldwell, and

they had two children : Rebecca Dean, who
died in 1894, and James A. Briggs. Ad
dress : 287 Broadway, New York City.
MILL WARD, Russell Hastings:
American vice-consul ; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, April 5, 1877; son of Frank Lee Mil-
livard, prominent lawyer and patent expert
and Margaret A. Millivard. After attend
ing public schools in Cincinnati and Wash
ington, D. C, Rockville (Maryland) Acad
emy and Emerson Institute at Washington,
D. C, he engaged in business life. He was
appointed in the Loans and Currency Di
vision of the United States Treasury De
partment (Spanish war loan), in June,
1898; chief mustering clerk to Major George
K McGunnegle, United States Army, No
vember, 1898; private secretary to Colonel
J. H. Gilman, United States Army, Febru
ary, 1899, to February, 1900; attended the
Illinois College of Law, Chicago, 1900 and
1901, and Columbia University, New York
(School of Political Science and Interna
tional Law), 1901 and 1902. He was en
gaged in newspaper work in New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, D. C, and
wrote and published the first Arizona Min
ing Directory, 1903. He was with the Na
tional Bank of Commerce from May to
October, 1904, and was general manager of
the New Jersey Towing Company, from
March to August, 1906. He was appointed
American vice-consul general at Boma,
Congo Free State, Africa, November 27,
1906, American vice-consul at Durban,
Natal, Africa, January 31, '1907, and since
August 10, 1907, has been American vice-
consul at Tampico, Mexico. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion an Epis
copalian. He served a year in the Eighth
Ohio National Guard. Mr. Millivard's fa
vorite recreations are hunting and fishing,
and he has hunted and fished in Wisconsin,
Maine and New York and hunted in Ari
zona, Colorado, New Mexico and Califor
nia. He is a member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity of Columbia University, Lambda
Epsilon legal fraternity and Lincoln So
ciety ' at the Illinois College of Law, the
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Chi Club of New York. Address: Amer
ican Consulate, Tampico, Mexico.
MILLS, Albert Leopold:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in Washington Heights, New York
City, May 7, 1854; fifth son of Abiel Buck-
man Mills and Annie (Warford) Mills.
On the side of his father, who was born
in Old Hadley, Massachusetts, his ances
tors were among the earliest colonists of
New England, while his mother is a de
scendant of Long Island colonists, her im
mediate ancestors moving before the Revo
lution to Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
He received his preparatory education in
the schools of New York City and was
then appointed to the United States Mili
tary Academy from which he was grad
uated in the class of 1879. On graduation
he was commissioned second lieutenant of
the First United States Cavalry, June 13,
1879; promoted first lieutenant of First
Cavalry, January 23, 1889; adjutant, First
Cavalry, from 1890 ' to 1894 ; captain and
assistant adjutant-general to Second Bri
gade, Cavalry Division, Fifth Army Corps,
June 10, 1898; appointed superintendent of
United States Cavalry, October 24, 1898;
brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for
gallantry in battles of Las Guasimas and
Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898; promoted
brigadier-general of United States Army,
May 7, 1904. His first service after grad
uation was in the Department of Tactics,
United States Military Academy; then
served on the Indian frontier in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Wy
oming and Arizona, participating in Crow
Indian campaign, 1887; Sioux Indian cam
paign in 1890 and other Indian disturb
ances. His regimental service was broken
by a tour of duty as professor of military
science and tactics at the South Carolina
Military Academy, Charleston, and as in
structor in strategy, cavalry and tactics at
the United States Infantry and Cavalry
Officers' School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas ; was on duty at latter school when the
war with Spain was declared. He partic
ipated in the Santiago campaign and en
gaged in the battles of Las Guasimas and

Santiago de Cuba, being commended for
gallantry in the former and very seriously
wounded in latter. He was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor for most
distinguished gallantry in action near San
tiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898. General Mills
was appointed superintendent of the United
States Military Academy, August 22, 1898,
and was at its head until August 31, 1906,
when he was relieved from duty and placed
in command of the Department of the
Visayas, Philippine Islands. He married,
November 15, 1883, Alada Thurston Pad
dock of Brooklyn, New York, eldest daugh
ter of Right Rev. John Adams Paddock,
D.D., and he has a daughter, Gertrude
Warford Mills, born in 1884, and a son,
Chester Paddock Mills, born in 1887. Ad
dress: Manila, Philippine Islands.
MILLS, Darius Ogden:
Financier; born at North Salem, West
chester County, New York, September 5,
1825; fifth son of James Mills. He was
educated in North Salem Academy and
Mount Pleasant Academy at Sing Sing,
and at the age of seventeen he secured a
clerkship in New York City. In 1847 he
went to Buffalo, and was appointed cash
ier of the Merchants' Bank of Erie Coun
ty; and thence went to San Francisco in
1849. He engaged in trade with the min
ing districts ; later settled in Sacra
mento and engaged in general mercantile
business, while also buying gold dust and
dealing in exchange on New York City.
In November, 1849, he closed out his busi
ness and returned to Buffalo, where he dis
posed of all his interests in the East, return
ing to Sacramento again, and founding there
the house of D. O. Mills and Company,
which quickly became and has since con
tinued the leading bank of interior Cali
fornia. In 1864 he became president of
the Bank of California, a new institution
which began business that year with a cap
ital of $2,000,000 and remained connected
with it till 1873, when he resigned the pres
idency and retired from business. After
it was wrecked by his successor he was
summoned again to the bank and resumed
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bank capital $1,000,000, raised in all nearly
$7,000,000 and within six weeks enabled
it to resume payment. In three years he
again left it, after having firmly reestab
lished its financial .standing; subsequently
came East, and became a resident of New
York City, and erected the great Mills
Building in Broad Street. His interests are
now divided between New York and Cali
fornia, and he is director of many large fi
nancial, railway and industrial organiza
tions. On leaving California, he endowed
with $75,000, since raised to $150,000, the
Mills Professorship of moral and intel
lectual philosophy in the University of
California, and donated to the State the
handsome group of marble statuary, Colum
bus Before Queen Isabella, by Larkin G.
Mead. Mr. Mills has brought his practical
knowledge of affairs to works of philan
thropy, notably in the construction in New
York of hotels where lodging and food of a
superior character may be obtained for the
actual cost of supplying them. He is a
member of the Century Association and
the Metropolitan, Union, Union League and
Knickerbocker Clubs. He married, Sep
tember 5, 1854, Jane T., daughter of James
Cunningham, and they have a son, Ogden,
and a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of White-
law Reid, ambassador to Great Britain.
Residence : 634 ' Fifth Avenue, New York
City. Address: 15 Broad Street, New
York City.
MILLS, Edmund M. :
Clergyman ; born at Ottawa, Canada, July
17, 1848; son of Andrew J. and Caroline
D. Mills. He was graduated from Wesley
an University, Middletown, Connecticut, as
A.B. in 1872, A.M. in 1875, and D.
D. in 1888; Ph.D. from Syracuse in
1877. He traveled 170,000 miles while
corresponding secretary of the Twen
tieth Century Thank Offering Commission,
from 1899 to 1902, which conducted a cam
paign in which $21,799,000 was raised as a
thank offering; and traveled extensively in
Europe in 1884 and 1901. He has visited
every State in the Union except Texas.
He was delegate to the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1888,

1892, 1896, 1900, and 1904; and delegate to
the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in
London in 1901. He is field secretary of
the Educational Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for the States of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Kentucky and the Middle South. He is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Mystical
Seven, St. John's Lodge of Masons, Con}§
ing Consistory (thirty-second degree) and
St. Omer's Commandery, Knights TemplaF,
and trustee of Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut. He is author of: Only
a Profession, volume of sermons. He mar
ried, August 23, 1875, Emily Rexford
Adams. Address : 220-222 West Fourth
Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
MILLS, Isaac Newton:
Jurist; was engaged in the practice of
law in New York City, and his home city
of Mount Vernon, and served a term as
County judge of Westchester County. He
was elected on the Republican ticket in
1906 as a justice of the Supreme Court of
New York for the Ninth District for the
term expiring Deceriiber 31, 1920. He is
a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, Sons of the Revo
lution, New England Society, and the Re
publican and Union League Clubs of New
York City. Address : Mount Vernon, New
York. MILLS, Ogden:
Capitalist; son of Darius Ogden Mills.
He was graduated from Harvard Universi
ty, A.B., 1878. President and director of the
Tribune Association ; vice president and di
rector of the Mergenthaler Linotype Com
pany; trustee of the German Savings Bank;
director of the Atlantic Coast Steamship
Company, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway Company, Erie Elevator Company,
International Paper Company, New York',
Continental Jewell Filtration Company,
North Atlantic Steamship Company, Ori
ental Consolidated Mining Company, Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, Portland Rail
way Company, Rock Island Company,
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Company, National Typographic Associa
tion, New York Fire Proof Tenement As
sociation. He is a member of the Metro
politan, University, Harvard, Union, Union
League, Racquet and Tennis, Hudson
River Ice Yacht, Turf and Field, and New
York Yacht Clubs. He married Ruth Liv
ingston. They have three children, Bea
trice, Gladys and Ogden D. Residence: 2
East Sixty-ninth Street. Address: 15
Blroad Street, New York City.
M'MILLS, Walter Sands:
Physician; born in New York City, May
17, 1865; son of Robert J. and Mary Fran
ces (Reed) Mills. He was educated in
Columbia College A.B., Harvard College,
and in the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of New York City and was graduated
from New York Homeopathic Medical Col
lege and Hospital as M.D. in 1889. He is at
tending physician of the Tuberculosis In
firmary, Metropolitan Hospital, Department
of Public Charities and of Flower Hospital ;
lecturer on the practice of medicine at the
New York Homoeopathic Medical College
and Hospital; president of the Homoeo
pathic Medical Society of the County of
New York; and associate editor of North
American Journal of Homoeopathy. He is
a member of the Sons of the Revolution.
He served six years in Seventh Regiment of
the National Guard of New York, and is
a member of the Harvard Club. Dr. Mills
married in New York City, October 25,
1893, Sylvie Laure de Long, daughter of
Lieutenant-Commander G. W. de Long,
arctic explorer; and they have two chil
dren : Emma de Long, born September 16,
1894, and 'De Long, born August 6, 1897.
Address : 324 West Eighty-ninth Street,
New York City.
MILLSPAUGH, Charles Frederick:
Botanist ; born in Ithaca, New York, June
20, 1854; son of John Hill Millspaugh and
Marion E. (Cornell) Millspaugh. He re
ceived his education in Ithaca High School,
in Cornell University in class of 1875, and
was graduated from New York Homoeo
pathic Medical College as M.D. in 1881.
He was professor of botany at the Uni

versity of West Virginia in 1891 and 1892;
curator of the Department of Botany at the
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago,
since 1894; and professorial lecturer of
botany in the University of Chicago, since
1895. He has also been professor of medi
cal botany at the Chicago Homoeopathic
Medical College since 1896 and is an asso
ciate professor of economic botany at the
University of Chicago. He is author of:
American Medicinal Plants ; The Flora of
West Virginia ; Contributions to North Am
erican Euphorbiaceae ; Plantae Yucatanae;
Plantas Insulae Anapasensis ; Flora of St.
Croix, Plantae Utowanae; Praenunciae Ba-
hamenses; and Flora of the Sand Keys of
Florida ; and he was editor of Homoeopathic
Recorder in 1889 and 1890. His special
fields of research are the Flora of Yucatan;
the medicinal plants of American Indians;
North American Euphorbiaceae ; flora of the
Bahamas and limits of the Greater Antil-
lean flora. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, of the Faculdcd de Medicina, Mexico,
and of the Faculdad de Medicina, Brazil;
honorary member of the Homeopathic So
ciety of Binghamton, and of the Bingham
ton Academy of Science; member of the
Torrey Botanical Club, of the Central So
ciety of Naturalists, charter member of the
Explorers' Club of New York, and of the
Sigma Xi Society. His favorite recreation
is athletics out of doors. Professor Mills
paugh married in Waverly, New York,
September 19, 1877, Mary Louisa Spaulding,
and they have one son, Basil Spaulding
Millspaugh, basso, grand opera, Germany.
Residence : 5748 Madison Avenue, Chicago.
Address: Field Museum of Natural His
tory, Chicago, Illinois.
MILLSPAUGH, Frank Rosebrook:
Bishop of Kansas ; born at Nichols, New
York. He was educated at the Shattuck
School, graduating in 1870, and studied
theology at the Seabury Divinity School,
Faribault, Minnesota. He graduated from
the seminary with the degree of B.D. in
1873, receiving that of D.D. in 1895. He
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by Bishop Whipple. For three years he
was missionary in Minnesota. He was dean
of the Cathedral of Omaha, Nebraska, from
1876 to 1886, and, until his election to the
episcopate, rector of St. Paul's Church, at
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and afterward dean
of Grace Cathedral, Topeka, Kansas. He
has represented his Diocese in the General
Convention every session but one, from 1897.
He was made bishop of Kansas in 1895, be
ing consecrated by Bishops Whipple, Spaul
ding, Tuttle, Atwill, and Brook. Bishop
Millspaugh was married, October 20, 1882,
to Mary C. Clarkson, of Nebraska. He is
author of various addresses and sermons.
Address : Topeka, Kansas.
MILNE, David:
Manufacturer; born in Philadelphia, July
24, 1859; son of Caleb J. Milne and Mar
garetta (Shea) Milne. He entered the
University of Pennsylvania in 1877, and
was graduated A.B. in 1881, A.M. in 1883,
and Ph.B. in 1885. He was member of the
winning college crew in the Schuylkill Navy
Regatta in 1881. He was connected with
the banking house of Robert Glendinning
and Company in 1881 and 1882, and since
then has been a manufacturer of fine tex
tiles. He is trustee of the Medico-Chirurgi
cal College; treasurer of the Medico-Chir
urgical Hospital; member of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, Academy of Nat
ural Sciences, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute,
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Geo
graphical Society, and is also a member of
the University, Racquet, Union League, Art,
Penn, Corinthian Yacht, Country, German-
town Cricket, and the Merion Cricket Clubs.
Address : 2030 Walnut Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
MILROY, William McCracken:
Clergyman and college professor ; born in
Northwood, Logan County, Ohio, August
25, 1855; son of Rev. William Milroy and
Isabella (McCracken) Milroy. He was
educated in the public school of his native
village, the Academic and Collegiate De
partments of Geneva College, Ohio, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1877,

Yale University (Latin, philology and the
ology) where he was graduated as B.D.
in 1882, the Reformed Presbyterian Semi
nary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Union
Theological Seminary (Arabic), received
the degree of A.M. from Westminster Col
lege, Pennsylvania, in 1886; was post-grad
uate student in Johns Hopkins University
in Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Assyrian,
philology, pedagogy and lectures on medi
cine, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1891.
In 1875 he divided the senior college year
in two and taught Latin as assistant to
his father in Geneva College, Ohio. In
1876, upon his father's death, he was asked
to take charge of the advanced Latin and
from 1877 to 1880 he was full professor of
Latin in that institution. He was admitted
to the Reformed Presbyterian ministry in
1883, and spent two summers traveling and
preaching. He was professor of Greek in
Westminster College, Pennsylvania, in 1883
and 1884. In 1886, along with university
work he took up church work, and was pas
tor in charge of the Ridgley Street Presby
terian Church in Baltimore, until he re
signed in 1889, on account of health. In
1890 he was invited to return to the chair
of Latin in Geneva College. Address : 3400
Fourth Avenue, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
MINEAR, Augustus Clay:
Farmer and manufacturer ; born on the
farm at Kilbourn, Van Buren County, Iowa,
July 1, 1874. His early educational training
was received in the rural schools and in the
Keosauqua (Iowa) High School; and he
was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan Uni
versity as A.B. in 1898. He taught a year
in the Hiawatha Academy, Hiawatha, Kan
sas; did post-graduate work in Armour In
stitute of Technology and while there or
ganized the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation in this institution; and the degree
of A.M. was conferred upon him by the
Northwestern University in 1902. Going to
California he secured a position as teacher
of science in Anderson Military Academy,
and later he was employed as assistant edu
cational director in the San Francisco
Young Men's Christian Association and
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matics in the University of Southern Cali
fornia, at Los Angeles. He has devoted
his time largely to animal husbandry and
dairying at Kilboum, Iowa, and is manu
facturer of the butter known as Bossy's
Best. He is an active factor in the public
school system and church work and a leader
in agricultural and live stock movements.
He is developing the Community Idea,
which is somewhat analogous to the Settle
ment Work of the cities, and the rural tele
phone has made the community one large
family which is being developed by public
improvement associations, business men's
clubs, lecture courses and picnics attended
by 1500 to 2500 people. Address : Kil-
bourn, Van Buren County, Iowa.
MINER, A sher:
President of the Miner-Hillard Milling
Company; born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl
vania, November 14, i860; son of Charles
Abbott Miner and Eliza Ross (Atherton)
Miner. He attended the Wilkes-Barre pub
lic schools, Williston Seminary, at East
hampton, Massachusetts, and the Harry
Hillman Academy, at Wilkes-Barre, Penn
sylvania. He entered the employment of
Miner and Thomas in the milling business
at Miner's Mills in 1879, became a member
of the firm in 1885 ; and is now president of
the Miner-Hillard Milling Company, which
was incorporated in 1894, who operate five
mills, and do the largest milling business
in Pennsylvania. He is director of the
Millers' National Federation, the Wyoming
National Bank, Wilkes-Barre Hotel Com
pany, Matheson Motor Car Company; and
president of the Pennsylvania Millers'
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Min
er enlisted in the National Guard of Com
pany D, of the Ninth Regiment, April 12,
1884, became corporal July 22, 1884 ; second
lieutenant, January 27, 1885 ; first lieutenant,
July 1, 1887; captain, July 21, 1888, and re
signed October 10, 1890. He was colonel
and general inspector of rifle practice, May
2, 1895, colonel of the Seventh Regiment
Infantry, August 9, 1898, colonel of the
Ninth Regiment, January, 1907. Mr. Miner
represented the city of Wilkes-Barre in the

lower house of the Legislature, session of
1907; he is a Republican in politics, and a
Presbyterian in his religious views. He is
a director of the Wilkesbarre Young Men's
Christian Association; is a Mason and
member of the Sons of the Revolution, and
of the Westmoreland Club and Wyoming
Valley Country Club. He married at Wilkes-
Barre, November 6, 1889, Hetty McNair
Lonsdale, and they have five children : Helen
Lea, Elizabeth Ross, Robert Charles, Mar
garet Mercer, and Hetty Lonsdale. Ad
dress : 292 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania.
MINER, George Roberts:
Editor; born in Manchester, Vermont,
August 17, 1862; son of A. L. Miner and
Susan S. (Roberts) Miner. He was edu
cated in the public schools, and the Burr
and Burton Seminary at Manchester, Ver
mont. He was graduated from Norwich
University, Northfield, Vermont, as B.S.,
M.S., C.E., and M.A. He engaged in news
paper work for many years as reporter,
dramatic editor, assistant city editor, and
European correspondent and Sunday editor
of the New York Herald; Sunday editor
and news editor of the New York World;
editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine; Sun
day editor of the Philadelphia Press ; editor
and proprietor of the Bangor (Maine)
Daily News, and is now European corres
pondent of the New York Herald. He
served as first lieutenant and captain and
aide-de-camp in the National Guard of Ver
mont. He is a member of the Alpha Sigma
Pi fraternity, and of the Douglaston Coun
try Club. He married at Salem, Massachu
setts, June 10, 1886, Mary S. Upton, and
they have one daughter, Miriam U., born
in 1889. Address : Herald Office, New
York City.
MINER, Guy Wilbur:
Clergyman; born at North Adams,
Massachusetts, June 11, 1907; son of Anson
Dwight Miner and Ella Eugenia (Wilbur)
Miner. He was graduated from Drury
Academy, North Adams, Massachusetts, in
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B.A., in 1890, and from the General Theo
logical Seminary, 1893. He was instructor
in English at the Shattuck Military School,
Faribault, Minnesota, in 1893 and 1894;
was canon of Grace Cathedral, Topeka,
Kansas, from 1894 to 1898; minister-in-
charge of St. John's Church, Franklin,
Massachusetts, and of Christ Church, Med-
way, Massachusetts, since 1898. He was
also minister-in-charge of St. Stephen's
Church, Boston, from June to September,
1907. Dr. Miner is a Republican in politics.
He is a director of the Franklin Young
Men's Christian Association. His favorite
recreations are fishing and tramping. He
married at Topeka, Kansas, June 29, 1896,
Helen May Smiley, and they have one son,
Reginald Bodley Miner, born September 16,
1899. Address : 248 Dean Avenue, Frank
lin, Massachusetts.
MINER, Henry Clay:
President of corporations ; born in Brook
lyn, New York, May 25, 1866; son of Hon.
Henry Clay Miner and Julia Lucinda
(Moore) Miner. He was educated in
Starr's Military Institute, Port Chester,
New York, and in the Friends' Seminary,
New York City. He is president of the
Estate of Henry C. Miner, Incorporated.
In religion he is an Episcopalian. He is
assistant inspector of small arms practice of
the Twenty-second Regiment of Engineers,
and a distinguished rifle expert. His favor
ite recreation is yachting. He is a member
of the Green Room, Red Bank Yacht and
Brooklyn Yacht Clubs. Mr. Miner married
in Savannah, Georgia, November 26, 1895,
Mary Anna Blun, and they have two chil
dren : Kathryn L., bom in 1898 and Henry
Clay, Jr., born in 1902. Address: 1402
Broadway, New York City.
MINOR, Edward S.:
Ex-congressman ; born in Jefferson
County, New York, in 1840. He went with
his parents to Wisconsin in 1845 ; settled
in Milwaukee County and subsequently lived
in the city of Milwaukee, where he attend
ed the public schools ; went with his parents
to Sheboygan County in 1852, where he
lived on a farm for several years, and re

ceived a public school and academic educa
tion. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G,
Second Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, as a
private; participated in all the expeditions,
raids, and battles in which the regiment was
engaged until the close of the war, and was
mustered out as a first lieutenant in No
vember, 1865. After his return home he
engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1884,
at which time he was appointed superintend
ent of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michi
gan Ship Canal, which position he held for
seven years; was elected to the Wisconsin
Assembly in 1877 and reelected in 1880 and
1881 ; was elected to the State Senate and
served in that body in 1883 and 1885 ; was
president pro tempore of the Senate during
the latter term. He was also a member
of the Wisconsin fish commission for four
years ; has held numerous local offices at
various times ; was appointed a member of
the Merchant Marine Commission, and with
the Commission visited all the important
seaports in the United States, as well as the
lake cities. The duties of the Commission
were to examine into the question touching
the disappearance from the foreign trade
of our American ships and to report to
Congress the most practical and equitable
measure having for its object the restora
tion of our flag on ships of our own con
struction, manned by our own seamen, and
laden with our own products for oversea
markets. He was elected to the Fifty-
fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth Conngresses and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He is a Re
publican in nolitics. Address : Sturgeon
Bay, Wisconsin.
MINOT, James Jackson:
Physician; born in Boston, October 11,
1852; son of George Richards Minot and
Harriet (Jackson) Minot. He was grad
uated from Harvard as A.B. in 1874, and
M.D. in 1878. He was physician of the
Boston Dispensary and of Carney Hospital ;
and he is now physician of the Massa
chusetts General Hospital and of the
Long Island Hospital. He is a mem
ber of the Massachusetts Medical 'So
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ton Society of Medical Improvement, Na
tional Association of Tuberculosis, and is
trustee of the Boston Consumptives Hos
pital. He married at Milton, October 30,
1884, Elizabeth Whitney, and they have
three sons : George Richards, born in 1886,
James Jackson, born in 1892, and Henry
Whitney, bora in 1896. Address: 188
Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
MINOTT, Frederic Shepard:
Manufacturer and merchant; born in
Orange, New Jersey, January 4, 1868; son
of Joseph Albert Minott and Mary (Mande-
ville) Minott. He was graduated from
Princeton University in 1889, with the de
gree of B.A. Mr. Minott is president and
director of the Goodyear Rubber Insulating
Company; secretary and director of the
Goodyear Rubber Company; the Lambert-
ville Rubber Company, and the Rubber
Clothing Company; and director of the
Orange Water Company and the East
Orange Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
He is a member of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, the Whig Hall Society of
Princeton University, and of the Univer
sity and Princeton Clubs of New York,
and the Ivy Club of Princeton. Mr. Minott
married in Florence, Italy, February 11,
1905, Marion Lowry, daughter of Com
modore R. B. Lowry, of the United States
Navy. Residence: Mt. Kisco, New York.
Office addresses : 787 Broadway, and 105
East One Hundred and Thirty-first Street,
New York City.
MITCHELL, Charles Bayard:
Clergyman ; born in Allegheny City,
Pennsylvania, August 27, 1857 ; son of Rev.
Daniel P. Mitchell and Annie E. (Baker)
Mitchell. He received his preparatory edu
cation in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and was
graduated from Allegheny College, with
the degree of A.B., afterward receiving the
A.M., Ph.D. and D.D. degrees. He began
his ministry in Kansas and has been pastor
at Coyville, Burrton, Marion, Leaven
worth, Kansas, the Smithfield Street Meth
odist Episcopal Church, at Pittsburgh, the
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
in Kansas City, Missouri, at Plainfield New

Jersey, Hennepin Avenue Methodist Epis
copal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and for the past seven years, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Cleve
land, Ohio. He was a delegate to the
Third Ecumenical Methodist Conference in
London, in 1901, and was a member of the
General Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church in 1904. Dr. Mitchell is a
member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity,
and Phi Beta Kappa Society, and is a thir
ty-second degree Mason. While in Cleve
land he built at the corner of Euclid Ave
nue and East Thirtieth Street, what is re
garded as the finest Methodist Episcopal
Church in any part of the world costing
$350,000, exclusive of the costly memorial
features. He has traveled extensively in
every European country, except Portugal;
also in Egypt, Palestine, Asia-Minor and
Turkey. Dr. Mitchell has published one
volume of travel, a volume of sermons, and
contributes largely to his denominational
press. He also lectures in all parts of the
United States during the lecture season.
Dr. Mitchell married in Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, July 6, 1882, Clara Aull. Ad
dress : The New Amsterdam, Cleveland,
Ohio.MITCHELL, Donald Grant:
Author ; born in April, 1822 ; son of Rev.
Alfred Mitchell of Norwich, Connecticut.
He received his education in Yale. He has
devoted much of his time to European trav
el, notably a foot tramp of five hundred
miles through England; for a short period
he was United States consul at Venice ; was
United States Commissioner to the Paris
World's Fair in 1878, and for many years
was a member of the Art Council at Yale,
where he has lectured from time to time on
art and literary topics. Many of his writ
ings appeared under the non de plume of
Ik Marvel. He is author of: Fresh Glean
ings, 1847; The Battle Summer, 1850; The
Lorgnette, or Studies of the Town, 1850;
Reveries of a Bachelor, 1850; Dream Life,
1851; Fudge Doings, 1854; My Farm of
Edgewood, 1863; Seven Stories, 1864; Wet
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Rural Studies, 1867; About Old Story Tel
lers, 1877; The Woodbridge Record, 1883;
Daniel Tyler ; a Memorial, 1883 ; Bound To
gether; A Sheaf of Papers, 1884; Out of
Town Places, 1884; re-issue of Rural Stud
ies, with changes ; English Lands, Letters,
and Kings, 1889, 1897 ; American Lands and
Letters, 1899. His favorite recreations are
the usual activities of an out-of-door coun
try life. Mr. Mitchell married in 1853,
Mary F. Pringle, of Charleston, South Caro
lina, and they have two sons and five daugh
ters. Address : Edgewood, New Haven,
Connecticut.MITCHELL, Edmund:
Novelist; born in Glasgow, in 1861. Pie
was educated in the Elgin Academy, Glas
gow, and at Aberdeen University, where he
received the degree of M.A. and was gold
medallist for English Literature. He fol
lowed the profession of journalism in In
dia, Australia, and America, and has trav
eled widely as special correspondent and
expert writer on industrial topics. He is
now a director of several large industrial
companies, being vice-president of the Mur
ray Marine Steady-Floating Steel Struct
ures Company, and vice-president and
treasurer of the Mason Smokeless Combus
tion Company, and of the Pacific Explora
tion Company. He is author of : The
Temple of Death, 1894; Towards the
Eternal Snows, 1896 ; Chickabiddy Stories,
1899; Plotters of Paris, 1900; The Lone
Star Rush, 1901 ; Only a Nigger, 1901.;
The Belforts of Cubben, ig02,; The
Despoilers, 1904 ; In Desert Keeping, 1905 ;
all novels, also a play: The Telephone,
1901. His favorite recreations are chess
are reading. He married in 1886, and has
four sons and one daughter. Addresses :
426 South Spring Street, and 1710 Hobart
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
MITCHELL, James Tyndale:
Jurist; born at Belleville, Illinois, No
vember 9, 1834. After a preliminary educa
tion in the public schools of Philadelphia
he entered Harvard College, from which
^he was graduated as A.B. in 1855, A.M. in
1857, and received the LL.D. degree in
1901, and he was graduated from the Law

Department of the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1858, and received from Jefferson
Medical College the honorary degree of
LL.D. in 1872. He began the practice of
law in Philadelphia in 1857 ; was assistant
city solicitor from i860 to 1863. He has
been continuously on the bench from 1871,
as judge of the District Court until 1875,
then of the Court of Common Pleas until
1889, when he became an associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the State of Penn
sylvania, of which he has been chief jus
tice since 1903. Chief Justice Mitchell is
a jurist of great distinction, and a valued
contributor to legal literature as author of
several treatises, addresses and contribu
tions to law periodicals, and he was for
merly- for twenty-five years editor-in-chief
of the American Law Register af Phila
delphia.' Address: 1722 Walnut Street.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MITCHELL, John:
Labor leader ; born at Braidwood, Illi
nois, February 4, 1870; son of Robert Mitch
ell and Martha Mitchell. He attended
the public schools of Braidwood until he
was ten years old and after that added to
his education' by night study. He began to
work in coal mines at the age of thirteen,
and in 1885 became a union man and a
member of the Knights of Labor ; he trav
eled in the West, mining coal in various
districts from 1885 to 1890; became secre
tary-treasurer of a sub-district of the United
Mine Workers of America in 1895, and
has been an organizer of the National body
since 1897, was elected its vice-president in
1898, and since 1899 has been president by
annual reelections. Has organizing abil
ity, has never been surpassed in the his
tory of the organized labor movement in
America. He directed the strike of the
anthracite mine workers in 1900 and 1902,
and has also been active in the work of the
National Civic Federation. Residence :
Spring Valley, Illinois. Office address :-
State Life Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
MITCHELL, John Ames :
Editor ; born in New York City, January
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Hampshire Lawrence Scientific School,
Harvard, and afterward studied architect
ure in Boston, Massachusetts, and at Paris,
from 1867 to 1870, in Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He practiced as architect in Boston until
1876, after which he engaged in artistic and
decorative work, illustrating books ; again
went to Paris for study and remained four
years ; studied in Atelier Julian, and after
ward with Albert Magnan; produced sever
al etchings published by L'Art, and received
honorable mention at the Paris Exposition;
returned to United States, in 1880; was al
ways much interested in black and white
drawings, and, feeling that there was a field
in America for an artistic satirical journal,
started Life, January 3, 1883, which he has
successfully conducted. He is author of:
Croquis de l'Exposition, Paris ; The Sum
mer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert,
1881 ; The Romance of the Moon, 1886 ;
The Last American, 1889 ; Life's Fairy
Tales, 1893 ; Amos Judd, 1895, The First
Affair, 1896 ; Gloria Victis, 1897 ; The Pines
of Lory, 1901 ; The Villa Claudia, 1904 ; The
Silent War, 1906. He is a member of the
Century and City Clubs. Mr. Mitchell mar
ried in Salem, Massachusetts, June, 1885,
Mary Hodges Mott. Residence : 20 West
Forty-sixth Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 17 West Thirty-first Street, New
York City.
MITCHELL, John L. :
Lawyer; born in Hooksett, New Hamp
shire, February 1, 1873; son of Abram
Mitchell and Angeline D. (Eastman)
Mitchell. He was graduated from Dart
mouth College as A.B. in 1895. He was a
member of the School Board of Portsmouth
from 1904 to 1906, city solicitor in 1906;
chairman of the Democratic City Committee
and member of the State Democratic Com
mittee. He is a member of the Kappa
Kappa Kappa Society and of the Warwick
Club. ' Residence : 34 Lincoln Avenue,
Portsmouth. Address : 1 Congress Street,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
MITCHELL, Mason:
Actor, soldier ; born in Hamilton, New
York, 1859; son of David J. Mitchell. He

was educated at St. John's School, Manlius,
New York, and Phillips Academy Exeter,
New Hampshire. At the age of eigh
teen he adopted the stage as a pro
fession, and became a member of the
company at the Old Broadway Theatre,
New York City. He rose rapidly and be
came the supporter of such stars as John
McCullough, Edwin Booth and Lawrence
Barrett; also supported as leading man
Madame Modjeska; and in 1883 accom
panied Mary Anderson to England, playing
at the Lyceum Theatre, London. He was
leading man at the Drury Lane Theatre,
the only American in the company; re
turned to America in 1885, and white play
ing at Winnipeg, in the Northwest the Riel
Rebellion broke out; his adventurous spirit
caused him to leave his company and enter
the service of the Canadian Government as
a scout; rendered valuable service and was
highly commended and decorated for same;
traveled extensively through South America
and the South Sea Islands, writing and il
lustrating articles on those countries, es
pecially in regard to Samoa, where he re
mained some time in company with Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist. Subsequent
ly he visited the Fiji, Ellis, Gilbert, Mar
shall and Caroline groups of islands; and
returning to America he became manager of
the Garrick Theatre, New York City, and
acted in support of Mrs. James Brown Potr
ter. He served in the Spanish-American
War as a member of the Rough Riders, and
was desperately wounded at the battle of
Santiago ; accompanied Theodore Roose
velt in his gubernatorial campaign, mak
ing many effective speeches; returned to
the stage for a brief period, and in 1902
was appointed consul to Zanzibar. While
at this post he distinguished himself in
hunting for big game, and several museums
and his club in New York bear testimony
to his skill in this respect. On leaving Zan
zibar was decorated by the Sultan with the
Order of The Brilliant Star of Zanzibar.
He was recently appointed consul at Chung
king, China. He married in San Francisco,
California, November 25, 1895, Edna Ellis
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MITCHELL, Silas Weir:
Physician and author; born in Philadel
phia, February 15, 1830; his father, John K
Mitchell, being a prominent physician of
Philadelphia, and for many years a pro
fessor in Jefferson Medical College. He
was educated in the University of Penn
sylvania, leaving in his senior year on ac
count of illness. In 1850 he graduated as
M.D. from Jefferson Medical College, re
ceiving the same degree as an honor from
the University of Bologna in 1888. Dr.
Mitchell has had an extensive hospital prac
tice, being physician to various hospitals at
different periods, and during the Civil War
-serving as sanitary inspector and acting
assistant surgeon, and treating injuries and
diseases of the nervous system in Turner's
Lane Hospital. In his practice he has made
a specialty of nervous complaints, and is
the originator of the system of rest treat
ment, or the Weir Mitchell treatment, as
it is called in Europe. He has written
many medical treatises, especially on ner
vous diseases, and has twice been president
of the Philadelphia College of Physicians,
and an officer of numerous other medical
associations both at home and abroad,
while he is also a member of various social
clubs. Aside from his reputation as a phy
sician, Dr. Mitchell is widely known as an
author, he being a poet of fine powers, a
skilled novelist and an able essayist. His
first literary productions were stories for
children: The Children's Hour, written for
the benefit of the Sanitary Fair in Phila
delphia, and short stories written for the
Children's Hospital. His other literary
works, beginning in 1880, include : Heph-
zibah Grinness ; Thee and You ; the Hill of
Stones and other Poems; In War Time;
Roland Blane ; A Masque and other Poems ;
Prince Littleboy and other Tales ; Charac
teristics ; When all the Woods are Green ;
Far in the Forest; The Adventures of
Francois; and Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,
the last named being especially popular and
widely read ; also : Autobiography of a
Quack ; A Comedy of Conscience ; Circum
stance; The 'Youth of Washington; Dr.
'North and His Friends; New Samaria;

Constance Trescot, and a number of others.
Dr. Mitchell is a meriiber of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and of various
medical and other societies ; president of
the Franklin Club, and member of the Con
temporary and other clubs. Address : 1524
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MITCHELL, WiUard A. :
Lawyer; born in Chateaugay, New York,
February 5, 1868; son of James Mitchell
and Amelia (Rockwell) Mitchell. He was
graduated from the University of Vermont
as A.B. in 1887 and attended Columbia Law
School. He was admitted to the New York
bar in December, 1900. He is president and
director of the Central Western Oil Com
pany; president and director of the Finn
Realty Company; director of the Chicago
Pneumatic Tool Company; secretary of the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Company ; member
of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association,
Dwight Alumni Association, Columbia Law
School Alumni Association, and is a mem
ber of the Lawyers', Republican, West Side.
Republican and Baltusrol Golf Clubs of
New York City. Mr. Mitchell married in
New Haven, Connecticut, 1893, Lilian I.
Miles. Residence : 321 West Ninety-sec
ond Street, New York City. Address : 141
Broadway, New York.
MODJESKI, Ralph:
Consulting civil engineer ; was born in
Cracow, Poland, January 27, 1861 ; only son
of Gustav Modzejewski and Helena, his
wife; came to the United States in 1876
with hismother, and for purposes of Amer
ican naturalization the name was changed
to Modjeski (of which Modjeska is the
feminine form according to Polish gram
matical usage), his mother being the dis
tinguished tragedienne, Helena Modjeska.
He was given a preliminary education in
private schools and afterward was sent to
the Ecole des Ponts et Chausees at Paris,
from which he was graduated at the head
of his class, in 1885, with the degree of
Civil Engineer. The same year, having
returned to America, he became assistant
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was employed as shop inspector at the
works at Athens, Pennsylvania, for the
superstructures of the Willamette Bridge
at Portland, Oregon, the Nebraska City and
and Sioux City bridges across the Missouri,
and the Cairo Bridge across the Ohio for the
firm of Morison and Corthell, engineers for
those noteworthy bridge structures ; after
ward became chief draftsman at the New
York office of that firm, and after that in
the office of Mr. Morison, of the same firm
in Chicago, until, in 1890, he became as
sistant engineer and chief inspector of the
Memphis (Tennessee) Bridge across the
Mississippi, and later of the bridge at Wi
nona, Minnesota. Since 1892 he has been
in practice as a consulting engineer, with
office at Chicago. He has gained a special
distinction as a bridge engineer, having in
that department designed and built for the
United States Government its new bridge
at Rock Island, Illinois, as well as numerous
bridges for railway companies, particularly
the Northern Pacific Railway, and from
'1903 to 1906 was a member of the firm of
Noble & Modjeski, who built the great'
bridge over the Mississippi at Thebes, Il
linois. As consulting engineer both for the
City of Chicago and the municipal corpora
tion known as the Sanitary District of Chi
cago, Mr. Modjeski has been prominently
identified with the building of bascule
bridges over the Chicago River and the
Sanitary Canal. While specializing chiefly
in bridge engineering, Mr. Modjeski has
also executed other important engineering
work, notably the designing and construc
tion for the United States of a large fire
proof warehouse in the government arsenal
at Rock Island, Illinois. He is now build
ing two large bridges over Columbia and
Willamette rivers for Northern Pacific Rail
way, also a bridge for the Illinois Traction
System over the Mississippi River at St.
Louis, besides other smaller structures in
various parts of the country. Mr. Mod
jeski is a member and past director of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
past president of the Western Society of
Engineers, of the Association Amicale des
Ingenieurs Civils des Ponts et Chausees de

France, and other engineering societies, and
of the Art Institute of Chicago; and he is
also a member of the Union League, Chi
cago Engineers, South Shore Country and
Homewood and Automobile Clubs, of Chi
cago. He was married, in 1885, to Felicie
Benda, a Polish compatriot. Residence:
5041 Washington Avenue, Chicago. Office
address : Monadnock Block, Chicago, Illi-

MOE, Alfred K. :
Consular officer; born in New York. He
was appointed consul at Tegucigalpa, June
2, 1902; consul at Dublin, October 13,
1904. Address : Dublin, Ireland.
MOFFAT, David H.:
Banker; born in Washingtonville, Orange
County, New York, in 1839. He was a mes
senger boy for the New York Exchange
Bank, New York, from 1854 to 1855; be
came clerk with A. J. Stevens and Com
pany, bankers in Des Moines, Iowa, in
1855 ; later clerk and cashier with a bank
in Omaha; started a bank in Denver in
i860; cashier in 1866; and soon after pres
ident of the First National Bank, Denver;
promoter of and president from 1884 to
1891, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad;
built Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad,
connecting Cripple Creek mines with Den
ver and Rio Grande system. Address:
1706 Lincoln Avenue, Denver, Colorado.
MOFFAT, R. Burnham:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, New York,
January 7, 1861 ; son of Dr. Reuben Curtis
Moffat and Elizabeth Virginia (Barclay)
Moffat. He was graduated from Harvard
University as B.A. in 1883, and from Co
lumbia University Law School as LL.B.
in 1885. He is a member of the law firm
of Rand, Moffat. & Webb. In politics he is
a Democrat. He is a member of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York State Bar Association,
American Bar Association, . Historical So
ciety of New York, and Society of Colonial
Wars, and is a member of the University,
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cratic Clubs. Mr. Moffat married in Brook
lyn, New York, June 5, 1895, Ellen Low
Pierrepont, and they have three children:
Jay Pierrepont, born July 18, 1896, Eliza
beth Barclay, born June 26, 1898, and Abbot
Low, born May 12, 1901. Address: 12
East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City.
MOFFAT, Thomas P.:
Consular officer; born in New York. He
was appointed consul at Turks Island, Jan
uary 8, 1903; consul at La Guaira, Sep
tember 30, 1905. Address: La Guaira,
Venezuela. MOFFIT, John H.:
Banker; born at Chazy, New York, Jan
uary 8, 1843. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and on the breaking out of the
war he enlisted -April 27, 1861, in the New
York Volunteer Infantry, in which he re
mained until the muster-out of his regiment,
as private corporal and sergeant. For hero
ism at Gaines' Mills and great gallantry at
Gettysburg he was awarded the Congres
sional Medal of Honor. After the war he
was for several years deputy collector of
customs at Rouse's Point, New York. He
became actively identified with political af
fairs as a Republican and he was elected in
1886 and reelected in 1888 member of Con
gress from the Twenty-first Congressional
District of New York, serving in the Fif
tieth and Fifty7first Congresses from 1887
to 1891. Since the close of his last term
in Congress he has been identified with
business interests at Plattsburgh, New
York, and he is now president of the Platts
burgh National Bank. He is a companion
of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States and a member of other military and
patriotic organizations. He married, Octo
ber 7, 1884, Alice H. Myers, and they have
one son, John H. Moffit, Jr., born June 30,
1898. Address: Plattsburgh, New York.
MOHN, Jeremiah G. :
President Reading Board of Trade ; born
in Spring Township, Berks County, Penn
sylvania, November 1, 1839, the fifth son of
William and Mary Mohn. ' His education
was acquired in the district schools and in

Adamstown and Churchtown, Pennsylvania. .
At the age of eighteen years he secured a
clerkship in the general store of S. K.
Mohn, in Mohnsville, where he served three
years.. He was subsequently a -clerk in
stores in Gouglersyille, Reinholdsville,
Adamstown and Reemstown. For four
years he was general manager of a store in
the last mentioned place. He then removed
to Reading, and in 1871 formed a partner
ship with his brothers in the hat manufac
turing business. The firm of J. G. Mohn
and Brother is still in this business. For
five years Mr. Mohn was also interested
in the Mohn Hat Company, of Mohnsville,
and for ten years in a hat commission house
in New York. He has been a director of
the Penn National Bank since its incor
poration in 1883 ; is a director of the Read
ing Fire Insurance Company; and a stock
holder and officer in a number of other
companies. He was elected president of
the Reading Board of Trade in January,
1903. He also served a term of four years
in Select Council, being elected as a Re
publican. He was a delegate to the First
General Conference of the United Evangel
ical Church in 1894, and delegate to the
first East Pennsylvania Conference of the
same denomination. He is now treasurer of
the Missionary Society and also treasurer
of the Albright College of that denomina
tion. For some years he has been a mem
ber of the Board of Managers of the Penn
sylvania Chautauqua at Mt. Gretna, Penn
sylvania. Address : Reading, Pennsylvania.
MOLLENHAUER, J. Adolph :
Capitalist; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 10, 1857; son of John and Doris
(Seimes) Mollenhauer. He received his
education in public schools and in'Deghuee
College. He was associated with his father
in organizing and conducting the Mollen
hauer Sugar Refining Company, and until
1900 was the vice-president and general
manager of the company. He is now inves
tor in sugar properties and real estate, and
travels much abroad and in United States.
He was one of the organizers of Second
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during the Spanish-American War he was
commander of the dispatch boat Presto,
forwarding dispatches to naval reserve men
on the south shore of Long Island, paying-
all expenses from his own funds ; and he
received a set of complimentary resolutions
from his subordinates upon retirement. He
is advisory member of the Mollenhauer
Sugar Refining Company; director of the
St. Regis Paper Company, Brooklyn Acad
emy of Music, Long Island Auto Highway,
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ;
trustee of the Manufacturers' National
Bank, Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
German Savings Bank, Brooklyn Bureau of
Charities, Brooklyn Hospital and Dispen
sary. In politics he is an Independent and
in religion a Lutheran. His favorite recre
ations are automobiling, yachting, and
travel. He is a member of the Engineers'
Club of Brooklyn, and of the Penataquit
Corinthian Yacht Club (commodore), the
New YorkJYacht, Atlantic Yacht and Han
over Clubs. Mr. Mollenhauer married in
Brooklyn, New York, 1882, Anna Dick. Ad
dress: 84' Broadway, Brooklyn, New York.
MONDELL, Frank Wheeler:
Congressman ; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
November 6, i860. Both of his parents died
before he reached his sixth year, and he
went to live with friends in Iowa, residing
on a farm until eighteen years of age. He
attended the local district schools, and re
ceived instruction in the higher branches
from a private tutor ; engaged in mercantile
pursuits, stock raising, mining, and railway
construction in various Western States and
Territories, and settled in Wyoming in 1887,
and engaged " in the development of coal
mines and oil property at and in the vicin
ity of Newcastle and Cambria. He took
an active part in the establishment and
building of the town of Newcastle and the
development of the Cambria mines ; was
elected mayor of Newcastle in 1888, and
served until 1895; was elected a member
of the first State Senate in 1890, served
as president of that body at the session
of 1892 ; and was a delegate to the Repub
lican National Convention in Minneapolis
in 1892. He was appointed assistant com

missioner of the General Land Office, No
vember 15, 1897, and served until March
3, 1899; was elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress from the First Wyoming
District. Address : Newcastle, Wyoming.
MONEY, Hernando De Soto:
United States senator; born August 26,
1839, in Holmes County, Mississippi; was
educated at the University of Mississippi,
at Oxford, Mississippi; is a lawyer and
planter; served in the Confederate Army
from the beginning of the war until Sep
tember 26, 1864, when he was forced to re
tire from service by defective eyesight. He
was elected to the House of Representatives
in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Fifty-
third, and Fifty- fourth Congresses; in Jan
uary, 1896, was elected to the Senate for
the term beginning March 4, 1899; was ap
pointed to the United States Senate, Oc
tober 8, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Hon. J. Z. George on August
14, 1897; in January, 1898, elected by the
Legislature to fill out the unexpired term
ending March 3, 1899. Was renominated
by the Democratic party in primary, August
6, 1903, and elected to succeed himself for
the term beginning March 4, 1905, and end
ing March 3, 191 1. Address: Carrollton,
Mississippi. MONNOT, John Ferreol:
Metallurgical and mining engineer; born
at Classon Point, Westchester County, New
York, May 13, 1864; son of John B. Mon-
not and Louise E. (Ponsot) Monnot. He
was educated in Paris, France, and was
graduated from the Ecole Superieure des
Mines de Paris. He made several scien
tific and mining explorations in South Am
erica ; and invented many valuable pro
cesses, among others one for extracting
rubber from the bark and leaves of trees,
improvements in steam heating and elec
tric lighting systems, a process for making
compound metals, known as Monnot metals ;
and he is president of the Duplex Metals
Company, and a director of the Hudson
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Association of Mining Engineers of Paris.
Mr. Monnot married in New York City,
1895, Claire Broni Yso, Comtesse de Lare
do. Address : 208 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
MONTAGUE, Andrew Philip:
President of Howard College; born in
Virginia, September 27, 1854, son of the
Rev. H. W. Montague and Columbia
(Broaddus) Montague. He began his edu
cation at the University of Virginia in 1873,
studying there until 1875, when he entered
Columbian University, Washington, D. C,
from which he received the degree of A.M.
and later that of Ph.D. The degree of
LL.D. was conferred upon him by Rich
mond (Virginia) College. Upon leaving
the University in 1875, he accepted while
also studying there, the position of instruc
tor in the College Department of the Co
lumbian University later being advanced
to the position of assistant professor, pro
fessor, and finally of dean, retaining his
connection with the college until 1897, when
he resigned to accept the presidency of
Furman University, at Greenville, South
Carolina. In 1902 he was elected president
of Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama.
In 1892 Dr. Montague traveled consider
ably in Europe. He is affiliated in politics
with the Democratic party and is a member
of the Baptist Church; and he is a mem
ber of the Masonic fraternity. He mar
ried at Richmond, Virginia, November 3,
1881, May Christian (deceased) ; and he
has two children : Maude A., born in 1885,
and Howard C, born in 1886. He was
married, second, to Florence Wood, of Bir
mingham, Alabama. Address : East Lake
Station, Birmingham, Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, Edmund:
Physician, biologist and philosophical
writer; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March
I9» 1835. He was educated in the Uni
versity of Heidelberg, from 1852 to 1854,
' Berlin 1855, Bonn 1856, Wiirzburg 1857,
the University of Prague where he was
graduated as M.D. in 1858, University of
Vienna 1859, and became a member of the
Royal College of Physicians, London, in

1861. He was resident physician of the
German Hospital, London, in i860 and 1861,
medical attendant in Bermondsey Dispen
sary and Poor District, 1861 and 1862, and
pathologist of St. Thomas' Hospital, Lon
don, from 1861 to 1864. He was a practic
ing physician at Madeira, Mentone and
Rome from 1865 to 1870, and at Hemp
stead, Texas, since 1872. Dr. Montgomery
in addition to his medical practice, has been
extensively engaged in original investiga
tions in biology and philosophy, particularly
in regard to the vital functions and the or
ganization of the living substance, proto
plasm, and the biological explanation of
philosophical problems. He is author of:
Refutation of the Kantean Theory of Know
ledge, 1871, articles in leading scientific
and philosophical periodicals, and lectures
before the Concord School of Philosophy;
The Vitality and Organization of Proto
plasm, 1905 ; Philosophical Problems in the
Light of Vital Organization, 1907. He is
a member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the Texas
Academy of Sciences (of which he was
president in 1903), and honorary member
of the London Aristotelian Society. Ad
dress : Hempstead, Texas.
MONTGOMERY, Henry:
Professor of geology ; born in Cartwright,
Ontario, November 11, 1848. He was edu
cated -in the University of Toronto, receiv
ing first class honors, prizes, scholarship
and medal, the B.A. degree in 1876 and the
M.A. degree in 1877; attended the Uni
versity Medical School from 1877 to 1879,
received the B-.S. degree from Victoria Col
lege, in 1880, attended Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in 1882, and received from Illinois
Wesleyan University the degree of Ph.B.
in 1887 and Ph.D. in 1903. He was master
in science at the Toronto Collegiate Insti
tute from 1876 to 1881, lecturer on zo
ology in the Toronto School of Medicine
from 1879 to 1884; professor of natural
science and curator of the museum in the
University of North Dakota from 1884 to
1889; professor of natural science in the
State Normal School at Cortland, New
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ogy and mineralogy and curator of the Mu
seum in the University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, from 1890 to 1894; professor of nat
ural science, examiner in geology and cur
ator of Museum in Trinity College, Canada,
since 1894, and curator of the museum in
the University of Toronto since 1904. He
was examiner in biology in the University
of Toronto from 1882 to 1884, chairman of
the Executive Committee of St. Hilda's Col
lege, Toronto, in 1901. Dr. Montgomery
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; fellow of the
Geological Society of America, member of
the Anthropological Society of Washington,
D. C, American Anthropological Associa
tion, National Geographic Society, and
charter member of the American Museum's
Association ; honorary member of the To
ronto Natural History Society of which
he was president from 1879 to 1881 ; corre
sponding member of the Montreal Society
of Natural History; fellow of the London
Society of Letters and Science. He has
made many original investigations in geol
ogy, paleontology and anthropology. Among
his publications are : Indian Remains in
Simcoe and Muskoka (Remains of the Hur-,
on Indians in Ontario) ; Some Observations
on Menobranchus Maculatus (Necturus
lateralis) ; A Blastoid Found in the De
vonian Rocks of Ontario (Illustrated) ; The
University Question ; Aboriginal Monuments
of North Dakota (Illustrated) ; Science
Teaching in the Public Schools, 1892; The
So-called Sands of Great Salt Lake; A New
Hydrous Aluminum Phosphate Found in
Utah; Prehistoric Man in Utah (Illus
trated), 1894; Volcanic Dust in Colorado
and Utah ; A Large Crystal of Spodumene ;
Prehistoric Man in the United States and
Canada (Illustrated), 1903; A Catalogue of
a Palaeontological Collection in the Biolog
ical Department of the University of To
ronto ; Remains of Prehistoric Man in the
Dakotas (illustrated by many plate's), 1906,
an account of Dr. 'Montgomery's fieldwork
and other investigations in the mounds and
other eartl works of prehistoric peoples in
South and North Dakota, extending over

a period of seven years. Address : Univer
sity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
MONTGOMERY, John Knox:
President of Muskingum College; born
at Belfast, Tennessee, August 4, 1861, son
of the Rev. A. S. Montgomery and Grace
(Tate) Montgomery. He was educated
at the Enfield (Illinois) College, and at the
Indiana State University, later studying the
ology at the Xenia Theological Seminary,
and receiving the degree of D.D. from
Cooper College. After his ordination to
the ministry in 1887, he was called success
ively to pastorates at Cincinnati, Ohio, Chi
cago, Illinois, and Charlotte, North Caro
lina. In 1904 he was elected president of
Muskingum College, which position he still
holds. Dr. Montgomery has traveled all
over United States, Canada and Mexico.
He is connected in politics with the Pro
hibition party and is a member of the
United Presbyterian Church. He is a trus
tee of the Allegheny Theological Seminary
and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity. He married at Harshasville,
Ohio, December 25, 1889, Emma Zetta Pat-
ton, and has six children : Grace, born in
1891, Knox, born in 1893, Don, born in
1895, Geneva, born in 1898, Robert, born
in 1901, and Paul, born in 1903. Address:
New Concord, Ohio.
MONTGOMERY, Thomas Harrison:
President of The American Fire Insur
ance Company; born in Philadelphia, Feb
ruary 23, 1830 ; a younger son of the Rever
end James Montgomery, D.D., graduate
of Princeton College, 1805, and Mary Har
rison, daughter of Thomas H. White (Uni
versity, 1795). He was educated at Gram
mar School under Reverend Dr. Crawford,
and the school of Reverend Dr. Faires. At
the age of seventeen he entered the drug
house of Charles Ellis & Company, took a
course at the Philadelphia College of Phar
macy, and was graduated in 1851 ; after a-
few years entered the first insurance busi
ness. In 1859, upon the organization of
the Enterprise Insurance Company, he be
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president. From 1872 to 1879 he resided
in New York as general agent of the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters; in 1880
he was elected vice-president of the Amer
ican Fire Insurance Company, and pres
ident in April, 1882, in which duty he still
continues. While with the Insurance Com
pany of North America he was asked by
the president, Mr. Charles Piatt, to write
the history of this venerable institution,
and this was issued in 1885. He is. a mem
ber of the New York Historical" Society, the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Chester
County Historical Society, the Pennsyl
vania Societies of the Sons of the Revolu
tion and of Colonial Wars, and the Co
lonial Society of Pennsylvania. He married
Anna, daughter of Samuel George Mor
ton, M.D. (Pennsylvania and Edinburgh),
the distinguished ethnologist, and President
of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Ad
dress: 308 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
MONTGOMERY, Thomas Harrison, Jr.:
Professor of zoology; born in New
York City, March 5, 1873; son of Thomas
H. Montgomery and Anna (Morton) Mont
gomery. He was educated in the Protes
tant Episcopal Academy at Philadelphia
and the University of Pennsylvania and
"was graduated from University of Berlin
as Ph.D. in 1894. He was assistant pro
fessor of zoology in the University of
Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1903; profes
sor of biology and director of the Museum
of the Wagner Institute of Philadelphia,
from 1898 to 1903 and has been professor
of zoology at the University of Texas since
1903. He is author of: Analysis of Racial
Descent in Animals ; and of Memoirs on
Comparative Anatomy and Embryology,
Cytology, and the Habits and Classification
of Animals. He is a member of the Amer
ican Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Science, American So
ciety of Zoologists, Entomological Society
of America and the Texas Academy of
Science, and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
His favorite recreations are tennis and
hunting. Pie is a member of the University
Club of Austin. Mr. Montgomery married

in Crosswicks, New Jersey, 1901, Priscilla
Braislin, and they have two children :
Thomas Roger, born in 1902, and Hugh,
born in 1904. Address : University of Tex
as, Austin, Texas.
MONTGOMERY, Thomas Lynch:
Librarian; born in Philadelphia, March
4, 1862; son of Oswald Crathorne Mont
gomery and Catharine Gertrude (Lynch)
Montgomery. He was graduated from the
Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and
the University of Pennsylvania, as A.B. in
1884. He was actuary in the Wagner Free
Institute of Science, from 1886 to 1903,
and has been State Librarian of Pennsyl-
variia, since 1903. In politics, Mr. Mont
gomery is a Republican, and an Episcopal
ian in his religious views. He is a mem
ber of the American Library Association,
National Association of State Libraries,
Association of Law Libraries, American
Historical Association, Pennsylvania His
torical Society, Dauphin County Historical
Society ; trustee of the Free Library of
Philadelphia, and is a member of the Phi
Kappa Sigma fraternity. His favorite rec
reations are golf, fishing, cricket, and bil
liards. He is also a member of the Uni
versity, and Philobiblon Clubs of Philadel
phia and Harrisburg Club. He married at
Philadelphia, October 16, 1889, Brinca G.
Gilpin. Residence : 904 Clinton Street, Phil
adelphia. Office address : State Library,
Pennsylvania.
MOODY, William Henry:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
'of the United States ; born at Newbury,
Massachusetts, December 23, 1853 ; son of
Henry L. Moody and Melissa O. Moody.
He received his preparatory education at
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
from which he was graduated in 1872, 'and
entered Harvard College, from which he
was graduated as A.B.. in 1876. He studied
law and was admitted to the bar, and in
1890 was appointed by President Harrison
to the . office of district attorney of the
United States for the Eastern District of
Massachusetts, serving until 1895, in which
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the Fifty-fourth Congress from the Sixth
Massachusetts District to fill a vacancy, and
was also elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, resign
ing from the latter, May I, 1902, to ac
cept the office of secretary of the navy in
the cabinet of President Roosevelt. He re
mained in that office until July 1, 1904,
when he was transferred to the Depart
ment of Justice as attorney-general, serv
ing until appointed, in 1906, to his- present
office as associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The degree
of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Am
herst College and by Tufts College in 1904.
Address : The Connecticut, Washington,
D. C.
MOON, John Austin:
• Congressman and lawyer ; was three times
appointed and twice elected judge of the
Fourth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee; was
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and was reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Third Tennessee Dis
trict. He is a Democrat in politics. Ad
dress : Chattanooga, Tennessee.
MOON, Reuben Osborne:
Congressman and lawyer; descended
from John Moon, one of the earliest judges
of the State of Pennsylvania. He was
born in the State of New Jersey, son of
Aaron L. Moon, one of the most successful
teachers of that State ; was educated under
his father's instruction, supplemented by a
college course, graduating in 1874. He
taught school, and later was a professor in
a prominent institution of learning in Phil
adelphia ; engaged in the educational lecture
field ; studied law, being admitted to the
bar in 1884, to the Supreme Court in 1886,
and to the United States courts in 1890.
He was president of the Columbia Club,
and is also a member- of the Union League,
Penn Club, the Lawyers' Club, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, and other
prominent Pennsylvania' associations. He
was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress,
November 2, 1903, to fill the vacancy caused

by the death of Hon. Robert H. Foederer,-
and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Six
tieth Congresses from the Fourth Penn
sylvania District. He is a Republican in
politics. He married Mary A. Predmore,
in 1876, and they have two children. Ad
dress : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MOORE, Charles Arthur:
Merchant, manufacturer; born in West
Sparta, Livingston County, New York, son
of William Ropes Moore and Caroline M.
(Van Ness) Moore. He received his edu
cation in public schools, Ward 5 Public
School, Rochester, New York and Franklin
School, Lynn, Massachusetts. Early in life
he was engaged as manufacturer of steam
specialties in Boston, and in 1880 he joined
with H. S. Manning & Company in the
formation of the firm of Manning, Max
well & Moore, becoming in 1905, Manning,
Maxwell & Moore, Incorporated. He has
traveled largely in United States, Europe
and Egypt, including several automobile
tours through continental Europe. Mr.
Moore accompanied President McKinley on
his trip to the Pacific Coast; being the
only guest outside of Cabinet. He was
presidential elector for McKinley and Ho
bart, and was appointed messenger to de
liver the electoral vote of New York State.
He is president of Manning, Maxwell &
Moore, Incorporated, The Shaw Electric
Crane Company, the Consolidated Safety
Valve Company, Ashcroft Manufacturing
Company, Hayden & Derby Manufacturing
Company, Hancock Inspirator Company,
the United Injector Company, Windsor
Machine Company, Windsor, Vermont; di
rector of Casualty Company of America,
Continental Insurance Company, Liberty
National Bank, United Bank Note Corpor
ation and National Machinery Company of
Tiffin, Ohio. He is a chevalier of the Le
gion of Honor of France, president of the
American Protective Tariff League; mem
ber New York Civic Federation (was its
president) ; trustee of Adelphi College and
St. John's Guild; member of the Amer
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of New York, National Association
of Manufacturers, National Civic Federa
tion, New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, New England Society of Brook
lyn, New England Society of New York,
Ohio Society of New York, Society of
the Genesee, St. Andrew's Society, the Pil
grims of the United States, the Sons of the
Revolution. He is a member of the Re
publican Club of the City of New York,
Union League, Army and Navy, Engineers'
and Transportation Clubs, Automobile Club
of America, Fairfield County Golf, Hamil
ton, Indian Harbor Yacht, Montauk, New
York Riding, Rembrandt and Lotos Clubs
of New York City, and of the Metro
politan Club of Washington, D. C, the
Century Club of Muskegon, Michigan,
Touring Club of France, and Auto Club of
Milan, Italy. Mr. Moore married in Nor
walk, Ohio, Mary C. Campbell, and they
have four children : Charles Arthur, Jr.,
Jessie Campbell (now Mrs.. Colby M.
Chester, Jr.), Mary Elsie (now Duchesse
of Torlonia), and Eugene Maxwell. Ad
dress : 85 Liberty Street, New York City.
MOORE, Charles Forrest:
Lawyer; born in Dunmore, West Vir
ginia, January 28, 1863 ; son of Isaac and
Aleinda H. (Arbogast) Moore. He re
ceived his education in Vanderbilt Uni
versity and in the University of Virginia.
He practiced law after graduation until
1894; was elected judge for the counties
of Allegheny and Craig, West Virginia,
January 1, 1894, and resigned to become
counsel for the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company, in 1898. He removed to
New York City in 1902, where he is still
chief counsel for the pulp company. Judge
Moore has always been active in politics,
taking a prominent part in all political cam
paigns ; and is popular as an after-dinner
speaker. He is president of the Greenbriar
and Elk River Railway Company, and of
the Southern Spruce Company. In politics
he is a Democrat and in religion a Metho
dist. " He is a member of the Southern So
ciety, Society of Medical Jurisprudence,
Kappa Alpha fraternity, and The Virgin

ians. His favorite recreation is golf.
Judge Moore has been twice married : first,
in Huntsville, West Virginia, September
27, 1887, to Mollie Beard and second, in
Orange, Virginia, October 30, 1895, to Janie
Slaughter ; and he has two children : Hallie
E., born in 1890 and Donna R., born in
1899. Address : 309 Broadway, New York
City.MOORE, Charles Harry:
Civil engineer; born in Baltimore, Mary
land, 1863 ; son of Charles Cadwallader and
Rosa Virginia (Killin) Moore. He received
his education in Lafayette College, Easton,
Pennsylvania. He was treasurer and vice-
president of the Bethlehem Silk Company;
first assistant engineer of the Erie Rail
road Company, Chicago & Erie Railroad
Company, New York, Susquehanna &
Western Railroad Company; director of
the Edgewater & Fort Lee Railroad Com
pany ; made a reconnoisance and survey
for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans traffic via Amazon River and rail
road across the Andes Mountains, through
the Republic of Ecuador; is "engineer of
grade crossings of the Erie Railroad Com
pany, Chicago & Erie Railroad Company,
New York, Susquehanna & Western Com
pany; chief and consulting engineer of the
Ferrocarril al Curaray, Republic of Ecua
dor. In politics he is a Republican and in
religion an Episcopalian. He is a member
of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers, American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance of Way Association, the Na
tional Geographic Society, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Zeta Psi fraternity, and
the Masonic order. He is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion and
of the Engineers' Club of New York City,
the Art Club of Philadelphia and the Tun-
gurahua Club of Ambato, Ecuador. Mr.
Moore married in Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
April, 1897, Martha Fletcher Lee. Ad
dress : 11 Broadway, New York City.
MOORE, Charles Herbert:
Professor of art; born in New York
City, April 10, 1840; son of Charles Moore
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from Harvard the honorary degree of A.M.
in 1890. He was appointed instructor in
drawing in 1871, assistant professor of fine
arts in 1891, and has been professor of art
and director of Fogg Art Museum since
1896 -at the Harvard University. He is au
thor of : Development and Character of
Gothic Architecture, London, 1890, second
edition in New York, 1899 ; Character of
Renaissance Architecture, New York, 1905.
Professor Moore has been married twice :
first, in Schenectady, New York, July 19,
1863, to Mary Jane Tomlinson ; and sec
ond, December 30, 1881, Elizabeth F. Hew-
ins, and he has one daughter, Elizabeth
Huntington Moore, born December 30,
1866. Address : Harvard University, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
MOORE, Douglass G. :
Capitalist. He is president, treasurer and
director of Poughkeepsie Brass Foundry;
president and director of Port Johnston
Towing Company; secretary and director of
Goubert Manufacturing Company; director
of the National State Bank of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, and -of the New Jersey Shoe-
Tree and Last .Company. Addresses : 1
Broadway, New York City and Elizabeth,
New Jersey.
MOORE, Edward J.:
Banker. He is a member of the firm of
E. J. Moore & Company, bankers and
brokers and is a governor of the Philadel
phia Stock Exchange. Address : 141 South
Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MOORE, Francis C:
Insurance president, retired; born in
Houston, Texas, in 1842 ; son of Dr. Fran
cis C. Moore and Elizabeth M. (Wood)
Moore. He received his education in the
Philadelphia High School and the law de
partment of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was for many years president of the
Continental Fire Insurance Company and
is now retired. Mr. Moore is a member
' of the Metropolitan Club. He married, in
1868, Cora W. Taylor. Address: 20 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.

MOORE, James W. :
Dean of the Pardee School of Science,
Lafayette College; born in Easton, Penn
sylvania, June 14, 1844. Was graduated
from Easton High School, i860; Lafayette
College as A.B. 1864, A.M. 1867; M.D. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 1869. Professor
Moore has been a member of the faculty
of Lafayette College since January, 1866;
tutor, 1866-1868; adjunct professor, 1868-
1872; professor of mechanics and experi
mental philosophy since 1872. The De
partments of Physics and Electrical Engi
neering were organized under his direction.
He is a member of the American Philo
sophical Society, Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, American Academy of ' Medicine,
Pennsylvania State Medical Society and
on its Legislative Committee. Member of
the Sons of the Revolution. Historian
General of the Founders and Patriots of
America, 1607-1657; member of Phi Beta
Kappa and Delta 'Kappa Epsilon. He is-
author of : Electro-dynamic Phenomena,
1888; Notes on a Course of Lectures on
Light, 1889 ; The Elements of Natural Phil
osophy for the Use of Engineering Stu
dents, 1891 ; The Elements of Natural Phil
osophy for the Use of Junior Students in
College, 1891 ; Methods of Investigation and
Record Book of Experiments in Physics,
1892 ; Instruments and Methods of Physical
Measurements, 1892; Some Thoughts on
the Necessary Preliminary Training for
the Medical Profession, 1893 (Number
Seventeen Bulletin of the American Acad
emy of Medicine) ; Simple Harmonic Mo
tion, 1894 ; An Attempt to Analyze the Sta
tistics of Diptheria in Easton from 1888 to
1894 inclusive, 1894 (Lehigh Valley Med
ical Magazine) ; Some Sanitary Questions
(Transactions of the Northampton County
Medical Society), 1895; Syllabus of a
Course of Lectures on Heat ; Syllabus of a
Course of Lectures on Electricity, 1895 ; Ad
dress on Hygiene, 1896 (Transactions of
Pennsylvania State Medical Society)";
American Ancestral Chart of a Branch of
the Family of Rev. John Moore, of New
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sylvania, 1897; Records of the Kingwood
Monthly Meeting of Friends, Hunterdon
County, New Jersey, 1900; Reverend John
Moore, of Newtown, Long Island, and
Some of His Descendants, 1903. Address :
Easton, Pennsylvania.
MOORE, John Matthew:
Professor of international law and diplo
macy at Columbia University; born in
Smyrna, Delaware, December 3, i860; son
of Dr. John A. Moore and Martha A.
(Ferguson) Moore. He was educated in
University of Virginia; the honorary de
gree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by
Yale and Columbian universities, and by
Delaware College. Leaving college, he stud
ied law in Wilmington, Delaware, from
1880 to 1883. He was admitted to the
bar of Wilmington, in 1883; entered the
Department of State, Washington, as law
clerk, under civil service rules in 1885;
was third assistant secretary of State in
1886; resigned in 1891 to become professor
of international law and diplomacy at Co
lumbia University. He was secretary to
the Fisheries Conference in 1887 and 1888;
to the American Peace Commission at
1887; assistant secretary of State in 1898,
resigning to become secretary and counsel
to the American Peace Commission at
Paris; agent to the United States before
the United States and Dominican Mixed
Commission, in 1903 and 1904; member of
the Institut Colonial International; asso
ciate Institut de Droit International; mem
ber of Massachusetts Historical Society.
He is author of: Report of Extraterritorial
Crime, 1887; Report on Extradition, 1890;
Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Ren
dition, two volumes, 1891 ; American Notes
on the Conflict of Laws, 1896; History and
Digest of Internytional Arbitrations, six
volumes, 1898; A Digest of International
Law, eight volumes, 1906. Mr. Moore is
one of the editors of the Political Sci
ence Quarterly, and of the Journal du
Droit International Prive. He is a mem
ber of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, and is a member of the
Century Association of New York City,
and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.

C. He married, in 1890, Helen Frances To-
land. Address: Columbia University, New
York City.
MOORE, John Matthew: ]
Congressman; born at Richmond, Fort
Bend County, Texas, November 18, 1862,
son of Dr. Matthew A. Moore and Henri
etta (Huddleston) Moore. He removed
with his parents from Greenwood, Ala
bama, to Texas, in 1852. He was educated
in the common schools of Richmond, and
attended two sessions of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas,
obtained his business training in the mer
cantile, banking, stock raising, and farming
businesses, and at present is a cattle raiser
and planter. Mr. Moore was elected to the
State Legislature from the Forty-first dis
trict in 1896; served on the Finance and
other committees; declined a renomination;
was Democratic chairman of the Tenth
Congressional District in 1898, and a dele
gate to the Democratic National Convention
at Kansas City in 1900. He was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, June 6, 1905, to
fill the unexpired term of the Hon. John
M. Pinckney, deceased, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, from the Eighth Texas
District. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married in 1883, Lottie Dyer. Address :
Richmond, Texas.
MOORE, Joseph Hampton:
Congressman and journalist; born at
Woodbury, New Jersey, March 8, 1864;
son of Joseph B. Moore and Mary J.
(Dorff) Moore. He was educated in the
common schools; was a law office boy and
student in Philadelphia, 1887 to 1880, a re
porter in the courts and on the Public
Ledger in Philadelphia, 1881 to 1894; chief
clerk to city treasurer, Philadelphia, 1894
to 1897; editor and publisher, 1898-99; sec
retary to the mayor, 1900; city treasurer,
1901-1903 ; appointed by President Roose
velt first Chief of the Bureau of Manufac
tures, Department of Commerce and Labor,
January, 1905 ; resigned June 1, 1905, to
accept the presidency of the City Trust;
Safe Deposit and Surety Conipany of Phila
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continue the business and he was appointed
by the court June 24, 1905, receiver of the
company. He was president of the Allied
Republican Clubs of Philadelphia, 1900-06
president of the Pennsylvania State League
in 1900, and reelected in 1901; was elected
president of the National Republican
League, at Chicago, in 1902, and reelected
at Indianapolis in 1904. Mr. Moore was
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress for the
unexpired term of the late Hon. George A.
Castor and to the Sixtieth Congress. He
is a Republican in politics. He married
in Camden, New Jersey, January 16, 1889,
Adelaide Stone. Address: Witherspoon,
Building, Philadelphia.
MOORE, Richard Rishop:
Chemist; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May
6, 1871 ; son of William Thomas Moore
and Mary (Bishop) Moore. He attended
Argyll College, in London, England, from
1881 to 1883; St. Edmund's College, Lon
don, England, from 1883 , to 1885, the In
stitute Keller, Parrs, in 1885 and 1886, Uni
versity College, London, from 1886 to
1890 and was graduated from the Univer
sity of Chicago in 1896. He was instructor
in chemistry at Oswestry High School,
England, in 1890 and 1891 ; instructor in
chemistry at Berkbeck Institute, London,
from 1891 to 1893; instructor in chemistry
at the University of Missouri, from 1897
to 1905 and has been professor of chem
istry at. Butler College, Indianapolis, since
1905. He is author of: A Laboratory
Chemistry, and a fnumber of articles in ana
lytical chemistry and radio-activity; ex
amined the thermal waters of Yellowstone
National Park for radio-active properties
for the United Shtes Geological Survey in
1906, and became research student with Sir
William Ran say, London, in 1907. In pol
itics he is an Independent. He is a mem
ber of the American Chemical Society;
councilor for the Indiana Section of Amer
ican Chemical Society in 1907. Profes
sor Moore married in Aux Varse, Mis
souri, June 11, 1902, Callie Pemberton. Ad
dress : Butler College, Indianapolis, In
diana.

MOORE, Stephen!
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Leatheroid Manufacturing Company;
treasurer and director of the Mousam Man
ufacturing Company and of the National
Fibre Board Company; director of the
Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, Middlesex Paper Company and of
the National Bank of Brighton. Mr. Moore
is a very prominent layman of the Baptist
Church, and is trustee of Baptist Old
People's Home; president of the Massa
chusetts Baptist Sunday School Associa
tion and director of the Boston Baptist
City Mission Society, the Baptist Vineyard
Association and the North End Mission.
Address : 194 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.MOORHEAD, John, Jr.:
President of the Moorhead Brothers and
Company, iron mills, Sharpsburg, Pennsyl
vania; born in Pittsburgh and prepared for
college at the Western University, and Phil
lips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In
1880 he graduated from Yale University
and was admitted into the partnership of
Moorhead Brothers & Company. His en
ergy and ability at once placed him in com
plete charge of the management of the
company. Mr. Moorhead has been active
and is connected in various capacities with
many of the city's large business concerns.
He is one of Pittsburgh's most prominent
manufacturers and club men and director
Exchange Bank, Monongahela Water Com
pany, Standard Underground Cable Com
pany, Etna & Vesuvius Coal Company, etc.
He has been for years a guarantor of the
Pittsburgh Orchestra and a member of
the Union, Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Alle
gheny Country, and Duquesne Kennel Clubs
of Pittsburgh, the University, Yale and
Brook Clubs, New York, and of the Essex
Country Club, Manchester, Massachusetts.
And a member of the Academy of Science
and Art and Art Society. Mr. Moorhead
was married April 7, 1881, to Annie Dr
Alston of Chicago. They have two sons
and two daughters. Address: 928 Ridge
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MOORHEAD, Maxwell K.:
Consular officer; born in Pittsburgh,
¦Pennsylvania, July 14, 1877; grandson of
General J. K. Moorhead, member of Con
gress during Civil War, and of Colonel S.
W. Black of the Seventy-second Pennsyl
vania Volunteers (killed at Gainesville) . He
was graduated as Ph.B. from the Univer
sity of Chicago in 1904. He was appointed
consul at St. Thomas, Ontario, June 26,
1905; consul at Belgrade, June 22, 1906.
Address : Belgrade, Servia.
MOORES, Charles Washington:
Lawyer; born in Indianapolis, February
15, 1862; son of Charles Washington
Moores and Julia Dumont (Merrill)
Moores. He received his preparatory edu
cation in the public schools of Indianapolis
an4; Butler College and was graduated from
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana,
with the degrees of A.B. and M.A. and
from the Central Law School, with the
degree of LL.B. in 1883. He was admitted
to the bar at Indianapolis in 1883 ; and was
lecturer in the Indiana Law School on Il
legal Contracts, Sales and Constitutional
law. He -was elected in 1899 a member of
the Indianapolis Board of School Com
missioners for two years; reelected in 1901
for four years and again in 1905 for four
years. He has been vice-president of that
board since 1902. He is a member of the
firm of Pickens, Moores, Davidson and
Pickens, attorneys, Indianapolis. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in his religious
views a Presbyterian. Mr. Moores is a
member of the Indianapolis Bar Associa
tion, the State Bar Association of Indiana,
the American Bar Association, the National
Geographic Society, Indiana Historical So
ciety, Sigma Chi fraternity, Phi Beta Kap
pa Society; also president of the Society
of the Sons of American Revolution, and
registrar of the Society. He is joint au
thor, with W. F. Elliott, of: Indiana Crim
inal Law, 1893 ; and author of an article on
Trusts arid Trustees in the American and
English Encyclopedia of Law (first edi
tion), and is author of articles in the same
work on Specific Performance (first edi

tion), Banks and Banking By-Laws and
Contracts (second edition), of Caleb Mills
and the Public School System, 1905; and
has been a lecturer in the Indiana Law
School since 1896. Mr. Moores has been
a trustee of Butler College since 1903 and
is a member of the University Club of
Indiana, the Indianapolis Literary Club and
the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis.
He married in Philadelphia, October 5,
1896, Elizabeth Nichols, and they have two
children: Emily Bishop Moores, born De
cember 25, 1897, and Charles Washington
Moores, III., born June 24, 1903. Resi
dence : 1918 North Pennsylvania Street,
Indianapolis. Office address : 1031 Lemeke
Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
MORAN, John Brown:
Lawyer, reformer; born in Wakefield,
Massachusetts, April 27, 1859; son of John
Moran and Mary (Brown) Moran, who
came from Ireland in 1852, and settled in
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, soon lo
cating in Wakefield. He attended the Wake
field public schools ' and was graduated at
Wakefield High School, Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, and the Boston
University Law School. He was admitted
to the Middlesex bar in 1873. He practiced
law in Woburn for a short time and then
in Boston with branch office in Roxbury,
which received his personal presence for
six years, after which it passed to his
brother Alonzo D., Mr. Moran attending to
the larger business of the Boston office.
He was always an Independent Democrat
and his nominations to district attorney and
mayor came from that branch of the Demo
cratic party in Suffolk County. His first
successful candidacy was for district at
torney on the Reform ticket in 1904 and
he has since held that office and carried
out numerous of his reform measures. In
1906 he was the unsuccessful candidate for
governor of Massachusetts, in opposition
to the Republican and conservative Demo
cratic voters of the County. Addresses:
Court House and Pemberton Building, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.

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MORAWETZ, Albert R. :
Consular officer; born in Maryland. He
was appointed vice and deputy consul at
Nogales, February 4, 1898; consul, Novem
ber 21, 1902; consul at Bahia, February 13,
1906. Address: Bahia, Brazil.
MORELAND, William Hall:
Missionary bishop of Sacramento; born
at Charleston, South Carolina, April 9,
1861, son of E. M. and Caroline (Hall)
Moreland. He was graduated at the Uni
versity of the South in 1881 with the de
grees of B.S., B.Litt. and M.A., and an
honorary D.D. in 1899. The degree of
D.D. was conferred upon him also by the
Berkeley Divinity School in 1900. He was
ordered deacon in 1884 by Bishop Williams,
and was ordained to the priesthood the
following year by Bishop W. B. W. Howe.
Following the taking of orders as deacon,
he was for one year assistant at Christ
Church, Hartford, Connecticut, being the
next year called to fill the rectorate of the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Nashua,
New Hampshire. After eight, years of ac
tivity in this parish, he became rector of
St. Luke's Church, San Francisco, Cali
fornia, - in 1893. He was made bishop of
Sacramento in 1899, being consecrated by
Bishops Nichols, Leonard (S. L.), Ken
drick, Barker, Perrin (of British Colum
bia), and Johnson. Bishop Moreland is
author of: What is Christianity? 1886; and
The Church or the Churches, Which? 1894.
Address : Sacramento, California.
MORGAN, Daniel Nash:
Merchant and banker; born in New
town, Connecticut, August 18, 1844; son
of Ezra Morgan and Hannah (Nash) Mor
gan. He received his education in New
town Academy and Bethel Institute, in ad
dition to its district schools. He was en
gaged in the dry goods and carpets busi
ness at Bridgeport, Connecticut, from 1869
to 1880; president of the City National
Bank of Bridgeport, from 1879 to 1893;
was- president of the Mechanics' and Far
mers' Savings Bank of Bridgeport for ten
years and trustee for twenty-nine years,

and was president of the United States
Trust Company at Washington, D. C. in
1907. He was director of the Wheeler & •
Wilson Manufacturing Company, was pres
ident and is now director of the Con
solidated Rolling Stock Company; member
of the firm of Morgan & Booth of New
ton, Connecticut, of Birdsey & Morgan, of
Bridgeport and of the Morgan Hopson
Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He
has traveled throughout the United States
and in Great Britain and in Europe. He
was councilman of Bridgeport, in 1873 and
1874; member of the Board of Education
in 1877 and 1888 and from 1898 to 1904;
mayor of Bridgeport, 1880 and in 1884;
member of the Legislature of Connecticut
in 1883 ; member of the Connecticut Senate
in 1885, 1886 and 1893 ; treasurer , of the
United States from June 1, 1893, to July
1, 1897; candidate for governor of Connec
ticut in 1898 and candidate for the United
States Senate in 1899 in the Connecticut
Legislature. In politics he is a Democrat
and in religion an Episcopalian. Mr. Mor
gan was parish clerk of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church at Bridgeport; then jun
ior warden and afterward senior warden
until his removal to Washington, D. C, in
1893. He was a member of the Bridgeport
Scientific and Historical Society; was pres
ident of the Bridgeport Hospital; pres
ident of the Free Kindergarten Associa
tion; director of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association, and he is a Mason,
Knight Templar and Shriner. His favo
rite recreations are driving, walking, and
traveling, and he was a member of the Sea
Side Club of Bridgeport, and is vice-presi
dent of the Sons of the Revolution in Con
necticut. Mr. Morgan married in Hunting
ton, Connecticut, June 10, 1868, Medora
Huganen Judson, and they have two chil
dren: Mary Huntington, Brinsmade and
William Judson Morgan. Residence:
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Address : Bridge
port, Connecticut.
MORGAN, Edward M.:
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York Post Office. At the age of sixteen
years he became a carrier in New York
City. By successive steps he rose to the
position of general superintendent of de
livery and afterward assistant postmaster.
After the appointment of former Post
master Willcox as chairman of the Public
Service Commission, Mr. Morgan served
as acting postmaster, and in August, 1907,
was appointed postmaster of New York.
He is a Republican in politics and the
Republican leader in the Assembly District
of Washington Heights. Residence: 583
West One Hundred and Forty-sixth Street,
Washington Heights. Official address:
Post Office, New York City.
MORGAN, Edward Vernon:
Diplomat; born at Aurora, New York,
February 22, 1865 ; son of Henry A. Mor
gan and Margaret (Bogart) Morgan. Af
ter a careful preparatory education he en
tered Harvard College, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in the class of 1890, and
A.M. in 1891, afterward being a student at
the University of Berlin in 1891-92 and
1894-95. Mr. Morgan was an assistant in
history at Harvard University from 1892
to 1894, and instructor in history at Adel
bert College, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1895
to 1898, before entering upon his diplomatic
career. In April, 1899, he was appointed
secretary to the Samoan High Commission,
became secretary to the American Lega
tion, at Seoul, Korea, and vice and deputy
consul-general of the United States at Seoul,
in 1900. He was transferred to the American
Embassy at St. Petersburg as second sec
retary, in 1901, appointed confidential clerk
to the third assistant secretary of State
at Washington, in 1902, so serving until
1904, when he was appointed consul at
Dalny, Manchuria. In 1905 he was ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Korea, and transferred in 1906 to his pres
ent post as envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary of the United States
to Cuba. Mr. Morgan has received from
the Government of France the decoration
of chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. He

is a member of the Metropolitan Club of
Washington, D. C. Address : American Le
gation, Havana, Cuba.
MORGAN, Henry H, :
Consular officer; born in Louisiana. He
was appointed secretary of the Legation at
the City of Mexico, September 27, 1882;
retired June 6, 1885 ; consul at Horgen,
June 8, 1897; consul at Aarau, May 25,
1898 ; consul at Lucerne, May 15, 1902 ; con
sul at Stuttgart, June 22, 1906; consul at
Amsterdam, April 29, 1907. Address : Am
sterdam, Holland.
MORGAN, John B. :
Capitalist; he is president and director of
the Berkshire Manufacturing Company,
Limited, cotton and woolen goods; trustee
of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany; director of the Germantown Trust
Company; The Reliance Insurance Com
pany and the Provident Life and Trust
Company. Address : 235 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MORGAN, John Pierpont:
Banker; born at Hartford, Connecticut,
April 17, 1837; son of Junius Spencer Mor
gan and Juliet (Pierpont) Morgan. He is
a descendant in paternal line of Captain
Miles Morgan, a native of Wales, who
came to Boston in 1837, married Prudence
Gilbert, a fellow passenger on the voyage,
and who was the leader in the defense of
Springfield, Massachusetts, in the early In
dian wars; in maternal lines he is grand
son of Rev. John Pierpont, of Boston, and
great-grandson of Rev. James- Pierpont, one
of the founders of Yale College. He was
graduated from the English High School,
Boston, and studied higher branches at the
University of Gottingen. , He began his
business career in the banking house of
Duncan, Sherman and Company, in 1857;
in i860, became agent and attorney in the
United States for George Peabody and
Company of London (his father's house) ;
in 1864, junior member of the firm of Dab
ney, Morgan and Company, and later of
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by the death of partners, he eventually be
came head under the present name of J. P.
Morgan and Company. The house, under
his personal direction, has been identified
with many of the greatest financial opera
tions; he floated the $62,000,000 United
States bonds issued by the Cleveland ad
ministration to buy gold, which saved the
United States Treasury from a silver basis ;
has reorganized and consolidated many Of
the largest railway systems; has organ
ized and financed many of the largest in
dustrial corporations, notably in the an
thracite and bituminous coal industries and
in the organization of the United States
Steel Corporation, with capital now aggre
gating to $1,400,000,000. He secured the
subscription in the United States of $50,-
000,000 of the British War Loan in 1901,
the largest foreign bond subscription ever
made in America. He is senior partner of
the London banking house of J. S. Mor
gan and Company, and has large invest
ments in English corporations. His bene
factions include nearly $1,350,000, given to
the purchase of the present site and erect
ing and equipping the present buildings of
the New York Lying-in Hospital; $1,250,-
000, for the Medical College of Harvard
University; half a million dollars to the
New York Trade Schools ; a like sum
toward the building of the Cathedral of
St. John the Divine; large donations to the
Young Men's ' Christian Association, to the
Palisades Park Commission and to many
other objects of charitable, religious, edu
cational and personal character. He is
distinguished also as an art connoisseur and
bibliophile; his collections of books, manu
scripts, paintings and objets d'art are wide
ly famous, and, in addition, he has made
valuable gifts of collections to the public,
such as the Bement Collection of ten thou
sand mineral specimens and the Tiffany
exhibit of gems and pearls to the American
Museum of Natural History, the Ford col
lection of books and manuscripts to the
New York Public Library, large gifts of
money and paintings to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and others. In his relig
ious faith, he is an Episcopalian; warden

and active member of St. George's Church,
in connection with which he built the large
Memorial Building, and to the work of
which he has been a constant supporter.
He has for the last twenty years been a
deputy from the Diocese of New York to
the General Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. His favorite recreation
is yachting, beginning in 1881 with the Cor
sair, an iron steam yacht, succeeded in
1891 by Corsair II, which was sold to the
United States Government at the breaking
out of the Spanish-American War, and re-
christened Gloucester, and Corsair III, his
present yacht. He was commodore of New
York Yacht Club for three years; built the
cup defender Columbia, which twice defeated
Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock in the in
ternational races for the America's Cup, in
1899 and 1901. He is a member of the
Union, Knickerbocker, Union League, Met
ropolitan, Century, New York Yacht, Sea
wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Tuxedo, Rac
quet and Tennis, Riding, Church, City, Mid
day, Players', Grolier, Jekyl Island, and
Turf Clubs of New York City, and the
Metropolitan Club of Washington. He
married first in 1861, Amelia Sturges (died
in 1862) ; second, in 1865, Frances Louisa
Tracy; and he has five children: Louisa,
Pierpont who married," in 1900, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee ; John Pierpont, Jr. ;
Juliet Pierpont, who married, in 1891, Wil
liam Pierson Hamilton; and Anne Tracy
Morgan. Residence : 219 Madison Avenue.
Office address : 23 Wall Street, New York
City.MORGAN, William Festus:
Retired; born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
December 21, 1865; son of William Festus
Morgan and Emeline B. (Nichols) Mor
gan. He was graduated from Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, Connecticut, as B.A. in-
1888. He is a director of the First Na
tional Bank, Cooperstown, New York;
member of Phi Beta Kappa Society; mem
ber and secretary of Board of Education,
Cooperstown, New York. He is a mem
ber of the Racquet and Tennis, St. Nich
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York City; Fort Orange and Albany Coun
try Clubs of Albany and the Mohawk Club
ot Schenectady. Mr. Morgan married in
Cooperstown, New York, July 2, 1894,
'Ethel Evelyn Smith, and they have three
children, William Festus, Jr., born in 1895,
Robert Beverley, born in 1900 and Miles,
born in 1902. Address : Cooperstown, New
York. MORITZ, Albert:
Commander, United States Navy, re
tired; and consulting engineer; was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 8, i860; son of
Mayer Moritz and Caroline (Frank) Mo-
ritz. He received his education in New
York City public schools and was grad
uated from Grammar School Fifty-Nine
and attended the College of the City of New
York from 1875 to 1877. He was appointed
by competitive examination, cadet-engineer
to the United States Naval Academy, Sep
tember 13, 1877 ; was graduated in 1881 ;
commissioned assistant engineer, July 1,
1883, passed assistant enginer, July 13, 1894 ;
lieutenant, March 3, 1899, lieutenant-com
mander, March 27, 1903, and retired as com
mander at his own request, June 30, 1905.
He served on the United States Steamer
Enterprise, cruised around the world in
1882 and 1883 ; Juniata, from 1886 to 1889 ;
Yorktown, Baltimore, Monterey in various
waters from 1893 to 1896; in Chinese wat
ers during the Chino-Japanese War; chief
engineer in the Saturn, Brooklyn, Topeka,
Newark, Yosemite and Brutus from 1898
to igoi ; in the Caribbean Sea during the
Spanish-American War; with Captain Mc-
Calla's squadron during the cable cutting
engagement at Cienfuegos ; in the Philip
pine Islands during the insurrection; at
tached to the Newark when Captain Mc
Calla received the surrender of Northern
Luzon Provinces ; assisted in the rescue of
Lieutenant J. C. Gilmore* and a small force
of infantry, beleaguered in the City of
Vigan, during November and December,
1899; erected the first ice plant in Guam,
•September and October, 1900; was wrecked
in a typhoon while on the Yosemite off
Guam, November 13 to 16, 1900, receiving a
commendatory letter from the Navy Depart

ment for gallant conduct. He was chief en
gineer of the flagships Kearsarge and Ala
bama from 1903 to 1905. Pie served at va
rious shore stations as inspector of machin
ery and ordnance from 1889 to 1893; from
1896 to 1898, and from 1901 to 1903, and is
now engaged in business as a consulting en
gineer, inspector of machinery and engineer
ing material and purchasing agent. He is
a member of the American Society of Naval
Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers, the Military Order
of the Carabaos, Naval and Military Order
of the Spanish-American War, the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, the
National Geographic Society, the Ohio
Society of New York, the Navy Athletic
Association of the United States, the Naval
Academy Alumni Association of New
York, of Charter Oak Lodge, No. 249
of Free and Accepted Masons, and is
a Scottish Rite Mason, and Noble of the
Mystic Shrine in Mecca Temple. He is au
thor of: Hints on the Inspection of Steel;
and other writings. His favorite recrea
tions are out-door exercise and gardening.
He married in New York City, December
14, 1892, Henrietta Goodman and their chil
dren are: Melville, born September 2, 1898,
and Fanny Caroline, born August 23, 1903,
Residence: 153 East Seventy-third Street,
New York. Office address: '35 Broadway,
New York City.
MORRELL, Edward de Veaus:
Ex-congressman; born at Newport,
Rhode Island, August 7, 1862. His ances
tors were old-time Philadelphians and were
prominent in the history of that city. He
was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania, department of arts, with
high honors, in 1885; studied law at the
same institution and received the degrees
of M.A. and LL.B. in 1887; was admitted
to the bar in 1887 ; was elected to the Select
Council of Philadelphia in 1891, serving
three years; has been active in the business
world of Philadelphia, and in the develop
ment of that, section of the city in which
he resides. He has held various commis
sions in the National Guard of Pennsyl
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vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Congress caused
'by the death of the late Hon. A. C. Harmer,
and to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress. In politics he is a Republican.
He married in 1889, Louise Bouvier, daugh
ter of the late Francis A. Drexel. Address :
Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MORRILL, Austin Winfield:
Entomologist; born in Tewksbury, Mas
sachusetts, September n, 1880; son of
James Morrill and Elvira (Webster) Mor
rill. He was educated in public schools,
Tewksbury High School, graduate of
Massachusetts Agricultural College and
Boston University as B.Sc. in 1900, Mas
sachusetts Agricultural College as Ph.D.
in 1903. He was a graduate student at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College from
1900 to 1903; appointed field agent of the
Bureau of Entomology, United States De
partment of Agriculture, June, 1903; con
nected with Cotton Boll Weevil Investiga
tions, June, 1903, to June, 1906; in general
charge of Citrus White Fly investigations
with headquarters at Orlando, Florida,
since July, 1906. He is author of papers
on entomology and reports of entomologi
cal investigations published in the Canadian
Entomologist, Entomological News, Psyche,
American Naturalist, Bulletins of the Mas
sachusetts Experiment Station, and of the
United States Department of Agriculture,
Proceedings of the Florida State Horticul
tural Society, and several in Agricultural
and Horticultural periodicals. He is a
Congregationalist in religion, a Royal Arch
Mason, member of Phi Sigma Kappa gen
eral college fraternity, and is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science ; active member of the As
sociation of Economic Entomologists, En
tomological Society of America, and En
tomological Society of Washington. Resi
dence : Orlando, Florida. Official address :
Bureau of Entomology, United States De
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
MORRILL, Edmund N.: v
Banker and ex-governor ; born' at West-
brook, Maine, February 12, 1834; son of

Rufus Morrill and Mary (Webb) Morrill.
He was educated in Westbrook Seminary,
and afterward engaged as a teacher, re
moving to Kansas in 1857. He took part
in the political conflicts of that period; was'
elected to the first Free State Legislature
in October, 1857, and reelected in the fol
lowing January under the Lecompton Con
stitution. He was in the Volunteer Service
in the Civil War, enlisting as private Oc
tober 5, 1861, and mustered out as brevet-
major, October 26, 1865. After the war
he served in minor offices, and was six years
a member of the Kansas State Senate; was
elected a member of the Forty-eighth Con
gress in 1882, and reelected to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses,
serving until 1891 ; elected by Congress in
1890, manager of homes for disabled sol
diers. He was elected governor of Kan
sas in 1894, serving from 1895 to 1897.
Goverrior Morrill has been president of the
Morrill and Jones Bank of Hiawatha, Kan
sas, for twenty-one years. He married in
Brookline, Massachusetts, December 25,
1869, Caroline J. Nash, and they have had
three children : Susan B., born in 1871,
Grace W., born in 1872 and died in 1903,
and Frank N., born in 1875 and now at-
torney-at-law in Kansas City, Missouri.
Address : Hiawatha, Kansas.
MORRILL, Henry Hurlbert: _
Clergyman ; born at Durham, Maine, Jan
uary 6, i860; son of William Francis Mor
rill and Sarah Nevins (Newell) Morrill.
He was graduated from Harvard as B.A. in
1882, and from the Kansas Theological
Seminary, as B.D. in 1886. He was ordered
deacon in 1888, and ordained priest in. 1889
by Bishop of Kansas. He is now rector
of St. Paul's Church, Holyoke, Massachu
setts. He was formerly chaplain of St.
John's School, Salina, Kansas, from 1888
to 1890; rector of Springfield, Missouri,
from 1891 to 1895; rector of St. John's
Church, Clinton, Iowa from 1896 to 1900.
Dr. Morrill is chaplain of the Sons of
Veterans, and is a member of the Massa
chusetts Division. He married at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, November 16, 1884,
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one daughter: Elizabeth Louise, born July
17, 1888. Address: Appleton Street, Hol
yoke, Massachusetts.
MORRILL, John Adams:
Lawyer ; born in Auburn, Maine, June
3, 1855; son of Nahum Morrill and Anna
Isabella (Littlefield) Morrill. He received
his education in Edward Little High
School, Auburn, Maine, and was graduated
from Bowdoin College as A.B. in 1876 and
A.M. in 1879. He was admitted to prac
tice in the courts of Maine, in 1880, in
the United States Circuit Court in 1886;
and was appointed by the Legislature of
Maine, March 21, 1901, sole commissioner
to revise and consolidate the public laws
of the State, and prepared the Fifth Re
vision of the Public Laws of Maine (Re
vised Statutes, 1903). He has been a mem
ber of the State Board of Examiners of
Applicants for Admission to the Bar, since
1900; and trustee of Auburn Savings Bank
since January, 1885, and president since
January, 1906. He was a delegate to Uni
versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at
St. Louis, in 1904. Mr. Morrill is a mem
ber of the Maine State Bar Association, the
Maine Historical Society, and Phi Beta
Kappa Society; a trustee of Auburn Public
Library since 1891, treasurer since 1902 and
a member of the Board of Overseers of
Bowdoin College since 1888. He married
in Melrose, Massachusetts, November 1,
1888, Isabella Olive Littlefield, and they
have two children: Dorothy Isabella, born
in 1891, and Olive Anna, born in 1898. Ad
dress : Auburn, Maine.
MORRIS, Charles:
Author and literary editor; born in
Chester, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1833;
educated in public and private schools;
taught one term in public schools and about
two years in a school of language in Phil
adelphia, 1858-1860. He was engaged as
superintendent in a carriage-bolt manu
factory, 1860-1878 ; since then has exclusive
ly devoted himself to literary production.
His works include: A Manual of Classical
Literature; The Aryan Race; Civilization,

an Historical Review of its Elements
(Scott, Foresman & Company, Chicago) ;
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table (modernized from Malory's Morte
d'Arthur) ; Tales from the Dramatists
(four volumes) ; Historical Tales (eleven
volumes) ; The War With Spain; Our Na
tion's Navy; Our Island Empire; Primary,
Elementary and Advanced School Histor
ies of the United States; History of
the World; Hero Series of Biography
(four volumes) ; Home Life in all Lands
(J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia) ;
Man and His Ancestor (The Macmillan
Company, New York) ; Famous Men and
Great Events of the Nineteenth Century;
Life of Queen Victoria; Life of William
McKinley; The Volcano's Deadly Work;
New Century History of the United States ;
Our Naval Heroes; The World's Famous
Orators; Lives of the Presidents; The Old
South- and the New (John C. Winston
Company, Philadelphia) ; The Handy Dic
tionary of Biography (Henry C. Coates
& Company, Philadelphia). He is the edi
tor of Half Hours with the Best American
Authors, and other works in the same series
(eighteen volumes, J. B. Lippincott Com
pany), Makers of Philadelphia; Makers of
New York (L. R. Hamersly & Company) ;
The Encyclopedic Dictionary (Philadelphia
edition) ; The Imperial Reference Library
(Syndicate Publishing Company) ; The
Twentieth Century Cyclopedia of Useful
Information (J. C. Winston Company). In
addition Mr. Morris has written much in
prose and verse for magazines and news
papers, works of juvenile fiction, papers on
scientific subjects. For two years he edited
the New Science Review, and did editorial
work on the Search Light, writing its lead
ing articles. He has been a member of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel
phia since 1869, and of its council since
1883, and has contributed frequently to its
Proceedings. He is a member of the Con
temporary Club and the Geographical So
ciety of Philadelphia, and the Society fori
Psychical Research. Address : 2223 Spring
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MORRIS, Edward Lyman:
Curator; born at Monson, Massachusetts,
October 23, 1870; son of Edward Franklin
Morris and Louise Janette (Clapp) Mor
ris. He attended the Monson Academy;
Amherst College, from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1891 and A.M. in 1895,
and Harvard Graduate School, in 1892 and
1893. He was laboratory assistant and in
structor in biology at Amherst College
from 1893 to 1895 ; instructor in botany and
chemistry in the Western High School, of
Washington, D. C, in 1895 and, 1896, biol
ogy and chemistry, from 1896 to 1898; di
rector of botany, Washington high schools,
from 1898 to 1900; head of the 'Department
of Biology from 1900 to 1907; and he has
been curator of Natural Science in the Mu
seum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, since July, 1907. Mr.
Morris has been special plant expert of
the United States National Herbarium, and
the United States Department of Agricul
ture, since 1898; was field assistant of the
United States Fish Commission, in 1900;
associate editor of School Science, 1901 ;
associate examiner of the College Entrance
Examination Board in 1902 and 1903. He
is a member of the Cosmos Club, the Bio
logical, Botanical, and Entomological So
cieties of Washington, and the Washington
Biologists' Field Club and the Torrey Bo
tanical Club. He married at Charlton, Mas
sachusetts, September 9, 1896, Florence
Syvret who died December 12, 1903, and
again married, September 13, 1907, Mary
E. Bedell. Address : Museum of the Brook
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Eastern
Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.
MORRIS, Effingham Buckley:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, August 23,
1856; son of Israel Wistar Morris and An
nie Morris (Buckley) Morris. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania as A.B. in 1875, and as A:M. and LL.
B. in 1878. He was a member of the Coun
cil in Philadelphia from 1881 to 1883 ; a
'trustee for the bondholders of the City Gas
Works, from 1883 to 1887; general attor
ney for the Lehigh .Valley Railroad from
1881 to 1887; general counsel for the Girard

Trust Company from 1881 to 1887} presi
dent of the Girard Trust Company from
1887 to date; director of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and allied lines since 1896. He is
a trustee under the will of Anthony J.
Drexel, deceased; and he is also a trustee
under the will of Asa Packer, deceased, and
of the estate of "William Bingham, United
States senator from Pennsylvania, in the
Eighteenth Century. He is chairman of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company; chairman of
the Cambria Steel Company; director of
the Philadelphia National Bank ; the Frank
lin National Bank, the Fourth Street Na
tional Bank, the Philadelphia Savings Fund
Society, the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance
Company, the Keystone Watch Case Com
pany, and sundry other corporations. He is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of
New York, and other societies. Mr. Mor
ris is a member of the Philadelphia, Uni
versity, the Union League, Rittenhouse,
Merion Cricket, Radnor Hunt, Bryn Mawr
Polo, and other clubs. He married at Phil
adelphia, November 5, 1879, Ellen Douglas
Burroughs," and they have four children:
Mrs. Rhoda Morris Brooke, wife of George
Clymer. Brooke, Mrs. Eleanor Morris Lloyd,
wife of Stacy B. Lloyd, both of Philadel
phia, Mrs. Caroline Morris Byers, wife of
John Frederic Byers of Pittsburgh and Ef
fingham B. Morris, Jr. Residence: Ty'n-y-
Coed, Ardmore P. O., Montgomery Coun
ty, Pennsylvania. Address : Girard Trust
Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MORRIS, George Perry:
Journalist; born in Montclair, New Jer
sey, February 18, 1864; son of Charles B.
Morris and Mary (Perry) Morris. He re
ceived his education in Rutgers College,
and Johns Hopkins University: Mr. Mor
ris was on the editorial staff of the New
York Mail and Express ffom 1888 to 1890;
on the editorial staff of The Congregation
alist, Boston, from 1891 to 1901 ; and since
then on the editorial staff of the Boston
Herald. In politics he is an Independent
and he is a member of the Congregational
Church. Mr. Morris is trustee of, the An
dover Theological Seminary. His favorite
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lecting. He is a member of the Delta Up
silon fraternity and the Winship Club of
Boston. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, May 5, 1892, Martha Turner, and
they have, three children: Carlyle, Mary
and Ellison. Residence : 27 Waverly
Street, Brookline, Massachusetts'. Office ad
dress : Boston Herald, Tremont Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
MORRIS, Harrison Smith:
Art editor of Ladies' Home Journal, bom
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 4,
1856; son of George W. Morris. He re
ceived his education in the private and pub
lic schools in Philadelphia. Mr. Morris
was engaged in the Treasury Department
of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company from 1873 to 1893, leaving
as assistant cashier; was editor of Lippin-
cott's Magazine, from 1899 to 1905 and
managing , director of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, from 1893 to
1905. He is author of : A Mosaic, 1891 ;
Where Meadows Meet the Sea, 1892; In
the Yule-Log Glow, 1892; Tales from Ten
Poets, 1893; Tales from Shakespeare, a
continuation of Lamb's, 1893; The Madon
na and Other Poems, 1894. He is an
honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society; member of the American Philo
sophical. Society, and was member of Board
of Public Education of Philadelphia, from
1902 to 1905. He is a member of the Art
and Franklin Inn Clubs of Philadelphia,
and of the Players' Club of New York.
Address: Oak Lane, Post Office, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
MORRIS, Henry Lewis:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, 1845 ;
son of Henry and Mary N. (Spencer) Mor
ris. He was graduated from Columbia Col
lege Law School as LL.B. in 1868. He
was admitted to bar in 1878 and since then
has been engaged in the practice of law
in the City of New York. In religion he
is an Episcopalian and he is warden of St.
Bartholomew's Church, New York City;
and trustee of the Board of Missions. He
is a member of the Board of Trustees of
the estate and property of the Diocesan

Convention of New York; trustee and vice-
president of the Home for Old Men and
Aged Couples and of the American Church
Institute for Seamen. He is one of the
governors of the Metropolitan Club; a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, and of the Metro
politan, Lawyers', Down Town, Church and
City Clubs. Mr. Morris married Anna
Rutherford Russell, and they have, two
children : Eleanor R. McCormick and Lewis
Spencer Morris. Address : 12 West Fifty-
third Street, New York City.
MORRIS, James Cheston:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, May 28,
183 1 ; son of CasPar Morris, M.D., and
Anne (Cheston) Morris. He received his
preparatory education in the Philadelphia
Academy and was graduated from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Arts and Sciences
Department, with the degree of A.B. in
1851, and A.M. in 1854; and from the De
partment of Medicine with the degree of
M.D. in 1854. He has practiced medicine
in Philadelphia since 1854. He was at
tending physician to the Foster Home, the
Moyamensing House of Industry, and in
the Episcopal Hospital from 1857 to 1872;
and was contract surgeon in the United
States Army from 1862 to 1864. He was
president of the Virginia Mining and Im
provement Company from 1874 to 1902,
and since then has been vice-president and
forester. He is director and member of
the Biological and Microscopical Depart
ment of the Academy of Natural Sciences ;
a member of the Philadelphia County Med
ical Society, of the American Academy of
Medicine and a fellow of the College of
Physicians since 1857. He is also a mem
ber of the American Devon Cattle Club
since 1884, and president since 1898 ; a mem
ber of the American Philosophical Society;
curator from 1887 to 1898, and a member
of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
He is interested in farming and breeding
Devon cattle at his country seat, Fernbank,
near West Chester, also in the milk sup
ply of large cities. Dr. Morris married,
first, in Baltimore, Maryland, March 8,
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has four children : Isaac Tyson, born in
1854, Caspar Morris, Jr., born in 1857,
James Cheston Morris, born in 1861, and
Henry Johns Morris, born in 1864. He
married again in Philadelphia, January 11,
1870, Mary Ella Stuart, and they have eight
children : Lawrence Johnson Morris, born
in 1870, William Stuart, born in 1872, Mary
Winden, born in 1873, Israel Wistar, born
in 1875, Hannah, born in 1877, Caroline
Johnson born in 1879, Galloway Cheston,
Jr., born in 1881, and Anne Cheston, born
in 1883. Address: 1514 Spruce Street, Phil
adelphia,. Pennsylvania.
MORRIS, James Craik:
Clergyman; born in Louisville, Ken
tucky, 1870; son of J. H. M. Morris and
Fanny Craik. He was graduated from the
University of the South as M.A. in 1891 ;
Louisville Law School, as LL.B., in 1892.
He was ordered deacon in 1896 by Bishop
Dudley, and ordained priest the same year
by Bishop Garrett: He is dean of St.
Mary's Cathedral, Memphis, Tennessee, and
was formerly assistant of St. Matthew's
Cathedral, Dallas, Texas, and St. James'
Church, Brooklyn, New York. Address :
Memphis, Tennessee.
MORRIS, John T.:
Banker ; he is manager of The Phila
delphia Saving Fund Society, chairman of
The Philadelphia Contributionship for the
Insurance of Houses from Loss by ' Fire
(1752), and of the Board of Trustees,
Franklin Institute ; trustee of the Fairmount
Park Art Association, and the Pennsylvania
Museum and School of Industrial Art;
overseer of The Public School chartered
by William Penn in 1701, 1708 and 1711;
councillor of The Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. He is also ex-president of
I. P. Morris Co., of the Numismatic and
Antiquarian Society of Pennsylvania; and
the Chestnut Hill Horticultural Society. Ex-
vice-president the Pennsylvania Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb ; of the Pennsyl
vania Museum and School of Industrial
Art, and ex-manager of Haverford College.
Address : 826 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

MORRIS, Page:
Jurist; born in Lynchburg, Virginia,
June 30, 1853. He received his education
in the William and Mary College, and the
Virginia Military Institute, and -was grad
uated in 1872, from the latter institution,
where he remained a year as assistant pro
fessor of mathematics. He was for three
years professor of mathematics in the Texas
Military Institute until 1876, then profes
sor of applied mathematics in the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of Texas un
til 1879, when he returned to Lynchburg,
Virginia. He was admitted to the Virginia
bar in 1880, and in 1884 was the Republican
nominee for Congress in the Sixth Vir- '
ginia District. In 1886 he removed to Du
luth, Minnesota, where he has since then
resided. He was appointed municipal judge
of Duluth in 1889-; city attorney of Duluth
until 1884; district judge for the Eleventh
Judicial District of Minnesota in August,
1895, but resigned in September, 1896, upon
his nomination as the Republican candi
date for Congress from the Sixth Minne
sota District. He was elected to the Fifty-
fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-
sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. In
March, 1903, he was appointed United
States, judge for the District of Minnesota,
which office he still holds. He married,
February 21, 1877, Elizabeth Statham, of
Lynchburg, Virginia. Address: Duluth,
Minnesota. MORRIS, Richard Jones:
Clergyman ; born at Philadelphia, Sep
tember 2, 1869 ; son of William Henry Mor
ris and Sallie Wheeler (Paul) Morris. He
was educated in Hill School, Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, from 1879 to 1881 ; St. Paul's
School, Concord, New Hampshire, from
1882 to 1885; Haverford College, Haver
ford, Pennsylvania, from which he was
graduated as B.E. in 1888, the Philadel
phia Divinity School, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, from 1896 to 1899. He was or
dered deacon in June,- 1899, and ordained
priest December 21, 1899, in the ministry
of the Episcopal Church. He was curate
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vicar of St. Paul's Church at Philadelphia,
from 1899 to 1904; and has been rector of
the Church of the Epiphany, Germantown,
Philadelphia, since 1904. He is a Republic
an in politics. He is a member of the Au
tomobile Club of Germantown. Mr. Mor
ris married first at Pottstown, Pennsyl
vania, June 1, 1892, Elizabeth Mintzer Ho
bart, and, married second, in Philadelphia,
June 16, 1900, Mary Sellers ; and they have
two daughters: Mildred Morris, born No
vember 19, 1893, and Elizabeth Hobart
Morris, born January 10, 1895. Address :
509 Lincoln Drive, Germantown, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
MORRIS, Robert Tuttle:
Physician; born in Seymour, Connecticut,
May 14, 1857. He was educated in Cor
nell University, biological course, in the
class of 1880; received the honorary de
gree of A.M. from Centre College of Ken
tucky and was graduated from the Medical
Department of Columbia as M.D. in 1882.
He has been engaged in the practice of
medicine since 1882; is professor of sur
gery in the New York Post-Graduate Med
ical School and Hospital, and visiting sur
geon to same institution. Dr. Morris is
a fellow of New York Academy of Medi
cine, American Association of Obstetric
ians and Gynecologists; member of Amer
ican Medical Association and New York
State and County Medical Societies. He
is author of books and monographs on
surgical topics. He is a member of the
Sons of Revolution, the American Geo
graphical Society, Linnaean Society of
Natural History, and is a member of the
Metropolitan, Cornell University, and Alpha
Delta Phi Clubs. Dr. Morris married -June
4, 1898, Mrs. Almes Reynaud Mazergue.
Address : 616 Madison Avenue, New York
City.MORRIS, Theodore Wilson:
Merchant; born in New York City,
January 15, 1842; son of James and Sarah
(Whitlock) Morris. He received his edu
cation in the Mechanics' Institute and Col
lege of New York. He is Senior member

of Theodore W. Morris and Company,
glass merchants; director of the People's
Bank of New York; and vice-president of
National Safe Deposit Company. He was
adjutant of the Thirty-seventh Regiment
of the National Guard of the State of New
York, and major on the staff of General
William Hall, Third Brigade, National
Guard of the State of New York and com
missary of the Seventy-first Regiment of
the National Guard of the State of New
York, with a brief service in the Civil War
in 1862 and 1863. In politics he is a Demo
crat and in religion a Presbyterian. He
is a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Washington Association,
president of the Monmouth Battle
Monument Association; member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Municipal
Art Society, Museum of Natural History,
Chamber of Commerce; and trustee of the
Northern Dispensary, member of the Gen
eral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen,
and the Veteran Association of the Seven
ty-first Regiment of the National Guard of
the State of New York. He is a member
of the Wool Club and was its president and
member of the New York Athletic Club.
Mr. Morris married in New York City,
April 2, 1867, Fannie Schanck, and they
have three children : Theodore, Du BOis
and Edgar. Address: 20 Fifth Avenue
and 436 to 444 Canal Street, New York
City.MORRIS, Thomas John:
Jurist; born in Baltimore, Maryland,
September 24, 1837. He was graduated
from Harvard as A.B. in 1856. Practiced
law in Baltimore until appointed by Presi
dent Hayes to the office of United States
judge for the District of Maryland, which
he has held ever since. He is a Republican
in political views, and a Unitarian in re
ligion. He is a member and has been vice-
president of the American Unitarian Assov
ciation, and a member of the American
Bar Association. Residence : 708 Park
Avenue, Baltimore. Office address : United
States Court House, Baltimore, Maryland.

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MORRISON, Andrew J.:
Educator; born at Bucks County, Penn
sylvania, February 14, 1844; son of Joseph
and Eleanor (Addis) Morrison. He was
educated in the Philadelphia public schools,
the Central High School and Tennent
Academy. He began teaching at Pleasant-
ville, Bucks County; was subsequently prin
cipal of Tillyer, Wheat Sheaf, Landreth
Schools, Philadelphia ; Kaighn School, Cam
den, New Jersey; Irving School, and
Northern Liberties School, in Philadel
phia; professor of mathematics at the Cen
tral High School, from 1881 to 1883; as
sistant superintendent of public schools in
Philadelphia from 1883 to 1898; act
ing superintendent of public schools in
1891 ; and has been principal of the North
east Manual Training High School since
1898. He is an active member of the Na
tional Educational Association, Philadel
phia Teachers' Organizations, Pennsylvania
Historical Society, and Bucks County His
torical Society. He married in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1865, Julia
II. Jones, and they have five children : Anna
J., born in 1867, Jennie S., born in 1869,
Egbert H., born in 1872, Clara V., bora in
1875, and Horace S., born in 1878. Resi
dence: 1430 North Seventh Street, Phila
delphia. Business address : Northeast
Manual Training High Schools, Lehigh
Avenue and Eighth Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

Plarvard Clubs. Address : 591 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City.
iIORRISON, James Dow:
Bishop of Duluth; born at Waddington,
New York; son of Rev. John and Mary
Dow Morrison. He graduated from Mc-
Gill Univetsity, Montreal, with the degree
of B.A. in 1865, receiving M.A. in 1868 and
LL.D. in 1880. He also received the degree
of D.D. from Union College in 1879. He
was ordained deacon of the Episcopal
Church at Quebec, in 1869, and the follow
ing year was ordained priest ai Montreal.
He officiated as deacon and afterwards
priest in churches at Magog, Canada, 1869,
Hemmingford, Province of Quebec, 1869-
71, Herkimer, New York, 1871-1875, Og
densburg, 1875-97. He was -examining
chaplain to the bishop of Albany, 1873-1897,
and archdeacon of Ogdensburg 1881-1897. He
was a Deputy of General Convention 1882-
1897. He became bishop of Duluth, Minne
sota, in 1897 and was consecrated by Bish
ops Doane, Huntington and Gilbert. He is
author of: Reconfirmation of Romanists,
1895; Fundamental Church Principles
(Paddock Lectures, 1899). Bishop Mor
rison married in 1869, Harriet M. Towns-
end of Montreal, Canada. Address: Du
luth, Minnesota.

MORRISON, Charles King:
Lawyer; born in New York City, June
24, 1867; son of George Austin and Lucy
Anne (King) Morrison. He was educated
in Cuttler's School and by private tutors ;
was graduated from "Harvard University
as A.B. in 1891 and from Columbia College
Law. School as LL.B. in 1894. He was
admitted to New York bar in 1896 and has
since then been engaged in practice in New
York City. He is partner in the law firm
of Morrison and Morrison. Mr. Morrison
is a member of the Sons of Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars, St. Andrew's
Society, St. George's Society, and of the
Metropolitan, Westchester Country and

MORRISON, John Tracy:
Lawyer and ex-governor; born in Jef
ferson County, Pennsylvania, December 25,
1869; son of John Morrison and Sophia
Elizabeth (Tracy) Morrison. He was grad
uated from the University of Wooster,
Ohio, as A.B. in 1887, and received from
that institution the A.M. degree in 1890,
and was graduated from Cornell University
as LL.B. in 1890. In the same year he was
admitted to the bar of Idaho, and practiced
in Caldwell. He became active in the pol
itics of the State as a Republican, was sec
retary in 1896, and chairman from 1897 to
1890 of the State Republican Committee,
and governor of Idaho from 1903 to 1905.
Since then he has practiced- law at Boise.
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three times a commissioner from the Pres
bytery of Idaho to the General Assembly
of that Church. He married at Jamestown,
New York, July 8, 1886, Grace Darling
Mackay. Address : Boise, Idaho.
MORRISON, Theodore Nevin:
Bishop of Iowa; born at Ottawa, Illinois,
February 18, 1850; son of Rev. Theodore
Nevin and Anna Eliza (Howland) Mor
rison. He was educated at Illinois College,
and was graduated with the degree of B.A.
in 1870, going thence to the General Theo
logical Seminary, New York City, when he
received the degree of B.D. in 1873. The
degree of D.D. was conferred upon him
by Illinois College in 1895, the degree of
S.T.D. by Western Seminary in 1905. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church in 1873 by Bishop Whitehouse and
ordained priest by Bishop McLaren in 1876.
During the years 1874 to 1876, he was con
nected with St. Paul's Church, Pekin, Illi
nois; in 1876 he took charge of the Church
of the Epiphany, Chicago, officiating in that
church until 1899 when he was made Bishop
of Iowa. Address : Davenport, Iowa.
MORRISON, Thomas A.:
Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsyl
vania; was born in Pleasantville, Venango
County, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1840; his
paternal grandparents came from the north
of Ireland, and his father, William Mor
rison, was born in Centre County, Pennsyl
vania, in 1804; his mother was Elizabeth
McMaster, of Scottish descent; received
common school and academic education at
Pleasantville ; courses at Pennsylvania State
Normal School of Edinboro, Pennsylvania,
and Poughkeepsie, New York; at one time
he taught school. In July, 1862, he enlist
ed as a private in Company A, One Hun
dred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, and lost his left arm and received
a severe wound in the left knee at Freder
icksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; he
spent the winter of 1862-63 in Armory
Square . Hospital, at Washington, D. C. ;
was discharged in April, 1863, and in 1864-
65 filled the office of justice of the peace at j
Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsyl-1

vania, treasurer of Venango County in 1868
and 1869; 1870 was deputy internal revenue
collector at Oil City, Pennsylvania. He
read law and was admitted to the bar in
Venango County; practiced his profession
at Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, until 1879,
when he removed to Smethport, and in
active practice there until September, 1887,
when he was appointed by Governor Beaver
judge of the Forty-eighth Judicial District;
in November of the same year elected to
the same judicial office for a term of ten
years from January, 1888; in 1897 was re
elected for another term of ten years; dur
ing his second term McKean County was
made a separate judicial district, and on
September 10, 1901, he was commissioned
president judge of the Forty-eighth Dis
trict; served on the bench until December,
1902, when he was appointed a judge of
the Superior Court of Pennsylvania by Gov
ernor Stone, to fill vacancy caused by the
retirement of Judge John I. Mitchell; on
December 30, 1902, he was commissioned
a judge of the Superior Court until the
first Monday of January, 1904; was nomi
nated by the Republican party of Penn
sylvania for a ten-year term on the bench
of the Superior Court, and in November,
1903, was elected and commissioned by the
governor to serve term of ten years from
January, 1904; he has now been on the
bench of the two courts nearly twenty
years." On March, 31, 1870, married Helen
S. Gardner, at Warsaw, New York. Ad
dress : Smethport; McKean County, Penn
sylvania. MORROW, William W.:
Jurist; born on, a farm in Wayne County,
Indiana, July 15; 1843; son of William Mor
row and Margaret (Hood)' Morrow. The
family removed to Illinois in 1845, and from
there to California in 1859. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Illinois and
California, afterward studied law and en
gaged in practice from 1869 until 1891. He
became distinguished at the bar, was as
sistant United States attorney for. Califor
nia from 1870 to 1874, and special coun
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and American Claims Commission from
1882 to 1885. He was appointed United
States District judge for the Northern Dis
trict of California by President Harrison
in 1891, and in 1897 was appointed by Pres
ident McKinley to his present office of
United States circuit judge for the Ninth
Circuit. Judge Morrow married, June 18,
1865, Margaret Hulbert. Residence: San
Rafael, California. Office : Post-Office
Building, San Francisco, California.
MORSCHAUSER, Joseph:
Jurist; formerly engaged in the practice
of law in Poughkeepsie, New York, until
elected in November, 1906, a justice of the
Supreme Court of New York, for the
Eighth Judicial District, for the term ex
piring in 1920. He is a Republican in
politics. Address : Poughkeepsie, New
York. MORSE, Bushrod:
Jurist; born in Sharon, Massachusetts,
August 24, 1837; son of Willand and Eliza
(Glover) Morse. He is a lineal descendant
of Samuel Morse, who came to Dorchester,
Massachusetts in 1634 ; among his collateral
ancestors are Professor Samuel F. B. Morse,
the inventor of the electric telegraph; Ben
jamin Franklin, patriot and diplomat; and
Chief Justice Kent. Judge Morse attended
the public schools of his native town, the
Providence (R. I.) Conference Seminary,
and the Pierce Academy at Middleboro,
Massachusetts, and in 1856 entered Amherst
College. Ill health finally compelled him to
abandon a cherished collegiate course, and
after recuperating he took up the study of
law, first in North Easton, Massachusetts,
afterward in Boston. He. was admitted to
the Suffolk bar, November 5, 1864, and
since then has been engaged in active prac
tice in Boston, having his office from the
first at No. 27. School Street. During recent
years he has given his attention chiefly
to a large probate and' insolvency business.
In 1864 Governor Andrew appointed him a
justice of the peace, which office he has
ever since held, and on May 13, 1891, Gov
ernor Russell appointed him the first special
jtistice of the District Court for Southern

Norfolk, which he also still holds. In these
capacities he has officiated with great abil
ity and credit, displaying a broad knowledge
of jurisprudence and a sound judgment and
common sense. He has continuously resid
ed in Sharon on the old Morse homestead,
a picturesque estate near Lake Massapoag,
which descended to him and his brothers
from their great-grandfather, Gilead Morse,
an English soldier under General Wolfe,
who bought it on his return from the
French War in 1764, until 1900 when he be
came a resident of Brookline, Massachu
setts, where he now resides. Judge Morse
has been prominent in town and State af
fairs, being chairman of the Sharon School
Committee for a long time and serving in
the lower house of the Massachusetts Legis
lature in 1870, 1883, and 1884. In the latter
body he was prominent and influential, and
in 1884 was chairman of the committee on
probate and chancery. He was also mem
ber of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee for some time, a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Cin
cinnati in 1880, and a candidate for presi
dential elector in 1884 and 1888. In 1886
he was the Democratic candidate for Con
gress in the Second Massachusetts district
against ex-Governor John D. Long, and
although he was defeated in a Republican
stronghold by less than 2,000 votes he car
ried Norfolk County by a majority of 223.
He again ran for member of Congress in
1890, when he received the highest vote
ever cast for a Democratic congressional
candidate in his district. Address : Boston,
Massachusetts.
MORSE, Horace J, :
Banker and broker; born in Norwalk,
Ohio, 1838; son of Charles A. Morse and
Lauretta Morse. He received his educa
tion in Lockport, New York, and in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. He was adjutant-
general of the State of Connecticut during
the Civil War. Mr. Morse has been a
member of New York Stock Exchange
since May 8, 1869; is' senior member;ofthe
firm of A. M. Kidder and Company, ' and
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pany. He is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, Ohio Society of New
York, Brooklyn Institute of Arts .and Sci
ences, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, and of the Hamilton and Rem
brandt Clubs of Brooklyn. Mr. Morse
married in Hartford, Connecticut, 1862,
Frances E. Trask. Summer residence :
Greyledge, Dark Harbor, Maine. Resi
dence: 820 St. Mark's. Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York. Address: 18 Wall Street,
New York City.
MORSE, Richard Cary:
General secretary of the International
Young Men's Christian Association; born
in Hudson, New York, September 19, 1841 ;
son of Richard C. and Sarah L. (Davis)
Morse. He was graduated from Yale as
B.A. in 1862 and A.M. in 1865; studied
theology at the Princeton and Union Theo
logical Seminaries until 1867. He was as
sistant editor of the New York Observer
in 1867 and 1868; was ordained to the min
istry of the Presbyterian Church, in January,
1869, and has been general secretary of
the International Committee of Young
Men's Christian Association of North Am
erica, with headquarters in New York City,
since June, 1869; and honorary American
secretary since 1878 of World's Committee
of Young Men's Christian Association, with
headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland. He
has also been an American member since
1896 of the Managing Committee of the
World's Student Christian Federation, a
member since 1885 of the Graduate Com
mittee of Yale University Young Men's
Christian Association. He is advisory
director of the New York City Young Men's
Christian Association; and member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association. He
is author of: Young Men's Christian As
sociation, as it is, 1872, 1877; Young Men
United, 1886; State Work of the Young
Men's Christian Association, 1891 ; Life of
R. R. McBumey, 1899 ; Polity of the Young
Men's Christian Association; Fifty Years
of Young Men's Christian Association Fed
eration, 1905; Relation to the Churches of
the Young Men's Christian Association'

Federation, 1905; Relation to the Churches
of the Young Men's Christian Association.
Mr. Morse married in Brooklyn, 1883, Jane
E. Van Cott. Address : 3 West Twenty-
ninth Street, New York City.
MORSE, Robert M. :
Lawyer ; born in Boston, August 1 1, 1837.
He was graduated from Harvard College
in 1857. After graduating he studied at
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the bar in January, i860; and since that
time he has been in practice in Boston.
He rose rapidly to success in his profession
and for the last thirty years he has been
retained in a large proportion of the im
portant cases which have come before the
Massachusetts courts ; and has been en
gaged also in the United States Circuit
and Supreme Courts. Mr. Morse has
rarely undertaken any public work out
side of his profession. In 1866 and 1867,
he was a member of the State Senate, and
in 1880 of the House of Representatives.
In the former body hev drafted and intro
duced the bill for the repeal of the usury
laws, which became a law. In 1880 he was
chairman of the House Committee on the
Judjciary and leader of the House. Mr.
Morse is one of the most prominent mem
bers of the legal profession, both as a gen
eral counsellor and as an advocate. Ad
dress : Boston, Massachusetts.
MORTON, Charles:
Civil engineer; born in Boston, July 19,
1841. He finished his education in the Nor
wich University, Norwich, Vermont, and
was then employed on railroad work in
Minnesota. In 1862 he came to Boston and
was employed in the Back "Bay Survey until
1865, when he was detailed at the city en
gineer's office, remaining there until that
department was separated from the sur
veying department. He continued in the
latter office until 1887, when, on the re
moval of Mr. Mehan as superintendent of
Streets by Mayor O'Brien, he was appoint
ed acting superintendent ; he was also act
ing superintendent under J. W. McDonald.
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intendent of the Boston Heating Company,
and in March, 1889, he was appointed sup
erintendent of sewers, and in 1898 a mem
ber of the Board of Survey created that
year. Mr. Morton is connected with many
orders and societies, among them the
Masons, Odd Fellows, Massachusetts Char
itable Mechanic Association and the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers. Address :
53 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
MORTON, Levi Parsons:
Former vice-president of the United
States, and former governor of New York;
born in Shoreham, Vermont, May 16, 1824;
youngest son of Rev. Daniel Oliver Morton
and Lucretia (Parsons) Morton; direct de
scendant of George Morton, of Bawtry,
Yorkshire, England, one of the Pilgrim
fathers who landed at Plymouth, Massachu
setts, from the ship Ann in 1623. He was
educated at Shoreham Academy; and he
received the degree of LL.D from Dart
mouth College, July 14, 1891, and from
Middlebury College, in 1892. On comple
tion of his academy course, he engaged in
mercantile business, and when twenty years
old began business at Hanover, New
Hampshire, continuing about five years. . In
1849 he became connected with the house
of James M. Beebe and Company, Boston,
as clerk; joined the firm later as partner,
and after about five years came to New
York City and established the wholesale
dry goods commission house of Morton and
Grinnell. In 1863 he went into the banking
business, establishing the house of Morton,
Bliss and Company, and in connection with
Sir John Rose, who was late financial min
ister of Canada, founder the house of Mor
ton, Rose and Conipany, London. He made
a careful study of the financial transactions
of the United States Government, and his
firm was one of the syndicates which suc
cessfully assisted in funding the national
debt and made the resumption of specie
payments possible at a fixed rate. The
•London firm were the first fiscal agents of
the United States Government, • from 1873
to 1884, and were again appointed in 1889.
Iri the negotiation of the United States

bonds, and the payment of the Geneva
Award of $15,500,000, and the Halifax Fish
er Award of $5,500,000, his firm was asso
ciated with Messrs. Rothschilds and other
London bankers. The firm of Morton, Bliss
and Company was dissolved, October 1,
1899, and was succeeded by the Morton
Trust Company, of which he has ever since
been president; and he also continued at
head of the London houses of Morton,
Rose and Company until its dissolution.
Governor Morton was appointed in 1878,
by President Hayes, honorary commission
er of the United States to the Paris Ex
position; was elected in 1878 and 1880, to
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con
gresses, serving from 1879 to 1883, and was
influential in financial legislation, and
strongly opposed the unlimited coinage of
silver in 1879. He was also deeply inter
ested in international politics and the rela
tions of the United States with other coun
tries, and was member of the Foreign Af
fairs Committe of the Forty-sixth Congress.
He was informally tendered the Republican
nomination for vice-president at .the Chi
cago Convention in 1880, but declined it,
preferring to remain in Congress; subse
quently he was given choice between a place
in the Cabinet as secretary of State, Sec- ,
retary of the Navy or the French mission,
and chose the latter, serving from 1881 to
1885. While in that position he was able
to secure the removal of restrictions upon
the Importation of American pork to
France, and the recognition of American
corporations in that country. He drove the
first rivet in the Bartholdi Statue of Lib
erty Enlightening the World, and had the
honor of accepting it for his Government;
represented the United States at the Paris
Electrical Exposition, and at the Submarine
Cable Convention ; was nominated for vice-
president of the United States by the Re
publican party in 1888, at the Chicago Con
vention, and was elected on the presidential
ticket with Benjamin Harison, serving from
1889 to 1893, and discharging with ability
and in an impartial manner the duties of
presiding officer of the Senate ; and in .1894
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serving from 1895 to 1897. He is president
and director of the Morton Trust Com
pany; president and director of the Fifth
Avenue Trust Company and a director of
the Bank "of Commerce, of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, of the Home Insur
ance Company, of the Washington Life In
surance Company and of the Guaranty
Trust Company. He is president of the
New York Zoological Society; member of
the New England Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, the Colonial Society
of American and Mayflower descendants,
and is president and director of the Metro
politan Club, and also a member of the
Union, Union League, Lawyers' and Re
publican Clubs. Governor Morton married
twice; first to Lucy Kimball, who died in
1871; second, in 1873, to Anna Livingston,
daughter of W. L. Street and granddaugh
ter of General Randolph S. Street, and de
scendant of the Livingstons, Van Rensse-
Iaers and Schuylers, old Manhattan families,
and he had five children by his second wife,
three of whom are living : Edith Livingston,
who married, April 30, 1900, William Cor
coran Eustis; Helen, who married in Lon
don, October, 1901, the Comte de Perigord,
now Due 'De Valencery; and Alice, who
married, February, 1902, Winthrop Ruther
ford. Country home: Elteslie, Rhinecliff,
Rhinebeck-on-Hudson, .New York. Resi
dence: 681 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

tions ; was awarded silver medal at Louis
iana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Mr.
Moschowitz married in New York City,
July 15, 1905, Madeline M. Raab. Address :
114 East Twenty-second Street, New York
City.MOSENTHAL, Philip James:

MOSCHOWITZ, Paul:
Artist; born in Giralt, Hungary, March
4, 1876; son of Maurice and Rose (Baum
garten) Moschowitz. He was educated by
private tutors in Hungary, and at public
schools and evening high schools in New
York City. He is an associate of the Na
tional Academy of Design, New York ; and
, instructor in portrait painting, at Pratt In
stitute, Brooklyn, New York. He is a trus
tee of the Artists' Aid Society, New York.
Mr. Moschowitz is a portrait and landscape
painter, studied with H. S. Ombray, New
York City, and with Constant, Laurens and
Whistler, in Paris. He has exhibited at
the Academy of Design and Society of Am
erican and the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-

Insurance, fire prevention expert ; born at
Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, March 1,
1864; son of Hermann and Marie Elise
Mosenthal. He attended private and public
schools, College of the City of New York,
from which he was graduated as B.S. in
1883, and M.S. in 1889. He became a mem
ber of the firm of H. Mosenthal and Son,
founded in 1868; makes a specialty of ad
vising with owners and architects in build
ing construction for safety and low insur
ance cost; has made plans as to fire pre
vention and extinguishing for Manhattan
and Belmont hotels, Saks and Company,
and B. Altman and Company's department
store, Steinway and Sons piano factories,
John Stephenson Company's car works,
Elizabeth, New Jersey, Carnegie Hall and
other important structures. These struct
ures are considered the safest of their kind
and carry the lowest rates of insurance of
any similar fire risks, possibly, in the United
States. He has been active in the People's
Municipal League, Good Government Clubs
and Citizens' Union. He was member of
governing bodies of these organizations,
district and general; has worked with the
Reform Club's tariff committees. He was
one of the founders of the University Set
tlement, and for twelve years actively at
work in it. He was a member of its coun
cil. In politics, he is an Independent Demo
crat, and is a member of the National Fire
Protection Association, Natural Historical
Association, American Numismatic Society,
National Geographic Society, American
Forestry Association, National Society of
Craftsmen, Metropolitan Museum, and
American Fine Arts Society. He is also a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and
the National Arts, Underwriters, Reform
and Liederkranz Clubs. Address : 95 Wil
liam Street, New York City.

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.MOSES, Raphael J.:
Lawyer; born in Apalachicola, Florida,
December n, 1844; moved with family in
1849 to a fruit farm (which he now owns)
which his father bought, six mites east of
Columbus, Georgia. He received his edu
cation in private schools. He entered the
United States Naval Academy at Anna
polis, Maryland, September, i860; resigned,
January, 1861 ; joined the Georgia Navy,
February, 1861 ; and -the Confederate Pro
visional Navy, April, 1861. He was with
Tatnall at the battle of Port Royal, South
Carolina, and went with him to the Merri
mac (called the Virginia by the Confederate
Government) ; was on her when she burned
on James River when the Confederate
Army evacuated the Peninsula. He was
on staff of General Robert Toombs during
the Seven Days' Battle around Richmond
in 1862, and on the staff of General Benning
of Georgia, on the retreat from Richmond)
surrendering with General Robert E. Lee at
Appomattox Court House. He was a pris
oner in 1864 and January and February,
1865, in Fort Delaware, . ran the blockade
outward, March, 1863, as a Confederate
midshipman, to go on the Laird Rams,
then being built at Liverpool; ran back
again on the Helen to Wilmington; and
went out from Charleston. He was admit
ted to the bar in May, 1866, in Columbus,
Georgia ; practiced there six years, and
since January, 1872, has been practicing in
New York City, with a specialty in insur
ance law and receiverships. Since 1900, he
has refused all new law business and is
devoting his time exclusively to closing the
old cases and studying the principle of
aerodynamics, especially in relation to aero
planes. In politics he is a Democrat and in
religion a Hebrew. He is a member of the
Ameribcan Bar Association, New York
State Bar Association, Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, United Con
federate Veterans, and a member of the
Lotos Club and Aero Club of America.
Mr. Moses married in Liverpool, England,
1865, Georgina Samuel, and they have three
sons living: Arthur S. Luria (name
changed to keep up extinct family name),

Laurence H. Moses and Percival R. Moses,
and two daughters. Address : 46 West
Ninety-seventh Street, New York City.
MOSES, William Hammond:
Woolen manufacturer; born at Meredith,
New Hampshire, September 3, 1863 ; soh of
Thaddeus S. Moses and Emily S. (Currier)
Moses. He attended the Meredith public
schools and was graduated from Tilton
Seminary in June, 1886. He entered the
employ of the Tilton Mills at Tilton, New
Hampshire, to learn the woolen business
in 1890. For four years previous to 1890
he was associated with Thaddeus S. Moses
at Meredith, New Hampshire, in the tin,
stove, and hardware business under the
firm name of T. S. Moses and Company.
Was chairman Board of Education, and
town treasurer of Meredith, New Hamp
shire. He is a director of the Concord and
Montreal Railroad and the Manchester Na
tional Bank; trustee of the Iona Savings
Bank, Park Cemetery Association ; president
and treasurer of the Tilton Mills and Tilton
Electric Company; and is treasurer of the
Tilton and Northfield Aqueduct Company.
He is a Democrat in politics and a member
of the New Hampshire Democratic State
Committee. Mr. Moses is a trustee of the
Tilton Seminary. He married at Tilton,
June 11, 1890, Mabel Tucker Pillsbury, and
they have two daughters : Hazel Pillsbury
Moses, born in 1894, and Marjorie Moses,
born in 1897. Address: Tilton, New
Hampshire. MO SHER, Robert Brent:
Consular officer ; born in the District of
Columbia. He was appointed clerk in the
Department of State at $1,000, on probation,
urider Civil Service rules, July 19, 1890;
permanently, class one, January 19, 1891 ;
class three November 4, 1895 ; class four
January 6, 1896; designated to act as ap
pointment clerk, January 23, 1897; appoint
ed chief of the Bureau of Appointments
July 7, 1898 ; appointed consulate Colling-
wood, March 10, 1905; appointed consul at
Port Elizabeth, November 21, 1906. Ad
dress : Port Elizabeth, Capetown, Cape of
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MOSLER, Henry:
Genre painter; born in New York City,
June 6, 1841; son of Gustav Mosler and
Sophie (Wiener) Mosler; removed to
Cincinnati in 1851. He studied in Cincin
nati under J. H. Beard; went with the
Western Army as artist correspondent for
Harper's Weekly, in 1862 and 1863; and
was appointed on the staff of General R.
W. Johnson. He afterward studied in
Paris under Hebert. He lived in Paris and
had a studio for many years and received
prizes and medals from the Paris Salon and
the Paris Expositions, and from the Royal
Academy at Munich. He was made chev
alier of the Legion d'Honneur and officier
d'Academie in 1892. His picture Le Retour
(1879) was purchased by the French Gov
ernment for the Museum of the Luxem
bourg. Mr. Mosler was the winner of the
Clarke prize of the National Academy of
Design in 1896. His picture Wedding Morn
ing was bought by the Museum of Sidney,
Australia, and he has pictures in many other
permanent collections. Mr. Mosler is a
companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. Address : 42 West Eighty-
eighth Street, New York City.
MOSS, Frank:
Lawyer; born in Cold Spring, New York,
March 16, i860; son of John R. Moss and
Eliza (Wood) Moss. He was educated in
New York City public schools and private
studies. Mr. Moss was president of the
New York City Police Board in 1897; dir
ector and counsel for the Society of Preven
tion of Crime; leader in the reform move
ments in New York City; associate counsel
in the Lexow Investigation ; leading counsel
in- the Mazet Investigation. He is active
in city campaigns on reform issues, making
speeches in all parts of the city and serving
on committees. As president of the City
Vigilance League, and as director in and
counsel for the Society for the Prevention
of Crime; he has directed movements for
the prevention and suppression of crime
and of alliances between criminals and .cor
rupt officials. Mr. Moss is professor of
medical jurisprudence and a member of the

faculty of the New. York Medical College
and Hospital for Women; director of the
New York City Church Extension Society,
and of the Federation of Churches. He is
author of: The American Metropolis — a
history of New York City, and pamphlets
and magazine articles on civic subjects. In
politics he is a Republican and in his re
ligious' affiliation a Methodist. Mr. Moss
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, the New York
Law Institute, the New York Historic As
sociation, the Society for the Prevention
of Crime, the City Vigilance League, the
Citizens' Union Executive Committee, the
Epworth League and other societies and of
the Union League and Republican clubs.
He married in New York City, in 1883, Eva
E. Bruce and their children are : Elizabeth
J., and Arthur B. Address : 299 Broad
way, New York City.
MOSS, Roswell Randall:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, October
16, 1845 ; son of Reuben E. Moss and Har
riet N. (Randall) Moss. He received his
education in public schools in New York
City and Brooklyn, and attended high
school two winters in Elmira, New York.
•He was admitted to the bar in 1874, and
has been in active practice since; member
of the law firms of Youmans and Moss,
and Youmans, Moss and Knipp; and prac
ticing alone since' the death of Edward B.
Youmans in 1898. He has been referee in
bankruptcy from 1898 to 1900 in the North
ern District ; since 1900 in the Western Dis
trict of New York. In politics he is a Re
publican. Mr. Moss has served as a mem
ber of Board of Education ; is a member of
Sons of the American Revolution, the New
York State Bar Association, National As
sociation of Referees in Bankruptcy, Na
tional Civic Federation, Elmira Academy of
Sciences, and is a member of the Century
and Country Clubs of Elmira. Mr. Moss
married. in Elmira, New York, June 7, 1876,
Anna D. Mason; daughter of George W.
and Elizabeth (Collingwood) Mason, .and
they have two children : Harriet Elizabeth,
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liam G. Harry of Detroit, Michigan, and
Bertha Cheesebrough, born, November 27,
1881. Address: Elmira, New York.
MOSSMAN, John Malcolm:
Manufacturer of ' safes and locks ; born
in New York City, June 9, 1846; son of
Malcolm and Christina (Watson) Mossman.
He received his education in Public School
No. 35 New York City. He is president of
the J. M. Mossman Company, -safes and
locks, and president of Rogers Land Com
pany, Paterson, New Jersey. He designed
and superintended the construction of the
vaults of the New York Clearing House,
New York Stock Exchange, Union Trust
Company, United States Trust Company,
Central Trust Company, Manhattan Trust
Company, Metropolitan Trust Company,
Chemical National Bank, Bank of America,
Bank of New York, J. P. Morgan and
Company, Mechanics' National Bank, Equit
able Life Assurance Society, Mutual Life
Insurance Company,' Metropolitan Life In
surance Company, Washington Life
Insurance Company, Knickerbocker Trust
Company, Bank of Montreal, Montreal,
Canada. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Dutch Reformed
Collegiate Church at Seventy-seventh Street
and West End Avenue. He is a member
of the New York Historical Society, Gen
eral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen,
and American Institute; trustee of Hahne
mann Hospital, the North Western Dis
pensary, Maiden Lane Savings - Bank and
Fidelity Trust Company, and is a member
of the New York Athletic Club: Mr. Moss
man married, November 9, 1887, Evelyn
Augus, and they have one son, J. Malcolm
Mossman, Jr. Address : 55 Maiden Lane,
New York City.
MOTT, Frank Henry:
Lawyer; born in Russell, Warren County,
Pennsylvania, February 9, 1873; son of
Aaron Van Rensselaer and Flora (Russell)
Mott ; his ancestors being among the pioneer
settlers of the Hudson River Valley and of
Rhode Island, as well as Northwestern
Pennsylvania and Chautauqua County, New

York. He received his education in the vil
lage schools of Russell, Pennsylvania, in
the public high school of Jamestown, New
York and in Buffalo Law School. He is
engaged in the general practice of. Jaw in
Jamestown and professionally represents
important interests. He was Democratic
candidate for secretary of State in 1902, and
citizens' candidate for mayor of Jamestown
in 1906, being nearly elected in each in
stance ; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention of 1900, and on the committee
representing New York, formally to notify
Mr. Bryan of his nomination ; and has been
a delegate from Chautauqua County to State
Conventions for past ten years. He was
a member of the Board of Education of
City of Jamestown for four years, resigning
January 1, 1907, to accept appointment as
deputy attorney-general of New York State
under Attorney-General Jackson. He is a
frequent speaker on patriotic, memorial, lit
erary, industrial and economic subjects.
He is a member of the Elks, Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias; member, secretary
and treasurer of Jamestown Chapter of the
Sons of the Revolution, and a member of
the State Bar Association and Phi Delta
Phi legal fraternity. Residence: 910 Main
Street, Jamestown. Address : Fenton Build
ing, Jamestown, New York.-
MOTT, Henry S.:
Banker. He is president and director of
Bank of Northport; treasurer and director
of the American Law Book Company; dir
ector of the Bank of Centre Moriches, Bank
of North Hempstead, Northport Water
Works and of First National Bank of
Huntington, New York. Address : 60
Wall Street, New York City.
MOTT, John R.:
Secretary of the International Commit
tee of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation; born at Livingston Manor, New
York, May 25, 1865 ; son of John S. and
Elmira (Dodge) Mott. He was graduated
from Cornell University as A.B. in 1888
and received the honorary degree of M.A.
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student Young Men's Christian Association
since 1888; chairman Student Volunteer
Movement since 1888; general secretary
of • World's Student Christian Federation
since 1895; secretary of the Foreign De
partment of the International Committee,
Young Men's Christian Associations since
1898; and associate general secretary of the
International Committee since 1901. He
made a tour of world from 1895 to 1897,
in interest of the student Christian move
ment; again in 1901 ; special tours to all
parts of Europe, South .Africa, South
America, and Australia on a similar mis
sion. He is author of: Strategic Points
in the World's Conquest, 1897; Evangeliza
tion of the World in This Generation, 1900 ;
Pastor and Modern Missions, 1904; Chris
tians of Realty (published in Shanghai),
1902; also numerous brochures and maga
zine articles. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and was elected fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society in 1903. Mr. Mott
married in Wooster, Ohio, November 26,
1891, Leila Ada White, and they have four
children: John Livingston, born in 1892,
Irene, born in 1899, Frederick Dodge, born
in 1904, and Eleanor Campbell, born in
1907. Address : 3 West Twenty-ninth
Street, New York City.
MOUSER, Grant Earl:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Larue,
Ohio, September 11, 1868; son of Justice
Mouser and Sarah Mouser. He received
his education at Larue Union schools, Ada
University, and the Cincinnati Law School,
where he graduated in June, 1890; was
elected prosecuting attorney, 1893, and has
practiced law continuously since his admis
sion to the bar at Marion. He was elected
to the Fifty-ninth Congress and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Thir
teenth Ohio District. In politics he is a
Republican. He married at Larue, Ohio,
November 30, 1893, Dell E. Ridgway, and
he has three children. Address: Marion,
Ohio. MOWRER, Frank R. :
Consular officer; born in Ohio. He was
appointed marchal at Yokohama, December

18, 1891, retired July 19, 1899; appointed
marshal at Canton, July 22, 1899, retired
November 16, 1900; appointed consul at
Antigua, January 9, 1901, consul at Ghent,
October 17, 1901 ; consul-general at Adis
Ababa, June 22, 1906, resigned January n,
1907. He was appointed consul at Leghorn,
April 12, 1907. Address : Leghorn, Italy.
MUCKLE, Mark Richards:
Newspaper manager; born in Philadel
phia, September 10, 1825 ; the son of a not
able wood-carver and clock-maker, of Ger
man birth. Educated in the public schools,
he learned something of bookkeeping and in
1842 was engaged in the office of the Public
Ledger as errand boy, later as counter clerk
and cashier and ultimately for forty years
the general manager. With this paper he
remained connected for more than half a
century, his diligence and ability raising
him to the positions of business manager
and cashier in the early days of the enter
prise, which positions he retained in the
subsequent great prosperity of the paper
in the .hands of George W. Childs. Mr.
Muckle had fine powers of oratory, which
early brought him into prominence in pub
lic life. He was offered a commission of
second lieutenant in the Mexican War, and
in 1853 was appointed on the staff of Gov
ernor Bigler, with the rank of colonel.
Was one of the first to suggest the Centen
nial Exposition held in Philadelphia, seven
years prior to its taking place in letters to
General Grant. He joined the German So
ciety in 1853, and for thirteen years was
its vice-president, and in i860 was one of
the founders of the German Hospital,
whose vice-president he has been for many
years. He was made treasurer of the Re
lief Society during the Franco-German
War, forwarding to Germany nearly $50,-
000 for the relief of widows and orphans
of soldiers ; and subsequently was active in
collecting contributions of books for the
Imperial University at Strassburg, ruined
during the war. He forwarded in all over
13,000 volumes in reward for which the
Emperor of Germany conferred on him in
1874 the Order of the Crown, and in 1883
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' has been treasurer of various relief funds
and has distributed large sums of money
to the suffering. He was one of the organ
izers of the American District Telegraph
Company and was made secretary and
treasurer, and has been president of the
German-American Title and Trust Com
pany since its origin. Colonel Muckle has
long since risen to the highest posts in
the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons and
is a member of the Art Association of the
Masonic Temple. He organized the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
and has served in it as president. Mr.
Muckle was married in 1850, and has two
sons and one daughter living. Address :
1722 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. MTJDD, Sydney Emanuel:
Congressman and lawyer; born February
12, 1858, in Charles County, Maryland. He
was educated at Georgetown College and at
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland,
graduating from the latter in 1878; read
law privately and attended the Law Depart
ment of the University of Virginia. He
was admitted to the bar in 1880, and has
practiced since; was elected to the -State
House of Delegates in 1879 and reelected
in 1881 ; was an elector on the Garfield and
Arthur ticket in 1880; was elected to the
Fifty-first and defeated for the Fifty-second
Congress; was elected to the State House
of Delegates in 1895, and was speaker of
that body; was district delegate to the Na
tional Republican Convention of 1896, and
a delegate at Targe to the same body in 1900,
and was chairman of the Maryland delega
tion in both of said conventions. Mr. Mudd
was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Fifth Maryland District.
Address : Laplata, Maryland.
MUELLER, George H. :
Clergyman; born in Holstein, Germany,
March 25, 1857; son of H. C. Mueller and
Anna (Rohwer) Mueller. He was educat
ed in the Realschule at Itzehoe, Holstein,

and in the Seabury Divinity School at
Faribault, Minnesota. He was ordered
deacon and ordained priest by Bishop- Whip
ple in 1881; was rector of All Saints'
Church, Northfield, Minnesota, from 1888
to 1892, of St. John's, Moorhead, Minne
sota, from 1892 to 1897, St. Peter's, St. Paul,
Minnesota, from 1897 to 1900 and since
then rector of Christ Church at Albert
Lea, Minnesota. Mr. Mueller is a member
of the Standing Committee of the Diocese
of Minnesota, and a trustee of the Albert
Lea College for Women. He traveled ex
tensively through Europe during 1905 and
1906. Mr. Mueller has been twice married,
first at Shakopee, Scott County, Minne
sota, in 1884, to Ida Sencerbox and sec
ond, at Cooperstown, New York, in 1902,
to Emma B. Nelson. Address : 417 Grove
Street, Albert Lea, Minnesota.
MXFIR, John:
Explorer and naturalist ; born in Dunbar,
Scotland, April 21, 1838 ; son of Daniel and
Anne (Gilrye) Muir. He received his edu
cation in Grammar School in Dunbar and
in University of Wisconsin. After leaving
the University of Wisconsin (from which
he has received the degrees of A.M. and
LL.D.) he made long journeys afoot, most
ly, and alone in Canada, the Eastern and
Southern United States, California, and
Alaska; also long canoe voyages in south
eastern Alaska. In 1903 and 1904 he trav
eled in Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Siber
ia, Manchuria, Japan, China, India, Egypt,
Australia and New Zealand, interested
chiefly in botanical and geological studies.
He visited the Arctic Regions in 1880, on
the United States steamer Corwin in search
of the De Long expedition; and labored
many years in cause of forest preservation.
He is the discoverer of the famous Muir
Glacier. Mr. Muir is author of: The
Mountains of California; Our National
Parks, and numerous articles on the natural
history of the Pacific coast and Alaska; and
edited Picturesque California. He is a'
member of the Washington Academy of
Science ; fellow of the American Associa
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dent of Surra Club; vice-president of Am
erican Alpine Club, and a member of the
University Club of San Francisco. Mr.
Muir married in 1879, Louise, daughter of
Dr. John Strentzel of California. Address :
Martinez, California.
MUIR, William Carpenter Pendleton:
Commander in the United States Navy;
born at Bardstown, Nelson County, Ken
tucky, March 12, 1859; son of Dr. James
L. Muir and Mary (Carpenter) Muir. At
the age of seventeen he was nominated for
an appointment as cadet-midshipman by
Hon. J. Proctor Knott, and entered "the
United States Naval Academy,- June 24,
1876. He was graduated June 22, 1880, and
served on the Galena in the European
Squadron for two years, receiving an ap
pointment as midshipman June 22, 1882.
He was commissioned ensign (junior
gra'de) March 3, 1883 ; ensign June
22, 1884; lieutenant (junior grade)
February 7, 1893'; lieutenant Novem
ber 10, 1896; lieutenant-commander Sep
tember 23, 1902 ; and retired on his own
application with the rank of commander on
June 30, "1905. He served on the receiving
ship Colorado, at New York Navy Yard,
from August to December 1882; joined the
Enterprise, December, 1882, and proceeded
to China; Essex and Palos, Asiatic Sta
tion from 1883 to 1885; Enterprise, from
July, 1885, to April, 1886; was at the Tor
pedo Station and Naval War College from
June to December, 1886 ; in the Department
of Astronomy and Navigation, Naval Acad
emy, from December, 1886, to June, 1889;
Yantic and Galena, North Atlantic Station,
from September, 1889, to July, 1890; Coast
Survey steamer Rlake from July, 1890 to
September, 1892; Bureau of Equipment,
Navy Department, from December 1892 to
September 1893 ; commandant of Linsley
Institute, Wheeling, West Virginia, from
September 1893, to August 1895 ; Marion,
Pacific Station, from August, 1895, to June,
1897; Detroit, North Atlantic Station, from
July, 1897, to September, 1898, serving in
the Spanish War on the blockades ofJHav-
ana, Santiago, Cienfuegos and in the convoy
of the Army to Cuba; participated in the'

bombardment of San Juan de Porto Rico,
and commanded the Detroit's boats at the
landing of the army at Daiquiri ; Naval
Academy from September, 1898, to June,
1900; Alabama, from October 16, 1900, to
September, 1903; head of the Department
of Navigation, Naval Academy, from Sep
tember, 1903, to May, 1905; commanding
practice cruiser Severn, from May to
September, 1905 ; head of the Department
of Navigation, Naval Academy, from since
September, 1905,. He is the holder of
a Naval West Indian Campaign medal for
service in the Spanish War ; is a Mason and
a member of the Baptist Church. He is
author of: Navigation and Compass Dev
iations, a comprehensive treatise on modern
navigation, adopted by the United States
Navy Department, as a text-book at the
Naval Academy and for issue to the service.
Commander Muir married at Shelbyville,
Kentucky, Annie Dawson Beckham. Ad
dress : Annapolis, Maryland.
MULHOLLAND, St. Clair Augustus:
Pension agent; born at Lisburn, Ireland,
April 1, 1839; son of Henry and Georgina
(St. Clair) Mulholland. He came to the
United States in boyhood and was edu
cated in Pennsylvania schools. During the
first year of the war was an active member
of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and
assisted in recruiting, as first lieutenant,
two companies for the front. He was ap
pointed lieutenant-colonel of the One Hun
dred and Sixteenth Regiment of Pennsyl
vania Infantry, June 11, 1862, but in Feb
ruary, 1863, the regiment being reduced in
numbers was consolidated into a battalion
of four companies, and he was retained in
command but with the reduced rank of
major. Six companies were added later
and the battalion again became a regiment,
of which he was promoted to colonel May
3, 1864, commanded Fourth Brigade, First
Division Second Corps from October, 1864,
continueil in command until honorably mus
tered out June 3, 1865. He was brevetted
brigadier-general of United States Volun
teers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and merit
orious services, and major-general March
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ices in the battle of Boydton Plank Road,
Virginia, October 27, 1864. He was award
ed the Congressional Medal of Honor, for
having held the enemy in check all night
to cover the retreat of the army at the
battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 4
and 5, 1863. He was chief of police of
Philadelphia from 1869 to 1871, and since
1892 has been pension agent at Philadelphia.
He is a companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States, and
of the Medal of Honor Legion of the Unit
ed States, as well as of other military, or
ganizations. He married, first, in 1864,
Mary Dooner, by whom he had four chil
dren : Agnes, Mrs. Ludwig E. Faber, Ed
ward (died in infancy), Frances H., Mrs.
Joseph E. Comba, and Mary St. Clair. He
married, second, Mary Josephine Heeman,
and by her has two daughters : Genevieve
and Clare. Address : Post Office Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MULL ALT, John:
Journalist, author, lecturer, inventor;
born in - Belfast, Ireland ; honorary LL.D.
of St. John's University, Fordham, New
York. He acquired the profession of journ
alism on the New York Tribune under the
Horace Greeley regime, and later city re
porter on the New York Evening Post
under the editorship of William Cullen
Bryant. He was six years on the New
York Herald, and its special correspondent
on the expedition to lay a submarine cable
across the Gulf of St. Lawrence from
Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Cape North,
Cape Breton, and during the first three
Atlantic telegraph expeditons of 1857 and
1858, and while on these expeditions was
guest of the officers on the United States
steam frigate Niagara. Although' three hun
dred and sixtysix dispatches of more . or
less importance were sent through the cable
after its submersion, August 5, 1858, hard
ly four weeks elapsed before the electrical
connection ceased altogether. The success
of the enterprise, however, was assured, so
that now there are two hundred and sev
enty-nine thousand seven hundred and six
ty-seven miles of submarine cable in opera

tion throughout the world. During these
expeditions he also temporarily officiated
as secretary to Professor Morse and to
Cyrus W. Field. He afterward edited
The Metropolitan Record, official organ
of Archbishop Hughes, of New York,
was commissioner of health one term, mem
ber of the Board of Assessors two terms;
member of the New York Press Club over
twenty years; member of the United States
Catholic Historical Society; originator of
the idea and founder of the new system of
parks and parkways north of the Harlem
River, and active participator in the seven
years' movement by which nearly four thou
sand acres were acquired by the city, and
which includes Van Cortland, Pelham Bay,
Bronx, Crotona, Claremont and St. Mary's
Parks, Mosholu, Bronx and Pelham, and
Crotona Parkways, devoting his attention
during the seven years to this project which
was assailed by every municipal administra
tion from the first introduction of the bill
until the final decision in its favor by the
Court of Appeals. He was the discoverer of
the peculiar properties of aluminum and
their application to lithography, and inventor
of aluminography, the new system of surface
printing ; is president of the Aluminum Press
Company, and president of the United
States Aluminum Printing Plate Company.
Mr. Mullaly made an extensive and ex
haustive investigation into the subject of
the milk supply of the metropolis, finding
that more than one-half of the milk sup
ply of New York and Brooklyn consisted
of adulterated and swill-milk, and made an
exposure of the nefarious business which
resulted after years of persistent agita
tion in a marked reform in the trade. He
is author of: The Laying of the Cable, or
The Ocean Telegraph; A Trip to New
foundland to Lay the Gulf of St. Law
rence Cable ; The Milk Trade of New York
City, Exposing Its Adulterations; More
Public Parks, Lungs for' the Metropolis;
report to the Legislature of 1884 of the com
mission to select the sites for the six new
parks and three new parkways in the Bor
ough of the Bronx; History of the Seven
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Parks and Parkways; editor of Journal of
the Fair, daily illustrated publication of
sixteen pages, issued from new St. Patrick's
Cathedral, and comprising over 250 large
folio pages; aggregate proceeds of the Fair
held from October 23, to November 29,
1878, amounted to $175,000; The Seminary,
monthly illustrated periodical, which was
designed to aid construction of new St.
Joseph's Seminary at Dunwoodie, Septem
ber, 1892, to September, 1896, and contain
ing over 850 folio pages. Address : 41 Park
Row, New York City.
MULLAN, Dennis W. :
Commander, United States Navy; born
in Annapolis, Maryland, November 10,
1843; son of John Mullan and Mary A.
(Bright) Mullan. He was graduated from
St. Mary's College, Kentucky, in July,
i860, and appointed midshipman from Ken
tucky by Hon. John Young Brown (after
ward governor of Kentucky), and entered
the United States Naval Academy. Un
der the pressure of war his class was grad
uated in September, 1863 ; and in 1872 he
received the degree of M.A. from St.
John's College, Maryland. On graduation
in 1863 he was attached to the steam sloop
Monongahela, in the West Gulf Blockad
ing. Squadron, from 1863 to 1865 ; served
in attacks on various batteries on the coast
of Texas, and at the battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5, 1864; in both attacks upon and
in the surrender of Fort Morgan. He was
promoted to master, November 10, 1865 ;
commissioned lieutenant, February 21, 1867,
lieutenant-commander, March 21, 1867; and
commander in July, 1882, serving in these
grades in a varied service affoat and ashore
until he was retired at his own request,
July II, 1901, after forty years service. This
service included many notable incidents be
yond the ordinary routine. While a lieu
tenant-commander (on the DeSoto) in
1868, he was selected by Commodore Boggs
to command the steamer Glasgow, then at
the Pensacola Navy Yard, to cooperate with
him in suppressing an expedition against
Mexico, then fitting out in New Orleans.
While attached to the Monocacy on the

Asiatic Station, he was present at the two
attacks on the river Salee, in Korea, June
1, and 10, 1871. He was attached to the
Adams, as executive officer, from 1879 to
1881, and white so attached was detailed
to accompany the staff of General Baqus-
dano, the Chilean commander-in-chief, in
his operations against Lima, Peru; was
present at all the engagements at Chorillos,
Miraflores, and other places near Lima, and
made a report of these operations to the
Navy Department. The Chilean Govern
ment authorized a gold medal to be pre
sented to him as a remembrance of the oc
casion, and its acceptance was authorized
by a Special Act of Congress in 1895. He
commanded the Nipsic from 1887 to 1889,
and while in the Straits of Magellan, en
route to the Pacific Station, he assisted in
liberating . John Davidson, an American
citizen, who had been imprisoned by
Chilean officials, and for his action in this
case received an approving and commenda
tory letter from Hon. Thomas F. Bayard,
then secretary of state. Commander Mul
lan was in the command of the Nipsic at
Samoa, during the troublous times with
the Germans, and at that time he gave pro
tection to John C. Klein, correspondent of
the New York World and the Associated
Press, whom the Germans wished to be
sent on board the German man-of-war
Adler, their flagship, there to be tried by
court-martial for alleged offenses. He was
in command during the great Samoan hur
ricane of March 16, 1889, and the Nipsic
was the only American man-of-war that
was saved. He received a vote of thanks
from the City Council of his native city
of Annapolis, and a gold chronometer watch
from the Legislature of Maryland in ap
preciation of his services in Samoa. Com
mander Mullan has been a world-wide
traveler. He is a Democrat in politics and
a Catholic in religion. He is a member
of the National Geographic Society, of
Washington, the Naval Academy Gradu
ates' Association and Navy Athletic Asso
ciation. He married in San Francisco,
January 25, 1876, Ada R. Pettit, and they
have two sons, Charles E. Mullan, D.D.S.,

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born in 1878, and Eugene H. Mullan, M.D.,
bora in 1880. Address : 132 College Ave
nue, Annapolis, Maryland.
MULLER, W. Max:
Professor of exegesis at the Reformed
Episcopal Seminary, Philadelphia, since
1890; born at Gleissenberg, Bavaria, May
15, 1862; son of F. Muller, a teacher, and
brother of Ernst Muller, a prominent poli
tician and member of the German Reichs
tag. He was educated at the Gymnasium
of Niirnberg; studied at the Universities of
Erlangen, Leipzig (receiving degr.ee of Ph.
D.), Berlin and Munich, in theology, class
ical and Oriental philology; and was one
of the last students of G. Ebers, the Egypt
ologist. Pie came to America in 1888 and
lived in New York City; visited the Orient
in 1901, etc. He directed his study chiefly
to the points of contact between Egyptology
and the Bible. He is the author of : Asien
und Europa nach den agyptischen Denk-
malern, 1893 ; Die Liebespoesie der alten
Agypter, 1899 ; numerous essays ; has
started a series of historical inscriptions in
the Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Ge
sellschaft (Berlin) ; and a series of Egypt
ological Researches for the Carnegie Insti
tution, Washington. His recreations are
bicycling and other exercise. He is a mem
ber of the Oriental (Philadelphia), Vorder-
asiatische Gesellschaft (Berlin) Clubs and
of the American Oriental Society. He mar
ried in 1889 and has two sons and one
daughter. Address : 27 North Farson Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MUMFORD, George Salt onst all:
Banker; born at Rochester, New York,
August 18, 1866; son of George Elihu
Mumford and Julia (Hills) Mumford. He
attended St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, and Harvard College, in the
class of 1887. He was electrical manufac
turer in New York City, from 1887 to 1893 ;
since 190 1 secretary of the City Trust Com
pany, Boston, Massachusetts. He is a mem
ber of the University Club of New York,
and the Somerset Club, and Racquet and
Tennis Club of Boston. He married in

Boston, December 7, 1895, Isabella M. Lee,
and they have two children: Isabella L.
Mumford, born in 1896, and George S.,
Jr., born in 1902. Residence: Chestnut
Hill, Massachusetts. Office address: 50
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
MUNDY, Ezekiel Wilson:
Clergyman, librarian; born in Metuchen,
New Jersey, June 16, 1833; son of Luther
Bloomfield and Frances Eliza < Martin)
Mundy. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Rochester as A.B. in i860 and A.
M. in 1863, from Rochester Theological
Seminary in 1863 and from Syracuse Uni
versity as Litt.D. in 1904. He was pastor
of First Baptist Church of Syracuse, from
1863 to 1866, of the Independent Church,
Syracuse, from 1866 to 1879, and of St.
Mark's Church (Episcopalian), Syracuse,
from 1883 to 1892. Since 1880 he has been
Public Librarian of Syracuse. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the American
Historical Association, National Geographic
Society, New England Historic-Genealogi
cal Society, Onondaga Genealogical So
ciety, Onondaga Historical Association, and
of the University Club of Syracuse. Dr.
Mundy married in Syracuse, 1873, Emily
Kendall, and they have three children: Ed
ward Kendall, Ethel Frances and Emily
King. Address: Public Library, Syracuse,
New York.
MUNGER, William Henry:
Jurist; born on a farm at Bergen, New
York, October 12, 1845 ; son of Elbert
Munger and Anna Munger. He was edu
cated in the public schools, and in 1865
went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he became
a dry goods clerk, devoting his leisure
hours to the' study of law with such good
effect that in 1868 he was admitted to the
Ohio bar. He removed in the same year
to Fremont, Nebraska, where he was in
continuous practice until appointed in Feb
ruary, 1897, by President Cleveland, United
States judge for the District of Nebraska,
which office he continues to hold. Ad
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MUNSEY, Frank A,:
Publisher; born in Mercer, Maine, Au
gust 21, 1854. He came to New York City
in 1882, and started the Golden Argosy,
juvenile weekly. He is now proprietor of
six widely circulated magazines — Munsey's,
the Argosy, the All- Story, the Scrap Book,
the Railroad Man's Magazine, and Ocean;
and of two daily newspapers; the Boston
Journal and the Washington Times. He is
author of: Derringforth, and other novels,
and of widely quoted addresses on publish
ing and advertising. He is a member of
the Union League, New York Yacht,
Lambs', Riding and Ardsley Clubs. Resi
dence: 524 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Office address: Flatiron Building, Fifth
Avenue and Twenty-third Street? New York
City.
MUNSON, John P.:
Professor of biology; born in Jolster
Sunfjord, Norway, February 21, i860; son
of Peter Munson and Elizabeth (Dvergs-
dal) Munson. He received his early edu
cation in the public schools of Illinois ; at
tended Northwestern College in 1881, Mil
ton College in 1882, and was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin with the
degrees of B.Sc. in 1887, and M.Sc. in 1892;
also took graduate work, receiving from
Yale the degree of Ph.D. in 1892, and Ph.
D. from the University of Chicago in 1897.
He was teacher of English in the Lutheran
Normal School, fellow of zoology of the
University of Chicago, honorary fellow in
biology at Clark University; investigator
in the Marine Biological Laboratory, at
Wood's Hole, Massachusetts; director of
zoology at the Seaside Station of the Uni
versity of Minnesota} collaborator on the
American Journal of Anatomy and Nature
Study Review; and professor of biology
in the Washington State Normal School.
He is author of : Education Through Nature
Study, and several scientific monographs.
He is an associate and contributor to the
Norse Library of History, and author of
a Method of Teaching Nature Study. He
has made numerous contributions to news
papers, periodicals and school journals, and

has lectured extensively. His favorite rec
reations are traveling and collecting nat
ural history specimens, and he has visited
the East and West also Canada. Profes
sor Munson was a member of the Seventh
International Zoological Congress ; is a
member of the Association of American
Anatomists, the American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, the Washing
ton Philological Society, the Association of
Doctors of Philosophy of the University
of Chicago, National Child Labor Com
mittee, the British Medical Association of
Toronto, the American Medical Associa
tion of New Haven and several university
associations. He is also a vestryman of
Grace Episcopal Church of Eltensburg,
Washington. In politics he is a Repub
lican and he is a member of the Lutheran
Church. Professor Munson married in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, December 30,
1897, Sophie Josephine Mikkelsen, and they
have one daughter living, Esther Ingeborg,
and two children deceased. Address : El
tensburg, Washington.
MUNSON, Oliver G.:
State senator; born in Howard County,
Iowa, Mrch 2, 1856. He was educated in
the common and high schools of Iowa and
Minnesota. He came to Wisconsin in 1876 ;
resided in Richland Center ten years and in
Viroqua twenty-one years ; is an editor and
publisher, having published the Richland
Republican ten years and the Vernon Coun
ty Censor, twenty-one years; has been city
clerk of Richland Center, supervisor from
the city of Viroqua, bookkeeper in the State '
Senate sveral terms and assistant chief
clerk of the Assembly two terms. He was
elected to the Senate in 1896, and reelected
in 1900 and 1904. On the inauguration of
James O. Davidson as governor of Wis
consin on the first of January, 1906, Mr.
Munson was chosen as his private secretary.
He was appointed at the opening of the
governor's second term and is now serving
in that capacity, as well as performing the
duties of State Senator during his legis
lative session of 1907. Address : Viroqua,
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MUNSON, Samuel Lyman:
Manufacturer; born in Huntington, Mas
sachusetts, June 14, 1844; son of Garry and
Harriet (Lyman) Munson. He received
his education in Williston Seminary, East
Hampton, Massachusetts. For forty years
he was a shirt and collar manufacturer in
Albany under a single management the en
tire period. He is vice-president of the
Home Savings Bank of Albany; member
of the Albany Advisory Board, of the Unit
ed States Fidelity Guaranty Company; and
former director of the National Exchange
Bank. He is an extensive traveler, fre
quent lecturer and was a presidential elector
in 1900. He is a member of the Dutch Re
formed Church, and vjce-president of trus
tees of Madison Avenue Church of Albany.
He is president of the Weekapaug Chapel
Society, Weekapaug Rhode Island; vice-
president of the Masonic Veterans' Asso
ciation of Albany; life member of the New
England Society of New York, governor of
Albany Chapter of the Society of Founders
and Patriots, is a Mason and Knight
Templar; and regent of Philip Livingston
Chapter, and a manager of the State So
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution. His
favorite recreations are travel, his library
and golf. He is a member of the Fort
Orange and Country Clubs of Albany, the
Watervliet Golf Club, and the Republican,
West Side Republican and Arkwright Clubs
of New York City. Mr. Munson married
in Albany, New York, May 21, 1868, Susan
Babcock Hopkins, and they have seven chil
dren: Harriet Lyman, Anne Hopkins, Ed
ward Gary, Paul Babcock, Samuel Lyman,
Jr., Amy TreadweU and Robert. Address :
Albany, New York.
MUNSTEREERG, Hugo:
Professor of psychology ; born at Danzig,
Germany, June 1, 1863. He was graduated
from - the Gymnasium of Danzig, in 1882,
attended the University of Geneva, Swit
zerland ; was graduated from the Univer
sity of Leipzig as Ph.D. in 1885, and from
the University of Heidelberg as M.D. in
1887. He was instructor in philosophy at
the University of Freiburg, from 1887 to

1891 ; assistant professor in 1891, and has
been professor of psychology at Harvard
University since 1892. He was chairman
of the Harvard Department of Philosophy,
from' 1900 to 1907; and has been director
of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory,
since 1906. Dr. Munsterberg has written
sixteen volumes and about three hundred
essays and articles, including: The Prin
ciples of Psychology (German) ; Psycholo
gy and Life; American Traits; and is edit
or of Harvard Psychological Studies. He
is a member of the Psychological Associa
tion (president in 1899), Philosophical As
sociation, Boston Academy, Washington
Academy, the German Order of the Red
Eagle, of the III. Class, the German Order
of the Crow, II. Class; vice-president of
the International Congress of Arts and Sci
ences at the St. Louis World's Fair, and he
is a member of the Thursday Evening Club,
Boston Authors Club, and New York City
Club. He. has received the honorary de
grees of Litt.D. and LL.D. Professor Miin-
sterberg, married at Strasburg, Germany,
in 1887, Selma Oppler, and they have two
daughters : Margareta, and Ella. Ad
dress : 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Massa
chusetts. MURCH, Artemas Allerton:
Clergyman ; born in Corinna, Maine, Feb
ruary 19, 1848; son of Benjamin Grant
Murch and Louisa S. (Libby) Murch. Re
moved to Carmel, Maine, with his parents,
in' 1850. He received his education in Yale
University, graduating as A.B. in the class
of 1872, and was graduated from
the Divinity School as B.D. in 1878.
He was teacher and principal of Staples In
stitute, Easton^ Connecticut, from 1872 to
1874; was instructor in mathematics at At
lanta University, Georgia, in 1875 and 1876;
in rhetoric and Anglo-Saxon at Iowa Col
lege, Grinnell, Iowa, in 1878 and 1879. He
was ordered deacon in 1889, and ordained
priest in 1890, in the Episcopal ministry, by
Bishop Neely of Maine. Before that, he
was pastor of Congregational churches at
Chesterfield, Illinois, Fairmont, Minriesota,
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ing, Massachusetts. He was pastor of St.
James' Church, Sherman, Maine, and of St.
Thomas' Church, Winn, Maine, from 1889
to 1891 ; of St. Andrew's Parish, St. Mary's
County, Maryland, in 1891 and 1892; of
Christ Church, Salmon Falls, New Hamp
shire, from 1892 to 1903, and of St. Mark's
Church, Newport, Vermont, and St Aug
ustine's Church, North Troy, Vermont,
since 1903. He is author of. The Story
of the Prayer Book, 1899. In politics he
is a Republican, and he is a Mason and
Knight Templar. Address : Newport,
Vermont. MURDOCH, John:
Zoologist, librarian; born in New Or
leans, July 9, 1852; son of John Murdoch
and Elizabeth (Smith) Murdoch. He
attended- Roxbury Latin School, and
was graduated from Harvard College as
A.B. in 1873, and A.M. in 1876. He was
trained in zoology at the Museum of Com
parative Zoology, Harvard ; was acting pro
fessor of zoology at the University of Wis
consin, in 1880 and 1881 ; naturalist and
observer of the United States International
Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Arctic
Alaska, from 1881 to 1883 ; librarian of the
Smithsonian Institution, from 1887 to 1892;
and since November 1896, employed in the
catalogue department of the Boston Public
Library, and is now first assistant. He is a
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, member of the
American Ornithologists' Union; founder
of the American Anthropological Associa
tion, and is a member of the Boston So
ciety of Natural History; trustee of the
Fellowes Athenaeum of Roxbury, and mem
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He
married at Highland Park, Illinois, July 23,
1884, Abby De Forest Stuart, and they have
three sons : John, Jr., born in 1885, and
Richard and Joseph (twins), born in 1890.
Residence : 19 Wendell Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts . Business address : Public
Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
MURDOCK, Victor:
Congressman and journalist; born at
Burlingame, Kansas, March 18, 1871 ; son

of Marshall M. Murdock and Victoria
(Mayberry) Murdock. After completing
the courses in the public schools, he at
tended Lewis Academy at Wichita, Kansas ;
became a newspaper .reporter at fifteen
years of age, and in 1891 became a re
porter on Chicago newspapers, returned
to Wichita in 1894, and became managing
editor of the Wichita Daily Eagle until
elected in 1903, to fill a vacancy in the
Fifty-eighth Congress from the Seventh
Kansas District. He was reelected from
the same district in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth
Congress ; and in 1906 was elected from the
new Eighth Kansas District to the Sixtieth
Congress in which he is now serving. Mr.
Murdock is a Republican in politics. He
married in 1890, M. P. Allen. Address :
Wichita, Kansas.
MURPHY, Franklin:
Manufacturer, ex-governor ; born in Jer
sey City, New Jersey, January 3, 1846. He
was educated at - Newark Academy, New
ark, New Jersey, and was still a student
there in 1862, when, at the age of sixteen
he enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, in
which he served in the Army of the Poto
mac until mustered out at the close of the
Civil War in 1865, with the rank of first
lieutenant. Immediately after leaving the
army he established upon a small, scale as
a varnish manufacturer, the business stead
ily increasing until the firm of Murphy and
Company, of which he is the head, is now
one of the most extensive producers in that
line in the world. While thus successfully
prosecuting his business, he has given much
time and efficient service to public interests,
and was elected on the Republican ticket
and served from 1902 to 1905 as governor
of the State of New Jersey. Governor
Murphy has served as chairman of the Re
publican State Committee since 1892, and is
also a member of the National Republican
Executive Committee and is a man of in
itiative and much influence in his party.
He was • a member of the United States
Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900.
He is a member and was formerly president
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of the American Revolution, is a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati, the So
ciety of Colonial Wars and the Grand Army
of the Republic. He is a member of the
Union League Club, the Century Associa
tion and the Union Club of New York, and
the South Side and Essex Clubs of New
ark, New Jersey. Governor Murphy mar
ried in 1868, Janet Colwell. Address : 1027
Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey.
MURPHY, George H,:
Consular officer; born in North Carolina.
He was appointed consular clerk, June 22,
1886; appointed vice and deputy consul at
Chemnitz, September 7, 1886; deputy con
sul-general at Berlin, March 7, 1889; vice
and deputy consul-general, April 8, 1890;
consular agent at Hanover, December 23,
1890; vice commercial agent at Luxem
burg, June 30, 1893; retired as vice-
commercial agerit, February 13, 1896.
He was appointed vice-consul at Colon,
January 17, 1898; designatde to inspect
consulates on the West Coast of Col
ombia, Central America, and Mexico, March
17, 1898; retired as vice-consul, April 18,
1898, and was designated to inspect certain
consulates in Mexico, November 19, 1898;
appointed vice and deputy consul at Bremen,
September 20, 1899; vice and deputy consul
at Magdeburg, February 5, 1900; vice and
deputy consul-general at Frankfort, De
cember 1, 1900 ; designated to inspect certain
consulates in Germany, November 18, 1904;
appointed consular agent at St. Catherines,
March 13, 1905 ; appointed consul-general
at large, May 23, 1906, to take effect July
1, 1906. Address : Department of State,
Washington, D. C.
MURPHY, Hermann Dudley:
Artist; born in Marlboro, Massachusetts,
August 25, 1867; son of Daniel F. Murphy
and Ellen (Ladd) Murphy. He received
his education in Chauncey Hall School of
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts of Boston,
Academie Julian of Paris and Ecole des
Beaux Arts of Paris. He was artist of the
Nicaragua Canal Construction Company in
1887; illustrator for newspapers, magazines
and books; exhibitor in Salon of Champs

de Mars, Paris, the Society of American
Artists, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and Carnegie Institute, and was
awarded medals at the Pan-American Ex
position and St. Louis Exposition. He is
instructor in Harvard University and in
Worcester Art Museum School ; director of
the Copley Society; member of the Society
of Arts and Crafts, the Copley Society,
American Art Association of Paris, Water
Color Club of Boston and Water Color Club
of New York and American Canoe Asso
ciation. His favorite recreation is canoe
sailing. He is a member of the St. Botolph
Club of Boston, the Salmagundi and Na
tional Arts Clubs of New York, and of
the Winchester Boat Club. Mr. Murphy
married in New York, November 15, 1895,
Caroline Bowles, and they have two chil
dren : Dudley Bowles Murphy, born in
1898, and Caroline Bowles Murphy, born in
1901. Residence: Winchester, Massachu
setts. Address : Copley Hall, Boston,
Massachusetts.MURPHY, James R.:
Lawyer; born at Boston, July 29, 1853;
son of James Murphy and Catherine
Murphy. He was graduated from George
town University as A.B. in 1872, the. Loyola
College as A.M. in 1873, and from the Bos
ton University as LL.B. in 1876. He was
for three years instructor in Latin in, Loy
ola College at Baltimore, Maryland, and in
Seton Hall, New Jersey. In the meantime
he read law privately, and in 1875 entered
the law office of Judge. J. G. Abbott in
Boston. He was admitted to the ¦ Suffolk
bar at the close of the same, year, and has
practiced alone ever since. He is in general
practice, and his clientage is composed
largely of building contractors. He was
counsel in the Frye murder case, the Flor
ence Street murder case, in the first im
portant case tried under the new Employers'
Liability Act, and in many other important
cases. In politics he is a Democrat, and
independent in local affairs. In his relig
ion he is a Catholic, and has been instru
mental in the organization of the Young
Men's Catholic Associations. He is a mem
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canum, and the order of United Workmen.
Mr. Murphy married in Maryland, No
vember 22, 1881, Mary Randall, and they
have two daughters: Gertrude, born in
1883, and Mary Randall, born in 1885.
Residence: Hotel Buckminster, Boston.
Office address : 27 School Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
MURPHY, Starr Jocelyn:
Lawyer; born in Avon, Hartford County,
Connecticut, June 17, i860; son of Rev.
Elijah Douglas, D.D. and Harriette Luce-
annah (Jocelyn) Murphy. He was grad
uated from Amherst College as B.A. in
1881 and from Columbia University Law
School as LL.B. (cum laude) in 1883. He
practiced law in New York City since 1883 ;
and since 1904 has been exclusively engaged
as adviser and representative in benevolent
matters of John D. Rockefeller. He is di
rector of the American Linseed Company.
Mr. Murphy- is a member of the General
Education Board, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta
Upsilon fraternity and Pilgrims of Ameri
ca and of the Hardware Club. Mr. Mur
phy married in Montclair, New Jersey,
June 9, 1887, Julia Brush Doubleday. Resi
dence: Montclair, New Jersey. Address:
26; Broadway, New York City.
MURRAY; Charles H.:
Jurist ; born in San Francisco, California,
January 2, 1855 ; son of Henry Kennedy and
Abbie Sheldon (Billings) Murray. He was
graduated from Mount Pleasant Academy,
Ossining-on-Hudson ; studied law. Ad
mitted to the bar, 1876, and since then en
gaged in law practice. Republican leader
of the Eighth Assembly District; presi
dent of the Lincoln League; executive
member of the Republican County Com
mittee; chairman of the Ninth Congres
sional Committee; member of the Repub
lican State Committee from 1^94 to 189*6,
1901 to 1904, 1904 to 1906 and 1907 to
.1908; member of the Executive Committee
of the Republican State Convention from
1904 to 1906; delegate to all Republican
National conventions from 1888, and all
Republican State conventions from 1886.
Has been Republican candidate for mem-
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ber of Assembly. Republican candidate for
district attorney, County of New York,
1893; counsel to United States marshal;
police commissioner of New York City,
1894; aqueduct commissioner, 1897; quaran
tine commissioner from 1901 to 1905 ; pres
ident of the Republican County Committee,
1904; judge of the New York Court of
Claims from 1905 to 1906. He is a member
of the Society of Colonial Wars; charter
member and deputy governor-general, Sons
of the Revolution; member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, Society of Foreign
Wars (charter member), Society of the
War of 1812 (charter member and judge-
advocate-general), Loyal Legion, St. Nich
olas Society, Huguenot Society. Mr. Mur
ray is a member of the Republican and
New York Athletic Clubs. He was married
in Worcester, Massachusetts, on February
11, 1893, to Grace Peckham. Residence:
Hotel Seymour, 50 West Forty-fifth Street.
Address : 62-64 William Street, New York
City.MUSGRAVE, William Everett:
Physician; born in Farmington, Tennes
see, September 12, "1869; son of William
Everett Musgrave and Susan (Thomas)
Musgrave. He was educated in the public
schools and high schools of Tennessee, the
Farmington Normal School and Haynes-
McLean Preparatory School. He was
graduated from the Medical Department
of George Washington University as M.D.
in 1901, and attended the New York Post-
Graduate Medical School in 1905. He was
contract surgeon in the United States Army
as acting assistant surgeon during the Span
ish-American War and continuing about
three years. Dr. Musgrave has been engaged
in private practice in Manila since 1899. He
is also pathologist of the Bureau of Sci
ence, Manila; physician-in-chief to St.
Paul's Hospital, Manila, and president of
the Philippine Islands Medical Associa
tion (the Philippine branch of the Amer
ican Medical Association). He is director
and vice-president of the Manila Building
and Loan Association. Dr. Musgrave is a
member of the firm known as the American
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extensive travels in Oriental, European and
American countries. In politics he is an
Independent Democrat, and he is a mem
ber of all the local organizations looking
to better civil and political conditions. Dr.
Musgrave is a member of the American
Medical Associaton, the American Public
Health Association, Association of Mili
tary Surgeons, American Society of Trop
ical Medicine ; professor of clinical medi
cine in the Philippine (Government) Med
ical School, the Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and is a member of
the Masons and Elks Orders. He is a
member of the University, Army and Navy,
Elks and Columbia Clubs of Manila. Dr.
Musgrave -married in Manila, June 15, 1900,
Francis Bien of Washington, D. C, and
they have one son, William Everett Mus
grave, born in 1906. Residence : 194 Her-
ran Street, Manila. Address: St. Paul's
Hospital, Manila, Philippine Islands.
MUSSER, John Herr:.
Professor of clinical medicine; born in
Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
June 22, 1856 ; descended from three genera
tions of physicians, ha forming the fourth.
After attending public and normal schools
he studied medicine in the University of
Pennsylvania, graduating in 1877. From
1879 to 1882 he was medical registrar of
the University Hospital and chief of the
Medical Dispensary from 1881 to 1887. He
was pathologist to the Presbyterian Hos
pital, 1883-1887, since when he has been
physician to that institution. In 1881 he
was elected instructor in clinical medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1889
was made assistant professor, and since
1899 has been professor of that branch.
'For the past fifteen years he has been phy
sician to the Philadelphia Hospital. Dr.
Musser was president of the Phila
delphia Pathological Society, 1893-1897;
of the County Medical Society, 1899-
1900; of the Philadelphia Medical Club,
1897, of the American Medical Asso
ciation in 1904, and is a member of
many other medical associations. He has
delivered many notable addresses before
these societies and has written numerous

treatises on medical subjects, has published
a book on Diagnosis, which has reached its
fifth edition. Address: 1927 Chestnut Hill,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MUSTIN, William Irwin:
Ex-president of Pittsburgh Stock Ex
change; born in Pittsburgh, June 8, i860.
His father, James G. Mustin, was of French
Huguenot ancestry, the first . members
of the family settling in this country about
the year 1664. His "mother was a Miss
Frances M. Irwin, descended from a long
line of Irish ancestry, settled in Pittsburgh
about the year 1772. The Irwin family con
tributed liberally their share toward laying
the foundations of the Iron City that was
yet to come; they were sturdy farmers and
noted traders. Mr. Mustin's maternal
grandfather, the Hon. W. W. Irwin, was
mayor of Pittsburgh, serving his constit
uents faithfully in that capacity in the year
1840. He was a member of Congress and
United States minister to Denmark. Mr.
Mustin is a nephew of the distinguished na
val, officer, Rear-Admiral John Irwin, who
secured to the United States the original
concession in the Hawaiian Islands in 1893.
Mr. Mustin's early education was obtained
at home, his mother superintending his in
struction up to his tenth year. He then
made his first start as an errand boy in the
printing house of W. G. Johnston & Com
pany, where he remained a year, at the ex
piration of which time he entered the em
ploy of George B. Hill in a similar capacity
and became a partner in the concern of
George B. Hill and Company, in 1881, and
has remained with that house up to the
present day. Mr. Mustin has many other
interests, notable among which are the
Pittsburgh Coal Company, and the Pitts
burgh Brewing Company, which organiza
tions haye been promoted by the firm of
George B. Hill and Company. In 1898 Mr.
Mustin was elected to the presidency of the
Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, and served five
years. He is a Mason and member of
Crescent Lodge, Knight Templar and a
member of the Mystic Shrine, also member
of the Duquesne, Americus, and Country
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adelphia; and New York Athletic Club of
New York. Address: Pittsburgh, Pennsyl

vania.

MYERS, Millard Riley:

Clergyman ; born at Bourbon, Ind., March
23, 1873; son of William R. and Sarah
A. (Foust) Myers. He was educated in
Manchester College, and the University of
Chicago. After leaving college he was a
teacher in the public schools of Bourbon,
Indiana, instructor in the College at North
Manchester, Indiana, and a professor in a
private school in Chicago. He was one
of the organizers and officials in the Al-
baugh-Dover Company, Canada Land and
Development Company and Brethren Sun
day School Extension, all of Chicago. He
was ordained a minister of the German
Baptist Brethren Church; and is lecturer
for educational meetings, and Sunday
School Conventions ; is author of the book
entitled : Chicago Sunday School Extension.
Mr. Myers has charge of the Parental Es
tate, at Bourbon, Indiana, and has various
other interests. He is interested in needed
reforms, and good government, and has
been for some years secretary of the Sun
day Closing League of Chicago. -He mar
ried at Mount Morris, Illinois, December
21, 1904, Mirtle Gertrude Royer, and they
have one daughter, Sara. Elizabeth Myers,
born January 23, 1906. Residence: 1191
Douglas Boulevard, Chicago. Business ad
dress : 914 Marshall Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois. MYERS, Robert L, :
Democratic member House of Represent
atives of Pennsylvania, sessions of 1899,
1901 and 1903 ; born November 16, 1862,
Camphill, Cumberland County, Pennsyl
vania, where his great-great-grandfather,
Philip Nicholas Myers, settled in 1736;
learned the trade of carpentry; taught and
supervised schools in Adams, Cumberland
and Dauphin Counties; founder and man
ager of the National Educational Bureau;
senior member of the firm of Myers, Fishel
and Company, educational publishers, of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; director in the
Farmers' Trust Company, Carlisle, Penn

sylvania; life member of the Pennsylvania
State School Directors' Association, and
chairman of the Legislative Committee for
the years 1901, 1902 and 1903. He is a
member of the Board of Trade of the city
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Board of
Directors of the Hamilton Library Associa
tion, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Address:
Camphill, Cumberland County, Pennsyl
vania. MYERS, Theodore W.:
Banker and broker; born in New York
City, January 11, 1844; son of Lawrence
Myers, a prominent merchant. He was
educated in the schools of New York City,"
France and Germany, but ill health obliged
him to give up a collegiate course. He be
came in 1864, clerk in the banking house
of Camblos & Myers, then later in business
under his own name; afterward special
partner in the banking house of M. E. De
Rivas & Company, and in 1884 organized
the banking house of Theodore W. Myers
& Company, and in 1898 was president of
the present banking house of Theodore My
ers & Son; continues head with branches
in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chi
cago and other cities. During the Civil
War Mr. .Myers was active in organizing
Sickles' Brigade, in which he served as
captain of the Third Regiment. For many
years afterward he was connected with
the City Guard and later became an officer
in the Ninth Regiment of the National
Guard of New York. He is a Democrat.
He was a member and the treasurer of
the Park Commission in 1887; comptroller
of the City of New York from 1887 to
1893. Was several years president of the
Business Men's Associa'tion of New York
City and a member of the New York His
torical Society and of the American Geo
graphical Society. He is also a member
of the Manhattan, New York, Rockaway
Hunt, National Hunt, Democratic, New
York Yacht, Reform, New York Athletic
and Thirteen Clubs. He married in 1870,
Rosalie Hart, and they have one son. "Res
idence: 21 West Forty-sixth Street. Ad
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MYERS, William Shields:
Chemist; born in Albany, New York, De
cember 15, 1866; son of Benjamin F. and
Elizabeth (Shields) Myers. He was edu
cated in Albany Academy, from 1881 to
1885, and was graduated from Rutgers Col
lege as B.Sc. in 1889 and M.Sc. in 1890.
He studied at Munich, Berlin and London,
from June, 1890, to August, 1892, becom
ing fellow of the Chemical Society (F.C.S.)
of London in 1892. Mr. Myers was as
sistant chemist of the New Jersey Experi
ment Station in 1888 and 1889; chemist of
the Lister Agricultural Works in 1892 and
1893; New Jersey State Agricultural Col-
- lege, from 1893 to 1901 ; director of the
Nitrate of Soda Propaganda for the United
States and Colonies, since 1901 ; trustee of
Rutgers College since 1902. Mr. Myers
was author of the bill which organized the
Department of Ceramics in Rutgers Col
lege, which passed the New Jersey Legis
lature in 1902. "He was mayor of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1903 to 1905 ;
president of the Excise Board of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1906. He is a
Republican in politics and in church rela
tions an Episcopalian. He has contributed
papers to the American Chemical Society
and technical journals on water, soils and
clays of New Jersey; editor and publisher
of monographs on Scientific Fertilization
and Water Transportation. He is a mem
ber of the Chemists' Club, and Drug and
Chemical Club of New York City; is a
life member of the Society of Chemical In
dustry- of Great Britain, American Chem
ical Society, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science ; sec
retary of Rutgers College Alumni Associa
tion ; editor of Alumni Edition of the
Monthly Rutgers Targum. He is also a
member of the Chi Phi fraternity, and of
the Union, Young Men's Republican and
Golf Clubs of New Brunswick, New Jer
sey, and was president of the latter from
1902 to 1905 and is also a member of the
Cosmos Club of San Francisco. He mar
ried at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sep
tember 11, 1889, Annie Tayler Lambert, and

they have one son, W. Lambert, born Oc
tober 22, 1891. Address : 71 Nassau Street,
New York City." N
NACHTRIEB, Henry Francis:
Professor of zoology; born near Galion,
Ohio, May 11, 1857. He was educated at
German Wallace College and Baldwin Uni
versity of Berea, Ohio; graduated as B.S.
from the University of Minnesota in 1882;
fellow at Johns Hopkins University in 1884
and 1885. He was instructor in zoology
at the University of Minnesota from 1885
to 1887, head professor of the Department
of Animal Biology and curator of the Zoo
logical Museum since 1887 ; zoologist of the
Minnesota Geological and Natural History
Survey since 1887. He is author of:
Echinoderms of Beaufort; Permanent Pre
parations in Hermetically Sealed Tubes;
The Lateral Line System of Polyodon ; and
other scientific articles and reviews. He is
a member of the Association of American
Anatomists, the American Society of Zoolo
gists, the American Society of Natural
ists, American Association of Museums,
American Breeders' Association, Washing
ton Academy of Sciences, and fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science." He is a member of the
honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma
Xi and the fraternity Psi Upsilon. Ad
dress: 905 Sixth Street, S. E., Minneapo
lis, Minnesota.
NAD AX, Charles Coleman:
Lawyer ; born at Greencastle,' Indiana,
December 8, 1855 ; son of Bernard Har
rison and Sarah Jane (Mayse) Nadal; re
ceived early education from father. He
was graduated from Columbia University
Law School. He has been counsel of Fidel
ity and Casualty Company of New York
since 1887. Mr. Nadal has been actively in
terested in improving political conditions in
New York City for twenty years ; helped to
found the Good Government Clubs in 1892;
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zens' Union, 1897, and has been a member
of the Central City Commission and of Ex
ecutive Committee ever since; member of
New York City and State Bar Associations,
and Southern Society. He is a member of
the Century, City, Fencers', and Ardsley
Clubs. He married in New York City,
October 15, 1890, Mary Taylor Warrin.
Residence : 142 East Thirty-fifth Street.
Address : 97 Cedar Street, New York City.
NALLY, Edward Julian:
Vice-president, general manager and di
rector of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com
pany; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
April 11, 1859; was educated inthe public
schools. In 1875, at the age of sixteen, he
began his business career as a messen
ger boy with the Western Union Telegraph
Company at St. Louis, Missouri. Later he
was promoted to clerk in the office of
Colonel R. C. Clowry, then district super
intendent, with headquarters in St. Louis,
and in 1882 transferred to Minneapolis,
Minnesota, as chief clerk to the " superin
tendent, eighth district, same company. In
1890 he entered the service of the Postal
Telegraph- Cable Company, as assistant to
the general superintendent of the Western
Division, in Chicago; was promoted as
sistant general superintendent and in 1901
made general superintendent of the West
ern Division with jurisdiction over the lines
and offices in twenty-two States. In Sep
tember, 1906, he was elected vice-president
and director, with headquarters in New
York City, and on April 11, 1907, made
vice-president and general manager. He is
a member of the National Geographic So
ciety, Union League Club, the Caxton Club
of Chicago, the Magnetic Club of New
York and Flushing Country Club of Flush
ing, New York, and an officer of the Na
tional Business League of America. Mr.
Nally married in Lexington, Kentucky,
June 10, 1897, Lee Warrenn Redd and their
children are Marylee and Edward Julian,
Jr. Address: Postal Telegraph Building,
253 Broadway, New York City.
NAMMACK, Charles Edward:
Physician; born in New York City, June
24, 1856; son of William and Eliza (Wil

liams) Nammack. He attended public
schools, and was graduated from the Col
lege of St. Francis Xavier, as Ph.B., and
from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, as
M.D. He was attending physician to out
patients, New York Hospital, from 1881
to 1904; has been surgeon of police, City
of New York, since 1889, visiting physician
and consulting physician of Gouverneur
Hospital, from 1893 to 1898; visiting phy
sician of Bellevue Hospital, since 1896;
visiting physician to St. Lawrence Hospital,
1906; delegate to the International Medical
Congress, Paris,. 1900, Madrid, 1903; fellow
of the New York Academy of Medicine,
1884; member of the American Climato-
logical Association, the New York County
Medical Society, New York State Medical
Society, New York Neurological Society;
professor of clinical medicine in Cornell
University, since 1898; manager of the So
ciety for the Relief of Widows and Or
phans of Medical Men. "Dr. Nammack is
a Catholic in his religious faith, and is a
member of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat
rick, Xavier Alumni Association, Alumni
Society of Bellevue Hospital and United
States Catholic Historical Society. He
married in New York City, June 2, 1887,
Mary Halpin, and they have three children :
Charles Halpin, born in 1888, Mary, born
in 1892, and Helen, born in 1894. Ad
dress: 42 East Twenty-ninth Street, New
York City.
NASH, Edwin A.:
Jurist; born at Bedford, Canada, October
26, 1836; son of Adolphus Nash. He was
educated in district schools and Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, New York.
Mr. Nash was admitted to the bar in 1861 ;
practiced law until 1878, when he went to
Avon, where he has since resided. He was
district attorney of Livingston County for
two terms, being elected in 1869 and 1872;
elected county judge in 1878; reelected in
1884 and 1890; and in 1895 was elected
justice of the Supreme Court and was as
sociate justice of Appellate Division of
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1906. He is a Republican in politics. Ad
dress : Avon, New York.
NASH, John McLean:
Lawyer; born in New York City, August
6, 1848 ; son of Stephen . P. and Catherine
(McLean) Nash. He was graduated from
Columbia College, A.B., 1868, A.M., LL.B.,
1870. Mr. Nash is -a member of the law
firm of Nash and Jones ; trustee New
York Life Insurance and Trust Company;
treasurer of Columbia College since 1885 ;
member New York City Bar Association,
Law Institute of New York City, Delta
Phi fraternity, Columbia University Alumni
Association. He is a member of the Union,
Century, University, and Columbia Univer
sity Clubs. Residence : 60 West Forty-
eighth Street. Address: 63 Wall Street,
New York City.
NASH, Paul Cleveland Bennett:
American consul, Vladivostok; born, Ge
neva, New York, April 28, 1877 ; son of
Francis Philip and Catherine Cleveland
(Coxe) Nash; he was educated by private
tutors, at Hobart College, and Boston In
stitute of Technology; studied international
law, etc., in preparation for diplomatic serv
ice, in Paris and at the Columbian Uni
versity, Washington, District of Columbia.
Traveled one year, 1894 to 1895, in the Far
East, and six years in Europe, from 1897
to 1902, studying industrial and commer
cial conditions, the languages, etc. ; was
secretary of the legation and consul-gen
eral at Bangkok, Siam, 1903 to 1904; ap
pointed consul at Venice, Italy, October,
1904; appointed consul at Vladivostok,
March 30, 1907. He is a member of the
Sigma Phi fraternity ; also a member of the
Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C. He
married in Venice, October 2, 1905, Baro
ness Margherita Mayneri. Address: Met
ropolitan Club, Washington, D. C.
NASH, William Alexander:
Banker; born at Hudson, New York,
January 18, 1840; son of Thomas P. and
Sarah J. , Nash. He was educated in the
public schools of Brooklyn, New York. He
is president and director of the Corn Ex

change Bank, Lykens Railway and Coal
Company, New York, and East River Fer
ry Company; vice-president and director of
the Audit Company of New York, Inter
national Elevating Company; director of
the Home Life Insurance Company, Lloyds
Plate Glass Insurance Company, Queens
Insurance Company of America; trustee
of the American Surety Company, the
Bowery Savings Bank, and New York
Produce Exchange. Mr. Nash is a mem
ber of the Union League, Metropolitan,
New York Athletic (life member), and
Plamilton (Brooklyn) Clubs. He married,
January 14, 1869, Alice J. Peters. They
have two children : Warren B., and Mabelle
S. Residence: 19 West Seventy-third
Street. Address : 11 William Street, New
York City.
NAVARRO, Alfonso De:
Capitalist; vice-president and director of
the Atlas Portland Cement Company; dir
ector of North American Portland Cement
Company and of Northampton and Bath
Railroad. Address : 30 Broad Street, New
York City.
NEECE, William Martin:
Stock grower; born in Springfield, Mis
souri, April 24, 1839; son of Ellis Neece
and Ann (Reese) Neece. He taught school
in i860; enlisted in the Federal Army in
June, 1861, as private, and served till Feb
ruary, 1865, in the Sixth Missouri Volun
teer Cavalry. He was promoted to lieuten
ant, in April, 1863 ; and was wounded at
Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864. He
sold dry goods and groceries from 1865
to 1869; moved to Fort Collins, Colorado,
in 1872, and moved to Thermopolis, Wy
oming, in 1897. He was superintendent of
Big Horn, Plot Springs, from 1904 to 1907.
Mr. Neece married in Springfield, Missouri,
July 12, 1865, and has three children:
Grant, Frank, and Nora Alice. Address:
Thermopolis, Wyoming.
NEEDHAM, Charles Austin:
Artist; born in Buffalo, New York, Oc
tober 30, 1844. He began art education in
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Will, New York City. Has been represent
ed in many exhibitions, and landscapes by
him are in various important collections.
Awarded honorable mention and medal, At
lanta Exposition, r895 ; first honorable men
tion New York State Agricultural Exposi
tion, Syracuse, 1898; bronze medal, Paris
Exposition, 1900; silver rhedal, Charleston
Exposition, 1902. He is a member of the
New York Water Color Society. He mar
ried, in New York City, 1868, Fannie Mont-
ross. Address: 145 East Twenty-third
Street, New York City.
NEEDHAM, James Carson:
Congressman and lawyer; born Septem
ber 17, 1864, in Carson City, Nevada, in an
emigrant wagon, his parents being at the
time en route across the plains to Cali
fornia. His early education was received in
the public schools of California; graduated
from the San Jose High School, and sub
sequently took a collegiate course at the
University of the Pacific at San Jose, grad
uating in the year 1886 with the degree of
Ph.B.; he then entered the law department
of the University of Michigan and spent
one year, at the end of which time he was
appointed, under civil-service rules, to a
clerkship in the adjutant-general's office at
Washington, D. C. ; resigning from the War
Department, he returned to the University
of Michigan and completed his law course,
graduating with the class of 1889 with the
degree of LL.B. ; began the practice of law
in November, 1889, at Modesto, where he
has ever since resided; in 1890 was nom
inated by the Republican party for State
senator, but the district being overwhelm
ingly Democratic, was defeated; has been
chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee, member of the State Central Com
mittee, and member of the Congressional
committee; was elected to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Sixth California
District. Address : Modesto, California.
NEIDLINGER, George H.:
Merchant; born in Brooklyn, New York;
son of William and Sara (Lloyd) Neid-

linger. He was educated in public schools ;
and has traveled extensively throughout
the United States and Canada. He is
president of Neidlinger Brothers, the Peer
less Tube Company, and the Sterling Nipple
Company. In politics he is an In
dependent and in religion a Baptist, and he
is a trustee of the Hanson Place Baptist
Church of Brooklyn and member of the
Board of Management of the Young
Men's Christian Association. His favorite
recreation is yachting. He is a member of
the Brooklyn Yacht Club. Mr. Neidlinger
married in Brooklyn, 1893, Helen Kellock.
Residence: East Orange, New Jersey.
Address : 79 Murray Street, New York
City.NEILSON, Lewis:
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; born at Florence, New Jersey,
September 30, i860; son of Thomas Neilson
president of the Elmira and Williamsport
Railroad Company, and Sarah Claypoole
(Lewis) Neilson; and is the grandson of
Robert Neilson, who was at one time judge-
advocate of the West Indies by appoint
ment of the Crown, and of William David
Lewis, a prominent Philadelphia merchant,
bank officer, and collector of customs at the
Port of Philadelphia, from 1849 to 1853, a
railroad officer in one of the first railroads
of the country, and who was interested in
the importation of the first locomotive
brought to this country. Mr. Neilson en
tered the Academy of the Protestant Epis
copal Church at Philadelphia in 1870 and
the University of Pennsylvania in June,
1877; was graduated from the College De
partment in June, 1881. On June 20, 1861,
he entered the service of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and filled various cleri
cal positions until he was, May 1, appointed
chief clerk to the secretary and June 1,
1898, was appointed assistant secretary of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad Company; June 27, 1898,
appointed to fill the same position with the
Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Rail
road Company, and was elected secretary of
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and of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, to fill the va
cancy caused by death of Mr. John C.
Sims ; also succeeded him as secretary of
the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central and
the Junction Railroad Companies ; and on
March 7t 1902, he was elected secretary of
the Arcade Real Estate Company. In ad
dition to his duties, which place him in
the closest confidential -relations with the
officers and the Board of Directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
many of its affiliated lines, he is charged
with the issue and transfer of the capital
stock, and of the Stock Transfer Offices in
the cities of Philadelphia and New York.
He has the supervision of the lighting,
heating, policing, and care of the General
Office Building of the Company, the old
General Office Building on Fourth Street,
and the Annex Building at Fifteenth and
Market Streets. He is also the division s>i-
ficer of the Relief Department for the gen
eral office. He became the superintendent
of the Employes' Saving Fund on June
1, 1906. Mr. Neilson is an enthusiastic
golfer; and has for many years been prom
inent in the graduate councils of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, having served for
several years, prior to 1894, as a director
and treasurer and secretary successively of
the Athletic Association, and, later, as a
member of the Board of Directors and
Executive Committee of the General Alum
ni Society, as well as its secretary and
treasurer. He is a member of the Or
pheus, Rittenhouse, and Merion Cricket
Clubs. Mr. Neilson married, February 8,
1893, Clara A. Rosengarten, daughter of
Harry B. Rosengarten, of the firm of
Rosengarten and Sons, of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
NELLIS, Andrew J.:
Lawyer; born in Palatine, Montgomery
County, New York, July 22, 1852; son of
James and Mary M. (Wert) Nellis. He
received his education in public schools and
in Fairfield Seminary. He has been engag
ed in practice as a trial lawyer for thirty
years at Albany and Johnstown, New

York; member of the law firm of Country-
mann, Nellis and Du Bois. In politics he is
a Republican and in religion a Lutheran.
Mr. Nellis was for many years president
and a director of the Johnstown Electric
Light and Power Company. He is a mem
ber of the Masonic order. He married in
Catskill, New York, September 6, 1876,
Mary E. Humphrey, and they have two
children: Ruth, born in 1881, and Merwyn
Humphrey, born in 1885. Address: 13
North Pearl Street, Albany, New York.
NELSON, Charles Alexander:
Librarian, author; born in Calais, Maine,
April 14, 1839; son of Israel Potter Nelson
and Jane (Capen) Nelson, of old New
Hampshire and Massachusetts families. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
i860, A.M. in 1863. He began library work
at Gorham (Maine) Male Academy, 1855;
was assistant at the Harvard College Lib
rary and student of library economy, from
1857 to i860, and in 1863 and 1864; Law
rence Scientific School, in 1861 and 1862;
teacher in classics and mathematics, in i860
and 1861, in 1863 and 1864, and in 1873
and 1874; civil engineer and draughtsman,
in the quartermaster department of the
United States Army, at Newbern, North
Carolina, in 1864 and 1865 ; superintendent
of refugees, justice of the peace, superin
tendent of schools and various other civic
offices at the same place from 1865 to 1873.
Mr. Nelson was in the book business, and
in literary and library work in Boston,
from 1874 to 1881 ; catalogue librarian of
the Astor Library, New York City,
1881 to 1888 ; librarian of Howard Hemorial
Library, New Orleans, from 1888 to 1891;
assistant librarian of the Newberry "Library,
Chicago, from 1891 to 1893; lecturer in
Columbia College Library School, 1887; at
New York State Library School and the
Pratt Institute Library School from 1894
to 1898; deputy librarian and head refer
ence librarian at Columbia University since
1893. He is a member and ex-secretary of
the American Library Association; charter
member and ex-secretary and twice presi
dent of the New York Library Club; ex-
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University; member of the American His
torical Association, Bibliographical Society
of America, Chicago Literary Club, Book
sellers' League, the Round Table, and
Corda Fratres; trustee of Leland Univer
sity, New Orleans, Louisiana, since 1890.
He is author of: Waltham: Past and
Present, and Its Industries; the Manu
scripts and Early Printed Books Bequeath
ed to the Long Island Historical Society
by S. B. Duryea; compiler and editor of
the Astor Library Catalogue, four volumes ;
Catalogue of the Avery Memorial Library;
Books on Education in the Libraries of
Columbia University; Libraries of Greater
New York, Manual and Historical Sketch
of the New York Library Club; Catalogue
Raisonne, Works on Bookbinding, Ex
amples of Bookbinding of the Sixteenth to
Nineteenth Centuries ; Index to the Educa
tional Review, volumes I to XXV; Index
to Minutes of the Common Council of New
York City, from 1675 to 1776; Bibliography
of Columbiana, from 1754 to 1904; and
numerous professional articles in encyclo
paedias, annuals and the Library Journal;
one of the collaborators on Poole's Index,
the Annual Library Index, and the Ameri
can Library Association Index to Essays.
Address: 400 West One Hundred and
Fifty-third Street, New York City.
NELSON, Cleland Kinlock:
Bishop of Georgia; born in Albemarle
County, Virginia, May 23, 1852. He studied
at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland,
and was graduated with the degree of A.
B. in 1872. He studied in private and for
a short time at the Berkeley Divinity
School. He received the degree of D.D.
from St. John's College in 1891 and
from the University of the South in 1892.
He was ordered deacon of the Epis
copal Church in 1875 by Bishop Pinckney,
and ordained to the priesthood the next
year by Bishop Stevens. Following that
he became rector of the Church of St. John
the Baptist, Germantown, Pennsylvania,
and in 1882 accepted a call to the rector
ship of the Church of the Nativity, South
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he re

mained until 1892, when he was elected
Bishop of Georgia. He was consecrated by
Bishops Quintard, W. B. W. Howe, Lyman,
Whitehead, Rulison, Coleman, Jackson and
Watson. Bishop Nelson married, June 12,
1877, M. Bruce Matthews. He is author
of occasional sermons, Episcopal addresses,
and editorial articles in The Church in
Georgia. Address : 765 Peachtree Street,
Atlanta, Georgia.
NELSON, George Francis:
Clergyman; born at Granville, Ohio, De
cember 11, 1842; son of Franklin Nelson
and Elizabeth Jane (Asher) Nelson. He
was a student of Yale from 1859 to 1861;
of the University of Chicago, where he was
graduated as LL.B. in 1871 ; and received
the degree of D.D. from Trinity College,
and St. Stephen's College, in 1896. He was
in the United States military service, from
1862 to 1877; in the field, from 1862 to
1866; at General Sherman's headquarters,
St. Louis, from 1866 to 1868; at General
Sheridan's headquarters, Chicago, from
1868 to 1875; at General Rucker's head
quarters, Philadelphia, from 1875 to 1877.
He was ordered deacon in 1877, by Bish
op Stevens and ordained priest in 1879
by Bishop Pierce, acting for Bishop
Stevens, in the Episcopal ministry. He was
formerly assistant of St. Andrew's Church,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1877 to
1879; assistant of Grace Church, New York
City, from 1879 to 1885; rector of the
Church of the Nativity, New York City,
from 1881 to 1883; vicar of Grace Chapel,
New York City, from 1883 to 1895; has
been secretary to the Bishop of New York,
since 1883 ; assistant secretary of the House
of Bishops since 1883; registrar of the
Diocese of New York, since 1887; assistant
secretary of the Diocesan Convention of
New York, from 1887 to 1903; superintend
ent of the New York Protestant Episcopal
Church Missionary Society from 1894 to
1902 ; vice-president since, 1902 ; archdeacon
of New York since 1902. He is a member
of the Century Association and of the Penn
sylvania Society of New York. Address :

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Diocesan House, 416 Lafayette Street, New
York City.
NELSON, Henry Loomis:
Professor of political science; born in
New York, January 5, 1846; son of Theo-
philus Nelson and Catherine (Lyons) Nel
son. He was graduated from Columbia
College as A.M. and LL.B. and received
the degree of L.H.D: from' Williams Col
lege in 1900. He was admitted to the bar
in i860; was Washington correspondent of
the Boston Post, from 1878 to 1885 ; editor
of the Boston Post, in 1885; editor-in-
chief of Harper's Weekly, from 1894 to
1899, and has since been professor of politi
cal science at Williams College. He is au
thor of: Our Unjust Tariff Law, 1884; John
Rantoul (novel), 1885; The Money we
Need, 1896. His favorite recreation is
golf. He is a member of the University
and New York Clubs and the Century As
sociation. Address : W'lliamstown, Mas
sachusetts.
NELSON, John Mandt:
Congressman and lawyer; born in the
town of Burke, Dane County, Wisconsin,
October 10, 1870. He received a collegiate
education, graduating from the University
of Wisconsin in June, 1892; was elected
superintendent of schools in Dane County
in 1892 and reelected in 1894; resigned to
accept the position of bookkeeper in the
office of the Secretary of State, where he
served from 1894 to 1897; edited The State
1897-98; correspondent in State treasury
1898- 1902; was graduated from the law de
partment of the State University, 1896;
pursued post-graduate studies at the State
University 1901-1903; and has practiced
law the past four years. He was for four
years a member of the Republican State
Central Committee; and he was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Second
Wisconsin District September 4, 1906, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Hon. H. C. Adams, and reelected Novem
ber 6, 1906, to the Sixtieth Congress. Ad
dress ; Madison, Wisconsin,

NELSON, limit e:
United States Senator; born in Norway
February 2, 1843; came to the United
States in July, 1849, and resided in Chi
cago, Illinois, until the fall of 1850, when
he removed to the State of Wisconsin, and
from there he removed to Minnesota in
July, 1871. He was a private and non-com
missioned officer in the Fourth Wisconsin
Regiment during the war of the rebellion,
and was wounded and taken prisoner at
Port Hudson, Louisiana, June 14, 1863.
He was admitted to the bar in the spring
of 1867; was a member of the Assembly
in the Wisconsin Legislature in 1868 and
1869; was county attorney of Douglas
County, Minnesota, in 1872, 1873 and 1874;
was State Senator in 1875, 1876, 1877, and
1878; was presidential elector in 1880, and
was a member of the Board of Regents of
the State University from February 1, 1882,
to January 1, 1893. He was a member of
the- Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth
Congresses from the Fifth district of Min
nesota; was elected governor of Minne
sota in the fall of 1892 and reelected in the
fall of 1894; was elected United States
Senator for Minnesota January 23, 1895,
for the term commencing March 4, 1895,
and reelected in 1901 for the term expir
ing in 1907, and again elected for the term
expiring March 3, 1913. Address: Alex
andria, Minnesota.
NELSON, Nelson O.: '
Manufacturer and social reformer ; born
in Norway, September 11, 1844; son of
Anders Nelson and Gertrude Nelson. He
came with his parents to the United States
in early childhood, settling on a farm in
Buchanan County, Missouri. He attended
the schools of the county, and afterward
engaged in mechanical pursuits, and in 1872
established on a small scale as a manu
facturer of plumbers' and steam-fitters' sup
plies. This business he expanded ; the pres
ent firm of N. O. Nelson Manufacturing
Company, having its offices and principal
salesrooms at St. Louis, has large factories
at Leclaire (suburb of Edwardsville), Illi
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son has always been a close student of
economic and social problems, and was one
of the earliest supporters of the single-tax
philosophy of the late Henry George, whose
personal friend he was; and he has been
identified with social reform in a practical
way, for over twenty years. He was a pio
neer in profit-sharing in this country, which
he began with the employes of his firm in
1886, and in 1890 he established the coopera
tive village of Leclaire, where the works are
located and where a large proportion of the
workmen in the factories have their homes.
About five years ago Mr. Nelson bought
a desert ranch in Indio, Riverside Coun
ty, California, on which he established
a Consumptives' Camp, which he opened
for occupancy at Christmas in 1902. Mr.
Nelson is an occasional contributor to peri
odicals and magazines on questions of eco
nomic and social reform. He married at St.
Joseph, Missouri, in 1868, Almeria Pose-
gate. Residence: • Edwardsvilk, Illinois.
Office address : Tenth and Chestnut Streets,
> St. Louis, Missouri.
NELSON, Richard Henry:
Bishop coadjutor of Albany; born in New
York City, November 10, 1859; son of Ed
ward Delavan Nelson and Susan Blanch
ard (Macdonald) Nelson. He was pre
pared for college in St. John's School at
Sing Sing, New York, and on his gradua
tion from there in 1876 entered Trinity
College, at Hartford, Connecticut, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1880.
He studied at the University of Leipzig in
1880 and 1881, then returned and entered
the Berkeley Divinity School at Middle-
town, Connecticut, for two years. He was
ordered deacon in 1883 and ordained priest
in 1884, in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church, and was curate of St. John's
Church, Stamford, Connecticut, in 1883 and
1884. He was rector of Grace Church,
Waterville, New York, from 1884 to 1887,
of Christ Church, Norwich, Connecticut
from 1887 to 1897 ; then rector of St.
Peter's Church, Philadelphia, until he was
consecrated bishop-coadjutor of Albany
May 19, 1904. Bishop Nelson is an Inde
pendent in politics, and fs a member of the

Delta Psi fraternity. He married at Stam
ford, Connecticut, January 20, 1885, Har
riet Schuyler Anderson, and they have two
sons : Richard Macdonald, born in 1890,
and John Low, born in 1895. Address : 25
Elk Street, Albany, New York.
NELSON, William:
Lawyer; born in Newark, New Jersey,
February 10, 1847; son of William Nelson
and Susan (Cherry) Nelson. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Newark,
New Jersey, and he is an honorary A.M.
of Princeton University, from which he re
ceived that degree in 1896. He was for
several years engaged in newspaper work
in Newark and Paterson, New Jersey, and
meanwhile studied law, being admitted to
the bar of New Jersey and engaging in
the practice of law at Paterson in 1895, in
which he has ever since continued. Mr.
Nelson is a Republican in politics and has
held several local offices, and is now public
record commissioner of New Jersey. He
has been secretary of the New Jersey His
torical Society since 1880, and he is an
honorary and corresponding member of
many historical, literary and scientific
societies in the United States and Europe,
and also a member of the Board of Man
agers of the Society of American Authors.
He has written extensively upon historical
and biographical subjects, relating to New
Jersey, and besides being editor of the New
Jersey Archives is author of: The Indians
of New Jersey; Personal Names of the
Indians of New Jersey; The Doremus
Family in America, and a History of the
City of Paterson ; and he has also written
various monographs on legal and scientific
subjects. He is a member of the Hamilton
Club of Paterson, New Jersey, and the
Nassau Club of Princeton, New Jersey.
Mr. Nelson married at Paterson, New Jer
sey, July 25, 1889, Salome W. Doremus.
Address : 150 Market Street, Paterson,
New Jersey.
NETTLETON, Walter:
Landscape painter; born in New Haven,
Connecticut, June 19, 1861 ; sori of William
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(Thomson) Nettleton. He received his
education in Williams Academy, Stock-
bridge, in Hopkins Grammar School and
was graduated from Yale University as
B.A. in 1883 and received the honorary de
gree of B.F.A. He studied art in Paris
under Boulanger and Lefebvre, Carolus-
Duran, and Alexander Harrison ; received
several prizes at the Academie Julian ; hon
orable mention at the Paris Salon in 1892
and was awarded the silver medal of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
in 1904. He is president of the Stock-
bridge Golf Club (Incorporated). In poli
tics he is a Republican. He is chiefly
known for New England winter scenes,
and is exhibitor in all the principal Amer
ican and French exhibitions. Mr. Nettle
ton is a member of the Society of Ameri
can Artists, National Academy of Design,
New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the
Psi Upsilon fraternity. His favorite rec
reation is golf. He is a member of the
Players' Club of New York City. Address :
Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
NEVIN, Robert Murphy:
Ex-congressman and lawyer ; born in
Highland Comity, Ohio, May 5, 1850. He
attended the public schools in the town of
Hillsboro, Ohio, until the age of 14, when
he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at
' Delaware, graduating from that institution
in June, 1868, and in 1871 was made mas
ter of arts by said college. He came to
Dayton, Ohio, in July, 1868, and has re
sided in that city ever since. He was ad
mitted to the bar May 10, 1871, and is now
of the firm of Nevin, Nevin & Kalbfus. He
has always been a Republican in politics,
and in 1887 was elected prosecuting attor
ney of Montgomery County by a plurality
of 800, the county that year giving the
Democratic State ticket a plurality of over
1,000. He was elected from the Third
Ohio District to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses; and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress. Address : Day
ton, Ohio.

NEWBERRY, Truman Handy:
Assistant secretary of the Navy; born in
Detroit, Michigan, November 5, 1864; son
of John S. Newberry and Helen Parmelee
(Handy) Newberry. He was graduated
from Yale as Ph.B. in 1885. He was an
official of the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena
Railway, from 1885 to 1887, and since 1887,
when his father died, leaving a large es
tate, has had entire management of it, in
cluding besides real estate, heavy interests
in several important corporations. He was
president and treasurer of the Detroit Steel
and Spring Company from 1887 to 1901 ; is
a director of the Union Trust Company, and
the State Savings' Bank, vice-president of
the Michigan Telephone Company and a di
rector and officer in many other important
Michigan corporations. Mr. Newberry wasv
one of the organizers of the Michigan State
Naval Brigade and was a lieutenant and
navigator in that organization when the
Spanish- American War .began; and he was
commissioned lieutenant (junior grade) in
the United States -Navy in May, 1898, arid/
served through the war on the United
States steamer Yosemite. In 1899 he was
commissioned in the Michigan National
Guard as colonel and aide-de-camp on the
staff of Governor Pingree. In 1905 he was
appointed assistant secretary of the Navy,
in which office he is still serving. Colonel
Newberry is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in his church relations. Since
taking his present office he was on frequent
occasions acted as Secretary of the Navy,
and has decided upon important matters
with great fairness and ability. He married
in Brooklyn, New York, February 7, 1888,
Harriet Josephine Barnes. Residence: 481
Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Of
fice address : Navy Department, Washing
ton, D. C.
NEWBROUGH, 'William:
Civil and mining engineer; born in Phil
adelphia, December 15, i860.; son. of John
B. Newbrough and Rachel (Turnbull)
Newbrough. He was graduated from Co
lumbia University, receiving successively
the degrees of A.B., A.M. and E.M., and
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with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad in 1888; professor of engineering
of the State College of Kentucky, 1889;
employed by the United States Government,
1890, and since 1890 he has been in private
practice. He is the general manager and
chief engineer of Narrow Reservoir, con
sulting engineer of the Kemmerer Coal
Company, of Kemmerer, Wyoming; city
engineer of Evanston, Wyoming, and mem
ber of the State Board of Examining En
gineers of Wyoming. His specialties are
irrigation, hydraulics and coal mining, and
he has constructed large irrigation works
and equipped coal mines, and has the larg
est private business in the State of Wy
oming. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, president of the
Wyoming Society of Engineers and Sur
veyors," and a member of the Phi Beta Kap
pa Society, and of the Evanston Commer
cial Club. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, January 27, 1897, Gertrude Veeder
Sturtevant. Address : Evanston, Wyoming.
NEWCOMB, James Edward:
Physician; born in New London, Connec
ticut, August 27, 1857; son of James and
Sarah (Weaver) Newcomb; educated Bulk-
eley School, New London; he was grad
uated from Yale as B.A. in 1880; from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Co
lumbia), as M.D. (honor man), 1883. Was
on resident staff of Roosevelt Hospital for
eighteen months, after graduation; since
then he has been in private practice in New
York City, and of recent years has devoted
himself mainly to diseases of the nose,
throat and chest. He is a member of the
New York County Medical Society, New
York Academy of Medicine, Hospital Grad
uates' Club, West End Medical Society, Am
erican , Academy of Medicine, Physicians'
Mutual Aid Association, American Laryngo
logical Association (secretary 1905) ; life
member of the New London County- (Con
necticut) Historical Society; trustee Cal
vary-Baptist. Church, New York City. He
is also instructor in laryngology, Cornell
University Medical College; consulting
laryngologist to Roosevelt Hospital. Con

tributor- to Twentieth Century Medicine
and Wood's Reference Handbook of the
Medical Sciences. Author (with Drs. Bur
nett and Ingals) : Diseases of the Ear, Nose
and Throat, 1901 (Lippincott) ; and he
edited the American edition of Grunwald's
Atlas of Diseases of the Mouth, Pharynx
and Nose, 1903 (W. B. Saunders Com
pany). He married, March 23, 1877, Eliza
beth Wilmot, of New York City. Address :
118 West Sixty-ninth Street, New York
City.
NEWCOMB, Simon:
Professor of mathematics, United States
Navy, retired; born at Wallace, Nova Sco
tia, March 12, 1835 ; son of Professor John
Newcomb and Emily (Prince) Newcomb.
He was educated in his .father's school,
came to the United States in 1853; was a
teacher in Maryland from 1854 to 1856; be
came a computor on the Nautical Almanac
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1857, and
was graduated from the Lawrence Scien
tific School as S.B., summa cum laude, in
1858. He was appointed in 1861, professor
United States Navy, which position he held
until reaching the age of retirement in
1897. He was secretary of the Transit
of Venus Commission from 1871 to 1874;
observed the transit of Venus at the
Cape of Good Hope in 1882 and di
rected several eclipse expeditions; and he
was director of the Nautical Almanac Office
from 1877 to 1897; acted as professor of
mathematics and astronomy in Johns Hop
kins University from 1884 to 1894, and
editor of the American Journal of Mathe
matics. He has published many astronomi
cal memoirs, and tables of the motions
of the stars and planets now used by astron
omers in their computations. He is one of
the eight foreign members of the Institute
of France, and the first native, American
since Franklin to receive that honor. He
has received many honorary doctorates :
LL.D. from Columbia (now George Wash
ington) University, Yale, Harvard, Colum
bia, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Princeton, Cra
cow, and Johns Plopkins ; ScD. from Hei
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D.C.L. Oxford; Doctor of Mathematics,
Christiania; Master of Mathematics and
Doctor of Natural Philosophy, Leyden.
Professor Newcomb is a member of nearly
all the Imperial and Royal Societies of
Europe, as well as the leading scientific so
cieties of America, was president of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science in 1877, vice-president of the
National Academy of Science from 1883 to
1889, president of the Congress of Arts and
Sciences at St. Louis in 1904, and has been
president of other scientific societies, and
he was awarded the Huygens Medal, 1878;
Copley Medal of the Royal Society,
1890; the Bruce Medal, 1898, and some
others, and received from the Emperor of
Germany, in January, 1906, the Order pour
le Merite in Science and the Arts. Profes
sor Newcomb, in addition to technical
works on astronomy, is author of popular
treatises on the science, including Popular
Astronomy, 1878, and Astronomy for
Everybody, 1903. He has also made a study
of political economy and has written A
Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question,
1886, and Principles of Political Economy,
1887. He is a member of the Cosmos Club
of Washington. He married, in 1863, Mary
Caroline, daughter of Dr. C. A. Hassler of
the United States Navy, and they have
three daughters. Address : 1620 P Street,
Washington, D. C.
NEWELL, Edgar Allan:
Manufacturer and wholesaler; born in
Ogdensburg, New York, May 10, 1853; son
of William A. and Sarah A. (Miller) New
ell. He was educated in Ogdensburg Acad
emy. He was mayor of Ogdensburg four
terms ; president of the Ogdensburg Board
of Trade, The Edgar A. Newell Company,
The Linton Brass Conipany, The Ogdens
burg Savings ,& Loan Association ; direc
tor of the Ogdensburg- National Bank, Og
densburg Club, Ogdensburg Improvement
Company, Mas.sena Improvement Company;
trustee of the Union Mission and is a mem
ber of the Masonic order and Odd Fellows.
Mr. Newell married in Potsdam, New
York, November 19, 1879, Addie B. Priest,
and they have two children : Albert P.,

born in 1882, and William Allan, born in
1883. Address : Ogdensburg, New York.
NEWLAND, David Judson:
Lawyer; born in Lawrenceville, St. Law
rence County, New York, July 8, 1841;
son of Peabody and Eliza (Chase) New-
land; direct descendant of John and Pris
cilla Allen, through Daniel Grinnell, of
Connecticut. He was graduated from Mid
dlebury College as A.B. and valedictorian
in 1865, and from Columbia University
as LL.B. in 1868. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa Society, Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity. He was originator of the amend
ment of the law as to evidence in cases -
of disputed handwriting (in 1880) by which
specimens of genuine handwriting can be
introduced with which to compare a for
gery, although not in the case already for
other purposes ; secretary of the Welling
ton Typewriter Company; president of
Highland Spring Water Company. In pol
itics he is a Republican and in religion
a Baptist. He is a member of the Asso
ciation of the Bar of the City of New
York; trustee of Baptist Church of the
Epiphany. Mr. Newland married in Had-
donfield, New Jersey, September 26, 1883,
Mary Nicholson, and they have three chil
dren : Anna May, born in 1884, Marguerite
C, born in 1887, and Eleanor, born in 1890.
Address : 550 West One Hundred and Thir
teenth Street, New York City.
NEWLANDS, Francis Griffith:
United States senator; born in Natchez,
Mississippi, August 28, 1848; entered the
class of 1867 at Yale College and remained
until the middle of his junior year; and
later on attended the Columbian College
Law School at Washington, but prior to
graduation was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,
and went to San Francisco, where he, en
tered upon the practice of law and co^
tinued in the active practice of his profes
sion until 1888, when he became a citizen
of the State of Nevada. He was elected
to the Fifty-third,, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
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and served on the committees on Irrigation,
Foreign Affairs, Banking and Currency,
and Ways and Means; and was elected to
the United States Senate to succeed John P.
Jones, Republican, for the term beginning
March 4, 1903. His term of service will
expire March 3, 1909. He is a Democrat
in politics. Address : Reno, Nevada.
NEWMAN, John Ludlow:
President of National Bank of Cohoes,
New York; born in Albany, New York,
February 21, 1836; son of Henry and Mary
A. (Lyman) Newman; he was educated
at Albany Academy. Served in Civil War,
from 1862 to 1864, recruiting a company
for the Union Army and becoming its cap
tain in Forty-third New York Volunteers,
third brigade, second division, Sixth Army
Corps (General Sedgwick) ; served under
General McClellan in Army of the Potomac,
and took part under Burnside in battle of
Fredericksburg, December 13 to 15, 1862,
and under General Hooker in Chancellors
ville campaign, May 2 and 4, 1863, and was
wounded May 3 on Marye's Heights (rec
ommended for honorable mention in Gen
eral Orders for gallantry and bravery) ;
also participated in Salem Church fight,
Banks' Ford, Fredericksburg (June 9,
1863), Gettysburg (where his regiment held
important position on right of the line),
Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove, Mine
Run campaign, etc.; promoted major of the
Forty-third New York Volunteers; hon
orably discharged June, 1864. Received
Gettysburg medal from the State of New
York. On leaving Albany Academy en
tered father's wool store, established by
his grandfather, Charles Newman, in. 1770,
and continued in that business twCnty-six
years, becoming a member of the firrn, under
style of Charles and John L. Newman from
1866 to 1880; withdrew 1880, and has since
been manufacturer of woolen goods? at Co
hoes, New York. Director of the National
Bank of Cohoes since 1878, vice-president
from 1893 to 1895, and president since
January, 1-895. After the war, elected pres
ident of the Old Guard Albany Zouaves;
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, Society of the Army of the Poto

mac, Society of the Sixth Army Corps (has
been vice-president) ; member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Sons of the Revo
lution (through his maternal great-grand
father, Colonel James Lyman) ; vice-presi
dent of the Albany Young Men's Associa
tion; and trustee of the Albany Institute
and Historical Art Society. He is a mem
ber of the Fort Orange Club. He was mar
ried in 1872 to Evelina Egberts Steele,
daughter of Oliver Steele of Albany, and
Anna (Egberts) Steele, a descendant of
Governor Van Dam, of the province of New
York (1731-1732). They have two chil
dren, Clarence Egberts and Evelyn. Ad
dress : Albany, New York.
NEWMAN, William H. :
President of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, etc. ; born in Prince
William County, Virginia, 1847. He en
tered railway service, July 1, 1869, beginning
as station agent, Texas & Pacific Railway,
Shreveport, Louisiana from 1869 to 1872;
general freight agent, same road, from
1872 to 1883; traffic manager Southwestern
system lines in Texas and Louisiana, in
cluding Texas and Pacific, International
and Great Northern, Galveston, Houston
and Henderson and Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railways from 1883 to 1885; traffic
manager from 1885 to 1887, third vice-pres
ident from 1887 to 1889, Missouri Pacific
System ; third vice-president Chicago and
North-Western Railway from 1889 to 1896;
second vice-presiderit Great Northern Rail
way from 1896 to 1898; since May, 1898,
president of Lake Shore and Michigan
.Southern Railway ; since June, 1901, presi
dent of New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad ; also since January, 1905,
president of Michigan Central Railroad, and
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
Railway, and since October, 1905, president
of the Indiana Harbor Railroad ; also presi
dent of the Lake Erie and Western Rail
road and Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Rail
road. Address : Grand Central Station,
New York City.'
NEWMAN, William Truslow:
United States judge ; born in Knoxville,
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B. Newman and Martha A. Newman. He
was educated in private schools, served as
private, and lieutenant in the Second Ten
nessee Cavalry, in the Army of the Con
federate States, was once captured, impris
oned, and exchanged, and twice wounded,
losing right arm in battle near Jonesboro,
Georgia, in July, 1864. After the war he
studied law at Atlanta, Georgia, and after
his admission to the bar in 1866 practiced
law there for twenty years. He served as
city attorney of Atlanta for twelve years.
He was active in politics as a Democrat,
and in August, 1886, he was appointed by
President Cleveland to his present office
as United States judge for the Northern
District of Georgia. Judge Newman mar
ried in Knoxville, Tennessee, in Septem
ber, 1871, Fannie Alexander. Address : 54
Foresf Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia.
NEWSOM, John Flesher:
Educator and mining engineer; born at
Elizabethtown, Indiana, September 6, 1869;
son of Nathan Newsom and Mary
(Flesher) Newsom. He was graduated
from the University of Indiana, as A.B. in
1891; Leland Stanford, Jr., University, as
A.M. in 1892; and received from the latter
the degree of Ph.D. in 1901. He was in
structor in geology at Indiana University
in 1895 and 1896; assistant professor from
1896 to 1898; assistant professor of mining
at Leland Stanford, Jr., University from
1898 to 1900; associate professor of mining
since 1901. He has also been engaged in
work on the geology of the coast ranges
and various professional examinations of
mining properties since 1900. He is a Re
publican in politics, and is author of : Syl
labus of Lectures on Economic Geology
(two editions). He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, California Academy of Science,
American Institute of Minings Engineers,
fellow of the Geological Society of Amer
ica, and Geological Society of-London, and
member of the Beta Theta - Pi fraternity.
He married at Bloomington, Indiana,
March 17, 1896, Adelaide Frances Perry,
and they have one son : John Branner New

som, born in 1897. Address : Stanford Uni
versity, California.
NEWTON, Daniel Howe:
Manufacturer and legislator; born in
Hubbordstown, Massachusetts, June 22,
1827; son of James and Esther (Hale)
Newton and a descendant of Richard New
ton, who settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts
in 1639. He attended New Salem, Good-
ale and Willistown Academies, Massachu
setts, and Westfield Academy, New York,
and on leaving school engaged in the saw
mill and lumber business with his father
in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He was
treasurer of Franklin County from 1862 to
1865 ; representative in the General Court
of Massachusetts in 1869; president of the
Hampden Paper Company, Holyoke, Mas
sachusetts, from 1865 to 1871 ; president of
the Massachusetts Screw Company from
1873 to 1901 ; president of the Hoosie Tun
nel and Wilmington Railroad since 1887.
Mr. Newton was chairman of the Holyoke
Board of Health three years; member of
the. Board of Park Commissioners four
years ; city forester from 1886 to 1901 ;
senior member D. H. and. I. C. Newton,
mill builders and contractors, Holyoke,
Massachusetts, from . 1862 to. 1880, and of
Upper Deerfield Valley, Vermont, from
1884 to 1898 in building mills and rail
roads. He also assisted in building the
Indiana and Lake Michigan Railroad from
South Bend to St. Joseph, Michigan. He
was married, September 24, 1862, to Mary
Abigail Cogswell and of the two children
born of this marriage one is living. Ad
dress : 214 Elm Street, Holyoke, .Massa
chusetts. ; , .
NEWTON, Richard Heber:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, October 31, 1840; son of Richard
and Lydia (Gretorex) Newton. . He was
educated at the University of Pennsylvania,
and the Protestant Episcopal : Divinity
School; Philadelphia. He received the de
gree of D.D. from Union University, New
York. He was assistant minist«cc of' St.
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charge of Trinity Church, Sharon Springs,
New York; rector of St. Paul's Church,
Philadelphia, and from 1869 to 1902 he
was rector of All Souls' Church, New
York; the first special preacher, Leland
Stanford, Junior, University, California. He
is a director of the Protestant Episcopal
Church Congress ; president of the New
Thought Federation; vice-president of Con
gress of Religions. He is author of The
Children's Church; The Morals of Trade;
Womanhood; Right and Wrong Uses of
the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings;
Philistinism; Church and Creed,, Social
Studies; Christian Science; has been a con
tributor to the American Supplement of
the Encyclopedia Britannica and leading
periodicals. Dr. Newton has been con
cerned greatly with the liberalization of
theology and popularizing the results of
the Higher Criticism of the~ Bible; has
been actively interested in educational and
social reform as well as theological re
form. He was one of the first, if not the
first, to establish the Free Kindergarten in
church work, the first to develop a Sunday-
school kindergarten, and among the earliest
in New York to develop the institutional
side of parish work. Dr. Newton was
among the first of the Christian Socialists
in the United" States, using the pulpit to
preach the gospel of Brotherhood. He
has been active also in civic reform, and
prominent in organizing The People's
Municipal League in the early 'nineties.
In politics he is an Independent Republican.
Dr. Newton is a member of the City
Club of New York. Dr. Newton married at
Philadelphia, April 14, 1864, Mary Elizabeth
Lewis, and they have four children: Rich
ard. Newton, Jr., Elizabeth Lewis (Mrs.
William Wells Bosworth), Francis, and
Frederick Maurice. Address : East Hamp
ton,. New. York.
NICHOLAS, Francis Child: •
- Geologist, mining engineer ; born at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, December 7, 1862 ;
son of George W., and -Jane Lawrence
(Child)- Nicholas. He was educated by
private tutors; took special course in
economic geology at Columbia University;

honorary M.S., Ph.D., Richmond (Ohio)
College. Made extensive explorations in
the Caribbean regions, which included
Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and
the West Indies; so occupied about ten
years; acted as advising chemist in gov
ernment defense during some of the Span
ish-American revolutions; was accorded
registry for the practice of medicine in
Spanish-American States during days of
necessity for medical attendance on ac
count of political disturbances; has con
tributed numerous collections of specimens
and scientific material to museums and
public institutions; president and director
of the American Financial Agency Com
pany, American Administration of Mining
Securities, Carbonate Mining Company;
director of the Union Copper Company,
Canoga Salt Lands Company, New Robin
son Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company; trustee of the South Ameri
can Land and Exploration Company.
Mr. Nicholas is an Independent in politics
and an Episcopalian in religion. He is
an honorary fellow of the American
Museum of Natural History; honorary cor
responding member of the New York
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Jamaica,
British West Indies. Author of Around
the Caribbean and Across Panama, and of
numerous scientific pamphlets and papers.
His recreations are outdoor sports. Ad
dress : Care Drake, Mastin and Company,
bankers, 3 Broad Street, New York City.
NICHOLL, James Craig:
Artist; born in New York City, Novem
ber 22, 1846; son of John W. and Elizabeth
P. (Craig) Nicoll. He was educated at
the Quakenbos School in New York City
and studied art under M. F. H. de Haas
and Kruseman van El ten. He was founder,
for ten years secretary and is now presi
dent of the American Water Color So
ciety, and has been a member and secretary
of the National Academy of Design for
several years. He belongs, besides to the
Century- Club and the leading art organiza
tions in New York City. Mrj iMicoll is
the recipient of awards at various Tocal and
foreign art exhibitions. He was married

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at New York City in 1873, to Cora A.
Noble, and has had four children: Emily
R., John H., Fancher and Craig. Resi
dence: The Sonoma, 1734 Broadway. Ad
dress: 51 West Tenth Street, New York
City.
NICHOLLS, Francis. Tillou:
Jurist ; born at Donaldsonville, Louisiana,
August 20, 1834; son of Thomas Clarke
Nicholls and Louisa H. (Drake) Nicholls.
His father was a judge of the District Court
and later senior judge of the Court of Er
rors and Appeals of Louisiana. After prep
aration in private schools,' he was ap
pointed to the United States Military Acad
emy, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1855. He was commissioned sec
ond lieutenant and assigned to the Third
Artillery, served against the Seminole In
dians and was afterward on duty on the
Western frontier, but resigned his commis
sion, was admitted to the Louisiana bar in
1887, and practiced law at Napoleonville,
Louisiana, until 1861, when he entered the
Army of the Confederate States as cap
tain in the Eighth Louisiana Regiment of
which he became lieutenant-colonel. In
1862 he was transferred to the Fifteenth
Louisiana Regiment, as colonel, and later
in the same year was promoted to brig
adier-general, Confederate States Army.
He lost an arm at the battle of Winchester
and a foot at Chancellorsville, and during
the last year of the war he was superin
tendent of the Conscript Bureau of the
Trans-Mississippi Department. After the
war General Nicholls practiced law in As
cension Parish, until he was elected, in
1876, on the Democratic ticket, as governor
of the State of Louisiana, inaugurating the
freeing of Louisiana from carpet-bag rule.
After the close of his term in 1880, he en
gaged on the practice of law at New Or
leans. He was appointed by President
Cleveland in 1886 member and president
of the Board of Visitors to West Point. In
1888, he was again elected governor for an
other four-year term, during which he
vetoed the bill renewing the charter of the
Louisiana Lottery, leading to its suppres

sion. In 1893 he became chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving- as
such until 1904, and since then as associate
j ustice. Address : 1436 Josephine Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
NICHOLS, Acosta:
Banker; born in Brooklyn, New York,
June 19, 1872 ; son of George L. and Chris
tina (Cole) Nichols ; he was educated in
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1899,
and Williams College, 1893. , He is a mem
ber of the firm of Spencer, Trask. & Com
pany; director Conquista Coal Railway
Company, John Lane Company, Mexican
Coal and Coke Company, Mexican Mineral
Railway Company, Somerset Coal Com
pany; a life member and recording secre
tary of the New York Historical Society;
member of St. Nicholas Society, Society of
Colonial Wars, Society of the War of 1812,
Long Island Historical Society, New York
Zoological Society, American Museum of
Natural History, Sons of the Revolution,
Society of Foreign Wars, Williams Alumni
Association, Metropolitan Museum of Art;
veteran of Company K, Seventh Regiment,
National Guard'of the State of New York;
member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He is
a member of the Metropolitan, Down Town,
Country and National Arts Clubs. Resi
dence: 30 East Fifty-eighth Street. Ad
dress: 52 William Street, New York City.
NICHOLS, Charles Fessenden:
Physician; born in Salem, Massachu
setts, February 20, 1846; son of Charles
Saunders Nichols. After attending the
English and Latin High Schools and Oliver
Carlton's private school in Salem he went
to Germany from 1864 to 1866 and, re
turning, took the medical course at Har
vard, from which he was graduated as
M.D. in 1870. He served eight months as
house physician at Carney Hospital, then
pursued studies in homeopathy with the
Wesselhoefts, of Boston. On invitation of
Chief Justice Allen of Hawaii he went with
him to Honolulu, where the chief justice
was desirous to test the merits of homeo
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those islands. The treatment proved so
successful in controlling leprosy and other
diseases that the members of the Royal
family became patients of Dr. Nichols, and
the missionaries became zealous in' advo
cacy of homeopathy, and were very in
fluential in leading the natives to its adop
tion. During his practice in Hawaii Dr.
Nichols resided in the family of Queen
Liliuokalani. On his return to Boston in
1874 he was associated ' as colleague with
Dr. W. P. Wesselhoeft, and also became
editor of the New England Medical Gazette.
In 1882 he began practice alone, but later
for several years Dr. E. S. Simpson was
his professional assistant. He is a member
of the American Institute of Homeopathy
and of the Massachusetts, the Boston and
the International Homeopathic Medical
Societies, and the Organon Society. He has
written many papers on medical subjects,
and in 1891 became a member of the edi
torial staff of Science. One of his articles
on the Koch Controversy, in the Science
News of April, 1891, created wide inter
est at the time. Its claim for the predis-
covery by the homeopathic school of
Koch's method of treatment for tubercu
lous disease was enforced by a strong ar
gument for the scientific training and
status of the homeopathists. He has
also contributed articles to Harper's, Folk-
Lore and other publications, on tropical cli
mates, ferns, Polynesian life and other top
ics. Following a paper by him, published
in the Review of Reviews of March, 1895,
on the effects of Southwestern climate on
tuberculous disease, the American Invalid
Aid Society was founded, Dr. Edward. Ever
ett Hale as president and Julia Ward
Howe and Dr. Nichols vice-presidents, send
ing for the first- time" as an organization,
consumptive invalids into the high altitudes
of the Southwest.. Somewhat recently Dr.
Nichols has been active in writing, and ,as
treasurer of the Theodore Parker Restora
tion Fund, in an effort to perpetuate Par
ker's memory, preserving the ancient
church at West Roxbury, the trustees being-
Edward Everett Hale, Samuel Eliot, John
D. Long and the American Unitarian Asso
ciation. Dr. Nichols married first, May 7, 1

1884, Grace Belle Houston of Boston, by
whom he has a daughter, Cherry Elizabeth
Nichols, born in 1887; and married second,
June 9, 1898, Anne Jenetta Arenberg, by
whom he has a son, Fessenden Arenberg
Nichols, born in 1903. Residence: Church
Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Of
fice address: 74 Boylston Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
NICHOLS, Edward Leamington:
Professor of physics; born in Leaming
ton, England (of American parentage),
September 14, 1854; son of Edward W. and
Maria (Watkinson) Nichols; was gradu
ated from Cornell University, B.S., 1875 ;
Gottingen, Ph.D., 1879, University of Penn
sylvania, LL.D., 1906. Was with Thomas
A. Edison at Menlo Park, New Jersey,
from 1881 to 1883; professor of physics
and chemistry, Central University, Ken
tucky, 1881 to 1883 ; physics and astronomy,
University of Kansas, from 1883 to 1887;
professor of physics, Cornell University,
since 1887. Member of the National Acad
emy of Sciences, American Academy of
Sciences, American Philosophical Society,
American Association for Advancement of
Science (secretary of Section, 1889; vice-
president, 1893; president, 1906-1907) ;
American Physical Society, American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers, etc.; mem
ber of Delta Upsilon and Sigma Xi fra
ternities. He is the author of several
treatises on physics and of numerous papers
in scientific journals, etc. Founder (1893*)
and editor-in-chief of the Physical Re
view; editor of the Department of Physics,
Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia and
Webster's Dictionary. He married at
South Dover, New York, May 25, 1881, Ida
Preston. They have two children : Eliza
beth, born in 1882, and Robert Preston,
born in 1883. Address : Cornell Univer
sity, Ithaca, New York.
NICHOLS, George Livingston: '"
"Lawyer; born in Brooklyn," J'New YOrk,
May 9, i860; he was graduated from Wil
liams College, 1881 ; Columbia Law School,
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Masten & Nichols; was city civil service
commissioner of Brooklyn for four years;
and is now the vice-president and director
of Chickering & Sons; secretary and direc
tor of the Southern Improvement Company
of New York, Tin Plate Decorating Com
pany; director of Borden's Condensed Milk
Company, Empire Trust Company, Lalance
and Grosjean Manufacturing Company,
United States Bobbin and Shuttle Company,
William C. Casey Company, Woodhaven
Water Supply Company, Phoenix National
Bank. He is a member of the Saint Nich
olas, New York Historical, Zoological,
Long Island -Historical and New York
Geographical Societies, American Associa
tion, Bar Association of the State' of New
York, Bar Association of the City of New
York, Williams College, Alumni Associa
tion, Sons of the Revolution, Society of
Foreign Wars, Society of the War of 1812,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Botanical
Gardens, and American Museum of Natural
History. He is a member of the Union,
Metropolitan, Grolier, University, Down
Town and Hamilton (Brooklyn) Clubs.
Residence: 66 East Fifty-sixth Street.
Address : 49 Wall Street, New York City.
NICHOLS, Henry Sargent Prentiss:
Lawyer; son of Joseph Darwin Nichols
and Emily Darrah; born in Columbia,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; educated
at. the University of Pennsylvania in 1879,
from which he received the degree of
ATB. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Uni
versity Club, Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, Presbyterian Historical Society,
Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled
Ministers, Law Association of Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania State Bar Associa
tion and American Bar Association and
is a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital.
Address: The Real Estate Trust Build
ing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
NICHOLS, Othnell Foster:
Civil engineer ; born in Newport, Rhode
Island, July 29, 1845; son of Thomas Pit-
raft£ and Lydia (Foster) Nichols. He was
graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic In

stitute as CE. in 1868. He was civil en
gineer of Peruvian and Brazilian Railroads,
from 1870 to 1879; engineer with various
companies, from 1879 to 1888; chief en
gineer, from 1888 to 1895, general manager
and chief engineer, from 1892 to 1895, of the
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company;
principal assistant engineer, from 1896 to
1902, engineer in charge, in 1902 and 1903
of the Williamsburgh Bridge; chief engin
eer of the Department of Bridges of New
York City in 1904 and 1905; and has been
consulting engineer of the Department of
Bridges, in charge of Manhattan Bridge
since 1905. He was awarded the Telford
premium from the British Institution of
Civil Engineers in 1897. He is a member
of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club (was its
president), New York Engineers' Club,
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
American Society of Mechanical Engin
eers, and Institution of Civil Engineers of
Great Britain. He is a member of the
Railroad, Crescent, Athletic, and Municipal
Clubs. He married at Newport, Rhode
Island, November 21, 1876, Jennie Swasey,
and they have two daughters. Address:
42 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
NICHOLS, William Ford:
Bishop of California; born at Lloyd,
New York, June 9, 1849;. son of Charles
H. Nichols and Margaret E. Nichols. He
was graduated from the academic course
of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut,
in 1870, receiving the degree of B.A. and in
1873 that of M.A. After his graduation
from Trinity College, he studied theology
at Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in
1873. He received the honorary degree of
D.D. from Trinity College and from Ken
yon College in 1888. Upon his graduation
from the seminary, he was ordered deacon
and one year later was ordained priest of
the Episcopal Church by Bishop Williams
of Connecticut. He was curate at Middle-
town, Connecticut, following his ordination,
and thence consecutively rector of St.
jflmes' Church, West Hartford, Connecti
cut, together with Grace- Church, Newing-
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ford, and of St. James' Church, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania. He was also profes
sor of Church history at the Berkeley
Divinity School. In 1888 he was elected
assistant bishop of Ohio, but declined and
was two years later consecrated to the
assistant bishopric of California by Bishops
John Williams, Quintard, Neely, Littlejohn.
Whitaker, Niles, Adams, Scarborough,
Whitehead and H. C. Potter. In 1893 he
became, on the death of Bishop Kip,
Bishop of California. Bishop Nichols is
author of: On Trial for Your Faith, 1895,
and various sermons, addresses and pas
torals. Address : 1215 Sacramento Street,
San Francisco, California.
NICHOLS, William Wallace:
Engineer; born in New York City, No
vember 17, i860; son of Edward E. and
Anna (Macauley) Nichols. He was gradu
ated from Yale University as Ph.B. in 1884,
M.E. in 1886. He was in the motive power
department of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad,
Cleveland, Ohio, from 1885 and 1886; as
sistant master of mechanics and superin
tendent telegraph, of the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy Railroad, from 1886 to
1890; superintendent- of the Chicago Tele
phone Company, from 1890 to 1893 ; in
structor in mechanical engineering at
Yale from 1893 to 1900; assistant manager
of the Baltimore Copper Smelting and Re
fining Company, from 1900 to 1904; vice-
president of the Allis-Chalmers Company.
Since 1904 he has been director of the
Allis-Chalmers-Bullock Company, Limited,
United States Trenching Machine Com
pany. He is a member of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of
the Yale, Lawyers', Engineers, and New
York Railway Clubs. Mr. Nichols married
at St. Louis, Missouri, April 6, 1896, Mary
Elizabeth Hill, and they have one daugh
ter, Marion, bom February 20, 1897. Ad
dress : 71 Broadway, New York City.
NICHOLSON, John Page:
Soldier and editor; born in Philadelphia,
July 4, 1842 ; son of James B. and Adelaide
B. Nicholson. He received the degrees of

A.M. from Marietta College, in 1882. He
enlisted as private in the Twenty-eighth
Pennsylvania Infantry July 3, 1861 ; ser
geant from July 20, 1861 ; regimental com
missary sergeant, August 2, 1861 ; was dis
charged for promotion, July 21, 1862; first
lieutenant ' of the Twenty-eighth Pennsyl
vania Infantry, July 21, 1862; first lieuten
ant and quartermaster, September 19, 1862;
honorably mustered out, September 1, 1865';
brevetted captain of United States Volun
teers, March 13, 1865, for faithful and
meritorious services; captain, March 13,
1865, for faithful and meritorious services
during the war; major, March 13, 1865,
for gallant and meritorious services in the
Savannah and Carolina campaigns, lieuten
ant-colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and
meritorious services during the war. He
served in and with Army of West Virginia,
Banks Corps; Armies of Virvinia, the
Potomac, the- Cumberland and Georgia
from Bolivar, Virginia, 1861, to Sherman's
March to the Sea and through the Caro-
linas, to the final surrender of the Confed
erate forces. He is a member of the His
torical Societies of Pennsylvania, Maine,
Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee and the
Ohio Historical and Archaeological So
ciety. He was recorder-in-chief of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, since
1879; recorder of the Commandery of the
State of Pennsylvania since 1879 ; chairman
of the United States Gettysburg" National
Park Commission ; secretary Pennsylvania
Gettysburg Commission ; vice-president Val
ley Forge Commission, Hanover Pennsylva
nia Monument Commission; chairman of the
General Wayne Monument Commission ;
trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors Home,
Erie, Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania
Military Academy, Chester, Pennsylvania;
member of the Grand Army -of the Repub
lic, Military Service Institution of the
United States. He is the translator and edi
tor of: The History of the Civil War in
America (by the Comte de Paris), four
volumes ; editor and compiler of Pennsyl
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dress : 1124 North Forty-first Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
NICHOLSON, John Reed:
Chancellor of Delaware; born in Dover,
Delaware, May 19, 1849: son of John An
thony Nicholson and Angelica Killen
(Reed) Nicholson, and a descendant of
William Killen, the first chancellor of Dela
ware. He was graduated from Yale as
A.B. in 1870, and from Columbia Law
School, New York, as LL.B. in 1873. He
was connected with the paleontological ex
pedition conducted by Dr. Othniel C.
Marsh through the Rocky Mountains and
the Great Plains in 1870. On graduation
in law he established in practice in New
York City in 1873 ; but in 1876 returned to
Dover, Delaware, and engaged in practice.
He was town solicitor from 1885 to 1892,
attorney-general of Delaware from 1892 to
1895 ; and in November, 1895, became chan
cellor of Delaware, which office he has
held ever since. He is a Democrat in poli
tics. Chancellor Nicholson married in Lan
caster, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1884, Isabella
Hayes Hager. Address : Dover, Delaware.
NICHOLSON, William R.:
Physician; bom in Boston, Massachu
setts, February 26, 1868; son of Rt. Rev.
William Rufus Nicholson, D.D., and Kath
erine Stanley (Parker) Nicholson. He
was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania as Ph.B. in 1890 and M.D.
in 1893. He is a fellow of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia ; assistant ob
stetrician of University of Pennsylvania,
and gynecologist to Polyclinic Hospital,
and is a member of the Phi Alpha Sigma
and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities and of the
University Club of Philadelphia. Dr. Nich
olson married in Philadelphia, July 14,
1904, Celia J. Bolles. Address: 350 South
Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
NICOLL, DeLancey:
Lawyer; born at Shelter Island, New
York, June 24, 1854; son of Solomon
Townsend Nicoll and Charlotte Ann
(Nicoll) Nicoll (cousins) ; and descendant
from Mathias Nicoll, graduate of Cam
bridge, and lawyer of the Middle Temple,

who came to America in 1664 with his
uncle, Sir Richard Nicoll, the first Eng
lish governor of New York, and who was
mayor of New York City in 1671 ; speaker
of the first Colonial Assembly, in 1683, and
first judge of the New York Court of
Oyer and Terminer. Solomon Townsend
Nicoll, father of DeLancey, was a success
ful East India, tea merchant of New York
City. DeLancey Nicoll received an aca
demic education at Flushing Institute, the
Cheshire (Connecticut) Academy, and the
famous St. Paul's School in Concord, New
Hampshire. He finished his studies at
Princeton College, where he was graduated
in the class of 1874 with high honors. Hav
ing determined to follow the law, he en
tered the Columbia Law School in New
York and became clerk in the law office
of Clarkson N. Potter. Upon his admis
sion to the bar in 1876, he formed a part
nership with Walter D. Edmunds, and soon
gained recognition in his profession. He
was assistant district attorney of New
York City, 1885-88, under Randolph B.
Martine, and gained distinction while in
that office. Upon resuming his private
practice, he entered the law firm of Cowen,
Dickerson, Nicoll and Brown. Mr. Nicoll
had been the unsuccessful candidate for
the office of district attorney on the Repub
lican and Independent tickets in 1887, but
at the next election he was the nominee
on the Democratic ticket, and was elected,
serving as district attorney from 1892 to
1894. Upon retiring from office, his law
firm was Nicoll, Anable and Lindsay,
which continues to the present time (1907).
Mr. Nicoll was a member of the constitu
tional convention in 1894. Among the im
portant cases that Mr. Nicoll has handled
successfully are : The Aldermanic prosecu
tion for bribery connected with the Broad
way railroad franchise; People v. Jahne;
People v. O'Neil; People v. McQuade;
People v. Sharp; The Richardson Will
case ; the Will of General Samuel Thomas ;
the Will of Russell Sage; the defence of
all proceedings against the American To
bacco Company by the United States, in
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the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany in New York. He is a member of
the Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Racquet,
Riding, University, Manhattan, Princeton
and Democratic Clubs of New York.* Mr.
Nicoll married, December n, 1890, at Os-
sining, New York, Maud, daughter of
Richard Cuyler Churchill, lieutenant of the
Fourth Artillery, United States Army, and
has one son, DeLancey Nicoll, Jr., and
one daughter, Josephine Churchill Nicoll.
Residence: 23 East Thirty-ninth Street,
New York City. Office address : 31 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
NICKERSON, Thomas White:
Clergyman; born at Boston, Massachu
setts, June 25, 1858; son of Thomas White
Nickerson and Martha Tillinghast (West-
cott) Nickerson. He was graduated from
Harvard as A.B. in 1880, and from the
General Theological Seminary as B.D. in
1886. He was ordered deacon in 1884 by
Bishop B. H. Paddock, and ordained priest
in 1885 by Bishop H. C. Potter. He was
assistant of Calvary Church, New York
City, from 1884 to 1887; rector of St.
Paul's, Paterson, -New Jersey, from 1887 to
1895; rector of the Church of the Messiah,
Boston, Massachusetts, from 1895 to 1898;
and has been rector of St. Stephen's
Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, since
1900. He has been a member of the stand
ing committee of the Diocese of Western
Massachusetts since 1902 ; secretary of the
committee from 1902 to 1905 ; delegate to the
General Convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, 1907. He is a member of
the Society of Mayflower Descendants of
Massachusetts, Society of Colonial Wars,
Massachusetts, New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society. He is also a member
of the Harvard Club of New York. He
married in New York, January 10, 1888,
Mary Louisa Hoffman, and they have one
child: Hoffman, born December 6, 1888.
Address: 78 East Street, Pittsfield, Mas
sachusetts.
NIEDRINGHAUS, Thomas Key:
Manufacturer; born in«St. Louis, Mis
souri, October 2i, i860; son of F. G- Nie-

dringhaus and Dena (Key) Niedringhaus.
After attending the public schools he en
tered Washington University in St. Louis
and from there went to the Wesleyan Uni
versity at Middletown, Connecticut. After
completing his education in 1880, he en
tered the St. Louis Stamping Company,
controlled by his family, a large enterprise
engaged in the manufacture of the famous
Granite enameled ware, as secretary of
the company, and so continued until that
and other leading companies in the same
line were consolidated into the present
Natiopal Enameling and Stamping Com
pany, of which he is vice-president and a
director ; and he is also connected as officer
and director with other corporations. Mr.
Niedringhaus is an active Republican, was
Republican caucus nominee for United
States Senator from Missouri in 1905, and
is chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee of Missouri. He married in St.
Louis, April 18, 1888, Hennie Brown John
son, and they have a daughter, Dorothy,
and a son, Thomas Key, Jr. Residence :
79 Vandeventer Place. Office address : Cass
Avenue and Second Street, St. Louis, Mis
souri.
NIEHAUS, Charles Henry:
Sculptor; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan
uary 24, 1855 ; son of John Conrad and So
phia Wilhelmina (Block) Niehaus. He was
educated in the McMieken School of Art,
Cincinnati (first prize) ; Royal Academy,
Munich, Bavaria (first prize, medal and
diploma) ; studied in Rome, % Italy, four
years ; one year in Manchester, England,
after three years spent in Royal Academy,
Munich; elected associate in 1892, and
academician in 1906, of the National Acad
emy of Design; member Architectural
League of America, National Arts Club,
National Sculptor Society; medals were
awarded to him in Chicago ; gold medals,
Buffalo, 1901 ; Charleston, 1902 ; St. Louis,
1904. His more important works are the
Hahneman Monument (Washington) ;
Statues : Ingalls, Garfield, Allen, Morton
(in rotunda of capitol), Drake Monument
(Titusville, Pennsylvania) ; Forrest eques
trian (Memphis, Tennessee) ; Trinity His-

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torical Doors (New York City) ; Pediment
Appellate Court (New York City) ; Louis
IX., equestrian (St. Louis, Missouri) ;
statues of McKinley, Lincoln and Farragut
(Muskegon, Michigan) ; McKinley for tomb
(Canton, Ohio) ; Harrison (Indianapolis,
Indiana) ; Louis IX. (St. Louis) ; pediment,
Kentucky State Capitol. He, married in
New York City, August 3, 1900, Regina
Armstrong. Address : New Rochelle,
New York.
NIEL, Edward A.:
Railroad official; born at Selma, Ala
bama, July 3, 1865; son of Andrew J. and
Elizabeth (Peake) Niel. He was educated
at Dallas Academy, Selma, Alabama, and
was graduated from the high school. He
entered the railroad service, June, 1878, as
office boy, soon became telegraph operator,
train dispatcher, train master, chief clerk
to superintendent; chief clerk to assistant
general freight and passenger agent; pro
moted to general freight and passenger
agent of Mobile and Birmingham Railroad
in October, 1895 ; took service with South
ern Railway Company, January, 1899, as
assistant general freight agent at Wash
ington, D. C, promoted to position of
general freight agent in July, 1899; ac
cepted service with Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad, October, 1904, as traffic
manager, and resigned to take service with
the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad at
Buffalo, New York, as traffic manager,
June 1, 1905, having charge also of the
Buffalo, Attica and Arcade Railroad in the
same capacity. Mr. Niel is an amateur
musician and for many years has been
identified with musical societies in various
cities ; has frequently assisted in charitable
performances. He is traffic manager of
the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway
Company; traffic manager and director of
the Buffalo, Attica and Arcade Railroad;
vice-president of the Keystone Stores Com
pany; traffic manager of the New Orleans
Great Northern Railroad. He is a Demo
crat in politics, and an Episcopalian in his
religious faith. Mr. Niel is a member of
the Ellicott, Transportation, and Park

Clubs. He married at Birmingham, Ala
bama, June 18, 1890, Flora Stewart, and
they have two children : Flora, born in
1892, and Edward, born in 1895. Address:
986 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York.
NIES, James Buchanan:
Clergyman; born in Newark, New Jer
sey, 1856; son of Simon Nies and Antoi-
nett F. Landano. He was graduated from
Columbia as 'B.A. in 1882, M.A. in 1887,
and Ph.D. in 1888; from the General
Theological Seminary, in 1885. He was
ordered deacon in 1885, and ordained priest
in 1886, by Bishop Henry C. Potter. He
was formerly in charge of Holy Trinity
Chapel, New York City, in 1885 and 1886;
St. John's Church, Tuckahoe, New York,
and St. John's Upper New Rochelle, New
York, in 1886 and 1887; vicar of Christ
Chapel, Brooklyn, 1887 to 1892; rector of
the Church of the Epiphany, Brooklyn,
from 1893 to 1898; Oriental traveler and
explorer 1898 to 1905; rector of Christ
Church, Sharon, Connecticut from 1905 to
1907. He is a member of the American
Oriental Society, American Archaeological
Institute, American Anthropological So
ciety, American Numismatic Society, So
ciety for Biblical Literature and Exegesis,
the Deutsche Orients Gesellschaft, Der
Verein Zur Erforschung Palastinas, and
the Palestine Exploration Fund of Eng
land. Address: Hotel Margarel, Colum
bia Heights, Brooklyn, New York.
NILES, Henry Clay:
United States judge; born at Kosciusko,
Attala County, Mississippi, October 21,
1850; son of Hon. Jason Niles, a prominent
member of the Mississippi bar, and Harriet
Niles. He was educated in the schools of
Kosciusko, and studied law there, and was
engaged in the private practice of law at
Kosciusko from 1872, until appointed, in
1890, United States attorney for the North
ern District of Mississippi. In 1892 he was
appointed, by President Harrison, judge
of the United States District Court for the
Northern and Southern Districts of Missis
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House of Representatives of Mississippi in Episcopal Church. He has long been pres
ident of the trustees of St. Paul's School
at Concord, of Holderness School for Boys,
and of St. Mary's School for Girls. Ad
dress : Concord, New Hampshire.

1878, and again in 1886, and has always
been a Republican in politics. Address :
Kosciusko, Mississippi.
NILES, William Woodruff:
Bishop of New Hampshire ; born at Hat
ley, Lower Canada, now Province of Que
bec, May 24, 1832, son of Daniel Swit and
Delia (Woodruff) Niles. He was educated
at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut,
graduating in 1857, and from Berkeley Di
vinity School in 1861. He received from
Trinity • College the degree of D.D., also
from Dartmouth College, and from Trinity
College the degree of LL.D., and from
Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Province of
Quebec, Canada, the degree of D.C.L. in
1898. He was ordered deacon of the Epis
copal Church by Bishop Williams in 1861
and the following year was ordained to the
priesthood by Bishop Burgess, of Maine.
Following his entry to the ministry, he was
rector of St. Philip's Church, Wiscasset,
Maine, for several years. He was profes
sor of the Latin language and literature at
Trinity College from 1864 to 1870, and rec
tor of St. John's Church at Warehouse
Point, Connecticut, 1868 to 1870. In the
latter year he became Bishop of New
Hampshire, and was consecrated by
Bishops B. B. Smith, Williams, Neely,
Doarie, and Bissell, together with J. W.
Williams, Bishop of Quebec. Bishop Niles
was married at "Hartford, Connecticut,
Connecticut, June 5, 1862, to Bertha Olm
sted. He has written numerous addresses,
sermons and pastorals, and articles in
Encyclopedias, and was one of the early
editors of The Churchman. Bishop Niles
was many years a member of the commis
sion for Revising the Prayer Books, of the
commission for Revising the Marginal
Readings in the English Bible, and of the
commission for Revising the Lectionary of
the Church; also for many years a mem
ber of the Managers of the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Episco
pal Church. He has been more than thirty
years chairman of the Committee on Edu
cation in the General Convention of the

NISSEN, Ludwlg:
Merchant, capitalist; born at Hosum,
Schleswig-Holstein, December 2, 1855. He
attended public schools of his native place.
He became assistant secretary in the Im
perial District Court; came to America at
an early age, and after various business
ventures entered the firm of Schilling and
Nissen, diamond setters and importers, the
firm later changing to Ludwig Nissen and
Company. He is ex-president of the Jewel
ers' Association and Board of Trade;
member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce; vice-president and director of
the Oriental Bank ; trustee of the Dime
Savings Bank of Brooklyn, director of the
Brooklyn Bank, Guardian Trust Company,
Judge Company, National Association of
Manufacturers of the United States of
America, New York Board of Trade and
Transportation. He was appointed by the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition as one of
the judges of awards in art goods, jewelry,
minerals and precious stones department;
commissioner for Brooklyn at the Atlanta
Exposition of 1895, and Nashville Exposi
tion of 1897 ; appointed by Governor Black,
treasurer of the New York State Commis
sion to the Paris Exposition of 1900. He is
a member of the Hanover, Union League
and Hamilton Clubs^ of Brooklyn, Park
way Driving, Riding and Driving, Muni
cipal, Marine and Field Clubs. Residence:
1397 Dean Street, Brooklyn. Address : 182
Broadway, New York City.
NIX, John W.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of John Nix and Company, Nix Brothers
Company, and W. C. Vosburgh Manufac
turing Company, Limited; vice-president
an,d director of the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, and trustee of the Irving Savings
Institution. Address: 281 Washington
Street, New York City.

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NIXON, George S. :
Senator; born April 2, i860, in Placer
County, California; educated in the public
schools. He worked on his father's farm
until 19 years of age, when he entered the
employ of a railroad company and studied
telegraphy. In 1881 he was transferred to
Nevada, where he served three years as a
telegraph operator, and in 1884 accepted a
clerical position in a bank at Reno. He is
now largely interested in banking, mining,
Stock raising, and farming; served as a
member of the Nevada Legislature as a Re
publican in 1891 ; was elected to the United
States Senate, January 25, 1905, to succeed
Hon. William M. Stewart for the term be
ginning March 4, 1905. His term of serv
ice will expire March 3, 191 1. Address:
Winnemucca, Nevada.
NIXON, Lewis:
Naval architect and shipbuilder; born at
Leesburg, Virginia, April 7, 1861; son of
Colonel Joel Lewis and Mary Jane (Tur
ner) Nixon. He was educated at Leesburg
Academy, and the United States Naval
Academy, graduating No. 1 in the class of
1882 and then attending the Royal Naval
College of London, England. After gradu
ation as midshipman in 1882, he served in
the line of the Navy until 1884, when he
was transferred to the Construction Corps.
He designed the battleships Oregon, Mas
sachusetts and Indiana in 1890, then re
signed from the Navy to become superin
tendent constructor of Cramp's Shipyard
at Philadelphia; opened the Crescent Ship
yard in 1895, and built vessels for all de
partments of the Government of the United
States, and for foreign governments. He
is president of the Standard Motor Con
struction Company, director of the Donald
Steamship Company, and sole owner of
Lewis Nixon's shipyard; built eleven men-
of-war for the United States Navy, six
teen vessels for the Russian Navy, two for
the Mexican Navy, five vessels for Cuba
and four for Santo Domingo, and for the
United States and foreign countries lias
built every known type of vessels. He
built the Gregory, the first motor boat to

cross the ocean; and built the first subma
rine torpedo boats for the United States
Navy. He has been presented to the King
of England and received in special audi
ence by Pope Pius X. and the Czar Nicho
las of Russia. He was president of the
East River Bridge Commission by appoint
ment of Mayor Van Wyck, of New York
City, 1897; and leader of Tammany Hall,
succeeding Richard Croker, in 1902; chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
Finance Committee, 1902 to 1903; commis
sioner from New York to the St. Louis
World's Fair, by appointment of Governor
Odell; member of the Board of Visitors
to the United States Naval Academy, in
1903, by appointment of President Roose
velt; delegate to the National Democratic
Conventions at Kansas City and St Louis
and was chairman of the Democratic State
Convention, at Buffalo, in 1906. He is a
member of the Tammany Society, is mem
ber of the Council and Executive Commit
tee of the Institution of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers; of the Executive
Committee of the Institution of Naval Ar
chitects, and a fellow of the American
Geographical Society; member and trus
tee of Webb's Academy and Home
for Shipbuilders. His chief recreation is
travel and summer on the yacht Loudoun,
named after his native county in Vir
ginia. Mr. Nixon is a member of the
Union, Brook, National Democratic, Law
yers', Seneca, Coney Island Jockey, New
York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Columbia
Yacht, Richmond County Country, and
Westchester Country Clubs, the Automobile
Club of America, Automobile Club of
Staten Island, Staten Island Club and
Motor Boat Club of- New York City, the
Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, and the
Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs of
Washington, D. C. Mr. Nixon married at
Washington, D. C, January 29, 1891, Sally
Lewis Wood, a direct descendant of the
Colonial general, Andrew Lewis of Vir
ginia, and they have one son, Stanhope
Wood Nixon. Address: Tompkinsville,
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NIXON, William Penn:
Journalist; born at Fountain City, Indi
ana, March 19, 1833; son of Samuel and
Rhoda Hubbard (Butler) Nixon. After
he had graduated from Farmers' College,
Ohio, he entered the law department of the
University of Pennsylvania, from which
he was graduated as LL.B. in 1859. He
practiced law after graduation, locating in
Cincinnati and continuing in the law un
til 1868. He was president of the Cin
cinnati Mutual Life Insurance Company
from 1866 to 1871. He began his news
paper career in 1868, when with his brother,
Dr. Oliver W. Nixon, he established the
Daily Cincinnati Chronicle, of which he
was -at first commercial editor and later
publisher and general manager until 1872,
when the paper was consolidated with the
Cincinnati Times. He then sold his inter
est and removed to Chicago, where he be
came business manager of the Chicago In
ter Ocean, until 1875, and after that for
twenty-two years its general manager and
editor-in-chief. He sold his controlling in
terest in 1897, but continued to be secre
tary and treasurer of the Inter Ocean Com
pany. Mr. Nixon was not only a success
ful journalist, but he also gained the friend
ship of his business associates and rivals,
and was for several years president of the
Associated Press. In politics Mr. Nixon
has always been an active and influential
Republican. He was a member of the Ohio
Legislature from 1864 to 1867, was delegate-
at-large from the State of Illinois to the
National Republican Convention at St.
Louis in 1896; was appointed a Lincoln
Park Commissioner in 1896, and president
of the board in 1897; appointed collector
of the port of Chicago in 1897, and re
appointed in 1901, serving until 1906. Mr.
Nixon has been twice married, first at
Cincinnati in 1861, to Mary, daughter of
Hezekiah and Ruth (Ferris) Stites, who
died iri 1862 ; and in 1869, he married Eliza
beth, daughter of Charles and Sarah E.
Duffield, of Chicago. Address: 743 North
Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.

NORLE, John:
Lawyer ; bOrn in Dover, New Hampshire,
April 14, 1829; son of Mark Noble and
Mary Carr (Copp) Noble; grandson of
John and Sarah (Chadbourne) Noble and
of George W. and Sarah (Palmer) Copp
and a descendant of Lazarus Noble, Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, before 1680 ; Wil
liam Chadbourne, Strawberry Bank, New
Hampshire, 1631 ; William Copp, Boston,
1635. Mr. Noble was brought up in the
town of Somersworth, New Hampshire;
was prepared for college- at Phillips Acad
emy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1850,
LL.B. in 1858, and received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1902.
He was sub-master of the Boston Latin
School from 1850 to 1856; tutor in Greek,
Harvard College, 1858; lawyer in active
practice from 1858 to 1875; clerk of the
Superior Judicial Court of Massachusetts
from 1875 to 1906. He was elected an
overseer of Howard University in 1898 and
reelected in 1904. Mr. Noble is a member
of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ;
Massachusetts Historical Society, Bostonian
Society, New England Historic Geneologi-
cal Society, American Antiquarian Society,
American Historical Association, Bunker
Hill Monument Association, American
Forestry Association. He married, June 11,
1873, Katherine Williams, daughter of Wil
liam and Catherine (Williams) Shelden of
Deerfield, Massachusetts and their children
are : John and Isabel Helen Noble. Ad
dress : Court House, Boston, Massachusetts.
NORLE, John Willock:
Lawyer; born at Lancaster, Ohio, Octo
ber 26, 1831; son of John Noble and Cathe
rine (McDiil) Noble. He attended Miami
University, was graduated from Yale as
B.A. in 1851, and received the honorary de
gree of LL.D. from Miami University in
1889 and from Yale in 1891. After leaving
Yale he studied law at Columbus, Ohio,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1853
and began practice. In 1855 he went to
St. Louis, but after a year's practice there
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law and served for some years as city at
torney. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third
Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and was mustered
in as first lieutenant and adjutant, in Au
gust, 1861, and he was, successively pro
moted to major, and lieutenant-colonel and
colonel in that regiment. He was judge ad
vocate of the Army of the Southwest, and
later of the Department of the Missouri.
He participated in the battle of Pea Ridge
and the siege of Vicksburg, served under
General Andrew J. Smith, against Forrest
and under General James H. Wilson in
Alabama and Georgia; was brevetted brig
adier-general, United States Volunteers,
March 13, 1865, and mustered out in Au
gust, 1865, returning to the practice of law
in St. Louis, where he has ever since re
sided, and has had a distinguished career
as a citizen and a member of the bar, be
ing constantly identified with the most im
portant cases. In March, 1867, he was
appointed United States district attorney
at St. Louis, serving until 1870, and prose
cuting successfully- the whisky and tobacco
fraud cases of that period, which attracted
much attention. He was offered by Pres
ident Grant, the office of solicitor-general,
but declined it, resuming his private prac
tice in 1870. General Noble was secretary
of the Interior in the administration of
President Harrison from 1889 to 1893, and
since then has continued in practice. He is
a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian
in his church relations. He married in
Northampton, Massachusetts, February 8,
1864, Elizabeth Halsted, who died in 1894,
and they had two children, who died in in
fancy. Residence : 3043 Pine Street, St.
Louis. Office "address : 614 Rialto Building,
St. Louis, Missouri.
NOLEN, John:
Landscape architect and lecturer ; born in
Philadelphia, in 1869 ; son of John C. Nolen
and Matilda (Thomas) Nolen. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania as Ph.B. in 1893, studied in the Uni
versity of Munich, Germany, in 1901-1902,
and Harvard University, receiving his A.M.
in 1905. He was landscape architect for

Savannah, Georgia, for Charlotte, North
Carolina, Roanoke, Virginia, and Moores
town, New Jersey. He has designed sev
eral public parks and private places through
out the East. Mr. Nolen is a Republican
in politics, and an Episcopalian in religion.
He is a lecturer on Outdoor Art, and is
author of magazine articles and editor of
Repton's Landscape Gardening, now in
press. Mr. Nolen is a member of the
American Society of Landscape Architects.
He has made four trips (one of a year) to
England, France, Germany, Switzerland
and Italy. He married in Philadelphia,
1896, Barbara Schatte, and they have three
children : John, Barbara and Edward.
Residence : 6 Avon Place, Cambridge.
Business address : Harvard Square, Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
NOLLEN, John Scholte:
President of Lake Forest College; born
in Pella, Iowa, January 15, 1869; son of
John Noller and Johanna (Scholte)
Nollen. He was graduated from the Cen
tral College of Iowa as A.B. in 1888, and
from the State University of Iowa in 1888;
did graduate work in the Universities of
Zuricfi, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, and re
ceived the degree of, Ph.D. from the Uni
versity of Leipzig in 1893. He was an in
structor in the Central College of Iowa
from 1885 to 1887; tutor at Cham, Switzer
land, from 1888 to 1890; professor of mod
ern languages in Iowa College froml893 to
!9°3; professor of German in Indiana Uni
versity from 1903 to 1907, and from 1907
president of Lake Forest College. He is
editor and author of various text-books
and monographs ' on German literature and
education, contributor to literary and philo
logical journals and while abroad wrote
foreign correspondence for the Boston
Evening Transcript. President Nollen is a
member of the Modern Language Asso
ciation, the Bibliographical Society of
America, the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Schwab-
ischer Schillerbund, Deutsche Bibliograph-
ische Gesellschaft and the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. In politics1* he is an Independent
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byterian. His favorite recreations are walk
ing, tennis and golf. Dr. Nollen is a mem
ber of the University Club of Chicago, and
the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest. He
married at Barrington, Rhode Islani, Sep
tember ii, 1906, Emeline Barstow Bartlett.
Address : Lake Forest, Illinois. .
NOLTE, Lewis G.:
Physician and surgeon; born in Milwau
kee, December 19, 1862; son of Simon
Noite and Pauline (Esche) Nolte. He
was educated in private and public schools
of Milwaukee and in Concordia College,
Fort Wayne, Indiana; was graduated
from Columbia University in New York
City, 1886. He was county physician of
Milwaukee County, from 1888 to 1892;
surgeon of Milwaukee Hospital, from 1888
to 1900 ; is now surgeon of Trinity Hospital,
consulting surgeon of Milwaukee County
Hospital; surgeon of the Johnston Emer
gency Hospital"; and professor of surgery
and clinical surgery in the Medical Depart
ment of Marquette University. He is a Re
publican in politics and a Lutheran in re
ligion. Dr. Nolte is president of the Co
lumbia University Alumni Association in
Wisconsin; president of the Milwaukee
County Medical Society; member of the
Wisconsin Medical Society, American Med
ical Association, Brainard Medical Society,
Northwestern Wisconsin Medical Society,
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science; trustee of Johnston
Emergency Hospital; member of Aurora
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Ca
lumet Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Ivan-
hoe Commandery, Knights Templar, Con
sistory in Valley of Milwaukee, in Wiscon
sin, Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity and Mys
tic Shrine. His favorite recreation is horse
back riding, but he is fond of all athletic
sports. He is a member of the Milwaukee
Deutscher, Milwaukee Yacht and Milwau
kee Athletic Clubs and of the Nicholas Senn
Club of Chicago. Dr. Nolte married in
New York City, October 17, 1888, Wilhel
mina Widmayer, and they have four chil
dren : William Lewis, born in 1890, Lewis
Palmer, born in 1892, Gladys : Louise, born
jn 1897 and Reginald Widmayer, born in

1899. Address: 747 Cass Street, Milwau
kee. Office address : Senn's Block, Mil
waukee, Wisconsin.
NORCROSS, Orlando Whitney:
Building contractor; born at Clinton,
Kennebec County, Maine, October 25, 1839 ;
son of Jesse S. Norcross and Margaret Ann
Norcross. He removed with his parents
in infancy to Salem, Massachusetts, where
he received his education in the public
schools, from which he went into the
leather business until the Civil War began,
when he enlisted "in a Massachusetts Regi
ment and served three years. In 1864 re
turned to the leather business in Salem,
until 1866, when he joined his brother James
A. Norcross in the building and contract
ing business in Salem, under the name of
Norcross Brothers ; moved to Worcester in
1868, bought his brother's interest in 1897,
then conducted it alone, without change of
firm name until 1902, when it was incor
porated as the Norcross Brothers Com
pany, of which he is president. This com
pany is one of the largest in the country,
and has built important structures in Chi
cago, New York, Boston, and all leading
American cities, and was one of the pio
neers in the building of the modern sky
scraper office buildings, remodeled the
White House in 1902 and 1903, and does
work amounting to many millions of dol
lars annually. Mr. Norcross married in
Salem, Massachusetts, May 17, 1870, Ellen
P. Sibley. Address : Worcester, Massachu
setts. NORRIS, Frederic William:
Clergyman; born at Bradford, England,
1862; son of William and Mary Elkins
Norris. He was graduated from St. Steph
en's College, B.A., 1888. Ordered deacon
1890, ordained priest 1891, by Bishop A.
Leonard, in Episcopal ministry. Formerly
assistant St. Mark's Cathedral, Salt Lake
City, Utah, 1890 to 1891 ; in charge of
same from 1891 to 1894; student at Ox
ford University, England, from 1894 to
1895; rector of Trinity Church, South Nor
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Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Brooklyn,
New York, since 1900. He married Mary E.
Cherry in 1890. Address : 180 Macon
Street, Brooklyn, New York.
NORRIS, George William :
Congressman and lawyer ; born on a farm
in Sandusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861,
and his early life was spent on the farm
where he was born. His father died when
he was a small child ; his only brother was
killed in the war of the rebellion, and his
mother was left in straitened circumstances ;
was compelled to work, out among the
neighboring farmers by the day and month
during the summer, and attended district
school during the winter ; afterwards taught
school and earned the money to defray ex
penses for a higher education; attended
Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the
Northern Indiana Normal School, Val
paraiso; studied law while teaching, and
afterwards finished the law course in law
school. He was admitted to the bar in
1883 ; removed to Nebraska in 1885 ; was
three times prosecuting attorney, twice by
appointment and once by election, refusing
a second nomination for the position; was
elected district judge of the Fourteenth
District in 1895, and reelected to the same
position in 1899, which position he held
when he was nominated for Congress by
the Republican convention. He was elected
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Fifth . Nebraska . District.
Address : McCook, Nebraska.
NORRIS, Samuel:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber
Company, Otter Creek Mercantile Com
pany, West Virginia Southern Railroad
Company, arid the Black River Water Com
pany; secretary and attorney of the United
States Rubber Company; secretary of the
General Rubber Company, and the Rubber
Goods Manufacturing Company; director
of the Export Lumber Company, George
town and Western Railroad Company,
Meyer Rubber Company. Address : 42
Broadway, New York City.

NORTH, Frank Mason:
Clergyman; born in New York City, De
cember 3, 1850; son of Charles Carter
North and Elizabeth (Mason) North. He
was graduated from Wesleyan University
with the degree of A.B. and Phi Beta
Kappa honors in 1872, later receiving the
degrees of A.M. and D.D. He was a mem
ber of the New York Conference, from 1873
to 1887, and since then of the New York
East Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. Dr. North filled pastorates
at Florida, New York, 1873; Amenia, New
York, 1874 to 1876; Cold Spring, 1877-78;
Church of the Saviour, New York City,
1879 to 1881; White Plains, New York,
1882-83; Calvary Church, New York City,
1884-87, Middletown, Connecticut," 1887 to
1892; since 1892 corresponding secretary of
the New York City Church Extension and
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. He is also editor of The
Christian City. He is corresponding secre
tary of the National City Evangelization
Union ; a manager of the General Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and of the Sunday School Union;
delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Con
ference, London, 1902; vice-chairman of
the Executive Committee and chairman of
secretaries of the Inter-Church Conference
on Federation, 1905; member of the Exec
utive Committee of the National Federa
tion of Churches and Christian Workers;
trustee of Wesleyan University and of
Drew Theological Seminary; member of
the Advisory Board of the Home for the
Friendless, St. Christopher's Home, Indus
trial Christian Alliance; director Christo-
dora House, Evangelical Committee of
New York City; American Bible Society
and New York Federation of Churches and
Christian Organizations. Dr. North is a
Republican in politics. He is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of New
York, the Sigma Chi fraternity and the
Quill Club of New York City. He married
first, in Philadelphia, Fannie L. Stewart,
who died in 1878, and second, at Wellesley,
Massachusetts, 1885, Louise J. McCoy, and
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gust 19, 1875, and Eric M., born June 22,
1888. Residence: 121 West One Hundred
and Twenty-second Street, New York City.
Office address : 150 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
NORTH, H. M.:
Lawyer; born in Juniata County, Penn
sylvania, May 7, 1826; read law under G.
S. Doty, of MifHintown, and Joseph Casey,
of New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and was ad
mitted to the Lancaster County bar in
1849. He opened an office in Columbia,
where he has since been actively engaged
in the practice of the law, doing an ex
cellent business. A Democrat in political
opinion, he was earnest in party service,
and was elected to the Pennsylvania Legis
lature in 1854. In i860 he was a delegate
to both the Democratic National Conven
tions of that year at Baltimore and at
Charleston, and in 1864 made a strong but
unsuccessful run against Hon. Thaddeus
Stephens for Congress. In 1872 he ran
against A. H. Smith for the same post of
honor. Mr. North has been solicitor for
the Reading Railroad Company since 1863
and for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany since 1869, and is president' of the
First National Bank of Columbia. He re
ceived a large vote for the party nomina
tion for lieutenant-governor in 1874 and for
governor in 1875, and was nominated for
president judge of Lancaster County in
1891. This place was offered him by the
governor in 1892, but was declined. He is
president of the Lancaster Bar Association,
and in 1887 was honored with the degree
of LL.D., from Franklin and Marshall
College. Address : Columbia, Pennsyl-

NORTHROP, Cyrus:
President of the University of Minne
sota; born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, Sep
tember 30, 1834; youngest child of Cyrus
and Polly B. (Fancher) Northrop. He
was graduated from Yale, as B.A., LL.B.,
and LL.D. He was clerk of the Senate
and House of Representatives of Connecti
cut from i860 to 1862; editor of New

Haven Daily Palladium in 1862 and 1863;
professor of rhetoric and English literature
in Yale College from 1863 to 1884; and
since 1884 he has been president of the
University of Minnesota. He is a member
of the Congregational Club. Mr. Northrop
married in 1862, Anna Elizabeth, daughter
of Joseph D. Warren of Stamford, Con
necticut, and they have one son and one
daughter. Address: Minneapolis, Min
nesota.NORTON, Charles Eliot:
Author and educator ; born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, November 16, 1827; son of
Professor Andrews Norton, and Catherine,
daughter of Samuel Eliot. He attended
private schools and Harvard College, gradu
ated from Harvard in 1846; received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard
and from Yale; of L.H.D. from Columbia,
Litt.D. from Cambridge; and D.C.L. from
Oxon. He is grand officer of the Order
of the Crown of. Italy. Mr. Norton was
professor at Harvard of the history of art
from 1874 to 1898, and since then has been
professor emeritus. He was founder and
first president of the Archeological Institute
of America, from 1879 to 1890; was editor
of the North American Review, from 1861
to 1868, and is author of: Recent Social
Theories, 1853; Notes of Travel and
Study in Italy, i860; translation of the
New Life of Dante, 1867; Church Building
in the Middle Ages, 1876; editor of Philo
sophical Discussion by Chancey Wright,
1876; Correspondence of Carlyle and Emer
son, 1883 ; of Correspondence between
Goethe and Carlyle, 1887; Reminiscences
and Letters of Carlyle, 1887; translation of
the Divine Comedy of Dante, 1891 ; Ora
tions and Addresses of George William
Curtis, 1894; letters of James Russell Low
ell, 1893 ; Two Note-Books of Thomas Car
lyle, 1898; The Poet Gray as a Naturalist,
1903; Letters of John Ruskin, 1904. Mr.
Norton married in 1862, Susan, daughter
of Theodore Sedgwick; she died in 1872,
leaving three sons and three daughters. Ad
dress: Shady Hill, Cambridge, Massachu
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NORTON, Eliot:
Lawyer; born in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, July i, 1863; son of Charles Eliot
and Susan Ridley (Sedgwick) Norton.
He was educated in private schools and
public schools; graduated from Harvard
University as B.A. in 1885 and A.M. in
1888, and from Harvard Law School as
LL.B. in 1888. He was admitted to the
bar in 1889; since then has been engaged
in the practice of law in New York City.
He is an Independent in politics; member
of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York; cavalier of the Order of
Saints Maurizio and Lazzare. He is a
member of the University, Grolier and
Lawyers' Clubs. He married at Oyster
Bay, Long Island, September, 1891, Mar
garet Palmer Meyer, and they have one son,
Charles Eliot, born May 26, 1902. Ad
dress : 2 Rector Street, New York City.
NORTON, John Pease:
Professor of political economy; born at
Suffield, Connecticut, July 28, 1878; son of
John Hughes Norton" and Annie Lord
(Lombard) Norton. He attended the
West Middle School, Hartford, Connecti
cut, 1891, Los Angeles High School, 1895,
graduated from Yale College as A.B. in
1899, and Yale University as Ph.D. in
1901. He was instructor in political econ
omy from 1901 to 1904; assistant professor
of political economy and railroads since
1905, actuary for Fisk and Robinson, since
1904; secretary of the Department of
Economic Institutions, of the International
Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis,
1904; secretary of Section I of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1906; chairman of the Committee
on Publicity and member of the executive
committee of One Hundred for Establish
ing the National Department of Health,
1906. Mr. Norton is author of : Statistical
Studies in the New York Money Market,
1901 (Macmillan) ; Theory of Loan Credif
in Relation to Corporation Economics,
American Economical Association, 1902,
1 Economic Advisability of Establishing a
National Department of Health, Deprecia

tion of Gold, Yale Review, 1906. He is a
member of the American Economic Asso
ciation, Sociological Society of Great
Britain, American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Connecticut Civil
Service Reform Association, National Civil
Service Reform Association, Arnerican
Forestry Association, National Geographi
cal Society, National Municipal League,
American Political Science Association, and
is also a member of the Graduates', New
Haven, Yale, and Lawyers' Clubs of New
York City. Residence : 551 Orange Street,
New Haven, Connecticut. Address : Fisk
and Robinson, 35 Cedar Street, New York
City.
NORTON, Thomas Herbert:
Consul, chemist and university professor;
born at Rushford, New York, June 30,
1851 ; son of Rev. Robert Norton and
Julia (Horsford) Norton. After a careful
preparatory education, Mr. Norton entered
Hamilton College, from which he was
graduated as valedictorian with the degree
of A.B., in 1873. He then pursued gradu
ate studies at the University of Berlin, the
University of Paris, and University of
Heidelberg, from which latter he received
the degree of Ph.D. in 1875. He also re
ceived the degree of ScD. honoris causa,
from Hamilton College in 1895. Dr. Nor
ton was the manager of extensive chemical
works at Paris, France, from 1878 to 1883.
He then returned to the United States and
took the chair of chemistry at the Univer
sity of Cincinnati, which he held until 1900.
He was appointed by President McKinley
in May, 1900, to establish the new Ameri
can Consulate at Harput, Turkey, a point
of great importance to American diplo
matic and educational interests, and re
mained there until 1905, when he was
transferred to Smyrna, and was consul at
the latter place until 1906, when he was
appointed to his present position as consul
of the United States to Chemnitz, Saxony.
Dr. Norton is a chemist of much distinc
tion, who has gained for himself promi
nence in the scientific world by his original
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metals, making important discoveries as
to their special properties and preparation,
and also has written various papers and ar
ticles on these subjects, and upon researches
in organic and technical' chemistry. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; was secre
tary of the Chemical Section, 1891, member
of the council, 1892, general secretary in
1893, vice-president in 1894, and librarian
of the Association in 1897. He is also a
member and was a councillor from 1892
to 1898 of the American Chemical Society",
a inember of the Society for Chemical In
dustry, fellow of the London Chemical So
ciety, member of the Deutsche Chemische
Gesellschaft, the Russian Chemical So
ciety, and of the Societe chimique
de Paris. He was also trustee and secre
tary of the Lane Theological Seminary
from 1895 to 1900, trustee of the Miami
Medical College, of Cincinnati, from 1893
to 1900, of the Laura Memorial Medical Col
lege from 1894 to 1900, and trustee and sec
retary of the Presbyterian Hospital from
1894 to 1900. He is a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, Cincinnati Literary
Club, and various American patriotic and
hereditary societies. In politics he is identi
fied with the Republican party, and he is a
Presbyterian in his religious affiliations.
Dr. Norton in earlier life found his chief
recreation in pedestrian travel in Europe
and Asia, and has journeyed over twelve
thousand miles in that way, and was the
first to travel on foot through Greece and
Syria. Since 1900 he has traveled an
equal distance on horseback in Asia
Minor, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Armenia,
Russia and Persia, and has made exten
sive raft trips on the Euphrates and Tigris
Rivers. While at Harput and Smyrna he
made valuable contributions to the Consu
lar Reports on commercial conditions in
the Orient. In 1904 and 1905 he was sent by
the United States Government on a special
mission to Persia. Dr. Norton married
at Lockport,. New York, December 27,
1883, Edith Eliza Ames, and they have one
son, Robert Ames, bom February 13, 1896.
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Address: American Consulate, Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany.
NORTON, William E,:
Artist; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
June 28, 1843; son of Daniel and Mary
(Carr) Norton. He began art study at
Lowell Institute, and with George Inness
of Boston. He studied in Paris under
Jacquesson de la Chevreuse and A. Vol-
lon, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He was awarded three gold medals in
America; honorable mention, Paris Salon,
1895 ; Osborne prize in 1905 ; and again in
1906 at New York. He was apprenticed
to a house, sign and decorative painter;
afterwards went to sea as a sailor; and
at the age of twenty-two he began his
career as an artist in Boston; made two
more voyages as a sailor; went to Europe
for study in 1877, and returned in 1902. He
is honorary member of the Gilbert-Garret
Sketching Club, and the Blackheath Art
Club ; and member of the Boston Art Club,
and of the Salmagundi Club of New York.
For many years a regular exhibitor at
the principal galleries in Europe and
America. Mr. Norton married in New
Brunswick, 1868, Sarah D. Ryan, died in
1904, and has two daughters : Gertrude
Maud and Florence Edith. Address : 1931
Broadway, New York City.
NOSTRAND, Peter Elbert:
Consulting engineer, city surveyor; born
at Brooklyn, New York, June 15, 1856; son
of John L. Nostrand and Ellen (De Be-
voise) Nostrand. He was graduated from
the Brooklyn Polytechnic, as B.S. in 1875.
He was assistant engineer and, in part, de
signed and supervised the construction of
first elevated railroad in Brooklyn; was
supervising engineer of the work done in
1880, and commenced the construction of
the Cape Cod Ship Canal, Massachusetts;
made extensive examinations of mining
properties in Mexico for foreign capital ;
was chief engineer of the contractors,' J.
T. and T. E. Crimmins, during the con
struction of the Broadway and Third Ave
nue cable railroads in New York City; and
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Water Company; as consulting engineer
and city surveyor he has advised regard
ing the foundations and proper form of
construction, or has located many -of the
largest buildings in New York City, among
which are the Columbia college buildings
and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine;
trustee of the Bushwick Savings Bank,
Brooklyn; member of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, and he is a mem
ber of the University Club. Mr. Nostrand
married in Brooklyn, New York, December
27, 1881, Ella Frances Arcularius, and they
have two children: Elizabeth, born June,
1885, and Elbert Arcularius, born April
1893. Residence : 235 Stuyvesant Avenue,
Brooklyn. Country residence : West Neck
Park, Shelter Island, New York. Address :
149 Broadway, New York City.
NOTES, Carlton, Eldredge:
Author; born in Boston, October 1, 1872;
son of Merease E. Noyes and Henrietta
(Atwood) Noyes. He attended the Prince
Grammar School of Boston, Public Latin
School, Boston, and was graduated from
Harvard University as A.B. in 1895, A.M.
in 1896, and also studied in the Univer
sity of Berlin, and at the Sorbonne, Paris.
He was assistant in English at Harvard
University in 1896 and 1897; instructor in
English from 1899 to 1904; lecturer of the
American University Extension Society,
from 1904 to 1906. He is editor of Cole
ridge's Ancient Mariner, 1900 (Globe
School Book Company). He is author of:
The Enjoyment of Art, 1903; and The
Gate of Appreciation, 1907 (both published
by Houghton, Mifflin & Company). He is
a Republican in politics, and a Congrega
tionalist in church relation. Mr. Noyes
is a member of the St. Botolph Club of
Boston, Colonial Club of Cambridge, and
the Harvard Club of New York. He mar
ried in New York, June 1, 1907, Mary
Charlotte Metcalfe. Address : 328 Har
vard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOTES, Charles S.:
Lawyer ; born in Brooklyn, New York,
November 8, 1858 ; son of Charles H. Noyes
and Jane R. (Dana) Noyes. He attended

Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, Montclair
High School, and was graduated from Am
herst College as B.A., and from Columbia
Law School, as LL.B. Mr. Noyes engaged
in the practice of law, was connected with
much important Queens County litigation,
and counsel for property owners in the case
of Summerfield against Norton, tried in the
Supreme Court of Queens County in 1906,
involving titles to a large part of Rock-
away Beach. Mr. Noyes is a Republican
in politics, and a Congregationalist in his
religious faith. He is a member of the
Delta Upsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa
Society, and the Congregational Club of
New York. Pie married at Montclair, New
Jersey, April 14, 1892, Ella E. Shafer, and
they have one son, Radcliffe Dana Noyes,
born in 1895. Residence : 249 West One
Hundred and Fourth Street. Office ad
dress : 198 Broadway, New York City.
NOTES, Crosby Stuart:
Editor; born in Minot, Maine, February
16, 1825. He received his education in
the School of Maine, and engaged in news
paper life. He went to Washington as
correspondent for New England papers, and
in 1855 joined the staff of the Washington
Staff, first, as a reporter, and later in the
editorial rooms. He became part proprietor
and editor-in-chief in 1867, and has con
tinued at the head of the paper ever since.
Under Mr. Noyes the Star has attained a
position of great prominence and influence.
Mr. Noyes married in 1856, Elizabeth S.
Thomas, of Maine. Address: 1101 Penn
sylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.
NOTES, Daniel Rogers:
Wholesale merchant ; born at Lyme, Con
necticut, November 10, 1836; son of Daniel
Rogers Noyes and Phoebe Griffin (Lord)
Noyes. He was the founder and is head
of the wholesale drug business of Noyes
Brothers and Cutler, at St. Paul, Minne
sota, and is a director of the Merchants'
National Bank of St. Paul. Mr. Noyes
was a volunteer in the Union Army in the
Civil War. He is a regent of the State
University of Minnesota; president of the
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and Animals, and has been a representative
of Minnesota at the National Conference of
Charities and Correction. In politics he is
a Republican, but independent in local elec
tions; and he is a member and elder of
the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Noyes is a
speaker, writer and worker for National,
State and Municipal reform, education, so
cial-science, charities and church work and
development, especially missions. He was
founder and is president of the St. Paul
Relief Society; president of the State Hu
mane Society; an incorporator of the Na
tional Red Cross Society and founder of
its St. Paul Branch; and has been a trus
tee of Carlton College for thirty-two years ;
and he is vice-president of • the American
Sunday School Union and American Hu
mane Society. He has been president of
the, National Wholesale Druggists' Associa
tion and a director of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of New York; president
of the Minnesota Society of Sons of the
American Revolution. He was a member
of the Committee on Revision of, the Pres
byterian Confession of Faith, and was vice
moderator of the Presbyterian General As
sembly at New York in 1902. Mr. Noyes
has been an extensive traveler, his tours
having covered North America, Cuba, al
most all of Europe (several voyages), Ja
pan, China, and other . countries. He is a
member of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, ;the American Historical Association,
National Geographic Society, and the Na
tional Social Science Association, the Cen
tury Association of New York City and the
Minnesota and Town and Country Clubs
of St. Paul. Mr.; Noyes married in New
York Cityy December 4, 1866, Helen A.
Gilman, and they have five children : Helen
(married Dr. William Adams Brown of
New York) ; .Winthrop, partner in , Noyes
Brothers and Cutler, St. Paul ; Evelyn
(married Rollin S. Saltus, of Mount Kisco,
N.ew York) ; Caro (married Thatcher M.
Brown, of Brown Brothers & Company,
New York) ; and D. Raymond, of New
York. ,'Summer home: Upland Cottage,
Seal Plarbor, Mount Desert, Maine. Resi
dence : 366 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. Of

fice address : Corner of Sixth and Sibley
Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.
NOTES, Frank Brett:
Editor; born in Washington, D. C, July
7, 1863; son of Crosby S. Noyes and Eliza
beth S. (Williams) Noyes. After passing
through high school and the Preparatory
Department of Columbian University, he
entered the office of 'the Washington Star,
of which his father was editor-in-chief, in
1881, and continued as its manager until
1901, and in 1902 he became editor-in-chief
of the Chicago Record-Herald, in which
position he continues. He has also, since
1900, been president of the Associated Press,
and has been a member of its Executive
Committee since 1894. He has by natural
abilities and a life-long training taken a
foremost place as a newspaper manager.
He is a member of the Chicago, City and
Chicago Golf Clubs of. Chicago, and the
Chevy Chase Club of Washington. Mr.
Noyes married in Washington, D. C, Sep
tember 17, 1888, Janet Thurston Newbold.
Address : The Record-Herald, Chicago.
NOTES, Henry F.:
Capitalist; trustee of the Brooklyn Sav
ings Bank and of the Long Island Loan
and Trust Company, and director of the
Home Insurance Company. Address : 34
Thomas Street, New York City.
NOTES, Walter C:
United States circuit judge; was for
years engaged in practice of law at New
London, Connecticut, and for twelve years
judge of the Court of Common Pleas in
that city, until appointed by President
Roosevelt in September, 1907, as judge of
the United States Circuit Court for the
Second Judicial Circuit, to succeed the late
Judge William K. Townsend. Judge Noyes
is an eminent authority on corporation law,
author of: The Law of Intercorporate Re
lations, and • of American Railroad Rates.
Since 1904 he has been president of the
New London Railroad Company. Address ;
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MEN OF AMERICA.

NTCE, Benjamin Markley:
President of Talladega College; born in
Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1869; son of
Rev! B. M. Nyce and Melissa (Hamilton)
Nyce. He attended Cleveland High School,
Oberlin College, and Princeton University,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1891, Berlin University, and McCormick
Theological Seminary. He was pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, Warsaw,
Indiana, in 1894 and 1895, Lockport, New
York, from 1896 to 1904; and since 1904 he
has been president of Talladega College.
He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Nyce
spent the year 1904 traveling in Africa and
Europe. He married in Shelbyville, In
diana, December 27, 1894, Ursula Strong,
and they have two children: Benjamin M.,
Jr., bom in 1897, and Norman Strong, born
in 1900. Address : Talladega, Alabama.
NTE, George Hyatt:
Manufacturer, banker; born at Auburn,
New York, Decembers, 1854; son of Caro
line E. Beardsley and Lorenzo (Ward)
Nye. He was educated at academies at
Burlington, New Jersey, Aurora, New York
and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire. President of the Nye and
Wait Carpet Company; vice-president and
treasurer of the American Axmin^ter In
dustry; president of the Cayuga County
National Bank ; trustee of the Auburn Sav
ings Bank, and interested in many other
'corporations. For many years active in
politics as a Democrat of the Tilden and
Cleveland school. Active in all matters of
public interest. He married in New York
City, 1881, Mollie A. Wilson. Resi
dence : Auburn, New York.

OAKMAN, Walter G,:
Capitalist. He was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, 1864; and is
now the president and director of the Hud
son Companies, Hudson Improvement
Company, Interboro Metropolitan Company,
New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improve
ment Company; chairman of the Board of

Directors of the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York; vice-president and director
of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
Company, Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and
Iron Company, Rapid Transit Subway Con
struction Company, Subway Realty Com
pany; director of the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad Company, American Car
and Foundry Company, Brooklyn Heights
Railroad Company, Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company, Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burgh Railway Company, Fairmont Coal
Company, Hudson Street Railroad Com
pany, Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany, Kings County and Fulton Elevated
Railroad Company, Long Island Consoli
dated Electrical Companies, Long Island
Railroad Company, Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company, Morristown Trust Com
pany, Morton Trust Company, Mutual
Trust Company of Westchester County,
National Bank of Commerce, New York &
New Jersey Railroad Company, New York
& Queens County Railway, New York City
Interborough Railway Company, Reynolds-
ville & Falls Creek Railroad, Richmond
Light and Railroad Company, Rogers Loco
motive Works, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and
Iron Company, and Somerset Coal Com
pany. He is a member of the Union,
Riding, Turf and Field, Automobile of
America, Midday, Garden City Golf, Uni
versity, Metropolitan, Century and Down
Town Clubs. He married E. Conkling.
They have one son, Walter G., Jr. Resi
dence: 512 Fifth Avenue. Address: 62
Cedar Street, New York City.
OBERLT, Henry Harrison:
Clergyman; born at Easton, Pennsylvan
ia; son of Benjamin Oberly and Ann Eliza
beth (Yard) Oberly. He attended Easton
High School, the Grammar School of Rac
ine College ; Trinity College, Hartford, Con
necticut; Berkeley Divinity School, Middle-
town, Connecticut. He received the degree
of B.A. in 1865, M.A. in 1868, and D.D. in
1899 from Trinity College. He was curate
of the Church of the Nativity, South Beth
lehem, Pennsylvania, 1867; of Trinity
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tor of Holy Cross Church, Warrensburgh,
New York, from 1869 to 1873; of Grace
Church, Cherry Valley, New York, in
1873 and 1874; of Trinity Church, West
Troy, New York, from 1874 to 1879, and
of Christ Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey,
since 1879. Dr. Oberly was a member of
the Standing Committee of the Diocese of
New Jersey, from 1892 to 1906; deputy to
the General Convention, in 1901 and 1904;
and is a member of the Permanent Com
mittee of the Inter-Church Conference ; and
of the Executive Committee of the Church
Congress. He is author of a series of
Lessons on the Church Catechism; a vol
ume, The Testimony of the Prayer Book to
the Continuity of the Church; numerous
essays and published sermons and contribu
tions to magazines and newspapers. He
is a member of the Corporation for the
Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergy
men of New Jersey, also the Charity Or
ganization Society of Elizabeth, New Jer
sey. He is a member of the Catholic
Clerical Union of New York City, and the
Psi Upsilon Club of New York City. Dr.
Oberly married in New York City, October
2, 1871, Jane Averell Laidley, and of that
union there were three children, all now
deceased. Address: 1064 East Jersey
Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey.
OBERMATER, Charles J.:
Banker; born November 8, 1869; son of
Charles G. and Amelia (Moses) Ober-
mayer. He attended the public schools, the
College of the City of New York, and
studied law three years. He was secretary
and treasurer of the German-American
Title Guarantee Company of New York
City, for twelve years; president and dir
ector of the Narragansett Finishing Com
pany ; president and trustee of Greater New
York Savings Bank; director and chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Home
Title Insurance Company of Brooklyn ;
member of the Advisory Committee of the
Fifth Avenue Branch of the Mechanics'
Bank. He is a member of the Dutch Re
formed Church, the Bibliophile Society of
Boston, Masonic order, Royal Arcanum,
Heptasophs, South Brooklyn Board of

Trade; vice-president and trustee of the
Samaritan Plospital; member of the Ad
visory Committee, Brooklyn Nursery, and
Infants' Hospital. He is a member of the
Twelfth Assembly District Republican
Club, Brooklyn League, and of the Pros
pect Heights Citizens' Association. Mr.
Obermayer is ex-president of the League
of American Wheelmen in the United
States. He is also a member of the
Automobile Club of America, Crescent Ath
letic and Boston Bicycle Club. Mr. Ober
mayer married in Brooklyn, New York,
June 16, 1892, Ida Bell Sabin. Address:
498 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
O'BRIAN, John Lord:
Lawyer; born in Buffalo, New York,
October 14, 1874; son of John and Eliza
beth (Lord) O'Brian; he was educated
in the public grammar and high schools ;
was graduated from Harvard College as A.
B., in 1896; and from the University of
Buffalo Law School as LL.B., in 1898. Mr.
O'Brian was chief counsel for presentors
in the trial of the Reverend A. S. Crap-
sey, of Rochester, 1906, before ec
clesiastical courts. He is professor of med
ical jurisprudence, Buffalo Medical School;
church advocate, Diocese of Western New
York; counsel for Medical Society of the
County of Erie; member of the Executive
Committee, Buffalo Civil Service Reform
Association; member of Council (trustee)
University of Buffalo ; trustee of Margaret's
School for Girls; member of the Faculty
of the University of Buffalo Law School.
Republican; Member of Assembly, New
York, 1907 and 1908, from Second District
of Erie County. Episcopalian. Member of
Delta Upsilon (Harvard), and Phi Delta
Phi (Buffalo), fraternities, a member of
the University Club, Buffalo. Married in
Buffalo, September 17, 1902, Alma E.
White ; they have one daughter, Alma Eliza
beth. Residence : 295 Linwood Avenue. Ad
dress: 117 Erie County Bank Building, Buf
falo, New York.
O'BRIEN, Denis:
Jurist; born in Ogdensburg, New York,
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Admitted to the bar in 1861 ; moved to
Watertown in 1861 and began practice
there ; he was 'elected alderman of Water-
town in 1869, four successive terms and
afterward elected mayor. In 1880 he suc
ceeded the late James F. Starbuck as mem
ber of the State Democratic Committee,
serving four years ; elected attorney-general
of New York, two terms from 1883 to 1889 ;
elected 1889, reelected in 1903, judge of the
Court of Appeals of New York; present
term expires on December 31, 1917. Ad
dress : Watertown, New York.
O'BRIEN, Edward C:
Diplomat, merchant; born at Fort Ed
ward, New York. He was educated in
the public schools of Fort Edward, and
at Granville, Military Academy, and was
graduated from the latter in 1880. He
was for several years engaged in the com
mission flour trade, Plattsburg, New York,
and became interested in shipping and
transportation matters. He was prominent
in movements in favor of the develop
ment of deep-water commerce and an ad
vocate of a large barge canal connecting
the Great Lakes with the Hudson River
at Albany; was chairman of the Interna
tional Deep Waterways Convention at
Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1896; was
appointed commissioner of navigation by
President Harrison and served from 1889
to 1893. He became associated with the
Davis Coal and Coke Company of Vir
ginia, as a director; was appointed by
Governor Morton as commissary-general
of subsistence of the National Guard of
the State of New York, with rank of
brigadier-general, but resigned on his ap
pointment by Mayor Strong as commis
sioner of docks of New York City, of
which he was elected president, serving
until 1897. During his administration the
great improvement in the water front of
the North River was undertaken, and six
well-known recreation piers constructed,
and at the close of his administration the
shipping and commercial men of the city
gave a banquet in his honor. He was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt in 1905,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo

tentiary of the United States to Paraguay
and Uruguay. General O'Brien organized
the International Express Company and the
Cuban and Pan American Company, both
of which he became president. He is a
member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, the Maritime Association and
the Board of Trade and Transportation
and is also a member of the Union League
and Lawyers' Clubs of New York City,
Address: United States Legation, Monte
video, Uruguay.
O'BRIEN, Miles M.:
Banker ; born in Ireland in. 1852 ; son of
Dr. Miles and Fannie (Casey) O'Brien.
He was educated in private schools, Chris
tian Brothers and Model School; LL.D.,
St. John's University, Fordham. He is the
president of the New Amsterdam National
Bank; vice-president of the Mercantile
National Bank ; director in numerous other
banks and savings institutions; director of
the American Ice Company. Mr. O'Brien
was first vice-president of the School Board
of Greater New York, after consolidation,
for two term's, and served twenty years
on the Board of Education. He estab
lished free lectures for the people, the High
School of Commerce, and baths for' the
children in the schools, and advocated and
helped to pass laws to pension school teach
ers. He is an Independent Democrat. His
recreation is horseback riding. Mr. O'Brien
is a member of the Lotos, Democratic and
Catholic Clubs. He married in New York
City, Thomasina E. Leahy and they have
four children: Miles M., Jr., Jay J., T.
Dudley and Alvan de C. Residence: 320
West Eighty-ninth Street. Address: 195
Broadway, New York City.
O'BRIEN, Morgan Joseph:
Presiding justice of the Appellate Divis
ion of the Supreme Court of this State
for the First Department, was born in the
city of New York, on the 28th day of
April, 1852. His father had come to
America from the south of Ireland thirty
years before, at the time when Daniel
O'Connell succeeded Grattan as the Irish
leader. The young O'Brien obtained his
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of this' city, and later attended St. John's
College, Fordham, now known as Ford
ham University, from which institution he
was graduated in 1872 with the degree of
A.B. In the following year he entered the
College of St. Francis Xavier, conducted
by the Jesuits, in West Sixteenth Street,
and secured the degree of A.M. There
after he entered the Law School of Co
lumbia College, graduating in two years
with the degree of LL.B. He built up a
large and lucrative practice, chiefly in com
mercial law and in cases arising from
large corporate interests. A great part of
his- time, in addition to his general law
practice, having been taken up in litigation
affecting the corporate interests of the
City of New York, such as the docks,
water-fronts and matters before the Sink
ing Fund Commissioners, he gained a
considerable reputation for capacity, and
the knowledge thus gained led to his selec
tion as Corporation Counsel of the City of
New York by Mayor Hewitt. While sup
porting the regular Democratic organiza
tion, he has been independent in politics
throughout; his whole life. He was one of
those who drafted the platform upon which
Grover Cleveland was elected governor of
New York. He took a prominent and lead
ing part in the Irish Land League move
ments,, initiated in 1879 by Parnell and
Davitt, and had much to do with promoting,
in this country, the success of the move
ment,, which has revolutionized the condi
tions of land tenure in Ireland. In 1887,
and while still acting as corporation counsel,
Mr. O'Brien was elected a justice of the
Supreme Court of the State. At the time
Of his election he was in his thirty-fifth
year, and was up to that time the youngest
man to receive that judicial honor in the
State of New York. Shortly after his
election he received from St. John's Col
lege, Fordham, the degree of LL.D. For the
first five years following his election his
work lay in the circuit courts and the spe
cial term of the Supreme Court. The most
critical work which fell to Judge O'Brien
during those early years on the bench came
to him in 1891. Certain election orders
which were deemed very favorable to the

Republican party had been issued by Jus
tice Kennedy, of the Supreme Court of
Syracuse. Justice O'Brien was designated
by Governor Hill to sit as an additional
justice, and it was generally anticipated
that the matter would be fought out by
the two justices on party lines. However,
those who looked for difficulty were disap
pointed, for Justice O'Brien met Justice
Kennedy and, after a conference with him,
a united and harmonious plan of action
was arranged. Justice O'Brien's opinions
in this case were sustained by the Court of
Appeals. Governor Hill appointed him to
the General Term, and in 1895 he was ap
pointed by Governor Levi P. Morton a
member of the Appellate Division. Upon
the completion of his first term as Supreme
Court Justice he was nominated by accla
mation to succeed himself, both parties
joining in the nomination, and he was
elected to serve until the year 1915. The
death of Justice Van Brunt a short time
ago opened the way for his promotion to
the office of presiding justice. He is at
present serving as one of the three trus
tees of the reconstructed Equitable Life
Assurance Society. He was for several
years, trustee of the public schools of New
York, and he is now one of the trustees
of the New York Public Library, Astor,
Lenox and Tilden Foundations. He is deep
ly interested in insurance matters and has
invested largely in the Equitable Life. Jus
tice O'Brien during his whole life has been
closely associated with charitable and edu
cational work. For more than twenty-five
years he has been in active service on the
boards of the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum, the Foundling Asylum, St. Vin
cent's Hospital, St. John's University, and
is President of the Alumni Association of
Columbia University Law School. He mar
ried Rose, daughter of the late Thomas
Crimmins, and they have four children :
Rosalie, Madeleine, Morgan J. G., and Es-
monde P. Address : 524 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
O'BRIEN, Thomas J.:
Diplomat and lawyer ; born at Jackson,
Michigan, July 30, 1842; son of Timothy

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O'Brien and Elizabeth (Lander) O'Brien.
His early education was procured in the
public schools of Michigan, and he then
entered the law department of the Univer
sity of Michigan, from which he was
graduated as LL.J3. in 1865. He then en
gaged in the practice of law with success,
becoming assistant general counsel for the
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway in 1871
and its general counsel in 1883, and con
tinuing in that capacity until 1905, when he
was appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Denmark, in which position he
continued until May 18, 1907, when he. was
appointed ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Japan. Mr. O'Brien is a
Republican; in 1883 he was the candidate
of his party for justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of Michigan. He was
a delegate-at-large to the National Con
vention at St. Louis in 1896, which nomi
nated McKinley, and was again a delegate
at large and chairman of his delegation to
the Chicago Convention of 1904, which
nominated Roosevelt. Mr. O'Brien mar
ried September 4, 1873, Delia Howard, and
they have their home at Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Address : American Embassy.
Tokyo, Japan.
O'BRIEN, William H.:
Banker; born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana,
August 22, 1855; son of Cornelius O'Brien,
a lawyer, and a native of Kilkenny County,
Ireland, and Harriet Jane Hunter, born in
Lawrenceburg. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town and went
through the sophomore year at DePauw
University, and on May 9, 1882, was mar
ried to Harriet Hunter, a native of Mexico,
Missouri. Member of Indiana State Senate,
1902 to 1906; mayor of Lawrenceburg
from 1885 to 1894, from 1898 to 1902,
chairman of the Democratic State Commit
tee of Indiana from 1902 to 1908. He was
district delegate to the Democratic Na
tional Convention, 1900, at Kansas City,
Missouri, and delegate -from State at large
to Democratic National Convention in

1904 at St. Louis. Address : Lawrence
burg, Indiana.
O'CALLAGHAN, Daniel J. M.:
Lawyer; born at Worcester, Massachu
setts, June 12, 1855 ; son of Peter and Mar
garet (O'Sullivan) O'Callaghan. He was
graduated from Milford (Massachusetts)
High School, 1871. He was graduated
from Harvard College in 1877. He was
admitted to the Massachusetts and New
York State bars; has practiced for over
twenty-four years in New York City, and
his travels have been confined to the United
States. Mr. O'Callaghan is editor and pro
prietor of the Political Liberty Herald, an
independent periodical, founded in 1901;
was a Democrat until 1886 ; became member
of the Anti-Poverty Society and the
United Labor Party; supported Henry
George in 1886 for mayor, and in 1887 -for
Secretary of State; voted for the presi
dential electqrs of same party in 1888;
voted with the Republican party after 1888,
until 1900, when voted with Democratic
party; became member oithe Political Lib
erty Society, upon its organization in 1900;
continued voting with the Democratic party
until 1904; since then member of the
Political Liberty party, organized that
year, and is secretary and treasurer of its
National Committee. He is a Catholic in
religion, and is a member of the New York
Law Institute, and Phi Beta Kappa Alumni
Association of New York. Address: 53
Park Row, New York City.
OCHS, Adolph S.:
Journalist, publisher; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, March 12, 1858. His father came to
America in 1844, and before he had been
in the country a sufficient length of time to
gain a citizenship he enlisted in the army.
He took part in the war with Mexico and
proved himself a valiant soldier. A little
more than a decade after the close of the
Mexican War he again entered the army,
this time as an officer, and as captain of a
company in the Fifty-second Ohio Volun
teers he won distinction for his bravery
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struggle for the preservation of the Union.
Upon the termination of the war Mr.
Ochs, with his family, moved to Knoxville,
Tenn. There the son attended the public
schools and made rapid progress in all
the fundamental branches. At the age of
eleven years he was a carrier boy on the
Knoxville Daily Chronicle, supplementing
his school hours by earning something on
his own account. This was the beginning
of his life in the newspaper world, which
was in time to grow into such vast pro
portions. To his course in the public
schools he added a short term in a business
college. He then made a brief sojourn be
hind the counter in a drug store, this being-
his only evasion of the printing business,
a business which had unusual charms for
the embryo publisher. In 1873, when he
was but fifteen, he went back to the Knox
ville Chronicle, where he was "devil" and
copy boy, until his earnest solicitation to be
put at case was granted. Here he developed
rapidly and quickly, became one of the best
compositors in Knoxville. Desiring to widen
his knowledge of the art, he left his position
in Knoxville and went to the job office of
the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he
studied that branch of the business indus
triously for a year. He then returned to
Knoxville to accept the position of general
utility man on the Daily Tribune, on which
he served as writer and later assistant busi
ness manager. He was connected with the
Chattanooga Tribune in 1877 and 1878;
then resigned and engaged in the publica
tion of the Chattanooga City Directory.
Some time after that the Chattanooga Tri
bune failed, and Mr. Ochs was appointed
receiver and paid off the entire debt of the
paper. He bought the Chattanooga Times,
then a, not very prosperous property, July
1, 1878, and it prospered greatly under his
management. Mr. Ochs ran the first special
news train in Tennessee, an event which
was appropriately celebrated1. On July 1,
1888, a jubilee number of the Times was is
sued, in which the business men of the city
manifested great intei-est. In 1890 was be
gun the erection of a handsome office build
ing, which was completed at a cost of two

hundred thousand dollars. Upon its inaugu
ration the citizens of Chattanooga showed
their appreciation of his enterprising spirit
by presenting Mr. Ochs with a handsomely
illuminated address, accompanied by a
beautiful" and costly souvenir. In 1896 the
publishers of the New York Times found
themselves in need of the services of a man
who would rescue the paper from its de
clining fortunes, and the successful career
of Mr. Ochs impressed them with the be
lief that he was the one to accomplish the
task. The matter was presented to him,
and after mature deliberation he consented
to assume the management of the paper.
His administration has been attended with
wonderful success, both financially and in
the prestige of The Times as an exponent
of what is best and cleanest in journalism,
and about two years ago the office and plant
of the paper removed from its old position
on Park Row to one of the finest news
paper structures in the world, at Forty-
second Street and Broadway. In 1901 Mr.
Ochs obtained the controlling interest in
the Philadelphia Times and the Phila
delphia Public Ledger and, combining
the two journals, placed them under the
business management of his brother,
George W. Ochs. The investment in these
two well-known journals has been attended
with excellent results. Mr. Ochs has al
ways been prominent in the editorial and
publishers' associations of the country, and
from 1891 to 1897 he was secretary of the
Southern Associated Press, and when the
Associated Press was reorganized he was
made a charter member and treasurer of
the new organization. He is still the prin
cipal owner of the Chattanooga Times,
though its management is in other hands.
Address : Times Office, New York City.
OCHS, George Washington:
Journalist, publisher; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, October 27, 1861 ; son of Julius Ochs
and Bertha (Levy) Ochs. He attended the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ten
nessee. Mr. Ochs was twice mayor of
Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1893 to 1897 ;
declined renomination ; president of the

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MEN OF AMERICA.

Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce in
1901 ; president of the Chattanooga Board
of Education, from 1898 to 1900; delegate
from the Third Congressional District of
Tennessee to the National Democratic
Convention in 1896; chosen to second the
nomination of Grover Cleveland at that
convention; delegate from the State-at-
large to the Palmer and Buckner conven
tion, 1896; president of the Chattanooga
Library Association, from 1894 to 1897;
vice-president of the National Municipal
League, from 1896 to 1900; president of
the Jewish Chautauqua Association of the
United States ; director of the New York
Times Company, Times Printing Company
of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Public Ledger
Company of Philadelphia ; Tradesman
Publishing Company of Chattanooga, Ten
nessee; publisher and general manager of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He pub
lished the Exposition Edition of the New
York Times in Paris in 1900, and was
decorated by the French Government with
the Cross Chevalier of the Legion d'Hon
neur. He is a member of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
the City, Art, Mercantile, Franklin Inn and
Southern Clubs, and the Nameless Club of
Philadelphia. Address: Public Ledger,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
OCHTMAN, Leonard:
Artist ; born at Zonnemaire, Holland, Oc
tober 21, 1854; son of John and Hendrika
(Fontaine) Ochtman. He was educated in
the common schools of Zonnemaire, Hol
land, and Albany, New York, where coming
to America with his parents in 1866 he had
settled. In his sixteenth year, he entered
a wood engraving establishment as
draughtsman and remained there seven
years, devoting his leisure hours to the
study of nature.~ He had a studio in Al
bany for two years, and finally opened one
in New York City. In his specialty as a
landscape painter he is self-taught. He
first exhibited at the National Academy in
1882, and has ever since been represented
there as well as at all important exhibitions
throughout the country. He was elected

associate member of the National Academy
of Design in 1899, and admitted to full
membership in 1904. Mr. Ochtman is the
holder of many medals and prizes, among
the awards being a prize from the Brook
lyn Art Club 1891, a medal at the Colum
bian Exposition 1893, a gold medal at the
Philadelphia Art Club in 1894, and a silver
medal at the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo in 1901, and at the Charleston Ex-'
position in 1902. In 1903. he received the,
Inness Gold Medal from the National
Academy and in 1904 was awarded the
Webb Prize from the Society of American
Artists and two gold medals for oil and
water-color at the Universal Exposition at
St. Louis. He has received also various
prizes from the Salmagundi Club in 1902,
1903, 1906 and the Evans prize in 1907, the
Shaw prize from the- Society of American
Artists, 1902, Second Corcoran prize,
Washington Society of Artists, and others
from prominent associations. He has trav
eled considerably in Europe for study and
observation. In politics he is a Republi
can. He is a member 'of the National
Academy of Design, of the Society of
American Artists, of the American Water
Color Society, of the Society of Landscape
Painters, of the Artist Fund Society, the
Artist Aid Society, and also the New. York
Water Color Club, the Brooklyn Art Club,
the Salmagandi and Lotos Clubs. He was
married at Laconia, New Hampshire, June
23, 1891, to Mina M. Fonda, and has had
three children : Dorothy, born 1892 ; Leon
ard, born 1894; Arthur, born 1895. Resi
dence : "Grayledge," Coscob, Connecticut.
Address: Carnegie Hall, New York City.
O'CONNELL, John Joseph:
Brigadier-general, United States Army;
born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1840; son
of John O'Connell and Mary (Carter)
O'Connell. He was educated in Catholic
academies, and before entering the Army
was professor of mathematics and literature
in Seton Hall College, Maryland. He en
tered the United States Army as a private
in Company A, United States Engineers, in
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inained in that company until commissioned
second lieutenant of the First Infantry, Oc
tober 28, 1867; promoted to first lieu
tenant, June 28, 1878; captain, April
14, 1887; lieutenant-colonel. Third In
fantry, July 5, 1901 ; colonel Thir
tieth Infantry, April 20, 1903; promoted to
brigadier-general, and retired, December 16,
1904. General O'Connell did gallant serv
ice in Indian campaigns, the Civil War,
Philippine campaigns, and the Spanish-
American War. He was the first man who
landed in Cuba in 1898, and was twice
brevetted for gallant service in action in
that war. General O'Connell is a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
the Army of the Potomac, the Army of
Santiago, Grand Army of the Republic, and
other societies. In religion he is a Catho
lic. He is a member of the Army and
Navy Club of Washington, D. C. General
O'Connell. married in Cincinnati, Ohio,
Margaret Le Boutillier, and they have one
daughter, Lilian. Address : The Ontario,
Ontario Avenue, Washington, D. C.
O'CONNELL, Joseph F.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Bos
ton, December 7, 1872 ; son of James O'Con
nell and Elizabeth O'Connell. He was edu
cated in St. Mary's Parochial School, Bos
ton College and Harvard University. He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar, March 19,
1897, and he has been practicing in the
State and United States Courts continuous
ly since. He was elected in 1906 and is
now serving as a member of the Sixtieth
Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts
District. In politics he is a Democrat and
in religion a Roman Catholic. % He is a
member of the Boston Bar Association and
Knights of Columbus. His favorite recre
ations are swimming, walking, and attend
ing baseball and football games. He is a
member, of the Boston, City, Catholic,
Economic, Ashmont and Young Men's
Democratic Clubs. Residence: 13 Bowdoin
Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts. Address :
53 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
O'CONOR, Joseph Francis Xavier:
Clergyman, educator; born in New York
City,, August 1, 1852; son of Daniel and

Jane (Lake) O'Conor. He was gradu
ated from St. Francis Xavier College, New
York City, as A.B. in 1872 ; literary studies
in England, philosophical studies in . Lou
vain, Belgium; theology, Woodstock,
Maryland ; Oriental, Johns Hopkins ; mem
ber of the Society of Jesus, 1872; he was
ordained priest in 1885. He was profes
sor of literature in Georgetown University,
Boston College, St. Francis Xavier Col
lege, New York City; professor of mental
philosophy in Fordham University, St.
Francis Xavier, New York Cky, St.
Joseph's College, Philadelphia; former di
rector of the Alumni Sodality of Philadel
phia ; former secretary of the Catholic His
torical Society of Philadelphia; lecturer,
musician, author of words and composer
of music of Dear Lord; Jesus the All
Beautiful; lectured on Cuneiform Assyrian
before any school of that language had
been founded in America. He is author
of : Lyric and Dramatic - Poetry, 1883 ;
Babylonian Inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzer
in 1885 ; Garucci's Christian Art, 1885 ;
Three Holy Lives, 1888; Pearls of a Year,
1889; Practice of Humility, 1890; Life of
St. Aloysius, 1892; Reading and the Mind,
1904; Sacred Scenes and Mysteries, 1898;
Rhetoric and Oratory, 1898; Facts About
Bookworms, 1898 ; Christ and the Man God,
1900; Autobiography of St. Ignatius, 1900;
Education in the Schools of New York,
1901 ; Dante, 1905. He is author and com
poser of the words and music of the
operetta Land of the Sunrise Sea, 1907;
Discoverer of the laws of Transition from
Early Babylonian Cuneiform to Assyrian
Cuneiform, 1907. His lectures, delivered
in many parts of the country, have been
on art, poetry, music, educational and
historical subjects; he is now lecturer on
education, pedagogy, and art; is a director
of St. Ignatius' School. Address : St.
Ignatius' Church, 980 Park Avenue, *New
York City.
O'DEA, Edward John:
Catholic Bishop. He was consecrated
September 8, 1896, third Bishop of the Dio
cese of Nesqually, which comprises the

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State of Washington. Address : The Cathe
dral, Vancouver, Washington.
ODELL, Benjamin B., Jr.:
Ex-governor, merchant; born in New
burgh, New York, January 14, 1854; son
of Benjamin B. odell. He was educated at
Bethany College, West Virginia, and took
partial course in Columbia College. In
1875 he engaged with his father in business
at Newburgh; subsequently became inter
ested in various other enterprises, becom
ing president of the Newburgh Electric
Light Company and treasurer of the Cen
tral Hudson Steamboat Company. He was
active in Republican politics from his ear
liest voting years, but in his first nomina
tion, that for State Senator, was defeated;
elected, in 1894 and 1896, and served in
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses,
and declined nomination for the third term.
He was elected, in 1900, and reelected in
1902, governor of the State of New York.
For several years was on the Republican
State Committee, and for a time its chair
man. He was a member of the National
Guard for eight years, and has held promi
nent positions in the Masonic and Odd Fel
lows orders. He married, first, in 1877,
Estell Cristee; second, Mrs. Linda C.
Traphagen, sister of his first wife. Ad
dress : Newburgh, New York.
O'DONOHTJE, Charles A.:
Merchant; born in Brooklyn, New York,
August 16, 1859 ; son of Peter J. and Emma
M. (Backus) O'Donohue; he was educated
in Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He be
gan his business career as a clerk with
John O'Donohue's Sons in 1876 ; was ad
mitted as a partner in 1879; firm origi
nally started by John O'Donohue, the
grandfather, who admitted to the concern,
successively, his five sons ; since firm was
incorporated in 1902, he has been its presi
dent and director; also president, treas
urer and director of the O'Donohue es
tates ; treasurer and director of the Analo-
mink Paper Company; director of the
Knickerbocker Mills, Long Island Safe De
posit Company, Union Ferry Company;

trustee of the Kings County Trust Com
pany, East River Savings Institution,
Brooklyn Central Dispensary; member of
the Chamber of Commerce and Coffee Ex
change of New York City. He is also a
member of the Penataquit, Corinthian
Yacht (rear commodore), Montauk, Rid
ing and Driving, Automobile of America
Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, October 15, 1891, Olive S. Scoville.
Address: 88 Front Street, New York
City.
O'DONOHUE, Thomas J.:
Capitalist ; born in New York City, 1866 ;
son of Joseph J. O'Donohue and Teresa W.
J. Riley, He is vice-president and director
of the Agatine Shoe Hook and Eyelet Com
pany, the Liberty Life Insurance Company
of New York; secretary, treasurer and di
rector of the General Realty Company;
director of the Assurance Company of Am
erica, and the Duffner and Kimberley Com
pany. Address: 101 Front Street, New
York City.
OGDEN, Henry Neely:
Civil engineer and educator; born at
Dexter, Maine, April 30, 1868; son of
Charles Talcott and Anna (Bennett) Og
den. He was educated in the Episcopal
Academy, Philadelphia, Cheltenham Acad
emy, Ogontz, Pennsylvania. He was
graduated from Cornell University as
CE. in 1889. Mr. Ogden built sewers in
Ithaca, New York; also an arch bridge
and retaining walls for the Cornell Uni
versity campus ; chief engineer for proposed
electric road, Ithaca to Cortland; consult
ing engineer of the Fourth Ward trunk
sewer, Binghamton, New York ; sewer com
missioner of Ithaca from 1899 to 1906;
sanitary engineer of the State Department
of Health, New York; professor Cornell
University, and sanitary engineer; member
of the American Society of Civil Engin
eers, and the Sigma Xi Society, and of
the Town and Gown Club of Ithaca, New
York. He married at Portland, Maine,
December 26, 1895, Georgiana Mary Smith,
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born in 1896, Priscilla Campbell, born in
1899, John Bennett, born in 1901, William
Hall, born in 1906. Address: 614 Univer
sity Avenue, Ithaca, New York.
OGDEN, J. Edward:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the American Oil and Belting Company,
Escoba Manufacturing and Supply Com
pany, Monad Engineering Company, Og
den Iron and Steel Manufacturing Com
pany, the Star Expansion Bolt Company^
and of J. Edward Ogden Company; and is
director of A. D. Granger Company. Ad
dress: 147 Cedar Street, New York City.
OGDEN, Robert Curtiss:
Merchant; born in the city of Philadel
phia, June 20, 1836, the son of Jonathan Og
den, who died at a very advanced age in
1893. His ancestors were among the Puri
tans who sought refuge in the New World
from religious -persecution. Richard and
John Ogden, brothers, emigrated from
England about the year 1630, and settled
in Connecticut, near the present town of
Stamford, and became prominent men in
the community. Mr. Ogden is descendant
of Richard Ogden, elder of the two
brothers. His father, in 1830, took up his
residence in Philadelphia, where the son
received his education in the public schools.
This was supplemented by . a course at
the Academy for Boys, in New London,
Chester County. In his fifteenth year he
began life as a bread-winner in his native
city, having chosen a mercantile career.
- In his nineteenth year he took up his resi
dence in New York City, where he finally
became connected with the famous clothing
firm of Devlin & Company. His splendid
business qualifications soon earned him a
partnership in the concern, which he re
tained until 1885, when he disposed of his
interest and returned to Philadelphia, to
become a leading member of the house of
John Wanamaker. When it was decided to
Mr. Ogden, under whose management it
took a leading place in the retail trade of
New York. Mr. Ogden continued in charge
of the house until early in 1907, when he
retired, April 1907. He is a Republican in

politics and he is one of the leading laymen
of the Presbyterian Church. He has taken
a decided interest in the affairs of the
Presbyterian Board of Publication, of Phila
delphia, and it is largely due to his energetic
effort that much of the work of the Board
has been effective. In the same city he has,
for a long time, been an active member of
the Board of Ministerial Relief, as also of
the Presbyterian Hospital and the Presby
terian Social Union. In 1885 he was a
commissioner to the Presbyterian General
Assembly. He is chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Holland Memorial Church
of Philadelphia, and has taken an active
part in the erection of its beautiful edifice
at the corner of Broad and Federal streets,
in that city. He entertains broad and lib
eral views 'in church matters, and is in
hearty accord with the progressive element
of the church. He was a member of the
famous conference of Liberal Presbyterians
held in Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1893 ;
was a signer of the Cleveland Declaration,
and served on the committee for its dis
semination. In the field of philanthropy
Mr. Ogden has been equally active. Prob
ably his greatest interest in this direction
has been elicited in behalf of the Institute
for Afro-American and Indian Youths,
founded by that great patriot and philan
thropist, General Samuel Chapman Arm
strong, and situated at Hampton, Virginia,
near Fort Monroe. He was closely asso
ciated with the General in the work of this
famous educational institution previous to
the death of its founder, and since has, for
a long time, been president of the Board of
Trustees. For twenty-five years and more
he has been a member of the Citizens' Per
manent Relief Committee, of Philadelphia,
and at the time of the Johnstown disaster
gave his personal attention to the collection
and forwarding of supplies to the survivors.
He was also a member of the committee
appointed by Governor Beaver for the
disbursement of the great sum subscribed
for the relief of the flood sufferers. In
1892 he was made chairman of the Finance
Committee for the relief of the famine suf
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Mr. Ogden has been particularly active in
the South, and for several years he has
been the president of the Southern Educa
tion Board and the General Education
Board, organizations having for their object
the advancement and promotion of the edu
cation of all the people of the South. Yale
has conferred .the degree of M.A. and Tu
lane University that of LL.D. upon Mr.
Ogden. He is a veteran of the Civil War.
When the invasion of Pennsylvania by
General Lee's army in 1863 occurred,
Mr. Ogden joined the Twenty-third
Regiment of the New York National Guard
and performed active service in that mem
orable campaign. He continued with the
regiment in the field until it was ordered
home in connection with the suppression
of the draft riots. He was a commissioned
officer, and was, for some time, on the
staff of the commander of the Eleventh
Brigade. He is a member of Meade Post
No. 1, of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and also of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Many honorary distinctions have
been conferred upon Mr. Ogden besides
those already mentioned. He is a director
of the Union Theological Seminary, of New
York; trustee of the Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee, Alabama; president, Conference
for Education in the South ; honorary mem
ber, Clio Society of Princeton University.
Retired from the firm of John Wanamaker
April 1, 1907. Address : 771 Madison Ave-
New York City.
OGDEN, Willis L.:
Manufacturer ; principal of Willis L. Og
den and Company, woolens; director of the
Brooklyn Trust Company, Brooklyn Sav
ings Bank, Packer Collegiate Institute;
vice-president of the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. Trustee Brooklyn Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Brook
lyn, and Young Men's Christian Associa
tion. Address : 73 Pierrepont Street,
Brooklyn, New York.
O'GORMAN, James A.:
Jurist; born in New York City, May 5,
i860 ; son of Thomas and Ellen O'Gorman ;
he was educated at Grammar schools and

the College of the City of New York;
graduated from the Law Department of
the University of the City of New York
in 1882. Admitted to the bar in 1882;
practiced law in New York; in 1893 became
justice of the District Court of New York;
justice Supreme Court since 1900.. .He mar
ried in New York City, January 2, 1884,
Anna M. Leslie. Address : 318 'West One
Hundred and Eighth Street, New York
City.OHMANN-DUMESNIL, Amant Henry:
Physician; born in. Paris, France, Sep
tember 30, 1857 ; son of Francis L. Ohmann
and Marie Celestine (Dumesnil) Ohmann.
He was educated in the Academy of the
Christian Brothers, St. Louis, Missouri,
State University, Washington University,
St. Louis, and the Universities of Paris,
London, Berlin, Leipzig, and Lyons, re
ceiving the degrees of B.A., B.L., B.S., M.
A., M.S., Ph.D., M.E., and M.D. He is
engaged in practice in St. Louis, and is a
specialist in dermatology. He is professor
of dermatology and syphilology in the St.
Louis College for Medical Practitioners, St.
Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Marion-Sims College of Medicine; and he
is consulting physician to the St Louis
City Hospital, the Female Hq'spital, Aims-
House and several private hospitals. Dr.
Ohmann-Dumesnil is a prolific writer of
books and monographs on skirt diseases and
syphilis. He is a member and Officer in the
St. Louis Medical Society, Missouri State
Medical Association, the Mississippi Val
ley Medical Association, American Med
ical Association, Pan American Medical
Congress, International Medical Congress,
International Congress of Dermatology, and
other professional societies, ind he has re
ceived the French Cross of the Legion
d'Honneur for military services! He is a
Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the
Knights of Pythias, and other orders. He
married in St. Louis, Missouri, ' May 4,
1904., Elizbaeth A. Loring. 'Residence : 1454
South Grand Avenue, St. Louis'.^ Office ad
dress : 3553 Park Avenue, St. Louis, Mis
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OLCOTT, Chauncey :
Actor; born in Buffalo, New York, July
21, 1869. Pie attended the Buffalo public
schools. At the age of nineteen he became
connected with a minstrel troupe as ballad
singer ; went to Europe at the age of twen
ty-three, and returning became manager
and" treasurer of the Standard Theatre, San
Francisco. He soon after joined Denman
Thompson in Old Homestead, then the Duff
Opera Company; and a year later in Mc-
Caull's Opera Company. He went to Lon
don and studied for two years, while play
ing at the Prince of Wales and Criterion
theatres ; and made his appearance as a
star at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New
York City, in 1893. His greatest successes
have been in Mavourneen, The Irish Artist
and Sweet Inniscarra, and he played in The
Road to Kenmare during the season of 1906
and 1907. He is a member of the Dramatic,
Lambs' and Players' Clubs of New York
City and the Buffalo Club of Buffalo. Mr.
Olcott married in San Francisco, September
28, 1897, Margaret O'Donovan. Address :
Fruitvale, California, and Saratoga, New
York. OLCOTT, Frederic P.:
President of the Central Trust Company ;
born in Albany, New York, in 1841. He
was educated in the Albany Academy, and
on graduation entered the bank of which
his father was the head. Later he was en
gaged in the lumber trade, and then identi
fied with financial operations with Blake
Brothers and Company, bankers and
brokers. He served a term as comptroller
of the State of New York, and since 1884
has been president of the Central Trust
Company. He is also president of the Gal
veston, Houston and Henderson Railroad,
and is director of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western and other railroads,
and of the Bank of America and the Mor
ristown Trust Company of New Jersey.
Mr. Olcott is a member of the Union
League, New York Yacht, Metropolitan,
Manhattan and Down Town Clubs of New
York and of the Morristown Golf Club.
He married Mary Esmay. Residence: 4

East Fifty-third Street. Office address: 54
Wall Street, New York City.
OLCOTT, George M. :
Merchant, manufacturer; born in Brook
lyn, New York, August 23, 1835; son of
Charles M. Olcott and Maria C. (Under
hill) Olcott. He was educated in private
schools in Brooklyn and at Columbia Col
lege Grammar School. He was clerk with
Osgood and Jennings, wholesale druggists,
in 1851 ; with Dodge and Colvifl, im
porters of drugs, in 1854, in which
he was admitted to partnership in
1856. Upon the retirement of Mr. Col-
vill in 1861, the firm became Dodge
and Olcott, incorporated 1904, of which he
is president. He is president of the First
National Bank of Ridgefield, Connecticut;
vice-president of Lloyds Plate Glass Insur
ance Company; director of the Market and
Fulton National Bank, Federal Insurance
Company; Franklin Safe Deposit Company,
Safe Deposit Company of New York; trus
tee of the Franklin Trust Company; was
trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank, from
1882 to 1895, and was president of the
Phenix Chemical Works until the dissolu
tion of the company. He is a member of
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
Board of Trade and Transportation, and is
a member of the Down Town Club. Mr.
Olcott married at Poughkeepsie, New York,
June 10, 1858; and has three children:
Cornelia A., now Mrs. Dr. J. Arthur Booth,
and Mary, Dr. George N. Address : 87
Fulton Street, New York City.
OLCOTT, Jacob Van Techten:
Lawyer and member of Congress; born
in New York City, May, 17, 1856; son of
John N. and Euphemia H. (Knox) Olcott.
He was graduated from the New York
public schools, 1870; College of the City of
New York, 1875 ; Columbia Law School, as
LL.D. in 1877; St. Stephen's College, An-
nandale, New York, LL-D- 1892; Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio, as LL.D. in 1905.
He was admitted to the New York bar in
1877, and has since been engaged in the
practice of law in New York City ; and has
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ty, Olcott and Tenney from 1902. He is
also a director of the National Cellular
Steel Company, Hoffman Brothers Realty
Company, and the Southern Coal and Iron
Company. He was a member of the Board
of Civil Service Commissioners of the City
of New York from 1895 to 1897; was elect
ed to the Fifty-ninth Congress, 1904, and
to the Sixtieth Congress, 1906, from the
Fifteenth New York District. In politics,
he is a Republican, and he is an Episcopal
ian in his religious faith. ' He is a member
of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, the Sons of the Revolution,
and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He is
a member of the Union League, Republican,
Tuxedo, South Side Sportsmen's, Alpha
Delta Phi, Church, and Merchants' Clubs.
Mr. Olcott married in New York, Laura I.
Hoffman. Residence : 31 West Seventy-
second Street. Address : 27 William Street,
New York City.
OLCOTT, R. Morgan:
Capitalist, mine owner; born in New
Rochelle, New York, January 20, 1861 ; son
of Henry S. and Mary E. (Morgan) Ol
cott; he was educated in schools of Eng
land, Germany and America. He has trav
eled extensively in South America, Europe
and the West Indies ; president and direct
or of the Olcott Coal and Iron Company,
the Orinoco Steamship Company, the Na
tional Cellular Steel Company, the Black
Band Colliers Company; president, treasur
er and director of the Coal River and Lum
ber and Coal Company. He is a Republican
and Episcopalian ; and is a member of the
Sons of the Revolution, Bust of Bolivar
(Venezuela), Knight of the Order of Wasa
(Swedish). His chief recreation is yachting.
He is a member of the Larchmont, Repub
lican, Atlantic Yacht, Manhattan, New
York Athletic and Metropolitan (Wash
ington, District of Columbia), Lakewood
Country Clubs. He married in New York
City, June I, 1892, Alice Marie Handley;
they have one son, , J. Van Vechten, 2d.
Address : 27 William Street, New York
City.

OLCOTT, William M. K. :
Lawyer ; born in New York City, August
27, 1862; son of John N. and Euphemia H.
(Knox) Olcott. He was graduated from
the College of the City of New York as
A.B. in 1881, and A.M. in 1883; from Col
umbia College as LL.B. in 1883. He was
district attorney of New York County, from
1896 to 1898; judge of the New York City
Court, in 1898 and 1899; member of the
firm of Olcott, Gruber, Bonynge and Mc-
Manus ; trustee Maiden Lane Savings
Bank; director and treasurer Suffolk
County National Bank; director and vice-
president of Lawyers' Surveying and Engi
neering Company. He is a member of the
Republican, Lawyers', and City College
Clubs. Mr. Olcott married in New York
City, 1888, Jessie A. Baldwin, and they have
one son, Neilson, born in 1890. Address : 58
West Eighty-fourth Street, New York City.
OLIN, Stephen Henry:
Lawyer; born in Middletown, Connecti
cut, April 22, 1847; son of Rev. Stephen
(D.D., LL.D.) and Julia (Lynch) Olin;
he was graduated from Wesleyan Univer
sity, A.B., 1866, A.M., 1869 (LL.D.); Al
bany Law School LL.B., 1867. He was ad
mitted to the New York Bar in 1869 and
engaged in practice in New York City. He
was trustee for the Astor Library from
1888 to 1895 ; since then of New York Pub
lic Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foun
dations; trustee of the Wesleyan Univer
sity ; president of the University Settlement
Society. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York
(vice-president from 1898 to 1899). He
served in National Guard as major and
judge-advocate first and second brigades
from 1882 to 1889; lieutenant-colonel and
assistant adjutant-general, first brigade,
from 1889 to 1898 ; colonel and assistant ad
jutant-general from 1898 to 1903. Fellow
American Academy Political and Social
Science; member of the Society of Colonial
Wars, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
is also a member of the Country, Univer
sity, City, Down Town and the Players'
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Alice, daughter of S. L. M. Barlow (died
November, 1882) ; second, March 21, 1903,
Emiline Dodge, daughter of Oliver Harri-
man ; they have two daughters : Alice T.
(Mrs. Tracy Dows) ; and Julia L. (Mrs. J.
Philip Benkard). Residence: 107 East
Thirty-fifth Street. Address : 34 Nassau
Street, New York City.
OLIVER, George Tener:
President and principal owner of the
Pittsburgh Gazette and owner of the con
trolling interest of the Pittsburgh Chroni
cle-Telegraph; born in Ireland, January 26,
1848; son of Henry W. Oliver and Marga
ret Brown. His parents, who were of
Scotch ancestry, moved from Ireland to
Pittsburgh in 1842, six years before Mr.
Oliver's birth. He was educated in the
public schools of Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
and at the Bethany College, West Virginia,
where he was graduated in 1868. His first
occupation was that of a lawyer, having
been admitted to the bar of Allegheny
County in 1871. He practiced his profes
sion with success for ten years, but retired
in 1881 to engage in the wire business. He
was first the vice-president and afterward
president of the Oliver Wire Company
until 1899, when that company sold its
plants and wound up its business. ' He
was president of the Hainsworth Steel
Company from 1889 until its merger in 1897
with the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company,
of which he was also president until he
disposed of his manufacturing interests in
1901. In June, 1900, he purchased the Pitts
burgh Gazette, the oldest paper west of the
Alleghanies. He has since been in active
control of that journal as well as of the
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph, the oldest
evening paper in Allegheny County. He
served as presidential elector in 1884; was
president of the Central Board of Educa
tion of Pittsburgh from 1881 to 1884. He
is a member of all the leading clubs in
Pittsburgh and the Union League and Uni
versity Clubs of New York City. Mr.
Oliver married in 1871, Mary Kountze,
of Omaha, Nebraska. Address : 337 Fourth
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ,

OLIVER, James :
Plow manufacturer; born in Roxbury-
shire, Scotland, August 28, 1823. The fam
ily emigrated to the United States, when
he was twelve years old, and after three
years of farming in Ontario County, New
York, went to Indiana, settling in St. Joseph
County, and it was at Mishawaka, in that
county, where Mr. Oliver learned to make
plows. In 1855 he went to South Bend,
Indiana, and began the manufacture of
plows on his own account, devoting his
inventive skill to their improvement, and
finally invented the Oliver chilled plow,
now used in all countries where civilized
farming methods are in vogue, and is at
the head of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works,
one of the largest manufacturing enter
prises of its kind in the world. Address :
South Bend, Indiana.
OLIVER, Robert Shaw:
Assistant secretary of war; born in Mas
sachusetts; appointed from Massachusetts;
second lieutenant, Fifth Massachusetts Cav
alry, October 13, 1864; honorably mustered
out, October 31, 1865; second lieutenant,
Seventeenth Infantry, February 23, 1866;
resigned July 27, 1866; second lieu
tenant Eighth Cavalry, July 28, 1866;
first lieutenant, March 7, 1867; regi
mental commissary of subsistence, Aug
ust 26, 1867 to October 19, 1869; resigned
October 31, 1869. Served as civil service
commissioner and police commissioner of
Albany; principal interests are in iron man
ufacturing business at Albany. Assistant
secretary of war since 1903. He married
Marion Rathbone ; they have four children :
John Rathbone (Harvard, 1894), Elizabeth
Shaw, Cora Lyman (Mrs. Joseph H.
Choate, Jr.), and Marion. Addresses: Al
bany, New York, and Washington, D. C.
OLLESHEIMER, Henry:
Banker. He is president and director of
the- Metropolitan Bank, vice-president and
director of Scheuer and Brothers, Incor
porated, and is director of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. Address : 1
Madison Avenue, New York City.

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OLMSTED, Charles Sanford:
Bishop of Colorado ; born at Olmsted-
ville, New York, February 8, 1853 ; son of
Levi Olmsted and Maria (Beach) Olmsted;
descendant of Richard Olmsted, one of
the settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. He
was educated at St. Stephen's College from
1869 to 1873, and after graduation from the
General Theological Seminary in 1876 he
was ordered deacon by Bishop Horatio Pot
ter, and the following year was ordained
priest by Bishop Doane, in the ministry of
the Episcopal Church. He received the
degree of D.D. from Hobart College in
1895, and from the General Theological
Seminary in 1901. He was rector of Trin
ity Church, Morley, New York, from 1876
to 1884; rector of Christ Church, Coopers
town, New York, from 1884 to 1896, and
while" there was also for ten years arch
deacon of Suquehanna, in the diocese of
Albany; and he was rector of St. Asaph's,
at Bala, Pennsylvania, from 1896 to 1902.
He was elected bishop-coadjutor of Colo
rado, January 8, 1902, but on March 2, be
fore his consecration Bishop Spalding died,
and on May 1, 19O2, Dr. Olmsted was con
secrated in St. Paul's Cathedral, Denver,
as the second bishop of Colorado, by Bishop
Turtle of Missouri, assisted by Bishops
Johnston, Leonard, Coleman, Graves, White,
Brown, Williams and Taylor. He was a
deputy from the Diocese of Pennsylvania
to the General Convention of 1901. Bishop
Olmsted is author of: December Musings
and Other Poems; The Discipline of Per
fection ; Ordination Sermon. He married
at Fort Edward, New York, May 24, 1877,
Mary M. Deuel. Address : Denver, Colo
rado.
OLMSTED, Charles Tyler:
Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in Co
hoes, New York, 1842; son of Charles A.
and Ardelia (Wilkinson) Olmsted ; he was
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1865 ; later studied theology
at Saint Stephen's College, Annandale,
New York ; professor of mathematics, Saint
Stephen's College from 1866 to 1868.* Or
dered deacon in 1867; ordained priest in
1868; assistant of Trinity Parish, New

York, from 1868 to 1884; rector of Grace
Church, Utica, from 1884 to 1899; vicar of
Saint Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish, New
York, from 1899 to 1902; consecrated Oc
tober 2, 1902; bishop coadjutor; July 11,
1904, became bishop of Central New York.
He married in 1876, Catharine, daughter of
Joseph Lawrence of New York. Address;
Utica, New York.
OLMSTED, John Charles:
Landscape architect; born in Geneva,
Switzerland, September 14, 1852; son of
John Hull Olmsted and Mary C. B. (Per
kins) Olmsted. He received his early edu
cation under governesses, later attended
the Eagleswood Military Academy ; Cherbu-
liez's Academy, New York; Knapp's Acad
emy of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was
graduated from Yale (Scientific School)
with the degree of Ph.B. in 1875. He de
signed, with partners, the South Park in
Chicago, and parks in Buffalo, New York,
Brooklyn, Louisville, Charleston (South
Carolina), Fall River, Hartford, Holyoke,
Cambridge, Boston, Brookline, North Eas
ton, Bridgeport, Niagara Falls, Montclair,
Orange, Newark, Rochester, Seattle, Water-
town, New Orleans, Milwaukee, and other
cities. In addition to. public parks, he has
advised as to improvements of the grounds
of universities, colleges, schools, churches,
asylums, libraries, city halls, town halls, fac
tories, railroad stations, expositions, resi
dences, cemeteries, hotels and numerous
land subdivisions and as to the improve
ment of city street plans. Mr. Olmsted
has been successively a member of the firm
of F. L. and J. C. Olmsted; F. L. Olmsted
and Company ; Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot ;
and Olmsted Brothers. In politics he is a
Democrat and he is a member of the Uni
tarian Church. He has traveled extensively
in Europe and North America. Mr. Olm
sted is a member of the American Society
of Landscape Architects, the American As
sociation of Park Superintendents, the
Boston Society of Civil Engineers, an as
sociate member of .the Boston Society of
Architects, and the Massachusetts Horti
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erican Civic Association, the American
Free Trade League, the American Forestry
Association, the Massachusetts Forestry As
sociation, the Massachusetts Free Trade As
sociation, Massachusetts Anti-double Tax
ation League, the American League of
Civic Associations, the Appalachian Mount
ain Club, Yale University Alumni Associa
tion, Boston Fine Arts Museum Association,
the' American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American Social Sci
ence Association, and a member of the
Century, Reform, and National Arts Clubs
of New York. He married in Brookline,
Massachusetts, January 18, 1899, Sophia
Buckland White, and , their children are :
Carolyn, born 1901, and Margaret, born
1902. Residence : 16 Warren Street, Brook
line. Office address : 99 Warren Street,
Brookline, Massachusetts.
OLMSTED, Marlin Edgar:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Ulys
ses Township, Potter County, Pennsylvan
ia. He was educated in the common schools
and Coudersport Academy. At an early age
he was appointed assistant corporation clerk
by Auditor-General (afterwards Governor)
Hartranft; and one year later was promot
ed to corporation clerk, in charge of col
lection of taxes from corporations under
Pennsylvania's peculiar revenue system.
He was continued in the same position
by Harrison Allen, auditor-general; read
law with Hon. John W. Simonton (late
president judge of the Twelfth Judicial
District) at Harrisburg; was admitted to
the bar of Dauphin County November 25,
1878, to the bar of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, May 16, 1881, and to the bar
of the Supreme Court of the United States
November 12, 1884. ' Mr. Olmsted was
elected to' represent Dauphin County in the
proposed constitutional convention in 1891 ;
received honorary degree of LL.D. from
Lebanon. Valley College in 1903, and from
Dickinson College in 1905- He was elected
to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-
seventh Congresses from the Fourteenth,
and elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and to the Sixtieth
Congress ' from the Eighteenth Penn

sylvania District. He is a Republican
in politics. He married, October 26, 1899,
Gertrude, daughter of the late Major
Conway R. Howard of Richmond, Virginia.
Address : Plarrisburg, Pennsylvania.
OLNET, George W.:
Journalist, statistician ; born in Charles
ton, South Carolina, June 5; 1835; son of
George W. and Olive (Bartlett) Olney.
He received a preparatory education in
Charleston schools, and the University
Grammar School, Providence, Rhode Is
land; graduated from Harvard University,
as LL.B. in 1855. He entered journalism
as one of the publishers of the New York
Daily Day Book, 1858; returned to the
South at the breaking out of the Civil War,
and was -war correspondent for the Charles
ton Courier and Richmond Enquirer, from
1861 to 1863 ; dramatic writer for the New
York Herald, 1866; editorial writer for the
New York World, from 1868 to 1876; en
tered the insurance journalism in 1873, as
editor of the Spectator in 1879; was man
aging editor of the Weekly Underwriter
(New York), and editor since 1899; editor
of the World Almanac since 1891 ;
vice-president of the Underwriter Print
ing and Publishing Company; fellow
of the American Statistical Association,
secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati
in Rhode Island; member of the Sons of
the Revolution in New York, Society of
Colonial Wars, Military Order of Foreign
Wars, Society of War of 1812, Veteran
Corps of Artillery of New York. He is
author of several statistical works. He
married Josephine Whittemore Vallette.
Address: 58 William. Street, New York
City. OLNET, Peter B.:
Lawyer; born in Oxford, Massachusetts,
July 21, 1843; son of Wilson and Eliza
L. (Butler) Olney. He was graduated
from the Andover Academy in i860; Har
vard College A.B., in 1864; Harvard Law
School, LL.B. in 1866. He has practiced
law in New York City since his admission
to the bar in November, 1866; served with
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a Commission appointed under a law of
the State, to revise the laws of the State
affecting public interests in the State of
New York, from 1879 to 1881 ; district at
torney of New York County, from 1883 to
1885. He was formerly a member of the
firm of Barlow, Hyatt and Olney, later
Barlow and Olney, and since 1897 of Olney
and Comstock. He is a Democrat in poli
tics and was a delegate to the National
Conventions of 1876 and 1880. Mr. Olney
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York and of the New
York State Bar Association, and a trustee
of Teachers' College of New York. In
church relations he is an Episcopalian. He
is a member of the Century Association and
of the Harvard, Lawyers', and Blooming
Grove Plunting and Fishing Club. He mar
ried at Quincy, Massachusetts, November
12, 1879, Mary Sigourney Butler; they
have four sons : Peter B., Jr., bora in 1881,
Richard, born in 1883, Wilson, born in 1885,
and Sigourney B., born in 1888. Address :
68 William Street, New York City.
OLNET, Richard:
Lawyer and ex-cabinet official; bora in
Oxford, Massachusetts, September 15,
1835; son of Wilson Olney; descended
from Thomas Olney, who came to Amer
ica in 1635 from Saint Albans, Hert
fordshire, England; on mother's side de
scended from Andrew Sigourney, a French
Huguenot, who came to America in 1687 on
revocation of Edict of Nantes. He was
educated at the Leicester Academy (Lei
cester, Massachusetts) ; he was graduated
from Brown University (Providence, Rhode
Island), in 1856; Harvard Law School,
LL.B. in 1858; LL.D. Harvard University
in 1893; Brown University (Provi
dence, Rhode Island) LL.D. in 1894;
Yale University, LL.D. in 1901. He
was admitted to the bar, Supreme Ju
dicial Court, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
sin 1859; served one term in the Massachu
setts Legislature in 1874; attorney-general,
United States, March, 1893, to June, 1895;
secretary of the State of the United States,
June 10, 1895, to March 4, 1897. He mar

ried Agnes Park Thomas in 1861. He is
a member of the Somerset Club. Address :
23 Court Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
OLNET, Warren:
Lawyer; born in Iowa, March 11, 1841;
son of William Olney and Eliza (Green)
Olney. He was educated in the Central
University of Iowa until the Civil War be
gan in 1861, when he enlisted in Company
B, Third Iowa Infantry, May 21,1861. He
was mustered into United States service,
June 8, 1861, as private, and served con
tinuously until mustered out, August 15,
1865, with the rank of captain. After the
war he entered the University of Michigan
and remained three years, and was grad
uated from' the Law Department as LL.B.
He began the practice of law in San Fran
cisco in 1869, and has continued in prac
tice there ever since, now being a member
of the law firm of Olney and Olney. He
is also a member of the Board of Directors
of the Western Pacific Railway Company
and of the California Title Insurance and
Trust Company, and other companies. He
has been a director in many institutions,
educational and public, and is now a di
rector of Mills College. In politics he is
a Mugwump, but in 1903 was nominated
by acclamation for mayor of the City of
Oakland, by the Republican Convention, the
Democratic Convention and the Municipal
League Convention, was elected and served
two years. He is a member and ex-president
of the San Francisco Bar Association. Mr.
Olney is also a member of the University
Club, Berkeley Club, Unitarian Club (ex-
president) Claremount Country Club, the
Sierra Club and others. He married in
Washington, Iowa, September 11, 1865,
Mary Craven, and they have five children:
Warren, Jr., Mary, Thomas More, Ethel
and William. Residence: 481 Twenty-ninth
Street, Oakland, California. Office address :
The Merchants' Exchange, San Francisco,
California.
OLSSON-SEFFER, Pehr Hjalmar:
Botanist; born at Ekenas, Finland, Sep
tember 14, 1873;- son of Pehr Olsson, and
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educated at the Swedish Classical Lyceum,
Abo, Finland, from 1883 to 1892; Helsing-
fors University, from 1892 to 1897; and in
1898 and 1899; Upsala University, Sweden,
1897; in Russian and German Universities,
1896, and in 1899 and 1900 ; and received the
degree of Ph.D. from Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University, 1904. He was instructor in
Swedish in Mariehamn College, 1896; in
botany at Helsingfors College from 1895 to
1899; was journalist and founder of a news
paper in Finland from 1895 to 1899; press
correspondent in Russia, Sweden and Eng
land; in advisory work on colonization to
the governments of Queensland and West
ern Australia, from 1900 to 1902 ; instructor
in systematic botany, Leland Stanford Jr.
University, California, from 1903 to 1905 ;
professor of biology in the San Francisco
Veterinary College, in 1904 and 1905 ; es
tablished a botanical station for rubber in
vestigations in tropical Mexico in 1905;
director of La Zacualpa Botanical Station
and Rubber Laboratory, from 1905 to 1907.
As commissioner of the Government -of
-Mexico he investigated conditions of tropi
cal agriculture in the Orient in 1906 and
1907; editor of the Department of Tropical
Agriculture in the Mexican Investor, in
1906 and 1907, of La Esperanza Rubber
Plantation Company of London, Obispo
Rubber Plantation Company of New York.
He is scientific director of La Zacualpa
Rubber Plantation Company, Hidalgo Plan
tation and Commercial Company, and the
La Zacualpa Plantation Company of San
Francisco. Editor of Agricultura Modema
en Latino-America, since 1907 ; in charge of
the Agricultural Department of Associacion
Financiera Internacional, Mexico, since
1907. He is director of the Standard Rub
ber Company of London, and president of
the Tropical Agriculture Publishing Com
pany of Mexico. Dr. Olsson-Seffer has
traveled extensively through different parts
of the world. He is author of: Cultiva
tion of Castilla rubber ; Letters on Tropical
Agriculture, 1907; Rubber and Coffee in
the Orient and Mexico, 1907; Government
Reports (in Swedish and Spanish) ; bot
anical, geological and agricultural papers in

technical journals in Europe, America, Aus
tralia and the Orient, numerous articles in
American, Australian, Swedish, Finnish and
Mexican magazines and newspapers. He is
editor of: Practical Handbooks on Tropi
cal Agriculture, published by the Macmillan
Company, and of a Biography of Linnaeus.
Dr. Olsson-Seffer is a member of the Swed
ish Society for Anthropology and Geog
raphy; Geological Society of Stockholm;
Finland Geographical Society; National
Geographical Society ; • Association Inter
nationale des Botanistes ; American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science;
American Forestry Association; Sociedad
Cientifica Antonio Alzate, and of the Uni
versity Club of Mexico. He married, first,
in Plelsingfors, Finland, in 1896, Lullu Ser-
geeff, by whom he has one daughter and one
son; and he married, second, at San Ber
nardino, California, 1905, Helen Waterman
Rolfe. Residence : 1413 Calle Porfirio Diaz,
Mexico City; and 1488 Twenty-seventh
Avenue, Fruitvale, California. Mail ad
dress : Apartado 133 Bis, Mexico City.
OLTFHANT, Robert Morrison:
Capitalist, railway official. He was grad
uated from Columbia in 1842. Chairman
of the Executive Committee and manager
of The Delaware and Hudson Company;
director of the New York and Canada Rail
road Company, Chateaugay and Lake Placid
Railway Company, Cooperstown and Char
lotte Valley Railroad Company, Champlain
Transportation Company, Lake George
Steamboat Company, Cherry Valley and Al
bany Railroad Company, Chateaugay Ore
and Iron Company, and president and di
rector of the Bluff Point Land Improvement
Company. He is a member of the Sons of
the Revolution, Saint Andrew's Society,
American' Geographical Society, Metropol
itan Museum of Art, National Academy of
Design, American Academy of Political and
Social Science. Residence : 160 Madison
Avenue. Address : 32 Nassau Street, New
York City.
O'MEARA, Stephen:
Police commissioner and journalist; born
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July 26, 1854; son of Stephen O'Meara and
Maria (Meade) O'Meara. He was edu
cated in the Boston public schools ; and he
received the honorary degree of A.M. from
Dartmouth College in 1889. In 1874 he be
came connected with the Boston Journal as
a reporter and continued with it successive
ly as city editor, news editor, general man
ager and editor and publisher until 1902,
when he sold the paper, and retired. Mr.
O'Meara was appointed in 1906 by the Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and is now serving
as police commissioner for the City of Bos
ton, for a term of five years. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a Roman Catholic
in religion. He is a trustee of the Massa
chusetts State Library, a ' member of the
Bostonian Society, New England Catholic
Historical Society, American Catholic His
torical Society (Philadelphia), American
Social Science Association, and the Algon
quin, Exchange, St. Botolph, Press, Union
and Boston Clubs of Boston. Mr. O'Meara
married in Boston, April 5, 1878, Isabella
M. Squire, and they have three daughters :
Frances, Alice and Lucy. Residence : 585
Beacon Street, Boston. Office address : 29
Pemberton Square, Boston, Massachusetts.
O'NEILL, Edmond:
Professor of chemistry; born at Nash
ville, Tennessee, December 13, 1858; son of
Eugene O'Neill and Bertha (Strachauer)
O'Neill. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of California as Ph.B. in 1879. He
was instructor in chemistry from 1879 to
1886, assistant professor from 1888 to 1890,
associate professor from 1890 to 1901, and
since 1901, professor of chemistry in the
University of California. He is consulting
chemist for several technical chemical works
Pacific Coast Oil Company, San Francisco
Gas Light Company, United Can Company,
Selby Lead and Refining Company and
others. Pie has been expert witness in
numerous suits in San Francisco and on
the Pacific coast. He was juror for the Mid
winter Exposition in San Francisco, and
was delegate from the State of California
to the Congress of Applied Chemistry in
Berlin, 1903, and in Rome, 1906. Professor
O'Neill has been an extensive and world

wide traveler. He was organizer and first
president of the California Section of the
American Chemical Society; special expert
for the United States Government in sev
eral cases, and he is a member of the
San Francisco Academy of Sciences,
Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft and the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Mr. O'Neill is a Republican
in politics, and an Episcopalian in his re
ligious faith. He is a member of the Uni
versity arid Bohemian Clubs of San Fran
cisco, and several clubs in Oakland and
Berkeley. He married at Berkeley, Cali
fornia, June 1, 1904, Edith Vernon Ward,
Residence : 1631 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley,
California. Business address : University
of California, Berkeley, California.
O'NEILL, Eugene M.:
Editor; born in Wexford, Ireland, in
1850. He received a university education
in Ireland, and come to Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, where his brother, Daniel, was
editor and proprietor of The Dispatch. He
studied law, was admitted to the bar and
engaged in practice. On the death of his
brother Daniel in 1877, he took charge of
The Dispatch, which under his manage
ment became the paper of largest circula
tion and influence in Pittsburgh. He con
tinued as editor and publisher of the paper
until 1902, when he retired from active
management, remaining, however, vice-
president and a large stockholder in the
Dispatch Publishing Company, and is also
a director in manufacturing corporations
and a large owner of real estate. He mar
ried in Pittsburgh, Emma, widow of Daniel
O'Neill. Address : Penn and Linden Ave
nues, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
O'NEILL, James:
Actor; born in Ireland, October 14, 1847;
son of Edmond O'Neill ; came with his
parents to the United States in 1850, settling
in Buffalo, New York; he was educated in
the public schools ; in 1865 he studied under
an actor playing in the National Theatre,
Cincinnati. He made his first appearance
in The Colleen Bawn at the National
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parts in Baltimore; in 1871 he was engaged
as leading man at the Academy of Music
in Cleveland, Ohio ; went to Chicago in
1871, under management of J. H. McVicker ;
in 1874 formed the Hooley Comedy Com
pany, Chicago; in 1876 he became leading
man at the Union Square Theatre, New
York City; in 1881 appeared at Booth's
Theatre, New York, in Enoch Arden; in
1882 produced An American King; in 1883,
Monte Cristo ; has also produced : When
Greek Meets Greek, The Dead Heart, and
Fontenelle; besides reviving Hamlet, The
Three Guardsmen and Virginius. Resi
dence: New London, Connecticut. Ad
dress : Players' Club, New York City.
OPDTKE, Stacy B„ Jr.:
Civil engineer and contractor ; born in
Camden, New Jersey, 1851 ; son of Stacy
B. Opdyke and Mary S. (West) Opdyke.
He was graduated from the Polytechnic
College at Philadelphia, as CE. in 1870,
and M.C.E. in 1873. Soon after leaving
college, he engaged in railroading; was
designer and computer for the Keystone
Bridge Company at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, in 1878 and 1879; superintendent of
the New Haven and Northampton Railroad ;
bridge engineer of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad ; general sup
erintendent of the Poughkeepsie Bridge
route; in business on own account from
1891 to 1902 ; vice-president of the Levering
and Garrigues Company from 1902 to 1906,
then resumed his business of general con
tracting. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Engineers and
Art Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Engin
eers' Club of New York City. He married
at Philadelphia, in 1878, Belle F. Van Dusen
and they have three children : Elizabeth
B., Mary S., and Stacy H. Address : 1931
Broadway, New York City.
OPERTI, Albert (Jasper Ludwlg Roccabigliers) :
Arctic historical painter, scenic artist;
born in Turin, Italy, March 17, 1852; son
of Guiseppe Operti, pianist to Victor Em
manuel, 2d, King of Italy. He was edu
cated in the high schools of Dublin, Ire
land, and Glasgow, Scotland; graduated

from the Naval School at Portsmouth, Eng
land, and entered the British Naval Marine,
resigning therefrom in 1868; began the
study of painting and sculpture; a few
years later came to the United States, be
coming caricaturist and scenic artist in New
York theatres. He made two voyages to
the arctic regions with Lieutenant R. E.
Peary (now commander in the United
States Navy), and was special correspond
ent of the New York Herald; made for
the New York Museum of Natural History
the first casts of North Greenland Eskimos.
Among his more important historical paint
ings are: Farthest North, and Rescue of
the Greeley Party, for the Navy Department
at Washington; the Schwatka Search;
Finding De Long in the Lena Delta; Dr.
Kane, and other pictures of note; was sel
ected by the United States Government as
its representative artist at the World's Col
umbian' Exposition. Among the more pro
minent works he has illustrated are : White
World; Peary's Northward Over the Great
Ice ; Dr. Cook's Antarctic Night ; Snow-
land Folk; Fiala's Fighting the Polar
Ice, and Peary's Nearest the North Pole.
Mr. Operti has made numerous illustrations
for magazines, newspapers and lectures;
has given some attention to devices for pub
lic amusement and for advertising. He re
ceived a decoration from the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia. He is a member of the
American Geographical Society and the
National Geographic Society, of Kane
Lodge of Masons ; honorary member of the
Indian War Veterans of California, Uni
versal Brotherhood, Arctic and Explorers
Clubs, and is president of the Shields Art
Club. He married at Albion, New York,
1881, Martha S. Green. Address : 65 West
Thirty-sixth Street, New York City.
OPIE, Thomas:
Physician; born in Martinsburg, Berke
ley County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)
May 14, 1842; son of Hierome Lindsay
Opie and Anne Stephenson (Locke) Opie.
After attending the academic department
of the University of Virginia, and the
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from which he was graduated as M.D. in
1861. He enlisted as a private in the
Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment of the
Confederate Army in 1861, but was soon
after appointed assistant surgeon and later
surgeon of the regiment, with which he
served in the Army of Northern Virginia
until the surrender in 1865. He then set
tled in the practice of medicine in Balti
more, where he has obtained great distinc
tion as a gynecologist and abdominal sur
geon. He was one of the founders of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bal
timore in 1872, and has been dean of that
institution ever since, and he held the chair
of obstetrics until 1892, and since then the
chair of gynecology. He is gynecologist
to the Baltimore City, Bayview and Hebrew
hospitals of Baltimore. Dr. Opie is a
member and was one of the founders of the
American Association of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, and is a member of the
American Medical Association. Address :
14 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Mary
land.OPPER, Frederick Burr:
Artist; born in Madison, Lake County,
Ohio, January 2, 1857; son of Lewis Opper
and Aurelia Opper. He was educated in the
public schools of Madison, Ohio. Mr. Op
per was special and humorous artist for
Frank Leslie, from 1877 to 1880 ; with Puck
from 1880 to 1899, and has been doing hum
orous illustrative work on Mr. W. R.
Hearsts New York papers since 1899; has
illustrated many humorous books; visited
Europe in 1887. He is a member of the
Players' Club. Mr. Opper married in New
York City, in 1881, Nellie Barnett, and they
have two children: Lawrence, born in
1883, and Sophia, born in 1887. Residence :
147 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York,
and Turn-of-River, Stamford, Connecticut.
Address : New York American, New York
City.ORCUTT, Calvin B.:
Capitalist and shipbuilder; born in Wyo
ming, New York, September 5, 1847 ; son of
Phineas and Sophronia Orcutt. He was
educated at Middlebury Academy, Wyo

ming, New York. His first employment
was in a wholesale drug store in New York
City, later entering the banking house of
Fisk and Hatch. In 1878 he was placed
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany in charge of the marketing and ship
ment of its coal, and subsequently was put
in charge of C. P. Huntington's interests at
Newport News, the Eastern terminal of the
railway. Under his direction there was es
tablished at this point one of the finest
shipbuilding plants in the world. He or
ganized the Newport News Light and
Water Company and is now its president,
also is president of the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, of
the Chesapeake Coal Agency Company and
of the Old Dominion Land Company. He
organized the First National Bank of New
port News and is a director. He is a mem
ber of the Lawyers', Congregational, Thou
sand Island Yacht and Chippewa Yacht
Clubs. He married in 1872, Harriet M.
Willett of South Granville, New York.
Residence: Elizabeth, New Jersey. Ad
dress : 1 Broadway, New York City.
ORD WAT, Samuel Hanson:
Lawyer; born in New York City, June
8, i860; son of Aaron Lucius and Frances
Ellen (Hanson) Ordway. He was grad
uated from Brown University as A.B. in
1880; and from Harvard University as
A.M., LL.B. in 1883. He was admitted to
the New York City bar in 1884; has been
practicing his profession in that city ever
since; was assistant district attorney of
New York County in 1901 ; member of
the commission to revise the tax laws of
New York State, 1906; member of the law
firm of Stickney and Shepard, from 1887
to 1890; Stickney, Spencer and Ordway,
from 1890 to 1903; Spencer, Ordway and
Wierum since 1903. In 1906 he received
a nomination for justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York from the
Republican party and from the Judiciary
Nominators, representing the bar of New
York City. Mr. Ordway is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City of
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vard, and Brown University Clubs of New
YTork City, and the Hope Club of Provi
dence, Rhode Island. He married in New
York City, May 30, 1894, Frances Hunt
Throop, and they have one son, Samuel
Hanson, Jr., born January 20, 1900. Resi
dence : 123 East Seventy-first Street. Ad
dress: 27 William Street, New York City.
O'REAR, Edward Clay:
Jurist; born in Montgomery County,
Kentucky, February 2, 1863; son of Daniel
and Sibba O'Rear. After completing the
courses of the public schools he Studied law
at West Liberty, Kentucky, and in 1882 was
admitted to the bar. He practiced law at
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, and in 1894 he
became the Republican candidate for county
judge of Montgomery County, which al
though normally strongly Democratic, gave
him a majority, and he served until 1898.
He was elected from the Seventh District
in 1900 judge of the Court of Appeals of
Kentucky for the term expiring in 1909.
Judge O'Rear married at West Liberty,
Kentucky, in 1882, Virginia Lee Hazelrigg.
Residence: Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
Official address : Frankfort, Kentucky.
O'REELLY, Daniel:
Lawyer; born in New York City; he was
educated in public schools and Columbia.
College. He was formerly assistant district
attorney; appeared for prosecution in case
of People vs. Kennedy, first trial conviction
for State ; in Olgo Nethersole, Sappho case ;
the Nan Patterson case and others, and has
since been of counsel in many important
trials for the defence, notably in the Thaw
case. He is a Democrat. He married, De
cember 26, 1894, Marie E. Meakim. Resi
dence : 19 West One Hundred and Thir
tieth Street. Address : 61 and 63 Park Row,
New York City.
O'REILLT, Robert M.:
Surgeon-general, United States Army;
born in Philadelphia, January 14, 1845 ; son
of John O'Reilly and Ellen Maitland
O'Reilly. He received his education in .the
schools of Philadelphia and entered the
Medical Department of the University of

Pennsylvania. He was appointed a medical
cadet in the United States Army, January
7, 1864, serving until September 23, 1865.
He was graduated from .the University as
M.D. in 1866; appointed assistant surgeon
in the United States Army, May 14, 1867;
captain assistant surgeon, May 14, 1870;
major surgeon, November 1, 1886; lieu
tenant-colonel, deputy surgeon-general,
February 21, 1900, colonel assistant sur
geon-general, . February 14, 1902, and briga
dier-general surgeon-general, September 7,
1902. During the Spanish-American War
he was appointed lieutenant-colonel and
chief surgeon, May 9, 1898, serving until
honorably discharged from volunteer ser
vice, May 12, 1899, after having greatly dis
tinguished himself in connection with the
medical problems of that war. He is a
companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, member of the Pacific Union
Club of San Francisco, and of the^ Metro
politan, Chevy Chase and University Clubs
of Washington. He married Miss Pardee,
of Oswego, New York, in 1877. Address :
Office of the Surgeon-General, War De
partment, Washington, D. C.
ORMAN, James Bradley:
Capitalist and ex-governor; born in Mus
catine, Iowa, November 4, 1849 ; son of John
Orman and Sarah Josephine (Bradley) Or-
man. His boyhood activities were divided
between work on his father's farm and at
tending the public schools. In 1869 he be
came associated with his brother, William
A. Orman, as a contractor for railroad and
irrigation work, and they filled large con
tracts in the construction of the principal
railway lines and irrigating canals of Colo
rado and the Rocky Mountain territories.
He became a citizen of Pueblo, Colorado,
and has been a leader in the. development
of that city, was five years president and
is still director of the Pueblo Street Rail
way Company, operating an electric railway,
has extensive real estate interests in Pueblo
and Denver, coal lands, gold mining in
terests. He served in the City Council of
Pueblo, and one term as mayor in 1897 and
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elected to the Colorado Legislature, serving
from 1880 to 1884; received twenty-seven
votes on joint ballots (three less than a
majority) for United States senator in the
Legislature of 1883, iri which there were
only twenty-two Democratic votes. He de
clined the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Colorado in 1888 and 1890, was a
delegate to the Democratic National Con
vention of 1892. In 1900 he was nominated
by the Democrats and endorsed by the Pop
ulists and Silver Republicans for governor
of Colorado, and elected, his term expiring
January 10, 1903. He married in Pueblo,
September 27, 1877. Address : Pueblo, Colo
rado. ORR, Alexander E.:
President of the New York Life Insur
ance Company; born at -Strabane, County
Tyrone, Ireland, March 2, 1831 ; educated
by private tutor; came to New York City
in 1851. Began his business career in New
York City in the employ of William Ralph
Post, shipping and commission merchant;
later in same capacity with the firm of
Wallace and Wickes ; became connected in
1858, with David Dows & Company, ship
ping and commission merchants (founded
1825) and member of the firm in 1861 ; re
tiring from active business several years
ago. Member of the Produce Exchange
1859, was secretary of its Building Commis
sion when its present great building was
erected, and later, for several terms, its
president; was connected with the Arbi
tration Commission and the Benefit Assur
ance Company of the exchange, and was
one of the organizers of the Produce Ex
change Gratuity System, whereby each
member pays three dollars into a fund at
the death of a fellow-member, and which
controls over $1,000,000. He was a mem
ber of the canal commission appointed by
Governor Tilden, 1875, which exposed the
canal ring frauds, leading to the placing of
the canals in charge of the State Superin
tendent of Public Works ; since 1905 presi
dent and trustee of the New York Life In
surance Company. Democrat in national
affairs and was presidential elector for Til
den in 1876, but supported McKinley in 1896

and 1900, and Roosevelt in 1904. Aided in
organizing the Citizens' Movement, which
led to the election of Seth Low for mayor
of Brooklyn in 1881 ; was for several years
a member of the civil service commission
of Brooklyn; member from organization,
now president, of the Rapid Transit Rail
road Commissioners of the City of New
York ; president and trustee New York Pro
duce Exchange State Deposit and Storage
Company; vice-president and member of
the Board of Managers of the Delaware
and -Hudson Company; vice-president of
the Mechanics' National Bank; director of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway Company, Erie Railroad, As
sociated Merchants' Company, Bond &
Mortgage Guarantee Company, Brook
lyn Academy of Music, Continental
Insurance Company, Federal Insurance
Company, Fidelity & Casualty Company,
Harper & Brothers, Queen Insurance Com
pany of America, Realty Associates, Trus
tee of South Brooklyn Savings Institution,
United States Trust Company, Greenwood
Cemetery, Trustee of the New York Public
Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden founda
tions; member of the Board of Managers
of the American Bible Society ; president of
the Long Island Historical Society. He is
a member of the Hamilton of Brooklyn,
Century and Down Town Clubs. He was
married first in New York City in 1857 to
Juliet B., daughter of Ammi Dows (died,
1872) ; second in 1873 to Margaret S. Lu-
quer. Residence : 102 Remsen Street,
Brooklyn. Address : 102 Produce Ex
change Building, New York City.
OR VIS. Ellis Lewis:
President judge of the Forty-ninth Ju
dicial District of Pennsylvania; born in
Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania,
November 16, 1857; son of Judge John
Holden Orvis and Caroline Elizabeth (At-
wood) Orvis. He removed in boyhood to
Bellefonte in Center County, Pennsylvania,
was prepared in the academy there and
was graduate'd from the Pennsylvania State
College as A.B. in 1876 after receiving the
junior oration prize in 1875, and received
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studied in a law office in Bellefonte, Penn
sylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1880,
practicing until elected in 1905, president
judge of the Forty-ninth District for the
term expiring in 1915. He is a Democrat
in. politics, and was a delegate to the Na
tional Convention . at Indianapolis, which
nominated Palmer and Buckner in 1896. He
is a member of the Christian (Disciples)
Church. Judge Orvis is a trustee of the
Pennsylvania State College and of Belle
fonte Academy; is a member of the Penn
sylvania Society of New Yprk City, the Na
tional Geographic Society, and the Philo-
biblon Club of Philadelphia. Address : Belle
fonte, Pennsylvania.
OSBORN, Henry Fairfield:
Paleontologist, educator; born at Fair
field, Connecticut, August 8, 1857; son of
William Henry Osborn and Virginia Reed
(Sturges) Osborn. He received his educa
tion at, Lyons Collegiate Institute, New
York City; Princeton, 1877; College of
Physicians and Surgeons and the Bellevue
Medical School, 1878 to 1880; and studied
biology under Balfour in Cambridge, Hux
ley in London, and Zittel in Munich. Receiv
ed the degrees of A.B., ScD., and LL.D.
from Princeton; LL.D. from Trinity Col
lege; LL.D., Columbia University, and D.
Sc. from Cambridge University. He is
vice-president, trustee and curator of
vertebrate paleontology in the American
Museum of Natural History, New York
City; Da Costa professor of zoology in
Columbia University since June, 1900;
geologist and paleontologist of the United
States Geological Survey since 1900; from
1900 to 1904 vertebrate paleontologist of
the Canadian Geological Survey; president
of the American Society of Naturalists,
1891 ; vice-president of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
1892; second vice-president of the New
York Academy of Sciences, 1897 ; president
of the American Morphological Society,
1897 ; and of the Marine Biological As
sociation, 1898 to 1900; vice-president
and trustee of the , New York Zoological
Society, and was active in founding the
New York Zoological 'Park ; president and

trustee of the Brearley School, New York
City: On December 4, 1906, Dr. Osborn
was elected secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, which office he declined. He
is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences, Philadelphia Academy of Sciences,
British Association for the Advancement of
Science, Geological Society of London, Zo
ological Society of London, Literary and
Philosophical Society of Manchester, Eng
land, Cambridge Philosophical Society,
England; Imperial Society of Moscow,
Royal Society of Bohemia. He has car
ried on annual explorations in West-
em United States for vertebrate fossils
since 1891. He is author of: From the
Greeks to Darwin (two editions) 1894
and 1897; also over one hundred and fifty
scientific and educational papers, addresses
and memoirs on zoology, paleontology,
comparative anatomy and psychology. He
is a member of the University and Century
Clubs of New York City, and the Cosmos
Club of Washington. He married, Sep
tember 29, 1881, Lucretia Thatcher Perry,
and they have two sons and two daughters.
Address : American Museum of Natural
History, Seventy-seventh Street and Eighth
Avenue, New York City.
OSBORNE, Arthur Dimon:
Banker; born in Fairfield, Connecticut,
April 17, 1828; son of Hon. Thomas B.
Osborne, LL.D. and Elizabeth Huntington
(Dimon) Osborne. He was fitted at Fair
field Academy and entered Yale College,
from which he was graduated in 1848, with
election to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity of Yale College. After his gradua
tion he studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in August, 1850, in Fairfield
County, removed to New Haven, Connec
ticut, in 1854, and was engaged in the prac
tice of law there. He was appointed, clerk
of the Supreme and Superior Courts of
New Haven County in i860, and in 1882
he declined reappointment and was chosen
president of the Second National Bank of
New Haven, holding that office until in
1899, he declined reelection and was made
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still holds. He was also a director of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
way Company, the Consolidated Railway
Company of Connecticut, The New England
Navigation Company, and several of the
subsidiary companies, until May, 1906, when
he resigned from these directorships. He is
a Republican in politics, was a member of
the Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1854, and afterward served as alderman
in the City of New Haven, and a member
of the Board of Education of that city.
He was trustee of the New Haven Orphan
Asylum for thirty-five years ; and he is a
member of the New Haven Colony Histor
ical Society and The Fairfield Historical
Society; also of the Graduates' Club of
Yale College and the New Haven Country
Club. He married in New Haven, Con
necticut, August 2, 1858, Frances Louisa
Blake, and they have two sons : Thomas
Burr, born August 5, 1859, and Arthur
Sherwood, born January 11, 1861. Resi
dence: 52 Trumbull Street, New Haven,
Connecticut. Office address : The Second
National Bank of New Haven, Connecticut.
OSBORNE, Edward William:
Bishop of Springfield, Illinois ; born in
Calcutta, India, in 1845 ; son of John Fran
cis and Louisa Osborne. He was grad
uated from Gloucester College, England, in
1869, and the same year was ordered dea
con in the Church of England, and the fol
lowing year was advanced to the priesthood.
He was curate of Highworth, Wiltshire,
England, from 1869 to 1872, and of Kenn,
Devonshire, from 1872 to 1875. He became
mission priest of the Anglican order of
St. John the Evangelist in 1875, attached
to the mission house in Oxford, England,
until 1878, then became connected with the
house of the Society of St. John the Evang
elist in Boston, as assistant and missioner
until 1889, ' when he was transferred to
Capetown, South Africa, as superior of the
mission there, chaplain of St. George's
Home and priest-in-charge of St. Phillip's
Church. He returned to Boston in 1898
as provincial superior of the Society of
St. John the Evangelist, in America, which
office he held until consecrated, October

23, 1904, as bishop-coadjutor of Springfield,
Illinois, and since the death of Bishop Sey
mour, December 8, 1906, has been bishop
of the same diocese. Bishop Osborne is
author of: The Children's Saviour, 1882;
The Saviour King, 1888; The Children's
Faith, 1889. Address: Springfield, Illinois.
OSBORNE, Oliver Thomas:
Physician; born in New Haven, Connec
ticut, November 14, 1862; son of Oliver S.
Osborne and Ellen L. (Sturges) Osborne.
He took a classical course in the New
Haven High School, received the degree of
M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1884;
was a post-graduate student in medicine at
the University of Leipzig in 1884 and 1885,
and received the degree of M.A., from Yale
University in 1899. He was assistant in
the medical clinic, in Yale Medical School
from 1888 to 1891 ; instructor in materia
medica and therapeutics at Yale Medical
School in 1891 and 1892 ; assistant professor
from 1892 to 1895 ; professor from 1895
to 1906 and professor of materia medica,
therapeutics, and clinical medicine since
1906. He is director of Elm City Sanitar
ium Corporation ; was chairman of the sec
tion on materia medica and therapeutics,
of the American Medical Association in
1904; chief of medical clinics, New Haven
Dispensary ; chairman of the Medical Board
of the Gaylord Farm Tuberculosis Sanitar
ium ; president of the Yale Medical Alumni
1904; chief of medical clinic, New Haven
County Medical Association in 1899; of
the American Therapeutic Society in 1905.
He is also director of the New Haven
County Anti-tuberculosis Association, the
National First Aid Association of America.
He is a member of the American Thera
peutic Society, the National Association
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Acad
emy of Arts and Sciences, Yale Medical
Alumni Association, the Connecticut Med
ical Society, the New Haven Medical Asso
ciation, the New Haven County Medical
Association, the American Medical Asso
ciation, a Mason, and a member of the
Graduates' Club of New Haven. In politics
he is a Republican, and in his religious de
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married in New Haven, April 18,
Mary W. Tyler ; and they have one daugh
ter, Marguerite N., born January 23, 1889.
Address: 252 York Street, New Haven,
Connecticut. OSBORNE, (Samuel) Duffield:
Author; born in Brooklyn, New York,
June 20, 1858; son of Samuel Smith and
Rosalie Willoughby (Duffield) Osborne.
He was graduated from Columbia College
as A.B. in 1879, and A.M. in 1882; from
Columbia Law School, as LL.B. in 1881.
He was admitted to the New York bar
and practiced law in New York City, from
1881 to 1893; and was member of the law
firm of Adams, Valentine and Osborne. He
traveled for over a year in Italy, Sicily, and
other parts of Europe; was assistant sec
retary and later acting secretary of the
Brooklyn Department of City Works, from
1893 to 1895 ; member of the Phi Beta Kap
pa, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities. Mr.
Osborne is. author of : The Spell of Ash-
taroth, 1888; The Robe of Nessus, 1890;
The Secret of the Crater, 1900 ; The Lion's
Brood, 1902 ; The Angels of Messer Ercole,
1907 ; and also of many short stories, poems
and essays in magazines. He is editor of
Livy's Roman History, 1898; Macaulay's
Lays of Ancient Rome, 1901. He is a
member of the Authors and National Arts
Clubs. Address: Tower of Madison
Square Garden, New York City.
OSBORNE, Thomas Mott:
Manufacturer; born in Auburn, New
York, September 23, 1859; son of David
Munson Osborne and Eliza (Wright) Os
borne. He received his early education in
the public schools of Auburn, New York,
and Adams Academy, Quincy, Massachu
setts; was graduated from Harvard College
as A.B. in 1884, and received the degree of
L.H.D. from Hobart College in 1905. He
began his business career as clerk to D. M.
Osborne & Company, manufacturers of
agricultural implements, in 1894, and upon
the death of his father was made president
of the company. He is also president of
the Auburn Publishing Company, the Buf
falo Transparent Products Company; vice-

president of the Eagle Wagon Works and
the Columbia Rope Company; director of
the Auburn Iron Company, and trustee of
the Auburn Savings Bank. Mr. Osborne
has made numerous trips abroad; went
around the world in 1877 and 1878, and to
the West Indies in 1904. He is a Democrat
in politics; was a member of the Auburn
Board of Education from 1885 to 1888, and
from 1893 to 1896; and mayor of Auburn
from 1902 to 1905; appointed public service
commissioner by Governor Hughes in June,
1907. He was a delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention in 1896; candi
date on the Citizens' Union (independent)
ticket for lieutenant-governor in 1898. Mr.
Osborne is a Unitarian in his religious
views. He is a trustee of the George Junior
Republic, and of Wells College; member of
the University Club of Chicago, the Tavern
Club of Boston, and the University, Har
vard; City and Reform Clubs of New York
City. He married in Cambridge, Massa
chusetts,- October 27, 1886, Agnes Devens,
who died March 26, 1896, leaving four chil
dren : David Munson, born in 1887, Charles
Devens, born in 1888, Arthur Lithgow, born
in 1892, and Robert Klipfel, born in 1896.
Address : Auburn, New York.
OSBOTJRNE, Lloyd:
Author ; born in San Francisco, Califor
nia, April 7, 1868; son of Samuel Osbourne
and Fanny Van de Grift. He was educated
in private schools and at Edinburgh Univer
sity, his mother having, after his father's
death, married Robert Louis Stevenson. He
was being trained for a civil engineer, but
a defect of sight compelled him to abandon
that study, and he traveled with his step
father from 1887 to 1894, and was appointed
American vice-consul to Samoa, during his
residence there with Mr. Stevenson. In
collaboration with Mr. Stevenson, he was
author of : The Wrong Box ; The Wrecker ;
and The Ebb Tide. Mr. Osbourne is also
sole author of: The Queen vs. Billy; The
Renegade; Love, the Fiddler; The Motor-
maniacs and Baby Bullet,; and in collabora
tion with Austin Strong, wrote the drama :
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Durham. Address, summer : The Bohemian
Club, San Francisco; winter: Lambs' Club,
New York City.
OSGOOD, William Fogg:
Professor of mathematics; born in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, March 10, 1864; son of
William Osgood and Mary Rogers (Gan
nett) Osgood. He attended the 'Boston
Latin School from 1877 to 1882 and Har
vard College from 1882 to 1887, receiving
the degree of A.B. in 1886 and A.M. in
1887; was a student at the Universities of
Gottingen, Germany, from 1887 to 1889, and
Erlangen, Germany, in 1889 and 1890, re
ceiving the degree of Ph;D. in 1890. He
was instructor in mathematics at Harvard
College from 1890 to 1893; assistant pro
fessor, from 1893 to 1903, and professor
since 1903. Professor Osgood is a mem
ber of the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereini-
gung, Circolo Matematico di Palermo;, ex-
president and member of the American
Mathematical Society, a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the
Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He is an Inde
pendent in municipal politics, Republican in
State politics, and a Democrat in National
politics. In his religious affiliation he is a
Unitarian. His favorite recreations are
walking and tennis. Professor Osgood is
author of: Infinite Series, 1897; Lehrbuch
der Funktionentheorie, Volume I, 1905,
1907, and Differential and Integral Calculus,
1907. He married in Gottingen, Germany,
July 17, 1890, Therese Ruprecht," and their
children are William Ruprecht, born in
1895 ; Frieda Bertha Ruprecht, born in
1897, and Rudolf Ruprecht, born in 1901.
Address : 74 Avon Hill Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
OSTENSON, Lewis:
Farmer and writer; born in Dodge
County, Wisconsin, February 10, 1852; son
of Engebret Ostenson and Anna Olson
(Oterholt) Ostenson. He was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin as A.B.,
and at once engaged in farming, in which
he has been very successful. His favorite
avocation is literary work, and his recre
ation is poetry. He is an extensive trans

lator of Bjornson's- poems, besides being
himself a writer of much excellent verse.
He is also a writer on all phases of farm
management, and was editor of the Patrons
department of the Cheese and Dairy Jour
nal of Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1905 and
1906. He is a Republican in politics and
is school clerk of Oconomowoc, Wiscon
sin. In his church relations Mr. Ostenson is
an Episcopalian. He married at Nashotah,
Wisconsin, September 23, 1880, Caroline
Stenson, and they have four' children:
Stella Annett, born in 1884, Delia, born in
1888, William Irving, bora in 1891, and
Edith Louise, born in 1894. Address:
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
OSTRANDER, Russell Cowles:
Supreme judge; born in Ypsilanti Michi
gan, September 1, 1851 ; son of Simon Os-
trander and Ellen Gardner (Cowles) Osi
trander; removed in bovhood to Lansing,
Michigan. After graduation from the high
school there he entered the Law School of
the University of Michigan, from which
he was graduated as LL.B. in 1876. He en
gaged in the practice of law at Lansing,
Michigan, in 1877, becoming one of the
leaders at the Ingham County bar, and also
prominent politically as an active Republi
can. He was court commissioner for Ing
ham County three years, prosecuting attor
ney two years, and ma>or of Lansing in
1896 and 1897, and in November, 1904, was
elected one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of Michigan for the term from Jan
uary 1, 1905, to December 31, 1911. Judge
Ostrander married in 1878, Dora Porter,
and after her death again married, in
1892, Lou S. Davis. Address: Lansing,
Michigan.
OTERO, Miguel Antonio:
Ex-Governor of New Mexico; born in
St. Louis, Missouri, October 17, 1859; son
of Don Miguel Antonio Otero, and de
scendant of an old Spanish family settled
in New Mexico for many generations. He
was educated in St. Louis University and
the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,
and in 1880 became cashier of the San
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Mexico, serving for five years; and he has
always been identified with large mercan
tile and financial enterprises there. He was
city treasurer of Las Vegas in 1883 and
1884; clerk of San Miguel County in 1889
and 1890; clerk of the district court for
the Fourth Judicial District of New Mex
ico from 1890 to 1893, and he was ap
pointed by President McKinley June 7,
1897, as governor of New Mexico, and
served by reappointment of President
Roosevelt until 1906. Governor Otero is an
ardent Republican and was a member in
1892 and chairman in 1900 and 1904 of the
New Mexico delegations in the Republican
National Conventions of those years. He
married, December 19, 1888, Caroline V.
Emmett, daughter of L. Emmett, former
chief justice of Minnesota. Address: Las
Vegas, New Mexico.
OTIS, Edward Osgood:
Physician; born in Rye, New Hamp
shire, October 29, 1848; son of Rev. Israel
Taintor Otis and Olive (Morgan) Otis.
He is a descendant from John Otis, who
came to America in 1635, and is grandson
of a Revolutionary soldier. He was edu
cated in Phillips Exeter Academy, was
graduated from Harvard College as A.B.
in 1871, and from Harvard Medical School
as M.D. in 1877. He has been engaged in
practice, since graduation, in Boston. His
specialty is diseases of the lungs and cli
matology; and he has done much work in
the crusade against tuberculosis. He
founded the Tuberculosis Department of
Boston Dispensary, the first of its kind in
the United States, and is its senior phy
sician ; is professor Of diseases' of the lungs
and of climatology in Tufts College Med
ical School, and visiting physician of the
Massachusetts. State Sanatorium for Tu
berculosis. He was formerly president of
the American Climatological Association, is
a director of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis;
president of the Boston Association for the
Relief and Control of Tuberculosis ;< mem
ber of the Public Plealth Association, the
American Academy of Medicine, American
Medical Association, Boston Society of

Medical Improvement, Boston Medical Li
brary Association; and he is a correspond
ing member Of the International Anti-tu
berculosis Association. He has written
many articles, published in various medical
journals, upon tuberculosis and climate;
and wrote a series of articles upon climate
and health resorts for Wood's Handbook
of Medical Sciences, second edition. Dr.
Otis is a trustee of the- Montgomery. (Ala
bama) Industrial School. In politics he is
a Republican, and he is a deacon in the
Congregational Church. Dr. Otis is a mem
ber of the Massachusetts Society of Sons
of the American Revolution, and of the
University Club of Boston. He married in
Boston, June 6, 1894, Marion Faxon, and
they have four children : Olive, born in
1895; John Faxon, born in 1898, Edward
Osgood, Jr., born in 1900, and William
Faxon, born in 1904. Address : 381 Beacon
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
OTIS, Elwell Stephen:
Major-general of, the United States
Army, retired; born in Frederick City,
Maryland, March 25, 1838; son of William
Otis and Mary A. C. Otis. He was grad
uated from .the University of Rochester as
A.B. in 1858 and from Harvard Law Sthool
as LL.B. in 1861. He entered the army as
a captain in the One Hundred and Fortieth
New York Volunteers, September 13, 1862;
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1863
and later to colonel. He was incapacitated
on account of wounds, and mustered out,
January 24, 1865, having been brevetted
brigadier-general, for gallantry and disting
uished services. He was appointed lieu
tenant-colonel in the Regular Army, March
2, 1869; promoted colonel of the Twentieth
Infantry, February 8, 1880; brigadier-gen
eral, November 28, 1893; major-general of
United States Volunteers, May 4, 1898;
major-general of the United States Army,
June 16, 1900. He was assigned to duty
in San Francisco, May 19, 1898, mobolizing
and shipping troops to the Philippines; de
parted for the Philippines, July 15, 1898,
and relieved Major-General Merritt as
commanding-general of the United States •
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lands, August 29, 1898. Major-General Otis
conducted operations against the insurg
ents and performed duties of military gov
ernor until May 5, 1900. He was a member
of the United States Philippine Commission
in 1899. Subsequently he was assigned to
command of the Department of Lakes and to
temporary command of the Department of
Dakota, a position he occupied until March
25, 1902, when he was honorably retired at
the age limit. Address : Rochester, New
York.OTIS, Harrison Gray:
Brigadier-general, United States Volun
teers, and editor of the Los Angeles Times ;
born in Washington County, Ohio, Febru
ary 10, 1837; son of Stephen Otis and
Sarah (Dyar) Otis. His parents were
pioneer citizens of Ohio, his father having
emigrated in 1800, at the age of sixteen,
to the Far West, settling in the Ohio
Company's Purchase at Marietta, and his
mother, who was a native of Nova Scotia,
emigrated with her parents from Boston
early in the century, settling in the Musk
ingum Valley. His grandfather was a pa
triot soldier in the Revolutionary War, and
a pensioner. The Otis stock has produced
James 'Otis, famous as a Revolutionary
patriot and orator, and the first Harrison
Gray Otis, once United States senator from
Massachusetts. He was reared on a farm,
attending the common schools of Southern
Ohio in winters until the age of fourteen,
then learned the printing trade; spent a
term of less than six months in Wetherby's
Academy, Lowell, Ohio, 1856-57, and after
ward graduated from Granger's Commer
cial College, Columbus, Ohio. He enlisted
as private in the Twelfth Ohio Volunteers,
June 25, 1861 ; was promoted to first ser
geant, March 1, 1862, second lieutenant,
November 12, 1862, -first lieutenant, May
30, 1863, captain July 1, 1864, on which
date he was transferred to the Twenty-
third Ohio Veteran Volunteers (of which
Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel and Wil
liam McKinley a major). He took part
in many actions with the Army of West
Virginia, Army of the Potomac, and Army
of the Shenandoah, was wounded at An

tietam, September 17, 1862, and again
(severely )at Kernstown, July 24, 1864. In
the winter of 1864-65 he was assigned, as
the senior captain present for duty, to the
command of his regiment at Cumberland,
Maryland, and led it up the Shenandoah
Valley to Harrisonburg, where he was pro
vost marshal up to the close of the war,
when he was brevetted major and lieuten
ant-colonel for gallant and meritorious
services during the war, and honorably
discharged August 1, 1865. He became
owner of a small newspaper and printing
plant at Marietta, Ohio, in 1865; was fore
man of the Government Printing Office at
Washington, 1869 and 1870 ; chief of a
division in the United States Patent Of
fice, 1871 to 1876; editor and, publisher of
the Santa Barbara Press, March, 1876;
principal United States Treasury agent in
charge of the Seal Islands of Alaska from
1879 to 1881. Became a fourth owner
in the Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1882,
and in October, 1884, joined in the .organi
zation of the Times-Mirror Company for
its publication, and has been its president
and general manager since 1886. He is
also director of The Times-Mirror Print
ing and Binding House, Security Land
and Loan Company, San Fernando Land
and Water Company, Ex-Mission San Fer
nando Water Company, and president of
the Colorado River Land Company (a
Mexican corporation) associated with the
California-Mexico Land and Cattle Com
pany, which corporations together own and
operate a tract of 859,000 acres of delta
lands, lying along the Rio Colorado of the
West, mainly on the peninsula of Lower
California. In 1898 he served in the Span
ish-American War, and in 1899 in the Fili
pino Insurrection, as brigadier-general of
Volunteers, having been appointed by Pres
ident McKinley, May 27, 1898, and as
signed, first, to the Independent Division,
Philippine Islands Expeditionary Forces,
at Camp Merritt, California, then to the
command of the second section of the fourth
sea expedition to the Philippines, and sub
sequently to the Eighth Corps at Manila,
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the First Division, and then the First Bri
gade of the Second Division, holding the
left of the American line on the northern
front of Manila. He was present, in com
mand of his brigade, at the Filipino out
break on the night of February 4, 1899,
and participated with his command, con
stantly on the advance line, in all its sub
sequent actions, up to and including -the
capture of Malolos, March 31, 1899. His
brigade constituted the principal forces en
gaged in the battle and capture of Caloocan
on February 10, 1899, and which, on March
25, 1899, was ordered to pierce the enemy's
center in the first advance from La Loma
Church, northward to Malolos, the Filipino
capital, which order was successfully exe
cuted by General. Otis. On April 2, 1899,
Brigadier-General Otis was relieved of his
command at his own request, and returned
to the United States, where he was honor
ably discharged from the military service,
July 2, 1899; and he was brevetted major-
general for meritorious conduct in action
at Caloocan, March 25, 1899. General Otis
is an Independent Republican in politics.
He was official reporter of the Ohio House
of Representatives in the session of 1866-
67; was a delegate from Kentucky to the
National Republican Convention at Chi
cago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln
- for President in i860 ; and delegate to the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention at Chi
cago, 1868, which first nominated General
U. S. Grant for the Presidency. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of the
projected Women's College of the Pacific,
president of the Board of Trustees of the
King's Daughters Day Nursery ; member
of the American Academy of Sciences, As
sociated Press and American Newspaper
Publishers' Association; also a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, Society of the
Army of the Potomac, Military Order of
Foreign Wars, United Spanish War Vet
erans, National Society of the Army of
the Philippines, Veteran Army of the Phil
ippines, Manila, Landmarks Society for the
Preservation of Old Missions, Sequoia
League, Citizens'. Alliance of Los Angeles,

California Club and Jonathan Club. He
married at Lowell, Ohio, September n,
1859, Eliza A. Wetherby, who died No
vember 1904; and who was associated with
her husband in journalism for more than
a quarter of a century. Of that union were
born a son, Harrison Gray, born 1861, died
in infancy ; and four daughters : Lilian,
born September 22, 1864, died March, 1905 ;
Marian, born July 1, 1866 (wife of Harry
Chandler) ; Mabel, born May 28, 1871 (wife
of Franklin Booth), and Esther, born 1876,
died in infancy. Residence : The Bivouac,
Westlake, Los Angeles. Office address :
The Times Building, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. OTJEN, Theobold:
Ex-congressman, lawyer ; born in West
China, St. Clair County, Michigan, October
27, 1851. He was educated at the Marine
City (Michigan) Academy and at a private
school in Detroit conducted by Professor
P. M. Patterson ; was employed as foreman
in the rolling mill of the Milwaukee Iron
Company at Milwaukee from 1870 to the
fall of 1872; entered the law department
of the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, in October, 1873; graduated March
25, 1875, and was immediately admitted to
the bar at Ann Arbor. He practiced law
in Detroit until the fall of 1883, when he
moved to Milwaukee, where he has since
resided ; engaged in the practice . of law
and in the real estate business. He was
elected a member of the Common Council
of the City of Milwaukee in April, 1887,
and was reelected for three successive
terms, serving seven years in all; was a
trustee of the Milwaukee Public Library
from 1887 to 1891, and a trustee of the
Milwaukee Public Museum from 1891 to
1894;- ran for comptroller of the city, of
Milwaukee in April, 1892, but went down
to defeat with the rest of the Republican
ticket under the Bennett law tidal wave.
He was nominated as the Republican can
didate for Congress in 1892 and ran against
Hon. John L. Mitchell, formerly Senator,
but was defeated; was again the Republi
can candidate in 1893 for the seat in Con-

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gress made vacant by the election of Mr.
Mitchell to the Senate, but was again de
feated; was elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, from the Fourth
District of Wisconsin, serving until March
3, 1907. Address : Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
OUTERBRLDGE, Eugenlus H.:
Merchant; born at Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, March 8, i860; son of Alexander
Ewing and Laura (Harvey) Outerbridge.
He attended Ury House School, Philadel
phia. He was engaged in business in New
foundland, from 1876 to 1878; established
in New York City, August, 1878, as agent
for Harvey and Company of Newfound
land, and in 1881 became resident partner
of the firm, being Harvey and Outerbridge ;
treasurer and managing director of the
Paritasote Leather Company, of New Jer
sey; secretary, treasurer and managing dir
ector of the Pantasote Company of West
Virginia ; , president and director of the
White-Bridge Mills of Pennsylvania; dir
ector of the New York, Bermuda and Car
ibbean Steamship Company; elected direct
or of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety, December, 1906. He is a member of
the Union, Lawyers', Richmond County
L,ountry, Staten Island Cricket and Tennis,
and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs. Mr. Outer-
bridge married, on Staten Island, New
York, October, 1891, Ethel Boyd, and they
have two children : Ethel Harvey, born
in 1894, and Kenneth Boyd, born in 1905.
Residence : 38 East Sixty-second Street.
Address: 11 Broadway, New York City.
OVERMAN, Lee Slater:
United States Senator and lawyer; born
in Salisbury, North Carolina, January 3,
1854; son of William Overman and Mary
E. Overman. He was graduated from
Trinity College, North Carolina, in 1874
as A.B. and. received the degree of A.M.
in 1876. In 1875 and 1876 he taught school ;
was private secretary to Governor Vance
in 1877 and 1878 and to Governor Jarvis
in 1879 and in 1878 was admitted to the
bar, He was a member of the North Caro

lina legislature in the biennial session from
1883 until 1893 and again in 1900; and was
speaker of that body in 1893. In 1895 he
was candidate for United States Senator;
was president of the Democratic State Con
vention in 1900; presidential elector in igoo
and was elected United States Senator in
1903 for the term expiring in 1909. In
1894 he was president of the North Caro
lina Railroad, and he is now president of
the Salisbury Savings Bank. Senator Over
man married, October 31, 1878, Mary
Merrimon. Address : Salisbury, North
Carolina.OVERSHINER, Ellsworth B.:
Manufacturer of telephone apparatus;
born in Elwood, Indiana, January 14, 1867;
son of James M. Overshiner and Louisa J.
(Pyles) Overshiner. He was educated in
the schools of Louisville, Kentucky. Mr.
Overshiner engaged in the manufacture of
telephone apparatus, and is now president
and treasurer of the Swedish-American
Telephone Company of Chicago, the larg
est independent telephone manufacturing
concern in the world, whose telephones
have been pronounced by. the Governnient
experts superior to any. The largest rail
way corporations use them extensively, and
they are in use in over three thousand ex
changes and long distance lines. Mr. Over
shiner is vice-president and director of the
Electrical Trades Exposition Company of
Chicago and of the Tiger Head Mining
Company; president and treasurer of the
Swedish Electric Vibrator Company of
Chicago; and director and treasurer. of the
American Wagon Company of Chicago. He
is a member of the Chicago Automobile
Club. He married in Chicago, January 25,
1905, Florence M. Woolley, and they have
a son, Ellsworth Channing, born in 1906.
Residence: 1556 Leland Avenue, Chicago.
Office address: 1760 East Ravenswood
Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
OVERSTREET, Jesse:
Congressman; born in Johnson County,
Indiana, December 14, 1859. He received
a common school, and collegiate education,
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as secretary of the National Republican
Congressional committee through the cam
paigns of 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1904; was
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth,
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress from the Seventh Indi
ana District. Address : Indianapolis, Indi
ana. OVERTON, James Bertram:
University professor; born at Richmond,
Michigan, December 23, 1869; son of John
M. Overton and Charlotte (Mills) Over
ton. He was graduated from the University
of Michigan as Ph.B. in 1894, from the
University of Chicago as Ph.D. in 1901, and
studied in Bonn University, Germany, in
1904 and 1905. He was assistant principal
of schools of Black River Falls, Wisconsin,
in 1894 and 1895; senior master in mathe
matics of St. John's Military Academy,
Delafield, Wisconsin, from 1895 to 1898;
fellow in botany, University of Chicago,
from 1900 to 1901 ; asistant in botany, Uni
versity of Chicago, 1901 ; research assistant
of Carnegie Institution at Washington, in
1903 and 1904; professor of biology in Illi
nois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, from
1901 to 1904; instructor in Botany at the
University of Wisconsin from 1904 to 1907 ;
assistant professor of Botany, University of
Wisconsin, since 1907. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, member of the
Botanical Society of America, Association
Internationale des Botanistes, Deutsche
Botanische Gesellschaft, American Associa
tion of Naturalists, Botanists of the Central
States and the Wisconsin Academy of Arts,
Science and Letters. He is also a member
of the University Club of Madison,' Wiscon
sin. Dr. Overton married at Ashland, Wis
consin, December 26, 1901, Mary Cochran,
and they have two sons : James Bertram
Ove'rton, born in 1905, and John Cochran
OVerton, born in 1907. Residence: 512
Wisconsin Avenue. Address: Science
Hall, Madison, Wisconsin.
OWEN, David C:
Postmaster; born in Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, December" 14, 1865 ; son of Robert J.

and Anne (Price) Owen. He was educat
ed in his native city at the public schools
and at the Spencerian Business College.
On graduating- from the Business College,
he became connected with E. P. Bacon and
Company and later with the Board of Trade.
After two years with the latter connection
he resigned to accept a position with the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Company, which he retained for six years.
In 1889 he was appointed secretary in the
Milwaukee Post office and after a service
of nearly five years in that office, he retired,
in 1893. One year later he organized the
firm of D. C. Owen Coal Company, of
which he became the president. In 1901
this company being merged into the Whit-
nall Coal Company, he became secretary
and treasurer of the new combination.
Upon his appointment as postmaster of
Milwaukee, March 18, 1906, he retired from
all official business connections, in order to
give his entire, time to the office he had
assumed. Mr. Owen has always been act
ive in the Republican party, having organ
ized in 1888, the Young Men's Republican
Club of Milwaukee, whose membership now
numbers twenty-five hundred. He was
elected chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of this association and has served
on the County, State and National Repub
lican Committees. He was first assistant
sergeant-at-arms at the Republican National
Convention of 1896, 1900, 1904 and the lat
ter year he acted as sergeant-at-arms in the
Republican National Committee Campaign.
He served five years in the First Light Bat
tery of the Wisconsin National Guards.
Mr. Owen has traveled extensively in all
parts of the United States. He is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church. He is a
Mason, Knight Templar and member of the
Mystic Shrine, of the Milwaukee, the Mil
waukee Athletic, the Milwaukee Country,
and the Deutscher Clubs. He spends much
of his leisure time at golf, skating, and ice-
boating. Address : Milwaukee Post office,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
OXNARD, Benjamin A.:
Beet sugar refiner ; born in New Orleans,
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ratory education in the public schools of
Boston; was graduated from the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology in 1875,
and after that devoted himself to the sugar
refining industry in Brooklyn, New York,
and later in New Orleans, where he is
president of the Adeline Sugar Factory
Company ; and he is also interested in other
factories both for cane and beet sugar pro
duction, and has been actively identified
with the promotion of the beet sugar in
dustry. Address : 1730 Palmer Avenue,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
OXNARD, Henry Thomas:
Manufacturer; born in Marseilles, France,
June 22, i860; son of Thomas Oxnard and
Louise Adeline (Brown) Oxnard. After
graduation from the Latin School of Rox
bury, Massachusetts, he entered Harvard
College, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1882. Mr. Oxnard has devoted his
energies to the promotion of the beet sugar
industry, in which he is largely interested
and is vice-president and director of the
American Beet Sugar Company, and also
a director of the Oxnard Construction Com
pany. He is president of the American
Beet Sugar Association, a protective or
ganization, the membership of which rep
resents all the beet sugar factories in the
United States. He is a member of the
Union and University Clubs of New York.
Residences : Oxnard, California, and Union
Club, San Francisco. Office : 32 Nassau
Street, New York City.
OZMTJN, Edward Henry:
Consul-general ; born at Rochester, Min
nesota, August 6, 1856; son of Abraham
Ozmun and Maria (Schenck) Ozmun. He
was educated in the Universities of Wis
consin and Michigan, graduating from the
latter in 1881, and afterward studied law,
and was admitted to the Minnesota bar.
He engaged in the practice of law at St.
Paul, Minnesota, and for five years was
counsel to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. He attained a high standing at
the Minnesota bar, and was president of
the St. Paul Bar- Association for seven
years, was secretary of the Minnesota Bar

Association for four years, and for seven
years was a member of the State Board
of Examiners in Law. He was also active
in the political affairs of his State as a
Republican, and was for four years a mem
ber of the Minnesota State Senate, and
while in that position took an important
place in legislation, and was author of the
Corrupt Practices Act passed by the Legis
lature of Minnesota in 1895. He was ap
pointed by President McKinley in 1897,
American consul at Stuttgart, Germany,
remaining there until promoted in May,
1906, to consul-general and transferred to
Constantinople, Turkey, where he is now
serving. Mr. Ozmun is a member of the
Congress of Americanists, the Wiirtemberg
Geographic Society and the Stuttgart Art
Society, and he is also a member of the
Society of the Sons of the American Rev
olution. Mr. Ozmun has- traveled extens
ively in the United States and Europe. He
married at Weedsport, New York, Novem
ber 21, 1894, Clara B. Goodman, and they
have two children: Helen Elizabeth Oz
mun, born in 1896, and Edward Henry Oz
mun, born in 1903. Address : American
Consulate General, Constantinople, Turkey.

PACKARD, Edwin:
Vice-president and director of the Fed
eral Mining and Smelting Company; born
at Roxbury (now Boston) Massachusetts,
1840; son of Otis and Julia A. Packard.
Pie was educated at the Roxbury High
School. Mr. Packard is a trustee of the
Franklin Safe Deposit Company, Franklin
Trust Company, and of street railway and
illuminating properties ; and director of the
Union Typewriter Company. He married
in Brooklyn, 1868, Julia Hutchinson. Resi
dence : 241 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New
York. Address : 32 Broadway, New York
City.
PACKARD, Francis R.:
Physician ; born in Philadelphia, March
23, 1870; son of John H. Packard and
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graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania, in the Biological Department, in the
class of 1889, and from the Medical De
partment in the class of 1892. He was
first lieutenant and assistant surgeon of
the Second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan
try from' May to October, 1898. He is
author of: History of Medicine in Amer
ica, 1901 ; and was editor of the American
Journal of the Medical Sciences from 1901
to 1906; is also author of many contribu
tions on diseases of the ear, nose, throat,
and the history of medicine in current med
ical literature. Dr. Packard is a member
of the State Board of Medical Examiners
of Pennsylvania, aurist to the Pennsylvania
Hospital and professor of diseases of the
nose and throat in the Philadelphia Poly
clinic. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a member of the Protestant Epis
copal Church. His favorite recreation is
horseback riding. Dr. Packard is trustee
of the Sanitarium Association of Philadel
phia; a member of the American Laryngo
logical Association, the American Otologi
cal Association and the College of Physi
cians of Philadelphia, and also of the Rit
tenhouse, University and Franklin Inn
Clubs. He married in Philadelphia, Febru
ary 10, 1906, Miss Margaret Horstmann
and they have one daughter, born in 1907.
Address : 1836 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.PADDOCK, Robert Lewis:
Clergyman ; born in Brooklyn, New York,
December 24, 1869; son of Bishop John
Adams and Frances Chester (Fanning)
Paddock. He was educated in the Brook
lyn Polytechnic School, Saint Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire; Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut, B.A., 1894; M.A.,
1897; Berkeley Divinity School, Middle-
town, Connecticut, in 1897. General travel
ing secretary of the Church Students' Mis
sionary Association ; in charge of Saint
Paul's Church, Southington, Connecticut;
curate of Saint Paul's Church, Cleveland,
Ohio, from 1897 to 1898 ; vicar of the Pro-
Cathedral and canon Cathedral, of Saint
John the Divine from 1898 to 1902; rector
of the Church of the Holy Apostles, New

York City, since 1902. He was interested
in the reform movement which resulted
in driving out Van Wyck, Devery and
Tammany and bringing in Seth Low and
Jerome ; is an Independent in politics. He
is a member of the Twenty-third Street
Young Men's Christian Association. He
helped organize the Adelphi Club of young
ministers (interdenominational).;' also Chel
sea Improvement Committee; president of
the Lower West Side Association of Pas
tors and Other Workers. In connection
with his church is a church settlement, with
seven or eight resident workers. Mr. Pad
dock is a member of the City Club. Ad
dress : 360 West Twenty-eighth Street, New
York City.
PADGETT, Lemuel Phillips:
Congressman and lawyer; born Novem
ber 28, 1855, in Columbia, Tennessee. He
attended the ordinary private schools of the
country till October, 1873, when he entered
the sophomore class of Erskine College,
Due West, South Carolina, graduating in
1876 with the degree of A.B. He began
the study of law in September, 1876, in a
law office, and was licensed to practice in
March, 1877, but did not begin active prac
tice until January, 1879, and has since con
tinued therein at Columbia. Mr. Podgett
was one of the Democratic Presidential
electors in 1884; in 1898 was elected to
the State Senate and served during the
term; was elected to the Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Seventh Tennessee District. He married,
November 11, 1880, Miss Ida B. Latta of
Columbia. Address : Columbia, Tennes
see.PAGE, Carroll Smalley:
Banker, merchant and ex-governor; born
in Westfield, Vermont, January 10, 1843;
son of Russell Smith Page and Mary
Melvina Smalley. He was educated in
Lamoille County Grammar School, John
son, Vermont, People's Academy, Morris
ville, Vermont and. Lamoille Central Acad
emy, Hyde Park, Vermont. The degree
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wich University, Northfield, Vermont. He
is said to be the largest dealer in green
calfskins in this country, having been in
that business since 1855 ; president Lamoille
County National Bank, Hyde Park, and of
the Lamoille County Savings Bank and
Trust Company, and is trustee of the La
moille Central Academy, Brigham Academy
and of the Vermont Sanitarium (tubercu
lar). He was a member of the Vermont
House of Representatives from 1869 to
1872; the Vermont State Senate from 1874
to 1876; Savings Bank examiner for the
State of Vermont from 1884 to 1888; gov
ernor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892. . Gov
ernor Page is a director of the St. Johns
bury and Lake Champlain Railroad Com
pany; treasurer of the Lamoille Publishing
Company; of the Morse Manufacturing
Company, the Hyde Park Lumber Com
pany, and the Morse Manufacturing Com
pany. In politics he is identified with the
Republican party. Governor Page married
at Morrisville, Vermont, April 11, 1855,
Ellen Frances Patch, and their children
are : Theophilus Hull, born in 1871, Russell
Smith, born in 1877, and Alice Page, born
in 1879. Address : Hyde Park, Vermont.
PAGE, Edward Day:
Merchant; born in Haverhill, Massachu
setts, May 10, 1856; son of Henry A. Page
and Maria (Clarke) Page. He was grad
uated from Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University as Ph.B. in 1875. In 1884
he became a partner of the firm of Faulk
ner, Page and Company, which was estab
lished in 1834; and since 1900 has been
senior partner. He has been councilman
of the Borough of Oakland, Bergen County,
New Jersey, since 1902; is president of the
South Orange and Maplewood Traction
Company; treasurer of the Montrose Realty
and Improvement Company; and director
of the Whittenton Manufacturing Com
pany. In politics he is Independent. He is
a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of
Great Britain; member Societe de Econo
mic Sociale of Paris ; the Chamber of
Commerce, the New York Historical So
ciety, the American Statistical Association,
the American Economic Association, the

British Economic Association, the Amer
ican Social Science Association, the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science; president of the Merchants' Pro
tective Association; director of the Mer
chants' Club, and member of the Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity; director of "the Arts
and Crafts Society, the Municipal Art So
ciety, and chairman of the Board of Di
rectors of the People's Institute. His fa
vorite recreations include farming, canoe
ing, walking, forestry, fishing, writing,
studying art and sociology. He is a mem
ber of the Century Association and of the
Merchants', National Arts, Tuxedo and
North Woods Clubs. Mr. Page married
in. South Orange, New Jersey, in 1883,
Cornelia Lee; and their children are:
Leigh, born in 1885, Allen Starr, born in
1889, and Phyllis, born in 1894. Address:
58 Worth Street, New York City.
PAGE, Robert Newton:
Congressman; born in Cary, Wake
County, North Carolina, October 26, 1859;
son of Allison Francis and Kate (Rabo-
teau) Page. He was . educated at Cary
High School and Bingham Military
School; moved to Moore County in 1880.
Mr. Page has been for more than twenty
years actively engaged in the lumber busi
ness and has been treasurer of the Aber
deen and Asheboro Railroad Company
since 1890. He removed to Montgomery
County in 1897, and was elected from
that county to the Legislature of 1901. He
was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Seventh North
Carolina District. In politics he is a
Democrat. He married in Manly, North
Carolina, June 20, 1888, Flora Shaw, and
they have four children. Address: Bis-'
coe, North Carolina.
PAGE, S. Davis:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, September
22, 1840; son of William B. Page, an emin
ent physician. In 1859 he was graduated
from Yale College; then read law in the
office of Peter McCall, and at the Harvard
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in 1864. Since that time he has been act
ively engaged in the practice of law.
Twenty years after his admission he form
ed the law firm of Page and Allinson, to
which Boies Penrose, now United States
Senator, was afterward admitted. The firm
of Page, Allinson and Penrose was dis
solved on death _ of Mr. Allinson in 1901,
and is < succeeded by Page and Page, in
which Howard W. Page only is associated
with his father. In 1883 Mr. Page was made
city controller, serving nearly one year,
in which he very ably managed the city's
affairs. He was appointed assistant treas
urer of the United States at Philadelphia
in 1886, and -administered the office with
very general satisfaction till 1890. He also
served in the Philadelphia Common Council
from 1877 to 1881 and in 1882 and 1883,
when he resigned, after the most active
and valuable service both on important
committees and on the floor of councils. In
1879 he was the Democratic candidate for
city treasurer, and again in 1882, and for
city controller in 1883. In 1891 he was one
of the commission appointed by the gov
ernor to investigate the accounts of John
Bardsley, derelict city treasurer, with the
Keystone National Bank. In 1893, under
commission by the governor he delivered
an address on Pennsylvania before the
Bankers' Convention at Columbian Exposi
tion. Mr. Page is a director of the Quaker
City National Bank, and was its president
in 1890 and 1891. He has been a director
of the Merchants' Trust Company since
its incorporation. He is a member of the
Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and
Virginia, of the Sons of the Revolution, of
the Colonial Wars and Colonial Society, of
the American Bar Association, Pennsylva
nia Bar Association, Law Association of
Philadelphia, of the Rittenhouse, Univer
sity, City and Democratic Clubs. Address :
281 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
PAGE, Thomas Nelson:
Author ; born at Oakland Plantation, Vir
ginia, April 23, 1853; second son of Major
John Page (late Confederate States Army)

and Elizabeth Burwell Nelson. Educated
at Washington and Lee University and the
University of Virginia, and -has the degrees
of B.L, D.L., and LL.D. He practiced
law in Richmond, Virginia, from 1875 to
1893; delivered lectures on subjects con
nected with the history of the 'Southern
States; wrote and published stories and
essays. He is author of : In Old Virginia,
or Marse Chan and Other Stories, 1887
Two Little Confederates, 1888; On New
found River, 1891 ; Among the Camps, 1891
The Old South, Essays, Social and Histori
cal, 1891 ; Elsket, and Other Stories, 1892
Befo' de War, Poems in Negro Dialect
(with A. C. Gordon), 1888; Pastime Stor
ies, 1894; The Burial of the Guns, 1894
The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock,
1896; Red Rock, 1898; Santa Claus' Part
ner, 1899; Social Life in Virginia before
the War, 1901 ; A Captured Santa Claus,
1902 ; Gordon Keith, 1903 ; Bred in the Bone
and Other Stories, 1904; The Negro, the
Southerner's Problem, 1904. Recreations :
Horseback riding, living in the country.
Mr. Page is a member of the Metropolitan,
Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs of Wash
ington, D. C. ; Westmoreland Club, Rich
mond, Virginia ; the Southern Society ; Uni
versity, Century and Authors Clubs, New
York; and the Tavern Club, Boston, Mas
sachusetts. Address : Washington, D. C.
PAGE, Walter H.:
Editor and publisher ; born in Cary, North
Carolina, August 15, 1855; son of A. F.
Page. He was graduated from Randolph
Macon College, and was a fellow of Johns
Hopkins University. He was editor of
the Forum, (New York), from 1890 to
1895; of the Atlantic Monthly, (Boston),
from 1896 to 1899 and of the World's Work,
since 1900, and he is author of: The Re
building of Old Commonwealths. He is
a member of the firm of . Doubleday, Page
and Company, publishers. Mr. Page is a
member of the University, and National
Arts Clubs. He married Alice Wilson, of
Michigan, and they have three sons and
one daughter. Address : 133 East Six
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PAIGE, Allen Wallace:
Lawyer; born in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
February 28, 1854; son of John 0. Paige.
He was prepared at Russell's Military
School and graduated from Yale Law
School, and engaged in practice, and for
several years past, though still a resident
of Connecticut, has had his office at 100
Broadway, New York. He is identified
with important corporate interests, is presi
dent and director of the Automatic Refrig
erating Company, the Derby Rubber Com
pany, and the Nazareth Cement Company,
and is a director of the American Gas and
Electric Company, the Automatic Vending
Company, Connecticut Railway and Light
ing Company, International Banking Cor
poration, New England Engineering Com
pany, Pequonnock National Bank and the
Rockville Gas and Electric Company. He
is a Republican in politics, was elected
many times to the Connecticut House of
Representatives, and was speaker in the ses
sion of 1891 ; and in 1905 he was elected
to the Connecticut Senate, becoming chair
man of the Judiciary Committee of that
body. Senator Paige is a Congregationalist
in his church relations. He is a member
of the Union League Club of New Haven,
Connecticut; all the home clubs at Bridge
port, Connecticut, the Union League and
Midday Clubs of New York City, and the
Automobile Club of America. He married
at Shelton, Connecticut, December 15, 1888,
Lizzie D. Duddley, and they have two
daughters : Aline E., born in 1892, and
Marian D., born in 1897. Residence : 219
Park Place, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Of
fice address : 100 Broadway, New York
City.
PAINE, Arthur Richards:
Physician ; born in Holden, Massachu
setts; son of Rev. William. Pomeroy Paine
and Sarah (Mack) Paine. He was educat
ed in the public schools, and the Polytech
nic Institute of Brooklyn, New York; also
was graduated from Williston Seminary,
East Hampton, Massachusetts, from Am
herst College as A.B. in 1871 ; A.M. in 1874
and from the College of Physicians and

Surgeons, Columbia University, New York,
as M.D. in 1875. He was house physician
and surgeon of the Brooklyn Hospital in
1874 and 1875; attending surgeon to the
Brooklyn Orthopaedic Infirmary; attending
physician to the Helping Hand Dispensary;
also to the Atlantic Avenue Dispensary
from 1874 to 1880, and the. Brooklyn Hos
pital since 1879, and is now president of
the professional staff. He is a member of
the council and consulting physician of the
Long Island College Hospital. In politics
he is a Republican. Dr. Paine is a mem'-
ber of the Clinton Avenue Congregational
Church, Brooklyn. He is also a member
of the Kings County Medical Society, the
New York State Medical Association, the
American Medical Academy, Physicians'
Mutual Aid Association, the Brooklyn
Pathological Society ; trustee of the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn;
and a member of the Brooklyn University
Club, of which he is founder, charter mem
ber and a member of the council since its
foundation. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, September 17, 1883, Carrie P. Ash-
mead, and they have one son, Arthur Presr
ton, bom August 20, 1886. Address: 379
Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
PAINE, Augustus J., Jr.:
Capitalist; president and director of the
Potts Powder Company; vice-president and
director of the McDonald Electrolytic Com
pany; second vice-president, general man
ager and director of the New York and
Pennsylvania Company and director of the
Armstrong Real Estate Improvement
Company, the Consumers' Gas and
Heat Company, the Johnsonburg Na
tional Bank and the Johnsonburg Water
Company; also president and director of
the Heyland Paper Company and a member
of the firm of A. G. Paine and Company.
Address: 41 Park Row, New York City.
PAINE, Charles Jackson:
Major-general of United States Volun
teers, yachtsman; born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, August 26, 1833; son of Charles
Cushing Paine and Fanny Cabot (Jack
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Jackson, of the Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts,, and great-grandson of Robert
Treat 'Paine, signer of the Declaration of
Independence. He was prepared At the
Boston Latin School, was graduated from
Harvard as A.B. in 1853, A.M. 1856, and
after studying law in the office of Rufus
Choate he was admitted to the bar in 1856
and was engaged in law practice until 1861.
He was commissioned captain in the Twen
ty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,
October 6, 1861, major of the Thirtieth Mas
sachusetts Infantry, January 14, 1862, and
colonel of the Second Louisiana Regiment,
October 2, 1862. He commanded the First
Brigade of the Nineteenth Army Corps at
Port Hudson, Louisiana, after the death
of Colonel- E. P. Chapin, from May 24 to
July 8, 1863 ; resigned that command, and
joined General B. F. Butler's Army of
the James, commanding the First Division
of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps (colored
troops) at Petersburg; was promoted brig
adier-general- of volunteers, July 4, 1864,
and led his division in the attack on New
Market Road, Virginia, September 29, 1864.
He commanded the Third Division of the
Twenty-fifth Army Corps at the capture of
Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865, and was
brevetted major-general of volunteers. He
commanded the Third Division of-- the
Tenth Army Corps under Sherman in
North Carolina until the surrender of Gen
eral Joseph E. Johnston at Goldsboro; and
after that commanded the District of New
bern, until November, 1865, and in January,
1866, was mustered out of Volunteer serv
ice. After the war he was connected with
the management of railroads, having been
for many years a director of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy and the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe and other railroads.
He is a Republican in politics, and was
appointed in 1897 by President McKinley,
jointly with Senator Edward O. Wolcott
of Colorado and ex- Vice-President Adlai
E. Stevenson, as special envoy to Great Brit
ain, France and Germany, with a view to
securing by international agreement a fixity
of relative value between gold and silver
as money. General Paine is one of the

most prominent of American yachtsmen.
He headed the syndicate of yachtsmen that
built the Puritan in 1885, and successfully
defended the America's cup against the
British yacht Genesta, and later became the
sole owner of the Puritan; built in 1886
the Mayflower, which defended the cup
against the Galathea, and in 1887 the Volun
teer, which was the cup's successful defender
against the Thistle. He is a member of the
New York Yacht Club, which, in 1888, pre
sented him with a silver cup as a memento
of his triple defence of the cup. General
Paine married, 'March 26, 1867, Julia Bry
ant. They have a summer home at Weston,
Massachusetts. Address : 613 Sears Build
ing, Boston, Massachusetts.
PAINE,- Nathaniel:
Banker; born in Worcester, Massachu
setts, August 6, 1832; son of Gardiner and
Emily (Baker) Paine, arid a descendant of
Stephen Paine of Norfolk, England, who
emigrated in 1638 to Hingham, Massachu
setts, removing to Seekonk in 1643. He
was brought up on his father's farm; was
an errand boy and clerk in the Mechanics'
Bank of Worcester; and assistant cashier
in the City National Bank of Worcester
from 1854-57; cashier from 1857 to 1898;
president from 1898 to 1906, and vice-pres
ident of the Worcester Trust Company
from the merging of the bank with that
company in 1903. He was treasurer of the
Worcester County Horticultural Society
sixteen years ; of the American Antiquarian
Society forty-four years, and of the Amer
ican Historical Association ; member of
council of the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety; member of the New England His
toric-Genealogical Society, Worcester So
ciety of Antiquity and National Geographic
Society. Mr. Paine is vice-president of the
Worcester Five-Cent Savings Bank; one of
the founders of the Worcester Art Society,
and director of the Art Museum Corpo
ration and Free Public Library eighteen
years. His honorary membership with
learned societies extends over the world,
and he is 'the author of valuable historical
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literature and to society proceedings. He
married, June 14, 1865, Susan M. Barnes.
Address. Worcester, Massachusetts.
PAINE, Robert Treat, Jr.:
Capitalist; born in Waltham, Massachu
setts, August 9, 1866; son of Robert Treat
Paine and Lydia Williams (Lyman) Paine.
He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1888. Mr. Paine is trustee of the Bos
ton Suburban Development Companies One
and Two, of the Church Avenue Real Es
tate Association, the People's Institute, the
New York Suburbs Company; the Wells
Memorial Institute, the Winthrop Develop
ment Trust, the Wood-Hafmon Associates,
the Wood-Harmon Real Estate Associa
tion, the Wood-Harmon Real Estate Trus
tees, and director and secretary of the
Brooklyn Development Company, the Great
er New York Development Company, dir
ector of the Wood-Harmon Bond Com
pany, the Workingmen's Loan Association,
the Metropolitan Associates of New York
and clerk and director of the Workingmen's'
Building Association. He married in Wash
ington, D. C, December 7, 1898, Marie
Louise Mattingly, and their children are :
Dorothy and Robert Treat, 3d. Address :
85 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
PAINE, Robert Treat, 2d.;
Lawyer; born in New Bedford, Massa
chusetts; son of William Cushing Paine
and Hannah Hathaway (Perry) Paine. He
was graduated from Harvard as A.B. in
1882. Mr. Paine is president and director
of the Railway and Light Securities Com
pany; treasurer and director of Working-
men's Loan Association; vice-president and
director of the Brooklyn Development Com
pany, and of the Greater New York De
velopment Company; trustee of the Boston
and Worcester Electric Companies, of the
Central Aguirre Sugar Companies, of the
Milton Academy, of the Staten Island As
sociates, the Suffolk Savings Bank for Sea
men and others, and the Wood-Harmon
Real Estate Trustees ; director of the Am
erican Gas and Electric Company, the
Boston Children's Aid Society, the Brook
lyn Associates, the City Trust Company,

the Dallas Electric Corporation, the Electric
Bond and Share Company, the Kingsboro
Realty Company, the Northern Texas Elec
tric Company, the Old Colony Trust Com
pany, the Ponce and Guyama Railroad, the
Rutland Railroad, the Tacoma Railway, and
Power Company, the Tampa Electric Com
pany, the United Electric Securities Com
pany, the United Shoe Machinery Company,
the United States Smelting and Refining
Mining Company, the Winona Electric
Company, and director and member of- the
Executive Committee of the General Elec
tric Company, and a member of the Corpo
ration of Simmons College. Mr. Paine
married in Brookline, May 28, 1890, Ruth
Cabot. Address : 60 State Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.PALMER, Charles:
Attorney at law; was born in Concord
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania,
July 9, 1863 ; was graduated from Swarth
more College with class of 1882, and re
ceived second degree, A.M. from the same
college in 1885; he taught school for five
years ; removed to Chester in 1887 ; then
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1890, and to the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in 1899. Has been a notary
public since 1890. Was candidate on the
Prohibition State ticket in 1894 for auditor-
general, and is a member of the Executiv*
Committee of the Prohibition party in Dela
ware County. From July, 1896, to June,
1898, he published The Issue, Prohibition
organ of Delaware County. Has been sec
retary of the Pennsylvania Savings, Loan
and Building Association of Chester from
its organization in 1889, a director- of the
Farmers' Market Company of Chester
since 1893, and is a member of the Co
lonial Society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Palmer
is a member of the Religious Society of
Friends' (Hicksite), and has been clerk of
Chester Monthly Meeting since 1894; is a
member of the Committee on Philanthropic
Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and
of the Central Committee of Friends Gen
eral Conference, representing the seven
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member and corresponding secretary of the
Delaware County Historical Society, organ
ized in 1895. He married, June 24, 1897,
Arietta Cutler, of Ontario, descended from
Pennsylvania ancestors. Address : 12 East
Fifth Street, Chester, Pennsylvania.
PALMER, Frank Wayland:
Journalist and former public printer;
born at Manchester, Indiana, October 11,
1827; son of Zacheus Marshall Palmer and
Selina (Strong) Palmer. A few years af
ter his birth his parents, removed to James
town, New York, and he was educated in
the public schools there and learned the
printer's trade' in the office of the James
town Journal. After working for a year
in New York City, he became part owner
of the Jamestown Journal in 1848, of
which he later became sole proprietor and
editor until 1858, when he sold the paper
and removed to Iowa, becoming editor and
part proprietor of the Dubuque Times. He
was elected State printer of Iowa in 1861,
and removed to Des Moines, where he soon
after bought the Iowa State Register, a
weekly, which he made a daily paper. He
remained State printer until 1868, in which
year he sold the Register, but' remained its
editor. Mr. Palmer has always taken an
active part in politics as a Republican. He
was elected a member of the General As
sembly of New York, for two terms, while
a resident of Jamestown, and was elected
from the Fifth Iowa District to the Forty-
first Congress in 1868, and reelected to the
Forty-second Congress in 1870. At the
close of his second term in 1873, he re
moved to Chicago, having bought a one-
third interest in the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
of which he was editor-in-chief until 1876.
He wa$ appointed postmaster of Chicago by
President Hayes in 1877, and reappointed
by President Arthur in 1881, serving until
1885. In 1889 he was appointed public
printer by President Harrison, serving un
til 1894; and in 1897 was again appointed
public printer, and reappointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, serving until September,
1905. He married, October 22, 1862, Mrs.
Joie B. Goodwin. Address: 1715 Eight
eenth Street, Washington, D. C.

PALMER, George Herbert:
Professor in Harvard University; born
in Boston, Massachusetts, March 19, 1842 ;
son of Julius Auboyneau and Lucy (Pea
body) Palmer. After preparation in the
Boston schools he entered Harvard Uni
versity from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1864; was a student at the Uni
versity of Tubingen, 1867 to 1869; gradu
ated from Andover Theological Seminary,
1870; and he has received the degree of
LL.D. from the University of Michigan,
1894, and Union University, 1895, and that
of Litt.D. from Western Reserve Univer
sity, 1898. He was a tutor in Greek at
Harvard from 1870 to 1873, assistant pro
fessor of philosophy, from 1873 to 1883,
professor of philosophy from 1883 to 1889,
and since 1889 Alford professor of natural
religion, moral philosophy and civil polity.
He made a translation of the Odyssey into
English rythmic prose, published in 189 1,
and of the Antigone of Sophocles in 1899.
Professor Palmer is author of: The New
Education, 1887; The Glory of the Im
perfect, 1898 ; The Field of Ethics, 1901 ;
The Nature of Goodness, 1904; and wrote
and edited The Life and Works of George
Herbert (three volumes), 1905. He mar
ried, first, in 1871, Ellen Margaret Well-
mann, of Brookline, Massachusetts, who
died in 1879; and second, in 1887, Alice
Freeman, president of Wellesley College.
Address : Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PALMER, Henry Wilber:
Ex-congressman and lawyer; born at
Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvan
ia, July 10, 1839 ; son of Gideon W. Palmer.
He was educated at Wyoming Seminary,
Kingston, Pennsylvania, Fort Edward In
stitute, Fort Edward, New York, and the
National Law School of Poughkeepsie, New
York, graduating from the latter institution
in i860; admitted -to the bar at Peekskill,
New York, in i860, and at Wilkes-Barre
in 1861 ; served in the pay department of
the Union Army in the Civil War at New
Orleans in 1862-1863 ; was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania
in 1872-1873, and attorney-general of the
State from 1879 to 1883. He was elected

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in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress, re
elected in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth and in
1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress, in which
he served until March 4, 1907. He married
at Plattsburg, New York, September 12,
1861, Ellen M. Webster. Address : Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania.
PALMER, Stephen S.:
Capitalist; born in New York City, De
cember 7, 1853. He is president and dir
ector of the Harvey Steel Company, New
Jersey Zinc Company, Prime Western
Spelter Company, Saint Louis and Hanni
bal Railway Company, Green Bay and
Western Railway Company, Iola and
Northern Railway, Empire Zinc Company,
Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Rail
road, McDonald Land and Muimg Com
pany, Palmer Water Company; vice-presi
dent and director of the Colonial Assur
ance Company, Detroit Hillside and South
western Railroad Company, Fort Wayne
and Jackson Railroad Company, Bertha
Mineral Company; treasurer and director
of the Cayug? and Susquehanna Railway,
Mineral Point Zinc Company; director of
the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company,
National City Bank of New York, New
York Edison Company, New York Mutual
Gas Company and director in many other
corporations. He is a member of the Union
League, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Players',
Down Town, Century, New York Yacht,
City Midday, Turf and Field and Essex
County Clubs. Address : 52 Wall Street,
New York City.
PALMER, Thomas Chalk ley:
Chemist; born in Media, Pennsylvania,
October 23, i860; son of Lewis Palmer and
Mary (Wildman) Palmer. He received
his education in Westtown, Pennsylvania,
and was graduated from Haverford Col
lege as B.Sc. in 1882, being the first scholar
in the Science Division of that class and
Spoon man. He also took special studies
at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
in 1884 and 1885 and in the private labora
tory of Professor H. Trimble. He
has been engaged as a chemist since 1882
at the Chester plant of John M- Sharpless

and Company; then of the Sharpless Dye-
wood Extract Company and now of the
American Dyewood Company. He was
director of the Sharpless Dyewood Extract
Company, during the existence of that com
pany and director of the American Dye-
wood Company from incorporation to the
present time. Mr. Palmer is a member of
the Franklin Institute, the Academy of
Natural Sciences, the Pennsylvania Botani
cal Society of Philadelphia, Societe Chimique
de Paris, the Society of Chemical Industry,
the Society of Dyers and Colorists, Eng
land, the Geographic Society and president
of the Delaware County Institute of Science
for the last ten years. He is also a member
of Phi Beta Kappa Society, Zeta Chapter
of Pennsylvania. He is author of: Bo
tanical Studies, in the Botanical Gazette;
Biological Studies, in Jou'rnal of the Acad
emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia;
Nature Studies in the Proceedings of Dela
ware County Institute of Sciences ; also
technical papers in trade journals, etc He
is a member of the Media Club and the
Lincoln Republican Club of Media. Mr.
Palmer, married in Chester County, Penn
sylvania, in 1886, H. Jane Walter, and their
children are : Walter Palmer', bom in 1889
and Lewis Palmer, born in 1891. Resi
dence: 42 East Washington Street, Media,
Pennsylvania. Office address: Care Am
erican Dyewood Company, Chester, Penn
sylvania.PALMER, Walter Launt:
Artist ; born in Albany, New York, Aug
ust 1, 1854; son of Erastus Dow and Mary
(Seaman) Palmer; pupil of F. E. Church,
Hudson, New York and Carolus Duran,
Paris. He is best known as a painter of
winter scenes. He received the Hallgarten
prize, New York City, 1887 ; medal, World's
Fair, Chicago, 1893; gold medal, Philadel
phia, 1894; Evans prize, New York City,
1895 ; first prize, Boston, 1895 ; second prize,
Nashville Centennial, 1897; honorable men
tion, Paris, 1900; silver medal, Buffalo,
1901; silver medal, Chariestown, 1902; sil
ver medal, Saint Louis, 1904; bronze
medal, Saint Louis, 1904. He is a
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pital; trustee of the Albany Medical Col
lege, and Albany Rural Cemetery. He is
a Republican; also a member of the Na
tional Academy of Design since 1897, So
ciety of American Artists and American
Water Color Society. He is a member of
the Century Club. He married, December
26, 1895, Zoe de V. Wyndham, of Cocker-
mouth, England; they have one daughter,
Beatrice Wyndham, born in 1903. Address :
5 Lafayette Street, Albany, New York.
PALTSITS, Victor Hugo:
State historian of New York; born in
New York City, July 12, 1867; son
of William Thomas Paltsits and Sidonia
Ida (Loose) Paltsits. He received his edu
cation in the public and private schools of
New York' City from 1872 to 1881 ; took
a scientific course in Cooper Institute from
1882 to 1886, German, Latin, Greek, Span
ish and French at the high schools and by
private tuition, and Coptic at Columbia Uni
versity. He was connected with the Lenox
Library from January 1, 1888, to July 17,
1907; assistant in reading-room in 1890;
sub-librarian from 1893 to July, 1907, the
title being changed to assistant librarian.
Nominated by Governor Charles E. Hughes
as State historian, on July 15, and com
missioned on July 24, 1907. Mr. Paltsits is
editor of: The Journal of Captain William
Pote, Jr., 1745-1747 ; prepared papers for the
City of Charleston, relating to the Siege of
Charleston in 1780, published in 1898; Cap
tivity of Captain John Gyles, 1689-1697 (in
preparation) ; Rev. John Miller's New York
Considered and Improved, 1695, published
in Cleveland, 1903; Captivity of Nehemiah
How, Cleveland, 1904. He was on the
editorial staff as bibliographical adviser of
the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,
73 volumes, published in Cleveland from
1896 to 1901 ; revised volumes three and
four of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American
Biography, edition of 1898, and furnished
eighty-eight biographical sketches for the
same. He is author of: Contributions to
Bibliography of the Lettres Edifiantes, pub
lished in Cleveland, 1900; Bibliography of
the Separate and Collected Works of Philip

Freneau, New York, 1903; Scheme for the
Conquest of Canada in 1746 (Worcester,
1905), which was read before the American
Antiquarian Society; The Depredation at
Pemaquid in August, 1689 (Portland 1905),
read before the Maine Historical Society;
The Almanacs of Roger Sherman (Wor
cester, 1907), read before the American An
tiquarian Society; exhaustive bibliographies
of the works of Father Louis Hennepin,
of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and of
editions of Lahontan's Voyages and of
Nicolas Denys; also articles in magazines
and reviews on historical and bibliographi
cal subjects; critical adviser on historical
illustration for Avery's History of the Unit
ed States, volumes I to 4, which will be
fifteen volumes. Mr. Paltsits has cooper
ated extensively with much of the biblio
graphical and historical w.ork done by others
in the United States and Canada. In poli
tics he is a Republican and he is a mem
ber of the Congregational Church. He is
also a member of the American Antiquarian
Society, the American Anthropological As
sociation, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a fellow of the
American Ethnological Society, of the
American Historical Association, the Bib
liographical Society of America, the Maine
Historical Society; councillor of Bronx So
ciety of Arts and Sciences ; president of the
New York Library Club, 1907-8; vice-pres
ident, 1906-7; and treasurer in 1905 and
1906 ; president of the Bronx Sunday School
Association from 1905 to 1907; chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Park
Republican Club (incorporated) from 1904
to 1906; a member of the Committee on
Bibliography of the American Historical
Association, 1907, and Publication and Bul
letin Committees of Bibliographical Society
of America in 1906 and 1907 and a mem
ber of the Royal Arcanum. His favorite
recreation is angling. Mr. Paltsits married
in New York City, July 21, 1891, and his
children are: Florence, born in 1892 and
Victor John, born in -1896. Residence:
New York City. Address: The Capitol,
Albany, New York.

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PARDEE, Don Albert:
Jurist; born in Wadsworth, Ohio, March
19, 1837; son of Aaron Pardee and Eve
line (Eyles) Pardee, and a descendant of
George Pardee who settled in New Haven,
Connecticut, between 1637 and 1642. He
was appointed to the United States Mili
tary Academy in 1854, but left in 1857 to
study law with his father, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1859. He began prac
tice at Medina, Ohio; was commissioned
as major of the Forty-second Ohio Regi
ment in 1861, was promoted lieutenant-
colonel and participated in the battles of
Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port
Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill, and two
assaults on Vicksburg, serving during the
siege as inspector-general of the Thirteenth
Army Corps. He was mustered out in De
cember, 1864, and on March 13, 1865, was
brevetted colonel and brigadier-general for
gallant services in the war. He practiced
law in New Orleans from 1865 to 1868;
was registrar in bankruptcy for the Third
Congressional District of Louisiana, in 1867
and 1868, judge of the Second Judicial
District of Louisiana from 1868 to 1881 ;
member of the State Constitutional Con
vention of 1879; Republican candidate for
attorney-general of Louisiana in 1880. He
was appointed in 1881 circuit judge of the
United States for the Fifth Judicial Cir
cuit, and in 1898 he removed his resi
dence to Atlanta, Georgia. Address : Atlan
ta, Georgia.
PARDEE, Dwight W.:
Railway official; secretary, New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad Com
pany, the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railway Company, the Michigan Central
Railroad Company, the Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Com
pany, the New York, Chicago and St. Louis
Railroad Company, the New York and Har
lem Railroad Company, the Chicago, Indi
ana and Southern Railroad Company, the
Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company,
and other companies forming the New York
Central Lines ; also secretary and director
of Little Falls and Dolgeville Railroad.

Address : Grand Central Station, New
York City.
PARDOW, William O'Brien:
Clergyman ; born in New York City, June
13, 1847; son of Robert Pardow and Aug
usta Garnett (O'Brien) Pardow. He was
graduated from St. Francis Xavier's College
as A.B. in 1864, and took post-graduate
courses in Montreal and Woodstock Col
lege, Maryland, also psychology and natur
al sciences in England and France, from
1875 to 1880, studying Biblical criticism,
Hebrew, theology and oratory. He was
president of St. Xavier's College from 1889
to 1893; superior of Jesuits of New York
and Maryland, from 1893 to 1896; lectured
in England and France, in Boston, New
York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Los Angeles, and San Fran
cisco, also in the island of Jamaica, West
Indies. Address : St. Joseph's College,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PARET, William:
Bishop of Maryland; born at New York
City, September 23, 1826; son of John and
Hester Paret. He was graduated from the
academic course at Hobart College, Geneva,
New York, in 1849, receiving from it the
degree of D.D. in 1867, and that of LL.D.
in 1886. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1852 by Bishop Chase,
and ordained priest in 1853 by Bishop de
Lancey. Since, entering the rninistry he has
been connected consecutively with St.
John's Church, Clyde, New York, Zion
Church, Pierrepont Manor, New York,
Saint Paul's Church, East Saginaw,
Michigan, Trinity Church, Elmira, New
York, Christ Church, Williamsport, Penn
sylvania, and the Church of the Epiph
any, Washington, D. C. He was elected
Bishop of Maryland in 1884 and was con
secrated in 1885 by Bishops A. Lee, Lay,
Stevens, Neely, and Whitehead. Bishop
Paret married in 1849, Maria G. Peck, who
died, and in 1900, married Mrs. Sarah Has
kell. He is author of: St. Peter and the
Primacy (New York Church Club Lec
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and canonical digests, charges and sermons.
Address: mo Madison Avenue, Balti
more, Maryland.
PARIS, John W.:
Real estate operator; born in Indiana in
i860, son of Berry Paris and Sarah
(Dwiggins) Paris. Pie received his edu
cation in the public schools with a short
term at Purdue University. He began
business in 1879 as a bank clerk; became
cashier in 1882 of the Citizens' National
Bank of Attica, Indiana. He removed to
Indianapolis in 1891 and engaged in the
Investment Banking Business ; became in
terested in New York City real estate and
removed to. that city in 1896, and has de
voted his attention to Queens Borough
since 1902. Mr. Paris is secretary, treas
urer and director of the Woodside Heights
Land Corporation; the Woodside Heights
Realty Development Company, Queens Bor
ough Corporation, Paris-MacDougall Com
pany, Terminal Building Company, Kes-
sina Park Corporation, Park Terrace Com
pany, and Business Men's Realty Com
pany. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a member of the (Dutch) Reformed
Church. He is also a Mason, and a mem-
. ber of the Business Men's Association,
Flushing Men's Club, the Bayside Yacht
Club, and the New York Athletic Club.
Mr. Paris married in Clifford Indiana, Sep
tember 30, 1883, Frances Johnston and their
children are : Ruford L., born 1884, and
Helen, born 1891. Residence: 11 Locust
Street, Flushing, Long Island. Office ad
dress : 1 123 Broadway, New York City.
PARKER, Alton Brooks:
Jurist ;- born in Cortland, New York, May
12, 1852; son of John Brooks and Harriet
F. (Stratton) Parker. He was educated
at the Cortland Academy and the State
Normal School at Cortland, and was grad-
uated from the Albany Law School, LL.B.,
in 1872 (honorary chancellor and LL.D.
from Union College in 1901). He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1872; became partner
with W. S. Kenyon, Jr., and practiced at
Kingston, New York. He was elected in
1877, reelected in 1883, surrogate of Ulster

County; refused appointment as first assist
ant postmaster-general in 1885 ; appointed
by Governor Hill, in 1885, justice of the
Supreme Court of New York, to fill va
cancy ; elected for full term without oppo
sition in 1886; appointed to Second Divi
sion, Court of Appeals, 1889; assigned to
General Term, First Department (New
York City), by Governor Flower, 1893, and
by Governor Black, March, 1897; elected in
1897 chief judge of the Court of Appeals of
New York ; resigned in 1904. He is a Demo
crat; managed successful campaigns of Da
vid B. Hill for governor in 1885, as chair
man of the Democratic State Committee.
Nominated by Democracy, July 9, 1904, for
President of the United States, and on the
same day sent his famous "gold standard"
telegram; defeated in the election by Presi
dent Roosevelt ; . chosen president of the
American Bar Association, August, 1906.
Now member of the law firm of Parker,
Hatch and Sheehan, New York City. His
recreation is farming. Mr. Parker is also a
member of the Century Association and of
the Metropolitan, Manhattan and National
Democratic Clubs. He married, in 1873,
Mary Louise, daughter of Moses I. Schoon-
maker, a descendant of Joachim Schoon-
maker, one of the early Dutch settlers in
Ulster County. They have one daughter,
Bertha, wife of the Rev. Charles Mer
cer Hall. Residence : Rosemount, Esopus,
New York. Address : 574 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
PARKER, Charles Edward:
Jurist; born in Owego, New York, Aug
ust 25, 1836; son of Justice John Mason
Parker, of Supreme Court; he was edu
cated at the Owego Academy, Hobart Col
lege, A.B., 1857, LL.D. 1900. Studied law
with his father; was admitted to the bar
in 1859; became justice of the peace; he
was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention in 1867; county judge and sur
rogate Tioga County from 1884 to 1888;
justice of the Supreme Court since 1888
and presiding justice of Appellate Division,
Third Judicial Department since January 1,
1896. He is a Republican. He married in
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Farrington, of Owego. Address : Owego,
Tioga County, New York.
PARKER, Edmund M.:
Lawyer; born in Cambridge, August 15,
1856. He was educated in private schools,
the Reading and Cambridge High Schools,
Harvard College, and Harvard Law School,
from which he was graduated in 1882. He
was admitted to the bar, and has since
practiced in Boston. Mr. Parker was a
commissioner on the revision of the Cam
bridge city charter in 1890. He has been
lecturer on administrative law at Harvard
College since 1905; and is a member of
the Union, Exchange and Oakley Country
Clubs, and the Harvard Club of New York.
Mr. Parker married, April 8, 1891, Alice
Gray, and they have two children. Ad
dress : 131 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts.PARKER, Edward F. :
Physician; born in Charleston, South
Carolina, December 15, 1867; son of Fran
cis Lejau Parker and Elizabeth (Frost)
Parker. He received his education in
South Carolina Military Academy, the Uni
versity of Virginia, the Medical College
of the State of South Carolina, and spent
one year abroad in London in the study
of a specialty, after five years general prac
tice. He is a specialist on diseases of -the
eye, ear, nose and throat, and is clinical pro
fessor of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat and dean of the Faculty in the
Medical College of the State of South
Carolina. Dr. Parker is a Democrat in
politics and a member of the Episcopal
Church. He is also a member of the Amer
ican Medical Association, the American
Laryngological and Otological Society, and
the South Carolina Medical Association.
Residence : 128 Tradd Street, Charleston.
Office address : 70 Hasell Street, Charles
ton, South Carolina.
PARKER, Edward Melville:
Bishop-coadjutor of New Hampshire;
born in -Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1855;
son of Henry Melville Parker and Fanny
Cushing (Stone) Parker. He was educated

at the University of Oxford, England, from
which he was graduated with the degree
of B.A. in 1878 and received that of M.A.
in 1881. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1879 by Bishop Niles,
and in 1881 was ordained to the priesthood
by Bishop Neely. He was master of St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire,
from 1879 to 1905, becoming priest in
charge of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in
1880 and of East Weare, New Hampshire
in 1890. He was consecrated bishop in
1906, and became bishop-coadjutor of the
Diocese of New Hampshire. Address:
Concord, New Hampshire,
PARKER, George F. :
Journalist; born in Lafayette, Indiana,
December 30, 1847; son of Thomas W. and
Eliza Ann (Kirk) Parker. He was edu
cated in common schools of Iowa and State
University at Iowa City. He was chairman
of a district school board in Iowa, 1871.
Editor of papers in Iowa, Indiana, Wash
ington, D. C, New Hampshire, Pennsyl
vania and New York City; was the first
managing editor of the New York Press,
in 1887 and 1888; has been a contributor to
London Times since 1896, and to many
magazines both in England and the United
States. Mr. Parker was secretary of the
Democratic State Committee of Iowa, In
1874 and 1875; connected with the Demo
cratic State Committee of Pennsylvania
in 1884 ; connected with the National Demo
cratic Committee, 1880, 1888, 1892 and 1904;
assistant postmaster of Philadelphia, 1885
to 1887; United States consul at Birming
ham, from 1893 to 1898; commissioner in
the United Kingdom for the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, St. Louis, 1901 to 1904;
head of the firm of Parker and Lee; sec
retary to the trustees of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States. In
politics he is an Independent Democrat,
and in his church relations an Episcopal
ian. He is a member of the Iowa and
Pennsylvania Societies in New York. His
favorite recreations are book-buying and
mountaineering. Mr. Parker is a member
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York. Address: 120 Broadway, New
York City.
PARKER, James Henry:
Merchant and banker,; born in Johnston
County, North Carolina, January 4, 1843;
son of Matthew and Martha Parker. He
was educated in private schools until the
beginning of the Civil War, in which he
served as a cavalry lieutenant in the Army
of the Confederate States. After the war
he studied medicine and engaged in the
practice in North Carolina, but in 1870
went to Charleston, South Carolina,- and
engaged as a merchant in the handling of
cotton and naval stores. He remdved to
New York in 1882, became a large opera
tor in the New York cotton market, and
since 1899 has been at the head of the
cotton commission firm of J. H. Parker
and Company. Dr. Parker is also actively
identified with the banking business as
president since 1891 of the United States
National Bank of New York, and director
and vice-president of the National Park
Bank; and he was president of the Pro
duce Exchange Trust Company of New
York in 1898 and 1899. He is a member
and was two years president of the New
York Cotton Exchange. He is a member
and ex-president of the Southern Society
of New York, member and former com
mander of the Confederate Veteran Corps
of New York, and is also a member of the
Manhattan, New York Athletic and Na
tional Arts Clubs of New York. He mar
ried in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1877,
Julia A. Jones. Residence: 18 East Sixty-
ninth Street, New York City. Office: 36
Cotton Exchange, New York City.
PARKER, Joseph Benson:
Physician ; born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
June 20, 1841; son of Rev. Joseph Parker
and Mary (Sheerer) Parker. He was
graduated from Dickinson College, receiv
ing the degrees of A.B. and A.M. and stud
ied and was graduated in medicine in New
York City. He served in the army six
months before entering the navy, where he
served as medical officer from 1862, until
his retirement on June 20, 1903, with the

rank of rear-admiral, passing through all
the various grades. He is a member of
various medical societies, the Masonic Or
der, Society of Sigma Xi, and Belletres
Society, also a member of the Union
League of Philadelphia, and the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, having served
as senior vice-commander one term. Dr.
Parker married in Salem, New Jersey, Oc
tober 15, 1868, Margaret Johnson Yorke,
and their children are : Mary Sheerer Bea
man and Eleanor Yorke Bell. Residence:
4425 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. PARKER, Luman F. :
Jurist; appointed by President Roose
velt, in 1906, judge of the. District Court
of the United States, for the District of
Indian Territory. Address : Vinita, Indian
Territory. PARKER, Moses Greeley:
Physician and surgeon; was born at Dra-
cut, Massachusetts, October 12, 1842; son
of Theodore Parker and Hannah (Greeley)
Parker; grandson of Peter and Bridget
(Coburn) Parker and of Deacon Moses
Greeley and Mary (Derby) Greely and
a descendant of Deacon Thomas Parker,
Lynn, Massachusetts, 1635, "and Andrew
Greeley, Salisbury, Massachusetts, before
1640. Pie was educated at Howe School,
Billerica, Phillips Academy, Andover, Long
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New
York and Harvard Medical School where
he was graduated as M.D. in 1864. He was
assistant surgeon of the Second United
States Colored Cavalry, 1864-65; physician
and surgeon St. John's Hospital, Lowell,
Massachusetts, since 1889; trustee of the
Howe School since 1877; director of the
Lowell District Telephone Company, 1879,
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company from its organization; treasurer
Shaw Stocking Company, Lowell, Massa
chusetts; trustee Lowell General Hospital
since 1898; trustee and treasurer of the
Ayer Home, Lowell, Massachusetts ; council
of the Society of Colonial Wars since 1902 ;
president of the Massachusetts Society, of
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1905 ; member of the board of managers of
the National Society of Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution since 1905, and vice-presi
dent-general of the National Society since
1906. Address: 11 First Street, Lowell,
Massachusetts. PARKER, Richard Wayne:
Congressman and lawyer; born in New
ark, New Jersey, August 6, 1848; eldest
son of Cortlandt Parker and Elizabeth
Wolcott (Stites) Parker, and a brother
of Hon. Charles W. Parker, a justice of
the New. Jersey Supreme Court. He was
graduated from Princeton College in 1867
and from the Law School of Columbia Col
lege in 1869. He was admitted to the bar
of New Jersey in June" 1870 ; was a member
of the House of Assembly of New Jersey
in 1885 and 1886; has been member of
the United States House of Representatives
from the Seventh New Jersey District, con
tinuously since and including the Fifty-
fourth Congress, 1895, and has for several
years been an active member of the Com
mittee on Judiciary and the Committee on
Military Affairs of that body. He is a
Republican in politics. Address : Newark,
New Jersey.
PARKER, Winthrop:
Lawyer; born in Ware," Massachusetts,
June 10, 1857; son of Montgomery Davis
Parker and Caroline Gilman (White)
Parker. He • was graduated from New
York University as LL.B. in 1881 ; was
admitted to New York bar in 1881, and to
the United States Supreme Court in 1896.
He has been engaged in practice in New
York City since 1881. Mr. Parker is a
member of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York; member' of the
Colonial Order, and also of the Knollwood
Country, Calumet and Barnard Clubs. He
married in Waterloo, New York, in 1892,
Susan A. R. (Robinson) Birdsall. Sum
mer cottage : Spruce Camp, Christmas
Cove, Maine. Residence : 102 West Ninety-
third Street. Business address : 181 Broad
way, New York City. *

PARKHURST, Charles Henry:
Clergyman; born at Framingham, Mas
sachusetts, April 17, 1842; son of Charles
F. W. Parkhurst and Mary (Goodale)
Parkhurst. After careful preparation at
Lancaster Academy he entered Amherst
College, from which he received the degrees
of A.B., 1868; A.M., 1869; D.D., 1880; LL.
D., 1892. He was principal of the Amherst
High School from 1867 to 1870; became
professor of Greek and Latin in Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in
1870 and 1871 ; studied at Halle, Leipzig
and "Bonn until 1873 (including special
studies in Sanskrit) ; pastor of the Con
gregational Church at Lenox, Massachu
setts, from 1874 to 1880, and since then has
been pastor of the Madison Avenue Pres
byterian Church. In 1890 he preached a
sermon on municipal politics which at
tracted the attention of Dr.- Howard Crosby,
president of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime, and induced him to invite Dr.;
Parkhurst to become a member and di
rector of the society. He accepted, and on
April 30, 1891, after Dr. Crosby's death,
was elected president of the society. He
made a close study of the situation, and
in February, 1892, having fortified himself
with data, delivered a sermon on the cor
ruption of the municipal government of
New York, which struck fearlessly men in
high places, and created a sensation all over
the English speaking world. In New York
the effect was cyclonic. Dr. Parkhurst
was summoned before the grand jury, which
declared his charges against the police and
officials were without substantial founda
tion. He at once began to gather material '
for an even more emphatic sermon; em
ployed detectives and even made personal
visits to saloons, policy shops and houses
of ill-fame, where he witnessesd scenes of
the lowest depravity, and gave the results
in another sermon. He was again sum
moned before the Grand Jury in March,
1892, and convinced that body of the cor:
rectness of his charges, with the result that
the jury made a strong presentment, charg
ing the police authorities with incompetence
or corruption. From, this"! resulted the fam-

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ous Lexow Committee with its startling re
port, and the defeat of Tammany Hall in
the election of 1894. He has continued
from time to time, as he has found relapses
on the part of the municipal authorities into
the former conditions, to make them public.
Dr. Parkhurst was a trustee of Amherst
College from 1892 to 1902. He is author
of: Forms of the Latin Verb, Illustrated
' by the Sanskrit, 1870 ; The Blind . Man's
Creed and Other Sermons, 1883; The Pat
tern "in the Mount and Other Sermons,
1885; Three Gates on a Side, 1887; What
Would the World be Without Religion?,
1888; The Swiss Guide, 1889; Our Fight
With Tammany, 1895 ; The Sunny Side of
Christianity, 1901 ; also many contributions
to magazines. He married, November 23,
1870, Nellie, daughter of Luther and Phi-
lena (Hawks) Bodman, of Williamsburg,
Massachusetts. Address : 133 East Thirty-
fifth Street, New York City.
PARKS, Leighton:
Rector of St. Bartholomew's Protestant
Episcopal Church; born in New York City,
February 10, 1852 ; son of a clergyman. He
received a college and theological educa
tion, and received the degree of D.D. from
St. John's College, Harvard, in 1900. He
took an eighteen months' trip around the
world. At Geneva and Paris he had charge
of English chapels for a time and then re
turned to this country; became rector of
Emanuel Church, Boston, from 1878 to 1904,
and since then rector of St. Bartholomew's
Church, New York City. Address: 344
Madison Avenue, New York City.
PARSHALL, Heman Franklin:
Clergyman; born in Faribault, Minne
sota, September 27, 1867; son of James
Wallace Parshall and Sarah Amelia (Cros-"
sett) Parshall. He was graduated from
Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minne
sota, as B.D. in 1893; was ordered deacon
at Faribault by Bishop E. S. Thomas, June
1893; ordained priest by Bishop W. M.
Barker at Gunnison, Colorado, in Septem
ber, 1894 ; was missionary in Western Colo
rado, from June, 1893, to December, 1894;
rector of St. John's Church, St. Cloud,

Minnesota, from January 1895, to December
1906; was appointed archdeacon and super
intendent of Indian Missions of the Dio
cese of Duluth, December 1, 1906. f He is
a Mason up to and including the Council
Commandery, and is a member of the order
of Eastern Star, the Elks and several fra
ternal insurance orders; and was for sev
eral years grand prelate of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar. Mr.
Parshall married in Faribault, Minnesota,
May 31, 1894, Minta Nell Gilmer, and they
have two children : Margaret Gilmer, born
in 1895 and Eleanor Crossett, born in 1900.
Address : Cass Lake, Minnesota.
PARSONS, Edwin:
Railway official. He is president and
director of Oswego and Rome Railroad
Company and of Rome, Watertown and
Ogdensburg Railroad Company; vice-presi
dent, treasurer and director of Utica and
Black River Railroad ; director of the Shef
field Company and trustee of Cairo Trust
Property. Address : 15 Broad Street,
New York City
PARSONS, Frank:
Author, educator, lawyer, lecturer; born
at Mount Holly, New Jersey, November
14, 1854; son of Edward Parsons and Alice
B. (Rhees) Parsons. He was graduated
from -the mathematical and engineering
courses of Cornell University, with the
degree of B.C.E. in 1873, and later received
the degree of Ph.D. He was employed on a
railway engineering staff for some time
after his graduation, later taught school
and studied law and was admitted to the
Boston bar; became chief clerk for a
law firm for a time and then opened an
office of his own. He was text-writer for
Little, Brown and Company, publishers, and
since 1892 he has been a lecturer on law
at Boston University. He was also profes
sor of history and political science at the
Kansas Agricultural College from 1897 to
1900, and later was director of the de
partment of history in the Bureau of Eco
nomic Research at Washington, and, in
1903, director of the Breadwinner's College
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of the National Civic Federation Com
mission of Twenty-one, to examine and re
port upon municipal ownership in the Unit
ed States and abroad, and in 1906 the Com
mission made him one of a special Commit
tee of Four to write up the results of this
investigation. Professor Parsons testified
before the United States Industrial
Commissibn on the public ownership of
railroads, telegraphs and telephones, in 1901
and 1902, and he traveled over Europe and
America making an exhaustive study ol
railway systems, cooperative institutions,
etc. He was a lecturer in the leading cities
of the Pacific Coast States for the Uni
versity Extension Association of Chicago,
and has also given courses at Cooper Union,
New York, and elsewhere. Politically Pro
fessor Parsons may be classified as an In
dependent Roosevelt Democrat. He is one
of the closest students of the questions of
direct legislation and the public owner
ship of public utilities, and he is president
of the National Public Ownership League.
He is also a member of the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science and
the International Cooperative, a director of
the Boston Economic Club, a member
of the Twentieth Century Club of Boston;
vice-president of the National School City
League; and a national lecturer for the
People's Sovereignty League, or associa
tion to promote direct nominations and the
initiative and referendum. He is a contrib
utor to the Annals of the American Acad
emy of Political and Social Science, the
Outlook, the Arena, and other journals on
monopolies, and other economic and socio
logical subjects. Professor Parsons is au
thor of: The World's Best Books, 1892;
Our Country's Need, 1894; The Drift of
Our Time, 1898; Rational Money, 1899;
The New Political Economy, 1899; The
Power of the Ideal, 1899 ; The City for
the People, 1900; Direct Legislation, 1900;
The Bondage of Cities, 1900; The Story
of New Zealand, 1904; The Railways, the
Trusts and the People, 1906; The Heart
of the Railroad Problem, 1906. Residence :
Ii St. James Avenue, Boston, Massachu

setts, and (in summer) Mount Holly, New
Jersey. PARSONS, Frank Sears:
Physician; born in Northampton, Massa
chusetts, December 21, 1862; son of Enos
Parsons and Harriet Eliza (Sears) Par
sons ; his father was widely known in Mas
sachusetts and elsewhere as a lawyer of
marked ability and business tact. He was
educated in the schools of Northampton,
and, graduating from the high school, began
the study of medicine; attended Harvard
Medical School two years, from 1882 to
1884, and was graduated from the Uni
versity of the City of New York in 1886.
He established himself in the Dorchester
district of Boston and in September, 1886,
began the practice of his profession, and
continued to practice there until late in the,
spring of 1892, when he removed to North
ampton, on account of the death of his
father, and in 1893 moved to Philadelphia,
to assume the editorship of the Medical
Times and Register, which position he held
for two years. In 1895 he returned to
Dorchester where he continues in general
practice. Dr. Parsons has for several years
made a specialty of diseases of children
in connection with his general practice.
He was a lecturer on diseases of children
in the College of Physicians and Surgeons
(now Tufts College Medical Department)
until 1892 ; has written much for medical
journals upon this subject. Author of:
Rheumatism in Children, 1890; Infant
Dress, 1891 ; and Pleurisy, 1893. He was a
member of and visiting physician to the
Suffolk Dispensary from its organization
to the time of his removal to Northampton.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Med
ical Society, and the American Medical As
sociation. Dr. Parsons married, September
8, 1891, Bertha, daughter of M. Saxman,
Jr., of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and they have
three children: Frank Enos, Katherine
Saxman and Priscilla Ruth. Address:
Dorchester, Massachusetts.
PARSONS, Harry de Berkeley:
Consulting engineer; born in New York
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Barclay and Eliza Glass (Livingston)
Parsons; he was graduated from Columbia
College, B.S., 1882; Stevens' Institute of
Technology, M.E., 1884; in general prac
tice as consulting engineer for banks, cor
porations and private parties. Professor
of steam engineering, Rensselaer Polytech
nic Institute, Troy, New York, since 1892.
Consulting engineer for the Audit Company
of New York, the New York Zoological
Society. Member of the New York State
Voting Machine Commission. Has served
as consulting engineer for district attorney,
corporation counsel; for Departments
of Street Cleaning, Docks and Ferries,
Police and Fire. Author of: Steam Boil
ers, their Theory and Design; the Disposal
of Municipal Refuse. Episcopalian. - He is
a member of the American Society of Civil.
Engineers, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers, Chamber of Com
merce, and of the Advisory Committee Bry
son Day Nursery, and also a member of
the Union, Engineers', New York Yacht,
American Yacht (trustee), the Country
and Apawamis Golf Clubs. He was mar
ried in New York City, December 16, 1890,
to Francis T. Walker; they have two chil
dren: Livingston and Katharine de B.
Residence : 294 Madison Avenue. Ad
dress: 22 William Street, New York City.
PARSONS, Herbert:
Lawyer ; member of Congress ; born in
New York City, October 28, 1869; son of
John E. and Mary D. (Mcllvaine) Parsons.
He. was educated in St. Paul's School, Con
cord, New Hampshire, was graduated from
Yale as B.A. in 1890, and attended Uni
versity- of Berlin, Germany, and Harvard
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in
.1894; now member of law firm of Parsons,
Closson and Mcllvaine. He traveled in
Europe in 1880 and 1881, 1890 and 1891
and in 1902 ; visited the Philippines, China
and Japan in 1905. In politics he is a Re
publican. He was alderman of New York
City, from 1900 to 1903; defeated for Con
gress in 1900; elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress in 1904 and to Sixtieth Congress j
in 1906, from the Thirteenth New York

District. He was elected president of the
Republican County Committee of New York
County in 1905, and reelected in 1906. In
religion he is a Presbyterian. He is a mem
ber of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, New York State Bar
Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon 'frater
nity; trustee of New York Association for
Improving Condition of the Poor, Society
for Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents
(Plouse of Refuge), Anti-Policy Society,
and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital. He is a member of the University,
Union, League, Republican, Metropolitan
and City Clubs of New York and of the
Metropolitan Club of Washington. Mr.
Parsons married in Newport, Rhode Island,
September 1, 1900, Elsie W. Clews, and they
have two children : Elsie, born in 1903 and
John E., 2d, born in 1904. Address : 52
William Street, New York City.
PARSONS, Hosmer Buckingham:
Capitalist; born in Heuvelton, New York,
January 6, 1846; son of the Rev. Benjamin
Booth (D.D., LL.D ) and Arabella (Buck
ingham) Parsons ; he was educated at Ripon
(Wisconsin) College. He is vice-pres
ident, treasurer, secretary and director of
Wells, Fargo and Company (corporation) ;
president and director of Wells, Fargo and
Company's Bank; director of the Knicker
bocker Trust Company, Trust Company of
America; treasurer and director of the
Batopilas Mining Company. Trustee of
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci
ences. His recreation is reading. He is a
member of the Lawyers' Club, Chamber of
Commerce, New York; Pilgrim Society,
Sons of Revolution, Society of Colonial
Wars, Rembrandt Club, and Brooklyn Club.
He married in New York City, June 9,
1870, Clelia Sara Howson; they have, one
daughter, Emma Lily Arabella (now Mrs.
Charles Siedler Adams). Address: 168
Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, New York.
PARSONS, John B.:
Railway official; born in Sussex County,
Delaware, May 17, 1850; educated in the
Academy at Salisbury, Maryland, and en
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at the age of sixteen. His father, James
A. Parsons, was wrecked financially throUgh
endorsing notes for friends, and the son,
feeling the weight of the family thrown
on his shoulders, went to Philadelphia in
1870 in search of work. He found employ
ment as clerk in the office of William W.
Colket, then secretary and treasurer of the
Chestnut and Walnut Streets Railway; and
his energy and ability brought him rapid
promotion, and in two years he was made
division superintendent of the road. In
1881 he was elected president and general
manager of the Lombard and South Streets
Railway, and displayed an executive ability
in the management of its affairs that at
tracted the attention of the railway mag
nates of the country. He went to Chicago
in 1887 as vice-president and general man
ager of the West Chicago Street Railway,
and became there an official of several
other railway companies; he was also a
trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital of Chi
cago. Ten years later he returned to Phil
adelphia to become vice-president and gen
eral manager of the Union Traction Com
pany, and he proved so efficient in this duty
that in September, 1897, he was elected a
director of this company. Since the forma
tion of the Rapid Transit Company, which
has absorbed all the former railway organ
izations of Philadelphia, he has been made
president of this Company, which position
he now holds. Address : 2013 Spring Gar
den Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PARSONS, John E. :
Lawyer ; born in New York City, October
24, 1829. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of the City of New York in 1848
and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He
is the senior member of the law firm of
Parsons, Closson & Mcllvaine. He is one
of the original members and a former pres
ident of the Bar Association of the City
of New York, and was its counsel in pro
ceedings against Judges Barnard, Cardoza
and McCunn, and for the managers of the
impeachment of Judge Barnard. He has
been or now is the president of the City
(Reform) Club ; vice-president of the New
York Law Institute; president of the

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Sci
ence and Art, of the Alumni . Association
of the University of the City of New York
and a member of its council, and of the
Board of Trustees of the Brick Presbyter
ian Church; a member of the Board of
Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church;
of the committee to revise the creed of
that church, of the committee to prepare
forms of service for it, and of its commit
tee to consider the subject of divorce and
remarriage and was a member of the In
ternational Conference on that subject. Mr.
Parsons is also president of the Woman's
Hospital in the State of New York; one
of the founders and president of the Gen
eral Memorial Hospital for the Treatment
of Cancer and Allied Diseases; president
of the Taxpayers' Association of Lenox,
Massachusetts, where he has a country es
tate, Stoneover; of the Taxpayers' Asso
ciation of Rye, New York, where he has an
old family place, Lounsberry; and also of
the Lenox (Massachusetts) Library. He
gave the parish house to the Protestant
Episcopal Church at Lenox (of which he
is vestryman) ; built the memorial stone
church at New Lenox and maintains St.
Helen's Home, near Lenox, Massachusetts,
for fresh air children ; built the stone mem
orial public school at Rye, New York, and
also put a memorial window in the parish
church at Cubbington, Warwickshire, Eng
land, where, and in the adjoining parish
of Stoneleigh, his family lived for many
generations. With his brother and cousin,
he purchased and gave as a village hall to
Rye, New York, the old Square House,
which was an inn and was visited by Wash
ington in the Revolutionary period. He is
a member of the Century, University, Rid
ing, Metropolitan, City, Players', Turf and
Field, and Down Town of New York
City; American Yacht, and Apawamis Golf
of Rye, New York; the Lenox Club of
which he is a governor, and the Golf and
Boat Clubs of Lenox, Massachusetts. He
married, first, Mary Dumesnil Mcllvaine,
daughter of Bowes Reed Mcllvaine ; sec
ond, Florence Van Cortlandt Bishop,
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four daughters, Mrs. Edith Morgan, Mary,
Gertrude and Constance, and one son, Her
bert (now a member of Congress). Resi
dence: 30 East Thirty-sixth Street. Ad
dress: 52 William Street, New York City.
PARSONS, Samuel:
Landscape architect; born in New Bed
ford, Massachusetts, February 8, 1844; son
of Samuel Parsons. He was educated in
Haverford College and graduated from
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University
as Ph.B. in 1862. 'He is a member of the
firm of Samuel Parsons and Company; and
was superintendent of parks of New York
City for fifteen years. He is landscape
arch'tect of parks of Greater New York;
designer of the new Washington Park Sys
tem, the San Diego, California, Park of
fourteen hundred acres, and various other
parks, cemeteries and country places in
the United States. He is president of the
American Society of Landscape Architects
and a member of the Yale Alumni Associa
tion and a member of the Century Associa
tion of New York. Residence: Hotel San
Remo, New York City. Address: 1135
Broadway, New York City.
PARSONS, Schuyler Livingston:
Merchant; born in New York City, Oc
tober 12, 1852 ; son of W. Barclay and Eliza
(Livingston) Parsons. He is a member of
the firnj of Parsons and Peter ; and director
of several powder companies. Mr. Par
sons is a member of the St. Nicholas So
ciety and of the Union, Metropolitan, Play
ers' and Jockey Clubs of New York City
and the St. James Club of London, England.
He married in Bayshore, Long Island, June
!3, 1877, Helena, daughter of Bradish
Johnston of New York, and they have three
children: Helena, Evelyn and Schuyler,
Jr. Address: Islip, Suffolk County, Long
Island, New York.
PARSONS, William Barclay:
Engineer; born in New York City,
April 15, 1859; son oi William Barclay
Parsons and Eliza (Livingston) Parsons.
He was graduated from Columbia Univer
sity as A.B. and C.E. Mr. Parsons was

chief engineer of the New York Subway
from 1894 to 1905 ; member of Isthmian
Canal Commission in 1904; member of the
Board of Consulting Engineers of the
Panama Canal in 1905, Board of Advisory
Engineers to the Royal Commission on
London Traffic; chief of engineers and
brigadier-general of the National Guard of
the State of New York in 1898. He is a
trustee of Columbia University; vestryman
of Trinity Church; member of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers, and Institu
tion of Civil Engineers of Great Britain.
He is author of: Turnouts, 1885; Track,
1885 ; American Engineer in China, 1900.
Mr. Parsons married in New York City,
1884, Anna Reed, and they have two chil
dren: Sylvia Caroline and William Bar
clay, Jr. Residence : 35 East Fiftieth St.,
New York City. Address : 60 Wall Street,
New York City.
PARTRIDGE, Edward Lasell:
Physician; born in Auburndale, Massa
chusetts, September 27, 1853 ; son of Joseph
Lyman and Zibiah Nelson (Willson) Part
ridge. He was educated in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons and was graduat
ed from Columbia University as M.D. in
1865 and received the honorary degree of
A.M. from Williams College. He has been
practicing in New York City since 1875;
has served as professor in J:he New York
Post-Graduate Medical College and adjunct
professor of • the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Medical Department, Col
umbia University ; visiting physician to New
York City Maternity Hospital, Sloane Mat
ernity Hospital; visiting and later consult
ing physician of New York Hospital, New
York Infant Asylum and Nursery and
Child's Hospital. Dr. Partridge is a mem
ber of the New York Academy of Medi
cine, State Medical Society, Obstetrical So-
city, Practitioners' Society, New York
Medical and Surgical Society, Society of
Colonial Wars, Huguenot Society, Order of
Descendants of Colonial Governors. His
summer home is on Storm King, in the
Highlands of the Hudson. He is a member
of the University, Century and Riding
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married in Clinton, New York, September
20, 1884, Gertrude Edwards Dwight, daugh
ter of Professor Theodore W. Dwight, LL.
D., and they have one son, Theodore
Dwight. Address : 19 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
PARTRIDGE, John Nelson:
Retired ; born in Leicester, Massachusetts,
son of Joseph Lyman Partridge and Zibiah
Nelson (Wilson) Partridge. He was gradu
ated from Leicester Academy. From 1886
to 1897 he was president of the Brooklyn
City and Newtown Railroad ; was fire com
missioner of Brooklyn in 1882 and 1883;
police commissioner of Brooklyn in 1884
and 1885 ; superintendent of public works
State of New York, from 1899 to 1901
inclusive ; police commissioner in New York
City, 1902. He was colonel in the Twenty-
third Regiment, National Guard of New
York in 1880 and 1881 ; also from 1887 to
1894; and lieutenant and captain of the
Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer In
fantry from 1861 to 1864. Colonel Partridge
is director of the Hamilton Trust Com
pany of Brooklyn and of the Atlantic Terra
Cotta Company of New York. In politics
he is a Republican and he is- a member of
the Episcopal Church. He is a member
of the Military Order of Loyal Legion of
United States, and of the Hamilton and
Riding and Driving Clubs of Brooklyn.
He married, first, in 1865, Sarah Howard
Manning, now deceased, and second, in
1906, Charlotte Leona Held. He has one
son, Nelson. Howard, born in 1869. Coun
try address : Westport, Connecticut. Ad
dress : Hamilton Club, Brooklyn, New
York.
PARTRIDGE, Sydney Catlin :
Missionary bishop of Kyoto; he studied
at Yale College and was graduated with
the degree of B.A. in 1880. He thence en
tered Berkeley Divinity School, graduating
in 1884 and receiving from it the degree of
D.D. in 1900. He was ordered deacon of
the Episcopal Church in 1884, by Bishop
Williams (of Connecticut), and was or
dained priest the following year by Bishop
Boone, He was connected with St. John's

College, Shanghai, China, 1884-87, and
with Boone School, Wuchang, China, 1887-
1900. He was made missionary bishop of
Kyoto,, Japan, in 1900. Bishop Partridge is
author of various booklets and tracts in
the Chinese language. Address : Kyoto,
Japan. PASCO, Samuel:
Teacher, lawyer, soldier, senator; born
in London, England ; son of John Pasco
(of Launceton, England), who settled in
Prince Edward Island, 1842, and moved to
Boston, Massachusetts, 1844. He was edu
cated in the public schools in and near
Boston; and was graduated from Harvard
College with honors in 1858; and settled in
Jefferson County, Florida, in 1859; was a
principal of Waukeenah Academy till 1861 ;
entered the Confederate Army and served
in the ranks till close of war, wounded ^t
the battle of Missionary Ridge, 1863; re
mained a prisoner till just before the final
surrender; on his return he resumed his
place in the academy for a few months,
and then studied law and was admitted to
practice in 1869; grand master of the
Grand Lodge of Florida Free and Accepted
Masons from 1869 to 1871 ; chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Florida from
1876 to 1888; and member of Democratic
National Committee from 1880 to 1900;
member and president of Constitutional
Convention in 1885; member and speaker
of Florida House of Representatives, 1887;
elected to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, 1887, and again 1893; served to
1899; and served on Isthmian Canal Com
mission, 1899 to 1904. He has contributed
to magazines, etc., and published -a few
speeches and articles in pamphlet
form. He married, in 1869, Jessie,
daughter of William Denham of Monticello,
Florida. They have three sons and two
daughters. Address: Monticello, Florida.
PATON, Alexander S.i
, Manufacturer ; born on the banks of
the Clyde, Scotland, November 20, 1854,
a son of the late James and Margaret (Sin
clair) Paton, whose family consisted of
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was a printer of cloth by trade, an honor
able and upright man, and his death oc
curred at the early age of thirty-five years;
his wife survived' him many years, passing
away in Scotland, in 1904, aged eighty-two
years. In 1870, at the age of sixteen, Alex
ander S. Paton set sail from Scotland on
the ship Angelia, and after a stormy and
tedious voyage, landed in New York City.
He at once proceeded to Leominster, Mas
sachusetts, where -he secured employment
with a horn company. Later he became an
employe of the Union Horn Company,
with whom he remained until 1879, when
he started in the business for himself and
so successful has the enterprise proved that
a frequent increase in the number of work
men and increased mechanical facilities have
been needed to fill the contracts; he is now
(1907) owner and president of five horn
and celluloid companies in Worcester Coun
ty, Massachusetts: The Paton Manufactur
ing Company, Viscoloid Company, Horn
and Supply Company, Sterling Comb Com
pany and Harvard Novelty Company. Mr.
Baton was the first president of the Leo
minster and Clinton Street Railway Com
pany, and has also been largely interested
in other electric roads, as a director in
the Greenfield and Turner Falls road, the
Gardner road, the Leominster and Clinton,
The Pawtucket Valley road in Westerly,
Rhode Island, and the Georgetown and
Haverhill road. He was also president of
the new Worcester and Clinton Street Rail
way, a director of the Columbian Life In
surance Company of Massachusetts, a di
rector of the National Bank, Leominster,
and has been moderator of the town meet
ings in Leominster for nearly fifteen years.
He served three years on the Board of
Selectmen, being its chairman during his
last term. In 1897, he was nominated by
the Republican caucus and elected as repre
sentative to the Legislature, where in 1898
and 1899 he was chairman of the Committee
on Banks and Banking, and he was re
elected in 1898 and 1900. He is chairman
of the County Republican Committee of his
part of the County, and is also a member
of the Republican State Committee 'of Mas

sachusetts. He was president of the Town
Improvement Society during its existence,
and served as vice-president of the Board
of Trade. Pie is a Mason and a member
of the order of Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine ; Odd Fellows ; Improved Order of
Red Men ; and Knights of Pythias. He
is also president of the Leominster Club
and president of the Leominster Country
Club. He has passed all the chairs in the
Odd Fellows and in the Red Men's organ
izations, and is past grand master of the
same. He is a member of the Unitarian
Church. In 1882, Mr. Paton married Clara
M. Somers, daughter of the late Winter
Somers, a representative of an old family
of Leominster. Their children are : Phoebe
S. (who became the wife of Frederic L.
Perry, and they are the parents of two
children, Frances Irene Perry and Alex
ander Paton Perry) ; Somers, Agnes, Paul
ine P. and Clara M. Paton. Address:
Leominster, Massachusetts.
PATTERSON, Benjamin:
Lawyer ; bora in Albany, New York,
December 23, 1859; son of Alfred Patter
son and Barbara (Sheeline) Patterson.
He received his education in the Albany
public schools and the Albany Free Acad
emy (now Albany-High School). He was
admitted to the bar in Albany County,
January 30, 1881, and is engaged in the
general practice of law, but has made a
specialty of riparian rights. He has been
engaged as counsel in many of the leading
litigations, involving riparian grants in
and about the waters surrounding Man
hattan, Long Island, and Staten Island; is
counsel for the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North
America, the Typographical Union, Trade
and Labor Alliance, Industrial Workers of
the World, Baymen Association of the
United States, and other labor organiza
tions ; also represents many large con
struction companies, defending and adjust
ing negligence cases. He is ^a member of
the New York State Bar Association, the
New York Press Club, the American So
ciety of International Law, and a member

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of several clubs, societies and hospitals.
His favorite recreation is traveling.* Ad
dress : 302 Broadway, New York City.
PATTERSON, C. Stuart:
Banker, lawyer and author; was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1842.
He was educated in the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in
i860. He decided on the legal profes
sion and entered upon a course of study
of the law, gaining admission to the
bar of Philadelphia in 1865. Meanwhile he
had some experience in the Civil War, join
ing in 1863 Landis's Artillery Company
and being wounded in the Gettysburg cam
paign. His legal practice grew large and
important and he became an authority in
real estate and constitutional law. From
1887 to 1892 he was professor of the law
of real estate and conveyancing, and of
constitutional law, in the University of Penn
sylvania, and till 1896 was dean of the Law
Department in that institution. " He was
inspector of the State Penitentiary at Phil
adelphia from 1884 to 1891. He retired
from practice in 1895 and since then has
been devoted to banking and railroad in
terests, becoming in that year a director of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
is also president of the Western Saving
Fund Society and a director of the Com
mercial Trust Company. In 1897 he pre
sided over the Indianapolis -Monetary Con
vention and was a member of the Mone
tary Commission appointed by it. He is
author of treatises on : Constitutional Limi
tations ; Railway Accident Law ; Federal
Restraints on State Action; and many his
torical and political pamphlets. Mr. Pat
terson is a member of the- Philosophical
Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, the Philadel
phia Club, the Union League of Philadel
phia (president, 1897-1898), the Century
Association of New York, and the Con
temporary Clubs. Residence : Chestnut Hill.
Address : 1000 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
PATTERSON, Edward:
Justice of the Supreme Court; born in
New York City, in 1839. He was educated

at Philadelphia; Phi Beta Kappa; LL.D.
Williams, 1893; Hobart, 1898; Columbia
University, 1906. In i860 he was admitted
to the bar and engaged in the practice of
law in New York City, until elected justice
of the Supreme Court of the State of New
York. Since 1895, he has been serving in
the Appellate Division for the First Ap
pellate District, of which he is now presid
ing justice. In politics he is a Democrat. He
is a member and ex-president of the Law
Institute of New York City, the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity, the American Museum of Nat
ural History, and a member of the Century,
Manhattan, Metropolitan, New York Yacht,
Alpha Delta Phi, and the Players' Clubs.
He married Isabel Liddon Cox, and their
children are : Dr. Henry, and Edward Lid
don, Arthur Coxe, Mrs. Eleanor Stuart
Childs and Mrs. Mary Newbols Hale. Ad
dress : 124 East Thirty-ninth Street, New
York City.
PATTERSON, George Washington:
Professor of electrical engineering; born
in Corning, New York, February 1, 1864;
son of George W. Patterson and Frances
D. (Todd) Patterson. He received from
Yale University the degrees of B. A. ini
1884 and M.A. in 1891 ; from the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology the degree of
S.B. in 1887; student at Harvard Law
School, 1888-89 1 received the degree of Ph.
D. in 1899, from the University of Munich
(Bavaria). He was assistant in mathe
matics in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1887 and 1888; instructor in
physics in the University of Michigan from
1889 to 1892; assistant professor of physics
from 1892 to 1898; junior professor of
physics from 1898 to 1901 ; junior professor
of electrical engineering from 1901 to 1905;
and professor since then. His research
work consists of the standards of electrical
current and electro-motor force. Professor
Patterson is vestryman and treasurer of St.
Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor; treasurer of
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Arbor Cattle Company. He has traveled in
Europe from 1884 to 1885, and from 1898 to
1899. In politics he is an Independent Re
publican and he is a member of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church. His favorite .rec
reation is golf. Professor Patterson is a
fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a member of the
American Physical Society, the American
Electrochemical Society, an associate mem
ber of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineering, the Detroit Engineering So
ciety. He is vice-president of the Patter
son Library of Westfield, New York. He
is also a member of Psi Upsilon frater
nity, Hammer and Tongs Club, Society of
Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi fraternity, Ames-
Gray Law Club, the Ann Arbor Club,
University Club of Detroit, Scientific
Research, Golf and Outing and Wash
tenaw Country Clubs. He married in
Adrian, Michigan, July 2, 1890, Merit Su
san Rowley, and their children are : Ger
trude, born 1891, George W., born 1893,
and Robert R., born 1895. Residence : 814
South University Avenue, Ann Arbor. Of
fice address : University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
PATTERSON, James Kennedy:
President of the State College of Ken
tucky; born in Glasgow, Scotland, March
26, 1833, son of Andrew and Janet (Ken
nedy) Patterson. ' He received his prepara
tory education in the parochial schools of
his native country and coming to the United
States in 1842 with his parents, he
entered nine years later Hanover College,
Indiana, where he was graduated in 1856
with the degree of A.B., receiving that of
A.M. in 1859. The honorary degree of Ph.
D. was conferred upon him by his alma
mater in 1875 and that of LL.D. by La
fayette College, Pennsylvania, in 1896. Af
ter his graduation from Hanover College
in 1856, was appointed principal of the
Greenville Presbyterian Academy, remain
ing there until 1859, when he accepted the
chair of Greek and Latin in Stewart Col
lege. In 1861, he resigned from this posi
tion beiiig given charge of the Transylvania
High School at Lexington, Kentucky, and

in .1865 was professor in the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Kentucky. In
1869 he was elected president of the State
College of Kentucky and, besides being at
the head of that institution, he has also
been professor of history and metaphysics
since that time and trustee since 1893. He
was director of the Third National Bank
of Lexington, Kentucky, for twenty years
and commissioner of the Eastern Kentucky
Lunatic Asylum for eight years. He has
traveled extensively over the greater part
of the European continent, the British
Isles, Canada, and nearly all of the United
States. In politics he is identified with
the Democratic party ; he is a member of
the Presbyterian Church. In 1880 Dr.' Pat
terson procured an endowment from the
State of Kentucky for the State College,
and maintained that endowment single
handed against all the denominational col
leges which endeavored to have the law
repealed in 1882. He maintained the con
stitutionality of the Act of 1880, in the lower
courts and in the Court of Appeals, against
the best legal talent of Kentucky. Dr.
Patterson is well versed in ancient and
modern history and metaphysics. A lin
guist of great merit, he knows the Anglo-
Saxon, middle and modern English, the
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit as well as French,
German and other languages. He has the
reputation of a ready and forcible speaker.
He was elected to the Iota Chapter of Beta
Theta Pi in 1855, while at Hanover Col
lege, and was a member of the Philalethean
Society from 185 1 to 1856. He was a dele
gate to the International Congress of .the
Geographical Society in 1875, and to the
British Association for the Advancement of
Science in 1875 and 1890. He was elected
fellow of the Royal Historical Society of
Great Britain in 1879 and of the Antiquar
ian Society of Scotland in 1880. He is
member (and president in 1903) of the Am
erican Association of Agricultural Col
leges and Experiment Stations, and member
of the American Association of State Col
leges and Universities. Dr. Patterson is
author of numerous addresses, lectures, and
contributions to the newspaper press, and

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also of the report on International Con
gress of Geographical Science of 1875. He
married at Greenville, Kentucky, December
27, I859, Lucelia W. Wing, daughter of
Captain Charles F. Wing; and they have
had two children: William Andrew (born
April 12, 1868, died June 3, 1895), and
Jeanie Rumsey (born and died 1870). Ad
dress : State College, Lexington, Kentucky.
PATTERSON, James O'Hanlon:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Barn
well, South Carolina, June 25, 1857; son
of Edward L. Patterson and Sarah Louise
(Myers) Patterson. He. was educated in
private schools in Barnwell and in Augus
ta, Georgia. Mr. Patterson was admitted
to the bar in May, 1886; was twice elected
probate judge of Barnwell County, and
was a member of the South Carolina
Legislature in 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902,
1903, and 1904. He was elected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904 and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Second
South Carolina District. In politics he is
a Democrat. . He married in Barnwell,
South Carolina, November 30, 1876, Hattie
A. Holman. Address : Barnwell, South
Carolina.
PATTERSON, James W.:
President of the- Pittsburgh, Carnegie and
Western Railroad Company; was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May, 1847.
His ancestors on the paternal side were
from the North of Ireland. His grand
father, Nathaniel Patterson, born in Ken
tucky, a surveyor by profession, was a par
ticipant in the War of 1812, and his father,
J. W. Patterson, was a major of the Sixty-
second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun
teers in the Civil War. Graduating from
the public schools of Pittsburgh, young Pat
terson studied his profession in the employ
of his father, in which he attained such
proficiency in general engineering and mu
nicipal improvements, that, before he
reached his twenty-eighth year, he was of
fered and accepted the position of principal
assistant engineer in charge of the construc
tion of Pittsburgh's water works. In 1888
Mr. Patterson was superintendent of. the
United States Government Buildings, and

has since been engaged in the development
of and making preliminary surveys for
proposed railways in Western Pennsylvania,
and has located many of the railroads now
in existence in that growing section of the
country. Mr. Patterson is now president
of the Pittsburgh, Carnegie & Western
Railroad, a Wabash affiliation, of which
he is making a success, though he makes
no pretensions to other claims than that
of- being a common, everyday civil engin
eer, still a student, and aiming to become
a topnotcher in his profession. He held
a positon in the Select Councils of Pitts
burgh from 1877 to 1879, and is a member
of the Monongahela Club of that city. He
married at Pittsburgh, February 3, 1870,
Margaret Campbell, to whom thirteen
children were born, eight of whom are
living, including J. W. Patterson, Jr., a
civil engineer in charge of construction
work in Green County, Pennsylvania, and
F. P. Patterson, dramatic editor of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch. Address : Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
PATTERSON, Malcolm Rice:
Governor and lawyer; born at Somer
ville, Alabama, June 7, 1861; son of Josiah
Patterson and Josephine Patterson. He
was graduated from Christian Brothers
College, Memphis, and studied at Vander
bilt University. He is a lawyer by pro
fession, and was attorney-general of Shel
by County, Tennessee, from 1894 to 1900.
He was elected to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was elected
governor of the State of Tennessee, No
vember 6, 1906, taking his seat on the date
fixed by the Legislature. Address: Mem
phis, Tennessee.
PATTERSON, Thomas MacDonald:
Ex-United States senator; born in
County of Carlow, Ireland, November 4,
1840; son of James Patterson and Mar
garet (Mountjoy) Patterson who came to
the United States in 1894. He received a
common-school education in New York
City and Astoria, Long Island, until
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moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1853.
He worked in a printing office there three
years, and at the bench as a watchmaker
' and jeweler for five years. In 1862 he
entered Asbury (now De Pauw) Univer
sity at Greencastle, Indiana, and later Wa
bash College, at Crawfordsville, Indiana,
which he attended until the end of his
junior year. He moved to Denver in 1872;
was elected city attorney in the spring of
1874; elected the last delegate in Congress
from the Territory of Colorado in 1874,
and was elected representative in Congress
from the State of Colorado in 1876. He
was a member of the National Democratic
Committee from 1876 to 1892; delegate to
the National Democratic Conventions of
1876, 1880, 1888, and 1892; was the Demo
cratic nominee for governor in 1888 ; at the
National Democratic Convention of 1892,
as a member of the committee on resolu
tions, singly, made a minority report fa
voring a declaration for free silver coinage.
He refused to support Cleveland for Pres
ident in 1892, and aided in carrying Colo
rado for General Weaver. In 1893 he
united with the People's Party, and was
a delegate to the Populist National Con
vention in 1896, and urged the. nomination
of both Bryan and Stevenson by that body ;
was elected a Bryan Presidential elector in
1896; was permanent chairman of the Na
tional Populist convention of 1900;- was
. elected a Bryan Presidential elector in
1900; was elected to the United States
Senate January, 1901, by the joint votes of
Democrats, Silver Republicans, and Popu
lists, for the term beginning March 4,
1901. In his acceptance speech Mr. Pat
terson announced that he would in the fu
ture act with the Democratic party and
enter the Democratic Senatorial caucus.
His term of office expired March 3, 1907.
Mr. Patterson was married in Watertown,
New York, in 1863, to Katherine Grafton,
who died July 16, 1902. Address : Denver,
Colorado. PAUL, Clarence Richmond:
Editor; born in St. Thomas, Ontario,
Canada, October 3, 1852, son of Eltham
'Richmond Paul and Harriet S. (Hickox)

Paul, both natives of Connecticut. He
was graduated from the Northwestern
Academy and Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois; with the degree of A.
B. in 1872, and A.M. in 1875. He has been
engaged in newspaper work most of the
time since his graduation, and was clerk of
the committee on Interstate Commerce of
the United States Senate which formulated
the Interstate Commerce Act. Since 1889
he has been editor of the Illinois State
Journal at Springfield. He is treasurer and
director of the Illinois State Journal Com
pany; a member of the Republican State
Central Committee for three terms and of
its Executive Committee for two terms. He
is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety, the Odd Fellows and Elks orders
and the Sigma Chi fraternity and also a
member of Sangamo Club of Springfield,
Illinois. Residence: 406.^ South Sixth
Street, Springfield. Office address: State
Journal office, Springfield, Illinois.
PAULL, Joseph R.:
First vice-president of the Bank of Pitts
burgh, National Association, one of the
oldest and largest banking houses in the
country; born December 14, 1871, near Dun
bar, Fayette County, on a farm, where he
lived for several years ; the family then
moved to Connellsville, Pennsylvania,
where he attended the schools and was
graduated from the .high school ; he then
took a three years' course at the Chicago
Training School and was graduated in 1888.
After he left the training school he was
employed by the H. C. Frick Coke Com
pany at Connellsville, and, in 1890, he en
tered the Youghiogheny Bank of Connells
ville, which later became the Youghiogheny
National Bank, and while there was book
keeper. In 1891 he was employed at the
Second National Bank of Connellsville as
teller; he remained with that institution
four years and went to Pittsburgh in 1895
as assistant cashier of the City Deposit
Bank, and in 1895 became cashier of the
same bank. He remained with the City De
posit Bank till 1903, when he became presi
dent of the Iron City National Bank; he
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which led to the consolidation of the Iron
City National and the Merchants' and Manu
facturers' National Banks with the Bank of
Pittsburgh, National Association, in Janu
ary, 1904. He was the active head of the
syndicate which acquired the controlling in
terest in the Iron City National Bank and
thus made it possible for the combination
which followed; when the consolidation
was effected and the three banks became
merged he was made the first vice-presi
dent of the combined institutions under the
name of the Bank of Pittsburgh. He mar
ried, September 13, 1894, Annie Rogers
Johnston. Address : 409 Deniston Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
PAXTON, John Randolph:
Clergyman; born at Canonsburg, Penn
sylvania, September 18, 1843. After a care
ful preparatory education he entered Jef
ferson College in 1859, but in 1862 left to
enter the Army, serving as private and sec
ond lieutenant of the One Hundred and
Fortieth Pennsylvania Regiment until the
end of the war in 1865, then returned to
Jefferson College and was graduated as A.
B. in 1866, studied at the Western Theolog
ical Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
and was graduated in 1869. He filled pas
torates in Presbyterian Churches at Church-
ville, Maryland, from 1871 to 1874, Pine
Street Church, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
from 1874 to 1878; New York Avenue
Church, Washington, D. C, from 1878 to
¦1882; West Church, New York, from 1882
to 1893 ; pastor of the New York Church,
New York City, 1898. He is a companion
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
member of the Century Association and the
Union League Club. Address : 51 West
Forty-sixth Street, New York City.
PAYNE, Oliver Hazard:
Capitalist ; born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1842 ;
he was graduated from Yale in 1863; is
director of the Standard Oil Company,
American Tobacco Company, Havana To
bacco Company, Chase National Bank, New
York Loan and Improvement Company,
vice-president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron
& Railroad Company, Helena Mining Com

pany and numerous other corporations. He
is a member of the Metropolitan, Knicker
bocker, University and the New York Yacht,
Clubs. Residence: Thomasville, Georgia,
and 852 Fifth Avenue. Address: 32 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
PAYNE, Sereno Elisha:
Lawyer; member of Congress; born in
Hamilton, New York, June 26, 1843; son
of the late William Wallace Payne (far
mer, member of New York Legislature,
1858, 1859) ; removed with family to sub
urbs of Auburn, New York, and has since
resided in or near Auburn. He was grad
uated from the University of Rochester in
1864, and received the degree of LL.D. from
both Rochester and Colgate Universities.
He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and
has since practiced law at Auburn, and is
now member of the law firm of Payne,
Payne & Clarke He was city clerk of
Auburn from 1868 to 1871 ; supervisor in
1871 and 1872; district attorney of Cayuga
County from 1873 to 1869; member of the
Board of Education from 1879 to 1882 (part
of time president of board) ; elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress and reelected
(with exception of one term) biennially
ever since ; "now being member of the Six
tieth Congress. He was appointed member
of the American and British Joint High
Commission, January, 1899, by President
McKinley. He was member of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, and as one of
the majority, helped to frame the tariff
measures popularly known as the McKinley
B'll, and the Dingley Bill; since January,
1899, chairman of Committee on Ways and
Means and leader of the House of Repre
sentatives. He is author of the Porto Rican
Tariff Act, of the bill in relation to recip
rocal trade relations with Cuba, which
passed the House, but failed in the Senate;
the objects of this bill were subsequently
obtained by treaty with Cuba, and a sup
plemental law of which Mr. Payne was
the author ; framed the present law regulat
ing the administration of the customs serv
ice, and was unanimously elected speaker
pro tern, of the House of Representatives
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April, 1898, arid as such speaker signed nu
merous bills, including the one annexing
Hawaii to the United States. He has been a
Republican from early days of the party;
stumped Cayuga County for Abraham Lin
coln in 1864,' when twenty-one years old,
and has been on the stump in every guber
natorial and presidential campaign since,
under the auspices of State and national
campaign committees; was a member of the.
National Republican Convention of 1896,
1900 and 1904. Mr. Payne married in Au
burn, New York, 1873, Gertrude Knapp
and they have one son, William K. (part
ner in his law firm). Address : 131 Genesee
Street, Auburn, New York.
PAYNTER, Thomas H.:
- Jurist; born in Lewis County, Kentucky,
December 9, 1851. After completing his
education in Centre College, Kentucky, he
studied law, and was admitted to the bar,
locating in, the practice of law at Greenup,
Kentucky, where he practiced 'law until
1895. He was county attorney of Greenup
County from 1876 to 1882; was elected to
the Fifty-first Congress in, 1888, and re
elected in 1890 and 1892 to the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses. In 1894 he
was elected judge of the Court of Appeals
of Kentucky, in -which office he served until
1906. Judge Paynter is a Democrat in pol
itics. He married, May 25, 1876, Elizabeth
K. Pollock. Address : Greenup, Kentucky.
PEABODY, Charles A,;
Lawyer and president of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company; born in the city of
New York on April n, 1849. His ances
tors, for many generations back, were res
idents of the State of Massachusetts. A.
Peabody, his father, came to New York
when yet a young! man, and soon after
ward married Julia Livingston. By this
marriage there were five children: Charles
A., the future head of the Mutual Life In
surance Company; Duane, Philip George
L. and one daughter. Duane Peabody died
in ,his early youth. George Peabody be
came a physician and achieved great dis
tinction in his profession. Charles A. Pea
body, the son, laid the foundation of his

education in the Columbia Grammar
School, and entered . Columbia College in
the class of 1869. After Mr. Peabody's
graduation from Columbia, he took a
course , in law at the same institution,
and was admitted to the New York bar
in the early seventies. He at once joined
the law firm of which his father was then
the head, with offices at No. 2 Wall Street.
The firm was then known as Peabody,
Baker & Peabody. After the death of his
father, the business was continued under
the firm name of Baker & Peabody, Mr.
Fisher A. Baker^ being the senior member.
Mr. Baker is the nephew of George F.
Baker, president of the First National Bank,
and it was generally believed in financial
circles that this connection, and Mr. Bak
er's consequent knowledge of Mr. Peabody's
superior qualifications, were largely in
fluential in the selection of the latter as
the head of the Mutual Company. Mr.
Peabody, in his practice, devoted a large
part of his attention to the study and prac
tice of real estate law. He became inter
ested in this branch of his profession in his
early career, and has closely followed it
ever since. Mr. Peabody is not an ag
gressive man, but he is very thorough
and conscientious in all his doings.
He is very far from the type of person
that the general public would naturally
identify with the head of a great corporate
institution. His quiet manner of speech
and his methodical processes of arriving at
conclusions are far and away removed from
the brag and bluster that the word insur
ance has branded on so many people. So
marked, indeed, is his reserve that it has
long been the subject of comment by his-
intimate trends. While he is a member of
several 4clubs, he is not at all the typical
clubman. He does not hide away in a, cor
ner, or seek to avoid contact with his fel
low-members, but he keeps himself abso
lutely to himself, even in a crowd. By this
it is not to be inferred that he is taciturn
or difficult of approach. On the contrary,
he is thoroughly democratic and affable
withal, but he persistently and conscien
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ambitions. He does not consume any of his
business hours in telling stories, or in read
ing the newspapers. All that form of oc
cupation is reserved for his leisure hours.
At his home Mr. Peabody has a room fitted
up for -his use, which is technically known
as the library, but which is really his work
shop, where he often spends many hours
in looking into some real estate problem,
or in solving some legal technicalities. On
only one occasion has Mr. Peabody broken
into politics, and then in a rather incon
spicuous way. On November 2, 1875, he
was elected to the State Assembly by the
Republicans of the old Eleventh District.
When he took his seat in the Legislature
he was within a month or two of being
twenty-six years old. One term was suf
ficient to satisfy Mr. Peabody's political
ambition, and he has never consented to
become a candidate for public office since.
The fascination of real estate and corpora-.
tion law was much more attractive to his
methodical inind than the vagaries of law
making, as they are indulged in at Albany.
Mr. Peabody has accumulated a consider
able fortune, and is identified with several
large financial institutions. He is a director
of Astor Trust Company, the Delaware and
Hudson Company, the Farmers' Trust
Company, Loan and Trust Company, the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, the
National Bank of Commerce, and of the
Union Pacific Railway Company, the Bank
of Savings, and the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company. On the 1st of Janu
ary, 1906, Mr. Peabody was selected as
president of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, one of the largest organizations
of its kind in the world. Since his entry
upon the discharge of the duties of this
responsible position he has devoted his en
ergies almost exclusively to the interests of
the institution, and its continued prosperity
under his direction is well assured. He
married in New York City, January 27,
1880, Charlotte A. Damon, and their chil
dren are two sons and one daughter. Ad
dress : 34 Nassau Street, New York City.
PEABODY, Charles Jones:
Banker ; born in Columbus, Georgia, April
25, 1856; son of George H. and Elvira

(Canfield) Peabody. He was educated in
the public school and Deer Hill Insti
tute of Danbury, Connecticut. He is cap
tain and aide-de-camp, Third Brigade staff,
'National Guards of the State of New York.
Partner Spencer, Trask and Company;
trustee Franklin Trust Company; director
of the American Beet Sugar Company;
treasurer, secretary and director of the
Broadway Realty Company; treasurer and
director of the Mexican Coal and Coke
Company, Coahuila Coal Railroad Com
pany; director of the Mexican Lead Com
pany, Montezuma Lead Company,, Com-
pania Metalurgica Mexicana, Mexican
Northern Railroad Company. He is a
Democrat and a member of the Reformed
(Dutch) Church; member of the Albany
Society, New York trustee Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences, Long Island
College Hospital; also of the Down Town,
City, Hamilton, Crescent and Heights Ca
sino Clubs. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, December 7, 1882, Helen A. Hoyt;
they have two children: Dudley Hoyt, born
in 1885 and Eva born in 1890. Residence:
128 Willow Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Address : 54 William Street, New York
City.PEABODY, George Foster:
Retired banker and railroad financier;
born in Columbus, Georgia, July 27, 1852;
son of George Henry Peabody and Elvira
(Canfield) Peabody. He received his early
education in Columbus, Georgia, and six
months at Deerhill Institute, Danbury,
Connecticut; received honorary A.M. from
Harvard; LL.D. from Washington and
Lee University and the University of
Georgia. He began his business career as
clerk with two wholesale dry goods firms,
from 1866 . to 1880, and from 1880 until
he retired he was in the banking business;
being a partner of the firm of Spencer
Trask and Company. He was director and
vice-president of many railroad and busi
ness corporations until retiring in 1905. and
1906, such as the St. Louis, Alton and
Terre Haute Railroad, Mexican National
Railroad Company, Rio Grande Western
Railroad, Edison Electric Illuminating
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and the General Electric Company. Mr.
Peabody has traveled extensively in Can
ada, Mexico; and all of the United States
excepting Alaska. He is committee mem
ber of the New York Chamber of Com
merce ; and was 'at one time a member of
the New York Stock Exchange. Since 1880
he has been active in Democratic politics.
He was treasurer of the Democratic Na
tional Committee in 1904; treasurer of the
American Free-Trade League, in 1880; he
has been an advocate of the single tax on
land values, and of government ownership
of railroads and public franchise corpora
tions since 1895. Mr. Peabody is active in
civil service reform associations; vice-pres
ident of the American Civic Association;
life member Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, American Museum of Natural History,
New York. He is also active iri Young
Men's Christian Assocation work in the
city and United States; trustee of the In
ternational Committee of the Young Men's
Christian Assocation ; also of Colorado Col
lege; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; Tus
kegee and Hampton Institutes and of the
University of Georgia; treasurer of the
Southern Education Board and General
Education Board; deputy from the Dio
cese of Long Island, to the General Con
vention of the Episcopal Church. He is
a member of the Southern Society and of
the Century Association, Reform; Metro-
. politan, City, National Arts and City Clubs,
and the Down Town Association of New
York City, the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn
and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.
Residences: Abenia, Lake George, New
York, and 28 Monroe Place, Brooklyn. Ad
dress: 2 Rector Street, New York City.
PEABODY, Henry Wayland:
Merchant; born Salem, Massachusetts,
August 22, 1838 ; son of Alfred and Jerusha
(Tay) Peabody; grandson of Nathan and
Hannah (Stickney) Peabody and a de
scendant of Lieutenant Francis Peabody
(1614-1677) Salem, 1635- He attended the
Phillips and Hacker Grammar School, at
Salem, Jonathan F. Worcester's private
school and was graduated from the Salem

Latin School in 1855. He was clerk in an
importing house in Boston and has been
in business since 1862, and is now head
of the house of Henry W. Peabody and
Company, importing' and exporting mer
chants, Boston, New York, San Francisco,
London, Liverpool, Sydney, Cape Town,
Merida, and Manila. He was deacon in the
Baptist Church, Salem; trustee of Newton
Theological Institution; and a member of
the Executive Committee of the American
Baptist Missionary Union. He is a member
of the Eastern Yacht Club, the Exchange
Club of Boston, and the J3oston Art Club.
He married, first, April 16, 1862, Lila,
daughter of Daniel H. and Eliza Shepard,
Mansfield, by whom he had five children;
and second, December, 1892, to Mrs. Nan
nie (Brayton) Borden, who died May 17,
1905, and, third, June 16, 1906, to Mrs. Lucy
W. (McGill) Waterbury. Residence: Bev
erly, Massachusetts. Office address : 70
Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
PEABODY, John Endicott:
Banker ; born in Salem, Massachusetts,
January 5, 1853; son of Samuel Endicott
Peabody and Marianne Cabot (Lee) Pea
body. He was graduated from Trinity Col
lege, Cambridge University, England, as
B.A. in October, 1871, after a three years'
course. He engaged in mercantile busi
ness in Antwerp, Belgium, and in the bank
ing business with Drexel, Morgan & Com
pany, New York City, from 1873 to 1875.
He had already studied art and after 1875
he traveled extensively to Europe in the
interest of his art as a painter. He mar
ried in Boston, Massachusetts, January 15,
1878, Gertrude, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Prescott) Lawrence and grand
daughter of Willis Hickling Prescott, the
historian. Their children are: Marion Lee
and Harold Peabody. Mrs. Peabody died
May 2, 1883, and he again married August
25, 1887, to Martha Prince, daughter of
William M. and Anna Augusta (Nourse)
Whitney and- their son, Samuel Endicott
Peabody, Jr., was born in Lausanne, Switz
erland, August 27, 1895. Residence: Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.

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PEABODY, Samuel Endicott:
Banker; born in Salem, Essex County,
Massachusetts, April 19, 1825; son of Col
onel Francis Peabody and Mary (Foster)
Peabody, arid a descendant of Lieutenant
Francis Peabody of St. Albans, who set
tled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1639, and
was made a freeman of Hampton, New
Hampshire, in 1642. He was prepared for
college at private schools in Salem, matric
ulated at Harvard, class of 1846, but left
in his junior year to travel to Europe and
the 'East. He was engaged in commercial
business in Salem, in 1846, and became
a partner of the house of Curtis and Pea
body, Boston, Massachusetts, and J. S. Mor
gan & Company, London, England. He is
president of the Board of Directors of the
American Loan and Trust Corrjpany, of
Boston, having retired from the banking
business. He married, November 23, 1848,
Marianne Cabot, daughter of John Clarke
Lee and Harriet Paine (Rose) Lee of
Salem. Residence (summer) : Kernwood,
near the town line of Peabody, Massachu
setts ; winter : The Fenway, Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
PEARCE, Liston Houston
Clergyman and editor; born near Spring
field, Ohio. He was prepared for college
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and "in the Pre
paratory Department of Northwestern Uni
versity; was graduated from Northwestern
University with degree of B.P. in 1865 and
A.B. in 1866, and received from the same
institution the degree of A.M. in 1868, and
that of D.D. from Grant University in
1887; and he is a member of Northwestern
University Phi Beta Kappa Chapter. He
served as chaplain of the One Hundred and
Thirty-second Illinois Infantry. He held
several pastorates in Michigan, Virginia,
Maryland and New York. He was presid
ing elder of Geneva District, Central New
York Conference, 1897-1903. He published
a book of travels in Europe, Palestine and
the Orient in 1887. Dr. Pearce was editor
of the Baltimore Methodist from January
1, .1904, to January 1, 1907, and was made
editor of the Northern Christian Advocate,
Syracuse, New York, April 11, 1907. He

married at Chicago, Illinois, October 15,
1867, Miss Jennie M. Wheeler, who died
March 5, 1886, and by that marriage there
were three children: Kittie, born May 2,
1869, and died in 1870; Etha Ette, and
Walter Chandler. He married again at
Baltimore, Maryland, December 16, 1889,
Mrs. Katherine A. Oler. Address: Syra
cuse, New York.
PEARRE, George Alexander:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Cum
berland, Maryland, July 16, i860; son of
Hon. George A. Pearre and Mary (Worth
ington) Pearre. His early education was
had at private schools, Allegheny County
Academy, St. James College, University of
West Virginia, and Princeton University;
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1882, having graduated at the law school
of the Maryland University, of Baltimore,
and has been in active practice ever since;
is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, belongs to the
Order of Eagles, also the Elks, Eagles, and
Order of American Woodmen, and Knights
of Pythias; is a member of the Maryland
Society of the Sons of the American Revo
lution. In 1890 he was elected to the State
Senate and served in the sessions of 1890
and 1892; in 1895 was nominated prosecut
ing attorney by the Republican party, and
was elected and held that office until elected
to the Fifty-sixth Congress in 1898; re
elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses, and to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and also to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Sixth Maryland District.
In politics he is a Republican. He is pres
ident of Princeton Alumni Association of
Maryland. Address: Cumberland, Mary
land.
PEARSALL, Edgar Lincoln:
President of the New Idea Pattern Com
pany; born in Hempstead, Long Island,
November 28, 1864; son of James Pearsall
and Hannah W. (Myers) Pearsall. He
received his education in the Jersey public
schools. Mr. Pearsall is director in the
Butterick Company, Limited, the New Idea
Pattern Company, and the New Idea Pub
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In 1904 and 1905, he was grand master of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
New Jersey. He married in New York
City, March 27, 1907, Mrs. F. H. DeMott.
Residence: 250 West Fifty-seventh Street,
New York City.
PEARSON, James John:
Consulting and advisory engineer; born
in Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Sep
tember 22, 1858 ; son of Rev. James Pearson
and Francis Pearson, of Newcastle-on-
Tyne. He received his preparatory educa
tion at Elmfield College, St. Peter's, York,
England ; was an engineer apprentice under
Lord (then Sir W. G.) Armstrong, and
graduated from Elswick School of Tech
nology, Newcastle, as medalist in all phys
ics, in 1879. Technical and traveling cor
respondent for Textile Manufacturer, Me
chanical World, Sanitary Engineering,
Chemical News, from 1879 to 1881 ; chief
engineer for Palmers Ship & Iron Com
pany, Jarrow-on-Tyne, 1881 to 1884; as
sistant manager afloat and guarantee en
gineer for Hawthorne, Leslie & Company,
St. Peters-on-Tyne, 1884 to 1886; charge
of machinery construction on Austrian tor
pedo chasers, Leopard and Panther ; the
fighting equipment of the Chilian cruisers
Blanco Encalada and Almirante Cochrane;
the steam trials of the Italian cruiser Gio
vanni Bausan ; the machinery construc
tion, and at the Yokosuka Naval Station,
-Japan, of the Japanese cruisers Naniwa-
Kan and Takachiho-Kan, from 1886 to
1888; consulting and contracting engineer,
Yokohama, Japan, constructing and install
ing textile mills, ice plants, bridges, steam
vessels, arsenal equipment, etc., 1888 to
1891 ; manager of Nassau Electrical Com
pany, New York, 1892 to 1895 ; since then in
independent practice as a consulting engi
neer; arbitrator on industrial values and
trade organization issues; contributor on
special subjects to various technical publica
tions. Mr. Pearson is , a member of the
Engineers' Club, New York; the National
Arts Club, New York ; and the Houvenkopt
Country Club, Suffern, New York. Resi
dence : 144. Remsen Street, Brooklyn, New

York. - Office address : 40 Wall Street, New
York City.
PEARSON, Richmond:
Diplomat; born in North Carolina; ap
pointed consul at Verviers and Liege. June
19, 1874 J resigned April 22, 1877 ; appointed
consul at Genoa, December 10, 1901 ; ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary' to Persia, December 17,
1902. Address : Teheran, Persia.
PEARSONS, Daniel Kimball:
Retired physician; born in Belford, Ver
mont, April 14, 1820. He was educated at
Woodstock, Vermont. Practiced in Chico
pee, Massachusetts, until -1857; farmer,
Ogle County, Illinois, from 1857 to i860;
in real estate business in Chicago, from
i860 to 1887; retired from business but re
mained director in Chicago City Railway
Company and other corporations ; made do
nations aggregating over $4,000,000 to col
leges and charities. He married at Chic
opee, Massachusetts, in 1847, Marietta
Chapin, who died March 30, 1906. Address :
Hinsdale, Illinois. Office address : Chicago,
Illinois.PEARY, Robert Edwin:
Explorer, and civil engineer, United States
Navy, with rank of commander; born at
Cresson, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1856 ; son of
Charles Peary and Mary (Willey) Peary;
descended from a family of Maine lumber
men. After his father's death in 1858, he
lived with his mother at Portland, Maine,
where he prepared for college. He was
graduated from Bowdoin College with sec
ond honors and Phi Beta Kappa in 1877;
was a land surveyor at Fryeburg, Maine,
from 1877 to 1879, and was employed in the
Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington,
from 1879 to 1881. In 1881 he passed the
Navy Department examination for the ad
mission of civil engineers, and was commis
sioned as civil engineer, United States
Navy, October 26, 1881, and is now civil
engineer with the rank of commander. He
planned and built a pier at Key West,
Florida, in 1881 ; was sub-chief of the In
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1884 and 1885. In May, 1886, he obtained
six months' leave of absence and made his
first Arctic voyage, penetrating farther in
to the interior of Greenland than any white
man had ever gone before. He was engi
neer-in-chief Of the surveys of the Nicara
gua Canal from 1886 to 1888, and in 1888
was sent to superintendent the building of
the new dry dock at the League Island
Navy Yard in Philadelphia. " He started on
his second expedition in June, 1891, accom
panied by Mrs. Peary and a small party,
and in the spring of 1892 started north with
a single companion, reaching the rocky
northern shore of Greenland, which no man
had ever seen before, on July 4, 1892, nam
ing the bay beyond, Independence Bay; and
on that voyage he discovered the land be
yond Greenland, naming Mellville Land and
Heilprin Land, and he determined the in
sularity of Greenland. He made another Arc
tic voyage, from 1893 to 1895, and two
others in 1896 and 1897, discovering and
bringing back the Cape York meteorites,
the largest ever found, one of which
weighed forty tons. He started on his fifth
expedition in 1899, rounded the northern
limit of the Greenland Archipelago in 1900
and attained the highest latitude ever
reached up to that time in the Western
Hemisphere (eighty degrees, fifty minutes),
made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the
pole in the spring of 1901 ; encamped at
Cape Sabine, among the Eskimos, in the
winter of 1901 and 1902, and in the spring
of 1902 made another start for the pole,
found Greeley's outfit on his way and
reached eighty- four degrees, seventeen, min
utes north, but found it impossible at that
time to proceed further. He named the
most northerly cape in the world, Cape
Morris Jesup, in latitude eighty-three de
grees, thirty-ninth minutes. Following his
return that year, The Roosevelt, a -special
ly designed ship, was built, and he began
his fifth voyage in 1905, and in 1906 he
reached latitude eighty-seven degrees,' six
minutes, planting the American colors there
at the highest point north ever reached by
man. Commander Peary has received mariy
medals and honors from American and for

eign geographical societies. After his re
turn in 1906 he was occupied with lectures
and preparations for another attempt to
reach the pole, upon which expedition he
started in the summer of 1907. He married
in 1888, Josephine Diebitsch, and they have
a daughter, Marie, bora in Greenland, in
1893. Residence: 2014 Twelfth Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C. Address : 15 West
Eighty-first Street, New York City.
PECHIN, Edward V.:
Manufacturing chemist; born in Phila
delphia, July 20, 1864; sou of Charles J.
Pechin and Letitia (Vogan) Pechin. He
was educated in the public schools of Mont
gomery County, Pennsylvania, and Norris
town, Pennsylvania; and was graduated
from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
in 1886. He was engaged in the retail drug
business from 1887 to 1889; formed a part
nership in May, 1891, with H. K. Mulford
& Milton Campbell, known as H. K. Mul
ford Company, incorporated, of which he
is secretary and director. He has trav
eled in the United States, Canada and Mex
ico. Mr. Pechin is in politics a Republican
and in Religion an Episcopalian. He is a
member of the Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety and the Road Drivers' Association.
His favorite recreations are golf and driv
ing. He is a member of the Aronimink
Golf, Bala Golf, Gentlemen's Driving, and
Philadelphia Drug Clubs. Mr. Pechin mar
ried in Baltimore, Maryland, February 14,
1898, Minnie P. Johnson, and they have
one daughter, Margaret Carey Pechin, born
in 1901. Address : 426 South Thirteenth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PECK, Ferdinand Wythe:
Exposition official; born in Chicago, Il
linois, July 15, 1848; son of Philip F. W.
Peck and Mary Kent (Wythe) Peck. He
received a private education, then studied
law and was admitted to the Illinois bar
in 1869. His father left a large estate, of
which he had- the management. He built
several business blocks in Chicago, and he
organized and was for several years pres1
ident of the Chicago Auditorium Associa
tion, which built and owns the Auditorium

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Building, hotel and theatre. He was vice-
president, and chairman of the Finance
Committee of the World's Columbian Ex
position, and was appointed by President
McKinley in 1898, and served as United
States commissioner-general to the Paris
Exposition of 1900. Mr. Peck was for
merly a trustee of the University of Chi
cago, and is now a director of the Amer
ican Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago.
He was one of the founders of the Illi
nois Humane Society in 1870; was for
several years president of the Chicago
Athenaeum, and was for four years presi
dent of the Chicago Board of Education.
He received from the French Government
appointment as a grand officier of the Le
gion d'Honneur. He married in Chicago,
in 1870, Tilla C. Spalding, and they have
six children. They have 'a summer home
at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Residence :
1826 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress : Monadnock Block, Chicago, Illinois.
PECK, George Record:
Lawyer and railway official; born in
Steuben County, New York, May 15, 1843;
son of Joel M. Peck and Amanda (Purdy)
Peck. The family removed to Wisconsin
and he attended the common schools of that
State until in 1861 he entered the Union
Army as a private in the First Wisconsin
Regiment, of Heavy Artillery, and later be
came a lieutenant and captain in the Thir
ty-first Wisconsin Infantry until the close
of the war. He then took up the study of
law, was admitted to the Wisconsin bar and
in 1871 removed to Independence, Kansas,
where, he practiced law until 1874, when he
was appointed by President Grant as United
States attorney for the district of Kansas,
and removed to Topeka, holding that office
until 1879, and continuing in practice at
Topeka until 1893. He was general solic
itor of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company, from 1881 to 1895, and
he declined an appointment to the United
States Senate to fill an unexpired term in
1892. He removed to Chicago in 1893, and
in i.895 he was appointed general counsel
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Railway Company, which position* /he, Still:
holds. Mr. Peck is a Republican/: in poli
tics. He holds a distinguished. place in the
legal profession and was president ; of the
American Bar Association in 1905 and 1906,
and he is also distinguished as an orator '
of rare ability and has delivered, many not
able addresses. He has been honored with
the LL.D. degree by the University of
Kansas, Union University, and Bethany
College, and with the A.M. degree by Mil
ton College. Mr. Peck married at Janes-
ville, Wisconsin, in 1866, Arabella Burdick,
who died March 5, 1896, and he has four
children: Mary E., Isabelle, Charles B., and
Ethel Peck. They have a summer home at
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Residence : Vir
ginia Hotel, Chicago. Office address : Rail
way Exchange Building, Chicago, Illinois.
PECK, George Wilbur:
Ex-governor of Wisconsin; born at Hen
derson, Jefferson County, New York, Sep
tember 28, 1840; son of David B. Peck
and Alzina Peck. He received his educa
tion in the public schools, went to Wiscon
sin, and learned the printer's trade in the
printing office of the Whitewater Register ;
he assisted in establishing the Jefferson
County Republican and was later employed
on the State Journal at Madison, Wiscon
sin, until 1863, when he entered the Union
Army as a private, in the Fourth Wiscon
sin Infantry, later becoming a second lieu
tenant and serving in Texas for a year af
ter the war. In 1866 he returned to Wis
consin and established at Ripon, The Repre
sentative, a weekly newspaper. Soon after
he went to New York and was one of the
editors of Pomeroy's Democrat, and later
edited the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Demo
crat. In 1878 he established Peck's Sun in
Milwaukee, which gained a large circula
tion because of its humorous, character, and
especially for a series of papers written by
Mr. Peck and called Peck's Bad Boy and
His Pa, of which three series were afterward
published in book form. He is a Demo
crat in politics ; was chief of police of La
Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1874 and 1875 ; chief
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1874 ; mayor of Milwaukee in 1890 and 1891,
and governor of Wisconsin from 1891 to
1895. He married at Delavan, Wisconsin,
in i860, Francena Rowley. Address : 190
Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
PECK, John Hudson:
Lawyer ; born in Hudson, New York,
February 7, 1838 ; son of Hon. Darius Peck,
for many years judge of Columbia County,
New York; descendant of Willam Peck,
an original settler of New Haven, Connecti
cut. He was graduated from Hamilton
College as A.B. in 1859, A.M. in 1862, re
ceived from that college his LL.D. in 1899.
He was admitted to the bar at Albany, New
York, December, 1861 ; is a practicing
lawyer in the firm of Peck and Behan, at
Troy, New York, and has been counsel for
numerous corporate interests and private
trusts. He became a trustee of Troy Fe
male Seminary in 1883 ; was president of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1888
to 1900; member of the Constitutional Con
vention of the State of New York in 1894;
chairman of the New Court House Com
mission of Rensselaer County from 1894 to
1897; one of trustees for the erection of.
the Hart Memorial . Library, and member
(original incorporation) of the Scenic and
Historic Preservation Society of New
York; and has for years been a trustee
of the Diocese of Albany. In religion he
is an Episcopalian. He is a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Chi Psi fra
ternity, Society of Colonial Wars and Sons
of Revolution. Mr. Peck married in 1883,
Mercy P. Mann, of Milton, New York, a
descendant of one of the original land
proprietors of Scituate, Massachusetts. Ad
dress : Troy, New York.
PECK, William Emerson:
Export merchant; born, in New Britain,
Connecticut, June 30, 1858; son of Charles
and Mary Folger (Davis) Peck. He was
graduated from Williston Seminary, East
Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1877, and from
Yale College in 1881. During the years
1881 to 1888, he traveled extensively in
South America, crossing the Andes five
times. . He is president of William E. Peck

Company, Buyers' Index Publishing Com
pany; vice-president of the Colonial Trade
Company; and a director of Hale Company
and Montezuma Mine, Incorporated. In
politics he is an Independent Republican
and in religion a Congregationalist. He is
a member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, New England Society, the Sons
of Revolution and of the National Geo
graphic Society of Washington; trustee of
Mt. Meigs Colored Institute of Alabama
and the United States Savings Bank of
New. York. He has contributed numerous
articles on export trade to various publica
tions and the press and delivered public ad
dresses on similar topics. His favorite rec
reations are golf and yachting. He is a
member of the University, Yale, New York
Yacht, Fulton, Barnard, Luncheon and Bal-
tusrol Golf Clubs of New York; of the
New Haven Yacht and Graduates' Clubs of
New Haven, Maple Hill Golf Club of New
Britain and Sachem's Head Golf Club,
Sachem's Head, of Connecticut and of The
Pilgrims' Club of London. Mr. Peck mar
ried in Liverpool, England, January 30,
1884, Bertha Thompson Pierce and they
have one daughter, Elena Mayhew. Resi
dence : 12 -East Fifty-eighth Street. Ad
dress: 116 Broad Street, New York City.
PECKHAM, Rufus W. :
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States ; born in Albany, New-
York, November 8, 1838 (father was native
of Albany County and had been district at
torney of the county, justice of the Su
preme Court of the State, and at' the time
of his death in the shipwreck of the Ville
de Havre, November 22, 1873, was one of
the judges of the Court of Appeals of
New York State). He was educated at the
Albany Academy and in Philadelphia;
studied law in the office of his father (then
in partnership with Lyman Tremain, at
torney-general of the State, practicing law
under the firm name of Peckham and Tre
main) in Albany. He was admitted to the
bar, December, 1859. On election of his
father to the Supreme Bench in 1859, he
formed a partnership with the former part
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Tremain and Peckham, which continued
until the death of Mr. Tremain, in Decem
ber, 1878; elected district attorney of Al
bany County in 1868; later corporation
counsel of Albany City and in 1883 was
elected a justice of the Supreme Court of
New York. While serving as such he was
elected in 1886 as associate judge of the
Court of Appeals of New York State, and
while occupying a seat on that bench was,
in December, ,1895, appointed by President
Cleveland associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. He married in
1866, Harriette M., daughter of D. H.
Arnold (an old New York merchant and
president of the Mercantile Bank of New
York City). Address: 1217 Connecticut
Avenue, Washington, D. C.
PEFFER, William Alfred:
Former United States Senator; born in
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Sep
tember 10, 1831 ; son of John Peffer and
Elizabeth (Souder) Peffer, and a descend
ant of Philip Peffer of Holland who emi
grated in the middle part of the Seven
teenth Century and settled in Central
Pennsylvania. Mr. Peffer was educated in
the public schools of Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania, until 1846, then taught in
country schools until 1849. He went to
the California gold mines in 1850, remain
ing until 1852, came back East and engaged
in farming in St. Joseph County, Indiana,
in 1853, thence to Morgan County, Mis
souri in 1859, and from there to Warren
County, Illinois, in 1862. He enlisted in
that year as a private in the Eighty-third
Illinois Volunteer Infantry serving with it
until he was mustered out with the rank
of lieutenant in June, 1865, having mean
while acted as adjutant, judge-advocate
and quartermaster of the regiment; depot
quartermaster, engineer department, at
Nashville, Tennessee. After the war he
engaged in the practice of law in Clarks-
ville, Tennessee, until 1870, when he re
moved to Kansas, settled on a claim in
Wilson County, and established a law prac
tice. He afterward established the Fre
donia Journal and the Coffeyville Journal,
and from 1881 was -editor of The Kansas

Farmer for over ten years, and editorial
writer on Topeka D^ily Capital, seven
years. He was active in the Republican
party, was elected to the State Senate in
1874, and was a presidential elector for Gar
field in 1880. He became actively identified
with the People's party movement, and its
recognized leader in Kansas, and that party,
gaining power in the State, elected him
United States senator for the term from
1891 to 1897, which he served,. He was
Prohibition candidate for governor of Kan
sas in 1898, but was defeated, and in 1900,
having returned to the Republican party on
the iss.ues growing . out of the Spanish-
American War, he took an active part in
the campaign for McKinley and Roosevelt.
Senator Peffer is author of several works
dealing with political and economic sub
jects. He married, December 28, 1852,
Sarah Jane Barber, daughter of William
Barber of Papertown, Pennsylvania. Ad
dress : Topeka, Kansas.
PEIRCE, Herbert Henry Davis:
Diplomat; born at Cambridge, Massachu
setts, April 11, 1849; son of Benjamin
Peirce, mathematician ; received his prepara
tory education in schools of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and at Phillips Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire, and then attended
Harvard College, in the class of 1871 ; and
he afterward studied geology at the Royal
School of Mines in London, England. He
entered upon a diplomatic career in May,
1894, when he was appointed the secretary
to the United States Legation at St. Peters
burg, and in 1898 he became first secretary
of the American Embassy there when the
mission was raised to that rank, remaining
in that position until 1901. During his serv
ice there he attended in May, 1896, the coro
nation of Nicholas IL, as emperor of Rus
sia, and he served at ten different times as
charge d'Affaires of the American Embassy.
He was appointed special counsel for
American claimants and counsel for the
United States Government in the arbitra
tion cases between the United States and
Russia, which he prepared and argued at
the Hague, in French, and which were de
cided in favor of all the American conten-

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tions by the Dutch arbitrator, Mr. T. M. C.
Asser, in November, 1902. He was ap
pointed, November 15, 1901, third assistant
secretary of State of the United States and
served in that position until in 1906. Dur
ing this period he made two tours of in
spection commissioned by the President to
investigate and report upon the condition of
the American consulates in Europe and in
the Far East, resulting in the institution of
many radical reforms in our consular serv
ice, notably the entire abolition of the fee
system of compensation of salaried consuls
and the establishment of a United States
court in China to take the place .of the
consular courts. As third assistant secre
tary of State Mr. Peirce acted several times
as the representative of the President in
connection with the visits to our country
of guests of the nation, on the last occa
sion, in the summer of 1905, during the
peace negotiations at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, between Russia and Japan, the
preparations for which and the- reception of
the plenipotentiaries were under his imme
diate charge, receiving from the latter, on
august 20, for communication to the Presi
dent, the announcement of peace. After the
separation of Norway from Sweden he was
appointed to his present post as the first en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Norway. Mr.
Peirce received from the French Govern
ment May 16, 1902, the decoration of com-
mandeur of the Legion d'Honneur, arid in
1903 the order of the Double Dragon from
China. He married at Portland, Maine,
Helen N. Jose. Address : American Lega
tion, Christiania, Norway.
PELL, Howland:
Insurance, real estate; born at Flushing,
Long Island, March 19, 1856; son of Wil
liam Howland and Adelaide Schleffelia
(Ferris) Pell. He was educated in public
and private schools ; and was a student of
the School of Mines of Columbia College.
After leaving college he entered the serv
ice of the Highlands Chemical and Min
ing Company in 1877, engaged with the
Commercial Union Assurance Association
as cashier for ten years, and in 1888 as

appointed local agent for that company, and
also for the Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company, the agency hav
ing been established in this country by
his uncle, Alfred Pell, in 1848: He is a
veteran of Companies I and K, of the Sev
enth Regiment of the National Guard of
New York ; served six years in the Twelfth
Regiment as lieutenant and captain; vice-
president of The Gaillard Insurance Com
pany; trustee of the Fulton Trust Com
pany; member of the New York Historical
Society, New York Genealogical and Bio
graphical Society,, St. Nicholas Society, So
ciety of the War of 1812; vice-governor-
general of the Society of Colonial Wars;
chairman, of the committee of the Society
of Colonial Wars that erected a monument
at Louisburg, 1895, and at Lake George,
1903; director of the House of Mercy and
of the Home for Destitute Blind. He is also
a member of the Union, Tuxedo, and New
York Yacht Clubs. Mr. Pell married in
New York City, April 12, 1887, Almy Goe-
let Gallatin, and they have two children :
Gladys A. H., and Howland Gallatin. Ad
dress : 7 Pine" Street, New York City.
PENDLETON, Francis K.:
Lawyer; born in Ohio; son of Hon.
George Pendleton, former United States
senator from Ohio. He was admitted to
the bar in Ohio, in 1878, afterward coming
to New York City, where he has since
been engaged in practice, and he was ap
pointed by Mayor Mcdellan, in August,
1907, corporation counsel of the City of
New York. Residence : 7 East Eighty-
sixth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress : 25 Broad Street, New York City.
PENDLETON, Garnett:
Lawyer and bank president"; born in
Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 24, 1855;
son of James Madison . Pendleton and
Katherine Stockton' (Garnett) Pendleton.
He received his preparatory education at
home, until the age of fifteen, when he
entered Mt. Holly Academy, New Jersey. He
received from the University of Rochester,
New York, the degree of A.B. in 1875,
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sity of Pennsylvania the degree of LL.B.
in 1878! He was admitted to the bar of
Philadelphia, June 15, 1878, and to the bar
of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in July,
1879. He has practiced in Chester since
1881, mainly civil law, but appeared for
the defence in the Pfitzenmeyer homicide
case, tried in 1891, resulting in acquittal.
He became president of the Cambridge
Trust Company in September, 1901, and
still holds that position, and is also treas
urer and manager of Chester Hospital. He
has lectured on: Three Wise Men of
Gotham ; Unappreciated Benefactors ;
Means, Golden and Otherwise; and has
written and published philosophical essays
on: Christianity and the Law of the Land;
The Presumption of Innocence; and Tech
nical Support, Lateral and Subjacent. He
was solicitor of Upland Borough from
1887 to 1899, school director from 1881 to
1884, and several times a member of the
Republican Executive Committee of Dela
ware County, having frequently stumped
County and State for the Republican tickets.
He is distinguished as an author and has
given numerous orations on anniversary
occasions before historical societies. Mr.
Pendleton is a member of Delta Psi fra
ternity, Iota Chapter of Rochester, 1871, a
charter member of the Pennsylvania Club,
organized in 1896, and a member of its
Board of Directors. He married in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1879,
Helena Ward and they have one daughter,
Emma Louise, born in 1885. Residence: 2
Seminary Avenue, Upland, Chester, Penn
sylvania.PENF1ELD, Edward:
Artist; born in Brooklyn, in 1866. He
received his education in the Polytechnic
Institute and the Art Students' League;
was art director of Harper's Magazine from
1890 to 1900, originator of the Poster in
America; designed the famous Harper
Posters from 1893 to 1898, and has made
numerous covers for Collier's Weekly, Sat
urday Evening Post, and many drawings
in Holland and Spain for Scribner's Maga
zine. He decorated the Breakfast Room
of Randolph Hall, Cambridge, Massachu

setts, and Rochester County Club. He has
traveled in England, France, Germany,
Holland and Spain. He is a member of
the American Water Color Society, and the
Salmagundi Club of New York. Resi
dence : Pelham Manor, New York. Of
fice address : 163 West Twenty-third Street,
New York City.
PENICK, Charles Clifton:
Bishop of Cape Palmas, retired; born in
Charlotte" County, Virginia, December 9,
1843 ; son of Edwin Anderson Penick and
Mary (Hammer) Penick. He was gradu
ated from the Theological Seminary of Vir
ginia in 1869, and received the degree of
D.D. from Kenyon College in 1877. Upon
graduating from the Seminary, he took
orders as deacon of the Episcopal Church
and was the following year ordained priest
by Bishop Johns. Following his entry to
the ministry, he officiated in churches at
Bristol, Goodson, Virginia, and Mount
Savage, Maryland, and the Church of the
Messiah, at Baltimore. In 1877 he was
consecrated .bishop by Bishops Atkinson,
Whittle, Pinckney and Dudley and made
bishop of Cape Palmas and parts adjacent,
West Africa. In 1883 he resigned from the
Bishopric of Cape Palmas, and, coming to
the United States became rector of St.
Andrew's Church, Louisville, Kentucky. He
was later rector of St. Mark's Church, Rich
mond, Virginia, and of Christ's Church,
Fairmount, West Virginia. Bishop Penick
represented the Commission for the Col
ored People in the General Missionary
Board. He married in 1881 Mary Hoge of
Wheeling, West Virginia. He is author
of: More than a Prophet; Birth, Life,
Reign, and Glory of Christ in the Soul;
Our Deeds, our Memories, our Duties;
Hopes, Perils, and Struggles of the Negroes
in the United States ; The Call of the Race ;
Social Factor in Life of Christ ; Everlasting
Life ; and various reports and papers in
missionary work. Address : Fairmount,
West Virginia.
PENNYPACKER, Galusha:
Brigadier-general and brevet major-gen
eral, United States Army; is a native of

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Pennsylvania, belonging to one of its old
est families, whose names are written in
the annals of the State and Nation. The
appointment to West Point from the Sixth
Congressional District having been tendered
him, he would, but for the war, have prob
ably entered the Military Academy in 1861
or 1862. General Pennypacker entered the
service in April, 1861. Declining, on account
of his youth, the appointment of first lieu
tenant in his company, A, of the Ninth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, he was
made a non-commissioned staff officer of
that regiment, and served with it, during
its three months of service in Major-General
Patterson's column, in the Shenandoah Val
ley, Virginia. He entered for the war as
captain of Company A, Ninety-seventh
Pennsylvania Volunteers, August 22, 1861,
and was promoted major, October 7 follow
ing. The Ninety-seventh Regiment joined
the Tenth Corps in the Department of the
South, and during the years 1862 and 1863
participated in all the various movements,
engagements and sieges in which that corps
took part, on the coasts of South Carolina
(Forts Wagner and Gregg, James Island
and siege of Charleston), Georgia (cap
ture of Fort Pulaski), and Florida (tak
ing of Fernandina and Jacksonville).- He
commanded his regiment and the post of
Fernandina, Florida, in April, 1864, when
the regiment was ordered with the Tenth
Corps to Virginia, and became part of the
Army of the James ; promoted to lieutenant-
colonel April 3, 1864, and to colonel June
23 following. In action in command of his
regiment at Swift Creek, May 9, Drewry's
Bluff, May 16, and Chester Station, May
18; on May 20 he led his regiment in an
assault upon the enemy's lines at Green
Plains, Bermuda Hundred, receiving three
severe wounds, losing 175 men killed and
wounded out of 295 taken into the charge.
He was assigned to command the Second
Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Corps, in
September, and on the 29th led his brigade
in the successful assault upon Fort Har
rison, where he was again wounded, and
his horse shot under him. In action Octo
ber 7, at Chaffin's Farm, and on the 29th

at Darbytown Road. With the first Fort
Fisher expedition under General Butler,
December 1 to 31. General Pennypacker's
brigade (composed of New York and Penn
sylvania regiments) formed a portion of
the expeditionary corps which, under com
mand of Major General Terry, made the
successful (and perhaps most brilliant of
the war) assault upon Fort Fisher, North
Carolina, January 15, 1865. For his dis
tinguished personal gallantry in this assault,
when he was most severely (and it was
thought for a time mortally) wounded, and
"for gallant and meritorious services during
the war," Pennypacker received six brevets
or promotions as follows : Brevet brigad
ier-general United States Volunteers, Janu
ary 15, 1865; brigadier-general United
States Volunteers, February 18, 1865 ; brevet
major-general United States Volunteers,
March 13, 1865; colonel Thirty-fourth (de
signation changed to Sixteenth) Infantry
United States Army, July 28, 1866; brevet
brigadier-general United States Army,
March 2, 1867, and brevet major-general
United States Army, March 2, 1867; com
missioned brigadier-general United States
Army in May, 1904. The Congressional
Medal of Honor was awarded General
Pennypacker for "bravery at the battle of
Fort Fisher." He was one of the youngest
(if not the youngest) of the general officers
of the war, and was the youngest man in
the history of the regular army to be com
missioned a colonel and brevet major-gener
al. His commanding general emphasized
the declaration that Pennypacker and not
himself was the real hero of Fort Fisher,
and that h;s great gallantry was only
equalled by his modesty. Since the war (with
the exception of two years on leave in
Europe), General Pennypacker has served
in the Southern, Southwestern and West
ern States, performing the duties incidental
to a regimental and post commander. He
was temporarily in command of the District
of Mississippi in 1867, the Fourth Military
District in 1868, the Department of Missis
sippi in 1870, the United States troops in
New Orleans in 1874, and the Department
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list of the army in 1883, on account of
¦ wounds received, he has since resided in
Philadelphia. Address : 300 South Tenth
Street, Philadelphia.
PENNYPACKER, Samuel Whitaker:
Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania ; born in
Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylva
nia, April 9, 1843. His father having been
appointed to a professorship in the Phila
delphia Medical College, the family moved
to that city, and young Pennypacker was
sent to the Northwest G.-ammar School,
from which he was given a scholarship in
Saunders Institute, West Philadelphia. On
the death of his father, after several years'
residence in Philadelphia, he returned to
Phoenixville, where he attended the Grove-
mont Seminary. He prepared for Yale
University, but through circumstances be
yond his control was prevented from at
tending that institution of learning. In
1862 he took an examination for a teach
er's certificate in Montgomery County, and
that winter taught school in Mont Clare.
In 1863 he enlisted and was sworn in as
a United States Volunteer, joining Com
pany F, of Pottstown, Twenty-sixth Penn
sylvania Emergency Regiment, which was
the first force to meet the rebels at Gettys
burg. On his return from military service
he began the study of law, entering the
Law Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, and at the same time regis
tering as a law student in the office of
Hon. Peter McCall. In 1886 he was grad
uated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws
and immediately engaged in the practice
of the legal profession. In the same year
he was elected president of the Bancroft
Literary Union, and in 1868 was chosen
president of the Law Academy. In 1886
he was appointed a member of the Phila
delphia Board of Education. He was ad
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court
of the United States in 1887, and in 1889
was appointed judge of the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Philadelphia by Govern
or Beaver. In the same year he was
elected to the same position for a term of
ten years, and in 1899 was reelected for a
similar term. At the time of his nomina

tion for governor of Pennsylvania by the
Republican State Convention he was presi
dent judge of the Court of Common Pleas
No. 2 of Philadelphia; declined the nomi
nation to the Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania. Pie was elected governor of Penn
sylvania on the Republican ticket and
served for the four-year term expiring in
January, 1907. He is president of the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania and of the
Philobiblon Club; vice-president of the
Sons of the Revolution and of the Colonial
Society; past commander of Frederick
Taylor Post No. 19, Grand Army of the
Republic; member of the Society of Colo
nial Wars and of the Society of the War
of 1812. He is also a trustee of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. For a number of
years he was a member of the Valley
Forge Commission. He is the author of:
Pennsylvania Colonial Cases ; Pennypack-
ers Supreme Court Reports ; A Digest of
the Common Law Reports ; The Settlement
of Germantown; Historical and Biographi
cal Sketches ; and over fifty books and
papers. The University of Pennsylvania
has conferred upon him the degree of Doc
tor of Laws. He married, October 20,
1870, Virginia Earl, daughter of Nathan
B. Broomall, of Chester County, and their
family consists of three daughters and a
son. Address : Pennypacker's Mills, Penn
sylvania.
PENROSE, Boies:
United States senator; born in Philadel
phia, November 1, i860; was prepared for
college by private tutors and in the schools
of Philadelphia; was graduated from Har
vard College in 1881 ; read law with Wayne
MacVeagh and George Tucker Bispham,
and was admitted to the bar in 1883 ; prac
ticed his profession in Philadelphia for sev
eral years; was elected to the Pennsylvania
house of Representatives from the Eighth
Philadelphia district in 1884 ; was elected to
the Pennsylvania State senate from the "
Sixth Philadelphia District in 1886, re
elected in 1890, and again in 1894; was
elected president pro tempore of the senate
in 1889, and reelected in 1891 ; was a dele
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tions of 1900 and 1904; was chairman of
the Republican State committee in 1903-
1905; was elected a member of the na
tional Republican committee from Pennsyl
vania in 1904; was elected to the United
States Senate to succeed J. Donald Cam
eron, and took his seat March 4, 1897; was
the unanimous choice of the Republican
caucus of both houses and was reelected
by the full party vote in the Legislature in
1903. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1909. Residence: 133 1 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PENROSE, Clement Biddle:
Jurist; born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
October 27, 1832. He attended several
schools in Washington, D. C. ; then studied
in Franklin College, Lancaster, Pennsyl
vania, and in 1850 graduated A.B. at the
University of Pennsylvania. He subse
quently read law in the office of his father,
then a leading Philadelphia attorney, and
was admitted to practice in 1853. He fol
lowed his profession with much success till
1878, when he was appointed by Governor
Hartranft a judge of the Philadelphia Or
phans' Court to fill a vacancy. He was
regularly elected in November of that year,
was reelected in 1888, and again in 1898,
receiving the votes of both political parties.
He was granted the honorary degree of
LL.D. by the University of Pennsylvania
in 1901. He is one of the vice-presidents
of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, a
member of the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, the American Academy of Politi
cal and Social Science and the St. Elmo
Club. Judge Penrose married Mary Lin-
nard in 1857, and has had eight children.
Address : 182 West Chelten Avenue, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
PENROSE, Richard A. F., Jr.:
Geologist, mining engineer ; born in
Philadelphia, December 17, 1863 ; son of
Richard Alexander Fullerton and Sarah
H. B. Penrose; was graduated from Har
vard, with honors, in 1884, and received
the degrees of A.M., Ph.D., 1886. He was
geologist in charge of the survey of Eastern
Texas, for the' Texas Geological Survey,

1888; appointed, 1889, by Geological Survey
of Arkansas to make detailed reports on,
the manganese and iron ore regions of Ar
kansas ; professor economic geology, Uni
versity of Chicago, 1892; gave course lec
tures on economics and geology^ at Leland
Stanford, Jr., University, 1893; special geo
logist United States Geological Survey,
1894, to examine and report on gold dis
tricts of Cripple Creek, Colorado; member
of Executive Committee Hanover Bessem
er Iron Ore Association ; member of the -
Board of Managers of the Philadelphia,
Germantown and Norristown Railway Com-
p'any. Dr. Penrose is a fellow of the Am
erican Association for the Advancement
of Science, and the Geological Society of
America; member of the American Insti
tute of- Mining Engineers, National Geo
logical Society, Colorado Science Society,
Geological Society of Washington, and
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia..
He is author of: The Nature and Origin
of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime, 1888;
Geology of the Gulf Tertiary of Texas,
1889; Manganese, Its Uses, Ores, Deposits,
1890; The Iron Deposits of Arkansas, and
other reports, papers, and articles, in eco
nomic geology. Address : 460 Bullitt
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PENTECOST, George Frederick:
Clergyman and author; was born in Al
bion, Illinois, September 23, 1842; eldest
son of Hugh L. Pentecost of Virginia, and
Emma, eldest daughter of George Flower,
of Herts, England. He was educated at
Georgetown College, at Washington, D. C. ;
and he received the degrees of D.D. from
Lafayette College and LL.D. from the Cen
tral University of Kentucky. He was pri
vate secretary to the governor of the State
of Kansas, 1857 ; clerk of the United States
District Court, 1858; captain of the Eighth
Kentucky Cavalry, United States Army,
from 1862 to 1864 ; ordained to Gospel min
istry, 1864; was pastor in Brooklyn, from
1868 to 1871, and in Boston, from 1880 to
1887; evangelical work in Scotland from
1887 to 1888; special mission to English-
speaking Brahmins in India, from 1888 to
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Church, London, England, from 1891 to
1897; minister of the Presbyterian Church
in Yonkers, New York, from 1897 to 1902 ;
special commissioner of the American Board
and Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions to China, Japan, and Philippine
Islands from 1902 to 1903 ; now devoted to
Evangelistic work at large, and Biblical
teaching. He is the author of: In the Vol
ume of the Book, 1884 ; Out of Egypt, 1885 ;
A South Window, 1886; Bible Studies (10
volumes), 1881-1891 ; Birth and Boyhood of
Christ, 1896; Forgiveness of Sin, 1896; Sys
tematic Beneficence, 1897; Precious Truth,
igoo; Christian Imperialism, 1902. His rec
reation is bicycling. He married Ada,
youngest daughter of Augustus Webber,
M.D., of Kentucky. Address: Northfield,
Massachusetts.PEOPLES, William Thaddeus:
Librarian; born in Wilmington, Delaware,
January 1, 1843; son of James and Cather
ine (Gallagher) Peoples. He was graduat
ed from St. Mary's College, Wilmington,
Delaware, in 1862. He is librarian of Mer
cantile Library Association of New York;
secretary of the Clinton Hall Association
of New York; trustee of the Ariierican
Institute of the City of New York. He
was unsuccessful candidate for Congress in
the Sixth Congressional District of New
Jersey.Xn the Democratic (gold) ticket in
1896. He is a member of the American
Economic Association, American Library
Association, New York Library Association,
American Museum of Natural History, and
a member of the New York Library Club.
Mr. Peoples married in New York City,
November 29, 1882, Kate Neimeyer. Ad
dress: Mercantile Library, Astor Place,
New York City.

PEPPER, Charles Hovey:
" Artist ; born in Waterville, Maine, Aug
ust 27, 1864; son of George D. B. Pepper
and Annie (Grassie) Pepper. He was pre
pared at Coburn Classical Institute, and
graduated with the degree of A.B. from
Colby College in 1889 and A. M. later. He
studied at the Art Students' League, New

York from 1890 to 1893; at the Academie
Julien and Aman-Jean Atelier, Paris, from
1893 to 1895. He resided in Paris until
1898 and since then has had his home in
Concord, Massachusetts. Pie traveled in
Japan in 1903, China, Java, Burmah and
India in 1904. In politics he is a Repub
lican. Pie is a member of the New York
Water Color Club, the Boston Water Color
Club, Concord Social Circle, Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. Mr. Pepper married in Skowhegan,
Maine, July, 1889, Frances Coburn, and
their children are : Stephen Coburn Pepper,
born in 1891, and Eunice Gordon Pepper,
born in 1906. Residence : Concord, Mas
sachusetts. Studio : Fenway Studios, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
PERCY, Frederick Bosworth:
Physician and surgeon; born in Bath,
Maine, July 23, 1856; son of David Thomas
and Adrianna (Bosworth) Percy; grandson
of David and Alice (Grace) Percy and of
Robert and Mary (McDonald) Bosworth.
The Percys are English, the Graces Irish,
the Bosworths - English, the McDowells
Scotch. He was graduated at the High
School of Bath, Maine, in 1873; Yale Uni
versity, A.B., 1877, Bates University, M.D.,
1880. He began the practice of medicine
at Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1880, and was
instructor and professor of materia medica
at Boston University School of Medicine,
and is physician to - the Massachusetts
Homoeopathic Hospital and consulting phy
sician to Westboro Insane Hospital and
the Emerson Hospital. He served as a
member of the School Board of Brookline
for ten years ; trustee of the Massachusetts
State Sanitarium for six years; president
of the Boston Homoeopathic Medical So
ciety in 1886, and of the Massachusetts
Homoeopathic Medical Society in 1893. He
is a member of the University Club of
Boston, Hughes Medical Club, American
Institute of Homoeopathy, Massachusetts,
Institute of Surgical Gynecology and of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones and
Phi Alpha Gamma College fraternities. He
married, June 15, 1881, Ada, daughter of
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had four children. He was married (sec
ond) in 1893, to Eleanor B., daughter of
Henry and Mary Wheelock. Address:
Brookline, Massachusetts.
FERINE, Edward Ten Broeck:
Accountant and financial authority; born
in Plainfield, New Jersey, October 19, 1870 ;
son of James R. and Maria V. (Ten
Broeck) Perine. He graduated from, Plain-
field (New Jersey) High School, 1888;
entered Columbia School of Arts, class of
1892, but did not finish course. Was an
officer in the Third National Bank of Jer
sey City until 1893; cashier, then treasurer,
United States Mortgage and Trust Com
pany, 1893-1904; now general manager and
therefore chief operating officer of the
Audit Company of New York; has acted
as assignee in connection with important
Wall Street failures; expert and authority
oil accounts, with experience in the larger
accounting problems in America and Eu
rope; expert witness in cases of important
financial litigation; financial writer; speak
er at recent conventions of the American
Bankers' Association; director First Na
tional Bank, Bayonne, New Jersey, Me
chanics' Trust Company of Bayonne, New
Jersey, People's National Bank, Westfield,
New Jersey. Club : National Arts. Mr.
Perine married in 1891, Nancy T. Mapas,
and they have two children: Elsie, born
in 1892, and Reta, born in 1897. Address ¦
43 Cedar Street, New York City.
PERKINS, George Clement:
United States senator; born at Kenne-
bunkport, Maine, in 1839; was reared on a
farm, and attended public school until his
thirteenth year, when he shipped on board
a sailing ship for New Orleans, and fol
lowed the calling of a sailor on ships en
gaged in the European trade. In 1855 he
shipped "before the mast" on the sailing ship
Galatea bound for San Francisco, where he
arrived in the autumn of that year. Since
that time he has been engaged in the busi
ness of merchandising, banking, farming,
mining, whale fishery, and steamship trans
portation. In 1869 he was 'elected to the
State Senate, serving eight years ; has

been president of the Merchants' Exchange
in San Francisco; also of the San Fran
cisco Art Association; is a director of the
California Academy of Sciences and other
public institutions. Has been grand mas
ter of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accept
ed Masons of California, also grand com
mander of the Grand Commandery of
the Knights Templar of California, and is
a member of California Commandery of the
Military Order Loyal Legion of the United
States. In 1879 he was elected governor
of California, serving until January, 1883;
was appointed, July 24, 1893, United States
senator to fill, until the election of his
successor, the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his
seat August 8, 1893. In January, 1895, hav
ing made a thorough canvass before the
people of his State, he was elected by the
legislature on the first ballot to fill the
unexpired term. In the fall election of
1896 he was a candidate before the people
of California for reelection, and received
the indorsement of the Republican county
conventions that comprised a majority of
the senatorial and assembly districts in the ..
State. When the Legislature convened in
joint convention (January, 1897) for the
purpose of electing a United States Senator,
he was reelected on the first ballot for the
term of six years, receiving every vote of
the Republican members of the legislature.
His election was made unanimous on motion
of a Democratic member of the legislature.
At the time of his election in 1897 and in
1903 he was absent from the State attend
ing to his Congressional duties in Wash
ington. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1909. Address : Oakland, Cali
fornia.PERKINS, George Walbridge:
Vice-president of the New York Life In
surance Company; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, January 31, 1862. He received his
education in the public schools. He was
a clerk in his father's office in Cleveland,
when fifteen years old, cashier of the gen
eral agency at nineteen, in the field or
ganizing agencies at twenty-three, and su
perintendent of the Western department

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of the company, embracing twenty-five
States, when he was twenty-seven. He was
called to the home office as third vice-pres
ident in 1892; as second vice-president in
1898; chairman of the Finance Commit
tee in 1900; and vice-president in 1903. He
is a director of the Northern Securities
Company, the International Mercantile Ma
rine Company, the National City Bank, the
United States Steel Corporation, and many
others. Residence : Riverdale, New York.
Office address : 23 Wall Street, New York
City.PERKINS, James Breck:
Congressman and lawyer ; born at St.
Croix Falls, Wisconsin, November 4, 1847.
He was educated at the Rochester common
schools and graduated from the University
of Rochester in 1867; was admitted to the
practice of the law in December, 1868, and
has -since practiced his profession in Roch
ester. In 1874 he was elected city attorney
of Rochester for a term of two years, and
in 1878 was reelected for a second term.
From 1890 to 1895 Mr. Perkins lived in
Paris, engaged in work on French history;
in 1887 his France Under Mazarin was pub
lished ; in 1892, France Under the Regency ;
in 1897, France Under Louis XV, and in
1900 a Life of Richelieu as one of the
Heroes of the Nation Series. In 1897 re
ceived the degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Rochester. In 1895 Mr. Perkins
returned to Rochester and in 1898 served
in the New York State Assembly from the
first district of Monroe County; was a
delegate to the Republican National Conven
tion in 1904 ; was elected to the Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Thirty-second New York District. He
is a member of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters. He married in 1878, May
E. Martindale. Address: Rochester, New
York. PEROT, T. Morris, Jr.:
Manufacturer; president of the Francis
Perot's Sons Malting Company, which
business is, now carried on" by two direct
descendants of its founder, T. Morris Perot,

Jr., and Elliston Perot, who represent the
eighth succeeding generation. Born in Phil
adelphia, May 6, 1872; son of T. Morris
Perot and Rebecca C. Perot (nee Siter) ;
educated at the De Lancey School, and later
graduated from a business college in 1892.
He is treasurer of the Citizens' Municipal
Association (which office he has held for
nine years), and a manager of the Northern
Soup Society and the Friends' Charity Fuel
Association. Address: 314 Vine Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PERRIN, John William:
Librarian; son of William Jasper Perrin
and Susan (Allen) Perrin. He was grad
uated from Illinois Wesleyan University as •
A.B. in 1887, received the A.M. degree from
Wabash College in 1889; was a graduate
student in history, economics and philoso
phy in Johns Hopkins University from
1890 to 1892; then at the University of
Chicago as graduate student in history,
political science and sociology in 1892 and
1893, and honorary fellow from January to
July, 1893, receiving the Ph.D. degree
from the University of Chicago in 1895.
Professor Perrin was assistant principal of
the high school at Danville, Illinois, in 1887
and 1888; superintendent oi city schools at
Petersburg, Illinois, in 1888 and 1889, and
assistant superintendent of schools of Cook
County, Illinois, under Superintendent A.
G. Lane in 1889 and 1890. He was pro
fessor of history and economics in 'the
First Wisconsin State Normal School at
Platteville, Wisconsin, 1893 and 1894; pro
fessor of history and political science in
Allegheny College from 1894 to 1898; also
while at Allegheny, lecturer in history for
the American Society for Extension of
University Teaching from 1895 to 1898 ; and
professor of history and economics, Chau
tauqua College of Libeial Arts, Chautau
qua, New York ; professor of history, Adel
bert College of Western Reserve Univer
sity from 1898 to 1904; Albert Shaw Lec
turer on American diplomatic history in
Johns Hopkins University, in 1904; lecturer
on American History, Allegheny College,
1905 ; librarian of the Case Library, Cleve
land, Ohio, since June, 1905. Professor

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Perrin is a member of the American His
torical Association; American Political
Science Association ; active member of the
National Educational Association, and was
elected secretary of the Department of
Higher Education at the Detroit meeting,
1901, for the Minneapolis meeting, 1902.
While at Western Reserve University he
organized, in 1899, the Conference of Col
legiate and Secondary School Instructors
of Western Reserve University; and he
was the chairman of Executive Committee
of Conference until 1903. In October, 1907,
he was elected president of the Ohio Rail
way Association for 1908. Pie has con
tributed articles and reviews to American
Historical Review; Educational Review;
Journal of Pedagogy; Yale Review; Chau-
tauquan and other periodicals on historical,
educational or biographical subjects. He
married April 16, 1890, Harriet Naylor
Towle, of Evanston, Illinois, and they have
three children: Herbert Towle, Harriet
Towle, and Everett Towle' Perrin. Ad
dress : The Case Library, Cleveland, Ohio.
PERRLNE, Frederic A. C:
Consulting engineer; born in Manalapan,
New Jersey, August 25, 1862 ; son of James
A. Perrine and Rebecca A. (Combs) Per-
rine. He was graduated from Freehold,
(New Jersey), Institute in 1879; Princeton
College as A.B. in 1883, D.Sc. in 1885, and
A.M. in 1886. From 1885 to 1889 he was
assistant electrician for the United States
Electric Light Company; manager of the
insulated wire department Of John A. Roeb-
ling*s Sons Company from 1889 to 1892;
treasurer of the Germania Incandescent
Lamp Company, Boston, in 1892 and 1893;
professor of electrical Cngiheerinng at Le
land Stanford, Jr., University, California,
from 1893 to 1900; chief engineer of the
St'anhdard Electric Company of California
from 1898 to 1900 ; president of the Stanley
Electric Manufacturing, Company of .Pitts
field, Massachusetts,' -¥rom 1900 to 1905; of
the Sheboygan "Light;' Power' and Railway
Company; vice-president of the Greensboro
Electric COmpari*^.^ president of the South
ern Equiptheot .Company. 'He is a member
of the American Institute of Electrical

Engineers, the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, the Institution of Elec
trical Engineers of London, the National
Electric Light Association; honorary mem
ber of the Pacific Coast Transmission As
sociation; was awarded a gold medal at
the Paris Exposition in 1900 for work in
long-distance electric transmission. He has
edited at different periods Electrical En
gineering, Chicago, Journal of Electricity,
California and is author of: Conductors
for Electrical Distribution, 1904, and has
written many papers for technical and sci
entific journals. He is a member of the
Engineers', i.nd Lawyers' Clubs of New
York City. Mr. Perrine married in Tren
ton, New Jersey, June 28, 1902, Margaret
J. Roebling, and their children are: Mar
garet, Anne A., and John A. R. Address:
60 Wall Street, New York City.
PERRY, Alfred Tyler »
President of Marietta College; born in
Geneseo, Illinois, August 19, 1858; son of
George Bulkley and Maria Louise (Tyler)
Perry. He received his preparatory educa
tion at Drury Academy, North Adams,
Massachusetts, and, taking the academic
course at Williams College, was graduated
in 1880 with the degree of A.B. Follow
ing this he took up the study of theology
at the Hartford Theological Seminary,
graduating in 1885. After his graduation he
became assistant pastor in the Memorial
Church, of Springfield, Massachusetts. In
1886 he received a call to the pastorate of
the East Congregational Church, at Ware,
Massachusetts, where he was ordained to
the Congregational ministry, and installed
as pastor in December, 1886 ; remained un
til 1891, when he was appointed professor
of bibliology and librarian of Hartford
Theological Seminary. These positions he
retained for nine years, resigning in 1900,
upon his election to the presidency of Mari
etta College. He received his D.D. from
Williams College, 1901. Dr. Perry is identi
fied with the Republican party in politics.
he is a member of various religious and
educational associations. His leisure time
is spent at tennis and various out-door

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sports. He is author of : Handy Harmony
of the Gospels (now in the third edition)
and Preeminence of the Bible as a Book.
tie has also written various pamphlets as
well as many magazine articles. He was
married at Hartford, Connecticut, April 13,
1887, to Anna Morris, and has two sons :
Alfred Morris, born in 1889, and Edward
Tyler, born in 1897. Address : Marietta,
Ohio.PERRY, Bliss:
Author, professor of English literature
in Harvard University; born in Williams-
town, Massachusetts, November 25, i860;
son of Professor A. L. Perry, the political
economist. He was educated at Williams
.College and Berlin and Strassburg Uni
versities. He was professor of English at
Williams College from 1886 to 1893 ; Prince
ton University from 1893 to 1900; and has
been- editor of the Atlantic Monthly since
1899. He is author of: The Broughton
House ; Salem Kittredge, and other stories ;
The Plated City; The Powers at Play;
A Study of Prose Fiction; The Amateur
Spirit; Walt Whitman; Whittier; and
edited Little Masterpieces (18 volumes),
besides various English and American au
thors for school and college use. His rec
reations are fishing and golf. He is a mem
ber of the Tavern and Oakley Country, Bos
ton. He married Annie I. Bliss, of New
Haven, Connecticut. Address : 4 Park Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
PERRY, Marsden J.:
Capitalist; president and director of the
Attleboro Branch Railroad, of the Electric
Bond and Share Company, the Interstate
Consolidated Street Railway; City Realty
Corporation; New York, Westchester arid
Boston Railway Company; vice-president
and director of the American Screw Com
pany of the City and Country Contract Com
pany, of the Night and Day Safe Deposit
Company, of the Rhode Island Suburban
Railway Company ; first vice-president and
director of the Union Trust Company,
Providence ; vice-president, treasurer and
director of the Millbrook Company; pres
ident, general manager 'and director of the

Narragansett Electric Lighting Company;
president and director of the New York
and Portchester Railroad Company; vice-
president and director of the Night and
Day Bank; chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Norfolk and Southern Rail
way Company, and director of the Broad
way Securities Company, Central of Geor
gia Railway Company, Conway Company,
Denver and Northwestern Railway, the
Electrical Securities Corporation, the Na
tional Exchange Bank of Providence, the
Nicholson File Company, the Night Serv
ice Company, the Providence Banking
Company, the Rhode Island Company, the
Rhode Island Insurance Company of Provi
dence, the Title Guarantee Company of
Rhode Island, the Trust Company of
America, the First National Bank,- Attle
boro, Massachusetts ; United Traction and
Electric Company; Forty- fourth Street and
Fifth Avenue Building Corporation, and
the General Electric Company. Address :
37 Wall Street, New York City.
PERRY, Oliver Hazard:
Artist-painter; bom in Newport, Rhode
Island, June 13, 1842; son. of Christopher
Grant Perry and Fanny (Sergeant) Perry.
He received his education in the Rectory
School, Hamden, Connecticut, and was a
student of painting for several years in
Paris. He was chief of the Newtown
Fire Department for four years. His fav
orite recreation is music. He is a mem
ber of the Society of the Cincinnati, the
Society of the War of 1812, Naval Order
and the Army and Navy Club. He mar
ried in Newtown, now Elmhurst, Long Is
land, November 18, 1868, Maria Louisa
Moore, and their children are: John
Moore, born 1880, Oliver H., Jr., born 1883,
and Franklin, born 1887. Address : Elm
hurst, Long Island, New York.
PERRY, Roland Hinton: ,
Sculptor and painter; born in New York
City, January 25, 1870 ; son of George Perry
and lone (Minton) Perry. He received
his education in private schools and his art
education at the Art Students' League, of
New York, from 1885 to 1888, Ecole des

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Beaux Arts, Paris, France, in 1889 to 1890,
Academie Julien, Paris, from 1890 to 1893,
Academie Delacleuse, Paris, from 1889 to
1894. He modeled the Fountain of Nep
tune for the Congressional Library at Wash
ington in 1896; Lion in Love, 1899; Circe,
1898; Primitive Man, 1899; Langdon doors
for the Buffalo Historical Society, 1901 ;
Frieze for the New Amsterdam Theatre,
New York City, 1903; Statute of Dr. Ben
jamin Rush, Washington, D. C, 1903;
fountain for W. Gould Brokaw, 1904; stat
ue, Pennsylvania, for the dome of the
Capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1904;
statue of General Greene, 1905; Reconcilia
tion, for Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, 1906. He is a member of the
Architectural League, having been vice-
president in 1903 and 1904; a member of
the National Sculpture Society of New
York, the Municipal Art Society, and the
Players' Club. He married, first, in New
York City, in 1895, Irma Hinton, and sec
ond, in 1906, May Hanbury Fisher. He
has one daughter, Gwendolyn Hinton, born
in Paris, November 5, 1898. Address : 51
West Tenth Street, New York City.
PERSHING, John Joseph:
Brigadier-General, United States Army;
born in Linn County, Missouri, September
13, i860; son of John T. Pershing and Ann
E. (Thompson) Pershing. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Laclede, Mis
souri, until he was seventeen years old, and
at the Normal School of Kirksville, Mis
souri, from which he was graduated with
the degree of A.B. in 1881. In 1882 he
secured, through competitive examination,
the appointment to the West Point Military
Academy, and he was graduated in 1886,
and commissioned second lieutenant of the
Sixth Cavalry; was promoted first lieuten
ant in 1892, captain of the First Cavalry in
February, 1901, Fifteenth Cavalry, August,
1901, and commissioned brigadier-general
United States Army, September 20, 1906.
He served in the latter part of the Gero
nimo Campaign in Arizona under Gen
eral Miles in 1886; in the Sioux. Cam
paign in 1890 and 1891 ; with the
Indian Scouts In 1891 until September when

he was detailed as military instructor at
the University of Nebraska, serving there
until 1895. He was instructor of tactics
at the United States Military Academy in
1897 and 1898; served in the Spanish- Amer
ican War, and was at Santiago with the
Tenth Cavalry until August, 1898. In Au
gust, 1898, he was commissioned major
and chief ordnance officer of United States
Volunteers, serving as such until May 15,
1899, and in July, 1899, he was commis
sioned as major and assistant adjutant-
general of United States Volunteers, serv
ing as such until June 30, 1901. He served
as the first chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs until August, 1899, and was in the
Philippines from 1899 to 1903. He was in
the field in the Island of Mindanao from"
April, 1902, to June, 1903, and there gained
great distinction. He conducted several ex
peditions against the Moros about Lake La-
nao, suppressing the rebellion and pacify
ing the country; a result which the Span
ish had never been able to accomplish in
all their three hundred years of nominal
sovereignty of that island with its turbulent
tribes. He became a member of the General
staff from 1903 to 1905, and was military
attache of the American Legation at Tokyo
in 1905 and 1906, and was with the Japan
ese Army in Manchuria. General Pershing
is a Mason and Knight Templar. His fav
orite recreations are tennis, golf and polo.
He is a member of the Metropolitan and
Army and Navy Clubs of Washington, D.
C, the Army and Navy Club of New York
City, and the Hamilton Club of Chicago. He
married in Washington, D. C, January
26, 1905, Frances Warren, and they have
a daughter, Helen Elizabeth, born in 1906.
Address : Manila, Philippine Islands.
PETERKIN, George William:
Bishop of West Virginia ; born Washing
ton County, Maryland, March 21, 1841 ; son
of Rev. Joshua Peterkin and Elizabeth
(Hanson) Peterkin. He studied at the
University of Virginia and served- in
the Confederate Army through the war.
He also graduated from the Virginia Theo
logical Seminary; and the degree of D.D.
was conferred upon him by Kenyon College

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in 1878 and by Washington and Lee Uni
versity, Lexington, Virginia, in the same
year, and from the latter by W. & L,
the degree of LL.D. in 1892. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
by Bishop Johns in 1868, and was ordained
priest by Bishop Whittle a year later. He
was assistant of St. James' Church, Rich
mond, Virginia, 1868-69, rector of St. Steph
ens' Church, Culpepper, Virginia, 1869-73,
and rector of Memorial Church, Baltimore,
Maryland, 1873-78. He was elected bishop
of West Virginia in 1878 and was con
secrated by Bishops Bedell, Kerfoot, Whit
tle, Dudley and Jaggar. Bishop Peterkin
was married, first, October 29, 1868, to Con
stance Gardner Lee (died 1877), and sec
ond, June 12, 1884, tc Marion Mcintosh
Stewart. He is author of: Records of
the Episcopal Church in West Virginia.
Address : Parkersburg, West Virginia.
PETERS, John Punnett:
Clergyman; born in New York, Decem
ber 16, 1852 ; son of Thomas McClure Pet
ers and Alice Clarissa (Richmond) Peters.
He prepared for college at Hopkins Gram
mar School, New Haven, and with tutors;
was graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1873,
Ph.D. in 1876 and received the degree of
D.D. from Yale in 1895 and degree of Se.
D. from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1895. He was ordered deacon in 1876
and ordained priest in 1877 in the Episcopal
ministry; studied Semitic languages in Ger
many, from 1879 to 1883, and was part
of time minister in charge of St. John's
Church, Dresden ; tutor of Latin and Greek
at Yale, from 1876 to 1879; professor of
Old Testament languages "and literature at
the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School,
Philadelphia, from 1884 to 1891 ; professor
of Hebrew at the University of Pennsyl
vania, from 1885 to 1893 ; was explorer and
director of the Expedition of University
of Pennsylvania to Babylonia, conducting
excavations at Nippur, from 1888 to 1895,
discovering the Temple of Bel and the most
ar.cient inscriptions found up to that time.
In 1902 he spent the summer in Palestine
and, in conjunction with Professor H.

Thiersch, of Munich, discovered some re
markable painted tombs in a necropolis at
Marissa. He has been rector of St. Mich
ael's Church, New York, since 1893, and
canon residentiary of the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine since 1904. He is author
of: Nippur, or Explorations and Adven
tures on the Euphrates ; Old Testament and
New Scholarship; Early Hebrew Story;
Annals of St. Michael's; and in conjunc
tion with Dr. H. Thiersch, Painted
Tombs of Marissa. Dr. Peters is also
translator and editor of: Political History
of Recent Times; and in conjunction with
Dr. Bartlett, Scriptures, Hebrew and Chris
tian, and the Bible for Home and School;
and he edited the Diary of David McClure.
He visited Germany and England, from
1879 to 1883; England, France, Germany,
Switzerland, Austria, Greece aiid Turkey,
from 1888 to 1891 and Italy, Greece, Crete,
Egypt and ^Turkey in 1902. In politics he
is an Independent Democrat. He is a mem
ber of the Society of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis, Archaeological Institute of
America, American Oriental Society, Vord-
erasiatische Gesellschaft, Orientalische Gell-
schaft, American Geographical Society;
trustee of Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
Sheltering Arms, Children's Fold, Shep
herd's Fold and House of Rest for Con
sumptives ; president of the Independent
Club of the West Side ; chairman of Trans
it Reform Committee of One Hundred;
chairman of Committee of Fourteen for
Suppression of Raines Law Hotels; vice-
president of Riverside and Morningdale
Heights Association ; director of the Amer
ican School for Oriental Study and Re
search in Palestine, and treasurer of the
American Committee on Religions, and he
is a member of the Century Association and
the City and Columbia Faculty Clubs, and
of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Dr.
Peters married in Berlin, Germany, August
13, 1881, Gabriella Brooke Forman, and
they have six children : Gabriella Brooke
Forman, John Punnett, Jr., Bryan Forman,
Frazier Forman, Joan St. Michael and
Lucretia McClure. Address: 225 West
Ninety-ninth Street, New York City.

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PETERS, Thomas Willing:
Consul-general; born in Pennsylvania;
son of Francis and Maria (Miller) Peters.
His early education was acquired in private
schools at Philadelphia, and he afterward
went to Russell's Military School at New
Haven, Connecticut, completing his educa
tion in Switzerland and France. After
leaving school he returned to the United
States, and from 1878 to 1889 was engaged
as a grower of live stock in Wyoming Ter
ritory. He began his career in the consular
service of the United States upon his ap
pointment December 9, 1889, as commercial
agent at Plauen; promoted consul, June
29, 1896; was consul-general at St. Gall,
Switzerland, from March 18, 1903 until
March 30, 1907, when he was appointed
consul-general at Munich. Mr. Peters is
a Republican in politics and an Episcopalian
in his religious affiliation. He married at
Philadelphia, March 11, 1901, Anne Bona
Shober. Address : American Consulate-
General, Munich, Bavaria.
PETERS, William Richmond:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in
New York City in 1850; son of Thomas
McClure Peters and Alice (Richmond)
Peters. He received his preparatory edu
cation in private schools, then entered Yale
in 1870 but did not graduate. He com
menced business as an importer of chemi
cals in 1874, founding his present firm of
Peters, White and Company. Mr. Peters
is president and director of Peters Realty
Company, Phosphate Mining Company ; dir
ector of the Columbia Trust Company, the
Mutual Chemical Company, the State Real
ty Mortgage Company; president and trus
tee of "The Sheltering Arms." He is a mem
ber of the Century Association, the Riding,
Down Town, Seawanhaka Yacht and sev
eral country and sporting clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, in 1879, Helen
Heiser, and their children are : Isabel,
Alice R., William Richmond, Jr., and
Thomas M. Residence : 33 West Forty-
ninth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress : 92 William Street, New York City.

PETTEE, George Daniel:
School principal ; born in Sharon, Massa
chusetts, July 24, 1864 ; son of Daniel Web
ster Pettee and Emily Frances (Allen)
Pettee. He was educated at Phillips An
dover Academy and was graduated from
Yale, as B.A. and M.A. Mr. Pettee was in
structor in mathematics at Phillips Aca
demy, Andover, Massachusetts, from 1887
to 1900; secretary of the faculty until
1892 and registrar of the faculty to 1900,
and has been principal of the University
School, Cleveland, since 1900. He is a
member of the Headmasters' Association of
New York and the American Archaeologic
al Society; trustee of the East End School
Association and a member of Phi Beta
Kappa Society. Mr. Pettee has published
a Geometry, and numerous monographs on
educational topics and he devoted a year
to the study of State Railways and other
transportation problems in Europe. He
has been to Europe several times. In polk
tics he is an Independent Republican and
he is a member of the Congregational
Church. Mr. Pettee married in New Hav
en, Connecticut, August 27, 1888, Rose
Maria Lombard, and their children are:
Allen Danforth and Frances Howard.
Summer residence: Euclid Farm, Sears-
port, Maine. Address : University School,
Cleveland, Ohio.
PETTIT, William S.:
Lawyer; born in Woodmere, Nassau
County, New York, January 20, 1880; son
of Theodore E. Pettit and Mary Elizabeth
(Craft) Pettit. He was graduated from
Far Rockaway High School, in 1899 taking
a post-graduate course at the same school
in 1900, and was graduated from Columbia
Law School as LL.B. in 1903. He was
employed by the Long Island News Com
pany from 1889 to 1892 ; was engaged in
1895 in a small mercantile enterprise which
was successful. In 1900 he wrote a history
of the Rockaways, the proceeds of which
enabled him to take his course at Columbia
from 1900 to 1903. He is much interested
in clean politics and has been frequently
a delegate to the Assembly, Senatorial,
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Mr. Pettit is enjoying a lucrative practice
and recently declined the position of assist
ant district Pttorney for Queens County.
He is president and director of the Nassau
Land Company, Clinton Park Camp Com
mission; secretary and treasurer of the
South Shore Land Company, Ocean Breeze
Camp Association, the Nassau Water Front
Association; director of the Hewlett Hall
Association and Traver Packing Hose
' Company, of the Wynn Berry Stable Com
pany and vice-president of the Beegle Pub
lishing Company. He is a member of the
Queens County Bar Association, Masons,
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and other
orders. His favorite recreations are auto
mobiling, horseback riding, boating and
tennis. Address : 35 Cleveland Avenue, Far
Rockaway, New York.
PEYTON, A. J.:
Capitalist; born in New York City, De
cember 25, i860; son of James Peyton and
Mary Peyton. He received his education
in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois.
He was engaged in business at various
times in Butte City, Montana, the City of
Mexico, San Francisco, and several points
in Canada and in New York City, and
largely in railroading and mining enter
prises and located in New York City in
1898. He is president of A. J. Peyton and
Company; president and director of the
Santa Emilio Copper Company and director
of the Morelia and Tacambaro Railway
Company. He married in El Paso, Texas,
August 16, 1891, Louisa Perez. Address :
ill Broadway, New York City.
PHELAN, Thomas A.:
Importer; born in New York City; son
of Michael Phelan and Marie A. (Jacobs)
Phelan. He was graduated from St. Fran
cis' Xavier College, New York City, as A.B.
and A.M. At the age of twenty-four he
became a partner with E. W. Tiers and
Company, afterward a member of the firm
of George W. Lane and Company, now
the oldest tea importing house in the United
States. He is the originator of the present
law against the admission of spurious and
-adulterated tea, which has worked a great

reform by eliminating spurious importations
and safeguarding the consumer. He was
elected first president of the National Tea
Association and was first chairman of tea
experts, appointed by the Government
under the new law. Mr. Phelan is senior
member of the firm of George W. Lane and
Company, and is a member of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, Xaxier Al
umni Association. He is also trustee of
the American Asiatic Association was one
of the founders and one of the board
of trustees of the City Club. His favorite
recreations are golf, music, medicine, trav
eling, and he is a member of the City, Down
Town, Richmond County and Country
Clubs: Mr. Phelan married in New York
City, April 24, 1879, Katherine A. L. Keane,
and their children are : Paul L., Harold
L., Thomas A. Jr., and Alfred C. City
residence : 107 West Seventy-sixth Street,
New York City. Country residence : Water
Witch, New Jersey. Office address : 93
Front Street, New York City.
HELPS, Carlton Thomas:
Jurist; born in New Ashford, Massa
chusetts, October 13, 1867; son of George
W. Phelps and Celestia R. Beach. He re
ceived his preparatory education in the
schools of North Adams and was gradua
ted from the Boston University Law School
in 1892. He served in the Massachusetts
Legislature in 1894 and 1895 from the First
Berkshire District and was appointed jus
tice of the District Court of Northern
Berkshire in 1897. He is president of the
Berkshire County Cooperative Bank ; trus
tee of the North Adams Savings Bank and
director of the North Adams National
Bank and the North Adams Trust Com
pany. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a Methodist in his religious affiliation.
He is a Mason. Judge Phelps married in
North Adams, August 17, 1886, Virginia
Turner and their children are: Christine
M. born 1889, and Gordon W., born 1899.
Address: North Adams, Massachusetts.
PHELPS, Charles Henry:
Lawyer ; born in California, January 1,
1853; son 0I Charles W. Phelps and Mary

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W. (Smith) Phelps. He received his pre
paratory education in the University of
California and was graduated from Har
vard as LL.B. He has an extensive prac
tice in law in New York City as the senior
member of the firm of Phelps, Evins and
East. Mr. Phelps is trustee of many large
estates. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the New York Bar Asso
ciation and of the Union League, Century,
and National Arts Clubs. Mr. Phelps mar
ried in California in 1878, Mary Booth, and
they have one daughter, Eleanor. Resi
dence : Summit, New Jersey. Office ad
dress : 30 Broad Street, New York City.
PHELPS, E. Frisbie:
Lawyer, editor, publisher and life insur
ance organizer and manager; born in Bur
lington, Connecticut, June 18, 1840; son
of Samuel Phelps and Emeline L. (Fris
bie) Phelps. He was educated in Bur
lington (Connecticut) public schools, Elm-
wood (Illinois), Academy, Oberlin Col
lege, Law Department of the University
of Illinois, and one year at Yale, graduat
ing as LL.B. in 1866. He practiced law
at Neosho, Missouri, for five years, then
editor and proprietor of the Galesburg, Il
linois, Daily Register, later Republican-Reg
ister, which company he organized. In
1877 he was the- organizer and founder of
the Covenant Mutual Life Association of
Galesburg, Illinois, which company he man
aged for about fourteen years, building it
up to over $90,000,000 business ; later comp
troller of the Mutual Reserve; then vice-
president and agency manager for the Na
tional Life Insurance Company of Hart
ford; also later with the American Union
Life of New York, and the Hartford Life
of Hartford, as general agency manager.
He is director and secretary of the United
Mining ' Company ; director and treasurer
of the Atlantic Fibre Company, of the Con
tinental Syndicate, Limited, and the Solid
Comfort Shoe Company. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a veteran of the Civil
War ; was colonel on the staff of Governors
Cullom and Hamilton of Illinois ; past grand
master of Odd Fellows of Illinois; major-
general and corps commander of the Pa

triarchs Militant ; past commander Knights
Templar; a. Thirty-second degree Mason
and member of Mecca Temple, Mystic
Shrine. He married at Neosho, Missouri,
September 29, 1869, Emma M. Rouse, and
they have one daughter, Pearl Waneta,
born July 28, 1872. Address : 100 Broad
way, New York City.
PHELPS, Erskine Mason:
Merchant; born at Stonington, Connecti
cut, March 31, 1839; son of Charles H.
Phelps and Ann (Hammond) Phelps. He
was educated in Williston Seminary, East
hampton, Massachusetts, until . 1857. In
that year he went to St. Louis, Missouri,
where he was for two years connected with
the firm of Allan, Copp and Nesbitt, bank
ers. In 1859 he went to Boston, where he
engaged in the brokerage business, until
February, 1864, when he went to Chicago,
and in partnership with George E. P.
Dodge, established in the wholseale boot
and shoe business, the style of the firm
changing in 1865, to Phelps, Dodge and
Palmer, under which name the house attain
ed the premier place in the wholesale shoe
trade of the Northwest. In 1899 the firm
sold out to the Edwards Stanwood Shoe
Company, in which Mr. Phelps is a direct
or. He is also a director of the Merchants'
Loan and Trust Company, the Chicago
Edison Company, the Common Wealth Elec
tric Company, and the Calumet Insurance
Company. He is at present the president
of the National Business League, having
held the position for the last seven years.
Mr. Phelps was one of the earliest mem
bers of the Central Church, of which the
late Professor David F. Swing was the
minister until his death, and of which Dr.
F. W. Gunsaulus is now pastor, and he
is now president of the Board of Trustees
of this church. He is also president of the
Hahnemann Hospital, and a director in
various charitable and public institutions.
Mr. Phelps is a Democrat in his political
views. He was one of the organizers and
was for seven years president, and is still
a member of the Iroquois Club of Chicago.
He took a very active part in the Tariff
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1795

aneous with the Cleveland Administra
tion. In 1888 he was elected member of
the National Democratic Committee" from
Illinois. He is a member of the Commer
cial Club of Chicago, the Chicago, Calumet,
and South Shore Country Clubs, Saddle
and Cycle Club, Bankers' Club, Midday, and
Washington Park Clubs. He is also a mem
ber of the Manhattan Club of New York.
the Temple and Algonquin Clubs of Bos
ton, and the Thatched House Club of
London. He was married at Lancaster,
Massachusetts, October 26, 1865, to Anna
Wilder. Residence: 1703 Indiana Avenue,
Chicago. Office address : 34 Wabash Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois. ,
PHELPS, John J.:
Capitalist; born in Paris, France, in Sep
tember, 1861 ; son of William Walter Phelps
and Ellen (Sheffield) Phelps.- He was
graduated from Yale University as B.A.
He cruised around the world in the schoon
er yacht, Brunhilde, from 1885 to 1887;
and drove a four-in-hand coach 1,515
miles in the summer of 1900, being the
record long-distance drive. Mr. Phelps
served in the United States Navy during
the Spanish-American War, as watch and
signal officer. He is director of the Engle
wood Sewerage Company, the American
Graphaphone Company ; president of Strong
and Trowbridge Company; director of the
Gas and Electric Company of Bergen Coun
ty ; trustee of the United States Trust Com
pany, the Hackensack National Bank, Cay
uga and Susquehanna Railroad; and Texas
Land Syndicate Numbers Two and Three.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the Founders and Patriots of
America, the New England Society, the
American Geographical Society, the Na
tional Geographic Society, Sons of the Rev
olution ; the Horticulture Society of New
York, the New York Florists' Club, Spanish
War Veterans,' Graduates' Association,
Phelps Guards and also a member of the
Union League, University, New York
Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Yale,
Sachem's Head Yacht, New Haven Yacht,
Hackerisapk Driving, Bergen County, Au
tomobile, Hamilton, Oritani Field, Hacken

sack Golf, Wantage Outing, Bogota Boat,
New Jersey Automobile, Teaneck, Auto
mobile of America. He married in New
York City in 1888, Rose Janet Hutchinson,
and their children are : Dorothy, born in
1892 and Rose, born in 1896. Address : Red
Towers, Hackensack, New Jersey.
PHELPS, Stowe:
Architect; born in New York, in 1869;
son of Charles Phelps and Helen M.
(Stowe) Phelps. He was graduated from
Yale as A.B. in 1890. He served in the
Spanish war with Troop A, New York
Volunteer Cavalry, and is now captain of
Squadron A, New York Cavalry. Mr.
Phelps is a member of the American In
stitute of Architects, and the Architectural
League of New York. He is director of
the Hamilton House Corporation. He
toured the world via India in 1895 and
via Siberia in 1907. He is a -member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Scroll
and Key Society of Yale, and the Yale and
University Clubs of New York. Mr.
Phelps married in Morristown, New Jer
sey, July 6, 1907, Edith R. Catlin. Resi
dence : Morristown, New Jersey. Office ad
dress : 20 West Forty-third Street, New
York City.
PHILBIN, Eugene A.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, July
24, 1857; son of Stephen and Eliza (Mc-
Goldrick) Philbin. He was educated at the
College of Saint Francis Xavier, New York
City; Seton Hall College, South Orange,
New Jersey (LL.D., 1904), and Columbia
University Law School, LL.B., 1885. He
has been engaged in the practice of law in-
New York City since 1886; senior member
of the firm of Philbin, Beekman and Men
ken. Commissioner of the New York
State Board of Charities from 1899 to
1900; appointed by Governor Roosevelt and
served December, 1900, and January, 1901,
as district attorney of New York County;
member of committee appointed by gov
ernor of New York to investigate condi
tions at the Emigrant Station on Ellis Is
land. Member of the New York State
Bar Association, the Association of the

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MEN OF AMERICA.

Bar of the City of New York, Charity Or
ganization Society of New York, Saint
Vincent de Paul Society, Friendly Sons of
Saint Patrick, Irish Industrial Society of
America, Prisoners' Aid Association (di
rector), State Charities Aid Society, Legal
Aid Society. He is a Roman Catholic and
a Democrat. He is also a member of the
Catholic, City, Merchants', Country, and
the Rockaway Hunt Clubs. Pie married, at
Chicago, June 28, 1887, Jessie Holladay;
they have five children : Stephen H., Ewing
R., Jesse H., Eugenie A., and Gerald G.
Residence : 63 West Fifty-second Street.
Address: 54 William Street, New York
City.
PHILIP, Hoffman:
Consular officer ; born in the District of
Columbia; appointed deputy consul-general
at Tangier, November 6, 1901 ; vice and
deputy consul-general, November 18, 1902;
consul-general, March 8, 1905; secretary of
legation and consul-general, January 11,
1906. Address : Tangier, Morocco.
PHILIPS, John F.:
United States judge; born in Thrall's
Prairie, Boone County, Missouri, Decem
ber 31, 1834; son of John G. Philips. He
was graduated from Center College, Ken
tucky, in 1855 ; began the practice of law
at Georgetown, Missouri, in 1857, and con
tinued until 1861, when he took his stand
for the Union and entered the Volunteer
Army, in which he served until 1865, as
colonel of the Seventh Missouri Cavalry.
After the war he practiced law at Sedalia,
Missouri, until 1882. He has _also been
prominent in politics as a Democrat; was
a Bell and Everett elector in 1861, and a
delegate to the National Democratic Con
vention in New York in 1868, at which Sey
mour and Blair were nominated. In 1876
he was nominated and elected to the Forty-
fifth Congress, and he was reelected
to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878,
serving until 1881. He established in prac
tice at Kansas City, Missouri, was a com
missioner of the Supreme Court of Mis
souri from 1883 to 1885, then judge of
the Kansas City Court of Appeals, until ap

pointed by President Cleveland to his pres
ent office as judge of the United States
District Court for the Western District of
Missouri. Judge Philips is a prominent
Presbyterian layman, and served his Pres
bytery as a delegate to the Pan-Presby
terian Convention at Edinburgh, Scotland,
in 1877. The degree of LL.D. has been
conferred upon him by Center College,
Kentucky, the University of Missouri and
the Central College of Missouri. Address:
13 10 Linwood Avenue, Kansas City, Mis
souri. PHILLIPS, Alexander Hamilton:
Professor of mineralogy; born in Law
renceville, New Jersey, May 15, 1866; son
of John Feaster Phillips and Hannah
(Warne) Phillips. He was graduated from
Princeton, as B.S. in 1887 and ScD. in 1899.
He was instructor in biology and mineral
ogy at Princeton from 1889 to 1895, in
mineralogy from 1895 to 1899; assistant
professor from 1899 to 1903, and since then
professor of mineralogy at Princeton Uni
versity. He is a member of the Society of
Naturalists and the American Chemical So
ciety. His researches have been in the
line of petrology, chiefly the mineralogical
structure and chemical composition of the
trap of Rocky Hill, New Jersey, radium
in an American ore, and the structures and
origin of some Patagonian rocks. Profes
sor Phillips married in New York City,
December 2, 1896, Mabel Harriette Knight.
Residence: 54 Hodge Road, Princeton,
New Jersey.
PHILLIPS, Alfred Edward:
Civil engineer; born in Rouse's Point,
New York, June 18, 1863; son of John
Phillips and Jane A. (Irwin) Phillips. He
was graduated from Union University a.«
A.B. and C.E. in 1887, A.M. in 1890, and
Ph.D. in 1894, and was elected to the hon
orary society, Sigma Xi, in 1887. He was
professor of civil engineerinng at Purdue
University, from 1887 to 1894; assistant
engineer of the New York State Board of
Health in 1888; in engineering practice,
from 1894 to 1899, making a specialty of
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posal, streets and pavements ; acting pro
fessor of bridge and hydraulic engineering
at the University of Wisconsin in 1895 and
1896 and professor of civil engineering at
Armour Institute of Technology since 1899.
He is a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers and Phi Delta Theta
fraternity. His favorite recreations are
golf, tennis and photography. He is a
member of the University Club of Chicago.
Mr. Phillips married in LaFayette, Indiana,
June 19, 1895, Lizzie Langdon, and they
have two children : Jane Amy Langdon
Phillips, born in 1898, and Laura Langdon
Phillips, born in 1900. Residence : 407
Thirty-third Street, Chicago. Address :
Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Illinois. PHILLIPS, David Graham:
Writer; born in Madison, Indiana, Oc
tober 31, 1869; son of David G. and Mar
garet (Lee) Phillips; he was educated at
the. De Pauw University, Greencastle, In
diana, and graduated from Princeton Uni
versity, in 1887. He is the author of : The
Cost ; The Plum Tree ; The Second Genera
tion, and other novels ; also of essays on
public questions in leading magazines. He
is- a member of the Manhattan, Princeton,
National Arts and Authors Clubs. Ad
dress : 72 East Thirty-fourth Street, New
York City.
PHILLIPS, John S.:
Publisher; born in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
July 2, 1861; son of Dr. E. L. Phillips;
he was educated in Harvard College, A.B.,
1885; University of Leipzig, Germany.
From 1893 to 1906 he was treasurer of the
S. S. McClure Company publishers of
McClure's Magazine and general manager
of that periodical. Also for some years
he was vice-president of McClure, Phillips
and Company, book, publishers; from 1906,
president of the Phillips Publishing Com
pany, publishers of the American Magazine.
He is a member of the Players', Aldine,
Grolier and Harvard Clubs. He married
in 1890, Jane B. Peterson, daughter of
Reuben Peterson, of Boston, Massachusetts ;
they have four daughters and one son.

Residence: 314 West Ninety-second Street.
Address : 341 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
PHIPPS, Frank Huntington:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army; born in Northampton, Massachu
setts, August 9, 1843, son of George W.
Phipps and Sophie (Lyman) Phipps. He
received his preparatory education in sev
eral private schools, in the Germantown
Academy of Pennsylvania, and the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania; then -entered, the Mili
tary Academy at West Point, graduating,
June n, 1863. He served in the Army
from July 1, 1859, as cadet and officer, for
forty-eight years, forty-four of which was
as an officer of the Ordnance Department;
in all grades from first lieutenant to that
of brigadier-general, with which grade he.
retired in August, 1907. He was in com
mand of several Arsenals and the Spring
field Armory; also was chief ordnance of
ficer of the military department in the field
during the Civil War. He is a member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. Colonel
Phipps was given a medal of honor by the
Sultan of Turkey. He is a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion and the
Society of Foreign Wars. He is also a
member of the Army and Navy Club of
Washington, D. C, and the Wayasset Club
of, Springfield, Massachusetts. He mar
ried, first, at St. Louis, Missouri, June 11,
1867, Louisa DeHart Patterson, who died
in 1881, and second, in Augusta, Maine,
November 13, 1884, Anna Lalby, and his
children are : Henry Patterson, Frank
Huntington, Jr., and Anita Louisa. Ad
dress: Care Adjutant-General, United
States Army.
PHIPPS, Henry:
Manufacturer; born in Philadelphia, Sep
tember 27, 1839; at an early age he re
moved, with his family, to Pittsburgh,
where he attended public schools. His first
employment -was as office boy and after
ward as bookkeeper, with the manufactur
ing firm of Dilworth and Bidwell; in 1861
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MEN OF AMERICA.

Phipps, who were agents in Pittsburgh of
the Dupont Powder Company; was emi
nently successful in business ventures, , and
at an early, period in career he became in
terested in the manufacture of iron as the
junior member of the firm of Kloman and
Phipps. A year or more later Mr. Thomas
M. Carnegie became interested, and in May,
1865, Andrew Carnegie joined the firm.
Succeeded in building up a large fortune;
now one of largest holders of the United
States Steel Corporation ; has traveled much
during recent few years, and has devoted a
considerable portion of his means to charita
ble and public institutions. Republican and
a member of the Metropolitan, City and
Riding Clubs. He married, February 6,
1872, Annie C. Shaffer ; they have five chil
dren : Mrs. Frederick E. Guest, J. S. Phipps,
Mrs. Bradley Martin, Jr., Henry Carnegie
Phipps, and Howard Phipps. Addresses :
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and 1063 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
PHISTERER, Frederick:
Soldier; born in Germany, October 11,
1836; came to the United States in early
boyhood and was educated in the common
schools. He enlisted in the United States
Army, December 6, 1855, and in March,
1856, joined Company A, Third Artillery,
at Fort Yuma, California. He. was pro
moted corporal, October 2, 1858, lance
sergeant, April 1, 1859; sergeant, July 10,
i860, and was honorably discharged, De
cember 5, i860, at Fort Vancouver. During
this service he took part in Colonel
Wright's Expedition against the Spokane
and other Indians, and in Indian battles
at Four Lakes and at Spokane Plains, Sep
tember 1 and 5, 1858; in the occupation
of San Juan Island from July to December,
1859, and Major Enoch Stein's Expedition
in Eastern Oregon and Idaho in the sum
mer of i860. After the battle of Bull Run
he ree-nlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment
of Infantry, United States Army, was ap
pointed sergeant-major, July 31, 1861; pro
moted to second lieutenant, October 20,
1861, assigned to duty with the Second
Battalion as adjutant, November 4, 1861;
promoted to first lieutenant, February 27,

1862 ; and continued in the service until
retired as captain, August 4, 1870. During
the war he took pail in many battles, and
he received the Congressional Medal of ¦
Honor for bravery at Stone River, Tennes
see, December 31, 1862, in voluntarily con
veying under heavy fire, information to the
commander of a battalion of regular troops,
by which the battalion was saved from
capture or annihilation. After the war
he engaged in civil pursuits in New Jersey,
Columbus, Ohio, New York City and
Brooklyn. He commanded a company of
Citizens' Police during the railroad riots
at Columbus, Ohio, - in 1877 ; was commis- •
sioned captain of the Governor's Guard
of the State of Ohio, August 22, 1877, and
resigned January 29, 1879. He entered the
military service of the State of New York*.
January I, 1880, as acting assistant ad
jutant-general of the State, with rank of
colonel; assistant adjutant-general, with
the same rank, November 22, 1892; assist
ant adjutant-general of the National
Guard of the State of New York, Decem
ber 23, 1898; brigadier-general by brevet,
December 23, 1898, for meritorious serv
ices during the Spanish- American War;
acting adjutant-general of New York, May
15, 1900, to January 1, 1902; now assistant
adjutant-general National Guard of the
State of New York; major-general by
brevet, from January 1, 1905. He has writ
ten extensively on military subjects and is
author of: The National Guardsman on
Guard, and Kindred Duties; The National •
Guardsman at Ceremonies; The National
Guardsman as a Non-Commissioned Of
ficer; Statistical Record of the Civil War;
New York in the War of the Rebellion,
etc. General Phisterer is a member of the
Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States; was adjutant-general of the Grand
Army of the Republic, 1891-1892. He mar
ried, at Columbus, Ohio, Isabel Riley, and
they have two sons. Address : Albany, New
York. PHOENIX, Lloyd:
Ex-officer of the United States Navy;
born in New York City in 1841; entered
the Naval Academy at Annapolis in the

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year of the breaking out of the Civil War,
and, like many . others of that period in
the history of the Academy, he was called
into, active service long before the comple
tion of his studies. The exigencies of the
Government required that cadets at the
Academy should be placed on board ship at
the earliest practicable moment, and hence
we find young Phoenix serving as a lieuten
ant a little more than a year after his entry
into the navy. He was just in time to take
part in the memorajale naval battle in
• Hampton Roads, precipitated by the attack
of the Confederate ram Merrimac on the
United States fleet lying there, and which
but for the timely arrival of the little iron
clad Monitor, the first of her type, would
have resulted most disastrously to the
Union Navy; and for the ensuing three
years Lieutenant Phoenix was engaged in
many contests which called for the best
qualities of the sailor. So long as he was in
active service, with the stimulus of having
to face an actual foe, he was well content
and found a keen enjoyment in the dis
charge of his duties. But after the war came
the beginning of those doldrums which cost
the navy many officers of fine prominence,
such as Nicholson Kane, O. H. P. Belmont,
Jacob Miller, Butler Duncan and others.
So Lieutenant Phoenix resigned his com
mission, with many others, but not the
love he had acquired for the sea, for if ever
a man was by nature and habit wedded to
the ocean, such a one was Lieutenant
Phoenix. He became a member of the
New York Yacht Club, and has spent
much of his life on the water. He is owner
of the Intrepid, a three-masted schooner,
with auxiliary screw, for use in time of
calms, with which he has cruised in many
seas. While on one of his cruises Mr.
Phoenix was enabled to render valuable
assistance in rescuing the officers and crew
of the wrecked United States man-of-war
Kearsarge, which had been driven on a
reef in the West Indies, during a storm,
and had become a total wreck. For this
humane act he was thanked by the author
ities. When not cruising, Mr. Phoenix is
very fond of driving fast horses, of which

he is the owner of several fine specimens,
and he is often seen driving one of these
on the Speedway. He is a connoisseur in
art, and has a valuable collection of paint
ings, bric-a-brac, and objets d'art. He is
a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, and of the Union, the
Knickerbocker, the University, the Metro
politan, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-
Corinthian Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, Army
and Navy, and Turf and Field Clubs of
New York City. Address: 21 East Thirty-
third Street, New York City.
PICKERELL, George H.:
Consular officer; born in Ohio, appointed
consul at St. Michael's, September 16, 1898;
appointed consul at Para, May 29, 1906.
Address : Para, Brazil.
PICKERING, Edward Charles:
Director of the Astronomical Observa
tory of Harvard College since 1877; bom
in Boston, July 19, 1846; son of Edward
Pickering and Charlotte Hammond. He
was educated at the Boston Latin School;
Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni
versity, A.M. 1880; LL.D., California, 1886;
University of Michigan, 1887; Chicago,
1901 ; Harvard University, 1903 ; University
of Pennsylvania, 1906 ; D.Sc, Victoria Uni
versity, England, 1900 ; Ph.D., University of
Heidelberg, 1903 ; member of the Institut de
France, Nova Lincei, and of the Royal So
cieties of England, Prussia, Sweden and
Ireland. He was instructor of mathe
matics, Lawrence Scientific School of
Harvard University, from 1865 to 1867;
Thayer professor of physics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, from 1867 to 1877 ;
established first physical laboratory in the
United States. Study of light and spectra
of the stars have been special features of
his work, and he has made more than a
million measurements of the light of stars.
By establishing an auxiliary station in Are-
quipa, Peru, southern stars are also ob
served, extending the work from pole to
pole. He is the author of: Elements of
Physical Manipulation, and fifty volumes
of annals and other publications of Har
vard College Observatory. His recreations

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formerly were mountain climbing and_ bicy
cling. He is a member of the Century
Association, New York. He married in
1874 Lizzie Wadsworth, daughter of Jared
Sparks. Address : Harvard College' Ob
servatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tele
graph address : Observatory, Boston, Mas
sachusetts. PIERCE, Charles Campbell:
Clergyman; born in Salem, New Jersey,
February 6, 1858; son of Charles C. Pierce
and Ellen Toy (Brown) Pierce. He was
educated at the New Jersey State Normal
School, Shurtleff College, Illinois Wesleyan
University, Crozer Theological Seminary,
and the Divinity School of Shurtleff Col
lege and received the degree of Ph.tl., A.B.,
B.D., and D.D. He has been pastor at
Jacksonville, Illinois, Leavenworth, Kansas,
Lincoln, Nebraska, and Philadelphia.
While serving in the Philippines he founded
the Episcopal Church in the Islands, and
served as rector in Manila and in general
oversight of the work of his church in
Luzon until his return to the United States,
from 1898 to 1901. Ill-health compelled a
declination of overtures from bishops to
stand for election as bishop of the Philip
pine Islands in 1901. In the same year he
was elected by the House of Bishops as
bishop of North Dakota to succeed Bishop
Edsall, but confirmation by the House of
Deputies was defeated by a tie-vote owing
to a question of health. While a pastor in
Lincoln, he was chaplain of the Nebraska
State Senate; represented the War Depart
ment at- the International Prison Congress
es at Pittsburgh and Baltimore in 1892 and
1893. In Washington, he has been for
seven successive seasons the special preacher
at the Open-Air Services on the site of the
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, by ap
pointment of the Bishop of Washington.
He was appointed chaplain of the Ninth
United States Cavalry, Deceriiber, 1882, and
resigned in June, 1884. After serving in
the pastorate for some years, he was re
appointed to, the army as a post chaplain,
his latest assignment being that of Chaplain
of the Corps of Engineers, with whom he
served at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba,

as senior chaplain of the Army of Cuban
Pacification. He was promoted to the grade
of major, as worthy of special' distinction
for exceptional efficiency, June 14, 1904: He
is author of : The Tagals, published by the
National Social Science Association of
Philadelphia and republished in France,
and The Hunger of the Heart for Faith,
published by the Young Churchman- Com
pany, of Milwaukee. Dr Pierce married
at Jacksoriville, Illinois, November 24, 1881,
Frances S. Rees, and they have one daught
er, Miriam Rees Pierce. Residence : Wash- '
ington Barracks, D. C.
PIERCE, Rice Alexander:
Lawyer and ex-congressman; born on a
farm in Weakley County, Tennessee, July
3, 1849; son of Thomas M. Pierce. He
attended the common schools until the
Civil War, enlisted in the Eighth Tennes
see Cavalry, serving two years until he
was wounded and captured in a cavalry
fight near Jackson, Tennessee, while serv
ing under General Forrest, and was kept
a close prisoner until the end of the war.
After the war he attended the high school
at London, Ontario, Canada, then went to
Halifax, North Carolina, where he read
law and was admitted to the bar, then lo
cated in the practice of law at Union City,
Tennessee. He was elected attorney-gen
eral of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of
Tennessee, serving from 1874 to 1883. He
was elected on the Democratic ticket to
the Forty-eighth Congress and afterward
to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con
gresses, and in 1896 was again . elected,
serving in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fif
ty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses
from the Ninth Tennessee District. He
is a Democrat in politics. Judge Pierce
married at Hamburg, Missouri, in April,
T873, Mary Hunter. Address: Union
City, Tennessee.
PIERREPONT, Henry Evelyn:
Capitalist.; born in Brooklyn, December
9, 1845 ; son of Henry E. Pierrepont and
Anna Maria (Jay) Pierrepont. He receiv
ed his education in the Rectory School and

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1801

Columbia College, where he received the
degrees of B.A. and M.A. He is trustee
of the Home Life Insurance Company,
the Fidelity and Casualty Company, the
Franklin Trust Company, the Brooklyn Sav
ings Bank, of the Brooklyn City Dispensary
and of General Theological Seminary,
warden -of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights
and vice-president of the Brooklyn Hos
pital and of the Brooklyn Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor, and
he is a member of the Hamilton Club of
Brooklyn. Mr. Pierrepont married in
Brooklyn, December 9, 1869, Ellen A. Low,
who died, December 30, 1884. His children
are : Anne Pierrepont Luquer, Ellen Pierre
pont Moffat, H. E. 3d (deceased), Rob
ert L., Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and Seth
Low. Address : 216 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn," New York.
PIERSON, Israel C:
Actuary; born at Westland, New Jer
sey, August 22, 1843. He prepared for
College at the Fort Edward Institute, New
York, and was graduated from the Univer
sity of the City of New York in 1865. He
received the degree of A.M. from the same
in 1868, and Ph.D. in 1890. His connection
with life insurance began in the actuarial
department of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company. Besides being actuary at the
Washington Life, Mr. Pierson is corre
sponding member of the Institute of Actu
aries of France, fellow of the American
Statistical Society, a member of the New
York Academy of Sciences, of the New
York Mathematical Society, and of the
Council of the University of the City of
New York. He is first vice-president of
the Actuarial Society of America, and was
its secretary from 1889 to 1899. Resi
dence: Plainfield, New Jersey. Office ad
dress : 141 Broadway, New York City.
PIERSON, Ward Wriferht:
Instructor in political science; born at
Radcliffe, Iowa, October 22, 1879; son of
John Clough Pierson and Martha Pierson.
he was prepared in Wilmette High School
and Northwestern University Academy, and
was graduated from. Northwestern Univer

sity as B.S. in 1902. He was instructor in
manual training at Evanston Township
High School, in 1902 and 1903 ; Harrison
fellow in political science at the University
of Pennsylvania, in 1903 and 1904; and
instructor of political science since 1904 in
that university; instructor in Commercial
Law, University of Pennsylvania Evening
School ; of finance since 1905 ; and assistant
editor of the Annals of the American
Academy since 1905. He was winner of the
Cleveland oratorical contest in 1901. Mr.
Pierson is a Republican in politics, and a
Methodist in his religious belief. He is
a recognized authority on political problems
and drew the laws creating the new Port
of Philadelphia, passed by the Legislature
of Pennsylvania in 1906 and 1907. He is
a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and
of the City Club, and the Robert Morris
Club, of Philadelphia. Residence : 3604
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Business ad
dress : Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PIFFARD, Henry Granger:
Physician; born in Piffard, New York,
September 10, 1842; son of David Piffard
and Ann Matilda (Haight) Piffard. He
received his education in Marlborough
Churchill's School, Sing Sing, and the New
York University, where he received the de
grees of A.B. in 1862, A.M. in 1865, and
LL.D. in 1899, and the degree of M.D. in
1864, from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. He has been engaged in prac
tice of medicine in New York City from
1864. He is emeritus professor of derma
tology of the New York University; con
sulting surgeon at the City Hospital; fel
low of the New York Academy of Medi
cine. He is author of several treatises
on diseases of the skin and kindred topics.
Dr. Piffard married in New York City,
June 17, 1868, Helen Hart Strong, and
their children are: Henry Haight, born
1869 (deceased), Helen Oakes (widow,
born 1872), Charles H., born 1874, and
Mrs. Susan F." Ives, born 1877. Address :
256 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York
City.

1802

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PILCHER, James Evelyn:
Military surgeon ; born in Adrian, Michi
gan, March 18, 1857; son of Elijah Holmes
Pilcher.. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan as A.B. in 1879; the
Long Island College Hospital as M.D. in
1880, A.M. and Ph.D. from the Illinois
Wesleyan University in 1887 and L.H.D.
from Allegheny College in 1902. He became
managing editor of Annals of Anatomy and
Surgery, of Brooklyn, New York, from
1880 to 1883; entered the medical depart
ment of the United States Army, as as
sistant surgeon in 1883 and passing through
the grades of lieutenant and captain in
the regular srvice and major and brigade
surgeon in volunteer service, was retired
for disability incurred in the line of duty
in 1900. During this period he was in
active service in the field against the Sioux,
Crow and Cheyenne Indians, and against
Mexican insurrectos. He is author of
the first system of drill for the United
States. Army Hospital Corps, published in
the United States, and his work on First
Aid in Illness and Injury, first" edition is
sued in 1892, and has ever since maintained
its- position as the principal text-book for
instruction in that subject. In 1896 he was
appointed assistant secretary of the Asso
ciation of Military Surgeons of the United
States, becoming secretary and editor in
1897, which position, with an interval of
two years, he has ever since held. He es
tablished the Journal of the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United States,
as a quarterly in 1901, as a monthly in 1902,
and with title changed to The Military
Surgeon in 1907. Dr. Pilcher was surgeon
of one of the first regiments of the army
to be ordered to the South at the opening
of the Spanish-American War, and served
in that capacity at Mobile and Tampa, go
ing thence to Jacksonville as chief sur
geon of forces and medical supply officer
of the Seventh Army Corps under Major-
General Fitzhugh Lee, until the fall of
1899, when he was detached and placed in
command of the Army Medical Supply
Depot, established at Savannah, Georgia,
so continuing until the failing of health

required him to relinquish active service.
He has occupied the chairs of military
surgery in the Ohio Medical University,
the Starling Medical College and Creighton
Medical College, also was professor of
sociology and political economy in Dickin
son College and professor of medical juris
prudence at Dickinson Law School. He
directed the cataloguing of the libraries of
the Military Service Institution 'in 1889
and of the State of Pennsylvania in 1899.
He is a member of the Military Service
Institution of the United States; Sons of
the -American Revolution; corresponding
member of the Societe de Medicine Mili-
taire Franchise; an active Mason and Elk;
president of the American Medical Editors'
Association in 1906 and 1907, of the Cum
berland Valley Medical Association and
fellow or member of numerous" scientific
bodies. Besides being author of the book:
First Aid in Illness and Injury, he is author
of: Life and Labors of Elijah H. Pilcher;
Columbus Book .of Military Surgeons ; The
Seal and Arms of Pennsylvania and The
Surgeon-Generals of the United States
Army, and actual editor of the fourth series
of Pennsylvania Archives, in addition to
being author of many articles in the medical
and general press. Address : Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.PILCHER, Lewis F.:
Architect, professor of art; born in May,
1, 1871, Brooklyn, New York ; son of Lewis
S. Pilcher, M.D. ; he was educated in the
Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, Wesleyan
University, School of Mines, Columbia Uni
versity, New York City, Ph.B. He is a
member of the Psi Upsilon and honorary
college societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Sig
ma Xi. He is also a member of the Sons
of the Revolution, Companion of the Order
of Loyal Legion, T-Square Club, Philadel
phia, etc. Lecturer in architecture, Uni
versity of Philadelphia, University Exten
sion Society, New York Free Lecture De
partment and Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences. He is professor of art at
Vassar College; associate of the American
Institute of Architects.- Also member of
the architectural firm of Pilcher and Tach-

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1803

au, New York City. Architect for Squadron
C Armory,, Brooklyn; Louisville Free Pub
lic Library, Terminal Dormitory, Vassar
College. Pie -is the author of : Phases of
Florentine Art; Essay on Movement. Art
writer for International Encyclopaedia ;
American writer in architecture for Al-
gemeines Lexikon and Beldenden Kunster
Leipzic. Address: 109 Lexington Ave
nue, New York City.
PILCHER, Lewis Stephen:
Surgeon; born in Adrian, Michigan, July
28, 1845; son of Elijah H. Pilcher and
Phebe M. (Fisk) Pilcher. He received
from the University of Michigan, the de
gree of A.B. in 1862, A.M. in 1863, M.D.
in 1866, and LL.D. in 1900; also from Dick
inson College, the honorary degree of LL.
D. in 1900. He was medical officer in the
United States Naval Service from 1867 to
1872; and in general practice as a phy
sician in Brooklyn, New York, from 1872
to 1892; restricting his practice to sur
gery since then. He has been surgeon
to the Methodist Episcopal (Seney) Hos
pital in Brooklyn, since 1887; and to the
German Hospital in Brooklyn, since 1900.
He has been editor of The Annals of Sur
gery since 1885, is author of a book on
The Treatment of Wounds, and collab
orator in many systems of surgery. Dr.
Pilcher is a member of the American Sur
gical Association, the New York Surgical
Society, the Brooklyn Surgical Society, So
ciete Internationale de Chirurgie, the Med
ical Society of the State of New York,
Kings County Medical Society; associate
fellow of College of Physicians, Philadel
phia; member of Zeta Psi fraternity, Loyal
Legion and Grand Army of the RepubT
lie. His favorite recreation is develop
ing his country place at Lake Hopatcong,
New Jersey. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, June 22, 1870, Martha S. Philips, and
their children are : Lewis F., born 1871,
Sarah F, born 1873, Paul M., born 1876,
James T., born 1880, and Martha E., born
1886. Residence : 386 Grand Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York.
PILES, Samuel Henry:
United States senator; born in Livings

ton County, December 28, 1858; son of S.
H. Piles and Gabriella (Lillard) Piles.
He was educated at private schools at
Smithland, in his native State. After
being admitted to the bar he started for the
West, and in 1882 located in the Territory
of Washington; opened a law office in
Snohomish, Washington, in 1883 ; in 1886
moved for a short time to Spokane, Wash
ington, and later in the same year to
Seattle, where he has ever since resided
and practiced law. In 1887 and 1889 he
was assistant prosecuting attorney for the
district composed of King, Kitsap, and
Snohomish counties, and in 1888 and 1889
was city attorney of Seattle. Thfese are
the only offices that Mr. Piles ever filled
•or sought until his election to the United
States Senate. In 1895 he was appointed
general counsel of the Oregon Improve
ment Company, and when that company
was reorganized by the formation of The
Pacific Coast Company he was made gen
eral counsel of the latter company, holding
this position until his election to the Sen
ate. He has taken an active interest in
Republican politics in the Territory and
State of Washington for the past twenty
years; was elected January 28, 1905, to
the United States Senate, to succeed Hon.
A. G. Foster, and took his seat March 6,
following. His term of office will expire
March 3, 191 1. He married, in Hender
son, Kentucky, September 15, 1891, Mary
E. Barnard. Address : Seattle, Washington.
PILLSBURY, Albert E.:
Lawyer; born in Milford, New Hamp
shire, August 19, 1849 ; son of Josiah Web
ster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury;
grandson of Oliver and Anna (Smith)
Pillsbury, and a descendant from William
Pillsbury, a native of Derbyshire, England,
who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in
1641, and settled later in old Newburgh;
and from John Dinsmoor of Scotch- de
scent, who came from Ireland to Lon
donderry, New Hampshire, in 1724. He
was brought up on his father's farm and
his school training was limited by financial
inability. He borrowed money to pay his
schooling at Appleton Academy, New

1804

MEN OF AMERICA.

Ipswich, New Hampshire, and Lawrence
Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, where he
was graduated in 1867, and matriculated
at Harvard in the class of 1871, but left
to teach school and to take up the study
of law. He went to Illinois and was ad
mitted to the bar of that State in 1869,
and to the Massachusetts bar in 1870, be
ginning the practice of h'is profession in
Boston in 1871. He makes a specialty of
acting as counsel for cities and towns,
street railways, gas and water supply com
panies. He was a representative in the
General Court of Massachusetts for three
terms, 1876 to 1878; State senator 1884 to
1886, and president of that body in 1885
and 1886. He was attorney-general of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1891-94:
He received the honorary degree of A.M.
from Harvard in 1891. He has been lec
turer on Constitutional Law in Boston Uni
versity Law School since 1895, and is au
thor of: Webster the Orator (1903), and
of numerous published orations and ad
dresses, and legal arguments. He is a
member of the American and Boston Bar
Associations, the American Academy of
Political and Social Science ; pi the Algon
quin, Art, and University Clubs of Bos
ton; and of the Pi Eta of Harvard, be
sides of various social, professional and
political associations. He has served as
president of the Sons of New Hampshire
in Boston ; the National Association of
the Pillsbury Family ; of the Mercantile Li
brary Association of Boston; is vice-pres
ident of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals and of the American
Humane Educational Society. He is a
trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank and
vice-president of the United States Trust
Company, and an officer in other business
corporations. He is married. Address : 6
Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
PINCHOT, Gilford:
Forester; born in Simsbury, Connecticut,
August 11, i865v; son of James Wallace
Pinchot and Mary J. (Eno) Pinchot. Ob^
tained his early education in Phillips Exeter
Academy, from which he was graduated in

Received the degree of B.A. from
in 1901, and from Princeton fn 1904. Stud
ied forestry at L'Ecole des Eaux et Forets,
Nancy, France, and in Germany, Austria,
and Switzerland, and began the first sys
tematic forest work in the United States
at Biltmore, North Carolina, January, 1892.
Was a member of the National Forest Com
mission; appointed by the National Acad
emy of Sciences in 1896, at the request of
the Secretary of the Interior, to investigate
and report upon the inauguration of a ra
tional forest policy for the forested lands
of the United States. Afterward introduced
practical forestry in the Adirondack Moun
tains. In 1898 became chief of the Forest
Service (then Division of Forestry) in the
United States Department of Agriculture.
He is a member of the Committee on Or
ganization of Government Scientific Work,
appointed by President 'Roosevelt, March
I3> 1903; of the Commission on the Public
Lands, appointed October 22, 1903 ; of the
Committee on Department Methods, ap
pointed June 2, 1905, and of the Inland
Waterways Commission, appointed March
14, 1907. At the request of the President
and secretary of war he visited the Philip
pine Islands in 1902 to investigate the for
ests and forest work there. In politics
is a Republican. Is a member of the Epis
copal Church. Is also a member of the So
ciety of American Foresters, the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the American
Society for Testing Materials, the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, the Amer
ican Forestry Association, the New -York
Academy of Sciences, the Washington So
ciety of Engineers, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, the
Washington Academy of Sciences, the
American Museum of Natural History, the
National Academy of Design, the American
Sculpture Society, and a member of the Cen
tury, University and Yale Clubs of New
York City, the Cosmos, University and
Metropolitan Clubs of Washington, and the
Graduates' Club of New Haven. Address:
1615 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington,
D. C.

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1805

PINGREE, Samuel Everett:
Lawyer, ex-governor; born at Salisbury,
New Hampshire, August 2, 1832; son of
Stephen Pingree and Judith (True) Pin-
gree. After a preparatory education he
entered Dartmouth College, from which he
was graduated in the class of 1857. He
then studied law and engaged in practice
in Vermont, but on the breaking out of
the Civil War enlisted May 8, 1861, as a
private in the Third Regiment of Ver
mont Volunteer Infantry, in which he
served in all ranks up to lieutenant-colonel
of the regiment, seeing hard service and
being awarded the Congressional Medal Of
Honor for heroism at Lee's Mills, April
16, 1862. He was mustered - out at the
expiration of his term of service, July 27,
1864. He reengaged in the practice of
law on leaving the army, was State's at
torney of Windsor County, Vermont, and
for forty-eight years has been town clerk
of Hartford, Vermont. He became prom
inent in the councils of the Republican
Party of his State, was a delegate-at-large
at the National Republican Convention at
Chicago, which nominated General Grant
for president, was lieutenant-governor of
Vermont from 1882 to 1884, governor from
1884 to 1886, and chairman of the State
Railway Commission of Vermont from 1886
to 1894. Governor Pingree is a mem
ber and has served as judge-advocate- of
the Medal of Honor Legion, of the United
States, and he is also a member of various
other organizations, educational and mili
tary, including the Grand Army of the Re
public, the Vermont Academy, State Nor
mal School, The Grange. He married at
Newport, Vermont, September 15, 1869,
Lydia M. Steele, and they have a son :
William S. Pingree. Address : Hartford,
Vermont.PITCAIRN, Hugh:
Consul-general; born at Paisley, Scot
land, August 16, 1845; son of. John Pit
cairn and Agnes Pitcairn. He removed
with his parents to the United States in
1846, and was educated in the public and
high schools of Allegheny ahd Altoona,

Pennsylvania. He was employed in various
capacities ( in railroad service from i860 to
1875; then took up the study of medicine,
graduated as M.D. in 1880, and he also
took two years of post-graduate study at
the universities of Berlin and Vienna. He
engaged in the practice of medicine at Al
toona, Pennsylvania, and he is part owner
of the Daily and Weekly Tribune at that
place. He is a Republican in his political
beliefs and took an active part in political
affairs in his city and State. He was ap
pointed by President McKinley, July 28,
1897, as consul at Hamburg, and was pro
moted February 12, 1903, to his present
position as consul-general at the same place.
Address : American Consulate-General,
Hamburg, Germany.
PITCHER, Lewis William:
Secretary of the American Guaranty
Company; born at Port Byron, New York,
November 13, 1848, son of David Pitcher
and Melissa Ann (Gilbert) Pitcher. He
received his education in the public high
school, and enlisted March, 1864, in Com
pany F, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery.
He was transferred to Company K, Second
New York Regiment, Heavy Artillery, June
1, 1865, and discharged October 25, 1865.
He participated in Grant's Campaign from
the Battle of the Wilderness to the Battle
of Appomattox, and in Sheridan's Cam
paign in the Shenandoah Valley, Second
Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army
Corps. He was a law student until 1867;
a telegraph operator on the Western Union
Telegraph Company, 1870; in telegraph
service of the Lake Shore, Pennsylvania,
Central Chicago, North Western, Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, in 1873, and in
the stocks, bonds and grain commission
business until 1892. He is now secretary
and director of the Salt Lake Southern
Railway Company, 'and director of the
American Guaranty Company. Mr. Pitcher
is a member of the Grand Army Memorial
Association, Columbia Post, Grand Army
of the Republic. Royal Arcanum and the
Royal League. His favorite recreations are
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a member of the Calumet, Chicago, Ath
letic, Midlothian Country, South Shore
Country, and the Chicago Automobile Clubs
of Chicago ; also of the Society of the Sons
of New York. He married in Columbus,
Ohio, August 12, 1873, Caroline Amelia
Weeds. Residence : 2725 Prairie Avenue,
Chicago. Office address: 171 La Salle
Street, Chicago, Illinois.
PLACE, Ira Adelbert:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May
8, 1854; adopted son of Thomas and Eliza
beth (Burdick) Place. He was educated at
Alfred Academy and was graduated from
Cornell University, with degree of A.B.
and immediately thereafter studied law in
the office of Vann, McLennan & Dillaye,
Syracuse, New York. He was admitted to
the bar at Buffalo, and in October, 1883,
came to New York City with Judge Mc
Lennan, who had then become general coun
sel of New York, West Shore & Buffalo
Railroad Company. Subsequent to reor
ganization of the West Shore Railroad
Company, in March, 1886, entered the
Law Department of the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad Company, and
in 1905 was appointed general counsel for
all lines of the New York Central, east of
Buffalo; December 5, 1906, was appointed
vice-president of the New York Central
lines, east of Buffalo. He is a director of
the Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Har
bor Railroad Company, the Tivoli Hollow
Railroad Company, Troy Union Railroad
Company, Little Falls & Dolgeville Rail
road Company, of the Detroit, Monroe &
Toledo Railroad Company, of the New
York & Ottawa Bridge Company, and of
the Cornwall Bridge Company. He is a
Democrat and a Unitarian. Mr. Place is
a member of the Bar Association of the
City of New York, of. the New York State
Bar Association, of the American Bar As
sociation, the Phi Beta Kappa and of the
Psi Upsilon fraternities. He is a member
of the University, Transportation, Cornell,
St. Andrew's Golf, Adirondack League,
Unitarian and the Fort Orange Clubs. He
married at Ithaca, New York, January 10,

1893, Katharine B. Gauntlett, and they have
three children: Katharine, born October 3,
1893, Hermann Gauntlett, born November
16, 1894, and Williard Fiske, born June 5,
1895. Address : Grand Central Station, New
York City.
PLANT, Morton F.:
Capitalist, head of the Plant System of
railway and steamship lines ; son of the
late H. B. Plant. Vice-president and di
rector of the Abbeville Southern Railway
Company, Alabama Midland Railway Com
pany, Brunswick and Western Railroad
Company, Florida Southern Railroad Com
pany, Montgomery Belt Line Railway Com
pany and Sanford and St. Petersburg Rail
way Company; vice-president, manager and
director of the Canada, Atlantic and Plant
Steamship Company, Limited; director of
the Charleston and Savannah Railway
Company, Green Pond, Waterboro, Branch-
ville Railway Company, St. John's and Eus
tis Railroad Company, Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company and Wins
ton and Bone Valley Railway Company.
Address: 76 East Fifty-sixth Street, New
York City.
PLANTZ, Samuel:
President of Lawrence University; born
at Gloversville, New York, June 13, 1859,
son of James and Elsie (Stollar) Plantz.
He studied at Lawrence University, being
graduated from the academic course in 1880
with the degree of A.B., receiving that of
A.M. in 1883. After his graduation in 1880,
he began the study of theology at the Bos- / <
ton University, receiving the degree of
S.T.B. in 1883, also that of Ph.D. in 1886.
In 1890 he went to Germany, where he spent
a year in study at the University of Ber
lin. The honorary degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by Albion College in
1894, that of LL.D. by Baker Uni
versity in 1905. He was ordained to the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1885 and from that time to 1894 he has
officiated in various churches of that de
nomination. In 1894 he was elected pres
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tion he still holds. He has traveled ex
tensively in all parts of the United States
and in 1891 traveled through Germany,
France, and England. In politics Dr.
Plantz is a member - of the Republican
party. He is a trustee of Lawrence Uni
versity, of the Epworth Assembly, and of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching. He was a delegate to
the General "Conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1900 and 1908, and
member of the commission to consolidate
the benevolent organizations of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, 1904-06. He is mem
ber of the Victoria Institute, of the Wis
consin Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
Wisconsin State Historical Association, the
Wisconsin Archeological Society, the Na
tional Teachers' Association. Dr. Plantz
is a lecturer of much merit and is author
of: The Church and the Social Problem.
He is also a contributor to Hastings Dic
tionary of Christ and the Apostles, and to
various magazines and periodicals. He
was married at Indianapolis, Indiana, Sep
tember 16, 1885, to Myra A. Goodwin, and
has two daughters, Elsie C, born in 1890,
and Florence E., born in 1893. Address :
Appleton, Wisconsin.
PLATT, Charles:
Physician ; born in Montclair, New Jer
sey, March 16, 1869; of an old American
family of founders and patriots, dating from
1638; was graduated from Lehigh Uni
versity in 1890, and has pursued post
graduate course at Ohio University, Johns
Hopkins University, University of Edin
burgh (medallist in anatomy), Homeo
pathic Hospital, London, Ecole de Medicine,
Paris, and Hahnemann College of Phila
delphia. He was assistant chemist of Cam
bria Iron Company, Johnstown, Pennsylva
nia, chief chemist for Thomas A. Edison at
Llewellyn Park laboratory. Since 1894
professor,. of chemistry and toxicology at
Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital,
Philadelphia ; sometime lecturer at the Chil
dren's Homeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia;
for some time associate editor of Science,
New York. He is author" of a text-book
on Qualitative Analysis and Medical Chem

istry, fourth edition, 1903; contributor to
the engineering, chemical and medical jour
nals. Dr. Piatt is a fellow of the Chem
ical Society of London; honorary fellow
of the Society of Biological Chemistry, Lon
don ; member of the American Chemical
Society, the Societe Chimique de Paris, the
Medical Jurisprudence Society, the Med
ical and Surgical Society of, Philadelphia,
and of numerous other medical and social
organizations. Address : 3612 Baring Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PLATT, Edward Truex:
Expressman; born in Owego, Tioga
County, New York, August 7, 1853 ; son
of Thomas C. Piatt, United States Senator,
and Ellen L. (Barstow) Piatt. He re
ceived his education in the Owego Acad
emy. He was purser in the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company from 1875 to 1885, vis
iting in official capacity Rio de Janeiro,
Colon, Straits of Magellan, Panama, Mex
ican and Central American ports, Honolu
lu, Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney, New
South Wales, Yokohama and Hong Kong.
He is now treasurer, director and super
intendent of the New York Division of the
United States Express Company, treasurer
of the United States Express Realty Com
pany and director of the Borough Express.
In politics he is a Republican. He is
also a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and of the Union League, and Barnard
Clubs. Mr. Piatt married in 1891, Har
riet J. Coit. Residence : 205 West Fifty-
seventh Street, New York. Office address :
2 Rector Street, New York City.
PLATT, Frank Hinchman:
Lawyer; born in Owego, New York, in
1856; son of Thomas Collier and Ellen
(Barstow) Piatt; he was graduated from
Yale University, A.B., 1877; Columbia Law
School in 1879. He is a member of the
firm of O'Brien, Boardman, Piatt and Dem
ing; president and director of the United
States Express Realty Company; secretary
and director of the Rahtjen's American
Composition Company ; director of the Cen
tral Pludson Steamboat Company, United
States Express Company. Formerly as-

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sistant United States district attorney. He
is a member of the Ardsley, University,
Union League, Lotos and Yale Clubs. He
married in New York City, November I,
1881, Caroline E. Livingston ; they have
two children: Livingston and Ellen B.
Residence : 242 West Seventy-fourth Street.
Address: 35 Wall Street, New York City.
PLATT, Henry Barstow:
Transportation and insurance agent;
born in Oswego, New York, February 2,
i860 ; son of United States Senator Thomas
C. Piatt and Ellen (Barstow) Piatt. He
was graduated from Yale College in 1882.
After graduation he was in the manufactur
ing business for three years. He was su
perintendent of coal properties in Penn
sylvania; later made superintendent of the
United States Express Company; which
position he still holds ; also vice-president of
the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Mary
land; treasurer and director of the West
boro Realty Company. In politics, he is a
Republican, and he is a member of the
Lawyers', University, Yale, Ardsley, and
Barnard Clubs. Mr. Piatt married Grace
Lee, daughter of John Phelps, of Wilkes-
'Barre, Pennsylvania, and their children are :
Sherman Phelps, Charlotte and Collier.
Residence: 303 West Seventy-Sixth Street,
New York. Office address : 2 Rector Street,
New York City.
PLATT, James Perry:
United States judge; born in Towanda,
Pennsylvania, March 31, 1851 ; son of Or-
ville H. Platte (United States senator from
Connecticut). He was graduated from Yale
B.A. in 1873, and from Yale Law School
as LL.B. in 1875. From that time until
1902, he practiced law in Meriden, Connec
ticut, in partnership with his father, until
he went upon the bench. He was judge
of the City Court of Meriden from 1893 to
1902, and in 1902 was appointed to his pres
ent office as United States judge for. the
District of Connecticut. Judge Piatt is a
Republican in politics. He married in Meri
den, Connecticut, December 2, 1885, Har
riet W. Ives. Residence : Meriden, Con
necticut. Office address : Hartford, Con
necticut.

PLATT, Thomas Collier:
United States Senator from New York;
born at Oswego, New York, July 15, 1833;
prepared for college at Oswego Academy;
member of the class of 1853 of Yale Col
lege; compelled to give up course in that
institution because of ill-health; received
honorary degree of M.A., from Yale, 1876.
Began mercantile life soon after leaving
school and has been in active business
ever since; w£s president of the Tioga Na
tional Bank at its organization; became
largely interested in lumber in Michigan;
became secretary and director, 1879, has
been president since 1880, United States
Express Company. Republican. County
clerk of Tioga from 1859 to 1861 ; member
of Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses
from 1873 to' 1877; appointed quarantine
commissioner of the Port of New York,
1880; elected United States Senator, Janu
ary 18, 1881 ; resigned that office May 16,
1881, with Senator Roscoe Conkling, his
colleague, because President Garfield did
not defer sufficiently to their wishes in
making appointments in New York. The
immediate ground of their resignation was
the appointment by President Garfield of
W. H. Robertson as collector of the- Port
of New York; in appeal to the Legislature
for reelection, they were both defeated.
Senator Piatt, however, became later the
controlling leader in the Republican party
in New York State; delegate to every Re
publican National Convention from 1876 to
1904; was for years a member of the Na
tional Republican Committee; was elected
United States Senator, 1896;. took seat
March 4, 1897; reelected 1903, for term
expiring March 4, 1909. He was twice mar
ried. Address : 2 Rector Street, New York
City.PLATZEK, M. Warley:
Jurist; born in North Carolina, August
27, 1854. After a careful preparatory train
ing, he studied law, and was graduated
from the University of New York as LL.B.
in 1876; and he received the honorary de
gree of LL.D.' from Rutherford College,
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1906, he was . engaged in the practice of
law in New York City, and also took a
part in political affairs, as an active Demo
crat, and served as a member of the Con
stitutional Convention of New York in 1894.
In November, 1906,, he was elected to his
present office as a justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York, for the
First District, for the term expiring De
cember 31, 1920. Judge Platzek is an es
sayist of merit, and is author, among others,
of : Trial by Jury ; American Grit ; and Is
rael and Islam. He was formerly, for
years, a trustee of the College of the City
of New York. Address : 15 East Forty-
eighth Street, New York City.
PLIMPTON, George Arthur:
Publisher; born in Walpole, Massachu
setts, July 13, 1855; son of Galvin Gay
and Priscilla (Guild, Lewis) Plimpton. He
received his preparatory education in Phil
lips Exeter Academy and was graduated
from Amherst College in 1876; also at
tended Harvard Law School in 1876 and
1877. He is a member of the firm of Ginn
and Company, book publishers. Mr. Plimp
ton donated to Wellesly College, 1904, in
memory of his wife, a library of early manu
scripts and first editions -of nearly all Ital
ian writers, making it the best library of
Italian literature in this country, and gave
the Plimpton Playing Fields to Phillips
Exeter Academy. He is possessor of the
best collection of early school books in
the world. In politics he is a Republican
and he is a member of the Presbyterian
Church. He is also a member of the Col
lege Board of the Presbyterian Church,
trustee of Amherst and Barnard Colleges
and Phillips Exeter Academy; treasurer of
Barnard College and the Academy of Po
litical Science; a member of the Board
of Managers of the New York State Colo
nization Society, trustee of the New York
Infirmary for Women and Children, di
rector of the Union Exchange Bank, and a
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon frater
nity, New England Society, American Geo
graphical Society and the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science.

His favorite recreations are golf and horse
back exercise. Mr. Plimpton is also a mem
ber of the Ardsley, Century, Grolier, Uni
versity Clubs, the Barnard Club of New
York City and the Union Club of Boston.
He married in Plo'lyoke, Massachussets, in
1892, Frances Taylor Pearsons. Residence :
41 East Thirty-third Street, New York.
Office address : 70 Fifth Avenue, New York
City.PLUMACHER, Eugene H.:
Consular officer; born in Germany; ap
pointed commercial agent at Maracaibo,
June 24, 1878; appointed consul, February
12, 1883. Address : Maracaibo, Venezuela.
PLUMLEY, Frank:
Lawyer; born at Eden, Vermont, Decem
ber 17, 1844; son of William Plumley and
Eliza Plumley. He attended the commOn
schools, People's Academy and Michigan
University. He tried many important crim
inal cases : State vs. Carr, State vs. Marsh
and Buzzell, State vs. Doherty, State vs.
Lawrence, State vs. Wilson, and State vs.
Brewster, all homicide cases, and State
vs. Wales, arson with a charge of at-
tempted homicide. He was State's attor
ney of Washington County from 1876 to
1880; United States attorney for Vermont,
from 1889 to 1894; member of the House,
1882; member of the Senate (Vermont)
and president pro tempore, 1894; delegate-
at-large to the Republican National Con
vention of 1888. Mr. Plumley was umpire
by appointment of President Roosevelt of
the Mixed Commissions of Great Britain
and Venezuela and of Netherlands and
Venezuela sitting at Caracas in 1903; um
pire of the French- Venezuela Commission
sitting at Northfield, Vermont, by selection
of the two countries in 1905 ; judge of the
Court of Claims, 1902; chief judge of same
in 1904 and 1906. He is a Republican in
politics, and in his religious belief a Meth
odist Episcopalian. He is a member of the
American Society of International Law;
and is trustee ,of, and lecturer on Interna
tional Law at, Norwich University from
which he has received the degrees of A.M.

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and LL.D. He married at Eden, Ver
mont, August 9, 1871, Lavinia L. Fletcher,
who died January 31, 1906, and they have
two children : Charles A., born April 14,
1875, and Theodora M., born June 16, 187&.
Address : Northfield, Vermont.
PLYMPTON, Eben:
Actor; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
February 7, 1853 ; son of John Bradlee and
Elizabeth (Holden) Plympton. He made
his first appearance on the stage in Sara
toga ; next appeared with John McCullogh ;
then at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, and
afterward for two years, members of a stock
company at Wallach's Theatre, New York
City. In 1886 was leading man with Chris
tine Nielson; next season supported Law
rence Barrett; afterwards was leading man
with Mary Anderson during her farewell
tour. He has also appeared with Julia Mar
lowe; he is regarded to-day as one of the
foremost interpreters of Shakespearian
roles. Address : Plympton, Massachusetts.
PLYMPTON, Gilbert Motler:
Banker; born at Fort Wood, Bedloe's
Island, New York Harbor, January 15,
1835; son of Joseph and Eliza Matilda
(Livingston) Plympton (father served in
the War of 1812 as lieutenant, in the Semi
nole War, Florida, as major, and in the
Mexican War as lieutenant-colonel, receiv
ing the brevet of colonel for gallant serv
ice at the battle of Cerro Gordo). His edu
cation was begun at Fort Snelling, Minne1
sota under the chaplain of the post, and
continued in a private school at Sacket's
Harbor; during his father's absence in
Mexico, was sent to the house of his uncle,
Gerard W. Livingston in New Jersey, and
studied there ; entered Shurtleff College, Il
linois, upon his father's return and ap
pointment to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri;
subsequently studied at John Sedgwick's
School, New York City, and after reading
law was admitted to practice November,
i860; entered the Law Department of the
University of New York and graduated
in 1863. Engaged in the general practice
of law, 1863, and became identified with
important litigations, especially in Federal

Courts. In 1889, having earned a fortune,
and finding his health impaired by over
work, he went abroad for some time, and
upon his return retired from active prac
tice. In 1892 he founded the banking house
of Redmond, Kerr & Company, and later
the present banking house of Plymptoh,
Gardiner & Company; is a director in sev
eral corporations. Has been a-frequent con
tributor to periodicals and is the author
of several pamphlets, among them a mono
graph upon the life of his father and a
sketch of the Plympton family. Mr. Plymp
ton is a member of the Sons of the Revo
lution, Sons of Colonial Wars, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Museum of Natural His
tory, Chamber of Commerce, St. Nicholas
Society, American Historical Association
and St. Andrew's Society. He is a member
of the St. Nicholas Club (was a founder
and vice-president), Union, Metropolitan,
Riding, Westchester County, and New
York Yacht Clubs. He married in 1863,
Mary A., daughter of Linus W. Stevens
(well known New York merchant and first
colonel of the Seventh Regiment). They
have one daughter, Mrs. Robert M. Tarle-
ton. Residence : 30 West Fifty-second
Street. Country place: Wyndtryst, Great
Neck, Long Island. Address: (business)
27 William Street, New York City.
POLLARD, E. SI.:
Congressman; born at Nehawka, Cass
County, Nebraska, his present home, April
15, 1869. His father, a native of Vermont,
was one of the early pioneers of Nebraska,
who settled at Nehawka in 1856. He was
educated in the country district school at
Nehawka, from which he entered the Ne
braska State University, at Lincoln, in 1889,
graduating therefrom in- 1893 with the de
gree of B.A. He has been engaged in busi
ness with his father in general farming
and fruit raising, making a specialty of
apple growing, having a 200-a'cre • orchard
of apples. While a student at the State Uni
versity was a member of the cadet battalion,
and in his senior year was the senior cap
tain of the battalion. Was a member of
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99, and president of the Nebraska Repub
lican League in 1900. He was elected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress July 18, 1905, at
a special election to fill the vacancy caused
by the election of Hon. E. J. Burkett to
the United States Senate, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the First Ne
braska District. Address : Nehawka, Ne
braska. POLLOCK, Charles Andrew:
Jurist; born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, New York, September 27, 1853;
son of Rev. John Pollock and Eunice El
vira (Ellis) Pollock. He was graduated
from Cornell College ¦ at Mount Vernon,
Iowa, with the degree of A.B. in 1878, and
the same college conferred upon him the
A.M. degree in 1881. He was graduated
from the Law School of the State Uni
versity of Iowa in 1881 with the degree
of LL.B., and June 15, 1881 opened an of
fice at Fargo, North Dakota. He was dis
trict attorney of Cass County, Dakota Ter
ritory, from 1885 to 1889, and then en
gaged in private practice until the end of
1896. He was elected in 1896 judge of the
District Court for the Third District of
North Dakota, and took his seat January
1, 1897. He has since been twice reelected
— the last time without opposition, and his
present term will expire January 1, 1909.
Judge Pollock is a Republican in politics
and until he went upon the Bench was
usually a delegate to county and State con
ventions of the party, and each four years
spoke generally throughout the State. He
was identified in Territorial days with the
movement looking toward a division of
the Territory into North and South Da
kota, and the subsequent efforts for ad
mission to the Union; and was connected
with all movements looking toward bring
ing in constitutional and statutory prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic in North Dakota;
and he was chairman of the Committee
having in charge the preparation of the
present Prohibitory Liquor Law of the
State. Judge Pollock is a Methodist, and
a trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of Fargo, North Dakota. He is a
member of the Masonic order. He mar

ried at Osage, Iowa, September 27, 1882,
Martha Clinton, daughter of Rev. Dr. John
W. and Jessie Clinton ; and they have three
living children: Clara A., born in 1887;
Lorine Ma'rtha, born in 1889, and Charles
Martin, born in 1891. Residence: 319
Ninth Street, Fargo. Office: Court House,
Fargo, North Dakota.
POLLOCK, James:
Carpet manufacturer; born in County
Derry, Ireland, of a Scotch-Irish family,
August 28, 1846; his parents came to Am
erica in 1851 and settled in Kensington,
Philadelphia. He was educated in the pub
lic schools; entered the dry goods house
of Riegle & Brother, remaining with them
till 1877, when he and his father, James
Pollock, Sr., began business as manufac
turers of Venetian carpets, under the firm
name of James Pollock & Son; the father
died four years later and the son con
tinued the business, which has grown up
to be one of the largest in the country for
its special grade of goods. He early de
veloped literary tastes and became a mem
ber of several debating societies, while for
ten years he was the Philadelphia corre
spondent of The Carpet Trade, the first
journal to represent the carpet and uphol
stery interests of the country. Politically he
is a Republican, was a candidate for Select
Council from the Thirty-first Ward, and
represented this ward for nine years (1878-
1887) on the Board of Public Education.
The board had no more useful and pro
gressive member. Earnest as an advocate
of municipal reform, he became a member
of the Committee of One Hundred, upon
which he actively served; he attended sev
eral National Republican Conventions, and
in the Chicago Convention of 1888 urged
the Platform Committee to speak strongly
in favor of the policy of protection. In
1882 he organized the great trades display
during the bi-centennial celebration of the
landing of William Penn. He was one of
the organizers of the Ninth -National Bank,
the Industrial Trust, Title & Savings Com
pany, and the Manufacturers' Club, of which
he has been a director from the start; he
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League, and is a member of the Historical
Society, the Hibernian and Albion Socie
ties, the Columbian Club, etc. Address:
1408 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.POLLOCK, John C:
United States judge; born in Belmont
County, Ohio, November 5, 1859; son of
Samuel Pollock and Jane B. (Scott) Pol
lock. He was graduated from Franklin
College in 1882, and -after studying law 'at
St. Clairsville, Ohio, went to Newton,
Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar
in 1884. Four years later he established
in practice at Winfield, Kansas, where he
continued until 1900, when he became a
justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas,
resigning upon his appointment, December
1, 1901, as judge of the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Kansas.
Judge Pollock is a Republican in politics.
He married at Lafferty, Ohio, September
24, 1886, Louise Lafferty. Address : To
peka, Kansas.
POMEROY, Harlan:
Physician; born in Strongsville, Ohio,
June 27, 1853; son of Alanson Pomeroy
and Kezia (Pope) Pomeroy. He was
a student at Oberlin College, and re
ceived the degree of M.D. from the Homeo
pathic Hospital College, Cleveland, in 1879.
From 1881 to 1884 he was attending phy
sician at the Good Samaritan Dispensary;
professor of physiology, hygiene and san
itary science from 1884 to 1891 ; profes
sor of obstetrics from 1891 to 1894, and
dean of the Training School for Nurses
since 1894; and also consulting obstetrician,
at Maternity Hospital. Dr. Pomeroy is
trustee of the Plymouth Congregational
Church ; secretary of the Cleveland Homeo
pathic Hospital Society, continuously since
1880; and he is a member of the American
Institute of Homeopathy, the Ohio State
Medical Society, a Mason and Knight Tem
plar (Oriental Commandery). He is di
rector of the Cleveland, Southwestern and
Columbus Railway. Pie traveled in Europe
in 1890. In politics he is a Republican.
Dr. Pomeroy is a member of the Union

Club of Cleveland, Ohio. He married in
Elyria, Ohio, December 20, 1880, Frances
L. Pomroy, and their children are: Law
rence A., born in 1883, and Gertrude M.,
born 1893. Residence : 1934 East Seventy-
fifth Street, Cleveland. Office address : 2047
East Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
POND, Raymond Haines:
Professor of botany and pharmacognosy;
born in Topeka, Kansas, March 3, 1875.
He received from the Kansas State Agri
cultural College in 1898 the degree of B.S.,-
in 1899 the degree of M.S., and in 1902
from the University of Michigan the de
gree of Ph.D. He* was assistant botanist
at the Kansas State Agricultural College
from 1895 to 1897; botanist and chemist
in 1897 and 1898 ; assistant in the herbarium
at the University of Michigan in 1898 and
1899. He became assistant plant physiolo
gist in 1899 and 1900, and botanist and
pathologist at the Maryland Agricultural
College and Experiment Station in 1900
and 1901 ; professor of botany and phar
macognosy and director of the microscopi
cal laboratory at Northwestern University
since 1903. He was special assistant to the
United States Fish Commission, from 1899
to 1901, and research scholar in the New
York Botanical Gardens in 1905, 1906 and
1907. Professor Pond is a member of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the Botanical Society of
America, Botanists of the Central States;
American Society of Biological Chemists
and charter member of Sigma Xi Society.
His favorite researches are the biologic re
lation of aquatic plants to the substratum,
the endosperm enzyme of Phoenix dacty-
lifera, solution tension and toxicity in lipo-
lyipsis. Address: 87 Lake Street, Chicago,
Illinois. POOLEY, Robert Henry:
Clergyman; born at Rush, Jo Daviess
County, Illinois, 1856; son of Sampson
and Martha (Moralee) Pooley. He grad
uated from Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, as A.B. and Phi
Beta Kappa, in the class of 1882, and as
B.D. in 1884, from Garrett Biblical Insti-

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tute, and received from Northwestern Uni
versity the degrees of A.M. and D.D. He
joined Rock River Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in 1904 and 1908.
He held pastorates at Richards Street
Church, Joliet, Illinois; Trinity Church,
Chicago ; - Appleton Church, Wisconsin ;
Wabash Avenue Church, and Edgewater
Church, Chicago ; First Church at Oak
Park, Chicago, Court Street Church, Rock
ford, Illinois, and is now presiding elder
of the Joliet District, Rock River Confer
ence.. He is a member of the American
Institute of Christian Philosophy, and of
the Delta Upsilon fraternity and Phi Beta
Kappa Society. Dr. Pooley married at
Evanston, Illinois, August 14, 1884, Martha
Gertrude Skelton (Northwestern Univer
sity, 1881, Ph.M.), and they have had three
children : Leila Jessica, born September 15,
1886, and now deceased, Eleanor Gertrude,
born July 26, 1888 (Northwestern Uni
versity, 1910), and Elizabeth Marguerite,
born March 10, -1890. Address : 2008 Sher
man Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
POOLEY, Robert P.:
United States Consul; born in Saint He
lena, 1834; left Saint' Helena, March 13,
1886, arrived in New York City May 4,
1886. His consular career started as a
clerk, vice-consul, acting consul and prin
cipal consul officer; opened in 1856 under
George W. Kimball, then consul of the
United States at Saint Helena ; appointed
vice-consul at Saint Helena, April 18, 1872;
retired September 16, 1878; appointed con
sul at Sierra Leone, November I, 1893 ;
consul at Saint Helena since January 12,
1898. Representative at Saint Helena, in
marine insurance, of The Insurance Com
pany, New York, and the Boston Marine
Insurance Company. Address: United
States Consulate, Jamestown, Saint Helena.
POOR, Rue! W.:
President of the Garfield Bank; born in
New London, New Hampshire, September
29, i860, and received his education in Wil
ton (Maine) Academy. He is president
and director of the Garfield National Bank,

the Garfield Safe Deposit Company; a
member of the New England Society, Cham
ber of Commerce, and of the Lotos, New
York Athletic and Craftsmens' Clubs. Res
idence : 320 West One Hundred and First
Street, New York City. Office address : 71
West Twenty-third Street, New York City.
POORE, Henry Rankin:
j Artist; born at Newark, New Jersey,
I March 21, 1859 ; son of Daniel W. and
j Susan (Ellis) Poore. He was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1883, and studied art at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, at the National
Academy of Design, and later with Lu-
menais and Bouguereau in Paris. In 1883
he went abroad and traveled for two and
a half years in Italy, Germany, Holland,
and France, and in 1891 he traveled for the
United States Government, writing and il
lustrating among the Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico. The following year he went
to Europe where he spent a year and a
half studying in France and England. In
1893 he made a tour of England painting
hounds and hunting scenes, and among
others painted the Queen's stag hounds, at
Ascot Heath. He was the director of the
Art Department of Chautauqua from 1896
to 1902, and has been a lecturer on pictor
ial composition at the Pennsylvania Acad
emy of Fine Arts since 1904. He has re
ceived medals at the Buffalo Pan American
Exposition, at the St. Louis Universal Ex
position, also he was awarded the Hall-
garten prize from the National Academy
of Design, and a two thousand dollar prize
from the American Art Association of New
York. Mr. Poore is identified with the
Republican party in politics and is a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Church. He is
a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club
(ex-president), the Art Club, the Delta Phi
fraternity, Eta Chapter, and the Salmagundi
and Lotos Clubs of New York City. He
is author of: Pictorial Composition;
The Critical Judgment of Pictures; and
Figure Composition, and lectures on these
topics. He has also written various ar
ticles on art. He was married at Wor-

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MEN OF AMERICA.

cester, Massachusetts;- in June, 1896, to
Katharine Goodnow Stevens. Address:
45 Ridge Street, Orange, New Jersey.
POPE, Albert Augustus:
Manufacturer; born in Boston, May 20,
1843; son of Charles Pope. He received
his education in the public and high schools
until fifteen years of age. As a boy, fam
ily reverses compelled him to secure work
in afternoons and vacations from the age
of nine. He left high school when fifteen
years old and was employed by the Quincy
Market, Boston, later as porter in a shoe-
findings business at four dollars per week.
When the war broke out, he joined Salig-
nac's Zouaves, and was chosen captain of
the Home Guard of Brookline. On August
22, 1862, he joined the volunteer forces of
the Union Army and went to the front as
second lieutenant of Company I, Thirty-
fifth Massachusetts Infantry, serving in that
regiment until the close of the war ; and he
was successively promoted to first lieuten
ant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel
and was one of the four, original officers to
be mustered out at the close of the war.
He took part in many battles ; the more im
portant being: South Mountain, Antietam,
Sulphur Springs, Fredericksburg, Vicks
burg, Jackson, Mississippi, Knoxville, Pet
ersburg, and Poplar Springs Church; com
manded Fort Hell, at Petersburg and in
the last attack he led his regiment into the
city. He was brevetted major for gallant
conduct at the battle of Fredericksburg, Vir
ginia, and lieutenant-colonel for gallant con
duct at the battles of Knoxville, Poplar
Spring Church and front of Petersburg,
March 13, 1865. After the war he went to
work for his former employer, but soon
established for himself in the line of slipper
decorations and shoe manufacturers' sup
plies. He first saw a bicycle at the Cen
tennial Exposition in 1876; and in 1877 he
established the Pope Manufacturing Com
pany, for the marketing of small patented
articles ; placed the first order for the im
portation of English bicycles, September,
1877, and in the spring of 1878 he gave the
first order for bicycles to be manufactured
in the United States, to the Weed Sewing

Machine Company, of Hartford, Connecti
cut, which company later he bought out,
and controlled. The Pope Manufacturing
Company became foremost in the bicycle
industry and is now the largest in the
manufacture of automobiles. He established
Wheeling, now Outing, as an advocate of
Wheeling and good roads. Colonel Pope
is now president of the Pope Manufactur
ing Company, the Pope Motor Car Com
pany, and the Chicago Roads Association,
director of the Metropolitan Storage Ware
house Company, the New England Steam-
Brick Company of Providence, Rhode Is
land, and t^e Perkins Machine Company
of Warren, Massachusetts; trustee of the
Boston Five-Cents Savings Bank, the Em
bankment Land Company, the Boston Fen
way Land Company; the Kilsyth Land
Trust; the Chestnut Hill Land Trust and
the Goldthwaite Building Trust of Boston,
the Esplanade Land Trust. He was for
merly vice-president of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac, was one of the
Executive Committee of the American As
sociation of Inventors and Manufacturers;
has been a visitor to Wellesley College, and
of Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard
College. Colonel Pope is a member of
the Massachusetts Society of Sons of Re
volution ; is ex-commander of the Massa
chusetts Commandery of the Military Or
der of Loyal Legion, member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Boston Merchants'
Association; twice president of the Bea
con Society of Boston, life member of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science, the Massachusetts Society of the
Cincinnati, the Society of the Thirty-Fifth
Massachusetts Volunteers and a member of
the Automobile Club of America, the Al
gonquin, Boston Athletic, the Art Club of
Boston, Union League, Reform and En
gineers Club of New York City. Colonel
Pope married, September 20, 1871, Abby
Lindner, and their children are: Albert
Linder, Margaret Roberts, Harold Linder,
Charles Linder, and Ralph Linder. Mr.
Pope has a residence at Cohasset, Massachu
setts. Address: 278 Commonwealth Ave
nue, Boston, Massachusetts.

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18 IS

POPE, Albert Linder:
Manufacturer; born in Newton, Massa
chusetts, July 14, 1872; son of Albert Au
gustus Pope and Abby (Linder) Pope. He
received his education in the public schools
and Chauncy Hall School of Boston, Phil
lips Exeter Academy, and Kings School,
Stamford, Connecticut. He enlisted as a
private in the First Corps Cadets, of the
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, June 12,
1891, remained there about three and one-
half years; transferred to the First Bri
gade staff, as provost sergeant ; and was
promoted on the same staff to captain and
provost marshal under Brigadier-General
F. A. Matthews; total service in the Mas
sachusetts Militia about eight and one-half
years, and was first lieutenant and quarter
master of the First Connecticut Infantry
in 1900. He is first vice-president of the
Pope Manufacturing Company ; director arid
member of the Executive Committee of the
Pope Motor Car Company, vice-president
and director of the Columbia Steel Com
pany, Elyria, Ohio, and the Federal Manu
facturing Company. He is president and
member of the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Auto Manufactur
ers, director of the American Wood Rim
Company^ a member of the Executive Com
mittee, Welfare Department of the National
Civic Federation, of the New York State
Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, member and director of the
Sons of Revolution of Connecticut ; Free
Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. His
favorite recreations are automobiling and
yachting and he is also a member of the
Engineers' Club of New York City, and
the Hartford Club of Hartford. He mar
ried, April 22, 1896, Amy Jaynes. Address :
Pope Manufacturing Company, Hartford,
Connecticut.
POPE, James Worden:
Colonel of the United States Army ; born
in Louisville, Kentucky, June 6, 1846; son
of Edmund Pendleton Pope and Nancy
(Johnson) Pope. He studied in the Uni
versity of Indiana, from 1862 to 1864, and
was graduated from the United States Mili

tary Academy at West Point, June 15, 1864.
He was appointed second lieutenant of the
Fifth Infantry, January 15, 1868; stationed
in the West and engaged in the Indian
Campaign under General Carr in 1868; un
der General Wood in 1869; under General
Miles on his staff in 1874, against the com
bined tribes of Kiowas, Comanches, Arra-
pahoes and Cheyennes, and again under
General Miles against Sioux and Northern
Cheyennes from 1876 to 1878; and against
Bannocks in 1878. He was depot quarter
master at Tampa in April, 1898 ; chief quar
termaster under Merrill and Otis in the
Philippines from June, 1898, to September,
1899; chief quartermaster Department of
Colorado from 1900 to 1904; in command
of the Philadelphia Depot from 1904 to
1907; and chief quartermaster of the De
partment of the Gulf since 1907. He was
commandant of the United States Military
Prison from 1887 to 1895; and acting war
den of the United States Penitentiary, hav
ing organized and started it at Fort Leav
enworth, Kansas. He traveled through
China and Japan in 1879. Colonel Pope is
author of various articles on professional
subjects in the Military Service Journal,
Arena, Cosmopolitan, Review of Reviews,
and other periodicals. He is a member
of the National Geographic Society, Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, the Society of the Cin
cinnati of Virginia, Sons of the Revolution,
Military Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States, the War of 1812, and Army
of the Philippines. Colonel Pope is also
a member of the Capital City Club of At
lanta, Georgia, Driving Club and others.
He married in Leavenworth, Kansas, Oc
tober 27, 1880, Mary E. Lynch, and their
children are : Eleanor, who married, April
31, 1906, Henry Lyne of Denver, Colorado,
and Worden, born November 14, 1882. Resi
dence : 29 Ponce de Leon Street, Atlanta,
Georgia. Office address : Bandler Building,
Atlanta, Georgia.
POPE, William Hayes:
Lawyer and associate justice of the Su
preme Court of New Mexico; born at
Beaufort, South Carolina, June 14, 1870;
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MEN OF AMERICA.

(Mikell) Pope. He received the degree
of A.M. from the University of Georgia in
1889, and the degree of LL.B. in 1890, from
the same university. Pie was assistant at
torney-general of New Mexico in 1897 and
1898; assistant United States attorney of
the Court of Private Land Claims from
1896 to 1902. United States attorney for
the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1901
and 1902; judge of the Court of First
Instance of the Philippine Islands in 1902
and 1903 ; associate justice of the Supreme
Court of New Mexico, since 1903. He was
a member of the Capitol Commission of
New Mexico from 1896 to 1900; traveled
in Mexico in 1898; and in the Philippine
Islands, China and Japan in 1902 and 1903.
He is a Presbyterian in his religious af
filiation. Mr. Pope is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars. He married in.
Athens, Georgia, November 29, 1905, Mary
Nishel Hull. Address : Roswell, New Mex
ico. PORTER, Alexander Jeffrey:
Manufacturer; bom at Niagara Falls,
New York, June 29, 1863, son of Albert
Augustus Porter and Julia Granger (Jef
frey) Porter. He received his education in
a small private school and went to work
at seventeen year's of age. He was treas
urer and director of Pattebone Cataract
Paper Company; secretary of the Niagara
Falls Power Company; and vice-president
of the Dabbie Foundry and Machine Com
pany, all of Niagara Falls ; is now president
and director of the Natural Food Com
pany, Niagara Falls; director of the New
York and Buffalo Audit Company ; Niagara
River Manufacturing Company ; director
and secretary of the Frontier Land Com
pany ; director of the Niagara Land and
Improvement Company; trustee of the Ni
agara County Savings Bank, and the River-
view Cemetery Association. He was a
member of the Republican State Committee
and was supervisor of the Town of Ni
agara. In his religious affiliation he is an
Episcopalian. Mr. Porter is a member of
the Society for the Reservation of Scenic
and Historic Places ; trustee of the Niagara

Falls Memorial Hospital; commissioner of
the State Reservation of Niagara, appointed
by Governors Black and Higgins, and he
is a member of the Buffalo Club, Saturn
Club of Buffalo, Niagara and Country
Clubs of Niagara Falls. Mr. Porter mar
ried Margaret Maud Langmuir of Toronto,
Canada, and they have five children: Mar
garet Jeffrey, born in 1896, Albert Augus
tus, born in 1897, Alexander Langmuir,
born in 1898, Katharine Ralston, born in
1900, and Julia Granger, born in 1902. Sum
mer home : Penjerrick House, Lewiston
Heights, New York. Office address : Niag
ara Falls, New York.
PORTER, Eugene Hoffman:
Physician; born at Ghent, Columbia
County, New York, August 7, 1856; son of
Curtis H. Porter; of old Dutch ancestry,
connected with the DePeyster, Van Buren
and Douw families. He was educated at
Cortland Normal School, Claverack College,
Cornell. University, New York Homeo
pathic Medical College, M.D., 1885, Rut
gers College, A.M., 1889. Associate editor
from 1885 to 1892, editor since 1892, North
American Journal of Homeopathy. Was
professor of physiological materia medica
in New York Homeopathic Medical Col
lege and Hospital; was also professor of
medicine, chemistry and sanitary science for
years ; now consulting physician Laura
Franklin Free Hospital for Children, and
the Hahnemann Hospital; medical exam
iner of Manhattan Life Insurance Company
and Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance
Company; was one of Advisory Committee
on Internal Health Exposition held in New
York City, 1898; appointed Commissioner
of Health for State of New York by Gov
ernor Higgins, May 8, 1905. Honorary
member Societe Medicate Homeopathique
de France, British Homeopathic Society,
member of the American Institute of
Homeopathy, general secretary from 1894
to 1901, New York State Homeopathic
Medical Society (ex-president), New York
County Homeopathic Medical Society
(served as vice-president and chairman of
the Legislative Committee), member of the

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1817

Board of Trustees of the Hudson-Fulton
Celebration Commission, member of the
New York Academy of Sciences, American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
National Geographic Society, New York
Museum of Natural History, American Pub
lic Health Association, member of the New
York State Press Association, National
Editorial Association, Columbia Lodge 98,
Free and Accepted Masons, president of
Columbia County Association in the City
of New York; president of several business
corporations. He is a member of the
Unanimous, Meissen, and Communipaw
Clubs (all medical) ; Republican Club
(member of the Board of Governors), Cor
nell University, Colonial, Twilight, and
Quill Clubs (New York City) and the Fort
Orange Club of Albany. Married, in 1889,
Alice A. Day, of Upper Lisle, New York.
They have one son. Address: 181 West
Seventy-third Street, New York City.
PORTER, Horace:
Diplomat, brigadier-general, United States
Army; born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
April 15, 1837; son of David R. Porter
(governor of Pennsylvania) and Josephine
(McDermet) Porter. He was educated in
Harvard University, at the United States
Military Academy; and received the LL.D.
degree from Union University in 1894, and
from Princeton University in 1906. He has
been president of several railway companies
and director in fourteen railway and finan
cial institutions. He is brigadier-general,
United States Army ; served in the field dur
ing Civil War, the last year on General
Grant's staff; received six brevets for gal
lantry in battle; received the Congressional
medal of honor, for a special act of gal
lantry at the battle of Chickamauga ; served
as assistant secretary of war, and he was
ambassador to France from March, 1897,
to May, 1905. He is delegate to the Hague
Peace Conference; received from France
the Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur,
the first American who had ever received
it. On May 9, 1906, he received by unan
imous vote of both houses of Congress,
thariks for the recovery of the body of John

Paul Jones. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Presbyterian. He is a
member of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army
of the Republic, Society of Foreign Wars,
Sons of the American Revolution, the So
ciety of the Cincinnati, and Military Or
der of the Loyal Legion and the Alliance
Frangais. Pie is a member of the Union
League, Metropolitan, University, Century,
National Arts, Down- Town, Lawyers',
Players', Authors, Grolier, Army and Navy,
Lotos and Republican Clubs of New York
City, and of the Cercle de l'Union Club
of Paris. General Porter married in Al
bany, New York, December 23, 1863, Sophie
K. McHarg, and they have two children:
Clarence, and Mrs. Elsie Porter Mende.
Address : 277 Madison Avenue, New York
City. PORTER, William David:
Judge of the Superior Court of Penn
sylvania; born at Porter's Landing, Han-'
cock County, West Virginia, January 3,
1850. He read law with Collier, Miller &
McBride, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where
he was admitted to the bar in 1872. Was
elected district attorney of Allegheny Coun
ty in 1883, and reelected in 1886; was ap
pointed a judge of the Court of Common
Pleas Number Three, of Allegheny Coun
ty, in May, 1891, and elected to that office
for the full term in the following November.
While serving in that position he was on
July 4, 1898, appointed a judge of the Su
perior Court of Pennsylvania, and his elec
tion for the full term followed in Novem
ber. This term expires in January, 1909.
Judge Porter is a member of the Duquesne
Club of Pittsburgh. Address: Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. PORTER, William H.:
President of the Chemical National Bank ;
born in Middlebury, Vermont, January 3,
1861. He received his education in the
Middlebury Academy, and Saratoga High
School. He is director of the Chemical Na
tional Bank, Fifth Avenue Bank, Bankers'
Trust Company, Astor Trust Company, the
United States Life Insurance Company, and
various manufacturing corporations; and

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is trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank.
He is a member of the New England So
ciety, the American Geographical Society,
the American Institute of Mining Engin
eers, Chamber of Commerce, and of the
Metropolitan, Republican, Union League,
New York Athletic, Atlantic Yacht, Trans
portation, Riding, City-Midday, and Hard
ware Clubs of New York City. Residence:
56 East Sixty-seventh Street, New York
City. Office address : 270 Broadway, New
York City.
PORTER, William Wagener: •
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, May 5,
1856; son of William A. Porter, judge of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and
Court of Alabama Claims, Washington. His
grandfather was David Rittenhouse Porter,
twice governor of Pennsylvania; his great
grandfather was Gen. Andrew Porter, chief
of engineers on the staff of Washington
during the Revolution. He was educated in
private schools in Philadelphia; was grad
uated from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1875, with the A.B. degree, and in 1878
took the degree of M.A. from the same
university; read law with his father, Hon.
William A. Porter, and was admitted to
the bar in 1877. He practiced his profes
sion in Philadelphia until 1897, when he
was appointed judge of the Superior Court
of Pennsylvania, and subsequently elected
to a full term, but resigned in order to re
turn to the practice of the law in 1903.
Judge Porter is the author of a legal text
book on : Bills of Lading, and several bro
chures. He is a member of the Society of the
Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, the
Union League of Philadelphia, and other
sOcial and charitable institutions. He was
the orator at the unveiling of the great
Washington Monument in Philadelphia, an
occasion in which President McKinley also
participated. Address: 2025 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
POSEY, William Campbell:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, July 5,
1866; son of David Root Posey, M.D., and
Emily Jewel Campbell. He was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania, as A.

B. in 1886, and M. D. in 1889. He is sur
geon to the Wills Eye Hospital; professor
of ophthalmology in the Philadelphia Poly
clinic. He was editor of the Fifth Amer
ican edition of Nettleship's Diseases of the
Eye (Lea Brothers, Philadelphia) ; and is
author of: Posey and Wright's Diseases of
the Eye, Nose, Throat and Ear (Lea Broth
ers, Philadelphia) ; Posey and Spiller, on
Diseases of the Eye (J. P. Lippincott &
Company, Philadelphia) ; and author of nu
merous treatises on ophthalmological sub
jects. He is a member of the American
Ophthalmological Society. Address: 1835
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
POST, Charles Henderson:
Fire insurance manager; born at Ellen-
ville, Ulster County, New York; son of
S. A. Law and Laura (Judd) Post. He
was educated in a private school at Ellen-
ville, New York, and received the State
Regent certificate. He is United States
manager of the Caledonian Insurance Com
pany of Scotland and president of the Cale-.
donian American Insurance Company of
New York. Mr. Post has visited every im
portant place in the United States, and
crossed the ocean eighteen times. He is a
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in religious faith. Mr. Post is a member of
the Lotos and Downtown Clubs of New
York City, the Baltusrol Golf Club (being
one of its governors), Canoe Brook Coun
try, Sundown Fishing, and the Beaver Dam
Fishing Clubs. He married at Ellenville,
New York, June 13, 1878, Kate R. Milliken,
and they have two children; Laura Milli
ken ; wife of C. F. Shallcross, and Katherine
Milliken. Residence: Whittredge Place,
Summit, New Jersey. Address : Caledonian
Building, 50-52 Pine Street, New York
City. POST, Edwin Maui:
Banker; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,. Janu
ary 6, 1870 ; he was graduated from Colum
bia University invi892; he is a member of
the firm of Thomas and Post, members of
the New York Stock Exchange; president
of the Express Coal Line and Georgia Car
Company; vice-president of the Southern

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1819

Iron Car Line; secretary, treasurer and di
rector of the Manhattan Car Trust Com
pany; secretary, Louisville, Henderson and
St. Louis Railroad Company. Member of
the Sons of Revolution, Racquet and
Tennis, New York Yacht, New York Ath
letic, Tuxedo, Lambs', Union, Saint An
thony, Knickerbocker, Larchmont Yacht,
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and the
Down Town Clubs. He married Emily
Bruce Price. Address : Hotel Belmont,
New York City.
POST, George B., Jr.:
Banker, broker; born in New York City,
July 30, 1864; son of George B. and Alice
(Stone) Post; he was educated in Saint
Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts,
and Columbia University. He is a member
of the firm of Post and Flagg ; governor of
the New York Stock Exchange. He is
also a member of the Delta Phi fraternity,
Columbia University, Alumni Association;
also of the Uriion, Knickerbocker, Saint
Anthony, New York Yacht, New York
Athletic, Morristown, Somerset Hills Coun
try, Morristown Golf, Midday, Garden City
Golf, Racquet and Tennis, and Morris
County Golf Clubs. He married Julia Cot
ton Smith; and has a son: George B., 3d.
Residence: 18 East Thirty-seventh Street.
Address: 38 Wall Street, New York City.
POST, James Howell:
Sugar refiner; born in New Rochelle,
New, York, October 13, 1859;- son of Wil
liam Post and Eleanor (Sackett) Post. He
received his education in the public school.
He has been clerk and partner with B. H.
Howell Son and Company since 1874; also
president of the National Sugar Refining
Company, of New Jersey; director of the
National City Bank of New York; trus
tee of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank;
director and treasurer of the Chaparra Su
gar Company and various other sugar com
panies ; director of the United States Real
ty and Improvement Company, and various
other companies. In his religious affilia
tions he is a Presbyterian. Mr. Post is a
member of the Industrial School Associa
tion of Brooklyn, the Young Men's Chris

tian Association of Brooklyn, and the
Brooklyn Hospital and Dispensary. He
married in Brooklyn, in 1887, Louisa Wells
and their children are : Jessie Wells, Helen
Marion and Elizabeth. Residence : 162 Ross
Street, Brooklyn, New York. Office ad
dress : 109 Wall Street, New York City.
POST, Lonis Freeland:
Editor of The Public; born in Vienna,
New Jersey, November 15, 1849; son of
Eugene J. Post and Elizabeth (Freeland)
Post. He was educated in New York pub
lic schools; learned the printer's trade
at Hackettstown, New Jersey; afterward
studied law and was admitted to the New
York bar in 1870. He was assistant
United States attorney in New York in
1874 and 1875, editorial writer on New
York Daily Truth from 1879 to 1882, re
turned to the practice of law from" 1883
to 1890, but has since been engaged in
editorial work. Mr. Post became inter
ested in Henry George and his teachings
in 1881, and is now one of the foremost
editorial exponents of the Henry George
philosophy. He was a candidate for Con
gress on the Labor ticket in 1882, for dis
trict attorney of New York, on the
George ticket, 1887, and has since advo
cated the Single Tax and allied economic
reforms; edited The Daily Leader (George
campaign paper) in 1886; was contributor
to The Standard from 1886 to 1891, and its
editor in 1891 and 1892; editor of The
Cleveland Recorder in 1896" and 1897,
founded The Public in Chicago in 1898,
and has since been its editor. - He is au
thor of: The George-Hewitt Campaign,
1887; The Single Tax, 1895; Success in
Life, 1902; The Ethics, of Democracy, 1905;
The Prophet of San Francisco, 1905;
Ethical Principles of Marriage and Di
vorce, 1906. He is a Democrat in his po
litical relations and was a strong supporter
of the municipal ownership programme of
the Dunne administration in Chicago, and
a member of the Board of Education in
1906 and 1907. He is a member of the Man
hattan Single Tax Club of New York, Chi
cago Press Club, Henry George Association,
and the City, Chicago Literary and Jeffer-

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son Clubs of Chicago. He married, first, at
Hackettstown, New Jersey, July 6, 1871,
Anna Johnson, who died November 14,
1891, and of that union there were two chil
dren: Edna (now deceased), and Charles
Johnson. Mr. Post again married, De
cember 2, 1893, Alice Thacher, of Orange,
New Jersey. Residence : 1643 North
Halsted Street, Chicago. Office address :
National Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.
POTTER, Frederick:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, July
19, 1856; son of Orlando B. and Martha
Green (Wiley) Potter. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1878. He is trustee
of the Title Guarantee and Trust • Com
pany, director of the Bond and Mortgage
Guarantee Company, Realty Associates,
Westchester and Bronx Title and Mort
gage Guaranty Company; managing trus
tee of the estates of Orlando B. Potter.
He is a member of the Chamber of Com
merce, Board of Trade and Transportation,
American Geographical Society, New Eng
land Society, American Bar Association,
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; also
of the Lawyers', University, Yale and Ards
ley Clubs. He married in Ossining, New
York, April 7, 1885, Helen Ward Brand-
reth ; they have five children : Dorothy W.,
Orlando B., Frederick A., Margaretta W.,
Eugene Ward. Residence: Ossining, New
York. Address : 71 Broadway, New York
City. POTTER, Henry Codman:
Seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of
the Diocese of New York; born in Sche
nectady, New York, May 25, 1834; son of
Rev. Alonzo Potter, who was consecrated
bishop of Pennsylvania in 1845, and nephew
of Rev. Horatio Potter, who was elected
provisional bishop of the Diocese of New
York in 1854 and became bishop of New
York in 1861. He was educated at the
Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia and the
Theological Seminary of Virginia, near
Alexandria, from which he was graduated
in 1857; and the honorary degrees of A.
M. and D.D. were conferred upon him by
Union College, LL.D. by the University

of Cambridge, England, D.D. by the Uni
versity of Oxford, England, D.D. by Har
vard University and LL.D. by Yale (on
occasion of its Bi-Centennial). He was or
dered deacon in 1857 by Bishop Alonzo
Potter, and ordained priest in 1858 by
Bishop Bowman; was in charge of Christ
Church, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, from
1857 to 1859; rector of St. John's Church,
Troy, New York, from 1859 to 1869; and
rector of Grace Church, New York City,
from 1868 to 1884. He was elected presi
dent of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in
1863, but declined the position ; elected bish
op of Iowa, in 1875, but declined. In 1883
his uncle, Bishop Horatio Potter, then eigh
ty-one years old, asked the Diocesan Con
vention of New York for an assistant bish
op, which was complied with by the elec
tion of his nephew, who was consecrated
bishop, October 30, 1883, in presence of
forty-three bishops and nearly three hun
dred clergy, who were assembled at the
General Convention, the consecrators being
Bishops Bosworth, Smith, Williams, Clarke,
Whipple, Stevens, Littlejohn, Doane and
Huntington. His rectorship of Grace Church
ceased January, 1884, and he has since been
occupied with the duties of the episcopate,
serving as bishop coadjutor of New York
until the death of Bishop Horatio Pot
ter, January 2, 1887, and since then at the
head of the see of New York. He was
secretary of the House of Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church from 1866 un
til his elevation to the episcopate in 1883.
In addition to the duties of the oversight
of the largest diocese in population in the
United States, he has been active in move
ments of national importance and partic
ularly in efforts to promote cordial rela
tions between employers and employed. Dr.
Potter is author of : .Sisterhoods and Dea
conesses at Home and Abroad, 1871; The
Gates of the East— A Winter in Egypt and
Syria, 1876; The East of To-day and To
morrow, 1902; The Citizen in Relation to
the Industrial Situation (Dodge lectures
before the Yale Law School, 1902), as well
as numerous sermons, charges and ad
dresses. He is a member of the National

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Arts, Century, Metropolitan, City, Riding,
Players and St. Nicholas Clubs. Address:
347 West Eighty-ninth Street, New York
City.POTTER, James Brown:
Merchant, banker; born in New York
City (Washington Heights), May 17, 1853;
son of Howard and Mary Louisa (Brown)
Potter. He was graduated from Union Col
lege with the degree of B.A. in 1873. He
is president and managing director of
the Tlahualilo Agricultural Company, Lim
ited, of Mexico; trustee of the Mexican
Cotton Estates of Tlahualilo First Mortgage
Bonds,, and director of the Tlahualilo Com
pany, Limited, of London; president of the
Manchester Land Company; director of the
London and New York Investment Cor
poration, Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road Company (Executive Committee) ;
trustee of the English and American Mort
gage and Investment Company. He is a
member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce; life member of the National
Academy of Design, Metropolitan Museum
of Art; Union College Alumni Association.
He is also a member of the Tuxedo (a
governor), New York Yacht (life mem
ber), and the Down Town Clubs. He mar
ried, first, in 1877, Cora Urquhart, of New
Orleans; second, in 1904, Mary Handy,
daughter of Captain Handy, United States
Navy ; he has one daughter, Anne Urquhart,
now Mrs. James A. Stillman. Address : 59
Wall Street, New York City.
POTTER, Joseph S.:
Treasurer of Folwell Brothers, and Com
pany, Incorporated; born in Philadelphia,
September 9, 1853; son of John I. Potter
and Rebecca S. (Wilkinson) Potter. He
received his education in Newton Gram
mar School and the Central High School
and received from the latter the degree of
B.A. He is treasurer of the Folwell Broth
ers and Company and the Girard Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Mr. Potter is a
Republican in National politics. He is a
member of the Germantown Cricket Club,
the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the City Club
and the Mount Airy Country Club. He

married in Philadelphia, February 2, 1881,
Josephine W. G. Fitter and they have one
son : Clarence W. Potter, born in 1884.
Residence: 225 West Tulpehocken Street,
Philadelphia. Office address : 625 Chest
nut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
POTTER, William:
Lawyer and diplomat; born in Philadel
phia, April 17, 1852; son of Thomas Pot
ter and Adeline Coleman (Bower) Pot
ter. He was educated in the University of
Pennsylvania in the class of 1874, but left
college in order to accompany his father,
who was ill, to Europe. He afterward
studied law and was admitted to the Phila
delphia bar, and he was formerly vice-presi
dent and is now a director and solicitor
of Thomas Potter Sons and Company, In
corporated. He is also a member of the
Board of City Trusts, which has oversight
of Girard College, the Benjamin Franklin
Fund and all other trusts bequeathed to the
City of Philadelphia; is president of Jef
ferson Medical College and Hospital ;
trustee of the Pennsylvania Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb. He was United States
minister to Italy by appointment of Presi
dent Harrison from 1892 to 1894; was spe
cial Government commissioner to London,
Paris and Berlin, to negotiate the system
of marine post-offices in 1890; delegate to
the Universal Postal Union at Vienna in
1891 ; refused the tender of the post of
ambassador to Germany from President Mc
Kinley in March, 1897; was National re
lief commissioner to Porto Rico during the
Spanish-American War, and a member of
the Permanent Relief Committee of Phila
delphia. Mr. Potter was chairman of the
Advisory Board of Citizens called to coun
sel Mayor Weaver during 1905; and in
January, 1907, he was nominated on a uni
form primary by the City and Democratic
parties for mayor of Philadelphia, and,
though defeated, received 97,856 votes
against the Republican organization. Mr.
Potter is a member, and was formerly sec
retary, of the Union League of Philadel
phia. He has been twice married, first at
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1878,
Jane Kennedy Vanuxem, who died Janu-

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ary 17, 1897, and of that marriage there
were four children: Frederick Vanuxem
Potter, who died in April, 1885; Adeline
Coleman Potter (now Mrs. Joseph Walker
Wear of St. Louis, Missouri) ; Elizabeth
Vanuxem Potter (now Mrs. William E.
Goodman, Jr., of Philadelphia), and Alice
Vanuxem Potter. Mr. Potter after the
death of his first wife married, at Chest
nut Hill, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1899, her
sister, Hetty Vanuxem who died August
12, 1901. Residence: Chestnut Hill, Penn
sylvania. Business address : 1001 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
POTTER, William Flumer:
Jurist; born in Jackson County, Iowa,
April 27, 1857; educated in Wisconsin and
Iowa public and high schools ; entered La
fayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, class
of 1879, but did not complete course; re
ceived degree of LL.D. from Lafayette
College in 1907; entered banking business
in Iowa; studied law and was admitted to
the Iowa bar. He removed to Pittsburgh,
1881 ; was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar
in 1883; practiced until appointed, Sep
tember 25, 1900, Justice of the Supreme
Court, Pennsylvania, and elected Novem
ber 5, 1901, to same position for term of
twenty-one years, beginning January I,
1902. He was, while at the bar, engaged
largely in corporation practice. Justice
Potter is a member of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Amer
ican Historical Society, and Art Club of
Philadelphia. He is a Republican in poli
tics. He married in 1884, Jessie L. Bacon.
Residence: Kenmawr Hotel, Pittsburgh.
Address: Room 458, City Hall, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
POTTER, William Warren :
Physician; born in Strykersville, New
York, December 31, 1838; son of Lindorf
Potter and Mary Green Blaiichard Potter.
He was educated in Arcade (New York)
Seminary and Genesee Seminary and Col
lege at Lima, New York, and was grad
uated from the Buffalo University College
as M.D. in 1859. In the spring of 1859 he

formed a partnership in the practice of
medicine with his uncle' Dr. M. E. Potter
of Cowlesville, New York. When the Civil
War broke out he offered his Services to
the Government ; passed the examination of
the Army Board at Albany a few days
after .the battle of Fort Sumter; and was
commissioned in the summer of 1861 assist
ant surgeon of the Forty-ninth New York
Volunteers, in which he served in the Army
of the Potomac during the Peninsular Cam
paign, and under Burnside in the Fred
ericksburg disaster. He was left in charge
of the wounded soldiers while the army
was retreating to Harrison's Landing; was
captured by the Confederates, June, 1862,
and had an interesting interview with
Stonewall Jackson; was confined in Libby
Prison, but soon exchanged, and returned
to the regiment after three weeks' absence.
He was promoted to surgeon in December,
1862, and served with the Fifty-seventh
Regiment of New York Volunteers during
the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Cam
paigns. Soon after, he was assigned to the
charge of the First Division Hospital of
the Second Army Corps, where he contin
ued until mustered out at the close of the
war. He was brevetted by the President,
lieutenant-colonel of United States Volun
teers, for faithful and meritorious serv
ices, and by the governor of New York,
lieutenant-colonel of New York Volunteers.
After the war he practised for some time at
Batavia, New York, and since then at Buf
falo. Of late years he has confined his
practice to the treatment of diseases of
women. Dr. Potter is a member of the
American Medical Association, and was
chairman of the Section on Diseases of
Women in 1890; is a member of the Med
ical Society of the State of New York,
and was its president in 1891 ; a member
of the Medical Society of Erie County,
president in 1893; of the Buffalo Medical
and Surgical Association, president in 1886;
the Buffalo Obstetric Society, president
from 1884 to 1886; secretary of the Amer
ican Association of Obstetricians and Gyne
cologists since 1888; president of the Sec
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of the First Pan American Congress, 1893 ;
president and examiner in obstetrics and
gynecology for the New York State Med
ical Examining Board ; president of the Na
tional Confederation of Medical Examining
and Licensing Boards, 1896-1899; consult
ing surgeon of the Buffalo General Hos
pital. He is an extensive contributor to the
medical press, especially in gynecology, and
has been editor of the Buffalo Med
ical Journal since July, 1888; also edits the
annual volume of transactions of the Am
erican Association of Obstetricians and
gynecologists. He is a companion of the
Military Order of Loyal Legion and a mem
ber of the Army and Navy Club of New
York. Dr. Potter married in March 23,
1859, Emily A. Bostwick of Lancaster, New
York, and their children are : Helen Blanch
ard Potter (Tallman) and Alice F. Potter.
Address : Buffalo, New York.
POTTS, Franklin M.:
President of the Philadelphia Warehouse
Company; born at Paoli, Pennsylvania,
April 12, 1855. Mr. Potts was educated
at the Friends' School at Westtown, Penn
sylvania. In 1882 he became a bookkeeper
for the Philadelphia Warehouse Company,
and after serving several years as its secre
tary and treasurer, was elected president in
1896, which position he still occupies. He
is a director of Western National Bank,
and Girard Fire and Marine Insurance
Company of Philadelphia. In politics he
is a Republican, and he is a member of
the Union League Club of Philadelphia.
Mr. Potts married, on April 14, 1880, Clara
Louisa, daughter of the late William Webb,
of Philadelphia. Address : Media, Dela
ware County, Pennsylvania.
POU, Edward William:
Congressman; born at Tuskegee, Ala-
, bama, September 9, 1863 ; was presidential
elector in 1888; was elected solicitor of
the Fourth Judicial District of North Caro
line in 1890, 1894, and 1898; while serving
his third term as solicitor was elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress; was reelected to
the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses from the Fourth North Caro

lina District. He is a Democrat in poli
tics. Address: Smithfield, North Carolina.
POUND, Cuthbert Winfred:
Jurist ; born in Lockport, New York, June
20, 1864; son of Alexander and Almina
(Whipple) Pound. He was educated in
the schools of Lockport, and at Cornell
University. After leaving college he studied
law in the office of his brother, Hon.
John E. Pound, of Lockport, New York.
He was admitted to the bar in June 1886,
and engaged in practice of law at Lock-
port until 1895 when he removed to Ithaca,
becoming a professor of law in the College
of Law of Cornell University from 1895
to 1904; resigned to resume practice at
Lockport as senior member of the firm of
Pound & Moore. He was city attorney of
Lockport, New York, from 1888 to 1891 ;
elected State senator for the then Twenty-
ninth Senate District in 1893; appointed
State civil service commissioner by Gov
ernor Roosevelt, in June, 1900, to succeed
Hon. Willard A. Cobb, deceased, and in
June, 1903, became president of the com
mission; resigned in January, 1905, being
appointed by Governor Higgins as coun
sel to the Governor, which position he held
until appointed in June, 1906, justice of .the
Supreme Court for the Eighth Judicial
District to succeed Hon. Henry A.
Childs of Mendina, and elected November
6, 1906, to same position for full term ex
piring December 31, 1920. While in Senate,
as chairman of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, he took part in the investi
gation of the election frauds at Gravesend
and he was also a member of the Lexow
Committee to investigate the government
of New York City. He introduced the pres
ent Compulsory Education Law, was also a
member of the Judiciary Committee and is
a director of the National Exchange Bank,
Lockport, New York. He is a Republican;
and is a member of the Cornell Chapter
Delta Kappa Epsilon, and New York State
Bar Association. He is also a member of
the Town and Gown (Ithaca) ; Buffalo and
Saturn (Buffalo) Clubs, and Town and
Country Club (Lockport). Address: Lock-
port, New York.

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POWELL, Arthur Chilton:
Clergyman ; born in Dayton, Ohio, July
22, 1854; son of John Powell and Sarah
(Latham) Powell. He received his educa
tion in Amherst College, with the degree
of A.B. in 1876, was at Princeton Semi
nary from 1876 to 1877, receiving the de
gree of A.M. in 1879 and in the Philadelphia
Divinity School from 1877 to 1879 and
he received the honorary degree of D.D.
from St. John's College, Maryland, in 1905.
He was ordered deacon in 1879 and or
dained priest in. 1880 by Bishop Jaggar of
Southern Ohio. He was rector of the
Church of Atonement,. Riverside, Cincin
nati, Ohio, from 1879 to .1882 ; of St. John's,
York, Pennsylvania, from 1882 to 1888,
Dean of Convocation of Harrisburg, Penn
sylvania, from 1886 to 1888, and rector of
Grace Church, Baltimore, from 1888 to the
present time. He is trustee of the Mary
land Bible Society; trustee and vice-presi
dent of the Church Home and Infirmary,
Baltimore, and director and vice-president
of the Consumptive Hospital of Maryland.
He traveled in Europe during the year of
1879. His favorite recreations are fishing
and camping, and he is a member of Chi
Phi fraternity. Dr. Powell married in Col
umbus, Ohio, September 28, 1882, Helen
Buttles Hardy, and their children are :
George Hardy, Chilton(. Latham and Paul
Rulison. Residence : Grace Rectory, Bal
timore, Maryland.
POWELL, E. Alexander:
Consul and author ; born in Syracuse,
New York, August 16, 1878; son of Hon.
Edward A. Powell, and Lucy C. (Smith)
Powell. He received his education in the
Syracuse High School, Jenner's Prepara
tory School, Oberlin College, and Syracuse
University. He was manager of advertising
department, the United Crafts, Eastwood,
New York; editor of The Craftsman; sec
retary and managing director of the Syra
cuse Plorse Show Association; of the New
York State Horse Show; advertising man
ager for Great Britain and Ireland of the
Smith Premier Typewriter Company; Eu
ropean correspondent of the London Even
ing Standard; Badminton Magazine, Court

Journal, and Sir George Newne's publica
tions; American vice and deputy consul-
general at Beirut, Syria, and consular agent
at Alexandria, Egypt. He is a fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society, and a mem
ber of the National Geographic Society
of Washington. He traveled extensively in
Yucatan and the Isthmus of Tehuantepee
in 1901, in the Northwest Territory in 1902,
Bosnia and- Herzegovina in 1903; Luxem
bourg and the Republic of San Marino in
1904; Greece, Crete, Turkey, and Anatolia
in 1905 ; Syria, Palestine and Arabia in
1906; and Egypt in 1907. His favorite rec
reations are travel, big game shooting, fish
ing and riding. In politics he is a Re
publican and his religious denomination is
Presbyterian. Mr. Powell is a member of
the Khedivial Club, Alexandria, also of
clubs in Constantinople, Florence, Brussels,
London, Bermuda, the City of Mexico, and
New York. He married in Syracuse, New
York, in April; 1901, Jessie Northrup,
daughter of the late Hon. Milton H. North
rup, and they have one son : E. A. Powell,
3d. Residence : Dreamwold, Ramleh, Egypt.
Official address: American Consulate, Alex
andria, Egypt.
POWER," Tyrone:
Actor ; born in London, England, May 2,
1869; son of Harold and Ethel Power. He
was educated at Dover College, in Eng
land. He made his first appearance on the
stage in 1884 at St. Augustine, Florida. He
was a member of Daly's Company from
1890 to 1897; appeared as Lord Steyne in
Becky Sharp with Mrs. Fiske in 1899; on
Australian starring tour from 1900 to 1902;
as leading man for Sir Henry Irving, and
at Lyceum Theater, London, in 1903 ; re
appeared in America as Judas, in Mary of
Magdala in 1904; as Ulysses in 1905; In-
gomar, with Miss Julia Marlowe in the
same year ; Redskin in 1906 ; in the Chris
tian Pilgrim with Henrietta Crosman, 1907.
His recreation is yachting. He is a member
of, the Lambs' (New York City), and Sav
age (Melbourne, Australia ) Clubs. He mar
ried in New York City, September 19, 1896,
Edith Crane. Address: 251 Lincoln Road,
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1825

POWERS, Charles A.:
Physician- and surgeon ; born in Law
rence, Massachusetts, February 2, 1858;
son of George Eliot Powers and Mary
(Stone) Powers. He received from Co
lumbia the degree of M.D. in 1883, and the
honorary degree of A.M. from the Univer
sity of Denver in igoi. He was attend
ing surgeon to St. Luke's and General
Memorial Hospitals, New York City in
1894; attending surgeon at St. Luke's and
Denver City Hospitals, Denver, Colorado,
in 1896; and is now professor of surgery
in the University of Denver. He is author
of numerous papers on surgical subjects.
Dr. Powers is a fellow of the American
Surgical Association; a member of the
American Medical Association ; membre. de
la Societe Internationale de Chirurgie; and
also a member of various local medical
societies and the University of Denver and
Denver Country Clubs. Residence: Uni
versity Club, Denver. Office address :
Fourteenth and Stout Streets, Denver,
Colorado.POWERS George McCellam;
Jurist; born in Hyde Park, Vermont,
December 19, 1861 ; son of H. Henry Pow
ers and Caroline E. (Waterman) Powers.
He received his general education in an
academy at Morrisville, Vermont, and at
the University of Vermont, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1883. When a
boy he was a messenger in the Vermont
Senate in the sessions of 1872 and 1874.
In 1886 he was admitted to the Vermont
bar, and practiced at Morrisville. He
served as assistant clerk in the Vermont
House of Representatives in 1884, 1886
and 1888; was State's, attorney of Lam
oille County from 1888 to 1890, and secre
tary of the Vermont Senate in 1890, 1892
and 1894. He was appointed reporter of
decisions in March, 1902, and was ap
pointed by Governor McCullough, June 7,
1904, as an associate judge of the Supreme
Court of Vermont. He is a Republican in
politics, and a Universalist in his religious
preferences. He married at Burlington,
Vermont, April 19, 1893, Gertrude F.
Woodbury. Address: Morrisville, Ver
mont.

POWERS, James T.:
Comedian; born in New York, April 26,
1867. His first appearance was in Evan
geline. He has gone from success to suc-i
cess, and today is one of the leading comed
ians of the country. For several years he
has starred at the head of his own com
pany. Address : Players' Club, New York
City. POWERS, LeweUyn:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Pitts
field, Somerset County,. Maine, in 1839.
He was graduated from the Ricker Classi
cal Institute, attended Colby University
two years, and was graduated from the
Law Department of the university of Al
bany, New York; Colby has since given
him the honorary degrees of A.M. and
LL.D. He was admitted to the* bar in
1861 and began the practice of his profes
sion at Houlton; was attorney for the
State for the county of Aroostook from
1864 to 1871 ; collector of customs for the
district of Aroostook from 1868 to 1872;
a member of the House of Representatives
in the State Legislature, for six terms, and
speaker of the House one of them. He
was elected governor of Maine in 1896
and reelected in 1898; was elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress from the then Fourth
district, and elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress in April, 1901, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon. Charles
A. Boutelle, and to the Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth
Maine District. In politics he is a Repub
lican. Address : Houlton, Maine.
POWERS, Samuel Leland:
Lawyer ; born in Cornish, New Hamp
shire, October 26, 1848, son of Lamed
Powers and Ruby (Barton) Powers. He
received his education in Kimball Union
Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy, and
received the dgree of A.B. from Dartmouth
College in 1874. He was admitted to the
bar in 1875, since which date he has prac
ticed in Boston. Mr. Powers was a dele
gate from Massachusetts to the Interna
tional Treaty Convention in 1878; president

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MEN OF AMERICA.

of the Common Council, a member of the
Board of Aldermen and of the School
Board of Newton; chairman of the Ninth
District Congressional Committee in 1886;
a member of Congress from the Eleventh
Massachusetts District from 1901 to 1903,
and from the Twelfth Massachusetts Dis
trict from 1903 to 1905. He is direc
tor of the Newton Street Railway Com
pany, the Lexington and Boston Street
Railway Company, the Newton and Bos
ton Street Railway Company, the Natick
and Cochituate Street Railway Company,
the Westboro and Hopkinton Street Rail
way Company, the Norumbega Park Com
pany, the Waltham Gas Light Company,
the Shawmut Consolidated Copper Com
pany, the Municipal Signal Company, the
Suburban ^Manufacturing Company ; a mem
ber of the firm of Powers and Hall, attor
neys, of the Boston Bar Association, the
Middlesex Bar Association, Phi Beta Kap
pa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sons of American
Revolution of Massachusetts, and trustee of
Dartmouth College. In politics he is a Re
publican, and he is a member of the Uni
tarian Church. His favorite recreations are
fishing, automobiling and speed-boating. He
is a member of the Exchange Club, the Uni
versity Club and the City Club, all of Bos
ton, the Newton Club and the Hunnewell
Club. Mr. Powers married in Dennis, Mas
sachusetts, June, 1878, Eva Crowell, and
they have one son, Leland Powers, born
1891. Residence: 96 Arlington Street, New
ton, Massachusetts. Office address : 101
Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
PRANG, Louis:
Lithographer, color printer and publisher ;
born in Breslau Silesia, Germany, March
12, 1824; son of Jonas Louis Prang and
Rosina (Schermann) Prang. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Germany, but
in consequence of prolonged illness he re
ceived private instruction in languages,
drawing, modeling and chemistry. From
1845 to 1848 he was in Meckeldorf, Ger
many, studying manufactures for large cal
ico and print works. He manufactured
papeterie and leather goods in 1851, was
wood engraver for Gleason's Pictorial from

1852 to 1855; a member of the firm of
Prang and Meyer, lithographers, in 1856;
and a member of the firm of L. Prang and
Company, lithographer, art color printer
and publisher of art works, including chro-
mo reproductions of famous pictures, the
Prang Christmas Cards and Modern Art,
a high class art monthly, from i860 to 1898.
Since 1882 he has been president of the
Prang Educational Company, and is at the
head and the only member of the firm of
L. Prang and Company. He was presi
dent of the. Democratic Club in Hirschberg,
Prussia, in the revolution of 1848, demand
ing constitutional reform. The Bureau
crats regained power and to save himself
from arrest he crossed to Bohemia and later
to America. Mr. Prang is a member of the
American Archaeological Society, the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Society of Arts, the Metropol
itan Museum of Art, New York; and he
received medals from every World's Fair
from 1873 to 1900. He is also a member
of the American Park and Outdoor Asso
ciation, the Massachusetts Floral Emblem
Society, the Massachusetts Forestry Asso
ciation, the Massachusetts Horticulture So
ciety, the Massachusetts Suffrage Associa
tion, the Anti-Imperialist League, of Bos
ton, the Boston Equal Suffrage Society
for Good Government, the Bostonian So
ciety, the Mechanics' Charitable Associa
tion of Boston, the Single Tax League, and
the Boston Turnverein. Mr. Prang has
traveled extensively in Alaska, Yellow
stone Park, Grand Canon, Yosemite Valley,
Mexico, ten or twelve times in Europe and
a tour around the world in 1906 and 1907.
He is author of: The Prang Standard of
Color, illustrated with colored plates show
ing 1,176 colors, 1898; and is joint author
with Mary Dana Hicks and John S. Clark
of : Suggestions for Color Instruction, 1893.
He is a member of the National Arts Club,
Grolier Club of New York, Appalachian
Mountain, Boston Art, Economic, Orpheus,
and the Twentieth Century Club of Bos
ton. He married in Boston, first, November
1, 1851, Rosina Gerber, and second, April
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has one daughter, Rosa. Residence: 45
Centre Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Of
fice address : The Prang Educational Com
pany, New York City.
PRATT, Charles Richardson:
Consulting engineer; bom in Boston,
Massachusetts, February 13, i860; son of
John C. Pratt and Mary A. (Richardson)
Pratt. He received his education in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos
ton, taking a course of mechanical engin
eering, but did not graduate. He designed,
built and installed the first electric elevator
ever used, which was placed in the Tremont
House, Boston, in 1889. Mr. Pratt was
chief draughtsman of the Whittier Ma
chine Company, Boston, consulting engin
eer for Dood and Pratt; assistant superin
tendent of the Boston Sugar Refining Com
pany; the New England agent for Otis
Brothers and Company, Boston, manager
and engineer of the Sprague Electric Ele
vator Company, New York; chief engineer
of the Marine Engine and Machine Com
pany, New York, and since has been en
gaged as consulting engineer in New York
City. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a member of the Episcopal Church.
He is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers, the New
York Electrical Society; the National As
sociation of Stationary Engineers, a Royal
Arch Mason, Knight Templar, and Shriner.
He married in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
September 5, r888, Mary B. Ladd, and
their children are: Gertrude L., born in
1895, and Donald R., born in 1897. Ad
dress: 1 123 Broadway, New York City.
PRATT, Sedgwick:
Brigadier-general of the United States
Army, retired; born in Georgetown, D. C,
May 25, 1845; son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry C. Pratt, United States Army, and
Mary C. (Mellen) Pratt. He attended
the United States Military Academy; from
which he was graduated in 1867, and also
graduated from the Artillery School in
1882. He was appointed second lieutenant

of the Fourth New York Heavy Artillery,
serving from May 26, 1863, to September 9,
1863, during which period he was aide-de
camp to Brigadier-General G. A. De Rus-
sey, United States Volunteers; cadet at
the United States Military Academy, Sep
tember 9, 1863, to June 17, 1867; second
lieutenant of the Third Artillery, June 17,
1867, first lieutenant of the Third Artil
lery, September 21, 1871 ; regimental quar
termaster, November 1, 1877, to May 1,
1880; and May 20, 1884, to March 1, 1887;
captain of the Third Artillery, September
10, 1894, major of Artillery Corps, Febru
ary 28, 1901, lieutenant-colonel of Artillery
Corps, August 10, 1903, colonel of Artil
lery Corps, February 9, 1900 ; chief muster
ing officer for the State of California from
September 21, 1898 to 1899. He was a
member of the Board of Engineers, from
June 4, 1901, to June 2, 1903, member of
the Board of Ordnance and Fortification,
from April, 1902, to October, 1903 ; detailed
to General Staff Corps, May, 1903; in
spector general of the Pacific Division, ar
tillery inspector of the Pacific Division,
from January, 1904, to February, 1906. He
retired as brigadier-general of the United
States Army, June 22, 1906. General Pratt
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. He
married in Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
November 19, 1869, Martha W. Keith, and
they have two children: Mattie S. (now
Mrs. John T. Donnellan), and John S.
Pratt, United States Army. Address:
2901 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, Cali
fornia. PRATT, William M,:
Manufacturer; born in Shelburne Falls,
Massachusetts, August 13, 1867; son of
Francis R. Pratt and Lydia (Tait) Pratt.
He was graduated in 1883 from the Arms
Academy, Shelburne Falls. He was cashier
of the Bank of Pukwana, South Dakota, in
1885 ; editor and publisher of the Pukwana
Press, 1885 ; assistant to cashier in the Case
& Whitbeck Bank, Kimball, South Da
kota, from 1886 to 1890; secretary of the
H. H. Mayhew Company, Shelburne Falls,
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the Goodell Pratt Company in 1895, and is
now treasurer and director; president of
the Massachusetts Tool Company; vice-
president of the American Hardware Man
ufacturers' Association ; director of the First
National Bank; of the Greenfield Electric
Light and Power Company, and the Goodell
Tool Company. He is a member of the
National Civic Federation, and the Ameri
can Chamber of Commerce, Paris. In poli
tics he is a Republican. Mr. Pratt has
traveled extensively in the United States,
Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, St.
Thomas, Martinique, England, Ireland,
France, Belgium, Germany, Austria-Hun
gary, Denmark, Holland and Sweden. He
is a member of the Country Club and the
Greenfield Club, both of Greenfield, and
the Hardware Club of New York. He
married in Pukwana, South Dakota, Sep
tember 14, 1886, Emma C. Richardson, and
their children are Florence L., born in
1897 and Francis W., born in 1894. Resi
dence : Corner of Chestnut Street and
Highland Avenue, Greenfield, Massachu
setts.
PRAY, James Sturgis:
Landscape architect ; born in Boston, Mas
sachusetts, February 26, 1871 ; son of Ben
jamin Sweetser Pray and Frances Motley
(Gavett) Pray. After a preparatory edu
cation in Chauncy Hall School, Bos
ton, in 1891, he entered Harvard College
and later studied in the Lawrence Scientific
School, the Bussey Institution, and the
Arnold Arboretum, and in 1898 was gradu
ated from Harvard "as of 1895." Pie was
engaged with Olmsted Brothers, Brookline,
from 1898 to 1903, in the profession of land
scape architecture, and since 1903 has had
an office in Boston. He was of the firm
of Pray and Gallagher from 1904 to 1906,
and since 1906 has been of the firm of
Pray, Hubbard and White. Since Sep
tember 1, 1905, he has been assistant pro
fessor of landscape architecture in Harvard
University. Professor Pray is a fellow of the
American Society of Landscape Architects,
a member of the Architectural League of
New York, the International Society of
Arboriculture, Massachusetts Horticultural

Society, secretary of the Columbine Asso
ciation of the United States, member of the
Appalachian Mountain Club, the American
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,
and about fifty other organizations. Pro
fessor Pray married in Buffalo, New York;
October 30, 1901, Florence M. Nichols, and
they have two children: Benjamin Sturgis
Pray, born January 24, 1904, and Frances
Motley, born August 22, 1906. Residence:
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Office address:
15 Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
PRELLWITZ, Henry:
Artist; born in New York City, in 1865;
son of Rudolph Prellwitz and Margarettia
(Mauer) Prellwitz. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of New York
City, the College of the City of New York,
the Art Students' League of New York, the
Academe Julien, Paris, and in the studio
of T. W. Dewing, New York City. He
exhibited at the exhibitions of the Society
of American Artists, the National Academy
of Design, New York City-; also at Phila
delphia Pittsburgh, Worcester and many
other places. He won the third Hallgarten
prize at the National Academy of Design
in 1893 ; the bronze medal at the Pan
American Exposition, Buffalo; the silver
medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion, St. Louis, 1904 ; and the" Clarke, prize
at the National Academy of Design, 1907,
and studied in Paris from 1887 to 1890. In
politics he is an Independent. Mr. Prell
witz is a member of the Society of Ameri
can Artists, of which he was secretary
from 1902 to 1906; an associate of. the Na
tional Academy of Design, and instructor
of life classes in the Department of Art
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He married in
New York City, 1894, Edith Mitchill, and
they have one son, Edwin Mitchill, born in
1896. Address : 247 West Seventy-first
Street, New York City, and Peconic, Long
Island, New York.
PRESTON, Andrew W.:
President and director of the United
Fruit Company; of the Belize Royal Mail
and Central American Steamship Company,
the Fruit Dispatch Company, the Hotel

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Titchfield Company, the Nipe Bay Company,
the Pittsburgh Fruit and Produce Exchange ;
vice-president and director of the Aban-
gary Gold Fields of Costa Rica, the North
ern Railway Company, and the Quartette
Mining Company ; treasurer and director of
the M. D. Cressy Company; director of
the American Mail Steamship Company,
the City Trust Company, the Elders and
Fyffes, Limited, the Costa Rica Esperanza
Mining Company, the First National Bank
of Boston, the Oriental Bank, and the
Tropical Fruit Steamship Company. Ad
dresses : 131 State Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts, and 17 Battery Place, New York.
PRESTON, Charles SI.:
Financier; born in Roxbury, New York,
November 6, 1848; and received his educa
tion in "the Delaware Literary Institute.
He was corporation counsel of Kingston
from 1877 to 1881 ; State superintendent of
Banks from 1889 to 1896; president of the
Board of Water Commissioners of Kings
ton, New York, and receiver of the New
York Building Loan Banking Company;
president and director of the Kingston
Consolidated Railroad Company; the Lin
coln Milling Company, Limited; president
of the Securities Company of New York
City; the National Bank of Rondout, the
Colonial City Traction Company of Kings
ton, a member of the Albany Society, the
New England Society, the New York
Chamber of Commerce and a member of
the Lawyers', Democratic, Kingston, Rond
out Clubs and Winisook Club of the
Catskill Mountains. He married Mary
Hasbrouck. Residence: Hotel Marie An
toinette, New York City. Office address :
27 William Street, New York City.
PRESTON, William Gibbons:
Architect ; son of Jonathan Preston ; born
in Boston in 1842. He began his career as
an architect in his father's office in 1861,
after a long and careful training in Cam
bridge and Paris. The number and char
acter of prominent buildings in different
sections of the country designed by him are
the best . evidences of his taste and skill.

He has erected, among other structures, the
building of the Boston Society of Natural
History on Boylston Street, the Rogers
Building belonging to the Institute of Tech
nology, the Massachusetts Charitable Me
chanic Association Building on Hunting
ton Avenue, the Mason Building on Kilby
Street, the unique Public Library Building
in the town of Lincoln, the new John Han
cock Building on Devonshire Street, the
International Trust Company's Building,
seven buildings for the Quincy Market
Cold Storage Warehouse, six large build
ings of the Boston University, a large pri
vate hotel on the Back Bay, the Cadet Ar
mory, the Brewer apartment-house, and
many others in and around Boston. In
Savannah, Georgia, he built the Cotton Ex
change, Court House, Presbyterian Church,
Guards' Armory, and the De Soto Hotel,
besides many residences. In Columbus,
Georgia, he designed the office building of
the Columbus Investment Company; and
his plans were followed in the construction
of twenty-six buildings for the Massachu
setts School for the Feeble-Minded at
Waverly and South Boston. The power
house" and boiler house of the West End
Street Railway Company at Boston, and
also those at East Cambridge, are his de
sign ; and he has built many handsome resi
dences in this city, Cambridge and Brook
line. He is a fellow of the American Insti
tute of Architects, of the Boston Society of
Architects, and a member of the Boston Art
Club and St. Botolph Club. Mr. Preston
married in Boston, Estelle M. Evans, and
they had one 'son, Evans Preston, deceased.
Residence: 1063 Beacon Street, Brookline.
Office address : 186 Devonshire Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
PRICE, Charles W.:
Editor of the Electrical Review ; born on
a farm near Barnesville, Belmont County,
Ohio; son of Samuel Price and Charlotte
(Alder) Price. He received his education
in the country school and at Barnesville
high school. On leaving the high school
he served in the office of the Barnesville
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compositor and editor until 1878, when he
went West. He assisted in establishing
the Topeka Daily Capital in 1879 and was
one of its editors for several years. Mr.
Price became a student of electrical mat
ters and in 1885 was called to New York
City to take a position on the staff of the
Electrical Review, of which he is now jedi-
tor-in-chief and the largest owner, and he
has also contributed extensively on electri
cal subjects to magazines and newspapers.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, the New York Electrical
Society, the National Electric Light Asso
ciation; president of the Kansas Society of
New York; a member of the Ohio Society
of New York, a member and treasurer of
the Lotos Club; governor and member of
the Electrical Club; vice-president, mem
ber and formerly chairman of the board of
trustees of the New York Press Club and
member of the Montauk Club. Mr. Price
married in Topeka, Kansas, March 16, 1882,
Minnie E. Gray, and their children are
Corinne Gray and Leonice E. Address :
13 Park Row, New York City.
PRICE, Silas Eber:
President of Ottawa University; born in
Newark, Ohio, February 28, i860; son of
Thomas D. and Sarah J. (Jones) Price.
He studied at the Denison University,
Granville, O., graduating from the classical
course with the degree of A.B., in 1884,
and taking that of B.D. in 1887, from the
Morgan Park Theological Seminary now
the Divinity School of the University of
Chicago. After his ordination to the Bap
tist ministry he accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Baptist Tabernacle, at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, officiating there from
June 1, 1887, to December I, 1889, going
thence as pastor to the Baptist Taber
nacle at Minneapolis, Minnesota". Here he
remained until September, 1898, when he
resigned to become pastor of the Mil
waukee (Wisconsin) Baptist Tabernacle,
where he officiated until September, 1904.
In that year he was put in charge of the
First Baptist Church, in Ottawa, Kansas.

Two years later, in June, 1906, he was
elected president of Ottawa University, Ot
tawa, Kansas. He has been director of the
Wisconsin Baptist State Convention and
the Kansas Baptist State Convention and was
trustee of Wayland University, Beaver
Dam, Wisconsin. He was married at On
tario, Wisconsin, September 8, 1887, to Net
tie May Sandon, and has a son, Clair S.,
born in 1889, and a daughter, Hattie May,
born in 1891. Residence: 603 Cedar Street,
Ottawa. Address : Ottawa University, Ot
tawa, Kansas.
PRICKITT, William A.:
Consular officer; born in New Jersey;
appointed consul at Rheims, October 12,
1897; appointed consul-general at Auck
land, November 6, 1905. Address: Auck
land, New Zealand.
PRIME, Ralph Earl:
Lawyer, author ; born in Matteawan, New
York, March 29, 1840; son of Alanson J.
Prime, M.D., and Ruth Havens (Higbie)
Prime. He was educated in public schools,
academy at White Plains, New York, medi
cine and later studied law (D.C.L. and LL.
D), and was admitted to the bar in 1861,
He served in Army in the Civil War, in
the Fifth New York Volunteer Infantry,
from April 20, 1861 ; held four regimental
commissions. He took part in the battles
of the Big Bethel ; campaign on the eastern
shore of Maryland and Virginia; the siege
of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Hanover
Court House, seven days before Richmond,
Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill; White Oak
Swamp Bridge, Malvern Cliff (June 30) ;
Maryland campaign, South Mountain, An
tietam, Shepardstown Ford and Black
ford's Ford. He was wounded severely in
the battle of Gaines' Mill. He received
notices in general orders of, and was twice
promoted for bravery, gallantry and serv
ice at the battle of Gaines' Mill; and was
nominated, March 4, 1863, by President
Lincoln, to be brigadier-general. He
practiced law for more than forty years
in Yonkers; and has traveled exten
sively in Europe, Asia and Africa. He has
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terian elder; was a delegate from the Pres
byterian Church in the United States of
American to the Pan-Presbyterian Councils,
Belfast, 1884; London, 1888; Glasgow,
1896; Washington, 1899; and Liverpool,
1904, and is chairman of the Western Sec
tion of Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. He was
moderator of the Presbytery of West
chester in 1894 ; moderator of the Synod of
New York in 1896. He is author of mono
graphs : Descendants of James Prime ; Un
der the Elms ; Wanderings from the Elms,
Duties of Presbyterian Elders; The Elder
in His Ecclesiastical Relations; The Elder
an Ecclesiastic; Representation in the
Church Courts; Christian Giving; The
Power of God's Word; The Elder Mod
erator and the Ruling Elder; Inaccurate
Quotations by Authors ; The Revolutionary,
Anti-Revolutionary and Post-Revolution
ary Services of George Clinton; An Inci
dent of the Alabama Arbitration; Relig
ious Situation in France in 1907; A Coin
cidence of Admiral Farragut's Visit to
Constantinople and the Robert College
Troubles. He has been trustee of Village
of Yonkers ; city attorney of City of Yonk
ers; and deputy attorney-general of the
State of New York. He is a member of
the New York Society, Military Order of
Loyal Legion, Society of War of 1812, Em
pire State Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, New York Society of Colonial
Wars, Order of Founders and Patriots of
America (one of past governors-general) ;
president of American Flag Association.
Mr. Prime married Annie Richards-Wol-
cott, daughter of Jacob Richards, M.D., and
granddaughter and foster-daughter of Rev.
Calvin Wolcott. Residence : 63 Hawthorne
Avenue, Yonkers, New York. Addresses:
25 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New
York, and 11 Pine Street, New York City.
PRIMER, Sylvester:
Professor of Germanic languages; born
at Geneva, Wisconsin, December 12, 1842;
son of Archibald Primer and Eleanor
(Jacoby) Primer. He removed to New
York early in life. He served in the Civil
War in the Union Army, first in the in
fantry and was wounded at the battle of

Antietam and discharged for wounds. He
afterward joined the cavalry, serving to the
end of the war; and he participated in
twenty-three battles, and some of the hard
est of the war, serving in Custer's brigade
under Sheridan; spent three years at the
LeRoy Academy and three years at Phil
lips Exeter Academy, from which he was
graduated, then went to Harvard, where he
was graduated as A.B. with Phi .Beta
Kappa honors in 1874. From there he went
to Germany and studied at the Universi
ties of Leipzig, Gottingen and Strasburg,
and received from the latter college the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1880, on a thesis on The
Consonant Declension. While at Strass
burg he taught about a year in a military
school, and returned in the latter part of
1880 to the United States. Dr. Primer was
professor of modern languages at the Col
lege of Charleston, South Carolina, from
1880 to 1888, taught at the Friends' School,
Providence, Rhode Island, one year, then
at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, in
1890 and 1891, and since then has been
professor of Germanic languages in the
University of Texas. Professor Primer has
edited: Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm;
Nathan der Weisse; Goethe's Egmont; and
Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl; for the Use
of Schools, and has made many contri
butions to leading philological journals. He
is a Democrat in politics, and a Methodist
in religion; is a member of the Modern
Language Association, the Dialect Society,
Texas Academy of Scences, and the Texas
Historical Assocation. He married at Sum-
merville, South Carolina, September 17,
1895, Martha Louisa Muckenfuss, and they
have had two children : a boy, born Novem
ber 2, 1898, who died in infancy; and Ben
jamin Anthony Muckenfuss Primer, born
March 25, 1900. Address : 2709 Rio Grande
Street, Austin, Texas.
PRINCE, George W.:
Congressman; born March 4, 1854, in
Tazewell County, Illinois ; attended the pub
lic schools and graduated from Knox Col
lege, Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. He stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar in 1880 ;
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1881 ; was chairman of the Republican
County Central committee of Knox County
in 1884; was elected a member of the
lower house of the General Assembly of
Illinois in 1888 and was reelected in 1890.
He was the candidate for attorney-general
of Illinois on the Republican ticket in 1892 ;
and was elected to the Fifty-fourth Con
gress to fill a vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. P. S. Post. He was elected to
the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Fifteenth Illinois District. Address : Gales
burg, Illinois.
PRINCE, John Dyneley:
Professor of Semitic languages at Co
lumbia University; born in New York City,
April 17, 1868; son of John Dyneley and
Anne Maria (Morris) Prince. He was
graduated from Columbia, B.A., in 1888;
University of Berlin, Germany; Johns Hop
kins University, Ph.D., 1892. Representa
tive of Columbia University on Expedition
to Southern Babylonia, sent out by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, in 1888 and 1889;
fellow of Johns Hopkins University from
1890 to 1891 ; professor at New York Uni
versity from 1893 to 1902; dean of New
York University Graduate School from
1895 to 1902; professor in Columbia Uni
versity since 1902; fellow of the New York
Academy of Sciences,- 1903. Has,, been in
terested in New Jersey State politics since
1903; elected president of the Passaic
County Federated Boards of Education,
1905 ; elected member for Passaic County,
New Jersey Legislature, General Assembly,
1905 to 1906; chairman of the New Jersey
Legislative Commission on the Boards of
Proprietors; chairman of Commission on
New Jersey Immigrants, 1906; examiner of
motor vehicles for Northern New Jersey,
1906. During the session of 1906, pre
vented the passage of canal legislation in
favor of the Lehigh Valley Railroad;
furthered passage of the Elvins reso
lution to establish the State's right of equity
in the Morris and Essex Canal. He is the
author of: Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin,
1893 (Baltimore) ; A Critical Commentary

on the Book of Daniel, 1899 (Leipzig) ;
Kuloskap the Master (in collaboration with
Charles Godfrey Leland), 1902 (New
York) ; Materials for a Sumerian Lexicon,
in four parts, 1905 (Leipzig). He has pub
lished many technical philological pam
phlets in the Proceedings of the Amer
ican Philosophical Society, American A&
thropologist, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, Journal of Biblical Lit
erature and the Journal Asiatique (Paris) ;
writer on staff of new Encyclopedia
Britannica, of the Cheyne Dictionary of
the Bible, and of Hasting's Dictionary
of Religions. His specialty is the Cune
iform Inscriptions of Babylonia and
the Babylonian Literature. Member of the
American Oriental Society. Treasurer of
the Society of Biblical Literature and Exe
gesis; member of American Anthropo
logical Association, Modern Language As
sociation, Fifteenth Congress of American
ists of Quebec, Canada; New York Acad
emy of Sciences ; secretary of the British
Museum Text and Translation Society;
president of the American School for
Archaeology at Jerusalem, etc. Trustee of
the Home for Aged Women, attached to
Church of the Holy Communion, New York
City. The recreations he enjoys are motor
ing, engineering and fishing. Mr. Prince is
a member of the Union, University, Colum
bia University (New York City), Tuxedo
(Tuxedo Park), and Hamilton (Paterson,
New Jersey) Clubs. He married in New
York City on October 5, 1890, Adeline
Loomis. They have one son, John Dyneley
Prince, Jr., born in 1891. Residence : Ring-
wood Manor, New Jersey. Address: Co
lumbia University, New York City.
PRINCE, Le Baron Bradford:
Jurist; born at Flushing, Long Island,
New York July 3, 1840; son of William
Robert Prince, a distinguished horticulturist,
and Charlotte Goodwin (Collins) Prince;
and he is a descendant of Governor Wil
liam Bradford of Plymouth Colony. He
was graduated from Columbia Law School,
winning the $200 prize in political science
and the degree of LL.B. "with special
honor" in 1866. He engaged in the practice

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of law, and also became prominent in poli
tics in New York, being a -delegate to all
the State conventions from 1866 to 1879, to
the National Republican Conventions of
1868 "and 1876, and five terms a member
of the Legislative Assembly of New York
from 1871 to 1875, serving as chairman of
the Judiciary Committee and conducting the
investigation of 1872 which resulted in the
impeachment of Judges Barnard, Cardozo
and McCunn. He was a member of the
New York State Senate in 1876 and 1877.
He declined the appointment, offered him
by President Hayes, as territorial governor
of Idaho, in 1878, but accepted that of chief
justice of New Mexico, serving until 1882,
when he resigned and was elected president
of the Trustees of the University of New
Mexico at Santa Fe. He was ap
pointed by President Harrison, in 1889,
governor of New Mexico, and served until
1893. He was president of the Trans-Missis
sippi Congress of 1892 and 1893, of the In
ternational Mining Congress in 1897 and
1898, and again in 1901, and since 1883 has
been president of the New Mexico Historic
al Society of Santa Fe. Governor Prince is
an enthusiastic student of American archae
ology, is vice-president of the New Mexico
Archaeological Society, and an honorary
member of the New York Archaeological
and Numismatic Society. He has made a
collection of ancient American stone idols
which is probably the most extensive in
existence. He was vice-president _of
the National Irrigation Congress from 1900
to 1903; was president of the Board of
Regents of the New Mexico Agricultural
College from 1899 to 1904, and is an hon
orary member of the Wisconsin Histori
cal Society, the Missouri Historical So
ciety and the Texas . Historical Society.
Governor Prince is one of the most prom
inent laymen of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, has been a member of every
General Convention from 1877 to 1907, was
the originator of the American Church
Building Fund and devoted much time to
establishing that fund on a permanent basis.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Ken
yon College and from Colorado College.

He is a member of the Society of May
flower, Descendants, Society of Colonial
Wars, the Order of the Cincinnati, the Sons
of the Revolution, the Society of the War
of 1812, and the New Mexico Pioneers.
Governor Prince compiled the General Laws
of New Mexico in 1881, and has written ex
tensively on historical, political, economic
and archaeological subjects. Address : San
ta Fe, New Mexico.
PRITCHARD, Jeter Connelly:
United States circuit judge; born in
Jonesboro, Tennessee, July 12, 1857; son
of William Hydef Pritchard arid Elizabeth
L. (Brown) Pritchard; and h'e is of
Welsh descent on the father's and Irish
descent on his mother's side. After com
pleting the course of the common schools
he learned the printer's trade in the office
of the Jonesboro Tribune-Herald. In
1873 he removed to Bakersville, North
Carolina, where he became part owner
and joint editor of the Roan Mountain Re
publican until 1887, when he was admitted
to the bar and located in the practice of
law at Marshall, North Carolina. He be
came an active Republican leader, was on
the Garfield -and Arthur electoral ticket
in 1880, and was- elected to the North
Carolina Legislature from Madison County
in 1884, 1886 and 1890. He was the Re
publican candidate for lieutenant-governor
in 1888, nominee for United States Sena
tor in 1891; candidate for .Congress in
1892, and was United States Senator from
North Carolina from 1894 to 1903. At the
close of his term he was appointed by
President Roosevelt as an associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia; and in 1904 he was appointed
judge of the United States Circuit Court
for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, which of
fice he still fills. In the summer of 1907
Judge Pritchard attracted attention by his
injunction suspending the law passed by
the Legislature of North Carolina reduc
ing railway fares. Address : Asheville,
North Carolina.
PRITCHETT, Henry Smith:
President of Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching; born in Fayette,

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Missouri, April 16, 1857; son of Carr Wal
ter Pritchett and Elizabeth Susan (Smith)
Pritchett. He was graduated from Pritch
ett College, Glasgow, Missouri, as A.B.,
from University of Munich, Bavaria, as
Ph.D., and has received the honorary de
gree of LL.D. from Harvard, Yale, Johns
Hopkins, the University of Pennsylvania,
Williams College, the University of Michi
gan and Toronto University, and ScD.
from Tufts College. He was professor in
Washington University, St. Louis, 1884-
1897; superintendent of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1897 to
1900; president of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, from 1901 to 1907, and has
been president of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching, since
1906. He is a.member of the United States
Light House Board, the Board of Direc
tors of the United States Bureau of Stan
dards; chairman of the Franklin Fund
Trustees, Boston, and of the Charles River
Basin Commission, Boston. He is a mem
ber of the Cosmos Club of Washington,
D. C, of the Century Club of New York
and of the Tavern, University and Tech
nology Clubs of Boston. Dr. -Pritchett mar
ried in Washington, June 9, 1901, Eva
McAllister. Residence: 22 East Ninety-
first Street, New York City. Address : Car
negie Foundation, 542 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
PRIZER, Harry A,:
Vice-president of the William Mann
Company; born in Philadelphia May 5,
1861 ; son of Enos L. Prizer and Letitia
H. (Attmore) Prizer. He received his
education in the public schools and Cen
tral High School. He is president of the
Neubric Chemical Company. In politics he
is a Republican and in church relations a
Baptist. He is a member of the Union
League Club of Philadelphia and the Coun
try Club of Atlantic City. . He married in
Philadelphia, November 4, 1885, and his
children are William M. Prizer, born in
1887; H. A. Prizer, Jr., born in 1891, and
H. D. Prizer, born in 1894. Residence:
4218 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Office:
529 Market Street, Philadelphia.

PROCTOR, Alexander Phlmlster:
Sculptor; born in Ontario, Canada, Sep
tember 27, 1862; son of Alexander and
Tirza (Smith) Proctor. , He was a mem
ber of the Art Commission of New York
City from 1902 to 1905 ; also of the Sculp
ture Jury, Paris Exposition, in 1906; Jury
of Selection and Jury of Awards, Buffalo,
Pan American Exposition; Sculpture Jury,
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
1904. Academician National Academy of
Design; member of National Sculpture So
ciety, American Water Color Society,
Architectural League. Awarded medals at
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893; Paris Exposition (gold medal),
1900; St. Louis Exposition, gold medal in
1904. He is a member of the New York
Zoological Society; also of the Century,
Boone and Crocker Clubs. He married in
Chicago, Illinois, September, 1893, Marga
ret Gerow; they have four children: Hes
ter E., born in 1897; Alden A., born in
1900; Phimister B., born in 1902, and Ona
Mary, born in 1906. Address : Century
Association, 7 West Forty-third Street,
New York City.
PROCTOR, Fletcher D.:
Governor of Vermont; born in Caven
dish, November 7, i860; son of Hon. Red-
field Proctor. He was graduated from Am
herst College in 1882. He is president of
the Vermont Marble Company. Governor
Proctor was a member of the House of
Representatives in 1890, 1900 and 1904; and
speaker of the House in the session of
1900. He was also a member of the Senate
in 1892. He is a Republican in politics.
Residence: Proctor, Vermont. Official ad
dress : Montpelier, Vermont.
PROCTOR, Frederic Towne:
Manufacturer; born in Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, June 7, 1856; son of Moody S.
Proctor and Maria (Towne) Proctor. He
received his education in the Boston public
schools. He is vice-president of the Globe
Woolen Company; treasurer of the Hart
and Crouse Company ; director of the Cen
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Company; vice-president of the Italian
Macaroni Company, the Willoughby Com
pany; president of the New York Radiator
Company and director of the Second Na
tional Bank of Utica, New York. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and he is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church, vestryman of
, Grace Church, Utica ; president of St.
Luke's Home and Hospital, and trustee of
the Utica Public Library. Mr. Proctor is
a member of the Fort Schuyler, Yahnun-
dasis Golf and Sadaquada Golf Clubs. He
married in Utica, December I, 1904, Rachel
Munson Williams. Address : 318 Genesee
Street, Utica, New York.
PROCTOR, Redfleld:
United States senator; born in Proctors-
ville, Vermont, June 1, 1831 ; son of Jabez
Proctor and Betsey (Parker) Proctor.
He was graduated at Dartmouth College
and at the Albany Law School. He served
as lieutenant and quartermaster of the
Third Regiment of Vermont Volunteers,
on the staff of Major-General William F.
(Baldy) Smith, and was major of the Fifth
and colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Regi
ments. He practiced law and later be
came the owner of extensive quarry inter
ests, but is now retired. He was a mem
ber of the Vermont House of Representa
tives in 1867, 1868, and 1888, was a mem-
' ber of the State Senate and president pro
tempore of that body in 1874 and 1875 ;
was lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878
and governor from 1878 to 1880. He was
a delegate to the Republican National Con
vention of 1884, and chairman of the Ver
mont delegation in the conventions of
1888 and 1896, and was appointed sec
retary of war by President Harrison in
March, 1889. In November, 1891, he re
signed from the Cabinet to accept the ap
pointment as United States senator, to
succeed George F. Edmunds, and October
18, 1892, was elected by the Vermont legis
lature to fill both the unexpired and full
terms. He was elected October 18, 1898,
to succeed himself for the term beginning
March 4, 1899, and reelected October 18,
1904. His term of service will expire

March 3, 1911. Address: Proctor, Ver
mont.
PROCTOR, Thomas R.:
Bank president; born in Proctorville,
Vermont, May 25, 1844; son of Moody S.
and Betsey Nancy (Redfield) Proctor. He
was educated in the English High School,
Boston; at the outbreak of the Civil War
he entered the United States Navy and
served until the close of the war; received
the thanks of the secretary of the Navy
for his services. He is engaged in business
at Utica, where he is now president of the
Second National Bank, American Hard
Wall Plaster Company ; trustee of the Utica
Savings Bank, Utica Trust Company, and
Utica Steam Cotton Mills. He is a
member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Repub
lic, Sons of the Revolution, New England
Society, Mayflower Society, Society of Co
lonial Wars, Society of Founders and
Patriots, Naval Order of the United States
Naval League and other societies. He is
also a member and president of the Fort
Schuyler, Yahnundasis Golf, Sadaquada
Golf (Utica) ; Metropolitan, Army and
Navy, Players' (New York City) Clubs. He
married in 189 1, Maria W. Williams. Ad
dress : 312 Genesee Street, Utica, New York.
PROSSER, William Farrand:
Real estate dealer; born in Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1834; son
of David Prosser and Rachel Williams
Prosser, the latter dying at Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, in 1842. He was educated
in the common schools, and Johnstown
Academy, taught school, studied law and
surveyed until in 1854, when twenty years
old, he went by the overland trail across
the plains, with ox-teams, to California.
There he mined, chiefly in Trinity County;
was second lieutenant of the Trinity Ran
gers, a volunteer company of the State, or
ganized to assist the regular troops in the
Indian War of 1858 and 1859, in the Hum
boldt Bay Country, and was mustered out
in April, 1859. He was the first candidate
of the Republican Party in Trinity County,
for the California Legislature in i860. At
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MEN OF AMERICA.

he went East; was tendered a commission
in the regular army by President Lincoln,
which he declined. He enlisted as a. private
from Cambria County, Pennsylvania, in the
Anderson Troop, later served as quarter
master of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cav
alry, and shortly after the battle of Stone
River was transferred to the Second Ten
nessee Cavalry, of which he was commis
sioned major in March, 1863, lieutenant-
colonel in March, 1864, and colonel in June,
1865. He took part in the battles of Shi
loh, Stone River, Chickamauga, the Siege
of Knoxville, and numerous minor engage
ments ; was in command of the cavalry in
the District of North Alabama in the fall
of 1864, and was mustered out with his
regiment at Nashville, Tennessee, July 6,
1865. He engaged in farming, seven miles
from Nashville after the war, was elected
to the House of Representatives of Ten
nessee, from Davidson County in 1867,
elected to the Forty-first Congress from the
Nashville District in 1868; postmaster of
Nashv'lle from 1872 to 1875 ; appointed by
the Governor of Tennessee, in 1872, one
of the commissioners from the State of
Tennessee to the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia in 1876, and was appointed
on a committee to visit the .Vienna Ex
position of 1873, to take notes of details,
and methods there with reference to the
Centennial Exposition. He was for sev
eral years publisher of the Nashville Re
publican. ' Colonel Prosser was appointed
in 1879, special agent for the General Land
Office at Washington, for the territories of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho, serving
six years ; was elected auditor of Yakima
County, Washington, for two years in 1886 ;
member of the Constitutional Convention
of Washington, which met at Olympia, July
4, 1889; member and chairman of the Board
of Harbor Line Commissioners of Wash
ington, from 1890 to 1903; elected May,
1893, mayor of North Yakima, serving un
til 1905. Colonel Prosser was appointed by
President Roosevelt in 1905, a member of
the Board of Visitors to the West Point
Military Academy. He located a home
stead in 1882 in Yakima County, Washing

ton, ahd subsequently founded the town of
Prosser, which was incorporated in 1890';
and for several years has been engaged in
the real estate business in Seattle. He is
a companion of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, and is a life member
of the Washington State Historical So
ciety. He is a Republican and a member
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
married at Seattle, Washington, April 6,
1880, Flora L. Thornton, and they have
three children: William Thornton, Mar
garet Helen and Mildred Cyrenia Prosser.
Address : 208 Fifteenth Avenue, North, Se
attle, Washington.
PROUT, William Curtis:
Clergyman; born in Watauga, North
Carolina, January 31, 1848; son of Henry
Hedges and Maria (Wickes) Prout. He
was graduated from the University of
North Carolina as A.B. in 1865 ; from Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, as M.A.
in 1870; was an alumnus of the General
Theological Seminary, New York City, in
1870. He has held charges of parishes at
Clayerack and All Saints, Hudson, New
York, from 1870 to 1876; St. Paul's Free
Chapel, Troy, New York, from .1876 to
1879; Trinity Church, Granville and North
Granville from 1879 to 1891 ; Christ
Church, Schenectady, from 1891 to 1893;
Christ Church, Herkimer, since 1893; sec
retary of the Convention of the Diocese of
Albany since 1880; and assistant secretary
of the General Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church since 1889. He mar
ried in Saratoga Springs, New York, July
21, 1885, Clara Warner Eaton. Address:
Herkimer, New York.
PRYOR, Roger Atkinson:
Justice Supreme Court of New York;
born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, July
19, 1828; son of Rev. Theoderick Bland
Pryor and Lucy (Atkinson) Pryor. He
was graduated from Hampden-Sidney Col
lege in 1845 and University of Virginia in
1848; visitor of University of Virginia and
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Hampden-Sidney College. He was the
editor, consecutively, of the Richmond En
quirer, The South, Richmond, Virginia,
Washington Union, Washington States.
Mf. Pryor was special minister to Greece
under President Pierce; member of Con
gress from 1858 to 1861 and of the Pro
visional and regular Confederate Con
gresses. He entered Confederate service in
1861 as colonel and promoted to brigadier-
general in 1862; was prisoner of war from
1864 to 1865. After the war he settled in
New York City in the practice of law, and
was judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in 1890, Justice of Supreme Court of New
York in 1894. In 1858, against the oppo
sition of William L. Yancey, procured
from the Southern Convention at Mont
gomery a resolution reprobating the re
opening of the African slave trade; on
April 10, 1861, delivered a speech in
Charleston, South Carolina, of which the
immediate effect was to compel Jefferson
Davis, contrary to his inclination, to order
an attack on Fort Sumter, and the ulti
mate result to precipitate the War of Seces
sion. In 1889 he initiated the first litiga
tion in which the validity of trust combi
nation was challenged, a litigation which
culminated in a decision by the New York
Court of Appeals, that such combinations
were repugnant to the principles of the
common law and sufficient cause for the
forfeiture of corporate charters. He mar
ried in Charlottesville, Virginia, Novem
ber 8, 1848, Sara Agnes Rice, and they
had seven children : Marie Gordon, married
Henry Rice of Virginia; Theodorick Bland,
honor man of Princeton, scholar of Cam
bridge University, England, ' in 1870 and
died in 1871 ; Mary Blair, married Fran
cis -Thomas Walker, of Virginia; Roger
Atkinson Pryor, practicing lawyer in New
York City; William Rice Pryor, M.D., emi
nent at home and abroad, as a professor
and author, who died August 25, 1904;
Lucy Atkinson, who married Arthur Page
Brown, architect; Fanny Bland, who mar
ried William de Leftwich Dodge. Ad
dress: 8 West Sixty-ninth Street, New
York City.

PUGH, Edward Fox: .
Lawyer; born in Doylestown, Pennsyl
vania, May 30, 1847; son of John Black-
well Pugh and Elizabeth Sergeant (Fox)
Pugh. He received his education in Saund-
er's Military Institute, and from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania he received the
degree of B.A. in 1867, and M.A. in 1870.
He has practiced law, chiefly in Philadel
phia; is a member of the bars of Bucks
and Montgomery Counties, Philadelphia,
and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
and the United States. He is trustee of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania; and of the So
ciety of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
for the Advancement of Christianity in
Pennsylvania; one of the Board of Control
of the Diocesan Literary Association, and
one of the Board of Council of the Free
and Open Church Association. He is also
a member of the Law Association of Phil
adelphia, and the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. He has traveled in Europe
and the United States. He is author of:
Memoirs of Edward Fox, 1888; Forms of
Procedure in Admiralty, 1890, 1903; and is
editor of Dunlap's Book of Legal Forms,
1886, 1896; and contributor to American
Education, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
He married in Conshohocken, Pennsylva
nia, April 27, 1882, Alice Hannum Cresson,
and they have one son : Rev. Walter Cres
son Pugh, born in 1883. Residences : The
Wesley, Wayne, Pennsylvania, and 1230
Spruce Street, Philadelphia. Office ad
dress : 419 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.PUJO, Arsene Paulln:
Congressman and lawyer ; born Decem
ber 16, 1861, near Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish, of the marriage of Paul Pujo, of
Tarbes, France, to Miss Eloise M. Le
Bleu-. He was educated at the public and
private schools of Lake Charles, where he
now resides ; admitted to the bar October
23, 1886, by the Supreme Court of Louisi
ana, and has followed the law as a profes
sion. He was a member of the Louisiana
Constitutional Convention of 1898, serving
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was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress 'from the Seventh Louisiana
District. He is a Democrat in politics.
Address: Lake Charles, Louisiana.
PULITZER, Joseph :
Proprietor of New York World and St.
Louis Post-Dispatch; born in Hungary,
April 10, 1847. He was educated by pri
vate tutors; came to the United States in
1864; enlisted in the Lincoln Cavalry and
served until the end of the war for the
Union. He went to St. Louis in 1865; in
1868 became reporter on Westliche Post,
a German newspaper edited by Carl Schurz ;
soon became city editor and later manag
ing editor and part proprietor. In 1878 he
bought the St. Louis Dispatch and united
it with the Post as the Post-Dispatch;
studied- law and was admitted to practice.
He was elected member of the Missouri
Legislature in 1869; to the Missouri State
Constitutional Convention in 1864; was a
delegate to the Democratic National Con
vention in 1880 and a member of Platform
Committee for Missouri; in 1877, contrib
uted political articles to the editorial page
of the New York Sun; later wrote a series
of European letters for the same paper on
political situation abroad. He bought the
New York World, May 10, 1883; was
elected as representative of the Ninth New
York District in Forty-ninth Congress, but
resigned after a few months' service. He
was a delegate from Missouri to the Cin
cinnati Liberal Republican Convention,
which nominated Horace Greeley for Pres
ident; made seventy speeches in sixteen
States for Tilden, in 1876; was a strong
advocate of the nomination of Cleveland
in 1884 and 1892; opposed the election of
Bryan on the free silver issue in 1896. In
1889 he established ten annual collegiate
scholarships for the poorest, brightest and
most deserving boy graduates of New York
public schools, giving to the winners in
open competition two hundred and fifty
dollars annually for seven years for prepa
ratory and college course. He gave to Co
lumbia University , $100,000 to secure free

tuition to prize winners; established three
free scholarships in Barnard College. In
1903 he gave $1,000,000 to Columbia Uni
versity to establish and maintain a College
of Journalism, to rank with the similar
professional schools of law, medicine, en
gineering and architecture, and agreed to
give $1,000,000 additional when the school
has been in successful operation three
years. He is a member of the Jekyl and
New York Clubs. Mr. Pulitzer married
Kate Davis, of Washington. City resi
dence : 7 East Seventy-third Street, New
York City. Summer residence: ChatwOld,
Bar Harbor, Maine, and winter residence:
Jekyl Island, Brunswick, Georgia. Ad
dress : The World Office, New York City.
PULITZER, Walter:
Author, chessist and musical composer;
was born in New York City, April, 1878;
son of Albert Pulitzer and Fanny (Bar
nard) Pulitzer, and nephew of Joseph
Pulitzer. He received his education by
private tutors, at Nowell and Schermer-
horn's and other academies. He prepared
for Harvard, but his course was inter
rupted by a nervous breakdown. He is an
extensive contributor of humor, verse and
short fiction to the leading periodicals, and
has gained high rank as an epigrammatist,
having been termed by foreign journals
the American La Rochefoucauld. He has
an international reputation as a maker of
chess problems, having done much to pro
mote that branch of the royal science in
this country. He is one of the' founders of
the American Chess Magazine; and was
editor of American Tid-Bits, 1902. He is
author of: Chess Harmonies (original
problems), J894; That Duel at the Chateau
Marsanac (novel), 1899; A Cynic's Medi
tations (epigrams), 1904, which went
through seventeen editions ; Cozy Corner
Confidences (epigrams), 1906; and Cupid's
Pack of Cards. In politics he is a Repub
lican. His favorite recreations are horse
back riding, tennis and musical composition
(songs). He is vice-president of the The
atregoers' Club of America. Summer resi
dence: Pinewood, Mt. Pleasant, Catskill
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ton Hotel, 18 West Twenty-fifth Street,
New York City.
PULLMAN, John Stephenson:
Lawyer; bom in New Haven, Connecti
cut,. February 25, 1871 ; son of Rev.' Joseph
Pullman, D.D., and Mary E. (Cooke) Pull
man. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University as B.A. in 1892 and from Yale
Law School as LL.B. in 1896. He was
prosecuting attorney for the City Court of
Bridgeport from 1903 to 1907, and judge
of the same court since then. In politics
he is a Republican, and in his religious
affiliations is a Methodist Episcopalian.
Judge Pullman is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa Society, Alpha Delta Phi Society, a
Mason, Odd Fellow ; a member of the Yale
Club of New York, the University, Sea
side and Brooklawn Country Clubs of
Bridgeport. He married in Topeka, Kan
sas, November 25, 1905, Mary Nickerson
Lakin, and they have one daughter, Mary
Lakin, born in 1907. Address : Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
PULSIFER, Nathan Trowbridge:
Manufacturer; born in Newton, Massa
chusetts, October 27, 1851 ; son of Charles
S. Pulsifer and Eliza W. (Trowbridge)
Pulsifer. He received his education in the
Newton public schools. Mr. Pulsifer is
second vice-president and director of Valen
tine and Company; vice-president and di
rector of The Outlook Company; treasurer
and director of The Kaolin Company, Con:
necticut; director of the American Writing
Paper Company. In politics he is a Re
publican. He is a member of the New York
Athletic and Suburban Riding and Driving
Clubs, the Automobile Club of America, and
the Hardware, Dyker Meadow Golf, Storm
King Golf, and Pomfret Field Clubs. He
married in New York City, October 13,
1880, Almira Houghton Valentine; and
their children are: Lawson Valentine and
Harold Trowbridge. Address: 257 Broad
way, New York City.
PUMPELLY, Josiah Collins:
Lawyer, retired; born in Owego, Tioga
County, New York, August 16, 1839; son
of George James Pumpelly and Susan Isa

bella Pumpelly. He was graduated from
Rutgers College as A.B. in i860; A.M. in
1863 and LL.B. from Columbia Law School
in 1863. During the Civil War he recruited
and drilled men for the Union Army. Af
ter some years of travel, he settled in
Poughkeepsie, New York, and later at Mor
ristown, New Jersey, and in 1890 removed
to New York City, where he has been active
in social betterment and philanthropic work.
He aided in founding the Huguenot So
ciety of America, the Patriotic League, the
National Society of Sons of the American
Revolution and its New Jersey branch, the
New York State Charities and Prison Re
form Association and the New York Peace
Society. At the celebration of the tercen
tenary of the signing of the Edict of Nantes,
1898, he read a paper entitled: The Hugue
not Settlers in New Jersey. Among his
many other published addresses are : Wash
ington, 1888; Fort Stanwix and the Battle
of Oriskany, 1888; Our French Allies,
1889 ; Joseph Warren, 1890 ; Mahlon Dick-
erson, 1891 ; Paul Jones, 1892 ; Incidents
in the Early History of Berkshire County,
Massachusetts, and the Pumpelly, Pixley,
Paterson and Avery Families, 1896; The
Jumel Mansion, Its History and Traditions,
1903. Mr. Pumpelly has also given much
time and literary effort to the discussion in
the public press of philanthropic and of
social economic questions. In politics he
is a Republican and he is a member of the
Episcopal Church. He is a member of the
Alumni Association of Columbia College
Law School and of the Rutgers College
Alumni Association; president of the City
Improvement Society ; a member of the Ex
ecutive Boards of Church Association for
the Advancement of the Interests of Labor,
Actor's Church Alliance of America and
the State Charities Aid and the Prison Re
form Association of New Jersey; a mem
ber of the Advisory Board of Garden Cities
Association of America; The Manhattan
Tfade School for Girls ; a member of the
West End Association; the New York
Peace Society; historian of the Empire
State Society of the Sons of American Rev
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Genealogical and Biographical Society;
one of the founders and a member of the
Board of Managers of the Cedar Lake Club,
Incorporated, and of the Union League
Club. He married, first, Margaret Lanier
Winslow, who died in 1890; and, second,
in New York City, May 20, 1896, Mary
Amelia Harmon. Addresses : 2881 Broad
way, New York, and Union League Club,
1 East Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.
PURDY, George S. :
Jurist; born in Paupack Township,
Wayne County, January 24, 1839, being a
descendant on both sides of Baptist ministers
residing in that county. He was educated
in the public schools, and taught for four
years, part of this time as principal of the
Providence graded school. He was after
ward bookkeeper in tanneries at Ledgedale
and Middle Valley; was commissioner's
clerk from 1866 to 1876, meanwhile reading
law and obtaining admission to the bar in
1873. He began practice in 1876, showing
an ability that soon gave him a leading po
sition at the county bar. In his first con
test for the judgeship he was defeated, but
in 1893 the Democrats of Pike and Wayne
Counties united in again nominating him,
and he was then elected without Opposition,
his opponent withdrawing from the con
test; and he was reelected, without oppo
sition, to succeed himself in 1903. In ad
dition to his judicial duties, Judge Purdy
is concerned in several extensive business
enterprises. Address: Honesdale, Pennsyl
vania. PURNELL, Thomas Richard:
United States judge; born in Wilming
ton, North Carolina, in 1847. He served
in the Confederate Army from 1863 to the
surrender in 1865, then entered Trinity
College at Durham, North Carolina, from
which he was graduated in 1869. He en
gaged in the practice of law until 1897,
and from his first vote, was an active Re
publican. He served as State librarian, also
a member of the House of Representatives
and Senate of North Carolina ; and in 1892
was the Republican candidate for attorney-
general of the State. In 1897 he was ap

pointed by President McKinley to his pres
ent office as judge of the United States Dis
trict Court for- the Eastern District of
North Carolina. Office address : 508 Fay
etteville Street, Raleigh, North Carolina.
PUTNAM, Frederick Ward:
Anthropologist ; born in Salem, Massa
chusetts, April 16, 1839; son of Eberi Put
nam and Elizabeth Appleton Putnam;
grandson of Eben Putnam and Elizabeth -
(daughter of General John Fiske), and
Nathaniel Appleton and Elizabeth (daugh
ter of Joshua Ward) ; and a descendant of
John Putnam who migrated from Aston
Abbotts, Bucks, England, to Salem, Mas
sachusetts, in 1640. He received private
instruction until 1856 when he entered the
Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard.
Very early in life he displayed an unusual
aptness for the study of natural history,
and in 1856 he was made curator of ornith
ology of the Essex Institute, Salem, and
published his List of the Birds' of Essex
County, Massachusetts. In this same year
he became a special student of zoology un
der Professor Louis Agassiz and was his
assistant in charge of the collection of
fishes in the Museum of Comparative Zo
ology at Harvard University until 1864.
From 1864 to 1867 he was in charge of the
Museum of the Essex Institute, Salem. He
was made superintendent of the East India
Marine Society in 1867, and when the two
collections were merged as the Peabody
Academy of Sciences, he was made director
of the academy. In 1875 he was made cu
rator of the Peabody Museum of Archae
ology at Harvard University until 1864.
sity ; and when the Peabody Professorship
of American Archaeology and Ethnology
was established in 1886 he was awarded the
chair, which he now fills. He was instruc
tor at the School of Natural History on
Penikese Island in 1874, and in the same
year he was appointed assistant on the
Kentucky geological survey. He was State
Commissioner of Inland Fisheries for Mas
sachusetts, 1882-89;, and Chief of the De
partment of Ethnology of the World's
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he was appointed Curator of Anthropology
in the American Museum of Natural His
tory, New York City, and divided his time
between Cambridge and New York, until
the end, of 1903, when he resigned. In
1903 he was appointed professor of An
thropology and director of the Anthropo
logical Museum, University of California.,
Since that time he has filled two positions,
one at Harvard and the other in California.
In connection with his zoological and an
thropological work he has published over-
300 papers. He prepared Volume VII of
the Report of the United States Geological
and Geographical Survey west of the 100th
meridian. For varying terms he. has edited
the Proceedings of the Essex Institute and
the Reports of the Peabody Academy; the
annual volumes of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science; and
the Annual Reports,, Papers and Memoirs
of the Peabody Museum since 1873. He
was the originator and editor of the Natur
alists Directory in 1865; and one of the
founders of the American Naturalist in
1867. In 1873 he was elected permanent
secretary of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and held this
office for .twenty-five years. He resigned in
1898 to accept the presidency of the asso
ciation for that year. His researches in
American archaeology began in 1857 when
he examined a shell-heap in Montreal. He
has personally explored shell-heaps, burial
mounds,, village sites and caves in various
parts of North America, as well as the an
cient pueblos and cliff-houses ; and the later
geological deposits in California and in the
Delaware Valley in connection with the
antiquity of man in America. He has di
rected extensive explorations in the United
States, Mexico, Central and South Amer
ica. He is past president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, of the Boston Society of Natural His
tory, the American Folk-lore Society, and
the American Anthropological Association.
Since 1890 he has been president of the
Boston Folks-lore Society. At the Inter
national Congress of Americanists in 1902
he was vice-president for the United States.

At the St. Louis Exposition, in 1904, he
was chairman of anthropology, Interna
tional Congress of Arts and Sciences. He
is fellow of the National Academy of Sci
ences, the American Philosophical Society,
the Massachusetts Historical Society, Amer
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amer
ican Antiquarian Society, California Acad
emy of Sciences, Philadelphia Acad
emy of Sciences, Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences, and the anthropologi
cal Societies of Washington, London,
Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Stockholm. He is
a member of the Harvard Chapter of the
Phi Beta Kappa, and of the California
Chapter of the Sigma Xi; of the Century
Association and Harvard Club (New
York), the Colonial Club, and the Harvard
Union (Cambridge), and of several Social
Clubs of Boston and Cambridge. In 1896,
in recognition of his achievements in Amer
ican archeology and ethnology, he received
from the President of France the decora
tion of Chevalier of the National Order
of the Legion of Honor. In February,
1903, he received the Drexel gold medal
for distinguished work in American arche
ology. He holds the degree, S.B. (Har
vard, 1862), and the honorary degrees,
A.M. (Williams College, 1868), and -
S.D.' (University of Pennsylvania, 1894).
He was married in 1864 to Adelaide Martha
(daughter of William M. Edmands of
Chariestown, Massachusetts), who died in
1879, and by that marriage has three chil
dren: Alice Edmands, Eben, and Ethel Ap
pleton Fiske (Lewis). In 1882 he mar
ried Esther Orne, daughter of John L.
Clarke of Chicago, Illinois, and they have
three children: Eben, Alice Edmands and
Ethel Appleton. Residence: 1582 Massa
chusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Office ad
dress : Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts.PUTNAM, George Haven:
Publisher; born in London, England,
1844; son of George Palmer Putnam, of
Maine, and Victorine (Haven) Putnam, of
Massachusetts. He was educated at Co
lumbia University and Universities of
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many, August, 1862, to enlist, thus losing
prospect of Gottingen degree; secured, in
later life, degree of M.A., from Bowdoin,
and of Litt.D. from University of Pennsyl
vania. He is the president of the publish
ing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York City and London; director of the
Knickerbocker Press; president and treas
urer, of Putnam's Monthly Company. He is
the author of: Books and Their Makers in
the Middle Ages; Authors and Their Pub
lic in Ancient Times ; Authors and Publish
ers; Questions of Copyright; History of
Censorship and the Index, etc. Enlisted,
August, 1862, in the One Hundred and
Seventy-sixth Regiment, New York State
Volunteers. He served as private, ser
geant, quartermaster, adjutant and major;
discharged August, 1865. In 1886 he or
ganized Publishers' Copyright League, and
has since served as its secretary and execu
tive. In 1891 he received from the gov
ernment of France the Cross of the Legion
of Honor for services to France and to
literature. Independent Democrat (free
trade, sound money). Unitarian. His rec
reations are chess, tennis, reform politics.
Mr. Putnam is a member of the Loyal Le
gion, and of the Century, Authors, and City
Clubs of New York City, and Savile Club
of London. He was married, first, in 1869,
to Rebecca K. Shepard of Boston; second,
in 1899, to Emily James Smith, of Canan
daigua, New York. He had four children by
his first marriage, Bertha, Ethel, Corinna
and Dorothy and one child, Palmer, by his
second marriage. Residences : 335 West
Eighty-sixth Street, New York City, and
Westhampton Beach, Long Island. Ad
dress : 27 and 29 West Twenty- fourth
Street, New York City.
PUTNAM, Herbert:
• Librarian of Congress, Washington, since
1899; born in New York City, September
20, 1861 ; son of George Palmer Putnam
and Victorine Haven. He was educated
in the public and private schools of New
York; Harvard University, A.B., 1883; Co
lumbia University Law School, New York.
Librarian of the Minneapolis (Minnesota)
¦Athenaeum from 1884 to 1887; librarian of

the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Public
Library from 1887 to 1891; admitted to the
Minnesota bar, 1886; the bar of Suffolk
County, Massachusetts, 1892; and practiced
law in Boston from 1892 to 1895. He was
librarian of the Boston (Massachusetts)
Public Library from 1895 to 1899 ; president,
Massachusetts Library Club from 1896 to
1897; president of the American Library
Association in 1898 and 1903- 1904; mem
ber of the Board of Overseers, Harvard
University from 1902 to 1906. Mr. Put
nam represented the United States as a
delegate to the International Library Con
ference, London, in 1897; member of the
Administrative Board of the Congress of
Arts and Science, Louisiana Purchase Ex
position; he received the honorary degree
of Litt.D. from Bowdoin College in 1898;
of LL.D., Columbia University, 1903; Uni
versity of Illinois, 1903; and University
of Wisconsin, 1904; and from Yale Univer
sity in 1907. He is the author of various
articles in magazines and periodicals and
in professional journals. Mr. Putnam is
a member of the Tavern Club of Boston,
City Club of New York, and the Cosmos
and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington.
Address : Library of Congress, Washing
ton, District of Columbia.
PUTNAM, Irving:
Publisher; born in Staten Island, New
York, February 4, 1852; son of George
Palmer and Victorine (Haven) Putnam;
he was educated at John MacMullen's
School in New York City, Columbia Gram
mar School, and Amherst College for three
years, class of 1872; but did not graduate,
leaving college to go into business. En-
terd house of G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1871
and has been there ever since, now being sec
retary. He is director of the Knickerbocker
Press. Independent in politics. He is also
a member of the Delta Kappa "Epsilon fra
ternity. His recreations are walking, wheel
ing. He is a member of the Manhattan
Club. He married in New York City, June
20, 1878, Emma Louise Brock; they have
five children : Sidney Haven, born in 1879,
Edmund Whitman, born in 1882, Avis, born
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beth, born in 1903. Address : 27 West
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
PUTNAM, John Bishop :
Publisher ; born in Staten Island, New
York, in 1847; son of George P. Putnam
and Victorine (Haven) Putnam. He re
ceived a public school education. Mr. Put
nam has been a member of the publishing
firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons, for thirty-
five years and is now treasurer. In 1867
he traveled extensively in Europe, Japan
and other places. He is president of the
Knickerbocker Press. He is a Democrat
in National politics and his church relations
are with the Unitarian Church. Mr. Put
nam is a member of the Typothetae, the
Society of Mechanics' and Tradesmen, and
the Union, National Arts, and American
Yacht Clubs. He married in New York
City in 1882, Frances Faulkner, and their
children are : Robert Faulkner, born in 1884,
Victor Haven, born in 1886, and George
Palmer, born in 1888. Residence : Rye, New
York. Office address : 27 West Twenty-
third Street, New York City.
PUTNAM, William Le Baron:
United States circuit judge; born in
Bath, Maine, May 12, 1835. After his
graduation from Bowdoin College as A.B.
iri 1855, he studied law in Portland, Maine,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1858
and practiced law until 1892. He was ap
pointed by President Cleveland in 1887, a
commissioner to negotiate with Great Brit
ain in settlement of the rights of American
fishermen in Canadian waters, and again by
President Cleveland, in 1896, as a commis
sioner under the Treaty of February 8,
1896, between the United States and Great
Britain. He was appointed in 1892, judge
of the United States Circuit Court for the
First Judicial Circuit, which office he still
holds. Judge Putnam is a Democrat and
was the candidate of his party for gov
ernor of Maine in 1888. The degree of
LL.D. has been conferred upon Judge Put
nam by Brown University and by Bowdoin
College; and he is a trustee of the latter.
Address : Portland, Maine.

PUTNEY, Frank Howell:
Lawyer; born in Rockford, Illinois, Oc
tober 13, 1841; son of Foskett Maynard
Putney and Clarissa (Howell)' Putney. Pie
received his education in the private
schools at Waukesha, the High School at
Milwaukee, and Carroll College at Wau
kesha. After admission to the bar he
established himself in practice at Wauke
sha, but having a fondness for journalism,
he spent the years 1874 and 1875 in news
paper work in New York City. In 1876
he was appointed private secretary to the
Governor of Wisconsin, also military sec
retary and aide-de-camp to the governor.
In 1878 he was made assistant secretary of
State of Wisconsin, and reappointed in
1880; was elected county judge of Wau
kesha County in 1882 ; appointed post
master at Waukesha and held that posi
tion four years. He enlisted in 1861 as
a private in the Twelfth Wisconsin Infan
try Volunteers,' rose through the various
grades to second lieutenant. He was
wounded near Atlanta, Georgia; served
four years, part of the time with his com
pany; then as adjutant of the Regent, and
as acting assistant adjutant-general of the
First Brigade, Third Division of the Seven
teenth Army Corps, on the staff of General
Charles Ewing. He served also in the
memorable campaign of the Army of the
Tennessee and was present at sixteen bat
tles and engagements. He was one of the
organizers and promoters of the Waukesha
Electric Light Company, and is president
of the Waukesha Gas and Elecctric Com
pany. He was also one of the Founders
of the Waukesha Malleable Iron Company,
which now employs about six hundred per
sons. He has built and is owner of three
of the largest and best business blocks in
Waukesha, and has contributed much to
permanent improvement of the city. In
politics he is a Republican and he is a
member of the Episcopal Church. He has
traveled extensively in Great Britain and
France. Mr. Putney is vice-president and
director of the Waukesha National Bank
and the Waukesha Springs Sanitarium;
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Malleable Iron Company. He is a member
of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, the
Wisconsin State Historical Society, Wis
consin Bar Association; trustee of Funds
and Property of the Episcopal Church in
Wisconsin, and a member of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese. He is also a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and of several Masonic bodies, also of the
Waukesha Club. Residence : 215 Wiscon
sin Avenue, Waukesha. Office address : 602
Grand Avenue, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
PUTZEL, Charles:
Lawyer and commissioner of taxes; born
in New York City, May 5, 1856; son of
M. Putzel and R. (Friedman) Putzel. He
was graduated from the College of the City
of New York as A.B. in 1876, and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1878..
Mr. Putzel was president of the Thomas
Hunter Association for five terms; of the
Mendelssohn Benevolent Society, seven
terms and of the Freundschaft Society,
two terms; was secretary of the Board of
Trustees of the College of the City of
New York, six years; chairman of the
Local School Board, five years; and is
editor of two commercial law books. He
was appointed commissioner of taxes and
assessments, January 1, 1906. In politics
he is a Democrat. Mr. Putzel is a mem
ber of the Dwight Alumni Association of
Columbia Law School, the Alumni Asso
ciation of the College of the City of New
York, and the Freundschaft Society. He
organized the New York Cremation So
ciety, the United States Cremation Com
pany at Fresh Pond ; a member of ten char
itable and benevolent institutions. His fav
orite recreations are _golf, bowling, bil
liards and walking. He is a member of
the Hardware and Harmonie Clubs and
was acting president of the latter, one term.
He married in New York City, January 31,
1882, Rose Dahlmann, of Buffalo, and they
had two sons, both deceased. Address :
299 Broadway, New York City.
PYLE, James Tolman:
Manufacturer; born in New York City,
February 9, 1854; son of James and Esther

A. (Whitman) Pyle; he was educated in
schools of New York City. H;e is, the
manufacturer of Pearline washing com
pound; president of the James Pyle & Sons
(Incorporated) ; director of the Standard
Gas Company, New York and Queens Elec
tric Light Company. He is a member of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer
ican Institute of Social Service, New York
Zoological Society, People's Institute, Am
erican Museum of Natural History, and Ex
ploration Society of Baltimore. He is also
a member of the Metropolitan, Grolier, Rid
ing, Lawyers' and Wool Clubs of New York
City; Morristown, Morris County and Golf
Clubs of Morristown, New Jersey, and Nas
sau Club of Princeton. He married, Feb
ruary 12, 1884, Frances Adelaide McAlpin;
they have six children: James McAlpin,
D. H. McAlpin, Adelia McAlpin, Sara
McAlpin, Charles McAlpin and Gordon
IVfcAlpin. Address: 673 Fifth Avenue,
New York Citj-.
PYNE, M. Tayler:
Lawyer and trustee; born in New York
City, December 21, 1855; son of Percy
Rivington Pyne and Albertina (Taylor)
Pyne. He was graduated from Princeton
University as A.B. in 1877, and received
the degree of A.M. in 1880 from the same
university, after having been graduated in
1879 as LL.B. from the Law School of
Columbia University, from .which he re
ceived the honorary degree of L.H.D. in
1903. Mr. Pyne was admitted to the bar
in 1880, was general solicitor of the Dela
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Company for eleven years; is president of
the Warren Railroad Company, Cayuga and
Susquehanna Railroad Company, Lake Car
negie Association, and the Princeton Inn
Company; vice-president of the University
Power Company; director of the National
City Bank of New York, The Farmers'
Loan and Trust Company, the Lackawanna
Steel Company, the Lackawanna Iron and
Coal Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany, the New Jersey Zinc Company, Prin
ceton Bank, Commercial Trust Company
of Jersey City, the United Railroads of New
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Western Railroad Company, the Newark
and Bloomfield Railroad Company, Morris
and Essex Railroad Company, Sussex Rail
road1 Company, Utica, Chenango and Sus
quehanna Valley Railroad Company, Val
ley Railroad Company, Harvey Steel Com
pany, New York, Lackawanna and West
ern Railway Company, the Passaic and Del
aware Railroad Conipany, etc. He is also
trustee and chairman of the Finance Com
mittee of Princeton University; trustee of
the Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, and
the Pomfret School in Connecticut; trus
tee of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of New York and St: Luke's Hospital,
New York City; and president of The
Princeton Historical Society. He is a mem
ber of the New Jersey State Public Li
brary Commission; and chairman of Prin
ceton Township. Mr. Pyne is a member
of the Union, University, Century, Metro
politan, Grolier, Princeton, Down Town,
and Midday Clubs of New York City,— the
Tuxedo and Westchester Country Clubs,
the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, and the
Nassau Club and the Ivy Club of Prince
ton. He is also an honorary member of the
Bachelors, Cap and Gown, Tiger Inn, Co
lonial, Elm, Cannon, Quadrangle, Campus,
Tower, Charter, Terrace and Key and Seal
Clubs of Princeton. He married June 2,
1880, Margeretta Stockton. Address:
Drumthwacket, Princeton, New Jersey.
Q
QUACKENBOS, John Duncan:
Physician; born in New York City, April
2, 1:848; son of George Payn Quackenbos,
LL.D., the educational author and a direct
descendant of Pieter van Quaakenbosch,
who came from Holland to New Amster
dam about 1660. He was educated at the
Collegiate School, New York City, of which
his father was rector, and was graduated
from Columbia College, A.B., with the first
honor, in 1868, at the age of twenty (A.M.,
1871), and College of Physicians and Sur
geons in New York City, M.D., 1871. He
was appointed tutor of rhetoric at Colum
bia College in 1870, adjunct professor of

the English language and literature from
1884 to 1891, professor of rhetoric in Co
lumbia University and in Barnard College
for Women from 1891 to 1894 and re
tired in 1894 from active service at the
University, retaining his connection as
emeritus professor. He has since devoted
himself to the practice of medicine in New
York City, specializing in nervous and
mental diseases, and in psychotherapy. He
is also a lecturer on scientific and literary
subjects, and is to be credited with hav
ing brought to public notice the presence
of a fourth charr in New England waters,
viz. : the so-called Sunapee Lake trout, or
American saibling. This valuable food fish,
through his efforts, has been planted in
Lake George. He is a member of the Lon
don Society for Physical Research, member
of the New York Academy of Sciences, of
the New York Medical Association, of the
American Medical Association and the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is a fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine and of the New
Hampshire Medical Society. Address : 331
West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City.
QUARLES, Joseph Very:
Jurist; born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, De
cember 16, 1843. After graduation from the
high school in 1861, he entered the Uni
versity of Michigan, but left to go to the
War, serving in the Thirty-ninth Wiscon
sin Infantry, as first lieutenant of Com
pany C. When his enlistment expired he
returned to the University of Michigan
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1866. He studied law in offices and after
his admission to the bar in .1868 began
practice at Kenosha, where he served as
district attorney and as mayor of* Kenosha.
He removed to Racine and practiced law
there until 1888, after that in Milwaukee,
where -he became not only distinguished as
a lawyer, but also prominent as a leader
in the Republican party. He was elected
to the United States Senate from Wiscon
sin for the term from 1899 to 1905, and on
March 6, 1905, he was appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt to his present position as
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Eastern District of Michigan. Address :
286 Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
QUAYLE, William A.:
Clergyman, author and lecturer ; born
in Parkville, Missouri, June 25, i860; son
of Thomas Quayle and Elizabeth (Gale)
Quayle. He was graduated from Baker
University in 1885, with the degree of A.
B., and later received from that university
the degrees of A.M. and Litt.D. ; and he
has also received the degrees of Ph.D. from
Allegheny College, and of D.D. from De
Pauw University. He was ordained in the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1886, and was pastor at Kansas City
before removing to Chicago, where he is
pastor of St. James' Methodist Episcopal
Church. Dr. Quayle was sent by the
Church as a fraternal delegate to the Eng
lish Wesleyan Church in 1902, and he has
frequently delivered addresses before An
nual Conferences and special gatherings.
He is distinguished as an orator and lec
turer and is author of: The Poet's Poet
and Other Essays; A Hero and Some
Other Folks; The Blessed Life; In God's
Out-of-Doors ; The Prairies and the Sea ;
and other volumes. He married in 1886,
Allie Hancock Davis. Address: 461 1 El
lis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
QUEEN, Emmet:
President of the Great Lakes Coal Com
pany; born in 1854 in Queenstown, Penn
sylvania, and in the early seventies became
actively interested in oil. He was a suc
cessful operator and in 1883 associated him
self with J. M. and W. S. Guffey, and is
still active in the oil business, the firm being
now Guffey & Queen. In 1902 he associated
himself with a number of the prominent
partners of the Carnegie Steel Company in
the formation of the company of which he
is now president. Preparations were made
for the opening of the mines and the ac
commodation of the workmen, and to-day
it is one of the most important independent
coal enterprises of western Pennsylvania.
Address : Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,

QUIGG, Lemuel E. :
Lawyer ; born in Cecil County, Mary
land, February 13, 1863. He received a
common school education, at the comple
tion of which he removed to New York
City and engaged in journalism. He was
for ten years writer on the New York Trib
une, later editor-in-chief of the New York
Press. Was Republican member of Con
gress, from 1893 to 1899; chairman of the
Republican Committee of New York from
1896 to 1900; since retirement from Con
gress has been actively engaged in business
and in promoting the interests of his party
in city and State. Residence ': 435 West
End Avenue. Address : 32 Liberty Street,
New York City.
QUTNBY, Frank H.:
Architect; born in North Castle, West
chester County, New York, November 24,
1868; son of John Jay and Hannah Griffen
(Haviland) Quinby. He is director of the
New York and New Jersey Terminal Un
derground Railroad Company. He is a
Democrat and a member of the Society of
Friends (Quaker). Fellow of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects and president
of the Brooklyn Chapter; member of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences;
chairman of the Board of Managers, Chap-
paqua Mountain Institute. He is a mem
ber of the Midwood Club. He married at
Port Chester, New York, Elizabeth Math
ews Purdy, and they have three children :
Oliver, born in 1901 ; Margaret Pierce, born
in 1904; and Elizabeth Lane, born in 1906.
Residence: 7 Tennis Court, Brooklyn, New
York. Address: 99 Nassau Street, New
York City.
QUINTARD, George W. :
Iron manufacturer ; born in Stamford,
Connecticut, April 22, 1822. He was edu
cated in the common schools. He removed
to New York when a lad of fifteen and
engaged in a mercantile business. In 1847
he was one of the proprietors of the Am
erican Iron Works, in New York City; and
a few years later became a partner with
Charles Morgan in the Morgan Iron Works,
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of the foremost engineers of the United
States Navy were graduated into the serv
ice, including the explorer and later en
gineer-in-chief of the United States Navy,
Rear-Admiral George U. Melville, and
others. He was the sole manager of the
Morgan Iron Works from 1852, and re
tired in 1867. He was the principal owner
of the New York and Charleston Steam
ship Company and in 1869 became connected
with the Quintard Iron Works. Mr. Quin
tard was vice-president of the Eleventh
Ward Bank; director of the Lorillard and
Adriatic Fire Insurance Company, Metro
politan Savings Bank, Southern Steamship
Company and Butchers' and Drovers' Bank
and trustee of the Eastern Dispensary. He
is a member of the Metropolitan, New York
Yacht and American Yacht Clubs. Ad
dress : 66 Broadway, New York City.

RADFORD, Harry Vincent:
• Journalist and author; born in New
York City, January 8, 1881 ; son of Charles
A. Higgins and Leila Radford. He ; re
ceived his early education in public and pri
vate schools in city and country, was grad
uated from De La Salle Institute, New
York City, and afterward from Manhattan
College as B.S. in 1901, M.S. in 1902, and
C.E. in 1906. He began writing for pub
lication at twelve years of age, and con
tributed to school journals, serving as as
sociate editor. He established in 1898
Woods and Waters, a quarterly magazine
of, national circulation, devoted to out-door
sports, natural history and forestry, and
has since owned, edited and published it.
He was associate editor of Field and
Stream from 1901 to 1904, conducting an
Adirondack Department in that periodical.
He has contributed to various magazines
and newspapers — chiefly informational ar
ticles relating to sports and natural his
tory, particularly with reference to the
Adirondacks, concerning which he is ac
knowledged authority. He is author of:
Adirondack Murray, a Biographical Ap
preciation (now in the second edition), and

of various scientific theses, tracts, and ad
dresses; and he has also published some
verse. Mr. Radford has been constructively
active in game, fish and forest protective
legislation and in the organization of clubs
and associations devoted to this object. He
originated the plan for restocking the Adi
rondack region with moose, wapiti and
beaver, arid has obtained various appro
priations from the State Legislature for
this purpose. He has also been active for
years in the interest of American bison
perpetuation, and in protecting forests of
the Adirondack State Park; obtained legis
lation protecting black bear in New York
State during the summer. He has deliv
ered addresses before various clubs, so
cieties and associations. His recreations
are field sports (chiefly hunting and fish
ing) and travel; and he has traveled ex
tensively in North America and Europe.
He is independent in politics, and a Roman
Catholic in religion. Mr. Radford is
founder and trustee of the Adirondack
Murray Memorial Association, is a life
member of the Society of the War of 1812;
charter member of the League of Amer
ican Sportsmen and of the Association for
the Protection of the Adirondacks; found
er and secretary of the Association for Re
storing Moose to the Adirondacks; asso
ciate member of the Adirondack Guide's As
sociation and of Brown's Tract Guide's As
sociation; member of the Alumni Society
of Manhattan College, Alumni Society of
De La Salle Institute, Alpha Sigma Beta
(local college fraternity of which he was-
founder and first regent) ; charter member
and secretary of the Canadian Camp;
member of the New York Press Club. Ad
dress : North Creek, .Warren County, New
York. RAD WAY, John Symonds:
Manufacturer; born in New York City,
February 17, 1858; son of John and Anna
E. (Lewis) Radway; he was educated at
the Collegiate School, New York City ; New
York University; College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University. Passed
several years in Europe, after graduation,
in study and recreation; entered upon busi-

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ness career in New York City with Radway
and Company in 1884, becoming president
of the corporation in 1886 and secretary and
treasurer in 1894. Recreations are golf,
yachting, etc. He is a member of the New
York Athletic, Shinnecock Yacht, Quoque
Field, and Delta Phi Clubs. He married
in Newburgh, New York, October 18, 1882,
Mary A. Mailler, they have four children:
John O., born in 1884, Gladys C, born in
1887, Edward M., born in 1889, and Mary,
born in 1902. Address : 58 East Sixty-sev
enth Street, New York City.
RAFTER, George W. :
Consulting engineer; born in Phelps
Township, New York, December 9, 1851 ;
son of John and Eleanor (Willson) Raf
ter, and descendant in the fifth generation
of that Scotch-Irish stock which settled in
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania,
about 1750. Mr. Rafter was educated at
Canandaigua (New York) Academy and
Cornell University. He was employed on
construction of the Texas and Pacific Rail
road from 1880 to 1883, having charge of
the water supply across the Staked Plains ;
on the Rochester water works from 1883
to 1890; reservoir investigations on the
Genesee and Hudson rivers from 1893 to
1899. In 1894 he was sent abroad by the
State Engineer of New York to study mov
able bridges in Europe; and spent several
months in England, Holland, Germany,
Italy, and France on work relating to the
same ; also investigated several high mason
ry dams in Europe ; was employed on con
crete studies for State Engineer of New
York in 1896; in charge of water supply
division for the United States Board of
Engineers on Deep Waterways, 1898; con
sulting engineer to the New York State
Canal Committee, 1899 ; and in general prac
tice since 1900. He was a member of the
Water Storage Commission of New York
in 1902. At various times he has been em
ployed on water supply for Texas. & Pa
cific railway, municipal water supply at
Rochester, New York; Forth Worth, Tex
as; Fredonia, New York; Traverse City,
Michigan; and Berwick, Pennsylvania. He
is the author of one hundred and sixty-five

books, pamphlets, and papers on engineering
and allied subjects. Mr. Rafter is a mem
ber of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the Association for Protection of
the Adirondacks,. American Forestry As
sociation, American Geographic Society,
Society of the Genesee, American Water
Works. Association, Rochester Engineering
Society, Rochester Chamber of Commerce,
and the Masonic Order; and of the Oak
Hill Country, Masonic, and Cornell Clubs,
Rochester. He married, February 10,
1873, Alyda Kirk, daughter of David
and Margaret (Underhill) Kirk; children:
Ethel Rafter Williams (Mrs. John Ralston)
and Myra Willson Rafter. Address: 195
Kenwood Avenue, Rochester, New York.
RAGSDALE, James W. :
Consul-general; born in Monroe County,
Indiana, February 12, 1848; son of Daniel
S. Ragsdale and Louisa (Lindsay) Rags-
dale. He was educated in the public schools
and for two years at Cornell, College at
Mount Vernon, Iowa. When only fifteen
years old he enlisted, in 1863, in Company
C, .of the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, in
which he served for two years, until the end
of the war with Sherman in Georgia ahd on
the march to the sea. After the war he
engaged in newspaper life in Iowa and
later in California, where he has his home
at Santa Rosa. He became active in poli
tics in California as a Republican and was
elected to the General Assembly of Cali
fornia in 1888 and to the California Senate
in 1890. In 1897 he was appointed by Pres
ident McKinley as consul to Tientsin, China,
and has remained there ever since. He
was one of the besieged party at Tientsin
during the Boxer troubles of 1900, and ren
dered efficient service to the allied troops
during the subsequent military relief opera
tions. He was promoted February 2, 1903,
to consul-general of the United States at
Tientsin. Mr. Ragsdale married, at Chari
ton, Iowa, February 3, 1870, Effie L. Hines.
Address : American Consulate, Tientsin,
China. RAINES, John:
State senator and lawyer ; born at Canan
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John Raines, a prominent Methodist clergy
man, well known in the western part of
the State, and of Mary (Remington)
Raines. The father had . several sons who
had distinguished public careers : Thomas
Raines, who was State treasurer two terms ;
George Raines, who was senator from the
Monroe district in 1878 and 1879; and John
Raines who was successively assemblyman,
senator, Congressman, and senator. John
Raines was educated in the common schools,
and was graduated from the Albany Law
School of Union University. His present
business is that of an insurance agent and
lawyer. ' Mr. Raines began the practice of
law in Geneva soon after graduating, but in
the fall of 1861 he raised a company of
volunteers and was commissioned captain
of Company G, of the Eighty-fifth Regiment
of New York Volunteers. He served in
the Army of the Potomac and in North
Carolina until July, 1863, when he returned
to Geneva and resumed the practice of law.
In 1867 he removed to Canandaigua and
opened a law office and insurance agency
there. He early joined the Republican party
and has continued to be one of its members.
He was elected to the Assembly of 1881
and 1882 and 1885, and to the Senate 1886,
and continued a member of that body until
1890. While a member of the Senate he was
elected to the Fifty-first Congress and was
also elected to the Fifty-second Congress.
Mr. Raines, in December, 1894, was elected
a State senator from the Twenty-sixth dis
trict to fill a vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Charles T. Saxton, who had been
elected lieutenant-governor. Mr. Raines was
reelected to the Senate in' 1895, and has
had continuous service in the Senate since.
Mr. Raines' chief legislative achievements
have been the passage of the present Elec
tion Law of the State and the well-known
Raines Liquor Tax Law. Mr. Raines was
elected president pro tern, and Republican
leader of the Senate of 1903, I9°4, x9°5 and
1906, and again elected by a unanimous
vote for the years 1907 and 1908, and was
made chairman of the Committee on Rules
and a member of the Finance Committee,
the Cities Committee, and the Judiciary

Committee. Address : Canandaigua, New
York.
RAINEY, Henry T.:
Congressman and lawyer; born August
20, i860, at Carrollton, Illinois, and has re
sided in the place of his birth all his life.
He is son of John Rainey and Kate
(Thomas) Rainey. He graduated from
Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1883,
with the degree of A.B. ; and three years
later this institution conferred upon him
the .degree of A.M. He graduated from
Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1885,
receiving the degree of B.L. Soon after
wards he was admitted to the bar. Since
that time he has practiced law at Carroll
ton, Illinois. He is a member of the Knights
of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, and the
Elks. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress, from the Twen
tieth Illinois District. He is a Democrat.
He married, June 27, 1888, Ella McBride
of Howard, Nebraska. Address: Carroll
ton, Illinois.
RAIRUEN, Bradstreet S. :
Consular officer; born in Louisiana. He
was appointed consul at Batavia, August
18, 1892; retired September 1, 1897; was
appointed vice and deputy-consul, October
5, 1898 ; and reappointed consul, October id,
1900. Address : Batavia, Java.
RAMALEY, Francis:
Botanist; was born in St. Paul, Min
nesota, November 16, 1870; son of Da
vid Ramaley and of Louisa M. (DeGraw)
Ramaley. He was graduated from Univer
sity of Minnesota as B.S. in 1895, M.S. in
1896, and Ph.D. in 1899, and has also stud
ied in Buitenzorg, Java, in the Botanical
Institute, also studied three months in Royal
Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon. He
was instructor in botany in the University
of Minnesota, from 1896 to 1898; and, has
been professor of biology at University of
Colorado since 1899. He has now in prepa
ration a book giving a popular account of

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Rocky Mountain vegetation, and has re
cently published in the Popular Science
Monthly and in Plant World, some pop
ular articles dealing with Botanic Gardens.
He traveled around the world in 1903 and
1904. Dr. Ramaley is a fellow of the Am
erican Association for the Advancement of
Science, member of the American Society
of Naturalists, National Geographic So
ciety, and of the Society of Botanists of
the Central States, president of the Asso
ciated Charities of Boulder and secretary
of the Park Commission, member of Theta
Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
He has made special researches in plant
anatomy, the anatomy of seedlings, morphol
ogy of certain brown seaweeds, cotyledon
anatomy of tropical plants and is author
of articles dealing with forests and forest
trees of Colorado, Cotyledon anatomy of
Ranunculaceae and Rosaceae and plant
geography of the Rocky Mountains. Mr.
Ramaley married in Denver, Colorado,
June 14, 1906, Ethel Jackson. Address :
972 Pleasant Street, Boulder, Colorado.
RAND, Charles Frederic:
Mine owner ; born at Canaan, Maine, Au
gust 17, 1856; son of Frank C. Rand and
Adeline (Smith) Rand. He was for some
years financial officer of a railway corpor
ation at Milwaukee, afterward engaged in
mining in the Lake Superior district and
at present owning and operating extensive
iron mines and manganese mines in Cuba.
He is president of the Spanish-American
Iron Company, Ponupo Manganese Com
pany, Gogebic Electric Company, Mount
Powell Mining Company, and vice-presi
dent of Pleasant Land Company. He is a
Republican in politics ; and is a member
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mu
nicipal Art Association, National Geo
graphic Society, American Historical So
ciety, New England Genealogic-Historic
Society, and is also a member of the En
gineers', Lawyers', Down Town, Jolly
Mariners' Clubs of New York, Essex County
Country Club, Riding and Driving Club
of Orange, New Jersey, Union Club of
Cleveland, Milwaukee Club of Milwaukee,
Union Club of San Carlos Clubs of San

tiago de Cuba. He married at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, October 21, 1885, Mary E. Burn
ham, and they have four children: Mar
jorie, born in 1889, Florence, born in 1891,
Howard, born in 1894, and Helen, born in
1894. Residence: 347 West End Avenue,
New York, and West Orange, New Jer
sey. Office address : 71 Broadway, New
York City.
RAND, John Prentice :
Physician; born in Francestown, New
Hampshire; November 8, 1857; son of
Thomas P. Rand and Lydia (Wheeler)
Rand. He was graduated from Frances-
town Academy, in 1880, received the M.D.
degree at New York Homeopathic College,
1883." He began the practice of medicine
at Monson, Massachusetts, where he re
mained for five years; then moved to Wor
cester, Massachusetts, and practiced for
ten years, when he was called back to
Monson by the death - of his brother, Dr.
N. W. Rand. He returned to Worcester
in 1905, where he now resides. He is a
member of the Monson Savings Bank Cor
poration, and was formerly a member of
the Monson Library Association. In 1897,
in company with his brother, N. W. Rand,
he published a book of verse called Random
Rimes, three editions of which have been
issued. He is an Independent in politics,
and is president of the Massachusetts
Homeopathic Medical Society, ex-president
of the Massachusetts Surgical and Gyne
cological Society, member of the American
Institute of Homeopathy and of the Na
tional Society for the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis; consulting physician
to the Westborough Insane Hospital; sec
retary of the Board of Trustees of the Mas
sachusetts State Sanatorium; lecturer at
Boston University School of Medicine; life
member of the Morning Star Lodge of
Masons, member of the Worcester Econom
ic Club, and treasurer of the Sons and
Daughters of New Hampshire Association
of Worcester. He married, first, January
17, 1889, Harriet M. Anderson, and second
September 3, 1904, Lena M. Adams. He
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ber 8, 1889.
chusetts.

Address: Worcester, Massa-

RAND William, Jr.:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, Janu
ary 8, 1866; son of William H. Rand and
Harriet Husted (Robinson) Rand. He
was educated in private schools in Switzer
land and Germany; was graduated from
Phillips Exeter Academy in 1884, and from
Harvard as A.B. in 1888 and from Har
vard Law School as LL.B. and M.A. in
1891. He has practiced his profession in
New York City since 1891, and is member
of law firm of Rand, Moffat & Webb. Mr.
Rand was assistant district corporation
counsel from 1895 to 1897, and was assist
ant district attorney from 1902 to 1906.
In politics he is an Independent. He is
a member of the Association of the Bar
of the, City of New York, Society of Med
ical Jurisprudence, and is a member of
the Harvard, University and Down Towh
Clubs of New York City, the Sons, of the
Revolution, and the Apawamis and Amer
ican Yacht Clubs of Rye, New York. Mr.
Rand married in Medford, Massachusetts,
June 15, 1892, Rosalie Crockett, and they
have two sons : William, 3d, born in 1895,
and Robert Crockett, born in 1898. Ad
dress: 63 Wall Street, New York City.
RANDELL, Choice Bos well:
Congressman; born in Georgia, January
1, 1857. He received his education in the
public and private schools and North
Georgia Agricultural College; was ad
mitted to the bar in 1878; removed to
Texas in January, 1879; was elected to the
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, from the Fourth Texas District.
He married, October 29, 1879, Anna Mar-
schalk, of Natchez, Mississippi. Address:
Sherman, Texas.
RANDOLPH, Alfred Magill:
Bishop of Southern Virginia; born at
Winchester, Virginia, August 31, 1836, son
of Robert Lee and Mary B. T. Randolph.
He was graduated from the academic course
at William and Mary College in 1855 and

taking up theological studies at the Vir
ginia Theological Seminary was graduated
in 1858. The degree of D.D. was conferred
upon him by William and Mary College
in 1876. Following his graduation from
the seminary, he took orders as deacon of
the Episcopal Church, and was ordained
priest by Bishop Johns in i860. During
the years from 1858 to 1883, he was con
nected as rector with St. George's Church,
Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Emmanuel
Church, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1883 he
became bishop coadjutor of Virginia, being
consecrated by Bishops Lee, W. B. W.
Howe, Dudley, Perry, Burgess and Peter
kin. In 1894, on the subdivision of the
Diocese of Virginia, he was elected Bishop
of Southern Virginia, filling the bishopric
since then. Bishop Randolph is author of
numerous sermons, addresses, tracts and
pastorals. Address : From November 1 to
July 1, Norfolk, Virginia, and from July
1 to November 1, Casanova, Virginia.
RANDOLPH, Edmund D.:
Treasurer, New York Life Insurance
Company; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, in 1838. He is of American colonial
ancestry, his family having been among
the early English settlers of the seven
teenth century, and his grandfather an of
ficer of the Continental Army in the Revo
lutionary War. He began business life in
the Philadelphia Bank, becoming a mem
ber of the banking firm of Smith, Randolph
and Company, of Philadelphia, in 1862, and
came to New York in 1866, as resident
partner in charge of his firm's branch of
fice. In 1877 he was elected president of
the Continental National Bank (since con
solidated with the Hanover National Bank),
which office he held for twenty-one years,
resigning in 1898 to become an officer of
the New York Life Insurance Company
(of which he had long been a trustee,
February, 1892), and was successively
elected chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, chairman of the Finance Committee,
and treasurer. Also connected with several
other prominent corporate interests, as di
rector and trustee, including the Liverpool
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Manhattan Trust Company, New York
Trust Company, Southern Railway Com
pany, Trinity Corporation and Society of
the New York Hospital. He is a member
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York Zoological Society and New York Bo
tanical Society. He is also a member of
the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan,
Merchants', Church (New York City),
Country (Westchester), Philadelphia (Phil
adelphia) Clubs. Residence: Brookwood,
Mount Saint Vincent-on Hudson. Address :
346 Broadway, New York City.
RANDOLPH, Lewis Van Syckle Fitz:
Banker, author; born at Somerville, New
Jersey, May 16, 1838. He was educated
in schools at Plainfield, New Jersey. He
started in business in New York, as a
clerk in the American Exchange Bank,' and
filled advancing positions until, in 1863, he
left to become connected with the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, of which he
was later assistant treasurer, and treasurer
and director, for over twenty years, until
1885. He is an executor and trustee of
the estate of Samuel J. Tilden, and of other
considerable estates; became president of
the Atlantic Trust Company in 1894, and
after a successful administration retired
at the end of 1902. On his return from his
visit to the West Indies, in 1903, he was
unanimously elected president of the Con
solidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange;
and was reelected without opposition in
1904 and 1905. He declined further elec
tion in 1906, and retired from active busi
ness. Mr. Randolph has managed various
railways, coal and iron mines, and other
enterprises, as well as philanthropic and re
ligious associations. He served in the
New Jersey Militia and in the emergency
campaign in Pennsylvania until some time
after the battle of Gettysburg. He has
contributed poems to magazines and has
published a volume of poems :" Survivals
(Putnam's). His favorite recreations are
gardening and the breeding of Jersey,
Hereford and other fine cattle. He mar
ried, May 16, 1867, Emily Caroline, daugh
ter of Matthias Price of Newark, New

Jersey; and they have five daughters. Ad
dress : Plainfield, New Jersey.
RANGER, Walter Eugene:
Commissioner of public schools for
Rhode Island; born at Wilton, Maine, No
vember 22, 1855; son. of Peter and Eliza
Smith Ranger. On his father's side he is
descended from Nehemiah Ranger, who
settled at Wilton, Maine, in 1800, and his
maternal grandfather served the United
States in the War of 1812. He was reared
on a farm, and he was educated at Wilton
Academy and prepared for Bates College,
which he entered in 1875, and in 1879, was
graduated therefrom with the degree of A.
B. and special honors in psychology, phi
losophy and ethics. On leaving the col
lege he immediately entered upon his life
work as an educator becoming principal of
the Nichols Latin School at Lewiston,
Maine, for a year. He was then principal
of the high school at Lenox, Massachu
setts, for three years and after that was
principal of the Lyndon Institute at Lyndon,
Vermont, from 1883 to 1896, and after that
principal of the State Normal School at
Johnson, Vermont, from 1896 to 1900. He
was elected by the Vermont Legislature in
1900, State Superintendent of Education
for the State of Vermont, and was twice re
elected, serving until 1905, when he 'was
called to fill a similar position as commis
sioner of Public Schools for the State of
Rhode Island, which he is now administer
ing. In 1883 his alma mater conferred
upon him the degree of M.A. pro merito,
and in 1904 the same degree was conferred
upon him by the University of Vermont.
In 1907 he received the degree of LL.D.
from Bates College. His record as an edu
cator and educational administrator is one
of high usefulness and distinction, and
each of his successive appointments has
led him to higher work. He is a member
and president of the American Institute of
Instruction, and a member, respectively, of
the National Educational Association,
Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, and
he was formerly a member and president
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tion and the Vermont Schoolmasters' Club.
He is also a member of the American
Historical Association, the Rhode Island
Historical Society and the University Club
of Providence, Rhode Island ; and of the
Odd Fellows and Masonic orders and in
the latter has a place of special prom
inence and distinction, having attained
to the thirty-third degree in Scottish
Rite Masonry, and being past grand
master of the Grand Lodge Of Ver
mont, and commander-in-chief of Vermont
Consistory. Mr. Ranger has twice married,
first, to Mary M. Snowman, of Portland,
Maine, who died in 1885, by whom he had
two children who also died. In 1889 he
married Mabel C. Bemis, of Lyndonville,
Vermont, a teacher of ability and an ac
complished musician, and they have three
children : Arthur Forest Ranger, born Oc
tober 10, 1892, Ruth Mabel Ranger, bora
November 23, 1897, and Robert Walter
Ranger, born February 19, 1903. Address:
Providence, Rhode Island.
RANKIN, Egbert Guernsey:
Physician; born in Astoria, BorOugh of
Queens, New York City, July 19, 1856; son
of James Murdoch Rankin and Anna Eve
lina (Schenck) Rankin. He was edu
cated in LockwoOd's Academy, Brooklyn,
New York; was graduated from Columbia
College as A.B. in 1876 and A.M. in 1879
and from the University of New. York as
M.D. in 1879. He is professor of the prac
tice of medicine and head of the Department
of Practice in the New York Homeopathic
Medical College ; visiting physician to Met
ropolitan Hospital, to the Department of
Public Charities and to Flower Hospital.
He is a member of the American Institute
of Homeopathy, State Homeopathic Med
ical Society, New York County Homeo
pathic Medical Society, Academy of Path
ological Science, Society of Sons of Revo
lution. He is author of Digest of External
Therapeutics, 1900; Diseases of the Chest,
1905; and numerous articles in medical
journals. Address: 226 West Fifty-ninth
Street, New York City.

RANSDELL, Joseph Eugene:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Alex
andria, Louisiana, October 7, 1858; son of
John H. Ransdell and Amanda (Terrell)
Ransdell. He received his early education
in the public schools of Alexandria and
graduated at Union College, Schenectady,
New York, in June, 1882; was admitted to
the bar in June, 1883, and has been en
gaged in the active practice of his profes
sion since. He was elected district at
torney of the Eighth Judicial District of
Louisiana in April, 1884, which place he
held for twelve years; was a member of
the Levee Board of the Fifth Louisiana
Levee district from May, 1896, until after
his election to Congress, August 29, 1899;
was a prominent member of the State Con
stitutional Convention of Louisiana, in the
spring of 1898, which framed a new con
stitution for the State. Mr. Ransdell is
interested in cotton planting as well as law,
and has taken a most active interest in
levee building on the Mississippi River for
many years. He was elected to the Fifty-
sixth Congress to fill the unexpired term
of Hon. S. T. Baird, and to the Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and was reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Sixth Louisiana Dis
trict. Mr. Ransdell is a Democrat in pol
itics. He married at Lake Providence,
Louisiana, November 15, 1885, Olive Irene
Powell. Address : Lake Providence, Louisi
ana. RAONDAL, Gabriel Bie:
Consular officer; born in Norway. Ap
pointed consul at Beirut, January 22, 1898;
appointed consul at Dawson City, June 5,
1905; appointed consul-general at Beirut,
June 22, 1906. Address : Beirut, Syria:
RASMUSEN, Bertil M.:
Consular officer; born in Iowa, appointed
consular age.nt at Stavanger, August 24,
1903; appointed consul, June 22, 1905. Ad
dress: Stavanger, Norway.
RATSHESKY, Abraham C:
President of the United States Trust
Company of Boston; born in Boston in

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1864; son of Asher Ratshesky and Fannie
Ratshesky. He was educated in the excel
lent public schools of Boston, and after leav
ing the high school, engaged in business
with his father, a prosperous Boston mer
chant. He was a member of the Common
Council of his native city for two years;
State Senator by the will of the Republican
party, and an advocate of clean politics. He
was secretary of the Republican State Com
mittee under the chairmanship of Eben S.
Draper and Samuel E. Winslow, and in
1892 and 1904 was a delegate to the Re
publican National Convention, serving both
times as secretary of the Massachusetts
delegation. He is president of the United
States Trust Company ; member of the Mas
sachusetts State Board of Charities; pres
ident of the Boston Limited Partnership
Company, of the George W. Armstrong
News Company, and a director of the Mas
sachusetts Breweries Company. He is a
member of the Federation of Jewish Chari
ties and treasurer of the Boston Branch of
the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Residence:
Hotel Touraine, Boston, Massachusetts.
RAWLE, William Brooke:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, August 29, 1843; being the eldest
son of Charles Wallace Brooke, deceased,
by his first wife, Elizabeth Tilghman, daugh
ter of the well-known lawyer, William
Rawle (the younger), granddaughter of
the celebrated jurist, Edward Tilghman,
who is remembered as one of the leaders
of the Old Bar of Philadelphia, and great
granddaughter of Benjamin Chew, Chief
Justice of Pennsylvania before the Revolu
tion. Mr. Brooke was a member of the
Philadelphia bar, who attained a high place
thereat for his ability and brilliancy, but
died in 1849 at the early age of thirty-six
years. His father, Robert Brooke, son of
Captain John Brooke of the Revolutionary
Army, was well known as a surveyor and
civil engineer in Philadelphia, and his
mother was a daughter of Colonel (after
ward General) Andrew Porter of the Revo
lutionary Army. Mr. William Brooke
Rawle (originally William Rawle Brooke),

was educated in the best schools of his
native city, entered the University of Penn
sylvania in the fall of 1859, and was grad
uated therefrom as Bachelor of Arts, July
3, 1863, having received during his senior
year leave of absence from the college au
thorities to enter the army, and taking his
degree while actively engaged in the bat
tle of Gettysburg. He received his
degree as Master of Arts, July 3, 1866. He
entered the army during the War of the
Rebellion as second lieutenant in the Third
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and
served continuously with the Army of the
Potomac from early in 1863 until some
time after the close of the war, attaining
the lineal rank of captain, and being brev
etted major and lieutenant-colonel for gal
lant and meritorious services at the battle
of Hatcher's Run, and in the campaign
terminating with Lee's surrender at Ap
pomattox Court House, respectively. Up
on his discharge from the army, declining
a commission in the Seventh United States
Cavalry, he began the study of law with his
uncle, the late William Henry Rawle, and
was admitted to practice at the Philadelphia
bar, May 18, 1867, shortly before which,
by legal authority, he assumed the name of
William Brooke Rawle in lieu of William
Rawle Brooke. He was associated in prac
tice with Mr. Rawle .until the death of the
latter in 1889, when he succeeded him at
the head of the law office which had been
established in 1783 by his great grandfather,
William Rawle (the elder), one of the
greatest lawyers of his time. Colonel
Brooke Rawle was one of the earliest mem
bers of the Pennsylvania Commandery of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, and one of the organ
izers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons
of the Revolution. Address: 211 South
Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RAY, Frank H. :
Manufacturer. He is second vice-presi
dent and director of H. de Cabanas y Car-
bajal; third vice-president and director of
the Havana Commercial Company; fourth
vice-president of Havana Tobacco Com
pany; officer and director of the Great

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Western Power Company and Western
Power Company; director of the American
Cigar Company, American Tobacco Com
pany, F. Garcia Brother -& Company, Harry
WeissingeT Tobacco Company, J. S. Murij
asy Company, Spaulding & Merrick Tobacco
Company, United States Realty and Im
provement Company. Mr. Ray is a member
of the Country and Metropolitan Clubs of
New York City, and of the Automobile
Club of America. Residence : Waldorf-As
toria, New York City. Address: in Broad
way, New York City.
RAY, George W.:
United States Judge of Northern Dis
trict of New York; born in Otselie, New
York, February 3, 1844; son of Asher
Minor Ray and Melissa P. (Gray) Ray.
He was graduated from Norwich (New
York) Academy in 1866 and received de
gree of LL.D. from Colgate University in
1905. He was admitted to the bar in Sep
tember, 1867, and practiced law. He was
elected in 1880 to the Forty-eighth Con
gress, from the Twenty-sixth New York
District, and was afterward elected to
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh
Congresses, and he was chairman of
the Committee on Invalid Pensions and
of the Judiciary Committee. He re
signed from, Congress in September, 1902,
to accept the position of United States Dis
trict Judge of the Northern District of
New York, which he now holds. He served
in the War of the Rebellion as private in
Company B, Ninetieth New York Volun
teers, and as brigade clerk in the First
Brigade, First Division, Nineteenth Army
Corps. He is a director of the Norwich
Furniture Company. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Baptist. He
is a member of the American Society of
International Law, Grand Army of the Re
public, Norwich Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, Norwich Commandery 46, Knights
Templar, Red Men, Whanpaunauca Tribe;
is a Knight of Pythias and a member of
Canadanuita Lodge, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, -No. 305; president of the

York; manager of the New York State
Woman's Relief Corps Home, at Oxford,
New York, and he is a member, of the
Norwich Club. Mr. Ray _ married in
Pitcher, New York, June 26, 1871, Mary
Johnson, and they have one son, J. John
son Ray, born in 1872. Address : Nor
wich, Chenango County, New York.
RAY, John A.:
Banker ; born at Greensburg, Pennsyl
vania, June 2, 1865; son of James Ray and
Elizabeth (Smith) Rayr He was educated
in the Greensburg public schools, then
entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and was a telegraph
operator for seven years, train dispatcher
for seven years, chief train dispatcher and
division operator for four years for that
company. He was afterward real estate
agent for the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Company
for eight years. He is now engaged in
banking as president of the Washington
National Bank of Burgettstown, Farmers'
National Bank of Hickory, Lincoln Na
tional Bank of Avella, First National Bank
of Millsboro; director of the Sharpsville
National Bank of Sharpsville, and of the
First National Bank of Scenery Hill, all
in Pennsylvania; and he is also vice-presi-
. dent of the Dexter Coal Company. Mr.
Ray is a Republican in politics, and an
Episcopalian in his church relations. He is
a member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and of the Americus Re
publican Club. He married at Mount
Pleasant, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1888,
Della M. Morrison. Address : Frick
Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
RAY, Patrick Henry:
Brigadier-general, United States Army,
retired; born in Waukesha County, Wis
consin, May 8, 1842; son of Adam E. Ray
and Eliza (Breastid) Ray. He was edu
cated in the common schools, and when the
Civil War began, promptly enlisted as a
volunteer, May 7, 1861, in the Second Wis
consin Regiment of Volunteer Infantry,
serving as private, corporal, sergeant and
first sergeant, until July 12, 1863 ; second

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lery, July 13, 1863; captain, September 13,
1864; honorably mustered out, June 26,
1865; captain, Sixth United States Veteran
Infantry, August 9, 1865 ; honorably mus
tered out, April 12, 1866. He was com
missioned in the Regular Service as sec
ond lieutenant in the Thirty-third Infantry,
March 7, 1867; transferred to the Eighth
Infantry, May 3, 1869; first lieutenant, De
cember 31, 1875; captain, May 27, 1889;
major, March 2, 1899; lieutenant-colonel,
December 8, ^902, and colonel, August 12,
1903. He served through the Civil War;
in campaigns against the Sioux Indians,
under Generals Stanley and J. E. Smith
from 1872 to 1875; against the Apaches in
Arizona under General Crook and Kautz
from 1874 to 1878; in command of the
International Polar Expedition to Point
Barrow, Alaska, from 1881 to 1883 ; held
various commands and has a record full of
active service; was sent on a special mis
sion, by order of the President, to Fort
Yukon and along the Yukon River, to
investigate and report on conditions in the
Alaska gold-field at the time of the Klon
dike rush, starting in October, 1897, and re
turning iri April, 1898. He was commis
sioned colonel of the Third United States
Volunteer Infantry, May 20, 1898, and was
honorably mustered out, May 2, 1899, af
ter service at Macon, Georgia, and in Cuba.
After the Spanish War he was in command
of the District of North Alaska, from May,
1899, to October, 1900, and placed the first
troops in North Alaska at Nome, St.
Michael, Fort Gibbon and Egbert; seized
the supplies of Trading Companies and fed
the destitute fleeing from Dawson; then
commanded Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to
September, 1901, Fort Harrison, Montana,
to March 1902, then in the Philippines un
til May, 1905, as regimental and brigade
commander, and after his return to the
United States, commanded the regiment
and post at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, from
July, 1905, until promoted May 8, 1906, to
brigadier-general United States Army and
retired. He is a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, Royal Geographical Society of Eng

land, Society of Foreign Wars and the Na
tional Geographic Society. He married in
Omaha, Nebraska, April 22, 1889, Adah
Blackman. Address : Youngstown, Ohio.
RAYMOND, Andrew Tan Vranken
Clergyman and college president; born
at Visscher's Ferry, Saratoga County, New
York; son of Henry A. Raymond and
Catharine Maria (Miller) Raymond. He
was graduated from Union College, as A
B., in 1875; New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, 1878; and D.D. from Union Col- '
lege in 1887, LL.D. from Williams Col
lege, in 1894, South Carolina College in
1905. He was pastor of the First Re
formed Church at Paterson, New Jersey,
from 1878 to 1881; Trinity Reformed
Church, Plainfield, New Jersey, from 1881
to 1887; Fourth Presbyterian Church, Al
bany, New York, from 1887 to 1894; pres
ident of Union College from 1894 to 1907;
and since July, 1907, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, New York.
He served as manager of the New York
State Hospital at Utica, by appointment of
Governor Higgins, 1905; president of the
Schenectady. Chamber of Commerce from
1906. He is a Republican in politics, and
is a member of the University, Century,
Alpha Delta Phi, and Union University
Clubs of New York City, the Adirondack
League and University Clubs of Albany,
and the Mohawk and Mohawk Golf Clubs of
Schenectady. He married at Middleville,
Herkimer County, New York, September
24, 1879, Margaret Morris Thomas, and
they have three children: Morris Thomas,
born in 1885, Miriam Hotchkiss, born in
1885, and Andrew V. V., Jr., born in 1888.
Address: 268 North Street, Buffalo, New
York. RAYMOND, Charles W.:
United States judge; born in Dubuque,
Iowa; son of William M. Raymond and
Mary E. Raymond. 'After a preparatory
course in the public schools, he became a
student at Wabash College, then studied
law and was admitted to the bar of Illi
nois in 1886. He became active in Illinois
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of the League of Republican Clubs of Illi
nois. He was appointed December 17, 1901,
to his present office as judge of the District
Court of the United States for the West
ern District of Indian Territory. Address :
Muscogee, Indian Territory.
RAYMOND, William Wirt:
Clergyman; born in Cedarville, New
York, March 6, 1831, son of John Raymond
and Penelope (Hopkins) Raymond.' He
was educated' in the New York State pub
lic schools; attended Falley Seminary, Ful
ton, New York, from 1852 to 1855, and
DeLancey Divinity School, Geneva, New
York, from 1864 to 1866. He was teacher
in New York State public schools from
1851 to 1866. He was ordered deacon in
1866 and ordained priest in 1870 by Bishop
Coxe. Mr. Raymond was in charge of
churches at Union Springs, New York, from
1866 to 1869; Rochester, New York, in
1869 and 1870; Hillsdale, Michigan, from
1870 to 1880; Goshen, Indiana, from 1880
to 1885; Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1885
to 1887; Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, from
1887 to 1891; Plymouth, Indiana, from
1891 to 1901 ; assistant of Gethesemane
Church, Marion, Indiana, in 1901 and 1902;
and was delegate to the Missionary Coun
cil in 1899 and 1900 and in 1902 and
1903; he retired in 1903. In politics he is
a Republican. He was director of public
schools at Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1877 and
1878, and was member of the Standing
Committee from 1886 to 1901. He is a
Mason and Knight Templar, and is a mem
ber of the Clerical Club of Syracuse, New
York. Mr. Raymond married in Baldwins-
ville, New York, December 30, 1858, Har
riet Ann Lusk, and they had two chil
dren : Harold Munro Raymond, born March
7, 1863, and Gertrude Raymond, born in
1868 and died in 1878. Address : Baldwins-
ville, New York.
RAYNOR, Isldor,
United States senator ; born in Baltimore,
Maryland, April 11, 1850. He was educated
at the University of Maryland and the Uni
versity of Virginia; at the University of
Virginia he took the academic and law

courses, and upon his return to Baltimore
was admitted to, the bar in 1870, and has
been practicing law in that city since that
time. In 1878 he was elected to the Mary
land Legislature for two years, and served
on the Judiciary Committee and was chair
man of the Baltimore city delegation; in
1885 he was elected to the State Senate for
four years, serving on the Judiciary Com
mittee. He resigned his place in the State
Senate in the middle of his term and be
came the Democratic candidate for Con
gress, and in 1886 was elected to the Fiftieth
Congress and served on the Committees
on Foreign Affairs and Interstate and For
eign Commerce ; he was again elected to the
Fifty-second Congress, serving on the Com
mittees on Foreign Affairs and Coinage,
Weights, and Measures, and was reelected
to the Fifty-third Congress and served on
the same committees. He declined a re
election for a fourth term, and was elected
attorney-general of Maryland, serving from
1899 to 1903. In 1904 he was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed the Hon.
Louis E. McComas, Republican, for the
term beginning March 4, 1905. His term
will expire March 3, 191 1. Address: Bal
timore, Maryland.
REA, Samuel:
Third vice-president, Pennsylvania Rail
road Company; born in Hollidaysburg,
Blair County, Pennsylvania, September 21;
1855. His mother is a daughter of Thomas
BJair Moore, of that county, and his father,
James D. Rea, who died in 1868, Was a well
known resident of Hollidaysburg. His
grandfather, John Rea, of Chambersburg,
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, was an of
ficer in the War of the Revolution, and also
in the War of 1812, and was a member of
Congress from 1803 to 181 1, and from 1813
to 1815. His great grandfather, Samuel
Rea, emigrated to this country from the
north of Ireland, I754:i755, first stopping
in Chester County; later in Lancaster Coun
ty, and finally settled in Franklin County
(then Cumberland County). His first con
nection with the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was in the Engineering Depart
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on the Morrison's Cove, Williamsburg and
Bloomfield Branches. The panic of 1873
stopping all engineering work, he entered
the office of the Hollidaysburg Iron and
Nail Company early in 1874. In the spring
of 1875 he reentered the service of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the en
gineering corps, and was stationed at Con
nellsville. From 1875 to 1877 he was as
sistant engineer in the construction of the
chain suspension bridge over the Monon
gahela River in Pittsburgh, and upon its
completion was appointed assistant engi
neer of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Rail
road Company, then in course of construc
tion, with which he remained until the com
pletion of that road. In 1879 he returned
to the Pennsylvania Railroad System in
the capacity of assistant engineer in charge
of the construction of the extension of the
Pittsburg, Virginia, and Charleston Rail
way. From 1879 to 1883, Mr. Rea was the
engineer in charge of surveys in Westmore
land County and for the revision and re
building of the Western Pennsylvania Rail
road to make it an active low-grade freight
line. This work was under the direction
of J. N. DuBarry, then assistant to the
president, and afterwards vice-president of
the Pennsylvania- Railroad Company. In
1883, Mr. Rea was transferred to Philadel
phia as assistant to Vice-President DuBarry,
with title of principal assistant engineer,
which he held until 1888, when he was made
assistant to the second vice-president. This
office he retained until 1889, when he re
signed to go to .Baltimore as the vice-pres
ident of the Maryland Central Railway
Company, and chief engineer of the Balti
more Belt Railroad Company, the latter a
comprehensive surface and underground
double-track railroad through that city,
which he located and put under construc
tion for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. In 1891, on account of ill-health,
he resigned and left • Baltimore, doing no
active work for a year. This gave him an
opportunity for rest and travel. After an
absence of three years from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company, Mr. Rea was on

May 25, 1892, chosen assistant to the pres
ident of that company! On the day of his
appointment he left for London, where, by
direction of President Roberts of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, he made an
examination of the railways terminating in
the English metropolis, and of the under
ground railways — then constructed and pro
posed — and, subsequently he made a special
report thereon. The result of this experi
ence was afterward put to good service on
the Pennsylvania Railroad's ' New York
Tunnel Extension. After the death of
Vice-President DuBarry in 1892, Mr. Rea
was assigned certain of his duties — the
general construction work then in progress,
the acquisition of right of way and real es
tate for same, the promotion of all new
lines or branches, and the financial and cor
porate work incident thereto. Upon the
reorganization of the staff following the
demise of Mr. DuBarry, those duties as
signed temporarily became permanent, with
the exception of the construction work,
and have since been discharged by him. On
February 10, 1897, Mr. Rea was appointed
first assistant to the president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, and on June
14, 1899, following the election of Mr. A. J.
Cassatt as president to succeed Mr. Frank
Thomson, deceased, Mr. Rea was elected
fourth vice-president of the company. On
October 10, 1905, he was advanced to third
vice-president. He is also third vice-pres
ident of the Northern Central Railway,
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Rail
road, and West Jersey and Seashore Rail
road Companies, and a director in several
financial institutions in New York and Phil- •
adelphia. Pie is also a director of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, Norfolk & Western Rail
way and Long Island Railroad Companies,
as well as of other companies. In the
Northern Pacific contest of a few years ago,
Mr. Rea was named as one of two outside
directors to serve in the reorganized Board
of that company. Mr. Rea is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers
and of the Institution of Civil Engineers
of London. He is author of: The Rail-

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ways Terminating in London, a comprehen
sive study and laborious personal investiga
tion of the physical and financial condition
of the English Railway Systems. He was for
many years interested in the project to
bridge the Hudson River from Hoboken to
New York City, and thus establish in the
metropolis a terminus for the railroads
which no'w reach it by ferriage from the
New ' Jersey side, and was one of the in
corporators of the North River Bridge
Company chartered by Act of Congress.
When the railroad companies failed to join
the Pennsylvania Railroad- Company in the
bridge project, and after a very careful ex
amination and report of the entire project
by engineering experts, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company determined to build its
own tunnel and terminal in the City of New
York. When the matter had been fully ap
proved by President Cassatt and the Board
of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, Mr. Rea was given direct charge
of what is at present known as the most
important piece of engineering work under
way in this country. As a part of this
project may be considered the construction
of the New York Connecting Railroad,
jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company, which with
the tunnel extension of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, will form a through route for
railroad transportation between the
Southern, Western and New England
States. As a part of his duties in super
vising the corporate work of the sub
sidiary companies of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company East of Pittsburgh (and of
the promotion and construction of new
lines), -Mr. Rea acts as president or vice-
president of nearly all of these companies.
Mr. Rea is still a young man, having re
cently passed his fiftieth birthday, and is
in the vigor of a life of intense activity.
His experience in engineering, his knowl
edge of railroad operations, finance and ac
counting, his work in the organization of
corporations and the consolidation of rail
road companies, and his familiarity with
the laws required in the conduct of the

corporate work entrusted to him, entitles
him to rank as an authority. In 1879, Mr.
Rea was married to Mary M. Black, of
Pittsburgh, the youngest daughter of
George Black, then deceased, but formerly
a prominent man in Western Pennsylvania,
engaged in the transportation and forward
ing business, first by canal, then by raidroad ;
later an iron manufacturer, and actively
identified with many financial institutions
in Pittsburgh, who, at the time of his death
in 1872, was a director of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. Address : Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
REDFIELD, Henry Stephen:
Professor of law at Columbia University
since 1901 ; born at Corning, New York,
July 31, 1851; son of Jared A. and Mary
(Hayt) Redfield, both of New England
descent; early education in public schools
and was graduated from Elmira Academy
in 1867; engaged in business for about five
years; after which he prepared for college
and entered Amherst; was graduated, A.
B., 1877, later A.M., LL.D., 1901. After
graduation studied law with George M.
Diven, of Elmira, New York; admitted to
bar, 1879, and formed partnership with Mr.
Diven; retired from firm in 1898 to take
position at Cornell University. The prac
tice of the firm was largely of a corporate
character, among the corporations repre
sented being the Northern Central Railway
Company and Lehigh Valley Railroad. He
served as professor of practice and pro
cedure in the College of Law of Cornell
University from 1898 to 1901 ; and
professor of law in School of Law of Co
lumbia University since July, 1901, to 1905;
Nash professor of law since 1905. He is
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Psi
Upsilon fraternities, the Amherst Asso
ciation of New York, American Bar As
sociation and New York State Bar Asso
ciation. Mr. Redfield is the author of:
Cases on Code Pleading and Practice
(1903) ; and a contributor to legal journals.
He is also a member of the Century Club.
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Curtis of Canandaigua, New York. Resi
dence : 1925 Seventh Avenue. Address :
Columbia University, New York City.
REED, George Edward:
President of Dickinson College; born at
Brownville, Maine, March 28, 1846; son
of the Rev. George Reed and Ann (Hel-
lyer) Reed. He received his preparatory
education at the high school of Lowell,
Massachusetts, and at Wilbraham (Massa
chusetts) Academy. Thence he entered
Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con
necticut, graduating from it in 1869 with
the degree of A.B. receiving later that of
A.M. He continued his studies at Bos
ton University Theological School, but did
not remain for graduation. The honorary
degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him
by Lafayette College in 1889, and S.T.D.
by the Wesleyan University in 1885. Af
ter being ordained to the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, he officiated
successively as pastor of churches in
Willimantic, Connecticut, Fall River, Mas
sachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, Stam
ford, Connecticut, Brooklyn, New York,
and New Haven, Connecticut. In 1889
he was elected to the presidency of
Dickinson College, which position he now
is holding. He is ex-officio president of
the Board of Trustees of Dickinson Col
lege ; also president of the trustees of
Todd Hospital at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
and of the Anti-Saloon League of Pennsyl
vania. Dr. Reed was State librarian of
Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903, and has
been before the public for many years as
lecturer and orator on various occasions.
He has made extensive travels in Europe
and the United States. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, of the Psi Upsilon fra
ternity, of the Religious Education So
ciety, and many others, and is also a Ma
son. He devotes his leisure hours to walk
ing, riding and calisthenics. He was mar
ried at Norwich, Connecticut, June 20, 1870,
to Ella Frances Leffingwell, and has one
son, George Leffingwell (born in Brooklyn,

New York, February 4, 1885). Address:
Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
REED, Henry Thomas:
United States judge; was actively en
gaged in the practice of law in Iowa, un
til his appointment by President Roosevelt,
March 4, 1904, to his present office- as judge
of the United States District Court for
the Northern District of Iowa. Address:
Cresco, Iowa.
REED, William Belden:
President of Bankers' Safe Deposit Com
pany ; born in the Town of Southeast, Put
nam County, New York, February 23, 1838 ;
son of James . Harvey Reed and Emily
(Hazen) Reed. He was educated in Car-
mel, Putnam County, New York. Mr. Reed
is president, treasurer and trustee of Bank
ers' Safe Deposit Company; president and
director of White Plains Construction Com
pany and vice-president and trustee Har
lem Savings Bank. In politics he is a Re
publican and in religion a Presbyterian. He
is a member of the Harlem Republican
Club. Mr. Reed married in Southeast, Put
nam County, New York, November 12,
1868, Arietta Crane, and they have one
son: William B. Reed, Jr., born in 1876.
Residence : 162 West One Hundred and
Twenty-first Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 4 Wall Street, New York City.
REEDER, William Augustus:
Congressman ; born in Cumberland Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, August 28, 1849. When
four years of age he emigrated with his
parents to Ipava, Fulton County, Illinois,
where, at the age of fourteen years, he
began teaching in the public schools, a vo
cation he followed until thirty years of age,
the last ten years . of his work being in
Kansas, where he was principal of the Be
loit public schools. He moved to Kansas
and took a claim in Mitchell County in 1871,
and has resided continuously since in this
Congressional district. In 1876 he engaged
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gan, Kansas, where he at present resides.
In 1890, in partnership with A. H. Ellis
and, J. J. Wiltrout, he purchased an ex
tensive tract of land on the Solomon River
and established the largest irrigation farm
in the State of Kansas. He was elected as
a Republican: to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev
enth, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and was reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Sixth Kansas District.
He married, August 18, 1876, Miss Eunice
H. Andrews. Address : Logan, Kansas.
REES, Thomas:
Journalist; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, in 1850. He went West when three
years of age; learned the printer's trade,
and worked as a journeyman. He became
the manager and part owner of the Keo
kuk Constitution in 1876; and has been
manager of the Illinois State Register
since 1881. Mr. Rees has served as presi
dent of the Illinois Press Association ;
chairman of the advisory committee of the
Associated Press and has been prominently
identified with many public matters in
Springfield, notably with promoting the
building of the State Arsenal, and the
Temple of Justice. He is author of:
Spain's Lost Jewels, a book on Cuba and
Mexico. He has traveled in several for
eign countries, writing letters from points
visited for publication. Mr. Rees is a Ma
son. He was ejected to the Illinois State
Senate in 1902 as a Democrat. Address :
Springfield, Illinois.
REEVES, Francis Brewster:
Banker and merchant ; born at Bridgeton,
New Jersey, October 10, 1836 ; son of John
son and Elizabeth (Riley) Reeves. He be
came a partner in the firm of N. B. Thomp
son & Company, wholesale grocers of Phila
delphia, in 1859; since 1865 widely known
as Reeves, Parvin & Company. He was
director of the Girard National Bank from
1881 to 1898, becoming vice-president in
1896 and president in 1899; president of
the Clearing House Association of the Na
tional Banks of Philadelphia in 1907. He

is also president of the Philadelphia Belt
Line Railroad; first vice-president of the
Philadelphia Bourse; director of the Phila
delphia Mortgage and Trust Company;
Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia,
Delaware Insurance Company, Audit and
Appraisement Company of America, and
Lake Superior Corporation ; manager - of
Merchants' Fund and the Mercantile Bene
ficial Association, and of the Germantown
Savings Fund Society; member of the Ad
visory Board of the Germantown Trust
Company. He is a trustee of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America, and of the
Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sab
bath School Work; was chairman of the
Executive Committee of the noted muni
cipal reform Committee of One Hundred
of Philadelphia, from 1881 to 1883 ; member
of the Board of Public Education in 1888,
and in 1889 was appointed a member of
Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee of
Philadelphia on the occasion of the Johns
town Flood, and chairman of Committee
on Annuities to Johnstown Flood Orphans
of the State Relief Committee. In 1892 he
was cpmmissioned to visit Russia to de
liver and distribute a cargo of food sup
plies sent on the Conemaugh, for relief of
famine sufferers, and the Emperor, Alex
ander III., recognized Mr. Reeves's personal
service by the presentation to him of a
costly silver and gold punch set of seven
pieces. Address, Girard National Bank,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
REID, Charles Chester:
Congressman and lawyer; born in
Clarksville, Arkansas, June 15, 1868; son
of Charles Coleman Reid and Sarah (Rob
inson) Reid. He entered the State Uni
versity1 at Fayetteville in 1883, at the age
of fifteen years, where he remained three
years; in 1885 entered the Law Depart
ment of Vanderbilt University, at Nash
ville, Tennessee, and received the degree
of LL.B. from that institution in 1887; he
also won the University's medal for ora
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practice of law at Morrillton, and has re
mained there ever since. He was elected
prosecuting attorney of his judicial district
in 1894, and reelected without opposition
in 1896; in 1898 voluntarily retired from
office, elected to the Fifty-seventh and Fif
ty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Fifth Arkansas District. In politics he
is a Democrat. He married, in 1890,
Dine Crozier, daughter of a prominent mer
chant of Morrillton. Address : Clarksville,
Johnson County, Arkansas.
REID, Daniel Gray:
Banker, manufacturer and railroad of
ficial ; born at Richmond, Indiana, August
1, 1858. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He began his
business career as a clerk in the Second
National Bank of Richmond, and later be
came a director and vice-president of the
same ; became interested in the manufacture
of tin plate, 1892, and was made president
of the American Tin Plate Company in
1898, and removed to Chicago. He assisted
in the organization of the United States
Steel Corporation and removed to New
York City, 1900; and is now a director of
that corporation. He became interested in
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail
way Company in 1900, and is now chair
man of the Board of Directors jnd actively
engaged in promoting the interests of that
company; also vice-president of two na
tional banks and a director in several others.
Residence : 875 Fifth Avenue. Address : 115
Broadway, New York City.
REID, Robert:
Artist; born in Stockbridge, Massachu
setts, in 1862; son of Jared Reid and Louise
(Dwight) Reid. He was educated at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was student
and assistant instructor from 1880 to 1884,
Art Student League in 1885, at Paris four
years to 1889 ; since then in New . York
City for several years instructor at the Art
League and Cooper Institute. Executed
mural paintings at the World's Columbian

Exposition, Chicago, in 1893, Congressional
Library at Washington and Boston - State
House, Appellate Court, New York City,
Paulist Fathers' Church, and many other
public and private buildings. Awarded
medals at Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1901,
and St. Louis in 1904; gold medal for deco
ration, Paris, 1900, silver, 1900; Clark
Prize at the National Academy of Design
in 1897, first Hallgarten Prize, National
Academy of Design in 1898. He is a mem
ber of the Ten American Painters of the
National Academy of Design; also a mem
ber of The Players, Fencers', and Lambs
Clubs. Address : 142 East Thirty-third
Street, New York City.
REID, Whitelaw:
Editor, diplomat; born October 27, 1837,
near Xenia, Ohio, of which town his father,
a strict Covenanter, was one of the found
ers. After a careful preparatory training
he entered Miami University, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1856, and later
receiving from his alma mater the degrees
of A.M., in 1859, and LL.D., in 1890. He
has also received the degrees of A.M. from
the University of the City of New York
in 1872, and from Dartmouth in 1873; of
LL.D. from Princeton in 1899, Yale in
1901, the University of Cambridge, Eng:
land, in 1902, and St. Andrew's (Scotland)
in 1905; and of D.C.L. from Oxford in
1907. Early in his career Mr. Reid entered
into political and newspaper life, making
speeches for the Republican party in the
Fremont campaign, when not twenty years
of age, and becoming editor of the Xenia
News. Soon after he became widely known
by his letters to the Cincinnati Gazette,
signed Agate, and was thus engaged at
the opening of the Civil War, his letters
attracting attention alike from their vig
orous style and their trustworthy informa
tion. He took part in the war as a volun
teer aide-de-camp to General Morris, and
afterwards to General Rosecrans in the
West Virginia Campaigns of 1861. Later
he served as a war correspondent with the
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the Potomac, and was present at the bat
tles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. He was
librarian of the House of Representatives
at Washington from 1863 to 1866, at the
same time being Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he had
become one of the proprietors. After the
war he made a journey through the South,
accompanying Chief-Justice Chase, and af
terwards tried cotton planting in Louisiana
and Alabama. The results of his observa
tions while .thus engaged were embodied in
a book entitled: After the War, published
in 1868. Subsequently he published, in
two large volumes octavo, an account of
Ohio troops, generals, legislators and legis
lation, called Ohio in the War. He has
been connected with the New York Tri
bune from 1868, when on invitation of
Horace Greeley, he took an editorial po
sition on the paper, and was quickly ad
vanced to the post of managing editor.
When, in 1872, Mr. Greeley accepted the
nomination for the Presidency, he placed
the whole control of the paper in Mr. Reid's
hands, where it has remained ever since.
After Mr. Greeley's death he became editor-
in-chief and principal owner of the New
York Tribune. He published in 1873, his
Memorial of Horace Greeley, a biographical
sketch of his late friend and chief. Mr.
Reid was elected, by the Legislature of New
York State, regent for life of the Univer
sity of New York. He was offered the
post of minister to Germany by Presidents
/Hayes and Garfield, declining in both in
stances. In 1889 he was appointed Amer
ican minister to France, continuing in that
post until 1892. The public appreciation
of his services abroad was expressed in
dinners by the Chamber of Commerce of
New York, the Ohio Society, the Lotos Club,
and other organizations, on his return home.
The Chamber of Commerce elected him an
honorary member, a mark of respect which
had been bestowed on only fifteen other
men during the century of the Chamber's
existence. Mr. Reid was nominated for
vice-president of the United States on the
ticket with President Harrison by the Re
publican National Convention of 1892. He

was appointed by President McKinley
special ambassador of the United States
to Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897; was
a member of the Peace Commission to Paris
for the negotiation of a Peace Treaty with
Spain, securing Porto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines, in 1898; was special ambas
sador to the coronation of Edward VII. in
1902; elected chancellor of the University
of the State of New York in 1904, and in
March, 1905, was appointed to his present
post as ambassador extraordinary and pleni
potentiary to the Court of St. James. Mr.
Reid is author of: After the War, 1867;
Ohio in the War, 1868; Newspaper Ten
dencies, 1874 ; Town Hall Suggestions, 1881 ;
Our New Duties, 1899; Our New Inter
ests, 1900; Problems of Expansion, 1900;
The Monroe Doctrine, the Polk Doctrine
and Anarchism, 1903; The Thing To Do,
a Phi Beta Kappa address, 1903; The
Greatest Fact in Modern History, an ad
dress at Cambridge University, 1906; How
America Faced Its Educational Problem, an
address on receiving the freedom of Dun
dee, 1906, etc. Mr. Reid married, April 26,
1881, Elisabeth, daughter of D. O. Mills;
and has two grown children, a son and a
daughter. Residences : 451 Madison Ave
nue, New York City, and Ophir Hall, Pur
chase, Westchester County, New York.
Present addresses : American Embassy,
London, Dorchester House, Park Lane,
West, London ; and Wrest Park, Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, England.
REILLY, John Liguori:
Clergyman ; born in Albany, New York,
May 25, 1853 ; son of John Reilly and
Rose (O'Neill) Reilly. He attended the
Christian Brothers' Academy, Albany, New
York, from 186 1 to 1868; Niagara Univer
sity, from 1868 to 1874; received the A.B.
and A.M. degrees and he received that of
LL.D. in 1906; and he attended St. Jo
seph's Provincial Seminary, Troy, New
York, from 1874 to 1876, and he was or
dained priest there, June 10, 1876. He was
successively assistant priest in the Adi
rondacks in 1876, St. John's Church, Syra
cuse, New 'York, in 1876 and 1877; assist
ant priest at the Cathedral, Albany, bishop's

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secretary and chancellor, Albany Diocese;
pastor of St. James' Church, Cazenovia, New
York, from 1882 to 1885; and has been
pastor of ~St. John's Church, Schenectady,
New York, since January, 1886; made dean
of Schenectady, Montgomery, Fulton and
Schoharie Counties in the Diocese of Al
bany, in 1904; made domestic prelate, with
title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor by Pope
Pius X, on petition of Rt. Rev. Bishop
Burke in 1904. He traveled extensively in
Europe in 1878 and again in 1904 and 1905.
He is trustee of the Hospital Association
of the City of Schenectady; chaplain of
the Schenectady Fire Department and mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce of the
City of Schenectady; also of the Knights
of Columbus and chaplain of Schenectady
Council. Address : Schenectady, New
York.
REINERS, Herman:
Capitalist; born in Bremen, Germany,
1852; son of John Reiners and Margaret
Reiners. He is president, treasurer and
director of H. and H. Reiners, Incor
porated ; vice-president and director of the
Seventh Avenue Realty Company, and di
rector of the Citizens' Trust Company, of
Brooklyn; and of Haaren and Meinken,
Incorporated, New York City. Address :
177 Stagg Street, Brooklyn, New York.
REINHARDT, George N.:
Banker. He is president and director of
the Bronx Consumers' Ice Company; presi
dent and director of The Bronx National
Bank and trustee, of North Side Savings
Bank. Address : Brook Avenue, near East
One Plundred and Sixty-third Street,
Bronx, New York City.
REM EN SNYDER, Junius B.:
Clergyman; born in Staunton, Virginia,
February' 24, 1844; son of Hon. John J.
Remensnyder and Susan M. (Bryan) Rem-
ensnyder. He was graduated from Penn
sylvania College as A.B. in 1863 and later
as A.M., from Gettysburg Theological Semi
nary in 1865; and received from Newberry
College, South Carolina, the degree of D.
D. in 1880 and from New York University

the LL.D. degree in 1902. He was pastor
at Lewiston, Pennsylvania, from 1866 to
1868, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from
1868 to 1874, Savarinah, Georgia, from 1874
to 1880, and has been pastor of St. James
Lutheran Church since 1881. He is presi
dent of the New York Lutheran Synod.
He is author of: Heavenward, 1874; Doom
Eternal, 1880; Six Creative Days, 1886;
Work and Personality of Luther, 1888;
Lutheran Manual, 1892 ; The Atonement
and Modern Thought, 1905 (now in third
edition). He served eleven months in the
Army of the Potomac, in the One Hundred
and Thirty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, Company B., from July, 1861,
to May, 1862, and took part in the battles
of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancel
lorsville. He is a member of the Sigma
Chi, a clerical interdenominational organi
zation. Dr. Remensnyder married in Phil
adelphia, June 28, 1870, E. Louise Wagner,
and they have two Children: Ralph Junius,
born February 7, 1877, and Mabel Louisa,
born November 10, 1866. Address: 900
Madison Avenue, New York City.
REMINGTON, Frederic:
Artist; born in Canton, New York; son
of Colonel S. P. Remington. He was edu
cated at Yale Art School and the New
York Art Students' League; and for sev
eral years lived on ranch, in the West. He
is a member of the American Institute; as
sociate of the National Academy of De
sign; member of the United States Caval
ry Association. He is also a member of '
the Players and Lambs Clubs. He mar
ried Eva Adelie Caton, painter, sculptor and
author. Address : 301 Webster Avenue,
New Rochelle, New York.
REMSEN, Ira:
President of Johns Hopkins University;
born in New York City,. February 10, 1846;
son of James Vanderbilt Remsen and Ro-
sanna (Secor) Remsen, ,and descendant of
Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, who came to
this country from the Netherlands in 1642,
settling first at Albany, New York, and
soon afterward at Wallabout (or Flatbush)
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College of the City of New York as A.B.
in. 1865 and from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University as
M!D. in 1867. He began the practice of
medicine, but soon gave it up for the study
of chemistry; went to Germany in 1867
studied at Munich under Liebig ^nd
under Volhard, and in 1868 went to
Gottingen and studied under Wohler
and Fittig, and received the degree of
Ph.D. in 1870. He was assistant in chem
istry at the University of Tubingen under
Fittig from 1870 to 1872, professor of
chemistry at Williams College from 1872
to 1876 ,;. professor of chemistry at Johns
Hopkins University from 1876 to 1901. He
was acting president in 1889 and 1890, arid
upon the resignation of President Gilman
in igoi, he became president, of Johns Hop
kins University, in which office he con
tinues. President Remsen received the de
gree of LL.D. from Columbia University in
1893, from Princeton in 1896, Yale 1901,
' and the University of Toronto in 1902, and
the degree of D.C.L. from the University
of the South in 1907. He was vice-presi
dent in 1903 arid was elected in 1907 pres
ident of the National Academy of Sciences,
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and was its
president in 1903 ; was president of the
American Chemical Society in 1902; is a
member of the American Academy of Arts
and -Sciences, American philosophical So
ciety; corresponding member of the British
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence ; foreign member of the. London Chem
ical Society; honorary member of the Phar-
-maeeutical Society of Great Britain. Pres
ident Remsen is the author of several chem
ical treatises and text-books, and many
, memoirs upon original researches in chem
istry. He married in New York, April 5,
1875,- Bessie H. Mallory. Address: Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
RENDALL, John B.:
Clergyman; born in Madura, India, April
5, 1847; son of Rev. John Rendall, who
was for forty years a missionary in India
and Jane (Ballard) Rendall. He received
his preparatory education in Utica Acad

emy, New York, and was graduated from
Princeton College in 1870- He was pro
fessor of Latin in Lincoln University from
1870 to 1906; and since April, 1906, has
been president of Lincoln University. He
was a member of the Pennsylvania Legis
lature in the session of 1899. In politics
he is an Independent Republican, and he
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He is trustee of Lincoln University, and
of, Wilson College for Women, at Cham
bersburg, Pennsylvania. He married in
Lincoln University, June, 1873, Harriet
Elizabeth Jones, and their children are:
John, born in 1875, Jane Ballard, born in
i879,"Hugh, born in 1881, Humphrey Jones,
born in 1883, and James Hawley, born in
1.888. Address : Lincoln University,
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
RESTARICK, Henry Bond:
Bishop of Honolulu; born in Somerset,
England, December 26, 1854 ; son of Edwin
and Amelia Riall (Webb) Restarick. He
was graduated in 1882 at Griswold College,
Davenport, Iowa, and later received the
honorary degree of D.D. from King's Col
lege, Nova ScOtia. In 1881 he was ordered
deacon of the Episcopal Church and the
following year was ordained priest by
Bishop Perry of Iowa. He was in charge
of Trinity Church, Muscatine,' Iowa, from
1881 to 1882, and of St. ' Paul's Church,
San Diego, California, from 1882 until
1902, when he was consecrated bishop of
Honolulu. Bishop Restarick married in
1882, May.L Baker. He is author of: Lay
Readers: Their History, Organization, and
W.ork; The Love of God; also addresses
on the Seven Last Words.' Address : Hono
lulu,. Territory of Hawaii.
REUTER, Ludwig:
Technical and chemical expert ; born in
Nuremberg, Germany, July 30, ' 1862 ;- son
of E. C. H. Reuter, and- Maria (Volck)
Reuter. He received his education in the
Gymnasium- Humanisticum, Nuremberg,
Germany, ' the Polytechnic - School and
Eckhart Laboratories, Nuremberg, the Uni
versities of Kiel and Erlangjen, where he re
ceived the degrees of D,S.; fAC. and P.C.

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and Ph.D. from the Universities of Berne
and Heidelberg. From 1879 to 1887, he
studied at the Universities of Kiel, Heidel
berg and Erlangen ; and was chemical as
sistant in the laboratories at Lausanne,
Switzerland, and at Nuremberg, Wies
baden and Dresden, Germany. In 1888 he
was volunteer military chemist, Germers-
heim-on-Rhine, Royal Bavarian Second
Army Corps; and from 1889 to 1891 he
was first assistant to the University-Hos
pital Laboratories at Heidelberg; thesis
inauguralis at the University Laboratory of
Professor Dr. Krafft, Heidelberg. He was
managing chemist of the Union of Chem
ical Works, Manheim, from 1892 to 1895;
expert chemist with E. Merck at Darm
stadt, Germany, from 1895 to 1900; chief
chemist and director of the laboratories of
Merck and Company, New York; explored
in Nicaragua and Mexico in 1901 and 1902;
made technical investigations and did syn
thetic research work at Philadelphia in
1903 and 1904; and since 1905 he has been
manager of the technical department and
manufacturing of the New York Labora
tories of Veroform Hygienic Company, of
Berlin and New York City. His travels
have been extensive in the investigation of
the development of industry and of new
industries in Belgium, Italy, Austria, Rus
sia, United States, Canada and Mexico. He
was chief chemist to the Reserve and Land-
wehr, in the Royal Bavarian Second Army
Corps. Dr. Reuter is a Republican in poli
tics in the United States, and is a member
of the National-Liberal party in Germany.
In his religious denomination he is a Ger
man Lutheran. He is a member of the
Board of Directors of the National Liberal
party of Manheim, Germany. He is a
member of the American Chemical Society,
Societe Chimique de Paris, Deutsche
Chemische Gesellschaft, the New York
Academy of Sciences, the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science,
the Historical Society, Chevalier de I'Ordre
de Merite Civil, 1895 ; and commandeur de
I'Ordre pour le Merite, 1900: He has made
scientific and technical investigations and
research work, covering many branches of

industrial chemistry, and he has written
and published technical papers on manu
facturing, calculations, and patent, matters,
in German and American journals and ex
hibition of new synthetic products at. nu
merous exhibitions. He is a member of
the German Club of Hoboken, New Jersey.
Residence: 157 Eleventh Street, Hoboken,
New Jersey. Office address : 12 Gold
Street, New York City.
REVELL, Fleming H. :
Publisher; born in Chicago, Illinois; son
of Fleming H. and Emma C. (Manning)
Revell. He was educated in Chicago pub
lic schools. He entered the publishing and
editorial profession on his own account in
1869, at twenty years of age and has contin
ued in it ever since; now president of
Fleming H. Revell Company, publishers of
New York, Chicago and London. He has
recently removed from Chicago to New
York City. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Revell is a trustee of Northfield Semi
nary, Northfield, Massachusetts, of the
American Tract Society, New York, of
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago, and of the New
York Life Insurance Company. His favor
ite recreations are travel, golf, and fishing.
He has visited most foreign countries in
twenty tours abroad, between 1871 and 1906.
Mr. Revell married Josephine B. Barbour,
and they have two children : Fleming H.,
Jr., and Elizabeth, wife of George B. Mc-
Callum. Residence: Riverdale-on-Hudson,
New York. Address : 158 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
REYBCRN, Johh Edgar:
Mayor of Philadelphia; born at New
Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, February 7,
1845. He was educated by private tutor
and at Saunders Institute, West Philadel
phia; studied law, and was admitted to the
bar in Philadelphia in 1870. He was. a
member of the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania, sessions of 1871, 1874, I^7S>
and 1876; was elected a member of the
Senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four
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November, 1880; was elected president pro
tempore for the session of 1883; was re
elected senator November, 1884, and again
elected November, 1888, for a terrrf of four
years; was a Presidental ejector in 1904.
He was elected in the former Fourth Dis
trict to serve out the unexpired term of
Hon. William D. Kelley in the Fifty-first
Congress, February 18, 1890, and to the Fif
ty-second, Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con
gresses ; was reelected in the Second Dis
trict to the Fifty-ninth and to the Sixtieth
Congresses, as a Republican; but resigned
upon his election as mayor of Philadelphia,
upon the duties of which office he entered,
April 1, 1907. Residence : 1822 Spring
Garden Street, Philadelphia. Address :
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
REYNOLDS, D. A. :
President of the Great Eastern Telephone
Company; born in Isabella County, Michi
gan, April 21, 1854; son of John and Catha
rine (Grove) Reynolds. They were the first
white family to settle in that part of the
country. He was a lumberman and saw
mill owner ; became at sixteen partner with
his father, who. died the following year.
He attended school ten months and passed
examination for teaching. Mr. Reynolds
engaged in farming until 1882; then spent
fourteen years editing newspapers and also
conducting extensive job-printing and real
estate business. He, with eleven townsmen,
represented the Lansing (Michigan) Board
of Trade from 1896 to 1897; he organized
a telephone company and built the Lansing
Telephone Exchange, of which he made a
notable success, afterward organizing a
company at Jackson, Michigan, and subse
quently others, and has assisted in securing
nineteen : franchises for independent com
panies, and is a stockholder in twenty-one
independent companies. He is president and
director of the Great Eastern Telephone
Company; vice-president and manager of
the State Line Telephone Company; pres
ident and director of the Coast Line Tele
phone Company ;- treasurer of the New York
Electric Lines Company and Iron Telephone
Company. Mr. Reynolds is an Independent
Democrat, was chosen at a conference in

1896 to form a union between the Inde
pendents, Free Silver Republicans and
Democrats of Michigan, and successfully
accomplished it and was made chairman
of the joint executive committee, having
charge of the first Bryan Campaign in that
State. Pie married in 1874 Seruah E. Vin
cent, and they have three children : Egbert
A., born in 1875, Loyal Ward, born \A
1881, and Irah Alice, born in 1892. Ad
dress : 2460 Seventh Avenue, New York
City.REYNOLDS, John Butler:
Lawyer; born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl
vania, August 5, 1850; educated at Wyom
ing Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, and
Lafayette College. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1875, and practiced
his profession till 1887. In 1888 he was
Presidential elector on the Cleveland and
Thurman ticket, and in 1890 candidate for
Congress, but was defeated. In 1896 he
was a delegate from his district to the Na
tional Democratic Convention held at In
dianapolis which nominated Palmer and
Buckner. In 1887 Mr. Reynolds organized
the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston Bridge Com
pany, and as its president and general man
ager was the leading spirit in building the
three iron bridges across the Susquehanna
River at Wilkes-Barre and the lowlands op
posite and connecting the same with a ma
cadamized road. In 1888 he organized the
West Side Water Company, since absorbed
by the Spring Brook Water Supply Com
pany, and in 1889 he organized and built
the West Side Electric Railway and was
its president until its absorption by the Wy
oming Valley Traction Company; organ
ized and built the Wilkes-Barre & Harveys
Lake Railroad (electric), and is prominent
ly identified with a number of local, enter
prises. Mr. Reynolds married Emily Brad
ley Dain of Peekskill, New York. Ad
dress : Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
REYNOLDS, John Merriman:
Congressman, lawyer and banker; born
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He
was graduated from the First Pennsylvania
State Normal School, and received the

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degree of A.M. from Columbian University.
He is engaged in the practice of law and
in banking, and is associated with the Co
lonial Iron Company in the mining of coal
and manufacture of pig iron at Riddles-
burg, Pennsylvania. He represented the
district of Bedford and Fulton Counties in
the Legislature of Pennsylvania in the ses
sions of 1873-74, and was elected prose
cuting attorney of his county in 1875. In
1892 he was appointed by Governor Patti-
son one of the five commissioners author
ized by an act of Legislature to select a
site and build an asylum for the chronic
insane at Wernersville, Pennsylvania; was
a delegate to the conventions that nomi
nated Mr. Cleveland at St. Louis in 1888,
and at Chicago in 1892. In 1893 he was
tendered by President Cleveland the office
of assistant secretary of the interior, and
entered upon its duties April 15, 1893. He
tendered his resignation March 5, 1897,
which was accepted June 1, following. In
1896 he supported Mr. McKinley for the
Presidency, and has since been identified
with the Republican party; in 1904 he was
nominated for Congress without opposi
tion at the primary elections of the three
counties of Bedford, Blair, and Cambria,
composing the Nineteenth Congressional
District, . and was elected to the Fifty-
ninth Congress, and he was reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Nineteenth
Pennsylvania District. He is a Republican
in politics. Mr. Reynolds is married and
has three children. Address : Bedford,
Pennsylvania.RHTNELANDER, T. J. Oakley:
Lawyer and manager of family estates;
born in New York City, June 5, 1858; son
of William and Matilda (Oakley) Rhine-
lander ; he is a member of an old and distin
guished Huguenot -family; grandson on
mother's side of Judge Oakley. He was
graduated from Columbia University, A.
B. in 1878; and was admitted to the New
York Bar as attorney and counselor in 1881.
Secretary, director and trustee of the
Rhinelander Real Estate Company; man
ager of the William Rhinelander Real Es
tate Office. He is a member for fourteen

years of Company K, Seventh Regiment,
National Guard, State of New York. Trus
tee of the New York Infant Asylum. Vice-
president of the Delta Phi Alumni Asso
ciation; treasurer of the Huguenot Society;
member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
Sons of the Revolution, Saint Nicholas So
ciety, Colonial Order, Society of Foreign
Wars and the Society of 1812. He is also
a member of the Union, Metropolitan,
Country, Badminton of New York (pres
ident), and the Turf and Field Clubs. He
married in New York City, in 1894, Edith
Cruger Sands (of well-known Cruger-
Sands families) ; they have one son, Philip
Rhinelander, 2d. Summer address : Schon-
burg Castle, Oberwesel-on-Rhine, Germany.
Address : 36 West Fifty-second Street, New
York City.
RHINOCK, Joseph Lafayette:
Congressman and oil refiner; born in
Owenton, Owen County, Kentucky, Janu
ary 4, 1863; son of Joseph Rhinock and
Eliza A. (Short) Rhinock. He received
his education in the Covington public
schools, and at an early age entered active
ly into public life. He has served in the
City Council of Covington, and was twice
elected as chief executive of that city, serv
ing as mayor from 1893 to 1900. He was
the organizer, and first president of the
Jefferson Democratic Club, of Covington,
now the largest and most influential politi
cal club in the State of Kentucky, and he
is at present the executive head of this
organization. When a Carnegie library
was proposed for the city, Mr. Rhinock
took the matter in charge, and it was
through his efforts that the present hand
some $100,000 edifice was secured. Mr.
Rhinock is the present president of the
Public Library "Board in Covington. In
the business world he is as well known as
in political life, and, besides being a direc
tor in two national banks, holds important
business interests in the city of Covington.
Pie was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress,
from the Sixth Kentucky District. He mar
ried in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1, 1883,
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dren: Residence, Covington, Kentucky.
Office address : Cincinnati Trust Company,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
RHOADS, Charles James:
Third vice-president and treasurer of
Girard Trust Company; born in German-
town, Philadelphia, October 4, 1872; son
of James E. Rhoads, M.D., and Margaret
Wilson (Ely) Rhoads. He was educated
in the Friends' School, Germantown, Phil
adelphia, and the William Penn Charter
School, and was graduated from Haverford
College as B.A. in 1893. He entered the
employ of the Girard Trust Company in
June, 1893, as clerk, and advanced gradual
ly to his present position. He is trustee
of the Theodore Starr Savings Bank ; man
ager of Haverford College and overseer of
the William Penn Charter School. In pol
itics he is an Independent. He is a mem
ber of the Historical Society of Pennsyl
vania, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Mr. Rhoads' favorite recreations are crick
et, tennis and rowing. He is a member
of the University, Merion Cricket, Uni
versity Barge and Bryn Mawr Polo Clubs.
Residence: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Ad
dress : Girard Trust Company, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.RHODES, Bradford:
Banker ; born in Beaver County, Pennsyl
vania, February 25, 1849. He enlisted, 1863,
as drummer in the One Hundred Thirty-
fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers (Gol. M. S.
Quay's Regiment), and spent some time
in Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, but was
not allowed to go to the front on account
of youthful appearance and delicate health.
He was at one time principal of Darlington
Academy; in 1872 he came to New York
City and entered upon journalism; in 1877,
started Rhodes' Journal of Banking, and
in 1895, he bought the Bankers' Magazine,
and merged into it his first journal. In
1903 he sold the publishing business, and
now gives his entire time to banking. He
was elected to the New York Assembly
in 1887, serving three terms, and was chair
man of Committee on Banks and Banking
during his service in Legislature; in 1892
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received unanimous nomination for Con
gress by his Congressional district, but de
clined the honor. He is president of the
Union Savings Bank of Westchester Coun
ty and the First National Bank of Mamaro
neck, New York; founder and first presi
dent of the Thirty-fourth Street National
Bank of New York, and is head of the bank
ing firm of Bradford Rhodes & Company. He
is a member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, Sons of the American Revolu
tion and other social, political and business
organizations. Mr. Rhodes is a member
of the Union League, Larchmont Yacht
and Republican Clubs. Residence: Quaker
Ridge Farm, near Mamaroneck, New York.
Address : 76 William Street, New York
City. RHODES, Stephen H. :
President of the John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Boston; born
in Franklin, Massachusetts, November 7,
1825 ; son of Stephen Rhodes and Betsey
(Bird) Rhodes. He was educated in the
public schools and engaged in manufactur
ing and mercantile business, until he became
interested in life insurance. He was mayor
of Taunton, Massachusetts, three years; a
member of the Massachusetts Senate in
1870 and 1871, and the following, year he
was appointed deputy insurance commis
sioner of Massachusetts. He succeeded
Mr. Clark as insurance commissioner in
1874, and was appointed in 1877. Mr.
Rhodes resigned in 1879 to accept the pres
idency of the John Hancock Mutual Life
Insurance. He married in Taunton, Mas
sachusetts, November 27, 1847, E. M. God
frey. Residence: 81 Harvard Avenue,
Brookline, Massachusetts. Office address :
178 Devonshire Street, Boston.Massachu-
setts.RHODES, .Thomas D, :
Railway official; born in Pennsylvania,
April 27, 1858; son of Rev. Daniel and
Louisa Marian (Cunard) Rhodes. He
was educated in the public schools of Ohio.
He was officially connected successively
with the Cincinnati Southern, Baltimore and
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Georgia Extension, Northern Alabama, Cin
cinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia, and De
troit Southern railroads, (and was re
ceiver of the latter, company), and with
the Construction Company, now building
the New York, Westchester and Boston
Railway. He is president of the City and
County Contract Company, Railways Com
pany General, Louisburg, Milton and Wat-
sontown Street Railway and of the Mon-
toursville Street Railway; director of the
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway, New
York-Westchester Townsite Company and
of New York, Westchester and Boston Rail
road Company. He is a member of the
Ohio Society, Sons of the Revolution, and
Ohio Society of Sons of the American Rev
olution. Mr. Rhodes married in Glendale
(a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio),- November
22, 1882, Laura May Lovell, and they have
two children : Lovell, born in 1885, and
Oliver Lovell, born In 1888. Residence:
East Orange, New Jersey. Address : 30
Broad Street, New York City.
RICE, Calvin W.:
Secretary of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers ; born in Winchester,
Massachusetts, November 4, 1868; son of
Edward H. and Lucy J. (Staples) Rice.
He was educated in the public "schools
and was- graduated from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology as B.S. in 1890. He
was with- the Thomson-Houston Electric
Company from 1889 to 1895 ; engineer of
the Silver Lake Mines in 1896; consulting
engineer of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, in 1897 and 1898; engineer of
the Kings County Electric Light and Power
Company of Brooklyn, in 1899; New York
Edison Company from 1889 to 1902; second
vice-president of the Nernst Lamp Com
pany in 1902 and 1903 ; consulting engineer
of the General Electric Company in 1905
and 1906, and has been secretary of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
since 1906. He is a member of the Am
erican Society of Mechanical Engineers,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
Institution of Electrical Engineers of Lon
don, Engineers' Club, and the Society of
Colonial Wars. Mr. Rice .married in Win

chester, Massachusetts, August 6, 1904, El
len M. Weibezahn, and they have one son,
Edward Winslow, born in 1906. Address:
29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York
City. '
RICE, Isaac Leopold:
Financier; born in Wachenheim, Bavaria,
February 22, 1850; son of Maier and Fanny
(Sohn) Rice. He was educated at the
Central High School at Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania, and was graduated in 1880 from
Columbia Law School, LL.B., from Bates
College, LL.D. in 1902. He was an instruc
tor at Columbia Law School and lecturer
at School of Political Science until 1886,
when he resigned and devoted himself ex
clusively to Railroad Law. He won the
fight for the bondholders of the Brooklyn
Railroad Company and was instrumental
in reorganizing the corporation, avoiding
assessment and enabling the company to
raise all the money wanted by voluntary
subscription ; reorganized the St. Louis and
South Western Railway and the Texas Pa
cific Railroad; became counsel and director
in the Richmond Terminal and the Rich
mond-Danville and East Tennessee sys
tems and of the Georgia Company, con
trolling by the Central Railway and Bank
ing Company of Georgia properties which
now constitute the Southern Railroad;
formed the plan of settling the Philadel
phia & Reading Railroad Company by or
ganization of a new company called Read
ing Company. He was virtually the found
er of the storage battery industry in the
United States, and was president of that
company; the founder of the electric au
tomobile industry by organizing the Elec
tric Vehicle Company and becoming its first
president ; organized and became president
of the Electric Boat Company which pur
chased the Holland Torpedo Boat Company;
organized the Consolidated Railway Light
ing and Refrigerating Company, of which
he is president ; organized the Casein Com
pany of America and the Forum Publishing
Company. President and director of the
Electric Boat Company, Holland Torpedo
Boat Company, Electric Launch Company,
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Development Company, Societe Francois de
Sousmarm of Paris, France; Consolidated
Railway Lighting and Refrigerating Com
pany, Consolidated Railway Electric Light
ing and Equipment Company, Railway Sta
tionary & Refrigerating Company, Linds-
trom Brake Company, president, treasurer
and director of the Casein Company, Na
tional Milk Sugar Company, Dry Milk Com
pany, Rosemary Creamery Company, Quaker
City Chemical Company, Casein Manufac
turing Company; chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Consolidated Rubber Tire
Company; president and director of the
Forum Publishing Company ; director of the
Buckeye Rubber Company, Chicago Electric
Traction Company, The Heating and Power
Company. He is a member of the Frank
lin Institute of Pennsylvania and of the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York. His recreatiorr is chess. He invented
an opening known as the Rice Gambit and
presented a handsome silver trophy for In
ternational Universities Chess Matches be
tween America and England, and two hand
some trophies to the Triangular Chess
League. Has contributed many articles to
the North American Review, the Forum
and the Century. He is a member of the
St. George's Chess Club (London), the
Manhattan and Rice Chess Clubs of New
York City, Brooklyn Chess Club and New
York State Chess Association, also a mem
ber of the Lawyers', Harmonie, Automobile,
Lotos (New York City), Union League
(Chicago), City Liberal (London). He
married, New York City, in 1885, Julia
Hyneman Ba'rnert, and they have six chil
dren: Muriel, Dorothy, Isaac Leopold, Jr.,
Marion, Marjorie, Julian. Residence: Riv
erside Drive and Eighty-ninth Street. Ad
dress: 5 Nassau Street, New York City.
RICE, William Gorham:
Manufacturer, public official; born in Al
bany, New York, December 23, 1856; son
of William A. Rice and Hannah (Seely)
Rice. He was graduated from Albany Acad
emy in 1875. He was formerly private sec
retary to the Governor of New York ; mem
ber of the Board of Finance at Albany,
New York ; member of the United States

Civil Service Commission from 1895 to
1898. Pie is trustee of the National Sav
ings Bank of Albany. In politics he is a
Democrat and in religion an Episcopalian.
He is a trustee of the Albany Institute, Dud
ley Observatory; member of the Military
Order of Loyal Legion, Sons of Revolution,
and is a member of the Century Associa
tion and the Reform and Manhattan Clubs
of New York, of the Fort Orange, Coun
try and Jefferson Clubs of Albany and of
the Cosmos Club of Washington. Mr. Rice
married in Albany, New York, February
10, 1892, Harriet Landon Pruyn, and they
have one son, William Gorham, Jr., born in
1894. Address : 135 Washington Avenue,
Albany, New York.
RICH, Adelbert JP.:
Jurist; born in Cato, Cayuga County,
New York, May 16, i860; son of Frank
and Frances (Pitty) Rich; he was edu
cated in the schools at Cato, New York.
He was admitted to the New York State
bar in 1882; was president of the Board
of Education, Cato, New York, from 1882
to 1884; elected special county judge from
1883 to 1886, removed to Auburn in fall of
1884; district attorney of Cayuga County,
1887 to 1893; elected justice Supreme Court
in 1889, term expires December 31, 1914;
designated by Governor to sit in the Ap
pellate Division of the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, Second Judicial
Department, in 1904. He is a member of
the City, Masonic (Auburn) ; Owasco
Country; Genesee Valley (Rochester); Re
publican (New York City); Hamilton,
Brooklyn (Brooklyn) Clubs. He married at
Cato, New York, August 8, 1881, Ida May
Chose ; they have five children : Bertha Lou
ise, Frank C, Laura C, Eugene M., and.
Harold R. Address : Auburn, New York.
RICHARD, Oscar L. :
Banker and steamship agent; born in
Brooklyn, New York, June 2, 1855; son
of Charles B. Richard and Julia (Hiller)
Richard. He was graduated from Charlier
French Institute, New York, in 1872. He
is a member of the firm of C. B. Richard
& Company, bankers, also general agents

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of the Russian Volunteer Fleet; Lloyd
Italiano Steamship Company; Prince Line;
Sicula Americana and Egyptian Mail
Steamship Company. Is president of The
State Bank, and director of the Consoli
dated National Bank. He is a member of
the Chamber of Commerce of New York,
Italian Chamber of Commerce, New York,
American Chamber of Commerce, Paris,
and American Chamber of Commerce,
Naples. In politics he is a Republican.
Member of the Veterans' Association, New
York Athletic, -Automobile of America,
Atlantic Yacht and Baltusrol Golf Clubs.
Mr. Richard married in New York, De
cember 20, 1883, Alice Littauer, sister of
Congressman Lucius N. Littauer, and they
have three children : Harold C, born in
1884, Walter L., born in 1886, and George
N., born in 1892. Residence: 46 East Sev
enty-second Street, New York City. Ad
dress : 31-33 Broadway, New York City.
RICHARDS, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg:
Officer, United States Navy, and manu
facturer; born in Easton, Pennsylvania,
August 16, 1848; son of Rev. John William
Richards, D.D. and Andora (Garber)
Richards. He was graduated from the
Reading (Pennsylvania) High School in
1864. He served in the Twenty-sixth
Emergency Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, at Gettysburg in 1863 ; in the One
Hundred and Ninety-fifth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1864, with
Sheridan in West Virginia. In 1865 he
was appointed from Pennsylvania to the
United States Naval Academy, and he
was graduated in 1869 with highest hon
ors (star pupil). He served as midship
man on the United States ship Mace
donian on the Atlantic Coast of the United
States in 1866; on the United States
ship Savannah, in Europe and Africa,
in 1867 and 1868; on the United States
steamer Juniata, in Europe and Africa
from 1869 to 1871 ; promoted ensign in
1870, and master in 1871 ; served on the
United States flagship Franklin, in the
Mediterranean, 1871 ; actively engaged in
connection with the Franco-German War,
communist outbreak and Carlist insurrec

tion; served at the United States Torpedo
Station in 1872; inventor of the circuit-
closing fuse adopted by the Government;
served on the United States steamer Nar
ragansett under Commander (now Ad
miral) Dewey in the Pacific Ocean in 1873
and 1874, and was in service in protection
of American interests during the revolu
tionary outbreak in Panama in 1873. He
was promoted to lieutenant' in 1874, and re
signed December 31, 1-874. He was with
the firm of J. H. Sternbergh and Son, iron
manufacturers, at Lebanon, Pennsylvania,
from 1881 to 1899 when it was consoli
dated with the American Iron and Steel
Manufacturing Company, of which Mr.
Richards was general auditor and direc
tor until 1901, and has since been treasurer
and director. In 1892 he volunteered for
active duty in the Navy, in anticipation of
war with Chile, and at the beginning of
the Spanish-American War again volun
teered and served as lieutenant (senior
grade) in Cuba and Porto Rico. Lieuten
ant Richards is a commissioner of the
State of Pennsylvania on Frontier Forts
Prior to 1783 ; has made historical and
genealogical research his recreation, and
is author of several historical and genea
logical works. He is a Republican in pol
itics, and a Lutheran in his church rela
tions; is a member of the Historical So
ciety of Pennsylvania, Genealogical Society
of Pennsylvania, National Geographic So
ciety, Pennsylvania German Society, Amer
ican Academy of Political and Social
Science, Sons of the Revolution, Naval Or
der of the United States, Military Order
of Foreign Wars, Naval and Military Or
der of the Spanish-American War and
Grand Army of the Republic. He married
in Reading, Pennsylvania, December 26,
1871, Ella Van Leer (von Loehr), and
they have four children : Rev. Henry Bran
son Richards, born in 1873; Dr. Charles
Matthias Richards, born in 1875 ; Florence
Richards, born in 1878; and Alice Rich
ards, born in 1881. Address : Lebanon,
Pennsylvania.RICHARDS, John Kelrey:
Judge of the United States Circuit Court ;
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son of Samuel Richards and Sarah (Kel-
vey) Richards. Pie was graduated from
Swarthmore College as A.B, in 1875 and
from Harvard College as A.B. in 1877;
studied law ¦ and was admitted to the bar
at Ironton, Ohio, where he engaged in prac
tice. He was prosecuting attorney of Law
rence County from 1880 to 1882 ; city solic
itor of Ironton, from 1885 to 1889; member
of the State Senate from 1890 to 1892, and
attorney-general of Ohio for the four-year
term from 1892 to 1896. In 1897 he was
appointed by President McKinley solicitor-
general of the United States, and he held
that office until appointed by President
Roosevelt, February 25, 1903, United States
Circuit judge .for the Sixth Circuit.
Swarthmore College conferred upon him
the degree of LL.D. in 1903. Judge Rich
ards is a Republican in politics. He mar
ried, June 12, 1890, Anna Willard Steece.
Residence : Ironton, Ohio. Office address :
Cincinnati, Ohio.
RICHARDSON, George Owen:
Teacher and preacher; born in Hudson,
Wisconsin, May 22, 1852; son of George
W. Richardson and Caroline A. Richard
son. He was educated in the State Nor
mal School, Winona, Minnesota; Red
Wing Collegiate Institute, Minnesota;
Northwestern University Academy, Evans
ton, Illinois. He was principal of Andrew's
Normal School, Dallas, Texas, from 1876
to 1878; principal of West Texas Confer
ence School, Austin, Texas (now known
as Sam Houston College), from 1878 to
1880; pastor of Ebenezer Methodist Episco
pal Church, Marshall, Texas, in 1881 and
1882; student of the Northwestern Univer
sity Academy, from 1882 to 1884; of the
College of Liberal Arts from 1884 to 1888.
He was in charge of the Methodist Episco
pal Church at Clarendon, Texas, in 1888
and 1889; Denton, Texas, in 1890 and
1891; La Grande, Oregon, in 1891 and 1892;
Summerville, Oregon, in 1892 and 1893;
Boise Valley, Idaho, from 1893 to 1896;
Haines, Oregon, in 1896 and 1897; Dixie,
Washington, in 1897 and 1898; Huntsville,
Washington, in 1898 and 1899; Adams,
Oregon, from 1899 to 1901. He is a Pro

hibitionist in politics. He was secretary
of the Idaho Conference in 1896 and 1897.
He married in Dallas, Texas, May 2. 1878,
Clara Anna Milne, and they have one
daughter, Carrie May, born January 17,
1880. Address : Adams, Oregon.
RICHARDSON, James Bailey:
Jurist; born in Orford, New Hampshire,
December 9, 1832; son of Joel and Sarah
(Bailey) Richardson, grandson of James
and Rhoda (Berkeley) Richardson and a
descendant of Samuel Richardson, Charles-
town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630. He
was brought up on a Connecticut Valley
farm with limited school advantages until
he was seventeen years of age. He entered
Yale College in 1853, Dartmouth in 1854,
and was graduated from Dartmouth in
1857. He studied law at Concord, New
Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1859.
He was a representative in the General
Court of Massachusetts, in 1866; a member
of the common council of the City of Bos
ton, 1877 and 1878; a member of the com
mission appointed to revise the city char
ter in 1884; corporation counsel from 1889
to 1891, and rapid transit commissioner in
1892. He was a trustee of Dartmouth Col
lege from 1889 to 1902, and he received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth
in 1900, and he was honored by the Board
of Trustees in 1903 by giving his name to
a new dormitory erected on the college
grounds. He was made a trustee of the
Franklin Savings Bank of Boston in 1877
and a manager and trustee ot the New Eng
land Home for Little Wanderers in 1876.
He was a charter member and vice-pres
ident of the University Club of Boston and
also was made a member of the Unitarian
Club and the Boston Art Club, and exec
utor of the will of Martin Milmore, the
sculptor and through his efforts the monu
ment, Death and the Sculptor, erected by
Daniel C. French, was placed over his
grave, Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston. He
is the author of : Notes in Equity ; Pleading
and Practice of Massachusetts, 1904. He
was appointed a justice of the Superior
Court of Massachusetts in 1892. He mar-

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ried, November 15, 1865, Lucy Cushing,
daughter of Dr. Augustus A., and Harriet
(Sheafe) Gould and grandaughter of
Henry and Harriet Sheafe. They have no
children. Residence: 231 Newbury Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
RICHARDSON, John B.:
Consular officer; born in Vermont; ap
pointed consul at Matamoras, September 9,
1890; retired June, 1893; appointed consul
at Port Limon, June 27, 1902; consul at
Votila, August 2, 1902 ; consul at Jalapa,
March 23, 1905. Address : Jalapa, Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
RICHARDSON, Leander:
Journalist, author; born in Cincinnati,
February 28, 1856. He was educated in
common schools ; has written as correspond
ent and staff member for nearly all lead
ing newspapers; on editorial staff of the
New York Morning Telegraph from 1896
to 1900, and during that period his signed
articles were a very .popular feature of that
publication. He is also author of various
volumes of sketches, novels and plays and
adapter of various plays from the French
for New York production. Address: 116
West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.
RICHARDSON, Leon Josiah:
Teacher; born in Keene, New Hamp
shire, February 22, 1868; son of Josiah
Crosby Richardson and Isabel Jane (Cham
berlain) Richardson. He received the de
gree of A.B. from the University of Michi
gan in 1890 ; and ' studied in Berlin and
Rome from 1895 to 1897. He was teacher
in Jackson (Michigan) High School in
1890 and 1891 ; fellow and instructor in
Latin at the University of California from
1891 to 1895, and from 1897 to 1898; as
sistant professor of Latin from 1898 to
1907, and now -associate professor in Latin.
He was dean of the Summer Session at
the University of California from 1902 to
1904; and acting dean in 1906. Since 1904
he has been secretary, treasurer and a
member of the Philological Association of
the Pacific Coast, which is a branch of the
American Philological Association. He is

also a member of the San Francisco So
ciety of the Archeological Institute of
America and Psi Upsilon fraternity. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of
Berkeley Public Library. In politics he is
a Republican and he is a Congregationalist
in his religious affiliations. His favorite
recreation is mountaineering, and he has
made his research specialty the Greek and
Latin metric. Professor Richardson is au
thor of : Helps to the Reading of Classical
Latin Poetry, 1907; and is contributor to
philological and educational journals, also
to the Sunset Magazine of San Francisco.
He is a member of the Bohemian Club of
San Frartcisco and the Berkeley Club. He
married in Berkeley, California, April 26,
1900, Maud Wilkinson, and they have one
daughter, Florence Walton Richardson,
born October 5, 1905. Residence: 2415
College Avenue, Berkeley. Office address:
University of California, Berkeley, Cali
fornia.RICHARDSON, William:
Congressman and lawyer; born in
Athens, Alabama; entered the Confederate
Army when sixteen years old, and fought
until totally disabled from wounds re
ceived at Chickamauga. He was elected
from Limestone County to the House of
Representatives of Alabama in 1866, and
was admitted to the bar in 1867, and lo
cated in the practice of law at Huntsville,
Alabama. He was judge of the Court of
Probate and County Court of Madison
County, Alabama, from 1875 to 1886;
Democratic elector from the State at large
in 1888. When General Joseph Wheeler.,
who was member of Congress from the
Eighth Alabama District, was appointed to
the Regular Army in 1900, and resigned his
seat, Mr. Richardson was elected to suc
ceed him in the second session of the Fif
ty-sixth Congress, and he. was afterward
reelected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, as a
Democrat. Address : Huntsville, Alabama.
RICHMOND, C. J,:
Actor; born in Chicago in 1870; was
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fore he entered the profession as a leading
man. Last season he was in one of the
Belasco Theaters, supporting Frances
Starr in the Rose of the Rancho. Ad
dress : Lambs Club, New York City,
RICKETTS, Palmer Chamberlaine:
President Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute; born in Elkton, Maryland, January
17, 1856 ; • son of Palmer C. and Eliza
(Getty) Ricketts. He was educated at
Edge Hill School, Princeton, New Jersey;
later had private tutor, and was graduated
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York, with degree of C.E. in
1875; receiving the degree of Doctor of En
gineering (E.D.) from Stevens Institute of
Technology in 1905. He was instructor in
mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic In
stitute from 1875 to 1882; assistant pro
fessor from 1882 to 1884; professor of ra
tional and technical mechanics in 1884; di
rector since 1892 to date; president and di
rector since February, 1901. He has also
been engaged for railway and other cor
porations for the design and construction
of bridges and hydraulic works. He is
consulting bridge engineer for the Troy
and Boston Railroad, and Rome, Water-
town and Ogdensburg Railroad; engineer
for Public Improvements Commission of
Troy, New York, etc. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, Institution of Civil Engineers of
Great Britain. He is the author of: The
History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute, 1895 ; contributor to many technical
journals and, transactions of societies. He
is a member of the Troy (Troy) and Union
(New York City) Clubs. He married, No
vember 12, 1902, V. C. Renshaw, of Balti
more, Maryland. Address : Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
;J Oi^TTS. Bobert Bruce:
Soldier"; born at Orangeville, Columbia
Co., Pennsylvania, April 29, 1839, of Scotch
•md English descent. He was educated at the
Wyoming Seminary, and was reading, law
when the war broke out. He promptly
entered the Union service, and, having as

sisted in recruiting a battery, was com
missioned first lieutenant of Battery F,
First Pennsylvania Artillery, Forty-third
Regiment, July 8, 1861 ; to captain, May 8,
1863; to major, December 4, 1864; and to
colonel, March 15, 1865. The battery was
furnished during the month of August, 1861,
with horses and equipments and four
smooth-bore guns. On September 12 the
battery was ordered to join Banks's com
mand at Dorranceton, Maryland, and was
from that date in active service up to the
close of the war. Colonel, Ricketts had his
first engagement December 20, 1861, with
a body of the enemy's artillery and cavalry
which was attempting the destruction of
Dam Number Five, on the Upper Potomac.
For more than three years from that time
on Ricketts was constantly at the front, and
his battery became one of the most famous
in the Union Army. In almost every one
of the engagements of 1862, 1863 and 1864,
in Maryland and Virginia, it was prominent
ly engaged, and at Gettysburg, especially, it
did brilliant service in assisting to repel
the invasion of the Confederates on the
right of the Union lines at Cemetery Ridge.
When promoted major he left his bat
tery and was assigned to the command of
the Second Army Corps batteries in the
Ninth Corps line; afterward as inspector of
Artillery for the Ninth Corps. This last
position he held during most of the winter
of 1864-1865, and while the army was in
front of Petersburg, and he retained it until
after Lee's surrender. He was then in
spector of the Artillery Reserve under
Gen. William Hayes. After the war he
was urged to join the regular service, but
returned to private life. Colonel Ricketts
was a Hancock delegate to the Cincinnati
Convention, where the Democracy named
the great General for the Presidency, and
in 1886 he was nominated as Democratic
candidate for lieutenant-governor of Penn
sylvania. Colonel Rickotts was a National
Commissioner from Pennsylvania to the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1893 ; and was a delegate-at-large from
Pennsylvania to the Indianapolis Conven
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nominated by the Gold Democrats in 1896.
Address : Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
RICKS, Augustus J.:
United States judge; born near Mas-
sillon, Ohio, February 16, i860. He was
educated in the public schools and a year
in Kenyon College, and served in the Union
Army from June, 1862, to the end of the
war. He was admitted to the bar in 1865,
and practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, un
til appointed by President Benjamin Har
rison, January 16, 1890, to his present of
fice as judge of the District Court for the
Northern District of Ohio. Judge Ricks
is a Republican in politics. Address :
Cleveland, Ohio.
RIDDER, Henry:
Publisher of the American Home Month
ly and The Catholic News ; born in New
York City, November 18, 1863 ; son of Her
man Ridder and Mary Gertrude (Thie
mann) Ridder. He was educated at De La
Sajle College, New York City. Mr. Ridder
has always been in the publishing busi
ness, and is proprietor and publisher of the
American Home Monthly; president and
treasurer of The Catholic News. He is a
member of the Catholic, New York Press,
and German Press Clubs. He married in
New York City, 1883, Lena Westervelt
Croker, and they have four children : Her
bert, deceased, Cecilia, Charles, Beatrice,
and Rachel. Address : 5 Barclay Street,
New York City.
RIDDER, Herman:
Journalist; born in New York City,
March 5, 185 1, of German parents. At the
age of eleven years he obtained employ
ment in a hat store and shortly afterwards
secured a position as messenger with a
Wall Street firm, where he remained until
thirteen years of age, when he entered the
employ of the Tradesmen's Fire Insurance
Company. His connection with the com
pany lasted for fourteen years, the last
seven pi which he spent as an agent. He
left the insurance business to take up news
paper work and founded the KathoHsches
Volksblatt in 1878. In 1886 he established

the Catholic News, which in a very short
time was recognized as the leading Catholic
paper of the country. Mr. Ridder became
a stockholder in the New Yorker Staats-
Zeitung in 1890 and was elected a director
and the treasurer and manager. These of
fices he filled until he became the president
of the corporation, which office he now
holds. Mr. Ridder has taken an active part
in politics, as an Independent Democrat.
He was a prominent participant in the
Cleveland campaigns and in the various
Reform movements in this city. He is a
trustee of the Emigrant Industrial Say
ings Bank, the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and of the German Hospital, and
is a director and the treasurer of the New
York City Publishers' Association. He is
a director and the treasurer of the Asso
ciated Press, and the president of the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers' Association.
Mr. Ridder is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce and of the Manhattan, Lieder-
kranz, Arion, Catholic, Reform, Democratic,
City, New York Press, German Press and
Hardware Clubs. He is also a member of
the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Ridder has de
voted much time to charitable work. He
is a member of the Charity Organization
Society, the Isabella Heimath, the German
Society, the St. Vincent de Paul Society,
the Legal Aid Society and a large number
of similar organizations. He is a member
of the American Natural History Society
and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Society and other societies of a like char
acter. Address: The Staats-Zeitung, New
York City.
RIDDLE, John Wallace: r
Ambassador; born in Philadelphia, July
12, 1864; son of John Wallace Riddle and
Rebecca Blair (McClure) Riddle. After
a thorough preparatory education in private
schools he entered Harvard College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in the
class of 1887. He studied law at the Law
School of Columbia University in New
York City from 1888 to 1891, but desiring
to especially fit himself for a diplomatic
career he went to Paris in 1891, where he
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remaining there for two years and taking
the courses in international law, history and
diplomacy, and he also received from the
College de France in 1893, a certificate of
• proficiency in the Russian language. He
entered the diplomatic service of the United
States in 1893, as secretary of the Legation
to Turkey, in which position he remained
until 1900; then was secretary of the
American Embassy to Russia from 1901 to
1903, was diplomatic agent and consul-gen
eral of the United States to Egypt, from
1903 until March, 1905, when he was ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to Rou
mania and Servia, maintaining his official
residence at Bucharest until December, 1906,
when, he was appointed American ambas
sador to Russia, which important post he
is now filling. Mr. Riddle is a member
of the Union Club of New York, the Met
ropolitan Club of Washington, the Ritten
house Club of Philadelphia, and the Min
nesota Club of St. Paul, Minnesota. Ad
dress : American Embassy, St. Petersburg,
Russia. K I DEAL, Charles Frederick:
Author and editor; born in England;
was educated at Cowley School, studied
medicine, but abandoned it to enter upon
literature and journalism ; he was editor
of Life, London, also Magazine and
Book Review; established and edited
the Medical Review, and took an active part
in securing charter for the incorporation and
enrollment of the hospital trained nurses
of England as the Royal British Nurses
Association, founded Medical Defense
Union (England). Writer and lecturer on
works of Charles Dickens; has. written,
compiled, or edited, 25 volumes in various
branches of literature. Joint author (un
der the pen-name of Freeman Morris) of
plays: Little Nell; Cassock and. Crown;
Our Girls; etc. Elected fellow Royal So
ciety of Literature, England, 1887 ; for some
years was a member of the council of the
Lecturers' Institute of Great Britain ; mem
ber Advisory Council Cortina Academy of
Languages;' formerly editor of the Munici
pal Journal; chief editorial writer to the

American Banker; trustee Bankers' Insti
tute and Library; managing editor Wall
Street Daily News. Member Sea Cliff
Yacht Club ; Foundation member. Play
goers' and Vagabonds' Club (London). Ad
dress : 19 West Twenty- fourth Street, and
60 New Street, New York City.
RIDEING, William Henry:
Associate editor of the Youth's Com
panion since 1881 ; born at Liverpool,
England, in 1853, of a line of seafar
ing men, his great- uncle having been Ad
miral Sir Edward Walpole Browne, Royal
Navy, and his father a well-known Cunard
officer. Educated privately. Came to the
United States in 1869; at the age of nine
teen became an assistant editor of the New
York Tribune; afterwards special corre
spondent of New York Times ; with United
States Geographical Survey for three years ;
a frequent contributor to Harper's pub
lications. The Century, Scribner's Maga
zine, etc. ; attached to the staff of the
Youth's Companion since 1881 ; appointed
managing editor of the North American
Review, 1888 ; resigned, 1899. He is the
author of thirteen volumes of fiction, travel,
and criticism, including: A Little Upstart;
A-saddle in the Wild West; Thackery's
London ; In the Land of Lorna Doone ; The
Boyhood of Living Authors; How Tyson
Came Home ; and others. Recreations : Rural
walks and drives, and ocean steamers, about
which he has written much, and of which
his knowledge may be said to be "extensive
and peculiar." He married Margaret
Elinor, daughter of C. E. Bockus, editor of
tlie Boston Herald. He is a member of
the Players Club. Address : Care The
Youth's Companion, Boston, Massachu
setts. RIDGELY, Benjamin H.:
Consul-general; born at Ridgely, Caroline
County, Maryland, July 13, 1861 ; son of
Frederick W. Ridgely and Harriet Isette
(Harris) Ridgely. His general education
was obtained in private schools and at
Henry Academy in Woodford County, Ken
tucky, and he then studied law with the in
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abandoned that purpose to become connected
with the editorial staff first of the Louisville
Commercial and afterward of the Louisville
Courier- Journal, and he afterward was one
of the founders of the Louisville Truth. He
became a contributor of stories and es
says to the leading magazines. He began
his consular service in 1892 when he was
appointed consul of the United States at
Geneva, Switzerland, remaining there until
1900, when he was transferred to Malaga,
Spain, and in 1902 he was again transferred
to Nantes, France, where he continued until
November 3, 1904, when he was promoted
to consul-general of the United States at
Barcelona, Spain, where he is now serving.
He is author of: Comedies of a Consulate,
published in 1905. Mr Ridgely married, in
1891, Kate Ewing Eaches, of Kentucky. Ad
dress : 30 Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona, Spain.
RIDGWAY, Robert:
Curator of Division of Birds, United
States National Museum; born at Mount
Carmel, Illinois, July 2, 1850; son of David
Ridgway and Henrietta J. (Reed) Ridgway.
He was educated in the common schools
of Mount Carmel,' and received the honor
ary degree of M.S. from the University of
Indiana in 1884. He was zoologist of
the United States Geological Explora
tion of Fortieth Parallel, from 1867 to 1869,
and has been curator of the Division of
Birds of the United States National Mu
seum, since 1876. Dr. Ridgway was a mem
ber of Advisory Council of World's Con
gresses, at the World's Columbian Exposi
tion in 1893; member of the International
Permanent Ornithological Committee,
Vienna, in 1885, and second International
Ornithological Congress, Budapest, in 1891.
He traveled from New York City to San
Francisco, via Panama, from May to June,
1867; in California, Nevada, Utah and
Idaho from 1867 to 1869; from New York
City to Alaska, as guest of Serior Jose C.
Zeledon, from May to August, 1899, and
in Costa Rica, with the Harriman Expe
dition, from December, 1904, to May,
1905. In politics he is a Republican.
He made researches in ornithology, especial
ly in systematic or technical ornithology;

botany, principally with reference to geo
graphical distribution, and is author of:
Birds of North and Middle America (eight
volumes) ; joint author, with Professor
Spencer F. Baird and Dr. Thomas M.
Brewer, of the five-volume work: History
of North American Birds ; author of a
two volume work on: Birds of Illinois, and
many other works and papers on American
avifauna. He is a fellow of the American
Ornithologists' Union (was its vice-presi
dent from 1894 to 1901, and from 1896 to
1898 ; and president in 1899 and 1900) ;
member of the American Forestry Associa
tion, Washington Biological Society, Wash
ington Academy of Sciences ; correspond
ing member of the New York Academy of
Science; member of the Philadelphia Acad
emy of Science ; corresponding member of
the Boston Zoological Society; member of
the Boston Society of Natural History;
corresponding member of the Chicago
Academy of Sciences, Michigan Ornitholog
ical Club, Davenport Academy of Science,
Washington Philosophical Society, honor
ary member of Nuttall Ornithological Club,
British Ornithologists' Union; correspond
ing member of London Zoological Society,
Manchester (England) Literary and Phil
osophical Society, and Australian Ornithol
ogists' Union. Mr. Ridgway married in
Washington, D. C, October 12, 1875, Julia
Evelyn Perkins, and they had one son :
Audubon W. Ridgway, born May 15, 1877,
and died February 22, 1901. Residence:
3413 Thirteenth Street, N. E., Washington.
Address : Smithsonian Institution, Wash
ington, D. C.
RIES, Elias Elkan:
Inventor and electrical and mechanical
engineer; born in Randegg, Baden, Ger
many, January 16, 1862; son of Elkan
Elias Ries and Bertha (Weil) Ries. He
received his preparatory education in the
public schools of New York City and Bal
timore, the Cooper Institute of New York,
and the Maryland Institute, Baltimore;
and technical studies at Johns Hopkins
University in physical science, and other
branches. He removed with his parents to
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in 1876 as a telegraph operator with the
Gold and Stock and the Western Union
Telegraph Companies. He removed to
New York City in 1880 -md became identi-
« «« - fied with the development of the electric
light industry in the employ of the Edison
Company, the United States Electric Illu
minating Company, the Fuller Manufac
turing Company and others. He returned
to Baltimore in 1884 to devote his atten
tion to developing his ' inventions in elec
tric signaling, railroading, controlling
apparatus and illumination, organizing
various companies to push these inven
tions, and he is the inventor of the modern
alternating current, electyic railway sys
tem, the telephonograph and many other
devices. Mr. Ries is president and gen
eral manager of the United States Auto
matic Telephone Company. In politics he
is an Independent. He is a member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American Electro
chemical Society, New York Electrical So
ciety, American Association of Inventors
and Manufacturers ; and was a member of
the International Electrical Congress in
1904. He is registered patent attorney of
the United States Patent Office. His
favorite recreations are metaphysics, politi
cal and social science and photography.
Mr. Ries njarried in Baltimore, Maryland,
April 21, 1895, Helen, second daughter of
Lewis H. and Rebecca Hirshberg, and they
have one daughter, Estelle, born March 5,
1896. Address: 110-116 Nassau Street,
New York City.
RIGGS, Clinton Levering:
Adjutant-general of Maryland; born in
New York City, September 13, 1866; son
of Laurason Riggs and Mary Turpin
(Bright)" Riggs. He received his prepara
tory education in Grady's Private School,
Baltimore, and St. Paul's School, Concord,
New Hampshire, whence he entered Prince-
. . , ton University, graduating as civil engi
neer, and then took a post-graduate course
in Johns Hopkins University. He prac
ticed engineering in Iowa with the Illinois

Central Railroad; entered the machine
shops of Robert Poole and Son Company,
and served an apprenticeship at the bench.
He then went to the Detrick and Plarvey
Machine Company as superintendent 'in
1891, and retired from the business as vice-
president of that company in January, 1903.
He joined Company E, Fifth Infantry,
Maryland National Guard, as second lieu
tenant, April 29, 1890, became captain of
Company F, Fifth Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, February 23, 1891;
major of the same, November 12,
1895; major of the Fifth Maryland, United
States Volunteers, May 14, 1898; mustered
out with the regiment at the close of the
war. He was appointed adjutant-general
of Maryland in January, 1904. In politics
he is an Independent Democrat. He
is director of the Gandy Belting Company.
He has traveled extensively in every coun
try -in Europe except Russia. He married
in Baltimore, Maryland, October 23, 1894,
Mary Kennedy Cromwell, and their chil
dren are : Clinton Levering Riggs, Jr., born
in 1902, and Marian Cromwell Riggs, born
in 1904. Residence : Catonsville, Mary
land. Office address : Annapolis, Maryland.
RIIS, Jacob August :
Journalist; born in Ribe, Denmark, May
3, 1849, emigrated to America in 1870. He
was reporter on the New York Tribune and
Evening Sun; became active reformer, lec
turer and author of many articles and books
on tenement house and poverty conditions;
executive officer of Good Government Clubs
from -1896 to 1897 ; secretary of the Small
Park Committee, etc. He is the author of:
How the Other Half Lives ; The Children
of the Poor; The Battle With the Slum;
The Making of an American; Children of
the Tenements ; Theodore Roosevelt, the
Citizen; Is There a Santa Claus? etc. He
married Eliabeth Nielson, of Ribe, Den
mark, in 1876. Address : 524 North Beech
Street, Richmond Hill, Long Island, New
York.
BIKER, Albert Burdsall:
Clergyman and president of Mount Union
College; born in New Albany, Ohio, Oc-

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tober 19, 1852; son of Rev. Samuel C.
Riker and Amanda (Cochran) Riker. He
received his education in the public schools
of Ohio, from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer
sity the degrees of A.B. and M.A. and
from the Ohio University the degree of
D.D. He taught school four years at Lock-
bourne and Plain City, Ohio ; was pastor
of Methodist Episcopal Churches at Worth
ington, Ohio, from 1879 to 1881 ; at Co
lumbus, from 1881 to 1884; at Athens,
from 1884 to 1887; Chattanooga, Tennes
see, from 1887 to 1891 ; Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, from 1891 to 1896; Charleston, West
Virginia, from 1896 to 1898; and since then
president of Mount Union College. He is
also in constant demand for sermons for
special occasions, church dedications, ad
dresses, lectures, chautauquas, and com
mencements of various kinds of schools.
In politics he is an Independent Repub
lican. He is a member of the Masonic
order. Mr. Riker married in Dublin, Ohio,
August 18, 1881, Mary Edith Davis, and
their children are : Charles Ross, born in
1884, Samuel Clark, born in 1886, Olive
Marie, born in 1890, and Albert Joyce, born
in 1894. Residence: 151 1 Union Avenue,
Alliance. Office address : Mount Union
College, Alliance, Ohio.
RILEY, Henry C. :
Jurist ; born in New Madrid County, Mis
souri, December 18, 1850. He was edu
cated in common schools; was graduated
from the Kentucky Military Institute as
A.B. in 1871 and from the Washington Uni
versity Law School, St. Louis, as LL.B. in
1873. He at once commenced the practice
of law at New Madrid, and served eight
years as prosecuting attorney of New Ma
drid County. He was elected judge in
1892 of the Twenty-eighth Circuit of Mis
souri, and was reelected in 1898 and 1904.
Address : New Madrid, Missouri.
RILEY, James Whitcomb:
Poet and public reader; born at Green
field, Indiana, in 1854. He began life as
a journeyman sign writer ; joined a the
atrical troupe, re-wrote their plays and. im
provised songs for them; in 1875 began

to publish in local papers poems in the
Hoosier dialect; for some years traveled
about giving entertainments with the late
Bill Nye. He is the author of: The Old
Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems,
1881; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches,
1886; Afterwhiles, 1887; Pipes o' Pan at
Zekesbury, 1887; The Flying Island of the
Night, 1888; Rhymes Of Childhood, 1889;
Old Fashioned Roses (in England, 1891) ;
Neighborly Poems, on Friendship, Grief,
and Farm Life, 1891 ; Green Fields and
Running Brooks, 1893; Poems Here at
Home, 1893; Armazindy, 1894; A Child
World, 1896; Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers, 1897;
Home Folks, 1900; An Old Sweetheart of
Mine, 1902; The Book of Joyous Children,
1902; Out to Old Aunt Mary's, 1903; His
Pa's Romance, 1903 ; A Defective Santa
Claus, 1904; Songs o' Cheer, 1905; Home
Again With Me, 1905; While the Heart
Beats Young, 1906 ; Morning, 1907. Ad
dress : Care Union Trust Company, Indian
apolis, Indiana.
RILEY, Lewis A.:
Railway president and coal operator;
born at Montrose, Pennsylvania, in 1847;
son of Rev. Henry A. Riley. He received
an academic education in Montrose and at
Homer, New York, and in 1870 was ap
pointed engineer and agent of the Ash
land estate and when, soon after, the
Reading acquired that property, he became
division engineer for the Reading Com
pany. In 1872 he was made engineer and
agent for the Locust Mountain Coal and
Iron Company and the Coal Ridge Coal
and Improvement Company, properties
controlled by the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
and when the Lehigh Valley Coal Company
was formed in 1875 Mr. Riley was ap
pointed engineer and superintendent of all
the company's lands in the Mahanoy re
gion. In 1880 Mr. Riley leased lands of
the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Com
pany on which he subsequently opened the
Logan, Centralia and Big Mine Run col
lieries and operated these under the firm
name of Lewis A. Riley and . Company.
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high Valley Coal Company in 1896. The
Logan mine was the first anthracite col
liery -to adopt the rope haulage system and
the Centralia drainage tunnel, which is a
mile and a half in length and affords drain
age to several mines, was completed by
Mr. Riley in 1889 and 1890 and was the
first of its kind in the Anthracite regions.
This was considered a great undertaking
and proved to be a notable engineering
success. ' In 1885 and again in 1891 Mr.
Riley was appointed one of the commis
sioners, to revise the mine laws of the
State. He took a leading part in suppress
ing the Molly Maguires, and in reforming
the dishonest administration of municipal
affairs, he initiated the system of repairing
the public roads now in vogue throughout
the coal regions, by which no tax is
levied and all the expense is assumed by
the large tax-payers. Mr. Riley is a part
ner in the firm of Lentz, Lilly and Com
pany, which was formed in 1883 and is
operating collieries in the Mahanoy re
gion. In 1896, Mr. Riley was elected pres
ident of The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, which is the oldest organization
connected with the anthracite coal industry.
The discovery of this kind of coal was
made on its lands near Mauch Chunk, Penn
sylvania, in 1791. This company is the
owner of a large coal estate and of an ex
tensive railroad system in Pennsylvania. Af
ter eleven years' service, during which
period the coal production and revenue of
the company were nearly doubled, Mr. Riley
retired, having declined' reelection. He is
also president of the Lehigh and Hudson
River Railway Company, and a director
in several corporations, among others,
Westmoreland Coal Company, Huntingdon
and Broad Top Railroad Company, Amer
ican Gas Company, and Tradesmen's Na
tional Bank. He is a member of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Address: 108 South Fourth Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
RILEY, Theodore Myers:
Clergyman; born in Carlisle, Pennsyl
vania, June 9, 1842; son of William Riley
and Elizabeth (Kerman) Riley. He was

educated in Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, class of 1861 ; received the
degrees of M.A. and S.T.D. from Racine
College, Wisconsin, and was graduated from
the General Theological Seminary in 1863.
He was ordered deacon in 1863 and or
dained priest in 1866, by Bishop H. Potter.
He was assistant of St. George's Church,
Newburgh, New York, from 1863 to 1865;
rector of All Saints' Church, Navesink
Highlands, New Jersey, from 1865 to 1869,
of St. Paul's Church, Winona, Minnesota,
from 1869 to 1872, of St. Clement's Church,
Philadelphia, from 1872 to 1875, and of Holy
Trinity Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
from 1875 to 1882, professor of ecclesiastical
history at 'Nashotah Seminary, Wisconsin,
from 1882 to 1894; adjunct professor of
pastoral theology at the General Theolog
ical Seminary, New York, and lecturer on
Christian Antiquities, from 1894 to 1902;
Church Club lecturer, New York, in 1893;
rector of St. Mary's Church, Yorktown,
New York, from 1902 to 1905; rector of
Christ Church, Hudson, New York; honor
ary canon of Milwaukee and examining
chaplain to the Bishop of Albany. He was
chaplain of Light Infantry from 1888 to
1892 National Guard of Minnesota; acting
chaplain at Fort Snelling, while rector of
Holy Trinity Church, Minneapolis, from
1877 to 1882 ; occasional service at bed
side of Sick Soldiers, Dickinson College
Hospital, in 1863, during Civil War. He is
author of: Charles George Gordon; A
Nineteenth Century Worthy of the Eng
lish Church; and a Biography of Eugene
Augustus Hoffman, D.D. (Oxford), dean
of the General Theological Seminary of
New York. In politics he is a Democrat
and in religion an Episcopalian. He was vice-
president of the Humane Society of Minne
apolis ; member of Union Philosophical So
ciety, Dickinson College, Society of King
Charles The Martyr, and was member for
a time of the Ecclesiastical Court of the
Diocese of Minnesota, and deputy to sev
eral conventions. His favorite recreation is
music. He is a member of the University
Club of Hudson, New York. Address:
Christ Church Rectory, Hudson, New York.

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RIXEK, John A.:
United States judge; bom in Preble
County, Ohio, in 1850. After being grad
uated from the University of Michigan, he
went to Wyoming, establishing in the prac
tice of law at Cheyenne. He became ac
tive in politics as a Republican; was elected
city attorney of Cheyenne in 1881, and
United States district attorney of Wyo
ming Territory, under appointment by
President Arthur, in 1884. He was elected
to the Territorial Council in 1886; was a
member of the Constitutional Convention
qf Wyoming in 1889; then elected to the
State Senate of Wyoming, resigning that
office upon his appointment by . President
Harrison, September 22, 1890, to his pres
ent office -as United States district judge
for the District of Wyoming. Address :
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
RIORDAN, Daniel J.:
Congressman; born in Hester Street,
New York City, in the Eighth Congres
sional District, in 1870, and has lived all
his life within the district. He attended
the public schools of the district until 1886,
when he entered Manhattan College, and
was graduated in 1890, receiving the de
gree of A.B. He then became a partner in
the real estate business conducted by his
father. In 1902 he was elected to the State
Senate, and was appointed by Lieutenant-
Governor Higgins a member of the com
mittees on insurance arid military affairs.
He was renominated for State senator in
1904 and on his election was appointed by
Lieutenant-Governor Bruce a member of
the committees on insurance, forest, fish
and game, and military affairs. In the
latter part of 1905 he was appointed a
member of the special insurance investigat
ing committee. Mr. Riordan was elected
a member of the Fifty-sixth Congress from
the Eighth Congressional District in 1898;
was nominated to serve out the unexpired
term of Timothy D. Sullivan, resigned, in
the' Fifty-ninth Congress, and elected No
vember 6, 1906, and at the same election
Mr. Riordan was elected to the Sixtieth
Congress. Address : 8 Roosevelt Street,
New York City.

RIVES, George L,:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May I,
1849; son of Francis R. and Matilda (Bar
clay) Rives. He was graduated from Co
lumbia College as B.A. in 1868, and M.A.
in 1884; and from Columbia Law School,
as LL.B. in 1873. He served as assistant
secretary of State of the United States,
from 1887 to 1889; chairman of the Char
ter Revision Committee of the City of New
York, 1900; corporation counsel of New
York, in 1902 and 1903; director of the
Bank of New York, Lawyers' Mortgage
Company, Mortgage Bond Company, Mer
cantile Trust Company, United States Trust
Company, Lawyers' Title Insurance and
Trust Company; and was formerly and for
many years a member of the law firm of
Olin and Rives. He is a Democrat in poli
tics ; is a member of the Delta Psi frater
nity; trustee of Columbia University, Coop
er Union, New York Hospital, New York
Public Library, Burke Memorial Fund, and
he is also a member of the Century Asso
ciation and the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker,
Down Town, Columbia University, New
York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
and Tuxedo Clubs. He married, first, in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 21, 1873, Caro
lina Morris Kean, who died March 29,
1887; and second, March 20, 1889, Sara
Swan Whiting, and he has three children:
Barclay, born in 1874, Francis Bayard, born
in 1890, and Mildred Sara, born in 1893.
Address : 32 Nassau Street, New York City.
RIXEY, John Franklin:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Cul
pepper County, Virginia, August 1, 1854.
He was educated in the common schools,
Bethel Academy, and the University of Vir
ginia; is a lawyer and farmer. He was
Commonwealth's attorney for Culpepper
County twelve years ; was elected to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses,
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress from
the Eighth Virginia District. He is a
Democrat. Address, Brandy, Culpepper
County, Virginia.
RIXLEY, Presley Marlon:
Surgeon-General of the United States
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vinia, July 14, 1852; son of Presley More-
head Rixey and Mary F. (Jones) Rixey.
He received his early education in schools
in Culpeper and Warrenton. His family
was identified with the Confederate .cause
during the Civil War, which left it impov
erished, and it took effort and sacrifice' to
secure the excellent general and profes
sional education which led to his gradua
tion as M.D. from the University of Vir
ginia in 1873. Following his graduation
he attended clinics and hospitals in Phila
delphia until early in 1874, when he took
the examination before the Naval Exam
ining Board, and was commissioned assist
ant surgeon in the Navy January 28, 1874.
He was first assigned to duty with the re
ceiving ship Sabine, but soon transferred
to the Congress, and served on various
other vessels until April, 1896, when he
was assigned to special duty at Washing
ton. He became physician to the White
House in 1898, and accompanied the Presi
dent on all his journeys and was for this
reason in Buffalo when President McKin
ley was assassinated. He had been de
tailed by the President ..o accompany Mrs.
McKinley to the Milburn residence, so
that he was not immediately on hand when
the President was shot, but was promptly
summoned so that- he was present and as
sisted at the operation, and took official
charge of the case. He was promoted to
surgeon-general, with the rank of rear-ad
miral, February 5, 1902. He is a member
of the American Medical Association, the
Washington Medical Society and the Asso
ciation of Military Surgeons. On the oc
casion of an explosion on the Spanish
Caravel, Santa Maria, in the Harbor of
New York, in 1893, he rendered prompt
and generous assistance 10 the officers and
crew of the vessel, a courtesy which was
recognized by the King, who conferred
upon him the Order of Naval Merit. Ad
dress: 909 Sixteenth Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
ROACH, John B.:
Shipbuilder; born in New York City,
December 7, 1839; son of the famous ship
builder, John Roach. He was educated in

the Ashland Collegiate Institute, Green
County, New York. Mr. Roach began his
business life in a wholesale coffee estab
lishment, but later entered his father's of
fice, leaving it for a time on account of
feeble health to take charge of a large
farm owned by his father. The elder
Roach conducted an extensive engine build
ing business, and had developed an im
mense trade in the Etna Iron Works. He
purchased the Morgan Iron Works in 1867,
and took in his son as partner, the firm
name being John Roach and Son. A very
large shipbuilding business grew up under
the new firm, over one thousand hands
being employed. In 1871, when a large
shipyard was purchased at Chester, Penn
sylvania, the son, John B., was placed in
charge of this, which was run under the
title of the Delaware River Iron Ship
building and Engine Works. Here, at
times, more than two thousand hands were
employed, and a great shipbuilding plant
was developed under Mr. Roach's super
vision. Many large iron vessels were built
for the Pacific Mail, the Mallory and
various other steamship companies, and in
1883 the firm contracted to build the cruis
ers Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin,
the pioneer ships of the New American
Navy. A hostile Naval Board refused to
accept the Dolphin in 1885, on the plea
that the contract was not binding, the re
sult being the ruin of John Roach's busi
ness and his death. The company was
now reorganized by John B. Roach be
coming president of the Delaware River
Works, and vice-president of the Morgan
Iron Company, and the business has grown
to be very prosperous, many large vessels
having been built. Address : Chester,
Pennsylvania.
RO BINS, Alfred A.;
Merchant, miner ; born at Harvard, Mas
sachusetts, July, 1837; son of Dr. Augustus
Robbins and Julianna W. Robbins. He was
educated in the Brooklyn public schools and
by a private tutor. Since 1857, he has con
ducted a cracker and flour business ; and for
thirty-five years he has been a miner and
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candidate for Congress; one of the original
members of the Twenty-third Regiment of
the National Guard of New York; in which
he served in the Gettysburg campaign;
president of A.A. Robbins Mining Com
pany. In politics Mr. Robbins is a Re
publican, and in his religious faith a Pres
byterian. He has been a member of the
National Temperance Society since its or
ganization in 1866, and of the Board of
American Sabbath Union since 1898; was
for several years president of the Temper
ance Society of Dr. Cuyler's Lafayette
Avenue Presbyterian Church, and was
president of the Central Temperance Asso
ciation of Kings County for six years;
New York State Sabbath Association from
the date of its organization in 1890, and
for some years its president; president of
Kings County Sunday Observance Associa
tion, and member of various other benev
olent and philanthropic societies. He mar
ried in Brooklyn, New York, October 27,
1881, Anna Barnes. Address: 937 Kent
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
ROBERTS, Ernest W. :
Congressman and lawyer; born in East
Madison, Maine, November 22, 1858; was
educated in the public schools of Massa
chusetts and Highland Military Academy
of Worcester, Massachusetts; graduated at
Boston University Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in 1881, and has since
practiced law in Boston. He was a mem
ber of the City Council of Chelsea in 1887
and 1888; was fleeted a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives of
1894, 1895, and 1896; was elected a member
of the Massachusetts Senate of 1897 and
1898; and was elected to- the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Seventh Massachusetts
District. Mr. Roberts is a Republican in
politics. Address : Chelsea, Massachusetts.
ROBERTS, Foulke J.:
Capitalist. He is trust officer of the
Provident Life and Trust Company of
Philadelphia; director of the Mortgage
Trust Company of Pennsylvania, Fairmont

Park and Haddington Railroad, Tacoma
Land Company; trustee of the Women's
Medical College of Pennsylvania, and pres
ident of the Incorporated Trustees Month
ly Meeting of Friends. Address : Fourth
and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. ROBERTS, George H,, Jr.:
Postmaster of Brooklyn, New York ; born
in Rochester, New York, 1852; at the age
of ten he went with his family to St.
Louis, and he was educated there, until
fourteen years old, when he removed to
Brooklyn, New York; he was then edu
cated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
and one year at Dresden, Germany. In
1873 he entered the employ of Roberts and
Colin, flour merchants of New York City,
and later succeeded his uncle, George H.
Roberts, as a member of the firm. For
years he has been a member of the New
York Produce Exchange. He is also a
member and a trustee of the Emmanuel
Baptist Church, and a charter member of
the old Franklin Literary Society. He is
a Republican; was delegate to the St. Louis
and Philadelphia conventions which nomi
nated McKinley, who, before going on that
fatal trip to Buffalo, had promised, not
only on the score of party service, but also
on that of personal friendship, to appoint
Mr. Roberts to the postmastership. Ap
pointed by President Roosevelt, and his
nomination readily confirmed by the Sen
ate, in December, 1901. At that time he
was chairman of the Republican City Com
mittee of the Greater New York, a posi
tion which he resigned. He is a member
of the Union League (Brooklyn), Marine
and Field Clubs. He married, in 1878,
they have two children. Address : Post
Office, Brooklyn, New York.
ROBERTS, Henry:
Governor of Connecticut; born in Brook
lyn, New York, January 22, 1853; son of
George Roberts and Elvira (Evans)
Roberts. He received his education at the
Hartford High School, Yale College and
Yale and Columbia Law Schools. He was
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chairman of the Republican Committee
from 1897 to , 1901 ; State representative
from Hartford from 1899 to 1901 ; State
senator of the First Connecticut District
from 1901 to 1903 ; lieutenant-governor from
1903 to 1905 ; and governor of Connecticut
from 1905 to 1907. He is president of
the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Com
pany, and of the Hartford Bedstead Com
pany; also director of the Phoenix Na
tional Bank, the Hartford Trust Company,
the State Savings Bank, the Hartford
Electric Light Company, the Farmington
River Power Company, and the West Side
Medicine Company of New York; and is
trustee of the States Academy, of Winston,
North Carolina, and of the Young Men's
Christian Association Training School of
Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Roberts is
a member of the Hartford Scientific Society
and the Guild of Organists of New York
City and of Psi Upsilon Beta and Theta
Psi fraternities. In politics he is a Re
publican, and he is a member of the Con
gregational Church. He has traveled in
Europe and his favorite recreations are
golf and baseball. He is a member of the
Hartford Club, the Republican, Country,
and Hartford Golf Clubs, Sons of the Revo
lution, Society of Colonial Wars, New
England Society of New York, the Uni
versity Club, and the Hartford Yacht Club.
He married in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Oc
tober 4, 1880, Carrie' E. Smith, and their
children are John T., born in 1882, and
Edward C, born in 1889. Residence: 129
Lafayette Street, Hartford. Office address:
618 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut.
ROBERTSON, George:
Lawyer; born in Mahuska County, Iowa,
June 2, 1852, son of James Register Robert
son and Margaret (Barkley) Robertson.
He received his education in the common
schools of Iowa, Tennessee and Missouri,
and at Kirksville (Missouri) Normal
School. He was admitted to the bar in
1876; was city attorney of Mexico from
1877 to 1881; prosecuting attorney of Au
drain County by appointment of Governor
Monnaduke, in 1886; public actuary of the
same from 1880 to 1884; and in 1894 was

admitted to the United States Supreme
Court. Pie is an Independent Democrat in
politics and was chairman of the Demo
cratic County Convention of Audrain
County in 1906. He is a director and gen
eral manager of the North Missouri Trust
Company, and has been local attorney for
the Wabash Railroad for twenty years. His
favorite recreations are the study of his
tory and public questions and he occasional
ly prepares articles for publication and de
livers addresses on public questions, politi
cal or economic. He is a member of the
Missouri Bar Association, having been
president in 1900; a member of the Amer
ican Bar Association, and of the Mexico
Business Men's Association. He was a
delegate to the Universal Congress of Law
yers and Jurists, in 1904, at the World's
Fair, St. Louis. Mr. Robertson has been
non-resident lecturer at the State Univer
sity Law School on municipal corporations
for four years. He is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Colony for
Feeble Minded and Epileptics, a 'State In
stitution, and six years a member of the
Mexico Public School Board. He is a
Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, and
Shriner; member of the Benevolent Pro
tective Order of Elks, and a member of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution and
of the Tennessee Society of Missouri. He
is also a member of the Columbia and Mis
souri Automobile Club. He married in
Mexico, Missouri, September 3, 1879, Laura
Hines, and their children are: Madge,
born in -1882, and died in 1905, Pavid,
born in 1883, George, born in 1886, Laura,
born in 1889, and James Graham, born in
1891. Address : Mexico, Missouri.
ROBERTSON, Joseph L.:
Banker, broker, dealer in investments;
born in Montgomery County, Kentucky,
October 4, 1838; son of Benjamin and
Emily Robertson. His family was prom
inent among the early settlers of Kentucky
and Tennessee, and on the maternal side he
is a descendent of the Huguenot nobility of
France, his great-grandfather being the
Marquis de Calmes. He was educated in his
native town, -appointed to the Military Acad-

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emy at West Point by Hon. John C. Mason,
but his career as a cadet, was abruptly cut
short by the beginning of the Civil War,
when, true to his Southern origin, he en
tered the Confederate service. He was ac
tive in Company H., Fourth Kentucky Vol
unteers, becoming its first lieutenant, later
adjutant of regiment and subsequently as
sistant adjutant-general of the brigade com
manded by General John C. Breckinridge.
In 1863 he served on the staff of General
Hawes of Kentucky, in the Trans-Missis
sippi Department, afterward on staff of
General Waul, of Texas, and finally with
General Magruder, to whose command he
was attached until the close of the war.
After the war he identified himself with
Southern railroad interests, first with the
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, and
later with the Virginia and Tennessee Air
Line Railroads. He came to New York City
in 1877, and established himself as a broker
and dealer in investment securities. His
efforts were directed to the development of
the resources of the South, making a spe
cialty of the securities of Southern munici
palities, railroads, water works and indus
trial enterprises of the latter, notably the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, the
securities of which were brought to the at
tention of Northern capitalists and their in
terest was enlisted largely through his ef
forts. In 1886 he organized the firm of
Robertson & James, bankers and dealers in
investment securities, which firm financed
and constructed the Chattanooga Southern
Railroad. Mr. Robertson has recently ac
quired large interests in Santo Domingo,
and is now engaged in the* development of
his copper, gold and silver properties in that
country. He married, in 1869, Mary Webb
Pollard of Montgomery, Alabama, and they
have four children : William Pollard, Ben
jamin J., Mary Elizabeth and Clara Polard.
Address : 66 Broadway, New York City.
ROBERTSON, Morgan:
Author; born at Oswego, New York, Sep
tember 30, 1861 ; son of Andrew and Ruth
(Glassford) Robertson. He was educated
in the public schools and Cooper Union.
Mr. Robertson is author of: Spun Yarn;

Futility; A Tale of a Halo; Where Angels
Fear to Tread; Masters of Men; Ship
mates; Sinful Peck; -Down to the Sea;
Land Ho; Finnegan. He married, May
27, 1894, Alice M. Doyle. Address : 41 West
Twenty-fourth Street, New York City.
ROBERTSON, Samuel Matthews:
Congressman and educator; born in the
town of Plaquemine, Louisiana, January 1,
1852. He received his preparatory educa
tion in the Collegiate Institute of Baton
Rouge; was graduated from the Louisiana
State University in 1874 ; completed a course
of law study, and was admitted to practice
in 1877. He was elected a member of the
State Legislature from the Parish of East
Baton Rouge in 1879 for a term of four
years. In 1880 he was elected a member
of the faculty of the Louisiana State Uni
versity and Agricultural and Mechanical
College ; and filled the chair of natural his
tory in that institution and the position of
commandant of cadets until he was elected
to the Fiftieth Congress from the Sixth
Louisiana District, to fill the vacancy cre
ated by the death of his father, E. W. Rob
ertson. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1896,
and a member of the Committee on Reso
lutions; was an original Bryan man; was
elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fif
ty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, serving until March 3, 1907. Ad
dress : Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
ROBINSON, Douglas:
Capitalist; he was graduated- from Uni
versity of Oxford in 1876 ; president and di
rector of the Douglas Robinson, Charles S.
Brown and Company, and the Douglas
Land Company; trustee of the Atlantic Mu
tual Insurance Company, and the Real Es
tate Trust Company; director of the Amer
ican Insurance Company, Astor National
Bank, Realty Associates, and Stuyvesant
Real Estate Company. He is a member of
the University, Down Town, Church, Essex
County and Country Clubs. He married
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dren: Corinne D., Monroe D., and Stewart
D. Residence: 422 Madison Avenue. Ad
dress : 160 Broadway, New York City.
ROBINSON, Edward:
Museum official; born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, November 1, 1858; son of Edwin
A. Robinson and Ellen (Coburn) Robin
son. He was educated in the Boston Latin
School, was graduated from Harvard Uni
versity as A.B. in 1879; attended the Uni
versity of Berlin from 1883 to 1885; and
received from the University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, the degree of LL.D. in 1905. He
traveled and studied in Europe from 1881
to 1885, and at periods subsequently. He
was curator of classical antiquities of the
Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, from
1885 to 1902, director from 1902 to 1905;
lecturer on classical archaeology in Harvard
University in 1893 and 1894 and from 1898
to 1902; honorary professor of the Faculty
of Fine Arts, Columbia University, since
1906. He has been assistant director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City, since 1906; is vice-president of the
Archaeological Institute of America; mem
ber of the Council of the American Acad
emy of Arts and Sciences; and trustee of
the American Academy of Rome. He mar
ried in Boston, February 21, 1881, Eliza
beth, daughter of Samuel Gould, and they
have one son : Phillips Brooks, born at
Athens, Greece, February 3, 1882. Address :
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City. '
ROBINSON, John Kelly:
Manufacturer; born at Middlebury,
Ohio, 1842; son of John C. Rohinson and
Margaret Robinson. He was educated at
Akron, Ohio. He is a director of the
Ox Fibre Brush Company; director and
vice-president of the Butte County Rail
road; director and treasurer of The" Dia
mond Match Company; director and vice-
president of the National Coal Company.
He married at Middlebury, Ohio, 1868, Hen
rietta E. Barber, and they have four chil
dren : Margaret, Frances, John Kelly, Jr.,
and Eleanor. Address: Trinity Building,
in Broadway, New York City.

ROBINSON, Joseph Taylor:
Congressman and lawyer; born August
26, 1872. He was educated in the common
schools and the University of Arkansas,
and began the practice of law in 1895.
Mr. Robinson was elected to the General
Assembly of the State of Arkansas in
1894 and served in the session of 1895;
was nominated presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1896, but was retired
under the direction of the National Demo
cratic Committee when the fusion ticket
was formed in order to make room for the
fusionists; was presidential elector for
the Sixth Congressional District of Arkan
sas in 1900; and selected as electoral mes
senger, which duty was performed in Jan
uary, 1901. He was elected to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Sixth Arkansas District. In politics he is
a Democrat. He married, December 15,
1896, Ewilda Gertrude Miller. Address :
Lonoke, Arkansas.
ROBINSON, Lucien Moore:
Clergyman and professor; born in Hart
ford, Maine, January 3, 1858; son of Ben
jamin Franklin Robinson and Adelia Fitz-
alam (Moore) Robinson. He received his
preparatory education in Hebron Academy,
Maine, and Phillips Exeter Academy, gradu
ating in 1878. Graduated from Harvard
College as A.B. in 1882, and became a
member of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa; from
Haverford College he received the degree
A.M. in 1891 ; also the honorary degree
of D.D. from the University of the South
in 1904. He was master in the De Lancey
School, Philadelphia, for twenty years ;
and has been instructor and professor in
the Philadelphia Divinity School since 1891.
He has been for many years examining
chaplain in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Since its organization in 1891 he has been
a member of the faculty of the- Deaconess
House. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a member of the Episcopal Church.
Professor Robinson is a life member of
the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of the
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ciety, and a member of the Pennsylvania
Genealogical Society. He is trustee of the
Deaconess Home, Sumner, Maine, and
chairman of the Commission on Church
Work among the Blind. Dr. Robinson
was a contributor to the International Cy
clopedia; editor of Murray's Manual of
Mythology, and author of: Historical
Sketches of Sumner, Maine. He is a mem
ber of the Sons of the Revolution, the
Pennsylvania Colonial Society, Patrons of
Husbandry; and is a Mason; also a mem
ber of the Harvard Club of Pennsylvania.
Residence : 5000 Woodland Avenue, Phila
delphia. Summer residence : East Sumner,
Maine.ROBSON, James A.:
Lawyer; born in Gorham, Ontario
County, New York, January 1, 1861 ; son
of John Robson and Isabella (Telfar)
Robson. He was graduated from Canan
daigua Academy, from Yale as B.A. in
1873, and from Columbia as LL.B. in 1876.
On October 19, 1903, he was appointed
justice of the Supreme Court of the State
of New York; and he was elected Novem
ber, 1904, for the term expiring December
31, 1918. He was appointed associate
justice of the Appellate Division of the
Fourth Department, January 1, 1907. In
politics he is a Republican. He is trustee
of the Clifton Springs Sanitarium. Ad
dress : Canandaigua, New York.
ROCHE, James Jeffrey:
American consul, journalist; born at
Mountmellick, Queen's County, Ireland,
May 31, 1847; son of Edward Roche and
Margaret (Doyle) Roche. He removed in
infancy, with his parents, to Prince Edward
Island, where he was reared and educated,
taking the classical course at St. Dunstan's
College at Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, and in 1891 the degree of LL.D.
was conferred upon him by the University
of Notre Dame, Indiana. In 1866 he went
to Boston and engaged in business pur
suits there until 1883, when he became as
sistant editor of The Pilot, under the editor
ship of the late John Boyle O'Reilly, and
after his death in 1890 succeeded him as

editor. He occupied the editorial chair
until 1905, when he was appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt to his present position as
consul of the United States at Genoa, Italy.
Dr. Roche has been for the past quarter of
a century or more a constant and valued
contributor in prose and verse to periodical
literature, although most of his work first
appeared in The Pilot, on which he was a
faithful co-laborer and worthy successor of
the beloved and lamented O'Reilly in the
editorial chair. He is author of : Songs and
Satires, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, The
Story of the Filibusters, Ballads of Blue
Water, Her Majesty the King, By- Ways of
War, Sorrows' of Sap'ed. Dr. Roche is a
member of the St. Botolph, Papyrus and
Jury Clubs of Boston. Address : 6 Corso
Andrea Podesta, Genoa, Italy.
ROCKEFELLER, John Davison:
Capitalist; born in Richford, Tioga Coun
ty, New York, July 8, 1839 ; son of William
Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller.
He was educated in the public schools. He
went to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853 and in 1855
obtained employment in the commission
house of Hewett & Tuttle. In 1858 he be
came partner in commission firm of Clark
& Rockefeller; in 1862 became associated
with Samuel Andrews, an expert oil re
finer, and under firm name of Andrews,
Clarke & Company engaged extensively in
the oil business. William Rockefeller, a
brother, was admitted and a new company,
William Rockefeller & Company, was
formed, which, in 1865,' built at Cleveland
a large refinery, known as the Standard
Oil Refinery; later an eastern branch was
established at New York City with Henry
M. Flagler as an additional partner; in
1870 the several firms were combined as
the Standard Oil Company, with a capital
of $1,000,000, with John D. Rockefeller as
president; subsequently other organizations
were formed and eventually he had con
trol of nearly the entire oil business of the
country. He organized in 1882 the Stan
dard Oil Trust, but it was dissolved in
1892, and since then various companies have
been operated separately, but under identi
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1889

nave been large. In 1892 he founded and
endowed the University of Chicago, to
which he has since made many gifts, the
total aggregating nearly $15,000,000. To the
General Education Board, incorporated in
1903, he gave first $1,000,000, then in 1905,
$10,000,000, and in February, 1907, $32,-
000,000 for the purposes of education; has
given also $1,000,000 to Yale, large sums to
Vassar, Mount Holyoke and Barnard col
leges; endowed the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research in New York City,
and other institutions; and has been a
generous benefactor to Baptist institutions.
He is a member of the Fifth Avenue Bap
tist Church, New York City, and of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He is
also a member of the Union League Club.
He married in Cleveland, Ohio, September
8, 1864, Laura C. Spelman, and they had
four children: Bessie, born in 1866, mar
ried, in 1889, Professor Charles A. Strong,
and died in 1906; Alta, born in 1871 and
married E. Parmalee Prentice ; Edith, born
in 1872 and married, in 1895, Harold F. Mc
Cormick; and John D., Jr., born in 1874.
He has a large estate at Tarrytown, New
York and a home at Cleveland,. Ohio. Res
idence: 4 West Fifty-fourth Street. Ad
dress: 26 Broadway, New York City.
ROCKEFELLER, John Davison, Jr.:
Capitalist; born in Cleveland, Ohio, in
1874; son of John Davison and Laura C.
(Spelman) Rockefeller; he was graduated
from Brown University, A.B., in 1877. Since
leaving college associated with his father
m his business enterprises ; he is director of
various business -corporations. Baptist ;
teacher of large young men's class at Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.
He is a member of the General Education
Board; also a member of the University,
Alpha Delta Phi, City, Midday and City
Clubs. He married in Providence, Rhode
Island in 1901, Abby Greene Aldrich,
daughter of United States Senator Nelson
W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. They have
a daughter born in 1903, and a son, John D.
3d, born' in 1906. Residence: 13 West
Fifty-fourth Street. Address: 26 Broad
way, New York City.

ROCKEFELLER, William:
Capitalist; born in Richford, Tioga
County, New York, May 31, 1841 ; son of
William Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rocke
feller. He was educated in the schools
of Oswego, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio,
becoming a resident of the latter city in
1853. He began his business career as
bookkeeper and later was a partner of a
firm in the produce commission trade;
afterward became associated with the oil
firm of Andrews, Clark and Company (of
which his brother, John D. Rockefeller, was
a member), and subsequently a new firm
was formed under the name of -William
Rockefeller and Company, which built in
1865 the Standard Oil Refinery, and was
later reorganized as the Standard Oil Com
pany, and has ever since been connected
with that company, its successors and as
sociated interests. He is now president of
the Standard Oil Company of New York,
and officer and director in many other cor
porations. He is a member of- the Union
L eague, Metropolitan, Automobile of Amer
ica, Riding; Ardsley, New York Yacht, and
Jekyl Clubs. He married in Cleveland,
Ohioj in 1864, Almira Geraldine Goodsell,
and they have four children : Emma, born
in 1868 (wife of Dr. David Hunter McAl
pin) ; William G., born in 1870; Percy
Avery, born in 1878, and Ethel Geraldine,
born in .1882. Residence : 689 Fifth Avenue.
Avenue, New York City.'
ROCKEFELLER, William Goodsell:
Capitalist; born in New York City, in
1870; son of William and Almira G. (Good-
sell) Rockefeller; he was graduated from
Yale, A.B. in 1892. Since leaving college
he has associated with the Standard Oil
Company and its allied interests ; now treas
urer of the Standard Oil Company of New
York and director in various corporations.
He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan,
Apawamis Golf, Calumet, Riding, Knoll
wood, University, Alpha Delta Phi and the
Yale Clubs. Pie married in 1896, Elsie Still
man. Residence : 292 Madison Avenue. Ad
dress : 26 Broadway, New York City.

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ROCK HILL, William Woodville:
Diplomat; born in Philadelphia, in 1854;
son of Thomas Cadwalader Rockhill and
Dorothy Anna (Woodville) Rockhill. He
was educated in the schools of Paris
(France), and in 1884 began his diplomatic
career upon his appointment as second sec
retary of the American Legation at Peking.
He was appointed secretary of that lega
tion in 1885, and was charge d'affaires in
Korea from 1886 to 1887. He was occupied
with two journeys of exploration in China,
Mongolia and Thibet between 1888 and
1892, was chief clerk of the State Depart
ment of the United States 1893-94, was
third assistant secretary of State of the
United States in 1894-95, and in 1896 was
promoted to first assistant secretary of
State. In 1897 he was appointed en
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Greece,
Roumania and Servia, resigning that post
in May, 1899, and became director of the
Bureau of the American Republic from 1899
to 1905. He was appointed commissioner
of the United States to China in July, 1900,
and was plenipotentiary of the United States
to the Congress of Peking, February to
September, 1901, and in that capacity signed
the final protocol on September 7, 1901. In
1905 he resigned his position as director of
the Bureau of American Republics, upon
being appointed by President Roosevelt to
his present position as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to the Chinese Empire. Mr. Rock
hill is distinguished not only as a skilful
diplomat, but also for his thorough fa
miliarity with Oriental affairs, having trav
eled extensively in China, Mongolia and
Tibet, and is the author of several works
and some contributions to periodical litera
ture on Oriental travel, history and religion.
He married at Litchfield, Connecticut, in
April, 1900, Edith H. Perkins. Address :
American Legation, Peking, China.
ROCKWELL, Alfonso D.:
Physician ; born in New Canaan, Connec
ticut, May 18, 1840 ; son of David S. Rock-

was graduated from Kenyon College, Ohio,
as A.B. and from Bellevue Hospital Med
ical College, New York, as M.D. He is
author of works on medical and surgical
electricity, neurasthenia or nervous exhaus
tion and numerous monographs on electro
therapeutics and neurological subjects. He
is neurologist to the Flushing Hospital;
formerly professor of the New York Post-
Graduate Medical School and Hospital;
electro-therapeutist to the Woman's Hos
pital in the State of New York ; and during
the Civil War was surgeon of the Sixth
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He is a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
and of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Dr.
Rockwell married in New York City, 1868,
Susie Landon, and they have four children :
Harvey G., born in 1872, Charles Landon,
born in 1874, Alphonso D., Jr., born in 1876,
and Susie, now Mrs. Knowles, born in 1878.
Address : The Sydenham, 616 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
ROCKWELL, Henry Noyes£
New York State railroad commissioner;
born in Utica, New York, July 4, 1849 ; son
of Henry ,Wells and Margaret (Noyes)
Rockwell; he was graduated from Utica
Academy, New York. He was connected
with the New York Central Railroad from
1865 to 1905, as telegraph operator, super
intendent, chief clerk, train despatcher and
passenger train conductor. After a serv
ice of forty years with the New York Cen
tral Railroad, he was chosen from a list
of seventy-three applicants and appointed
by Governor Higgins. as State railroad
commissioner, to represent the railroad men
of the State of New York, December 4,
1905. He is an Episcopalian. His recre
ations are games of a social nature and out
door life. He married at Hyde Park, New
Jersey, November 12, 1870, Marion Stuart
Outwater ; they have three children : Effie
Margaret, Harry Wells, Marion Stuart. Ad
dress : 36 Saint Andrew's Place, Yonkers,
New York.
RODENBECK, Adolph J.:
Jurist ; he was graduated from Univer-

well and Betty (Comstock)' Rockwell- He sity of Rochester in 1885; law student, Ro-

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1891

Chester, New York, from 1885 to 1887;
he resided in New York City in 1887; in
Europe in 1888; practiced law Rochester,
New York, in 1888; second assistant city
attorney in 1892; first assistant from 1892
to 1894; State Assembly, Second District,
Monroe County, from 1899 to 1901 ; mayor
of the City of Rochester from 1902 to 1903 ;
judge Court of Claims, State of New York,
since 1903 ; chairman of the Board of Stat
utory Consolidation, State of New York, in
1904. Address : 728 Powers Building, Ro
chester, New York.
RODENBERG, William A.:
Congressman and lawyer; born near
Chester,' Randolph County, Illinois, Octo
ber 30, 1865. He was educated in the pub
lic schools, and was graduated from Cen
tral Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mis
souri, in 1884. He was engaged in the pro
fession of teaching for seven years; at
tended the St. Louis Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in 1890. He was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention in 1896, and in 1898 was elected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress from the Twenty-
first Illinois District, serving from 1899
to 1901 ; was appointed by President Mc
Kinley, March 25, 1901, a United States civil
service commissioner, and resigned April
1, 1902, in order to make the race for
Congress in the new Twenty-second Dis
trict of Illinois; and he was elected to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, in
which he is now serving. Address : East
St. Louis, Illinois.
RODGERS, James Linn:
Consular officer; born in Ohio. He was
appointed consul-general at Shanghai,
March 8, 1905; appointed consul-general at
Habana, April 15, 1907. Address : Habana,
Cuba.
RODGERS, Luther Ormand:
Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South ; born in Paris, Texas, Janu
ary 20, 1882; son of James B. Rodgers and
E. Jane (Ormand) Rodgers. He received
his preparatory education in the Wall
School in 1899 and 1900, and in 1902 and

1903 attended Central College. He re
ceived the highest honor for work as a
minister in the literature of his Church,
among two hundred twenty-five ministers
of his Conference in 1904. He has had a
record of three and three-fifths members
per Sabbath in full membership, since en
tering the ministry. In politics he is a
Democrat. Mr. Rodgers is a member of
the Woodmen of the World, and of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He
married in Sebree, Texas, June 7, 1905,
Mae Eleanor Johnson, and they have one
daughter, Alma Lois, born in 1906. Ad
dress : Boulder, Montana.
RODGERS, Raymond P.:
Captain, United States Navy; born in
the District of Columbia; son of the late
Rear-Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, one of the
most distinguished officers in the navy. He
entered the Naval Academy, July 25, 1864;
graduated, 1868; served on the Guerriere,
flagship, Southern Atlantic Fleet, 1868-9.
Promoted to ensign, 1869 ; Franklin, flag
ship, European Fleet, 1869-71 ; Juniata,
same fleet, 1871-72. Promoted to master,
1870; commissioned as lieutenant, 1872;
Plymouth, 1872-3; Naval Academy, 1873-6;
Pensacola, flagship, Pacific Fleet, 1876-9;
Naval Academy, 1879-82; Tennessee, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1882-84 ; Bureau of Navi
gation, 1884; chief intelligence officer,
1885-89; Chicago, Squadron of Evolution,
Chicago, 1889-92. Promoted to lieutenant-
commander, July, 1894; Naval Attache
Paris, St. Petersburg and Madrid, Octo
ber, 1892-97 ; battleship Iowa, June, 1897, to
1899; took part in the blockade of Cuba
and the engagements off San Juan and
Santiago, and in the battle of the third of
July, 1898. Commander, March 3, 1899;
advanced five numbers for meritorious
service in the battle of third of July off
Santiago ; commanding Nashville, 1899-1900,
in Cuba, Philippines and in China; aid to
the Admiral of the Navy, and member of
General Board, 1901 ; Navy Yard, New
York, 1901 to 1904, with North Atlantic
Fleet, 1904 and 1905. Promoted to cap
tain, March 21, 1903. Chief intelligence of-

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ficer, April 6, 1906. Address : Navy De
partment, Washington, D. C.
ROEBLING, Ferdinand W. :
Capitalist; born in Saxonburgh, Butler
County, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1842;
son of John A. and Johanna (Herting)
Roebling. He was educated at Polytechnic
College, Philadelphia. He is president- and
director of the Trenton Brass and Machine
Company, Union Mills Paper Manufactur
ing Company ; secretary and director of
John A. Roebling's Sons Company of New
York; treasurer and director of the New
Jersey Wire Cloth Company; director of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of
the United States, Interstate Railways Com
pany, Mechanics' National Bank (Trenton,
New Jersey) , Mercer County Traction Com
pany, Otis Elevator Company, Public Serv
ice Corporation, Standard Fire Insurance
Company, Trenton Flint and Spar Company,
Trenton Potteries Company, Trenton Street
Railway Company, Wilkes-Barre and Wy
oming Traction Company, Rochester, Syra
cuse and Eastern Railroad, United - Power
and Transportation Company, Trenton
Transportation Company, Trenton, Hamil
ton and Ewing Traction Company. He mar
ried in Trenton, New Jersey, March 14,
1867, Margaret G. Allison. Residence:
Trenton, New Jersey. Address: 117 Liberty
Street, New York City.
ROENITZ, Frank L.:
Leather manufacturer ; born in Sheboy
gan, Wisconsin, June 30, 1856; son of
Charles T. Roenitz and Magdaline (Maas)
Roenitz. He received his education in the
Sheboygan High School, entered his father's
tannery as apprentice in 1873, and received
an interest in the business in 1881, when the
firm became C. T. Roenitz & Son. The
business was incorporated in 1891 as the
C. T. Roenitz Leather Company, and was
sold in 1899 to the American Hide &
Leather Company, of which he is third vice-
president, the company's headquarters be
ing in Chicago. Mr. Roenitz married in
Sheboygan, October 25, 1881, Miss Plath,
and they have three daughters. Address :
225 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.

ROGERS, Clarence De Witt:
Lawyer; born in New York City, May
26, 1871 ; son of Robert Rogers and Cor
nelia M. Rogers. He was graduated from
the College of the City of New York as B.
S. in 1890, and from Columbia Law School
as LL.B. in 1893. He was admitted to the
bar in 1893, and has been practicing in New
York City since 1893. He is a member of
the firm of Holden and Rogers ; secretary
and director of the De Witt Wire Cloth
Company, and the Voegtlin Company. Mr.
Rogers is a Republican in politics, a member
of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and Phi
Beta Kappa Society, the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, Kane Lodge
of Masons, and the Hardware Club. He
married at Peekskill, New York, September
2, 1896, Florence R. Catlin. Residence : New
Rochelle, New York. Address: 141 Broad
way, New York City.
ROGERS, Eustace B.:
Paymaster-general, United States Navy.
He entered the United States Navy, ap
pointed from California to the Pay Corps,
March 3, 1879. He served successfully
through the various grades until commis
sioned pay director, March 13, 1905, and
from that, November 1, 1906, to paymaster-
general United States Navy, and chief of
the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, with
the rank of rear-admiral. Pay-Director
Rogers was not an applicant for the office
of paymaster-general of the Navy, and his
appointment came as a surprise. There
were other applicants of strong influence,
one of them backed by the Legislature of
his State, and it was generally believed that
one or the other of these would be ap
pointed. The appointment of Pay-Director
Rogers, therefore, had a good influence on
the morale of the service, inspiring con
fidence and belief that good work would
be the criterion of advancement. The ap
pointment of Pay-Director Rogers to this
important office has been fully justified by
his record of efficiency in administration.
Address : Bureau of Supplies and Ac
counts, Navy Department, Washington,
D. C.

MEN OF AMERICA.

1893

ROGERS, G. Tracy:
President, Binghamton Railway Com
pany; born in Chenango Forks, New York,
July 9, 1854; removed to Binghamton in
' 1861 and was graduated from Binghamton
High School. He began business life with
the First National Bank of Binghamton for
eight years; in 1889 became identified with
the street railway company of Binghamton
by purchase of the Washington Street Asy
lum and Park Railroad; and not long af
terwards acquired additional existing street
railway companies, which were merged in
to the Binghamton Street Railroad Com
pany, of which he was elected president.
In 1894 he purchased all the remaining
street railroads of the city and merged
them into a new corporation known as the
Binghamton Railway Company, of • which
he has since been president. He was pres
ident of the Street Railway Association,
State of New York, from 1893 to 1903 ; also
identified with many other business inter
ests; president of the Endicott. Land Com
pany of Endicott, New York, engaged in
developing a new industrial village in close
proximity to Binghamton; president of the
Binghamton Industrial Exposition of Bing
hamton; president of the Rutland Railway
Light and Power Company of Rutland,
Vermont, Elmira, Corning and Waverly
Railway Company, Waverly, Sayre and
Athens Traction Company, Waverly Elec
tric -Light and Power Company ; Southern
Tier Land Company; director of Hudson
and Manhattan Railroad 'Company and ot
Binghamton Trust Company. He is a mem
ber of the New York Athletic, Lawyers' and
Engineers' Clubs of New York City, of Buf
falo Club of Buffalo and of Binghamton,
Binghamton Press, Dobson and Bingham
ton Country Clubs of Binghamton. Ad
dress : Binghamton, New York.
ROGERS, Henry Wade:
Professor of law, Yale University since
1900; born in Holland Patent, New York,
October 10, 1853. He was educated at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michi
gan, from which he was graduated in 1874,
and received, the degrees of A.M. and LL.D.

from Wesleyan University. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1877; professor in
Michigan University Law School in 1883;
dean from 1885 to 1890; was president of
Northwestern University, Evanston-Chi-
cago, Illinois, from 1890 to 1900; dean of
Yale Law School since 1903. He is author
of a treatise on expert testimony. Dr.
Rogers is a memoer of the Graduates' Club.
He married, in 1876, Emma Ferdon
Winner. Address : New Haven, Connecti
cut. ROGERS, Homer:
Manufacturer and banker. He is presi
dent and director of the Monsam Manu
facturing Company, National Fibre Board
Company, and the National Market Bank
of Brighton; vice-president and trustee of
the Home Savings Bank, and director of
the Leatheroid Manufacturing Company,
and the Middlesex Paper Company. Ad
dress : 194 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts.ROGERS, John Henry:
United States judge; born in Bertie
County, North Carolina, October 9, 1845;
son of Absolom and Harriet Rogers. His
early education was received in the local
schools, and in 1862, he enlisted as a pri
vate in the Ninth Mississippi Infantry Regi
ment in the Confederate States Army, of
which he became first lieutenant, serving
until the surrender. After the war he en
tered the University of Mississippi, from
which he was graduated in 1868. He taught
School for a year, was admitted to the Mis
sissippi bar, and in 1869 he located in the
practice of law at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
He was elected a circuit judge of the State
of Arkansas, serving from 1877 to 1882.
He was elected to the Forty-eighth Con
gress in 1882 and was reelected to the
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con
gresses ; was chairman of the Arkansas
delegation to the National Democratic Con
vention at Chicago in 1892, and in 1896 was
appointed by President Cleveland to his
present office as United States district judge
for the Western District of Arkansas. The
degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Judge

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MEN OP AMERICA.

Rogers in 1895 by Centre College, Dan
ville, Kentucky. Address : Fort Smith, Ar
kansas. ROGERS, William Arthur:
Iron manufacturer; born at Berkshire,
New York, September 8, 185 1; son of
Melancthon Rogers and Mary Elizabeth
(Leonard) Rogers. He' was graduated
from Yale, Scientific Department, as Ph.B.
in 1874. Mr. Rogers is senior member of
the firm of Rogers, Brown and Company,
president of the Buffalo and' Susquehanna
Iron Company, Tonawanda Iron and Steel
Company, Punxsutawney Iron Company,
Rogers Iron Mining Company, Niagara
Iron Mining Company and Munro Iron
Mining Company ; vice-president of the Iro
quois Iron Company; director of the Cleve
land Furnace Company; vice-president of
the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, vice-
president of the Buffalo and Susquehanna
Steamship Company; trustee of the Erie
County Savings Bank, and the Young Men's
Christian Association of Buffalo. He is
also a member of the Buffalo, University,
Country and Ellicott Clubs of Buffalo, and
the Century Club of New York City. He
married in New Haven, Connecticut, 1884,
Eleanor Root Silliman, and they have three
children : William S., Alice Leonard, and
Alden. Address: 309 North Street, Buf
falo, New York.
ROLFE, William James:
Author; born at Newburyport, Massa
chusetts, December 10, 1827. Pie was edu
cated at the Lowell High School and Am
herst College. Followed the profession of
teaching from 1852 to 1868. He is the
author of: Shakespeare the Boy; The Ele
mentary Study of English; The Satchel
Guide to Europe, and others ; and edited :
Students' Series of Standard Poems ; A
Series of English Classics; complete edi
tions of Shakespeare, Scott and Tennyson,
with notes ; Life of Shakespeare (for the
Twentieth Century edition of Shakespeare;
also published separately) ; and (in collabo
ration with J. H. Hanson) Handbook of
Latin Poetry; and, with J. A. Gillet, The
Cambridge Physics. He married, in 1856,

Eliza J. Carew, of Dorchester, Massachu
setts ; they have three sons. Address : Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
ROLLINS, Edward A.:
Banker, stock broker; born in New York
City, April 16, 1845; son of Gustavus A.
Rollins and Isabella G. (Fanshaw) Rol
lins. He was educated in private schools.
He is a member of the firm of Rollins and
Company. Mr. Rollins has membership in
the Society of Cincinnati, the Society of
Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and
the Montauk Club. He married in New
York, March 9, 1873, Jessie Christie, and
they have six children; Jessie, Gustavus E.,
Warren F., Grace M., Adolph C, and Flor
ence. Address : 754 Carrol Street, Brook
lyn, New York.
ROLLINS, Jordan Jackson:
Lawyer; born in Portland, Maine, De
cember 20, 1869; son of Franklin J. and
Arabella C. (Jordan) Rollins. He was grad
uated from Dartmouth College as A.B. in
1892, and from Harvard Law School. He
came to New York City> and studied law
with Hon. Daniel G. Rollins, was admitted
to the bar in November, 1894, and formed
the partnership of Rollins and Rollins, coun
sel for various financial and other corpora
tions. He is director of the Acker, Mer
rill and Condit Company, the Casualty Com
pany of America, McDonald Electrolytic
Company, New York City Interborough
Railway Company, and Windsor Trust
Company; secretary of the New York Law
Institute. Mr. Rollins is a Republican in
politics. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
and of the American Yacht, Seawanhaka-
Corinthian Yacht, University, Harvard.
Manhattan, Racquet and Tennis, New York
Athletic, Union League, Liederkranz, Rock-
away Hunting, Psi Ups;'on 'nd Dart
mouth Clubs of New York C;^\ Res1'
lence: 2 East Forty-fifth Strpet. Address'
12 Nassau Street, New York City.
ROOK, Charles Alexander:
Journalist; born in Pittsburgh, Penn
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1895

der W. Rook and Harriett L. (Beck)
Rook. He was educated in the Ayers
Latin School, Schmidt Academy and West
ern University of Pennsylvania. He en
tered the office of the Pittsburg Dispatch
in 1880, became secretary of The Dispatch
Publishing Company- in 1888, treasurer in
1896, and since 1902 has been president,
editor-in-chief and manager. Mr. Rook
is a Republican in National politics, but
Independent in city, county and State poli
tics. He was endorsed by every labor
union in Pittsburg, in 1905, for mayor of
the city, but declined the nomination on
account of great business pressure. In 1907
Mr Brook was urged to become a candi
date for one of the most important offices
in the Pennsylvania State Government, but,
as in the case of the mayoralty, was com
pelled to decline the honor. He was ap
pointed, February 14, 1907, on the mili
tary staff of Edwin S. Stuart, governor
of Pennsylvania, with the rank of lieu
tenant-colonel. He is an Episcopalian in
his church relations, and is a member of
the Duquesne, Union and Country Clubs
of Pittsburgh. He married in Pittsburgh,
September 9, 1884, Anna B. Wilson, and
they have three children: Helen Emma,
Charles Alexander, Jr., and Florence
Anna. Residence : Ellsworth and Aiken
Avenues, Pittsburgh. Office address : The
Dispatch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore:
President of the United States ; born in
New York City, October 27, 1858; son of
Theodore R'oosevelt ¦ (merchant and phi
lanthropist) and Martha (Bulloch) Roose
velt. He prepared for college under a tu
tor; was graduated from Harvard as A.B,.
in 1880, and received the degree of LL.D.
from Columbia in 1889, from Hope College,
Holland, Michigan, in 1901, from Yale in
1901, from Harvard in 1902, from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in 1905 and from
Clark University in 1905. He was elected
in 1881, and reelected in 1882 and 1883,
member of the New York Assembly; in
the session of 1883 (in which the Demo
crats had a majority), he. was a candidate
for the speakership; and in the session qi

1884 was chairman of Committee on Cities,
and of the special committee which in
vestigated abuses in the conduct of the
government of New York City. In 1884
Mr. Roosevelt was delegate to New York
State Republican Convention, and later in
the same year delegate-at-large, and chair
man of the New York delegation to the
National Republican Convention at Chicago.
He supported Senator Edmunds for the
presidential nomination, but when Blaine
was nominated, entered actively into the
campaign in his behalf. He bought a ranch
in North Dakota and lived on it for two
years, studying the Far West and its people
thoroughly and becoming an adept as ranch
man and hunter. He returned to New York
City in 1886, and was made Republican
nominee for mayor, but was defeated by
Abram S. Hewitt; was appointed member
of the United States Civil Service Commis
sion in 1889, and served as its president, but
resigned that office in 1895 to accept the
presidency of the Police Commission under
the administration of Mayor Strong, which
office he held until April 5, 1897, when he
was appointed by President McKinley as
sistant secretary of the Navy. When war
with Spain was declared he resigned his
position in the Navy Department and with
Dr. Leonard Wood, an army surgeon, or
ganized the First Regiment of United States
Volunteer Cavalry, recruited from the
ranches of the West and popularly known
as the Rough1 Riders, Surgeon Wood, be
cause of his superior tactical knowledge,
becoming colonel and Mr. Roosevelt lieuten
ant-colonel. The regiment went to the
front, to Cuba, and participated in the fight
ing in front of Santiago de Cuba, and Mr.
Roosevelt was promoted to the colonelcy
of the regiment for gallantry at Las Guasi
mas. At the close of the war he returned
with his regiment to Montauk Point, where
he was mustered out of service; and short
ly afterward was nominated for, and in No
vember, 1898, was elected, governor of New
York; in 1900 he was nominated for vice-
president of the United States by the Re
publican National Convention at Philadel
phia, and elected, and entered on the duties

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MEN OF AMERICA.

of that office March 4, 1901 ; on the death
of President McKinley, September 14, 1901,
he was sworn in as President. In the Na
tional Convention in 1904, Mr. Roosevelt
was nominated for President, and in the
November election was elected by a plur
ality of the popular vote of 2,512,417, and a
majority of 1,692,142, for the term begin
ning March 4, 1905, and expiring March 4,
1909. His administration has been marked
by the inauguration of great works of pub
lic improvement, notably the Panama Canal ;
by measures for the orderly government and
advancement of the people of our insular
possessions, by the prosecution of faithless
officials, the curbing of law-breaking cor
porations, the making of laws for proper
inspection of the packing and meat-dressing
industries, the prevention of frauds and im
purities in food products and other salu
tary measures inaugurated in response to
the President's initiative. In foreign pol
icy Mr. Roosevelt has taken the part of a
peacemaker, and through his initiative Rus
sia and Japan, by the treaty of Portsmouth,
were brought to the conclusion of an hon
orable peace, in recognition of which the
Board of Directors of the Nobel Institute
of Stockholm conferred upon him, in 1906,
the Nobel Peace Prize. Although for twen
ty-five years past almost continuously oc
cupied with the public service he has earned
distinction also in the profession of letters.
He is author of : History of the Naval War
of 1812, 1882; Hunting Trips of a Ranch
man, 1885; Life of Thomas Hart Benton,
1886; ancTLife of Gouverneur 'Morris, 1887
(in the American Statesman series) ;
Ranch Life and Hunting Trail, 1888; The
Winning of the West, 1889, 1896; History
of New York (in Historic Towns series),
1890 ; The Wilderness Hunter, 1891 ; Es
says on Practical Politics, 1892; American
Ideals and Other Essays, 1897; The Rough
Riders, 1899; Life of Oliver Cromwell,
1900; The Strenuous Life, 1900. A com
plete edition of his works to that time was
published in six volumes in 1902. He also
collaborated in writing The Deer Family,
published by Macmillan in 1902. Mr. Roose
velt has married twice ; first, in 1880, Alice

Lee, who died in 1884, leaving one daugh
ter, Alice, who married in 1906, Hon.
Nicholas Longworth. Mr. Roosevelt mar
ried, second, in 1886, Edith Kermit Carow,
and they have five children : Theodore, Jr.,
Kermit, Ethel, Archie and Quentin. Sum
mer residence: Oyster Bay, Long Island,
New York. Address: The White House,
Washington, D. C.
ROOSEVELT, W. Emlen:
Banker; born in New York City, April
30, 1857; son of James A. and Elizabeth
Norris (Emlen) Roosevelt. He was edu
cated in private schools in America and
by tutors in Europe. He was sixteen years
in service in the National Guard of the
State of New York, with rank of major.
He is a partner in the firm of Roosevelt
and Son, and a triistee of the Roosevelt
Hospital, New York Dispensary, and New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, Century, Rid
ing, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, City,
Down Town (New York City), and Met
ropolitan (Washington) Clubs. He mar
ried in Ursino, New Jersey, October 4, 1883,
Christine Griffin Kean. Address : 804 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
ROOT, Charles Gardiner:
Corporation official; born at Remsen,
New York, September 27, 1845. He re
ceived preparatory education at Phillips
Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and
graduated from Northwestern University
as Ph.B. in 1869. He was a principal of
public schools in California from 1869 to
1871 ; and since then has been in commer
cial pursuits. Vice-president and general
manager of Adamant Manufacturing Com
pany of America, Syracuse, New York.
Vice-president and treasurer of Ohio Ada
mant Company, Cleveland, Ohio; chairman
of Auditing Committee, Fort Dodge Plaster
Company, Fort Dodge, Iowa; president
and treasurer of Adamant Manufacturing
Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota; vice-
president of Adamant Manufacturing Com
pany, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; manager of
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and insurance and credit departments, and
member of the Executive Committee of the
United States Gypsum Company, Chicago,
Illinois. He married Mrs. D. B. Colclazer,
of Indianapolis, Indiana, January 15, 1880,
and their children are : Helen Mary Col
clazer (step-daughter), Richard Weir Gar
diner Root, born October 28, 1882. Resi
dence : Corner Park Avenue and Third
Street, Hinsdale (suburb of Chicago), Illi
nois. ROOT, Elihu:
Secretary of State ; born in Clinton, New
York, February 15, 1845; in 1864 was grad
uated from Hamilton College, where his
father was professor of mathematics. Af
ter graduation from the University Law
School in the City of New York in 1867
he was admitted to the bar and engaged in
active practice of his profession in New
York City ; in a few years he became prom
inent both as p. lawyer and as a leader of
the reform element of the Republican Par
ty; he has held the office of president of
the New England Association, of the Union
League Club, of the Republican Club, and
of the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York. Devoting himself closely to his
chosen work, he rapidly acquired an exten
sive practice, particularly in corporation
cases, being the counsel in many of the
most famous in the annals of New York
City. Few lawyers of to-day have so re
markable a record of success in cases en
trusted to their -care; he was leading coun
sel in the celebrated contest growing out
of the will of the late A. T. Stewart,
through the schemes of alleged Irish
heirs; he was counsel in the Broad
way surface railroad litigation, the Sugar
Trust contest, the Aqueduct litigation, and,
in one of the most sensational cases of
modern tim'es, he successfully defended
Robert Ray Hamilton in the suit brought
about through the machinations of the no
torious Emma Mann; while serving as a
United States district-attorney he con
victed Joseph D. Fish, president of the
Marine Bank, of criminal complicity in con
nection with the celebrated Grant-Ward
frauds. He participated with much distinc

tion as chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee and leader on the floor of the Republican
majority during the Constitutional Conven
tion of New York in 1894. His practice as
a lawyer was characterized by constant
work in the preparation of cases, and the
wonderful power of concentration which
enabled him to penetrate quickly to the
marrow of the subject under investigation;
his arguments seldom failed to carry a
comprehensive understanding and clear con
viction to those whom he has from time to
time been called upon to address; so" force
ful was his analysis and exposure of muni
cipal corruption in the famous address de
livered at Cooper Union during the Presi
dential campaign in 1892 that, at the time,
the boldness of his assault astonished his
hearers, but in the light of the Lexow ex
posures, following the Parkhurst agitation,
his arraignment of evil-doers was complete
ly justified. Subsequent to the close of the
Spanish-American War, the condition of
affairs demanded that the office of secretary
of war should be filled by a lawyer of great
administrative ability and one in the full
possession of his mental and physical pow
ers ; the duties of the office were most in
tricate and complicated, and called for phys
ical self-sacrifice that few men are able to
give to the work; no secretary of war since
the day of Edwin M. Stanton has had any
thing like the difficulties to adjust, the op
position to overcome and the new systems
to inaugurate. Called suddenly from his
legal profession in the City of New York,
Mr. Root found himself confronted with
the task of placing an army of 70,000 men
in the Philippine Islands to put down an
insurrection attended with almost universal
sympathy, if not the active support of the
inhabitants of those islands; communica
tion was difficult and treachery, suspicion
and assassination confronted the troops at
every step. While called upon to conduct
affairs with great firmness,' the secretary
of war constantly held in view the neces
sity for carrying conviction to the minds of
the inhabitants of all those islands that
the American Army was not there for the
purpose of exploitation, and that having re-

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ceived the territory from the Spanish gov
ernment, the great duty devolved upon the
United States of providing a proper gov
ernment which would convey to the Philip
pine people some idea of the benefits to be
derived from living under our flag. In the
midst of this great work the secretary was,
early in his official career, compelled t©
take up the great burden of sending the
Chinese Expedition to rescue our minister
and his household. This expedition was con
ducted under instructions prepared by the
secretary of war; many of the most im
portant questions arising during that try
ing period were left to his decision; that
American interests were well protected and
that our country emerged from the very
complicated situation with every cause for
self-satisfaction is a matter of history. To
the untiring and painstaking efforts of Mr.
Root is greatly due the establishment of
civil government in Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, and the success of stable
government far beyond just expectation in
the island of Cuba. The solution by Mr.
Root of thousands of intricate legal ques
tions, involving to a great extent our Na
tional honor, in the adjustment of civil and
military affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands stands without parallel;
in the midst of this vast work he was
called upon to reorganize the Army, to
change our staff system and to build up a
system of education and training for the
Army which will long stand as a monument
to his masterly ability. He resigned from
the Cabinet of President Roosevelt in 1904,
and resumed the practice of his profession.
Secretary Root has received the LL.D. de
gree from Hamilton, 1894; Yale, 1900; Co
lumbia, 1904; New York University, 1904;
Williams, 1905 ; Princeton, 1906 ; and Har
vard, 1907. He was a member of Alaska
Boundary Tribunal which sat in London
in September and October, 1903, and set
tled the disputed boundary between Alaska
and Canada. In 1905 he was appointed
Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Presi
dent Roosevelt. He married in New York
City, January 8, 1878, Clara, daughter of
Samuel H. Wales. Residence : 733 Park

Avenue. Official address : Department of
State, Washington, D. C.
ROOT, Oren, Jr.:
Street railroad manager; born in Co
lumbia, Missouri, June 20, 1873; son of
Oren and Ida (Gorfion) Root. He was
graduated from Hamilton College, A.B.,
(Phi Beta Kappa) in 1894. He has been
engaged in active management of railroads
since leaving college, and at the age of
thirty in active charge of the surface lines
of New York City. He is now vice-presi
dent, general manager and director of the
New York City Railway Company; direc
tor of the Metropolitan Securities Com
pany; president and director of the Jerome
Park Railroad Company, Second Avenue
Railroad Company, Broadway and Seventh
Avenue Railroad Company, Central Park,
North and East River Railway Company,
Forty-second Street and Grand Street Fer
ry Railroad Company, Central Crosstown
Railway Company; general manager and
director of the Forty-second Street, Man-
hattanville and Saint Nicholas Avenue Rail
way Company. He is a member of the Uni
versity and Suburban Clubs. Address:
621 Broadway, New York City.
ROOT, Robert K.:
Banker; born in Buffalo, New York,
June 2, 1866; son of Robert Keating (was
adopted by grandfather, Francis H. Root)
and Caroline W. Root. He is director and
member of the Executive Committee of the
Bank of Buffalo ; director of the Manu
facturers' and Traders' National Bank,
Market Bank; trustee of the Fidelity Trust
Company, Commonwealth Trust Company;
director of the Ellicott Square Company-
of Buffalo. He is a Republican; also a
member of the Buffalo, Saturn, Country
(president), Union, The Strollers' (New
York City) Clubs. He married at Buffalo,
in 1888, Emily J. Davis. Address: 650
Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
ROOTS, Logan Herbert :
Missionary Bishop of Hankow; born in
Perry County, Illinois, July 27, 1870, son of /
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Roots. He was graduated at Harvard Col
lege with the degree of B.A. in 1891 and
going thence to the Episcopal Theological
School at Cambridge, studied for the min
istry and took the degree of B.D. in 1896.
He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church by the Bishop of Massachusetts in
1896 and two years later was ordained
priest by the Bishop of Shanghai. Fol
lowing this, he was for several years mis
sionary in China, and in 1904 was made
Bishop of Hankow, being consecrated by
Bishops Graves, McKim, McVickar, Law
rence, Partridge and Vinton. Bishop Roots
was married at Hankow, China, April 17,
1902, to Eliza Lydia McCook. Address :
Hankow, China.
ROSE, John B.:
Manufacturer; born in Haverstraw, New
York, April 14, 1875; son of John Clark
Rose and Martha (Bailey) Rose. He was
graduated from Yale as Ph.B. in 1897, and
attended New York Law School in 1898.
From the age of twelve he worked at his
father's brick manufacturing plant in sum
mer vacations, learning the business ; and
on his father's death, he succeeded to the
principal ownership of the Rose Brick Com
pany, of Roseton, New York, and soon af
ter became president, treasurer and general
manager of that company, which position
he still holds. He is also president of the
John B. Rose Company, brick brokers ; vice-
president of the Bartlett Brick Company;
vice-president of the Toledo Computing
Scale Company. He is treasurer of the As
sociation of Brick Manufacturers; and di
rector of the Association of Dealers in
Masons' Building Material. In politics he
is a Republican, and he was a presidential
elector in 1904. He is a member of the
Hudson River Lodge and Highland Chapter
of Masons, Hudson River Commandery,
Knights Templar, New York Consistory
and Mecca' Temple (Mystic Shrine). He
is a member of the Newburgh Boating
Association, Brookside Grange, Lawson
Hose, Newburgh, New York, Pavonia
Grange Patrons of Husbandry; captain in
the National Guard of the State of New
Y,ork; member. of the Board of Managers

of St. Luke's Hospital at Newburgh, New
York, and trustee of the Masonic Hall
Association, Newburgh, N,ew York. His
favorite recreations are motoring and motor
boating. He is a member of the Union
League, Yale, Republican, Transportation
and Columbia Yacht Clubs of New York
City, the Crescent Athletic Club of Brook
lyn, the Newburgh City and Powelton Clubs
of Newburgh, the Fort Orange Club of Al
bany, the Haverstraw Club of Haverstraw,
New York, and the Roseton Club of Rose-
ton, New York. Mr. Rose married in
Newburgh, New York, • October 5, 1898,
Maude Moir Barclay, and they have one
son, John Barclay, born September 21,
1899. Address : 640 West Fifty-second
Street, New York City.
ROSENFELD, Sydney:
Dramatist; born in Richmond, Virginia,
October 26, 1855. He received his educa
tion in 'the schools of Richmond and New
York City, engaged in journalism and was
for some time editor of Puck until he be
came a writer of plays in which profes
sion he has taken a leading place in Amer
ica, being author of many successes. Ad
dress : 308 West Ninety-fifth Street, New
York City.
ROSENTHAL, Herman:
Author, editor, librarian; born in Fried-
richstadt, Russia, October 6, 1843. He was
educated at Bauske and Jacobstadt; trans
lated from the Russian Nekrassos's poems;
published collection of poems, Gedichte,
1870 ;. served in the Red Cross Society in
the Russo-Turkish War, receiving the so
ciety's medal for distinguished service,
1877 and 1878; master printer in Smela,
government of Kiev, and in the city of
Kiev until 1881. He produced a humorous
story Die Wunderliche Kur, in 1872; as
sistant in founding the Zarya (Dawn), a
daily paper appearing at Kiev, 1878 ; cor
responding member of St. Petersburg So
ciety for the Promotion of Culture among
the Russian Jews; sailed for the United
States in 1881. He established agricultural
colonies for Russian Jewish immigrants in
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1882; took part in the Woodbine Colony,
1891 ; engaged in the book trade in 1887
and 1888; was chief statistician of the
Edison General Electric Company from
1888 to 1891 ; was sent by the Great North
ern Railroad Company to investigate the
economic conditions and trade of China,
Korea and Japan, 1892. Mr. Rosenthal
was elected secretary of the German-
American Reform Union, New York City,
and a member of the Press Bureau of the
Committee of Seventy. He was chief of
the Discharging Department of the Immi
gration Bureau on' Ellis Island, New York,
from 1894 to 1896, and has been chief of
the Slavonic Department of the New York
Public Library since 1896. He joined the
Editorial Board of the Jewish Encyclope
dia as chief of the Russian Department in
December, 1900; was prominently con
nected with the development of the Has-
kalah in Russia; contributed, from 1859
to 1867, to the Hamelitz and other He
brew periodicals, and corresponded with
Reifmann, Leon Gordon, Zweifel, Zeder-
baum, and Fuenn. In the United States
he edited and published the Hebrew month
ly, Ha Modia La-Hadasim, 1901 ; founded
the Society of Ohole Shem, of which he
is president; translated into German verse,
Ecclesiastes, 1895, and the Song of Songs,
1893; translated from the German, Hugo
Ganz's Land of Riddles, 1904. He is au
thor of Spatherbstnebel, 1906; also Das
Neue Russland, a series of articles on
Russia in the New York Staats-Zeitung ;
and he is editor of the Year Book, pub
lished by the Verband Deutscher Schrift-
steller in Amerika. Address : Astor Li
brary, 425 Lafayette Street, " New York
City.
ROSEWATER, Victor:
Editor of the Omaha Bee, Omaha, Ne
braska; born in Omaha, February 13
1871 ; son of the late Edward Rosewater.
He was educated at Johns Plopkins and
Columbia Universities, Ph.B., 1891, A.M.,
1892; university fellow from 1892 to 1893,
Ph.D., 1893 ; Regent University bf Ne
braska from 1896 to 1897; special lec
turer on municipal finance at the University

of Wisconsin in 1904. He was a delegate
to the Civic Federation National Confer
ence on Taxation in 1901 ; also a member
of the Civic Federation General Committee
on Taxation; and of the Republican City,
County and State Committees; Omaha
Public Library Board, 1894-1905 ; and mem
ber of the American Economic Association,
American Library Association, and the Ne
braska Historical Society. His publications
comprise: Laissez-faire, in Palgrave's Dic
tionary of Political Economy; Special As
sessments, a Study in Municipal Finance;
Omaha, in Times Supplement Encyclo
pedia Britannica; Omaha, in Historic
Towns of the West. He is a member of
the Omaha and the Sons of Omaha Clubs.
He married in 1904, Katie Katz of Balti
more, and they have one daughter. Ad
dress : Omaha, Nebraska.
ROSS, Albert Randolph:
Architect; born at Westfield, Massachu
setts, October 26, 1868; son of John Wes
ley Ross and Clara Louise (Scarlett) Ross.
He was educated in the public schools;
studied sculpture at the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art Schools ; studied architecture
in the offices of McKim, Mead and White,
and in Greece, Italy and France. He was
the architect of the Carnegie Library at
Washington, D. C. ; Union County Court
House, Elizabeth, New Jersey; the public
libraries of Columbus, Ohio, Denver, Colo
rado, and many others. He is a member
of the Architectural League, the National
Sculpture Society, the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion, and the Arts Club. He
married in Brookline, Massachusetts, Octo
ber 30, 1901, Susan Chadwick Husted. Ad
dress : 16 East Forty-second Street, New
York City.
ROSS, Erskine Mayo:
United States circuit judge; born at Bell
Pre, Culpepper County, Virginia, June 30,
1845; son of William Buckner and Eliza
beth (Mayo) Ross. After graduation from
the Virginia Military Institute in "1865 he
studied law, went to California and was
admitted to the bar of that State in 1869.
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fornia. He became a justice of the
Supreme Court of California in 1869 and
held that office until appointed by Pres
ident Cleveland in 1886 to the office of
United States judge for the Southern Dis
trict of California, serving as district judge
until his appointment by President Cleve
land, February 22, 1895; United States
judge for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Ross
is a Democrat in politics. He married in
Los Angeles, May 7, 1874, Inez H. Bettis.
Address : Los Angeles, California.
ROSSITER, Clinton L.:
Capitalist. He is first vice-president and
trustee of the Long Island Loan and Trust
Company; vice-president and director of
the Albany and Hudson .Railroad Com
pany; treasurer and director of the Toluca
Electric Light and Power Company, and of
the Sultepec Electric Light and Power Com-
-pany ; director of the Pacific Fire Insurance
Company, Potosina Electric Company, Ros-
siter, MacGovern and Company; Suffolk
Traction Company, and director and vice-
president of the Bank of Suffolk County,
Residence: 48 Montgomery Place. Ad
dress: 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, New
York. ROSSITER, Van Wyck:
Banker; born in Brooklyn, New York,
May 12, 1871; son of William Wickes and
Emma (Richmond) Rossiter. He was
educated in the Brooklyn Polytechnic In
stitute. Mr. Rossiter is president and di
rector of the Rockland County Trust Com
pany, Nyack, New York; director and ex-
president of Rossiter, "McGovern and Com
pany, New York City; proprietor of Greg
ory and Sherman (lumber merchants), Ny
ack; and president of the Braeburn Asso
ciation (real estate), Nyack. He is a mem
ber of the American Scenic Historic Pres
ervation Society ; vice-president of the Pali
sades Stony Point Driveway Association,
and of the New York, Nyack Country, and
Tappan Zee Yacht Clubs. He married at
Livermore, California, October, 1895, Mabel
Fuller, and they have four children : Rich
mond, born in 1898, Ruth Mabel, born in
1899, Van Wyck, born in i9°i. and Mar
ti

garet, born in 1902. Address : Nyack-on-
Hudson, New York.
ROTCH, Abbott Lawrence:
Professor of meteorology at Harvard
University ; born in Boston, January 6, 1861.
He was graduated at Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology in Boston S.B. 1884 ; A.
M. (Harvard) honoris causa, in 1891. Mr.
Rotch has traveled extensively for scien
tific purposes. He was a juror for instru
ments of precision at the Universal Expo
sition at Paris, in 1889; established in 1885
and has since maintained Blue Hill Meteor
ological Observatory near Boston, noted for
its investigations of the upper air by means
of cloud observations and the earliest self-
recording instruments lifted by kites; ob
tained first meteorological records with kites
over the Atlantic Ocean, and with balloons
at great heights in America. He is librarian
of the American Academy of Arts and Sci
ences and Trustee of several educational in
stitutions of Boston. For ten years he
was associate editor of the American Me
teorological Journal ; is corresponding mem
ber of the British Association for the Ad
vancement of Science ; German Meteor
ological Society, and German Society for
Promoting Aeronautics ; honorary member
of the French Alpine Club, etc. Chevalier
Legion of Honor; Prussian Orders of
Crown and Red Eagle. His publications
are : Observations made at the Blue Hill
Observatory, in Annals of Harvard Col
lege Observatory; Sounding the Ocean of
Air (Romance of Science Series) in 1900;
and numerous articles in scientific jour
nals. His recreations are mountain climb
ing, tennis and cycling. He is a member
of Royal Societies of London, St. Botolph,
Somerset of Boston; University and Cen
tury Clubs of New York, Cosmos, Wash
ington. Address : 235 Commonwealth Ave
nue, Boston; Blue Hill Observatory, Hyde
Park, Massachusetts.
ROTCH, Thomas Morgan:
Physician and surgeon ; born in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, December 9, 1849;
son of Rodman Rotch and Helen (Mor
gan) Rotch. His ancestor in the genera-

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tion, five removes, was Thomas Macy, who
married Deborah Coffin. Mr. Rotch was
graduated from Harvard as A.B. in 1870,
and M.D. in 1874. He was medical house
officer of Massachusetts General Hospital
in 1873 and 1874 \ studied in the Universities
of Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg in 1875
and 1876; was physician to the Boston Dis
pensary in 1876; visiting physician to
Channing Home for Consumptives from
1878; clinical lecturer on diseases qi chil
dren in Harvard Medical School from 1878
to 1885; and lecturer from 1885 to 1888;
assistant professor of diseases of children
from 1888 to 1893 and full professor since
1893, the title being changed J-o professor of
pedriatics in 1903. He is secretary of the
Suffolk District Medical Society ; served as
visiting physician of Boston City Hospital
for ten years, when he was made consulting
physician and surgeon. He was made cen
sor of the -Suffolk District Medical Society
and councilor of the Massachusetts Med
ical Society. He has served as president
of the American Pedriatic Society since
1891 and of the Suffolk District Medical-
Society since 1902. The Thomas Morgan
Rotch, Jr., Hospital for Infants was found
ed by friends of Dr. Rotch in memory of
his son and he served the institution from
its foundation as visiting physician. He
has been largely instrumental in establishing
milk laboratories both in America and Eu
rope and he was made consulting physician
to the St. Francis Hospital for Infants in
London in 1903. He is author of: Pedi
atrics, the Hygienic and Medical Treatment
of Children, used in Plarvard and other
medical schools as a text-book. He was
married June 4, 1874, to Helen, daughter
of William J. and Emily (Morgan) Rotch
of New Bedford and their only child,
Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., died, March
13, 1902. Residence : 197 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
ROTH, Frederick G. R.:
Sculptor; born in Brooklyn, New York,
April 28, 1872 ; son of Johannis and Jane
Grey (Beau) Roth; studied art at Arid-
emy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, from-

1893 to 1895, Academy of Fine Arts, Ber
lin, Germany, from 1895 to 1897. He is an
academician of the National Academy of
Design; member of the National Sculpture
Society, and Architectural League of New
York. He is also a member of the Salma
gundi Club. He married in New York
City, April, 1905, Madeleine E. G. Foster.
Address : Salmagundi Club, New York
City.ROTHERMEL, Peter F., Jr.:
Jurist; born in Philadelphia, September
27, 1850; son of the renowned painter of
the same name, the producer of the cele
brated Battle of Gettysburg, and other fa
mous paintings. Mr. Rothermel was edu
cated both in Philadelphia and abroad, his
father's art studies takirg him to several
countries of Europe. He was graduated
n 1867 from the Central High School and
studied law under James T. Mitchell, since
then a justice of the Pennsylvania Su
preme Court. Mr. -Rothermel's career at
the bar was very successful, and he became
in time the counsel for many of the larg
est business houses and corporations ;
among the former is that of John Wana
maker, which he has represented in the
courts for many years. In 1884 his name
was strongly urged for the office of city
solicitor, but he withdrew in favor of
Charles F. Warwick; he subsequently de
clined proffers of candidacy for office until
1898, when he was nominated and elected to
the office of district attorney, a responsible
position, which he filled with a very meri
torious independence of party demands.
address : 2013 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.ROTHROCK, Joseph Trimble:
Former commissioner of forestry ; born
April 9, 1839, at McVeytown, Mifflin Coun
ty, Pennsylvania; son of Dr. Abraham and
Phebe B. Rothrock. He was educated at
Academia, Juniata County, and at Freeland
Seminary (now Ursinus College), Mont
gomery County, Pennsylvania ; was grad
uated with degree of B.S. at Harvard Uni
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M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania,
1868. He enlisted, August ; 7, 1862, as a
private in Company D, One Hundred and
Thirty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Infan
try, for nine months; was severely wounded
in thigh at the battle of Fredericksburg in
December, 1862; commissioned captain of
Company E, Twentieth Pennsylvania Cav
alry, serving for six months,; and in 1865-
1866 was exploring in British Columbia.
He practiced medicine in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, from 1870 to 1873, when he
was made surgeon to the Wheeler Explor
ing Expedition, United States Engineers,
operating west of the One Hundredth meri
dian, serving until 1875, in Colorado, Ari
zona, New Mexico and California. In 1876
he established a camp for physical culture
for boys ; was elected to the chair of botany
in the University of . Pennsylvania, 1877.
In- 1896 he was made general secretary of
the - Pennsylvania Forestry Association,
which, position he still holds ; was made
commissioner of forestry in the Department
of Agriculture in 1897, and the head of a
division in the new department. In 1901
he was made head of State Department of
Forestry, and resigned that position on
June 1, 1904. He has served under four
successive governors as commissioner of
forestry, and has established a consumptive
camp on South Mountain, in Franklin
County, also the Mountain Side Sanatorium
for Consumptives. He is a, writer on sci
entific subjects. Republican in politics. Dr.
Rothrock is a member of the Pennsylvania
Commandery of Military .Order of the Loyal
Legion. He married, May 27, 1869, Martha
E. May. Address: 428 North Church
Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
EOWE, Basil W. :
Express official ; treasurer, trustee and
member of the Board oi Managers of Ad
ams Express Company; vice-president and
director of Adams Land and Building. Com
pany; treasurer and director of Adams Ve
hicle Company; president .and. director of
Hollywood Hotel and. Cottage Company;
director of Dunlap's Express Company;
Morris European and American Express

Company, Limited, Standard Trust Com
pany, of New York. Mr. Rowe is a mem
ber of the Ohio Society of New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, American
Museum of Natural History,, and of the
New York Club and Automobile Club of
America. Residence: 47 East Fifty-eighth
Street. Address : 59 Broadway, New York
City.ROWE, Peter Trimble:
Bishop of Alaska; born in Canada in
1856. He was educated at Trinity Col
lege, Toronto, Canada, graduating from
the academic course with the degree of B.
A. and later taking that of M.A. He re
ceived in 1895 an honorary degree of D.D.
from Hobart College and from his alma
mater. He. was ordained deacon of the
Church of England in Canada, later be
coming priest and, in 1878, was missionary
at Garden River, Ontario, Canada. In
1887 he accepted the rectorate of St. James'
Church in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan,
remaining here until his advancement to
the episcopate. He became Bishop of Alas
ka in 1895, being consecrated by Bishops
Doane, Potter and Davis. Bishop Rowe
was married June 5, 1882, to Dora H. Carry.
Address : Sitka, Alaska.
ROWELL, John W. :
Chief judge of Vermont Supreme Court;
born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, June
9, 1835. He was educated in the common
schools and at West Randolph (Vermont)
Academy, read law and was admitted to
the bar of Orange County, Vermont, in
1858, and engaged in practice at Randolph.
He served • as State's attorney for Orange
County in 1862 and 1863; represented the
town of Randolph in the House of Repre
sentatives of Vermont in 1861 and 1862,
and member of the Vermont Senate from
Orange County, in 1874. He was elected
reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court in 1872, and held the office by con
tinuous reelections and appointment until
December, 1880, when he declined another
appointment. He -was appointed sixth as
sociate judge of trie Supreme Court by

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Governor Farnham, receiving his commis
sion January II, 1882; was elected' fifth
associate judge in 1884, and promoted to
fourth associate judge by Governor Dil
lingham; elected second associate judge
in 1890 and on the death of Judge Russell
S. Taft, March 22, 1902, was appointed
. chief judge. The University of Vermont
conferred upon Judge Rowell the degree
of LL.D. in 1893, He married, August 1,
1858, Mary L. Wheeler. Address: Ran
dolph, Vermont.
ROWLAND, Eugene A.
Lawyer; born at Boonville, New York,
February 29, 1864; son of Samuel S. and
Alice J. (Barton) Rowland. He was grad
uated from Rome Academy in 1880, and
Madison (now Colgate) University, A.B.,
1884, and later A.M. He practiced law
at Rome, New York, from 1887 to 1907.
United States commissioner of the North
ern District of New York since 1890; pres
ident of the Rome Board of Charity, 1905 ;
president of the Rome Republican Club,
1906; director of the Rome and Clinton
Railroad Company, Church Insurance As
sociation of Rochester, New York, Central
New York Institution for Deaf Mutes,
1907. He is a Republican in politics, and
a Baptist in his religious views. He is
a member of the New York State Bar As
sociation, Oneida County Bar Association,
Association Bar of the City of New York;
trustee of Colgate University since 1903 ;
member of the Sons of the American Revo
lution, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the
University Club of New York, Rome
Club of Rome, New York, Teugega Golf
Club. He married at Rome, New York,
April 8, 1896, Jeanie M. Barton, and they
have one daughter, Dorothy Barton, born
in 1897. Residence : 304 North George
Street, Rome, New York. Address : Far
mers' National Bank Building, Rome, New
York. ROWLEY, Richard:
Clergyman. He was educated at St.
Paul's Missionary College, Burgh, England,
1894; Queen's Theological College, New

foundland, 1897, and was graduated as ' M.
A. in 1900, and received the honorary de
gree of D.D. in 1903 from the Northern
Illinois College. He was ordered deacon
and priest in 1898 by Bishop Nichol
son. He was formerly priest in charge of
Trinity Church, Wheaton, Illinois, and is
now rector of St. Paul's-by-the-Lake, Rog
ers Park, Chicago. Address : Rogers Park,
Chicago, Illinois.
RCBLEE, William Alvah:
Consul-general; born at Madison, Wis
consin, in 1861 ; after a thorough prepara
tion in the best Wisconsin schools he en
tered Harvard University, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1883, and after
leaving college engaged in newspaper work.
He was appointed United States Consul to
Prague, Bohemia, in 1890, serving there
until 1894, then became editorial writer on
the Daily Sentinel, at Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin, until 1901, when he was appointed con
sul-general of the United States to Hong
Kong, China. He was transferred to Ha
vana, Cuba, in 1902, and in 1903 to his
present post as consul-general of the United
States at Vienna. Address : American Con
sulate, Vienna, Austria.
RUCKER, William Waller:
Congressman and lawyer; born near
Covington, Virginia, February 1, 1855;
son of William P. Rucker and Margaret
A. (Scott) Rucker. At the beginning of
the war he moved with his parents to
West Virginia, in which State he attended
the common schools, and in 1873 removed
to Chariton County, Missouri, where he
taught school until 1875, studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was
elected prosecuting attorney of Chariton
County in 1886 and served until 1892, when
he was elected circuit judge of the Twelfth
Judicial Circuit, serving until 1899. He
was elected in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Con
gress from the Second Missouri District,
has since been biennially reelected, and is
now serving in the Sixtieth Congress. He
is a Democrat in politics. He was married
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Fannie Applegate. Address : Keytesville,
Missouri.
RUCKSTUHL, Frederick Wellington:
Sculptor; born in Breitenbach, Alsace,
France, May 22, 1853; son of John Ruck-
stuhl and Jeannette (Steeb) Ruckstuhl.
He was educated in the public schools of
St. Louis and the art schools of Paris.
Mr. Ruckstuhl has executed many notable
works in sculpture, among which is the
marble figure, Evening, in the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, New York ; the
colossal granite heads of Franklin, Goethe
and Macaulayon the facade and the heroic
bronze statue of Solon in the interior of the
Library of Congress in Washington ; eques
trian statue of General Hartranft on the
Capitol Hill at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ;
the idealized heroic statues of Wisdom and
Force in marble at the entrance of the Ap
pellate Court Building of New York City;
equestrian statue of General Wade Hamp
ton, at Columbia, South Carolina; Confed
erate monuments at Baltimore and Little
Rock, heroic marble statue of John C. Cal
houn in Statuary Hall, Washington, and
many others. Mr. Ruckstuhl has traveled
extensively and studied in Europe, Egypt,
and in Greece. He received honorable
mention in the Paris Salon of 1888, and a
grand medal from the World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago. He is a Collectivist in
his political views. Mr. Ruckstuhl is a mem
ber of the National Institute of Arts and
Letters, the National Sculpture Society,
Municipal Art Society, the Architectural
League of New York, and the Lambs and
National Art Clubs. He married Adelaide
Pohlman, and they have a son, born in
1902. Address : The Arts Club, Gramercy
Park, New York City.
RUE, Levi L.:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, i860; son
of Francis J. Rue and Mary E. Rue. He is
president and director of the Philadelphia
National Bank. Address: 423 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RUICK, Samuel Kenley:
Lawyer; born at .Lagrange, Indiana,
April 18, 1877, He 'received his prepara
tory education in the Howe Military

School at Lima, Indiana, from which he
was graduated in 1894. He was graduated
from DePauw University at Greencastle,
Indiana, as A.B. in 1897, from Yale with
the same degree in 1898, and from the
Indiana Law School in 1899. In the latter
year he was admitted to the Indiana bar,
and he has since been engaged in the prac
tice of law at Indianapolis. Mr. Ruick is
a Republican in politics, and was elected
to the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of
Indiana, from Marion County. He is prom
inently identified with the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, of which he is secretary, gen
eral counsel and librarian. Address : 55-56
Lombard Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
RUMRILL, James Augustus:
Financier; born in New York, April 8,
1837; son of James Bliss Rumrill and Re
becca (Pierce) Rumrill. He was prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
New Hampshire, was graduated from Har
vard College, A.B. 1859; studied and trav
eled in Europe, 1859 and i860; studied law
at Harvard in 1861 and was admitted to the
bar the same year, beginning practice in
Springfield. He studied Roman law in
Berlin in 1862, and in 1865 was appointed
attorney of the Western Railroad Com
pany, and of the Boston and Albany Rail
road, becoming vice-president of the latter
road in 1880 and serving up to 1893, and as
director during his active business life. He
is president of the Chopin National Bank
of Springfield; of the Ware River Railroad
Company; of the Pittsfield and North Ad
ams Railroad, and of the Passumpsic Rail
road Company. He is vice-president of the
Hampton Savings Bank and director of sev
eral local railroads in Western Massachu
setts. He served for several years as an
alderipan of Springfield; and is president
of the Springfield Club ; clerk of the Uni
tarian Society, and president of the Spring
field Literary Association. He was mar
ried May 22, 1861, to Anna, daughter of
Chester W. Chapin, and their children are :
Rebecca, Anna and Chester Chapin Rumrill,
bom in 1876 (Harvard 1897). Addresses:
Springfield, Massachusetts, and New Lon
don, Connecticut.

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RUNYON, Walter Clark:
Iron manufacturer; born in Chicago, Illi
nois, April 9, 1857; son of Clark and Laura
J. (Wheelock) Runyon. He started in busi
ness in Chicago with the Union Rolling
Mill Company, September 26, 1871 ; was
elected secretary of same in 1879, resigried
in 1881 to join Runyon, Stubbs and Com
pany; in 1886 moved to Cleveland, Ohio,
to engage in iron ore business, and organ
ized the firm of Runyon, Stubbs and Mack;
in 1894, engaged in blast furnace business
and organized The Struthers Furnace Com
pany; in 1901, removed to New York City;
has traveled in Europe since 1901, although
still actively engaged in business. He is
president of The Struthers Furnace Com
pany, and Struthers Coal and Coke Com
pany; senior partner of Runyon, Fairbank
and Company. He is a Republican and a
member of the American Society" of Min
ing Engineers. His recreation is auto
mobiling. He is a member of the Lotos and
Saint Andrew's Golf Clubs. He mar
ried, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Septem
ber 23, 1902, Berenice Gardner Agnew; he
has three children by previous marriage:
Walter Clark, born in 1885; Robert Ed
ward, born in 1889; and Mrs. William F.
Hart, born in 1881. Address : Hotel Marie
Antoinette, New York City.
RUSCHENBERGER, Charles Wister:
Naval officer; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, September 24, 1847; son of
W. S. W. Ruschenberger, Medical Direc
tor, United States Navy and of Mary
Baynton (Wister) Ruschenberger. He
was educated in private schools in Phila
delphia, the Boston Latin School, and the
United States Naval Academy, and he
served in the Navy from July 23, 1864, to
July 31, 1895, and has commanded the
State Naval Militia of Pennsylvania since
April 24, 1900. He is a Republican in
politics and an Episcopalian in religion.
He is a member of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania, Naval Academy Alumni
Association, Navy Athletic Association,
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, Naval Order of the United'

States and Military Order of the Foreign
Wars. He married at Strafford, Chester
County, Pennsylvania, December 18,- 1888,
Katharine Wentworth. Address : Strafford,
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
RUSSELL, Charles Edward:
Author; born in Davenport, .Iowa, Sep
tember 25, i860; son of Edward Russell
and Lydia (Rutledge) Russell. He re
ceived his education in the Davenport
High School and the St. Johnsbury (Ver
mont) Academy. He began work on his
father's newspaper, the Davenport Daily
Gazette, and was subsequently night editor
of the Minneapolis' Tribune,, managing
editor of the Minneapolis Journal ; man
aging editor of the Detroit Tribune; re
porter on the New York Herald; assist
ant city editor of the New York World,
managing editor of the New York Ameri
can, and publisher of the Chicago Ameri
can. He travelled all through Europe and
around the world, for Everybody's Maga
zine. Mr. Russell is author of: Such
Stuff as Dreams (verse), 1902; The Twin
Immortalities (verse), 1904; The Greatest
Trust in the World, 1905 ; The Uprising
of the Many, 1907. Mr. Russell is a mem
ber of the Authors Club of New York.
He is a Socialist by conviction, but is not
aligned with any political party. He mar
ried at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, March 12,
1884, Abbie Osborne Rust, who died Jan
uary 12, 1901, and he has one son; John
Edward Russell. Address : Windermere
Hotel, New York City.
RUSSELL, Gordon:
Congressman; born of Georgia parents,
in Huntsville, Alabama, at the home of his
maternal grandfather, Judge James H.
Gordon; is eldest son of Henry A. Rus
sell and Mary Gordon Russell. He was
educated at the Sam Bailey Institute,
Griffin, Georgia, and the Crawford High
School, Dalton, Georgia, and, after a two
years' course at the University of Georgia,
received from that institution the degree
of A.B. ; was a member of the Phi Delta
Theta Greek letter fraternity and of the
Phi Kappa Debating Society; was chosen

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1907

anniversary orator of the Phi Kappa So
ciety, and was also elected to represent
that society in the annual debating con
test with its college rival, the Demosthen-
ian. He taught school at Dalton, Georgia,
and during that time read law and was ad
mitted to the bar by the superior court for
Whitfield County; removed to Texas in
the latter part of 1879 and located in Van
Zandt County; removed to Tyler, Smith
County, in 1895.; was elected' county judge
of Van Zandt County in 1884, and at the
end of one term voluntarily relinquished
that office to resume the practice of his pro
fession. In 1892 he was elected district
attorney of the Seventh Judicial District
of Texas, composed of the counties of
'Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, and
Wood; was reelected to that office without
any opposition. He was nominated as the
Democratic candidate in the new Third
Congressional district for the Fifty-eighth
Congress in August, 1902, and upon the
death of Hon. R. C. De Graffenreid was
elected to fill out the remainder of his
term in the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
Congresses. He was reelected to the Fifty-
ninth and , Sixtieth Congresses. Address :
Tyler, Texas.
RUSSELL, Harry Luman:
Professor of agriculture; born at Poy-
nette, Wisconsin, March 12, 1866; son of
E. Fred Russell and Lucinda E. (Waldron)
Russell. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in, 1888, as B.S., M.
S. in 1890, from Johns Hopkins Univer
sity as Ph.D. in 1892. He was assistant
professor of bacteriology at the University
of Wisconsin, 1893 ; professor of bacteriol
ogy in 1896; director of the State Hygienic
Laboratory, in 1903 ; dean of the College
of Agriculture and director of the Wiscon
sin Experimental Station since 1907. He
is a Republican in politics and a Presbyter
ian in religion. Dr. Russell is a member
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, the Society of Am
erican Bacteriologists,, Washington Acad
emy of Science, and the American Public
Health 'Association; president of the Ad
visory Board of the State Tuberculosis

Sanatorium, trustee of the Poynette Pres
byterian Academy, member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society and Sigma Xi fraternities,
and of the University Club of Madison.
He married at Poynette, December 20,
1893, H. May Russell, and they have two
children : Gertrude, born in 1895, and Eldon,
born in 1900. Address : Madison, Wiscon
sin. RUSSELL, Horace:
Jurist; born in Bombay, New York, June
19, 1843 ; son of Charles and Hannah
(Wright) Russell. He waS graduated from
Dartmouth College, A.B. in 1865, LL.D.
in 1893; Harvard Law School, LL.B. in
1867. He engaged in the practice of law
in New York City in 1867; was appointed
assistant district attorney of New York
County in 1873; judge advocate-general of
New York from 1879 to 1882; judge of the
Superior Court of New York from 1880
to 1883. He is a Republican. He was
receiver for the West Shore T<ailway Com
pany from 1884 to 1886; general counsel
for the Stewart Estate from 1880 to 1889.
He is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, Law In
stitute, Metropolitan Museum of Art; mem--
ber and ex-president of the New England
Society, and president of the Metropolitan
Golf Association. He is a member of the
Union League, University, Metropolitan,
Republican, Garden City Golf, and Shin
necock Golf Clubs. He married, February
26, 1878, Josephine Hilton, and they have
three daughters. Residence : 47 Park Ave
nue. Address : 280 Broadway, New York,
City.
RUSSELL, Joseph Ballister:
Merchant ; born in Boston, October 24,
1852; son of Charles Theodore Russell and
Sarah E. (Ballister) Russell. He .received
his education in public and private schools
in Boston and Cambridge. He is president
and director of the West End Street Rail
way Company; vice-president and director
of the State Street Trust Company ; treasur
er and director of the Boston Wharf Com
pany; director of the Boston Consolidated
Gas Company, Boston Steamship Company,

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Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Company,
Cambridge Trust Company, Conveyancers
Title Insurance Company, Fitchburg Rail
road Company, National Shawmut Bank;
trustee Lovejoy's Wharf Trust, Massachu
setts Gas Companies, New England Coal
and Coke Company, New England Gas and
Coke Company and of Quincy Market Real
Estate Trust. In politics he is a Demo
crat, and in religion an Episcopalian. He
is director of the Boston Merchants Asso
ciation and of the Boston Real Estate and
Auction Board; trustee of Mount Auburn
Cemetery Corporation and of Cambridge
Hospital; is a member of the Somerset,
Union, Exchange, New Riding, Papyrus,
and Commercial Clubs of the Boston City
Club of Boston, of the Country Club of
Brookline, Massachusetts, Oakley Country
Club of Watertown, Massachusetts, and of
the Strollers' Club of New York City. Mr.
Russell married in Wilmington, Delaware,
May 20, 1880, Lilian Hillyard Tenney, and
they have five children : Charles Theodore,
born in 1881, Sarah E., born in 1883, Joseph
B., Jr., born in 1885, Junia K, born in
1887, and Otis T., bOrn in 1889. Resi
dence : 69 Sparks Street, Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts. Address: 114 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
RUSSELL, Robert Howard:
Publisher, editor; born in Stratford, Con
necticut in 1866; son of Robert H. and
Mary E. Russell. He is the author of many
articles and a book of travel in the East,
and publisher of C. D. Gibson's, Frederic
Remington's and many other artists' draw
ings and of fine art books generally. He
is publisher and editor, also president of
The Metropolitan Magazine Company and
proprietor of the business of R. H. Rus
sell, Publisher. He is a member of the
Union, Racquet and Tennis, The Brook,
and Turf and Field Clubs of New York
City; The National and Princes (London)
Clubs. Address: 3 West Twenty-ninth
Street, New York City.
RUSSELL, William W, :
Diplomat ; born in Washington, D. C. ; ap
pointed secretary of the legation at Caracas,

November 15, 1895 ; appointed secretary of
the legation at Panama City, February 5,
1904; charge d'affaires ad interim from
February 13, 1904; appointed envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Columbia, March 17, 1904; envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Venezuela, June 21, 1905. Address: Cara
cas, Venezuela.
RUTTER, Charles Alfred:
Mechanical engineer and solicitor of
patents ; born in Philadelphia, October 30,
1857; son of Clement Stacker Rutter, Jr.,
and Anna Jackson (Mahony) Rutter. He
received his education in the University
of Pennsylvania, and received the certificate
of proficiency in mechanical engineering in
1878. He has been engaged in the prac
tice of his profession since 1879. He was
first-lieutenant and regimental quarter
master of the Second Pennsylvania Volun
teers, United States Army, in 1898; cap
tain and regimental quartermaster of the
Second Regiment of National Guard of
Pennsylvania, from 1898 to 1900. In poli
tics he is an Independent. He is a niem-
ber of the Franklin Institute of Philadel
phia, Military Service Institution, Delta Psi
fraternity. He is owner and master of
sailing and power yachts for many years.
He is a member of the University Club of
Philadelphia. Residence: Holly Oak, New
Castle County, Delaware. Address : 411
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RYAN, Patrick John:
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Phila
delphia; born in Thurles County, Tipperary,
Ireland,. February 20, 1831. He received a
careful home training, which helped him
greatly in his schooling, the earliest part of
which he received in the locality of his
birth, near Thurles, in the County of Tip
perary and Archdiocese of Cashel, where
he first saw the light a little more than
seventy years ago. After a good prelimi
nary training he was sent to St. Vincent's
College, Castlenock, four miles northwest
of Dublin, which he left in his sixteenth
year, in 1847, to enter Carlow College.
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here he was placed in charge of a prepara
tory school connected with the college, and
so well did he train his pupils in reading
and elocution that when transferred to the
higher school they surprised all who heard
them. He was at this time a contributor
to the college paper, The Budget, and his
articles showed marked literary ability. He
left Carlow College in 1852, just after re
ceiving the holy order of deacons-hip, and
emigrated to the United States, becoming
affiliated with the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Though not yet a priest, being too young
to" be ordained, for the first three months
after his arrival he was assigned to preach
in St. Patrick's Church, and also performed
the same office in the Cathedral, at once
acquiring fame for his eloquence. He was
soon afterward appointed professor of Eng
lish literature and elocution in the Theolog
ical Seminary at Carondelet, Missouri, and
performed his duties with eminent satis
faction until the following year, when he
was ordained a priest, though still under
the canonical age. His first mission as a
priest was as an assistant at the Cathedral,
where one of his companions was the late
Bishop Duggan, of Chicago. In due time
he became rector of the Cathedral, and Ve-
mained as such until i860, when he was
chosen to take charge of the Annuncia
tion parish, whose church and school he
built. In addition to his parochial duties
here he also performed those of chaplain
of the Gratiot Street Military Prison,
where many Confederate' prisoners were
confined during the Civil War, and he de
voted himself with tireless zeal to the du
ties of this office. Soon after the war the
young priest was transferred from the An
nunciation Church to St. John's Church,
St. Louis, which he relieved of a debt of
thirty thousand dollars. In 1866 he was
called upon to attend the Second Plenary
Council of Baltimore in an official capacity,
and the same year he received the degree of
Doctor of Laws from Columbia University
of New York. The following year he ac
companied Archbishop Kenrick to Rome, to
attend the celebration of the eighteenth cen
tenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter, and

on that occasion made a tour of Italy, Ger
many, France and Ireland. While in Rome
he preached, upon the direct invitation of the
Pope, a Lenten course of sermons in Eng
lish, a distinction of no ordinary character,
considering the number and character of
the ecclesiastics in the Holy City at that
time. Father Ryan returned to St. Louis
in 1868, where a new honor awaited him
in the shape of an appointment to the of
fice of Vicar-General of the Diocese. In
1871, Archbishop Kenrick having applied
for a coadjutor, and his request being
granted, the choice fell upon the Very Rev
erend Patrick John Ryan, Vicar-General,
who was assigned to the titular See of
Tricomia. He received the announcement
of the distinction which had been con
ferred upon him on the fortieth anniver
sary of his birth. The silver jubilee of
this event was celebrated by the Catholics
of Philadelphia and St. Louis jointly on
April 14, 1897, at St. Louis, in the church
of which he was the rector, St. John the
Evangelist. In the fall of 1883 he visited
Rome for the second time, on this occa
sion as the representative of Archbishop
Kenrick at the conference assembled at
the invitation of the Pope to make prepara
tions for the Third Plenary Council at Bal
timore. He had arrived home but a short
time when he received notice of his pro
motion to an archiepiscopal titular see, that
of Salamis. This, title he was destined,
however, to retain but a short time. The
Metropolitan See of Philadelphia had been
vacant for some time, and late in the year
the name of the coadjutor of St. Louis was
mentioned in connection with the high of
fice. The announcement of his appoint
ment came from Rome on the 9th of June,
1884. The clergy ahd people of St. Louis
and Philadelphia were active in their dem
onstrations, respectively, of regret and re
joicing. He has assiduously attended to
the duties of his exalted office. New
churches and new parishes have been built
and installed in the city and surrounding
olaces, notably at Manayunk and Mount
Carmel. Besides, not only have old insti
tutions of charity been improved and ex-

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tended in their scope and sphere of use
fulness, but most important new ones have
been added. Among these are St. Vin
cent's Home and Maternity Hospital, St.
Joseph's Home for Industrious Boys, St.
Francis de Sales' Industrial School at Ed-
dington, the religious order of tlie Blessed
Sacrament and its school at Cornwells,
Houses of the Good Shepherd in Norris
town, Reading and Germantown, a Home
for Catholic Working Girls under the care
of the Sisters of Mercy, and, probably
greatest of all, the Catholic Protectory for
Boys, erected at Flatlands, in Montgomery
County, near Philadelphia. The cause of
education has also received a powerful im
pulse during his administration, and many
new parochial schools have been added.
One of his proudest achievements was in
freeing the Cathedral from the burden of
debt, an event which was celebrated with
solemn ceremonies on June 30, 1890. He
delivered several addresses before the Con
gress of Religions at the World's Colum
bian Exposition, and many of his lectures
and sermons have been published. He is
author of : What Catholics Do Not Believe,
The Causes of Modern Religious Skepti
cism, etc. Address : 225 North Eighteenth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RYAN, Thomas Fortune:
Financier; born in Nelson County, Vir
ginia, October 17, 1851. .He went to Balti
more, at seventeen, to seek his fortune,
and, although without either money or in
fluence, and notwithstanding that his early
years in that city were marked by a hard
struggle against adversity, he never lost
confidence in his ultimate success. His
first employment was in the dry goods com
mission house of John S. Barry, who soon
discovered his young employee's business
capacity and took the keenest interest in
watching and guiding his development into
a successful business man. Mr. Ryan did
not remain in the dry goods business long,
however, as he foresaw a wider field of op
portunity in New York City, to which he
came in 1870. In 1874 he became a member
of the New York Stock'Exchange, and soon

afterward began to pay particular attention
to corporation interests and securities, es
pecially to consolidating and extending the
street railway systems of New York and.
other large cities. The influence of the
late William C. Whitney now entered- into
Mr. Ryan's life, and for the next thirty
years their business association was un
broken and yielded enormous returns. Mr.
Ryan continued in the brokerage busi
ness for ten years, in the course of
which he accumulated a handsome for
tune and successfully matched his brains
against the controlling intellects of Wall
Street. But his intercourse with Whitney
was the predominating factor in the new
and fruitful field to which he was to turn
his activities.. In 1886, when a combination
of capitalists- was formed for the consolida
tion of the various street railways in New
York City, Mr. Whitney sought Mr. Ryan's
services and to him assigned the gigantic
task of putting their plans into successful
operation. This is said to have been the
business enterprise that drew from Wil
liam C. Whitney the comment that Thomas
F. Ryan was the most adroit, suave
and noiseless man he had ever known.
In 1902 Mr. Ryan went to ' London
to take charge of the fight which the
American Tobacco Company was then
making against the Imperial Tobacco Com
pany for a division of the world territory
for the tobacco trade. In two weeks Mr.
Ryan won his fight completely, established
harmonious relations with the English cor
porations, collected the expenses of the fight,
which had been carried on with the great
est bitterness by the leading spirits of the
American Tobacco Company interests in
London, and, furthermore, brought back a
block of stock of the British corporation,
now worth twenty-five million dollars, for
deposit among the American company's as
sets. He was a leader in the reorganiza
tion of the old Richmond and Danville sys
tem into the present Southern Railway, and
he formed and executed the plans for the
reorganization of the Central of Georgia
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were two of' his .first and biggest rehabili
tation schemes among Southern railroads
that he found in financial difficulties, and
his complete success therein added to his
Wall Street prestige. For picturesqueness,
however, and an illustration of Mr. Ryan's
relish for a fight, and his patience and per
severance in carrying it on after once hav
ing been drawn into it, we must turn to
his battle for the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way — one of the bitterest struggles in the
annals of railroads for the control of a
system. His Southern opponents were foe-
men worthy of his steel, and they put up a
battle royal for the control of the road, re
sorted to the courts, and developed such
skilful resources in preventing his gain
ing control of the road's stock that it looked
as though the Wall Street man was safely
beaten; but he kept on hammering at them
all along the line, and at last his turn came
— the chance he had been waiting for. The
Seaboard's controlling syndicate ,got into
financial difficulties, pledged their stock
to tide them over their financial stress, and
realized when too late that it was in the
possession of their old foe, who immediate
ly turned the tables on them, and, after
an eight-year contest, secured the road
practically on his own terms. In the course
of his reorganization of various railways
in the South he became interested as well
in various coal mines in Ohio and West
Virginia and railways in Ohio. He is also
vice-president arid director of the Morton
Trust Company; vice-president and direc
tor of the National Bank of Commerce;
and director of Industrial Trust Com
pany, of Providence; Mercantile Trust
Company, Fifth' Avenue Trust Company,
Commercial Trust Company, of Philadel
phia; American Tobacco Company, Sea
board Air Line Railway, and the recent
merging of the street railways, with
the elevated roads: and -the subway system
makes the combined roads complete masters
of the entire rapid transit system of New
York City. He is a member of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and of the Metropolitan,
Manhattan, Union, Lawyers' and New York
Athletic Clubs, also of the Catholic Club

and the Southern Society. His legal
residence is in Virginia, and he repre
sented that State in the Democratic Na
tional Convention of 1904, where he was
largely instrumental in reconciling the dele
gates to the acceptance of Mr. Parker's
telegram -.declaring for the gold standard.
On November 25, 1873, he married Ida M.
Barry, of Baltimore, and has five sons. Mr.
Ryan has a home, called Oak Ridge, on
the site of his birthplace in Virginia; an
other in Washington, a country place at
Suffern, New York, and in the winter time
lives in his beautiful ivy-covered mansion
on lower Fifth Avenue. Residence : 60
Fifth Avenue, New York. Office address :
38 Nassau Street, New York City.
RYAN, William Henry:
Congressman; born in Hopkinton, Mas
sachusetts, May 10, i860; moved to
Buffalo with his parents in 1866;
was educated in the public schools
and high school. He is a member of the
firm of James Ryan's Sons Company, gen
eral bonding, liability, and fire insurance.
He was elected to represent the Second
Ward of Buffalo in the Board of Super
visors of Erie County in 1894, and was
reelected in 1897, and on the organization
of the Board of Supervisors in 1898 was
elected chairman. He was a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention at St.
Louis, in 1904; was elected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fif
ty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress, from the Thirty-fifth
New York District. He married, Septem
ber- 19, 1887, Ellen T. Cosgrove. Ad
dress : Buffalo, New York.
RYDER, Frederick Milllachip:
American consul ; born in Iberville, Prov-
vince of Quebec, Canada, November 3,
1862; son of William M. Ryder and Mary
(Wadsworth) Ryder. He received his
education in the public schools of Canada.
He was always identified with newspaper
work, in Connecticut, especially in New
Haven, where he has resided since 1885.
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Evening Leader for several years; and was
also director of the Publishers' Press As
sociation of New York. He was Amer
ican consul at the city of Quebec, Canada,
from 1890 to 1894, when he retired; and
was appointed in 1905, to San Juan del
Norte, Nicaragua, March 8, 1905.. In poli
tics he is a Republican and he is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church. His favorite
recreations are hunting and fishing and he
is a member of several fish and game clubs
of Quebec. He married in Plainfield, New
Jersey, November 8, 1876, Maud Helen
Henderson. Address : Colonial Park, West
Haven, Connecticut.

SABINE, William Turn ell:
Bishop of the Synod of New York and
Philadelphia, of the Reformed Episcopal
Church ; born in New York City, October
16, 1838, son of Dr. Gustavus A. Sabine
and Julia H. (Tufnell) Sabine. He re
ceived his preparatory education in New
York University School; under George S.
Parker as principal, and at Thayer School,
of which Nathaniel Thayer was head. His
academic education was received at Co
lumbia University, where he was graduated
in 1859 with the degree of A.B., receiving
that of A.M. three years later. In the
meantime he entered the General Theolog
ical Seminary, completing his theological
studies in 1862. The honorary degree of
D.D. was given to him by the University
of New York in 1890. Following his grad
uation from the General Theological Semi
nary he was ordained to the ministry of the
Episcopal Church, and in 1863 became as
sistant pastor of St. George's Church in
New York City. The same year he re
signed, to become rector of the Church of
the Covenant in Philadelphia. In 1866, he
was called to the rectorship of the Church
of the Atonement in New York City, and,
officiating there for eight years, left in 1874
to accept the pastorate of the First Re
formed Episcopal Church of New York
City, which he held until 1907. In 1902
Dr. Sabine was elected bishop of the Synod

of New York and Philadelphia. Bishop
Sabine is member of various religious so
cieties, among which are : the American
Bible Society, the American Tract Society,
the American Sunday School Union, the
National Temperance Society, etc. He
was married in New York City, October
6, 1868, to Maria Theresa Shieffelin, and
by this union there have been ten chil
dren: Edith S., Elizabeth H., William
T., Jr., Philip S., Alice W., Gustavus Ar
thur, Julia H. T., Maunsell S. (deceased),
Samuel S., and Mary T. S. Address : 960
Madison Avenue, New York City.
SACKETT, Henry Woodward:
Lawyer; born in Enfield, New York,
August 31, 1853; son of Solon P. Sackett
and Lovedy K. (Woodward) Sackett, and
a lineal descendant of John Sackett, who
came to Massachusetts Bay from England
with Roger Williams in 1630. He re
ceived his preparatory education in Ithaca
Academy, and was graduated from Cor
nell University as A.B. in 1875; was class
essayist and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In
1879 he was admitted to the New York
Bar. He early became a law writer and
later editorial writer and counsel for the
New York Tribune; associated with C. A.
Runkle in 1884 and, after his death, with
C. G. Bennett, as Sackett and Bennett;
subsequently senior member of the firm of
Sackett, Bacon and McQuaid, corporation
lawyers and attorneys for estates, and is
now a member of the firm of Sackett,
Chapman and Stevens. He was for six
years a member of Troop A and Squadron
A, holding various positions, and in 1897
was appointed aide on the military staff
of Governor Black, with the rank of colo
nel. During the Spanish-American War
he did recruiting service and also served
as assistant paymaster-general of New
York in the Southern States. In politics
he is a Republican and he is a member
of the Episcopal Church, and a warden of
St. Thomas' Church, at Mamaroneck, New
York. Mr. Sackett is a trustee and secre
tary of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration
Commission; trustee and vice-president of
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vation Society; trustee of Cornell Univer
sity; trustee and counsel of the Clarkson
Home for Children ; a member of the Amer
ican, New York State and City Bar Asso
ciations, Municipal Art Society, Founders
and Patriots of America, Sons of the
American Revolution, St. Nicholas Society
and St. George's Society. He is a
frequent contributor to the editorial col
umns of the New York Tribune and
other publications on legal topics; also a
lecturer at the Cornell University Law
School. His favorite recreations are golf,
horseback riding, arboriculture, and horti
culture. He is a member of the Univer
sity, Union League, Republican, Cornell
University, National Arts, Barnard, Garden
City Golf, Apawamis Golf, and Hardware
Clubs. Mr. Sackett married in Brooklyn,
New York, in 1866, Elizabeth Titus, daugh
ter of the late Edmund Titus, one of the
founders of the New York Produce Ex
change. Country residence: Quaker
Ridge, Mamaroneck, New York. City ad
dresses : Tribune Building and 515 Madi
son Avenue, New York City.
SAGE, Eben Charles:
Clergyman; born in Virden, Illinois, No
vember 14, 1855; son of Charles T. Sage
and Sophia E. (Gunnison) Sage. He was
graduated from Shurtleff College as A.B.,
later receiving its degrees of A.M. and
D.D. ; from Chicago University, Divinity
School as B.D., and received from Yale
University the Ph.D. degree. He was pas
tor of Baptist churches in Illinois and
Connecticut; at New Haven, Connecticut,
from 1886 to 1904, and of the First Bap
tist Church there from 1901 to 1904. Since
then he has been office secretary of the
General Education Board. Dr. Sage is a
Republican in politics! He is a director
of -the Charity Organization Society of
New Haven, and trustee of the Connecticut
Baptist Education Society, and the Connect
icut Literary Institution. He married in
Virden, Illinois, in 1879, Nora Amanda
Cowen, and they have three children: Nora
A., born in 1880, Eben B., born in 1883,
and Truman B. born in 1886. Residence:
425 West One Hundred and Eighteenth

Street, New York. Business address : 2
Rector Street, New York City.
SAMMONS, Thomas:
Consular officer; born in New York; ap
pointed consul-general at Niuchwang,
March 8, 1905 ; assigned to Mukden and
Antung in May, 1906, in connection with
the negotiations for the opening of these
ports under the Treaty of 1903 ; appointed
consul-general at Seoul, March 30, 1907.
Address : Seoul, Korea, Japan.
SANBORN, Arthur Loomis:
United States district judge; born at
Brasher Falls, New York, November 17,
1850; son of Simpson E. Sanborn and
Harriet (Blount) Sanborn, and removed
in early boyhood to Wisconsin. After
completing the courses in the public
schools of Geneva, Wisconsin, he engaged
in business pursuits at Elkhorn, Wiscon
sin, was register of deeds of Walworth
County, Wisconsin, f rorn^ 1875 to 1879, at
tended the Law School of the University
of Wisconsin and was graduated with the
degree of LL.B. in 1880, then engaged in
the practice of law until appointed by'
President Roosevelt, January 10, 1905,
United States district judge for the West
ern District of Wisconsin. Judge Sanborn
is a Republican in politics and a Congre
gationalist in his church relations. Ad
dress : 210 Langdon Street, Madison,
Wisconsin.
SANBORN, Walter Henry:
United States circuit judge; born on
Sanborn's Hill, Epsom, New Hampshire,
October 19, 1845; son of Henry F. San
born and Eunice (Davis) Sanborn; and a
lineal descendant of Eliphalet Sanborn of
Epsom, who served in the French and In
dian wars and the Continental Army, and
of William Sanborn, who came from
England to Hampton, New Hampshire,
about 1632. He received his preparatory
education in the public schools and acad
emies of Epsom and Pittsfield, New Hamp
shire, and was graduated from Dartmouth
College as A.B. in 1867, A.M., 1870, and
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from the same college in 1893. He was
principal of the High School at Milford,
New Hampshire, from 1867 to 1870, and
during the same period studied law with
Bainbridge Wadleigh (afterward United
States Senator from New Hampshire), and
in February, 1870, removed to St. Paul,
Minnesota, continuing his studies in the
office of his uncle, General John B. San
born, with whom, after his admission to
the bar of Minnesota in 1871, he practiced
until 1892. He was appointed by Presi
dent Harrison, March 17, 1892, United
States circuit judge for the Eighth Judicial
Circuit, which office he still holds. He is
a Republican in politics, was a member of
the City Council of St. Paul for nine years ;
and is a prominent Mason, and was grand
commander of Knights Templar of Minne
sota in 1889. Judge Sanborn married, at
Milford, New Hampshire, November 10,
1874, Emily Frances Bruce. Address : St.
Paul, Minnesota.
SANDERS, Dallas:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, January
13, 1848. He was a student at the Uni
versity of Western Pennsylvania, in Pitts
burgh, for three years, and studied law
with Judge George M. Dallas, in Phila
delphia. He was admitted to "the bar on
January 16, 1869; was editor of the Legal
Intelligencer for several years ; and assist
ant' district attorney of Philadelphia Coun
ty, from 1878 to 1881. He was a member
of the Common Councils from 1882 to
1884, and chairman of the Survey Com
mittee; delegate to many Democratic city
and State conventions ; national delegate,
1880 ; State chairman, 1887. He was ap
pointed, practically for life, by the judges
of Philadelphia ' County, member of the
Board of City Trusts on March 6, 1893,
which has charge of all bequests and chari
ties of the City of Philadelphia, especially
of Girard College and the Wills Eye Hos
pital. He married Anita Watts, daughter
of Clarke Merchant. Address : 609 Land
Title Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SANDERS, Thomas:
-Founder of the telephone business ; born
in South Danvers, Massachusetts, August

16, 1839; son of George Thomas Sanders
and Mary Ann (Browne) Sanders; grand
son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Elkins)
Sanders and of Samuel and Nancy (Twiss)
Browne, and a descendant of Thomas Sand
ers, who came from England to Gloucester,
Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1640. Mr. San
ders is the sixth in direct line bearing the
name of Thomas. He was brought up in Sa
lem, spending his summers on a farm and
attending studies in the winter months, di
rected by private tutors and at private
schools. He declined to attend college and
took up farming as a profession when eigh
teen years of age at East Brookfield, Ver
mont. In 1870 he added the business of
manufacturing leather to that of farming,
and he was sole owner and president of the
Sanders Leather Company of Boston, which
he conducted for twenty years (1870 to
1890). He became a resident of Haver
hill, Massachusetts, and was the organizer
and first president of the Haverhill Board
of Trade, and he joined Charles E. Adams
in organizing the Massachusetts State
Board of Trade. In 1898 he established the
Vermont Live Stock Company, for the pur
pose of systematically improving the live
stock of Vermont and incidentally of New
England. He promoted the patents of
Alexander Graham Bell, and placed his
telephone before business men as a com
mercial and social necessity, and risked
his entire fortune in manufacturing tele
phones and introducing the same, and this
before- he had secured the rights of Mr.
Bell, under his patent of February 14, 1876,
and without help from any other capitalist.
He is a member of, the Merrimac Lodge
of Masons, and of the Haverhill Command
ery, Knights Tempjar. He is also a mem
ber of the Pentucket Club and of the Fort
nightly Club of Haverhill. He ' is senior
warden of Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church of Haverhill, and with the excep
tion of voting for Abraham Lincoln in 1864,
has always voted the Democratic, ticket.
He married, June 6, 1866, Susan" Bradley,
daughter of Nathaniel SaltmataH and Sarah
(Bradley) Howe of HaverhiIlf*Massachu-
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of them were living in 1907. He has a
fine estate at Haverhill, where he resides,
and an excellent farm at East Brookfield,
Vermont, where he finds recreation in
raising fine stock and indulging his delight
in riding and driving along country roads.
Address : Haverhill, Massachusetts.
SANDS, Michael Francis:
Jurist; born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
May 8, 1863. He was educated at the
Scranton High School, and after his grad
uation took up the study of law in the of
fice of W. H. Gearhart and was admitted
to practice at the bar in Lackawanna Coun
ty in 1884. He is a Democrat in politics,
and active in the interests of his party;
served on the city and county committees
for about fourteen years, was a delegate to
the State conventions^ and from 1.882 to
1885, was deputy collector of Internal Rev
enue. He was nominated for the State
Legislature in 1888, and was duly elected,
being returned again in 1892. In 1898 he
was a candidate for Congress from the
Eleventh District, but failed of election ; in
1902 he was nominated for. judge of the
Orphans' Court of Lackawanna County, and
in November of that year was elected for a
ten years' term. Address : Scranton, Penn
sylvania. SANFORD, John:
Manufacturer; born in Amsterdam, New
York; son of Stephen Sanford (member
of the Forty-first Congress). He was grad
uated from Yale, as A.B. in 1872. On
leaving college, he became associated with
his father, Stephen Sanford, in the carpet
manufacturing industry, at Amsterdam,
New York, established by his grandfather,
John Sanford, in 1842, and has since been
connected with that enterprise, which is now
one of the most important of its kind in
the country, employing over three thousand
people. He was a member of the Fifty-
first and Fifty-second Congresses, elected
on the Republican ticket. . The firm of S.
Sanford & "Sons owns a celebrated stable of
race horse.s at- Amsterdam. Mr. Sanford
is- a member of the State Racing Commis
sion, of the Metropolitan, University, Re

publican, The Brook, and Turf and Field
Clubs of New York City, and the Metro
politan Club of Washington; Meadow-
brook, Racquet, and Jockey Clubs. He
married Ethel Sanford in 1892. Resi
dences : Amsterdam, New York, and Bayon-
ette Cottage, Aitken, South Carolina.
SANFORD, Stephen:
Manufacturer, ex-congressman; born at
Mayfield, New York, May 26, 1826; son
of John Sanford, a descendant of Thomas,
son of Anthony and Jane Sanford of Stowe,
England, who came to Boston with the
John Winthrop Colony in 1631, received a
grant of land near Dorchester, in 1634, 3nd
afterward removed to Connecticut, where
he became high sheriff of the town of Mil
ford. Besides this first American Sanford,
there are in his paternal line others who
attained prominence, and his father, John
Sanford, who removed from Connecticut
to New York in 1820, was a State senator
and a member of Congress. Mr. Sanford
was educated in the public schools, at the
academy at Poughkeepsie, New York, at
Georgetown College in the District of Co
lumbia, and at the United States Military
Academy, from which, after two years, he
was called home by his father to assist in
the large carpet manufacturing business
which he had established in 1842. He gave
his best energies to acquiring a, knowledge
of its details, and under his intelligent
management the business begun by his
father grew from a comparatively small
beginning, . employing only about one hun
dred persons to one affording work and
livelihood for over three thousand people,
and one of the largest of its kind in the
country. In 1868 he was elected on the
Republican ticket to the Forty-first Con
gress, and he was appointed by. Mr. Blaine,
then speaker, to serve on several important
committees. He declined a renomination
in 1870 because his business affairs de
manded his personal presence. He has been
prominent in movements for the better7
tnent of his town; instituted the movement
fot new waterworks ; has been instrumental
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ness structures and public buildings of Am
sterdam, notably the Homestead Block with
its bank, law chambers, stores, municipal
offices, society rooms, Board of Trade
rooms, and others. He owns two farms
in the vicinity of Amsterdam, which he has
put in a high state of cultivation, making
them the best exemplars in that region of
improved farming and stockraising. He
has been liberal in his aid of the churches,
charities and benevolent organizations of
his city, and on the occasion of the fiftieth
anniversary of his entering upon his busi
ness career he was honored by his towns
men with a public celebration, when he was
the recipient of testimonials in English,
German, French and Italian from the var
ious church committees, all containing
warm expressions of gratitude for generous
assistance in their church work. Mr. San
ford has traveled extensively, both in Eu
rope and in this country. Address : Am
sterdam, New York.
SATTERLEE, Eugene:
Lawyer and banker; born at Glens Falls,
New York, July ii, 1847; son of Leroy and
Harriet (Hudnut) Satterlee. He prepared
for ' college at the Rochester Collegiate In
stitute, of which his father was then prin
cipal; was graduated at the University of
Rochester in 1867; was a student at Hei
delberg and Berlin ; and was graduated from
the Albany Law School and admitted to
the bar in 1872. He practiced his profes
sion from 1874 to 1905 in Rochester ; mem
ber of law firms of Satterlee & Yeoman,
Satterlee, Yeoman & Taylor, and Satterlee,
Bissell, Taylor & French ; and is now pres
ident of The National Bank of Rochester,
formed January 1, 1906, by the consolida
tion of the German-American Bank and the
Flour City National Bank, and the merger
in May, 1906, of the Commercial Bank of
Rochester. He was also, in 1905, elected
president of The Rochester German In
surance Company. "Mr. Satterlee has been
an officer and director of various other cor
porations, from many of which he with
drew upon his election to the presidency of
the bank and of the insurance com
pany. He is an Episcopalian in his

church relations; is a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society and the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity, and of the Genesee Valley
and Rochester Country Clubs. Mr. Satter
lee married, April 17, 1879, Olivia Sanger
Moore, and they have two children : Hugh
and Mildred. Residence: Pittsford, Mon
roe County, New York. Address : The
National Bank of Rochester.
SATTERLEE, Henry Yates:
Bishop of Washington; born in New
York City, January 11, 1843; son of Edward
Satterlee and Jane Anna (Yates) Satter
lee. He studied at Columbia College, and
graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1863,
receiving M.A. in 1866, and, going thence
to the Union Theological College, Schenec
tady, New York, graduated in 1882. He
received from Princeton University the de
gree of D.D. in 1896 and from Columbia
University that of LL.D. in 1897. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1865, and was ordained priest two years
later by Bishop H. Potter; became assist
ant minister of Zion Church, Wappingers
Falls, New York, from 1865 to 1874 and
from the latter year was rector of the same
church until 1882. He resigned to become
rector of Calvary Church, New York City,
officiating here until 1896, when he became
Bishop of Washington, D. C, and was con
secrated by Bishops Coxe, Huntington,
Dudley, Scarborough, Whitehead, Potter,
Rulison, Paret, Talbot, W. A. Leonard, Nel
son, Cheshire and Penick. Bishop Satter
lee is author of : Christ and His Church,
1878; Life and Lessons from the Prayer-
book, 1890; A Creedless Gospel and a Gos
pel Creed, 1894. Address : Bishop's House,
Thomas Circle, Washington, D. C.
SATTERLEE, Herbert Livingston:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Oc
tober 31, 1863 ; son of George B. Satterlee
and Sarah Satterlee. He was graduated
from Columbia with the degrees of B.S. in
1883, A.M. in 1884, Ph.D. and LL.B. in
1885, and was admitted to the bar in the
latter year. In 1886 and 1887 he was pri
vate secretary to Senator William M.
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Naval Battalion, New York, from 1891 to
1895; colonel and aide-de-camp to Gover
nor Morton, and naval aide to Governor
Black; lieutenant in the United States
Navy in the Spanish-American War and
chief of staff to Captain J. R. Bartlett.
Mr. Satterlee is author of: Political His
tory of the Province of New York. He
is a founder of the Navy League, and mas
ter of the missionary yacht Sentinel. He
is also a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, the Society
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,
the Municipal Art Society, the Society of
Colonial Wars, Naval Order of the United
States, and a member of the St. Anthony,
Union League, New York Yacht, Univer
sity, Lawyers' and Columbia University
Clubs. Mr. Satterlee married, in 1900,
Louisa Pierpont Morgan. Residence : 37
East Thirty-sixth Street, New York City.
Office address : 120 Broadway, New York
City.
SATTERLEE, Hugh:
Lawyer ; born in Rochester, New York,
October 16, 1880 ; son of Eugene Satterlee
and Olivia Sanger (Moore) Satterlee. He
was prepared in Phillips Andover Acad
emy from 1896 to 1898; was graduated
from Yale College as A.B. in 1902, and
from Harvard Law School in 1907 as LL.
B. He was with the Ohmer Fare Register
Company of Dayton, Ohio, in 1902 and
1903; assistant treasurer of the Stromberg-
Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Com
pany, of Rochester, and in charge of the
Utah construction work in 1903 and 1904.
He was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law
Review in 1906 and 1907, and since grad
uation has been with Satterlee, Bissell, Tay
lor and French of Rochester. He is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa Society and the
University Club of Salt Lake City. Resi
dence : Pittsford, New York. Office ad
dress : Rochester German Insurance Build
ing, Rochester, New York.
SATTERLEE, Walter:
Artist; born in Brooklyn; son of George
Crary Satterlee and Mary Le Roy (Liv-
ington) Satterlee; a descendant of Lieu

tenant-Colonel Benedict Satterlee of the
Colonial Wars. He was graduated from
Columbia with the degrees of A.B. in 1863
and A.M. in 1868; and received his art
education at the National Academy of De
sign and under Edwin White and Leon
Bonnat. He was awarded the Clarke prize
at the National Academy in 1886. He is
an associate of the National Academy of
Design, a member of the Sons of the
Revolution, the Water Color Society, the
Century Association and New York Yacht
Clubs. Residence : 148 East Eighteenth
Street, New York City. Studio address :
96 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
SAUNDERS, Edward Watts:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Frank
lin County, Virginia, October 25, i860, and
has abyvays resided in that county. He was
educated at home, at the Bellevue High
School of Bedford County, and at the Uni
versity of -Virginia, from which he was
graduated as Bachelor of Laws in 1882,
and he has since been engaged in the prac
tice of law in his native county. He was
elected in 1905 to fill the vacancy in Con
gress from the Fifth Virginia District,
caused by the resignation of Hon. Claude
M. Swanson, who had been elected gov
ernor of Virginia; and in 1906 he was re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress, in which
he is now serving. He is a Democrat in
politics. Address: Rockymount, Virginia.
SAVAGE, Albert R.:
Jurist; born in Ryegate, Vermont, De
cember 8, 1847; son of Charles W. Savage
and Eliza M. (Clough) Savage. He was
educated in Dartmouth College, in the class
of 1871, and received the degree of LL.D.
from Bates College in 1897. He was a prac
ticing lawyer from 1875, was county attor
ney from 1881 to 1885 ; judge of probate
from 1885 to 1889; mayor of Auburn from
1889 to 1891 ; representative to the Maine
Legislature, from 1891 to 1893, speaker of
the House of 1893 ; member of the Maine
Senate from 1895 to 1897, and has been
associate justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court of Maine since 1897. He is a Re
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ist in his church relations ; is a trustee of
Bates College, a Thirty-second degree Ma
son, Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias,
and a member of the Calumet Club of
Lewiston. Judge Savage married at Lun-
enburgh, Vermont, August 17, 1871, Nel
lie H. Hale, and they have had three chil
dren, Charles Hale (deceased), Anna May
(deceased), and Mary Anna, born in 1876.
Address : Auburn, Maine.
SAWYER, Walter Leon:
Editor and author; born in Cumberland,
Maine, October 23, 1862 ; son of Joseph
Smith Sawyer and Abigail P. (Grannell)
Sawyer. He received his education in pub
lic and private schools, and was afterward
editorially connected with the Portland Ad
vertiser, Washington Post, Boston Herald
and other newspapers. From 1892 to 1901,
he was assistant editor of the Youth's
Companion, and is now a staff contributor
of that publication ; also contributor to
magazines. He is author of A Local Habi
tation, 1899, and other books. Mr. Sawyer
married in Portland, Maine, November 12,
1884, Flora May Farmer, and they have
three children : Eda Louise, Annie Farmer
and Chapman Ford. Residence : 16 Roxton
Street, Dorchester Center, Massachusetts.
Office address : Youth's Companion, 201
Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
.SAXE, Frank J.:
President of the National Lighterage
Company; born at St. Albans, Vermont,
1854; son of James and Sarah (Sollace)
Saxe. He was graduated from Norwich
University, as A.B. in 1873. He resided in
St. Albans until 1874, when he removed to
Troy, New York, to Albany in 1882, and to
Flushing, Long Island, in 1896. He is the
nephew of John G. Saxe, the poet, an edi
tion of whose poems he issued in 1906. He
has traveled extensively for pleasure for
twenty years throughout the United States,
Mexico, the West Indies, all parts of Eu
rope and North Africa. Mr. Saxe is. pres
ident and director of the National Lighter
age Company, Export Towing Company;
treasurer and director of the Altamont Re

alty Company, manager and director of the
Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company;
secretary of the Atlantic Coast Lumber
Corporation, White Fish Lake Improve
ment Company; Export Lumber Company,
and owns thousands of acres of timber lands
in Canada and Michigan. He is a member
of the National Geographic Society, and the
Maritime Exchange of New York City. He
is also a member of the City Club, Oakland
Golf Club of Long Island, Flushing Coun
try Club, and Navy League; was the Or
ganizer of the Albany County Hunt and Al
bany Country Clubs, and president of the
former for many years ; and was member
of the Virginia Hunt in Princess Anne
County for several years. Address: 42
Broadway, New York City.
SAXE, G. A. De Santos:
Physician, author; born at St. Petersburg,
Russia, February 22, 1876 ; son of Maximil
ian Saxe, chemist and expert in dye stuffs,
who died in 1898, and Helen Saxe ; and his
family is of Spanish descent. He was
educated at St. Peter's College, St. Peters
burg and was graduated from Columbia
University Medical School as M.D. in 1898
with honors. He was assistant pathologist
of Columbus Hospital from 1901 to 1903;
assistant genito-urinary surgeon in the Post-
Graduate Hospital since 1901, and was
made instructor in 1907; member of the
American Medical Association, and Amer
ican Urological Association, and fel
low of the New York Academy of Medi
cine. He is author of: Examination of the
Urine, Philadelphia, 1904, and assistant
editor of the New York Medical Journal,
since 1899. Dr. Saxe is a member of the
Green Room, and Brooklyn Yacht Clubs.
Address: 72 West Forty-fifth Street, New
York City.
SAYRE, Reginald Hall:
Surgeon ; born . in New York City, Oc
tober 18, 1859; son of Lewis Albert Sayre
and Eliza Ann (Hall) Sayre. He was edu
cated in Churchill and Maury's School; was
graduated from Columbia College as A.B.
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lege as M.D. in 1884. He was assistant to
" the chair of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, from 1885 to 1890; the
chair of orthopaedic surgery, from 1890 to
1897; and adjunct professor, 1897; clinical
professor of orthopaedic surgery of New
York University and Bellevue Hospital
Medical College since 1898; consulting sur
geon of Hackensack (New Jersey) Hos
pital, the Home for Crippled Children of
Newark, New Jersey, Mountainside Hos
pital of Montclair, Englewood (New Jer
sey) Hospital, New York State Orthopedic
Hospital (Haverstraw, New York) ; first
lieutenant of Squadron A of the National
Guard of New York, arid inspector of small
arms practice. He was president of the
American Orthopaedic Association, 1904;
treasurer of the New York Academy of
Medicine; member of the Pathological So
ciety (vice-president in 1893), County Med
ical Society, State Medical Society, Amer
ican Medical Association, Phi Betta Kap
pa Society, and of the University, City, Co
lumbia 'University, and New York Ath
letic Cliibs. Address : 9 East Forty-fifth
Street, New York City.
SAYRES, Edward Stalker:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, July 30,
1850; son of Edward Smith Sayres, mer
chant of Philadelphia and honorary consul
for Brazil, vice-consul of Sweden and Nor
way, vice-consul of Denmark and vice-con
sul of Portugal, and at the time of his
death dean of the Consular Corps of Phila
delphia. His grandfather was Dr. Caleb
Smith Sayres, a well known physician of
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, justice of
the peace and surgeon of the Eighth Bat
talion of Pennsylvania Militia ; and both his
paternal, and maternal gfeat-grandfathers,
Captain. Matthias Sayres and Samuel Humes
served in the War of the 'Revolution. His
mother was a daughter of John Humes,
merchant of Philadelphia,- and register of
wills from 1830 to- 1836. ""Mr. Sayres was
educated at the old Quaker private school,
Pine' street, above Front' Street, at the pri
vate classical academy of Eliphalet Roberts, ;
and at the Friends' Central School, Fif

teenth and Race Streets. He read law with
John Hill Martin, and was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar, December 27, 1873, to the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and to the
Court of Claims at Washington, D. C. His
practice is confifaed to Orphans' Court, real
estate, conveyancing and mercantile law.
He is an honorary member of the Law
Academy of Philadelphia; member of the
Law Association of Philadelphia, Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. He served in Com
pany D of the First Regiment Infantry,
National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1874;
during the coal riots of 1875 and labor
riots of 1877, being with his command in
the round house at Pittsburgh ; first lieuten
ant of his company in 1879 and 1880; mem
ber of the Old Guard of Company D> mem
ber of the Veteran Corps of the First Regi
ment of Infantry, National Guard of Penn
sylvania; one of the founders in 1865, and
secretary of the Merion Cricket Club; an
original member of the Civil Service Reform
Association of Pennsylvania, and for many
years treasurer and a member of the Ex
ecutive Committee, a vice-president of the
Board of Trustees of the Northern Home
for Friendless Children and Associated In
stitute for Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans;
secretary of the Board of Managers of the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; vice-
president of the Merchants' Trust Com
pany, a life member and manager and one
of the counselors of the Mercantile Bene
ficial Association; a director and counsel
for the Delaware Insurance Company of
Philadelphia; recording secretary of the
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ; mem
ber of the Geographical Society of Penn
sylvania, and of the National Geographic
Society of Washington, D. C, and sec
retary of the Society of Colonial Wars
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; one
of the founders, and sometime one of the
Council of the Colonial Society 'of Penn
sylvania; a member of the Board of Man
agers of the Pennsylvania Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, and several times
a delegate ; treasurer of the Society of the
War of 1812, and a delegate- to the Gen
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house Club, Radnor Hunt, and Bryn Mawr
Polo Club. He was for several years treas
urer-general of the National Commandery
of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of
the United States. He married in 1881,
a daughter of the late S. Weir Lewis, who
died in 1882, and second, in 1888, a daugh
ter of the late F. Mortimer Lewis, sister
of the late Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis. Resi
dences : 1825 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
and Black Rocks, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Address : 217 South Third Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
SCADDLNG, Charles:
Bishop of Oregon; born at Toronto, On
tario, Canada, November 25, 1861 ; son of
Henry Siriicoe and Elizabeth Windner
Scadding. He was educated at Trinity
College, Toronto, Canada, and in 1885 was
ordered deacon of the Church of England.
A year later he was ordained priest by the
Bishop of Toronto. Following his entry to
the ministry, he became assistant at St.
George's Church, New York City, being
after four years made rector of Grace
Church at Middletown, New York. In
1891 he went to fill the rectorship of Trin
ity Church, Toledo, Ohio, and in 1896 was
called to that of Emmanuel Church, La
Grange, Illinois. After ten years of activ
ity in this locality, he became bishop of
Oregon in 1906. Upon his election to the
Episcopate his alma mater conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor in Divinity causa
honoris. Bishop Scadding has been deputa
tion lecturer for the Society for the Propa
gation of the Gospel, London England, on
The Church in America. He is author of:
Dost Thou Believe? What Can We Do?
(Brotherhood Manual) ; Direct Answers to
Plain Questions (Handbook for American
Churchmen) ; and a workable graded sys
tem of Sunday School instruction. He
married in May, 1896, Mary R. Pomeroy
of Toledo, Ohio, great-granddaughter of
General Seth Pomeroy of Colonial fame.
Address : Bishopcroft, Portland, Oregon.
SCAMMON, Richard M.:
Bank commissioner ; born in Stratham,
New Hampshire, December 6, 1859; son of
Richard Scammon and Abigail (Batchel-

der) Scammon. He received his education
in Exeter High School and Cornell Uni
versity. He was a representative in the
Legislature in 1885 and 1886; State sena
tor in 1891 and 1892, and served ten years
in the New Hampshire National Guard,
passing through all grades from enlisted
man to lieutenant-colonel. Mr. Scammon
is chairman of the Board of Bank Com
missioners of New. Hampshire, also vice-
president of the National Association of the
Supervisors of State Banks; a member of
two historical societies and trustee of the
New Hampshire State College. In politics
he is a Democrat. He is also a member of
the Wonolancet Club of Concord, New
Hampshire. He married in Stratham, Jan
uary 7, 1897, Annie P. Wiggin (graduate
of Mt. Holyoke College, 1892). Residence:
Stratham, New Hampshire. Office ad
dress : Concord, New Hampshire.
SCARBOROUGH, John:
Bishop. of New Jersey; born at Castle-
wellan, Ireland, April 25, 1831 ; son of John
and Anna Bella Hannah Scarborough. He
studied at Trinity College, Hartford, Con
necticut, and graduated with the degree of
B.A. in 1854, later receiving the degree of
M.A. in 1857, D.D. in 1872 and LL.D. in
1904. He was ordered deacon of the Epis
copal Church in 1857 and ordained priest
the next year by Bishop Horatio Potter.
He was assistant of St. Paul's Church,
Troy, New York, from 1857 to i860, when
he became rector of the Church of the
Holy Comforter, Poughkeepsie, New York.
In 1867 he accepted a call to the rectorship
of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, and remained until he became bishop
eight years later. In 1875 he was made
bishop of New Jersey and was consecrated
by Bishops H. Potter, Stevens, Kerfoot,
Littlejohn, Doane, M. A. De Wolf, Howe
and Paddock. Bishop Scarborough is au
thor of various addresses and pastoral let
ters. Address : Trenton, New Jersey.
SCHAEFER, Frederick William:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, August
28, 1880; son of John Vogt Schaefer and
Louisa M. (Michel) Schaefer; descendant
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las Vogt, author, among other works, of
Rheinische Geschichten und Sagen. ' He
was educated in the New York City public
schools, New York Preparatory School,
Manhattan College, New York University
(College and Law Departments, prize and
scholarship student, A.B. and LL.B.),
Union Theological Seminary (awarded two
merit scholarships) ; engaged in private
tutoring during student days ; and he also
studied law in the office of Hon. Thomas
Gilleran. Mr. Schaefer was admitted to
the bar ol New York State in 1901, and
has been engaged in the general practice
of law ever since ; is also a practitioner in
the United States Courts. He was visiting
preacher at various churches in New York
and New Jersey from 1903 to 1907; has
traveled in Europe and North America;
and has been speaker at various political
organizations and meetings. Mr. Schaefer
is also a commissioner of deeds for the
City of New York. He is- senior mem
ber of the law firm of Schaefer and
Evans, organized in 1901. In politics he
is a Democrat and in church relations a
Presbyterian. He is counsel to the Cor
poration Law Company, New York City;
occasional attorney in closing of titles for
the Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust
Company and legal adviser to recipients of
Union Settlement benefactions. . He is also
counsel for numerous large estates. He is a
member of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation and the West End Presbyterian
Church in the City of New York. Mr.
Schaefer married in New York City,
August 31,. 1905, Ida Ethel Lewis (A. B.
Barnard College, Columbia University),
and they have one son, Frederick. William,
Jr. Residence : 2394 Seventh Avenue. Ad
dress : 71 Wall Street, New York City.
SCHAFFER, Frank:
Merchant; born in New York City, Jan
uary 18, i860; son of William and Caro
line Schaffer. He received his education
in New York City public schools and the
College of the City of New York (scien
tific-course). He has traveled extensively
in West Indies, Mexico, Central and South
America, Africa, Japan, China and East

India in commercial interests ; made sev
eral exploration trips in Colombia, South
America, and on the Amazon from Peru
to Para, receiving recognition from the
Columbian Government; and is now in
terested in the cane sugar plantation busi
ness in Cuba and Santo Domingo. He
also made a very extended exploration trip
through the Choco country of the State
of Cauca, Colombia, South America, meet
ing in the trip a number of negro tribes,
direct descendants of the original negroes
brought to South America almost four
hundred years ago to work on the roads
built from the Caribbean Sea to Peru and
in gold mines (of which there are many to
be rediscovered and no doubt many new
ones discovered), and he has a very high
opinion of the mineral and -economic pos
sibilities of the Atrato Valley and the
Choco country. He is vice-president, treas
urer and director of Hugh Kelly and Com
pany, the Central Ansonia Sugar Company,
The American Dental Manufacturing Com
pany; treasurer and director of Santiago
Development Company; director of Solo
mon Springs Copper Company and vice-
president, treasurer, and director of The
Porvenir Sugar Company. In politics he
is a Democrat. He has received the deco
ration of Simon Bolivar from Venezuela
for commercial services rendered that
country. Residence : 59 East Eighty-
fourth Street, New York City. Address :
81 Wall Street, New York City.
SCHEFFLER, Frederick A.:
Mechanical and electrical engineer; born
in Galion, Ohio, December 20, 1858; son of
Theodore and Mary E. (Lewis) Scheffler.
He was graduated from Paterson Semi
nary, Paterson, New Jersey, in 1875. He
designed the second Edison electrical loco
motive built in 1882, and operated at Menlo
Park, New Jersey; was superintendent of
Erie (Pennsylvania) City Iron Works,
from 1884 to 1889; acting general superin
tendent of Westinghouse Electrical Manu
facturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
sylvania, in 1889 and 1890; general superin
tendent of the Brush Electrical Company,
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eral Eastern States agent of the Stirling
County, from 1893 to 1899. His specialty
is shop management and commercial en
gineering. He was for three years a mem
ber of the council of Borough of Glen
Ridge, New Jersey. He is sales engineer of
The Babcock and Wilcox Company. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
a Congregationalist. Mr. Scheffler is a
member of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers and the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers. He is trus
tee of the Glen Ridge Congregational
Church. His favorite recreations are
photography, golfing and automobiling.
He is a member of the Magnetic, Lawyers',
Congregational and Engineers' Clubs. Mr.
Scheffler married in Passaic, New Jersey,
April 25, 1885, Carrie Linda Rose, and they
have two children : Marion Rose, born in
1899, and Julia Lucille, born in 1893. Resi
dence : 293 Ridgewood Avenue, Glen
Ridge, New Jersey. Address : 85 Liberty
Street, New York City.
SCHENCK, Frederick Brett:
Banker; born in New York City, June 9,
1851 ; son of Oscar and Cornelia A.
Schenck. He received his education in
Brooklyn, New York. He is president and
director of the Liberty National Bank; di
rector of the Bowling Green Trust Com
pany, Safe Deposit Company of New
York and of the Brunswick City Dock and
Improvement Company.' In politics he is
a Republican and in religion a Protestant.
He is treasurer of the International Com
mittee of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, and is a member of the Holland
Society of New York and the Union
League and Lawyers' Clubs. Residence:
Englewood, New Jersey. Address : Care
of the Liberty National Bank, New York
City.
SCHERMERHORN, Martin Kellogg:
Clergyman; born in Durham, New York,
1841 ; son of E. Bogardus Schermerhorn
and Elizabeth (Merritt) Schermerhorn.
He was graduated from Williams College
in 1865, and studied in Union Theological
Seminary, New York, and at Yale Theo

logical School. He was pastor of the Pres
byterian Church in Amenia, New York,
from 1868 to 1870, then became pastor of the
Church of the Unity in Boston, and after
that successively of the Church of Our
Father, Buffalo, St. Mark's Irving Memo
rial Church, Tarrytown, St. John's Church,
Arlington, Massachusetts, and Channing
Memorial Church, Newport, Rhode Island,
from 1878 to 1907; and is now retired as
honorary ex-pastor of the church in New
port, Rhode Island. He is author of:
Ancient Sacred Scriptures of the World;
Renascent Christianity; Thoughts for the
Twentieth Century; Unitarian Catholicity;
Universal Worship and Catholic fheoso-
phy, and is writer for magazines and lec
turer on various topics. Mr. Schermerhorn
is a director of the New Thought Meta
physical Alliance, and the Theosophical So
ciety. His favorite recreation is pedestrian-
ism. He is a member of the University
Club. Mr. Schermerhorn married in Pough
keepsie, New York, 1868, Anna Barnes
Wheeler, and they have one daughter, Eliza
beth Wheeler, born in 1869. Address: 14
Garfield Ridge, Poughkeepsie, New York.
SCHTEFFELIN, Bradhurst:
Merchant and philanthropist; born in
New York City, September 21, 1824; son
of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin and Maria
Teresa (Bradhurst ) Schieffelin. After re
ceiving an education in private schools he
entered the wholesale drug house of
Schieffelin Brothers, established by his
grandfather in 1894, and in which he has
been a partner for over half a century. Mr.
Schieffelin has not only had a most honor
able career as a merchant, but has from
the attainment of his majority, been identi
fied with movements having for their ob
ject progress and reform. He was the first
to introduce petroleum to the world, com
mercially; was the organizer of a commit
tee of leading citizens to advise and co
operate with President Lincoln, during the
Civil War, and during the commercial crisis
following the war he sheltered and provided
food, at his own expense for thousands of
destitute people ; he was the organizer of
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tion of broad philanthropy; and has been
also an advocate of political reforms, nota
bly as an- opponent of public money for
sectarian purposes, and an advocate of the
limitation of inheritances. He married at
Montpelier, Vermont, Lucy Dodge. Ad
dress : New Dorp, Staten Island, New York.
SCHIEREN, Charles Adolph:
Manufacturer and ex-mayor; born in
Diisseldorf, Rhenish Prussia, February 28,
1842; educated in public schools in Ger
many until 1856, when, at the age of
fourteen, he came to the United States.
He learned the cigar-maker's trade and af
terward assisted his father in the business
in Brooklyn until. 1864, when he began as
a clerk in the leather belting factory of
Philip F. Pasquay, in New York City. In
1868 he established for himself in the
belting business with an original capital
of two thousand dollars, and from that the
enterprise has grown until the firm of
Charles A. Schieren and Company now
has, besides its New York headquarters
and factory, branch houses in Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago, and large tanneries in
Brooklyn, Adamsburg, Pennsylvania, and
Bristol, Tennessee. Much of the success
of the business is due to Mr. Schieren's
inventions, including the Electric Belt, the
American Joint Leather Link Belt, and
other improvements in belting for swift
running machinery. From his first vote
Mr. Schieren has been a Republican, and
was for three years president of the Young
Men's Republican Club of Brooklyn. In
1893 he received the nomination of the
Republican Party for mayor of Brooklyn,
and was elected by a very large majority,
and gave the city a wise and conservative
administration, declining a renomination.
He is a member of the Lutheran Church,
and he was actively concerned in the erec
tion of the beautiful bronze statue of Mar
tin Luther at Washington, D. C, while the
new Lutheran college buildings at Gettys
burg, Pennsylvania ' (the Pennsylvania
College), owe much to his earnest inter
est and encouragement. He has for many
years served as a trustee of the Young
Men's Christian Association and of the

Sunday School Union in Brooklyn, and
also as a director in the Union for Chris
tian Work and in the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Children. He was a
member of the committee appointed for
the erection of a statue of Henry Ward
Beecher, and of that of J. S. T. Strana-
han, and also of the committee appointed
for the- erection of a new building for the
Young Women's Christian Association.
He has always taken a deep interest in
our export trade, and was temporary chair
man of the National Consular Reform
Convention which met in Washington
about two years ago. He is a member of
the Chamber of Commerce, the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences, Long Island Historical
Society, the Germania and Hamilton Clubs
of Brooklyn, and the Down Town, Drug
Trade, Fulton and Union League Clubs of
New York City. Residence: 405 Clinton
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Office ad
dress : Schieren Building, Ferry and Cliff
Streets, New York City.
SCHIFF, Jacob Henry:
Banker; born in Frankfort-011-the-Main,
in 1847. He was educated in the schools
of Germany until he was eighteen years
old, when he came to New York and en
tered upon his business career as a bank
clerk, and a few years later became a part
ner in the firm of Budge, Schiff and Com
pany, bankers and brokers, in -which he
continued until 1875, when that firm went
out of business and Mr. Schiff became
junior member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb
and Company, of which his father-in-law,
Solomon Loeb, was then the senior part
ner; and when the latter retired in 1885,
Mr. Schiff became the head of the firm,
and has so continued ever since. The
firm are private bankers constantly identi
fied with the largest operations ; financed
and were largely interested in the reorgani
zation of the Union Pacific in 1897, and
the subsequent transactions by which the
control of the Southern Pacific and other
railroads were acquired ; placed the large
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constantly with practically every financial
operation of national importance. Mr. Schiff
is a director of the National City Bank, the
Morton Trust Company, Title Guarantee
and Trust Company, the Bond and Mort
gage Guarantee Company and numerous
other financial corporations. Mr. Schiff has
been prominent in public-spirited enterprises
and in various reform movements. He was
a conspicuous, member of the second Com
mittee of Seventy, and of the later
committees of Fifteen and Nine which
were similarly employed in work for civic
betterment. He has labored for the inter
ests of the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, as its vice-president and as a mem
ber of its principal committees. He is also
prominent in charitable work, is vice-
president of the Baron de Hirsch Fund,
and president of the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids. Mr. Schiff has been a
prominent supporter of many movements
devoted to the spread of educational cul
ture. He has encouraged particularly the
study of Semitic literature, a subject in
which he is himself deeply versed. In this
connection he founded the Semitic Museum
at Harvard, and the Jewish Theological
Seminary of New York, besides giving a
fund of ten thousand dollars to the New
York Library toward the purchase of a
Semitic library. He is a member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History and the
Lawyers' and Republican Clubs of New
York City. He married, in 1875, Therese
Loeb. Residence : 965 Fifth Avenue, New
York City. Office address : 52 William
Street, New York City.
SCHIFF, Mortimer L.:
Banker; born in New York City, June
5, 1877; son of Jacob H. Schiff and Ther
ese Schiff. He was graduated from Am
herst College in 1896; and received the
honorary M.A. degree in 1906. He is a
member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and
Company; secretary and trustee of the
Provident Loan Society of New York; di
rector of the Fidelity Bank, Mercantile
Trust Company, United States Mortgage
and Trust Company, Social Halls Associa

tion, and of the New York Yacht, Whist,
Republican, Lotos and City Midday Clubs,
the Automobile Club of America, Lawyers'
and St. Andrew's Golf Clubs. He married,
in New York City, April 30, 1901, Adele G.
Newstedt. Address : 52 William Street,
New York City.
SCHLEY, Grant Barney:
Banker; born at Chapinville, Ontario
County, New York, February 25, 1845. He
was educated in the Canandaigua Academy
until 1861, when he became an express clerk
at Syracuse, became express agent at Sus
pension Bridge, New York, in 1863, and
in 1866 removed to New York City, where
he was connected with the money depart
ment of the American Express Company
until 1874; then with the first National
Bank of New York until 1880; member of
the firm of Groesbeck and Schley, bankers
and brokers, until 1885, and since then of
Moore and Schley, of which he has been
for years senior member. The firm is one
of the most extensive and prominent oper
ating on and having membership in the New
York Stock Exchange, and Mr. Schley is
connected as officer or director with many
large manufacturing, financial and mining
corporations. He is a member of the Union
League, Manhattan, Metropolitan, New
York Yacht and other clubs, and of the
American Fine Arts Society. Mr. Schley
married in New York City, in 1879, Eliza
beth Baker. He has a summer residence at
Far Hills, New Jersey. Residence: 845
Fifth Avenue, New York City. Office: 80
Broadway, New York City.
SCHLEY, Wlnfleld Scott:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy; was
bom near Frederick, Maryland, October 9,
1839; being son of John Thomas and
Georgiana Virginia Schley. He was ap
pointed acting midshipman in the United
States Navy in 1856, and was graduated
from the United States Naval Academy in
i860 ; promoted to master in 1861 ; commis
sioned lieutenant, July 18, 1862; lieutenant-
commander, July 25, 1866; commander,
June 10, 1874; captain, March 31, 1888;
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March 3, 1899; retired, October 9, 1901.
He served through the Civil War, and af
terward on various duties and stations. He
took charge of the Greely Relief Expedition
and rescued Lieutenant (now Major-Gen
eral) A. W. Greely and six other survivors
at Cape Sabine. After the declaration of
war with Spain, he was ordered to com
mand the Flying Squadron, on duty in
Cuban waters; he was the senior officer
present and in immediate command at the
destruction of Cervera's Fleet, off Santiago
de Cuba, July 3, 1898. He was presented
with a gold sword by the people of Penn
sylvania, and a silver sword by the Royal
Arcanum, a gold and jeweled medal by the
Legislature of the State of Maryland, a
silver service, and various other gifts, for
his services at the Battle of Santiago. He
was promoted to rear-admiral, March 3,
1899, and from November 9, 1899, was in
command of the South Atlantic Station un
til October 9, 1901, when he was placed up
on the retired list, having attained the age
of sixty-two years. He is author of: The
Rescue of Greely, 1886; and of Forty-five
Years Under the Flag, 1904. He married,
September 10, 1863, Annie R. Franklin, of
Annapolis, Maryland. He is a member
of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and
of the New York, New York Yacht, Sea
wanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and of the
Army and Navy Clubs, New York City,
and the Metropolitan Club of Washington.
Address : 1826 I Street, Washington, D. C.
SCHMIDT, Max Eberhardt:
Civil engineer; born in Berlin, Germany,
October 18, 1848; son of Albert and An
gelica (Hoefer) Schmidt. He was gradu
ated from the Prussian Military Adademy,
Berlin, in 1866, and from the Prussian
Academy of Engineers Officers in 1869. He
served during the Franco-Prussian War in
1871 and 1872; was engineer of the United
States Government Surveys, West of the
One Hundredth Meridian, the United
Coast and Geodetic Survey and Govern
ment Works in Minnesota and Dakota, until
1875; was chief assistant engineer on the
construction of the jetties at the mouth of
the Mississippi under Captain James B.

Eads until 1879; in charge of Government
works for the improvement of the Mis
sissippi River at Memphis and St. Louis
until 1881 ; chief engineer of the Mexican
Central Railroad from 1881 to 1889; en
gaged in business as general consulting en
gineer in Chicago and New York until
1896; and was president of Electric Axle
Light and Power Company until 1900. He
invented and constructed the first moving
platform which operated at the World's
Columbian Exposition. Mr. Schmidt is
president, general manager and chief en
gineer of the Continuous Transit Securities
Company, and director of the Multiple
Speed and Traction Company; and is a
member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. He is a member of the Down
Town and Whist Clubs of New York City,
the Whippany River and Morris County
Golf Clubs of Morristown, New Jersey,
and of the Chicago Club of Chicago. Mr.
Schmidt married, :n Winona, Minnesota,
September 22, 1875, Mary Everhart, and
they have two children: Eads Everhart,
born in 1876, and George Plumer, born in
1880. Residence: Madison Avenue, Con
vent, New Jersey. Address : 45 Broad
way, New York City.
SCHMUCKER, Samuel D. :
Jurist; born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
February 26, 1844; son of Rev. Samuel S.
Schmucker, president of the Evangelical
Lutheran Theological Seminary and Mary
Catherine (Steenbergen) Schmucker. He
was graduated from Pennsylvania College
at Gettysburg as A.B. in 1863, from the law
school of New York University as LL.B.
in 1865, and received his LL.D. from Penn
sylvania College in 1898, and also from. St.
John's College, Annapolis. He served in
the Union Army as sergeant in the Twenty-
sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1863. He
practiced law in Baltimore from 1866 to
1898, and in the latter year was elected on
the Republican ticket as one of tne associate
justices of the Court of Appeals of Mary
land, in which office he is still serving.
Judge Schmucker attained an enviable place
at the bar,- and has served as president of
the Bar Association of Baltimore; and he

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was a member of the commission which pre
pared the charter under which the City of
Baltimore is now governed. He married,
November 16, 1869, Helen J. Bridges. Resi
dence : 1712 Park Avenue, Baltimore. Of
fice address : Court of Appeals, Annapolis,
Maryland.
SCHNEIDER, Albert:
Physician, teacher, scientist; born in
Granville, Illinois, April 13, 1863 ; son of
John Schneider and Elizabeth (Burki)
Schneider. He was graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chi
cago, as M.D. in 1887, from University of
Minnesota, as M.S. in 1894, from Univer
sity of Illinois as B.S. in f 894, . and took
post-graduate work in Columbia University,
receiving his Ph.D. in 1897; and was fel
low in botany at Columbia University, from
1894 to 1896. He was instructor in cryp-
togamic botany at the University of Min
nesota, in 1893 and 1894 ; lecturer on botany
at the Brooklyn Institute in 1896; profes
sor of botany at Northwestern University,
from 1897 to 1903, and at the University
of California since 1903. He was head
teacher and resident physician of Spencer's
Academy, Indian Territory in 1889; assist-
and State zoologist of Minnesota in 1892 and
was assistant bacteriologist of the Illinois
Experiment Station in 1893-1894; director
of the Experiment Station of Spreckels
Sugar Company in 1906-1907 ; one of the di
rectors of the Board of the Galen Publish
ing Company in 1907, associate editor of the
Pacific Pharmacist in 1907, and was pro
fessor of bacteriology at the Minnesota Sea
side Station in 1904 and 1905 and in 1907.
Mr. Schneider has traveled in the United
States and Vancouver Island, British Co
lumbia. He has made researches in botany,
with special reference to free nitrogen as
similating bacteria (rhizobia) and vegeta
ble drugs, and has written numerous papers
on technical subjects, including: Signifi
cance of Free Nitrogen Assimilating Bac
teria in Agriculture, Vegetable Drugs and
Sugar Beet Investigations. He is the au
thor of several standard text-books and
of other books. He is a member of the
American Medical Association (Section of

Pharmacology), American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, American Phar
maceutical Association, American Associa- .
tion for the Advancement of Science, As
sociation Internationale des Botanistes,
American Society of Naturalists, Associa
tion of Botanists of the> Central States,
Torrey Botanical Club, and is an honorary
member of Phi Chi. His favorite recrea
tions are outings, reading, opera and drama.
Dr. Schneider married in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1892,- Marie Louisa Harrington,
and they have one daughter, Cornelia Eliza
beth, born December 28, 1900. Residence:
Berkeley, California. Address : California
College of Pharmacy, San Francisco, Cali
fornia.SCHOULER, James:
Lawyer and author; born in Arlington,
Massachusetts, March 20, 1839; son of
William Schouler (adjutant-general of Mas
sachusetts, 1860-1866), and Frances (War
ren) Schouler, and grandson of James
Schouler of Kilbarchan, near Pa;sley, Scot
land, who came to the United States in 1816.
Mr. Schouler was graduated from Harvard
as A.B. in 1859, and he received the degree
of LL.D. from the National University ac
Washington in 1891, and from John Hop
kins University in 1902. After his gradua
tion from Harvard he taught school one
year, studied law, and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1862. He served a year in
the Union Army, as a lieutenant in the
Forty-third Massachusetts . Volunteer In
fantry and in the Signal Corps, and after
the war practiced in Boston and Wash
ington. He was a lecturer and professor
in the Boston University Law School froni
1885 to 1903 ; non-resident professor in the
National University Law School at Wash
ington, and from 1891 lecturer on Ameri
can history in Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Schouler is author of legal text
books and treatises of high authority, in
cluding: The Law of Domestic Relations,
1870 ; The Law of Personal Property, 1873 ;
The Law of Bailments, 1880; The Law of
Husband and Wife, 1882; Law of Execu
tors and Administrators, 1883 ; and Law of
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through several editions. He is also promi
nent as a historian, his principal historical
work being his History of the United
States from 1783 to 1865 (six volumes),
and he is also author of Lives of Jefferson
and Hamilton; Americans of 1776; and
other books. He is a member and corre
sponding member of the Massachusetts His
torical Society, and is an ex-pres,ident of
the American Historical Association. Pro
fessor Schouler married in Boston, in 1870,
Emily F. Cochran, who died in 1904. Ad
dress : 2 Newbury Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts. SCHREITER, Henry:
Lawyer; born in Freiwaldau, Austrian
Silesia, 1858; son of Franz Ferdinand
Schreiter R. von Schwarzenfeld and Antoi
nette Louise C. (Janowenski) Schreiter von
Schwartzenfeld. He received his edu
cation by private tutors, in the Mili
tary Academy at Wiener Neustadt, Lower
Austria, Teresianum and the Polytechnic
School at Vienna; Law School and School
of Political Science, Columbia Univer
sity. He is engaged in the practice of
law as a member of the firm of Schrei
ter & Mathews; almost exclusively as
counsel in patent, trade-marks, copyright
and in corporation cases. He is president
of the New York Asbestos Manufacturing
Company; president and treasurer of
Ravenswood Paper Mills Company; treas
urer of the Pahzl Digester Lining Com
pany. Mr. Schreiter married in Yonkers,
New York, September 14, 1894, Harriett A.
Baker, and they have two children: Ruth
Harriett, born November 25, 1895, and Elsa
Adele, born February 18, 1901. Country
home: Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey.
Residence : 59 West Eighty-seventh Street,
New York City. Office address : 20 Nassau
Street, New York City.
SCHULTZ, Alfred Reginald:
Geologist ; born in Wisconsin ; son of
John Frederick Schultz and Ida May
(Kirst) Schultz. He was graduated from
Tomah High School in 1896, with first
honors, from the University of Wisconsin
with the degree of B.S. in 1900, and from

the University of Chicago with the degree
of Ph.D. in 1905. Pie was professor of
sciences in the Wausau High School from
1900 to 1902; research assistant from 1902
to 1904; was associate editor of the Wis
consin Handbook of Track and Field Ath
letics, 1902; chief of an exploration party
in Ontario, Canada, 1903 ; resident hydrolo-
gist in Wisconsin in 1903; a fellow of the
University of Chicago in 1904 and 1905 ;
and geologist in the United States Geologi
cal Survey since 1905. In politics he is a
Republican and he is a Lutheran in his re
ligious affiliation. Dr. Schultz has traveled
all over North America. He is a member
of Sigma Xi Society, the National Geo
graphic Society, the Washington Geologi
cal Society, the Pick and Hammers (geo
logical), and Quaranta Society. Residence:
Tomah, Wisconsin. Official Address :
United States Geological Survey, Washing
ton, D. C.
SCHUMANN, Walter:
United States consul; born in New York
City, July I, 1870. He was graduated from
Columbia Grammar School (commercial
course) at the head of the class of 1888
(first honors in bookkeeping), won gold
medal for all-around gymnastics in 1886
and during his last years at school, was
co-editor of the monthly school paper, The
Columbia News. He was with an import
ing house of New York City, having a
large trade in China, Japan and Italy, from
1888 to 1891, with structural iron and steel
works from 1891 (mtil 1893, and, when the
company failed, with former superintendent
of works bought out the business, stock
and unfinished contracts and continued un
til February I, 1898, when he sold his in
terest to his partner. He was appointed
June 23, 1897, United States consul to
Mainz, Germany - and transferred March
30, 1907, to Odessa. He is author of: The
Law of Marriage and Divorce of the Ger
man Empire; Outline History of the City
of Mainz, Germany; also a History of
American Literature (in the German lan
guage). Address: American Consulate,
Odessa, Russia.

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SCHURMAN, Jacob Gould:
President of Cornell University; born at
Freetown, Prince Edward Island, May 22,
1854, son of Robert Schurman, and grand
son of Caleb Schurman, who was born at
New Rochelle, New York, and whose an
cestors came from Holland in the Seven
teenth Century. He won in 1875 the Cana
dian Gilchrist Scholarship to the University
of London, where he was graduated in 1877
with the degree of A.B. and received that
of A.M. in 1878. At the same time he took
graduate work in Paris and at the Uni
versity of Edinburgh during the years 1877
and 1878, receiving from the latter univer
sity the degree of D.Sc. Having won the
Hibbert Traveling Fellowship, which was
open to all graduates of British universities ;
he studied from 1878 to 1880 at Heidel
berg, Berlin, and Gottingen, and in
Italy. The degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by Columbia University in 1892,
by Yale in 1901, and the University of
Edinburgh in 1902. After holding profes
sorship in Acadia College and in Dalhousie
College, he was in 1886 appointed Sage
professor of philosophy at Cornell Univer
sity, becoming some years later head of
the Sage School of Philosophy. In 1892
he was elected to the presidency of Cor
nell University, which office he still holds.
In 1899 he was appointed by President Mc
Kinley chairman of the United States Phil
ippine Commission, for the purpose of in
vestigating the conditions of those islands.
He is a life member of the American Acad
emy in Rome, and also member of the Uni
versity and Union League Clubs of New
York, and the Town and Gown Club of
Ithaca. He is fond of out-door sports and
spends his leisure hours in walking, golfing,
skating or toboganning. President Schur
man is a prolific writer and is author of
many philosophical works, among them be
ing : Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evo
lution, 1881 ; The Ethical Import of Darwin
ism, 1888 ; Belief in God, 1890 ; and others.
He is also author of : A Generation of Cor
nell, 1898; and Phillipine Affiairs— A Ret
rospect and Outlook, 1902. He married
October 1, 1884, Barbara Forrest Munro,

and by this union there have been eight
children: Catherine Munro, born in 1886;
Robert, born in 1888; George Munro, born '
in 1892; Helen, born in 1894; Jacob Gould,
Jr., born in 1896; Barbara, born in 1898;
Frederick, born in 1900, and died in 1901;
and Dorothy, born in 1905. Residence: 41
East Avenue, Ithaca. Address : Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York.
SCHUYLER, Montgomery, Jr.:
Diplomatic and consular officer; born in
Stamford, Connecticut, September 2, 1877;
son of Montgomery Schuyler and Katherine
Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler, and
grandson of Rev. Anthony Schuyler for
many years rector of Grace Church, Orange,
New Jersey. After being graduated from
Columbia College as A.B. in 1899, he re
mained as university scholar one year and
university fellow two years in Indo-Iranian
languages, receiving his A.M. degree in 1900.
He began a diplomatic career in 1902 as sec
ond secretary of the American Embassy at
St. -Petersburg, and in 1904 became secre
tary of the American Legation and consul-
general at Bangkok, Siam, rerriaining there
until 1906, when he was appointed to his
present post as secretary of the American
Legation and American consul-general at
Bucharest, Roumania. Mr. Schuyler is au
thor if: an Index Verborum of the Frag
ments of the Avesta, 1901 ; and of a Bibli
ography of the Sanskrit Drama ; and he has
contributed to various publications on Ori
ental and philological subjects. He is a mem
ber of the American Oriental and other
learned societies, the Society of Mayflower
Descendants, Society of Descendants of Co
lonial Governors, and others. Residence:
1025 Park Avenue, New York City. Official
address : American Legation, Bucharest,
Roumania. SCHWAB, Charles M.:
Capitalist; born in, Williamsburg, Blair
County, Pennsylvania, February- 18, 1862.
The family removed to Loretto, Cambria
County, Pennsylvania, in 1872. He was
graduated from St. Francis College at six
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farmers, and drove a coach to and from
Cresson, Pennsylvania, his father having, at
one time, a contract for carrying the mails
between Loretto and Cresson. After leav
ing school he became clerk in a grocery
store at Braddock, Pennsylvania. He was
anxious to become a civil engineer, and in
1881 made his ambition known to Captain
Jones, one of the superintendents in the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, of the Car
negie Company, whom he asked for em
ployment. He began by driving stakes at
a dollar a day, but in less than a year he
was Captain Jones' chief assistant, and in
seven years was chief of the engineer de
partment, and it was principally under his
direction that the Homestead plant was
erected. On the death of Captain Jones in
1889, he was made superintendent of the
Edgar Thomson Works, and in 1892 the
Homestead Works was also placed in his
charge. • He was elected a member of the
Board of Managers of the Carnegie Com
pany in 1896, and its president in 1897, and
when the Carnegie interests were merged
in the larger United States Steel Corpora
tion in 1901, he became the first president
of the corporation, remaining until 1904,
when he resigned the presidency. He is
now president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration, a trustee of the New York Trust
Company, and a director in the Carnegie
Steel Company and many other iron, steel,
coke and coal corporations. Mr. Schwab
has been active in philanthropy as well as
in business. He built a magnificent Catho
lic church at Loretto, Pennsylvania, and es
tablished a complete electric lighting plant
there; built a convent house at Cresson,
Pennsylvania, a thoroughly equipped indus
trial school at Homestead, Pennsylvania,
and" fitted up on the southern shore of
Staten Island, New Y"ork, a sanitarium for
the benefit of sick and crippled children
during the summer months. He has a fine
summer residence at Braddock, Pennsyl
vania, and a house in Pittsburgh, besides
the magnificent residence which he has built
on Riverside Drive at Seventy-fourth
Street, in New York. Mr. Schwab mar
ried at Loretto, Pennsylvania, in 1883, Em

ma Dinkey. Residence : 323 West Seventy-
fourth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress : in Broadway, New York City.
SCHWAB, Gustav H.:
Merchant; born in New York City, May
30, 1851 ; son of Gustav Schwab and Cathe
rine Elizabeth (von Post) Schwab. He
was sent to Europe when thirteen years
old to be educated in the gymnasium (Latin
School) at Stuttgart, Germany, and at sev
enteen he entered the office of a firm in
Bremen for a mercantile training and af
ter that spent six months in Liverpool. Mr.
Schwab on July 1, 1876, entered the firm
of Oelrichs and Company (founded by his
great-grandfather in 1798), and took charge
of the steamship business of the firm, which
had held the agency of North German Lloyd
Steamship Company since 1861, relieving
his father of that duty. He was active in
the People's Municipal League, in 1890, in
the nomination of Mayor Strong and the
formation of the Citizens' Union, 1895, and
also in the nomination of Mayor Low. He
is chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Commerce and the Revenue Laws of the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of
New York; conducted the sound money
campaign of the Chamber of Commerce
against free silver, and was prominent in
the work of agitation for the enlargement
of the Canal System of New York State,
resulting in the adoption by the people
of the one hundred million dollar Barge
Canal plan which is now in process of
execution. He is first vice-president of
the Merchants' Association of New York;
a partner in the firm of Oelrichs & Com
pany ; a director of the United States Trust
Company, the Merchants' National Bank,
the Produce Exchange Safe Deposit Com
pany, and the Atlantic Mutual Insurance
Company. He is an Independent Republican
and an Episcopalian, and is senior warden
of All Souls' Church, New York City and
vestryman of St. Mary's Church,- Scarbor
ough, New York. Mr. Schwab is a director
of the German Society of the City of New
York; chairman of the Committee on For
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the Chamber of Commerce of the State of
New York; chairman of the Canal Com
mittee of the New York Produce Ex
change; director of the St. John's Guild.
He received the Prussian decoration of the
Red Eagle of the third class and the Italian
decoration of SS. Maurizio e Lazaro
(cavaliere), the Oldenburg Decoration of
Ritterkranz. Mr.- Schwab married at Ford
ham, New York, October 25, 1876, Caro
line Wheeler, and they have two children :
Emily Elizabeth, born in 1878; and Gus
tav Schwab Jr., born in 1879. Country
home: Scarboro. Residence: 31 West Forty-
seventh Street, New York City. Office ad
dress : 5 Broadway, New York City.
SCHWAB, John Christopher:
Librarian; born in New York City, April
1, 1865; son of Gustav Schwab and Cath
arine Elizabeth (von Post) Schwab. He
was graduated from Yale in 1886 with the
degree of B.A. and received the M.A. de
gree in 1888, also receiving the degree of
Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen, in
1889. He was professor of political
science in Yale University from 1898 to
1905 and is now librarian of Yale Univer
sity Library. Since 1892 editor of the
Yale Review. In politics he is an Inde
pendent and he is a member of the Episco
palian Church. Dr. Schwab has traveled
in Europe and Africa. He is correspond
ing member of the Massachusetts Historical
Society; a member of the American Eco
nomic Association; the British Royal Eco
nomic Society and a director of the Lowell
House. He is a member of the Century As
sociation and the Graduates' Club of New
Haven. Mr. Schwab married in New
Haven, Connecticut, October 5, 1893, Edith
Aurelia Fisher' and their children are: Kath
arine Fisher, born in 1898, and Norman
von Post, born in 1904. Residence: 310
Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
Address : Yale University Library, New
Haven, Connecticut.
SCIDMORE, George H.:
Consular officer; born in Iowa. He was
appointed consular clerk May 6, 1876 ; ap
pointed vice-consul at Dunfermline, Scot

land, August 24, 1877; appointed vice-con
sul at Osaka and Hioga, Japan, Septem
ber 13, 1884; vice-consul-general at Shang
hai, China, June 24, 1885; vice and deputy
consul-general at Kanagawa, Japan, Decem
ber 23, 1885 ; appointed special agent to in
vestigate the claims of American citizens
to lands in the Fiji Islands, September 7,
1891 ; appointed deputy consul-general at
Kanagawa June 1, 1894; deputy consul-
general at Yokohama November 5, 1902;
detailed a legal adviser to the American
Legation at Tokoyo March 17, 1904; ap
pointed consul at Nagasaki March 30, 1907.
Address : Nagasaki, Japan.
SCOTT, Austin:
President of Rutgers College; born at
Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio, August 10,
1848; son of J. Austin Scott and Sarah
(Ranney) Scott. The family removed to
Toledo, Ohio, in 1859. He was pre
pared in the public schools of that Gity, and
went to Yale, where he edited the College
Courant, and was graduated as A.B. in
1869; was a student in the University of
Michigan in 1869 and 1870, receiving the
degree of A.M., and continued his studies
at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig,
receiving from the latter the degree of
Ph.D. in 1873 ; and the degree of LL.D. was
conferred upon him by Princeton in 1891.
While engaged in his studies abroad he was
private secretary to George Bancroft, the
historian, who was then United States min
ister to Germany. Dr. Scott was an in
structor in German in the University of
Michigan from 1873 to 1875; then became
associate in history at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity until 1881, establishing there the
Seminar of American History, and while
so engaged aiding Mr. Bancroft in the
collection of materials for his History of
the Constitution of tlje United States. Dr.
Scott became connected with Rutgers Col
lege as acting professor of history in 1883,
and later in the same year became Voorhees
professor of history, political economy and
constitutional law, which chair he re
tained until elected in 1890 to his present
office as president of Rutgers College.
President Scott is author of the volume,

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New Jersey, in the American Common
wealths Series. He married at Newark,
New Jersey, February 21, 1882, Anna Pren
tiss Stearns. Address : New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
SCOTT, Francis Markoe:
Jurist; born in New York City, March
14, 1848 ; son of Thomas Scott and Eleanor
A. Scott. He received his early education
in the public schools, was graduated from
the College of the City of New York as
A.B. in 1867, and from Columbia Law
School as LL.B. in 1869; and he received
the A.M. degree from the City College.
He was admitted to the bar of New York
in 1869; was appointed assistant corpora
tion counsel of New York City in Febru
ary, 1885; aqueduct commissioner of New
York City in August, 1888; corporation
counsel of the City of New York in Febru
ary, 1895, and in 1897 was elected a jus
tice of the Supreme Court of New York for
the term expiring December 31, 1911.
Judge Scott is a Democrat in politics. He
is a member of the Century Association,
and of the University, Manhattan, Larch
mont Yacht, Oakland Golf, and Garden
City Golf Clubs. He married, at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, in 1878, Lucy Park-
man Higgins, and they have three children :
Mrs. Eleanor S. Tew, Margaret S., and T.
Sutherland. Residence : 42 Park Avenue,
New York City. Official address : County
Courthouse, New York City.
SCOTT, Frank Hall:
Publisher; born in Terre Haute, Indiana,
April 7, 1848; son of William Clement
Scott and Maria Frances (Crawford)
Scott. He was educated in the public
schools of Richmond, Indiana, and in the
Pennsylvania Military Academy, and re
ceived the degree of L.H.D. from Marietta
College, Ohio, in 1894. After a slight busi
ness experience in Indiana he came to New
York City in 1870, and entered the employ
of Scribner & Company; helped launch
the first number of Scribner's Monthly and
when the name of ' magazine was changed
to The Century, in 1881, he became' treas
urer and since 1892 has been president of

The Century Company. He is active in all
general movements affecting the publish
ing world. He was one of the founders
and later president of Aldine Club; direc
tor and president from 1904 to 1906 of the
American Publishers' Association, and is a
member of the Aldine, City, Century and
Players Clubs. Mr. Scott married in New
York City, 1878, Julia Draper Davis, and
they have two children : Donald and Clem
ent. Address : 33 East Seventeenth Street,
New York City.
SCOTT, Hugh Lenox:
Officer, United States Army; born at
Danville, Kentucky, September 22, 1853;
son of William M. Scott and Mary
(Hodge) Scott. He was graduated from
the -United States Military Academy, June
14, 1876; commissioned first lieutenant Sev
enth Cavalry, June 28, 1878, captain Seventh
Cavalry, January 24, 1895 ; major and as
sistant adjutant-general United States Vol
unteers, May 12, 1898; lieutenant-colonel
and assistant adjutant-general of Volun
teers, August 17, 1899; major of the Four
teenth Cavalry, February 25, 1903. He served
in the Sioux Expedition, 1876; Nez Perces
Expedition, 1877; Camp Robinson, Ne
braska, and the Cheyenne Expedition, 1878;
routine duty, principally with Indians of
the Plains, 1878-91 ; honorable mention from
the War Department, for services in Okla
homa, 1891 ; in charge of investigation of
the Ghost Dance disturbances in 1890 and
1891 ; enlisted and commanded the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache Indians, Troop L,
Seventh Cavalry, 1892, until mustered out
after five years' enlistment (the last Indian
troop mustered out) ; in charge of Gero-
nimo's band of Chiricahua Apaches, from
1894 to 1897. He was on duty at the Bu
reau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institu
tion, writing a work on the sign language
of the Plains Indians, of North America,
from November, 1897, until outbreak of
Spanish War. He served as adjutant-gen
eral of the Second and Third Divisions of
the First Army Corps, from May, 1898, to
February, 1899 ; adjutant-general of the De
partment of Havana, under General Lud
low, from March, 1899, to May, 1900; ad-

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jutant-general of the Division of Cuba un
til November 15, when the Division of
Cuba was changed to the Department of
Cuba; adjutant-general of the Department
of Cuba, from 1900 to 1902, and acting
governor-general of Cuba; took part in
turning over the Government of Cuba to
the Cubans, May 20, 1902 ; was on duty with
General Wood winding up the affairs of
the Military Government of Intervention in
Cuba, 1902; served in the Philippines from
1903 to 1906 in the establishment of civil
government, as governor and commander
of the troops of the Sulu Archipelago; the
conquest and pacification of the Sulu Archi
pelago and brought about the abolishment
of slavery, and the slave trade therein. Since
September 1, 1906, he has been on duty as
superintendent of the United States Mili
tary Academy with the rank of colonel.
Colonel Scott is a member of the Geologic
al Society of America, American Anthropo
logical Association, Historical Society of
Texas, Society of Moro Campaigns, Society
of Foreign Wars, Society of the Spanish-
American War. He is author of various
monographs and reports relating to the
Plains Indians. Colonel Scott is a mem
ber of the. Metropolitan Club of Washing
ton, D. C, Army and Navy and Union
League Clubs of New York City, the Boone
and Crockett Club and the Ends of the
Earth Club. He married at Standing Rock,
Dakota, in June, 1880, Mary. Merrill, and
they have five children : David Hunter,
Anna Merrill, Lewis Merrill, Mary Blanch
ard and Sara Houston. Address : United
States Military Academy, West Point, New
York. SCOTT, John, Jr.:
Lawyer; born in Huntington, Pennsyl
vania, June 28, 1857 ; son of John Scott and
Annie E. (Eyster) Scott. He was grad
uated from Princeton University with the
degree of A.B. in 1877 and A.M. in 1880,
and was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania as B.L. in 1880. He was as
sistant city solicitor of Philadelphia from
1881 to 1884, and he has been in general
practice ever since. He is director of the

Centennial National Bank, and of sundry
coal companies ; also is trustee of the Poly
technic Hospital, and has been its president
since 1902. In his politics he is a Re
publican and he is a member of the Pres
byterian Church. Mr. Scott is member of
the Union League and Lawyers' Clubs of
Philadelphia. Mr. Scott married at Chest
nut Hill, Philadelphia, July 17, 1884, Mary
Lane Landis, and they have one son, J. T.
Reynolds Scott, born in 1885. Residence:
The Gladstone, Eleventh and Pine Streets,
Philadelphia. Office address : 1612 Stephen
Guard Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SCOTT, Nahan Ba:
United States senator; born December 18,
1842, in Guernsey County, Ohio; received
a common school education; enlisted in the
Army in 1862 and was mustered out in 1865.
After the war he engaged in the manufac
ture of glass at Wheeling, West Virginia,
where he has resided ever since; is presi
dent of the Central Glass Works and pres
ident of the Dollar Savings Bank of that
city. He was elected to the city council
in 1880, and served two years as president
of the second branch; was elected in 1882
to serve four years in the State Senate, "and
reelected in 1886; was selected as a member
of the Republican National Committee in
1888, and has served continuously since, and
has been a member of the Executive Com
mittee a greater portion of the time. He
was appointed Commissioner of Internal
Revenue by President McKinley, and en
tered that office January 1, 1898 ; was elected
to the United States Senate on January 25,
1899, and reelected -in 1905. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1911. Address:
Wheeling, West Virginia.
SCOTT, Thomas W.:
Adjutant-General of Illinois; born near
Danville, Illinois, and there spent his early
life. He enlisted in the Union Army at
Olney and served three and one-half years
during the Civil War. At the close of the
war he returned to Olney and engaged in
mercantile pursuits until 1873, when he
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he was a member of the Republican State
Central Committee, and during the cam
paign of 1896 was chairman of the Wayne
County Central Committee. He was a
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention in 1888 and a member of the com
mittee to notify Benjamin Harrison of his
nomination for the Presidency. He was
also a delegate to the Republican National
Convention of 1904, which nominated
President Theodore Roosevelt. General
Scott is at the present time the senior
member of the executive committee, Na
tional Council. of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and is now serving his thirteenth
year on this committee. He is president of
the First National Bank of Fairfield.
During the administration of Governor
Tanner he served as commissioner of the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and in 1903
was appointed adjutant-general with the
rank of brigadier-general by Governor
Yates, and July 1, 1907, by operation of law,
his rank was raised to major-general. Ad
dress : Fairfield, Illinois.
SCRIBNER, Charles:
Publisher; born in New York City, Oc
tober 18, 1854; son of- Charles Scribner
(founder of the Scribner publishing house)
and of Emma E. (Blair) Scribner. He was
graduated from Princeton in 1875. He has
been connected with the publishing house
since his graduation in 1875. He is a di
rector of the National Park Bank, the Bank
of the Metropolis and the Plaza Bank. Mr.
Scribner is a member of the National Acad
emy of Design, of the Century Associa-.
tion and of the University, Union, Morris
town, -Riding, Racquet and Tennis, Morris
County Golf, and Princeton Clubs. He mar
ried Louise, daughter of Rev. Jared B.
Flagg, D.D. Residence: 12 East Thirty-
eighth Street. Address : 155 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
SCRYMSER, James A.:
Telegraph company official; born in
New York, July 18, 1839 ; grandson of
James Scrymgeour, of Dundee, Scotland,
and eldest son of James Scrymser and Ann
(Thompson) Scrymser. He was graduated

from College Hill Academy, Poughkeep
sie, in 1856. He projected and organ
ized in 1865, the International Ocean Tele
graph Company, operating a cable line be
tween the United States and Cuba, West
Indies and South America; also the
Mexican Telegraph Company, 1879, and
the Central and South American Telegraph
Company, in 1880. These three companies
established 12,000 miles of cable and 2,500
miles land line connecting the United
States with Mexico, Central and South
America; and he is now president of the
Mexican Telegraph Company. He is a
veteran of the Civil War; enlisted in the
Twelfth New York Militia, April 19, 1861 ;
later appointed lieutenant of the Forty-
third New York Volunteers; was detailed
as aide-de-camp to Major-General Baldy
Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac;
captain and aide-de-camp of the Sixth
Army Corps; also the Left Grand Divi
sion, Army of the Potomac, Army of the
James, of the Eighteenth Army Corps. He
was a vice-president of the New York Asso
ciation for Improving the Condition of the
Poor; promoted and established the first
vacation schools in the City of New
York, the system of vacation schools later
extending throughout the United States,
Canada, Australia, England, Wales and
Scotland ; promoted the Constitutional
Amendment of the State of New York,
prohibiting the use of public funds for sec
tarian education; promoted and obtained
from the New York Legislature the School
Census Bill; promoted and organized the
first public meeting respecting the enlarge
ment of school accommodations in the
City of New York, since which time over
$50,000,000 has been expended by Greater
New York for this purpose. He promoted
and provided for the first public meeting
calling upon the public- to sustain Dr. Park
hurst in his reform movement; obtained
subscriptions amounting to $30,000 for the
Dr. Parkhurst Fund in behalf of the City
Vigilance League; original promoter and
contributor to the United Charities Build
ing, which was subsequently completed
through the liberality of John S. Kennedy,
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lion dollars. He is a member of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion; director
of the New York Botanical Garden; fel
low of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and of the Century Association and Metro
politan, Riding, Army and Navy and Jekyl
Island Clubs of which latter he is vice-pres
ident. He married in New York City, 1869,
Mary C. Prime. Residence: 107 East
Twenty-first Street. Address : 66 Broad
way, New York City.
SCUDDER, Henry Townsend:
Clergyman ; born in New York City, Sep
tember 7, 1854; son of Henry J. Scudder
and Louisa Henrietta (Davies) Scudder. He
received his preparatory education in Co
lumbia Grammar School; was graduated
from Columbia College with the degrees
of B.A. in 1874, and lvi.A. in 1877; studied
in the Berkeley Divinity School, Middle-
town, Connecticut, and received from Trin
ity College, Hartford, the degree of M.A.
He was assistant of Grace Church, Brook
lyn, New York, and since July 6, 1890, has
been rector of St. Stephen's Church, Brook
lyn. He is chairman of the Board of Trus
tees of the Pension Fund, of the Diocese
of Long Island, and chairman of the Com
mittee on Diocesan Fund of the Diocese of
Long Island. Dr. Scudder is a member of
the Long Island Historical Society, the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the
Order of Foreign Wars, Colonial Wars,
Sons of Revolution, Phi Kappa Psi frater
nity, New York Alumni Association, Phi
Kappa Psi, and Columbia College Alumni
Association. His favorite recreations are
sailing and boating. Mr. Scudder is au
thor of: Fairy Tales for Children; Alcuin,
in Church Eclectic ; Clerical Support ; Cleri
cal Pensions ; and other Essays ; and short
stories. Dr. Scudder is a member of the
University, Grolier, Columbia University,
and St. Nicholas Clubs, and the Bibliophile
Society. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, June 5, 1889, Margaret Mott Weeks,
and they have three children : Edna Hew
lett, Henry Holloway and Dorothy Weeks.
Address: 24A, Garden Place, Brooklyn,
New York.

SCUDDER, Myron Tracy:
Principal of State Normal School, New
Paltz, New York; born in Palamauir,
Madras Presidency, India, September 28,
i860; son of Ezekiel Carman and Sarah
(Tracy) Scudder (both missionaries of
the Dutch Reformed Church Board). He
was educated in public and private schools
in Ohio, California, New Jersey and New
York, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; was
graduated from Rutgers College, as A.B.
in 1882, A..M in 1886 and did post-gradu
ate work in philosophy at Yale. He was
general secretary of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Yonkers, New
York, in 1883 and 1884; principal at Fort
Plain, New York, from 1884 to 1889; prin
cipal of Rome Free Academy, Rome, New
York, in 1889 and 1890; instructor in
Latin and Greek, Plattsburgh State Nor
mal School, from 1890 to 1892; inspector
of high schools and academies of the
University of the State of New York, from
1892 to 1897; principal of Hillhouse High
School, New Haven, Connecticut, from
1897 to 1899; president of New Paltz Nor
mal School since 1899; lecturer in New
York University School of Pedagogy, in
1903 and 1904. He is author of: New
York Supplement of Frye's Geography ; also
of New York, Its State and Local Govern
ment (Maynard, Merrill) ; joint author of
Gill System of Moral and Civic Training.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the National Educational Asso
ciation, Lake Mohonk Arbitration Confer
ence, Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends
of the Indians, American Peace Society,
Boston, Religious Education Association,
Boys Alliance (vice-president), Play
ground Association of America (director),
Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Freemason,
Odd Fellows, Huguenot Grange of the
Patrons of Husbandry. His favorite recre
ation is cruising in his own schooner on the
North Atlantic Coast. Mr. Scudder married
at Far Hills, New Jersey, June, 1899,
Martha N. Dumont, and they have two
children: Elizabeth M. and Dorothy D.
Address: State Normal School, New Paltz,
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SEABROOK, Harry Hartshorne:
Physician, ophthalmologist; born at Key-
port, New Jersey, October 23, 1859: son of
Henry Hendrickson and Theresa (Walling)
Seabrook. He was educated in district and
private schools, Peddie Institute, Highs-
town, New Jersey, and graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons as M.
D. in 1881. He was lieutenant in the Third
Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey,
from 1878 to 1881. Dr. Seabrook was in
terne in the Bellevue Hospital from 1881
to 1883, then six months in Europe. He
was instructor in ophthalmology in the Uni
versity of the City of New York, and had
eye and ear clinics in the Presbyterian,
Bellevue and other dispensaries from 1884
to 1890; attending ophthalmological sur
geon of St. Luke's Hospital from 1894 to
1897; ophthalmological surgeon of the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1891 to
1907. Among other writings he published
a book on Heteraphorias and Insufficiencies
in 1901, and in 1903 he published a paper
on the protection of strained and diseased
eyes from injury from chemical light by
means of amber yellow glasses, and in 1908
another on effect of light upon the eye. Dr.
Seabrook is a member of the New York
Academy of Medicine, New York County
Medical Society, New York State Medical
Society, American Medical Association,
Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, the Society
of Medical Jurisprudence; and is president
of the Nason Manufacturing Company,
manufacturers of engineering specialties. He
is a member of the Sons of the Revolution,
the Machinery Club, the American Physical
Education Society, Illuminating Engineer
ing Society, National Geographic Society,
Plaza-Central Park and Twenty-ninth As
sembly District RepuDlican Clubs. He mar
ried at Montclair, New Jersey, November
2, 1881, May Nason, and they have two chil
dren: Raymond, born in 1889, and Alice,
born in 1891. Residence: 118 East Seventy-
second Street. Summer residence: Water
Witch Park, Highlands, New Jersey. Ad
dress: 71 Fulton Street, New York City.

SEABROOKE, Thomas Qulgley:
Actor ; born in Mount Vernon , New
York, October 20, i860; he was educated
in the public schools there. He made his
first appearance on the stage in 1880 and his
first New York appearance in 1882. He
made his first great success in the Isle of
Champagne in May -1892, which ran for
nearly three years. In. the season of 1906
he played in vaudeville with Pauline Hall.
He married, in 1883, Elvia Crox, an actress.
Address : 102 West Eighty-fifth Street, New
York City.
SEAMAN, Alfred P. W. :
Justice of the Municipal Court of New
York City; born in Winsted, Connecticut,
September 7, 1856; son of Rev. Samuel A.
Seaman. He was graduated from Colum
bia in 1879. Mr. Seaman was admitted to
the bar in 1880, and from then was actively
engaged in practice in the City of New
York. He was elected Municipal Court
Justice in 1903, upon an independent Re
form nomination. He was one of the
founders of the Tenement House Building
Company, one of the first to build model
tenements in New York City. He has been
an active official of the Citizens' Union
from its organization and of the Committee
of One Hundred on Transit Reform. He
is a member of the Sons of the Revolution
and of the Columbia College Alumni As
sociation, Psi Upsilon fraternity and of the
University, City, Psi Upsilon and Fencers'
Clubs of New York. Summer Residence:
New Canaan, Connecticut. Address : 147
West Eighty-seventh Street, New York
City.SEAMAN, Louis Livingston :
Surgeon; born in Newburgh, New York,
October 17, 1851 ; son of Valentine Seaman
and Anna (Ferris) Seaman. He was grad
uated from Cornell University as A.B. in
1872 ; from Jefferson Medical College, Phil
adelphia, as M.D. in 1876, and the Medical
Department of the University of New
York, in 1877; also from the law depart
ment of the University of New York, as
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since 1876; was resident surgeon of the
New York State Emigrant Hospital from
1877 to 1879; superintendent of the State
Emigrant Insane Asylum from 1879 to
1881 ; chief of the staff of various hos
pitals and the Training School for Nurses,
Blackwell's Island, for four years ; made a
tour around the world in 1888, and made
studies in hospitals in India of contagious
and epidemic diseases peculiar to the Ori
ent. He was a delegate to the International
Medical Congresses of London, 1881 ; Ber
lin, 1894; Moscow, 1897; Paris, 1900; Ma
drid, 1903 ; and Lisbon, 1906. He was
major-surgeon of the First Regiment of
United States Volunteer Engineers • in
the Spanish- American War; served with
the Seventeenth and Twenty-third United
States Infantry Regiments in the Philip
pines in 1899 and 1900, and was with the
Army of Occupation in Pekin in 1900 and
1901 ; was with the Russian Army in Man
churia in 1904, and with the Japanese in
Mongolia when peace was declared. Dr.
Seaman was in East Africa with the Ger
man forces in the summer of 1906. He is
surgeon-general of the Spanish-American
War Veterans, and surgeon of the Society
of Colonial Wars and the Naval and Mili
tary Order of the Spanish-American War.
He is author of: The Social Waste of a
Great City; The Army Cartridge Belt;
Utilization of Native Troops in Our Co
lonial Possessions ; Observations in China
on the United States Ration, and the Can
teen; The Army Ration and Its Adaptabil
ity for Use in Tropical Climates ; Obser
vations in the Russo-Japanese War; From
Tokio Through Manchuria with the Japa
nese ; The Real Triumph of Japan ; Portable
Ration for Soldiers in Battle or on the
march. He has contributed many articles
to the North American Review, the Cen
tury Magazine, The Military Service In
stitution, and the New International En
cyclopedia. He is a member of the Amer
ican Medical Association, Association of
Military Surgeons, Academy of Medicine,
and of the Authors, Players, Calumet,
Lotos, City, Cornell University, Army and
Navy, and National Arts Club of New York

City, and the Metropolitan Club of Wash
ington, 'D. C. He married in New York
City, 1889, Fannie Blackstone Freeman. Ad
dress: 247 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
SEAMAN, William Henry:
United States circuit judge;. born at New
Berlin, Wisconsin, November 15, 1842. He
was educated in the public schools of She
boygan, Wisconsin, and afterward worked
at the printer's trade until 1861, when he
enlisted as a private in the First Wisconsin
Infantry, United States Volunters, serving
until 1864, when upon the expiration of
his term of service' he took up the study of
law at Sheboygan, was admitted to the bar
there, and was engaged in the practice of
law until he was appointed United States
judge for the Eastern District of Wiscon
sin in 1893. He served in that office until
he was appointed by President Roosevelt,
May 1, 1905, judge of the Circuit Court
for the Seventh Circuit. He was president
of the Wisconsin State Bar Association
from 1893 to 1898. Residence : Sheboygan,
Wisconsin. Office address : Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. SEARS, Clinton Brooks:
Colonel of the Corps of Engineers,
United States Army; born at Penn Yan,
New York, June 2, 1844; son of Rev. Clin
ton W. Sears and Angeline (Brooks)
Sears. He enlisted as a private in Com
pany G of the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, July 24, 1862; served as a cor
poral during the campaign in Kentucky and
Tennessee, in battles in Richmond, Ken
tucky, Berryville, Kentucky, and Stone
River, Tennessee, and acting color ser
geant in the Vicksburg campaign; was in
both assaults on Vicksburg and the two
attacks on Jackson, Mississippi. He was
appointed by President Lincoln, upon the
nomination of Generals Sherman and
Grant, as a cadet at the United States
Military Academy, September 15, 1863,
and was graduated in 1867; and he re
ceived the honorary degrees of A.B., and
A.M. from the Ohio Wesleyan University.
On graduation he was commissioned sec
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the Engineer Corps of the United States
Army, in which he . has since served con
tinuously, being commissioned captain,
April 9, 1880; major, September 20, 1892;
lieutenant-colonel, April 21, 1903, and
colonel, January 11, 1907. He has served
as engineer officer on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, the Northern Lakes, the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, in the
Yellowstone National Park, on Southern
rivers and in the Philippine Islands, hav
ing had charge of various important works
of river and harbor improvement. He has
been stationed at St. Louis, Missouri, since
July 29, 1906, in charge of the improve
ment of the Mississippi River, from St.
Louis to Cairo: He is a member and pres
ident of the Mississippi River Commis
sion ; member of the Ohio River Board ;
and senior member of the Mississippi River
Deep Water Board. He is a member , of
the Soqiety of Mayflower Descendants,
Society of Colonial Wars, Society of
Foreign Wars, the Sons of . the Revo
lution, and Military Order of the Loyal
Legion; and a fellow of the Na
tional Academy of Design of New York
City. Colonel Sears is author of: Ran
som Genealogy; Tidal Harbor Improve
ments, and other publications. He is a
member of the St. Nicholas, University and
Army and Navy Clubs of New York City ;
the Metropolitan and Army and Navy
Clubs of Washington and the St. Louis
Club of St. Louis. Address: Custom
House, St. Louis, Missouri.
SECHLER, Thomas Mackey:
Manufacturer of agricultural implements
and carriages; born in Milton, Pennsyl
vania, October 25, 1841 ; son of Daniel
Montgomery Sechler and Pamela (Mackey)
Sechler. He prepared in the High School
of Ironton, Ohio, and the Hughes High
School of Cincinnati. He entered the
Sophomore class of Marietta College and
was graduated July 2, 1863, with ' third
honor as A.B,; received the degree of A;M.
from that college in 1866. Sixteen days
after his graduation, in 1863, he entered
the army, served till the close of the war,
and was honorably discharged in June,

1865, He was commissioned first lieuten
ant of the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery in
July; 1863, and was on detached duty for
a considerable time, serving successively as
acting engineer officer, acting assistant
quartermaster, acting assistant adjutant-
general and, provost-marshal, and while in
the latter position, was in an engagement
with Wheeler's Cavalry at Calhoun, Ten
nessee, which was the extent of his battle
field experience. He was engaged in the
iron business in Cincinnati from 1866 to
1869; and also in the same business in
Montgomery County, Tennessee, from 1869
to 1877. He returned to Cincinnati in No
vember 1877, and engaged in carriage manu
facturing till the end of 1888, wheri he re
moved .to Moline, Illinois, engaging again
in carriage making, to which in 1897 was
added corn planters and other planting
tools and implements. He. is president of
the D. M. Sechler Carriage Company, the.
Wright Carriage Body Company; director
of the Mutual Wheel Company, and of the
American. Harvester Company, and was
vice-president of the State Savings Bank
and Trust Company, until January, 1907,
when he declined a reelection. He was also
a director of the Cincinnati Technical
School until he moved to Moline, and was
trustee for a time of the Moline Public
Library. He is a Republican and a Con
gregationalist. Mr. Sechler is , a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons
of the American Revolution, the Masonic
Order, Knights Templar, the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, and Alpha Sigma Phi fra
ternity. He is a member of the Moline
Club. He married in Ironton, Ohio, June
7, 1866; Juliet Anna McCullough, and they
have one daughter living, Mary Addison,
who married Howard O. Edmonds, and
two sons deceased. Residence: 1702 Sixth
Avenue, Moline. Office address : Third
Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh Streets,
Moline, Illinois.
SEE, Horace:
Engineer and naval architect; born in
Philadelphia, in 1835; son of- Richard Cal
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He received a classical and mathematical
education in private schools. Mr. See be
gan his professional career with I. P. Mor
ris and Company, Philadelphia, passing
through their shops and Office; later with
Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, the Na
tional Iron Armor and Shipbuilding Com
pany, Camden, New Jersey, George W.
Snyder, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and Wil
liam Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, becom
ing superintending engineer for the latter
firm in 1879, and introducing methods by
which the standard of work in that estab
lishment was raised to an enviable success,
designing vessels and machinery of greatly
improved construction and performance. He
came to New York City in 1889, and be
came consulting engineer of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company;
superintending engineer of the Southern Pa
cific Company ; superintendent of the Crom
well Steamship Company ; superintending
engineer of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company; also consulting engineer for va
rious other parties. He has designed many
vessels and introduced many improvements
in hull and machinery which have come
into international use. Mr. See is a mem
ber of the British Institute of Naval Archi
tects, American Society of Naval Archi
tects and Marine Engineers, North-East
Coast Institute of Engineers and Ship
builders (England) ; associate member of
the American Society of Naval Engineers,
United States Naval Institute; past presi
dent of the American Society of Mechan
ical Engineers ; fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science;
the American Geographical Society, Cham
ber of Commerce of New York, Maritime
Exchange, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania,
Sons of the Revolution. He was a private
in the Gray Reserves in the early part of
the Civil War; and corporal of the Seventh
Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia in Mary
land, 1862; adjutant of the Twentieth
Pennsylvania Regiment during the July
riots of 1877, and later captain of the First
Pennsylvania Regiment; and he is a mem
ber of the Century Association and the. New
York Yacht Club. Mr. See married, Febru

ary 20, 1879, Ruth Ross, daughter of Wil
liam Ross Maffett of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl
vania. Residences: 167 West Seventy-
fourth Street, New York City, and Glen
Summit Springs, Pennsylvania. Office ad
dress: 1 Broadway, New York City.
SEE, Thomas Jefferson Jackson:
Astronomer, mathematician and physicist;
born near Montgomery City, Missouri, Feb
ruary 19, 1866; son of Noah See and Mary
A. (Sailor) See; lineal descendant of
Adam See, Virginia planter, who came
from Silesia with the Schwenkfelders in
1734. Mr. See was graduated from the
University of Missouri as A.B., L.B., and
S.B., 1889; A.M., L.M., and S.M., 1892;
and from the University of Berlin as A.
M. and Ph.D., 1892. He was in charge of
the observatory of the University of Mis
souri, from 1887 to 1889 ; volunteer observer
at the Royal Observatory, Berlin, in 1891;
traveled in Italy, Egypt, Greece, Germany
and England, from 1890 to 1892; organized
and had charge of the Department of As
tronomy, and aided in the organization of
the Yerkes Observatory of the Univer
sity of Chicago, from 1893 to 1896. He
was astronomer of Lowell Observatory, in
charge of a survey of the Southern heav
ens from 1896 to 1898; with a 24-inch
Clark refractor at Flagstaff, Arizona, and
the City of Mexico, he examined about two
hundred thousand fixed stars, in the zone
between 15 and 65 degrees south declina
tion, which led to the discovery and meas
urement of about six hundred new double
stars and the remeasurement of about four
teen hundred double stars, previously recog
nized by Sir John Herschel and other south
ern observers. Dr. See was lecturer on
sidereal astronomy in Lowell Institute, Bos
ton, in 1899; since then professor of math
ematics, United States Navy; in charge of
the 26-inch equatorial telescope of the
United States Naval Observatory, from
1899 to 1902; professor of mathematics
at the United States Nayal Academy in
1902 and 1903 ; in charge of the Naval Ob
servatory, af. Mare Island, California, since
1903. During 1901 and 1902, he investigated
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daylight, deducing their constants of ir
radiation and absolute densities. He has
published researches on Laplace's Invariable
Plane, and on the internal densities, pres
sures, temperatures and moments of inertia
of principal bodies of the planetary system,
1903-05. In 1905 he developed the mona-
tomic theory of the physical constitution,
and in 1906 the gravitational method for
determining the rigidity, of the heavenly
bodies, generalizing researches of Lord
Kelvin and Sir G. H. Darwin; confirming.
their conclusions that the rigidity of the
earth exceeds that of steel and showing
that the average rigidity of the sun is over
two thousand times that of nickel steel
used in armor plate ; and has also published
many other original and important astron
omical discoveries. Professor See has com
puted about forty-five orbits of double stars
and published about two hundred scientific
papers in technical journals and the pro
ceedings of learned societies, including also
several important works in German and
English on the evolution of stellar systems,
extending to the double stars the researches
of Darwin and Poincare, on the figures of
equilibrium, and the theory of tidal evolu
tion first developed by Darwin in his work
on the origin of the moon ; on the cause
of earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain for
mations, seismic sea-waves, and the like,
which he holds to be caused by imprisoned
steam resulting from the leakage of the
ocean bottoms into the heated layers just
beneath the earth's crust. Dr. See is a fel
low of the Royal Astronomical Society, the
Deutsche Astronomische Gesellschaft, the
American Philosophical Society, Washing
ton Academy of Sciences, Philosophical So
ciety of Washington, Academy of Sciences
of St. Louis, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, British As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
British Astronomical Association, Societe
Astronomique de France, Astronomical So
ciety of the Pacific, honorary member of
the Sociedad Astronomico de Mexico, Amer
ican Mathematical Society, London Mathe
matical Society, Deutscher Mathematiker
Vereinigung, Societe Mathematique de

France, Circulo Matematico di Palermo,
American Physical Society, Societe Fran
chise de Physique, Seismological Society
of America, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and
others. On June 18, 1907, married Frances,
daughter of Dr. James F. and Fannie (Jef
ferson) Graves, Montgomery City, Mis
souri. Address : Naval Observatory, Mare
Island, California.
SEE LEY, John Sanford:
Surgeon and physician; born in New
York, June 12, 1852; son of Isaac Seeley
and Mary (Frasier) Seeley. He was grad
uated from the University of Michigan as
M.D., and for the past thirty-one years
has been in continuous practice of medicine
and surgery. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and an Episcopalian in religion. He
married in Le Sueur, Minnesota, December
24, 1878, Jennie Flood, and they have two
children: Isaac Flood Seeley, and Laura
Inez Seeley. Residence : 412 Fourth Ave
nue. Business address : Corner of Cen
tral Avenue and Third Street, Faribault,
Minnesota.
SELIGMAN, Isaac Newton:
Banker; born in Staten Island, New
York, July 10, 1855; son of Joseph Selig-
man, a well-known New York banker and
Babette (Steinhart) Seligman. He was
educated in Columbia Grammar School and
was graduated from Columbia College as
A.B. in 1876 (he was one of the famous
university crew that won the intercollegiate
races in 1874). On leaving' college he be
came connected with the banking firm of
J. & W. Seligman & Company (founded
by his father), at their New Orleans
branch, from 1876 to 1878, and in 1878 was
called to the New York house; became a
partner on the death of his father, and
since the death of his uncle, Jesse Selig
man, in 1895, has been active head of the
house. This firm reorganized the Ameri
can Steel and Wire Company (now part
of the United States Steel Corporation),
the Cramp Steamship Co'mpany and other
large corporations. He was member of
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tee; trustee of Manhattan State Hospital
for Insane (appointed by Governor Mor
ton, and reappointed by Governor Roose
velt) ; now member of the Advisory Com
mittee of National Republican Committee;
director of the Sound Money League;
chairman of the Finance Committee and
treasurer of the Citizens' Union. He is a
director of the United States Savings
Bank, Munich Fire Insurance Company;
trustee of Rossia Insurance Company; di
rector of Western New York and Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company (now part of the
Pennsylvania System) ; trustee of the
Mount Morris National Bank, Lincoln
Trust Company, and trustee of the United
Hebrew Charities. He is a member of the
committee of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction; trustee and
treasurer of the City and Suburban Homes
Company (model tenements) ; director of
Columbia University; trustee of Columbia
University Memorial Hall; trustee of Co
lumbia Alumni Association, Civil Service
Association; director of New York Forest
Preserve Association; trustee and treas
urer of St. John's Guild; director of Gen
eral Grant Tomb Committee; member ot
the Committee of Seven for Suppression of
Raines Hotels; member of the Committee
on Municipal and State Taxation of the
Chamber of Commerce; trustee of the
McKinley Memorial Association; treasurer
and member of the Executive Committee
of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com
mission; treasurer and member of the
Executive Committee of the Carl Schurz
Memorial Committee; vice-president and
treasurer of the Andrew Green Memorial
Committee; trustee of the United Hehrew
Charities, People's Institute, Cooperative
Committee on Playgrounds, Hebrew Chari
ties Building (founded by his father-in-
law) ; Legal Aid Society, University of
Wichita, Kansas; trustee, treasurer and
member of the Finance Committee of the
National Child Labor Association; treas
urer of the Committee of Nine to reorgan
ize the Police Department; member of the
Chamber of Commerce (and member of
its Committee on Taxation). He is. a mem

ber of the Lotos, University, New York
Athletic, City (trustee and treasurer), Na
tional Arts, Columbia University, City,
Midday, Lawyers', St. Andrews, Lakewood
Country, Garden City Golf, Seabright and
Republican Clubs. Mr. Seligman married,
in Frankfort, Germany, 1883, Guta, daugh
ter of- Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb &
Company of New York City, and they have
two children : Margaret V., born in .1895,
and Joseph L., born in 1897. Residence:
36 West Fifty-fourth Street, New York
City. Address : Mills Building, New
York City.
SELLERS, Coleman:
Engineer and inventor; born in Philadel
phia, January 28, 1827. He was educated in
the private schools and in Bolmar's Acad
emy, West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1846
he became a draughtsman in the Globe Roll
ing Mills of Cincinnati, Ohio, remaining
there for three years, part of the time as
superintendent. He then entered the serv
ice of Niles and Company, locomotive build
ers, Cincinnati, as foreman, remaining with
them for five years. He returned to Phila
delphia, and in 1856 entered, as chief en
gineer, the machine tool works of William
Sellers and Company, the senior member of
which firm was his second cousin. He re
mained in this establishment until- 1888,
when he withdrew from active engineering
labor and has since confined himself to
consulting practice, to which he is qualified
by his wide experience. He is widely
known as an inventor, iflore than thirty
patents being granted him, some being
for mechanical devices of great util
ity. A notable one of these is his coupling
device for connecting shafting, invented
in 1857; it is very important as the essen
tial factor in the modern system of inter
changeable parts in shafting; and notable
among his other inventions is that of feed
discs for lathes, patented in 1866. As
early as 1861 he recommended the use of
absorbent cotton in surgical operations, now
everywhere employed; he proposed the em
ployment of glycerine to keep photographic
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always active in devising practical applica
tions of scientific principles in the arts.
In 1881 he was„ appointed professor of
mechanics in the Franklin Institute, of
which he had long been a member, and past
president, one of the Board of Managers,
and in 1888 was appointed non-resident pro
fessor of engineering practice in the Ste
vens Institute of Technology. In the same
year he received the degree of Doctor of
Engineering from that institution, and in
1899, the degree of Doctor of Science was
conferred on him by the University of Penn
sylvania. The Kihg of Sweden honored him
with the Order of St. Olaf in 1877, in recog
nition of his valued services to the engin
eering profession. He was president of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
in 1884, and has been president of the Pho
tographic Society of Philadelphia, the Penn
sylvania Society for the Prevention of Cru
elty to Animals, and the Pennsylvania Mu
seum and School of Industrial Art; vice-
president of the American Philosophical
Society, and a member of many other so
cieties in America and Europe. The work
of developing the power of Niagara- Falls
was done largely under his direction, as
chief engineer of the Niagara Falls Power
Company. He married, in 1851, Cornelia
Wells, of Cincinnati. Residence: 3301 Bar
ing Street. Office address : Stephen Girard
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SELLERS, Coleman, Jr.:
Mechanical engineer; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, September 5, 1852; son of Coleman
Sellers and Cornelia (Wells) Sellers. He
attended the private schools of Philadelphia
from 1861 to 1870, and was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania as B.S. in
1875 and M.S. in 1876. He started in the
firm of William Sellers and Company, in
1873, later became chief draftsman, assist
ant manager, engineer, .and is now engineer
and president. Pie is a Republican in poli
tics, and a member of the Franklin Insti
tute, American Society of Mechanical En
gineers, Society of Naval Architects, and
Marine Engineers, and the American Philo
sophical Society ; and he is also a member
of the University and City Clubs of Phila

delphia. He married in Brooklyn, New
York, June 3, 1880, Helen Graham Jack
son, and they have four children: Marjo
rie, born in 1882 ; Cora Beach, born in 1885 ;
Helen Jackson, born in 1887, and Coleman
Sellers, 3d, born in 1893. Resiuence: 410
Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia. Busi
ness address : 1600 Hamilton Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
SENN, Nicholas:
Surgeon; was born at Buchs, in the can
ton of St. Gall, Switzerland, October. 31,
1844, the son of John and Magdalena Senn.
In 1853 he was brought : by his parents
to the United States, settling at Ashford,
Fond-du-Lac County, Wisconsin, and in
1864 he was graduated from the High
School. He taught school for a while, then
entered Chicago Medical College, from
which he was graduated as M.D. in 1868.
After serving a year as house physician of
the Cook County Hospital at Chicago, he
established in general practice at Elmore,
Fond-du-Lac County, Wisconsin, from
1869 to 1874, then was at Milwaukee, Wis
consin, 1874-91; since then in practice in
Chicago. He took post-graduate study at
the University of Munich, Bavaria, grad
uating from it in 1878, and since then has
specialized in surgery. He was surgeon-
general of Wisconsin while a resident of
Milwaukee, and later surgeon-general of
the Illinois National Guard, and served,
during the Spanish-American War, as
chief of the Operating Staff with the Army
in the field, with the rank of 'lieutenant-
colonel of United States Volunteers, from
May until September, 1868. He was pro
fessor of surgery at" the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons, Chicago, from 1884
to 1887; and became professor of the prin
ciples of surgery from 1887 to 1890, and
from 1890 to 1906. He is now professor of
surgery in the University of Chicago and
professor of military surgery at Rush Med
ical College, Chicago. He has been an ex
tensive contributor to various medical jour
nals and has written a number of books on
surgery, surgical pathology and bacteriology,
surgery as applied to tuberculosis, and mili
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delegate to the International Medical Con
gresses at Berlin, 1890, and Moscow, 1897,
Madrid, 1903 and Lisbon, 1906, and a dele
gate on behalf of the United States to the
Conference of International Red Cross at
St. Petersburg in 1901. Dr. Senn has served
as attending surgeon at the Presbyterian
Hospital and as surgeon-in-chief at St. Jo
seph's Hospital, Chicago, and has performed
some operations that have become notable
in- surgical annals. Residence : 532 Dear
born Avenue, Chicago. Office address : 100
State Street, .Chicago, Illinois.
SESSUMS, Davis:
. Bishop of Louisiana ; born at Houston,
Texas, July 7, 1858; son of Alexander Ses-
sums and Mary (Runnels) Sessums. He
studied at the University of the South,
Sewahee, Tennessee, and was graduated
with the degree of M.A. in 1878, receiving
from same university and from Griswold
College the degree of D.D. in 1891. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1882; and was ordained to the priest
hood the same year by Bishop Gregg. He
was curate of Grace Church, Galveston,
Texas, in 1883, and assistant and then
rector, of the Cathedral at Memphis, Ten
nessee, from 1883 to 1887. In the latter
year he became rector of Christ Church,
New Orleans, Louisiana, officiating until
1891, when he became bishop-coadjutor,
and the same year, bishop of Louisiana.
He was consecrated by Bishops Quintard,
Tuttle, Garrett, Gallaher, Thompson and
Watson. Bishop Sessums married at New
Orleans, December 18, 1890, Alice C. Gal
laher, daughter of Bishop J. N. Gallaher.
Address : 2919 St. Charles Avenue, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
SETON, Ernest Thompson:
Writer, illustrator and lecturer; was
born at South Shields, Durham, Eng
land, August 14, i860. He was edu
cated in Canada, England, and France. He
went to Canada at the age of five, and after
that lived in the backwoods until 1870, then
went to Toronto to be educated at the public
schools and at the Collegiate Institute ; went
to London for art training, from 1879 to

1881 ; went to Manitoba to follow natural
history; and became naturalist to the Gov
ernment of Manitoba." He published his
Wild Animals I Have Known, the biogra
phies of eight wild animals, in 1898. This
went through ten editions in one year. He
is author of: Birds of Manitoba; Mam
mals of Manitoba; Anatomy of Animals;
Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Biography
of a Grizzly ; Lives of the Hunted, 1901 ;
Two Little Savages ; Pictures of Wild Ani
mals ; Monarch, the Big Bear ; Woodmyth
and Fable; The Birch-bark Roll of the
Woodcraft Indians ; Animal Heroes. He
is the founder of a society for outdoor
life, known as The Woodcraft Indians. He
has : lectured extensively and before large
audiences in America and England. His
favorite recreations are hunting with the
camera, natural history, and woodcraft. He
married in New York City, 1896, Grace
Gallatin, and they have one daughter, Ann,
born in 1904. Address: Wyndygoul Park,
Coscob, Connecticut.
SEVERENS, Henry Franklin:
United States circuit judge; born in
Rockingham, Vermont, May n. !835; son
of Franklin Severens and Elizabeth (Pul
sifer) Severens. After his graduation with
the degree of A.B. from Middlebury College
in 1857, he studied law for two years, and
was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1859.
The following year he located in practice
at Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he has ever
since made his home. He was appointed,
May 25, 1886, United States district judge
for the Western District of Michigan,
which office he held until appointed, Feb
ruary 20, 1900, United States circuit judge
for the Sixth Circuit. He received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Michigan in 1897, and from Mid
dlebury College in 1901. Judge Severens
married at Medina; New York, December
1, 1863, Sarah Clarissa Ryan. Address:
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
SEWARD, Frederick W.:
Lawyer; born in Auburn, New York,
July 8, 1830; son of William H. Seward
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educated in the public schools of Auburn;
and was graduated from Union College, in
1849. He studied law with Judges Kent
and Davies in New York City; was ad
mitted to the New York City Bar in 185 1 ;
became associate editor and later one of
the proprietors of the Albany Evening Jour
nal. In 1861 he was sent from Washington
to Philadelphia to warn President Lincoln
of a plot to assassinate him in Baltimore;
was appointed assistant secretary of State,
and held the office during the administra
tions of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.
His assassination was attempted on the
same night that President Lincoln was mur
dered by Booth. His chief diplomatic work
was during Johnson's administration; he
was instrumental .in carrying through the
purchase of Alaska and negotiating a new
treaty with China; retired from office in
1869; was elected to New York Legisla
ture, in 1874 and had charge of the bill for
the first elevated railroad in New York
City. He returned to the State Department
in 1877; introduced reforms in the Con
sular Service ; conducted negotiations secur
ing a Samoan harbor for United States
vessels, and aided in developing commer
cial and diplomatic relations with Oriental
powers ; was one of the commissioners in
behalf of the State of New York to par
ticipate in the Yorktown Centennial in 1881 ;
president of Sagaponack Realty Company,
president of the Union College Alumni, As
sociation, and the Society of the Cayugas ;
was member of the International Arbitra
tion Conference at Washington, 1904; pre
sided at the Semi-Centennial of the Re
publican Party- at Saratoga, 1904 ; vice-pres
ident of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration
Commission and chairman of the Plan and
Scope Committee. He is author of a bio
graphy of William H. Seward ; and Jour
nal of a West Indian Cruise. He married
in Albany, November 9, 1854, Anna M.
Wharton. Address : Montrpse, New York.
SEWARD, George Frederick:
Insurance president ; born in Florida, New
York, November 8, 1840. He received his
education in Seward Institute and also at
Union College, from which he received the1

degree of LL.D. He was consul at
Shanghai from 1861 to 1863; consul-
general from 1863 to 1876; minister
to Corea in 1869; minister to China from
1876 to 1880; on a special mission to Siam,
1867; president of the North China branch
of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1865 to
1867; since 1893, president of Fidelity and
Casualty Company. of New York City, and
president of Virginia Electrolytic Company.
He is member of the American Geograph
ical Society, American Academy of Polit
ical and Social Science, American Institute
of Civics, American Electro-Chemical So
ciety, American Peace Society, Chamber of
Commerce (chairman of Committee on Tax
ation), Civil Service Reform Association,
New England Society of Orange, New Jer
sey, Historical Society of New Jersey, Na
tional Municipal League, Sons of the Revo
lution, Union College Alumni Association
of New York; trustee of Union College.
He holds the decoration of Danish Govern
ment (commander of Danebrog) and of
the French Government (commander of
the Dragon of Annam), vice-president of
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New
York. He is author of: Chinese Immigra
tion in Its Social and Economic Aspects,
1881 (Scribner) ; Digest of Taxation Sys
tem, New York; Rapid Transit in New
York and Other Great Cities, 1906; and
various papers on economic, social and po
litical subjects. He is a member of the
Authors, Lawyers', and Reform Clubs. Mr.
Seward married in 1870, Kate Sherman,
daughter of Isaac Sherman of Ohio and
California. Address : 99 Cedar Street, New
York City.
SEWARD, William H. :
Soldier, banker; born in Auburn, New
York, June 18, 1839; youngest son of Wil
liam H. Seward (secretary of State of the.
United States, from 1861 to 1869), and
Frances A. (Milter) Seward. He was pri
vately educated. He began his business
career as clerk in a hardware store in Al
bany, New York, from 1857 to 1859; was
private secretary to his father (then United
States senator from New York), from 1859
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established at Auburn, the banking house
of William H. Seward and Company. He
was appointed in 1862 by Governor Morgan,
one of the War Committee of his Con
gressional District, of which committee he
was made secretary; was appointed in Au
gust, 1862, lieutenant-colonel of the One
Hundred and Thirty-eighth New York Vol
unteers, soon after changed to Ninth New
York Heavy Artillery. The regiment was
assigned to duty in Haskins' Division of
the Twenty-second Army Corps, defences of
Washington, where, under direction of the
Engineers' Department, he took active part
in the construction of several of the large
forts on the Potomac. In the spring of
1863, with much danger and hardship, suc
cessfully accomplished a secret mission from
President Lincoln to General Banks, then
operating on Bayou Teche, in Louisiana;
was promoted colonel of the Ninth Artil
lery in May, 1864, and joined the Army of
the Potomac at Hanover Court House, Vir
ginia, and became part of the Second Bri
gade, Rickett's Third Division, Wright's
Sixth Army Corps, under General Grant;
participated in many of the engagements
around Petersburg, including Cold Harbor
(where he personally led a successful as
sault on the rebel earthworks in front of
his command with the loss to his regi
ment of one hundred and forty-two killed
and wounded) ; was at the battle of Mono
cacy, where he was wounded in the arm,
and had a leg broken by a fall of his horse
which was shot under him on the final
charge (brevetted brigadier-general of vol
unteers, for gallant and meritorious serv
ices there). As soon as his wounds per
mitted, he was sent to Martinsburg, to com
mand the First Brigade of the Third Divi
sion, of the Department of West Virginia,
then operating in the Shenandoah Valley,
and for- a short time after the capture of
General Crook was in command of the same
division at Harper's Ferry. He resigned at
the end of the war, and resumed his po
sition at the head of the banking-house of
W. H. Seward and Company, in. which he
has ever since continued. He established
at Auburn, at his own expense, free read

ing rooms for workmen, which has become
a popular institution. He is a Republican
in politics, and, was a prominent candidate
for the nomination for governor at Sara
toga Convention in 1884. General Seward
was twice nominated as presidential elec-
tor-at-large, and was president of the Elec
toral College of New York at its session
in Albany, 1889. He is president of the
Auburn City Hospital; trustee of Wells
College, and the Cayuga County Savings
Bank; director of the American Express
Company, member of the American Geo
graphical Society, the Loyal Legion, Grant
Monument Association, American Histor
ical Society, and of the Grand Army of
the Republic; and he is a member of the
Union League, and United Service Clubs of
New York City. Address : Auburn, New
York. SEWELL, Albert Henry:
Jurist; born in Hamden, New York, Oc
tober 30, 1847; son of William H. Sewell
and, Celinda Sewell. He wa"s graduated
from Cornell, as A.B. in 1871 and from the
Albany Law School as LL.B. in 1873. He
engaged in the practice of law at Delhi,
New York, from 1873 and 1888 ; was a mem
ber of the General Assembly of New York,
county judge and surrogate of Delaware
County in 1878; and county judge and sur
rogate of Delaware County from 1889 .to
1899. In J^99 he was nominated by the
Republican party, and elected justice of the
Supreme Court for the Sixth Judicial Dis
trict of New York, for the term expiring
in 1913. He is a Republican in politics.
Judge Sewell married in 1889, Mary E.
Wright. Address: Delhi, New York.
SEWELL, Robert van Vorst:
Artist, mural painter; born in New York
City, i860; son of Robert and Sarah (Van
Vorst) Sewell. He was graduated from
Columbia in 1883 ; art student under Le-
febvre and Boulanger in Paris. His work
includes the mural paintings in many pri
vate residences and public buildingsr nota
bly that in the residence of George Gould,
at Georgian Court. Lakewood, and in the
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awarded the first Hallgarten prize of the
National Academy of Design, 1888; silver
medal at the Pan American and other ex
positions. He is a member of the Archi
tectural League; associate of the National
Academy of Design; member of the So
ciety, Mural Painters, the Municipal Art
Society, and of the Century Association and
the Union League and Lotos Clubs. He
married Lydia Amanda Brewster. Address :
25 West Sixty-seventh Street, New York
City. SEYFERT, August G.:
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
Pie was appointed consul at Stratford, Oc
tober 5, 1897; retired June 30, 1906; ap
pointed consul at Metamoros, August 17,
1906; appointed consul at Collingwood, No
vember 21, 1906. Address: Collingwood,
Ontario, Canada.
SEYMOUR, Edmund:
Banker, broker; born in St.- Albans, Ver
mont, October 3, 1858; son of Henry Ed
mund Seymour and Susan K. (Hubbell)
Seymour. He was prepared in St. Albans
Academy, and Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts; and was graduated from
Williams College as B.A. in 1882 (Alpha
Delta Phi, . captain of football team and
president of Athletic Association). He was
engaged, in the cattle business for eight
years ; banker and broker at Tacoma, Wash
ington, in firm of Seymour, Barto & Com
pany, in 1889; Seymour Brothers & Com
pany, in 1893; now Edmund Seymour &
Company, New York City; deals princi
pally in municipal and corporate bonds. He
is vice-president and director of the Or
leans County Quarry Company; president
and director of the Washington State Land
Company and of the Ellensburgh Water
Supply Company; director of St: Albans
Furniture Manufacturing Company, and
Nebraska Land and Feeding Company. In
politics he is a Republican and in religion
a Congregationalist. Mr. Seymour is a
member of the Board of Governors of the
American Bison Society. He is a member
of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York

City; president of The Manor Club of Pel
ham Manor ; member of the Wykagyl Coun
try Club of New Rochelle ; treasurer of the
Camp Fire Club of New York City. Mr.
Seymour married in Plattsburg, New York,
September 2, 1891, Anne Sprague Beckwith,
and they have three children: Emeroy
Vilas, born in 1892, Katherine, born in 1895
and Anne Hubbell, born in 1903. Sum
mer home: "Bord-de-1'Eau," Chasy, Lake
Champlain. Residence: Pelham Manor,
New York. Address : 45 Wall Street, New
York City.
SHACKLEFORD, Dorsey W.:
Congressman and jurist; born in Saline
County, Missouri, August 27, 1853. He was
educated in the public schools of the State
and was a teacher in 1877, 1878 and 1879,
during which period he carried on the
study of law. He began the practice of
that profession at Booneville, Missouri,
May 9, 1879, served as prosecuting attorney
of Cooper County for two terms from 1882
to 1886, and from 1890 to 1892 ; was elected
and served as judge of the Fourteenth Ju
dicial District of Missouri, from June 1,
1892 to September 9, 1899, resigning that
office to take his place in the Fifty-sixth
Congress, to which he was elected, August
29, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Richard P. Bland. He was
elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, from
the Eighth Missouri District." He is a
Democrat in politics. Judge Shackleford
married, December 7, 1887, Florida Hall, of
Saline County, Missouri, and they have a
son and a daughter. Address: Jefferson
City, Missouri.
SHAFER, John Douglas:
Jurist; born in Allegheny County, Penn
sylvania, December 5, 1848; son of Rev.
Alexander G. Shafer and Maria D. (Har
per) Shafer. He received his education
in the Washington and Jefferson College,
and was graduated with the degree of A.
B. in 1866. He also received the degree of
LL.D. from West University of Pennsyl
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County and Washington and Jefferson Col
leges. He was admitted to the bar of Al
legheny County, January 17, 1874; became
dean of the Pittsburgh Law School, Octo
ber, 1895, and was elected judge of Com
mon Pleas, Number Two, in June, 1897.
He is a trustee of the Carnegie Institute of
Pittsburgh and ex-president of the Uni
versity Club. Judge Shafer married in
Lincoln, Nebraska, June 25, 1901, Mrs.
Maud B. Gifford. Residence : 3218 Perrys-
ville Avenue, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Of
ficial address : Court House, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.SHAFFER, Newton Mel man:
Physician and surgeon; born in Kinder-
hook, New York, February 14, 1846; son of
Rev. James N. Shaffer. He was graduated
from New York University Medical Col
lege as M.D. in 1867. He was a student,
from 1863 to 1867, and assistant resident
surgeon, in 1867 and 1868, in the Hos
pital for the Ruptured and Crippled, and
since 1868 has been engaged first in general
practice and subsequently as an orthopaedic
surgeon. He was assistant surgeon from
1871 to 1875, surgeon-in-chief from 1876 to
1898, of New York Orthopaedic Dispensary
and Hospital, raising it in face of opposi
tion and by strong personal efforts to a very
high standard of efficiency, practically
founding this great work. He was clinical
professor of orthopaedic surgery in New
York University Medical College from 1882
to 1886, and in 1897 and 1898, and since
1898, he has been clinical professor in the
Orthopaedic Department at Cornell Uni
versity Medical College. He is consult
ing orthopaedic surgeon to St. Luke's,
Presbyterian and other hospitals; founder
and surgeon-in-chief of the New York State
Hospital for the Care of Crippled and De
formed Children, West Haverstraw, New
York. He originated the movements which
led to the formation of the New York
Orthopaedic Association, and the American
Orthopaedic Association, securing the ad
mission of the latter to the Congress of
American Physicians and Surgeons, in 1887 ;
also secured recognition of orthopaedic
surgery in the International Medical Con

gress at Berlin, in 1890. He has devised and
much improved apparatus for deformities
of spine, hip and feet, as well as surgical
procedures and operations for the relief and
cure of deformity. He is ex-president of
the American Orthopaedic Association;
treasurer of the Congress of American Phy
sicians and Surgeons ; member of the Am
erican Medical Association, New York
Academy of Medicine, and other societies.
He was delegate to the International Med
ical Congresses from 1881 to 1900. He is
author of treatises and monographs on or
thopaedic subjects. Dr. Shaffer is a mem
ber of the University, Century and Ards
ley Clubs. He married, October 15, 1873,
Margaret H. Perkins of Gardiner, Maine.
Address : 28 East Thirty-eighth Street, New
York City.
SHAINWALD, Ralph Louis:
Manufacturer; born at Great Falls, New
Hampshire, February 8, 185 1; son of Na
than and Minna Shainwald. He was edu
cated in New York City public and private
schools. Mr. Shainwald began business
life in the private bank of Culver, Penn
and Company; was later with the Import
ers' and Traders' National Bank of New
York, then removed to San Francisco,
California, where he remained eleven
years, organizing and managing the Vul
can Powder Company, the Tonite Powder
Company, the Western Chemical Company,
the California Explosive Cap Company,
the Paraffine Paint Company. He re
turned to New York City in 1886 and or
ganized The Standard Paint Company and
later the Ruberoid-Gesellschaft of Ham
burg, the Ruberoid Company, Limited, of
England, and the Compagnie Francaise du
Ruberoid of France, all these organi
zations have been successful. He is presi
dent of the Standard Paint Cumpany of
New Jersey, Standard Paint Company of
Canada, Limited, and chairman of the
Ruheroid Company, Limited, of England.
Mr. Shainwald is an Independent in poli
tics. He is a member of the Society for
Ethical Culture, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York Chamber of Commerce;
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His favorite recreations are golf and mo
toring. He is a member of the Lotos,
Patria, ahd Drawing Room Club of New
York City and the Automobile Club of
America. He married, in New York City,
in 1881, Riette Hart, and they have three
children : Ralph L, Jr., Maisie and Marion
Dorothy. Residence : 667 Madison Ave
nue, New York City. Office address : 100
William Street, New York City.
SHALER, Alexander:
Major-general of United States Volun
teers ; born ' at Haddam, Connecticut,
March 19, 1827; son of Ira Shaler and
Jerusha (Arnold) Shaler. He was educated
in the academy at Haddam, and afterward
engaged in business in New York City.
He began his military career in 1845 in
the Washington Grays, and served continu
ously in the New York and New Jersey
militia; . and was major of the Seventh
Regiment of the National Guard of New
York, when the war began. He was com
missioned lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-
fifth New York Volunteers, June 11, 1861,
and colonel, July 17, 1862. He commanded
the First Brigade of Newton's Second Divi
sion, of Sedgwick's Sixth Corps in the Army
of the Potomac and took part in all of the
campaigns of that army until May, 1864. For
his conduct on the assault on Marye's
Heights, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May
3, 1863, he was promoted, brigadier-general
of United States Volunteers, and later re
ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor
for bravery in that assault ; his corps also
won distinction at Gettysburg. He was
brevetted major-general United States Vol
unteers, July 27, 1865, and mustered out
of the volunteer service August 24, 1865.
After the war he was appointed major-
general of the National Guard of New
York, from 1867 to 1886. He was president
of the New York Fire Department from
1867 to 1870, and fire commissioner from
1870 to 1873; spent three months in Chicago
after the great fire of October 9, 1871, re
organizing the fire department; and was
president of the Health Department of New
York City from 1883 to 1887. He was com
mander in 1883 and 1884 of the New York

Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion ; and is a member of the Union
League Club of New York. He has large
property interests in New Jersey, and was
mayor of the borough of Ridgefield, New
Jersey, in 1899 and 1900. He married, in
New York City, March 31, 1847, Mary,
daughter of James and Agnes (White)
McMurray. Address : Ridgefield, New Jer
sey. SHANK, Samuel II.:
Consular officer; /born in Indiana. He
was appointed vice and deputy consul at
Winnipeg, November 7, 1903; appointed
consul March 30, 1904; appointed consul at
Mannheim, March 30, 1907. Address:
Mannheim, Baden, Germany.
SHANKLIN, Arnold:
American consul-general; born in Car
rollton, Missouri, January 29, 1866; son of
Wesley D. Shanklin and Locke (Arnold)
Shanklin. He was graduated from the
public schools of Carrollton, Missouri, and
from the Law Department of Washington
University, St. Louis, where he received
the degree of LL.B. He practiced law in
Kansas City, Missouri, for nine years, and
was a St. Louis World's Fair commissioner
to the Republic of Mexico. He is a Re
publican- in politics. Mr. Shanklin is a
member of the American Society of Inter
national Law and the National Geographic
Society; also a thirty-second degree Mason,
Knight Templar and Mystic Shriner. He
is a member of the St. Louis, University
and Missouri Athletic Clubs of St. Louis
and the University and Commercial Clubs
of Panama. Residence: St. Louis, Mis
souri. Official address : American Consul
ate-General, Panama, Panama.
SHANNON, Philip M.:
President of the Pennsylvania Oil and
Gas Company; born at Shannondale, Penn
sylvania. He was educated in the public
schools and when not quite fifteen years
of age he enlisted in the Sixty-second
Pennsylvania Volunteers early in the Civil
War. In 1864 he was honoraby discharged
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a Pittsburgh house. He then went to New
York, and his first oil venture was the
Guerilla well at Parker's Landing in 1869
and 1,870. He was a pioneer in the Mil-
lerstown field in 1871 and 1872, and in
1873 was elected burgess of Millerstown
and in 1875, received the Republican nomi
nation for a seat in the Pennsylvania Leg
islature. From 1876 to 1879 Mr. Shan
non was prominent in the Bullion field
and later in Bradford and Allegheny, New
York. In 1885 he was mayor of Bradford,
and the city was the most peaceful 'and
flourishing in the oil region during his ad
ministration. In the petroleum and oil
business he has been a leader throughout
the United States. In . 1S90, lie moved to
Pittsburgh, and extended his operations
through West Virginia, Eastern Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania, also entering the
Wyoming field. In the same year- he was
urged to accept the nomination to Congress,
but declined. In 1895 he was elected presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Com
pany.. Mr. Shannon is prominent in Ma
sonic and Grand Army circles. Address :
323 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania.
SHAN'T Z, Homer LeRoy:
Botanist; born in Kent County, Michi
gan, January 24, 1876 ; son of A. K, Shantz
and Mary E. (Ankney) Shantz. He was
educated in Kent County" public grammar
schools, in Colorado City Grammar School,
in Cutler Academy, and received the de
gree of B.Sc. in 1901, from Colorado Col
lege and the degree of Ph.D. in 1905 from
the University of Nebraska; and he was
fellow in botany at the University of Ne
braska, in 1903 and 1904. He was instruc
tor in biology in 1901 and instructor, in
charge of biology, in 1902 at Colorado Col
lege; instructor in botany at the Univer
sity of Nebraska, School of Agriculture, in
1903 and 1904; acting instructor in botany,
in 1905, and has been instructor in botany
since 1906 in the University of Missouri:
He was special field agent of the Alkali and
Drought — Resistant Plant Breeding Inves
tigations of .the United States Department
of Agriculture from June to "September,

1907, and collaborator on those investiga
tions since October 1, 1907. He was in
structor in science at the Colorado Teach
ers' Institute, Colorado Springs, in 1902,
and instructor of botany at the Summer
School of the University of Missouri in
1906. His chief lines of investigation have
been in relation to the vegetation of the
Great Plains, the relation' of the natural
vegetation to the character and crop pro
ducing capacity of the soil; the biology
of lakes of the Pike's Peak Region, ex
perimental evolution and economic botany,
and the relation of the plant to the physical
factors of its habitat. He is author of: A
Study of the Vegetation of the Mesa Re
gion East of Pike's Peak; The Bouteloua
Formation, 1906 ; Notes on the North Amer
ican Species of Branchinecta and their
Habitats, 1905, and A Biological Study of
the Lakes of the Pikes' Peak Region, 1907.
In religion he is a Congregationalist. He is
a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and he is also
a member of the Sigma Xi Society, Ameri
can Microscopical Society, Society of
Botanists of the Central States and of the
Columbia Club. Mr. Shantz married, in
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, December 25, 1901,
Lucia Moore Soper, and they have two
children : Homer L. Shantz, Jr., born Feb
ruary 12, 1903, and Benjamin Soper Shantz,
born July 19, 1904. Address: University
of Missouri, Department of Botany, Co
lumbia, Missouri.
SHAFLEIGH, Alfred Lee:
Merchant; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
February 16, 1862; son of Augustus Fred
erick Shapleigh and Elizabeth Ann (Um-
stead) Shapleigh, and a descendant of Alex
ander Shapleigh, of Totnes, Devonshire,
England, who came to America in 1635 as
agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and built
the first house in Kittery, Maine. Mr.
Shapleigh was graduated from Washington
University, St. Louis, in 1880, entered the
employ of the Merchants' National Bank
of St. Louis, and in 1881 went into the
coffee .and spice house of Thomas and
Taylor as clerk for about a year ; then
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Company for four years. In 1885 he be
came secretary of the A. F. Shapleigh Hard
ware Company, founded by his father, and
since July 1, 1901, has been treasurer of the
Norvell- Shapleigh Hardware Company of
St. Louis. He is also president of the Shap
leigh Investment Company, vice-president of
the Merchants'-Laclede National Bank of
St. Louis, and of the American Credit In
demnity Company of New York; president
of the Union Lead Company, and the Wash
ington Land and" Mining Company ; direc
tor of the St. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany, and of the United Elevator and Grain
Company. He is a director of the Louisi
ana Purchase Exposition Company, and
was a member of the party headed by Hon.
D. R. Francis, January, 1907, to present to
President Diaz in the City of Mexico in
commemoration of Mexico's participation
in the St. Louis World's Fair. He is also
a director of Washington University; vice-
president of the Hospital Saturday and
Sunday Association ; director and ex-pres
ident of the Mercantile Library As
sociation ; treasurer of the St. Louis
Light Artillery Armory Association; and
a member of the St. Louis Merchants'
Exchange. He is a Republican in politics,
was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1904; vice-chairman of the
Republican Advisory Committee of St.
Louis; and he has served in the National
Guard of Missouri as lieutenant and captain
about eight years. He is a Presbyterian
in his church relations. Mr. Shapleigh is
a member of the New Hampshire Society
Of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Mis
souri Society of Sons of the Revolution, So
ciety of Colonial Wars and Missouri His
torical Society. His favorite recreations are
golf, boating, automobiling and hunting. He
is a member of the Commercial, St. Louis,
Mercantile, St. Louis Country and Noonday
Clubs of St. Louis, Deer Plain Club and
the Harbor Point Club of Michigan. Mr.
Shapleigh married in Cincinnati, Ohio, No
vember 21, 1888, Mina Wessel, and they
have two children: Alexander Wessel and
Jane. Residence: 3636 Delmar Boulevard,
St. Louis. Office address: Fourth Street

and Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Mis
souri. SHARP, Hunter:
Consular officer; born in North Caro
lina. He was appointed marshal at Osaka
and Hiogo, May 10, 1886; appointed also
vice-consul at Osaka and Hiogo, March 12,
1891; retired as vice-consul October 1,
1898; retired as marshal July 17, 1899; ap
pointed vice and deputy consul at Osaka
and HiogO, April 25, 1900; appointed also
interpreter at Osaka and Hiogo April 25,
1900 ; retired as vice and deputy consul
and as interpreter July 1, 1902, and was
appointed vice and deputy consul at Kobe
August 1, 1902; appointed also interpreter
August 1, 1902; appointed consul March 10,
1905. Address : Kobe, Japan.
SHARPLESS, Isaac:
President of Haverford College; born at
Chester County, Pennsylvania, December
16, 1848; son of Aaron and Susanna (For-
sythe) Sharpless. He received his prepara
tory education at the Westtown School,
Pennsylvania, and, entering the Lawrence
Scientific School of Harvard University,
was graduated in 1873, with the degree of
S.B. The degree of ScD. was conferred
upon him by the University of Pennsyl
vania, that of LL.D. by Swarthmore Col
lege and that of L.H.D. by Hobart College.
From 1873 to 1875 he was instructor at
Westtown School, resigning in the latter
year to take a similar position at Haver
ford College. In 1879 he was appointed
to the chair of mathematics at Haverford
College, five years later becoming dean.
In 1887 he was appointed to the presi
dency of that college, which office he still
holds. In politics Dr. Sharpless is an In
dependent Republican and he is a member
of the Society of Friends. He is author of
text-books- in geometry and astronomy and
also of the volumes, Quaker Experiment in
Government; Two Centuries of Pennsyl
vania History (Lippincott) ; Quakerism
and Politics (Essays) ; and English Educa
tion (Appleton). He married at West
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Lydia T. Cope. By this union there are six
children : Helen, born in 1877 ; Amy C,
born in 1879; Frederic C, born in 1881;
Edith F, born in 1884; Lydia T., born in
1886 ; Katharine T., born in 1896. Address :
Haverford, Pennsylvania.
SHAUGHNESSY, Walter D.:
Consular officer; born in Utah. He was
appointed consular agent at Charleroi, Feb
ruary 19, 1906; appointed consul at Aguas-
calientes. Address : Aguascalientes, Mex
ico.SHAW, Albert:
Editor; born in Shandon, Ohio, July 23,
1857; son of Griffin Shaw and Susan Shaw.
He was graduated from Iowa College in
1879; took a post-graduate course in con
stitutional history, and a course in history
and political science at Johns Hopkins
University, receiving the degree of Ph.D.
in 1884 and LL.D. from the University of
Wisconsin in 1904. Mr. Shaw was editorial
writer on the Minneapolis Tribune from
1883 to 1890 ; student in Europe in 1888 and
1889; established the American Review of
Reviews, in 189 1 ; is president of the Re
view of Reviews Publishing Company. He
has lectured in many universities and col
leges. In politics he is a Republican. Mr.
Shaw is a member of the Academy of Po
litical and Social Science, the American As
sociation of Political Science, the Civil Serv
ice Reform Association, the American Sta
tistical Association, American Historical As
sociation, the American Society of Inter
national Law, the National Municipal
League, and other societies, and associa
tions. He is trustee of the General Edu
cation Board, the Southern Education
Board, and of Iowa College. President of
Jury of Awards, Jamestown Exposition,
1907. His favorite recreation is golf. Mr.
Shaw is author of: Icaria; A Chapter in
the History of Communism, 1884; Local
Government in Illinois, 1883; Cooperation
in the Northwest, 1888; Municipal Govern
ment in Great Britain, 1895; Municipal
Government in Continental Europe, 1895;
The Business Career, 1904; Political Prob
lems in American Development, 1907; The

Outlook for the Average Man, 1907; and
is editor of The National Revenues, 1888;
also numerous articles in American and
Foreign periodicals. He is a member ot
the Aldine, Authors, City, Century, Quill,
Barnard and National Arts Clubs, the Uhio
Society of New York, the Minnesota So
ciety of New York, and the Iowa Society
of New York. Mr. Shaw married m
Reading, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Bacon,
and their children are : Albert and Roger.
Address : 13 Astor Place. New York
City.
SHAW, Charles A.:
Commissioner of the Board of Water
Supply; born at New York Mills, Whites-
town, Oneida County, New York, Novem
ber 8, 1839; son of Charles and Isabella
Hutchison (Ure) Shaw. He was educated
in the public schools and Whitestown Semi
nary. After leaving school he became a
teacher; then entered the Union Army as
private in the Fourteenth New York Heavy
Artillery, and served till the end of the
war. He entered the office of the Hanover
Fire Insurance Company in 1866, passing
through various positions of trust, and
being appointed assistant secretary in
April, 1884; second vice-president, January,
1896; vice-president, January 19, 1899, and
secretary, February 16, 1899; elected presi
dent, May, 1900, which position he resigned
in April, 1906, to devote the entire time to
his duties as commissioner of the Board of
Water Supply of the City of New -York,
having been appointed to that non-partisan
board, June 9, 1905, by Mayor McClellan,
as representative of the New York Board
of Fire Underwriters. He was secretary
of the National Board of Fire Under
writers, from 1902 to 1906; and is a direc
tor of the Hanover Fire Insurance Com
pany. In politics Mr. Shaw is a Republi
can, and in religious faith a Presbyterian.
He is a member of the Chamber of Com
merce, of the State of New York; fellow
of the American Geographical Society ; Na
tional Geographic Society of Washington,
D. C, Prince Society of Boston, Massachu
setts, Brooklyn Masonic Veterans, Rankin
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of the Mistletoe Lodge, Brooklyn, and rep
resentative of the Grand Lodge of Masons
of Wisconsin. He is also a member of the
Masonic Club of New York City, and the
Aurora Grata Masonic Club of Brooklyn.
He married, in New York Mills, August
23, 1864, Sarah E: Forsey, who died in
February, 1901 ; and they had one son,
Charles F, born in 1875 and died in 1906.
Residence: The Touraine, Brooklyn, New
York. Address; 299 Broadway, New York
City. SHAW, Charles Gray:
Educator; born in Elizabeth, New Jer
sey, June 23, 1871 ; son of Horace Gray
Shaw and Emma Catherine (Gouge) Shaw.
He was graduated from Cornell University
as B.L. in 1894, from New York Univer-
siyt as Ph.D. in 1897, and from Drew Theo
logical Seminary as B.D. in 1897. The next
two years were spent abroad, when Dr.
Shaw pursued studies in philosophy at Jena
and Berlin. He has been professor of phil
osophy in New York University since 1899;
and in addition to his' academic work he
is constantly engaged in the work of pub
lic lecturing. He is author of: Christianity
and Modern Culture, 1906. He is an In
dependent Democrat in politics, and a
Methddist Episcopalian in his church rela
tions ; and he is a member of the Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity and the Sphinx Head
(Cornell). Dr. Shaw is also a member of
the American Philosophical Association, the
Religious Education Association, Society of
Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial
Wars, and the Sons of the Revolution. He
married in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Sep
tember 21, 1897, E. Belle Clarke, and they
have a daughter, Winifred Clarke Shaw,
born September 30, 1902. Residence : Mor
ris Heights, New York City. Office ad
dress : New York University, University
Heights, New York City.
SHAW, Edward P.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the First National Bank of Newburyport,
Mass., Haverhill and Amesbury .Street
Railway Company, Salisbury Beach Corpo

ration, and the Salisbury Land and Im
provement Company; director of the Bos
ton and Worcester Street Railway Com
pany, and trustee of the Boston and Wor
cester Electric Companies. Address ; New
buryport, Massachusetts.
SHAW, Henry Smith worth:
Manufacturer; born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, March 30, 1833 ; son of South-
worth and Abby Atwood (Shurtleff) Shaw,
and a descendant in the eighth generation
of John Shaw, Plymouth, 1627, and Wil
liam Shurtleff, an early Plymouth immi
grant who removed to Marshfield about
1660. He is a descendant of twenty-four
of the early New England immigrants,
eleven being Mayflower passengers, 1620;
four in the Fortune, 1621, and nine in the
Ann and Little James, 1623. He was a
graduate of the Boston Grammar, Latin
and High Schools, office boy of Samuel
Lawrence, treasurer of woolen mills in
Lowell and Lawrence, and assistant to the
treasurer. He was treasurer of the Pem
berton mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, from
i860; treasurer of the Stevens Linen
Works, Dudley, Massachusetts, from 1868;
treasurer of the Nevins Company after the
death of David Nevins; president of the
Methuen Cotton Mills, of the Saco and
Pettee Machine Shops, of the Rhode Island
Malleable Iron Works, and of the Silver
Lake Company, Newtonville, Massachu
setts. He is also a director of the Boston
Safe Deposit and Trust Company; trustee
of the Franklin Savings Bank; trustee of
estates and director of Home for Aged
Men. He is a member of the Historic
Genealogical Society, Sons of American
Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants; life mem
ber of Bostonian Society and of Young
Men's Christian Union. His clubs are the
Unitarian and Exchange. He married,
June 3, 1880, Louisa Towne of Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, and they have three chil
dren : Henry Southworth, Jr., Margaret
and Eleanor. Residence: 339 Common
wealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
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SHAW, Leslie M.:
President of the Carnegie Trust Com
pany; born in Morristown, Vermont, No
vember 2, 1848 ; son of Boardman O. Shaw
and Louisa Shaw. When he' was four years
of age his people moved to Stowe, Ver
mont, where he received a common school
education, with a few terms in the village
high school and in People's Academy, at
Morrisville. When twenty-one years of age
he went to Iowa, was graduated from Cor
nell College in 1874, and from the Iowa
College of Law in 1876, having earned the
means with which to educated himself. . Af
ter graduation he located in Denison, the
county seat of Crawford County, Iowa, and
engaged in the practice of law. He was
led by the demands of the community into
the negotiation of farm loans, and from
that into general banking at Denison, at
Manilla, and at Charter Oak, in the same
county. While keeping the practice of law
in the foreground, he was thus kept in
touch with financial matters, both East and
West. Until 1896 he took no active part
in politics, excepting in national campaigns,
when he frequently made speeches in de
fence of the principles of the Republican
party, in which he was a firm believer. In
1896, at the request of .the State central
committee, he placed his entire time at its
disposal. This led to his nomination for
governor and election in 1897, and his re
election in 1899, in which he doubled his
previous plurality and quadrupled his pre
vious majority. He' peremptorily declined
a third term, and planned to return to his
law practice and business interests. A few
days before the close of his term, however,
without solicitation or suggestion from
himself of friends, he was tendered the
position of secretary of the treasury, and
assumed the duties of that office on Febru
ary 1, 1902. This latter official position he
resigned March 4, 1907, to accept the presi
dency of the Carnegie Trust Company of
New York City. He married, December 6,
1877, Alice, daughter of James Cranshaw,
of Clinton County, Iowa. Address: 115
Broadway, New York City.

MEN OF AMERICA.

SHEA, Daniel WiUiam:
Professor of physics; born in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, November 27,
1859; son of Timothy §hea and Margaret
(McCarthy) Shea. He was educated in
public schools of Greenland, New Hamp
shire, in Brackett Academy, Greenland,
New Hampshire ; was graduated from Har
vard University as A.B. magna cum laude
in 1886 and A.M. in 1888, and from Fried-
rich-Wilhelms Universitat, Berlin, Ger
many, as Ph.D. in 1892. He was assistant
in physics, Harvard University, in 1889
and 1892; assistant professor of physics,
University of Illinois, in 1892 and 1893;
professor of physics in the same institu
tion, from 1893 to 1895 ; and has been pro
fessor of physics, at the Catholic Univer
sity of America, Washington, D. C, since
1898. He was director of the School of
Technological Sciences, the Catholic Uni
versity of America, from 1897 to 1906 and
has been dean of the Faculty of Science of
the Catholic University of America since
1906. He has traveled in Ireland, England,
Wales, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzer
land, Italy. He was a member of. the New
Hampshire General Court, from the town
of Greenland, from 1886 to 1888. In poli
tics he is a Democrat and in religion a
Roman Catholic. He is a member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
American Physical Society, American' As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
National Geographic Society, \ Phi Beta
Kappa, Knights of Columbus,1 and Ameri
can Irish Historical Society. He is a mem
ber of the University Club of Washington,
D. C, and of the Mathematical and Physi
cal Club of Boston, Massachusetts. He has
published several articles on Electricity and
Light in American and German scientific
journals. Address: The Catholic Univer
sity of America, Washington, D. C.
SHEDD, John Graves:
Merchant; born in Alstead, New Hamp
shire, July 20, 1850; son of William Shedd
and Abigail (Wallace) Shedd. He was
educated in the common schools of Al
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began his business career at the age of
eighteen, and from that time to the present
has been continuously connected with the
dry-goods trade, first' in Bellows Falls, Ver
mont, for six months, then at Alstead, New
Hampshire, in 1869 and 1870, then for two
years in a retail dry goods establishment at
Rutland, Vermont. In August, 1872, he en
tered the employ of Field, Leiter & Com
pany, remaining with that firm and its suc
cessor, Marshall Field and Company, in
which he advanced steadily and of which he
was vice-president until the death of Mr.
Marshall Field in January, 1906, following
which he was elected to the presidency of
the company, which he now fills. Resi
dence: 4515 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago. Of
fice address: Marshall Field and Company,
Adams Street and Fifth Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois. SHEEN, Daniel Robinson:
Lawyer; born in Radnor Township,
Peoria County, November 29, 1852; son of
Peter Sheen and Melissa Sheen. He re
ceived a common school and business edu
cation, and attended the Normal School for
one term. He read law with Ingersoll,
Puterbaugh Brothers and McCune, and was
admitted to the bar in 1874, and has prac
ticed at Peoria ever since. He was elected
to the House of Representatives of Illinois
in 1904, on the Prohibition ticket, and as
a candidate in 1907 for mayor of Peoria
and on Independent ticket, and with Demo
crat, Republican and Socialist competing,
he held second place. He has served as
delegate to several National Prohibition
conventions and has taken an active part
as a speaker in many campaigns. Mr.
Sheen is also a popular lecturer. He mar
ried at Peoria, Illinois, June 28, 1876, Sarah
A. Stiehl. Address: Peoria, Illinois.
SHEERIN, James:
Clergyman ; born in Scotland, May 6,
1865; son of William Sheerin and Mary
(Leckly) Sheerin. He attended St. Steph
en's College three years, and after leaving
taught in Military School in Denver, Colo
rado,, from 1888 to 1890; graduated in the
ology at Kenyon College in 1892, where he

took honors for written and extempor
aneous sermons; Columbia University as
B.A. in 1901 and from the Episcopal Theo
logical School as B.D. in 1903. He was
ordered deacon in 1892 by Bishop W. A.
Leonard and ordained priest in 1892 by
Bishop Whitehead. He was assistant in
Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
in 1892 and 1893; rector of St. Peter's
Church, Ashtabula, Ohio, from 1893 to
1895; warden of Episcopal .Hall, West
Virginia University, from 1895 to 1898;
vicar of the Chapel of the Comfor
ter, Ascension Parish, New York City,
from 1898 to 1901 ; associate rector of St.
James's, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from
1901 to 1904 and has been rector of the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Clinton,
Massachusetts, since March, 1904. He is au
thor of: The Church, The State and
the University (Thomas Whitaker), 1906;
The Demand for Preaching, 1902 ; Workers
With God, 1904, and other essays and ser
mons. He was elected trustee of Clinton
Public Library in 1907; provisional deputy
to the. General Convention from the Dio
cese of Western Massachusetts, in 1907;
has been chaplain of Trinity Lodge Free
and Accepted Masons since 1905; president
of the Tam O'Shanter Tennis Club since
1905 ; special student in Harvard Univer
sity 1902, 1903, and 1905 ; member of Sigma
Chi. His favorite recreations are .ten
nis, travel, reading, theater, opera and
music. He is a member of the Lamsdec
Club of Clinton and of the Parson's Club
of Worcester. Mr. Sheerin married, in
Bucyrus, Ohio, June 28, 1892, Mary Eliza
beth Picking, granddaughter of General
Myers, and they have three children:
Elizabeth, born in 1894; Charles Wilford,
born in 1897, and Florence, born in 1903.
Address: Clinton, Massachusetts.
SHEFFIELD, James Rockwell:
Lawyer ; born in Dubuque, Iowa, August
13, 1864; son of Frederick W. H. Shef
field and Sarah (Kellogg) Sheffield. He
was educated in Williston Seminary, was
graduated from Yale University as A.B.,
and from Harvard Law School. He was a
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1894 ; president of the Board of Fire Com
missioners, New York City, from 1895 to
1898; and was appointed president of the
Gas Commission by Governor Higgins, but
declined. He is a member of the law firm
of Betts, Sheffield & Betts. In politics he
is a Republican and in religion a Presby
terian. Mr. Sheffield is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, and trustee of Chestnut Hill Acad
emy. He has been an occasional contribu
tor of articles to magazines. He is a mem
ber of the University, Yale, Union League,
Republican and Lawyers' Clubs. Mr. Shef
field married, in Cleveland, Ohio, Novem
ber 2, 1898, Edith Todd, and they have one
son, Frederick, born February 26, 1902.
Address : 120 Broadway, New York City.
SHELBY, David D.:
United States circuit judge; born in
Madison County, Alabama, October 24,
1847; son of Dr. David Shelby and Mary
(Bouldin) Shelby. After preparatory edu
cation in the schools of his native county
he studied law in Cumberland University,
Lebanon, Tennessee; was admitted to the
bar in 1870, and practiced at Huntsville,
Alabama, until appointed by President Mc
Kinley, March 2, 1899, judge of the United
States Circuit Court for the Fifth Judicial
Circuit, in which office he is still serving.
Judge Shelby was formerly active in politics
as a Republican leader, was a member of
the Alabama Senate from 1882 to 1884,
and was the Republican nominee for chief
justice of Alabama in 1886. He married
in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1872, Annie
Davis. Address : Huntsville, Alabama.
SHELDON, George Lawson:
Governor of Nebraska ; graduated from
the University of Nebraska as Litt.B. in
1892, and from Harvard as A.B. in 1893.
He was elected in November, 1906, on the
Republican ticket for the two-year term
expiring January 1, 1909. Address : Lin
coln, Nebraska.
SHEPARD, Edward M.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, July
23, 1850; son of Lorenzo B- Shepard and

Lucy (Morse) Shepard. He received his
education in the public schools of New
York City and Brooklyn, one year in the
preparatory school at Oberlin College,
Ohio; a year at the College of the City of
New York, where he received the degree
of A.B., and LL.D. from Washington and
Lee University, Williams' College and Tu
lane University. As special attorney-gen
eral he directed the prosecution of the
famous boss, John Y. McKane, and twenty
other offenders, for ballot-box stuffing at
Gravesend, Coney Island, in 1893. He is
active in Democratic and reform politics;
chairman of the Civil Service Board of
Brooklyn; was a leader in the Democratic
Reform Party, Brooklyn, in 1892 and 1893;
was Democratic candidate for mayor of
New York in 1901 ; and is a promotor of
tariff reform, civil service reform, ballot
reform, tax reform, and other reforms.
Mr. Shepard is president and director of
the Berkshire Apartment Association ; - di
rector of the Alvarez Land and Timber
Company; the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Brooklyn Trust Company, Coahuila Coal
Railroad Company; Compania Metal-
lurgica Mexicana, Mexican Coal and Coke
Company, Mexican Mineral Railway Com
pany, Mexican Northern Railway Company,
Montezuma Lead Company, Morristown
and Erie Railroad Company; Patterson,
Gottfried and Hunter; Potosi and Rio
Verde Railway Company; Sombrerete
Mining Company; Teziutlan Copper Com
pany, and the Tetziutlan Copper Mining
and Smelting Company. He is chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the College of
the City of New York; vice-president of
the Winifred Masterson Burke Relief
Foundation, and trustee of the Packer
Collegiate Institute. Mr. Shepard is author
of many magazine and review articles:
Life of Martin Van Buren, and monographs
and addresses on social, economic, political
and historical subjects. He is a member
of the Century Association, and the Uni
versity and Reform Clubs of New York
City, and the Hamilton and University
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pont Street, Brooklyn. Office address : 128
Broadway, New York City.
SHEPARP, Frederick M.:
Manufacturer, merchant; born in Nor
folk, Connecticut, September 24, 1827; son
of John A. and Margaret (Mills) Shepard.
He was educated in the public schools and
Norwalk Academy. He is president of
the Goodyear Rubber Company, Rubber
Clothing Company, Lambertville Rubber
Company, Orange Water Company, Nor
folk Water Compariy; director of the
United States Rubber Company; director
of the MutuaL Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany of Newark, New Jersey; president of
East Orange Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany; member of the New England Society
of Orange, New Jersey; Metropolitan
Museum of Art; president of the Essex
County Park Commission and the Advisory
Board of Orange Memorial Hospital. He
married at Colebrook, Connecticut, 'Septem
ber 28, 1854, Annie C. Rockwell, and they
have five children : Frederick M., Jr. ;
Annie R. ; Joseph M. ; John A., and Edith
M. Residence: East Orange, New Jer
sey. Address : 787 Broadway, New York
City. SHEPARD, Seth:
Jurist; born in Washington County,
Texas, April 23, 1847; son of Chauncey
Berkeley Shepard, one of the early set
tlers of the Brazos Valley of Texas, and
Mary Hester (Andrews) Shepard. After
attending private schools, and a short time
in the Texas Military Institute at Bastrop,
he enlisted July 4, 1864, in the Fifth Texas
Mounted Volunteers, in the Confederate
States Army, and served until the surren
der. He then entered Washington College
in Virginia (now Washington and Lee Uni
versity), and was graduated as B.L. in 1868.
He practiced law at Brenham, Galveston
and Dallas, Texas, from admission in 1869,
and held a leading place at the Texas
bar until appointed by President Cleveland
in 1893, as one of the associate justices of
the Court of Appeals of the District of
Columbia, from which position he was pro
moted January 5, 1905, to his present office

as chief justice of that court. Judge Shep
ard is a Democrat, and in 1874 was elected
to the State Senate of Texas ;' and was a
member of the Board of Regents of the
University of Texas from 1883 to 1891.
Georgetown University conferred upon
Judge Shepard the degree of LL.D. in 1895,
and in the same year he was appointed a
lecturer on constitutional law, equity juris
prudence, and the law of corporations in
the School of Law of Georgetown Univer
sity, in which connection he continues.
Judge Shepard is a fellow of the Texas
Historical Association, the Southern His
torical Association, United Confederate
Veterans, Sons of the American Revolu
tion, Society of Mayflower descendants, and
the American Bar Association, and is pres
ident of the Southern Industrial Educa
tional Association. He married, first, Janu
ary 18, 1882, Caroline Nelson Goree, and
second, March 25, 1890, Etta K. Jarvis.
Address : 1447 Massachusetts Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
SHEPHERD, Richard Bowden:
Clergyman; born in Yonkers, New York,
September 22, 1858; son of Solomon Shep
herd and Frances Maria (Henop) Shepherd.
He was educated in the Protestant Episco
pal Academy of Philadelphia; was gradu
ated from the University of Pennsylvania
as A.B. in 1878, and A.M. in 1881, and
from Berkeley Divinity School, Middle-
town, Connecticut, in 1881. He was ordered
deacon May 22, 1881, and ordained priest
October 8, 1882, by Bishop Stevens of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania; was assistant of
Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia, in
1881 and 1882 ahd rector from 1882 to
1885 ; rector of Church of the Advent,
Philadelphia, from 1885 to 1892, and has
been rector of Christ Church, Riverton,
New Jersey, since 1894. He was a deputy
from the Diocese of New Jersey, to the
General Convention of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, held in Richmond, Virginia,
in 1907; is secretary of the Convocation
of Burlington and is examining chaplain
of the Diocese of New Jersey. He is a
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Library Association and trustee of St.
Mary's Hall, Burlington, New Jersey. Mr.
Shepherd married in Trinity Church, Ox
ford, Philadelphia, June 14, 1888, Rebecca
McMurtrie Wain. Address : Riverton, New
Jersey. SHEPPARD, Morris:
Congressman and lawyer ; born at Wheat-
ville, Morris County, Texas, May 28, 1875;
son of John Levi Sheppard and Alice (Ed-
dins) Sheppard. He was a student in the
common schools of Daingerfield, Pittsburg,
Cumby, Austin, and Linden; entered the
University of Texas in 1891, taking the de
grees of A.B. in 1895, and LL.B. in 1897;
was commencement orator in the academic
department, University of Texas, 1895; en
tered Yale University in 1897, taking the
degree of LL.M., 1898, winning Wayland
prize debate, Yale Law School, 1898, de
livering the master's oration, commence
ment Yale Law School, 1898; became a
member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Texas,
in 1905. He was elected sovereign banker,
or national treasurer, Woodmen of the
World, the second . largest fraternal insur
ance order in the United States, at Mem
phis, March, 1899; reelected at Milwaukee,
in May, 1903, and again elected at Norfolk,
in May, 1907, elected the first presi
dent of the Texas fraternal congress at
Dallas. 1901. He began the practice of
law at Pittsburg, Texas, in 1898, and moved
to Texarkana in 1899, where he continued
to follow his profession; spoke for the
Democratic ticket in New York City muni
cipal campaign of 1903, in the national cam
paign of 1904, in Wisconsin, Missouri, In
diana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
New York, and in the constitutional con
vention and Congressional campaigns in Ok
lahoma and Missouri in 1906. He was
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress to
fill out the unexpired term of his father,
the Hon. John L. Sheppard, deceased; also
elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, from the First Texas District.
Address : Texarkana, Texas.

SHERLEY, Swagar:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Louis
ville, Kentucky, November 28, 1871 ; son of
Thomas H. Sherley and Ella (Swagar)
Sherley. He was" educated in the public
schools, graduating from the Louisville
Male High School, June, 1889, B.A. ; stud
ied law at the University of Virginia, and
graduated June, 1891, as B.L. ; was admitted
to the practice of law, September, 1891, at
the Louisville bar, and has practiced con
tinuously in State and Federal courts since.
He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of the United States, 1898. He was
elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress from the Fifth Kentucky .Dis
trict. In politics he is identified with the
Democratic Party. Residence: 207 West
Breckenridge Street, Louisville. Office ad
dress : Louisville Trust Building, Louis
ville, Kentucky.
SHERMAN, Gordon Edward:
Lawyer; born in Morristown, New Jer
sey, August 11, 1854; son of Byron Sher
man and Julia A. (Burnham) Sherman. He
began his education in College Gaillard,
Lausanne, Switzerland; and was graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School (Yale)
as Ph.B. in -1876 and Washington Univer
sity Law School, St. Louis, as LL.B. in
1878. He was admitted to the New Jersey
bar in 1879, and the New York bar in
1885. Mr. Sherman was instructor at Yale
University for one year, in comparative
constitutional law and the German imperial
code. He served for some years as secre
tary of a local improvement society at Mor
ris Plains, where he owns somewhat ex
tensive real estate interests. He brought to
light in the Yale Law Journal, in 1905, the
first case in which the United States Su
preme Court ever held an act of Congress
void, because repugnant to the United
States Constitution. This case was known
to Chief Justice Marshall, but had remained
lost to the legal profession for a century.
He has also contributed other articles to
the Yale Law Journal, on comparative con
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of the Morristown Civic Association, the
American Bar Association, the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, the
American Historical Association, antl of
the International Association of Com
parative Jurisprudence and Political Econ
omy of Berlin, Prussia. He is a Republican
in politics and a member of the Presbyterian
Church. His favorite recreations are Ger
man and French literature, pictures and
summer travel. Pie has sailed twice
around the Cape of Good Hope, and has
traveled extensively in Switzerland, France,
Germany and England. He is trustee of
Morris County, Bar Association, of the
South Street Presbyterian Church of Mor
ristown, and director of the Morristown
Memorial Hospital. He married in Mor
ristown, New Jersey, June 12, 1894, Harriet
E. Shelton. Residence : Ogden Place, Mor
ristown. Office address : Morristown, New
Jersey. SHERMAN, Henry" Handrlck:
Lawyer; born in Lynn, Pennsylvania,
January 4, i860; son of Henry N. Sher
man and Estella Theresa (Handrick) Sher
man. He was graduated from the College
of the City of New York and the Law
School of Columbia College; and was ad
mitted to the bar in New York City, in
1883. For several years he was a clerk
in the law office of Governor Samuel J.
Tilden, and he has practiced in the New
York courts since 1883. Mr. Sherman was
associated in law practice for many years
with Honorable Charles F. MacLean, now
justice of the Supreme Court of New
York. He was private secretary to Mayor
Abram S. Hewitt in 1887 and 1888, under
sheriff from 1895 to 1897, deputy register
from 1903 to 1905, and member of the
Board of Education in 1906 and 1907. In
politics he is an Independent Democrat,
and he is an Episcopalian in his religious
faith. Mr. Sherman is trustee of the Nor
mal College of the City of New York;
treasurer of the General Church Club of
the Bronx; member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, Asso
ciation of the Bar of the Borough of the
Bronx, Royal Arcanum, and of ,the

Schnorer and Bronx Clubs, being secre
tary of the latter. He married in Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1888, Jes
sie Wheaton Rhoads, and they have three
children: Estella M., born in 1889; John
R., born in 1892, and Mary W., born in
1896. Address : 1006 Trinity Avenue, New
York City.
SHERMAN, James Schoolcraft:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Utica,
October 24, 1855 ; son of Richard W. Sher
man and Mary Frances Sherman. He re
ceived an academic and collegiate education,
graduating from Hamilton College in the
class of 1878; was admitted to the bar in
1880, and has since been engaged in the
practice of law. He is president of the
Utica Trust and Deposit Company, and
president of the New Hartford Canning
Company. Mr. Sherman was mayor of
Utica, 1884; delegate to the Republican Na
tional Convention in 1892; chairman of
New York State Republican Convention in
1895 and again in 1900. He was elected
to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first; Fifty-third, Fif-
fty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the. Twenty-seventh New York
District. Address : Utica, New York, ,
SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh:
Lawyer; born in St. Louis, Missouri,
January 9, 1867; son of General William
T. Sherman and Ellen (Ewing) Sherman.
He was graduated from St. Louis Uni
versity as A.B. in 1886, from Yale as
Ph.B. in 1888, and studied in the Columbia
Law School until 1890. That year he was
admitted to the bar in New York and is
now a member of the law firm of Taft and
Sherman. From 1898 to 1900 he was
alderman of New York City; and he was
appointed commissioner of labor of the
State qf New York in 1905. In politics
he is a Republican, and in his religious faith
a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sherman is author
of : Inside the Machine. He is a mem
ber of the Bar Association of the City of
New York, the Military Order of the Loyal
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the Board of Managers, of the State Chari
ties Aid Association ; treasurer of the Anti-
Policy Society, and a member of the Union
League of New York City, the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, and the Fort Orange
arid University Clubs of Albany. Address :
15 William Street, New York City.
SHERRILL, Charles Hitchcock:
Lawyer; born in Washington, D. C,
April 13, 1867; son of Charles Hitchcock
and Sarah Fulton (Wynkoop) Sherrill. He
was graduated from Yale University as
A.B. in 1889, LL.B. in 1891, A.M. in 1892.
He is engaged in the general practice of
law, but chiefly corporation practice. He
was colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff
of Governor Higgins, also for four
years aide-de-camp on the staff of
Governor Odell. He has always been
interested in politics. In the two McKin
ley campaigns he organized the Lawyers'
Sound Money Club, and was one of the
committee of five that conducted the mon
ster business parades of those two cam
paigns. He was also, during the Roosevelt
campaign, one of the committee of five in
charge of the Business Men's Republican
Association, and its third vice-president.
In religion he is a Presbyterian. Colonel
Sherrill is a member of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York, the Sons
of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, Founders
and Patriots, War of 1812, and the Delta
Kappa Epsilon Association. He is much
interested in athletic sports, being chair
man of Yale Graduate Advisory Commit
tee on Track Athletics. He was the origi
nator of the idea of international inter-
university track athletic meetings, having
arranged the Yale-Oxford match in Lon
don in 1894, and the Yale-Cambridge match
in New York City in 1895. He won the
intercollegiate championship for 100-yards
four years; 220-yards three years, and the
American 100-yard championship in 1887.
He is a member of the University, Union
League, Yale, Army and Navy, and New
York Athletic Clubs; Luncheon Club of
New York; Metropolitan Club of Wash
ington; Graduates' Club of New Haven,
and the Sports, Isthmian, and Leander

Clubs of London. He married, February
8, 1906, G. B. Gibbs. Residence : 20 East
East Sixty-fifth Street. Address: 30
Broad* Street, New York City.
SHERWOOD-DUNN, Berkeley:
Banker; born at Rushford, Allegheny
County, New York; son of William Erwin
and Harriet Isabella (Peterson) Dunn. He
was educated in New York University, the
University of France, Paris, graduating as
bachelief -es-lettres, 1887 ; bachelier-es-sci-
ences, 1888. He practiced medicine in Paris,
France, from 1888 to 1895; and traveled
over continental Europe and all over the
United States. He was appointed Amer
ican member of the committee to revise
the laws governing foreign students ad
mitted to the University of France, in 1892 ;
was one of the founders and director of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty' to
Animals, Paris; delegate from the United
States Government to the International
Medical Congress, Amsterdam, Holland,
1897 ; reentered business, 1898 ; was part
owner and editor of Annals of Gynecology
and Pediatry, Boston, 1898. He is author
of: Medical Education in France; How I
Married in France ; Mothers and Daugh
ters; The Sociological Aspect of the Drey
fus Case; Gynecic Surgery in Its Relation
to Nervous Diseases ; From Obscurity to
Fame in One Day. He is now president
and director of European-American Bank,
New York City, and of the New Jersey and
Delaware Railroad Company; director of
the Delaware and Northampton Railroad,
Bankers' Life Insurance Company, Quaker
Portland Cement Company, Lehigh Con
struction Company; elected foreign corre
sponding member of the Societe Obstet-
rique et Gynecologique de Paris, 1895 ;
member of the Societe Clinique des Prati-
ciens de France; member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, American Geographical. Society, Am
erican Association of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, American Forestry Associa
tion, Alumni Society of New York Univer
sity, Societe de 1' Alliance Franchise de New
York; decorated by French Government,
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Francaise. Mr. Sherwood-Dunn is a mem
ber of the Automobile Club of America,
Lawyers', and New York Athletic Clubs.
He married at Nice, France, 1892, Louise
Lacy Knapp, daughter of Royal C. Knapp
of Rochester, New York, and they have
four children: Gladys, born in 1894, Yerkes
and Hamilton, twins, born in 1895, and
Dorothy, born in 1897. , Residence : Mont
clair, New Jersey ; winter, , Aiken, South
Carolina. Address : 187 Greenwich Street,
New York City.
SHIELDS, Moses:
Stone dealer; born in Wales, April 24,
1853; son of Moses Shields and Martha
(Williams) Shields. He attended parochial
schools in Wales and Tallmadge Academy,
Tallmadge; Ohio. Mr. Shields has been in
business at - Nicholson since 1874, under
the, firm name of Moses Shields and Son,
until 1888, and since that time as the Moses
Shields Stone Company, of which, he is
now president and treasurer. He is vice-
president of the Lackawanna Dairy Com
pany; a director of the Shifter Novelty
Works, and a director of the Nicholson
Light, Heat and Power Company. He is
a Republican in politics and has represented
Wyoming County in the State Legislature
in the sessions of 1905, 1906 and 1907, and
served as a member of the State Capitol
Investigation Commission. He is an Episco
palian in religion. He married at Nicholson,
Pennsylvania, February 14, 1877, Amelia
Smith," and they have two children: Moses
Harold, born in 1881, and Cecil Geoffrey,
born in 1883. Address: Nicholson, Penn
sylvania. SHIPLEY, Samuel R.:
Financier; born in Philadelphia, January
8, 1828. He was the son of Thomas Ship
ley, one of the founders of' the American
Anti-Slavery Society, and president of
the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. His
mother, Lydia Richards, was a descend
ant of John Sharpless, one of the Quakers
who came to Pennsylvania with William
Penn in the ship Welcome. Mr. Shipley
was educated in the Friends' School,
Philadelphia, and also in the Westtown

Friends' Boarding School, and immediate
ly after attaining his twenty-first year be
came a member of the firm of C. W.
Churchman and Company, importers. In
1857 he entered the firm of Shipley, Hazard
and Hutchinson, commission dealers, from
which he retired after seven years of
successful business. In 1865 he organized
the Provident Life and Trust Company,
formed to promote life insurance among
the Friends on the basis of the
Friends' Provident Institution of Brad
ford, England. Of this active institution he
was president for forty years, and then
retired. He has for many years been active
ly interested in charitable institutions, in
cluding the Preston Retreat, the Home
Mission Society, and others. In May, 1904,
he was elected a director of the United
Gas Improvement Company. He is a mem
ber of the Union League Club. Mr. Ship
ley married, first, Anne Shinn, who died
in 1888; and married, second, in 1890,
Agnes G. Evans. Address : 1534 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SHIPLEY, Walter Penn:
Attorney-at-law ; born in Philadelphia,
June 20, i860; son of Thomas Shipley and
Eliza M. (Drinker) Shipley. He received
his education in Haverford College, and the
University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Shipley
is president of the Franklin Chess Club ;
treasurer of the trustees of the Germantown
Preparative Meeting of Friends; and treas
urer of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Colored Persons. In politics he is a Re
publican and he is a member of the So
ciety of Friends. Mr. Shipley is a member
of the University Club and the Franklin
Chess Club of Philadelphia, and the Man
hattan Chess Club of New York. He mar
ried in Philadelphia, .October 17, 1889, Anne
Emlen, and they have three children :
Thomas E-, James E., and Walter Penn, Jr.
Residence : 477 Locust Avenue, German-
town, Philadelphia. Office address : Girard
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SHIRLEY, John H.:
Consular officer ; born in Illinois. He
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rich, January 2, 1902; appointed consul at
Suva, June 22, 1906; consul at Charlotte-
town, November 21, 1906. Address : Char-
lottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
SHOEMAKER, Henry Francis:
Capitalist; born at Orwigsburg, Pennsyl
vania, March 28, 1845; son of John Wise
Shoemaker and Mary A. (Brock) Shoe
maker. After graduation from the Genesee
Seminary at Lima, New York, in the class
of 1861 he received an appointment' to the
United States Naval Academy in the class
of 1865, but entered the Army instead, at
the opening of the Civil War; was on the
staff of General McClernand in 1861 and
1862, and commissioned 'first lieutenant of
the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment
in 1863. He was engaged in the anthracite
coal business from 1865 to 1881 ; was in
terested in railroads for many years; chair
man of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railway from 1887 to 1904; chairman
of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific Railway from 1899 to 1904; and he
is now a director of the Trust Company of
America of New York, the Chatham Na
tional Bank, Night and Day Bank, and
Battery Park National Bank, all of New
York, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railway Company, Pere Marquette
Railway Company, New River Coal Com
pany of Ohio, the People's Bank and Trust
Company of New Jersey, and other corpo
rations. His favorite recreations are yacht
ing and automobiling. He is a director of
the Good Samaritan Dispensary of New
York, a member of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, and also a member of the
Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers',
New York Yacht, Automobile of America,
Riding, Army and Navy, and other New
York clubs. Mr. Shoemaker married, April
22, 1874, Blanche Quig'gle, only daughter
of Colonel James W. Quiggle, LL.D., of
Philadelphia, and of this marriage there
were three children : Henry Wharton,
born February 24, 1881 ; William Brock,
born July 29, 1883, died June 21, 1906, and
Blanche. Mr. Shoemaker has country seats
at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and Riverside, Con

necticut. Address : 26 West Fifty-third
Street, New York City.
SHONTS, Theodore Ferry:
Railway official; born in Crawford
County, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1856; son of
Dr. Henry Daniels Shonts and Margaret
Nevin (Marshall) Shonts. His ancestry
is Dutch and Scotch-Irish. He went with
his parents in boyhood, to Appanoose Coun
ty, Iowa, and he was educated in the pub
lic schools of Centerville, Iowa, and at
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois,
from which he was graduated in 1876.
After graduation he became an accountant,
and in a very short time was employed by
national banks in Iowa to standardize and
simplify their methods of bookkeeping.
While so engaged he studied law and prac
ticed a short time at Centerville, Iowa.
He became associated with General Drake,
who had large financial and railroad in
terests, and who placed much of the work
of management and construction in his
hands; and he had charge of the construc
tion of the Iowa Central Railroad, and
afterward built the Missouri, Iowa and Ne
braska Railroad, and later the Indiana, Il
linois and Iowa Railroad, and was its con
trolling owner, later selling it to the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
Company ; then, after a few months of rest
and travel, he returned to the railroad
business, and with associates secured the
control of the Toledo, St. Louis and West
ern Railroad (Clover Leaf Road), which
he rehabilitated and made successful. He
was selected in the spring of 1905, by
President Roosevelt as chairman of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, formulating
the plans for that great work, and he
continued at its head until February, 1907,
when he took his present position as presi
dent of the Interborough-Metropolitan
Company, in charge of the surface car and
rapid transit systems of New York City.
Mr. Shonts married at Centerville, Iowa, in
1882, Harriet Amelia Drake, daughter of
General (afterward governor) Francis M.
Drake, of Iowa, and they have two
daughters, Marguerite and Theodora. Ad
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SHOTTS, George W.:
Consular officer; born in Ohio. He was
appointed commercial agent at Sault Sainte
Marie, February 26, 1898; appointed con
sul, June 22, 1906. Address : Sault Sainte
Marie, : Ontario, Canada.
SHRADY, George Frederick:
Physician; born in New York City, Janu
ary 14, 1837; he attended the College of
the City of New York, from 1851 to 1853,
received honorary degree of A.M. from
Yale in 1869, and was graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons as
M.D. in 1858. He was -acting assistant
surgeon in the United States Army, from
1861 to 1865; editor-in-chief and editorial
founder of Medical Record from 1866 to
1904; surgeon to the Presbyterian Hos
pital, St. Francis, Columbus, Memorial and
Red Cross Hospitals, from 1877 to 1900;
president of the New York Pathological
Society, from 1883 to 1885, and of New
York Practitioners' Society, 1887-1888. He;
was the surgeon in attendance upon ex-
President U. S. Grant. Dr. Shrady is a
member of the Metropolitan, Ardsley, and
Jekyl Island Clubs. Address : Ardsley-on-
Hudson, New York.
SHUBERT, Lee:
Theatrical manager; born in Syracuse^
New York, March 15, 1875; son of David
and Catherine Shubert. He was educated
in public schools of Syracuse, New York.
He is president and director of the Babes
in the Woods Company, Baker Theater
Company, Casino Theater Company, De
Wolf Hopper Company, Grand Opera
House Company, Henry Miller and Com
pany, Hyperion Theater Company, Lyric
Theater Company, Majestic Theater Com
pany, Princess Theater Company, Sam S.
and Lee Shubert, Incorporated; the Shu
bert Theatrical Company, the Shubert-An-
derson Company, the Wilbur-Shubert
Theater Company, the Shubert Realty Com
pany, the Lew Fields-Shubert Company,
and the Greenwich Bank; vice-president
and director of the Garrick Theater Com
pany of Chicago, Garrick Theater Company
of St. Louis, S. S. Shubert Amusement

Company, Washington Theater Company;
secretary, treasurer and director of the
Broadway and Thirty-ninth Street; presi
dent of Shubert-Anderson Company which
manages and controls the Hippodrome;
vice-president of the United States Amuse
ment Company, and director of the Mutual
Bank. Address: 1416 Broadway, New
York City.
SHUMAN, Abraham:
Merchant and philanthropist; born in
Prussia, May 31, 1839. He came with his
parents to America during his infancy and
was brought up on a farm near Newburgh,
New York, and he there received his Eng
lish education in the district school. When
thirteen years of age he became clerk in
a clothing store in Newburgh and in 1855
went to Providence, Rhode Island, in the
same occupation. In 1859 he located in
Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, where he
opened a clothing store on his own account.
In 1869 he formed a partnership with John
Phillips as Phillips, Shuman and Com
pany, in Bostoh. They were burned out in
the great fire of 1872, and the same year
established their store on the corner of
Summer and Washington Streets. Mr.
Phillips retired in 1875 and the business
was continued as A. Shuman and Company,
his sons, Edward A. and Sidney E., being
his partners. He instituted a mutual relief
association among his employees and as
sisted a large number of the more thrifty
in securing homes. He was president of
the Board of Trustees of the Boston City
Hospital, and from his own means doubled
the capacity of the hospital and built a
new hospital for contagious patients. He
also built the relief station on Haymarket
Square. He was a member of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce from its founda
tion ; a founder and the first vice-president
of the Boston Merchants' Association; is
a director of the Manufacturers' National
Bank and of the United States Trust Com
pany; a member of the Exchange Club, the
Boston Art Club; the Boston Athletic As
sociation, and the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Boston. He pre
sented to Tufts College in 1906, a bronze

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portrait bust of the Rev. Elmer H. Capen,
LL.D., who died March 22, 1905, after
thirty-one years' services as president of
the college. He received from Tufts Col
lege the honorary degree of A.M. in 1904,
an unusual honor to a man of the Hebrew
race and faith. He married, November 3,
1861, Hetty Lang, and besides three sons
in business with him he has four daughters,
two of them married to prominent busi
ness men. Office address : Shuman Build
ing, Boston, Massachusetts.
SHUMWAY, Herbert Hartwell:
Manufacturer; born in Palmer, Massa
chusetts, March 23, 1857. He was edu
cated in the district school, worked in
cotton mills in Chicopee, Massachusetts, for
six years and taught school three nights
each week in order to defray his expenses
at a commercial evening school for one
year. On leaving Chicopee he removed to.
Taunton, Bristol County, where he was
corder in the Whitterton Mills during the
first two years of its existence and in 1879
he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina,
to start the Charleston Cotton Mills. He
next started the St. Croix Cotton Mill at
Millville, New Brunswick and remained
with the mill two years. On returning to
Massachusetts he started the Richard
Borden Cotton Mill No. 2, and superin
tended the same up to 1895. He superin
tended for B. B. and R. Knight, Provi
dence, Rhode Island, ¦ and in 1905 he
erected and started the mills of the Carr
Manufacturing Company, Taunton, and he
was made treasurer and agent of the mills ;
and he retired in 1905. He was president
of the Taunton Board of Trade in 1903
and 1904, and he is a thirty-second degree
Mason, and an Odd Fellow. He has two
sons at school : Herbert H., Jr., and Walter
R. ; and his eldest son, Alonzo H., is treas
urer of the Francis Manufacturing Com
pany, at Taunton. Address : 2 Chestnut
Street, Taunton, Massachusetts.
STDMAN, George Dallas:
Special examiner of the United States
Pension Bureau ; born in Rochester, New
York, November 25, 1844; son of Abram

Sidman and Anna M. (Thompson) Sid-
man; lineal descendant of Samuel Sidman,
who came from England and settled, in
1757, at Ramapo (now Suffern), Rockland
County, New York, who was a devoted pa
triot during the Revolution, and had three
sons who served under Washington. He
attended public schools of Shiawassee Coun
ty, Michigan, in 1854 and 1855; and was
graduated in 1866 from Eastman's Business
College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He was
a bank and business' bookkeeper and ac
countant from 1866 to 1870; United States
consul to Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany,
in 1867 ; assistant assessor of Internal Reve
nue at Bay City, Michigan, in 1866 and
1867; gold seeker and diamond prospector
in South and Central Africa from 1876 to
1880 ; and since 1880 has been special exam
iner of the United States Pension Bureau.
He was a soldier in the Civil War, in Com
pany C, Sixteenth Michigan Volunteer In
fantry, from August I, 1861, to November
14, 1865; was wounded three times in as
many fields, and was decorated with the
Medal of Honor, for distinguished bravery,
and was a prisoner of war in Libby and
Belle Isle prisons for several months. In
politics Mr. Sidman is a Republican, and in
his religious views a Baptist, He is a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Medal of Honor Legion, Royal Arch Mason
and Knight Templar, and member of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, all of Wash
ington, D. C. Mr. Sidman married, first, in
Bay City, Michigan, January 1, 1872 Louisa
Josephine Catlin, and second, in Washing
ton, D. C, June 24, 1885, Francena Luceba
Brown ; and his children are Charles A.,
born in 1874, Frank E., born in 1875, George
N., born in 1886, and Theodore W., born in
1889. Residence: 1423 North Sixteenth
Street, Philadelphia. Office address : Room
407, Post Office Building, Philadelphia.
SIERECKER, Robert G.:
Jurist; born October 17, 1854, in Sauk
County, Wisconsin. He was educated in
the district school until he was seventeen
and then for two years, attended a private
academy at Madison. He entered the Uni
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and was graduated in Jurie, 1878. In the
fall of that year, he entered the law school
of the University and was graduated in
June, 1880. He was admitted to the bar
on examination in September, 1879, and in
October of that year began the practice of
law at Madison, and this he continued un
til appointed judge of the Ninth Judicial
Circuit, January 7, ,1890. In March, 1886,
he was elected city attorney of Madison
and was annually reelected until he went
on the circuit bench. In April, 1891, he was
elected judge of the Circuit Court, for the
unexpired term and for the ensuing term.
He was twice thereafter reelected to this
position without opposition, and April 7,
1903, he was elected a justice of the Su
preme Court, for the term beginning in
January, 1904, and on April 9 was appointed
for the unexpired term in this office, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Justice
C. V. Bardeen. Address : Madison, Wis-

SIEDLER, Charles:
Retired tobacco manufacturer; born in
N Minden, Prussia, May 24, 1839 ; son of John
J. and 'Charlotte (Altenburg) Siedler. He
was educated in the public schools of New
York. For thirty-five years he was part
ner of the late Peter Lorillard in tobacco
business; was mayor of Jersey City, 1876
and 1877 ; managing partner of P. Lorillard
and Company, now retired; receiver of
Lorillard Brick Works Company; late pres
ident of the Terra Cotta Company; presi
dent and receiver of the Fort Plain and
Richfield Springs Railroad; late president
of the Dives and Pelican Mining Company.
He is an honorary member of the Carteret
Club. Mr. Siedler married, first, in 1863,
Mary Van Schaick, second, in 1866, Julia
Franklin, and third, in 1879, Grace Syms,
and he has nine children: Mary Ella,
George J., Julia F., Charlotte, Marguerite,
Ernestine, Mary Dorothy, Charles P., and
Howard D. Address : 156 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
SIEGEL, Henry:
Merchant; born in Eubigheim, Germany,
March 17, -1852; son of Lazarus Siegel

(burgomaster of Eubigheim), and Zerlina
(Koch) Siegel. He was educated in Ger
many, and came to the United States in
1867. His first business experience was
gained in Washington, D. C, Parkersburg,
Virginia, and Lanceburg, Pennsylvania ; he
established the firm of Siegel, Hartsfield
and Company in Chicago, in 1876; and ten
years later he established the department
store of Siegel, Cooper and Company, Chi
cago. In 1896 he established Siegel, Cooper
and Company in New York City; purchased
the Simpson-Crawford Company in Janu
ary, 1902; opened the Fourteenth Street
Store, New York City, April, 1904, and
Siegel and Company, Boston; 1905; and he
controls the largest department stores in
the world. He is also a director of several
banks. He is a member of the American
Geographical Society, New York Historical
Society, the National Museum of Art, and
the Westchester Hunt Club. He married,
first, in 1885, Julia Rosenbaum, who died
in 1886, and married, second, Marie
Vaughan Wilde, widow of George Wilde,
and daughter of Judge J. G. and Isabelle
Oliver (Peters) Vaughan; and he has one
daughter, Julia, wife of Tyrell W. Caven
dish of England. Address : Westchester
County, New York. Office address : Care
of Simpson-Crawford Company, New
York City.
SIGSREE, Charles Dwight:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Albany, New York, January
16, 1845 ; son of Nicholas Sigsbee and
Agnes Orr Sigsbee. He was educated in
the United States Naval Academy. He en
tered the Naval Academy in 1859; served
in the Civil War, from 1863 to 1865 ; China
Station, from 1865 to 1869; head of several
departments of the Naval Academy; he has
commanded the Kearsarge, Dale (twice).
Constellation, Portsmouth, Maine, St: Paul,
and Texas ; commanded the Maine, when
she was destroyed in Havana, February 15.
1898 ; from 1874 to 1878, he engaged in deep
sea exploration in command of the United
States Coast Survey Steamer Blake (won
a gold medal and two diplomas of honor
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Fisheries Exhibition, London; and Red
Eagle of Prussia, in 1880) ; in charge of the
United States Hydrographic Office, from
1893 to 1897 ; commanded the St. Paul in
the war with Spain in 1898; and was ad
vanced for extraordinary heroism, Febru
ary n, 190 1 ; promoted rear-admiral, Au
gust 10, 1903. From 1903 to 1906 was suc
cessively commandant of the League Island
Navy Yard and Station, commander-in-
chief of the South Atlantic Station, Com
mander of the Caribbean Squadron and of
the Second Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet.
In June and July, 1905, commanded the
John Paul Jones Expedition to France.
Was then made commander of the Legion of
Honor of France. In the winter of 1905-
1906 cruised in the Mediterranean in com
mand of a division of vessels. He has been
chief intelligence officer of the Navy De
partment, member of the General Board,
and the Board on Construction. Is a mem
ber of various naval, military and scientific
societies. In 1897 he was highly com
mended by the Navy Department for steer
ing the battleship Maine into a wharf in
East River, New York, to avoid striking an
excursion steamer. Retired, January 16,
1907. He is author of : Deep Sea Soundings
and Dredging; United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey, 1880; The Story of the
Maine, 1898; Graphical Method for Navi
gators, United States Hydrographic Office.
He married, in 1870, Eliza Rogers Lock-
wood, daughter of General Henry H. Lock-
wood. Address : Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C.
SILVER, Albert A., Jr.:
Publisher; director of Silver, Burdett and
Company, of New York, Boston and Chi
cago. Address : 85 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
SILVER, Edgar Oscar:
Publisher; born in Bloomfield, Vermont,
April 17, i860; son of Albert A. Silver and
Sarah W. (Jenne) Silver. He was edu
cated in the common schools and in Derby
Academy of Vermont, in Waterville Classic
al Institute, Maine, and in Colby College,
Waterville, Maine, and was graduated from

Brown University as A.B. in 1883 and A.
M. in 1886. He was with D. Appleton &
Company, publishers, from 1883 to 1885;
and founded, April 21, 1885, the business
of the present house of Silver, Burdett &
Company, of which he has been president
since its incorporation in 1892, the firm be
ing publishers of school and college text
books, musical instruction books, and stan
dard literature, and having offices in New
York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlan
ta, Dallas, San Francisco and London, Eng
land. He is a director of The Century
Bank of New York. Mr. Silver has made
investigations in economics and has made
addresses on The Ethics of Business, be
fore the students of Dartmouth College in
1905, the New England Society of the
Oranges, and on other kindred subjects be
fore other institutions and societies. He
traveled in Europe in 1891 and in 1899, in
the Hawaiian Islands in 1901, and through
every State and Territory of the Union,
save Alaska. He was appointed by Gover
nor Proctor, a commissioner from the State
of Vermont to the Jamestown Ter-Centen-
nial Exposition in 1907. In politics he is a
Republican and in religion a Baptist. He
is a member of the visiting committee of
the Department Of Economics in Brown
University; has been a trustee of Brown
University since 1896; is trustee of Shaw
University (chairman of board since 1892),
Roger Williams University since 1895, and
Derby Academy, Vermont; and has been
a member of the Executive Board of the
American Baptist Home Missions Society
since 1901. Mr. Silver is a member of the
Aldine Association, New England Society,
Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon and
is a Mason. His favorite recreations are
farming, camping and fishing. He is a
member of the University Club of Boston
and of the Brown University Club of New
York. Mr. Silver married in Providence,
Rhode Island, January 4, 1888, Susan Flor
ence Maine, and they have seven children:
Katherine, Louise, Edgar O., Jr.. Helen,
Priscilla, Geraldine and Blanche. Summer
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Orange, New Jersey. Address: 85 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
SILVERMAN, Albert II.:
Capitalist. He is director of the National
Bank of Glens Falls, of Sandy Hill Realty
Company and of the Weil-Haskell Com
pany. Address: no Fifth Avenue, New
York City, and Glens Falls, New York.
SIMMONS, Furnifold McLendel:
United States senator; born in Jones
County, North Carolina, January 20, 1854;
son of Furnifold Greene Simmons and
Mary (McLendel) Simmons. He was
graduated from Trinity College, North
Carolina, as A.B. in June, 1873; was ad
mitted to the bar in 1875, and has since then
been engaged in the practice of law. H'e
was elected to the Fiftieth Congress in 1886
from the Second Congressional District of
North Carolina. He was appointed by
President Cleveland, in 1893, collector of
internal revenue for the Fourth Collection
District of North Carolina, and served
until 1897. In the campaigns of 1892, 1898
and 1900 he was the chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of North Caro
lina. He was elected to the United States
'Senate in 1901 to succeed Hon. Marion
Butler, Populist, and was nominated by the
Democratic State Convention in 1906, and
elected by the Legislature in 1907 for a sec
ond term expiring March 4, 1913. Trinity
College, North Carolina, conferred upon
him, in June, 1901, the degree of LL.D. Ad
dress : Raleigh, North Carolina.
SIMMONS, J. Edward:
Banker; born in Troy, New York, Sep
tember 9, 1841 ; son of Joseph Ferris Sim
mons and Mary Sophia (Gleason) Sim
mons. He received his preparatory educa
tion in Troy, and was graduated from Wil
liams College as A.B. in 1862, LL.B. from
the Albany Law School, 1863; later re
ceived the degree of A.M. and in 1888, the
degree of LL.D. from the University of
Norwich, Vermont. He was admitted to
the bar in 1863 and practiced at Troy, New
York, until 1867; then went to New York
City, and engaged there in banking and

brokerage. He was elected, president of the
Stock Exchange in 1884 and 1885, but de
clined a third term. He has likewise de
clined nominations to various political of
fices of New York City, among them be
ing those of mayor of New York and col
lector of the Port of New York. He ren
dered important assistance in the presi
dential campaign of Grover Cleveland in
1892 ; accepted in 1886 the presidency of the
Board of Education of New York City, of
which he had been appointed commissioner
in 1881 ; and served as president five years.
Mainly through his influence, a bill was
passed through the Legislature in 1888, con
ferring collegiate rank and powers on the
New York Normal College; and he 'success
fully worked for the development of the
College of the City of New York. He has
been president of the Fourth National Bank
since 1888; served as a receiver of the
American Loan and Trust Company of New
York; was president of the Clearing House
in 1898 ; and of the Panama Railroad Com
pany for ten years, and he is a trustee of
the Metropolitan Trust Company; and a
director of the Bank for Savings, the Ann
Arbor Railroad Company, National Surety
Company, United States Casualty Company
and the Standard Milling Company. He is
president of the Chamber of Commerce,
ex-president of the New York Infant Asy
lum; governor and treasurer of the New
York Hospital, and life trustee of Williams
College. In politics he is a Democrat; and
he is a member of the Episcopal Church. He
is of high rank in the Masonic order, and
is a member of the University, •Metropol
itan, New York Athletic, Lawyers', Tuxedo
and Democratic Clubs. Mr. Simmons mar
ried in New York City, April 12, 1866,
Julia Greer, and their children are : Joseph
Ferris, and Mrs. John Packwood Tilden.
Address : 28 West Fifty-second Street, New
York City.
SIMMS, Joseph Milburn:
Retired captain of the United States
Revenue Cutter Service; born in Patuxent,
Maryland, February 19, 1841 ; son of Joseph
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He received his education in the public
schools of the District of Columbia; served
three months in Company F, Sixth Bat
talion, District of Columbia Volunteers,
from April 22, to July 22, 1861 ; was master's
mate in the United States Navy, August
27, 1863; promoted to acting ensign, June
13, 1866; served on the United States
Steamer Daylight, and the frigate Minne
sota, of the North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, and the Wateree in the South
Pacific. He was wounded in the land at
tack upon Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865 ;
resigned from the Navy, July 31, -1868, and
was granted an honorable discharge in lieu
thereof, as certificate of meritorious serv
ice, having been appointed third lieutenant
in the United States Revenue Cutter Serv
ice, July 30, 1868. He has served upon
stations from the coast of Maine to the Gulf
of Mexico, having command, as first lieu
tenant, of several revenue cutters. He was
executive officer of the schoolship upon
¦two foreign voyages, and he retired May
3, 1895, as first lieutenant, on account of
physical disability, resulting from wounds
received in the Civil War. By an act of
Congress approved, March 11, 1902, he was
advanced to captain on the retired list, of
the United States Revenue Cutter Service,
for meritorious acts of public service and
wounds received in the United States serv
ice as appears upon the public records of
the United States Army, Navy and Rev
enue Cutter Service. He is a Republican and
he is a member of the Catholic Church.
' Captain Simms married, first, in Portland,
Maine, iri 1870 Belle D. Haskell, and sec
ond, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
March 17, 1892, Catherine J. Seabury, and
he has one daughter, born in 1880. Ad
dress : 274 Palmer Street, New Bedford,
Massachusetts.
SIMS, Edwin W. :
Lawyer; born in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, June 4, 1870; son of Walter Sims
and Elizabeth (Knowles) Sims. He was
educated in the common and high schools
of Bay City, Michigan, and taking up the
study of law in the Law Department of
the University of Michigan, was gradu

ated in 1894, with the degree of LL.B. On
leaving the university he was admitted to
the bar, and, settling in Chicago, he there
commenced the practice of law. In 1900 he
was appointed county attorney of Cook
County, Illinois, and was reappointed in
1902. He resigned in September, 1903, to
accept the position of special attorney for
the Bureau of Corporations in Washington,
D. C. He was promoted to the office of so
licitor of the Department of Commerce and
Labor at Washington, March 4, 1905. In
June, 1906, he received appointment as
United States district attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois for the term
of four years, commencing September 1,
1906. During the, summer of 1906, he was
sent by the Government to make an investi
gation of the Alaskan Fur Seal Fisheries on
the Pribilof Islands in Behring Sea. In poli
tics Mr. Sims is identified with the Republi
can party. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the Illinois
Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Associa
tion, and of the Union League, Chicago
Press, and Woodlawn Park Clubs. He mar
ried in Chicago, February 8, 1898, Charlotte
Smith, and they have four children:
Charlotte E., Helen, Frank Smith and-
Susan Knowles. Residence: 6520 Kimbark
Avenue. Address: 826 Federal Building,
Chicago, Illinois.
SIMS, Thetus WiUrette:
Congressman and lawyer; born April 25,
1852, in Wayne County, Tennessee; was
reared on a farm; was educated at Savan
nah College, Savannah, Tennessee; gradu
ated in the law Department of the Cum
berland University at Lebanon, Tennessee,
June, 1876; located at Linden, Tennessee,
where he has resided ever since in the
practice of his profession ; was elected
county superintendent of public instruction
for Perry County, Tennessee, in 1882, and
held that office for two years ; was chosen
an elector on the Cleveland and Stevenson
ticket in 1892; was elected to the Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-
eighth, and Fifty-ninth congresses, and re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In poli^
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ber 26, 1877, Nannie H. Kittrell of Maury
County, Tennessee. Address : Linden,
Tennessee. SIMS, William Sowden:
Commander, United States Navy; born
in Canada; appointed from Pennsylvania
to the Naval Academy, June 24, 1876; mid
shipman, June 22, 1882 ; ensign (junior
grade), March 3, 1883; ensign, June 26,
1884; lieutenant (junior grade), May 9,
1893; lieutenant, January 1, 1897; Tennes
see, North Atlantic Station, 1880-2; Colo
rado, 1882, New York Navy Yard; Swa
tara, 1883-5, North Atlantic Station;
Yantie, North Atlantic Station,, 1885-7;
nautical school-ship Saratoga, December,
1889, to June, 1893; Philadelphia, Pacific
Station, June, 1893, to August, 1894; Char
leston, China Station, August, 1894, to July,
1896; Richmond, League Island, September,
1896, to February, 1897; naval attache,
United States Embassies, Paris and St.
Petersburg, March, 1897, to November,
1900 ; Kentucky, China, November to March,
1900-1 ;, Monterey, China, March, 1901, to
1902; lieutenant-commander, November 21,
1902 ; inspector Of target practice since No
vember 5, 1902; promoted commander, July
1, 1907. Commander Sims is regarded here
and in the services as the best gunnery of
ficer in the world. Address: Care Navy
Department, Washington, D. C-
SINGER, Isldor:
Publisher, editor; born in Weisskirchen,
Moravia, Austria, November 10, 1859. He
was educated in high schools, Ung. Hra-
disch, Troppau, and Kremsier; the Uni
versity of Vienna (where he received the
Ph.D. degree), and the University of Ber
lin. He founded and published the All-
gemeine Oesterreichische Literaturzeitung,
Vienna, in 1884 and 1885; went as secre
tary and librarian to the late French am
bassador at Vienna, Count Alexander
Foucher de Careil (editor of Leibnitz's
works), to Paris in 1887; became employee
of the French Foreign Office in the Bureau
de la Presse; founder and editor-in-chief
of La Vraie Parole (paper founded to
counteract Ed.. Drumont's Anti-Semitic

La Libre Parole) ; went to Italy in 1891,
and came to New York City in 1895,
to carry out his life work of The Jewish
Encyclopedia, of which he was managing
editor, and whose twelfth and final vol
ume was issued December 30, 1905. He is
vice-president and , general manager of
Singer Company, Publishers, and man
aging editor of The International Insur
ance Encyclopedia, six volumes, and of
Who's Who in Insurance. He has taken
active part in the East Side campaigns in
favor of the Republican party and in
1905 in the Jerome compaign. He was
president of Justice Lodge, No. 536 of the
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. He
is author of: Berlin, Wien und der An-
tisemitismus, 1882; Presse und Judenthum,
second" edition, 1882; Sollen die . Juden
Christian werden? (with prefatory letter
by Ernest Renan), second edition, 1884;
Briefe Beruhmter Christlicher Zeitge-
nossen fiber die Judenfrage, 1884; Die Bei-
den Elektren-Humanistische Bildung und
der Klassische Unterricht, 1884; Auf dem
Grabe Meiner Mutter (translated into He
brew by Dr. Solomon Fuchs), 1888; Le
Prestige de la France en Europe, 1889 ;
La Question Juive, 1893 ; Anarchie et An-
tisemitisme, 1894; Der Juden Kampf urns
Recht, 1902; Russia at the Bar of the
American People, 1904; Mr. Jacob H. Schiff
and the Zionists; Rabbi and Pope, 1907;
also numerous translations of French works
into German. Residence : 571 East One
Hundred and Fortieth Street, New York.
Office address : 55 East Twentieth Street,
New York City.
SKEEL, Frank D.:
Physician; born in Sterling Valley,
Cayuga County, New York, 185 1 ; son of
Harlow Skeel and Lucy L. (Deuel) Skeel.
He was educated at Falley Seminary, Ful
ton, New York; Fairfield Seminary, New
York; Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Connecticut, as A.B. in 1875 ; New York
University as M.D. in 1881. He is sur
geon of the New York Eye Infirmary;
ophthalmic surgeon of the Deaf and Dumb
Institute, New York. In politics he is a
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ligious connections. He is a member of
the Medical Society of Greater New York,
Harlem Medical Society of New York,
County Medical Society, New York State
Medical Society, Bronx Medical Society,
New York Ophthalmic Society, New York
Microscopical Society, and a member of
the Aldine and Salmagundi Clubs. Dr.
Skeel married in 1883, Mary A. Robertson,
and they have one son : Henry Robertson,
born in 1887. Residence: 361 Mott Ave
nue. Address : 147 West Fifty-seventh
Street, New York City.
SKELTON, William B.:
Lawyer; born in Bowdoin, Maine, Au
gust 9, 1871 ; son of Thomas W. Skelton
and Mary L. (Holbrook) Skelton. He was
graduated from Bates College, Lewiston,
in 1892. Mr. Skelton was county attorney
for Androscoggin County, from 1901 to
1905 ; mayor of Lewiston, from 1903 to
1905 ; judge advocate-general, with the rank
of colonel on Governor Cobb's staff, since
1905, and bank examiner for the State of
Maine since July 20, 1906. He is a mem
ber of the firm of Newell and Skelton. In
politics he is a Republican and in his re
ligious affiliation a Congregationalist. He
is a member of the American Bar Asso
ciation, and of its Local Council for the
State of Maine; also a thirty-second de
gree Mason, and a member of the Calumet
Club. Mr. Skelton married in Auburn,
Maine, May 21, 1894, Florence L. Larrabee,
and their children are: William L., born in
1895 ; Harold N., born in 1899 ; Thomas R.,
born in 1901 ; Florence L., born in 1902 ;
. John H., born in 1905, and Ruth E., born
in .1907. Residence: 491 Main Street,
Lewiston. Office address : 228 Lisbon
Street, Lewiston, Maine.
SKENE, Frederick:
State engineer and surveyor ; bora at Gar-
risons-on-Hudson, Putnam County, New
York, in 1874. He attended the Long Is
land City public schools and was graduated
from them in 1889 ; entered New York Uni
versity in 1892, and was graduated as B.S.
in 1895, and he, received the C.E. degree in
1897, after a post-graduate course. In 1900

he was appointed engineer in charge of the
Department of Highways, Borough of
Queens, New York City, which position he
held until January 1, 1907, when he became
State engineer. He was nominated for
State engineer by the Democratic Party and
the Independence League in 1906. He is a
thirty-second degree Mason, a member of
the Mystic Shrine, of the Odd Fellows and
of the Elks and Eagles. Address : Albany,
New York.
SKINNER, Robert P.:
Consul-general ; born at Massillon, Ohio,
February 24, 1866; son of Augustus T.
Skinner and Cecelia (Van Rensselaer)
Skinner. He was educated in the public
schools of Massillon, Ohio, and at the
Woodward High School at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Skinner is a Republican. In 1897 he
was appointed consul at Marseilles by
President McKinley, and in 1901 was pro
moted to the grade of consul-general at the
same place, in which position he still con
tinues. In 1903, Mr. Skinner was tempora
rily relieved by President Roosevelt from
his consular duties, and appointed com
missioner and plenipotentiary with orders
to proceed to Abyssinia. He organized the
first official American expedition to Ethopia
with five officers and twenty-five United
States marines and sailors in the autumn
of 1903, and he negotiated the first treaty
subsequently ratified, between the United
States and Ethopia. He is the author of:
Abyssinia of To-day, published by Long
mans, Green & Company. Mr. Skinner is
an Episcopalian. He is an honorary mem
ber of the Society of the Felibrige, a fel
low of the American Geographical Society,
and a member of the American Society of
International . Law. He married at Massil
lon, Ohio, June 17, 1897, Helen Wales. Resi
dence: 119 Avenue de Prado. Consular
office : 10 Cours Pierre Puget, Marseilles,
France. SLATTERY, Charles Lewis:
Clergyman ; born in Pittsburgh, Decem
ber 9, 1867 ; son of Rev. George Slattery
and Emma McLellan (Hall) Slattery. He
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as A.B., summa cum laude (honors in
philosophy), in 1891 ; and from the Epis
copal Theological School at Cambridge as
B.D. in 1894, and received from the same
institution the degree of D.D. in 1907. He
was ordered deacon in 1894 and ordained
priest in 1895 by Bishop Lawrence. Mr.
Slattery was master in Groton School, from
1894 to 1896, was dean of the Cathedral
of Our Merciful Saviour at Farribault,
Minnesota, from 1896 to 1897, and is now
rector of Christ Church, Springfield, Mas
sachusetts. He was a speaker at the Church
Congress, Pittsburgh, 1903; at New Or
leans in 1907, and was a deputy to the Gen
eral Convention at Richmond ill 1907. He
is author *of: Felix Reville Brunot, 1820-
1898 ; A Civilian in the War for the Union ;
President of the First Board of Indian
Commissioners (Longmans), 1901 ; Edward
Lincoln Atkinson, 1865-1902 (Longmans),
1904; The Master of the World: A Study
of Christ, 1906 (Longmans) ; Life Beyond
Life: A Study of Immortality, 1907 (Long
mans). In politics he is a Republican.
Address : Christ Church Rectory, Spring
field, Massachusetts.
SLAUGHT, Herbert Ellsworth:
University professor; born in Watkins,
New York, July 21, 1861 ; son of Abram
Slaught and Helen (Hanly) Slaught. He
was graduated from Colgate University as
A.B. in 1883, A.M. in 1886, and from Uni
versity of Chicago, as Ph.D. in 1898. He
was instructor in mathematics, at Peddie
Institute, Hightstown, New Jersey, from
1883 to 1888; principal of Peddie Institute
from 1888 to 1892; fellow in mathematics,
and instructor in various ranks at the Uni
versity of Chicago, from 1892 to 1900; as
sistant professor of mathematics and secre-
. tary of the Board for the Recommendation
of Teachers, since 1900. He is editor of a
series of text-books in mathematics, the
first of which, a high school Algebra, was
published in 1907. He is an Independent in
politics, and a Baptist in church relations.
He is a member of the American Mathe
matical Society, and of the Circolo Mate
matico di Palermo, and is editor of the
American Mathematical Monthly. Profes

sor Slaught is a member and player in the
Washington Park Roque Association of
Chicago. He married in Boston, Massa
chusetts, 1885, Mary Laura Davis, and they
have one daughter : Katharine May Slaught,
born in 1887. Residence: 5335 Monroe
Avenue, Chicago. Offics address : The Uni
versity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
SLAYDEN, James L,:
Congressman; born in Graves County,
Kentucky, June 1, 1853; son of Thomas
A. Slayden and Letitia E. Slayden; he was
educated at the country schools of his
native State and at Washington and Lee
University, Virginia; was a cotton mer
chant; now engaged in mining in Mexico;
was a member of the Twenty-third Legis
lature of Texas in 1892 and declined re
election; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fif
ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the Four
teenth Texas District. He married in
Charlottesville, Virginia, June 12, 1883,
Ellen Mauray. In politics he is identified
with the Democratic party. Address : San
Antonio, Texas.
SLEMP, Campbell :
Congressman; bora in Turkey Cove, Lee
County, Virginia, December 2, 1839; son of
S. S. Slemp and Margaret (Read) Slemp.
He was reared on a farm and has been a
farmer most of his life, being also engaged
in the live-stock business and in trading
in coal and timber lands; was a student at
Emory and Henry College, Virginia, but
did not graduate, owing to the 'death of his
father. He served in the Confederate Army
as captain and lieutenant-colonel in the
Twenty-first Virginia Battalion, and colonel
of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, which was
both infantry and cavalry. Was elected to
the House of Delegates in 1879 and 1881 ;
was defeated by 40 votes in 1883 by fraud ;
ran for lieutenant-governor with William
Mahone in 1889; was elector on the Harri
son ticket in 1888 and on the McKinley
ticket in 1896; was elected to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and re
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Ninth Virginia District. In politics he is
a Republican. He married in 1864, Nannie
B. Cawood of Owsley County, Kentucky.
Address : Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
SLOAN, Benson Bennett:
Banker and stock, broker; born in New
York City, March 29, 1867; son of Samuel
Sloan and Margaret (Elmendorf) Sloan.
He was graduated from Columbia College
as A.B. in 1888. He was a member of the
Seventh Regiment of the National Guard
of the State of New York from 1884 to
1889; member of the firm of Post and
Flagg, and of the New York Stock Ex
change; director of Fort Wayne and Jack
son Railroad, and the Valley Railroad Com
pany. In politics he is a Republican, and he
is a member of the South Reformed Church.
He is a member of the Committee of Man
agement of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation, the Twenty-third Street Branch;
life member of the New York Zoological
Society; member of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, American Museum of Nat
ural History, Delta Psi fraternity, and of
the Society of the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick. He is also a member of the Uni
versity, Racquet and Tennis, St. Anthony,
Knollwood Country, and Baltusrol Golf
Clubs, and the Automobile Club of Amer
ica. He married in New York City,
November 27, 1889, Anna L. Worth. Ad
dress : 141 East Thirty-sixth Street, New
York City.
SLOANE, William:
Merchant; born in New York City, Feb
ruary 18, 1873 ; son of John Sloane and
Adela (Berry) Sloane. He was graduated
from Yale University in 1895. Mr. Sloane
is president and director of W. and J.
Sloane, Oldham Mills, Philadelphia; vice-
president and director of the Nairn Lino
leum Company, Kearny, New Jersey; trus
tee of the Bank for Savings in the City
of New York, Atlantic Mutual Insurance
Company, and the Provident Loan So
ciety ; director of Alexander Smith and
Sons' Carpet Company, Hudson Trust Com1
pany of New Jersey, Knickerbocker Trust
Company, Bank of Manhattan County, New

Amsterdam Gas Company, Northern Pa
cific Railway Company, Northern Securities
Company, Second National Bank, West
chester Trust Company; treasurer of the
Archaeological Institute of America, mem
ber of the International Committee of the
Young Men's Christian Association, So
ciety of Colonial Wars, Delta Kappa Ep
silon fraternity, and of the University, Met
ropolitan, Union League, Republican, and
Yale Clubs. He married in New York
City, 1904, Frances C. Crocker. Residence:
Mount Kisco, New York. Address: 884
Broadway, New York City.
SLOCUM, Clarence Rice:
Consular officer; born in New York. He
was appointed consul at Warsaw, March 9,
1903 ; consul at Weimar, March 8, 1905 ;
consul-general at Boma, June 28, 1906; con
sul at Zittau, May 6, 1907. Address : Zittau,
Saxony, Germany.
SLOCUM, William F.:
President of Colorado College ; born at
Grafton, Massachusetts, July 29, 1851 ; son
of William F. Slocum, lawyer in Boston,
and Margaret (Tinker) Slocum. He was
graduated from Amherst College as A.B.
1874, studied in Germany, 1874 and . 1875,
and graduated Andover Theological Semi
nary, as B.D. in 1898; and received his LL.
D. from Amherst in 1893. He was pastor
of Amesbury, Massachusetts, from 1878 to
1883.; Baltimore, Maryland, from 1883 to
1888 ; and in 1888 became president of Colo
rado College. He was organizer of the
State Board of Charities and Corrections,
and its president for five years, also of the
State Board of Pardons of Colorado; and
he declined to accept the nomination for
governor on Republican ticket. President
Slocum is a lecturer and writer on educa
tional subjects, and is author of various
articles on educational, sociological, and
ethical themes in leading periodicals. He
is a member of the University Club of Den
ver, and the Tavern Club of Boston. He
married in 1880, Mary Goodall Montgom
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SMALL, John Humphrey:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Wash
ington, North Carolina, August 29, ¦ 1858 ;
son of John Humphrey Small. He was
educated in the schools of Washington,
and at Trinity College, North Carolina;
and is a lawyer in active practice. He left
college in 1876 and taught school from 1876
to 1880; was licensed to practice law in
January, 1881. He was . elected reading
clerk of the State Senate in 1881; was
elected superintendent of public instruction
of Beaufort County in the latter part of
1881; elected and continued to serve as
solicitor of the inferior court of Beaufort
County from 1882 to 1885; was proprietor
and editor of the Washington Gazette from
1883 to 1886; attorney of the Board of Com
missioners of Beaufort County from 1888
to 1896; a member Of the City Council
from May, 1887, to May, 1890, and for
one year during that period was mayor of
Washington. He was chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of the
First Congressional District in 1888; chair
man of the Democratic Executive Committee
of Beaufort County from 1889 to 1898;
Democratic persidential elector in the First
Congressional District in 1896 ; has been for
several years and is now chairman of the
public school' committee of Washington,
North Carolina. He was elected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress. He married, June, 1890,
Isabella C. Wharton. Address: Washing
ton, North Carolina.
SMILLIE, Charles Francis:
Banker, merchant; born in New York
City, June 4, 1848; son of James Smillie,
the noted landscape engraver, and Cath
arine (Van Valkenburgh) Smillie. He
was -prepared for college in the New York
schools, but entered business instead. After
leaving school he spent two ¦ years in the
rudimentary study of architecture, but
, finally decided . upon a mercantile course.
When he became eighteen years of age
he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of
the National Guard of- the State ' of New
York, serving. five years; he became a com- I

missioned officer in the Seventy-first Regi
ment, resigning after two years' service._For
twelve years, from 1884 to 1896, he was large
ly identified with the cattle industry on the
Western Plains, being president of one of
the very few successful, cattle companies of
Wyoming; has traveled very extensively,
including cruises in Arctic Ocean up to
eighty degree, north latitude. He is a
member of the firm of Winter and Smillie;
director and incorporating member of the
Standard Trust Company; vice-president
and one of the incorporators of the Ameri
can Adhesian Traction Company, and an
incorporating member and director of the
Gerard Ozone Process Company. He is a
member of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Museum of Natural History, American
Geographical Society, Society of Municipal
Art, New York Zoological Society,- New
York Botanical Gardens. His favorite rec
reations are travel, music, art, books, and
he is very extensively interested in the
artistic side of photography, his photo
graphic work having been well and favor
ably known in artistic circles since 1882.
He is a member of the Century Associa
tion and the Union League, and several
other clubs in New York and Boston. Ad
dress : 50 Wall Street, New York City.
SMILLIE, George Henry:
Artist; born in New York- City,. Decem
ber 29, 1840; son of James and Catharine
(Van Valkenburgh) Smillie. His father,
a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, who came
to the United States when young, was an
eminent engraver on steel, and a member
of the National Academy of Design. After
an education in the schools of New York
City, he entered a business house before
his majority. But this the young man soon
gave up and entered the studio of James
M. Hart, under whom, he studied art. He
soon became so successful that he ex
hibited in 1862 at the National Academy
of Design. In 1864 he was made associate
member of the Academy and '. in . 1882 was
elected to full membership. He specialized
in landscape painting arid has ' made many
pictures now in public galleries and private
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has traveled extensively for the purpose of
studvjjotlr in Europe and the United
"stStesT He is a member and has been
treasurer for four years of the American
Water Color Society, has been recording
secretary for ten years and on the coun
cil of the National Academy of Design,
and is a member of the Century and Lotus
Clubs. In politics he is an Independent
Republican. His recreations are books and
walking. He was married in New York
City in June, 1881, to Nellie Sheldon
Jacobs, and has three sons : Sheldon
Smillie, E. M. born in 1882; Charles Van
Valkenburgh, born in 1886, and Gordon
Swift, born in 1888. Address : 156 East
Thirty-sixth Street, New York City. Coun
try address: Ridgefield, Connecticut.
SMITH, Alexander:
Professor of chemistry; bom in Edin
burgh, September 11, 1865; son of Alexan
der W. Smith and Isabella (Carter) Smith.
He was graduated from Edinburgh Uni
versity as B.Sc. in 1886 and from Munich
University as Ph.D. in 1889. He was as
sistant chemist at Edinburgh University
in 1889 and 1890; professor of chemistry
and mineralogy at Wabash College, from
1890 to 1894; assistant professor of chem
istry at the University of Chicago, from
1894 to 1898; associate professor from 1898
to 1903, and has been dean in the Junior
College since 1899, and professor of chem
istry and director of the Laboratories of
general and physical chemistry since 1904
in the University of Chicago. He has
made researches on amorphous sulphur and
has written six papers on that subject;
and is author of: Teaching of Chemistry
and Physics (Longmans), and numerous
addresses on teaching chemistry; Introduc
tion to General Inorganic Chemistry, 1906
(Century Company), of which three edi
tions were printed in the first six months
and which has been translated into Ger
man; also Laboratory Outline of General
Chemistry, third edition (Century Com
pany), translated into German and Russian.
He is fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; member
of the American Chemical Society, and the

Indiana Academy of Science ; fellow of the
Edinburgh Royal Society, London Chemi
cal Society, and the Deutsche Chemische
Gesellschaft. He is a member of the
Quadrangle Club of Chicago. Dr. Smith
married in Memphis, Tennessee, February
16, 1905, Sara Potter Bowles. Residence:
5603 Monroe Avenue, Chicago. Address:
University, Chicago, Illinois.
SMITH, Arthur L. J.:
Insurance journalist; born in Charleston,'
South Carolina, May 31, i860; grandson of
William Loughton Smith, representative-
from South Carolina in the first five Con
gresses of the United States. He was edu
cated in Astoria (New York) High School.
Mr. Smith served for a time on the New
York daily papers as a court reporter; en
tered the office of The Spectator in Septem
ber, 1877, when he was seventeen years of
age, and, for nine years following, he had
charge of the statistical work of that jour
nal, being sub-editor the latter part of the
time. He became one of the proprietors of
The Spectator in 1888 and its associate
editor and business manager. He is a mem
ber of the Riding and Driving Club, Mon
tauk and Crescent Athletic Clubs of Brook
lyn, and the Press and Underwriters' Clubs
of New York City. Address : 135 William
Street, New York City.
SMITH, Augustus:
Civil engineer and contractor; born in
New York City, July 30, 1868; son of
Henry Atterbury Smith and Rosina Wat
son (Ryder) Smith. He was graduated
from the College of the City of New York
as A.B. in 1887; and from Columbia Uni
versity School of Mines as C.E. in 1889.
He constructed the recreation piers at
Fiftieth Street and One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth Street, North River, New
York City; the West Bank Lighthouse; the
United States coaling stations at Narra
gansett Bay, Boston and New York City,
and is president of the Bergen Point Iron
Works. Mr. Smith is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alumni As-

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sociation of the College of the City of
New York, and Columbia School of Mines,
and a member of the New York Athletic,
Engineers' and New York Yacht Clubs. He
married, first, in Brooklyn, New York,
June, 1903, Harriet C. Davies, and second,
in South Amboy, New Jersey, June 22, 1907,
Anna Barbara Such. Address : 149 Broad
way, New York City.
SMITH, Charles A.:
Lumber manufacturer; bom in Sweden,
December 11, 1852, and received his educa
tion in the University of Minnesota. He
was in the grain, farm implement and
lumber business, at Herman, Minnesota,
from 1878 to 1884 as C. A. Smith and Com
pany, and since then in the lumber manu
facturing business at Minneapolis. He is
president of the C. A. Smith Lumber Com
pany, C. A. Smith Timber Company, C. A.
Smith Fir Company of Oregon, C. A. Smith
Redwood Company of California, C. A.
Smith Sugar Pine Company of California,
the Northwestern Compo-Board Company,
the Lauritzon Malt Company, Minneapolis
Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company,
the Swedish-American National Bank and
several other banks and corporations. He
was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention, in 1892 and 1904 and a Re
publican elector in 1900. Mr. Smith is a
member of the Order of Vasa (Swedish) ;
trustee of the Lutheran Seminary at Chi
cago, and treasurer of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of the Northwest. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and he is a member
of the Lutheran Church. He has traveled
in this country, Mexico and Europe. Mr.
Smith is a member of the Minneapolis,
Commercial, Odin, Lafayette and Minnikada
Clubs. He married in Minneapolis, Febru
ary 14, 1875, Johanna Anderson, and they
have five children: Nana, born in 1881,
Addibin, born in 1884, Myrtle, born in 1886,
Vernon, born in 1889, and Carroll, born in
1894. Residence: 2324 Emerson Avenue,
South, Minneapolis. Office address: 411
Andrews Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SMITH, Charles Bennett:
Editor of the Buffalo Courier and the
Buffalo Enquirer; born in Wyoming Coun

ty, New York, September 14, 1870; son of
James Smith, and Mary (Barnes) Smith.
He was educated at Arcade, New York
Academy. He was reporter on the Buf
falo Courier from 1889 to 1891 ; legislative
correspondent at Albany from 1892 to 1894;
editor of the Buffalo Times in 1895 and
1896; and editor of the Buffalo Courier
since 1897. His favorite recreations are
hunting, fishing, photography and motoring.
Mr. Smith married in 1902, Frances G.
Stanton. Address : 392 Porter Avenue, Buf
falo, New York.
SMITH, Charles Emory:
Editor of the Philadelphia Press ; born
at Mansfield, Connecticut, 1842; removed
with his parents to Albany, New York,
when he was a child. He received his edu
cation at Albany Academy, and at Union
College, Schenectady, New York. He was
actively engaged during the Civil War as
aide to General Rathbone, under the war
governor, Morgan, in raising and organiz
ing Union volunteer regiments. He be
came editor of the Albany Express in 1865 ;
joint-editor of the Albany Evening Journal
in 1870, and its sole editor in 1877. He
was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention of 1876, and was secretary of
the Platform Committee; elected regent of
the University by the Legislature of New
York in 1878; delegate to the Republican
State Conventions in New York for sev
eral successive years, and was invariably
chairman of the Committee on Resolutions
and author of the platform. He removed
to Philadelphia in 1880, and became editor
of the Press. He was minister to Russia
from 1890 to 1892; was active in the re
lief work of the great Russian famine in
1891 and 1892, while in Russia, and had
charge of American contributions of over
$100,000 in money and five shiploads of
food; was postmaster-general from 1898
to 1902; and has delivered numerous pub
lic, political, and literary addresses. Mr.
Smith married, first, in 1863, Ella Huntley,
who died in 1906, and second, in August,
1907, Nettie Nichols, of New York. Ad
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SMITH, Clark Allen:
Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court;
born in Rock County, Wisconsin, July 29,
1846; son of Matthew Smith and Anna
Kelsey (George) Smith. He was gradu
ated from the University of Wisconsin as
A.B. 1870, LL.B. 1871, and A.M. in 1874;
was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1871
-and soon afterward removed to Kansas,
locating at Cawker City in Mitchell County.
He practiced law there, took active part in
politics as a Republican, was county attor
ney, city attorney and member of the school
board, served eight years as judge of the
Fifteenth Judicial District of Kansas, and
in 1904 was elected one of the justices of
the Supreme Court of Kansas for the term
expiring in 1909. Residence : Cawker City,
Kansas. Official address : Topeka, Kansas.
SMITH, Edmund N.:
Capitalist; treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, . the Pennsylvania Steel
Company of New Jersey, the Maryland
Steel Company, the Spanish-American Iron
Company, and the Baltimore and Sparrow's
Point Railroad Company. Address : 300
Girard Trust Building, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. SMITH, Edward B. :
Banker; member of the firm of Edward
B. Smith and Company, member Board of
Directors of City Trusts, and director of
the Franklin National Bank, the Girard
Fire and Marine Insurance Company, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the
American Gas Company, and the Lehigh
Valley Transit Company. Address: 511
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
SMITH, Edward Robinson:
Librarian and artist ; born in Beirut,
Syria, January 3, 1854 ; son of Eli Smith
and Hetty (Butler) Smith. He was edu
cated in Phillips Andover Academy; at
tended the Worcester (Massachusetts)
Technical Institute, two years ; was gradu
ated from Amherst College as A.B. in 1876,
and studied sculpture with Dr. William
Rimmer in Boston and sculpture and paint
ing in Munich, Florence and Paris. He

has traveled frequently in Europe to study
monuments and collections in architecture,
painting and sculpture, as well as the other
arts, and has pursued his profession in
New York City, for several years. He was
appointed reference librarian of the Henry
O. Avery Memorial Achitectural Library
at Columbia University, in February, 1895.
In politics he is an Independent and in re
ligion a Congregationalist. He. is a mem
ber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Municipal Art Society, and Archaeo
logical Institute of America. Residence:
118 West One Hundred and Ninth Street,
New York City. Address: The Avery
Library, Columbia University, New York
City.SMITH, Ernest Dailey:
Clergyman ; born near Winterest, Iowa,
June 13, 1871 ; son of Francis Marion Smith
and Margaret (Coultrap) Smith. He pre
pared in. Lyons (Kansas) High School and
the Southwest Kansas College, at Win
field; and was graduated from Northwest
ern University with the degree of A.B. in
1898, and from the Garrett Biblical Insti
tute with the degree of B.D. in 1900. He
was a student pastor at .Whiting, Indiana,
from 1.896 to 1899; pastor at Lowell, In
diana, from ^899 to 1902; at Danville, from
1902 to 1906; pastor of the First Metho
dist Episcopal Church, Crawfordsville, In
diana, since 1906; and is a member of the
Northwest Indiana Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Smith is
a member . of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Mr. Smith traveled in England and Europe
in 1901. He is. a member of the Quiotenon
Club (literary) and the Crawfordsville
Country Club. He married, in Lyons, Kan
sas, June 21, 1906, Mary Pearle Aiken. Ad
dress : .212 East Wabash Avenue, Craw
fordsville, Indiana.
SMITH, Frank:
Zoologist; born in Winneconne, Wiscon
sin, February 18, 1857. He was graduated
from Hillsdale College, Michigan, as Ph.B.
in 1885, and studied at Harvard, receiving
the A.M. degree in 1893. He was professor
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lege from 1886 to 1892; instructor in biol
ogy in Trinity College, Connecticut, in
1892 and 1893; instructor and later asso
ciate professor of zoology in the University
of Illinois, since 1893. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American. Society of
Naturalists, and American Society of
Zoologists. He has made special researches
on the Embryology of Scyphomedusae, and
variation in Necturus; and has written
papers on the Oligochaeta of Illinois, and
bird migration. Address: 913 California
Avenue, Urbana, Illinois.

SMITH, George W.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Put
nam County, Ohio, August 18, 1846. He
was raised on a farm in Wayne County,
Illinois, to which his father removed in
1850; learned the trade of blacksmithing ;
attended the common schools; graduated
|rom the literary department of McKen-
dree College, at Lebanon, Illinois, in 1868;
read law in Fairfield, Illinois, after which
he entered the law department of the uni
versity at Bloomington, Indiana, from
which he graduated in 1870. He was ad
mitted to the practice of law by the Su
preme Court of Illinois the same year,
since which time he has resided in
Murphysboro, in active practice of his pro
fession. In 1880 he was the Republican
elector for his Congressional district (then
the Eighteenth) and cast the vote of the
district for Garfield and Arthur. Mr. Smith
was elected in 1888 to the Fifty-first Con
gress and has been biennially reelected ever
since, and is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress from the Twenty-fifth District of
Illinois. He is a Republican in politics.
Address: Murphysboro, Illinois.
SMITH, Hoke:
Governor of Georgia ; born . at Newton,
North Carolina, September 2, 1855. He was
educated at home, by his father, moved
to . Georgia when he was seventeen years
old; engaged in teaching school. He stud
ied law and engaged in practice at Atlanta ;
became proprietor of the Atlanta Journal
in 1887, and conducted it until 1898, when

he resumed the practice of law. He has
been actively identified for years with the
politics of Georgia, as a Democratic leader,
and upon the beginning of the second Cleve
land administration, in 1893, he was called
to the cabinet as secretary of the interior,
resigning from that office, August 22, 1896.
Pie was nominated by the Democratic party
for governor, and elected in October, 1906,
for the two-year term beginning in June,
1907, which he is now serving. Address :
Atlanta, Georgia.

SMITH, James A.:
Consular officer; born in Michigan. He
was appointed consul at Leghorn, April
22, 1897; appointed consul-general at
Boma, March 30, 1907. Address : Boma,
Kongo. ,
SMITH, James Stewart:
Clergyman ; born in Norfolk, Virginia ;
son of Rev. Leonidas L. Smith and Sarah
Jane (Stewart) Smith. He received his
education in the University of Virginia,
and was graduated from Seabury Divinity
School as B.D. He was ordered deacon
in 1875 by Bishop Whittingham, of Mary
land, and ordained priest in 1876 by Bishop
McLaren, of Chicago. He was assistant
at Trinity Church, Cleveland, Ohio, in
1875 and 1876 ; rector of St. Mark's Church,
Evanston, Illinois, from 1876 to 1880;
Church of the Ascension, Westminster,
Maryland, from 1880 to 1884; Church of
The Redeemer, Elgin, Illinois, from 1884
to 1891, and St. Mary's Church, Kansas
City, Missouri, since 1891. He is author
of: Prayers for the Dead; The Abiding
Presence; Which is the Church of Christ?;
Is Ritualism an Imitation of Romanism?;
Fasting Communion and Celebrations With
out Communicants ; Prayers for the Faith
ful; Symbolism; and occasional papers on
religious and scientific subjects. He traveled
extensively in the United States and Eu
rope. He was delegate to Provincial Synod,
Province of Illinois, from 1885 to 1891 ; dep
uty to the General Convention from the
Diocese of West Missouri, in 1895, 1898,
1901, and 1904. He is a member of the Con
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Guild of All Souls; National Geographic
Society, Kansas City Technological Society,
and Kansas City Homeopathic Medical So
ciety. He is a master Mason, Royal Arch
Mason (past high priest), Council (past
thrice illustrious master), Knight Templar
(past commander). Address: 1307 Holmes
Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
SMITH, Jared Gage:
Tropical agriculturist; born in Scotts-
burg, New York, September 13, 1866. He
was graduated from the University of Ne
braska as B.S. in 1888, and A.M. in 1892.
He was assistant agriculturalist of the Ne
braska Agricultural Station from 1888 to
1890; instructor in botany at Washington
University, St. Louis, in 1892; assistant
botanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden,
from 1892 to 1895 ; assistant agrostologist
of the United States Department of Agri
culture, from 1895 to 1899; assistant botan
ist, for seed and plant introduction,
in 1900 and 1901, and has been special
agent in charge of the Hawaii Experi
mental Station, since 1901. He has made
some special investigations in tobacco,
coffee and rubber, has contributed much
to discussions of the possibility of sub
stituting white population for the oriental
one now in Hawaii, and is one of the
leaders in the movement for "small farms"
in Hawaii, as opposed to the feudal sys
tem heretofore in vogue. He made import
ant researches and written numerous papers
on systematic botany. Mr. Smith is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science; associate member
of the Botanical Society of America ; mem
ber of the National Geographic Society, and
of the St. Louis Academy of Science. Ad
dress : Honolulu, H. T.
SMITH, John Walter:
Ex-governor of Maryland ; born at Snow
Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, Febru
ary 5, 1845 ; son of John Walter and Char
lotte (Whittington) Smith; and in 1850
his father died. He was educated at pri
vate schools and Union Academy at Snow
Hill, receiving a classical education and
excelling in mathematics. He left school

at the age of eighteen to accept a position
with the mercantile house of George S.
Richardson & Brother in which he later
became a partner. In 1887 he assisted in
organizing the First National Bank of Snow
Hill, of which he has ever since been pres
ident; and he has been very successful
in that and other business lines, and has
accumulated a large fortune. He has al
ways been active in the politics of Mary
land as a Democrat. He was elected to
the State Senate, serving from 1889 to
1899, and was president of the Maryland
Senate in 1894; chairman of the State
Democratic Committee, 1895 ; Democratic
nominee for United States senator, 1896;
elected in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress,
but resigned upon his election as governor
of Maryland, in which office he served
from 1900 to 1904. In the election of No
vember, 1907, Ex-Governor Smith received
the Democratic nomination for the United
States senatorship for term beginning
March 4, 1909, to which, in regular course,
he will be elected by the Maryland Legis
lature of 1908. He married at Snow Hill,
Maryland, in 1869, Mary Frances Richard
son, a sister of his former partner, the
late George S. Richardson. Address: Snow
Hill, Maryland.
SMITH, Marcus Aurelius:
Delegate in Congress; born near Cyn-
thiana, Kentucky, January 24, 1852. He
was educated at the Transylvania Univer
sity, Lexington, Kentucky, and is a lawyer
by profession; moved to Arizona in 1881,
and the following year was elected prose
cuting attorney of his district. He was
elected as delegate from Arizona to the
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-
third, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-seventh Con
gresses, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses. He is a Demo
crat in politics. Address : Tucson, Ari
zona.
SMITH, Merritt Haviland:
Civil engineer; born in New York City,
May 21, 1862; son of Merritt Haviland
Smith and Mary Adelia (Howard) Smith.
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private tutors, at Military School, at
Yonkers, New York, and the Pennsylvania
Military College, where he was graduated
as CE. in 1880. He studied law in 1880
and 1881 ; was engineer with the Pittsburgh
and Western Railroad from 1881 to 1884
at Pittsburgh; engaged on the location and
construction of the Pittsburgh Junction
Railroad. From 1884 to 1889 engineer with
New York City Department of Public
Works on the New York Croton Aqueduct ;
' engineer with the comptroller of New York
City from 1894 to March, 1906; and de
partment engineer of the New York Board
of Water Supply since March, 1906, in
charge of South Aqueduct Department of
the Catskill Aqueduct. He is a direc
tor of the Hamilton Fire Insurance Com
pany and the Underhill Land and Im
provement Company; was park commis
sioner of the City of Yonkers, from 1900
to 1903; police commissioner of the city of
Yonkers and secretary and treasurer of the
department in 1905 and 1906. He was mem
ber of Company F of the Seventh Regi
ment of the National Guard of New York
from 1880 to 1889; member of Squadron
A, National Guard of New York, since
1895, now captain of the First Troop in
that organization, and he was captain and
major of the First United States Volun
teer Engineers from June 18, 1898, to Jan
uary 24, 1899, and during the Spanish-
American War, served in Porto Rico with
General Miles. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the
Military Service Institution, the New York
State Rifle Association, and member of the
Dunwoodie Country Club. He married,
in Yonkers, New York, December 31, 1890,
Maude M. Underhill, daughter of Edward
and Ann Underhill, and they have had
two children: Merritt Haviland, Jr., born
in 1892, and Roderick Wray, deceased.
Address: 4 Grand Street, White Plains,
New York.
SMITH, Orlando Jay:
President and general manager oi the
American Press Association; born in Vigo
County, Indiana, June 14, 1842; son of
Hiram Smith and Sarah (Jacobs) Smith.

He was educated in the common schools
of Indiana, and was graduated from De
Pauw University. He received the degree
of LL.D. from De Pauw in 1906. He was
editor and publisher of the Terre Haute
Mail and Terre Haute Express from 1869
to 1879, of the Chicago Express from 1879
to 1882; and founded the American Press
Association in 1882. He served through
the Civil War, from April 23, 1861, to Sep
tember 15, 1865, in the Sixteenth Indiana
Infantry and the Sixth Indiana Cavalry as
private, sergeant, subaltern, captain and ma
jor, attached to the Army of the Potomac,
the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the
Cumberland. He was wounded near At
lanta, August 3, 1864, and in 1865 acted as
assistant inspector-general of the Sixth
Division of Wilson's Cavalry Corps. Mr.
Smith is author of: The Coming Democ
racy, 1900; Eternalism, 1902 (Houghton,
Mufflin & Co.) ; Balance, 1904; The Agree
ment Between Science and Religion, 1906
(C. P. Farrell). He is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; and of
the Phi Gamma Delta Society. In poli
tics he is an Independent. His favorite
-recreation is tree growing. Mr. Smith mar
ried, in Chicago, in 1881, Evelyn V. Brady.
Residence : Dobbs Ferry, New York. Of
fice address : 45 Park Place, New York
City.
SMITH, Samuel W.: •
Congressman and lawyer; born in Inde
pendence, Oakland County, Michigan,
August 23, 1852; son of Nicholas B. Smith
and' Mary (Phillips) Smith. He was edu
cated in the Clarkston and Detroit public
schools. He taught school for six years.
He commenced the study of law in 1876,
and was admitted to the bar in 1877, and
has been in continual practice in Pontiac.
In politics he is a Republican, and he was
elected prosecuting attorney of Oakland in
1880, and reelected to the same position in
1882. He was a member of the State Sen
ate in 1-884, and was in 1896 elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress, and reelected to the
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
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now serving in the latter. Address : Pon-
tiac, Michigan.
SMITH, Sylvester Clark:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Henry
County, Iowa, August 26, 1858; son of Ed
ward Smith and Celia W. (Shockley)
Smith. He was educated in the district
school and at Howe's Academy, Mount
Pleasant; moved to California in the fall
of 1879; farmed and taught school in Co
lusa County, and in 1883 went to Kern
County to teach. While teaching he was
studying law, and in 1885 was admitted to
practice and located at Bakersfield, Cali
fornia, where he still resides. In 1886 a
number of farmers bought a newspaper
plant with which to establish a paper to
represent their views on a question of water
right, which was then engrossing their at
tention, and Mr. Smith was employed to
edit the paper — the Kern County Echo;
three years later he bought the paper and
continued to edit it till 1897, when he re
turned to his law practice. He is still
the principal owner of the paper, now a
morning daily, and does occasional editorial
writing for it. Mr. Smith was elected to
the State Senate in 1894 and again in 1898,
serving eight years; was defeated for the
Congressional nomination in 1902 by Capt.
M. J. Daniels on the forty-ninth ballot;
was nominated by acclamation for the Fif-
ty*ninth Congress in 1904 and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress, as a Republican,
from the Eighth California District. He
married in Colusa, California, May 7, 1882,
Maria J. Hart. Address : Bakersfield, Cali
fornia.SMITH, Walter Inglewood:
Congressman; born in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, July 10, 1862; son of George F.
Smith and Sarah H. Smith. He received
a common school education, and studied
law in the office of Colonel D. B. Daily;
was admitted to practice December, 1882;
was elected judge of the Fifteenth Judicial
District of Iowa in November, 1890; and
in 1898; and was elected in November,
1900, to the Fifty-sixth Congress, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon.

Smith . McPherson ; was elected to Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress from the Ninth Iowa District. He
married in Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 10,
1890, Effie M. Moon. Address : Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
SMITH, Walter Lloyd:
Judge of the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court ; born in Elmira, New York,
April 18, 1856; son of H. Boardman Smith
and Ellen H. Smith. He was graduated
from Princeton with the degree of A.B. in
1877. He studied law in offices in Elmira,
New York, from 1877 to 1879; was ad
mitted to the bar and practiced from 1879
to 1888; and he was elected in 1888 and
reelected in 1902, on the Republican ticket,
as justice of the Supreme Court of New
York, from the Sixth Judicial District, the
present term expiring December 31, 1916.
He is now serving as presiding justice of
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court in the Third Department. Judge
Smith is a member of Fort Orange Club
of Albany, the Elmira City, University, and
Princeton Clubs. He married in Elmira,
New York, in 1893, Jessie Gonzales. Ad
dress : Elmira, New York.
SMITH, William Alden:
United States senator; bora in Dowa-
giac, Michigan, May 12, 1859; received a
common school education; removed with
his parents to Grand Rapids in 1872 ; was
appointed a page in the Michigan House
of Representatives in 1879; studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1883. He
was honored with the degree of master of
arts by Dartmouth College in June, 1901.
He is president and principal owner of the
Grand Rapids Herald, the leading morning
newspaper of Western Michigan. Mr.
Smith was elected to the Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses, and reelected to
the Fifty-ninth Congress, was unopposed
for a seventh term and unanimously re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress, but was
elected United States Senator for full term/
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expired term of the late Senator R. A.
Alger, February 7, 1907. His present term
wilt expire in 1913. He married, in 1896,
Nana Osterhaut. Address : Grand Rapids,
Michigan. SMITH, William Alexander:
Banker; born in Pottstown, Pennsyl
vania,' September 9, 1820; son of Robert
Hobart Smith and Mary (Potts) Smith.
He came to New York City soon after
coming of age and engaged in the bank
ing business and is now the senior member
of the banking house of William Alexan
der Smith and Company, retired. He was
treasurer from 1864 to 1866 and president
in 1866 and 1877 of the New York Stock
Exchange. Mr. Smith has been interested
in religious and philanthropic work from
early life; was treasurer of the New York
Bible Society in 1848; president of Shel
tering Arms from 1893 to 1901 ; treasurer
of the General Clergy Relief Fund from
1868; trustee of the Permanent Fund of
Orphans Home and Asylum, from 1863;
trustee of the Parochial Fund of the
Protestant Episcopal Church from 1864;
manager from 1868, and vice-chairman of
the Executive Committee, from 1896, of
St. Luke's Hospital; vice-president of the
Protestant. Episcopal City Mission; mana
ger of the Home for Incurables, and of
the Society for Promoting Religion and
Learning, and is vice-president of the Con
tinental Trust Company. Mr. Smith mar
ried, first, in 1847, Clara Mary Bull, who
died in 1857, and second, in 1863, Marga
ret Jones. Address : 412 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
SMOCK, John Conover:
Geologist ; born near Holmdel, Monmouth
County, New Jersey, September 21, 1842. He
was -graduated fr6m Rutgers College,
1862, as A.B. ; tutor in chemistry there
from 1865 to 1867, and studied in. Berlin m
1869 and 1870. He was assistant geologist
in the New Jersey Geological Survey from
1864 to 1885; assistant in charge of the
New York State Museum from. 1885 to
1890 ;. State geologist of New Jersey from
1890 to 1901. He is a member of the

Board of Managers of the New Jersey
Geological Survey ; of the New Jersey For
est Reservation Commission; fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science ; a member of the Geological
Society, the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, the Forestry Association and
the American Philosophical Association.
Address : Trenton, New Jersey.
SMOOT, Reed:
United States senator; born January 10,
1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He was edu
cated at the State University and Brigham
Young Academy, being a graduate of the
latter institution; is a banker and woolen
manufacturer. He was elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Joseph L. Rawlins,
Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1903.
His term of service will expire March 3,
1909. He married September 17, 1884,
Alpha M. Eldredge. Address : Provo, Utah.
SNAPP, Howard Malcolm:
Congressman and lawyer; born at Joliet,
Illinois, September 27, 1855. He was edu
cated in the public schools, with three years
at the Chicago University; was admitted
to the bar in 1879, and has since practiced
his profession. He was a delegate to the
National Republican Convention of 1896;
was master in chancery from 1884 to 19O3 ;
was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Eleventh Illinois
District. In politics he is a Republican.
He married in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1883,
Alice L. Halsey. Address : Joliet, Illinois.
SNELL, Henry Bayley:
Artist; born in Richmond, Surrey, Eng
land, September 29, 1858; son of Edward
Snell and Elizabeth Snell. He studied art
in the Art Students' League, New York,
and engaged in professional work as ar
tist. He was elected associate and is now
academician of the National Academy of
Design, and was assistant director of fine
arts, to the United States Commission to
the Paris. Exposition of 1900, receiving there
the decoration of Officier de l'Academie and
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works exhibited in various expositions have
received many favorable awards, including
the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art
Club, honorable mention at the Paris Expo
sition of 1900, silver medals at the Pan
American Exposition of 1901 and the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Mr.
Snell is a member and was president of the
New York Water Color Club, and is a
member of the American Water Color So
ciety. Address1: 37 West Twenty-second
Street, New York City.
SNOW, Elbridge Gerry:
President of the Home Insurance Com
pany; born at Barkamsted, Connecticut,
January 22, 1841 ; of distinguished Revo
lutionary, Colonial and Mayflower ancestry,
and also descendant of Sir Nicholas Wood
ruff, who was lord mayor of London in
1579. Mr. Snow was educated in the dis
trict schools of Barkhamsted and Water
bury, Connecticut, and in the Fort Edward
(New York) Institute. He began the study
of law, intending to enter that profession,
but later took a clerical position in an in
surance agency in Waterbury, Connecticut,
and in 1862 he became a clerk in the main
office of The Home Insurance Company
of New York City, and after nine years there
was made State agent of the company for
Massachusetts, and also, with J. Edward
Hollis, conducted a local agency in Boston,
under the firm name of Hollis and Snow,
representing other companies as local agent
in Boston until 1885, when he was appointed
secretary of the Home Insurance Company
at its main office in New York, becoming
vice-president of the company in 1888 and
afterward president, which office he now
holds. . He is also a trustee of the North
River Savings Bank; trustee of the New
York Life Insurance Company, and identi
fied as director with other corporations. Mr.
Snow is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Board of Trade, Merchants'
Association of New York, American
Museum of Natural History, New York
Botanical Society, New York Zoological
Society, American Geographical Society,
National Geographic Society, National
Economic Society, Colonial Society of

America, the Mayflower Society of New
York, New England Society in New
York, and the Municipal Art Society. He
is also a member of the Lotos, City, Under
writers' and New York Motor Clubs. Mr.
Snow married in Waterbury, Connecticut,
September 5, 1865, Frances J. Thompson.
Residence: 155 West Fifty-eighth Street,
New York City. Office address : 56 Cedar
Street, New York City.
SNOW, Whiting G.:
President and director of the Kearny
Water Company, the Montclair Mining
Company, the Montclair Water Company;
vice-president and director of the Passaic
Water Company; trustee of the Banker's
Safe Deposit Company; director of the
Acquackanonk Water Company, the Car
Trust Investment Company, of New York,
the Essex Title Guaranty and Trust Com
pany, the Kent Water and Light Company,
the Massillon Water Supply Company,
the Philippine Products Company, the
Quaker Oats Company, the Wabash Elec
tric Light Company, and the Wabash
Water Company. Residence: Montclair,
New Jersey. Office address: 2 Wall
Street, New York City.
SNOWDEN, A. Loudon:
President of the Board of Commission
ers of Fairmount Park; son of Dr. Isaac
Wayne Snowden, surgeon under General
Jackson, and a descendant of Judge John
Snowden, an early settler in Philadelphia
and New Jersey, who held title to his lands
in Philadelphia from the Duke of York,
and a daughter of Archibald Loudon, of
Cumberland County. After a preliminary
academic education he entered Jefferson
College in Western Pennsylvania, from
which he received the honorary degrees of
Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws. He
studied in the Law Department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and was subse
quently admitted to the bar. At the re
quest of his uncle, Hon. James Ross Snow
den, then director of the United States
Mint, he entered that institution as regis
trar, and then was promoted to the chief
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master of Philadelphia by President Grant,
but returned to the Mint service as super
intendent by the voluntary act of Presi
dent Hayes, after having twice declined
the appointment of director of all the
mints. He is an authority on all subjects
relating to coins and coinage, and under
his superintendence the whole mechanical
appliances were brought up to the highest
point of efficiency. His able plan and
management of the great parade on Decem
ber 16, 1879, in honor of General Grant's
return from his journey around the world,
was a demonstration of his executive abil
ity. Again in 1887, he organized the great
civic parade, under the auspices of the Con
stitution Centennial Commission. At the
outbreak of the Civil War, he organized,
partly clothed and fed for weeks a regi
ment, and was commissioned its lieutenant-
colonel. Subsequently he participated in
the skirmishes preliminary to the battle of
Gettysburg as a member of the First City
Troop of Philadelphia, and was commis
sioned its commanding officer in 1877. As
an effective and eloquent public speaker he
has few equals. In 1889 he was appointed
minister resident and consul-general to
Greece, Roumania and Servia by Presi
dent Harrison. Shortly thereafter Con
gress raised the grade to that of envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
He was later voluntarily honored by a
transfer from Atheris to Madrid, where he
successfully settled grave diplomatic ques
tions. The Queen Regent conferred upon
him the Grand Cordon of Isabella the Cath
olic, the King of Greece the Grand Cordon
of the Saviour, and the King of Roumania
the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Rou
mania. Colonel Snowden occupies a prom
inent position in the literary and social life
of Philadelphia. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Society, St. An
drew's Society and Union League and Phil
adelphia Clubs of Philadelphia, and other
social organizations. He married Eliza
beth Robinson, daughter of Isaac Robin
son Smith, of Philadelphia. Address: 1812
Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SNYDER, Alban G.:
Consular official; born in Charleston,
West Virginia, November 5, 1879; son of
Charles Philip Snyder and Jane Adelia
(Goshen) _ Snyder. He was educated in
Charleston High School, Washington and
Lee University and was graduated from
West Virginia University as A.B. and
C.E. He has traveled extensively in Mex
ico and South America. He was vice and
deputy consul at Diaz, Mexico, from May,
1899, to October, 1901; secretary of lega
tion and consul-general at Bogota, Colom
bia, in 1903; charge d'affaires at Bogota
during the Panama trouble from December,
1903, to December, 1905, and has been con
sul-general at Buenos Ayres, since June
22, 1906. In religious connections he is a
Presbyterian; and he is a member of the
Sigma Chi fraternity. His favorite recrea
tions- are football, baseball and tennis.
Residence : Charleston, West Virginia.
Address : Buenos Ayres, Argentina.
SNYDER, Henry S.:
Capitalist; second vice-president and di
rector of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation;
vice-president and director of the Bethle
hem Steel Company, of the Carteret Im
provement Company, the Crescent Ship
yard Corporation, the Eastern Shipbuild
ing Corporation; director of the Harlan
and Hollingsworth Corporation; vice-presi
dent and director of the Juraqua Iron Com
pany, of the Saucon Valley Railroad Com
pany, and of the Samuel L. Moore and
Sons Corporation; secretary, treasurer and
director of the Eastern Shipbuilding Com
pany; treasurer, assistant secretary and di
rector of the Harlan and Hollingsworth
Company, and director of the Union Iron
Works. Address: 100 Broadway, New
York City, and South Bethlehem, Pennsyl
vania.
SNYDER, Nicholas R.:
Consular officer; born iri Pennsylvania.
He was appointed commercial agent at Port
Antonio February 28, 1898; appointed con
sul June 22, 1906. Address: Port An
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SOMERVILLE, Henderson Middleton:
United States general appraiser; born in
Madison County, Virginia, March 23, 1837.
He was graduated from the University of
Alabama, as A.B. in 1856, A.M. in 1859,
LL.D. in 1887; from the Cumberland Law
School, Tennessee, as LL.B. in 1859, and
he received the LL.D. degree from George
town College, Kentucky, in 1886, and from
Southwestern University, Tennessee, in
1887. After leaving the" law school in 1859,
he became editor of the Memphis (Tennes
see) Appeal until 1862; then engaged in
teaching as associate professor of mathe
matics and languages at the University of
Alabama, until 1865. He then engaged in
general gractice of law at Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama, and while so engaged founded the
Law School of the University of Alabama,
in 1873, holding the chair of constitutional,
statutory and common law there until
1890. He is a Democrat in politics, and
was a member of the Democratic State
Executive Committee of Alabama, from
1872 until elected in 1880, associate justice
of the Supreme Court of Alabama, in
which position he served until appointed in
1890 member of the Board of the United
States_ General Appraisers, in which posi
tion he has continued ever since, serving as
chairman until 1904. He is one of the trus
tees of the Peabody Education Fund; was
trustee of the Alabama Insane Hospital,
from 1874 to 1892, and became thus espe
cially interested in medico-legal jurispru
dence ; was a member of the Medico-Legal
Society of New York, and its presi
dent in 1892 and 1893, and is a member of
the Southern Society of New York, and
the Alpha Delta Phi Society. Residence :
265 Central Park West. Address : 641
Washington Street, New York City.
SOPER, Erastus Burrows:
Lawyer and bank president; born in
Pitcher, Chenango County, New York, Sep
tember 15, 1841 ; son of Jacob Soper and
Celinda (Harvey) Soper. He attended the
Western College of Iowa from 1857 to 1861,
was graduated from Cornell University
with the degree of A.B. in 1868, and re
ceived his A.M. in 187P, and LL.D. in 1904,

from that university. He taught in Cornell
College from 1868 to 1869; studied law
from 1869 to 1871 at Marion, Iowa; and lo
cated at Estherville, as a practicing, at
torney, from 1871 until 1879; when he re
moved to Emmetsburg, and kept up offices
in both places, and engaged in all important
litigation in the adjacent counties for thirty-
five years. He is now retired and devotes
his attention to the management of his per
sonal fortune, invested in land and bank
stock. He served in the Civil War as a
private in Company K, First Regiment,
Iowa Infantry Volunteers, from April to
August, 1861 ; served as second and first
lieutenant and captain of Company D,
Twelfth Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volun
teers, from September, 1861, to January,
1865; was engaged in battles at Wilson's
Creek, Missouri, in 1861 ; at Fort Henry,
Fort Donelson and Shiloh, Tennessee, in
1862 ; and in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1862
(May and October) ; at Vicksburg and Jack
son, Mississippi, in 1863; Tupelo, Missis
sippi, in 1864; the campaign against Price
in Missouri, from October to November,
1864, and at Nashville, Tennessee, Decem
ber, 1864. He was a lay delegate to the
General Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church at Los Angeles in 1904;
chairman of the Iowa Shiloh Monument
Association," and built monuments in Shiloh
Park; and is past commander of the Iowa
Commandery of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, and vice-president of the So
ciety of the Army of Tennessee. In poli
tics he is a Republican and he is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
has traveled in all the States and Terri
tories, except five, and over British Amer
ica from the Atlantic to the Pacific; also
around the Mediterranean Sea and through
Europe. He is president of the First Na
tional Bank of Emmetsburg, the First Na
tional Bank and the Provident Savings
Bank, both of Estherville, the First Na
tional Bank of Titonka, the State Bank of
Armstrong (all in Iowa) ; the Faribault
County State Bank of Winnebago, Minne
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the Savings "Bank of Huntington, Iowa, and
the Savings Bank of Gruver, Iowa. Mr.
Soper is a member of the Iowa State Bar
Association; a member of the Board of
Trustees of Cornell College, since 1877, and
of the Executive Committee of the Board
for twenty years. He is also a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of
American Revolution (Iowa Society), and
a member of Grant Club of Des Moines,
Iowa. He married in Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
November 19, 1867, Elizabeth A. Cory, and
they have three children : M. Ruby, born
June 2, 1869 ; E. B., Jr., born April 27, 1872^
and E. H., born December 14, 1873. Ad
dress : Emmetsburg, Iowa.
SORSBY, William Brooks:
Diplomat; born at Panola, Mississippi,
September 27, 1858; son of Samuel Fos
ter and Martha Ellen (Vance) Sorsby.
He was educated in private schools at
Panola, Mississippi, and a partial course
at the Mississippi College at Clinton, Mis
sissippi. Mr. Sorsby engaged in journal
ism, editing several country papers in Mis
sissippi, and in 1884 he became part owner
of the Morning Telegram at Mobile, Ala
bama. He is a Republican in politics and
has taken an active part in party affairs
in the South, his residence now being at
Clinton, Mississippi. He was appointed by
President Harrison in 1889, consul-general
to Ecuador, holding that position until 1893,
and remained interested in Ecuador after
the close of his term as owner of gold
mining properties from 1893 to 1898. On
the accession of Mr. McKinley to the
Presidency in 1897, he appointed Mr.
Sorsby to the post of consul at San Juan
del Norte,' Nicaragua, where he remained
until 1901, and he was then transferred
to Kingston, Jamaica, remaining until ap
pointed, July 11, 1902, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Bolivia, at which post he con
tinues. Address: La Paz, Bolivia.
SOTHERN, Edward H.:
Actor; born in New Orleans, December
6, 1859; second son of Edward A. Sothern
the' famous actor. For several years after

his father's death, played in England in
his brother's company. He returned to the
United States in 1883; his first great suc
cess was in Lord Chumley; two years ago
he took up Shakespearean and other classi
cal roles in connection with Julia Mar
lowe, and together they scored tremendous
success here and abroad. He married, De
cember 3, 1896, Virginia Harned, a leading
actress :' Address : 34 West Sixty-ninth
Street, New York City.
SOUSA, Jonn Philip:
Bandmaster, composer and author ; born
in Washington, D. C, November 6, 1854;
son of Antonio Sousa and Elizabeth
Sousa the latter still living in Washington
aged eighty-three years. At the age of eleven
he appeared in public as a violin soloist,
at fifteen he was teaching harmony, and
in 1876 he became one of the first violins
in the orchestra conducted by Offenbach,
when the latter visited America. Later he
became conductor for various theatrical and
operatic companies, among them the Church
Choir Pinafore Company. In 1880 he was
appointed leader of the band of the United
States Marine Corps, the National Band,
serving under Presidents Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison, until Au
gust 1, 1892, when he resigned from United
States service to organize the Sousa Band,
which, up to November I, 1906, had made
twenty-eight semi-annual tours through the
United States, and has four times visited
Europe, giving a total of 7,334 concerts in
892 cities and covering 296,275 miles of
travel. As a music composer he has origi
nated a "march" style that is recognized
the world- over, his productions in this field
including, as best known and most popu
lar: The Washington Post; Liberty Bell;
Manhattan Beach; High School Cadets;
Semper Fidelis; The Gladiator; The Stars
and Stripes Forever ; The Invincible Eagle ;
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty ; Hands Across
the Sea; The Charlatan; The_ Bride-
Elect; El Capitan ; King Cotton; Imperial
Edward; Jack Tar; The Diplomat; The
Free Lance, marches. He has also written
several suites, including Three Quotations;
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Last Days of Pompeii, and Sheridan's Ride ;
also a symphonic poem, The Chariot Race;
a long list of songs and miscellaneous com
positions and the comic operas : The Smug
glers; Desiree; The Queen of Hearts; El
Capitan; The Bride-Elect; The Charlatan;
Chris and the Wonderful Lamp, and The
Free Lance. As author he compiled under
the auspices of the Government: National
Patriotic and Typical Airs of all Coun
tries; wrote the book and lyrics for his
opera, The Bride-Elect; also numerous
verses and magazine articles, and has pro
duced two novels: The Fifth String, and
Pipetown Sandy. With his band he -has
appeared twice by command before King
Edward and Queen Alexandra, once at
Sandringham, then at Windsor, and on the
first occasion was honored by His Majesty
with the decoration of the Victorian or
der. He also received the Grand Diploma
of Honor at the Academy of Hainaut, Bel
gium, and was decorated by the French
Government with the Palms of the Acad
emy, besides being made an Officer of Pub
lic Instruction. Mr. Sousa is a member of
various Masonic bodies, the Sons of Vet
erans, and the National Geographic
Society. His favorite recreations are out
door sports, especially riding and hunting.
He is a member of the Gridiron Club of
Washington, and the Republican, Salma
gundi, Players, Baton and Dramatists Clubs
of New York City. Address : Astor
Court, 18-20 West Thirty-fourth Street,
New York City.
SOUTHARD, James Harding:
Ex-congressman, lawyer ; born on a farm
in Washington Township, Lucas County,
Ohio, January 20, 1851 ; attended the pub
lic schools, and Cornell University, where
he was graduated in 1874; began to study
law in 187s and was admitted to practice
in 1877. He was assistant prosecuting at
torney of Lucas County, and afterwards
was twice elected prosecuting attorney of
that county. Mr. Southard was elected to
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses,
and reelected to the Fifty-ninth Congress,
from the Ninth Ohio District, serving until

March 3, 1907. Mr. Southard is a Repub
lican. Address : Toledo, Ohio.
SOUTHWICK, George N.:
Journalist and congressman; born in Al
bany, New York, March 7, 1863; son of
Henry S. Southwick and Margaret J.
Southwick. His early education was ac
quired at private school and later at Pub
lic School No. 6, and he entered the Al
bany High School in 1875, whence he was
graduated in 1879; in the fall of 1880 en
tered Williams College, whence he was
graduated in 1884; entered the Albany
Law School, but financial reverses com
pelled him to seek active business life, and
early in 1885 he entered the service of the
Albany Morning Express, in both an edi
torial and a reportorial capacity. He also
represented the Associated Press as re
porter of proceedings in the Senate or
Assembly during the legislative sessions of
1886, 1887, and 1888; in the last-mentioned
year became managing editor of the^ Morn
ing Express and early in 1889 of the Al
bany Evening Journal. Mr. Southwick's
literary activity has extended beyond the
field of the daily papers, with which he has
been connected as editor, reporter, or cor
respondent ; he has been an occasional con
tributor to the columns of the magazines,
among others the North American Review.
His political career began in the campaign
of 1884, with voluntary contributions of
editorial articles to the Albany Morning
Express in the interest of James G. Blaine.
In 1888 he stumped Albany County for
Benjamin Harrison and Republican princi
ples, and since that year his voice has been
heard on the stump throughout the State
of New York, at every recurring election,
in the interest of the Republican party. In
1892 he sought the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Albany district, but
was deterred by factious differences which
existed within party lines. In 1894 he
secured the Congressional nomination, and
won at the election. In 1896 he was re
elected to Congress, and in March, 1896,
presided as permanent chairman over the
stormy scenes of the Republican State Con
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selected delegates at large to the St. Louis
Convention in favor of the nomination of
Levi P. Morton. In 1898 he was again a
candidate for Congress but was defeated by
Martin H. Glynn. In 1900 Mr. Southwick
and Mr. Glynn were again the contestants,
the former winning, being elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress by a majority of
2,456. Mr. Southwick was reelected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, in the new district
consisting of Albany and Schenectady
Counties, to the Fifty-ninth and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Twenty-
third New York District. Address : 55
Ten Broek Street, Albany, New York.
SPALDING, Franklin Spencer:
Missionary bishop of Utah; born at
Erie, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1865; son of
Bishop John Franklin Spalding and La
vinia D. (Spencer) Spalding. He was
graduated with the degree of B.A. at
Princeton University, in 1887, and, enter
ing thence the General Theological Semi
nary, New York City, received, in 1891,
the degree of B.D., and the degree of S.T.D.
in 1905. In the same year he was ordered
deacon of the Episcopal Church and a year
later was ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Spalding. During his diaconate he
was connected with All Saints' Church,
Denver, Colorado, becoming in 1892 rector
of St. Luke's Church at Montclair, Denver,
Colorado, and at the same time principal
of Jarvis Hall in this locality. In 1896 he
was called to Erie, Pennsylvania, to fill the
rectorship of St. Paul's Church. He re
mained at this station until 1904 when he
was consecrated missionary bishop of Salt
Lake, Utah. In 1907 the name of his dis
trict was changed to Utah. Address : 444
East First South Street, Salt Lake City,
Utah.SPALDING, Samuel Key:
Manufacturer; born in Baltimore, Mary
land, in 1867; son of George I. Spalding
and Margaret (Willis) Spalding. He re
ceived his education in Georgetown College
and a business college. He is a member
of .the Building Trades Employers Asso
ciation; a member and financial secretary

of the Marble Industry Employers Asso
ciation; president, director and manager of
the Spalding-Hosford Company; president
and director of the Hajeh Marble Company ;
secretary of the Colorado-Yale Marble
Company. Mr. Spalding is a member of
Mariners Lodge of Masons; is steward of
the Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, and a member of the Building
Trade Club. He married, first, in Balti
more, September 15, 1890, Emilie Reynolds,
and second, in New York, November 26,
1902, Sophia Kaiser ; and has five children :
Emilie, born in 1891, Martha, born in 1894;
Henry, born in 1896, Ruth, born in 1904,
and Robert, born in 1907. Residence: Gif-
ford Park, New York. Office address :
327-329 East One Hundred and Third
Street, New York City.
SPARKMAN, Stephen M.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Her
nando County, Florida, July 29, 1849. He
was educated in the common schools of
Florida until 1867; then taught school for
three years. He studied law and in 1872
was admitted to the bar, and has been
engaged in practice ever since. He served
several terms as State's attorney for the
Sixth Judicial District of Florida, and has
always been active in politics as a Demo
crat, and has been a member and chairman
of the State Democratic Committee, and of
the Democratic Congressional Committee
of the First Florida District. He was
elected from that district in 1894, to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, and afterward to
the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, in
which he is now serving. Address : Tampa,
Florida. SPARKS, John:
Governor of Nevada; elected in Novem
ber,. 1902, on the Democratic ticket, for the
four-year term expiring December 31, 1906,
and reelected in November, 1906, for the
four-year term expiring December 31, 1910.
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SPEAR, Lawrence York:
Naval architect; bom in Warren, Ohio,
October 23, 1870; son of Judge W. T. and
Francis (York) Spear. He was gradu
ated from the United States Naval
Academy in 1890, and as B.Sc, from the
University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1893.
In 1890 he was attached to the Pensacola,
flagship of the South American Squadron;
he was present during the Balmaceda revo
lution in Chili, and was transferred to the
Charleston; he brought home the captured
Itata; was detached from the Charleston
in 1891, and ordered to the University of
Glasgow for a special course in naval archi
tecture. He was commissioned assistant
constructor in 1892. He took the first
prizes at Glasgow, including the Harvey
prize; returned to the United States in
1893 ; was on duty at various places on the
Pacific Coast in connection with the build
ing of the Oregon, Olympia, and other ves
sels. He was commissioned naval con
structor in 1898; ordered in charge of the
post-graduate school at Annapolis ; and
later on duty .in Washington and as super
intendent of vessel building in and around
New York City. He resigned in 1902, to
take a position as naval architect and gen
eral manager of Holland Torpedo Boat
Company, and vice-president of the Elec
tric Boat Company, in which position he is
in charge of the design and construction
of all Holland submarines. He is a mem
ber of the Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, and the American So
ciety of Naval Engineers. His favorite rec
reations are motoring, fishing and shooting.
He is also a member of the Lambs' and
Strollers' Clubs. Mr. Spear was married
in New York City, June 12, 1902, to Lilian,
daughter of the late Charles Tudor Wing.
Address: 11 Pine Street, New York City.
SPEARE, Lewis Robinson:
Merchant; was born in Boston, Massa
chusetts, June 6, 1861 ; son of Alden Speare
and Caroline M. (Robinson) Speare, and a
descendant of George Speare, who settled
in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony,
and was made a freeman May 26, 1644,
and of the William Robinson of Concord,

before 1671. He was brought up in New
ton, Massachusetts, where he was gradu
ated from the grammar and high schools
and engaged in the oil, starch and mill
supplies business carried on by Speare,
Gregory and Company, and subsequently
Alden Speare's Son and Company, of which
first firm his father was senior partner and
of the last in which he was senior partner,
the business being subsequently incor
porated as Alden Speare's Sons Company,
of which corporation he is president and
treasurer. He also served as a member of
the Boston Chamber of Commerce and as
president of the Oil Trade Club of Bos
ton in 1899 and 1900. He is president and
treasurer of the Ashland Emery and Corun
dum Company; vice-president and director
of the Huron Milling Company of Har
bor Beach, Michigan ; president of the Dia
mond Mills Emery Company, the Jackson
Mills Emery Company, the Levant Emery
Company, and others. His clubs include
the Home Market Club, the Hardware,
Lotus and Lawyers' Clubs of New York,
and the Exchange and Athletic Clubs of
Boston. He married Edith B. Holway and
has one child, Caroline M. Residence: 6
Summer Street, Newton Center, Massa
chusetts. Office address : 654 West Thirty-
fourth Street, New York City.
SPEER, Emory:
Jurist; born in Culloden, Georgia, Sep
tember 3, 1848; son of Rev. Eustace W.
Speer and Annie E, Speer. He received
his early education in the district schools
of Georgia, served in the Fifth Kentucky
Regiment in the Confederate Army in 1864
and 1865, then entered the University of
Georgia, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1869. He began the practice of
law. in Athens, Georgia, in 1869, and was
solicitor-general of Georgia, 1873 to 1876.
He was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress
as an Independent Democrat, but disagree
ing with his party he affiliated with the Re
publicans on protection and other issues,
and was reelected to the Forty-sixth Con
gress as an Independent. He was appointed
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in February, 1885, was appointed United
States judge of the Southern District of
Georgia. He is distinguished as an orator
and has made many addresses on important
national occasions; was trustee of the Uni
versity of Georgia from 1877 to 1885 ; and
president of the law department of Mercer
University. Judge Speer is author of a
work on the Removal of Causes from the
State to the United States Courts, and of
Lectures on the .Constitution of the United
States. Address : Macon, Georgia.
SPENCER, Edgar A.:
Justice of the Supreme Court of New
York; born in Cherry Valley, New York,
November 23, 1847; son of William D.
Spencer and Mahitable P. (Glazier) Spen
cer. He received his education in Coopers
town Seminary. He was admitted to the
bar in 1875, and was engaged in the gen
eral practice of law until 1901 ; was city
clerk and city attorney of Gloversville, and
in November, 1894, was elected as a Re
publican to the Constitutional Convention
of the State of New York. In 1901 he was
elected for ¦ a full term of fourteen years
as justice of the Supreme Court of New
York; and is now serving as such in the
Fourth District. He married in Glovers
ville, New York, September, 1879, Frances
B. Hosmer. Address : Gloversville, New
York. SPENCER, Horatio N.:
Physician; born in Port Gibson, MissisJ
sippi, July 17, 1842 ; son of Horatio N.
Spencer and Sarah (Marshall) Spencer.
He was graduated from Oakland College,
Mississippi, as valedictorian in 1861 ; from
the Universitv of Alabama in 1862 with
the degree of A.B. ; from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in
1869 as M.D. ; also studying in 1869 and
1870 in the University of Berlin, Germany.
In 1879 he was associated with others in
the organization and editorial management
of the American Journal of Otology; also
in 1879 with associates, established the St.
Louis Courier of Medicine. In 1881 he
aided in founding and became professor of
diseases of the ear in the St. Louis Post-

Graduate School of Medicine, which
merged later into the Missouri Medical
College. In 1899, the St. Louis Medical
College, consolidated with the Missouri
Medical College and became the medical
department of Washington University, in
which he became professor of diseases of
the ear. He has traveled in Great Britain,
and the Continent of Europe a number of
times, also in North America, including
Alaska, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and
Newfoundland. In politics he is an In
dependent Democrat, and he is a member
of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Spencer
is a member of the American Medical As
sociation, and American Geographical So
ciety; also a member of the American Oto
logical Society, since 1870. He is trustee
of the Bethesda Foundling Home and the
Home for Incurables and the Aged. He
is a member of the Society of Colonial
Wars in the State of Missouri, the Society
of Sons of the Revolution, the Society of
Foreign Wars, Delta Psi -fraternity, and Nu
Sigma Nu, medical fraternity; also a mem
ber of the St. Louis Club and a member
and president of the St. Anthony's Club.
He married first in Nw York City, Sep
tember 28, 1868, Anna E. Kirtland, and
second in Charleston, South Carolina, July
6, 1887, Elizabeth P. Dwight. He has five
children : Mrs. Laura Edmunds, born in
1869 ; Mrs. Dean DuBose, born in 1871 ;
Selden, born in 1873 (Princeton, 1897) ;
Horatio N., Jr., born in 1875 (Princeton,
1899) ; and Mrs. Anna Hancock, born in
1877. Residence : 2725 Washington Avenue,
St. Louis. Office address : 2723 Washing
ton Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri.
SPERRY, Charles Stillman:
RearTadmiral, United States Navy; born
in Brooklyn, New York, "September 3, 1847;
son of Corydon Stillman Sperry and Cath
erine Elizabeth (Leavenworth) Sperry. He
attended the public schools of Waterbury,
Connecticut, and entered the Naval Acad
emy September 27, 1862. He served on the
United States Steamship Sacramento in
1866 and 1867; was promoted to master
March .26, 1869; commissioned lieutenant
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March 1885; commander July, 1894; cap
tain July 1, 1900, and rear-admiral May 26,
1906. He served on many vessels and sta
tions, was in the Bureau of Ordnance from
1893 to 1895; in the New York Navy Yard
from 1895 to 1898; commanded the York-
town from 1898 to 1900; commanded the
New Orleans from 1901 to 1903; president
of the Naval War College from 1903 to
1906; naval member of the National Coast
Defence Board, 1906; delegate to the Con
ference at Havana in June, 1906, to revise
the Convention of 1864 for the treatment of
the sick and wounded in war, and to the
Second Peace Conference at The Hague in
1907. He was ordered to command a divi
sion of Rear-Admiral Evans' Fleet in No
vember, 1907; on his flagship, the Alabama,
he is about to sail round the Horn to the
Pacific. Address : Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C.
SPERRY, Nehemiah Day:
Congressman " and contractor ; born in
Woodbridge, New Haven County, Connect
icut, July 10, 1827. He received his edu
cation in the common schools and at the
private school of Professor Amos Smith, at
New Haven ; worked on the farm and in
the mill; taught school for several years;
learned the trade of a house builder, and
commenced business on his own account in
1847. He was elected a member of the
Common Council in 1853; in 1854 was
elected as alderman of the city; was elected
selectman of the Town of New Haven in
1853 ; elected secretary of state in 1855 >
and was reelected in 1856; was a member
of the convention that renominated Abra
ham Lincoln in 1864; was made a member
of the Republican National Committee, and
was elected a member of the Executive
Committee, and was chosen secretary both
of the National and Executive Committees.
He was chairman of the Republican State
Committee for a series of years ; was presi
dent of the State Convention that nomi
nated Grant electors ; chairman of the
Recruiting Committee of New Haven dur
ing the war; was nominated postmaster
by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 and continued
in office until the first election of Grover

Cleveland; was renominated by President
Harrison for postmaster and served until
the reelection of President Cleveland, mak
ing in all twenty-eight years and two
months. He was appointed a member of
the commission to visit England, Germany,
and France, to look into their system of
postoffices, but declined service; was nomi
nated for Congress in 1886, but declined the
same; was president of the Chamber of
Commerce of New Haven, and was bonds
man for building the Monitor. He was
nominated for Congress again in 1894; was
elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fif
ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fif
ty-ninth Congresses, and reelected .to the
Sixtieth Congress from the Second Con
necticut District. Address : New Haven,
Connecticut.SPEYER, James :
Banker; born in New York in 1861. He
received his education at Frankfort-on-
Main. Mr. Speyer began business in his
father's banking house in Frankfort. He
went to London and Paris and in 1885 re
turned to New York. He is, now senior
partner of the New York banking house
of Speyer and Company; also partner in
Frankfort and London houses, and Euro
pean branches. He is president and trus
tee of the Provident Loan Society of New
York; vice-president and director of the
Societe Financiere Franco- Americaine ; a
member of the Board of Managers of the
Girard Trust Company, Philadelphia; trus
tee of the Central Trust Company, the Ger
man Savings Bank, the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, the Union Trust Company,
of New York; director of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, Bank of the
Manhattan Company, Citizens' Saving and
Trust Company, Cleveland; General Chem
ical Company, Guaranty Trust Company
of New York, the Industrial Trust
Company of Providence, Rhode Island,
Lackawanna Steel Company, Maryland
Trust Company, Baltimore; North British
and Mercantile Insurance Company of
New York, the Rock Island Company of
New York, the Underground Electric Rail
ways Company of London, Limited. Mr.

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Speyer is a member of the Board of Man
agers of the American Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals; Isabella
Heimath, trustee of Mt. Sinai -Hospital;
Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association ;
a member of the Executive Committee of
the^ National Civic Federation, The Pil
grims; treasurer of People's Symphony
Concerts; chairman of the Finance Com
mittee of Teachers College; treasurer and
trustee, of the University Settlement So
ciety, and a member of the City, Players',
Lotos, Reform, Lawyers', Whist, Racquet,
City, Midday, New York Yacht and
Deutscher Verein Clubs. He married, No
vember, 1897, Ellin L. Prince (Mrs. John
A. Lowery). Address: 257 Madison Ave
nue, New York City.
SPEYERS, Arthur Bayard:
Rear-admiral of the United States Navy ;
born in New York City. He entered the
Naval Academy in 1863, and was graduated
in 1868. He was with the North Atlantic
Fleet, in 1868 and 1869; promoted ensign
in 1869; served on the Benicia, Asiatic
Station, from 1869 to 1872; promoted mas
ter, in 1870; Kansas, North Atlantic Sta
tion, in 1873 and 1874; commissioned lieu
tenant, in .1874 ; Richmond, Southern Paci
fic Station, from 1874 to 1877 ; Naval Acad
emy from 1877 to 1881 ; training-ship Sac
ramento, from 1881 to 1884; Navy Yard,
New York, from 1884 to 1886 ; Chicago,
special service, in 1886 and 1887; Galena,
North Atlantic Station, from 1887 to 1890;
training-ship Minnesota from 1890 to 1893 ;
Yorktown, Pacific Station, July in 1893 and
1894; waiting orders, June, 1894; receiv
ing-ship Richmond, October, 1894; Ben
nington, May, 1895; commissioned lieuten-
ant7Commander, December, 1895; Monte-
ray, January, 1897; waiting orders, July,
1897 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1897,
to May, 1898; ordered to United States
ship Kingston, May, 1898; Navy Yard,
New York, from 1898 to 1900. He was pro
moted commander, March 3, 1899; served
at Naval Station, Cavite, from 1901 to 1903 ;
was promoted captain in 1904, and retired
as rear-admiral in 1904. Address: 74
West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.

SPIGHT, Thomas:
Congressman; born near Ripley, Missis
sippi, October 25, 1841 ; son of James M.
Spight and Mary E. D. Spight. Attended
the common and high schools of the coun
ty, and in 1859 entered the college at
Purdy, Tennessee, and at the end of one
year entered the La Grange (Tennessee)
Synodical College, but the death of his
father, in March, 1861, and the breaking
out of the war compelled him to return
home. He entered the Confederate army
as a private, and became captain of his
company before he was 21 years old, being
the youngest officer of that rank in the
famous Walthall's Brigade, commanded by
the late distinguished senator from Mis
sissippi. He participated in nearly all the
battles fought by the Army of the Tennes
see, and was severely wounded on the 22d
of July, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia; was in
command of what was left of his regiment
(the Thirty-fourth Mississippi Infantry)
in April, 1865, when he surrendered with"
the army under General Joseph E. John
ston at Greensboro, North Carolina. He
returned home to find all the property of
his father's estate swept away as a result
of the war, and commenced teaching school
and farming, and at the , same time study
ing law. He was admitted to the bar /and
has practiced his profession since at Rip
ley. He is a member of the Baptist
Church. He represented his county in the
Mississippi Legislature from 1874 to 1880,
and in the latter year was district Presi
dential elector on the Hancock ticket;
established the Southern Sentinel in 1879,
which he continued to own and edit until
1884, when he was elected district attorney
of the Third Judicial District, composed of
seven counties, which position he held until
1892, when he voluntarily retired. He was
a candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Congress in 1894; but was defeated by
Hon. J. C. Kyle, who was then serving his
second term; was again a candidate in
1896, but was defeated in convention by a
combination of the opposition on Hon. W.
V. Sulliyan, who was elected and after
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succeed Senator Walthall, deceased. He
was elected for the unexpired term in the
Fifty-fifth Congress, and to the Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Second Mississippi
District. He married, first, December 12,
1866, Mary Virginia Barnett, who died
May 21, 1901, and second, October 15, 1903,
Mrs. Thida D. Moore. Address: Ripley,
Mississippi.
SPINNEY, George Franklin:
President and manager of the St. Paul
Daily and Sunday - Globe ; born at Great
Falls, New Hampshire, July 9, 1852. He
was educated in the public schools of Law
rence, Massachusetts. He was. successively
printer, proofreader, foreman, reporter,
political correspondent, and managing
editor and publisher of the New York
Times, New York City. Mr. Spinney is a
member of the Lotus, Press and New
York Clubs of New York. Address :
Globe Office, St. Paul, Minnesota.
SPITZKA, Edward Anthony:
Educator and physician; born in New
York City, June 17, 1876; son of Dr. Ed
ward Charles Spitzka and Katherine
(Wacek) Spitzka. Pie received his educa
tion in the public schools of New York
City, the College of the City of New York,
receiving the Devoe prize, and the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Medical
Department of Columbia University), re
ceiving the degree of M.D. in 1902 and
the third Harsem clinical prize. He was
appointed, on graduation, fellow in anat
omy in Columbia, serving from 1902 to
1906; demonstrator of anatomy from 1904
to 1906; professor of general anatomy in
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
since 1906. He performed an autopsy on
Czolgosz, McKinley's assassin; has exam
ined the brains of many criminals of vari
ous races, including the Eskimos, Papuan
negroes, Japanese, Andamanese, Nicobarese
and other races ; and has studied the brains
of many notables, including Prof.. E. D.
Cope, Profs. Joseph Leidy and - Harrison
Allen, George Francis Train, Dr. William

Pepper, Major J. W. Powell, Dr. Edward
Seguin, Dr. E. C. Seguin, Dr. Philip
Leidy, Major J. B. Pond, Dr. A. J. Par
ker, and others. Dr. Spitzka is author of
forty articles on brain anatomy. He is in
terested in various problems in biology,
particularly brain development, heredity,
morphology of the primates and mammalia
in general; also interested in the subject
of crime arid punishment; death by elec
tricity, etc. He was a member of .Com
pany I, Seventh Regiment, National Guard
of New York,. from 1896 to 1906. He is
collaborator in several journals of anat
omy, anthropology, criminology arid other
branches of science. Dr. Spitzka is a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Society of
American Anatomists, the American An
thropological Society, Delta Kappa Epsi
lon fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon As
sociation of New York, the Sigma Xi
German Liederkranz, Alumni Associationof
Physicians and Surgeons, Theta Nu Epsi
lon, Philadelphia Neurological Society;
secretary of Section of Somatology, Con
gress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, in
1904; secretary of the Committee on Brain
Bequests and Brain Investigation, of the
Society of American Anatomists. He is a
member of the Philadelphia Medical Club.
Dr. Spitzka married, in White Plains,
New York, June 20, 1906, Alice Pauline
Eberspacher. Summer address : Good-
ground, New York. Address : Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, or 66 East
Seventy-third Street, New York City.
SPOFFORD, Ains worth Rand:
Chief assistant librarian of Congress;
born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Sep
tember 12, 1825 ; son of Rev. . L. A. S'pof-
ford. He was educated by private tuition
and at Williston Seminary, and received
the degree of LL.D. from Amherst ' Col
lege in 1882. He was publisher, bookseller
and editor in Cincinnati, from 1845 to
i860; librarian of Congress from i8(5l to
1897. Mr. Spofford is editor of The Li
brary of Choice Literature, ten volumes.
1881 to 1888; Library of Wit and Humor,
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Parliamentary Rules, 1884; Library of
Historic Characters and Famous Events,
1894 and 1895; A Book for all Readers,
an aid to the collection, use, and preservation
of books and the formation of libraries,
third edition in 1905; and many review ar
ticles and lectures on historical and liter
ary topics. He is a member of the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences. Mr. Spofford
married, in 1852, Sarah P. Partridge, and
they have one son and one daughter. Ad
dress: Library of Congress, Washington,
D. C.
SPOFFORD, Paul N.:
Merchant; successor and surviving part
ner of Spofford, Tileston Company; born
in New York City; son of Paul Spofford
and Sarah Spofford. He received his edu
cation in the select schools of Daniel P.
Bacon. Among his schoolmates was Theo
dore Roosevelt, father of the President,
and Charles Carow, father of the Presi
dent's wife. He has been a director in
banks, railroads, insurances and other com
panies ; was president of the Grocer's Steam
Sugar Refining Company, his immediate
successor being Hon. Moses H. Grinnell,
of the Texas Land Company, his immedi
ate successor being Hon. William Walter
Phelps, and vice-president and later presi
dent of the Samana Bay Company, his pre
decessor being William G. Fargo, of the
Wells-Fargo Express. He was on the
staff of Governors Young and Hamilton
Fish as engineer-in-chief of the State „ of
New York, with the rank of brigadier-gen
eral; and as first engineer, organized that
department, his immediate successor being
General James Watson Webb. In politics
he is a Republican and in his religious affil
iations a Presbyterian. Mr. Spofford is a
member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
the New York Historical Society, the
American Geographical Society, the Na
tional Geographic Society, the American
Bible Society, the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children, the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, the
Charity Organization Society, the Presby
terian Hospital, the New York Botanical

Gardens, the Essex Institute of Massachu
setts, the New York Chamber of Com
merce, and is a member of the Union and
Union League Clubs. Address : 29 Broad
way, New York City.
SPOONER, John Coit:
Ex-United States senator; born at Law
renceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana,
January 6, 1843; moved with his father's
family to Wisconsin and settled at Madison, '
June 1, 1859. He was graduated at the State
University in 1864; was private in Com
pany D, Fortieth Regiment, and captain
of Company A, Fiftieth Regiment, Wiscon
sin Infantry Volunteers ; was brevetted ma
jor at the close of service, and was private
and military secretary of Governor Lucius
Fairchild, of Wisconsin. He was admitted
to the bar in 1867, and served as assistant
attorney-general of' the State until 1870,
when he moved to Hudson, where he prac
ticed law from 1870 until 1884. He was
member of the Assembly from St. Croix
County in 1872; member of the Board of
Regents of the Wisconsin University; was
elected United States senator to succeed
Angus Cameron, Republican, for the term
beginning March 4, 1885; was chairman of
the Wisconsin delegation to the National
Republican Convention in 1888; was suc
ceeded as United States senator March 4,
1891, by William F. Vilas, Democrat, re
ceiving, however, the full vote of the Re
publican members of the Legislature for re
election; was chairman of the Wisconsin
delegation to the National Republican Con
vention at Minneapolis in 1892; was unani
mously nominated as Republican candidate
for governor of Wisconsin in 1892, but was
defeated; moved from Hudson to Madison
in 1893; was actively engaged in the prac
tice of his profession from 1892 to 1897;
Unanimously nominated in Republican cau
cus, January 13, 1897, and duly elected,
January '27, 1897, United States senator for
the term beginning March 4, 1897, to suc
ceed William F. Vilas, Democrat. He was
tendered by President McKinley in De
cember, in 1898, a position in his cabinet,
as secretary of the interior, vice Cornelius
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tendered in 1898 by President McKinley
membership of the United States and Brit
ish Joint High Commission, and declined
it ; was tendered by President McKinley,
January 3, 1901, position of attorney-gen
eral to take office March 4, 1901, and de
clined it; on July 6, 1900, in a communica
tion to Republicans of Wisconsin announced
unalterable purpose not to be a candidate
for reelection; but on January 27, 1903,
was, notwithstanding, elected for another
term, beginning March 4, 1903 ; and re
signed in 1907. Addtess : 150 Langdon
Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
SPRAGUE, Charles Ezra:
President of the Union Dime Savings
Institution ; born in Nassau, New York, Oc
tober 9, 1842 ; son of Ezra Sprague and
Elisabeth (Edgerton) Sprague. He was
graduated from Union College, Schenec
tady, New York, as A.B. in i860, with Phi
Beta Kappa honors, and received the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1893. From 1864 to 1870
he was a teacher, and he became a clerk in
the Union Dime Savings Institution in
1870; secretary in 1877; treasurer in 1891,
and has been president since 1892. He
served in the War of the Rebellion in the
Forty-fourth New York Volunteers;
wounded and disabled July 2, 1863, at Lit
tle Round Top, Gettysburg; received at
the close of the war a brevet commission
as colonel of New York Volunteers for
gallant and meritorious services at the bat
tle of Gettysburg. He was captain in the
Twelfth Infantry, National Guard of New
York, from 1870 to 1873; and colonel and
assistant paymaster-general of the State of
New York from 1897 to 1901. In politics
he is an Independent Republican. Mr.
Sprague was president of the Savings Bank
Section of the American Bankers' Asso
ciation in 1904 and 1905. He is a certified
public accountant and was the first chair
man of the Board of Examiners for Pub
lic Accountants. Mr. Sprague is profes
sor in the School of Commerce, Accounts
and Finance of New York University,
and treasurer of the Simplified Spelling
Board. He is a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi, having been its president

from 1901 to 1903; a member of the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, and of
the Grand Army of the Republic. He is
also trustee of Union College. Professor
Sprague is author of: Hand Book of
Volapuk, 1887; The Accountancy of In
vestment, 1904; Extended Bond Tables,
1905 ; Problems and Studies in the Ac
countancy of Investment, 1906; The Philo
sophy of Accounts, 1907. He is a mem
ber of the Century Association, and the
Union League, Army and Navy, and Alpha
Delta Phi Clubs of New York. He mar
ried April 2, 1866, Ray Ellison, and their
children are: Flora (Mrs. Frank F. Haz
ard), and Beatrice (Mrs. Lyon de Camp).
Address : 54 West Thirty-second Street,
New York City.
SPRAGUE, Frank Julian:
Electrical engineer and inventor; born at
Milford, Connecticut, July 25, 1857. He
received a high school education at North
Adams, Massachusetts, and in 1874 won a
competitive appointment to the United
States Naval Academy, from which he was
graduated in 1878, taking high rank in en
gineering, physics, mathematics and archi
tecture. He took a special course in elec
trical matters and developed strong inven
tive faculties. Was ordered to United
States Steamship Richmond, bound for
Chinese Station, and was special corre
spondent of Boston Herald during this
cruise and General Grant's visit to China
and Japan; returned in1 1880 and carried
on electrical experiments at the Stevens
Institute shops and the Brooklyn Navy
Yard; ordered to duty on training ship
Minnesota, where he made the first at
tempt to introduce the incandescent electric
light; later continued experiments at the
Torpedo Station at Newport. Was ordered
to United States Steamship Lancaster,
Mediterranean Squadron, and subsequently
assigned to the Crystal Palace Electrical
Exhibition, Sydenham, England. Was the
youngest member and only American on
the jury, his associates on which included
Horace Darwin, Captain de Abney, and
Professors Frankland, W. Gryll Adams and
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was made secretary of his section, and or
ganized and conducted experiments on dy
namo machines, electric lights and gas en
gines; made report to Navy Department,
which was published by the Bureau of In
telligence and received high commendation.
Returning to his ship he completed his re
port, passed examination for ensign, got a
year's leave and resigned to become assist
ant to Mr. Edison, during which connection
he made important improvements in mat
ters connected with electric light distribu
tion. Becoming interested in the electric
transmission of power, he resigned a year
afterward, and, with E. H. Johnson, or
ganized the Sprague Electric Railway and
Motor Company, and began the develop
ment of electric motors. In 1884, exhibited
several of these at the Philadelphia Elec
trical Exhibition, which were soon after
ward endorsed by the parent Edison Elec
tric Light Company, for use by its licensed
companies. In 1885 he took up the Elevated
Railway problem in New York, and in De
cember of that year read a paper setting
forth advantages of electrical equipment of
that road with motors under the cars.
During 1886 he" carried on experiments on
private tracks on East Twenty-fourth
Street, and then on the Thirty-fourth
Street Branch of the Elevated Road,
where was first exhibited the fundamental
method of mounting geared motors ; and
about the same time built machines for ex
perimental running with storage batteries
in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia,
and also undertook the construction of a
motor car for pulling a train of cars. In
May, 1887, took contracts for the equip
ment of the Union Passenger Railway of
St. Joseph, Missouri, and the Union Pas
senger Railway of Richmond, Virginia, the
latter comprising eighty motors for forty
cars, complete overhead system and a cen
tral station, the first commercial- electric
road on a large scale, and the foundation
of the modern electric trolley development.
The Sprague Company was absorbed about
1890 by the Edison General Electric Com
pany, with which Mr. Sprague remained
ior a time as consulting engineer. He then

took up the development of electric ele
vators, organized the Sprague Electric
Elevator Company, and developed the high
speed screw elevator, automatic house ele
vator, and double-motor drum elevator;
and meanwhile, in 1892, with Drs. Louis
Duncan and Cary Hutchinson, he designed
one of the earliest large electric locomo
tives. In 1897 he undertook another pio
neer development — that of the multiple-unit
system of train operation, the possibilities
of which he repeatedly, but vainly, offered
to demonstrate at his own expense on the
Manhattan Elevated Road. In 1897 he took
a contract for carrying out this system of
equipment on the South Side Elevated
Railway in Chicago, which was the begin
ning of a train system which has now be
come universal with electric train operation
on underground, elevated and other roads,
and in addition to the motor cars on the
New York Central, it is also applied to the
operation of electric locomotives there and
on the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad. This system was developed
under the auspices of the Sprague Electric
Company, a consolidation of the Sprague
Electric Elevator and The Interior Con
duit and Insulation Companies, and a few.
years later this company, after disposing
of its elevator business to the Otis Elevator
Company, was absorbed by the General
Electric Company. Soon afterward Mr.
Sprague was selected as a member of the
Electric Traction Commission of the New
York Central Railway, and for four years
has been active in the inauguration of the
electric system on that road, collaborating
with its chairman, Vice-President W. J.
Wilgus, in the development of the pro
tected under-cpntact third rail. Mr.
Sprague has been an active pioneer and pro
moter of electric railway development. He
was awarded a medal at the Philadelphia
Electrical Exhibition; gold medal at the
Paris Exposition, 1889; the Elliot Cresson
medal of the Franklin Institute, 1902; and
grand prize by the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position for his inventions and develop
ments in electric motors and electric rail
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of the American Institute of Electrical En
gineers, and the New York Electrical So
ciety; member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, English Institutions of
Civil and Electrical Engineers, and United
States Naval Institute; associate member
of the Society of Naval Architects and Ma
rine Engineers. He is consulting engineer
of the Sprague Electric, General Electric
and the Otis Elevator Companies, and has
recently been selected by the Southern Pa
cific Company to prepare, in collaboration
with its officers, a report on the possibil
ity and practicability of electrifying the
Sierra Nevada Mountain section of the
Sacramento Division of that Company, to
increase its capacity, a problem generally
admitted as one of the most difficult in the
railroad world ; and if electrification be
decided upon, he is to continue as consult
ing engineer to aid in carrying out the
work. Residence: 1 16 Riverside Drive,
New York City. Office address : 20 Broad
Street, New York City.
SPRECKELS, Claus:
Sugar refiner; born at Lamstedt, Han
over, in 1828. He came to the United
States in 1846, and was employed at
Charleston, South Carolina, and New
York. He went to San Francisco in 1856;
conducted a store and later a brewery; es
tablished the Bay Sugar Refinery in 1863,
procuring his raw materials from Hawaii.
He invented new refining processes ; ac
quired sugar properties in Hawaii ; built
new refineries, and he has a beet-sugar farm
of 30,000 acres and factory at Watsonville.
Saliras, California. Mr. Spreckels is a
large owner in the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany, plying between San Francisco and
Honolulu. Address : 327 Market Street,
San Francisco.
SPRECKELS, John Diedrich:
Merchant; born at Charleston, South
Carolina, August 16, 1853 ; son of Claus
Spreckels. He was educated at Oakland
College, California, and the Polytechnic
School at Hanover, Germany. He founded
the J. D. Spreckels and Brothers Com
pany, shipping and commission merchants,

owning a large fleet of tugs and vessels
trading with Hawaii, 1880 ; is president of
the Oceanic Steamship Company, a mail
and passenger line to Hawaii, Australia, and
New Zealand; the Beaver Hill Coal Com
pany; the Western Sugar Refining Com
pany; and is proprietor of the San Fran
cisco Morning Call. He took the leading
part in the effort for civic reform in San
Francisco, which led to the conviction, im
prisonment and ousting of Mayor Schmitz,
and the boss, Ruef, in 1907. Address : 327
Market Street, San Francisco, California.
SPRING, Alfred-
Jurist; born in Fra.nklinville, New York,
February 19, i8si;'son of Samuel S. Spring
and Ellen (Hogg) Spring. He was gradu
ated from the Ten Broeck Free Academy
in 1870; attended the University of Michi
gan for two years ; read law in his father's
office for three years and during that time
taught district school two winters. He re
ceived from the University of Michigan
the degree of LL.D. in 1901. He was ad
mitted to the bar October, 1875, and prac
ticed law at Franklinville, New York;
elected supervisor of Franklinville in 1876;
surrogate of Cattaraugus County in 1879,
and was reelected in 1885, holding the office
twelve years. In January, 1895, he was
appointed justice of the Supreme Court
by Governor Morton, and was elected, No
vember, 1895, on the Republican ticket for
the full term expiring December 31, 1909.
In January, 1899, he was transferred to
the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court in the Fourth Department and was
redesignated in January, 1904, to serve as
judge of that court until January 9, 1909.
Judge Spring is author of: Articles on
The Monroe Doctrine, the Revolution in
Panama, and Hamilton Fish, published in
the American Law Review. He is a mem
ber of the University and Saturn Clubs
of Buffalo and the Genesee Valley Cltlb of
Rochester. He married in 1877, Anna Tar-
bell, and they have three children. Ad
dress: Franklinville, New York.
SPROUL, William C. :
.State senator, publisher, president; born
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vania, September 16, 1870; son of William
Hall Sproul and Deborah Dickinson (Slo-
kom) Sproul. He was prepared in public
high . schools in Negaunee, Michigan, and
at Chester, Pennsylvania, and was grad
uated from Swarthmore College as B.S.
in 1891. He purchased a one-half interest
in the Chester Daily Times in 1892; was
elected vice-president of Roach's Shipyard
in 1898; and organized, in 1900, the Sea
board Steel Casting Company of Chester,
of which he is president ; also organized
the Chester Shipping Company, of which
he is president, in 1900. He became inter
ested in coal and timber properties in West
Virginia in 1901, and has since given much
attention to these and railroad interests in
that State. He is president of the Coal
River Railway of West Virginia, the Cam
den Interstate Railway of West Virginia,
Kentucky and Ohio ; Kanawha Valley
Traction C°mPariy, Charleston and South-
side Bridge Company, and the Spruce River
Coal Land Company; treasurer of the
Kanawha Bridge and Terminal Company;
director of the Commercial Trust Company
of Philadelphia, Delaware County Trust
Company of Chester, of the First Na
tional Bank, and Delaware County Na
tional Bank of Chester. He has traveled
in Europe, Mexico and Alaska. Mr. Sproul
entered politics early in life ; was nominated
for the Senate of Pennsylvania by the Re
publicans of the Ninth Senatorial District
soon after he attained the minimum consti
tutional age of eligibility, was elected by
a large majority in November, 1896; was
reelected in 1900 and again in 1904. In
1903 he was chosen president pro tempore
of the senate and reelected in 1905. He has
been a member of the most important com
mittees of the senate and of several State
commissions. Senator Sproul is probably
best known as the author of the Sproul
Road Bill, passed by the Legislature in 1903,
under which a comprehensive system of
road improvement has been inaugurated in
Pennsylvania; and he is also the author of.
the bills providing for. the, Congress to con
sider the question of uniform divorce laws.
In March, 1907, it was announced that he

had given his alma mater, Swarthmore
College, funds for building and equipping
an observatory to contain one of the larg
est telescopes in the world. In religion he
is a member of the Religious Society of
Friends. He is a member of the Pennsyl
vania Historical Society ; trustee of Swarth
more College; trustee of Pennsylvania
Training School for Feeble-Minded Chil
dren; member of the Phi Kappa Psi fra
ternity, Book and Key Society, Masonic
fraternity, Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks and Patrons of Husbandry. His fav
orite recreations are shooting and fishing:
He is a member of the Union League, Uni
versity, Corinthian Yacht, and Pen and
Pencil Clubs of Philadelphia; Manhattan
and Engineers' Clubs of New York; Penn
Club of Chester; Harrisburg Club, Rose
Tree Fox Hunting and Springhaven Coun
ty Clubs. Mr. Sproul married in Chester,
Pennsylvania, January 21, 1892, Emeline
W. Roach, daughter of John B. Roach, ship
builder, and they have two children: Dor
othy W., born in 1893, and John Roach,
born in 1895. Address : Chester, Pennsyl
vania. SQUIERS, Herbert Goldsmith:
Diplomat; born at Madoc, Canada, April
20, 1859; son of John T. Squiers and Eliza
beth J. Squiers. He was educated in the
public schools, the Canandaigua Academy
at Canandaigua, New York, the Minnesota
Military Academy and the Maryland Agri
cultural College. He was appointed from
civil life as second lieutenant of the First
Regiment of United States Infantry, Octo
ber 12, 1877, and was graduated from the
United States Artillery School in 1880. He
was transferred, August 31, 1880, to the
Seventh Regiment of United States Cavalry,
was promoted to lieutenant of cavalry, De
cember 17, 1890, and resigned from the
Army, November 28, 1891. He was on duty
as professor of militarv science and tactics
at St. John's College, Fordham, New York,
from October, 1885, to November, 1890, and
that college conferred upon him the honor
ary degreesof M.A. in 1889, and Ph.D. in
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of the United States Embassy at Berlin,
November 15, 1894, and retired from that
position in, May, 1897. He was appointed
secretary of the American Legation at Pe
king, January 10, 1898, and during the
siege of Peking in 1900 and 1901 served as
chief of staff to Sir Claude Macdonald, and
for his services in that capacity received
the thanks of the British Government. He
was appointed in May, 1902, envoy extraor
dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States to Cuba, serving until 1905,
when he resigned, and in 1906 he was ap
pointed envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to the
Republic of Panama; in which position he
continues. Mr. Squiers has been twice mar
ried, first, at Hampton, Virginia, October
11, 1881, to Helen L. Fargo (daughter of
W. G. Fargo), who died January 14, 1886,
and second, at Qssinning, New York, No
vember 12, 1889, to Harriet Bird Wood
cock, daughter Dr. William P. Woodcock.
Address : American Legation, Panama, Pan
ama. STACK POLE, Joseph Lewis:
Lawyer; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 20, 1838 ; son of Joseph Lewis Stack-
pole and Susan Margaret (Benjamin)
Stackpole, and is a descendent of James
Stackpole, who settled at Dover, New
Hampshire, before 1680, and is recorded on
the tax-list as Stagpoll. He was graduated
from Harvard as A.B., 1857, with honors,
and LL.B., 1859. He was admitted to the
bar in i860, and on September 2, 1861, was
commissioned captain in the Twenty-fourth
Massachusetts Volunteers, and he accom
panied General Burnside's Expedition to
North Carolina', where he was commissary
of subsistence of Volunteers and chief com
missary in the Army in North Carolina.
He was made judge advocate of the Eigh
teenth Army Corps - from January, 1863 ;
and judge advocate of the Army in the
State from July 10, 1863. He was subse
quently provost judge of Norfolk, Virginia,
and judge advocate of the Army of the
James, entering Richmond with the Federal
Army and resigning his commission of ma
jor, April 20, 1865, and on March 13, 1865,

was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for skill,
faithfulness and integrity. He was assistant
to the city solicitor of Boston from 1870 to
1876; and for severa} years was special
counsel for the city before the Legislature.
He is a director of the New England
Trust Company, of the Cabot Manufactur
ing Company, of the Amoskeag Manufac
turing Company, and of the Lawrence Gas
Company. He is a member of the Loyal
Legion, of the Military Historical Society,
and of the Somerset and Country Clubs of
Boston. He married, March 3, 1863,
Martha Watson Parsons, and their son, Jo
seph Lewis Stackpole, Jr. (Harvard A.B.,
1895, LL.B., 1898), became a lawyer in
Boston. Address : 84 State Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.STADELMAN, William Albert:
Engineer ; born in Ardmore, Pennsyl
vania, November 3, 1865; son of Jacob L.
Stadelman and Henrietta R. (Leech)
Stadelman. He attended the Friends' Select
School, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Chief engineer of the Equitable Electric
Railway Construction Company; was in
terested in, and an officer of, various rail
way enterprises from 1884 to 1892. With
the Niles Tool Works, Hamilton, Ohio,
from 1892 to 1895. Manager of the Brown
Hoisting Machinery Company at New
York, from 1895 to 1905, and ' since then
general sales manager of the Wellman
Seaver Morgan Company, of Cleveland,
Ohio. Member of the American Gas Insti
tute, Engineers', Lawyers', Lambs', Trans
portation, New York Railroad, and Larch
mont Yacht Clubs of New York City ; also
Art Club of Philadelphia, and Euclid Coun
try, and Hermit Clubs of Cleveland, the
Central Railroad Club of Buffalo, and New
England Railroad Club of Boston. Mar
ried in Philadelphia, June 6, 1890, Alita
Maria Cardeza, and they have two daugh
ters: Elizabeth, born in 1892, and Maria,
born in 1896. Residence : 5309 Prospect
Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Business ad
dress: 42 Broadway, New York City.
STAFFORD, William Henry:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Mil
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lie schools and afterward entered Har
vard College, from which he was grad
uated as A.B. in 1894, and Harvard Law
School, from which he received the degree
of LL.B. in 1893. Since 1894 he has been
continuously engaged in the practice of law
in Milwaukee. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and in 1902 was elected to the Fifty-
eighth Congress. He was elected to the
Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904, and reelected
in 1906, to .the Sixtieth Congress, in which
he is now serving. Address : Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.STAHEL, Julius H. :
Soldier; bom in Hungary, November 5,
1825 ; son of Andreas Stahel and Barbara
(Nagy) Stahel. He was educated in Buda
pest; fought in the struggle for indepen
dence in 1848, was wounded and decorated
for distinguished gallantry; came to Amer
ica in 1856 and engaged in journalism.
When President Lincoln, in 1861, appealed
for troops, General Stahel was among the
first to respond, and joined the Federal
Army as lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth
Regiment of New York Volunteers. At the
first battle of Bull Run he was in command
of the regiment in reserve at Centreville,
and covered the retreat of the Federal
Army, successfully repelling the last charge
of the enemy's cavalry, concerning which
the official report of the Confederate com
mander, General Johnston, says: The
apparent firmness of the United States
troops at Centreville checked our pur
suit. He was commissioned colonel,
August 27, 1861, and on November 12, 1861,
was made brigadier-general; was^ trans
ferred to General Fremont in April, _ 1862,
and commanded the advance column in the
Valley campaign. In the second battle of
Bull Run he commanded a brigade, and,
after General Schenck was wounded.^ a di
vision; and was highly commended in the
official reports of Generals Pope and
Schenck for his bravery and conduct. Was
ordered, November 27, 1862, by General
Burnside, to make a reconnaissance in force
and find out the movements of General
Jackson, and received thanks on his return
for the brilliant success achieved. He was

placed in command of the Eleventh Corps,
January 15, 1863, and when General Stough-
ton was captured, March 13, 1863, at Fair
fax Court House, General Stahel was sum
moned by President Lincoln and assigned
to command the front of Washington. He
was commissioned major-general, March
14, 1863, and June 24, 1863, was ordered to
report to General Reynolds, forded the Po
tomac, encountered Young's Cavalry, and
repulsed them. When General Hooker was
relieved from command of the Army of the
Potomac, General Stahel was transferred
to the Department of the Susquehanna, and^
afterward to the Department of West Vir
ginia. In the battle of Piedmont, June 5,
1864, he was wounded while charging the
enemy's entrenched position with some of
his dismounted cavalry. He had his wound
quickly dressed to stop bleeding, was helped
to mount his horse (having no use of his
left arm), charged with his mounted force
the enemy's flank, broke their line and cre
ated a stampede. He was highly com
mended for this work by General Hunter
in his official letter to General Halleck, June
9, 1864, and was awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry
in the battle of Piedmont. Owing to ill-
health and trouble with his wound, he was
ordered to Baltimore as president of gen
eral court-martial, and remained there un
til February 8, 1865, when he resigned his
commission. After the war General Stahel
was United States consul at Yokohama,
Japan, from 1866 to 1869 ; returned to Japan
as United States consul in 1877, and re
mained there till March, 1884, when he
was appointed consul-general at Shanghai,
China, which post he resigned in October,
1885, owing to ill-health, receiving an auto
graph letter from Secretary Bayard,
regretting his resignation, and highly com
mending the record of his public service.
He is a Republican in politics, and a Roman
Catholic in religion. Pie is a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, the Medal of Honor
Legion of the United States, and the Army
and Navy Club of New York. Address :
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STAHL, Albert William:
Naval constructor in the United States
Navy, with rank of captain; born in New
York City, May 12, 1856; son of Jacob
Stahl and Henrietta (Gerecke) Stahl. He
was graduated from Stevens Institute of
Technology as M.E. in 1876, and from the
United States Naval Academy in 1880.
He was engineer officer on the United
States ships Despatch, Galena, Quin-
nebaug, Lancaster and Nipsic, principally
on the European Station, from 1880 to
1883 ; promoted assistant engineer in the
United States Navy in 1883, and after
temporary duty at the Navy Department in
Washington, he was transferred to Purdue
University, La Fayette, Indiana, where he
filled the chair of mechanical engineering,
from 1883 to 1887; appointed in 1887 as
sistant naval constructor in the United
States Navy, and assigned to special duty
until 1889. During part of the time he
was an instructor in naval architecture and
shipbuilding in the United States Naval
Academy; was transferred to Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, 1889, where he
superintended construction of the United
States ships San Francisco, Monterey,
Olympia (cruiser), and Oregon (battle
ship). He was a member of the Advi
sory Council of the Engineers' Congress of
the World's Columbian Exposition, Chi
cago,, in 1893 ; at the Bureau of Construc
tion- and Repair, in .Washington, chiefly
designing turrets for heavy guns of battle
ships, in 1894 and 1895 ; introduced the
oval balanced turrets in the United States
Navy on the United States ships Iowa,
Kearsage, and Kentucky. He was head
of the Department of Construction
and Repair at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Vir
ginia, from 1895 to 1901, and while there
bore an active and important part in the
work of preparing the Navy for the war
with Spain ; was on duty at Newport News,
Virginia, from 1901 to 1906, as superin
tending constructor for the United States
naval vessels building at the works of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Company, including the battleship Illinois,
monitor Arkansas, battleship Missouri, ar

mored cruisers West Virginia and Mary
land, protected cruiser Charleston, battle
ships Virginia, Louisiana, and Minnesota,
and armored cruisers North Carolina and
Montana; and since October, 1906, at the
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
as head of the Department of Construction
and Repair. He was joint inventor with
R. Gatewood, in 1896, of a' novel form of
wave motor. Mr. Stahl is author of a text
book on Elementary Mechanism (with A.
T. Woods), 1885, . and several later edi
tions ; also of numerous technical papers.
In politics he is a Republican, and in
his religious faith an Episcopalian. He
is a member of the Institution of Naval
Architects, the American Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers ; United
States Naval Institute, and of the Army
and Navy Club of Washington, and Cos
mos Club of San Francisco. He married,
December 18, 1884, Blanche, daughter of
Judge David P. Vinton, of La Fayette, In
diana, and they have one son, David Vin
ton, born November 16, 1891. Address :
Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
ST AHR, John Summers :
President of the Franklin and Marshall
College; born in Bucks County, Pennsyl
vania, December 2, 1841 ; son of John and
Sarah (Summers) Stahr. He was gradu
ated from Franklin and Marshall College
in 1867 with the degree of A.B., summa
cum lande. The degree of Ph.D. was con
ferred upon him by Franklin and Mar
shall College in 1883, that of D.D. by
Lafayette College in 1893, and that of
LL.D: by Pennsylvania College in 1904.
During the years from 1867 to 1889 he was
connected with the Franklin-Marshall Col
lege, holding consecutively the position of
instructor, assistant professor and. profes
sor in that college. In the meantime he
was in 1892 ordained to the ministry of
the (German) Reformed Church in America
and was for a time assistant at, and later
filled the pulpit of, the First Reformed
Church in Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1890
he was elected to the presidency of the
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of the International Sunday School Lesson
Committee. He is one of the editors of
the Reformed Church Review, and con
tributor to various educational and reli
gious periodicals. He married, at Lan
caster, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1872, Fran-
cina E. Andrews, and by this union there
are three children: Mrs. Helen (Stahr)
Hartman, Charles P. Stahr, M.D., and
Mrs. Mary Belle (Stahr) Heller. Ad
dress : Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
STANLEY, Augustus Owsley:
Congressman; born in Shelleyville, Ken
tucky, May 21, 1867 ; son of Reverend Will
iam Stanley and Amanda O. Stanley. He
was educated at the State College, Lexing
ton, Kentucky, and at Center College, Dan
ville, Kentucky, graduating from Center
College in the class of 1889 with the degree
of B.S. ; entered the practice of law in 1894,
having been engaged between 1889 and
1894 as professor of belles-lettres in Christ
ian College and as principal of Marion
Academy. He was one of the Presidential
electors in 1900; never previously held any
office than that of elector, or belonged to
any military organization except as a cadet
at the State College, which is a military
school. Mr. Stanley was elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress and Fifty-ninth Con
gress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, as a Democrat from the Second
Kentucky District. He married, April 29,
1903, Miss Sue Soaper. Address : Hender
son, Kentucky.
STANTON, Walter:
Broker ; born in Columbia, Ohio, son of
Samuel B. Stanton and Lydia (Conrad)
Stanton. He received his education in
Phillips (Andover) Academy. He is pres
ident of the Havana Bond and Trust Com
pany, and of the Publicity League of Cuba,
also trustee of the Episcopal Cathedral of
Havana. In politics he is a Republican and
he is a member of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Stanton is a member of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution and of the Union
League and New York Athletic Clubs of
New York City, and the American and
Havana Yacht Clubs of Havana, He mar

ried Grace Van Cott. Address : 2 Wall
Street, New York City.
STANWOOD, Arthur G.:
Capitalist; president and director of the
King Phillip Copper Company; vice-presi
dent and director of the Champion Copper
Company; treasurer and director of St.
Mary's Mineral Land Company. Address :
701 Sears Building, Boston, Massachusetts.
STARIN, John Henry:
Merchant and steamboat owner; born in
Sammonsville, then in Montgomery, but
now in Futon County, New York, August
27, 1825 ; son of Myndert Starin and Rachel
(Sammons) Starin, daughter of Major
Thomas Sammons, of Jamestown, New
York; and he is a descendant of Nicholas
Starin (or Stern), an immigrant from Ger
many, who, in 1720, settled in the German
Flats in the Mohawk Valley, and also, on
both sides, from Revolutionary soldiers. He
was educated in the Esperance Academy
in Scoharie County, and after leaving there
began the study of medicine, but later en
tered his brother's drug store at Fultonville,
New York, continuing as clerk until 1856,
when, having accumulated some means, he
removed to New York City and established
as a manufacturer of medicines and toilet
articles. Later he embarked in the trans
portation business, then a poorly developed
interest, and established a general freight
agency which was very successful and
which increased enormously during the
Civil War period, having so organized his
business that he was able to furnish trans
portation for troops and war material at
less cost, and with quicker despatch than
the Government could do it, and at the end
of the war had an extensive system of
railroad and steamboat connections, and
has ever since conducted the business, now
being at the head of the Starin City, River
and Harbor Transportation Lines, owning
freight lines on the North and East Rivers,
large fleets of tugs, propellers, lighters, car
boats, excursion and pleasure boats, grain
boats and floating elevators, also freight
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also owning dry docks and freight depots,
and having offices at many points along the
wharf region of the city. Mr. Starin has
always been a Republican in politics from
the formation of the party. Prior to that
he was a Whig, and had served as post
master of Fultonville, New York, under
the Whig administrations of President
Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore from
1849 to 1853. He was elected as a Republi
can in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress and
reelected in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Con
gress, but he declined further nomination.
He has been a member of the New York
Chamber of Commerce since 1874; was
elected president of the Saratoga Monument
Association in 1880 and secured from Con
gress an 1 appropriation of thirty thousand
dollars for the project, added a large do
nation of his own and secured others, with
the result that the monument was erected.
Mr. Starin has been a member of the Rapid
Transit Commission from its organization
and he is a trustee of Union College. Mr.
Starin married a daughter of John Hudson
Poole, and she died, December 18, 1906. He
Mas a home and a stock farm of one thou
sand acres at Fultonville, New York. Resi
dence: 9 West Thirty-eighth Street, New
York City. Office address: Pier 13, North
River, New York City.
STARR, Louis:
Physician, pediatrist; born in Philadel
phia; son of Isaac and Lydia Starr. He
was prepared in Philadelphia schools and
entered Haverford College, from which he
was graduated as A.B. in 1868, then enter
ing the Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where he was grad
uated as M.D. in 1871. Following his grad
uation he was an interne at the Episcopal-
Hospital of Philadelphia for two years, as
sistant physician in the same institution in
1873 and 1874, and visiting physician for
ten years. He was appointed assistant phy
sician in the Children's Hospital in 1874,
and visiting physician in 1879. He is a
specialist in the diseases of children, con
sulting pediatrist to the Maternity Hospital
since 1879; lecturer on diseases of children
from 1880 to 1884, and clinical professor

of diseases of children from 1884 to 1890,
in the Medical Department of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Starr is author
of : Diseases of the Digestive Organs in
Infancy and Childhood ; Hygiene of the
Nursery; Diet for Infants and Children in
Health and in Disease. He was assistant
editor of Pepper's System of Medicine;
American editor of Goodhart's Diseases of
Children ; and editor of the department of
diseases of children in The American Year
Book of Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Starr
married in Philadelphia, in 1882, Mary Par
rish, of Philadelphia. Address : 1818 South
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia.
STARRETT, Theodore:
Architectural engineer and constructor of
buildings ; born in Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kansas, January 21, 1865; son
of William Aiken Starrett, and Helen
(Ekin) Starrett. He began his collegiate
education in the University of Kansas, and
was graduated from Lake Forest Univer
sity, Lake Forest, Illinois, as A.B. in 1884.
Since leaving college he has been engaged
solely in the study of methods of construc
tion of buildings, especially skyscrapers.
He began as a student in the office of
Burnham and Root, architects, of Chicago;
became engineer of the firm, and designed
the construction of a number of the first
skyscrapers of the country, notably the San
Francisco Chronicle Building, the Society
for Savings Building, Cleveland, Ohio,
where steel columns were first used in a
building; and left the firm to go into a
business of his own. He constructed the
Isabella Building, Chicago, in 1892 and
1893; and the Fisher Building in 1895 and
1896, in record time; and has since con
structed over one hundred skyscrapers. He
is director and chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Thompson-Starrett Com
pany, and director of the Wyllys Com
pany of New York. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the
Engineers' Club of New York, and the
Chicago Athletic Association. Mr. Starrett
married in Chicago, in 1889, Belle Os-
trander, and their children are: Robert Os-
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rett, Jr., born in 1894. Address: 51 Wall
Street, New York City.
STAUFFER, Paris Becker:
Clergyman; born in Chickies, Pennsyl
vania, September 7, 1867; son of Henry
Snavely Stauffer 'and Catherine Anne
(Becker) Stauffer. He received his pre
paratory education in Yeates Institute, Lan
caster City; was graduated from Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1893 ; and
from the Philadelphia Divinity School, in
1896. Mr. Stauffer was ordered deacon in
1896, and ordained priest in 1897 by Right
Rev. Nelson S. Rulison. He was in charge
of the Holy Apostles' Church, St. Claire,
from 1896 to 1900; churches at Laurel,
Mississippi, in 1900; at Latrobe, Pennsyl
vania, from 1900 to 1902 ; Hinton, West Vir
ginia, in 1902 and 1903 ; and at Harpers
Ferry since 1903. He married in Kittan-
ning, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1896,
Anne Norris Reichert, and they have two
children : Frances Stauffer, born in 1900,
and Marguerite, born in 1902. Address :
Harpers' Ferry, West Virginia.
STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence:
Poet, editor and critic; born in Hart
ford, Connecticut, October 8, 1833; son of
Major Edmund Stedman and Elizabeth C.
Stedman. He entered Yale at the age Of
sixteen, where he distinguished himself in
Greek and English composition; and in
185 1 received the prize for a poem on West
minster Abbey. He was prevented from
graduation on account of some breach of
discipline, the same university, however,
conferring on him, in 1871, the degree of
A.M. and subsequently LL.D.; and he has
also received the degree of L.H.D. from
Columbia. At the age of nineteen he be
came editor of the Norwich Tribune, and
two years later of the Winstead Herald.
In 1856 he went to New York, where he
contributed to Vanity Fair, Putnam's and
Harper's Magazines, and to the New York
World and the Tribune. His success was
not marked, however, until he attracted the
public attention by his poems of The Dia
mond Wedding, a satire; and How Old
John Brown Took Harpers Ferry, the fame

of which latter secured him a position on
the regular staff of the Tribune. His poems
were published in i860 in a volume en
titled: Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic. Dur
ing the first two years of the war, he was
Washington correspondent of the New
York World, but failing health compelled
him to accept a less onerous position in the
office of Attorney-General Bates, which he
resigned in 1864 and returned to New York.
He entered mercantile business and became
a member of the Stock Exchange in 1869,
retaining his seat until 1900. During his
business life Mr. Stedman continued to pro
duce literary work of a high grade, pub
lishing at intervals : Alice of Monmouth,
an idyl of the late war, and other poems,
and in 1873, a collected edition of his poeti
cal works. More recently he has devoted
his~ time largely to literary criticism, pro
ducing articles on Tennyson, Theocritus,
and the Victorian poets, which led directly
to his critical volumes, Victorian Poets, and
Poets of America ; and to his Victorian and
American Anthologies. In 1888 he took
part in editing The Library of American
Literature, and. in 1899, gave at Johns Plop
kins University a course of lectures on, the
Nature and Elements of Poetry, which has
since been repeated in other institutions of
learning and published in book form. Mr.
Stedman was president of the New
England Society in 1902 and 1903, and
president of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters. He was also vice-
president under Mr. Lowell of the Ameri
can Copyright League, and succeeded him
as its president. The passage by Congress
of the Copyright Law was assisted by his
efforts. He has gained a position in the
front ranks of balladists and literary critics.
Mr. Stedman is a member and vice-presi
dent of the Century Association, and a
member of the Players', Authors, National
Arts and Yale Clubs. Address : 20 Broad
Street, New York City.
STEELL, Willis:
Playwright and author; born in Detroit,
Michigan, in 1866. His acted plays are:
The Battle of the Strong; Wolfville; A
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Commandment; and The Firm of Cun
ningham. He is also author of the books :
Isidra; Mortal Lips; A Mountain of Gold;
The Death of the Discoverer ; Senator Lum-
ley's Daughters; and a book of travels. In
Seville; also a book of short plays, all now
being acted in vaudeville, under the title:
Drama in Parva. Mr. Steell married, in
1898, Emily Varian Higman, niece of Gen
eral Varian of Philadelphia, and they have
one daughter, Susan. Address : Islip, Long
Island, New York City.
STEENERSON, Halvor:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Dane
County, Wisconsin, June 30, 1852; son of
Steener and Bergeth (Roholt) Knudson.
He was educated in the common schools
and at the high school in Rushford, Min
nesota; studied law in an office at Austin,
Minnesota, and at the Union College of
Law, Chicago, and was admitted to the bar
in the Supreme Court of Illinois in June,
1878, and in the courts of Minnesota, the
same year. He began the practice of his
profession at once, and removed to Crooks-
ton in April, 1880; was in the fall of that
year elected county attorney and served
two years, and in 1882 was elected State
senator and served in the sessions of 1883
and 1885 ; and was delegate to the National
Republican Conventions at Chicago in 1884
and 1888. In 1904, in recognition of his
services to them, he was adopted as a mem
ber of the Mississippi Band of Chippewa
Indians in Minnesota. Was elected to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses
and reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, as
a Republican from the Ninth Minnesota
District. He married in 1878, Maria Chris-
tofferson. Address : Crookston, Minnesota.
STEFFENS, Joseph Lincoln:
Journalist; born in San Francisco, April
6, 1866; son of Joseph Steffens and Eliza
beth Louise (Symes) Steffens. He was
graduated from the University of Califor
nia as Ph.B. in 1889, and took a special
course at the universities of Berlin, Hei
delberg, Leipzig and the University of Paris
(Sorbonne). He was a reporter for the
New York Evening Post; city editor of

the New York Commercial Advertiser (now
the Globe) ; managing editor for McClure's
Magazine; and is now associate editor of
The American Magazine. He is author of:
The Shame of the Cities ; The Struggle for
Self Government. Mr. Steffens is vice-pres
ident of The Phillips Publishing Company,
and a member of the City Club. He mar
ried in London, in 1891, Josephine Bonte-
cou. Residence : 224 West Fifty-second
Street. Office address : 341 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
STEPHENS, John Hall:
Congressman; born in Shelby County,
Texas ; son of L. H. Stephens and S. C
Stephens. He was educated at Mansfield,
Tarrant County, Texas ; was graduated
from the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1872, and
has practiced law since then at Montague,
Montague County, and Vernon, Wilbarger
County, Texas. He served as State senator
in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second
Legislatures of Texas ; and was elected as
a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
Congresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, from the Thirteenth Texas Dis
trict. Address : Vernon, Texas.
STEPHENS, John Vant:
Professor in the Presbyterian Theologi
cal Seminary at Lebanon, Tennessee; born
near St. Louis, Missouri, September 16,
1853; son of Willis A. Stephens and Mary
E. (Bouyer) Stephens. He was a student
at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana,
was graduated as A.B. from Lincoln Col
lege, Illinois, as B.D. from Lebanon Semi
nary and received the honorary degree of
D.D. from the Trinity University of Texas ;
also studied in the Union Seminary, New
York City. He served as pastor of Cum
berland Presbyterian Churches in Knox
ville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in
Bowling Green, Kentucky; and served three
years as corresponding secretary of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Mis
sions of St. Louis, Missouri. For thirteen
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at Lebanon, Tennessee. He was a member of
the World's Parliament of Religions, held
in Chicago in 1893 ; and he is a member of
the Alliance of the Reformed Churches
Throughout the World, holding the Presby
terian System. He is also a Mason and
Knight Templar. Professor Stephens mar
ried in Franklin, January 31, 1888, Willie
B. Buchanan, and they have one son, John
Vant, Jr., born in 1893. Address : Lebanon,
Tennessee. STEIN HART, Frank Maximilian:
Consul-general; born in Munich, Ger
many, May 12, 1864; son of Simon Stein-
hart and Regina (Levinger) Steinhart. He
was educated in public and high schools of
Munich, Germany, also took special studies
in foreign languages and a course in law.
He came to the United States and in 1882
enlisted as a private in the United States
Army, serving as enlisted man until 1889,
most, of the time as corporal and sergeant.
He was transferred to the headquarters of
the Division of the Missouri, at Chicago, as
clerk, and later becoming assistant chief
clerk at that headquarters, where he served
consecutively under Generals Schofield,
Crook, Terry, Niles, Ruger, Merritt and
Brooke. He was appointed chief clerk of
the First Army Corps in May, 1898, and
accompanied General Brooke to Porto Rico,
whence he was transferred to Cuba as chief
clerk of the military government, serving
in that capacity under General Wood, un
til May 20, 1902, when he was appointed
agent of the War Department' of the United
States, with residence in Cuba, and in
charge of the archives of the military gov
ernment. Mr. Steinhart was . appointed,
March 26, 1903, American consul-general
at Havana, Cuba, in which position he has
ever since continued. He is a Republican
in his political affiliation. Mr. Steinhart
married at Racine, Wisconsin, February 8,
1890, Alice Florence Ledder. Address:
American Consulate-General, Havana, Cuba.
STERLING, John A.:
Congressman and lawyer ; bora in Leroy,
Illinois, February 1, 1857; son of Charles
Sterling and Anna Sterling. He attended

the public schools, and took the classical
course at the Illinois Wesleyan University,
graduating in June, 1,881, with the degree
of A.B., and three years later received the
degree of M.A. After graduation he was
superintendent of the public schools of Lex
ington for two years, and was admitted
to the bar in December, 1884, since which
time he has been a member of the law firm
of Welty & Sterling, in the active practice
of the law at Bloomington. He was State's
attorney of McLean County from 1892 to
1896; and a member at large of the Repub
lican State Central Committee of Illinois
from 1896 to 1898. He was elected to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from
the Seventeenth Illinois District. He mar
ried, in Bloomington, Illinois, May 20, 1886,
Clara M. Irons. Address : Bloomington,
Illinois.STERLING, John W.:
Lawyer; born in Stratford, Connecticut,
May, 1844; son of John William Sterling
and Catherine Tomlinson (Plant) Sterling.
He was graduated from the Stratford Acad
emy; from Yale in 1864, with high honors,
and received the degree of LL.D. in 1893 ;
spent the year 1865 in the study of
English literature and history, under Pro
fessor Noah Porter; attended the Co
lumbia Law School, 1867, and then entered
the office of David Dudley Field. In May,
1868, he took the position of managing
clerk in another office, and in December,
1868, returned to 'become a partner under
the firm name of Field and" Shearman. In
September, 1873, Mr. Field retired and the
firm name became Shearman and Sterling.
One of the notable cases in which the new
firm was engaged, was the defense of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, every detail of which
was under Mr. Sterling's personal super
vision. This litigation, which lasted two
years, ended in the defeat of the plaintiff.
Other important suits in which the firm was
counsel in 1876, were the outcome of the
Black Friday gold panic in 1869. Mr. Ster
ling has been personally concerned in the
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sel for many estates, and for many large
corporations; and trustee and director of
the National City Bank of New York, the
New York Trust Company, the Consolidated
Gas Company of New York, the Central
Union Gas Company, the Northern Union
Gas Company, the Standard Gas Light Com
pany of New York, the New Amsterdam
Gas Company, and the Bond and Mortgage
Guarantee Company, and is president and
trustee of the Miriam Osborn Memorial
Home Association, whose Home at Rye,
New York, is for aged indigent gentle
women. He is a member of the New Eng
land Society of New York, American Fine
Arts Society, Phi Beta Kappa Society and
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He is also a
member of the Down Town, Tuxedo, Union
League, University, Lawyers', Yale, Metro
politan, Union, and American Yacht Clubs.
Residence : 912 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Office: 44 Wall Street, New York City.
STERNBERG, George Miller:
Surgeon-General of the United States
Army, retired; born June 8, 1838; son of
Rev. L. Sternberg, D.D. He received his
preparatory education in Hartwick Semi
nary, Otsego County, New York; was grad
uated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in i860, as M.D., and received
from the University of Michigan and Brown
University the degree of LL.D. He was
appointed assistant surgeon in the United
States Army, in 1861 ; and was brigadier-
general and surgeon-general from 1893 un
til his retirement in 1902. He was pres
ident in 1887, and is now a member of, the
American Public Health Association; was
president in 1897 and is a member of the
American Medical Association, an honorary
fellow of Johns Hopkins University in 1880
and 1881; and from 1885 to 1887 a fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Phy
siological Society; and American Associa
tion of Physicians ; member of the Associa
tion of Military Surgeons, being its presi
dent in 1899, member of the Washington
Academy of Sciences ; the Washington Bio
logical Society, having been its president in
1896; and president in 1897, and is now a

member of, the American Philosophical So
ciety. He is author of: Malaria and Ma
larial Diseases, 1889; Manual of Bacteriol
ogy, 1892; Immunity and Serum-Therapy,
1895 ; Infection and Immunity, 1903 ; and
numerous scientific papers and addresses.
His favorite recreations are gardening and
fishing, and is a member of the Cosmos
Club. He married, in 1869, Martha L. Pat-
tison. Address : 2005 Massachusetts Ave
nue, Washington, D. C.
STERRY, John DeWitt:
Importer; born in New York City, No
vember 29, 1865 ; son of George E. Sterry
and Catharine Van Vliet (DeWitt) Sterry.
He received his education in private schools
in New York City and in Princeton Uni
versity. He is vice-president of Weaver
and Sterry, Limited. In politics he is a
Democrat and in religion a Protestant. He
is a member of the Sons of the Revolution,
the American Geographical Society, New
York Plistorical Society, American Genea
logical and Biographical Society, and of
Zeta Psi fraternity. His favorite recrea
tions are tennis and swimming. Mr. Sterry
is a member of the Princeton and Players'
Clubs. Address : 79 Pine Street, New
York City.
STETSON, Francis Lynde:
Lawyer; born at Keeseville, Clinton
County, New York, April 23, 1846; son of
Hon. Lemuel Stetson, member of the Twen
ty-eighth Congress, and Helen Hascall Stet
son. He was graduated from Williams Col
lege as A.B. with honors in 1867, and from
Columbia Law School as LL.B. in 1869, and
also received from Williams College the
degree of A.M. Mr. Stetson has been en
gaged in the practice of law in New York
City since 1869, and is now senior member
of the law firm of Stetson, Jennings and
Russell. His practice is chiefly in con
nection with the largest financial and cor
porate interests, and he is general coun
sel of the United States Steel Corporation,
the United States Rubber Company, Inter
national Mercantile Marine Company, and
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Company, and a director of the Niagara
Development Company, Niagara Falls
Power Company, Erie and Jersey Railroad
Company, Chicago and Erie Railroad Com
pany, Alabama Great Southern Railway
Company, New York, Susquehanna and
Western Railroad Company, United States
Express Company, United States Rubber
Company, and other corporations. Mr. Stet
son is a member of the Board of Trustees
of Williams College, a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, and the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity, and is an Episcopalian in
his church relations. He is a member of
the Century Association, and of the Metro
politan, University, Down Town, National
Arts, Tuxedo, Riding, Grolier, Alpha Delta
Phi and Church Clubs of New York City.
Mr. Stetson married at Rahway, New Jer
sey, June 26, 1873, Elizabeth Ruff. Resi
dence : 4 East Seventy-fourth Street, New
York City. Office address: 15 Broad
Street, New York City.
STEVENS, Benjamin F.:
Life insurance president ; born in Boston,
March 6, 1824. He is a direct descendant
of Richard Warren of the Mayflower and
of Samuel Sprague, of the Boston Tea
Party. Mr. Stevens began his business
life at the age of fourteen, when he entered
the employ of a Boston commission house,
with which he remained for several years.
In 1843 he became captain's clerk on the
frigate Constitution, and during its three
years' cruise, visited many parts of the
world. In 1846 he entered the service of
the New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company as its secretary. He was later
promoted vice-president and finally presi
dent, and for many years has continued at
the head of that important company which,
under his administration, has met with
marked success. Mr. Stevens is an au
thoritative writer on the subject of life
insurance, and he has also been a frequent
contributor to magazines on subjects of
Colonial and New England history. He has
traveled extensively in the United States
and the West Indies, and has also visited
Europe on various occasions. Address :

New England Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Boston, Massachusetts.
STEVENS, Frederick C:
Superintendent of public works of the
State of New York; born at Attica, New
York, 1856; son of Hon. Robert S. Stev
ens, and grandson of Judge Alden S. Stev
ens. He was graduated from Attica Col
legiate Institute, and Cornell University.
Mr. Stevens has been actively engaged in
business enterprises in various tarts of the
country, especially in Washington, D. C,
where he is president of the Commercial
National Bank. He first established the
West End National Bank, subsequently
merged it with the Citizens', becoming pres
ident of that institution, and afterward
selling it to the National Metropolitan and
later withdrew from the concern, establish
ing the Commercial. He arranged the
consolidation of all the city and suburban
street railroad lines of Washington, with
the single exception of the Capital Trac
tion, and withdrew after placing the amal
gamated lines on a good foundation. At
one time he was largely interested in the
Potomac Electric Lighting Company, and
effected its consolidation with the United
States Electric Lighting Company. He
maintains a residence in Washington, but
has his home in Attica, New York. He
was elected and served as State ' senator
from the Forty-sixth Senate District of New
York, and was chairman of the New York
Legislature Committee to investigate city
lighting. He was appointed, January, 1907,
by Governor Hughes as superintendent of
public works of the State of New York.
Address : Albany, New York.
STEVENS, Frederick Clement:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, January 1, 1861. He
attended the common schools of Rockland,
Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College
in 1881, and from law school of the State
University of Iowa in 1884. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1884, and commenced
practice in St. Paul; was elected to the
State Legislature of Minnesota for the
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1891. He was elected in 1896 to the Fifty-
fifth Congress, and reelected to the Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, from the
Fourth Minnesota District. He is a Re
publican in politics. Address: St. Paul,
Minnesota.
STEVENS, George Thomas:
Physician ; born in Essex County, New
York, July 25, 1832; son of Rev. Chauncey
Coe Stevens and Lucinda (Hoadley)
Stevens, both descended from early settlers
of New England, and both children of sol
diers who served through the Revolu
tionary War. He was graduated from Cas-
tleton Medical College, Vermont, as M.D.
in 1857 and Ph.D. from Union College.
He Began the practice of medicine in
Northern New York in 1857; was commis
sioned in 1861 assistant surgeon of the
Seventy-seventh New York Volunteers, and
soon promoted to surgeon ; was operating
surgeon of his division two and one-half
years, and for some time medical inspector
of the Sixth Army Corps, with which he
served in all the campaigns of the Army
of the Potomac, and in the Shenandoah
campaign under Sheridan. He practiced at
Albany, New York, from 1865 to 1880, and
was professor of physiology and diseases
of the eye in Union University Medical
College from 1870 to 1876 and surgeon to
Albany Hospital. Since 1880 he has been
practicing in New York City. He received
the highest prize from the Royal Academy
of Medicine of Belgium for a treatise on
Functional Diseases of the Nervous Sys
tem in 1883 ; has devised many instruments
for surgical, philosophical and optical pur
poses, which are standard in America and
Europe; and is well known among oculists
for his researches on anomalies of the ocu
lar muscles. Dr. Stevens is author of :
Three Years in the Sixth Corps, 1866;
Flora of the Adirondacks, 1868; Maladies
des Centres Nerveux, 1883 ; Functional Ner
vous Diseases, 1884 ; Coaching in North
Wales, 1875 ; Le Muscles Moteurs de L'Oeil
et Expression du Visage, 1892; Treatise
on the Motor Apparatus of the Eye, 1906;
and many articles on ophthalmological sub

jects. He is a member of the American
Medical Association; the American Oph
thalmological Society; the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science;
Academy of Sciences; Torrey Botanical
Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Alumni of New
York, and a member of several interna
tional congresses of medical or other sci
ences. In politics he is a Republican. He
has made many visits to Europe and other
countries. Dr. Stevens is also a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
the National Sculpture Society, and a mem
ber of the National Arts, Grolier and Re
publican Clubs. He married, April 17, 1861,
Harriet W., daughter of William L. Wad-
hams, and their children are : Frances Vir
ginia (Mrs. George T. Ladd), and Dr.
Charles W. Address: 22 East Forty-sixth
Street, New York City.
STEVENS, Thomas Holdup:
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy; born
in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands ; son of the
late Rear-Admiral Thomas Holdup Stevens,
and grandson of Commodore Thomas Hold
up Stevens, who died in command of the
Washington Navy Yard in 1841. He
was appointed to the Naval Academy in
1863, by President Lincoln, from among
sons of officers. He was graduated in 1868,
and then for a year was attached to the
steamer Resaca, of the Pacific Fleet, on the
Mexican and Lower California coasts, and
on the Mohican, on a scientific expedition
to Siberia for observation of a total eclipse
•of the sun. He was promoted to ensign,
July 22, 1869, and served on the Michigan
and Colorado in 1869 and 1870. He was
promdted to master in 1870; on duty in
the Pacific Squadron from 1870 to 1873, on
the flagship Ossipee and the sloop Cyane,
and while attached to the latter ship, par
ticipated in the survey of the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec for the construction of the
Interoceanic Canal ; on the flagship Pensa
cola, in 1872 and 1873, in the South Pacific.
In May, 1873, he commanded a company
of blue jackets during the temporary occu
pation of Panama by armed forces from
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rebellion; and later the same year was
on duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard. In
November, 1873, he was navigator of the
torpedo-boat Mayflower, at the time of the
Spanish-American complications. He was
commissioned lieutenant January 23, 1874,
and served on varied duties and stations
in that rank until promoted lieutenant-com
mander, February 2, 1896. In 1898-1899
he was executive officer of the flagship
Philadelphia, and commanded the combined
naval battalion and Hawaiian National
Guard on the occasion of the substitution
of the United States for the Hawaiian flag,
a singular coincidence, as he was at the
time the only native of Honolulu who was
a commissioned officer of the United States
Navy. He was promoted commander
March 29, 1899; was at the Navy Yard at
Norfolk, November 2, 1899, and July 16,
1900, was placed in command of the gun
boat Manila, with which he served for
eighteen months during the Philippine In
surrection ; then after service at, the Mare
Island and Puget Sound Navy Yards (cap
tain of the yard at the latter), he attended
the course at the Naval War College in the
summer of 1903, then was captain of the
Yard at Pensacola Navy Yard. He was
promoted to captain in 1904, and February
11, 1905, at his own request was retired
with the rank of rear-admiral. Address :
Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C.
STEVENS, William H.:
Justice of the Superior Court; born in
Stoneham, Massachusetts, March 23, 1842;
son of William F. Stevens and Mary J. G.
(Burnham) Stevens. He received his edu
cation in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas
sachusetts, and in Dartmouth College. He
is president of the Stoneham Five Cents
Savings Bank, and director of the Stone
ham, National Bank. He traveled in
Europe, Palestine and Egypt, and served in
the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment in the
Civil War. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Unitarian. He is a mem
ber of the Suffolk and Middlesex Bar Asso
ciations; the Odd Fellows order; Psi Up
silon fraternity, and Grand Army of the
Republic. Mr. Stevens married in Stone

ham, September 30, 1873, Mary N. Gryn,
and they have three children : William
Flint (deceased), Josephine F., born in
1883, and Mary R. and Freinen O., born
in 1877. Residence : Stoneham, Massa
chusetts. Address : Court House, Boston,
Massachusetts.STEVENSON, Eugene:
Jurist; born at Williamsburg, New York
(now the Eastern District of Brooklyn),
June 28, 1849. He was carefully prepared
for college and he entered the New York
University, from which he was graduated
as A.B. in 1870, and was also grad
uated from the Law School of the same
university with the degree of LL.B. He
was engaged in the practice of law at
Paterson, New Jersey, served a term as
prosecutor of the Pleas for Passaic Coun
ty, and continued practice until he was ap
pointed to his present office of vice-chan
cellor of New Jersey. Address : Paterson,
New Jersey.
STEVENSON, Henry Cogswell:
Lawyer; born in Bridgeport, Connecti
cut, July 15, 1873; son of Colonel William
H. Stevenson and Mary Hough (Shelton)
Stevenson. He was graduated from Bridge
port High School in 1891 ; from the Shef
field Scientific School of Yale in 1894 and
from Yale Law School in 1897 as LL.B.
From 1899 to 1903 he was deputy judge of
the Probate Court of Bridgeport,' Connecti
cut, and since then judge of the Bridge
port City Court, civil and criminal juris
diction. Mr. Stevenson is senior member
of the firm of Stevenson and Wilson, law
yers ; president of the Board of Aldermen
and acting mayor of the City of Bridge
port from 1899 to 1902; and was captain
commanding Company B of the Third
Connecticut Infantry, from 1904 to 1907.
In politics he is a Republican and he is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He is also a member of the Sons
of American Revolution, an Odd Fellow,
Mason, Knight Templar and a Noble of
the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Stevenson is joint
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and Forms, 1905. He is a member of the
Algonquin, the Brooklawn Country, and
Bridgeport Yacht Clubs, all of Bridgeport,
and the Army and Navy Club of New
York. Residence : Golden Hill, Bridge
port. Office address : 83 Fairfield Avenue,
Bridgeport, Connecticut.
STEVENSON, Howard A.:
Capitalist ; born in Philadelphia, Janu
ary 2, 1842 ; son of Hon. Samuel Stevenson.
He was educated in the schools of Phila
delphia, and in 1859 entered the wholesale
drug house of Ziegler and Smith, attending
the College of Pharmacy in the evening. He
became an active member of the Second
Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, and later
its treasurer, and when the Civil War be
gan he enlisted and assisted Colonel Fry in
recruiting his cavalry regiment in Philadel
phia, and while thus engaged he received
instructions from the surgeon-general of
the Navy Department to report at Wash
ington with a view to appointment in the
Medical Corps of the United States Navy,
and passing it successfully, was ordered to
report for duty on the United States
steamer State of Georgia, on which he re
mained until the war ended. After the war
he entered the Philadelphia wholesale drug
house of A. F. Hazard & Company (es
tablished in 1822), and in 1870, with Lewis
U. Bean, succeeded, by purchase, to that
business, under the firm name of Bean and
Stevenson, in which he continued until
1878, when he retired from mercantile
business. During this period he was a
member and director of the Philadelphia
Drug Exchange. In 1878 he purchased an
interest in the Green and Coates Streets
Passenger Railway, of which he became a
director in January, 1879, and in July, 1879,
its president, which office he held until the
railway was leased, in 1881, by the People's
Passenger Railway Company. Declining
the offer of the vice-presidency of the con
solidated companies, he became a director
for six years of the Lombard and South
Streets Railway, and for two years of the
West End Railway, which were consol
idated, and he was elected a director of
the People's Passenger Railway Company in

January, 1886, and of the Germantown Pas
senger Railway Company in February, 1886,
and December 9, 1890, was elected presi
dent of the People's Passenger Railway
Company, which position he resigned April
15, 1892. Mr. Stevenson has been a director
since 1887 of the Fire Association of Phila
delphia, and since 1889 of the Real Estate
Title Insurance and Trust Company. He
is a member of the George G. Meade Post,
No. 1, of the Grand Army of the Republic,
life member of the Athletic Club of the
Schuylkill Navy, and a member of the
Germantown Cricket Club. Address : Cor
ner of Tulpehocken and Green Streets,
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
STEWART, Alexander Mair:
Contractor; born in Kingston, Ontario,
October 2, 1857; son of James Stewart and
Martha (Lyall) Stewart. He received his
education in the public schools of St. Louis,
Missouri, and later in Washington Uni
versity. He is senior partner of James
Stewart & Company, contractors, founded
in St. Louis in 1866 by his father, James
Stewart. This firm has been one of the
most conspicuously successful in the con
tracting line in this country; has executed
large and important works from Coast to
Coast and from Duluth to the Gulf of
Mexico. In 1900 the firm constructed the
Westinghouse Electric Company's English
plant, and gained great honor for speedy
and satisfactory work, resulting in bring
ing to the firm a great deal of large
work in Great Britain. Besides having its
headquarters in New York City, the firm
has branch offices in Chicago, St. Louis,
Pittsburgh, New Orleans and San Fran
cisco. Mr. Stewart is president of The
Stewart-Kerbaugh-Shanley Company, of
New York; director of The Diamond Na
tional Bank, Pittsburgh, The Diamond
Saving Bank of Pittsburgh, and the United
Surety Company, Baltimore. He traveled
extensively throughout the United States
and Europe. He formerly served from pri
vate to captain in the Missouri National
Guards. In politics he is a Democrat and
in religion a Presbyterian. He is a mem
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trustee of the Shantung (China) Union Col
lege. Plis favorite recreations are yachting,
and he is joint owner, with his brother,
James C. Stewart, of the steam yacht Issa
quena. He is a member of the Engineers',
New York Yacht and New York Clubs of
New York, the Maryland Club of Baltimore,
the St. Louis Club of St. Louis, and of the
Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Greenwich.
Mr. Stewart married, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
April 5, 1887, Emily Elizabeth Peabody,
daughter of W. W. Peabody, president of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, who died
July 4, 1888; and he has one daughter,
Elizabeth Peabody Stewart. Residence: 58
Central Park West, New York City. Of
fice address : 135 Broadway, New York City:
STEWART, John Aikman:
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
the United States Trust Company; born in
New York City, August 22, 1822; son of
John Stewart, who emigrated when quite
young, and settled in New York City, where
he was for many years ward assessor, and
afterward receiver of taxes. He was grad
uated from Columbia College in 1840. Mr.
Stewart was clerk of the Board of Educa
tion of New York City from 1842 to 1850;
actuary of the United States Life Insur
ance Company from 1850 to 1853; and in
1853 he became secretary of the United
States Trust Company, which had been
chartered by the New York Legislature
chiefly through his efforts. He was assist
ant treasurer of the United States at New
York City in 1864 and served until the end'
of the war, when he resigned to become
president of the United States Trust Com
pany, on the resignation of Mr. Lawrence,
the former president ; and under his control
.the company became the largest institution
of the kind in America. He resigned the
presidency in 1902, but continues president
of the Board of Trustees of the Company,
also director of the Merchants' National
Bank, and of the Liverpool and London
and Globe Insurance Company. He is a
trustee of Princeton University; a director
of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary;
trustee of the John F. Slater Fund, and
member of the Metropolitan and Union

League Clubs. Pie married, first, in New
York City, in 1845, Sarah Y. Johnson, who
died in 1886, and second, in 1890, Mary O.
Capron, of Baltimore. Residences : 125 East
Thirty-seventh Street, and Morristown,
New Jersey. Address : 45 Wall Street, New
York City.
STEWART, Thomas J.:
Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; born
near Belfast, Ireland, September 11, 1848,
and was brought by his parents to Norris
town, Montgomery County, in 1849. He
was educated in the public schools, and at
the Quaker City Business College in Phila
delphia; and at sixteen years of age he
enlisted as a private in the One Hundred
and Thirty-eighth Regiment of Pennsyl
vania Volunteers. Mr. Stewart was en
gaged as a manufacturer and dealer in
window glass from 1870 to 1882; was as
sistant adjutant-general of the Department
of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Re
public, from 1882 to 1888; and was elected
Department Commander in 1890. In 1883
he was appointed assistant adjutant-general
and in September, 1897, adjutant-general
of the Grand Army of the Republic in the
United States by Commander-in-Chief J.
P. S. Gobin; reappointed September, 1898,
by Commander-in-Chief James A. Sexton,
and in September, 1899, by Commander-in-
Chief Albert D. Shaw; and was elected
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, October 8, 1892. He was a
member of the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania, sessions of 1885 and 1886;
has been connected with the National Guard
of Pennsylvania since 1868; was appointed
adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1877; and on
September 20, 1889, was appointed assist
ant adjutant-general of the First Brigade,
and reappointed in 1894. He was appointed
on the part of the House of Representa
tives a member of the commission to locate
and establish the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and
Sailors' Home, and afterward as a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees of the same
institution on the part of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and acted as secretary of
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tees; in 1890 was appointed a member of
the commission in charge of the Soldiers'
Orphan Schools; elected secretary of In
ternal Affairs, 1886, and reelected in 1890;
was appointed adjutant-general by Gover
nor Hastings, January 15, 1895, reappointed
by Governor Stone in 1899, by Governor
Pennypacker in 1903, and again in 1907 by
Governor Stuart. Address: Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.STEWART, William Morris:
Ex-United States senator; born in Lyons,
New York, August 9, 1827. He was edu
cated in the common schools and at Farm
ington Academy; taught school at Hamp
den, Ohio, returned to Lyons, New York,
attended and taught mathematics in Union
Academy until 1848, and then was a student
in Yale College in 1848 and 1849. He went
to California in 1849 and engaged in min
ing and in the construction of canals, one
of which, twenty miles in length, he built
in Nevada County. He studied law and
in 1853 was admitted to the California bar ;
was district attorney of Nevada County in
1853, and attorney-general of California in
1854 > removing to San Francisco. He prac
ticed at Downieville, California, from 1856
to i860, then removed to Virginia City, Ne
vada, where he was engaged in the famous
Comstock Lode litigation. He was a mem
ber of the Territorial Legislature of Ne
vada in i860, of the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1863, and was elected as a Repub
lican, with Governor James W. Nye as
one of the first two senators from Nevada,
and drew the long term, serving from 1865
to 1869, and being reelected, served until
1875. He returned to his law practice and
his mining interests in California, and Ne
vada, and in 1887 was again elected, and re
elected in 1893 and 1899, his last term ex-.
piring in 1905, and making a total service
of twenty-eight years. Senator Stewart in
his earlier senatorial service was a mem
ber of the Joint Committee on Reconstruc
tion and of the Judiciary Committee; and
he was the originator of the present na
tional mining laws. During his later career
he was especially prominent as an advocate
of the free coinage of silver, and introduced

in the Republican Convention of 1888 the
silver plank which was in the Republican
platform of that year. He married in 1855,
Annie E. Foote, daughter of Hon. Henry
Stuart Foote, United States senator and
governor of Mississippi. Address : Carson
City, Nevada.
STILLMAN, James:
President of the National City Bank of
New York; born in Brownsville, Texas,
June 9, 1850. He comes of an old English
family, which emigrated to America, and
settled at Hadley, Massachusetts. The fa
mily was prominent in the Revolutionary
War, two of his great-grandfathers having
been officers in the Continental Army, and
his father, Charles Stillman, was a ship
ping merchant in New York City, in the
first half of the Nineteenth Century. His
parents returned from the South, to Hart
ford, Connecticut, shortly after his. birth
and he was brought up in that city, but
obtained his education principally at Chur
chill's School at Sing Sing, New York. On
attaining his majority he entered the firm
of Smith, Woodward and Stillman, cotton
merchants of New York City, and has main
tained an unbroken connection with that
house ever since, becoming a partner, in
1873, of the firm of Woodward and Still
man, which succeeded the earlier firm.
Since 1891 he has been president of the Na
tional City Bank of New York, which under
his management has become by far the larg
est bank in capital, resources and business
in the United States. He is also president
of the Second National Bank, the Bowery
Savings Bank, Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit
Company, Consolidated Gas Company of
New York, trustee of the American Surety
Company; director of the Audit Company
of New York, the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, Central Realty, Bond and Trust
Company, Deer Hill Company, Northern
Pacific Railway Company, Queens Insur
ance Company, Southern Pine Company,
Terminal Warehouse Company, Western
Union Telegraph Company; a member of
the Executive Committee of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company; di
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Railroad Company; Hanover National
Bank, Mobile Street Railway; a member of
the Executive Committee and trustee of the
United States Trust Company, and a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Cotton Exchange. His favorite recreations
are yachting, also raising fine cattle and
blooded horses on his farm at Cornwall-on-
Hudson. Mr. Stillman is a member of the
Century, Metropolitan, Union League, Re
form, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corin
thian Yacht, Eastern Yacht, St. Augustine
Yacht, Jekyl Island, Storm King, Tuxedo,
Riding and Lawyers' Club. He married
Elizabeth Rumrill, and their children are :
Elsie, now Mrs. William G. Rockefeller;
James A., Isabel Goodrich, Charles Chaun
cey, and Ernest Goodrich. Residence: 8
East Seventy-third Street, New York City.
Office address: 54 Wall Street, New York
City.
STIMSON, Frederick Jesup:
Lawyer and author; born in Dedham,
Massachusetts, July 20, 1855 ; son of Ed
ward Stimson and Sarah Tufts (Richard
son) Stimson. His early education was
secured in schools in Dedham, Massachu
setts, Dubuque, Iowa, and Lausanne, Switz
erland, and he then entered Harvard, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1876,
and LL.B. in 1878. He was admitted to
the Boston bar in 1879, and to the New
York bar in 1885, practiced in Boston, was
attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1884
and 1885 ; general counsel to the United
States Industrial Commission from 1898
to 1901, was Democratic candidate for the
Fifty-eighth Congress from the Twelfth
Massachusetts District in 1902, and was
elected a member of the Massachusetts
Corporation Committee under the Act of
1902. He is author of several works in
general literature, the earlier of which were
written under the pen name of J. S. of Dale,
and of several law books, most of them on
topics connected with the law relating to
labor, and a Law Glossary. He has been
twice married; first, June 2, 1881, to Eliza
beth Bradlee Abbott, of Boston, who died
in 1896; and second, November 12, 1902, to
Mabel Ashhurst of Philadelphia. Resi- I

dence : Dedham, Massachusetts. Office ad
dress : 709 Exchange Building, Boston,
Massachusetts.
STIMSON, Henry Lewis:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, Sep
tember ,21, 1867; son of Lewis Atterbury
Stimson and Candace • (Wheeler) Stimson.
He prepared in Phillips Andover Academy
from 1880 to 1884, and received from Yale
University the degree of A.B. in 1888, and
from Harvard Law School the degree of
M.A. in 1890. He was admitted to the bar
of New York County in June, 1891, and
entered the firm of Root and Clarke, Janu
ary 1, 1893 ; and in 1897 the name was
changed to Root, Howard, Winthrop and
Stimson, and in 1901 to Winthrop and Stim
son. He is a director of the Lawyers'
Mortgage Company. On February 1, 1906,
he was appointed United States attorney for
the Southern District of New York. In
politics he is a Republican, and he is a
Presbyterian in his religious affiliation. Mr.
Stimson is a member of the New York City
, Bar Association, the New York State Bar
Association, the Psi Upsilon, and Skull-
Bones fraternities of Yale, and the Hasty
Pudding Club of Harvard. His favorite
recreations are hunting, shooting and cross
country riding. He is a trustee of Phillips
Andover Academy; advisor of the Board
of Lincoln Hospital and Home, and vice-
president of the Charity Organization So
ciety. He is also a member of the Century
Association, the University Club, the Union
League Club and Down Town Associa
tion. Mr. Stimson married in New Haven,
Connecticut, Mabel Wellington White.
Residence: 275 Lexington Avenue, New
York. Office address : Post Office Build
ing, 32 Liberty Street, New York City.
STIRES, Ernest Milmore:
Clergyman ; born in Norfolk, Virginia,May
20, 1866; son of Van Rensselaer Stires
and Letty M. (Milmore) Stires. He was
graduated from the University of Virginia
as LL.B. in 1888; from the Theological
Seminary of Virginia, in 1891 ; and received
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ary degree of D.D. in 1901 ; and the degree
of LL.D. from Kenyon College in 1902. He
was rector of St. John's Church, West
Point, Virginia, 1891 ; the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Augusta, Georgia, in 1893;
Grace Church, Chicago, from 1893 to 1901,
and since 1901 rector of St. ^Thomas'
Church, New York City. He is trustee of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a
member of the Board of Missions; and is
a director of various church institutions.
Dr. Stires is also a member of the Pil
grims, The Virginians, the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity (ex-president) ; the Southern
Society and a member of the University
Club. He married in Augusta, Georgia,
January 11, 1894, Sarah McKinne Hard-
wick, and their children are : Ernest Van
R., born in 1899; Hardwick, born in 1901;
Arthur McK, born in 1902; and Milmore,
born in 1904. Summer home: Brook Hill
Farm, Lake George, New York. Office ad
dress: St. Thomas's Rectory, 1 West Fif
ty-third Street, New York City.
STIRLING, Yates:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Baltimore, Maryland, May
6, 1843; son of Archibald Stirling and
Elizabeth Ann (Walsh) Stirling. He was
educated in a private school of Baltimore
and the United States Naval Academy,
from which he was graduated, May 28, 1863,
when he was promoted to ensign and at
tached to the steam sloop Shenandoah;
was detached from that vessel while it was
undergoing repairs at Philadelphia, served
in the flagship of the North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, the monitor Onondaga, in
James River, and in June, 1864, was reas
signed to the Shenandoah, serving in the
same squadron until 1865, and participat
ing in both attacks on Fort Fisher; and
was attached to the steamer Mohongo, Pa
cific Squadron, from 1865 to 1867; com
missioned lieutenant, November 10, 1866;
lieutenant-commander, March 12, 1868;
commander, November 26, 1880; captain,
September, 1894 ; rear-admiral, June 8, 1902.
He served on various duties and stations;
commanded the Iroquois, Pacific Station,
1884 to 1886; receiving ship Dale, 1887 to

1890 ; Dolphin, 1890-1891 ; lighthouse inspec
tor, 1892 to 1894; commanding the New
ark, 1895-1896; Lancaster, 1896-1897; com
manded South Atlantic Station, July to De
cember, 1897; member of the Lighthouse
Board, 1897 to 1900; commanding Naval
Station, San Juan, Porto Rico, 1900 to 1902 ;
commanding Navy Yard, Puget Sound,
1902-1903 ; commanding Philippine Squad
ron, Asiatic Fleet, 1903 and 1904; Cruiser
Squadron, Asiatic Fleet, April to July, 1904 ;
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet
from July, 1904, until March 23, 1905; re
tired by operation of law, May 6, 1905. Ad
miral Stirling is a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, the Sons of the
American Revolution, St. Andrew's So
ciety, Red Cross Society of Baltimore, and
the Masonic orders; and he is also a mem
ber of the University Club of Baltimore,
the Army and Navy Club of Washington,
and the Army and Navy Club of New York
City. He married at Mare Island, Cali
fornia, August 29, 1867, Ellen Salisbury
Haley, and they have five children : Helen,
Marie Yates (Mrs. J. Lee Tailer), Yates,
Margaret Yates, and Archibald Grahame.
Address : 209 North Lanvak Street, Balti
more, Maryland.
STOCKTON, Howard:
Lawyer and financier ; born in Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1842; son
of Lieutenant Philip Augustus Stockton
and Mary Ann (Remington) Stockton,
grandson of Lucius Wittam and Eliza Au
gusta (Coxe) Stockton and of J. B. and
Hannah (Pym) Remington, and a de
scendant of Richard and Abigail Stockton,
who settled in Flushing, Long Island, New
York, about 1656. Howard Stockton at
tended private schools in Newport and the
Royal Saxon Polytechnic, Dresden, Saxony,
where he was graduated as silver medalist
in 1862. He served in the United States
Volunteer Army in 1862-1864, and in the
United States Army from May 23, 1-864,
retiring with the commission of first lieu
tenant in the ordnance corps. He then
studied law and was admitted to the Mas
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treasurer of the Cocheco Manufacturing
Company from 1876 to 1887 ; of the Salmon
Falls Manufacturing Company, 1880-1887;
of the Essex Company from 1880; presi
dent since 1901 of the Nashua Manufactur
ing Company, and the Jackson Company;
president of the American Bell Tele
phone Company from 1887 to 1889; actu
ary of the Massachusetts Hospital Insur
ance Company from 1901 and is a di
rector in the Merchants' Bank, the Old
Boston National Bank, and the City
Trust Company, and the Boston Manufac
turers' . Mutual Insurance Company. He is
also vice-president of the American Mutual
Liability Insurance Company, having served
from 1898; was a trustee of the Boston
Athenaeun and a member of the Executive
Committee of the corporation of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology from
1891. He is vestryman of St. Paul's
Church, Tremont? Street, Boston, and
served as lay delegate to the Diocesan Con
ventions of 1888, 1892, and as a member
of the Standing Committee of the Diocese
of Massachusetts in 1890. He married,
January 6, 1870, Mary, daughter of Rev.
Charles Mason, D.D., and Susan (Law
rence) Mason; of this union there were
born eight children: Lawrence Mason
Stockton (Harvard, 1891) ; Mary Reming
ton Stockton, wife of William' Amory, 2d;
Philip Stockton (Harvard, 1896, and Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, 1899) ;
Ethel, Eleanor, and Jane Mason, and
Howard, Jr. (Harvard, 1905) ; Mrs. Mary
(Mason) Stockton, died at Wareham, Mas
sachusetts, July 27, 1886. Office address:
50 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
STOCKTON, Philip:
Banker and director; born in Brookline,
Massachusetts, March 20, 1874; son of
Howard and Mary (Mason) Stockton;
grandson of Amos Lawrence and Louise
Blake (Steedman) Mason, and a descend
ant of General John Mason, Dorchester,
Massachusetts, about 1630. He was pre
pared for college at Noble's School, Bos
ton, and was graduated from Harvard,
A.B., 1896; and at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, Boston, as S.B. in

Civil Engineering in 1899. He was en
gaged in manufacturing cotton at Hunts
ville, Alabama, with the Merrimac Manu
facturing Company, 1900, and in 1901 was
made treasurer of the Lowell (Massachu
setts) Bleachery. He was made president
of the City Trust Company of Boston in
1900. He is a trustee of the Provident In
stitution for Savings, of Boston, and a di
rector of the Cambridge Trust Company,
the Columbian National Life Insurance
Company, the Mercantile Trust Company,
National Bank of Commerce, Windsor
Trust Company, Fall River Gas Works
Company, and Boston and Worcester Elec
tric Company. Address : 40 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
STODDARD, Charles Herbert:
Lawyer ; born in Glens Falls, New York,
November 22, 1869; son of Seneca Ray
Stoddard and, Helen Augusta (Potter)
Stoddard. He received his education in
Glens Falls Academy, and was graduated
from Cornell University as B.L. in 1893,
and from New York University as LL.B.
in 1894. The same year he was admitted to
the bar and has practiced in New York City
since. He has been president and director
of the Builders Construction Company since
its organization in 1905. Mr. Stoddard was
second lieutenant of the Twenty-second
Regiment, National Guard of New York,
in 1893; first lieutenant in 1894; captain of
the Seventy-first Regiment of the National
Guard of New York, from 1897 to 1899;
captain of the Seventy-first Regiment of
Infantry, New York Volunteers, during the
Spanish- American War; private, sergeant
and first sergeant of the Twenty-ninth In
fantry, United States Volunteers, in cam
paigns in Luzon, Marinduque, Masbate,
Ticao, Burias, and Samar, Philippine
Islands from 1899 to 1901. He is
a member of the naval and military
order of the Spanish-American War, Delta
Phi fraternity and Aleph Samach Junior
Society of Cornell University. He married
in Toronto, Ontario, July 3, 1901, Frances
Henrietta Thebault. Residence: 418 Cen
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STOKES, Anson Phelps:
Retired banker and merchant; born in
New York City, February 22, 1838; son of
James Stokes and Caroline (Phelps)
Stokes. His education was received under
tutors and in private schools, and he be
came a member of the firm of Phelps,
Dodge & Company, merchants, and subse
quently of Phelps, Stokes & Company,
bankers, and is connected as officer and
director with various corporations. Mr.
Stokes has been active in the civil service
reform and free trade movements, was the
first president of the Reform Club of New
York City; and he was president of the
National Association of Anti-Imperialist
Clubs at Chicago in 1900. He is a director
of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
the Home for Incurables and other charities.
Mr. Stokes is a prominent yachtsman, for
merly vice-commodore of the New York
Yacht Club, and owner of several yachts,
with which he has cruised around the
world. He is a Democrat in political af
filiation, and a prominent layman of the
Episcopal Church. Pie is a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars, the Century As
sociation, and of the Knickerbocker, Metro
politan, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-
Corinthian Yacht, Riding, City, and Church
Clubs. He married October 17, 1865, Helen
Louisa, daughter of Isaac Newton Phelps
of New York City. Residence : 230 Madi
son Avenue, New York City. Office ad
dress : 100 William Street, New York City.
STOKES, Anson Phelps, Jr.:
Clergyman, secretary of Yale University;
born in New Brighton, Staten Island, New
York, April 13, 1874; son of Anson Phelps
Stokes and Helen Louise (Phelps) Stokes.
Pie was graduated from Yale as B.A. in
1896, was winner of the Junior Exhibition,
and the DeForest Medal, was chairman of
the Board of Editors of the Yale Daily
News in his senior year and member of the
Yale Debating Team which won the inter-
university debate with Harvard in 1896 ; and
he was graduated from the Episcopal The
ological School at Cambridge, Massachu
setts, in 1900, receiving from Yale, the same
year, the degree of M.A. He was ordained '

in the ministry of the Episcopal Church in
1900, and is assistant minister of St. Paul's
Church, at New Haven, Connecticut. He
was elected secretary of Yale University
in June, 1899, and has since edited the tri
ennial Directory of Living Graduates of
Yale University, as well as other Yale pub
lications. He is a director of Wellesley
College, the New Haven Young Men's
Christian Association, Lowell House (so
cial settlement), the New Haven Hospital
and other ¦ benevolent organizations. Mr.
Stokes married in New York City, Decem
ber 30, 1903, Caroline Green Mitchell. Ad
dress : 73 Elm Street, New Haven, Connec
ticut.STOKES, Edward Casper:
Governor of New Jersey; born in Phila
delphia, December 22, i860; son of Edwin
H. Stokes and Matilda G. (Kemble) Stokes,
both of whom were of old New Jersey fa
milies. He received his early education in
the public schools of Millville, was prepared
for college in the Friends' School of Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and was graduated
from Brown University as A.B. in 1883. He
took a position in the Millville National
Bank and has ever since been actively in
terested in banking, and since 1899 has been
president of the Mechanics' National Bank
of Trenton; and he was the first president
of the New Jersey Bankers' Association.
He has always been interested in politics
as an active Republican, was elected super
intendent of the public schools of Mill
ville in 1889, member of the New Jersey
House of Assembly in 1890 and 1891, and
elected in 1892, and twice reelected to the
New Jersey Senate, of which he was chosen
president in 1895; and at the close of his
senatorial term he was elected clerk in
chancery. He came within one vote of re
ceiving the caucus nomination for United
States senator in 1902. He was elected
governor of New Jersey for a three-year
term in November, 1904. He was formerly '
for three years acting chairman of the Re
publican State Committee of New Jersey.
Residence : Millville, New Jersey. Office
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STOKES, Frederick Abbot:
Publisher; born in Brooklyn, New York,
November 4, 1857; son of Frederick Abbot
Stokes and Caroline (Allen) Stokes. He
was graduated from Cheshire Academy, as
salutatorian in 1875, and from Yale Col
lege as B.A. in 1879. He founded, in 1881,
the business now known as Frederick A.
Stokes Company. He succeeded Irving
Bachellor as editor of the Pocket Maga
zine, in 1898; and has edited The Poems
of Sir John Suckling, 1886 ; and a few other
volumes, and contributed occasionally to
magazines from 1884 to 1898. Mr. Stokes
is author of: College Tramps, 1880. He is
president of Frederick A. Stokes Company;
secretary of the American Publishers' As
sociation; trustee of the Edward MacDow-
ell Memorial Association, and a member of
Psi Upsilon and Wolf Head Societies. He
is also a member of the University Club,
the Yale Club (of which he was secretary
in 1902 and 1903), the Mendelssohn Club
(having been its president for three years),
and was secretary of the Aldine Club from
1895 to 1897. He married, in Detroit, Mich
igan, May 10, 1883, Ellen R. Colby, and they
have two sons : Horace Winston, and Fred
erick Brett. Residence : 307 West Ninety-
eighth Street, New York. Office address :
334-341 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
STOKES, Henry B.:
President of the Manhattan Life Insur
ance Company; born in New York City,
December 23, 1847; son of Henry Stokes
and Mary A. (Stiles) Stokes. He was
educated in the Columbia Grammar School.
Mr. Stokes is vice-president and trustee
of the Manhattan Savings Bank ; trustee of
Mechanics' National Bank, and of the Citi
zens' Central National Bank; in politics he
is a Republican and he is an Episcopalian
in his religious affiliations. Mr. Stokes is
also a member of Union League, Riding
and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. He married
in New Rochelle, New York, October 7,
1874, Sophia I. Lockwood, and their chil
dren are: Florence L. S. Clark, born in
1876, and Marie S. Bostwick, born in 1878.
Address: 66 Broadway, New York City.

STONE, Charles A.:
Capitalist; trustee of. the Massachusetts
Gas Company, the New England Gas and
Coke Company, and the Seattle Electric
Company; a member of the Corporation
and Executive Committee of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, and a director
of the Blue Hill Street Railway Company,
the Boston Consolidated Gas Company,
Brockton and Plymouth Street Railway
Company, Cape Breton Electric Company,
Limited; Chase-Shawmut Company, the
City Trust Company, Cocoon Spinner Com
pany, Columbus Electric Company, the Dal
las Electric Corporation, First National
Bank of Boston, El Paso Electric Company,
Fort Hill Chemical Company, Galveston
Electric Company, Houghton County Elec
tric Light Company, Houghton County
Street Railway Company, Houston Electric
Company, Industrial Mutual Insurance
Company, International Cocoon Spinner
Company, Jacksonville Electric Company,
Key West Electric Company, Lowell Elec
tric Light Corporation, Minneapolis General
Electric Company, New England Coal &
Coke Company, Northern Texas Electric
Company,Paducah Traction and Light Com
pany, Pensacola Electric Company, Puget
Sound Electric Railway, Savannah Elec
tric Company, Stone & Webster Engineer
ing Corporation, Stone & Webster Manage
ment Association, Tampa Electric Company,
Whatcom County Railway and Light Com
pany. Address : 84 State Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
STONE, Charles Warren:
Lawyer, ex-congressman; born in 1843;
among his ancestors there were Revolu
tionary blue-coats, intermarried with the
families of Prescott and Greene. He was
educated at Lawrence Academy and Wil
liams College, earning his way by teach
ing and other work, graduating with honor.
He accepted a position as principal of the
Union School at Warren, was elected
County superintendent of schools in 1865,
and later in the same year was chosen
principal of the Academy at Erie. He took
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tice in the courts of Warren County in
1866, and entered into partnership with
Judge Rasselas Bfown ; served three years
in the Borough Council, nine years on the
Board of School Directors, and the last
three years as its president. In 1869 he
was elected to the Legislature from the
Counties of Warren and Venango, and was
reelected without opposition. In 1876 he
was State senator, and served as chairman
of the General Judiciary Committee, and
in 1878 he was elected lieutenant-governor.
Mr. Stone was one of the three commis
sioners in 1883 who located the United
States public building at Erie, and later was
a representative of Pennsylvania at the In
ter-State Extradition Conference, called by
the governors of several States; subse
quently he was a delegate from Pennsyl
vania to the Prison Congress, over which
ex-President Hayes presided. In 1887 he
was appointed by Governor Beaver to be
secretary of the Commonwealth, and served
until his election to Congress from the
Twenty-seventh District in 1890; and he
has been four times reelected by large
majorities. During two of the terms of his
service in Congress he was the efficient
chairman of the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures. In 1898 he was
a candidate before the Republican Con
vention for the nomination for governor
and received one hundred and sixty-five
votes, one hundred and eighty-three being
necessary to nominate. Address : Warren,
Pennsylvania.
STONE, I. FRANK:
President of the National Aniline and
Chemical Company; born in Chicago,
March 2, 1867; son of Theodore and Mary
(Owen) Stone. He was educated in pub
lic schools, Chicago. He was a member
of the firm of I. F. Stone, 1888; Stone and
Ware, 1890; Stone and Ware, 1897; presi
dent of the National Aniline and
Chemical Company in 1906; vice-presi
dent of Schoellkopf, Hartford and Hanna
Company, in 1900; director of the Contact
Process Company, South Nevada Company,
and Board of Trade and Transportation,
New York. Pie is a Republican in politics,

and a member of the Society of Chemical
Industry, College of Pharmacy, Chamber
of Commerce (New York), the Advisory
Committee of the Metropolitan Bank, Pales
tine Commandery of Knights Templar, and
of the New York Athletic, Chemists', City
and Lotus Clubs, and the Drug and uhemi-
cal Clubs. He married in Chicago, June
5, 1889, Mary L. Peck, and they have two
children : Grace H., born March 12, 1892,
and Truman, born October 15, 1895. Ad
dress : 100 William Street, New York City.
STONE, Melville Elijah:
General manager of the Associated
Press ; born at Hudson, Illinois, August 22,
1848; son of Rev. Elijah Stone, a Metho
dist minister; removed with parents to
Chicago in i860, and was educated in the
high school there, beginning his newspaper
career by reporting for the Chicago Tri
bune while still a student in the high school,
and graduating from there in 1867. After
graduation he turned his attention to me
chanics, and he conducted a machine-shop
from 1869 to 1871, when, in the great fire
of October 8-9 his property was all de
stroyed. He then became an editor on
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, later a special
correspondent at Washington. While en
gaged in newspaper work he became im
pressed with the idea that a daily news
paper of independent views, which should
stand for all that was best, and which
would give all the news for a cent, would
be a success in Chicago, and in 1875 he,
with partners, established the Daily News,
soon afterward buying out the other in
terests and selling them to Victor F. Law-
son. A morning edition was started in
1881, which a few years later became the
Chicago Record. Mr. Stone started the
News with the idea that the work of the
reporter was the foundation of the suc
cess of the newspaper, and his force of
local newsgatherers and of correspondents
included men and women many of whom
have since made themselves famous in
journalism and literature. The paper scored
many brilliant coups in publishing the first
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became also a great moral and civic force
in its absolutely independent stand for civic
righteousness in Chicago. The Daily News
was a great success, but in 1888, his health
being seriously impaired by overwork, he
sold his entire interest in the two news
papers to Mr. Lawson, and for two or three
years traveled abroad. On his return to
Chicago he organized the Globe National
Bank and conducted it as president until
1898, when it was consolidated with the
Continental National Bank of Chicago. He
became general manager of the Associated
Press in 1893, and has since filled that of
fice and he has made it the most effective
news-gathering agency in the world, with
organized divisions covering every section
of the country, and with foreign connec
tions of the most widely ramified char
acter. The modern newspaper in our larger
American cities represents the most com
plete and accurate statement of daily his
tory the world has ever seen, and this
completeness is largely due to the fact that
Mr. Stone has brought to his task a knowl
edge of news values and a genius for news
gathering which is probably greater than
that of any other man. Address : Western
Union Building, New York City.
STONE, William Leete:
Editor, and historical writer ; born in New
York City, April 4, 1835 ; son of William L.
Stone and Susanah (Wayland) Stone. He
was graduated from Brown University as
A.B. in 1858, and later received the honor
ary degrees of A.M. and LL.B. Mr. Stone
was centennial historian for the State of
New York in 1876 ; was appointed"by Mayor
Grant, with General James Grant Wilson,
Isaac Townsend Smith and Edward F.
DeLancey to supervise the translation of
the Dutch records of the City of New York;
appointed repository of records for the
State of New York, during the Centennial
Exposition, at Philadelphia, and appointed
in 1906 by Governor Higgins, a commis
sioner of the Hudson and Fulton Celebra
tion. He is author of : The Life and Times
of Sir William Johnson, Baronet; Revolu
tionary Letters; Pausch's Journal; Bur-
goyne's Campaign and St. Leger's Expedi

tion; Life and Military Journals of Major-
General Reidesel; Letters and Journals of
Mrs. General Reidesel; History of New
York City; Life and Writings of Colonel
William L. Stone ; Reminiscences of Sara
toga and Ballston; The Saratoga Battle
Grounds ; Ballads of the Burgoyne Cam
paign ; Sir John Johnson's Orderly Book ;
Historical Guide Book to Saratoga Springs
and Vicinity; History of the Centennial
Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender;
Third Supplement to Dowling's History of
Romanism; History of Washington County,
New York; Life of John Hay, Secretary
of State (who was Mr. Stone's room-mate
in College) ; and also the Starin and Stone
Genealogies ; introduction to Marshall's His
tory of the Early West; and several chap
ters in General James Grant Wilson's
Memorial History of New York City; and
other works. Mr. Stone is a member and
trustee of the New York State Historical
Society ; a. member of the American Histor
ical Association ; and of the most of the
important historical societies in this country
and Europe ; the American Numismatic and
Archeological Society, the Royal Society
of Copenhagen; secretary of the Saratoga
Monument Association ; associate member
of the American Society for Psychical Re
search ; a life member of the New York
Institute for Deaf and Dumb and a mem
ber of the Association of American Au
thors. Mr. Stone married Miss H. D. Gil
lette, and their children are William L., Jr.,
A. D., F. W., and Susanne M. Address:
Mt. Vernon, New York.
STONE, William Joel:
United States senator ; born May 7, 1848,
in Madison County, Kentucky. He was
graduated from Missouri University, which
later conferred upon him the degree of
LL.D., and is a lawyer, admitted to the
bar in 1869. He was prosecuting attorney
of Vernon County, Missouri, 1873-74; rep
resentative in the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth,
and Fifty-first Congresses ; governor of
Missouri, 1893-1897; member from Missouri
of the Democratic National Committee,
1896-1904; and its vice-chairman, 1900-1904.
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ate, to succeed George Graham Vest, and
took his seat March 4, 1903. His term of
service will expire March 3, 1909. He mar
ried, April 2, 1874, Sarah Louise Winston,
and they have three children. Address :
Jefferson City, Missouri.
STOREY, Thomas Andrew:
Physician, physiologist; born in Burden,
Kansas, January 29, 1875. He was grad
uated from Stanford University as A.B'. in
1896, and A.M. in 1900; attended Hopkins
Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California, sum
mers of 1897 and 1898; was a graduate
student in the University of Michigan in
1900; received the degree of Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1902 ; attended Har
vard Medical School in 1902 and 1903, and
Cooper Medical School in 1903 and 1904,
and received the degree of M.D. from Har
vard University in 1905. He was assistant
in the gymnasium in Stanford University
in 1896 and 1897, instructor in hygiene and
organic training, from 1897 to 1902, assistant
professor of hygiene, from 1902 to 1906;
assistant in physiology, Harvard Medical
School, 1905 ; and associate professor and
director of physical instruction in the
College of the City of New York, since 1906.
He was house officer in Long Island Hos
pital, Boston, in 1905 ; resident house phy
sician in the Childrens' Hospital, of Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1906. Dr. Storey has made
important researches in reference to mus
cular contraction and the effect of fatigue
and exercise upon it, also the effect of in
juries of the brain on the vaso-motor
centre. He is a fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
American Physiological Society, Society of
College Gymnasium Directors (vice-presi
dent in 1905 and president in 1907), Ameri
can School Hygiene Association (is its
secretary and treasurer), Suffolk County
branch of the Massachusetts Medical So
ciety, American Medical Association and
Sigma Xi. Address : College of the City
of New York, New York City.
STORROW, James JacKson:
Banker; vice-president of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the

Boston School Committee; a member of
the Board of Overseers of Harvard Col
lege ; secretary and a member of the Board
of Managers of the Franklin Fund of Bos
ton, and a director of the American Ex
ploration Company, the American Writing
Paper Company, Boston Blacking Company,
British United Shoe Machinery Company,
Centennial-Eureka Mining Company, Co
lumbian Rope Company, Dallas Electric
Corporation, Electrical Securities Cor
poration, Essex Company, First Na
tional Bank, Houston Electric Companies,
J. C. Rhodes arid Company, Incorporated,
of the O. A. Miller Treeing Machine Com
pany, Quincy Market Cold Storage and
Warehouse Company, Railway and Light
Securities Company, Revere Sugar Refining
Company, Savannah Electric Company,
Springfield Railway Company, Tower Oiled
Clothing Company, United Fruit Company,
United Shoe Machinery Company, United
Shoe Machinery Corporation, United States
Mining Company, United States Smelting,
Refining and Mining Company, and the
William Underwood Company. Address :
44 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
STORRS, Richard S.:
Banker. He is a member of the firm of
Berton, Storrs and Griscom; president and
director of the Alden Lighting, Heating
and Power Company; Altoona Gas Com
pany; Chicopee Gas Light Company; Citi
zens' Gas and Fuel Company of Terre
Haute, Indiana ; Consolidated Light and
Power Company, of Whitehall, New York;
Glens Falls Gas and Electric Light Com
pany; Herkimer County Light and Power
Company; Richmond Light, Heat and
Power Company; Rorick Glen Park Asso
ciation; West Water Street Railroad Com
pany; vice-president and director of the
Chautauqua Steamboat Company; Dedham
and Hyde Park Gas and Electric Light
Company; Leavenworth Light and Heating
Company ; Pawtucket Gas Company of New
Jersey; United Gas and Electric Company;
secretary, treasurer and director of James
town and Chautauqua and Lake Erie Rail
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and Railroad Company; Hartford City Gas
Company of Rhode Island; Lockport Gas
and Electric Light Company. Residence:
Orange, New Jersey. Address: 40 Wall
Street, New York City.
STOCGHTON, Bradley:
Consulting metallurgist, educator; born
in New York City, December 6, 1873; son
of Colonel Charles Bradley Stoughton, LL.
D. and Ada Ripley (Hooper) Stoughton.
He was graduated from Sheffield Scienti
fic School, Yale University as Ph.B. in
1893, and from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as S.B. in 1896. He held pro
fessional office successively with the Illi
nois Steel Company, American Steel and
Wire Company, Driggs-Seabury Gun and
Ammunition Company, and Benjamin Atha
& Company. He is lecturer on metallurgy
for the New York Board of Education, and
adjunct professor of metallurgy, Columbia
University, and is a member of the firm of
Howe & Stoughton, consulting metallurg
ists. He was formerly of Company F, Sec
ond Regiment, Connecticut National Guard
(known as The New Haven Grays). In
religious affiliation he is an Episcopalian.
Mr. Stoughton is author of: The Metal
lurgy of Iron and Steel, 1907. He is a
member of the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers; Iron and Steel Institute of
London, American Society for Testing Ma
terials; International Association for Test
ing Materials; National Geographic So
ciety, Sigma Xi, Association of Foundry
Foremen (honorary member), National So
ciety for the Promotion of Industrial Edu
cation, Peace Society of the City of New
York and Senior Mining Society of Colum
bia University, and is a member of the Yale,
Columbia University, Technology, Hartford
Yacht Clubs and the Faculty Club of Co
lumbia University. Mr. Stoughton married
in Brooklyn, New York, January 4, 1899,
Grace Abbie Van Everen, who died, Janu
ary 16, 1905. He has two sons : Philip and
William, born in 1900. Residence: 321
West Ninety-fourth Street, New York
City. Address: Columbia University, New
York City.

STOUT, Charles H.:
Banker; born in New York City, Febru
ary 13, 1864; son of Charles and Hanora
Frances (Merrell) Stout. He received his
education in New York. He is vice-pres
ident of the Manhattan Trust Company,
and director of the Liberty National Bank.
He is member of the vestry of St. Thomas'
Protestant Episcopal Church, New York;
member of the Chamber of Commerce, St.
Nicholas Society, New York Chapter of the
Colonial Order, and of the St. Nicholas,
Calumet, Lawyers', Baltusrol, and Badmin
ton Clubs. He married in New York City,
in 1899, Henrietta Maria Schroeder, daugh
ter of the late Francis Schroeder, United
States minister to Sweden and Norway un
der President Buchanan, and they have one
son, Merrell Langdon, born in 1904. Coun
try home : "Charlecote," Short Hills, New
Jersey. Address: 137 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
STOUT, George C:
Physician; born in Bethlehem, Pennsyl
vania, in June, 1862; son of Dr. A. Stout
and Mary (Cortright) Stout. He was ap
pointed from Pennsylvania to the United
States Naval Academy, from which he was
graduated in 1883. After about five years
service he resigned, and entered the medi
cal department of the University of Penn
sylvania, from which he was graduated as
M.D. in 1891. He pursued special studies
in otology and laryngology, and has for
years practiced as a specialist in diseases
of the ear, throat and nose. He is pro
fessor of otology in the Philadelphia Poly
clinic, chief of the department of otology
and laryngology in the Presbyterian Hos
pital of Philadelphia; and he is a contribu
tor on his specialties to medical journals
and text-books. He is a member of the
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the
Philadelphia County Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, American
Laryngological, Otological and Rhinological
Society, American Academy of Medicine,
and Medical Club of Philadelphia. Dr.
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Navy. He is a member of the Army and
Navy Club of New York, the Northampton
Club, and the University and Corinthian
Yacht Clubs of Philadelphia. He married
Anna Wetherill Addicks, of Philadelphia.
Address: 1611 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
STOVER, Martin L.:
Jurist; was justice of the Supreme Court
of New York from the Fourth District,
from 1891 to 1905, and a member of the
Appellate Division of the Fourth Depart
ment from 1900 to 1905. He is now prac
ticing law at Amsterdam. Address : Am
sterdam, New York.
STOWELL, Calvin Llewellyn:
Financier, author ; born at Ansonia, Penn
sylvania, August 28, 1845 ; son of Thomas
P. Stowell and Henrietta (Fowler) Stowell;
descendant of the noble English family of
Stawal of ancient lineage, the name being
corrupted in England to Stowel and in
America to Stowell, the earliest American
ancestor coming to this country with the
Puritan colonists. Colonel Stowell was edu
cated in private schools, began his career
in a large banking institution and became
connected with the management of large
financial affairs, and identified as officer and
director of several railway, steamship, bank
ing and insurance corporations. Author of :
Christian Knighthood, published in New
York in 1874, and also of many scientific
and literary articles in magazines and
periodicals. He is also a prominent Free
mason, and has held high official positions
in the order, both in the United States and
in Great Britain. He is well-known as an
art amateur and has an excellent collection
of works of art, and is a member of the
Players' and Lambs' Clubs of New York
City, also the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Society of Genesee, Pennsylvania Society,
National Geographic Society, American
Academy, Athletic, Genesee Valley and
Genesee Golf Clubs. He married, Novem
ber 18, 1876, Jeannie O., daughter of Levi
Hotchkiss of Rochester, New York. Ad
dress : 105 Merriman Street, Rochester, New
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STRAIGHT, Willard D.:
Consular officer; born in New York. He
was appointed vice-consul-general at Seoul,
April 6, 1905; appointed consul-general at
Mukden, June 22, 1906. Address : Mukden,
China. 4TKANGE, Robert:
Bishop of East Carolina ; born at Wil
mington, North Carolina, in 1857; son of
Robert and Caroline (Wright) Strange. He!
received the degree of D.D. from the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1895. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1884, by Bishop Watson, and the year
following was ordained priest by Bishop
Lyman. He was for several years rector
of St. James' Parish, Wilmington, North
Carolina, and of St. Paul's Church, Rich
mond, Virginia. He was consecrated bish
op in 1904, and became bishop-coadjutor
of East Carolina. Upon the death of Bishop
Watson in 1905, he assumed the full office
of bishop. Bishop Strange was married in
1886 to Elizabeth Stone Buford of Law
renceville, Virginia. Address : Wilmington,
North Carolina.
STRATTON, Charles Caroll:
Clergyman; born in Mansfield, Pennsyl
vania, January 4, 1833 ; son of Curtis Phi
lander Stratton and Lavinia (Fitch) Strat
ton. He was graduated from Willamette
University, Salem, Oregon, as A.B. and
A.M. ; received the degree of D.D. from
Northwestern University, Ohio Wesleyan
University and Willamette University. He
was admitted to Oregon Conference, Metho
dist Episcopal Church, in 1858; elected to
General Conference of Methodist Episcopal
Church from Oregon in 1872, from Cali
fornia in 1880, and from Oregon in 1890.
He was elected life director of National
Educational Association in 1888; life mem
ber of Astronomical Society Lick Obser
vatory, California. By request of Bishop
E. O. Haven, president of Michigan Uni
versity, literary executive to edit his au
tobiography and publish his lectures and
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versity of the Pacific from 1879 to 1889;
of Mills College, California, from 1889 to
1892; of Portland University from 1892 to
1907. Dr. Stratton married in Salem, Ore
gon, September 5, i860, Julia E. Waller,
and they have two children : Mary E. Strat-
tori, bom in 1861, and Harvey Gordon
Stratton, born in 1866. Address : Portland,
Oregon. STRAUS, Adolph D. :
Consul-general of Nicaragua. He has
represented Nicaragua for many years as
consul-general in the United States, and in
other diplomatic capacities, and is the only
citizen of the United States holding a mili
tary position in the Army of Nicaragua. He
was formerly one of the best known war
correspondents in the Civil War, and later
in Mexico, being the only journalist who
witnessed the execution of Emperor Maxi-
millian, and for years was the representa
tive of the New York Associated Press and
correspondent of the New York Times. On
leaving the newspaper field, he engaged in
the export business, and is now senior part
ner of A. D- Straus Company, export com
mission merchants, whose trade is largely
with Nicaragua and Central America gen
erally. Address : 18 Broadway, New York
City.STRAUS, Isidor:
Merchant ; born in Rhenish, Bavaria, Feb
ruary 6, 1845 ; son of Lazarus Straus and
Sara Straus. He was educated in Collins-
worth Institute, Talbotton, Georgia. He
received the degree of LL.D. from Wash
ington and Lee University. He was a
member of the Fifty-third Congress; is
vice-president of the Chamber of Com
merce of -the State of New York ; and di
rector in various banks, trust companies,
and charitable institutions. He is president
of the Educational Alliance; member of
the firm of L. Straus and Sons, R. H. Macy
and Company, New York City, Abraham
and Straus, Brooklyn. He married in New
York City, July 12, 1871, Ida Blun, and
they have six children : Jesse Isidor, Percy
Selden, Herbert Nathan, Sara now wife
of Dr. Alfred F. Hess, Minnie, wife of

Dr. Richard Weil, and Vivian, wife of
Herbert Scheftel. Address : 2745 Broad
way, New York City.
STRAUS, Nathan:
Merchant; bom in Rhemish, Bavaria,
January 31, 1848; son of Lazarus Straus
and Sara Straus. He came to the United
States in 1854, with the family and set
tled in Talbotton, Georgia. He received
his education in the schools there, and later
in the public and business schools of New
York City. He joined his father in im
porting pottery and glassware, as the firm
of L. Straus and Sons, in which he has
retained an interest; has been a partner
in the department store of R. H. Macy and
Company since 1888, and is a member of
the firm of Abraham and Straus, depart
ment store in Brooklyn. In politics he is
identified with the Democratic party, and
in 1894, received the nomination for mayor,
but declined it. In 1893 he was appointed
by Mayor Grant, as park commissioner of
New York City, and established many im
provements in the park system of the city;
and in 1898 was president of the Board
of Health of New York City. Mr. Straus
has been identified with many practical
charities, notably that of the distribution
of Pasteurized milk to the poor people
of New York City, maintaining the dis
pensaries at his own expense, with re
sults, as shown by the Health Department
statistics, of the saving of the lives of many
thousands of babies. This initial experi
ment has been copied in other cities at home
and abroad. During the panic period of
1893 to 1896 he provided lodging houses
for the poor and homeless, and for many
winters past has maintained depots for the
distribution of coal at cost to the poor.
He married in 1875, Lina Gutherz. Resi
dence : 27 West Seventy-second Street, New
York. Office address : R. H. Macy & Com
pany, Broadway and Thirty-fourth Street,
New York City.
STRAUS, Oscar Solomon:
Secretary of Commerce and Labor; born
December 23, 1850; son of Lazarus Straus
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schools in Georgia until 1865; was gradu
ated from Columbia, as A.B., in 1871, A.M.
in 1873, LL.B. in 1873, L.H.D., from Brown
University, 1878; LL.D., from the Wash
ington and Lee, University of Pennsylvania,
and from Columbia University; and also
studied in the office of Charles O'Conor.
On leaving school in 1873, he formed the
law firm of Hudson and Straus, later
Sterne, Hudson and Straus, and afterward
known as Sterne, Straus and Thompson,
and continued in practice of law until
1881, when he joined the importing pot
tery and glassware house of L. Straus and
Sons, in which he continued until January
1, 1907. He was United States minister to
Turkey under appointment of President
Cleveland, from 1887 to 1889, and of Presi
dent McKinley, from 1897 to 1900; ren
dered especially valuable service in estab
lishing the right of Christian missionaries
and Christian colleges in Turkey, and in
securing the right for the selling of bibles
and tracts by American colporteurs ; also
secured for American universities the right
to excavate on the site of ancient Babylon;
and after the Spanish-American War, he
secured aid of the Sultan in inducing the
adhesion of the Mohammedan sultans of
Mindanao to accept protection of the United
States, rather than join hands with Agui-
naldo. He was appointed, January 14, 1902,
member of the Permanent Court of Arbi
tration at The Hague, to fill the place made
vacant by the death of ex-President Har
rison ; appointed and confirmed secretary of
commerce and labor of the United States,
taking office December 17, 1906. He has
served as president of the New York Board
of Trade and Transportation, and vice-
president of the National Civic Federation,
vice-president of the International Law As
sociation, Columbia Alumni Association.
Mr. Straus is author of: The Origin of
the Republican Form of Government in the
United States, 1886; Roger Williams, the
Pioneer of Religious Liberty, 1894; The
Development of Religious Liberty in the
United States, 1896 ; Reform in the Consular
Service, 1897. He is a member of the Law
yers' Club of New York. Address : 2600
Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C.

STROBEL, Charles Louis:
Civil engineer; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
October 6, 1852; son of Carl Strobel and
Ida (Merker) Strobel. He was educated
in the Cincinnati public schools until seven
teen, then in the Royal Technical High
School at Stuttgart, Germany, graduating
as C.E. He was assistant engineer of the
Cincinnati Southern Railway at Cincinnati
1874-1878, assistant to president and engi
neer at Pittsburgh, of Keystone Bridge
Co., 1878. He removed to Chicago in Oc
tober, 1885, retaining connection, as consult
ing engineer with the Keystone Bridge
Company, and also being consulting engi
neer to Carnegie Brothers and Company,
Limited, and Carnegie, Phipps and Com
pany, Limited, until 1893. In 1893 he went
into business for himself as consulting and
contracting engineer for the building of
bridges and other structures in steel. In
May, 1905, he incorporated his business un
der the firm name of Strobel Steel Con
struction Company. He designed and built
many important bridges and other strucU
tires. He was editor of the Handbook of
Useful Information for Engineers and Ar
chitects, first published in 1881 for Carnegie,
Phipps and Company, Limited. He is a
Republican in politics. Mr. Strobel is a
member of the Institution of Civil Engi
neers, past director of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers, and of the West
ern Society of Engineers. He is a mem
ber of the Chicago, Chicago Golf, Saddle
and Cycle, and Chicago Athletic Clubs. He
married in Chicago, Illinois, December 2,
1890, Henrietta Baxter, who died March,
1905, and has two children : Charles Louis,
Jr., born in 1891, and Marion, born in
1895. Residence : 412 North State Street,
Chicago. Office address : 1744-1748, Monad-
nock Block, Chicago, Illinois.
STRONG, Augustus Hopkins :
President of the Rochester Theological
Seminary; born in Rochester, New York,
August 3, 1836; son of Alvah and Cathe
rine (Hopkins) Strong. He was graduated
from Yale College, in 1857; Brown Uni
versity, as D.D. in 1870; Yale University
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nell University, LL.D. in 1891 ; Alfred Uni
versity as LL.D. in 1894. He was pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Haverhill,
Massachusetts, from 1861 to 1865; First
Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1865
to 1872; president and professor of the
Rochester Theological Seminary since 1872 ;
president of the American Baptist Mis
sionary Union. He is author of : Systematic
Theology, 1886 (seventh edition, 1903) ;
Philosophy and Religion, 1888; The Great
Poets and Their Theology, 1897; Christ
in Creation and Ethical Monism, 1899. He
married in Rochester, New York, Novem
ber 6, 1861, Harriet Louise Savage, and
they have six children : Charles Augustus
Strong, born in 1862, Mary Belle Strong
Cook, born in 1864, John Henry, born in
1866, Kate Strong Sewell, born in 1870,
Cora Harriet, born in 1870, Laura Rock-
feller born in 1894. Address : 17 Sib-
¦ley Place, Rochester, New York.
STRONG, George Alexander:
Clergyman ; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, May 23, 1859; son of Edward Alex
ander and Marion Hubbard (Clarke)
Strong. He was educated in Boston Latin
School; was graduated from Amherst Col
lege as B.A. in 1880 and M.A. in 1885;
from University of Leipzig, Germany; and
from the Episcopal Theological School,
Cambridge, Massaqhusetts, as B.D. in 1885.
He was ordered deacon in 1885, and or
dained priest in 1886, by Bishop Paddock.
Mr. Strong was assistant at St. Paul's
Church, Boston, from 1885 to 1887; rector
of St. Paul's, Maiden, Massachusetts, from
1887 to 1890, of St. Paul's Church, Brock
ton, Massachusetts, from 1891 to 1900, of
Christ Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1900
to 1902 ; since then rector of Christ Church,
New York City. His favorite recreation is
yachting. He is a member of the Central
Council of the Charity Organization So
ciety of New York, and the Psi Upsilon
fraternity and is a member of the New
York Yacht Club. Mr. Strong married in
Boston, November 22, 1887, Margaret Phil
lips Reynolds, and they have three children :
Susan Sturgis, born in 1899, Alexander,
born in 1890, and Margaret Wendell, born

in 1894. Address : 213 West Seventy-first
Street, New York City.
STRONG, Mason Romeyn:
Civil engineer ; born in Passaic, New Jer
sey; son of J. Paschal Strong and Cornelia
Whitney (Heyer) Strong. He was pre
pared in the Albany Academy and was grad
uated from Columbia University as A.B.
in 1889, and afterward spent a year in
the School of Mines. He is a consulting
engineer, and was formerly engineer of
bridges and buildings, with jurisdiction ex
tending over the entire Erie Railroad sys
tem. He is now consulting engineer of the
Erie Railroad in addition to his general
practice. Mr. Strong is a member of the
Dutch Reformed Church. He has mem
bership in the American Society of Civil
Engineers, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity. He married in Racine, Wiscon
sin, in 1901, Nina Colville, and they have
two children : Elizabeth Grier, and Nina
Colville. Address : 7 Wall Street, New
York City.
STRYKER, Melancthon Woolsey:
President of Hamilton College; born at
Vernon, New York, January 7, 1851 ; son
of Isaac Pierson and Alida (Woolsey)
Stryker. He was educated at Hamilton
College, Clinton, New York, graduating
with the degree of A.B.. in 1872. He thence
entered the Auburn Theological Seminary
where he was graduated in 1876. The de
gree of D.D. was conferred upon him in
1889 by Plamilton and Lafayette Colleges,
and that of LL.D. by Lafayette College
in 1892. After being ordained to the min
istry of the Presbyterian Church in 1876,
he became pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Auburn, and there preached for
two years. In 1878 he accepted the pas
torate of the church at Ithaca, New York,
and five years later was called to fill the
pulpit of the Second Congregational Church
at Holyoke, Massachusetts. After two
years of service there, he became pastor
of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chi
cago, Illinois, where he remained until 1892.
In the latter year he was elected to the
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er' is also trustee of this college and of
the Auburn Theological Seminary. He has
traveled in Europe on two occasions. In
politics he is identified with the Republican
party, and he is a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society and the Sigma Phi frater
nity. He spends much of his leisure time
in fishing, riding and tennis. Dr. Stryker
is author of various volumes of verse, ser
mons and addresses, and is the editor of
several hymnals. He was married at Au
burn, New York, September 27, 1876, to
Elizabeth Goss, and has had five children :
Goss, born in 1877, Alida, born in 1881,
Lloyd, born in 1885, Evelyn, born in 1888,
and Elizabeth, born in 1895. Address : Clin
ton, New York.
STUART, Daniel Delehanty Vincent:
Captain, United States Navy; was born
in Albany, New York, September 15, 1847;
son of John and Mary Catherine (Dele
hanty) Stuart. He was graduated from Al
bany Academy in 1862, and from the United
States Naval Academy in 1869. Captain
Stuart is a Roman Catholic in religion, and
is a member of the Army and Navy Club
of New York City and the Catholic Club
of New York City. He married in the
Church of the Epiphany of New York City,
September 26, 1883, Alicia A. Smith, and
they have one son, Daniel D. V., Jr. Ad
dress : 116 Dallius Street, Albany, New
York.STUART, Edwin Sidney:
Governor of Pennsylvania; born in Phil
adelphia, December 28, 1853; son of Hugh
Stuart and Anna (Newman) Stuart. He
was educatd in the public schools, arid at
the age of fourteen left school to become
an errand boy in Leary's old book store,
then at Fifth and Walnut Streets, Here
he gained a thorough knowledge of the
business and was much benefited intellectu
ally by the conversation of the literary men
who frequented the place. Mr. Leary died
in 1874, and Mr. Stuart, who had long had
much of the care of the business, conducted
it for two years for the benefit of the es
tate. At the end of that time he purchased
it, removed it soon after to 9 South Ninth

Street, and has there built it up to the larg
est establishment of its kind in the United
States, containing a vast number of books,
many of them old, rare and curious works.
The most important of the works pub
lished by him has been Watson's Annals
of Philadelphia. Mr. Stuart has always
taken a warm interest in political matters;
as a member of the Republican Party he
was treasurer of the Young Republican
Club during the Garfield campaign of 1880,
and in 1882 was elected its president. He
was a -delegate to the National Conventions
of Republican League Clubs at New York
in 1887 and at Baltimore in 1889; was an
elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884, a dele
gate to the National Convention of 1888,
and was president of the Electoral College
of Pennsylvania in 1901. In 1886 he was
elected by a very large majority to the
Select Council of Philadelphia and was re
elected in 1889. An effort was made to
nominate him for mayor in 1886, and in
1890 he received the nomination and was
elected for the four years' term by the
largest majority known to that time for
a mayor of , Philadelphia; and in- 1906 he
was nominated and elected governor of
Pennsylvania, for the four-year term ex
piring January 17, 191 1. He is one of the
trustees of the Girard Estate. Residence:
1538 South Broad Street, Philadelphia,
Official address : Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
STURDEVANT, James Warner:
President of the Densmore Typewriter
Company; born in Chautauqua County,
New York, December 9, 1850; son of Bar
nabas M. and Frances M. (Doty) Sturde-
vant. He earned the money to educate him
self; was graduated from Cornell Univer
sity as B.S. in 1876, and was senior editor
of The Cornell Era. He was superin
tendent of schools for several years, advo
cated the New Education and obtained for
the improvement of his teachers such ad
vanced lecturers as Colonel Francis Parker
and Prof. Thomas Balliett. He organized
the Densmore Typewriter Company in 1891,
and has ever since been an officer of the
company. His hobbies are forestry and
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neys abroad. He married at Philadelphia,
December 21, 1878, Austa Densmore and
they have two daughters: Mrs. F. Eloise
Compton, and Winifred. Address: Crags-
moor, Ulster County, New York.
STURGIS, Russell:
Architect and writer on art ; born in
Baltimore, October 16, 1836; son of Rus
sell Sturgis, a merchant sea-captain of
Barnstable, Massachusetts, and Margaret
Dawes, daughter of Charles Appleton of
Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated at
New York schools and the College of the
City of New York, and was tutor there in
drawing and mathematics, 1856-1857. He
studied architecture in the New York office
of Leopold Eidlitz, and afterwards studied
in Munich, but chiefly by travel and the
making of measured drawings of build
ings in Belgium, France, Germany, and
North Italy. Mr. Sturgis opened an office
in New York, 1864. Was active in the So
ciety for the Promotion of Truth in Art,
and in the editing of its journal, The New
Path. Built private houses and a church,
and in 1868 was employed by Yale Col
lege to build Farnam Hall, the first build
ing of a proposed new series of structures.
In 1870 built, in the same series, Durfee
Hall, and in 1872-4, Battell Chapel, a large
stone church, which has been altered since
he gave up practice. Built college build
ings in Auburn, the Mechanics' arid Farm
ers' Bank at Albany, and dwellings in
New York City, New Haven, Albany, and
elsewhere in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania and other States. The dec
orative treatment of interiors, with stained
glass, wall-painting and wood-carving,
formed a large part of his work. Was
active in the remodelling of the American
Institute of Architects, about 1867, and
was the first secretary under the new sys
tem of a national federal body made up
of many chapters: personally visiting the
architectural societies already existing in
other cities. After a breakdown in health,
he resided in Europe from 1880 to 1884;
and was able to renew his studies of ancient
buildings, traveling much, making a long
stay at Athens, and residing with his family

in Hanover, Florence, Venice, Avignon,
Paris. After returning to New York built
Lawrance Hall for Yale College, and the
Homeopathic Medical College in New York,
together with Flower Hospital, associating
with himself the architects, George Martin
PIuss, and, afterward, George Keister and
Frank E. Wallis. From 1888 to 1897 was
active in art societies, president (four suc
cessive terms) of the Architectural League
of New York, first president of the Fine
Arts Federation, officer, etc., in the Na
tional Sculpture Society, and others. In
1890 aided the late S. P. Avery in organiz
ing the Avery Architectural Library; and
has been ever since the appointed member
of the Purchasing Committee. From 1865
on he has been a constant contributor on art
matters to The Nation of New York; and
also to the Evening Post since 1881. In
1868, prepared an elaborate manual and
catalogue of the Jarves Collection of early
Italian pictures ; this at the request of the
Trustees of Yale College, who were about
to advance money to secure the collection
for their new galleries in the Street Art
Building. Wrote much for periodicals, as
the Architectural Record of New York, and
the publications of art societies, and lectured
in New York, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chi
cago and many smaller towns ; but always
on fine art in some form or manifestation,
more especially in architecture, and in the
decorative arts and engravings, of which
he was always a collector and student.
Has edited, and contributed largely to the de
partment : The Field of Art in Scribner's
Magazine since January, 1898. Contrib
uted largely to new or newly remodeled
encyclopedias, from 1888 to 1905, and to
Webster's and the Century dictionaries,
furnishing thousands of definitions of art
terms. Edited for the Macmillans their
Dictionary of Architecture and Building,
to which he also contributed largely; and
edited and enlarged and largely rewrote the
English translation of Liibke's History of
Art, published by Dodd, Mead and Com
pany in 1905. Of independent and origi
nal works, besides volumes of lectures and
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of Sculpture (Baker and Taylor Company,
1905), he has published: European Archi
tecture, an Historical Study (Macmillan,
1896) ; and A Study of the Artist's Way
of Working in the Various Handicrafts
and Arts of Design, in two volumes with
many illustrations (Dodd, Mead and Com
pany, October, 1905). The purpose of
this is to explain the methods of the de
signer, in all forms of fine art, from rough
pottery, to elaborate sculpture and refined
painting, rather than to describe processes
of manufacture. He has now in hand an
extended xiistory of Architecture, of which
volume I (Antiquity), was published in De
cember, 1906 (The Baker and Taylor Com
pany). He married, 1864, Sarah M.
daughter of the late D. M. Barney. Ad
dress : 307 East Seventeenth Street, New
York City.
SULLIVAN, Andrew T.:
President of the Nassau Trust Company;
born in Brooklyn, New York, August 11,
1854; son of Andrew and Ann E. (Harring
ton) Sullivan. He was graduated from
St. Francis Xavier's College, New York,
as A.B. in 1872. He was appointed by
President Cleveland, April, 1893, postmaster
of Brooklyn, New York; and held the of
fice until October, 1897. He was a mem
ber of the Board of Education of the City
of Brooklyn, during the four years previous
to consolidation; chairman of the Commit
tee on Sites ; and chairman of the Finance
Committee of the board to the expiration
of his term. He is president and trustee
of The Nassau Trust Company; vice-pres
ident and director of the Metropolitan Sure
ty Company of New York; trustee of the
Brevoort Savings Bank of Brooklyn, and
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci
ences. Mr. Sullivan is a Democrat in poli
tics, and a Catholic in religion. He is a
member of the Alumni Association of St.
Francis Xavier's College, of the Knights
of Columbus, Catholic Benevolent Legion,
the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum So
ciety, Brooklyn League, and the Brook
lyn, Hanover, Bushwick, Brooklyn Yacht,
Bayswater Yacht Clubs. He married in
Brooklyn, New York, 1884, Mary E. Kava

nagh, and they have four children : Anna
Madeline, Marguerite Regina, Vera, and
Frank Harrington. Residence : 933 St.
Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn. Address : 356
Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York.
SULLOWAY, Cyrus Adams:
Congressman; born in Grafton, New
Hampshire, June 8, 1839; son of Greeley
Sulloway and Betsey L. Sulloway. He
received a common school and academic
education; studied law with Austin F. Pike
at Franklin, New Hampshire; was admitted
to the bar in 1863, and has practiced law
at Manchester, since January, 1864. He
was a member of the New Hampshire house
of representatives in 1872-73 and from 1887
to 1893, inclusive; was elected as a Repub
lican, to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the First New Hamp
shire District. Address : Manchester, New
Hampshire. SULTZBERGER, Ferdinand:
President of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Company; born in Obergrombach, Ger
many; son of Moses Sulzberger and The
resa (Schaag) Sulzberger. He is president
of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company,
the Cold Blast Transportation Company,
Lackawanna Live Stock Transportation
Company. In religion he is a Hebrew; and
he is director of Mohtefiore Home. Resi
dence: 21 East Sixty-seventh Street, New
York City. Address : Care Schwarzschild
& Sulzberger Company, Forty-fifth Street
and First Avenue, New York City.
SULZBACHER, Louis:
United States judge; born in Bavaria,
May 10, 1842. He received a thorough edu
cation in Frankfort-on-the-Main, came to
the United States, and practiced law in
Kansas City until 1900, when he was ap
pointed one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of Porto Rico, and after serving
four years there was appointed, April 28,
1904, to his present office as United States
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Republican in politics. Address: Okmul
gee, Indian Territory.
SULZER, William:
Congressman and lawyer; bora in Eliza
beth, New Jersey, March 18, 1863; son of
Thomas Sulzer. He was educated in the
public schools and the Columbia Law
School, and he was admitted to the bar in
1884, and has practiced in New York ever
since. He early gained prominence as a
political speaker, and in the campaigns of
1884 and 1888 spoke in Connecticut, New
Jersey, and New York, as one of the speak
ers of the National Democratic Committee.
He was elected to the General Assembly of
New York, from the Fourteenth District in
November, 1889, and was four times re
elected, and was speaker of the Assembly
in 1893. He was elected in 1894 to the
Fifty-fourth Congress, and he has been
biennially reelected and is now serving in
the Sixtieth Congress. He was a delegate
to the National Democratic Conventions of
1896, 1900 and 1904. Residence : 232 East
Twelfth Street, New York City. Office ad
dress: 115 Broadway, New York City.
SUTHERLAND, George:
United States senator; born in Bucking
hamshire, England, March 25, 1862; son of
Alexander G. Sutherland; removed to
Utah in early childhood. He was educated
in the common and high schools of Utah
until 1881 ; attended the law department of
the University of Michigan in 1882 and
1883, and was admitted to the Utah bar in
1883, and has since then been engaged in
practice. He was elected a member of the
First Legislature of Utah in 1896, and in
1900 was elected to the Fifty-seventh Con
gress, serving until 1903. In 1905 he was
elected to the United States Senate for
the term expiring in 191 1. He was a dele
gate to the National Republican Conven
tions in Philadelphia in 1900, and in Chi
cago in 1904. He married at Beaver, Utah,
June 18, 1883, Rosa Lee. Address : Salt
Lake City, Utah.
SUTRO, Theodore:
Lawyer, author; born at Aix-la-C'hapelle,
Prussia, March 14, 1845; son of Emanuel

Sutro and Rosa (Warendorff) Sutro. He
was graduated from Baltimore City Col
lege, 1863 ; from Phillips-Exeter Academy,
New Hampshire, in 1864; and from Har
vard, as A.B. in 1871 ; and from Columbia
University Law School, as LL.B. in 1874.
While a student at Harvard he established
and conducted a commission business in
Boston. He was admitted to the bar in
1874, and from 1887 to 1892 conducted large
litigations in Nevada, involving the inter
ests of the Sutro Tunnel Company. He
reorganized the company into the Com
stock Tunnel Company, by buying the
property in on mortgage foreclosure for the
stockholders for $1,000,000 cash, which he
raised from a syndicate of bankers, and
was its president from 1887 to 1894. He
is engaged in general practice, but of late
years has made a specialty of questions
and litigations relating to taxation. He
is a member of the law firm of Sutro and
Wright. Mr. Sutro is a Democrat in poli
tics, and was one of the organizers and
second president of the German-American
Reform Union, which played an important
part in the anti-Tammany movement of
1894, and in the election of Mayor Strong;
a commissioner of taxes and assessments
for the City of New York, from 1895 to
1898, under appointment ; delegate in 1896
to the National Democratic Convention, at
Indianapolis, which nominated Palmer and
Buckner. He was appointed by Mayor
Van Wyck as a member of the committee
on the Dewey Reception in 1899, and by
appointment of Mayor McClellan is a mem
ber of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com
mission. In his religious connection he
is a German Lutheran. Mr. Sutro was
a delegate to the International Congress of
Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904; is
a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, and the Ameri
can Bar Association; former president and
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Society of Medical Jurisprudence. He is
a member of the New York State Bar As
sociation, the Philips-Exeter Academy
Alumni, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, Colum
bia University Alumni, Medical and Legal
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of Art, Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, Oratorio Society, and
the Association for Improving the Condi
tion of the Poor. Mr. Sutro has written
works and articles on various subjects, in
cluding taxation, medical jurisprudence,
and other legal topics, and art, and many
poems. He is an art collector, and his col
lection of the Edward Moran thirteen his
torical marine paintings has attracted at
tention throughout the United States. He
has exhibited them for over a year at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is now
exhibiting them at the new Wanamaker
Art Gallery at Broadway and Ninth Street.
Mr. Sutro is a member of the Barnard, Pa
trice, Liederkranz, Deutscher Verein Clubs.
He married in Jersey City, New Jersey, Oc
tober i, 1884, Florence Edith Clinton, mu
sician, painter, speaker and social leader,
who died April 27, 1906. Residence: 320
West One Hundred and Second Street.
Address : 280 Broadway, New York City.
SUTTON, William Henry:
Lawyer; born in Haddonfield, New Jer
sey, son of Rev. Henry Sutton and Anne
(Craig) Sutton. He was educated at Dick
inson College to the close of the sophomore
year and at Wesleyan University, where he
received the degrees of A.B. in 1857 and
A.M. in i860, and later received the degree
of LL.D. He studied law at Albany Law
School and in the office of Hon. William
Meredith, and was admitted to the bar in
1864 ; and he has been for years a leader in
his profession in Philadelphia. He is a di
rector and was a founder of the West Phila
delphia Trust Company, and of the Merion
Title and Trust Company. In politics he is
a Democrat of the Jefferson kind; and in
his church relations is well known as a
prominent layman of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. He has been abroad four
times, once as a delegate to the Methodist
Ecumenical Congress at London in 1900,
visiting England, Ireland, Scotland, France,
Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, and has also trav
eled extensively through the United States,
Canada and Mexico. He has served as
school director, town auditor and mem

ber of the Pennsylvania Senate, where
he made a high record for integrity
and ability, and his advocacy of reform
measures and his antagonism to useless and
vicious legislation. Mr. Sutton is a mem
ber of the Home Mission and Church Ex
tension Society, and a trustee of the Phila
delphia Collegiate Institute for Girls, and
is treasurer of Endowment Fund to perpetu
ate St. George's Church, Philadelphia, the
oldest Methodist Church in the world. He
was formerly for three years professor in
the American Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb, at Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Sut
ton married, June 25, 1872, Hannah Ander
son, a descendant of Major Patrick Ander
son of General Wayne's Army, and they
have nine children : Howard A. Sutton, M.
D. ; Helen, wife of N. E. Davis ; Isaac C.
Sutton (law partner) ; Grace A. Corona,
Lucy, Henry Craig, Mildred, and Joseph
Aubrey. Address : 1004 Bailey Building,
1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. SWAIN, Joseph:
President of Swarthmore College; born
in Pendleton, Indiana, June 16, 1857; son
of Woolston Swain and Mary Ann
(Thomas) Swain. He was graduated from
Indiana University in 1883 as B.L. and M.S.
in 1885, and received from Wabash College
the degree of LL.D. in 1893 ; and he was
a student in Edinburgh in 1885 and 1886.
He was professor of mathematics in the
Indiana University from 1886 to 1891 ; pro
fessor of mathematics in Leland Stanford
University from 1891 to 1893 ; president of
Indiana University from 1893 to 1902, and
since then president of Swarthmore College.
He has been a member of the National
Council of Education from 1900; a mem
ber of the National Council of Religious
Education from 1904, and has been a mem
ber of the State Board of Education in
Indiana for nine years. He married in
Knightstown, Indiana, September 22, 1885,
Frances Morgan. Address : Swarthmore,
Pennsylvania.SWAN, Henry Harrison:
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G. Swan and Mary C. Swan. He was pre
pared in the public schools and educated
in the University of Michigan ; studied law
and practiced at Detroit until appointed
by President Harrison, January 19, 1891,
to his present office as United States judge
of the District of Michigan. Address : De
troit, Michigan.
SWALM, Albert W.:
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
He was appointed consul at Montevideo,
June 26, 1897; appointed consul at South
ampton, March 19, 1903. Address: South
ampton, England.
SWANK, James Moore:
General manager of the American Iron
and Steel Association; born in Westmore
land County, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1832;
son of George W. Swank and Nancy
(Moore) Swank. On both the paternal
and maternal sides his ancestors have been
Pennsylvanians for four generations. He
removed with his parents in 1838 to Johns
town, Pennsylvania, and there he received
a careful common school and academic edu
cation. In 1852 he was asked to take charge
of the local Whig newspaper and in 1853
he founded the Johnstown Tribune and with
brief intervals was its editor and pub
lisher until 1870, when he became clerk of
the Committee on Manufactures of the
House of Representatives, and in' 1871 and
1872 he filled the office of chief clerk of the
Department of Agriculture. In December,
1872, he took charge of the work of the
American Iron and Steel Association in
Philadelphia as its secretary, and as secretary
and general manager he has devoted thirty-
five years to the service of the Association,
the success of which is in the largest meas
ure due to his efforts, and he is still its
general manager. In 1878 Mr. Swank pub
lished, in book form, an Introduction to a
History of Iron Making and Coal Mining
in Pennsylvania. He was selected by Gen
eral Francis A. Walker to collect the sta
tistics of iron and steel for the Tenth Cen
sus of the United States, in 1880, and in
1881 he accompanied his final report with
a historical sketch of the manufacture of

iron and steel in all countries, and par
ticularly in the United States, giving spec
ial attention to the work of colonial and
other pioneers in the manufacture of iron
and steel. He afterwards enlarged the his
torical part of his report and published it
in book form in 1884, under the title of:
Plistory of the Manufacture of Iron in All
Ages, of which a second edition appeared
in 1892. In December, 1897, he published
for the members of the American Iron and
Steel Association a souvenir volume of 228
pages under the title of: Notes and Com
ments on Industrial, Economic, Political,
and Historical Subjects. While chief clerk
of the Department of Agriculture he pre
pared a history of that department. He has
now in preparation a work entitled: His
tory of Western Pennsylvania, with Spec
ial Reference to Its Industrial Develop
ment. Mr. Swank is known throughout the
country as one of the ablest advocates of
the protective tariff. Washington and Jef
ferson College conferred upon him the de
gree of Ph.D. in 1900. Address: 261 South
Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SWANSON, Claude Augustus:
Governor of Virginia; born at Swan-
sonville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
March 31, 1862; son of John M. Swanson.
He was educated in the public schools until
he was sixteen years old, then taught public
school for one year; attended for one ses
sion the Virginia Agricultural and Mechani
cal College ; clerked for two years in a
grocery store in Danville, Virginia, then en
tered Randolph-Macon College at Ashland,
Virginia, from which he was graduated as
A.B. in 1885; was graduated from the Uni
versity of Virginia as B.L. in 1886. He prac
ticed law from 1886 at Chatham, Virginia.
He was elected from the Fifth Virginia Dis
trict in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress,
and after that to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-
eighth Congresses, resigning from the latter
upon his election in 1905 as governor of
Virginia, for the four-year term from Feb
ruary, 1906, to February, 1910. He was a
delegate-at-large from Virginia to the Na
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1896. Residence : Chatham, Virginia. Offi
cial address : Richmond, Virginia.
SWANSTROM, J. Edward:
Lawyer; president and director of the
Home Trust Company; treasurer and di
rector of the Shinnecock Hills and Peconic
Bay Realty Company; trustee of the Bre-
voort Savings Bank ; trustee of the Adelphi
College, University of Brooklyn, and Swed
ish Hospital; manager of the Long Island
State Hospital; and director of the Cos
mopolitan Land Company, the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the United States,
the Kings County Mortgage Company, the
People's Surety Company of New York,
Brunswick National Bank, and Roteng
Engineering Corporation, and a member
of the firm of Swanstrom and Keyes. He
is a member of the Lawyers', Down Town
and City Clubs of New York, and the
Crescent Athletic and Brooklyn Clubs of
Brooklyn. Address : 20 Nassau Street, New
York City.
SWARTZ, William Paley:
Clergyman; born in Circleville, Ohio, De
cember 24, 1858 ; son of Rev. Joel Swartz,
D.D., and Adelia (Rosencrans) Swartz. He
was graduated from Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg, as A.B. in 1881 ; with first hon
ors of his class, having received also a
number of other honors, prizes and distinc
tions, also the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D.
He spent five years as a book and job
printer before going to college. Mr. Swartz
was principal of the High School at Hazel-
ton, Pennsylvania, in 1881 and 1882 ; tutor
at Pennsylvania College in 1882 and 1883 ;
missionary to Guntur, India, from 1883 to
1887 ; pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian
Church of Trenton, New Jersey, 1887-
1888; and of the Central Church of Wil
mington, Delaware, from 1888 to 1896;
and since then of the First Presbyterian
Church of Poughkeepsie, New York. He
has been an extensive traveler in Eu
rope, Asia and Africa, as - well as in all
parts of the United States and Alaska. He is
director of the Camden Commercial College
of Camden, New Jersey ; a member of Vas
sar Brothers Institute, of the American Bi

ble League, a life member of the American
Bible Society, the American Tract Society,
Dutchess New England Society, and Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity; and is a member
of the Controlling Board of the New York
Sabbath Association, the International Mis
sionary Union, the Pringle Home for Aged
Literary Men. He has published essays
upon important religious and social topics,
among which are : Is the Bible Trust
worthy?; In or Out?; The Young Men and
the Churches ; The Authority of the Sunday
Sabbath; The Financial Problem; The Gos
pel for the Times ; The Temperance Ques
tion ; The Family and Religion ; Economic
Consumption and The Social Welfare. He
is an honorary member of the Poughkeep
sie Yacht and the Central Labor Council.
Dr. Swartz married in Frazer, Penn
sylvania, May 9, 1888, Florence Allen Reed ;
and they have four sons : Philip Allen, born
in 1899, Charles Benjamin, born in 1890,
Howard Villeroy, born in 1892, and Wil
liam Crosby, born in 1904. Address :
Poughkeepsie, New York.
SWETT, Paul F.:
Clergyman ; born in Bethel, Vermont, Jan
uary 18, 1861 ; son of Josiah Swett and
Miranda (Wheeler) Swett. He was grad
uated from the University of Vermont as
A.B. in 1888, and from the General Theo
logical Seminary, New York, in 1891. He
was ordained deacon in 1891, and priest
in 1892; in charge of St. John's Church,
Highgate, and Holy Trinity Church, Swan-
ton, Vermont, from 189 1 to 1893 ; assistant
of Christ Church, Detroit, from 1893 to
1898; assistant of Grace Church, Brooklyn
Heights, from 1898 to 1902; precentor of
the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden
City, and secretary to the bishop, 1892 to
1894. He became superintendent of the
Church Charity Foundation, Brooklyn, in
1904; which position, together with that of
precentor at the Cathedral, Garden City,
he still occupies. He is a trustee of the
House of St. Giles the Cripple, Brooklyn,
and is a member of the Garden City Golf
Club. He married in Baltimore, October
18, 1895, Louise Poole Thompson, and they
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vember 6, 1906. Address: Cathedral Ave
nue, Garden City, New York.
SWIFT, James Marcus:
Lawyer; born in Ithaca, Michigan, No
vember 3, 1872 ; son of Marcus G. B. Swift
and Mary D. (Milne) Swift. He received
his education in the public schools of Fall
River, Massachusetts, the State Normal
School at Ypsilanti, Michigan; and the
University of Michigan, from which he was
graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1895,
and from 1895 to 1897 was in the Harvard
Law School. He entered the firm of Swift
and Grime of Fall River in 1897; was ap
pointed assistant district-attorney for the
Southern district of Massachusetts in Jan
uary, 1899; elected district attorney, No
vember, 1902, and reelected in 1904; is
secretary of the Board of Investment of
the Citizens' Savings Bank of Fall River
since 1902; and he has large experience in
jury trials for street railway companies and
general practice for banks and financial in
stitutions. He is master in chancery for
Bristol County; a member of the firm of
Swift, Grimes and Kerns, in 1905. In poli
tics he is a Republican, and he is a mem
ber of the Congregational Church. Mr.
Swift is a member of the Fall River Bar
Association; the District Attorneys' Asso
ciation ; director of the Associated Charities
of Fall River, and a member of the General
Board of the Fall River Hospital. He is
also a Royal Arch and Council Mason,
Knight Templar, member of the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity, the Elks, and Knights of
Pythias, also a member of the Boston Ath
letic Association, Harvard Club of New
York, Quequehan Club of Fall River, Fall
River Golf Club, and the Massachusetts
Club. He married in New York City, Feb
ruary 26, 1907, Olive Underwood Sterling.
Residence: 294 French Street, Fall River.
Office address: 8 South Main Street, Fall
River, Massachusetts.

TAFT, Oren Edwin:
Investment banker; born in Paxton, Il
linois, October 28, 1868 ; son of Oren Byron

Taft and Frances (Schlosser) Taft. Pie
was graduated from Yale University as
Ph.B. in 1889. Mr. Taft is president of
the Illinois Land Company; and vice-pres
ident of the Pearsons-Taft Land Credit
Company and of the Wyoming Sulphur
Company. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Book and Snake
of Yale University, and of the University
and Bankers' Clubs of Chicago. Mr. Taft
married in New York City, April 25, 1894,
Josephine Stewart, and they have two chil
dren : Florence Stewart Taft, born in 1896,
and Frances Josephine Taft, born in 1901.
Residence : 66 Cedar Street, Chicago. Ad
dress : 181 La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.
TAFT, William Howard:
Secretary of War; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, September 15, 1857; son of Hon.
Alphonso Taft, attorney-general of the
United States in the cabinet of President
Grant, and Louise M. (Torrey) Taft. He
received his primary and preparatory edu
cation in the public schools and Woodward
High School in Cincinnati, and was grad
uated from Yale as A.B. in 1878, and from
the Cincinnati College of Law as LL.B-. in
1880. He was salutatorian and second in
his class at Yale, with Phi Beta Kappa
honors, and divided the first prize on his
graduation in law. In 1880 he was admitted
to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio,
and in 1881 he was appointed assistant pros
ecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio,
and in 1882 was appointed a collector of
internal revenue under President Arthur.
After holding this position for a year, he
resigned to resume the practice of law, and
in four years' time had attained so consid
erable a place in his profession that in 1887
he was appointed judge of the Superior
Court of Cincinnati. In 1890 he was ap
pointed solicitor-general of the United
States, taking the second place in the De
partment of Justice, where his father had
been attorney-general in years before his
son had grown to manhood. In 1892 Secrer
tary Taft was appointed a United States
circuit judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit,
and in 1896 became dean of the Law De
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In 1901, Judge Taft was appointed by Pres
ident McKinley the first civil governor of
the Philippine Islands under American rule,
facing many problems entirely new in Amer
ican administration, and meeting them with
a degree of wisdom and courage which won
him the respect of the people of those is
lands and the admiration and confidence of
the people and government of the United
States. Upon the retirement of Secretary
Root from the War Department in 1904,
Mr. Taft succeeded him as Secretary of
War in which, in addition to the usual du
ties devolving upon that Department he has
the added duties of the administration of
the Philippines, and the construction of the
Panama Canal. Secretary Taft has under
taken and successfully completed many im
portant missions of diplomacy and adminis
tration ; conferred with Pope Leo XIII. con
cerning the purchase of agricultural lands
of religious orders in the Philippines in 1902,
with the result of a favorable settlement of
that important question; went to Panama
and conducted the negotiations with the
Panama authorities in connection with the
government of the Canal Zone; adjusted
the political disputes between the parties in
Panama which were reaching the stage of
anarchy, and inaugurated the administration
of pacification, personally acting as governor
until a suitable governor was found to con
tinue that work. In 1905, with a Congress-
sional delegation, he went on a tour of in
spection to the Philippines, and in Septem
ber, 1907, he again started on another of
ficial visit to Manila. Secretary Taft has
been endorsed by various State conventions
for the Presidential nomination of the Re
publican party in 1908. He has received
honorary degrees of LL.D. from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 1902, Yale, 1903,
Harvard, 1905, and Miami University, 1905,
and the University of Iowa, 1907. He
married in Cincinnati, in 1886, Helen
Herron. Residence: Cincinnati, Ohio. Of
fice address : War Department, Washington,
D. C. .
TALBOT, Ethelbert:
Bishop of Central Pennsylvania ; born at
Fayette, Missouri, October 9, 1848; son of

John A. Talbot and Alice (Daly) Talbot.
He received in 1887 the degree of D.D.
from Dartmouth College and from the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, and that of LL.
D. from the University of Missouri. He
was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church in 1873, and was ordained to the
priesthood by Bishop Robertson in the fol
lowing year. Following his entry to the
ministry he was rector of St. James' Church,
Macon City, Missouri, and rector also of
the Military Academy in the city from 1873
to 1887. In 1887 he was consecrated bishop
by Bishops Whipple, Quintard, Turtle, Spal
ding, Perry, Burgess and Seymour. He
then became Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho,
remaining in this diocese until 1898, where
he was made Bishop of Central Pennsyl
vania. Bishop Talbot is author of various
addresses, appeals, pamphlets and pastor
als. Address : South Bethlehem, Pennsyl
vania.
TALBOT, Joshua Frederick:
Congressman and lawyer ; born near
Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland;
son of Edward C. Talbot and T. Ellen
Talbot. He received a public school educa
tion; began the study of law in 1862; joined
the Confederate Army in 1864, and served
as a private in the Second Maryland Cav
alry until the close of the war ; was ad
mitted to the bar September 6, 1866. He
was nominated and elected prosecuting at
torney for Baltimore County in 1871, for
the term of four years; and was renomi
nated in 1875 and defeated at the November
election. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at St. Louis in
1876, and to the National Democratic Con
vention at St. Louis in 1904; was elected
to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and For
ty-eighth Congresses ; was appointed insur
ance commissioner of the State of Mary
land in October, 1889, and resigned the
position January, 1893, having been elected
to the Fifty-thi^ Congress ; was elected
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress, from the Second Maryland
District. In politics he is a Democrat. He
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3, 1869, Laura B. Cockey. Address: Tow-
son, Maryland.
TALCOTT, Thaddeus Mead, Jr.:
Lawyer; born in Cleveland, Ohio, Octo
ber 18, 1875; son of Thaddeus M. Talcott
and Nellie (Rodney) Talcott. He was
graduated from Northwestern University,
Law Department, in 1896, took post-gradu
ate studies in the Law Department of Yale
University, receiving the degree of LL.M.
in 1897, and special work at Cornell Uni
versity in 1895. He began the practice of
law in Chicago in 1897, but two years later
removed to South Bend, Indiana, where he
has been in practice ever since. He is at
torney for the Pullman Company for
Northern Indiana, and he has been attor
ney in many important civil and criminal
cases in Indiana. He is a Republican in
politics; was elected and served as a mem
ber of the House of Representatives of In
diana from 1903 to 1905, and of the State
Senate from 1905 to 1907, and in 1907 was
appointed United States Commissioner for
the term expiring in 1912; was appointed
United States Commissioner for the term
expiring in 1912. Mr. Talcott represented
Indiana, under appointment from Gover
nor J. Frank Hanly, in the National Divorce
Congress at Washington, D. C, and Phila
delphia, in 1906. He is a Congregationalist
in church relations, and is a Mason and
Knight Templar. Mr. Talcott is a member
of the Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Commercial Athletic and
Indiana Clubs of South Bend, Indiana, and
the Yale Club of Chicago. Residence : 1241
Vistula Avenue, South Bend. Office : 121
West Washington Street, South Bend, In
diana.
TALIAFERRO, James Piper:
United States senator; born at Orange,
Virginia, September 30, 1847. He was edu
cated in Virginia, leaving the school of
William Dinwiddie, at Greenwood, in 1864,
to volunteer in the Confederate Army, in
which he served until the war ended. He
returned to his home after the war and re
sumed his studies, removing later to Jack
sonville, Florida, where he engaged in busi

ness ; was elected April 19, 1899, on the first
joint ballot of the Florida Legislature to
the United States Senate to succeed Hon.
Samuel Pasco, and reelected in 1905. His
term of service will expire March 3, 191 1.
Address : Jacksonville, Florida.
TANDY, Francis D.:
Publisher; born in Harrow, England,
January 29, 1867; son of Rev. Charles
Henry Tandy and Elizabeth I. Norris. He
was editor of the Individualist, Denver,
Colorado, in 1889; assistant librarian of
the Public Library, Denver, from 1889 to
1899; secretary of the Burton Society, Den
ver, from 1898 to 1901 ; organized the Tandy
Wheeler Publishing Company, from 1900
to 1905, and the Francis D. Tandy Com
pany, New York, in 1905, of which he is
president. He is author of: Free Compe
tition, 1895; Voluntary Socialism, 1896;
Colorado Handbook, 1899; Abraham Lin
coln — an Appreciation, 1906; and contrib
uted numerous articles to various reform
and library journals. He is secretary and
director of the Lincoln Fellowship ; Oriental
Lodge of Masons, and the California Scot
tish Rite bodies, San Francisco, and also
a member of the Denver Athletic Club.
He married in Denver, December 22, 1892,
Ina Maud Cowell, and they have three chil
dren: Richard Thomas, born in 1893, John
Norris, born in 1895, and Frances Eliza
beth, born in 1896. Residence: Piermont,
New York. Business address : 38 East
Twenty-first Street, New York City.
TARBELL, Gage E.:
Capitalist; born in Smithville, Chenango
County, New York, September 20, 1856. He
was educated at Clinton Liberal Institute;
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1880, and practiced law four years. In
1884 he became general agent for the Equit
able Life Assurance Society, with head
quarters at Binghamton, New York. At the
beginning of 1888 Mr. Tarbell was made
general agent for Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan, with headquarters at Milwaukee.
In January, 1889, he was appointed general
manager of the Equitable Northwestern de
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was elected third vice-president of the So
ciety in September, 1893 ; and second vice-
president in May, 1899, and July, 1905. Ad
dress : 120 Broadway, New York City.
TARBELL, George Schuyler:
Lawyer and real estate dealer; born ;n
Groton, New York, July 15, 1868; son of
Major Doctor Tarbell and Mary (Conant)
Tarbell. He was graduated from Ithaca
High School in 1886, from Cornell Univer
sity as Ph.B. in 1891, and LL.B. in 1894.
While at Cornell, he was a member of the
class and university tug-of-war teams;
rowed single sculls ; and gained, and still
holds, the world's record for rope climb.
Mr. Tarbell was speaker for junior prize
and senior commencement. He was com
mander of the Cornell University Repub
lican Club in 1888, secretary of the Tomp
kins County Republican Committee from
1888 to 1902; vice-commodore of Cornell
University Navy in 1890; senior major of
Cornell University Regiment in 1891 ; and
was an organizer and director of the League
of University Republican Clubs from 1892
to 1894. He was admitted to bar in 1894,
and has been referee in bankruptcy since
1898; treasurer of the Cornell University
Alumni Association from 1900 to 1903 ; city
attorney of Ithaca from 1901 to 1903 ; presi
dent and graduate director of the Cornell
University Daily Sun, from 1905 to 1908;
a director of Allied Real Estate Inter
ests of New York, from 1906 to 1908;
in politics he is an active Republican and
in religion a Presbyterian. Mr. Tarbell
is a member of the New York State Bar
Association, a Knight Templar, and thirty-
second degree Mason and Shriner, and is
a member of the New York City, Cornell
University, Ithaca Country, and Town and
Gown Clubs. He married in 1893, Grace
Louise Jones, of Owego, New York, and
they have three children : Dorothy, Louise
and G. Schuyler, Jr. Residence: no North
Geneva Street, Ithaca. Address : Trust
Company Building, Ithaca, New York.
TARKINGTON, (Newton) Booth:
Author; born in Indianapolis, Indiana,

July 29, 1869 ; son of John Slosson Tarking-
ton and, Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington. He
was graduated from Phillips Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1889, and from
Princeton, as A.B., in 1893. He is author
of: The Gentleman from Indiana, 1899;
Monsieur Beaucaire, 1900; The Two Van-
revels, 1902; Chersy, 1903; In the Arena,
1904; The Conquest of Canaan, 1905; The
Beautiful Lady, 1905. Also plays : Monsieur
Beaucaire, 1901 (in collaboration with E.
G. Sutherland) ; The Man on Horseback,
four-act drama, 1903. He is a member of
the Players' Club of New York City. Mr.
Tarkington married June 18, 1902, Laurel
Louisa, daughter of Stoughton Joseph and
Laurel (Locke) Fletcher, of Indianapolis.-
Address : 265 West Eighty-first Street,
New York City.
TARRANT, Alfred Overton:
Clergyman; born at Paris, Brant County,
Ontario, Canada, April 8, 1867; son of
George and Elizabeth (Darragh) Tarrant.
He received his primary education in the
public schools of Ontario ; prepared for
the university at the St. Catherine's and
Owen Sound Collegiate Institutes ; Uni
versity of Toronto, class of 1895 ; took a
theological course at Wycliffe College
(Church of England Theological Semi
nary), Toronto, 1896; B.A., 1903; M.A.,
1904; proceeded to the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at New Windsor
College (Presbyterian), New Windsor,
Maryland, in 1906. Spent one year in at
tendance at the Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity, Palo Alto, California, specializing
in English and history, 1892-1893. He was
made deacon at St. Alban's Cathedral, To
ronto, Trinity Sunday, June 9, 1895, by the
Most Reverend Arthur Sweatman, D.D., D.
C.L., Archbishop of Toronto, Metropolitan,
and Primate of all Canada. Ordained to
the priesthood by the same prelate, Trinity
Sunday, May 31, 1896. Incumbent of St.
John's Church, Havelock, Ontario, 1895 to
1897 ; curate of St. Paul's Church, New Or
leans, under the late Rev. Henry Harcourt
Waters, D.D., 1897 ; in charge of the Church
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1898 to 1902; rector of the Church of the
Messiah, St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1902 to
1905; rector of St. Alban's Church, Euclid
Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, 1905-1907; Grace
Church, Sandusky, Ohio, October 1, 1907.
Dr. Tarrant has traveled over the greater
part of the United States, Canada, and
Mexico. He has been a member of the In
dependent Order of Foresters since 1896.
Dr. Tarrant is author of : The Laying on of
Hands, or Confirmation, 1907, is a frequent
contributor to periodicals, &c, and is a
writer of reviews. He married at Hamilton,
Ontario, June 14, 1899, Ermina Garratt
(honor B.A. Trinity University, Toronto) ;
and to them have been born four sons : Ar
thur George, born June 28, 1901, died Sep
tember 9, 1901; John Robert, his twin
brother, born June 28, 1901 ; Herbert Rich
ard James, born October 15, 1904, died De
cember 31, 1904; and Harold Alfred, born
October 24, 1905. Address: 114 Huron
Avenue, Sandusky, Ohio.
TATLOCK, Henry:
Clergyman; born at Dublin, Ireland, May
27, 1848; came to the United States in early
childhood. He was graduated B.A. at Wil
liams College in 1871 ; member of Phi Beta
Kappa; M.A. at same college in 1874; and
given honorary S.T.D. at Hobart College
in 1907. He was principal of the high school
in Grafton, Massachusetts, from 1871 to
r873; was principal and proprietor of a
college preparatory school for boys (Park
Institute) at Rye, New York, from 1873 to
1884; student and teacher in New York
City, 1884 to 1888. Ordained deacon by
Bishop H. C. Potter in 1888, and priest by
the same bishop in 1889; assistant minister
in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madi
son Avenue and Forty-second Street, New
York City, in 1888 and 1889; and has been
rector of St. Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, since 1889. He has been ex
amining chaplain of the Diocese of Michi
gan since 1891 ; was dean of the Southern
Convocation of the diocese from 1894 to
1897 ; delegate to the General Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1895
and 1901 ; and has been a member of the
Standing Committee of the Diocese of

Michigan since 1904. Address : St. Andrew's
Rectory, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
TATLOCK, John:
President of the Washington Life Insur
ance Company; bora in Williamstown, Mas
sachusetts, March 12, i860; son of John
Tatlock, D.D., and Lucy Beman (Whitman)
Tatlock. He was graduated from Williams
College with the degree of B.A. in 1882 and
M.A. in 1887. Mr. Tatlock was assistant as-:
tronomer in the Washburn Observatory of
University of Wisconsin in 1883 and 1884;
professor of astronomy in Beloit College in
1884 and 1885 ; actuary in the Prudential
Insurance Company of Newark, New Jer
sey, in 1888; assistant actuary in the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company of New York
from 1889 to 1904; and since 1905 has been
president of the Washington Life Insur
ance Company of New York. He is a fel
low of the Royal Astronomical Society of
London, the New York Academy of Sci
ences, the Actuarial Society of America and
was secretary of the latter, and editor of its
Transactions from 1889 to 1904. He is also
a member of the Century Association. Mr.
Tatlock married, March 2, 1886, Kate Cham
berlain. Residence : 376 West End Ave
nue, New York City. Office address : 141
Broadway, New York City.
TATNALL, Henry:
Railway official; born in Wilmington,
Delaware, April 30, 1855 ; he is a son of
William Tatnall, and a grandson of Edward
Tatnall, one of the organizers and first
trustees of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company, prede
cessor of the Philadelphia, Baltimore &
Washington Railroad Company. Mr. Tat-
nall's early education was received at the
private schools of Wilmington and at West-
town Boarding School. He began his busi
ness career as a clerk in a real estate office
in Wilmington. In 1879 Mr. Tatnall en
tered the service of the Girard Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia, and became its treas
urer in 1881. He was elected vice-president
of that institution in 1885, which position he
held until 1900, when he resigned to ac
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Bank, Philadelphia. In 1901 he was ap
pointed by the United States Circuit Court
one of the receivers of the Asphalt Com
pany of America. On June 1, 1904, he was
elected sixth vice-president and treasurer
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company lines
East of Pittsburgh and Erie. On October
10, 1905, upon a change in the organization
of the company, he became fifth vice-presi
dent and treasurer. Mr. Tatnall is a di
rector of the Girard Trust Company, Frank
lin National Bank, Commercial Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia, Guarantee Company of
North America ; treasurer of the Society
for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia Foun
tain Society. Address : Broad Street Sta
tion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
TAYLER, Robert Walker:
United States district judge; born in
Youngstown, Ohio, November 26, 1852;
son of Hon. Robert W. T. Tayler, comp
troller of the United States Treasury. Af
ter a thorough preparatory education, he
entered the Western Reserve College in
1868, and was graduated as A.B. in 1872.
After graduation he was a high school
teacher and school superintendent; edited
a newspaper at Lisbon, Ohio; studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He
was prosecuting attorney of Columbiana
County from 1880 to 1886. He was elected
to the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1894, and
reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh Congresses, and declined the
nomination to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
In January, 1905, he was appointed by
President Roosevelt to his present office as
judge of the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Ohio. He
married, May 18, 1876, Helen Vance. Ad
dress : Youngstown, Ohio.
TAYLOR, Fielding Lewis:
Physician and surgeon; born in Martins
ville, Virginia, May 24, 1868; son of Ar
chibald Taylor and Martha (Fauntleroy)
Taylor. He attended McGuire's School,
Richmond, Virginia, from 1879 to 1885;
was graduated from University of Virginia
as M.A. in 1889, and M.D. in 1891. He
was a member of the house staff of the City

Hospital, New York City, from 1891 to
1893; the house staff of the House of Re
lief, Hudson Street Hospital, New York,
from 1893 to 1895; chief of the surgical
clinic of the Out-Patient Department of the
Hudson Street Hospital, from 1896 to 1905.
He is author of several papers on medical
subjects, especially on the prevention of
lock-jaw by prophylactic injections of te
tanus antitoxin, on the percentage modi
fication of milk in infant feeding, and on
intubation of the larynx in diphtheria. He
is a member of the American Medical As
sociation, Medical Society of the State of
New York, New York County Medical So
ciety, New York Academy of Medicine, So
ciety of the Alumni of New York Hospital,
Society of the Alumni of the City Hospital
(and became its president in 1907) ; West
End Medical Society, New York Externe
Club, New York Southern Society, the Vir
ginians in New York, Virginia Historical
Society, Eli Banana (University of Vir
ginia), and Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and
is also a member of the West Side Tennis
and University Clubs of New York City.
Address : 173 West Seventy- third Street,
New York City.
TAYLOR, George Washington:
Congressman; born in Montgomery
County, Alabama, January 16, 1849; son
of Edward Fisher Taylor and Anne Sewell
(Trezevant) Taylor. He was educated at
the South Carolina University, Columbia,
South Carolina; is a lawyer, and was ad
mitted to practice at Mobile, Alabama, No
vember, 1871 ; entered the army as a Con
federate soldier at the age of fifteen years,
in November, 1864, being then a student
at the academy in Columbia, South Caro
line, served a few weeks with the South
Carolina State troops on the coast near
Savannah, and then enlisted as a private
in Company D, First Regiment, South
Carolina Cavalry, and served as a courier
till the end of the war; left the South
Carolina University at eighteen, having
graduated in Latin, Greek, history, and
chemistry; taught school for several years,
and studied law at the same time; was
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Assembly of Alabama in 1878, and served
one term as a member from Choctaw Coun
ty; in 1880 was elected State solicitor for
the First Judicial Circuit of Alabama, and
was reelected in 1886; declined a third
term; was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fif
ty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress from the First Alabama
District. He is a Democrat in politics. He
married, January 1881, Margaretta Van
Tuyl, daughter of E. H. Metcalf, of Mont
gomery, Alabama. Address : Demopolis,
Alabama. TAYLOR, Henry Ling:
Surgeon; born in New York City, March
17, 1857; son of Charles Fayette and Mary
Selina (Skinner) Taylor. He was gradu
ated from the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale College as Ph.B. in 1877, and from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons as M.
D. in 1881. He is professor of orthopedic
surgery at New York Post-Graduate Med
ical School and Hospital; assistant sur
geon to Hospital for Ruptured and Crip
pled. He gives exclusive attention to or
thopedic surgery, actively interested in edu
cational and fresh air work for cripples, and
in physical education. He is author of
about fifty papers on orthopedic surgery.
Dr. Taylor is manager of the Guild for
Crippled Children of the Poor of New York
City. In politics he is an Independent,
but believes in a low tariff. He is mem
ber of the American Medical Association,
New York County and State Medical So
cieties, American Orthopedic Association
(is its president), American Physical Edu
cation Society, and the Alumni of Roosevelt
Hospital. His favorite recreation is nature
study. He is a member of the Yale Club
of New York City. Dr. Taylor married in
Geneseo, New York, December 30, 1890,
Daisy Louise Brodt, and they have four
children: Fayette, born in 1895, John, born
in 1897, Philip, born in 1899, and Edward,
born in 1903. Address: 125 West Fifty-
eighth Street, New York City.
TAYLOR, James Morford:
Professor of mathematics in Colgate Uni
versity ; born in Holmdel, New Jersey, Sep

tember 15, 1843 ; son of James J. Taylor
and Lucy (Morford) Taylor. He was grad
uated from Colgate University as A.B. in
1867 and A.M. in 1869, and received the
degree of LL.D. from the William Jewell
College in 1891. He was instructor in Col
gate (then Madison) Academy and Col
lege, from 1867 to 1869; principal of the
Academy and professor of mathematics,
from 1869 to 1873, and since 1873 has been
professor of mathematics in Colgate Uni
versity. He spent six months in European
travel in 1892, and ten months in Western
United States, Philippines, China and Japan,
in 1903 and 1904; and visited the world's
fairs in New York City, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Buffalo and St. Louis. He has been
water and light commissioner of Hamilton,
New York, since 1894, when the plants were
built; and general superintendent of the
grounds and buildings of Colgate University
since 1884. He is author of: Elements of
Differential and Integral Calculus, 1884, en
larged edition in 1898; College Algebra,
1889 ; Academic Algebra, 1893 ; Elements
of Algebra, 1900 ; Plain Trigonometry, 1904 ;
Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, 1905 ;
Five-place Logarithmic and Trigonometric
Tables, 1905. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in religion a Baptist. Dr. Taylor
is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, member of
Delta Upsilon fraternity and of Phi Beta
Kappa Society. He married in Hamilton,
New York, August 3, 1871, Mary Paddock,
and they have four children : Jane P., born
in 1874, Mrs. Florence Taylor Morris, born
in 1877, Henry William, born in 1881, and
Mary J., born in 1888. Address : Hamil
ton, New York.
TAYLOR, John Madison:
Physician; born in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, July 4, 1855; son of William
Johnson Taylor and Mary (Bearden) Tay
lor ; and descendant of William Taylor, who
emigrated from England to Virginia in
1634. He was educated in Rugby Academy,
Philadelphia; was graduated from Prince
ton University as A.B. in 1876, and A.M. in
1879, and from the University of Pennsyl
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physician in 1878 and 1879 and assistant
physician in 1880 of the Children's PIos-
pital ; chief of the Children's Clinic in the
University of Pennsylvania, from 1879 to
1883; assistant physician of the Orthopedic
Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseas
es from 1882 to 1892 ; neurologist to How
ard Hospital, from 1884 to 1901 ; professor
of Diseases of Children in the Philadel
phia Polyclinic College for Medical Grad
uates, from 1895 to I9°I ; and in 1900 he
was appointed pediatrist to the Philadel
phia Hospital; personal assistant to Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell, from 1882 to 1896; and in
1891 he was private physician to Joseph
Pulitzer of New York and also to James G.
Blaine, in the summers of 1891 and 1892.
In his professional capacity he accompanied
many prominent men on hunting expedi
tions, and is an ardent sportsman. Since
1879 he has practiced his profession in Phil
adelphia, and in the summer months at Bar
Harbor, Maine. Dr. Taylor was president
of the University of Pennsylvania Medical
Alumni Association, in 1900 and 1901, and
member of the Council of the Philadelphia
College of Physicians, from 1894 to 1900.
He has illustrated fifteen or twenty med
ical books, is author of many essays on
medical topics; is joint author with Dr.
William H. Wells of Manual of Diseases
of Children, 1898, and 1901, now translated
into Italian. Dr. Taylor is a fellow of
the College of Physicians, of the American
Academy of Medicine ; honorary fellow of
the Atlantic City County Medical Society;
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, Climatologic Society, American Thera
peutic Society and the Association of Amer
ican Medical Editors. His favorite recre
ation is hunting. He is a member of the
Philadelphia, Country, University, Southern,
Princeton, Bar Harbor Swimming, Medical,
Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring, and
Philadelphia Sketch Clubs. Dr. Taylor mar
ried in Philadelphia, October 15, 1879,
Emily Heyward, daughter of Henry E. and
Mary (Brady) Drayton, and they have
three children : Edith Moore, Percival
Drayton and Mabel Heywood. Summer

home : Bar Harbor, Maine. Address : 1504
Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
TAYLOR, Nelson:
Lawyer, publisher; born in Stockton,
California, June 9, 1854; son of Nelson
Taylor and Mary Ann (Bruen) Taylor.
He was graduated from Harvard College
as A.B. in 1875. Mr. Taylor spent a year
iri foreign travel after graduation; studied
law and was admitted to practice at the
Fairfield County (Connecticut) bar in 1878,
and continued practice until 1885, when he
formed the publishing and wholesale book
house of The Baker and Taylor Company,
New York. He held various municipal of
fices at South Norwalk, Connecticut, where
he was mayor in 1885. He is president of
The Baker and Taylor Company; director
of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company,
and the South Norwalk Company. He is
a member of the Fairfield County Bar As
sociation. Mr. Taylor married in London,
England, July 26, 1906, Aliette de Car-
riere. Address : 33 East Seventeenth
Street, New York City.
TAYLOR, Robert Fen wick:
Jurist; born in the Beaufort District of
South Carolina, March 10, 1849; son of
John M. Taylor and Maria B. Taylor. Af
ter completing his education at the Mary
land Military Institute he was admitted to
the bar, and he engaged in practice in Flor
ida until January, 1891, when he was ap
pointed a justice of the Supreme Court of
Florida to fill a vacancy. He was elected to
full terms in that office in 1892 and 1898,
and again in 1904 for his present term, which
expires in 1910; and he has served as chief
justice of the court. Judge Taylor is a
Democrat in politics, and was a member of
the Constitutional Convention of Florida in
1885. He married in Camden, South Caro
lina, February 1, 1872, Amelia E. Haile. Ad
dress : Tallahassee, Florida.
TAYLOR, Roland Leslie:
Banker; born in Philadelphia, July 3.
1868; son of I. J. Taylor and Elizabeth
Ann (Alkins) Taylor. He finished his pub
lic school education with the class of 1888
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five years with a large banking and broker
age house, gaining a thorough foundation
in securities and financial customs. He
went into the Trust Department of the Real
Estate Trust Company in 1891, was elected
assistant secretary February 7, 1901 ; elected
vice-president of The Pmladelphia Trust,
Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, June
13, 1906, which office he now occupies. He
is director and chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Young, Smyth, Field
Company. Mr. Taylor served eleven years
with the Pennsylvania State Naval Militia,
first as a seaman, then through the suc
cessive grades of petty officers and warrant
officers and for the last six or seven years
as a commissioned officer. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and an Episcopalian in his
religious connections. Mr. Taylor is a
member of the Germantown Cricket Club,
and the City Club of Philadelphia. He
married in Philadelphia, January 27, 1897,
Anita May Steinmetz, and they have three
children. Residence : 5906 Wayne Avenue,
Germantown. Business address : 413, 415,
417 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.TAYLOR, Samuel M.:
Consul-general ; born in Champaign Coun
ty, Ohio, July 24, 1856 ; son of John Taylor
and Miriam (Daniel) Taylor. After a
careful preparatory education he was en
tered as a student at the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware, Ohio, whence he
was graduated as A.B. in 1882, and from
there went to the Cincinnati Law School,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. in
1884. He was admitted to the bar the
same year and engaged in practice at Ur-
bana, Ohio, in 1884. He is a Republican in
politics and became very active in the poli
tics of the State. He was a member of the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio
from 1887 to 1893, and secretary of State
of Ohio from 1893 to 1897, during the ad
ministration of Governor William McKin
ley. In July, 1897, he was appointed by
President McKinley as American consul at
Glasgow, Scotland, remaining there until
1906, when he was promoted by President

Roosevelt to the rank of consul-general and
transferred to Callao, Peru, at which post
he is now serving. Mr. Taylor married in
Franklin County, Ohio, October 16, 1884,
Myrta B. Bradrick. Address : American
Consulate-General, Callao, Peru.
TAYLOR, Walter Herron:
Banker; born in Norfolk, Virginia, June
13, 1838 ; son of Walter Herron Taylor arid
Cornelia Wickham Taylor. After a pre
paratory education in Norfolk Academy he
entered the Virginia Military Institute from
which he was graduated in 1857. He at once
entered on the banking business in Norfolk,
but upon the secession of Virginia, volun
teered for service in the Provisional Army
of the State. He was detached May 2, 1861,
and ordered to report to General Lee at
Richmond, where he was assigned to duty
as assistant adjutant-general, and when the
Army of Virginia was merged in that of
the Confederate States he was appointed
aide-de-camp to General Lee, and accom
panied him throughout the campaigns in
Western Virginia, South Carolina and
Georgia. Returning to Richmond with Gen
eral Lee, he served on his staff as aide-de
camp, with the rank of major, during his
term as military adviser to President Jef
ferson Davis. He was afterward appointed
adjutant-general of the Army of Northern
Virginia, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
serving through all its subsequent cam
paigns until the surrender at Appomattox.
His close association with General Lee
through the war period enabled him to make
especially valuable his books entitled : Four
Years With General Lee, published in New
York in 1877; and General Lee, 1861-1865,
published 1906. Since 1865 he has been ac
tively engaged in commercial, banking and
railroad enterprises in Norfolk, and since
1877 he has been president of the Marine
Bank of Norfolk. He represented his dis
trict in the Virginia Senate from 1869 to
1873. He married in Richmond, Virginia,
April 3, 1865, Elizabeth Selden, daughter
of Commander John L. Saunders of the
United States Navy. Address: Norfolk,
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TAYLOR, Willard U.:
Lawyer; born in Lyons, New York, July
19, 1868; son of William Taylor and Mary
Morgan (Underhill) Taylor. He was grad
uated from Cornell University as Ph.B.
in 1891 and from New York Law School
as LL.B. in 1893. Mr. Taylor is a mem
ber of the law firm of MacFarland, Taylor
and Costello; president and director of the
Apex Equipment Company; secretary and
director of the Mercantile Corporation ; di
rector of the Barnard Mining Company,
Limited, of British Guiana; Interboro Bank
of New York ; LeRoy Warehouse Company ;
Taylor Cotton and Leather Company ; and
of West End Dry Dock Company. His spe
cialty is admiralty and commercial law.
He is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, and of the
Democratic, New York Athletic, and Cor
nell University Clubs, and of the Maritime
Exchange. Address : 65 Wall Street, New
York City.
TAWNEY, James A.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Mount
Pleasant Township, near Gettysburg, Adams
County, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1855. At
the age of fifteen he entered the blacksmith
shop of his father as an apprentice; subse
quently learned the trade of machinist; left
Pennsylvania in July, 1877, arriving at Wi
nona, August 1, where he was employed
as a blacksmith and machinist until Janu
ary 1, 1881, when he commenced the study
of law in the office of Bentley & Vance, of
Winona, having previously devoted morn
ings and evenings to the study of law for
about two years. He was admitted to the
bar July 10, 1882; entered' the law school
of the University of Wisconsin in Septem
ber following, that being the only school
he attended after the age of fourteen. He
was elected to the State Senate of Minne
sota in 1890; was elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the First Minnesota District. He
married, December 18, 1883, Emma B.
Newell. Address : Winona, Minnesota.

TEALE, Charles E.:
Merchant; born in Nottingham, England,
June 1, 1843 ; son of Charles E. Teale and
Catharine (Surridge) Teale. He received
his education in the public schools of
Brooklyn, New York, and has traveled in
Europe, United States and Canada. He
served as a member of the Board of Edu
cation for nineteen years; city magistrate
five years ; deputy commissioner of pub
lic charities two years; manager of King's
Park State Hospital; presidential elector
in 1904; and is now public administrator
of Kings County. He is director of the
Nassau Fire Insurance Company, the Dime
Savings Bank and the Manufacturers' As
sociation. In politics he is a Republican
and in religion a Methodist Episcopalian,
and he is a trustee of St. James' Methodist
Episcopal Church; manager of Brooklyn
Church Society; member of the Methodist
Social Union, and of Flatbush Avenue
Branch of the Corn Exchange Bank. He
is a trustee of the Association for Improv
ing the Condition of the Poor; manager
of the Young Men's Christian Association,
the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, Meth
odist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn Hos
pital, King's Park State Hospital; member
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Science, and of the Brooklyn Club. Mr.
Teale married in September 20, 1871,
Eliza McChesney (now deceased), and has
four children: Charles (deceased), Flor
ence, Carrie, and Edward L. Address : 1855
Eighty-second Street, Brooklyn, New York.
TEGGART, Frederick John:
Librarian; born in Belfast, Ireland, 1870.
He was educated in Trinity College, Dub
lin, and in Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer
sity, where he was graduated as B.A. He
served as assistant and acting librarian of
Leland Stanford University, from 1893 to
1898; librarian of Mechanics' Institute, San
Francisco, from 1898 to 1906; and has
been librarian of the Mechanics-Mercantile
Library of San Francisco since 1906. He
is honorary custodian of the Bancroft Li
brary of the University of California,
Berkeley, and honorary librarian of the
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Teggart is a Democrat in politics and an
Episcopalian in religion. He is a member
of the American Library Association, and
the American Historical Association, of the
Bohemian Club, the Amaurot Club of San
Francisco, and the Faculty Club of ' the
University of California. He married in
San Mateo, California, in 1894, Adelaide
Barnes, and they have two sons. Address :
99 Grove Street, San Francisco, California.
TELLER, Henry Moore:
United States senator; bora in the town
of Granger, Allegany County, New York,
May 23, 1830. He was educated in the
common schools, Rushford Academy, and
Alfred University; taught school several
years; studied law at Angelico, Allegany
County; and was admitted to practice at
Binghamton, New York. In January, 1858,
he removed to Illinois, and practiced law
there until April, 1861, when he removed
to Colorado and resumed the practice of
law. He received the degree of LL.D. from
Alfred University in 1886, and from Colo
rado State University in 1903. He never
held an office until he was elected to the
United States Senate from Colorado on the
admittance of that State; took his seat in
the United States Senate, December 4, 1876,
and drew the term ending March 3, 1877;
was reelected December 11, for the full
term, and served until April 17, 1882, when
he resigned to enter the cabinet of Pres
ident Arthur, as secretary of the interior,
and served until March 3, 1885; was re
elected to the Senate in January, 1885, for
the term beginning March 4, 1885; was re
elected in 1891, a Republican in politics,
but withdrew from the National Republican
Convention at St. Louis in June, 1896, be
cause of dissatisfaction with the financial
plank of the platform; was reelected in
January, 1897, as an Independent Silver
Republican, receiving 94 votes out of a
total of 100, for the term beginning March
4, 1897; and reelected as a Democrat in
1903. His term of service will expire
March 3, 1909. Address: Central City,
Colorado.

TERRES, John B.:
Consular officer; born in North Carolina.
He was appointed vice-consul-general at
Port au Prince July 20, 1880; resigned
January 30, 1885, to take effect March 4,
1885 ; reappointed October 1, 1885 ; ap
pointed consul May 5, 1904. Address :
Port au Prince, Haiti.
TERRY, Marshall Orlando:
Physician and surgeon; born in Water
vliet Centre, Albany County, New York,
June 21, 1848; son of William Henry Terry
and Sarah (Burke) Terry. He was edu
cated in the Ophthalmic and Aural Insti
tute, and the Manhattan Eye and Ear In
firmary; had special instruction under
Heitzmann on pathology, histology and
microscopy; physical diagnosis under Jane-
way at Bellevue Hospital, and surgery
under Bryant; also studied abroad; and he
was graduated from the Cleveland Homeo
pathic Hospital College in 1872. He was
appointed surgeon with the rank of major
of National Guard of the State of New
York, March 18, 1880, by Governor Cor
nell; surgeon-general with the rank of
brigadier-general, January 1, 1895, by Gov
ernor Levi P. Morton ; reappointed by Gov
ernor Black, January 1, 1897; appointed by
President Cleveland as United States pen
sion examiner, of which board he was
president four years; declined a position
as chief surgeon of division during the
Spanish-American War, offered by Presi
dent McKinley, because of his duties as
surgeon-general of New York. He was
largely the inventor of the entire medical
and surgical equipment of the National
Guard of New York, the Terry stretcher
and field case taking his name by adminis
trative suggestion. The New York Am
bulance, now manufactured in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania ; also the raw hide perforated
corset for spinal curvature, invented about
1880, but patented- by the Morrisville Raw
Hide Surgical Splint Company. While resi
dent in Utica he was surgeon-in-chief of
Utica Homeopathic Hospital for ten years
and of the Commercial Travelers' Mutual
Accident Association of America for sev
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cal staff of the General Hospital, at Utica,
New York. He is a member of the Asso
ciation of Military Surgeons of the United
States; president of the Association of
Medical Officers of the National Guard
and Naval Militia of New York; member
of the American Institute of Homeopathy;
ex-president of the Homeopathic Medical
Society of the State of New York. He
was decorated with a bronze medal, given
by Oneida County War Committee, in rec
ognition of his patriotic services during the
war between the United States and Spain.
He is honorary member of the Massachu
setts Surgical and Gynecological Society.
In politics he is a Republican and in re
ligion an Episcopalian. He is a member
of the Ohio Society of New York. Dr.
Terry is author of : Bromine as an Anti
septic in Surgery; The Oil Treatment in
Appendicitis ; The Single Communion Cup ;
The Medicated Galvanic Treatment for
Cervical (Tubercular) Gland Enlarge
ments; Terry's Manual of Rotary Dilata
tion; Can Women Escape Pain at Child
birth? He is a member of the Larchmont,
American and New York Yacht Clubs. Dr.
Terry married in Mamaroneck, New York,
December 12, 1905, Mrs. Ambrose M. Mc
Gregor, widow of the former president of
the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. Sum
mer address: Mamaroneck, New York.
Winter address: Fort Myers, Florida.
TERRY, Silas Wright:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy; born
in Trigg County, Kentucky, December 28,
1842; son of Abner R. Terry and Eleanor
(Dyer) Terry. He was appointed acting
midshipman, September ,28, 1858, and en
tered the United States' Naval Academy;
was engaged on the Atlantic Blockading
Squadron from 1861 to 1863, and promoted
: ensign, September 16, 1862; was attached
to the Mississippi Squadron on the Red
River Expedition in 1863 and 1864, and
was advanced five numbers in grade of
lieutenant, "for gallant conduct on expedi
tion up Red River." He was promoted lieu
tenant, February 22, 1864; served on Ad
miral Porter's staff in Mississippi Squad
ron in the operations against Forts

Fisher and Anderson, in the Capture of
Wilmington, North Carolina, and was a
member of the party that accompanied
President Lincoln when he entered Rich
mond after its fall. He was promoted lieu
tenant-commander, July 25, 1866, and com
mander, July 11, 1877. In November, 1881,
while in command of the Marion lying off
Montevideo was ordered to Heard's Island,
latitude 53.30 South, longtitude 74.30 East,
where he rescued the crew of the bark
Trinity, which had been wrecked on that
island, February 20, 1881 ; the day after
his return to Cape Town he saved' the
English ship Poonah from total destruc
tion on the beach near Cape Town, South
Africa, for which he received the thanks
of the Government of Cape Colony and of
the British Government. He was promoted
captain, January 9, 1893, and commanded the
cruiser Newark from May, 1893, to June,
1895, on the East coast of South America.
He was assigned to the command of the
battleship Iowa in 1898, was a member of
the Naval Examining Board in 1899 and
1900, and commanded the Navy Yard at
Washington, D. C, from 1900 to 1903. He
was promoted to rear-admiral, March 29,
1900; commanded the Naval Station at
Honolulu in 1903 and 1904, and retired De
cember 28, 1904. He married, October 14,
1873, Louisa, daughter of John Thomson
Mason of Maryland. Address : 1510 Twen
ty-first Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
THACHER, Sherman Day:
Headmaster of Thacher School ; born in
New Haven, Connecticut, November 6,
1861 ; son of Thomas Anthony Thacher and
Elizabeth Baldwin (Sherman) Thacher. He
was educated in Hopkins Grammar School,
Yale College, as A.B. in 1883, Yale Law
School, as LL.B. in 1886. He was with
W. and J. Sloane of New York in 1883
and 1884; with the law firm" of Lathrop and
Smith in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1886
and 1887; went to California in October,
1887, and established the Thacher School
in 1889. -He is the director of the Ojai
Publishing Company. Mr. Thacher is an
Independent in politics. He is trustee of
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and president of the Boyd Club, chairman
of the Committee of Fifteen, and trustee
of the Ojai Free Library. He is also a
member .of the University Club of San
Francisco. He married in Berkeley, Cali
fornia, June 24, 1896, Eliza Seely Blake,
and they have four children : Elizabeth,
born in 1897 ; George Blake, born in 1903 ;
Anson -Stile, born in 1905 ; and Helen, born
in 1906. Address : Nordhoff, Ventura
County, California.
THACHER, Thomas:
Lawyer ; born in New Haven, Connecti
cut, May 3, 1850 ; son of Thomas Anthony
Thacher and Elizabeth (Day) Thacher.
He was educated in Hopkins Grammar
School; was graduated from Yale Univer
sity as B.A. in 1871 and M.A. in 1874 (re
ceived the degree of LL.D. in 1903) ; and
from Columbia Law School as LL.B. in
1875. He was a member successively of
the law firms of Simpson, Thacher and
Barnum; Reed, Simpson, Thacher and Bar
num; Simpson, Thacher, Barnum and Bart
lett. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, the Law Institute,
New York State Bar Association, and of
the University, Century, Yale and Midday
Clubs. Mr. Thacher married In New York
City, December 1, 1880, Sarah McCulloh
Green, and they have four children :
Thomas Day, Louise Green, Sarah and
Elizabeth. Address: 62 Cedar Street, New
York City.
THACKARA, Alexander M.:
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
He was appointed consul at Havre April
1, 1897; consul-general at Berlin, March 13,
1905. Address : American Consulate Gen
eral, Berlin, Prussia.
THAYER, Abbott Handerson:
Artist; born in Boston, Massachusetts,
August 12, 1849; son of William Henry
Thayer, M.D., and Ellen ^ (Handerson)
Thayer. He was educated in the common
schools' -.of Keene, New Hampshire, at the
Chauncy Hall School, Boston, Massachu
setts, and studied art for four years at
the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France.

His early life was devoted mainly to the
study and painting of animals, and after
his twenty-fifth year, he commenced paint
ing portraits and ideal figures. He dis
covered the principles of the protective
coloration of animals, and in 1896 published
an article concerning it in The Auk. Mr.
Thayer devotes his leisure hours to the
study of natural history. He is a mem
ber of the National Academy of Design, of
the National Association of Arts and Let
ters, and LTnsigne Reale Accademia, Ro-
mana delle Belle Arte Denominata di San
Luca, and was president for two years of
the Society of American Artists . Mr.
Thayer finds his most favored recreation in
forest life, and he has been an extensive
traveler in England, France, Germany, Hol
land, Norway, Italy, Sardinia, the Southern
Atlantic States to Florida (inclusive) and
the Antilles to Trinidad. He was married;
first, at Brooklyn, New York, June 5, 1875,
to Kate Bloede; second, at Nantucket, Mas
sachusetts, September 3, 1891, to Emeline B.
Beach. He has three children : Mary B.
(31, now Mrs. Frederick Birch), Gerald H.
(23), Gladys (20). Address: Monadnock,
New Hampshire.
THAYER, John B.:
Fourth vice-president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, April 21, 1862; son of John
Borland Thayer, and Mary Randolph
(Chapman) Thayer. He received his edu
cation in the University of Pennsylvania ;
entered railway service in 1881, as clerk in
auditor's office of Empire Fast Freight
Line; in 1883 became clerk in the freight
department of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, since which he has been chief
clerk in freight department, division freight
agent at Baltimore, , Maryland; assistant
general freight agent and. general freight
agent, and from June, 19Q3, to October,
1905, fifth vice-president, and since October,
1905, fourth vice-president and director of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; the
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Railroad; Northern Central Railway; West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad; Susquehan
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Mining Company; Summit Branch Mining
Company; Lykens Valley Coal Company;
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail
way Company; Rosslyn Connecting Rail
road; Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards Com
pany; Cumberland Valley Railroad; Brook-
ville Railroad; Long Island Railroad;
Long Island Consolidated Electrical Com
panies; Erie and Western Transportation
Company; Keystone Hotel Company; New
York Connecting Railroad; Girard Point
Storage Company; Lytle Coal Company,
and Allegheny Valley Railroad. Address :
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. THILL Y, Frank:
Professor of philosophy; born in Cincin
nati, Ohio, August 18, 1865; son of Pierre
Thilly and Mary (Barth) Thilly. He was
educated in private schools in Philadelphia,
Woodward High School, Cincinnati ; the
University of Cincinnati ; University of
Berlin, and University of Heidelberg, re
ceiving the degrees of A.M., Ph.D., and
LL.D. ; and fellow of philosophy at Cornell
University. He was instructor in logic and
history of philosophy at Cornell University
in 1892 and 1893 ; professor of philosophy
at the University of Missouri from 1893
to 1904; professor of psychology at Prince
ton University from 1904 to 1906, and has
been professor of philosophy and ethics at
Cornell University since 1906. He was
managing editor of the School Review in
1892 and 1893, and editor of University of
Missouri Studies from 1900 to 1904. He
is author of: Leibniz's Controversy With
Locke, 1891 (Heidelberg) ; Introduction to
Ethics, 1900; translator of Paulsen's Intro
duction to Philosophy, 1895; translator of
Weber's History of Philosophy, 1896; edi
tor and translator of Paulsen's System of
Ethics, 1899; translator (with W. W.
Elwang) of Paulsen's German Universities,
1906. Pie has contributed articles to the
Philosophical Review, the International
Journal of Ethics, Journal of Philosophy,
American Journal of Theology, Science,
Popular Science Monthly, Educational Re
view, the University of Missouri Studies,
Kant Studien, and Princeton Contributions
to Psychology. Pie is a member of the

American Philosophical Association (is its
secretary), American Psychological Asso
ciation, Western Philosophical Association
(was its president from 1900 to 1902).
Professor Thilly married in Columbia, Mis
souri, in 1895, Jessie Matthews, and they
have three children: Gertrude, born in
1896; Margaret, born in 1899, and Frank,
bora in 1904. Address : 9 East Avenue,
Ithaca, New York.
THIRKIELD, Wilbur Patterson:
President of Howard University; born in
Franklin, Ohio, September 25, 1854; son of
E. B. Thirkield and Amanda (Balentine)
Thirkield. He received his academic edu
cation at the Ohio Wesleyan University,
graduating in 1876, with the degree of A.B.
and receiving that of A.M. three years
later. He then took up the study of the
ology at Boston University, graduating in
1881, with the degree of S.T.B. The honor
ary degree of D.D. was given to him by
Emory College and by Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, and that of LL.D. by the latter
university in 1906. Upon his ordination to
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1881, he became pastor in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, resigning in 1883 to go to
Atlanta, Georgia, where he opened the
Gammon Theological Seminary, later se
curing six hundred thousand dollars for
equipment and endowment. He became the
first president of this institution and re
mained in that office until 1899, when he
was appointed general secretary of the Ep-
worth League of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. A year later he was elected by the
General Conference, secretary of the Freed
men's Aid and Southern Education Society,
holding that position until 1906, when he
was elected to the presidency of Howard
University, at Washington, D. C. He trav
eled extensively in Europe during the years
from 1895 to 1906, and spent various periods
as a student at Oxford University. He is
a director of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Washington, D. C, and mem
ber of the Board of Trade, of the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, and the Masonic order.
He married at Maiden, Massachusetts, Oc
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children: Pearl, Gilbert Haven, Wilbur
Gammon, Helen and Norman. Address:
Howard University, Washington, D. C.
THIRY, John Henry:
Retired merchant; born in Belgium, De
cember 30, 1822 ; son of John Baptist Thiry
and Anne Marie (Dussard) Thiry. He
was .educated in the Normal College in
Belgium, where he received the diploma of
professor. He cahie to New York in 1859,
and was in the book business until 1874,
when he retired. In politics he is a Demo
crat and in religion a Catholic, and he is
a trustee of St. Patrick's Church of Long
Island City, New York. He has been a
school commissioner since 1883 and is now
secretary of the Local School Board of
District 41, Queens County. Mr. Thiry is
the father of the school savings bank in
America, in which $15,000,000 has been
saved by the young people of America who
have joined the little depositors. He is
author of: Early Schools in Long Island,
and many contributions on public school
affairs. He has been a member of the Na
tional Educational Association since 1890
and is a member of Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Thiry married twice; first, March 24,
1853, Ernestine Desamblanc, who died June
16, 1896, leaving two children : Ralph Ovide,
born in 1854, and Joseph, born in 1855.
He married second, February 23, 1898,
Margaret O'C'onor, and they have four
children : Henry, Henrietta, Francis and
John. On August 6, 1900, he adopted
another child, George, born April 19, 1898.
Address : 181 Academy Street, Long Is
land City, New York.
THOMAS, Augustus:
Dramatist; born in St. Louis, January
8, 1859; son of Dr. E. B. Thomas and
Imogene (Garrettson) Thomas. He re
ceived his education in the public schools
of St. Louis; served as page in the Forty-
first Congress, from 1869 to 1871 ; was six
years employed in the freight department
of railroads; studied law for two years;
engaged in newspaper work, and was for
a time editor and proprietor of the Kansas
City Mirror. He is one of the foremost of

American playwrights, author of : Alabama ;
In Mizzoura ; Arizona ; The Education of
Mr. Pipp; Oliver Goldsmith; Mrs. Leffing-
well's Boots, and many other well known
successes. Mr. Thomas is a Democrat in
politics and has been a candidate for the
Legislature; is a personal and political
friend of William J. Bryan, and presided
over the great Madison Square Garden
meeting which welcomed Mr. Bryan on
his return from his world tour in the fall
of 1906. He is a member of the Century
Association and the Players', Lambs', and
American Dramatists' Clubs of New York
City. He married in New York City, in
1890, Lisle Colby. Address : New Rochelle,
New York.
THOMAS, Charles Mitchell:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy; born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1,
1846; son of Joseph T. Thomas and Be
linda J. Thomas. He entered the United
States Naval Academy, November 28, 1861,
and was graduated September 26, 1865 ; and
served in the Shenandoah, on the Asiatic
Station from October 17, 1865, to May 3,
1869. He was promoted to ensign De
cember 1, 1866, to master, March 12, 1868,
and commissioned as lieutenant, March 26,
1869; served at League Island from June
to September, 1869, on the Supply, Euro
pean Station in 1869 and 1870, Guerriere in
1870 and 1871 ; receiving ship Potomac,
March to October, 1872 ; monitor Terror,
Key West, Florida, in 1872 and 1873; Tor
pedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 1873
and 1874; monitor Dictator, Key West,
Florida, 1874 and 1875; Navy Yard,- Phila
delphia, June to November, 1875 ; Centen
nial Exposition from 1875 to 1877 ; receiving
ship St. Louis, 1877 and 1878; Constitution,
Paris Exposition, 1878; and training ship
in 1879 and 1880. He was promoted lieuten
ant-commander, April, 1880; served at the
Naval Academy from 1880 to 1884 ; on the
Hartford, flagship, Pacific Station, 1884 to.
1887; commanded the Coast Survey steamer
Paterson from 1887 to 1889; hydrographic
inspector, coast survey, 1889 to 1891 ; pro
moted to commander, February, 1890; in
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1893; commanded the Bennington, 1893 to
1895; at the Naval Home, 1895 to 1897;
War College, June to September, 1897 ; Naval
Academy, 1897 and 1898; lighthouse in
spector of the Fifth District in 1898 and
1899 ; commissioned captain, March 3, 1899 ;
commanded the Oregon, 1899 to 1902; com
manded the receiving ship Franklin, at Nor
folk, Virginia, 1902 to 1904; promoted to
rear-admiral, January 12, 1905; superin
tendent of Naval Training Service, 1905 and
1906; commanding Second Division of the
Atlantic Fleet, January 21, 1907, to August
28, 1907, when he was placed in command
of the Second Squadron of the Atlantic
Fleet. He married at Newport, Rhode Is
land, November 3, 1874, Ruth, daughter
of Rear-Admiral Edward Simpson, United
States Navy. Address : Care of the Navy
Department, Washington, D. C.
THOMAS, Charles Randolph:
Congressman and lawyer ; born at Beau
fort, North Carolina, August 21, 1861 ; son
of the late Judge Charles R. Thomas, who
was a member of the Forty-second and For
ty-third Congresses. He was educated at
the New Bern Academy, the school of Prof.
Charles B. Young, known as the Emerson
Institute, Washington, D. C, and the Uni
versity of North Carolina, graduating in
1881. He studied law, first with his father,
and then at the law school of Judges R. P.
Dick and John H. Dillard, at Greensboro,
North Carolina, was admitted to the bar in
October, 1882, and since that time has con
tinuously practiced his profession. Mr.
Thomas was a member of the House of
Representatives of the North Carolina Leg
islature in 1887; served six years as attor
ney for the county of Craven, from 1890
to 1896; was elected by the State Legisla
ture a trustee of the University of North
Carolina in 1893 ; was elected in 1896 Demo
cratic Presidential elector for the Third
Congressional District of North Carolina.
He was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the Third North Carolina Dis
trict. Mr. Thomas is a Democrat. He
married at Hillsboro, North Carolina, Janu

ary 7, 1903, Mary, daughter of Supreme
Court Justice Thomas Ruffin. Address :
New Bern, North Carolina.
THOMAS, E. R.:
Automobile manufacturer ; born in Web
ster, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
in 1850; son of Joseph Batty and Elizabeth
Van Hook Thomas. He was educated in
the high schools of Evansville, Indiana, and
Duff's College, Pennsylvania. For forty
years Mr. Thomas was in the transporta
tion and coal mining business in Indiana
and Tennessee. During this time he was
intimately associated with the late G. J.
Grammer, vice-president of the New York
Central Lines, West and Darius Miller, first
vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad. From 1898 to 1899 Mr.
Thomas was the managing partner of H.
A. Lozier & Company, of Toronto, manu
facturers of Cleveland bicycles. In 1899
he became vice-president of the Canada
Cycle and Motor Company, Toronto. At
the present time he is president and owner
of the E. R. Thomas Motor Company,
manufacturers of the Thomas Flyer auto
mobiles, at Buffalo, New York; he is also
president of the E. R. Thomas Detroit
Company, manufacturers of the Thomas
Forty automobiles, Detroit, Michigan; pres
ident of the E. R. Thomas Realty Company
and director of the Central National Bank
of Buffalo, and director of the Iron Ele
vator and Transfer Company of Buffalo.
Mr. Thomas is an Episcopalian and an In
dependent Republican. His recreations are
automobiling and yachting. His clubs are
the Buffalo, the Country, the Park, the Elli
cott, the Royal Canadian Yacht (Toronto),
Buffalo Motor Boat and Niagara Golf. He
married in Aurora, Indiana, Flora Lozier,
and they have three children : Edwin Lozier
Thomas, born in 1880, Elizabeth Thomas,
born in 1887, and Jack Grammer Thomas,
born in 1893. Town residence : 125 North
Street, Buffalo, New York. Summer home :
Niagara-on-the-Lake. Business address :
1 190 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York.
THOMAS, Earl Dennison:
Brigadier-general, United States Army;
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listed in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, April
i, 1862; and served as private and cor
poral of Company H, and sergeant-major
until the end of the war, serving in the
field with the Army of the Potomac, and
participating in the Siege of Yorktown, bat
tle of Williamsburg, in General Stoneman's
raid toward Mechanicsville ; in the Seven
Days' Battle, ending in the evacuation of
the Peninsula, battles of South Mountain
and Antietam, actions at Darnestown and
Boonesboro, cavalry campaign in Loudoun
Valley, battles of Fredericksburg, Beverly
Ford and Gettysburg, action at Falling
Waters, with the Cavalry Corps in 1863 and
1864, and at Washington and Fairfax Court
House. He was appointed cadet at the
United States Military Academy, July 1,
1865, was graduated in 1869 and commis
sioned second lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry,
June 15, 1869; first lieutenant, March 1,
1872; captain, April 1, 1885; major Eighth
Cavalry, February 14, 1899; transferred to
the Fifth Cavalry, May 23, 1899 ; inspector-
general, by detail, February 28, 1901 ; lieu
tenant-colonel Thirteenth Cavalry, Novem
ber 16, 1901 ; colonel Seventh Cavalry, April
19, 1903, transferred to the Eleventh Caval
ry, April 21, 1903; brigadier-general, April
18, 1907. He served in Nebraska, Arizona
and Wyoming, from 1869 to 1880; was an
aide-de-camp for General Kautz, command
ing the Department of Arizona, and en
gineer officer on the department staff, from
1875 to 1878. During his service in the
West he was several times commended in
general orders for gallantry, in battle with
the Sioux in Nebraska, and the Apaches in
Arizona. He was appointed property quar
termaster, at the headquarters of the De
partment of the Platte at Omaha in 1880, •
and afterward served in Texas and Okla
homa, and various posts and duties in the
West until 1898. He was brevetted Febru
ary 27, 1890, first lieutenant for gallant
services against Sioux Indians near Fort
McPherson, Nebraska, June 8, 1870, and
captain for gallant services against Indians
at the Caves, Arizona, December 28, 1872,
and distinguished services in the campaign
against Indians in Arizona in April, 1874.

Pie was appointed major and inspector-
general of United States Volunteers, May
12, 1898, serving in that capacity until
March 7, 1899. He served with his regi
ment in Porto Rico in 1899; and after that
on various duties until promoted to brig
adier-general and placed in command of the
Department of Colorado. Address : Denver,
Colorado. THOMAS, Edward Beers:
Lawyer and jurist; born in Cortlandville,
New York, August 4, 1848 ; son of John H.
Thomas and Mary (Stiles) Thomas. He
received his preparatory education at the
Academy at Cortlandville, and was grad
uated from Yale College as A.B. in 1870,
and admitted to the bar the same year. He
was a member of the New York Senate
from the Twenty-fourth Senate District of
New York from 1882 to 1885; and candi
date for attorney-general in 1885. He re
moved to New York City in 1885, and in 1886
to Brooklyn, where he has since resided.
He was judge of the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of New
York, from 1898 to 1906; elected justice of
the Supreme Court of the State of New
York, Second District in 1906, and took
office January 1, 1907. In politics he is
a Republican and he is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Judge Thomas is
trustee of the Brooklyn Historical Society.
He is author of a Treatise on Negligence
and Estates Created Dy Will. He married
in Brooklyn, New York, May 21, 1873, Mary
E. Babcock, and their children are: Mrs.
Catherine Thomas Cary, born 1876, and
Edward S., born 1878. Residence : 83 Rem
sen Street, Brooklyn. Office address : Court
House, Brooklyn, New York.
THOMAS, Hector W.:
Lawyer ; born in New . York City, Sep
tember 19, 1866; son of Theodore Thomas
and Minna L. (Rhodes) Thomas. He was
graduated from Yale University in i888,«
studied in Columbia Law School, and was
admitted to the bar December 1, 1890. He
is a member of the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, and of the Union
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married in New York City, May 21, 1896,
Margaret Barney Sturgis. Residence : 128
East Twenty-fourth Street. Business ad
dress : 25 Pine Street, New York City.
THOMAS, William Aubrey:
Congressman and manufacturer; born in
Wales, June 7, 1866; son of John R.
Thomas, a pioneer iron manufacturer of the
Mahoning Valley, and Margaret (Morgan)
Thomas. He was educated in the public
schools of Niles, two years at Mount Union
College, Alliance, Ohio, and later at Rens
selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York, making a specialty of chemistry and
metallurgy. He was for some years man
ager of the Thomas furnace in Niles, and
later became interested in other iron in
dustries. Mr. Thomas was nominated in
May, 1904, to fill the vacancy in the Fifty-
eighth Congress caused by the resignation
of Hon. Charles Dick, and to the Fifty-
ninth Congress, and was elected; also re
elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the
Nineteenth Ohio District. He is a Repub
lican. Address : Niles, Ohio.
THOMPSON, Albert Clifton:
United States district judge; born at
Brookville, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1842.
After serving from private to captain in the
Union Army, from 1861 to 1865, he studied
law and engaged in practice at Portsmouth,
Ohio, at the close of the war. He was
judge of the Probate Court of Scioto Coun
ty from 1869 to 1872; judge of common
pleas in the Seventh Judicial District of
Ohio from 1882 to 1885. He was elected
to the Forty-ninth Congress as a Republican
in 1884, and was reelected to the Fiftieth
and Fifty-first Congresses. He was ap
pointed by President McKinley, September
16, 1898, judge of the District Court for
the Southern District of Ohio, in which of
fice he is now serving. Address : 2038 Au
burn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• THOMPSON, Charles Munson:
Chief engineer of the Cape Cod Ship
Canal ; born in Unadilla, New York, Oc
tober 15, 1844; son of William J. Thomp
son and Elizabeth (Betts) Thompson. His

ancestors removed from Northumberland,
England, to Ulster, Ireland, about 1609 to
161 1, and his grandfather, Samuel Thomp
son, came from Antrim, Ireland, to Amer
ica in 1798 and settled in Otego, New York.
Mr. Thompson was graduated at the Dela
ware Institute, Franklin, New York, in
1861, and was employed in the engineer
corps laying out the route of the Susque
hanna Railroad from 1861 to 1864. In
1864 he enlisted as a musician in the One
Hundred and Forty-fourth New York
Volunteer Infantry, and he served in the
military band, as company clerk, and as
clerk of the Board of Court Martial, his
service being principally in South Carolina.
On being mustered out in 1865 he returned
to his duties on the railroad and upon the
completion of the road he was with the
West Shore Railroad, the Schoharie Val
ley Railroad, and the Evansville, Hender
son and Nashville Railroad. He was as
sistant engineer on the the State Canal
with headquarters at Albany for six years,
and assistant engineer on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad, locating the new
lines. In 1883 he removed to Sandwich,
Massachusetts, as assistant engineer on the
Cape Cod Ship Canal, and on retiring as
chief engineer in 1886 he removed to Win
chester, Massachusetts, taking up general
engineering, returning to Sandwich in 1902
as resident engineer of the Cape Cod
Canal. He is a Royal Arch Mason. He
was a member of the Sewer Commission
and of the Board of Health of Winchester.
He married, December 25, 1866, Olivia Lee
of Unadilla, New York, and his son, Wil
liam Lee, became associated with him in
business. Address : Sandwich, Massachu
setts. THOMPSON, David E.:
Ambassador; born in Michigan in 1854;
son of John H. Thompson and Rhoda (Ben
nett) Thompson. He was educated in pub
lic schools in Michigan until he was thir
teen years old, when he began to work. He
became a truckman, and in 1872 a railway
brakeman, advancing in railway service un
til he became a superintendent in 1882. Since
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dustrial institutions, and president of the
Lincoln Daily Star of Lincoln, Nebraska,
president of the Columbia Fire Insurance
Company, and of the Aurora (Nebraska)
State Bank. Mr. Thompson is a Republican
in politics and has been identified actively
with party management in Nebraska. He
began his diplomatic career on his appoint
ment by President Roosevelt in 1902 as en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Brazil in
1905. His rank was raised to ambassador,
January 10, 1905, and he continued at Rio
de Janeiro until September, 1905, when he
was transferred as ambassador to Mexico,
in which position he continues. Mr. Thom
son married at Chicago, Illinois, in Janu
ary, 1892, Jeannette Miller. Address:
American Embassy, City of Mexico, Mexico.
THOMPSON, Edward H.:
Consular officer; born in Massachusetts.
He was appointed consul at Merida, Febru
ary 14, 1885 ; retired November, 1893 ; ap
pointed consul at Progreso, June 25, 1897.
Address : Progreso, Yucatan.
THOMPSON, Heber S.:
Civil and mining engineer ; born at Potts
ville, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1840 ; son of
Samuel Thompson and Elizabeth (Cunning
ham) Thompson. He was graduated from
Yale as A.B. in 1861, and received from
that university the degree of A.M. in 1871.
He served in the Civil War from 1861 to
1865 as private, lieutenant, and captain, tak-
, ing part in the battles of Perryville, Ken
tucky, 1862, Stone River, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, in 1862 and 1863, Chickamauga,
Georgia, in 1863, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864,
and many minor engagements under Gen
erals Buel, Rosecranz, Sherman and
Grant; and he was a prisoner of war from
August 20, to December 20, 1864. After
the war he engaged in engineering, and has
been engineer of the Girard Estate from
1874 to the present time. He is a member
of the American Institute of Mining Engi
neers, the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia,
American Philosophical Society, Pennsylva
nia Historical Society, and Schuylkill
County Historical Society. He is a di

rector of the Miners' National Bank of
Pottsville ; president of the Board of Trus
tees of the State Hospital for Injured Per
sons of the Anthracite Region of Pennsyl
vania, and a manager of the Pottsville Hos
pital. He is a Republican in politics and a
Presbyterian in his religious connections.
He is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States, the Union
Veteran Legion, and local clubs. Pie mar
ried, January 23, 1866, Sarah E. Beck, and
they have four children : Samuel C, Heber
H., Mrs. Margaretta Archbald and Mrs.
Emily Baird Hood. Address : Pottsville,
Pennsylvania.THOMPSON, John F.:
Banker; born in Chautauqua County,
New York, July 12, i860; son of Seth
W. and Emma L. (Pratt) Thompson. He
was educated in Chamberlain Institute,
Randolph, New York and in Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut. Mr.
Thompson was with the Bradford Na
tional Bank of Bradford, Pennsylvania,
from 1878 to 1882, the last two years as
assistant cashier; cashier of the State Bank
of Bolivar, New York, from 1882 to 1884;
with the Seaboard National Bank, New
York, from 1884 to 1903, as assistant
cashier from 1887 to 1891, and cashier from
1891 to 1903 ; and resigned February 1,
1903, to accept the vice-presidency of the
Bankers Trust Company, then organizing.
He is vice-president and director of the
Bankers Trust Company of New York;
Maltbie Chemical Company of Newark ;
director of Astor Trust Company of
New York; Rock Island Company of
New York, and of the Summit Bank of
Summit, New Jersey. He is trustee of
the Babies' Hospital at Newark, New Jer
sey; and the Western New York Home for
Friendless Children, at Randolph, New
York; director of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Summit,. New Jer
sey, and is a member of the Metropolitan,
Union League, Republican, Psi Upsilon and
Lawyers' Clubs of New York City. Mr.
Thompson married in Randolph, New
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Summit, New Jersey. Address : 7 Wall
Street, New York City.
THOMPSON, Josiah Yan Kirk :
Banker; born in Menallen Township,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, February 15,
1854; son of Jasper Markle Thompson and
Eliza (Caruthers) Thompson. He was
graduated from Washington and Jefferson
College in the science course with second
honor, in 1871. He entered the First Na
tional Bank of Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
as clerk in November, 1871, was made teller
April 3, 1872, elected cashier June 5, 1877,
and elected April 3, 1889, to the office of
president, in which he is still serving, hav
ing brought the bank to the commanding
distinction of first place in the United
States on the Roll of Honor, with an
earned surplus of $1,200,000, on a capital of
$100,000. He was elected trustee of Wash
ington and Jefferson College in 1889, and
of the Western Theological Seminary at
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1905, and has
served continually since then (in both po
sitions) ; is a director of (he Fayette Coun
ty Railroad Company, the Leckrone and
Little Whitely Railroad Company, and of
the Uniontown and Wheeling Short Line
Railroad Company. He has traveled exten
sively in the United States and around the
world. Mr. Thompson was a member of the
Uniontown School Board from 1890 to 1892 ;
member and president of the Uniontown
Council from 1892 to 1900, and is trustee
of the Uniontown Hospital Association.
In politics he is a Republican, and in re
ligion a Presbyterian. He is a member of
the Philo and Union Literary Society of
Washington and Jefferson College, and a
member of the Lotos Club of New York,
Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, and of the
Hampshire Club of Wheeling, West Vir
ginia. He has been the most active dealer,
and largest individual, owner of the valua
ble Pittsburgh Coal Seam, in the Pittsburgh
District, for seventeen years past, holding
a unique and commanding position in the
famous Connellsville coking coal fields.
Mr. Thompson married twice: first,
in Geneseo, Illinois, December 11, 1879,
Mary Anderson ; second, in New York City,

August 11, 1903, Mrs. B. A. Hawes, and
he has two children : Hon. Andrew A.
Thompson, born October 25, 1880, and John
R. Thompson, born October 6, 1882. Ad
dress : Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
THOMPSON, Robert William, Jr.:
Lawyer ; born in New York City, May 20,
1874; son of Robert W. Thompson and
Martha (Macfarlan) Thompson. He was
graduated from the College of the City
of New York as A.B. in 1893, Columbia
University as A.M. in 1894, and Columbia
University Law School as LL.B. in 1896.
He is a member of the firm of Thompson
and Warren, and engaged in the active
practice of law. Mr. Thompson was general
counsel for several corporations and makes
a specialty of corporation and real estate
law. He is a Republican in politics, and a
Presbyterian in religious views ; and has
served as master of Albion Lodge of Ma
sons. Mr. Thompson is a member of the
New York Bar Association, the Alpha Delta
Phi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, Co
lumbia University Club, Englewood Golf
Club, Republican Club of the City of New
York, Albion Lodge Club, and the Asso
ciation of the Bar of the City of New
York. Residence : 166 West Ninety-sev
enth Street, New York City. Business ad
dress : 49 Wall Street, New York City.
THOMSON, Clifford:
Editor and publisher; born in Fulton,
New York, April 15, 1834; son of Edwin
Thomson and Sophia Edna (Hall) Thom
son. He was educated in the high school
and the editorial rooms of New York Tri
bune before the war. He was in newspaper
work as, successively, reporter, editor, pub
lisher and proprietor. Mr. Thomson is
president and director of The Spectator
Company; director of the Hudson Trust
Company ; vice-president and director of the
Acme Ball Bearing Company and director
and secretary of the G. B. Van Cleve Com
pany. He served five years in the army
during the Civil War; enlisted as private
in the First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry,
April 15, 1861 ; was promoted to second and
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de-camp on the staff of Major-General Al
fred Pleasonton; was brevetted as captain
and major for gallant services; appointed
major, Fifth United States Volunteer Cav
alry, Colored; mustered out in March,
1866 ; and received the Congressional Medal
of Honor for special services at the battle
of Chancellorsville. In politics he is a Re
publican. He is a member of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, the Medal of
Honor Legion, and the Society of the Army
of the Potomac; and trustee of the Plome
for Graduated Nurses at Orange, New Jer
sey. Major Thomson married in Cincinnati,
November 15, 1856, Sarah M. Dutton, and
they have two daughters : Florence F., and
Mrs. John Lewis Lockwood. Address : 135
William Street, New York City.
THOMSON, John:
Librarian; born in England. After re
ceiving his education in London, he became
private librarian to Clarence H. Clark of
Philadelphia, for eight years, to Jay Gould
of Irvington-on-Hudson for three years,
and has 'been librarian to the Free Library
of Philadelphia since its opening in 1894.
He is author of: Descriptive Catalogue of
the Library of C. H. Clark; Catalogue of
the Irvington Library of Jay Gould; De
scriptive Catalogue of the Works of Sir
Walter Scott and Library of Old Authors
printed for the Free Library ; and of Hither
and Thither, 1906. He is a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, vice-president
of the Home Teaching Society for the
Blind; member of the American Library
Association, Historical Society of Phila
delphia; and member and officer of the
St. George's Society. He is also a mem
ber of the Art Club, curator of The Philo-
biblon Club; member of the Franklin Inn
Club, the Undine Barge Club, and the
Rowfant Club of Cleveland. He married
in London, and he has seven children liv
ing. Residence: 2101 North Camac Street,
Philadelphia. Business address: 1217-1221
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
THOMSON, T. Kennard:
Consulting engineer; born in Buffalo,
1864; son of William Alexander Thomson-

and Lavinia Day (Newcomb) Thomson.
He graduated from the University of To
ronto, in civil engineering, head of class.
He has had experience in every branch
of bridge, railroad and foundation work;
having been chief engineer for a bridge
company, bridge engineer for a railroad,
and for eight years was chief engineer for
a prominent firm of foundation contractors,
acting as a consulting engineer at the same
time. He engaged in deep foundation work
and has probably examined more founda
tions in the Caisson Air Chambers than
any other engineer ; having been retained,
among others, for the foundation work of
the Commercial Cable Building, Mutual
Life, Manhattan Life, The Trinity, United
States Realty Building, United States Ex
press, Trust Company of America, City In
vesting Buildings, and the forty-one story
Singer Building. He has taken out sev
eral tunnel and lighthouse patents; was
vice-president of a concrete steel company
for some time, and constructed sea-walls
and break'waters^and has been a frequent
contributor to the technical press and en
gineering societies. He is a Republican in
politics, and an Episcopalian in religion.
Mr. Thomson is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Canadian So
ciety of Civil Engineers, American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, Engineering So
ciety of Toronto University, Niagara His
torical Society, National Geographic So
ciety, Society of Forestry and Irrigation.
He is also a member of the Engineering
Club of New York, the University of
Toronto Club of New York (of which he
is past president), and of the Park Hill
Country Club. He married in Toronto,
Ontario, in 1888, Mary Julia Harvey, and
they have five children : Annis E., Mary
Marjory, Arthur Kennard, Walter Glen-
cairn, and Harvey Stranraer. Residence:
Lowerre Summit Park, Yonkers. Business
address : Park Row Building, New York
City.
THOMSON, William:
Physician, surgeon, soldier, author ; born
at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, January 28,
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judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, and
Jane (Graham) Thomson. He received a
classical and literary education in the Cham
bersburg Academy, and was graduated
from Jefferson Medical College in 1855. He
was appointed assistant surgeon in the
United States Army in 1861 ; was on duty
with the Army of the Potomac before Bull
Run, and served with that Army in the field
or at its base in Washington, until the war
closed. He served in the general hospitals
at Alexandria, Virginia, and in 1862 at
Portsmouth; joined General McClellan's
headquarters at Harrison's Landing and be
came assistant to the medical director, con
tinued through the Antietam campaign and
down to Fredericksburg; then took charge
of the Douglas General Hospital in Wash
ington. Three days before Antietam he was
at the battle of South Mountain, and was
left in charge of the field, with over three
thousand Union and Confederate dead and
wounded to care for. He returned to head
quarters, in six days, leaving the severely
wounded in one hospitals Union- and Con
federate, and aided in the care and trans
portation of the thousands of men disabled
at Antietam. He was the originator of
many improvements in army hospital man
agement and surgical methods ; was sur
geon in charge of the Douglas Hospital,
Washington, 1863, and in 1864 medical in
spector of the Department of Washington,
which in its various hospitals contained
23,610 beds and received, treated and trans
ported 113,351 men in 1864. He organized
a" hospital for the treatment of cholera in
1866, and had charge of the Post Hospital ;
he was promoted captain in 1867 and bre
vetted major for distinguished services, and
resigned in 1868. He introduced the local
use of creosote in gunshot wounds in 1861,
and later demonstrated the value of bromine
in hospital gangrene, and was a pioneer in
the study, use and improvement of photog
raphy in connection with surgical injur
ies. From 1868, Dr. Thomson gave his
entire attention to diseases of the eye. He
was elected assistant surgeon of Wills Hos
pital, in 1868, and surgeon in 1872, resigned
in 1877, was reelected surgeon in 1896, re

signed in 1902, and was elected consulting
surgeon. In 1868 he began to lecture on his
chosen specialty at the Wills Hospital, and,
also, with the quiz class of Gross, Maury,
Townsend and Andrews at the Jefferson
Medical College, where he continued to
teach until his resignation in 1897, a period
of thirty years. In 1869 and 1870, in his
private practice he was the first to recog
nize and treat with success cases of per
sistent headache and other nervous symp
toms, due to eye strain, by the correction
with glasses of the astigmatism which
caused them. In 1873 he established a daily
clinic for eye and ear at Jefferson Medical
College and gave a clinical lecture every Fri
day. He was elected ophthalmic surgeon
of Jefferson College Hospital in 1877; soon
afterward elected honorary professor of
ophthalmology, and in 1895, full professor
of ophthalmology of Jefferson College with
a seat in the faculty, resigned in 1897 and
was elected professor emeritus, which po
sition he now holds. He is author of: The
chapter on Diseases of the Eye, in Gross'
System of Surgery, 1872; Test for Diag
nosis of Ametropia, with Instrument, 1872;
The Ophthalmoscope in the Diagnosis of
Intra-cranial Lesions (Mitchell and Thom
son), 1873 (History of First Tumor of the
Brain Diagnosed by its aid in Philadel
phia) ; Astigmatism, as a Cause for Per
sistent Headaches, Treated by Correction of
Optical Defects (Mitchell and Thomson),
1874; Connection Between Posterior Sta
phyloma and Astigmatism, 1875 ; Correction
of Conical Cornea by Convex Cylindrical
Glasses ; Rapid Diagnosis of Refraction with
New Instrument, 1878; System Adopted by
the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1880 for Ex
amination of Employees for Color-Blind-
ness, Vision and Hearing, with Instru
ments, Color Stick, Test Letters, Etc. (still
in use and adopted by other roads controll
ing over 100,000 miles of track) ; supple
ment to Nettleship on Diseases of the Eye
(giving a full description of the above) ;
edited the ophthalmic part of the Annual
of the Medical Sciences in its first year,
1889; New Wool Test for Detecting Color
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Eye, in the American Text-Book of Sur
gery, 1892; Normal Color Sense and De
tection of Color-blindness (two chapters in
Norris and Oliver's System of Diseases of
the Eye, 1893-1897; Relations of Ophthal
mology to Practical Medicine; Detection of
Color-blindness with Lantern (to aid wool
tests), 1901 ; Use of Circle of Diffusion for
Correcting Ametropia with an Instrument
(W. and A. G. Thomson), and other pub
lications. Dr. Thomson is inventor of eight
new instruments which have been accepted
as useful. He is ophthalmic surgeon to the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and in 1906 was se
lected to inspect his wool test, adopted by
the American Railroad Association to se
cure and preserve its accuracy. He is a
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, being delegated from the Medical Staff
United States Army in 1863. He is a fel
low of College of Physicians of Philadel
phia ; a member of the Pathological So
ciety, Academy of Natural Sciences, Coun
ty Medical Society, Philosophical Society,
and Ophthamological Society; Neurological
Society (honorary), New York; Interna
tional Ophthamological Congress; American
Otological and Ophthamological Society;
vice-president Ophthamological Section of
International Medical Congress in 1876;
physician to Church Home for Children;
physician to the Hospital of the Protestant
Episcopal Church; consulting surgeon to
the Deaf and Dumb Institution. Dr. Thom
son is also a companion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and a member
of the Philadelphia, Art and Country Clubs.
He married, in 1857, Rebecca, daughter of
William E. George, of Merion, Pennsyl
vania. Address : 1426 Walnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
THORNDIKE, Edward Lee:
Educator; born in Williamsburg, Massa
chusetts, August 31, 1874; son of Edward
R. Thorndike and Abbie B. (Ladd) Thorn-
dike. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University as A.B. in 1895, from Harvard
University as A.B. in 1896 and A.M. in
1897, and from Columbia as Ph.D. in
1898. He was instructor in the Western
Reserve University in 1898 and 1899; in

structor from 1898 to 1901 and has been
professor since 1901 at the Teachers' Col
lege, Columbia University. He is a fellow
of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, the New York Acad
emy of Science ; member of the American
Phychological Association, American Phil
osophical Association, and other societies.
Mr. Thorndike married in Lynn, Massa
chusetts, August 29, 1900, Elizabeth Moul-
ton, and they have two children : Eliza
beth, born in 1902, and Edward Moulton,
born in 1905. Address : Teachers' College,
Columbia University, New York City,
THORNE, William V. S.:
Capitalist ; born in Millbrook, New York ;
son of Samuel Thorne, and Phoebe (Van
Schoonhoven) Thorne. He was graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University in 1885. He is director of pur
chases of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, Oregon Short Line Company, Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation Company,
Southern Pacific Company; director of
Wells, Fargo and Company; Oregon Short
Line Railroad Company; Southern Pacific
Company; Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany; Railroad Securities Company; man
ager and treasurer of the Presbyterian
Hospital ; manager of the Manhattan Ma
ternity Hospital, and the Society for the
Relief of Plalf-Orphan and Destitute Chil
dren. He is a member of the Metropolitan,
University, Riding, Racquet and Down
Town Clubs. Mr. Thome married in New
York City, November 16, 1905, J. Therese
Keyser. Residence : 4 East Seventy-sec
ond Street, New York City. Office address :
120 Broadway, New York City.
THURSTON, Lo In Andrews:
Lawyer and jurist; born in Honolulu,
Hawaii, July 31, 1858; son of Asa G. Thurs
ton and Sarah (Andrews) Thurston. He
was educated in Oahu College, Honolulu,
and at the Columbia Law School in New
York City. He engaged in the practice of
law in Honolulu in 1878; was elected a
member of the House of Representatives of
Hawaii in 1886, minister of the interior of
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ber of the Legislature of Hawaii, from
1887 to 1890; elected a member of the
House of Nobles of Hawaii, 1892; member
of the Committee of Safety, in connection
with the overthrow of the Hawaiian mon
archy, 1893 ; member of the Advisory Coun
cil of the Provisional Government of Ha
waii, 1893 ; special commissioner to the
United States to negotiate the annexation
of Hawaii 1893, and minister of the Pro
visional Government of Hawaii 1893, and
of the Republic of Hawaii 1894, to the
United States ; special commissioner to ne
gotiate treaty of annexation 1897. Mr.
Thurston is a member of the Honolulu
Park Commission, a trustee of Oahu Col
lege; president of the Hawaiian Gazette
Company and officer and director of nu
merous corporations. He is a member of
the Hawaiian Bar Association, the Na
tional Geographic Society, the Sons of the
American Revolution, and the University
Club of Honolulu. He is a Republican
in politics. Mr. Thurston married at St.
Joseph, Michigan, April 5, 1894, Harriet
Potter. Address : Stangenwald Building,
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
TIDBALL, Thomas Allen:
Clergyman and professor; born in Win
chester, Virginia, March 3, 1847; son of
Alexander Scott Tidball and Catharine
(Macky) Tidball. He attended Charles-
town Academy, West Virginia, from 1857
to 1864; law student, from 1865 to 1867;
Theological Seminary of Virginia, from
1868 to 1871, and he received the degree of
D.D. from William and Mary College in
1878. He was ordered deacon in the Pro
testant Episcopal Church in 1871 by Bishop
Whittle and was ordained priest in 1872,
by Bishop Johns ; was elected Bishop of
Tokyo, Japan, in 1892, but declined; was
elected professor of systematic divinity in
the Divinity School of the Protestant Epis
copal Church in Philadelphia, in 1890, but
declined ; was chaplain of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1894 and 1895 ; chaplain of
University of Virginia in 1901 ; was rector
of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia,
from 1872 to 1878, of Christ Church, Lex
ington, Kentucky, from 1878 to 1885 ; of

St. Paul's Church, Camden, New Jersey,
from 1885 to 1893 ; Church of the Epiphany,
Philadelphia, from 1893 to 1898; Church of
St. Luke and the Epiphany, Philadelphia,
from 1898 to 1903 ; and has been professor
of ecclesiastical history and polity in Uni
versity of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
since 1904 (and is also chaplain to the
university). He has been deputy to the
General Convention of Protestant Episcopal
Church, from Kentucky and New Jersey,
and a member of the Standing Committee
of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. He is
author of: Christ in the New Testament,
1891. Dr. Tidball has traveled extensively
in Europe. He is a member of the Ameri
can Historical Association. He married in
Accomack, Virginia, October 17, 1872, Mary
Josephine Brown (deceased). Address:
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennes-

TIFFANY, Louis Comfort:
Artist; born in New York City, Febru
ary 18, 1848; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany
and Harriet Olivia (Young) Tiffany;
grandson of Comfort and Chloe (Draper)
Tiffany, and of Ebenezer and Anna (Bur
nett) Young; and descendant of Squire
Humphreys Tiffany. He studied art in
New York under George Inness and Sam
uel Coleman, and in Paris, under Leon
Bailly ; and received the honorary degree
of A.M. from Yale. He painted in oil and
water colors, making a specialty of Orien
tal scenes. His principal canvasses are :
The Dock Scene, 1869; Street Scene in
Tangiers, 1876; Study of Quimper, Brit-
anny, 1877; Duane Street, New York,
1878; The Cobbler at Boufarick, 1888;
Feeding the Plamingoes, 1888 ; Market Day
at Nuremberg, 1892. His other important
art works include the Tiffany Chapel ex
hibited at the World's Columbian Expo
sition at Chicago in 1893, now in the Crypt
of the New York Cathedral of St. John
the Divine; the Electric Fountain in the
Grand Court of the Manufactures and Fine
Arts Building at the Pan American Expo
sition at Buffalo, New York, in 1901. He
discovered a new formula for making
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fany Favrile Glass. In 1879 he established
and became president and art director of
the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Com
pany, now widely known as the Tiffany
Studios, manufacturers of favrile glass win
dows, decorators and general art workers ;
and he established and controls the Tif
fany Furnaces at Corona, Long Island,
and the Allied Arts Company of New York
City; is vice-president, trustee and art di
rector of Tiffany and Company, the New
York jewelry house founded by his father,
Charles L. Tiffany, deceased. He was
elected associate member in 1871, - and
academician in 1888 of the National Acad
emy of Design ; is a member of the So
ciety of American Artists, American
Water Color Society, New York, So
ciety of Fine Arts, Architectural League,
Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, and the
Imperial Society of Fine Arts, Tokio,
Japan. In 1890 he received the gold medal
and decoration of the Chevalier of the
Legion de'Honneur; and he is a member
of the Century, Grolier,' Union League, Na
tional Arts, Riding, Barnard and City
Clubs. Mr. Tiffany has been twice mar
ried ; first, May 15, 1872, to Mary, daughter
of Levi Hart and Mary Woodbridge (Per
kins) Goddard, of Norwich, Connecticut,
who died January 22, 1884; and married,
second, November 9, 1886, Louise Wake-
man, daughter of Rev. J. H. Mason and
Louise (Wakeman) Knox, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, who died May 8, 1904. Resi
dence : 27 East Seventy-second Street, New
York City. Office addresses : 401 Fifth Ave
nue, and 347 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
TILFORD, Frank:
Banker and business man; born in New
York City, July 22, 1852. He received his
education in private schools, and Mount
Washington Collegiate Institute. At an
early age he entered business with his
father, in the firm of Park and Tilford.
He steadily advanced; became a partner,
and on his father's death succeeded him
as vice-president and director; bought all
outstanding interests June I, 1906, and be

came president of the corporation, and at
the same time assumed active management
of the business. In 1874, at the age of
twenty-two, he was chosen a director of the
Sixth National Bank, being then the young
est bank director in the city, and he was
elected trustee of the North River Savings
Bank. In 1889, with George C. Haven, he
organized the Bank of New Amsterdam,
now the New Amsterdam National Bank;
became its vice-president and in 1896 was
elected its president, but sold his interest
in 1901. Soon after he organized and es
tablished the Fifth Avenue Trust Company,
sold his interest, and in 1902 organized the
Lincoln Trust Company of which he is pres
ident and chairman of the Executive Com
mittee. In addition to the interests before
mentioned, he is vice-president and direc
tor of the Madison Safe Deposit Company,
president of the New« York and Queens
Gas Company, New York and Queens Elec
tric Light and Power Company and Queens
Investing Company; trustee of the Con
solidated Gas Company, Williamsport Gas
Company, City Investing Company, and
Dallas Gas Company. He was a member
of the Executive Committee which success
fully completed the Grant Monument; is
director and treasurer of the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital; trustee of the New
York Historical Society; life member of
the New York Genealogical and Biograph
ical Society; member of the New York Zo
ological Society, New York Botanical Gar
den, Chamber of Commerce, West End As
sociation, Sons of Revolution, Sheriff's
Jury and Aldine Association. In politics
he is a Republican and he was a presidential
elector in 1900. His favorite recreation is
yachting and he owns the magnificent steam
yacht Norman. He is a member of the
Army and Navy Club, Automobile Club of
America, Riding, Lotos, Union League, Re
publican, New York Athletic, of which he
is a life member, Coney Island Jockey, New
York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Larchmont
Yacht, Indian Harbor Yacht, Columbia
Yacht and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
Clubs. Address: 208 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.

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TULEY, David F.:
Banker. He is a member of the firm of
Mason, Lewis and Company, bankers, of
Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia; secre
tary and director of the Niagara Light,
Heat and Power Company; assistant treas
urer and director of the Willimantic Gas
and Electric Light Company. Mr. Tilley is
a member of the State Board of Charities
of Massachusetts, and of the National
Vagrancy Committee ; and is treasurer of
the Boston City Club. Address : 60 Devon
shire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
TILLINGHAST, Caleb Benjamin:
State librarian of Massachusetts ; born in
West Greenwich, Rhode Island, April 3,
1843 ; son of Pardon Tillinghast and Eu
nice (Tillinghast) Tillinghast. He was
educated in the public and private schools
of Windham County, Connecticut, and re
ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from
Harvard in 1896 and Litt.D. from Tufts
College in 1905. He was a teacher from
i860 to 1862; was engaged in mercantile
business from 1863 to 1870; local editor of
the Boston Daily Journal from 1870 to
1879; and has been State librarian since
1879; also treasurer of the Massachusetts
State Board of Education since 1879 and
has been three times its acting secretary.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the Colonial Society of Massa
chusetts, the American Antiquarian Society,
American Historical Association, Bunker
Plill Monument Association; vice-president
New England Historic-Genealogical So
ciety; life member Boston Young Men's
Christian Association and American Li
brary Association; corresponding member
Maine Historical Society, the Old Colony
Historical Society, Chicago Historical So
ciety, Buffalo Historical Society, Wey
mouth Historical Club and Worcester So
ciety of Antiquity; member of the Bos
ton Art, Boston City and Appalachian
Mountain Clubs. Mr. Tillinghast married,
in Boston, Massachusetts, 1886, Martha A.
Wonson. Residence : 120 Dartmouth Street,
Boston. Address : State House, Boston,
Massachusetts.

TILLMAN, Benjamin Ryan:
United States senator; born in Edge
field County, South Carolina, August 11,
1847. He received an academic education
under the instruction of George Galphin,
at Bethany, in the same county; quit school
in July, 1864, to join the Confederate Army,
but was stricken with a severe illness, which
caused the loss of his left eye and kept
him an invalid for two years. He followed
farming as a pursuit and took no active part
in politics till he began the agitation in 1886
for industrial and technical education which
culminated in the establishment of the Clem
son Agricultural and Mechanical College,
at Calhoun's old home, Fort Hill. The de
mand for educational reform broadened into
a demand for other changes in State af
fairs, and he was put forward by the farm
ers as a candidate for governor in 1890.
After an exciting and heated canvass he
received the nomination in the Democratic
Convention by a vote of 270 to 50 for his
opponent, and was elected in November
following. This was' his first political office,
and he was reelected in 1892 by an over
whelming vote. His term as governor was
signalized by the passage of the dispensary
law for the control of the liquor traffic by
the State and by the establishment of an
other college, the Winthrop Normal and In
dustrial College for Women, at Rock Hill,
an institution which bids fair to lead all
similar schools in the South. He entered
the race for the Senate against General
Butler and the two canvassed the State,
county by county, with the result that Till
man was elected by the General Assembly,
and was reelected in 1901 and 1907. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1913.
He married, in 1868, Sallie Starke. Ad
dress : Trenton, South Carolina.
TILLMAN, Edward Hord:
Commander in the United States Navy;
born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, October 28,
1858; son of Lewis Tillman and Mary C.
(Davidson) Tillman. He attended the Uni
versity of Tennessee in 1873 and 1874, and
then was appointed to the United States
Naval Academy, 1875, and was graduated
in 1879. He served on the United States

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Ship Shenandoah, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, Trenton, in the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey, on the United States
Coast Survey Steamers Blake and Bache, in
command of the United States Coast Sur
vey Steamer Endeavor, and Schooner
Matchless, United States Steamship Petrel;
instructor in navigation and seamanship
at the United States Naval Academy, from
September, 1897, to June 1899; United
States Steamship Alliance and Mononga
hela, from 1899 to 1902; in command of
the United States Ships Newport and Am-
phitrite, from 1902 to 1904; at the Execu
tive Training Station, Norfolk, Virginia,
from March 1904 to October, 1904 ; in com
mand of the United States Ship Ranger,
March, 1905, to June; in command of the
Monadnock, June, ^905, to December 28,
1905. He voluntarily retired from the ac
tive list, June 30, 1905, but has been re
tained on active duty to the present time.
While serving in the United States Coast
and Geological Survey, in connection with
Mr. John Ross, he designed and developed
the Tide and Current Chart. He married
in Washington, D. C, November 10, 1891,
Frida Kondrup, and they have three chil
dren : Frida, Margheritta, and Edwin H.
Address : 312 Broadway, Newport, Rhode
Island.
TILTON, Frederic W.:
Capitalist and educator; born in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, May 14, 1839; son
of Benjamin Tilton and Lucinda (Newell)
Tilton. He attended public schools of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1846 to
1858; was graduated from Harvard Col
lege, Cambridge, as A.B. in 1862, and A.M.
in 1865 ; studied at the University of Got
tingen, Germany, in 1862 and 1863. He
was instructor in Latin at the Highland
Military Academy, Worcester, from 1863 to
1866; superintendent of Public Schools,
Newport, Rhode Island, from 1867 to 1871 ;
principal of Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, from 1871 to 1873; head
master of Rogers School, Newport, Rhode
Island, from 1873 to 1890. He has served
as trustee and president of Newport Hos
pital; as trustee of Redwood Library,

Newport, Rhode Island; as member of the
Rhode Island State Board of Education;
as director of People's Library, of Newport,
Rhode Island; as trustee of Phillips Acad
emy, Andover, Massachusetts, 'and is now
trustee of the Rogers School of Newport,
Rhode Island. He lived in Europe in 1885
and 1886 and from 1890 to 1894, and since
then in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is
vice-president, trustee and member of the
Investment Committee of the Cambridge-
port Savings Bank and director of the Har
vard Trust Company; and has been a mem
ber of the Newport Reading Room, and of
the Harvard Union and Oakley Clubs, and
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Mr. Tilton married, in Cambridge, July 21,
1864, Ellen Trowbridge, and they have four
children: William F., Ph.D., born in 1867;
Benjamin T., A.B., M.D., born in 1868;
Ellen Maud, born in 1872, and Newell
Whiting, A.B., born in 1878. Address: 86
Sparks Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
TINGLEY, Monroe Wood:
Comptroller of the International Mercan
tile Marine Company ; born at Portage, Liv
ingston County, New York, December 12,
1850; son of John Tingley and Nancy Em
ma (Wood) Tingley. After a careful pre
paratory education he entered the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania in 1878, and left in
1879, in order to accept a position as con-.
fidential clerk with the firm of Peter Wright
& Sons of Philadelphia, which position he
held until 1891. He was also secretary and
treasurer of the Electric Dynamic Com
pany of Philadelphia from 1884 to 1889;
secretary and treasurer of the Philadelphia
Lighting Company in 1888 and 1889; was
comptroller of the International Navigation
Company, Philadelphia, from 189 1 to 1905,
when it was merged in the International
Mercantile Marine Company, of which he
has since been comptroller with headquar
ters in New York City. He is a member of
the Philadelphia and Manheim Clubs of
Philadelphia and the New York Camera
Club. He married Marie C. S. Quetil,
daughter of Charles J. Quetil, of France,
and they have one son, Julien Quetil
Tingley (born in Philadelphia in 1882, edu-

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cated in Harvard College, and married
Clara May, daughter of James Nunemaker
of Maryland). Residence: 8635 Seminole
Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Of
fice address : 9 Broadway, New York City.
TIRRELL, Charles Quincy :
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Sharon,
Massachusetts, December 10, 1844; son of
Dr. Norton Q. Tirrell and Susan J. Tirrell.
He was graduated at Dartmouth College
in 1866; was admitted to the bar in 1870
at Boston, where he has since practiced;
was elected to the General Court of Mas
sachusetts from Weymouth in 1872, to the
Massachusetts Senate from the Fourth Mid
dlesex District for two terms, in 1881 and
1882; and was presidential elector in 1888.
He is a past grand master of the Grand
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Massachusetts. Mr. Tirrell was elected
to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixtieth Congress. He is a Republican in
politics, and an Episcopalian in his church
relations. He is president and director of
Tarawamboit Odd Fellow Building Asso
ciation; secretary and director of the Fall
River Steam and Gas Pipe Company, trus
tee of Wildey Savings Bank, and director of
E. H. Clapp Rubber Company, and the Pen
obscot Chemical Fibre Company. He mar
ried at Natick, Massachusetts, February 13,
1873, Mary E. Hollis, and they have a son,
Arthur H. Tirrell, born January 4, 1881.
Residence : Natick, Massachusetts. Office
address : 42 Court Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts. TISDEL, Frederick Monroe:
University president; born in Belvidere,
Illinois, January 7, 1869 ; son of James Mon
roe and Amanda (Clark) Tisdel. He was
graduated from Northwestern University
as A.B. in' 1891, University of Wisconsin
as A.M. in 1893. Harvard University as
A.M. in 1894, and Ph.D. in 1900. He was
instructor in elocution in the University of
Wisconsin, from 1891 to 1893 ; associate
professor of rhetoric and oratory at Ober
lin College, from 1895 to 1898; professor of
English at the Armour Institute of Tech

nology from 1300 to 1904, and president of
the University of Wyoming since 1904. He
is a Republican in politics, and a Presbyter
ian in religion. Mr. Tisdell is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, and the Modern Lan
guage Association of America. He married
in Boston, Massachusetts, September 8,
1898, Nellie Lee Monroe, and they have one
son, Nelson Clark Risdel, born March 11,
1900. Address : Laramie, Wyoming.
TISON, Alexander:
Lawyer; born in St. Louis County, Mis
souri, December 23, 1857; son of Hippolyte
Tison and Hannah E. (Doyle) Tison. He
was graduated from Olivet (Michigan)
College as A.B. in 1878 and A.M. in 1881
and from Harvard L#w School as LL.B.
and A.M. in 1886. He began study for the
bar of New York in the office of the late
James C. Carter; was admitted to the prac
tice of law in Michigan, 1885, and in New
York, 1887; practiced in New York City
until 1889, when he went to Tokyo, Japan,
where he was professor of English and
American law in the Japanese Imperial
University for five years ; also practiced
law in the British and American ex-terri
torial courts in Tokyo, Yokohama and
Kobe, from 1889 to 1894. He returned
from Japan by way of China, India, Egypt
and Europe, in 1894 to New York City,
where he has practiced law ever since, now
being -a partner in the law firm of Tison
and Goddard. Mr. Tison has made four
visits to Japan since his return to New
York, in 1894, on business and professional
matters of international concern. In poli
tics he is a Democrat. He is a member of
the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the Asiatic Society of Japan;
life member of Red Cross Society of Japan ;
member of the Civil Service Reform Asso
ciation. Mr. Tison was decorated by Em
peror of Japan with the orders of Rising
Sun and the Sacred Treasure. He is a
member of the Century Association, and
the Harvard, McDowell and Nippon Clubs.
He married in New York City, in Novem
ber, 1894, Annie H. Stevens, and they have
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born in 1898, and Alexander, Jr., born in
1900. Residence: 308 West Seventy-second
Street, New York City. Address : 15 Wil
liam Street. New York City.
TITHERINGTON, Richard Handheld:
Managing editor of Munsey's Magazine
and secretary of the Frank A. Munsey
Company; born in Chester, England, Oc
tober 2, 1861; son of the late William
Titherington, of Dee Hills, Chester. He at
tended Winchester College, from 1875 to
1880 and Magdalen College, Oxford, from
1880 to 1884. He came to the United
States in August, 1884, as tutor to the sons
of the late Abram S. Hewitt, and has been
with the publishing house of Frank A.
Munsey since 1886. He is author of: His
tory of the Spanish^American War, 1900
(Appleton) ; and many magazine and news
paper articles. Mr. Titherington is a mem
ber of the St. George's Society and of the
National Arts Clubs of New York. Ad
dress : 175 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
TOLMAN, William Howe:
Social economist; born in Pawtucket,
Rhode Island; son of William E. and
Martha Lee (Howe) Tolman. Pie was
graduated from Brown University in 1882;
took post-graduate studies in Department of
History and Politics, Johns Plopkins Uni
versity, receiving Ph.D. in 1891. He is
general agent for the New York Association
for Improving the Condition of the Poor;
secretary of the Mayor's Committee of
Public Baths, New York, Improved Housing
Council, New York ; director of the Amer
ican Museum of Safety Devices, and In
dustrial Hygiene, of the American Institute
of Social Service, New York. He was a
member of the International Jury of the
Paris Exposition of 1900; president of the
Group, and president of the Department
Jury in Social Economy, and member of
the Superior Jury of the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition of 1904; director of the
United States Section of Social Economy,
in the' International Exposition at Liege,
1905, and vice-president of the Interna
tional Jury; commissioner of the United
States Section, and a member of the In

ternational Jury of the International Ex
position at Milan, 1906; American com
missioner general at the International Ex
position of Books and Paper, 1907; mem
ber of the Jury at the International Expo
sition of Safety Devices at Budapest in
1907. Dr. Tolman is author of : History of
Higher Education in Rhode Island, 1891 ;
Municipal Reform Movements in the United
States, 1894; Handbook of Sociological
Reference for New York City, 1894; Report
on Public Baths and Public Stations, 1897;
Industrial Betterment (monograph pre
pared for the United States Section of So
cial Economy at the Paris Exposition,
1900), Industrial Betterment, a volume in
Economic History of the United States,
prepared by Carnegie Institute, Washing
ton, and various review articles. He is an
Episcopalian in his church relations, Che
valier of the Legion d'Honneur de France;
chevalier of the Order of Leopold, Bel
gium; and Konislicher Kronen-Orden, 3
Klasse, Germany. He is a corresponding
member of the Imperial and Royal Mu
seum of Vienna, Society of Improved Dwel
lings, France, United States Delegate to the
Fourteenth International Congress of Hy
giene, Berlin, 1907. Dr. Tolman is also a
member- of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, and of the Municipal Art So
ciety, American Scenic and Historic Preser
vation Society, Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
He married in New York City, August 25,
1891, Anna C. Gerhold, and they have, one
son, George L., born in 1894. Address :
231 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York
City. v
TOMKINS, Calvin:
Manufacturer, merchant ; born in East
Orange, New Jersey, January 26, 1858 ; son
of Walter and Emma Augusta (Baldwin)
Tomkins; descendant of Micah Tomkins,
who settled at New Milford, Connecticut,
1639, and subsequently became one of the
original settlers of Newark, New Jersey.
He was educated in Prescott's School,
Orange, New Jersey, and was graduated
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He is president of the Albert Manufactur
ing Company of New Brunswick, Canada;
Bonner Brick Company, Newark Lime and
Cement Company; and director of Tomp
kins Cove Stone Company and the Battery
Park National Bank. In politics he is a
Democrat and he was prominent in the
Sound -Money movement, from 1895 to
1898; chairman of Franchise Committee
of the Citizens' Union in 1904 and 1905,
when he urged the adoption of the policy
of municipal control over all kinds of public
utilities. He was president of the Muni
cipal Art Society, New York City, in 1903-
1904, and 1905, in which position and
since he has urged the adoption of a
comprehensive development plan for the
city. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fra
ternity, Society of the War of 1812, and
a member of the Cornell University, Re
form, Lawyers' and Atlantic Yacht Clubs.
Mr. Tomkins married in Stony Point, New
York, December 4, 1889, Kitty Neilley
Tomkins, and they have three children :
Calvin, Jr., born in 1894; Frederick, born
in 1896, and Katherine, born in 1905.
Residences : Tomkins Cove, New York,
and 21 West Tenth Street, New York City.
TOMPKINS, Arthur Sidney:
Jurist; born in Schoharie County, New
York, August 26, 1865; son of Sidney B.
Tompkins and Mary H. Tompkins. He
was educated in the public schools of
Clarkstown and Nyack, New York, studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1886.
He was police justice of Nyack, New York,
from 1887 to 1890; was elected to the
General Assembly of New York, from
Rockland County in 1890; county judge of
Rockland County, New York, from 1893 to
1899; elected in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth
Congress, and reelected in 1900 to the Fif
ty-seventh Congress, serving until March,
1903, and in 1906 he was elected a judge
of the Supreme Court of the State of New
York, from the Ninth Judicial District for
the term expiring December 31, 1920. Judge
Tompkins is a Republican in politics. He
married at Tarrytown-on-Hudson, New
York, May 18, 1889, Jeanie C. Logan. Ad
dress : Nyack, New York.

TOMPKINS, Eugene:
Theatrical manager; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, September 28, 1850; son of
Orlando and Frances Henrietta (Viles)
Tomkins and a descendant of Nathaniel
Tomkins, who married Elizabeth Waters
at Little Compton, Massachusetts, in 1674,
and of Robert Hicks, of Dartmouth, Mas
sachusetts, 1621. He was a pupil at Chaun
cey Hall School and on leaving school in
1867 he was clerk in the office of a wool
merchant, remaining in the establishment
for ten years. In August, 1876, he be
came assistant to his father who was man
ager of the Boston Theater, and he was
given charge of the stage productions. In
1884 on the death of his father he took his
place as a member of the firm of Tomp
kins and Hill, managers of the theater,
and on the death of Mr. Hill, in 1886, he
purchased the interest of the Hill estate
in the theater. Mr. Tompkins also be
came lessee and manager of the Fifth Ave
nue Theater, New York, the Park Thea
ter, Boston, and the Academy of Music,
New York, of which he is half owner.
He is a Mason in high degrees, a member
of the Eastern, New York and other Yacht
Clubs, of the Algonquin, Boston Art,
Athletic, Brookline Country, Gentlemen's
Driving, Oakley Country, Exchange and
Players' Clubs and of the Boston and Bos-
tonian Societies. He is also president of
the Temple Club. He married April, 1884,
Gertrude, daughter of Dr. H. S. Griswald,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and she died in
August, 1897. Residence: 325 Common
wealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Of
fice address: 92 State Street, Boston, and
Academy of Music, New York City.
TOMPKINS, Hamilton Bullock:
Lawyer, collector of books; born in
Brooklyn, New York, July 30, 1843; son
of Tillinghast and Charlotte (Merrill)
Tompkins. He was graduated from Hamil
ton College as A.B. in 1865 and A.M. in
1868, from New York University Law
School as LL.B. in 1868 and studied in the
University of Berlin, from 1869 to 1871. He
has made many visits to Europe, includ
ing a trip to Egypt and Palestine. Mr.

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Tompkins is a director of the Bankers'
Loan and Investment Company; C. Poyet,
Incorporated, and the Hudson River Land
Company. He is a member of the Associa
tion of the Bar of the City of New York,
American Bar Association, International
Law Association, American Free Trade
League, National Municipal League, Civil
Service Reform Association, American Li
brary Association,. Bibliophile Society, New
York Genealogical and Biographical So
ciety, Charity Organization Society, New
York Historical Society, American Scenic
and Historic Society, Society of Colonial
Wars, Colonial Order, Sons of the Revo
lution, Mayflower Society, New England
Society, and Sigma Phi fraternity. He is
a trustee of Hamilton College (member of
its Executive Committee and chairman of
its Library Committee) ; secretary and di
rector of the Redwood Library of Newport,
Rhode Island, and vice president of the
Newport Historical Society. He is author
of: Biographical Record of the Class of
1865 of Hamilton College, 1877; Bibliotheca
Jeffersoniana, 1887, Burr Bibliography,
1892; Bibliography of Works of George H.
Calvert, 1900, and of several papers read
before the Society of Colonial Wars, Co
lonial Order, and the New York Genealogi
cal and Biographical Society. He is a
member of the University, Grolier, and Bal-
tusrol Golf Clubs of New York; Univer
sity Club of Boston; Nicatous Fishing Club
of Maine and of the Newport Reading
Room Club. Mr. Tompkins married, April
20, 1876, Susan L. Ledyard, who died Oc
tober .11, 1877. Address: 229 Broadway,
New York City.
TOOLE, Joseph Kemp:
Governor of Montana; born in Savan
nah, Missouri, May 12, 185 1; son of Edwin
and Lucinda S. Toole. He was educated in
the public schools and academy of St. Jo
seph, Missouri ; removed to Montana at the
age of 19, studied law and engaged in prac
tice; and he also became prominent as a
Democratic leader. He served as district
attorney, was elected a member of the Ter
ritorial Legislature of Montana in 1879;
elected in 1884, delegate from Montana Ter

ritory to the Forty-ninth Congress, and re
elected in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. He
was a member of the Constitutional Con
vention in 1889, and in the same year was
elected the first governor of the State of
Montana, for the term expiring in 1893.
In November, 1900, he was again elected
governor, and in November, 1904, was re
elected for the .term expiring in January,
1909. Governor Toole married in Wash
ington, D. C, May 6, 1890, Lily, daughter
of General W. S. Rosecrans. Address :
Helena, Montana.
TOULMTN, Harry Theophilus:
United States district judge; born in Mo
bile County, Alabama, March 4, 1838. Af
ter preparatory education he entered the
University of Alabama in 1853, and from
there to the University of Virginia, where
he remained until 1857, then studied law
and was admitted to the bar at Mobile in
i860. When the war began, in 1861, he en
tered the Confederate Army as a private
and served through the war, becoming
colonel Twenty-second Alabama Infantry,
and after the war engaged in the practice
of law. He was a Democratic presidential
elector in 1868; member of the House of
Representatives of Alabama from 1870 to
1872; judge of the Circuit Court of Ala
bama from 1874 to 1882, then resumed
practice in Mobile until appointed, January
13, 1887, judge of the district court for the
Southern District of Alabama. Address :
Mobile, Alabama.
TOWER, Charlemagne:
Ambassador; born in Philadelphia, April
17, 1848; son of Charlemagne Tower and
Amelia (Bartle) Tower, eighth in descent
from John Tower, who emigrated from
Hingham, Norfolk, England, to Massachu
setts, in 1637. He received his preparatory
education in the Military Academy at New
Haven, Connecticut, and at Phillips' Acad
emy at Exeter, New Hampshire, and from
the latter entered Harvard University, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in the class
of 1872; he pursued graduate studies in
history, foreign languages and literature in
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studied law in the office of William Henry
Rawle in Philadelphia. He has received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Lafayette
College, Pennsylvania; the University of
Chicago, and the Universities of Glasgow
and St. Andrew's. Mr. Tower was ad
mitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1878, and
in 1882 removed to Duluth, Minnesota,
where he was president of the Duluth
and Iron Range Railroad and managing
director of the Minnesota Iron Company.
He returned to Philadelphia in 1887, and
has since made his home there, owning
large interests and being officer and di
rector in various large corporations. He
began his diplomatic career in 1897, up
on his appointment by President Mc
Kinley as envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary of the United States
to Austria-Hungary, remaining at Vi
enna until 1899, when he was advanced
to ambassadorial rank as American am
bassador to Russia, at which court he re
mained until his appointment in 1902 to
his present important post as United States
ambassador to Germany. Mr. Tower has
devoted much attention to historical re
search and his two-volume work on The
Marquis de La Fayette in the American
Revolution, published in 1895 (Lippincott),
is one of the most important contributions
to Revolutionary history. He received from
the French Government, in recognition of
this work, the decoration of grand of
ficer of the Legion of Honor. He
was for several years a trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania, and he is a
member of the American Philosophical So
ciety, of Philadelphia; the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, and of the
Academy of Natural Sciences. Mr. Tower
married, in 1888, Helen Smith, daughter of
G. Frank Smith, of Oakland, California.
Office: 228 South Seventh Street, Phil
adelphia. Address: American Embassy,
Berlin, Germany.
TOWER, Ralph Wlnfred:
Educator and librarian ; born in Amherst,
Massachusetts, May 24, 1870; son of Francis
Emory and Ella Sophia (Shepardson)
Tower. He was educated in the high

schools of Brattleboro, Vermont, from 1884
to 1887, and of Bristol, Connecticut, in
1887 and 1888 ; student at Colby University
from 1888 to 1890; was graduated from
Brown University as A.B., in 1892, A.M.
in 1903, Ph.D. in 1903; studied in the Uni
versity of Leipzig, in 1893 and 1894; Har
vard Medical School, in 1900 and 1901. He
was demonstrator of anatomy, at Brown
University in 1894 and 1895 ; instructor in
chemical physiology, from 1895 to 1898;
assistant professor from 1898 to 1901, as
sistant professor of Brown University from
1901 to 1903; assistant of the biological
laboratory, United States Fish Commis
sion, Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, from
1898 to 1903. He has been curator of
physiology and curator of books and pub
lications, American Museum of Natural
History since 1903; librarian of the New
York Academy of Sciences since 1904. Mr.
Tower is author of: Laboratory Guide to
the Dissection of the Cat; Laboratory
Course in Chemical Physiology; and of
papers : Opening of Brick-red Gland in
Limulus; Function of the Swim-bladder in
Fishes; Biliary Calcui in the Squetague;
Does KCn prolong the Life of the Un
fertilized Egg of the Sea Urchin; Drum
ming Mechanism in Fishes. He is a mem
ber of the American Society of Naturalists ;
fellow of the New York Academy of Sci
ences; fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Xi
societies, and of the Brown University Club
of New York. He married in Bristol,
Connecticut, 1893, Bessie Belle West, and
they have one son : Lawrence West, born
July 6, 1896. Residence: Rochelle Park,
New Rochelle, New York. Address : Amer
ican Museum of Natural History, New
York City.
TOWNE, Edward Owings:
Dramatic author, lawyer ; born in Iowa,
February 19, 1869; son of Rev. Edward
Owings Towne (Baptist minister) and
Mary Virginia (Shull) Towne. He is a
member of one of the oldest American fam
ilies, his earliest ancestor in this country
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and in England the family traces its origin
back .to the times of William the Con
queror. He was educated in Iowa Central
University, practiced law in Chicago for
ten years, and came to New York City in
1902. As a lawyer he has had a leading
part in some celebrated cases, including
the Debs Railroad Conspiracy case, the
Newberry case, the Mainwaring case, the
Todd embezzlement case. He has written
several successful plays, notably Other
People's Money, originally produced in
1895 at the Madison Square Theatre, and
still being played in this and foreign coun
tries; it has been translated into the Rus
sian and French languages by Professor
Alexis Werner of Paris. For his vaudeville
playette, A Game of Wits, he is said to
have received the highest royalties ever
paid to a playwright for a one-act piece. He
is author of plays: Other People's Money;
Too Rich to Marry; By Wits Outwitted;
In Old Madrid; A Masked Battery; The
Wliite Cross; The Lady Barber; Under
Arrest ; Two of a Kind. He is also author
of: Aphorisms, a Book of Sentences (ten
editions) ; The Completion of the Spire,
and Other Poems (four editions). He is
a director of the National Graphite Com
pany, Ariston Press Corporation, Nepera
Realty Company, American Home Supply
Company, Ned Wayburn's Training School
for the Stage, Interstate Amusement Com
pany, and International Amusement Com
pany. He is a member of the Iowa Society
of New York, and is a member of the
Liberal Culture, Fortnightly, Theatregoer's
Club of America (is its president), and
American Dramatists Clubs. Mr. Towne
married Sara Johnston Cooper and they
have one son, Fenimore Cooper Towne,
bora in 1890. Residence: 2686 Broadway,
New York City. Address: 74 Broadway,
New York City.
TOWNE, Robert S.:
Mining engineer; born in Portsmouth,
Ohio, September 17, 1858; son of Hon.
Henry A. and Harriet (Nye) Towne. He
was educated in Ohio State University, Co
lumbus, Ohio, as B.S., in 1879, and E.M.,
in 1880, He is president and director of

Alvarez Land and Timber Company, Fres
nillo Mining Company, Mexico Lead Com
pany, Montezuma Lead Company, Potosi
and Rio Verde Railway Company, Som-
brerete Mining Company; president, treas
urer, director of Compania Metalurgica
Mexicana; vice-president, treasurer and di
rector of Teziutlanf Copper Company, Tezi-
utlan Copper Mining and Smelting Com
pany; director of Knickerbocker Trust
Company, Mexican Northern Railway Com
pany. He is a member of the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, Ohio Society
of New York, and is a member of the New
York, Engineers' and Lawyers' Clubs. Ad
dress : 82 Beaver Street, New York City.
TOWNSEND, Charles E.:
Lawyer and congressman ; ' born at Con
cord, Jackson County, Michigan, August
15, 1856. He attended the common schools
in Concord and Jackson, and in 1877 en
tered the literary department of the Uni
versity of Michigan, where he remained
one year. He was admitted to the Jack
son bar to practice law in 1895, and has
practiced his profession in Jackson since.
He was elected in 1902, as a Republican
to the Fifty-eighth Congress and reelected
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses
from the Second Michigan District. He
married at Concord, Michigan, September
1, 1880, Rena Paddock. Address : Jack
son, Michigan.
TOWNSEND, Hosea:
United States district judge; born at
Greenwich, Ohio, June 16, 1840. He was
educated in the public schools of Ohio.
In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the
Second Ohio Cavalry, and was afterward
promoted to second lieutenant and served
until 1861, when he resigned because of
physical disability. After the war he stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar at
Cleveland, Ohio. He practiced law in
Memphis, Tennessee, until 1879 ; was elected
to the Tennessee State Legislature in 1869 ;
removed to Colorado in 1879, was elected
in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress, and in
1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He
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Court for the Southern District of In
diana by President McKinley in 1897, and
in 1902 he was reappointed by President
Roosevelt. Address : Ardmore, Indian Ter
ritory. TOWNSEND, Howard:
Lawyer; born in Albany, New York, in
1858; son of Howard Townsend and Jus
tine (Van Rensselaer) Townsend. He
was educated in Albany Academy and was
graduated from Harvard College in 1880.
He was admitted to the bar in 1883; came
to New York City and began practice Jan
uary 1, 1884. He was engaged for many
years in an effort to have consumptive
poor cared for by the State. During the
late war with Spain he was one of the
Executive Committee of Red Cross Re
lief Committee and during August and
September he took charge of Red Cross
interests at Montauk. He was manager
of St. Luke's Hospital from 1896 to 1902;
trustee of Roosevelt Hospital from 1898 to
1903, and reelected in 1906. Mr. Townsend
was appointed trustee of Bellevue and Al
lied Hospitals by Mayor Low in 1902. In
politics he is an Independent. He is vestry
man of Grace Church, governor of New
York Hospital ; vice-president of the Asso
ciation for Improving the Condition of
the Poor; secretary of House of Rest for
Consumptives; chairman of the Grievance
Committee of the Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, and a member of
the committee appointed by the Supreme
Court to examine applicants for admission
to the bar, as to their moral character. He
is a member of the Century, Union and
"niversity Clubs. Mr. Townsend has been
twice married, first, in April, 1888, to
Sophie Dickey, who died January, 1892 ; sec
ond, in October, 1894, to Anne Lowdes
Langdon; and he has five children. Resi
dence: 15 East Eighty-sixth Street, New
York City, and Southampton, Long Island,
New York. Office address : 32 Nassau
Street, New York City.
TOWNSEND, John W.:
Vicej-President cf the. Cambria Steel
Company and Cambria Iron Company;

born in Philadelphia, May 29, 1855 ; de
scended from Joseph Townsend, an Eng
lish Quaker, who emigrated to Pennsyl
vania in 1712. He was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in Arts
in 1875. He is a member of the Histori
cal Society of Pennsylvania, the Numis
matic and Antiquarian Society, Pennsyl
vania Horticultural Society, member of
the Board of the College Alumni Society
of University of Pennsylvania, Board of
the Young Men's Christian Association,
Franklin Institute, Archaeological Insti
tute of America and the Genealogical So
ciety. Mr. Townsend is a member of the
Rittenhouse, University. Penn, Houston,
Engineers', Church, Philobiblon, Contem
porary and Merion Cricket Ciubs. Ad
dress: 2103 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
and Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
TOWNSEND, William Kneeland:
United States circut judge; born in New
Haven, Conneticut, June 12, 1849; son of
James M. Townsend. He was graduated
from Yale as A.B. in 1871, from Yale Law
School as LL.B. in 1874, and received the
honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1880. He was
admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1874
and practiced in New Haven until ap
pointed March 28, 1892, judge of the United
States District Court, for the District of
Connecticut, until promoted March 23, 1902,
judge of the United States Circuit Court
for the Second Circuit. He is also pro
fessor of the law of contracts in Yale
University, and is author of several legal
publications and papers. He married, July
1, 1874, Mary Leavenworth Trowbridge.
Address: 148 Grove Street, New Haven,
Connecticut.
TOWNSEND, Wlsner R.:
Surgeon ; born in Staten Island, August
5, 1856; son of Wisner Helme and Emily
(Kyle) Townsend. He was graduated
from Charliet Institute, Columbia College,
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York, as M.D., and from Columbia Uni
versity. He is professor of orthopedic
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tured and Crippled; consulting orthopedic,
surgeon at the French Hospital, Bayonne
Hospital and S. R. Smith Infirmary. He
is a member of the American Medical As
sociation, New York County and State
Medical Society, Bellevue Alumni Society,
New York Academy of Medicine, Clinical
Society, American Orthopedic Association,
New York, and New England Association
of Railway Surgeons, and is a member of
the University Club. Dr. Townsend mar
ried in St. Louis, Missouri, April 27, 1893,
Elizabeth Walker, and they have two
children: Walker, born in 1895, and Wis-
ner R., Jr., born in 1897. Address: 125
West Fifty-eighth Street, New York City.
TOY, Crawford Howell:
Educator; born in Norfolk, Virginia,
March 23, 1836; son of Thomas Dallam
and Amelia Ann (Rogers) Toy. He re
ceived his preparatory, education at the
Norfolk Academy from 1846 to 1852, going
thence to the University of Virginia where
he was graduated in 1856 with the degree
of A.M. After teaching three years he en
tered the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina,
where he studied for one year. In 1866
he went to Germany where he spent two
years in study at the University of -Berlin.
Upon his return to the United States he
was appointed, in 1869, professor of He
brew in the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, holding that position for ten
years, first, in Greenville, and then in Louis
ville, to which latter place the Seminary
was removed in 1877. Since 1880 he has
been professor of Hebrew and Oriental
languages in Harvard University. He is
Independent in politics and acts with the
Unitarian Church. He is member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Archeological Institute of America, the
American Oriental Society, the American
Folklore Society, the International Society
of the Apocrypha and the Society of Bib
lical Literature. He is also member of
Colonial Club, of Cambridge, Massachu
setts. His favorite recreations are walking
and rowing. He is author of various books
on the Old Testament, and Hebrew reli

gion among which are: The Religion of
Israel, 1882; Quotations in the New Testa
ment, 1884; Judaism and Christianity, 1890;
Hebrew Text and English Translation of
Ezekiel, and Commentary on Proverbs,
1899. He married at Norfolk, Virginia, in
May, 1888, Nancy Saunders. Address: 7
Lowell Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
TRACY, Benjamin Franklin:
Lawyer, soldier, cabinet official; born in
Owego, Tioga County, New York, April
26, 1830; son of Benjamin Franklin Tracy,
who was a pioneer settler of that county.
He was educated in the common schools
and Owego Academy, studied law at Owego,
was admitted to the bar in May, 1851, and
engaged in practice. He was elected dis
trict attorney of Tioga County in 1853, as
a Whig candidate in a strongly Democratic
county, and was reelected in 1856. He was
an organizer of the Republican party in
Tioga County, was elected as a member of
the General Assembly of New York, serv
ing in 1861 and 1862; recruited the One
Hundred and Ninth and One Hundred and
Thirty-seventh Regiments of New York
Volunteers, and was commissioned colonel
of the former in 1862. With it he went to
Washington and was on duty there until the
spring of 1864, when the regiment was at
tached to Hartranft's First Brigade, Wil
cox's Third Division, Burnside's Ninth
Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and
took part in the battles of the Wilderness.
Near the close of the first day he fell, ex
hausted by his exertions and was carried
from the filed, but refused to go to the
hospital, and continued to lead his regi
ment during the three days' conflict at
Spottsylvania, when he broke down, and,
surrendering his command to the lieuten
ant-colonel, went North to recruit his
health. A few months later he was made
colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-
seventh Regiment of United States Colored
Troops, and was assigned to command the
military post at Elmira, New York, where
there was a prison camp (at one time con
taining ten thousand prisoners), and the
draft rendezvous for Western New York.
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general of volunteers for gallant and meri
torious services during the war, and June
13, 1865, the war being over, he tendered
his resignation and was honorably dis
charged. He established in practice in New
York City, and in 1866 was appointed
United States district attorney for the
Eastern District of New York. While in
that office he drafted an internal revenue
bill that more than trebled the revenue of
the United States at a time when our credit
was being established by the rapid payment
of the enormous debt entailed by the Civil
War. General Tracy resigned his district
attorneyship in 1873, to return to private
practice. He was appointed in December,
1881, an associate justice of the State Court
of Appeals of New York, but resigned two
years later, and built up a practice which
was one of the largest in New York. Gen
eral Tracy continued his deep interest in
the Republican party, and took an active
part in its campaigns. His work in the
campaign of 1888, was especially effective,
and in the Benjamin Harrison administra
tion which followed, he was a member of
the cabinet as secretary of the navy from
1889 to 1893; since then he has again been
in practice in New York and one of the
leaders at the bar. General Tracy was
chairman of the commission which drafted
the new charter for Greater New York. He
was the Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City in 1897. General Tracy
is a companion of the Military Order of
the Loyal Legion and a cOmrade of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Address : 71
Broadway, New York City.
TRASK, Spencer:
Banker ; born in Brooklyn, New York,
September 18, 1844; son of Alanson Trask
and Sarah (Marquand) Trask. He was
educated in the public schools and Poly
technic Institute of Brooklyn and at Prince
ton College, from which he was graduated
as A.B. in 1866, later receiving the degree
of A.M. After leaving college he engaged
in the banking business, and in 1869 estab
lished the house of Spencer Trask. In April,
1870, he became a member of the New York
Stock Exchange, the firm being then known

as Trask and Stone, and after some other
changes it took in 1881 its present name
of Spencer Trask & Company. The house
is one of the foremost in the financial dis
trict of New York, doing a general bank
ing and brokerage business, and also a spe
cial business in the negotiation of railroad,
municipal and other desirable issues of
bonds. Mr. Trask has been largely inter
ested in the promotion of industrial enter
prises, notably the Edison Electric Illum
inating Company, of which he was presi
dent for fifteen years. He is also in
terested as a stockholder and director in
several railroads, is president of the Morn-
ingside Realty Company and the Broadway
Realty Company, and was the organizer of
the Brooklyn and New York Illuminating
Company, becoming its president. Mr.
Trask is a Democrat in politics, and an
Episcopalian in his church relations. He is
chairman of the Board of Trustees of
Teachers' College, and a trustee of the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, and Kinder
garten Association. He has a country home
near the village of Yeddo, on the avenue
leading to Saratoga Lake, with an estate of
about five hundred acres ; and some years
ago he established at Saratoga and presented
to the Diocese of Albany a Convalescent
Home for Children. Mr. Trask is a member
of the Metropolitan, Union League, City,
Reform, National Arts and Lawyers' Clubs
of New York City. He married in Brooklyn,
in 1874, Katrina Nichols, daughter of
George L. Nichols, and they have had four
children, all now deceased. Residence:
Saratoga, New York. Office address: 54
William Street, New York City.
TRAUTMANN, William E.:
Lawyer; born on a farm near Caseyville,
Illinois, in 1872. He was graduated from
the law department of McKendree Col
lege, the class of 1893, and from the liter
ary department in 1895 ; was admitted to
the bar in 1894, and was engaged in pri
vate practice until he was appointed United
States district attorney for the Eastern
District of Illinois on May 24, 1905. He is
a Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias,
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societies. He was elected to the House of
Representatives of the General Assembly
of Illinois in 1898, 1900, 1902 and again in
1904. Address: East St. Louis, Illinois.
TREAT, Erastus Buck:
Publisher, bookseller and importer; born
in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connec
ticut, April 10, 1838; son of Edwin Strat
ton Treat and Nancy (Buck) Treat, ninth
generation from Richard Treat, England,
1635. He received his education in the Glas
tonbury High School, Connecticut, Man
chester Academy, Connecticut, and Wilbra
ham Academy, Massachusetts. He was
Western manager at Chicago for S. S.
Scranton & Company, publishers, Hartford,
from 1862 to 1865; in partnership with
Charles Scribner ,& Company, publishers,
New York, from 1865 to 1871 ; and has been
president and director of E. B. Treat &
Company, publishers, since 1871. In politics
he is a Democrat (Jeffersonian) and in reli
gion a Methodist. He is a member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the New England Society of the
City of New York, Sons of the Revolution
of the State of New York, Society of
Colonial Wars of the State of New York,
New York Historical Society (life mem
ber), American Scenic and Historic Pres
ervation Society, the Board of Managers
of the Young Men's Christian Association
of New York City, Board of Managers of
the New York City Church Extension and
Missionary Society; vice-president Tract
Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
trustee and chairman Board of Stewards
of Washington Heights Methodist Epis
copal Church. Mr. Treat married twice;
first, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, No
vember 25, 1863, Rhoda Goslee, and
of this union there were seven chil
dren: Everett Sumner, born in 1865 and
died in 1884; William Howard, born in
1868 and died in 1901 ; Beulah Browning,
born in 1870 and died in 1875 ; Edwin Cuy-
ler, born in 1873 ; Payson Jackson, born in
1878; Flora Draper, born in 1883, and
Mary Sumner, born in 1886. Mr. Treat
married, second, November 12, 1901, Flora,
daughter of James Doty, of Arlington,

Massachusetts. Address: 942 St. Nicho
las Avenue, New York City.
TREMAENE, Henry B.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of Aeolian Company, Aeolian, Weber
Piano and Pianola Company, Choralion
Company, George Steck & Company, Orch
ard Land Company, Orchestrelle Company
and of Vocalion Organ Company; director
of Stuyvesant Piano Company, Votey
Organ Company, Weber Piano Company,
Westfield Trust Company, and of Whee-
lock Piano Company. Address : 362 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
TREMAIN, Henry Edwin:
Lawyer; born in New York City, No
vember 14, 1840; son of Edwin R. Tre
main. He was graduated from the Col
lege of City of New York in i860, and
entered Columbia Law School in i860, but
left to enter the Union Army; reentered
after the war and was graduated as LL.B.
in 1867. He enlisted April 17, 1861, as
private in Seventh New York Regiment,
served with it during its first brief cam
paign and soon after, with his brother,
recruited a company in New York City
and went to the front as first lieutenant in
the Second Regiment of Fire Zouaves
(Seventy-third New York Volunteers),
which was attached to the famous Excel
sior Zouaves. He served in the line and as
adjutant of the regiment until April,
1862, when, at the siege of Yorktown, he
was promoted to the staff of. General Nel
son Taylor, then commanding the Excel
sior Brigade; served through Peninsular
campaign and after that under General
Pope; was in all the principal engagements
before Richmond and the battles of Pope's
campaign, ending with the second Bull
Run, where he- was taken prisoner and for
some weeks was confined in Libby Prison.
Then he was released on parole and soon
after exchanged; promoted captain and
returned to duty as assistant inspector-
general on the staff of General Sickles,
commanding the Second Division of the
Third Army Corps; served in the battles
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promoted major, April 25, 1863; recom
mended for brevet at battle of Chancellors
ville ; was senior aide for the Third Army
Corps at Gettysburg; and aide to General
Butterfield at Chattanooga in 1864; he took
part in engagements about Dalton and at
Resaca, Georgia, and for distinguished con
duct in the latter was awarded the Congres
sional Medal of Honor. Later, with the
Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
served as aide to Generals Gregg and Crook,
and took part in all cavalry engagements of
the Petersburg campaign until the end of the
war; was commended by General Crook
for gallantry; brevetted lieutenant-colonel
on General Sheridan's recommendation and
afterward brevetted colonel; promoted
brevet brigadier-general, November 20,
1865, and sent on duty to South Carolina,
where he resigned from the service in
April, 1866, and engaged in the practice of
law in New York City. He formed a part
nership in 1869 with Colonel Mason W.
Tyler in the firm of Tremain & Tyler,
which continued over twenty-five years.
In politics he is a Republican, and he was
nominee of that party for judge of the
Common Pleas Court in 1870. He was one
of the founders and editors of the Daily
Law Journal. General Tremain is author
of : Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry ; Two
Days of War ; Sectionalism Unmasked ; and
other writings. He was one of the found
ers of the Grand Army of the Republic in
New York; member and was several times
president of the Alumni of the College of
the City of New York; colonel of Seventh
Regiment Veterans, 1887-1891 ; president of
the Society of the Army of the Potomac in
1901 and 1902, and president of the Re
publican Club of the City of New York
in 1901 and 1906. Address : 32 Liberty
Street, New York City.
TRIEBER, Jacob:
United States district judge ; born in Ger
many, October 6, 1853; son of Morris and
Blume Trieber. He was educated in the
schools of Germany and St. Louis; stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar at
Helena, Arkansas, in 1876, and to the bar
of the Supreme Court of the United States

in 1883. He became active in the politics
of Arkansas as a Republican, and was a
delegate to the Republican Conventions of
1880, 1884, 1888, and 1896. He was United
States attorney for the Eastern District
of Arkansas, from 1897 to 1900, and ap
pointed January 9, 1901, United States
district judge for the Eastern District of
Arkansas. Address: 923 West Second
Street, Little Rock, Arkansas.
TRILLER, Charles:
Merchant; born in Poughkeepsie, New
York, July 15, 1862; son of Martin and
Mary (Mayer) Triller. He was gradu
ated from Poughkeepsie High School in
1878. Mr. Triller is president and direc
tor of the Confectioners' Improved Ma
chinery Company; vice-president and di
rector of Wood & Selick Company; treas
urer and director of The Nucoa Butter
Company. He is a member of the
Dutchess County Society. His favorite
recreations are music and travel. Mr.
Triller is a member of the Merchants'
Club, Ends of Earth Club (treasurer), and
of the National Arts Club. Address : 44
West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.
TRIMMER, Edwin W.:
Consular officer; born in New York.
He was appointed consular agent at Blue-
fields February 6, 1903 ; vice-commercial
agent at Cape Gracias a Dios, August 4,
1904; vice-commercial agent at Port Deit-
rick, January 13, 1905; vice-consul at Cape
Gracias a Dios (Port Deitrick) June 8,
1905; appointed consul June 21, 1905. Ad
dress: Cape Gracias a Dios, Nicaragua.
TRIPP, Bartlett:
Diplomat and lawyer; born at Harmony,
Maine, July 15, 1842; son of William Tripp
and Naamah (Bartlett) Tripp, and a de
scendant of Josiah Bartlett, signer of the
Declaration of Independence. He attended
the common schools, and the academies of
Hartland and Corinna, Maine, and at
Waterville College (now Colby University)
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1861, and later received the LL.D. degree.
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City from 1861 to 1864, meanwhile doing
civil engineering work in California in 1862 ;
returned East in 1864 and entered the Al
bany Law School, from which he was grad
uated with the degree of LL.B. in 1866. He
was admitted to the bar of Maine, practicing
at Augusta until 1869, in which year he re
moved to Dakota Territory, settling in prac
tice at Yankton, of which place he has ever
since remained a citizen. He was a mem
ber of the City Board of Education of
Yankton ; was one of the original incorpor
ators of Yankton College, and a member of
the first board of regents of the Univer
sity of South Dakota. He was appointed
a member of the Territorial Codification
Commission in 1877, was Democratic nomi
nee for delegate in Congress from Dakota
Territory in 1878, and president of the
first Constitutional Convention of Dakota in
1883. He was appointed by President
Cleveland in 1885, chief justice of Dakota
Territory, serving as such until the Terri
tory was reorganized into two States in
1889. On the beginning of the second
Cleveland administration in 1893, Judge
Tripp was appointed as American minister
plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to
Austria. While there he was entrusted
with various special missions which placed
him among the foremost of our American
diplomats. Therefore two years after his
term in Austria had expired he was, though
a Democrat, chosen by President McKinley
in 1899, as a member of the Samoan Com
mission to settle the questions with refer
ence to territorial division and other points
between England, Germany and the United
States, and was chosen as chairman of that
commission. After fulfilling his duties un
der that appointment with great ability he
resumed the practice of law at Yankton, in
which he continues. The University of
South Dakota conferred upon him the LL.
D. degree in T891. Judge Tripp has been
twice married; first, in September, 1863,
to Ellen Jennings, of Garland, Maine, and
second, at St. Paul, Minnesota, November
6, 1887, to Maria Janet, daughter of Major
T-Toratio N. and Charlotte (Cushman) Da
vis, and sister of the late United States

Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota.
Address: Yankton, South Dakota.
TROWBRIDGE, Augustus:
Physicist; born in New York, January
2, 1870; son of George A. Trowbridge and
Cornelia P. (Robertson) Trowbridge. He
received his preparatory education in
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
attended Columbia University from 1890 to
1893, and received the degree of Ph.D.
from the University of 'Berlin in 1897. _ He
was instructor in physics at the Univer
sity of Michigan, from 1898 to 1900; as
sistant professor of mathematical physics
at the University of Wisconsin from 1900
to 1903 ; professor there from 1903 to 1906 ;
and has been professor of physics at
Princeton since 1907. He was one of the
American delegates to the International
Congress of Chemistry, Berlin, in 1903;
secretary of the Physics Section of the In
ternational Congress at the St. Louis Ex
position in 1904. He has made special re
searches in infra-red radiation, the theory
of coherer action, electrolytic condensers,
measurement of inductances and measure
ment of capacities, and has written various
scientific papers on these topics and upon
the Ether drift. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, American Physical So
ciety and Delta Phi fraternity and is a
member of the Nassau Club. Mr. Trow
bridge married in New York, September
20, 1893, Sarah E. Fulton. Address : Prince
ton, New Jersey.
TROWBRIDGE, John Townsend:
Author ; born in Ogden, New York, April
18, 1827 ; son of Windsor Stone Trowbridge
and Rebecca (Willey) Trowbridge. He at
tended the common district school, and a
classical school in Lockport, New York, in
1844-45, but was chiefly educated by pri
vate study ; and he; received in 1884, from
Dartmouth, the honorary degree of A.M.
His early life was spent on a farm, but on
the death of his father in 1844, he left
home. He taught school in Illinois in the
winter of 1845-46, and in Lockport, New
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in May, 1847, and there began to write for
the press, and in August, 1848, he went to
Boston, where in 1849 he started a paper
called The Yankee Nation. He is the au
thor of fifty volumes in prose and verse,
beginning with Father Brighthopes in 1853.
Among his novels and tales are: Martin
Merrivale, 1854; Neighbor Jackwood, 1856;
The Drummer Boy; Cudjo's Cave; The
Three Scouts ; Coupon Bonds and Other
Stories. He published The South and Its
Battlefields, in 1866, and edited Our Young
Folks, from 1870 to 1873. Among his nu
merous books for the young are the Jack
Hazard Stories, five volumes ; The Silver
Medal; The Tide Mill; Toby Trafford;
Start in Life; The Prize Cup; Two Biddi-
cut Boys ; and his autobiography. My Own
Story, 1903 (Houghton, Mifflin & Com
pany) ; and his Complete Poetical Works,
1903. Mr. Trowbridge spent a year in Eng
land, France and Italy, 1855-56, and three
years in Europe, 1888-91. He is a member
of Boston Authors' Club. He has been a
contributor to The Atlantic Monthly from
its first number, November, 1857, and has
contributed many stories to Harper's and
St. Nicholas. He married, first, in Lowell,
Massachusetts, in i860, Cornelia Warren;
second at Arlington, Massachusetts, in
1873, Ada Newton. They have three chil
dren : Mrs. Grace Trowbridge Yeames,
born in 1874; Mrs. Edith Trowbridge Vom
Baur, born in 1876; and Arthur Townsend
Trowbridge, born in 1883. Address : Ar
lington, Massachusetts.
TROWBRIDGE, Samuel Breck Parkman:
Architect; born in New York City, May
20, 1862; son of General William P. Trow
bridge and Lucy (Parkman) Trowbridge.
After a careful preparatory education in
Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven,
he entered Trinity College at Hartford in
1879, and was graduated from there as B.A.
in 1883, then entering the School of Archi
tecture of Columbia University, from which
he was graduated with the degree of Ph.B.
in 1883. Following this graduation he was
sent to Athens, Greece, to superintend for
the Archeological Institute of America, the
erection of the new building of the Amer

ican School of Classical Studies there, and
he pursued further studies in that institu
tion, after which he became a student un
der Daumet Girault at the Ecole des Beaux
Arts in Paris. After that he spent four
years in the office of George B. Post in
New York, and then embarked in individual
practice; now of the firm of Trowbridge
and Livingston. Mr. Trowbridge is first
lieutenant of Company E of the Twelfth
Regiment of the New York National Guard,
is ex-president of the Society of Beaux Arts
Architects, a member of the American In
stitute of Architects, and other professional
associations. He married in New York
City, in 1896, Sophia Pennington Tailer.
Residence : 123 East Seventieth Street. Of
fice address : 424 Fifth Avenue, New York
City. TROXELL, Millard Francis:
President of Midland College; born at
Cumberland, Maryland, October 25, 1857;
son of John Troxell and Christiana (Spon-
seller) Troxell. He was graduated in 1880
from Gettysburg College at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, with the degree of A.B., tak
ing also the Graeff Gold Prize for the best
essay in the English Literature Department
contest. He received the degree of A.M.
in 1883, and that of D.D. was conferred
upon him by his alma mater in 1895. After
his graduation in 1880 he accepted the po
sition of general secretary of the Young
Men's Christian Association in Cumberland,
Maryland, the following year becoming
State secretary of the same Association in
Maryland. In 1882 he entered the ministry
of the Lutheran Church and became pas
tor consecutively of Lutheran churches at
Eureka, Kansas ; Kansas City, Missouri ;
Springfield, Illinois, and St. Joseph, Mis
souri. During the years 1888 and 1889 he
was general secretary of the Lutheran
Board of Education and in 1894 .and 1895,
was chaplain of the Illinois State Senate.
In 1904 he was elected to the presidency
of Midland College, at Atchison, Kansas,
which office he now holds. Dr. Troxell was
trustee of Carthage (Illinois) College from
1895 to 1898, and member of the Lutheran
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president of the Board of Directors of the
Nachusa (Illinois) Orphans' Home and
has been stockholder of the Rock River
Chautauqua Assembly from its origin. In
politics he is identified with the Republican
party. Dr. Troxell is a member of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Royal Ar
canum, the Knights of the Globe, and the
Masonic fraternity (master Mason). He
married at Kansas City, Missouri, Febru
ary 21, 1889, Juliet Nebinger Ensminger,
and has five children : Mark, born in 1890 ;
Irene, born in 1892; Millard, born in 1895;
Edith, born in 1897, and John, born in
1900. Address: Midland College, Atchi
son, Kansas.
TRUAX, Charles H.:
Jurist; born in Durhamville, New York,
October 31, 1846; son of Henry P. Truax,
a descendant of Phillippe der Trieux, a
Walloon, who came to the Island of Man
hattan about 1623. He was educated in
Mount Vernon Academy, Oneida Seminary
and entered Hamilton College. He left the
college in his junior year, but the college
conferred upon him, in 1876, the degree of
A.M., and in 1890 that of LL.D. During his
school life he taught a part of each year
from 1862 to 1868, devoting his leisure
to legal studies, and in the latter year he
continued the study of law in the office
of Chauncey W. Shaffer, an uncle. He
was ¦ admitted to the bar near the close of
1868 and practiced for about a year in as
sociation with his uncle, and after that
alone. He was elected in 1880 as judge of
the Superior Court, serving upon that bench
until 1894, and during that service rendered
many important decisions, among which
was that of the case of Williams vs. The
Western Union Telegraph Company, which
affirmed the right of companies to consoli
date and issue new stock. This decision
was appealed from and reversed by the Gen
eral Term, but was subsequently sustained
and reaffirmed by the Court of Appeals.
Another decision given by him which was
of the greatest importance as regards the
rights of private real estate owners was
that of the case of Abendroth vs. The- New
York Elevated Railroad Company, declar

ing the right of the plaintiff to recover
damages from the railroad company for any
acts which impaired the plaintiff's benefit
or use of his property and diminished its
rental value. In 1895 Judge Truax was
elected a justice of the Supreme Court of
the State of New York, for the term ex
piring December 31, 1909. Judge Truax is
a Democrat in politics; is a member and
ex-president of the Holland Society, of
the Society of Sons of Oneida, and of the
Manhattan Club of New York City. Judge
Truax has been twice married; first, at
Camden, New Jersey, February 9, 1871, to
Nancy C. Stone, and second, in New York
City, March 4, 1896, to Caroline Sanders.
Address : 12 East Sixty-fifth Street, New
York City.
TRUDEAU, Edward Livingston:
Physician ; born in New York City, Oc
tober 5, 1848; son of Dr: James Trudeau
and Cephise (Berger) Trudeau. He was
graduated from Columbia University, Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, as M.D.
in 1871, and he received the honorary de
gree of M.S. from Columbia in 1889, and
LL.D. from McGill University in 1904. He
began to practice in New York in 1872,
but was obliged, on account of ill-health,
to go to the Adirondack Mountains, where
he has since resided. In 1884 he founded
the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, for the
treatment of incipient pulmonary tubercu
losis in workingmen and women, this being
the first institution in America to attempt
the cure of incipient tuberculosis by the
climatic and open-air sanitarium method.
The institution is semi-charitable, its bene
fits are extended only to persons of mod
erate means, whose lives otherwise would
be sacrificed. In 1894 he founded Saranac
Laboratory for the study of tuberculosis,
being the first research laboratory for the
purpose in America; this is an unendowed
laboratory, and is supported entirely by
voluntary contributions of its friends. He
has been in charge of both the sanitarium
and the laboratory since their incipiency.
He has written many articles in medical
publications. He is a member of the Cen
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deau married, June 29, 1871, Charlotte G.
Beare. Address : Saranac Lake, New
York.TRUMAN, Henry Hertel:
Stock broker; born in Greenwich, Con
necticut, February 7, 1847; son of Daniel
Henry Truman and Cordelia (Mead) Tru
man. He received his education in pub
lic and private schools and in the Poly
technic Institute of Brooklyn, New York.
He has been a member of the New York
Stock Exchange since May, 1869; and is
a member of the New York Produce Ex
change. He was of the firm of Benedict,
Flower & Company, from 1872 to 1875 ;
and has been senior partner of Henry H.
Truman & Company, New York City, since
1903. Mr. Truman was mayor of Orange,
New Jersey, from 1890 to 1892. In poli
tics he is a Republican and in' religion an
Episcopalian. He is a member of the May
flower Society, the Society of Colonial
Wars of New Jersey, New England So
ciety of Orange, New Jersey; a life mem
ber of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, and is a member of the
Orange Lawn Tennis Club. Mr. Tru
man married in New York City, No:
vember 18, 1874, Julie M. Judson, and
they have two children: Eulalia Truman
Bradshaw, born in 1879, and Gertrude, born
in 1883. Residence : Orange, New Jer
sey. Address : 25 Broad Street, New York
City. TRUMBULL, Jonathan:
Librarian; born in Norwich, Connecticut,
January 23, 1844; son of Daniel Lathrop
Trumbull and Alexandrine Navarro (Wil
son) Trumbull. He received his educa
tion at Norwich, Connecticut. He was
clerk, junior member, and senior member
of the firm of J. M. Huntington & Com
pany, from 1862 to 1892; and has been li
brarian of the Otis Library since 1892.
He is author of articles in the Shakespear
ian and Poet Lore Magazines, Magazines
of History, Publications of the New Lon
don County Historical Society. He is au
thor of: The Lebanon War Office, and the
first ten chapters in Volume 2 of Con

necticut as a Colony, and as a State. He
is a Republican in politics, and a Congre
gationalist in Church relations. Mr. Trum
bull is a member of the American Library
Association, Connecticut Library Associa
tion, second vice-president of the Connecti
cut Historical Society, member of the Amer
ican Historical Association; trustee of the
Eliza Huntington Memorial Home, treas
urer of the William W. Backus Hospital,
and a member of the Connecticut Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars, Society of the
Cincinnati. He married in Poughkeepsie,
New York, December 17, 1868, Harriet"'
Roosevelt Richards, and they have one son
and three daughters. Address : Norwich,
Connecticut.TUCKER, Gilman H.:
Publisher; born in Raymond, New
Hampshire, January 20, 1836; son of
Henry Tucker and Nancy (Dudley)
Tucker. He was educated in Phillips An
dover Academy and was graduated from
Dartmouth College as A.B. He is director
and secretary of the American Book Com
pany, publishers of school and college text
books. He has traveled generally through
the United States, with several trips to
Europe; was in business in Boston from
1863 to 1878; and has been in business in
New York since 1878, publishing school
and college text-books. He was colonel on
the staff of Governor Berry of New
Hampshire in 1861 and 1862; and his sec
retary in 1862. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Psi Upsilon,
Sons of Revolution, and Society of Colo
nial Wars. His favorite recreations are
fishing and country life. He is a member
of the University, Unitarian, Barnard and
Appalachian Mountain Clubs. Colonel
Tucker married -first; in Windsor, Ver
mont, October 8, 1861, Mary H. Greene;
and second, in Newtonville, Massachusetts,
June 15, 1871, Mrs. Caroline K. Clarke, and
he has two children : Mary C. and Dudley
G. Residence: 126 West Eighty-fifth
Street, New York City. Address : 100
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TUCKER, William A.=
Capitalist. He is president and director
of _ the Hartford and Springfield Street
Railway Company, Manchester Traction,
Light and Power Company, and of the
Stanislaus Electric Power Company; treas
urer and director of the Manchester Street
Railway; treasurer of the Great Northern
Power Company, and of the Northwestern
Power Company; director of the Colonial
Securities Company, Knickerbocker Trust
Company of New York, and is trustee of
Warren Chambers. Address : 53 State
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
TUCKERMAN, Bayard:
Author, lecturer ; ' born in New York,
1855; son of Lucius Tuckerman and Eliza
beth (Wolcott) Tuckerman. He was
graduated from Harvard University as
A.B. in 1878; and was lecturer on English
literature in Princeton University from
1898 to 1907. He is author of: History
of English Prose Fiction, 1882; Life of
General Lafayette, 1889; Diary of Philip
Hone, 1889 ; William Jay and the Abolition
of Slavery, 1893; Peter Stuyvesant,
1893; Life of General Philip Schuyler,
1904. In politics he is a Republican and
in religion an Episcopalian. He is a mem
ber of the Century and Racquet and Ten
nis Clubs. Mr. Tuckerman married in Ips
wich, Massachusetts, September 26, 1882,
Annie Cotton Smith, and they have four
children: Elizabeth, wife of William M.
Elkins; May, wife of G. Herman Kinni
cutt; Bayard, Jr., and Joan Cotton. Ad
dress: 118 East Thirty-seventh Street,
New York City.
TUCKERMAN, Leverett Saltonstall:
Lawyer and trustee; born in Washing
ton, D.C, April 19, 1848; son of John
Francis Tuckerman and Lucy Sanders
(Saltonstall) Tuckerman. He was gradu
ated from Harvard as A.B. in 1868, and
later as an A.M. and LL.B. He is secretary
and trustee of Sailors' Snug Harbor; di
rector of the Eliot National Bank and trus
tee of the Provident .Institution for Sav
ings. Mr. Tuckerman is treasurer of the
Association for the Work of Mercy in the

Diocese of Massachusetts, and of the
Episcopal Church Association; trustee of
Boston Episcopal Charitable Society, and
of Trustees of Donations of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. Mr.
Tuckerman married in Lynn, Massachu
setts, September 10, 1896, Grace Richard
son. Residence: 9 Hereford Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts. Office address: 53
State Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
TURNER, Charles Yardley:
Mural painter (figure) ; born in Balti
more, Maryland, November 25, 1850; son
of John C. and Hannah B. Turner. He
was educated in public and private schools,
Baltimore; was graduated from the Mary
land Institute, and was a pupil at the Na
tional Academy of Design and Art Stu
dents' League, New York City; also under
J. P. Laurens, M. Munkacsy, and L. Bon-
nat, Paris, from 1878 to 1881. He was
made academician of the National Acad
emy of Design in 1886. Mr. Turner was
assistant director of decoration at the
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
in 1892 and 1893; director of color at the
Pan American Exposition in 1901. He has
been a member of Council for many years,
and was formerly vice-president for two
years of the National Academy of Design;
was vice-president two years of the ;Archi-
tectural League of New York; president
six years of the Art Students' League of
New York; many times officer of Ameri
can Water Color Society; four years, and
is now president of National Society of
Mural Painters; and a member of the
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission
by appointment of mayor of New York
City. He was awarded medals and ..men
tioned at the expositions at Chicago in
1893, Paris, in 1900, . Buffalo in. 1901 and
St. Louis in 1904. He is a member of the
Century Association of New York. Ad
dress : 35 West Fourteenth Street, New
York City.
TURNER, WIU C:
Banker; born in Fenton, Genesee Coun
ty, Michigan, June 24, 1854; son of Charles
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Bergh) Turner. He was graduated from
the University of Michigan as B.A. in
1875. Mr. Turner was a newspaper cor
respondent at the Centennial Exposition,
Philadelphia, from 1875 to 1877; on the
New Orleans Picayune in 1877 and 1878;
clerk of the House Committee on State
Affairs of the Michigan Legislature in
1878 and 1879 ; connected with Saginaw and
Detroit newspapers from 1878 to 1881 ;
established and published City and Country,
Columbus, Ohio, from 1881 to 1889; organ
ized and managed the Columbus Edison
Electric Light Company from 1887 to
1889; in New York City as banker and
dealer in investment securities since June
26, 1889. He is honorary member of the
Governor's Guard of Ohio, and as a mem
ber of this Guard he helped to put down
the Cincinnati riot, 1884, when outside
help was required. He is a Republican in
politics, and an Episcopalian in religious
connection. Mr. Turner is a member of
the Michigan Society of New York, and
the New York Press and University of
Michigan Clubs. He married in Washing
ton, D. C, May 8, 1877, Donna Zerella
Mozart, who died in/ 1883, and he has two
children: Charles H., born March 22,
1879, and Mrs. Violet I. Rider, bom August
21, 1881. Address: 31 Nassau Street, New
York City.
TURRILL, Henry Stuart:
Surgeon, United States Army; born in
New Milford, Connecticut, September 8,
1842; son of Minor Turrill and Katharine
(Stuart) Turrill. He was educated in pub
lic schools of New Milford, Connecticut,
Housatonic Institute, Medical Department
of Yale University, from which he was
graduated as M.D. in the class of 1864.
He served as volunteer medical cadet at
the Knight General Hospital, from January
5, 1863, to, January 10, 1864 ; as first lieu
tenant and assistant surgeon of the Sev
enteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
from January 17, 1864, to August 3, 1865.
He was in four battles of the Civil War,
and a prisoner of war in the Confederate
prisons of Macon and Savannah, and under
fire at Charleston, for over six months. He

was acting assistant surgeon of the United
States Army, from 1869 to 1875, on the
frontiers of Texas, Kansas, New Mexico
and Arizona; first lieutenant and assistant
surgeon of the United States Arrhy, June
26, 1875, captain, June 26, 1880; major,
April, 1893; lieutenant-colonel, June. 1902;
brigadier-general of the United States
Army, March, 1906. He retired March 29,
1906. He was lieutenant-colonel and chief
surgeon of Volunteers, Fourth Corps, from
November 7, 1898, to February 28, 1899;
over twenty years on frontier service, with
ten Indian engagements; over two years
service as chief surgeon of the Department
of the Visayas, Philippine Islands, with
two engagements. He was on duty in New
York, as purchasing and disbursing of
ficer of the Medical Department of the Ar
my and the Sanitary Department of the
Isthmian Canal from October 8, 1902, to
the date of his retirement. He is the execu
tive councilor of the Military Service Insti
tution, member of the Hudson-Fulton Cele
bration Commission; genealogist of the
New York Society of the Order of the
Founders and Patriots of America; mem
ber of the New York Society of the Sons
of the Revolution, Companion of the New
York Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
Companion of the Pennsylvania Command
ery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars,
and a member of the Army and Navy
Club of New York. He married in Brook
lyn, 1877, Marion Cornelia Schapps, and
they have two children : Marion Cornelia,
and Margaret Stuart. Residence: The
Glenham, 2626 Broadway, New York City.
Permanent address: Care Adjutant-Gen
eral, United States Army, Washington,
D. C.
TUTTLE, Daniel Sylvester:
Bishop of Missouri; born at Windham,
Greene County, New York, January 26,
1837; son of Daniel B. and Abigail C.
(Stimson) Turtle. He took the academic
course at Columbia College, New York
City, graduating with the degree of A.B.
in 1857, and receiving that of A.M. in
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D.D. was conferred upon him by the Uni
versity of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
in 1887, that of LL.D. by Washington Uni
versity, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1890. He
took orders as deacon of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in 1862 and was or
dained priest the following year by Bishop
H. Potter. In 1862 he became assistant
of Zion Church, Morris, New York, and
upon his ordination to the priesthood, was
made its rector. After four years of
activity, he was elected bishop, being con
secrated by Bishops Hopkins, H. Potter,
Odenheimer, Randall, Herfoot and Neely.
He was made bishop of Montana in 1867,
with jurisdiction in Utah and Idaho, then
bishop of Utah, with jurisdiction in Idaho,
from 1881 to 1886. In 1886 he was elected
bishop of Missouri. In 1903 he became
presiding bishop of the Protestant Episco
pal Church. Bishop Tuttle was married
at Morris, New York, September 12, 1865,
in Harriet M. Foote. Address: 74 Van-
deventer Place, St. Louis, Missouri.
TUTTLE, Dell Leland:
Sales agent; born in East Otto, Cattarau
gus County, New York, December 13,
1855; son of Samuel Ayres Turtle and
Elizabeth A. (Armstrong) Tuttle. He re
ceived his education in Dunkirk (New
York) High School and Academy. He
was a member of the firm of S. A. Tuttle
and Sons, Little Valley, New York, from
1874 to 1885. In the latter year he en
tered the railway service; was connected
with Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh
Railway as private secretary, chief clerk
to the general superintendent and traveling
car agent from 1885 to 1889; was superin
tendent of transportation of the Cincin
nati, Saginaw & Macirinaw Railroad, at
Saginaw, Michigan, in 1890 and 1891 ; and
since' 1892 has been with the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal and Iron Company, at
Buffalo ; and since 1898 sales agent of the
Buffalo District, embracing States of Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana, northern Kentucky,
New York west of Buffalo and western
Pennsylvania. He was corporation clerk'
of Little Valley, New York, from 1877 to
1884, and its president in 1884 and 1885.

He is a director of the Central Dock and
Terminal Railway Company, Citizens' Na
tional Bank of Springville, Yale Transit
Company, Kensington Steamship Company,
Rochester Steamboat Company, University
Printing Company; president and director
of Gowanda Sand and Gravel Company.
In politics he is a Republican and in reli
gion a Methodist Episcopalian. He was a
lay delegate to the General Conference of
Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles,
California, in 1904; and formerly presi
dent of the Genesee Conference Epworth
League; trustee of Silver Lake Assembly;
member of Board of Genesee Conference
Deaconesses' Home, Buffalo, New York;
chairman of the Union Terminal Depart
ment of Railroad, Young Men's Christian
Association, Buffalo, for several terms. He
delivered an address at St. Louis World's
Fair on Coalmen's Day, September, 1904.
Mr. Tuttle is a member of the Cat
taraugus, Chautauqua and Allegheny County
Associations of Buffalo, a Free and Ac
cepted Mason, Royal Arcanum. His fa
vorite recreations are literary work and
research, boating and fishing. He is a
member of the Elicott, Transportation,
Equality (president), Richmond and Cen
tral Railway Clubs. Mr. Tuttle married
in Little Valley, New York, October 3,
1878, Abbie J. Whitcomb, and they have
two children: Rollin W., born in 1883,
and Raymond S., born in 1887. Residence :
356 Norwood Avenue, Buffalo. Address :
914 Prudential Building, Buffalo, New
York.
TUTTLE, George Montgomery:
Physician; born in Rochester, New
York, October 2, 1856; son of Rev. James
H. Tuttle, D.D., and Harriet (Merriman)
Tuttle. He was educated in Dresden, Ger
many, and at Phillips Academy, Andover;
was graduated from Yale as B.A. in 1877
and from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Medical Department of Colum
bia University), as M.D., in 1880. He has
been engaged in the practice of medicine
from 1880; was interne of New York Hos
pital in 1880 and 1881; physician-in-chief
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from 1881 to 1883; and has been attend
ing gynecologist at Roosevelt Hospital
since 1888. He is a director of the North
Star Woolen Mill Company of Minneapo
lis, Minnesota; professor of gynecology at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University, since 1888. He is a
member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, New York County Medical So
ciety, New York Medical and Surgical So
ciety, New York Clinical Society, Society
of Alumni of New York Hospital, Society
of American Wars, American Museum of
Natural History. Dr. Tuttle is a con
tributor to the American Text-Book of
Gynecology, New York Medical Record,
and New York Medical Journal. He is
a member of the University, Century, Yale,
New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian
Yacht and Barnard Clubs. Dr. Tuttle mar
ried in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy,
April 5, 1906, Mrs. T. Story Kirkbride, Jr.
Address: 38 West Fifty-second Street,
New York City.
TUTTLE, Lucius:
Railway president; born in Hartford,
Connecticut, March 11, 1846; son of George
Tuttle and Mary (Loomis) Tuttle. He
was educated in the public and high schools
of Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1865 began
a railroad career which in its development
has made Mr. Tuttle one of the recognized
masters of modern railroading. He served
in various railroad positions until in 1889
he became commissioner of the Trunk Line
Association. In the following year he was
appointed general manager of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
serving in that position for two years, when
he was elected vice-president of that rail
road. In 1893, which was the real begin
ning of the movement for the consolidation
of the railroads north and east of Boston,
Mr. Tuttle was elected president of the
Boston and Maine Railroad. The nucleus
of the system which he now heads was the
original road with certain leased lines and
an agreement with the powerful Maine
Central Railroad corporation. Since that
time, by mutual and pacific agreement with
the representatives of the different corpora

tions involved, road after road has been
added to the parent system, until the entire
section east and north of Boston comes un
der the direction and management of Mr.
Tuttle, who has also, since 1896, been presi
dent of the Maine Central Railroad. He is
a director of the Old Colony Trust Com
pany, the Second National Bank of Bos
ton, and the St. Johnsbury and Lake Cham-
plain Railroad Company, and is a member
of the corporation of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. Mr. Tuttle married
at Norwich, Connecticut, October 14, 1875,
Estelle Hazen Martin. Residence: 318
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Office ad
dress : 3 North Station, Boston, Massachu
setts.TWELLS, JohuS.:
Consular officer; born in Pennsylvania.
He was appointed consul at Naples, Feb
ruary 27, 1890; retired October, 1893; ap
pointed vice and deputy consul at Kings
ton, February 3, 1900; appointed commer
cial agent at Carlsbad, October 7, 1902;
appointed consul, June 22, 1906. Address :
Carlsbad, Austria.
TYLER, Bayard II.:
Portrait painter; born in Oneida, New
York, 1855 ; son of Henry , H. Tyler and
Elizabeth (Stevens) Tyler. He attended
Whitestown Seminary in 1875 and 1876;
Syracuse University, Fine Arts College,
under Dean George F. Comfort, in 1878;
was graduated from National Academy of
Design, New York, in 1882, with medals
in 1878 and 1882 ; pupil of Theodore Kauf
man; pupil at Art Students' League, New
York, under William M. Chase, 1879. He
was exhibitor at the National Academy of
Design, Society of American Artists, Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Paris Ex
position, Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
in 1893; Gibbs Memorial, Charleston,
South Carolina and others; and is repre
sented in several private collections.
Among portraits painted by him are those
of President Theodore Roosevelt, for the
Municipal Gallery, Albany; Hon. B.. B.
Odell, Sr.; Admiral Willard H. Brown-
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P. Otis; Colonel Henry M. Boles; E. L.
Fuller, William F. Cochran, Mrs. F. A.
Hackley; J. J. Albright, in the Scranton
Public Library; F. T. Holder, in the Hol
der- Memorial, Clinton, Massachusetts;
Rev. Dr. Charles E. Allison, and others.
He is a member of the Lotos and Salma
gundi Clubs of New York City. Mr. Tyler
married in 1883, Charlotte E. Wiltsie. Ad
dress: 23 Dudley Place, Yonkers, New
York.

u
UMBEL, Robert Emeroy:
Jurist; born in Henry Clay Township,
July 11, 1863. The Umbels came originally
from Wales and settled in New Jersey in
1770, and later in Pennsylvania. He was
educated in the public schools, George's
Creek Academy, Smithfield, Pennsylvania,
and the Western Pennsylvania Institute,
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, graduating
in 1885. In 1884 he was appointed cadet
to the United States Military Academy, but
resigned because his mother objected to a
military career. In 1885 he became a law
student in the office of Boyle and Mestre-
zat, and in 1887 he was admitted to the
bar. In 1889 the Borough Council of Con
nellsville elected him solicitor, and in Au
gust of the same year he went into part
nership with Hon. Albert D. Boyd, form
ing the law firm of Boyd and Umbel,
which continued until he went on the bench
in January, 1900. He is a member of the
bar of the United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts and in 1894 was admitted to
pratice in the Supreme Court of the United
States. He has been judge of the Four
teenth Judicial District since 1900. He is
a Democrat in politics, and is a thirty-
third degree Mason, Knight Templar and
Shriner; past master of Fayette Lodge,
past high priest of Union Chapter, and
past eminent commander of Uniontown
Commandery. He married, November 29,
1899, Frances Grier White, daughter
of Dr. T. H. White, of Connellsville, Penn
sylvania, and they have one daughter. Ad
dress: Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

UNDERWOOD, Frederick Douglass:
President of the Erie Railroad Company ;
born at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, February I,
1862; son of Enoch Downs Underwood and.
Harriet (Flint) Underwood. He was edu
cated in the public schools and at Mary
land Academy, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
He entered the service of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railway, and served
from 1870 to 1886, as clerk, brakeman,
foreman of elevators, conductor, yardmas-
ter, assistant division superintendent and
superintendent. In June, 1886, he was ap
pointed general superintendent in charge
of the constructi9n of the Minneapolis and
Pacific Railway, and in September, 1886,
its general manager. Upon the consolida
tion of the Minneapolis and, Pacific Rail
way, with the Minneapolis, Sault Sainte
Marie and Atlantic Railway, under the
name of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Sault Sainte Marie Railway, he was made
general manager of the consolidated lines
until January, 1899, when he resigned to
enter the services of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad as general manager. He
became second vice-president of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad in June, 1889, and
held that office until he was elected to his
present position as president of the Erie
Railroad and its allied lines. He is a
member of the Metropolitan, New York
Yacht, City Midday, Tuxedo, Seawanhaka-
Corinthion Yacht and the New York
Athletic Clubs. He married Alice N. Staf
ford. Residence: 303 West Seventy-sec
ond Street. Address: 11 Broadway, New
York- City.
UNDERWOOD, Henry O.:
Capitalist, He is president, treasurer and
director of the. William Underwood Com
pany, director of the City Trust Company,
United Fruit Company, and the Cambridge
Trust Company, and trustee of the Lud
low Manufacturing Associates. Address:
52 Fulton Street, New York City.
UPHAM, Warren:
Geologist and librarian ; born in Amherst,
New Hampshire, March 8, 1850; son of
Jacob Upham , and Sarah (Hayward) Up
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College, Hanover, New Hampshire, as A.
B. in 1871, A.M. in 1894, and D.Sc. in 1906.
He was civil engineer of Concord, New
Hampshire, from 1872 to 1875; assistant
on the Geological Survey of New Hamp
shire from 1876 to 1878, of Minnesota from
1879 to 1885 and in 1893 and 1894; of
the United States, on the Glacial Lake
Agassiz, from 1885 to 1895 ; librarian of the
Western Reserve Historical Society,
Cleveland, Ohio, from April to October,
1895; secretary and librarian of the Min
nesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minne
sota, since 1895. He has traveled extensive
ly in the United States, and in 1897 in
Europe, writing eleven articles in the Amer
ican Geologist, during 1898, on his geologi
cal observations in Europe. He is a Re
publican in politics, and a Congregationalist
in religion. Mr. Upham was associate edi
tor of the American Geologist from 1893
to 1905, and now of the Records of the
Past. He is author of geological reports,
and about two hundred geological papers,
mostly on glacial subjects, and also of:
Groseilliers and Radisson, the First White
Men in Minnesota, 1905. He is now pre
paring a History of the Early French Ex
plorers and the Fur Trade in Minnesota,
and a compilation of the origin and the
meanings of Minnesota Geographic Names.
He is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and of
the Geological Society of America; corre
sponding member of the Boston Society of
Natural History, the Appalachian Mountain
Club, Victoria Institute of London, the
Western Reserve Historical Society, and
the Missouri, Kansas and South Dakota
Historical Societies; member of the Min
nesota Historical Society, Minnesota Acad
emy of Sciences and the Minnesota Geo
graphical Society. Dr. Upham married in
Minneapolis, 1885, Addie M. Bixby of Au
rora, Minnesota. Address : Minnesota His
torical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.
UPXON, Roger:
Corporation officer; born at Peabody,
Massachusetts, September 15, 1873 ; son of
George Upton and Marian (Cloutman)
Upton. He was educated in the Lycee

Janson de Sailly in Paris, France, at Al
bert Hale's School in Boston, Massachu
setts, and at Harvard College, in the class
of 1897. He has been engaged in business
since 1895, and is clerk, assistant treas
urer, purchasing agent and director of the
American Glue Company of Massachusetts ;
secretary, assistant treasurer and director
of the American Glue Company of New
Jersey; secretary, assistant treasurer, pur
chasing agent and director of the Ham
mond Glue Company; treasurer, purchasing
agent and director of Pennsylvania Glue
Company; secretary, assistant treasurer,
purchasing agent and director of the Iowa
Glue Company ; clerk, purchasing agent and
director of the Cape Ann Isinglass Com
pany; assistant secretary, assistant treas
urer and purchasing agent of the Highland
Development Company; director of N.
Ward Company; purchasing agent of the
Adirondack Garnet Company, and the Vinal-
haven Glue Company; secretary and direc
tor of the New England Shoe Stock Com
pany, and clerk and purchasing agent of
the Crystal Gelatine Company. He is an
Episcopalian in religion, and a member of
the Eastern Yacht Club, Boston Yacht
Club, Corinthian Yacht Club of Marble-
head, Tedesco Country, Portland Yacht.
and the Salem Clubs. He married, at
Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland, Oc-
tor 25, 1899, Elizabeth Phoebe Key Lloyd,
and they have three children: Lloyd Up
ton, born in 1900; Edward Upton, born in
1902, and Dorothy Upton, born in 1903.
Residence: Devereux, Marblehead, Mas
sachusetts. Business address: 121 Bev
erly Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
UTLEY, Henry Munson:
Librarian of the Detroit Public Library;
born in Michigan, 1836; son of Hiram
Utley and Jane (Sands) Utley. He was
graduated from the University of Michigan
is B.A. in 1861, and M.A. in 1871. He
was on the editorial staff of the Detroit
Post from 1866 to 1881 ; secretary of the
Detroit Board of Education from 1881 to
1885; and librarian of the Public Library
since 1885. He is an Independent in poli
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ican Library Association, 1895 ; president of
the Michigan Library Association from
1891 to 1905 ; Detroit Association of Chari
ties in 1905 and 1906; trustee since 1880.
He is also a member of the American His
torical Society, Michigan Pioneer Histori
cal Society, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity,
and the Detroit Press Club; president of
the Acanthus Club for twenty-two years,
and of the Prismatic Club in 1907. He
married in Pontiac, Michigan, 1864, Kate
Lilly Burr, and they have three daughters.
Residence: 195 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit.
Business address : Public Library, Detroit,
Michigan.

VAGG, Harry A.:
Merchant; born in Somersetshire, Eng
land, December 14, 1868; son of William
Vagg and Susan (Manley) Vagg. He
worked on a farm at Lockport, New York,
until August, 1885, when he removed to
Niagara, North Dakota, and worked on a
farm there, until 1887, when he went to
Montana, and worked for the Great North
ern Railway Company, on railroad con
struction work. He has been engaged in
the mercantile business at Saco, Montana,
since 1893. He was a member of the State
Legislature of Montana from 1900 to 1902 ;
attended one regular session and two spe
cial sessions during that time; appointed
notary public in 1887, which position he still
holds. He was appointed United States
Commissioner in December, 1901, for four
years, and reappointed in December, 1905,
which position he holds. Mr. Vagg is a
Republican in politics, and an Episcopalian
in religion. He married in Saco, Montana,
June 28, 1897, Bettie Wilson, and they
have two children: Roland Vagg, born in
1898, and Vivian Vagg, born in 1900. Ad
dress: Saco, Montana.
VAN ALYSTYNE, Henry Arthur:
Civil engineer ; born in North Chatham,
Columbia County, New York, October 9,
1869; son of Charles G. and Rachel Lan
don (Huyck) Van Alstyne. He was edu

cated in the Nassau Academy and Marshall
Seminary, Easton, New York, and was
graduated from Union University as C.E.
in 1893. Mr. Van Alystyne was engineer
in charge of the construction of public
works in 1893 and 1894; assistant engineer
of the State Engineers' Department, New
York, from 1894 to 1897 ; superintendent of
construction and engineer for the Furnace-
ville Iron Company in connection with the
improvement of State canals, Western Di
vision, in 1897, and on the completion of
their work was with the Union Bridge
Company of Athens, Pennsylvania, until
1899; he reentered the State Engineers'
Department of New York as assistant en
gineer of the Eastern Division; was pro
moted first assistant, then resident engin
eer, and in 1901 division engineer of the
Eastern Division, and State Engineer
of New York, from 1904 to 1907. In
politics, Mr. Van Alystyne is a Republi
can, and he is a member of the Uncondi
tional Republican, and Fort Orange Clubs.
He married, in Rochester, New York, Oc
tober n, 1899, Bertha Stone Neher. Resi
dence: 116 Bay Twenty-sixth Street, Ben-
sonhurst. Address : Park Row Building,
New York City.
VAN AMRLNGE, John Howard:
Dean of Columbia College; born in New
York City. He was graduated from Co
lumbia College in i860 as A.B., later re
ceiving the degrees of A.M. 1863, and
L.H.D. 1890, from Columbia; Ph.D. from
the University of the State of New York,
1877; and LL.D. from Union College, 1895.
From graduation he has been connected
with Columbia College in which he has
been consecutively tutor in mathematics
from i860 to 1863; adjunct professor of
mathematics from 1863 to 1865 (also lec
turer in the School of Mines, 1864-65),
and since 1865, professor of mathematics.
In 1864 he became secretary of the Board
of Columbia College, dean of the School
of Arts in 1894, and since 1896 dean of
Columbia College, and member of the Uni
versity Council of Columbia University.
During the absence of President Seth, Low
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pro tempore, of Columbia College. He is
a member and was president from 1888 to
1890 of the New York Mathematical So
ciety; is fellow of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, mem
ber of the American Mathematical Society,
and . New York Historical Society. He is
editor of the Davies series of mathematical
works, and author of History of Columbia
College and University. Dean Van Am-
ringe is an Episcopalian in his church re
lations, a trustee of the New York Protes
tant Episcopal Public School, of the So
ciety for Promoting Religion and Learn'
ing in the State of New York, the Common
Prayer Book Society, and the General
Theological Seminary of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and vestryman of Trin
ity Church, New York. He is a member
of the Century Association and of the Uni
versity Club (ex-president), and the Met
ropolitan and Church Clubs of New York
City. He married in New York City, June
20, 1865, Cornelia Bucknor. Residence : 48
East Twenty-sixth Street, New York City.
Office address : Columbia College, New
York City.
VAN BLARCOM, Jacob Craig:
Banker; born in Bergen County, New
Jersey, June I, 1849; son of Jacob Van
Riper Van Blarcom and Euphemia (Dixon)
Van Blarcom. He was educated in the
High School at Paterson in Rutgers Col
lege, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He
was employed with the wholesale firm of
Peterson, Hanthom & Company, saddlery,
hardware and leather, St. Louis, from 1866
to 1871 ; and in July, 1871, he entered the
Bank of Commerce at St. Louis as chief
accountant. He was elected cashier of the
bank in January, 1877, and after the bank
became the National Bank of Commerce
he was elected its vice-president in 1898;
and in 1906 was elected its president. He
is a member of the Union Club of New
York, St. Louis Club, Cuvier Club, and the
Adirondack League Club. He married in
Chicago, Illinois, January 19, 1891, Mary
Fairfax Gamble, and they have one son:
Frederick Van Blarcom. Residence : 1
Westmoreland Place, St. Louis. Business

address : National Bank of Commerce, St.
Louis, Missouri.
VAN BUREN, James Heart't:
Missionary bishop of Porto Rico; born
at Watertown, New York, July 7, 1850;
son of James Saurin and Harriet Adelia
(Stebbins) Van Buren. He was educated
at Yale University, graduating with the
degree of A.B. in 1873. The degree of
D.D. was conferred upon him by the Berke
ley Divinity School in 1902. He took or
ders as deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1876 and was a year later ordained priest
by Bishop Williams. Following his entry
to the ministry, he was connected with St.
Peter's Church, Milford, Connecticut,
1876-78; Trinity Church, Seymour, Con
necticut, 1878-81; St. Paul's Church,
Englewood, New Jersey, 1881-84; St.
Paul's Church, Newburyport, Massa
chusetts, 1884-90; St. Stephen's Church,
Lynn, Massachusetts, 1890-1901. He
was elected Missionary Bishop of
Porto Rico in 1902, and was consecrated
by Bishops Peterkin, Lawrence, Brewster,
Hall, Codman, and Vinton. Bishop Van
Buren was married, at Norwalk, Connecti
cut, April 11, 1877, to Annie M. Smith.
He is author of: Short History of the
Christian Church, 1886; Confirmation Ad
dresses, 1900; Latin Hymns in English
Verse, 1904. Address : San Juan, Porto
Rico.
VAN DEERLIN, Erasmus Jurian Hopman:
Clergyman; born in India, August 27,
1846; son of Henry Van Deerlin, M.D.,
army surgeon ; who served in the Afghan
and Burmese Wars and in the Indian
Mutiny, and Mary Ann Baird Van Deerlin,
niece of General Sir David Baird, Bart., G.
C. B., known in Indian history as the Hero
of Seringapatam. Dr. Van Deerlin was
educated at Christ's College, Cambridge,
England, from 1865 to 1868; ordered dea
con in December 19, 1869, and ordained
priest October 18, 1871, by the Lord Bishop
of Worcester in Worcester Cathedral. He
served in the English Church as curate of
St. Stephen's Parish, Birmingham, chap
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Romsey Abbey, England. He came out to
the United States in 1882 and has served
in the Episcopal Church as rector of
to the Bishop of Sacramento; chaplain to
the Bishop of Honolulu, and president of
the Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Honolulu. He declined appointment as
dean of Honolulu in 1901, and is at present
rector of Grace Church, Oceanside, Cali
fornia. He married, February 25, 1868,
Maria Jane Marshall, daughter of Rev. P.
C. Marshall, M.A. (Oxford), rector of
Tregony, Cornwall, and first cousin of
Capt. Sir George Armstrong, Bart., pro
prietor of the London Globe newspaper,
and founder of The People. They have ten
children, the eldest son being Lionel Sebas
tian Molyneaux Van Deerlin, born in 1880,
in Hampshire, England, and now being in
the Bank of California, San Francisco. Ad
dress : Oceanside, California.
VANDERBILT, Alfred Gwynne:
Capitalist; born in New York City, Oc
tober 20, 1877 ; son of Cornelius 2d and
Alice (Gwynne) Vanderbilt; grandson of
William Henry Vanderbilt, and great-
grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vander
bilt. He was educated in the Cutler School,
of New York City; St. Paul's School, Con
cord and Yale, graduating A.B. in 1899.
He is a director of various railroad corpo
rations, the Fulton Navigation Company,
Hanover National Bank, Plaza Bank, Con
ried Metropolitan Opera Company and the
American Horse Exchange, Limited. He is a
member of the Knickerbocker, Riding, Met
ropolitan, New York Yacht, Meadow
Brook, The Brook, Turf, and Ardsley
Clubs; the Automobile dub of America,
the Yale Club and others. He married in
New York City, January 11, 1901, Ellen
French, and they have one son, William
Henry, born November 24, 1901. Address :
Oakland, Newport, Rhode Island, and 161
Madison Avenue, New York City.
VANDERBILT, Cornelius:
Capitalist and mechanical engineer; born
in New York City, September 5, 1873; son
of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alice
(Gwynne) Vanderbilt. He received his

early education from private tutors and was
prepared for college at St. Paul's School,
Concord, from which he went to Yale, and
was graduated with the B.A. degree in 1895.
He took special courses in the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale, after his gradua
tion from the college receiving the degrees
of Ph.B. in 1898, and M.E. in 1899. Upon
the conclusion of his studies he set to work
practically to master the details of mechan
ical engineering, and during recent years
has given attention to the motive power and
civil engineering departments of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad.
Mr. Vanderbilt served as a civil service com
missioner during the administration of
Mayor Low, but resigned near the end of
his term ; and he is a captain in the Twelfth
Regiment of the National Guard of New
York. He is a director of the New York
Life Insurance and Trust Company, the
United States Mortgage and Trust Com
pany, Windsor Trust Company, Mutual Life
Insurance Company, National Park Bank,
Mutual Bank, Marine National Bank of
Buffalo, Illinois Central Railway Company,
Allis-Chalmers Company, Lackawanna Steel
Company, Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, Rapid Transit Subway Construc
tion Company, Subway Realty Company,
The Audit Company of New York, the
Hudson Companies, Interborough-Metro-
politan Company, Commercial Trust Com
pany of New Jersey, Mexican Telegraph
Company, New York City Interborough
Railway Company, and Provident Loan So
ciety. Mr. Vanderbilt is an associate mem
ber of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers' and of the Saratoga Association.
He is a member of the Century Association,
the Union League, Knickerbocker, Metro
politan, Brook, City, Midday, Down Town.
University and Yale Clubs, commodore of
the New York Yacht Club, and a member
of the Larchmont Yacht, Atlantic Yacht,
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and Turf
and Field Clubs. Mr. Vanderbilt married
in New York City, August 3, 1896, Grace
Wilson, and they have two children: Cor
nelius, Jr., born in 1898, and Grace, born
in 1899. Residence : 677 Fifth Avenue, New

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York City. Office address: 30 Pine Street,
New York City.
VANDERBILT, Frederick William:
Capitalist; born in 1855; son of Wil
liam Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa
(Kissam) Vanderbilt. He was graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale,
in 1876. He obtained his business training
education in his father's office, going
through every department in the railroad
service and mastering the general details
of the whole business. He is now director
in the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company; Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad Company;
Michigan Central Railroad Company;
West Shore Railroad Company ; New York,
Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company;
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Com
pany; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railroad Company; Lake Erie and
Western Railroad Company; member of
the Board of Managers of the Delaware,
Lacakawanna ^nd Western Railroad Com
pany, and director of numerous other rail
road and other corporations. He is the
owner of the steam yacht Warrior, Mr.
Vanderbilt is a member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, and of the
Knickerbocker, University, Metropolitan,
Larchmont Yacht Clubs, New York Yacht,
Tuxedo, Racquet and Tennis, South Side
and Yale Clubs. He married in 1880, Mrs.
Alfred Torrance (nee Anthony). Address:
459 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
VANDERBILT, George Washington:
Capitalist; born in New Dorp, Staten
Island, New York, November 14, 1862;
son of William Henry Vanderbilt and
Maria Louisa (Kissam) Vanderbilt. He
was educated by private tutors and in
private schools. He gave to the Teachers'
College its site on Momingside Heights ;
built and equipped the Thirteenth Street
Branch of the New York Public Library,
and gave the American Society of Fine
Arts the room in their building known as
the Vanderbilt Gallery. He purchased one
hundred and twenty-five thousand acres of
mountain land on French Broad River,

near Asheville, North Carolina, which he
has improved and beautified by scientific
forestry into what is probably the finest
park in America, building there a mansion
and stables, and stocking the estate with
great care. He is a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution, and of the
Century Association, the Metropolitan, Na
tional Arts, and Players Clubs. Mr. Van
derbilt married in 1898, Edith Stuyvesant
Dresser, and they have one daughter, Cor
nelia Stuyvesant, born in 1900. Address :
Biltmore House, Biltmore, North Carolina,
and 1707 New Hampshire Avenue, Wash
ington, D. C.
VANDERBILT, William Kissam:
Capitalist; born at New Dorp, Staten
Island, New York, December 12, 1849. He
was educated privately in New York City,
and Geneva, Switzerland. He learned the
railroad business, beginning in the office
of C. C. Clarke, treasurer of the Hudson
River Railroad, and passing through vari
ous grades. He became second vice-presi
dent of the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company, from 1877 to
1883; president and chairman of the Board
of Directors of the New York, Chicago
and St. Louis Railroad, from 1882 to 1898;
chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railway Company, from 1883 to 1898; and
since September, 1899, president and di
rector of the New York and Harlem Rail
road; also director of the New York Cen
tral and Hudson River Railroad; Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad;
Michigan Central Railroad; New York,
Chicago and St. Louis Railroad; Pitts
burgh and Lake Erie Railroad; Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ;
Lake Erie and Western Railroad; Chicago,
Indiana and Southern Railroad; Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad ; Rutland Rail
road; New York and Ottawa Railway;
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railroad; Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheel
ing Railroad ; and the Dunkirk, Allegheny
Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad. Mr. Van
derbilt, together with his brothers, founded
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the Knickerbocker, Union, Racquet and
Tennis, Jockey, Metropolitan, South Side,
New York Yacht, Knollwood, Meadow
Brook, Players, Turf, County, and Larch
mont Yacht Clubs. He married first in
1874, Alva Murray Smith (now Mrs. O.
H. P. Belmont) ; and second, in 1903, Mrs.
Ann Hartman Sands Rutherford, and he
has three children : Consuelo, born in 1877
and married in 1895 the Duke of Maribor-
ough ; William K, Jr., born in 1878 ; and
Harold S., bora in 1884. Address : 660
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
VANDERSAAL, S. W.:
President of the Fourth National Bank
of Pittsburgh ; bora in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in 1845. Besides the com
mon schools, he attended the State Normal
School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, an
Academy at Parkersburg, Pennsylvania,
and Crittenden's Business College in Phila
delphia. He enlisted during the Civil War,
but for some reason never got on active
duty. He went to Oil Creek in 1S68, and
in 1883 moved to Pittsburgh. He took
charge of the Graffton Blast Furnaces for
the late firm of Graff, Bennett and Com
pany, until 1888, when they retired from
business ; then became associated with the
late Judge Bailey in the settlement of their
affairs. After this he again became in
terested in the oil and gas business, acting
as secretary, treasurer and general man
ager of the West -Penn Gas Company;
vice-president and general manager of the
Fayette Gas Fuel Company of Uniontown,
Pennsylvania, and treasurer and general
manager of the Apollo Oil and Gas Com
pany. He is also president of the Pitts
burgh and Deer Park Connecting Railway,
and of the Bair and Gazzam Manufacturing
Company, secretary of the Sylacauga Im
provement Company of Alabama, and a di
rector of the Pittsburgh Ice Company. In
1903 was elected president of the Fourth
National Bank of Pittsburgh. He married,
in 1872, Louisa McCloskey of Clarion,
Pennsylvania; and they have one daughter.
Address: Farmers' Bank Building, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania,

VAN DEVANTER, Willis:
United States circuit judge; born in
Marion, Indiana, April 17, 1859; son of
Isaac Van Devanter and Violetta M.
(Spencer) Van Devanter. He was edu
cated in DePauw University and the Cin
cinnati College Law School, from which
he was graduated as LL.B. in 1881. After
practicing at Marion, Indiana, for three
years, he removed to Cheyenne, Wyoming,
in 1884, and engaged in practice. He also
became prominent in politics as a Republi
can. He served as city attorney of Chey
enne, and was afterward a member of the
Wyoming Territorial Legislature; member
of the Statutory Revision Commission of
Wyoming. He was appointed by Presi
dent Harrison chief justice of the Terri
torial Supreme Court of Wyoming, and on
the admission of Wyoming to Statehood he
was elected its first chief justice. He was
chairman of the State Republican Commit
tee; delegate to the National Republican
Convention at St. Louis in 1896; and elected
Wyoming member of the National Repub
lican Committee. He was appointed in
1897, by President McKinley, assistant at-
'torney-general of the United States, and
assigned to the Interior Department, serv
ing in that position until appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt United States circuit judge
for the Eighth Circuit, April 17, 1859. Resi
dence: Cheyenne, Wyoming.
VAN DE WATER, George Rose:
Clergyman, author; bom in Flushing,
New York City, April 25, 1854; son of
John Titus Van de Water and Ellen Bur-
netta (Doughty) Van de Water. He was
educated in Flushing Institute, Cornell Uni
versity, from 1870 to 1874; General Theo
logical Seminary, 1874-1877. The Nashotah
Theological Seminary conferred upon him
the degree of D.D. in 1885. He was rector
of Christ Church, Oyster Bay, from 1876 to
1880; St. Luke's Church, Brooklyn, from
1880 to 1887; parochial missioner for the
United States, in 1887 and 1888; rector of
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New York
City since 1888. He was chaplain of Co
lumbia University, from 1893 to 1905 ;
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New York, 1896, 1898, and from 1900 to
1902; chaplain of the Twenty-third Regi
ment of the National Guard of New York,
from 1877 to 1880 ; chaplain of the Seventy-
first Regiment of the National Guard of
New York, from 1882 to 1898, and of the
Seventy-first Regiment of the United
States Volunteers, in the Spanish-American
War, Fifth Army Corps, from May to
October, 1898. He served in the battles
of Las Guasimas and San Juan ; was de
tailed for duty in hospitals in the field and
at Fermosa and Siboney, back of the en
trenchments at San Juan, and at Montauk.
He is trustee of the Executive Committee
of the New York Protestant Episcopal City
Mission Society; trustee of the General
Theological Seminary, the Youngs' Memo
rial Cemetery at Oyster Bay, and of the
Home for Incurables, New York. Dr. Van
de Water is author of: Two Notable Rul
ers ; The Mission Hymnal ; Church History,
two volumes ; also published sermons. He is
a Republican in politics ; is a member of
the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the
Society of Santiago, Veteran Association
of the Twenty-third Regiment of the Na
tional Guard, New York Churchman's As
sociation, and of the Century Association
and the St. Nicholas, Union League, Sea-
wanhaka Yacht, and Ardsley Clubs. He
married at Oyster Bay, New York, April
24, 1879, Cornelia Townsend Youngs, and
they have one adopted son, Arthur Regi
nald, born in 1878. Address : St. Andrew's
Church, 2067 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
VAN DUZER, Clarence D.:
United States senator; born near Moun
tain City, Nevada, May 4, 1866. He was
graduated from the Nevada State Univer
sity in 1889, and then began the study of
law. He was appointed by the governor of
Nevada as State land agent to reside in
Washington City, where he studied in the
Law College of Georgetown University,
from which he was graduated as LL.B. He
was for five years secretary to Hon F. G.
Newlands; engaged in practice in Nevada;
was district attorney of Humboldt County,
Nevada, in 1898 ; member of the State Leg
islature and its speaker in 1900. In 1902 he

was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-
eighth Congress, and he was reelected in
1904, to the Fifty-ninth Congress, but re
signed from the latter on his election in
1905, as United States senator for the
term expiring in 191 1. Mr. Van Duzer
was editor of the Nevada Miner at Tono-
pah, Nevada, and he is president of the
Van Duzer-Tonopah Exploration Company
engaged in mining activities in Nevada. Ad
dress : Tonopah, Nevada.
VAN DYKE, Henry:
Clergyman and author; born in German-
town, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1852 ;
son of Rev. Henry Jackson Van Dyke, D.D.,
and Henrietta (Ashmead) Van Dyke, de
scendant of John Van Dyke, a patriot sol
dier who was killed at the battle of Mon
mouth in 1778, and of Jan Thomasse Van
Dijk, who emigrated from Holland in 1652,
and became the first magistrate of New
Utrecht, Long Island. He was prepared at
the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New
York, from which he was graduated in 1869,
then entered Princeton from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1873, and received his
A.M. in 1876, and graduated from the
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877.
His ordination to the Presbyterian ministry
took place in 1876, and after leaving the
seminary he took a post-graduate course
in the University of Berlin in 1877 and
1878. He was pastor of the United Con
gregational Church at Newport, Rhode Is
land, from 1879 to 1882, and of the Brick
Presbyterian Church of New York City
from 1882 to 1900, when he was called to
the chair of English literature at Princeton,
which he has held ever since. He received
the degree of D.D. from Princeton in 1884,
Harvard 1893, and Yale 1896; and that of
LL.D. from Union College 1898, Washing
ton and Jefferson College 1902, and Wes
leyan Uniersity 1903. He is a trustee of
Princeton University, has been preacher to
Harvard University and the Universities
of Pennsylvania and Chicago, and Lyman
Beecher lecturer at Yale; and he was
elected moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States in 1902.
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books on religious and, literary subjects
which have made him one of the most prom
inent literary figures of the English-speak
ing world, and has edited several series
and editions of English poets. He is a
member and has been president of the Hol
land Society. He married in Baltimore,
Maryland, December 13, 1881, Ellen Reid
of Baltimore. Address : Avalon, Princeton,
New Jersey.
VAN DYNE, Frederick:
Lawyer, law writer, consular officer; born
in New York. He was appointed clerk,
class one, in the Department of State, April
27, 1891 ; class four, May 6, 1893 ; appointed
assistant solicitor of the Department of
State, April 21, 1900, to take effect July 1,
1900 ; retired in 1906, and reappointed March
7, 1907; appointed consul at Kingston,
March 8, 1907; acted as arbitrator in claim
of Sola vs. San Domingo, involving $250,-
000, in 1904. Author of: Citizenship of
U. S., 1904; Van Dyne on Naturalization,
1907; member of faculty, Georgetown Uni
versity Law School. Address : Kingston,
Jamaica. VAN ETTEN, Edgar:
Capitalist. He is vice-president and di
rector of the New York Central and Hud
son River Railroad Company; the Bagdad-
Chase Gold Mining Company; director of
the Beacon Trust Company, Harvard Gas
and Electric Company, Ludlow and
Southern Railroad Company, and the
Skaneateles Railroad Company, and is
trustee of the Massachusetts Lighting
Companies. Address: South Terminal
Station, Boston, Massachusetts.
VAN HISE, Charles Richard:
President of the University of Wiscon
sin; born In Fulton, Wisconsin, May 29,
1857 ; son of William Henry Van Hise and
Mary (Goodrich) Van Hise. He was
graduated from the University of Wiscon
sin, as B.M.E., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., and
received the degree of LL.D. from Yale
and the University of Chicago. He was
instructor in metallurgy in the University
of Wisconsin, from 1879 to 1883 ; assistant

professor from 1883 to 1886; professor
from 1886 to 1888 of minerology and pet
rology in 1889 and 1890, of archean and
applied geology from 1890 to 1892, and of
geology from 1892 to 1903; non-resident
professor of structural geology at the Uni
versity of Chicago, from 1892 to 1903;
president of the University of Wisconsin
since 1903. He was assistant on the Wis
consin Geological Survey, in 1881 and
1882; assistant geologist of the United
States Geological Survey, from 1883 to
1888, geologist in charge of the Lake
Superior Division from 1888 to 1900, pre-
Cambrian and metamorphic geologist since
1900. He was consulting geologist of the
Wisconsin Geological, and of the National
Historical Survey from 1897 to 1903 ; presi
dent of the Board of Commissioners since
1903. He is an Independent Republican in
politics, and a Unitarian in religion. Pres
ident Van Hise is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Science; fellow of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science; member of the National
Geographic Society, Washington Philos
ophical Society, New York Academy of
Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences and the Christiania Scientific So
ciety; corresponding member of The Cana
dian Mining Institute. He is a member of
the Cosmos Club of Washington, the Uni
versity Club of Milwaukee, and the Univer
sity Club of Madison. He married, at
Evansville, December 22, 1881, Alice Ring,
and they have three children: Janet, born
in 1888; Hilda, born in 1892, and Alice,
bom in 1896. Residence: 772 Langdon
Street, Madison. Address : University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
VAN LAER, Alexander Theobald:
Artist ; born at Auburn, New York, Feb
ruary 9, 1857; son of P. C. Van Laer and
Mina (Verbeek) Van Laer. He was edu
cated at Auburn High School and studied
art at the National Academy of Design,
with R. Swain Gifford of New York and
George Poggenbeek of Holland. He has
been represented at all leading exhibitions
at home and abroad. He was member of
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in 1904 and also of the International Jury
of Awards and was art commissioner of
the Tennessee Centennial Exhibition at
Nashville, Tennessee, in 1896. He received
a bronze medal at the Charleston Exposi
tion in 1901, and a medal at the St. Louis
Exposition. For many years he has been
lecturing on art subjects, being at Chautau
qua for seven years and fourteen years on
a lecture course for the New York Board
of Education, on which latter he continues
to lecture. He traveled through Europe on
two occasions. Mr. Van Laer is associate
member of the National Academy 01 De
sign, and member of the American Water
Color Society of the New York Water
Color Club, of the Artists' Fund Society.
He is also a member of the Lotus and the
Salmagundi Clubs, of which he is presi
dent. He was married, at Summersworth,
New Hampshire, in 1886, to Stella Stick
ney. Address : 30 East Fifty-seventh
Street, New York City.
VANN, Irving Goodwin:
Lawyer, jurist; born in Ulysses, New
York, January 3, 1842; son of Samuel R.
Vann and Catherine (Goodwin) Vann.
He was graduated from Yale as A.B. in
1863 ; from the Albany Law School, as
LL.B. in 1865, and received the degree of
LL.D. from Hamilton in 1882, from Syra
cuse in 1897, and from Yale in 1898. He
was active in the legal profession from
March 1, 1866, to January 1, 1882, when
his judicial career began and has continued
since that time. He was mayor of the City
of Syracuse, New York, in 1879 and 1880;
justice of the Supreme Court from Jan
uary 1, 1882, to January 1, 1896 ; and since
January 1, 1896, has been judge of the
Court of Appeals. He founded Woodlawn
Cemetery in 1881. Mr. Vann was a member
of the law firms of Vann and Fiske, Ray-
nor and Vann, Fuller and Vann, and Vann,
McLennan and Dillaye. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Presbyterian in re
ligion. Mr. Vann is a member of the New
York State Bar Association and the Onon
daga County Bar Association; member of
the New York State Historical Society and
the Onondaga County Historical Society.

He is a trustee of the Albany Law School ;
president of Woodlawn Cemetery since
1881, and is also a member of the Cen
tury, Citizens', and Yale Clubs, University
Club of Syracuse and Fort Orange Club of
Albany. He married, in Syracuse, New
York, October 11, 1870, Florence Dillaye,
and they have two children: Florence
Vann Fowler, born in 1872, and Irving
Dillaye, born in 1876. Summer residence:
Buck Island, Cranberry Lake, New York.
Address: 316 James Street, Syracuse, New
York.
VAN NORDEN, Warner:
Capitalist; bom in New York City, July
2, 1841 ; son of Thomas Langdon Van
Norden and Margaret Hoghland (War
ner) Van Norden. He was educated in the
University of New York. Mr. Van Nor
den has traveled abroad extensively. He
was president of the National Bank of
North America, from January, 1891 to
January, 1902, when he retired. He is di
rector of the Van Norden Trust Company,
Mercantile National Bank, Fifth Avenue
Estates, Van Norden Safe Deposit Com
pany, Century Realty Company, Standard
Milling Company, New York Mortgage Se
curity Company, American Surety Com
pany, Scarsdale Estates, D. Appleton and
Company, Trust Company of America,
Bankers' Investing Company, American
Tract Society. He is a Republican, in poli
tics, and a Presbyterian in religion; mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, the New
York Historical Society, Museum of
Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of
Art; president of the Board of Trustees of
the Presbytery of New York; member of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian Church; ex-president of the
Presbyterian Union; ex-president of the
Holland Society ; member of the St. Nicho
las Society, and director of the Manhat
tan Working Girls' Society, and member
of the Metropolitan, Union League, Law
yers', Riding, and Holland Society Clubs.
He married, May 30, 1867, Martha A.
Phillips, now deceased, and he has four
children: Theodore L., Emma P., War
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Sixty-Second Street. Address: 786 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
VAN ORNUM, John Lane:
Civil engineer; born in Hartford, Ver
mont, May 14, 1864 ; " son of A. J. Van
Ornum and Josephine (Lane) Van Ornum.
He was graduated from the University of
Wisconsin as B.S. in 1888, received special
honors in mathematics and general honors
given on graduation in 1888, and the de
gree of CE. in 1891. He has held respons
ible positions on municipal, railway and
government engineering works in Wiscon
sin, Michigan, Tennessee, Missouri, Geor
gia and Florida, aggregating six years, iie
was chief topographer of the Mexican
Boundary Survey in 1892-94, and visited
Europe to inspect engineering works and
schools in 1897-98. He was major of the
Third United States Volunteer Engineers,
in 1898 and 1899, in the War with Spain,
and has been professor of civil engineering
in Washington University, St. Louis, since
1899. He is actively engaged in various
civic enterprises and interests of St. Louis.
He is author of technical papers on: Topo
graphical Surveying, Hydrographic Survey
ing, Structural Engineering, Fire Preven
tion and Insurance Rates, Special Assess
ments, and was pioneer investigator and
writer on the subject of The Fa
tigue of , Concrete. He is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the American Society for Testing Ma
terials, International Association for Test
ing Materials, fellow of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Science,
member of the Society for the Promotion
of Engineering Education, the Academy of
Science of St. Louis, the Beta Theta Pi
college fraternity, Civic League of St.
Louis; member and past president of the
St. Louis Engineers' Club, the Congrega
tional Club of St. Louis, New England
Society, and Military Order of Foreign
Wars. His favorite recreations are rid
ing, driving, traveling, camping and hunt
ing game. He married in Newburgh,
New York, July 25, 1894, Carrie Beattie
Scott, and they have one child, Thurwood

Van Ornum, born in 1895. Address : Wash
ington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
VAN PELT, Charles Edwardi
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Octo
ber 22, 1848; son of Rev. Peter Van Pelt,
D.D., LL.D., and Abby Ann King (Turner)
Van Pelt. He was educated at the Pro
testant Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia,
and Burlington College, New Jersey; en
tered the University of Pennsylvania, and
was graduated as M.A. in 1867. He is a
director of the Pennsylvania Fire Insur
ance Company, and passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
is a Republican in politics, and an Epis
copalian in religion. Mr. Van Pelt is a
member of the Netherland Society of
Philadelphia, Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, Philomathean Society, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Delta Phi fra
ternity, and charter member of the Brother
hood of St. Andrew; vestryman of the
Church of St. Martin-in-the-Field's, Chest
nut Hill, Philadelphia, and vestryman of
the Church of St. Uriel, Sea Girt, New
Jersey. He is also a member of the Delta
Phi Fraternity Club of New York City,
University Barge Club of Philadelphia,
charter member of The Southern Club of
Philadelphia, and the Church Club of
Philadelphia. He married in Christ
Church, Philadelphia, 1872, Ellen Hughes,
daughter of Colonel James Gibbons Hughes,
English Army, and they have five daugh
ters and eight sons: Mary, Gertrude,
Helen, Elizabeth, Abby Ann, Randall Tur
ner, David W. Sellers, Peter Turner,
Joseph King Turner, Andrew Douglas
Hall, John Lambert, Alexander, and
Albert Edward. Address: Chestnut Hill,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
VAN SANT, Howard D.:
Consular officer; born in Jamaica. He
was appointed consul at Guelph, January
11, 1905; appointed consul at Kingston,
September 15, 1905. Address: Kingston,
Ontario.
VAN WYCK, Robert Anderson:
Ex-mayor of New York, lawyer; born
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from Cornelius Barento Van Wyck, who
settled in the New Netherlands in 1850.
He was educated in Columbia Law School.
Mr. Van Wyck was judge of the City
Court of New York from 1889 to 1897, and
mayor of New York from 1897 to 1900.
He is a Democrat in politics. Address:
135 East Forty-sixth Street, New York
City. VARDAMAN, James K.:
Governor of Mississippi ; elected on the
Democratic ticket in 1903, as governor for
the term of four years, expiring January
1, 1908. During his administration Gov
ernor Vardaman has distinguished him
self by an able and vigorous administration,
and by his earnest efforts to suppress and
punish lynching. He was a candidate in the
Democratic primary for United States
senator for the term beginning in 1909, but
was defeated, in a close run, by Hon. John
Sharp Williams. Address : Jackson, Mis
sissippi. VEEDER, Ten Eyck De Witt:
Captain, United States Navy; born in
New York; entered the Naval Academy in
1868, and was graduated in 1873. He was
promoted ensign, July 16, 1874; master,
January 1, 1881; lieutenant (junior grade),
March 3, 1883; lieutenant, October 7, 1886;
lieutenant-commander, March 3, 1899; com
mander, December 2, 1902; captain, July 1,
1907. He was attached to the Tuscarora,
deep sea sounding, Pacific Station, from
1873 to 1875 ; the Vandalia, 1876 and 1877 ;
and the Alliance in 1877 and 1880, European
Station; Torpedo Station, 1880 and 1881 ;
Richmond, Palos and Ashuelot, Asiatic Sta
tion, from 1881 to 1884, and was on board
the Ashuelot, when wrecked on Lamock
Rocks, Formosa Channel; at the Navy
Yard at Washington in 1884; on special
duty in connection with electric lighting
with the Bureau of Navigation, from 1885
to 1890, and the Bureau of Equipment in
1890. He was attached to the Enterprise
July 1, 1890 ; the Yorktown in the Squadron
of Evolution, from 1890 to 1893 ; Bureau of
Equipment, 1893 to 1896; joined the Ban
croft, August 31, 1896; and went to the

European Station, returning to Boston,
April 4, 1898, where the Bancroft fitted out
to join Admiral Sampson's Squadron, and
the ship reported for duty at Key West,
May 9, 1898. He was on duty at the Bu
reau of Equipment, from 1899 to 1903; No
vember, 1903, took command of the Hart
ford, doing duty as a training ship, until
September, 1905, when she became station
ship at the Naval Academy; October 19,
1907, took command of the Alabama, flag
ship of Rear-Admiral Sperry, on the cruise
of the North Atlantic Squadron to the Pa
cific. Address : Care of the Navy Depart
ment, Washington, D. C.
VD3BERT, Wiliam H. :
Clergyman. He was graduated from
Trinity College as B.A. in 1858, and M.A.
in 1861, and from Racine College as S.T.D.
in 1883. He was ordered deacon in 1862,
and ordained priest in 1863 by Bishop Wil
liams. He was professor of Hebrew at the
Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown,
Connecticut, and rector of Christ Church,
Middle Haddam, Connecticut, from 1863 to
1873; rector of St. Luke's Church, Ger
mantown, Pennsylvania, from 1873 to 1883 ;
rector of St. James' Church, Chicago, Illi
nois, from 1883 to 1890; rector of St.
Peter's Church, Philadelphia, in 1890 and
1891, and has been vicar of Trinity Chapel,
Trinity Parish, New York City, since 1891.
He is author of : A Guide to the Reading
of the Hebrew Text; Plain Catechism on
Confirmation; Plain Catechism on Church
Principles. Address: 116 East Twenty-
ninth Street, New York City.
VICKERS, George M. :
Soldier, author and editor ; born in Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1841 ;
son of David and Jane Emeline (Hunt)
Vickers. He is the lineal descendant on
the maternal side of Richard Swain, who
early settled in Cape May, New Jersey,
and served under Washington during the
American Revolution. He was educated
by private tutors; enlisted as private, May
27, 1861, in Company K of the Second
Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves;
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Fortieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun
teers (emergency to repel Lee's invasion of
the State), and in Company D, of the First
Regiment of the United States Veteran
Reserve Volunteers, and was honorably
discharged November 14, 1865. In politics
Mr. Vickers is an Independent. He is au
thor of: Guard the Flag, and Columbia,
My Country, approved by the presidents of
several administrations, cabinet officers, and
governors of the' different States, generals
and admirals ; also over five hundred songs,
many of which are published in foreign
countries, and a collection of poems en
titled : Ballads of the Occident. Address :
712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
VINCENT, Boya:
Bishop of Southern Ohio; born in Erie,
Pennsylvania, May 18, 1845. He studied
at Yale University and graduated with the
degree of B.A. in 1867, receiving M.A. in
1870. He graduated also at Berkley Divin
ity School in 1871. In 1889 the degree of
S.T.D. was conferred upon him by Trin
ity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and
that of D.D. by Kenyon College. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1871, and the following year was ordained
priest by Bishop Kerfoot. After entering
the ministry as deacon, he was assistant
of St. Paul's Church, Erie, Pennsylvania,
until 1872, when he accepted a call to the
rectorship of the Church of the Cross and
Crown, Erie, Pennsylvania, remaining there
two years. In 1874 he became rector of
the Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, officiating there for fifteen years and
resigning in 1889 to become Bishop-Coad
jutor of Southern Ohio. He was conse
crated by Bishops Spalding, Dudley, Penick
Whitehead and Knickerbocker. In 1904 he
was made Bishop of Southern Ohio. He
is author of : Lectures on God and Prayer,
1897, and has also written various pamph
lets and sermon. Address: Cathedral
House, 223 West Seventh Street, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
VINCENT, John Heyl:
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ; born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Feb

ruary 23, 1832; son of John Himrod and
Mary (Raser) Vincent. He was educated
at Lewisburg (Pennsylvania) Academy,
preparatory department of the University
of Lewisburg Pennsylvania ; Newark (New
Jersey) Wesleyan Institute; and received
the degree of D.D. from Ohio Wesleyan
University, Harvard yniversity, and Wash
ington and Jefferson College. He taught
country school at Chillisquaque, Pennsyl
vania, in 1850; traveled circuit as Metho
dist assistant preacher in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania, in 1851 ; was at the Newark
(New Jersey) City Mission, as assistant,
1852; joined the Newark Methodist Episco
pal Conference, 1853; stationed at North
Belleville, in 1853 and 1854; at Irvington
in 1855 and 1856; transferred to Rock
River Conference, in 1857; stationed at
Joliet, Illinois, in 1857 to 1878 ; Mt. Morris,
1858 ; Galena, from 1858 to i860 ; Rockford,
1861. He traveled in Europe and Palestine
in 1862; was pastor at Rockford, Illinois,
1863 ; Trinity Church, Chicago, 1864. He
established the Sunday School Magazine
and the Lesson Leaf System in Chicago, in
connection with the Sunday School
Teacher, in 1864; entered the Sunday
School Union of the Methodist Episcopal
Church as agent, then as corresponding
secretary and editor from 1858 to 1888.
He was elected bishop in 1888; resided in
Buffalo, New York, from 1888 to 1892; in
Topeka, Kansas, from 1893 to 1900; resi
dent bishop of Europe, at Zurich, Switzer
land, from igoo to 1904, and he retired from
the active episcopacy, 1904. He is author
of: The Modern Sunday School; A Study
in Pedagogy; Better Not; Our Own
Church, and several volumes of Lesson
Notes and Question Books. He is a
member of the Alpha Tau Omega ; was as
sociated with Lewis Miller of Akron in
the organization of the Chautauqua Sunday
School Assembly, 1874. He suggested, or
ganized and named the Chautauqua Liter
ary and Scientific Circle in 1878, and
served from the beginning as superintend
ent of instruction in the Chautauqua As
sembly; and from its founding, as chancel
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tific Circle, with headquarters at Chautau
qua, New York. He married, at Port-
ville, Cattaraugus County, New York, No
vember, 1858, Elizabeth Dusenbury, and
they have one son: George Edgar, born
March 2, 1864. Address : Indianapolis,
Indiana.VINTON, Alexander Hamilton:
First bishop of Western Massachusetts;
born in Brooklyn, New York, March 30,
1852; son of General David H. Vinton and
Eliza A. (Arnold) Vinton. He studied at
St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New
York, graduating with the degree of B.A.
in 1873, and at the General Theological
Seminary, New York, where he was gradu
ated in 1876, receiving the degree of S.T.B.
From this institution he received the de
gree of S.T.D. in 1902. His alma mater
conferred upon him also the degree of
D.D. in 1890 and LL.D. in 1902. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1877 by Bishop Williams, and was or
dained priest by Bishop Clark the next
year. He was rector of the Church of the
Holy Comforter, Norwood, New Jersey,
1877-1878, of the Memorial Church of the
Holy Comforter, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, 1879-84, and of All Saints' Church,
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1884- 1902. He
was elected bishop of Western Massachu
setts, and was consecrated in 1902 by
Bishops Davies, Huntington, Brewster,
Niles, Potter, Lawrence, Hall, Burgess and
Courtney (of Nova Scotia). Address: 1154
Worthington Street, Springfield, Massachu
setts.VINTON, Frederic Porter:
Artist ; born in Bangor, Maine, January
29, 1846 ; son of William Henry Vinton and
Sarah Ward (Goodhue) Vinton, and on
both sides of old New England ancestry.
He was educated in the common schools
of Chicago, Illinois, where his parents had
moved when he was a child, later finishing
his education at Boston. He commenced
active life at the age of fifteen in the Bos
ton mercantile house of Gardner Brewer
and Company, later being connected as
bookkeeper with various banking estab

lishments. He remained in business until
1875, in the meantime employing his leisure
hours in painting and the study of art,
beng greatly encouraged in this by the late
William M. Hunt, who found merit in his
early work. After studying for some time
at the Lowell Institute, he became a pupil
of the late Dr. William Rimmer, and, al
though still engaged in mercantile pur
suits, he was soon well known in Boston
as an artist. In 1875 he went abroad and
became a pupil of Leon Bonnat in Paris.
The following year he was a pupil at the
Royal Academy in Munich, Bavaria, and
in 1877 returned to Paris and studied under
Jean Paul Laurens until 1878. While in
Paris he exhibited in the Salon, one of
his pictures being purchased by the French
Government. Returning to the United
States in 1878, he opened a studio in Bos
ton and there painted the portraits of some
of the most prominent men in Boston,
among them being Thomas G. Appleton,
Francis Parkman, Lord Playfair, Wendell
Phillips, Judge Otis P. Lord, General
Charles Devens, Dr. A. P. Peabody, Dr.
Henry J. Bigelow, and many others. In
1880 he was elected member of the So
ciety of American Artists and in 1882 was
made an associate of the National Academy
of Design, being admitted to full member
ship in 1891. He went to Europe in 1882,
giving four months in Spain to the study
of Velasquez and returned again in 1889,
and ten years later, 1899, the year of the
last Paris Exposition, he spent eighteen
months in traveling through many Euro
pean countries. In 1890 he exhibited at the
Paris Salon a portrait of his wife, which
was painted in Paris, receiving honorable
mention. He was awarded a silver medal
in the Paris Exposition, 1900. He also re
ceived gold medals at the World's Colum
bian Exposition in 1893, at the Pan Amer
ican Exposition, Buffalo, in 1901, and the
St. Louis Exhibition in 1904. He is a
member of the National Academy of De
sign (elected 1891), of the National Acad
emy of Arts and Letters, and also of the
Thursday Evening Club, the Examiner
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ber), and the Tavern Club (charter mem
ber), all the latter being clubs of Boston.
He married at Newport, Rhode Island,
June 27, 1883, Annie M. Pierce. Address:
247 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. VIRGIN, Fred P.:
Capitalist. He is first vice-president of
the Boston Wholesale Grocers' Associa
tion; vice-president and director of the
Cary Maple Sugar Company; director of
the Faneuil Hall National Bank, and gen
eral manager of Martin L. Hall and Com
pany. Address : 14 South Market Street
Boston, Massachusetts.
VTZETELLY, Francis ("Frank") Horace:
Author, editor; born in London, Eng
land, April 2, 1864; son of Henry Richard
and Elizabeth Ann (Ansell) Vizetelly. He
was educated in the Ecole des Freres
Chretiens, Passy; Lycee Baudard, Nogent-
sur-Marne, France; and Arnold College,
Eastbourne, England. He was assistant
editor of the Standard Dictionary, 1891 ;
associate revising editor ot trie same, from
1894 to 1896; projector of the Encyclopedia
of Wines. He is author of: Preparation
of Manuscripts for the Printer, 1905; A
Desk Book of Errors in English, 1906; A
Desk Book of Mispronounced Words, 1908 ;
The Simple Art of Swimming, 1908. He
was revising editor of the Columbian Cy
clopedia, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates,
Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations,
from 1894 to 1897 ; manager of the editorial
department and secretary of the Editorial
Board of Jewish Encyclopedia, from 1889
to 1905; editor of the Department of Pro
nunciation on the Schaff-Herzog Encyclo
pedia and Standard Bible Dictionars',
and associated with W. D. P. Bliss on the
Encyclopedia of Social Reform, 1908. He
contributed to Appleton's Annual Cyclo
pedia, the Jewish Encyclopedia, the En
cyclopedia of Temperance, The Illus
trated London News, The Independent,
New York Sun, New York Times,
Woman's Home Journal. Mr. Vizetelly is
especially interested in Bermuda, about
which he has written extensively, includ

ing: Balmy Bermuda; Bermuda, the
Riviera of the Atlantic; Summering in
Bermuda; The Boers in Bermuda; The
Boer as a Prisoner of War ; Where Ameri
can History Was Made, and others. He is
a Protestant in religion, and a member of
the Society for the Encouragement of the
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Lon
don, from 1903 to 1908. He married, in
New York City, June 6, 1894, Bertha Marie
Krehbiel, and they have one daughter,
Norma, born April 7, 1895. Address: 2460
Seventh Avenue, New York City.
VOLK, Douglas:
Artist; born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,
February 23, 1856; son of Leonard W. and
Emily C. (Barlow) Volk. He studied art
at Rome, Italy, during the years 1870-1873,
and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,
under Gerome from 1873 to 1879, exhibit
ing at the Paris Salon in 1875 to 1878.
Returning to the United States in 1879, he
became instructor at the Cooper Institute,
holding this position until 1885 and again
from 1894 to 1898 and from 1900 to 1904.
He founded in 1886 the Minneapolis School
of Fine Arts and was its director until
1893, when he was appointed instructor at
the Art Students' League in New York
City, which position he held until 1901, fill
ing also a similar position at Cooper Insti
tute. He was member of the National Jury
of Fine Arts at the Columbian and the St.
Louis Expositions and was the recipient
of various medals from the Chicago, Buf
falo, Charleston, Boston, and St. Louis Ex
positions. He also was awarded the Shaw
prize by the Society of American Artists
in 1899; and the Carnegie prize by the
same society in 1901. His pictures have
been purchased by the Carnegie Institute
at Pittsburgh, the Corcoran Gallery at
Washington, the Pittsfield Museum, the
State of Minnesota for the new Capitol
building and by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City. During the years
1870-1875 he traveled in various European
countries and in 1905 visited the Middle
West and California. In 1906 he traveled
with his family in Italy. In politics he is
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Volk is a member of the National Academy
of Design, of the Society of American Ar
tists (secretary, 1899-1900), of the Artists
Aid Society and of the Artists' Fund So
ciety of New York City. He is also a
member of the National Arts Club, and is
one of the executive committee of the Eth
ical Culture School in New York City. He
was married, at Chicago, Illinois, June 25,
1881, to Marion Larrabee, and has had
four children: Leonard, died in 1891;
Wendell, born in 1884; Marion, born in
1888, and Gerome, born in 1890. Address:
Care of the National Academy of Design,
New York City.
VON MOSCHZISKBR, Robert:
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of
Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia, March
4, 1870; son of the late Dr. F. A. von
Moschzisker, a native of Poland, who came
to America and married Miss Harrison of
Philadelphia. He received his education
in the public schools of Philadelphia and
by private tutors. He entered the office
of Edward Shippen in 1883, with whom he
subsequently studied law, and was admitted
to the bar. In 1902 he was appointed third
assistant district attorney of the County
of Philadelphia; was advanced to second
assistant district attorney, and subsequently
to first assistant. In 1903 he was appointed
by the governor to fill out the unexpired
term of Judge Henry J. McCarthy in the
Court of Common Pleas Number Three of
the County of Philadelphia, and on Janu
ary 4, 1904, he was elected judge for the
full term of ten years. He was previously
a member of the Board of Censors of the
Philadelphia Bar. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, Pennsylvania
State Bar Association, Philadelphia Law
Association, Law Academy, Pennsylvania
Historical Society, Veteran Corps of the
First Regiment, National Guard of Penn
sylvania, Harmony Lodge of Masons,
Washington • Camp of the Order of Sons
of America, Artillery Corps of Washing
ton Grays, and junior order of United
American Mechanics. Address : City Hall,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

VOSBURGH, Walter S.:
Journalist and turfman; born in New
York City, in which he received an academic
education. He engaged in newspaper work
and was for many years a writer on turf
topics in the daily and weekly papers of
New York City. For several years past he
has been and now is the official handicapper
of the racing associations of the Eastern
turf. Address : Windsor Arcade, Fifth Ave
nue and Forty-sixth Street, New York City.
VREELAND, Edward Butterneld:
Congressman; born in Cuba, Allegheny
County, New York, in 1857; son of Simon
Vreeland. He received an academic edu
cation and served as superintendent of the
schools of Salamanca from 1877 to 1882.
He was admitted to the practice of law in
1881, and since 1891 has been president of
the Salamanca Trust Company, and is en
gaged principally in the banking and oil
business. He was elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-sixth Congress, November 7,
1899, and to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Thirty-
seventh New York District. He married
in Friendship, Allegheny County, New
York, Myra S. Price. Address : Salaman
ca, New York.
VREELAND, Herbert Harold:
Railway president; born at Glen, Mont
gomery County, New York, October 28,
1856; son of Rev. A. H. Vreeland and
Jane (Van Riper) Vreeland. In 1874 he
entered the service of the Long Island Rail
road, and passed through almost every
grade of the Transportation Department to
freight and passenger conductor. In 1881
he became conductor on the New York and
Northern Railroad, of which he became suc
cessively trainmaster, superintendent, gen
eral superintendent and general manager.
He resigned in 1893 to become president of
the Houston Street, West Street and Pa-
vonia Ferry Railroad Company, of which
company and its successors, the Metropol
itan Street Railway Company, the Inter-
urban Street Railway Company (now the
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Metropolitan Securities Company, he has
been president ever since. Under his presi
dency, nearly thirty independent and com
peting companies, owning horse car fran
chises were united into one great system
comprising every surface line in the bor
oughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, and
the larger part converted to the most mod
ern system of electric traction. He is also
president and director of the various sub
sidiary street railway companies, included in
the Metropolitan system ; vice-president and
director of the Union Exchange Bank, the
National Bank of Commerce in New York,
Bridge Operating Company, and the Elec
tric Vehicle Operating Company. Mr.
Vreeland was a member of the Electric
Railway Test Commission of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904.
He is an honorary member of the Tram
ways and Light Railways Association of
Great Britain, member of the Holland So
ciety, and The Pilgrims' of the United
State ; president of the New York Railroad
Club, member of the Lawyers', Transpor
tation, Engineers', National Democratic,
New York Athletic, and New York Riding
Clubs, and the Kishawana Country Club
of Brewster, New York. He has a beau
tiful country residence at Brewster. He
married in New York City, Carrie L. Reed,
and they have five children. Residence:
239 West Seventy-second Street. Office ad
dress : 621 Broadway, New York City.
VROOM, Garret Dorset Wall:
Jurist; born at Trenton, New Jersey, De
cember 17, 1843 ; son of Peter Vroom.
After a thorough preparatory education , at
the Trenton Academy he entered Rutgers
College in the class of 1862, and was grad
uated with the degree of A.B., later receiv
ing from the same college the degrees of
A.M. and LL.B. He was admitted to
the New Jersey bar; was city solicitor
of the City of Trenton, New Jer
sey, from 1866 to 1870, and from 1874 to
1877; prosecutor of the pleas for Mercer
County, New Jersey, from 1870 to 1873,
and reporter of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey in 1873. He was mayor of
Trenton, 1881-1884; and is now one of the

judges of the Court of Errors and Ap
peals of New Jersey. Judge Vroom is a
Democrat in politics. He is president of
the Board of Managers of the New Jer
sey State Hospital for the Insane. Judge
Vroom is author, jointly with J. H. Stewart,
of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey,
published in 1877, and with Judge W. M.
Lanning, of the three-volume edition of
the General Statutes of New Jersey, pub
lished in 1895; and is also author of vol
umes 36 to 70 of the New Jersey Law Re
ports.' He is a member of the Delta Phi
fraternity, the Lawyers' Club of New York,
and the Sons of the Revolution. Judge
Vroom married, June 8, 1871, Charlotte
Dickinson.. Residence: 159 West State
Street. Office address : Mechanics' Bank
Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
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WADDILL, Edmund, Jr.:
United States district judge; born in
Charles City County, Virginia, May 22,
1855. He was educated in the schools of
Richmond, Virginia, studied law, and was
admitted to the bar. He was judge of the
County Court of Henrico County from
1880 to 1883; was appointed by President
Arthur, in 1883, United States attorney for
the Eastern District of Virginia, serving
until 1885, was a member of the Virginia
Legislature from 1885 to 1889; elected in
1888 to the Fifty-first Congress as a Re
publican, serving until 1891. He resumed
the practice of law in Richmond, until
March 22, 1898, when he was appointed by
President McKinley to his present office as
United States district judge for the East
ern District of Virginia. Address: Rich
mond, Virginia.
WADE, James Franklin:
Major-general, United States Army, re
tired; born in Jefferson, Ohio, April 14,
1843; son of Hon. Benjamin Franklin Wade
(United States senator from Ohio, 1851 to
1869). He attended the common schools.
He was appointed from civil life as first
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airy, May 14, 1861. He participated in the
movements and battles of that regiment,
and was brevetted captain, June 9, 1863, for
gallant and meritorious services in the .battle
of Beverly Ford, Virginia, and May I, 1864,
was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the
Sixth Regiment of United States Colored
Cavalry, and promoted colonel of same regi
ment, September 19, 1864. He was bre
vetted major United States Army, December
19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious serv
ices in the action at Marion, East Tennes
see, brigadier-general of Volunteers, Febru
ary 13, 1865, for gallant services in the
campaign in Southwestern Virginia, and
lieutenant-colonel and colonel United States
Army, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meri
torious services during the war. He was
commissioned major of the Ninth Cavalry,
July 28, 1866, lieutenant-colonel of the
Tenth Cavalry, March 20, 1879, colonel of
the Fifth Cavalry, April 21, 1887, brigadier-
general, May 26, 1897. He was appointed
major-general of Volunteers, May 4, 1898,
and served in that rank until his honorable
discharge from the Volunteers, June 12,
1899; was chairman of the Cuban Evacua
tion Commission, 1898; served in the Phil
ippines from 1901 to 1904; promoted to
major-general, April 13, 1903, and was in
command of the Philippine Division in 1903
and 1904; after that commanded the Atlan
tic Division, and retired by operation of law,
April 14, 1907. Address : Jefferson, Ohio.
WADSWORTH, James Wolcott:
Farmer and ex-member of Congress;
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Octo
ber 12, 1846. He was preparing at New
Haven, Connecticut, to enter Yale College,
but enlisted in the army in the fall of 1864,
and served on the staff of General G. K.
Warren to the close of the war. He went
to Geneseo, New York, and engaged in
farming pursuits; was supervisor of the
town of Geneseo from 1875 to 1877 ; a mem
ber of the New York Assembly in 1878
and 1879; comptroller of the State of New
York, in 1880 and 1881 ; elected to the Forty-
seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, serv
ing from 1881 to 1885; elected in 1890 to
the Fifty-second Congress and reelected bi-

ennialy, serving from 1891 to 1903, from the
Thirtieth New York District, and from 1903
to 1907 from the Thirty-fourth New York
District. He was again nominated in 1906
for the Sixtieth Congress, but defeated. In
politics he is a Republican. He married
Louisa Travers. Address : Geneseo, New
York. WADSWORTH, James Wolcott, Jr.:
Farmer and speaker of the New York
Assembly ; born in Geneseo, New York, Au
gust 12, 1877; son of James Wolcott Wads
worth and Louisa (Travers) Wadsworth.
He received his education in St. Mark's
School, Southboro, Massachusetts, and was
graduated from Yale University as B.A. in
1898. He has been engaged in farming
since 1899, and is a director of the Geneseo
Valley National Bank. He made a trip
around the world in the winter of 1899. Mr.
Wadsworth served as a private in Battery
A, Pennsylvania Field Artillery, in Porto
Rico, 1898. He was elected member of the
Assembly from Livingston County, in 1904 ;
reelected in 1905 and 1906; elected speaker
of the Assembly, January 3, 1906, and re
elected in January, 1907. In politics he is
a Republican, and in his religious affiliation
an Episcopalian. Mr. Wadsworth is trus
tee of the New York State Public Build
ings; commissioner of the Land Office of
New York State, and trustee of Cornell
University. He is also a member of Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and of the Uni
versity, Racquet and Tennis, and Yale
Clubs of New York City, the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, D. C, and the Fort
Orange Club of Albany. Mr. Wadsworth
married in Newberry, New Hampshire,
September 30, 1902, Alice Hay, and their
children are Evelyn, born in 1904, and
James Jeremiah, born in 1906. Address :
Mount Morris, New York.
WAGNER, Franklin A.:
Lawyer; born in Decatur, Michigan,
1877; son of Joseph Wagner and Helen
(Blauvelt) Wagner. He was educated in
the University of Michigan literary course
from 1899 to 1901, and in law, graduating
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MEN OF AMERICA.

in Europe in igoo as private secretary to
Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago; en
listed in Michigan National Guard in April,
1896; with the Thirty-first Regiment of
Michigan Volunteer Infantry, in the Span
ish-American War ; enlis.ted at Island Lake,
Michigan, April 26, 1898; mustered out, at
Savannah, Georgia, May 17, 1899; in camp
at Chickamauga Park, May 10, to August
20; Knoxville, Tennessee, from August 20,
to January 10, 1899; Savannah, Georgia, to
January 27; Santa Clara Province, Cuba,
from February 2, to April 25 ; corporal and
company clerk of Company A; staff cor
respondent of The Detroit Journal with
the regiment. He is junior partner of the
firm of Parker and Wagner, lawyers, with
practice limited to corporation law. He is
secretary, treasurer and director of the
United States Corporation Company, Law
yers' Incorporation Comoany; director and
vice-president of the Corporation Legal
Manual Companv; compiler of the Michi
gan University Song Book, and writer on
corporation law subjects. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Unitarian in reli
gion. Mr. Wagner is a member of the
University of Michigan Alumni, the Sigma
Nu Alumni Association, The Michigan So
ciety, Riverside Republican Club, and Grad
uates' Club. He married, at Rockford, Illi
nois. June 7. 1906, Ethel Mav Putnam.
Address: Mutual Life Buildings, New
York City.
WAGNER, Irving Price:
Lawyer and congressman ; born in North
Coventry, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1852.
He commenced the study of law at Norris
town, Pennsylvania, in 1872, and was ad
mitted to the bar December 18, 1875; was
elected burgess of Norristown in 1878.
He was a delegate to the Republican Na
tional Convention in 1880; was elected dis
trict attorney of Montgomery County in
1880, and again in 1886; was elected to the
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-
sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth and
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress from the Eighth
Pennsylvania District. He married, June,

1884, Emma C. Titlou. Address:
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WAGNER, Louis:
President of the Board of Directors of
City Trusts ; born in Giessen, Hesse-Darm
stadt, Germany, on August 4, 1838; his
father and family came to America in 1849,
settling in Philadelphia, when Louis was
eleven years old. He was educated
partly in the school at Giessen, Germany.
and partly in the grammar school, Phila
delphia. He was in the lithograph busi
ness until the breaking out of the Civil
War, when he was mustered in the Eighty-
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was
commissioned as first lieutenant of Com
pany D; took part in several engagements
and was seriously wounded and taken pris
oner at the second battle of Bull Run (the
wound still discharges). He was promoted
to the captaincy of Company D; placed in
charge of Camp William Penn in Phila
delphia as a lieutenant-colonel of the Eighty-
eighth Regiment, where he organized the
first regiment of colored troops. Re
turning to his regiment, the Eighty-eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, he was assigned
to the command of a brigade in the Fifth
Army Corps. He was subsequently commis
sioned colonel of his regiment, and made
a brigadier-general by brevet, and was hon
orably discharged from the service, having
served continuously from the beginning to
the end of the war. General Wagner is a
Republican in politics, and he is a thirty-
third degree Mason, member of the Grand
Lodge and one of the organizers of and
president from its organization of the Ma
sonic Home of Pennsylvania. In civil
business and political life he was the first
director of Public Works of Philadelphia;
served as City Councilman and president
of the Common Council ; Recorder of Deeds
of Philadelphia, a Guardian of the Poor,
member of the Board of Public Education,
one of the park commissioners, member
from 1875 to 1892 and since 1892 president
of the Board of Directors of City Trusts,
whose chief trust is Girard College; also
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manager and manager of Glenville Coal
Company, and is president of the Third Na
tional Bank of Philadelphia and chairman
of Sinking Fund Commission of the city
of Philadelphia. He was one of the or
ganizers of the Grand Army of the Re
public and is a past commander-in-chief,
and the senior past commanaer-in-chief
now living; he was president of the Ger
man Society of Philadelphia; held highest
offices in the Good Templars of Pennsyl
vania, and was the head of the Sons of
Temperance in the United States and
British Provinces. He married, August 4,
1859, Hattie Slocum. Address: Third Na
tional Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WAGNER, Samuel:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, December 28, 1842; son of Samuel
Wagner and Emilie Obrie (Duval) Wag
ner. He was educated in the Episcopal
Academy, Philadelphia, from 185 1 to 1857,
the University of Pennsylvania from 1857
to 1861, and was graduated as A.B. in 1861
and A.M. in 1864; and he attended the
Law School of the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1863 and 1864. He was instruc
tor in mathematics in the Episcopal Acad
emy from 1861 to 1863; was admitted to
the Philadelphia bar in 1866, to the bar of
the Supreme Court in 1869, and the Su
preme Court of the United States in 1881.
He is president of the Wagner Free Insti
tute of Science. Mr. Wagner was a pri
vate of the First Regiment of the Pennsyl
vania Militia, during the emergencies in
1862 and 1863. He was chief of the edi
torial staff of the Pennsylvania Monthly
for three years, and has written many oc
casional papers ; and was one of the found
ers of the Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art. He is a member
of the American Philosophical Society,
Chester County Historical Society, Civil
Service Reform Association, Pennsylvania
Forestry Association, Philadelphia Natural
History Society, and trustee of the Free
Library of Philadelphia. He is also one
of the founders of the Penn, Rittenhouse,
University and Philobiblon Clubs. He mar
ried, in Philadelphia, September 5, 1893,

Anne Leonard Harlan, daughter of Ed
ward Seymour Harlan, and granddaughter
of Dr. Richard Harlan, the distinguished
scientist. Residence: Greenbank Farm,
West Chester, Pennsylvania. Office ad
dress : Franklin Building, 133 South Twelfth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WAINWBIGHT, Richard:
Captain, United States Navy ; born in
Washington, D. C, December 17, 1849; son
of Commander Richard Wainwright, (who
died on the Mississippi, August 10, 1862,
while commanding Farragut's flagship, the
Hartford). He entered the Naval Acad
emy, then at Newport, Rhode Island, Sep
tember 28, 1864, and was graduated from
the Academy at Annapolis in 1868. His
first service was as a midshipman on the
Jamestown, of the Pacific Fleet in 1868
and 1869. He was promoted to ensign in
1869; on duty in the Hydrographic Office
in Washington in 1870 ; promoted to master,
1870; served on the Colorado, flagship of
the Asiatic Fleet, from 1870 to 1872; com
missioned as lieutenant, 1873 ; at the Hy
drographic Office, 1873 and 1874; command
ing the Coast Survey vessel, Arago, from
1875 to 1878; flag-lieutenant to Rear-Ad
miral T. H. Patterson, commanding the
Asiatic Station, from 1878 to 1881 ; special
duty in the Bureau of Navigation, 1881 to
1884; ordered to the Tennessee, North
Atlantic Station, 1884 and 1885 ; secretary to
Rear-Admiral J. E. Jouett, commanding the
North Atlantic, in 1885 and 1886; Galena,
North Atlantic Station, 1886 and 1887; on
steel inspection service, 1887 and 1888; at
the Naval Academy, from 1888 to 1890 ; Al
ert, special service, 1890 to 1893; Hydro-
graphic Office, 1893 to 1896; commissioned
as lieutenant-commander, September, 1894:
chief intelligence officer, 1896 and 1897; and
in December, 1897, he became executive of
ficer of the battleship Maine, then under
command of Captain Sigsbee. The United
States and Spain were at that time in con
troversy concerning the horrors of Spanish
rule in Cuba, and as the safety of American
residents in Havana seemed imperiled by
the riotous spirit of the inhabitants, the
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vana harbor in the last week of January,
1898. The visit was ostensibly a friendly
one., but the Spaniards of Havana looked
upon it with doubt and hostility, and on the
evening of February 15, while the men were
in their quarters, and the captain and exec
utive officers in their cabins, the ship was
blown up by a frightful explosion, that rent
the vessel asunder and killed most of the
crew, though Captain Sigsbee, Lieutenant-,
Commander Wainwright and most of the
officers escaped. When the court of in
quiry decided that the vessel had been de
stroyed by an explosion from the outside,
presumably by a submarine mine, war be
came inevitable. When war broke out,
Lieutenant-Commander Wainwright com
manded the Gloucester, a yacht which had
been converted into a gunboat. On July 3,
1898, when Admiral Cervera's squadron of
four cruisers and two torpedo-boat-de
stroyers made their dash for freedom out
of Santiago harbor, the Gloucester was
boldly driven at the two boats with such
driving force and rapid and accurate firing
that both boats went quickly down with
more than one hundred of their men.
When he had finished this work, Lieuten
ant-Commander Wainwright turned down
the coast, and was the first to reach the
Infanta Maria Teresa, Admiral Cervera's
flagship, which the hot fire of the American
fleet had driven ashore, and Wainwright
therefore had the honor to accept the sur
render of the Spanish Admiral. In Novem
ber, 1898, Wainwright was assigned to duty
at the Naval Academy and from March,
1900 to 1902, he was superintendent of the
Academy, then took command of the cruiser
Newark, from 1902 to 1904. He was pro
moted commander, March 3, 1900, and cap
tain, August 10, 1903; was on the General
Board from October 27, 1904, until June 26,
1907, when he was ordered to command the
battleship Louisiana. Address: 1264 New
Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C.
WAKEMAN, James M.:
Publisher ; born in Wolverhampton, Eng
land, June 21, 1865 ; son of James and Mary
J. (Lewis) Wakeman. He was educated at
Wolverhampton Grammar School and Tet- Street, New York City.

tenhall College, England, and Lycee de
Rennes, France. He came to the United
States in 1886; and was secretary and gea-
eral manager of an insurance company in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1887 and 1888,
He afterward became Western manager of
the American Machinist and Locomotive
Engineering, making headquarters at Cleve
land, Ohio, and later was appointed acting
president of the Engineering and Mining
Journal, New York City. He was one of
the incorporators of the McGraw Publish
ing Company, New \ork City, in 1899, of
which company he was elected vice-presi
dent, and appointed general manager. He
was the president and general manager
of the Electrical World and Engineer dur
ing its entire period of existence as a sepa
rate publication, from March, 1899, to Jan
uary, 1906; vice-president of the Street
Railway Journal; vice-president of the
Engineering Record; managing director of
the American Electrician. He served for a
number of years upon the Board of Direc
tors of the American Trade Press Associa
tion; was president of that association in
1902 and 1903; served on the Board of Di
rectors of Success, in 1900 and 1901. He
has traveled over a great part of Europe,
United States and Canada. Mr. Wakeman
is vice-president and director of the Mc
Graw Publishing Company; member of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
New York Electrical Society, New York
Railroad Club, American Trade Press As
sociation, National Geographic Society;
vice-president of the Municipal Art League,
East Orange, New Jersey. He was one
of the founders of the Glenwood Tennis
Club, of East Orange, New Jersey; presi
dent of it for the first two years, and is
now member of the board of governors;
president of the Men's Club of Orange,
New Jersey; member of The Mosaic Club
of East Orange; also member of the En
gineers', Lawyers' and Underwriters' Clubs
of New York City. He married, in Cran-
ford, New Jersey, April 25, 1888, Jessie I.
Smieton, and they had one son, who died
in infancy. Residence: East Orange, New
Jersey. Address: 239 West Thirty-ninth

2098WALCOTT, Charles Doolittle:
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution;
born at New York Mills, New York, March
31, 1850; son of Charles D. Walcott and
Mary (Lane) Walcott. He was educated
in the public schools of Utica, New York,
became interested in geology and in 1876
was appointed an assistant in the New York
State Survey. He entered the Government
service in 1879 as assistant geologist of the
United States Geological Survey, became
paleontologist from 1888 to 1893, and geolo
gist in 1893 and 1894, of the same survey,
of which he was appointed director in 1894,
serving in that capacity until appointed in
1907, to his present position as secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution. He has re
ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Hamilton College, 1898, the University of
Chicago, 1901, Johns Hopkins University,
1902, and the University of Pennsylvania,
1903. He was formerly honorary curator
of the Department of Paleontology from
1892 to 1897, and again from 1898 to 1^07,
and acting assistant secretary in charge of
the National Museum from January, 1897,
to July, 1898, in the Smithsonian Institu
tion; secretary of the Carnegie Institution
from 1902 to 1905; and director of the
United States Reclamation Service from
1902 to 1907. Dr. Walcott has made special
researches in the stratigraphy and pale
ontology of the lower Paleozoic formations,
and notably in the Cambrian rocks of the
United States; and he presented his re
searches in relation to the Cambrian faunas
before the International Geological Con
gress in London in 1888, and received the
Bigsby medal of the London Geological
Society. He has recently been awarded the
Hayden medal of the Philadelphia Acad
emy of Natural Sciences. He is a member,
and vice-president in 1907, of the National
Academy of Sciences ; fellow (and was vice-
president, 1893) of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science ; mem
ber of the American Society of Naturalists,
Geological Society of America; associate
fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences; member of the American
Philosophical Society, Washington Acad-

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emy of Sciences (president since 1899),
honorary member of the American Insti
tute of Mining Engineers; correspondent
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia; member of the London Geo
logical Society, foreign member of the
Accademia dei Lincei; fellow of the Chris
tiania Scientific Society. Residence : 1743
Twenty-second Street, N. W., Washington,
D. C. Office address : Smithsonian Insti
tution, Washington, D. C.
WALDO, George E.:
Congressman; born in Brooklyn, New
York, January 11, 185 1 ; son of George
Waldo and Sarah Ellen Jagger Waldo.
He was educated in the public schools and
Cornell University, class of 1872; studied
law in New York City; was admitted to the
bar and has been in active practice there
ever since, except from 1883 to 1889, when
he was in practice in Ulysses, Nebraska.
He is a member of the bar of the Ne
braskan Supreme Court, of the United
States District and Circuit Courts of Ne
braska and of the Southern and Eastern
Districts of New York, and of the United
States Supreme Court. He was a member
of the New York Assembly in 1896; com
missioner of records of Kings County,
New York, from 1899 to 1904; and delegate
to the Republican National Convention of
1900. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress as a Republican from the Fifth
New York District. He married in Talla
hassee, Florida, May 11, 1896, Flora A.
Henderson, and they have three boys. Resi
dence: 220 East Eighteenth Street, Flat-
bush, Brooklyn, New York. Official ad
dress: 290 Broadway, New York City.
WALES, William Quincy:
Merchant. He is treasurer and director
of the Brown- Wales Company; and trustee
of Franklin Savings Bank of the City of
Boston. Mr. Wales is first vice-president
of Boston Credit Men's Association and
treasurer of Boston Children's Friend So
ciety. Address : 69 to 83 Purchase Street,
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WALKER, Albert Henry:
Lawyer, author, lecturer; bom in Fair
fax, Vermont, November 25, 1844. He is
a descendant of Philip Walker of Reho-
both, Massachusetts (1653), and of Cap
tain John Prescott, of Lancaster, Massa
chusetts (1640). Captain John Prescott
was a descendant of Warren de Lancaster,
an English gentleman of the twelfth cen
tury, through the eminent Standish family
of Lancashire, England, and he was an an
cestor of many eminent Americans, includ
ing the commander of the American Army
at the battle of Bunker Hill, Prescott the
historian, Senator Hoar, and Vice-president
Fairbanks. Mr. Walker has argued
many important cases in the Supreme Court
of the United States, and in twenty-two
States of the Union, including Maine, Cali
fornia, Minnesota and Alabama, and has
conducted about three hundred separate
litigations in thirty-six States. He is the
author of many writings and several books,
including Walker on Patents in four edi
tions (1883, 1889, 1895, 1904), which has
always been the leading text-book of patent
law in the United States, and is cited in
the Federal Courts more frequently than
any other text-book on any subject. He
has been a non-resident lecturer in the
College of Law of Cornell University ever
since 1889, and in the Law Department of
the University of Michigan ever since 1896.
During 1891 and 1892 he represented Hart
ford in the Connecticut Legislature, and
was the parliamentary leader of the Demo
cratic side of the House throughout those
two years. Declining a renomination,
which would otherwise probably have been
unanimous, and a reelection which would
otherwise probably have been certain, he
then withdrew from active political life ;
and he joined the Republican party in
1896, because he believed the gold standard
to be necessary, and he has since adhered
to that party. He married, September 16,
1874, Esther Sayles, a descendant of Roger
Williams, of Providence, Rhode Island
(1636). Address: Park Row Building,
New York City.

WALKER, Charles Ashbel:
Treasurer of the Delaware and Hudson
Company; born in Albany, New York,
June 23, 1843; son of Alphonso Walker
and Jennette (Judd) Walker; lineal de
scendant of the Widow Walker, who set
tled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1636, and
on mother's side descendant of Deacon
Thomas Judd, who came from England in
1633. Gideon, his great-grandfather, mar
ried Eunice Mitchell, descendant of Fran
cis Cook, of the Mayflower. Mr. Walker
was educated in the Albany public schools.
He began1 railroad service in 1866 as a
clerk in freight department of the Albany
and Susquehanna Railroad, with which he
has been consecutively assistant to general
freight agent, ticket agent, in engineer
corps, assistant to paymaster and chief
clerk to the financial department, all on
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad; gen
eral railroad accountant, assistant treas
urer, controller and treasurer of the Dela
ware and Hudson Company, and is now.
treasurer. He is director of the Albany
and Susquehanna Railroad Company; sec
retary, treasurer and director of the Al
gonquin Coal Company; director of the
Champlain Transportation Company, Capi
tol Railway Company, Chateaugay and
Lake Placid Railroad Company, Chateau
gay Ore and Iron Company, Cherry
Valley, Sharon and Albany Railroad Com
pany ; secretary, treasurer and director of the
Hudson Coal Company; director of the
Lackawanna and Susquehanna Railroad
Company, Lake George Steamboat Com
pany; Greenwich and Johnsonville Railway
Company, Great Western Turnpike Com
pany, North River Railway Company;
secretary, treasurer and director of the
Langcliffe Coal Company, Laurel Run
Coal Company, New York and Canada
Railroad Company, Northern New York
Development Company, and Spring Brook
Coal Company, and he is a trustee of the
Franklin Savings Bank. Mr. Walker was
secretary to Speaker Littlejohn of the New
York State Assembly, in i860 and 1861;
was at the side of President Lincoln, when
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1861, on his way to his inauguration. He
joined the Washington Continentals, Com
pany B, of the Seventy-sixth Regiment,
New York State Militia, in 1861 ; performed
guard duty with that company during the
organization of the two-year regiments un
der the President's first call for troops,
and July 18, 1861, in New York Gty, joined
Company I, of the Fifth New York Volun
teers, under Captain Charles G. Bartlett;
in service at Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore,
erecting that fort; he was promoted cor
poral, February 20, 1862; served in Dix's
Division, Middle Department, to March,
1862; Sykes' Regular Infantry Division,
Army of the Potomac, to May, 1862 ; Third
Brigade, Sykes' Second Division, of the
Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
to November, 1862; served with expedition
through Accomac and Northampton Coun
ties, Virginia; defence of Baltimore, serve'd
at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, Peninsula to
Yorktown, siege of Yorktown, actions at
Hanover Court House, Ashland, . New
Bridge, Old Church, seven days' battle be
fore Richmond, battles at Mechanicsville,
Gaines Mill, in which he was wounded in
his shoulder; White Oak Swamp, Glendale,
Malvern Hill, Harrison's Landing. He was
commissioned second lieutenant of Com
pany A of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth
New York Volunteers; Second Duryee
Zouaves, September 17, 1862; first lieu
tenant of Company A, January 13, 1863;
Captain of Company A, July 13, 1863, and
brevet-major in 1865, for faithful and
meritorious services; in service on expedi
tion from New Orleans to Ponchatoula, Ber
wick Bay, the Port Hudson fight, at Plains
Store siege, and surrender of Port Hud
son, Sabine Pass expedition; acting assist
ant adjutant-general on General H. W.
Wessel's staff, Riker's and Hart's Islands,
New York Harbor; provost-marshal of the
rebel prison camp, Hart's Island. He is a
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in religious connections. He is governor
and vice-president of the Albany Society
of New York; Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States ; National Geo
graphic Society. He is also a member of
the West Side Republican, and Pelham

Manor Clubs. He married in Albany, May
16, 1867, Elizabeth Jones, and they have
one daughter, Jennie Judd, wife of Edward
Penfield. Address : 32 Nassau Street, New
York City.
WALKER, George Alexander:
Railway official; born in Philadelphia,
September 16, 1865, where he received his
early education, being a graduate of the
Grammar School, Seventeenth and Pine
Streets; after which he entered Pierce's
Business College, taking a course of stud
ies there. On November 19, 1880, he en
tered railroad service as office boy in the
Treasury Department of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company. While there
he studied stenography, and was promoted
as stenographer to William G. Macdowell,
treasurer, in which position he remained
until April 15, 1885, when Mr. Macdowell
was appointed comptroller and Mr. Robert
W. Smith was elected treasurer, he being
retained by Mr. Smith as his stenographer.
On July 18, 1887, he resigned his posi
tion with the Norfolk & Western Railroad
Company, to accept the position of private-
secretary to Robert W. Smith, who had
been elected treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. On April 26, 1899, he
was appointed by the Board of Directors
as acting assistant to the treasurer, and on
January 1, 1900, as assistant to treasurer.
He was appointed assistant treasurer, June
1, 1903. Address: Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WALKER, Guy Morrison:
Lawyer, financial expert, author ; born in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 24, 1870;
son of Rev. Wilbur F. Walker and Mary
F. Morrison. He was graduated from De
Pauw University, as A.B. in 1890, A.M.
in 1890, and LL.B. ; and during his college
life he was major of cadets and captain
of the 'Varsity Football Team. He or
ganized the Terre Haute Trust Company
in 1894; organized the Security Trust Com
pany, Toledo, Ohio, in 1898; was general
counsel of the Everett-Moore Railroad
Syndicate; reorganized the Detroit and To
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Delaware and Marion Railway Company,
the Pittsburgh Railway and Light Company,
and many others. He has traveled over
China and Japan, North America and Eu
rope; was offered in 1900 a commission in
the United States Army and appointment on
General Chaffee's staff in China, but de
clined. He is author of: Railroads and
Wages; What Shall We Buy; Interurban
Railways ; also contributions to financial
and economic journals. He is a Republican
in politics, and a Methodist in religion; and
he is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fra
ternity. Mr. Walker married at Terre
Haute, Indiana, December 15, 1891, Min
nie L. Royse, and they have two children :
Merle R. Royse, born September 28, 1892,
and Ray M., born April 9, 1895. Address :
15 Wall Street, New York City.
WALKER, Thomas Barlow:
Lumberman and financier; born in Xenia,
Green County, Ohio, February 1, 1840; son
of Piatt Bayless Walker and Austiss (Bar
low) Walker ; educated in the public schools
and a partial course at Baldwin Univer
sity, Berea, Ohio. He engaged as a travel
ing salesman, chiefly in Wisconsin and
Iowa, and afterward became connected with
a Government surveying party under George
, , B. Wright for three years and after that
on the survey of the St. Paul and Duluth
Railway, where he gained a knowledge of
the forests of Minnesota which led him to
embark in the lumber business. He inter
ested Dr. Levi Butler and Howard Mills
in his plans, and established in business
with headquarters in Minneapolis, Mr.
Walker managing the business of the firm
..and, .personally operating the camps, the
; ,| ,miils and the lumber yards. After several
years the firm was dissolved and Mr.
Walker became sole proprietor of the busi
ness, which has greatly expanded over
-Northern Minnesota and "Dakota, one of
his many mills being located at St. An
thony's Falls and another at Grand Forks,
and he also has extensive timber and mill
interests on the Pacific coast ; besides which
he is a large owner of real estate in Min
neapolis ahd its suburbs. Mr. Walker has
been a constant worker for the public good,

and has been a large contributor to and
promoter of the interests of the Minneapolis
Public Library, in which he is president of
the Board of Directors, and is president of
the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, which
has profited greatly by his efforts and ex
perience, for Mr. Walker is well known as
an art connoisseur and bibliophile, and his
private gallery contains many choice paint
ings, bronzes, marbles and other works of
art, and his private library contains a large
and well chosen array of works of reference
and literary and scientific masterpieces. Mr.
Walker is president of the Minnesota Acad
emy of Science, an institution which he has
been most prominent in building up dur
ing many years past. He is also vice-pres
ident of the National Arts Club of New
York City. He is a liberal contributor to
charities and works for social uplift in
Minneapolis. He married in Berea, Ohio,
December 19, 1863, Harriet G. Hulet,
daughter of Hfon. Fletcher Hulet. Address :
803 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minne
sota.WALLACE, John Findley:
Civil engineer ; born in Fall River, Mas
sachusetts, September 10, 1852; son of
David S. Wallace and Martha (Findley)
Wallace. He was graduated from Mon
mouth College, and later received the de
grees of LL.D. and ScD. Mr. Wallace was
assistant civil engineer of the United States
Corps, engaged on river and harbor work
from 1871 to 1876; chief engineer of the
Peoria and Burlington Railway and Iowa
Central Railway in Illinois; superintendent
of construction and master of transporta
tion from 1878 to 1886 ; bridge engineer of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
way, in charge of the construction of the
bridge over the Missouri River, from 1887
to 1889. He was resident engineer, chief
engineer, assistant second vice-president,
assistant general manager and general
manager of the Illinois Central Rail
road from 1890 to 1904; chief engineer
of the Panama Canal in 1904, Isthmian
Canal commissioner, and president and di
rector of the Electric Properties Company
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Board of Directors of Westinghouse,
Church, Kerr and Company; president and
director of Gerard Ozone Process Company ;
vice-president of the Holland-American
Construction Company, Atha Steel Foun
dries, New York, and the Wallace-Coates
Engineering Company, Chicago. In poli
tics he is identified with the Republican
party, and he is a member of the Pres
byterian Church. He is also a member of
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
the American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance of Way Association (past
president), Western Society of Civil Engi
neers (past president), and the Institu
tion of Civil Engineers of Great Britain.
His favorite recreations are golf, hunting
and fishing. Mr. Wallace is a member of
the Lawyers' and Engineers' Clubs of New
York City, Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs
of Washington, D. C, the Chicago Union
League, Kenwood and Engineers' Clubs of
Chicago, and the Homewood Country Club
of Flossmoor, Illinois. He married at Rock
Island, Illinois, in 1871, Sarah T. Ulmer,
and their children are : Harold U., and Ber-
dena Francis. Address: 111 Broadway,
New York City.
WALLACE, Robert Minor:
Congressman and lawyer; born at New
London, Union County, Arkansas, August
6, 1857; son of William J. Wallace and
Susan Ann (Williams) Wallace. He en
tered Arizona College, Louisiana, and was
graduated in 1876; studied law in the office
of Judge U. M. Rose of Little Rock, and
was admitted to the bar at Little Rock in
1877. He was elected in 1880 to the Ar
kansas Legislature ; was appointed post-
office inspector in 1887, serving until 1889;
prosecuting attorney of the Thirteenth Ar
kansas Circuit, from 1890 to 1892; assist
ant United States district attorney at Tex
arkana, Arkansas. In 1902 he was elected
as a Democrat from the Seventh Arkansas
District to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and
was elected to the Fifty-ninth and Six
tieth Congresses. Mr. Wallace has been
especially active in the Good Roads move
ment, serving as president of the Arkansas

Good Roads Association, and vice-president
of the National Good Roads Association.
He is also a popular Chautauqua and plat
form lecturer. He married, first, at Ari
zona, Louisiana, in 1879, Minnie Penning
ton, and second, at Magnolia, Arkansas, in
1895, Jennie Kelso. Address: Magnolia,
Arkansas. WALLACE, William James:
United States circuit judge ; born in Syra
cuse, New York, April 14, 1837; son of E.
Fuller Wallace and Lydia (Wheelwright)
Wallace. He was graduated from Hamil
ton College as A B., and received the de
gree of LL.D. from that college, and also
from Syracuse University. He was mayor
of Syracuse in 1873. He was appointed
by President Grant United States district
judge for the Northern District of New
York, serving from 1874 to 1882, and was
appointed April 6, 1882, by President Ar
thur, United States circuit judge for the
Second Judicial Circuit, in which office he
is still serving. He is a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and also a
member of the Metropolitan, Union League,
and New York Yacht Clubs of New York
City, Century Club of Syracuse and the
Fort Orange Club of Albany. He married
in New York City in 1878, Alice Heyward
Wheelwright. Residence: Albany, New
York. Country residence : Cazenovia New
York. Office address : 148 State Street, Al
bany, New York.
WALLER, Granville Carr:
Clergyman; born at Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, April 11, 1838; son of Rev. William
Ira Waller, M.D., and Maria Louisa (Nor-
vell) Waller. He was educated at Shelby
College, Kentucky, and at the University
of Virginia, and was graduated from the
General Theological Seminary in 1866. He
was assistant at St. John's Church, St.
Louis, in 1867; and during that year,
having returned to Missouri, he became
rector of a church at Fayette in that State,
and afterwards of St. John's Church,
Uniontown, Kentucky, being in charge of
both churches for a short time. In the
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afterwards for a short time connected with
a school in the Southwestern part of Ken
tucky. He resided at Shelbyville until 1870,
when he conducted a Male High School
jointly with his father till 1872. He was
rector of Zion Church, Louisville, Kentucky,
from 1875 to 1890 ; priest in charge and rec
tor of a church work in Louisville, Ken
tucky, for ten years, from 1890, known as
Ascension Mission and the Church of the
Ascension; then for about four years rector
of St. John's Church, with which Ascension
Church had been merged, and since Jan
uary, 1906, he has been chaplain of the
Church Home at Louisville. He has been
an examining chaplain of the Diocese of
Kentucky, and is now a member of its
Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. Waller married,
at Bowling Green, Kentucky, February 23,
1876, Kate Marshall Blackburn, and they
have two children: Granville Blackburn,
born in 1879, and Daviess Blackburn, born
in 1885. Address: 1208 Morton Avenue,
Louisville, Kentucky.
WALLIS, Samuel Alfred:
Clergyman; born in Woodbridge, near
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1856. He
studied at the Toronto Grammar School
and removed to Virginia in 1870. He was
graduated from the University of Virginia
in 1878, and the Theological Seminary,
Virginia, in 1881, later receiving the de
gree of D.D. He was ordered deacon in
1881 and ordained priest in 1882 by Bishop
Whittle. Mr. Wallis was professor in the
Theological Seminary and in charge of the
Seminary Missionary Chapels of Fairfax
County, Diocese of Virginia ; formerly rec
tor of Pohick and Olivet Churches, Truro
Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia, and pro
fessor of Greek Testament Exegesis, Litur
gies Church Policy and Pastoral Theology.
He married, in 1890, Mary Snowden. Ad
dress : Theological Seminary, Fairfax
County, Virginia.
WALTON, Lee Barker:
Professor of biology ; born at Bear Lake,
Pennsylvania, November 12, 1871 ; son of
Byron L. Walton and Emma T. (Barker)
Walton. He was graduated from Cornell

as Ph.B. in 1897, attended University of
Bonn, Germany, from 1897 to 1899; Brown
University from 1899 to 1900, where he re
ceived the degree A.M. Goldwin Smith fel
low at Cornell in 1901 and 1902, receiving
the degree of Ph.D. in 1902. He was assist
ant in biology at Brown University in 1900
and 1901 ; and has been professor of biology
at Kenyon College since 1902. Dr. Walton
was assistant to the United States Fish
Commission during the summer of 1900;
and to the American Museum of Nat
ural History in 1901 ; instructor in
Ohio State University summer laboratory at
Cedar Point, Ohio, from 1905 to 1907, in
fresh water biology and invertebrate mor
phology. He is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Zoological Society,
the Entomological Society of America, the
American Microscopical Society, and the
Ohio Academy of Science, being its secre
tary from 1905 to 1908 ; the Sigma Xi Society
and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. His
principal researches have been in the mor
phology of scolopendrella, metamerism of
articulates, variation and environment, the
causes of variability, and fresh water
oligochaeta. He married in Miraj, India,
March 1, 1898, Caroline Louise Graham,
and their children are : Harold, Robert,
Margaret, and Graham. Address : Gambier,
Ohio. WALTON, Robert Kelsey:
Lawyer; born in Chicago, Illinois, No
vember 17, 1881 ; son of Myron K. Walton
and Jennie (Kelsey) Walton. He received
his preparatory education at the Grand
Rapids (Michigan) public and high schools
and was graduated from the University of
Michigan with the degree of LL.B. in 1904.
He did advertising and newspaper work
during and preceding his college course,
worked to Europe on a cattle boat; was
a hotel clerk, school teacher, salesman and
at various other things. He is the third
member of the firm of Parker and Wagner,
lawyers ; is assistant counsel of the United
States Corporation Company, assistant sec
retary of the Lawyers' Incorporation Com
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berland Company, and director of the
James F. O'Rourke Trucking Company, and
of the Empire State Advertising Company.
In politics he is a Republican and he has
assisted the campaign committee by speak
ing about the city. He is a member of the
bars of New York and Michigan, of the
Michigan Society, and Sigma Chi Alumni
Associations. Mr. Walton has taken exten
sive roughing trips in England, Wales,
France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Ger
many, Belgium and Holland, studying
sociological conditions and doing newspaper
work, and has also traveled extensively
through the West, Canada and the Pacific
Slope. He is a member of the Graduates'
Club and the University of Michigan Club.
Residence: 317 West Fifty-sixth Street,
New York City. Office address: 34 Nas
sau Street, New York City.
WANAMAKER, John:
Merchant; bom in Philadelphia, July 11,
1837; descended on his father's side from
the Palatines who left Germany during the
religious persecution of 1730-1740, and, on
his mother's side from the Huguenot who
left France for the same reason. He at
tended the public schools of Philadelphia.
His father was a brickmaker, and during
his school days he had his share of work
in the brickyard, but at the age of fourteen
he left school and became an errand boy
in a book store, then became salesman in a
clothing house. He found outside means of
adding to his income, one of which was the
making of cologne from a formula he had
procured, bottling it and selling it. While
still a boy he became an attendant at the
Presbyterian Church on Broad Street in
Philadelphia, of which Dr. John Chambers
was pastor, and later took a personal in
terest in the work of the Sunday School
and the Church which has continued ever
since. About 1857 his health failed, and he
restored it by several months of travel in
the South. On his return in 1857 he be
came secretary of the Philadelphia Young
Men's Christian Association on a small
salary, and devoted much of his time to the
duties of that position. He resigned in
1861, and with his brother-in-law, Nathan

Brown, founded at Sixth and Market
streets, in Philadelphia, the clothing busi
ness which is still known as Wanamaker
& Brown. It had very modest beginnings,
but the new methods introduced by Mr.
Wanamaker into the business proved pop
ular, and in 1868, when Mr. Brown died,
the house had taken a leading place in the
trade and was widely known for its liberal
advertising on a scale which few houses in
the country equalled at that time. In 1869
a new store was opened in Chestnut street
under the title of John Wanamaker & Com
pany. In 1876 Mr. Wanamaker purchased
the old Pennsylvania Freight Depot at
Thirteenth and Market Street and estab
lished there a clothing, hat and shoe store,
but in a year or two the building was ex
tended to Chestnut street and its scope en
larged to embrace a general dry goods
store, embracing almost all classes of retail
goods. The Philadelphia store was followed
several years later, by the purchase of the
A. T. Stewart concern in New York at
Ninth Street and Broadway where an
enormous business has been built up. In
1904 Mr. Wanamaker began to rebuild his
Philadelphia store on a large scale, replac
ing the building with one twelve stories
high, and covering an entire block. He has
also added largely to the dimensions of his
New York store by the erection of a mag-
nificient sixteen-story structure on the ad
joining block, which was opened in 1906.
Mr. Wanamaker has been always active
in the duties of citizenship, religion and
philanthropy. He lent important aid to the
war-time Sanitary Fair in Logan Square in
Philadelphia; was one of the organizers of
the Christian Commission, and took part
in various charitable movements ; he served
efficiently on the Finance Committee of the
Centennial Exposition of 1876, lent his aid
to the William Penn Anniversary Celebra
tion of 1882, and was prominent in the
movement for a pure water supply in 1886
and 1887. A member of the Presbyterian
Church, his talent for organization showed
itself strikingly in the Bethany Sunday
School, of which he has been superinten
dent since 1858, when it began with twen
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grew its accommodations, and in time be
came one of the largest in the country,
with over two thousand six hundred stud
ents; he aided the Young Men's Christian
Association in erecting its new building and
became its president, and is connected with
the Williamson Trade School and other
associations. He declined to become a can
didate for Mayor and representative on the
Republican ticket when offered him, but he
took an active part in the 1888 Presidential
campaign, and accepted the position of
Postmaster-General in President Harrison's
Cabinet ; this he filled very efficiently during
the four years of the Administration, 1889-
1893, handling its affairs with his great
business acumen, and later became very ac-
tice in independent Republican politics, as
a vigorous opponent of the machine in
politics and of dishonesty and inefficiency
in the public service. His philanthropy has
overflowed local and even National bound
aries, and one of his most recent benev
olences was the establishing of a college
for men and a school for girls at Allahabad,
India, which is doing excellent work.
Residence: 2032 Walnut Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
WANAMAKER, Thomas Brown:
Merchant; born in Philadelphia, March
27, 1861 ; son of John Wanamaker and
Mary (Brown) Wanamaker. He was grad
uated from Princeton University as B.A.
in* 1883 and later as M.A. Mr. Wanamaker
is a director of the Investment Trust Com
pany, and the Investment Company of Phil
adelphia; trustee of the Presbyterian Hos
pital, and is head of the department store
of John Wanamaker. He married, in
Philadelphia, April 27, 1887, Mary Lowber
Welsh, and they have two children: Rod
man Wanamaker, and Thomas B. Wana
maker, Jr. Address: Nineteenth Street
and Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. WANDELL, Townsend:
Lawyer; born in New York City; son
of Judge Benjamin Coe Wandell and Caro
line Sophia (Pangburn) Wandell. He is
descended from the ' Wandell family, one

of the oldest in New York, which came
from Amsterdam, Holland, and owned land
in New Amsterdam in 1641. He was gradu
ated from the New York Free Academy,
now the College of the City of New York,
as A.B. and A.M.; and from the Law
School of Columbia College, under Pro
fessor Dwight, as LL.B. He has practiced
law in New York City since 1865, chiefly in
real estate and surrogate's matters; and
is executor and trustee of many estates,
among them those of Thomas McKie,
Peter Moller, Hiram M. Forrester, Na
thaniel W. Hooker, Richard Arnold, W.
W. L. Voorhis, Charles G. Smull, Robert
Marshall, Abraham Voorhis and Acton
Civill. He was partner with Hon. Wil
liam A. Whitbeck in the law firm of Whit-
beck and Wandell, until Mr. Whitbeck's
death in 1872; and since then has been
practicing alone. He is director of the
Realty League; vice-president and director
of the Kerber Mining and Development
Company; and is a large owner of real es
tate in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn,
and the City of Mount Vernon, New York.
He is a Republican in politics, and a mem
ber of the Republican County Committee;
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Sons of the Revolution, St. Nicholas So
ciety, Holland Society, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Historical So
ciety, New York Genealogical and Bio
graphical Society, American Institute, Phi
Beta Kappa Society, Delta Kappa Epsilon
Association, Dwight Alumni Association,
Columbia Law School Alumni; trustee > and
manager of the New York City Church
Extension and Missionary Society, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; is a manager
of the New York Deaconess' Home and
Training School, and is a member of the
Union League Club. Residence: 157 East
Eighty-third Street, New York City. Of
fice address : 51 Chambers Street, New
York City.
WARD, Edward Henry:
Clergyman; born in Virginia, Decem
ber 18, 1849; son of John Chiles Ward and
Ellen (Johnson) Ward. He was gradu
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the degree of A.B. and received that of
A.M. in 1871, and D.D. in 1888; and was
also graduated from the Virginia Theolog
ical Seminary, in 1873. He was ordered
deacon in 1873, and ordained priest in 1874
by Bishop Johns. He was assistant minister
at St. Paul's, Petersburg, Virginia, until
May, 1874, then went to California, and
was rector of the Church of the Incarnation
at Santa Rosa, for ten months ; St. John's
Marysville, California; St. Paul's, Sacra
mento; St. John's, Stockton, California;
and rector of Christ Church, Lexington,
Kentucky; and since 1897, rector of St.
Peter's Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He has been a member of the Standing
Committees of the Diocese of Southern
California, Lexington and Pittsburgh; a
deputy to the General Convention from
North California, Kentucky and Pittsburgh,
also examining chaplain, in Kentucky and
Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Board
of Education in Marysville, California, and
Lexington, Kentucky, and for a time pres
ident of the Board in Lexington. He mar
ried in Sacramento, California, October 4,
1881, Somers Taylor, and they have one
son, Edward Henry Ward, Jr., born in 1883.
Address : 5525 Kentucky Avenue, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania.
WARD, Samuel:
Manufacturing stationer; born in New
ton Center, Massachusetts, December 31,
1845 ; son of John Ward and Mary (Kings
bury) Ward. He graduated from Amherst
College in 1867. Mr. Ward is president,
treasurer and director of the Samuel Ward
Company, manufacturing stationers and
importers, with salesrooms in New York
and Chicago and headquarters in Boston,
Massachusetts. In politics he is a Repub
lican and in religion a Congregationalist.
He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa So
ciety. Mr. Ward has married twice; first
in Hartford, Connecticut, December 10,
1873, Sarah G. Woodworth ; second, in Yar
mouth, Maine, September 18, 1901, Mary C.
Bastow, and he has three children: Alice
G. Ward, Mrs. M. D. Dunning, of Kyoto,
Japan, and Mrs. Paul T. B. Ward Medford.

Residence: 80 Crescent Avenue, Newton
Center, Massachusetts. Address : 57 Frank
lin Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WARD, Samuel Baldwin:
Physician; born in New York City, June
8, 1842; son of Lebbeus Baldwin Ward and
Abby Dwight (Partridge) Ward. He was
educated in the private schools of New
York City, and was graduated from Co
lumbia as A.B. in 1861; attended lectures
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in 1861 and 1862, was graduated from
Georgetown University as M.D. in 1864,
and received from Union University his
Ph.D. in 1882. He was in the service of
the United States Sanitary Commission in
1862 and 1863; medical cadet in the United
States Army in 1863; assistant surgeon of
United States Volunteers in 1864; and re
signed from the army in 1865 ; and he stud
ied in Paris in 1865 and 1866. He prac
ticed in New York City from 1866 to 1876;
was surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital
from 1870 to 1874; professor of anatomy,
at the Woman's Medical College from 1867
to 1870; professor of surgery from 1870
to 1876; and since 1876 he has been prac
ticing at Albany, New York. He has been
since 1876 a member, and is now dean of
the Faculty of the Albany Medical College ;
secretary and treasurer of the Executive
Committee of the State Normal College;
attending physician to the Albany Hospital.
He is president of the Upper Saranac As
sociation; president of the Board of Trus
tees of Dudley Observatory; member of the
Board of Trustees of the Albany Academy
for Girls, Board of Governors of Union
University, and Board of Governors of Al
bany Hospital. He is a member of the
Executive Committee of the Hudson-Ful
ton Celebration Commission, ex-president
of the Albany County Medical Society, New
York State Medical Society; member of
the Association of American Physicians, Na
tional Geographic Society, Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, of the Century As
sociation, and University Club of New
York, Fort Orange, University and Albany
Country Clubs of Albany. He married,
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Nina A. Wheeler, who died October, 1883;
and married, second, April 29, 1897, Grace
Fitz-Randolph Schenck, and he has three
children: Nina P., Annie W., and S.
Dwight. Address: 281 State Street, Al
bany, New York.
WARD, William Hayes:
Clergyman and editor of the Independent ;
born in Abington, Massachusetts, June 25,
1835; son of Rev. James W. Ward and
Hetta Lord (Hayes) Ward. He received
from Amherst College the degrees of A.
B., A.M., and LL.D., studied in Andover
Theological Seminary, and received from
Rutgers College and the University of New
York the degree of D.D. He was pastor
at Oskaloosa, Kansas; teacher in Utica,
New York Free Academy; tutor of Nat
ural Sciences in Beloit College, Wisconsin;
professor of Latin in Ripon College, Wis
consin; and is ex-president of the Amer
ican Oriental Society. He became asso
ciate editor of the Independent in 1868 ; su
perintending editor in 1873; and editor in
1897. He is author of articles in reviews,
mainly on Oriental archeology; and the
biographical introduction to Poems of Sid
ney Lanier. His favorite recreations are
botany and Assyrian archeology, and he
is a member of the Authors Club. Dr.
Ward married Ellen Maria Dickinson, and
they have one son. Address : The Inde
pendent, 130 Fulton Street, New York.
WARE, Henry Arthur:
Banker; born in Hamilton, Ontario, Jan
uary 4, 1849; son of Paul Taylor Ware
and Louisa (Dudley) Ware. He was edu
cated in Upper Canada College, Toronto.
He entered a Chicago bank as messenger
in 1866, and was in Chicago at the time of
the fire of 1871 and the panic of 1873. Mr.
Ware was an accountant in the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, Guelph, Ontario, in
1878 and 1879; became cashier in 1885, and
second vice-president in 1886 of the Metro
politan National Bank of Chicago. He was
in Duluth, Minnesota, from 1887 to 1895,
first as cashier of the Union National Bank
in 1887 and 1888, and after that, president

of the Duluth Clearing House Association
and vice-president and general manager of
the First National Bank of Duluth, which
position he held at the time of the panic
of 1893. In 1895 he returned to Chicago
to take the position of vice-president of
the Commercial National Bank, holding
that position until 1897, then vice-president
of the Northwestern National Bank of Chi
cago until 1900; since then not in active
business. He is a director of The Cable
Company, Mason and Hamlin Company,
and the North American Investment Com
pany. Mr. Ware is an Independent in poli
tics, and an Episcopalian in church rela
tions. He is a member of the Lawyers'
Club of New York, Ardsley County Club,
Oakley Country Club, Cambridge, Colonial
Club of Cambridge, Chicago Club of Chi
cago, and the Northland Country Club of
Duluth, Minnesota. He married in Chi
cago, June 6, 1883, Mary Wilkinson Ware,
and they have one daughter, Laura Wilkin
son Ware. Residence : 51 Highland Street,
Cambridge. Business address : 35 Congress
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WARFIELD, David:
Actor; born in San Francisco, California,
November 28, 1865 ; son of Gustav Warfield
and Louise (Shindler) Warfield. He was
educated in the public schools and made his
first appearance on the stage in minor parts
in San Francisco. His success has been
very great, especially in his play, The Music
Master, first produced in 1904, in which he
starred for four seasons. In October, 1907,
Mr. Warfield opened the season of 1907-
1908 in A Grand Army Man, by Belasco,
in the new Stuyvesant Theatre in New York
City. He married in New York City, Oc
tober 5, 1899, Mary Gabrielle Bradt. Ad
dress : Care of the Belasco Theatre, New
York City.
WARFIELD, Edwin:
Governor of Maryland; born in Howard
County, Maryland, May 7, 1848 ; son of Al
bert G. Warfield and Margaret Gassaway
(Watkins) Warfield. After a preparatory
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County he entered St. Timothy's Hall at
Catonsville, Maryland; and after complet
ing his studies there he studied law and
became a leading lawyer in Howard County,
and also prominent in its political affairs
as a representative Democrat. He was
elected to the State Senate and became its
president, also filling the office of register
of wills of Howard County. He was ap
pointed by President Cleveland, in 1886, to
the office of surveyor of the port of Balti
more. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention of 1896; was
elected governor of Maryland, for the four-
year term expiring in 1888, and was a
candidate at the Democratic primaries for
United States senator in 1907. Governor
Warfield was founder, and is president of
the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Mary
land. He is president-general of the Na
tional Society of Sons of the American
Revolution. He married Miss Emma Nico-
demus. Residence: Oakdale, Florence,
Maryland. Official residence : The Execu
tive Mansion, Annapolis, Maryland.
WARNER, Franklin Humphrey:
Manufacturing chemist; born in New
York City, June 6, 1875 ; son of Lucien Cal
vin Warner and Keron (Osborne) War
ner. He was graduated from Oberlin Col
lege as Sc.B. in 1898, and A.B. in 1907. He is
secretary, .treasurer and director of the In
ternational Phosphate Company, Warner
Chemical Company; secretary and director
of the Monarch Chemical Company, and the
Warner Baking Powder Company; director
of the National Bible Institute. Mr. War
ner is a Republican in politics, and a
Congregationalist in religious connections.
He is trustee of the Madura College, in
India; chairman of the Army Branch
of the Young Men's Christian Association
of New York City. He married, in Los
Angeles, California, April 25, 1899, Estelle
Dunn Hynes, and they have two children:
Lucien Hynes Warner, born October 9,
1900, and Douglas Calvin Warner, born
October 2.5, 1904. Residence: 30 Ridge-
view Avenue, White Plains, New York.
Address: 141 Broadway, New York City.

WARNER, Fred Maltby:
Governor of Michigan; born at Hickling,
Nottinghamshire, England, July 21, 1865.
He was brought by his parents to the
United States, when he was three months
old, and a few months later his mother
died. He was adopted by Hon. P. Dean
Warner, of Farmington, Michigan, and his
wife Rhoda E. Warner. Under their care
he grew to manhood, and after his grad
uation from Farmington High School and
one year at the Michigan State Agricultural
College he engaged in business pursuits.
In 1889 he established a large cheese fac
tory at Farmington, afterward adding
others at surrounding places, now operat
ing seven, as well as a large cold-storage
plant. He is also a director of the Farm
ington Exchange Bank. While achieving
marked success in business he also became
active in political affairs as a Republican;
was a member of the village council of
Farmington for nine years, and its presi
dent for seven terms, was a member of the
Michigan Senate from the Twelfth District
from 1895 to 1898 ; elected secretary of State
of Michigan in 1900 and again in 1902;
elected governor of Michigan in 1904 and
again in 1906 for the term expiring Janu
ary, 1909. He married at Farmington,
Michigan, September 19, 1888, Martha M.
Davis. Residence: Farmington, Michigan.
Official residence: Lansing, Michigan.
WARNER, William:
United States senator; born in Lafayette
County, Wisconsin, June 11, 1840. He was
educated in the common schools. He en
listed in 1862 in the Thirty-third Wiscon
sin; and was mustered out at the close of
the war with the rank of major in the
Forty-fourth Wisconsin. He located in
Kansas City in 1865, and has been engaged
there ever since in the practice. of the law;
was elected city attorney in 1867, circuit
attorney in 1868, to Congress in 1884, and
reelected in 1886. He was Republican can
didate for governor in 1892; appointed
United States district attorney for the
Western District of Missouri in 1870, 1882,
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man of the Republican State Committee
1884-85; delegate to the National Repub
lican Conventions of 1872, 1884, 1892, and
1896. He was elected commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888.
He was elected to the United States Senate,
March 18, 1905, to succeed Francis Marion
Cockrell, and took his seat December 4,
1905. His term of service will expire March
3, 191 1. He received the degree of LL.D.
from the University of Michigan in 1905.
Address: 3315 Main Street, Kansas City,
Missouri. WARREN, Bentley Witt:
Lawyer; born in Boston, April 20, 1864;
son of William Wirt Warren and Mary L.
(Adams) Warren. He was educated in
private schools, by private tutor, Boston
Latin School, and was graduated from Wil
liams College as A.B. in 1885. He is en
gaged in practice as senior member of the
law firm of Warren, Garfield and White
side. He was a member of the Massachu
setts Legislature in 1891 and 1892, and a
member of the Massachusetts Civil Service
Commission from 1903 to 1905. Mr. War
ren is secretary of the Worcester Railways
and Investment Company; director of the
Boston and Revere Electric Street Rail
way Company, East Middlesex Street Rail
way Company, and Puritan Trust Com
pany; president and director of the Win-
nesimmet Railroad Company; trustee of
the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank, and
of the President and Trustees of Williams
College. He is a Democrat in politics, and
an Episcopalian in his religious faith. Mr.
Warren is a member of the Boston Bar
Association, and of the Union, Puritan,
University, Boston City Clubs in Boston,
and the University Club of New York. He
married, in New York City, June 6, 1894,
Ellen H. Windom, and they have two
children: Ellen Windom Warren, born in
1898, and Bentley Wirt, Jr., born in 1900.
Residence: 20 Chestnut Street, Boston.
Business address: 60 State Street, Boston,
Massachusetts.
WARREN, Charles:
Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil
Service Commission; born in Boston,

March 9, 1868, son of Hon. Winslow War
ren, and Mary Lincoln (Tinkham) War
ren. He was graduated from Harvard Col
lege, with honors in 1889, and entered Har
vard Law School in 1890. He became edi
tor of the Harvard Law Review, and com
pleted his law course in 1892. He then be
came associated with Moorfield Storey and
at once began the practice of law as a mem
ber of the Suffolk bar. In 1893 he re
ceived a call to official duty from Governor
William E. Russell, whom he served as
private secretary to the Governor during
the last six months of his term, and with
whom he was associated in law practice
until Governor Russell's death in 1896. He
is head of the law firm of Warren, Perry
and Codman, director of the American Soda
Fountain Company, Egerton Tramway Com
pany, and several other corporations. Mr.
Warren is author of : The Girl and the Gov
ernor, and of short stories in McClure's,
Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Collier's, and
the American Magazine. He is a Demo
crat in politics, and a Unitarian in religion.
He married in New York, January 6, 1904,
Annie Louise Bliss. Address : 262 Wash
ington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WARREN, Charles Elliot:
Banker; born in Brooklyn, New York,
April 9, 1864; son of George William War
ren, professor in Columbia University, New
York City, and is descended from Richard
Warren of Plymouth, twelfth signer of the
Mayflower Compact, in 1620. He was edu
cated at Trinity School, New York, and
St. Paul's Military Academy, Garden City,
Long Island. He is cashier of the Lincoln
National Bank of New York. He served
as major and ordnance officer of the Fifth
Brigade of the National Guard of New
York. Mr. Warren is director and treas
urer of the Erie and Kalamazoo Rail
road Company; a member and vice-presi
dent of the New York State Bankers' As
sociation; member of the Veterans of the
Seventh Regiment, Sons of the Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars, and Mayflower
Descendants Societies ; also of the Military
Order of the War of 1812, Military Order
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New York, Union League, Army and
Navy, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and
the Knollwood Country Clubs. He married,
April 19, 1892, Anna Margaret, daughter
of Hon. Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer,
member of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Address : 32 East Forty-second Street,
New York City.
WARREN, Charles Howard:
Treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York; born in Carlton,
New York, October 21, 1856. He entered
railway service in 1876 as clerk with the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway and held
various positions with that road from 1876
to 1888; was comptroller of the St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, and its
successor, the Great Northern Railway,
from 1888 to 1894; general manager of the
same road from 1894 to 1896 ; general man
ager of the Montana Central Railway, from
1894 to 1896; assistant to the president of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey from
1897 to 1899; first vice-president from 1899
to 1902; first vice-president of the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific Railway, from
1902 to 1904. Mr. Warren is a member of
the Lawyers' and Lotos Clubs. Address :
34 Nassau Street, New York City.
WARREN, Francis Emory:
United States senator and stockman;
born in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, June 20,
1844. He received a common school and
academic education; enlisted in 1862 in
the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment of
Infantry, and served as private and non
commissioned officer in that regiment until
it was mustered out of service ; received
the Congressional Medal of Honor for gal
lantry on battlefield at the siege of Port
Hudson; was afterwards captain in the
Massachusetts militia; was engaged in
farming and' stock raising in Massachu
setts until early in 1868, when he moved
to Wyoming (then a part of the Territory
of Dakota) ; is at present interested in live
stock and real estate. He was president of
the Senate of Wyoming Legislature in 1873-
1874; and member of the Senate in 1884-
1885 ; was twice member of the Council and

also mayor of the city of Cheyenne, and
served three terms as treasurer of Wy
oming. He was a member of the Wyoming
delegation to the National Republican Con
vention at Chicago in 1888 and chairman of
the Wyoming delegation to the National
Republican Conventions at Philadelphia in
1900 and at Chicago in 1904; was chairman
of the Republican Territorial Central Com
mittee, and Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee of Wyoming in
1896; was appointed governor of Wyoming
by President Arthur in February, 1885, and
removed by President Cleveland in No
vember, 1886; was again appointed gov
ernor of Wyoming by President Harrison
in March, 1889, and served until the Ter
ritory was admitted as a State, when he
was elected the first governor of the State;
was elected to the United States Senate
November 18, 1890, took his seat Decem
ber 1, 1890, and served until the expiration
of his term, March 3, 1893; was reelected
in 1895, and again in 1901 and 1907. His
term of service will expire March 3, 1913.
Address : Cheyenne, Wyoming.
WARREN, Lucius Henry:
Brigadier-general and lawyer; born in
Chariestown, Massachusetts, October 6,
1838; son of Judge George Washington
Warren and Lucy (Rogers) Warren. In
the paternal line he is a descendant in the
sixth generation from John Warren, a de
scendant of the Earl of Warren, who came
over with Sir Richard Saltonstall in Win-
throp's fleet, and settled in Watertown,
Massachusetts, and on his mother's side is
a grandson of Jonathan Newell Rogers, M.
D., a descendant of the martyr, John Rog
ers. General Warren is a graduate of
Princeton College, A.B., in the class of i860,
and A.M. 1865, and a graduate from Har
vard Law School, LL.D., 1862. He was ad
mitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1862;
enlisted in the Thirty-second Regiment of
Massachusetts Volunteers, July 28, 1862,
was commissioned second lieutenant in Au
gust, 1862, and' promoted first lieutenant,
December, 1862, for bravery at Fredericks
burg; major United States Colored Troops,
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ably mustered out of the Volunteers, Janu
ary 25, 1867; brevetted lieutenant-colonel,
colonel and brigadier-general of United
States Volunteers for bravery in front of
Petersburg, and major and lieutenant-col
onel United States Army for gallant and
meritorious services during the war. He
was commissioned first lieutenant in the
Thirty-ninth United States Infantry, July
28, 1866; Captain, July 31, 1867; and re
signed October 15, 1879. He served in the
Army of the Potomac in the Second (Grif
fin's) Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army
Corps ; was present with Porters Corps at
Second Bull Run ; engaged at Antietam and
Fredericksburg; commanded his company
at Chancellorsville and in the various skir
mishes and battles of the Army of .the
Potomac (except Gettysburg, when he was
in the hospital) ; and he was on duty as
judge-advocate in the winter of 1863 and
1864. He took part in the sieges of Peters
burg and Richmond, being twice wounded;
was in command of the regiment most of
the time, and often of the brigade, and upon
the evacuation of Richmond, April I, 1865,
commanded the first colored troops that
entered the city. In May, 1865, he was with
the troops sent to Texas, under General
Sheridan, to look after Maximilian, the Em
peror of Mexico, was in command at Brazos
Santiago, in 1865, and of the District of In-
dianola, Texas, in 1866; in July, 1867, be
ing in command of a company and post at
New Iberia, Louisiana, while suppressing
a mutiny he received seven bayonet wounds
in his left arm. In January, 1868, he was
appointed aide-de-camp to brevet Major-
General Robert C. Buchanan, United States
Army, commanding the Department of
Louisiana and Texas, and became acting as
sistant adjutant-general on his staff during
the reconstruction period. He was ad
mitted to the Philadelphia bar, May 17,
1879, and after his resignation from the
Army, practiced law at Philadelphia, until
October, 1886, since which time he has re
sided for the most part in Europe. He mar
ried October 1, 1868, Jane Maria, daugh
ter of Amor Hollingsworth, of Milton, Mas
sachusetts. Address: 419 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WARREN, William Fairfield:
President of Boston University from 1873
to 1903, and now dean of the Theological
Faculty; born in Williamsburgh, Massachu
setts, March 13, 1833; son of Mather War
ren and Anne (Fairfield) Warren. He re
ceived his education in Wesleyan Univer
sity and the Universities of Berlin and
Halle. He received the degree of LL.D.
from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and
of D.D. from Ohio Wesleyan University. He
was headmaster in schools in Watertown,
Connecticut ; Hopkinton, Massachusetts ; and
Mobile, Alabama; pastor in Andover, Wil
braham and Boston, Massachusetts; edi
torial contributor to various periodicals ;
professor in Bremen, Germany, from 1861
to 1866; acting-presidenj of the Boston The
ological Seminary from 1866 to 1873; a
member of the governing corporation of
Wellesley College, from its founding; cor
porate member of the American Oriental
Society. His favorite recreations are the
saddle, swimming and wheeling. Dr. War
ren is author of many important works, the
titles of which fill several closely printed
pages in the Alumni Record of Wesleyan
University; The Quest of the Perfect Re
ligion was translated into Chinese, Japanese,
Spanish, and German, and suggested the
Chicago Parliament of Religions ; The Story
of Gottlieb was translated into German and
Arabic; Paradise Found, the Cradle of the
Human Race at the North Pole, has reached
its eleventh edition; articles on Babylonian
and Indo-Aryan Cosmology in Journal of
American Oriental Society, 1901-1905. He
is a member of the Ministers' and the
Alpha Clubs. Married Harriet Cornelia
Merrick, of Wilbraham; and has one son
and three daughters. Address : Boston Uni
versity, Boston, Massachusetts.
WASHBURN, Charles Grenffll:
Congressman ; son of Charles Francis and
Mary Elizabeth Washburn, was ' born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, January 28, 1857.
He was graduated from the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in 1875, and from Har
vard University in 1880; studied law and
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887;
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in the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company, of Worcester, and has been con
nected with various other manufacturing
enterprises in Worcester. Mr. Washburn
was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in 1897-98, and of the
Massachusetts Senate in 1899-1900; in 1902
was a member of a committee to revise the
corporation laws of Massachusetts ; delegate
to the Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1904, and was the Massachu
setts members of the committee to notify
Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination. He
was elected to theu Sixtieth Congress, and
on December 18, 1906, elected to fill out the
unexpired term of Hon. Rockwood Hoar,
deceased, in the Fifty-ninth Congress, from
the Third Massachusetts District. He mar
ried, April 25, 1889, "Caroline Vinton Slater,
daughter of the late Horatio N. Slater, Esq.,
of Webster, Massachusetts, and they have
three children: Slater, born in 1896, Philip,
born in 1899, and Esther Vinton, born in
1902. Address : Worcester, Massachusetts.
WASHBURN, John H.:
Ex-president of Home Insurance Com
pany; born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Oc
tober 27, 1828; son of Rev. Royal Wash
burn and Harriet (Parsons) Washburn. He
was educated in Amherst College. At an
early age he entered the insurance field
and rose step by step until he had reached
presidency of the company. He is vice-
president and director of the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation; and
director of the Chatham National Bank, the
Home Insurance Company. He is a mem
ber of the Order of Founders and Pa
triots of America, Sons of Revolution, So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants, Society of
Colonial Wars, Amherst College Alumni,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of
Natural History, New England Society, and
is a member of the Lotos and City. Clubs.
Mr. Washburn married in New Haven,
Connecticut, 1853, Jane Ives. Address: 56
Cedar Street, New York City. '
WASHINGTON, Booker Taliaferro:
Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Indus
trial Institute; born a slave, near Hale's

Ford, Virginia, about 1859. After the war
removed with his mother and stepfather to
Maiden, West Virginia, where he attended
the common schools and was employed for
a time in the household of General Lewis
Ruffner until 1872; worked in the mines
near Charleston, West Virginia, and final
ly entered the Hampton Normal and Agri
cultural Institute of Virginia, from which
he was graduated in 1875. He taught school
at Maiden, West Virginia, from 1875 to
1878, and was a student at Wayland Semi
nary, Washington, D. C, from 1878 to
1880. In 1881 he was chosen principal of
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, at Tuskegee, Alabama. The school
was opened by Mr. Washington, July 4,
1881, with thirty pupils in an abandoned
Negro church. At the quarto-centennial
in 1906 the Institute had 2,400 acres of
land, something over $2,000,000 worth of
property in the form of endowment, build
ings, and equipment, and 1,598 pupils en
rolled. For his services in building up
this school, in promoting industrial educa
tion and in the uplifting of the Negro race,
Harvard University conferred on him the
honorary degree of A.M. in 1896, and
Dartmouth that of LL.D. in 1902. Andrew
Carnegie added to the endowment fund of
the institute six hundred thousand dollars,
with the sole condition that the founder
and director of the institute, Principal
Washington, and his family shall always be
assured support from the income. In June,
1903, Dr. Washington was invited by the
British South African Company to visit
South Africa and make a study of the ra
cial conditions in the British territory, and
report to the company and to the British
Government his plans for the better edu
cational, industrial and moral condition of
the people; but he declined the invitation.
He has made many addresses on racial and
educational subjects, and is author of: Sow
ing and Reaping, 1900 ; Up from Slavery,
1901 ; Character 'Building, 1902 ; Future of
the American Negro, 1902; Story of My
Life and Work, 1903 ; Working with Hands,
1904; Tuskegee and Its People, 1905. Ad
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WASHINGTON, William Lanier:
Retired; born in Montgomery, Alabama,
March 30, 1865 ; son of Major James Bar-
roll Washington and Jane Bretney (La
nier) Washington. His father, who was
a great-grandson of John Augustine Wash
ington, and of Augustine Washington, two
of the brothers of General George Wash
ington, was a native of and lived in Vir
ginia ; he was a cadet at United States Mili
tary Academy, West Point, but resigned
<at opening of and served through the Civil
War as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen
eral Joseph E. Johnson; soon after the
close of Civil War he removed to Baltimore
and in 1876 to Pittsburgh, where he was
president of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road collateral lines in Pennsylvania, living
there until his death in 1900. Mr. W. L.
Washington was educated at Burlington
College and in the University of Penn
sylvania. He was auditor and general
passenger agent of one of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad's collateral lines,
from 1886 to 1890; president and general
manager of the Elliott-Washington Steel
Company, from 1893 to 1898; chairman and
managing director of the Pittsburgh Sheet
'Steel Manufacturing Company, from 1898
to 1901 ; president and director of The
United Oil Cloth Company, Trenton, New
Jersey, in 1905 and 1906; vice-president
and director of the United States Fire-
Proofing Corporation in 1901 and 1902;
president of the Laurel Land Company of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1891 to
1899; and he was a director of the Wheel
ing, Pittsburgh & Baltimore Railroad, Som
erset and Cambria Railroad and the Sharps
ville Railroad. He has resided in New
York City since 1899. In politics he is an
Independent Republican and in religion an
Episcopalian. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason ; member of the Society of The Cin
cinnati ; treasurer and member of Standing
Committee of Society of Cincinnati in the
State of Virginia, in which society he is the
hereditary representative of General Wash
ington ; and member of Society of Colonial
Wars and the Sons of the Revolution. His
fayorite recreations are shooting, hunting,

and traveling. He was formerly president of
the Irish Setter Club of America and for
merly owned the Kildare Kennel of Irish
setters, which was the largest and best
known kennel of Irish setters in America.
His dogs were shown every year at New
York and throughout the United States and
Canada, and won upward of two hundred
and fifty first-prize cups and specials. He is
a member of the Calumet Club of New
York City and of the Pittsburgh Golf Club.
Mr. Washington married in New York City,
June 6, 1906, May Bruec Brennan of Louis
ville, Kentucky. Residence: The Wind
sor Apartments, New York City. Office ad
dress : 1700 Broadway, New York City.
WATERMAN, Charles Winfield:
Lawyer; born in Waitsfield, Vt., Novem
ber 2, 1861 ; son of John Waterman and Mary
A. (Leach) Waterman. He was graduated
from the University of Vermont as A.B.
in 1885, and from Michigan University as
LL.B.. in 1889. He was admitted to the
bar of Michigan in 1889, and of Colorado
in 1889, entered the office of Wolcott and
Vaile in 1891 ; and became a member of
the firm of Wolcott, Vaile and Waterman
in 1902; member of the firm of Vaile and
Waterman since 1906. During the last
ten years he has been engaged in most of
the important corporation cases in Colo
rado. He is the director and counsel of
Great Western Sugar Company, Great
Western Railway Company, and attorney in
Colorado of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company. He is a Re
publican in politics. Mr. Waterman is a
member of the American Bar Association,
Colorado Bar Association, and was a dele
gate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers
and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904. He is a
member of the University Club, and the
Denver County Club. He married in Bur
lington, Vermont, June 18, 1890, Anna R.
Cook. Residence : Savoy Hotel. Office ad
dress : 420 Equitable Building, Denver,
Colorado.WATKINS, Albert:
Clergyman; was graduated as licenciate
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tia, in 1888; ordered deacon in 1885 by the
Bishop of Newfoundland, and ordained
priest in 1888 by the Bishop of Nova Scotia.
He was formerly assistant missionary in
the Christ Church, Boston, 1889; rector of
St. John's, Gloucester, Massachusetts, from
1889 to 1892 ; of St. Martin's, New Bedford,
Massachusetts, in 1892 and 1893; of St.
John's, Haverhill, Massachusetts, from 1893
to 1896; archdeacon of Western Kansas
from 1896 to 1902 ; of Western Missouri in
1902 and 1903 ; rector of St. John's, Par
sons, Kansas, in igt>3 and 1904; and since
then rector at Fort Scott, Kansas. He is
chaplain of the Second Regiment ol the
Kansas National Guard, commissioned July
21, 1899; president of the Provident As
sociation of Fort Scott; director of Car
negie Library and past grand prelate, of all
Masonic bodies in Kansas. Address : Fort
Scott, Kansas.
WATKINS, Edgar:
Lawyer; born in Georgia, July 31, 1868;
son of Moses D. Watkins and Divine How
ard (Word) Watkins. He received his
preparatory education in the public and
private schools of Georgia and was gradu
ated from the University of Georgia as
LL.B. He has had a lucrative law prac
tice in Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas.
Mr. Watkins was solicitor for the City
Court at Carrollton, Georgia; alderman at
Houston, Texas, and president of the Board
of School Trustees of Houston. He was a
law partner of the late ex-Governor James
S. Hogg of Texas, and is a member of the
Texas Bar Association. He continued prac
tice at Houston, Texas, until August 1,
1907, when he became a partner in the law
firm of Wimbish, Watkins and Ellis, of
Atlanta, Georgia. He is a Democrat in
politics and a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Watkins is a Scottish Rite
Mason, Knight Templar and a Shriner;
also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity, Knight of Pythias, and is an
Elk and Odd Fellow. He is a member of
the Thalian Club, of Houston, Texas, and
of the Piedmont Driving and Capital City
Clubs of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Watkins
married, in Oklahoma, March 12, 1894,

Belle Cameron, and their children are:
Gladys, born in 1895; Edgar, Jr., born in
1902; Robert Cameron, born in 1904, and
James Hogg, born in 1906. Residence:
7 Peachtree Court, Atlanta. Office ad
dress : 525 Prudential Building, Atlanta,
Georgia. WATKINS, John Thomas:
Congressman ; born at Minden, Louisiana,
January 15, 1854. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town, and spent
three years at Cumberland University, Leb
anon, Tennessee, but was compelled to leave
six weeks before graduation because of
serious illness, failing to procure a diploma,
but receiving a certificate for faithful at
tendance and proficiency in all his studies
and having been elected valedictorian of
his class. He studied law and was admitted
to the bar July, 1878; was elected district
judge in 1892 and reelected in 1896 and
1900, his last term expiring December 8,
1904. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth
Congress, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the Fourth Louisiana District.
Address : Minden, Louisiana.
WATRES, Louis Arthur:
Lawyer, banker; born at Mt. Vernon,
Pennsylvania, April 21, 1851 ; son of Lewis
S. and Harriet G. Watres. He received
his education in the public schools, and in
early life entered the banking business, be
ing at one time teller of the Merchants'
and Mechanics' Bank of Scranton, and af
terward cashier of the County Savings
Bank and Trust Company of Scranton. He
studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1878; county solicitor of Lackawanna
County from 1881 to 1890; State senator,
1883 to 1891 ; lieutenant-governor of Penn
sylvania, 1891-1895 ; president Board of
Pardons ; vice-president Pennsylvania
World's Fair Commission for the World's
Columbian Exposition. He is a Republican
in politics and was chairman of Pennsyl
vania Republican State Committee during
the year 1891. He served in the National
Guard of Pennsylvania from 1877 to 1891,
and from August, 1898, to August, 1904;
and he was inspector of rifle practice with
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Beaver from 1887 to 1891 ; colonel Eleventh
Regiment, Provisional Guard, National
Guard of Pennsylvania; since muster out
of Eleventh Regiment on return from field,
colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania. Colonel
Watres is president of the County Savings
and Trust Company, Title Guaranty and
Trust Company, Brookside Coal Company,
Spring Brook Water Supply Company,
Mansfield Water Company, Scranton and
Pittston Traction Company; Economic
Light, Heat & Power Company; Pittston
Slate Company, and Boulevard Company.
Address : Board of Trade Building, Scran
ton, Pennsylvania.
WATSON, Edward Willard:
Physician; born in Newport, Rhode
Island, January 2, 1843; son of Rev. Benja
min Watson, D.D., and Lucy (Willard)
Watson. He entered the University oi
Pennsylvania in 1859, and received the de
gree of M.D. from the University of Penn
sylvania in 1865. Dr. Watson was visiting
physician to the Pennsylvania Institution for
the Blind; and to the Magdalen Home.
He is a fellow of the College of Physicians,
Philadelphia; a member of the Philadel
phia County Medical Society, the Obstetri
cal Society of Philadelphia, the American
Climatological Society, the Penn and Medi
cal Clubs, and the Franklin Inn Club of
Philadelphia. His medical contributions
have been largely reviews and editorials,
and he is author of three volumes of verse :
Today and Yesterday, 1895 ; Songs of Fly
ing Hours, 1898, and A Forgotten Idyl, and
other Verse, 1905. He married, first, in
1870, Georgiana, daughter of Henry French,
and second, in 1900, Delia Arthur Knipe.
Address: 38 South Nineteenth Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WATSON, James E.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Win
chester, Randolph County, Indiana, No
vember 2, 1864. He was graduated from
Winchester High School and entered De
Pauw University in 1881, remaining there
until 1885, when he returned to Winchester,
and began the study of law in the office of

Watson and Engle. He was admitted to
the bar in 1886, and has since been en
gaged in the practice of law. He is a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
has taken an especially active interest in the
Epworth League; was elected president of
the State Epworth League of Indiana in
1892, and reelected in 1893. He is also a
member of the Knights of Pythias, and has
been grand chancellor of that order. He
was a candidate for presidential elector on
the Republican ticket in 1892; and in 1893
removed to Rushville* Indiana, and became
a law partner of Hon. Gates Sexton. He
was second in a list of strong candidates
for secretary of State of Indiana, in 1894,
in the State Republican Convention. He
was nominated in 1894 for the Fifty-fourth
Congress and in the election defeated the
veteran William S. Holman, as representa
tive in Congress from the Sixth Indiana
District. He has since been biennially
elected and is now serving in the Sixtieth
Congress. Mr. Watson married, December
12. 1892, Flora Milter. Address : Rushville,
Indiana. WATSON, John 8.:
Captain-superintendent of the Cunard
Steamship Company; son of A. Eugene
Watson, late pay-director of the United
States Navy. He served in the late Navy
during the Civil War as an acting master
and volunteer lieutenant, and was flag-
captain of. the United States iron-clad
steamer Benton (special detail), flag-ship
of General William T. Sherman, in the
Mississippi Squadron. After the war he
served as commander in the service of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and for
twenty-five years has been captain-superin
tendent of the Cunard Steamship Company,
a position of great responsibility, controlling
the handling of the mails, specie and freight,
and the shipment of nearly three hundred
thousand tons of coal annually. Captain
Watson is a member of the Army and
Navy Club of New York City. Address:
Pier 51 North River, New York City.
WATSON, William Perry:
Physician ; was born at Bolton-on-Lake
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Godfrey Place Watson and Harriet Rob
erts (Middleton) Watson. He received
his education in Warrensburg (New York)
and Blairstown (New Jersey) Academies
from 1865 to 1871 ; was graduated from
Rutgers College as A.B. in 1875 and A.M.
in 1878; also from the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons as M.D. in 1878. He
was in the general practice of medicine at
Jersey City, New Jersey, from 1878 to
1895, during which time he was visiting
physician to the City, St. Francis and
Christ Hospitals, and consulting physician
to St. Michael's Orphan Asylum and to
the Bayonne City Hospital. In 1884 he es
tablished and edited for ten years the first
medical journal in the English language
devoted exclusively to the diseases of chil
dren, Archives of Pediatrics, which has
been regularly issued as an eighty-page
monthly since that time and is now pub
lished by E. B. Treat and Company, New
York. From 1884 to 1889 he was instruc
tor in diseases of children in the New York
Polyclinic, and he was one of the found
ers of the American Pediatric Society in
1889 and recorder thereof for five years.
In 1890 he was largely instrumental in se
curing the. present medical law of New
Jersey, acknowledged to be the best of the
State medical laws, and has been a mem
ber of its State Board of Medical Exam
iners (being its secretary for five years)
since that date, and the examiner thereon
in the practice of medicine. In 1892 he
secured the first State law in this country
regulating the practice of midwifery.
While at Rutgers College he was one of
the founders of Alpha Sigma Chi, a secret
Greek letter society which afterwards amal
gamated with Beta Theta Pi, now one of
our largest Greek letter fraternities, and
was president of its New York Alumni in
1906. Since December 1, 1895, he has been
at home office of the Prudential Insurance
Company, Newark, New Jersey, first as
medical supervisor and now assistant medi
cal director, and during that time has per
sonally seen and instructed, at their homes,
after reviewing their examined cases, about
two thousand medical examiners of the

company. He married, in Jersey City,
New Jersey, October 31, 1882, Cornelia
Elizabeth, daughter of ex-Congressman
Jacob R. Wortendyke, now deceased, and
they have one son, Ripley Watson. Resi
dence: 116 Gifford Avenue, Jersey City,
New Jersey.
WATTERSON, Henry:
Editor; born in Washington, D. C, Feb
ruary 16, 1840; son of Hon. Harvey Wat-
terson, member of Congress. He received
his education chiefly by private tutors. He
was a Confederate staff officer and chief
of scouts from 1861 to 1865 ; a member .of
Congress from 1875 to 1877 ; of the Demo
cratic National Convention from 1872 to
1892; president of the Convention of 1876;
chairman of the Platform Committee in
1880 and 1888, and has repeatedly declined
office. He is author of: Orations; Oddi
ties of Southern Life, 1881 ; History of the
War with Spain, 1898; The Compromises
of Life, 1903. His favorite recreations are
music, yachting and out-door sports. Mr.
Watterson is a member of the Manhattan
and Lotos Clubs of New York, Pendennis
Club of Louisville, the Pen and Pencil
Club of Philadelphia; Press Club, Chi
cago; Press Club, New York, and the
Boston Press Club. He married, in 1865,
Rebecca Ewing, and they have three sons
and two daughter. Address : Courier
Journal, Louisville, Kentucky.
WATTS, Ethelbert:
Consular official; born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, February 25, 1845; son of
Hon. Henry M. Watts, United States min
ister to Austria more than thirty years
ago. He entered the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1861, but left at the end of his
third year, and, after serving as a private
in the Union Army, studied at the School
of Mines at Freiburg, Saxony, after having
been engaged in the manufacture of pig
iron for several years. He acted as cashier
of the Centennial Board of Finance at
the Exhibition Grounds in Philadelphia,
in 1876, and subsequently became sec
retary and afterward treasurer of the
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1896 he entered the Consular Service, and,
after a year spent in Switzerland, became
vice-consul-general at Cairo, Egypt, where
he remained for two years and a half.
He was acting as consul-general in the
absence of his superior at the time Ad
miral Camara attempted to obtain coal
and other supplies for the Spanish fleet,
with the view of proceeding to the Philip
pines, but was prevented by Mr. Watts'
energetic action. In November, 1899, he
was transferred to Kingston, Jamaica, as
consul, and then to the position of con
sul at Prague; consul-general at St. Peters
burg, Russia, from 1903 to 1907, since then
consul-general at Brussels. He has had
conferred upon him the Imperial Order ot
the Osmanieh of the third class in recogni
tion of services while on the staff of the
United State consul-general in Egypt. His
present wife is the daughter of the late
William H. Gregg of Philadelphia. Ad
dress : Brussels, Belgium.
WAY, Charles Granville:
Capitalist; born in Boston, Massachu
setts, January 13, 1841; son of Samuel
AUd Way and Sarah Ann (Simpson) Way;
grandson of Lorin and Lettice Caldwell
(Alld) Way and of Daniel Simpson, keeper
of the historic Green Dragon Tavern, Bos
ton. His ancestor Henry Way was an
original settler of Dorchester, Massachu
setts, 1630. Mr. Way was a pupil in the
Boston public schools and boarding schools
at Jamaica Plain and Grafton, Massachu
setts. He pursued the study of art in
Paris after 1863 with Lambiret and Dar-
doize and at Le Jardin des Plantes under
Barye. With Robert Wiley he formed the
American colony of artists at Pont-Aven,
France. He exhibited at Vienna in 1873
and at Philadelphia in 1876. Mr. Way re
turned to America in 1876 with the remains
of his mother who died in Paris, March 2,
1876, and he found in the settlement of the
estates of both father and mother a task
that precluded his resuming his chosen avo
cation of artist, and he became involved
in litigation with the Boston Elevated
Street Railway Company, New York and
New Haven Railroad, Union Station and
approaches .to it, under the law of emi

nent domain, over thirty estates in his
charge being affected to the extent of three
to five hundred thousand dollars. He is a
member of the Historic Genealogical So
ciety; the Bostonian Society; the South
Carolina Historical Society ; the Boston Art
Club, and the Longwood Club of Brookline.
He presented the Way collection of Egyp
tian antiquities to the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason. Mr. Way has been for thirty years
engaged in the preparation of a History tof
the Way Family. He married, November
29, 1866, Charlotte Elizabeth Fobes, and
they have three children. Residence:
Brookline, Massachusetts. Office address:
880 Washington Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. WEBB, Alexander Stewart:
Soldier and educator; born in New York
City, February 15, 1835; son of General
James Watson Webb and Helen Lispenard
(Stewart) Webb; and grandson of General
Samuel B. Webb, of General Washington's
staff ; also colonel of the Seventh Connectir
cut Regiment. He received his early edu
cation in Churchill's Military School at
Sing Sing, New York, and then entered the
United States Military Academy, from
which he was graduated and brevetted sec
ond lieutenant of artillery, July 1, 1855. He
was assigned to the Second United States
Artillery, October 20, 1855; served in the
Seminole Indian War in Florida in 1856;
and was assistant professor of mathematics
in the United States Military Academy from
1857 to 1861. He formed Griffin's Battery
at West Point and proceeded to Washing
ton, February 14, 1861, in defence of the
Capital ; was ordered to Fort Pickens, Flor
ida, and while there was made captain of
the Eleventh United States Infantry; but
remained in Light Battery A, Artillery. He
was ordered North and reached Washing
ton in time to take part, with Battery A,
Second United States Artillery, in the battle
of Bull Run. After this he was captain of
the Eleventh United States Infantry, then
appointed assistant to General W. F. Barry,
chief of artillery of the Army of the Po
tomac, with the volunteer rank of major of
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became inspector-general and chief of
staff, promoted lieutenant-colonel of staff,
United States Volunteers; took part in .the
battles of Hanover Court House, Gaines'
Mill, Antietam, Shepherdstown, Snicker's
Gap; inspector of artillery at Camp Berry,
Washington, D. C, November, 1862, to
January, 1863 ; inspector-general Fifth Army
Corps, in .the Rappahannock Campaign;
commanded the Second Brigade, Second
Division, Second Corps in the Gettysburg
Capipaign, where he distinguished himself
for bravery, for which he was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor. He was
wounded in that battle. The road at the
clump of trees is named Webb Avenue by
order of the War Department. Afterward
commanded the Second Division, Second
Corps, until the consolidation of the Divi
sion; being engaged in Mine Run Cam
paign and the Battle of Pristoe Station.
In the Wilderness Campaign he commanded
First Brigade, Second Division, Second
Corps, until severely wounded in the
head at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864. He
was brevetted major United States Army
for Gettysburg, lieutenant-colonel for Bris
tol Station, Virginia, October 11, 1863; col
onel United States Army for Spottsylva
nia, and major-general United States Vol
unteers, and March 13, 1865, he was brev
etted brigadier-general and major-general
United States Army for services during the
war. After the war he was promoted lieu
tenant-colonel of the Forty-fourth United
States Infantry, July 28, 1866; principal as
sistant professor of law and history
at the United States Military Acad
emy, 1866 to 1868, was commissioned by
president Grant, 1869, to major-general
United States Army and commanded the
Fifth Military District, and in 1870 he was
honorably discharged from the service and
was appointed president of the College of
the City of New York, which office he held
until 1903 ; retiring until pensioned by State
law. General Webb received the honorary
degree of LL.D. from Hobart College in
1870. He married November 28, 1855, Anna
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Rutgers and
Elizabeth Waldron (Phoenix) Remsen. Ad

dress: 17 Lexington Avenue, New York
City. WEBB, Edwin Yates:
Congressman; born in Shelby, North
Carolina, May 23, 1872; son of Rev. G. M.
Webb and Priscilla J. (Blanton) Webb.
He attended Shelby Military Institute, was
graduated at Wake Forest College in 1893 ;
studied law at the University of North
Carolina, and received license from Su
preme Cpurt to practice in February, 1894;
took post-graduate course in law at the
University of Virginia, 1896; began prac
tice of law February, 1894, forming part
nership with his brother, J. L. Webb, then
solicitor of the Twelfth Judicial District,
which partnership existed until December,
1904, when it was dissolved by the appoint
ment of his brother to the Superior Court
judgeship. He was elected State senator in
1900 ; was temporary chairman of the State
Democratic Convention in 1900, chairman
of the senatorial district in 1896 ; was chair
man of the County Democratic Executive
Committee from 1898 to 1902; was elected
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and reelected to the Sixtieth Con
gress, from the Ninth North Carolina Dis
trict. He married, November 15, 1894,
Miss Willie Simmons of Wake Forest,
North Carolina. Address : Shelby, North
Carolina.
WEBB, William Seward:
Capitalist ; born in New York City, Janu
ary 31, 1851 ; son of General James Watson
Webb and grandson of General Samuel B.
Webb, Revolutionary officer of distinction
and intimate friend of General Washington.
He received his education by private tutors
and five years at Churchill's Military
School, Sing Sing; two years at Columbia
College, and was graduated from the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons as M.D.
in 1875. He afterwards spent two years
in study in the medical schools of Vienna.
He became connected with the Vanderbilt
railroad system and was president many
years of the Wagner Palace Car Company;
constructed and since 1890 has been presi
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Railroad, a line which extends through the
Adirondack wilderness from Herkimer,
New York, to the St. Lawrence River, a
distance of 233 miles, and is also officer,
or director, in numerous railroad and other
corporations. In politics he is a Repub
lican, and he is a member of the Episcopal
Church. He was three years president-gen
eral of the National Society of Sons of the
American Revolution, and vice-president of
the Vermont Society of Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution. To his Shelbourne Farms
in Vermont, he adds a large preserve in the
Adirondacks, which is known by the title
of Ne-ha-sa-ne Park. It is made up of
forest, hill and lake, its woods being well
stocked with game and the waters with fish.
Mr. Webb is a member of the Metropoli
tan, Riding, University, Church, Turf and
Field, and the New York Yacht Clubs. He
married in 1881, Lila Osgood, daughter of
William H. Vanderbilt. Residence: 680
Fifth Avenue, New York. Office address :
51 East Forty-fourth Street, New York
City. WEBB, William Walter:
Bishop of Milwaukee; born November
20, 1857; son of William Hewitt Webb and
Esther Odin (Dorr) Webb. He was grad
uated from Trinity College, Hartford, Con
necticut, with the degree of B.A. in 1882,
receiving that of M.A. in 1885. The de
gree of D.D. was conferred upon him by
the Nashotah (Wisconsin) Theological
Seminary in 1897. He was ordered deacon
of the Episcopal Church in 1885 by Bishop
Niles, and a year later was ordained to the
priesthood by Bishop Williams. During his
diaconate he was assistant at Trinity
Church, Middletown, Connecticut, becoming,
in 1886 assistant in the Church of the
Evangelist, Philadelphia. In 1889 he was
called to the rectorate of St. Elizabeth's
Church at Philadelphia, resigning after
three years to become professor of dog
matics at Nashotah Theological Seminary.
In 1887 he became president of Nashotah
House, Wisconsin, holding this office until
1906, when he was consecrated Bishop of
Milwaukee. He is a Republican in poli
tics. Bishop Webb is president of the

Board of Trustees of Nashotah House,
Nashotah, Wisconsin, and Racine College
Grammar School, Racine, Wisconsin, and
Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is
author of: Guide to Seminarians, and
Cure of Souls. Address: Milwaukee, Wis
consin. WEBSTER, Edwin S.:
Capitalist ; director of The Blue Hill Street
Railway Company ; Brockton and Plymouth
Street Railway Company; Cape Breton
Electric Company, Limited; Chase-Shaw -
mut Company; Columbus Electric Com
pany ; Commonwealth Trust Company ; Dal
las Electric Corporation; El Paso Electric
Company; Fall River Gas Works Com
pany; Fort Hill Chemical Company; Gal
veston Electric Company; General Electro-
Chemical Company; Houghton County
Electric Light Company; Houghton County
Street Railway Company; Houston Electric
Company; Jacksonville Electric Company;
Key West Electric Company; Lowell Elec
tric Light Corporation; Minneapolis Gen
eral Electric Company; New England Na
tional Bank; Northern Texas Electric Com
pany; Paducah Traction and Light Com
pany; Pensacola Electric Company; Puget
Sound Electric Railway; Savannah Elec
tric Company; Savannah Trust Company;
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation;
Stone & Webster Management Association ;
Tampa Electric Company, and the What
com County Railway & Light Company. Ad
dress : 84 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. WEBSTER, Franklin:
President of The Insurance Press; born
in La Salle, Illinois, February 22, 1862; son
of Edward Cushing Webster and Anna M.
(Anthony) Webster. He received his edu
cation in the public schools of La Salle,
Illinois, and Cooper Institute of New York
City. He learned the printing business and
began newspaper work on his father's
paper, the La Salle County Press, and wrote
the special correspondence , of the locality
for the Chicago daily papers. : He came to
New York City and, to the assistant editor
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October, 1883, on retirement of Mr. Davis
from the editorship he was appointed to the
vacant chair; and in 1895 he resigned and
September, 1893, began the publication of
The Insurance Press, of which he is now
president. He established Insurance En
gineering, an illustrated monthly magazine,
in April, 1901. Mr. Webster has contributed
mainly on insurance subjects, to various
publications. He is specially interested now
in engineering work for the prevention of
fire dangers and factory perils to work
men. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the American Trade Press
Association, the American Statistical Asso
ciation, the New England Society of
Orange, New Jersey; past master of Hope
Lodge of Masons of East Orange, New Jer
sey, and a member of other Masonic bodies.
His favorite recreations are outdoor di
versions. Mr. Webster married in La Salle,
Illinois, September 30, 1885, Jennie A. Ma
son, and their children are: Mar
garet, born in 1888, and Katherine, born in
1896. Address: 120 Liberty Street, New
York City.
WEBSTER, Ralph Waldo:
Physician; born in Monmouth, Illinois,
April 16, 1873 ; son of John Randolph Web
ster and Susan Isabella (Nye) Webster. He
received from the University of Chicago,
the degree of Ph.B. in 1895, and Ph.D. in
1903, and from Rush Medical College the
degree of M.D. in 1898; and studied in
Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt and Paris from
1903 to 1905. He was assistant in physiolog
ical chemistry in the University of Chicago
from 1901 to 1904; associate in chemistry
at Rush Medical College from 1901 to
1904; instructor in medicine at Rush Med
ical College since 1904; director of the Chi
cago Laboratory since 1905 and pathological
chemist at the Cook County Hospital since
1905. In politics he is a Republican and he
is a, member of the Unitarian Church. He
is also a member of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, Amer
ican Association of Pathologists and Bac
teriologists, the American Medical Associa
tion, the Chicago Pathological Society, the
Mississippi Valley Medical Society, Tri-

State Medical Society, the Illinois State
Medical Society, and Theta Nu Epsilon,
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Nu Sigma Nu
fraternities. His favorite recreations are
sailing and fishing. Dr. Webster is author
of: A Laboratory Manual of Physiological
Chemistry and a Text-Book on Clinical
Diagnosis, and some of his articles are:
Nephritis, its Pathology and Treatment;
Metabolic Aspects of Over and of Under
Feeding ; Metabolic Aspects of Diabetes ; and
Metabolism in its Relation to Gastro-in-
testinal Diseases. He is also a member of
the University Club of Chicago. Dr. Web
ster married in Chicago, December 12, 1903,
Grace Burleigh Nye and they have one son,
James Randolph, born in 1906. Residence:
521 1 Jefferson Avenue, Chicago. Office ad
dress: 100 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
WEED, Walter Harvey:
Mining geologist ; born in St. Louis, Mis
souri, May, 1862; son of Samuel Richard
Weed and Nellie S. (Jones) Weed. He
received his education in the public schools
of St. Louis and Brooklyn; the Selleck
School, Norwalk, Connecticut, and the
School of Mines of Columbia University,
where he was graduated as E.M. He was
assistant geologist from 1883 to 1892, and
geologist until 1906, in the United States
Geological Survey; is now geological en
gineer for the General Development Com
pany of New York City. He studied and
published papers on. Yellowstone Park,
Montana, Mexico, and the copper deposits
of Butte, and was the first to propose the
theory of secondary enrichment in 1899. He
is author of two standard books : Copper
Mines of the World, 1907 ; Nature Ore De
posits, 1906; and also of numerous scien
tific papers, published by the United States
Geological Survey, Institute of Mining En
gineers and other learned societies. He is a
member of the Institute of Mechanical En
gineers, the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, the Academy of Sciences of
Washington, D. C, and a fellow of the
Geological Survey of America; and the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. In politics he is a Re
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byterian Church. Mr. Weed is also a mem
ber of _ the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Sig
ma Xi Society, a Mason; member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and the
Mayflower Society, the Cosmos and Chevy
Chase Clubs of Washington, D. C, and the
Engineers' Club of New York City. He
married in Norwalk, Connecticut, Decem
ber 16, 1896, Helena Charlotte Hill, and
their children are: Eleanor Hill, born in
1898, and Walter Harvey, Jr., born in 1900,
and Mary Hill, born in 1903. Residence:
100 East Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut.
Office address: 42 Broadway, New York
City. WEEKS, John Wingate:
Congressman and banker; born in Lan
caster, New Hampshire, April 11, i860. He
was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1881. He is a member
of the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, bank
ers and brokers, having offices at Boston
and New York; is vice-president of the
First National Bank of Boston, and presi
dent of the Newtonville Trust Company,
Newton. He served in the United States
Navy as a midshipman from graduation to
1883 ; served in the Massachusetts Naval
Brigade ten years, from 1890 to 1900, the
last six years of this service as command
ing officer of the organization ; was a mem
ber of Governor Wolcott?s military advisory
board during the Spanish-American War
and also served as a lieutenant in the Vol
unteer Navy during that war, commanding
the second division of the auxiliary navy.
He was for three years an alderman and
two years mayor of the city of Newton,
declining a reelection for a third term as
mayor. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth
and Sixtieth Congresses from the. Twelfth
Massachusetts District. Residence: New
ton,. Massachusetts. Offices: 53 State Street,
Boston, and 10 Wall Street, New York
City.
WEEMS, Capell L. :
Congressman ; born July 7, i860, at Whig-
ville, Noble County, Ohio; and was reared
partly in that and partly in Belmont County.
He received a common school and academic

education, and taught and superintended
schools until commencing the practice of
law at Caldwell, Ohio, in the spring oi 1883.
He was elected prosecuting attorney of
Noble County in 1884, and at .the end of
his term was elected to the lower house of
the General Assembly of Ohio, where he
served on the Judiciary Committee, and on
the Joint Committee of the two houses
which prepared the constitutional amend
ments submitted to the people of Ohio in
1889. He removed to Belmont County in
1890; was elected prosecuting attorney of
that county in 1893 and reelected in 1896;
and on November 3, 1903, was elected to
the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon, J. J.
Gill, and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses from the Sixteenth
Ohio District. He married in 1883, Mary
B. Nay, of Caldwell, Ohio, who died in
1904. Address: St. Clairsville, Ohio.
WEIR, Robert Fulton:
Professor of surgery; born February 16,
1838; son of James Weir and Mary Anne
(Shapter) Weir. He was graduated from
the College of the City of New York with
the degree of A.B. in 1854 and A.M. in
1857. He is corresponding fellow of the
Societe de Chirurgie, Paris, since 1892;
honorary fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons, since 1900 ; served as assistant
surgeon in the United States Army, from
1861 to 1865; surgeon in charge of the
United States Army, General Hospital at
Frederick, Maryland, and surgeon at St.
Luke's Hospital, New York, from 1865 to
1875; surgeon in the New York Hospital
from 1876 to 1900; and he is professor of
surgery in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, and senior surgeon at Roosevelt
Hospital, New York. He was president of
the American Surgical Association, 1900;
of the New York Academy of Medicine,
1900, and is a Chevalier of the Order of
Bolivar (Venezuela). He is author of
numerous surgical papers in medical jour
nals, principally on the brain, appendical
and gastric lesions and operations. His fa
vorite recreations are traveling and hor
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Association and the University Club of
New York. Dr. Weir married, first, in
1863, Marie Washington McPherson, and
has one daughter by that marriage, and he
married, second, in 1895, Mary Badgely
Alden. Addresses: 11 East Fifty- fourth
Street, New York City, and Hague-on-Lake
George, New York.
WEISSE, Charles H.:
Congressman; bom on a farm in She
boygan Falls, October 24, 1866. He is a
manufacturer of leather. He was elected
to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con
gresses, and was reelected to the Sixtieth
Congress as a Democrat from the Sixth
Wisconsin District. Address : Shelboygan
Falls, Wisconsin.
WELLBORN, Olin:
United States district judge ; born in
Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia, June
13, 1843; son of Chapleigh Wellborn and
Mary A. Wellborn. He was educated in
private schools, and when the war between
the States began in 1861 he enlisted in the
Confederate Army, serving until the sur
render. He removed to Dallas, Texas,
where he studied and practiced law. He
was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-
sixth Congress in 1878, from the Sixth
Texas District, and was reelected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-
ninth Congresses. He removed to Los An
geles, California, and engaged in practice
there until appointed by President Cleve
land, March 1, 1895, judge of the United
States district court for the Southern Dis
trict of California, in which office he is now
serving. Address : Los Angeles, California.
WELLER, Reginald Heber:
Bishop-coadjutor of Fond du Lac : born
at Jefferson City, Missouri, November 6,
1857; son of Reginald Heber Weller and
Emma Amanda Weller. He was educated
in the University of the South and the
Nashotah (Wisconsin) Theological Semi
nary, being graduated from the latter with
the degree of B.D. in 1884. The degree
of D.D. was conferred upon him by Nasho
tah in 1901. He was ordered deacon in

the Episcopal Church by Bishop Young in
1880 and ordained to the priesthood in
1884 by Bishop Welles. He was in charge
of the Church at Ocala, Florida, from
1880 to 1882, was assistant of All Saints'
Memorial Church, Providence, Rhode Is
land, 1882 and 1883, rector of Christ's
Church, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, from 1884
to 1888, of St. Matthias' Church, Waukes-
ka, Wisconsin, from 1888 to 1890, of the
Church of the Intercession, Stevens' Point,
Wisconsin, from 1890 to 1900. In 1900 he
was elected bishop-coadjutor of Fond du
Lac. Bishop Weller married, at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, May 18, 1886, Bessie
Brown. Address : Fond du Lac, Wiscon
sin.
WELLMAN, Edwin H.:
Clergyman ; was graduated from the Col
lege of the City of New York as A.B. in
1879, and from the Theological Seminary
of Virginia in 1879; received the honorary
degree of Ph.D. after a course of lectures
on the Psychology of Historical Epochs,
and as a side-study took a full course in
medicine and received the degree of M.D.
He was ordered deacon in 1879 and or
dained priest in 1881, by Bishop Whittle of
Virginia, in the ministry of the Episcopal
Church; was in charge of Christ Church,
Drummondtown, Virginia, from 1879 to
1881; assistant at Holy Trinity Church,
New York City, in 1881 and 1882; rector
of Christ Church, Huron, Ohio, from 1882
to 1886; rector of St. Paul's Church, Belle
vue, Ohio, from 1886 to 1889, St. Paul's,
East Cleveland, Ohio, 1889 to 1891 ; rector
of the Church of the Atonement, Brooklyn,
New York, since 1891. He has served as
chaplain to the bishop of Long Island, and
has twice been nominated for the Episcopal
office. In addition to his prominence as
a churchman, with heavy parochial duties
as rector of a large city parish, Dr. Well-
man has attained distinction in the lecture
field, in which he has for years been active,
often filling. as many as three engagements
a week. His name is an especially familiar
one in the prospectus of the Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences. He has been an
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beaten routes, and has lately returned from
an extended Southern trip to South Amer
ica, and returning spent several weeks on
the Isthmus of Panama. Having a fine pho
tographic outfit with him he brought back
many views and nearly three thousand feet
of moving film, which makes his lecture
on Panama very realistic. Address: 235
Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, New York.
WELLMAN, Francis Lewis:
Lawyer; born in Brookline, Massachu
setts, July 29, 1854; son of William A.
Wellman, a prominent Boston banker and
American representative of Baring Brothers.
He was graduated from Harvard as A.B.
in 1876 and from Harvard Law School as
LL.B. and valedictorian of the class in
1878. He was admitted to the Massachu
setts bar in 1878, and was simultaneously
appointed instructor at the Boston Law
School and later lecturer both at the Bos
ton Law School and the Harvard Law
School. He also was engaged to some ex
tent in practice, chiefly in association with
ex-United States Senator Bainbridge Wad-
leigh. In 1883 he removed to New York
City, where he accepted the position of as
sistant in the office of the Corporation Coun
sel and was given charge of all jury trials
in which the City of New York was de
fendant, and during the seven years of his
incumbancy of that office defended the in
terests of the city with such ability that
the recoveries against the city are said to
have been less than one-half of one per
cent, of the amounts claimed by the liti
gants. At the end of that time he was
appointed first assistant district attorney
and for four years conducted the prosecu
tion of all the principal criminal trials of
New York County, including the prosecu
tion and conviction of such noted criminals
as Dr. Carlyle W. Harris and Dr. Robert
Buchanan, Ben Ali alias Frenchy, Fan-
shawe. Stroud; Stephanie, Gardner, Frank
Ellison and many others. Since 1894 Mr.
Wellman has been general counsel for the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and
has since then personally conducted all
the more important damage litigations of
that company in the courts. In addition

he has had a large corporation practice
in partnership with William W. Gooch,
under the firm name of Wellman, Gooch &
Smyth. Mr. Wellman is an Independent in
politics. He is a member of the Harvard
Alumni Association, the University, Man
hattan and New York Yacht Clubs, and
other organizations. He married, June 26,
1894, Emma Juch, the celebrated prima
donna of grand opera. Residence: 247
Fifth Avenue, New York City. Office ad
dress: 15 Wall Street, New York City.
WELLS, Christopher Henry:
Judge of probate court; born in Somers-
worth, New Hampshire, July 6, 1853; son
of Nathaniel Wells and Eliza (Thorn)
Wells. He was graduated from Somers-
worth High School in 1871, and from Bow
doin College in 1875. On August 15, 1878,
he was admitted to the bar and entered in
the practice of law with W. R. Burleigh,
now of Chicago. February 10, 1883, he
bought out the local printing and pub
lishing plant which publishes the Somers-
worth Free Press, a weekly newspaper, and
does a general printing and publishing busi
ness, and is now owner of, and controls
the business. On March 15, 1898, he was
appointed judge of probate for Strafford
County, New Hampshire; and was ap
pointed, January 11, 1900, justice of Somers-
worth police court, and he is still hold
ing both positions. March 28, 1901, he was
appointed chairman of the commission se
lected by Governor Jordan to prepare rules
of practice and procedure in the Probate
Courts of the State, and uniform blanks for
use in those courts, this commission tak
ing two years for its work. From 1881
to 1883 he was a member of the New
Hampshire Legislature; and he was also a
member of the New Hampshire Constitu
tional Convention of 1889. He served as
aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor
Charles H. Sawyer, with the rank of col
onel, in 1887 and 1888. Judge Wells was
president of the Strafford County Re
publican Club for four years. From 1894
to 1898 he was mayor of Somersworth, also
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to 1880 he was captain of the Independent
Company of Cadets, of Somersworth, one
of the best-drilled companies in New Eng
land. Judge Wells is a member of the
New Hampshire Bar Association, the New
Hampshire Historical Society, the New
Hampshire Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, and trustee and first vice-presi
dent of the Somersworth Savings Bank;
director of the First National Bank of
Somersworth and trustee of Somersworth
Public Library. He was one of the first
to inaugurate the movement which resulted,
in 1893, in obtaining a charter and estab
lishing the city of Somersworth, and was
chairman of the committee which con
structed waterworks for Somersworth, from
1893 to 1896. Judge Wells is a member of
the Psi Upsilon fraternity, is a Scottish
Rite Mason, a Knight of Pythias, and mem
ber of Somersworth Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry. His favorite recreations are
golf and out-door diversions. He is also
a member of the Somersworth Club, Derry-
field Club of Manchester, New Hampshire
Weekly Publishers' Association, and the
Suburban Press Association of Massachu
setts. He married in Dover, June 19, 1887,
Oriana Hartford. Address : Somersworth,
New Hampshire.
WELLS, Lemuel H.:
Missionary bishop of Spokane; bom at
Yonkers, New York, December 3, 1841 ;
son of Horace Denning and Mary (Barker)
Wells. He was graduated from Hobart Col
lege as A.B. in 1867, and received from it
the degree of D.D. in 1892. He was or
dered deacon of the Episcopal Church by
Bishop Williams in 1869, and was ordained
to the priesthood by Bishop Bissell in 1871.
After his entry to the ministry, he was as
sistant at Trinity Church, New Haven,
Connecticut, from 1869 to 1871. In the lat
ter year he was sent as missionary to Walla
Walla, Washington, where he remained for
ten years. In 1884 he accepted a call to
the rectorship of St. Luke's Church, Ta
coma, Washington, and after four years
built Trinity Church, Tacoma, Washington,
and after four years built Trinity Church
in the same city, and became its first rec

tor. Here he officiated until he was made
missionary bishop of Spokane, Washington,
in 1892, being consecrated by Bishops Wil
liams, Neely, Niles, J. A. Paddock, Morris,
Walker, and Talbot. Bishop Wells mar
ried at Walla Walla, Washington, in 1880,
Henrietta B. Garretson. Address: 2227
Pacific Avenue, Spokane, Washington.
WELLS, Samuel Calvin:
Journalist; born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, November 20, 1849; son of Rev.
Samuel T. Wells. He spent his boyhood
in Pennsylvania, Iowa and California, and
received his education in the public schools
and Princeton University from 1869 to 1873.
He was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar in
1876; joined the editorial staff of the Phila
delphia Press, in 1879, and has been an
editorial writer on that paper continuously
since that time; editor-in-chief from 1890
to 1892, and from 1898 to 1902. He mar
ried in 1887, Virginia C. Haines, and they
have two sons and one daughter. Ad
dress: The Press, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

WESLEY, Frank Augustus:
Assistant director of agencies; born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1875 ; son of Au
gustus G. Wesley and Mary J. (Stevens)
Wesley. He was educated in East Green
wich Academy, East Greenwich, Rhode Is
land, and Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut. Since leaving Wesleyan
University, he has been in the life insurance
business. He commenced as an agent for
one of the large New York companies ; then
became Boston manager for one of the
Massachusetts companies. He became con
nected with William Butler Woodbridge
in 1901, who was then working on plans
for organizing the Columbian National Life
Insurance Company, and has been con
nected with the Columbian National ever
since, now being assistant director of agen
cies, and a director. He is an Independent
Republican in politics, and an Episcopalian
in church relations, and is a member of
the Boston Athletic Association. He mar
ried in Boston, December 10, 1902. Resi
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Business address: 180 Federal Street, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
WESSELER, Frederick William:
Physician; born in Dubois County, In
diana, December 28, 1841 ; son of William
Wesseler and Catharine Elizabeth (Otting)
Wesseler. He attended the common schools
of Indiana 'and Illinois, and the St. Louis
Medical College, from which he was grad
uated as M.D. in 1866. He served as a pri
vate in Company F, of the Eighty-seventh
Infantry, August 9, 1862, to May 4, 1865,
medical cadet of the United States Army,
from June 21, 1865, to June 21, 1866;
served in a medical capacity in the United
States Marine Hospital, United States Ord
nance Corps, House of Refuge, and Work
House, and had medical charge of Alexian
Brothers Hospital from 1871 to 1889, when
he resigned. He has been a member of the
United States Pension Examining Board
since 1880, except during the two Cleveland
administrations. He is president of the
Glades Realty and Investment Company;
president of the White House Mountain
Gold Mining Company. He is a Republican
in politics, and has served as a delegate
to City, Congressional and State Conven
tions. Dr. Wesseler is a member of the
American Medical Association, Missouri
State Medical Association, St. Louis Med
ical Association (of which he was vice-
president in 1881), and the Washington
University Association. He is also a mem
ber of Frank P. Blair Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, and of the Concordia Turn-
verein. He married in St. Louis, March
7, 1872, . Sophia Splete, and they have six
children: Frances A., William Julius,
Lillian, Ella B., Adeline C, and Edwin
Wesseler. Address: 2819 South Thirteenth
Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
WEST, Andrew F.:
Professor of Latin; born in Allegheny,
now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 17,
1853; son of Rev. Nathaniel West and
Mary Fleming West. He received his edu
cation in private schools and Princeton Uni
versity; was classical fellow in 1874; in
structor in classics in schools from 1874

to 1883; received the degree of A.B. from
Princeton in 1874; Ph.D. in 1882, LL.
D. in 1897, and D.Litt. from the University
of Oxford in 1902 ; and since 1901, has been
dean of graduate school, Princeton Univer
sity. He is chairman of the American School
of Classical Studies in Rome. Professor
West is author of : An edition of the plays
of Terence, 1888; Philobiblon of Richard
du Bury, 1889; Alcuin, 1892; A Latin
Grammar for Schools, 1902 ; also various ar
ticles on classical and educational subjects.
He is a member of the Grolier Club. He
married in 1889, Lucy Marshall Fitz-Ran-
dolph, and they have one son. Address :
Princeton University, New Jersey.
WEST, Clifford Hardy:
Rear-admiral, United States Navy, re
tired; born in Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York, November 10, 1846. He re
ceived his early education in the Columbia
College Grammar School, and as a lad
of sixteen saw service in the Army of the
Potomac. In 1863 he entered Columbia
College, and in the same year was appointed
to the United States Naval Academy, then
at Newport, Rhode Island, which he en
tered, September 21, 1863. He was grad
uated as midshipman from the Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland, in June, 1867, and
was then, for three years on the European
Station, attached successively to the fri
gate Minnesota, the storeship Guard, the
steam sloop Ticonderoga, the frigate Frank
lin, Admiral Farragut, and the steam sloop
Plymouth. He was promoted to ensign,
December 18, 1868, and was on duty in the
office of the chief signal officer in the Navy
Department in 1870 and 1871. He was
promoted to master, March 21, 1870, and
from 1871 to 1873 was attached to the steam
sloop Wyoming, in which he served in
the West Indies, during' the complications
with Spain as to the steamers Virginius
and Edgar Stuart, and also with the same
ship when it was engaged in making a run
ning survey of the East coast of Mexico.
He was promoted to lieutenant, March 21,
1871 ; was on ordnance duty at the Navy
Yard, New York, from 1873 to 1875, navi
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Atlantic Station from 1875 to 1877; again
on ordnance duty at the New York Navy
Yard, from 1877 to 1879, and after that,
until 1883, on the steam sloop Alliance,
North Atlantic Station, on a survey of the
Great Bank of Newfoundland, and executive
officer during the search for Lieutenant De
Long on the East coast of Greenland, Ice
land and Spitzbergen; on lighthouse duty
in New York, in 1883 to 1885, and in 1885
and 1886 commanding the lighthouse
steamer Madrono from New York to Cali
fornia, and was on the Asiatic Station from
1886 to 1890 on the staffs of Rear-Admirals
Chandler and Belknap, the frigate Brook
lyn, the steam sloops Marion and Omaha,
and the double-ender Moncacy. He was
promoted to lieutenant-commander, March
31, 1888, was on ordnance duty at the New
York Navy Yard in 1890, and on light
house duty in New York from 1890 to 1892 ;
commanding the lighthouse steamer Co
lumbine, New York to Oregon, 1892 and
1893 ; on lighthouse duty in New York
1893 to 1895 ; ordered to command Yantic,
June, 1895; at Naval War College, June,
1896. He was promoted to commander, Oc
tober, 1896; aide to Rear-Admiral Sicard,
Navy Yard, New York, from October, 1896,
to May 1, 1897; chief of staff to Rear-Ad
miral Sicard on the North Atlantic Sta
tion, from May, 1897, to April, 1898; com
manding the Princeton, April, 1898, in the
Spanish-American War, and after the war
on the North Atlantic Station; and in the
Philippines in operations against the insur
gents in 1899; after that was aide to Rear-
Admirals Philip and Barker at the New
York Navy Yard, until 1902. He was com
missioned captain, September 22, 1901, and
rear-admiral, June 17, 1902, and retired on
his own application. Address: 576 St.
Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City.
WESTINGHOUSE, George:
Inventor of the celebrated Westing
house air brake; was born at Central
Bridge, Schoharie County, New York, on
the 6th of October, 1846; his parents were
George and Emeline Vedder Westing
house. The father's ancestors came from
Germany and settled in Massachusetts

and Vermont before the Revolution ; the
mother's were Dutch-English. Mr. West-
inghouse's father was an inventor, who,
in 1856, removed with his family to Sche
nectady, New York, where he established
the Schenectady Agricultural Works. Mr.
Westinghouse was educated in the public
and high schools of Schenectady, and he
spent much time in his father's machine
shop, invented and made a rotary engine
before he was fifteen ; passed the examina
tion for the position of assistant engineer
in the United States Navy. From June,
1863, to June, 1865, he served, first in the
army, and afterward in the navy. At the
close of the war he tendered his resignation,
and was honorably discharged August 1,
1865. On his return he entered Union Col
lege, where he remained till the close of
his sophomore year, when he entered upon
active life. In 1865, he invented a device
for replacing railroad cars upon the track.
Going to Troy one day, a delay, caused
by a collision between two freight trains,
suggested to Mr. Westinghouse the idea
that a brake under the control of the
engineer might have prevented the acci
dent, and after several trials his first
patent was issued April 13, 1869, and The
Westinghouse Air-Brake Company was
formed on the 20th of July following. Mr.
Westinghouse made many improvements on
the brakes from time to time, making it
one of the most useful and beneficent de
vices of this age of mechanical progress.
In 1883, Mr. Westinghouse became in
terested in the operation of railway
signals and switches by compressed
air, and developed and patented the
system now manufactured by the Union
Switch and Signal Company. The
"Pneumatic Interlocking Switch and
Signal Apparatus," whereby all the sig
nals and switches are operated from a
given point, using compressed air as the
motive power, and electricity to bring
that power into operation, has been suc
cessfully introduced in Boston, Jersey
City, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis
and many other places. Mr. Westing
house was among the first to foresee the
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means of transmitting electricity over
long distances, and the fight to 'introduce
this system was carried on by him sin
gle-handed against incredible opposition.
The induction motor, the invention of
which was the outcome of the genius of
Nikola Tesla, was put on a commercial
footing by Mr. Westinghouse. Among his
accomplishments in the electrical field may
be mentioned the unit switch system of mul
tiple control for the simutaneous operation
and control from one common point of all
the motors in a train; and the new single-
phase motor for street railway service, this
use of electricity being heretofore confined
to direct current. The Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing Company was or
ganized in 1886 for the manufacture of
electrical apparatus, and the business of
this company has developed so rapidly
as to now necessitate the employment at
its East Pittsburgh plant of about ten
thousand hands. The electrical business
developed by Mr. Westinghouse has found
its way to foreign territory, and extensive
works have been established at Trafford
Park, Manchester, England, and at Le
Havre, France. Besides the work already
described Mr. Westinghouse has taken a
foremost part in the development of the
gas engine and the steam turbine, both of
which are built by The Westinghouse Ma
chine Company, at East Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania. The Sawyer-Man incandescent
lamp, the Nernst lamp and the Cooper-
Hewitt mercury vapor lamp were all put
on a commercial basis by Mr. Westing
house. He was also the moving spirit in
the exploitation of natural gas in the
Pittsburgh district, his special merit com
ing from working out its piping over long
distances, which was at first thought im
possible. He is president of almost all
of about thirty companies, with which he
is connected, the most of which bear his
name. Prominent among these companies
are: The Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania; The
Westinghouse Brake Company, Limited,
London, England; Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, East Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania; The British Westing

house Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany, Limited, London, England ; the West
inghouse Machine Company, East Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania; .The Union Switch
and Signal Company, Swissvale, Pennsyl
vania; Pittsburgh Meter Company, East
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Canadian West
inghouse Company, Limited, Hamilton,
Canada; Nernst Lamp Company, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania. The combined capi
tal of these companies is about $100,000,000.
He is also a member of the Societe
Anonyme Westinghouse, France; Societa
Italiana Westinghouse, Italy; Societe
Electrique Westinghouse de Russie. He
was married, August 8, 1867, at Brooklyn,
New York, to Marguerite Erskine Walker.
They have one son, George Westinghouse,
Jr., who is an assistant to the manager of
the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
Mr. Westinghouse has residences at Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C,
and Lenox, Massachusetts.
WESTON, Charles Valentine:
Civil engineer ; born in Kalamazoo, Mich
igan, February 14, 1857 ; son of John Wes
ton and Catherine (Clark) Weston. He
was educated in the public schools of Kala
mazoo, and then turned his attention to civil
engineering, beginning practically as transit-
man in the surveying corps of the Texas
Trunk Railway Company. He afterward
was assistant engineer of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad in Texas in
1880 and 1881, the Kansas City, Springfield
and Memphis in 1881 and 1882; assistant
engineer of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway from 1882 to 1884; assistant engi
neer of the Kansas City, Clinton and Spring
field from 1884 to 1886, and division engi
neer in charge of the construction of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad.
Since 1888 he has been in Chicago, engaged
in important work in connection with the
city water supply, the construction of the
Van Buren Street Tunnel under the Chi
cago River for the West Chicago Street
Railway, of which he had charge from
1890 to 1894; was chief engineer of the
Lake Street, Northwestern and Union Ele
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has been chief engineer of the South Side
Elevated Railroad Company of Chicago. He
is a member of the Western Society of
Civil Engineers and of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers. Mr. Weston mar
ried in 1889, Catherine Dyer of White
water, Wisconsin, and they have a daugh
ter, Florence. Residence : 5556 Monroe
Avenue, Chicago. Office address : 450 Thir
ty-seventh Place, Chicago, Illinois.
WETHERILL, Robert:
Engine builder and capitalist; born in
Lower Merion, Montgomery County, Penn
sylvania, September 4, 1847; was' educated
in the public schools of Philadelphia and
Upland Normal School; served an appren
ticeship of four years with Miller and Al
len, machinists and foundrymen, at Ches
ter, Pennsylvania, acquiring practical
knowledge of the business in all its de
tails, and in charge of draughting depart
ment; in 1871 he erected a small foundry
and engine building plant in Chester, Penn
sylvania, and the following year formed a
partnership with his brother, Richard
Wetherill, in the business, the firm name
being Robert Wetherill and Company; is
president of the Argo Leather Company;
director of the Cambridge Trust Company,
Chester, Pennsylvania, and member of the
Union League of Philadelphia. Mr.
Wetherill is a direct descendant of Joran
Keen, to whom in 1644 the Swedish Crown
patented the territory upon which is lo
cated part of the present city of Chester;
February 27, 1879, he married Mary B.,
daughter of William C. Gray, colonel of
the One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsyl
vania Infantry Regiment during the Civil
War. Address : Chester, Pennsylvania.
WETMORE, George Peabody:
United States senator and lawyer ; born
in London, England, August 2, 1846; son
of William Shepard Wetmore and Anstiss
Derby (Rogers) Wetmore. He was grad
uated from Yale College in 1867, receiving
the degree of A.B., and that of A.M., in
187 1 ; studied law at Columbia College Law
School, and was graduated in 1869, receiv
ing the degree of LL.B. He was admitted

to the bar of Rhode Island and of New
York in 1869; is a trustee of the Peabody
Museum of Natural History in Yaje Uni
versity, and was nominated a fellow of the
university in 1888, but declined; is a trus
tee of the Peabody Education Fund, and a
director of other associations. He was first
presidential elector of Rhode Island in 1880
and in 1884; was a member of the State
committee to receive the representatives of
France on the occasion of their visit to
Rhode Island in 1881 ; is a member of the
commission to build a new statehouse; was
governor of Rhode Island in 1885-86, 1886-
87, and was defeated for a third term in
1887, receiving, however, a greater number
of votes than at either of the two preceding
elections, when successful. He was de- .
feated on the eighth ballot for United States
senator in 1889; was elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Nathan F. Dixon
June 13, 1894, receiving the unanimous vote
of the General Assembly in the Senate,
House, and Joint Assembly, and reelected
in 1900 and 1907. His term of service will
expire March 3, 1913. Address: Newport,
Rhode Island.
WEYGANDT, Cornelius:
Assistant professor of English; born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania, December 13,
1871 ; son of Cornelius Nolen Weygandt
and Lucy E. (Thomas) Weygandt. He at
tended the Germantown Academy, and was
graduated from the University of Pennsyl
vania as A.B. in 1891, and Ph.D. in 1901.
He was fellow in English in the University
of Pennsylvania, in 1891 and 1892; reporter
on the Philadelphia Record- in 1892 and
1893; associate editor and dramatic critic,
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, from
1893 to 1897; instructor in English at the
University of Pennsylvania from 1897 to
1904; assistant professor of English since
1904. He is a contributor to the Atlantic
Monthly, Lippincott's, Sewanee Review, and
other magazines; and is editor of The
Alumni Register, the magazine of the Alum
ni of the University of Pennsylvania. He is
a Republican in politics, a member of the
Modern Language Association, and the
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tee of the Germantown Academy, and di
rector of the General Alumni Society, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Residence: Wis-
sahickon Avenue, Germantown, Philadel
phia. Business address : College Hall, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. WHEELER, Elbert:
Capitalist; treasurer and director of the
Ashland (Wisconsin), Water Company;
Belfast (Maine) Water Company; Crystal
Water Company, Danielson, Connecticut;
Exeter (New Hampshire) Water Works;
Knoxville (Tennessee), Water Company;
Lewiston-Clarkston Company, Clarkston,
Washington; Nashua (New Hampshire)
Light, Heat and Power Company ;. Palatka
(Florida) Water Works, and the Putnam
(Connecticut) Water Company. Address:
14 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WHEELER, Everett P.:
Lawyer; born in New York City, March
10, 1840. He received his preparatory edu
cation in the public schools of New York
City and was graduated from the College of
the City of New York, in 1856, and from
the Harvard Law School, in 1859, and was
admitted to practice in New York City in
1861. He was a member of the Board
of Education from 1877 to 1879; one of the
founders of the Bar Association of the City
of New York; 'and served on its Executive
Committee, and as vice-president, was for
five years president of the New York Free
Trade Club, and one of the first to take an
active part in the renewal in 1880 of the
movement for Civil Service Reform, which
finally resulted in the adoption of the Fed
eral Civil Service Act and in the New York
Civil Service Act, now in force. He was
for seventeen years, chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the New York Civil
Service Reform Association, and chairman
of the City Civil Service Commission for
seven years. In 1893 he was a member of the
Committee of Seventy, and took an active
part in the campaign for the election of
Mayor Strong. In 1894 he was a candidate
for the Democratic Party Reform Organi
zation for Governor of the State of New

York; and in 1891 took an active part, in
founding, and has ever since been president
of the East Side House, one of the Social
Settlements in this city. Mr. Wheeler is
a member of the International Law Asso
ciation, the Maritime Law Association, the
New York Historical Society, and the So
ciety of Colonial Wars. He is author of:
Modern Law of Carriers ; Harter Act ; The
Tariff and Wages; Real Bimetallism;
Knowledge of Faith; and Daniel Webster,
Expounder of the Constitution. He has
been chairman of the Committee of Inter
national Law of the American Bar Asso
ciation since 1895, and is now orte of its
General Council; is delegate-at-large of
the Citizens' Union and one of its founders.
He is a member of the Century Associa
tion, the Reform Club, of which he was
president for two years, City Club, Down
Town Club, Church (president for two
years), Alpha Delta Phi, City, City College,
and Barnard Clubs. Residence: 735 Park
Avenue, New York City. Office address:
21 State Street, New York City.
WHEELER, Jerome Byron:
Merchant and financier; born in Troy,
New York, September 3, 1841; son of
Daniel B. Wheeler and Mary J. (Emerson)
Wheeler, both natives of New England and
of English descent. He removed in early
boyhood to the town of Waterford, New
York, where he was educated in the public
schools, and at fifteen became a clerk in one
of the village stores, but a little later found
more ambitious employment in one of the
factories of Waterford. On September 3,
1861, he enlisted as a private in Company
D, Sixth New York Cavalry, and imme
diately went to the front with his regi
ment, serving with his regiment in all the
great campaigns of the Army of the Poto
mac, being with Sheridan in the Shenan
doah Valley, at Gettysburg and at Appo
mattox. He_ was promoted successively
to quartermaster's sergeant, second lieu
tenant on the staff of Colonel Devin, act
ing quartermaster of his regiment, first
lieutenant, brigaderquartermaster, and by
the close of the war had been promoted to
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United States Volunteers, and he was mus
tered out in September, 1865. He was em
ployed as bookkeeper in Troy, for a time,
then came to New York, was clerk in the
grain business with John F. Barkley, a
comrade, and later with the larger firm of
Holt & Company, flour and commission
merchants, in which he became a partner
in 1878. In 1879, through the death of his
brother-in-law, R. M. Valentine, Mr.
Wheeler became connected with the great
dry goods firm of R. H. Macy & Com
pany. He had been made executor of Mr.
Valentine's estate, and he finally joined
with Charles B. Webster, the senior partner,
in the purchase of the entire business of
the firm. In 1882 he became connected with
mining in Colorado, purchasing two mines
at Aspen, and has since greatly enlarged
his Colorado connections and investments,
establishing the Grand River Coal and
Coke Company at Jerome Park, Colorado,
for obtaining supplies of coke for his smelt
ers, the company owning five thousand acres
of coal lands, possessing veins of unusual
thickness. He established the J. B. Wheeler
Banking Company at Aspen, and the J. B.
Wheeler Banking Company at Manitou,
built an opera house at Aspen and has
aided largely in the development of the
Glenwood Hot Springs, near Aspen. He
retired from the Macy firm in order to
give his entire attention to his Colorado
interests, but of late has greatly relaxed
his business activities and has resumed his
residence in New York. He is a member
of the Union League, Goethe, Manhattan,
Lawyers' and Commonwealth Clubs. Ad
dress : 25 Broad Street, New York City.
WHEELER, William Egbert:
Capitalist, lumber merchant ; born in
Portville, New York, November 21, 1843;
son of William F. Wheeler and Flora (At
kins) Wheeler. He was graduated from
Cortland Academy, Homer, New York, in
1863 ; Yale University as A.B.' in 1866, and
A.M., in 1869. He is engaged in the manu
facture of lumber, tanning leather, and
banking business. He traveled through
Europe, in 1899, also in 1906. He was a
member of the Board of County Supervi

sors,' for six terms ; New York State Legis
lature, 1892, 1893 and 1900; president of the
village of Portville; president of its School
Board. He is president of the Chicago
Lumbering Company, Manistique Lumber
Company, Silver Fork Company, Acme
Milling Company of Olean, New York,
Wheeler Timber Company, and Rogue
River Timber Company; vice-president of
the First National Bank of Olean, New
York; director and trustee of the Com
monwealth Trust Company, Buffalo, New
York. Mr. Wheeler is a Republican in poli
tics, and a Presbyterian in religion. He is
president of the Western New York So
ciety for the Protection of Homeless and
Dependent Children, and a member of the
University Club of Buffalo. He married
at Portville, New York, 1873, Allie E.
Mersereau, and they have four children:
William M., born in 1878, John E., born in
1880, Eleanor K., born in 1887, and Law
rence R., born in 1889. Address : Portville,
New York.
WHEELER, William Wheeler:
Consulting civil engineer; born in Con
cord, Massachusetts, December 6, 1851 ;
son of Edwin Wheeler and Mary (Rice)
Wheeler. He was graduated at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College as B.S.
in 1871. From 1871 to 1875 he was civil
and hydraulic engineer in general practice;
in the service of Japanese Government
from 1876 to 1880 as professor of mathe
matics and engineering; also president of
the Imperial College at Sapporo, Japan,
and civil engineer to the Colonial Depart
ment of Japan from 1877 to 1880; and
from 1881 to the present time he has been
engaged in general engineering and as con
sulting engineer. Mr. Wheeler is president
of the Knoxville Water Company ; the Win
chester Water Works Company, of Ken
tucky ; vice-president of the Middlesex In
stitution for Savings, Concord ; treasurer
and director of the Cottage City Water
Company, and director of the Con
cord National Bank, the Middlesex Mu
tual Fire Insurance Company, the Ashland
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Water Works and the Putnam Water
_ Company; also trustee of the Lewiston-
Clarkston Company. He is an Independ
ent Republican in politics. Mr. Wheeler
is a member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers, the American Society for
the Advancement of Science, the American
Water Works Association, the New Eng
land Water Works Association, the Bos
ton Society of Civil Engineers ; trustee
and president of the Corporation, of the
Concord Free Public Library, and trustee
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College;
also a member of the Exchange Club of
Boston. He married, in Concord, Massa
chusetts, July 17, 1878, Fannie E. Hubbard.
Residence : Concord, Massachusetts. Of
fice address : 14 Beacon Street, Boston,
Massachusetts. WHITAKER, Herbert Coleman:
Professor of mathematics ; born in Cape
May, New Jersey, October 31, 1862; son of
Franklin Whitaker, and Lydia L. (Ross)
Whitaker. He received his preparatory
education in the public schools of Camden,
New Jersey; was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania, with the de
gree of B.S. in 1885, and M.E. in 1886, and
did post-graduate work there from 1893 to
1896, receiving the degree of Ph.D.,
1896. For two years he was lecturer on
economics and politics with the Philadel
phia Ethical Society; for four years lec
turer on mathematics and economics in the
Evening High School of Philadelphia; for
twenty years professor of mathematics in
the Central Manual Training High School.
He is now head of the department of
mathematics at the Southern Manual Train
ing High School; he is a frequent con
tributor to various mathematical, scientific
and economic magazines. Professor Whit
aker is a member of the Camden Astronomi
cal Society, of the Franklin Chess Club;
and secretary of the Pennsylvania Whist
Club. He is author of a text-book on
trigonometry and introduced Riemannian
numbers into elementary algebra to solve
irrational equations. He married, in
Swedesborough, New Jersey, December 22,
1887, Agnes Tweed, and their children are:

Norman Tweed, born in 1890; Hazel, born
in 1892 ; Dorothy, born in 1894, and Roland
Tweed, born in 1896. Residence : 776 North
Twenty-sixth Street, Philadelphia. Office
address : Broad and Jackson Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
WHITAKER, Ozi William:
Bishop of Pennsylvania; born at New
Salem, Massachusetts, May 10, 1830. He
was graduated from Middlebury, Vermont,
College with the degree of B.A. in 1856,
and M.A. in 1859. He thence entered the
General Theological Seminary, New York
City, graduating in 1863. The degree of
D.D. was conferred upon him in 1869 by
Kenyon College and that of LL.D. by the
University of Pennsylvania. He took or
ders as deacon of the Episcopal Church in
1863 and was ordained priest the same year
by Bishop Eastburn. Following this, he
was for six years rector of St. Paul's
Church, Englewood, New Jersey, and then
rector of St. John's Parish and St. Paul's
Church, Virginia City, Nevada. He was
consecrated bishop in 1869 by Bishops Mc
llvaine, PI. Potter, Eastburn, Odenheimer
and J. C. Talbot, becoming missionary
bishop of Nevada. In 1886 he was made
bishop-coadjutor of Pennsylvania and a
year later became bishop of Pennsylvania.
Bishop Whitaker is' author of various ser
mons, addresses and pastorals. Address :
The Church-House, Twelfth and Walnut
Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WHITE, Andrew D, :
First president of Cornell University,
diplomat ; born in Homer, New York, No
vember 7, 1832. He was educated in Hobart
College, and at Yale, from which he was
graduated as A.B. in 1853, and he has re
ceived the degrees of LL.D. from Yale,
Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, St.
Andrew's ; Ph.D. from Jena University ;
L.H.D. from Columbia, and D.C.L. from
Oxford. He is a member of the Royal
Society of Berlin, and recipient of its gold
medal for science and literature, 1902. He
is a member of the Massachusetts Histori
cal Society; officer of the Legion of Honor
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traveled in Europe and studied at the Uni
versities of Berlin and Paris, from 1853 to
1856; returned to America in 1857, and be
came professor of English literature and
history, of the University of Michigan; re
signed from the university in 1862; was
elected to the New York Senate in 1863 ;
and was president of Cornell, from 1867 to
1885. He was one of the presidential
electors of the State of New York, in 1872;
delegate to the National Republican Con
vention, in 1872 and 1884; chairman of the
jury of public instruction at the Philadel
phia Centennial, in 1876; president of the
American Historical Society in 1886;
American Social Science Association in
1890 and 1891 ; honorary commissioner to
the Paris Exposition in 1878 ; United
States Minister to Germany in 1879 ; Amer
ican minister to Russia from 1892 to 1894;
member of the Venezuelan Commission in
1896 and 1897; American ambassador to
Germany from 1897 to 1902; appointed
member of the Peace Commission and presi
dent of the American delegation at the
Peace Conference, The Hague, February 6,
1899. He is a regent of the Smithsonian In
stitution, trustee of the Carnegie Institu
tion at Washington, and of Cornell Uni
versity. He is author of: History of, the
Warfare of Science with Theology, 1895,
1906; Paper Money Inflation in France;
Syllabus of Lectures on the French Revo
lution ; Autobiography, 1905 ; also addresses,
pamphlets and contributions to the Atlantic
Monthly, McClure's Magazine, Century
Magazine, North American Review, Popu
lar Science Monthly. Address : Ithaca,
New York.
WHITE, Charles Lincoln:
President of Colby College; born at
Nashua, New Hampshire, January 22, 1863 ;
son of George Lampson and Harriet (Rich
ardson) White. He received his prepara
tory education at the Woburn (Massachu
setts) High School, from which he was
graduated in 1883 and entered Brown Uni
versity. In 1887 he finished his academic
education at Brown, taking the degree of
A.B. and receiving that of A.M. three years
later. After his graduation in 1887 he com

menced the study of theology at the Newton
Theological Institution, where he took the
degree B.D. in 1890. The honorary degree
of D.D. was conferred upon him by Bow
doin College in 1902. He was ordained to
the ministry of the Baptist Church, October
17, 1890, and was pastor at Somersworth,
New Hampshire, from September 1, 1890,
to December, 1894. In the latter year he
resigned to accept the pastorate of the
First Baptist Church in Nashua, New
Hampshire, officiating there until July 1.
1900. He then became general secretary of
the New Hampshire Baptist Convention,
holding the position until September, 1900,
when he was elected president of Colby
College. Dr. White is ex-officio trustee of
that college and is also trustee of the New
ton Theological Institution. He has traveled
considerably in Europe and the United
States. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
Dr. White married at Hampton Falls, New
Hampshire, April 29, 1891, Margaret
Donalda Dodge, and has five daughters :
Jessie D., born March 28, 1892; Harriet D.,
born February 12, 1894; Katharine D., born
March 15, 1896; Clarissa D., born Septem
ber 21, 1898; and Mary D., born March 10,
1903. Address : 33 College Avenue, Water
ville, Maine.
WHITE, Edward Douglass:
Associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States ; born in the Parish of
Lafourche, Louisiana, November 3, 1845.
He was educated at Mount St. Mary's,
near Emmitsburg, Maryland, the Jesuit Col
lege in New Orleans, and at Georgetown
College in the District of Columbia. He
served in the Confederate Army, and after
the war he studied law and was admitted
to the bar on December, 1868, by the Su
preme Court of Louisiana. He was ap
pointed associate justice of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana in 1878; was elected to
the United States Senate as a Democrat to
succeed James B. Eustis, and took his seat
March 4, 1891. While serving his term as
senator he was appointed, February 19,
1894, by President Cleveland, to his present
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Court of the United States, and took his
seat March 12, 1894. Address: 1717 Rhode
Island Avenue, Washington, D. C.
WHITE, Edward L.:
President of mining companies; born in
Winchester, Massachusetts, June 25, 1857;
son of William H. and Maria Theresa
(Towle) White. He received his education
in the Lowell Schools. He was engaged
for thirty years in the manufacture of
leather, being a member of the firm known
as White Brothers and Company, who had a
world-wide reputation of manufacturers of
fine leathers. They were the originators
and sole manufacturers of the celebrated
ooze calf, of box calf and Russia calf, and
were the largest manufacturers of calf
skins of any concern in the country, having
¦factories located at Lowell, Massachusetts.
He was vice-president of the American Hide
and Leather Company, but in 1900 severed
connections with that company for the pur
pose of taking up mining exclusively, hav
ing had interests in that line for several
years. He is now president and director of
the Bingham Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company; the Mexico Consoli
dated Mining and Smelting Company; the
Davis-Daly Estates Copper Company; the
Western Utah Copper Company; the Amer
ican Hide and Leather Company, and pres
ident of the Montana Coal and Coke Com
pany. In politics he is a Republican. Mr.
White is a member of the Algonquin Club
of Boston, the Boston Athletic Association;
the Vesper Country Club, and Yorick Club
of Lowell; Brookline Country Club, Alta
Club and the Salt Lake City Club. He mar
ried in Montreal, Canada, October 24, 1883,
Ida V. Moseley, daughter of Edward Van
Horn Mosely, and their children are: E.
Laurence, born August n, 1884; Gordon
K, born July 11, 1885; Richmond L, born
August 26, 1887; Barrie M., born October
14, 1891; and Maurice T., born September
10, 1896. Residence: 408 Beacon Street,
Boston. Office address: 60 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts.
WHITE, Horace:
Lawyer and State senator; born in Buf
falo, New York, October 7, 1865; son of

Horace K. White and Marion (Strong)
White, and a nephew of Hon. Andrew D.
White, . formerly president of Cornell Uni
versity and Ambassador in Russia and
Germany. He removed with his parents in
1869 to Syracuse, New York, was educated
in the public and high schools of Syracuse
and in Cornell University, from which he
was graduated with honors in 1887. He
took the memorial prize in the junior year
for oratory and the Woodford prize, a gold
medal worth one hundred dollars, for the
best English oration, matter and manner
being considered. He studied law in the
office of Hon. Frank Hiscock, ex-United
States senator for two years, took the law
course in the Columbia Law School, was
admitted to the bar in 1880, and after an
other year of study in Senator Hiscock's
office engaged in practice in partnership
with Harry F. King until the latters death
in 1893, then formed a partnership with
Jerome L. Cheney, the firm now being
White, Cheney and Sherman. Mr. White
has been an active Republican since at
taining his majority. He was elected in
1895 as senator from the Thirty-eighth
senate district, Onondaga County, and has
continued in the State Senate ever since,
being elected for the sixth time in 1906.
He is chairman of the Senate Committee on
Cities, and member of the Senate Commit
tees on Canals, Public Education and In
dian Affairs. He is an Episcopalian in
his church relations; and he is a member
of the Onondaga Bar Association, the Kap
pa Alpha fraternity, and the Century, Citi
zens' and Country Clubs of Syracuse. He
married in March, 1903, Mrs. Jane L.
Denison. Address : 16 White Memorial
Building, Syracuse, New York.
WHITE, Horace:
Editor; born in Colebrook, New Hamp
shire, August 10, 1834; son of Horace
White, M.D., and Elizabeth McClary
(Moore) White. In 1837 the family re
moved to that part of Wisconsin territory,
where the city of Beloit now stands, at
that time unoccupied. He was graduated
from Beloit College in 1853 as A.B. and re
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University, Providence, Rhode Island, in
1906. He began in journalism in 1854, on
the staff of the Chicago Evening Journal.
In 1855 he was appointed an agent of the
New York Associated Press in Chicago,
and when the Kansas war broke ,out in 1856
he was appointed assistant secretary to the
National Kansas Committee, whose head
quarters were in Chicago. In 1857 he be
came editorial writer for the Chicago Tri
bune, the chief editor of which was Dr.
Charles H. Ray; in 1858 he was designated
as a staff correspondent to accompany
Abraham Lincoln in his political campaign
against Stephen A. Douglas for the office
of senator of the United States, and the
notable features of this campaign were
given to the public, chiefly through his let
ters to the Chicago Tribune, and were sub
sequently written out by him at the instance
of William H. Herndon, and published in
the latter's life of Lincoln. He was Wash
ington correspondent for the Chicago Tri
bune in 1861 and while there filled suc
cessively the places of clerk of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs, and clerk
in the War Department. In the latter ca
pacity he was assigned to the special serv
ice of P. H. Watson, assistant secretary,
and later of Edwin M. Stanton, secretary
of war. In 1865 he became part owner and
chief editor of the Chicago Tribune ; which
place he filled until September, 1874, when
he resigned and was succeeded by Mr,
Joseph Medill, and spent the year 1875 in
Europe. In 1877 he removed to New York
and became associated with Henry Villard
in the latter's railroad enterprises, especially
that of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, of which he was treasurer for the
next few years. In 1881 he joined with Mr.
Villard in the purchase of the New York
Evening Post, of which he became president
and one of the editors, in conjunction with
Carl Schurz and Edwin L. Godkin. Mr.
Schurz retired in 1884, Mr. Godkin in 1899,
and Mr. White in 1903. Mr. White is au
thor of: Money and Banking, Illustrated
by American History, 1895 and 1904;
edited the Sophismes Economique of Fred
eric Bastiat and the Scienza , Finanze of

Luigi Coasa; translated from Greek the
Roman History of Appian of Alexander,
1899 ; and is a contributor to magazines. He
is a member of the Century, Association,
and the University, City, Barnard and
Greek Clubs. Mr. White married, first,
in 1859, Martha Hale Root, of New Haven,
Connecticut, who died in 1873, and second,
in 1875, Amelia J. Mac Dougall of Joliet,
Illinois,- and they have three daughters. Ad
dress : 18 West Sixty-ninth Street, New
York City.
WHITE, James Gilbert:
Electrical engineer and contractor; born
in Milroy, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1861 ;
son of Rev. J. W. White and Mary M.
(Beaver) White. He was graduated from
the Pennsylvania State College as A.B. in
1882; and A.M. in 1885; fellow of Cornell-
University in 1884 and 1885, and received
the degree of Ph.D. in 1885. He was in
structor in physics in the University of
Nebraska from 1885 to 1887; president of
the Western Engineering Company, in 1887
and 1890; in business in New York since
1890, in London since 1900, and in the
Canadian Company since 1905. He is pres
ident and director of the J. G. White and
Company, Incorporated, New York City;
chairman and director of J. G. White and
Company, Limited, London ; chairman and
director of the Canadian White Company,
Limited, Montreal, Canada ; director of the
Waring White Building Company, Lim
ited, London; president and director of
the Engineering and Electrical Securities
Company; director of the Manila Electric
Railway and Lighting Company; the Phil
ippines Railway Company, the Netherlands
Tramways Corporation, Eastern Pennsyl
vania Railway Company, Porto Rico Rail
way Company, and the Tri-City Railway
and Light Company. Mr. White is a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the Institution of Electrical En
gineers of London, the American Museum
of Natural History, the National Geo
graphic Society; trustee of the Pennsylva
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grims' Society, and the Pennsylvania So
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, also
a member of the University, Metropolitan,
Engineers', Lawyers', New York Athletic,
and Cornell University Clubs, the Colum
bia Yacht Club of New York City, the
Maryland Club of Baltimore, and' the
Ranelagh Club of London. Mr. White
married in Lincoln, Nebraska, in December,
1886, Maud M. Mullon and they have one
son, James Dugald, born in May, 1889. Resi
dence: 440 West End Avenue. Office ad
dress: Wall'Street Exchange Building, 43
Exchange Place, New York City.
WHITE, James William:
Surgeon; born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania, November 2, 1850; son of James Wil
liam White and Mary Ann (McClaranan)
White. His first American ancestor was
Henry White, who emigrated from Eng
land, and settled in Virginia in 1649. His
father, Dr. James William White, Sr.
(1826-91), was well known in Philadelphia,
not only as a prominent and esteemed busi
ness man, and as one of the heads of the
famous S. S. White Manufacturing Com
pany, but as an active philanthropist. The
son was educated in the Quaker and public
schools of Philadelphia, and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where he was grad
uated in 1871, receiving the degree of Ph.
D. the same year. Immediately afterward
he joined the celebrated Hassler scientific
and exploring expedition to South Amer
ica, as a member of the personal staff of
Prof. Louis Agassiz, and was absent thir
teen months. Upon his return he became
resident physician at the Philadelphia Hos
pital, 1873; and at the Eastern Penitentiary
from 1874 to 1877; of which institution he
subsequently, by appointment of the gov
ernor, became inspector. Dr. White was
also surgeon to the Philadelphia, German,
and University Hospitals, and to the First
Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry (1878-
88). In 1886 he was appointed professor
of genito-urinary surgery; in 1890, pro
fessor of clinical surgery; and in 1900 was
made John Rhea Barton professor of sur
gery, all in the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1906 he received from the- University of

Aberdeen the degree of LL.D. He is a mem
ber of the American Surgical Association,
of the College of Physicians of Philadel
phia, and a member and ex-president of
the American Association of Genito-Uri
nary Surgeons. He is advisory surgeon to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
has contributed numerous papers to med
ical literature, and is joint author of va
rious text-books on surgical subjects, and
numerous papers and monographs; also of
a Memoir of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, and
numerous addresses; and is joint author
of : an American Text-Book of Surgery,
1896; Genito-Urinary Surgery, 1897; and
Piersol's Human Anatomy, 1907. He has
always been preeminently identified with
college athletics. Dr.- White is a member
of the Rittenhouse, Country, Corinthian
Yacht, Franklin Inn, and other Philadel
phia clubs, of the Reform Club and Auto
mobile Club of London, and of the Swiss
and American Alpine Clubs. He married,
June 21, 1888, Letitia, daughter of Ben
jamin Harrison Brown of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. They have no children. Ad
dress : 1810 Rittenhouse Square, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
WHITE, Jay:
Consular officer; born in Michigan. He
was appointed consular agent at Lucerne
March 30, 1899; consul at Hanover, Oc
tober 16, 1899; consul-general at Bogota
June 22, 1906. Address : Bogota, Colom
bia.
WHITE, John Williams:
Professor of Greek; born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, March 5, 1849; son of Rev. John
Whitney White and Anna Catherine (Wil
liams) White. He was educated in Ohio
and Germany, and at Harvard University,
where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1877.
He received the honorary degrees of LL.D.
from' Wesleyan University in 1896, and
Ohio Wesleyan University in 1905, and
Litt.D. from the University of Cambridge,
England, in 1900. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
honorary member of the Society for the
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ber of the Kaiserlich Deutsches Archao-
logisches Institut; honorary president of
the Archeological Institute of America;
first chairman of the Managing Commit
tee of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens from 1881 to 1887; edi
tor of the Harvard Studies in Classical
Philosophy, and associate editor of Classi
cal Philology. He has been professor
of Greek at Harvard University since
1884. Professor White is author of school
and college text-books ; senior editor of
the College Series of Greek Authors
(thirty volumes), and author of mono
graphs on Philological and Archeological
subjects. He is a member of the Royal
Societies Club of London. He married, in
1871, Alice Hillyer, and they have one son
and three daughters. Address : Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
WHITE, Stephen Vanleullen:
Financier; born in Chatham County
North Carolina, August 1, 183 1 ; son of Hi
ram White and Julia (Brewer) White.
His father, who was a Quaker and aboli
tionist left North Carolina to get away from
the hostility aroused by his anti-slavery sen
timents, and in 183 1, when Stephen V.
White was two years old, the family re
moved to Green County (now Jersey Coun
ty) , Illinois, where he engaged as a farm
er and miller. The boy as he grew up
attended such schools as the neighborhood
furnished, worked in his fathers farm and
mill, and when he had opportunity trapped
along the Illinois River bottom lands and
made his first money selling the furs thus
procured to the American Fur Company.
He entered the preparatory school of Knox
College, Galesburg, Illinois, in 1849, and
in 1854 was graduated from the college,
having meanwhile taught school to help
pay expenses. After his graduation he be
came a bookkeeper in the office of Claflin,
Allen and Stinde a St. Louis mercantile
firm, for a year; then studied law with
Brown & Kasson, meanwhile writing edi
torials and reviews for the Missouri Demo
crat as an aid in paying his way. He was
admitted to the bar of Missouri in 1856,
went to Des Moines, Iowa, and engaged in

successful practice there. In 1864 he served
for a time as United State district attor
ney for Iowa, during the illness of the in
cumbent. In 1865 he discontinued the prac
tice of the law and removed to New York,
where he engaged in business as a banker
and broker, as a member of the firm of
Marvin and White. After a few years Mr.
Marvin withdrew, and Mr. White, continued
alone until 1881, when he established the
firm of S. V. White & Company. The firm
established an unsurpassed reputation and
held the respect and confidence of the busi
ness world, so that the announcement of
the fact of its suspension in 1891 came as
a great shock. It was found that through
the misuse of his money by his broker Mr.
White had been suddenly plunged into fi
nancial difficulty, and was a million dol
lars in debt. As he could not do further
business on the Stock Exchange, under its
rules, while he had a legal obligation out
standing, his three hundred creditors showed
their perfect faith in him by waiving their
claims simply upon his verbal promise to
pay them as soon as he could; and friends
loaned him sufficient to begin business
afresh. In eleven months he had paid all
his debts, and he has since continued as one
of the foremost and most successful mem
bers of the Exchange.- Mr. White has been
a trustee and treasurer of Plymouth Church
in Brooklyn, and his activity in that or
ganization has made him familiarly known
as "Deacon" White, although he has never
held that office. Mr. White has been a
Republican from the Fremont campaign of
1856, and was elected to the Fiftieth Con
gress in 1887. He was for a time Park
Commissioner of Brooklyn, and since 1865
has been president of the American Astro
nomical Association. He married at Stan
ton, Illinois, in February, 1857, Ella M.
Chandler, who died, June 1, 1907. Address :
7 Wall Street, New York City.
WHITEHEAD, Cortlandt:
Bishop of Pittsburgh ; born in New York
City, October 30, 1842; son of William
Adee Whitehead and Margaret E. (Par
ker) Whitehead. He prepared for college
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of 1859; was graduated from Yale College
in 1863 with the degree of B.A., and re
ceived the M.A. degree in 1866. After
leaving Yale he entered the Philadelphia
Divinity School where he completed his
theological studies in 1867. The degree of
D.D. was conferred upon him by Union
College in 1880 and by Hobart College in
1887, and S.T.D. by St. Stephen's College
in 1890. Upon graduation from the Phila
delphia Divinity School he was ordered
deacon in the Episcopal Church by Bishop
Odenheimer, and was ordained to the
priesthood the next year by Bishop Ran
dall. During the years irom 1867 to 1870
he was missionary in Colorado, and in
1870 became rector of the Church of the
Nativity at ' South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
After eleven years of activity there, he
was elected Bishop of Pittsburgh, and was
consecrated in 1882 by Bishops Stevens,
Bedell, M. A. DeW. Howe, Scarborough,
Peterkin and Hellmuth (of Huron, Can
ada). Bishop Whitehead married, July
29, 1868, Charlotte B. King, of Roxbury,
Massachusetts. He is author of a Cate
chism on the Church Year, and of various
sermons, addresses and missionary reports
and papers, and revised Thoughts on the
Services by Bishop Coxe. Address: Shady
Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WHITEHOUSE, Worthington:
Real estate broker; born in Irvington-
on-Hudson; .son of Edward M. White-
house and Amelia Stuart (Worthington)
Whitehouse. He received his education in
England and America. Mr. Whitehouse is
senior member of the firm of Whitehouse
and Porter, which has transacted much
business in renting and selling residential
property in New York, particularly in the
Fifth Avenue and Murray Hill sections,
and also at Newport and other fashion
able watering places where they have
agents. He is prominent socially and a
noted cotillion leader. Mr. Whitehouse is
a member of the Knickerbocker, Racquet
and Tennis, Knollwood Country and Delta
Phi Clubs. Summer home: Worthington,
New York. Residence: 161 Madison Ave

nue, New York City. Office address: 573
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
WHITFIELD, James Bryan:
Jurist; born in Wayne County, North
Carolina, N ovember 8, i860 ; son of Richard
Allen Whitfield and Mary (Croom) Whit
field. He was educated in the West Flor
ida Seminary at Tallahassee and was grad
uated frOm the Law Department of the
University of Virginia, with the degree of
B.L. in 1886, and at once engaged in, prac
tice. He is a Democrat in politics, and
in 1888 he became private secretary to
Governor Perry. He was elected county
judge of Leon County, Florida, in Novem
ber, 1888. In March, 1889, he resigned
and was clerk of the Supreme Court of
Florida from 1889 to 1897; State treasurer
of Florida from 1897 to 1902; attorney-
general of Florida in 1903 and 1904, and
justice of the Supreme Court since 1904,
serving as chief justice in 1905 and 1906,
now associate justice. Judge Whitfield is
an Episcopalian in his church relations. He
married; first, November 25, 1896, Leila
R. Nash, who died October 4, 1897, and
second, June 12, 1901, Margaret H. Ran
dolph. Address : Tallahassee, Florida.
WHITFORD, Harry Nichols:
Botanist and forester ; born in Manhat
tan, Kansas, March 11, 1872. He received
his education in the Kansas State Agri
cultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, from
which he was graduated with the degree of
B.S. in 1890, and M.S. in 1900; and he re
ceived his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Chicago in 1903. He was instructor in
biology at Armour Institute from 1890 to
1900; assistant in botany in the University
of Chicago from 1900 to 1904; botanist in
the Bureau of Government Laboratory,
Manila, Philippine Islands, from 1904 to
1906, and since then chief of Division of
Forest Products, Bureau of Forestry,
Manila, Philippine Islands. He is a mem
ber of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Dr. Whitford's
researches have been mainly along the lines
of ecological botany, having had papers pub
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and the Philippine Islands. Address : Bu
reau of Forestry, Manila, Philippine Islands.
WHITMAN, William:
Wholesale dry goods commission mer
chant and manufacturer; born in Round
Hill, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, May
9, 1842; son of John and Rebecca (Cutler)
Whitman. His immigrant ancestor, John
Whitman, came from England and settled
in 'Weymouth, Massachusetts, prior to 1638,
and his great-great-grandfather, John Whit
man, left his native state and settled on a
farm near Annapolis, Nova Scotia, which
has since remained in the Whitman family..
His maternal ancestor, .Ebenezer Cutler,
was a conspicuous loyalist, and in 1778 refu-
geed to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr. Whit
man was brought up on the Whitman farm.
He had few educational advantages, and
when eleven years old he was thrown on
his own resources. Leaving home May 13,
1854, ne found employment in St. John,
New Brunswick, as office boy in a whole
sale dry goods house. In 1856 he came to
Boston and became entry clerk for James
M. Beebe, Richardson and Company, and
remained with this firm until it dissolved
in 1867. He was treasurer of the Arling
ton Woolen Mills, of. which R. M. Bailey
was president, and R. M. Bailey and Com
pany, selling agents: He resigned this posi
tion in 1869, bought an interest in a woolen
mill in Ashland, New Hampshire, and
manufactured woolen goods on his own ac
count for six months. On the reorganization
of the Arlington Mills in that year he re
sumed the position of treasurer and he held
this position up to 1902, when he was made
president of the corporation, now the largest
worsted mill in New England if not in the
world. From $i5o',ooo the capital has in
creased to $6,000,000, and the employees
from three hundred to over six thousand.
The yard in which the mills are located
comprises in the buildings erected thereon a
floor space of sixty-two acres, and consumes
1,250,000 pounds of wool weekly, equivalent
to the fleeces of 33,000 sheep daily. The
mills also consume 12,000 bales of cotton
annually. He is also president and manag
ing director of the Whitman Mills, built

in 1895 and 1902; of the Manomet Mills,
built in 1903; of the Nonquitt Spinning
Company, built in 1906; all located in
New Bedford, Massachusetts, and em
ploying an aggregate capital of $3,500,000
in the production of cotton goods and cot
ton cloth. He became a partner in the
firm of Harding, Colby and Company, of
Boston and New York, in 1887, which be
came Harding, Whitman and Company in
1889. He has served as president of the
National Association of Wool Manufactur
ers from 1888 to 1893, and again since 1904.
He is a member of the Commercial, Eastern
Yacht, Country, and Union Clubs of Boston
and vicinity, and the trend of his opinions
^s publicly expressed on appropriate occa
sions is. read in the subjects of his pub
lished papers and addresses: Free Raw
Materials as Related to New England In
dustries ; Free Coal — Would It Give New
England Manufacturers Cheaper Fuel?;
Some Reasons Why Commercial Reciproc
ity Is Impracticable; Objections to Reci
procity on Constitutional and Practical
Grounds ; The Tariff Revisionist, an Ex
ample of the Nature of his Demand. In
1905 he was elected a director to represent
the policyholders of the Equitable Life As
surance Society in the adjustment of diffi
culties that had arisen in the management of
the business of the society. He married,
January 19, 1865, Jane Dole Hallett, a native
of Boston, a descendant of the Hallet family
of royalists of New York, who left their
estates in 1783 and settled in St. John, New
Brunswick. Eight Children were born in
this marriage of whom four sons and three
daughters are living. Residence: Brook
line, Massachusetts. Office address : 78
Chauncy Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WHITNEY, Asa Williams:
Chemist and metallurgist in iron ; born in
Philadelphia, May 31, 1861 ; son of James
Shields Whitney and Elizabeth Field
(Knap) Whitney. He received his pre
paratory education from tutors and in pri
vate schools in Philadelphia, and afterward
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, and after serving five months as chem
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took a year's special course in chemistry at
the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Whit
ney is grandson of Asa Whitney, who
started the first works in the world solely
for chilled-iron car wheels, and has him
self been practically identified with the de
velopment of the chilled cast-iron car wheel.
He was with A. Whitney & Sons from
1884 to 1896, and in 1884 started a labora
tory at the works, where he engaged as
chemist and experimenter, formulating a
system of buying and mixing metal for
wheels and all other kinds of iron castings
on a strictly chemical basis. He was en
gaged from 1896 to 1903 with about twelve
other foundries in various lines, applying
his methods for short terms as an iron
doctor, and with J. S. Whitney, his farther,
tried to reorganize their own business ; was
superintendent of the Whitney Car Wheel
Works from 1898 to 1900, and made a fur
ther improvement on annealing wheels, cut
ting the time down to forty-two hours and
improved quality. Since 1903, secretary and
metallurgist of the Sanford-Day Iron Works
at Knoxville, Tennessee. He has made
iron bottle moulds (for red-hot glass)
which have lasted seven years or more
without the remachinizing required by other
moulds in from three to six months. He
has managed mixtures of iron for pipe fit
tings, hardware, stoves, pipe,, general job
bing machinery, rolls and car wheels, excel
ling in the latter, and also attaining great
strength and good working quality in spe
cial machine castings ; and he has also a
successful record in adapting his chemical
method to air furnace work. He is a life
member of the Franklin Institute of Phila
delphia, American Institute of Mechanical
Engineers, and was formerly a member of
the Philadelphia Foundrymen's Association,
American Foundrymen's Association, and
the American Society for Testing Materials.
He has contributed extensively to tech
nical publications and the proceedings of
societies. In politics he is a Republican,
and by religious preference an Episcopalian.
He married in Baltimore, Maryland, Sep
tember 24, 1890, Helen Frances, daughter
of Wallace Stebbins, and they have four

.children: Wallace Brown, born in 1891,
James Stebbins, born in 1894, Tracy Sever-
son, born in 1900; and Elisabeth Helen,
born in 1902. Residence : Overlook, 701
Third Street, Knoxville. Office address:
Sanford-Day Iron Works, Knoxville, Ten
nessee. WHITNEY, Henry Melville:
Financier; born in Boston, son of Brig
adier-General James M. Whitney, and
brother of the late William C. Whitney,
former secretary of the Navy. After com
pleting his education in the Boston schools
he entered business life as clerk in a bank
in Boston, but later went to New York
and was in the shipping business there un
til 1866, when he was sent back to Boston
las agent of the Metropolitan Steamship
j Company, which was largely engaged in the
carrying of freight between Boston and
New York, and in later years became the
president of that company. He planned the
reclamation of the marshes of the Back
Bay, and the construction of a boulevard
across it to prepare the way for the rapid
transit system which he organized, by the
consolidation of the surface traction inter
ests of Boston in the West End Railroad
Company, of which he is the head, and the
change from horse to electric motive power,
and also the financing and creation of the
subway and elevated lines that enter into
Boston's traction system. Mr. Whitney has
also large interests in coal and iron prop
erties in Canada, and has been a deep stu
dent of the trade relations of the United
States, and especially the New England
States with Canada, and has been very
prominent as an advocate of trade reci
procity with the Dominion. He was the
candidate of the Democratic party of Mas
sachusetts for lieutenant-governor in 1905
and for governor in 1907. Address : Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
WHITNEY, John Randall:
Manufacturer; son of Asa and Clarinda
Williams Whitney; born in Brownsville,
New York, October 21, 1828; removed to
Albany, New York,, when his father be
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Hudson Valley Railroad, and subsequently
canal commissioner for the State of New
York. He removed to Philadelphia when
his father became partner with Mathew
Baldwin in the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
of which firm he remained a partner until
he founded the A. Whitney and Sons Car
Wheel Works on Callowhill Street, Phila
delphia. Mr. Whitney was educated at the
Philadelphia High School, graduating in
1848 ; went into the office of A. Whitney and
Sons, with his father and brother, eventually
becoming a partner and head of the firm.
He patented the well-known Whitney Con
tracting Chill, for making chilled cast iron
car wheels, and also took out several other
patents. He retired from business in 1893.
Mr. Whitney became a manager of the Sun
day School Union in 1872, and is now one
of its vice-presidents; and for thirteen
years conducted a class for Sunday School
teachers at 1 122 Chestnut Street, Philadel
phia. He has been a trustee of the Young
Men's Christian Association and was a di
rector of the Philadelphia National Bank,
and was also a member of the Union
League. He began to write expositions of
International Sunday School Lessons for
religious and secular papers in 1894. Ad
dress : Farmington, Hartford County, Con
necticut. WHITSON, Edward:
United States district judge. He was
engaged in the practice of law at Spokane,
Washington, until appointed by President
Roosevelt, March 14, 1905, to the office of
United States judge for the Western
District of Washington. Address : Spo
kane, Washington.
WHITE, William Finkney:
United States senator; born in Baltimore,
Maryland, August 9, 1824. His grand
father, Dr. John Campbell White, a native
of Ireland, and one of the United Irish
men of 1798, came to America in 1800; his
maternal grandfather was William Pinkney,
of Maryland, who died while United States
senator from that State in 1822; he was
educated by M. R. McNally, a distinguished
scholar, who had been secretary of the

first Napoleon. From 1842 to 1844 he was
engaged in mercantile pursuits in the count-
inghouse of Peabody, Riggs & Company, of
Baltimore, of which house George Peabody
was the founder; studied law in Baltimore,
and finished his legal education at the law
school of Harvard University in the class
of 1844-45; was admitted to the bar in
1846 and practiced his profession in Balti
more; was judge-advocate of a court-mar
tial at the Naval Academy in 1848. He
was a representative of Baltimore City in
the Legislature of Maryland in 1847 and
1848; was elected comptroller of the treas
ury of Maryland in 1853, serving until 1855,
when he declined a reelection; was a can
didate for Congress in 1857 against the
Know-Nothings, and contested the seat of
the sitting member on account of fraud and
violence at the election, and the Committee
on Elections reported a resolution declar
ing the seat vacant, but it was laid on the
table by a vote 100 to 105. He was a dele
gate to the Democratic National Conven
tion of 1868, which nominated Horatio Sey
mour for President; and in the same year
he was appointed by the governor United
States senator to fill the vacancy caused by
the appointment of Reverdy Johnson as min
ister to Great Britain. In 1871 he was
elected governor of Maryland for four
years, but resigned in 1874 to enable the
Legislature to elect his successor, on his
own election to the United States Senate
for a full term from 1875 to March 3, 1881,
to succeed William T. Hamilton, as a
Democrat. In 1881, on his retirement from
the Senate he was elected mayor of Balti
more, without opposition. In 1887 he was
elected attorney-general of Maryland, serv
ing until 1891. He was appointed by Pres
ident Harrison a delegate to the Congress
of South American Republics, but declined
on account of professional engagements.
During the years 1897 and 1898 he was
chairman of a commission, established by
the city, to frame a new charter for the
city of Baltimore. In 1874, in the boun
dary dispute between Maryland and Vir
ginia, he appeared by appointment of the
governor as counsel for his State before the

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arbritration board, composed of Judge Jere
miah S. Black, Governor Jenkins of Geor
gia, and Senator Beck of Kentucky. In
the same year the degree of LL.D. was con
ferred on him by the University of Mary
land, and, subsequently, he received a like
degree from St. Johns College. In 1900
he was appointed city solicitor of Balti
more, which office he resigned in 1903 ; was
appointed, June 8, 1906, by the governor
of Maryland, United States Senator, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Hon. Arthur Pue Gorman, and took his
seat June 11, to serve until the Legislature
of Maryland shall elect a ^successor for the
unexpired term, ending March 3, 1909. Sen
ator Whyte, married first, in 1847, Louisa
D. Hollingsworth, and second, April 27,
1892, Mary McDonald Thomas. Address :
9 East Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
WICKER, Cassius Milton:
Railroad manager, banker; born in North
Ferrisburgh, Vermont, August 25, 1846;
son of Cyrus Washburn Wicker and Maria
Delight (Halladay) Wicker. He was edu
cated in the common schools of North Fer
risburgh, and academies at Williston and
Middlebury, Vermont. He began his rail
road career at the age of twenty-one as
check clerk of the Star-Union line at East
St. Louis, later cashier of the People's
Despatch, fast freight line, and Chinese Emi
grant agent of the North Missouri Rail
way; assistant general freight agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, from
1871 to 1876, with the additional duty of
settling the claims for losses resulting from
the great Chicago fire of 1871; with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, from 1876 to
1880, as successively general agent, assist
ant general freight agent and traffic man
ager of its trans-Ohio divisions; in charge
of mining property in Northern Michigan,
from 1880 to 1883; and later general man
ager of coal mines at Springfield, Braid
wood and Tracy, Illinois, operated by the
Central Illinois Coal Company; commis
sioner of the Chicago Freight Bureau from
1883 to 1887; resident of New York City
from 1887; vice-president of the Colorado
Eastern Railway, from 1887 to 1902; pres

ident of Zanesville and Ohio River Rail
way, from 1889 to 1900; vice-president of
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway,
from 1889 to 1901 ; vice-president and gen
eral manager of the Brooklyn, Queens
County and Suburban Railroad, from 1893
to 1895; president of the North Shore
Traction Company from 1894 to 1899. He
was for seven years vestryman and treas
urer of All Angels Episcopal Church, New
York City; is trustee and vice-president of
Pilgrims of America, and member of the
Board of Directors of the Bank of Dis
count, president of Alexander Hospital. He
was prominent in organizing, and now pres
ident and director of the Bankers' Money
Association; director of the Aetna Indem
nity Company, Title and Guarantee Com
pany, and special partner in the house of
Wicker Brothers; director and until his re
cent resignation, president of the Iroquois
Construction Company; director of the Ni
agara, Lockport and Ontario Power Com
pany, Hudson Valley Railway Company,
and president and director of the Dillon-
Griswold Wire Company. He is a member
of. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer
ican Geographical Society, Sons of the
Revolution, New England Society, Society
of Mayflower Descendants; president of
the Chicago Society of New York; mem
ber of the Executive Committee of The
Pilgrims of America, and member of the
Union League, Lotos, Lawyers', Church,
Atlantic Yacht, St. Andrew's Golf Clubs of
New York City, and Union League Club
of Chicago. He married in Lebanon, Illi
nois, June 5, 1872, Augusta Carroll, who
died in 1880; and he has two children:
Lucy Southworth, Smith (College), and
Cyrus French, Yale. Residence : 599 West
End Avenue, New York City. Office ad
dress : 35 Nassau Street, New York City.
WICKERSHAM, James:
United States district judge; born at
Patoka, Marion County, Illinois, August
24, 1857. He was educated in the public
schools at Patoka until 1876, when he began
the study of law in Springfield, Illinois. He
was admitted to the' bar of Illinois in 1880,
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law at Tacoma, Washington. He was
elected judge of the Probate Court of Pierce
County, serving from 1884 to 1888, city
attorney of Tacoma, 1894; member of the
Washington State House of Representa
tives, 1898. On June 6, 1900, he was ap
pointed by President McKinley judge of
the United States District Court for the
district of Alaska, and was assigned to the
Third' District, where he is still serving.
Judge Wickersham is a Republican. He
married at Rochester, Illinois, October 27,
1880, Deborah S. Bell. Address: Fair
banks, Alaska.
WIDENER, Peter A. B.:
Street railway promoter; born in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1834;
educated in the public schools, graduating
from the Central High School; learned the
meat business and carried on a butchering
establishment. Mr. Widener became ac
tively interested in municipal politics and
grew prominent in Republican party
movements. He was appointed in 1873
to complete the term of John F.
Mercer in the office of city treasurer. He
was elected to this profitable office in 1874
and served one term; in 1875 he became
associated with William L. Elkins and other
capitalists in street railway interests in
Philadelphia, they obtaining control of the
most important railways, and eventually
combining them with the Philadelphia Trac
tion Company. The process of organization
went on in their hands till all the railways
were consolidated and the Union Traction
Company and its successor, the Rapid
Transit Company; also acquiring large in
terests in the street railways of New York,
Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, and
were looked upon as the railway magnates
of the country. Mr- Widener became con
cerned in the United Gas Improvement
Company and other' profitable business as
sociations and has acquired large wealth.
Having built a palatial mansion in the
northern environs of Philadelphia, he pre
sented his large city residence at Broad
Street and Girard Avenue to the city as a
branch of the free library of Philadelphia,
making it a memorial of his deceased wife.

He married, in 1858, H. Jospehine Dunton,
now deceased, and he has one son, George
D. Address : Land Title Building, Phila
delphia. Residence : Ashbourne, Pennsyl
vania. WIGHTMAN, Charles Addison:
Real estate; born in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
October n, 1861 ; son of Addison Porter
Wightman and Sarah Jane (Richards)
Wightman. He was prepared in Evanston
High School and was graduated from
Northwestern University as Ph.B., Evans
ton, Illinois. He was editor of The North-
westerner, from May to June, 1885 ; has
been engaged in the real estate and loan
business in Evanston since graduation; and
was alderman of City of Evanston, from
1896 to 1898. He is president of the Lin
coln Consolidated Mining Company of Ari
zona; treasurer of University Art Shop,
Incorporated, and secretary of the Evanston
Savings and Loan Association. In politics
he is - a Democrat, and he is a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He is a Mason
and Knight Templar ; a member of the Illi
nois Athletic Club of Chicago, and the
Evanston Club of Evanston. Mr. Wight-
man married in Evanston, Illinois, March
28, 1894, Cecilia Agnes Daley, and they
have four children. Catharine Sarah, born
March 8, 1895; Margaret Mary, born May
30, 1897; Alice Cecilia, born October 8,
1898, and Rosemary Caroline, born Janu
ary 2, 1902. Residence: 1725 Wesley
Avenue, Evanston. Address: 1606 Chi
cago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
WILBUR, David E.:
Consular officer; born in New York. He
was appointed consul at Barbados, June 29,
1903; consul-general at Singapore, Febru
ary 10, 1905 ; consul-general at Halifax,
March 30, 1907. Address: Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
WILCOX, Ansley:
Lawyer; born in Summerville, Georgia,
January 27, 1856; son of Daniel Hand and
Frances Louisa (Ansley) Wilcox. He re
ceived his education in Hopkins Grammar
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studied a year at Oxford, England; re
turned to the United States and settled at
Buffalo, New York. He was admitted to
the bar in 1878, and has since been prac
ticing at Buffalo, New York, and is now
a member of the firm of Wilcox and Bull.
As counsel, Mr. Wilcox assisted in the
entrance of the West Shore Railroad into
Buffalo, in 1882; was counsel for the com
mission appointed by Governor Cleveland
to acquire the land for the New York
State Reservation at Niagara Falls, from
1883 to 1885, and as counsel in case of
Rogers vs. Buffalo, established the con
stitutionality of the Civil Service Law of
New York State ; and has been of • coun
sel in many other important cases. He
headed the movement for jury reform,
which led to the adoption of the New York
Jury Law of 1895 for counties containing
over 300,000 population. He was a mem
ber of the Board of Managers of the State
Reformatory at Elmira in 1899. He was
one of the members, and is now president,
of the Buffalo Charity Organization Society,
founded in 1877; formerly lecturer on med
ical jurisprudence at the University of
Buffalo; trustee of the Buffalo General
Hospital ; president of the Buffalo Civil
Service Reform Association since 1900. He
has long been a personal friend of President
Roosevelt, who was his guest and took the
presidential oath of office at his house af
ter President McKinley's death, September
14, 1901. He is a member of the Univer
sity and Reform Clubs of New York City,
the Buffalo, Saturn, Ellicott, University,
Country, and Park Clubs of Buffalo. He
married first in Buffalo, January 17, 1878,
Cornelia C. Rumsey, who died December
22, 1880 ; and married second, November 20,
1883, Mary Grace Rumsey, and he has two
daughters: Cornelia Rumsy. (now wife
of Henry A. Bull), and Frances. Resi
dence : 641 Delaware Avenue. Business ad
dress : 684 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New
York.
WILCOX, De Witt Gilbert:
Physician and surgeon; born in Akron,
Ohio, January 15, 1858; son of David G.
Wilcox and Hannah (Whitney) Wilcox.

He was educated in Akron High School;
was graduated from the Cleveland Homeo
pathic Medical College as M.D. in 1880;
took a special course in surgery and surgi
cal pathology in London for one year, in
1882 and 1883, including six months as resi
dent house surgeon at the London Tem
perance Hospital. He practiced at Akron,
Ohio, from 1880 to 1882, and from 1883 to
1887; organized there the Summit County
Homeopathic Medical Society; and since
1887 he has been practicing medicine at
Buffalo. He is surgeon to Buffalo Homeo
pathic Hospital since 1888, and since 1890
he has conducted his own private hospital
under name of Lexington Heights Hos
pital. He has been connected with staff
of Erie County Hospital from its inception,
formerly as visiting surgeon, and is now
visiting gynecologist. He is a member of
the American Institute of Homeopathy,
New York State Homeopathic Medical So
ciety (ex-president and ex-secretary) ;
Western New York State Homeopathic
Medical Society (ex-president) ; honorary
member of Ohio State Homeopathic Med
ical Society and of Michigan State Homeo
pathic Medical Society. He is a deacon
in the Baptist Church. Dr. Wilcox mar
ried Jennie Irene Green of Alfred, New
York, and they have four children : Mar
garet, born in 1885, Helen, born in 1889,
John Maxen, born in 1893, and DeWitt Gif-
ford, born in 1897. Address : Buffalo, New
York. WILCOX, Reynold Webb:
Physician; born at Madison, Connecticut,
March 29, 1856; son of Colonel Vincent
Meigs and Catherine Millicent (Webb)
Wilcox. The American ancestry of Dr.
Wilcox, on the paternal side, runs back to
William Wilcoxson, of Stratford, Connec
ticut, one of the original settlers of that
colony, who came to this' country in 1635,
and on the maternal side to Richard Webb
of Stamford, Connecticut, who emigrated
in 1626 and was the founder of the Con
necticut Webb family. Both grandmoth
ers of Dr. Wilcox were of the Meigs fam
ily, descended from Vincent Meigs, who
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at East Guilford (now Madison) Connec
ticut. His father, Colonel Wilcox, served
through the Civil War, commanding the
One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dr. Wilcox
was graduated from Yale College with the
degree of B.A. in 1878; took post-graduate
work at Hobart College, from which he re
ceived the M.A. degree in 1881, and was
graduated from the Medical Department of
Harvard University, as M.D., in 1881, and
in 1892 received the degree of LL.D., pro
merito, from Maryville College. During
his professional course at Harvard he
served as house physician in the Boston
hospitals, and following his graduation
rounded out his professional preparation
by study and clinical work at Vienna,
Heidelberg, Paris, Edinburgh and else
where, for a period of fifteen months. Re
turning, he came to New York, and for a
term served as house surgeon at the Wom
an's Hospital, and since then has been
engaged in private practice. He became a
clinical assistant at the New York Post
graduate Medical School and Hospital in
1884, instructor in 1886, and has been pro
fessor of medicine since 1889 at the same
institution. He is also president of the
medical board and visiting physician to St.
Mark's Hospital and consulting physician
to the Nassau Hospital and has also, at
various times, been connected with several
other hospitals of New York. He has been
a frequent contributor to medical literature
as the author of text-books of wide repute
upon Materia Medica and upon Therapeu
tics, of which seven editions of each have
been printed, of a work upon the Treat
ment of Disease, a Manual of Practical
Medicine, embodying his teaching at the
Post-Graduate Medical School, a work on
Fever Nursing, and many papers and mono
graphs on medical topics ; and for several
years has been therapeutic editor of The
American Journal of the Medical Sciences.
He is also author of a genealogical work
upon the history of his family, entitled The
Descendants of William Wilcoxson, Vin
cent Meigs and Richard Webb. He is a
member of the American Academy of

Medicine, American Medical Association,
American Therapeutic Society . (of which
he is a past president), the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence, Clinical Society,
New York County Medical Society, State
Medical Society of New York; Medical
Association of the Greater City of New
York, and the Harvard Medical Society,
and has been president of the latter ; and he
is also an honorary member of the Connecti
cut State Medical Society, the Academia
Fisico-Chimica Italiana, the District of Co
lumbia Therapeutic Society, and the Tri-
County Medical Association. He is presi
dent of the American Pharmacologic So
ciety. He is a frequent speaker at the meet
ings of these societies. He is also a member
of various patriotic societies, including the
Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the
Revolution, Society of the War of 1812
(vice-president of the Pennsylvania So
ciety), Military Order of Loyal Legion (by
inheritance), and of the Sons of Veterans,
of which he was formerly surgeon-general.
He is a member of the Metropolitan and
Calumet Clubs of New York. Dr. Wilcox
married, at New York, June 5, 1895, Fran
ces Maud Weeks. Address : 679 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
WILCOX, William Alonzo:
Lawyer; title officer Title Guaranty and
Surety Company of Scranton, and trust of
ficer of The Scranton Trust Company ; born
at Olean, New York, July 25, 1857; son of
Nathan Pendleton Wilcox and Celestine
(Birge) Wilcox; and is a descendant in
the Ninth generation from Edward Wil
cox, of Rhode Island, 1638 ; also from Gov
ernors Haynes and Wyllis, of Connecticut;
and Dudley, of Massachusetts; and from
Richard Warren and John Alden. He was
admitted to the bar in January, 1880, and
has been in practice at Scranton since that.
date. He served in the National Guard of
Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1889. Mr. Wil
cox is a director of the Lackawanna Law
and Library Association, charter member of
the Pennsylvania Bar Association; mem
ber of the American Bar Association;
director of the Farmers' National Bank,
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the Scranton Engineers Club, Democratic
Club of Pennsylvania, Wyoming Com
memorative Association, New England
Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, cor
responding member of Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society; Past Master of
Nicholson Lodge and Past High Priest of
Factoryvilk Chapter of Masons. He edited
a volume of Pennsylvania law reports and
a Wilcox-Brown-Medbery genealogy. Mr.
Wilcox is a Presbyterian. He married, in
1885, Katherine, daughter of Hon. Steuben
Jenkins of Wyoming. Address : Scranton,
Pennsylvania.
WILDER, Amos Parker:
Consul-general; born at Calais,, Maine,
February 15, 1862; son of Dr. Amos
Wilder and Charlotte (Porter) Wilder. Af
ter a careful preparatory training he en
tered Yale College, from which he was
graduated in the class of 1884, and he re
ceived from Yale University, in 1891, the
honorary degree of Ph.D. After leaving
college he entered upon newspaper life, and
he became the editor of The Palladium, at
New Haven, Connecticut, from 1888 to
1892, and after that was editorial writer.
In 1894 he removed to Madison, Wiscon
sin, where he was editor of the Wisconsin
State Journal from 1894 to 1906, when he
was appointed by President Roosevelt con
sul-general of the United States at Hong
Kong, China. Dr. Wilder is a Republican
in politics and is a frequent contributor to
leading journals on economic and other
topics. He married, December 3, 1894, Isa
bel T. Niven, of Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Address : American Consulate-General,
Hong Kong, China.
WILES, Irving" Ramsay:
Artist; born at Utica, New York, in
1861 ; son of Lemuel M. and Rachel (Ram
sey) Wiles. He was educated at the Sedg
wick Institute, Great Barrington, Massachu
setts, and studied art with the well known
artists, Carroll Beckwith, William M.
Chase, L. M. Wiles and the famous Carolus
Duran in Paris. His principal work is in
portrait painting. He was awarded the
Clarke and Hallgarten Prizes by the Na

tional Academy of Design, the W. T. Evans
Prize, the Shaw Fund Prize, first prize
from the Society of Washington Artists
and various medals at the Chicago World's
Fair Exposition in 1893, the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition, 1897 ; the Paris Ex
position in 1900, the Pan American at Buf
falo in 1901, and the St. Louis Exposition
in 1904. Mr. Wiles makes frequent trips
to Europe for the purpose of study. He
is a member of the National Academy of
Design, of the American Water Color So
ciety, the Century Association, the Lotos
Club, and others. He was married, in
New York City, in 1877, to May Lee, and
has one daughter, Gladys Lee. Residence:
101 West Fifty-fifth Street. Address : 106
West Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
WILEY, Arlosto Appling:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Bar
bour County, but reared in Pike County,
Alabama. He was graduated at Emory
and Henry College, Virginia; was admit
ted to the bar at Troy in 1872, and for a
period of about eighteen years, almost con
tinuously, was a member of the Alabama
Legislature, both in the House and Senate.
He was chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee in both bodies ; was twice a delegate to
the Democratic National Convention; was
Democratic Presidential elector in 1884. In
June, 1898, he was commissioned lieuten
ant-colonel of the Fifth Regiment of United
States Volunteer Infantry, and served for
nearly a year at Santiago de Cuba, acting
a greater part of the time as General Law-
ton's chief-of-staff and civil governor of
the eastern province. He was elected to
the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress from the Second Alabama
District. Address : Montgomery, Ala
bama.
WILEY, William Halsted:
Publisher and ex-congressman ; born in
New York City, July 10, 1842 ; son of John
Wiley, the well-known publisher of sci
entific books and Elizabeth B. (Osgood)
Wiley. After a thorough preparation he
entered what is now the College of the City

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of New York in 1856, and received the de
gree of A.B. in 1861. He entered the Union
Army in the New York State Volunteers,
and was mustered out in 1864 by the con
solidation of his regiment; matriculated at
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
New York, in the fall of 1864, entering
the advanced course, and graduated in 1866,
receiving the degree of civil engineer; fol
lowed that profession for several years, and
then took a special course in mining at the
Columbia College School of Mines, and be
came superintendent of a mine, remaining
several years. At the request of his father,
entered his business as a partner in 1876,
the firm now being John Wiley & Sons, of
which he is now president. He was elected
to the Township Committee of East Orange,
where he served three years, and was pres
ident of that body for one year. In the
International Exposition at Brussels, in
1897, he was president of one of the juries
and a member of the superior jury, for
which he received the decoration of the
Order of Leopold from the King; and he
was appointed by the governor of New Jer
sey a member of the commission for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Mr. Wiley
was elected from the Eighth District of
New Jersey, in 1902, to the Fifty-eighth
Congress, and reelected in 1904 to the Fif
ty-ninth Congress, serving until March 3,
1907. He is a Republican in politics, and
a Congregationalist in his church relations.
Mr. Wiley is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers ( member
of its Council), American Institute of Min
ing Engineers, American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Mili
tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. His favorite recreation is
golf. Mr. Wiley is a member of the En
gineers' Club of Philadelphia, the Univer
sity, Engineers', Aldine, National Arts, Re
publican, and Army and Navy Clubs of New
York City, University Club of Newark, New
Jersey; University, Cosmos and Columbia
Golf Clubs of Washington, D. C. ; Essex
County Country Club and Mountain Golf

Club. Residence: East Orange, New Jer
sey. Office address : 43 East Nineteenth
Street, New York City.
WILGUS, William J.:
Civil engineer; born in Buffalo, New
York, November 20, 1865; son of Frank
A. Wilgus and Margaret A. (Woodcock)
Wilgus. He was educated in the Buffalo
High School, from 1880 to 1883; studied
civil engineering, from 1883 to 1885. From
1885 to 1893 he occupied various positions
from rodman to division engineer in charge
of railroad construction in the West, prin
cipally on the Chicago Great Western Rail
way, at Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minne
sota; St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri,
and Chicago, Illinois ; also locating engi
neer of the Duluth and Iron Range Rail
road in northern Minnesota in 1892; and
since 1893 he has been with the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad and
leased lines, successively as assistant en
gineer, resident engineer, chief assistant en
gineer, engineer of maintenance of way,
chief engineer, and vice-president and in
such capacities has had charge of mainten
ance and construction on the New York
Central system, including the complete re
generation of the company's property, re
construction and enlargement of many ter
minals, including the Grand Central Station,
New York City, and change of motive power
from steam to electricity, and other rad
ical improvements in the New York electric
zone. He is also chairman of the Advisory
Board of Engineers of the Detroit River
tunnel of the Michigan Central Railroad;
chairman of the Buffalo Union Station
Commission; vice-president of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad,
Rutland Railroad, West Shore Railroad,
New York and Ottawa Railroad, and
others ; director of the Mohawk Valley
Company, Rochester Railway and Light
Company, and Rochester Railway Company.
He is a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, Railway Engineering
and Maintenance Association, St. Paul So
ciety of Civil Engineers, Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, and of the Century and
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son, Wisconsin, March I, 1892, May Reed?
and they have two children: Margaret
Fitch, born in 1892, and William J., born in
1898. Address : Grand Central Station,
New York City.
WILLARD, De forest:
Surgeon; born March 23, 1846, at New-
ington, Hartford County, Connecticut; de
scendant of Major Simon Willard, founder
of Concord, Massachusetts, 1632; and of
Governor Thomas Welles. He was edu
cated in Hartford and at the University
of Pennsylvania, from which he was grad
uated as M.D. in 1867, Ph.D. in 1871, hon
orary A.M. from Lafayette College, 1883.
He served during the war in front of
Petersburg, under the United States Sani
tary Commission, and was attending phy
sician to the United States Centennial Ex
hibition, in 1876. He has devoted himself
to general and orthopaedic surgical work
for many years; has taught in the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania forty-one years, is
professor of orthopaedic surgery in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; surgeon to the
Presbyterian Hospital; fellow and ex-pres
ident of the American Surgical Association,
American Orthopaedic Association, Phila
delphia Academy of Surgery, Philadelphia
County Medical Society; chairman of the
Surgical Section of the American Medical
Association; consulting surgeon to the
Germantown, Jewish, Phoenixville and
Atlantic City Hospitals. He is a fellow of
the Philadelphia College of Physicians,
American Surgical Association, and of va
rious local medical societies. He has writ
ten numerous articles upon medical sub
jects. He married, September 13, 1881,
Elizabeth, daughter of William A. Porter;
and has one son. Address: 1901 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WILLAUER, Arthur Ebbs:
Architect; born in West Chester, Penn
sylvania, May 1, 1876; son of Major, Seneca
Grubb Willauer, United States Army, and
Ellen (Hickman) Willauer. He was grad
uated from the School of Architecture of
the University of Pennsylvania, , in 1897, as
B,S., completed a post-graduate course in

1898, in which year he was a member of
the Faculty. He entered the office of
George B. Post, in New York City, in 1898,
and for nine years was intimately con
nected with the building of the New York
Stock Exchange, the College of the City
of New York, Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany's Building at Newark, New Jersey,
also the proposed building for the Depart
ments of State, Justice and Commerce
in Washington, D. C, and many others.
He is now a member of the firm of Waid
and Willauer, architects. He is a Repub
lican in politics, and an Episcopalian in his
church relations. Mr. Willauer is presi
dent of the Architectural Alumni Society
of the University of Pennsylvania, a mem
ber of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and
the Pennsylvania Society of New York
and Country Club of West Chester, Penn
sylvania Club of New York City, Phi Delta
Theta Club, and T-Square Architectural
Club of Philadelphia, West Chester Golf
and Country Club of West Chester. Penn
sylvania. He married in St. Thomas's
Church, New York, December 4, 1905,
Katherine Whiting, and they have one son :
Whiting Willauer, born in 1907. Resi
dence: 78 West Eighty-fifth Street^ New
York City. Business address : 156 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
WILLCOX, David:
Lawyer, and president of the Delaware
and Hudson Company; born in Flatbush,
Long Island, New York, December 12, 1849 ;
son of Albert Oliver Willcox and Ann
Elizabeth (Hamilton) Willcox. He was'
graduated from Yale as A.B. in 1872, and
from the Columbia Law School as LL.B.
in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in
Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1874; prac
ticed in New York City, as a member of
the firm of Bristow, Okdyke and Willcox
and Okdyke, Willcox and Bristow, until
May, 1903. From igoo to 1903 he was vice-
president of the Delaware and Hudson
Company; president and manager since
May, 1903, and also a number of its sub
sidiary companies. He is president and di
rector of the United Traction Company of
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pany, director and member of the Executive
Committee of the Southern Pacific Railway
Company; director of the Union Pacific
Railway Company. He was trustee and
president of the Village of New Brighton,
now Borough of Richmond. In politics
he is a Republican. He is also a member
of the St. Nicholas Society and a member
of the Metropolitan, Century, University,
New York Yacht, New York Athletic,
Union League, Union, Alpha Delta Phi,
Tuxedo, Riding, Down Town, Richmond
County Country, and Whist Clubs of New
York, and the Metropolitan Club of Wash
ington, D. C. Address: 3 East Sixtieth
Street, New York City.
WILLCOX, William R.:
Lawyer, chairman of the Public Service
Commission; born in Smyrna, New York,
April 11, 1863; son of Thomas L. Willcox
and Catherine B. (Stover) Willcox. He
was educated in the State Normal School,
Brockport, New York, and the University
of Rochester as A.B. in 1886, A.M. in
1904, from Columbia Law School as LL.B.
in 1889. After his graduation from Ro
chester University, he served as principal
of the Webster Academy; and the Spring
Valley High School before coming to New
York City to enter upon the study of law.
He was admitted to the New York bar
in 1890, and engaged in practice in New
York City. He wrote several treatises on
political and social economy and became in
terested in educational progress on the East
side of New York City. He took an ac
tive interest in politics as a Republican,
and in 1900 was the Republican nominee
for Congress against O. H. P. Belmont in
the Thirteenth District, which was over
whelmingly Democratic, but in which he
cut down the Democratic vote to far below
the normal figure. He was appointed park
commissioner by Mayor Low, and served
through that administration; was appointed
postmaster of New York City, entered upon
his duties as such in January, 1905, and
served until appointed in July, 1907, to his
present position as chairman of the Public
Service Commission of New York, when he
resigned the postmastership. He is trustee

*of the Presbyterian Hospital, and is a mem
ber of the Union League, Century, New
York Yacht, Republican, and Alpha Delta
Phi Clubs. He married in New York City,
January 21, 1904, Martha J. Havemeyer!
Residence: 10 East Fifty-seventh Street.
Address : Tribune Building, New York City.
WILLETS, Elmore Abram:
Farmer, banker, oil producer ; born in
Bradford, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1861 ;
son of Isaac and Harriet (Ayres) Willets;
grandson of Abram and Henrietta (Frost)
Willets, who emigrated from Long Island
to Aurora, New York, in 1825. He was
educated in Phillips Andover Academy;
was graduated from Yale University in
1884. He was president of the Citizens'
National Bank of Wellsville, New York,
for ten years, resigning in- 1905 ; was vice-
president of the Gardner Convertible Steam
and Gas Engine Company, Washington,
Pennsylvania, resigning in 1906; is ad
ministrator of the Isaac Willets Estate,
which is one of the largest land holding
estates in New York State. He has trav
eled extensively in the United States, Eu
rope, Asia and Africa. He is president of
the State Bank of Belmont; director of the
Citizens' National Bank, of Wellsville, New
York, the Real Estate Trust Company of
Washington, Pennsylvania; Gardner Con
vertible Steam and Gas Engine Company,
and the Commercial Insurance Company, of
Buffalo. He is a member of the Willets
Oil Company, the National Geographic So
ciety, National Municipal League, of the
American Civic Association, the Pennsyl
vania Forestry Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
American Forestry Association; trustee of
the Western New York Society for the Pro
tection of Homeless and Dependent Chil
dren, and a member of the Civic Club of
Allegheny, Pennsylvania; the Pittsburgh
Club of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Country
Club, and the University and St. Anthony
Clubs of New York City. Address: Bel
mont, New York.
WILLETT, George F.:
Manufacturer and capitalist. He is pres
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Company, Norwood National Bank, United"
Printing Machinery Company, Willett and
Company; and director of the General
Chemical Company, and the Winslow
Brothers and Smith Company. Address :
248 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WILLIAMS, Arthur Llewellyn:
Bishop-coadjutor of Nebraska; born at
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, January
30, 1856; son of Rev. Richard J. Williams
and Elizabeth Williams. He was gradu
ated at Greenwich Academy, Rhode Island,
in 1877, and entering thence the Western
Theological Seminary at Chicago, was
graduated in 1888. He received the degree
of S.T.D. from the latter in 1900. He was
ordered deacon in the Episcopal Church
in 1888 and was the following year ad
vanced to the priesthood by Bishop Spald
ing of Colorado. The same year he be
came rector of St. James' Church, at
Meeker, Colorado, being after two years
called to the rectorship of St. Paul's Church,
at Denver, Colorado. In 1892 he became
rector of Christ Church, Chicago, officia
ting there until October, 1899, when he
was made bishop-coadjutor of Nebraska.
He was consecrated by Bishops Worthing
ton, Hare, Spalding, Graves, Millspaugh,
Morrison, Edsall, Nicholson and Atwill.
Bishop Williams was married at Charles
ton, Massachusetts, to Adelaide L. Mackin-
ster. Address: Omaha, Nebraska.
WILLIAMS, Charles David:
Bishop of Michigan; born at Bellevue,
Ohio, July 30, i860; son of David and
Eliza (Dickson) Williams. He was edu
cated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio,
graduating as A.B. in 1880 and receiving the
degree of A.M. in 1894 and of D.D. in 1898.
He was ordered deacon of the Episcopal
Church in 1883 by Bishop Bedell, and was
ordained to the priesthood the next year
by Bishop Jaggar. Following his entry into
the ministry, he was assistant at Trinity
Church, Columbus, Ohio, and rector of the
Church of the Resurrection, Fern Bank,
Ohio; the Church of the Atonement,
Riverside, Ohio, from 1884 to 1889. In
1889 he became rector of St, Paul's Church,

Steubenville, Ohio, officiating until 1893,
when he became dean of Trinity Cathedral,
at Cleveland, Ohio. Upon the death of
Bishop T. F. Davies, he was elected, No
vember 16, 1905, Bishop of Michigan, and
consecrated February 7, 1906. Address:
Detroit, Michigan.
WILLIAMS, Constant:
Brigadier-general, United States Army;
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 25,
1843 ; son of William Hazlett Williams and
Ellen Pope (Barclay) Williams. He re
ceived his education in Pittsburgh and
vicinity until 1861 ; when he entered the
army. He served in the Eighty-second
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers from
July 23, 1861, to September 11, 1862; en
listed in the Regular Army, February 20,
1863 ; was appointed second lieutenant, Sev
enth Infantry, June 29, 1863 ; first lieutenant,
January 1, 1864 ; captain, May 10, 1873 ; major
Regular Army, February 20, 1863; was ap
pointed second lieutenant, Seventh Infan
try, June 29, 1863; first lieutenant, Janu
ary, 1864; captain, May 10, 1873; major,
January, 1897; lieutenant-colonel Fifteenth
Infantry, January 16, 1899; colonel Twenty-
sixth Infantry, February 2, 1901 ; and brig
adier-general, July 12, 1904. He served in
the Army of the Potomac, through the
Peninsular Campaign; in the campaign
against Nez Perce Indians and was twice
wounded in the battle of Big Hole, August
9, 1877. He served also in Cuba in 1899,
and in the Philippines, from 1900 to 1903.
He was brevetted major for gallant serv
ices in action at the Big Hole. He is a
member of the National Geographic Society,
the Military Service Institution of the
United States, the United States Infantry
Association, the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, and the Military Order of the Cara-
bao. He has traveled all over the United
States, Panama, Cuba, the Philippines,
Alaska, Western Canada, China and Japan.
His favorite recreation is travel and he is
an Episcopalian in his religious affiliation.
Pie is a member of the Columbus Club of
Columbus, Ohio, the Army arid Navy Club
of Manila, and the Denver Club of Denver,
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New York, September 7, 1865, Cornelia
Peake de Camp, and they have one daugh
ter, Cornelia de Camp, born July 17, 1868.
Residence : The Shirley, Denver, Colorado.
Office address : Equitable Building, Denver,
Colorado. WILLIAMS, Francis Howard:
Author; born iri Philadelphia, Septem
ber 2, 1844; son of Joseph J. Williams
and Martha Paul (Shoemaker) Williams.
He received his education in Philadelphia.
He is director of the Mercantile Librar>
Company, of Philadelphia, and a member
of Phi Beta Kappa; vice president of the
Browning Society of Philadelphia; treas
urer and member of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania; president and member of
the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania; and
a member of the Society of Colonial Wars.
He is author of numerous works in prose,
verse, novels, poems, plays and essays, also
much literary criticism, including: The
Princess Elizabeth : a Lyric Drama, 1880 ;
The Higher Education : a Comedy in Two
Acts, 1881 ; A Reformer in Ruffles : a
Comedy in Three Acts, 1881 ; Theodora :
a Christmas Pastoral, 1882 ; Master and
Man : A Play in Five Acts, 1884 ; Boscosel :
a Story, in The Septameron, 1888 ; Atman :
the Documents in a Strange Case, 1891 ;
Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial
Period, an essay, 1893 ; The Flute Player,
and Other Poems, 1894; At the Rise of the
Curtain : Dramatic Preludes, 1904. In poli
tics he is a Republican and he is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Church. He has
traveled throughout Europe twice and most
of the United States. His favorite recre
ations are wheeling and walking. He is
a member of the Authors Club of New
York, the Franklin Inn Club, University
Club, Pegasus Club, and the Contemporary
Club of Philadelphia, and is vice-president
of the Walt Whitman Fellowship. He
married in Philadelphia, in 1865, Mary B.
Houston, and they have four children.
Residence : Germantown, Philadelphia. Of
fice address : 1300 Locust Street, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania.
WILLIAMS, Gardner Stewart:
Civil engineer and professor of engi
neering; born in Saginaw, Michigan, 1866;

son of Stewart B. Williams and Juliet M.
(Ripley) Williams. He was educated in
Saginaw public and high schools and was
graduated from the University of Michi
gan as B.S. in 1889 and C.E. in 1899. He
was assistant engineer of water works con
struction at Bismarck, Dakota, in 1887;
resident engineer of the Water Works
Construction, Greenville, Michigan, in 1888 ;
constructing engineer of the Water Works
Commission of Owosso, Michigan, in 1889;
draughtsman and engineer for the Russel
Wheel and Foundry Company, Detroit,
from 1889 to 1893; civil engineer to the
Water Commission of Detroit, from 1893
to 1898; engineer in charge of the hydrau
lic laboratory, and professor of experi
mental hydraulics at Cornell University,
from 1898 to 1904; has been professor of
civil, hydraulic and sanitary engineering in
the University of Michigan since 1904. He
was consulting engineer to the Ithaca Water
Works Company, from 1900 to 1907, con
sulting engineer to the Michigan-Lake
Superior Power Company on hydraulic
machinery, from 1899 to 1903, and since
1905 has been consulting engineer to Edi
son Sault Electric Company, Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan, on water power, and
since 1905 has also been consulting en
gineer to the Eastern Michigan Edison
Company on Water Power Development.
He received the Norman medal from
American Society of Civil Engineers in
1902, for Hydraulic Investigations. He
was a member of the International Water
Ways Commission, from 1903 to 1905,
and in 1907 served as a member of
the Expert Commission on power devel
opment works of the Sanitary District of
Chicago. In politics he is an Independent
and in religion a Protestant. He is a mem
ber of the American Society of Civil En
gineers, American Water Works Associa
tion, New England Water Works Asso
ciation, Detroit Engineering Society, Mich
igan Engineering Society, Michigan Acad
emy of Science, Board of Managers of the
Association of Engineering Societies, Sig
ma Xi, Tau Beta Pi ; and he is a Mason
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Detroit. Mr. Williams married, in Sagi
naw, Michigan, 1893, Jessie B. Wright, and
they have two children: Harriet Ripley,
born in 1894, and William Wright, born in
1896. Residence: 1503 Washtenaw Ave
nue, Ann Arbor. Address: 207 New En
gineering Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
WILLIAMS, George Fred:
Lawyer ; born at Dedham, Massachusetts,
July 10, 1852; son of George Williams and
Henrietta (Rice) Williams. He was pre
pared in private schools, the high school in
Dedham, entered Dartmouth College in
1868, finished his freshman year there, then
went to Germany, studied in Hamburg six
months and then at the Universities of
Heidelberg and Berlin, returning to Dart
mouth in the spring of 1871, and he was
graduated as A.B. in 1872. He taught
school at West Brewster, Massachusetts, in
1872 and 1873, was a reporter on the Bos
ton Globe, 1873 ; studied law in the Boston
University Law School and was admitted
to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875, and
since then engaged in practice in Boston.
He prepared a volume of Massachusetts
Citations, and edited eight volumes of the
Annual United States Digest. Mr. Wil
liams began his political career as a Re
publican in 1882, and organized the Nor
folk Republican Club in 1883. He joined
the Independent movement in 1884, and
was one of the Committee on Resolutions
in the Independent Convention held in
New York that year, and was one of the
Executive Committee conducting the State
campaign. After that he affiliated with the
Democratic party, was elected to the Mas
sachusetts House of Representatives in
1889, and to the Fifty-second Congress
from the Ninth Massachusetts District. He
was the Democratic nominee for governor
of Massachusetts in 1895, 1896 and 1897,
and was for several years a member of the
Democratic National Committee. He has
served as secretary and on the Executive
Committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Asso
ciation and as president of the Dartmouth
Club of Boston. Residence: Dedham,
Massachusetts. Office address : 209 Wash
ington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

WILLIAMS, Ger shorn Mott:
Bishop of Marquette; born at Fort
Hamilton, New York, February 11, 1857;
second son of General Thomas Williams
and Mary N. Williams. He was educated
at the Newburgh Free Academy and at
Cornell University, 1875-7'. He studied law
in Detroit and was admitted to the Michi
gan Bar in 1879. He was ordained to the
diaconate in the Episcopal Church in De
cember, 1880, by Bishop Samuel S. Harris,
and priest by the same bishop in 1882. He
was assistant at St. John's, Detroit, 1880-82,
rector of the Church of the Messiah in the
same city, 1882-84, and afterwards of St.
George's till 1889. He edited the Michi
gan Churchman, and American Church
Times in 1888 and 1889, and did temporary
duty for several months of the latter year
in charge of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo,
New York. In November, 1889, he became
dean of All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee,
and in 1891 was appointed by Bishop
Davies his archdeacon for Northern Michi
gan. In 1895 the Missionary District of
Northern Michigan became the Diocese of
Marquette, and he was consecrated its first
bishop, May 1, 1896, by Bishop Daniel S.
Tuttle, Bishop Sweatman of Toronto, and
other bishops. He received from Hobart ,
College, Geneva, New York, the honorary
degrees of A.M. (1889) and D.D. (1895),
and from the University of Michigan the
degree of A.M. (1904). He has published:
Sacramental Teachings, 1884; Between
Two Christmas Days (poems, 1888) ; Two
Pastoral Calendars (poems) 1904; a num
ber of sermons, charges, addresses, and oc
casional poems. He is a member of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity, the Military Ordei
of the Loyal Legion, the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution, and the American Histori
cal Society. Bishop Williams was married
at Grosse Isle, Michigan, in 1879, to Eliza
Bradish Biddle. Address : 503 Spruce
Street, Marquette, Michigan.
WILLIAMS, Henry Morsland:
Lawyer and trustee; born in Boston,
Massachusetts, September 19, 1862; son of
Henry Willard Williams, and Elizabeth
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ated from Boston Latin School, from Har
vard College as A.B. in 1885, and from
Harvard Law School as LL.B. in 1888. He
has been engaged in the practice of the
law for twenty years, and acting as trus
tee in the care and management of prop
erty and the conduct of business concerns.
He is trustee of the Somerset Hotel Trust
and Terminal Hotel Trust; is a director
of Richards and Company, and a member of
the firm of Hayes, Williams and Baker.
In politics, Mr. Williams is an In
dependent Republican, and in religion a
Unitarian. He was one of the founders
of the Harvard Law Review; president
of the Children's Mission to the Children
of the Destitute of Boston ; secretary of the
class of 1885 of Harvard College; director
of American Unitarian Association; honor
ary member First Corps Cadets, Har
vard Crimson Association; life member of
Harvard Law School Association, Cam
bridge Social Dramatic Club, and a mem
ber of the Union Club of Boston, Oakley
Country Club. He married in Boston, De
cember 8, 1891, Eleanore Thaxter Dodd,
and they have six children : John Dodd,
born in 1893 ; George Low, born in 1894 ;
Sedric Whittemore, born in 1895 ; Henry
M., Jr., born in 1896; Honor, born in 1898,
and Mansfield, born in 1900. Residence:
100 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Office ad
dress: 16 State Street, Boston, Massachu
setts. WILLIAMS, John Sharp:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Mem
phis, Tennessee, July 30, 1854. His
mother died, and his father, who was
colonel of the Twenty-seventh Tennessee
Volunteers, Confederate States Army, was
killed at Shiloh. As Memphis was threat
ened with capture by the Federal Army,
his family removed to his mother's family
homestead in Yazoo County, Mississippi,
where his childhood was passed. He was
educated in private schools, the Kentucky
Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ken
tucky; the University of the South at Se
wanee, Tennessee; the University of Vir
ginia, and the. University of Heidelberg,
in Baden, Germany, and later studied law
under Professors Minor and Southall, at

the University of Virgina, and in the of
fice of Harris, McKisick and Turley in
Memphis. In 1877 he was licensed to
practice in the courts of law and chancery
of Shelby County, Tennessee. In December,
1878, he removed to Yazoo City, Mississip
pi, where he engaged in the practice of law,
and also in cotton planting. Mr. Williams
took active interest in politics, and in 1892
was a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, which nominated
Cleveland and Stevenson, and to the Na
tional Democratic Convention at St. Louis
in 1904, of which he was temporary chair
man. In November, 1892, he was. elected
to the Fifty-third Congress from the Fifth
Mississippi District, and has been re
elected biennially since, up to and includ
ing the Sixtieth Congress, the district now
being the Eighth. Mr. Williams has gained
for himself a position of leadership in his
party, and was the Democratic Caucus
nominee for speaker in the Fifty-eighth
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He was nomi
nated at the Mississippi Democratic pri
maries in 1907 for the United States sen-
atorship for the term beginning March 4,
191 1. He married, October 2, 1877, Betty
D. Webb. Address : Yazoo, Mississippi.
WILLIAMS, Pardon C:
Jurist; born in Ellisburgh, Jefferson
County, New York, July 12, 1842; son of
William Williams, and Jerusha (Plum
mer) Williams. He was educated in the
common schools, Union Academy, Belle
ville, New York, and St. Lawrence Uni
versity, Canton, New -York. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1863, and practiced
at Watertown, New York, until 1884; and
was district attorney of Jefferson County
from 1868 to 1874. He was elected judge
of the Supreme Court of New York in
1884; and reelected on expiration of term;
and is now serving under designation of
governor, as judge of the Fourth Appellate
Division, Rochester, New York. In poli
tics, Mr. Williams is a Republican; he
is a member of the Genesee Valley Club
of Rochester, and the Black River Valley
Club, Watertown. He married at Water-
town, New York, September 9, 1868, Sarah
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Robert P., born in 1877; Edith W. Steb
bins, born in 1875, and Marguerite W.
Robinson, born in 1882. Address: Water-
town, Jefferson County, New York.
WILLIAMSON, Edward Bruce:
Banker; born in Marion, Indiana, July 10,
1878; son of L. A. Williamson and Doro
thea (Kellerman) Williamson. After grad
uation from Ohio State University with the
degree of B.Sc, he engaged in banking
business at Bluffton, Indiana, where he is
now cashier of the Wells County Bank. Mr.
Williamson is devoted to science and par
ticularly to biology, and is especially a stu
dent of Odonata (dragonflies). He is a
member of the scientific honor society of
Sigma Xi, member of the American Or
nithologists' Union, the Ohio Academy of
Sciences, and Entomological Society of
America; and is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence. In politics he is a Democrat. He
married at Bluffton, Indiana, April 16,
1902, Anna Tribolet. Address : Bluffton,
Indiana. WILLIS, Henry Augustus:
Banker ; born in Fitchburg, Massachu
setts, November 26, 1830; son of Samuel
and Cynthia (Meriam) Willis; grandson
of Joseph and Thankful Willis and of
John and Dinah (Hudson) Meriam, and
a descendant from Joseph Meriam, Con
cord, 1636, and from George Willis, New
Towne (Cambridge), 1626. He was brought
up in Fitchburg, where he attended the pub
lic school. His father died in 1843, and
he completed his school training in Law
rence Academy and Groton, and after one
year on the farm, he became clerk in the
Rollstone Bank in Fitchburg, and he was
with the bank continuously as an officer,
director and is now the president, having
been elected to that office in 1873. He is
also treasurer of the Worcester North
Savings Bank, having held that office from
its organization in 1868. He is president
of the Fitchburg and Leominster Street
Railway Company, and a director in sev
eral successful manufacturing concerns. He

represented his district in the General
Court of Massachusetts in 1866; was first
president of the Common Council of Fitch
burg in 1873, and he served as treasurer of
the city for seventeen years up to 1890. He
assisted in organizing the Burbank Hos
pital in 1891, and has been treasurer from
its organization. He was made a trustee
of the. Public Library in 1863, was chairman
of its board from 1892, and was president
of the Fitchburg Historical Society from
its organization in 1892 up to 1902, when
he resigned. He has served as justice of
the peace from 1861 up to the present time.
He was adjutant of the Fifty-third Regi
ment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
in 1862 and 1863, taking an active part in
the Battle of Port Hudson, and after the
close of the Civil War he served in the
State Militia, on the staff of General D.
H. Chamberlain with the rank of captain.
He is author of: Fitchburg in the War of
the Rebellion, 1866; is a commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, companion
in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ;
member of the General Society of Colonial
Wars, and the Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution. He never married,
but maintained Trom his twenty-first year,
a home for his widowed mother and other
members of the family. He visited Europe
five times, and made several trips to the
West Indies and the Southern parts of the
United States. Address: Rollstone Na
tional Bank, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
WILLOUGHBY, Hugh Laussat:
Engineer, author; born in Delaware
County, New York, August 7, 1856; son of
Samuel A. Willoughby and Estelle (Laus
sat) Willoughby. He was graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1877 as
a mining engineer. While in the university
he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma
fraternity and of Philo. He was the first
man to wear the Red and Blue, and winner
of Pennsylvania's first intercollegiate cham
pionship, the running broad jump, in 1876.
He was a law student for four years in the
office of Amasa Parker at Albany, New
York. He is a founder member of the Aero
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first treasurer of the League of Ameri
can Wheelmen, and a life member of
the Academy of Natural Science. He is
author of: Across the Everglades. His
favorite recreation is yachting, and he is a
member of the New York Yacht, St. Au
gustine Yacht and Gilbert's Bar Yacht
Clubs, and the American Power Boat As
sociation. He married Augusta de Peyster,
daughter of James Bronson Harrison, of
England. Address : Newport, Rhode Is
land.WILSEY, Frank D.:
Manufacturer; born in Pageville, Penn
sylvania, December 28, 1856; son of John
D. Wilsey and Calphurnia (Otis) Wilsey.
He was graduated from Otterbein Univer
sity in the class of 1876, as B.S. He en
gaged in the grain business in Ohio from
1878 to 1883, and has been in the oar busi
ness in New York City, since 1883. He is
president and treasurer of the New York
Boat Oar Company, Chattanooga Boat Oar
Company, Clarendon Oar Factory; presi
dent and director of the Georgetown Boat
Oar Company; president of the Stryker
Boat Oar Company, and the Undercliff
Heights Realty Company, and director of
the Millstream Lumber Company, and the
Arkansas Boat Oar Company. He is a
Republican in politics, and is a member of
the American Historical Association, Na
tional Geographic Society, and Bronx So
ciety of Arts and Sciences. He was a trus
tee of Otterbein University from 1895 to
1900; and has been commissioner of educa
tion, New York City, since 1902. Mr. Wil
sey is a member of the Republican, Grad
uates', and Fordham Clubs, and the Ohio
Society of New York City. He married in
Bloomvilte, Ohio, September 11, 1878, Ella
Einsel, and they have four children : Edwin
Shuey, Marietta, James Arthur, and
Blanche. Residence: 3 113 Kingsbridge Ave
nue, New York. Address: 69 West Street,
New York City.
WILSON, Floyd B.:
Lawyer, Mexican mine owner; born in
Watervliet, Albany County, New York ;' son
of William Wilson and Evelyn (Weaver)

Wilson. He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan as A.B. in 1871, and
A.M. in 1874, and from the Union College
of Law as LL.B. in 1873, and he received
from Richmond College the honorary de
gree of LL.D. He has been a practitioner
of corporation law, with considerable work
incident thereto, in England, France, Spain,
Hungary, Mexico, Central and South
America. He is now engaged largely in
gold and copper mining in Mexico. He is
president of the Ruby Gold and Copper
Company; is counsel and vice-president of
the Mexican Gold Mines, Limited; and is
personally interested in several other mines
in Mexico. He is a Republican in poli
tics, and an active speaker in Presidential
campaigns. He is author of: Paths to
Power ; Man Limitless ; Through Silence
to Realization; and he has translated from
Spanish to English La Coja y el Enco-
jido. He is also a lecturer and writer on
advanced thought and psychic subjects. Mr.
Wilson is a member of the National Geo
graphic Society, American Society for Psy
chical Research, the Lotos, Lawyers' and
Delta Kappa Epsilon Clubs. He married,
in Cleveland, Ohio, 1874, Esther M. Cleve
land, and they have two daughters : Pearl
Cleveland, and Beryl Madeline. Address :
101 West Eighty-fifth Street, New York
City. WILSON, Francis:
Actor and author; born in Philadelphia,
February 7, 1850. His first appearance on
the stage was as a minstrel, later he was a
member of a stock company in the Chest
nut Street Theatre, Philadelphia. For many
years he has been one of the leading actors
of the world, and this season is playing in
When Knights Were Bold. He has writ
ten many successful books, and is ,a book
collector of fine judgment. He married, in
1881, Mira Barrie. Address: New Ro
chelle, New York.
WILSON, Harry R.:
President judge of the Eighteenth Judi
cial District of Pennsylvania ; born at Clar
ion, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1864, near
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who had settled there in 1801. He was
graduated from Lafayette College in 1884;
was admitted to the bar on November 8,
1866, and practiced his profession at Clarion
for fifteen years. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention at St.
Louis in 1896 and a Presidential elector in
1900; and he was elected president judge
in 1901 for the term of ten years. He has
traveled extensively in America and foreign
lands. From September 3, 1890, to August,
1906, was in partnership with George
Wagner, manufacturing hemlock lumber in
Forest County, Pennsylvania, under firm
name of Wagner & Wilson (Incorporated),
and since then they have been manufactur
ing fir, cedar and spruce lumber at their
plant near Monroe, Snohomish County,
Washington. They are also interested in
the Davison Lumber Company, Limited,
manufacturing spruce, pine and hemlock
lumber at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia,
and in the operation of the logging
railroads connected with their various lum
ber enterprises. His father, Theophilus S.
Wilson, was judge at Clarion, Pennsylvania,
from January, 1886, to the time of his death
while holding court at Indiana, Pennsyl
vania, on July 6, 1891. His father and his
ancestors for several generations have also
been engaged in the business of manufac
turing and distributing lumber. On Octo
ber 25, 1894, he married Hattie Davie
Critchlow; and they have three children:
Harold R., Lawrence H., and Harriette
Wilson. Address: Clarion, Pennsylvania.
WILSON, Henry Lane:
Diplomat; born in Crawfordsville, Indi
ana, November 3, 1857. He was graduated
from Wabash College, as A.B. in 1879, and
later received the A.M. degree from that
college. He was editor of the Journal at
Lafayette, Indiana, until 1885, then went to
Spokane, Washington, and engaged in the
practice of law and in Danking until, ap
pointed June 9, 1897, as envoy extraordi
nary and minister plenipotentiary to Chile,
serving there until March 8, 1905, when he
was appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Belgium, where

he is still serving. Address : American
Legation, Brussels, Belgium.
WILSON, Jesse E.:
Lawyer; born in Owen County, Indiana,
October 4, 1867 ; son of John W. and P. J.
(Maners) Wilson, and was the sixth child
in a family of eleven children. His child
hood and early youth was spent on the
farm in Owen County, where he attended
the common schools ; later he entered the
high school at Spencer, and after that en
gaged in teaching school for a period of
four years. He then became a clerk in a
dry goods store, remaining until he had
secured sufficient means to defray his ex
penses through the State University at
Bloomington, Indiana, from which he grad
uated in June, 1895 ; removed to Rensselaer,
Indiana, a month later and has since been
engaged in law practice there. He is a
Mason, Elk, Knight of Pythias (including
the Uniform Rank), and a member of the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. His church
affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr. Wilson represented Lake and
Jasper counties in the Sixty-third and Six
ty-fourth sessions of the General Assembly
of Indiana. He has taken an active part
in every political campaign since he became
of age, advocating the principles of the Re
publican party. Was appointed assistant
secretary of the Interior September 1, 1905,
which position he is' now occupying. He
married, in November, 1904, Gail C. Wasson,
of Rensselaer, Indiana. Address : Depart
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
WILSON, Lewis F. :
President and director of the Cuban
Land and Steamship Company; the La
Gloria Transportation Company; the
Piloto Land Company; secretary and di
rector of the. Leeds and Catlin Company,
the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern
Railroad Company, and the Shawmut Com -
mercial Company. Address : 32 Broadway,
New York City.
WILSON, Thomas Emmet:
Lawyer; bora in Putnam Valley, New
York, October 1, 1847; son of Hugh C.
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was educated in the public schools and at
the Peekskill Military Academy of Peek-
skill, New York. He was admitted to the
bar in Brooklyn, New York, in December,
1868, and has since then been actively en
gaged in the practice of law in Florida.
He was State's attorney for the Seventh
Judicial District of Florida from January,
1873, to January, 1877; county solicitor for
Orange County, Florida, from 1873 to 1877,
for Volusia County, Florida, from 1874 to
1877, and for Brevard County, Florida, from
1875 to 1877. He procured the charter for
and became attorney, 1879, of the South
Florida Railroad, then the most Southern
railroad in the United States and General
U. S. Grant turned the first shovel of earth
on its construction in March, 1880; pro
cured the charter for and became attorney
of the Florida Midland Railway in March,
1883. He became attorney for the Orange
Belt Railway in June, 1886, and procured
an extension of the charter to build to St.
Petersburg, Florida, and to Sanford, Flor
ida, and procured a charter for the San
ford and St. Petersburg Railroad ; was vice-
president and general counsel and a director
of the Orange Belt Railway, from 1889 to
1893, and general counsel and a director of
the Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad
from 1893 to 1895. He procured charters
of incorporation for Sanford, Florida, and
St. Petersburg, Florida, both thriving towns
and at different times has been their attor
ney; and he was postmaster at Sanford
from 1877 to 1880. Mr. Wilson has trav
eled around the world, and in 1870 went to
Australia and New Zealand and to the
borders of the Antarctic Ocean, sailing
around the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Lem-
win and islands south of New Zealand.
He is a Republican in politics. He is a
charter member of the Orange County
(Florida) Bar Association ; ' and he was
vice-president of the Florida Bar Associa
tion. He married at Sylvan Lake, Flor
ida, July 9, 1900, Lizzie Anna Fox. Ad
dress : Sanford, Florida.
WILSON, William Warfield:
Congressman and lawyer ; born in Ohio,
Bureau County, Illinois ; son of Joseph G.
Wilson and Sarah A. Wilson. He had a

literary, commercial, and legal education,
receiving the degrees of LL.B. and L.B. ; is
a lawyer by profession, admitted to the
bar in 1893. He never held any political
office or position until elected to Congress ;
was elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-
ninth Congresses, and reelected to the Six
tieth Congress, from the Third Illinois Dis
trict. Mr. Wilson is a Republican in poli
tics. He married, October 11, 1891, Sarah
M. Moore. Residence: 436 North Normal
Parkway, Chicago. Office address : 140
Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois.
WILSON, Woodrow:
President of Princeton University;
born at Staunton, Virginia, December 28,
1856, son of Joseph Ruggles and Jessie
(Woodrow) Wilson. He received his pre
paratory education in the private schools
of Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South
Carolina, later studying for a time at
Davidson (North Carolina) College. In
1875 he entered Princeton University, grad
uating four years later with the degree
of A.B. Thence he continued his studies
at the University of Virginia, studying
law, and passed the bar examinations in
1883. He received the degree of Ph.D.
from Johns Hopkins University in 1886,
and the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Wake Forest College in 1887, Tulane Uni
versity in 1898, Johns Hopkins University in
1901, Rutgers College in 1902, the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania in 1903, Brown Univer
sity, 1903 ; Harvard University, 1907 ; and
the honorary degree of Litt.D. was con
ferred upon him by Yale University in 1901.
In 1882 he went to Atlanta, Georgia, where
he practiced law for a year, and in 1885 be
came professor of history and political econ
omy at Bryn Mawr College. In 1888 he re
signed from this position to accept a simi
lar one in Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut, where he remained for
two years. He was lecturer at Johns Hop
kins University from 1887 to 1898. In
1890 he resigned his position at Wesleyan
University to accept the, chair of juris
prudence and politics in Princeton Uni
versity, which he held until his election
to the presidency of that university in
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Princeton! In politics Dr. Wilson is af
filiated with the Democratic party and he
is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He is a member of the American Histori
cal Association, the American Economic
Association, the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, the American
Political Science Association, the Ameri
can Philosophical Society, and is an hon
orary member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society. Besides these he is a
member of the Century Association and
the University Club of New York. He
is fond of golf, bicycling, horseback riding,
rowing, and other out-door sports. He
married at Savannah, Georgia, June 24,
1885, Ellen Louise Axson, and has had
three daughters: Margaret, bom in 1886;
Jessie Woodrow, born in 1887, and Eleanor
Randolph, born in 1889. Address: Prince
ton, New Jersey.
WTLTBANK, William White:
Jurist; born March 27, 1840; the de
scendant of an old and distinguished
American family. His great-grandfather
descended from John White of Plolcott,
England, who died A.D. 1501, was Bishop
White, the first Protestant Episcopal bishop
of Pennsylvania, who carried to this
country the succession to the established
Church of England; and his maternal
grandfather was General William Mac
pherson, a Revolutionary officer, who
served on General Washington's staff.
After a collegiate education (M.A. from
Trinity College, Connecticut) Judge Wilt-
bank made the law his profession and prac
ticed successfully in the courts of Phila
delphia until December 7, 1896, when he
took his seat on the bench of the Court
of Common Pleas of the First Judicial
District of Pennsylvania, by appointment
of the governor, and he was in November,
1897, elected for the full term. He served
in the Northern army during the war for
the Union on the general staff for more
than three years. He is a member of
the American Academy of Social and Po
litical Science, the Archeological Society
of the University of Pennsylvania, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Uni
versity, Penn, Legal, Rittenhouse and Law-
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yers' Clubs, and others, and was president
of the Contemporary Club from 1897 to
1899. He married the daughter of Judge
Ferree Brinton of Lancaster, and upon sur
viving her the daughter of Mr. Samuel
Welsh, a niece of the late John Welsh,
formerly United States Minister to Eng
land. Address : 1923 Spruce Street, Phil
adelphia, Pennsylvania.
WINANS, Charles S.:
Consular officer ; born in New York. He
was appointed consul at Iquique, May 21,
1900; consul at Valencia, March 30, 1907.
Address : Valencia, Spain.
WTNDMULLER, Louis:
Merchant ; born in Westphalia, in 1835. He
received his education in the gymnasium at
Miinster. In 1853 he emigrated to the
United States and since then he has been
a resident of New York City, where he be
came a successful merchant. He has been
associated with, and took part in founding
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the
German-American Insurance Company,
Hide and Leather National Bank, the Ger
man Alliance Insurance Company, Maiden
Lane Savings Bank, Maiden Lane Safe De
posit Company, Bond and Mortgage Guar
antee Company, and of the South Manhat
tan Realty Company and is still director
of these; and is also president of Maiden
Lane Savings Bank. He was also one of
the founders and since 1889 has been treas
urer of the Reform Club of New York;
member of the German-American Reform
Club, and as one of its Executive Commit
tee, took part in the election of William L.
Strong as reform mayor of the City of New
York. He is indefatigable in the advocacy
of a sound currency and of tariff, and civil
service reform. Mr. Windmuller is manag
ing director of the Board of Trade and
Transportation; a member of the Chamber
of Commerce Committee on International
Trade and Improvement of which he was
chairman; and the Executive Committee
for the Improvement of the State Canals,
as a member of which he agitated success
fully for the amendment of the Constitu
tion which authorizes the Legislature to
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auditor of the Business Men's Relief Com
mittee, and a member in a number of char
itable institutions notably, in the Legal Aid
Society, which furnishes gratuitous help to
the wronged poor, of which he is treasurer
and director. He was also treasurer of a
fund for the erection of the monument to
Goethe and vice-president of the Heine
Monument Society. He is an occasional
contributor to magazines on various sub
jects of interest and literary topics. Mr.
Windmuller is a member of the German-
istic Society, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, a life member of the New York Histor
ical Society, and also a member of the Mer
chants', Lotos, Underwriters', \ and New
York Athletic Clubs. Residence : Woodside,
Borough of Queens. Office address : 20
Reade Street, New York City.
WINDSOR, Phineas Lawrence:
Librarian ; born in Illinois in 1871 ; son
of John Alexander Windsor and Amy
(Arnold) Windsor. He was graduated
from Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois, as Ph.B. in 1895 ; studied at the
New York State Library School, Albany,
New York, in 1897 and 1898, and in 1898
and 1899. He was assistant of the New
York State Library in 1899 and 1900; of
the Library of Congress, from igoo to 1903 ;
and has been librarian of the University of
Texas, at Austin, since 1903. He is editor
of the Handbook of Texas Libraries, 1904.
Mr. Windsor is a member of the Texas
Academy of Science, Texas State Histori
cal Association, American Library Associa
tion, Bibliographical Society of America,
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and of the
University Club of Austin, Texas. He
married, in Lockport, New York, January
1, 1901, Margaret Fursman Boynton, and
they have two children : Margaret and
Mary Frances. Residence: 508 West
Twenty-second Street, Austin. Office ad
dress : University of Texas Library, Aus
tin, Texas.
WING, Asa S,:
President of the Provident Life and
Trust Company of Philadelphia. He has
been connected with this company since

1867 and is one of the best known bank
officials in Philadelphia. Address : Fourth
and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
WING, Daniel Gould:
Banker; former United States National
bank examiner; bora in Davenport, Iowa,
September 10, 1868 ; son of George Wing
and Mary Elizabeth (Gould) Wing;
grandson of George and Deborah (Rus
sell) Wing and of Puritan ancestry, Ply
mouth Colony, 1620 to 1625. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Davenport.
Iowa, and when seventeen years of age he
became a messenger in the State National
Bank of Lincoln, Nebraska. He was ad
vanced rapidly and held the desk of assist
ant cashier in 1890 when he was made
cashier of the American Exchange Na
tional Bank of Lincoln. He was treasurer
and auditor of the Republican National
Committee in Chicago, Illinois, during the
campaign of 1896 and in 1897 President
McKinley made him National Bank ExamT
iner. He was in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1900 in the line of duty where the affairs
of the Broadway National and the Globe
National Banks came under his inspection
and after the closing of the doors of these
banks the Comptroller of the Currency
made Mr. Wing receiver for both institu
tions. After paying the depositors of both
banks in full he paid to the Globe share
holders a dividend and this task was accom
plished in sixty days. The board of direc
tors of the Massachusetts National Bank
at once elected him vice-president of that
institution and he was soon after promoted
to the presidency. He effected a consoli
dation of the business of the First National
Bank with the Massachusetts National in
1903 and he was made president of the
newly organized First National Bank,
which began its new business with depos
its of over $13,000,000 and in 1904 the busi
ness of the Bank of Redemption was taken
in, and in 1907 the deposits amounted to
over $40,000,000. He is a member of the
Alponquin and Exchange Clubs of Boston
and Newton Club of Newton, Massachu
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Boston University in 1904. Mr. Wing
married, January 23, 1902, Josephine,
daughter of George and Eliza (Baldwin)
Cable, of Davenport, Iowa. Residence:
301 Otis Street, West Newton, Massachu
setts. Office address : 202 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
WINGATE, Charles Edgar Lewis:
Manager of the Boston Journal; born
in Exeter, New Hampshire, February 14,
1861 ; son of S. Dana Wingate and Oriana
(Mitchell) Wingate. He was prepared in
Phillips Exeter Academy, and was gradu
ated from Harvard College as A.B. in 1883.
Mr. Wingate started in the Boston Journal
in 1883, and rose through the various posi
tions of dramatic and music editor, pri
vate secretary of, the publisher, and man
aging editor, to his present position. He
is treasurer and director of the Journal
Newspaper Company. Mr. Wingate is a
Republican in politics, and a Unitarian in
religion. He is author of: Shakespeare's
Heroes on the Stage ; Shakespeare's
Heroines on the Stage; American Actors
of Today; The Playgoers' Year Book;
The Wingate Family History. He is a
member of the Harvard Club of New
York, City Club of Boston, Country Club
of Winchester, and was one of the found
ers and early president of the Newspaper
Club of Boston. He married in Boston,
Massachusetts, September 9, 1885, Mabel
Nickerson, and they have four children:
Mabel, born November 30, 1886; Josephine,
born in May, 1899; Dana, born June 8,
1891, and Oriana, born January 18, 1895.
Residence : Winchester, Massachusetts.
Business address: Boston, Massachusetts.
WINGATE, George W.:
Lawyer, author; born in New York City,
July 1, 1840. He was educated in the
public schools and entered the New York
Free Academy, but at the age of thirteen,
because of family reverses, he went to
work as boy in a law office. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1861, and since then
practicing law in New York City, being
especially active in railroad litigation;, now
senior member of the law firm of Wingate

and Cullen. He was for many years vice-
president of the Brooklyn Elevated Rail
road Company, and director in several
others ; and he is now general solicitor of
the Long Island Railroad and its associate
companies. He was for several years a
sachem of Tammany Hall and personal
counsel of the late John Kelly after the
latter had wrestled its control from Tweed ;
counsel for Tammany Hall in its prose
cution of Commissioner Davenport for his
wholesale arrests of naturalized citizens,
and succeeded in having his acts declared
illegal. He enlisted in a cavalry company
at the outbreak of the Civil War, and after
it was disbanded, he enlisted and served in
1862 and 1863 in the Twenty-second New
York Volunteer Regiment, in which he be
came a captain. After the war he was
prominent in the National Guard, and be
came interested in the matter of syste
matic rifle practice in the National Guard,
performing services for which he has been
often called The Father of Rifle Practice
in America, drafted and secured the pas
sage of the act establishing the Creedmoor
Rifle Range, which was constructed under
his supervision. He wrote : Wingate's
Manual of Rifle Practice, 1871, the first
text-book on the subject adapted to Ameri
can troops; was captain of the first team
of American long-range riflemen in the
great International Rifle Match at Creed-
moor, 1874, and has been connected with
all other rifle teams that have shot in
international contests ; was general inspec
tor of rifle practice, State of New York,
with rank of brigadier-general, from 1874 -
to 1879; and was the first secretary, then
vice-president, and afterward, for many
years, president of the National Rifle As
sociation, and for three years special aide
on the subject of military instruction in
public schools, on the staff of the com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. ' He was appointed member of
the Board of Education by Mayor Low
in 1901, and as chairman of the Com
mittee on Lectures and Libraries, was
prominent in the development of free lec
tures and establishing class libraries in
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the Public Schools Athletic League, and
has been influential in securing and equip
ping the City's athletic fields. He wrote
many of the editorials against the Ring
judges in the New York Times, in the
fight against the Tweed Ring. He is author
of: On Horseback Through the Yellow
stone; The Great Cholera Riots; History
of the Twenty-second Regiment. He is
president of the Twilight Park Association,
and director in various railroad and other
corporations. He is director of the New
England Society, Old Guard, John A. Dix
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic;
honorary member of U. S. Grant Post,
and member of the Brooklyn, Twilight,
Democratic Club of Brooklyn, Century,
Army and Navy, Lincoln, Wyandanch, and
Dyker Meadow Golf Clubs. Residence:
noo Dean Street, Brooklyn. Address.: 20
Nassau Street, New York City.
WINSLOW, Alfred A.:
Consular officer; born in Indiana. Pie
was appointed consul at Liege, Belgium,
July 7, 1898; consul-general at Guatemala
City, November 5, 1902; consul at Val
paraiso, June 22, 1906. Address: Valpa
raiso, Chile.
WINSLOW, William Copley:
Clergyman, archeologist and author;
born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 13,
1840; son of Rev. Hubbard Winslow, D.D.,
and Susan Ward (Cutler) Winslow, and
a- descendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother
of Governor Edward Winslow of
Plymouth Colony. After completing his
preparatory education in the Boston Latin
School he entered Hamilton College, from
which he was graduated as A.B. in 1862;
was graduated from the General Theologi
cal Seminary, New York City, in 1865,
and received the degree of A.M. from
Hobart College, 1865; Ph.D., Hamilton,
1886 ; LL.D., St. Andrew's University, Scot
land, 1886; L.H.D., Columbia, 1887; D.D.,
Amherst, 1887; D.C.L, King's College Uni
versity, 1888; S.T.D., Griswold College,
1889; ScD., St. John's College, 1889. He
was ordered deacon in 1865 and ordained
priest in 1867 by Bishop Horatio Potter,

in the ministry of the Episcopal Church,
and was rector of St George's Church at
Lee, Massachusetts, from 1867 to 1870, and
since then has been a non-parochial clergy
man of the diocese of Massachusetts, hold
ing no stated rectorship, but constantly
engaged in preaching, lecturing, journal
ism and archeological work. Dr. Winslow
was associate editor of The Hamiltonian
during his senior year in college, was on
the staff of the .New York World in 1862;
junior editor of the Christian Times in
1863 and 1864, and is now on the staff of
Biblia; and late associate editor of the
American Antiquarian, and has been a con
stant writer and contributor to magazines
and scientific proceedings. His great work
has been as archeologist and especially as
Egyptologist, he having founded in 1883
the American branch of the Egypt Ex
ploration Fund and its head official un
til 1903. Dr. Winslow is now associated
with the Egyptian researches being con
ducted under the direction of Professor
Petries. He has secured valuable monu
mental and other objects from Egypt for
the Boston and other museums. Dr.
Winslow raised more than one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars for the Egypt
Exploration Fund, and he was the pioneer
in this country in the promotion of the
interest in Egpytian archeological research
which is now widespread. He has served
as officer and active member in many his
torical, archeological and other scientific
societies ; and honoraryl member of Eng
lish and Canadian historical societies, and
of the State historical societies of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, and nineteen other States. He
is author of: What Says Egypt of Israel;
A Greek City in Egypt; Pilgrim Fathers
in Holland; Governor Edward Winslow;
The Store City of Pithom; Papyri in the
United States; Egypt at Home; and other
works and monographs, and over a thou
sand contributions to periodicals, chiefly
upon archeological and historical subjects.
Dr. Winslow married, in Boston, June 20.
1867, Harriet Stillman Hayward. Address:
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WINSTON, George Taylor:
President of the North Carolina College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; born
at Windsor, North Carolina, October 12,
1852; son of Patrick Henry Winston and
Martha Elizabeth (Byrd) Winston. He
entered the University of North Carolina
in 1866, but left before completing his
course, becoming in 1868 a midshipman in
the United States Naval Academy at An
napolis. After a year at the academy, he
resigned and going to Cornell University
was graduated in 1874 with the degree of
B.Litt. The honorary degree of A.M. was
conferred upon him by Davidson (North
Carolina) College and that of LL.D. by
Trinity College, North Carolina. During
his senior year at Cornell University he
was instructor in mathematics, and after
his graduation was appointed professor of
Latin in the University of North Caro
lina. In 1891 he was elected president of
the latter university but resigned five years
later to accept the presidency of the Uni
versity of Texas. In 1899 he was elected
president of North Carolina College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Dr. Win
ston was a member of the commission ap
pointed by President Cleveland to exam
ine the coinage of the United States Mint
at Philadelphia. He is a member of the
Board of Visitors to the United States
Naval Academy, appointed by President
Roosevelt, and was selected as orator for
the Government on that occasion. He has
made three trips to Europe, traveling
throughout the continent. In politics he
is identified with the Democratic party,
and he is a member of the Episcopal
Church. Among the societies of which he
is a member are the National Educational
Association, the National Prison Reform
Association, the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, the Chi Phi
Fraternity (of North Carolina University),
the Phi Beta Kappa Society (of Cornell),
the Twentieth Century Club (of New
York), and various others. He is fond of
tennis, golf and out door sports. Dr. Win
ston is an orator of much merit and has
delivered addresses on various occasions.

He married, at Hinsdale, New Hampshire,
June 5, 1875, Caroline Sophia Taylor, and
by this union there are four children : Hol
lis Taylor, born in 1877 ; Isabella Byrd,
born in 1879; Patrick Henry, born in
1881, and Lewis Taylor, born in 1887.
Residence: 507 Fayetteville Street,
Raleigh, North Carolina. Address : North
Carolina College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts, West Raleigh, North Carolina.
WINTER, William:
Author and dramatic reviewer for the
New York Tribune; born in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, July 15, 1836; son of Cap
tain Charles Winter and Louisa (Wharff)
Winter. He received his education in
Boston and Cambridge Schools and Har
vard Law School, and received from Har
vard University the degree of LL.B. and
Litt.Doc. from Brown University. He was
lecturer and political speaker in 1856;
writer for the press, poet, essayist, travel
er, editor and biographer, and first visited
England in 1877. He founded the Arthur
Winter Memorial Library in 1886. His fa
vorite recreations are the study of Shakes
peare, antiquarian research and travel. He
is author of: Shakespeare's England;
Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines and
Ivy; Brown Heath and Blue Bells; Wan
derers, being the Poems of William Win
ter; Shadows of the Stage; Life and Art
of Edwin Booth; Life and Art of Joseph
Jefferson; Orations by William Winter;
Life of John Gilbert; Brief Chronicles;
The Actor and other Speeches; The Stage
and the Press; The Stage Life of Mary
Anderson; Henry Irving; A Wreath of
Laurel ; George William Curtis ; Life of
John McCullough ; Life of Ada Rehan. Mr.
Winter is a member of the Lotos Club, New
York, and Bohemian Club, San Francisco.
He married, in i860, Elizabeth Campbell,
of the Campbells, formerly of Ederline,
Loch Awe, North Britain, and they have
two sons and one daughter. Residences :
17 Third Avenue, Fort Hill, New Brigh
ton, Staten Island, New York; and Eder
line. Cottage, Mentone, California. Office
address : The Tribune, New York City.

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Assistant secretary of the treasury; born
in Orange, New Jersey, September 18, 1874 ;
son of Robert and Kate Wilson (Taylor)
Winthrop. He was prepared in Cutler's
School, New York City; and was gradu
ated from Harvard University as A.B. in
1897, and Harvard Law School, as LL.B.
in 1900 (cum laude). He was private sec
retary to Hon. William H. Taft, president
of the Philippine Commission in 1900 ; as
sistant executive secretary of the Philip
pine Islands, from 1900 to 1903; judge of
the Court of First Instance, Philippine Is
lands, in 1903 and 1904; governor of Porto
Rico, from July 4, 1904, to April 18, 1907,
and assistant secretary of the Treasury
since April 23, 1907. In politics, Mr. Win
throp is a Republican, and in religious
views, an Episcopalian. He is correspond
ing member of the Massachusetts Histori
cal Society, and a member of the Knicker
bocker, University, and Harvard Clubs of
New York City. He married, in New
York City, October 3, 1903, Melza Riggs
Wood. Address : 40 Wall Street, New
York City.
WISE, Leo H.:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Colonial Assurance Company, Glen-
ville Land Company; vice-president and
director of the Rutland Railway, Light
and Power Company; member of the Ad
visory Committee of the American Lloyds,
Underwriters, Great Western Lloyds, un
derwriters; director of Converse and Com
pany, and one of the firm of Wise Broth
ers. Address : 64 Leonard Street, New
York City.
WISNER, Clarence B.:
Banker; born in Friendship, New York,
August 15, 1867; son of James E. Wisner
and Laura Newman (Bell) Wisner. He
was educated in Friendship Academy and
Hamline University. He was cashier of
the Bank of Lisbon, Dakota Territory,
from 1886 to 1888; drafted the Dakota
State Bank Law and organized the State
Bank of Lisbon in 1893; was manager of
the World's Fair Branch of the American

Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, from
1893 to 1897; president of the State Bank
of West Pullman, Chicago, in 1905; built
the first concentrator in Butte, Montana,
to successfully treat the refractory zinc ore
of that district. He is president and direc
tor of the Butte Copper and Zinc Company,
and the Adamite Surface Machine Com
pany. Mr. Wisner is secretary of the
Butte Copper Company of Montana. He
is a Republican in politics. Mr. Wisner is
a member of the Montana Society of En
gineers, Illinois Society, Pennsylvania So
ciety, Montana Society of New York, and
the Lawyers', Rock Mountain Clubs. He
married, at Fargo, North Dakota, Novem
ber 10, 1886, Gertrude L. Dixon. Address:
78-80 Wall Street, New York City.
WISSER, John Philip:
Colonel Coast Artillery, United States
Army; born in St. Louis, Missouri, July
19, 1852 ; son of Philip Wisser and Bar
bara (Weber) Wisser. He was graduated
from the United States Military Academy
in 1874, from the United States Artillery
School at Fort Monroe, 1878, and was a
student in the Royal School of Mines at
Freiberg, Saxony, in 1883 and 1885. He
was commissioned second lieutenant, Fourth
Cavalry, June 13, 1879 ; first lieutenant, No
vember 26, 1884 ; captain, July 2, 1892 ;
transferred to the Fifth Cavalry, Septem
ber 24, 1901 ; major Ninth Cavalry, De
cember 6, 1901 ; detailed as inspector-gen
eral, April 27, 1903 ; transferred to the
Coast Artillery and commissioned lieuten
ant-colonel, March 28, 1906; colonel May
27, 1907. He served on various duties as
an officer of cavalry and later of artillery;
was assistant professor of chemistry, miner
alogy and geology, United States Military
Academy, 1878 to 1882 and 1886 to 1894;
instructor in chemistry at the United States
Artillery School, from 1882 to 1884, and in
structor in military science and military en
gineering in the same school, 1895 to 1900.
Colonel Wisser was detailed in 1906 as
military attache to the American Embassy
at Berlin. He is distinguished as author of
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home and abroad, and editor of the In
ternational Military Series. He is a mem
ber of the Society of American Authors,
the Century Association, New York, and the
University and Army and Navy Clubs of
New York. Address : Care of the Ameri
can Embassy, Berlin, Germany.
WISTER, Uwen:
Author; born in Philadelphia, July 14,
i860; son of Owen Jones Wister and a de
scendant of Thomas Wynne, who emi
grated to Pennsylvania as one of the com
panions of William Penn. He was edu
cated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New
Hampshire, from 1873 to 1878, and subse
quently at Harvard University, where lie
was graduated in 1882 as A.B., receiving
the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. in 1888.
Having made the law his study, he was
admitted to practice at the Philadelphia
bar in 1889; his practice continued only
until 1891, when he left the law to engage
in the pursuit of literature, which he has
since followed. Author of: The Dragon
of Wantley: His Tail, 1892; Red Men and
White, 1896; Lin McLean, 1898; The
Jimmy John Boss, 1900; U. S. Grant, a
Biography, 1900; The Virginian, 1902;
Philosophy Four, 1903; Lady Baltimore,
1906; The Simple Spelling Bee, 1907; also
many magazine contributions in prose and
verse. Of his published works The Vir
ginian was phenomenally successful. He
married, in 1898, Mary, daughter of Wil
liam Wister. Address: 913 Pine Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WOLCOTT, Peter Clark:
Clergyman. He was graduated from the
General Theological Seminary as B.D. in
1879, and received from the Western The
ological Seminary, Chicago, the degree of
D.D. in 1906. He was ordered deacon in
1879 by Bishop H. Potter, and ordained
priest in 18S0 by Bishop Hare. He was
missionary at Pine Ridge Agency, South
Dakota, from 1879 to 1881 ; at "St. Andrew's,
Chariton, Iowa, in 1881 and 1882; St.
Mark's, Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1883 and
1884, and principal of the Preparatory
School of Griswold College, Davenport,

Iowa, from 1885 to 1892; and since 1892
he has been rector of Trinity Church,
Highland Park, Illinois. He is a member
of the Standing Committee and an exam
ining chaplain of the diocese of Chicago.
Dr. Wolcott is president of the Highland
Park Public Library and secretary of the
Township High School Board of Educa
tion. Address : Highland Park, Illonois.
WOLF, Henry:
Artist engraver ; born in Eckwersheim,
Alsace, August 3, 1852; son of Simon Wolf
and Pauline (Ettinger) Wolf. He was
educated in the schools of Eckwersheim
and Strasbourg, Alsace; and at the age
of fifteen he began his apprenticeship to
mechanical engineering, but later took up
drawing and engraving on wood, and
studied in the atelier of Jacques Levy, an
artist engraver. Pie came to the United
States in 1871 ; practiced first in Albany
and then worked in New York City; at
tended the life class at the evening art
school at Cooper Union from 1873 to 1875;
and in 1877 began work on his own ac
count and contributed to Harper's Maga
zine and the Century Magazine. He has
engraved paintings by Gerome, Breton,
Cazin, Morot, Dagnan-Bouveret, Benjamin-
Constant, Meissonier, Israels, Diaz, Corot,
Gilbert, Stuart, Cecilia Beaux, Wyant, Sar
gent, Wiles, Thayer, Eastman Johnson, Har
rison, Homer, Ranger, Inness, Gifford, Mar
tin, Whistler, Low, Brush, Alexander,
Weir, Menzel, Lenbach, and many others.
He has published original engravings :
The Morning Star, 1897; The Evening
Star, 1903; A Duck Pond, 1906 (edition
of one hundred proofs on Japan paper).
He also published a Portrait of Thomas
Jefferson, after the painting by Charles
Wilson Peale, in the Independence Hall,
Philadelphia; Portrait of Thomas Carlyle,
after Whistler; My Mother, from the
Luxembourg Gallery, Paris, after Whistler ;
Miss Alexander, after Whistler, 1907;
Young Women at the Window, f.fter Tan
van der Meer of Delft at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1907. He engraved for
private use portraits of William T. Evans,
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R. A. Canfield, Esq., after painting by
Whistler, of each of which a limited
edition of proofs on Japan paper were
printed for presentation to friends of
the subjects; for severals years 'he has
been engraving a Series of Women for
Harper's Magazine, and executing private
orders, reproducing paintings for collectors
and family portraits. He received honor
able mention in 1888, and a gold medal in
1895 from Paris Salon; honorable men
tion at the Paris Exposition in 1889, sil
ver medal from the Paris Exposition in
1900; silver medal from the Exposition
des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France, 1903;
medal from the World's Columbian Expo
sition, in 1893 ; diploma and grand prize
awarded by the International Superior
Jury, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in
1904. He was a member of the jury for
the Paris Expositions of 1889 and 1900;
the jury of admissions and awards, Pan
American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 ; mem
ber of Advisory Committee and of Inter
national Jury of awards, Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, 1904. He is associate
academician of the National Academy of
Design; member of the International So
ciety of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
of London, England; Alliance Frangaise;
and artist member of Lotus Club. Mr.
Wolf married in New York City, Septem
ber 25, 1875, Rose Massee, and they have
two children : Hamilton Achilles and Aus
tin Massee. Address: no East Ninety-first
Street, New York City.
WOLVERTON, S. P.:
Lawyer; born in Rushtownship, North
umberland County, Pennsylvania, January
28, 1837. He worked on his father's farm
until the age of seventeen, he then became
a teacher in the common schools and at
tended Danville Academy during the sum
mer and fall, and taught during the win
ter months. In this way he prepared for
college. He entered Bucknell University
in 1857; at the end of the sophomore year
he left college, during the junior year he
taught school to raise money to complete
his course. He returned at the commence
ment of the senior year in the fall of

1859 and rejoined his class, and with the
consent of the faculty he did the work
of the junior and senior years in one year,
and was graduated in i860, taking the
second honors of his class. He then went
to Sunbury and taught an academy, and
read law with Hon. Alexander Jordan. He
was captain of a company of emergency
men raised at the time of the battle of
Antietam. In June, 1863, he became cap
tain of Company F, Thirty-sixth Pennsyl
vania Volunteers. He was admitted to
the bar in 1862, and has practiced his pro
fession actively up to the present time.
He served ten years in the State Senate
of Pennsylvania, having been elected in
1878 as a Democrat in a district with a
Republican majority of from twelve to
fifteen hundred. He was reelected from
the same district in 1880 and in 1884, the
last two elections taking place during the
Presidential canvass. He refused to ac
cept a fourth nomination. In 1890 he was
elected to Congress from the Seventeenth
District of Pennsylvania, and reelected
in 1892, and declined a further nomination
in 1894. He has been counsel for the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Com
pany and Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company since 1868, and passed
upon all the coal land titles required by
the latter company in .the' County of
Northumberland and vicinity. He has also
been attorney for the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company and Lehigh Valley Coal
Company for many years, and for Coxe
Brothers and Company, and their allied
interests. He was largely instrumental in
building the Danville, Hazelton and
Wilkes-Barre Railroad, and the Shamokin,
Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad, and
other public enterprises. Address : Sun
bury, Pennsylvania.
WOOD, Alexander C, :
President of the Camden Safe Deposit
and Trust Company; bora in Haddonfield,
New Jersey, November 20, 1841 ; son of
Isaac H. Wood and Elizabeth C. H. (Cop
per) Wood. He spent the early part of
his life on a farm; commenced business
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vania, later joining the Esterbrook Steel
Pen Manufacturing Company of New York
and New Jersey, of which he is now treas
urer; is also president of the Camden
Atlantic and Ventnor Land Company; also
the Stokes and Smith Company, and The
Electrell Company of Philadelphia. He
was presidential elector for the First Dis
trict of New Jersey on the Republican
ticket in 1904, for President Roosevelt. He
traveled in Europe. He is a member of
the Society of Friends; treasurer of the
Lake Mohonk International Arbitration
Conference; president of the Board of
Management of the Friends' Asylum for
Insane, Frankfort, Philadelphia; trustee of
Cooper Hospital, Camden, New Jersey;
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsyl
vania. He is also a member of the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania. He mar
ried in Burlington County, New Jersey,
Mary Emma Stokes, and they have three
children: Edward S., Alexander C, Jr.,
and Anna S. Wood Evans. Address :
Camden and Riverton, New Jersey.
WOOD, Ira W.:
Congressman and lawyer; born in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1856;
son of Isaac Wood and Emily Hannah
(Wells) Wood. He is an alumnus of
Princeton University, and is a member of
the New Jersey bar. He has been a mem
ber of the Board of Education and the
Common Council of the City of Trenton;
was president of the Board of Trade of
Trenton; was elected to the New Jersey
Legislature as a member of Assembly iii
1899 and 1900; was appointed by Governor
Murphy a commissioner for New Jersey
to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; and
was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint
ment of Hon. William M. Lanning as dis
trict judge for the District of New Jer
sey, vice Hon. Andrew Kirkpatrick, de
ceased, and also for the full term in the
Fifty-ninth Congress, and was reelected to
the Sixtieth Congress, as a Republican
from the Fourth New Jersey District. Ad
dress : Trenton, New Jersey.

WOOD,* James Tu thill:
Banker; born at Riverhead, Long Is
land 1866; son of John Wood and M.M.
(Vail) Wood. He was graduated from Co
lumbia College in 1889. He is president
of the Riverside Bank, Bankers' Realty
and Security Company, South Shore Trac
tion Company, Cross Island Traction Com
pany; vice-president and director of the
Bank of Discount, Northern Bank of New
York, and Washington Savings Bank; di
rector of the Aetna Indemnity Company of
Hartford, American Automatic Switch Com
pany, Fidelity Development Company,
Lockport Trust Company, Oystermen's Na
tional Bank, and the Title and Guarantee
Company of Rochester. Address : Fifty-
seventh Street and Eighth Avenue, New
York City.
WOOD, Leonard:
Major-general, United State's Army; born
at Winchester, New Hampshire, October 9,
i860, his parents being Charles Jewett
Wood and Caroline H. (Hagar) Wood.
He received his preparatory education at
Pierce Academy, Middlebofo, Massachu
setts, then entered the medical school of
Harvard University, from which he was
graduated with the class of 1884. On
January 5, 1886, he received appointment
as first lieutenant and assistant surgeon,
United States Army, and was with the
campaign in Arizona, under General Miles,
against the Apaches under Geronimo and
Natchez, compelling the surrender of those
scourgers of the frontier. In this campaign,
during the first summer of his army , ser
vice, and a few months after his appoint
ment, he combined the duties of medical
and line officer with such ability and gal
lantry that he was awarded the Congres
sional Medal of Honor "for distinguished
conduct in the campaign against the Apache
Indians during the summer of 1886, while
serving captain assistant surgeon, Janu
ary 5, 1891," and continued his duties as
a medical officer until the breaking out of
the War with Spain, when he recruited
and organized the First Regiment of the
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brated "Rough Riders" Regiment), of
which he was commissioned colonel, serv
ing with the regiment in Cuba, and being
promoted brigadier-general, United States
Volunteers, June 8, 1898, for gallant and
meritorious services at the battles of Las
Guasimas and San Juan Hill. He was
promoted major-general, United States
Volunteers, December 8, 1898. He served
as such to April 13, 1899, when he was
mustered out and again appointed briga
dier-general. He served as military gov
ernor of Santiago de Cuba, in the province
of the same name, and Puerto Principe un
til December, 1899, when he was appointed
major-general, United States Volunteers,
and assigned to duty, December 14, 1899,
as military governor of Cuba. He served
as military governor of Santiago de Cuba
from July 19, 1898 to December, 1899, with
such ability that he was assigned to duty,
December 13, • 1899, as military governor
of Cuba. The conditions called for care
ful and at the same time resourceful ad
ministration, and involved many questions
that were without precedent in the estab
lishing of an orderly government to dis
place the effects of Spanish tyranny and
misrule and prepare the island for the in
dependence which had been promised it.
The duties devolving upon General Wood
were ably performed and culminated in
the turning over of the government of
Cuba to the elected President of that Re
public in May 20, 1902. During this time
the island was put in a thoroughly sani
tary condition and the great work in con
nection with yellow fever begun and ac
complished. In the meantime General
Wood had been appointed brigadier-gen
eral, United States Army, February 4, 1901,
and on June 30, 1901, was honorably dis
charged from the Volunteer Service. After
leaving Cuba, and some special duties in
Washington, General Wood was sent to
the Philippine Islands, and July 15, 1903,
was appointed governor of Moro Province,
and August 6, 1903, to command of the
Department of Mindanao, and his promOT
tion to major-general, United States Army,
followed, August 8, 1903. Under his com
mand the work of pacification of the

turbulent Moros was successfully ac
complished, and in 1906 he was assigned
to his present duty as major-general com
manding the Philippines Division, with
headquarters at Manila. General Wood
received the honorary degree of LL.D.
from Harvard University in 1899, from
Williams College in 1902, and from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1903. He
married, Washington, D. C, November 18,
1890, Miss Louise A. Condit Smith. Ad
dress : Manila, Philippine Islands.
WOOD, William H. S.:
President of the Bowery Savings Bank,
and publisher; born in New York City,
1840; son of William Wood. He was edu
cated in Haverford College, and became a
partner, in 1863, with his father in the
publishing house of William Wood & Com
pany, publishers of medical books, with
which he has been connected ever since, and
of which he is now the head. Since 1903
Mr. Wood has been president of the Bow
ery Savings Bank, an institution which has
over one hundred million dollars of sav
ings deposits, a far larger amount than is
on deposit in any other savings bank in the
world. Mr. Wood served as director for
seven years of the New York Young Men's
Christian Association, and for twelve years
a manager of the American Bible Society;
is a member of the New York Society for
the Suppression of Vice, and active in re
ligious and philanthropic work. He is a
member of the New York Horticultural
Society, American Pomological Society,
New York Botanical Society, New York
Zoological Society, Clinton Hall Associa
tion, American Geographical Society, and
New York Historical Society. His favorite
recreation is horticulture and he has written
several volumes on that subject. Mr. Wood
is a member of the St. Nicholas Society,
and of the Union League and Grolier Clubs
of New York, and of the Seawanhaka-Cor
inthian Yacht and Indian Harbor Yacht
Clubs. Residence : 14 East Fifty-sixth
Street, New York City. Office addresses :
51 Fifth Avenue, and Bowery Savings
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WOODBRIDGE, Frederick J. E.:
Professor of philosophy; born in Wind
sor, Ontario, Canada, March 26, 1867; son
of James and Melissa Ella (Bingham)
Woodbridge. He was graduated from Am
herst College as A.B. in 1889, and A.M.
in 1898, and received the degree of LL.D.
in 1903; graduated from Union Theologi
cal Seminary in 1892; fellow of the Union
Theological Seminary in University of Ber
lin, Germany, from 1892 to 1894. He was
instructor in philosophy in University of
Minnesota, in 1894 and 1895; professor in
same, from 1895 to 1902; professor of
philosophy in Columbia University in 1902,
and has been Johnsonian professor of
philosophy since 1904. He is editor of The
Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and
Scientific Methods, and of the Archives
of Philosophy, and is author of: The
Philosophy of Hobbes, 1903; and has writ
ten numerous articles in periodicals. In
religion he is an Episcopalian. He is a
member of the Western Philosophical As
sociation, American Philosophical Asso
ciation, American Psychological Associa
tion, New York Academy of Sciences,
American Association for the Advancement
of science, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, Century Association,
and Alpha Delta Phi Club. Mr. Wood-
bridge married in Chicago, Illinois, June
25, 1895, Helena Belle Adams, and they
have four children : Frederick James, born
in 1900 ; John Arven, born in 1903 ; Donald
Bingham, born in 1906; and Helena, born
in 1907. Address : Columbia University,
New York City.
WOODCOCK, Charles Edward:
Bishop of Kentucky; born at New
Britian,' Connecticut, June 12, 1854; son of
Joseph Boothewid and Caroline Shaw
Woodcock. He was graduated at Berk-
lev Divinity School in 1883, and received
from Hobart College, Geneva, New York,
the degree of D.D. in 1904. D.D. from the
University of the South, 1905. He was
ordered deacon of the Episcopal Church
in 1882, and was ordained priest in 1883,
by Bishop Williams of Connecticut. He
was assistant of Grace Church, Baltimore,

Maryland, from 1882 to 1884, and rector
of the Church of the Ascension, New
Haven, Connecticut, 1884-1888; rector of
Christ's Church, Ansonia, Connecticut,
1880-1900, and of St. John's Church, De
troit, Michigan, 1900-1905. He was deputy
to the General Conventions from Connecti
cut in the years 1895 and 1898, and from
Michigan in 1904. He was a member of
Standing Committee of the diocese of
Michigan, 1902-05. He was consecrated
Bishop of Kentucky, January 25, 1905. Ad
dress : Louisville, Kentucky.
WOODFORD, Stewart Lyndon:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Sep
tember 3, 1835 ; son of Josiah Curtis Wood
ford and Susan (Terry) Woodford. He
was graduated from Columbia University
as A.B. in 1854, and has received. the A.M.
degree from Columbia and Yale; LL.D.
from Trinity College, and D.C.L. from
Syracuse University. He was messenger
of the New York Electoral College in
i860, delivering the vote of New York for
Abraham Lincoln to Vice-President
Breckenridge; assistant United States at
torney at New York, 1861 ; enlisted in
Company H of the One Hundred and
Twenty-seventh Regiment, New York
Volunteers, August 21, 1862; served in
Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia, ris
ing to chief of staff of the Department of
the South. ' He was mustered out as brevet
brigadier-general, August 22, 1865; elected
lieutenant-governor of New York in 1866;
nominated by Republican party for gov
ernor, 1870, and defeated by John T. Hoff
man; chosen elector-at-large in New York,
1872, and was president of the New York
Electoral College, which voted for U. S.
Grant at his second election ; also elected
to Congress in 1872; United States attor
ney for the Southern District of New York,
from 1877 to 1882. He was a member of
the committee which prepared the charter
of Greater New York in 1897; was minis
ter at the Court of Spain from July, 1897,
until the Spanish-American War, April,
1898; and is now president of the Hudson-
Fulton Celebration Commission. He is a
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ford, Bovee and Butcher; director and
counsel of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company; trustee of the Franklin Trust
Company, and City Savings Bank; trustee
of Cornell University since 1867; member
of the New York Bar Association, Colum
bia Alumni, Delta Psi, Army of the Po
tomac, Loyal Legion, the Century Associa
tion, and the University, Lawyers', Gradu
ates', and Lotos Clubs. He married first, in
New York, 1857, Julia Evelyn Capen, and
second, in New York, 1900, Isabel Hanson,
and he has one daughter, Susan Curtis.
Address : 18 Wall Street, New York City.
WOODLE, Allan Sheldon:
Clergyman; born in Janesville, Wiscon
sin, July 22, 1845; son of Isaac Woodle
and Cornelia (Sheldon) Woodle. He was
educated in Sinsinnawa Mound College,
Wisconsin; the High School at Janesville,
Wisconsin ; Racine College, Wisconsin, and
was graduated from Nashotah Theological
Seminary, Wisconsin, as B.D. He was or
dered deacon in 1873 by Bishop Armitage
and ordained priest in 1874 by Bishoo
Whitehouse. He was fellow of All Saints
Cathedral, Milwaukee, in 1873 ; rector 01
St. Matthew's Church, Waukesha, Wiscon
sin, in 1873, and 1874; curate of Christ
Church, New York, in 1875 and
1875 ; rector in charge of Christ
Church, New York, in 1874 and 1876:
manager The Church Journal, New York,
in 1875 and 1876; rector of St. Luke's
Church, Altoona, Pennsylvania, from 1876
to 1906, and has been rector emeritus of
St. Luke's, Altoona, since 1906. He
traveled in Egypt, Palestine and Europe
in 1905 and 1906. In politics he is Inde
pendent. Mr. Woodle married in New
port, Rhode Island, September 12, 1876,
Abbie Carey Tisdale, and they have five
children: Allen Sheldon, born in 1878;
Mary Knowles, born in 1879; Cornelia
S., bora in 1880; Margaret C, born in
1884, and Bernon T., born in 1890. Resi
dence: Narberth, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania. Address: St. Luke's Church, Al
toona, Pennsylvania.

WOODMAN, Joseph Edmund;
Professor of geology and mining geolo
gist ; born in Newbury, Massachusetts, July
3, 1873; son of Charles Henry Woodman
and Mary (Poore) Woodman. He re
ceived his education in the public schools
of New York and Columbia Institute, and
was graduated from Phillips Academy, An
dover, Massachusetts, and Harvard Uni
versity (Lawrence Scientific School), re
ceiving the degrees of A.B. (magna cum
laude in geology) in 1896, A.M. in 1900,
and ScD. in 1902. He was assistant in
geology from 1896 to 1902 in Harvard
University and Radcliffe College; geologist
to the Nova Scotia Department of Mines
in 1898, assistant geologist, New York
State Geological Survey in 1900, and geolo
gist in charge of iron investigations in Nova
Scotia, in the Mines Branch, Department of
Mines of Canada since 1906. He was in
structor in the Summer School at Har
vard from 1897 to 1905; assistant professor
of geology and mineralogy from 1902 to
1907 and now professor of geology, at Dal
housie University. He is consulting en
gineer of several companies operating mines
in Nova Scotia. In national politics he is
a Republican and he is a member of the
Congregational Church. His favorite rec
reations are golf, tennis, rowing, tramping
and camping. Professor Woodman is a
member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Geological
Society of America, the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, the Boston Society of
National History, the Nova Scotia Insti
tute of Science (vice-president), Dominion
Institute of Amalgamated Engineering
(local secretary), and the Mining Society
of Nova Scotia (vice-president). He mar
ried in Pepperell, Massachusetts, Septem
ber 4, 1895, Amy Baker Smith, and their
children are : Malcolm White, born October
4, 1901, and Olive, born January 10, 1906.
Residence : Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ad
dress : Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
WOODRUFF, Clinton Rogers :
Lawyer; was graduated A.B. from Cen
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versity of Pennsylvania, 1889; LL.B.
from University of Pennsylvania, 1892;
admitted to the bar in 1892 and formed
partnership with William D. Neilson in
September, 1900. He was associated as
counsel in leading election and constitu
tional cases, including the List of Voters
case, the Party Square case and the right
of a governor to veto a proposed amend
ment to the constitution, counsel of the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science; counsel Philadelphia Municipal
League, 1897-1903 ; honorary member of the
Educational Club of Philadelphia; member
Law Academy, Law Association, Pennsylva
nia and American Bar Associations; presi
dent American Park and Outdoor Art As
sociation, 1902-1904; vice-president Ameri
can Civic Association, 1904 ; associate of the
American Institute for Social Service; sec
retary and treasurer of the Municipal
League of Philadelphia, 1892-1897; secre
tary of the Union Committee for a Bet
ter Water Supply and Sanitation, 1893;
member of the Executive Committee of the
Citizens' Union, 1898-1899; secretary of
the Public Education Association of Phila
delphia, 1897-1900; secretary of Pennsyl
vania Ballot Reform Association, 1893; of
National Municipal League since its or
ganization, 1894; member of the Executive
Committee of the National Primary Elec
tions Reform Association, 1898; chairman
of Joint Committee for the Promo
tion of Electoral Reforms; member of
the Committee of National League to
draft a Municipal Charter, 1897-1899;
Committee on Uniform Municipal Ac
counting, 1900; Executive Committee Civil
Service Reform Association of Pennsyl
vania since 1894; executive council Na
tional Civil Service Reform League
since 1900; one of the secretaries of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science from 1889 to 1897; and direc
tor since 1897. He is secretary of the
National Conference for . Good City Gov
ernment held in Philadelphia, January
1894; vice-president Young Men's Ameri
can Humane Union, 1894-1897; president of
the Intercollegiate Young Men's Christian
Association, 1891-1893; first president Uni

versity of Pennsylvania Young Men's
Christian Association, 1892; member of
the Executive Committee of the Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and
Tenth Lake Mohonk International Arbi
tration Conferences, 1898; secretary since
1900; member of Philadelphia Branch
American Friends of Russian Freedom,
1893; Italian Political Prisoners' Aid
Committee; Philadelphia Committee on the
International Peace Conference at The
Hague, 1899; First General Committee of
the International Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Arts and Educa
tion; vice-president Christian Temperance
Alliance for Philadelphia, 1893; one of the
secretaries of the Conference held in
Washington, January 12, 1904, to secure a
new treaty of arbitration between Great
Britain and the United States ; signer of
the American Response to England's Greet
ing, 1899; correspondent of the Interna
tional Association for Labor Legislation;
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature
two terms, 1897-1900; special inspector of
the Interior Department, with Charles J.
Bonaparte, to investigate affairs in the In
dian Territory, by appointment of the pres
ident, and a meniber and president Of the
first Board of Personal Registration Com
missioners of Philadelphia, since 1906.
Frequent contributor to the Outlook, North
American Review, Review of Reviews,
World's Work, the Independent, Yale Re
view, American Journal of Sociology, and
other leading periodicals. Active in church
work; member of the vestry of St.
Clement's parish; president of the Chris
tian Social Union; member of Diocesan
Committee of Missionary Money Offering
since 1906; governor of the Church Club
of Philadelphia. Member of the Union
League, University, Church, Philobiblon
and City Clubs of Philadelphia; City Club,
New York, and Twentieth Century Club,
Boston. Address : 121 South Broad Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Summer ad
dress: Arbor Vitae, Cumberland Head,
Plattsburg, New York.
WOODRUFF, Edwin Hamlin:
Professor of law in Cornell University;
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1862. He was educated in the public
schools of Ithaca, and was graduated from
Cornell University as LL.B. He was as
sistant in Cornell University Library and
Astor Library, from 1881 to 1887; in
structor in English in Cornell University,
from 1888 to 1890; librarian of Stanford
University from 1891 to 1895 ; professor of
law in Stanford University from 1893 to
1895; and has been professor of
law in Cornell University since 1896. He
was lecturer in Chicago University Law
School in 1904 and 1906. Mr. Woodruff
is author of: Cases in Domestic Relations,
1897, new edition 1905 ; Introduction to the
Study of Law, 1898; Cases on Insurance,
1900; Cases on Quasi Contracts, 1905;
American Cases in Contracts, 1894 (jointly
with E. W. Huff cut). In politics he is a
Democrat. He is a member of the Ameri
can Bar Association and a member of the
Town and Gown Club. Address : 401 North
Aurora Street, Ithaca, New York.
WOODRUFF, Rollin S.:
Governor of Conneticut; born in New
York State. Was elected in 1904 lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut on the Republican
ticket, and in 1906 was c elected governor
for the two-year term expiring January 9,
1909. He is a Republican. Residence : New
Haven, Connecticut. Official address : Hart
ford, Connecticut.
WOODRUFF, Timothy Lester:
Manufacturer and political leader ; born in
New Haven, Connecticut, August 4, 1858;
son of Hon. John Woodruff, who was a
member of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-
sixth Congresses, and Mary (Lester)
Woodruff. He was educated in the local
schools, Phillips Academy at Exeter, New
Hampshire, and Yale College, from which
he was graduated as A.B. in 1879, and re
ceived the A.M. degree in 1889; and he
also took a business course at Eastman's
Business College in Poughkeepsie, New
York. In 1881 he entered the firm of Nash,
Whiton & Company, and when that firm
became a corporation under the title of the
Worcester Salt Company, Mr. Woodruff
became its treasurer, and still holds that

position. He is also president of the Smith
Premier Typewriter Company, which car
ries on a very large business and has an
extensive factory for the manufacture of
machines at Syracuse, New York; and in
1889 he established The Maltine Company,
of which he is president. He is also a di
rector in the Hamilton Trust Company and
the Merchants' Exchange Bank, and presi
dent of the Provident Life Assurance So
ciety. He entered politics in 1881, as a
member of the Executive Committee of the
Young Men's Republican Club, and in that
capacity, in 1883, enthusiastically entered
into the successful campaign of Seth Low
for mayor of Brooklyn. He went as a dele
gate to the State Convention of 1885, and
the National Convention which nominated
Benjamin Harrison for President in 1888.
Since then he has been a delegate to all
the conventions of his party, State and
National. He was park commissioner of
Brooklyn in 1895, elected lieutenant-gov
ernor of New York in 1896, with Frank S.
Black as governor, again in 1898, with
Theodore Roosevelt as governor, -and once
more in 1900, when Benjamin B. Odell
headed the ticket. Mr. Woodruff has a de
lightful summer home, Kill Kare Kamp, in
the heart of the Adirondacks, where he en
tertains his most intimate friends. He is
president of the trustees of Adelphi Col
lege ; and he is a member of the Presbyter
ian Church. Mr. Woodruff finds his fav
orite recreations in automobiling, fishing
and shooting. He is a member of the
Union League, Yale and University Clubs
of New York City, and of the Union
League, Hmailton, Brooklyn and Montauk
Clubs of Brooklyn, and is president of the
latter. He has been twice married, first
to Cora Eastman (now deceased), and
second, April 24, 1905, to Isabel Morrison ;
and he has a son, John Woodruff, born in
1882. Address : 94 Eighth Avenue, Brook
lyn, New York.
WOODS, Edward F.:
Insurance underwriter ; director of the
Fourth National Bank and the New Am
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Address: 32 Kilby Street, Boston, Massa
chusetts.WOODS, Matthew:
Physician; born in Ireland, May 29,
1848, of English, Scotch and French Hu
guenot ancestry. His maternal grand
father, Captain de Wauchop, served in the
Crimean and other wars, and the Scotch
General Wauchop, the original "Fighting
Bob," an important figure in the history of
British India and killed in the Boer War,
was a member of the same family; his
father, Samuel Woods, was a farmer,
manufacturer, at one time extensively en
gaged in the making of plows. The son
obtained his early education in Ireland, and
in 1865, at the age of seventeen years,
emigrated to this country and of
fered his services at once to the country,
and four weeks after landing in Philadel
phia he was on board a monitor within
sight of Fort Sumter. At the end of the
war, he resumed his studies and was gradu
ated from the Medical Department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1874. Since
then he has been actively engaged
in medical practice in Philadelphia, giv
ing special attention to the treatment of
epilepsy. He was president of the Phila
delphia Medical Mission, and the Phila
delphia Browning Society; a member of
various medical societies and of the
Pennsylvania State Editorial Association.
He was the originator and for some years
the editor of the Journal of Zoophily. He
is an active member of the National So
ciety for the Study and Management of
Epilepsy; has contributed many papers to
its transactions, and has traveled widely and
extensively in Europe, his observations be
ing recorded in his interesting Rambles of
a Physician, or a Midsummer Dream; he
has also written various pamphlets on epi
lepsy, hydrophobia and kindred subjects.
Address : 1307 South Broad Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania.
WOODWARD, John:
Justice of the Supreme Court ; born in
Chautauqua County, New York, August
19, 1859; son of Daniel S. Woodward and

graduated from Fredonia State Normal
School in 1878; and from the Law School
University of the City of New York, with
the degree of LL.B. in 1881. He served as
city attorney of Jamestown, New York, for
three years; was a member of the Board of
Supervisors of Chautauqua County for five
years; district attorney of Chautauqua
County, three years, elected in 1896; jus
tice of the Supreme Court of New York
State for the term of fourteen years. He
was assigned as justice of the Appellate Di
vision of the Supreme Court, Second De
partment, in 1898, and reassigned in 1903.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a
member of the Riding and Driving, Brook
lyn and Hamilton Clubs of Brooklyn, the
Jamestown Club of Jamestown, the Buf
falo Club of Buffalo, the Republican Club
of New York, and the Blooming' Grove
Hunting and Fishing Club of Glen Eyre,
Pennsylvania. He married in Fredonia,
New York, May 26, 1886, Mary E. Barker,
daughter of Hon. George Barker, justice
of the Supreme Court, and they have two
daughters : Mary Elizabeth, born in 1888,
and Frances, born in 1895. Address : 328
East Fourth Street, Jamestown, New York.
WOODWARD, Robert B.:
Capitalist. He is vice-president and trustee
of the Bowery Savings Bank; third vice-
president and trustee of the Brooklyn Insti
tute of Arts and Sciences ; vice-president and
director of the Nassau National Bank; di
rector of the Bond and Mortgage Guaran
tee Company, Home Life Insurance Com
pany, Lloyd's Plate Glass Insurance Com
pany, Safe Deposit Company of New York,
Thompson- Starrett Company, and the
United States Casualty Company; member
of the Finance Committee and director of
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and trus
tee of the Franklin Safe Deposit Company,
Mutual Life Insurance Company, Franklin
Trust Company; resident trustee of the
Svea Fire and Life Insurance Company,
and is a member of the firm of Charles
Hathaway and Company. Address- 45
Wall Street, New York City.
WOOD WORTH, T. Floyd:
Physician and surgeon; born

Cornelia (Lake) Woodward. He was Napanoch, Ulster County, New York, Oc-

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tober 20, 1832; son of Theodore and Sarah
(Wadsworth) Woodworth. He was born
of English stock who came over in the
Mayflower in her early voyages ; his grand
father, Luther Woodworth, was a soldier
in the war of 1812, who was a twin
brother to Luke Woodworth, the father of
Samuel Woodworth, the noted poet, who
wrote The Old Oaken Bucket. He was
educated in the common schools and
Shaw's Euclid School, Ohio; was gradu
ated from Charity Hospital Medical Col
lege, Cleveland, Ohio, 1869. He was phy
sician and surgeon to the ' coroner of Co
lumbia County three terms; to the United
States Pension Board for fourteen years;
was vice-president of the town when or
ganized in 1887; health officer of the town
of Kinderhook, and health officer of the
village of Kinderhook for the past ten
years. He is a Republican in politics, and
an Episcopalian in religion, being clerk
of the vestry of St. Paul's Church since
1886. He is a member and ex-president
of Columbia County Medical Society,
State Medical Society; member of the
American Medical Association; secretary
and treasurer of Columbia County Medi
cal Society since 1898. He is a thirty-
second degree Mason, past high priest of
the Kinderhook Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, past grand Odd Fellow. He mar
ried, September, 1879, Delia J. Schermer
horn, of Muitzeskill, New York. Address :
Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.
WOOD YARD, Harry Chapman:
Congressman; born in Spencer, Roane
County, West Virginia, November 13, 1867;
son of William Woodyard and Isabel C.
Woodyard. He was educated in the com
mon schools. He is engaged in the whole
sale grocery and lumber business; was
elected to the State Senate from the Fifth
Senatorial District in 1898, and served as
chairman of the committee on railroads and
on the judiciary committee; was a candi
date for nomination for Congress in 1900,
but was defeated in convention. He was
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from

the Fourth West Virginia District. He
married Emma Douglass Kelley. Address :
Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia.
WOOLSEY, Melancthon Lloyd:
Clergyman ; was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan as Ph.B. in 1877, and
the General Theological Seminary in 1881.
He was ordered deacon in 1881 and or
dained priest in 1882 by Bishop H. Potter.
Mr. Woolsey was assistant of Grace Church,
New York City, from 1881 to 1884; rec
tor of the Church of the Holy Innocents,
New York City, from 1884 to 1889 ; assist
ant of St. Paul's, Baltimore, Maryland,
in 1889 and 1890; rector of St. Luke's,
Seaford, Delaware, from 1890 to 1894; rec
tor of Grace Church, Louisville, Kentucky,
from 1894 to 1898 ; of St. Paul's, Vergennes,
Vermont, from 1898 to 1906 ; and since then
of St. Andrew's, Buffalo, New York. He
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. Address : Buffalo, New
York. WORCESTER, Dean Conant:
Secretary of the Interior of the Philip
pine Islands; born in Thetford, Vermont,
October 1, 1866. He was graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1899. He
was a member of the Steere Scientific Ex
pedition to the Philippine Islands in 1887
and 1888 ; assistant in botany at the Univer
sity of Michigan in 1889 and 1900; one of
the two men to conduct and manage Scien
tific Expedition to Philippines, from 1890
to 1893; instructor in zoology from 1893
to 1895 ; and since 1895 assistant professor
and curator at the zoological museum of
the University of Michigan. From Janu
ary, 1899, to September 1, 1901, he was
United States Philippine commissioner
and has been secretary of the Interior of
the Philippine Insular Government since
September 1, 1901. He is author of: The
Philippine Islands and Their People, 1899;
also various papers on birds and mammals
of the Philippines. He married in Pasa
dena, California, April 27, 1893, Nanon Fay
Leas. Address : Manila, Philippine Is
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W ORMAN, James Henry:
United States consul;, bora in Berlin,
Germany, February 28, 1845. He received
his education in Berlin University and the
Sorbonne, Paris; A.M. from Dickinson,
Ph.D. from Asbury (now De Pauw) Uni
versity, and LL.D. from Mount Union Col
lege. He was editorial writer for the secu
lar and religious papers; associate editor
of the National Repository; senior pro
fessor of Chatauqua from its foundation
until 1885; head of the Southern Chautau
qua, Round Lake Summer School and
others. He was professor at Adelphi Col
lege from 1877 to 1882; and in Vanderbilt
University from 1882 to 1885; also editor
of the Chenango Telegraph in 1875 and
1876; of Saratoga, from 1885 to 1887; edi
tor-in-chief of Outing from 1887 to 1889.
He is author of : Complete Grammar of the
German Language ; Elementary German
Grammar; L'Echo de Paris; the Chautau
qua Language Series in French, German
and Spanish; alsg other text-books for
the study of modern languages. He edited
McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia, and
was also a large contributor to other cyclo-
' pedias. He has a beautiful stock farm at
Westport, "on Lake Champlain, New York.
He entered the Consular Service as com
mercial agent at Cognac, August 18, 1898;
was consul from 1899 to 1902 ; consul-gen
eral from 1902 to 1905 at Munich, Ger
many, and transferred on his own request
to his present less important post as con
sul at Three Rivers, Canada, September
23, 1905, in order that he might be near
his estate on Lake Champlain. He mar
ried, first, in 1866, Emma Parker Davis,
who died, January, 1896, and second, April
4, 1898, Mary A. Payne, of Wadham's Mills,
New York. Summer home: Westport, New
York. Official address: Three Rivers,
Province of Quebec, Canada.,
WORMSER, Leo:
Capitalist. He is president and director
of the Jewelers' Board of Trade ; vice-pres
ident and director of the Jewelers' League ;
director of the Calculagraph Company,
Maiden Lane Safe Deposit Company, and
10 and 12 Maiden Lane Company, and

treasurer and director of the Julius King
Optical Company. Address: 12 Maiden
Lane, New York City.
WORTHINGTON, George:
Bishop of Nebraska; born at Lenox,
Massachusetts, October 14, 1840; son of
Guy Worthington and Lydia Ophelia
(Dewey) Worthington. He studied , at
Hobart College, Geneva, New York, grad
uating in i860, and going thence to the
General Theological Seminary at New York
City, where he received the degree of B.D.
in 1863. The degree of D.D. was con
ferred upon him by Racine College, Wis
consin, and Williams College, Massachu
setts, and S.T.D. and LL.D. by Hobart
College. He was ordered deacon of the
Episcopal Church in 1863 and was ordainea
to the priesthood the - next year by Bishop
H. Potter. After his ordination to the
ministry, he became assistant of St. Paul's
Church, Troy, New York, and later rector
of Christ's Church, Ballston Spa, New
York, and of St. John's Church, Detroit,
Michigan. He was twice elected Bishop of
the diocese of Nebraska in 1884, and ac
cepted the second election, and was conse
crated by Bishops Coxe, Hare, Gillespie,
McLaren, Perry, Seymour, Harris and H.
C. Potter, February 24, 1885. In 1883 he
was elected- to the bishopic of China by the
General Convention, but declined. In May,
1907, he was commissioned by the pre
siding bishop, as bishop in charge of the
American churches on the .Continent of Eu
rope. Bishop Worthington is author of
many sermons, addresses and pastorals. Ad
dress : Omaha, Nebraska.
WRIGHT, Carroll Davidson:
President of Clark College; born at
Dumbarton, New Hampshire, July ,25, 1840;
son of the Rev. Nathan R. Wright and
Elizabeth (Clark) Wright. He was edu
cated in the public schools and academies
of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Vermont, and for his valuable services
later, the honorary degree of A.M. was
conferred upon him by Tufts College, that
of Ph.D. by Dartmouth, and LL.D. by
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and Amherst Colleges. He was admitted
to the bar of New Plampshire in October,
1865, and in October, 1867, to those of
Massachusetts and the United States. From
the latter date to 1876, he practiced law
in Boston. He was university lecturer in
Harvard from 1881 to 1901, and from 1895
to 1904, honorary professor of social eco
nomics in the Catholic University of Amer
ica. Ir 1900 Dr. Wright accepted the chair
of statistics and social economics in George
Washington University, and in 1902 was
elected to the presidency of Clark College,
the position he now holds. He has also
filled the chair of statistics and social eco
nomics at Clark University since 1905.
Dr. Wright has had considerable public
services, particularly in the industrial and
statistical lines. He served in the 'Massa
chusetts Senate from 1872 to 1873, becom
ing in June of 1873 chief of the Massa
chusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
This office he held until September, 1888.
He was presidential elector in 1876, com
missioner of records in Massachusetts, 1885-
86; United States Commissioner of Labor
for twenty years, from January, 1885, to
January, 1905. He was for four years in
charge of the United States census (1893) ;
member and recorder of the Anthracite
Coal Strike Commission during the years
1902-03 ; chairman of the Commission on
Relation of Employer and Employee in
Massachusetts, 1903-04; chairman of the
Massachusetts Commission on Industrial
Education, in 1905 and 1906. In Au
gust, 1862, he enlisted in the United
States Army as private in the Fourteenth
New Hampshire Infantry, being promoted
to lieutenant and adjutant in December,
1863 ; and to colonel of the same regiment
in December, 1864. He was discharged
in March, 1865, on account of ill health.
Dr. Wright made extensive travels in
Europe in 1874, 1881, and 1883. In poli
tics he is identified with the Republican
party and he is a member of the Unitarian
Church. He is a member and president of
the Board of Trustees of Hackley School,
Tarrytown, New York; trustee of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at
Amherst, Massachusetts, and trustee and

chairman of executive committee of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. He
is member of the American Academy for
the Advancement of Science, the American
Institute of Sociology, the Washington
Academy of Sciences, the American Social
Science Association, the American Politi
cal Science Association, the American His
torical Association, the Economic Asso
ciation ; president of the American Statisti
cal Association; member and councillor of
the American Antiquarian Society. He is
also member of the International Institute
of Sociology, the International Statistical
Institute, the Royal Statistical Society; cor
responding member of the Institute of
France, and honorary member of the Rus
sian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Be
sides these he belongs to the Fire Society
of Worcester, Massachusetts; to the Uni
versity, St. Botolph and Massachusetts
Agricultural Clubs of Boston, and to the
Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C. In
1906, he was made by the King of Italy,
Knight of St. Lazarus and St. Maurice ;
and in 1907, by the President of the French
Republic, a Knight of the Legion d'Honneur.
He was married at Reading, Massachusetts,'
January 1, 1867, to Caroline E. Harnden,
and has two daughters : Mrs. J. B. McPher
son, born in 1873, and Grace D., born in
1877. Residence : 96 Woodland Street.
Address : Clark College, Worcester, Mas
sachusetts. WRIGHT, Charles Fred:
Banker and manufacturer; born at Forest
Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania,
May 3, 1856; son of Chester Wright and
Julia A. (Nickerson) Wright. He was edu
cated in Montrose Academy, at Montrose,
Pennsylvania. He became cashier of the
First National Bank of Susquehanna De
pot, Pennsylvania, and later became identi
fied with manufacturing interests. He is
a Republican in politics and was a delegate
to the National Republican Convention at
St. Louis in 1896. He was elected in 1898
to the Fifty-sixth Congress and reelected
in 1900 and 1902 to the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth Congresses. He married Min
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ence, born in 1886, and Miller, born in
1891. Address : Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.
WRIGHT. Clement Blake Bergin:
Clergyman; born in Montreal, Canada,
January 9, 1871 ; son of William Wright,
M.D., of McGill University, and Margaret
Mason (Harbeson) Wright. He was grad
uated from the high school of Montreal,
1S87; Bishop's University, Lennoxville, as
B.A. in 1890; from Trinity University,
Toronto, as B.A. in 1890; Divinity Testa
mur, and M.A. in 1892; Nashotah The
ological Seminary, Wisconsin, in 1893, B.
D. in 1895; University of Toronto, as
M.A. in 1904; from the University of
Kansas City as Ph.D. in 1901. He was or
dered deacon in 1893, and ordained to the
priesthood, 1895, by Bishop Nicholson of
Milwaukee. Dr. Wright was assistant at
All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee, from
1893 to 1905 ; residentiary canon and chan
cellor since 1905; domestic chaplain to the
late Bishop of Milwaukee from 1893 to
1906 ; diocesan examining chaplain since
1896; secretary of the diocese of Mil
waukee, since 1894; diocesan librarian since
1893 ; managing editor of the Church Times
since 1896. He was deputy to the General
Convention in 1898. He is a life member
of the State Historical Society of Wiscon
sin, member of the Wisconsin Academy of
Sciences, Arts and Letters, and of the
Wisconsin Archeological Society; trustee
of the Nashotah Theological Seminary of
Wisconsin since 1905. He married in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, July 31, 1900, Alice
Elizabeth Button, and they have one son,
William Harrison Bergin Wright, born
January 24, 1902. Address: 284 Martin
Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
WRIGHT, Francis Marion:
United States district judge; born at
Brier Ridge, Adams County, Ohio, August
5, 1844; son of James Wright and Eliza
beth (Copple) Wright. He was educated
in the public schools and in the Ohio Val
ley Academy at Decatur, Ohio. He served
in the Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteers as
private and second lieutenant from 1861 to
1865. Pie was graduated from the Cincin

nati College Law School, as LL.B. in 1867,
and was admitted to the bar; practiced at
Georgetown, Ohio, until 1868, and then re
moved to Urbana, Illinois, where he prac
ticed law. Pie was elected judge of the
Fourth Judicial Circuit of Illinois in 1891
and 1897, was assigned to the Appellate
Court in 1897, serving in that court un
til 1903, when he was appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt judge of the United States
Court of Claims. He continued in that of
fice until appointed, by President Roose
velt, to his present office as judge of the
District Court for the Eastern District of
Illinois. He is president of the First Na
tional Bank of Urbana, Illinois, and is
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion. Judge Wright married at Decatur,
Ohio, July 15, 1868, Elizabeth West. Ad
dress : Urbana, Ohio.
WRIGHT, Herbert R.:
Consular officer; born in Iowa. He was
appointed consul at Puerto Plata, March 30,
1905; consul at Utila, June 15, 1905. Ad
dress : Utila, Honduras.
WRIGHT, Herbert P.:
Banker ; born in Illinois, 1865 ; son of
Burton Wright and Hulda (Coon) Wright.
He attended Woodstock (Illinois) High
School, and was graduated from North
western University as B.Sc. • in 1887, and
received the honorary degree of M.S. in
1890. He is president of H. P. Wright
Investment Company, established in 1885.
Mr. Wright is a Republican in politics, and
a Methodist in religious views. He is trus
tee of Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas,
and grand trustee of the Sigma Chi fra
ternity. He is a member of the Kansas City
Club, Kansas City Athletic Club, Univer
sity Club, Commercial Club, Lake View
Fishing Club, Lake View, Kansas, Elm
Ridge Golf Club, Evanston Golf Club,
Athol Hunting Club, Athol Minnesouri
Fishing Club, Alexandria, Minnesota. He
married in Ottumwa, Iowa, October, 1890,
Hattie Haw, and they have two children:
Herbert, born in 1891, and Lillian, born in
1898. Residence: 211 Garfield Avenue, Kan-

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sas City. Office address : 730 Delaware
Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
WRIGHT, John:
Clergyman; was graduated from Union
University as B.A. in 1863; M.A. in 1866;
and received the degree of D.D. in 1890
from same institution, and the degree of
LL.D. from Illinois College in 1905. He
was ordered deacon in 1866 by Bishop A.
Lee, and ordained priest in 1867 by Bishop
Stevens. He was assistant in St. Andrew's
Church, Philadelphia, in 1866 and 1867; in
charge of St. Andrew's Chapel, Philadel
phia, from 1867 to 1869; rector of Trinity
Church, Bay City, Michigan, from 1869 to
1874, and of St. Matthew's, Boston, Massa
chusetts, from 1874 to 1875, and has been
rector of St. Paul's Church, St. Paul, Min
nesota, since 1887. He is author of:
A Plea for Church Endowment, 1890;
Early Bibles of America, 1894; Early
Prayerbooks of America, 1897; Restoration
of the Reservation of the Blessed Sacia-
ment for the Sick, 1904; and Historic
Bibles in America, 1906. Address : 383
East Ninth Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.
WRIGHT, Maurice L.:
Jurist; born in Scriba, New York, No
vember 27, 1845 ; son of David Park and
Betsey (Woodworth) Wright. He was
educated at Mexico Academy, and at Fal-
ley Seminary, New York, 1864; enlisted in
the United States Navy in 1864; was as
signed to the gunboat Valley City, of the
North Atlantic Squadron, commanded by
Admiral Porter; was in the Roanoke ex
pedition, following the sinking of the ram
Albemarle by Cushing, and saw much
hard service. After the war he finished his
education, and studied law in the office of
Congressman John C. Churchill, of Oswego,
New York; later studied in the Columbian
Law School, Washington, D. C. ; and was
graduated as LUB. in 1870. Mr. Wright
was admitted to the bar of the District of
Columbia in 1876, and to the bar of New
York State, 1892; and formed a law part
nership in Mexico Village, New York, prac
ticing there for twenty years. In 1879 he
was elected president of the village, and
served two years, and in 1883 he was

elected county judge of Oswego County
by the Republican party, and was re
elected in 1889. Governor Hill appointed
him a member of the Constitutional Com
mission of 1890, to revise the Judiciary
Article of the State Constitution. In 1891
he was elected justice of the New York
Supreme Court, which office he held until
the expiration of his term, December 31,
1905. He married, November 3, 1869, Mary
Grace Skinner. Address : Oswego, New
York. WRIGHT, Sydney Longstreth:
Banker; born in Germantown, Philadel
phia, 1852; son of Robert Kemp Wright
and Henrietta Hoskins (Price) Wright. He
was educated in private and public schools
of Germantown and Philadelphia. He has
always taken active part in financial man
agement of numerous corporations with
which he has been connected. He was vice-
president and treasurer of the Philadelphia
Export Exposition of 1899 and presented
by the directors through the mayor of
Philadelphia, Hon. Charles F. Warwick,
with a handsome silver service for success
ful financial management whereby all ac
counts of the Exposition were settled with
out a single law-suit, and over forty-six
per cent, of the Guarantee Fund of $106,-
000 was returned to the guarantors.
He is president and director of the Bal
timore Electric Company, and of the Mary
land Telephone Company ; trustee and man
ager of the estate of George W. Carpenter ;
director of the Northern Trust Company;
trustee of the Philadelphia Commercial
Museum, and a member of the Philadelphia
Stock Exchange. Mr. Wright is an Inde
pendent Republican in politics, and an
Episcopalian in religion. He is a member
of the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia,
the Manheim Club of Germantown, the
Maryland Club of Baltimore, and the Lotos
Club of New York. He married in Phila
delphia, in 1884, Fanny Piatt Pepper, and
they have two children: Henrietta Price
Wright, born in 1884, and Miers Fisher
Wright, born in 1891. Residence: Carpen
ter Lane, opposite Quincy, Germantown,
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WYCKOFF, Edward Guild:
Capitalist; born in South Lansing, New
York, 1867; son of William Ozman
Wyckoff and Frances V. (Ives) Wyckoff.
He was educated in the Ithaca schools and
Cornell University. He is president and
director of Cornell Heights Land < Com
pany, Heights Improvement Company,
Brush Swan Electric Light Company, Cor
nell Incubator Manufacturing Company,
Wyckoff Lumber and Manufacturing Com
pany, E. G. Wyckoff Company, Ithaca
Street Railway Company; treasurer of the
Electric Light and Power Company,
Wyckoff Phonographic Institute Company;
vice-president and director of the Reming
ton Typewriter. Company; .Wyckoff, Sea-
mans and Benedict. He married in Boston,
1888, Edith T. Clymer. Residence : Ithaca,
New York. Address : 327 Broadway, New
York City.
WYETH, John Allan:
Physician and surgeon; born in Mis
sionary Station, Alabama, May 26, 1845 ;
son of Judge Louis Wyeth and Euphemia
(Allan) Wyeth. He was educated in
Guntersville Common School, and cadet at
the La Grange Military Academy, 1861 ;
enlisted as a private in Company I, Russell's
Fourth Alabama Cavalry, Confederate
States Army, and served through the Civil
War, taking part in engagements at Law's
Landing, June, 1862; Bear Wallow, Upton
Station, Elizabethtown, Muldraugh's Hill,
Rolling Fork River, December, 1862, and
January, 1863; after that at Shelbyville,
Tennessee, Elk River, Winchester, Chicka
mauga, MacLemore's Cave, Cottonport,
Sequatchie Valley and Macon, Georgia, to
the surrender. He resumed his studies after
the war; was graduated from the Medi
cal Department of the University of Louis
ville as M.D. in 1869 Bellevue Hospital
Medical College as M.D. in 1873; and re
ceived his LL.D. from the University of
Alabama, in 1901. He has been engaged
in the practice of medicine in New York
City from 1873 ; was assistant demonstrator
of anatomy at Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, from 1873 to 1876; founded the
New York Polyclinic Medical School and
Hospital and profession of surgery since

1882; surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital
from 1878 to 1897; Mt. Sinai Hospital,
from 1883 to 1893. Dr. Wyeth is author
of: Handbook of Medical and Surgical
Reference, 1873.; Text-Book on Surgery,
1886, and subsequent editions ; Life of Gen
eral Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1899; also
numerous monographs and articles on surgi
cal subjects, contributions of historical and
biographical articles and war sketches to
magazines. He was president of the New
York Pathological Society from 1885 to
1886; president of the New York State
Medical Association in 1900; president of
the American Medical Association in 1901 ;
president of the New York Academy of
Medicine in 1907, New York Academy of
Medicine and the New York County Medi
cal Association; honorary member of the
Pulaski County Medical Society, New York
Southern Society, and the Union League
Club. He married, in 1886, Florence N.
Sims. Address : 244 Lexington Avenue,
New York City.
WYLIE, Richard Cameron:
Clergyman; born near Zanesville, Ohio,
August 27, 1846; son of John Wylie and
Maria (Wisher) Wylie. He was educated
in Muskingum College, New C6ncord,
Ohio ; the Reformed Presbyterian Theolog
ical Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
He received the degree of A.B. in 1870,
A.M. in 1873, and, D.D. in 1896. He was
ordained and installed pastor of Hopkinton,
Iowa, Reformed Presbyterian > Congrega
tion, June 15, 1875; released October, 1882;
spent two years as district secretary and
lecturer for the National Reform Associa
tion; was installed pastor of Cedar Lake,
Reformed Presbyterian Congregation, Ray,
Indiana, November, 1884; released Novem
ber, 1891; installed pastor of Wilkinsburg,
Pennsylvania, Reformed Presbyterian Con
gregation, November 26, #§91. He is man
aging editor of the ChrKtian Statesman,
a monthly magazine devoted to the cause
of National Reformation on the basis of
Christian principles of civil government.
He is author of: Our Educational Sys
tem: Is it Christian or Secular?; and Sab
bath Laws in the United States. He is a
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treasurer of the Association. He married
in Lancaster, Ohio, June 6, 1876, Jean
Buchanan, and they have three children:
Anna M. B., born in 1883; Bessie L. M.,
born in 1885; and Vella V., born in 1887.
Address : 810 South Avenue, Wilkinsburg,
Pennsylvania. WYMAN, Walter:
Surgeon-general of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service of the United
, States ; born in St. Louis, Missouri, Au
gust 17, 1848; son of Edward Wyman and
Elizabeth (Hadley) Wyman. He received
his preparatory education in the City Uni
versity of St. Louis in the class of 1866,
was graduated from Amherst College with
the degree of A.B. in 1870, and received
from that college the A.M. degree in 1889 ;
was graduated from the St. Louis Medical
College as M.D. in 1873 ; and he received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from the
Western University of Pennsylvania in
1897. He was assistant physician in St.
Louis Hospitals from 1873 to 1875 ; was
surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service
from 1876 to 1891, in charge successively of
marine hospitals at St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Baltimore, and New York, and of the
Quarantine and Purveying Divisions at the
Marine Hospital Bureau, Washington, D. C.
was supervising surgeon-general, Marine
Hospital Service, 1891 to 1902 ; since 1902
surgeon-general of the Public Health and
Marine Hospital Service. Dr. Wyman was
secretary of the Section on Public and In
ternational Hygiene in the Ninth Interna
tional Medical Congress, Washington, Sep
tember, 1887; chairman of the Committee
on International Quarantine of the Pan
American Medical Congress, City of Mex
ico, 1896; president of the First and Sec
ond General International Sanitary Con
ventions of Amaajcan Republics at Wash
ington, 1902 and 1905; chairman of the In
ternational Sanitary Bureau of the Amer
ican Republics ; chairman of the Section on
Public Health of the International Congress
of Arts and Sciences, Universal Exposition,
St. Louis, 1904. He is a member and was
president of the American Public Health
Association, 1902-1903, and of the Associa
tion of Military Surgeons, 1904-1905 ; vice-

president and acting president of the Amer
ican National Red' Cross, 1904, and a mem
ber of the Central Committee and Board of
Consultation of the American National Red
Cross as reorganized under the Act of Con
gress of January 5, 1905; and is a member
of the Board of Visitors of the Government
Hospital for the Insane, and of the Medical
Board of Providence Hospital. Dr. Wyman
is an honorary member of the Imperial
Society of Medicine of Constantinople;
member of the American Medical Associa
tion, American Academy of Medicine,
American Medical Editors' Association,
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, American Climatological Asso
ciation, National Geographic Society, So
ciety for Psychical Research; honorary fel
low of the American Association of Obstet
ricians and Gynecologists, member of the
American Society of Tropical Medicine,
District Medical Society of Washington,
District Medical and Surgical Society,
Washington Academy of Sciences and Co
lumbia Historical Society. He made a five
months tour of Europe as far East as
Hungary, and has made visits to Mexico,
Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands. He is a
Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian
in church relations. He was governor of
the Society of Colonial Wars in the Dis
trict of Columbia, 1894-1895 president of
the District of Columbia Society of SOns
of hte Revolution, 1899- 1900; is a member
of the Washington Graduate Chapter of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the Met
ropolitan, Cosmos, University and Chevy
Chase Clubs of Washington, D. C. Resi
dence : Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D. C.
Office addresses : Bureau of Public Health,
and Marine Hospital Service, Washington,
D. C.
WYRICK, Basil Guy:
Editor ; 'bom in Mongo, Indiana, Septem
ber 25, 1876; son of Peter Wyrick and
Martha Anne (Doudt) Wyrick. He was
graduated from Angola, Indiana, High
School in 1893, Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity in 1894, Northwestern University
as B.S. in 1899, Northwestern University
Law School in 1900. He was reporter and
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tion, in 1899 and 1900; reporter of the Chi
cago Daily News, in 1900 and 1901 ; re
porter of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 1901 ;
reporter of the Chicago Chronicle, in 1901
and 1902; editor of The Associated Press
of Chicago, from 1902 to 1906, and assist
ant and manager of the Central Division
of the Associated Press, since 1907. He is
author of several short stories, and News
paper Rhetoric, now in press. Mr. Wyrick
is a Republican in politics, and a Methodist
in religion. He is a member of the North
western University Alumni Association, and
the Jackson Park Golf Club. Pie married
in San Jose, California, June 19, 1901,
Edith Eugenia Austin, and they have three
children : Martha Eunice, bora in 1902,
Austin, born in 1904, and Basil Guy, Jr.,
born in 1906. Residence : 302 Sixty-second
Street, Chicago. Office address : 716 and
138 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.

YEAMAN, George Helm:
Lawyer, jurist and ex-congressman;
born in Hardin County, Kentucky, Novem
ber I, 1829; son of Stephen M. Yeaman
and Lucretia (Helm) Yeaman. He studied
law, was elected judge of the County
Court of Daviess County in 1854; elected
to the Legislature in 1861 and to Congress,
to. fill a vacancy, in 1862, and reelected in
1863 for a full term. He voted for the
Constitutional Amendment abolishing slav
ery, which caused his defeat at the next
election. In 1865 he was made minister
resident at Copenhagen, where he served
five years and, under the direction of Mr.
Seward, negotiated a treaty with Den
mark for the purchase of the Islands of
St. Thomas and Santa Cruz, which failed
of ratification. In 1870 he resigned and
settled in New York, where he has since
practised law. Mr. Yeaman is author of:
The Study of Government, 1870; and of
articles and pamphlets on various subjects,
among them, Allegiance and Naturaliza
tion, 1866; Privateering, 1867; The Ala
bama Question, 1868; Labor and Money
(an attack on fiat money), 1879; A Cur

rency Primer, advocating the gold standard,
1896. He was for several years a lecturer
on Constitutional Law in Columbia Law
School. In a report adopted by the As
sociation of the Bar of the City of New
York, he outlined the abolition of
the Superior Court and the Court of Com
mon Pleas of New York City, proposing
to merge them in the Supreme Court, many
years before the adoption of that reform
in the Constitution of 1894. Mr. Yeaman
is a member of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, the State
Bar Association, . The Kentuckians, New
York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Natural History,
the National Geographic Society, Economic
Club of New York, the Academy of Politi
cal and Social Science, "the Cosmos Club of
Jersey City, and the New York Academy of
Science. Pie married in Owensboro, Ken
tucky, in 1855, Lelia Pegram, daughter of
Robert Triplett. Address : 44 Wall Street,
New York City.
YODER, Albert Henry:
Superintendent of public schools ; born
near Nora Springs, Iowa, February 15,
1866 ; son of William H. Yoder and C. Ad
die (Buskirk) oder. He began his edu
cation in the public schools of Iowa, was
graduated from the Latin course in the
State Normal School at Madison, South
Dakota in 1888, and from Indiana Univer
sity as A.B. in 1893. He was a graduate
student and fellow in pedagogy of Clark
University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in
1893- 1894; graduate student in psychology
at the University of Chicago in 1895-1896;
and took a special course in pediatrics in
Northwestern University in 1896. He has
been engaged in educational work frOm
1888 ; was teacher in common schools three
years; superintendent ofifchools at Madi
son, South Dakota from 1888 to 1891 ; in
structor in pedagogy in Indiana University
in 1893 ; principal in the City Normal School
of San Francisco, California, 1894-1895;
president of Vincinnes University, 1896 to
1900; professor of education in the Uni
versity of Washington from 1900 to 1906;
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coma, Washington. He has lectured on
Childhood and Adolescence, and edited the
Journal of Childhood and Adolescence. He
has been a member of the National Educa
tional Association since 1896, and of several
societies for the study of children, partic
ularly backward and defective children. He
is a Republican in politics and a Congrega
tionalist in his church relations. He is a
director of the Tacoma Public Library. Mr.
Yoder is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, the Sigma Nu fraternity, and the
University Club of Tacoma. Residence :
712 Carr Street, Tacoma. Office address :
Central School, Tacoma, Washington.
YOUNG, Edmund Booth:
Clergyman; born in Philadelphia, April
30, 1872; son of John Morgan Young and
Louisa Kate (Booth) Young. He was
graduated from Nashotah Theological Sem
inary, Nashotah, Wisconsin; was or
dered deacon in 1896 and ordained priest
in 1896 by Bishop Grafton. Fr. Young
was formerly assistant at Chilton, Hayton
and Omro, Wisconsin, in 1896 and 1897;
assistant at Holy Cross Church, New York,
from 1897 to 1899 ; at St. Mary Magdalene's
and St. Jude's, Toronto, from 1899 to 1900 ;
priest in charge of St. Gabriel, Hollis, Long
Island, in 1900 and 1901 ; rector of St. John's,
Bayonne, New Jersey, from 1901 to 1904,
and since 1905 he has been rector of St.
Luke's Episcopal Church, in Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts. In politics he is a Republican,
and he is a member of the Review Club
of Chelsea. Address : 203 Washington
Avenue, Chelsea, Massachusetts.
YOUNG, George Washington:
Banker; bora in Jersey City, New Jer
sey, July 1, 1864; son of Peter Young
and Mary (Crosby) Young. He received
his education in the public schools of Jer
sey City, and the scientific department of
Cooper Union. He was receiving teller
in the Hudson County National Bank, of
Jersey City; secretary arid treasurer of
the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust
Company. At the age of twenty-eight he
was elected vice-president and treasurer of
the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company, and within two years was elected

president and resigned April I, 1905, to
take up private banking, the firm name
being George W. Young Company. He is
director and chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Windsor Trust Com
pany; director, secretary and treasurer of
the O'Rourke Engineering and Construc
tion Company; vice-president and director
of the Audit Company of New York; di
rector of Acker, Merrill and Condit Com
pany, Interborough-Metropolitan Company,
the National Bank of Commerce, the City
and Suburban Homes Company, etc. He
is a member of the New York Stock Ex
change and Chamber of Commerce; of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National
Geographic Society, the National Histori
cal and Biological Society; the Cooper
Union Alumni; a member of the Pilgrims'
and the New York Zoological Society. He
is also a member of the Manhattan, Play
ers', Racquet and Tennis, Metropolitan,
Opera, National Democratic, Turf and
Field, City Midday, Down Town, Automo
bile Clubs, the Country Club of Lakewood,
New Jersey; Rockaway, Hunting, Deal
Golf, Parmachenee, Larchmont Yacht and
Jersey City Clubs. Address: 59 Cedar
Street, New York City.
YOUNG, Horace Olin:
Congressman and lawyer; born in New
Albion, New York, August 4, 1850; son of
Horace C. Young and Laura P. (Walker)
Young. He received an academic educa
tion. Mr. Young was a member of the
Michigan State Legislature in 1879; and
prosecuting attorney of Marquette County,
from 1886 to 1896. He was elected to the
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and
reelected to the Sixtieth Congress, from the
Twelfth Michigan District. He is a Re
publican in politics. He married, March 20,
1876, Mary J. Marsh. Address : Ishpeming,
Michigan.
YOUNG, Stewart Woodford:
Professor of physical chemistry; born in
Orient, New York, March 14, 1869; son of
James H. Young and Emma V. (Tuthill)
Young. He received his education in the
public school of Orient; Greenpoint Union
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m 1890 from Cornell University and
studied in Leipzig in 1899 and 1900. He
was assistant in chemistry in Cornell Uni
versity in 1890 and 1891 ; instructor in
chemistry in Swathmore from 1891 to 1893 ;
assistant and later instructor and assist
ant professor in Stanford University, from
1893 to 1900, and since then associate pro
fessor. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the Mechanics' Institute
of San Francisco, and a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, also a member of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity, and the Bohemian Club
of San Francisco. The special subjects of
his researches have been: complex tin
compounds ; inhibition of rate of oxidation ;
modification of sodium thiosulphates ; and
spontaneous crystallization of supercooled
solutions and fusions. Professor Young
married, in Oakland, California, May 3,
1907, Mrs. Mabel Gray Lackmund. Ad
dress: Stanford University, California.

ZENOR, William T,:
Congressman and lawyer; born in Har
rison County, Indiana, near Corydon, April
30, 1846. He was educated in the common
schools, and at the Seminary of Profes
sor James G. May; and at the age of twen
ty-two began the study of law under the
direction of the late Judge D. W. La Fol
lette, of New Albany. He was admitted
to the bar and formed a partnership with
Judge Fred Mathes in 1870, at Corydon, and
in 1871 removed to Leavenworth, Indiana,
where he established a successful practice.
He was appointed by Governor Williams
prosecuting attorney for the district, which
office he held by this appointment and two
succeeding elections till 1882. In 1884 he
was elected judge of the Judicial Circuit
without opposition and was reelected for
another six-year term in 1890. In 1896 he
was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-
fifth Congress from the Third Indiana Dis
trict, and has since been biennially reelected
and is now serving in the Sixtieth Congress.
Judge Zenor was one of the delegates of
the United States branch of the Interparlia
mentary Union for International Arbitra

tion in 1905. He married, December 25,
1873, Emma Lynn. Address: Corydon, In
diana. ZOOK, John M.:
' Manufacturer; treasurer of the firm of
Hoopes and Townsend Company, manufac
turers of bolts and other rolling mill prod
ucts, with mills at Hoopeston, Pennsylvania.
Address: Broad and Buttonwood Streets,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ZUEBLIN, Charles Newton:
Professor of sociology; born in Pendle
ton, Indiana, May 4, 1866; son of John E.
Zueblin and Henrietta (Follett) Zueblin.
He received his education in the Philadelphia
public schools, and the University of Penn
sylvania; was graduated from Northwest
ern University as Ph.B. in 1887; and Yale
University as D.B. in 1889; and was stu
dent in Leipzig University from 1889 to
1891. Since 1892. he has been in the Uni
versity of Chicago as instructor, assistant
professor, associate professor, and now pro
fessor of sociojogy. He is a member of
Beta Theta Pi fraternity; was secretary of
the Chicago Society for University Ex
tension, 1892; head resident of the North
western University Settlement, 1892; a
member of the Chicago. Special Park Com
mission, 1900-05; Chicago Society for Ethi
cal Culture, National' Municipal League;
American Sociological Society; director
Chicago Vacation School Board, the Illi
nois Consumers' League, and Chautauqua
Press. Professor Zueblin is author of:
American Municipal Progress, 1902; A De
cade of Civic Development, 1905; and is
contributor to The American Journal of
Sociology, Journal of Political Economy,
The International Journal of Ethics, Unity,
The Dial, The Independent, and The Chau-
tauquan. He is a member of the National
Arts Society of New York, the Twentieth
Century Club of Boston, the City Club,
University Club and the Midlothian Club
of Chicago. He married at Evanston, Il
linois, June 18, 1892, Aurora T. Fisk, and
they have one daughter, Anne Follett, born
November 10, 1901. Residence : 38 Madi
son Park, Chicago. Office address : Univer
sity of Chicago, Illinois.

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ADDENDA.

ANDERSON, Woodford Dulaney:
Author and educator; born in Quincy,
Illinois, January 10, 1870; son of W. S.
M. Anderson and Mary Woodford (Brown
ing) Anderson. He was educated at Cen
tenary College, Fenton College, Vander
bilt University, and New York University;
and he has the degrees of A.B., A.M. and
Ph.D. He was a professor in Missouri
Wesleyan College from 1893 to 1895 ; Morn-
ingside College, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1895
and 1896, then at the University of South
Dakota, where he taught insurance and
banking, from 1890 to 1901. He traveled,
studying transportation and banking, and
visited nearly every State in the Union
which passes to study railroading. He has
been teacher at the Washington Irving
High School since 1903. Mr. Anderson is
a Democrat in politics, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Master
Mason. He is a member of the National
Commercial Teachers' Federation, of Na
tional Isaac Pitman Shorthand Association,
National Educational Association. He has
read papers before these associations and
the Trans-Mississippi Educational Conven
tion. He is author of: Manu-Mental Com
putation, a new method in mathematics, and
is preparing a comrnercial arithmetic and
a graded arithmetic for a New York pub
lishing house. He married, in 1906, Helen
Goodrich Reed of Brooklyn. Address : 124
East Sixteenth Street, New York City.
ARMOUR, M. Cochrane:
Merchant and manufacturer; born in Au
burn, New York, January 11, 1851 ; son of
John Armour and Lillias (Cochrane) Ar
mour. He was educated in the public
schools and then became a clerk for George
Ingersoll at Marshall, Michigan, in the
grain and milling business, and afterward,
at the same place, was associated with his
father in the grain and grocery business un
der the name of J. and M. C. Armour. He

removed in 1876 to Chicago where he was
for some years a department manager for
the Adams and Westlake Company, and
from there went to Cincinnati, where he
was vice-president and general manager of
the Radford Pipe and Foundry Company,
and became also a partner in the firm of
Rogers, Brown and Company, leading pig
iron merchants. Since 1895 he has again
lived in Chicago, as the resident partner
of that firm in that important market. He
is also president and director of the Chi
cago Short Line Railway; president and
director of the Iroquois Iron Company;
vice-president and director of the Rogers
Iron Mining Company, and a director of
the Rogers-Brown Ore Company. He is
a member of the Union League Club of
Chicago, the Country Club of Evanston, Il
linois, and the Glen View Golf Club. He
married at Hyde Park, Chicago, in June,
1888, Minnie T. Huggins, and they have
four children. Residence : 1608 Ridge Ave
nue, Evanston, Illinois. Office address :
Monadnock Block, Chicago, Illinois.
AYER, Clarence Walter:
Librarian; born in Haverhill, Massachu
setts, 1862; son of Walter Ayer and Abby
West (Stevens) Ayer. He was educated
in public schools and in Harvard College,
from which he was graduated as A.B. in
1885 (with second year honors in classics,
final honors in music) magna cum laude;
A.M., 1888 (English and Italian). He was
instructor at Dummer Academy, near New
buryport, 1885-1886; private tutor at Cam
bridge, from 1886 to 1891 ; professor of
English in Wittenberg College, Springfield,
Ohio, 1892-1893; instructor in English in
the College for Women, Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1893 to
1895 ; instructor in the Volkmann private
school for boys, Boston, 1895-1896; assist
ant in Harvard College Library, from 1896
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brary from 1899 to 1904, and of the Cam
bridge Public Library since 1904. He com
piled a shelf classification of music for the
Harvard College Library in 1896, which
was published in the Library Journal in
1902. Mr. Ayer is a Republican in politics,
and a Universalist in religion. He is a
member of the Massachusetts Library Club,
American Library Association, New Eng
land Historic-Genealogical Society, Har
vard Musical Association of Boston, di
rector of the Cambridge Social Union (a
settlement institution), and a member of
the Pi Eta Society of Harvard College. He
married in Brockton, Massachusetts, Oc
tober, 1, 1902, Grace Stanwood Blackwell,
and they have one son, Donald Blackwell,
born April 3, 1904. Residence: 6 Cleve
land Street, Cambridge. Office address:
Public Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BENTON, Maurice Erickson:
Assistant secretary of The Land Title
and Trust Company; born at Sudlersville,
Maryland, October 27, 1865; son of George
Vincent and Eleanor J. (Downs) Benton.
He was educated in the public schools of
Philadelphia and at the University of Penn
sylvania. In 1884 he was connected with
the firm of J. Washington Miller and Sons,
dealers in druggist supplies, and two years
later entered the banking establishment of
Grant & Grant, Philadelphia, being the fol
lowing year transferred to the New York
office. In 1888, however, he resigned to take
a position with The Land Title and Trust
Company, Philadelphia, of which he is now
assistant secretary. He is trustee of the
Philadelphia Clinic for Home Treatment of
Chest and, Throat Diseases. He is a mem
ber of the Melita Lodge of Masons, the
Philadelphia Consistory, Scottish Rite, thir
ty-second dgree, and the Royal Arcanum,
(Ionic Council). He is also member of
the City Club of Philadelphia. He has trav
eled much throughout the United States,
England, France, Germany, Switzerland,
and Italy. Mr. Benton is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in poli
tics is a member of the Republican party.
He married at Philadelphia, April 15, 1905, 1

Mary Elizabeth Upperman. Residence : The
Delmar, Germantown, Philadelphia. Office
address : The Land Title and Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CARLE, Richard:
Comedian; was born in Somerville,
Massachusetts, and educated in the public
schools of that city. He made his first ap
pearance on the stage supporting James T.
Powers in The Straight Tip ; made his first
great success in the part of Shossi Shmand-
rik, in Isreal Zangwill's Children of the
Ghetto, produced in Washington, on Sep
tember 18, 1899. The following year, Mr.
Carte went to London as a member 'of the
An American Beauty company, and achieved
great popularity. Mr. Carle next starred in
his own musical comedies, The Mayor of
Tokio, The Tenderfoot and latterly in The
Spring Chicken. Also author of : Maid and
Mummy, and Hurdy Gurdy Girl. Address :
200 Riverside Drive, New York City.
CHESSROWN, John Phillips:
Manufacturer; born in Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, May 30, 1872; son of Dr. A. V
Chessrown and Sarah J. (Phillips) Chess
rown. He attended Duff's Mercantile Col
lege. He is auditor and member of Phil
lips Mill and Mine Supply Company, Pitts
burgh, S. S. Mr. Chessrown is a Repub
lican in politics, and a Presbyterian in re
ligion; and is a member of the Masonic
fraternity. He married in Pittsburgh, Feb
ruary 27, 1907, Myrtle L. Russell. Resi
dence: 5443 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh.
Business address : Twenty-third and Jane
Streets, Pittsburgh, South Side, Pennsyl
vania. COMFORT, George Fisk:
Educator, author and art critic; born in
Berkshire, Tioga County, New York, Sep
tember 20, 1833; son of Rev. Silas C.
Comfort, D.D., and Electa (Smith) Com
fort. He was graduated from Wesleyan
University as A.B. in 1857, received the
degree of L.H.D. from the University of
the State of New York in 1888, and LL.D.
from Syracuse University in 1893; traveled
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lology in Europe and the Orient, from i860
to 1865, and was two years in the Univer
sity and Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin;
later traveled and studied in Europe in 1879,
1887 and 1891. Pie was professor of es
thetics (the first in America), and also
professor of modern languages and litera
tures, in Allegheny College.Meadville, Penn
sylvania, from 1865 to 1868; lecturer on
Christian art and archaeology in Drew
Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jer
sey, 1868 to 1874 ; elected, 1871, professor of
esthetics and modern languages.in Syracuse
University, where in 1873 he organized the
College of Fine Arts,' the first college of
its kind in America and, in some respects,
in the -v.orld, presenting four-year courses in
each of the branches of fine arts, and origi
nated for the graduates of this and simi
lar colleges, scholastic degrees (bachelor's
and master's), in the several courses of the
fine arts — since copied by Cornell, Yale,
the University of Illinois, and other insti
tutions. He was dean of the College of
Fine Arts of Syracuse University from 1873
to 1893. He organized, in 1896, the Syra
cuse Museum of Fine Arts, of which he has
been director from the beginning. Dr. Com
fort was almost the first stimulator or
originator of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York City, giving nearly a year
to the first stages of its organization in
1868-1869; was a trustee and member of
the Executive Committee from the incor
poration of the Museum in 1870 till
1872, and was a lecturer in that in
stitution in 1898; was originator, organizer
in 1869, and first secretary, from 1869. to
1874, of the American Philological Asso
ciation ; organized in 1901, the Central New
York Society of Artists, which holds exhi
bitions in the Syracuse Museum of Fine
Arts. Professor Comfort is author of:
Art Museums in America; Modern Lan
guages in Education; and a series of text
books of the study of German language and
literature. He has contributed many ar
ticles upon art history and criticism to en
cyclopedias and the periodical press; art
editor of the Northern Christian Advocate,
1872 to 1893. He is corresponding member
of the Archeological Institutes of Rome,

Berlin and Paris; member of the Society
of Arts, London; honorary fellow for life
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
of the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts ;
charter member of the American Associa
tion of Museums; one of the directors of
the American Free Art League; honorary
member of the American Anthropological
Society and of the Texas Historical So
ciety; member of the National Arts Club,
Society of American Authors, American
Philological Association, National Art
Theatre Society, Municipal Art Society of
New York, the Syracuse University Club,
Onondaga County Historical Society, the
Alpha Delta Phi Society and other clubs.
He married, January 19, 1871, Dr. Anna
Manning. Residence: Empire House, Syra
cuse, New York.
COPELAND, William M.:
Lawyer; born at Kent, Jefferson County,
Indiana, August 16, 1859; son of Dr. Wil
liam H. Copeland and Ladema H. Cope
land. He received his education at Inde
pendence Academy, Kentucky, Hanover Col
lege and at the United States Military Acad
emy at West Point, from which last named
institution he resigned to study law and was
admitted to the bar at Madison, Indiana,
in 1880, where he practiced his profession
until 1894, when he removed to Chicago.
In 1882, at the age of twenty-two he was
nominated and elected from his native
county to the House of Representatives of
the Indiana Legislature, where he served
as a member two terms (1882 to 1886)
being the youngest man ever elected to the
Indiana Legislature. There he made a
brilliant record having been from his en
trance into that body one of its leaders,
and being a member of the Ways and
Means and other prominent committees. He
was also chairman of the Joint House and
Senate Committee appointed by the Legis
lature at the session of 1883 to visit the
cities, towns and districts of Southern In
diana which were overflowed during the
great flood of that year in the Ohio valley
and by whose energetic action the Legis
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sufferers. He was one of the pioneers in
the Indiana Legislature in the movement
for the appointment of a State Commission
to select a uniform system of school books
to be used throughout the State in the com
mon schools of Indiana to be provided by
the State and furnished to pupils at cost of
publication and distribution to the poor
children of the State free of cost, which
afterwards resulted in such a law being
enacted in Indiana, which law for the past
eighteen years has annually saved the people
of Indiana many thousands of dollars. He
is the father of two-cent railroad fare leg
islation in Indiana, having in 1885 secured
the passage of his two-cent railroad fare
bill by the Indiana House Of Representa
tives only to have it strangled in the Senate
twenty-two years prior to the enactment in
to a law of a similar measure by the In
diana Legislature and also by the Legisla
tures of a large number of other States
in 1907. At the session of 1885 in the
election of a United States Senator, on the
part of the House of Representatives, the
honor of placing in nomination the Re
publican candidate Governor Albert G.
Porter, and making the principal speech in
his behalf, was conferred on Mr. Copeland.
With his wife he has traveled extensively
abroad; both being interested in the _ dis
coveries from time to time of eminent
Greek, Roman and Egyptian archaeologists.
Since 1894 Mr. Copeland has been located
in the practice of his profession at Chicago,
his practice being largely in the federal
courts, not only in Illinois, but also in New
York, and many other States of the Union,
his clients being located in nearly every
country of Europe as well as in North and
South America. His record in the legal
profession has been quite as marked as
was his early career in politics for, he has
not only been unusually successful in his
practice but has won cases that had prev
iously been lost by some of the most dis
tinguished lawyers in the United States and
in England. He is a Knight Templar, a
Shriner and a thirty-second degree Ma
son. Mr. Copeland married, in 1885, Clara
Bruning, of Madison, Indiana. Residence:

1230 Sheridan Drive, Chicago. Office ad
dress: 1047 Marquette Building, Chicago.
CREEL, Heber M.:
Soldier; born in LaFayette County, Mis
souri, November 30, 1853 ; son of Alexander
M. Creel and Salina (Poole) Creel. He
was educated at Cooper Institute and Kem
per's Academy at Booneville, Missouri, at
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Vir
ginia, and was appointed from Missouri to
the United States Military Academy at
West Point, from which he was graduated
in 1877, and commissioned lieutenant in
the Seventh United States Cavalry. He
resigned in 1882 and has since been engaged
in real estate stock and farming interests
at Devils Lake, North Dakota. He was
chairman of the Board of County Commis
sioners of Ramsey County, North Dakota,
from 1884 to 1886; register of deeds from
1889 to 1896; and State Senator from 1897
to 1901. He was inspector and judge ad
vocate-general of the North Dakota Na
tional Guard from 1891 to 1905, adjutant-
general from 1905 to 1907, and major-gen
eral, retired, January 7, 1907. General Creel
has been special agent for the Seventh Dis
trict of the United States, for the United
States Department of Agriculture since
1903. He is a Republican in politics; was
chairman of the Republican, County Cen
tral Committee of Ramsey County, North
Dakota; member of the Republican State
Central and Executive Committee of North
Dakota, and was for eight years National
committeeman of North Dakota of the Sil
ver Republican Party. He was nominated
in 1898 as an Independent Republican for
Congressman at large for North Dakota,
and was endorsed by the Democratic and
Populist parties, and he ran- ahead of his
ticket by five thousand votes. General
Creel has traveled all over the United
States and Canada. He is an Episcopalian
in his church affiliation. He received the
badge of the United States Indian Wars,
and the badge for twenty years' service in
the National Guard of North Dakota; is a
member of the Odd Fellows, Elks, and the
Modern Woodmen of America; and is a
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He married in Indian Territory, May 10,
1879, Alice H. La Rue. Address : Devils
Lake, North Dakota.
DE CORMIS, Lewis:
Clergyman; born in Norfolk, Virginia,
of aristocratic French lineage on his fath
er's side, and in his maternal line, of the
Whitelock family, of Leeds, England, a
branch of the celebrated Pusey family of
which Canon Pusey was a distinguished
member, and on the mother's side is also a
descendant of Deputy-Governor Freeman,
associate of Governor Bradford of the Ply
mouth Colony, and founder of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. After a business training
of two years, filling various positions in the
Third National Bank of Baltimore, Mary
land, he was prepared by tutors for college.
Upon his graduation with distinction as A.
B. from Kenyon College, Ohio, he entered
the Episcopal Theological School at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, from which he was
graduated as B.D. in 1873. He was or
dered deacon by Bishop Neely in 1873, and
soon after ordained priest by Bishop Pad
dock of Massachusetts. His first pastoral
charge was St. John's Church, Taunton,
Massachusetts, where he continued from
1873 to 1876. He was then rector of St.
Stephen's Church, Lynn, Massachusetts,
from 1876 to 1885, and during this rector
ship that St. Stephen's Memorial Church
was built. Hon. E. R. Mudge of Boston
donating the quarter of a million dollars re
quired for the construction of the Church,
chapel and rectory. He became first as
sistant minister in St. Ann's Brooklyn, New
York, from 1885 to 1887, rector of All
Saints' Church, Great Neck, Long Island,
from 1887 to 1895, where a new and hand
some church, with a large endowment, was
built during his rectorship. He then be
came rector of St. Paul's Church, Columbia,
Pennsylvania, from 1895 to 1901, when he
raised a large sum of money to pay off
the debt on the church property. White
there he was also a trustee of the Colum
bia City Hospital, a member of the Dio
cesan Committees on Sunday School Les
sons, representing the Diocese of Central

Pennsylvania; and he was also a member
of the Special Diocesan Court; appointed
by the Standing Committee. In 1898 he re
ceived the degree of D.D. and in 1900 that
of LL.D. Since 1901 he has lived in Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, for the education of
his children. Dr. De Cormis has taught in
the public schools, and has prepared young
men for Columbia University, New York,
and has done other tutor work. He was
for about two years a member of the Fifth
Maryland Regiment of Militia, while resi
dent in Baltimore, and while living in Lynn
was actively interested in hispital work
and is still a member of the Lynn Hospital
Corporation. He is a member of the Mas
sachusetts Society of Colonial Wars, chap
lain of the Eleusis Lodge of Masons in
Boston, a Knight Templar, and a member
of the Brooklyn and Boston Clerical Clubs.
Dr. De Cormis married in 1882, Isabel Gibbs,
daughter of Nathan B. Gibbs of Boston,
and they have a son, Redington Mudge De
Cormis, and a daughter, Carrie De Cormis.
Address : 54 Wendell Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.HARLAN, Richard Davenport:
Clergyman, educator; born in Evansville,
Indiana, November 14, 1859; son of Hon.
John Marshall Harlan (now associate jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States) and Malvina French (Shanklin)
Harlan. He was prepared in the Louisville
(Kentucky), High School; was graduated
from Princeton University with the degree
of A.B. in 1881, and A.M. in 1884; Prince
ton Theological Seminary in 1885, D.D.
from Princeton University in 1901, and
LL.D. from Union University in 1904. He
was pastor of "Old First" Presbyterian
Church, New York City, from 1886 to 1891.
He took special studies in Berlin Uni
versity in 1891; was pastor of the Third
Presbyterian Church of Rochester from
1894 to 1901 ; president of Lake Forest Col
lege, Lake Forest, Illinois, from 1901 to
1906; was appointed by the trustees of
The George Washington University in
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Movement, to take charge of the effort to
present to the county at large the plan of
developing, at Washington, D. C, a great
university for graduate work, in accord
ance with the essential features of the plan
outlined in George Washington's last will
and testament. Dr. Harlan is a Republican
in politics, and a member of the American
Whig Society of Princeton, Military Order
of the Loyal Legion, University and Prince
ton Clubs of New York, Onwentsia Club
of Lake Forest, Illinois, and the Triton
Fish and Game Club. He married in Ge
neva, New York, June 5, 1889, Mrs. Augus
tus M. Swift (nee Margaret M. Prouty).
Residence : Stoneleigh Court, Washington,
D. C. Business address : George Wash
ington University, Washington, D. C.
JACOBUS, David Schenck:
Mechanical engineer; born in Ridgefield,
New Jersey, January 20, 1862. He was
graduated from Stevens Institute of Tech
nology, as M.E., in 1884, and honorary
Doctor of Engineering, in 1906. He was
instructor and assistant professor of ex
perimental mechanics at Stevens Institute
of Technology, from 1884 to 1898, profes
sor of experimental mechanics and engi
neering physics from 1898 to 1903, in charge
of Carnegie Leboratory of Engineering
since 1900, professor of experimental en
gineering, from 1903 to 1906. He has been
advisory engineer of The Babcock and Wil
cox Company, and special lecturer on ex
perimental engineering at Stevens Insti
tute, since 1906. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and was secretary of Section D,
in 1893, and vice-president in 1904; member
of the American Mathematical Society,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(manager 1900, and vice-president 1903),
American Institute of Mining Engineers,
Society for the Promotion of Engineering
Education, Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, Society of Refrigator-
ing Engineers, of which he was director in
1904, and president in 1907, the Franklin
Institute of Philadelphia, and the New York

Railroad Club. Residence : 70 Summit Ave
nue, Jersey City, New Jersey. Office ad
dress : 85 Liberty Street, New York City.
JONES, Lynde:
Professor of zoology; born in Jefferson,
Ohio, January 5, 1865 ; son of Publius Ver-
gilius Jones and Lavinia (Burton) Jones.
He attended Iowa College at Grinnell,
Iowa, from 1888 to 1890; graduated from
Oberlin as A.B. in 1892 and M.S. in 1895;
fellow of Chicago University in 1904 and
1905 and Ph.D. in 1905. He was assistant
zoologist and geologist in Oberlin College
from 1892 to 1899, instructor in 1899 and
1900, acting professor in 1900 and 1901,
instructor in zoology from 1901 to 1905,
and has been associate professor since
1905 ; and he was teacher of ornithology at
Oberlin College from 1895 to 1898. He is
vice-president n' the Wheaton Publishing
Company. In politics he is Republican and
in religion a Congregationalist. He is fel
low of the American Association for the
Advancement of S"""'"'": and of the Amer
ican Ornithologists' Union ; and a member
of the American Society of Zoologists. His
favorite recreations are cross country
tramps for bird study and golf. Mr.
Jones married in Grinnell, Iowa, September
8, 1892, Clara Mabelle Tallman; and they
have five children : Lynds Leo, born in
1893. Theodore Burton, born in, 1896,
George Tallman, born in 1898, Beth, born
in 1901, and Harold Charles, born in 1903.
Address: Museum, Oberlin, Ohio.
NAILE, Frederick Irvin:
Commander, United States Navy, retired ;
born at Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, October
11, 1841 ; son of Frederick Ernest Naile and
Julia Ann (Saylor) Naile. He was edu
cated in the public schools of Norristown
and Philadelphia, Wolfe's and Locke's pri
vate schools at Norristown, and in the
Naval Academy ; remaining there from
1859 to 1861, when he was attached to the
frigate St. Lawrence, blockading on the
Atlantic Coast. He was present at the sink
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1861 ; served on the steam sloop-of-war
Oneida in' the West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron; participated in the attack on and pas
sage of Forts St. Philip and Jackson, and
the Chalmette batteries, and the capture of
New Orleans, the bombardment and pas
sage, twice, of the Vicksburg batteries ; per
formed lieutenant's duty and was twice
slightly wounded on the Oneida, 1862; pro
moted to ensign, February 24, 1863. He
served on the frigate Sabine during her
cruise after the Confederate cruiser Ala
bama, 1863 ; in the Mississippi Squadron
from 1863 to 1865, except on recruiting duty
at Pittsburgh in the summer of 1864. He
served on the Red River Expedition, co
operation of the squadron on the Cumber
land and Tennessee Rivers ; with the army
in the defeat of General Hood, 1864; com
manding flagship Black Hawk and Tempest
and at the same time fleet signal officer,
fleet detail officer, and for some months
senior officer on Admiral Lee's staff, 1864-
1865. He was promoted lieutenant, Febru
ary 22, 1864; attached to steamer Chatta
nooga, 1866; promoted to lieutenant-com
mander, July 25, 1866; steamer Lenapee,
Atlantic Squadron, 1866-67 ; steamer Penob
scot, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-1869;
assistant signal officer at Washington, D. C,
1868-1870; retired on account of physical
disability caused by exposure on duty, Jan
uary, 1871. While serving in the war he
received, with brother officers, the congratu
lations of the Navy Department, the Gov
ernment and the country, for courage and
daring, from Washington, May 10, 1862.
Pie participated in some thirty-seven ac
tions, and by reason of creditable service
during the Civil War was made com
mander, June 29, 1906. Commander Neale
is a member of the Board of Officers of
Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion; member of
Zook Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
Associated Veterans of Farragut's Fleet,
Historical Society of Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania; and he is a vestryman of St.

John's Episcopal Church, Norristown,
Pennsylvania. He married in Norristown,
Pennsylvania, January 1., 1867, Emma
Jane, daughter of George and Lydia Ann
Patterson. Of that union there have been
four children: Lydia Adams and George
Patterson, who died in childhood, Eliza
beth Lee, who married Thomas C. Foster,
and F. Raymond, lieutenant, United States
Navy, born in 1880. Address : Norristown,
Pennsylvania.
PILGRIM, Charles Winfield:
Physician; born in Monroe, New York,
March 27, 1855; son of Roe Coleman Pil
grim and Frances (Wilks) Pilgrim. He
attended Monroe Institute, and the public
schools of Jersey City, New Jersey ; and was
graduated from New York University as
M.D., 1881. He was house physician of
Bellevue Hospital, 1881-1882; assistant phy
sician of the Hospital for Insane Criminals,
1882; assistant physician of the Utica State
Hospital, 1882- 1884; studying in Europe,
1885-1886 (resident physician in the Frauen-
klinik, Munich, during 1885)'; assistant phy
sician of the Utica State Hospital, 1886-
1890; superintendent of Willard State Hos
pital, 1890-1893; Hudson River Hospital,
Poughkeepsie, 1893-1906; president of New
York State Commission on Lunacy, from
May, 1906 to May, 1907, and since then
has been superintendent of the Hudson
River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New
York. Dr. Pilgrim is vice-president of the
Poughkeepsie Trust Company, and direc
tor of the Hudson River Foundry Com
pany. He is secretary of the American
Medico-Psychological Association ; fellow
of the New York Academy of Medicine,
the State and County Medical Societies,
Lotos Club of New York, and the Amrita
and Dutchess Clubs of Poughkeepsie. He
married in Utica, New York, June 14, 1889,
Florence M. Middleton, who died Novem
ber 15, 1904, leaving a daughter, Florence,
born in 1893. Address : Poughkeepsie, New
York.